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00:00All right, welcome in to another episode of the Ryan and Goodman podcast.

00:24We are without Gary Tanguay again.

00:27This is two straight weeks, I'm wondering if he's on a beach somewhere, Bob.

00:31I don't know.

00:32No, he's in front of the camera.

00:35Much better.

00:36Much better.

00:37Trying to get in front of the camera.

00:39So that's what he's about.

00:40He's otherwise occupied today.

00:42All right.

00:43But I'm sure he's with us in spirit, don't worry.

00:45That's right.

00:46That's right.

00:47That's right.

00:48All right.

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01:00Let's get to it, Bob.

01:01The season's not that far away.

01:03Not that far away.

01:05You know this with these preseason games.

01:08Last night, it was strange watching Klay Thompson in another uniform than the Golden

01:15State Warriors, but he played for Dallas.

01:19I think he scored about 10 points in the first half, played a bunch of minutes, and you know.

01:24And guess what?

01:25It was two for four on twos and three for five on threes.

01:28Ain't nothing changed, folks.

01:30No doubt.

01:31Dallas will take that.

01:32He could be a really good component, and you know he'll play well.

01:38You know what I mean?

01:39He'll be a good teammate.

01:41He'll be an influence in the locker room, I'm sure, as well as on the court.

01:46That's a really good pickup for them, I think.

01:48Yeah.

01:49Yeah.

01:50Very good.

01:51He should be a good influence.

01:52He should.

01:53It's quiet, but you wonder how, you gotta figure, even Luka and Kyrie, who have two

01:59pretty good-sized egos, should have a lot of respect for a guy who's won at that level

02:05like Klay.

02:06He can flash the four rings.

02:08Exactly.

02:09Yeah, that should do it.

02:10Right?

02:11Yeah.

02:12By the way, he's wearing number 31.

02:15He couldn't get his standard 11 because Kyrie has it.

02:19And so he chose 31 in honor of Reggie Miller.

02:22Ooh, interesting.

02:24Well, you know, the great godfather of the three-point shooters, right?

02:28So he's a member of the Klan, you know?

02:32So he chose Reggie Miller, 31.

02:35He played 10 minutes, 18 minutes, and he had 10 points, as I said.

02:41So it's new era.

02:42That's it.

02:43And that'll be worth bare watching.

02:46You know, it'll be interesting, too.

02:47Obviously, he's gotten older, but he's a few years removed from the injuries.

02:51So you wonder if maybe he becomes more consistent in a way, having Kyrie and Luka.

02:57You know, he can just kind of stand out there, Bob, and, you know, he might get some uncontested

03:02threes.

03:03Well, yeah.

03:04Oh, no.

03:05It's okay.

03:06Luka will find him if he has to.

03:07And you know, if Kyrie's in the right mood, you know, he might, you know, well, we don't

03:12know about that.

03:13But, you know, that's what...

03:14Hey, come on.

03:15Take it easy.

03:16Kyrie was good last year.

03:17Yeah.

03:18He's talented.

03:19Look, he's one of the most gifted guards ever played in the NBA.

03:22We know that.

03:23He's got raw talent up the wazoo, you know, but sometimes he gets a bit distracted.

03:28But anyway, no, they're going to be interesting.

03:30So it's, you know, I wish Klay Thompson well.

03:35So I told you this last week when we did our pod, I ended up seeing Jalen Brunson a few

03:40hours later down at College of Charleston and had a chance to chat with him for a while

03:46while we were watching practice over there.

03:48And then he talked to the team for probably about 15, 20 minutes afterwards.

03:52And the first question I asked him, Bob, I'm like, why the hell did you leave $100 million

03:57on the table?

03:58And he looked at me and the beauty of Jalen Brunson is like, he's just so honest.

04:05You know, first of all, like, that's just who he is.

04:08And the first thing he says to me, he's like, well, I wasn't eligible for it now.

04:13You know, he's eligible for it next year.

04:15But, you know, he goes, he goes, well, part of it is just kind of taking care of my future

04:20and stability and everything like that.

