NBA Roundtable with Bob and the Duke on the Trade Deadline, Lakers, Clippers, MVP, AD vs. Sabonis & more

The FnA Podcast with Kevin Figgers and Adam Auslund with Brie Brie. Bob Schmidt and Eric Sklar join for the NBA Roundtable to debate AD vs.Sabonis, the NBA Trade Deadline, Lakers, Clippers, dreams and a lot more with Super Bowl picks.

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We missed you last week. We'rehere. We got a big show
today today Junior Yeah F and NBAfool yeah F. NBA is definitely back.
We made sure to wait till afterthe ch deadline. We'll talk about
all that. If you want toget to us, I'm at follow out
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Facebook and the gram correct correct or. If you're still every one of those

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that calls it X now whatever,I think, Well, we all still
call it Twitter. It's all thesame. Yeah, people will always recognize
it at Twitter. Even Elon Muskwhen he was being interviewed, so like,
what do you call it when youretweet someone? He's like repost?
Yeah, totally, it's just get'scalled a repost now. But whatever,
he had to come up with iton the fly. Yeah, he was

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really thinking about it. Scratched hishead. I think he's probably just better
left alone. But you want toput your own stamp on it, and
boy has he ever. But that'sa different subject for a different day,
and they're not here to talk aboutthat today. Greatest Happening. You got
a lot to get to, alot to get to here on the show
today. We have a special guestin studio too. You mentioned it's f
and NBA. We have a specialguest in studio. We're gonna have a
special guest on the phone. Someof you know him as the Duke of

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sports on X. As a matterof fact, does Bro's going on grit
Eric Sklar not to be no relationto the Scar brothers, No, no,
unfortunately not. But they are hilarious. Have you met the Scar brothers.
Yes, at the Improv Comedy Club. Excellent. They didn't believe that
my last name was Scar either,and I had to show them show me

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id yep, yeah, literally,I love it. What about the ripped
fifty five year old Paul Scar who'sa fitness influencer on Instagram? Who's that
guy? I have seen this guy? He is? I have no idea
who that is? He is mymotivation. If this guy's this old and

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could look that ripped? What thehell am I doing? Between that and
Kawhi Leonard taking off his jersey togive it a two chains the other night
in Atlanta and he looked like freakingApollo creed God rest his soul. Carl
Weather's like, I got all themotivation I need right now? Calm down
at him? Sorry, too earlyto go six to midnight? All right?
Do we have some voice? Oh? Yeah, we do. By

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the way, I don't we havea voicemail that came in last week?
Nine seven, eight eleven ninety sevenis the number the Ducal sports Paul Scars
excuse me, Eric Sklarr, notPaul Sclar. Maybe Paul Scar can listen
to the show and leave us avoicemail and give Adam some fitness tips.
Eric's rehabing. He's not in thetraining part of his No, I did
have a PTA yesterday. Yeah,you've you've chimed in on the on the

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Talk GUS hot line at times inthe past. How is that going?
By the way, with the armsituation, you guys don't remember the story
Eric's Clara party and hard in LasVegas. Uh slipped and fell in the
bathroom. Yes, stone cold,sober, so he tells it. Well,
no, no, no, thiswas no, I was not sober.
Okay, good, but so youblaming the alcohol. Alcohol had nothing
to do with it, okay,Jamie run across the somebody pulled the rug

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out beneath it. Ya was runningafter a woman and us slipped on a
lime on the floor. Yeah exactly. It seems like this whole scenario just
exemplifies the Lakers season. Somebody justoh god, you were You know,
I couldn't say EXEMPLI fly those lastfive years for the Clippers, is what
I what I would retort that,like, oh, I guess who's injured
again. I can't I can't listen, I can't say anything right now.

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Look, it's never funny to makesome of the injuries. It is.
Let me rewind to tape about thirtyfive seconds. It like that. I
didn't even mention street clothes. IsI never say that name. I don't
like that. Yeah, exactly.Let's get to anyway. Let's get to
the voicemail that we have on tap. Hey, fella's, this is big
Lou. You guys are so listeningcalls, So I figured I called in.

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I just happened to be watching.I'm a history buff, but I'm
also a fan of Sofia regards,so I decided to watch the Netflix show
about Riselda. Yeah, the oG the Ogen Booger, sugar dealer from
Colombia, and uh, but Ijust had had a question. And don't

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give names or situations to protect theguilty, but you both have been working
in the radio business for al while, and I'm sure you've seen a lot
of stuff going in the studio,probably around the studio. So just just
wanted to know if you guys havea I guess it's like an ass the
ass Ben Well Ben Mallory show.He does ask been but you guys are

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s and a have you guys everseen or heard about anyone inside of a
studio or outside studio engaging in someillicit activity with legal or illegal substances.
Have you ever seen it or heardabout it? And don't give out names

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because you know everybody in the worldlisten to the show. So I don't
want to get anybody. Anybody gotby the by the fit sout is Big
Lou asking you guys to snitch.Basically, have I seen anybody do illicit
drugs either in the studio, inthe radio studio, or outside the studio
while they were here? Said legalsubstances too? So okay, so like

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we yeah, alcohol, woll alcohol? I mean Petritt used to drink on
the air all the time and theywere glorified. Dodger Studio would always have
his little they had pet with hisold crow. It's unreal, but Petri
some Matt used to have red wineFriday where they were a pop open red
wine, and then it was bushMills was a sponsor of theirs for a
for a while, yea, andthey were a crack open the bottle of

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bush Mills and they serve it allaround to everybody except Ronnie because Don didn't
allow Ronnie to drink because he wason the board. That's not allowed.
But I mean me, I washanging around in the bullpen at the time,
just helping out with stuff or whatever. They say, figures take a
shot, and I'm like, allright, why not? You know?
So from that standpoint, sure,Now have I seen anybody doing lines of
cocaine? I have not. Nodo I have knowledge of someone complete the

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fifth who I'm not saying any names, you just it was not Pat O'Brien.
I will say that. I willsay the headline to everybody listening.
It was not Pat O'Brien because it'snot funny. I didn't and I haven't
seen it. I heard about someone, but I was not here that day.

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So I have no idea why peoplegetting killed, black people getting the
fuck out of here. Whoever Iwas, like, I can say this,
whoever that person may or may nothave been, if that's even true,
no longer works here, no longerworks in radio anymore. And again
it is not Pat O'Brien, becauseyou know, like it works here ors
in radio, but it is oneabsolutely not Padd O'Brien. Can I tell

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you, guys, a little dreamI had, make it a nightmare just
about two hours ago that I'm stillreeling off of. And yes, I
hate radio dreams. Padd O'Brien wasin it. Say it to my face.
This just happened hours ago, Iswear to God, and I was
gonna bring it up, but thenI forgot. But you know, you
get reminded of things throughout the dayand you're like, oh, that person

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was in my dream last night.This was a nightmare. I was hanging
out at a mansion and for somereason, I don't know where the location
was, but padd O'Brien was gettingmarried in Napa. Wow, plenty of
wine there and you don't drink anymoreand I don't drink anymore. But we

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were going to attend the wedding.He was there, Petross was there.
I want to say, a coupleof my buddies you guys aren't familiar with,
were there. And it went froma dream, Hey, it's gonna
be a fun one. We're goingto paddle'brian's wedding ceremony reception into a nightmare
when all of a sudden, Icouldn't find my black suburban, like a

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nineties black suburban, and I'm searchingthroughout the mansion for like directions on how
to get to the driveway, likeI was that far off, and all
of a sudden, it was likethis revolving door of different neighborhoods that I
was trying to get out of becausewe were trapped at this home. It

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was like get out all of asudden, and we were being hunted.
And I go up to Petros.Well, everybody, well, there were
only white people in my dream.I hope that doesn't make me racist.
Know who wasn't there? The Jewishguy and the black guy. Yeah,

