March 17, 2025 • 39 mins
Rob and Kelvin tell us if the Philadelphia 76ers and Dallas Mavericks should have expected that their star players were going to get hurt when they acquired them and explain why MLB holding a de factor Opening Day in Tokyo was a logical move. Plus, NBA champion and FOX Sports Radio NBA analyst Eddie House swings by to discuss all the biggest headlines around The Association.
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Speaker 4 (01:13):
Gonna do a little baseball talk. You know, tomorrow is
the Tokyo series.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
And you said tomorrow literally tomorrow in like a matter
of ours. Yeah, three am our time, Pacific time, yep,
six am Eastern time, yep.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
And yep, lit, we'll breakfast in baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
We'll talk about that because these are not exhibition this
is the real season. Yes, get started, and we'll just
talk about whether or not that's where the opening day
should be out of the country, or are we missing
something Half the country won't be able to see it
because it's so early in the morning and all that
kind of stuff. So we'll do dive into that as well.
But let's continue. Let's talk some more NBA.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Yeah, Robb g we we had Dan Buyer's early gave
us that update about Paul George and him being for
the season and obviously just not a great season to
say the least for the Sixers.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
What is I'm not surprised, Like when the Clippers moved
off him, I thought that was two hundred something millionaire,
were like, uh no, thank you, thank you, but no
thank and you Leve.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Balmer has all the money in the world.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Literally, he just Man, That's why I love seeing them
going crazy, like, man, this dude, life is just good.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Worth one hundred and some billion, You got a team
that's just for fun. You just printing money every day.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
And I was like, well, literally, when you get to
that money money amount of money your stocks alone, like
you could do nothing else in life and you're gonna
make like a million dollar a day minimum. Anyway, So
that was the news of Paul George. But my thought,
Rob and it goes to two teams. LEA start with
the Sixers, and I legitimately am asking this from a
business standpoint. From a practical standpoint, helped me make it
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make sense because hey, I don't know everything, maybe I'm
missing it. Paul George has been one of the best
two way players of the last decade decade plus. He
had a heck of a career. So many young people
say he's the best player in the league. They love
his style, watching him esthetically, Well that's the whole that's
the whole thing with the young people. They all say
he's their favorite play. If you ask a bunch of
young Caby's fine, no go, no nod saying he's their
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favorite player.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
They all love just because aesthetically the way he plays.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
But the issue I had is, if you're the Sixers,
why do you go get Paul George and pair Paul
George with Joel Embiid. Both chronically injured, both always missing games,
both never reliable. It's not their fault like their really
great talents when they're healthy, but they're not. And you
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knew you had issues with Joel Embiid. You know that
he's never been healthy. In fact, he's only played about
I think it's forty seven percent of his regular season
games in his career, and you pair him with PG thirteen,
who's hardly ever playing. It's always dealing with something, whether
it be a knick knack injury or a legitimate injury.
And I don't get the model, the business model of
doing that, like why would you do that? And the
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other team that I'm confused about, because these are just
bad habits from organizations is Dallas, and Dallas says, Hey,
Luca's gonna have a catastrophic injury in the next five years.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
He's not built for this. He doesn't take care of himself.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
And if that's what they legitimately feel, okay, I disagree,
but that's what they feel. They see him every day,
So then why do you trade him for a six
to seven year older Anthony Davis who's always injured way
more than Luca. So there's been a couple of moves
from these teams that to me, I'm not even a
rocket scientist. I don't even have to be a doctor,
Doogie Howes or anybody to make this make sense. And
(04:33):
I genuinely don't get it. I'm like, am I missing
something here? Where you pair Paul George, always injured, with
Joel Ebeid even more always injured, and now they're both out,
both out for the season. You don't know what's gonna
happen with Joelymbid next year because he's going to get
these surgeries. Paul George is at this point a shell
of himself because he did not look great even when
he was healthy with the seventy six ers.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
And again you got Anthony Davis.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
With Kyrie, who's injury prone, not quite as bad as
some other, but Kyrie has issues at times, and you
ain't got an older Anthony Davis who's always injured. You're
a smart guy. Please make this make sense because I
don't get it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And the moves not the Paul George because I would
have wanted no part of Paul George pairing with Joel.
And I do understand the Mavericks because remember it was
about money too, the three hundred and fifty million with
they just so they had to figure out well, what
can we do to get a player right still who's
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got some cache and he and Anthony Davis. While he
his history is being injured, he had a nice stretch of.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Not being I think two or three games he played
and that was that was really good for him. And
I'm not saying we know what his history is. So
I understand.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Once you you're not committed to signing Luca, you gotta
figure out what you're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
It's not just let him go and we get nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You got to figure out something that's going to be
that could work with Kyrie who's there and we know Kyrie,
yes he's been banged up as well. But their thought
was if you add Anthony Davis to Kyrie, we still
have a dynamic and they would have right right if
they're healthy. That's a dynamic duo that could help us
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get a run. They just went to the finals last year.
Yes it was with Luca and Kyrie. But you're figuring,
like Anthony Davis can.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Come all to a big.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And all that, but the if you're going to take
someone to tack, it's Philadelphia because they didn't just get
him on like a discount. Oh my god, let's take
a flyer on him. You know who Paul George is.
You know you had to pay top dollar because he
balked when the Clippers wanted a discount, right, so we
wanted top dollar what you got? And then you know
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he's got the podcast thing. You know, he just hasn't
He's always banged up or turns in a stinker at
some point. I don't know, Like I'm just I wouldn't
be would not have been interested in Paul George under
any circumstance. It's the I'm serious you any I'm sure
you have. I don't know if you are you a
wine kind of sore? Anybody rob g you a wine
(07:06):
kind of surer? Anybody's been to you know, you've been
to Sonoma. You've been to uh these wine tasting places.
They always tell you what it pairs with. Right, They'll say, oh,
this wine right here is our new Why do I
need to go to Sonoma to turn the cap on
a wine bottle?
Speaker 6 (07:21):
I'm just saying no, Sometimes it's about the experience. Rock
you go there, it's beautiful, walk in the wine. Are
you going with your wife?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yeah, you a wine drinker? No for that?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Yes, you go there, you go to Temecula out here,
you know, southern California. It's just nice to be around,
to be out beautiful time. Yeah, time killed around, it's time,
you know, take it around. Smell this, you gotta taste
a little bit. Then they say that sound like a
mouse eating cheese. Yeah, well you would have been running
if it isn't. And then they say, well, this pair
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is weird with a steak. Or if we're talking to
Rod Parker, we would say lamb chops. Just what pairs
wear with lamb chops. If we're talking to Kelvin Washington,
we would say short rib and I'm like, oh, that
sounds great. Then they tell you this one, this white wine,
it's a delicacy, has a little more of the herbs lavender,
and it pairs well with the white fish.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
You know what I mean. They're doing some terrible pairings,
is my point.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
If you went out there and you got Paul George, fine,
but you gotta put them with Michale Bridges twenty four
hundred straight games, you know what I mean, an iron
man of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
You're pairing, you're pairing injured with hurt And that's the
part I don't get. But they also look at it
as they're trying to tank, must be trying to add
they're trying to add another star because that team had hardened. Well,
you're gonna have to do. That team had Ben Simmons
when he was an All Star. I'm just trying to
say where they had three guys. Jimmy Butler used to
be on that team. So there's a star, there's a
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star factor. I think that goes with why Philadelphia was interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I'm just telling you how you're gonna get a star
that never shines? What it was a bar.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Rob g How you gonna get a star that never shines?
We don't ever get this, y'all. Look up, you know,
I look up at the sky. You know how you
lay on your back with your little girlfriend when you're twelve,
You look up and just start there's no stars. It's cloudy, okay,
because they're not playing out there. You never see him together,
and when they are, they sucked.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
So I don't. I don't understand it, man, I just
I just sometimes listen. I ain't. I'm not GM of
the Year.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
I'm not Sam Presty, Bob Myers or anything Joe Dumars
back in his day, except for Darko.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
But why you gotta say that he won a championship.
With the championship, you gotta stop that. What do you mean,
I gotta stop that. We could have had Chip.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
No, no, no no. But if they would have drafted
and didn't.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Get Rashid, No, they needed car, they needed Chris Bosh.