04:22And my dad only played nine years in the NBA, so he didn't get the same perks when it came

04:29to like, I guess they get like, lifetime, maybe health benefits for media family or

04:35something like that.

04:36If you get 10 years in, this takes me to 10 years in, like, think about that concept and

04:43what he's thinking about and giving up, again, a boatload of money because he's saying to

04:50himself, and I said this, I said, you know, Jalen, like, think about this.

04:54If I had told you this five years ago when you were at Villanova, that you would get

04:57this type of money, forget about what you could have gotten next year and leaving $100

05:01million on the table, getting whatever it is, $40 million a year, something like that.

05:05You know, what would you have said?

05:07And he looked at me, he's like, yeah, I would have said you were crazy.

05:10Well, he's got great perspective.

05:12And, you know, I still have to say it every time.

05:17I was wrong.

05:18I loved him.

05:19I wanted him myself.

05:20But when the Knicks got him and paid him what they paid him, I said, wait a minute.

05:25He's an auxiliary player.

05:27This is overpaying.

05:28I'm sorry.

05:29I like him.

05:29But come on.

05:30Well, mea culpa a thousand times over on that one.

05:33He's a great player.

05:35And he's been a godsend to the Knicks, and they're very lucky to have him.

05:39It was their first practice with Karl-Anthony Towns that day.

05:43And he said, he goes, yeah, he goes, I got the ball in the post and was backing somebody

05:50down, you know, what he does, right?

05:52He posts up the only guard in the, you know, like he's been doing that since Villanova,

05:56probably since high school days.

05:58And he said, I get the ball in the post and they doubled me.

06:01And I look out there and I see one of the best shooting big men in the history of the

06:06game out there wide open.

06:08And he's like, this is going to be fun.

06:11Oh, they're going to you're going to have to honor him.

06:12I mean, this is a plus minus.

06:14We know there's areas where he's not so great, but the man can shoot the basketball and he

06:19will enhance that offenses.

06:21No, I don't see any way you can say otherwise.

06:23You know, they they might be looking for him at the other end to do some stuff he's not

06:26used to doing or usually does.

06:27That's their they know that you think they're stupid.

06:29That's stupid.

06:29They know they know what the what the plus minus is on him.

06:34But boy, he's going to be it's going to enhance them.

06:37There's no no question about it.

06:39You know what the beauty to of listening to him talk to to the players of College of

06:44Charleston, obviously those kids were completely locked into him.

06:49You know, some of the things he said were interesting, you know, the mental side of

06:52the game, more important, the physical side.

06:54But, you know, just listening to him when they were asking him questions, most guys,

07:00you know, they rattle off an answer right away.

07:02And Jalen Brunson, like, took a few seconds to come up with a thoughtful answer, wasn't

07:09just like thrown around like some canned answer that he's been asked.

07:14He was actually thinking through this thing of how to help these kids, because let's

07:19face it, he was in a situation.

07:21He was highly recruited coming out of high school.

07:23But he said he's like nobody said he goes, I'm not the fastest, not the biggest.

07:29I'm not the most athletic.

07:31Like nothing about me jumps off the page.

07:34But I knew my role in college and I embraced it.

07:37I didn't fight it.

07:39I embraced my role in college.

07:40And eventually I was able to show people that I could do more.

07:46Yeah, no, he's one of those guys.

07:47He just knows how to play capital letters.

07:51And and there's got some guys who like that are six, five, some are six, nine.

07:56But he happens to be maybe six, two.

07:59If we stretch him a little.

08:01And but boy, he's a basketball player.

08:04And so it's so good to hear this good, nice to have people like that around.

08:09Like one of those guys that's not going to change.

08:11Like I can I can guarantee Jalen Brunson is is not going to change.

08:16And his dad, Rick, was there.

08:17The Salem High School product.

08:20Yeah. You know, it's kind of kind of fun to watch him, too.

08:24He was certainly very tough on Jalen when when he was, you know,

08:29coaching and working him out when he was when he was younger.

