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00:00Wow.
00:01All right.
00:02So let's look at the bracket now for Vegas in city on Saturday, the double dip of great
00:08games.
00:09So basically, right.
00:10College football ends and we've got semifinals of NBA Cup and it's stead on Saturday in Vegas.
00:19That is precisely what you'll get on Saturday.
00:21So here's how it looks.
00:22The first game will be at 430 East Hawks and the Bucs for the east side.
00:27I'm seeing Milwaukee at minus three and a half right now.
00:31There it is for you.
00:32Why would you do that?
00:33Honestly, why would they do that?
00:34What?
00:35Why not?
00:36Seven and 930 or something.
00:37I mean, you know, television rules.
00:41Well, here's actually also why.
00:44And I don't like this at all.
00:45I get why they're doing it.
00:46And I was going to get into this conversation with you.
00:49They are selling this as two separate tickets.
00:53So it's not like when you go to like a college doubleheader at one of these things where
00:57you're in for one ticket, you're in for both games, they play one game, 30 minutes.
01:00So they're going to play the first game, make everyone leave, and then bring them all back
01:06in.
01:07So that's why there's a four hour gap.
01:08They have a four hour window to do all this.
01:11So they're going to play the first game at 430 East and then they're going to play the
01:14Rocket Thunder game at 830 East.
01:17So it's like a split double header, he's like to say.
01:20And I want to say this to you.
01:21That's absolute bullshit, Jack, is what that is.
01:23Well, it's it's money is what it's all about.
01:25Now they do have some issues.
01:27Gabe brought this up and I actually was going to tell you, I saw the Arash tweet too.
01:32Bucks Hawks is going for 29 bucks right now.
01:36Thunder Rockets for $39.
01:39You can get in.
01:40His tweet says, tickets have plummeted since the teams were set last night.
01:45The Vegas people were hoping that the Lakers, Warriors, Suns, Clippers, Celtics, or Knicks
01:50would be there, but no dice.
01:52They're upset that all the small market teams are in the NBA Cup with OKC, Milwaukee, Houston.
02:00They don't like that, Sky.
02:01They wanted LeBron, Steph, or the Celtics, or the Knicks.
02:06They want the big teams out in Vegas and they didn't get it.
02:08So now no one's going to go to the games, they say.
02:11Well, I, you know, that's ridiculous because let me tell you something.
02:16Here's how this is going to play out.
02:18Anyone that's in Vegas this weekend that's there partying, like, you know, obviously
02:24Elvis is going to the Eagles concert and then a Garth Brooks concert, so he's not going.
02:29But if you and I were there, we would go to these games and anyone that has money that
02:35is in Vegas gambling and drinking that has money that is there to party, they're going
02:41to go too.
02:42And they don't care who these teams are.
02:45The locals don't like the teams.
02:48Oh, like they like that Raider team that sucks and never wins.
02:52I mean, what's next, the A's?
02:54How they don't win?
02:56I don't believe that.
02:57Who cares?
02:58Frankly, I'll say it.
03:00Who cares what the locals think?
03:02It's not that hard to fill an arena to watch an NBA basketball tournament game.
03:08I still think they'll draw.
03:10I think everyone that's there as a tourist partying, drinking, drugging, sexting, whatever
03:17they're doing, they're going to go to the games.
03:19Why not?
03:20If I were there, I'd go to the games.
03:21Maranci and I already said we'd go to the games.
03:23I'd go to the games.
03:24I don't care what local people are doing.
03:26Screw them.
03:27It doesn't make a lot of sense to me because I get you don't have the huge brands like
03:33the Lakers, the Knicks, etc.
03:35But you still have stars here.
03:37It's not like they got teams here, Giannis, Game Time, SGA, Trae Young.
03:43There's a lot of great players that are going to be there.
03:47You got stars in these two games.
03:49Doesn't make a lot of sense that the interest wouldn't be there.
03:52The Rockets have stars too.
03:53The Rockets have a bunch of guys too.
03:56They have a great young team.
03:57This is just stupid.
03:58Stupid.
03:59I don't know.
04:00Who cares?
04:01I'll tell you one thing.
04:02It's on national television and I'll be watching.
04:06I don't care what those people think.
04:08What do you mean?
04:09You people.
04:10You people.
04:11The Thunder are the favorites to win the whole thing, by the way, with the four teams that
04:15are left.
04:16The Thunder are the odds-on favorite.
04:19There it is right there.
04:20It's their plus-a-buck 15.