Everybody always says, no, Chris Bosh was the answer for
everything you liked about Darko. That was Chris Bosch. But anyway,
that's my point. The championship they did, Oh you know
I was there, Perry. That that's my biggest point. You
pair Paul George wouldn't be you pair?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Are you? You mark it?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Here's the other part. You're Dallas And that's fine. The trait,
we get it. Hey, that's what they felt they need
to do. You're gonna get rid of culed, but you
stand on business. It's that they came out and talked
about injury, injury, injury, and we don't think he's fit
and he's gonna be injured. And that's the big part, Rob,
is that they went out of their way to stress that.
But you sign a guy that's perpetually injured, and what
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does he do? Literally in a Freudian William Shakespearean way
is get injured the first game after dominating the first half,
comes back injury.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Goo.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
That's that is a Diddy Davis balling out of control,
reminding you why he is one of the best players
in the NBA. Oh but wait, dang, he gets injured.
So that's my whole point is these parings. I just
don't get it. I'm wondering why GM's doing it, and
that we laugh sometimes about you and I have the
situation they're doing with the Giants keeping Daniel Jones, letting
Taekwon go and all that backfiring with some of these
gms in the NBA are having the same situation where
(10:38):
I'm like, I don't even this was an obvious move
from the jump.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
What are you doing anyway? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
The only one I'm going to push back on is
the Dallas one. I just once you decide, once you
decide you don't want him, you go, well, don't you
go get who Steph? Don't you go now, young Cade
cunning head, like, don't you go get something? Don't I
go get who else? That's not gonna work. You're looking
for somebody who can give you that duo already one.
(11:06):
It doesn't matter what are they trying to win. They're
not trying to win eight championships. If you're Dallas, you
can win one championship, do you don't?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Like, let's not get ridiculous about what teams are trying
to do. If you can win one, that's gonna buy
you tape.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Good go get you honest.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Tom tom Izzo is still living off of Michigan State
in two thousands.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Man, tom Izo is going to fight you when he
sees I'm just sad enough of it. Yeah, to deal
with him in Michigan now, I gotta deal with it
when he's in California. He gonna stand on the Apple
box and swing on you get my point?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
My point is you don't need to win that offense.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
If your team you can get one, you get rannest
ain't being traded for Luca.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
No, would you do that, rob Gi? If I say, hey, man,
I'm sick of look he's getting them on the nerves.
He's give me. I'll give you honest, I'll get you
looking straight up, straight up, one for one.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
No, no, no, You're not making that trade.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
It's just not as not gonna happen all right, eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven, six sixty
three sixty this win.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
In you a playoff series. It is honestly with Luca,
robzc Luca, the Sixers sense you're not making that trade.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Did the Sixers and the MAVs get what they deserve
by bringing in all these historically injured players. That's what
Kelvin is trying to sell. I'm not buying it. Continue.
We'll continue that conversation next with you. It is the
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Speaker 6 (13:56):
And is it you finally said the two ninety Yeah,
you got it right there all right? Eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox we're having a conversation about do
the mas and the seventy six ers blow it by
signing injury prone guys like Paul George and then Anthony
Davis eight seven to seven ninety.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Nine on Fox.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Who we got Andre in Massachusetts. You're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Drey?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Thanks for taking the call. Yes, both of these teams
teams blew it and they swung and they missed, more
so than MAVs than the seventy six Ers. I think
the MAVs deal was more so directed by ownership.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Seventy six Ers deal.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Was directed by following your star, which is the same
mistake in my view that the Milwaukee Bucks made and
letting Giannis determine what the direction of the team was
going to be. And that's what got you holiday up
and out of there and over to Boston with the
seventy six ers.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Yes, you let.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
JOELMB dictate the terms, but to JOELLMB to somebody who
is inconsistent and injury prone, So when he's not going
to be there, you have to think to yourself, what's
going to be the mentality of Paul George. So when
the seventy six Ers case, and I'm a little bit disappointed,
dal Moury, Kyrie, Max he should have been the one
determining who the next star coming to Philadelphia. It's going
to be, so both of those it didn't work out.
(15:03):
With Dallas, I give them a little bit more cropability
because I don't think it was the GM.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
I think it was it was ownership for sure.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Right once they say they don't want to pay three fifty,
that comes from ownership.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
GM of course wouldn't do that. Yeah, for sure. All right, Drake,
thank you eight seven, seven ninety nine on.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Fox Tony in DC. You're on the odd couple of
Fox Sports Radio. What's up Tony?
Speaker 9 (15:25):
So it was good, always a pleasure. I think both
teams are a train wreck. But with Philly I was
out on embed. You remember that year he tours on
the Niscus whatever and he was at that meat Mill
concert dancing on stage that.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Night or whatever.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
I was out on him at that point. I was think,
this dude doesn't take this serious. And I think Philly
pretty much bid against themselves with Paul George. I didn't
see teams really lining up for him, and his own
team tried to get him out of the discount, so
they that's on them.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, but Philly is weird. They do stuff like that,
even when they hired Doc Rivers. I remember at that point,
remember they had just the Clippers that just lost, and
like months later here's Doc River standing up there and
Philly I was like, Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
That's what we're saying, really, run organization, go ahead, Yeah,
your thought.
Speaker 9 (16:12):
And with the MAVs, I think with Luca I would
have me personally, actually what Kelvin says with a D
and you know he's great, he's still six seven years older.
I would have called Orlando like, hey, what can I.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Get for Pollo?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
That's a good one.
Speaker 9 (16:28):
So I would have got somebody in that age, pragudice,
ascending up ads on the way down. Lucas we can
say what we want to say. He's still on the
way up. I don't think we've seen the best of
Luca yet.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Well, but they don't believe that.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
Though they don't believe we saw the best of ad
in twenty twenty when he was the best.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
But if you but you the thing you're not really
being honest with is if he stays there, he has
to get to three fifty. You can't have him there
and not cash him out. He wouldn't if you would
have had, You have had to have paid him. You
can't go. We want to keep you. Well, we want
to gonna give you too. Eighty five.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
No, I'm sorry, you just made all NBA again, but
we want to pop.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
They had called Minnesota and asked about home. Anthony Edwards
Anthony Edwards, and you've got to pay him regardless. So
either what you're gonna pay somebody.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Especially these young you know, the young caliber you wanted
to get, but he gets he would have been able
to get the super Max because he's.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Not on that SuperM. You have to be on a
team that you were drafted by to get a super Max.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
He would have got a lot of trade.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well, well, just like Luca is a millionaire, almost one
hundred million dollars. Like that's the difference between signing a
deal with the Lakes. Crewe h Trevor and san Antonio.
You're on they couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Trevor,
Hey man, how's it going good?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I'm doing good.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
What I'm I'm doing a lot better now than Luca's
not in Texas. O. What I'm thinking, I've never heard
of Luca say himself that I want a super Max.
If anything I could see him taking a little bit
less is Jalen Brunston to build a team around him.
He has an intality.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I too.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I don't know everybody. Everybody the Supermax.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
And if you were going to give that money to
anyone in the league, I would think Luca would be
that guy.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
No, while they're saying because of his work ethic or
habits and and maybe, and we're just guessing with the
way that they reacted with him drinking a beer after
winning the Western Conference finals, that there's something else there
that the reason that they didn't want to cash him
out is not basketball ability.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
We know that he's one of the best players in
the league.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
To go back to that same point, we we've kind
of beat the dead horse. But man, Michael Finley's look,
I'm gonna say that wasn't a funny moment. We all laughed,
but Lucas face was like, hey, Bro mcgrom and Michael
Finley said what and that face said, we had an agreement.
We signed off on this, Lucas A making my beer
and he Michael Finley dipped, walked off. You didn't see
(19:00):
him again. You can tell they had an agreement. Whatever
it is, whatever they felt they were trying to work
on with Luca. You can tell that was serious business
right there. All right, we got Eddie House speaking of
the NBA NBA Champion getting ready to join us here
in a bit, But first we got to find out
what's trending Martin White.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
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Speaker 4 (19:28):
Four games going on right now in the Association.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
With four minutes left in the first quarter, the Pistons
have a twenty five to ten lead over the Pelicans,
four minutes left in the Pacers Timberwolf first quarter. Indiana,
with a fifteen to fourteen lead in Philadelphia, has a
twenty nine to seventeen lead over at Houston with just
under four minutes in their first quarter, and with six
minutes left in the second quarter, Miami has a thirty
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five to thirty three lead over New York Karl Anthony
Towns with seventeen first half points seventy six ers four.
