February 13, 2018 • 39 mins
Doug gives his thoughts on LaVar Ball’s latest comments that all 3 of his sons will be on the same NBA team. He tells you why he likes Steve Kerr letting the Warriors coach themselves against the Suns. Plus NBA Champion Matt Barnes joins the show to tell Doug whether the Warriors' depth will be an issue as they try to win another NBA title.
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Great to be here tomorrow. You'll see me on First
Things First on Fox Sports One. So I got to
come back to the East side not as good as
the West and the best side. So I missed my
boy John Ramos, I tweeted out about co workers having
bad breath. It has nothing to do with John Ramos
or Ryan Music or Dan Buyer or whomever. Uh. It
was just more of a just a question that I've
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always had. I want to come up with I want
to come up with the international symbol for Hey, dude,
I love you, but right now you're breathing dragon breath
in my face, and so you gotta take care of
it because there's no real nice way to say you've
got bad bread anyway. And it had nothing to do
with you guys. So if you read my tweet and
took it to meaning that music has bad breath, that
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that's not it. When you're I've been married for seventeen years.
That's enough time for my wife to say, hey, you
got really bad breath. Brush your teeth. But what was
happening was a couple of people I used to work with.
We're texting me about guys we used to work with
that have really bad breath, and we were laughing about it,
and I was like, we never did find a way
to solve that problem. So I hope ramos buyer music
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at all. If you thought that tweet was about you,
it is not. But you can always who says no
to a breath mint? Right? Adults don't say no to DApps.
Adults don't say no to breath mints, and adults or vegetables, uh, knowingly, willfully, willing,
willingly at restaurants. There's nothing wrong with some toothpaste every
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once in a while. I agree toothpaste works too, But
I mean, just do you like, do you carry toothpaste
with you? I brushed my teeth incessantly. I'm a three
four day, four day for time of day guy. Uh
that that's just me. One time about Steve Kerr, letting
the letting the team, coach the team, although I could have,
you could have Ramos could have coached the team last
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night to the win over the Phoenix Suns. Was it
about the Sons? Was it about Kerr? Was about his
player's ego? Or was it about something else? We'll get
to that upcoming. Chris Bruce Star will join us as well.
But let's start with the story that won't go away.
As much as we wanted to go away, he won't
go away. Is LaVar ball. It's LaVar ball, right, we
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keep trying to not talk about LaVar ball. Don't say
LaVar ball. Don't say LaVar ball. Don't say LaVar ball.
Don't say LaVar ball. It's almost like this is an
underrated movie, underrated comedy. Austin Powers Too. I know Ramos,
you've seen it. By the way, if you don't follow
John Ramos, who should on Twitter? Ramos does the John
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Ramos Show, in which he reviews. He's one of our senaphiles.
He does watch movies, reviews movies in his own lighthearted way.
I saw Austin Powers To three times in the theater,
in the theater, and every time I laughed and I
mean I literally laughed out loud. It was really funny.
Do you remember the scene with the mole Molly Molly,
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don't say mold, don't say mold, don't say mold. That's
almost how we feel about LaVar Ball. I don't want
to talk about LaVar Ball. I don't want to talk
about LaVar Ball. I don't want to talk about LaVar Ball.
But yesterday LaVar Ball was quoted by a Lithuanian journalist
who's like the last of the Mohicans covering the LaVar
Balls and Lie Angelo and LaMelo Ball. Saga in Lithuania
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is saying he wanted, you know, if after year three
all three players are the Lakers, they don't draft lo
Angelo this offseason, they don't have all three balls on
the on the Lakers roster, that a Lonzo won't re
sign with the Lakers. It should be pointed out that
the Lakers actually have his rights for up to four years,
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with no chance of him signing elsewhere. So sometimes we
missed the fact that LaVar is so far afield he
doesn't even know the facts of the contracts his son signed.
But we as much as we try, we try, and
I don't want to talk about LaVar Ball. Here we
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are again. What's funny about Lavarro what's ironic about LaVar
is the Lakers have been playing well without his son healthy.
The Lakers have had no issues and no issues with
their coach. None, no issues with their coach. Since LaVar
Ball has stopped being quoted because Jeff Goodman came back
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Stateside to ESPN in Alonzo balls in the news only
because his girlfriend apparently is pregnant. Like that news ain't
ain't great. It's not the worst thing in the world
when two people are gonna have a kid, like I
have three kids. I love kids, but I'm I don't
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believe that was part of of LaVar Ball's plan for
world dominance was to start having kids at the age
of twenty. And so with the other two brothers out
of sight, out of mind, with the var out of sight,
out of mind, the Lakers playing better, Alonzo injured, Alonzo
impregnating his girlfriend. Nothing about Alonzo the player here, LaVar
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inserts himself into the story and whatever his intentions, by
everyone's account inside the NBA, outside the NBA, this is laughable.
And as much as I want to not talk about
it and not cover it and not allow people to
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have allowed to have any validity. It is the kind
of thing to it you're like, all right, at some
point they're gonna have to get rid of this kid
unless he's so good. You know, it just doesn't matter
because I can say I don't want to talk about it,
but people do. They just do. I don't understand it.
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I can't rationalize it. And one of the things, one
of the theories in sports radio is you have to
talk about what everybody, the most people want to talk
about national sports radio, you don't talk about what you
want to talk about. What I want to talk about
his bad breath. What I want to talk about is
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UH is baseball players who continue to be unsigned. What
I want to talk about is UH college hoop And
maybe Lebron saying Trey Young needs to go to the NBA.
And it's really kind of peculiar that Lebron is saying this,
even if he is right, it's not really his role.
And how much of that could you see as a
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violation where he's connected with Rich Paul, that's his agency.
The potential for rich Faul to represent Trey Young, like,
all of that is interesting to me, but again in
national sports trading, we talk about what people are most
talking about. Here's Brandon Ingram other Lakers. When I asked
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him yesterday about how the locker room reacts when they
hear LaVar Ball stories, I think for us just really
just Joe funny games, just joking around with Alonzo about
it sometimes. But I don't think we take it that
a negative or think we still stick to what we
do every day daily. You have the daily routine of
what we do everything every day. But every time we
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hear something or something about his father is just really
just funny games. We don't take him seriously, which as
much as that's how we should handle in the media,
and sadly we don't. And some of that is because
we in the media don't know how to handle Twitter.
We react to Twitter as if it's completely real life.
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Some of it also is what I'm doing today, which
is reacting to just the sheer number of stories and
numbers of comments, which does mean there's an appetite for
a conversation in regards to LaVar Ball. So as much
as we want to sit here and say like, well, look,
the Lakers don't take it seriously, we shouldn't take it seriously.
On the other hand, not taking his dad's comments seriously.
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While it's the right thing to do, even that puts
Alonzo in a bad spot, doesn't it. Hey, dude, your
dad's a your dad's a clown, your dad's funny. Like
at first you laugh it off, and then you're like, wait, no,
that's still my dad, And that's a guy who does
believe to have my best interest. Art and other people
are taking what he says seriously, and yet nobody else
takes him seriously. That one kind of hurts. So do
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I think the Lakers have dad issues? They got one
dad issue and the message has not been received from
Lithuania as to stop talking about the Lakers. He can't
help himself. He can't help himself. Trump can't help himself
on tweeting. He can't help himself on commenting about the Lakers,
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even though time and again he has been asked, and
I believe he has been told stop talking about the Lakers.
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have lots of things to say, so too, does Chris
Bruce Sard, who was great today on Undisputed was great
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today yesterday on Undisputed. Chris, How how seriously should we
take what LaVar Ball has told this Lithuanian journalist. First
of all, thanks man for the compliment. UH looking for
to getting back on the show with you on television.
Always enjoy hosting with you. Um. But look, I it is.
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It is arguably the most ridiculous and damaging thing that
LaVar has said yet. And that's saying a lot um
and whether he really means it or not, if I'm
the Lakers, I'm taking it seriously. Um. I. I don't
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think they have to just trade LINESO now, but I
think a couple of things could happen. One the Lakers
could meet with Linzo and say do you feel like
your dad? I'm sure he'd say no. Then I I
tell him you need to meet with your father and
tell them to don't say another word about the Lakers
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or we will trade you we wanted. But here's the thing,
though they've told him not to say anything about the Lakers.
