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Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast. I am your host Justin Jackson.

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In this week's episode we will be talking about the NBA and what's going down there.

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We are barreling towards the start of the playoffs and the play-in.

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We'll be discussing college basketball as it wraps up its season and we will have Jack's hot take.

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Welcome into the show season 5 episode 5 of the Justin Time Sports podcast.

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Welcome into the show. I'm excited to be with you as we are actually recording late-ish on a Thursday night.

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Typically I don't record on Thursday nights. I play basketballs and pick up basketball. Usually it just doesn't happen for me on a Thursday night.

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However special occasions special times call for special occasions.

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As I'm recording this late on a Thursday night I'm actually watching my Pelicans play the Kings right now.

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So we do a standings update as always how we start the NBA. It'll be entering tonight.

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Being Thursday night's games not counting the results of Thursday night because for instance the Knicks already played the Celtics.

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So these results are as entering Thursday night. But out east, let's jump right into it in the NBA.

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Out east you have the Celtics as the runaway 1 seed. At this point it's a formality that they're the one.

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They're the runaway 1 seed. The Bucs minus 13 and a half games back. So with that gap being so massive.

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And like we've done the past couple of weeks we're going to discuss the East in relation to the Bucs.

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Considering the Bucs are the 2 seed and it doesn't make sense. The numbers get so laughable as far as the gap between whatever team and the Celtics.

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So for instance the Bucs are the 13 and a half back from the Celtics. And now we're going to go again in relation to the Bucs.

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So the Knicks are 1.5 games back from the Bucs. The Cavs are 2 games back. The Magic are 3 games back.

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The Pacers are also 3 games back. And that would be the rest of the playoffs.

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The play in begins with the Sixers at 4 back. The Heat at 5 back. The Bulls at 11.5 back. And the Hawks at 13 back.

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However at out West we don't have that issue. And I say we because I'm talking about the totality of the NBA.

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The fandom in general. The gap between the Nuggets and the Warriors. The Nuggets at 1st and the Warriors at 10th.

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Is still less than the gap between the Celtics and the Bucs. And the Celtics and the Bucs are 1st and 2nd in East.

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The Bucs are looking to go 64-65 wins. While the rest of the East is struggling to get to 50.

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So that is to say the gap in terms of talent. The Bucs are looking for one of the all time regular seasons in Celtics history.

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So that is what they have on the line and what they are battling for the rest of this regular season.

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Anyway out West we have the Nuggets. That is currently the 1 seed. Again entering Thursday's games the Nuggets were the 1 seed.

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The Timbukus are a game back. The Thunder are also a game back. So those 3 are battling for the number 1 seed.

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Then there is this gap. So the gap is the 4 game gap. So that means the 3 teams I named. The Nuggets, the Timbukus and the Thunder.

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They are locked into the top 3 seeds. They are just battling over what order of the top 3 seeds they are going to have.

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But they are going to be top 3. Then you have the Clippers as your 4 seed. They are currently 5 games back.

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The Mavs are 6 game back. The Pelicans round out the play-offs entering Thursday's game at 8.5 games back.

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Okay. The Feeding Suns are 9 games back as the 7 seed. Then the Kings are 10.5 games back. The Lakers locked into the play-in are 11 games back.

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The Warriors also locked into the play-in are 11.5 games back entering Thursday's night competition.

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So just looking at the standings, some things that stand out to me. For instance the Warriors and the Lakers are locked into the play-in.

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Mathematically the Kings have an opportunity to get into the play-offs. But they would need the Pelicans and the Suns to pretty much lose out while they went out.

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In order to get into the play-off they have and go into the play-in.

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Now the Pelicans and the Kings are currently playing. As it sits right now it's 54-48 with about 3.34 left in the second quarter of Pelicans ahead.

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So this would be a situation where the Kings could almost double jeopardy the Pelicans by gaining a win and putting a loss on their record.

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They're going to automatically gain a game and I believe they would own the tiebreaker at that point which would be huge.

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Then of course tiebreaker they end up with the same record. The Kings would get in.

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So this is a big game for New Orleans and Sacramento. New Orleans playing without Brandon Engelmar already.

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He's scheduled to return against the Lakers in the last game of the season. While Zion has gone back to the locker room after coming out a little awkwardly.

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He's going back to the locker room dealing with a wrist injury complaint.

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So something to keep your eye on if you are a New Orleans fan. Something you are absolutely holding your breath if you're a New Orleans fan.

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The last thing you need is Zion with a sprained wrist or I'm not even going to speak worse but something else was to occur.

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Now he's dinged up for the start of the playoffs. He's probably playing his healthiest season as a pro.

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So that is the last thing you want as a Pelicans fan. So we're all a little nervous right now.

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But back into the show. Back to the topic of the show itself. I'm a LeBron guy. I am right. I'm a LeBron guy.

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And I love the Pelicans. They're my favorite team. LeBron is my favorite player. You have to understand.

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That's a great pass by the Air Fox. He got stolen but it wasn't because of the pass.

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He made a forward on defense. God dog I love the Air Fox. But it wasn't due to a LeBron's fandom rather.

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You have to understand I'm almost 27. I turned 27 in about a month. LeBron has been in the league 21 years.

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I was born in 1997. LeBron entered the league in 2003. My first cognitive memories of watching basketball was LeBron James.

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So it's a situation where guys who are 15 years older than me, their first cognitive memories of watching basketball is Michael Jordan.

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Think about it. If you're born in 1982, Jordan is the league in what? 86? 84. Jordan is the league in 84.

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So your first cognizant memories of basketball is probably of Michael Jordan.

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Magic Johnson and Leigh Berger. Those are your three options. Especially because there's no league pass.

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You pretty much have to watch the game, the national TV game. If you're in Louisiana, New Orleans, the New Orleans Hornets was no longer a thing.

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The Jazz had left and the New Orleans Hornets was no longer a thing. So when the Charlotte Hornets had moved,

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so it was a situation where you didn't have, you had to wait until the national TV game. Well, national TV in the 80s was Magic Michael Larry.

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Or Detroit. That was the national TV games. So a lot of people's first cognitive memories of basketball,

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and remember long playing basketball was of Michael Jordan and the Bulls. So LeBron's my guy, right?

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Because LeBron's my guy, I tend to follow him wherever he goes in terms of I now invest in that team. I now have all the jerseys.

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I now not all the jerseys. I have a jersey from every team. I have a Lakers. I have a Cavs. I have a Cavs the first time.

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I have a Heat. I have a jersey from every team. So when he goes, I thin throw my support. I'm not the only one.

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There's millions of us that do it as evident by the ticket sales and the merchandise sales whenever he does change locations and the ratings for the teams.

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So LeBron was who I get invested in the team. I learned the style and the coaches. I kind of called him the culture a little bit.

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It's almost like college recruitment in a way. But instead of like, it's not like when you're in college and you go to college in a different city.

