February 5, 2025 • 46 mins
The guys are named #12 best afternoon show in the country and discuss the ranking. Hall of Famer James Worthy on the Lakers and the trade for Luka and what it means for the purple and gold. Secret Textoso Roundup
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twelve rated show in the country, Number twelve.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And we only miss number eleven by a single vote.
One single vote put those dudes in DC ahead of us.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I don't know. We gotta find out who voted like
each hero roh.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I believe the panel consisted of well, there were forty stations.
I think that we're pulled so out of forty somehow
we came in twelve.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You know, we we have a lot of support from
one of our colleagues, you know who lives in the Midwest,
Josh Ennis, who's done a whole bunch of shows all
over the place. He's a great guy, and he tweeted
out something like, this is nothing but an industry circle jerk.
You guys are number one. I was like, yeah, Josh,
thank you, Josh, you champion.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We like being twelve. We're proud of being twelve. We
got like two shows in Dallas, a couple in Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
It's higher than we've ever man.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think it is. I think this might be our
highest rated, our highest year.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You know why, Dodgers. That's why, Matt, we stopped. We
stocked our chicken effing and we started just washing Dodger sack.
And look where it's gotten us. We got the super
Bowl on the station. That wouldn't have happened if we
didn't polish that sack.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
No chance.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We are here exclusive home of a game that nobody
seems to be discussing, especially here in town of super
Bowl fifty nine. I'm sure by Sunday it's gonna be
a huge deal. E G L E s.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Oh, Let's go Bears, Let's go Birds. Sorry, it's well,
it's under an interesting heading.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Will play the Philips U double dip, Philip's flip top
story of the day's French Dad cliptop story. So we
got that going for us.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I got a question for you guys. I'm looking at
this ranking that you guys are number twelve and twelve, Kates,
I'm looking at the city, the cities that are above me.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I mentioned there's like two shows in Dallas, Vulgar and
maz are number one.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So let's be honest, Well my.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Two in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Chicago is not a great sports town right now?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
What like, dude, you'd you realize the Los Angeles sports
radio dynamic is basically a dead whale waiting to be exploded.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
We don't even know how to take calls here unless
you're a show before us, and they're like, what's the
most important thing for the Dodger season? Who's in it
to win it?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I uh, I don't mind being number twelve. I'm good
with twelve, especially in a market where most people listen
to Spanish language news.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Atlanta, Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
They're not great sports hotbeds right now, outs oiut of
the Falcons and the Commanders.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Kates looks a littleup Skates, a little upside you upset, Kate.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I don't like this.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You don't mind Boston, you don't mind New York East
Coast Celtics. You got the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
What if we were eleven, What if we got that
one vote?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, those two dorks that were taking the selfie in front.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Of us, if it would sit better, It would sit
a lot better if you guys were eleven ahead of
Washington d C.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I was surprised at twelve. I gotta be honest with
you and being that literally nobody cares almost as much
as people when you win the.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Now that's not true. Somebody cares.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Southern California Sports Broadcasting Awards over at Lakeside.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Give me a Golden Mic. Uh, the Golden Mics, all right?
Can't afford to go? Can you help me?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Kates is up for a Golden Mic this year.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You can't afford to go?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Well, I know something you can do, Matt Well. I
don't know. It might be a little unsavory because you know,
two giant towns in our city basically burned to the
ground situation. We're doing fire commercials for the Chargers and
Sweet James for weeks and weeks and weeks. But you
might if you if you can't afford to show up
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with the Golden Mics, you might want to throw up.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
A golf fund. I need to be there for what
except my award? Eat my meal? I'm sorry pay which,
by the way, what kind of meal? A succulent Chinese meal?
A succulent Chinese meal? I see, you know you're Judo Well.
I would like to point out it just hit me
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thinking back a half decade ago or whenever it was
that we actually attended a Golden MIC's ceremony for once.
It is easily the most egregious pricing of alcoholic drinks
that I have ever been witnessed to in my life.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, those were expensive. You would have thought that we
were buying drinks at the Skybar right when it opened.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Do you remember the prices. Yeah, it was like twenty bucks. Yeah,
twenty bucks for a double. It was twenty bucks for
a double.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And you had to order a double because you know,
I mean a fly could stand up in my drink
for a single. And I will say this, we weren't
drunk that night, but we were punchy. We were in
our highest level of belligerence. Yeah, and we were disgusted
by everybody there and how fake they all are and
how much they hate each other, and the weird circle
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jerk nature of it, the self congratulatory, self nippled twisting.
It was terrible. But I've been to two of those.
Because I presented the Golden Mic Lifetime Achievement to Fred
another time. I want you, yeah to present it to me.
That was the happier time, you know. It was before
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Fred got along so well with Rodney. Uh and uh.
When I saw Fred's party fall out of the limousine
at the at the front door. I was like, wow,
I'm glad I drove myself because that looks like it was.
I mean, these people are older than me, but man,
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are they partying in that limousine. They're having the time
of their lives. Sergio dip uh So I went to
that other Golden mic where Shepherd Smith was, uh yeah,
shep was also given a lifetime achievements. And I didn't
know he was gay. He was like, I'd like to
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present my partner, and this dude stood up and was
like hey, And I was.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Like, wow, I absolutely knew he was gay.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I mean, man, you know what, I'm not a newshound
like you at that time in my life.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
You know, I didn't know. I don't mean I knew
it like that. I just knew it. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I'm just saying, oh, you got a vibe, you.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Got a little gait are there? You know?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh you did? You thought he was a gay blade.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I was married for sixteen years to a woman, a woman,
Shepherd Smith, Right, yeah, shef Smith.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
What's to say about him? Not Kates? Well that's year
we got that, right.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
That's not who stood up and waved at the Golden Mics.
I can tell you that right now. How about that?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
In twenty seventeen, Shepherd Smith publicly announced he's gay.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
He asked me outside is what he said?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Do it all along?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
He was in al Pacino's cruising wearing a vest and
no shirt. Let it out anyway, God bless him. Yeah
that I'd been to two Golden Mics, but that one
is very memorable, Matt, the one that you and I
went to when Kate's received his award and Vic got
his Lifetime Achievement award.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Ronnie was there too.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Don't leave him out.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Even though the table.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Vic and his whole family and Rick D's also in
the house.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Rick Dewis gave me a pep talk after the Golden
Mics about how to elongate my career in the business.
Unsolicited money come here? Yeah, what's up, Rick, Let me
give you some advice. All right, what have we got?
Remember it's he told me this. Don't ever believe anything
they say. It's always about the money. It's like, okay,
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all right, all right, I appreciate Let the money do
the talking.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You can still listen to Rick D's on the Eagle
in the Desert. Speaking of Fred Rogan, but very interesting
line of conversation in town about La Mony and Luca
DONI like, everybody's happy, not everybody, Matt, not everybody. Some
people are not pleased, and some people are even at
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each other's throats over it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Kind of weird. Well, yeah, it seems like the time
of celebration for the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
It seems like Lebron's embedded people, and we don't really
know who they are. Some of them we do, but
it seems like Lebron's embedded people are not happy, outwardly
unhappy about Lebron seemingly losing control of the franchise, which
is quite interesting because we've been told for years and
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years that we're idiots and we don't know how the
NBA works, and Lebron is in no way in control
of the franchise, so I don't know how that changes
to Suddenly they bring in a younger superstar who's the
best player in the NBA right now, or at least
better than Lebron, top three, top five player in the NBA,
Luka Doncic. They bring him in, and all of a sudden,
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it's it's a question as to who's in control. I
thought Lebron was never in control. Whenever we said he
was about anything else, we got slapped down, like Moses.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Lets them do their job. Lebron always lets the front
office do their job.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
We got stuff like trying to shoot under the basket
with Moses Malone down there.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And all of a sudden, now it's like, this is
the first time he's never been involved. What wait a minute,
I thought he was. I thought like the Westbrook thing.
Remember he said that he doesn't get involved. He lets
the front office do their thing. He may make suggestions,
but he's not involved in the project. This is the
first time in years and that comes from old no
neck that he's not been involved. Okay, good to know.
(11:35):
Certainly runs contrary to what you've told us for the
last half decade.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
It does seem kind of interesting, and if the people
that are close to Lebron seem unhappy about this, it's
not hard to draw the conclusion that perhaps, behind the scenes,
Lebron isn't happy yet.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh maybe now, maybe let's see he can follow me here.
