February 3, 2025 • 41 mins
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a lot of play by play coming up.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yes, we got the Super Bowl at eleven o'clock. The
Chiefs kick off at three point thirty tomorrow. Let's go
chee Clippers Lakers three to six will be on and
then kicked over to eleven fifty seven o'clock. Tip UCLA
versus number nine Michigan State unranked UCLA BS.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That is absolute BS horsecrap horse crap is right. Hey,
you know men, balls came back in California. I thought
he lifted the mental for everybody. Uh not for the stake.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You can't federally lift the menthal.
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No, that is a state by state decision.
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What the mens?
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with pleasure. That's why when I was visiting Peyton Dart
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don't know if a series gonna California. There you go.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
What you talking about? You don't understand.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I'm just assuming that series doesn't understand.
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Can I get my men thals back in California?
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Maybe say our menthol cigarettes available for purchase in California.
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California prohibits retailers from selling flavored tobacco product.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
What that's right, been that way for a while for shame.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Man man wow man, freakd up in kind of communists?
When you can't have an eight hour day work and
drink a couple of beers on the way home, feel
a kind of communist? Tell you that right now?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Still a pack of freaking skull winter Games.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I feel like a lipper.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I want just a generic zin. No, look like some
chump packing a Bandit.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Look like a RFK and grilled bud throwing a zin
in there, Health inspector, it's time for the top story
of the day.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, let's start with this. They've tried everything the last
two weeks, ten minute quarters. What do you think no movement?
What if we cut out the corner three, moved the
three point line back further and even nah, you know,
kicked around the idea. Hear me out of a four
point line? Eh, a little bit of movement? Okay, how
(04:21):
about this, What if we installed punitive to the point
of millions of dollars lost level punishments as it relates
to load management or player empowerment, public trade demands.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
They already get paid to play, so that wasn't gonna
get And they were very close, I think to going
rock and Jock like circle on the court, right, you know,
five points.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Frankie Munez coming off the bench to help you out. Yeah, nothing,
nothing moved the needle. And then he picked up that
phone and he said, all right, calling it in. You
trade Luka doncik to the mother Lakers, and now we're back.
Maybe the NBA is back.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Tradeton tray tung mine tradung. I do have it on
good authority that Adam Silver called the graveyard David Stern
is buried in and made sure that a couple of
people stood on his grave so it didn't pop out
and stopped the train.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's exactly right. And he's got that kind of pull
his nose for us.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, got store in a Mauzleum.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
The NBA is back. There was no football talk over
the course of the weekend. Nothing touches NBA trades, nothing
like no one cares what it's like when it actually
hits the court. Absolutely not. You're not gonna move the
needle with a ten minute quarter. You're not gonna move
the needle with in game adjustments. No, that doesn't work.
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Whether it's draft day, whether it's the off season, whether
it's at the deadline. It has always been bonkers. Maybe
it can't be every year that we get what we
got over the weekend, but in the past, do not forget.
We can dig deep. We can dig Moses Malone from
Houston to Philadelphia, Chris Webber to Sacramento, from Washington.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That was huge.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
CP three Lakers, nixt Clippers, doors barricaded Mayhem, the Son's
got Kevin Durant and the Mavericks Kyrie Irving. Two years ago,
the Knicks Carmelo Anthony. Because that's how we're going to
stay relevant. Putting a superstar in Gotham. They picked up
the Lakers gr Glenn Rice for Eddie Jones. I didn't
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like that trade actually, and Pau Gasol in two thousand
and eight in a super secret deal that everybody said
was Jerry West doing his old pal Mitch Cupchak a.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Favor, so much so that Robert Lorriy forgot that it
was Mitch Cupchack that made the trade when he joined
us in the first hour.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's exactly right. The Sixers picked up James Arden, the
Mavericks Jason Kidd Darren Williams remember said something bad about
Jerry Sloan and he said, you got two choices. Either
I'm gonna beat the absolute crap out of you, or
I'm gonna trade you, and he traded him to Brooklyn. Uh,
we got a jingle.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Trade ton Trae ton Mine.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That jingle was not made for baseball and most definitely
was not made for football. We use it, we'd use
it for it.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But but that is for it's for stupid basketball trade.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, that's for WOJ bombs. That's why they're called woje bombs.
You know, at least passing bombs, at.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Least WOJ didn't work. For Clutch. You know, I mean
Champ Sharoon. Actually they literally own the company he works for.
Like it is, it is a charae. It is a
literal room charade. It's a masquerade. It's a balloon that
doesn't even really exist. Well, no one had this one.
(08:00):
It came in the dead of the night on the
East Coast. People woke up. But Sharon is the guy
that came out and was like, Lebron didn't know. I
haven't yet authority.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Well, like I'm talking to deal itself. I don't care
what Lebron knew or what Lebron didn't know. What I
do know is you know he knew. Adam Silver called
it in, He called make it happen. Nothing I'm I've
tried to trim games to forty minutes and nobody gives
a damn. Make it happen, Make the NBA relevant again,
trade talk. Is the game a great watch right now? No,
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but the soap opera off the court is untouchable. You
will have years of opinion, pieces of screaming talking head
shows of zero sum gain conversations about why and when
and for who and how and depending on all the
how this old thing shakes out because the why of
(08:55):
it is badass crazy. I don't give a damn what
kind of shape a guy is in. What is entourage
looks like it just does not make any sense that
a team would trade a twenty five year old super
Call it a posse, No, I would not do that.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Called it an entourage exactly good.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
You're good, twenty five year old about to turn twenty
six at the end of the month. Generational talent, Rookie
of the Year, five time not All Star All NBA
in his first six years, top five MVP vote getter
for half of his six year career. Coming off in
appearance in the NBA Finals, his playoff numbers are better again.
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His playoff numbers thirty one per game, ten boards per game,
and assist per games are better than the regular season.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah, and I'm sure there's a lot of stuff behind
the scenes, as Robert Rory was alluding to it, I'm
sure more and more of that will come out. But
that is kind of hard to reconcound. It's like you
were in the finals last last year. It's not like, wow,
things have got a little stale.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yes, And it's like last year was his best year.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
And the West a monster and all that, and you're
the ones that came out of the West last year
and with culture defense wins championships.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
But I guess you know that's the contrary is viable enough,
And it felt like Robert Horry was comfortable taking that
position and saying this works for both teams. That he's fat,
that he does not play defense, That referees cannot stand
him because he mother fs them from the second the
game starts until the second it's over. That he typically
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played well. Not typically, I mean it's a stat. He
plays between sixty and seventy games per year and misses
between fifteen and twenty every season because he's so out
of shape. He's missed over half the Mavericks games this year,
twenty eight out of fifty. He's dealing with not a
calf strain, but calves strains in both legs, That he
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does not like to play hurt, not injured, but he's
someone that does not like to play hurt. That maybe
he's not a great teammate. That he's got people all
over the facility that you don't want a round. That
he works with his own trainers, with his own team,
not D trainers or D team.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Guys all leathered out, smoke cigarettes. That's what I mean,
board hogheads. I'm hoping, that's what I'm hoping. I hope
they ride their horses. A bunch of guys that look
like a foreign chip Kelly just smoking and speaking in
some foreign.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Gold chage leather jacket. Summer pointing out that Rick Carlyle
had him for three seasons Rookie of the Year, two
incredibly competitive first round losses to the Clippers. Rick Carlyle
sided as one of the best coaches in the league
and NBA champion, that he stepped down with two years
left on his deal because he could not take it anymore.
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Twenty one year old superstar, already one of the five
best players in the league at twenty one, and he
had three years left on his deal and he said, no,
not coaching. That guy cannot do it anymore. Immediately took
the Indiana job. Now, some pushback and insider accounts from
the Dallas area said, yeah, that's not entirely true, that
Carlile was a bit of an a hole, and that wow,
(12:01):
there's always gray area exactly. I'm sure the truth is
somewhere in the middle. But Luca again in six years.
When you put that aside, has been one of, if
not at times the best player in the league. If
you just look at him, Yeah, it looks fat, looks
like he's moving at a snail's pace, looks like he
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has no interest in playing defense. And yet he's a superstar.
He's one of the three best, not just offensive players,
but just three best players in the league. When he
is in his zone, he is unstoppable. He will hang
fifty on you like it is nothing and there is
nothing you can do. He is competitive as all hell
in the playoffs and assassin offensively. And he's twenty five.