They told Alonzo Alonso needs to step up. Look, LIONSO
got a baby on the way. He's twenty years old,
he's making millions of dollars. It's time for him to
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step to his dad. Not in an aggressive way, but
as like, Dad, look this is killing me. It might
get me traded if you don't cut this out. You
gotta stop, or they do have another play. I've said Magic,
you know, I said Linso should do it, not Magic.
Magic can now do it because look, LaVar's timing is horrible.
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They're playing arguably their best basketball is a year eight
and five. In their last thirteen games without Linzo beat Okay,
see twice beat Boston, beat Indiana, without Linso, brandon Ingram
is actually probably playing the best stress of his career
so far at point guard twenty six and sist percent
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shooting and filling in for Linzo. And so Magic can
go to LaVar and say, look, if you utter another
word about the Lakers, we will trade Linso. Period. Another
word like now Magic has leverage. Before it looked like
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the Lakers needed Linzo um you know it, maybe it'll
be their best young player or whatever. You didn't have leverage.
Now you got the cap one. You're playing well without
him too. You have the cap space that will make
you attractive you're still the Lakers. And and look, the
Lakers are more attractive in free agency without LIONSO and
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not because of him, but because of LaVar than they
are with him. There Lebron James is again I don't
want to speak for Lebron with a certainty, but haven't
talked to people close to this situation. LaVar is a
deterrent to Lebron James coming here, and he might be
the Paul George. I've known Paul wants to come here
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and all that, but who wants to put up with
that madness? And so Magic has all the leverage. He
can stept the LaVar and give him an ultimatum. And
so I think that's how then Shia handle it. And
if LaVar won't submit, so to speak and fall in line,
didn you trade him? Because Doug, I know you don't.
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I don't think you're that high on lines or as
it is. He would have to be ultra special to
put up with this stuff. He would have to be
a Hall of Fame type player, top five point guard
to put up with this stuff, not just a pretty
good starter. And so can't you just but listen? I
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agree with you, and I think that the biggest problem
is that they have told him time and again to
stop talking about the Lakers, and he just can't help himself.
You know, Jeff good Men kind of teat him up
and he took debait. Now this is a Lithuanian journalist,
and and he takes debit and he keeps talking about it.
And look, we as journalists, we're taking the bait and
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talking about a guy who is is out of sight,
is out of mind, has no idea about the inner
workings of the Lakers. So couldn't they just though, ignore
him and not draft Lee Angelo Ball, which would just
tell you all you need to know about the fact
that they don't care about what LaVar Ball thinks of
the l a Lakers. Well, I think you'd have to
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do that. You'd have to find out what the free
agents think. And Magic obviously has been nailed for tampering
twice already, so I'm not saying tamper. But once you
get your chance in free agency to talk to the guys,
you you gotta find that out. Is LaVar Ball and
Deterrent will you come here without? And you know, look,
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if they and I don't want to get too far
ahead of ourselves, with the Lebron stuff because we don't
know if he's coming or not. But if we know
that Lebron will tell a franchise what he thinks they
should do, and if he says or if you whether
it's himself or you ask him the question about Levard,
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if he's like, look, I have no problem with Lionzo,
but I can't put up with this mess, then you
just you trade him there so you could wait if
you want. But um, basically, I'm saying they need to
begin considering moving lines. O ball. Okay, let's get to
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the Lakers and Isaiah Thomas. I heard, uh you, um,
you know that Isaiah Thomas. It's one thing to not
enjoy your experience playing for the Calves, but it was
more than that. How does I t feel like it
went down with with Lebron James? Well, I was cold,
you know, and his agent we've been checking his agent
saying he doesn't know who said that. But I was
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told by someone close Isaia that Isaiah just didn't have
any love loss for Lebron and that he felt like,
you know, Lebron kind of talked down to him. Now,
whether or not Lebron did that or not, I don't know.
But if you're Isaiah and you feel like you're a
twenty nine point score, you are on Lebron's level, even
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if you acknowledge you're not quite as good, which who
knows what, Isaiah, but you think you're kind of on
that level. Who knows where he could perceive is being
talked down to. But I'm told that it did, it
didn't end well, and that he really doesn't have much
love for Lebron or really obviously, uh, the whole situation
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and people associated with Cleveland. Yeah, it's it's gonna be
fascinating to see though, how that is, how that's received
by the league. Right, is this just an Isaiah Thomas
didn't get along with him? Or is this Lebron James
is not necessarily as easy as we want to believe. Like, now, look,
he's Lebron is doing backflips over his new teammates, but
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he's done backflips over any new teammates. I just wonder
because I think the thought is he comes to l
A and everyone's gonna flock to l A. But they
had this before with Kobe Bryant, where they couldn't get
anybody to sign with the Lakers, to play with play
with Kobe. What is the perception of of playing with
Lebron at this stage in Lebron's career from the rest
of the league. Look, people know that Lebron is high maintenance,
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and he is incredibly demanding of everybody of the franchise,
of the coaching staff, of his teammates. Now to his
as he said, he also holds himself to that standard
because he keeps himself in incredible shape. But yeah, it's
tough because you know he's gonna hold you to a
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certain standard. And you know that again, Lebron is a
system unto himself, and so he's like Kyrie didn't like
standing in the corner and waiting for Lebron to create
a shot for him, you know. And so there are
Chris Bosh obviously one championships with Lebron is a group,
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great friend of Lebron's. But he even acknowledged, Hey, it's different.
You better get used to it, Kevin Love, you know. So,
so that's not a secret. I mean you know that,
like God's no, it's not necessarily easy to play with Lebron,
but it's different than Kobe Bryant, and that Kobe was
a flat out scorer, and it might have cookee when
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Kobe does his thing, you might not see the ball.
With Lebron, You're going to see the ball. You're going
to get open looks, and you are going to be
a contender. Now, whether you get to the championship or
or when it is a different story, but you're going
to be a contender. You're going to get to play
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at the on the big stage in the playoffs, and
you're going to get a chance to shine offensively. You
won't be the number one guy, you might not have
the ball, you won't have the ball as much as
you may be used to, but you will get your shots.
And that's the difference. So yeah, some guys might not
want to do it, but other guys would precisely because
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I can still shine with Lebron. I'm gonna get my shots,
i can score my point and I'm gonna be on
the biggest stage, maybe bigger stage and I've been on
throughout my career, So um yeah, I don't think it'll
be a deterrent to most players. That's the voice Chris Bruce.
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Last night, Steve Curry did something um that people are
reacting to, they're freaking out about, and I guess it's
new if you haven't been paying attention. There's all different
ways to coach a team. I didn't like that Brady
Hope didn't wear a headset when he was coaching Michigan,
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and ultimately when he wasn't winning enough games, they fired
Brady Hoke and they pointed out that he wasn't wearing
a headset. There's a million different ways to coach football.
There are head coaches. Frank Raich, as you may have heard,
is going to be the head coach of the Indianapolis
Content is going to call plays. Some guys call plays,
some guys don't. Some guys are defensive guys and they
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don't mess with the offense. Some guys are CEOs and
they don't mess with either side and they just manage.
That's just in football. Basketball is much the same. Some
guys micromanage. Some guys have an offensive coordinat or defensive
coordinator and they coordinate. Whereas the Golden State Warriors. I
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know people think they're on autopilot. Luke Walton came in
one a ton of games. Steve Kerr's the fastest to
win two hundred fifty games. But there is coaching that
takes place there which goes counter to what you thought
you saw or what you may believe. You heard Steve
Kerr say after they blew out the Phoenix Suns and
he didn't coach in huddles here. Steve Kerr, in his
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own words, explaining his decision. As coaches, our job is
to nudge them in the right direction, guide them. Um,
we don't control them. I don't feel like we focused
well at all the last months, and it just seemed
like the right thing to do, and I thought they
communicated really well, drew up some nice plays and it
was a good night. I told j afterwards, I said
that you know people may make a big deal of it,
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and had nothing to do with with being disrespectful and
had to do with me trying to reach my team.
