On today’s show, Jake & Ben talked about MLB Opening Day, local college basketball, and chatted with David Locke.
And now it’s 10:00 a.m. let’s just get down to it and it’s time for your sports fix strap yourselves in folks from two guys who have covered the teams you’re passionate about for years we are professionals this is Jake Scott and Ben Anderson on 975 the KSL Sports Zone By now you know you’re living in A Jak and Ben 975 the KSL Sports Zone Jake Scott Ben Anderson thank you for making us a part of your day what’s going on over there Ben opening day brother got your white socks uh hat on yes sir is that optimism or is that the last
Time we’re going to see that hat are you oh oh Sarah we should obviously be be jering Ben for wearing a hat not at a Chicago White Sox game correct I’m not actively at a white sock game I mean Ben how dare you Ben holds it against the
Whole state of Florida that some uh some fan at a ray game gave him the business for wearing a white sock hat to a game that white socks weren’t playing in sure and that offended you so greatly oh you thought it was annoying you hold on
To it to this to this day the night the worst player in Major League Baseball history pitched a no hitter I should say the worst or a perfect game the worst pitcher ever to pitch a perfect game yeah that’s a lot different though than worst player in Major League Baseball history cuz be
You’re no longer the worst player in baseball history if you’ve pitched a perfect game yeah I would say right and who was that I got to pull it up I don’t remember his name he was that bad he was such a non he was like a former number
One overall pick so the potential was there he just never developed the stuff consistently Bernard frankowski maybe one day I’ll get the internet to work here oh no that’s too much to be uh it’s my fault it’s but you were there at a at a
Perfect game I was at the Tampa Bay Rays game while on the other side of the country the white socks were pitching a perfect game I see so the guy who heckled me for wearing the white sock hat I yelled back to him did you see the game
Tonight good good comeback well when he had to look up when he had to look it up he realized oh well maybe me as a raay fan doesn’t have anything to celebrate against the white socks who were throwing a perfect game that night did offend you I think people should be yelled at
For wearing apparel to a game like I don’t know what did I see yesterday I saw somebody with like a t-wolves jersey on at the Jazz game now if it’s a little kid that obviously you know wear whatever you want but if it’s like an adult yeah you
Should yell at that guy you think so I think it’s fair game go after him that team’s not playing bro no it’s fine uh Philip Humber Philip Humber oh Phil Phil Humber Phil Humber he was the yeah Phil was a flamethrower I can’t even find the draft now anyways a
Bum with a perfect game the only career highlight he has like on his Wikipedia page is that he threw a perfect game well yeah and that’s better than what 99 point 999 I mean there’s been like there’s fewer than 30 perfect games ever he’s got one of them they play up every
Team plays 160 games nonstop quit bagging on Phil uh he was a first round pick third overall selection your your uh your standards are just unbelievably High yeah well I hold myself to a a high regard hey why don’t you go out there and do something with your life I threw
A perfect game and and what else and yeah well it was in a Major League baseball game it wasn’t like little league or something it was like it was The Bigs I was throwing for the white socks what else actually to be fair I think there was a very controversial
Call at the end like there was a very clear it was either catcher interference which I think actually was one of the calls and then another one was where the guy thought it was a wild pitch that should have broken up the no hitter or the yeah the perfect
Game the Umpire didn’t call it and so the ball went to the back stop and the guy just thought like okay well that’s clearly a ball or whatever and they said no you swung at it that’s a that’s a you know you can throw that ball to first
Base you need to run to first base and they threw it to first base and the guy didn’t run and I think that’s even how the game ended like it was a total joke it was a mess of a game uh and the opposite of when that galaraga guy got
The uh got the perfect game robbed from him oh when the Umpire apologized yeah it was the opposite this kid didn’t earn the perfect game well then you’re you’re sick burn wasn’t so sick response to the guy in the history books it’s a perfect game oh man I remember when that
Umpire came out and like was emotional and apologized that if I were that picture I’d be like you at least at least give me the the benefit of of thinking that you believe you did it right don’t apologize I want to hear what do you mean you’re not the last two
Minute report what value does it have to me none zero the the last two-minute report I’ve been complaining about this for years is a joke yep don’t don’t what are you gon to go back and change the game you go back and replay the last two
Minutes no you’re not going to do any of that all it does is confirm that your referees are Y and like a very easy call I bet the referees hate that fans should hate that everybody should hate that yep just let him smugly like dick petta be like no I
Got it right I got it right we don’t think so we don’t think so but at least like we believe that you believe yeah right you got it right correct like showing some pride in your job to get it done or whatever I got to right come on
Yep no I don’t want to hear the apology umpire so yes I’m excited for opening day you shouldn’t be I don’t know who the white sock are playing probably the tigers are something terrible they’re going to lose 110 games are the tigers bad again yeah they I think they’re the
Worst team in the uh Al Cent it’s funny these historically terrible major league baseball teams uh or at least when uh from my youth you know had these random blips of being good and then now apparently you’ve gone back to being terrible like the Tigers for instance
Yeah or when they had Verlander back in that that run uh with uh Cabrera Cera yep who’s still playing isn’t he I think he this I think that was his last year last year was it this last season um the Royals though right they won a World Series right the Royals were so
Bad for so long it was like George Brett and then a Dar of winning any baseball games and then they win a World Series it’s the curse of me buying a white sock hat in 2004 and them winning the World Series that year and me thinking like oh
They win every year cuz it was my first year as a baseball fan a couple of things fell into place I randomly picked the white socks I had the Hat they won a series and they have been awful since can I tell you uh and I’m I’m just going
To tell you this story really to compliment somebody else uh but I went to a Chicago White Soxs game in 2005 the year after they won the World Series watched uh who is their flame-throwing closer Bobby jenx yeah big Bobby jenx Bobby Jinx yep um so
We I was going with a group of friends Ben we were going to a wedding in Dayton Ohio and we were driving and so we were going to go through we we did it was super fun we did like Yellowstone and Mount Rushmore and and stopped in
Chicago on our way and uh before I called my guy Steve clowy oh okay because Steve is a Chicago guy he’s a huge white socks fan and I thought baseball dude like Steve probably pretty dialed in on some ticks you know so I called Steve so Steve you got a line on
Some good tickets you know we’ll uh we’ll pay for them or whatever but uh you know just wondering if you can do a little something he’s like oh yeah I’ll get it taken care of and uh I was like ghost I talked to Steve said it’s done
Whatever uh that last I talked to him before we pulled up in a rented minivan to the game and dude Ben they rolled out the red carpet for me and my Bozo friends we had like seats on like the fourth row right behind home plate we
Had somebody come out to greet us when we went to pick up our tickets at Will Call Steve’s a legend oh dude Steve’s the best shout out to Steve I I would have thought I was some visiting Emissary or something like that it was like the best baseball experience I’ve ever
Had I don’t know Dexter Fowler getting me box seats to the yeah it’s not bad Dodger game was a pretty good story but that wasn’t because of me that was because of my beloved wife yeah and the wonderful Persian community of Utah good to have some hookups
Yeah I told you that story too where we had we were cheering for Dexter Fowler every time he came to the plate and these Dodger fans turn around and give us a weird look and like what do you want the these are his they his tickets like we’re not obnoxiously cheering for
The team the whole game but we’re cheering for that guy when Fowler comes out and the Dodger fans were like all right that make some sense and turned back around I don’t think I’ve met ever met a major league baseball player I’ve met some pro hockey players
To the Grizzlies I’ve met obviously NBA a lot of NFL players oh Dexter Fowler came in studio once oh really yeah that’s amazing uh well I’ve met Dale Murphy a bunch of times oh I I’ve seen Dale Murphy I don’t know if I’ve ever like talked to him so that makes sense I
I feel like I say this a lot but maybe the nicest man on the planet absolutely it’s why there’s like a real contingent of people wanting him in the Hall of Fame on top of his Hall of Fame worthy career that he’s a good guy and you