08:31All right. Let's get to

08:34I think the most interesting thing, you know,

08:37there's a lot of preseason games going on.

08:40You know, you try to get what you can from some of these things.

08:43I'm looking at the rookies as much as anything, Bob.

08:46You know, the Steph Castles in San Antonio, the Shepherds in Houston

08:50and just kind of seeing how they're they're doing.

08:52But there's an annual GM survey

08:56that comes out before every every season.

09:00This one from NBA dot com and a lot of things in there.

09:06A lot of questions.

09:07A lot of questions. So, you know, we can't go through them all.

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10:02All right. So let's start with let's start with a big one.

10:05Eighty three percent of the GM's

10:09holding this pick the Boston Celtics to repeat to win again.

10:14Now, that didn't surprise me, Bob.

10:16That didn't surprise me.

10:18What did surprise me was who was number two.

10:21The Oklahoma City Thunder at 13 percent.

10:25So 96 percent of the people polled pick either the Boston Celtics or

10:32Massachusetts native Mark Dagnall's Oklahoma City Thunder.

10:37Mark, who coached at Holy Cross.

10:40He was a I think he was basically a I don't even know

10:44if he was a full time assistant. He was a great.

10:46Well, it's a very quickly for people don't know.

10:48And I love the story.

10:50He's a UConn grad.

10:51And and he was going to go to grad school.

10:54That was his plan.

10:55And it was.

10:57And George Blaney talked him into going into coaching

11:00and taking that as that grad assistant deal that launched his career.

11:06And here he is.

11:08Yeah, that they have.

11:10I have a question since we got him, but their first exhibition

11:14was against a New Zealand team, New Zealand breakers.

11:16OK, they had a one 1789 something.

11:19He only played eight guys.

11:22Yeah, I just what's up with that?

11:23That's very odd in the exhibition, unless he was going to play

11:26in a different eight the next night, fully, you know, maybe.

11:29I don't know if he's done that.

11:30But the Celtics, by contrast, played 17 guys in the first exhibition game.

11:35I think part of it is

11:38maybe maybe these guys at Oklahoma City are so young

11:41that he's not worried about minutes with the time.

11:43I know, but I just thought that was unusual for an exhibition

11:46because you're used to seeing.

11:48Is there anybody else, Bob?

11:49Bob, would you go?

11:51I mean, I assume you're picking the Celtics to repeat.

11:54Maybe you're not.

11:56Who's their biggest competition?

11:57Is it Oklahoma City?

11:58I'm just not. You don't know yet.

12:00But we've got two teams in the east that I think have improved themselves.

12:04And we and I believe in themselves, the Knicks.

12:08Or maybe they're going to be overhyped.

12:09You know, that's been known to happen in New York City in any sport.

12:13And I'm not being parochial about this.

12:15I'm I grew up in 60 miles from New York.

12:18But I know really.

12:19But the press gets hyperventilated at times and in any sport

12:24and with the Knicks, with the with the New York teams.

12:26OK, but I'm I'm one of their boosters.

12:29I like this this lineup.

12:32I like the sufficient depth, I think.

12:34And and I certainly respect Tibbs, Tom Thibodeau.

12:38So I think they're going to be a formidable challenger.

12:40I think that they're they're going to win 50s over under and very likely 55.

12:46So there's going to have, you know, going to have to match that

12:48just to win the division and the Sixers with George and some

12:53good pieces.

12:54They added some depth and that they needed to.

12:58So I think now the next question, of course, is in the middle,

13:01you know, right now because of, you know,

13:05they think they answered it with Carl Anthony Towns.

13:08And certainly he's going to help their offense.

13:11And and maybe when Mitchell Robinson gets healthy,

13:14which won't be apparently until January at earliest,

13:17they'll have a formidable, you know, a nice one, two combo of contrasts

13:23because Robinson is a defender and a and a alley oop guy.

13:28And Towns is a is a skilled offensive center, really, as there isn't a league.

13:33Frankly, well, I shouldn't say that.