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And you like learn that city. Like for me, I'm from Baton Rouge, but I went to college in Hammond.

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Hammond's all about an hour and 15 minutes, an hour from Baton Rouge. But it's something where you learn Hammond is a little different than Baton Rouge.

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You know what I'm saying? And you're learning it and you're learning how it operates and you're learning the restaurants and etc.

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You're getting great shit in the culture. You're getting great shit in Hammond America and it becomes a thing.

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Well when LeBron changed the teams, he had about a four year pattern of changing.

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Because again, it's almost like going to college. You learn the culture. You learn the city. You learn how this operates.

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What are the true expectations? Are they just LeBron based expectations? Or are they used to winning?

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So LeBron is the next guy to win. And I kind of say that because when he's in Cleveland, they never won.

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So a lot of expectations of what they were supposed to do were LeBron based.

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He's so good that they're supposed to get here. Okay? He was good enough to back it up.

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They went into East Concert final a couple times. They made it to the NBA finals.

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And the team was mostly not great. But he was able to carry those guys with help into premium long running playoff runs.

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He gets to Miami. They were not necessarily used to winning. They had had a title.

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They had won a title in 06 with Dwayne Wade. But they were not necessarily used to winning.

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That was the only franchise with a title. They had been Mr. Playoffs in Dozer and Sinks.

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But you got LeBron James, Chris Boster, Wade all in their primes.

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They became we're going to win because these guys are so good expectations.

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And they delivered. Two titles, four title strips. They delivered, right?

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When LeBron goes back to Cleveland, he picks up Tyree Irvin who at the time was a very flashy non-winner.

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And Kevin Love who was a fat machine non-winner in Minnesota.

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And then they kind of both end to their pieces around.

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So again expectations became we're going to win not because the teams are that good. Because LeBron's good.

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Then you go to the Lakers and you get a different environment.

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The team is good, yes. But they're used to winning. LeBron's the next guy to win.

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Will and Jerry won. Kobe won. Magic won. You're just the next guy to win here.

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It's the Lakers we win, right?

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And so that being said, you got to get in great shape in that. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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I say all that long stuff to say, Darwin Ham sucks.

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And I say this not only as a fan of LeBron's name. I say this as a fan of basketball.

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Darwin Ham is horrible. What he did to the Lakers against the Warriors should have been professional malfeasance.

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It should have been a crime. No, it was professional malfeasance. It should have been a crime.

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It could have been potentially committed as a hate crime against LeBron. I'm not even sure what it would have been.

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Ages? I don't know.

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Favoritism, nepotism, buddyitism? I don't know. That was insane.

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For those who don't know what I'm talking about, the Lakers and the Warriors are exchange and blows.

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LeBron's playing really well. The Warriors are in in threes, but the game is within reach.

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The Warriors end up actually shooting the best three point percentage in the history of basketball with at least 40 attempts.

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So a high range, a high volume rather, three point day, they had the greatest shooting performance of all time.

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They made 26 of threes. It was like I said, it was the highest percentage ever shooting over 40 attempts.

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As far as an official high range shooting team, they're the best ever.

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So it was like a bit of a uphill battle, but they were in the war. Right? They were in it. Right there.

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Blow for blow. And then it is in the third quarter, Darwin Han puts a lineup on the floor.

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That is, D'Angelo Russell, Spencer Denwitty, Torian Prince, I believe Rui Hachimura and Jackson Hayes.

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That is professional malfeasance, coaching malpractice, an absolute crime against the state of California,

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against the Los Angeles Lakers fan base and against LeBron James.

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That's a disgrace in terms of if you tell me you're trying to win.

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Because honestly, you're disrespecting winning at that point.

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And predictably, the Warriors go on this 13 to 2 run and push the game on. It's over and they're like two or three minutes.

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The starting lineup managed to only play 10 minutes together.

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I'm not even sure how you can do that with it without injuries.

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They managed to only play 10 minutes together.

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The lineup in question that had never played one second together got three minutes.

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And the guys who started the game with somehow got 10.

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To be upset at Darwin Han is a waste of emotion.

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I'm going to be honest with you, it's pointless at this point.

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To be frustrated with him is like you're not doing enough.

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To want him fired feels like overkill.

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He's such a guy that seriously I feel like he's trying stuff at this point.

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And it's just not working.

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And he's committing a crime against Laker Nation and is going to seriously jeopardize the ability for the Los Angeles Lakers to win a title.

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I don't think they can win a title with him.

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As great as LeBron James is, I do not think they can win a title with him.

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LeBron has won two with Air Exposure, one with Frank Vogel, and one with Tyronn Lue as a replacement coach.

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He can't be a way through a season.

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I do not think he can win a title with Darwin Han.

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That is how bad Darwin Han is.

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It is as if he's never coached professional basketball all day in his life.

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And I feel like it shows up every time they're in a big moment, every time they're in a crunch, every time they're going through a war.

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Darwin Han finds a new way to not be confident at his job.

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And it is just tragic that LeBron has to go through this at this stage of his career.

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But it shouldn't be all that shocking, despite how much winning the Lakers franchise has done over its illustrious history.

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They've had strong periods of ineptitude.

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They pretty much won in spite of management with Will and Jerry.

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And then Jerry Buss takes over.

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And then that's a mess at the beginning, but they get Magic.

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And so when you get Magic and you got Kareem, you kind of win.

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And then when those guys are gone, it's ineptitude again.

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And then Shaq decides, thanks to Jerry West, he wants to head west to your team, and you still suck.

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And then you get gifted this kid from Philadelphia, this high schooler named Kobe Bryant, and you start winning again.

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But that was strong periods of ineptitude even in Kobe's time.

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He wanted to get traded at one point.

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This team has gone through periods of just flat out bad management.

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And I think what you're seeing on the court now is a symbolic gesture or symbolic symbol and a residual effect of what was happening in management.

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Real time, Genie Buss had to force her brothers out.

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It was like Mitch Kupchak running around.

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And Phil Jackson was heavily involved.

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It was a mess of Lakers.

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They stayed in the 1980s and tried to do 2010s basketball.

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It was awful.

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And then after Kobe retired, it was awful.

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And then Jerry Buss convinced Shaq to go west from Orlando.

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Magic Johnson convinced LeBron to go west from Cleveland.

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And all of a sudden there's this guy again.

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And then they get another guy named Anthony Davis, and then they win.

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And it's like you just kind of ignore all the bad.

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But what you're seeing right now is all the bad with Darwin Ham.

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They probably should have just done what LeBron wanted them to do, what everybody thought they should have done, which was give Tyloo this big.

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Tyloo won it five years.

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They offered him three.

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The money wasn't the issue.

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Like if they offered him five years, Tyloo was the coach of Lakers today.

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They probably won more than one title.

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Then you had Frank Vogel, and you let Frank Vogel go.

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I'm not saying Frank Vogel is the world's best coach.

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I have my issue with Frank Vogel.

