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00:00we're about to go to another friend on the river islands guest line in fact he is uh um out
00:06at
00:07the nba finals in the midst of all of the stuff and msg and he didn't have to pay a
00:13hundred
00:13thousand dollars to get in that's how big of a deal this guy is our friend with espn uh mark
00:20spears hi friend how's it going out there man i'm in the bowels of msg trying to find the quietest
00:27place i could talk to you guys a little easier to get in here today than it was uh last
00:33time for
00:34obvious reasons but um you know it's kind of cool man i saw the wu-tang clan performing at halftime
00:40i
00:40saw method man the crew uh practice for the game and you know there's certainly some interesting
00:47things about this game tonight i do think that whoever wins tonight perhaps they could start
00:53either planning a parade on broadway or planning the parade on the riverwalk um you know i need to
01:00the sadly for the warriors the only time in 38 attempts that a team has blown a three one lead
01:06was with the warriors uh in 2016 as you guys know and um you know if the next one tonight
01:12they'll go
01:13up three one and that's pretty commanding uh but on the flip side and if the road team wins again
01:20the spurs split it goes to two very interesting set uh the team with home court advantage is 23 and
01:29nine in those situations they're winning the finals at 71 that would give spurs back home court and
01:35at some point right home court's got to give and uh they would certainly be at the advantage with
01:42uh basically two of the next three games uh potentially at the frost center in san antonio so
01:49i truly believe that tonight whoever wins this game could very well be uh putting up a banner in their
01:56arena it sounds very plausible and i just wonder as you look at game three and what went wrong for
02:02the knicks how many of those things are correctable they can bring into tonight in a game that it's not
02:08a
02:08must win for new york but certainly being up 3-1 gives them a huge advantage i think it is
02:13i think
02:14it is a must win um to me the thing that's scary is and you know you guys are my
02:22fellow basketball
02:23ogs man all heads yeah what they always tell us get your butt in the post if you was a
02:27big guy get
02:28your butt in the post and wendy finally did it it took them three games to do it yep and
02:33this is what i
02:34saw that first game in dallas i was there when he was a monster an absolute monster this dude had
02:41an
02:41easy 30 game last game finally doing that so i expect him to do that being in norcal too you
02:47guys
02:47are very very familiar with dearon fox i thought he had two really really poor games in the first two
02:53games and he finally broke through in the second half of uh game three and so if dearon fox can
03:00finally
03:01be that dependable number two score and you know dylan harper certainly been great i think it bodes
03:08well for the spurs tonight um i don't think that even though he's had some high scoring numbers from a
03:15shooting standpoint brunson hasn't had a great series you wonder if he's to break through that
03:21but um you know when you have all those defenders that the spurs have and wendy wendy under the basket
03:27it certainly creates a lot of challenges mark you know that uh all leagues are copycat leagues and so
03:33i'm so fascinated uh by whoever wins this series from this perspective the spurs come from the school
03:41of tank and draft the knicks came from the school of absolutely nobody on this team was drafted what
03:49what's the better way to build that was not not by the knicks oh but not by yeah like they
03:55didn't
03:56draft any of these players they're like uh today's veteran nil team exactly who's right
04:02indiana hoosiers football right like that's that's who they are so what's the best way to build a team
04:09i'd i'd say the wimby way if you can get wimby
04:15so i mean uh tanking certainly got a lot tougher with some of the rules that the nba is implementing
04:21now that i think are too late really matter next year's draft it's certainly not going to be on
04:26this upcoming draft level um but i mean wimby is it's funny how the spurs have gotten three iconic
04:35centers you know since what 95 um or i'm sorry 88 whenever david robinson came in and so i mean
04:45it's
04:46if you get wimby man i think we'll go in that direction because he is special he's going to get
04:51better i think he and maybe instead of being in the shaolin temple maybe be in the weight room
04:56get a little stronger get his lower base a lot stronger and i think he's just gonna continue to
05:03uh understand the things that make the game easier for him better and better and he's going to get into
05:10a demonstrative regular level soon does he have the personality to be the next face of the league
05:20definitely he is he has sinister words he's very very smart he has no problem letting you know he's
05:28great in a nice way i knew that wimby was a quote machine when he played for the metropolitan 92
05:37uh with a teammate this is true story at a teammate by the name of steve ho you fat
05:43not a this is true name for one of you making that up i mean we don't body shame on