I mean, we're lucky I can make this make sense.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
We're lucky. I mean, you have a top story of
the day about this, Yes, James Worthy is going to
react to it. They weren't on last night. Next segment,
really lucky to have James Worthy on in the next segment.
But maybe what, Matt, Maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
What what if he's like us and we don't want
to go to your party. We don't want to go
to your wedding, but we want to be invited. Okay,
Like maybe he likes Luca over Ad and the chances
it'll deliver him another championship. But maybe he's just upset
they didn't call him, Like he hasn't been able to
get over that. Like he's okay with the basketball part
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of it. But how dare you not call me? How
dare you not invite us to your party?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
We would have said no, But how dare you not
invite us?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Why did I have to hear about this right from
the Sharoon Balloon, whom I.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Employ, exactly right? Because Channon Balloon didn't know. That's why
Lebron he didn't know, and you weren't able to leak
it to him. Don't you know? I owe the Sharoon
Balloon at least two more leaks. You guys got to
get me in this thing.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Now? This is the kind of text that I have
to feel these days.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
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We make it easy, Pete.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You ever watch cock videos, Lebron is the old man
in his love seat and Lucas coming in with his
foot long to where you go to town on the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, you might say that the Lakers laid with Luca,
you know, and.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
They did braun to watch them the love seat, right,
and that's why he's mad. He's madd that he wasn't
involved exactly. He wants to watch. Well, what does that
mean for the future?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Matt, give me that number seventy seven jersey so I
could be one of the twenty thousand wearing it in
Staples Center.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Can Lebron exist in an NBA franchise if he's not
in complete control?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Your question?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
It seems like that's what happened in Miami, all that Cleveland,
Ohio against the world. I'm leaving to come back. It's
probably just because pat Riley told him, no, you can't
have all this stuff that you want.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, your guys can't come on the team plane with us.
What Yeah, they can't come on the team plane.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So Lebron really can't exist in a franchise unless he
controls it.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Fair question.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I mean it doesn't seem so as people.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
In twenty two years of playing basketball. I mean obviously
the first few years he didn't know what the hell
are Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Probably about seventeen years of being in full control, crowning
himself on his velcrow head.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Oh, put that crowd on.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Now, Matt. This is a fair point. And we love
the Dodgers. Sure, we are the Dodgers in many ways.
We work with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
No bigger team in town.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
But if there's no doubt about that, the NBA has
priced everybody out, even if people were into it.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Oh you're not.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
They're into this trade. But you talked about the Golden
Mics and what it costs for a drink. Somebody did
just point out that Amichi to grab your chee cheese
at Dodger Stadium is twenty eight dollars, but tomato juice
is very expensive.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That is a fair point.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
With a tomato juice is crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I think it is important to point out that when
do you think we went to the Golden Mic seven
years ago?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Kate's what year? Does what year with Mike?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah? What year? Was that before COVID Yeah, absolutely, Yeah,
so it's.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
At least five six years ago.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay, that was before the prices of the meach really
took off. You're right, like they That wasn't like a
hey they're up ten percent this year. Oh they're up
another ten. No, they jumped like one hundred and fifty
percent one year. The price that the Meachalada grew.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It was because Joy Taylor, it's right, and yeah, and
and and us talking about the miach a Lotta that
was tasty. Uh. Yeah, you're right. It's before the meach
a Loata sprouted wings and took flight into the sun.
As far as how much it costs, you're right about that.
I don't know what this could be about. I just
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got a text that says this as a no neck
creole American. Matt said something.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
They got a.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Kidd criole criole Kromani.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
This says Pee, I'm a lebron sexual and I'm not
afraid to admit it. But I'd be lying if I
told you I wasn't a little slav curious.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I think people are tired of being nailed by the king.
I think Laker fans are tired of being nailed by
the king. I think the people that loved Kobe are
going to fall in love with Luca, and the Lakers
will find a renaissance under Luka Doncic. Whether they win
championships or not, no doubt, but they've got to rip
the velcrow off the franchise.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, the velcrow will be ripped regardless after next season,
like they're not paying him money again after this contract.
It's just whether or not Lebron decides to opt into
that player you know, that player option. If he's not
too super sad because everybody he's all super excited about Luca.
You know, how's he gonna feel. They're in the playoffs
and everybody's chatting MVP. When Luca's on the free throw line,
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it's got to freak out.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I don't know. It seems like he really doesn't like
not being in control. But I would love to have
this conversation between you and I'd be more combative. I
don't think we're fighting enough. I don't think we're tearing
at each other's throats enough awkward pauses between That is
how we got to be.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Why Grant and Danny are ahead of us by one
vote at eleven.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
That's what the guy Jason Barrett wrote about our show.
These guys wake up in the morning, do a thousand
push ups and tear into each other like wild beasts,
Like two wild to beasts in the African desert. These
guys go crazy on each other, crazy on you like heart.
You ever heard of shipsmith? Let me tell you about
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petros and money. Yeah, I'm sorry. I was surprised that
he was gay.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's just great hair. Okay, well, let's try this on.
Let's see if we can. Uh, we gotta find something
we disagree. Do you see what Yiannis had to say?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
My Greek Americans?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Actly your Greek. So maybe you'll take his side?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yanna said, why why do players take incoming when they
demand a trade, but franchises don't take incoming when they
trade a player? Huh?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I would always I would generally say, uh that there
is a Oh, well, you're gonna let me stance of
the question. Okay, I will, may I answer it in
a diplomatic I don't know, let's see, conciliatory way.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Because they make the players out to be villains.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Well yeah maybe, but uh, I think these situations are
individual and circumstances do prevail generally one and two, I
think there's an equal amount of blame in today's social
media and very quick moving society with stories, I think
there's an ample amount of being called a villain to
go around franchise.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
They're really wearing it. It feels like they meant they
had a funeral out in front of the arena.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah, I think did players and franchises both wear it.
And if you want to sit there and defend Jimmy
Butler and that situation, that's kind of a tough hill
to stand on here is when the way the way
that he's acted, and look, it's a right, this is
a right to work state. So I guess if I'm
under contract here, but I guess if I didn't want
to work anymore, then I could get out of it.
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But I mean, when you sign a contract with an employer,
you try to do the best job you possibly can
as an employee, whether that's what we get paid, which
is a princely sum princely or what somebody like Jimmy
Butler gets paid like hundreds of millions of dollars. I mean,
you would generally just kind of expect that and an
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employer employee relationship. I thought what Nikola Jokic said was
also pretty powerful. He said, nobody's safe. Maybe it's best
that we're.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Not keep you motivated right last time? Yeah, you can.
Last time I checked. You can negotiate a no trade
clause in your contract. You're able to demand that and
say I absolutely will not sign unless you give me
a no trade clause. You can do that, and if
you don't have one of those, then you accept the
terms of the agreement and recognize that Kevin Durant's on
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his fourth team, and Lebron James is on his fourth team,
and Anthony Davis was traded, and Chris Paul has been
traded multiple times in James Harden and on and on
and on that pretty much everybody gets traded in this league.
It's what you sign up for when you accept and
cast your fate to the NBA Draft, and you're from
Canada and you end up in LA and then next
(20:44):
thing you know, you're living in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Wayne, Wayne Gretzky told us that, yes, and he was
his he was in his cups.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yes, he was. Anyone can get traded.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
He walked by, was Dave Blake Griffin got traded and
we walked by us at Srwood. We were there for
the Justin Turner's tournament. He said, anybody can get traded.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Like, oh, yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Wayne said, wait, what happened to your caddies? It's what's
been a little over served.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
He's asleep on the driveway.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Matt, I just got a text from my cousin Alfredo,
and yes, I do have a cousin Alfredo.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And uh, yes, is that a Greek name?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Uh, he's half Venezuelan.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
That would explain it.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Uh, he writes. It took for Luka Doncic to get
traded for me to find out that Shepherd Smith is gay.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yes, that's true, exactly right, So these things work, yeah, uh.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But we were really just talking about the Golden Mics
and how much drinks cost there.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Twenty bucks, egregious and that was like twenty eighteen, twenty.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Seventeen, and you know we're at and we're at the
Universal Rite. Yes, you know, so it's not like we're
you know, you're not at the w in.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Westwood and it ain't like they were pouring Woodfredy, Okay,
it was well.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
It was beam.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Well when I go next month, I'll tell you how
much the updated prices are.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Oh you get your go fund me going chicken Bee
for vegetarian. That's what I need to picking.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Oh that got Ronnie.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Can I contribute?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yes, you can please. Does it seem like there's any
other charitable organization out there soliciting donations? It's all for
a good cause though, Oh yeah, great cause?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Did nor City burn down last month?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Feels like it.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
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Speaker 3 (23:36):
Speaking of strength. What about our hero James Worthy? One
of the greatest basketball players of all time? And we
get to talk to them once a week? Can you
believe it? And as Jersey hangs at the Crypto, you
see them on Spectrum Sports Net. La. He's an Emmy winner,
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jazz aficionado, a cigar smoker, in moderation, and a hero
to the city of Los Angeles. And he's been through
a lot of these Shaq Kobe Palgasol And here comes
lukadanceech to be the next big Lakers star. James Worthy
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joins us on the Petro. Somebody show what's cracking? James?
