The LeBron & Kyrie Break Up

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in and went to a Angel Doyer's Game three at
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Angels took two of three from your Dodgers. The cord

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A good game yesterday for the Angels. Yes he did.
Fellow Oklahoma State alum Andrew Haney had ten strikeouts over
seven innings, only really made one mistake. That was ya C. L.
Puigue after getting squeezed in the third inning by the
umpire and Puigue hit it up. Not not quite bo
Jack's Terry Show. Hey o Tani off the bench with

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a pinch hit showtime home run. Anyway, That's all we're
gonna talk about with Freeway Freeway Series Baseball. What the
All Star teams were announced? Sort of sort of it's like, oh,
here's the also teeth, but we're gonna name one more
guy and then we're gonna add some more dudes because
other guys that pull out right and eventually, as with

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the Pro Bowl, most of the guys who belong in
will belong in, but do they actually belong in? We
will clean up the mess which is All Star Game
selections later on the show. Um, But what I find
to be fascinating about Lebron a week later, a week
ago last week hosting this show, hosting The Dan Patrick Show,

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we were reacting to the news that Lebron James is
going to be an l a Laker, leaving behind Cleveland
the second time around. And what was fascinating was fascinating
is how everyone has over corrected for their past mistakes. Right, Like,

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in the past, Lebron has had a big show and
it's caused a big stir, and he's had a big article.
This time it was called the Lakers get on a
G five and fly to Europe with your wife. In
the past, Dan Gilbert has Um has gone Sherman and
burned everything down to the sea. This time it was hey, dude,

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thanks for everything, come back. Any time, everyone has overcorrected.
The Oklahoma City Thunder didn't want to go into the
tax famously with James Harden, so up until the time
to which they buy out Carmelo Anthony, they're a hundred
and fifty million into the tax. Forget about the salaries,
over three hullion dollars in salaries, and though they will

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save some money when they eventually part ways with Mellow,
the fact is they'll still be in the tax. They've
over corrected for their past mistakes. But what's what's the
most interesting part about relationships, quite honestly, is post divorce
break up stories, not how they broke up, but why

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no one shares the good stories about the marriages that
make it. They just don't. No one says like, yeah,
we're in year forty five of marriage. But man, for
the first thirty five years I hated her guts and
she hated mine. Now we sleep in separate bedrooms and
we just stay married. To say we stay married, but
he does that when you get divorced, and you have divorced.

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The reason that people don't go to court is they
don't want full disclosure. They don't want to know. They
don't want all of their idiosyncrasies on trial. They don't
want all their failures as a husband or a wife
to be made into public record, especially when your celebrities.
That's what's happened with Lebron. As he's left Cleveland. Every

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time he's left somewhere, you've gotten a little bit different
sense of who he is and what and and how
how you feel about it. Even Dan Gilbert, who by
all accounts seems to be a fairly miserable dude. Right,
He's worth like six seven billion dollars and people are
People will will say, well, look, he's miserable because his
NBA team. His NBA team just lost a substantial value

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evaluation because they lost Lebron James. Two things you should know. One, yes,
it will lose its value you, but they'll probably actually
make money this year as opposed to losing money going
into the tax the last couple of years. And two,
and this is really really important. The guy owns quicken loans.

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He's worth five billion without the team. Everybody wants to
make money and win championships and be competitive, and this
is an it's an ego thing to own a pro team,
but this is not his major, major source of revenue.
Don't worry about Danny boy, He'll be just fine. But
we start to learn more about guys, and I find

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the Kyrie Irving divorce, which is now almost a year
a year since it's been consummated. I find that to
be really interesting because here we are again with Lebron
James going to play with a young, unproven team. Right,
That's what happened when he went back to Cleveland. Sure,
he brought in Kevin Love and there were some other

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pieces that were added, but when he first went to Cleveland,
that was a young and very unproven team, and almost
overnight they were turned around. Jason Lloyd has has covered him,
so too is Joe Varton. Joe Varden's covering from Cleveland
dot Com, Jason Lloyd said, quote, I will freely admit
the relationship between James and Irving was worse than I thought.

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The Kyrie Lebron relationship was worse than I thought. I
told Lebron that on opening night. I said, you guys
did a great job of fulling me. I had no idea,
and I won't tell you exactly what his response was,
but he more or less agreed that it was not
a good relationship between the two of them. The little
brother thing did annoy the crap out of Kyrie. Joe
Varden Cleveland dot Com, also a local radio host. Lebron

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did all kinds of stuff to Kyrie, almost like hazing,
just the kind the way in which you would treat
a thing, way in which you would treat treat him,
the things he would say to him, the things he
would say about him. I think certainly that's part of it.
You know, Kyrie resented how much attention, how much power,
how much sway Lebron had within the organization on a
number of levels. Again, we've all allowed Lebron to say

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we shouldn't have traded Kyrie, but he did absolutely nothing
to keep him here until it was too late. When
it came out, there was a month, a whole month
before anybody had any idea that the trade was going
to be Boston. Lebron didn't do anything. There was no
love lost between them. These historical notes are really important

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because if this fails in l A, or if he's
not if it fails in l A, because because uh,
they're not good enough, Lebron James will somehow avoid criticism,
will avoid critique. Look, I don't know how much of
the blame Pie you want to go blame Pie Lebron
deserves for the fact that they didn't win more in Cleveland,

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they didn't win more in Miami, or what they will
do in l A. It's a no brainer for the
Lakers to go after Lebron. But but the part to
which you got to be cautious of, and I think
Magic and Rob Polinka are cautious of, is how much power,
how much pull? How much do you listen to him?

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If you don't listen to him, he will shut down
on you, he will pout on you. If you do
listen to him. Oftentimes that that can create a wedge
between him and whoever else is on the team, especially
a young star if you do listen to him, and
also lessens your power. Remember when you hear Dan Gilbert
say I got my team back, whether that's real or

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whether that's kind of in an inflated statement that some
have said they've heard Dan Gilbert say, you understand that.
Though Dan Gilbert can be small and petty, the fact
is there is some reality to it. Lebron is one
of those guys that wants things to happen, and then
when they happen, he acts like, oh what are you

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talking about? You know what Lebron does. You see it
in European soccer. You see it with the influence of
European players in the NBA. And if you've ever seen this,
where guys will be super super physical right with their
lower body, they'll stick out a knee, a hip, you know,
a groin, an elbow, and then when the ref's looking,

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they got their hands off, like what, I didn't do anything?
Do you know that? Look? You see it at times
on what do they called in soccer set pieces on
corners right where they're pushing, they're shoving, they're grabbing their
kneeing each other, they're elbowing each other, and the ref
looks like, what, I didn't do anything. I did nothing.

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That's really the European influence on the NBA. It's not
just the flopping, it's the using all different parts of
your body and keeping your hands where the refs can
see him, and then act like he didn't do anything.
That's Lebron. That's what he did with Kyrie. He rode Kyrie,
and then even after they won a championship, he wanted
Kyrie traded for his boy Chris Paul. When it came

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back around to him, he's like, what I didn't I
didn't do anything. I didn't trade him. I didn't want
him traded. I didn't want him trade to Boston. I
didn't want him. We were good, we were in the finals,
we came back from three one and then and then
you know, last year we lost to the Warriors. Like
what what He's done this with multiple coaches. He didn't
get David Black fired, but he didn't save him. He

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didn't get David Griffin fired, but he didn't save him.
If you want to say he didn't fire David Griffin,
that's fine. You can live by that lie. But the
truth is that if Lebron James picks up the phone
and calls Dan Gilbert and says, Dan, if you if
you don't resign David Griffin, I'm not playing this year.
Guess what. Guess who's going to be gainfully employed with

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the Cleveland Cavaliers. That's power. So I think the learning
from the dysfunction within the Kyrie Lebron relationship why that ended,
it also gives you clarity on Kyrie got so many
nonsensical lie He's told about Carrier, Well, he wanted to
be his own guy. He wanted to have his own show.

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I know from three sources. He want to go to places.
You want to go to San Antonio or Boston? Why?
Because he thought you could win there because they have
really good coaches. Wait wait, wait, he wanted to go
there because he'd be the face of the team. Not really,
he wanted to go there because those are professionally run organizations.
You don't have Lebron making calls going through Rich Paul,

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who represents half the team. Lebron's boy ends up being
the coach, and there's the can I coach him? Can
I not coach him? Are we're not going to practice anymore?
Because Lebron doesn't want to practice. So it's really hard
to get together and to have kind of one mindset
in a game. I'm not sitting here telling you Lebron
James stinks. Far from I'm telling you it's really interesting.

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What has he what he's become as a guy who
comes in and immediately energizes your franchise, give you a
chance to win a championship, fills up the arena, and
plays at as high a level as anybody's playing in
the last fifteen years in the NBA. There is a downside.
He's manipulative. Uh. And then he does this, Um, he

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does that that thing what's it called where he uh
where he does things without taking ownership over them. Remember
when Lebron said this, try to do whatever I could
do to help the kid out be the best player
he can be. And I wish the kid, wish the
kid great health. Um, and the kid wanted to do

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it was best for his uh, I guess for his career.
And you know, I try to do whatever I could,
just try to help the kid be as great as
he could be or as great as he wanted to be.
And uh, you know, and that's it. Yeah, words do
in fact matter, Okay, they do matter. And though he
may think calling Kyrie Irving a kid is a way
of expressing Amen, he's only at the time, I'm twenty

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five years old. Now he's twenty six, got a world
in front of him. You can play for ten more
years at a super high level. When you're twenty five
years old, when you've hit the game winning shot in
Game seven of the NBA Finals, when your perennial all
start a member of Team USA. You know what I'm
not anymore. I'm not a child. So as we look

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back to what happened in Cleveland, it's like reading divorce proceedings.
You know, I have no doubt in my mind. I
said this on my show and on Colin Show last year.
I would tell you the nail and the coffin had
nothing to do with basketball. With him and the Cleveland Cavaliers,

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Lebron James came out in full support Hillary Clinton, and
Dan Gilbert put his money and and and support behind
President Trump. Have you want to tell me like that
doesn't happen. How many relationships have you lost over this presidency?
How many friendships have you lost? I guarantee at minimum one,

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and there is no maximum even if you haven't told
your friend, they're not your friend anymore. I'm guessing there
are people just post something on on face on your
Facebook page. Either side. You will lose a couple of
friends over this. That's how we become. And when you
already kind of don't like the guy, when you're not

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able to keep guys in town, when you're kind of
fried on the place that you grew up in, you
came back and won a championship. There's another team that's
just better than you. There's just a limitation of the
guys around you. And then you're that politically divided with
the guy you're collecting checks from and making money for from.
Keep in mind, Lebron James is making as much or

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more playing for Dan Gilbert playing in the NBA. But
how Lebron sees the world, he's a man, he's a leader,
He's an alpha. Every one else benefits from his presence.
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M hmmm, I have so I have. I have ideas

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um Ramo's ideas on how to fix the horrendous All
Star Game selections we have every year. Let's hear when
you get a chance, because I'd love to hear those. Well, Okay, look,
the first thing, there's a couple of things we have
to establish that baseball has in fact changed. I'll point
out that Baseball has changed for the better. I watched

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highly entertaining Angels Dodgers game which did not take three
hours last night. That was a great game. There were
two The replay system is is pretty fast, right, it's
pretty fast, pretty efficient. Um the thirty second clock in
between batters, I think it is pretty good. I've always
I continue to believe that the idea that you have

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to warm up a picture once he's warmed up in
the bullpen? What the hell is the bullpen for? There
isn't another sport, Like they don't do that in basketball, Like, oh,
you're checking in? Hold up? Wait wait wait, wait wait wait,
Jamal Crawford's coming in off the bench. Jamally wanna get
a couple of shots up? Just get like when you
get five, get five shots. Okay, now we're good, everybody,
let's play. So there are ways to continue to speed

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up the pace of the game. But base baseball has changed,
and many it for the better. The All star selections
have not. It's getting worse, and I'll point out why here.
In fifteen minutes, Chris Mannox joins This Life from Las Vegas.
Of course, menis isn't now an NBA inside for Yahoo
Sports You can also hear him on Fox Sports Radio
noon to three Eastern Time, along with NBA champion Corn Butler.
Right here on Fox Sports Radio, Manis, We talked last

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week about Lebron James joining the Lakers, but it's totally
different when you go to Vegas because you're surrounded not
only with all of your media brethren, but with all
the NBA players, the NBA front office people. What's the
league's reaction to the Lakers and what they've so far
put around Lebron James, Well, it's it's a healthy dose

(18:12):
of skepticism. I think Doug with um with this group.
I mean, there's a level of understanding about what the
Lakers are saying it's going to mean with this group,
but a lot of doubts about what's gonna come from it.
I mean, look, one thing we know is that the
Lakers practices are gonna be great. Like you've got intense guys, Rondo, Stevenson, Lebron.

