August 17, 2017 • 32 mins
Doug explains how LeBron James not saying anything about the rumors surrounding his leaving Cleveland says everything you need to know. Also, Kevin Durant says the United States is moving backwards and he, and possibly the entire Warriors team, is not going to visit the White House. Doug also looks at the red-hot Los Angeles Dodgers and points out the team deserves more coverage. Plus, FS1 and Fox Sports Radio’s Chris Broussard also joins the show to dive into the latest NBA news and gives you his inside on the latest chapter of the LeBron and Kyrie drama.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the best of the dun gott Leap Show
on Fox Sports Radio Doug Gottlaf Show, Fox Sports Radio
Live and Direct from the City of Angels, the city
where if the season were to end today, I do
believe we would have two playoff teams in Major League
Baseball at two NFL teams, two soccer teams, two of everything.
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We're basically the Noah's Ark of of sports. Uh, and
we will survive the floods. I don't know what's more remarkable. Uh,
maybe there's three different remarkable things. One the Dodgers, who
won yet again, put three on the board in the
bottom of the ninth inning. Another come from behind win,
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another win for the Dodgers, feels like, um, it feels
like you remember in Aladdin. You can watch the movie Aladdin.
Another suitor for the princess. Remember that, that's what Another
comeback win for the Dodgers, That's what it reminded me
of last night. Yet an other win for the Angels.
And look, the Angels stink. They're not good. They're playing good,
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but not good. This is a really hard one for
people to understand, and it's a very hard thing to
act to talk about, like with your wife right like
I And I don't know if this has ever not
worked for you, but I can promise you it has
not worked for me, even though it should work for me.
Right to where your wife is having a bad day,
My wife is a very sweet lady. I don't just
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say that because she listens. I say that because it's
actually true. We've been together for nineteen years, married for
seventeen years. But she, like anybody, can have bad days.
Combine combined bad days with things that I do that
tick her off, that kind of and three kids. If
we all act a way in which UH could upset
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her and she's having a bad day, I will say, like,
you are acting like a wench, you know would be
the right. And she's like, you're calling me a wench.
That's not what I said, sweetheart, Darling. I'm saying you're
acting like a wench, which means you're normally the opposite
of that, or normally far from that. Just your actions today,
and I'm sure where's your actions day are wench? Like right,
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it doesn't work for me, but it should work for me.
Like so, the Angels are not a good baseball team.
Tons of injuries over the past two years, they're starting rotation,
and yet they're playing like a good baseball team. Right.
It's like somebody who's not nice who's acting super nice,
like that guy is cool. He's not normally cool, but
for whatever reason, in the context, he's really cool. Somehow
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they're winning. I don't what's more remarkable the Angels being
a wild card team as of now, the Dodgers fifty
one games over five d all to come back wins
without Adrinknzalas and Clayton Kershaw as of now, or the
fact that neither of them are really talkable topics nationally.
I'm gonna go with number three. That's because I want
to talk about Lebron James. The silence is in fact deafening.
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Now Chris Brussar is gonna join us upcoming. Brussard. Of course,
you may have heard him on Colin cow Hurst radio
show a couple of hours ago. You'll see him across
on Fox Sports One. In the weekends, you can hear
him on Fox Sports Radio. Chris is great, He's got opinions,
and of course he has sources within the NBA. And
the story comes out that Lebron may or may not
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have sat down with Kyrie Irving like sat down. Were
they at the same club and they both sat down? Yes?
Was it a sit down meeting where you got together
like an Italian restaurant and there's a guy in the
middle goes, hey, sit down, you sit out. You guys
work it out. That didn't happen. They may have been
in the same place at the same time and may
have been able to coexist. Does that mean Kyrie staying Yesterday,
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we reacted to the news from Chris Sheridan, long long
time he has covered the NBA, who said he talked
to an NBA source that Ron is gone, and then
followed up that tweet by saying, any any reports of
Lebron's guys uh disavowing this tweet are disingenuous. We all
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know he's gone. I can tell you based upon the
people I know. The Lakers think they're getting him. Don't
say they know they're getting him. They think they're getting him,
and they continue to opine to Rich Paul, who's the
best friend the agent of Lebron. James and Lebron of
course tweeted about uh Magic Johnson. He tweeted about needing
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some pickup ball when he comes talking about playing pickup
ball when he comes home, and referring to home as
southern California, not referring to home as Akron, Ohio. All
of these things lead lead us to believe that there's
where there's smoke, there may in fact be fire. But
here's what I said earlier today on College Show, and
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here's what I believe. You ask somebody who's been dating
a woman for more than six months she the one,
and he says, we're just having a good time. Right,
then he knows he knows that she's not the one,
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right because if she's the one, you're like a you're
gonna get married eventually, Like, you know, we just gotta
I gotta get some things right in my life. I
gotta get to my job, she gotta get their job.
We've gotta figure out a couple of things. But yeah,
because you know, and if you don't know, well then
you do know, right, you do know. John Ramos has
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been married longer than me, eighteen years. How long did
you date your wife before you guys get married? We
started dating in two you got married in seven years.
But how long into it did you know? I would
say the first year? Yeah, you know, you're like yeah,
you're gonna get married, Like no, no, not yet, not
not not ready yet. Got to get other things in
my life kind of situated, got to grow, mature, evolve
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a little bit, right. But if you somebody to ask
you within that first year, like she's way like yep, yep, yep.
And if you say don't know, you know, you just don't.
You just don't want to express like Nashy ain't the one.
But it's really cool, we got that. We already kind
of got past all of the different you know, we've
already been rounding the bases a while, and it's really
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hard to get past first and the best, best second base,
you know, again, like just getting that point. I'm fine, fine, fine, fine, fine.
That's the way it is with Lebron and he was
absolutely positively never leaving Cleveland again. When you just say
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like I'm never, I don't know why where this comes from.
I'm not leaving Cleveland, where I'm from, my home. This
is what I came to do, these people came to
be with. This is more important than the past, all
the stuff he wrote in that article, but you don't
hear any of that. The silence is in fact deafening.