How are you?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Man?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Just enjoin the rain a little bit. I'm kind of
digging the rain a little bit, uh, interfering, interfering with
the golf. But that's okay. Uh. And man, I'm telling you,
I'm just trying to come down from the super high
that everyone has been going through the last couple of
(24:45):
days with the arrival of Luka Doncia. I mean, right
when I thought the Lakers were about to get to
a place where I was really happy, you know, five
and one on the road trip, getting a couple of
dogs what I call like dogs in here with Benny
(25:06):
Smith and you know, Vanderbilt coming back, and one of
my favorite players was starting to be Max Christie. So
I was we you know, there's no no, there's no
predicting that we can win, but we can compete ten
games over five hundred. I'm tripping, man. I'm like they
(25:26):
and Breddick is doing a good job. And then I'm
driving home out to work the other day and Dieter
calls me and says and says, I'm on the I'm
on the four five man, And he says he just
d Ad and Max Christie. But look, and I'm like, dude,
where are you at? You are you at the bar?
How many are you know? It's not even April. It's
(25:49):
not April. So guys, I'm telling you, uh to be
able to get a twenty five year old phenon arguably
top three players in the league is it is a
game changer, and it's just unbelievable. That any franchise would
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give up a player at that age. And I mean,
let me also say, I love a D and I
love Max, and I you know, I thanked him for everything,
and if we still had him, it'd be great. But
to get twenty five year old and and you know,
I think I think a D is six years older
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than he is. I'll tell you this is a it's
a brain twister, and it is an amazing trade for
the future of the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Everybody hears it games, but as somebody that knows it,
like share with people because I think that maybe the
folks that they should know how good Luca is. I mean,
he was just in the NBA finals and if you
watch that Western Conference final, it was incredible what he
did out there. But why is he some people think
he's the best player in the league. I like, what
is it that he does that Laker fans are now
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going to be treated to game in and game out.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Well, he's in Los Angeles and without doing it on purpose.
I'm not saying he's doing it on purpose. He's a
freaking entertainer, man, He entertains while he has watched Lebron
ever since he was five years old, Okay, they play
(27:32):
a little bit of light, but I think Luca is
a little better with the ball in his hands. He
can't be sped up. I've never seen him go past
second gear. And he gets things done like I've never
seen since Magic Johnson. He makes other people better. He
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can pass, and he can score, he can rebound. You know,
he's he's a Magic Johnson on steroids. Man is what
he is. And he can shoot the three. And he's
twenty five. And Jerry West and Bill Charmon and some
(28:14):
of the experts of the game saying, you really don't
peak in the you know, until you get like thirty.
It's kind of like where Ad is right now. He's
like finally after all the great talent and all start
and all that, and he's just getting to the point
where he gets it, playing seventy six games last year
and dominating this year like he was and is. But
(28:35):
then Luca is twenty five and he's doing this now.
So in three more years, when the discipline comes, if
that's what he needs to do, so he needs to
work out with Lebron. He gets a little smarter, and
it's only gonna get better and more dominant, you know,
kind of like a little bit like lebron career has gone.
(28:59):
I mean, he's he gets he's he's not even pinks yet.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
It's a wild time. The great James Worthy is our
guest reaction to the biggest trade, uh most of us
can remember in the NBA Luka Doncic in the middle
of the night for Anthony Davis. Just wild that he's here.
And you were thinking very much in the short term,
Like you said, James, a great road trip and all
that and spectacular performance last night. How much do you
(29:27):
think about the short term now as opposed to the
long term? Where As an analyst, where does your mind
go when you think about Luca on the team and
how long is it going to take for the acclamation
and what this will look like in a couple of years.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Well, how's it going to work with you know, two
pretty much dominant ball handles Lebron. You know, Lebron needs it,
Luca definitely needs it. Lebron is smart enough and has
enough experience, and I think he's ready to remove some
of that respect. And you know, we had a guy
(30:04):
in Austin Reeves who was starting to do some of that.
Austin was starting to be a ball handle that Lebron
trusted with the ball in his hands in the fourth quarter.
But with Luca, now Lebron just might it's under gonna
make him, you know, less tired in the fourth Uh
will be you know a little bit more unpredictable and
(30:30):
have more uh you know, more strengths and and more
ways to beat you than I've ever seen. I mean,
it's really interesting with when you consider the way Vanderbilt
is playing defense, the way you know Smith is playing defense,
the way Ruey is starting to emerge. Reeve's just he's
(30:53):
like pistol Pete to me, he plays like pistol pete
marriage And so I see a small ball what they
did to the Clear Rappers last night with a small ball. Now,
look deep, you get into a seven game series, you know,
the bigs to become you know, now you're talking about Yanna,
she's talking about Yoki, she talking about Mbo, and they
starts to get a problem. But man, they played small
(31:15):
ball and Hayes's you know, Hayes is no ad. But
energy wise, pay pretty good last night.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah you mentioned that, James, And I think for all
the people that say, well, Lebron's got to have the
ball in his hand. Luca has to have the ball
in his hand. I mean, you just said it a
minute ago that we're talking about Magic Johnson level vision distribution,
setting guys up for easy shots. That's that's how good
Luca is with the ball in his hands, and he's
the guy that should have it the most. But Reeves
(31:43):
is the one that's the most interesting to me because
it felt like they were giving him more of that
to try to ease that burden on Lebron, and it
feels like his game took a little bit of a hit,
you know, because he did have to do that, even
though he was pretty good at it. To me, the
idea of having him to a little bit more of
moving without the ball, spotting up in the corner, getting
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connect out there, it feels like these two guys together,
you know, with the Thursday, with the deadline tomorrow, everyone's
talking about the big but I mean, tell me if
I'm crazy, it feels like it's more, hey, can you
find a couple shooters, just because of how good these
guys are at finding the open man. It feels like
that to me is more of what could really kind
of get this thing right for the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
I like that. I really like that idea. I mean,
if there's some more shooters out there, I gotta tell you, man,
I'm gonna I'm an old I'm an old fart player.
I kind of you know, I believed in Cooper. I
believed in Byron Scott. You know, you know, we didn't
have as many three point shooters back then. But and
I believe in you know, I believe in you know,
(32:47):
Smith can knock him down. I think connect is gonna
be interesting right now. You know, does Reeves come off
the bench now with Gabe and you have that combo.
You know, the bitch was lacking a little bit, but
if you can move massage that a little bit, because
Reason is not going to be you know, ball dominant
(33:07):
like he you know, like he has been with Luca
and Lebron out there. But he can knock down the three.
He can still you know, you can still drive and
kick it to him. And now you've got another point guard.
