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00:00Steinian guru on 95 7 the game
00:04all-star weekend
00:05Hey the shambles
00:08Oakland Arena got some love that was awesome. I just wish somehow they could incorporate I'm being serious
00:14I said this when they moved get play some home. Yes, that would be I said this when they moved and everyone's like
00:21Oh, yes thing right? Yeah, really brought it up. He was exactly where you think he got it
00:26He got it for me and I'll tell you why and don't you look at me like that
00:30No, you're sad the bottom line. He got it for me, but I did the bottom line is this
00:35the Boston Celtics they used to play three games a year for yeah, the
00:43Team the
00:46Cow was the the Kansas City Kings. They played half their team after games at Omaha
00:51It was the Kansas City
00:53Hockey, that's tight. Let's see the Atlanta Hawks. They used to play games in New Orleans to try to
01:00Up their family. Awesome, man. Come on people
01:05Shout out Rick Barry three three games at Oracle. Tell you why
01:11Charlotte
01:12Who else stinks?
01:14Atlanta, you know, they should make go play there
01:18Like the first three or I guess all three opponents like it should be LeBron
01:23The Celtics should have to play there. Oh, no, the Celtics weren't in there
01:27LeBron Kyrie now with the Mavericks
01:29She had clay come back and play there and then like James Harden whatever team he's on. It's not a bad idea
01:36Yeah
01:37But it's not unprecedented. It could be done
01:40Let me let me just play that stuff on including Oracle in the festivities
01:45Maybe you've been a part of our journey and understood the highs and the lows of everything
01:49We've experienced is the Golden State Warrior franchise Oracle is front and center as the symbol of that
01:57It's such a unique place
01:58Oakland such a unique city
02:00You need town and the idea that we had an opportunity to pay homage to the 47 years that we played
02:07in that building and
02:09The memories that we had I got real emotional yesterday going back
02:12I've been back a couple times before but not with the crowd and not with a basketball floor on the on the ground and
02:18Being able to kind of reminisce and it was very special for sure
02:22I know there's a lot of talking like we should play a game there
02:24I like that idea, but Oracle is a special place in my heart and a lot of fans
02:30We've been a part of this journey, too. So it was really cool. Wow
02:35You remember I will he will Chamberlain scored a hundred points. Yeah, where did he do it?
02:40He did it at Hershey, Pennsylvania
02:43Hershey doesn't have a team
02:45But they played in Hershey to expose people in the middle of Pennsylvania to the professional basketball product
02:52Mmm, there's no reason the Warriors couldn't play three games a year at Oracle
02:58Damn, that would be sick. Joe. Come on Joe whether we believe you knees that year's 90 maybe
03:05Let's go to Joe and Walnut Creek
03:07Joe in the creek. How you doing, buddy?
03:11Good, man. How you guys doing? Hey, well
03:14Hey, so look back. You can't really blame the players, right? So back in the day they fly in at noon
03:21They play a game at five. They fly home that night. They get rest before and after it. But what's the NBA do?
03:27They're like, hey, here's a great idea. Let's have a dunk contest and that's kind of cool
03:32And then they're like, well that made us some money, so let's do a three-point contest and then that was kind of cool
03:38And then they had a skills contest a rising stars game and it turns into this four-day event
03:45Because you know what they care more about the 50 million dollars that they're making for all the owners than getting the players seven days rest
03:52Would you rather Steph and Dre rest seven days and come back fresh and hit it hard?
03:58Or would you rather make the owners an extra 50 million bucks?
04:02I mean, so the players are sitting here and they're just kind of like, yeah, we're just racehorses, man
04:08We're just out there. We're making the money and they all know the best thing is for them to get rest
04:13So that way you can push for a championship. So
04:16I'm tired of people blaming the players. I mean
04:19They need rest if you've played this game, man. It's rough. You got you have to
04:24They need rest if you've played this game man, it's rough you got you have to rest in the middle of the season
04:30So that's kind of where I'm at on it. No, I and Joe. I'll take it one step further. Thank you
04:36In an era where guys are load managing
04:40And they're sitting out regular season games
04:44What makes you think they're going to want to play in a in a in a glorified pickup game?