Paul George's gonna miss the rest of this season follow
me injections and his knee and his aductor Strain Anthony Davis,
also as an inductor Strange trying to come back from that.
He was recalled after one practice in the G League. Today,
the Houston Texans signed cornerback Derek Steley to a three
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year extension worth ninety million, making him the highest paid
defensive back in NFL history. Philadelphia Eagles extend the contractor
right tackle Lane Johnson through twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Free agent quarterback Jamis Winston will meet with the New
York Giants on Tuesday.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey, along with the state's attorney general,
announced they're going to launch an investigation into the NCAA
after the West Virginia Mountaineers were left out of the
sixty eighth field the sixty eighteen field.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Of the men's NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 10 (20:42):
Iona fired up men's basketball coach Tobin Anderson after two
seasons with the school. Colorado had football coach Deon Sanders
says he'd like to practice against another school during spring practices.
Syracuse head coach said he'd be down for it, but
such a move would require a change in the NCAA rulebook.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Kevin rob Back to you guys. All right, here is
Martin Wis. Thank you, brother, appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Comingy live for the tyrack dot Com Studios on the
Magic City Monday. It's the Eye Couple Robin Kelvin and
joining us now. I'm man Eddie House. He is an
NBA champion, he is an Emmy winner, NBC Sports Boston,
Fox Sports Radio, NBA analystics Eddie House.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
What's up eat, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
What's happening? What's happening?
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Guys?
Speaker 5 (21:22):
How a y'all feeling on this good Monday? Man? How
are you?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Buddy?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I'm doing good. Man's watching this big Miami game.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You know it was twelve nothing. That's all tied up now.
Miami jumped out twelve nothing.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Right, yeah they did. I think it was nine nothing
at first, and maybe you did go to twelve nothing.
But you know, I love watching hoop, man, whatever it is.
I watched college, high school, you know, bitti ball, whatever
it is, man, I love watching hoop. If I got
to go support somebody, little kid, and I'll go do that.
But yeah, I love I love the game.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Yeah man, I love you love just the gaming and
of myself. Man, you got to.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Play it at a high level where you earn a
living by doing it.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Now, I mean, how could you not love suns hooping too?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Right? Yes, yes, yes they are all good.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
And put a button on this conversation for is that
we were just talking about. You know, you you have
obviously now from the analyst standpoint, you kind of keep
in touch and the know of what these gms are doing.
What the heck is Darryl Mory thinking, And even if
the Mavericks thinking when they're bringing in these injury prone
specifically you pair Paul George with Joe ellenb Come on, man,
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that's to hurt with the injured. And we were just saying, now,
Paul George out for the season, and then they say, oh, Mavericks,
say Luca's chronically injured, he's gonna be a catastrophic injury
within five years. But you bring in Anthony Davis, who's
always injured. So please help me understand. I think these
were bad pairings, like when you go wine peerings. They
missed it, they missed it and put the wrong things together.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yeah, you know that that's a tough one because injuries,
you know, you never foresee him, you know, even though
you could say somebody has a history of being injured.
But sometimes they overcome that. You know, they get the
right training, they get the right people around them, they
start treating their body better. And so it is tough
with injuries because, like I said, nobody can. You don't
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foreshadow injury, even though somebody might have had that kind
of history.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Eddie Embeid and Paul George ed they stay injured. Yeah,
but you can't live like that.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Paul George was ready to play, and even with his history,
they still I wouldn't have signed Paul George.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Because you see my face looking at you.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
No, I'm trying to tell you, but but I'm but
I'm but I'm with Eddie. I think that they always
believe that Okay, that might have happened there, but it
might not happen for many years.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I give you the first year, I gotta give you.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
But people get signed all the time, Eddie, am I
right in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
I think about in New York right now, Garrett Colee.
They signed Garrett Cole. Right, he doesn't have a history,
but he got hurt and now he signed a big deal.
He's gonna sign another big deal afterwards. All he has
to do is so that he came back healthy for
one year and then they'll be like, hey, we'll sign
him again to another big deal if whenever that time comes.
And it's not the fact that oh he got hurt.
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It's just like, oh man, this guy is really good
when he is healthy. And everybody always goes for the
golden rings, you know, like, hey, you know what, we
can be the one or we could be the team
to make that work. So I mean the health thing
that that's that's tough right there.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And always like we talk about Bradley Beal all time, Oh,
you'll never get anybody to take that contract, you know what.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
And guess what.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
The Sons came a calling, and you could always get
these contracts. People say, you can't be moved and players
can't be moved.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
We've seen it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Like you, you would say, why would why would the
Sons take that deal? They thought that they had a
special team when they added him, right Eddie, and it
didn't work out they did.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Yeah, that's exactly what it was. It's always you think
that you are going to be the one to be
able to change it. And you know, if if everything
is right, man, look at what we will have.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Look at the teams.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Ben Simmons has been on by Ben Simmons moving around.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Well, at some point, what's the definition inn saying they're
doing the same thing over expecting different results.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Come on, now that's what is going on?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Uh yeah, let's just go, Eddie, where are you on
the best team in the NBA? Not just recognized? Let's
let's leave the Celtics out of it.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
You because you knew.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
That, you already say, so, I'm gonna say, other than
the Celtics, Eddie, can.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
You tell me who who's the best team in the NBA?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
You know what? You know? What's crazy is that, you know,
I really do like okay See. I think they're a
really really good basketball team. I also think Cleveland is
playing phenomenal basketball. So I would have to say between that,
I will have to say, I'm just gonna say not
record wise and record so I put both of them together.
(26:02):
But now okay See has shown that they are that team.
But I'm with JB. Bigger Staff. And if you guys
look at what I did in NBC Sports Boston a
couple of games ago when we played okay See, I
said the same thing that JB. Bigger Staff said. I
said the officiated crew. I didn't know their names. I said,
was disgusting, and I mean, you could pull it up.
(26:24):
It's actual factuals. I said the same exact thing that
he said. You can't allow one team to be super fitient.
I get it, they're the best, you know, they get
the most inflections of the best defensive team, they defend
the three, they all that stuff. I get all of that.
But you can't allow other teams trying to be technical
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called back fouls, and now that's an imbalance in the game,
you know what I mean. So I was with JV
bigger Staff when I've seen that, I was definitely feeling
everything that he was saying, because that's exactly that's how
they have been officiated all year long. And I'm not
saying that they're not a good team. Don't get me
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twisted with that. They're a real good basketball team. But
at the same time, when somebody is able to go
to the free throw line, I'm speaking on when we
played them. I don't know the numbers yesterday, thirty five
to twelve. You're telling me we fouling them every time,
and it's a difference with fouls, right, So you gotta
keep game. When you call a foul when somebody's taking
(27:30):
a shot as opposed, you call a foul outside. So
they're taking it out on the side, you know. And
I've been around this game long enough and I can
see the flint flam, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
But could somebody argue and say, hey, man, y'all take
just the other night, y'all took sixty threes. Can somebody say, well,
that's because you're taking all these threes. You're not getting
in the paint, you're not drawing files, you're not James
hardening the game. You know where you're going to get
that contact like SGA and LKC.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
I ain't rolling with that. You know why I'm not
rolling with that because I watched the game. I don't
just look at the numbers at the end of the
stat sheet. I see how the game was being officiated
from every single possession. So I would roll with that.
If I was ignorant to what I actually watched, I
didn't know what I've seen and how the game was
(28:16):
actually being officiated. Yeah, then I could say, yeah, maybe
it is because we took a lot of threes, but
those threes were wide over shots. We were getting We
were getting good looks. But again, if you can't allow
one team to be physical, you know, let's just go
to football. You allowed one team to hold in any call.
Holding on other team all the time like that is frustrating.
(28:37):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
And I've been covering the league since nineteen eighty Yes,
and I've seen it, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
You know how long you've been how long you've been
covering the league.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Since he had gone on?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Hey, and she just walked through the dough. That's when
my that's what white people was born in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Hey, baby was having shot.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
That's right. That was a good year in nineteen eighty seven.
She was born in I was working, I was working
hard back then. I was on planes. Eddie was sitting
next to Mark Jackson going to going to NBA games
back in the day when the writers used to fly
with the players a commercial.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
What did you you didn't play during that era, right, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (29:21):
I never flew commercial when I was playing.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yeah, you see you see how you tried to aige
you no, no, no, no, I said that right forty seven.