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you didn't want to be in thisdream. Okay, So Petros, I'm
trying to convince him that something isoff. It's a trap, something is
wrong here. I can't find mycar, We can't leave. Sean Williams

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Scott Fashion Coucher not in the dream. Petros doesn't believe me. It's impting
with him. But he's drinking.He's having a great time. It's a
party. And so I'm still searchingfor the car and I can't find it.
I go to the neighborhood, orgo to the whole next door in

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the same neighborhood, and somebody's tryingto help me out. But I know
there's something evil and sinister going on, and they're not really that helpful.
I'm starting to sound like the Americanmovie documentary right now. Sorry, but
this happens. And then I goback to the same mansion where Padd O'Brien
was. He had left in Petrosnow and this is scary. He had

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turned to stone and like his eyeswere all bugged out. What it was?
Something straight out of Return to Oz. He turned the wrong corner,
looked. He's big on Greek mythology, like it makes sense. So now
I'm terrified Bree was there by theway in this nightmare. We're trying to

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get out of here, but weget to another neighborhood. It's like a
theme park of fake ass neighborhoods thatare keeping us controlled and held down in
this little mystery nightmare going on wherethey're trying to, I don't know,
make us turn to stone like Petroswas for any of these neighborhoods, the
deepest, dirtiest part of the hood. I mean, considering that Pat O'Brien
was in, you know, thesubject matter, I had to yeah,

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like I feel like that had tobe asked. I didn't see a street
sign. That's throwback show going onright now. So I continue to go
from neighborhood to neighborhood. At onepoint, Bree's gone. I don't know
where she went, if she gotgot, if she got turned to stone,

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but I wasn't that worried about it, so I kept moving. Why
cow He says that as soon asBree walked out of the room, by
the way, yeah, me andmy buddy, I think it was either
Pat James or Mike Tucker. It'slike a blend and amalgamation. It's a
dream. It's weird to know exactlywho's in him sometimes, but I know
Petro's turned to stone. I knowBrie was there. I know Pat O'Brien

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was there. And we're continually gettingyou know, the wool pulled over our
eyes with going to another fake neighborhoodand like we just can't escape, and
it kind of just ended that way. Uh that, No, I just
unless you're just gonna go with sleep, Unless this is like a Freddy Krueger
situation, You're gonna go back tosleep and the whole thing's gonna start over.

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You know, Am I in adream right now? Is this still
a dream? Happens. It's asimulation of a simulation. Yeah maybe,
I hope not. Bree. Sorry, oh yeah, you're in my dream.
Don't get excited was my nightmare.It was okay. I just had
to get that out of the way. I'm sorry. Uh, do we

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have any more drinking stories or drugprayerphernalia stories here at the station that anyone
sawing blue in the talk ass hotlineto catch up fore? Yeah, Big
Lou asked us if there we witnessedanyone doing any sort of illicit, legal
or legal drugs while working at theradio station. I have not, Like
I said, I mentioned that therewas a peron that I heard had done

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it at the radio station, butI was not here. I haven't seen
it, and I don't know ifthat's absolutely true or not, so it's
actually rumor and conjecture. And Isaid it was not Padd O'Brien, and
then Adam was like, I dreamabout padd Obrian last night, and that's
where that came from. My man, with some of these wild marketing schemes,
that seems like Dave Weeze is onbasalt. Sometimes Dave Weez does have

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a hell of amount of energy.I'll say that for in a usual amount
of energy, for the amount ofstuff that he does that he puts in.
Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty remarkable, to be honest with you.
So he is well caffeinated. Yeah, not that we're saying. Just say
it was a hell of a drug. It wasn't Dave Weese either, Okay,
just letting everybody know. Was itme? No, it wasn't.
You shut up, Patt O'Brian.Congrats on the nuptials, by the way,

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the dream nuptials. I guess,Yeah, who's the bride? I
don't know. It may have beenhe told us the story about you know
what, I can't say this riskit. He may have money to burn
of those Pane O'Brien stories that wecan't tell, trust me. Yeah,
Okay, moving on our last thatwas a pretty good one to us.

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Nine seven eight. Definitely wasn't expectingthat from No. I was definitely expecting
a golf call or a clipper callor you know, that's Tory Pine in
a while the PGA. The PGAtour just opened back up, So I'm
sure he'll chime in here soon.Yeah, Tiger mind the Genesis next week,
that's right, Masters are just aroundthe corner to in a couple of
months. Nine four seven, eighteleven ninety seven is the phone number.

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All right, let's get into ourmain subject matter, the meat and potatoes.
Enough with this dream weaving and ohyeah, I'm still freaked out by
it, Like I can't shake thisdream that happened earlier, just raising her
hand. We weren't calling roll butpresent. Hell well, I just talked
in I'm so sorry. Present butnot a gift. It's too early for

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the insult. Yeah, God,we were talking. I'm so sorry.
So I was in your dream?Why was I there? Was? It
was a nightmare? Relax, Idon't give a it was a dream or
a nightmare? Was I like?Successful? Did I have bigger boobs?
Like? How did I look allthe important things? Uh? Yeah,

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we didn't get to the boob jobpart of the dream, I guess.
Uh, there were a couple otherboobs in there. I mentioned paddle Brian.
No, it was just a crazy, weird nightmare. Stuck in a
mansion, a haunted mansion type thingcouldn't get out of and Petros was killed.
Oh no, I mean not onHe wasn't killed. He was turned

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to stone. His eyes were buggingout like he saw something. It was
like, uh, it just turnedto stone, like han solo frozen.
This was not as pretty as thecarbon iogenically frozen. Okay, Notre Dame
for like when they turned to stonewhere they're all like like that. You
know. It may be because Iwas thinking about statues, like everything when

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I dreamed something. Eventually, Wow, I can't kind of retrace your steps
and figure out exactly well, sincewe're talking dreams, I can't trace my
steps to the one I had theother day. And it was very hazy.
So why am I standing here talking? I don't know who I'm talking
to, Bill Goldberg, the professionalwrestler, except to me, you get

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speared. No, the problem isGoldberg is like the size of our coworker,
Michelle up the hall. Now.Michelle immediately said, was like what
five' five or something. Yeah, that wouldn't be a spirit. That'd
be like a toothpicking. He walked. He walked up to me. He's
like, hey, man, looklike you played in the NFL. It
was like, nah, I'll workon radio, but I know you did

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for a little bit. What areyou doing here? It was the it
was and that was pretty much.It Bill Goldberg shirt off, whearing his
like actual wrestling tire, but he'sfive feet tall and he comes to me
saying, you look like you playin the NFL. Now, how do
I draw a parallel to that?No idea. I have not seen a
photo video anything of Bill Goldberg inat least a year. I'm not into
wrestling anymore. I don't even knowif he's still wrestling or not. Not

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even like a w c W versusold N sixty five. Look. I
scrolled through timelines and I do followlike old school WWE accounts, but I
don't think anything of Goldberg has poppedup recently that I can remember. It
was that was the weirdest thing whatsoever. Nothing, no parallel to draw in
real life. Bree Bret Hart didjust have an interview where he talked about
Goldberg, maybe like a few weeksago. Okay, I did not see

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it. Okay, Well, wellthat was it. I was just just
basically saying that he like, thatwas a wrestler that actually hurt him and
actually like would like you'd leave thering and you'd be like, oh my
god, I have a bruise.I did hear that he was not the
greatest tactic. It was not themost fun to work with for that reason.
So yeah, so there, Sothey're about that, do you want
to pick that one apart? Howdo I how do I parallel that to

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real life Bill A short a miniatureBill Goldberg coming up to me telling me
that I look like a football player. Okay. My interpretation of that dream
is like, dude, you're fuckingbadass. Like everybody is beneath you,
even Bill Goldberg, like you arethe man. I have a heightened sense
of opinion of myself. You knowwhat you know? You know what it
is. It's the future Dad's strengthcoming in. Is that what it is?