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They're gonna change the culture of Los Angeles. But I
mean a whole bunch of non shooters. I mean, that's
that seems strange. I mean, Lebron, I look, I understand
the need to take the ball out of Lebron's hands
to ease his burden a little bit in that way,
but he's still gonna get double teams and he's gonna
be throwing the ball out to guys that can't shoot.
So skepticism is a word I'd use that that a

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lot of people are having around here. Um, DeMarcus Cousins
signs with the with the the Warriors of NBA. Twitter
goes crazy handing them the trophy, and then the reality
is that twofold Mannix one, he ain't gonna be ready
until Marche two, even if he is healthy. As much
as you would think, it's additioned by at addition, it

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dramatically changes them some for the better, but the potential
is some for the worst, specifically the defensive end of
the floor. What's the league's reaction as of now to
what the Warriors are doing in reconstructing outside of the
Hampton five. Yeah, I mean, look, it's there's a level
of incredulousness that that de Marcus Cousins mostly was willing
to take this type of contract. But we all know

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the offers out there for a big contract weren't there.
I mean, look at your concerns were valid Doug that
you know, how is he going to defend he doesn't
have a great defender anyway, how is he gonna defend
when he comes back? But the reality is, I mean,
if if he's not effective, Jordan Bell will step in there.
He's gonna be at most five minute per game type
of guy with this team. They don't believe that he's

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gonna gripe about his role because he knows what's at
stake for him, uh in this coming off season. So
there's you know that there's plenty of optimism amongst the
people in Golden State that they've got themselves an absolute
steel here, and you know, a lot of conviction I
think from other NBA people that it's gonna work out,
just flying with Cousins, who's really just replacing you know,
JaVale McGee and Zaza Patulia. I agree with you. But again,

(20:24):
we're you're we're we're thinking that DeMarcus Cousins, during his
time off and rehabbing, he is going to be Are
we assuming he's gonna be okay with those minutes? Right? Like?
Are you gonna be okay with starting and then coming
out of the game? You know, can can can he
play when he doesn't have the basketball. I think, I think, though, Doug,
I mean, a lot of this has been conveyed to DeMarcus.

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I mean when when Steve Kerr and Bob Meyers found
out about this, I think they had a pretty frank
conversation with DeMarcus Is representatives about what his role was
going to be. And I think this is all a
long game for DeMarcus. He's got a chance to get healthy,
he's got a chance to get a ring, he's got
a chance to maybe rid himself with some of the
toxicity that's around him. I think he's going into this

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with his eyes wide open. Where are we with Kawhi
Leonard Nowhere? Really? I mean, you know, I'll sell you
this much. There are teams out there that believe that
they have an offer san Antonio would accept, but they're
not going to make those offers because of the contract
and the health of Kauai. And that's kind of, you know,
sort of the stand still we've been stuck at at

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this point. The spurs from the people I've talked to
you that have have contacted them still showing no sense
of urgency to make this deal. The guests is still
before training camp, they make a deal involved in Kauai.
But at this point, uh, nobody has any idea where
he's gonna end up. Where do you think he ends up?
I still think they'll find a way to make it
deal with the Lakers. I think the biggest question, Doug

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and you know you're you're out there in l A.
You you know a lot about this is well. I
think the biggest question is draft considerations. I don't think
the Lakers would blink about anybody on that roster. You
want Ingram, you want Kuzma, will make that deal how happen,
but how deep it is the well of draft picks
you go, especially with one or two lurking out there
as a potential uh you know, a year without the

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one and done rules. So I think that's what's what's
scaring a team like l A off or making a
big offer. Yeah, I'm gonna disagree with you. I don't
think I think they would. I think Ingram, you know
Ingram or Kuzma, preferably Ingram, they would be They would
be okay parting with um and then maybe one other guy.
You know, the problem is the more they see Josh

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Hart tear up summer lady the more they like Josh Hart.
But I could see one or two guys and a
draft pick. But yes, I think it's a combination of both.
You don't just you don't. You don't need to move mountains,
especially when again, even as much as you want Kauai
and he probably wants to be there, there's other guys
that you can get if you're a year away anyway,

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and you don't have to give up all of these
resources to get them. Sure, no, I completely agree with that.
I would say though, that counting on Kauai to come
del A next summer, I wouldn't do that because I
don't even think that Kawai Leonard's conviction about coming del
A is as strong as Paul George's was. I mean,
if Kawhi Leonard was fully healthy last season, I don't

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think we're having this conversation. I think he signs that
five years super Max and you know he's still the
San Antonio spur So. I don't know that he's in
love with the idea of coming to play for the
Lakers as much as even Paul George was. That's why
maybe there is if the Lakers are fixated on him
and think he's the perfect compliment to lebron Uh. There
is an urgency to get a deal done Chris Mannix

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joining us on The Doug Gottlib Show. There's talk of
Jimmy Butler being at his wits end with Carl Anthony
Towns as Cat is a little bit of a different
guy like some of these younger guys. What's the reality
to it, see buy in for another year in the
Twin Cities. Yeah, I just you know, look, if it
was another team run by somebody else, I might think

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it's more likely that a Jimmy Butler gets moved. But
that's just that's just not how Tom Thibodeau operates. I mean,
he is constantly in the sort of win now type
of mode. He loves Jimmy Butler, he traded for Jimmy Butler,
and I think it's more likely we see like the
Bulls Band get back together with Joe Kim Noah winding
up out there, or you know, somebody else from that
two thousand and eleven Bulls team winding up in that mix.

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You're you're right, it is. There's a very clear difference
in in style and difference and attitude between the veterans
the tips brought in and the young guys that are
currently there. Can that bridge be kind of connected over
the next six eight months. I don't know, but I
don't think that Jimmy Butler is gonna be moved in
that time period. I was told, and Chris Mannox joining

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us and of course caused Boston home. I was I
was told that a lot of these stories about Kyrie
just untrue, Like even the list that he's of teams
from last summer. He really wanted San Antonio or Boston.
He wanted stable, well run, well coach organizations. Yeah, he
wanted to be the guy. But I I think it's
it's it's one of those things where he just didn't

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love the dysfunction and the top heaviness in the way
in which you know, Frankly Lebron had such a big
hand in so much of what was going on in Cleveland.
But then these these stories continue to the spiral to
the Weldon. You know, next year he could end up
in New York. For next year he ends up in Brooklyn.
What's the reality to Kyrie and his relationship with the Celtics.

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I think the relationship is strong. The relationship with Brad
Stevens is even stronger. But the reality is that Kyrie
is a different kind of guy and and nobody can
really get a great read on them. Now you talk
to people with some people thin the Celtics express confidence
about him coming back, signing a five year deal, but
there are others that will tell you that there's real

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anxiety about Kyrie and and one of the big, you know,
biggest piece of evidence of that is the likelihood they
hold on to Terry Rogier all the way through next season.
I mean, you would think that Terry Rogier, especially with
it likely being Marcus Smart coming back, would be a
luxury they could deal. They don't look at it like
that until Kyrie's name is on a contract long term.
I don't think they even think about dealing, uh, Terry Rosier.

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So I think that everything is good with Kyrie and Boston,
with Danny, with Bratt, with all those people. But you know,
the poll of New York, of playing in that New
York area, he's real for Kyrie Irving, and with so
many out teams out there, Doug with max cap space,
some with double max cap space, they're gonna be opportunities
for him not just go to a place, but the
team up made with somebody who wants to play with.

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How secure do you think Luke Walton is his head
coach of the Lakers. I mean, I look at and
and I don't really have any insight necessarily into his
relationship with Lebron and and everything else. But you just
have to look at it objectively and say, the front
office didn't hire him, and Lebron is a challenging player
to coach. I know Tyler said Lebron's easy, but that's

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a little bit misleading. I mean, in practice, maybe he's easy,
but Lebron consumes a lot of the basketball oxygen. He
has a lot of say and how a team plays,
He has a lot of poll Obviously with that front office,
I think Luke Walton has to win. I think he
not only has to get into the playoffs, but I
think he's maybe got went around in the playoffs in
order for him to remain as the head coach there.
They missed the playoffs, very easy to see a scenario

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where Magic and Lebron collaborate on finding the next coach.
I completely agree with you, they missed the playoffs or
or if it goes bad, and you're right, he's the
He's the one guy in that organization that was hired
by Jeanie, not hired by Polinka. Even the assistants were
hired when Polinka and Magic were there. Uh that said,
they do all think. I mean, he survived last season

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and LaVar stuff and and injuries and dysfunction and and
end up looking like a guy who looks like the
real deal. We will see moving forward. Chris mannocks joining
us here on the Doug got Leave Show on Fox
Sports Radio. So what's left Clint Capella's left out there? Like,
what else is out there? Well, you know, Capella gets
done because you know, even if somebody offers him a

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four year max, Houston's gonna match you. Right now, they're
you know, kind of going through the minutia and trying
to find a way to to make it more team
friendly with that deal. But he's gonna wind up back
in Houston. The questions that are out there are guys
like Marcus, Smart, guys like Rodney Hood and those the
people within those uh for those players, their reps. They're

(28:10):
kind of looking at Sacramento right now. I mean, Sacramento
is still a team with some flexibility, as you saw
with the completely crazy zach Lavine contract that they offered.
Crazy for them because they've already got a bunch of
young two guards in that mix. They're willing to do
nutty stuff sometimes. And there are people, in the case
of Smart, people within Sacramento that really like him. I
could coming after him with some type of offer sheet.

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But those are the two guys that maybe I don't
want to call them difference makers, those Smart certainly is
one in Boston. Those are the two biggest names still
the workout great stuff. Chris mannis check him out Sundays
with Karon Butler at noon Eastern time until three Eastern time.
And of course Red is working out. Whose sports follow
him on Twitter? Uh well, let me let me go
one last thing. Uh most disappointing rookie so far summerly.

(28:58):
Everybody is running away from Trey Young like like he's
the Titanic thinking right now, I mean, he's really bad, Chris.
Chris was bad. I've watched all four games. It was
it was bad. I know he hit shots against the Nicks,
who was not good. But I'll even tell you that,
you know, and I haven't talked to anybody was in Atlanta,
But people that have talked to Atlanta. I'm starting now here, like, well,

(29:20):
it was he wasn't our guy, he was this guy's guy.
You know how that goes. It was more you know
this guy up tops at this about Tree Young. At
this point, you don't know who was behind Trey Young.
Hopefully it's just you know, a freshman coming out and
being too overly hyped and he works out, but he's
the one guy that's that's drawing the most attention in
a negative way. Great stuff as always, Man Chris Mans
from who Sports, Thanks Mannox got it. Max would be

(29:42):
at the Blackjack table about two am tonight if you
if you need him, he's he's He was one of
the guys that Rounds was written about. It just let's
just he was like five when Rounds came out. Let's
just be honest. The gas Man's here, right, Let's get
to David gas Gun find out what's going on in
the world's sports table. He got I thought he was
a craps guy, but if he's playing poker, I do

(30:02):
not want to be on the other side of him
in case he's Teddy KGB. But anyways, National Football League
News a couple of notes here former Lions tied in
Brandon Pettigrew was arrested today for aggravated assault, theft of services,
and public drunkenness in Pittsburgh. It was alleged was involving
a limo driver in a ninety seven dollar fair. Now
we're not done just yet. Speaking of arrest, former Seahawks

(30:24):
quarterback Brendan Bauer was arrested Laverne, California for kidnapping, burglary,
false imprisonment, violent and restraining orders. Brandon Browner, the cornerback
for US Seattle and the Patriots. How many it was kidnapping, burglary,
false imprisonment, and violent and restraining order. So four charges.
So this is let me let me guess because it

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sounds really bad, right, yes, and it's not good, okay.
But kidnapping that can just mean that you you go
into somebody's house and they didn't even if you had
a key where you cut doors open, and you're like,
you're like telling, then't leave even you say you want
to talk, right, So can I add to it now?
But burglary can be like you took back your stuff

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or something you got for him, like you back my
stuff and then you know you push over a trash
like there there are explanations for it. But that's a
lot of charges. So you're hot on one of them
and you're cold on one of them. So police said,
Brown are allegedly physically harmed and then threatened to kill
a woman after breaking into a home shortly after ten
am yesterday. But the other kicker, he also allegedly stole

(31:29):
a Rolex watch that was valued at twenty dollars before
leaving the house. Yeah, that sounds to me like he
got her a Rolex and then he snatched the Rolex
up while walking out of the house, right like, give
me give me that back. Ten o'clock in the morning
of the Sunday unreal, um NBA news. I know you,
You and Chris were talking about this. I I just
here's the here's the thing. Look, and I'd like to

(31:50):
think Brandon Brown, like, You're not gonna kill anybody. But
here's the here's the thought. Fellas, who are these people
who say like I'm gonna kill you Like that's obviously
your relationship is no longer salvageable once you Once you
out of those words, well, what's the what is the
point You're not going to do that you only open
yourself up to scary charges. I just it's the type

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of thing like who says, I know there are people
that have said that. I know there are and I've
never been in one of these. There are people that
are in these dysfunctional relationships where they argue and then
they they get physically, then they make up and you're
like it's hot. Like no, dude, no, you can't say
I'm gonna kill you even if you don't mean it. Yeah. Period,
no questions, no no problem. In the n b A

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USA today is reporting Clint Capella is not happy with
this contract negotiations with the Houston Rockets. I know you'll
get to this later on. But in Major League Baseball,
Tampa Bay has activated picture Chris Archer from the d
L and thirteen starts this year. He's just three and
four with the e r a of four. Both New
York teams have doubleheaders today. Yankees are in Baltimore, Orioles
have lost sixth straight. Mets get the Phillies in Queens.

