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00:00Time for the Bob Ryan, Gary Tangway podcast here on CNS Media and as always we are brought

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00:28All right, Robert, Celtics, they have been up and down all season.

00:32That continued with the Bulls' win.

00:35Just some thoughts from you on the game.

00:37You know, they're doing a win-one-lose-one scenario now for a month, basically, after

00:45a 16-3 start and they're playing shorthanded right now and when you don't have Hauser this

00:52means that you only have one guy coming off the bench who's there to score specifically

00:57and that's Pritchard, who is doing his job.

01:00Pritchard continues to be a beacon of light on this team.

01:03That's fine.

01:04They do miss Hauser and Horford's not playing.

01:07They're getting a little more time from people, but the point is, they're teasing us now.

01:12They're officially annoying.

01:13You know, when you see them play like that last night, it angers you now.

01:16All right, why aren't we seeing this more often?

01:19You know, because last year we saw that all the time.

01:22You have to step back and take a deep breath and say, okay, they're not fully whole and

01:27no, it's hardly the only team in the league.

01:30Everybody's got injuries.

01:31I understand that.

01:32That's why you have to take everything at face value, you know, at that time and not

01:42worry too much.

01:43But that was Przingis.

01:45We just end with that.

01:46You can't ask more than the guy in the net.

01:51The guy was tremendous last night and it reminds you how important he is.

01:54That's all.

01:55And he says he's even not yet 100% feeling, you know, some nights he feels a little bit

02:00better than others, but he's not there yet and he's confident he's going to feel good.

02:03And of course, we all know that he's injury prone and you just hope that he doesn't trip

02:11over the foul line some night, you know, every time and, you know, and worry and hurt himself.

02:16But anyway, you want to see more like last night.

02:20Now, I'll say this.

02:21If they don't beat the New Orleans who are horrible, then we have every right to be angry.

02:28But they're not reliable yet.

02:31That's a word I love to use about them.

02:32They're not reliable right now.

02:34They're very iffy and that's who they are right now.

02:37It doesn't matter right now ultimately.

02:38It's what matters.

02:39Yeah, I'm just not comfortable with that.

02:42It's almost February.

02:43Yeah.

02:44Yeah.

02:45Let's turn on the jets a little bit, fellas.

02:47We're officially past the halfway point and, you know, the off the game should be at the

02:51half point mark, which it once was, but it no longer is.

02:55But anyway, so that's that.

02:56So it was almost wire to wire.

02:59It was pretty close to wire to wire last night and now, were the Bulls fully stocked?

03:06No.

03:07Zach Levine, who hit them for what, 36 last time?

03:10Right.

03:11Did not play.

03:12So you got to, you know, weigh that one in too.

03:15So for what it really meant.

03:17So if you want to get one great takeaway, we'll say Porzingis, yes, Porzingis was wonderful

03:22last night and if he can play two thirds of that, we'll be in good shape.

03:28Well, what's happening with the Celtics now, Bob, and we saw it against Houston, is that

03:32there are some players, Zach Levine being a prime example, is they circle the Celtics

03:37on their calendar and they're very capable of having a season high or a career high against

03:41them.

03:42That's what happens when people look to beat the King and that's something they have not,

03:46not as a storm, they have not weathered this year.

03:48Dylan Brooks certainly was exhibit A on that one.

03:50Yeah.

03:51No question.

03:52So that's a very good point.

03:53Yes.

03:54Yeah.

03:55All right.

03:56Moving right along now.

03:57You have some numbers regarding Jalen Brown and his chance to be an all-star.

03:58Yeah.

03:59I mean, I'm looking at the competition, okay?

04:02And I've identified 10 people that, 10 other guys, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 other

04:09guys, 11?

04:101, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

04:14Okay.

04:16And the frontcourt of this competition is Evan Mobley, Jared Allen, both from the same

04:21team, of course, Cleveland, and Pascal Siakam of Indiana, who I think is pretty much a lock.

04:31And Bam, okay?

04:32Bam.

04:33Bam.

04:34Bam.

04:35Bam.

