Covino & Rich - Sports Renaissance, Minus the Scandal

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Speaker 1: Happy to be here. I hope you're having a great day.

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Speaker 2: Hoping you're having a wim Bin Yama sort of day, not a Chauncey Billups sort of day, not an NBA bad look for the NBA sort of day. Well, we should all be talking about that performance last night from Wembin Yama and how great he is and how we're seeing things we've never seen a seven foot five guy do before. He's playing like he's six seven, Yeah, but he's seven.

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Speaker 1: For Fox.

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Speaker 3: It's unbelievable that I don't want to be a prisoner of the moment, but it's unbelievable that if this guy plays into his potential.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to be a prisoner period. I've seen blood and blood out I heard, I heard did he had a knife to his neck?

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Speaker 1: I heard those.

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Speaker 2: Did he want to be a prisoner of anything? But give me some junk jones.

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Speaker 3: So I don't want to be a prisoner of anything, You're right, But of the moment, yeah, no thanks. But after seeing Wenby last night, we knew as a matter of time before he got accustomed to the NBA, the speed, the style, everything, And as he gets older and grows into his body, he's a kid.

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Speaker 2: He's hitting pull up jump shots, he's getting rebounds. He's not even jumping. He's slamming, jam and rip, roaring and ramming. He's making it look easy again forty points. He's playing with some sazzle, some razzle dazzle. He's got moves, and we haven't seen big dudes move like this. I mean, dude's this big ever before. So we were seeing greatness goatness in the making, and that should be the main story. So let it be known that that's what we're starting with. However, there's this other, big, giant gambling story that's hard to avoid because the moment you woke up today and you're like dang Chauncey Billups Hall of Famer rigged Afiel related poker games, and then of course all the other gambling nonsense that's going on.

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Speaker 5: I have a sign Chauncey billups rookie card. Does this make a price go up on the card?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, sometimes controversy does absolutely, Yeah, what's up?

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Speaker 6: dB Danny? Was it the Seven of Diamonds that was signed? Or it's funny? That's so funny? And thirty four other arrests. I read thirty fire will be here till Thursday.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know how the rest of the NBA is feeling right now. It can't be good, but I bet you there's other people out there that are shaken in there. Jordan One's like, oh man, yeah, I wouldn't bet either right now. It's a bad look. But there's a lot of people out there, probably associated and related to these stories, and they're like, look, I don't even want to deal with this nonsense right now. So the NBA scandal, but first and first, mostly wimb and Yama just playing big and again playing big over big names. Anthony Davis.

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Speaker 3: There are times where were flags made Anthony Davis not look like the future Hall of Famer that he is, and he's making slam dunks look like hook shots, so they look like skyhooks that he's slamming because he's got this ridiculous wingspan and we've seen big players before, We've just never seen a move like that. At least that's how I feel when I so, you think big guys who think George Mirrasan, you think minute ball, you think Taco Fall. Guys that are his size are usually there simply for one layer size, and they're they're clumsy, they don't knock me.

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Speaker 2: They don't have the balance and agility. The Sean Bradley the only other guy, the only guy that was, I guess really effective at that size, but career cut shor with injuries.

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Speaker 3: Yao, ming, would you say, is the only guy of that level size? Well, Kareem was Kareem seven to one. He was over seven foot for sure. Mitch Shack was seven to one. I'm talking like guys that are seven to six and for all we know, he might be seven to seven by the end of the year because he's still growing and grow and he's so young. That's the other thing, right, Rich already said it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you give him some time to develop, and it seems like, hey, game one, he's ready to play.

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Speaker 3: When you see another guy that size Taco Fall for example. It's it's usually done in the nature of like get the big guy in the game, like it's a spectacle or a side show, like he's so big, let's just get him in the game fans or Taco Fall. No, this guy is very well capable. And I'm again I'm probably a prison of the moment in way exaggerating, but after the last time, I'm like, no, I.

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Speaker 1: Don't think so.

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Speaker 2: It was against the Dallas Maverick, but they're supposed to be one of the premier teams.

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Speaker 1: Didn't look against if he continues to progress.

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Speaker 3: And again I'm the guy that said I'm not ready for the NBA, But how can you avoid the dominating highlights where you know, if that team continues to build, it could be dynasty type of stuff if they build around him properly there because he just looks like a guy that's we've never seen before.

