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00:00You guys want an update from Steve Kerr pregame in Boston?
00:02I feel like if you're saying this on the air that we probably do,
00:06please don't tell me that Kristaps is a late scratch.
00:08No, not that at all.
00:09Okay, good.
00:10Did you guys catch that Porzingis when he scored 30 points the other night
00:13in Washington and played 26 minutes, the most he's played as a Warrior?
00:17I did catch that.
00:18So Steve Kerr pregame was asked about Porzingis' rising minutes limit,
00:21and this comes courtesy of Anthony Slater of ESPN.
00:24Steve Kerr said, quote, he's ready to start.
00:27He may even start tonight.
00:30Tonight, there's the update from Steve Kerr on Kristaps Porzingis.
00:32Which means that he is.
00:35Probably.
00:36Which means that he is.
00:37I mean, he holds it pretty tight to the vest when it comes to that lineup.
00:41Okay, can I just share something fun with you?
00:44Please.
00:44Isn't it crazy how fast the markets work?
00:49Because what do you think I just, like, Grandy's talking.
00:52What do you think that I just tried to go do?
00:53You tried to look at the Porzingis points over under for tonight on your underdog,
00:59and it probably is either off the board or jumped up to 19 and a half.
01:03That's a big padlock right in front of it.
01:05Kukush?
01:06Locked.
01:07It's locked.
01:08Now, as I'm looking at it below me.
01:10Because it got locked up.
01:11It just unlocked.
01:13But, I mean, that's how.
01:1419 and a half.
01:15Can you imagine?
01:16Just be a Steve Kerr or anyone.
01:19Any head coach.
01:21Shams.
01:22You're just like, I'm going to click this microphone on, and I'm going to say a sentence.
01:28And then the entire digital world is going to go, like, that, like, instantaneous.
01:35Or it could be Chauncey Billups and use that information.
01:38Well.
01:39That was mean-spirited.
01:40That was, and actually it was lightweight and erroneous,
01:43because what he's being charged with is being a part of a poker game.
01:47I don't believe that he's being charged with manipulating lines in that fashion,
01:51but I liked it.
01:52It's a three.
01:53Yeah.
01:53Thanks, Dibs.
01:54You're welcome.
01:54Yeah, more like Michael Porter Jr.'s brother, Jontay Porter.
01:58Yeah.
01:59Who purposely bet his unders and told his friends to do the same.
02:02There was some sort, sorry to derail everybody,
02:04there was some sort of that story where Chauncey Billups would tell his assistant coaches
02:07or his assistant coaches would tell people,
02:09and then bet unders when guys aren't going to play or aren't healthy.
02:13Yeah.
02:13Yeah.
02:14Huh.
02:15Yeah, and that's why I steer clear mostly of this,
02:19because, yeah, as Steve Kerr talks about it,
02:22all the markets are like, pause.
02:24Pause, pause, pause, pause.
02:26And then they hear the statement, and they're like, oh, minutes up.
02:29He might start.
02:30Let's go ahead and boost that up a little bit.
02:32I don't even know what the number is for Chris Stapps.
02:35It's probably, it's got to be like 19 and a half.
02:3816 and a half.
02:39Oh.
02:3916 and a half.
02:41In a revenge game?
02:42Yeah.
02:43And he's going to play more?
02:44I like the over-cuckoo.
02:46I know.
02:46That's why I'm trying to keep talking.
02:48I'm trying to do a thing over here.
02:50Well.
02:51I'm trying to do a thing.
02:52What I'll say is what I firmly believe,
02:55which is when you get to, like, these markets and the prize picks,
03:00and I shared with you earlier today, Mark, my prize picks for tonight,
03:04which is on the play-in game,
03:06because nobody knows a damn thing about Miami of Ohio, SMU, or Prairie View A&M.
03:14Count me among those who don't know a damn thing about it.
03:16Count me among those who actually knows a lot about them.
03:19And so, when you do those deep dives, for example, if you play for Prairie View A&M,
03:24this is the biggest day of your life.
03:26You have a chance to win and go on and take on a number one seed.
03:29So, I don't think that there's going to be any hijinks or chicanery when it comes to that.
