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Speaker 1 (01:30):
I can just see it, Matt. We already need it today,
I can hear it. We need that.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Energy energy energy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Energy needs a double shot. He needs a double shot
of espresso. One more they there, what.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
More energy, energy, energy, pig.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You're going on that one?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I'm not standing up. I had to get out of yeah,
because I got so much energy out of that.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It is important. The big story of the day. It
broke in the very last hour. Colin Cowherd of all people,
broken about that.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Feels like a day after he said UCLA doesn't have
the money.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Feels like more than one person and Fox knew about it.
Joel Klatt speaking a very similar message yesterday about Nico Amayama,
quarterback of Tennessee, entering the portal, Joel Klatt said, it's
not about the money. It's about the offense.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, that opens things up for UCLA.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And that's what Colin Cowhard said today in his tweet,
and then shortly there afterwards, guys like Bruce Feldman and
all that kept saying that it is confirmed Nico Iamayava,
big time quarterback is coming to UCLA. They won't have
to start an inexperienced guy, they won't have to start
a young person. And he's gonna play for Sunseri the
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new offensive coordinator. You know, Eric Pienemy no longer there,
doesn't have his number. Retired at Colorado either and didn't
do much for the bus. And we will continue to
monitor this story. But it feels like the people that
control the Big ten in many ways, Fox found out
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that this SEC quarterback who's coming back to the West
Coast where he's from, he played it down. He let's
go Vikings to play at UCLA. It feels like guys
like Joel Klatt and Colin Cowherd in some ways, my
colleagues got the heads up on this. I how much
of a heads up did I get? Much? Much? What
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a big story is Nico Amayava getting the four million
dollars that it looked was reported that he was shopping
himself for from UCLA.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Money much, Yes, Tim, the exact numbers aren't out there. Well,
they'll never be out there. What do we got Well,
I mean we could probably get a Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I thought you had like a uh, you know, broboard.
I was in line at the dd rees.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Do you have a bro board?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Do?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I was in line at the dd Reeves report. I
don't have any inside information, but the people on Twitter
seem to be thinking he's getting way less than the
two point whatever million dollars he was supposed to get.
A tense so I can't imagine he got four million dollars.
If you see, only had four million dollars for its
football programs, n I L. They would divvy that up
amongst eighty five guys, not one guy.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Who was it was it Don McLain that told us
that he thought that that it was being underreported how
much that's what it was?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Didn't Don tell us? He said, Guy, I think that
how much I'm out there about how much money they
have is way under reported. They got money, now that
may just be for basketball.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Corrections and retraction.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It could be UCLA basketball money, and I think is
very different from UCLA football money. But but who is
to say, uh, Nico Iam Mayava played at Warren. He's
a Warren High Bear, not a Downy High Viking. Uh
So corrections and retractions there interesting because UCLA thought that
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they were going to get the little brother Madden i'm Ayava,
and he took them all the way down and then decommitted,
and instead they get the older brother that has experience,
and he took him down to signing day. Petros, Yeah,
he was verbally supposed to go to UCLA signing day.
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He and a teammate said, uh, uh, we're going to Fayetteville. Yeah,
so they're going to Arkansas. But this guy, let's go
coming from the SEC two, the big ten and don't
think that is not why a couple of big Fox
guys and Colin Cowherd and Joel Klatt ended up with
the story that and that Big Fox Clatt, Cowherd, Bruce Feldman,
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all the people that were the first of the story
are all Los Angeles based, much like Warren High School,
not Downy High, their big rival where Nico I. Mayava played.
So that is the story. It will develop. I'm sure
we'll have more tomorrow. We'll have a little bit more
on it later. It looks like Tulane really was in
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the mix as a group of five. But today we
are going to have on top of the day then energy,
We're going to have James Worthy, and we're going to
and we're going to have David Vassey live from Dodger
Stadium after the Dodgers when the series against the Rockies
and have a big chance to sweep. With Bobby Miller, Yes,
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Bobby Miller who got bapped in the head in spring training.
Bobby Miller on the mound, which is totally different than
Knack or Reblessed Rapleski. I mean, Bobby Miller, that's a
different that's a horse of different color.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Back of a regular season, his rookie year. And then unfortunately,
I wonder whether or not that you know, first postseason start,
due to the lack of starters available at that time,
maybe did a little damage that spills over into spring training.
