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Right. 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:42.399 And finished four years she has a degree uh uh from UCLA, and then um she went to play uh in the United States and Germany until she had a knee injury in two thousand eight that ended her playing career. 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:43.120 Right. 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.480 So that was less than twenty years ago, like eighteen years ago. 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:47.680 So then what did she do? 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:52.319 Well, she was a head coach of a women's team in Germany, uh and she went to Japan. 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:58.160 So after 2008 she started coaching uh in first female head coach in Japan. 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:06.639 Before Germany first, and then she went to Japan and coached uh top um men's top pro men's team. 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:09.120 First wow uh female coach. 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:09.600 Right. 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:11.439 So then who picked her up? 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:16.879 Well she in the States and they were watching the uh Clippers in 2012. 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:18.639 She was there for ten years. 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:21.279 You know what and she started, did you see this? 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:23.120 That she was the video video intern. 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:24.800 An intern, not even a coach. 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:38.959 She came with coaching experience to I you know, I just think it's awesome as a woman that she would step up and say, Okay, I'll do that job for a bit, probably in her own mind, thinking I want to move up and I want to be a coach, bottom line. 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:41.920 And she uh became the player development coach. 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:43.360 Yeah, that's huge. 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:47.120 But I think video intern w probably taught her a lot. 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:51.600 Oh, yeah, watching sure watching all that film and what works and what doesn't. 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:53.279 Yeah, yeah, definitely. 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:54.879 Yeah, definitely. 00:05:55.199 --> 00:06:04.959 Then she um coached their Gili team in 2017, and then moved on to um the next year assistant coach with Becky Hammond. 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:07.839 She was the assistant coach for the Clippers first in 2008. 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:09.040 Oh, that's right, that's right. 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:12.879 And then in 2022, when she was ACES. 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:13.279 Mm-hmm. 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:21.839 So what great training she had, you know, with Ty Lu and the with the Clippers and um Becky Hammond for sure. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:31.680 And um, I'm sure Becky looks at this like, oh my god, I created or I helped create a monster that I have to face how many four times in a season. 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:35.600 And um, yeah, I just think that's kind of funny to watch the two of them. 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:49.519 But anyway, the Valkyries came into being and she was selected as their head coach, and they have just you know, more than just being a good team, it's a huge

cultural thing in the whole Bay Area with the Valkyries, you know, ginormous. 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:52.480 And uh and she went coach of the year the first year. 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:56.240 I know amazing playoffs. 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:59.680 Yes, they did, and uh that's just unheard of for a first year team. 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:05.199 It really in in the NBA and in and in the WNBA, any basketball, I guess you could say. 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:06.000 Yeah. 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:10.000 So um, anyway, yeah, you know, they are amazing. 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:14.800 So uh in their first year, they won 23 games as an expansion team. 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:15.680 Out of 44. 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:17.040 Out of 42, I think. 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:17.600 42. 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:18.879 42 at the time. 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:20.000 42 at the time. 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:23.199 Yeah, and this year it was this year, this year was only 42. 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:24.240 That's all we have is 48. 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:30.079 Anyway, and then next year is six more, so it's gonna be like 48 games uh for the W. 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:32.000 They get that many more games. 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:38.240 So they, you know, sold out crowds every single game. 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:39.600 18,000. 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:41.040 18,000 come. 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:51.839 And you know, realizing that the Bay Area is a huge population center, you know, millions of people, not only in San Francisco, but in the outliers, and they've got the rapid transit. 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:54.560 BART takes them practically door to door. 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.879 And um, that's a pretty slick system um on the BART. 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:06.240 I have to my BART story is some of my friends will remember this about 15 years ago uh from Southern California. 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:15.040 A group of administrators from the school district went to a conference in the Bay Area and we were all on the BART and going wherever we were going. 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:17.360 They all got off and I didn't. 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:18.079 Why? 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:28.000 Because I was talking to somebody who wasn't a part of our group, and they I think they all just thought collectively, and I wasn't facing the way they were and where the door was when they left. 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:39.600 Anyway, um, we did have cell phones barely at that point in time, so I figured out how to get off the BART and on another BART to go back to the station where they were waiting, and they applauded when I got back. 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:40.639 But oh my goodness. 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:50.240 Anyway, so but Bart is a really cool system up there, so and it works in their favor because they're playing at the same place that the Warriors are playing now, and it's a beautiful stadium there. 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.320 I've arena, I saw the outside of it, I haven't seen the inside of it. 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:58.720 Anyway, so sold-out crowds every time, right? 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:06.480 And and did did you watch Gabby Williams in the second half of the game seven with the Atlantic? 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:08.720 Just incredible, incredible. 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:14.720 Gabby Williams became the MVP of the series. 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:23.279 And based on that second well, on the second half she did too, but the second half of that last game was sealed the deal for sure for her. 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:26.000 Yeah, because you know she had two points the first half. 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:27.120 That's what I'm saying. 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:29.759 So you never never say never and never give up, basically. 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:31.759 Yeah, well, and that's what her coach said. 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:33.360 She said be patient. 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:36.159 And and she was. 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:36.960 Yeah. 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:39.120 No, she's she's pretty amazing. 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:39.679 Yeah. 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:49.840 Gabby Williams um ha played more playoff games this year than she had in her t entire seven years before that. 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:51.039 And she went to Yukon. 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:52.639 She was a Yukon person. 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:53.759 Yeah, went to school. 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:58.559 I didn't I didn't see if Gina was at that game. 00:09:58.639 --> 00:09:59.120 Did you know? 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:04.080 Did you see if they panned Gino Arioma or Arioma in the audience? 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:06.320 You know, the coach for the Yukon Husky women. 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:07.360 I I didn't see that. 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:20.559 I'm wondering because there's three of his players that are starters for the Valkyrie, so that has to he has to be the proud former coach and proud papa, however you want to call himself, you know, to have that kind of um I think it's just great. 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:23.919 You know, he might have been busy because college was started. 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:27.519 Um however, it would be pretty impressive. 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:28.480 I would think so. 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:29.279 I would think so. 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:29.919 Yes. 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:30.559 Yeah. 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:39.200 So you know, Gabby Williams she she was absolutely dominant that's the second half of that game. 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:40.159 Yeah. 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:42.639 She ended up with 28 points in the second half. 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:46.559 That's you know, two points in the first half and twenty-eight. 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:49.759 And no and she played defense. 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:51.440 Yeah, yeah. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:52.320 Yeah. 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:53.279 Had to. 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:53.840 Had to. 00:10:54.159 --> 00:11:05.519 Because the dream, look at how much defense-oriented that team has been and was in the course of the playoffs, uh, through the whole