04:50They're not going to want to
04:52They're not going to want to
04:54um
04:55And draymond was on the I mean he was phenomenal
04:57We'll get into him, but stanny he even said not that he was ready for the weekend to be over
05:02But it was taking a lot out of him. He you know, they had a lot of obligations
05:06I know and you know, honestly people are going to laugh at that but there is something to it
05:11I mean, it's not easy for these guys to have to get up early
05:14Go to appearances
05:17Then go to practice
05:19Then have to go to some festivities then stay out all night and drink till four or five in the morning
05:25And then they've got to get up at eight again. It's not easy on these guys
05:30It's not and that's the other problem of having so many older players
05:35In the league right now
05:37You know shay gilgis alexander. He was out till four in the morning and he was fine. He was fine
05:44Lebron why do you think he didn't play because he's too old now?
05:47He can't go out and stay out till four and then play he can't do it. Well quick question like legitimately
05:54I wasn't aware of how many
05:56Commitments someone like steph curry had this weekend
06:00Did that used to be the case where like if it's in chicago in jordan city?
06:04He's got to be somewhere from 8 a.m. Until essentially 3 a.m. For three straight days
06:11Not like this no not to this extent
06:15I mean, maybe that's the reason too. It's like they don't have energy
06:18I mean and yet he won the mvp because this is you're right evan
06:22This was his hometown and I gotta believe he had more to do than anybody
06:25And and gave back to the community him and aisha and his family. Yeah, I mean
06:31now
06:32On the one hand these guys do have a lot of commitments
06:35On the other hand, I mean, they're just getting chauffeured around everywhere. You know what I mean?
06:38Okay, I mean there's something else they all curry I bet curry spent most of this weekend in a big black
06:45Escalade no, no, it was the uh vans. I saw him get out of one. They had to look you're right
06:51It was like I was like, oh man, those got to be cool
06:53Let me read this from the 669 to you and evan and the fans all star 957 the game week
06:59all week host and producers and the director
07:03work without pay
07:05Would the staff have the same motivation or would some even show up?
07:11What does that mean like if you if you had to do
07:14I don't want to speak for you. I love you if you had to do something for no pay
07:18Would stoney still be chipper?
07:20Or would you be like? Oh my god, goo
07:23I'm, not getting paid, but i'm doing it for the listeners
07:29Well, what do we what do we do when we go to fremont bank
07:31Like
07:33Well, we don't get extra money, but that's not a week those are a couple hours, right?
07:36But it's but we do it three or four times a year. Yeah, and we just do it
07:41But we're gamers
07:43Uh, let's go to jesse
07:45In oakland girl, what's up? Jess? How you doing, man?
07:50Hey, how you guys doing man? All right
07:52this is uh, uh, probably the the only time I can
07:56Recall that I think I agree with steining on every point he's made this morning
08:00And it's actually kind of scaring the hell out of me
08:02um
08:03You know goo goo. I love you, man. I love your passion, but I i'm afraid that what you
08:08What we all want because you want what we all want. It's just so unrealistic in this era
08:14right like this is
08:16The most spoiled let's just be real i'll be frank
08:19This is the most spoiled generation of nba superstar we've ever seen right and like power to them
08:25you know, but these are guys that
08:27you know
08:29You know, this is the only probably profession where guys can straight up say i'm not showing up to work tonight
08:34But i'm still getting paid right and stein he touched on something earlier in the segment
08:39That you know, I agree with 100 and it goes more to the bigger picture
08:43Of what's happening with the fan base and why are ratings down? What's the disconnect, right?
08:48You have the average joe who works his nine to five maybe even works two jobs, right?