I have not reached them for the last month. Uh,
they're tired of my voice. I'm tired of my voice.
Jared Dudley said this ESPN Jared Dudley, Obviously, the Phoenix
Sun said this. It shows a lack of respect for
an opponent. And maybe right now we don't deserve respect.
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When you keep getting beat by forty teams won't respect you.
But it's up to us to change that. I responded,
and I'll do so again here on radio. I don't
think this has anything at all to do with the
Phoenix Suns. Nothing. It's just a coaching technique. It's just
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a coach. It's a leadership technique as well, you know.
And if you'd watched the Golden State Warriors, Steve Kerr
was struggling to connect with them, it said this is
there's a million different ways to try and connect with
players or trying to get players to connect with each other,
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you know, in college, so oftentimes what coaches do is
they turn you against them. The coaching staff can be
so brutal, so negative that you end up hating the
coaching staff. But you know what it does psychology. He
gets the guys united. Yeah, they may be united in
their dislike for the head coaches, but that's okay. A
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united team, even if united in their dislike for the
head coach, is still a united team. In this particular case,
Kurt knows ultimately it's his team, and it's one of
those things to where it's it's It's like Magic Johnson
constantly says Kobe is the greatest Laker ever. Now do
you really think in your heart of hearts, in his
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heart of hearts, Magic Johnson thinks Kobe Bryant is the
greatest Laker ever. No, but you keeps saying it, keeps
saying it, keeps saying it, and people grow even more
respectful of you. Like man, that is really self deprecating
to put somebody else ahead of Magic Johnson. It's not personal.
It's strictly business. That's all Steve Kerrs doing. Steve, like, listen,
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this is coaching. But coaching is just more about pushing
them in a direction, pushing them here, guiding them. Remember
who Steve Kerr played for. He played for lud Olsen,
who wasn't a heavy handed coach. He played for Greg Popovich,
but for a lot of people. But he played for
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Greg Popovitch and one championships. And he played for Phil
Jackson won championships. And both can be caustic, can be sarcastic,
but both have kind of New Age philosophies into using
the mind, using the psychology of men to work for
the team, not against the team. That's all he did.
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And so what happens is when you're on the other
side of a psychological movie, like well, he would never
change this trade this if it was the spurs, or
if it was the thunder, or if this was a
reaction then getting blown out by the thunder. So yeah,
he tried against the sons, and yet it only empowers
the guys more. But I think this is the nameless,
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faceless opponent. Let's just adjust to us. Let's find a
way to where I get tired of saying the exact
same things in huddles, to where it becomes cliche. Let
somebody else do it. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Doug Gottlieb Show weekdays at three p m.
Eastern noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Heart Radio app. Well, he's a former just about everywhere.
He's Matt Barnes. He joins us an NBA champion Doug
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Gotlip show Fox Sports Radio. Let's start with, uh, last night,
what Steve curt decided to do? He said, he struggled
to connect with his team. They've been all over the map,
They've gotten blown out a couple of times, played better
the past couple of games, and obviously last night was
a get right game against just that terrible Phoenix Suns club.
But what's your reaction to him letting his players coach
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the huddles. I love it. I think it's great. Uh.
Steve is one of those guys that it's looking you know.
He obviously always has it, you know, a great game
panel of the coaching staff, but he also allows me
to create within that, you know, so he has the
trusted Raymond that Katie, Andre, Sean Livingston, David West that
has funny of proveman evets you know what I mean.
So sometimes I mean, obviously it's a new tactics and
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when when I heard about it and thought I loved
it because that Andre is a great basketball mind. Um,
but I Just think with this Warrior team right now,
it's it's it's not bored with the process, but it's
bored with the process at the same time, you know
what I mean, Like they know what they have and
know what they're capable of. Um. And these are the
dog days of the season, you know, uh, A month
before January February and then All Star Breaker the toughest
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time to stay focused as a pro. So you know
they need to all start break to refresh and then
you'll see what they're about in Mark April. I guess
my only question about the Warriors is DeAndrea Aguadallas is
the Sean Livingston's the bench. Guys you've been able to
count on for the last three years. At some point
father time comes up and gets them. And Iguodala's production
has been way down this year. Do you think they
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have the bench to have that same production in the playoffs?
I think if they're using Andre smart they know right
now doesn't matter, you know what I mean, whether his
minutes downs, productions down. They know what they have in him.
It's proven, um, you know, so they know that they
can rest him. They know that the most important thing
is being healthy in March and April not healthy in
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January February. Um, you know what they're along with Nick Young.
You know, I've had to keep a few conversations with
Nick Young, you know, telling them that, you know, keep
your head in it. You know, coach knows that he
has in you and he's gonna meet you down the stretch.
You know, don't worry about MP's and stuff right now.
But they definitely have what it takes. They're are getting older,
but they still have one to say. Matt Barnes joining
us on the Doug Gotlip Show. LaVar Ball is talking
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to a Lithuania reporters, like, look, if the Lakers don't
take Jello Ball in this year's draft, then you know
he said three years. Obviously, anybody who knows NBA contracts
knows that rookie deal for first round picks four years,
but that Alonzo won't re sign with the Lakers. If
you were the Lakers, how would you take this? I mean,
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it's just amazing that it's like or even having this conversation.
You know, if this guy is is a mad genius
and equal genius and I'm not mad at I understand it. Um,
you know, I hope that you know, there's some rhyme
and reason really when you find the true meaning, because
you know Lonzo's I feel like he's gonna be a
star in the NBA. Um once you get the speed
under the men and be able to leave this franchise
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for many years, you know, I mean, So I hope
something like that with effect that's happened. Um. But like
I said, I laughed when I heard it. I'm not
bad at it. I understand. I guess I understand it.
But like I said, I hope you know, cooler heads
prevail when it actually comes down too. Yeah, Like if
you're the Lakers, do you do you pay any attention
to it? Do you tell? You don't show it at all?
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You know what I mean? You don't let someone's dad
dictate your franchise by any means. You know, when when
he was talking about Luke, I was, you know, I was.
I shook my head because look at the good guy
and I know Lucas various played together. Um, you know,
he under underfilled Jackson, under Steve Kerr. Luke can definitely
handle the job. They have to understand. You don't give
people time anymore, you know what I mean? If you
have a half to sleep in the book yourself. You know,
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back in the day you had a few years. You know,
everyone wants everything now, So back to my point, you
don't let the father dictate your franchise, and I know
Magic won't let that happen. When when when the trade
was made, everybody, I think said, well, they got younger,
the Calves got more athletic, and obviously they played as
well as you can possibly play against the Celtics, who
played as poor as they can possibly play in a
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Sunday blowout. But when the dust settles, when when everybody
gets back to figuring stuff out, are the Calves actually
better as a team in the playoffs with this group
than they would have been with the veterans that they jettison.
There's no question, and this is no disrespect to the
people they traded away, you know the ways the Hall
of Famer. You know, they had to make business cloves
for their franchise, But I love the moves they made.
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They got younger and to meet what they did is
they got fresh energy in there, you know, I mean
with a bunch of old guys, sometimes you get them
placed in and you can, like you concerned on later
with these young kids. They don't know better, so they're
they're always on the tin and you need that from
the Jordan Clarkson, uh Larry's man Um. I love Rode
good Um and George Hill. There is a silent a staff.