The regular season doesn't go his way, has the big
injury really starts to get away from him, like you said,
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takes the shot to the head off a bat in
spring training, and you hope, you know, considering you put
together one hell of a rookie campaign that he can
rediscs it because, as Don Mattingly once told us, hey,
once you see it, you know it's there.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Man.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
It's just a manager's job to find it again.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You've got to carve it out like a sculptor. You've
got to carve out the piece of art out of
that block of marble. Matt, We've done it twice. Today
is Wednesday. No, there's more, No, there's, Matt. They're in
a good mood. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Matt, there is more?
(08:28):
How is there more? How is this story furthered It can't.
I'm sorry, it's not possible. It was an eleven minutes.
People were tired, They were twenty minutes of any event.
They don't like what they heard from people like you.
What from people like you? Everybody's coming to our side
making fun of them. That fires them up. The space
Chicks don't take kindly to that. The Blue Origin Harem's
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coming after people like you and have no defense, No
can defense. Oh you think no can defense? We can defense.
We have We have the two heavy hitters, Matt, like
two grand t toons of argument headed your way. Number one,
Gail King, I.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Wish people would do more due diligence.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And then my question is, have.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Y'all space.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Due diligence? Matt, Now, I know you understand what that
you don't need to do due diligence. I can have
me ask it's dumb to shoot celebrities into space when
you could have shot top students from STEM programs into space.
Have y'all ever been to space? Now? Have y'all been a.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Pretty good cud? I mean, that's a real trump card
that very few people are going to be able to overcome,
which is why it was so asinine that you were
shot into space.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
I wish people would do more due diligence. And then
my question is have y'all been to space?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Have you been to space?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see
what they do and how they do and then come
back and say this is a terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, we can't go over there.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Cost fifty million dollars to take that flight for eleven minutes.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Oh they wouldn't let you do it. Oh they wouldn't
let you in the Blue Argin building.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Mass question, have you all been to space?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Have y'all have?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
No?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I believe you were number either fifty three through fifty eight.
Did you that went to space the Blue organ There's
only fifty eight people in the world that can answer
yes to that.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
A whole like you went the selfish route. Sent your
kids to college. Have you all been to space Pokat?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Have you beace jail King? You know what I came
to this conclusion is that don't go after her. No not,
I'm going strong. That's a proud going after Bezos because,
as I said, you want to do the let's promote
women in STEM program, great, do it.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I'm all for it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Man, one hundred percent. Send kids from engineering programs, rocket
science programs from those colleges MIT and Renselear and Carnegie Mell.
I've said that, that's all you had to do. Instead
it's Hilaire.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You threw that that was of course, of course.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You ask Lauren who her favorite celebrities are, and that's
what this was. And then you threw the one.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Lord they didn't let him take her b ff, Vicky Trilling,
the makeup lady into I mean the wardrobe lady into
the sky. That'd be a hard cell. That would have
been a hard sell. Well, but otherwise, you know, I
shouldn't have started with that. I know you every day
you come in here and you say, I love Gail King.
You're right, So I shouldn't have said I should not have.
(11:32):
I should not have set you up with the negativity part, right,
I should have set you up with the positivity part.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Aisha Bow the rocket scientist that went start with her.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
That's great, Aisha. You are the girl that I never had.
And I won't just to know you what that shah.
You know, I won't just up bad. Here is Katy Perry.
And you know, Matt, you really put me on a
spot yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
You try to make me recommends going.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You try to make a fool of me yesterday, Matt,
you try to make a fool where you said, well
what does it represent? And I tried to say something,
you know, I say, I say, you know the fragility
of the human uh, the human and uh, the the
human experience, the human endeavor that build the pyramids and
shot a big dildo in the space. You know. I mean.
(12:20):
I tried to come at you like, what does that
even mean? Stupid words? Salad, well, thank and and then
I went home and looked in the mirror. I was like,
you're right, just a clown. I'm just a paasso, like
like Victor Rojas or excuse me, like Miggy Rose, both
of them. And I'm just a big payasso. That's all
I am. Matt said it. I'm a clown. I can't
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even interpret things. I can't even interpret lofty ideas padlos CABSA. Okay,
I felt dumb, but thank god somebody smarter than me,
Kadi Perry was able to tell people. And here, you know,
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I wish I could do this, mat. I wish I
was smart enough too, as you like to say, wrap
my head around you know, lofty concepts. I can't too dumb,
but Katy Perry's not.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I hope they.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Can see the unity that we modeled and replicate that
and understand that.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
That's what when you attack me, we're not modeling unity,
and that's why we're not as successful as we could be.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
I hope they can see the unity that we modeled
and replicate that and understand that we weren't just taking
up space. We were making space for the future.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Not just taking up space, making space.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Think about it, replicate that and understand that we weren't
just taking up space. We were making space for the
future and for me, Like Bill said, this wasn't a ride,
it wasn't a destination. It was a journey, and it
was a supernatural one. And my my journey.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Is super natural journey, Matt, supernatural.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I'm not comment. I can't wait. I'm gonna sit this.