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All right? I like you gotto work well done, Eric,
That is what it is. Likeif Bill Goldberg was here right now,
Kevin could beat him with his pinkyand contest. Yeah. If like the
future Bill Goldberg from like twenty fortysomething or whoever, is trying to holler
at my daughter if I have adaughter, I'm having a son now,

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you know, And all of asudden he's like, I don't care if
you six foot seven and two hundredand seventy five pounds, it could pick
me up and throw me, Ikick your ass if you cheat my daughter
wrong. So maybe that's maybe that'swhat it is there? You go like
that was it Joseph in the Bible? Who is the dream? Jo dreams
Yes and the many colored Yes Jhiphe got bamboozled like his brothers, like
basically my mansion. Dream's right,same way they pulled the rug out all

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over a woman. Girl did themwrong? It's always over a woman.
Uh huh yeah? Quite to startthe fn NBA boy, yeah, exactly?
Do we? Uh? Should we? Should we have started officially?
Now? Should we get into it? Are we doing the show? Know
it's a Friday. We do havea sounder for it. Why not?
H alright, let's do it nbA round Table. It's time for the

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NBA round Table on the f nA podcast with Bob Schmidt. All right,
so coming up, I want togo back to the dream stuff.
I'm sorry right now. The lasttime I dream the Clippers won the next
five championships. Guys, dream thethree of you, and especially the girl

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in the Phoenix Sun's T shirt here. Yeah, I came in wearing neutral
colors today except for the Laker hatright in there for the Clippers though,
the Dodgers. No, I thinkit's for the Clippers. No, it's
the it's the red tail on thebaseball and the Dodger logo. I was
a pretty sweet cat. By theway, I like to think before shout
out. Can't beat l A whomade this? I mean sold off?

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All right, I know where you'regoing at him. So let's start with
the dead last night. You can'tbeat l A. Yeah, well,
because we would have a lot totalk about with the trade deadline between both
of our teams. Well, youguys traded what cash for whose name I
can't pronounce a French guy, Idon't know. It's I don't even know
how to coming to the Clippers nextyear, but coming to make a different

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women's brother. It's I wish.Oh, this is like with the Lakers
gut Giannis's brothers saying like, oh, Janice is gonna come here, and
they signed his brother a couple ofyears ago. Hey you get brownny Lebron
will be coming. Yeah, that'swho I want. A guy that can't
even crack the starting lineup for anine win basket team at usc that's who
I want. All that hype aroundsc this preseason and I'm glad he's feeling
better and doing well and even playing, which is great. I will totally

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give that to him. How surprisedwere you guys by the Lakers not making
a move? Was it at allshocking or was it expected because of some
of the reporting that was coming out. Yeah, I mean, over the
last couple of weeks, I've myoptimism for a trade happening was beginning to
decrease. And then obviously what RobPolenka was saying yesterday was no move is

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better than a bad move. AndI also saw that your boy Jovan Buja
was reporting that the Laker tax wasvery much real. When teams that were
accepting second round picks from other teamsfor players that the Lakers were interested in,
they were asking the Lakers for firstround picks and players and all of
that type of stuff. So theLaker tax is very real. I want

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to do business with the Lakers andRob Polinka, I mean, listen,
the Lakers have tormented the league foryears, so it kind of makes sense
that other teams don't want them tobe better than rus Chris Wallace, he
didn't believe in the Laker attacks backin Memphis, back in the day.
Uh but yeah, I uh,I expected it too for all the same
reason. And Rob Polanka basically saideverything that Boha and Wiki and all these
others have reported the last two weeksthat there wasn't a sizable enough move.

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We have more assets to trade inthe offseasons to improve the team because we
have the ability to trade three firstround picks instead of just the one.
The Agela Russell is really was onlythe really real movable asset that they have,
and it sounds like he wasn't reallythat highly coveted by a lot of
teams around the league. He alsoplayed himself out of the trade too by
playing so well. Yeah, Imean he stopped giving a fuck, and
then it translated to more success onthe court, because that's really what you

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need when you play with guys likeAnthony Davis and Lebron James is you need
to be aggressive as well, sothe defense has to attend to you,
and it leaves opportunities for Lebron Jamesand Anthony Davis to do what they do
right. And I don't know ifthe zach Lavine thing was ever going to
be real. It was taken outof their hands obviously because he's out for
the rest of the season. Hiscontract was too much too, That's what
I think. So I don't knowif that was ever going to be real

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to begin with. I thought Derosanand Caruso may have been a possibility,
but it sounded like it was toohigh. The cross was too high for
either of those guys, for anybody. It was just not the greatest trade
market, I think. Adam.You even tweeted out a picture of the
old Firefest, you know, saying, this is what the trader the trade
deadline looked like the dinners from theFirefest, And you're right. Rob Polinka
said yesterday you can't buy a housethat's not for sale one, okay,

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but how understandable is it from Lakersfans perspective that you have Lebron, you
have a d oh. It's frustrating. Its relatively healthy this season, being
this team when Lebron James could leaveafter this year or he's gonna stay and
be forty Yeah, no, I'mI'm very frustrated that the Lakers didn't go

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out there and make moves to improvethe team. But at the end of
the day, it takes two totango. You have to have an agreeing
partner in a trade, but itseems like he wants to hold on to
that pick so they can do somethingbigger this summer. Oh yeah, three
first round picks to trade, thenwell then you may not have Lebron at

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first. He's not often out offifty one million dollars at least. I
don't believe that he was always ofwhat he said at the media session in
New York, but also what movedwas there to be made that would have
made a significant difference if dejount Murray, if they're asking for who knows a
one and a pick swap and allthis other team like they're good for multiple
guys. He's a good player,but he's not worth blowing up your depth
that you spent last off season building. Now, granted, and it hasn't

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helped you much this year, butwas he going to be the difference maker
to put you over the top thisseason? I agree. The only difference
maker trade out there I think wasDeRozan and Carusoe. It sounded like Carusoe
was completely off limits because Chicago isjust I don't think they know what they're
doing. After there might be disensionbetween Retterless, Yeah, right. Sounds
like the ownership and the GM haveare diverging methods as to what they want

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to do. They were supposed totrade Drummond too, and they ended up
keep in him right, traded ZachLavine last year, they should have traded
last year. I agreed, they'reunder five hundred this year. It's been
brutal for them, but whatever.So, No, it's it's frustrating because
the window for the Lebron and Adtandem especially is closing very quickly. And

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I mean obviously post Lebron, Ithink Ad will be here for the long
haul and so they can figure outwhat they do with building a team around
a D and like Kevin and youhave said, where the Lakers do have
three first round picks available this summer, I think they are going to try
and make a big swing this summer, a guy like possibly Donovan Mitchell.