Coming from Lebron. He hasn't even offered up. I don't
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want to engage this, this silliness of it. Like he
hasn't even done the non denial denial. He has done
the my name's Bennett, and I ain't in it. You
couple in all the different factors. Yesterday we share with
you Rick Buker's tweet Rick Buker Bleacher Report, also as
his own national radio show, said, Hey, interesting note to remember,
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uh Dan Gilbert gave seven fifty dollars to Donald Trump's
inauguration right, and look, there are there are things that
tell you I can no longer be in business with
that person. One of the reasons, and Busy is gonna
join us at moments. One of the reasons that Kyrie
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Irvan's like, look, I'm done here is with all of
the other things working. The big thing for Kyrie Irving
was they thought about trading him last year when they
won a championship. They offered him up in a trade
this year after losing in the championship, and just like,
you know, at some point, what am I doing? I
am not valued enough by the people that are important.
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And if Lebron James is open to the possibility of
trading me two years in a row. Why am I
even here? Why am I busting my busting my nuts
just to kind of impress this guy and play with
this guy in his team and his regime in his town. Like, no,
thank you. That's not any different than the woman who's
at some point go like, wait, you talked to your
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friends about you your lawyer about getting divorced twice in
the past twelve months. I'm out. So I honestly and
truthfully believe that Kyrie is on because there was the
wa there was the tipping point of twice you think
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about trading me before it's ever before I asked act
to be traded. I'm out. Lebron's leaving. It's his town.
I've never really been valued, is valued like they tell me.
They haven't been valued me in their actions, just like
Lebron with all the other stuff going on, I told
you this yesterday. I'm I've kind of become more a
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political than political with this thing. Just because you can't
have a you can cease to have conversations with people.
If you say I'm a Trump guy or I'm an
anti Trump. There's just people who are like I come
I completely agree with who was it? Um? Uh? Was it?
John Lynch Right, the GM of San Francisco for it?
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And I says, it's just it's too divisive, right, that
the protests are too divisive. What he means is any
of this political conversation has become way too divisive, to
which there is no opportunity for debate discussion any of this.
But I can tell you you don't have to read
his Twitter account. Just follow him and you know where
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Lebron James sits. And if you want to know what
led to Lebron James, be like, dude, I'm done with
playing for earning money for working for Dan Snyder. Isn't
it at least possible and maybe even likely that the
straw that broke the camel's back is wait wait, wait,
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after the election, one in which I made an appearance
for Hillary Clinton, one to which was as divisive as
any UH in in recent memory. You gave seven dollars
to the dudes uh inauguration. I'm done. I'm out, And
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that's why I'm not saying anything, because everyone knows what
the answer is. By saying nothing at all makes sense.
I bring that around enough. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Doug gott Leap Show weekdays at three
p m. Eastern noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and
the I Heart Radio app. Chris bruce A joints this
Fox Sports. Uh, are you gonna Are you gonna buy
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the fight? Well, I'm watching it there, I mean beyond
if I didn't have too for our job. I'm watching
it just because I'm a boxing fan. Wait, waitait, you're
gonna you gonna wat bootleg or something? You're like watching
you know? It's like you said, I mean the question.
I'll be with a group of guys and everybody, just
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like you said, will chip if fifty bucks, ten bucks,
depending on how many of us it is. Um, so yeah,
I will watch it, but I must confess if I
was by myself, I would pay the hundred dollars watch it.
Do you think we're getting You think we're in for
a good fight? No? No, I think I think we're
gonna walk away the same way we always walk away
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from Flay made whether fight's like damp but he got
me again. It's like it's it's he like he's an
incredible con man, right, He's just like I don't know,
I haven't been training his heart like his dad today
was on call and show like he even training that hard.
He's not as quick as he used to be using
smaller gloves. I don't know. I don't know, Like, yes,
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you do, you know the answer to this guy's too good,
he's Yeah. That that one thing that intrigues because I
will say that a lot of people are thinking McGregor
is gonna just attack him and you know, making a
brawl and making fight. That's not McGregor's style. I mean,
he's a counterpuncher. If you watch him in UFC and
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so you got two counterpunchers. Um. And if McGregor does
get watered, like if he just starts swinging for the
fences and all that, that's when I think he maybe
could get knocked out because you know, like that's how
Floyd knocked out Ricky Hattan. Um. You know, he hadn't
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forced the fight and started swinging and and got caught
with something he didn't see, and the accumulation of it
over some rounds, you know, led him to get knocked
out or t k O. I could see that happening.
It it'd be nice to see that happening because you're right,
like the packago fight was the worst I've ever seen,
and this could be very much like it. Um. Okay,
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so let's let's get to one of the main thrusts
for having you on, Christ Pous sorry joining us. Chris Sheridan,
who used to we used to all be colleagues over
at the other place, now does his own thing. He's
broken stories for for years, he said his story. One
of his sources said, lock deal Lebron. Uh, the relationship
with the owner is so is so dysfunctional that they
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cannot co exist. He's gone next year. What have you heard? Well,
I've talked to you last night after this came out,
and you know, Chris does a good job. But the
people I talked to, very close to Lebron, a few people,
they all shot this down completely. They said it's it's
bogus um that there's no truth to it. Now they're
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not guaranteeing that Lebron James is staying in Cleveland, but
they're saying he is. He is only focused on this
season and he you know, he'll make his decision at
the end of the year. What if they win the championship,
you know, you never know what happening. When nobody thought
they'd win it two years ago and they did so. Um,
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and you look at Lebron's history, he tends to do this.
I mean, he makes his decisions at the end of season.
He's never ruined the season, you know, He's never you know,
even his last year in Cleveland or Miami, he didn't
you know, go into the season with you know, and
talk about leaving, and he plays out his contract. So
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I think it's all premature. I'm not saying he's definitely staying,
but I believe from talking all these people close to
Hi that he really hasn't made a decision yet and
he's keeping his options open again, even when he went
back to Cleveland from Miami. Remember, he signed a short
term deep He's signing a series of short term, one year,
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one plus one type deals, so he wants to keep
his options open. So I I don't think you can
put any stock into him being one percent gone. Um,
I just don't think that's true. Mellow, he k D
and others all play pick up altogether. It appeared on
several people's Instagram, including Mellow's Instagram. Um, why isn't Mellow
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open to the idea of joining him in Cleveland? They've
always talked about playing together. This is a possible opportunity.