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Speaker 5: After the game, Anthony Davis said, I don't know how you're supposed to guard a guy like this, And.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, that's the ultimate compliment, right, because these guys take a lot of pride in their game. Clearly, Anthony Davis takes a lot of pride in his defense. So for him to humbly say that, I mean, it's not like we couldn't see it with our own eyes, but to acknowledge that this dude is a force, a young force that's only going to get better and better and better.

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Speaker 1: We get the privilege to watch it again. Goatnus in the making.

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Speaker 2: He might be one of the best of all time to do it if he stays healthy and he keeps.

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Speaker 1: Up at it. So health, health as wealth.

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Speaker 3: Right, It's like how many players that had such promise like ah but health.

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Speaker 2: And then he's sort of staying off the weights too. We see people that hit the weights too hard end up getting injured a lot more too. So we'll see how this plays out. But what a great opening night. Forty points probably could have had a lot more.

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Speaker 3: Forty points all you needed for that win over you know what Dallas yesterday, I'm gonna pat myself on the back like what like Barry Harrow with good old good eighties wrestling reference, I'm gonna pat myself on the back.

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Speaker 2: I think I I executed usually say I'm gonna toot my own horn like Rich Davis. That's what I usually say.

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Speaker 1: You were say like Dizzy Gillespie or something who plays a trumpet like you. Because it always comes back to let me tell you how I'm the greatest guy.

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Speaker 3: I didn't say I'm the greatest guy, but you know I'm only messine.

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Speaker 1: You know it call spade a spade.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's just character development, a poker reference are in case there's any new people listening. The mister perfect of the show cursing Rich Davis.

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Speaker 3: No, I did the best thing as far as like I by me saying like I'm not really excited about the NBA.

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Speaker 1: The best thing, huh.

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Speaker 3: I set the lowest expectation for myself, and we always talk about like when people set a high expectation, you can only let yourself down. I was emphatic about how I was so not interested in the beginning of the NBA season. I was like, I'm interested in the World Series. It starts Friday, Dodgers Blue Jays. We're into week eight of the NFL. There's like ten five and two teams instant drama. All I did was we had a great opening night, right, great battles double over time OKA see starting where they left off. But it was a battle with the Rockets the Warriors were looking big, got wim bin Yama, and then you woke up to all the scandal.

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Speaker 5: You're like, oh, NBA, don't forget Michael Jordan telling Long Winter.

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Speaker 3: Ah, I did, Danny g was crap on the beginning of the NBA season, So I set the expectation so low that I'm like, oh, wow, cool Michael Jordan's story.

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Speaker 1: And now, by the way, this video that has emerged, you know the story he.

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Speaker 3: Told about the nerves from that free throw he took in front of the kids.

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Speaker 1: Videos out.

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Speaker 3: Barkley and Shack picked up right where they left off, making fun of each other, making popeyees chicken jokes and telling Barkley to save his fat clothes because he doesn't believe he's gonna stay stinny. And the NBA has had a really good first two days and add the drama, Like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a positive thing by any means. It's still something that people are talking about when we could be and should be talking about Thursday Night Football and of course the World Series World Series Eve. We have Game one tomorrow, so lots of things to be excited about. Halloween right around the corner, Halloween parties, your trip to Spirit Halloween?

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Speaker 1: Can I give you an analogy?

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Speaker 2: We have all these things that we're excited about that we thought that the NBA would go under the radar.

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Speaker 1: We weren't ready for it, And here we are.

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Speaker 2: Going to give you an analogy that is bound to hit home. I know which one you're going with? Can I guess?

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Speaker 1: I don't think you do.

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Speaker 2: It's that girl you're not expecting a whole lot from and then she unveils and you're like, WHOA, I wasn't expecting that.

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Speaker 3: But that is a good analogy. Have you ever been with a woman where you're like, oh, she's probably hot underneath. She takes off her clothes and you're like, what.

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Speaker 4: How are you?

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Speaker 2: How are you hiding all that? Wowow those pleasant surprises. That's what the NBA is like. He surprises.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 3: No, my analogy is there's ebbs and flows in all different aspects of life.

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Speaker 1: You're a music guy, Danny G. You're a hip hop guy.

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Speaker 3: You'd very easily agree if I said hip hop has had years where Yo, there's a ton of hit records, and then you go through a couple of years where you're like, it's sort of stinks. Camino you experienced this a lot being a rock music guy. They'll get be like the grunge era, and then after that it was like rock stunk, and then it sort of came back. Like music, pop music goes through years where there's a ton of big pop hits and pop radio stations are trending, and then all of a sudden, pop music becomes cheesy and lame. This cycles and music. Dare I say sports in general right now is better than it's been in a decade. Baseball, the stars, stars, the rule changes, the franchise players, Baseball is at an all time high, the NFL ratings and interest and international, the NFL is popping on a different level, and the NBA, I think, is now really starting to lean on the young stars while also hitting you with a little nostalgia. I think sports right now.

