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00:00It's too bad that he plays for a coach who doesn't develop young people.
00:05It's a little early for the Steve Kerr sarcasm hour.
00:09That was more of a shot at the anti-development faction out there
00:13because he did develop Moses Moody.
00:16He steadily has gotten better and better and better.
00:19The way Stiney put it earlier, that's what really hit me of next year.
00:24So if you really want to maximize this window we all talk about
00:27and KP fits like this and maybe Melt can stay
00:31and Draymond maybe has one more season and Steph comes back
00:34and Jimmy and Moses is playing like this,
00:37then all of a sudden you can dream a little bit more than you can now
00:39with no Jimmy till February and probably no Moody all year.
00:44And so it becomes harder to convince yourself of next year.
00:48I think that, well, you just touched on something
00:52that is the entire Warrior fan experience right now.
00:55And I think that all of us go back and forth with that.
00:59I think it's what happened in real time for a lot of people last night,
01:03which is at a certain point you want to read the story,
01:07you want to go on the journey.
01:10It's like buying a Powerball ticket.
01:13You buy the ticket and you walk to your car
01:16and you let yourself go down that road.
01:19What would I do if those are the numbers tonight?
01:24How would life change tomorrow?
01:26You go through the whole process in your head
01:29and then those numbers come out
01:32and you pick up your ticket and realize,
01:36dude, you didn't even get one.
01:38You didn't even get one number.
01:40And yes, all that you're more likely to get hit in the face by lightning
01:45and all of that stuff.
01:47And so you say to yourself,
01:50why did I let myself believe that?
01:53I think that's the continual process right now
01:56of being a Warrior fan.
01:58Like, okay, everything for Steph.
02:00Here we go.
02:00Moses is back.
02:02And then a couple hours later,
02:04you're like, what are we doing?
02:06What are we doing?
02:07Steph just turned 38.
02:10Everybody's hurt.
02:11They don't really have a lot of good players.
02:14What are we believing in right now?
02:16Well, it's the one thing to believe in it
02:18and not win the Powerball fine,
02:20two bucks, five bucks, whatever you invested.
02:22But in this analogy,
02:24somebody comes up and steals your car.
02:27And because the negative of losing Moses
02:30is more than like, you didn't win the lottery fine.
02:32It only cost you what you had already put in.
02:35The dream is dead.
02:36Yes.
02:37And what were we even thinking?
02:38But in this case with Moses, it's like,
02:40the dream was kind of out there anyway.
02:42And now you stole my car.
02:43So I didn't win 114 million.
02:45And now I have no car.
02:47It's more than, it's more than $2.
02:49Right.
02:49But I'm also talking about the larger view
02:51of Warrior basketball.
02:52Agreed, yeah.
02:53The Steph career.
02:54And is there another championship?
02:57I think there's another thing
02:58you have to remind yourself.
03:00The worst thing that could happen,
03:03the absolute worst,
03:05and this isn't about Moses,
03:06is Steph's career,
03:08the absolute,
03:09if everything just keeps going horribly,
03:14then you got four rings
03:16and one of the best players to ever play the game.
03:19That's the worst thing that could happen.
03:21Yeah, that's already what you've accomplished, right?
03:24So that's like a super rich person playing lottery, I guess.
03:27Yeah.
03:27Or something like the worst.
03:29It's like Tiger Woods trying to catch Jack
03:30for most majors won.
03:31Right.
03:31Tiger's got 15.
03:33Jack's got 18.
03:34I don't like your chances,
03:35but you got 15, T.
03:37So at the very least,
03:39you got 15 majors.
03:41Not bad.
03:42Look, a lot of people kind enough to call in,
03:45want to say some things.
03:46I don't want to miss any of you.
03:48So let's go out to the phones.
03:50Oh, I did promise the Steph update.
03:52I don't want anybody sitting in their driveway
03:53waiting for that.
03:54Here's Anthony Slater, NBA Today on ESPN.