Why why isn't he open to Cleveland. Yeah, that's a
good question, um, because obviously right now he's talking about Houston.
I think you should be open not only to Cleveland,
but a few places. Why not Washington? I mean that's
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his home area. UM. I think if you add, if
they could get him and keep Bradley Bill and John Wall,
that'd be a nice team in the East. I think
he'd be really good in Portland's I actually like that
Portland's team with Mellow better than the Houston team with Mellow,
just because I don't know how Mike D'Antoni would use
those three guys together. Uh in Houston. But as far
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as Cleveland, I mean some could read into that that
he thinks Lebron is gone. They're they're hit. You know.
I talked on and heard today about how you know,
Lebron would not sign a long term extension with Cleveland
or or you know, agree to it, and that ended
up killing a Kyrie Irving to Phoenix trade that would
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have got Cleveland Eric Blitz and Paul George. Um. I
think again, if Lebron keeping his options open. Others might
say he's definitely out of there, So I get it,
and but I guarantee you if Lebron is leaving Cleveland,
he has not told them off. Not that they're not buddies,
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but I just think that's not the way Lebron works.
Remember Dwayne Wade, when did he know Lebron was leaving
Miami when he was already gone? So uh ways likely
to be bought out, right, that's what Chicago is allowing
out there that they're they're gonna engage on biot talks
safe to say he goes there or does he end
up in Houston as well? Like where where's d Wade?
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I was talking to somebody last night about this, and
I think there's a good chance he and something Cleveland.
Uh they they this is a person still associate with
the Calves who thinks he is there. They he feels
good about their chances of getting him in Cleveland, excited
about it. Look, if you're the Wayne Wade, I mean,
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obviously he's got three rings already. Unless he just wants
to go and ride out in the sunset in Miami,
why not go to Cleveland. He's not helping Houston go
to the finals, um Cleveland, you're gonna go to the finals.
And look, he's older. I'm not saying he's not putting
them over the top against Golden State, but that would
be interesting. I mean, you talk about the team with
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some names when it's older, damaged, beat up names it
Rolls and Wade. But it would be fun and I'd
like to see it. I think there's a good chance
of it happens. Chris brus are joining us in the
Doug Gottlip Show. All right, what about Kyrie? Where are
we with the Kyrie thing? There was talking about trading
to the Knicks, but the Knicks aren't coming off of
perzingis like that, that's that's not happening. There's been talk
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of of the Celtics has been talking of Phoenix. That's
really as you shared earlier today, like look, he's only
come up with this trade man after he found out
that he might be traded by Cleveland. Alright, fine, you
want to leave me, you know, forget the forget the
I'm fired, I quit that that that that that sort
of thing. Where do you think ultimately he plays next season?
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A man, it's a great question. Now there obviously there's
teams that that love Kyrie. Everybody knows how well he plays.
There are some executives I've talked to who feel like
this is this shows that he really isn't doesn't care
about winning. It's more about, you know, doing his thing
and getting his numbers and all that. But most of
the guys I've talked to still love his game and
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would love to have him putting together a package where
you can get him. As another question, Dan Gilbert wants
the name in return. He wants some type of sexy
name that's gonna help him win the press conference. Really
like a point guard or a guard of of of
Kyrie's stature. Um. I you know, the most probable I
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think still is Phoenix. Um. They've got bled so they
can give up. You know, do they come off Josh Jackson. Um,
I think that's what it's gonna take at the end
of the day. Robert Sarver does want Kyrie. Um. You know,
the front office obviously has a little hesitation because they
don't want to give up the young kids and stuff.
But you know, you have a backcourt of Kyrie, Irvy
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and Devin Booker. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. So UM,
I think if I had to pick a team, I
would probably put Phoenix in front. But at this point,
I don't believe anything's close, and I would not be surprised.
And there's a part of me or wants to lean
towards him starting the season in Cleveland. And I say this,
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I've been told that Kyrie and Lebron have not, you know, met.
I know there was a report that they met. I'm
told they have not. But Lebron's attitude if if Kyrie
shows up at training camp in Cleveland, I'm told Lebron's
attitude will be, hey, let's throw up the ball and
let's play. You know, you don't get along with every
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coworker that you have, whether we were at the old Network,
whether we're five. You know, you just have disagreements with people,
different personalities. But I'm told that they will be that
Lebron will be open to working it out and playing
together and doing what they can do. So yeah, I
don't think we can rule out that possibility either. Yeah.
I know you hate every everbody you work with. I mean,
I just and you've been able to You've been able
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to to succeed. Last thing, Christopher, sorry joining us. Uh,
the last thing is this. Uh. In addition to these
shared and tweet there was an interesting tweet from Rick
Buker who who tweeted out that to keep in mind,
Dan Gilbert donated seven hundred fifty thousand dollars to the
Trump inauguration. Now, this comes on the back of a
crazy weekend in politics, and with the Charlottesville everything that
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happened in Charlottesville, and and and the tweets that have
come out of Lebron James's Twitter accounts since UM is
it is? It? Is it logical to think, among the
things that Lebron James has reached a breaking point with
he can't work for a guy who supports Donald Trump.
I asked some of Lebron's guys that last night and
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they said no. They said, first of all, uh, according
to them, I'm Gilbert supported Hillary Clinton UM earlier. UM.
And then with Trump being you know, president, or when
he's like he's just he's like Justin Biebery switched exactly
and so and look, Lebron smart enough to know. I'm
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sure a lot of a lot of the owners probably
voted for Trump. Now did they donate that type of money,
I don't know, but um, Lebron and his guys are
are various stut businessmen and they understand that, you know,
you work with different types of people and everybody's not
gonna necessarily agree with you on everything. And his relationship
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with Gilbert, um, it is what I'm told. It's a
cordial business relationship. They're not pals, they're not buddies, but
it's a business relationship. And let's face it, Dan Gilbert
can't do, most likely can't do or say anything worse
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than he did when Lebron first left Cleveland, and yet
Lebron James still went back, even though Dan Gilbert has
always couched it like, yeah, we go, we're wrong, He apologized,
I apologize. I mean it's kind of like Donald Trump.
You know, both sides have had you know, we're wrong. No,
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Dan Gilbert was more wrong for the way he's talked
about Lebron James, and Lebron James still went back there.