08:52And and he gets home he wants to watch his favorite team play and then on any given night you find out, you know
08:57Oh, well the two best players on our team aren't playing tonight for whatever reason but the very next night
09:02They're playing 30 minutes. They look completely fine, right like and that's just happening year after year
09:08Um, it's just too unrealistic
09:10To ask these guys to care about something
09:12That's an exhibition game when they don't even show up to work every night for the regular season games
09:17You know and a caller and this will be my last point a caller made a really good point earlier
09:22you know, it does feel like
09:24Wf now as far as uh, all-star weekend does and you know who loves wwf, you know
09:31What age I was when love wwf because I thought it was real
09:3517
09:38It's not it's not for me anymore i'm a 33 year old grown man
09:41I didn't watch a single second of all-star weekend, but you know what?
09:44That's my choice and i'm not going to complain about it because I didn't watch it, right?
09:49I'll i'll watch the regular season as best as I can and hopefully
09:53The players that I like to watch will choose to show up, you know, because you know
09:59I feel like i'm taking time out of my night to I want to watch you. I respect you your game
10:05But there is a big disconnect and I just don't think you can fix it
10:08Thank you for the take, uh, giving me time guys. Have a great rest of your show
10:12Yeah, I appreciate you jess and you know what he kind of hit me in the cardiac muscles. Johnny
10:16There's nothing you and evan haven't said
10:19But you know again, you can say grow up or just forget the memories that you have of the league and the all-star game
10:26But he said something that hit me is so you think that ship has sailed?
10:29It's unrealistic to get these guys to care. Yeah, even if you put some compensation and
10:35Do you know the winning team got this or that?
10:39I i've just asked I mean how okay. Here's the other thing. These are all stars
10:45Okay, so it's the all-star game
10:49So we're not we're not having an exhibition game
10:52for a for the most part
10:55With a bunch of guys in their second year who are making 2.3 million
11:00The all-star game is for all-stars and these guys tend to make
11:0550 million a year. I mean just look at the payroll like stef 55 million lebron
11:1260 million
11:14You know shay gilder's alice at 40 million. They're all making you I don't think you can incentivize it enough with money
11:21I I just don't
11:22And you don't like the home court thing, uh for the finals, right? Do we like it in baseball?
11:27I hate it in baseball. Most people hate it
11:30I don't want I don't want 11 guys who aren't playing in the finals to determine who's going to get the uh,
11:38Who's going to get home home court advantage?
11:40Um, let's go to leroy in oakland our man leroy, how you doing
11:45Yo, hey, what's up guys? Hey, what's up, baby this meeting? It's me and you goo
11:52Man, i'm a hundred percent with you goo all that other stuff. These people bumping goo man bunch of
11:59Hypocrites, is this what we would tell our kids that they was playing in the nba?
12:04Wow, dude, you're making a whole lot of money. So, you know take plays off you're going to the all-star game
12:10You'll take plays off do this rest loans management. It should be all about your money
12:16No, this is not what we're going to tell our kids. We tell our kids to give our all no matter what
12:23And until we in the position, we want to bump and play monday morning quarter
12:28Quarterback or guard or whatever you want to call it the bottom line for this is this hey goo
12:34Let's just take our ball and go home man
12:37We ain't even gotta watch the nba no more if it's gonna be like this because what I saw over the all-star weekend
12:44Look, i'm a homebody. I've been watching games for as long as I can remember 54 years old and I watch with passion
12:52There are people that can't go to the games but are at home watching with passion giving it their all me
12:59My wife my sons yesterday. We bought food. We bought everything man. We kind of decorated the house
13:05We were all up for it. Everybody was giving their all the dancers were giving their all the halftime performances
13:13Were given their all the entertainers the people in the in the building that work for these organizations
13:20Giving it their all everybody is giving it their all except the players steini. How is that fair?
