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00:00Unless it's a link to, like, a Bill Barnwell or Greg Wyshynski column,
00:03I've probably not opened ESPN.com in 15 years.
00:08I just never think of it.
00:10I'm more on the reference sites.
00:12ProFootballReference.com, HockeyReference.com, BaseballReference.com.
00:16Rarely am I on the basketball version of the reference sites,
00:20but I went to it today because I wanted to see some LeBron stuff.
00:26And it's maybe, I'm not sure if it's run by different people,
00:30but there are some things that are different about it.
00:32One being that—
00:33Compared to the other reference sites, you mean?
00:35Okay.
00:36I believe this is different than any other reference site in that, you know, group.
00:42Is, so, like, if you go to any of them, ProFootballReference.com,
00:49look up Josh Allen or Stephon Diggs, better example.
00:53Look up Stephon Diggs.
00:54You'll see a Vikings jersey and his number,
00:56and you'll see a Bills jersey with his number,
00:58and then you'll see a Houston Texans jersey with his number,
01:00and then you'll see New England Patriots jersey with his number.
01:04And if you're on a team that changes, I think maybe—
01:07I don't know the policy exactly,
01:08but I think maybe if they change anything about their uniform,
01:12there is a second version of it that shows up.
01:14Like, if the blue gets a little bit darker or lighter,
01:17then they'll put up—
01:18You're on the same team, you have the same number,
01:21but there'll be another jersey added.
01:23So there might be a fifth jersey,
01:24even though you've only been on four teams.
01:26Yeah, that can happen.
01:28Even maybe Allen has two.
01:30If the Bills ever change their stripes, you know, so to speak,
01:34then there would be two.
01:35LeBron has 11 jerseys on his page.
01:40Because, and not even including Philadelphia,
01:43which, thankfully, there's at least one place left in the world
01:48that would not put him in a Philadelphia 76ers jersey yet,
01:51because he's never worn one.
01:52So let's not do that.
01:53But, of course, the tweet that announces the move has—
01:56There he is in a full Sixers uniform.
01:58Lovely.
01:59Not everybody hates that, but I hate that.
02:00His high school jerseys are shown.
02:03Okay.
02:04That's interesting.
02:05St. Vincent, St. Mary.
02:07I wonder how many NBA players, active or even in history,
02:13have got high school jerseys.
02:15Well, that's a good question.
02:16Do you have to have been, like, maybe Kobe Bryant,
02:18because he came right from high school to the NBA.
02:21So did LeBron.
02:22Maybe.
02:23Right.
02:23So maybe that's why.
02:25I wonder if other players have college jerseys.
02:29I haven't gone to a second basketball page today,
02:32but I'm still on the LeBron page.
02:34It also has his Olympic team jerseys.
02:36Okay.
02:37And that's four of these.
02:3904, 08, 12, 24.
02:44Maybe he—did he not play in the other Olympics?
02:46I don't know.
02:48But, you know, I'm used to a certain protocol when it comes to these sites.
02:53And instead, on, you know, on the basketball site,
02:57and you're asking if that's true of, like, other NBA players,
03:01you would want to think so.
03:02Is every—no way, right?
03:04Is every NBA player's high school and college jersey shown on their reference page?
03:09One thing that is the same is the nicknames, though.
03:12There are ten—he has ten nicknames.
03:17Okay.
03:18Ten nicknames.
03:19You want to tackle this?
03:20Well, what I want to ask first is, are—is King James and the king separate?
03:27There's only King James.
03:29King James.
03:29Okay.
03:31I just wanted to make sure they weren't just fattening up by using different versions of that.
03:35Okay.
03:36So King James is one.
03:37King James.
03:38Bronny.
03:39Bron-Bron.
03:40Bron-Bron.
03:40Okay.
03:41Yeah, the kid is Bronny.
03:42Yes.
03:43Maybe he used to be Bronny.
03:44Right.
03:45Maybe.
03:46But they took it away.
03:46When he was younger.
03:46Yeah.
03:47Now the kid's got it.
03:49You might get one more.
03:52Goat?
03:53Le-goat.
03:54Okay.
03:55I'm going to claim that as a win.
03:57Are you?
03:57I think that's what that implies, goat.
04:00I mean, it's goat derivative.
04:02There's only one other one—goat derivative?
04:04There's only one other one that I think I've ever heard that I thought maybe you would get.
04:10LBJ.
04:11Oh, sure.
04:12Yeah.
04:13Right.
04:13Even though his middle name is Raymon, but, you know, the capital B, so LBJ.
04:20Chosen One, The Little Emperor.