03:58Saturday, they announced he's going to be incorporated
04:00into live action, contact action.
04:02That's important Saturday pregame in Atlanta.
04:04Steve Kerr says they expect him to scrimmage Sunday in Atlanta.
04:08I talked to Steph postgame briefly,
04:09and I nudged him like, hey, maybe Wednesday, maybe Friday.
04:12And he's like, hey, tap the brakes on that.
04:13He's got some checkpoints.
04:15They then canceled the Sunday scrimmage.
04:17He still is yet to scrimmage.
04:18And he says he wants to come back.
04:19They keep saying he wants to come back.
04:21But the reality is he has to get into a scrimmage live action,
04:23see how the knee responds to it,
04:25because it hasn't responded that well at times.
04:27And he hasn't scrimmaged.
04:29So he will not play Wednesday.
04:30And we don't know beyond that.
04:31Okay.
04:32So the update there is tucked into the end.
04:36Steph is out tomorrow night in the home game against Brooklyn,
04:39which I want to push this to a little bit later.
04:42I think that there's a real loss there for the Golden State Warriors
04:47that Steph Curry will not be playing tomorrow night
04:49because that had been circled in pencil by some
04:53as the potential night of his return.
04:56No, it's going to be a bananas night in that part of the world anyway.
05:01And if Steph was returning combined with the Yankees are in town
05:05and you got Judge, no Bryce Eldridge who went oppo taco last night.
05:09That was pretty fun.
05:10He homers every single at-bat since they sent him down.
05:13First time he's homered in a big league ballpark though.
05:15So that had to feel good for him.
05:16And he's going to be a dog.
05:17That thing was a no doubter.
05:19That thing was absolutely launched.
05:21I have zero concerns about Bryce Eldridge.
05:26Yeah, no doubt.
05:26That's going to be an impact player.
05:28No doubt.
05:28And, you know, tomorrow would have been super triple special.
05:32It's still going to be awesome.
05:33And, you know, the Warriors do have a home game
05:35and it's not a must win by any stretch,
05:38but you're going to get to see more Cryer and Yert7
05:41and all the rest of the fellas.
05:42415 has a message for you.
05:44I want to read it because I just wholeheartedly could not disagree with it more.
05:48But thank you for listening and engaging.
05:50Love it.
05:50But this is the game that so many of you play, in my opinion.
05:54Moses has always been great.
05:56All caps.
05:57Please do not credit Kerr with that.
05:59If anything, he hindered timely advancement for Moses.
06:03All caps.
06:03Be real, guys.
06:05Okay.
06:05So that's the game you play.
06:07If somebody doesn't develop, that's Kerr's fault for not developing them.
06:11And if somebody does play well, no, no, no, no, no.
06:15They did that on their own.
06:16Right.
06:17Okay.
06:17I hope that in your world you see how there's no way for the Hall of Fame coach to win.
06:23It does, like, there is literally zero light at the end of the tunnel.
06:29Your tunnel has a brick wall on the end of it with regard to warrior development if that's the game
06:36you're going to play.
06:37If they don't develop, the Warriors are stupid.
06:40If they do, boy, that player gets all the credit.
06:42That's right.
06:42And, in fact, they would have gotten there quicker if it weren't for those damn Warriors.
06:46That's right.
06:46If it wasn't for, you know, the championship coach keeping him down.
06:49And he went from 4-4 a game to 4-8, 8-1, 9-8, 12.1 this year.
06:56That sounds to me like a player who worked on his game and got better and a team and a
07:01coaching staff who probably helped him also get better.
07:04By the way, the struggle, everybody, so many of you listening went through it or are still going through it,
07:12is okay.
07:14The struggle is okay.
07:16It is okay at any age, okay?
07:21I assistant coach little 12-year-olds right now in baseball.
07:25It's okay to be like, you know what?
07:28You're not ready to pitch.