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I know Bob's not gonna like tohear that, but I do think that
the Lakers are going to take aswing like that. I'm I'm not personally
in the camp that would like themgoing after a guy like Trey Young.
I think there's too many defensive liabilitieswith a small guard. I kind of
agree with that. So Lakers fanshave learned their lesson in having these one
dimensional players on the court. They'regood on offensive, bat on defense,

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are good on defense, super streakytoo. Yeah, he's like, he's
like not a reliable twenty five apoint a night guy that's going to shoot,
you know, forty eight percent fromthe field. But I think that's
the type of swings the Lakers aregoing to take this offseason when that third
first round pick becomes available. Butalso, is three first round picks enough

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anymore? Because we've seen some ofthese big trades in the off season where
teams are trading four or five sixfirst round picks. Even it's the go
Beert tax, Yeah, it's thatraised the stakes for every other move.
Now things have already kind of shrunka little bit since then. Is yeah,
to give up the same amount forKevin Durant right that Minnesota had Robert

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it is? I think a conversationthat needs to be had is the three
first round picks the Lakers are offeringgoing to be enough for guys in that
echelon that I think they're going totry and take a swing at. I
don't think it's a done deal thatLebron James is returning. I understand the
money is there, but the moneywould be there from any team that could

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get to that close to that number. Or he feels scorned enough by this
Clipper season with them holding onto DarvinHam, with them holding onto assets and
not going all in that he mighttry to stick it to them and be
like, Okay, I've had enoughhere, I got you guys a championship,
bubble championship. Now, if hedoes do that and takes fifty one
million off the books, it couldbe in the back of rock Pinlanka's mind

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like, well, why am Igonna blow up whatever assets I do have
right now? Let me keep thosethree first round picks exactly. And now
maybe I can trade Austin Reeves ifhe still has some sort of value,
and I can bring in another superstar, if that's Donovan Mitchell or whomever else.
And by the way, our friendon hold right now is not gonna
like bring up Donovan Minchell. BobSchmidt. I did that on purpose,
but yeah, Bob is here now, the great Bob Schmidt. What's going

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on? Bob? Hello, helloguys. Yeah, dropping it right to
a very disagreeable topic. It's amazing. Even Bob on the phone sounds better
than us in studio, all thefive thousand dollars microphones. Bob, you
want to react to the Lakers possibilityof giving up first round picks and bringing
in Donovan Mitchell this year? Yeah, I guess my reaction would be,

(28:18):
what's the assumption that Donovan Mitchell isgoing to ask out after the playoffs?
Because he still has a year less, So that would I mean, if
if that was going to happen,Let's say, for this situation to be
plausible, I assume this would involvelike a gigantic Cleveland collapse, despite the
fact that the hottest team in basketballright now. It's just the regular season.
So maybe they get to the postseason, you know, they lay an

(28:41):
egg in the first round or getblown out in the second round, and
then Donovan Mitchell asks out, AndI guess the assumption here is that the
best package that they could get inreturn for him would be three first round
picks, and that they're just puntingon the idea of, you know,
trying to pivot and still compete withyou know, Mobile Garland and Allen.

(29:03):
You're far too reasonable, Yeah,on what would likely be an emotional topic
for most other casts. I was. Honestly, it didn't make It doesn't
make a whole lot of sense.Like I look, Cleveland, I know
is one of those markets it's hardkeeping superstars. And maybe he can walk
away, but you still have twoguarantee years left before he can opt out.
I believe maybe one guarantee year leftafter this before is opt out.
And if that is a case,like Bob said, you tell me they
couldn't get a better package than threenumber ones and Austin Reeves and Ruyachimore from

(29:26):
the Lakers somewhere, that's the partthat doesn't make the same I think,
right because to me, like evenif I can see the idea that,
okay, well, if Donovan Mitchelldoes want to leave, I think this,
this front office is still going tosay, like, well we can
we can replace him, and wecan replace him with even you know,
sixty percent of him in the twothree player package, then we can still

(29:48):
potentially compete for title. You know, we can. We can hope for
the best case scenario, which wouldbe if Donovan leaves you, you lean
on Darius More as your lead guard. You you get some serviceable replacements as
far as like higher ends wing playersthat are better than what you have now,
but obviously not the superstar level ofa Donovan Mitchell, and then maybe

(30:11):
that some of the parts is morethan what you currently get now and getting
kind of, you know, seventyfive percent of both what you could get
individually from a Donovan and Adarius byplaying them together. So to me,
like the pivot. The pivot forthem wouldn't be if Donovan wants out and
they just concede that they have totrade them, they wouldn't be trying to
get back a hall of picks.They would be trying to get back people

(30:32):
that would allow them to still contendwith this young core that they have.
I would assume that would be thepriority and maybe are great though, maybe
some actual tough guys that can intimidateeven someone like Ben Simmons. Maybe they
could get someone that I don't know. Object Well, let me ask you
guys this, do you do yourealize what happened after that? Or did

(30:52):
you just see the clip of himshoving Jared out? I saw that.
No, no, no, I'mthat's That's not my implication. It's more
just an indictment on highlight culture becauseimmediately after that happened, Cavaliers one on
a twenty one oh run. Ofcourse, that's the game that's awesome.
So that's what it's about. Thefight in the parking lot. Who cares

(31:14):
about that twenty one oh run?Right? And no one's fearing the fro
right now, Bob, they're notrespecting Jared Allen. No, they aren't
an All star. I will saythat since Avan Moby came back from injury,
the man is, you know,five or six from three point range.
I'm starting to believe. I'm startingto get high on it to the
point where Mark Klar is going tohave to come into my comments and say,

(31:36):
it's only the regular season, shutup. Yeah, but he's coming.
I will say to go back tothe to the Donovan trade in Cleveland,
wanting to surround the team with moreyounger players instead of going for picks.
I mean, Austin Reeves, RuyHachimura, Max Christy. Those those
sound like pretty pretty promising names rightthere, did they? Bob? Here

(31:56):
is this the Lakers cell job?You know? I want a sudden this.
I don't want to tear this intoan attack on the Lakers, but
I just have to think that there'dbe an alternative package that would get you
higher end players. I think theLakers one is built on the premise of
three first round picks is the asset, and I just don't know that the
kaz are going to go for picksover some sort of replaceable player. Like

(32:20):
even take a scenario where it's like, look at the team they played yesterday.
Okay, if he's dead set ongoing to Brooklyn for or New York
or whatever, wouldn't you rather tryto go for you know, a McHale
Bridges. He's not Donovan Mitchell,but it's you know, you might be
able to get seventy five percent ofthe star power of a Donovan Mitchell in
that scenario. Not to say that'seven in play. My point is mainly

(32:43):
just I think that this Cavaliers team, especially in that stretch where they were
injured, they showed that, Okay, different constructions have proven effective even when
they haven't had that star four lineup. So they may just decide like,
yeah, no, nobody wants tolose Donovan Mitchell, but if he decided
to leave, they could still makeworked whether Darius Carlt Mobley and Allen if
you could put a couple high endpieces, you know, sort of like

(33:04):
what the Knicks did when bringing anog and ob or somebody of that else
where. It's like, yeah,he's not a lead guy, but he's
a he's a culture changer because ofwhat he does on in all the off
ball categories. Okay, you know, and maybe that's the way. Well,
let's forget about the Calves and theminevitably losing Donovan Mitchell. Let's talk
about a topic because we do haveBob Schmidt and Eric Sklar here. And

(33:25):
I saw something recently on x ohand I didn't even have to incite this.
It was just weird because it involvesthe Lakers and the Sacramento Kings.
Oh no, no, no,you are a guest. You weren't in
my dream last night. You don'tget a talk, so Bob smidt.
I don't know how it started.Who responded to who, but there's a

(33:47):
little bit of a showdown, andI think it started with Sklar and am
Yeah, you got blocked by samAmic. You got blocked by Sam Amy?
What did you do? He couldn'ttake the heat, so we got
out the ch What did you Whatdid you say to sam Amo or what
did you tag this whole argument overDemonte Sabonis being an All Star snub and

(34:09):
Anthony Davis being an All Star reserveWhen we're talking about a fucking All Star
Game. You're telling me that DemontaSabonis is a bigger star and a better
basketball player than Anthony Marshawn Davis Junior. Which, get the fuck out of
here. It's the twenty twenty fourAll Star Game. Not that Davis is
a better basketball player than Demonta Sabonis. He's a bigger star than Demonte Sabonis