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He's not forty. Lebron James is forty. This dude is
twenty five years old. Antonio Anthony Davis is thirty two
and perennially injured. And that's what you gave up to
get him their best defender, also their best perimeter defender.
Of course they gave up as well, and Max Christy
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since JJ Reddick put himTo the starting lineup. So I
guess now, if this holds, and I don't think it will,
you will have three guys on the floor at the
same time. And Lebron James, Austin Reeves and Luka Doncik,
who are not just minus defenders, but really bad defenders.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
So it's like an air raid team. It's an air
raid team. One hundred and fifty and one hundred and forty.
Somebody's gonna win that game. It might not be them.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
How many stops do they need to get?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Three?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Three and we get We can't get them. And with
Luca though, the thing that everybody's talking about Lebron James
being the guy that's going to be traded, and oh,
I fired up the trade machine. Is what I did earlier,
and here's what I found. The Lakers could trade Lebron
and Bronni. Of course you gotta put that extra million
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dollar salary in there.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Where are we going?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And Steve Balmer, for all the grit and grind that
his Clippers played with, they ain't asses in the seats
at the Intuit Dome. The brand new three billion dollars
state of the art. You've got to see this, Serena
to believe it.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
They have such a great marketing department and great president
and Gillian it's hard to believe that they're having trouble
marketing their basketball team.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
People ain't going they don't want to have facial recognition
to pick up their dog and their chicken tenders.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Or pay seventy bucks for parking.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Pay seventy for parking. They don't want their boots shaken
out after they take a leak in the bathroom. The
most journals of any arena in the history of the
world doesn't have a poots a shaker. Oh you sure
you haven't been yet.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
That's misinformation. Have you been? No? But but you know, yeah,
I think it had put a shaker, we'd have good
information on it.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I guess I got that intel.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah you did. Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
They point out that James Harden, I'm still a little
bit un there, still a little bit under get a
little bit more to you Put James Harden, Kawhi, Leonard,
and Lebron on the court together, Maybe you get some
asses in the Intuit Dome seats. Maybe you get some
star efforts out there to put their eyes on Bronni
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and Lebron and Kawhi and James Harden trade Bron Lebron.
That's what Summer saying, the saying, hey it works, Hey
you can you can get Zubs back on the Lakers.
There's your defensive center. You can get Terrence Man, there's
your perimeterive defend, your perimeter defender, and you get Norman Powell,
there's your off the ball shooter that works with Luca,
and Lebron gets to stay in LA. He gets to
play with two future Hall of Famers and James Harden
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and Kawhi Leonard for the final two years of his career,
and maybe they can chase the title together with the
billions and billions of dollars. That's what some are saying.
Others are saying, why not trade him to Golden State.
He can go play with his pal Steph Curry, get
kaminga back, a bunch of other pieces, some draft picks,
and you build for the future. You're right off twenty
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twenty five postseason. And then what I say is that
ain't gonna happen. It's not the way this works. Lebron
did not come here to win titles. Lebron came here
to run the Lakers, and Lebron came here to run
his production company that's going bankrupt.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He came here to be celebrated the way he feels
he should be.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It's exactly right. So what I envision happening is Austin
Reeves is going to get traded. Oh wow, the guy
that was the most Laker of all the Lakers, undrafted,
cultivated and by the G League, built up from nothing
like Caruso, has turned into a potential All Star level player.
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And it's like, all right, we got Luca. Now there's
our superstar. Everybody's excited again. It's not Lebron's team anymore.
We've got someone who's a better player than he is,
that people care about more than Lebron. We can keep Lebron,
let him ride this thing out. If he wants to
stop out next year, great. But it feels as though
Austin Reeves, all of you that purchased that beautiful, glorious
Austin Reeves jersey that grew out your Bama bangs that
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don't put any product in your hair but a headband,
so it.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Just froofs around as you walk around Dad without body,
and you don't perspire enough to get your hair wet
enough that eventually it's not fluffy by the end of
the game.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It stays flufy the whole time.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
It's not like he's not playing hard.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
He's playing hard, yet it stays flufed. That is The
vision that I have is that it is not the
Lebron James trade projections. But go ahead and fire up
your trade machine. He's got a no trade clause, Bron.
He's here. Heyd You see that cool moment where Bron
was on the court shooting around in New York and
you said, hey, Brownie, that's your mom calling you. That's
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your mom calling you. Answer your mom calling. Wasn't that cool? No, no,
it wasn't cool. As a matter of fact, it's awkward.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
It's tiresome, and the whole how do we help Lebron?
Lebron needs more help. Luca is not enough. They need
more help. It's and I saw somebody tee it out.
It's like and Michael Jordan's not allowed to have Scottie
Pippen on his team. But Lebron needs more help than
ever any era. So we can like, why why the
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NBA has literally destroyed itself trying to appease Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Well, I'm gonna be there for the first time he
shoots up, because I want to see you with my
own tim.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
And a Clipper uniform or with the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Lakers Donic Oh, the fact that Doncic could be our
exit strategy from Lebron James interfering with all of the
yes with the Lakers, because eventually, and by adventure that
I mean by the end of the season, when his
player option is.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Up, I'd be like I was here, Like it's Luca know, because.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
It's inevitable he's a better player. He's gonna be on
the floor and everyone's gonna be like, holy crap, how
are you guys a lot better than Lebron?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
This is great. If Luca can't get along with anybody,
how's he supposed to get along with the most murderous,
get rid of you guy in the history of the leagues.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
He grew up watching Lebron. That's his idol. Oh okay,
that's who he modeled his game after. Man, that's why
really seems to shoot a lot better than Lebron. Well,
it's not a shooter, then, how could just don't ask
him whatever?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
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Speaker 2 (19:13):
Bet throw some money. AM five to seventy Ela Sports
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app fortunate to be able
to do a four hour show on a day with
as big a breaking news as this. Everybody reacting to
the weekend trade. What does it mean for Bill Ryder?
He said, Well, what it means is I'm a guy
that was in bed with Lebraun and knows him better
than most and I've got sources all over the league.
(19:34):
Sure you do, Bill, Congratulations you and f and l Uh.
It gives us an opportunity stat.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Baba reported stick Boba.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Story opportunities to continue to dice.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Well, well, Cale, I want to ask you a few
more questions. Matt. You had your top story of the
day and the last segment, and we talked about it
to open the show. We had Robert or Robert Ory,
Yovanne Boujah Booha for days planning of a perspective on
what is a huge sports story and nobody knows how
it sports it up like the Petros Great Sports Talk.
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So we'll call this the FlipTop Star. I'll you out,
I will look you out. This is the flip top
story of the day. I think the most interesting thing
to me, and I believe you as well. About this, Matt,
is the prospect that you floated out in the first segment,
And I agree that maybe I would not want to
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admit this to myself because I want it so badly
that I would not think about it in these terms
because of everything that has happened up until this point
with the Lakers and the NBA. But what you alleged
in the first segment of the show and during the
top story of the day is that basically with this trade,
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with this Slovenian influx, check off plays will run rampant.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yes, they will. In West Los Angeles. We did you
did check off as a couple of weeks ago. It's
gonna be great. Your brother's gonna be making out with
guys on stage.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Uncle Vanya. I don't believe that was a Chekhov play fit.
I don't believe Chekhov was very homo erotic.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
But but without without getting too much off the check
to check off uh play dark Eyes please. Uh. With
this influx of Slovenian talent to the city of Los
Angeles in the form of Luka Doncic, it is a
very interesting prospect. What's always been a that this means
(21:38):
if if, what you're saying is correct. This means either
the Lakers or the NBA or both are done with
Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I want to believe, so do I Yeah, agent Molder style.
I want to believe what leads you to believe. Well,
because it's just way too big. You can't trade the
best player in the league and have anybody know about it,
like like, it just doesn't happen like this. It would
have leaked. There would have been somehow.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You're saying what you're saying, and you allegend the last
segment that the guy who's working for Lebron literally working
for Lebron and ESPN at the same time, and then
the other one that's big enough to eat hay and
crap in the streets. Those guys would have leaked this, yes,
through clutch, had they known about it, as opposed to
coming around in the back end and saying Lebron didn't
know at all, he was a dinner blah blah blah
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blah blah.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And I think that's that's very interesting. They're still doing
Lebron's bidding. Oh ye by saying that.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Oh, there's plenty of I do think there's plenty of
backpedaling and clean up and sprinting here and sprinting mass
and sticking your fingers in the dike.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But you're alleging, I'm alleging that the Sons would have
traded Devin Booker for Luca. The Bucks would probably trade
Jannas Satanta Guopo for Luca Dodson. And a lot of
people made that point, like even Clay Travis and Frank
is soola, So you can't leak this to any They
were like, why wouldn't if they were shopping Luka Doncic,
couldn't they get more than a broken down, big eyebrowed guy.