07:30You can't throw the ball straight yet.
07:32Let's work on it in practice.
07:34But, no, we're not pitching you in the game yet because you're hucking the ball at the fans.
07:39It's okay.
07:41Work on it.
07:42Let's work on it together.
07:44It is not a crime to make somebody struggle a little bit, especially at the highest of levels.
07:52And especially when you fancy yourself in a championship window, which, checks notes, they were in his rookie year.
07:58And so that's the way that that had to go at that time.
08:01And gradually, they started leaning on him more and more, which is what makes last night even more devastating because
08:07he's a starter.
08:08He's a key player.
08:10He's playing awesome.
08:10I'm okay, Moses.
08:11If not this year, I can't wait until next year, year six, when you can really become a mainstay.
08:17All right.
08:18Let's go out to the phones and let some of you get it off your chest.
08:20Talk to Moses about Moses, the Warriors, whatever it may be.
08:24Sean in Oakland.
08:25Hi, Sean.
08:26We thank you for calling, man.
08:27What's up?
08:29Hey, what's up, Will and Debs?
08:30How y'all doing?
08:31Good.
08:33Well, I'm pretty much just saying, like, man, like, look, at the end of the day, like, he was a
08:39hell of a – he's still a hell of a player.
08:41And y'all was, like, comparing him to Livingston.
08:43Everybody keep forgetting that Sean came out of high school and got drafted in the fourth round.
08:47So, just like, you can't – I don't know.
08:51I feel sorry for the guy because, like you said, he was on the up and up.
08:55And he's still got a chance to keep playing.
08:57It's just that now he's just going to have to develop a certain different way of playing, just like Sean
09:01did.
09:02And that's not a bad thing.
09:03It's just like you just have to put a little more repertoire into your game.
09:06And that's okay.
09:08Like, these people – these players come out here every day and play for us.
09:12And we got players that we don't like and players we do like.
09:15But they're out there putting their body on the line every day.
09:18So, they deserve our dedication to them wholeheartedly, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
09:26Sean, I couldn't agree more.
09:29Yeah, by no stretch.
09:31And thanks, Sean.
09:32There's nothing here that you're going to hear on this show today that's telling Moses he can't do it.
09:37Right.
09:37I will share the data associated with the injury.
09:40And, oh, by the way, I don't know if you meant it this way.
09:43The Livingston stuff that you threw out was a little bit inaccurate.
09:46You say he was drafted in the fourth round, which doesn't exist.
09:49He was fourth overall.
09:50He was fourth overall.
09:51And they both started when they were 19.
09:52Right.
09:52And so, they were actually – they're at similar ages.
09:55Sean was 22.
09:56Moses is 23.
09:57Moses had a couple more years in the league.
10:00Sean was considered, though, to be a higher-level prospect.
10:04As you just said, fourth overall.
10:06Like, this was a big, big-time prospect, Sean Livingston.
10:10And he had to adjust his game.
10:12And, in fact, I had forgotten, dude, that list that you ran through about what Sean did between the Clippers
10:19and the Warriors, that's intense.
10:21Yeah.
10:22That was a long road.
10:24Super long.
10:25And, you know, he's on his rookie deal and he gets hurt in year three.
10:27Sits year four and the Clippers cut him.
10:29They release him, which is – it's fair.
10:32Signs with the Heat in October.
10:33Traded in January to Memphis.
10:36And then two months later, he's a Thunder.
10:38And then nine months later, the Thunder wave him.
10:41He signs back-to-back ten days with Washington.
10:44He gets a contract for the full year.
10:47Then he signs with Charlotte.
10:48He's dealt by Charlotte to Milwaukee.
10:50Then he's dealt by Milwaukee.
10:52And then he becomes a Rocket and he gets waived.
10:54Then he goes back to the Wizards for a grand total of five weeks.
10:59Yep.
10:59And he gets waived again.
11:00He signs with the Cavaliers.