13:35It's all Nicole's out there.

13:36It's just, you know, he's right.

13:38He's on the next tier.

13:39Jokic is out by himself.

13:40OK, now we draw a line.

13:42We got Embiid.

13:42We got towns who have similar offensive strengths.

13:45Anyway, the Knicks and the West, there's a lot of OK teams.

13:49But I think, you know, the Minnesota, I think they

13:53they showed us something last year.

13:56And we'll we'll see about them.

13:57But but, OK, see, yeah.

13:59But but that is an overwhelming

14:01attribute to the Celtics, the respect that they've earned.

14:05Yeah, I agree.

14:06I mean, they're the prohibitive favorites.

14:08And, you know, it's as I said, it's where I keep saying

14:11I got to do the homework and I haven't done it, but I can't.

14:14I don't know of any other team that championed a champion

14:17who returned as many impactful players and lost.

14:21But it's like, I'll go the other way.

14:23Didn't lose anything, anything that mattered, nothing that mattered.

14:27And and and still young enough.

14:30You know, that's the way right now.

14:32They did your people get like Tatum and Brown are now in their prime.

14:38Your prime start at 25 to 30, 31.

14:41They're now in their prime.

14:43The guards are a little, you know, a little older.

14:45Holiday is definitely older and white is but an hour, of course.

14:49But but Prisingas is in his prime.

14:51So when did I get him?

14:52They're in their prime.

14:53Does the door is open, baby?

14:56How many? I'm going to I'm going to put you to it here.

14:59And I know it's hard because we don't know what the rosters

15:02are going to look like for whatever teams are going to be on.

15:04But how many titles?

15:05You're you're a guess.

15:07How many titles does Jason Tatum finish his career with?

15:12How many titles is Jalen Brown finish his career with?

15:14And you have to take into account.

15:16It's a little bit of a guessing game here because you got to take into account, too.

15:19Did they both stay with the Celtics long term?

15:21Like your best guess is what?

15:24Who? Two apiece.

15:27Yeah, yeah, yeah.

15:29And if they don't do it this year, it'll be reminiscent of the of the last

15:33big three who had a three year window and it could have won all three.

15:36Except for injury.

15:37You don't know if they're both healthy and breathing when,

15:40you know, in the final start or when the playoffs start.

15:43OK, well, we'll know.

15:44But everything's contingent on that for everybody.

15:46We know that. We know that.

15:47Historically, you go right back to the 1958, for Christ's sake,

15:50with Russell being hurt.

15:52So, you know, it's it's.

15:54But I think I could I'd like to say three.

15:56I'd like to say.

15:57But I mean, I just respect the competition.

15:59It's hard to win.

16:00And there's a lot of good coaches out there.

16:03I just I I'm just

16:07being a little bit on the pessimistic side with two.

16:10No, I think you're being realistic because a lot of people would be like,

16:12all right, they already won one.

16:14They're in their prime now.

16:15They're going to win three or four.

16:16Well, you know how hard it is to win three or four titles?

16:19Oh, yeah. We've had a team just do it.

16:21We have two of them in the last 20 years that have done it.

16:23Or three with the Lakers.

16:25It's been done.

16:25But but yeah, but it's it's it's hard.

16:28So that's all I'm just taking them year by year.

16:31I'm not going to get ahead of the game.

16:33I'm not. But that's that's the way I'm I'm always cautiously optimistic.

16:37I'm not generally totally optimistic about anything.

16:40So let's run through a few of these.

16:41I'm just going to run down until.

16:43Yeah, so we had some interesting ones.

16:47If you were to start a franchise today and could sign any player

16:51Victor Wimben Yama, no surprise there.

16:53Who's the best point guard?

16:55Luka gets the edge over Shea Gildas Alexander.

16:59Best shooting guard, Anthony Edwards over Devin Booker.

17:02Best small forward Jason Tatum by a landslide.

17:06I guess who's number two?

17:08Yeah, a non a non small forward.

17:10Yeah, but to me, he is.

17:12I still can't my head.