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Speaker 1: Is peaking. It's the sports renaissance.

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Speaker 3: I really think right now, right now, you can't tell me that sports isn't insanely awesome.

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Speaker 2: I'll give you a lamer analogy. I'm gonna one down your analogy. Why you guy will ruin it. No, No, I'm not trying to one up it. I'm gonna one down it. We often talk about how we grew up with all these Disney classics. Right, oh, Pinocchio, snow White. Today's the anniversary of Dumbo. You want to hear a fun fact? Not real Dumbo the only main character of a Disney movie that never spoke, the only main character named after Rich Davis.

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Speaker 3: Actually, you know it's called the elephant's name is in Dumbo, You Dumbo, it's Jumbo Junior.

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Speaker 1: It was named after an actual elephant, Jumbo. See, I know.

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Speaker 2: But we go up with all these classics, Dumbo, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, and then there was nothing, and then the eighties came run you had like the Aristocaps in all this nonsense, right crap, nothing, you had nothing. Forever we lived on the classics, and then all of a sudden they called it the Disney Renaissance.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about it.

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Speaker 2: Little Mermaid, Beauty in the Beach, Lion, Lion, King Yanky, all sudden, boom boom boom came back. And now they've been riding off of that, and then they fell off again.

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Speaker 1: Then it fell off came back again. So good thing.

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Speaker 5: They don't make up for it by raising prices at the parks.

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Speaker 2: We might be on the precipice if you want to include all sports right of a sports renaissance. And Rich is right because maybe we're seeing social media really starting to play a positive role in how we view these super stars, these young superstars, like we got a pretty good idea of what's going on. We get to know them, we know their personality, we get greater insight. You don't even have to watch the games to see the highlights. And you know these young stars, you identify with them. And dude, you think I'm a Spurs fan. Absolutely not, But man, I was glued watching that.

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Speaker 5: We are on full time in Philadelphia. Now, imagine waking up there this morning. They have a new dynamic duo in the backcourt. Did you see Tyrese Maxey along with rookie vj Edgecombe Edgecomb thirty four and seven, Maxi forty and six.

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Speaker 1: They got something to be excited The bests fans are like what?

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Speaker 5: And then in Chicago with the Bulls winning the Bears, dub Bears are four in two, Blackhawks three and two, Bulls one to zero. Chicago. This is the first time since twenty ten that all three of those teams have a winning record at the same time.

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Speaker 2: Are we on a sports renaissance? Think about it. I think there's something to be said. And people listening were like, well, do you guys work in sports, so of course you're going to feel that way. Hey, we got lives, we got kids, we got problems. I got a pain teenage daughter. I have a child support payments. These are hassles, ex wife, I got ex wives.

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Speaker 3: I got hassles, an ac unit that broke, Yeah, a sweet sixteen to pay for. Yeah, I got We got regular life, just like anybody a long term girlfriend that's probably waiting for a ring. So it's not like I'm sorry, did I go too far?

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Speaker 1: No, It's okay. It just builds that relatable sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: We got things going on, yet we could stop and pause and say, wow, man, for this to grab our attention this way, there's got to be something to it. So I'm with you on that, Rich I am and uh dare I say, sports media, podcasting, broadcasting like Fox sports radio is doing really well. That's like one of the few areas of broadcasting that's really doing well right now. And I think you're seeing it in baseball, the NBA having a really good first two days and NFL speaks for itself.

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Speaker 1: We just love it.

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Speaker 3: It's like it's king right, So it's you're getting everything clicking on all cylinders. It's sort of like a great team when all the star players are playing well, they just not like.

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Speaker 1: What the Dodgers are doing right now.

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Speaker 3: That's the world of sports, the NBA, the NFL, major League Baseball, everyone's everyone's doing their part for the general sports world.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, Rich, that was an amazing positive spin.

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Speaker 1: I'm a positive guy bro on.