thing, you know, the three sets of games. 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:11.679 And I'm I'm still baffled why the dream couldn't put it away in game six. 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:16.559 Um well, there wasn't because it was already a anyway, because of scoring and stuff. 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:19.440 Uh anyway, that's just what happened. 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:22.480 And the Valkyries are the champs. 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:23.759 Two years. 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:27.360 Two-year-old team gets this all the way. 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:28.159 Amazing. 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:28.960 Amazing. 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:29.840 It is. 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:40.000 And I would just like to give a shout out to Veronica Burton, who was also a guard for is a guard for the Valkyries. 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:40.559 Right. 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:45.440 Um, two two critical free throws, you know, those free throws. 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:50.720 Um, you watch some games lately on the NBA and these guys are missing these free throws. 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:52.240 What the heck? 00:11:52.399 --> 00:12:04.000 You know, as we learned before, as we learned before, Phyllis, I am repeating myself and I apologize, but um, we know how critical those free throws can be. 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:08.320 And not maybe at that given moment, but at the end result for a score. 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:13.440 If it's a 10 or 12 point game at the end and the team miss 15 free throws, duh. 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.720 You know, there were there was your win right there that you said goodbye to. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:18.000 It doesn't matter where. 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:22.399 But anyway, to sum this up, kind of start going in that direction with the Valkyries. 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:30.240 Uh, strong uh financial investment from the owners of the team, uh, strong leadership, quality coaching. 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:36.320 I'm sure Natalie can get anybody as her assistant that she needs or wants, which is fabulous. 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:41.840 Um, opportunity for talented athletes to shine, and of course, you know I've told you this before. 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:44.480 I love their colors, their uniforms. 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:49.600 So they have become a billion-dollar franchise. 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:50.240 Wow. 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:51.440 Billion with a B. 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:52.480 In two years. 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:55.200 And major business success in the Bay Area. 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:56.720 Yeah, so two years. 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:57.120 Boom. 00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:59.279 What's next for the WNBA? 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:01.600 The draft lottery is November 15th. 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:15.039 It's coming up, and so it's gonna be interesting because both of our J Girls, Juju and Jazzy, played last night, and Juju was back after 588 days of not playing. 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:16.720 Yeah, that's college. 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:22.399 Right, but I'm saying we'll call because a lot

of them will give up college to for uh to get into the draft. 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:25.600 So that's I was trying to be piggybacking on your draft context. 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:27.440 Okay, but this is just the draft lottery. 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:37.039 Right, the lot, but I'm still it's the whole draft idea that these ladies, young women, could be putting their names in to be included in that draft. 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:37.679 Right. 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:46.320 And this gives the WNBA people a sh uh, it tells them what order they're gonna pick if they didn't make the playoffs. 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:46.720 Right. 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:50.240 Just it just picks the the top seven, the first seven. 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:50.799 Okay. 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:54.879 Um, so they can watch who's coming out of college. 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:57.600 Exactly, and start doing their recruiting, perhaps. 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:00.320 Or yeah, she it'll be interesting. 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:04.240 I yeah, it'll be curious because Jay uh Juju was injured. 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:10.799 I think it was during the playoffs, it was at the end of the season, or it could be in the NCAA tournament, that she was hurt. 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:14.799 It's like a year and a half ago, it's a long time ago that she's not been playing. 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:26.879 So see what she she, you know, it scored 21 points last night as uh SC defeated UNLB, and Jazzy added 23, and she's been at it the whole time, so we've been kind of keeping an eye on her. 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:27.919 There's gonna be others. 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:43.440 So we uh Phyllis and I have already kind of talked about how we want to approach college hoops this coming season as they get started, and um, it's quite befuddling if you start to look at the data and the stats because there are so many teams. 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:47.039 It's not just 30 or you know, it's over 300. 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:49.919 Division one men's. 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:58.879 So, but we will we will definitely give women and men uh college um hoops our our love and attention as the season proceeds. 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:06.799 So I think with that, Phyllis, that we can uh if you have anything else that you wanted to add, excuse me, to the Valkyries or the muke. 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:15.840 Um the fact that the playoff games, the last seven of them, were so defensive minded. 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:21.200 And the scoring was held to pretty low because there was such good defense. 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:25.120 God, there was one time it was what 12 to 13 in the first quarter. 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:25.519 Yeah. 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:26.320 Oh my goodness. 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:27.679 25 and a half. 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:28.240 Yeah, yeah. 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:30.159 It was like watching little kids, you know. 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:32.799 I mean, they don't get much of a score going, so interesting. 00:15:33.120