So Lebron is a smart businessman. And I don't think
now I'm sure he doesn't like you know that that
support goes to Trump, but I don't think that's a
factor at all. Um. I just think it'll be other
things that if Lebron leaves it won't be because of
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Gilbert support of Trump. That's the voice of Christopher. Sorry
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to disassociate yourself from the market in which you live.
Like when in my previous place of employment, I was
in New York, I wasn't on in New York, So
you know, I can't do I can't talk about the
Yankees every thinking day in the Rangers because nobody cans.
But I do think the Dodger story is kind of
being undersould a little bit, don't you. I mean, don't you.
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They won thirty of their last thirty four home game.
They started out the year, started out the year eighteen.
They are currently fifty one games over five and they
don't have their best picture Clayton Kershaw, and they don't
have their most consistent offensive weapon in Ajuring Gonzalez currently,
Like that's that's crazy stuff, that's insane. They won. There
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was a thirty eight comeback win last night with three runs,
culminating Yasiel Puig with a with a game winning walk
off double last night. And again I don't want to
make this. I'm not even a Dodger fan. I'm an
Angel fan. I think it's incredible somehow that they're in
the wild card hunt. Their teams banks and they're in
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the wild card hunt, and like that's a special story.
But it's interesting to me, like when the whatever NFL
team doesn't has the last to have a loss over there,
could they be undefeated? And you know, Mercury Morris, they're
not driving around our neighborhood yet, Like Mercury Royis is
a big thing, and like the Patriots got all the love,
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and I understand, like sixteen and oh is bigger than
fifty one games over five, but it shouldn't be. It
really shouldn't be. Like look when the when the they're
going after a hundred sixteen wins, that's the all time record,
and when the Warriors won seventy three, like that's all
we talked about and nobody And again I'm not trying
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to make you. I can't try and make you care
about something you don't care about. But isn't it at
least weird that I can't you can't really get anybody
to care about it. And I know there's the uh
what is it called when you have when you have
something in your mind and you think it to be
true and it ultimately comes to be true. What is
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that called? H I'll think of it probably, I'll think
of it as soon as we turn the off. What
are you gonna say? It's not not a premonition? Now?
It's like, um, what is it call when you just
when you think about do you think something is gonna
be negative? And then it comes to that it becomes
a self fulfilling prophecy? Right, That's what it really goes up. Like,
I know nobody's gonna care about it, so I'm gonna
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talk about nobod's gonna care about people like you know
what I don't care about like say, I told you,
But it's weird. Maybe it's because the Dodgers haven't one
and they've been in the playoffs several times recently. Maybe
it's because it's l A and I think perception is
l A sports fan doesn't care they can draw four
million plus people again at Dodgers Stadium like they don't care,
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but they kind of keep showing up, which kind of
feels like you care. They're eighty five and thirty four,
I can't remember do them on that? Eighteen to eighty
five and fifty four? How does that work out? Come right?
And then thirty four eighteen? Wait a second, that's eighteen.
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That's six. Holy cow, it's craziness. Craziness, So I can't
make you care about it. Maybe they have to somehow
win a World Series or have to get to that
hundred and sixteen win level to where you take it seriously.
And I'm trying to disassociate myself to the market in
which I broadcast from, though don't broadcast in pony contention, um,
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but I do think this story is being underplayed nationally
and instead we're talking about dudes protesting or not protesting,
So maybe they are protesting it. Be sure to catch
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The I Heard Way You app. Kevin Rant is quoted
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in a a recently released a released article in which
Chris Haynes interviewed him. Chris Haynes Haines asked if k
D will visit Donald Trump at the White House. Nah,
I won't do that. I don't respect who's in office
right now. I don't agree with what he agrees with.
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So my voice is going to be heard by not
doing that. That's just me personally. But if I know
my guys well enough, they'll all agree with me. That's
the end sentence to me, that really really strikes the
chord of negativity. That's not needed quote. I just want
to sit back and analyze everything and gather my thoughts.
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I wanted to say something immediately, but I definitely want
my voice to uh want to be the voice of
where I came from the people who have come from
my neighborhood and deal with oppression. I'm representing a lot
of people as far as what's going on the country.
For one, as an athlete, you have to commend Colin Kaepernick,
Lebron James, CP three, Dwyane Wade for starting a conversation
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last year. Russell Westbrook also said something in his speech.
A lot of guys with platforms have have drove conversations
in a good direction, and what's going on in Charlottesville
is unfathomable. A white supremacist rally protesting the removal of
Roberty least At she was organized in Charlottesville. Last week,
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of course, Heather Higher, thirty two was tragically killed when
a car driven allegedly by James Alex Fields Jr. Plowed
into a crowd of of protesters or anti protesters protesters
by now, I think you know the story. Um, I
feel like Durant asked as he played if Trump has
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played a role in the escalation of racial tensions in
America and the public rise of white supremacists, He's definitely
driving driving it. I feel ever since he got into office,
or ever since he ran for presidency, our country has
been divided. And it's not a coincidence. When Barack Obama
was in office, things were looking up. We had so
much hope in our community back where I came from
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because we had a black president that was our first.
So to see where we are now, it just felt
like we took a turn for the worst man. And
it all comes from who's who's in the administration. It
comes from the top leadership, trickles down to the rest
of us. There's some really smart comments in it, and
I'm not gonna read every single one of them. But
I'm actually really bothered by this. He said, he's not
going to the White House totally his right, but he
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said that's just me personally. But if I know my
guys well enough, they'll all agree with me. This, to
me is inherently part of the problem. This is where
people will say the left has gone right right the
left um and if you want a laberal, Liberals have
often said to themselves, look, we are the party of acceptance,
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like give me your tired week, your poor, your wretched masses, gay, straight, black, white,
mick race, Mexican Asian, don't care. Right, we are the
party of everybody. They are the exclusive club. The right
is seen as white, wealthy Republicans, right store owners versus
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store workers. That's what it's seen as. That's the that's
the divide. And there is some some reality to that perception,
but not all, especially the part where the left is
open right the same thing that you are that you
could conclude right wingers were guilty of, which is being
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close minded towards gays and lesbians, towards people of other
races and other cultures. Isn't that kind of what Kevin
Durant just said, that's just me personally, But I know
my guys well enough there with me. In other words,
if you don't do what I do, then we don't
think alike and I don't understand you.
