June 21, 2024 • 38 mins
Doug and the crew crack open a cold one and chat about what they are looking forward to this weekend. Doug welcomes NBA Insider Marc Stein onto the show to talk about the Lakers, Thunder and all of the other major headlines around the NBA. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through a Friday version of "The Press".
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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asked all the time, like how are you going to
be able to do both jobs? And I don't know
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if you guys know about the recruiting calendar in basketball,
but this weekend is an open period. It started today
on a Friday, but players have to play with their
high schools. I actually love the right. There's an event
in Arizona. Not at that event called Section seven. Those
are high school teams from Arizona and from New Mexico,
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and from Nevada and from California. All playing at is
that still University of Phoenix Stadium, right where the Arizona
Cardinals play. They had the national championship game this year
in basketball as well. So what they do is that
on the floor there they lay out like ten courts
and all the high school teams, the high high leve
high school tams play against other. So I'm at a
high school in Chicago, Illinois, and the way our way
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we can broadcast is you basically need an ethernetline. And
so in working ahead or early this week, I said
I'd like to go to this event because coach in
Green Bay and Chicago's a really important region. I have
some friends in the au world, I have some friends
in the high school world. And there's there's two main
events at these high schools, and these high schools are gigantic. So, uh,
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I don't know I did if you guys heard me
tell you where I am buyer, did you hear me
say where I'm like.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
A shop classroom or something, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Did they apparently they still have auto shop, right, they
got like the tire looks.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I thought it was just like a wood shop, you know,
where you make a lamb or do stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
No, I'll send you guys a picture. Like I'm in
like the classroom and it looks out over the shop
and they have four bay doors and there's a F
one fifty in there. And yeah, apparently learned how to
fix a pickup truck, which is pretty awesome. Yeah, I
don't know. I used to love now metal shop and
wood shop. I like metal shop more than wood shop.
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I don't know about you guys.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Do they even have those anymore?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I was asking that about auto shop, but apparently they do.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
They absolutely better.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I mean yeah, I think they did away with them
in California, the auto shop that I think the budget
was too.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You talk about you talk about regret that you have
like when you were younger. I wish you'd known this.
I wish I would have known that. I didn't take
any of those courses like our school. You know, you
build a house like in senior year, like if you've
made it through, then they actually go and they sell
the house. It's pretty pretty cool. I did none of that,
and I wish I did all of that totally one
hundred percent and.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Learn how to do your taxes in high school. That
would been awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, I mean, I think you should learn that in college,
but I guess you're.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, yeah, aslutely and like learn how to fix like
a really simple like lawnmower engine, you know, or like
those simple engines that would be nice, just get like
an understanding of how it works instead taking it into
home depot or minards or something farm and fleet and
then paying one hundred bucks or someone just to change
a gasket or whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
So it's interesting, Doug that you you started the hour
with what you're going to be doing this weekend, because
I was. I was thinking about doing something that would
just be kind of wayed back and fun for the listeners.
Always thinking about the listeners. I wake up with thinking
about them and go to sleep, and I'm thinking, maybe
we could do because I love alliteration so much, we
could do something called Frosty Friday. So I had veto
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put together something like this. I got some beers.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
They strike them us.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's that time of the week to crack open a
cool beverage.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
It's frosty Friday.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And I was thinking maybe we could just kind of
talk about the weekend, what we're looking forward to, maybe
on the sports calendar or personally, and just kind of
laid buck suff So it sounds like you're going to
be spending a lot of time watching some high school hoops.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, I am, I have some. There's some other things
that I'm I'm I'm I'm doing as well. But go ahead,
if you guys want to share, like like share, that'd
be great. Let's let's start with you, Dan Byer, like you,
I know you have to work on Sunday. You are
working on a Sunday.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yes noon eastern nine Pacific carry Roads and myself on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Okay, is that all you're looking forward to?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I am looking forward to that. I think what I've
got on my plate this weekend TV viewing wise, sports wise,
maybe a little off of off of the mark, but
the Women's PGA Championship is at Sahali in the Pacific
Northwest on the Seattle area, a tree lined course that
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to me is just visually striking and imposing on TV.
It was the home to the nineteen ninety eight PGA
Championship won by VJ. Singh, his first major that he won.
But it is just it is so unique with the
size of the trees that we only see in a
few parts of the of the country, and they've carved
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out a golf course, narrow fairways. Sports wise, that is
probably what I'm looking forward to the most is to
watch that this weekend golf.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
By the way, Dan, what are you drinking right now?
What did you just crack open right now? That's a
nice that's a nice mountain dew.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He loves.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
It looks refreshing. It really does look refreshing.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
You can still see some of the dew on the
can from the refrigeration.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
It really looks good. Uh. Yes, I'm going to be
I'm traveling to Vegas on tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
This is why we're doing this on the podcast, right
about how much money you can just spend in Vegas
without even thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, exactly. And it's one of those things where and
Doug brought up. I think Doug actually resolved it, Like
he has a theory that's hard.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
To hold on. But before you get to the theory,
state the problem and then I'll state the theory and
then let them discuss whether that the theory has validity.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
It's just this weird thing that the second you step
into town, into Vegas, like money, for whatever reason, means
a lot less to you than it ever does. Like
just for example, we went there for the Super Bowl, right,
and every day on the way after the show, on
the way back to my hotel room, I'd get a
bottle of water and like a sandwich from just the
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little market downstairs, and it was thirty dollars and I
didn't even think twice about it. And like, like money
just evaporates in that city when you're not even gambling,
Like everything is so like overly expensive, but for whatever reason,
like it's something in the air or something, you just
don't worry about it. And what's your theory about?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So my theory is that for as long as I
can remember going to Vegas, people who lose money in
Vegas and they lose somewhere, you know, short of one
thousand dollars, they'll go, ah, entertainment money, Right, how'd you do?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Did you win?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You lose? Like, well, yeah, broke even you like you
lost eight hundred bucks, Like it's entertainment value, like you know,
so It's like you make an excuse to yourself that
the losing money is actually just the entertainment of Vegas.
Like you came in knowing you were going to lose money,
and you're you're fine with it, and so you use
that you like you're mentally you make that switch anyway
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that this was money that you didn't expect it to
go home with, So it's okay that you're overspending on it.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I think that's exactly it. That's exactly it. Because you
over budget, you waste it and whatever you spent it on,
whether it be craps or a Turkey sandwich. But the
reason I'm going to Vegas this week and I'm real excited.
It's one of those proud dad moments. My son, who
I taught to play poker, taught him from scratch to
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play poker. When he was eight years old. He won
his poker league in Orange County, and the winner of
that poker league gets a free buy in to a
World Series of Poker event. He's got fifteen hundred bucks
to spend. On Sunday, he will enter a World Series
of Poker event Play No More and Hold Him, And
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I'm going to be there cheering him on like a
proud father, and it's going to be amazing. So and
by the way, I'm drinking an Anchor Steam bottle of
Anchor Steam beer as I think about my weekend here.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It's deliciously Are you going to be able to take
pictures like our cameras or is there like is that
prohibited because of the steaks impossible broadcast or.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I think the only pictures that I'm supposed to take
are like when when cards are live at the table.
But as far as like the periphery of tables, you know,
taking them on the side and taking pictures, I'll take
plenty of those. So it's gonna be amazing and wishless walk.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Jacob.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Okay, So, so my weekend actually it I think Dan,
you'll you'll like this this weekend.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
But are you're drinking.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Probably a shandy? This is definitely shandy weather y. Yeah,
probably a summer shandy. I mean you can also make
your own shandy, but yeah, I'll probably do a lighty.
