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Okay? Would that be cool? If I

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not be cool. All right. That's how you roll. That's how

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crew Rob and get this thing started.

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We got the super producer Rob g in the

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Now, DJ Alex tyshit is on his way,

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traffic. So Iowa

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Sam is in right

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now, made tables until

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he gets there. I would say, am you all right? Man? Caitlyn

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couldn't deliver you that ring?

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It. It's been a heck of a run. What an adventure?

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I know.

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Yeah, it's heartbreaking, but this

2:51

is about as far as Iowa can go, you know.

2:53

So now what do you brag about being from

2:55

Iowa?

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That was it?

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Y'all had your moment. It didn't happen, and

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now it's all over. I mean it did,

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it didn't, but it did happen

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that she got in there. Yeah, I'll give you something

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else. Iowa, Sam, what is that? Chris Bruce

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R Lived in iOS right, That's what you'd.

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Say, didn't you say?

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You were like Caitlin Clark's mom's.

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Her mom was a year behind. Her

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name was. Her last name was Nizzy.

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Yep, it's still I think she still has that as.

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Don't let Sam fool you. I made his day today.

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I told him during the previous show that

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a buddy of mine listens to Cavino and Rich and he said,

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hey, do you know Iowa?

3:28

Sam?

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And I said yeah, like, oh, he's

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really funny.

3:31

I'm like, yeah, he's cool. Whatever.

3:33

And I told him that little nugget, and Iowa

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Sam turned flush red. He was so happy

3:38

to know that in the streets people are talking about him.

3:39

Wow.

3:40

But I want you to know, Chris, that

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Iowa Sam knew who you were

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and knew that you went to school in Iowa,

3:47

because it's in the history books the black kid

3:49

who went to school in Iowa.

3:51

Your name, Chris Brussa was already

3:53

named you. A lot of black folks from Roger

3:56

Craig, Ricky Davis,

3:59

unbelieve one of the girls from

4:01

TLC I think was born in Des Moines, Iowa.

4:04

How many? How many black guys worked on your

4:06

farm? Just tell me why

4:09

you got to go there, Whytund

4:11

like a different discussion there. Yeah, I

4:14

actually saw Grand Master Flash and the Furious

4:16

Five in Iowa.

4:17

No I did that was I know they

4:19

came to Iowa, they came to Des

4:21

Moines. I thought I told him Sy,

4:25

We actually didn't see him because the concert never

4:27

happened. It was midnight Star opened up

4:30

and then it was Grand Master Flash and the Furious

4:32

Five.

4:32

And they wouldn't they didn't come out. So about

4:36

after about forty minutes, everybody started to

4:38

get antsy, and one and

4:41

one of the guys. The manager comes out says,

4:43

we'll be there. I think it was Duke bo T. He

4:45

said, well, we'll be We just getting these things

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together. So Rob, you've seen

4:49

my mom. My mom is four foot eight.

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So my mom she the only way I could

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go is if my mom would be I was a freshman

4:56

in high school, right, So so my

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mom I took me and my brother and one of his friends.

5:02

And so my mom says, y'all wait

5:04

here for a minute. I'm we're in a hotel,

5:06

and she went to the band. She goes

5:09

outside out the doors. We're

5:11

in the ballroom at a hotel. She

5:14

comes back about five or ten minutes

5:16

later and says, y'all follow me. So

5:18

we're like, what's going on? So we follow my

5:20

mother out the doors. She

5:23

we go in some door in the

5:25

hallway. She knocks on the door.

5:28

Melly Mail answered, no, come

5:31

on the door. I'm dad serious. Mellie

5:33

Mail answers, the door looks

5:36

at us.

5:36

Okay.

5:37

She's like, so then once my brother,

5:39

my brother brought one of his friends who was white.

5:41

So he's like, Melly Mail looks

5:44

at the white guy and looks at my mom like he's

5:46

with y'all too, and she's like, yeah, it's my white

5:49

son, right, So we all go in. We

5:51

meet Grandmaster, Flash, Melly mal Ki'd

5:54

Crell, the whole group. We was in there for about

5:56

five minutes and then we then

5:58

we left and my

6:01

mother told my mother said, look, I told

6:03

them, y'all were that Grandma's

6:05

the Flass was their favorite group. And

6:07

I understand why they not performing because they weren't

6:10

getting paid, but y'all

6:12

it would make their day if they could meet y'all.

