00:00I'll tell you a story. I haven't said this much, Dexter, but last year before the conference final,
00:04so we have the West and TNT has these. Kevin Harlan, the great Kevin Harlan, who is a dear
00:10friend, he's calling the Knicks Pacers. And he calls me a couple of days before the series.
00:15And he says, you know what? Because you've been waiting almost three decades for the Knicks to be
00:21in a conference final because it was the first and 25. He goes, I want you to call the games
00:26for
00:26TNT. I'm going to go to my bosses. I'm going to tell them that you should do it. And I'll
00:30go do
00:30the West for ESPN. And he was serious. He was serious. And he said, he goes, I know my bosses
00:36would love to have you. You deserve it. This is the team you followed all this. You deserve it.
00:41And he goes, and even if ESPN doesn't want to use me and they want to use one of their
00:46announcers,
00:47whether it was Dave Pasch or Mark Jones, he goes, I'm fine. I'll sit it out. That's the kind of
00:52man
00:52Kevin Harlan is. I was so touched by that. And he said, think about it overnight. Now we'll talk
00:58tomorrow. So I thought about it overnight and he called again the next day. This was not some
01:03gratuitous, oh, let me throw this offer out there. He wanted to do that for a friend.
01:08And we both decided it's probably not the right thing to do for our employers who've both been
01:14ESPN to me and TNT to him. So we didn't go through with it. But I was so touched the
01:19fact that
01:19he wanted to thought that way. But again, that's the kind of man that he is.
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