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Speaker 2: A terrible scandal that's going on in the NBA. So yeah, we'll keep you posted on that because that really is the story, but we spun it into something nice and positive. Chauncea Billips, how much money do you need? You're a Hall of Fame NBA former player and coach of the Trailblazers. This goes back to what Big Mike said in the kitchen in our pre meeting. Yeah, it's not about how much money do you need? You guys are in the NBA. Yeah, But what it might say, it's an addiction. It's an addiction. It's not about the money. And that's why you know, gambling in sports, it's always a touchy conversation.

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Speaker 1: But it's a.

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Speaker 3: Touchy conversation because everyone that's talking about out of this Dan Bayer and that's covering it, from the athletic to you know, the ringer to the volume, all these broadcasting networks barsto, they're all incahoots in a good way with all these gambling companies.

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Speaker 3: So it's a really interesting time we're in because sports gambling plays such a big role in our industry. Yet something like this pops up and it's like, uhh.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, there's there does appear to be a conflict of interest. But I do think that with the popularity, you're finding more about these things and they have to be even more strict with their rules and investigations. But I disagree with the point of like Terry rose Yeer being addicted to gambling, because.

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Speaker 2: That was more about well, I guess it could apply either way to anybody, but go ahead.

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Speaker 6: Because I think he's addicted to the money. Like that's why I do it. Like, if Terry was here was addicted to gambling, he'd be five hundred thousand dollars in the hole because he stinks better on.

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Speaker 1: Too many parlays this guy was scheming money.

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Speaker 6: Faking an injury is because you want to cash in and get the money. You're not addicted to faking injuries, and so that's the point of it is. I think it's just the point of you know, don't you have enough money? And it's no, it's never enough for anybody. It's also the point that many have pointed out is, yeah, the top tier guys don't maybe have the need to do it, or they really have more to risk to doing it, whereas the lower end people may look at it as like, what's there to lose if I can make an extra.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I may only be in the league for one to two years, anyway, let me capitalized.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 3: But I think as far as the world of gambling, broadcast networks, podcast networks, all that, I think it is just uncharted territory.

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Speaker 1: And I think, you know, we're learning.

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Speaker 3: This is like the wild West, you know, when we learn things about the Internet or AI and we're like, yeah, we haven't been here before, so we're sort of making rules and learning as we go. I think the legalization of sports gambling and also like legalization of weed, things that have happened in our lifetime.

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Speaker 2: Things that used to be taboo that were accepted in our society. Yeah, it makes it a conflict of interest in our conversation here, And I think we need to emphasize the words like rigged, you know, rigged mafia poker games, rigging seven million dollars from people, according to this story. And that's only two years of the investigation. So again, thirty four rests probably more to come. Well, think about when you and I first started becoming buds, hanging out and hoboken, watching sports together, watching your lame attempts to pick up women that wanted me instead. You mean, when you used to have a solid hairline and joel line. You mean those days continue continue when you were playing buck hunter at the bar, I remember that with all the women around me, while you're sitting.

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Speaker 1: By yourself lonely anyway.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, But when we were first friends of the early two thousand six, things that are totally normal in commonplace now, people smoking weed, taking edibles, gambling, gambling online dating, all.

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Speaker 5: The things like you guys are jumping the gun on our old school topic coming up.

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Speaker 3: But honestly, you know what, these are things that could apply to our old school later. But the things that we used to think were like, yeah, you don't do that. Gambling was something like you might have got little sheets from like your friend's dad knows someone who's a bookie, and you're like, oh, I'm gonna do my parlay on this illegal little sheet. Or you would be like, yeah, my friend knows a guy that deals weed. Everything that used to be shady is now like yeah, I'm gonna do my draft Kings Power parlay and then on my way home, honey, you have me to stop and get some edibles.

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Speaker 1: Like it's well, we live in a completely different world.

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Speaker 2: Figure out then once and wrong, but a dirty word or an accepted a good thing or a bad thing, but with everything differentiate it and say rig. You gotta be real careful. It's rig gambling. Oh that's a big difference. That's a big, big difference. Responsibility out of it. Responsibility is what comes along with all these things. And again rules are constantly being made.

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Speaker 3: But the two things I just spoke about, specifically weed in gambling, those are things that are enjoyable things to many if done responsibly. It's the idiots that mess things up, right, it's the people that are irresponsible It's like remember at school, they would always be like one kid messed it up for everyone.

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Speaker 2: But that's the touchy part of gambling. If you want to be feeling about it. Some people can't handle It's like you and I could have a drink every Friday Saturday night, but some people can't handle that and they abuse it. I heard I recently heard Drew Barrymore I believe, talk about how the idea of her just going out with the gals and having like a glass of wine just doesn't work for her because she feels that she would have to have.