But but Eddie, just think about that, where the NBA
come from.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Seriously, Like you used to have to get up and
take the first flight out of town. The writers used
to ride the bus with you, Eddie, all that stuff.
I used to ride the team bus with the nets
and the next you know, right, dude, I used to
sit up front with the assistant coaching like he.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Felt like he was in the league.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
No, that was what was it?
Speaker 9 (29:54):
No?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
It was at one point he talked about, yeah, we
got a game tonight, and we got a game and
he not flying.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I feel like I was in no league on the
six am flight out of Milwaukee.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Man, we ain't played well tonight, Eddie. Who's your coach
of the year? I'm interested in here and who you
think should be coach of the year.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
It's hard to go against the OKC coach, but I
do also, like I thought, I think JB. Bigger Staff
has done a great job over there in Detroit.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
What about Kenny Atkinson, I was.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Getting ready to say him as well. I think Kenny
accident has a fantastic opportunity to do that. He turned
everything around. But like think about it, he took a
team that was already the same team in Cleveland. Cleveland
when the playoff last year and played us in the
second round, played the Celtics in the second round.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
They're not as good as they are now I'll tell
you that.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
So okay, okay, so let me let so I'm gonna
play Devil's Advocate with you right now. So he took
a team that made it in the second round, that
has the number one seed, right and then you also
look at Detroit that was I mean base you know,
bottom tier, you know, bottom feeders right now. Look where
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Detroit is at right now. So I look at the
jumps that teams make, you know, But I wouldn't be
mad at either three of those coaches winning Coach of
the Year man Joe Miszula too, Joe Misula, Man, come on, he.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Almost did who's your top ten Quarterbacks?
Speaker 5 (31:24):
But I'm never doing that. I'm you know, I'm I'm
a homer.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
We know, when did you turn into a homer when
you won Miami?
Speaker 5 (31:33):
No, I've been a homer. I've been a homer since
they hire me. And uh, you know this is the thing.
I always got love for Boston and everybody in Boston
for sure, because they treat you really well. You know,
when I want a championship. That's when I actually became
a homer. But when I got to cover it, I'm
gonna talk about the.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
Cell things, but I'm gonna keep it real.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Now, if you ever watch NBC Sports Boston, when we
see it.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
We don't have to sound on them. We see you
all the time.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
I keep it, I keep it real. I do keep
it really.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
So what did the fans say when you say something
on the players and you see them and they and
you have to criticize somebody.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Oh, they say, he's exactly right, because you know, the
one thing about it's certain fan bases that understand the game.
Like when I watch the game and I sit down
next to Eric, my guy sitting next to him all
the time, where I see that and they understand the game.
I don't even say anything, and I listen to what
they say and I be like, Okay, they understand, they
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see what's what's going on. It's certain fan bases that
have that. And I want to say, you know, Boston,
New York, they understand what's going on and they see it,
and it's not like something that you know, you're just
over fandom to where you're not recognizing what's going on.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
You can't people watch if you said, if you sitting
an arena long you hear the fans really know, man,
the possessions right now, why we got to use better substitution.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
They really know the game. I mean, if you spending thousands.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Of dollars exactly, yes, yes, they will tell you exactly
way before. So there's no doubt about it. All right, Eddie,
we always appreciate you, all.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Right, right on, you'll have a good one man.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
For sure, Eddie House. Our guests as always, man appreciate
him there all right. Uh, we were just talking about it.
We got to let me see you do some Matthew.
I carry a six plus three to about. We're about
nine hours away from some baseball in Tokyo with the Dodgers.
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you could say, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Opening day open the morning day games count, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
And that is what's the Dodgers gonna be doing.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
But they're gonna be doing it in Tokyo, and it's
gonna be and again a matter of almost nine hours
or so.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
If you're on a game is six eight am on
the East coast, Yeah, three am on the West coast,
all the Dodger fans have to wake up, set your
alarm to watch.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
In the Central time.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
I don't forget the Cups because they're out there and
the duve pure.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
So that'd be what five am for them.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
And you know what, this is interesting because people are like,
should Major League Baseball have Opening Day? Which at one point,
if you remember the traditional opening day and as a
kid growing up, it used to be on the opening
of the fun you know, the basketball Championship was played.
(35:29):
So Opening Day was on that Monday in the afternoon
and the red Cincinnati Reds always played the first game
of the year. That was the tradition, and then that
night you'll watch the basketball. This is how the basketball
Championship used to be on the same night, like in April,
not in March. It would be in April, so it
would be a great day. You would watch Opening Day
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Baseball on that Monday, and then the basketball NCAA Championship.
And now you say, well, it's in Japan, and why
would you have the opening Day where most people can't
watch it because it's in the middle of the night
if you're on the West coast or too early in
the morning, people got to go to work, all this
other stuff, And I understand it. I'm not saying this
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because I'm giving baseball a pass. You have Sho hail Tani,
you have in Japan, the students, the best player in
the game. You have to maximize. We talk about everything
being global now, right, everything, The NBA, NFL is playing
a lot of games all over the world, all this
kind of stuff, and you're not going to not take
(36:34):
advantage as many Asian people as they are in the world. Right,
and they've embraced this guy. You're selling merchandise, You're selling
a TV deal, right, TV writes over in Japan and
all this, all the games are being broadcast.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
You see. You know this because you work out here
in LA.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
There are fifty forty to fifty reporters from Japan will
cover literally oh Tani. It doubled from when he was
with the Angels, that they can't get enough. So I
think it would be foolish as a as a league
not to take advantage of a situation when you have
a guy like Shoe hal Tani.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
I think to be outraged is too much. But you
could be disappointed. If you're a Dodgers fan, you say,
we're the current World Series champs, you know, and we
want to we want to experience the team first. If
they're if they're gonna play their first game period, meaning
it counts for the record, then let us see them,
Let them be here, Let it be here so we
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can scream and cheer them on first and not have
to get up at three am to watch them.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
So again, I don't think outrage.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
I think that's a bit dramatic, especially consider there's one
hundred and sixty two games in a Major League Baseball season.
But I do think there's an element of that's our team,
we fought hard, we won. Can we partake first? Can
we be home first? Can we have But you can't
do that, you know, like in the NBA, do that
like what you want? The Celtics opening up big game?
The Celtics are gonna have that. Celtic can't baseball like.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
That because us The Dodgers are gonna need time from
coming from Japan before they start playing again.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
It's such a it's such a dramatic and you notice
if you've traveled, uh, it takes a lot.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Especially from there. Yeah, from Japan, it just takes a
lot out of you.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
And that's why I think baseball it has to be
done like this, to give them two weeks to get
ready or a week, I should say, right, and then
they could do the home opener against the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Do you know that? Are you gonna be there? Yeah,
I'm gonna try to.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
You know, way life be lifing, but I am gonna
try to do and I haven't I haven't been in
quite some time now that I have this to to
show crazy shift, I don't really hit a lot of
games Lakers or Dodgers or anything like that. But and
then not to mention too, to add to your point though,
the globalization of a game, you know, as big as
baseball is here, it's big around the world, especially in
Japan and Korea, but not quite as you know, like
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they're trying to grow the game because there's a certain
point where you max out right, you have all the
baseball fans, are gonna have the States back, Keyball, NBA,
You're gonna have all the fans. That's why they're trying
to go into China war where it's a huge sport
in China. Continue, NFL continue, they keep trying Europe. They
keep trying to.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Keep trying, but I don't know if they'll ever I
mean they had leagues over they did ear early.
Speaker 6 (39:14):
I know they keep trying over there. But the point
is the globalization of the.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Game, well in baseball, and it's just like for Japan,
this only makes sense. This is not and you're taking
a game to Switzerland or something. You know you're not
gonna do that.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Roki Sasaki too, We didn't mention him. They got the
new picture from there. So there's a connection with the Dodgers,
Dave Roberts being half African American, half Korean, I mean
Japanese as well. Uh so he you know, he makes sense,
makes specifically the Dodgers too, because there's a lot of ties.
So I'm not gonna say I'm not mad. I don't
think anything could be overly upset about it, but I
could see if it was like, man, can we see
our team first?
Speaker 4 (39:47):
They're our team and they won.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
But so yeah, if you want some breakfast in baseball,
get up early three am on the West, six am
on the East.