04:36And the backcourt of this competition for a spot is Garland in Cleveland, Trey Young,

04:42huge league in assists, but is in great danger of not making this list due to his disappointing

04:50shooting percentages, mostly.

04:52Tyler Hero is having a better year than people don't realize, Lillard, Damian Lillard, and

04:59my guy, Maxie.

05:00I don't know how you can keep him out.

05:01He's averaging 30 points a game in the last 10.

05:03Granted, in the big hall, he's only shooting only, quote, unquote, 34% on threes and 43

05:09six overall.

05:11So that could be held against him.

05:13And then there's Bam, who's averaging, numbers don't really reflect this whole value, but

05:1815 points a game and 10 rebounds.

05:21Jalen Brown is averaging 23 points as we speak, six rebounds and 4.8 assists, shooting 45%

05:28overall and 32 on threes.

05:33But again, it's not always all about numbers.

05:36We know he can defend.

05:38We know his strong personality.

05:41We know he's got credentials because he's got a ring and he's got a finals MVP.

05:46And I will be a little surprised if he doesn't make it.

05:51I've seen a couple of other NBA writers making their choices and they've had him in the group.

05:58But I'm just saying, if he doesn't, the competition is pretty good.

06:04I think there are three, for me, you know, we're talking about seven spots, okay, that's

06:10five starters.

06:11By the way, the starters, for people who don't know, are Giannis, Tatum, Towns, Grunson,

06:17and Mitchell.

06:18Okay, those are the five starters.

06:20They need seven other guys.

06:22I'm going to, I think Moby's a lock.

06:24I think Kate Huntingham is definitely a lock.

06:26That young man is having a wonderful game year right now.

06:30I think Siakam is a lock.

06:33To me, Maxie should be a lock.

06:35And that's for sure.

06:36That's four.

06:37And then we got, that would leave him in competition with Garland, Allen, Trey Young, Tyler Hero,

06:44and Bam Adebayo.

06:47Given all that, I think he's going to make it.

06:50I think.

06:51I think he's going to make it too.

06:52But the NBA finals MVP and a person that was upset that he didn't make the Olympic team

06:57should not be in competition with Tyler Hero.

07:00Well, Tyler's a hell of a shooter.

07:02He's a hell of a player.

07:03Don't get me wrong.

07:04But if Jalen wants to be thought of at a certain level, like, and they're all, look, they're

07:10all heroes.

07:11They're all very good players, but you get what I'm saying?

07:13I think when all-stars, I mean, I've always said this a hundred times in any sport.

07:17And I, you know what, you're going to have, if he doesn't make it, you know what the verb

07:21and the headline is going to be.

07:22Oh yeah.

07:23It's going to be snub.

07:24Yeah.

07:25And that's an appropriate use of a word because it's not snub, it's tough choice.

07:29Tough choices.

07:30That's not a snub.

07:31That's a tough choice.

07:32There's going to be, there's going to be outrage somewhere by somebody.

07:37But Bob, based on what we've seen from him and the, we know what he's capable of.

07:43Should he be in a position of being snubbed?

07:45I say no.

07:46All right.

07:47Well, I, I, I would, I would agree to that.

07:50I think he's, when you've risen to the top of the mountain as he did last year, then

07:56I think that's, that that's your extra tiebreaker, maybe call it whatever you want to call it,

08:02the tiebreaker perhaps, you know?

08:05So, so that's that.

08:06So we'll want to find out, but we are, like Eddie Curry said, like Eddie Curry said, efforts

08:14are funny things.

08:15Sometimes you have it, sometimes you don't.

08:17I just thought of something quickly in my mind about finals MVP.

08:23We must congratulate one where he's going to have his jersey retired and that's Andre

08:28Iguodala.

08:29Oh yeah.

08:30Don't forget that he was an MVP in a, in a finals.

08:33Golden State.

08:34I mean, they don't win it without him.

08:36No, a heart and soul kind of player, you know, it's kind of like, it was an Al Horford kind

08:41of level player, you know, and, and he had a great finals and he made it and he's going

08:46to have his jersey retired, which I think is a nice thing.