So Reddick, who I got to tell you, He's done
a hell of a job having these guys buy into
his system and being patient with everything. And he's they're
(33:31):
at a place now where, man, they kind of believe
and you know, believing what they you know, and without
a big I mean, look, I don't know what's gonna
happen with Woods. I haven't even heard anything about Woods,
but the way they play right now, you know, if
they could find, like you said, another good shooter are
big otherwise I'm I might be okay with where they
(33:56):
are right now. As far as competing in the West
in the playoffs, you know, I think they're gonna avoid
to play in and all that, and yeah, you know,
once you get into the playoffs, hopefully you know, Lebron's
experience and Lucas talent and uh and and this and
the scrappiness that they've started to play with can hold up.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Last one for me, James, And I hope this comes
out right. I hope it does, because you know, Lucas
taking some incoming. They're talking about the way his body looks,
the weight, they're talking about the way he plays defense
or lack thereof, and those are kind of the questions like, well,
why would the Mavericks trade him? Well, maybe this is
(34:39):
why so walk us through Like they made the NBA
Finals last year, and it seemed as though Luca looked
a lot like he looks like now, and he played
defense a lot like he does now. He's actually been
a little bit better this year before he got hurt
playing defense. He's not a great defender, but like how
good of a defender was Magic when he had Kareem
and Mychael Cooper out there and you out there like
(35:02):
it feels like you can surround a guy that's that
talented with other defenders and you don't have to worry
about it that much.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
We never allowed Magic Johnson to guard John Stockton or
Isaiah Thomas or Jason Kidd or anybody like that, because
we needed him in the fourth quarter. We need him
to push the ball and help us win. So you know,
we put Byron on the point guard. I would I
(35:31):
would play Cryde Jecksher, I would play Joe Dumars. I
had the size and quickments to do that. So absolutely
they'll find a way because you don't want Luca running
off picks and having to, you know, guard people on
the perimeter. You know, I mean, actually that special of
a player, you know, Larry Bird never really had to
(35:51):
guard me or anybody. You know, they know how to
not necessarily hide players, they know how to preserve them.
So yeah, I mean and as far as you know, look,
I remember being twenty five and you know I was
knocking down a six pack a week, you know what
I mean? If you know, you get over some things
(36:13):
as a young man. Uh, you know, Jerry West says,
you know you you you know, you really don't start
peeking like I said to you, like in your twenty
nine to thirty. So he'll get with Lebron, He's with
one of the most disciplined guys in the world and
he's been watching them every since he's five years old.
So I'm sure that the knock that Dallas has given
(36:37):
him and the money that he's you know, going to
miss out on. But the Max, now, I don't know
what he wanted to do, but there was a little
over one hundred and five hundred ten million dollars sitting
on the super Max contractor he's not gonna get now.
So who if there's any incentive on being MVP of
(37:01):
the league and winning some championships, because you know the
Lakers are, they're going to try to surround them with
what they need to do that.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Well, a one hundred million dollars sure buy a lot
of six packs. The Great James Worthy. Absolutely precious for
us to have the commentary from the great James Worthy.
I tweeted a picture last night to promote the show
because it was Lakers Clippers. A picture are Worthy in
the sports arena. Why did they have you guys in
those two tone unis, James? Why was the jersey different
(37:34):
from the shorts?
Speaker 6 (37:36):
Well, because we only had one away uniform and we
only had one home uniform, so we flew commercial, so
there was no leaving the arena right after the game.
So the home team was responsible for washing our uniforms
right after the game, giving them back to us that
(37:58):
next morning before we left, and we'd have them for
the next There was no multiple uniforms. You never you
never saw anybody taking their jersey off and throwing it
to a fan back then. So imagine, you know, you
got some little seventeen year old kid who's a ball boy,
and you know, he he wants to go home, but
(38:19):
he's got to watch these uniforms, and man, he throws
them all in there, and he just throws tide in there,
and he puts four rocks and he just doesn't know
what he's doing. And so our jerseys would fade be
like lavender, and our bottoms would be like dark purple.
And that's how we roll. Man, That is so good.
(38:42):
You know what else? You know what else? It would
be itchy too, because sometimes they would use too much detergent.
And yeah, I'm gonna write a book. Man. These guys
don't even know what it's like. Uh, you know the
way we had to roll.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
But dogs, beer, andy detergent. There you go, the Eastern Airlines. Yeah,
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We shall return with reaction, react and we'll have more
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Thanks for being with us. Sorry we're not.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Fighting answer the question, big thank you to James Worthy.
We will focus on the once upon a time amateur
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should say Eric Daily Junior going to join us. Hit
(40:19):
that game winner last night over Michigan State. Be hard
pressed to keep him out of the top twenty five
come Monday. Come Monday, it'll be oh Ray after that
big victory over the Spartans. They went over LA. Meanwhile,
USC lost a heartbreak at Northwestern. But that's neither here
(40:40):
nor there. Well, I mean we're going till seven pm.
VIC would call this upcoming Penn State game a what
trap game? Y'all? Yeah, that's the truth, brother, like Pitfall.
I think his name is Ace. What's a Ace Goodwin?
They do have a really good player on that team.
A yeah, this guitar smokes when he plays your solo
(41:01):
Freely's comet.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
It is time for some texosos.
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Speaker 3 (41:13):
Does Kates get paid extra for ads using that fake
ass voice? What do you mean Kate's ad voice is
a great voice.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
What's talking about?
Speaker 3 (41:25):
I don't know. Why don't we read Say something about him?
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yeah, something about Eto and Oyocha.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Say something about Concordia. I'll see if it's any different.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
College grad sports enthusiasts. You don't need pet chos or
money or I to tell you.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Oh yeah, you sound totally gay.
Speaker 6 (41:38):
Yeah you do.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Smith, dude, you guys would have been like a bronze
sexual man.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
You're right, you do. You sound like you guys would
have been rated higher than twelve if Kates didn't exploit
others for his own selfish game. For those stupid Golden Mics.
Blame Tater queen Kim Taints.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
So we got Kim Taints, we got Tater tot legs,
we got Golden Mic thirsty, desert ass, thirsty, a lot
of insults in one tax on Kate's.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Well, you talked about the Golden Mics being the most
expensive drinks in the history of our lives. Yes, and Matt,
this guy writes, I bought two drinks at the Vegas Sphere,
both doubles seventy six dollars.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Jesus, Jesus seventy six pack of pocketfull of gummies.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Man, I mean, what do we do it? Right?
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Cheese?
Speaker 3 (42:46):
You gotta do what I used to do on airplanes.
Buy a bottle of Soco and doctor pepper duty free. Hey,
that guy's get a little belligerent that there. We haven't
even certed it. You've got a bottle of Soco.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
See, yes, what you do instead? Hey? Why's that guy
drinking out of a shampoo bottle? Dropped the vodka shampoo?
My travel size shampoo bo.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
My insides are itchy like James Worthy's jersey dirty scalp Uh. Now, Matt,
I don't want to address the elephant in the room here,
but there's been some tension on the on the Afternoon show.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
I would imagine the text Doso has alerted you to that.
I heard it on the way. I was listening on
the way up, and I was like, man, somebody's really
upset about this.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Yeah, and this says I have a lot of text
about it, but I'll just read you a couple.
Speaker 6 (43:32):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
This says I feel through the radio Rodney gritting his
teeth has Dylan Hernandez agrees with Fred on every point.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
What's the would it be called a meme where it's.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
The the guy. Uh, this one is a little more.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
I think the same thing happened with a fully functional employee,
ad him that he was waxing poetic about of Luka doncicen.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Well, if it doesn't work out, Rodney gets to say,
I told you so, right right. Rodney's out of his
mind this, Oh, come on, that's not nice. He's making
a point that teams can trade a player mid contract
and it's just business. But when a player requests to
trade mid contract, that player is vilified. Fred is not
arguing his points. Well, I want to shake him. Does
Rodney not understand the employer employee relationship. He's the only
(44:27):
one to defend Jimmy Butler's actions. I wanted to monitor
their show, but I've got to eject myself from this
nonsense and wait until three o'clock's Great Sports Talk.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Wow, great sports talk. I don't find that to be
a compelling line of conversation surrounding Luka Doncic to the Lakers.
Can you believe the Maverick? Can you believe that Luca
was ripped from his Dallas roots and sent to Los Angeles? Yeah,
you know, Kareem moved from Milwaukee in LA, and Wilt
moved from Philadelphia to LA. And I guess you know,
(45:01):
Kevin Durant was traded from Brooklyn to Phoenix. That's on
the start of the country Blasphe had Zach Lavine go
to Chicago for Minnesota when he was still on his
rookie deal.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
It feels like it's kind of hard to paint anything
with a broad brush because these are all individual situations.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Yeah, and again, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
No, the Lakers now have the one of the top
three best players in the NBA and he's twenty five
years old, So what if he drinks vodka and vapes.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Let's go vape store, Stizzy, I'm gonna get cotton candy
stripper juice. What flavor are you getting? I'm getting you
to corn tears. We'll be back.
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twelve rated show in the country, Number twelve.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And we only miss number eleven by a single vote.
