00:00The barbershop is where, you know, especially in Atlanta, right?
00:03If you really want to know.
00:05We'd have to have beeps all over the place.
00:06Who they're vibing with, right?
00:08I guarantee you that Michael.
00:10Go in Monday morning after a Falcons game.
00:12Do you have any doubt that Michael Vick was the greatest admiration in the history of a barbershop?
00:19Oh, God.
00:20Just to have him in town doing what he was doing.
00:23And let me tell you something.
00:25Maybe the Lord's just doing it against us because if Atlanta gets one and we start killing people,
00:30this city will be hard to deal with because we will be cocky folks now.
00:33You're talking about the Hawks or Falcons or any of that?
00:34Yes.
00:35Because when Mike Vick was going, it was on this city.
00:39There's going to be a moment, and I hope I'm alive and I hope I'm here,
00:42and even better, I hope I'm on the radio, where the Atlanta Falcons win a Super Bowl.
00:46And it could be, listen, I mean, we're getting there 60 years now, right?
00:51You know, the Cubs had that long drought.
00:53The Red Sox had that long drought.
00:55Everybody talked about 86 years, 68 years.
00:57We're getting to that place where Atlanta Falcons fans, and a lot of it is in town.
01:02So you can think about the black community of Atlanta that stayed in town that's generational.
01:07That that'll be calling, because I was there for a championship when it had been 86 years,
01:13when Red Sox won it in St. Louis.
01:15And people are calling their grandfather.
01:17They're calling their dad, their brother.
01:20They're crying.
01:20They're going to their gravesite, and they're leaving.
01:24I think the Falcons have enough years of pain and history and Fulton County Stadium
01:31and the Georgia Dome and Mercedes-Benz and Billy White Shoes Johnson and Steve Barkowski
01:37and the Gritz Blitz and then the Michael Vick years.
01:41Like, there's generational love for that franchise that if they ever –
01:46can you imagine being there if the Atlanta Falcons won a Super Bowl, right?
01:51So here we are.
01:51We talked about it on – oh, yeah, trust me.
01:53I've been through it all.
01:54We talked about this earlier.
01:56Game three, updated ticket prices this morning.
01:59Dan Wetzel reported this morning.
02:01Game three, NBA Finals, Madison Square Garden tickets right now.
02:05If you want to sit upper level, there's two for $10,680.
02:08This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life.
02:12I saw those.
02:13You sent me that graph.
02:14Yeah, but this is updated.
02:15This was 26 minutes ago.
02:17$53,000 for two courtside, $45,823 for one.
02:23But I want you to think about the worst seat in the house right now.
02:27Think about this.
02:28That's the worst seat in the house.
02:29The worst seat.
02:29The cheapest ticket I see right now, and I'm telling you, you're sitting on the roof.
02:35It's $8,035 right now, and you're sitting in the level.
02:40I'm telling you, I can't even read the number.
02:42The level is so high.
02:43Right.
02:44That's just – first of all, New York money is different money.
02:48There's a – you know –
02:49What's your boy Salsa?
02:50What's his – Andrew Salsa?
02:51What's his official title for the Hawks?
02:53That's a great question.
02:54He's –
02:55Mr. Everything?
02:57EVP, president of sponsorships in the building.
03:00Okay, he deals with a lot of big-time clients.
03:01That's what I was going to ask.
03:02He deals – okay, he deals with a lot of big-time clients.
03:05Just for example, because we know Andrew Salsa and the city of Atlanta knows him.
03:08Delta and Coca-Cola and all the big, you know, sponsors of Atlanta.
03:14Take Andrew Salsa of the Knicks.
03:17What the hell is he dealing with?
03:19Who is he trying – because Justin Timberlake's trying to go.
03:23You know what I mean?
03:23And Jay-Z's like, no, I'm not sitting over there.
03:26I want to –
03:26No, no, that must be fascinating.
03:27You want a great little documentary for a 45-minute –
03:29Oh, by the way, let me throw a little note on his statement.
03:32Who's second row?
03:33Who's third row?