I'm gonna team man this one. You consion until the conclusion.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
I want to.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I want to get it.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I want to absorb all, like you don't want me
to play like little parts of like a rolling stone.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I want to they want to win all in the
roll like a rolling stone. Yeah, I don't want to
take it out of context. It is so profound, it dressed.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So fine through the buffs and dime in your pride.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
My journey has all always been about love and belonging.
And I think that we have all felt that sometimes
we weren't worthy or we didn't belong and in certain ways,
no matter all the accolades, no matter all the studying,
no matter anything. And I think today we all said
it like we belong here, this, this is where we
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belong and we feel very sure that. So I think
that you'll never know the amount of love that you
have inside of you to give and to receive until
the day you launch, because you're leaving all the love
behind and you're surrendering, and you're hoping that you get
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another chance I love them again.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You said something, you said you were going to not
say anything.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Well, I'm incredibly go back to I will not live
a life fulfilled because I'm never gonna launch. No, not
like nor are ninety nine point no.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
No no no no no no no no no no
no no no.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Nine person launching.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Have you all been in space?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
No, I have it game.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Let me hear, let me hear the message of you.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
The amount a love that you have inside of you
to give and to receive until the day you launch,
because you're leaving all the love behind and you're surrendering,
and you're hoping that you get another chance.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
That's how I feel when I got in the garment.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
And so when you come back down, you're like, oh,
I get another chance, Michael.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I know, I'm crying. Okay, now I'm crying.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
How could you cry?
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Because you're leaving love behind and you're surrendering, and you're
hoping that you get another chance to love them again.
And so when you come back down, you're like, oh,
I get another chance that I'm going to Oh my god,
I know I'm crying, Okay, crying.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
What's the biggest STrenD of nonsensical sentences attached to one
another that I've wrote in years?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Screws?
Speaker 7 (16:59):
No, I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Who is that?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
That's crying?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Carissa? No, No, I'm grying.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Oh, for God's sakes, Carissa, No, I'm graying.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Why would you cry?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
We weren't what was it?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We weren't taking up space. We were making space.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
We're not taking up space. We're making the unity that
we're modeled and models, and understand that that's our problem.
We're not modeling unity. You come on here and attack me,
I come on here and attack you. It's a wrong message.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
For the future and for me. Like Gil said, this
wasn't a ride, It wasn't a destination. It was a
journey all the supernatural.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
One, a ride journey, my journey about love and belonging
that we.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Have all felt you said you were sometime you were worthy,
or we didn't belong and certain, no matter all the
act of every additional time, no matter all the studying,
no matter anything. And I think today we all said it,
like we belong here. This is basically like, and you
feel very sure.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That I've already sustained one and every additional one.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Every time you get now it's like going to It's
like it was just the last tap on the head.
But it felt like.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
That you have inside of you to receive every time
we replaced it launch because you're leaving all the love
behind and you're surrendering and you're hoping that you get
another chance to love them again. And so when you
come back, oh my god, no, I'm growing.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
God. Now, Matt, you tell me where was there more
truth in Katie Perry's Space press conference speech or this speech.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
I am Mark, I am the one ruler of all
the Jungles. Blood is the flood of the jaguarre. I
have the power to destroy my enemy.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
There's some.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
People on my arcade and they will all die, right.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
I hope they can see the unity that would modum
and replicate that and understand that we weren't just taking
up space.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
We were making space, not just taking up space and seats,
making space for eleven minutes, holding space zero gravity for
ninety seconds, not a destination but a journey.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
What replicate that and understand that we weren't just taking
up space.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
We were making space.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Have you all been to space?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
The great There is a very good chance that every
single person to which you pose that question for the
of your life will answer it no.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
So basically, you're not allowed to criticize me.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Because I've been to space. The thing is, Gail, it's
inexplicable that you've been in space. That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Have you been in space?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
No?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
No, go to space, or go to Blue Origin and
see what they do and how they do, and then
come back and say this is a terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I've also not had my ears plugged by the inner
thighs of Oprah Winfrey.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
There is that too, and I would assume that grants
you a great deal of self importance.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I'm unable to hear it. I'm unable to hear it
being crushed. All right, I'm Barcona. We'll be back. Jim Worri,
Jim Worthy, our friend, Jimmy Worthy, old Jimmy Worthy. You
can enjoin us. It's important to go to space. Matt.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I just clicked on the old subsidy tracker Blue Origin
LLC subsidy of eighty four hundred and thirty four dollars.