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He's better than Darwin Ham.

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He's done with a lot more injuries than I'm testing.

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Phoenix and airplane are really good basketball right now.

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So I mean, it's just a sign of the ineptitude of the Lakers as an organization.

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At times, I mean, Palenka was an ineptitude to Kobe.

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You know what I'm saying?

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So it's like it is what it is.

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LeBron chose this.

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He's still choosing this.

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He's going to continue to choose this because the city of Los Angeles is far more important than the actual basketball itself right now.

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So before we dive too far into the playoffs, I want to propose you guys a question.

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And Chris Haynes proposed it on TNT to the crew, and they asked to hear their answers.

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I'm glad I didn't hear the answer.

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I don't want my pain to be swayed.

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But we were speaking about those things.

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OK, purpose of the play in tournament was to give and I want to make a little more money.

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Let's start off there.

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Number two, it was designed to give teams in the nine and the 10, especially in the old areas of the West, where like the 10th seed would win like 46 games, 47 games and then be the 10th seed.

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And then the eighth seed in the East will win like 40 games.

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You know what I'm saying?

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People are putting out the West being too hard.

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Now, my thing with that has always been even the games out, get rid of conferences, top 16 records go.

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If you really care about one side being stronger than the other.

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But they put the play in tournament in.

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Well, it originally got installed for the bubble.

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It originally got installed for the bubble.

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And it was designed because the teams would not have a full season.

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They would not have 482 games.

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They would only play 70 games.

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So to make those last 12 games sort of kind of make sense and matter.

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They put the play in tournament in.

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Teams seven through 10 who will be vying for those lack of playoff spots will then proceed to play so there are no mini tournaments.

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The people who win that tournament win the playoff.

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So you guys know how to play in tournament work.

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Cool.

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So it was such a success in the bubble.

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They continued it outside the bubble.

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This is the first year where this question is relevant.

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It's something that I thought about others voiced when the play in tournament came out.

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What happens when the gap is so big that you're punishing the server to eight feet for still playing?

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If the bulls and the hawks knew two, three weeks ago, they were in the play in tournament and no one was going to catch them.

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So it didn't matter how bad he looked.

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It didn't matter what they did.

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They were going to be nine and ten play in tournament and they were going to they were in no matter what.

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The play in tournament was also designed in the back.

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But back a little bit of more of a backstory, the play in tournament was also designed to encourage 20 teams now to continue to play because you plan for something.

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It also was to encourage the next two or three teams behind the 10 seed to play a little bit longer to see if they can get that 10 seed.

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So in the perfect world, you would entice 24 or 30 teams to play hard until early April.

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That's something that you cannot do with eight seeds because really 11, if you're six games back with 15 to go or 14 to go, you start making choices.

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We're not going to catch them.

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However, six back from eight may be two back from 10, which gets you into play in tournament.

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So I'm playing a little bit harder.

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You know what I'm saying?

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So anyway, back to the point, I say I like to say Chris Haynes on the team to oppose to the crew.

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Should the Heat and the Seasors be exempt from the play in tournament due to the gap between nine and eight and nine.

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The Heat are six and a half games up on the Bulls and they are eight games up on the Atlanta entering Thursday's game.

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And yet there is a chance for a couple of bad days of basketball that the Heat could be at home.

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And it's like, oh, happy to report, fellow Cousin Nation, Zion is back on the court.

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For those who didn't watch the game and look to the podcast, Zion is back on the court.

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But, you know, it's a little different in the West where the eight seed is a game up on the 10th seed.

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OK, that's a perfect playing situation.

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Yet had 82 games, maybe one game difference.

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You know, perfect playing situation.

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It is not perfect.

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In the East, like I said, where the seventh and eighth are going to battle, I think Cessick and B gets it.

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Right. He gets the seventh seed if he doesn't find a way into the sixth seed.

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But regardless, the Heat are going to play two teams.

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They were eight games better than or, you know, four to seven games better than in their regular season

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and could lose their playoff spot with a couple of bad, you know, a couple of threes that just don't fall like a bad shooting night.

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Could lose their playoff spot to a team they were eight games clear of.

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You know, and so Chris Hayes proposed it should teams, should there be a certain number of games difference

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between the six and eight seed.

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You say don't do the playing tournament for these.

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The West would do it.

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But I mean, I think if you're six games up, that team gets removed.

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So obviously the playing tournament is seven through ten.

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So I think if it's six games up from if you're six games away from a seven seed, that the whatever teams are lower than that get removed.

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That would six games, six games that would remove the Bulls and the Hawks from the playing tournament.

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Or you could do six games from eighth, which in that case would remove the Hawks.

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They keep the Bulls, Bulls and Hawks.

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Bulls and Heat would go at it, run and get the eight seed.

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Six is automatically seven seed.

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So I think that it's kind of outrageous that like Atlanta is eight games back of Miami and can end up the eight seed.

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We knew the playing tournament may cause the Spanish to look a little wonky.

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Like such and such made the playoffs and they were three games worse than this team didn't.

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We knew that would be a problem.

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But to have an eight game difference for the second continue of the playing tournament, we can simply like I said, put a rule in where it's six games.

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You got a rule, you got a game rule for everything else.

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Sixty-five game rule for individual awards and et cetera.

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Why not do a game rule for the playing tournament?

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You have to, you have to be within six games of the eight seed in order to be in the playing tournament.

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That sort of thing.

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I think that would cut down on like not purposeful taking, but like individual things.

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Like you can kind of tell that like Atlanta, besides when Ter Young came back, really wasn't all going all that hard.

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Because they knew they wouldn't play in tournament regardless.

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Their whole season came down to two games.

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Chicago the same way they put some really funky lineups on the court.

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They know at the end of the day, they're just trying to keep home court in that first round of the playing.

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But regardless, they are in the playing.

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And so that's definitely a different feeling and a different pressure amount.

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And I do believe that there should be a certain number.

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I keep saying six, six feels appropriate.

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I feel like there should be a certain number that if I'm up by that much or I'm down by that much,

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I'm not going to be able to get the playing tournament for corresponding seeds.

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It don't exist.

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So let's dive into the playoffs.

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We do have one matchup confirmed.

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The only matchup truly that's confirmed.

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And that is the Clippers versus the Mavericks in the first round of the NBA playoffs.

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These are two teams that don't particularly like each other.

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They've had multiple wars over the years in the playoffs.

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Luka Dantius has had some great games against the Clippers, some great moments.

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There was the Marcus Morris stuff.

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There was all the pushing and the shoving.

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There was a lot of stuff going on in the Clippers and the Mavs.

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Not as entertaining as Mavs and Suns.

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That is going to be entertaining with Luka scoring more points at half than the Phoenix Suns' Ross today last year.

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But Luka and the Clippers have had some absolutely crazy wars.

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But a lot of it hinges on the fact that at a certain point,

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you can tilt the entire floor to Luka, double teaming and rotating and all kind of stuff,

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and tilt the entire floor aimed at Luka.

