- 1 week ago
Willard and Dibs try to make sense of something they've heard from members of the Warriors fanbase: wanting to see Steph Curry have success elsewhere. Do you actually want this, Warriors fans?
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00I'm confused.
00:03And I would love someone, I mean, I want to be open-minded here.
00:07I'd love to hear what's going on here.
00:10And I think this is a minority.
00:12I understand that it's a minority.
00:13I don't even understand how there's any of you, though.
00:16I keep hearing, whether it's friends, colleagues, radio callers, whatever,
00:22I keep hearing, you know, I'd like to see Steph Curry finish his career somewhere else.
00:30So that he would have a chance to win.
00:33And I cannot understand that.
00:37I don't understand it.
00:39I want to understand it.
00:41I totally understand it.
00:43You understand it?
00:43Can you explain it to me?
00:45Yes, what they're doing is they're projecting their feelings onto Steph Curry.
00:49Oh, you're psychoanalyzing.
00:51Yeah, that's pretty, to me, it's a classic case of projection.
00:54So you're looking at a situation, Steph Curry going gently into that good night.
01:00I think there was Yates, if I'm not mistaken, with the famous poem.
01:03T.J. Yates, he was a backup quarterback.
01:05No, it's Dylan, maybe Dylan Yates.
01:08I have it wrong.
01:09Anyway.
01:09Just hit me on the text line.
01:13That was the old O'Neal bit.
01:14But they are, he is basically going gently into that good night.
01:20Dylan Thomas?
01:20Thank you, Dylan Thomas.
01:22Not just a Thomas.
01:24Where did the Yates come from?
01:25Out of my back pocket, apparently.
01:28Fans don't want him to go out like that.
01:31And Steph doesn't want to go out like that.
01:33But he might be more willing to do that here than fans are.
01:36So fans are projecting their frustration for Steph's situation onto Steph.
01:42Okay, that's an interesting answer.
01:44And maybe that's one of the answers.
01:46There was literally a person who said to me earlier this week,
01:51and they didn't make it about Steph.
01:53They made it about them.
01:56I want to see Steph compete.
01:58You can't do it here.
02:00I'd really like to see him finish somewhere else.
02:03And I'm not questioning anybody's credentials.
02:07You don't need credentials to be a fan.
02:09You get to eat whatever flavor nachos you want.
02:13I don't, there's no rules.
02:16But I'm curious, I'd love to understand how on God's green earth,
02:24a Warrior fan could ever actively want Steph Curry to play somewhere else.
02:32To the point where this stupid thing over the weekend,
02:36well, Brad Stevens was called the Warriors,
02:38and then they're superimposed.
02:40There's Steph in a Celtics jersey.
02:42And everybody starts freaking out because that picture was complete.
02:47It was made to piss you off.
02:49Like, that's why it was made.
02:51I don't know, nor do I care if Brad Stevens ever called the Warriors.
02:56That's a non-story.
02:57I don't want to continue to have the conversation that you and I have had so many times
03:03about how the Warriors would never do this.
03:05I know the Warriors would never do this.
03:08I know that.
03:09I'm not worried about it.
03:11But I like people, and I like understanding where people are coming from.
03:17And that is a characteristic that I can't understand why a Warrior fan would, quote,
03:25want to see Steph Curry compete at such a high level that you want him to play somewhere else.
03:354-1-5, I want the Warriors to trade Steph because him and Yaxola are probably the only ones
03:41with positive trade value.
03:43The Warriors aren't going to win with Steph, so they might as well get a return for their asset.
03:49Okay.
03:50Okay.
03:50I see that part of it, but you're not going to get the return for the, quote, asset.
03:55You're never going to recoup full value because he's going to be 39, and his value to this franchise
04:01is tenfold what you're paying him.
04:04He's worth more than $60 million a year.
04:06He's probably worth closer to $600 million a year for this organization.
04:09Now, that's an overinflation sensation, but he's worth more than $60, no matter how well
04:14you do on the floor.
04:15So you're not going to get even close to full value for him because that doesn't exist.
04:21That's another good point.
04:23Every time somebody, you know, ooh, you'd get four ones.
04:29You're not getting four ones.
04:31I don't think you would.
04:31I don't think you'd get three ones.
04:34And then here's the other thing, and here's the part I can't understand.
04:38For instance, so that text I just read.
04:40This is the part where I feel like you can meet people in the middle.
04:45If you are so activated by the Warriors winning at a high level again as quickly as humanly
04:54possible, could you make a business point, a strategic point, that the right thing to
05:03do right now would be to trade Steph Curry?