(32:56):
And at Wimbledon today, Roger Federer and Raphael Nadell won
their four with round matches and straight sets. Federalal has
won thirty two consecutive matches and counting, excuse me, a
three or two consective sets and counting at Wimbledon. He
was supposed to be washed up, like four years ago, right, exactly.
He hit thirty thirties. You know, thirties is washed up

(33:17):
in tennis. It's like running back there, like a running back. Yeah,
it's exactly it. And Serena Williams continues to dominate a
year after her pregnancy and child. She wanted straight sets
today along with Angelie Kerber, not even a year, not not.
When did she give birth to the baby? You know, Ramos,
Ramos sent her a gift? It was very nice of you,

(33:37):
It was very nice of you. It's Serena sent you
back that really nice thank you card. Right, didn't didn't you?
You don't you don't remember, Serena Williams. When was the
birth of her child? I'm gonna go with it was
like five six months ago. That would be crazy. Um,
it's Alexis, I believe is their daughter's name. No, No,
Alexis is her husband's name. Yes, and Alexis. The kid

(34:02):
is also named Alexis. Do we have any idea that
ten months ago? All right? Ten months he's fine. Some
of these moms are unbelievable right, Like you'll see him
at at like a workout. Like the babies. The baby's
like still like the thing on their belly button hasn't
even fallen off, and they're like ripped up with her
at like. Some women are incredible. The Jets Leantter their

(34:24):
star quarterback in the draft. Is that a big deal?
Little deal or no deal? I'll tell you next. Car
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I'm back on the fizzy stuff. I'm back on the kombucha.
Kambucha translates roughly roughly into a flavored durine, but it's

(35:05):
organic flavored durn so I'm told there are some health
benefits to it. Um RAMASO want to share this with you.
I get emails oftentimes from young broadcasters who they know
they don't want Collins email kidding, maybe looking for your
sage advice. So so this dude named clay Ables uh

(35:28):
emails me. Hello, this is clay Ables. I'm a student
broadcaster Indian University. I've done work with the A, C,
C and SEC network. It really admire your work. Mr
gottlib G O T L. I know L E I B.
Is there any chance I could ask ask someone some
ask some broadcasting advice and like, listen, I'm not a
bit I'm not a very good speller. If you follow
me on Twitter, you know, like I'm kind of a

(35:49):
horrendous speller. But if you go through the mental gymnastics
to email me, my name is on my email address.
So I don't know how you go from my name
on my email address to completely and totally butchering my
name went in the actual meat of the email. So

(36:12):
do I respond about the spelling or I just brush
it off and asked him to fire away. Of course
I responded about the spelling. That's who I am. My
email back, Sure spell my name on the same on
your note as you did the email address. Kidding sort of,
Let's get to a game Okay, this is game time

(36:36):
side on the Doug Gottlieb Show summers here, which means
it's time to get to the ballpark. But without a
working car battery, you'll be watch him from the couch. Luckily,
auto Zone offers free battery testing, so you can be
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can't lose getting the zone auto Zone. The gas man,
David gascon, what's the game today? Shall return with big deal,
little deal, no deal. So let's do this your New

(36:58):
York Jets. Josh mccollun thinks the Jets got it right
by drafting Sam Donald at a USC, telling serious x
M NFL. With Sam, we have the right guy. He's
wired the right way, he loves the game, he asked
the right questions, and he's willing to work. That's the foundation.
You have to have that end quote. So, Doug, is
this a big deal, little deal or no deal at all?

(37:19):
It's a big deal. It's a big deal. Remember, Josh
McCown was the stabilizing force. Even even said as much.
Um who was Johnny Football said it, look about Josh
mcown was there my first year instead of my second year.
I would have survived. I think it's it's two fold. One,
he's got McCown there to be the starter until he's ready.
Accounts a great dude, a great mentor. But to mccowns

(37:40):
saying like the right buzzwords, you know, it's like the
bachelorettes on tonight, right, are in it for the right reasons.
He's Sam Donald's in it for the right reasons, totally invested.
If McCown says it, I truly believe it. That's a
that's a big deal, speaking of the right reasons. Big deal,
little deal, or no deal at all. On this Houston
Rockets are considered favorites the Land Carmelo Anthony accordable lot

(38:00):
of Houston's minus one forty, Lakers plus two seventy five
and the Miami Heat plus eight fifty. That's addition by subtraction,
or so that's subtraction by addition with Houston. Right, Trevor
Reasa could not make a shot in Game seven the
NBA Finals, and yet I'd rather have Trevor Reesa then
have Karmelo Anthony. He's got the opposite of whatever the

(38:21):
Midas touches, right, Remember King Midas, every touch turn into gold. Yes,
you know that Pupamji. That's what I see, Karmelo Anthony.
He's not He's actually not a bad dude. He just
can't play defense and and he didn't played events for
a long time. Bodies not great, not a great three
point shooter needs the ball, ball stopper, and that's not

(38:41):
what they need him for. I don't love it. That's
a that's that is a big deal. All right, Let's
go to Portland. Damian Lillard responded to reports that he
wanted out of Portland and said, quote, I'm not unhappy.
I love where I live. I love the organization, I
love our coaching staff, I love where I am and quote,
ya see it. Look here is the thing. I think
that is a big deal. And I buy it. If

(39:03):
you read back to the tweet which made people believe
Damian little wanted to be traded, all he said was
I'm always happy. That's all he said. That's the problem
with Twitter is like, oh, he said he would be happy. Now,
he just said he's always happy, always, always always. Rondo
thinks the Lakers the team who can possibly take down
the Golden State Wars. He told the Athletic we might

(39:25):
have a roster where there's five ball handlers on the
court at one time, five guys that can play, make
and create offense for each other, versus just one dominant
ball handler. I think it's kind of crazy if you
think are an outshoot Golden State at this point. So
I have to think of other ways that you can
have to try to beat those guys. I think we're
gonna try to crack that code. End quote. Big deal,

(39:46):
little deal or no deal at all, Doug, it's a
big it's a big deal, and people are missing it. Okay,
what is missing from the Lakers roster? A small ball five.
Who's our small ball five? Was Julius Vandal last year?
Who's our small ball five? Oh, Lebron James. Remember Lebron
James gonna play in the post? Right that when that

(40:07):
what was what was said as part of the sale.
Gonna play faster, gonna play in the post. That's the
big deal. Lebron James will be their small ball five,
not their starting center. That will be JaVale McGee, and
that will allow him to have better matchups as he
ages offensively, instead of matching up with the twos and
the threes. The best athletes on the floor he's matching
up with a Draymond Green who's always gonna be a

(40:29):
better athlete. Then is game time on the Dug Gotlieb Show.
All right, more thoughts in Lebron is a small ball
five plus. We're doing it again with the All Star Game.
I'll fix it. Don't worry. It's next. Doug Gotlip Show, Boom,
What up America, Doug Godlib Show, Fox Sports Radio. We

(40:53):
are broadcasting live from the Sun. We're not the Sun.
Why does it feel like we're broadcasting from the sun. Oh,
it's the valley essentially the same thing. I hope you're
doing well. I hope the a C is working wherever
you are. If you don't know anything about southern California,

(41:13):
I'll give you. I'll give you a quick kind of uh,
give you a quick kind of rundown of it. Right
the base in the l A Basin, that's where downtown
Los Angeles is. It's actually a basin, Like if it
rained here, the water would feed into the basin. Doesn't
really rain, but if it did, it would feed in
the basin. Okay, So south of Los Angeles is Orange Counties,

(41:38):
where I'm from. There's several different parts of Orange County,
Inland Orange County, coastal Orange County. Just like when you
come up the coast, there's the South Bay that's places
like Manhattan Beach, Torrance where our boy Um Ryan Music
resides when he's not living in sin Um. And then
of course as you come up towards Lost, you have

(42:00):
Los Angeles. You have West Los Angeles, West l A.
If you will, west Wood where U C. L A is,
you go on the other side of the four oh
five north of L A X. For many of you
fly into Hey. Now you get super high out Santa Monica,
Brentwood where Lebron calls home, Pacific Palisades, Malibu. And then
there's the mountains or the hills. Actually for for the

(42:24):
West coast, you go over one of those hills, the
Sepulvata Pass, and you're in the San Fernando Valley, which
has three things I love, smog, traffic, and heat, especially
in the summer. Kidding, of course, I'm just kidding with
our friends go around here, live in the valley. Anyway,
I hope you're having a great weekend watching the doubleheader

(42:45):
Mets and Yankees doubleheader. Were also got Summer League on
so we'll keep you updated. Also got some thoughts on
Carmelo Anthony and what type of friend he is. Quickly,
something I said last hour, I just tweeted out this hour.
If you want to know what the Lakers plan is,
you have to look at their roster and you might

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be sitting there going like, I can't figure it out?
What are they doing? Lebron has always had the ball,
and they've always had uh one of two types of centers, right,
he had the Birdman, or he had Tristan Thompson, those
type of guys, guys that can't shoot, can't score, just
work hard, block some shots, get some dunks, don't need

(43:30):
the basketball. Was a Joel Joel Anthony also early on
with the heat. Remember left handed shot blocker Dunker never
shot the basketball, just dunked around the basket, block shots.
So he'd have a rim protecting big guy, or he'd
have his power forward Chris Bosh Kevin Love, who could
be a stretch five. Right, that's how. And then he's

(43:51):
tried to surround himself with as many shooters as possible
to keep space for his drives. And then he needs
one additional playmaking ball handler, Dwyane Wade first in Miami
and then Kyrie, Irving and Cleveland. So by most people,
most people thought like, all right, your come to l A.
You just do the same thing. All right, Let's get

(44:13):
another ball handler, let's get a bunch of shooters, get
get a stretch five, and then let's go. But there's
a couple of things. One, there's a limited market to
Lebron James is not the same athlete he was previously.
And the league continues to change and evolve. So you

(44:35):
start to look at their roster and you like, Julius
Randall had a good year statistically last year, and when
Julius Randall was at his best offensively, it was coming
off the bench. As the small ball five. Everyone in
the NBA is looking for a small ball five. Everyone
wants a Draymond Green. How do I get a guy

(44:55):
who's I don't know, anywhere from six four six five
to six ft eight, who can shoot all enough, handle
all enough guard posts, and guard big guys, then we
can switch everything right, go and look in the NBA.
P J. Tucker is kind of the small ball five
a little bit for the Houston Rockets. Draymond Green, of course,
is is synonymous with the small ball five. The Lakers

(45:18):
have one yes to do. His name is Lebron James.
That idea, it's so right in front of you, so
genius because instead of having Lebron being guarded by and
matched up with some of the best small and power
forwards in the league, it really aren't any power forwards anymore.
You want him matched up with the centers. You want

(45:40):
the you want when they play the Warriors, you want
either DeMarcus Cousins or Draymond Green to guard En, not
Kevin Durant Roandre Goodala, That's the whole idea. When they
play the Rockets, you you want. You don't want a
Trevor Ariza Gardener. Obviously Trevor is not gonna guarden. Do
you want somebody bigger because that it gives him an

(46:02):
athletic advantage that he's going to lose some against players
of like size or smaller as he gets older. Look
at their roster, it tells you everything of what they're
planning to do this the dug Outlip Show on Fox
Sports Radio all Right. All Star Games selections were made yesterday.