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Well, that strategy doesn't work anymore because Kyrie Irving exists on the Mavs.

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So there's no such thing as, oh, we're going to half defend Kyrie.

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He's going to take a bad shot or just stand there

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because he's going to make a great decision with the ball, more than likely aim to score it.

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That doesn't necessarily work in this situation.

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They're doing a lot of injury management.

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I haven't heard much on Kawhi since he got the knee drain.

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I haven't heard a lot about Kawhi, but even when they do their highlights, ain't Kawhi, you know.

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So that'll be interesting to keep an eye on there.

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If you're the Mavs, you have a chance to correct a lot of wrongs here.

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You have a chance to where you were the hunted.

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Now you could be the hunter.

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This is almost a dream path so far.

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If you are either one of these teams, because you have a chance to really, really go at it

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and kind of kick out some demons while you're at it from this series.

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Whether it be individually guarding Luka or Luka getting over the hump and beating the Clippers.

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One thing I do want to talk about the playing tournament with,

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and I should have mentioned in my last segment, is that is the playing tournament a disadvantage

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for the one and the two team?

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Because now you have to prep for two teams at the same time.

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You have to learn two scouting ports, do all this different stuff.

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Then it's playoff level scouting ports and end-upness and etc.

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It's not just something that you can throw together or that you can look at a basketball game and oh,

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this person likes post-split, so this person likes a spot cut, etc.

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There's percentages and all this other stuff.

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But I think that could be a major disadvantage to the playing to the top two seeds.

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Normally not a problem, but with somebody like Joel Embiid and the Sixers lurking around at seventh seed,

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if you don't know you're playing Joel Embiid until four days before,

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that could be a huge problem with your game planning and things of that nature.

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But that is all I have for the NBA and now we're going to shift into college basketball.

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Welcome back into the show.

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And now we're going to talk about the conclusion of the college basketball season.

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I kind of want to look forward to next season.

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So congratulations in order.

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Shout out to the South Carolina Gamecocks winning the Women's National Championship,

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their third national title in seven years, I believe under Don Staley.

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The dynasty is officially on in Columbia.

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All their legends have a ring at this point.

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Aja Wilson, who already has her statue, has a title.

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Aliyah Boston, sorry, I had a brain cramp there.

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I've been watching this Pelicans and Kings game, my apologies.

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Aliyah Boston has her ring and now Camila Cardoza has her ring.

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So post-U is kind of what they're being nicknamed around the college basketball world

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because they just keep developing these amazing post players,

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which is crazy because Don's a guard and none of her guards are that dominant.

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I mean, Daya Cook's okay, but you know what I'm saying, none of her guards,

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Brea Beals, solid, but none of her guards are making a high level impact

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at the professional level, at least in the WNBA.

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You hear her posts are becoming like megastars.

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So that's pretty interesting there.

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But also congratulations to the University of Connecticut men's basketball team

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for securing their second title in a row, going back to back,

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dominating the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year.

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They've won 12 consecutive tournament games, obviously, winning two titles.

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They've won every single game by an average of about 23 points.

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They won last year's title at winning about 20 points a game,

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and they won this year's title winning about 23, I believe,

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so about 21, 22 points a game they're winning NCAA tournament games.

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They're not just winning, they're crushing people.

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And it's not even a situation where it's like, oh, they're blowing out the first round

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team by like 60, so then at that point, you know, they're just kind of,

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it's really, they're winning final four games by 25.

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Like, they are absolutely dominating opponents right now.

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Hurley is built to juggernaut in Connecticut.

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Very interesting to see what he does with the Kentucky job open,

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which we'll get to in a second.

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But he's built to an absolute juggernaut in Connecticut.

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He knows what he wants.

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He's competing with Gina Oriyama.

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He's not going to have the career Gina Oriyama had in Yukon, obviously.

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That's just a bad bet to make like, oh, damn, Hurley, Bobby Hurley, sorry,

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is going to have a similar coaching career to Gina Oriyama.

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Like, that's a bad bet.

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Gina Oriyama has top three most wins of men and women ever.

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He's like 100 national titles.

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That's a bad bet.

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He has a win streak of over 100 at certain point.

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Like, horrible bet, right?

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But he is, you know, he's already got two national titles.

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He's going back to back.

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And he's talking about Yukon basketball.

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He says that he doesn't mean men's basketball.

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He means Yukon basketball.

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The University of Connecticut collegiate basketball,

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men and women have been the, are the standard right now.

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Yes, South Carolina has the titles.

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South Carolina has Don Staley, but without half the roster,

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Paige Becker and Yukon was in the final four and was, I think,

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a bad call moving screen away from potentially either going to overtime

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or facing South Carolina in the national championship game.

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So Yukon basketball as a whole is running college basketball right now.

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Definitely the best basketball program in the country.

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North Carolina State had a pretty good run as well.

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Both of their teams went to the final four.

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But I think that this is a major opportunity for Yukon to really solidify

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their claim at the top of college basketball.

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But graduation from the University of Connecticut and South Carolina

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on winning the men's and women's national championships respectively.

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Now, we spoke about it a second ago, or we began to,

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and then I backed off for five reasons.

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00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,000
But Don Staley winning her third national championship,

414
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,000
she's got lots of history involved, a lot of stuff.

415
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,000
No other African-American coach has done,

416
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,000
a lot of stuff that no coach has done.

417
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,000
We know some of her stuff.

418
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,000
She's the only person to ever win a Nate Smith Player of the Year

419
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,000
and Nate Smith Coach of the Year, a wooden award for player and coach.

420
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,000
We know some of this stuff, what she's done.

421
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,000
We know about her gold medals.

422
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,000
We know about her national championships.

423
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,000
We know about her time as a player on the WNBA.

424
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:54,000
And it's just, you almost begin to question if she's the GOAT.

425
00:36:54,000 --> 00:37:02,000
And is there a case? Yes.

426
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000
Now, it's a small case.

427
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,000
Now women's college basketball, college basketball in general,

428
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,000
there's such a gap in terms of wins.

429
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Geno R.M. is over a thousand.

430
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,000
Tara Vanderveer, who just retired at Stanford,

431
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,000
there was Stanford calling her the GOAT, she's over a thousand.

432
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,000
C. Vivian Stringer was around, was a really high number.

433
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,000
Pat Sumner is over a thousand.

434
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,000
You get some of these wins and you're like, my God.

435
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,000
Especially in the New College basketball, these people hold jobs,

436
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:37,000
this same job 25, 30 years in their dominant program.

437
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000
If they're 30 years in their dominant program, 25 of them.

438
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:45,000
So they win 30 games every year, or 25 games every year for 20 years.

439
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:50,000
The numbers are just insane.

440
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,000
So congratulations to Dawn.

441
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:57,000
Like I said, she has a GOAT case in the sense of like Jim Brown

442
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:02,000
has a running back GOAT case, or Barry Sanders has a running back GOAT case.

