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00:00Steve Kerr was asked by us yesterday, is it realistic to build around someone who's about to be 37?
00:05He says yes, and then the answer takes even another turn. I think the answer to that is
00:12Yes, it's realistic. This is a once-in-a-generation
00:16Player and athlete he's superbly conditioned. We just watched him two and a half years ago carry us to the title
00:24This is Steph Curry's team and he's still an all-star
00:27You saw him in the Olympics this past year
00:30It's our job put him in a position where
00:34We're in the playoffs and we give him a chance with the best group around him the best schemes the best coaching the best
00:41Training staff and that's the focus and Warriors fans know really well that guys like Steph don't come around very often
00:49You know, we went 40 years between titles from 75 to 15. So we have Steph. He's still playing at an elite level
00:56We we have to give him every resource to try to take us home again because we've watched him do it four times
01:03So that's why we're doing what we're doing. It's very clear to me
01:06He said it two different times in there. Our job is to help Steph and to me it was concise
01:12It was clear and you notice he did not qualify
01:15Our job is to help Steph within reason our job is to help Steph with an eye on the future
01:20Our job is none of that our job is to help Steph right now period let's move on
01:27I wonder how the one sentence resonated up in the corner office when Steve says it's Steph's team and
01:34Joe Lacob is listening to that cut going. Hold on just a minute here Steve
01:39I believe it's my team and it's my timeline
01:42So well, it is Steph's team to the extent that he's the leader and he's a generational player and all that
01:48But there is a piece of it where the owner has a say in what they know
01:52It's a fair point and Steve Kerr is talking from a space of I'm probably out of here in two or three years, too
01:57Yeah, although you kind of you didn't press him on it, but you followed up with that
02:00He's like, I'm not I'm not getting into that. No, which is not a no. No, I'll be here for another 10 years
02:05Yeah, I mean he has said a number of times like new voices are needed at times. There's a shelf life on all of this
02:12I would not be surprised if Steve exit with Steve Kerr at all
02:16and if Joe Lacob truly does believe that then color me worried for five years from now if
02:24Joe Lacob believes that he's the draw if Joe Lacob believes that he can conduct business the same
02:30Without Steph as he can with I'm worried. I'm worried. I don't think that he thinks that I don't know
02:37What's the time he is the owner and he's going to be here long after these all these people aren't he's going to hire a
02:44New coach he's going to have a new best player
02:47He won't be Steph's level most likely but he's gonna have to do that
02:51He's gonna have to fill out a roster and fill the building and so that has to be something that he thinks of no question
02:57However, if we get down to something where the Warriors believe here in a month
03:01Hey Joe, we got something. We got something that we really think can help this year and Joe's answer is
03:09um, I
03:10Have 2028 to think about
03:13Yeah, I don't think he'll do that I hope not well he he's never has in the past
03:17He's been here for big swings and they made big swings. They've taken big swings and a lot of them have worked
03:25Let's take some calls on this. Well in the East Bay. Hey, well, what's up?
03:29Good to talk to you guys. Happy holiday. Once again to you as well. I thought something up. Thank you
03:35I thought something else in that message, you know, and that is we got a guy Steph Curry
03:42When the Olympics along with LeBron single-handedly brought that gold medal home, but we saw the capabilities of these guys
03:50at a
03:51advanced age
03:53Point being you take cominga and you take
03:57You know moody and pod and these guys, you know that they've been coddling and mentoring for the last few years
04:04Well, you know what that feeling just became a lot
04:07Lower. Okay, you take those guys in
04:11The equity and you take a chance on the Jimmy Butler you take a chance, you know on a on the guy
04:18for the Pelicans
04:21You know
04:22You know, you got to shake that tree, you know
04:24You got to rock that house sometimes and that's also the thing I got, you know from Steve
04:31I think you know, it's like enough enough said, you know, this train is leaving, you know
04:36You're either gonna produce or we're gonna use your equity and we're gonna go, you know
04:41For a couple of big hits out there and you know what? I think it's worth it. I
04:46Don't disagree. Yeah, well, thanks. I I don't disagree at all. The only thing I would add is this
04:54Don't just take a swing just to take a swing
04:57I am only in favor of this if the smart basketball minds are like no no
05:03This will help us again the Zion question I have is oh great you can get Zion and keep coming
05:09Well, how many fours do you want on your Ross? Yeah, how does that work?