And it just feels right when you're in the Midwest
because the Midwest is so much hotter and more humid
than obviously it is where you guys are, I know,
it's hot where you live, Dan Bayer, and it's obviously
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gonna be hot in Vegas for you, but the humidity
really zaptious. So you got to get a shandy anyway. Yeah,
hoops all day, all all night tonight. Then I'll head
back up to the Bay. Then we'll go to Appleton.
There's a big event tomorrow and into Sunday and then
Sunday afternoon. Uh my, my, my realder RB and I
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and Scott Perry who owns uh ma lot. I think
it's a lot they do. They sell high, high quality
meats to restaurants. Uh, there's we have a big golf
match so at at the country club that I took
the picture of at Oneida. So there's a money golf match.
And I've not played a lot of golf, but I
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did play the other day, so I do have I
don't have the excuse of well, I haven't played ones,
so I did play, and we'll see if I can
I can hack that thing around and not do what
Jason's gonna do, which is just lose lots of money
in Vegas.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Sounds like a good time, Doug. Sounds like you got
a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I do.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
A lot going on pretty good, Sam, Thank you, that
was good.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Esprently, he doesn't have a rim shot for his own jokes.
I was just want to go cheap in his own humor.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
No, it was a cheap that was a cheap one.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Oh okay, what are you doing this weekend? Sam? First
of all, what are you drinking? While you explain?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
All right, let's see, Uh, I'll probably be having Uh.
I'm an IPA guy, but I'm trying to avoid gluten,
so I'm looking for a gluten free ipa, which there
are plenty of those, uh, you know. And I'm also
working though, so I gotta be up at like four
forty five each day, so I'm not going too crazy.
But tonight we got obviously the Stanley Cup, and we
have also the Fever at Dream. This is the start
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of a long road trip for the Fever. So I'll
be on tonight and I'm working this weekend. I'll get
to see people like Steve Hartman, Rich Wrnberger, Dan Byer
on Sunday, my buddy Jonas Knox tomorrow. And then on
Sunday we got Fever at Sky, we got Angel Reese
and Caitlin Clark squaring off again, this is the big
game one o'clock Pacific four Eastern time on ESPN, So
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we got a lot of uh to look forward to.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Nobody's doing anything. I mean, Jason seems like he's having
the most fun this weekend. Yes, absolutely, but he's not
actually playing in the World Series of Poker tournament. His
son is, exactly. That's got to be way way harder.
Watching your kid do something as opposed to doing yourself
is so much more.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Difficult, it is, And there's a part of that as
inevitably he's going to be eliminated and like that heartbreak,
and if he isn't, it sucks to watch that. Yeah,
if he isn't, that's a good problem to have. By
the way, it's a three day tournament. If he isn't
eliminated and he plays for a million bucks, I'm probably
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gonna miss work a couple more days of work next week.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Because your retirement could be riding on his winnings.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
There you go, that would be smart planning for Vegas. Okay,
So here's just a random question. How much does it
cost to get into the tournament?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Fifteen hundred bucks and they'll probably upwards of I don't know,
three thousand players or something, a ridiculous amount of players
to get through.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
These are long days of poker.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Have I told you guys the first time I really
enjoyed beer. It's a real story. So when I was
a junior going to be a senior at Oklahoma State,
I stayed for a summer session. Oh wah, and I
did I didn't know. I did demo. I did demo
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for a guy in town. It's like ten dollars an hour,
and I mean it was a fun job. Like you
had to wear boots and jeans and like coveralls. And
keep in mind, it's like one hundred and ten degrees
every day in Oklahoma, and if you're doing demo, that
means the air's not on right. But you're just in
there kicking the crap out of you know, cabinets and whatever,
and there's dust everywhere, and you're wearing a mask and
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you're wearing goggles and it was a lot of fun,
and you know, you're just flop sweat and I'll never
forget the first first day Monday I got done. I'd
never worked that hard in my life ever. And I
walk outside and I'm sitting on the front stoop and
the guys that had been working with us, they went
down the street to the Get and Gallop and they
came back with a case of beer, and I was like, yeah,
(14:11):
I want to just and then you drink a beer,
a cold beer, when it's hot and human you've been
working all day. You're like, Okay, I get it. I
do understand this. This because you know high school or
even at Notre Dame, when you're you're drinking, we do
forties at four on a Friday, you know of old English.
I mean it's not or Saint Id's. I mean it
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is not. That is not the Champagne of beers. It
does not taste the same when you've been doing real,
real man's work for a couple hours in the heat
of Oklahoma. Like it goes down, it hits what's the
kid say, it hits different, It hits different.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Oh yeah, no, I think you did tell us recently
and it's like, I think the topic was when does
beer taste best? And after a long work day or
even like when you've been skiing or hiking a beer
taste back.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Most people say shower beer is the best beer.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, I've never done that.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, I mean, listen, you want to start your weekend.
I mean, this is this is what you can do.
You get to Vegas. Are you driving or flying to Vegas?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I'm driving?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, So you get done driving to Vegas and then
he's he's so he's going tonight, So it starts tonight.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
No, no, no, We're gonna arrive tomorrow when he enters
Sunday morning.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
And it's three days, so it goes Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
If he stays around, I mean, the likelihood is that
he gets eliminated on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You ever notice that when you go to Vegas people
always ask where you stayed, like why do you actually care?
And then you have to figure out, like what am
I really going to say here? I stayed, I stayed.
Are you going to judge me based upon where I stayed?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Pretty much? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, And we judge everything about you based upon where
you stayed. Where you stand. Frosty Friday our first installment
of Frosty Friday.
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Speaker 1 (16:10):
I can't believe I blew it. I can't believe I
blew it. Guys. I'm so sorry. I I that segment
was so good and I was so into my the
the auto shop conversation, the beer conversation. I forgot what
I'm doing Saturday night. I have a better weekend than
I thought. Tell us, Okay, So I was going to go.
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I was going to go to Boston and recruit. And
then Darius is playing with Hooting the Blowfish at at Fenway.
Last year, Darius opened for Kane Brown at at Fenway.
That was one of the all time nights because we
got a chance to just hang out the whole light
on his in his in his bus. But I felt like,
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you know, I got to meet the local high school
coaches here. So Chesney is at what is Miller Park
now known as America Something something Byer.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
American American Family Insurance Field.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
American Family Insurance Field. So it's who Who's It's Zach
Brown Band and Kenny Chesney. Zach Brown Band and Kenny
Chesney at American Family Financial Field Stadium Arena on Saturday.
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So hoop all day, concert at night, hoop the next day,
golf at golf and some shandies. I think I went.
I think I went the weekend. I think I went
the weekend. Yeah, I did. Mark stein joins us NBA insider.
He published a substack called the Steinlin, co host of
the podcast This League Uncut with fellow insider Chris Haynes.