443
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Yeah, okay, you don't have the physical counting numbers of some of those people,

444
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:15,000
but the impact of the social ramifications of a Dawn Staley

445
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:22,000
and what she's doing right now for black coaches, for black players at a non-HBCU.

446
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000
Like she's not at ABC, she's South Carolina.

447
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,000
She's not at South Carolina State, she's not at, you know, something like that.

448
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,000
She's at the University of South Carolina, in the SEC.

449
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,000
And what she's doing there is absolutely spectacular.

450
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,000
She's well on her way to having a counting numbers GOAT argument,

451
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:43,000
but you know, I've seen, you know, I am one a lot.

452
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:48,000
I don't think women's basketball has ever been more competitive.

453
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,000
I just don't.

454
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,000
I don't think women's basketball is ever more competitive than it is right now.

455
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,000
I grew up watching women's basketball.

456
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,000
I'm not one of these people that popped in in the last two years

457
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:04,000
because of the Katelyn Park Show, who we'll talk about.

458
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,000
I grew up watching the Candice Parkers.

459
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,000
I used to jokingly call Candice Parker my big sister.

460
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,000
I tried to steal all of her moves,

461
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:16,000
like the little up and under step through that is effectively a travel, but not really.

462
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,000
I tried to steal everything.

463
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,000
I even learned how to shoot like off my face.

464
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:25,000
Like, you know, I tried to do everything just like Candice Parker.

465
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,000
So I grew up watching Candice Parker.

466
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,000
I grew up watching Maya Moore.

467
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,000
I grew up watching Simone Augustine Sylvia Files.

468
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:35,000
I grew up watching Tamika Johnson on the point guard for LSU.

469
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,000
I grew up watching all these great players,

470
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:42,000
Sabrina Stewart at Kentucky winning four shooting-out-of-times championships.

471
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,000
And in my later years, you get Sabrina in that school of the world.

472
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,000
You get, I had the three to see.

473
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,000
I was like in high school, I think with the three, CK and the WNBA,

474
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,000
which we'll talk about that later as well,

475
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:58,000
when Brittany Grind and Skyler Diggers in LA and De La Donne all came out of school together.

476
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,000
I'm old enough to have seen all this, right?

477
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,000
So I have a scope and a grasp on the women's game.

478
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:12,000
To me, the golden era of the women's game in terms of, yes, the pre-WNBA era was different.

479
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,000
You had Sherri Miller.

480
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,000
You had Kim Monk.

481
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,000
Like, Kim Monk is probably a top-three pick in the WNBA draft.

482
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,000
She was, she won a national championship with Louisiana Tech, right?

483
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,000
Like, she's probably a top pick in the WNBA draft.

484
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,000
Sherri Miller is easily the number one pick.

485
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,000
She was a goat at the WNBA just today.

486
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,000
I'm not old enough to have seen Cheryl Swoopes, right?

487
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,000
But she was Eric Swoopes.

488
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000
She had her own shoe deal like Eric Jordan.

489
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,000
Like, she was it.

490
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,000
So I'm about to understand the history of the game.

491
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,000
Cheryl Miller was so good, multiple men's leagues invited her,

492
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,000
wanted her to play in their leagues.

493
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:47,000
Like, I'm old enough to, I know the game enough to know this.

494
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:52,000
I know enough to say, Donne's well on her way.

495
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,000
Well on her way.

496
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,000
She's been there, in seven years she's got three titles.

497
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,000
She's already produced, in my opinion, multiple college basketball hall of famers.

498
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,000
Asia Wilson and Leah Boston are both going to go in the hall of fame.

499
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:07,000
Kimberly Godoza potentially has a case.

500
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,000
She's already winning gold medals.

501
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:15,000
You know, she's on her way and on a pace and on a path that if she speaks,

502
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,000
if she speaks to Columbia, she's going to win seven or eight national titles

503
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,000
over the course of 20 years, 25 years.

504
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:27,000
And she stays in South Carolina, she's going to probably make

505
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000
over $100 million coaching.

506
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:34,000
And then on top of that, she'll have seven national titles in 20 years

507
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,000
and is a hall of fame before she retires.

508
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:42,000
I mean, that's the level which I'm going to be honest, let you know the secret.

509
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,000
Donne Staley should be a hall of famer as is.

510
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,000
She should be a pro basketball hall of famer.

511
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000
If for nothing more, if you don't want to put her in as a coach yet,

512
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,000
put her in as a contributor to the game.

513
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:55,000
What she did for college basketball, for Virginia,

514
00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:00,000
what she did for the Olympics teams, what she did for the WNBA,

515
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:05,000
now what she's doing in coaching, she should be in the pro basketball hall of fame.

516
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,000
Definitely in the women's basketball hall of fame, for sure.

517
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:16,000
But she should be in Springfield in the pro basketball hall of fame.

518
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000
Point of late period, she's well on her way to being a GOAT.

519
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,000
She's not the GOAT, truly, and I said she was, but she's truly not.

520
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:26,000
But she is beyond well on her way to being this.

521
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,000
She's the modern GOAT.

522
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:37,000
To me, Pat Summitt, Gina Horaima, Tara Van De Ver, even truly Kim Mokie,

523
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,000
those people are yesteryear.

524
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,000
Still great accomplishments, still love and appreciate all of them,

525
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:49,000
but to me they're yesteryear in terms of their GOAT argument.

526
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:53,000
Dawn Stadons leaving the new school, she has no peers.

527
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:57,000
She's so dominant that she's being compared to the legends of yesteryear

528
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,000
because they're the only people that can talk and compare to her.

529
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:06,000
So that is what Dawn Stadons got going on South Carolina, very commendable to her.

530
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:14,000
And lastly, and finishing up on this topic or the women's side of it anyway,

531
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,000
I want to talk about Katelyn Clark.

532
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:20,000
Now you guys, if you listen to the show, listen to the audio show on a regular basis,

533
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:25,000
or you watch the YouTube show, the Doesn't Talk Boy podcast on YouTube,

534
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:29,000
of course we'll put the link in the description as well, just like we did last week,

535
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,000
but the link to the show is in last week's description.

536
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:37,000
Expect that next episode coming out sometime early next week,

537
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:41,000
but you guys have heard me talk about Katelyn Clark.

538
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,000
Okay, again, I'm not going to run through my basketball history.

539
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,000
You guys heard it, one of my women's basketball history.

540
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,000
I don't feel like I'm an expert in this topic,

541
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:53,000
but I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to know enough.

542
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,000
You know, I know what I know and I know what I don't know.

543
00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:01,000
Katelyn Clark, people want to put her in a GOAT competition.

544
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:07,000
Some of the people I named in that long list of things have multiple college titles,

545
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,000
multiple wooden awards.

546
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,000
Like, yes, they don't have the raw score of a Katelyn Clark.