05:13But I think Mike Dunleavy has already shown his his mind to be a very smart basketball one
05:17I say the same thing for Steve Kerr and many of the others in the organization as well
05:21And if they see something out there and they really believe in their heart of hearts
05:27This makes the current team better this fits with Steph even better than my answer is do it
05:34Do it and I don't care what the cost is and I'm more open to the Zion thought I mean
05:40I was totally closed to it
05:41But the idea that his contract is not guaranteed for next year does make it feel like if he's healthy
05:47It could be a half a season rental and if the fit is there
05:51Then it won't cost you that much most likely to to go ahead and take a look for half a year
05:55And that's why I was asking him about
05:58Vucevich because that for me feels like the best kind of deal you could make if coming is not involved and you don't have to
06:04trade Wiggins, maybe it's a couple of your expiring guys and
06:09Some sort of a pick maybe not a first rounder
06:12Maybe it is a first rounder
06:13But you bring in a stretch five
06:15Who actually does fit because your point about Zion's a good one if you keep coming and dream on and now you have Zion
06:21You've got too many fours and even if you don't have
06:25Looney and you'd have to probably trade Wiggins in that deal
06:28Which you can't put you can't put coming at the three. He doesn't have the game right now
06:34That's what they're saying three. So hopefully coming is someday can be a three right now
06:39He can't shoot it well enough to be a three and I would hate to
06:42Have to part with Wiggins because of what he gives you on wing defense
06:45Yeah, and the the Butler thing I'm sort of with this is the only thing I do think about with
06:52future it's not about
06:54Giving up young assets and wondering if they're gonna be all-stars someday
06:57the Butler thing scares me just because of how expensive he would be going forward like
07:04What he's gonna you know as it was put to us last week. He's gonna show up with his handout and
07:09And and you know, he wants to be extended for many many many many many millions of dollars. That's the worry there
07:15I do think Butler fits if it's just an in the vacuum
07:20Conversation plug-in Jimmy Butler don't give up Jonathan Kaminga. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm in on that
07:27but where does it go next and
07:30Sort of like does that does that not help Steph as early as next year?
07:34That would be my question
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07:54Chris in San Jose next up. Hi Chris. What you doing?
08:03How you doing, what's up Chris I
08:07am I'm one of the many people in the Bay Area who is absolutely losing their minds over a
08:14Pothole on highway 680 that has delayed traffic for multiple hours. My commute takes about 60 minutes
08:21I'm on our three right now fellas. So what did I call it? Well?
08:27We're on 680. Are you because 680 has become a no-fly zone for me quite frankly
08:33Yeah, so 680 if everybody has a tip or needs a tip. There's a large pothole
08:39680 right at the Mission Boulevard entrance going southbound. They got two or three lanes closed down
08:45So it's a slog going. It's a slog going. You know well south of
08:49San Jose everybody's been trying to get off the freeways all the roads off the freeways are blocked. It's an F show gentlemen
08:59Good news Chris you've listened to all three hours of this show, huh?
09:02I
09:05Missed the first 20 minutes, but yeah, then near it
09:09You know you guys may get me through the drive, so I appreciate it always love listening to you my perspective on this curry
09:15Kaminga whatever thing I think the you know we know Curry's at the end of his road. We know that if they
09:24Wager the farm you know pick a minga pods, whatever we know there's no guarantee of winning a title
09:31We also know there's no guarantee of getting back to the success that we've had for the last decade if they
09:38Choose to keep the picks to keep the young guys
09:41Not necessarily go in on this all in on this year and try to rebuild it. You know live on that fringe
09:48I do think however that the better option is to
09:53Go all in for Steph like you guys are saying once in the generation player
09:57He's still got some tread left on the tires I agree with Dippers the roster is incomplete
10:03They got a lot of moves to make but hey if you're gonna go for it. Don't live on the fringe
10:08All in and worried about 2028 2029 when you get there. I love you guys. Thanks for getting me through the drive
10:16Let's have a great last hour of the show and have a wonderful Wednesday evening
10:22I just checked with the CHP and no joke the pothole will be repaired
10:27At one o'clock in the morning wait a minute. You just quote checked with the CHP
10:34Yes
10:35There's a website you can go to that gives you real-time
10:39CHP updates on every incident that's happening in the Bay Area. You know weird stuff
10:44I did I was a traffic report. I know any year. I know when you're a traffic
10:49While Chris was talking correct, okay?