Should celebrate the good guys oh dude he’s amazing and uh you know I’ve done some like public appearances or or where he’s the one doing the appearing we’re there to promote it right and um he’s I mean he’s so good with fans he’s so nice it’s like uh just like thorough like we
Talked about yesterday I mean just like a genuinely like warm person I met Johnny Bench so I have met a major Hall of Famer that’s a big one catcher of all time yeah one of you and your grand pronouncements really I mean Yogi bar right Pudge Rodriguez on line five
Somewhere Mike Piaza just smashed a plate yeah okay Mike Piaza yeah uh Sarah have you ever met a major league baseball player I don’t think so did you guys have weird CBS come through when you working at the NFL um yeah but they were mostly NFL players like former players
Or player current players that are at the end of their career looking to you know being in the media now let me ask you this because I I think you’re kind of like me where you don’t really get intimidated by celebrity or or Twitter pated or anything like that I
Think people don’t kind of understand sometimes with the bis you’re you’re working you got your head down it’s it’s actually inappropriate to like fan out uh H but I I’m curious if you met or saw any player or celebrity where you were tempted to be like oh I could fan out
Right now not really cuz I feel like because I didn’t grow up watching the NFL like I recognized that that they’re NFL players but I don’t know specifically all right who they are does that make sense did did anybody wow you so um not not like really I thought it was
Kind of cool like Kyle vanoi was looking into stuff so he was there and I knew who Kyle vanoi was but like I wasn’t like Star Struck by Kyle Van I love it that the world’s this is what I love about Sarah that the world’s greatest athletes playing the most popular sport
Are completely unimpressive to her well I’m not saying that’s not impressive you know what that is also the most valuable person to have at these types of jobs totally you have to have they’re going be professional and all that it’s just like you’re just a person because the
Truth is they are now there are divos and there are guys who want to be celebrated Etc and some of them you have to and some of them you don’t have to but the person who doesn’t treat them like they are God’s gift is a really valuable person in every single
Organization I am being genuine about liking this about Sarah it’s a tra I like about my very own wife who once told Miss America to pound sand hit the road no pass no entry Miss America yeah and I do feel like it benefited me because there’s times where
We’re on set for shows and we’re supposed to like interact with the talent and like tell them what’s coming up next and where they’re going to be on the set and things like that and a lot of the people like in my position were like afraid to go up to them so they
Just like would let the higher ups do it and I didn’t think anything of it so I was like walking up and talking to them they’re like you’re the first person that’s actually interacted with us see look at you so I was like well it’s cuz I don’t really know who you
Are uh this is Tom Bradley Brady excuse me Mr Bradley Mr Brady one more times I apologize speaking of which did you see uh and as long as we’re totally doing a random for Segment did you see St Sage Steel interviewing Dana White and called him Joe
R oh man yeah that’s brutal and nice of Dana to not I mean he teased her for it but oh if we could he didn’t get up and walk out oh no we need to we need to find an old sound clip is if Lloyd’s around maybe he could help us find this
Because if you ever heard the like um La morning TV you know that that genre interviewing Samuel L Jackson but thinking they’re interview thinking he’s Lawrence Fishburn oh which is funny yeah and Jackson will not let him off the hook it goes on for like two minutes this is awkward of him cracking
Jokes about he’s like I’m the Capital One guy yeah he’s the I can’t even remember what yeah what his bank or whatever whatever his endorsement was so funny brutal oh man so funny did you find it have you haven’t heard that this is this is classic let’s Sarah’s got it
Queued up all right hit it I I tell you what you working for Marvel the Super Bowl commercial did you get a lot of reaction to that Super Bowl commercial what Super Bowl commercial oh you know what I’ve been my I you see what see you’re you’re as
Crazy as the people on Twitter I’m not Lawrence Fishburn that’s my fault I know that that was my fault uh my mistake you know what we don’t all look alike may be all black and famous we all look I am I I am guilty I am guilty he thought you were Bob Dylan
Right oh it goes on too it goes on H yeah it’s like 2 minutes long but I think that was enough pain dude uh to be fair this happened to all the Jazz writers not this year’s media day but last year’s media day when Leandro Bal Maro who youve yeah only played for
A little bit was in the Rudy go bear trade and Simone fono both signed with the team in the offseason and we hadn’t really ever seen them and they kind of look alike and Leandro came in and I think everyone was asking him questions about like Italy or like kind of trying
To figure out like yeah cuz he didn’t even I don’t even know if he had a jersey on so there wasn’t even like a way to tell like and nobody introduced him nobody introduced nobody they they just sat him down and like the nice thing was we were kind of just asking
Like European questions uhhuh and he was good about it that’s a big continent but it took like well yeah totally different countries speak different languages leel balar Spanish Simone was Italian different and uh it was like three question by uh romantic languages three questions in before everyone was like oh this is
Leandro this isn’t the guy they signed it’s happened to be a pctw media day I like where they they give you the list of players and well I don’t know if this is the tight end or the linebacker let’s go with the linebacker wrong offense or
Defense okay yeah right I mean they can wear the same number you know what I mean I did it with uh a few guys that came on for by TV for like game day I was on set and I was supposed to bring them on and I mixed up the two of them
My My Guy Gordon the legend The Godfather was once interviewing Zayn Beatles Beatles but thought it was Zayn Taylor now that’s an easy one because they’re on the same offensive line and they’re both named zaye yeah um real quick this is a good way to start
The show that’s funny okay we did play the best part where he’s talking about no I’m the Capital One guy it’s and there are obvious racial implications and the guy who was interviewing him obviously was a white guy that is very awkward Samuel L just drags it on so
Funny all right uh Andrew real quick here brings up a good point we were talking about Ben wearing a white socks hat to a raise game uh Andrew says what about wearing band teas to other concerts like a Metallica t-shirt to a Kenny chzn concert I think that’s a
Little weird all right that is and that’s a thing this is a like this is a cultural conversation I think it has like if you wear a Grateful Dead t-shirt to a fist show well yeah they’re in the same like genre like Metallica to Kenny chzn yes would make no sense but what
About a I don’t know country bounds what about a a uh I don’t know Black Sabbath t-shirt to a Metallica concert okay yeah I think I think that’s fine right with you you’re in the same thing now if you’re all geared out in Metallica gear and you’re going to a panta show okay
That might be a little weird like if you got the hat and the shirt like you think you’re going to a Metallica but I’m with you if you have if it has even like slight connections I think it’s fine which is why I think it’s fine to wear a baseball hat to a
Baseball game even if the two teams aren’t playing no totally different not comparable if you’re geared out in a white sock jersey and a white sock hat and you’re going to a non-white Sox game that’s goofy but a baseball hat to a baseball game is aopo it’s majorly except for there’s competition involved
If fish was fist fighting uh The Grateful Dead on stage then maybe it would be a comparable thing but Sports is a competition you can’t be both a white socks fan and a raay fan person I wasn’t a raay fan I was going to take it
In as a white sock fan casually enjoying basb well you ain’t in Chicago pal I get to wear it gear up or find a different hat disagree strongly or at least have the guts to represent the other team I think they’re playing the twins all right stay couple times uh Jake and
Ben 975 the KSL Sports Zone it’s time to break down the biggest stories of the day let’s go this is the top three stories of the day on KSL sports.com 975d KSL Sports [Applause] Jake and Pen 975 the KSL Sports on time for the top three stories of the day KSL sports.com brought to you by J Brooks Jewelers two locations to serve you one on Winchester Street across from fash Place Mall the other at Traverse Mountain in Lehigh all right Sarah where
Are we starting today number one the Jazz get yet another loss this was an impressive one losing to the Spurs at home is difficult uh but they managed away played 12 guys in the first quarter came out extremely flat uh won the second third and fourth quarters but had
Dug such a major Hole by being down 2915 after one that uh shocker they didn’t win and I don’t know if they’re going to win another game this season uh they could lose out we were talking uh we were talking to sue Kelly in the hallway