Wonderful what. You gotta go there and see what they're about. Yeah,
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they're about not taking up space.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Making space for the future, taking up space.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
We were making space.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I wish I were so profound.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Now I'm crying. Oh my gosh, I cry.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
And now I'm crying.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
Mother.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
You're crying because you realized half of your intelligence was
just sucked out in.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Out of the nostril. We'll be back with James Worthy.
Jimmy Worthy.
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Speaker 1 (22:20):
Everybody excited about the NBA Playoffs. Both teams in town
looking ready, especially the Lakers. With Luka Doncic in place.
An unthinkable trade changes the face of the Laker franchise
for like a decade. Joining us right now, one of
the greatest Lakers of all time, one of our best
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friends on the show. His Jersey hangs in the rafters.
His Emmy is at the house. You see him on
Spectrums sports Net. They'll have shows and accompaniment to watch
during the playoffs. It is the great James Worthy once
again on AMTI seventy LA sports let scragging James, how
are you? Hey?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Hey, hey man, I can't tell you how. I thank
the Lakers coach, Reddick and Lebron and Lucas for you know,
giving us this week off. I can't remember when we
had a week off not to play in So yeah, man,
rest it up and be ready to go on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Well, not only is it your best point of reference,
but you were, I mean a big part of a
legendary team that we make a series about, movies, about books.
Countless books have been written about it. I mean your
Lakers showtime teams in the playoffs is where you guys
made your names, made your legends, richer names and the stars.
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What changed about the mentality of your team, all those
great players that we've known over the years, yourself included,
what changed about your guys mentality? There was no play
in in your time when when the playoffs started and
when you guys took the floor and it was do
or dine.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Yeah, you know, I think it was. It was new beginnings,
you know, new beginnings. You know, the ABA merged with
the NBA the seventies. You know, NBA didn't really have
a good image. Then Commissioner Stern came along and all
of a sudden, you know, big television contracts, big expos
you Boston and the Lakers. Guys were staying in school
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for three or four years. They were understanding the game.
So when they came to the NBA, you know, they
kind of knew the game a little bit more, I believe,
And the money wasn't this big, So you signed long
contracts because you wanted security, and you usually stayed together
with the team for you know, seven, eight, nine, ten
years or your entire career. So now it's a different
(24:51):
it's a different business. You got a lot of guys
coming out early, you know, guys like Austin Reeves who
stayed in school four years and got all drill work
and got all the he's he's, he's blossoming. Then you
find a lot of guys that just they have a
lot of talent and you know, along with load management
and you know, the way the way that you know,
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it's just a different mentality that it's a younger generation.
Not you know, I'm not I'm not I'm not saying
they don't work hard, but they're not used to hard work.
If you know what I'm saying. You come from my era, man,
we just you just you just you just tie them
up and ready to go with a sword, need with
a sword bat on. You know. We we flew commercial
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later on, but that didn't happen until like late in
the eighties. So it was just a different mentality. You know,
the league was growing, and we were very happy to
be a part of that growth because we were you know,
we we saw in the eighties and the nineties it
just took off.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I don't know, I don't remember James, so maybe it
was the same for you guys. But I would say
it's certainly an advantage for someone like Lebron who's forty
years old, for the Clippers Kawhi Leonard and James Harden
who were in their middle thirties. Was there always so
much time between these games? The fact that you're playing
a game in LA you get two days off before
you play game two, and you've got a first round
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series that's going to cover as much as fourteen days
fifteen days for the Lakers if it goes seven games.
So I asked you, did you experience that in two
That's a pretty big benefit for an older team, isn't it?