10:52There's a website called the CAD and it tells you when it's gonna get fixed
10:56Yes, the ETO is 1 a.m.. This is one hell of a pothole, so it's uh it's two feet
11:03It's two feet deep. That's pretty deep, and it's I think a foot and a half by a foot and a half
11:07That's pretty big. That's a gigantic pot. Yeah, and so when an accident happens, and you call CHP
11:13There's a dispatcher that immediately logs the activity for example. There's a hazard right now north 680 at Ignacio Valley
11:20There's a car facing the wrong way in the gore point. What is going on here?
11:25Educating the audience there's a car facing the wrong way in the what the gore point the gore point
11:31You know when you go to exit the freeway, and there's the those six or seven
11:36Gigantic yellow barrels yes, that's the gore point
11:39I've seen people drive into those before and it would show up on a CHP website
11:43That's called the gore point called the gore point and those are called attenuator barrels
11:48They're just barrels to keep you from slamming into the actual metal that is at the gore just think what would happen to your sports
11:55Opinions if you removed all of this crap from your brain my sports opinions are on point
12:01No at the start of this show you were against the Warriors philosophy, and now you want Zion. No. I don't want Zion
12:07I said I'm more open to it. It doesn't involve
12:11And the fact that Zion is not on a guaranteed deal no new information
12:16One's opinion that's the information I got from Bobby Marks has changed my opinion slightly
12:22I still don't want Zion. Okay. I'm not saying it's too fat. He's not too fat. He doesn't play
12:27Why would you body shame him you should call him with your abundant life little?
12:31up at 527 and
12:34Yeah, maybe you're the guy to really make him cook perhaps, but this is more philosophical now fat red pumpkin
12:42Is philosophical this is philosophical I feel like we've made some some moves
12:48I feel like we started at the 20-yard line if I we you mean Bobby Marks. No. Yes, I mean you and me
12:53Oh, yeah, I feel like we are now at least at midfield
12:57I don't know if we're in field goal range yet, but at the beginning of the show you were concerned about the future well
13:03And the reason why you're less concerned about the future now if these trades don't involve
13:09Jonathan Kaminga, and if you can make a trade without
13:13Mortgaging a bunch of picks. I'm more open to it absolutely now if you want to talk specifics
13:18I'm still not in on Zion Williamson
13:21I do think it's intriguing that his deal is no longer guaranteed based on the fact that well
13:26He doesn't play basketball, so there's that he does sometimes. I watched him do it earlier this year played six games this year
13:32He played once against the Warriors. Maybe he played both those games
13:34Camera he played both cuz dream on one game really kind of shut him down, and I don't think he's played since
13:41I'm not really hot on the Jimmy Butler thing because I think that he is in a spot where he wants to get paid and
13:49If he comes here, and there's no extension
13:51He might just opt in for 52 million and that to me is not what I'd be looking for
13:57That's not how I want to spend my money
13:58I like that's the kind of answer where I just I trust the Warriors that would like they're not gonna put themselves
14:05In a vulnerable spot where they end up naked in the middle of the street true
14:08They're not gonna do that, so I don't think I don't get Jimmy, but those conversations can happen
14:13You can have those conversations about if this then what like what are we doing next you know?
14:18He's gonna have those questions, too. Why don't I opt out and you sign me? No, okay?
14:23Then I don't want to come you know what I mean like in that stuff that Dunleavy and the agent would talk about
14:28Sure sure they even got a trade
14:30Moving and the other ones like Zach Levine, please and Bobby Marks
14:34No, no, no name, and that's a non-starter name, and you know in Brandon Ingram
14:38He's also now hurt, and so he's not available now, but I like okay
14:44Quick aside that's actually not that far of an aside. Okay. This is just me talking now willing to be wrong
14:51But I think that Bay Area radio
14:54Should remove the words Brandon Ingram from their vocabulary
14:59Not happening not interested not the right fit. It's a no it's a no from me dog
15:05It's a no from them dog. It's a no
15:08No, I mean he he played for Steve Kerr right in the run-up to the Olympics
15:12I know he didn't play for so right right like he was on the team sure and Steve went
15:18That's a no from me dog right like it
15:23And you just heard it's not even I don't like the player
15:26This is the same sort of a thing it's a stylistic deal
15:29And it's not the right fit you heard Bobby Marks. Just say it an hour ago where he said I've heard absolutely
15:36Nothing linking the Warriors and Brandon Ingram, and if you're not linked to the Warriors right now good God
15:43Do you even play basketball?