11:02Then he signs with the Nets.
11:03And finally, to the Warriors.
11:05So it was signed, cut, waived, traded.
11:09And then somehow he had one good year.
11:12I believe it was with Brooklyn.
11:13He played a full year of actual basketball.
11:17He stayed healthy.
11:18And kind of a – I guess a little bit like Chris Stapp's Porzingis is trying to do.
11:23Like where Moses is now in his career in terms of how many years since he was drafted.
11:28When Sean got to this point, five years after he was drafted, he had to go play for the Tulsa
11:3366ers.
11:35Yeah.
11:36That's Oklahoma City's G League team.
11:39Number four pick in the draft.
11:41Yeah.
11:41Five years later, he's in Tulsa on a bus.
11:44Right.
11:45And in all fairness, I think the Livingston injury is going to turn out to be worse than the most.
11:51I hope and pray.
11:52Yes.
11:53Because, I mean, he almost had to have his leg taken.
11:56Livingston and – gosh, okay.
11:58What year was it?
11:59It was 07?
12:0007, yeah.
12:01Okay.
12:0207.
12:03February of 07, I think.
12:04Yeah, I was down there.
12:05I was down there.
12:05I don't remember if I was at the game or not.
12:07I don't remember if it was a home game or a road game.
12:09If it was a home game, I was there.
12:10I think it might have been a road game.
12:12But we were down there.
12:13I'm telling you, the talk that day, that was it.
12:18Like Sean was not going to play again.
12:20Right.
12:21That's what – Sean had to face people literally being like,
12:24you're doctors who are like, that's – you cannot recover from that.
12:29And he did.
12:30And he won three rings.
12:31Sean is a wonderful resilience story.
12:34It's an incredible story.
12:35So, yeah, hope the same for Moses.
12:37But I agree with you.
12:38I don't think Moses' injury will turn out to be as bad,
12:40even though we're still gathering info.
12:42I hope not because Sean had the same dislocation,
12:45but also three torn ligaments and a bone dislocation,
12:49tibia femoral, which I didn't –
12:51the femur and the tibia dislocated.
12:53The leg was going the wrong way.
12:54But it was also – it was the leg and the kneecap.
12:58Yes.
12:58And the tendon and three ligaments.
13:00It was essentially like his leg exploded.
13:04His whole leg exploded.
13:06You know, this was car accident type stuff.
13:08Right.
13:09And I think about the Alex Smith football injury where, you know,
13:12he had to have whatever, 23 surgeries, and he had major infections,
13:17and it's a miracle.
13:18He didn't – yeah, they didn't –
13:18it wasn't only you're going to lose your leg, but he almost died.
13:21Yeah.
13:22So let's go to Kitty in Half Moon Bay.
13:24Hi, Kitty.
13:25What's up?
13:28Oh, hi.
13:29Hi.
13:30It's Judy, but just –
13:31hi.
13:32I just love Moses Moody, and I've loved him since he was not recognized as being so great.
13:40And I'm just sending him my prayers.
13:43I think sometimes challenges – I don't know why they come to us,
13:47but I think they have gifts.
13:49Somewhere there's a gift in this for him, and I just – one – I'm just sending him my prayers.
13:55Well, thank you very much for calling.
13:57Yeah, I think that we all, you know, in moments like this,
14:02and I know there's some cynicism out there.
14:04We even had somebody already text in, and they're like, let's not talk –
14:07like, there's actual – there's so much crap going on in the world right now.
14:11This is an injury, and Moses has a contract.
14:14His life is going to be okay.
14:16Okay, so it's not to the level of what I would call a tragedy,
14:19but at the same time, I don't know, man.
14:21Like, the Warriors, just the looks on their faces collectively,
14:27his face and the faces of the guys on the bench.
14:30I don't know.
14:31If you're a fan of this team, I don't know how this can't pull at your heartstrings a little bit.
14:37No doubt.