(17:50):
Find it where you find podcasts. Am I supposed to
believe what is coming out of lebron agent's mouth that
they're not tied together and lots of teams are interested
on Bronnie James by himself, I don't.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
I don't think they're tied together in terms of if
you draft Brownie, you're going to get Lebron. I actually
think that is there a team or two out there
that thinks that. I suppose that's possible. But I think
if you ask most front offices, and I think if
they were handed with you, they would say they expect
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Lebron to stay a Laker. And I do think that's
the expectation around the league. And I do think that
Bronni's gonna get drafted, I really do. I just you
know that this is a draft that obviously all the
draft experts in the world will tell you there's no
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clear cut number one. There don't appear to be any
surefire franchise players anywhere near when Benyama's dip code from
last season, would lebron would would Lebron would? Would Bronny
be drafted in the second round because a team wants
to take a chance on him and see if he
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grows into his potential and becomes a good NBA role player. Yes,
I think so.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I agree with you, though, especially in regards to the
first part, which is, uh, if you'd if you'd hired
JJ Redick, lebron James isn't going anywhere, right, But the.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Other thing is, it's just it's just is Lebron gonna
go somewhere?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
No, no, No, I don't think he was going anywhere anyway, right,
Like he's got one in high school, he's got one
elementary school. He's being building a colossal mansion. Like, I
don't think he's not he wasn't going anywhere. But then
you hire JJ Redick and like, let's just stop the
nonsense and get a new contract and figure out who
you want to go and bring in if you if
you're gonna make a move, or what you're gonna do
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with the with the money that's that's freed up in
the cap, right.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
I understand the skepticism much more when people say, does
Lebron really want us to believe that he had no
input on this coaching search and was never and never
discunt her coaching job with a guy he does the
podcast with that is kept more than you know, uh,
(20:25):
you know, more than suggesting, Oh, no, you know, teams
want Bronnie because they think they're getting Lebron.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
No.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I I just you know, I just don't see it
that way.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Stuck outleb show here on Fox Sports Radio. What am
I missing about this Caruso Caruso trade. I I feel
like they, you know, the Thunder once again fleece the Bulls,
and the Bulls are just trying to blow things up.
I mean like Josh Gitty's a talented guy but can't shoot,
whereas Caruso is kind of the perfect consonmate backup guard
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that the Thunder seemed to need.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
I'm completely with you for the price tag that the
Bulls had on Caruso as the trade deadline, the offers
they turned down the tick call they wanted at the time,
to just trade him for Giddy. I don't think anybody
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outside of Chicago understands this. The Thunder have more picks
than anyone who couldn't get the worst first rounder they
have attached to this trade. You couldn't get two future
seconds attached to this trade. And the stats making the
rounds today that Giddy shot something like nineteen percent this
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season from three when a defender was within six feet. Like,
I don't you know, it's way too soon to write
him off. He's young, but you know they're talking about
all start potential, So I mean, he has major work
to do on his game to get back just to
where he was. And look, take the advanced statistics out
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of it. I saw it with my own eyes in
the Dallas series. I mean, the mass place, the court
and just to you know, the Bulls are super high
on him. And I think another thing you can question
is just what what is the fit there? You know,
by all accounts, they want to bring back Margarros and
(22:31):
Kobe White had a fantastic season, So does Gdy fit
seamlessly with those guys? I think that's a fair question too.
So obviously they haven't had Lonzo Ball on the score
for a long time. I guess that means they need
a point guard. But you are certainly not alone in
raising this question. It's astonishing to me that a player
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is coveted as Caruso, who was born to play for
the Thunder, and let's not forget he started his pro
career in their Gen League system. I mean, what if
they're gonna look there by no means the finished product.
But you know what it's like to play league guard
for a team. Do you want to go up against
the team that has Caruso and Dort and Wallace. I mean,
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they're not going to be fun to play against.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Next seas even close to being fun to play against.
Mark stein who publishes a substack called the Steinlein Plus.
It's part of a podcast called This League Uncut with
fellow insider Chris Anes. He joins us every week on
the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Trey
Young did the hour Glass tweet. Everybody's discussing what's it mean.
(23:39):
I've heard Orlando, I've heard San Antonio. Some people want
to say the Lakers. He lives out in LA in
the offseason. What are you hearing as far as where
Trey Young ends up?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
Now, we're still trying to determine. I mean, I s
the tweet that E Mode gets people excited every time
it emerges. Are the Hawks definitively trading Trey Young? I
don't think we have that answer yet. There's a lot
of mystery about what the Hawks might do. They have
the number one pick. They've been trying to convince people
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that they're keeping the number one pick, and I don't
know that they've fully convinced rival teams of that, whether
they're trading Trey Young or de Jontay Murray. I have
thought for a while that their preference would be moving
Pray because de Jontay Murray is on such a more
favorable contract, and you know, they actually got to look
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at the end of the season of what it was
like to play with only Dejonte and no Tray because
Trey had the hand injury. But at this point I
would say, I don't think there's a clear indication about
going to be moved. But look, it's it's fascinating because
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you know, far is it a lot at the top
of a lot of draft boards. But he has not
worked out for Atlanta. He has you know, I don't
think we see that too often that a player who
could go number one is not visiting with the team
that has number one picks. So there's this great expectation
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around the league at this point that Star is going
to end up going number two to Washington and the
Hawks if they keep number one, are or choosing between
Bresa Sat and Clinging at the top spot. And so
you really want to make are they going to trade
the pick down to take some pressure off themselves? A
zillion questions in Atlanta right now, Trey Young's future is
(25:38):
only one of them.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Why did the Pistons move off Monty Williams despite that
sixty five million dollars pouts.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
The timing of it is, I mean, the why you
can understand why after the season they had, but you
would understand it a lot better if it happened a
month ago. To do this a week before the draft,
the Pons have so many other things to look at
roster wise. They've got a top five pick, you know,
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these are the things they should be focused on. So
to see this decision made, now, that's really what was baffling.
And look, as late as last week, the signals were
kind of suggesting that, okay, Monty Williams is going to
be okay, because look, they made they were very clear
about Trajan Langon is the new president of basketball operations,
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and he's going to evaluate things. They're not just a
rubber stamp that Moni stays, even with five years and
more than sixty million left on the contract. But the
signals were piling up that, you know what, they are
going to bring Mani back. Fred Vinson, who was on
Moni's staff in New Orleans. The Pistons hired him away
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from the Pelicans, and this got a lot less attention,
but I wrote about it earlier this week. They also
hired Mani's strength coach from Phoenix, who had been with
Many for a few years there in the desert, took
a one year detour to college, and the Pistons hired
him as well to lead their performance staff. But you
see these hires and you're thinking, Okay, Money's gonna he's
(27:12):
going to stay. They're at least going to bring him
back to start next season. But by all accounts, Bob Lors,
as the owner, he decided this week, no, I'm going
to eat the money. And look, I guess you have
to give him the credit on that point of it,
that he's willing to eat a contract that has more
than sixty million left on it. I don't know that
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we've ever seen that in the NBA, but it's really
the time. It's just now in late June. The Calves
are nearing the end of their search, so the only
open job in the league is going to be Detroit.
But you know, we're the draft is here, Summer league
is almost here. I mean it's late in the game.
So that's what I think has people most confused.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Stug gotlib show here on Fox Sports Radio, Mark Stein
joining us. The steinline is the sub stack. You gotta
read that. Of course, This League Uncut is the podcast
he and Chris Anes. He joins us every week here
on the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. So
the MAVs get to the finals, obviously, Lucas banged up.
I'm sure there's another discussion about Luca and his weight.
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But what else, what is what do they do to
take the next step, Because let's just be honest, this
was a surprise how they finished, and they got to
be careful of thinking that's where they are as a team,
that they're really the second best team in the NBA.
How do you think they Nico Harrison moves.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Forward, well, Nico Harrison at a press conference today in Dallas,
and he described finding a way to re sign Derek
Jones junior. He called it Priority one A and one BAT.