One single vote put those dudes in DC ahead of us.
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I don't know. We gotta find out who voted like
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Speaker 2 (01:58):
I believe the panel consisted of well, there were forty stations.
I think that we're pulled so out of forty somehow
we came in twelve.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You know, we we have a lot of support from
one of our colleagues, you know who lives in the Midwest,
Josh Ennis, who's done a whole bunch of shows all
over the place. He's a great guy, and he tweeted
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You guys are number one. I was like, yeah, Josh,
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We like being twelve. We're proud of being twelve. We
got like two shows in Dallas, a couple in Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
It's higher than we've ever man.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think it is. I think this might be our
highest rated, our highest year.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You know why, Dodgers. That's why, Matt, we stopped. We
stocked our chicken effing and we started just washing Dodger sack.
And look where it's gotten us. We got the super
Bowl on the station. That wouldn't have happened if we
didn't polish that sack.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
No chance.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We are here exclusive home of a game that nobody
seems to be discussing, especially here in town of super
Bowl fifty nine. I'm sure by Sunday it's gonna be
a huge deal. E G L E s.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Oh, Let's go Bears, Let's go Birds. Sorry, it's well,
it's under an interesting heading.
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Will play the Philips U double dip, Philip's flip top
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Speaker 4 (03:39):
I got a question for you guys. I'm looking at
this ranking that you guys are number twelve and twelve, Kates,
I'm looking at the city, the cities that are above me.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I mentioned there's like two shows in Dallas, Vulgar and
maz are number one.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So let's be honest, Well my.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Two in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Chicago is not a great sports town right now?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
What like, dude, you'd you realize the Los Angeles sports
radio dynamic is basically a dead whale waiting to be exploded.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
We don't even know how to take calls here unless
you're a show before us, and they're like, what's the
most important thing for the Dodger season? Who's in it
to win it?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I uh, I don't mind being number twelve. I'm good
with twelve, especially in a market where most people listen
to Spanish language news.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Atlanta, Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
They're not great sports hotbeds right now, outs oiut of
the Falcons and the Commanders.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Kates looks a littleup Skates, a little upside you upset, Kate.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I don't like this.
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You don't mind Boston, you don't mind New York East
Coast Celtics. You got the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
What if we were eleven, What if we got that
one vote?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, those two dorks that were taking the selfie in front.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Of us, if it would sit better, It would sit
a lot better if you guys were eleven ahead of
Washington d C.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I was surprised at twelve. I gotta be honest with
you and being that literally nobody cares almost as much
as people when you win the.
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Now that's not true. Somebody cares.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Southern California Sports Broadcasting Awards over at Lakeside.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Give me a Golden Mic. Uh, the Golden Mics, all right?
Can't afford to go? Can you help me?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Kates is up for a Golden Mic this year.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You can't afford to go?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Well, I know something you can do, Matt Well. I
don't know. It might be a little unsavory because you know,
two giant towns in our city basically burned to the
ground situation. We're doing fire commercials for the Chargers and
Sweet James for weeks and weeks and weeks. But you
might if you if you can't afford to show up
(05:47):
with the Golden Mics, you might want to throw up.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
A golf fund. I need to be there for what
except my award? Eat my meal? I'm sorry pay which,
by the way, what kind of meal? A succulent Chinese meal?
A succulent Chinese meal? I see, you know you're Judo Well.
I would like to point out it just hit me
(06:11):
thinking back a half decade ago or whenever it was
that we actually attended a Golden MIC's ceremony for once.
It is easily the most egregious pricing of alcoholic drinks
that I have ever been witnessed to in my life.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, those were expensive. You would have thought that we
were buying drinks at the Skybar right when it opened.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Do you remember the prices. Yeah, it was like twenty bucks. Yeah,
twenty bucks for a double. It was twenty bucks for
a double.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And you had to order a double because you know,
I mean a fly could stand up in my drink
for a single. And I will say this, we weren't
drunk that night, but we were punchy. We were in
our highest level of belligerence. Yeah, and we were disgusted
by everybody there and how fake they all are and
how much they hate each other, and the weird circle
(07:02):
jerk nature of it, the self congratulatory, self nippled twisting.
It was terrible. But I've been to two of those.
Because I presented the Golden Mic Lifetime Achievement to Fred
another time. I want you, yeah to present it to me.
That was the happier time, you know. It was before
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Fred got along so well with Rodney. Uh and uh.
When I saw Fred's party fall out of the limousine
at the at the front door. I was like, wow,
I'm glad I drove myself because that looks like it was.
I mean, these people are older than me, but man,
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are they partying in that limousine. They're having the time
of their lives. Sergio dip uh So I went to
that other Golden mic where Shepherd Smith was, uh yeah,
shep was also given a lifetime achievements. And I didn't
know he was gay. He was like, I'd like to
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present my partner, and this dude stood up and was
like hey, And I was.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Like, wow, I absolutely knew he was gay.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I mean, man, you know what, I'm not a newshound
like you at that time in my life.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
You know, I didn't know. I don't mean I knew
it like that. I just knew it. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I'm just saying, oh, you got a vibe, you.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Got a little gait are there? You know?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh you did? You thought he was a gay blade.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I was married for sixteen years to a woman, a woman,
Shepherd Smith, Right, yeah, shef Smith.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
What's to say about him? Not Kates? Well that's year
we got that, right.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
That's not who stood up and waved at the Golden Mics.
I can tell you that right now. How about that?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
In twenty seventeen, Shepherd Smith publicly announced he's gay.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
He asked me outside is what he said?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Do it all along?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
He was in al Pacino's cruising wearing a vest and
no shirt. Let it out anyway, God bless him. Yeah
that I'd been to two Golden Mics, but that one
is very memorable, Matt, the one that you and I
went to when Kate's received his award and Vic got
his Lifetime Achievement award.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Ronnie was there too.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Don't leave him out.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Even though the table.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Vic and his whole family and Rick D's also in
the house.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Rick Dewis gave me a pep talk after the Golden
Mics about how to elongate my career in the business.
Unsolicited money come here? Yeah, what's up, Rick, Let me
give you some advice. All right, what have we got?
Remember it's he told me this. Don't ever believe anything
they say. It's always about the money. It's like, okay,
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all right, all right, I appreciate Let the money do
the talking.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You can still listen to Rick D's on the Eagle
in the Desert. Speaking of Fred Rogan, but very interesting
line of conversation in town about La Mony and Luca
DONI like, everybody's happy, not everybody, Matt, not everybody. Some
people are not pleased, and some people are even at
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each other's throats over it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Kind of weird. Well, yeah, it seems like the time
of celebration for the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
It seems like Lebron's embedded people, and we don't really
know who they are. Some of them we do, but
it seems like Lebron's embedded people are not happy, outwardly
unhappy about Lebron seemingly losing control of the franchise, which
is quite interesting because we've been told for years and
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years that we're idiots and we don't know how the
NBA works, and Lebron is in no way in control
of the franchise, so I don't know how that changes
to Suddenly they bring in a younger superstar who's the
best player in the NBA right now, or at least
better than Lebron, top three, top five player in the NBA,
Luka Doncic. They bring him in, and all of a sudden,
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it's it's a question as to who's in control. I
thought Lebron was never in control. Whenever we said he
was about anything else, we got slapped down, like Moses.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Lets them do their job. Lebron always lets the front
office do their job.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
We got stuff like trying to shoot under the basket
with Moses Malone down there.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And all of a sudden, now it's like, this is
the first time he's never been involved. What wait a minute,
I thought he was. I thought like the Westbrook thing.
Remember he said that he doesn't get involved. He lets
the front office do their thing. He may make suggestions,
but he's not involved in the project. This is the
first time in years and that comes from old no
neck that he's not been involved. Okay, good to know.
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Certainly runs contrary to what you've told us for the
last half decade.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
It does seem kind of interesting, and if the people
that are close to Lebron seem unhappy about this, it's
not hard to draw the conclusion that perhaps, behind the scenes,
Lebron isn't happy yet.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh maybe now, maybe let's see he can follow me here.
I mean, we're lucky I can make this make sense.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
We're lucky. I mean, you have a top story of
the day about this, Yes, James Worthy is going to
react to it. They weren't on last night. Next segment,
really lucky to have James Worthy on in the next segment.