You know, he came up under deep pop. So I
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love all the FLEs they made to me. I even
though they went to struggles, I never overlooked him because
they have the Lebronz factor. You know, everyone was on
Boston's band wagon, and Boston is very talented. And what's
le Bron's done. It's Boston's Eastern Conference, but that Lebron
is in the Eastern Conference, so um. You know, to
see what they did is refreshing. I'm happy to the Brons,
you know what I mean. Whether he decided to stay
after this or lead, it's completely up to him and
(30:24):
I'm four. You get decision. But I love the moves
they made before the trade that month. Okay, what about
when you get to the playoffs though, as you know,
when you get to playoff basketball, it's just a different
level and generally guys have to have been through the
playoffs in order to perform well in the playoffs. You know,
you have two, maybe even three that haven't really played
at a high level in the playoffs. The Lakers Dandom
(30:46):
especially hadn't They haven't ever sniffed the playoffs. So how
does in terms of being in the playoffs, how does
it affect that? Um? Well, I mean, and that's the
main reason, like I said, and she hit my point
on the head, as you know, how can you look
at Boston's favorite fip, you know, because the only person
that's been there is Kyrie, you know. So with Lebraun,
you have Lebrauns, you have the bet because you have
j R. Spinth, you have Kyle Cornvers, you have Jeff Breen.
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You have enough bets. And then like I said, I
don't know if I mentioned calf Lebraun, you know. And
then Kevin Love will be help Jeff Sistein Thompson. So
they have guys that have been there and done that.
And although if they added young new pieces, is enough
older pieces around them to really fall in line? You
know what I mean? I think Jordan Clarkton is ready
to fall in line. I think he's gonna be huged
down the stretch of them in the playoffs, because you mean,
he's one of the best coming off the bench scores
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in the game, you know what I mean. So I
look for in a lot of him and like this
thing right into this So I love all the moves
they made. I don't see hey weaknesses and their team.
You know, hopefully the kids shook it together. They can
learn how to work hard on defense. And it's gonna
be a fun fun you know, it's gonna be a
fun stretch run, he said, fun finals. Do you think
I got myself? That's okay, You're allowed, dude, Like we're like,
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the assumption is they play h if they match up
in the finals, do you think they match up well
with the Warriors. I just love the parodies, you know
what I mean. I love the fact said even though
where it's very top heavy one now, I love the
little Houston is making, you know, picking up Joe Johnson
and then someone that people don't even think about his
Brandon right, who is a constant channing tann guy, Allie
you catcher, rim protector, rebounder. Joe Johnson is one of
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the best bets in the game. I really love him.
They're having fun. I talked to Chris Paul at the time,
and I'm so happy that he looks like he's having
fun and these guys are buying in and understanding what
it takes. So it's not gonna be a free walk.
I still the Warriors are still my team. I'm picking,
but it's not gonna be as easy as people think.
Once to come down to crush tie Matt Barnes, uh
NBA champion of course, joining us here on Fox Sports
(32:34):
Trading Matt, great stuff, dude, love your perspective. UMU, I
want to act to you. Ask you before I let
you go about your active dreamer something that you do.
I know this is a full time business for you.
It's not something that you just do on the side. Uh.
For people who haven't been following it, what is it?
It's I'm on a full time housele right now. Act
dream Is right Now is a blanky company that I
(32:55):
came on board about three years ago. UM. Steph Curry's involved.
One a good friend of mine named Jack who played
the NBA for a priestent is involved. And what we
do is we have a licensing to the NBA, so
we have all different you know, all the players in
the NBA we make blankets for um. We're in the
process we have the likeness, the likeness for the the
NFL players. We don't have this the team, Jeff, but
(33:15):
we're continuing to build. We're in tooss with the w
WWT now about getting professional wrestling. So we're basically doing
it is trying to provide like that set, blankets, hellos,
everything for kids, you know what I mean. So you
can have your favorite NBA, NFL, Major League player, European
soccer player, w W character, and then you can hope
and getting too Disneys. You know, your favorite Disney character
(33:35):
on your on your blanket, and we really think that
don't pray able to accomplish that and get to all
those major brands that it's gonna be a monster, all right,
So send me some of that Steph Curry blanket from
my kid maybe and get his jump. Uh yeah, no question.
We got funy of those. I'm sure you do. Matt,
thanks so much for joining us and I appreciate it. Doug,
thanks for having me. Bro Hi, It's Matt Barnes, u
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agent at Farmers dot com. Are William mc ginnis won
a Super Bowl with the New England Patriots. He had
this to say on Undisputed in regards to Lane Johnson
talking about the Eagles having fun and the Patriots having
none of it. You know, I like Lane, I think
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he's I think he's a really good player, and I'm
happy that they finally that they wanted Super Bowl because
they definitely deserved it. But Um, for him to come
out and say our culture it's a fear culture base
makes no sense. He's never been in that locker room
or never really shared that coach or understand. Um. I
was one of the guys who created that culture in
that locker room and amongst the players. There is a
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certain amount of pressure that we in it because we
wanted players to play and be accountable and be a
certain way, and a lot of times that locker room
ran the team and things that really get up to Belichick,
into the coaching staff and all that. So, I mean,
it's a certain way. I think you gotta conduct yourself,
and you gotta handle your business, and you gotta have
a certain work ethic um and they adhere to that
(35:21):
and they understand that there's a certain level that's expected.
If you're a free agency or or free agent or
you're drafted and you go there, you gotta you gotta,
you gotta fall in line because the system and the
machine runs a certain way. And if you go in
there and you handle your business and your professional and
you do your work, you're gonna have a lot of fun.
Like we had a lot of fun while we were there.
(35:41):
You know, it's the most fun thing in the world
having more points than the other team when the buzzer
sounds right, That's that's basically what Willia mc ginnis is saying. Now, listen,
I understand that there's a you don't want to feel
like you're going to a cult, like you're just a
cog in the machine that you can't have any sort
of personality. But I do think that the first part
that Willie said is accurate. Lane Johnson saying it's a
(36:05):
fear based culture when he's never played in that culture.
Is you know, anybody commenting about somebody else's workplace when
they've never worked there. I hear people say it all
the time about ESPN, where I used to work. Now,
I know it's changed some since I've been there, but
I was there for ten years. I was pretty well
aware of the culture that was there. As the CBS
for five years, I'm pretty well aware of the culture
(36:27):
that was there. And anyone who hasn't been there shouldn't
really be telling me about the culture of either of
the two places. Nor should you tell me about the
culture of Fox or Fox Sports or Fox Sports Radio.
But the most interesting part is what everyone's missing on this.
He talked about how guys have to handle their business,
(36:48):
how the locker room police itself has. Yes, there is
a more disciplined culture because they think that and and
the players being accountable. There's a relationship, a correlation there
between what Steve or did last night letting a team
coach itself and what Bill Belichick did on Super Bowl
Sunday not playing Malcolm Butler, and what did people in
(37:10):
our position set He's nuts, he costed himself a Super
Bowl he's an idiot. His ego has gone too far.
What is Bill Belichick doing? But what I told you
after that is what I'll tell you today. Bill Belichick
may have lost that battle in order to win the war.
May have lost that battle in order to win the war.
(37:34):
You can't win every argument. You just want to win
the ones that can that matter. And while you may
say STUDN Super Bowl doesn't matter by Bill Belichick's from
his perspective, sitting Malcolm Butler down is maintaining complete and
total control. If you want to say that's fear based, fine, fine.
(37:59):
That's like saying that we have the death penalty in
this country so so that people are scared to commit murder. Now,
it doesn't necessarily work out that way. I think it's
a proper punishment for a proper crime. But if it's
a deterrent for future guys to step out of line
in the super Bowl, then yeah, that's exactly. If that's
(38:20):
fear based, then fine. That's also setting up an order
of discipline and standing by it regardless of the game.
It's the hardest thing to do in sports. Knowing you're
hurting the team, you're hurting yourself. A chance of winning
a big game at the with the chance of doing
the right thing. And I don't believe that Bill Belichick
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would possibly do that unless he knew that Malcolm Butler
had done something wrong and wrong enough or wrong enough
times to which he didn't deserve a shot to play,
even though other coaches would have relented. That's not who
he is, that's not how he rolls. And if that's
fear based and that's no fun. I understand it's not
(39:05):
for everybody. It's not for everybody, but it's one that's
gotten them to eight Super Bowls and it's really really
hard to question
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Great to be here tomorrow. You'll see me on First
Things First on Fox Sports One. So I got to
come back to the East side not as good as
the West and the best side. So I missed my
boy John Ramos, I tweeted out about co workers having
bad breath. It has nothing to do with John Ramos
or Ryan Music or Dan Buyer or whomever. Uh. It
was just more of a just a question that I've
(00:45):
always had. I want to come up with I want
to come up with the international symbol for Hey, dude,
I love you, but right now you're breathing dragon breath
in my face, and so you gotta take care of
it because there's no real nice way to say you've
got bad bread anyway. And it had nothing to do
with you guys. So if you read my tweet and
took it to meaning that music has bad breath, that
(01:08):
that's not it. When you're I've been married for seventeen years.