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And that's where my whole super conspiracy theory, Adam Silver
a Petros Papadacus pillar. The Lakers always get a windfall.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
They always get whenever things are at their worst. Somehow
something happens that puts them right back in the middle
of it. And the NBA is relevant again, right, And.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I wasn't seven Brandy Alexander's deep with Doug Crekorian when
Wilt Chamberlain was traded, So I wouldn't couldn't tell you. Uh,
there was a lot of talk that the Lakers were
trying to get shack at that time.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Right.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
The thing I remember, because we were working together at
the time and I was new to the Laker station,
was that no one knew about Pawgasow nobody like that
happened overnight.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
And remember that's what Papamach said. It was like, and
it saved the Laker. If this was an open auction,
they would have got fifteen times more for And it
was the idea that Jerry West was doing his old
kind of favor.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
And look, and this is different. Who's getting the favor
done here, right, You're the league itself.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That's what I mean. It's if Luca. I mean, look,
I think it would have been a big deal if
Luca would have been traded anywhere. If he gets traded
in Milwaukee for Giannis, if he gets traded to Phoenix
to play with Kevin Durant for Devin Booker, any of
those would be a big deal. But the fact that
he was traded to Los Angeles for Anthony Davis, who
everybody apparent like we talked about seemingly is now, Hey,
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it's a martyr. You're you're talking about an All NBA player.
This has never happened. This is an All NBA First Team,
got second team guy, a perennial MVP candidate. This is
MVP for MVP. These are trades we never I'm like, eh, hey,
I remember Charles Barkley calling him street closed and everybody
laughing and him being a bit of a punchline because
he was always hurt and he's not a real superstar
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and he's not someone you could depend on. He's someone
who's six foot ten, two hundred and sixty pounds. It
doesn't want to play center. Joel Myers loves this. I
love It's Myers. He's gotta love So that's kind of
you know, I'm being a you know, a little snarky
with it, but there is that they would never never.
But I do think it's like, how does this happen?
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How do you get one of the three best players
in the league on the most important franchise next to
Lebron James, who spans generations of fandom when the NBA
is struggling for eyeballs.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Or infamy at this point. This pisses a lot of
people off too. It's not just no, there's a lot
of people that are pissed because he's with Lebron it's
not a big celebratory thing.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And that's why I said the whole oh, they're going
to trade Lebron now because they're too similar. Look at
their usage rates and it's like, no.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
They're not trading Lebron. There's no way that that's happening, because,
as you've said, he's got a no trade clause.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I hope that it spells the end of the Lebron.
Whatever spells the end of the Lebron James era in
Los Angeles faster is what all of us are looking for.
We want Lebron to be done in LA. What Lebron
has done to the NBA he represents is not a
(26:10):
good thing, and most Laker fans really have a problem
with this guy. And to your point, Danny Ainge, Utah
Jazz executive didn't find out the whole deal, you Tah
until right before the trade was made, and they were
the third team involved in the deal.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
That took on the extra salary because Tah.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
So I mean, if look, I want to believe that
this trade means that they're done with Lebron, given the
fact that they drafted his son and hired his bff
to be the head coach and they're all just still
sitting there and his agent is probably got an office
in the Laker facility. It's it's also something you might
(26:48):
want to consider because it's hard to get around this guy.
Seems like he's the elephant in the room. It's it's
the ultimate. They finally with Lebron, they finally have an
f you position. He wanted to have it with Anthony Davis,
thinking okay, he can win.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
In Anthony Davis is his guy with klutch, Like they're
all married and nobody's wearing Anthony Davis jerseys going into
to Crypto. But guess what you are going to see
number seventy seven Luka Doncic Jerseys surpass number twenty three
Lebron James Jerseys in a hurry. How much he is
(27:23):
a bigger star? Are we going to see other NBA
people that complain about this kind of stuff, like Steve Kerr,
people that are very media friendly or whatever, say hey,
this is total bs. What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
When is that?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
When is that going to happen? Well, I think there's
one problem with that, and I don't I don't know why.
I don't know kind of what relationship he had with
all of these teams, but it does seem like everybody
really likes this guy in Dallas who was the former
Nike exec player rep for twenty years, Nico Nico Harrison.
(27:57):
Everybody has a relationship with him. They're all talking about
what this is somebody who you know, earned an appointment
to West Point is as buttoned up as they come.
Was Phil Knight's number one guy in basketball at Nike,
and one of the reasons why that, you know, on
and on it. So it seems like they're all pointing
the finger at Luca, like, Hey, that guy's get drunk,
and that guy smokes, and that guy's got bad friends
(28:19):
that hang around our place. And every other team is like,
that's great, we'll take them. Well, well, we'll put a
cigarette machine in the locker room, and we'll we'll put
a bar. Instead of having a player next to him,
we'll have a bar in the stall next to him,
and all of his friends can hang out in our lobby.
That's totally fine. Well, we'll go ahead and take him.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
It's good.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Like a wet bar, like a wet bar, like a
Petros papadacus, Joe's versus Pro's wet bar.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Oh, the mini bar. That was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
They will put one of those in in order to
get that's how that is, how freaking talented he is. Like,
the Lakers have one of the three best players in
the NBA.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Now you can go to the Laker website right now
and get the Luka Doncicz jersey for two hundred and
thirty five dollars. That's it.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
What a deal.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Do you think there'll be a line of Slovenians like
they were, like, there aren't japan S to get the
uh to get the show hail Tani stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
We'll never forget. You know, there are still there was
still an under serviced community of Slovenians since the Sasha
Vuyasitch depart right. They have been waiting. They've been they've
been in Hibernation, waiting to show their Laker fandom once again.
And now that don Chic is here, it's gonna be
a real influx. Not to mention, you have right here
(29:30):
in town one of the all time great Slovenian athletes
on American soil, Anche Kopeitar. Come on for the La Kings.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
And there's beautiful Manhattan Beach home that's right now, Matt
this time next week is Lebron James still a Laker?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I hope not.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Papa, will you bring me? I hope not. Well is
he I would hope not. Is it possible that he
won't be I think it is possible. Do you think
it's a distinct possibility.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I'd like to believe that, But I want to believe.
I want to believe that now that Lucas.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Man, you're speaking such an authoritative tone. You say, I
it's hard for me to believe. After what Genie but
the Big Weenie said to us over the summer, after
hiring JJ Reddick and drafting Brownie James, it's hard for
me to believe that they'll be able to break up
with old valcrow Head.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Breaking up is hard to do. Like the everleast say
sooner or later. Enough's enough? You know what, I know
we've had this.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I saw that Jennifer Lovez movie, and I know, of
course she taped the rints and fought the guy.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yes, it's like, hey, Lebron, Yes you won a Bubble Championship.
We've sold a ton of season tickets. Court side seats
are at an all time high because people want to
go and see you play. But you know what, you fight,
the Anthony Davis, the Coentavious Caldwell, Pope and on and
a JJ and Brownie finally pushed us over. We finally
having to watch him play in Philadelphia and humiliate himself
(30:47):
and bounce balls off his feet and bonk balls off
the bottom of the rim and looked like a twelve
year old plane in a gat. He had one against
the Wiz. Oh yeah he sure did. Like did that?
That's where they're like, okay, we if we can get
out of this, how do And this is the way
they get it.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
There's been so much that has happened that has not
humiliated them. Why all of a sudden have they grown
a conscience for shame? For shame?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Well, I mean, I just I mean right.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
This guy mcminnimon's over here pulling for Bronny, pulling on
Bronnie's boots and.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Now he's pulling on Dunch. Just abe, let me hold
that for you. Let me hold that robot d for you.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Like, what about all the browny people and lebron people
that are embedded with the Lakers. What's gonna happen to them?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
See you later? Remember they sent mcminnimon to Cleveland when
Lebron left Miami to go back to Cleveland, and now
he's here. But it's gonna happen all those people happily married,
making his life here. What's gonna happen to him when
Lebron goes elsewhere? Exactly right. I guess we're moving to
poop and needles, San Francisco. Here we come, or maybe
(31:52):
they get to stay because he goes to the Intuit Dome.