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Speaker 4 (01:13):
Gonna do a little baseball talk. You know, tomorrow is
the Tokyo series.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
And you said tomorrow literally tomorrow in like a matter
of ours. Yeah, three am our time, Pacific time, yep,
six am Eastern time, yep.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
And yep, lit, we'll breakfast in baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
We'll talk about that because these are not exhibition this
is the real season. Yes, get started, and we'll just
talk about whether or not that's where the opening day
should be out of the country, or are we missing
something Half the country won't be able to see it
because it's so early in the morning and all that
kind of stuff. So we'll do dive into that as well.
But let's continue. Let's talk some more NBA.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Yeah, Robb g we we had Dan Buyer's early gave
us that update about Paul George and him being for
the season and obviously just not a great season to
say the least for the Sixers.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
What is I'm not surprised, Like when the Clippers moved
off him, I thought that was two hundred something millionaire,
were like, uh no, thank you, thank you, but no
thank and you Leve.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Balmer has all the money in the world.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Literally, he just Man, That's why I love seeing them
going crazy, like, man, this dude, life is just good.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Worth one hundred and some billion, You got a team
that's just for fun. You just printing money every day.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
And I was like, well, literally, when you get to
that money money amount of money your stocks alone, like
you could do nothing else in life and you're gonna
make like a million dollar a day minimum. Anyway, So
that was the news of Paul George. But my thought,
Rob and it goes to two teams. LEA start with
the Sixers, and I legitimately am asking this from a
business standpoint. From a practical standpoint, helped me make it
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make sense because hey, I don't know everything, maybe I'm
missing it. Paul George has been one of the best
two way players of the last decade decade plus. He
had a heck of a career. So many young people
say he's the best player in the league. They love
his style, watching him esthetically, Well that's the whole that's
the whole thing with the young people. They all say
he's their favorite play. If you ask a bunch of
young Caby's fine, no go, no nod saying he's their
(03:13):
favorite player.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
They all love just because aesthetically the way he plays.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
But the issue I had is, if you're the Sixers,
why do you go get Paul George and pair Paul
George with Joel Embiid. Both chronically injured, both always missing games,
both never reliable. It's not their fault like their really
great talents when they're healthy, but they're not. And you
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knew you had issues with Joel Embiid. You know that
he's never been healthy. In fact, he's only played about
I think it's forty seven percent of his regular season
games in his career, and you pair him with PG thirteen,
who's hardly ever playing. It's always dealing with something, whether
it be a knick knack injury or a legitimate injury.
And I don't get the model, the business model of
doing that, like why would you do that? And the
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other team that I'm confused about, because these are just
bad habits from organizations is Dallas, and Dallas says, Hey,
Luca's gonna have a catastrophic injury in the next five years.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
He's not built for this. He doesn't take care of himself.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
And if that's what they legitimately feel, okay, I disagree,
but that's what they feel. They see him every day,
So then why do you trade him for a six
to seven year older Anthony Davis who's always injured way
more than Luca. So there's been a couple of moves
from these teams that to me, I'm not even a
rocket scientist. I don't even have to be a doctor,
Doogie Howes or anybody to make this make sense. And
(04:33):
I genuinely don't get it. I'm like, am I missing
something here? Where you pair Paul George, always injured, with
Joel Ebeid even more always injured, and now they're both out,
both out for the season. You don't know what's gonna
happen with Joelymbid next year because he's going to get
these surgeries. Paul George is at this point a shell
of himself because he did not look great even when
he was healthy with the seventy six ers.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
And again you got Anthony Davis.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
With Kyrie, who's injury prone, not quite as bad as
some other, but Kyrie has issues at times, and you
ain't got an older Anthony Davis who's always injured. You're
a smart guy. Please make this make sense because I
don't get it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And the moves not the Paul George because I would
have wanted no part of Paul George pairing with Joel.
And I do understand the Mavericks because remember it was
about money too, the three hundred and fifty million with
they just so they had to figure out well, what
can we do to get a player right still who's
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got some cache and he and Anthony Davis. While he
his history is being injured, he had a nice stretch of.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Not being I think two or three games he played
and that was that was really good for him. And
I'm not saying we know what his history is. So
I understand.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Once you you're not committed to signing Luca, you gotta
figure out what you're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
It's not just let him go and we get nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You got to figure out something that's going to be
that could work with Kyrie who's there and we know Kyrie,
yes he's been banged up as well. But their thought
was if you add Anthony Davis to Kyrie, we still
have a dynamic and they would have right right if
they're healthy. That's a dynamic duo that could help us
(06:15):
get a run. They just went to the finals last year.
Yes it was with Luca and Kyrie. But you're figuring,
like Anthony Davis can.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Come all to a big.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And all that, but the if you're going to take
someone to tack, it's Philadelphia because they didn't just get
him on like a discount. Oh my god, let's take
a flyer on him. You know who Paul George is.
You know you had to pay top dollar because he
balked when the Clippers wanted a discount, right, so we
wanted top dollar what you got? And then you know
(06:45):
he's got the podcast thing. You know, he just hasn't
He's always banged up or turns in a stinker at
some point. I don't know, Like I'm just I wouldn't
be would not have been interested in Paul George under
any circumstance. It's the I'm serious you any I'm sure
you have. I don't know if you are you a
wine kind of sore? Anybody rob g you a wine
(07:06):
kind of surer? Anybody's been to you know, you've been
to Sonoma. You've been to uh these wine tasting places.
They always tell you what it pairs with. Right, They'll say, oh,
this wine right here is our new Why do I
need to go to Sonoma to turn the cap on
a wine bottle?
Speaker 6 (07:21):
I'm just saying no, Sometimes it's about the experience. Rock
you go there, it's beautiful, walk in the wine. Are
you going with your wife?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yeah, you a wine drinker? No for that?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Yes, you go there, you go to Temecula out here,
you know, southern California. It's just nice to be around,
to be out beautiful time. Yeah, time killed around, it's time,
you know, take it around. Smell this, you gotta taste
a little bit. Then they say that sound like a
mouse eating cheese. Yeah, well you would have been running
if it isn't. And then they say, well, this pair
(07:50):
is weird with a steak. Or if we're talking to
Rod Parker, we would say lamb chops. Just what pairs
wear with lamb chops. If we're talking to Kelvin Washington,
we would say short rib and I'm like, oh, that
sounds great. Then they tell you this one, this white wine,
it's a delicacy, has a little more of the herbs lavender,
and it pairs well with the white fish.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
You know what I mean. They're doing some terrible pairings,
is my point.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
If you went out there and you got Paul George, fine,
but you gotta put them with Michale Bridges twenty four
hundred straight games, you know what I mean, an iron
man of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
You're pairing, you're pairing injured with hurt And that's the
part I don't get. But they also look at it
as they're trying to tank, must be trying to add
they're trying to add another star because that team had hardened. Well,
you're gonna have to do. That team had Ben Simmons
when he was an All Star. I'm just trying to
say where they had three guys. Jimmy Butler used to
be on that team. So there's a star, there's a
(08:39):
star factor. I think that goes with why Philadelphia was interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I'm just telling you how you're gonna get a star
that never shines? What it was a bar.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Rob g How you gonna get a star that never shines?
We don't ever get this, y'all. Look up, you know,
I look up at the sky. You know how you
lay on your back with your little girlfriend when you're twelve,
You look up and just start there's no stars. It's cloudy, okay,
because they're not playing out there. You never see him together,
and when they are, they sucked.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
So I don't. I don't understand it, man, I just
I just sometimes listen. I ain't. I'm not GM of
the Year.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
I'm not Sam Presty, Bob Myers or anything Joe Dumars
back in his day, except for Darko.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
But why you gotta say that he won a championship.
With the championship, you gotta stop that. What do you mean,
I gotta stop that. We could have had Chip.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
No, no, no no. But if they would have drafted
and didn't.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Get Rashid, No, they needed car, they needed Chris Bosh.
Everybody always says, no, Chris Bosh was the answer for
everything you liked about Darko. That was Chris Bosch. But anyway,
that's my point. The championship they did, Oh you know
I was there, Perry. That that's my biggest point. You
pair Paul George wouldn't be you pair?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Are you? You mark it?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Here's the other part. You're Dallas And that's fine. The trait,
we get it. Hey, that's what they felt they need
to do. You're gonna get rid of culed, but you
stand on business. It's that they came out and talked
about injury, injury, injury, and we don't think he's fit
and he's gonna be injured. And that's the big part, Rob,
is that they went out of their way to stress that.