05:06All right.
05:07I guess you can do that.
05:08I find you to be a somewhat unemotional human being, but that's fine.
05:13You're allowed to be unemotional if you want.
05:15Some people aren't whimsical about sports.
05:18I like feature articles.
05:19You know what I mean?
05:20I was just reading Mike Silver's feature article about Dre Greenlaw.
05:24It's damn fascinating.
05:25He was super, super unhappy in Denver about four seconds after he got there, and he couldn't
05:31wait to get back.
05:32And him sharing the stories of what was going on inside his mind and body throughout his
05:38year in Denver, I find it interesting.
05:40You may not care unless he gets eight tackles on Sunday.
05:44Fine.
05:45That's you.
05:47If Steph Curry staying with Golden State means we wait two to three more years, good on you.
05:54I'm cool with that.
05:56But I guess I'm pushing this even a little bit of a step further.
05:59It seems like some of you are so whimsical about sports.
06:04In other words, you love Steph Curry so much that you would rather watch him play in May
06:13or June in another jersey than watch him struggle a little bit with the Golden State Warriors.
06:22And that's the thing that I can't understand.
06:25Well, if you have that belief, then to me, you're not really a Golden State Warrior fan.
06:29You're a Steph Curry fan, and that's fine.
06:31You can be a fan of whatever you want.
06:33I think about some of the classic examples of this happening.
06:36Karl Malone is a Laker for one year because he wanted to win a championship, and they made
06:42it to the NBA Finals and didn't win a championship in 2004.
06:45Were jazz fans who loved Karl as a jazz?
06:48Were they thinking, yeah, Lakers, let's get one for Karl?
06:51I don't know how many of those fans actually exist.
06:54I mean, that's a great point.
06:55And Karl never won in Utah.
06:57Okay, great, great, great, great point.
07:02Imagine it, y'all.
07:04Steph goes somewhere else and wins a ring.
07:06You think that would be joyful?
07:09I find that to be an incredibly painful thought.
07:12Oh, yeah.
07:13Are you all kidding me?
07:15I want Steph to be on the Spurs because I love Steph so much that I want to watch him
07:20play really good basketball with the Spurs.
07:23I don't want to watch him sit here with Malavie Leone.
07:26Sorry for the stray.
07:28Are you kidding me?
07:30Steph at midcourt with confetti falling, celebrating with a bunch of players who've never put on a
07:37Warrior jersey, holding the Larry O'Brien trophy in the air as he passes LeBron with number five.
07:45In a Spurs uniform.
07:47Yeah.
07:47You find that fun?
07:49Oh, my God.
07:50It makes me want to vomit.
07:52Completely.
07:52The idea of it is absolutely disgusting in my mind.
07:57I don't even want to think about that.
08:00And again, you're right.
08:01Y'all get to fan however you want.
08:04That, to me, does not sound fun.
08:06I have no interest in Steph Curry celebrating in another jersey.
08:11Nor do I.
08:12And if he wants to go play somewhere else, then fine.
08:15It might become my second favorite team, depending on where he lands.
08:19Like, certain teams, absolutely not.
08:21I still couldn't root for you.
08:22But if he wanted to go back to Charlotte, for example, he had this draw about finishing
08:27it up where his dad got it all started.
08:29I get that.
08:30I still would be heartbroken because he's a Golden State Warrior.
08:33But at least that would be non-threatening.
08:35And it would make sense from that emotional standpoint.
08:38But if he just goes out and finds the best team running and pulls a LeBron and plays for
08:43the minimum just so he can win one somewhere else, that would be gutting to me.
08:48I hate it.
08:49I completely hate the idea.
08:51And the other piece, too, is if you want to make a trade like this, go to your NBA
08:56trade machine and figure out who you might be able to get.
08:59Good luck.
09:00And you can get De'Aaron Fox and his contract, which has four more years, which would be
09:05maybe the second longest four years in America.
09:08By the way, they'd need to give you more.
09:09We're not there yet.
09:10The salaries aren't there yet.
09:12And Keldon Johnson, who is in expiring this upcoming year, that actually works.
09:17But Keldon Johnson is the kind of player you'd want to pay.
09:20Hey, so now you have De'Aaron Fox making 50 going toward 65 and Keldon Johnson.
09:25And that's kind of the majority of your core going forward.
09:28And you lose the chef.
09:29Makes no sense.
09:31Um, well, I don't even need it to make sense.
09:34I guess, you know, fandom doesn't make sense.