So that's obviously at the top of their list. But
I think if you really study in Nico Harrison's few
years here, he has been very aggressive. He's made major
(28:54):
moves at every trade deadline. So I think they will
explore and see what's out there. If there is a
roster upgrade that they can make via trade, I think
they will at least look into it. But I think
something else they're counting on hugely is that Lively takes
another big step. I mean, Lively was so far ahead
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this season of what they were planning on. I mean,
if we rewind to last July one, after the draft,
all the talk in Dallas was that Olivier Maxen's Prosper
was the more NBA ready of the Mavericks two first
round draft picks. That was the thought that Prosper would
be the guy in the rotation, not Lively, and Lively
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became indispensable very quickly. Opening night, I was in San Antonio.
We were all there to see Wembley. We Wembley. We
were all there to see Wemby. The best seven foot
rookie on Opening Night in that game was Lively. Obviously,
I'm not suggesting he's on par with Webbin Yama, but
Lively became a very good NBA player right away, and
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I think they're hoping that he just continues to progress
and can take on an even larger role next season.
But I think you're what you're getting at is right.
You know, they you know, just bringing back the same team,
even if they do find a way financially to create
the flexibility to keep Derek Jones junior, that doesn't just
fix everything. And in this West, I mean, look that
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the Thunder just raised the stakes yesterday by getting Caruso.
The Thunder are going to be better, The Nuggets are
going to be back. We'll see what the Clippers look like,
the Kings are keeping Malik Monk. I mean, I can
go on and is Memphis is going to bounce back?
San Antonio will surely be better. I mean, we could
just go through the whole West and it's only going
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to get tougher.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Mark Stein he puzsress that substack called the Steinline You
Gotta Read. Plus he co hosts the podcast This League
Uncut with fellow insider Chris Haynes Steiny, You are the
best man. Have a great weekend. We'll talk next week.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Sounds good man.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Gottlieb
Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on Fox
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Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, if you're listening to Boston, you got a head
to Fenway. I think it's actually tonight. The show is tonight, right,
show is tonight at Fenway.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
I'd buy a ticket just to hear this song.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Well, be good to hear him play with the with
the Hoodie Boys, because he's he's played with his with
his own band always when he when he tours as well.
So Darius puts on a great show, plays a little
faster with his own band with the Carolina Blue Boys,
plays a little faster. Let's get to the press, shall we.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
The press?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Dan Byer, what are the stories of the day?
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Okay, Doug, The numbers are in in the first round
of voting for the WNBA All Star Game. You guys
ready for this. Hold on to your buttons. Leading vote
getter through the first round of early fan voting is
this would be a time for a good drum roll.
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Asia Wilson of the Las Vegas aces two hundred and
seventeen thousand, seven hundred and seventy three votes. Caitlin Clark
of the Indiana Fever is second, just thirteen hundred votes
behind Wilson. Aleah Boston of the Fever comes in third.
She has one hundred and seventy one thousand votes, and
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Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky currently seventh in voting
with one hundred and eighteen thousand votes. The All Star
Game will feature Team USA taking on other WNBA All Stars.
So Asia Wilson will be representing Team USA for this game,
as will Brandna Stewart, Sabrina Yonescu, Kelsey Plumb, all who
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are in the top levels of voting, but they won't
be on the w NBA All Star Game or team
because they'll be playing against that team. Wait what Yeah,
so it's it's kind of a tune up for the
for the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Oh so it's the Olympics versus the rest of the
All Stars.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I thought it was gonna be Kaitlyn Clark onon on five.
I think that's what they did.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
But this, I find this very interesting that Kaitlyn Clark
is second in voting, but yet there have been enough
like a Leah Boston is third. I have not watched
as much as Sam or Jason or probably even you, Doug,
but it seems like the Caitlin Clark effect is giving
a boost to a Leah Boston for her All Star
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resumere I voted in this by the way.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Well, I don't know if it's a boost as much
as you know they draw the most people when she
goes to the road and you're like, oh, I like
her too, right, which.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Is Boston's been playing much better?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I know she has, okay, but it doesn't actually matter
that she's playing better. It just matters is that she's
on the same team as King or Start, so more
people go Yeah, it's more exposure. So, if anything, Eliah
Boston is the perfect example what the rest of the
WNBA should check the hell up and pay attention to. Right,
the rising tide does lift all ships.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Made Asia Wilson, right now, you're leading vote getter, all right.
The Olympics are headed to Oklahoma City. Yes, because facilities
for softball and the canoe and kayak events at the
Olympic Games are not suitable for International Olympic Committee events.
The standard they don't live up to the standards of
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the IOC. The events are being moved to Oklahoma City.
So softball will be played at Oklahoma City in twenty
twenty eight, and the canoe slalom and kayak cross will
also be held in Oklahoma City because they have facilities
that are up to the international competition standards.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
And it's really interesting, you know the I think it's
the Oklahoma River that runs for Oklahoma City, like it
was just a trickle years ago, and part of like
kind of the urban renewal has been building this incredible
center for UH for all those sports, and then obviously
softball that's where the College Softball World Series is. What
stinks is that shouldn't they don't have baseball anymore? Right?
(35:15):
Baseball could have been an Omaha. Now isn't baseball coming?
Is it coming back?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Like?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
When's it coming back? I thought baseball was coming back
for it.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
It's funny because I thought that it did come back
and then maybe it disappeared again, but I'm not I'm
not sure.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
I think it was. Our last Olympics were in Japan, right, yes,
but I think it was just a what's the sport
they have where you only try it for that home venue?
I think that's what it was. So it didn't that
go away?
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Well, I will say this Dodgers Stadium would probably be
a nice place to have it if you were.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
To have it. Good point, that would be a good
good point.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Yes, it looks like it'll be back for the twentyet Olympics.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Okay, based off.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
What what what are they using? Well, so where are
they playing? They playing Downer Stadium.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I would hope.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So, I don't know. I don't think pet COO.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
You gotta still I understand, like it's just it's weird
to have it in LA and then an event in
Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
But I get it.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
But at some point if you're gonna spread it around
the country, it's not even.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
A well spread around southern California. I mean, sure, are
you gonna have it the big A? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
I think there may be some uh some cycling events
or something up by us Jason for in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Well, you remember home the Home Depot Center, right, which
is where the does anybody play there?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Now?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
The Galaxy still play there? Right?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
That used to be the Belodrome, that used to be
where they had in eighty four. That's where they had
the cycling.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Connor McGregor revealed that it was a broken toe, which
is the reason that he can't fight next week at
UFC three oh three.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Did you see that toe, Doug.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yeah, a little toe. That was cool, so gross, it
was awesome. I can continue. I passed around her friends,
you know, I like you know, I love injuries.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yes, my toes are curling as we as we speak.
And tonight Game six Stanley Cup Final Panthers and Oilers
eighty stern. Panthers try to close it out again the
third time. They're going to try to clinch Lord Stanley's Cup,
while the Oilers just try to force that. Game seven,
and that's the press bag.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Get out there and pressed.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
That was the press so we could see a comeback
in hockey. I haven't even been paying attention in this.
This is awesome. Now I'm cheering for the underdog quite obviously.
All right, have yourself a great weekend, whether you're having
a shandy and a golf course or whether you're hard
at work at Fox Sports Radio. Be safe and enjoy it.