But you sign a guy that's perpetually injured, and what
(10:07):
does he do? Literally in a Freudian William Shakespearean way
is get injured the first game after dominating the first half,
comes back injury.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Goo.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
That's that is a Diddy Davis balling out of control,
reminding you why he is one of the best players
in the NBA. Oh but wait, dang, he gets injured.
So that's my whole point is these parings. I just
don't get it. I'm wondering why GM's doing it, and
that we laugh sometimes about you and I have the
situation they're doing with the Giants keeping Daniel Jones, letting
Taekwon go and all that backfiring with some of these
gms in the NBA are having the same situation where
(10:38):
I'm like, I don't even this was an obvious move
from the jump.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
What are you doing anyway? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
The only one I'm going to push back on is
the Dallas one. I just once you decide, once you
decide you don't want him, you go, well, don't you
go get who Steph? Don't you go now, young Cade
cunning head, like, don't you go get something? Don't I
go get who else? That's not gonna work. You're looking
for somebody who can give you that duo already one.
(11:06):
It doesn't matter what are they trying to win. They're
not trying to win eight championships. If you're Dallas, you
can win one championship, do you don't?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Like, let's not get ridiculous about what teams are trying
to do. If you can win one, that's gonna buy
you tape.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Good go get you honest.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Tom tom Izzo is still living off of Michigan State
in two thousands.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Man, tom Izo is going to fight you when he
sees I'm just sad enough of it. Yeah, to deal
with him in Michigan now, I gotta deal with it
when he's in California. He gonna stand on the Apple
box and swing on you get my point?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
My point is you don't need to win that offense.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
If your team you can get one, you get rannest
ain't being traded for Luca.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
No, would you do that, rob Gi? If I say, hey, man,
I'm sick of look he's getting them on the nerves.
He's give me. I'll give you honest, I'll get you
looking straight up, straight up, one for one.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
No, no, no, You're not making that trade.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
It's just not as not gonna happen all right, eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven, six sixty
three sixty this win.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
In you a playoff series. It is honestly with Luca,
robzc Luca, the Sixers sense you're not making that trade.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Did the Sixers and the MAVs get what they deserve
by bringing in all these historically injured players. That's what
Kelvin is trying to sell. I'm not buying it. Continue.
We'll continue that conversation next with you. It is the
Odd Couple on a Magic City Monday. Rob Parker Kelvin Washington,
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Speaker 3 (13:52):
Just wanted you to know that and two ninety you'll
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Speaker 6 (13:56):
And is it you finally said the two ninety Yeah,
you got it right there all right? Eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox we're having a conversation about do
the mas and the seventy six ers blow it by
signing injury prone guys like Paul George and then Anthony
Davis eight seven to seven ninety.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Nine on Fox.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Who we got Andre in Massachusetts. You're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Drey?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Thanks for taking the call. Yes, both of these teams
teams blew it and they swung and they missed, more
so than MAVs than the seventy six Ers. I think
the MAVs deal was more so directed by ownership.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Seventy six Ers deal.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Was directed by following your star, which is the same
mistake in my view that the Milwaukee Bucks made and
letting Giannis determine what the direction of the team was
going to be. And that's what got you holiday up
and out of there and over to Boston with the
seventy six ers.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Yes, you let.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
JOELMB dictate the terms, but to JOELLMB to somebody who
is inconsistent and injury prone, So when he's not going
to be there, you have to think to yourself, what's
going to be the mentality of Paul George. So when
the seventy six Ers case, and I'm a little bit disappointed,
dal Moury, Kyrie, Max he should have been the one
determining who the next star coming to Philadelphia. It's going
to be, so both of those it didn't work out.
(15:03):
With Dallas, I give them a little bit more cropability
because I don't think it was the GM.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
I think it was it was ownership for sure.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Right once they say they don't want to pay three fifty,
that comes from ownership.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
GM of course wouldn't do that. Yeah, for sure. All right, Drake,
thank you eight seven, seven ninety nine on.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Fox Tony in DC. You're on the odd couple of
Fox Sports Radio. What's up Tony?
Speaker 9 (15:25):
So it was good, always a pleasure. I think both
teams are a train wreck. But with Philly I was
out on embed. You remember that year he tours on
the Niscus whatever and he was at that meat Mill
concert dancing on stage that.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Night or whatever.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
I was out on him at that point. I was think,
this dude doesn't take this serious. And I think Philly
pretty much bid against themselves with Paul George. I didn't
see teams really lining up for him, and his own
team tried to get him out of the discount, so
they that's on them.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, but Philly is weird. They do stuff like that,
even when they hired Doc Rivers. I remember at that point,
remember they had just the Clippers that just lost, and
like months later here's Doc River standing up there and
Philly I was like, Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
That's what we're saying, really, run organization, go ahead, Yeah,
your thought.
Speaker 9 (16:12):
And with the MAVs, I think with Luca I would
have me personally, actually what Kelvin says with a D
and you know he's great, he's still six seven years older.
I would have called Orlando like, hey, what can I.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Get for Pollo?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
That's a good one.
Speaker 9 (16:28):
So I would have got somebody in that age, pragudice,
ascending up ads on the way down. Lucas we can
say what we want to say. He's still on the
way up. I don't think we've seen the best of
Luca yet.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Well, but they don't believe that.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
Though they don't believe we saw the best of ad
in twenty twenty when he was the best.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
But if you but you the thing you're not really
being honest with is if he stays there, he has
to get to three fifty. You can't have him there
and not cash him out. He wouldn't if you would
have had, You have had to have paid him. You
can't go. We want to keep you. Well, we want
to gonna give you too. Eighty five.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
No, I'm sorry, you just made all NBA again, but
we want to pop.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
They had called Minnesota and asked about home. Anthony Edwards
Anthony Edwards, and you've got to pay him regardless. So
either what you're gonna pay somebody.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Especially these young you know, the young caliber you wanted
to get, but he gets he would have been able
to get the super Max because he's.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Not on that SuperM. You have to be on a
team that you were drafted by to get a super Max.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
He would have got a lot of trade.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well, well, just like Luca is a millionaire, almost one
hundred million dollars. Like that's the difference between signing a
deal with the Lakes. Crewe h Trevor and san Antonio.
You're on they couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Trevor,
Hey man, how's it going good?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I'm doing good.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
What I'm I'm doing a lot better now than Luca's
not in Texas. O. What I'm thinking, I've never heard
of Luca say himself that I want a super Max.
If anything I could see him taking a little bit
less is Jalen Brunston to build a team around him.
He has an intality.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I too.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I don't know everybody. Everybody the Supermax.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
And if you were going to give that money to
anyone in the league, I would think Luca would be
that guy.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
No, while they're saying because of his work ethic or
habits and and maybe, and we're just guessing with the
way that they reacted with him drinking a beer after
winning the Western Conference finals, that there's something else there
that the reason that they didn't want to cash him
out is not basketball ability.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
We know that he's one of the best players in
the league.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
To go back to that same point, we we've kind
of beat the dead horse. But man, Michael Finley's look,
I'm gonna say that wasn't a funny moment. We all laughed,
but Lucas face was like, hey, Bro mcgrom and Michael
Finley said what and that face said, we had an agreement.
We signed off on this, Lucas A making my beer
and he Michael Finley dipped, walked off. You didn't see
(19:00):
him again. You can tell they had an agreement. Whatever
it is, whatever they felt they were trying to work
on with Luca. You can tell that was serious business
right there. All right, we got Eddie House speaking of
the NBA NBA Champion getting ready to join us here
in a bit, But first we got to find out
what's trending Martin White.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
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Speaker 4 (19:28):
Four games going on right now in the Association.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
With four minutes left in the first quarter, the Pistons
have a twenty five to ten lead over the Pelicans,
four minutes left in the Pacers Timberwolf first quarter. Indiana,
with a fifteen to fourteen lead in Philadelphia, has a
twenty nine to seventeen lead over at Houston with just
under four minutes in their first quarter, and with six
minutes left in the second quarter, Miami has a thirty
(19:50):
five to thirty three lead over New York Karl Anthony
Towns with seventeen first half points seventy six ers four.
Paul George's gonna miss the rest of this season follow
me injections and his knee and his aductor Strain Anthony Davis,
also as an inductor Strange trying to come back from that.