But maybe what, Matt, Maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
What what if he's like us and we don't want
to go to your party. We don't want to go
to your wedding, but we want to be invited. Okay,
Like maybe he likes Luca over Ad and the chances
it'll deliver him another championship. But maybe he's just upset
they didn't call him, Like he hasn't been able to
get over that. Like he's okay with the basketball part
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of it. But how dare you not call me? How
dare you not invite us to your party?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
We would have said no, But how dare you not
invite us?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Why did I have to hear about this right from
the Sharoon Balloon, whom I.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Employ, exactly right? Because Channon Balloon didn't know. That's why
Lebron he didn't know, and you weren't able to leak
it to him. Don't you know? I owe the Sharoon
Balloon at least two more leaks. You guys got to
get me in this thing.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Now? This is the kind of text that I have
to feel these days.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Masses line brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers.
We make it easy, Pete.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You ever watch cock videos, Lebron is the old man
in his love seat and Lucas coming in with his
foot long to where you go to town on the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, you might say that the Lakers laid with Luca,
you know, and.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
They did braun to watch them the love seat, right,
and that's why he's mad. He's madd that he wasn't
involved exactly. He wants to watch. Well, what does that
mean for the future?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Matt, give me that number seventy seven jersey so I
could be one of the twenty thousand wearing it in
Staples Center.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Can Lebron exist in an NBA franchise if he's not
in complete control?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Your question?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
It seems like that's what happened in Miami, all that Cleveland,
Ohio against the world. I'm leaving to come back. It's
probably just because pat Riley told him, no, you can't
have all this stuff that you want.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, your guys can't come on the team plane with us.
What Yeah, they can't come on the team plane.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So Lebron really can't exist in a franchise unless he
controls it.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Fair question.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I mean it doesn't seem so as people.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
In twenty two years of playing basketball. I mean obviously
the first few years he didn't know what the hell
are Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Probably about seventeen years of being in full control, crowning
himself on his velcrow head.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Oh, put that crowd on.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Now, Matt. This is a fair point. And we love
the Dodgers. Sure, we are the Dodgers in many ways.
We work with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
No bigger team in town.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
But if there's no doubt about that, the NBA has
priced everybody out, even if people were into it.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Oh you're not.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
They're into this trade. But you talked about the Golden
Mics and what it costs for a drink. Somebody did
just point out that Amichi to grab your chee cheese
at Dodger Stadium is twenty eight dollars, but tomato juice
is very expensive.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That is a fair point.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
With a tomato juice is crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I think it is important to point out that when
do you think we went to the Golden Mic seven
years ago?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Kate's what year? Does what year with Mike?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah? What year? Was that before COVID Yeah, absolutely, Yeah,
so it's.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
At least five six years ago.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay, that was before the prices of the meach really
took off. You're right, like they That wasn't like a
hey they're up ten percent this year. Oh they're up
another ten. No, they jumped like one hundred and fifty
percent one year. The price that the Meachalada grew.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It was because Joy Taylor, it's right, and yeah, and
and and us talking about the miach a Lotta that
was tasty. Uh. Yeah, you're right. It's before the meach
a Loata sprouted wings and took flight into the sun.
As far as how much it costs, you're right about that.
I don't know what this could be about. I just
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got a text that says this as a no neck
creole American. Matt said something.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
They got a.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Kidd criole criole Kromani.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
This says Pee, I'm a lebron sexual and I'm not
afraid to admit it. But I'd be lying if I
told you I wasn't a little slav curious.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I think people are tired of being nailed by the king.
I think Laker fans are tired of being nailed by
the king. I think the people that loved Kobe are
going to fall in love with Luca, and the Lakers
will find a renaissance under Luka Doncic. Whether they win
championships or not, no doubt, but they've got to rip
the velcrow off the franchise.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, the velcrow will be ripped regardless after next season,
like they're not paying him money again after this contract.
It's just whether or not Lebron decides to opt into
that player you know, that player option. If he's not
too super sad because everybody he's all super excited about Luca.
You know, how's he gonna feel. They're in the playoffs
and everybody's chatting MVP. When Luca's on the free throw line,
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it's got to freak out.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I don't know. It seems like he really doesn't like
not being in control. But I would love to have
this conversation between you and I'd be more combative. I
don't think we're fighting enough. I don't think we're tearing
at each other's throats enough awkward pauses between That is
how we got to be.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Why Grant and Danny are ahead of us by one
vote at eleven.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
That's what the guy Jason Barrett wrote about our show.
These guys wake up in the morning, do a thousand
push ups and tear into each other like wild beasts,
Like two wild to beasts in the African desert. These
guys go crazy on each other, crazy on you like heart.
You ever heard of shipsmith? Let me tell you about
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petros and money. Yeah, I'm sorry. I was surprised that
he was gay.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's just great hair. Okay, well, let's try this on.
Let's see if we can. Uh, we gotta find something
we disagree. Do you see what Yiannis had to say?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
My Greek Americans?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Actly your Greek. So maybe you'll take his side?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yanna said, why why do players take incoming when they
demand a trade, but franchises don't take incoming when they
trade a player? Huh?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I would always I would generally say, uh that there
is a Oh, well, you're gonna let me stance of
the question. Okay, I will, may I answer it in
a diplomatic I don't know, let's see, conciliatory way.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Because they make the players out to be villains.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Well yeah maybe, but uh, I think these situations are
individual and circumstances do prevail generally one and two, I
think there's an equal amount of blame in today's social
media and very quick moving society with stories, I think
there's an ample amount of being called a villain to
go around franchise.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
They're really wearing it. It feels like they meant they
had a funeral out in front of the arena.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah, I think did players and franchises both wear it.
And if you want to sit there and defend Jimmy
Butler and that situation, that's kind of a tough hill
to stand on here is when the way the way
that he's acted, and look, it's a right, this is
a right to work state. So I guess if I'm
under contract here, but I guess if I didn't want
to work anymore, then I could get out of it.
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But I mean, when you sign a contract with an employer,
you try to do the best job you possibly can
as an employee, whether that's what we get paid, which
is a princely sum princely or what somebody like Jimmy
Butler gets paid like hundreds of millions of dollars. I mean,
you would generally just kind of expect that and an
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employer employee relationship. I thought what Nikola Jokic said was
also pretty powerful. He said, nobody's safe. Maybe it's best
that we're.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Not keep you motivated right last time? Yeah, you can.
Last time I checked. You can negotiate a no trade
clause in your contract. You're able to demand that and
say I absolutely will not sign unless you give me
a no trade clause. You can do that, and if
you don't have one of those, then you accept the
terms of the agreement and recognize that Kevin Durant's on
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his fourth team, and Lebron James is on his fourth team,
and Anthony Davis was traded, and Chris Paul has been
traded multiple times in James Harden and on and on
and on that pretty much everybody gets traded in this league.
It's what you sign up for when you accept and
cast your fate to the NBA Draft, and you're from
Canada and you end up in LA and then next
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thing you know, you're living in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Wayne, Wayne Gretzky told us that, yes, and he was
his he was in his cups.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yes, he was. Anyone can get traded.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
He walked by, was Dave Blake Griffin got traded and
we walked by us at Srwood. We were there for
the Justin Turner's tournament. He said, anybody can get traded.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Like, oh, yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Wayne said, wait, what happened to your caddies? It's what's
been a little over served.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
He's asleep on the driveway.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Matt, I just got a text from my cousin Alfredo,
and yes, I do have a cousin Alfredo.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And uh, yes, is that a Greek name?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Uh, he's half Venezuelan.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
That would explain it.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Uh, he writes. It took for Luka Doncic to get
traded for me to find out that Shepherd Smith is gay.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yes, that's true, exactly right, So these things work, yeah, uh.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But we were really just talking about the Golden Mics
and how much drinks cost there.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Twenty bucks, egregious and that was like twenty eighteen, twenty.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Seventeen, and you know we're at and we're at the
Universal Rite. Yes, you know, so it's not like we're
you know, you're not at the w in.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Westwood and it ain't like they were pouring Woodfredy, Okay,
it was well.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
It was beam.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Well when I go next month, I'll tell you how
much the updated prices are.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Oh you get your go fund me going chicken Bee
for vegetarian. That's what I need to picking.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Oh that got Ronnie.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Can I contribute?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yes, you can please. Does it seem like there's any
other charitable organization out there soliciting donations? It's all for
a good cause though, Oh yeah, great cause?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Did nor City burn down last month?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Feels like it.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
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Speaker 3 (23:36):
Speaking of strength. What about our hero James Worthy? One
of the greatest basketball players of all time? And we
get to talk to them once a week? Can you
believe it? And as Jersey hangs at the Crypto, you
see them on Spectrum Sports Net. La. He's an Emmy winner,
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jazz aficionado, a cigar smoker, in moderation, and a hero
to the city of Los Angeles. And he's been through
a lot of these Shaq Kobe Palgasol And here comes
lukadanceech to be the next big Lakers star. James Worthy
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joins us on the Petro. Somebody show what's cracking? James?