13:27Oh, that was that was I love that. I don't think it is leeroy
13:32I mean, you never said it's right. You just said I wake up I can come look I I just get it. Wow
13:38Leroy, thank you. The nba has created
13:42their own problem
13:44It just has
13:46Silver's get there's there's a the load management part. I think is
13:51infected this yes, it's it's just
13:54Absolute these again these guys load manage regular season games
14:00So what do you expect they're gonna do for an all-star game
14:05Like this
14:08So you're saying it's bigger than the all-star game the the nba is all the
14:16The number one rule in the nba if you're a player right now is self-preservation
14:22You want to laugh I said it it's longevity over legacy. It just is
14:27It's about playing it is about playing
14:30As long as you possibly can for as much money as you possibly can so you can continue to live
14:38the lifestyle
14:40And as long as an owner, there's an owner out there willing to give a guy like paul george
14:47Who's at 35 years old?
14:50Until they're willing to say you know what we can't give a guy this old who's never played
14:56Um, you know a full season in the last six
15:00It's going to continue
15:02I mean it's going to continue for good and it's out of my
15:05Steph curry you're paying steph curry's the highest paid player in the nba
15:11But we all know he's only going to play 66 games at best
15:14It's just the way it is now and and I don't even find that within real quick
15:19I don't even find that like that's a good number for me. Well, you said curry's gonna play good, but that's the point
15:25There there's a generation of fans that watch john stockton play 82
15:29Every single year and bird played hurt and jordan played hurt and elijah was as competitive as they came
15:36Nobody would nobody was taking a big contract and saying I think i'm gonna play about 65
15:42I don't know
15:43Back in the day. It was actually a source of pride to play 82 games. Oh, you're right
15:49It's not anymore now. It's the other way
15:51guys want to be like
15:54the biggest sign of clout in the nba is when you can get a
15:59dnp
16:00Rest, I thought lebron did that yesterday. That's right. I'm, sorry. That's when you know, you've got power
16:08dnp
16:09Rest that was a flex all you need to know about the league and i'll say this to that leroy man. I'm still feeling that
16:16um, I mean he painted the picture but
16:19Stani what I i'm licking you in the face right now, and I can't tell you
16:24What next year's nba and some out there can be like who cares go move on?
16:28I can't tell you what that game's going to look like because I think it's going to be joan rivers again
16:34There'll be another facelift to it and they're trying to capture something that they once had
16:40And all we ask for is again starting not broken legs just effort
16:46Yeah, and if you are right and that's what it is
16:49Then man, I did not like four different teams
16:53Three team one team not even of nba all-star caliber
16:57I thought draymond knocked that out the park and again that wasn't pointing the finger at one somebody. It's just like
17:03You know, what are we doing?
17:05And we're kissing ass to get the guys to play or care again yesterday to me
17:11Forget where it was at because it was in our home city and that and that's made the weekend great
17:16But as far as the effort study, I didn't see any difference
17:20The games were shorter draymond may have been right
17:24But they brought the rising stars into the equation
17:28Because you guys don't care
17:31And last year was such a joke that not even the commissioner of the nba
17:36Could support it
17:38He couldn't even support it
17:41So because the guys don't compete damn then you gotta what what how can we how can we get them?
17:48How can we get them to compete? How can we get them to compete?
17:51How about this?
17:52Just tell them to go to the bahamas and come back ready the second half of the season to go to the playoffs
17:58Wow, I mean who would miss any if they got rid of still get named all-star, but there's no game
18:04Who would miss it who would miss all-star weekend?
18:08Well, you're gonna look at me and laugh
18:10Stunning I was out and about but I dvr the celebrity game. It starts there for me
18:16They they had the hbcu like i'm a sucker for and even set you are in heart. I love a minority. It's not even funny
18:24man
18:25Well leroy's in that same one with me
18:28because he painted a vivid picture of how
18:31You know, that was a that was an event for them in their home
18:35They were all in and I feel like leroy's like me stony. He said it. I don't need to say it for him
18:40They were kind of let down with the product
18:43but
18:44See three-point contest. I don't you don't get that. It's just would you like to see stuff?