And yeah, next week we have NBA Draft, which will
(37:37):
be full of players that no one knows of myself included,
and we'll only be worrying about Ronnie James, who, yeah,
averaged four points this year in college basketball. That's just
the state of the NBA Draft. In the meantime, check
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be able to do both jobs? And I don't know
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if you guys know about the recruiting calendar in basketball,
but this weekend is an open period. It started today
on a Friday, but players have to play with their
high schools. I actually love the right. There's an event
in Arizona. Not at that event called Section seven. Those
are high school teams from Arizona and from New Mexico,
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and from Nevada and from California. All playing at is
that still University of Phoenix Stadium, right where the Arizona
Cardinals play. They had the national championship game this year
in basketball as well. So what they do is that
on the floor there they lay out like ten courts
and all the high school teams, the high high leve
high school tams play against other. So I'm at a
high school in Chicago, Illinois, and the way our way
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we can broadcast is you basically need an ethernetline. And
so in working ahead or early this week, I said
I'd like to go to this event because coach in
Green Bay and Chicago's a really important region. I have
some friends in the au world, I have some friends
in the high school world. And there's there's two main
events at these high schools, and these high schools are gigantic. So, uh,
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I don't know I did if you guys heard me
tell you where I am buyer, did you hear me
say where I'm like.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
A shop classroom or something, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Did they apparently they still have auto shop, right, they
got like the tire looks.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I thought it was just like a wood shop, you know,
where you make a lamb or do stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
No, I'll send you guys a picture. Like I'm in
like the classroom and it looks out over the shop
and they have four bay doors and there's a F
one fifty in there. And yeah, apparently learned how to
fix a pickup truck, which is pretty awesome. Yeah, I
don't know. I used to love now metal shop and
wood shop. I like metal shop more than wood shop.
(02:42):
I don't know about you guys.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Do they even have those anymore?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I was asking that about auto shop, but apparently they do.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
They absolutely better.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I mean yeah, I think they did away with them
in California, the auto shop that I think the budget
was too.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You talk about you talk about regret that you have
like when you were younger. I wish you'd known this.
I wish I would have known that. I didn't take
any of those courses like our school. You know, you
build a house like in senior year, like if you've
made it through, then they actually go and they sell
the house. It's pretty pretty cool. I did none of that,
and I wish I did all of that totally one
hundred percent and.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Learn how to do your taxes in high school. That
would been awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, I mean, I think you should learn that in college,
but I guess you're.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, yeah, aslutely and like learn how to fix like
a really simple like lawnmower engine, you know, or like
those simple engines that would be nice, just get like
an understanding of how it works instead taking it into
home depot or minards or something farm and fleet and
then paying one hundred bucks or someone just to change
a gasket or whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
So it's interesting, Doug that you you started the hour
with what you're going to be doing this weekend, because
I was. I was thinking about doing something that would
just be kind of wayed back and fun for the listeners.
Always thinking about the listeners. I wake up with thinking
about them and go to sleep, and I'm thinking, maybe
we could do because I love alliteration so much, we
could do something called Frosty Friday. So I had veto
(04:09):
put together something like this. I got some beers.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
They strike them us.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's that time of the week to crack open a
cool beverage.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
It's frosty Friday.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And I was thinking maybe we could just kind of
talk about the weekend, what we're looking forward to, maybe
on the sports calendar or personally, and just kind of
laid buck suff So it sounds like you're going to
be spending a lot of time watching some high school hoops.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, I am, I have some. There's some other things
that I'm I'm I'm I'm doing as well. But go ahead,
if you guys want to share, like like share, that'd
be great. Let's let's start with you, Dan Byer, like you,
I know you have to work on Sunday. You are
working on a Sunday.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yes noon eastern nine Pacific carry Roads and myself on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Okay, is that all you're looking forward to?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I am looking forward to that. I think what I've
got on my plate this weekend TV viewing wise, sports wise,
maybe a little off of off of the mark, but
the Women's PGA Championship is at Sahali in the Pacific
Northwest on the Seattle area, a tree lined course that
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to me is just visually striking and imposing on TV.
It was the home to the nineteen ninety eight PGA
Championship won by VJ. Singh, his first major that he won.
But it is just it is so unique with the
size of the trees that we only see in a
few parts of the of the country, and they've carved
(05:46):
out a golf course, narrow fairways. Sports wise, that is
probably what I'm looking forward to the most is to
watch that this weekend golf.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
By the way, Dan, what are you drinking right now?
What did you just crack open right now? That's a
nice that's a nice mountain dew.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He loves.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
It looks refreshing. It really does look refreshing.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
You can still see some of the dew on the
can from the refrigeration.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
It really looks good. Uh. Yes, I'm going to be
I'm traveling to Vegas on tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
This is why we're doing this on the podcast, right
about how much money you can just spend in Vegas
without even thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, exactly. And it's one of those things where and
Doug brought up. I think Doug actually resolved it, Like
he has a theory that's hard.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
To hold on. But before you get to the theory,
state the problem and then I'll state the theory and
then let them discuss whether that the theory has validity.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
It's just this weird thing that the second you step
into town, into Vegas, like money, for whatever reason, means
a lot less to you than it ever does. Like
just for example, we went there for the Super Bowl, right,
and every day on the way after the show, on
the way back to my hotel room, I'd get a
bottle of water and like a sandwich from just the
(07:03):
little market downstairs, and it was thirty dollars and I
didn't even think twice about it. And like, like money
just evaporates in that city when you're not even gambling,
Like everything is so like overly expensive, but for whatever reason,
like it's something in the air or something, you just
don't worry about it. And what's your theory about?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So my theory is that for as long as I
can remember going to Vegas, people who lose money in
Vegas and they lose somewhere, you know, short of one
thousand dollars, they'll go, ah, entertainment money, Right, how'd you do?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Did you win?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You lose? Like, well, yeah, broke even you like you
lost eight hundred bucks, Like it's entertainment value, like you know,
so It's like you make an excuse to yourself that
the losing money is actually just the entertainment of Vegas.
Like you came in knowing you were going to lose money,
and you're you're fine with it, and so you use
that you like you're mentally you make that switch anyway
(08:00):
that this was money that you didn't expect it to
go home with, So it's okay that you're overspending on it.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I think that's exactly it. That's exactly it. Because you
over budget, you waste it and whatever you spent it on,
whether it be craps or a Turkey sandwich. But the
reason I'm going to Vegas this week and I'm real excited.
It's one of those proud dad moments. My son, who
I taught to play poker, taught him from scratch to
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play poker. When he was eight years old. He won
his poker league in Orange County, and the winner of
that poker league gets a free buy in to a
World Series of Poker event. He's got fifteen hundred bucks
to spend. On Sunday, he will enter a World Series
of Poker event Play No More and Hold Him, And
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I'm going to be there cheering him on like a
proud father, and it's going to be amazing. So and
by the way, I'm drinking an Anchor Steam bottle of
Anchor Steam beer as I think about my weekend here.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It's deliciously Are you going to be able to take
pictures like our cameras or is there like is that
prohibited because of the steaks impossible broadcast or.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I think the only pictures that I'm supposed to take
are like when when cards are live at the table.
But as far as like the periphery of tables, you know,
taking them on the side and taking pictures, I'll take
plenty of those. So it's gonna be amazing and wishless walk.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Jacob.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Okay, So, so my weekend actually it I think Dan,
you'll you'll like this this weekend.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
But are you're drinking.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Probably a shandy? This is definitely shandy weather y. Yeah,
probably a summer shandy. I mean you can also make
your own shandy, but yeah, I'll probably do a lighty.
