00:00Anthony Slater was on with the morning show.
00:02He is also the owner of what I thought was kind of the manifesto of the Warriors offseason.
00:10This is the article we've been waiting for.
00:12This is the information we've been waiting for.
00:15If you have questions about the Warriors offseason, I'm not saying when you're done reading with it,
00:19you'll be like, oh, the Warriors are smarties.
00:22They did everything right.
00:23You may not feel that way, and I think that's completely understandable.
00:28But if you're sitting here, like I think most of us were, I'll raise my hand, I was.
00:34If you're sitting here, as we're about to get to August, wondering, okay, what is actually going on?
00:42What are they actually thinking?
00:44What are they actually trying?
00:46This article answers those questions.
00:50And so for me, the big takeaway, because this is the first time that Steve Kerr has spoken publicly to
00:56anybody
00:57since that press conference, the big takeaway for me is Steve saying that last line that I shared,
01:04sometimes not making a move can be the best thing you do for your future,
01:08and you keep stacking up good moves, and eventually you pounce when you're ready.
01:14The implication is this was not the right time to pounce.
01:17In other words, the right player is not available at the right price at the right time,
01:22in their opinion.
01:24Yeah.
01:24And so I read this, and I kind of, you know, what's your stages of grief thing?
01:29How many stages are there?
01:30Kubler-Ross.
01:30There's five stages.
01:31I know.
01:32I give it to you, though, because I've never met Kubler.
01:34Or Ross.
01:35Yeah.
01:35They all go in different order, and, you know, you don't necessarily go through a progression
01:40one through five, but there's anger is one, and I think a lot of fans have been there
01:45over the last few days.
01:45They said bargaining, which is, you know, if they stay healthy and you cut down on those
01:50turnovers, they could still be a seven seed or an eight seed.
01:54There's acceptance, which I kind of think is where you are right now, which is Anthony
01:58Slater lays it out.
01:59This is the way it's going to be, and you don't have to love it, but you can accept it.
02:05Can you?
02:06I think that's the question I would love to ask everybody today.
02:10The other stage is denial, and you could be sitting there thinking, I can't believe that
02:15they're done.
02:16I don't believe that this is going to be the team going forward.
02:18I mean, there has to still be something.
02:21I'm in denial.
02:22I believe that the denial phase was how so many of us, and I don't want to make it sound
02:29like we got schnookered.
02:30I don't think we got schnookered.
02:31They tried.
02:33They tried to get LeBron James.
02:34That was real.
02:35Well, whether or not that was ever even the slightest possibility, I know it's always easy
02:42whenever you don't get someone for everybody to go, ha-ha, he's stupid.
02:47He thought he never had a chance.
02:49It's like, you don't know that.
02:51I have no idea what's in a free agent's mind, and a lot of different things make a lot of
02:56people tick.
02:57I think through the years, we fall back on, it's always money.
03:00It's always money.
03:01Well, this clearly was not.
03:02This clearly was not money.
03:04You know, did the Giants ever really have a chance at Aaron Judge?
03:08I don't know.
03:09Guys don't usually leave the pinstripes.
03:11Did they have a real chance at Bryce Harper?
03:13I believe they did.
03:15But you can move on believing whatever you want.
03:18Was it a pipe dream?
03:19Was it stupid?
03:19They tried.
03:21But that process of us spending the better part of three weeks on LeBron watch is what
03:29you just detailed.
03:31Denial.
03:32It was the denial of the idea of the Warriors doing nothing, bringing in no one.
03:39I was in complete denial.
03:41It wasn't so much about LeBron.
03:43It was just what LeBron represented.
03:45Oh, I get it.
03:46They're doing something.
03:47No.
03:48No, they're not going to do anything.
03:50And so today, I think we get the explanation and maybe some people will be there today.
03:58Maybe some people will take some time and some will never get there.
04:02I wonder, 888-957-9570, do you accept this or not?
04:08The Warriors have openly admitted they will be adding essentially no new names this offseason
04:14because they believe that it is not the right time to pounce.
04:18The opportunity does not fit.
04:20It does not make sense.
04:21Do you accept that or not?
04:22I'm at the other stage of grief that I didn't mention, which is depression.
04:27That's the fifth stage of grief.
04:29And again, they don't go in any particular order.
04:32I've never really been that angry.
04:35I have done a lot of bargaining and the denial you just laid out was perfect
04:38because I was just thinking back to the Aaron Judge situation.
04:42And we did a show in Linden, his hometown, because we thought that he would...
04:47It's top 15.
04:48Yeah, I was going to say, 12th greatest moment in the history of this...
04:50It's a top 15 moment.
04:51Anyway, go ahead.
04:54You talk about being in denial.
04:56I went to the boss and pitched this cockamamie idea.
04:59You guys got on board.