6:14

So she we did that ride we left the

6:16

hotel. A

6:19

few minutes later, a riot broke out

6:21

and one of the rappers, Cowboy, I don't know if you remember

6:24

his name, Cowboy, he actually got stabbed

6:26

in an arm, but he.

6:27

Was de

6:29

Moin.

6:30

That's how they roll in Des Moines. Their brothers

6:32

was mad we didn't get to see Grandmaster.

6:34

At least she got a little consolation prize there. I'm getting

6:36

to meet up.

6:37

Hey, it was that actually cool in the concert.

6:39

Yeah, that's actually cool to meet them.

6:41

Actually, all right, well let's

6:43

get this thing going. Rob terrible

6:46

news last night

6:49

happened as we were doing our show, Rob Yanni's

6:53

ante to Coompo goes down non

6:55

contact injury. Whenever you see that, you, unfortunately

6:59

you think the worst. The good

7:01

news, Rob is that it is not an

7:03

achilles tear. It's

7:05

just a strained calf. But he

7:07

will be out for the rest of the regular season,

7:09

which is only three games. And

7:13

the thing look, Damian Lillard

7:15

had the same injury Rob last

7:18

season. He missed about

7:20

two weeks, which was

7:22

seven games. So this

7:26

is even if y'all now we don't know. It

7:28

depends on the de grade of the strain. The grade

7:30

of the strain, I guess, But even

7:33

if he comes back, the question

7:36

is will he be one hundred percent?

7:38

Will he be able to play every game in the playoffs?

7:41

And Rob last year he didn't have the strain

7:44

trained calf, but he had another injury

7:46

that kept him out of two games in

7:49

the series, the first round series with Miami.

7:52

I remember they lost the series in five

7:54

games, in large part because he

7:57

missed two games. But he also wasn't himself

8:00

in the other what three

8:02

games that he played, So this

8:05

is very problematic. And I'll say this and I

8:09

we talked about Doc Rivers. You know,

8:11

Rob, it seemed like as they were falling and stumbling

8:13

in the midst of that four game losing streak, that

8:16

Doc was kind of searching for excuses,

8:18

right, A lot of people that say that's our Doc rolls.

8:21

Unfortunately, Rob, now

8:23

he has a legitimate excuse, but I'm

8:25

sure it's not the one he wants. You

8:28

know, it's it's unfortunate. But this is

8:30

a legit excuse if they

8:32

go out in the first round, second round,

8:35

whatever it is, Rob,

8:38

this is now it's an excuse.

8:40

It's actually an explanation for

8:43

why they will not get to the finals. I

8:45

just think this season's over. Ye, that

8:48

this season's over, and they

8:51

can put a happy face on it. Hey, it's

8:53

not gonna be as long as as

8:55

we thought. Chris, you don't know what

8:57

Giannis you're gonna get. You don't know

8:59

what condition he's gonna be in.

9:01

And I'm talking about you know what I mean to be himself

9:04

even after missing two weeks.

9:05

It's a blow. They were bad with

9:08

Giannis.

9:08

With a healthy Yiannis, they're in bad, right,

9:11

And now you're gonna have a gimpi Giannis or

9:14

a not one hundred Yannis and

9:16

you have Doc Rivers sitting on the bench, and

9:18

you don't play defense the way you had in passing

9:21

the postseason's gone by. It's a

9:23

recipe for disaster. First

9:25

round is what should happen to them?

9:27

They should get not I don't care who they play. They

9:30

should get knocked out in the first round and

9:32

end this misery. This has been a

9:34

bad, bad season for

9:37

the Bucks, who got off to such a great start

9:39

Chris with a rookie coach, and they

9:41

threw a hand grenade into the cab

9:44

and guess what it blew up?

9:47

And the likely first round opponents Rob.

9:49

First of all, they could get Philly. I

9:52

think everybody's picking Philly in that series.

9:54

I mean, you know, as an overstatement, but Philly

9:57

should be favored. If Yannis is

9:59

coming back gimpy and

10:03

Philly is rolling, even though they

10:05

would be the seventh seed, eight seed, maybe

10:08

they Philly would I think take

10:10

them out Miami, Rob, that's

10:13

the team to beat them. Last year. We've seen Miami beat

10:15

them in the playoffs before. Yep, Miami,

10:18

as tough as they play, as hard nose as

10:20

they are now. They haven't looked good this year at all, but

10:23

you know Miami would have a chance. And

10:26

then Rob Indiana. Indiana

10:30

has beaten Milwaukee four out of five times

10:32

this season.