This is the best of the dun gott Leap Show
on Fox Sports Radio Doug Gottlaf Show, Fox Sports Radio
Live and Direct from the City of Angels, the city
where if the season were to end today, I do
believe we would have two playoff teams in Major League
Baseball at two NFL teams, two soccer teams, two of everything.
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We're basically the Noah's Ark of of sports. Uh, and
we will survive the floods. I don't know what's more remarkable. Uh,
maybe there's three different remarkable things. One the Dodgers, who
won yet again, put three on the board in the
bottom of the ninth inning. Another come from behind win,
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another win for the Dodgers, feels like, um, it feels
like you remember in Aladdin. You can watch the movie Aladdin.
Another suitor for the princess. Remember that, that's what Another
comeback win for the Dodgers, That's what it reminded me
of last night. Yet an other win for the Angels.
And look, the Angels stink. They're not good. They're playing good,
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but not good. This is a really hard one for
people to understand, and it's a very hard thing to
act to talk about, like with your wife right like
I And I don't know if this has ever not
worked for you, but I can promise you it has
not worked for me, even though it should work for me.
Right to where your wife is having a bad day,
My wife is a very sweet lady. I don't just
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say that because she listens. I say that because it's
actually true. We've been together for nineteen years, married for
seventeen years. But she, like anybody, can have bad days.
Combine combined bad days with things that I do that
tick her off, that kind of and three kids. If
we all act a way in which UH could upset
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her and she's having a bad day, I will say, like,
you are acting like a wench, you know would be
the right. And she's like, you're calling me a wench.
That's not what I said, sweetheart, Darling. I'm saying you're
acting like a wench, which means you're normally the opposite
of that, or normally far from that. Just your actions today,
and I'm sure where's your actions day are wench? Like right,
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it doesn't work for me, but it should work for me.
Like so, the Angels are not a good baseball team.
Tons of injuries over the past two years, they're starting rotation,
and yet they're playing like a good baseball team. Right.
It's like somebody who's not nice who's acting super nice,
like that guy is cool. He's not normally cool, but
for whatever reason, in the context, he's really cool. Somehow
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they're winning. I don't what's more remarkable the Angels being
a wild card team as of now, the Dodgers fifty
one games over five d all to come back wins
without Adrinknzalas and Clayton Kershaw as of now, or the
fact that neither of them are really talkable topics nationally.
I'm gonna go with number three. That's because I want
to talk about Lebron James. The silence is in fact deafening.
(03:04):
Now Chris Brussar is gonna join us upcoming. Brussard. Of course,
you may have heard him on Colin cow Hurst radio
show a couple of hours ago. You'll see him across
on Fox Sports One. In the weekends, you can hear
him on Fox Sports Radio. Chris is great, He's got opinions,
and of course he has sources within the NBA. And
the story comes out that Lebron may or may not
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have sat down with Kyrie Irving like sat down. Were
they at the same club and they both sat down? Yes?
Was it a sit down meeting where you got together
like an Italian restaurant and there's a guy in the
middle goes, hey, sit down, you sit out. You guys
work it out. That didn't happen. They may have been
in the same place at the same time and may
have been able to coexist. Does that mean Kyrie staying Yesterday,
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we reacted to the news from Chris Sheridan, long long
time he has covered the NBA, who said he talked
to an NBA source that Ron is gone, and then
followed up that tweet by saying, any any reports of
Lebron's guys uh disavowing this tweet are disingenuous. We all
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know he's gone. I can tell you based upon the
people I know. The Lakers think they're getting him. Don't
say they know they're getting him. They think they're getting him,
and they continue to opine to Rich Paul, who's the
best friend the agent of Lebron. James and Lebron of
course tweeted about uh Magic Johnson. He tweeted about needing
(04:39):
some pickup ball when he comes talking about playing pickup
ball when he comes home, and referring to home as
southern California, not referring to home as Akron, Ohio. All
of these things lead lead us to believe that there's
where there's smoke, there may in fact be fire. But
here's what I said earlier today on College Show, and
(05:00):
here's what I believe. You ask somebody who's been dating
a woman for more than six months she the one,
and he says, we're just having a good time. Right,
then he knows he knows that she's not the one,
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right because if she's the one, you're like a you're
gonna get married eventually, Like, you know, we just gotta
I gotta get some things right in my life. I
gotta get to my job, she gotta get their job.
We've gotta figure out a couple of things. But yeah,
because you know, and if you don't know, well then
you do know, right, you do know. John Ramos has
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been married longer than me, eighteen years. How long did
you date your wife before you guys get married? We
started dating in two you got married in seven years.
But how long into it did you know? I would
say the first year? Yeah, you know, you're like yeah,
you're gonna get married, Like no, no, not yet, not
not not ready yet. Got to get other things in
my life kind of situated, got to grow, mature, evolve
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a little bit, right. But if you somebody to ask
you within that first year, like she's way like yep, yep, yep.
And if you say don't know, you know, you just don't.
You just don't want to express like Nashy ain't the one.
But it's really cool, we got that. We already kind
of got past all of the different you know, we've
already been rounding the bases a while, and it's really
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hard to get past first and the best, best second base,
you know, again, like just getting that point. I'm fine, fine, fine, fine, fine.
That's the way it is with Lebron and he was
absolutely positively never leaving Cleveland again. When you just say
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like I'm never, I don't know why where this comes from.
I'm not leaving Cleveland, where I'm from, my home. This
is what I came to do, these people came to
be with. This is more important than the past, all
the stuff he wrote in that article, but you don't
hear any of that. The silence is in fact deafening.
Coming from Lebron. He hasn't even offered up. I don't
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want to engage this, this silliness of it. Like he
hasn't even done the non denial denial. He has done
the my name's Bennett, and I ain't in it. You
couple in all the different factors. Yesterday we share with
you Rick Buker's tweet Rick Buker Bleacher Report, also as
his own national radio show, said, Hey, interesting note to remember,
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uh Dan Gilbert gave seven fifty dollars to Donald Trump's
inauguration right, and look, there are there are things that
tell you I can no longer be in business with
that person. One of the reasons, and Busy is gonna
join us at moments. One of the reasons that Kyrie
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Irvan's like, look, I'm done here is with all of
the other things working. The big thing for Kyrie Irving
was they thought about trading him last year when they
won a championship. They offered him up in a trade
this year after losing in the championship, and just like,
you know, at some point, what am I doing? I
am not valued enough by the people that are important.