Who of course does a show over on the arrow and she likes to be up toate on her Sports uh in case she brings it up so we were talking to her about the Jazz and she’s bummed she’s a jazz fan yep oh I had the rpr person who it’s always
Scary when PR calls you aside or uh HR excuse me PR I’m thinking got pulled pulled aside by HR after our big uh before before the big thing before our big meeting that we had which was a fine meeting no one’s in trouble did you did
You wet your pants might have uh oh and uh Beth said hey Ben I was like oh here it comes she’s like when of the J is going to be good again I was like okay oh Beth never no you had me scared there no the Jazz are never going to be good
No I said I think next year they’re going to probably try and win some games I don’t think they’re all that interested in this anymore but if Golden State’s out of it at the end of the season who knows who they’re going to play I mean I don’t think you can count
Out and just say that the jazs are going to to lose out you’re right by the last game of the season who knows there’s a chance that golden state is not in a race for the even the 10 SE they are what a game ahead of the Houston Rock
There’s like a bunch of stuff that we we might not foresee with you you look at it on paper and the Jazz schedule looks daunting I get it cuz they’re like all playoff teams but you don’t know if they’re going to be trying to jockey for seaing or what
Exactly the motivation is going to be if I were Denver I’d stop playing my guys now yeah give yic all the rest in the world I know the one seed would be helpful but you’re going to win whoever yeah you’re going to beat whoever so just maybe not the Suns apparently they
Can’t beat the Suns but yeah just figure out whatever your first man match up is or don’t and just mail it in make sure Jamal Murray’s healthy and right yic is healthy and that so you never know you’re right and the Clippers the second to last game of the season they might
Also be in a spot where they’re like hey we’re sitting in we’d rather play Minnesota or something we’re going to which they do every year or fifth we’d rather actually be in sixth than play you know yeah this this is what I’ve always told you when you say what are
They going to go for the rest of the it’s like it’s impossible to predict that absolutely impossible to predict that but yeah their schedule they’re playing all playoff teams yeah it’s going to be they’re going to lose a bunch three and 18 in their last 21 games brutal stretch and yeah nine games
Left on the season not favored in any one of them yeah but the the jazz beat San Antonio if they don’t forget to play forget how to play basketball for a quarter or choose not to well I don’t I honestly don’t think they’re losing any of these games on purpose from a player
SL coaching down standpoint you know what I mean definitely say from the player standpoint you’re right the coach and the players I think are trying to win like from that line of management or that line in the pecking order down like Adam is going out there and trying to
Win every night sure he is he’s he’s together fantastic locker room for that team to go out and have its best chance to win I think I I believe that and listening to to Will Hardy and post games and to a lesser extent the players because it feels like our access to the
Players is dwindling dwindling rapidly um but I believe they’re trying to win now the rest of the franchise I I think they’re intentionally trying to lose MH so but no I don’t think they went out and tanked the game in the first quarter so they could ensure a loss I don’t
Think that’s a thing do you uh I do think the rotations are not designed to win games well I thought the 11 players in the first quarter was not intentionally trying to lose I thought it was a message being sent sure maybe yeah why not I don’t know because let’s
Look at it this way Ben winning isn’t of a premium got it so you can send messages you can yeah it’s like kyri Lewis has get a play so that that isn’t trying to lose that’s trying to manage your locker room sure it’s not trying to win but it’s trying to manage your
Locker room and just say hey if you want to play whether you’re playing to win or not if you want to play you got to play the right way if the Jazz are battling for the fourth seed he’s not going to play 11 players in the first quarter
Just send a message correct he’s going to find a different way to send that message but yeah if winning is not at a premium and it’s the first quarter of a game against the Spurs well send a message knock yourself out uh Jazz officially eliminated from the playoffs
With the loss last night and they are now just game ahead of the Brooklyn Nets in the standings Brooklyn beat the Wizards in overtime uh so the Jazz have 29 wins Brooklyn has 28 wins so there is a real chance I think before the end of
The year especially if the Jazz lose out that they either tie Brooklyn or get jumped by Brooklyn in the standings the Jazz would move up to the uh eighth pick in the draft eighth best odds of winning the lottery which jumps from about 20%
To 26% so one and5 to one and four not insignificant and that’s the goal yes insignificant that’s why the the race for lottery balls is stupid but I get you sure one in four is better than one in five but that’s not what we’re talking about here that’s what I’m talking about
You said what the difference between 21 and 26 20 and 26 yeah yeah 20% is one and five 26% is better than one and four so that’s what they’re trying to get to okay I’m just telling you what’s going on I’m not advertising I’m not selling tickets I’m just telling you what the
Jazz are doing yeah but all like this much effort simply for a few percentage points is foolish but I I understand that there is a difference thank you I do get that next number two the youths are headed to the NIT semi-finals good for them and uh cruised they really looked good last
Night maybe one of their best performances of the season and at this point I think teams in the NIT are trying right like I don’t know no that was my initial thought is like the the South Park Baseball episode where they’re just trying to lose loses 7454
Yeah yeah I guess was VCU just accidentally better than the first two teams they played maybe probably yeah it is the n after all their leading scor at VCU Shawn Barstow had a whopping 13 points last night 13 uh but good games uh from a couple years and a blistering six of 14
Shooting and 0 of four from three Gabe Madson continues to shoot the ball well as he has recently for the youths 18 points Brandon Carlson 17 points in his final game ever at the Huntsman Center and then Devon Smith sets the alltime record for Pack 12 triple doubles in a
Single season with five beating Jason kid which is a hilarious thing considering he didn’t start playing until like two days after Christmas or something like that and he set the triple double now Utah really wants to be there and is playing hard and keada
Had his best game in a while um did you did you watch much of this though Ben I’m not I I mean I don’t blame you if you did not and we had the benefit of having both monitors in studio so I did watch most of this game and either Ryan odm
Poisoned his team before the game or that team was trying to lose because Utah dominated VCU and if that team was trying then they’re the worst team in the country so I I I think it’s cool Utah is going to the final four I think it’s cool that they’re playing well and
That this group which is not going to be together next year is uh is playing more basketball can they win on the road no probably not but they are playing and this is unfortunate this is basically a home game because you go to Indiana which is where the and play Indiana
State and they to play Indiana State and play uh the guy that they call Kem Abdul Jabar in Indianapolis yeah the big uh the big goofy guy rob a it’s probably going to be rough we’ll see but be fun good for the youths but VCU was they
Made it to the final four VCU was barely a basketball who’s on the other side of the bracket can I pull that up really quickly Utah or Utah Indiana State as we mentioned and then the other side of the men’s bracket in the NIT is going to be Georgia seen
Hall I was talking to to Tim about this Sarah and I were talking about cool logos seedan Hall may have my favorite college logo okay that that blue pirate with the bandanna yeah pretty rad great uh all right what’s next number three a Utah State guard enters the transfer
Portal big one Mason FS left that’s a that’s a huge deal uh yeah he probably see it’s interesting I the first question that came to my mind is why didn’t he do this when Odum left and the answer I think was he didn’t have tape sure he’s got he’s got
Tape now he’s got people banging down his doors and doesn’t have to be loyal to uh to anybody he has that luxury and he he really never has because he got I think he was a dir a recruit before he went on his mission and then red shirted with
Odum I think maybe he was coach Smith but he had committed to Utah coming out of high school right and then went to Utah State so we will see does he want to go back to Utah oh yeah I mean he probably has 330 offers yeah it’s probably gonna make some dough probably
Could go to uh Seattle could go up to play for Washington Baylor has come and tried to get a lot of local kids as transfers I would keep an eye on that type of thing so uh good for him he’s I hope he goes and makes some cash he was
A good player this year I don’t I’d rather you stay at Utah State make cash at Utah State then uh also tonight thoughts do you want to finish your thought I interrupted no like but why why me as the sports fan do I have to feel good for all these players when