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Speaker 3: The whole bottle of wine and another bottle of wine. And some people just don't mentally, just can't can't handle it. So I think we're learning all this stuff as we go, and I think that's honestly the end solution when you think about all this stuff.

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Speaker 2: But not the publicity that the NBA needed on a really great second day today being the third day of the NBA, so we focused on the positive. There's a lot of exciting things that have happened in the past few days of the NBA. They didn't need this, but it is the story that we can't ignore. Wemby Yep, some.

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Speaker 3: Good matchups SGA on night one, did you see Barkley and Shacka.

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Speaker 1: I guess that picking up where they left off.

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Speaker 3: They even made a montage which I thought was great, not shying away from the fact that they work for the mothership now ESPN, where for years Barkley would mock ESPN. And they put together a montage for Charles and then he went on this whole like I love working here, and they're like, get out of here, and Charles like, I think they handled that great again, Jordan and Mike Tarico, even though like we said, it's probably one long interview that's gonna be spread out throughout the year.

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Speaker 1: It's been talked about, so the NBA is in the news.

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Speaker 2: People are talking, all right, So your thoughts on NBA whenb the scandal, We'll take your phone calls.

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Speaker 1: Plus, we gotta talk punishments. Do they ever really work?

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Speaker 2: There's a Jim Harbaugh story, but think about the times you were punished as a kid or maybe you're a parent now. Do punishments taking things away ever work? Plus old school and fifty hits, we do that in about twenty seven minutes. We throw it back like we always do and get you involved. So write the number down. Then Eg's on standby eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. We got Cavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. All right, now, today's job search could be tough.

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Speaker 2: Cavino and Rich Danny g Spot Ryan is here, and I can tell you this, we're talking so much NBA, even though even though we thought we wouldn't be. We're not gonna have time to get to certain things. So a brand new over Promised our bonus podcast debuts today. Do episode one fourteen. Right after the show, we'll talk the faces of sports in the future, since Back to the Future came out this week, The faces of Sports in the future, Halloween candy and who might be asked. We'll do it on over Promised right after this show, Covino and Rich FSR on YouTube. All right, let's take a couple of phone calls about the NBA scandal and the really great first two days of the NBA scandal.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't that your hairdresser in the early two thousand? Certainly was? How are you scandal? All right? Uh?

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Speaker 3: And then we'll get to a Dan Buyer update. And I have two quick fun thoughts about NFL quarterbacks. So a lot of fun today bringing it. Let's go Mow and Tempe.

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Speaker 4: Hey, guys, good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Yoh, what's up in so much?

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Speaker 4: Man? Hey, I gotta get on this, like right now. It's just that door's about just opening up. So right now, just poorly who nobody really cares about. So wait until it's somebody's favorite team, a big name team, because what makes me think of last year when jj reddit payed all five Lakers for the whole second half.

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Speaker 3: That really, when a marquee team or a matchup that goes a weird way in the postseason is exposed, You're right, that's when this thing becomes well, that's.

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Speaker 2: Why this is bad for the NBA, you know, because you're gonna second guess everything. And ah, and we've seen controversy, controversy before when it came to officiating referees. You know, we've heard rumblings of gambling and things like that. So anything now moving forward that seems suspect. You're like, ah, there was the h there was the picture.

00:26:31
Speaker 3: There was the picture in baseball allegedly, this is all allegib but remember like his first pitch, every time he touched the mound was always like a terribly out low and outside ball. And there are people seeing that, there are prop bets for his first pitch.

00:26:47
Speaker 1: Like, when you start to see stuff like that, it's like.

00:26:50
Speaker 2: Whoa, yeah, because you never want to believe that anything in sports is rigged.

00:26:55
Speaker 1: You don't want to hear of that. Yeah.

00:26:57
Speaker 2: As a fan, you're like, no way, that's impossible. And here things like this, and you're like, maybe it's not that impossible.

00:27:02
Speaker 1: Why do you say hi to Kelvin in Indianapolis? Hey, Kelvin, what's up here on the Cavino? And Rich? Yeah? What's up?

00:27:11
Speaker 8: Hey?

00:27:11
Speaker 4: How you doing?

00:27:12
Speaker 9: So you don't Rich our good show?

00:27:14
Speaker 1: Thanks?