17:14I can't I can't call him a guard at all.

17:17I know he's got the ball all the time.

17:19I never thought of it.

17:21I can't believe I couldn't believe it when people were talking about.

17:23Don, he's to me, he's a forward who have who handles the ball,

17:27but he's got the ball all the time. I understand that.

17:29And but, you know, I guess when I think of point guards, you know,

17:32I think of, you know, tiny Archibald, right?

17:34I think of Bob Cousy and Bob Davies.

17:36I think I think of Isaiah Thomas.

17:39I, you know, but I don't think of a six, seven Slovenian, you know,

17:42and who who isn't that fast or anything else.

17:45He's talking about knowing how to play guy, you know.

17:48OK, but how about that fact that he does?

17:50He faces second in the voting for small forward and a first.

17:56So does he have to pick one position for him, Bob?

18:00Well, that's what he is.

18:02He's beautifully positionless.

18:04It's nice. All right.

18:06What stands out to you? Is there something I'll give you one for me?

18:10There weren't there weren't a lot of huge, huge moves over the offseason

18:13that were like, I mean, there were there were some impactful moves, obviously.

18:17Yeah, we're going to Philly.

18:18Yeah. Cal Bridges to New York Towns going to New York.

18:21We talked about.

18:22But the most underrated player acquisition I thought was interesting.

18:25And it is Oklahoma City.

18:28Alex Caruso.

18:29How about that?

18:30He finished his fifth in that in that, you know, and you know, I remember

18:34who was it was the Wall Street Journal is the guy who alerted me to him

18:38a few years ago.

18:39It was Jason Gay.

18:40I pretty much I mean, if it wasn't Jason, it was somebody that they have about

18:44this guy.

18:46He doesn't look like it looks like, you know, he's your accountant.

18:51YMCA player.

18:52But yeah.

18:54And the stats, the metrics, favorite basketball metrics

18:59and favorite him, not not conventional statistics.

19:02But he is a three point shooter.

19:03But but that that his presence on the court was very impactful at the time.

19:09And you didn't realize this at the time.

19:11And he's a he's a he's a he fools you.

19:15It's a complete because you look at him, you still can't take him seriously.

19:18You know, it's so good defensively now, too.

19:21He's so good.

19:22But he makes threes and he makes the right play.

19:24And he is. Yeah, that's a bad.

19:26Well, the one that right away, the number one question I went, oh, really?

19:30The number one pick for

19:33MVP is SGA.

19:35Yeah. Yeah.

19:36Wow. I was a little surprised at that.

19:38I want to go back with Joe Kitsch until everybody likes Oklahoma City.

19:41Evidently, evidently, that's the hip, you know, that's

19:45Mark Daniel, the pride of Lemonster, Miss.

19:48I know we we still got to get him on.

19:50We I know I've texted with him.

19:53Yeah, he said he was we needed to probably do it in the offseason.

19:56But we'll see. Yeah.

19:57Maybe get him on at some point here.

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21:43Rookie of the year, Bob.

21:45Wide open.

21:46I think they have three guys.

21:47Reed Shepard.

21:48First of all, since most people don't even know who the number one pick was.

21:51Right, right. Literally, literally.

21:53And so, yeah, I'm trying to find who was it.

21:58Reed Shepard got 50 percent.

22:00Reed Shepard was second and Steph Castle third.

22:04I like Castle.

22:05I'm a big Castle guy.

22:07But Reed Shepard.

22:09I saw somebody put out something last week that I kind of laughed at.

22:12And they were like, Reed Shepard

22:14has the best chance to be the next Steph Curry.

22:17And I'm like, no, don't do that.

22:19Well, that's that's.

22:20Don't do that.

22:21That's you know, that's inevitable.

22:23Things like that.

22:24And that happens.

22:26People get those labels and because they're, you know, hey,

22:30you know, he's a shooting guard and it's yeah, fine.

22:33OK, OK. Yeah, Castle.

22:37Who have been best player in five years?

22:39Reed Shepard, again, by a big margin.