They leave I i’ I don’t understand I’m tell you let’s start our Cash Money Millionaires cash Val Money Millionaires for Utah State tell I’m telling you like when when my friends sports teams have success I don’t feel good for them I don’t care uh yeah because you’ve got no
Soul uh tonight NCA tournament back in Action Clemson at Arizona San Diego State Yukon bam North Carolina Illinois Iowa State those games kick off at 5:9 tomorrow is the much more interesting day yeah but uh I’m excited to see if San Diego State can do anything to Yukon
Clemson’s gotten further than I expected North Carolina’s best test so far and Illinois Iowa State’s a very good game tonight so good to have some college basketball back man I hope that Yukon loses we just talked about how you’re rooting against your friends Aztec what do you mean I’m rooting for
My friends thank you very much a win for San Diego State would make me feel so good for David James I mean he’s just been waiting this for this a win like this for a whole year I mean I just feel so good for him personally did do you realize how
Foolish that sounds No but you realize it’s equally foolish to be like man I hope my friends feel pain because their sports team loses that’s the exact same that’s the exact same thing you’re saying except for it’s cruel instead of I hope they get a smile on their face
You’re saying I hope they feel bad for the night here’s the thing I’m not saying that I hope they crash their car or I hope they’re bankrupted regardless it hurts regardless it hurts it’s not the same level of hurt regardless it hurts not the same thing that is exactly
My point whether your sports team wins or loses Your Life Will Go On it’s not a tragedy when they lose and it’s not a I mean it’s not a blessing when they win it feels good when your teams win it makes you feel better it makes life a
Little easier and we’re all just trying to make life a little easier and you don’t want it to be that way Ro for your life to be a little easier with something that is not tangible I mean I’ll I’ll root for your life it is it’s
Tangible in the sense that it makes you happy it makes you happy that that’s tangible yeah Ben you know what a premium cup of coffee makes you happy and I’m not going to root for you to get some cup of coffee on the way home when
You buy it is I’m indifferent about it when you buy coffee I would rather you have a good cup of coffee and I don’t get a joy the sick Joy you get when you get crappy Bean water but see when you buy coffee thinking oh I spent $6 on
This cup of Joe and it tastes awful and you’re like they made it wrong I’m not like you we got Jake finally you understand that coffee is a tangible real thing you’re thinking about something you can actually put your hands on like it that actually does improve or at least affect your life
Whether your team loses it has it has nothing to do with you it’s the same burst it’s the same endorphin rush it’s literally the same endorphin rush that goes to your brain I don’t have to for you to get an endorphin rush and yes I can root against that endorphin rush oh
I’m so sorry oh it’s so offensive how how dare I Ro no it’s not offensive it’s just cruel it’s just an unnecessary cruelty it doesn’t matter it’d be cruel if I clearly it matters your and I’s entire careers are based on it mattering it it clearly matters no not true our
Career is based on the entertainment it provides but it’s just that it’s entertainment and whether all torture nobody would watch and if you no torture is absolutely part of the part of the appeal because the good feels so good that the bad also feels bad it’s apathy
Would be the worst thing it’s kind of like a drug it is a drug oh exactly I’m not rooting for you to get high after the show I am I I’m not think oh I feel so good for Ben we can’t go down that road we’re gonna get
Fired all right stay tuned but that was three right more next 975 the KSL Sports Zone yeah I don’t like fun Ben I know we have some news to get to but I I just saw this real quick this blows my mind Nevada Casino has won $1.34 billion from gamblers in February in February ither you say last year no 88.5% more than last February and now an all-time record for the month that is
Incredible not $1.34 million billion excuse me with B gambled but won yeah by casinos that’s that’s incredible and that’s just in Nevada think about now all I mean how gambling can become a problem is if that’s just in Nevada now with sports gambling legal all over the place I mean
How much money are we talking about here again I don’t gamble I haven’t gambled ever uh outside of a few little like you know five $10 things here in my life but I I’ve like I’ve never placed a bet you’ve never done the 21 in do uh no I
Haven’t in fact I went on a cruise ship one time and I think I lost like $15 playing Blackjack and at the time that was the most money I’d ever seen in my life oh man I like playing 21 so I we need to get you to do buddy so I don’t
Play so I don’t gamble I don’t like losing money and I because I don’t take part in it I don’t think I’ve recognized I actually listened to a podcast yesterday on what’s going on with jonay Porter and the Toronto Raptors and how serious this is and kind of how they
Track it and how easy it is to catch you if you’re doing this type of thing and where these bets are being placed because they’re all geolocated apparently now and the difference is you know your parents I’m not accusing your parents of being gamblers or whatever we
Kind of think of the like oh I’m going to put $10 on a game and the over under said it this and then I’ll watch the game it’s like no you can bet possession to possession now all the time it’s just like it’s so easy
To get so deep in it so quickly I’m not going to touch it I’m not I I I’m just too scared that it could be a problem you know what I mean and I get why you Vegas would win a billion dollars in a month they’re not
Losing in a month they’re not losing yeah but if you think about it they they do the math so that their Marg are that they win yeah it’s like one or two% so I mean if their their take is 1.34 billion or whatever that means 100 billion is
BET yeah it’s they take 51 you take 49 and they’re feeling really good about themselves and that’s how Vegas is built yeah uh we’ve got lock coming up next but uh real quick Ben uh just to catch up folks we talked about this the other day the Minnesota Timberwolves were
Being sold to an ownership group uh starring Mark lur and Alex Rodriguez they were going to buy 60% of the franchise from the now controlling owner Glenn Taylor last week or was it a couple of days ago last week they lost that is Lori and Rodriguez lost an
Investor was only like 300 million dollar but whatever it was and now Glenn Taylor is using that as an excuse to not sell said they didn’t come up with the money in time you didn’t meet your contractual needs of when you needed to buy it I’m not selling you the M the controlling
Interest anymore so Glen Taylor who is an awful owner and cheap and has been one of the worst owners in sports which is why the Timberwolves had that long run I mean the timberwol have one series or one season in their history of winning a playoff series yeah they’ve
Had one season where they’ve won a playoff series in their history and I’m pretty sure Latrell spr well was on that team put that into perspective for you that was a while ago and Glen Taylor it seems like at least for now is going to stay the controlling
Owner which this is a tax team that going to hit the second apron and it’s it’s like you know $4 to every dollar once you’re over the second apron he’s not going to pay it well if you’re a jazz fan today because you own all the Minnesota timber worlds future first-
Round draft picks you’re celebrating Glen Taylor being a bad owner is good for the Utah Jazz we’ll have to talk to lock about I have no idea if Lori was going to be a good owner but oddar was going to be better than Glen Taylor hard
To be worse here’s uh by the way here’s the statement from the spokesperson on behalf of the Rodriguez Lori team quote we are disappointed with Glen Taylor’s public statement today we have fulfilled our obligations have all necessary funding and are fully committed to closing our purchase of the team as soon
As the NBA completes its approval process Glen Taylor’s statement is an unfortunate case of sellers remorse that is shortsighted and disruptive to the team and the and the fans during a historic winning season unquote so it sounds like they’re still going for it
Yeah I I this is not done yet but uh we will see how close they can get to figuring this thing out it’s hard to force somebody to sell something and if they didn’t meet the requirements he probably doesn’t have to abide by it lock is next 975 the KSL Sport
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Them the trail has stopped for a while so my perfect timing of getting down to the Red Pine Lodge to do the interview from inside failed because of the fact that the lift stopped for a while so we are we are cruising down hopefully you
Can hear me all right we’re skiing a run together Jake how about that done this in a lot of years no it’s been a while like it David I don’t know if you saw the news that the Minnesota Timberwolf sale is up in the air now because Glen
Taylor Glen Taylor is saying that Alex Rodriguez and Mark Lorie did not meet their obligation to have the money in time and he is no longer selling the team so he will remain the controlling owner of the team way now we will see if that actually goes through because Alex