03:34What are they willing to pay?
03:35The president, for the first time in the history of NBA Finals,
03:39a sitting president, for the first time in NBA Finals, is going to a game.
03:45Oh, he's going.
03:45He's going to game three.
03:46The Knicks owner invited him.
03:47Oh, my God.
03:48So throw the –
03:48Oh, my God.
03:49Hey, throw those security measures in.
03:51Oh, my God.
03:52Dude, there's never been anything like this team winning this title if it happens.
03:58There's never been –
03:59When is game three, Sunday?
04:01Game three is Monday night.
04:03Oh, my God.
04:03That would be nuts.
04:04And game four would probably be Wednesday.
04:05Let me tell you this quick story, though, right?
04:09Because you were talking about Kirby, and he's coaching those nine-year-olds.
04:12Back in the day, Red Auerbach, right?
04:14And, you know, hopefully you know enough about Red Auerbach and the championships
04:18and, you know, the most titles in NBA history and legendary figures.
04:22He's got a basketball camp in – it's called Camp – it's at Camp Millbrook,
04:27which is Millbrook, Massachusetts, which is kind of like Rome, right?
04:30Think of the Rome facility.
04:31So Millbrook, Massachusetts, probably an hour outside, 45 minutes, an hour outside the city.
04:37So this is in the early – late 70s, early 80s, Ray Auerbach.
04:44We had just drafted Larry Bird.
04:47They hold their rookie training camp at Camp Millbrook.
04:51So there were 15 rounds in the NBA draft.
04:54Each draft pick had to be a camp counselor in the bunk.
04:58I want you to think about this.
04:59Oh, my God.
05:00So, well, he had already – he was already established, right, with the year in.
05:04So if you're a third-round pick out of SMU or Wake Forest,
05:09not only are you trying to make the team so you get a scrimmage every night
05:12and you get – you know, that's just –
05:14you've got to sit in a bunk with a bunch of nine-year-olds.
05:16Oh, my God.
05:17From Gloucester, Massachusetts, a little Steven Schapler.
05:19They're sleeping in a bunk next to you.
05:21And then at night, they'd have the scrimmage, right?
05:24Yeah.
05:25So guys come back like Bird and a few other guys,
05:28and that's how Ray Auerbach would get around having evening activities.
05:30He's like, I'm just going to have my camp here,
05:32and everybody has to do whatever we say, right?
05:34Back then, there's no, like, player negotiations.
05:37No.
05:37Right?
05:38So he's driving around in a golf cart.
05:40Ray Auerbach, the most famous coach maybe of all time,
05:44and Larry Bird's next to him.
05:46And they pull up to about a 10-year-old game,
05:49and I give some little boy – I give him a head fake, right?
05:52And I go up and under and flip it up, and I hear Ray go, nice move, son.
05:56And I get, like, a thumbs up from Larry Bird.
05:59You peaked.
06:00That was the moment.
06:01I've been down here ever since, isn't it?
06:02Can you imagine – they pull up to your game, and it's Larry Bird,
06:07and then Red would be like, yeah, later this afternoon,
06:10Larry Bird's going to do a shooting clinic.
06:12Why?
06:12Because he asked him to.
06:13Yeah.
06:13There's no, like – you imagine telling LeBron,
06:15you've got to come to our summer camp, and you've got to hang out with these kids.
06:18Anthony Edwards, oh, by the way,
06:19you're going to be at North Atlanta High School this weekend for the overnight camp.
06:22For the whole weekend.
06:22For the week.
06:23Overnight camp.
06:23So, Red Auerbach, and I remember the move.
06:26I gave a great little fake.
06:28I got a little Jimmy Goldfarb, went flying through the air,
06:32and I just laid it up and under him, and I got a thumbs up.
06:35Isn't it amazing how you can remember that?
06:36Well, dude, when you've got Red Auerbach sitting there watching that, right?
06:40Yeah.
06:40And back in the day, I guarantee there's a bunch of guys listening.
06:43That's what those camps were.
06:45You had access.
06:46I mean, you had crazy access.