04:22Still get the Hawks.
04:23Now, you said this before the games the other night.
04:26I gave you that list of the eight teams when there was eight teams left and the Hawks were
04:30down there in what, the 25, 23, 24, 25-to-1 range?
04:34Yeah, 23-to-1.
04:36And now you'd be sitting fat as they go to Vegas, still having some good hedge opportunities
04:43if you had that ticket.
04:44Still a good one with them.
04:45What did that say?
04:46650, I think it said, for the Hawks when we just put it up?
04:49So you still get yourself a nice number with that.
04:51Five.
04:52Five.
04:53Five.
04:54Let me tell you something.
04:55They're going to beat the Bucs and it's going to be the Thunder and the Hawks.
04:59And I agree with Marenzi and I didn't need him to tell me.
05:03But the Thunder, look, they're the best team of all these teams, without a doubt.
05:08They're the youngest, fastest, best defensive, best front office, best everything, best star
05:15player of all of them.
05:17Let's face facts.
05:18It'd be Giannis or it'd be Shea Gilgis, right, in this thing, in this scenario.
05:23And I think the Bucs are average.
05:24They can barely beat a magic team that was so shorthanded it wasn't even funny.
05:30And I experienced that last night, a shorthanded team I played on and we still won.
05:37I don't think the Bucs are as good as everybody thinks they are.
05:40And I'll tell you what.
05:41Let's say the Bucs beat the Hawks.
05:42Fair enough.
05:43Let's say they beat them.
05:44They're still losing to the Thunder.
05:45They're losing to the Thunder.
05:46And I'll tell you one thing.
05:48They will get all kinds of physical with Giannis Antetokounmpo if they make the final.
05:53Because I think most people think it's going to be Milwaukee and Oak City in that final.
05:58Would you guess that, Mike?
06:00Yes, I would think that that's what everybody would expect, would be that.
06:06Would be Oak City and the Hawks.
06:07I'm sure Milwaukee's favored.
06:09Milwaukee's favored over the Hawks in the first game, yes.
06:13I think the Thunders, they're the favorites for everything.
06:16Whoever they play, they're going to be favored at this point in time.
06:20So there you go.
06:21NBA Cup, Vegas this weekend, very exciting.
06:25This is now, this story is now reached.
06:28I'm getting really sick of it.
06:30Just trade the guy already.
06:31The Suns are another team Jimmy Butler would allegedly be open going to.
06:35Cut the cord here.
06:36Can we trade this guy already?
06:38I can't do this every day.
06:39There's another team in.
06:41The Heat are thinking about it.
06:43This team's in.
06:44This team's out.
06:45You obviously want to trade the guy, so trade him.
06:48Just get it done with.
06:49Let's go.
06:50So we got the Suns, the Mavs, the Rockets, the Dubs are all automatic that they want
06:56to do a deal with him.
06:58I don't know if it's that they want to do a deal for him, but he would go there.
07:02He would go to those teams.
07:04So I guess you got to cater to the player.
07:07Remember that in the NBA.
07:08Always the player has to be catered to.
07:10Whatever he wants to do.
07:14LeBron, unlikely to play tomorrow night against the Timberwolves.
07:18He allegedly still has that foot soreness.
07:20So he's going to potentially miss two games in a row.
07:25I actually, before I saw this other story today, I forgot that this guy existed too.
07:32Bronny will play his first G League road game tonight in Arizona.
07:37Who cares?
07:38Bronny back in the news.
07:40Dirk Nowitzki close to finalizing a deal to join Amazon Prime's NBA coverage next season.
07:47All right.
07:48We'll see, I guess.
07:49I've never heard Dirk do any analysis of the NBA.
07:54So we'll see how that goes for him next year.
07:57Let's just be honest here.
07:59Okay.
08:00So whenever there's games on there, like tonight, right?
08:04Such a pain in my ass to go get it.
08:08I'm like watching games.
08:10I'm watching hockey.
08:11I got the game.
08:12And I'm like, oh yeah, there's the night games.
08:15I got to pick up the remote.
08:16I got to change over to the streaming network.
08:19And then it comes on and it says, watch now or start from the beginning.
08:26Why the hell would I want to start from the beginning?
08:28How about when it goes over there and it just wants to refresh your membership,
08:33decides that day you need to re-sign in.
08:36I haven't remembered a password to any of them.
08:39I have to call my son at San Diego State.
08:42I'm like, yeah, can you give me those passwords again?
08:44I think those streaming network games suck.