Rodriguez and and Mark Lori are saying no we’ve met it we’ve got the money we’re going to finish this thing how big of a deal is that and what impact does it potentially on the Jazz who own all their future first round draft picks
Well I think it’s a big deal for a lot of reasons but my quick take on it is that Glen Taylor has a winner so he doesn’t want to sell a team anymore right like I think he wore out with all the losing and now sudden has a
Winner he’s like I’m not gonna like they might win we might win a title I don’t want to give let them be the ones like like that’s my vibe on that is that um I mean the mark Lori Alex Rodriguez story has been weird the whole time through if
You followed it they’ve been you know really at the last second like trying to get through they lost a bunch of funding then they did they supposedly came through at the end and got more funding so there is been there have been funding questions and you know it’s ironic I’m
At Park City like the Park City mountain and canyons came together as one mountain because someone forgot to sign a lease on a paper on the right day what a story that was that’s how they ended up getting the Canyons so it almost sounds similar to that like that Glen
Taylor might have them a day or two late and them thinking oh we’ll be fine because Glen Taylor wants to sell so we’ll be fine a day or too late now Glen Taylor’s like actually never mind wow which which is totally on brand for him because he is a bozo and you you
Got to tell him sell High dude you like your franchise is never going to be worth more and and Ben points out they’re headed for financial ruin unless they make some major moves so like now is the time to sell you know this is when the rocket sold to Tillman fertita
You know you sell when your team’s good yeah and they have major major major cap luxury problems that got a little better because of the Mike Conley deal but they signed Jaden McDaniels so you know they’re probably heading toward the luxury tax so you wonder whether Glen Taylor you know who’s advising Glen
Taylor that’s telling him like you no no like you know you still want the teamw Glen Taylor not taking advice from sometimes when you get at the top of the food chain you you don’t have a lot of people around you tell you the truth
Anymore so um you know I’m not sure how that’s playing out but that’s that’s my quick wow that’s a that has been a kind of subtly crazy story here for a while the fact is the bottom line is Glen Taylor has not been a very successful a
Good owner in Minnesota therefore if we own their picks it’s probably advantageous to us that he’s gets back in that position I mean I think they’re going to lose in the first round of the playoffs anyway so then he reh has the team then he has a luxury tax team that
Lost in the first round of the play I I think there could be some tough days ahead for Minnesota even though they have Anthony Edwards which may solve all problems uh last night we got another look at the unbelievable Victor wanyama I know his stats weren’t terrific but
You can just tell his impact on the game and what his future looks like I don’t want to talk about how good he can get I want to talk about how realistically you think the Spurs can build a title Contender around him just based on what
You’ve seen from the Spurs over the last you know let’s say post Kawai and how hard it is to build a Contender anymore well like it’s really really hard to build a contender like you look at the free like I’m not entirely sure Simone one teio is not the best free
Agent available next year like I’m exaggerating and he’s restricted so he’s not really available but like literally I was looking at the free agent list last night and I was like wow there’s nobody in this miles Bridges is probably the best free agent available I’m assuming charlott’s gonna fight the
Bullet and resign him if they didn’t trade him um so that’s yeah I mean I think it’s super hard to build and but I do think Victor’s a piece that allows you to build at a very very high level and so the fact that they have victor
Means that they have a chance they’re going to have the number one two or three pick probably again this year um they’ll probably go to somebody off the you know on the French national team because they’re going to build the what is that Olivia SAR whatever his name is
And then they have they you know they can have the French national team um and so um but it’s gonna be hard for them to build a winner just because it’s hard to build a winner right like um but Victor Victor’s got at all like he’s going to
Be the best defensive player in the league and unguardable offensively and if he ever becomes efficient offensively forget about it all right I I hope this question makes sense for you David but Mike Mike uh Mike Smith was on the pregame show yesterday and we were obviously talking about the Spurs and
And wimy and he he complimented the Spurs front office and and that’s fine you know you can compliment the Spurs front office they’ won five titles all of this but it it caused me to think like were they really brilliant or was it a lot of blind luck you know like
They they had one Bad season to get Tim Duncan right you know the Jazz had to pass and pick R Lopez instead of Tony Parker they never get Tony Parker you know all these things that go into it it’s not just unique to the Spurs you could you could pick out lots of
Situations but you know even getting wmi is is blind luck in a way you know because of the lottery odds which are which are honestly terrible uh but let me ask you this for the for the best GM of all time whoever that may be how much
Of their success is due to savviness and how much of their their success is due to you can call it blind luck but we can call it circumstance because that’s what it really is Right does that make any sense what what part is how much that
Job is I think it’s I think it’s a great point and then I also think you can do EX right then someone tears UCL right yeah oh totally um so it can go the other way so I think you have a great Point um they deserve credit for Kawhi
Leonard Tony Parker monu job they don’t deserve a lot of credit for Tim Duncan and you know hey they made they didn’t do anything wrong when they had Tim Duncan let Tim Duncan be Tim Duncan he and Steph Curry may be the two greatest superstar teammates of all time um so I
You know I think that when you I have a hard time not giving him credit um but I I actually am kind of on board like here’s one of my biggest gripes right now is this bull crap about the OC OKC model like everyone’s like oh the OKC
Model OKAY Jaylen Williams great pick but that’s not the OKC model that everyone’s talking about everyone’s saying oh you got to do the OKC model you got to really tank okay what happens if Orlando had taken Chad H instead of PO on Carol because chadol Run’s gonna be
Better than paon Carol but like so they have Paul Van Carol and he’s suddenly fighting for shots with Shay Guild Alexander and it doesn’t work that’s still a great model but they got the second pick of a good draft Yeah fine but like the Jaylen Williams pick which
Is really probably the key to this whole thing on the model is they got that pick from someone I don’t remember who and they deserve great credit for that pick but that’s the pick that’s kind of making this thing work but it also is 100% predicated on Jaylen Williams still
Being available at 12 so you know I hear these models oh you got to do that model okay what how’s that different than the Orlando model who’s taken you know a million what are they thinking seven top six picks in 10 years okay well that that hasn’t gone well for them either
Because the draft didn’t no one made a mistake right like I don’t remember exactly who went in front of Jaylen Suggs but it happens if someone made a mistake and instead of jayen Suggs they got the player who’s the second or third pick of that draft and their model looks
A lot better uh well and also it and here’s the funny thing the the Genesis of all of this is the Oklahoma City Thunder trading for Paul George in 2017 when he asked out of Indiana and nobody thought the Thunder were going to be in that conversation and now they have
Flipped Paul George into Shay gildas Alexander and it’s great it is also worth noting they gave up Victor Oladipo and Damon sabonis who is a perennial Allstar is about to break the all-time double double record streak I should say like this has been a huge process for
Oklahoma City going back now seven years so I mean like the model isn’t just get Shay get these guys there’s there’s a lot more Nuance than that all right you know what the model is get a top five player like I don’t know how you do it
But get a top five player like that’s it because like sh Shay’s the key to the whole thing Shay’s great yeah so you uh zanic go get me a top five guy I mean like this is where I think there’s like all sorts of like I think
Some of the debates are going to be fascinating yeah like I think the most interesting debate to me is Trey young so like now he’s worse gonna be it’s gonna be like $70 million for Trey young which is a problem and so that’s probably the
Reason not to do it at some point if you really have to pay him 70 million but like I’ve brought up to everyone like would you trade for trade for Trey young and I generally get a universal no from every single person about it and maybe
The answer is no because of 70 million but my answer is yes you know why he’d be our best player like he might have all these things wrong but he’s like the 2030 best player in the league he’d be our best player and like at some point you’re