(34:31):
worldwide. There's a reason he's inthe All Star Game and Demanta Bonis is
not. I'm not trying to takeaway that Demonta Sabonis is not a great
basketball player, because he is aphenomenal basketball player because he's owned Anthony Davis.
There is no world where Anthony Davisis not a better basketball player than
Demanta Sabonis. There is levels tothis. Anthony Davis is up here,

(34:52):
Demanta Sabonis is probably right here.We're on the radio, so you may
want to be more specific with righthere. Eric, I have a simple
question, This is just very direct, Yes or no? Do you acknowledge
that this season Sa Bonus is havinga better season than Anthony Davis. Absolutely
not numbers be Damn Okay, thisis a dead end conversation. I mean,

(35:15):
if he can't even acknowledge that theBonus is having a better personal year,
then really that's fine. It's it'shis opinion. Is he isn't?
I think the majority of people wouldsay that he is. Now. This
idea of that being is he alwaysboils back to this, Adam, It's
like the Clippers beat the Lakers,and it's it's just the regular season.
It doesn't matter. Seventeen titles.SA Bonas outperforms Anthony Davis is eight and

(35:37):
zero in his career against him,dating all the way back to Oklahoma City
and Indiana. But regardless, that'spast seasons. That's not the point.
Point is this year played fantastic Topten MVP candidate doesn't even make the All
Star Game, and when Anthony Davismakes it, the argument as well,
the stuff he did in previous yearsthat's why he's a better overall basketball player,

(36:00):
which I don't think everyone here iscontending. We're talking about an All
Star Game, guys. The twentytwenty four All Star games are important to
the players. There's contract incentives anda bunch of different things that go into
It's not just an All Star game. I mean it is important. Anthony
Davis has made many of them andearned many a birth. Honestly, I
could fall on either side of it. I think Sabona should have made it,

(36:21):
but Anthony Davis turns out there's thesame records. I don't disagree with
that part. I don't disagree that. I'm not sitting here Sam, Anthony
Davis would be the first man off. I think it's just people look at
that. But that was what Sammywas saying. I think he called you
a fucking clown. He called thatmy professionalism, He called you what what?

(36:44):
What exactly did he say? NowI have to find this. What
did Sam He deleted tweets Radio producer. Sam deleted the tweets basically at the
local radio producers. Yeah, hewanted to get outside of his fan bubble
with the Lakers, and I neededSam to get out of his fan bubble
with the Kings, and he tookoffense to that. That's what you got

(37:05):
upset. That's what you pulled withme though, too, Eric, you
said something to the effect of,oh, you know, the guy who
maybe you need to get off theLaker hate train. It's like I have
a dog in this. I don'tlike. I don't care about sa Bonas
or Anthony Davis outside of the factthat I think it's fair to just acknowledge
that this season Sabonas he got shafted. I mean, you can make the

(37:28):
argument I agree with you, hewouldn't. Davis would be my first one
off. So it's kind of amoot point in that regard. But if
I'm paralleli the two, I'm takingthe guy who's played better, who defeated
him, had to add badly thelast time they played, and who's having
just a better overall season in myopinion, that's fine. But again,
I mean, I think it's fairto disagree. I don't think it's unreasonable
to say I think Anthony is havinga better season than to Bonus. I

(37:51):
don't think that's a ridiculous contention.Uh, you know, you guys are
far too gentlemanly about this right now, because those tweets had some venom to
them. Maybe come on, listen, when you won, when you've won
fifteen of sixteen, you know,you're not talking about the Lakers, right,
Uh? Yeah, oh, ClevelandCavaliers. So the trade deadline was

(38:15):
yesterday. The Clippers and Lakers refusedto participate. I don't think the Cavs
made a move either. Am Iwrong about that? Bob? No,
that wouldn't do any right. Soall the teams, well, can't say
the Lakers, but the teams whoare playing good basketball aren't worried about making
a move. Who did you guysthink made the biggest move? Maybe outside

(38:36):
of the Knicks, because that justseems too obvious. I was going to
say, I think everyone's consensus isthe next one the trade deadline, right
outside the Knicks. Yeah, Ikind of liked. Well, I wouldn't
say I don't know how I feelabout to move overall, but as far
as this name value, I thinkDallas was probably a second. You know,
they moved Grant Williams, they bringback PJ. Washington, they throw
on a pick, and Seth Currygoing to Charlotte. I mean, that's

(38:59):
interesting for no other reason. Theyjust brought in Grant Williams, and within
six months of being in Dallas,they're already paying to get off of that
deal. Yeah, I don't knowif I'm just playing the Fred Rogan name
game, and I know he hasn'tplayed much this year, but part of
me says, if they can geton the court and be any sort of
production, productive player, I thinkGordon Hereward had actually helped Oklahoma City.

(39:19):
Now if he doesn't, he's anexpiring contract and then helps their cap situation,
and that's great, So it serveskind of a dual purpose. But
if he can come back and behealthy and be a productive player, He's
a veteran. Granted, he hasn'tplayed in a whole whole lot of big
games, especially not recently, buthe is a veteran player with a lot
of experience who I think will bea respected, you know, voice in
the locker room. So I dothink that that would be an asset to
them if he can actually play.Yeah, the TNT guys last night,

(39:40):
we're talking about him like he's beenin multiple conference finals games or something like.
They don't have anybody with the playoffexperience like like Gordon, and it's
like how many I mean, Ortonhasn't played in the playoffs since he was
in Utah. I think correct,Yeah, you are right. Yeah,
so I because he got injured inBoston first game in Boston. Maybe he
went one playoff year in Boston.Maybe, but he was That's what he's

(40:04):
started saying. He's started reclining afterthat, had that injury that opening when
he was with Boston. I alsolike how Breeges walked out, And I'm
about to compliment the Suns because Ithink that O'Neil deal for I think it
was just a couple of picks,I believe, yes, which is what
I was talking about. Bob,you missed my whole Laker tax spiel.
Uh, sorry about that. ButRoy O'Neil going too the Suns, I

(40:27):
think is definitely uh a good additionfor or a positive addition for the Suns,
because it is they need that grit, They need a defensive minded type
player who's not going to take theball away from the stars and all of
that. So I think that isdefinitely a good move for Phoenix to shore
up some reinforcements like that. Yeah. Yeah, I don't hate it.
I mean, I don't hate thatdeal. You know what he did though,

(40:49):
is I can't wait to see freelive through the David Roddy experience brought
him in. Yeah, and Batmanis a disaster. What we played them
maybe a week ago, and sincethere's you know, Mensis was a skeleton
crew, they rolled him out inthe second half. He shot one for
twelve, missed every shot in thesecond half, and single handedly took a
victory and turned it into a aseat. Uh. And and I've watched

(41:13):
a handful of these Grizzlies games sincethey all went down, and he's one
of those like black hole types thatI'm curious to see how he's going to
acclimate to a culture where they have, you know, three legitimate superstars.
Uh. And he's expected to playless of a role. So who are
the best guys now on the buyout? Because I think it's a given the
Lakers are getting Spencer Dinwiddie and thatno, yeah, that's what you need.