How are you?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Man?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Just enjoin the rain a little bit. I'm kind of
digging the rain a little bit, uh, interfering, interfering with
the golf. But that's okay. Uh. And man, I'm telling you,
I'm just trying to come down from the super high
that everyone has been going through the last couple of
(24:45):
days with the arrival of Luka Doncia. I mean, right
when I thought the Lakers were about to get to
a place where I was really happy, you know, five
and one on the road trip, getting a couple of
dogs what I call like dogs in here with Benny
(25:06):
Smith and you know, Vanderbilt coming back, and one of
my favorite players was starting to be Max Christie. So
I was we you know, there's no no, there's no
predicting that we can win, but we can compete ten
games over five hundred. I'm tripping, man. I'm like they
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and Breddick is doing a good job. And then I'm
driving home out to work the other day and Dieter
calls me and says and says, I'm on the I'm
on the four five man, And he says he just
d Ad and Max Christie. But look, and I'm like, dude,
where are you at? You are you at the bar?
How many are you know? It's not even April. It's
(25:49):
not April. So guys, I'm telling you, uh to be
able to get a twenty five year old phenon arguably
top three players in the league is it is a
game changer, and it's just unbelievable. That any franchise would
(26:09):
give up a player at that age. And I mean,
let me also say, I love a D and I
love Max, and I you know, I thanked him for everything,
and if we still had him, it'd be great. But
to get twenty five year old and and you know,
I think I think a D is six years older
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than he is. I'll tell you this is a it's
a brain twister, and it is an amazing trade for
the future of the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Everybody hears it games, but as somebody that knows it,
like share with people because I think that maybe the
folks that they should know how good Luca is. I mean,
he was just in the NBA finals and if you
watch that Western Conference final, it was incredible what he
did out there. But why is he some people think
he's the best player in the league. I like, what
is it that he does that Laker fans are now
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going to be treated to game in and game out.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Well, he's in Los Angeles and without doing it on purpose.
I'm not saying he's doing it on purpose. He's a
freaking entertainer, man, He entertains while he has watched Lebron
ever since he was five years old, Okay, they play
(27:32):
a little bit of light, but I think Luca is
a little better with the ball in his hands. He
can't be sped up. I've never seen him go past
second gear. And he gets things done like I've never
seen since Magic Johnson. He makes other people better. He
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can pass, and he can score, he can rebound. You know,
he's he's a Magic Johnson on steroids. Man is what
he is. And he can shoot the three. And he's
twenty five. And Jerry West and Bill Charmon and some
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of the experts of the game saying, you really don't
peak in the you know, until you get like thirty.
It's kind of like where Ad is right now. He's
like finally after all the great talent and all start
and all that, and he's just getting to the point
where he gets it, playing seventy six games last year
and dominating this year like he was and is. But
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then Luca is twenty five and he's doing this now.
So in three more years, when the discipline comes, if
that's what he needs to do, so he needs to
work out with Lebron. He gets a little smarter, and
it's only gonna get better and more dominant, you know,
kind of like a little bit like lebron career has gone.
(28:59):
I mean, he's he gets he's he's not even pinks yet.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
It's a wild time. The great James Worthy is our
guest reaction to the biggest trade, uh most of us
can remember in the NBA Luka Doncic in the middle
of the night for Anthony Davis. Just wild that he's here.
And you were thinking very much in the short term,
Like you said, James, a great road trip and all
that and spectacular performance last night. How much do you
(29:27):
think about the short term now as opposed to the
long term? Where As an analyst, where does your mind
go when you think about Luca on the team and
how long is it going to take for the acclamation
and what this will look like in a couple of years.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Well, how's it going to work with you know, two
pretty much dominant ball handles Lebron. You know, Lebron needs it,
Luca definitely needs it. Lebron is smart enough and has
enough experience, and I think he's ready to remove some
of that respect. And you know, we had a guy
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in Austin Reeves who was starting to do some of that.
Austin was starting to be a ball handle that Lebron
trusted with the ball in his hands in the fourth quarter.
But with Luca, now Lebron just might it's under gonna
make him, you know, less tired in the fourth Uh
will be you know a little bit more unpredictable and
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have more uh you know, more strengths and and more
ways to beat you than I've ever seen. I mean,
it's really interesting with when you consider the way Vanderbilt
is playing defense, the way you know Smith is playing defense,
the way Ruey is starting to emerge. Reeve's just he's
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like pistol Pete to me, he plays like pistol pete
marriage And so I see a small ball what they
did to the Clear Rappers last night with a small ball. Now,
look deep, you get into a seven game series, you know,
the bigs to become you know, now you're talking about Yanna,
she's talking about Yoki, she talking about Mbo, and they
starts to get a problem. But man, they played small
(31:15):
ball and Hayes's you know, Hayes is no ad. But
energy wise, pay pretty good last night.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah you mentioned that, James, And I think for all
the people that say, well, Lebron's got to have the
ball in his hand. Luca has to have the ball
in his hand. I mean, you just said it a
minute ago that we're talking about Magic Johnson level vision distribution,
setting guys up for easy shots. That's that's how good
Luca is with the ball in his hands, and he's
the guy that should have it the most. But Reeves
(31:43):
is the one that's the most interesting to me because
it felt like they were giving him more of that
to try to ease that burden on Lebron, and it
feels like his game took a little bit of a hit,
you know, because he did have to do that, even
though he was pretty good at it. To me, the
idea of having him to a little bit more of
moving without the ball, spotting up in the corner, getting
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connect out there, it feels like these two guys together,
you know, with the Thursday, with the deadline tomorrow, everyone's
talking about the big but I mean, tell me if
I'm crazy, it feels like it's more, hey, can you
find a couple shooters, just because of how good these
guys are at finding the open man. It feels like
that to me is more of what could really kind
of get this thing right for the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
I like that. I really like that idea. I mean,
if there's some more shooters out there, I gotta tell you, man,
I'm gonna I'm an old I'm an old fart player.
I kind of you know, I believed in Cooper. I
believed in Byron Scott. You know, you know, we didn't
have as many three point shooters back then. But and
I believe in you know, I believe in you know,
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Smith can knock him down. I think connect is gonna
be interesting right now. You know, does Reeves come off
the bench now with Gabe and you have that combo.
You know, the bitch was lacking a little bit, but
if you can move massage that a little bit, because
Reason is not going to be you know, ball dominant
(33:07):
like he you know, like he has been with Luca
and Lebron out there. But he can knock down the three.
He can still you know, you can still drive and
kick it to him. And now you've got another point guard.
So Reddick, who I got to tell you, He's done
a hell of a job having these guys buy into
his system and being patient with everything. And he's they're
(33:31):
at a place now where, man, they kind of believe
and you know, believing what they you know, and without
a big I mean, look, I don't know what's gonna
happen with Woods. I haven't even heard anything about Woods,
but the way they play right now, you know, if
they could find, like you said, another good shooter are
big otherwise I'm I might be okay with where they
(33:56):
are right now. As far as competing in the West
in the playoffs, you know, I think they're gonna avoid
to play in and all that, and yeah, you know,
once you get into the playoffs, hopefully you know, Lebron's
experience and Lucas talent and uh and and this and
the scrappiness that they've started to play with can hold up.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Last one for me, James, And I hope this comes
out right. I hope it does, because you know, Lucas
taking some incoming. They're talking about the way his body looks,
the weight, they're talking about the way he plays defense
or lack thereof, and those are kind of the questions like, well,
why would the Mavericks trade him? Well, maybe this is
(34:39):
why so walk us through Like they made the NBA
Finals last year, and it seemed as though Luca looked
a lot like he looks like now, and he played
defense a lot like he does now. He's actually been
a little bit better this year before he got hurt
playing defense. He's not a great defender, but like how
good of a defender was Magic when he had Kareem
and Mychael Cooper out there and you out there like
(35:02):
it feels like you can surround a guy that's that
talented with other defenders and you don't have to worry
about it that much.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
We never allowed Magic Johnson to guard John Stockton or
Isaiah Thomas or Jason Kidd or anybody like that, because
we needed him in the fourth quarter. We need him
to push the ball and help us win. So you know,
we put Byron on the point guard. I would I
(35:31):
would play Cryde Jecksher, I would play Joe Dumars. I
had the size and quickments to do that. So absolutely
they'll find a way because you don't want Luca running
off picks and having to, you know, guard people on
the perimeter. You know, I mean, actually that special of
a player, you know, Larry Bird never really had to
(35:51):
guard me or anybody. You know, they know how to
not necessarily hide players, they know how to preserve them.