Steve Balmer and his billions.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Whatever gets rid of Lebron, That's what I'm for.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
If that means that were now blockhead Eastern comedies, then fine.
I reject communism, but I also reject Lebron's brand of
monopoly capitalism.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I reject all of that.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I reject it all I want. I just want James
Worthy eating hot dogs, coming off a commercial flight and
scoring twenty in the first half and laughing. David Vasa
will join us next. He's pulling on a guy's vape too.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
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Speaker 3 (32:53):
The Home of the Jets with an inside look at
the Dodge. This is the Vass Report with David Vasse.
David Vase joining the Petros and Money Show after a
triumphant FanFest appearance Saturday. Absolute brilliance. Freddie Freeman soloquacious so
(33:18):
detailed about his recovery and his son Maximus's recovery. Great
stuff from Otani Friedman, the snell Zilla car wash. It
was all there and you can podcast it on the
iHeartRadio app. Maybe relive some of it tonight with Dodger
Talk or right now Dodger Talk at seven o'clock day
from MLB Network, Spectrum Sportsnet and our reporter right here
(33:38):
on AMPI seventy LA Sports on your Southern California. Tell
you to deal a celebrity online. Hello, Dave, how are you?
Speaker 7 (33:44):
I'm doing great? Thank you for all the love on Saturday.
I really appreciate it. It was a great time and
I felt like everybody was very relaxed and happy, and
how could you not be The Dodger spent a half
a billion dollars to make a world championship team that
much better. Everybody's feeling good.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
It wasn't just that. It was a celebration and there
was a lot of celebrating and a lot of love
and joking around with you and everybody. But some news
was made. You got some good stuff out of Friedman
about Otani and different updates.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Yeah, let's start with show hey Otani, because everybody is
anticipating when he's going to make his Dodger debut as
a pitcher, and that still seems to be uncertain. And
I asked Andrew Friedman, let's just start in the micro.
What should we expect if Petros their money show up
on the backfield it's a camel back ranch. Will they
(34:35):
get to see Otani face Austin Barnes.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
I don't know yet. You know, he's playing long toss
and he will start progressing and advancing. I don't know
yet as far as whin he'll start facing hitters. We
haven't figured that out. We want to get around him,
be a part of a stowing program with our pitching guys,
and you know each and every day. He's with our
(35:00):
trainers right now, and you know he's kind of moving
out of rehab phase and to go compete mode. And
so exactly how that progresses we haven't figured out yet.
Speaker 8 (35:10):
But there is a possibility a fan might be there
on a Tuesday afternoon and see him maybe just pitch
to somebody.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
Yeah, maybe left handed or underhanded or something. Sure, Yeah,
I don't, I don't. I don't know when he's going
to face hitters yet, but I do know he is
going to pitch for us this year and be a
big part of what we do on both sides of
the ball.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
All right, So Dave Roberts after that interview kind of conceited,
may is a realistic timeline to see o Taani pitch
in the big leagues. But look, he's coming off his
second Tommy John surgery. I know it wasn't his pitching shoulder,
but he did have surgery on his left shoulder. So
the Dodgers are going to be extra careful with him
(35:55):
because not only do they need him or want him
to pitch in October and down the stretch, but they
need him as a hitter, you know, he's the Ragning
MVP as a fifty to fifty player.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
And he's a DH as a hitter. And I know
the two of you were having a laugh, Dave when
you were talking to Freddy, but he was saying, a
you know, if it's not right, I'll just go ahead
and DH because we need one of those. He shared
the surgery and his recovery from that. Is there any
concern that he won't be ready to go when the
season gets started.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
Yeah, there is some, I want to say concerned, but
I'm sure the Dodgers want Freddy to slow it down
and not be ready for opening Day in Tokyo, even
though he expressed that's what he wants to do. He
barely just started hitting in the batting cage last week,
as he told us. So you know, I feel like
the Dodgers are going to continue to try to preach
(36:46):
patience for a player that wants to play one hundred
and sixty two games. The Dodgers don't need Freddy Freeman
to reaggravate that right ankle. They need Freddie Freeman for
the majority of the year. And you know, I'm sure
Andrew Freeman, Dave Roberts, even some of his teammates are
going to try to convince Freddy to slow it down
(37:07):
and not try to be ready for opening day in Tokyo.
But you know, make sure that right ankle is ready
to go, and even if it means missing the first
few weeks of the regular season.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Dave, did you get something else out of Friedman? Did
you milk something else out of him about Kik the
one man that the fans wanted to see a fan
fest in the parking lot.
Speaker 7 (37:27):
Yeah, it feels like everybody's panicking in the streets because
the Orange County Register reported that the Dodgers are not
going to bring back keyk Hernandez and that's not something
I've heard. And Andrew Freeman on the record said that's
not accurate either.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Yeah, I mean, I don't think the door's ever closed
on Kik. That being said, it doesn't mean that it
will necessarily work out. But we've acquired him a lot
of different times and through trades and free agency, you know,
twice through trade, and you know, I don't know how
it'll play out. We'll never close the door on him,
but you know, if he does sign somewhere else, and
(38:05):
hopefully we'll have a chance to trade for him or whatever.
But the most important thing is for he and his family.
We want them to make the best decision for them
and whatever that means. And obviously we're biased and we
hope it means us, but we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 8 (38:20):
It was encouraging to see him at a Utah hockey game.
It feels like he's just drifting, waiting for the time
to drift back to La. I mean, Keik had a
Utah hockey game, Andrew, I never thought i'd see that.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
Yeah, I didn't either. He's good friends with the gm
oh and I talked to him about it during the season,
But when I first saw it, I was like, wait
a minute, and then I remembered that connection.
Speaker 7 (38:46):
So the door is very much open for a return
for Key k Hernandez to the Dodgers. The door is
not closed, it's not double locked. It's very open.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
There are there are also rumors are out there, Dave,
that you have a new favorite Dodger other than Blake Snell,
that you're ready to share who that is. Is that?
Is that a tease for Dodger talk tonight or are
you going to be able to divulge that here?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Now?
Speaker 7 (39:11):
I'm very comfortable divulging that right here, right now. First
impressions a lot, and Hay Song Kim made a great
first impression on me. He's a good store, Hey Song Kim,
my guy, he's a great guy. Blake Snell already has
taken him under his wing as well, So it's going
(39:33):
to be a good time with Hay Song Kim. He's
like they're trying to sell to other members of the
Dodgers that he's brother with high Song Kim, and even
some players have started to believe.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
It, suckers, So it's going to be you Snell, Zilla
and Hay Song on the road getting meals together. Is
that what it's going to be, Dave?
Speaker 7 (39:51):
It feels that way. Feels that way, And look, Kim
is not guaranteed. I know everybody thinks he's the starting
second baseman. He's got a earn not only that opportunity,
but he's also got to earn a spot on the
major league roster because he's able to be optioned to
the minor league. So you know, anybody handing him the
second base job is a little premature.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Looked like he had a good head of hair on
that video that you posted.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I was jealous.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Great, Yeah, it looked like a really good young man, geez.
Just a lot of product in there. Really had a
nice flow to it.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Well you see o Toddy see the mark. All right, Dave,
we enjoyed talking to you. Have a great night tonight,
seven o'clock Dodger Talk with David Massey.
Speaker 7 (40:36):
I'm not used to you guys being this nice to
me going back to Saturday, so I'll just take it
today on this great Monday.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Well, it was really an impactful three hours. You know,
you bring a lot to the people.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
It's good stuff, very good stuff. Dave.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Doesn't mean you're still not a prick, but we love you,
We love the work.
Speaker 7 (40:53):
Oh, thank you, Petros and I'm sorry my love for
Lebron and my appreciation for the king.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Well look what you win this. Yeah you are a
real prick nose. I forgot about that. All right, We
love you, Dave. Have a great week. One hour more
of great sports talk, that's what it is, bad and
we'll be back with more of that quick hits and
fun fact coming up.