08:50He was the other AI.

08:53In Philly, he was the other AI.

08:54Oh yes.

08:55Of course.

08:56Every time I see AI, how can you not think of, you know, the little guy who was always

09:03Allen Iverson who legalized palming, his legacy for basketball was he made palming legitimate.

09:09And I'm telling you, it's true.

09:11He got away with it more than anybody now.

09:13What's that?

09:14Kids walk up to him.

09:15Oh my God.

09:16I hate it.

09:17I hate it.

09:18But anyway, AI, that's AI for me.

09:20Is, uh, is Iverson a top 20 player of all time?

09:24I think it's going to be top 20.

09:26I'd have a hard time.

09:28He's not top 10.

09:29No, my God.

09:30No, no.

09:31But he's 20.

09:32He said, yeah, I think it's a good argument could be made.

09:34He was a tough, really as tough a competitor, not competitor, physically tough.

09:41He put his life on the line.

09:42Every time he went to the basket, he wasn't a big guy.

09:45He took, he took a pounding.

09:47He did.

09:48He was gutsy.

09:49You know, there was a lot to like about him and he, he, he had a huge following.

09:54He had a huge following.

09:56Kids loved him.

09:57Oh yeah.

09:58He loved him.

09:59I would say in his time, the only guy beloved by the youth of America who cared about NBA

10:04more was Kobe himself.

10:06I think.

10:07Oh yeah.

10:08There's no doubt.

10:09He was a fan favorite.

10:10But I think that AI was, was a fan of, you know, he's got that going for him too.

10:14Okay.

10:15Talking about practice, Bob, we're talking about practice.

10:17Great.

10:18Talking about practice.

10:19Yeah.

10:20Okay.

10:21He and Jim Moore.

10:22Yeah.

10:23Yeah.

10:24Yeah.

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12:36The 10 minute quarters has been tossed out, which I can you, why?

12:41Here's the explanation given by Adam Silver, who floated this in a radio interview.

12:47Quote, putting aside what it would mean for records and things like that.

12:52Yeah, I think that a two hour format for a game is more consistent for modern television

12:58habits.

12:59Silver later adding, I don't think most fans would be disappointed if it was a two hour

13:05presentation.

13:06This is the first time I've ever heard this proposed.

13:10He's out of his mind.

13:11No, no, no, no, no, no.

13:15If he's worried about the two hour presentation and they can't go backwards.

13:19But the problem, we all know the final two minutes of an NBA game can last as long as

13:24a quarter, right?

13:25It goes on forever.

13:28It's the third ref.

13:30It's the third ref.

13:32If we had two refs, there wouldn't be as many whistles.

13:35You let them play, you're fine.

13:37But the third ref, it's just being like a wingman on a date.

13:41You feel left out, you got to make a call.

13:46That's the problem.

13:47It's funny you mentioned that because my longtime theory, I'm not in total agreement with you,

13:51but we're thinking in the same general lines.

13:53I have said for years, the difference between three referees in the NBA and three referees

13:57in college is that the referees in the NBA, they're on a contract.

14:03They're not reffing game to game.

14:06It's a rule.

14:07They're on a contract.

14:08They're going to play.

14:09They're going to work.

14:10If they stink and they get thrown out at the end of the year, that's one thing, but they're

14:13going to have a job.

14:14They're going to referee tomorrow night, okay?

14:17College?

14:18Uh-uh.

14:19Conferences?

14:20You might have a contract with a conference, but at any point, I think three college referees

14:27or I call it a referee by egg timer.

14:31If I haven't made a call in X minutes, I'm going to find something because it'll be easy

14:36to find something off the ball.

14:38I want the conference commissioner to know I was on the job and let people know you're

14:44there.

14:45I mean it.

14:49You're saying you think that's the case in the NBA, too.

14:54I think with the NBA, your point is right that they're on the contract, but I look at

14:59it as ego.

15:00I just don't think they need three refs.

15:03Never have.

15:04Never believed in it.

15:05I think that's what slows down the game.