03:35If you're an NBA player and you are, I guess it's Jonte Porter,
03:39and you're not really in a spot where you've already made generational money,
03:44I think you're more vulnerable at that level to maybe play around with stuff.
03:48Probably.
03:48These college kids, like, if you play for Prairie View A&M,
03:52if you even have NIL money,
03:54you're probably not making more than, like, $1,700 and a Subway gift card.
03:59That's why, in the baseball world,
04:00the steroids were actually so much more prevalent in the minor leagues than they were in the bigs.
04:04Right.
04:05Because the big league guys, they got their dough.
04:06Or they're getting dough.
04:08Unless you're that one guy who just got a full year.
04:11Right.
04:12Well, pro-far, good Lord.
04:13But anyway, yeah, the minor league guys are like,
04:16it's worth the risk because I want that bag.
04:19Yep.
04:20I want the contract.
04:22I want to go to the phones.
04:23Let me answer these real quick, though.
04:24A bunch of stuff just came through here on the Boxer & Gerson Work Injury Attorney's Text Line.
04:30925, I see you.
04:31And thank you so much for listening.
04:33But I just don't get how Willard has seen 12 championships in the Bay Area
04:38and is okay with participation trophies.
04:40Isn't this funny?
04:42I'd actually answer that two ways, and one of them is what you just said.
04:47You're right.
04:48And actually, is it 12?
04:51What do we got here?
04:52Three Giants.
04:53No, five Niners.
04:54Yeah, five Niners, four Warriors.
04:56That's 13.
04:56Whatever.
04:57Whatever.
04:58That's part of my answer.
05:01I'm pretty confident that, and yes, there are down years and down moments and ownership
05:06and all of that, but I'm pretty confident that the teams for which I root,
05:11they have their heads screwed on straight, and they're trying to win.
05:15And I'm not going to sit here and believe that we're going to win them all.
05:19We're not going to win them all.
05:20So, the fact that I have seen so many championships is part of why I can sit here,
05:26and that's your words, I'm okay with it.
05:30I'm not okay with it.
05:32I'm aware that that's how it works.
05:34You don't get to win every single year.
05:37And, by the way, here's my other answer, because I enjoy sports.
05:43That's all.
05:44I enjoy the game.
05:46The Warriors are playing the Celtics in an hour and 15 minutes.
05:50I'm in.
05:51I'm in.
05:52There's no ring on the line.
05:54There's absolutely.
05:56In fact, I could damn well argue that the game.
06:00Boy, the boss is out of town, right?
06:02The game that's about to unfold.
06:04Don't do it.
06:05There's nothing on the line.
06:07You better be careful.
06:09Seriously.
06:10There go those ratings.
06:13What's that?
06:13No, really?
06:15What happens if the Warriors win or lose tonight?
06:18It's a poor Zingas revenge game.
06:20What's the point?
06:21It's a finals rematch, and Steve Kerr is the guy telling you.
06:26Yeah, all right.
06:27No, no, no.
06:28I'm with Steve.
06:29I'm with Steve.
06:30I don't need there to be the whole world on the line, or else I'm out.
06:35I am too good for it.
06:37I don't need sports if you're not actually.
06:40How about this, championship-robust people?
06:43Why do you even watch the regular season?
06:46Why?
06:47Why would you ever buy a ticket to a game?
06:50It doesn't matter, especially in the NBA.
06:53All you have to do is one of eight teams and just get into the dance.
06:57It's a win-season tournament, which is big.
06:59You know that.
07:00I know.
07:00I'm trying to, you know what I mean?
07:02Like, I'm just trying to speak my position here.
07:04I love this stuff for the sake of it, for the sake of competition, for the sake of the
07:11journey and the story that unfolds, that we don't know.
07:14We don't know what's going to happen next, despite so many who think they do.
07:17Right, and we don't know, and if you want to even go back to what you're talking about
07:21and, you know, go back to 2010 when the Giants won their first title, look at the big three
07:26teams, and I'll put the Sharks aside for now, because I don't know exactly everything they've
07:30done in every season.
07:31I know it's been rough, and this year they might actually make the playoffs, but if you
07:35go back in the last, I don't know what that would be, like almost 50 seasons of football,
07:40basketball, and baseball.