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Those teeth are yellow. Yeah, and I'm not one to
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a lot of play by play coming up.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yes, we got the Super Bowl at eleven o'clock. The
Chiefs kick off at three point thirty tomorrow. Let's go
chee Clippers Lakers three to six will be on and
then kicked over to eleven fifty seven o'clock. Tip UCLA
versus number nine Michigan State unranked UCLA BS.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That is absolute BS horsecrap horse crap is right. Hey,
you know men, balls came back in California. I thought
he lifted the mental for everybody. Uh not for the stake.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You can't federally lift the menthal.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
No, that is a state by state decision.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
What the mens?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah no, uh no Skull Winter Green, no newport Alive
with pleasure. That's why when I was visiting Peyton Dart
at the one time and my men thos back, I
don't know if a series gonna California. There you go.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
What you talking about? You don't understand.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I'm just assuming that series doesn't understand.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Can I get my men thals back in California?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Maybe say our menthol cigarettes available for purchase in California.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
California prohibits retailers from selling flavored tobacco product.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
What that's right, been that way for a while for shame.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Man man wow man, freakd up in kind of communists?
When you can't have an eight hour day work and
drink a couple of beers on the way home, feel
a kind of communist? Tell you that right now?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Still a pack of freaking skull winter Games.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I feel like a lipper.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I want just a generic zin. No, look like some
chump packing a Bandit.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Look like a RFK and grilled bud throwing a zin
in there, Health inspector, it's time for the top story
of the day.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, let's start with this. They've tried everything the last
two weeks, ten minute quarters. What do you think no movement?
What if we cut out the corner three, moved the
three point line back further and even nah, you know,
kicked around the idea. Hear me out of a four
point line? Eh, a little bit of movement? Okay, how
(04:21):
about this, What if we installed punitive to the point
of millions of dollars lost level punishments as it relates
to load management or player empowerment, public trade demands.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
They already get paid to play, so that wasn't gonna
get And they were very close, I think to going
rock and Jock like circle on the court, right, you know,
five points.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Frankie Munez coming off the bench to help you out. Yeah, nothing,
nothing moved the needle. And then he picked up that
phone and he said, all right, calling it in. You
trade Luka doncik to the mother Lakers, and now we're back.
Maybe the NBA is back.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Tradeton tray tung mine tradung. I do have it on
good authority that Adam Silver called the graveyard David Stern
is buried in and made sure that a couple of
people stood on his grave so it didn't pop out
and stopped the train.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's exactly right. And he's got that kind of pull
his nose for us.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, got store in a Mauzleum.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
The NBA is back. There was no football talk over
the course of the weekend. Nothing touches NBA trades, nothing
like no one cares what it's like when it actually
hits the court. Absolutely not. You're not gonna move the
needle with a ten minute quarter. You're not gonna move
the needle with in game adjustments. No, that doesn't work.
(05:53):
Whether it's draft day, whether it's the off season, whether
it's at the deadline. It has always been bonkers. Maybe
it can't be every year that we get what we
got over the weekend, but in the past, do not forget.
We can dig deep. We can dig Moses Malone from
Houston to Philadelphia, Chris Webber to Sacramento, from Washington.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That was huge.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
CP three Lakers, nixt Clippers, doors barricaded Mayhem, the Son's
got Kevin Durant and the Mavericks Kyrie Irving. Two years ago,
the Knicks Carmelo Anthony. Because that's how we're going to
stay relevant. Putting a superstar in Gotham. They picked up
the Lakers gr Glenn Rice for Eddie Jones. I didn't
(06:40):
like that trade actually, and Pau Gasol in two thousand
and eight in a super secret deal that everybody said
was Jerry West doing his old pal Mitch Cupchak a.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Favor, so much so that Robert Lorriy forgot that it
was Mitch Cupchack that made the trade when he joined
us in the first hour.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's exactly right. The Sixers picked up James Arden, the
Mavericks Jason Kidd Darren Williams remember said something bad about
Jerry Sloan and he said, you got two choices. Either
I'm gonna beat the absolute crap out of you, or
I'm gonna trade you, and he traded him to Brooklyn. Uh,
we got a jingle.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Trade ton Trae ton Mine.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That jingle was not made for baseball and most definitely
was not made for football. We use it, we'd use
it for it.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But but that is for it's for stupid basketball trade.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, that's for WOJ bombs. That's why they're called woje bombs.
You know, at least passing bombs, at.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Least WOJ didn't work. For Clutch. You know, I mean
Champ Sharoon. Actually they literally own the company he works for.
Like it is, it is a charae. It is a
literal room charade. It's a masquerade. It's a balloon that
doesn't even really exist. Well, no one had this one.
(08:00):
It came in the dead of the night on the
East Coast. People woke up. But Sharon is the guy
that came out and was like, Lebron didn't know. I
haven't yet authority.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Well, like I'm talking to deal itself. I don't care
what Lebron knew or what Lebron didn't know. What I
do know is you know he knew. Adam Silver called
it in, He called make it happen. Nothing I'm I've
tried to trim games to forty minutes and nobody gives
a damn. Make it happen, Make the NBA relevant again,
trade talk. Is the game a great watch right now? No,
(08:35):
but the soap opera off the court is untouchable. You
will have years of opinion, pieces of screaming talking head
shows of zero sum gain conversations about why and when
and for who and how and depending on all the
how this old thing shakes out because the why of
(08:55):
it is badass crazy. I don't give a damn what
kind of shape a guy is in. What is entourage
looks like it just does not make any sense that
a team would trade a twenty five year old super
Call it a posse, No, I would not do that.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Called it an entourage exactly good.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
You're good, twenty five year old about to turn twenty
six at the end of the month. Generational talent, Rookie
of the Year, five time not All Star All NBA
in his first six years, top five MVP vote getter
for half of his six year career. Coming off in
appearance in the NBA Finals, his playoff numbers are better again.
(09:35):
His playoff numbers thirty one per game, ten boards per game,
and assist per games are better than the regular season.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah, and I'm sure there's a lot of stuff behind
the scenes, as Robert Rory was alluding to it, I'm
sure more and more of that will come out. But
that is kind of hard to reconcound. It's like you
were in the finals last last year. It's not like, wow,
things have got a little stale.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yes, And it's like last year was his best year.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
And the West a monster and all that, and you're
the ones that came out of the West last year
and with culture defense wins championships.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
But I guess you know that's the contrary is viable enough,
And it felt like Robert Horry was comfortable taking that
position and saying this works for both teams. That he's fat,
that he does not play defense, That referees cannot stand
him because he mother fs them from the second the
game starts until the second it's over. That he typically
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played well. Not typically, I mean it's a stat. He
plays between sixty and seventy games per year and misses
between fifteen and twenty every season because he's so out
of shape. He's missed over half the Mavericks games this year,
twenty eight out of fifty. He's dealing with not a
calf strain, but calves strains in both legs, That he
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does not like to play hurt, not injured, but he's
someone that does not like to play hurt. That maybe
he's not a great teammate. That he's got people all
over the facility that you don't want a round. That
he works with his own trainers, with his own team,
not D trainers or D team.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Guys all leathered out, smoke cigarettes. That's what I mean,
board hogheads. I'm hoping, that's what I'm hoping. I hope
they ride their horses. A bunch of guys that look
like a foreign chip Kelly just smoking and speaking in
some foreign.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Gold chage leather jacket. Summer pointing out that Rick Carlyle
had him for three seasons Rookie of the Year, two
incredibly competitive first round losses to the Clippers. Rick Carlyle
sided as one of the best coaches in the league
and NBA champion, that he stepped down with two years
left on his deal because he could not take it anymore.
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Twenty one year old superstar, already one of the five
best players in the league at twenty one, and he
had three years left on his deal and he said, no,
not coaching. That guy cannot do it anymore. Immediately took
the Indiana job. Now, some pushback and insider accounts from
the Dallas area said, yeah, that's not entirely true, that
Carlile was a bit of an a hole, and that wow,
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there's always gray area exactly. I'm sure the truth is
somewhere in the middle. But Luca again in six years.
When you put that aside, has been one of, if
not at times the best player in the league. If
you just look at him, Yeah, it looks fat, looks
like he's moving at a snail's pace, looks like he
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has no interest in playing defense. And yet he's a superstar.
He's one of the three best, not just offensive players,
but just three best players in the league. When he
is in his zone, he is unstoppable. He will hang
fifty on you like it is nothing and there is
nothing you can do. He is competitive as all hell
in the playoffs and assassin offensively. And he's twenty five.