So yeah, I mean and as far as you know, look,
I remember being twenty five and you know I was
knocking down a six pack a week, you know what
I mean? If you know, you get over some things
(36:13):
as a young man. Uh, you know, Jerry West says,
you know you you you know, you really don't start
peeking like I said to you, like in your twenty
nine to thirty. So he'll get with Lebron, He's with
one of the most disciplined guys in the world and
he's been watching them every since he's five years old.
So I'm sure that the knock that Dallas has given
(36:37):
him and the money that he's you know, going to
miss out on. But the Max, now, I don't know
what he wanted to do, but there was a little
over one hundred and five hundred ten million dollars sitting
on the super Max contractor he's not gonna get now.
So who if there's any incentive on being MVP of
(37:01):
the league and winning some championships, because you know the
Lakers are, they're going to try to surround them with
what they need to do that.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Well, a one hundred million dollars sure buy a lot
of six packs. The Great James Worthy. Absolutely precious for
us to have the commentary from the great James Worthy.
I tweeted a picture last night to promote the show
because it was Lakers Clippers. A picture are Worthy in
the sports arena. Why did they have you guys in
those two tone unis, James? Why was the jersey different
(37:34):
from the shorts?
Speaker 6 (37:36):
Well, because we only had one away uniform and we
only had one home uniform, so we flew commercial, so
there was no leaving the arena right after the game.
So the home team was responsible for washing our uniforms
right after the game, giving them back to us that
(37:58):
next morning before we left, and we'd have them for
the next There was no multiple uniforms. You never you
never saw anybody taking their jersey off and throwing it
to a fan back then. So imagine, you know, you
got some little seventeen year old kid who's a ball boy,
and you know, he he wants to go home, but
(38:19):
he's got to watch these uniforms, and man, he throws
them all in there, and he just throws tide in there,
and he puts four rocks and he just doesn't know
what he's doing. And so our jerseys would fade be
like lavender, and our bottoms would be like dark purple.
And that's how we roll. Man, That is so good.
(38:42):
You know what else? You know what else? It would
be itchy too, because sometimes they would use too much detergent.
And yeah, I'm gonna write a book. Man. These guys
don't even know what it's like. Uh, you know the
way we had to roll.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
But dogs, beer, andy detergent. There you go, the Eastern Airlines. Yeah,
the Great James Worthy. There's nobody better. Thank you, James.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
PSA TWA you want to go, let's go.
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(39:36):
that's not foreign blue. That's a nice lavender.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
We shall return with reaction, react and we'll have more
to come. We still got Eric Daily Junior, are gonna
come on sweet James is gonna come on, great stuff.
Thanks for being with us. Sorry we're not.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Fighting answer the question, big thank you to James Worthy.
We will focus on the once upon a time amateur
ranks in the final. In the five o'clock hour, I
should say Eric Daily Junior going to join us. Hit
(40:19):
that game winner last night over Michigan State. Be hard
pressed to keep him out of the top twenty five
come Monday. Come Monday, it'll be oh Ray after that
big victory over the Spartans. They went over LA. Meanwhile,
USC lost a heartbreak at Northwestern. But that's neither here
(40:40):
nor there. Well, I mean we're going till seven pm.
VIC would call this upcoming Penn State game a what
trap game? Y'all? Yeah, that's the truth, brother, like Pitfall.
I think his name is Ace. What's a Ace Goodwin?
They do have a really good player on that team.
A yeah, this guitar smokes when he plays your solo
(41:01):
Freely's comet.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
It is time for some texosos.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
The secret text does a fine brought to you by
your so called Toyota dealers, We make it easy.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Does Kates get paid extra for ads using that fake
ass voice? What do you mean Kate's ad voice is
a great voice.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
What's talking about?
Speaker 3 (41:25):
I don't know. Why don't we read Say something about him?
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yeah, something about Eto and Oyocha.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Say something about Concordia. I'll see if it's any different.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
College grad sports enthusiasts. You don't need pet chos or
money or I to tell you.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Oh yeah, you sound totally gay.
Speaker 6 (41:38):
Yeah you do.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Smith, dude, you guys would have been like a bronze
sexual man.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
You're right, you do. You sound like you guys would
have been rated higher than twelve if Kates didn't exploit
others for his own selfish game. For those stupid Golden Mics.
Blame Tater queen Kim Taints.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
So we got Kim Taints, we got Tater tot legs,
we got Golden Mic thirsty, desert ass, thirsty, a lot
of insults in one tax on Kate's.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Well, you talked about the Golden Mics being the most
expensive drinks in the history of our lives. Yes, and Matt,
this guy writes, I bought two drinks at the Vegas Sphere,
both doubles seventy six dollars.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Jesus, Jesus seventy six pack of pocketfull of gummies.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Man, I mean, what do we do it? Right?
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Cheese?
Speaker 3 (42:46):
You gotta do what I used to do on airplanes.
Buy a bottle of Soco and doctor pepper duty free. Hey,
that guy's get a little belligerent that there. We haven't
even certed it. You've got a bottle of Soco.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
See, yes, what you do instead? Hey? Why's that guy
drinking out of a shampoo bottle? Dropped the vodka shampoo?
My travel size shampoo bo.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
My insides are itchy like James Worthy's jersey dirty scalp Uh. Now, Matt,
I don't want to address the elephant in the room here,
but there's been some tension on the on the Afternoon show.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
I would imagine the text Doso has alerted you to that.
I heard it on the way. I was listening on
the way up, and I was like, man, somebody's really
upset about this.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Yeah, and this says I have a lot of text
about it, but I'll just read you a couple.
Speaker 6 (43:32):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
This says I feel through the radio Rodney gritting his
teeth has Dylan Hernandez agrees with Fred on every point.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
What's the would it be called a meme where it's.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
The the guy. Uh, this one is a little more.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
I think the same thing happened with a fully functional employee,
ad him that he was waxing poetic about of Luka doncicen.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Well, if it doesn't work out, Rodney gets to say,
I told you so, right right. Rodney's out of his
mind this, Oh, come on, that's not nice. He's making
a point that teams can trade a player mid contract
and it's just business. But when a player requests to
trade mid contract, that player is vilified. Fred is not
arguing his points. Well, I want to shake him. Does
Rodney not understand the employer employee relationship. He's the only
(44:27):
one to defend Jimmy Butler's actions. I wanted to monitor
their show, but I've got to eject myself from this
nonsense and wait until three o'clock's Great Sports Talk.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Wow, great sports talk. I don't find that to be
a compelling line of conversation surrounding Luka Doncic to the Lakers.
Can you believe the Maverick? Can you believe that Luca
was ripped from his Dallas roots and sent to Los Angeles? Yeah,
you know, Kareem moved from Milwaukee in LA, and Wilt
moved from Philadelphia to LA. And I guess you know,
(45:01):
Kevin Durant was traded from Brooklyn to Phoenix. That's on
the start of the country Blasphe had Zach Lavine go
to Chicago for Minnesota when he was still on his
rookie deal.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
It feels like it's kind of hard to paint anything
with a broad brush because these are all individual situations.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Yeah, and again, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
No, the Lakers now have the one of the top
three best players in the NBA and he's twenty five
years old, So what if he drinks vodka and vapes.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Let's go vape store, Stizzy, I'm gonna get cotton candy
stripper juice. What flavor are you getting? I'm getting you
to corn tears. We'll be back.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
We got Sweet James today, we got Eric Dailey Junior,
we got the super Power Posse in the House, word
number song coming up, and an international top story of
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