15:45They've been linked to everyone who has shoes
15:48But they're not linked to Brandon Ingram even though everyone knows he's available. Why would that be they're not?
15:54Interested I don't know no no that yeah, but I've heard that in every corner of the universe
16:00So like I'm just that's just from me to you
16:05You can remove Brandon Ingram from this conversation
16:07I'm just trying to run through all the names as we get into big-game hunting
16:11And that's why I had to ask Bobby the requisite LeBron James question because I'm glad you did
16:16Yes, it's almost like sort of almost farcical. Yeah, and it's like I'm laughing to Bobby
16:22But you know stranger things will have happened
16:25But you notice the way people answer the LeBron James question
16:29And it's never about like well with the Lakers want to do this and with the Warriors
16:33And how does the money fit the reason I think all these reporters laugh?
16:37I wonder if everyone sort of has this same perception. I do
16:41Everything involving LeBron James is different than everything else
16:45LeBron runs the damn show whatever show it is you think we're talking about that's what he runs
16:51Anything involving LeBron is essentially up to him. He's earned that in this league
16:57He has that kind of juice you can disagree with it, but that's look at his career
17:02LeBron goes where LeBron wants LeBron leaves where LeBron wants LeBron will end up where he wants LeBron brings his family as necessary
17:10Like he's gonna get paid what he wants his family will sit where they want sometimes. It's on the bench with them
17:16LeBron is literally bigger than the game if LeBron wants to be a warrior it happens by tonight
17:24Tonight I mean that to me if we're gonna talk big-game hunting if you could get LeBron, and you would have to sacrifice
17:32significant pieces of the future that I could sign up for just for the absolute sideshow on it and I mean whether or not
17:39It would work a 40 almost 41 year old his birthdays in 12 days
17:43They would flex every game to national to TNT to Sunday night everyone
17:49flex every every warrior game is on three nights a week all other sports would have to be stopped and
17:55And everyone's watching warrior games. That's it
17:58You would have to take brawny because of course you will not only for the obvious reasons that he goes with LeBron
18:04But you need players you need bodies if because that would have to be a four or five for one
18:09So as Grandi mentioned last week of the week before you got to have a certain amount of rostered players to make this even happen
18:15Yeah, and again eight eight eight nine five seven nine five seventy is this the correct philosophy for the Warriors because I'm still sort of
18:22In that space I we're bringing up names. I get it. I don't think anything is imminent
18:27It doesn't sound like anything's gonna happen in the month of December at least
18:31Maybe not even in the month of January Bobby said it to us
18:3420 of 27 trades last year happened in the final days before the deadline. So this is still a ways away. I
18:42Simply I would love to continue to spend time with warrior fans
18:46Finding out what your comfort ability is because for example, you just said a few minutes ago
18:52You're more open to X idea in this case Zion Williamson
18:58If it means not giving up Jonathan Kaminga Bobby Marks even brought up the potential of Jimmy Butler without giving up Jonathan Kaminga I
19:07I
19:08Agree with you. I'd love to keep Jonathan and make a big swing
19:12But the philosophy is a little bit different and here's what I mean. I
19:18Don't necessarily want to give up Jonathan Kaminga, but I sure would
19:23If Mike Donnelly be Steve Kerr and the rest
19:27Steph Curry and Draymond Green all believe in their heart of hearts that what you are receiving back
19:32Makes you better this year gives you a better shot. It's just a philosophy
19:38It's it's are you all in for Steph or are you mostly in for Steph?
19:43I think you're mostly in for Steph, right? I think I'm all in for Steph
19:48That's and that like the whole discussion we've had today
19:51I would sort of sum up that way and that's a fair way to sum it up and I'm not only
19:57Mostly in for Steph because I don't think that they can do it either way
20:01but that is a big piece of it for me because even if you make a
20:06Big swing. I don't believe that a big swing is enough to make it worth your while
20:11I don't think you get over the hump with a big swing
20:13I would rather have you make a medium swing and see what that gets you because I don't think either way
20:19Big swing or no swing. I think you're kind of in the same spot
20:23Which is you're maybe the fifth or sixth best team in the West. You aren't as good as OKC
20:28You're not as good as a few other teams in the West
20:30I don't think that there's a move that gets you good enough to where you can make enough of an impact to where it's worth