05:00He thought it was great.
05:01Engineering did it.
05:03We go out to a drafty Elks club thinking, this is going to be it.
05:07He's coming.
05:08We're in his hometown.
05:09You know what?
05:09I want to have your back for a second.
05:11And I know you're just being glib.
05:13Totally.
05:14I thought it was genius.
05:15Yeah, it can't be cockamamie and also the 12th greatest moment that's ever happened
05:20on the radio station.
05:20Especially when the show goes the way the show went, which is we got no guests
05:24and we all got driven to the county line.
05:27I don't know for sure that we were on air.
05:31You never know.
05:32Has that ever been confirmed?
05:34Like we were...
05:35God, I wish we could paint this picture for you.
05:38I remember listening.
05:39Okay.
05:40Unfortunately.
05:41Thanks.
05:42Thanks, Randy.
05:42Long four hours.
05:44No, but I wish you could paint a picture.
05:47And I, you know, like have you ever been to, you ever see a sign sitting in the weeds
05:53when you're driving on the road in your town, wherever you live?
05:56And it's like, coming up this Sunday, pancake breakfast.
06:01Oh, yeah.
06:01Okay.
06:02You ever go to those?
06:03Yeah.
06:04Have you actually gone?
06:05For sure.
06:05You show up and it's probably like plastic forks and knives and plastic plates and people
06:11sitting around there with collared shirts that are buttoned all the way up on a hot day.
06:15And hey, how you doing?
06:17Come sit down.
06:18That was the energy of the entire day.
06:20We were in a room at a folding table with folding chairs that got pulled out when we arrived.
06:27And some guy who appeared to be named Biff, I don't remember his name, but a guy, he's
06:33just like, you know, you all got what you need.
06:36And we're like, we think so, Biff.
06:38I don't know.
06:39And we have an engineer who is the greatest in the business, but he gets off on a challenge,
06:44which I think is why he thought it was a good idea.
06:47He didn't give a rip about Aaron Judge.
06:49He's just like, let me show you that I could do a show from Linden in the middle of nowhere.
06:54And we got producers walking around at gas stations.
06:57I don't know what the hell we were doing out there, but we did it.
07:00We were in denial over the reality that is people don't leave the Yankees and he's just
07:06not coming to the Giants.
07:07And this LeBron thing, the more you look back at it and he wants to be close to his family.
07:12He wants to play with his buddies.
07:14Chase Center is maybe the best thing going.
07:17Yeah, he's going to bring Ronnie too.
07:19He'll be close to his daughter and he can take a helicopter or a jet back and forth all
07:24he wants.
07:25Denial.
07:26He was never going to come here and they knew it.
07:28But who knew?
07:30Steph.
07:31Draymond.
07:31Steve Kerr.
07:32Remember what I said?
07:33I worked myself to a spot where every single answer sounded ridiculous.
07:37I don't argue with you.
07:39You're right.
07:40The Warrior thing, there was definitely the possibility that we're like, this is, we're being sold a bill
07:45of goods.
07:45That doesn't make any sense to me, but I didn't think any of the others did either.
07:48I told you so many people, so many people I heard say, there's no way LeBron's playing
07:57for the minimum.
07:58There's no way he's playing for the mid-level.
08:00Yeah.
08:01You're telling me he made 52 last year and I'm supposed to believe that this guy is
08:06just going to take 15?
08:08That's a huge pay cut.
08:10He took four.
08:11Right.
08:12How much did he take?
08:13Four.
08:14That's right.
08:16Gene Hackman, he passed away, right?
08:18If I say yes and I'm wrong, then it's just right on break.
08:21No, he did.
08:21He did.
08:22Okay.
08:22Rest in peace.
08:23Four.
08:24Anyway.
08:25How many years ago did he pass away?
08:27I think he was last four.
08:27Have you already last year?
08:28Yeah.
08:29Yeah.
08:29One.
08:30Yeah.
08:31So anyway, yeah.
08:35That's something that was not believable was going to happen.
08:39I guess that's my point.
08:40So when people go, that's dumb.
08:42Why is he going to go play with a bunch of old people at Golden State?
08:45I'm like, well, something that doesn't make sense is going to happen.
08:48And something that didn't make sense happened.
08:50LeBron took the minimum salary.
08:53And the Warriors have done nothing.
08:54And so that's why I sit and wallow in a certain amount of depression because, you know, the
09:01scene in February, even like that is seven months away and next summer is a full year
09:06away.
09:07So you're going to be rolling out this group and not that they have to be a championship
09:12team.
09:12And, you know, Steph's quote was even in this piece about that, but even the idea of trying
09:17to fight out of the play in tournament right now.
09:20OK, I think there's some there's a conversation to have about that, this idea that this year
09:26is just automatically going to look like last year because they didn't make any moves.
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