14:37And we're not going to put this into context of all the atrocities that are happening around the world.
14:42It's a sports show.
14:43So don't imply that we don't have tremendous perspective as to how fortunate we're doing,
14:48what we're doing, and talking about this.
14:50And, yes, Moses has a contract that's guaranteed.
14:53And for him, that's great news because if he's a football player,
14:57he might find himself as a cap casualty and getting no money.
15:00But he gets two more years on his $39 million deal.
15:03He probably won't play next year.
15:06The year after that, he will be probably not the same player he was this year.
15:09And then he may have to go out there and do the Sean Livingston thing,
15:13which is get out there and fight for your career.
15:15Koss, the Warriors, what a weird sort of scenario for a basketball team.
15:23We are sitting here right now, calendar month, March 2026.
15:31Flash forward less than a year and a half from now, July 2027.
15:37I literally don't know if I could tell you one person who I know for sure is going to be
15:44on the team.
15:45Maybe Will Richard?
15:46I guess Guy Santos?
15:48Right.
15:49That's probably the one I forgot.
15:50I mentioned that Moses was the only one who has signed to a non-rookie contract beyond next year
15:57because of two weeks ago.
15:59Guy Santos is the answer to that question.
16:01But, I mean, that's what we can say right now.
16:05As far as who I know is going to be on the Warriors in July of 2027.
16:10Guy Santos and probably Will Richard.
16:13That's the reality.
16:14And hopefully it's somebody really good who they take in the upcoming draft,
16:18assuming they keep the pick and all the rest of it.
16:20But, yeah, you're looking at that spot, which is 16 months from now.
16:25Steph Curry will have finished his 39-year season.
16:28Draymond Green's contract will be up.
16:29Butler's will be up.
16:30He'll be off an ACL, hopefully.
16:33If it's Chris Stapps on a one-year deal, he's up.
16:36Al Horford will be 71.
16:39He'll be up.
16:40Pods will be a free agent.
16:41And if he's not, he'll be an unrestricted free agent
16:44if the Warriors don't do anything between now and then.
16:47Right.
16:47So, hard to imagine who else would still be around.
16:51Yeah, GP2, Melt.
16:53These guys are all free agents.
16:56Yeah.
16:57That's it.
16:58I mean, it's bananas.
17:00Quentin Post, he'll be a restricted free agent maybe.
17:03But now he's a second rounder.
17:05Honestly.
17:06I mean, it's rare with any of your teams that you can look just barely over a year in advance.
17:12I don't know if we can name three people that I'm sure are going to be on the team with
17:16uniforms and performing.
17:17Quentin Post is unsigned for next year.
17:19Oh, okay.
17:20He's on a team option for this year.
17:23Guy, of course, just got his deal.
17:25Pods with a team option for next year.
17:26I think they're going to pick that up if they haven't already and maybe work out an extension in the
17:31offseason.
17:32Al Horford would be, I think, 41 or 42.
17:35And I was just looking at his draft because that was the same year that Kalena Azebuki went undrafted.
17:40Oh, my goodness.
17:41For some perspective.
17:42Same age?
17:43Same draft class.
17:44And of the top five picks that year, four of them are still playing in the association.
17:49No way.
17:50Kevin Durant, Al Horford, Jeff Green, Mike Conley.
17:56They went 2, 3, 4, and 5.
17:57Greg Oden, of course, went number one overall.
17:59Right.
18:00And dealt with injury.
18:01But picks 2 through 5 in the 07 draft, they are still playing.
18:05That's incredible.
18:07That's absolutely incredible.
18:08That's just your trivia nuggy nuggy of the day.
18:09Well, especially for the ones who played college ball, like Al.
18:12Right.
18:13Because, I mean, Kevin, you know, I know Kevin played one year of college ball, but he's a little younger,
18:18obviously, than Al.
18:20Conley played at least 2 or 3.
18:21He played with Oden at Ohio State.
18:23Yeah.
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