And it just feels right when you're in the Midwest
because the Midwest is so much hotter and more humid
than obviously it is where you guys are, I know,
it's hot where you live, Dan Bayer, and it's obviously
(09:57):
gonna be hot in Vegas for you, but the humidity
really zaptious. So you got to get a shandy anyway. Yeah,
hoops all day, all all night tonight. Then I'll head
back up to the Bay. Then we'll go to Appleton.
There's a big event tomorrow and into Sunday and then
Sunday afternoon. Uh my, my, my realder RB and I
(10:17):
and Scott Perry who owns uh ma lot. I think
it's a lot they do. They sell high, high quality
meats to restaurants. Uh, there's we have a big golf
match so at at the country club that I took
the picture of at Oneida. So there's a money golf match.
And I've not played a lot of golf, but I
(10:39):
did play the other day, so I do have I
don't have the excuse of well, I haven't played ones,
so I did play, and we'll see if I can
I can hack that thing around and not do what
Jason's gonna do, which is just lose lots of money
in Vegas.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Sounds like a good time, Doug. Sounds like you got
a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I do.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
A lot going on pretty good, Sam, Thank you, that
was good.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Esprently, he doesn't have a rim shot for his own jokes.
I was just want to go cheap in his own humor.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
No, it was a cheap that was a cheap one.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Oh okay, what are you doing this weekend? Sam? First
of all, what are you drinking? While you explain?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
All right, let's see, Uh, I'll probably be having Uh.
I'm an IPA guy, but I'm trying to avoid gluten,
so I'm looking for a gluten free ipa, which there
are plenty of those, uh, you know. And I'm also
working though, so I gotta be up at like four
forty five each day, so I'm not going too crazy.
But tonight we got obviously the Stanley Cup, and we
have also the Fever at Dream. This is the start
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of a long road trip for the Fever. So I'll
be on tonight and I'm working this weekend. I'll get
to see people like Steve Hartman, Rich Wrnberger, Dan Byer
on Sunday, my buddy Jonas Knox tomorrow. And then on
Sunday we got Fever at Sky, we got Angel Reese
and Caitlin Clark squaring off again, this is the big
game one o'clock Pacific four Eastern time on ESPN, So
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we got a lot of uh to look forward to.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Nobody's doing anything. I mean, Jason seems like he's having
the most fun this weekend. Yes, absolutely, but he's not
actually playing in the World Series of Poker tournament. His
son is, exactly. That's got to be way way harder.
Watching your kid do something as opposed to doing yourself
is so much more.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Difficult, it is, And there's a part of that as
inevitably he's going to be eliminated and like that heartbreak,
and if he isn't, it sucks to watch that. Yeah,
if he isn't, that's a good problem to have. By
the way, it's a three day tournament. If he isn't
eliminated and he plays for a million bucks, I'm probably
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gonna miss work a couple more days of work next week.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Because your retirement could be riding on his winnings.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
There you go, that would be smart planning for Vegas. Okay,
So here's just a random question. How much does it
cost to get into the tournament?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Fifteen hundred bucks and they'll probably upwards of I don't know,
three thousand players or something, a ridiculous amount of players
to get through.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
These are long days of poker.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Have I told you guys the first time I really
enjoyed beer. It's a real story. So when I was
a junior going to be a senior at Oklahoma State,
I stayed for a summer session. Oh wah, and I
did I didn't know. I did demo. I did demo
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for a guy in town. It's like ten dollars an hour,
and I mean it was a fun job. Like you
had to wear boots and jeans and like coveralls. And
keep in mind, it's like one hundred and ten degrees
every day in Oklahoma, and if you're doing demo, that
means the air's not on right. But you're just in
there kicking the crap out of you know, cabinets and whatever,
and there's dust everywhere, and you're wearing a mask and
(13:51):
you're wearing goggles and it was a lot of fun,
and you know, you're just flop sweat and I'll never
forget the first first day Monday I got done. I'd
never worked that hard in my life ever. And I
walk outside and I'm sitting on the front stoop and
the guys that had been working with us, they went
down the street to the Get and Gallop and they
came back with a case of beer, and I was like, yeah,
(14:11):
I want to just and then you drink a beer,
a cold beer, when it's hot and human you've been
working all day. You're like, Okay, I get it. I
do understand this. This because you know high school or
even at Notre Dame, when you're you're drinking, we do
forties at four on a Friday, you know of old English.
I mean it's not or Saint Id's. I mean it
(14:32):
is not. That is not the Champagne of beers. It
does not taste the same when you've been doing real,
real man's work for a couple hours in the heat
of Oklahoma. Like it goes down, it hits what's the
kid say, it hits different, It hits different.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Oh yeah, no, I think you did tell us recently
and it's like, I think the topic was when does
beer taste best? And after a long work day or
even like when you've been skiing or hiking a beer
taste back.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Most people say shower beer is the best beer.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, I've never done that.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, I mean, listen, you want to start your weekend.
I mean, this is this is what you can do.
You get to Vegas. Are you driving or flying to Vegas?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I'm driving?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, So you get done driving to Vegas and then
he's he's so he's going tonight, So it starts tonight.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
No, no, no, We're gonna arrive tomorrow when he enters
Sunday morning.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
And it's three days, so it goes Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
If he stays around, I mean, the likelihood is that
he gets eliminated on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You ever notice that when you go to Vegas people
always ask where you stayed, like why do you actually care?
And then you have to figure out, like what am
I really going to say here? I stayed, I stayed.
Are you going to judge me based upon where I stayed?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Pretty much? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
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Speaker 1 (16:10):
I can't believe I blew it. I can't believe I
blew it. Guys. I'm so sorry. I I that segment
was so good and I was so into my the
the auto shop conversation, the beer conversation. I forgot what
I'm doing Saturday night. I have a better weekend than
I thought. Tell us, Okay, So I was going to go.
(16:31):
I was going to go to Boston and recruit. And
then Darius is playing with Hooting the Blowfish at at Fenway.
Last year, Darius opened for Kane Brown at at Fenway.
That was one of the all time nights because we
got a chance to just hang out the whole light
on his in his in his bus. But I felt like,
(16:54):
you know, I got to meet the local high school
coaches here. So Chesney is at what is Miller Park
now known as America Something something Byer.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
American American Family Insurance Field.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
American Family Insurance Field. So it's who Who's It's Zach
Brown Band and Kenny Chesney. Zach Brown Band and Kenny
Chesney at American Family Financial Field Stadium Arena on Saturday.
(17:27):
So hoop all day, concert at night, hoop the next day,
golf at golf and some shandies. I think I went.
I think I went the weekend. I think I went
the weekend. Yeah, I did. Mark stein joins us NBA insider.
He published a substack called the Steinlin, co host of
the podcast This League Uncut with fellow insider Chris Haynes.