15:07Well, I think two good refs are a lot better than three bad ones.

15:13No question.

15:14I mean, Bob, did you, Bob, in all your years of covering the sport and you knew some of

15:19the great refs, Kerritson and Rudolph and Joey and all them.

15:23Did you ever sit there and say, damn it, we need another ref?

15:27Never.

15:28Never.

15:29It broke in.

15:30We had the Hall of Famers of Mindy Rudolph and Richie Powers and John Vannick.

15:38I mean, on and on, you know, and Jake O'Donnell, Jack Maggie, you know, yeah, you know, yeah.

15:44No, they held, you know, the night that the famous Dr. J and Larry Scuffle, you know,

15:54Jack Madden got hurt in the first period and Dickie Bevetta had to referee the whole game

15:57by himself.

15:58And, you know what the players did?

16:00The players, they adjusted to, they tried to make the life easier for him that night.

16:06They didn't do some of the borderline things, the stupid things anyway.

16:11And by the way, Dan Shaughnessy had one of the great lines ever about Dick Bevetta, who

16:19had yet to acquire his reputation, you know, he said, having Dick Bevetta referee that

16:25game was like putting Barney Fife in charge of the Hill Street Precinct.

16:29So for those of you younger people, the Hill Street Precinct was a wonderful cop show back

16:36in the 70s.

16:37Oh, Bosco.

16:38It was Bosco's first show.

16:39And you know, hey, here we go down Tangway's, Tangway's Tunnel, David Milch was a writer

16:44on that show.

16:45Yes.

16:46Loved Hill Street.

16:47Well, I guess now I've got, now the theme song is running into my head.

16:52Even, I just lost, David Milch was a writer on that show and the creator of the Sopranos.

16:57I just.

16:58Oh, I know.

16:59I know.

17:00I know.

17:01I know.

17:02I know.

17:03Okay.

17:04I read the book.

17:05He was a, he was a writer on Hill Street.

17:06David, David.

17:07Well, Dan gets credit for one of the great lines.

17:08Yeah.

17:09It is a great line.

17:10Yeah.

17:11So anyway, we, Silver, this is the only place, it stays in the New York Post, give me credit.

17:16I haven't seen this anywhere else, but it's from a radio interview.

17:19And naturally the first, it was not, it did not go over well with either Mike Malone or

17:25Tom Thibodeau.

17:26They were quoted in here.

17:28Certainly not.

17:29Oh, I like it.

17:30Malone said, I hope we don't go to the four point line.

17:32I hope we don't become Barnum and Bailey where we're just having to do whatever we have to

17:36do to keep viewership.

17:37The point of this is apparently the ratings are down on television, although the tendencies

17:42are not, you know, real people spending real money to see the NBA.

17:48It's doing fine, but TV ratings appear to be down.

17:52I'll tell you why the TV ratings are down, and this is, this is where Adam Silver is

17:57making a mistake in, I see it, I see it in corporate America, sit down, Bob, I'm going

18:07to be a while.

18:08I see it in corporate America.

18:10I see it everywhere.

18:12People are cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, as opposed to improve, improve, improve, improve, improve.

18:18What they want to do is they want to cut budgets because they want to increase profit, but

18:22yet they decrease the value of the product.

18:25You see this in education across the board.

18:27It's a major problem.

18:28It's a major problem.

18:30Furthermore, what Silver wants to do, because I know the ratings game is he wants to have

18:34the ratings higher because he'll have less of a sample.

18:38So the ratings will be higher.

18:39Obviously, if there's more of a sample, the ratings could be lower.

18:42So he wants to say, he wants to take off eight minutes to have a higher rating.

18:47Well, the reality is, is while I love the game and you love the game is right now, the

18:53game doesn't have a true number one superstar.

18:58Like there's no LeBron, even if there's LeBron, but he's on the back nine.

19:03He's still great.

19:05But now you have a plethora of guys.

19:08You have, you have a, I mean, we talk about it on any given night, Bob, you can turn on

19:13a game and see a great player, but the point is for the average fan, they want to identify

19:19with the one name guy, Larry, Magic, Michael, Colby, LeBron, you know, and the guys in Dallas

19:26and Denver, they don't do commercials.