(41:36):
A play three, change the scenery, perfect contract is bitcoin in its
crypto dot com arena, So maybemaybe just count on that a nice endorsement
deal. But Spencer Dinwidy to theLakers is not my ideal buiout can It
also doesn't seem like it's going tobe And we still have a while to
figure this out. That robust ofa buyout market to be honest with you,

(42:00):
so well, we still got time. I mean, that's the thing.
I don't feel like there's a lotof names out there right now.
The names you keep hearing are youknow, Kyle Lowray Yer or like the
you know, the point guard ones. And I'm like, oh, let's
just see how it shakes out.There's nobody that's really like blowing you away
at this point. But I dothink, I do think it'll be interesting

(42:20):
to see who gets bought out,just based on the deals that didn't end
up happening yesterday and the ones thatyou know, they talked about all these
different moves happening, And I thinkthere's a lot of these guys like take
away so'neil he got traded. Butthose types of players are exactly the ones
like laboring away on expiring deals onterrible teams. That a few more of
those should shake out, I wouldthink over the next few weeks. But

(42:43):
you left the room at just theright time to miss the Sun's talk.
How excited are you about Royce O'Neil. You can finish showing it's okay,
very professional shop late on the mic. She hasn't chad neat for a day.
She was so excited. Right whenI finally finally try to do that,
You guys want to talk son inmy nightmare? You did choke on

(43:06):
phenomena. I no, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It was. That's
why I was a nightmare. Icouldn't. I hated it. I'm obviously
really excited. We needed some moreveterans players. I don't kb D and
Watt Nobby and and Jordan Goodwin justlike weren't cutting it. You guys like
we needed some veterans players k bD. Yeah, Katie Bates y Oh,

(43:28):
okay, all right, I thoughtyou were going Kevin Bradley and Devian
I was no, No, I'mreally excited. Okay, what what Bob?
What? What's your opinion on thattrade? He liked it. I
like Voice, I like Rice.I mean, it's obviously it's very short
term commitment, but I like Voice. I hate Roddy. So he did
just explain black Hole with absolutely zeroconscience about what he puts up, and

(43:52):
maybe the Superstars will rain him in. But I am eager to just wait
a few weeks and see how youfeel about that experience. I've just like
too many disgusting, like Grizzlies gamesover the last like two months. Like
I'm embarrassed to say just because ofwork and stuff. I actually think he
has a lot of hustle and Kevin'sgiving me a look of He shot one
for twelve in the second half,apparently the other night. It was also

(44:14):
terrible against the Lakers in the playoffslast year too, oh for seven in
the second half. He's gonna haveso much space. You guys have a
lot of fit. To Bob's point, I don't have the numbers on this,
but I feel like whenever the LakersLakers pulled away and blew the Grizzlies
out last year was when he wason the floor. Yeah, but I
could be wrong, But hey,you know they expect less of him in
Phoenix. Maybe that'll be what heneeds, some actual veterans instead of a

(44:37):
starting lineup that consists of four leaguersand Jared Jackson. How about you,
Adam, your boy PJ. Tucker, who was tied at his ship at
the end of the bench, howabout you find him out and send him
down the hall. Why are youguys targeting me like this? I already
wanted to ask him. I wokeup from a nightmare like an hour ago,
and now I have to deal withthis. I'm asking questions. I
feel bullied. Uh is he gonnacontinue to do how d n pcds and

(44:58):
go through a sneaker collection sitting atthe end of the bench or what.
Here's the good thing. He's neverbeen a malcontent with the team or cause
any locker room issues, even thoughhe's been upset with playing time for a
while. Now the media to betraded, Yeah, he does let the
media know. But now that we'repast that, I think he may get
back into the rotation selectively against certainmatchups, like I could have seen him

(45:21):
playing against Zion Williamson the other night. Probably would have done at a video
of Aaron Gordon him guarding Aaron Gordonlast year, not as Aaron Gordon Yokic.
He's been good against Jokis at times. I think this is a guy
you can bring out against certain bigsfor five to ten minutes in a seven
game series and he can be adisruptor. Still, Bob am I crazy.

(45:42):
Are you a PJ. Tucker hater? Uh? Well, you know,
it's just you've reached a certain point. He's shifted into the Jay Crowder
dynamic to me where I'm like,can we not talk about a guy so
much who's seemingly doing so little?Like how long are we going to ride
the past accomplishments. So I don'thate PJ. Tucker, but you know,
at this point, I'm like,we don't need to commit time to

(46:05):
this guy. And so he eithergets bought out or plays meaningful minutes.
Well, he has another year lefton his deal. That's he's not gonna
get he's aspiring. No, he'snot a play eleven and a half.
Yeah, if that was the case, somebody would have traded for him.
Yeah, that changes everything. AndI believe he told Mark Spears he's not
going to negotiate a buyout because he'dlose money. So, yeah, that's
too much. It makes sense.Uh, he needs to take the Ricky

(46:30):
Rubio approach, retire and go playoverseas well. Yeah, retire, get
the buy out, because nobody's goingto stop you from a buyout. If
if you're a sympathetic figure, butairing people out on Instagram is a much
less sympathetic way. But if hewent that route of being like this not
plaining thing has devastated me. Emotionally, then maybe he could get his freedom

(46:51):
and then immediately return back to thebasketball court play the mental health card.
Know what you're saying, Yes,that's that's kind of what I'm saying.
I was trying to do it adelicate way because I don't people to say
I'm a monster. But I mean, it is a little weird that a
guy would retire and a day laterhe'd be he'd be back on the basketball.
But he loves to instigate fights orpseudo fights. I mean he shook
off that shove from Jared Allen.Oh yeah, sure, yeah, absolutely,

(47:15):
yeah, No, he was.I mean he clearly was not scared
at all of Jared Allen. Whois contend that he did. He did
rag doll the guy. But forme, if if Jared Allen had hit
him or something and gets suspended andhe screwed up this incredible, just absolute
master class of a streat that theCavaliers around, I think it would feel
like a hollow victory. I don'tthink I'm afraid of it. Afraid of

(47:36):
a guy who's afraid to get fouledand shoot free throws in a playoff game.
I really wish that Jared Allen putBen Simmons in that same headlock.
Karl Anthony Towns had him in thatone time. Can we talk m VP
for m VP for a second?Do it? And my guy respect till
recently, because I've been adding everysingle one of them, messaged me and

(47:59):
said, could you do you pleasestop adding me all these tweets? Who
it was? It was a nationalreporter. I mean, I'm trying to
think how much trouble I could getin for this. It's not you can
tell me off air. That's fine, I'll tell you off air. His
rhyme with Raydrian. No, I'mnot even on his radar. And yes,

(48:22):
once he put out a tweet talkingabout how Kawhi Leonard was shooting splits
of fifty five to fifty ninety overthirty games had never happened before outside of
a Kawhi Leonard's been doing an NBAhistory. Now, all of a sudden,
the odds makers put him way upthere. He went from plus ten
thousand, which is absurd because thatmeans you bet one hundred dollars to win

(48:43):
ten thousand in the MVP odds tonow I think he's at plus four hundred.
Within a couple of days just becauseAdrian Wojharowski and the media are starting
to take notice. No, Imean, Kawhi has been absolutely phenomenal this
year. All the game the Lakersand the Clippers have played, Kawi has
had a major part. Obviously inthe Clippers success. He was that one

(49:07):
where Lebron actually played pretty good defenseagainst him. Was was different, But
Kawhi also just had an off nine. It's like the same shots he always
makes. There's always a hand inhis face. It doesn't matter. And
at the end of the day,no matter what, when healthy, Kawhi
Leonard is still I think a topten player in the NBA right now.
Ten top ten, I mean he'stop five easy when healthy, fine,

(49:30):
top three, win healthy. Whowho's in your top five winning, madam?
But I guess, I guess therelevant question here is who's who conventionally
that people see as being above him? But you say absolutely not in no
way. Uh well, I'll justsay the guys that I think should be
or I'm fine with being above him. In the MVP conversation, Jokis sga,

(49:52):
I don't think Giannis should be AndI'll tell you why. I was
gonna say. I think those arethe top three candidates right now, especially
because because Bead's going to be outright, MB's out, Otherwise he'd be
there. Haliburton's probably not going tobe Giannis ahead of him when his coach
got fired. They're miserable defensively.Still, they're one and five with Doc
now right like why is he theMVP? Conversation when you take that si

(50:16):
into a gam itself as we speak, like, I think that will quickly
correct itself because, especially as theycontinue to lose ground in the Eastern Conference,
they can't play the team success cardover the Clippers. Basically, his
whole case is going to be builtupon counting numbers and sometimes you can win
those battles if your team is alsogreat, but their team is. I

(50:37):
mean, you can't go from being, you know, a couple of years
of moved from a title to beingthe fourth fifth seed in the Eastern Conference
and expect to hold off of KawhiLeonard, whose team is you know,
right there competing for a one seedprobably you know has a great chance of
finishing at the top seed. Doesn'tconsider how badly the Clippers, you know,
started December they were three in andsince then they've won thirty one of

(51:01):
their last forty games. Now,but I don't like. Look, I
understand Luka Donci has put up godhe numbers and he had seventy three,
but if you're not playing defense andyour team is eighth or ninth in the
standings, I don't think he shouldbe ahead of kawhilond No. I agree,
you agree, but I don't thinkhe I don't think he will be.