10:33

They started great, then they got into

10:35

that playing tournament, and then this season

10:38

took a turn. You're still a good team,

10:40

Chris, but not the team that they were when the season

10:42

started.

10:43

So I hear Rob. This has been

10:46

a nightmarage season for

10:49

the Bucks. And you

10:51

could start with Terry Stotts, right,

10:54

Dame's former coach from Portland. You

10:56

figure, wow, he knows he got the best out

10:58

of the Dame knows how to use him. Well,

11:01

he quit, all right, quit Adrian

11:03

Griffin's staff. Then they start thirty

11:06

and thirteen. Okay, they're not quite looking as good

11:08

as we thought, but you know, we're

11:10

looking pretty good. Coaches

11:12

gets coach gets fired, right, Adrian

11:14

Griffin. Then they they bring in Doc

11:17

Rivers and you know, before actually

11:19

before that, we Dame and Yiannis.

11:22

They're playing. Okay, they haven't fully

11:24

clicked. Okay, they haven't fully figured

11:26

it out, figured each other out. Okay, we got

11:29

that. Now here comes Doc, all right,

11:31

and Doc starts

11:34

off, you know, slow, but gets it going

11:36

one sixth straight. The defense

11:39

is playing well, oh here we go. No, now

11:42

they're going to lose. The Street lose six out of seven

11:44

games, and Doc starts blaming

11:46

the training staff and the travel the

11:49

travel secretary, right, yeah, all that

11:51

stuff, and now Rob

11:55

Yannice goes down and

11:57

I'm with you, like it's just a nightmare

12:00

season. Again, it does give you

12:02

know, it's a legitimate explanation. Now

12:05

if they may have gotten bounced anyway, it's a legitimate

12:07

explanation for an early exit

12:10

from the playoffs. Yeah,

12:12

they got a built in issue, the nightmares. Yeah,

12:14

they got a built an excuse and it's a nightmare season

12:17

and maybe, like you said, it'll be put out of

12:19

their misery pretty early. Yeah,

12:23

I'm not expecting anything from them, especially

12:26

not on the.

12:26

Heels of this. You know that you could if

12:28

they get it together, get in the playoffs.

12:30

You could always win a series because you have two

12:33

dynamic players Chris, right, and if they just

12:35

play well.

12:37

For a stretch, they can win a series, right, win

12:39

games.

12:40

But with you heard those teams

12:42

that they gotta play right.

12:44

Yeah, I'm just without Gianni's or

12:46

with the Gimpiianni's or missing Gianni's

12:49

for a little bit.

12:50

You know, it just to me, it makes

12:52

a bigger hole for them to have to climb out of.

12:55

And and then Doc, I just haven't seen

12:57

enough lately to believe

12:59

that he's gonna make the adjustments or they're

13:02

going to figure it out without Giannis

13:04

and and and rally behind Doc

13:07

and and and Dame, and

13:09

this is gonna be I just don't see that happening.

13:11

They got no chance without Giannis one

13:13

hundred. I mean, like you said,

13:16

Rob, we they looked like they were going out even

13:18

with Yiannis. All right, lost

13:21

central first round exit with Giannis.

13:24

Yeah, they've lost four out of their last five and

13:27

six out of their last eight. So all

13:29

right, eight seven, seven, ninety nine on Fox, you'll

13:31

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13:34

done? Is there season over? With

13:37

the injury news about Gianni's ante

13:39

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13:41

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15:00

Dj Alex Tyscher is back. Good

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to have you, man, better late than never. You know

15:05

what's heb something I don't like to mention this,

15:07

This La Travick.

15:08

It is not good.

15:09

No, I feel you.

15:10

I feel you. We're live from the Tirerack

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dot Com Studios eight seven, seven ninety

15:16

nine on Fox. We're talking Milwaukee Bucks.

15:18

Season's over essentially

15:21

now that Johannisntkombo

15:25

strang calf will miss the rest of the regular

15:27

season, only three games, but who

15:29

knows how and

15:31

when he'll return for

15:34

the playoffs. So we think they're pretty

15:36

much done. They were looking bad anyway. But

15:38

what are your thoughts on the Bucks?

15:42

All?

15:42

Right, here we go, let's do it. Let's

15:45

start with Scott in North Carolina. You're

15:47

in the odd couple Fox Sports Radio.

15:49

What's up, Scott?

15:51

Hey?

15:51

What's up? Chris Robb?