19:29They're not into that stuff.

19:31You know, they're not.

19:34They're great players, but they're not celebrities.

19:36No, no, we don't have to say what I'm saying.

19:39They're not celebrities.

19:40Like LeBron was a celebrity.

19:41Michael was a celebrity.

19:42I mean, we're talking about guys that hosted Saturday Night Live.

19:47Michael Jordan.

19:48I mean, come on.

19:49With Spike Lee discovered there was Michael Jordan, you know, would have been answer was

19:53for both of them.

19:54He made, you know, he made a cartoon with Bugs Bunny.

19:57The point is, is the NBA right now doesn't have that guy, even though basketball fans

20:02like you and me see all the talent.

20:06We see the parody, right?

20:08But like, you know, Tatum's not Tatum is not that guy.

20:12We like him.

20:13This thing is because he's definitely the most popular player amongst kids, you know,

20:19is Curry closest thing, closest thing.

20:23And they're not good.

20:24But he's not.

20:25He's not Pat Mahomes.

20:26Exactly.

20:27He's not Pat Mahomes.

20:29He's not Brady.

20:31In a boredom.

20:32Yeah.

20:33I mean, he's not Pat Mahomes.

20:34You just said it like Mahomes superstar, right?

20:37The NBA doesn't have that Hollywood guy.

20:42They got great players.

20:43Don't get me wrong.

20:44I think the talent level in the league is phenomenal.

20:47I think the quality of the play is phenomenal.

20:50But the NBA does not have the red carpet sizzle that it did before.

20:55You know, one of the things, you know, at the top of the list are international players.

21:01And one of whom, Joe Kitsch, absolutely does not want any part of any of this.

21:05He just wants to.

21:06That's my point.

21:07Like if that guy, if he had a PR agent and he was doing commercials and he was joking

21:12around, maybe, but he doesn't want to do it.

21:15No, I think who would like to do it is Embiid.

21:19But you know.

21:20Great.

21:21But their team's not doing great.

21:23He would fancy himself.

21:25You know, I think he would like to assume that role.

21:26He's not even.

21:27He never will.

21:28He's not close to it, but he would like it, I think.

21:30He'd be good at it, too.

21:32You know, I don't.

21:33Giannis.

21:34You know, Giannis.

21:35I don't know.

21:36He's somewhere in the middle.

21:37He doesn't want to do it either.

21:38You know, he doesn't want to do it.

21:39Like I got.

21:40And he's having a good year.

21:42I'm such a jerk.

21:43I keep forgetting about Milwaukee.

21:45I keep forgetting about them.

21:46They're doing better now, by the way.

21:47They are.

21:48But like, how could I forget about Giannis?

21:50I mean, I'm talking about the days when, you know, Bird, Bird and Jordan were doing a McDonald's

21:57commercial from the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago.

22:01You know.

22:02Yeah.

22:03And the league doesn't have it.

22:04No.

22:05That's why.

22:06That's Adam's problem.

22:07And what he wants to do is he wants to increase the ratings by decreasing the product.

22:15He's pointing out.

22:16My GPA would have been higher in college if I took three courses instead of five.

22:22He's pointing out that the international game is 40 minutes and a college game is 40 minutes.

22:28Guess what?

22:29Fine.

22:30His game is better.

22:31All right.

22:32His game, his product is better.

22:34No, it's just a foolish thing.

22:36I hope it's just gets completely there's no way you can do that.

22:40I mean, it's the NBA.

22:41It's the best players in the world, period, 48 minutes.

22:48That's what it is.

22:49I, I, I, long ago, well, I learned about the NBA when I started covering the NBA as a lifelong

22:56college fan.

22:57But was the NBA was not set first primary for me when I started.

23:02Right.

23:03Right.

23:04Take me too long in 1969, 70 to, you know, oh, my God, this is so much better.

23:09This talent, this, this game and, and, you know, and, and at the, this, I learned that.