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He's not forty. Lebron James is forty. This dude is
twenty five years old. Antonio Anthony Davis is thirty two
and perennially injured. And that's what you gave up to
get him their best defender, also their best perimeter defender.
Of course they gave up as well, and Max Christy
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since JJ Reddick put himTo the starting lineup. So I
guess now, if this holds, and I don't think it will,
you will have three guys on the floor at the
same time. And Lebron James, Austin Reeves and Luka Doncik,
who are not just minus defenders, but really bad defenders.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
So it's like an air raid team. It's an air
raid team. One hundred and fifty and one hundred and forty.
Somebody's gonna win that game. It might not be them.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
How many stops do they need to get?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Three?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Three and we get We can't get them. And with
Luca though, the thing that everybody's talking about Lebron James
being the guy that's going to be traded, and oh,
I fired up the trade machine. Is what I did earlier,
and here's what I found. The Lakers could trade Lebron
and Bronni. Of course you gotta put that extra million
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dollar salary in there.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Where are we going?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And Steve Balmer, for all the grit and grind that
his Clippers played with, they ain't asses in the seats
at the Intuit Dome. The brand new three billion dollars
state of the art. You've got to see this, Serena
to believe it.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
They have such a great marketing department and great president
and Gillian it's hard to believe that they're having trouble
marketing their basketball team.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
People ain't going they don't want to have facial recognition
to pick up their dog and their chicken tenders.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Or pay seventy bucks for parking.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Pay seventy for parking. They don't want their boots shaken
out after they take a leak in the bathroom. The
most journals of any arena in the history of the
world doesn't have a poots a shaker. Oh you sure
you haven't been yet.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
That's misinformation. Have you been? No? But but you know, yeah,
I think it had put a shaker, we'd have good
information on it.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I guess I got that intel.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah you did. Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
They point out that James Harden, I'm still a little
bit un there, still a little bit under get a
little bit more to you Put James Harden, Kawhi, Leonard,
and Lebron on the court together, Maybe you get some
asses in the Intuit Dome seats. Maybe you get some
star efforts out there to put their eyes on Bronni
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and Lebron and Kawhi and James Harden trade Bron Lebron.
That's what Summer saying, the saying, hey it works, Hey
you can you can get Zubs back on the Lakers.
There's your defensive center. You can get Terrence Man, there's
your perimeterive defend, your perimeter defender, and you get Norman Powell,
there's your off the ball shooter that works with Luca,
and Lebron gets to stay in LA. He gets to
play with two future Hall of Famers and James Harden
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and Kawhi Leonard for the final two years of his career,
and maybe they can chase the title together with the
billions and billions of dollars. That's what some are saying.
Others are saying, why not trade him to Golden State.
He can go play with his pal Steph Curry, get
kaminga back, a bunch of other pieces, some draft picks,
and you build for the future. You're right off twenty
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twenty five postseason. And then what I say is that
ain't gonna happen. It's not the way this works. Lebron
did not come here to win titles. Lebron came here
to run the Lakers, and Lebron came here to run
his production company that's going bankrupt.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He came here to be celebrated the way he feels
he should be.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It's exactly right. So what I envision happening is Austin
Reeves is going to get traded. Oh wow, the guy
that was the most Laker of all the Lakers, undrafted,
cultivated and by the G League, built up from nothing
like Caruso, has turned into a potential All Star level player.
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And it's like, all right, we got Luca. Now there's
our superstar. Everybody's excited again. It's not Lebron's team anymore.
We've got someone who's a better player than he is,
that people care about more than Lebron. We can keep Lebron,
let him ride this thing out. If he wants to
stop out next year, great. But it feels as though
Austin Reeves, all of you that purchased that beautiful, glorious
Austin Reeves jersey that grew out your Bama bangs that
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don't put any product in your hair but a headband,
so it.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Just froofs around as you walk around Dad without body,
and you don't perspire enough to get your hair wet
enough that eventually it's not fluffy by the end of
the game.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It stays flufy the whole time.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
It's not like he's not playing hard.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
He's playing hard, yet it stays flufed. That is The
vision that I have is that it is not the
Lebron James trade projections. But go ahead and fire up
your trade machine. He's got a no trade clause, Bron.
He's here. Heyd You see that cool moment where Bron
was on the court shooting around in New York and
you said, hey, Brownie, that's your mom calling you. That's
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your mom calling you. Answer your mom calling. Wasn't that cool? No, no,
it wasn't cool. As a matter of fact, it's awkward.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
It's tiresome, and the whole how do we help Lebron?
Lebron needs more help. Luca is not enough. They need
more help. It's and I saw somebody tee it out.
It's like and Michael Jordan's not allowed to have Scottie
Pippen on his team. But Lebron needs more help than
ever any era. So we can like, why why the
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NBA has literally destroyed itself trying to appease Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Well, I'm gonna be there for the first time he
shoots up, because I want to see you with my
own tim.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
And a Clipper uniform or with the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Lakers Donic Oh, the fact that Doncic could be our
exit strategy from Lebron James interfering with all of the
yes with the Lakers, because eventually, and by adventure that
I mean by the end of the season, when his
player option is.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Up, I'd be like I was here, Like it's Luca know, because.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
It's inevitable he's a better player. He's gonna be on
the floor and everyone's gonna be like, holy crap, how
are you guys a lot better than Lebron?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
This is great. If Luca can't get along with anybody,
how's he supposed to get along with the most murderous,
get rid of you guy in the history of the leagues.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
He grew up watching Lebron. That's his idol. Oh okay,
that's who he modeled his game after. Man, that's why
really seems to shoot a lot better than Lebron. Well,
it's not a shooter, then, how could just don't ask
him whatever?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
We'll be back with more great sports talk on AM
five seventy LA Sports Eat Sports Talk, your home of
the Dodgers. Massa will join us segment after next because
we have Dodger Talk at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Bet throw some money. AM five to seventy Ela Sports
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app fortunate to be able
to do a four hour show on a day with
as big a breaking news as this. Everybody reacting to
the weekend trade. What does it mean for Bill Ryder?
He said, Well, what it means is I'm a guy
that was in bed with Lebraun and knows him better
than most and I've got sources all over the league.
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Sure you do, Bill, Congratulations you and f and l Uh.
It gives us an opportunity stat.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Baba reported stick Boba.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Story opportunities to continue to dice.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Well, well, Cale, I want to ask you a few
more questions. Matt. You had your top story of the
day and the last segment, and we talked about it
to open the show. We had Robert or Robert Ory,
Yovanne Boujah Booha for days planning of a perspective on
what is a huge sports story and nobody knows how
it sports it up like the Petros Great Sports Talk.
(20:07):
So we'll call this the FlipTop Star. I'll you out,
I will look you out. This is the flip top
story of the day. I think the most interesting thing
to me, and I believe you as well. About this, Matt,
is the prospect that you floated out in the first segment,
And I agree that maybe I would not want to
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admit this to myself because I want it so badly
that I would not think about it in these terms
because of everything that has happened up until this point
with the Lakers and the NBA. But what you alleged
in the first segment of the show and during the
top story of the day is that basically with this trade,
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with this Slovenian influx, check off plays will run rampant.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yes, they will. In West Los Angeles. We did you
did check off as a couple of weeks ago. It's
gonna be great. Your brother's gonna be making out with
guys on stage.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Uncle Vanya. I don't believe that was a Chekhov play fit.
I don't believe Chekhov was very homo erotic.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
But but without without getting too much off the check
to check off uh play dark Eyes please. Uh. With
this influx of Slovenian talent to the city of Los
Angeles in the form of Luka Doncic, it is a
very interesting prospect. What's always been a that this means
(21:38):
if if, what you're saying is correct. This means either
the Lakers or the NBA or both are done with
Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I want to believe, so do I Yeah, agent Molder style.