15:52

How y'all doing?

15:53

Yeah?

15:54

Man, I'm blessed

15:56

man. The bus star Cooks finished

15:59

done. Just the receiver

16:01

rights, they're they're done, even with a

16:03

healthy team. I don't believe

16:06

in Doc Rivers. He's not the guy

16:08

that can coach you to a win in

16:10

the playoffs. And even

16:12

with them in the two seed and the sixers

16:15

and the seventh seed, that mats Up is gonna

16:17

be taken over by Joel and b and

16:19

you can book it sixers, six

16:22

Eastern Conference Finals.

16:24

All right, Yeah, I mean it's

16:26

hard to argue right now, but Scott,

16:29

is he still there?

16:31

No, he's gone? Oh okay, No,

16:34

So I was gonna ask him just going

16:37

forward, Chris, I know they're not gonna do it because

16:39

Doc is signed.

16:40

For what again in three years or whatever?

16:42

Four years? Forty million?

16:44

Yeah, I just and I know Joannis

16:46

and they're gonna use Dad and hey get a full

16:48

training camp with Doc and

16:51

you know they're not gonna do anything hasty.

16:53

But man, I just

16:57

I just wonder, like.

17:00

Like, Chris,

17:02

you know what I mean, Like like like going in,

17:05

say Jiannis was healthy. I'm

17:07

just hypothetical Giannis is

17:09

healthy and they still get bounced in the

17:11

first round. Do you know what I'm saying? Like no,

17:15

like like that would make me pause

17:17

on Doc. No.

17:18

I was actually talking with somebody about that, Like

17:21

is that a possibility? It's

17:23

hard to imagine. Rob, They're already

17:26

paying, they're still paying. Butenholzer, remember

17:29

there last year. Feels like he's been gone for

17:32

long, for two years, because you got two coaches,

17:34

right, Adrian Griffin,

17:36

they're still paying, and then

17:39

you have to be paying Doc. That's

17:42

and a fourth coach. That's

17:45

the thing. And we saw it save Calipari in

17:47

Kentucky, you know, until he moved on to Arkansas.

17:50

But I rob

17:54

you're not crazy though, because

17:57

it's not. It would be one thing if they

17:59

like play well in

18:01

the regular season under Doc, like really

18:03

well, and then got beaten

18:06

the first round, and that would be tough. A

18:08

lot of people would complain about Doc in

18:10

that scenario too, right, because of his

18:12

playoff record historically. But

18:16

you can't even point to like a good regular

18:18

season, right. No,

18:21

it's been a minute.

18:22

That's what I'm saying.

18:24

We were thirty and thirteen

18:29

and now we're sixteen and seventeen.

18:32

I mean, what, how? How

18:37

well?

18:38

That's what I'm saying that that that's that's

18:40

why I even broached the question.

18:43

No, I mean again, don't

18:45

you think though paying three coaches

18:47

and that would be a fourth if they brought somebody in it,

18:50

don't you think that would save Doc, especially

18:52

now that Yannis is hurt.

18:53

No, I think one hundred percent. Chris one

18:55

hundred percent the only one. And

18:58

even then we weren't so sure. We talked

19:00

about it, Josh McDaniels with

19:02

the four years left, but they just they they

19:05

bit the bullet because they owed a couple

19:07

of coaches as well, but he was so bad

19:09

they had no choice.

19:10

They just had they had to eat the money.

19:13

And in this case, Chris, I'm with you, it

19:15

would be shocking, and especially it

19:18

would look strange because Janni's

19:20

got heard, so they could easily

19:22

use that. You don't know what could have happened, So

19:25

I don't. I don't foresee that happening. But

19:27

if Janni's was healthy and they got knocked

19:29

out in the first round, if I'm ownership,

19:32

I really would have to question it and

19:34

be like, you know, this is crazy.

19:37

It'd be worth a meeting. I'll tell you that, we'd

19:39

have to have a meeting about it. Here's the other

19:42

thing, Rob.