(46:25):
It should be pointed out that these are only the
preliminary All Star Game selections. There will be additions and
addendums and guys that I can't make it. My my
wife is sick, my daughter is sick, everybody's sick. I'm hurt,
I'm banged up. Whatever. There will be some additions as
guys will be added to the roster. Plus then they
have the voting for the last guy in, right, Ramos,
don't they have the voting for the last guy in?

(46:46):
I think you're doing that right now, correct? Yes? Um? So,
all right, So there's there's there's some surprises, there's some snubs,
there's good arguing. The biggest snub in the a l
is Blake Snell, who uh Snell is a two point
o nine e r A on a terrible Tampa Bay team.

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He's also twelve and four hundred and thirty two strikeouts
in a hundred sixteen innings. The players got to pick
their own. They got Luis Servino, Justin Verlander, Garrett Cole,
Chris Sale, and Corey Klueber. It's hard to question any
of that group, right, Um. The must have guy was

(47:32):
Blake tiern In, who's five and one point eight one
e r A, twenty two saves, twenty four chances and
they have since shoed Shoo, who's fine but not really
an All Star. The biggest thing is this, the American
League is really hard because American Lead has got all
the good players, right. Um. And first thing is I

(47:59):
don't really understand. I don't understand actually at all why
every team has to be represented. Can somebody explain to
me why? Because I believe though it's a celebration of
the sport, we should be celebrating the best of the sport.
Jose Barrios, Jose Joe Jimenez, Like, do Joe Aimenez? Do

(48:21):
you know how bad he was last year? Last year
he had a twelve point three four r A, a
twelve point three four r A. Now this year it's
a two point eight five and he's pitched in forty
four games as a reliever. But like, really really so
to two things here in order to fix it. One,

(48:43):
most importantly, you don't have to have every team representative.
And you don't have to double up on every position.
You double up on catchers. But I mean this is
it should be an all Star team. The depth of
guys you need to have is that pitch a picture,

(49:03):
so you don't so guys don't hurt their arms. Right,
that's the big We can't have guys pitching too manyings
and an All Star game hurt their arms. I agree
with that, So load up on as many pictures as
you want, but you don't need to first basemen to
second baseman, two shortst like, this is not Noah's Ark.
It's an All Star team. And oh yeah, by the way,
if a guy gets selected as an All Star and

(49:25):
he's a short stop and he's a backup, like he
can play second base for the All Star why because
that's what you do in like Little League Baseball. All
these guys can play other positions. Does it mean it's
for a championship? No, So in in order three different
things one every team doesn't need to be represented. I

(49:48):
believe the reason they do that is the intent was
so that every different market would have somebody who would
draw eyes. Is there one person in Detroit that's not
named Menez? That's like, I wasn't gonna watch the All
Star Game, but Joe Amenez is pitching. Maybe at some
point in the sixth, seven, eight or ninth inning he

(50:10):
might throw to one hitter, So I'm gonna watch. It
just doesn't happen it doesn't happen. Nobody want people. Not
enough people watch the All Star Game anyway. No one's
watching the All Star Game to see a guy pinch
hit or to see somebody throw to one batter or
one inning. You watch the All Star Game because you're
baseball fan. You want to see the best guys play

(50:31):
baseball period. All stars should be stars. The roster should
easily be capped out. Okay, at like, I don't know
twelve position players, and then you can have I don't

(50:52):
even you have unlimited pitch. I don't care how many pictures,
but I want the best of the best. I want
to know who the best shortstop is. I want to
be the best star. Basement is best first basement, best
second basement? And then whoever the next best couple of
guys are somebody who want to play first base the
whole game final replace him, and you gotta have two catchers,
and you know what, you might go through two catchers

(51:12):
and you're the third one. I guarantee there's somebody who's
playing third pace, is playing the outfield that's played catcher.
Something I can catch you any like we act like
we act like you. These players can't do of course
they can. It would make it more fun for them
and more interesting to watch, and they just haven't playing
baseball game. We we so massively overthink this thing. It's ridiculous.

(51:34):
Every team doesn't have represented. Cut some of this roster down,
make it a true select group of the best the
best twelve position players in the sport. And then here's
the last thing. My belief is three factors in an
All Star selection. What have you done this year is important?

(51:58):
It does not. It does not trump what you've done
your entire career. And to me, I even think it's
the third most important thing. And what have you done
over the last twelve months? Let me give you an
All Star selection which I would call into question Matt Kemp.
And you might say to yourself, gott Leev, didn't you

(52:19):
go to the Dodger game? Don't you live in Los Angeles?
Doesn't doesn't Matt Kemp belong as an All Star based
on how he's played this year? Okay, sure, but Matt
Kemp was even supposed to make the Dodgers. Matt Kemp
had been an All Star previously, but last year Matt

(52:40):
Kemp was bad. How does that not factor in at all?
At all who's not good last year? He had a
negative war. Last year, A negative war wins above replacement.
Other words, they would win more games when he wouldn't
play than when he would play based on stats. Okay,
I know that war is a lot more complicated than that,

(53:02):
but two guys like me, the layman like wins above replacement. Wait,
he would they win less games when he plays then
he when he doesn't play. I believe you should factor
in the last twelve months, not just the first four
months of this season. What has he done since the
last All Star Game? So that's how I selected All

(53:22):
Star teams. John Ramos, your thoughts. You're a huge baseball fan,
you have well, I agree with you about the All
Stars as far as like Well, for instance, Matt camp
was voted by the fans, right, that's a fan. All
the starters are fan votes, aren't they. So so whoever
the fans vote in, that's I don't think it should
matter what they did last year. It's what they're doing

(53:43):
this year, and they're gonna be players. It's a popularity contest,
so there's always gonna be players left off the team.
You can go down the list in each of your hands,
of guys who should be on the Aulstar team that
aren't gonna make it. Uh. Hayes's Aguilar of the Brewers
has like twenty two home runs. Max Munsey of the Dodgers,
who is having a great season so far? Uh, I

(54:04):
mean Bryce Harper is betting what like one seventy But
of course I believe a home team should always who's
ever hosting the Altar Game should always have a player
on the team that should be just wow because they're
hosting the All Star team. I was, I was in
I was in Kansas City during the All Star Game
in Kansas City, And what's the dude's name? Country Breakfast's nickname?

(54:25):
He was in the home run derby Oh man, I
don't even think he's in the big I don't even
know if he's in the Biggs anymore. He's but then
he went to the A's Uh, what's the dude's name?
Country Country Breakfast was his nickname? Billy Billy Butler. Billy
Butler still in the league. It's a good question, right,

(54:46):
that's a great question. Billy Butler. Yeah, exactly, Okay, he
was a freaking All Star, wasn't he? He was an
All Star? Now in fairness, Billy Butler that year did
have an All Star season, and and we won't get
into this time, but stop with the r B I,

(55:06):
r B I or not. It's one of those stats
which for a hundred years people have looked at and
now we start to realize, like how many guys were
on base? You know, it's all about opportunity. But he
did have twenty nine home runs that year, which was
a career high. He did hit over three hundred that year.
But the point was Billy Butler, not one single solitary
soul in Kansas City watch the All Star Game because

(55:30):
Billy Butler's out there, Like, well, I wasn't gonna watch
for her. Billy Butler's gonna be gonna get a pinch
hit doesn't happen? John, Why does the home team deserve
like if if I and I don't know why the
Rays would deserve an All Star Game? But the Rays?
Why go throughout the crummy teams in baseball? If they
have a player who's worthy of it? Fine, it's the
All Stars. Has nothing to do with the city in

(55:51):
which it's played in, nor does it affect the Tendants,
nor does it affect people watching there's what we this is.
It just doesn't It's a complete, be made up thing
that was made up a long time ago, and maybe
maybe thirty years ago. It used to be real when
you couldn't see every baseball game. Now you can if
you want to. You can watch every baseball game on

(56:12):
your phone. If you want to, you can watch it
on your laptop. If you want to watch your iPad,
you can watch it at home. I see those guys enough.
I don't want to see this guy, especially my team sucks. Well.
I do agree with you that you don't have to
have every player of every team representative. That I do
agree with you don't need that. I don't know why
they started that. I think it was just to please
every single team and they put a team on it.

(56:33):
But but I I still think you should have a
player of the host city on the team. That's all.
That's the only thing. Mhm. I don't think so. But
I mean, like, look, it's the Nationals. This one's not
hard to it's in d C. This one's not hard, right,
they got the best picture in baseball. That one's easy.
That it's harder when you get to some some of

(56:53):
the other teams. Eight seven, seven, nine nine Fox. When
someone tries really hard to convince me of something, you
know what it does. I'll tell you up coming next
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Now that's Progressive Call or click today. Oliver Luck just
around the corner. He's a new commissioner the XFL. Former
athletic director at West Virginia. He used to work with
the n c A and oh yeah, by the way,
damn good quarterback in his own right, and he fathered
one who uh won thirty three games his first three

(57:33):
years in the NFL. He goes by Drew or Andy
kidding doesn't go by Drew or Andy, although I'll ask
Oliver Luck, do you call him ever come true? Or Andy? Anyway,
Oliver Luck joins us up coming in just over five minutes.
Anytime you're trying to convince me of something over and

(57:55):
over and over again, what's your reaction? You You you
may feel may feel like no, listen, I'm just somebody
really believes it, and they they believe what there's it's
like CrossFit guy, right, CrossFit guy never stops talking about CrossFit.

(58:16):
Let me tep a CrossFit and then CrossFit people hang
out around other CrossFit people and they tell you about
how great they are. We called what was your wad today? Yeah?
I ran five miles and did a hundred and fifty
million push ups. It's pull ups, did like eighteen thousand
burpees and um I did I vomited and then I
did three sets of curls, four sets of triceps and

(58:41):
didn't some flaws my ward work out of the day
if you're not. But it's one of those things to
which you'll have. You'll have people who do CrossFit and
and the reason I don't look I respect CrossFit guy.
Right CrossFit guy, CrossFit guy, like usually are they get

(59:02):
themselves super strong and really good shape. There is a
spirit to it. There is kind of like a Neanderthal like,
let's just go a lift and write stuff on the
board and chalk or an inkor let's just get after it.
But there are some cool things to cross it. The
reason I don't do CrossFit is a lot of pounding
in your joints. You know, I I did the Olympic lifts.

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I think the Olympic lifts are great. But I did
them in high school, I did them in college. I
did them as a professional athlete. I didn't You guys
didn't do them in college because you didn't have professional trainers.
So you're just coming around like, oh, these are they
make you more explosive, to make your body look really good. Yes,
but it's a lot of pounding on the joints, and look,

(59:46):
I had forty I'm like, I ain't doing that anymore.
Just not sorry, I don't want to do it. I'll
do pull ups, I'll do burpies, but it's the Olympic
lifts and I'm like, I just that's just too much
of my my joints. Basketball is hard enough on your ankles,
your knees, your hips, your back in terms of pounding
on joints, playing on pavement, playing on a hardwood, like,

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I just don't do it. But you'll talk to cross
the guy like, no, you know, it's actually it's actually
better for your joints, it's better for your links. Let
me tell you why all these things you're doing. If
you stretch right, if you work out right, you're getting everything.
Like all right, the more you tell me that the
more I know, it's really not all right, It's really
not It's it's like it's like NASCAR guy, NASCAR guy, like,

(01:00:33):
you know, listen, you all got us all paid wrong.
I think it's all white and all red. Nick is
incredibly diverse round, you know. Then you go to I've
been to NASCAR event. It's incredible, honestly, super super incredible.
But um, you know, not a lot of faces of color,

(01:00:55):
not a lot of diverse thought. And you will find
more people per capita that'll fly the rebel flag and
be like, what Southern heritage? Right? What are you trying
to convince me of something? I know it to be
the opposite to be true. That's what Tyler lou is

(01:01:17):
trying to do with Lebron James. You heard this Tyron
louip Apparently it happened I think earlier today, maybe yesterday,
where Tyler was like, hey, I want to get together
with Luke Walton kind of talking about coaching, what it's
like to coach Lebron James. I just want to let
him know the s people say you read Bronze not

(01:01:39):
like that, like they make it seem like he's hard
to coach, Like he's hard in the organization. He's nothing
like that. That's the most important thing I want to
convey to him. He's not like that. My biggest thing
is the zoo comes from the outside media. It's not
really coming from within. Because everybody he deals with, Maverick, Carter, Ray, ma'ams,

(01:02:00):
all those guys are professional, so it won't be no
problem for any of those guys. And Bron carries himself
the right way. So the biggest part of having to
deal with the meat, with the with the media scrutiny.
But he's not like that. I don't want people thinking
Lebron is an a whole or bronze this because he's not.
Bron is not hard to coach. He's not, although Tyron