08:47And I got to go do all these hoops to get to it.
08:50After a while, I don't even care.
08:52I watch hockey.
08:54Get ready.
08:55Steelers on Christmas Day on Netflix.
08:58So make sure you got your password updated.
09:00Obviously, I have Netflix and I'll watch the Steelers on Christmas Day.
09:04I mean, obviously there are some teams that I'm willing to jump through hoops for.
09:10The Rams and the Niners might not be as big a hoop to jump through.
09:15My buddy called me today at Carver High and he said,
09:18and I don't even like this guy, you know who he is, in Vegas.
09:21And he says, Sunday's going to be great.
09:23Sunday's going to be great.
09:24You ready for Sunday?
09:26I'm like, listen, dude, I'm going to punch you in the face.
09:28Isn't he an Eagle fan?
09:30Isn't he an Eagle fan?
09:32He's an Eagles fanatic.
09:35He thinks it's just automatic that they're going to kick the Steelers ass.
09:39Automatic.
09:41You know too many Eagle fans.
09:43Between him and Kincaid and all these other guys.
09:46There's just too much Eagle juice flying around.
09:52I like how they all love each other now, too.
09:54You see all these guys yesterday.
09:55AJ Brown and Hurts.
09:57Everybody loves each other.
09:58Don't believe it.
09:59I don't believe it for a second.
10:01It's their phony episode.
10:04All love each other now.
10:05So there you go.
10:06We have three games tonight in the NBA.
10:09And I will just, we will do those when we come back.
10:12Because we're at the end of the hour, and we have some other things to do.
10:15So we will do the three games tonight, which include the Celtics and the Pistons,
10:19the Raptors and the Heat, and Sacramento is in New Orleans against the Pelicans.
10:24So we'll do those, and then start the football,
10:26which will be the Rams and the Niners this evening.
10:30Thursday night game to start Week 15.
10:32So very busy next hour that we have.
10:34Honestly, the three NBA games are awful tonight.
10:37You talk about, I mean, second-class citizen games.
10:41These three games are as bad as it gets.
10:43It really is.
10:44They're not great.
10:45They're not great games.
10:46Who wants to watch the New Orleans Pelicans and all of their problems?
10:49We'll start in Boston, where the Pistons come calling for the Celtics.
10:54Minus 12.5 for the Celtics here.
10:59Always a big number when you walk into their building.
11:01Total at 225.5.
11:04Can the Pistons stay within the number tonight?
11:07Yeah, I don't think so.
11:10You know?
11:11I didn't even think so at 14.
11:13Everybody started betting it, right?
11:15And now it's 12.5.
11:17So I still think the Celtics will blow them out.
11:20I love that bench with Pritchard.
11:23The way they shoot threes, Tatum, Brown and company, it's ridiculous.
11:27I don't even know.
11:29I don't care if Porzingis is on that team anymore.
11:31They still wipe people out.
11:33So they're tough to beat in the garden.
11:35I'll still take a shot with the Celtics there at 12.5.
11:38Yeah, I think it might be because they've played twice already this year.
11:42This is the third time they're playing.
11:44And the Pistons have been inside 10 both times.
11:48So they lost by 10.
11:49They lost by 6 each time that they've played this,
11:52including a couple days ago last week, the 4th.
11:55So eight days ago they played in Boston, and it was a 10-point game.
11:58130-120.
12:00So that could be why everybody's running to the window.
12:02That means Celtics tonight.
12:04Hammer, squash job for them here.
12:07Raptors in Miami against the Heat.
12:10Heat minus 10.5.
12:12224.5 the total.
12:15Yeah, I think Barnes is out, obviously.
12:18So I'll take the Raptors and the 10.5.
12:21If all the star players are out, give me the Raptors.
12:24Yeah, and Raptors beat them last week in Toronto.
12:27They also played a week ago.
12:29And the Raptors beat Miami up there north of the border.
12:32So we'll take the big points with them down on South Beach.
12:35And the Kings are in New Orleans against the Pelicans.
12:39Kings minus 7.5 is the number for us here.
12:45Yeah, I like the Kings.
12:49That number, you know, 7.5 is kind of fishy for me.
12:52It's a big number in that building.
12:55And I know they're getting healthier, right?
12:57It's not as bad as it was where they had all their problems.
13:00Remember that 1.5 point spread they covered when we were making fun of them?
13:04Maybe they're the bet tonight, 7.5 with them at home.
13:08Kings win, don't cover.