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And if Lebron James is open to the possibility of
trading me two years in a row. Why am I
even here? Why am I busting my busting my nuts
just to kind of impress this guy and play with
this guy in his team and his regime in his town. Like, no,
thank you. That's not any different than the woman who's
at some point go like, wait, you talked to your
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friends about you your lawyer about getting divorced twice in
the past twelve months. I'm out. So I honestly and
truthfully believe that Kyrie is on because there was the
wa there was the tipping point of twice you think
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about trading me before it's ever before I asked act
to be traded. I'm out. Lebron's leaving. It's his town.
I've never really been valued, is valued like they tell me.
They haven't been valued me in their actions, just like
Lebron with all the other stuff going on, I told
you this yesterday. I'm I've kind of become more a
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political than political with this thing. Just because you can't
have a you can cease to have conversations with people.
If you say I'm a Trump guy or I'm an
anti Trump. There's just people who are like I come
I completely agree with who was it? Um? Uh? Was it?
John Lynch Right, the GM of San Francisco for it?
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And I says, it's just it's too divisive, right, that
the protests are too divisive. What he means is any
of this political conversation has become way too divisive, to
which there is no opportunity for debate discussion any of this.
But I can tell you you don't have to read
his Twitter account. Just follow him and you know where
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Lebron James sits. And if you want to know what
led to Lebron James, be like, dude, I'm done with
playing for earning money for working for Dan Snyder. Isn't
it at least possible and maybe even likely that the
straw that broke the camel's back is wait wait, wait,
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after the election, one in which I made an appearance
for Hillary Clinton, one to which was as divisive as
any UH in in recent memory. You gave seven dollars
to the dudes uh inauguration. I'm done. I'm out, And
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that's why I'm not saying anything, because everyone knows what
the answer is. By saying nothing at all makes sense.
I bring that around enough. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Doug gott Leap Show weekdays at three
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the I Heart Radio app. Chris bruce A joints this
Fox Sports. Uh, are you gonna Are you gonna buy
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the fight? Well, I'm watching it there, I mean beyond
if I didn't have too for our job. I'm watching
it just because I'm a boxing fan. Wait, waitait, you're
gonna you gonna wat bootleg or something? You're like watching
you know? It's like you said, I mean the question.
I'll be with a group of guys and everybody, just
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like you said, will chip if fifty bucks, ten bucks,
depending on how many of us it is. Um, so yeah,
I will watch it, but I must confess if I
was by myself, I would pay the hundred dollars watch it.
Do you think we're getting You think we're in for
a good fight? No? No, I think I think we're
gonna walk away the same way we always walk away
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from Flay made whether fight's like damp but he got
me again. It's like it's it's he like he's an
incredible con man, right, He's just like I don't know,
I haven't been training his heart like his dad today
was on call and show like he even training that hard.
He's not as quick as he used to be using
smaller gloves. I don't know. I don't know, Like, yes,
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you do, you know the answer to this guy's too good,
he's Yeah. That that one thing that intrigues because I
will say that a lot of people are thinking McGregor
is gonna just attack him and you know, making a
brawl and making fight. That's not McGregor's style. I mean,
he's a counterpuncher. If you watch him in UFC and
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so you got two counterpunchers. Um. And if McGregor does
get watered, like if he just starts swinging for the
fences and all that, that's when I think he maybe
could get knocked out because you know, like that's how
Floyd knocked out Ricky Hattan. Um. You know, he hadn't
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forced the fight and started swinging and and got caught
with something he didn't see, and the accumulation of it
over some rounds, you know, led him to get knocked
out or t k O. I could see that happening.
It it'd be nice to see that happening because you're right,
like the packago fight was the worst I've ever seen,
and this could be very much like it. Um. Okay,
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so let's let's get to one of the main thrusts
for having you on, Christ Pous sorry joining us. Chris Sheridan,
who used to we used to all be colleagues over
at the other place, now does his own thing. He's
broken stories for for years, he said his story. One
of his sources said, lock deal Lebron. Uh, the relationship
with the owner is so is so dysfunctional that they
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cannot co exist. He's gone next year. What have you heard? Well,
I've talked to you last night after this came out,
and you know, Chris does a good job. But the
people I talked to, very close to Lebron, a few people,
they all shot this down completely. They said it's it's
bogus um that there's no truth to it. Now they're
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not guaranteeing that Lebron James is staying in Cleveland, but
they're saying he is. He is only focused on this
season and he you know, he'll make his decision at
the end of the year. What if they win the championship,
you know, you never know what happening. When nobody thought
they'd win it two years ago and they did so. Um,
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and you look at Lebron's history, he tends to do this.
I mean, he makes his decisions at the end of season.
He's never ruined the season, you know, He's never you know,
even his last year in Cleveland or Miami, he didn't
you know, go into the season with you know, and
talk about leaving, and he plays out his contract. So
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I think it's all premature. I'm not saying he's definitely staying,
but I believe from talking all these people close to
Hi that he really hasn't made a decision yet and
he's keeping his options open again, even when he went
back to Cleveland from Miami. Remember, he signed a short
term deep He's signing a series of short term, one year,
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one plus one type deals, so he wants to keep
his options open. So I I don't think you can
put any stock into him being one percent gone. Um,
I just don't think that's true. Mellow, he k D
and others all play pick up altogether. It appeared on
several people's Instagram, including Mellow's Instagram. Um, why isn't Mellow
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open to the idea of joining him in Cleveland? They've
always talked about playing together. This is a possible opportunity.
Why why isn't he open to Cleveland. Yeah, that's a
good question, um, because obviously right now he's talking about Houston.
I think you should be open not only to Cleveland,
but a few places. Why not Washington? I mean that's
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his home area. UM. I think if you add, if
they could get him and keep Bradley Bill and John Wall,
that'd be a nice team in the East. I think
he'd be really good in Portland's I actually like that
Portland's team with Mellow better than the Houston team with Mellow,
just because I don't know how Mike D'Antoni would use
those three guys together. Uh in Houston. But as far
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as Cleveland, I mean some could read into that that
he thinks Lebron is gone. They're they're hit. You know.