09:37I don't know why all of us care so much about sports.
09:40It doesn't make sense.
09:42So I don't need it to make sense.
09:44This is all in the fun zone.
09:45Um, but I guess I'm just trying to like, uh, connect.
09:51I'd, I'd, I'd love to hear why people would think that that would be fun.
09:57Um, in general, I think we say things about people when they leave.
10:02This is true in sports and in real life.
10:04You ever do this, right?
10:06When, uh, everybody leaves for the summer back when you're in school, keep in touch.
10:10Everybody would write it in the yearbook.
10:12KIT.
10:13Yep.
10:13Did you?
10:14I did some.
10:15Did you keep in touch?
10:16I was usually pretty good about that, but in general, not really, not really.
10:20So let me give you two more recent examples, players we love here in the Bay area.
10:28Did you, did you follow him?
10:31Did you follow Kavon Looney's year last year?
10:34Were you quote rooting for him?
10:38Well, when he played, he almost never played.
10:41Same thing with buttered.
10:42Buttered went down there to Atlanta and never played.
10:45So you follow it, but do you not as closely?
10:49The only reason there's one guy we followed last year when he left and it's because all
10:53of us, buddy, yeah, no, it wasn't him.
10:56Hi, this is Jonathan Kaminga because we had a four year argument going on and everybody
11:00wanted to be right.
11:01And we were right.
11:03And then the next night we were wrong.
11:04Exactly.
11:05That thing was like a table tennis match.
11:06And, and it still is.
11:08And he's still not on a team.
11:10Oh, they're waiting for LeBron.
11:12Well, now that's been almost two weeks and he's still not on a team.
11:16I think he might end up on the Lakers.
11:19I, but I have no idea.
11:21I don't know what's going on there, but that's the only reason we watched Jonathan Kaminga
11:25because people wanted, they wanted to be right.
11:28And they wanted to gather evidence so that they could yell at people the very next day.
11:32How about Debo in Washington last year?
11:35Were you rooting for him?
11:37Were you, were you grinding on, on the Washington commanders to see how Debo did?
11:43I like, here's what I'm saying.
11:45I would largely argue.
11:47I'm not saying that we're not still fans of these people.
11:50We certainly are.
11:51We don't forget what they did here, but I don't really think when someone leaves to play somewhere else, I
11:58don't think we care.
11:59I think we say we care the same way we tell people we're going to try to stop by, but
12:04we don't.
12:05I'm not watching another team.
12:07I don't care who plays for it.
12:09If it ends up on my TV, red zone pops up and Debo's running down the left sideline, good for
12:16you, Debo.
12:17Am I going to stand up and pump my fist?
12:19Like hell I am.
12:20He's a commander and I don't care.
12:23Like, I just, I don't get this idea that on some level you get to still have the same experience
12:32you've been having,
12:33Steph related, over the last 15 years.
12:37You think on some level that that would be the same if he was wearing another jersey.
12:41I would find it much more likely to be painful and regrettable, but then also I would force myself to
12:51be apathetic.
12:53Like, I'm out here rooting for the Spurs now?
12:57You're apathetic, but then you're watching whatever your TV highlight show is,
13:03and up pops the highlight of Curry was in the zone 11 threes as the Spurs went out and took
13:09down the Hornets.
13:10And Curry was 39 in his biggest game since he left the Warriors.
13:14So there's a lot of that would still be washing back.
13:17And I'm with you where I'd want to be apathetic, but I still would watch.
13:21And whatever team he went to, there'd be more national TV and more Amazon Prime games and whatnot.
13:26And so you still would be surrounded by the content, but it would be hard-pressed for me to seek
13:32it out
13:33because of the hurt that would go with it.
13:35You're listening to 95.7 The Game, KGMZ FM, and HD1 San Francisco, and Odyssey Sports Station,
13:40the home of the Golden State Warriors and Valkyries, always live on the free Odyssey app,
13:42and coming to you live from the Laughing Monk Studios.
13:44Hey, if y'all like this, because these are some fun texts that are coming in.
13:49If you dig this, then good on you.
13:51Good for you.
13:51I just don't, like, I did not go, ooh, Klay is on tonight.
13:55Let's watch the Mavericks.
13:57And I'm going to pull for Klay.
13:59I did that in the beginning, but then the novelty kind of wears off.
14:02I mean, what, for a night, for two nights?
14:04Then he comes back here.
14:06Remember that night?
14:07That was a great night.
14:08It was a great night.
14:09With the captain's hats.