(01:02:23):
Lewis said the opposite in the past, Right, look at
all the coaches that he's kind of he's run through
or he's challenged and oh yeah, by the way, if
Lebron is really easy to coach, why do you have
to give Luke the heads up? All right? Why do
you have to give the look the heads up? Like

(01:02:45):
you don't even need to call anybody, Well, Lebron's easy
to coach, so why did you need to tell me that, Wait,
you made this big thing that we're gonna get together,
so you can tell me Lebron's easy to coach, you know.
Look sitting there going like, wait, do you wint to
bribe Christo? And I guess I got him? Will win
more games the more you try and convince me, Tyrone Luther, Now,

(01:03:08):
Lebron he's not hard an organization, well every other organization
would say else otherwise doesn't mean they're not professional. But
the fact that they had Rich Paul represented half the team,
and Rich Paul is a dear, dear friend and business
associate of his biggest client, Lebron. Lebron James, that Maverick

(01:03:30):
Carter is around, that he has become a bit of
a mogul, like that they are as tight, tighter than
blood could possibly be. Like, you can say it all
you want, but the more you say it, the more
you try and convince me. It's like moving into a neighborhood. Oh,
the public schools are amazing, They're incredible. You gotta move

(01:03:54):
to our neighborhood. Hey, where do your kids go? They
go to the private, They go the private. Yeah, it's
basically what Tyrone Lou was saying. Hain't that tough an organization. Well,
he's tough at our organization, but he's not gonna be
tough on yours. If there were no issues with coaching
Lebron James, you wouldn't have to give anybody a heads
up ever. Go into a meeting, you're gonna meet with somebody,

(01:04:16):
have a dinner with somebody. If the person has a
quirky person, I just want to tell you, okay that
that's not a zip that he has, that's a birthmark,
Like who, thanks for the thanks for the heads up.
Nobody will say like, hey, I just wanna tell you,
like this guy totally normal, completely normal, talk about anything.
You don't do that. You know why, because you don't

(01:04:37):
need to. If he's totally normal. If he's a little
bit quirky, the guy you're meeting with is gay, well
he just wasn't. He just got done by a girl.
So nobody who's perfectly stable and easy to deal with,
you ever have to give somebody a heads up about.
I don't ever have to give anybody heads up with
Rama's how you're sitting there filling in for me? Yeah,

(01:04:58):
watch out for Ramas he's totally completely normal and seems
to have a great time at work every day. I
just want to let you know of that about John Ramos,
you know, tell him that why because it complete waste
of a conversation. Oliver Lucks, the new commissioner the x
f L. He'll join us in a moment. We got

(01:05:21):
home runs for the Yankees and for the mess I
mean the Mets. What you got for me, David Gascon.
Mets have just drawn even with the Philly Is on
his drouble Cabrera home run six of the year, Mets
and Phillies are tied one one. Have you ever been
to any and you guys ever been to a double header? Uh?
For minor league baseball? Yes? Wow? Uh well you were

(01:05:43):
you're working, Yes in Bakersfield. Ramos, you've been to a doubleheader?
Not recently. When I was younger, Dodger would have a
doubleheader and I was like Kenner eleven, I'd love to
go because he's never had rainounts. They just had a
schedule double header. Yeah, it was doubleheader. Maybe I think
I'm ever going to one a long time ago, maybe
one like a My wife and I went to the
injur game last night. We had a great time. We

(01:06:05):
didn't even drink, Like we just said it was hot,
but the stadium was half Dodgers half Angels. Came down
to Dodgers down down a run, chance to win it
ninth I mean rubber match. But if I would have
had to sit to another game, was done. I was done, done, done.
That would That's like when you finish up with a

(01:06:26):
really good round of golfs I's like, hey, let's play
eight team? More like no, no, no thanks. Speaking of doubleheaders,
Yankees and Orioles in game one of their doubleheader, gian
Carlos Stanton his twenty second home run of the season.
Yankees are on top of the Orioles one to nothing.
Baltimore has lost six straight games, So you're gonna talk
about the XFL. And a second NFL news today that

(01:06:46):
Carolina Panthers have announced the sale of their franchise today
to David Temper. He's the founder and president of a
hedge fund company. Price tag for this transaction two point
to seven five billion dollars. Well Skilling in the NBA
USA Today reporting click Capella is unhappy with his contract
negotiations with the Houston Rockets, and at Wimbledon today, Roger Federer,

(01:07:08):
Rothamndal and no Bank Djokovic all one their fourth round
matches in straight sets. Feder has now won thirty two
consecutive sets in counting at Wimbledon. Dug back to you
on this m hmm, let's let's welcome in. He's been
athletic director, he's working with the n c A, and
now he's he's taken on commissioner role of the XFL
football player in his own right. And of course he's

(01:07:30):
raised one of the great football players in the National
Football League. He's Oliver Luck the XFL commissioner. He joins
us in the Doug Gottlips Show here on Fox Sports.
Rader quick quick question. Have you ever have you ever
been to a double header in baseball? Uh? Doug. I
grew up in Cleveland and would go to many Indians
games and old municipal stadium, including double headers. Not many

(01:07:50):
of them, but we we I sat through many a doubleheader.
Honest honestly, you sat through a doubleheader? Oh yeah, well,
yeahs in the bleachers right. The sun was shining nicely
over uh, you know, downtown Cleveland. And if you climbed
up to the topic of oversea Lake area, so yeah,
we'd go down there. We had nothing else to do.
This was you know, before the internet, before you know,
the hand the cell phones and all that. So that

(01:08:11):
was the way we entertained ourselves. Take the from the
ast side, you can take the rapid right down to
shake the rapid right downtown to the stadium. Was it
was actually kind of pleasant. Isn't an interesting about how
people's perspective on Like the Indians, even I know they
haven't won the World Series, but having been in the
playoffs so many times, like when Major League first came out,
and I know that wasn't actually shot, it was actually
shot went in Milwaukee, But when when Major League first

(01:08:33):
came out, like they were like con consistent laughing stock
of baseball. And so if you look now at that movie,
then while it's still funny and I think it's still
kind of stands up a little bit test of time,
it's really hard for you to understand how bad the
Indians were for as long as they were bad. Now
the tribe was bad. Listen, the Cavaliers were bad for
many years right when they when they first came to town,

(01:08:53):
you know, and yeah, every franchise goes through the you know,
the peaks and the valleys, right, sometimes they last longer
than you'd like as a fan. But no, we we
were big Indians fans. I mean I I found it
amazing as a young kid going to the you know,
like the opening day, you know, seventy two thousand, opening day.
The next home game was about two and a half thousand.

(01:09:14):
I said, Wow, that's gotta gotta be There's gotta be
a way to solve that issue a little bit. Of course,
you know the business of baseball is much different today
than it was thirty or four years ago. No question.
Oliver Luck joining us here on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
He was a great player in his own right at
West Virginia. Was the athletic director at West Virginia for
leaving for the n c A and now is taking
out a whole new role to me, commissioner of of

(01:09:35):
the x f OL which launches in two thousand twenty.
First question would be why, why why take on this
this challenge? Well, I was, you know, at the n
c double A enjoying my role. I was one of
the a couple of executive vice presidents are I love
college athletics and all the great things that it does
for young men and young women in our universities. And
one of Vince's guys reached out to me and, uh,

(01:09:57):
you know, asked if i'd take a meeting with Vince.
And I met Vince mc and in passing, but you know,
didn't really know him, didn't really follow quite honestly, the
w w E. But I took the time to spend
a couple of days with Vins and you know, I
realized that that he was very passionate about this league,
that he was committed to put a lot of capital
in this league. And you know, if there's one thing

(01:10:18):
that any fledgling sports league needs is capital, and thence
he has a very substantial capital contribution he's making to
this league. And I love football. I think it's a
it's a great sport, but I also think it's a
sport that that probably needs a little bit of tweaking,
you know, whether it's in terms of the length of
the game or the health and safety issues in the game.

(01:10:40):
And like, you know, like a lot of people in
this country, I'm a big football fan, and like a
lot of fans, I complain about, you know, the games
being too long, and there's so many interruptions, right with
time outs and commercial breaks, and I thought, you know,
instead of just moaning and groaning about it, I can
actually do something about this, right actually, you know, sort
of take on the responsibility with many others here, uh,

(01:11:01):
you know, to to reimagine the game. And that's sort
of the remit that Vince McMahon has given me, said, Oliver,
I want this game to be reimagined, you know, take
off the constraints of of broadcast agreements and commercial agreements
and figure out if we can't almost you know, it's
a little bit you know, going forward by looking backward
right when I was you know, playing in the uh

(01:11:23):
you know what college ball in the seventies or in
the eighties in the NFL. You know, those games are
under three hours, right, you know, today's generation doesn't remember
the Heidi game and what an uproar that cause because
you know, the broadcaster, you know, cut away just in
the last two minutes of that game because it went
over three hours. So, you know, we want to have
a fast paced game that's exciting, you know, lots of

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plays kind of like you know, hurry up college football,
but a game that doesn't have all those breaks and
flows much better. And I think it needs to flow
better because you know, players and coaches complain about the
lack of flow. They complain about the sort of herky
jerky nature of the game. And that's certainly what what
fans you know, our car card complaining about as well.
So we have a an obligation and an opportunity, I

(01:12:07):
think to sort of trying to do a weekend to
change that's that's that's great and and and for people
who don't know your background, just you know, you were
a general manager in the World League of American Football
and Frankfurt. Course, then you ran Sports Authority, and then
you're working in the National Football League and their front
offices and then with the Houston Dynamo. So you've been around.

(01:12:28):
It's not just you've been around professional sports and the
National Football League, but also all these sports all trying
to kind of do the same thing, which is how
do we evolve and be smarter for the next ten years,
next twenty years, so that that that we're we're kind
of ahead of it right where instead of adjusting on
the fly, which I think I think the NFL has
struggled with because the replays are so long that while

(01:12:51):
it's still great to watch at home, it's terrible to
watch in the stadium. It just is you can't see
any of the other games. And then even with the replay,
you can't really see it, and you kind of left
into are we replaying? Are we not replaying another? To
time out after a touchdown? The time out after a kickoff? Man,
with the time enough? With the time out? All right? So, uh,

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if you if flow is the most important, the first
thing we want to adjust, what's the first change you
can make to improve the flow? Well, I think there
are a number of changes that can be made to
improve the flow, and we're bringing together a bunch of
folks to to start the process of reimagining the game.
But just think for one moment, and this is a
small change. Do we need quarter breaks in football? These

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are professional athletes or they're highly trained college athletes. Do
they do they need a break after the first quarter
because they're tired. When was the last time you saw
you know, a pro or a college players sort of
bent over gasping for breath, you know, because of the breaks? Right?
You know? The the aspect of conditioning, which should be
an important part of every sport. Right, if you're the

(01:13:55):
better conditioned team, you should have some kind of advantage.
But you know, that's that's sort of almost been removed
from the game because of the way it's set up.
So there there there's a number of of spaces throughout
the course of the game, and every fan I think
could realize them, you know where where you know, we
think we can kind of carve out some time. Give

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that time you know to the game, right. Uh, you know,
the ratio of of active minutes in a in a
football game to the ratio to the length of the game,
that ratio is not in very good standing. So uh
and again we're not criticizing any other league, but I
think we have the opportunity to reimagine the game. You know,
take some of the really cool things from uh, you know,
the NFL, obviously, cool things from you know, from the

(01:14:37):
college game, even some cool things from the CFL. I
had lunch last week with Doug Flutie. You know, I
really wanted to spend time with a quarterback who had
spent time both in the NFL and in the CFL,
and you know, asked Doug about some of the things
that they do up in the CFL and whether those
would be in his mind, you know, he's a pretty bright,
thoughtful guy in his mind, whether those would be worthwhile. Uh,
you know, rule changes, if you will, or modific asians

(01:15:00):
or administrative changes for you know, for the game in
this country. And so there's there's we're we're getting input
from a lot of different folks and that's actually a
very exciting part. In fact, I was very attracted to
this job for a number of reasons that one of
what one of them was, you know, this chance to
to really reimagine the game and again sort of just
complaining about it something so okay, so kind of quickly here,

(01:15:22):
how do you how do you avoid the fact the
Vince mcvan's your boss. They tried this before, and you know,
some of it was kind of a kind of a joke.
And look, I played minor league basketball in the A
B A and they had a rule which if you
stole the ball in the backcourt or ball that started
in the backcourt, then the next bucket would be worth
an extra points. You've made it, three is worth four,

(01:15:44):
made two is worth three. Right, So but it did
it kind of became silliness with some guys and how
many points they would score, and how the game. So
how do you have how do you avoid the silliness
of some of the past with the x the previous
XFL and with some of the attempts to draw attention
with some rules. Yeah, so I think I think there's

