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the Andie Ever Show. Four o'clock gets here awfully quick
in the afternoon. It seems like we were just here,
but it's been twenty one hours and we're ready to
roll again with all kinds of sports talk stuff to
get to you on this Tuesday. And we had two
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NBA games last night more to come tonight. We had
some close games and one that I will a couple
of close games last night for that matter. We're also
two days away from the draft and a whole bunch
of things to get into today.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm Andy Everett.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Our audio disseminators today are Ty Soucheck and also the
producer of this show, Mike Barlotte. As we kind of
peruse through the sports world. There's not a lot of
big time stories happening today, but there's a lot of
little ones. But we'll start with the NBA last night,
and I think the New York Knicks, as I suggested
when this three to six matchup came about, that that
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the Knicks are in a little bit of trouble. I
think that they're starting to get tired from the wear
and tear of this long season. And Detroit's a younger,
deeper team, they play more guys. You asked me a
question earlier today, if the Knicks lose in the first round,
is Thibodeau safe. I think he's a great coach, but
I think he's too old school and the Knicks are I.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Think they're paying the price for it right now.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, especially with New York with obviously the offseason trade
that they had for Karl Anthony Towns for Julius Randall.
You were assuming that, and again it's very it's still
very early. You know, the series is only tied one
to one. The Knicks could wind up winning the next
three and win this series. But just from this year
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and last year, it just goes to kind of that
that inkling of how much longer is Tibbs's style without
the results going to be tolerated by New York Knicks
management and especially New York Knicks fans.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Well, here's here's the big thing.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
New York Knicks players too, because you know I've done
this with Steve Henson and with and with Austin Klanch.
Once you get in the middle of a basketball season,
your practice time is very limited, and they realize that
if you wear your players out in practice, there's nothing
left in the games. So, and this is for a
thirty five game, thirty two game schedule in college. This
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isn't eighty two in the pros where you're playing three
nights a week for seven months, and typically on off
days it's voluntary shoot a rounds or shooting opportunities, and
occasionally they'll have a maybe a ninety minute practice here
and there to go over some things. Even in the playoffs,
they have limited practices. They want to get everything in
in a short amount of time and then.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Go play the game.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
There just isn't a lot of time because you're going
to exert a lot of energy when you're practicing. They
don't want players to get hurt when they're practicing. And
so I think Thibodeau is old school and he needs
to become new school if he's going to not only
have success in the playoffs going forward, but also have
the backing of the players that he's trying to go after. Well,
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talk more about that Number two. At a good game
last night, he was he was amazing as always. Does
he look like he's lost about fifteen pounds.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You know what, I don't even look at number two.
I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
He's never he's not relevant anymore. To Yes, he is
very because I never know what he's playing. Well, that's
the problem. I never know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You never know when he's going to be in uniform.
It's Ai photoshop.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
But he is really really good when he really really
wants to be, and he really wanted to be last night.
And you know a lot of people are upset that
he left, and I'm not because if he was going
to sit on the bench forty games a year and
you never know when you're gonna count on him or not, Yeah,
you're maybe you make a playoff run here and there.
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I don't I would say this to Kawhi if he
was sitting here. I question whether or not he cares
about winning or not. I think he cares about getting paid.
I think he cares about living in Los Angeles and
getting paid.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I think if winning.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Comes along with getting paid, he's okay. But I don't
really think he loves basketball. I think he just happens
to be really really good at it. And that's if
I want guys on my team that like their job,
I want them to enjoy playing basketball. And to me,
that's what makes Chris Paul such a breath of fresh air.
Here's a twenty one year veteran in the NBA that
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all he says is I just want to hoop. I
just want to play basketball. That's what I see when
I see Steph Curry. There's a lot of young guys
in the league that have that enthusiasm, and I don't
know that Kawhi ever had it. It was just like, man,
I'm really good at this and I can make a
bunch of money, and occasionally I'll go out and show
what I can do so that I get more money.
But I really don't like basketball. I'd rather hang out
on the beach and hang out with Uncle Dennis.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, that's that's the key thing there is. It could
It could have just.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Been that he relied too much on Uncle Dennis, got
in his head, and Uncle Dennis was the one who made.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
This situation again.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I go, I go out and say if number two
ever decided to say when he retires and say, hey,
I'm gonna go ahead and clean the air.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
My bad.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You know, I got bad advice. No, the me and
the organization had two different things. I handled it the
wrong way, and I would have been like, you know what,
we're clear.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Except for let me let me put it to you
in this terms.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You're making whatever you're making here at the radio station,
and they say, Michael, we want you to go to Miami,
and you go, well, we're gonna pay you twenty times
what you're making to go to Miami.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And you decide to go.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And then there's a similar job back here that's also
going to pay you twenty times what you're making now,
and you say, Ben, I'd really like to go home.
That's what Kawhi Leonard did. Kawhi Leonard didn't have any
animosity towards the Spurs. He didn't hate Greg Popovich, he
didn't dislike his teammates. Kawhi Leonard was homesick Kawhi Leonard
wanted to hang out with who he grew up with
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in Southern California with a weather's great and when you're
making the kind of money the Kawhi Leonard's been making
Southern California is really great because it's not that expensive
for you when you're when you're making fifty million a year.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Again, if that was the case, and he just comes out,
and he comes out and says it, Hey, I was homesick.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I just wanted to go back. I think he has
said it indirectly.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I don't think he's actually verb made those words.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
In I need it, I need it verbal from his
mouth from me to me. But I think here his agent.