14:10Captain's hats, and Klay started hitting a bunch of shots,
14:13and all of a sudden we went, you know what, this doesn't feel very good.
14:15I don't like that Klay is shoving three-point shots in Steph Curry's face.
14:19And then Steph Curry went off, thank you, D'Anthony Melton, for your assist.
14:24And the Warriors came back and won the game, and it felt great that Klay lost.
14:30Like, you didn't like, so I just, I don't know.
14:34I'm trying to figure all this out.
14:35We're getting people being like, I watched, I see you, 6-5-0.
14:38I watched Montana in KC.
14:41You watched him.
14:42Did you root for him?
14:44Maybe.
14:44I remember when Joe came back and kicked the Niners' ass.
14:47That wasn't fun.
14:48I didn't like that at all.
14:51And every departure is different, obviously.
14:53Like, the Jordan Poole one, initially you're all locked in to see how great he's going to be,
14:59and he put up good numbers, and then he was in Washington again,
15:01and then he went to New Orleans.
15:03And, I mean, is he still in New Orleans, or is he somewhere else?
15:06It all kind of fades away the further you get from the breakup moment.
15:11Steph would be different, because he won't play that long,
15:13and also it's Steph Curry, for crying out loud.
15:15But even Kevin Durant, it's like, all right, KD, you want to leave?
15:19I get it.
15:19It didn't work out in the very, very end, and he's gone from spot to spot to another spot,
15:24and it's hard to keep track.
15:26And he's not a fan favorite, but anytime anybody leaves,
15:29you do have that initial novelty of, oh, I wonder how it's going to work out for them.
15:33I mean, we did it live on the air yesterday.
15:36You weren't back yet, but Granny and I were sitting here right around this time,
15:40and guess who came up to the plate with a runner at second
15:44and rocketed a nice line drive into left center field?
15:47Your boy.
15:48My boy?
15:49All right.
15:50Oh, boy.
15:51Yeah.
15:52First at bat, RBI single.
15:54Hit a couple hits, right?
15:55Second at bat, RBI double.
15:56And they're cheering in.
15:57They're going crazy.
15:58Absolutely.
15:58And you look up at the TV, and you're like, dude, good for you.
16:02That's literally how long it lasts, though.
16:05Good for you.
16:08That's it.
16:09Well, in the playoffs, when we're watching them actually play playoff baseball,
16:12and if he's up, I'll be rooting for him to get a hit.
16:14Yeah, well, I mean.
16:15I won't be rooting for Philly to win, particularly, but.
16:17I mean, playoff baseball.
16:18When my team's not in playoff baseball, I'm looking for a football game.
16:22It's October.
16:23Yeah.
16:24I'm not rooting for anything other than the Dodgers to lose.
16:27That's the only, when the Giants aren't in it, that's what I root for.
16:30So, yeah, I'll root for Luis, provided that he's playing the Dodgers.
16:34If he's playing somebody else, I probably am.
16:37I'm not going to have the TV on, unless it's one of those awful Tuesday nights
16:41where they only play baseball.
16:42Well, and the beauty of the early rounds is you get games at, like, 9.50 and 11.15.
16:48That's true.
16:48That's true.
16:49And 2.05, like these crazy times.
16:51They stagger them throughout the day.
16:52So, it'll be something for us to watch here in the midweek.
16:55Like, how did Elliot Ramos do in New York last night?
17:01I don't know.
17:02Thank you for the blank stares.
17:03That's my point.
17:04Are we all root for you?
17:07I don't care.
17:10Thank you, Elliot.
17:11Like, he's a delight.
17:13He was a good giant.
17:15He was a homegrown giant.
17:16He was an all-star.
17:18He finally put that stupid opening day left field thing to bed.
17:21I'm very thankful to Elliot Ramos for a lot of things.
17:25I don't care.
17:26I don't want his career to careen out of control.
17:29That's not what I'm saying.
17:30Like, I care from the standpoint of, sure, I wish you success.
17:34Peace be with you.
17:36But I don't care if he goes 1-4 or 0-4.
17:41He's a Yankee now.
17:420-4.
17:43They batted him clean up.
17:45Damn.
17:46He took the collar.
17:47He came out hot.
17:48Hey, did Ramos?
17:49This was the only one I saw about Ramos yesterday.
17:52Pasta, did you see this?
17:53Did he go out on the field with the bottom button of his jersey unbuttoned?
17:59Elliot Ramos?
17:59Yes.
18:00I didn't see that.
18:02I want to know if I got got on social media, or will you check on that?
18:06Did Elliot Ramos take the field and forget to button the bottom button of his Yankee jersey?