He was recalled after one practice in the G League. Today,
the Houston Texans signed cornerback Derek Steley to a three
(20:12):
year extension worth ninety million, making him the highest paid
defensive back in NFL history. Philadelphia Eagles extend the contractor
right tackle Lane Johnson through twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Free agent quarterback Jamis Winston will meet with the New
York Giants on Tuesday.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey, along with the state's attorney general,
announced they're going to launch an investigation into the NCAA
after the West Virginia Mountaineers were left out of the
sixty eighth field the sixty eighteen field.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Of the men's NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 10 (20:42):
Iona fired up men's basketball coach Tobin Anderson after two
seasons with the school. Colorado had football coach Deon Sanders
says he'd like to practice against another school during spring practices.
Syracuse head coach said he'd be down for it, but
such a move would require a change in the NCAA rulebook.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Kevin rob Back to you guys. All right, here is
Martin Wis. Thank you, brother, appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Comingy live for the tyrack dot Com Studios on the
Magic City Monday. It's the Eye Couple Robin Kelvin and
joining us now. I'm man Eddie House. He is an
NBA champion, he is an Emmy winner, NBC Sports Boston,
Fox Sports Radio, NBA analystics Eddie House.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
What's up eat, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
What's happening? What's happening?
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Guys?
Speaker 5 (21:22):
How a y'all feeling on this good Monday? Man? How
are you?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Buddy?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I'm doing good. Man's watching this big Miami game.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You know it was twelve nothing. That's all tied up now.
Miami jumped out twelve nothing.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Right, yeah they did. I think it was nine nothing
at first, and maybe you did go to twelve nothing.
But you know, I love watching hoop, man, whatever it is.
I watched college, high school, you know, bitti ball, whatever
it is, man, I love watching hoop. If I got
to go support somebody, little kid, and I'll go do that.
But yeah, I love I love the game.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Yeah man, I love you love just the gaming and
of myself. Man, you got to.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Play it at a high level where you earn a
living by doing it.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Now, I mean, how could you not love suns hooping too?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Right? Yes, yes, yes they are all good.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
And put a button on this conversation for is that
we were just talking about. You know, you you have
obviously now from the analyst standpoint, you kind of keep
in touch and the know of what these gms are doing.
What the heck is Darryl Mory thinking, And even if
the Mavericks thinking when they're bringing in these injury prone
specifically you pair Paul George with Joe ellenb Come on, man,
(22:30):
that's to hurt with the injured. And we were just saying, now,
Paul George out for the season, and then they say, oh, Mavericks,
say Luca's chronically injured, he's gonna be a catastrophic injury
within five years. But you bring in Anthony Davis, who's
always injured. So please help me understand. I think these
were bad pairings, like when you go wine peerings. They
missed it, they missed it and put the wrong things together.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yeah, you know that that's a tough one because injuries,
you know, you never foresee him, you know, even though
you could say somebody has a history of being injured.
But sometimes they overcome that. You know, they get the
right training, they get the right people around them, they
start treating their body better. And so it is tough
with injuries because, like I said, nobody can. You don't
(23:15):
foreshadow injury, even though somebody might have had that kind
of history.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Eddie Embeid and Paul George ed they stay injured. Yeah,
but you can't live like that.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Paul George was ready to play, and even with his history,
they still I wouldn't have signed Paul George.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Because you see my face looking at you.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
No, I'm trying to tell you, but but I'm but
I'm but I'm with Eddie. I think that they always
believe that Okay, that might have happened there, but it
might not happen for many years.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I give you the first year, I gotta give you.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
But people get signed all the time, Eddie, am I
right in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
I think about in New York right now, Garrett Colee.
They signed Garrett Cole. Right, he doesn't have a history,
but he got hurt and now he signed a big deal.
He's gonna sign another big deal afterwards. All he has
to do is so that he came back healthy for
one year and then they'll be like, hey, we'll sign
him again to another big deal if whenever that time comes.
And it's not the fact that oh he got hurt.
(24:11):
It's just like, oh man, this guy is really good
when he is healthy. And everybody always goes for the
golden rings, you know, like, hey, you know what, we
can be the one or we could be the team
to make that work. So I mean the health thing
that that's that's tough right there.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And always like we talk about Bradley Beal all time, Oh,
you'll never get anybody to take that contract, you know what.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
And guess what.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
The Sons came a calling, and you could always get
these contracts. People say, you can't be moved and players
can't be moved.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
We've seen it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Like you, you would say, why would why would the
Sons take that deal? They thought that they had a
special team when they added him, right Eddie, and it
didn't work out they did.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Yeah, that's exactly what it was. It's always you think
that you are going to be the one to be
able to change it. And you know, if if everything
is right, man, look at what we will have.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Look at the teams.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Ben Simmons has been on by Ben Simmons moving around.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Well, at some point, what's the definition inn saying they're
doing the same thing over expecting different results.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Come on, now that's what is going on?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Uh yeah, let's just go, Eddie, where are you on
the best team in the NBA? Not just recognized? Let's
let's leave the Celtics out of it.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
You because you knew.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
That, you already say, so, I'm gonna say, other than
the Celtics, Eddie, can.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
You tell me who who's the best team in the NBA?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
You know what? You know? What's crazy is that, you know,
I really do like okay See. I think they're a
really really good basketball team. I also think Cleveland is
playing phenomenal basketball. So I would have to say between that,
I will have to say, I'm just gonna say not
record wise and record so I put both of them together.
(26:02):
But now okay See has shown that they are that team.
But I'm with JB. Bigger Staff. And if you guys
look at what I did in NBC Sports Boston a
couple of games ago when we played okay See, I
said the same thing that JB. Bigger Staff said. I
said the officiated crew. I didn't know their names. I said,
was disgusting, and I mean, you could pull it up.
(26:24):
It's actual factuals. I said the same exact thing that
he said. You can't allow one team to be super fitient.
I get it, they're the best, you know, they get
the most inflections of the best defensive team, they defend
the three, they all that stuff. I get all of that.
But you can't allow other teams trying to be technical
(26:45):
called back fouls, and now that's an imbalance in the game,
you know what I mean. So I was with JV
bigger Staff when I've seen that, I was definitely feeling
everything that he was saying, because that's exactly that's how
they have been officiated all year long. And I'm not
saying that they're not a good team. Don't get me
(27:07):
twisted with that. They're a real good basketball team. But
at the same time, when somebody is able to go
to the free throw line, I'm speaking on when we
played them. I don't know the numbers yesterday, thirty five
to twelve. You're telling me we fouling them every time,
and it's a difference with fouls, right, So you gotta
keep game. When you call a foul when somebody's taking
(27:30):
a shot as opposed, you call a foul outside. So
they're taking it out on the side, you know. And
I've been around this game long enough and I can
see the flint flam, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
But could somebody argue and say, hey, man, y'all take
just the other night, y'all took sixty threes. Can somebody say, well,
that's because you're taking all these threes. You're not getting
in the paint, you're not drawing files, you're not James
hardening the game. You know where you're going to get
that contact like SGA and LKC.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
I ain't rolling with that. You know why I'm not
rolling with that because I watched the game. I don't
just look at the numbers at the end of the
stat sheet. I see how the game was being officiated
from every single possession. So I would roll with that.
If I was ignorant to what I actually watched, I
didn't know what I've seen and how the game was
(28:16):
actually being officiated. Yeah, then I could say, yeah, maybe
it is because we took a lot of threes, but
those threes were wide over shots. We were getting We
were getting good looks. But again, if you can't allow
one team to be physical, you know, let's just go
to football. You allowed one team to hold in any call.
Holding on other team all the time like that is frustrating.
(28:37):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
And I've been covering the league since nineteen eighty Yes,
and I've seen it, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
You know how long you've been how long you've been
covering the league.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Since he had gone on?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Hey, and she just walked through the dough. That's when
my that's what white people was born in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Hey, baby was having shot.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
That's right. That was a good year in nineteen eighty seven.
She was born in I was working, I was working
hard back then. I was on planes. Eddie was sitting
next to Mark Jackson going to going to NBA games
back in the day when the writers used to fly
with the players a commercial.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
What did you you didn't play during that era, right, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (29:21):
I never flew commercial when I was playing.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yeah, you see you see how you tried to aige
you no, no, no, no, I said that right forty seven.