That's enough time for my wife to say, hey, you
got really bad breath. Brush your teeth. But what was
happening was a couple of people I used to work with.
We're texting me about guys we used to work with
that have really bad breath, and we were laughing about it,
and I was like, we never did find a way
to solve that problem. So I hope ramos buyer music
(01:31):
at all. If you thought that tweet was about you,
it is not. But you can always who says no
to a breath mint? Right? Adults don't say no to DApps.
Adults don't say no to breath mints, and adults or vegetables, uh, knowingly, willfully, willing,
willingly at restaurants. There's nothing wrong with some toothpaste every
(01:51):
once in a while. I agree toothpaste works too, But
I mean, just do you like, do you carry toothpaste
with you? I brushed my teeth incessantly. I'm a three
four day, four day for time of day guy. Uh
that that's just me. One time about Steve Kerr, letting
the letting the team, coach the team, although I could have,
you could have Ramos could have coached the team last
(02:12):
night to the win over the Phoenix Suns. Was it
about the Sons? Was it about Kerr? Was about his
player's ego? Or was it about something else? We'll get
to that upcoming. Chris Bruce Star will join us as well.
But let's start with the story that won't go away.
As much as we wanted to go away, he won't
go away. Is LaVar ball. It's LaVar ball, right, we
(02:41):
keep trying to not talk about LaVar ball. Don't say
LaVar ball. Don't say LaVar ball. Don't say LaVar ball.
Don't say LaVar ball. It's almost like this is an
underrated movie, underrated comedy. Austin Powers Too. I know Ramos,
you've seen it. By the way, if you don't follow
John Ramos, who should on Twitter? Ramos does the John
(03:03):
Ramos Show, in which he reviews. He's one of our senaphiles.
He does watch movies, reviews movies in his own lighthearted way.
I saw Austin Powers To three times in the theater,
in the theater, and every time I laughed and I
mean I literally laughed out loud. It was really funny.
Do you remember the scene with the mole Molly Molly,
(03:29):
don't say mold, don't say mold, don't say mold. That's
almost how we feel about LaVar Ball. I don't want
to talk about LaVar Ball. I don't want to talk
about LaVar Ball. I don't want to talk about LaVar Ball.
But yesterday LaVar Ball was quoted by a Lithuanian journalist
who's like the last of the Mohicans covering the LaVar
Balls and Lie Angelo and LaMelo Ball. Saga in Lithuania
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is saying he wanted, you know, if after year three
all three players are the Lakers, they don't draft lo
Angelo this offseason, they don't have all three balls on
the on the Lakers roster, that a Lonzo won't re
sign with the Lakers. It should be pointed out that
the Lakers actually have his rights for up to four years,
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with no chance of him signing elsewhere. So sometimes we
missed the fact that LaVar is so far afield he
doesn't even know the facts of the contracts his son signed.
But we as much as we try, we try, and
I don't want to talk about LaVar Ball. Here we
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are again. What's funny about Lavarro what's ironic about LaVar
is the Lakers have been playing well without his son healthy.
The Lakers have had no issues and no issues with
their coach. None, no issues with their coach. Since LaVar
Ball has stopped being quoted because Jeff Goodman came back
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Stateside to ESPN in Alonzo balls in the news only
because his girlfriend apparently is pregnant. Like that news ain't
ain't great. It's not the worst thing in the world
when two people are gonna have a kid, like I
have three kids. I love kids, but I'm I don't
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believe that was part of of LaVar Ball's plan for
world dominance was to start having kids at the age
of twenty. And so with the other two brothers out
of sight, out of mind, with the var out of sight,
out of mind, the Lakers playing better, Alonzo injured, Alonzo
impregnating his girlfriend. Nothing about Alonzo the player here, LaVar
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inserts himself into the story and whatever his intentions, by
everyone's account inside the NBA, outside the NBA, this is laughable.
And as much as I want to not talk about
it and not cover it and not allow people to
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have allowed to have any validity. It is the kind
of thing to it you're like, all right, at some
point they're gonna have to get rid of this kid
unless he's so good. You know, it just doesn't matter
because I can say I don't want to talk about it,
but people do. They just do. I don't understand it.
(06:27):
I can't rationalize it. And one of the things, one
of the theories in sports radio is you have to
talk about what everybody, the most people want to talk
about national sports radio, you don't talk about what you
want to talk about. What I want to talk about
his bad breath. What I want to talk about is
(06:47):
UH is baseball players who continue to be unsigned. What
I want to talk about is UH college hoop And
maybe Lebron saying Trey Young needs to go to the NBA.
And it's really kind of peculiar that Lebron is saying this,
even if he is right, it's not really his role.
And how much of that could you see as a
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violation where he's connected with Rich Paul, that's his agency.
The potential for rich Faul to represent Trey Young, like,
all of that is interesting to me, but again in
national sports trading, we talk about what people are most
talking about. Here's Brandon Ingram other Lakers. When I asked
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him yesterday about how the locker room reacts when they
hear LaVar Ball stories, I think for us just really
just Joe funny games, just joking around with Alonzo about
it sometimes. But I don't think we take it that
a negative or think we still stick to what we
do every day daily. You have the daily routine of
what we do everything every day. But every time we
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hear something or something about his father is just really
just funny games. We don't take him seriously, which as
much as that's how we should handle in the media,
and sadly we don't. And some of that is because
we in the media don't know how to handle Twitter.
We react to Twitter as if it's completely real life.
(08:12):
Some of it also is what I'm doing today, which
is reacting to just the sheer number of stories and
numbers of comments, which does mean there's an appetite for
a conversation in regards to LaVar Ball. So as much
as we want to sit here and say like, well, look,
the Lakers don't take it seriously, we shouldn't take it seriously.
On the other hand, not taking his dad's comments seriously.
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While it's the right thing to do, even that puts
Alonzo in a bad spot, doesn't it. Hey, dude, your
dad's a your dad's a clown, your dad's funny. Like
at first you laugh it off, and then you're like, wait, no,
that's still my dad, And that's a guy who does
believe to have my best interest. Art and other people
are taking what he says seriously, and yet nobody else
takes him seriously. That one kind of hurts. So do
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I think the Lakers have dad issues? They got one
dad issue and the message has not been received from
Lithuania as to stop talking about the Lakers. He can't
help himself. He can't help himself. Trump can't help himself
on tweeting. He can't help himself on commenting about the Lakers,
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even though time and again he has been asked, and
I believe he has been told stop talking about the Lakers.
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have lots of things to say, so too, does Chris
Bruce Sard, who was great today on Undisputed was great
(09:45):
today yesterday on Undisputed. Chris, How how seriously should we
take what LaVar Ball has told this Lithuanian journalist. First
of all, thanks man for the compliment. UH looking for
to getting back on the show with you on television.
Always enjoy hosting with you. Um. But look, I it is.
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It is arguably the most ridiculous and damaging thing that
LaVar has said yet. And that's saying a lot um
and whether he really means it or not, if I'm
the Lakers, I'm taking it seriously. Um. I. I don't
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think they have to just trade LINESO now, but I
think a couple of things could happen. One the Lakers
could meet with Linzo and say do you feel like
your dad? I'm sure he'd say no. Then I I
tell him you need to meet with your father and
tell them to don't say another word about the Lakers
(10:53):
or we will trade you we wanted. But here's the thing,
though they've told him not to say anything about the Lakers.