I want to believe what leads you to believe. Well,
because it's just way too big. You can't trade the
best player in the league and have anybody know about it,
like like, it just doesn't happen like this. It would
have leaked. There would have been somehow.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You're saying what you're saying, and you allegend the last
segment that the guy who's working for Lebron literally working
for Lebron and ESPN at the same time, and then
the other one that's big enough to eat hay and
crap in the streets. Those guys would have leaked this, yes,
through clutch, had they known about it, as opposed to
coming around in the back end and saying Lebron didn't
know at all, he was a dinner blah blah blah
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blah blah.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And I think that's that's very interesting. They're still doing
Lebron's bidding. Oh ye by saying that.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Oh, there's plenty of I do think there's plenty of
backpedaling and clean up and sprinting here and sprinting mass
and sticking your fingers in the dike.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But you're alleging, I'm alleging that the Sons would have
traded Devin Booker for Luca. The Bucks would probably trade
Jannas Satanta Guopo for Luca Dodson. And a lot of
people made that point, like even Clay Travis and Frank
is soola, So you can't leak this to any They
were like, why wouldn't if they were shopping Luka Doncic,
couldn't they get more than a broken down, big eyebrowed guy.
(23:07):
And that's where my whole super conspiracy theory, Adam Silver
a Petros Papadacus pillar. The Lakers always get a windfall.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
They always get whenever things are at their worst. Somehow
something happens that puts them right back in the middle
of it. And the NBA is relevant again, right, And.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I wasn't seven Brandy Alexander's deep with Doug Crekorian when
Wilt Chamberlain was traded, So I wouldn't couldn't tell you. Uh,
there was a lot of talk that the Lakers were
trying to get shack at that time.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Right.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
The thing I remember, because we were working together at
the time and I was new to the Laker station,
was that no one knew about Pawgasow nobody like that
happened overnight.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
And remember that's what Papamach said. It was like, and
it saved the Laker. If this was an open auction,
they would have got fifteen times more for And it
was the idea that Jerry West was doing his old
kind of favor.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
And look, and this is different. Who's getting the favor
done here, right, You're the league itself.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That's what I mean. It's if Luca. I mean, look,
I think it would have been a big deal if
Luca would have been traded anywhere. If he gets traded
in Milwaukee for Giannis, if he gets traded to Phoenix
to play with Kevin Durant for Devin Booker, any of
those would be a big deal. But the fact that
he was traded to Los Angeles for Anthony Davis, who
everybody apparent like we talked about seemingly is now, Hey,
(24:28):
it's a martyr. You're you're talking about an All NBA player.
This has never happened. This is an All NBA First Team,
got second team guy, a perennial MVP candidate. This is
MVP for MVP. These are trades we never I'm like, eh, hey,
I remember Charles Barkley calling him street closed and everybody
laughing and him being a bit of a punchline because
he was always hurt and he's not a real superstar
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and he's not someone you could depend on. He's someone
who's six foot ten, two hundred and sixty pounds. It
doesn't want to play center. Joel Myers loves this. I
love It's Myers. He's gotta love So that's kind of
you know, I'm being a you know, a little snarky
with it, but there is that they would never never.
But I do think it's like, how does this happen?
(25:10):
How do you get one of the three best players
in the league on the most important franchise next to
Lebron James, who spans generations of fandom when the NBA
is struggling for eyeballs.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Or infamy at this point. This pisses a lot of
people off too. It's not just no, there's a lot
of people that are pissed because he's with Lebron it's
not a big celebratory thing.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And that's why I said the whole oh, they're going
to trade Lebron now because they're too similar. Look at
their usage rates and it's like, no.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
They're not trading Lebron. There's no way that that's happening, because,
as you've said, he's got a no trade clause.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I hope that it spells the end of the Lebron.
Whatever spells the end of the Lebron James era in
Los Angeles faster is what all of us are looking for.
We want Lebron to be done in LA. What Lebron
has done to the NBA he represents is not a
(26:10):
good thing, and most Laker fans really have a problem
with this guy. And to your point, Danny Ainge, Utah
Jazz executive didn't find out the whole deal, you Tah
until right before the trade was made, and they were
the third team involved in the deal.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
That took on the extra salary because Tah.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
So I mean, if look, I want to believe that
this trade means that they're done with Lebron, given the
fact that they drafted his son and hired his bff
to be the head coach and they're all just still
sitting there and his agent is probably got an office
in the Laker facility. It's it's also something you might
(26:48):
want to consider because it's hard to get around this guy.
Seems like he's the elephant in the room. It's it's
the ultimate. They finally with Lebron, they finally have an
f you position. He wanted to have it with Anthony Davis,
thinking okay, he can win.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
In Anthony Davis is his guy with klutch, Like they're
all married and nobody's wearing Anthony Davis jerseys going into
to Crypto. But guess what you are going to see
number seventy seven Luka Doncic Jerseys surpass number twenty three
Lebron James Jerseys in a hurry. How much he is
(27:23):
a bigger star? Are we going to see other NBA
people that complain about this kind of stuff, like Steve Kerr,
people that are very media friendly or whatever, say hey,
this is total bs. What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
When is that?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
When is that going to happen? Well, I think there's
one problem with that, and I don't I don't know why.
I don't know kind of what relationship he had with
all of these teams, but it does seem like everybody
really likes this guy in Dallas who was the former
Nike exec player rep for twenty years, Nico Nico Harrison.
(27:57):
Everybody has a relationship with him. They're all talking about
what this is somebody who you know, earned an appointment
to West Point is as buttoned up as they come.
Was Phil Knight's number one guy in basketball at Nike,
and one of the reasons why that, you know, on
and on it. So it seems like they're all pointing
the finger at Luca, like, Hey, that guy's get drunk,
and that guy smokes, and that guy's got bad friends
(28:19):
that hang around our place. And every other team is like,
that's great, we'll take them. Well, well, we'll put a
cigarette machine in the locker room, and we'll we'll put
a bar. Instead of having a player next to him,
we'll have a bar in the stall next to him,
and all of his friends can hang out in our lobby.
That's totally fine. Well, we'll go ahead and take him.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
It's good.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Like a wet bar, like a wet bar, like a
Petros papadacus, Joe's versus Pro's wet bar.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Oh, the mini bar. That was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
They will put one of those in in order to
get that's how that is, how freaking talented he is. Like,
the Lakers have one of the three best players in
the NBA.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Now you can go to the Laker website right now
and get the Luka Doncicz jersey for two hundred and
thirty five dollars. That's it.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
What a deal.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Do you think there'll be a line of Slovenians like
they were, like, there aren't japan S to get the
uh to get the show hail Tani stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
We'll never forget. You know, there are still there was
still an under serviced community of Slovenians since the Sasha
Vuyasitch depart right. They have been waiting. They've been they've
been in Hibernation, waiting to show their Laker fandom once again.
And now that don Chic is here, it's gonna be
a real influx. Not to mention, you have right here
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in town one of the all time great Slovenian athletes
on American soil, Anche Kopeitar. Come on for the La Kings.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
And there's beautiful Manhattan Beach home that's right now, Matt
this time next week is Lebron James still a Laker?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I hope not.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Papa, will you bring me? I hope not. Well is
he I would hope not. Is it possible that he
won't be I think it is possible. Do you think
it's a distinct possibility.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I'd like to believe that, But I want to believe.
I want to believe that now that Lucas.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Man, you're speaking such an authoritative tone. You say, I
it's hard for me to believe. After what Genie but
the Big Weenie said to us over the summer, after
hiring JJ Reddick and drafting Brownie James, it's hard for
me to believe that they'll be able to break up
with old valcrow Head.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Breaking up is hard to do. Like the everleast say
sooner or later. Enough's enough? You know what, I know
we've had this.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I saw that Jennifer Lovez movie, and I know, of
course she taped the rints and fought the guy.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yes, it's like, hey, Lebron, Yes you won a Bubble Championship.
We've sold a ton of season tickets. Court side seats
are at an all time high because people want to
go and see you play. But you know what, you fight,
the Anthony Davis, the Coentavious Caldwell, Pope and on and
a JJ and Brownie finally pushed us over. We finally
having to watch him play in Philadelphia and humiliate himself
(30:47):
and bounce balls off his feet and bonk balls off
the bottom of the rim and looked like a twelve
year old plane in a gat. He had one against
the Wiz. Oh yeah he sure did. Like did that?