547
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,000
Yes, they don't have the 30-foot bomb at all.

548
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:24,000
Yes, they don't have like an entire nation feeding out of their hands.

549
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:31,000
But they won a lot, and they won individually.

550
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,000
They won as a team.

551
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:38,000
Individually, they won all, a lot of good majority of them,

552
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,000
won wooden awards.

553
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,000
All of them, I think Tameka Johnson doesn't have one.

554
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,000
I believe Simone got one while she was at LSU.

555
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,000
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Simone got one while she was at LSU.

556
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,000
Maybe the LSU team was able to get them.

557
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:59,000
But a vast majority of the team, people I named, have wooden awards and national titles.

558
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,000
Again, the LSU girls do not have national titles.

559
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:08,000
But a majority of the LSU women, I'm sorry, do not have national titles.

560
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:12,000
But a majority of them I named have national titles, have wooden awards,

561
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:18,000
have these accomplishments in their careers.

562
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,000
Katelyn Clark has the wooden awards.

563
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,000
I can get that.

564
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,000
No national championships.

565
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:29,000
She lost two years in a row to SEC schools, one to Angel Reese and LSU,

566
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:35,000
year two to Camila Cardoza and the South Carolina Gamecocks.

567
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:39,000
Great player, all-time scorer, one of the legends in the game,

568
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,000
one of the legends in women's basketball.

569
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,000
She deserves her jersey retired, which it is.

570
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:47,000
She deserves a statue outside of the arena, which I'm sure there will be.

571
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:52,000
I'm sure they may permanently mark where she made the record-breaking shot.

572
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,000
It was marked at one point, but it got rubbed off.

573
00:45:55,000 --> 00:46:01,000
People want to take pictures of the spot.

574
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,000
I legitimately believe she deserves all that.

575
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:10,000
If you want to go and rename part of the arena for her, do it.

576
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,000
She's that good.

577
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,000
She means that much to Iowa basketball.

578
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,000
She means that much to the state of Iowa.

579
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:21,000
She means she has meant that much to the women's college basketball game,

580
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:22,000
so she helped grow it.

581
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,000
But she wasn't the only one.

582
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,000
You had a lot of people contribute to the game.

583
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,000
The class 2020, to me, is responsible for the elevation of the women's games

584
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,000
to where it is now.

585
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:38,000
That class includes Paige Becker as the clear-cut best player in the class,

586
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:47,000
Kamen Brink, Angel Reese, Camila Cadoza, and Kaelyn Clark.

587
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:53,000
What further five could you possibly want in one high school class

588
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:57,000
in relation to this group is going to elevate the game?

589
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,000
No one else may not do it.

590
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,000
This group is going to do it.

591
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:05,000
There's no other class you could possibly imagine between those five,

592
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,000
at the time, young ladies, but those five women.

593
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:12,000
All four of them are going, and next level, Paige coming back.

594
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:16,000
But speaking about Kaelyn Clark, you have all these records,

595
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:22,000
you have all this stuff, and at the end of the day, you're ringless.

596
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:26,000
So how can I put you in a position where you challenge Brianna Stewart,

597
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,000
who has two wooden awards and four titles?

598
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:34,000
Maya Moore would have even had two wooden awards and three titles?

599
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,000
Put you up there with Candace Parker, who has a wooden award and a title.

600
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,000
Put you up there with Cheryl Miller.

601
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:43,000
Put you up there with Cheryl Swoops.

602
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,000
Put you up there with all these legends.

603
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,000
You got wooden awards. You get that. No titles.

604
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:57,000
And when you want to enter into a situation where you want to be a GOAT,

605
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,000
you don't have to have as many titles as Brianna Stewart.

606
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,000
She got four.

607
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,000
If it was about titles and wooden awards, Brianna Stewart in the argument,

608
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,000
she has two wooden awards and four titles.

609
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:11,000
That means in order to beat her, you have to have at least three wooden awards

610
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,000
and four championships.

611
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,000
She would be the only one to go for life.

612
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:18,000
So you don't have to have as many titles as Brianna Stewart,

613
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,000
but you got to come up with at least a wooden award

614
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,000
and probably two titles to get into the argument.

615
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,000
You know what I'm saying?

616
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,000
You got to come up with two of something and one of the other

617
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,000
in order to get into the conversation.

618
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,000
She got the wooden awards. She doesn't have the ring.

619
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:38,000
Amazing career. Very commendable career.

620
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:42,000
A career that put Iowa basketball on the map.

621
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,000
Put hell, put Iowa athletics on the map,

622
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,000
because the football team is a disaster.

623
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:50,000
Put Iowa athletics on the map and highlighted the women's game

624
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,000
and helped grow it to the casual fan.

625
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,000
So kudos to her for that.

626
00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:03,000
She had a pressure on her every single game that not many people could even fathom.

627
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,000
She kind of spoke about it.

628
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:09,000
That pressure of even her fellow senior teammates

629
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:14,000
when they were playing the round of 64 and 32 in Iowa,

630
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,000
the pressure that they felt to not lose in Iowa.

631
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,000
They didn't want to lose on the court.

632
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:26,000
So she's going to have to be carried a franchise at WNBA

633
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:31,000
and we'll speak about that a little bit more in Jack's high take.

634
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:38,000
But kudos to her for kind of getting an induction into it with Iowa.

635
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,000
On a few quick hitters,

636
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:48,000
John Calipari has left the Kentucky Wildcats program to stay in the NCC

637
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:52,000
but moves to the Arkansas Razorbacks after 15 years at Kentucky.

638
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:57,000
In his introduction, which was kind of funny, it was weird seeing him in red.

639
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,000
He's been in blue for over 20 years.

640
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,000
He was Memphis, was blue.

641
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,000
He was at Memphis with Degros, that was blue.

642
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:10,000
And then he goes to Kentucky, he switches out Memphis blue for Kentucky blue.

643
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,000
And now he's in red.

644
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,000
I mean, he was like bright red with a little Razorback on his head.

645
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:20,000
It was really weird to see him in red, right?

646
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:24,000
And he spoke about his press conference, a couple things just real quick.

647
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:29,000
Number one, he spoke about having a meeting with the roster.

648
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,000
He lied to say there is no roster.

649
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,000
He's not kidding.

650
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,000
They have one player.

651
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,000
Everybody else who graduated are transferred out.

652
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:42,000
They literally have one player.

653
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,000
So he made the joke about meeting with the roster.

654
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,000
There is no roster because he has one player.

655
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,000
And also he spoke about how it was just time at Kentucky.

656
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,000
They needed a new voice in the building.

657
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,000
They just needed a new story.

658
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:55,000
It was time.

659
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:56,000
It was 15 years.

660
00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:02,000
He won over 400 games at Kentucky, winning an Afton Tide with Anthony Davis and my kid, Gokras.

661
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,000
And he said it was just time to move on from Kentucky.