But but Eddie, just think about that, where the NBA
come from.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Seriously, Like you used to have to get up and
take the first flight out of town. The writers used
to ride the bus with you, Eddie, all that stuff.
I used to ride the team bus with the nets
and the next you know, right, dude, I used to
sit up front with the assistant coaching like he.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Felt like he was in the league.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
No, that was what was it?
Speaker 9 (29:54):
No?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
It was at one point he talked about, yeah, we
got a game tonight, and we got a game and
he not flying.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I feel like I was in no league on the
six am flight out of Milwaukee.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Man, we ain't played well tonight, Eddie. Who's your coach
of the year? I'm interested in here and who you
think should be coach of the year.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
It's hard to go against the OKC coach, but I
do also, like I thought, I think JB. Bigger Staff
has done a great job over there in Detroit.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
What about Kenny Atkinson, I was.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Getting ready to say him as well. I think Kenny
accident has a fantastic opportunity to do that. He turned
everything around. But like think about it, he took a
team that was already the same team in Cleveland. Cleveland
when the playoff last year and played us in the
second round, played the Celtics in the second round.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
They're not as good as they are now I'll tell
you that.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
So okay, okay, so let me let so I'm gonna
play Devil's Advocate with you right now. So he took
a team that made it in the second round, that
has the number one seed, right and then you also
look at Detroit that was I mean base you know,
bottom tier, you know, bottom feeders right now. Look where
(31:05):
Detroit is at right now. So I look at the
jumps that teams make, you know, But I wouldn't be
mad at either three of those coaches winning Coach of
the Year man Joe Miszula too, Joe Misula, Man, come on, he.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Almost did who's your top ten Quarterbacks?
Speaker 5 (31:24):
But I'm never doing that. I'm you know, I'm I'm
a homer.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
We know, when did you turn into a homer when
you won Miami?
Speaker 5 (31:33):
No, I've been a homer. I've been a homer since
they hire me. And uh, you know this is the thing.
I always got love for Boston and everybody in Boston
for sure, because they treat you really well. You know,
when I want a championship. That's when I actually became
a homer. But when I got to cover it, I'm
gonna talk about the.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
Cell things, but I'm gonna keep it real.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Now, if you ever watch NBC Sports Boston, when we
see it.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
We don't have to sound on them. We see you
all the time.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
I keep it, I keep it real. I do keep
it really.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
So what did the fans say when you say something
on the players and you see them and they and
you have to criticize somebody.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Oh, they say, he's exactly right, because you know, the
one thing about it's certain fan bases that understand the game.
Like when I watch the game and I sit down
next to Eric, my guy sitting next to him all
the time, where I see that and they understand the game.
I don't even say anything, and I listen to what
they say and I be like, Okay, they understand, they
(32:31):
see what's what's going on. It's certain fan bases that
have that. And I want to say, you know, Boston,
New York, they understand what's going on and they see it,
and it's not like something that you know, you're just
over fandom to where you're not recognizing what's going on.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
You can't people watch if you said, if you sitting
an arena long you hear the fans really know, man,
the possessions right now, why we got to use better substitution.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
They really know the game. I mean, if you spending thousands.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Of dollars exactly, yes, yes, they will tell you exactly
way before. So there's no doubt about it. All right, Eddie,
we always appreciate you, all.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Right, right on, you'll have a good one man.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
For sure, Eddie House. Our guests as always, man appreciate
him there all right. Uh, we were just talking about it.
We got to let me see you do some Matthew.
I carry a six plus three to about. We're about
nine hours away from some baseball in Tokyo with the Dodgers.
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(34:38):
you could say, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Opening day open the morning day games count, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
And that is what's the Dodgers gonna be doing.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
But they're gonna be doing it in Tokyo, and it's
gonna be and again a matter of almost nine hours
or so.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
If you're on a game is six eight am on
the East coast, Yeah, three am on the West coast,
all the Dodger fans have to wake up, set your
alarm to watch.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
In the Central time.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
I don't forget the Cups because they're out there and
the duve pure.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
So that'd be what five am for them.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
And you know what, this is interesting because people are like,
should Major League Baseball have Opening Day? Which at one point,
if you remember the traditional opening day and as a
kid growing up, it used to be on the opening
of the fun you know, the basketball Championship was played.
(35:29):
So Opening Day was on that Monday in the afternoon
and the red Cincinnati Reds always played the first game
of the year. That was the tradition, and then that
night you'll watch the basketball. This is how the basketball
Championship used to be on the same night, like in April,
not in March. It would be in April, so it
would be a great day. You would watch Opening Day
(35:51):
Baseball on that Monday, and then the basketball NCAA Championship.
And now you say, well, it's in Japan, and why
would you have the opening Day where most people can't
watch it because it's in the middle of the night
if you're on the West coast or too early in
the morning, people got to go to work, all this
other stuff, And I understand it. I'm not saying this
(36:12):
because I'm giving baseball a pass. You have Sho hail Tani,
you have in Japan, the students, the best player in
the game. You have to maximize. We talk about everything
being global now, right, everything, The NBA, NFL is playing
a lot of games all over the world, all this
kind of stuff, and you're not going to not take
(36:34):
advantage as many Asian people as they are in the world. Right,
and they've embraced this guy. You're selling merchandise, You're selling
a TV deal, right, TV writes over in Japan and
all this, all the games are being broadcast.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
You see. You know this because you work out here
in LA.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
There are fifty forty to fifty reporters from Japan will
cover literally oh Tani. It doubled from when he was
with the Angels, that they can't get enough. So I
think it would be foolish as a as a league
not to take advantage of a situation when you have
a guy like Shoe hal Tani.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
I think to be outraged is too much. But you
could be disappointed. If you're a Dodgers fan, you say,
we're the current World Series champs, you know, and we
want to we want to experience the team first. If
they're if they're gonna play their first game period, meaning
it counts for the record, then let us see them,
Let them be here, Let it be here so we
(37:31):
can scream and cheer them on first and not have
to get up at three am to watch them.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
So again, I don't think outrage.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
I think that's a bit dramatic, especially consider there's one
hundred and sixty two games in a Major League Baseball season.
But I do think there's an element of that's our team,
we fought hard, we won. Can we partake first? Can
we be home first? Can we have But you can't
do that, you know, like in the NBA, do that
like what you want? The Celtics opening up big game?
The Celtics are gonna have that. Celtic can't baseball like.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
That because us The Dodgers are gonna need time from
coming from Japan before they start playing again.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
It's such a it's such a dramatic and you notice
if you've traveled, uh, it takes a lot.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Especially from there. Yeah, from Japan, it just takes a
lot out of you.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
And that's why I think baseball it has to be
done like this, to give them two weeks to get
ready or a week, I should say, right, and then
they could do the home opener against the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Do you know that? Are you gonna be there? Yeah,
I'm gonna try to.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
You know, way life be lifing, but I am gonna
try to do and I haven't I haven't been in
quite some time now that I have this to to
show crazy shift, I don't really hit a lot of
games Lakers or Dodgers or anything like that. But and
then not to mention too, to add to your point though,
the globalization of a game, you know, as big as
baseball is here, it's big around the world, especially in
Japan and Korea, but not quite as you know, like
(38:54):
they're trying to grow the game because there's a certain
point where you max out right, you have all the
baseball fans, are gonna have the States back, Keyball, NBA,
You're gonna have all the fans. That's why they're trying
to go into China war where it's a huge sport
in China. Continue, NFL continue, they keep trying Europe. They
keep trying to.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Keep trying, but I don't know if they'll ever I
mean they had leagues over they did ear early.
Speaker 6 (39:14):
I know they keep trying over there. But the point
is the globalization of the.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Game, well in baseball, and it's just like for Japan,
this only makes sense. This is not and you're taking
a game to Switzerland or something. You know you're not
gonna do that.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Roki Sasaki too, We didn't mention him. They got the
new picture from there. So there's a connection with the Dodgers,
Dave Roberts being half African American, half Korean, I mean
Japanese as well. Uh so he you know, he makes sense,
makes specifically the Dodgers too, because there's a lot of ties.
So I'm not gonna say I'm not mad. I don't
think anything could be overly upset about it, but I
could see if it was like, man, can we see
our team first?
Speaker 4 (39:47):
They're our team and they won.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
But so yeah, if you want some breakfast in baseball,
get up early three am on the West, six am
on the East.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
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