22:42Stephon Castle, Zachary Resacher.

22:44I have to have you pronounce it.

22:46Resacher, Resacher.

22:47Resacher Nasser Al-Maul.

22:49I should know better.

22:50Bob Carrington, who I know nothing about.

22:52He's not going to pit.

22:53He's a six five big combo guard, more of a point

22:57who only played one year at Pittsburgh, was like a top

22:59hundred player coming into college.

23:02He's got huge upside, huge.

23:04But I love that five years ago, the pick was Zion Williamson.

23:08Yeah, five. OK.

23:10And OK. How about this one, Bob?

23:12Bob, ready for this one?

23:13Yeah, because at his age, who is the best perimeter defender in the NBA?

23:17Drew Holiday, 43% of the votes.

23:20How about that?

23:21That's good. 33, right?

23:22At least 34.

23:23Right. I mean, that's crazy.

23:26Yeah, here it is. OK.

23:27Best player, defensive player in general, Wimbayana.

23:29And then Bam Gobert, Holiday for Giannis A.D.

23:35Yeah. And the very underrated, unknown Herb Jones.

23:38And I love him.

23:40Nice. Love her.

23:41Classics. Yes.

23:43Auxiliary player, if you will.

23:45Yeah. OK. Here's one for you.

23:47Ready? You ready for this one, Bob?

23:48All right.

23:49Who's the best coach in the NBA?

23:52Spolstra got 69%.

23:55Mark Dagnall, second at 17%.

23:58Yeah. Ahead of Steve Kerr.

24:00Yeah. Amazing, right?

24:03Yep. Colston, you know, he can get that speech

24:07ready for Springfield any day now that he's going to make in a few years.

24:10I can tell you that.

24:12Let's coach makes the best in-game adjustments.

24:15Tyrone Lue. Interesting.

24:17That's close with Spolstra and Daniel right up there.

24:20Number three.

24:23Best offense, Rick Carlisle.

24:25Joe Mazzola, second.

24:27OK, of course, it helps.

24:28It helps when you've got everybody.

24:30We can put five guys on the floor to make threes at a time, but that's OK.

24:34We don't mind that.

24:35Defensive scheme, Spolstra, Chris Finch.

24:38Oh, very close with Tibbs and Finch.

24:41Joe's fourth.

24:43Yeah. Yeah, pretty good.

24:47Best assistant coach.

24:49Sam Cassell.

24:50Sam Cassell.

24:51Yeah. It's about time for him to get a job, get a job.

24:55By the way, Maine Central Institute product.

24:57If anybody wants to know, I didn't know that.

24:59I didn't know about that.

25:00I know that because a

25:03son of one of our best friends played against him during this year.

25:06It was his backcourt mate in college.

25:12I know I should know.

25:13Go ahead, Bob Sura.

25:15Oh, Bobby. Oh, oh, wow.

25:17Yeah. Right.

25:19Yeah. I remember him six.

25:20Yep. Six, five.

25:21He's a very athletic.

25:23Yes, he could jump.

25:24He could absolutely jump.

25:25All right.

25:27OK, let's we'll move on.

25:29We'll move on.

25:29And, you know, not a ton going on right now.

25:33We'll wrap this up certainly in the next couple of weeks

25:36once the games start to actually count.

25:38Yeah, but we don't want to we don't want to go without.

25:41I know you wanted to give somebody a little bit.

25:45I wanted to shout out to a guy with a nice career

25:50that was one of those guys that people

25:54you people want to get them and then they're not afraid to lose them.

25:57Either way, you know, you mean that?

25:59But he helps you.

25:59Danny Green retired.

26:01Danny Green was 37.

26:03He broke in and oh, nine, nine, ten.

26:08And was a member of three championship teams.

26:11But one of the few people with different, different ones.

26:14I think that's who the other one is.

26:15It's only one person can say that.

26:17And San Antonio in 14, Toronto in 19 and the Lakers in 20.

26:22And here's something I didn't realize until I was doing my little research.