662
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:10,000
And I think the model, Kentucky had invested so much in the model

663
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:17,000
that even if he wanted to deviate from the model, people at Kentucky weren't used to the losing.

664
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:23,000
Because when you transition from building your program in the land of the one and done

665
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:30,000
to now all of a sudden pivoting and wanting to build less than one and done guys

666
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:36,000
and more guys that might stay like a UConn, two, three, four, even grad transfer in.

667
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,000
That takes about a year or two of transition.

668
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:48,000
So instead of going 25 and seven, like you always do or 26 and six, you might go 20 and 12

669
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:51,000
and go a couple of rounds at the tournament.

670
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:52,000
You might get in the tournament.

671
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:55,000
The big dance, it might be an FC team.

672
00:51:55,000 --> 00:52:06,000
But it's going to take you more than likely a recruiting class or two in order to get the different style of player in.

673
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:09,000
And I believe that. Oh, hold on.

674
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,000
Hold on. Hold on. I have to correct myself.

675
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:16,000
So earlier in the NBA segment, I said that this game was for the Tidebrook.

676
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,000
It is not. The Pelicans are four and out against the Kings this season.

677
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,000
My apologies to the New Orleans Pelicans.

678
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:26,000
I should know that as a Pelicans fan, but they are undefeated against the Kings this season.

679
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:32,000
So this game is not for the playing at and not for the Tidebrook at all.

680
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,000
My apologies to the New Orleans Pelicans.

681
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,000
But that's what I was saying.

682
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:41,000
It's weird for him being in red. He's got a lot of work to do.

683
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:46,000
I mean, the Calipari thing involves the heir to the Tyson chicken.

684
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,000
Tyson food, no, that means the Tyson chicken bites.

685
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:55,000
Yeah, the heir to the fortune is friends with Calipari, who helped lure him to Fayetteville

686
00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:04,000
and in turn also helped give Calipari the biggest NIL resource budget in college basketball

687
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:11,000
with over $5 million annually to NIL to be allocated.

688
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:16,000
For reference point, Kansas was the most expensive NIL team this season.

689
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,000
They were just over $4 million.

690
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:27,000
So that's an extra million dollars that Calipari has exposed again annually in Fayetteville

691
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:30,000
in order to get guys to come to Arkansas.

692
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:33,000
He may still a couple of Kentucky's recruits.

693
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:37,000
They are all requesting out of their letters of intent.

694
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:42,000
The school for the most part has been cooperative from what I've seen and letting them out.

695
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,000
Schools are not in the position of holding kids.

696
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,000
It creates bad reputations and all kind of stuff.

697
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:54,000
So the school has been real genius in letting those guys out of their letters of intent.

698
00:53:54,000 --> 00:54:01,000
And if you're the Kentucky, you have to get a coach in fast because you have to completely rebuild

699
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,000
your recruiting class from Jump Street.

700
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:10,000
Whether that's bringing your own guys in, whether that is deciding that you're going to try to keep the Kentucky guys,

701
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:15,000
whatever it is, you're going to have to rebuild your rotation from literal Jump Street.

702
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:23,000
So that is going to be intriguing for whoever becomes the new head person in Lexington.

703
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:32,000
That is all I have for the college basketball segment.

704
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,000
Because I guess I want to delve into it.

705
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:40,000
I'm going to get into it with Jack's high take, which is going to be about the WNBA.

706
00:54:40,000 --> 00:55:03,000
And this is the most important draft in the history of the WNBA.

707
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:08,000
Welcome back into the show.

708
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:15,000
And now we're going to talk about Jack's high take, which is going to be my take on the upcoming WNBA draft.

709
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:27,000
Being the single most important WNBA draft in the history of the league, the league that was conceptualized in birth in 1996.

710
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:31,000
This is the most important draft since its inception.

711
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,000
Yes, the first draft had legends.

712
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:36,000
Tina Thompson is the first player to ever sign a contract with the WNBA.

713
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:42,000
I believe Cheryl Swoops is the first player to ever be drafted into the WNBA.

714
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:46,000
Then there's been stars that have matriculated their way in.

715
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,000
You see Candace Parker, you see Maya Moore.

716
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:52,000
To me, the most important draft class prior to this was the three to see.

717
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,000
They were about a decade ago.

718
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:58,000
It was Brittany Griner, Skyler Diggins, and Elena Della Dawn.

719
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,000
It was fresh off of Brittany Griner winning a title at Baylor.

720
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,000
She comes out.

721
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:06,000
Della Dawn is the small school superstar.

722
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:13,000
If the transfer portal existed, she's probably at a UConn, NLSU, somewhere.

723
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:16,000
She's not at Delaware for four years.

724
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:20,000
It's on the table because I believe she's from Delaware area.

725
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:23,000
And she's really close to her family.

726
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:24,000
Leave us her system.

727
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,000
I'm not going to go too far into it, but she has reason to be near her family.

728
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,000
So maybe ultimately she doesn't.

729
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:34,000
But with NIL money, she may have gotten a million and a half, two million dollars a year

730
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:41,000
to go to a big school that would have gotten her family what they needed, basically.

731
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:47,000
So ultimately, and then of course, Skyler Diggins from Notre Dame, who made the Ninja headband.

732
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,000
I don't care what anybody says.

733
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:56,000
That should be, if Skyler Diggins had NIL money, she's one of, if not the richest people to ever have NIL.

734
00:56:56,000 --> 00:57:00,000
Because Nike would have given her the Ninja headband in a way.

735
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,000
And I'd given it to her, but given it to her.

736
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,000
She would have been marketing it for her, but she trademarks it.

737
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:09,000
She's the only person I've seen wear that headband.

738
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:13,000
She was the only person in college girls college basketball wearing that headband.

739
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:14,000
People wearing head wraps.

740
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,000
People may have worn different things trying to hold their hair back.

741
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:23,000
But as far as major female college basketball in terms of wearing something to protect their hair,

742
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:30,000
the head wrap from Skyler Diggins, the head, the Ninja headband, it became known in the NBA, was her thing.

743
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,000
She was the only person really wearing it.

744
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:42,000
She would have made a multitude of millions of dollars off of it, had she been able to, you know, market it and trademark it, et cetera.

745
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,000
But that was the most important class, right?

746
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,000
It was easily the most important class.

747
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:50,000
Those three came in, they were labeled as three to C.

748
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:54,000
It was the first WNBA class I remember being incredibly marketed.

749
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,000
They were marketed everywhere.

750
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:57,000
They were blasted and everything.

751
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:01,000
They were everywhere because everybody anticipated their arrival.

752
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,000
OK, you know, that was about a decade ago.

753
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:10,000
I don't remember the exact year, but that was a while ago, the three to C.

754
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:17,000
This class is about ten times more important than that.

755
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:20,000
And then that class didn't do much to go to the WNBA.

756
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:24,000
Brittany Griner is mostly known for the Russian incident.

757
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:27,000
Skyler Diggins is mostly known for her looks.