They told Alonzo Alonso needs to step up. Look, LIONSO
got a baby on the way. He's twenty years old,
he's making millions of dollars. It's time for him to
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step to his dad. Not in an aggressive way, but
as like, Dad, look this is killing me. It might
get me traded if you don't cut this out. You
gotta stop, or they do have another play. I've said Magic,
you know, I said Linso should do it, not Magic.
Magic can now do it because look, LaVar's timing is horrible.
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They're playing arguably their best basketball is a year eight
and five. In their last thirteen games without Linzo beat Okay,
see twice beat Boston, beat Indiana, without Linso, brandon Ingram
is actually probably playing the best stress of his career
so far at point guard twenty six and sist percent
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shooting and filling in for Linzo. And so Magic can
go to LaVar and say, look, if you utter another
word about the Lakers, we will trade Linso. Period. Another
word like now Magic has leverage. Before it looked like
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the Lakers needed Linzo um you know it, maybe it'll
be their best young player or whatever. You didn't have leverage.
Now you got the cap one. You're playing well without
him too. You have the cap space that will make
you attractive you're still the Lakers. And and look, the
Lakers are more attractive in free agency without LIONSO and
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not because of him, but because of LaVar than they
are with him. There Lebron James is again I don't
want to speak for Lebron with a certainty, but haven't
talked to people close to this situation. LaVar is a
deterrent to Lebron James coming here, and he might be
the Paul George. I've known Paul wants to come here
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and all that, but who wants to put up with
that madness? And so Magic has all the leverage. He
can stept the LaVar and give him an ultimatum. And
so I think that's how then Shia handle it. And
if LaVar won't submit, so to speak and fall in line,
didn you trade him? Because Doug, I know you don't.
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I don't think you're that high on lines or as
it is. He would have to be ultra special to
put up with this stuff. He would have to be
a Hall of Fame type player, top five point guard
to put up with this stuff, not just a pretty
good starter. And so can't you just but listen? I
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agree with you, and I think that the biggest problem
is that they have told him time and again to
stop talking about the Lakers, and he just can't help himself.
You know, Jeff good Men kind of teat him up
and he took debait. Now this is a Lithuanian journalist,
and and he takes debit and he keeps talking about it.
And look, we as journalists, we're taking the bait and
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talking about a guy who is is out of sight,
is out of mind, has no idea about the inner
workings of the Lakers. So couldn't they just though, ignore
him and not draft Lee Angelo Ball, which would just
tell you all you need to know about the fact
that they don't care about what LaVar Ball thinks of
the l a Lakers. Well, I think you'd have to
(14:33):
do that. You'd have to find out what the free
agents think. And Magic obviously has been nailed for tampering
twice already, so I'm not saying tamper. But once you
get your chance in free agency to talk to the guys,
you you gotta find that out. Is LaVar Ball and
Deterrent will you come here without? And you know, look,
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if they and I don't want to get too far
ahead of ourselves, with the Lebron stuff because we don't
know if he's coming or not. But if we know
that Lebron will tell a franchise what he thinks they
should do, and if he says or if you whether
it's himself or you ask him the question about Levard,
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if he's like, look, I have no problem with Lionzo,
but I can't put up with this mess, then you
just you trade him there so you could wait if
you want. But um, basically, I'm saying they need to
begin considering moving lines. O ball. Okay, let's get to
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the Lakers and Isaiah Thomas. I heard, uh you, um,
you know that Isaiah Thomas. It's one thing to not
enjoy your experience playing for the Calves, but it was
more than that. How does I t feel like it
went down with with Lebron James? Well, I was cold,
you know, and his agent we've been checking his agent
saying he doesn't know who said that. But I was
(16:01):
told by someone close Isaia that Isaiah just didn't have
any love loss for Lebron and that he felt like,
you know, Lebron kind of talked down to him. Now,
whether or not Lebron did that or not, I don't know.
But if you're Isaiah and you feel like you're a
twenty nine point score, you are on Lebron's level, even
(16:22):
if you acknowledge you're not quite as good, which who
knows what, Isaiah, but you think you're kind of on
that level. Who knows where he could perceive is being
talked down to. But I'm told that it did, it
didn't end well, and that he really doesn't have much
love for Lebron or really obviously, uh, the whole situation
(16:42):
and people associated with Cleveland. Yeah, it's it's gonna be
fascinating to see though, how that is, how that's received
by the league. Right, is this just an Isaiah Thomas
didn't get along with him? Or is this Lebron James
is not necessarily as easy as we want to believe. Like, now, look,
he's Lebron is doing backflips over his new teammates, but
(17:05):
he's done backflips over any new teammates. I just wonder
because I think the thought is he comes to l
A and everyone's gonna flock to l A. But they
had this before with Kobe Bryant, where they couldn't get
anybody to sign with the Lakers, to play with play
with Kobe. What is the perception of of playing with
Lebron at this stage in Lebron's career from the rest
of the league. Look, people know that Lebron is high maintenance,
(17:29):
and he is incredibly demanding of everybody of the franchise,
of the coaching staff, of his teammates. Now to his
as he said, he also holds himself to that standard
because he keeps himself in incredible shape. But yeah, it's
tough because you know he's gonna hold you to a
(17:50):
certain standard. And you know that again, Lebron is a
system unto himself, and so he's like Kyrie didn't like
standing in the corner and waiting for Lebron to create
a shot for him, you know. And so there are
Chris Bosh obviously one championships with Lebron is a group,
(18:11):
great friend of Lebron's. But he even acknowledged, Hey, it's different.
You better get used to it, Kevin Love, you know. So,
so that's not a secret. I mean you know that,
like God's no, it's not necessarily easy to play with Lebron,
but it's different than Kobe Bryant, and that Kobe was
a flat out scorer, and it might have cookee when
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Kobe does his thing, you might not see the ball.
With Lebron, You're going to see the ball. You're going
to get open looks, and you are going to be
a contender. Now, whether you get to the championship or
or when it is a different story, but you're going
to be a contender. You're going to get to play
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at the on the big stage in the playoffs, and
you're going to get a chance to shine offensively. You
won't be the number one guy, you might not have
the ball, you won't have the ball as much as
you may be used to, but you will get your shots.
And that's the difference. So yeah, some guys might not
want to do it, but other guys would precisely because
(19:20):
I can still shine with Lebron. I'm gonna get my shots,
i can score my point and I'm gonna be on
the biggest stage, maybe bigger stage and I've been on
throughout my career, So um yeah, I don't think it'll
be a deterrent to most players. That's the voice Chris Bruce.
Sorry can hearing weekends on Fox Sports Radio. Check them
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Last night, Steve Curry did something um that people are
reacting to, they're freaking out about, and I guess it's
new if you haven't been paying attention. There's all different
ways to coach a team. I didn't like that Brady
Hope didn't wear a headset when he was coaching Michigan,
(20:23):
and ultimately when he wasn't winning enough games, they fired
Brady Hoke and they pointed out that he wasn't wearing
a headset. There's a million different ways to coach football.
There are head coaches. Frank Raich, as you may have heard,
is going to be the head coach of the Indianapolis
Content is going to call plays. Some guys call plays,
some guys don't. Some guys are defensive guys and they
(20:48):
don't mess with the offense. Some guys are CEOs and
they don't mess with either side and they just manage.
That's just in football. Basketball is much the same. Some
guys micromanage. Some guys have an offensive coordinat or defensive
coordinator and they coordinate. Whereas the Golden State Warriors. I
(21:09):
know people think they're on autopilot. Luke Walton came in
one a ton of games. Steve Kerr's the fastest to
win two hundred fifty games. But there is coaching that
takes place there which goes counter to what you thought
you saw or what you may believe. You heard Steve
Kerr say after they blew out the Phoenix Suns and
he didn't coach in huddles here. Steve Kerr, in his
(21:30):
own words, explaining his decision. As coaches, our job is
to nudge them in the right direction, guide them. Um,
we don't control them. I don't feel like we focused
well at all the last months, and it just seemed
like the right thing to do, and I thought they
communicated really well, drew up some nice plays and it
was a good night. I told j afterwards, I said
that you know people may make a big deal of it,
(21:52):
and had nothing to do with with being disrespectful and
had to do with me trying to reach my team.