04:25I mean, he's 6'9".
04:27The Little Emperor.
04:29The Akron Hammer.
04:31L-Train.
04:32The Akron Hammer.
04:34I know.
04:34That sounds like a very old-timey wrestler.
04:37The Akron Hammer.
04:39Benjamin Buckets and Captain Lamerica.
04:44Also, position.
04:46The next line is position.
04:47Small forward, power forward, point guard, center, shooting guard.
04:50He's played them all.
04:51He plays every position.
04:54Wow.
04:54I mean, that seems commensurate with 10 nicknames and 11 jerseys and all these awards and honors.
05:00Kobe Bryant has two high school jerseys on his pro basketball reference page.
05:05Okay.
05:06Different numbers.
05:081993, Lower Merion High School, number 24.
05:11Following season, no, actually, three seasons.
05:1494, 95, 96.
05:15Lower Merion High School, number 33.
05:17What's that, Philadelphia?
05:18I think so, yeah.
05:19Okay.
05:19And then from there, it's, you know, the Lakers.
05:21His dad.
05:22Then his Team USA jerseys are there from two different Olympics.
05:25I got Boop Powell open.
05:27There's no Olympic jerseys or high school uniforms here.
05:29Now I want to find someone who we know went to college.
05:33Who do I want to pick?
05:34Christian Leitner.
05:35All right.
05:36All right.
05:36Let's see if there are.
05:38What's his number?
05:3932.
05:40At Duke.
05:41I don't need to spell Christian Leitner.
05:42They knew who I was looking for.
05:44Is that right?
05:44Yes.
05:4532 at Duke.
05:45I got Chris in there, and it went right to Leitner.
05:50The first jersey.
05:51Oh, what is this?
05:54Nichols.
05:54There's some pop-ups here.
05:56A little pop-up traffic.
05:57No, the first jersey here on his page is his rookie year Minnesota Timberwolves.
06:02So he doesn't qualify.
06:04Christian Leitner does not qualify.
06:06I was wondering if college would be there in place of, because, you know, Kobe and LeBron
06:09didn't go to college.
06:10There is a college reference site, like even for football.
06:15I know from looking up, like, James Cook at Georgia, there's another page.
06:20It's another site that has his college stats.
06:22So maybe basketball would have that, too.
06:25So maybe, like, if you're looking at Leitner, you might see, like, college stats and then
06:29a link.
06:31And there you might see his Duke.
06:35Meanwhile, Michael Jordan.
06:36Michael Jordan.
06:38Who's this?
06:38Michael Jeffrey Jordan.
06:40Laney High School Buccaneers, 80-81, number 23.
06:44Was he cut?
06:44Was he not cut from that team?
06:46Maybe this is post-cut.
06:48Okay.
06:49University of North Carolina, 81-84, and then, yeah, Team USA, 84 Olympics, and then all
06:56the other.
06:56So it has his Carolina jersey?
06:57It has his Carolina jersey and a high school jersey.
07:00Okay.
07:00Well, that's different.
07:01Yeah, right.
07:02Leitner has neither.
07:03Okay, right.
07:04And, you know, LeBron wouldn't have, or Kobe wouldn't have college if they didn't go to
07:07college.
07:07Right.
07:08Right.
07:09That's what I was wondering.
07:10I wanted to, if you went to college, you went to college from high school, is your college
07:14jersey represented?
07:15In the case of Christian Leitner, the answer is no.
07:18Jordan went to college, but unlike Leitner, has both his high school jersey that maybe it's
07:24the level of star you are to some extent.
07:27Maybe if you get the high school, you get the college, too.
07:29We need to find somebody that their college jersey shows, but not their high school jersey.
07:34Because who would even know the high school?
07:36How many NBA greats can you even name where they went to high school?
07:42Very few.
07:43I mean, if you're like a super fan, you can do it.
07:45You're going to know Garnett, maybe.
07:46You're going to know LeBron.
07:47You're going to know Kobe.
07:48I couldn't have named.
07:49I know LeBron's high school because I have a friend who went there.
07:53But, like, that could be, that might be the only one I could name.
07:55I know, well, Leitner went to Nichols.
07:58I guess I know that, too.
08:00That's local knowledge.
08:01Buffalo guys, I might know.
08:02James Harden, Oklahoma City Thunder.
08:04Nothing prior to that.
08:06No college, no high school, no nothing.
08:09Okay.
08:10I don't know.
08:10Want to try somebody else?
08:12Steph Curry.
08:12I'm on a roll here.
08:13All right.
08:14Look at Bulldog navigating the reference sites.
08:16This is groundbreaking.