07:41Find me how many seasons where it was completely like, oh my God, crumple up the paper and
07:47throw it away.
07:48It's probably around 10 from all three sports.
07:51Like, the Warriors had a few before the title.
07:54The Warriors early.
07:55The Warriors early.
07:56Right, the Giants have had maybe, since 2010, like no year where it was like, oh, maybe a
08:03couple in the end of Bochy.
08:04Yeah, but.
08:05Probably two years where they were like, ah, yeah, this one doesn't really, it doesn't
08:08really matter, and the Niners probably have four or five.
08:10So, out of 50 seasons, you've had about 40 that were, man, we're in it.
08:16Right.
08:16And 10 that were like, okay, fine.
08:18Yeah.
08:19So, that's kind of to your point about like, you know, how you look at things.
08:24But even if you're in one of those years, aren't there individuals that you want to
08:27see and assess?
08:29Sometimes.
08:29Like, if you're in that, let's say this is one of those years, because a lot of
08:33people think that it is.
08:34Don't you want to see what Kristaps is going to do?
08:37Don't you want to see, like, the Warriors watched Guy Santos and decided that that's
08:41a contract.
08:42That's a thing.
08:44Guy Santos is now on the team for three more years.
08:47That is now a piece on some level of something that you're going to be doing going forward.
08:54I'm interested in that.
08:55So, I'm interested in Kristaps playing with Steph Curry.
08:59Let's see it.
09:00It's not always the case.
09:01And I'm thinking about the 2019-20 Warriors where it was D'Angelo Russell and Wiggins
09:07and Jordan Poole was kind of yo-yoing between levels and Eric Paschal and Willie Cauley-Stein.
09:13That was not a year where you were like, yeah, I want to see what Michael Mulder can be with
09:18the Warriors.
09:18And, you know, I want to see Kai Bowman, not Kai Jerome, Kai Bowman.
09:23So, that was one of those years where you go, all right, like the Niners, the year that
09:27they had C.J. Mullins and Nick Beathard.
09:30And I might have had that wrong.
09:31You did, but you get the point.
09:32It actually was very, yeah, it was perfect.
09:34That was one of those years where it's like, okay, I mean, what are we even doing?
09:37And, you know, even not this past year, but the year before where.
09:40That's what happened.
09:41You know, you're just kind of, you know, you're going to wad that one up and throw it away.
09:44But there haven't been that many across those three teams.
09:47Well, even in those moments, and I would argue that's kind of where the Warriors maybe sit now.
09:51Now, that 6-11 year for the 49ers, you went too, right?
09:57You went to that Rainy Rams game on Thursday night?
09:59Yeah, they lost like 7-4.
10:02Right, whatever the final score was.
10:0312-6.
10:04Their record was awful, but we went into that game and there was still, there was this path.
10:10It was like if they win tonight.
10:12The math was there.
10:13The math was there.
10:13And the game was 6-6 or something like that with some minutes to go and Debo dropped a ball
10:20and there you go.
10:21And then that was officially kind of the end of it.
10:24That was the Devondre Campbell quit game, right?
10:27Correct.
10:28And that was a terrible year.
10:30But you didn't actually fully know that it was a pointless year until there was like two weeks ago.
10:37And then you're like, okay, this just didn't happen.
10:40This didn't happen.
10:41And then we all went to Christmas and a couple days later we went to the Lions game on a
10:45Monday night.
10:46Yep, they lost to Miami first.
10:47Right.
10:47And then they lost to the Lions and you lost to Arizona.
10:51Right.
10:51And there you go.
10:52Yeah.
10:52Yeah.
10:53So, I don't know.
10:55I'd like, I love this stuff.
10:58I love this stuff.
10:59Um, and, and you don't, you don't need to be in the championship round for me to be interested in
11:08what you're doing.
11:09I think like, I, I, I find it terribly unfortunate if that's how, again, you do it how you want,
11:17but that, oof, that's a rough bar.
11:20Just be in the mix.
11:21And I think about being, and again, I'm going to March Madness you to death.
11:25Do it.
11:25Think about being a St. Mary's basketball fan where, yeah, in the WCC, you're either first or second.