(17:50):
Find it where you find podcasts. Am I supposed to
believe what is coming out of lebron agent's mouth that
they're not tied together and lots of teams are interested
on Bronnie James by himself, I don't.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
I don't think they're tied together in terms of if
you draft Brownie, you're going to get Lebron. I actually
think that is there a team or two out there
that thinks that. I suppose that's possible. But I think
if you ask most front offices, and I think if
they were handed with you, they would say they expect
(18:31):
Lebron to stay a Laker. And I do think that's
the expectation around the league. And I do think that
Bronni's gonna get drafted, I really do. I just you
know that this is a draft that obviously all the
draft experts in the world will tell you there's no
(18:54):
clear cut number one. There don't appear to be any
surefire franchise players anywhere near when Benyama's dip code from
last season, would lebron would would Lebron would? Would Bronny
be drafted in the second round because a team wants
to take a chance on him and see if he
(19:16):
grows into his potential and becomes a good NBA role player. Yes,
I think so.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I agree with you, though, especially in regards to the
first part, which is, uh, if you'd if you'd hired
JJ Redick, lebron James isn't going anywhere, right, But the.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Other thing is, it's just it's just is Lebron gonna
go somewhere?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
No, no, No, I don't think he was going anywhere anyway, right,
Like he's got one in high school, he's got one
elementary school. He's being building a colossal mansion. Like, I
don't think he's not he wasn't going anywhere. But then
you hire JJ Redick and like, let's just stop the
nonsense and get a new contract and figure out who
you want to go and bring in if you if
you're gonna make a move, or what you're gonna do
(20:02):
with the with the money that's that's freed up in
the cap, right.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
I understand the skepticism much more when people say, does
Lebron really want us to believe that he had no
input on this coaching search and was never and never
discunt her coaching job with a guy he does the
podcast with that is kept more than you know, uh,
(20:25):
you know, more than suggesting, Oh, no, you know, teams
want Bronnie because they think they're getting Lebron.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
No.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I I just you know, I just don't see it
that way.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Stuck outleb show here on Fox Sports Radio. What am
I missing about this Caruso Caruso trade. I I feel
like they, you know, the Thunder once again fleece the Bulls,
and the Bulls are just trying to blow things up.
I mean like Josh Gitty's a talented guy but can't shoot,
whereas Caruso is kind of the perfect consonmate backup guard
(20:58):
that the Thunder seemed to need.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
I'm completely with you for the price tag that the
Bulls had on Caruso as the trade deadline, the offers
they turned down the tick call they wanted at the time,
to just trade him for Giddy. I don't think anybody
(21:20):
outside of Chicago understands this. The Thunder have more picks
than anyone who couldn't get the worst first rounder they
have attached to this trade. You couldn't get two future
seconds attached to this trade. And the stats making the
rounds today that Giddy shot something like nineteen percent this
(21:45):
season from three when a defender was within six feet. Like,
I don't you know, it's way too soon to write
him off. He's young, but you know they're talking about
all start potential, So I mean, he has major work
to do on his game to get back just to
where he was. And look, take the advanced statistics out
(22:08):
of it. I saw it with my own eyes in
the Dallas series. I mean, the mass place, the court
and just to you know, the Bulls are super high
on him. And I think another thing you can question
is just what what is the fit there? You know,
by all accounts, they want to bring back Margarros and
(22:31):
Kobe White had a fantastic season, So does Gdy fit
seamlessly with those guys? I think that's a fair question too.
So obviously they haven't had Lonzo Ball on the score
for a long time. I guess that means they need
a point guard. But you are certainly not alone in
raising this question. It's astonishing to me that a player
(22:53):
is coveted as Caruso, who was born to play for
the Thunder, and let's not forget he started his pro
career in their Gen League system. I mean, what if
they're gonna look there by no means the finished product.
But you know what it's like to play league guard
for a team. Do you want to go up against
the team that has Caruso and Dort and Wallace. I mean,
(23:16):
they're not going to be fun to play against.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Next seas even close to being fun to play against.
Mark stein who publishes a substack called the Steinlein Plus.
It's part of a podcast called This League Uncut with
fellow insider Chris Anes. He joins us every week on
the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Trey
Young did the hour Glass tweet. Everybody's discussing what's it mean.
(23:39):
I've heard Orlando, I've heard San Antonio. Some people want
to say the Lakers. He lives out in LA in
the offseason. What are you hearing as far as where
Trey Young ends up?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
Now, we're still trying to determine. I mean, I s
the tweet that E Mode gets people excited every time
it emerges. Are the Hawks definitively trading Trey Young? I
don't think we have that answer yet. There's a lot
of mystery about what the Hawks might do. They have
the number one pick. They've been trying to convince people
(24:10):
that they're keeping the number one pick, and I don't
know that they've fully convinced rival teams of that, whether
they're trading Trey Young or de Jontay Murray. I have
thought for a while that their preference would be moving
Pray because de Jontay Murray is on such a more
favorable contract, and you know, they actually got to look
(24:33):
at the end of the season of what it was
like to play with only Dejonte and no Tray because
Trey had the hand injury. But at this point I
would say, I don't think there's a clear indication about
going to be moved. But look, it's it's fascinating because
(24:55):
you know, far is it a lot at the top
of a lot of draft boards. But he has not
worked out for Atlanta. He has you know, I don't
think we see that too often that a player who
could go number one is not visiting with the team
that has number one picks. So there's this great expectation
(25:17):
around the league at this point that Star is going
to end up going number two to Washington and the
Hawks if they keep number one, are or choosing between
Bresa Sat and Clinging at the top spot. And so
you really want to make are they going to trade
the pick down to take some pressure off themselves? A
zillion questions in Atlanta right now, Trey Young's future is
(25:38):
only one of them.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Why did the Pistons move off Monty Williams despite that
sixty five million dollars pouts.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
The timing of it is, I mean, the why you
can understand why after the season they had, but you
would understand it a lot better if it happened a
month ago. To do this a week before the draft,
the Pons have so many other things to look at
roster wise. They've got a top five pick, you know,
(26:06):
these are the things they should be focused on. So
to see this decision made, now, that's really what was baffling.
And look, as late as last week, the signals were
kind of suggesting that, okay, Monty Williams is going to
be okay, because look, they made they were very clear
about Trajan Langon is the new president of basketball operations,
(26:28):
and he's going to evaluate things. They're not just a
rubber stamp that Moni stays, even with five years and
more than sixty million left on the contract. But the
signals were piling up that, you know what, they are
going to bring Mani back. Fred Vinson, who was on
Moni's staff in New Orleans. The Pistons hired him away
(26:50):
from the Pelicans, and this got a lot less attention,
but I wrote about it earlier this week. They also
hired Mani's strength coach from Phoenix, who had been with
Many for a few years there in the desert, took
a one year detour to college, and the Pistons hired
him as well to lead their performance staff. But you
see these hires and you're thinking, Okay, Money's gonna he's
(27:12):
going to stay. They're at least going to bring him
back to start next season. But by all accounts, Bob Lors,
as the owner, he decided this week, no, I'm going
to eat the money. And look, I guess you have
to give him the credit on that point of it,
that he's willing to eat a contract that has more
than sixty million left on it. I don't know that
(27:32):
we've ever seen that in the NBA, but it's really
the time. It's just now in late June. The Calves
are nearing the end of their search, so the only
open job in the league is going to be Detroit.
But you know, we're the draft is here, Summer league
is almost here. I mean it's late in the game.
So that's what I think has people most confused.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Stug gotlib show here on Fox Sports Radio, Mark Stein
joining us. The steinline is the sub stack. You gotta
read that. Of course, This League Uncut is the podcast
he and Chris Anes. He joins us every week here
on the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. So
the MAVs get to the finals, obviously, Lucas banged up.
I'm sure there's another discussion about Luca and his weight.
(28:15):
But what else, what is what do they do to
take the next step, Because let's just be honest, this
was a surprise how they finished, and they got to
be careful of thinking that's where they are as a team,
that they're really the second best team in the NBA.
How do you think they Nico Harrison moves.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Forward, well, Nico Harrison at a press conference today in Dallas,
and he described finding a way to re sign Derek
Jones junior. He called it Priority one A and one BAT.