I have not reached them for the last month. Uh,
they're tired of my voice. I'm tired of my voice.
Jared Dudley said this ESPN Jared Dudley, Obviously, the Phoenix
Sun said this. It shows a lack of respect for
an opponent. And maybe right now we don't deserve respect.
(22:13):
When you keep getting beat by forty teams won't respect you.
But it's up to us to change that. I responded,
and I'll do so again here on radio. I don't
think this has anything at all to do with the
Phoenix Suns. Nothing. It's just a coaching technique. It's just
(22:35):
a coach. It's a leadership technique as well, you know.
And if you'd watched the Golden State Warriors, Steve Kerr
was struggling to connect with them, it said this is
there's a million different ways to try and connect with
players or trying to get players to connect with each other,
(22:56):
you know, in college, so oftentimes what coaches do is
they turn you against them. The coaching staff can be
so brutal, so negative that you end up hating the
coaching staff. But you know what it does psychology. He
gets the guys united. Yeah, they may be united in
their dislike for the head coaches, but that's okay. A
(23:18):
united team, even if united in their dislike for the
head coach, is still a united team. In this particular case,
Kurt knows ultimately it's his team, and it's one of
those things to where it's it's It's like Magic Johnson
constantly says Kobe is the greatest Laker ever. Now do
you really think in your heart of hearts, in his
(23:39):
heart of hearts, Magic Johnson thinks Kobe Bryant is the
greatest Laker ever. No, but you keeps saying it, keeps
saying it, keeps saying it, and people grow even more
respectful of you. Like man, that is really self deprecating
to put somebody else ahead of Magic Johnson. It's not personal.
It's strictly business. That's all Steve Kerrs doing. Steve, like, listen,
(24:01):
this is coaching. But coaching is just more about pushing
them in a direction, pushing them here, guiding them. Remember
who Steve Kerr played for. He played for lud Olsen,
who wasn't a heavy handed coach. He played for Greg Popovich,
but for a lot of people. But he played for
(24:22):
Greg Popovitch and one championships. And he played for Phil
Jackson won championships. And both can be caustic, can be sarcastic,
but both have kind of New Age philosophies into using
the mind, using the psychology of men to work for
the team, not against the team. That's all he did.
(24:46):
And so what happens is when you're on the other
side of a psychological movie, like well, he would never
change this trade this if it was the spurs, or
if it was the thunder, or if this was a
reaction then getting blown out by the thunder. So yeah,
he tried against the sons, and yet it only empowers
the guys more. But I think this is the nameless,
(25:08):
faceless opponent. Let's just adjust to us. Let's find a
way to where I get tired of saying the exact
same things in huddles, to where it becomes cliche. Let
somebody else do it. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Doug Gottlieb Show weekdays at three p m.
Eastern noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Heart Radio app. Well, he's a former just about everywhere.
He's Matt Barnes. He joins us an NBA champion Doug
(25:29):
Gotlip show Fox Sports Radio. Let's start with, uh, last night,
what Steve curt decided to do? He said, he struggled
to connect with his team. They've been all over the map,
They've gotten blown out a couple of times, played better
the past couple of games, and obviously last night was
a get right game against just that terrible Phoenix Suns club.
But what's your reaction to him letting his players coach
(25:52):
the huddles. I love it. I think it's great. Uh.
Steve is one of those guys that it's looking you know.
He obviously always has it, you know, a great game
panel of the coaching staff, but he also allows me
to create within that, you know, so he has the
trusted Raymond that Katie, Andre, Sean Livingston, David West that
has funny of proveman evets you know what I mean.
So sometimes I mean, obviously it's a new tactics and
(26:13):
when when I heard about it and thought I loved
it because that Andre is a great basketball mind. Um,
but I Just think with this Warrior team right now,
it's it's it's not bored with the process, but it's
bored with the process at the same time, you know
what I mean, Like they know what they have and
know what they're capable of. Um. And these are the
dog days of the season, you know, uh, A month
before January February and then All Star Breaker the toughest
(26:33):
time to stay focused as a pro. So you know
they need to all start break to refresh and then
you'll see what they're about in Mark April. I guess
my only question about the Warriors is DeAndrea Aguadallas is
the Sean Livingston's the bench. Guys you've been able to
count on for the last three years. At some point
father time comes up and gets them. And Iguodala's production
has been way down this year. Do you think they
(26:55):
have the bench to have that same production in the playoffs?
I think if they're using Andre smart they know right
now doesn't matter, you know what I mean, whether his
minutes downs, productions down. They know what they have in him.
It's proven, um, you know, so they know that they
can rest him. They know that the most important thing
is being healthy in March and April not healthy in
(27:15):
January February. Um, you know what they're along with Nick Young.
You know, I've had to keep a few conversations with
Nick Young, you know, telling them that, you know, keep
your head in it. You know, coach knows that he
has in you and he's gonna meet you down the stretch.
You know, don't worry about MP's and stuff right now.
But they definitely have what it takes. They're are getting older,
but they still have one to say. Matt Barnes joining
us on the Doug Gotlip Show. LaVar Ball is talking
(27:37):
to a Lithuania reporters, like, look, if the Lakers don't
take Jello Ball in this year's draft, then you know
he said three years. Obviously, anybody who knows NBA contracts
knows that rookie deal for first round picks four years,
but that Alonzo won't re sign with the Lakers. If
you were the Lakers, how would you take this? I mean,
(27:58):
it's just amazing that it's like or even having this conversation.
You know, if this guy is is a mad genius
and equal genius and I'm not mad at I understand it. Um,
you know, I hope that you know, there's some rhyme
and reason really when you find the true meaning, because
you know Lonzo's I feel like he's gonna be a
star in the NBA. Um once you get the speed
under the men and be able to leave this franchise
(28:19):
for many years, you know, I mean, So I hope
something like that with effect that's happened. Um. But like
I said, I laughed when I heard it. I'm not
bad at it. I understand. I guess I understand it.
But like I said, I hope you know, cooler heads
prevail when it actually comes down too. Yeah, Like if
you're the Lakers, do you do you pay any attention
to it? Do you tell? You don't show it at all?
(28:39):
You know what I mean? You don't let someone's dad
dictate your franchise by any means. You know, when when
he was talking about Luke, I was, you know, I was.
I shook my head because look at the good guy
and I know Lucas various played together. Um, you know,
he under underfilled Jackson, under Steve Kerr. Luke can definitely
handle the job. They have to understand. You don't give
people time anymore, you know what I mean? If you
have a half to sleep in the book yourself. You know,
(29:00):
back in the day you had a few years. You know,
everyone wants everything now, So back to my point, you
don't let the father dictate your franchise, and I know
Magic won't let that happen. When when when the trade
was made, everybody, I think said, well, they got younger,
the Calves got more athletic, and obviously they played as
well as you can possibly play against the Celtics, who
played as poor as they can possibly play in a
(29:21):
Sunday blowout. But when the dust settles, when when everybody
gets back to figuring stuff out, are the Calves actually
better as a team in the playoffs with this group
than they would have been with the veterans that they jettison.
There's no question, and this is no disrespect to the
people they traded away, you know the ways the Hall
of Famer. You know, they had to make business cloves
for their franchise, But I love the moves they made.
(29:43):
They got younger and to meet what they did is
they got fresh energy in there, you know, I mean
with a bunch of old guys, sometimes you get them
placed in and you can, like you concerned on later
with these young kids. They don't know better, so they're
they're always on the tin and you need that from
the Jordan Clarkson, uh Larry's man Um. I love Rode
good Um and George Hill. There is a silent a staff.