05:49this show
05:49mark look it up okay go look it up all right i wouldn't say that publicly if he was that
05:54wasn't
05:54the man's name and and wimby actually told me he has the guy's jersey his old teammate steve ho
06:00you fat's jersey uh framed in his house it's a true story um so wimby said when the metro 92
06:08were
06:09playing against the g league ignite his first games in america and he was playing against the guy that
06:14was supposed to be super promising in that same draft in scoot henderson he said if scoot henderson
06:21was born a different year or in the draft a different year he would be the number one pick but
06:27unfortunately he's in my draft and scoot was really really upset and mad about it until the
06:32game started and he's like you know what i think i understand what big fella's talking about
06:37you kind of left that alone i need to apologize mark uh he had a long career um in france
06:47he's from
06:47french guyana uh steve with threes couple up front and then one at the end and oh you fat
06:55that's his name he's how you fat i mean that's why mark spears is the best we can do about
06:59it
07:00yeah it's uh it's mark spears espn you want to you want to impress me in your uh man cave
07:06get that
07:07jersey in there i'm on it don't challenge me i'm on it 14 different teams the last name is on
07:13the
07:13back of the jersey and it's those three words yeah might have to wait for my kids to leave for
07:18college it's inappropriate the wife might not like it right not not not big but anyway hey mark i got
07:25like a an nba landscape question you know the draft is 13 days away free agencies right after that
07:32and and maybe back in new york right it's like maybe what we're watching in the playoffs right now
07:37um doesn't register at all but but maybe it does what you're watching right now it leaves the warriors
07:46where strategically what what what's the big picture for how you'd approach this offseason if
07:53you're them well somebody that would know that that's close to the king suggested to me that he
08:03thought he was staying in los angeles today so um all right but you got to be creative you got
08:09to
08:09see if lebron james is interested you got to see if you could you know get you honest you got
08:14to see
08:14if you could move up in the draft you just got to see you got to be creative and and
08:19see what you
08:20can potentially do um you know is anthony davis available would the warriors want somebody like
08:27that um i just like kyrie irving i've been watching these videos lately he looks amazing
08:35i don't i'm not sure if dallas wants to keep him or not although messiah sounds like he does
08:40you know new orleans is always kind of looking to retool so i'm i think the thing with dunleavy
08:47you're just going to have to sit down with him and leary harris and the rest of their crew and
08:51just
08:51just be really really creative um i do think they should try to bring chris stapps back obviously
08:58draymond back and all that but i do think it's going to be on the warriors uh front office to
09:04kind of
09:04come up with something creative to to help put them back in the mix you know i know a guy
09:11that
09:11you could potentially get that i i don't think it would you know again you got to be creative but
09:18like why not look at a guy like demar derosen i think he certainly could help bring some depth
09:24once jimmy gets back or take the load off of but when jimmy gets back and i think
09:29demar would be really really happy to come um uh not saying there's anything there but my whole
09:37point is i just think that the warriors need to be creative from a veteran standpoint to bring
09:42somebody else in uh that could give an extra boost to this team uh offensively you mentioned
09:48yannis and mark had already said he's not talking about yannis anymore but you brought him up so i'm
09:53contractually obligated to follow up is there any plausibility that the warriors would part
09:59with this year's pick and a bunch of other picks to bring in yannis i would i would if that
10:07was
10:07possible i would i mean i i guess what else is involved in it right but i mean if you
10:14could get
10:15one of the top probably five players in the game um we could get them to uh kokoro you know
10:25make them
10:25feel comfortable there get them some good greek food um you mean kokori right sorry kokoro i haven't
10:32been home for a minute man it's all right i mean yeah yeah yeah i get a freebie kakari hook
10:41me up
10:41kokori since i'm giving you all this look um why not try that's that's what i mean it's like just
10:47just try you gotta try you gotta try you gotta be creative but to me if i'm the buck
10:54if i'm trying to make a deal i'm talking to washington i'm talking to utah i'm trying to
10:59get a higher pick i'm trying to get one of the top picks and i i just don't know if
11:03the warriors
11:04ultimately unless yannis is like steadfast and they want to listen to him about you know going back
11:11um i i just don't know if the warriors have what they would need to get something like that done
11:18i agree with you and then i think there's the third piece which is um i just don't buy that