Just trying to acquire better talent but like sitting back and just waiting I don’t I don’t know how you get a top five or top 10 guy but that’s obviously what you have to have I think Sacramento is a fascinating one right now I I I think there’s a real chance Sacramento
Is not making the playoffs and they have two top 20 players in the NBA I don’t know it just got too loud here let me know um maybe we’re were better off when I was actually skiing um but Sacramento I think’s not going to make the playoffs
And they have two top Deon Fox and Demus opponents are both close to top 20 well like what are they gonna do next like I I don’t know what they do when they don’t make the playoffs here and well and to your Trey young point I mean the Trey young is the
Beginning of what we just talked about OKC doing with Paul George right they picked a guy who was top 20 Paul George probably a little bit better obviously than Trey young was but both had highlighted unpredictable or unpredicted runs to the Eastern Conference Finals Paul George did it and lost to the Heat
And Trey young did it and lost to was it the Celtics that year they ended up losing to when the Celtics lost to whatever they make that run so uh yeah you acquire talent because then it allows you to operate in trades with higher talent and that’s the Jazz are at
A massive Talent discrepancy right now no thank you you just made my point better than I did myself you must have been listening on why isn’t he tying these together thank you for doing so um your your Trey young take has me thinking uh and you’re a you’re an
Analytical guy you like the math would it be possible to quantify how much a player makes his teammates worse because yeah you could say that Trey young would be the best player on the team but how much worse does he make everybody else because that would be my criticism on
Him I take the I take the I think he gives you a top 10 offense and then he’s on your roster at what at what cost though that’s that’s the thing I think the Hawks are I think the Hawks wul have underachieved I think there’s not been a
Player that’s played for Trey young that’s gone somewhere that’s gotten better dejonte Murray’s having the best year of his career by far it’s because he plays with Trey young dearon F who’s good on that team who’s who’s like who’s good on that team who is it uh who’s the who’s the
Johnson kid who just has broken up jayen Johnson’s good his third year right he’s he’s good now like yeah he I mean he’s in his third year okay so he’s good but he also might be a factor I’d be curious to see like he is really good I haven’t
Looked it at all I’d be super curious to know what his numbers are since Trey’s been hurt he you know in theory they should be way up right Trey on Jake’s Theory would be Trey Young’s using 28 possessions a night Jaylen Johnson now should be able to get those 28
Possessions and should be way up I’d be curious to know like I mean Trey young throws the most assist to anyone at The Rim in the NBA like he gets in the paint at 61 somehow finds people then why doesn’t Atlanta want them probably they don’t want to pay him
70 million and I think they might want them frankly I mean I do think there’s some feeling that you know they probably need to move one of those two guys the Deon Trey young thing didn’t work so there’s the premise oh but you just told me it did
Work he’s having the best year of his career no right but they’re not working together don’t push me too far here I’m not going any further on this conversation okay fair enough David lock radio voice how about you trust me okay all right uh here I’ll say this too split
The Gap the Hawks when Trey young was healthy this year through February 23rd they were 29 and 30 one game below 500 April 9th they’re 41 and 41 they’re exactly 500 so uh they’ve not they’re not playing worse this year without Trey Young on the floor but I don’t think the
Dejonte Murray Trey young back court pairing has worked no I mean Trey Young’s problem is that he’s so small defensively predom particularly off ball defensively you really have problems like if he’s your your weak Side Health Defender you got a major problem uh David how many you you hit us
With the let me Jake let me let me ask you a question yeah who are you who can you get that’s better uh at the moment probably nobody but uh that doesn’t mean that you have to make a move who’s going to be who’s going to be
Better a year from now that you could get I mean why spend the spend the resources on what’s just available it to to compare it to something else you know what I don’t get about college basketball coaching in particular why do you have to hire the the hot coach that
Just had a good season right now why is that the automatically good coach that that gets the job you know what I mean like timing wise timing is absolutely a a thing you didn’t even react to that that’s one of my favorite lines someone gave me has to win the press conference ends
Up having press conference short thereafter when he fires that coach oh there you go you broke up a little bit Yeah but no that is a great line absolutely 100% by by the way the reason to not trade trade for Trey young is because you already have a six fo4 point
Guard who might be pretty good reason for the jazs is it Keon is pretty good yeah these discussions are fun though I I actually think it’s it has the potential to be an interesting offseason I don’t know if it’s going to be filled with fireworks to milwa to Milwaukee Conference Finals they’re well
Over the Luxy tax they’re GNA trade Jaylen Brown yes or no I I’m more curious what happened big biggest biggest contract in the NBA right yes I’m also really curious what happened happens with uh Derek white and Drew holiday that back court can’t exist forever because they both got to get
Paid and yeah that’s it’s going to literally cost them a half billion dollar right so so they pay those guys and trade Jaylen Brown and are you interested in Jaylen Brown the highest contract in the NBA yeah probably yeah like he’s better he might be better than anyone we have on our
Roster yeah okay David uh real quick why we’ve got you because this news is just breaking this is coming seven minutes ago from AP writer Tom Withers uh who’s reporting this Cavs owner Dan Gilbert told AP he’s confident Donovan Mitchell will sign an extension with Cleveland this summer react no
Chance yeah that didn’t seem likely to me either I I think they lose in the first round yeah and then I think Donovan won’t sign one because they just lost in the first round yeah no no chance in fact here let me give you a let me give you a iracy if Donovan
Mitchell resigns in the offseason it’s because there’s something weird with his knee and his health and he says well I better get my money now that would be my only thought and that’s not good for Cleveland either but no I don’t see that might be I mean the PRP treatment he
Just had was weird there are some people in the league who think he’s resting to get ready for the playoffs um but that would be weird too um so I don’t I don’t know the answer on that I do think that’s pure speculation um are they about they have to play New
York again and lose uh maybe Orlando probably Orlando they’ll beat Orlando Orlando’s not ready I think so too Orlando can guard though yeah and they’ll be on Donovan like Jaylen Subs will thrive on just but that’s where having both darus Garland and Donovan might turn out okay I’ll be
Curious what if Jonathan Smith is healthy or Jonathan Isaac excuse me if he’s healthy he’s he’s a game changer he’s everything he’s everything Jazz fans want Taylor Hendricks to be here’s the interesting one to me that’s going on in the league that comes into our house on Friday every report Michael Scot of
Hoops typ had it yesterday there’s just been a numerous reports that Jaylen green was just wildly available at the trade deadline and he has was unbelievably inefficient and generally terrible up to the trade deadline and yet every franchise in the NBA two and a half years earlier would have drafted
Him number two in the Le in that draft every single one of them maybe even number one and yet then nobody was willing to trade for him at the at the deadline and yes there are some good gossip New York Post stories about him that are quite something um but now all
Of a sudden he’s like spearheading a 10 game win streak like is this GNA go down as like a colossal misstep by 29 NBA franchises to not pounce on Houston’s impatience with him or is this a minor blip on the radar screen and a 2 and 1
Half year sample size is actually what matters there’s two extra weird things with this one it coincides with alprin shenon being hurt so they go from playing really slow to playing fast that’s part of it and then the other aspect of it is how long does it take
For these g- League ignite kids to actually figure it out because scoot has been terrible Jaylen green was terrible are these G leag ignite kids actually two years behind and a or a year plus behind where the other rookies in their class are coming out when we thought it would be the
Opposite that’s really interesting thought scoot has been awful Portland’s gotta be terrified but that’s a but Jaylen green was equally as terrible so that’s a great I mean Jaylen Green’s like one of the least efficient offensive players in the league other than scoot Henderson this year and it
Actually a really and it applies to really interesting thought because Ron Holland and Modis buellis who are in the draft right in that spot are g-league ignite kids and it’s like you may not know what you have for three years and how willing are you to take a Draft pick