26:25He was a starter on all three of those teams.

26:27Wow.

26:28Now, the most minutes he ever played in a season

26:31per game was twenty eight for Toronto in twenty seven point seven

26:35and nineteen and the twenty eighteen nineteen.

26:37OK, he had three years of double

26:41figure scoring, his career is eight point seven, but he was a defender.

26:45His high games were thirty three points, twelve rebounds, seven assists.

26:50But he was a solid, useful player,

26:54you know, and and could enhance and help any team at any time.

26:58And he had a nice career.

27:01He's got nothing to be nothing to apologize for.

27:03I remember the day when he was at Carolina,

27:06where PC was playing them very well, really, really tough.

27:09And he took over the game.

27:10He took it over and won the game.

27:11That's that's why I was introduced to Danny Green, the pride of Babylon,

27:14Long Island, by the way.

27:16I saw him play in high school.

27:17I saw him play.

27:18Of course, but in the St.

27:20Mary's, he put it St.

27:21Mary's for Tim Cluse, who went on to be a longtime coach at Iona.

27:26Oh, yes, I remember him.

27:28But yeah, Danny Green was just he was just a winner

27:31and he wasn't the most athletic dude, but he knew how to play.

27:34Became a great defender.

27:36Because again, his IQ was was completely off the off the charts.

27:41An NCAA college basketball champion, a three time NBA champion,

27:46and he'll be a good NBA TV analyst as well.

27:51OK, yeah.

27:52So we get getting ready to bounce that ball first time at 22nd of 22nd of October.

27:58Is that what is the 22nd?

27:5922nd, the Knicks come to town.

28:01And I feel like the preseason is longer this year than normal.

28:06I'm not sure that I don't know.

28:08I don't know what feels it.

28:09And I know where I want that.

28:11We can't even imagine.

28:12And I and even I go back to 1969.

28:15And it's still it was a fascinating story.

28:18Even then, the number of exhibitions they played in the old, old days.

28:22Yeah, we're talking 18 or 20.

28:24Wow. Around New England.

28:26The Celtics, I mean, yeah, they play an incredible number of exhibitions.

28:30And and, you know, now, you know, obviously in my day to place eight.

28:36You know, back in the in the 70s, they play eight.

28:39And we travel, you know, a lot.

28:41And but but never, never anywhere as exotic as Abu Dhabi.

28:45I must say that

28:47uptown Pennsylvania has is the lure, but not not not not quite the same.

28:51No, no, I'm not.

28:53You know, I'm not sure they're sending that many people

28:56to cover the Celtics in Abu Dhabi.

28:59No, no, no, no.

29:02But but so all we just keep waiting.

29:06Nothing's changed. Nothing new with them since we last convened.

29:09No, no, no.

29:10And again, we'll we'll we'll ramp this thing up next week

29:14when we get Gary back.

29:16And and I'm sure some news will will happen,

29:19especially now that Shamshirani is at ESPN.

29:23He's already getting credit for breaking the Danny Green story

29:26already the first day on the job.

29:27He's going to own it all.

29:28He's going to own it because Woj is out.

29:31I don't know how long Woj says he's retired, Bob.

29:35I don't know what that means.

29:37I think he retired from that job, but I still

29:41read the general manager at St. Bonaventure going to the alma mater.

29:45Yeah, I'm not sure that lasts more than a year.

29:47We'll see. We'll see.

29:48Well, listen, you don't retire right now

29:51and go to college basketball and become the general manager

29:54because those jobs, they suck right now.

29:57They're about raising money, raising NIL.

30:00That that will have, honestly, more pressure, more hours

30:04than than Woj thinks.

30:06By the way, I see that the transfer portal time is being reduced.

30:11Thirty, thirty days.

30:13Thank you, Ben.

30:15Did that make me happy when I saw?

30:17That's good.

30:18I'd like it reduced to seven days, Bob.

30:20Bob, if they could cut it to seven days,

30:24that would be perfect.

30:25Happy to leave you with a smile on your face.

30:27That's all right.

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