00:27:16
Speaker 9: I want to say that they're probably going to be some harsh penalties in place because these guys that were on there, we were pretty I mean, Chauncey Billups out of all the people's I thought he was pretty square and pretty focused and pretty.

00:27:31
Speaker 1: You know.

00:27:31
Speaker 9: So when guys like these, you know, falling that temptation that means that it's so wide open and so that debauchery and making money, it's just there's nobody above reproach.

00:27:43
Speaker 2: Almost we put athletes on a pedestal because they're living our dream. But they're all imperfect and they fall into temptations just like anybody else.

00:27:53
Speaker 1: Cutting wood.

00:27:54
Speaker 3: Sometimes the nicest dudes make a mistake with a woman. Sometimes someone has a money opportunity and they may do the wrong thing. People are you know, We're only human. You just try to make the best decisions. And Chauncey billups, oopsie Daisy is all you could say.

00:28:11
Speaker 2: Right, It's not even a whoopsie doodle. It's an oopsy day at this point, it's a full on whoopsie. I think this is a holy yeah, this is not a whoopsie. And again thirty I've read thirty four rests and I also read in New York Times thirty arrests. And I'm pretty certain there'll probably be more names involved. And I'm sure there's a lot of people shaking in their high tops right now.

00:28:34
Speaker 1: Good one, let's go to dB and then we'll get an update. What's up, Dan Bayer?

00:28:39
Speaker 6: This is what I can tell you. So there were thirty four arrests in all. There were thirty one people tied to the gambling or the mafia gambling ring, and there were six arrests made with the sports gambling, but three people crossed over, oh okay to both of them, so you have a total of thirty four.

00:28:57
Speaker 8: Got it?

00:28:58
Speaker 6: I was checking in my head if I was doing Cavino math or not and stopped making sense for a little while. Do you guys hear this?

00:29:06
Speaker 8: Zinger?

00:29:07
Speaker 6: This is my favorite part of been playing it all day. From the NYPD Commission, Jessica Tish about Terry Rozier being arrested.

00:29:14
Speaker 1: As the NBA season tips off. His career is already benched, not for injury but for integrity. Zang, Yeah, that so.

00:29:24
Speaker 6: The FBI is saying Rozier was arrested for using insider information to bet on seven NBA games from March of twenty twenty three through March of twenty twenty four. As for Chauncey Phillips Hall of Fame player, Trailblazer's head coach, he not only was busted on some insider information, but also about the rigged underground poker games that were backed by the mafia. And do you all remember Damon Jones, former player and assistant coach, played over with Lebron in Cleveland. Yes, and that's where this kind of ties in is. Jones was indicted on charges from his time as an unofficial assistant with the Lakers, where the FBI says that Jones told betters to place bets on the Bucks over the Lakers in a game in twenty twenty three because Lebron James was not going to play in the contest, so Damon Jones, according to the FEDS, had that inside information and passed it along to his connections to place those illegal bets. Trailblazers, by the way, named assistant Thiago Splitter as their interim head coach while Billups is on.

00:30:24
Speaker 1: Leave by the NBA.

00:30:25
Speaker 6: Treya Savage gets the ball for the Toronto Blue Jays in Game one of the World Series tomorrow against the Dodgers. Dodgers countering with Blake Snow. We found that out earlier this week. Now some news from the NFL Vikings and Chargers tonight in Minnesota, getting running back Aaron Jones back from a strained hamstring. Week eight starts at eight to fifteen Eastern. Lamar Jackson limited for the Ravens in practice because of his hamstring strain for the second straight day. No practice for Panthers quarterback Bryce Young again he's out with his sprained ankle, and Philadelphia Egos wide receiver AJ Brown missed his second straight practice because of a hamstring strain. Commanders wide receivers Terry McLaurin and Deebo Samuel practice fully. Finally, guys, Leo Messi sent a contract extension through twenty twenty eight with Inner Miami back to you.

00:31:05
Speaker 3: Hey, thank you. Dbe a couple things based on what you said. Blue Jay's pitchers I like to call him Yay Savage, good one.

00:31:13
Speaker 1: Bro. Do you see the meme about his year?

00:31:16
Speaker 3: Like, I don't think anyone will ever have a year where they start in single A and just double A, triple A regular season, postseason, World Series. This guy has progressed through the rankings of baseball in one season and he's getting the ball in Game one of.

00:31:31
Speaker 1: The World Series.

00:31:32
Speaker 2: Like, what a wild year for this Kim Just for reference, he's the guy that shut down the Yankees with what eleven strikeouts in that performance?