On a player like that that is maybe even further away than your average rookie yeah I don’t think I mean I’m watching Jonathan kaminga and Jaylen Johnson right now and those are my models for Taylor Hendricks I just don’t think there’s much of any kid you’re getting
That you don’t know for you don’t know for three years on anybody anymore hey where did kaminga go it’s G ignite guy gag ignite took three years to figure it out yeah so there is something weird going on there that’s a really good point I I don’t
Know if I’ve heard that from anyone else that’s great that’s I’m stealing that that’s great stuff well they are shutting down G and theying so might be relevant for about 10 more minutes yeah um right so this your your money ball your your money ball find here is got
About you know another 12 months of value but it is an interesting concept that you should be picking up the phone and calling if you’re maybe if you’re the Jazz you should be picking up a phone and calling everybody who’s a g-league has a g-league ignite guy and
Trying to trade for them because they’re value they’re undervalued to one or two years into the league you know what gets interesting on that is some of those like non high-profile G ignite guys I’d have to go back and look through who they all are but that actually has me
Most intrigued is like those you know like the guys that were taking 28th or 34th or 39th or whatever that were g- League ignite guys that weren’t Jaylen green or scoot Henderson and what is their process because they might be pretty good too sign our guy Eric MAA
Immediately find Eric MAA and get him on your roster David lock thank you David what’s on this on this note I actually read some recently an interesting study that High School recruiting rankings are far better indicators on who makes it in the NBA than draft position oh I’d buy into that maybe
Although High School recruiting rankings are incredibly inconsistent um all right buddy thank you go back to your skiing enjoy enjoy your day thank you very much see you guys see you buddy uh David lock radio voice of the Utah Jazz his interview brought to you by bucked up energy interesting observation about
G-league ignite been I I was long the person saying I would pick College over g- leaguing night from the very beginning and people called me crazy and I got to admit I did not anticipate something like what you brought up but I still thought College was the way to go
You know you thought well they’re going to have NBA coaches you know like Andre Miller is a I mean he’s a g-league coach but he’s not a he’s not a g-league night coach but you’ve had like I think Kevin olly was running it for a while now he
Was a college coach also but this idea was like they’re going to have no class full-time employees it’s like well actually Jake what would have what what was better for you that you went and got a college degree or if I had cut you a check for $100,000 where are you better
Off today than you would have been 18 years old I give you $100,000 cash or you go to college I take the experience every time well like the college was better for you it was as a person as a developing that’s the point of college which everybody loses sight of
Constantly we can say like oh well diminishing returns they go for one semester they drop out the day the the tournament starts or whatever the tournament ends they drop out of school they don’t get that much out of it maybe even that little bit of responsibility
That is not just basketball in your life does a lot for you well and you’re not GNA you get to develop your game instead of getting whooped up on by adults how have the the g-league ignited how they’re honestly like four and 22 or something this year and every game
They’re down by 20 every year they get blitzed did you see who uh Kenneth Lofton Jr put up 52 points last week who did he do it against ignite G League ignite yeah because they’re kids yeah and you know what I don’t know how much
You get you learn from like you can make a real argument when I was growing up I saw this a bunch of times if if there was a kid who played up a year in baseball or soccer or whatever for whatever reason it would hone their
Skills and then they’d go back to their their age group and you know dominate right imagine if it was up three years do you get that developmental boost or do you just get your butt kicked by 18yar olds when you’re 14 right and it doesn’t do any good for you and it
Doesn’t yeah it doesn’t help you actually and all it really teaches you like oh man like this failure thing like not a lot of success whereas if you’re banging shots in the NCAA tournament I think there is benefit to that I I really do even though I don’t love the
College game there’s fans there pressure there’s pressure but and there’s teachers there’s coaches there’s all kinds of stuff there’s players on your team who are at a totally different level than you are good or bad which is a really important thing I think to have actually in a team environment because
The same thing is going to happen in the NBA everyone can play not everyone’s as good as Lowry Markin or whoever what does everybody say about hiring and looking at college degrees and maybe this is definitely not as true as it used to be but people say oh I don’t
Care what the major is I just wanted to see that you could get yourself out of bed every morning for four years and be on to ACC something that’s what that’s what people say is the value all the time that’s it is a value you know you
Want to learn how to be a professional we go someplace that will teach you how to be accountable and uh how to have appropriate uh Behavior how to be responsible all these really good things that aren’t just playing basketball in the gym all the time in fact you could
Make an argument that that’s to the detriment because that teaches you that those other things don’t matter when they do I mean like you go to there’s a reason that the military is very detailed about how you do everything I mean from make your bed to you eat to
All these things it’s all about discipline so when you know when the the moment is at its most critical you are the type of person that can handle those types of situations so like can you make an argument you know well that operation well you’re you’re telling me that a a
Soldier that makes his bed properly it has something to do with how they execute an operation overseas yes yeah yes because that develops the person so if you’re making an argument that college even a brief bit of college can help devel develop a more functional
Person to go on to the next level yes I will buy that you have a curfew you have people checking on you you have an RM you have all these things that are weird little pieces of authority you have to learn to negotiate and navigate and deal
With and abide by and it might help a little bit but a little bit could go a long way there’s a reason that people like Sarah and me get to college and go buck dang wild because you have to learn about this freedom to be an adult and
Then you know Sarah took a little longer than I did but it takes us a little time to be like oh yeah we got to be an adult here Sarah still paying off the legal bills put the the train back on the tracks here and figure out how to build
A life for myself you know totally party I know I’ve talked to people your rep reputation precedes you yeah notorious no yeah absolutely notorious 100% hey and and look this might just be a couple of random players that you know it might be a coincidence and the thing
Is we’re not going to get a longer sample size cuz like you said the G Le Knight’s getting closed down G we will see if in a couple of years some of these other guys scoot Henderson he stinks Etc end up figuring out year two year three who forever was telling you
Scoot stinks me yeah you were and he did two years at the the night because he left school when he was 17 so he did 17 years his 17th year and his 18th year of life with the Julie we’re way over stay tuned Jacob met 975 the KSL Sports
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Thursday afternoon to JJ and Alex for the winner help us celebrate the efforts of those volunteers making an impact with the Hercules hero of the week sponsor Ed by Hercules Credit Union um have your kids signed up for any spring Sports Ben uh no they one of them’s
Doing tumbling one of them’s currently doing parkour hey parkour is a thing you don’t need to laugh after that I know no it’s funny because yes it’s something we never did and I don’t like I’ve been to class obviously and I see what they’re doing uh I’m thrilled he’s out running
Around and jumping around and doing athletic stuff who cares if it’s putting a basketball in a hoop or hitting a baseball whatever I’ve got a buddy um well two friends actually uh they have uh a son I’m trying to think how old Harrison is he’s like 10 maybe a little
No 10 that’s probably 11 but anyway he wants to be a great skier and and um you know wants to be a big mountain skier and all that sort of thing ski jumping the not like the you know like aerial like that into that whole thing and so
You know what his offseason sport is parkour yeah right he has a coach and it’s it’s all about controlling your body and getting used to Falling yeah all those sorts of things yeah I had no idea until they were telling me about it goofy of me to laugh at as a
Skateboarder because 80% of skateboarding is falling you know what I mean like that’s what it is you are it’s a falling sport parkour is a falling sport you just learn how to control your body as it’s bouncing off stuff yeah I I thought what a cool thing um no I