11:24that's why i mentioned yeah rosen man like like like you gotta be realistic about who you are when
11:31you look in the mirror right and somebody like the rosen type of player is obtainable
11:37i think i think you gotta be like realistic about who you are what you could get veteran healthy guy
11:46just somebody that could come in and really make an impact and i don't know that the the warriors are
11:51gonna get that a-list guy but i'm sure there's some b-list players out there that you know the
11:57warriors could get that could help them and i truly believe if when when that team is healthy when
12:03stuff is healthy like you got a shot i mean the knicks will show you that if you look at
12:07the knicks
12:09they're not the prettiest team in the league man and i think there are people here that believe that
12:13this is going to be their only shot that you know cleveland's going to be better obviously boston's
12:19going to be healthier um you got some other teams in the east that are going to be scary so
12:26um but things could always line up in the playoffs like the 2019 raptors to fall in your way
12:33to make a championship uh possible so i think for the warriors um you just got to get your best
12:39and
12:39healthiest team on roster and just you know even if you're not the favorite you just want to
12:44be able to go in there and fight mark spears espn is with us so i i know you're just
12:50throwing
12:50the rosen out as an example of what you repeat that for the people in the back yeah they don't
12:56say mark spears said he's coming there yes i did not say that no let's let's just me novice gm
13:02saying in a realistic world that's somebody you should look at we don't want to do an aggregation
13:08sensation i i get it so yes i know that i know that's what you meant but but i guess
13:14this is sort
13:15of what it inspired in my mind because i think warrior fans would have a really hard time if
13:20you did bring in that b lister and he too is over 35 they would do that for a lister
13:27lebron
13:28is there anybody with a two in their age that that is gettable for the warriors i wonder about
13:36trey in in in um new orleans yep you know you hear a lot of things about him i mean
13:45i think warriors
13:47fans would probably roll their eyes at me on the name anthony davis um you know how does that
13:54zach levine oh oh boy he's gettable um he's a bucket it's just you know like i said uh
14:04tyrie irving uh could is that backcourt too small or would it be scary both yeah it would be both
14:14yeah uh so again i think you have to be creative i'm a derosen fan he always plays like 80
14:23games so
14:24like that matters to me that to me some of these older guys they transcend age um he's one of
14:30the
14:30more durable players in the league right so um but um i'm i'm just curious so what kind of
14:39creative creatively you could do you know uh kalal where is gettable with the miami heat that gives
14:45you a rim protector miami seems frustrated with him but he is a young kid who perhaps just needs a
14:51opportunity somewhere else i think miami has some young guys you could possibly poke away
14:57um maybe you could give a chance to zachary rasashay from from atlanta and you know because
15:04sometimes what i would do if i'm a gm is you go target places like joe dumars in new orleans
15:11or
15:11atlanta where they have a relatively new guy um no um and chicago you know places like that
15:19where you got young or new gms eager to you know make a change and so they might be more
15:27willing
15:27to trade somebody they haven't fallen love with than say people that have you know been been gms of
15:33teams for a while so i would i'd probably certainly target teams like chicago and new orleans and
15:40dallas and you know some of the teams that um you know have some fred washington some fresh new blood
15:48in there making decisions um all right mark uh it sounded very real inside baseball thing to say
15:54but i mean i got you like the bay area basketball crowd is very intelligent so i think they understand
16:00what i'm saying i'm sure they appreciate that um it sounded earlier like you were saying that the
16:05winner of tonight's basketball game is going to very likely win the trophy so who do you think wins
16:10tonight's basketball game um good aggregation uh sensation um uh i feel like the spurs saw something
16:21last game uh that uh from a fox standpoint from a wimby standpoint that um they're certainly ready for a
16:31breakthrough game but it's it's going to be hard in msg but and and i am certainly uh a bad
16:38luck charm
16:39in terms of picking people you know the schlep rock so to speak but i kind of like the spurs
16:45tonight
16:45okay boy that would be uh that'd be something if the home team goes oh and four uh hey dude
16:52you're
16:52you're the you're the best for coming on on game day thank you so much man yeah y'all the
16:57best for
16:57having me man i mean come on now anytime i could talk to y'all and my people at home
17:03man it's an honor
17:04so seriously and and anytime we can have you it's an honor thank you man we'll do it again
17:09soon all right brother okay there it is mark spears espn in the bowels of msg
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