I talked on and heard today about how you know,
Lebron would not sign a long term extension with Cleveland
or or you know, agree to it, and that ended
up killing a Kyrie Irving to Phoenix trade that would
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have got Cleveland Eric Blitz and Paul George. Um. I
think again, if Lebron keeping his options open. Others might
say he's definitely out of there, So I get it,
and but I guarantee you if Lebron is leaving Cleveland,
he has not told them off. Not that they're not buddies,
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but I just think that's not the way Lebron works.
Remember Dwayne Wade, when did he know Lebron was leaving
Miami when he was already gone? So uh ways likely
to be bought out, right, that's what Chicago is allowing
out there that they're they're gonna engage on biot talks
safe to say he goes there or does he end
up in Houston as well? Like where where's d Wade?
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I was talking to somebody last night about this, and
I think there's a good chance he and something Cleveland.
Uh they they this is a person still associate with
the Calves who thinks he is there. They he feels
good about their chances of getting him in Cleveland, excited
about it. Look, if you're the Wayne Wade, I mean,
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obviously he's got three rings already. Unless he just wants
to go and ride out in the sunset in Miami,
why not go to Cleveland. He's not helping Houston go
to the finals, um Cleveland, you're gonna go to the finals.
And look, he's older. I'm not saying he's not putting
them over the top against Golden State, but that would
be interesting. I mean, you talk about the team with
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some names when it's older, damaged, beat up names it
Rolls and Wade. But it would be fun and I'd
like to see it. I think there's a good chance
of it happens. Chris brus are joining us in the
Doug Gottlip Show. All right, what about Kyrie? Where are
we with the Kyrie thing? There was talking about trading
to the Knicks, but the Knicks aren't coming off of
perzingis like that, that's that's not happening. There's been talk
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of of the Celtics has been talking of Phoenix. That's
really as you shared earlier today, like look, he's only
come up with this trade man after he found out
that he might be traded by Cleveland. Alright, fine, you
want to leave me, you know, forget the forget the
I'm fired, I quit that that that that that sort
of thing. Where do you think ultimately he plays next season?
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A man, it's a great question. Now there obviously there's
teams that that love Kyrie. Everybody knows how well he plays.
There are some executives I've talked to who feel like
this is this shows that he really isn't doesn't care
about winning. It's more about, you know, doing his thing
and getting his numbers and all that. But most of
the guys I've talked to still love his game and
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would love to have him putting together a package where
you can get him. As another question, Dan Gilbert wants
the name in return. He wants some type of sexy
name that's gonna help him win the press conference. Really
like a point guard or a guard of of of
Kyrie's stature. Um. I you know, the most probable I
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think still is Phoenix. Um. They've got bled so they
can give up. You know, do they come off Josh Jackson. Um,
I think that's what it's gonna take at the end
of the day. Robert Sarver does want Kyrie. Um. You know,
the front office obviously has a little hesitation because they
don't want to give up the young kids and stuff.
But you know, you have a backcourt of Kyrie, Irvy
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and Devin Booker. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. So UM,
I think if I had to pick a team, I
would probably put Phoenix in front. But at this point,
I don't believe anything's close, and I would not be surprised.
And there's a part of me or wants to lean
towards him starting the season in Cleveland. And I say this,
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I've been told that Kyrie and Lebron have not, you know, met.
I know there was a report that they met. I'm
told they have not. But Lebron's attitude if if Kyrie
shows up at training camp in Cleveland, I'm told Lebron's
attitude will be, hey, let's throw up the ball and
let's play. You know, you don't get along with every
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coworker that you have, whether we were at the old Network,
whether we're five. You know, you just have disagreements with people,
different personalities. But I'm told that they will be that
Lebron will be open to working it out and playing
together and doing what they can do. So yeah, I
don't think we can rule out that possibility either. Yeah.
I know you hate every everbody you work with. I mean,
I just and you've been able to You've been able
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to to succeed. Last thing, Christopher, sorry joining us. Uh,
the last thing is this. Uh. In addition to these
shared and tweet there was an interesting tweet from Rick
Buker who who tweeted out that to keep in mind,
Dan Gilbert donated seven hundred fifty thousand dollars to the
Trump inauguration. Now, this comes on the back of a
crazy weekend in politics, and with the Charlottesville everything that
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happened in Charlottesville, and and and the tweets that have
come out of Lebron James's Twitter accounts since UM is
it is? It? Is it logical to think, among the
things that Lebron James has reached a breaking point with
he can't work for a guy who supports Donald Trump.
I asked some of Lebron's guys that last night and
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they said no. They said, first of all, uh, according
to them, I'm Gilbert supported Hillary Clinton UM earlier. UM.
And then with Trump being you know, president, or when
he's like he's just he's like Justin Biebery switched exactly
and so and look, Lebron smart enough to know. I'm
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sure a lot of a lot of the owners probably
voted for Trump. Now did they donate that type of money,
I don't know, but um, Lebron and his guys are
are various stut businessmen and they understand that, you know,
you work with different types of people and everybody's not
gonna necessarily agree with you on everything. And his relationship
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with Gilbert, um, it is what I'm told. It's a
cordial business relationship. They're not pals, they're not buddies, but
it's a business relationship. And let's face it, Dan Gilbert
can't do, most likely can't do or say anything worse
(22:53):
than he did when Lebron first left Cleveland, and yet
Lebron James still went back, even though Dan Gilbert has
always couched it like, yeah, we go, we're wrong, He apologized,
I apologize. I mean it's kind of like Donald Trump.
You know, both sides have had you know, we're wrong. No,
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Dan Gilbert was more wrong for the way he's talked
about Lebron James, and Lebron James still went back there.
So Lebron is a smart businessman. And I don't think
now I'm sure he doesn't like you know that that
support goes to Trump, but I don't think that's a
factor at all. Um. I just think it'll be other
things that if Lebron leaves it won't be because of
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Gilbert support of Trump. That's the voice of Christopher. Sorry
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to disassociate yourself from the market in which you live.
Like when in my previous place of employment, I was
in New York, I wasn't on in New York, So
you know, I can't do I can't talk about the
Yankees every thinking day in the Rangers because nobody cans.