Haven’t you but see those those are nice because well my daughter starts soccer a week from Saturday and it’s just like spring you know I’m don’t put away the winter stuff yet because there’s going to be a Saturday morning where it’s going to be snow on the ground nice
Thing is both tumbling and parkour are indoors and I I believe in the lesson of you know I remember this as a kid I’m sure you did too um and playing soccer specifically you know Sarah her parents did this I’m sure he well I know it’s
Raining and I know you don’t want to go but you got to be there for your team and get out there and play and all these really good lessons even though you know it’s it’s not going to be comfortable and so I believe in all of that but that
Also means that I have to sit there on the sideline and shiver which I’m not so a winter sport in Florida because it doesn’t snow and so it usually happens in the winter and so those days when it does get really cold in Florida not all the time but when it
Does it it kind of sucks yeah and you don’t want to do it and your your folks go you know what you’re doing it yeah and it’s a good lesson absolutely you got to go out there and you got to be there for your team and you got to do
Things that are hard but I never like when I was going through it I never thought of the parents sitting on the sidelines shivering their Tuk us off shout out to my parents they always showed up to the games very appreciative of that and lucky to be able to do it
Ourselves you know you and I are both very lucky to have no knowing your parents on a on a limited basis I don’t think they seem to me like the obnoxious oh my dad would get after a junior Jazz referee what he really oh yeah would he
Really oh yeah oh that’s hilarious to the point where love my father he’s a great person uh I I was conscious of when my son was playing to let the referee do his job he’s making nothing he’s honestly we talk about our Hercules Heroes of the week like those guys even if they’re
Blowing calls they’re doing a tough job for very little reward your old man would get after him huh yeah he was he was into it I got to tell you I I umpired Little League Baseball Pony League Baseball for one season when I was in high school you know thought oh
This would be a good way I love baseball you know make a little extra money whatever yeah and uh I was just shocked yeah at what people would say and be like I’m a 16-year-old who’s the only umpire in a game I got to call you know
Balls and Strikes and plays at second and all this sort of thing and like yeah that was an obvious ball I called a strike I’m also trying to get home sometime today you know and then some boo some Bozo dad what are you more I
Just turn around and be like who are you yelling at no excuse me it’s who are you yelling at sir it’s why it’s nice that there’s a block button on Twitter unfortunately there’s not one on umpires and referees at kids games I couldn’t believe it cuz you know when I was
Playing in Little League you don’t really notice it like you notice some parents who cheer or whatever but you don’t notice like specifically parents getting after the Umpire and what is the referee notice not you the kid not what’s going on in the game the guy who yelled at him
The bozos riding me we’re playing we they were up to the 10-year-olds and you’re over here like calling me a because I missed a St what you realized I pedal my bike down here sir right yeah okay so what level of sport are you okay yelling at the
Refs what does it have to get to like is competitive High School okay yes you think it’s okay at competitive High School level yes okay how about this at the level where you can be cut from a team all right the referees if there’s something on the line for the players
There’s got to be something on the line for the ref if it’s like high school baseball where it’s it’s you know like if if Pony League you sign up and you’re on the team right $50 on the basketball team you’re G to play at least a quarter
Every game Junior Jazz yeah same thing you know what I mean ref doesn’t deserve it and even even getting into like I realized that maybe some comp soccer programs would have Cuts or whatever but that doesn’t count I mean like also why are you yelling at a ref like it doesn’t
Matter if you win a junior Jazz game or a high school game for that matter but but when is it acceptable I would say when kids can start getting cut from the team then you then I think it’s reasonable to demand I think that’s a good line some Excellence from whoever
Is refereeing the game fair enough great definition I like it a lot but I I used to work with Tony Parks who used to like manage this softball league for like nine year olds or something like that and he would come and tell me these just horror stories of
These parents and I never understood how somebody just didn’t go like they’re nine yeah oh I’m sure sometimes they’re are they’re nine yeah settle down Yep they’re nine it’s okay like they get work worked up like lineup switches and stuff like you have to substitute this way it’d be like what
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And windows can you explain to me what’s going on at USC basketball coach Andy Enfield after a very bad year this year horrendously bad they have bunch of top recruits Isaiah Collier still probably going to be a lottery pick they’re a 500 team basically in the Pack 12 Andy
Enfield leaves USC for SMU do you have any understanding why a coach would do that uh yeah because he was going to get fired is that what it is it just he’s beating the r either LeBron was going to have him fired or he was going to get
Fired for his Bad season or whatever I think he’s taking another gig while he still can which makes a ton of sense because he was going to have to go beg Brony to stay and who knows what he’d have to do to get the but but LeBron did you see
LeBron’s already talking to Ohio State about his next son right yeah and who’s their coach be and all that stuff like there’s a chance Enfield might just not want the headache but the truth of the matter is he has been absolutely meder at best at USC yeah and probably was not
Uh long for that gig regardless I still think bronny goes to the NBA draft and I don’t think he should no but you know yanis San kmo has what two brothers in the NBA at least one yeah tenaces but but does he want to Ed in
The NBA or just be in the NBA I think here’s the thing he’s probably not good enough to be in the NBA is the truth then play four years of college yeah and somebody’s still going to draft you because you’re Bonnie’s kid or LeBron’s kid but they can do the fatherson thing
First Duo to ever play together but see that’s about leakers in the second it is it’s not about bronnie it’s about LeBron I obviously I don’t I’m not a child of a famous person much less the most famous athlete on the planet maybe your whole
Life is about your dad you know what I mean and so you’re always doing things to to do that you’re always doing things to be in their Circle and or around them which is a human thing but I hope for his sake that he makes the right decision for him
I agree and I hope that his father and again I guess I have no reason to believe otherwise but has his best interest at heart which is not going to the NBA draft and you can make the argument oh yeah well Giannis has a one-legged brother that’s still on an
NBA team is that thriving or is that getting a hand out you know is brony an NBA player or not I know he’s not the best player in college basketball like some people thought he would be but I don’t think he’s I don’t think he’s a nothing Burger
Absolutely not so develop yourself get some make it happen build your own thing but if you go to the NBA when you’re not ready just because you want to be on the same team as your dad well that’s dumb uh he’s going to end up playing for the South Bay Lakers of the
G League yeah on a two-way contract uh and uh he will get a couple of minutes on the floor with his dad next year that’s that’s what I expect to happen yeah it’s uh and is that good probably not it’s the crappy ball getting signed by the Hornets just so uh Lavar could
Tell everybody his kids were all in the NBA at the same time liangelo playing for a little bit not even playing I think he just came to Camp yeah I don’t think he even May ever got it even a 10day yeah but LeBron no it’s like it’s like your
Celebrated Jordan clarks’s in triple double when you’re out on the floor longer than you should be and you’re out the rest of your team is is trying to get you to the rebound is that really a triple double yes I mean on the stat sheet it is like
In the the record books Brony would be an NBA player sure right that’s and here’s the thing this may be his best chance to make the NBA I would find that hard to believe I would hope so he was not good at USC this year no but so he’d be just getting
Drafted on his name now that would be true four years from now why not try to turn yourself into a player he may not get drafted four years from now if LeBron’s not will if LeBron is not in the NBA so if it’s not for the gimmick
Then then 100% well then find something else to do that’s what I do I then I’m not going to go in the NBA because of some gimmick because you want to have a gimmick with my dad screw that I’ll go be an accountant or something I’m sure like he’s had a fine
Education I’m sure there’s something else who’s your accountant his name’s LeBron James but they they call him bronny his name’s LeBron James he’s been around a ton of money his entire life and he’s killing it for me uh we’ll see I suspect he enters a draft all right stay tuned hon Scotty
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