Speaker 7 (26:27):
It is?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
But I don't remember. I don't remember having that much
time off. The games were scheduled, well, you might have
a two days off at most, you know, you get it,
you know, and depended on if your series was over
before your next opponent, you might be able to get
a few more days. I remember in eighty nine we
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swept everybody in the playoffs and we were waiting for
Destroit and I think Boston whoever was on the East
and we had like eight or nine days off, and
Ralph took us to Santa Barbara and we started working
out and trying to get ready, and you know, some
guys got hurt and we just didn't have our best
(27:09):
performance that year. But yeah, I think, you know, too
much time off can be, you know, not good either.
You want to keep your rhythm, you want to keep
game like situations going. But I think for Lebron or
for like say, like for Kareem offers that like for
like starters like Magic and I Buyer, who were playing
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you know, thirty eight to forty minutes a game. We
might welcome a few days off, yeah, three or four
days off. But the way that it's set up now
with loads management and they don't want to you know,
run you in the ground, you know, the way it's
it's the way it's televised now, there's so many different
options than there were back in the day that sometimes
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we had to wait for you know, we had to
wait for a week a week day, a week night
TV show. They didn't want to interrupt, you know, a
show or something, so they around that. So it's different now.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
What do you make of just kind of what you
remember from the regular season meetings and the opponent, the
fact that he got one of the most dynamic players
on the perimeter and Anthony Edwards and one of the
best centers. I mean, really, if you include nas Reed
and they are two of the best best defensive big
men in the league in Gobart and and Reed, and
your old friend Julius Randall on that that Minnesota team.
(28:28):
Kind of this, I think this looks like maybe a
little bit of a tougher opponent than some people are
giving them credit.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
For Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the West, there's nobody that
you can overlook. Anybody can beat anybody over here. Uh
you know, I see you know where the Warriors, you know,
they're there. Their veteranism makes them, you know, uh a tough.
(28:56):
With the addition of Butler, I don't really be you know,
I don't really see you know, it's the Warriors, you know,
they're they're they're they're they're good. With Draymond playing well, Oklahoma,
they're they're good. Do they have the experience you know
(29:17):
in a seven game series? Yeah, I guess last year
they played, but they still have a lot to prove.
And I think it's gonna be more pressure on Oklahoma
than anybody. I wouldn't want to see the Clippers right
now playing very well, you know, Houston, it's going to
be I don't remember it being this you know, uh,
(29:39):
balanced in the West in a long long time, where
you know it's gonna be an upset or either Oklahoma
or the Lakers are going to come out of on top.
I think they got a chance Denver without coaching Malone,
they're going to be motivated with Yo Kis he might
be coaching the team now who knows, but it's gonna
(30:00):
be interesting. Man. I can't wait to Saturday.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Could could you envision as my radio partner is envisioned.
I believe two days in a row a Clippers Lakers
Western Conference Final.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
James, About time, isn't it? I mean it's about time.
You know, the Yankees and Mets have had it, hadn't they.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
They have they've played in the World Series.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I mean, I'm serious. I'm not
you know, I'm not predicting it, but I'm telling you, man,
with the way the Clippers are playing, with the way
Kauai has come back, and dobach Is, you know, he's
a not to many people have big like that, who's
pretty agile and knows what he's doing. And so yeah,
(30:46):
it could be anything goes this in the West. It's
hard to pick, of course. I'm I'm pulling for the Lakers.
You know, Luca, his his arrival has added a sense
of you know, uh production that you know, we hadn't
seen here in a long time, having to Magic Johnson's
on the floor and pistol Pete reeves. It's uh, it's
(31:08):
pretty it's pretty interesting. So whoever has the you know
the heart, whoever has the best rebounders not turn it over.
And and and experience, which you know we do. We
have a guy that played in the in the in
the finals last year, and we have a guy that's
won four and you know some other guys who have
(31:32):
some experience, you know, Vanda Belt. We're gonna need We're
gonna need those guys. Benny Smith, good one, Gabe. Those
are the guys I called the impactors. You know, they
might not be you know, the superstars, but they impact
the game in a way that you needed. The Michael Cooper's,
the Derek Fisher's. We we have those now. So those
(31:55):
are all good sons.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Last one for you, James, you played or two of
the best in your career in Dean Smith and pat Riley,
what like, how would you describe well? I mean, obviously
he did a great job. They won fifty games. That's
really hard to do. But why do you think he
had success? What did JJ do JJ Redick do well?