19:42

Now, Yannis of course has four

19:46

years at about two hundred and thirty five

19:48

million dollars left on his deal after

19:50

this season. But Yannis

19:54

is in that class, Rob, whereas

19:58

like, we expect you to win

20:00

rings, not

20:02

ring rings, like

20:04

you're that good, especially if Jokic

20:07

wins it this year. And

20:10

do you think that

20:13

Yannis either

20:15

will or would

20:18

be justified if

20:20

he starts looking around and and maybe

20:22

even wants to go elsewhere. Mmm,

20:28

because they're they don't have there with

20:30

him on the books, their

20:33

payroll. I mean, next year, their cap number

20:35

is essentially the same as this year,

20:38

so they're not gonna have room to add big time

20:40

free agents. Of course they can work some trades, but

20:44

barring trades, I mean, this team is gonna

20:46

look very similar. And look,

20:49

you would give it. Give them more time,

20:51

right with Dame and Yannis

20:53

together, give them, give them a little more time together.

20:55

But my point is just that, you

20:58

know, there was some one people that

21:01

wonder would Yiannis won

21:03

out eventually if they can't get anything

21:06

done. Of course they went out and got

21:08

Damian Lillard and so he signed

21:10

the extension. But now

21:13

with the way this is gone, I mean, you just wonder

21:16

that's something else rob that the Bucks

21:18

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21:21

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21:24

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21:41

things former

21:43

NFL offensive lineman now at

21:45

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21:49

and all around mister renaissance

21:51

or renaissance man. Let me put it that

21:53

way, and that is no exaggeration.

21:56

Our brother eat from Salam.

21:58

What's up man, yo yo having

22:00

them brothers.

22:00

How y'all doing?

22:01

Man?

22:01

I'm sorry about yesterday man, I was up there coaching.

22:05

Man.

22:05

We won our game eleven yesterday.

22:10

Baseball, So

22:12

now what do you What position do your boys

22:15

play?

22:17

My nine year old plays pitcher?

22:20

Uh, second base uh and

22:22

left field.

22:23

Okay, okay, nice, all

22:26

right, Well, congrats on the victory. Uh,

22:28

let's start in the NBA. We know, you know basketball

22:32

the news out of Milwaukee, you

22:35

know they weren't looking good anyway, but

22:37

now that Yannis is out, Uh,

22:40

their season seems like it's pretty much done.

22:42

I think it's over.

22:43

You Have you ever had a calf strain

22:45

or anything like that or had teammates with that?

22:47

Like?

22:48

Yeah, man, that that

22:50

thing takes forever, man, because what happens

22:53

is it can fool you. Right,

22:56

you can stay off of it,

22:58

you can get all the treatment and

23:01

it can feel good like when

23:03

it first happens. It's hard for you to walk around,

23:07

and as your body gets acclimated, and

23:10

you know, you stay off of it, walking

23:12

around won't bother you anymore. Going upstairs,

23:14

it just won't bother you anymore. And

23:17

so you can get a false sense

23:20

of Okay, I'm I'm

23:22

I'm back, I'm ready, man.

23:24

But as soon as you go out there, and

23:27

as you know in the NBA, you can't go fifty

23:30

sixty or seventy percent

23:32

when you're running. As

23:34

soon as you take off it one hundred percent running,

23:37

that thing has a tendency to

23:39

bite up on you. And it's just it's

23:41

lingering and lingered. All

23:44

you need time, time, time and treatment

23:46

and they don't have enough time.

23:48

Wow, he from

23:50

I want to ask you, I think we've asked you before

23:52

about the gambling. And the

23:55

leagues obviously are in bed with gambling.

23:57

We've already seen shoes, name

23:59

been soiled already, you know what I mean.

24:02

Uh, just the association

24:04

with the interpreter and obviously investigators

24:07

are into that.

24:08

Uh the uh what is his

24:10

name?

24:10

Porter in Toronto, John Tate

24:12

Porter, John Tay Porter in Toronto. And

24:15

now Adam Silver's talking about maybe

24:17

banning him from playing.

24:20

Uh.

24:21

We saw NFL players get

24:23

suspended big games, you know, for

24:25

for betting on other sports, but doing

24:28

it at the facility. Is

24:30

this just gonna be commonplace with players,

24:33

you know, and gambling and then teams

24:36

telling them not to gamble, but they're in bed

24:38

telling their fans the gamble every chance they

24:41

get.