But I do think the Dodger story is kind of
being undersould a little bit, don't you. I mean, don't you.
(24:22):
They won thirty of their last thirty four home game.
They started out the year, started out the year eighteen.
They are currently fifty one games over five and they
don't have their best picture Clayton Kershaw, and they don't
have their most consistent offensive weapon in Ajuring Gonzalez currently,
Like that's that's crazy stuff, that's insane. They won. There
(24:47):
was a thirty eight comeback win last night with three runs,
culminating Yasiel Puig with a with a game winning walk
off double last night. And again I don't want to
make this. I'm not even a Dodger fan. I'm an
Angel fan. I think it's incredible somehow that they're in
the wild card hunt. Their teams banks and they're in
(25:08):
the wild card hunt, and like that's a special story.
But it's interesting to me, like when the whatever NFL
team doesn't has the last to have a loss over there,
could they be undefeated? And you know, Mercury Morris, they're
not driving around our neighborhood yet, Like Mercury Royis is
a big thing, and like the Patriots got all the love,
(25:29):
and I understand, like sixteen and oh is bigger than
fifty one games over five, but it shouldn't be. It
really shouldn't be. Like look when the when the they're
going after a hundred sixteen wins, that's the all time record,
and when the Warriors won seventy three, like that's all
we talked about and nobody And again I'm not trying
(25:50):
to make you. I can't try and make you care
about something you don't care about. But isn't it at
least weird that I can't you can't really get anybody
to care about it. And I know there's the uh
what is it called when you have when you have
something in your mind and you think it to be
true and it ultimately comes to be true. What is
(26:11):
that called? H I'll think of it probably, I'll think
of it as soon as we turn the off. What
are you gonna say? It's not not a premonition? Now?
It's like, um, what is it call when you just
when you think about do you think something is gonna
be negative? And then it comes to that it becomes
a self fulfilling prophecy? Right, That's what it really goes up. Like,
I know nobody's gonna care about it, so I'm gonna
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talk about nobod's gonna care about people like you know
what I don't care about like say, I told you,
But it's weird. Maybe it's because the Dodgers haven't one
and they've been in the playoffs several times recently. Maybe
it's because it's l A and I think perception is
l A sports fan doesn't care they can draw four
million plus people again at Dodgers Stadium like they don't care,
(26:53):
but they kind of keep showing up, which kind of
feels like you care. They're eighty five and thirty four,
I can't remember do them on that? Eighteen to eighty
five and fifty four? How does that work out? Come right?
And then thirty four eighteen? Wait a second, that's eighteen.
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That's six. Holy cow, it's craziness. Craziness, So I can't
make you care about it. Maybe they have to somehow
win a World Series or have to get to that
hundred and sixteen win level to where you take it seriously.
And I'm trying to disassociate myself to the market in
which I broadcast from, though don't broadcast in pony contention, um,
(27:41):
but I do think this story is being underplayed nationally
and instead we're talking about dudes protesting or not protesting,
So maybe they are protesting it. Be sure to catch
live editions of The Doug gott Leaps Show weekdays at
three pm Easter noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and
The I Heard Way You app. Kevin Rant is quoted
(28:02):
in a a recently released a released article in which
Chris Haynes interviewed him. Chris Haynes Haines asked if k
D will visit Donald Trump at the White House. Nah,
I won't do that. I don't respect who's in office
right now. I don't agree with what he agrees with.
(28:25):
So my voice is going to be heard by not
doing that. That's just me personally. But if I know
my guys well enough, they'll all agree with me. That's
the end sentence to me, that really really strikes the
chord of negativity. That's not needed quote. I just want
to sit back and analyze everything and gather my thoughts.
(28:47):
I wanted to say something immediately, but I definitely want
my voice to uh want to be the voice of
where I came from the people who have come from
my neighborhood and deal with oppression. I'm representing a lot
of people as far as what's going on the country.
For one, as an athlete, you have to commend Colin Kaepernick,
Lebron James, CP three, Dwyane Wade for starting a conversation
(29:07):
last year. Russell Westbrook also said something in his speech.
A lot of guys with platforms have have drove conversations
in a good direction, and what's going on in Charlottesville
is unfathomable. A white supremacist rally protesting the removal of
Roberty least At she was organized in Charlottesville. Last week,
(29:27):
of course, Heather Higher, thirty two was tragically killed when
a car driven allegedly by James Alex Fields Jr. Plowed
into a crowd of of protesters or anti protesters protesters
by now, I think you know the story. Um, I
feel like Durant asked as he played if Trump has
(29:50):
played a role in the escalation of racial tensions in
America and the public rise of white supremacists, He's definitely
driving driving it. I feel ever since he got into office,
or ever since he ran for presidency, our country has
been divided. And it's not a coincidence. When Barack Obama
was in office, things were looking up. We had so
much hope in our community back where I came from
(30:11):
because we had a black president that was our first.
So to see where we are now, it just felt
like we took a turn for the worst man. And
it all comes from who's who's in the administration. It
comes from the top leadership, trickles down to the rest
of us. There's some really smart comments in it, and
I'm not gonna read every single one of them. But
I'm actually really bothered by this. He said, he's not
going to the White House totally his right, but he
(30:34):
said that's just me personally. But if I know my
guys well enough, they'll all agree with me. This, to
me is inherently part of the problem. This is where
people will say the left has gone right right the
left um and if you want a laberal, Liberals have
often said to themselves, look, we are the party of acceptance,
(30:54):
like give me your tired week, your poor, your wretched masses, gay, straight, black, white,
mick race, Mexican Asian, don't care. Right, we are the
party of everybody. They are the exclusive club. The right
is seen as white, wealthy Republicans, right store owners versus
(31:15):
store workers. That's what it's seen as. That's the that's
the divide. And there is some some reality to that perception,
but not all, especially the part where the left is
open right the same thing that you are that you
could conclude right wingers were guilty of, which is being
(31:37):
close minded towards gays and lesbians, towards people of other
races and other cultures. Isn't that kind of what Kevin
Durant just said, that's just me personally, But I know
my guys well enough there with me. In other words,
if you don't do what I do, then we don't
think alike and I don't understand you.
Host
Doug Gottlieb
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