(32:18):
Or how did he manage to coach this team to
fifty wins? A mid season trade completely changing the identity
of this team with you know, the defensive dominance they
had with ad to the offensive execution of Luca, Like,
what was it that made him a good coach?
Speaker 5 (32:32):
This year?
Speaker 4 (32:34):
JJ Redick reminds me of a kid that the first
basketball camp he ever went to up until now, he'd
never forgot anything like any drill, any statement a coach made,
every speech. Coach k made every scenario, every moment, every loss,
every win, every emotion, every high, every low, and he
(32:59):
captured it his basketball, you know, library he probably always
wanted to coach. I know, when I started listening to him,
I was like, damn, this guy. He's a good communicator,
even just on a podcast. He's like he's smart, he's knowledgeable,
and he's well prepared, like he knows that's what he
wants to do. Some people going through the business, they
(33:21):
kind of know they want to do it, but they
just don't have their own, you know, way of being
Like I made the mistake of comparing him to Pat
row I said, you know, in a media day, I said, hey,
you know that you kind of remind me of a
young Pat Rolly And he quickly stopped me. He said,
I appreciate that, James, but I got my own thing,
and that's what it is. He's got his own thing.
(33:43):
And he's got a great coaching staff, his assistant coaches,
but he's got his own way. He studied the game,
he knows the game. And the one thing that really
sets him apart, and I think, I mean a lot
of coaches do this, but his ability to coach on
his you know, he can throw that game plan away,
(34:03):
he sees it right away. And the way he communicates
to players, you know, he's he's going to play Dalton
even though Dalt's not gonna get any playing time. Does
that make any sense? That's kind of an oxy mar run.
He's gonna playing. And he's told him when I need threes,
I'm gonna put you in the damn game. And then
you know, when you've got a coach that's straight up
(34:25):
with you and tells you you you win your team,
you win your players over. And so that's what he's done,
and that's what's gonna I think keep them afloat.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
The Great James Worthy keeps us afloat every Wednesday looking
forward to the playoffs. They'll be all over it on
Spectrum Sports net LA and we'll be talking to James
weekly and riding the ride for as long as it goes.
Even when the playoffs continue. If the Lakers are out,
God forbid. Worthy will still be on. Thank you, James,
We love you.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
You got a guys much love.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
There he goes James Worthy. He brought to you by
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Speaker 1 (35:16):
Thank you for listening. We'll be right back with some reaction.
Will it be reaction to the Lakers?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Or reaction to the Blue Origin flight to space Yes,
three days ago.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Always relive it through the PMS podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
David Vessale join us in about thirty minutes to talk
about the Dodgers versus Rockies third of their three game
series tonight before their day off tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I might have to bring back the day that managing.
It's time for the Secret text Sosol Rodeo roundup.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
It's the Secret text us Fine, brought to you by
your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Make it easy, all right, Matt, We got two from
Gail King that have just been sent to us. Double
up Gail King soundbites, Matt, we.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Got too new, too new. I thought we were doing
text those thos.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Well, people texted them to me, y'all be into space.
Well we got better ones, all right.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
It can't be better than y'all been to space.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Well one is uh, don't.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Come at me question, have you been to space?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Okay, that's we had that one. But what he has
here's Gail King. She don't want you to call it
a ride. Gail King thinks that that's disrespectful.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
I don't like that people are calling it a ride.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
A ride.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
You know, you never see a man, a male astronaut
who's going up in space. And they said, oh, we
took a ride, and we actually duplicated the route that
Alan Shepperd did. That's why it's called this particular capsule
is called the New Shepherd one. We duplicated that route.
She just out No one said he took that ride.
Always referred to as a flight or a journey. So
(37:03):
I feel that that's a little disrespectful to what the
mission was and what the work that Blue Origin does. Yes,
we use space technology all the time. Whether it's your GPS,
whether it's your satellite. That doesn't just happen. Every time
a flight goes up, they get some type of information.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Two of the astronauts.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
I still have a hard time calling myself an astronaut,
but two of the astronauts.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Alan Shepherd walked on the Moon.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, and you know what he's saying when he got home.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
We we did it.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
How can the follow up question from Extra TV, who
was doing the interview, is not, well, that's great. What
kind of tests? What kind of science did you guys do?