23:16And so I started preaching a gospel about the NBA, you know, I mean, I became an evangelist

23:22about how good the NBA is.

23:24And I said, look, I love college ball.

23:26I still love college ball.

23:27I'm going to plan to go in the final four, my 33rd or 4th, whatever it'll be.

23:31I don't know.

23:32I've been going to so many.

23:33I love it.

23:34I like it for a lot of reasons.

23:35But it's the, I say it is the high grade sirloin and the NBA is the steak is the sirloin steak,

23:41but it's the high grade sirloin burger is the college and the NBA at its best is this

23:46is the sirloin steak, the lobster, whichever is your preference.

23:49Fine.

23:50That's the fact of the matter is.

23:52And I say this too, every year, every year in the NBA, there are at least 50 games and

23:58it doesn't matter whether it's the Celtics and the Lakers in 1986, or whether it's, it's,

24:05it's New Orleans and Washington tomorrow night.

24:08All right.

24:09It could, the game is such a high level and so that if you walk and put that game in a

24:16college atmosphere with the bands and the cheerleaders and all that, okay, you'd walk

24:22out of that arena and say, that's the greatest game I ever saw in my life.

24:26No doubt.

24:27Putting these games on 50 times a year and everywhere from across the globe, across the

24:32country.

24:33That's a fact.

24:34My kids are after me to take them to a Celtics game.

24:37Got to go to a Celtics game.

24:38Got to go to a Celtics game.

24:39My schedule is a little crazy, a little up in the air.

24:43So it's going to be a last minute thing.

24:44So, you know, I would, I just go to my game time app, click on Celts, pick out some great

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24:50All right.

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26:18I just, I love this story.

26:20I'm kind of wedging it in here, but when Scalabrini did a promotion for a Toucher & Rich where

26:30he took on like five regular guys who had played some college ball, you know, because

26:37the whole thing that Scal was saying in the interview, I think, and Scal's a personality,

26:43you know, he's never going to get the credit.

26:45Look, if you play in the NBA, all right, you're a pretty damn good player.

26:49But Scal's a personality.

26:50We know that.

26:51And he, you know, the Celtics, he didn't play a whole lot.

26:55But like Scal was saying, you have no idea what it takes to play in the league.

27:00And he took on like these five guys and he beat all of them, 20 zip, like just destroyed

27:04them, you know, guys that had played in college, whatever.

27:07And he, and they, and Toucher & Rich did this thing on it.

27:10And that's just the point is that you have guys that were terrific college players that

27:15can't make it in the league and you're right.

27:18They should not change the time.

27:20That really disturbed.

27:21Get rid of one of the refs, but do not change the time.

27:25I hope we never have to have this discussion again.

27:27I agree.

27:28All right.

27:29Now.

27:30All right.

27:31And now you have a, let's start this segment with your magazine cover.

27:34Okay.

27:35Just so happens that I have at my disposal, laying around in my living room, the Sports

27:40Illustrated basketball preview for 23-24 for last season, 22-23, excuse me, 23-24.

27:48Yeah.

27:49Sorry.

27:50This is 24-25.

27:5125.

27:52Right.

27:53And cover boy is Jimmy Butler.

27:54And he was quote, their guest editor.

27:56They had him pick various things and they do a big feature on Jimmy Butler and it's

28:01called the NBA's most interesting man.

28:04So some of the things that you glean from the piece about who is this guy?

28:09What makes Jimmy Butler tick?

28:11Okay.

28:12Well, first of all, a guy who is not, his whole life isn't basketball.

28:17Okay.

28:18This isn't a guy who eats, sleeps, and drinks basketball.

28:20When he gets, puts on a uniform, when he goes into that gym, yeah, it's all basketball.

28:26And he's highly competitive as you can imagine.

28:28And he's one of these guys, and you hear this about people, all the people tell you he's

28:33competitive at table tennis, he's competitive at cards, he's competitive at domino.

28:39That's common.

28:41That's common.

28:42That doesn't distinguish him from countless other guys and athletes in all sports, domestic

28:48and international.