06:47Oh, yeah, yeah.
06:48Right?
06:48To those guys.
06:49Zero.
06:50Zero now.
06:51How about trying to make a team?
06:52You're a sixth-round pick, and you've got to sleep in one of those lousy cots
06:56in a bunk, right?
06:58And the thing at night was you go and root for your counselor
07:01because he's trying to make the team.
07:02Can you imagine those two rounds in the NBA?
07:04There were, I think, 15 rounds.
07:0715 rounds.
07:08And of which nobody's making the team.
07:10You know when they show those old clips, there's like two dudes in a room.
07:13It's like wood paneling behind it, and they're like,
07:15the Knicks take Steven Shapiro in the eighth round, you know?
07:19Right.
07:19No, nope.
07:19And what kind of scouting, like, you had an NBA staff right now.
07:25I mean, there's like four.
07:27And the resources they have now.
07:29I can't believe how many people work for an NBA team.
07:32I saw the guy that found Jerry.
07:32First of all, you know they have eight coaches just at the game.
07:35You've got the four on the bench and the four behind.
07:37Oh, yeah.
07:38I mean, every single player has a coach if they need it.
07:41And then the scouting department's like 12 deep.
07:44Dude.
07:44There's only 15 guys on a roster.
07:46Only about nine of them are going to play.
07:48And March Madness this year, each team had a guy watching the game live
07:52to tell you to challenge the call or not.
07:54Right.
07:55There's a guy with an iPad that is sitting 60 inches from the court,
08:00and he's telling the coach.
08:02For college.
08:03College.
08:04Yeah, college.
08:04With an iPad.
08:05That's your job.
08:05Yes.
08:05Little Bobby Shapiro is sitting in the back row, and he's giving you that.
08:09We need to report.
08:10And that's a dream job for some kid who, you know.
08:13He's 25 years old.
08:14Oh, my God.
08:14That's all he's supposed to do now.
08:16Right.
08:16You better be right.
08:17You better be right.
08:19It's nuts.
08:20Last night there was a challenge in the Carolina-Vegas game.
08:23It was 2-2.
08:24And it looked like Vegas had taken the lead 3-2, and the ref had waved it off.
08:28Well, this is interesting.
08:30You don't lose a timeout or whatever.
08:33John Tortorella challenged Vegas.
08:36If you don't get it right, the other team goes on the power play.
08:41Okay?
08:41So think about this.
08:42Somebody goes, challenge it, challenge it.
08:45That's a goal.
08:46The puck was loose.
08:47You challenge it, which they did and lost.
08:50Now you're a man down in a power play.
08:52Yeah.
08:53Now you're playing five on four.
08:54That's your penalty.
08:55And they scored on you.
08:56So some guy told John Tortorella to challenge it.
08:59You got denied.
09:01You lost your challenge.
09:03But losing your challenge means you lose a player.
09:05And now you're on the shorthanded side, and you give up a goal.
09:09I get lost in an Instagram reel or something the other day.
09:13And so evidently, they're trying to play USA versus Canada somewhere exhibition before the season starts this year.
09:21And neither team will agree on a location.
09:23Right.
09:24They want to play in Canada, and we want to play here.
09:27That would be awesome, though.
09:28To start off the NHL season, to have those two teams play one more time.
09:31Well, whatever we got, was it a couple of years ago when we got them in the finals, the prelude
09:37when they scored in overtime?
09:38I think it was overtime.
09:39That was in Boston.
09:39That was in Boston.
09:40Right.
09:40When they beat us.
09:41Yes.
09:41We beat them there when we started.
09:43We dropped the gloves in the first five seconds.
09:45Right off the bat.
09:46That was the greatest thing ever.
09:46I'm going to tell you something.
09:47The way we've showed our ass, they're going to fight.
09:50Listen, if it's an exhibition, and there's no penalty for the suspensions, they're going to drop gloves.
09:55Imagine going back to Canada, and they have to look at that highlight forever.
09:58The Chubb brothers, they're going to drop gloves.
09:59No.
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