What kind of discoveries did you guys make? I'll take
eleven seconds. I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
You're not an astronaut. You are on a ride. You're
not highly in the rocket.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
I don't like that people are calling it a side
piloted Apollo.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Respect right.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
You know, you never see a man, a male astronaut
who's going up in space and they said, oh, he
took a ride.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Oh no, he did command Apollo fourteen. He commanded Apollo
for he piloted the Apollo lunar module.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Well, and I'm I know for a fact that when
Alan Shepherd, if he ever actually did go to there,
when he returned to earth. This is what he said,
that he experienced a great amount of pride.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
And I'm so proud of us. I really am proud
of me because I never in a gazillion years thought
I could do this.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
And I just saw a.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Video of us walking up the I don't want to
call plank, but what do you what's the proper?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
What's the proper?
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Astronaut would't know that.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
I'm proud of myself, platform ramp, anything but plank.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
I'm proud of me for what?
Speaker 5 (39:02):
For what?
Speaker 6 (39:04):
And I'm so proud of us. I really am proud
of me because I never in a gazillion years thought
I could do this.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers, we
make it easy.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Is Matt gonna make fun of Bobby Miller's injured face
like he did with g and Carlos Stanton?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
That's not cool, man. I knew that Bobby Miller got
hit in the face. Carlo Stanton got in.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Oh, you didn't know, Like you don't work in sports
for the last thirty years. I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
You didn't know, or you would have said it when
I said that you didn't know my ass.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
You knew I'm not the one that came on.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
It was like, hey, man, face, I didn't say it
was wrong.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
He looks weird. You know, some laugh.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
In the face. You would have immediately said, hey, man,
that want to say. I would not want to walk
that in.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Bed, like, hey, you want to you want to apologize
to him.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
We're astronauts saying we took a ride. Alan Shepherd didn't
take a ride.
Speaker 6 (40:05):
I don't like that people are calling it a ride.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
A ride.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
You know you never see a man, yeah, a male
astronaut who's going up in space.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
When Shanner went, they said he took a journey.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Okay, when Michael Strahan climbed into that penis head of
a capsule, we said he took a ride. He took
a ride. That's what we said, went on a ride.
Bezos went on a ride.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
I can also say I've never had my ears plugged
by the inner thighs of Oprah. Have you been his face?
I haven't been inside Oprah's.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Have you all been space?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Alan Shepherd stopped talking, stop texts a line. It's the
Shepherd route. That's why we call him New Shepherd p.
I worked in the aerospace industry and I've actually done
design work on Blue Origin rock See, now this guy
is going to be He's gonna put it on you.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Matt, Okay, that's gonna say break these fine with him
putting it on me.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
I were work in the aerospace industry and actually have
done design work on Blue Origin's rocket win tunnel models.
Listening to those idiots act like they did anything other
than serve as ballast makes me want to jam my
mechanical pencils in my ears. Bring on the self immolation
p ballot. I work for Blue Origin on several projects,
(41:24):
including New Glen. You and Matt have my permission to
mercilessly mock the stupid suborbitable space barbies. They're just ballast.
Gail King and Katie Perry can kiss my ass.
Speaker 6 (41:38):
Oh we took a ride. We actually duplicated the route
that Alan Shepard did. That's why it's called this particular
capsule is called the New Shepherd. We duplicated that root.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
They have not done ass nothing for the industry. No,
the sense of entitlement and just the the refusal to
accept that you were a passenger on a vessel that
went to a destination that nearly zero people on Earth
(42:11):
will ever have an opportunity to find their way too.
Oh yeah, that's all you did. You went somewhere that
no one else is going to go because you sat
in a chair with a skin tight suit on. Does
it tell you did? And it's incredible? And I bet
it was amazing, But accept all the incoming. This text
(42:32):
says ballast is awesome.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
By the way, that is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
An astronaut would not use the word gazillion. That's probably true, Matt.
Somebody did send a text that says I have audio
of Matt comparing gian Carlos Stanton to the elephant. That's
not true. It is not true.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
That is not true. That was you that said he
was John Mayer. I did say, yes, you did, because
that's always your go to. I didn't say that is
your go to. John Merrick is your go to.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
I think you know it is pretty universal, but it
is most definitely one you use often. Well, you didn't
have to sit through the play, see what I mean?
Life experience. Hey, I don't. I don't know what it is,
but there's just some off about that.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
His feet.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Word number saw coming up, petros and money on AMPI
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