24:42

So I'm gonna tell you this, the

24:46

thing that happens most in the locker room

24:48

or on a plane or on these trips gambling

24:52

you have. You have some of the most

24:54

competitive people on the planet Earth, all

24:57

in one room, all

25:00

at one job. So

25:02

with that, come stakes, right,

25:05

I bet you can't do that. I bet I'm faster than

25:08

you. I bet this, I bet I can lift more

25:10

than you, playing bulray,

25:12

blackjack, poker, all

25:14

of these things. So it's there

25:17

and the coach will come out and say, hey, I don't

25:19

want to see no gambling. I don't want to see no

25:21

money. So guys

25:23

are like, all right, well no, the coaches

25:25

saying I don't want to see any money. So you put

25:27

the money away, but you still gamble. It

25:30

used to be thousands and thousands

25:32

of dollars on airplane trays

25:34

as you walk through the back of a chartered plane,

25:37

Coach, don't want to see that. But

25:41

there's a tally being held, right, like

25:43

if you gambling, right, I mean,

25:45

and guys have gotten into fights. I

25:47

mean, it's been tens of thousands of dollars lost

25:51

in these games. So when you add

25:53

in the ease at which

25:55

you can gamble now online on

25:59

a mobile device anywhere, and

26:01

you can gamble on anything, it's

26:03

almost impossible to police

26:05

that. So but

26:09

now you're you're, you're, you're,

26:11

you're now with

26:15

these gambling sites, your

26:18

fans to gamble.

26:20

You think made you think the

26:22

leagues have made a mistake in

26:25

getting into bed with the gambling companies.

26:26

Well I do. I do from a player standpoint

26:29

and a policing standpoint, not from

26:31

a financial standpoint. They saw all the money

26:33

that was being made. It was we got to get a piece of that. But

26:37

in terms of policing and player standpoint,

26:39

absolutely, That's like going

26:42

home and your parents drinking and smoking weed

26:44

and I'm telling you not to drink and smoke weed. Right,

26:49

It's like what, woa, Okay, Well why

26:52

because it's bad for you, but you're doing

26:54

it. Well, I'm a grown up that doesn't that doesn't

26:56

translate.

26:58

And is obviously the players

27:00

are grown ups too, you know, that's the.

27:02

Thing they like the little kid.

27:05

Yeah, yeah, nah, every every

27:08

every by weekend, I would

27:10

go to Vegas. I

27:13

would go to Vegas every by weekend and

27:15

just wild out right

27:18

because you go, and you

27:21

know I would.

27:21

Take Is it mainly just the competitiveness

27:24

because in the thrill, because

27:26

obviously guys.

27:27

Have money, of course,

27:30

and I stopped gambling all together

27:32

because the one thing you can't be as a gambler

27:34

is competitive, and

27:37

I am too competitive. Look,

27:40

you put twenty five thousand out there on that table,

27:43

you lose it, you gotta get it back

27:46

and so forth. That's

27:48

a slippery slope. I just threw it out doing. I'm

27:50

like, nah, I'm just man, I'm just gonna go and do something else.

27:52

Let me ask you this from we

27:54

just watched, I mean, Caitlin Clark just a

27:57

straight up cultural phenomenon. They're

27:59

Championship game through eighteen

28:02

million. I mean they went from

28:04

twelve three in the Elite

28:07

eight to fourteen seven.

28:11

Rob g correct me if I'm wrong, fourteen something,

28:13

fourteen three maybe yeah, someone then

28:15

to eighteen seven

28:18

in the Championship fourteen three in the final four.

28:21

Do you think that her

28:24

popularity is going to, you

28:27

know, lift the w NBA.

28:30

I don't want to say as much as Bird and

28:32

Magic or Jordan did the NBA, But

28:35

do you think she'll have a significant impact

28:38

on the popularity of the WNBA to

28:40

the point where at least

28:42

some of the games, maybe some of her

28:45

big games become kind of

28:47

mussy TV like these college

28:49

games did it.

28:51

With Will for the first year. For

28:54

the first year, people are gonna want to know, how

28:56

can she how is she going to perform

28:59

against the best in the world? All

29:01

Right, she gonna be able to be the same

29:04

Caitlyn Clark. Now, the

29:06

thing that stops that, number one is

29:09

if she goes to a team and they're not very good.

29:12

All right, they're not very good, but she's doing

29:14

her things. May win Rookie of the

29:16

Year, may not. But the

29:19

one thing we've seen the masses

29:22

not tune into is the WNBA.

29:25

Right now, Caitlyn Clark was a phenomenal

29:28

eighteen million people don't watch that final if she's

29:31

not in it. I don't care what nobody said.

29:32

Are you right, I'm with you.

29:34

I'm with you, and I don't I think

29:36

she'll be like a from

29:39

the Harlem Globetrotters when she goes

29:42

somewhere. People will go to those

29:44

games, but the rest of the games will still get

29:46

six thousand people.