So that's obviously at the top of their list. But
I think if you really study in Nico Harrison's few
years here, he has been very aggressive. He's made major
(28:54):
moves at every trade deadline. So I think they will
explore and see what's out there. If there is a
roster upgrade that they can make via trade, I think
they will at least look into it. But I think
something else they're counting on hugely is that Lively takes
another big step. I mean, Lively was so far ahead
(29:16):
this season of what they were planning on. I mean,
if we rewind to last July one, after the draft,
all the talk in Dallas was that Olivier Maxen's Prosper
was the more NBA ready of the Mavericks two first
round draft picks. That was the thought that Prosper would
be the guy in the rotation, not Lively, and Lively
(29:36):
became indispensable very quickly. Opening night, I was in San Antonio.
We were all there to see Wembley. We Wembley. We
were all there to see Wemby. The best seven foot
rookie on Opening Night in that game was Lively. Obviously,
I'm not suggesting he's on par with Webbin Yama, but
Lively became a very good NBA player right away, and
(30:00):
I think they're hoping that he just continues to progress
and can take on an even larger role next season.
But I think you're what you're getting at is right.
You know, they you know, just bringing back the same team,
even if they do find a way financially to create
the flexibility to keep Derek Jones junior, that doesn't just
fix everything. And in this West, I mean, look that
(30:22):
the Thunder just raised the stakes yesterday by getting Caruso.
The Thunder are going to be better, The Nuggets are
going to be back. We'll see what the Clippers look like,
the Kings are keeping Malik Monk. I mean, I can
go on and is Memphis is going to bounce back?
San Antonio will surely be better. I mean, we could
just go through the whole West and it's only going
(30:43):
to get tougher.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Mark Stein he puzsress that substack called the Steinline You
Gotta Read. Plus he co hosts the podcast This League
Uncut with fellow insider Chris Haynes Steiny, You are the
best man. Have a great weekend. We'll talk next week.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Sounds good man.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Gottlieb
Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, if you're listening to Boston, you got a head
to Fenway. I think it's actually tonight. The show is tonight, right,
show is tonight at Fenway.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
I'd buy a ticket just to hear this song.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Well, be good to hear him play with the with
the Hoodie Boys, because he's he's played with his with
his own band always when he when he tours as well.
So Darius puts on a great show, plays a little
faster with his own band with the Carolina Blue Boys,
plays a little faster. Let's get to the press, shall we.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
The press?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Dan Byer, what are the stories of the day?
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Okay, Doug, The numbers are in in the first round
of voting for the WNBA All Star Game. You guys
ready for this. Hold on to your buttons. Leading vote
getter through the first round of early fan voting is
this would be a time for a good drum roll.
(32:13):
Asia Wilson of the Las Vegas aces two hundred and
seventeen thousand, seven hundred and seventy three votes. Caitlin Clark
of the Indiana Fever is second, just thirteen hundred votes
behind Wilson. Aleah Boston of the Fever comes in third.
She has one hundred and seventy one thousand votes, and
(32:35):
Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky currently seventh in voting
with one hundred and eighteen thousand votes. The All Star
Game will feature Team USA taking on other WNBA All Stars.
So Asia Wilson will be representing Team USA for this game,
as will Brandna Stewart, Sabrina Yonescu, Kelsey Plumb, all who
(32:59):
are in the top levels of voting, but they won't
be on the w NBA All Star Game or team
because they'll be playing against that team. Wait what Yeah,
so it's it's kind of a tune up for the
for the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Oh so it's the Olympics versus the rest of the
All Stars.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I thought it was gonna be Kaitlyn Clark onon on five.
I think that's what they did.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
But this, I find this very interesting that Kaitlyn Clark
is second in voting, but yet there have been enough
like a Leah Boston is third. I have not watched
as much as Sam or Jason or probably even you, Doug,
but it seems like the Caitlin Clark effect is giving
a boost to a Leah Boston for her All Star
(33:41):
resumere I voted in this by the way.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Well, I don't know if it's a boost as much
as you know they draw the most people when she
goes to the road and you're like, oh, I like
her too, right, which.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Is Boston's been playing much better?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I know she has, okay, but it doesn't actually matter
that she's playing better. It just matters is that she's
on the same team as King or Start, so more
people go Yeah, it's more exposure. So, if anything, Eliah
Boston is the perfect example what the rest of the
WNBA should check the hell up and pay attention to. Right,
the rising tide does lift all ships.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Made Asia Wilson, right now, you're leading vote getter, all right.
The Olympics are headed to Oklahoma City. Yes, because facilities
for softball and the canoe and kayak events at the
Olympic Games are not suitable for International Olympic Committee events.
The standard they don't live up to the standards of
(34:37):
the IOC. The events are being moved to Oklahoma City.
So softball will be played at Oklahoma City in twenty
twenty eight, and the canoe slalom and kayak cross will
also be held in Oklahoma City because they have facilities
that are up to the international competition standards.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
And it's really interesting, you know the I think it's
the Oklahoma River that runs for Oklahoma City, like it
was just a trickle years ago, and part of like
kind of the urban renewal has been building this incredible
center for UH for all those sports, and then obviously
softball that's where the College Softball World Series is. What
stinks is that shouldn't they don't have baseball anymore? Right?
(35:15):
Baseball could have been an Omaha. Now isn't baseball coming?
Is it coming back?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Like?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
When's it coming back? I thought baseball was coming back
for it.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
It's funny because I thought that it did come back
and then maybe it disappeared again, but I'm not I'm
not sure.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
I think it was. Our last Olympics were in Japan, right, yes,
but I think it was just a what's the sport
they have where you only try it for that home venue?
I think that's what it was. So it didn't that
go away?
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Well, I will say this Dodgers Stadium would probably be
a nice place to have it if you were.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
To have it. Good point, that would be a good
good point.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Yes, it looks like it'll be back for the twentyet Olympics.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Okay, based off.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
What what what are they using? Well, so where are
they playing? They playing Downer Stadium.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I would hope.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So, I don't know. I don't think pet COO.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
You gotta still I understand, like it's just it's weird
to have it in LA and then an event in
Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
But I get it.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
But at some point if you're gonna spread it around
the country, it's not even.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
A well spread around southern California. I mean, sure, are
you gonna have it the big A? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
I think there may be some uh some cycling events
or something up by us Jason for in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Well, you remember home the Home Depot Center, right, which
is where the does anybody play there?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Now?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
The Galaxy still play there? Right?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
That used to be the Belodrome, that used to be
where they had in eighty four. That's where they had
the cycling.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Connor McGregor revealed that it was a broken toe, which
is the reason that he can't fight next week at
UFC three oh three.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Did you see that toe, Doug.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yeah, a little toe. That was cool, so gross, it
was awesome. I can continue. I passed around her friends,
you know, I like you know, I love injuries.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yes, my toes are curling as we as we speak.
And tonight Game six Stanley Cup Final Panthers and Oilers
eighty stern. Panthers try to close it out again the
third time. They're going to try to clinch Lord Stanley's Cup,
while the Oilers just try to force that. Game seven,
and that's the press bag.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Get out there and pressed.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
That was the press so we could see a comeback
in hockey. I haven't even been paying attention in this.
This is awesome. Now I'm cheering for the underdog quite obviously.
All right, have yourself a great weekend, whether you're having
a shandy and a golf course or whether you're hard
at work at Fox Sports Radio. Be safe and enjoy it.
And yeah, next week we have NBA Draft, which will
(37:37):
be full of players that no one knows of myself included,
and we'll only be worrying about Ronnie James, who, yeah,
averaged four points this year in college basketball. That's just
the state of the NBA Draft. In the meantime, check
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