00:00coach give me your recap again on the all-star game this past weekend um did you like it did
00:05you
00:06were you compelled by it did you like the format i know they're trying to do everything in their
00:10power to save this bad puppy but what were your takeaways on it you know what big dog i i've
00:17been
00:17saying for over two years that the only after watching the 2024 olympics i said the only way
00:23to save the all-star game is if you got usa versus the world because you know why folks you
00:28know what
00:28the biggest thing that these nba players have egos so now when you put the usa versus the world and
00:35then you got webby's trying to take over off the bat it just took the game up to another launch
00:41guys
00:41you saw basketball you saw effort and guess what you also saw you saw defense so on sunday they
00:49absolutely saved the also game now saturday night three-point shootout skills challenge at least you
00:56have the all the knicks all-stars but what did that show you by having dame little three-point
01:00contest you need the stars in these competitions right remember 88 jordan dominique right we talked
01:07about last week or bird in three-point shootout here's my proposal to the nba you look at these
01:13young stars and say one time within your first couple years we may ask you to be in the skills
01:18challenge or all-star game or something we need you to participate i want to see cooper flag in the
01:24you
01:24know the three-point i mean at the slam dunk contest i want to see darren peterson next year
01:30and the three-point shootout i want to see aj di banza in the slam dunk contest get the younger
01:36stars
01:37to showcase saturday night and then put the focus on sunday keeping usa versus world dan i think they're
01:44on to something how about this coach you want to implement that in their contracts then where
01:48you're making it mandated that these guys help promote the game a little bit more is that what
01:53you're suggesting that you know this could be potentially collectively bargained in the next
01:57agreement contract talks that you know you put that in there if you really care about the nba all-star
02:03game you make it a priority in these guys deals no yeah i think that they gotta look to consider
02:09it
02:10right because at the end of the day it's about all-star weekends folks it's about growth and promoting the
02:16game and i think that all-star saturday night with the young guys being involved is a chance to
02:21showcase them and allow that next crop of superstars to be headlined keishon johnson i thought it was
02:29keishon johnson i didn't know who that guy was and i was like oh yeah he went to arizona then
02:36i figured it out
02:36so my whole point is this give back and that's the key thing give back you play defensive all-star
02:44sunday you're giving back to the league you're giving them more notoriety it's the first time
02:48that we've talked about any all-star game and saying okay we actually like that we don't like
02:54the nfl pro bowl you basically got rid of it right there now it's like a i don't know flag
02:59football or
03:00sand football i don't know how they do with that with that competition but the nba may have figured it
03:06out lean on it use it and have these young guys promote the game let me take you to the
03:14uh to the
03:15eastern conference here are you we did this last week and i have to ask you again are you buying
03:20the
03:21pistons can they be a player in the they're playing lights out basketball that's an amazing job that
03:28bicker staff has done up there tell me are you buying them i'll tell you what as a nick fan
03:34i'm sure i
03:34don't know if i'm buying them but i'm scared of them because what they they took the next back to
03:39the back of the woodshed and they took all their damn lunch money so to me they got an issue
03:46and they
03:46and they have a they see new york and they smell blood but you also got to remember folks new
03:52york
03:52knocked them out last year new york's knocked out jb bicker staff when he was in cleveland this is about
03:57styles and fights new york does not look tough right now they got to get cat going scoring about five
04:03points game less than last year maybe he doesn't fit mike's brown's offense but i'll tell you this
04:08much kate cunningham just keeps playing like this forget about talking about top 20 or top 10 players
04:15in the world we need to have a talk ready for this kate cunningham could be and should be in
04:21the
04:22conversation for most valuable player this season wow love that out west okc and san antonio those are
04:30two teams you see in the western conference finals yes the only thing i can think it upset the apple
04:34card is minnesota i think and could take that game to another another level and i'll assume we're
04:40getting traded from chicago to minnesota is one of the sneaky transactions of the nba trade deadline
04:46a rugged defender can guard the point of attack secondary ball handler and could shoot it pretty well
04:51from deep i'll assume we're going to minnesota is a big time pickup for the timberwolves
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