I think that's always been the case with Kawhi Leonard,
which again is fine. The money the Spurs.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Were paying was the same amount of money that the
Clippers are paying, and neither team would have ever not
given him max money. He just preferred to do it
where when he gets done with a home game, he
gets to go up to a place where he can
hang with the guys he grew up with. And I
don't I don't. I don't blame it for that. What
I have a problem with with Kawhi leonard Is. Every
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time the wind blows in the wrong direction, he has
a pain that prevents him from playing. Don't want to practice,
don't want to go to shoot around that day, I
don't care. But in game time, suck it up for
two hours. Tell the coach he got twenty five minutes,
and go play and do it seventy eight games a year.
If you want four misses a year, I'll give him
to you. And every It's like when he had the
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sore ankle after he stepped on Jojo Paculia. He could
have played that series. He just chose not to because
he was he didn't want to. He just didn't want
to play. In a little bit of agony. Well, if
your legacy used to win championships, and I think the
Spurs could have won another one that year had he played,
and eventually that ankle would have been better as he
went along to some extent, got it loose and got
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it treated all that kind of stuff. Who knows what
could have could have happened that year. But and we've
had Dog Garrett on here every time it's he's worse
than Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
When he grimaces, it's a.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Three week vacation, and that's the that's the legacy of
Kawhi Leonard. Fantastic player, one of the best of one
of the best of this generation. But he could have
been an all time great if he'd have fought through
a little bit of a very mild pain. And number two,
I don't begrudge him for wanting to play at home.
If somebody wants to, if somebody wants to come back
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home for the same pay and the same job and
you have the ability to do that, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
But he he was great.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I think the series is going seven, This is going
to be a great series going forward. Well, we'll talk
more about that here in a second. The giants right
now are a mess. If I were with the may
of Family, Joe Shane would be gone already because he
can't At this time. You cannot tell me unless you're
just playing liars poker. You cannot tell me that you
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don't know what your evaluation is of Shador Sanders compared
to Abdul Carter. And now they're talking about, well, maybe
we should take Abdul Carter and then use our second
and third picks to trade back into the first round
to get Jackson Dart at twenty seven or something like that,
and then you're hearing, well, maybe we should take Shador
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because it's New York and it's glitz and glamour and
all this, and then you're potentially hearing that the coach
likes the defensive guy, but Shane wants to make a
splash and he wants it to be the guy that
everybody in New York's going to have a press conference
over chess. Pick the best player, and the best player
for your team right now is unquestionably Abdul Carter. Now,
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there's no there's not one general manager in the league
that's upset about the fact that he has chosen not
to do the surgery on his ankle. They think he
can play through it for a year if he needs
surgery next year at some time after the season's over. Okay,
and the Giants still aren't making the playoff with Abdulla
Carter or not without Abdul Carter. But shaduar Standers is
not gonna win you games, and you're gonna kill his
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confidence and you're gonna kill his ability to learn if
he doesn't have the offensive line and he doesn't have
the infrastructure on.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Offense that he needs.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I don't under I don't understand why and unless this
is just all liars poker, So they're gonna do whatever
they've already decided to do. But Colin had a guy
on today, and they're like, one, this guy wants this guy,
and Joe wants this guy, and you know, make up
your mind. There's too many. There's too many kings and
cooks in this kitchen.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I think what Joe Shane and the New York Giants
are hoping for is that Tie's Cleveland Brown's fixed this
whole process and decide to Cleveland Brown and take Strador.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So I.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I don't think Tye is on board with that. I
think you want Travis hunder correct.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, I do. I watched the Door as well. I
think Schador is a better long term fit. We talked
about the Saturday on Andy, Andy, so you know where
I stand.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, that pick is Travis Hunter, and you build around
Travis Hunter.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
It would be ciliar.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You can get anybody in the world that you want
to throw the ball to Travis Hunter. He'll likely catch it,
all right, Nico Harrison's taking more heat. Charles Barkley Wade
in I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
What he had to say last night.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The transfer portal has got three more days in it Tomorrow,
Thursday and Friday. UTSA is doing quite well in it. Now,
It's still three days to go and players could change
their minds.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
But it is amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Those that are being very loyal to the UTSA program
will tell you about that. Aunt Edwards had to make
a comment that cost him fifty thousand dollars. Let's see
here we got. Oh, here's something I'm going to talk
about in a little bit. We'll save this for the
five o'clock hour. I didn't see the origin of this
news report, but it was plastered on Facebook the last
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couple of days that there are whistle blowers up in
arms about the fact that city council members allegedly used
public funds to purchase Final Four tickets to schmooze the
Final Four committee. Okay, first of all, that's what you
call the cost of doing business.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
It is fine to do that. This is Andy's mafia.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I don't care if I guarantee you whatever wherever the
Final Four is going you. It's a it's an expense
if you're on the committee, and if you're a city
council member that has any pull whatsoever. You need to
show a solid front to the nc DOUAA. They determine
your fate. I'll trade two thousand dollars in public funds
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for Final four tickets for six hundred million dollars in
economic impact when the Final Four comes back here next time.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Tickets seven sixty does not encourage one. I don't care.
Illgal activity was not illegal.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's the thoughts of Andy. Ever.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
It does not speak for tickets.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
It is not illegal.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It is an expense line that you have to have
as a city hosting an event like that. Don't tell
me this does and go on in every country and
city on the planet.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Just because it goes on, does it mean it's legal.
It's not.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Well, I don't think it's illegal. Where does it say
it's illegal? I mean it's the cost of doing business.
I'll get into that more next hour, because I think
every time, oh my god, why didn't they allure my
property tax by two thousand dollars? What there's two million
people in here, so we're all going to get a
zero point zero zero zero one reduction in our property tax?
Like we're going to miss it. This is something that
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you do to so that you make sure that they
show up at the party next time. And all, as
I said, I'll trade two thousand dollars for five hundred
million any day of the week. And if you're not,
you're just you just don't get it out out things
get done, all right, we'll get it to all of
that coming up more straight ahead. It's the Andy average
show on the ticket.