00:31:38
Speaker 3: Eleven or twelve something ridiculous, So a wild year for him. And dB we're talking about all these arrests. You ever watched like true crime shows with with your wife or anything like a like a murder mystery or something.

00:31:48
Speaker 6: Sure I watched some dateline, Yeah, yeah, like.

00:31:51
Speaker 3: In any crime. Maybe I'm just I'm delusional, but I'm like, I'm like I wouldn't get caught. But you, I guess, the most hyper guy. No, but what I'm suspicious and you're not even doing any But what I'm saying is, I guess that's everyone's mentality. Huh.

00:32:09
Speaker 6: Have you seen the viral the question of if you could hide a paper clip in your house and you gave like an FBI person like seven days to find it or twenty four hours to have it, where would you hide it? I go, I give up. I don't know where to hide it. So like, so you think that everybody thinks they're good at it. I think I would be busted right away. It's all ego, That's what I'm saying. Like I'm invincible. Yeah, you feel untouchable at a certain point, like I'll never get called stealing money. I'll never get called, you know, being scandals behind my wife's back.

00:32:41
Speaker 1: Everyone thinks the're invincible.

00:32:42
Speaker 3: Then you finally get caught, you're like, oh my god, like like every time you watch one of these things, like they left like blood behind like to me, every every crime and every to bring up this terrible story with that Idaho killer thought he can out smart everybody.

00:32:56
Speaker 1: That's sort of what happened.

00:32:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, like it's just and then you always hear something's left behind and maybe everyone's just dumber than we think, or everyone's so cocky to think I could get away with it. You think you think Chunsey billups ever thought this would backfire. He probably thought, Listen, I'm an NBA coach Hall of Fame type of guy. I'm not gonna get caught. No one thinks they're gonna get caught. You think anyone thinks he scenario is gonna happen.

00:33:20
Speaker 2: No, no, And that's why they do it. Yeah, and addiction because not everyone could handle gambling. It's a real touchy situation. But that's why I'm proud of our show because we started with when Ben Yama and that's the.

00:33:35
Speaker 1: Pop sad part.

00:33:36
Speaker 2: But that's also the sad part of the story because everybody should be applauding him first and first mostly for that performance last night, like whoa, that's how you start off the season?

00:33:44
Speaker 1: Did you see what he did? That should have been.

00:33:47
Speaker 2: The whole conversation today. And that's the whole shame of the scandal in the NBA. Aside from people losing out on their own money and being scammed by these dudes, the main focus of today's story is Wow, NBA's popping. We've had two great days and did you see Wemby. This guy's a circus freak. He's playing like we've never seen before. That should have been the one and only thing we were saying today about the NBA. So that's why I'm happy to say that. You know, I think we gave him as proper due today.

00:34:14
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:34:15
Speaker 3: Well, hey, coming up, you're gonna have a lot of fun with this. We're gonna go old school and it has to do with Back to the Future week, but it also has to do with your Toronto Blue Jays, who are facing the Dodgers in the World Series. So we'll bring it back to the nineties and we'll have some fun next right here on Covino and Rich.

00:34:37
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00:35:16
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Speaker 2: Tire iraq dot com the way tire buying should be. So again, I'm Cavino, That is Rich Davis. We have dB hanging out and now we get you involved. Okay, we do this every Thursday. We throw it back in something we call old school fifty hits.

00:36:01
Speaker 1: There's a certain.

00:36:04
Speaker 5: Ya.

00:36:04
Speaker 8: What we gonna do is go back back into time throwing it back for a Thursday. Old School went fifty hits at fifty after CNR give you the time capsule topic and we reminisce together.

00:36:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, buddies.

00:36:22
Speaker 2: So it's a special week world series. Got Thursday Night Bruzball. Richie still got to give us your picks. Oh so you are Basketball's back. We talked about a scandal, but it's also an anniversary. You know, a lot of great movies came out in nineteen eighty five, forty years ago. I was talking about one that you never see homework assignment for you, buddy boy, The Last Dragon.

00:36:47
Speaker 1: I was telling rich about The Last Dragon. Today.

00:36:49
Speaker 3: I watched The Last Dragon. When you watch Chad Powers on Hulu?

00:36:52
Speaker 1: Have you never seen that?

00:36:54
Speaker 2: No, he never saw my jos Man got the Glow. But you I've had that quite since eighty five.

00:37:00
Speaker 3: Ryan look at me like I like you. But you look at me like I missed a legendary movie.