28:49But he's one of them.

28:50He's highly, highly competitive.

28:52He hates losing more than almost anyone that likes winning.

28:56That's not that uncommon.

28:58But the guy wants to live a life outside of basketball.

29:02And first of all, did you know he owns a coffee company?

29:05No.

29:06He is a coffee freak, and he has made it a business.

29:10The business is called Big Face Coffee.

29:12He founded this company in 2020.

29:15And one of the things he did in the summer of 2022 was go to Columbia, and go to his

29:22famous farm where he was learning the process of cupping, which I couldn't describe it,

29:28but it's an important process in the growth of coffee.

29:31And the farm is called La Palma y el Pucan.

29:35And he is the CEO of Big Face Coffee.

29:41And you can go Google it.

29:44Check out Big Face Coffee.

29:45Go Google it.

29:46Okay?

29:47So that's one of the things.

29:48And one of the things he does in the article is list three of his favorite coffee shops

29:52in America, one in New Orleans, one in Charlotte, and one in Philadelphia, and what he likes

29:58about the coffee shops.

30:00Did you know that he is a friend of Neymar, and he is a friend of Carlos Alvarez?

30:09Soccer players?

30:10Carlos Alvarez, tennis.

30:11Tennis.

30:12Tennis.

30:13Neymar, the great Brazilian soccer player.

30:16And they're friends.

30:17And he likes soccer.

30:18He loves tennis.

30:19And one year, he, according to this piece, and he was a ball boy, you know, jokingly,

30:26but he did it for a while at the U.S. Open Tennis.

30:29He served as a ball boy.

30:32How long he did it for an hour or a set, I have no idea, but he did it.

30:39And his social life is, as I just pointed out, his friends are guys like Neymar.

30:46His closest friends are outside of basketball.

30:50But he is a good teammate, according to his teammates, when he shows up, when he's not

30:55whining about not playing or anything.

30:57But after the Celtics, remember the Famous two years ago, the Famous game six, when Derek

31:02Weitz made that play at the end of the game to keep the series alive.

31:07And yeah.

31:08And then they lost, after that game, Max Struss, who has since moved on to Cleveland, but Max

31:16was distraught.

31:17I guess he had a role in screwing up or something.

31:19He was distraught.

31:21And the guy who went in and put the arm around the shoulder and gave him the we have pep

31:24talk and said, we'll be back and don't worry about it.

31:26You'll be fine, was Jimmy Butler.

31:28And he said, Max Struss said, I was in a dark place after that game, and he was the

31:33reason why I was able to get out of it.

31:35So he is capable of that kind of team play.

31:40All that.

31:41Oh, and the country album, he's written 40 songs.

31:44Did you know that?

31:45I didn't know that.

31:46And I haven't stumbled upon any of those songs.

31:49But this is what.

31:50I don't think they made the Hot 100.

31:52All right.

31:53So, oh, and the Godfather, Kyle Lowry is his daughter's Godfather.

32:01How about that?

32:03So so obviously he's beloved in the circle that he doesn't.

32:06He's complicated.

32:07There's something he can only stay in a place so long, it seems.

32:11And he's he's he's got it, but he's really succeeded in distinguishing himself for the

32:16wrong reasons.

32:17Right.

32:18You know, he's going to be.

32:19That's what we focus on.

32:20Well, people focus on the bad stuff.

32:24When he retires and he will go to the Hall of Fame.

32:26I mean, I can't see how he can't.

32:28OK.

32:29He will still be remembered for a lot of people as much for disruption and leaving Chicago

32:35in bad terms, leaving Philly in bad terms.

32:38Whenever he gets out of Miami and it could be, you know, the trading deadline isn't coming

32:42up to us and something could finally happen somehow, some way, he's going to be remembered.

32:47And, you know, it's sad.

32:48You don't want to be remembered as much for that or when you're that good a player as

32:52he is and still is still can play.

32:56He's thirty five and he may not be exactly what he was two or three years ago, but he's

32:59still whoever his story is far from over.