11:32You might win the thing.
11:33And this year you won the regular year, but you didn't win the tournament.
11:35And then you go into the actual tournament and you're a seven seed.
11:38Do you honestly think as a St. Mary's basketball fan that you're going to win the whole dance?
11:43You're going to win six straight and you're going to run the table and you're going to be that team.
11:47I mean, you're allowed to, and you might, but you're in it for the dance and you hope you win
11:52the first round.
11:52And then you take on the two seed and you hope you make it to the second weekend.
11:55But that to me is the way you should fan.
11:58I'm not telling people how to fan, but that's how I fan when it comes to like this warrior team,
12:03you know, get the eight, beat the seven, and then take on San Antonio.
12:07Yeah.
12:08Are you one of these people that like grounds your kids if they come home with a B?
12:12Yeah.
12:14Duh.
12:15Two UC graduates.
12:17Damn right.
12:18Yeah.
12:20They got to be.
12:21I mean, actually, you got to be a couple of them.
12:24I don't think either one of them did ever.
12:27Even, even, even in college.
12:29Oh, well, college is different.
12:30Yes, it is.
12:31But in high school, they got a B, but it was an AP class.
12:34So that B converts to an A.
12:36And honestly, like they had seen my grades and oh, they would laugh and laugh.
12:42And so as a student who got a 2.4 in high school, I can't really come.
12:47Hey, this A minus is not going to fly.
12:49They're like, Dad, come on.
12:50What are we talking about here?
12:51I mean, if you don't get punched in the face, then the rally back is no fun either.
12:58Right?
12:59I guess, but I mean, something to be said for, you know, going undefeated.
13:03Shout out Andre Ward.
13:05Sure.
13:06Lucky in the city.
13:07Hi, Lucky.
13:07Thanks for calling.
13:09Good afternoon, fellas.
13:10How are you guys doing?
13:11We're good, man.
13:12Hey.
13:12Good.
13:14Well, I have to say, man, with the youngsters that we have playing right now, man, I'm in
13:19love with my man, how do you say it?
13:21I love you, Leon.
13:22Yeah, you did it well.
13:23Of course.
13:25Of course, I'm a geek guy.
13:26So, you know, that and Will Richard.
13:29And who's the other guy we picked up?
13:30The center we picked up?
13:31Are you?
13:32I like him, too.
13:33I love that you said Leon's right, and then you said Will Richard.
13:38That's my favorite part of this phone call, Lucky.
13:42Thank you, Mark.
13:43I just want to say, man, I'm like, I'm just enjoying this right now as we have it in this
13:49moment.
13:50Because, like you said, we can always win everything.
13:53So, you have to enjoy, like, putting the puzzle together.
13:56You have to empty the box and then grab the pieces and put them together and see what that
14:01comes to.
14:01So, next year, I think we're going to be pretty good.
14:04Maybe.
14:05I mean, Lucky, thanks.
14:07That's another one.
14:08Listener I'd like to meet.
14:10Yeah.
14:10For sure.
14:10No.
14:11Yeah.
14:11Absolutely.
14:12But a point that I love.
14:14In fact, go back two weeks ago.
14:17Wasn't it the three of us?
14:19Was it me, you, and Grandy that were sitting out in the common room out there?
14:23And it was something about, like, I just can't see the 49ers having, you know, a good season
14:32next year against these Rams and Seahawks.
14:35And I'm like, none of them have rosters yet.
14:41We hadn't even done free agency yet.
14:43And then there's a draft.
14:44And then there's the injuries that we don't know about.
14:47And then there's the surprise performances that we do.
14:50How on earth can we sit here and assess a team that hasn't even been constructed yet?
14:57But let's see the journey.
14:59Right.
14:59Let's see this.
15:01Let's do this.
15:02That's the fun part.
15:03And then when you do achieve, it feels that much better.
15:07Right?
15:08It does.
15:09Yeah.
15:09I mean, when you achieve, even if you overachieve based on what we all thought, like the Niners
15:15last year, they did more than what we thought they would do when you lose Warner and Bosa
15:19and your quarterback and all the rest of it.
15:21And then you go and you beat Philadelphia.
15:23That's awesome.
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