You know, he came up under deep pop. So I
(30:03):
love all the FLEs they made to me. I even
though they went to struggles, I never overlooked him because
they have the Lebronz factor. You know, everyone was on
Boston's band wagon, and Boston is very talented. And what's
le Bron's done. It's Boston's Eastern Conference, but that Lebron
is in the Eastern Conference, so um. You know, to
see what they did is refreshing. I'm happy to the Brons,
you know what I mean. Whether he decided to stay
after this or lead, it's completely up to him and
(30:24):
I'm four. You get decision. But I love the moves
they made before the trade that month. Okay, what about
when you get to the playoffs though, as you know,
when you get to playoff basketball, it's just a different
level and generally guys have to have been through the
playoffs in order to perform well in the playoffs. You know,
you have two, maybe even three that haven't really played
at a high level in the playoffs. The Lakers Dandom
(30:46):
especially hadn't They haven't ever sniffed the playoffs. So how
does in terms of being in the playoffs, how does
it affect that? Um? Well, I mean, and that's the
main reason, like I said, and she hit my point
on the head, as you know, how can you look
at Boston's favorite fip, you know, because the only person
that's been there is Kyrie, you know. So with Lebraun,
you have Lebrauns, you have the bet because you have
j R. Spinth, you have Kyle Cornvers, you have Jeff Breen.
(31:09):
You have enough bets. And then like I said, I
don't know if I mentioned calf Lebraun, you know. And
then Kevin Love will be help Jeff Sistein Thompson. So
they have guys that have been there and done that.
And although if they added young new pieces, is enough
older pieces around them to really fall in line? You
know what I mean? I think Jordan Clarkton is ready
to fall in line. I think he's gonna be huged
down the stretch of them in the playoffs, because you mean,
he's one of the best coming off the bench scores
(31:31):
in the game, you know what I mean. So I
look for in a lot of him and like this
thing right into this So I love all the moves
they made. I don't see hey weaknesses and their team.
You know, hopefully the kids shook it together. They can
learn how to work hard on defense. And it's gonna
be a fun fun you know, it's gonna be a
fun stretch run, he said, fun finals. Do you think
I got myself? That's okay, You're allowed, dude, Like we're like,
(31:51):
the assumption is they play h if they match up
in the finals, do you think they match up well
with the Warriors. I just love the parodies, you know
what I mean. I love the fact said even though
where it's very top heavy one now, I love the
little Houston is making, you know, picking up Joe Johnson
and then someone that people don't even think about his
Brandon right, who is a constant channing tann guy, Allie
you catcher, rim protector, rebounder. Joe Johnson is one of
(32:13):
the best bets in the game. I really love him.
They're having fun. I talked to Chris Paul at the time,
and I'm so happy that he looks like he's having
fun and these guys are buying in and understanding what
it takes. So it's not gonna be a free walk.
I still the Warriors are still my team. I'm picking,
but it's not gonna be as easy as people think.
Once to come down to crush tie Matt Barnes, uh
NBA champion of course, joining us here on Fox Sports
(32:34):
Trading Matt, great stuff, dude, love your perspective. UMU, I
want to act to you. Ask you before I let
you go about your active dreamer something that you do.
I know this is a full time business for you.
It's not something that you just do on the side. Uh.
For people who haven't been following it, what is it?
It's I'm on a full time housele right now. Act
dream Is right Now is a blanky company that I
(32:55):
came on board about three years ago. UM. Steph Curry's involved.
One a good friend of mine named Jack who played
the NBA for a priestent is involved. And what we
do is we have a licensing to the NBA, so
we have all different you know, all the players in
the NBA we make blankets for um. We're in the
process we have the likeness, the likeness for the the
NFL players. We don't have this the team, Jeff, but
(33:15):
we're continuing to build. We're in tooss with the w
WWT now about getting professional wrestling. So we're basically doing
it is trying to provide like that set, blankets, hellos,
everything for kids, you know what I mean. So you
can have your favorite NBA, NFL, Major League player, European
soccer player, w W character, and then you can hope
and getting too Disneys. You know, your favorite Disney character
(33:35):
on your on your blanket, and we really think that
don't pray able to accomplish that and get to all
those major brands that it's gonna be a monster, all right,
So send me some of that Steph Curry blanket from
my kid maybe and get his jump. Uh yeah, no question.
We got funy of those. I'm sure you do. Matt,
thanks so much for joining us and I appreciate it. Doug,
thanks for having me. Bro Hi, It's Matt Barnes, u
(33:55):
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a Super Bowl with the New England Patriots. He had
this to say on Undisputed in regards to Lane Johnson
talking about the Eagles having fun and the Patriots having
none of it. You know, I like Lane, I think
(34:37):
he's I think he's a really good player, and I'm
happy that they finally that they wanted Super Bowl because
they definitely deserved it. But Um, for him to come
out and say our culture it's a fear culture base
makes no sense. He's never been in that locker room
or never really shared that coach or understand. Um. I
was one of the guys who created that culture in
that locker room and amongst the players. There is a
(34:58):
certain amount of pressure that we in it because we
wanted players to play and be accountable and be a
certain way, and a lot of times that locker room
ran the team and things that really get up to Belichick,
into the coaching staff and all that. So, I mean,
it's a certain way. I think you gotta conduct yourself,
and you gotta handle your business, and you gotta have
a certain work ethic um and they adhere to that
(35:21):
and they understand that there's a certain level that's expected.
If you're a free agency or or free agent or
you're drafted and you go there, you gotta you gotta,
you gotta fall in line because the system and the
machine runs a certain way. And if you go in
there and you handle your business and your professional and
you do your work, you're gonna have a lot of fun.
Like we had a lot of fun while we were there.
(35:41):
You know, it's the most fun thing in the world
having more points than the other team when the buzzer
sounds right, That's that's basically what Willia mc ginnis is saying. Now, listen,
I understand that there's a you don't want to feel
like you're going to a cult, like you're just a
cog in the machine that you can't have any sort
of personality. But I do think that the first part
that Willie said is accurate. Lane Johnson saying it's a
(36:05):
fear based culture when he's never played in that culture.
Is you know, anybody commenting about somebody else's workplace when
they've never worked there. I hear people say it all
the time about ESPN, where I used to work. Now,
I know it's changed some since I've been there, but
I was there for ten years. I was pretty well
aware of the culture that was there. As the CBS
for five years, I'm pretty well aware of the culture
(36:27):
that was there. And anyone who hasn't been there shouldn't
really be telling me about the culture of either of
the two places. Nor should you tell me about the
culture of Fox or Fox Sports or Fox Sports Radio.
But the most interesting part is what everyone's missing on this.
He talked about how guys have to handle their business,
(36:48):
how the locker room police itself has. Yes, there is
a more disciplined culture because they think that and and
the players being accountable. There's a relationship, a correlation there
between what Steve or did last night letting a team
coach itself and what Bill Belichick did on Super Bowl
Sunday not playing Malcolm Butler, and what did people in
(37:10):
our position set He's nuts, he costed himself a Super
Bowl he's an idiot. His ego has gone too far.
What is Bill Belichick doing? But what I told you
after that is what I'll tell you today. Bill Belichick
may have lost that battle in order to win the war.
May have lost that battle in order to win the war.
(37:34):
You can't win every argument. You just want to win
the ones that can that matter. And while you may
say STUDN Super Bowl doesn't matter by Bill Belichick's from
his perspective, sitting Malcolm Butler down is maintaining complete and
total control. If you want to say that's fear based, fine, fine.
(37:59):
That's like saying that we have the death penalty in
this country so so that people are scared to commit murder. Now,
it doesn't necessarily work out that way. I think it's
a proper punishment for a proper crime. But if it's
a deterrent for future guys to step out of line
in the super Bowl, then yeah, that's exactly. If that's
(38:20):
fear based, then fine. That's also setting up an order
of discipline and standing by it regardless of the game.
It's the hardest thing to do in sports. Knowing you're
hurting the team, you're hurting yourself. A chance of winning
a big game at the with the chance of doing
the right thing. And I don't believe that Bill Belichick
(38:43):
would possibly do that unless he knew that Malcolm Butler
had done something wrong and wrong enough or wrong enough
times to which he didn't deserve a shot to play,
even though other coaches would have relented. That's not who
he is, that's not how he rolls. And if that's
fear based and that's no fun. I understand it's not
(39:05):
for everybody. It's not for everybody, but it's one that's
gotten them to eight Super Bowls and it's really really
hard to question
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