08:18Look up Steph Curry.
08:19Davidson.
08:20But I don't know where he went to high school.
08:21I couldn't name his high school.
08:22I don't know why I went to Seth, not Steph, which was a big miss.
08:29What do we got here?
08:32No, just Warriors starting in 2010.
08:34Does not rate.
08:36High school, college.
08:37Does not rate.
08:38Steph Curry.
08:39Right.
08:40Okay.
08:40One of the best players of this generation.
08:43Absolutely.
08:44Do you have any feelings about LeBron going to Philadelphia?
08:47You've been a LeBron guy.
08:48Yeah, I guess if he is back on a team that plays in this time zone and then gets, you
08:58know, look, I'm not going to tell you in November, I'm going to go, okay, where's the
09:03Sixers game tonight?
09:04I'm going to be watching a hockey game like 100 times out of 100.
09:08Um, but once the playoffs arrive, yeah, they'll, they'll, that'll draw me in.
09:15That'll draw me in.
09:16I think cause I, yeah, I'm, I'm, I've always rooted for him.
09:19Yeah.
09:20Not always.
09:21I did not like the Miami thing that that was, he turned, turned villain and that just was
09:25not that cool.
09:26But so I loved him, wanted him to have success in Cleveland.
09:30He left.
09:30He was kind of, I don't want to say dead to me, but I, I, I watched him in those
09:35Miami
09:35teams in the finals, but I, I wasn't invested in it.
09:38So it just felt kind of gross.
09:39Uh, but once he got back to Cleveland, I was all in, uh, and I wanted him to do well
09:45in LA too, I would say.
09:46So yeah, I'm a, I'm a LeBron guy.
09:48That's fair.
09:48And I like the time zone point.
09:49I think I will pay more attention because he's playing when I'm awake and you might think
09:54now this is it.
09:56But, and I don't, I don't, again, not paying the closest attention to this over the years,
10:01but I don't think we ever got to, this is the end for him.
10:05Even like last year in LA.
10:07Right.
10:07Where's anybody talking like he was going to retire?
10:10What were most people expecting?
10:11He was going to just sign somewhere and play and keep playing, which is what happened.
10:16So, you know, a guy like this, even if it's not your favorite sport, you might want to
10:21see it when it's their end and you know, now, now it sounds like this is that.
10:28Right.
10:29Yeah.
10:29I think he's mostly said like, this is my, Zach had it in the update.
10:32This is my last decision.
10:33So, um, yeah, it's more than one year.
10:36It's a two year deal.
10:37So like, you know, that doesn't mean he has to play next year.
10:40Like a hundred thousand dollars.
10:41He can do whatever he wants.
10:42Or maybe a little bit more than that.
10:44Way less than Patrick Hane got.
10:46I just, I just love all the, who's beating this team.
10:49Like who's stopping these guys.
10:50And I'm, I'm looking at that.
10:51Like, again, I don't follow it super closely, but doesn't Embiid miss like more than half
10:56of every season?
10:57You know what?
10:57He's like, what do we do?
10:59You put him on that graph.
11:00Like who's stopping these guys.
11:01I'm like arthritis.
11:03Like he's stopping this team.
11:04Like, what are you, if you're counting on him, like, I know you've got all these other
11:08dudes, like those other dudes, maybe can do it on their own.
11:10But like, if you're counting on him, you might want to mention that he played 19 games last
11:15year.
11:16Well, you know, having said that, let's get to our first guest after the break, Sam
11:21Paniadovich.
11:22He'll, he'll be able to speak intelligently on this.
11:25I cannot.
11:27I'm not even going to try.
11:28I think we did great so far.
11:29He did.
11:30We mostly talked about the internet.
11:32He did text me about the Sixers, like how the odds have come down on the Sixers.
11:38Of course, you know, maybe being a favorite or the favorite now.
11:42So Sam will know, do some football with him too.
11:45Sigmund Blum today as well.
11:47Mike Schoep and the Bulldog here.
11:48Happy Friday.
11:49Beautiful day.
11:50Thanks for joining us.
11:51You can do that on a video stream.
11:53Now, if you didn't know on YouTube or Twitch, you can see us do this talking and, you know,
11:59reacting and, you know, sometimes scratching and pointing.
12:03Oh, it's, it's great.
12:03Adjusting.
12:04Yeah.
12:04You don't know what you're missing with it.
12:06It's big.
12:06It's, it's quite a phenomenon.
12:08Sammy P after this on WGR.
12:12You don't know what you're missing with it.
12:12You don't know what you're missing with it.
12:12You don't know what you're missing with it.
12:13You
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