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two things. One, um, you know, I said to Vince.
You know, we talked about this, right and in the
in the previous iteration of the XFL, way back in
two thousand and one, seventeen years ago, and some of
some of those things were very gimmicky, right, So no gimmicks, right,
the American public does not want gimmicks. I mean rule modifications, yes,
you know, but we have to be very careful not

(01:16:24):
not to be gimmicky, right, And there has to be
a rationale underlying each rule modification. Maybe it's health and safety,
you know, maybe it's flow of the game, you know,
reducing all the all the time outs. But there has
to be a reasonable rationale. And as long as you
present that rationale, I think that that it can be
can be done. And the second thing I think involves
Vins himself. You know, I think he realizes quite honestly,

(01:16:47):
he's kind of a self aware individual. He realizes that
a lot of the things that they did, you know,
whether it was you know, during the game or or
you know, sort of around the game, even with you know,
the names on the back of the jerseys, those were gimmicky,
you know. Uh. And you know, I said to him, Vince,
I'm i'm I want a game that is has the
highest priorities for health and safety, because I don't think

(01:17:08):
the American public will you know, accept any league that
doesn't prioritize that. I want a game that's you know serious.
I be sure the game has to be modified, and
we can do that intelligently. But Vince, you know, agreed
to all of that. And quite honestly, the reason he's
hired me is is, you know, to get sort of
my expertise and the expertise of of the people that
will surround myself with too, you know, to to create

(01:17:30):
that reimagined game. So, you know, he realizes, to cut
to the chase, he realizes that, you know, some mistakes
were made, you know, back in two thousand and one
with the first iteration of the league, and and does
not intend to to to remake those or recommit those errors.
All Right. The last thing really quickly here, Um, how
do you get players considering there's just a limited amount

(01:17:52):
of football that a body can take during one year. Yeah,
I don't, you know, I don't anticipate too many players
who are oh, Bill, that's my wife, but she must
be listening, thank goodness. I don't. I don't think that
we're gonna have that much of an issue with players.
I believe, you know, someone who watched a lot of

(01:18:12):
and still watches a lot of college football. I think
that the college game is producing is I like to say,
more better players than ever before. You know, both at
the big school d and even at the smaller school level,
there's so many guys that want to, you know, extend
their career and and and play. Will they play in
the fall and in the spring. It's doubtful. And that's
that's tough in the body. You know. We just haven't

(01:18:34):
been accustomed to doing that. I can remember playing with
Mike Rozier way back in the early eighties Houston Oil days.
Mike had played a season for Nebraska, then he then
jumped right into the USFL with the Pittsburgh Malers, if
you remember, and then you know, jumped back into the
or jumped into the NFL with the Oilers, and Mike
was absolutely exhausted, right, and that wasn't good for his career,

(01:18:55):
quite honestly. So I think there's I think there's a
deep enough and a big enough pool, quite honestly, of
of guys who are willing to play, and I think,
you know, it's up up to us to create so
that runway, so that when we launch in we're playing
at a high, you know, high level of football, playing
of the high you know, having a high quality game. Oliver,
go call your wife back. It's more important than us.
Best of luck and we'll talk soon. Okay, I appreciate it, Oliver,

(01:19:17):
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(01:19:43):
Colin Coward gave his thoughts in the Kauai situation. Nobody
ever mentioned Tony Barker, You mentioned staff, you mentioned Iverson,
You mentioned You mentioned a million guys. Steve Nash. Steve
Nash has no titles, and there's a reason for it
because he played in Gregg Popovich's system, and the system

(01:20:06):
suppresses the individual. You know what, Popovitch says, we don't
draft a guy until he's over himself. By the way,
another one of the most un overlooked players in my
lifetimes Manu Ginobli, who, outside of Durk Navitsky, was mostly
the best international player for about a decade in this league. So,
by the way, are you starting to get now why

(01:20:27):
maybe Kauai Leonard wants out. Kawhi Leonard last year made
five hundred thousand dollars on his shoe deal. James Harden
began a contract that pays him two hundred million. Kawhi
Leonards a better player he is, you know, he actually
plays defense. Look, do I think san Antonio and Popovitch
in the system has something to do with it? Yes,

(01:20:48):
it also has to do with the fact that Kawhi
Leonards ditt non verbal. You can anybody remember Kwhile Leonard
saying anything, let alone saying anything about his situation. So
I do think that the system, I do think that's
in Antonio. I do think some suppression of ideas and personalities,
and I think that's accurate. But I also think that
at some point Kawhi Leonard is going to have to
figure out that he doesn't. It's not even that James

(01:21:11):
Harden has something. He said the Beard is in fact
his look all right? That that was what what does
the Fox say? Um? Antonio, Daniel will join us next hour.
I love divorce details and Lebron Cleveland divorce is complete.
We'll get to some of the details next on the
Doug Gotlip Show. What Up Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio.

(01:21:37):
T Oh, yeah, have you guys, Um, this is not
a downer because the boys are still alive apparently. Have
you guys been watching these the rescue in Thailand? My
my wife is completely consumed by it. Come completely. We're

(01:22:00):
at the Angels Dodgers game last night, and like we
agreed no phones during the innings, right, but in between innings.
You didn't say anything about in between innings, So in
between innings, Um, she keeps refreshing, refreshing, refreshing, knowing that
like seven o'clock West Coast time was supposedly when the

(01:22:23):
when the rescue is gonna start back up. I guess
they got four more boys out so so far eight boys,
there's four left and the coach is left. What a
crazy situation, really really scary. But I don't know anybody.
I wonder if Music Music knew about this, Ryan Music.

(01:22:44):
You're seventeen years old, just out of fresh out of
your junior year in high school. Had you been following
this the tie boy to the Thai Land Boys, uh
soccer team? Yes, I have Doug good good on you
with current events? It does feel like what if you're
a parent, there's a lot, it seems a little bit
you're a little bit more invested in almost Do you

(01:23:06):
think that's a fair statement or that that would be
a fair statement? Music? Is that fair? Is that totally unfair? Like, yeah,
I know something about like uh yeah, I mean I
guess probably the thing that I found the most interesting
was the stuff and how Elon Musk has gotten involved. Well,
they wanted to get Eli Musk involved, and then he
was super polite early on. He was like, look, the

(01:23:29):
they have it under control. So he has this device
where it's like a one man a submarine right where
you can like put your whole body in. It's like
a metal tube that can protect you from all the
elements and can give you oxygen. It's like a little
tube right anyway, So he did send it there, but

(01:23:50):
I think it's got there. I don't know if they're
going to know how to use it in time for
any of these boys, but yeah, I mean like this
is one of those all hands on deck. Hey, Eli
and Musk, you're a superinventor. You got anything for us,
like I just happened to have. It feels like is
a q Q from Double O seven. He's like, well,
here's the tube that you can get the boys out in,

(01:24:12):
and here's a pen that explodes. What I mean, you
depend that explodes for Oh you never know? You never
know double O seven, You never know. Like Elon Musk
feels like he's q. I think he wants to be
Double O seven though, wants to be Double O seven.
So they got eight boys out, there's four more left,

(01:24:33):
and there's the coach. But what's crazy, there's there's a
bunch of different levels to it which are incredible. The
head coach didn't go, like he didn't go. One other
player didn't go. Now this is again this is my
way of thinking. They get it's gonna be a movie, right.
I mean, they're already right crafting the scripts, and so far, thankfully,

(01:24:56):
only one person is perished, and that's one of the
one of the Thai naval seals. Thailand having naval seals.
Didn't know that? Raise your hand if you knew Thailand
had navy navy seals. I mean, I guess you assume,
but you didn't assume. I don't know. Um, so does

(01:25:18):
the coach key get a piece of the movie, like
he's gonna have a small little the head coach who
decided to not go on this trip. What about the
thirteenth player who was like ac couldn't make it, Like
now all his teammates suffered through this harrowing hair there's
supposedly I read a story about a British woman who
had survived a similar flood, not nearly as deep, in

(01:25:40):
a different cave, different part of the country, but had
lost her boyfriend at the time terrible and everybody they
were with and she went. She was only in for
sixteen hours, but she had years and years and years
of therapy. So yeah, I guess they're going to profit
off it, hopefully they all survive, and there'll be a

(01:26:00):
movie and and they'll be incredible stories of heroism on
on the other hand, on the other hand, and this
is kind of fascinating to me, the other hand, like,
is are you better off being the kid that didn't
make the trip but might not get paid? Right? Like?

(01:26:22):
Which would you rather be the kid who it was,
the one who didn't go on the trip, but he
won't get in on the movie or any of the
proceeds of the movie, maybe just like a bit part.
Or would you rather be the kid who gets rescued
but is in how many of the hell long? They've
been in there for like two weeks? And then I
don't know if you saw this, but the assistant coach

(01:26:43):
who's there, he wrote this incredible letter to the parents.
He's been giving them all his rations. He was actually
previously a monk. There's just a bunch of amazing stuff.
I can't get enough of the story. And I hope
all those kids get out. Okay, stuck gotli show Fox
Sports Radio and the details that come out afterwards are
the more interesting parts. It's it is interesting that he

(01:27:06):
was a monk. It is interesting that Thailand had navy seals.
It is interesting that he's given away his rations that
the head coach didn't go or that this other player
didn't go. But the the details of it are are
the most interesting to me. Just the most interesting to me.
That's what's fascinating about the details of the breakup of

(01:27:29):
Lebron and Kyrie, because if you remember what has happened since,
and you guys tell me if I'm wrong. Narrative wise,
Kyrie has been has been painted as petulant, immature on
some levels, and um wanting for his own franchise. I

(01:27:55):
want my own franchise. I don't want to be with
Lebron James right, because Lebron did take his team to
the finals and he went through Kyrie's team, although Kyrie
was was not healthy. Lebron, on the other hand, because

(01:28:17):
ultimately they got to an NBA finals, has come out
slightly the better because of it. He escapes to l A,
he starts, he's starting his own new team. He could
have been the NBA uh regular season m v P.
He was not, but could have been played all Lady
two games. Statistically maybe the best season of his career,

(01:28:38):
and he had some herculean efforts in the playoffs a
year later, since Kyrie Irving, it got out that he
wanted to be traded and ultimately was traded. Kyrie's name
was besmirched. Is that the Is that the word I'm
looking for? I'll go with besmirched? Where's Lebron? Is still
the King? Is that accurate? Music? Would you say you

(01:29:02):
you listen to not just me, but everybody else every day?
Is that accurate? I would say that's a very fair
assessment of the situation as a whole. Yeah, be smirched
is actually the perfect word. I thought I knew what
it meant. I thought I knew what it meant, but
I looked it up while he was talking. Damaged to
reputation in the opinions of others, Kyrie is can't stay healthy,

(01:29:24):
Kyrie has wants his own team. Kyrie is, oh, he's
still not even happy in Boston. He might want to
go to New York. None of these things have actually
been said by Kyrie Irving. He has only taken the
high road. Jason Lloyd, Uh, there was a round table podcast, right,
roundtable podcast? Excuse me? A radio show on Lebron leaving Cleveland.

(01:29:49):
Here's Jason Lloyd who covered them. Both in Cleveland. It
has been made clear to me by multiple people Kyrie
never really wanted Lebron to come back in the first place,
that he didn't think like that it was necessary. Lebron
said something to Kyrie on the court following a game
when he was with Miami, something the effect of keep going,
keep keep doing what you're doing. You never know, I

(01:30:11):
could be back here one day or something like that,
And Kyrie went in the locker room and basically said,
we don't need that, Like what's he talked about. We
don't need that. You don't wan him here in the
first place. He didn't think the Kavs needed Lebron. You
don't want him, hear, in the first place. That's been
told to me by many, many, many people throughout the organization. Uh.
He also went on to say, I will freely admit
that the James Irving relationship is worse than I thought.