29:48

I don't think it's it's.

29:49

Not if it's not. If they're not winning, man,

29:51

it's just gonna die down. It just will. Now

29:54

they come out and they're undefeated, and you got all

29:56

this buzz, and she's out there going against

29:58

the best in the world and she's

30:01

carrying that mantle like she did in college,

30:03

then that's the phenomenon people will buy into.

30:06

But who's gonna go watch a six

30:09

or two and twelve Indiana

30:11

Fever team?

30:13

Right right?

30:14

You know what I'm saying, like, bring

30:17

the winning with you.

30:19

Rob and I talked about this, and

30:21

I don't know if you how much of it you watched,

30:24

but we said some hating on

30:27

the part of a lot of females, like

30:29

ex players, current players, and

30:33

they get that among men, but the women.

30:35

Did you sense any of that?

30:38

Well, yeah, of course. Look what started

30:41

to happen in and it was it

30:43

was coming from a place of frustration from these all

30:45

time greats, current players and

30:48

former players. They're

30:50

like, hey, we've been

30:52

though, right, we've

30:55

been raw business. We've

30:57

been all of these things you're saying,

31:00

Kaitln kark Is, we've been must

31:02

see TV. Now all of a sudden

31:07

everybody have to tune in and watch,

31:09

and we've been this great No

31:12

even to tell us, I get

31:14

it. I understand that. I'm just coming from a

31:17

no, no, no.

31:17

I know.

31:17

I know you're given there, you're given their

31:20

side.

31:20

But but you weren't hitting logo

31:22

three, right, you weren't putting up those

31:25

shots from you were playing below

31:27

the rim basketball that people

31:30

didn't want to see.

31:31

Let's just call it like it is.

31:32

You're absolutely right, You're absolutely

31:35

right. But I've played against some of those those

31:37

women, some of the best in the world, and they've

31:40

always been bucket getters. Now, Caitln

31:42

has evolved the game, just like stuff

31:44

evolved the game, all right, So you

31:47

give her her flowers. She did so much

31:49

for college basketball women. It'd

31:52

be interesting to see how much

31:54

carryover college basketball

31:56

has for the ladies next season. Then

31:59

that will tell you. That'll be the litmus test.

32:01

No, I'm with you, and I I don't.

32:04

I'm leaning towards not being a ton,

32:07

but they're gonna need they're going to need another

32:10

individual because, let's face it, individuals.

32:13

That was the genius of David

32:15

Stern. Individuals sell

32:17

the sport, storyline, sell the

32:19

sport. So let me get these individuals

32:22

right. They got one. It

32:25

could be juju right, jujus, the one you

32:27

can come at and pay. I think come.

32:29

Beckers is staying at Yukon,

32:33

so she's another one. So they'll

32:35

have some and we'll see

32:37

how it translates. All right, e from great

32:40

stuff. Man, We appreciate you.

32:42

Absolutely, brothers anytime y'all stay safe, Thank

32:44

you.

32:44

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32:46

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32:49

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33:09

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33:12

Shekel City two.

33:15

Shekel City the whole

33:17

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33:20

against the spread.

33:25

All right, here we go, Chris Little Shekel

33:28

City one and two last night not that great,

33:30

but let's bounce back.

33:32

Thanks Alex.

33:34

Let's see, I got the Rangers minus one and a half

33:36

runs best bet against the Oakland

33:39

A's. Should I call them the Sacramento A's

33:41

coming up? Also have

33:43

the Royals minus one and a half runs.

33:45

They taking on the

33:48

Astros they host them in Kansas City,

33:50

Chris, and I'm taking the

33:53

Nuggets minus six and a half at home

33:56

hosting the Tea Wolves. So the

33:58

Nuggets minus six and a half, the

34:00

Royals minus one and a half runs, the

34:03

Rangers minus one and a half runs.

34:05

And remember, I'm not telling

34:07

you who to bet on. I'm telling

34:09

you who I bet on.

34:11

All right, Rob, Well, I bet that

34:15

you won't like this announcement

34:17

I'm about to make. I mean, it's out, but I'm

34:20

gonna announce it on our show. Week

34:23

one, Friday night, September

34:25

sixth, the Green Bay

34:28

Packers versus the Philadelphia

34:30

Eagles in

34:33

Brazil. Rob, Now,

34:36

this is a few things

34:38

about this one. The

34:41

NFL continues to try to take over

34:43

the globe by doing

34:46

these games outside of the United States. And

34:49

two, this is on a Friday

34:51

night. Rop we talked about like Friday

34:54

was one of those nights you didn't see in NFL

34:56

games. Right now, that you got

34:58

it. Some on Saturday, obviously,

35:01

Sunday, obviously, Monday, Thursday,

35:05

now, Friday, Christmas Day, Wednesday,

35:09

they're they're they're greedy up in the NFL

35:11

offices. I mean, it's

35:14

just no two ways.