18:49But it's shooting so you get what you signed up what you know, you get that part of it
18:57And I love mac mcclung i'm getting hate on here like dude, I love what he did but he's symbolizing
19:03What's wrong with the stars and how they look at the league and the fans?
19:08That's all I mean I just
19:12I
19:14I don't understand
19:16Why a superstar?
19:18Would come to the all-star game and and be like
19:22Revved up to quote unquote compete. Damn. There's there's no incentive to compete
19:30And here I go again. I'm living in the past kobe. Garden. Jordan. Well, this is that's the other
19:35I mean like that stuff was and this is the other thing like let's can we stop with the
19:41Oh like yeah, jordan got matched up with with with kobe a time or two. I got a picture on my phone
19:47That's fine. You know and wemby takes kairi irving. That's fine
19:52That's that's fine. But we gotta stop pretending like the all-star games in 1985
19:59Were like the finals they weren't like the finals
20:02The nba players back then had an agreement
20:05They would coast for about three and a half quarters and then they would kind of try down the stretch
20:11Not like it was an nba finals, but they knew how to put on a little show
20:15The way they knew how to kind of keep the game close. Yeah, and then the last six seven minutes they play
20:21and that was good enough for everybody I don't it's
20:25It's not good enough for anybody
20:27uh these days
20:29so
20:31A lot of people saying castle should have won
20:34I'm, not saying that but snotty. What did you make of the dunk? Let me see it. I only saw mcclung's okay game winners
20:41So what what did I miss? No, just castle had some good dunks without the props
20:45And that's not me hating. I just i'm not a big well shocker prop guy when it comes to the dunks
20:51I like to see you kind of do something that
20:54Dominique did or vince carter?
20:56well prize picks
20:59Uh the props
21:01No, that's a four did prize picks have props for like the all-star weekend all weekend all week. It's like give me one of them
21:07Well, you could pick like over unders or more or less. Sorry, uh, buddy heels don't score
21:13Yeah, buddy heels three point total. He had the highest one. I thought evan was gonna win
21:19Hero beat him
21:20But he made the finals though. Yeah, his first round was the highest score. I think since curry. Oh, wow
21:26Yeah, he was hot. You know what that means?
21:29big second half
21:31Big second half for buddy healed. I feel like it. I feel like it's gonna happen
21:39And the team
21:40Draymond mentioned championship. That was great
21:44One of the things you know, you're just you're so idealistic
21:47I I think that's what it is and and good to the people of me and good you
21:52you're so idealistic and
21:55Quite frankly I envy it
21:57Because i'm i've become more skeptical than you but you can't understand I had it we had it
22:03We had what what we're yearning for to come back right pride in competition guru. That was 30 years ago
22:12We can't go back
22:15We can't and I hate your answer if you're right I am right about god, you know
22:20My mother-in-law mary brown god rest her soul always said and she harped on it
22:23I I used to like it's not either halves and have nots but just sounded like the players are the halves
22:29The these contracts are so astronomical
22:31That the regular fan is the loser now that they're getting that that's true
22:36Ah, I mean you think it doesn't affect ticket prices
22:40You know how much it costs to go to a game. It's right. That's why i'm saying if the lebron fan
22:44Bought the ticket just predicated on seeing him in the bay
22:47I'm, not saying he wasn't hurt man. No, they saw him
22:50Oh and then he came out he was introduced to street clothes
22:55Look at this guy
22:57Eight eight eight nine five seven nine five seven zero is the number for example
23:01Could I could i've gotten a prop bet on let me guess steph winning the mvp
23:07Well, you just would have bet it straight up and I think he was the favorite
23:12Yeah
23:13Not rigged to play good in his own backyard starting not that big of a stretch
23:17No, I know and he was gonna get it no matter what
23:19He hit that half course shot and give him the mvp
23:24He did more than that