758
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:32,000
Anne-Laine De La Don is mostly known for being good at basketball.

759
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:37,000
But like for the most part, they didn't really move the needle.

760
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,000
The WNBA was still poorly marketed.

761
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:46,000
At the time, they were flushing out the old owners, the newer owners around, but they were flushing out a lot of the old owners.

762
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:47,000
It didn't grow.

763
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,000
The opportunity was there and they didn't take it.

764
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:52,000
Bad commissioner and whatever.

765
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:57,000
This class, however, thanks to the growth of college basketball and it started in the Wubble,

766
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:04,000
which the WNBA bubble, female college, female basketball grew in the world.

767
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,000
The ratings shot up for the W during the Wubble during COVID.

768
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:08,000
It was the only thing on TV, right?

769
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:13,000
So people watched, people actually enjoyed the game, people were social meeting about it positively, et cetera.

770
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:14,000
The game grew.

771
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:16,000
They had seen steady ratings growth.

772
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:18,000
Women's college basketball followed behind it.

773
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:21,000
Steady growth.

774
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:22,000
Right?

775
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:25,000
It matriculated up.

776
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:33,000
Then this class, this class 2020, this is the COVID class, absolutely explodes on the scene.

777
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:41,000
You have Paige Becker, who's one of the most highly rated recruits and highly touted recruits ever in women's college basketball.

778
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:45,000
You have Cameron Brink, a four and a half, five star recruit.

779
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:51,000
You have Kaelyn Clark, who probably is UConn's point guard if it's not for Paige Becker.

780
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:56,000
You have Angel Reese, who's a four and a half star going to Maryland.

781
00:59:56,000 --> 01:00:08,000
Now you have Camila Cadoza, the six foot seven monstrous from IMG, well this is IMG, but the six foot seven monstrous, Hayden South Carolina, right?

782
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:09,000
So this is the COVID class.

783
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,000
They're the class 2020.

784
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,000
So now they're HMWNBA, and then four of them are entering.

785
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:19,000
Paige decided to go back to UConn, unfinished business, along with, I think she wanted a chance to play with her team.

786
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,000
When they were mostly healthy, she was out.

787
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:23,000
When she was healthy, they were out.

788
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:25,000
So I think she wants an opportunity to play with her team.

789
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:31,000
Plus, she's doing a lot of great things in the community, utilizing her NIL money and her connections and her face, et cetera.

790
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:39,000
And plus, financially, there's no rush to the WNBA at all, right?

791
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:45,000
And so Paige has decided to come back to school.

792
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:48,000
However, the other four are entering the draft.

793
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:50,000
The WNBA is already started.

794
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:51,000
They're doing good.

795
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:55,000
And I like Kathy Engelbert, I believe is her name, the WNBA commissioner.

796
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:57,000
She's doing great already.

797
01:00:57,000 --> 01:00:59,000
What she's done, she's made a commercial called Rooki-Os,

798
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:03,000
where Brianna Stewart's eating Rooki-O cereal, introducing the rookies.

799
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:07,000
They're blasting all the star profiles.

800
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:10,000
And Jereese Cayman, Clark Camilla, Cadoza Cameron, Brink.

801
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:12,000
They're blasting them all over TV.

802
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:15,000
They're being glassed all over social media.

803
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:22,000
They are plastering the world as much as they can with WNBA draft, introducing these rookies.

804
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:32,000
They're also responding in kind with what they're giving in terms of what they're giving with Kaylin Clark.

805
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:37,000
I am not the world's biggest Kaylin Clark fan, though admittedly, she's entertaining.

806
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:42,000
But she's a lightning rod for popularity in America, especially in white America.

807
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:47,000
So what people are doing is that they are marketing towards Kaylin Clark.

808
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:52,000
For instance, the Phoenix Mercury have already produced an ad that says,

809
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,000
Goat versus Rook.

810
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:59,000
And it is a female silhouette that honestly looks like Kaylin Clark's silhouette.

811
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:02,000
On the poster with Diana Taurasi with Goat Across Her Chest,

812
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:06,000
and they're marketing the Indiana Fever game.

813
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:12,000
It's a safe marketing strategy because regardless if Indiana does something highly unforeseen

814
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:15,000
and picks somebody other than Kaylin Clark,

815
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:19,000
it's still the Goat versus the number one pick in their mind.

816
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:22,000
So it's not a bad marketing strategy.

817
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:30,000
The Las Vegas Aces have moved their game from the Fever from what I call the side arena,

818
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:34,000
which is a much smaller arena.

819
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:38,000
But they have moved them from a smaller arena into the bigger,

820
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:41,000
into the playoff arena, the T-Mobile Arena,

821
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:46,000
for the game against Indiana Fever as well anticipating a large crowd.

822
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:55,000
Right. And so the NBA is taking unprecedented measures to support the Kaylin Clark bonanza.

823
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:58,000
But they're also not ignoring the fact that they have an Angel Weez.

824
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,000
They're not ignoring the fact that they have a Camila Cadoza.

825
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:06,000
They're not ignoring the fact that they have a, man, brain crown.

826
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:09,000
They're not ignoring the fact that they have Cameron Brink.

827
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:12,000
They're not ignoring the fact that they have all these other stars.

828
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:15,000
They are doing a great job because they know, like I know,

829
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:17,000
this is the most important class I've ever had.

830
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:23,000
If this class busts out, there is a chance that the NBA may never recover

831
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:27,000
in terms of it will never elevate to the level that it should.

832
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:30,000
However, this class, the hits they've been their whole lives,

833
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:34,000
the NBA could be carried to a level not equal to the NBA,

834
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:38,000
but what people are looking forward to the NBA during the summer.

835
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:41,000
So that is what this class has on their shoulder.

836
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:45,000
They have the future and the vitality of the WNBA on their shoulders.

837
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,000
They carried it for women's college basketball.

838
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:52,000
They made it through. Angel and Kaylin wore heavy crowns specifically.

839
01:03:52,000 --> 01:04:00,000
But this class has the ability to alter the way the WNBA is seen around the world.

840
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,000
But that is all I have for you today.

841
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,000
I hope you guys have a great rest of your Friday.

842
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:12,000
I'm excited that you're listening to this and your weekend is right next door.

843
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,000
I'm excited that you are listening to this and you know,

844
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,000
you're potentially already enjoying your weekend.

845
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:21,000
However, whatever the case may be, I hope that you have a great rest of your weekend.

846
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:27,000
Look for the video show sometime mid next week.

847
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:30,000
We should be recording it sometime next Tuesday.

848
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,000
You should get that sometime next Thursday and Friday.

849
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:39,000
But of course, I'll remind you right before we record.

850
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,000
I'll probably do the audio show first.

851
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:43,000
But again, that's all I have for you today.

852
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,000
This is your host, Justin Jackson.

853
01:04:45,000 --> 01:05:04,000
Signing out.

854
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,000
See you guys next time.