00:37:04
Speaker 1: I get it.

00:37:04
Speaker 3: I'm gonna direct to my feet to Daddy Green's pizza. I know for references. I've been friends with him for twenty years. You know shown Uf, I get it. The Hot Girl that Floats or something like that was.

00:37:15
Speaker 1: Warant to see. The thing is Vanity Vanity.

00:37:17
Speaker 2: I know ay Arcadian was forty years ago as a time stamp, and we've seen that movie.

00:37:23
Speaker 1: It don't sound like a misshush Ank redemption. You need to get more black friends. Okay, I just said all the time, Now, why do you want to hang out this weekend? Watch Last Dragon?

00:37:35
Speaker 2: That one was more of a cult classic that everybody sort of loves and talks about, and it was celebrated this year. But when you think of eighty five, the biggest movie, some people say the perfect movie, yeah, is Back to the Future and it came out this week.

00:37:50
Speaker 8: Yeah.

00:37:51
Speaker 1: Now, based on.

00:37:52
Speaker 3: Back to the Future, there's so many layers and ways you could go with this. But if you were in the DeLorean Wait doc, Emmitt Brown and Marty mcfix going eighty eight miles per hour one point twenty one jigawatts, if you had that mister fusion on full doc. You're trying to tell me you made a time machine out of Adalorean. If you went back to nineteen ninety three when Joe Carter was touching them all or was that ninety two ninety three?

00:38:23
Speaker 1: I was ninety three. That was the last time.

00:38:26
Speaker 3: Roberto Alamos o olarude you know that's stacked Blue Jays team.

00:38:30
Speaker 2: If you took it back to nineteen ninety three, the last time the Blue Jays.

00:38:34
Speaker 1: Were in the World Series.

00:38:36
Speaker 3: What do you think people in nineteen ninety three would be most shocked about today? What has happened between now and twenty twenty five, Between ninety three and twenty twenty five, where people in the nineties would be like.

00:38:50
Speaker 1: Wait, what happens? They do this? They do that?

00:38:55
Speaker 3: Like what are the big shocking things that you would tell someone in ninety three? I know, Joe Carter just hit a home run, Touch them all, Joe, But guess what else happens?

00:39:06
Speaker 1: Blank, There's so many things that come to mind.

00:39:09
Speaker 2: Well, Bill Clinton was president what ninety three to ninety three? Oh one, Yeah, I think they'd be shocked to hear those cigar stories.

00:39:23
Speaker 1: And then he took the cigar and in.

00:39:24
Speaker 5: What well think of the movie Back to the Future, what does he ask him?

00:39:28
Speaker 1: He asked him, who's President?

00:39:30
Speaker 5: So I think one of the first things they would get a kick out of is Donald Trump, the guy that tried to start a casino in New Zealand, because that's what was going on with him in ninety.

00:39:40
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's why I went to President's I think the presidents are interesting, well, because you had your first black president Obama and Donald Trump. Like, we've had some interesting presidential happenings over the last you know, thirty years.

00:39:53
Speaker 2: Right, Fortunately, they'd be shocked to hear about some of the I'd say tragedies.

00:39:58
Speaker 1: No, I'll get them out of the way. Yeah, the Twin Towers are gone. What Yeah?

00:40:02
Speaker 2: And then there was this one time too where COVID shut down the world for a few years.

00:40:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, covid.

00:40:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, they we're all trapped in what would you guys do?

00:40:12
Speaker 1: Mask?

00:40:13
Speaker 4: Oh?

00:40:13
Speaker 3: No, we were, we were a mask for a year, and everyone's on TikTok? What's TikTok?

00:40:17
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:40:18
Speaker 2: But what would be the most shocking thing I got even in sports, Sports Life, whatever and seven seven ninety nine on.

00:40:24
Speaker 3: Fox, I got one in nineteen ninety three. You'd probably be shocked to know that Bruce Jenner became a woman. That's hilarious. That makes me think of.

00:40:40
Speaker 2: You know what, it makes me think of so much so, that makes me think of that meme where who's whose wedding is it? With some moderate shot? Yeah, and his groomsmen are a jet and Jenner and somebody else. So what would you be shocked to find out? Cosby and Bill Cosby what would you be shocked to find out? Let's take it back to nineteen ninety three till now.

00:41:04
Speaker 1: All right, we got more.

00:41:05
Speaker 3: Next Cavino retch right here on Fox Sports Radio, throwing it back