35:15

I just I'm gonna tell you why, Chris.

35:17

Every once in a while, or international game, I'm

35:19

cool with that every once in a while. But

35:22

you start taking away games from fans,

35:24

their home games. People only have

35:27

eight or nine home games, Chris. And you remember,

35:29

at one point, it's not like baseball

35:32

you got eighty one home

35:34

games. You take a series and go to London. No

35:37

one's gonna cry over the

35:39

Yankees or the Mets, you know what I mean, missing

35:41

three games at home, right.

35:44

And and you heard the workers.

35:46

Who work at the stadium, Chris, that's their livelihood

35:49

they miss a game, right. So

35:52

there's a couple of things that that's why I don't

35:54

like too many of them. And

35:56

uh, you know, and you could say,

35:59

I get it. They want to they want to put the game

36:01

in front of as many people as they can. So

36:03

maybe they'll buy the streaming

36:06

package, maybe they'll buy jerseys. It's

36:08

a money grab, that's what it is. And they just

36:11

the United States is not big enough for them.

36:13

They want as many people as possible,

36:16

and you know, if they could put a team

36:19

in a foreign country and have a lot. They

36:21

tried the World League, Chris,

36:24

they tried two different leagues in

36:27

Europe and they failed.

36:29

They failed. You know why, because

36:31

people don't want to see cut rate talent.

36:33

You could.

36:34

You can't fool people.

36:35

They don't know his cut rates. Well, they didn't.

36:37

They didn't go to the games they gonna sail.

36:39

I don't think that's why though, because they don't

36:42

know. You know, they're not used to watching

36:44

foot tackle American tackle football.

36:46

No, but they know who the NFL stars are

36:48

and it's not those gods.

36:49

I don't think they know it. And that's my opinion.

36:52

You know, I could be wrong, but I think

36:54

rab as far as that goes, as far

36:56

as growing the game, you

36:59

to me, I think you'd have to

37:01

start youth leagues

37:04

over there where they can play and start

37:07

to learn the game. They

37:09

don't know the game. Now.

37:11

They've got some international youth flag

37:14

teams, but flag is

37:16

not real football, or you know, it's

37:18

not tackle football. And so

37:20

I think Rob that's what they have to do if

37:23

they want to try to really grow. That's

37:25

what basketball did. They send

37:27

some of the best coaches over there,

37:30

and they were doing camps in

37:32

the summer, traveling all these different countries

37:35

doing camps, and they

37:37

sent great coaches over there, and

37:40

that's where the European coaches learn from

37:42

and then they took it and obviously to another

37:44

level Baseball, Rob, obviously

37:47

it's international. You know, it

37:50

has to be young players

37:52

in these places playing them

37:55

because to them it's just a novelty. They

37:57

probably a lot of times may not even understand

38:01

completely what they're watching. I'm generalizing,

38:03

but a lot of the people, Rob, they got no

38:05

idea, just like we wouldn't have an idea.

38:08

If I'm watching cricket, I don't. I don't

38:10

really know what I'm watching. So

38:13

I think that's how they have to do it too. Of

38:16

course that's part of it.

38:17

But I still think I

38:20

think it's easy to think that you could just feed

38:22

people anything and that

38:24

they're going to, you know, like like

38:28

flock to it, because they've tried it.

38:30

They've tried to have leagues over there because they

38:32

feel like, hey.

38:33

We could put American football over there and

38:35

make money, you know, and and as

38:37

strong as the NFL brand is for

38:39

whatever reason, they've tried it a few times and

38:41

it just hasn't worked, and they

38:44

get to watch the games. They're watching NFL

38:47

games now, Chris, with regularity.

38:49

I mean, like in Canada, the

38:52

CFL is fine. They

38:54

like their CFL football. That's I

38:56

don't know how financially well.

38:59

I mean, I think it's doing well in Canada. I mean, I

39:01

don't know the numbers, but I'm just saying it's been

39:04

existing in existence for decades, all

39:06

right, keep it locked. A couple