(51:22):
Yeah, it happened all season likethis is all right. It's only
been the last few days where Kawhiis finally even in the conversation. And
that's what bothers me, because ifhe has a cold streak now because he's
been so hot for so long andthey ignored him, they're gonna go right
back to ignoring him. Like hehasn't got the built up equity with the

(51:44):
media because they just started paying attentionto that. Sure, because you run
the risk that that he's he's peakingnarratively speaking too soon and that. But
but I will say, momentum towardsthe end of the season, if they
can even play anything resembling what they'vedone, even if it's a slightly more
muted version. I mean, yousaw it last year. It's like,

(52:06):
Okay, Jokic kinda just took hisfoot off the gas and he got ran
down at the end. And Ithink, if Kawhi keeps this type of
team winning and you know, stupidefficiency and just close to the same counting
numbers, eventually it's gonna happen.Yeah, it's time in my mouth.
They win sixty games and have thebest record in the West or even overtake,
you know, and have the bestrecord in the NBA, and Kawhi

(52:28):
Leonard is still somewhere close to thesenumbers. I don't know how he doesn't
get the MVP. He'd be thebest player on the best team. He
didn't peak too soon. They startedpaying attention far too late when he's been
doing this for two and a halfmonths and it's only been over the last
week where they finally put him inthe conversation in a realistic manner. But
again, I think, if itand that's that's awful. But again I

(52:49):
feel if it holds, I don'tthink that's gonna end up holding up and
he's gonna end up being fine.It sucks that that had gone off to
a terrible start that way. You'reright, My problem is he should not
have to continue to put up fiftyfive to fifty ninety splits through the rest
of the season, because that wouldalso be completely unprecedented and crazy. What
he's already done is he should beable to absorb a cold streak and then

(53:12):
continue to play well. If they'rea top three seed, he should be
able to win MVP. But Ifeel like it's going to get lost immediately.
Like the other night he goes fourof ten and they have a letdown
against the Pelicans, and it takesthe wind out of his sales because they
didn't hype him up when he wasdoing this two months ago. It's been
going on for this long. That'swhat got hurt. I might suggest you're

(53:35):
a little too in the weeds hereon this, like you're feeling it a
little too much, because I mean, you and I we're living parallel existences.
The Cavaliers are destroying teams. DonovanMitchell is playing the best basketball of
his career. And I told youjust a handful of days ago his odds
had gotten worse from December fifteenth tonow to win MVP. And you know

(53:57):
I thought that might be yes,Yeah, so I kind of look at
it though, it's like they theproblem with guys like Kawhi do to you
know, what's happened the past fewseasons and people's just relative distrust of the
Clippers and the Cavaliers is that it'sjust gonna have to be the narrative that
still exists at the end of theseason because to me, I know that,
like, I agree with your generalteering, but I would say,

(54:20):
and I said it to you before, I kind of felt like a week
ago, there was multiple guys,you know, Mitchell, Kawhi, Jalen
Brunson, all who were having youknow, stupid statistical seasons in their own
ways. Kawhi being the clear efficiencytwo way player Guy Donovan, Mitchell being
the counting stats team playing well aboveexpectations guy, and Jalen being somewhere between

(54:43):
the two, you know, greatteam, great efficiency, but maybe not
as much of an outlier season dueto what he did last year. All
those guys are guys who I think, you know, get mentioned in a
they should be in the conversation,but they hadn't yet gotten to that threshold
of no, they're serious, legit, get him at contenders now, you
know, a week later, Ido feel like Kawhi due to what you

(55:05):
said. You know, some nationalmedia people taking notice. Kawhi is definitely,
if not in that you know,top three four guys, I kind
of look at it like it's Yokaif he's not mentioned alongside Yokichen Shay,
he's a close you know, tiertwo, along with you know, Donk.
Doca is still hanging in there,but I think he'll fall off too.
I'm not really that worried about Lucaor Jannis if their teams keep the

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trend the way that they are rightthings. There's also in the wash everywhere.
There's still thirty games left in theseason. There's still time. I
just I don't see him keeping thisup, and therefore he's going to end
up falling out because if the teama standard to go fifty, he doesn't
need to do that. I don'tthink he needs to do that. The

(55:51):
team needs to continue to win,and if the team continues to win and
he keeps putting up good numbers,he will be there at the end.
Here's my concern though. Seventeen gamesin five, yeah, Kwy is twenty
five to five and five. Hedoesn't have to do fifty to fifty ninety
like that. That's just that's anexpectation that because it's so obscene and unheard

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of that you want him to sustain. But the gap between that and like
take Donovan Mitchell, he's the we'reclose to that, Like you can fall
if you're Kawhi and still be theguy that when everybody gets to the end
of his race can say, well, yeah, maybe he's not the counting
stat leader, but there's no oneclose to him in efficiency. He has
a lot of room to drop inthat area and still be you know,

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him and Jalen Brunson and Jokic andShay, They'll all kind of be right
there. But he's got room toregress a little bit and on an absolutely
unheard of streak that he's been ifthey continue to win, like Kevin says,
I agree with, but that's alsoa very, very crazy high standard
because they have won thirty one ofthe last forty games. I don't think
they have to win an eighty fivepercent clip, But I mean, I

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think if they're fighting for a toptwo seed in the Western Conference, was
I have no reason to believe theywon't. We're hoping that they be.
Are they able to stay healthy theremainder of the year. Arch scares the
hell out of me. Seventeen efinggames in thirty one days. It's a
lot. It's a lot. That'swhat it takes to win a championship at
him. Oh yeah, what youtell me one time? The Lakers have
had a deal with that. Sure, what's happened at some point since the

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Okay, maybe back in the dayin Minneapolis. But those rings don't count?
Oh fuck the updated you guys justacknowledged George Miken recently, Like,
how are you going to count ringsfrom a guy and you just hung his
banner up finally, or hung hisjersey up, like you just used him
for rings so you could say rings. Okay, I mean there was a

(57:38):
banner of Michaelson and all those guysup there when they first moved into people,
so they know your history. Whattook so long for them to retire?
George? You're right, what tookso long? It's pathetic. So
I'll tell you what it is,reverse racism. Oh yeah, very accurate.
If it was black, he wouldhave had that retired so long ago.
Damn straight the white guy played inMinneapol. Liz can't get any love

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ain't well, you know what asmuch as as much racism or the fact
that if you wear glasses playing basketball, I feel like people just don't take
you seriously. Yeah, that lowersyour points per game average by three.
Just by having that means that meansKurt Rrambas average negative points for his career.
That's the case. That's pretty good. Kawhi is currently plus thirty five

(58:22):
hundred. Remember a week ago wasplus ten thousand. It's all just driven
by the media. It has nothingto do what he has been doing.
It's a reflection of them talking aboutthe Clippers. He's only behind Luca now,
Giannis shake Gildess, Alexander and NikolaJokic is by far the front runner.
He's a minus one seventy, Sothat's interesting. I don't know if

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the media drives Vegas or Vegas drivesthe media narrative when it comes to things
it comes to those, I feellike the media picks up on what Vegas
says. Generally speaking, it isI have been watching these odds every day,
I believe until they what do youmean? But until they started talking
about Kawhi and we'll just put upthat tweet. He was at plus fing
ten thousand and now it can't beignored because even Kendrick Perkins has come around.