(01:30:31):
Lebron Kyrie relationship was a lot worse than I thought.
I told Lebron that on opening night. I said, you
guys did a great job a full of me. I
had no idea, and I won't tell you exactly what
he said in response, but he more or less agreed
with it that it was not a good relationship between
the two of them. That little brother thing did annoy
the crap out of Kyrie. Here's Lebron James earlier this
year on Kyrie irving, try to do whatever I could

(01:30:54):
do to help the kid. I'll be the best player
he can be, and I wish the kid, wish the
kid great health. Um, and he wanted to do it
was best for his Uh, I guess for his career.
And you know, I try to do whatever I could,
just try to help the kid be as great as
he could be or as great as he wanted to be.
And uh, that's it. It's funny because I'm sure Lebron
knew Lebron said the kid that many times. He knew

(01:31:18):
in that in that space that Kyrie did not like
being called the kid, and yet he kept calling him
the kid, kept calling the kid. Joe Vardin, who covered
the team local radio hosts, also writes, Lebron did all
kinds of stuff to Kyrie, almost like hazing, just the
way you treat him, or the things he would say

(01:31:39):
to him, the things he would say about him. Certain
part of it, you know, Kyrie resented how much attention,
how much power, how much sway Lebron had within the
organization on a number of levels. Again, we've allowed Lebron
to say we shouldn't have traded Kyrie, but he did
absolutely nothing to keep him here until it was late
when the ESPN report came out about Kyrie's trade request.
There was a month, the whole month before anybody had

(01:31:59):
any idea the trade was going to be Boston. Lebron
didn't do anything. There was no love lost between them.
I said it at the time, it's it's not that
I've had Look I've worked at now three different places.
One of the places I worked um in college basketball.

(01:32:21):
I felt like there was one gentleman who had a
little bit too much pull, right. Those guys all played
golf together, we're buddies together, were on the road together,
and so it wasn't just him. It was the bosses
that were like aligned with him. And when we you
weren't that guy's guy. You were always fighting an uphill battle.

(01:32:47):
So I completely understand the Kyrie thing, completely understand And
while Lebron has done a much better job of managing everything,
especially to the media, the idea that he didn't like
being called the kid and in that little clip he

(01:33:08):
said the kids six different times tells you all you
need to know about Lebron. Now, Hey's still a great player.
But the idea that it's just easy to snap to
play with. If it was so easy, why did Tyler
have tell Luke Walton, hey, let's have a meeting so
I can tell you how easy it is. I just

(01:33:32):
want to let him know the the blank people say
and you read, Bron's not like that. They make it
seem like it's so hard to coach. He's hard an organization.
He's nothing like that. The most important thing I want
to convey to him was he's not like that. Okay, well,
if he's so easy to coach, why do you have
to tell him? Hey, man, excuse me. You know the

(01:33:54):
drive you're gonna make today? Yeah, the roads are perfect
and there's no graphic. Thanks for the tip, appreciate it right, Like,
who doesn't like that? Doesn't make any sense. The idea
that Tyron Lou having to explain to Luke Walton, No, no, no,
everybody's got it wrong. He's really easy to coach. Then

(01:34:17):
you hear the clip of Lebron saying the kids six
different times, when Kyrie didn't like being called the kid,
and I give you Lebron James. He does have a
lot of power that is earned based upon his incredible skill,
he doesn't always use it for good. Doug Ot Live

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Fox Sports Radio. I don't even know how I would
pace myself through a doubleheader. I'm just I'm watching these games. Uh,

(01:35:41):
they're both good games. They're both three two, Mets and
Yankees both up three two in the first of a duble.
Uh the Mets Phillies. Yeah, the first of a double header,
I believe. So the Mets game is in the got
my eyes are really bad? Is that fourth inning for
the Yankees bottom four, bottom three inch at at the

(01:36:01):
New was its city field and um and then it's
bottom four, bottom four with the Yankees and Orioles and
they're both three to both the New York teams leading
three too in both these games. What what's what's fascinating
to me is like a double header still exists. I mean,

(01:36:23):
how do you do that? Who has the time? You're like, well, Douglas,
and if it goes seven hours, that's a long route
where you can get like a five six hours two
games in. That's like a long round of golf. Yeah,
only golf. I'm actually walking or riding in a card
and again, six hour round of golf sounds miserable as well. Like,

(01:36:46):
unless you're on the p g A tour and you're
playing for a championship, no thanks, I guy, get done.
Three hours, three thirty. Let's close enough. Let's go pick
it up. Let's let's get to the next hole. But
watching other dudes play baseball, Oh my god, that's nap worthy.
I couldn't do it. And I guess if you showed

(01:37:07):
up late for the first one, but I couldn't make
it through. Go ahead. Un I can't speak for these
particularly two games here, but I thought they were always
what the night day night doubleheaders? Like, what does the
day night doubleheader mean? I thought they the people that
come to the first game leave and then a new
group of people come in for the nighttime part of
the doubleheader. That's what I thought it was. That's why

(01:37:28):
maybe they some can stay if they well, I thought
they shuffle out people and mering new people in. So
maybe that's why it's not as bad, because you gotta
hold because obviously, if you had tickets to this game
that was rained out or snow it out or whatever,
you probably get tickets to the to the first game
of the doubleheader, and then the people who have tickets
for the actual game itself probably come for the nightcap.

(01:37:49):
So m I think the days of the actual doubleheader,
which we're talking about, where you're actually there for two games,
I don't think those you go down like are you
really just gonna go from one game? Because you are?
You know how guys are they get there like can
you do another one? All right? Okay? Yeah? No yeah,

(01:38:11):
and you know you're round a bunch of guys like, yeah,
get some more beers? Go well they stop? So now
do they stop selling beer the seventh inning the first
first game probably and then maybe started up again like
into the second game somewhere? Why would they do that?
Can you have? And I guess if you're like your

(01:38:32):
college student, I don't know we should get some clarity
at all that we need some clarity on baseball doubleheaders.
That just that just does that feels like a good
I will say that if you can sit through two
baseball games in one day, you're good in your baseball
You're like you want to go to a game like
now I said, through a double header, like okay, you're

(01:38:53):
good for the year. That's like a checkup, right, That's
like once you've once you've turned to the side and coughed.
You know you're You're I'm good for I'll see you
next year, Doc. That's exactly how I feel if I'm
a I'm a Met fan, I haven't been at the
City field, and I go through it. I go to
a doubleheader with the Phillies. I'm good for the year.

(01:39:14):
Definitely with the Orioles. Absolutely with the Orioles. Antonio Daniels
gonna check in with the second First, Let's get you to, uh,
David Gascon find out what else is going on in
the world of sports. I got a quick question for him.
You're talking about doubleheaders. Would you do a doubleheader of
college football? U c L A USC A college football doubleheader? No? No, No,

(01:39:41):
it's like eight hours, dude, And that's probably the least
right shorts amount of time, uh, Major League Baseball. Lots
of things going on, as you mentioned, Doug, in both games.
The New Yorkers are in front right now, Yankees three
two over the Orioles in game one of their doubleheader.
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(01:40:01):
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Dug back to you. All right, let's welcome to Antonio Daniels.
He covers the thunder for living course, he was an
NBA champion with the San Antonio Spurs. How much would
I have to pay you to attend two games of
a baseball doubleheader? Oh wait, let's not go there. Let's

(01:40:48):
not go there. I don't, I don't. Yeah, No, that's
not gonna happen. What's all due respect to baseball and
Major League Baseball and the players. Yeah, I can't do that.
I got a bunch of things I want to get
to with you. Let me start with some league. How
much you've been watching I enjoyed watching summer league. I
don't enjoy the when it's covered, but I really enjoyed
watching it from from what what what aspect how it's covered.

(01:41:10):
You mean the actual commentary or the Twitter commentary or
the radio commentary, what part of how it's covered. Just
the amount of pressure that's put on guys and what
we say about them to me. To me, the summer
league is like preseason football. You know, it's like in
pressing the football. If your team does well, it's fantastic,
But then people always come back to the same thing.

(01:41:30):
You can't win either way in summer league. So you
look at somebody like Trey Young, all I see is
from every possible angle, he's getting beat up. So if
he plays well, you know what people say, Oh, well,
you know it's only it's only summer league. It's this summerleague.
He's playing to get second and thirst string guys, so
it doesn't matter. And if he struggles, he's a bust.
So he can't win either way. So for me, I

(01:41:51):
enjoyed watching it, but I really enjoyed watching these young
guys grow. I don't enjoy the amount of pressure they're under.
And then once the season starts, then you can really
starts to truly evaluate what somebody can become in the future,
non summer league. Have you watched for young Yes, what
do you think? Uh? Summer League? So I'm not. I
mean some of the things that people have an issue

(01:42:13):
with are going to be an issue because he's eighteen
years old, nineteen years old, they're not say, at the time,
he's one year remote from prom. So all of these
different issues that people are having with him, Like I'm sorry.
I mean, when the guy's one year removed from prom,
he's stressed it and now he's supposed to be the
faith of your franchise. Do you really think he's ready
for that or the amount of pressure that the media

(01:42:36):
and everyone else is putting them under. No, he's not.
So for me, I was I much rather sit back,
watch the product grow, ros the product developed, and then
maybe sling some sort of judgment towards him in the future.
This is fine, but I'll just give you, like, if
you want to video actual basketball, talk about it instead
of I don't want to comment on other people's comments.
My thing is like, look, he didn't play any defense

(01:42:57):
in college, Okay, which, look, I when when you get
to the pros now gets real you get challenge, you
look across and you start to get challenged. I've seen
a lack of forget about the fact that he's not
a great athlete. It's now when you're a when you're
a top pick, when you're the the fifth pick of
the draft, to still not offer up any sort of
effort defensively when everyone's watching you, that's a problem. And

(01:43:20):
then there's the problems to which I don't know how
much is going to improve based upon how his body improves,
which is, can he get a step. I don't even
care about the shot making, but the shots keep coming
from further and further out because he can't seem to
get by guys um and he can't seem to guard people.
You know, we're in a you're in a league now
where everybody switches. So it's he can't guard point guards.

(01:43:41):
I don't know who he can guard on the floor.
Like I'm I think it's gonna be a problem regards
to the fact that he's nineteen, he's going to play,
and there's some major issues there that have been uncovered
at times in college that right now continue to be
an issue in some really Yeah, for me, I don't
number one. I hear you. As far as the defensive intensity,

(01:44:03):
I think that will come in time and understanding. But
also he wasn't. I mean, with all due respect, he
wasn't drafted for his defensive intensity. That's not what he's
drafted for. He was drafted because he could score and
he could make guys around him better. And that's when
I say, when I say the development that comes along
with it. He's always gonna be small. He's always going
to be small a stature. But the thing that he'll
have to learn in time, which will come with NBA reps,

(01:44:26):
is learned to compete and how to compete. You think
what you're saying, do you think you learn to compete?
I mean, I don't. You either have that or don't
have that. No, No, you learned, you learn the time,
because once you learn this is not Oklahoma and what's
your used to is Big twelve basketball. What's he used
to is Big twelve talent. It's a different case in

(01:44:48):
scenario when you leave the Big twelve and you leave
the n c a A and you come to a
league where everybody went through twelve can play. Everybody went
through twelve can play, So you may be able to
get away with dogging it on defensively. For Lan Krueger,
you may be able to get away with that. At Oklahoma,
you might be able to because the fact of the
matter is you're putting the thirty points tonight, you're leading

(01:45:10):
the n C A A and points. And also in
the city when you come to this next level and
you've got guys coming at your hand every day, it
sets a different mindset. It brings out a different motivation
within you a lot of times that you didn't know
that you have or needed to have. Antonio Danis joining
us on the Doug Otlip Show on Fox Sports Radio.
All Right, So, since we've last spoken Carmelo Anthony with

(01:45:33):
the news came out that Kamelo Anthony and the Thunder
are eventually gonna part ways in some form or fashion. Um,
this this kind it had to happen because of tax
but did it also have to happen because of the
fact that there wasn't a role that he wanted to fulfill.
I think that help the process and it's very it's
very rare in this league where you can actually say

(01:45:57):
something works out the best way for both Oklahoma City Thunder.
This is a great scenario for you, because now you
have an opportunity to shop mellow see what you get
can get for him, and you have an opportunity to
rid yourself of that one hundred million dollars of taxes
that you were just talking about. But here's my question
to you, Doug, is your car melow. Do you really
think going to a different situation retherous Houston or whetherous

(01:46:20):
the Lakers, it's going to change your role? If you
go to Houston, you're gonna be in a third option.
No one's going to allow you to be that guy
that you wanted to be. So do you think changing
um scenes of whatever it may be, as far as
going to the Lakers or going to Houston or anywhere else,
do you think if role is going to change or
be any different than it wasn't Oklahoma City? No? I

(01:46:42):
think though that here's here's where it does. He may
accept it better or he may be forced to accept it.
Twofold one. You know how it is if you're making
league minimum, even if you get the twenty seven million
paid right or whatever they buy out, pecking order is
not just based upon the respect you have. What it like. Look, DoD,
you're a minimum deal. Okay, you're you're cutible, you're releasable.