33:03Somebody might pick him up and he could be the catalyst to get them into a playoff run

33:08that they wouldn't have had otherwise.

33:10That could happen.

33:11I'll be very anxious to see how this thing plays out.

33:13Now, as far as what the deal is between he and Wiley person, apparently it goes deeper

33:18than professional somehow here.

33:21You know what I mean?

33:23I guess.

33:24I don't know.

33:25Who knows?

33:26There's something going on there, you know, with Wiley and him that I think it transcends,

33:28you know, basketball or the humongous contract.

33:31Hey, they gave him the contract, so I don't know what the hell with that.

33:34But yeah, I yeah, I don't.

33:36He's just I'm a fan.

33:39I'm a fan.

33:40I would, you know, if I had to check a box one way or another, I'm a fan.

33:44But there's the guy.

33:45He's an interesting, you know, if he's not the most interesting guy, I think he's certainly

33:49one of them.

33:50You know, with with great players or people of great ability, sometimes comes complexity

33:55for whatever reason.

33:56You know, it's just whether you see it in art, music, acting, writing, however you want

34:03to.

34:04Someone is very smart in the science or there's always some instability or something that

34:11goes off or some something that that kind of that kind of goes along with it.

34:17You know, I mean, even like guys like, you know, I'll just stick with the NBA, even guys

34:21like Larry could be, you know, he had his way and that was it.

34:24Magic is always a happy go lucky guy, even though I've always said nobody can actually

34:28be that.

34:29I want to exhibit a for the NBA there was a true greatness and and complexity with Michael.

34:36I mean, Michael, absolutely.

34:37And Russell.

34:38Michael Russell.

34:39Oh, yeah.

34:40And Michael's a complicated dude.

34:42Oh, yeah.

34:43Hey, some Russell exactly.

34:46And he acknowledges he always acknowledged it and said, I heard it from his own lips

34:51that it's well known that he wouldn't have become the NBA success to the degree that

34:56he was if he weren't playing for red.

34:59The red hour back was for him, you know, and, you know, red was red was not a one way, my

35:06way or the highway.

35:07There being only one highway guy, red, you know, saying red red had different rules for

35:12different people.

35:13And but when you had a rule for different people, you know, he never he would never

35:17yell at Russell.

35:18He would never yell at Cousy.

35:20But he yelled at Tommy.

35:21Tommy knew how to take it.

35:22He knew Tommy.

35:23He knew that Tommy got it, that Tommy got what that was all about, that it wasn't personal.

35:29It was professional.

35:31You know, make it Tommy, a professional scapegoat, that then Tommy, you know, Tommy kind of shrugged

35:36it off, you know.

35:37But anyway, yeah, Russell was very complicated man, as we know.

35:41Yeah.

35:42It's just something about it.

35:43I think you look at when you see genius in many, very in various areas, I think the complication

35:47goes with it.

35:48The best but the best scapegoat story, though, I I just love is from the 80 Olympic hockey

35:54team where Brooks told Michael Roussioni if I'm if I'm say if I say a Roussioni, I'm talking

35:59to the team.

36:00I'm talking if I say, Mike, I'm talking to you.

36:03Oh, that's great.

36:04So I was like, like a Roussioni with Jesus or Roussioni, Roussioni, because you're the

36:10team whipping boy.

36:11But well, that's psychologists.

36:14That's a that's a supreme psychologist at work.

36:16And that's what it was with these guys.

36:18When it comes to pro sports, man, and especially basketball, which is not a complicated game.

36:24You know, I think the most successful coaches were the best psychologists.

36:26I think that Phil Jackson, whether Celtic fans like him or not, tremendous.

36:31Pat Riley.

36:32Phenomenal.

36:33I mean, you can only game plan so much.

36:36Oh, no, it's it's it's whatever you're getting them to buy your message, you know, by what

36:45you're selling.

36:46And they do that.

36:47You know that the people are individuals and you have to have different gears to shift

36:52into to be really successful.

36:54And guys who don't have it can only go so far, I think, you know, so, you know, always

36:59a pleasure, my friend.

37:00We'll talk to you again next week.

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