(59:07):
He was talking all that s andnow he's apologized to James Harden.
Okay, but before we get outof here, I was saying, you're
gonna you're gonna have a Bravada Dreamtonight or at Kauim Dream tonight. I
don't already you have, Like,do you guys have favorites as far as
which sports book you reference when you'retalking about MVP ads, because I was

(59:28):
just defaulted DraftKings, But I'm curiouswhere you guys lie as far as the
one that you because yeah, you'reso vastly I don't look at him where
you're like, I don't need togamble. I just win titles, and
exactly, I don't gamble on sports, so I don't really look at odds
and stuff like that for MVP andthe awards. Do you feel like you're

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one of the Lakers, You're oneof the players and you're not supposed to.
No, as I see you popthat champagne when they win a Bubble
championship, that was that wasn't evenchampion champagn at least for all well at
the end season tournament too, wherethey're drinking Michelo Ultra Martin Ellis. Yeah
exactly. It was like, really, you know what, this makes total
sense speaking to Eric, I gotone more question before you get bet MGM
to answer your question, Bob forme. Yeah, I'm on both bata

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right here. But I so Andrethree thousand. Have you blocked him or
have you muted him? No?No blocking my my troll protection is it
working on you right now? Youhaven't tagged him in anything. He's not
blocked. So you guys got intoit. It got it got a little
too fis, so you got alittle too real. Yeah, he took
it personal and I don't like that. It's twittered like why are you going

(01:00:34):
personal? And it was an uncalledlike out of the blue, uncalled for
like he just tagged me in atweet being like he said some stuff that
I didn't appreciate. And so I'mnot going to engage with him for the
time being. All right, butdo it before but privileges. Right,
But he is not blocked, heis not muted. I don't I don't

(01:00:54):
do that stuff. So he's notacknowledging him as what it is exactly.
Okay, I feel mister irrelevant Andre, and then I forget that I did
it. I muted both Andre andAdam while they were trolling me in the
middle of the game. Okay,now that's fair. Of course, you
don't do the play by play likeme and Eric do on x so you

(01:01:16):
started after me. I do it, do it? I do it half
heartedly. Yeah, I don't dolike gohi Nick's jumper two points necessarily.
Look, I do it because whenI do it, it's actually live and
not two minutes behind what's actually happeningbehind. No, you're more than that
because you're watching on a stream.No, I'm watching it on the spectrum

(01:01:38):
like you've moved it into single threads. I think that's a positive, a
step in the right direction, likeall under one game thread. I think
that's a good way. Yeah.I have not adopted that out of protest
against Adam, but I do likethat idea because you think you're the trendsetter
when it comes to the play byplay and speeds for your Lakers team.

(01:01:59):
I am Can you guys do likea career swap day where you Adam you
you editorialize on live tweets of aLakers game, and then Eric would in
the last five minutes of my world. No, I mean, Adam does
a great job at what he does. I don't think I could do it
that showing the respect. I wouldnot last five seconds on a try to

(01:02:22):
start ship this entire show, andeverybody's been way too cordial, right,
funny, you're just dominating people.I mean, I hope you guys experience
the level of success that the Cavaliersare happy right now, Bob, just
be thankful you didn't have to sitthrough Adam's dream. Oh yeah, it
was Bob and your dream. Bobdidn't make it, but it was again,
it was a nightmare. Petros Hehe took turned to turn to Stone

(01:02:45):
and real quick before Blackie gets madat me. I got the Chiefs on
Sunday. Chiefs. Blackie is ourassistant program director, Brian blackmore So,
just in case if anybody in theroom was wondering why. Eric looked at
me and said Blackie. He wastalking to me. Yeah, And when
I said Kevin, I was like, who's your pick? I just everybody
doesn't know. So when Eric justsays Blackie, he was like, what

(01:03:07):
the hell are you talking about?So you're talking about Brian Blackmore, who's
our resident San Francisco forty nine Ersfan. I hate to say this,
but I think Kansas City is gonnawin as well. Forty nine Ers have
not played well and Brock Party haslooked like shit in the postseason. And
why do you over here? I'mgonna say. I'm also gonna say the
Kansas City Chiefs. There's just abigger disparity between quarterbacks than defenses. Right

(01:03:30):
now, Kansas City's defense is closeto the Niners defense. I don't think
Party is that close to Mahomes,and that Niners defense has not really played
that well the last couple of weekseither. Bob. Now, Yeah,
Bob, who you know is Mayais married to a Kansas City Chiefs family.
Of course he's going nine ers.Yeah, your podcast, so I'm
going night, Well, yeah,not until I clip this and send it
to her. Yeah. Well,the track communicates only through me, not

(01:03:52):
allowed to have conversations with people.That's how I run my household. Yeah,
that's nice and progressive of Bob,right there. I love it.
What allegiance is? Are your kid'sgonna have? I mean, oh,
you know, Buffalo, Kansas city. What are we doing about it?
It's gotta be a girl. Idon't even know if you'll like sports,
but I'm gonna try my back toget the Cavalier love going. We'll see
how that goes. Girls love thePhoenix Suns apparently apparently so the Suns and

(01:04:16):
four every time, Bob, thankyou, We appreciate it. This is
always always fun. Thank you guys, Thank you Bob, thank you Eric,
thank you Breby. Thanks for havingme. Guys, it was a
fun yes, all over the place, round table, very eclectic group here,

(01:04:36):
yes, but we love it.So Bob's at Fear the fro Pod
Duke at the Duke of sports.Yep, I am at k fig one,
Adam at follow adam ay. Ialways forget Bree's number at Bree Denise
twenty six for it's for Kyle Korverfor some reason. So that's where you

(01:05:00):
can find all of us on X. Guy's more washed than the vampire.
He looks like now. He looksas old as he has vampire. I
will say, taking a bit ofa transformation. I will say not in
the positive way. He just helooks like angel when he turned into the
vampire. And Buffy the vampire.Too much botox. That's you're right,

(01:05:20):
that's what happens, and you're toovain and it ends up backfiring on you,
like Joan Rivers or you know hefell off of his his facial routine.
You know, renezel Wegger, thebutcher her. You can also leave
a voicemail for us Chloe Kardashian likeBig Lou. Oho, I guess she

(01:05:42):
looks better nine. So she didget she got the reverse botox, more
botox. I guess is what shegot to fix? Is that what happens?
She got just the right of themout the Goldilocks nine, eight eleven
ninety seven. If you want tobe like Big Lou and leave us a
voicemail with very interesting questions that don'thave to necessarily be about sports, maybe
tell us your dreams. We coulddo I always thought of doing like a
dream interpreter, a dream segment onthe show. Do we have someone who

(01:06:05):
is a resident dream interpreter? Well, I thought we did pretty good earlier.
Okay, all right, it wouldbe Vic the Brick, but absolutely
we should do that. He's atough get. You put something he's really
not big is not a tough get. Trust me. He's always on the
move. Yeah, how do youknow where he's gonna be? He sure

(01:06:26):
is? No why he moving fasterthan Vic the brick these days. All
right, thank you guys for listeningas always, have a good weekend and
join the super Bowl. We'll talkto you next week on another edition of
the fn A podcast. And forthe record, Kobe picked the pose you're
about to see, so if anyonehas any issues with it, tough Shiit.