(01:47:03):
You don't like it, that's fine, we can eat that deal.
So I think that helps it, And then I think
it helps it, and I think theoretically, again this is
theoretically it helps it when you have other better stars
than him on the team that can can cajole him.
With Chris Paul, who's a friend. Lebron James is a friend. Hey,
if I'm the Warriors, I don't think it's crazy for

(01:47:25):
the Warriors to kick the tires on Mellow only in
that like, like, look, we got our dudes, we just
need somebody to come out the bench occasionally get buckets
like most Space. Like most Space didn't play any defense
when you play for them. He just come off and
get buckets. Mellows five times the player of most Spaces.
So so you look, if you if you want to
accept their role. If you don't, fine, that's okay. And
I think it's if you get in, if you get

(01:47:46):
into the relationship with open, honest dialogue and you're making
minimum money, I think it's possible, not likely, but possible
that it works. Yeah, And that's a great point. I
do agree with that I think relationship means a when
you start talking about his relationship with Lebron James and
his relationship with Chris Paul, I agree, that's not just relationship,

(01:48:06):
but there's amount of respect there between those guys as well. Degree.
Does the does the Cousins thing actually make them better?
It's part of it makes them different, right, they've always
played small when they want to win. Does it actually
make them better? Yeah? You know why, I think that
makes them better, dug Because number one, they don't have
to faith the Marcus Cousins. So I think that's one

(01:48:29):
of the reasons it makes them better. Because the the
kryptonite for the Golden State Warriors, so many people thought
was the Ethne Davis along with the Marcus Cousins, where
they had difficulty matching up the thunderbeat The thunderbeat him
twice last year, and they play with Steven Adams. They
just beat super physical, right, beat him up on the board,

(01:48:49):
be really physical with him, right, and that's easier. The
thing is, it's not about being him twice. That sounds great,
and I think that's during the regular season. When you
start talking about the regular season, it's fantastic. Give you
be going stage twice even three times. But when you
start talking about the postseason and the playoffs, to eliminate
the Golden State Warriors, you have to beat them four times.
That's very difficult to do with a certain style of basketball.

(01:49:12):
But if you have a DeMarcus Cousins, a guy that
teams will have a very difficult time messing up with,
especially Golden State with Raymond Green at the five spot,
they would have a hard time controlling DeMarcus Cousins. Now
you don't have to worry about him. So now you
don't have to worry about playing against him. So if
you're Golden State, it gives you another option. So if

(01:49:33):
an injury happens, if a Kevin Durant goes down, if
a Steph Curry goes down, now it allows you to
play a completely different style of basketball through someone that
no one in his league can go on on one. Yes,
I definitely think it makes him better because I think
it makes him more persatile offensively. Antonio Daniels joining us
in the Doug Gotlip Show here on Fox Sports Radio.

(01:49:53):
What do you think ultimately happens with Kauai Man. This
is getting crazier by the day and right now. And
I've said this from day one. It really wasn't surprised me, Doug.
If he was here once the season started, it would
not surprise me. You continue to hear about I want
to go to l A. Then Boston picked up tracks,
and then Philly picked up track. Now I want to

(01:50:15):
go to to the Clippers, and all these different things
were going on, and meanwhile I'm here in San Antonio
and nothing's happening. So this day's continue to pass and
days continue to pass. If you're the San Antonio Spurs,
the longer this goes, the more you lose leverage. So
it would not surprise me at all by any strusity
imagination if Kauahi Leonard was here. Yeah. But I mean

(01:50:37):
even if he doesn't want to be even if he
says like, look, I've asked to be traded, you want
to trade me? You know my thighs still he can
do to my thighs still not ready thing. But but
the thing is, if you're the Spurs, you're gonna do
what's in your best interest always. So I did Kawhi
Leonard coming out and saying, well, you know what, I
want to go here here here. How often the professional
sports is an organization. What is going to do what's

(01:51:00):
in the best interest of the player. It's not going
to happen. So you can have your little teams that
do you want to go to the Lakers and the Clippers.
But if they don't respond with you athleticism, assets, traffics,
all these other package that the San Antonio Spurs likes
that it was best for the San Antonio Spirs, They're
not gonna move on it. That is not the Spurs way,

(01:51:20):
that is not the way they do business. So I
get Kauai Leonard wanting to go certain places. It may
come a point and I'm not saying this is true,
and may come a point where he actually asked to
go free agency. Um do you do you think the
thunder are better next year without Mellow and Robertson coming
back off of the knee. Yes, much better. And it

(01:51:43):
has nothing to do with just Carmelo. It has to
do with chemistry because now when day one of training
camp stars, you don't have to know Paul George. If
you're Russell Westbrook, you don't have to understand where Steven
Adams likes to ball. If you're Paul George, they have
a year under their belt together and it may not

(01:52:03):
have ended the way that the Thunder wanted it to,
but you kill still can't discard it, the fact that
it happened. Anytime you get an opportunity to start training
camp new without that that newness, but with that comfortability
attached to it, like, Okay, we're coming into training camp,
but this year behind us, I don't have to know you,
you don't have to know me. Now you add Andre

(01:52:23):
Robertson back to the match, an excellent defensive guard on
the wing, and with him and Paul George were there,
the Thunder were fantastic defensively after who they could cover
and what they can do defensively. So for that reason
and chemistry alone, and plus just the fact that you
have the whole free agency talk done, that's not an
issue anymore. No one in that locker room is worried
about their their foundation moving forward, worried about their future.

(01:52:46):
All the issues that were issues last year won't be
issues this upcoming season. Great stuff. Antonio Danis covers the
Thunder for a living. He's an NBA champion, a really
good uh dude who covers the league. Antonio, thanks for
joining us. Man and of time Antonio Daniels, who he
didn't even want to even want to answer the question
about baseball doubleheader right because we knew where that answer

(01:53:06):
was going. By the way, I will, I will say this,
this is a genius thing. So do you guys remember
what we were hearing about Paul George and Russell Westbrook
in the weeks leading up too when he had to
decide where he was going to go a free agent?
Rol must you remember what we heard? I remember herring things.

(01:53:27):
I don't know if it's the right one of them.
That day, they were all they were close, they were
working out together, they were hanging every day together. Right,
So they throw a party and the announced at the
party Paul George is coming back. I happen to follow
Russell Westbrook on Instagram. Uh, he and his closest friends

(01:53:49):
were down in San Diego hanging out. Why not san
Diego Gas Lamp District. I mean, who says no to
San Diego? No one? You never. San Diego is a
place no one's ever said like, do you want to
go to San Diego? Not inanks? Right? Who I mean? Right?
I was down San Diego this week. It's incredible, like
every part of about it is unbelievable. So Russell westbrog

(01:54:10):
was down to gas Lamp District of his buddies, his
best friends, his close as allies. You know who wasn't there,
Paul George. You know why because he was recruiting you, Paul,
that's what he does. Oh, we're we're so close. We're
really close. We work out together every day except the
days I want to hang out with my real friends.
So see a training camp. Ink try, you just want

(01:54:32):
to make sure like the ink Try, ink Try, We're good.
We're good. Okay, I'm gonna say any with my real friends.
He was on a family vacation, came back for one
day and then went with his boys to San Diego.
Oh but Paul George and him are so tight and
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John Carlos Stantle with another home run today. That's twenty
two on the year. Twenty two on the season for
a guy who was not very good his first month
and a half or so. In pinstripes. Who check out

(01:55:14):
the numbers, now Stanton hitting two seventy on basically the one,
and his war is up around two point four. So
he's creeping up there, by the way, by comparison, Mike
Trout's worse six point nine. I don't want to turn
this into all Trout Radio, but just for a second,

(01:55:34):
I saw this yesterday that um yesterday I think was
the seventh anniversary of Mike Trout's first first Major League
Baseball game, right, and it was all of the things
that he had, all the things Here's here's is from
MLB or Fox Sports MLB account. Right. Mike Trout is

(01:55:58):
top five since making his MLB debut home runs, walks, triples,
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In Major League Baseball, Ken Rosenthal has twittered out l
A Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers among the most serious of contenders
right now for Baltimore Orioles Manny Machado. Machado's got sixteen

(01:56:43):
million dollars that a team needs to pick up on
his contract. But he is a rental player. Uh yeah,
he's a rental player. But I think like Arizona apparently
getting hot and heavy, they need help up the middle.
We had toy Lavolo on yesterday and they have the
pockets a lot level. Last week I said yesterday, Sorry,
last week we had as I did a Sunday show

(01:57:03):
as well. We're very busy here. Um yeah, I don't
think he I just don't feel like he goes anywhere
as a rental I feel like he goes somewhere to stay.
I guess the question would be, though he can't he
goes to the Dodgers. Ro almost what do they do
with him in the future, They move Siger to second
basis that what they do, you'd probably save his arm.

(01:57:24):
Can you imagine that you got Segar at second, Machado
at short, and um Bellinger, Well, Bellinger's at first, and
then you have just a turner at third? Who National
Football League? According at Gray Badard of the Boston Sports Journal,
some teams still think they got a shot at one

(01:57:46):
Rob groundkow scheme. Here's a quote from one a f
C personal executive. Where is the restructure of his contract?
Until that's done, I think he's still available. I wouldn't
be surprised if Belichick is gonna test Gronks buy in
with the contract and mhm, what it surprised me at
all either. Look, I don't think Rob Gronkowski plays that

(01:58:06):
much longer. I think his body has taken a beating.
I think he's super important, though, and they'll you know,
the restructure's contract will happen. It will happen in time.
It's that's smart business. And that's also the Patriots when
I want, indeed, it is you. We've talked about this
a couple of times. You are a light flyer. You
you don't pack a lot when you fly. I bring
this up because Sports Illustrated Twitter down the story. Just

(01:58:27):
a few minutes ago, New York Giants defensive tackle A. J.
Francis is a little upset, and actually he's a lot
upset against T. S A right now, and he shared
some of his anger on Twitter. This is what he says, Hey,
you pieces of blanket T. S A. Next time you
a holes feel the need to go through my mother's
ashes for no reason, make sure you close it back

(01:58:50):
so her remains aren't spilled on any of my clothes.
The least you pieces of garbage can do is your
f in job. Wait wait wait wait wait, So okay
I get that you don't. This is one of those ones.
It sounds worse than it probably is, right, Like you
have ashes? Yes, she just I? Yes? How long ago?

(01:59:11):
I don't have a date, like very very recently. Yes. Okay.
So he's carrying them in an urn or he's get
the urn packed in his bag. It was it was
it was a package. So it looked like from the
picture that was on Twitter, it looked like it I
don't want to say like a bag, but it was
like a package. So the ashes are I mean I'm
sure they didn't mean to like, like, listen, I don't

(01:59:33):
trust trusts. What I mean you don't trust t S A.
I mean they go through stuff and they have like
these random searches all the time on people. I mean
I've been searched by t S and f t S
A pre Okay, what I mean you don't try. I
don't order stand what you don't What don't you trust
about them? Business? In one way? And how they conduct searches,

(01:59:53):
they have a rant. There's a it's basically like computer generated.
Your number comes up and then all of a sudden
they they gotta search yet, dude, they're just trying to
keep you safe. And nobody tries to get something on
a plane. They shouldn't. I understand that. And if you
haven't earned like they gotta, they gotta look to check
inside and they gotta run it through the thing. Why
does he have it packed with his clothes? It was
a check bag. You checked the urn? Yeah, I checked

(02:00:17):
his bag. Dude, I'm sorry that's on him. What are
they supposed to do? I do you not have it tied?
I don't know that one's a hard one that's suppressed
the press. I want to talk about. I want to
talk about this for a second, Like I I understand David,
Like I don't trust t s A. Like what does
that even mean? I don't. I don't believe that they're

(02:00:40):
are consistent enough with what they do. I've had friends
and family members that have carried knives on the planes,
like accidentally, never been searched. Like I said, I have
t s A pre. You pay and I get random searches.
And it's not like I mean you say it's a
random number. But I've had agents someone to say, you
know what you're belt to cause the metal detector to

(02:01:01):
go off, We're gonna do a random search on you now, Okay,
so go ahead. You don't do you have a gun?
Do you have a knife? When you worry about well,
I mean, it's the point of paying for t s
A pre You have you ever missed a flight because
of it? No? Don't worn you worry about? What do
you worry about the anxiety of going through? But it's
more anxiety is when they don't check people when they
have some pattern to it, because then somebody smarts like,

(02:01:23):
oh there's a pattern to it. I don't belieme there's
a pattern to it. I believe they're not consistent. That's
the whole idea that make you think they're inconsistent. Who cares?
Like what they have a job to do. Their job
is to try and keep you safe and make sure
that you don't miss your plate, And it sounds like
both of those were accomplished. That's all because I don't
trust t s A like all right, I don't really

(02:01:44):
like how they have to do what they have to do.
But it's not a job that requires anything other than
to thank you. Stug outlip show

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