That's where they're like, okay, we if we can get
out of this, how do And this is the way
they get it.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
There's been so much that has happened that has not
humiliated them. Why all of a sudden have they grown
a conscience for shame? For shame?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Well, I mean, I just I mean right.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
This guy mcminnimon's over here pulling for Bronny, pulling on
Bronnie's boots and.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Now he's pulling on Dunch. Just abe, let me hold
that for you. Let me hold that robot d for you.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Like, what about all the browny people and lebron people
that are embedded with the Lakers. What's gonna happen to them?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
See you later? Remember they sent mcminnimon to Cleveland when
Lebron left Miami to go back to Cleveland, and now
he's here. But it's gonna happen all those people happily married,
making his life here. What's gonna happen to him when
Lebron goes elsewhere? Exactly right. I guess we're moving to
poop and needles, San Francisco. Here we come, or maybe
(31:52):
they get to stay because he goes to the Intuit Dome.
Steve Balmer and his billions.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Whatever gets rid of Lebron, That's what I'm for.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
If that means that were now blockhead Eastern comedies, then fine.
I reject communism, but I also reject Lebron's brand of
monopoly capitalism.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I reject all of that.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I reject it all I want. I just want James
Worthy eating hot dogs, coming off a commercial flight and
scoring twenty in the first half and laughing. David Vasa
will join us next. He's pulling on a guy's vape too.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
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Speaker 3 (32:53):
The Home of the Jets with an inside look at
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David Vase joining the Petros and Money Show after a
triumphant FanFest appearance Saturday. Absolute brilliance. Freddie Freeman soloquacious so
(33:18):
detailed about his recovery and his son Maximus's recovery. Great
stuff from Otani Friedman, the snell Zilla car wash. It
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Talk or right now Dodger Talk at seven o'clock day
from MLB Network, Spectrum Sportsnet and our reporter right here
(33:38):
on AMPI seventy LA Sports on your Southern California. Tell
you to deal a celebrity online. Hello, Dave, how are you?
Speaker 7 (33:44):
I'm doing great? Thank you for all the love on Saturday.
I really appreciate it. It was a great time and
I felt like everybody was very relaxed and happy, and
how could you not be The Dodger spent a half
a billion dollars to make a world championship team that
much better. Everybody's feeling good.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
It wasn't just that. It was a celebration and there
was a lot of celebrating and a lot of love
and joking around with you and everybody. But some news
was made. You got some good stuff out of Friedman
about Otani and different updates.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Yeah, let's start with show hey Otani, because everybody is
anticipating when he's going to make his Dodger debut as
a pitcher, and that still seems to be uncertain. And
I asked Andrew Friedman, let's just start in the micro.
What should we expect if Petros their money show up
on the backfield it's a camel back ranch. Will they
(34:35):
get to see Otani face Austin Barnes.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
I don't know yet. You know, he's playing long toss
and he will start progressing and advancing. I don't know
yet as far as whin he'll start facing hitters. We
haven't figured that out. We want to get around him,
be a part of a stowing program with our pitching guys,
and you know each and every day. He's with our
(35:00):
trainers right now, and you know he's kind of moving
out of rehab phase and to go compete mode. And
so exactly how that progresses we haven't figured out yet.
Speaker 8 (35:10):
But there is a possibility a fan might be there
on a Tuesday afternoon and see him maybe just pitch
to somebody.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
Yeah, maybe left handed or underhanded or something. Sure, Yeah,
I don't, I don't. I don't know when he's going
to face hitters yet, but I do know he is
going to pitch for us this year and be a
big part of what we do on both sides of
the ball.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
All right, So Dave Roberts after that interview kind of conceited,
may is a realistic timeline to see o Taani pitch
in the big leagues. But look, he's coming off his
second Tommy John surgery. I know it wasn't his pitching shoulder,
but he did have surgery on his left shoulder. So
the Dodgers are going to be extra careful with him
(35:55):
because not only do they need him or want him
to pitch in October and down the stretch, but they
need him as a hitter, you know, he's the Ragning
MVP as a fifty to fifty player.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
And he's a DH as a hitter. And I know
the two of you were having a laugh, Dave when
you were talking to Freddy, but he was saying, a
you know, if it's not right, I'll just go ahead
and DH because we need one of those. He shared
the surgery and his recovery from that. Is there any
concern that he won't be ready to go when the
season gets started.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
Yeah, there is some, I want to say concerned, but
I'm sure the Dodgers want Freddy to slow it down
and not be ready for opening Day in Tokyo, even
though he expressed that's what he wants to do. He
barely just started hitting in the batting cage last week,
as he told us. So you know, I feel like
the Dodgers are going to continue to try to preach
(36:46):
patience for a player that wants to play one hundred
and sixty two games. The Dodgers don't need Freddy Freeman
to reaggravate that right ankle. They need Freddie Freeman for
the majority of the year. And you know, I'm sure
Andrew Freeman, Dave Roberts, even some of his teammates are
going to try to convince Freddy to slow it down
(37:07):
and not try to be ready for opening day in Tokyo.
But you know, make sure that right ankle is ready
to go, and even if it means missing the first
few weeks of the regular season.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Dave, did you get something else out of Friedman? Did
you milk something else out of him about Kik the
one man that the fans wanted to see a fan
fest in the parking lot.
Speaker 7 (37:27):
Yeah, it feels like everybody's panicking in the streets because
the Orange County Register reported that the Dodgers are not
going to bring back keyk Hernandez and that's not something
I've heard. And Andrew Freeman on the record said that's
not accurate either.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Yeah, I mean, I don't think the door's ever closed
on Kik. That being said, it doesn't mean that it
will necessarily work out. But we've acquired him a lot
of different times and through trades and free agency, you know,
twice through trade, and you know, I don't know how
it'll play out. We'll never close the door on him,
but you know, if he does sign somewhere else, and
(38:05):
hopefully we'll have a chance to trade for him or whatever.
But the most important thing is for he and his family.
We want them to make the best decision for them
and whatever that means. And obviously we're biased and we
hope it means us, but we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 8 (38:20):
It was encouraging to see him at a Utah hockey game.
It feels like he's just drifting, waiting for the time
to drift back to La. I mean, Keik had a
Utah hockey game, Andrew, I never thought i'd see that.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
Yeah, I didn't either. He's good friends with the gm
oh and I talked to him about it during the season,
But when I first saw it, I was like, wait
a minute, and then I remembered that connection.
Speaker 7 (38:46):
So the door is very much open for a return
for Key k Hernandez to the Dodgers. The door is
not closed, it's not double locked. It's very open.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
There are there are also rumors are out there, Dave,
that you have a new favorite Dodger other than Blake Snell,
that you're ready to share who that is. Is that?
Is that a tease for Dodger talk tonight or are
you going to be able to divulge that here?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Now?
Speaker 7 (39:11):
I'm very comfortable divulging that right here, right now. First
impressions a lot, and Hay Song Kim made a great
first impression on me. He's a good store, Hey Song Kim,
my guy, he's a great guy. Blake Snell already has
taken him under his wing as well, So it's going
(39:33):
to be a good time with Hay Song Kim. He's
like they're trying to sell to other members of the
Dodgers that he's brother with high Song Kim, and even
some players have started to believe.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
It, suckers, So it's going to be you Snell, Zilla
and Hay Song on the road getting meals together. Is
that what it's going to be, Dave?
Speaker 7 (39:51):
It feels that way. Feels that way, And look, Kim
is not guaranteed. I know everybody thinks he's the starting
second baseman. He's got a earn not only that opportunity,
but he's also got to earn a spot on the
major league roster because he's able to be optioned to
the minor league. So you know, anybody handing him the
second base job is a little premature.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Looked like he had a good head of hair on
that video that you posted.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I was jealous.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Great, Yeah, it looked like a really good young man, geez.
Just a lot of product in there. Really had a
nice flow to it.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Well you see o Toddy see the mark. All right, Dave,
we enjoyed talking to you. Have a great night tonight,
seven o'clock Dodger Talk with David Massey.
Speaker 7 (40:36):
I'm not used to you guys being this nice to
me going back to Saturday, so I'll just take it
today on this great Monday.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Well, it was really an impactful three hours. You know,
you bring a lot to the people.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
It's good stuff, very good stuff. Dave.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Doesn't mean you're still not a prick, but we love you,
We love the work.
Speaker 7 (40:53):
Oh, thank you, Petros and I'm sorry my love for
Lebron and my appreciation for the king.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Well look what you win this. Yeah you are a
real prick nose. I forgot about that. All right, We
love you, Dave. Have a great week. One hour more
of great sports talk, that's what it is, bad and
we'll be back with more of that quick hits and
fun fact coming up.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
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