18:13Which is embarrassing.
18:15That is true.
18:16He forgot to button the bottom button.
18:20It's fine to leave the top button unbuttoned.
18:25You got to button the bottom button.
18:27You actually see his belly button, too.
18:28It's just New York Yankees, dude.
18:32Guy heads out to left field with his frickin' hairy belly button hanging out.
18:37You got to be buttoned up.
18:38I see your nibbles, as my four-year-old daughter would say, whenever you emerge shirtless.
18:44Come on, Elliot.
18:46Come on, Elliot.
18:47Oh, there it is.
18:47Yep.
18:48Yep.
18:49So that's what I saw from Elliot Ramos.
18:51I don't know how he did it to plate, but I know that his belly button was showing.
18:55I used to work for a guy in radio, not my current boss, but he would always have an opening
19:01between buttons probably three and four.
19:03That way you could get a finger in there during a meeting and do some scratchin'.
19:07Oh, he did it on purpose?
19:11He didn't leave the button open.
19:12Shout out Bruno Mars.
19:14I'm going to leave the button open.
19:16But there was enough...
19:17It's total garbage.
19:18There was enough space in there to where he was able to get the index in.
19:22Listen.
19:24These things happen.
19:26These things happen.
19:28There's a rumor...
19:29That's going to ruin everybody's dinner.
19:31There's a rumor in my life.
19:32I still...
19:33I don't know if we've got full confirmation.
19:35Yeah.
19:36But there's a rumor going around that when I proposed to the lovely Christy, that my fly was down.
19:44No.
19:44It's a rumor.
19:45I don't know if it's true.
19:46I was on a knee.
19:47It's very forward.
19:48No.
19:49Come on.
19:49Christy, will you marry us?
19:51Yeah.
19:51Let's do us down here.
19:52All right.
19:53Let's go to the room.
19:56You know what that would be, right?
19:58Babe, I'm coming.
20:00It'd be a consummation sensation is what it would be.
20:04That is very...
20:05That did happen, but it was way later.
20:07It was way later.
20:08Seriously.
20:09Like, you know, we had to take the kids to ice cream first.
20:12It's way later.
20:14Fly down.
20:15Way...
20:15I don't even know if it's...
20:17Aggressive.
20:17It's a rumor.
20:18That's aggressive.
20:20It's an accusation.
20:21I don't know if it's true.
20:23And I guess there was no...
20:25There might have been.
20:25I can't confirm or deny.
20:27Any photos of the actual moment?
20:28I mean, probably.
20:30Like, there's a lot of photos of the moment, but they're at a good angle.
20:33Right.
20:33And I'm on a knee.
20:34And then we're hugging.
20:37I don't know what's going on down there, but it's possible.
20:41The reason why no one has ever seen those pictures, the photographers were from the Palo Alto
20:46Police Department.
20:49Facts.
20:50No cameras.
20:52Sign here.
20:53Initial here.
20:54We know his fly was out.
20:55No one's going to be sighted.
20:56Wait a minute.
20:57You've been engaged for 11 days and you didn't tell anyone?
21:00Exactly.
21:01I mean, Kawakami knew, but I told him to hold it.
21:04Yep.
21:05It's big of them.
21:05Just, yeah, like, let me put this on Instagram.
21:07Chris Sims, sure.
21:08Tim.
21:09Exactly.
21:09Yeah.
21:10Control the message.
21:11That's hilarious, though, that that may or may not have been happening.
21:16I don't know.
21:17In real time.
21:18So.
21:19I don't know how we got to that, but.
21:21Elliot Ramos' button was over.
21:23Gotcha.
21:23Gotcha.
21:24And Elliot Ramos is a former giant and you don't care how he does.
21:29You say you do.
21:30Right.
21:30But you don't.
21:31And that sure, I wore it Silverado had a missing button, so I'm not going to criticize
21:35somebody who, you know, I was letting the chest hair fly because I was down a button.
21:38I'm going to leave my man's name out of this.
21:40Bunch of couples went wine tasting, like, I don't know, it was last year sometime.
21:45We all met up.
21:46We get to see each other maybe once every year or two.
21:49And we were a good solid hour and a half into the entire experience.
21:55When I looked at my man and I went, buddy, is your entire shirt on inside out?
22:02Oh, boy.
22:03It was incredible that it took all of us that long to even notice.
22:08No matter who did, he reiterating his name.
22:08I got pressured only two other campuses and it felt as a woman.
22:08It came to do with his name.
22:08It was great.
Comments