--> 00:15:33.519 Interesting. 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:42.399 It goes to prove the old um saying that um defense wins games and offense sells tickets. 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:43.120 There you go. 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:43.840 There you go. 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:49.600 So there'll be more to come with the W as things cook during the off season for them. 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:59.360 And um, but we're pretty much kind of saying our goodbye um to them temporarily um because they just and again, what a fabulous way to end the year. 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:17.039 And hopefully next year, well, we know next year there won't be a FIBA in the middle of their season to kind of move, you know, mess up uh people's timing and you know, just the whole thing, and then also getting on top of the NBA, and there was so many things happening at the same time on the 31st, including Halloween, right? 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:31.360 With games going on, and anyway, so okay, so hang on, and we're gonna move right into um uh the NBA, and we've got things to say as we begin um our conversation. 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:34.720 We want to do some congratulations and shout out. 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:39.039 Oh, we didn't congratulate the Brewers for their World Series championship. 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:40.000 Oh, yes. 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:52.159 So, and I have people in my building that are still proudly wearing Brewers caps and shirts, and you know, they're from that area, Wisconsin, and um are pretty happy about what happened with their team. 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.559 So Milwaukee is proud. 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:57.200 Yes, Milwaukee very proud as they should be. 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:11.279 And then also then we can kind of piggyback onto the fact of how many teams are doing really well with only one or two losses in the NBA, considering there's a lot of messes going on too with people being injured. 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:12.720 We'll get to that in a minute. 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:16.319 But um, yes, so Grizzlies, uh-oh. 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:19.039 They showed their Achilles heel last night. 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:20.640 They lost to the Pelicans. 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:21.920 To the Pelicans. 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:35.200 I guess Zion was on it last night, which I guess is bare well, I'm not I guess it is good news for the Pelicans if he can be consistent with that, because they have stuck with him through thick and thin, and hopefully he doesn't disappoint. 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:41.920 You know, he's always either gotten injured or had other issues going on that have prevented him from being really, really good. 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:42.960 Yeah, yeah. 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:48.720 And our CJ is there too, of course, leading the charge and help probably he is probably their oldest player. 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:50.000 CJ McCullum. 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:52.799 Yes, CJ McCollum, keeping them um in line. 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:53.759 We loved him. 00:17:54.079

--> 00:17:56.079 We did when he played for the Portland Trail Players. 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:56.799 We still love him. 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:08.559 He's got a vineyard here that he keeps, and or not, he doesn't, but he has invested into the area, and I'm sure when he retires that's where he'll he will end up with his family coming here. 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:14.240 So and he and Dame are Damien Lillard are still really good friends, as well as some other players too. 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:16.079 Who else is looking good out there? 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:17.599 Philadelphia. 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:18.720 Seven and one. 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:19.599 Yeah. 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:20.880 Whoa, whoa. 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:26.240 And we didn't we're not sure how much longer their players are gonna be healthy. 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:35.519 Yeah, they're aging they're aging as every day passes, you know, because remember we may but you know, LeBron did have some back issues, but he seems to be over those right now. 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:37.440 I think he had to sit out that one game for him. 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:39.519 Embiid set out one game, I guess. 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:41.279 And they're still winning. 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:46.160 Well, be uh VJ and Ty Tyrese, excuse me, are players. 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:48.559 I mean, you know, you can't mess around with those guys. 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:58.559 So with or without um Jalen Brown and um Embiid, Joel Embiid, and um uh LeBron. 00:18:59.119 --> 00:18:59.599 Amazing. 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:00.559 You know, good for them. 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:01.039 Good for them. 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:04.160 See how like you said, see how long it it lasts. 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:07.039 And uh Rockets are also seven and one. 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:11.440 And they I looked at the NBA and NBA power rankings yesterday. 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:12.799 So they're number one now. 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.519 They moved from number four as of yesterday. 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:15.920 Yeah. 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:21.279 And same thing with the well, the um, excuse me, the 76ers moved to number three. 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:23.519 And um, who else? 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:30.880 The Pistons and the Celtics stayed where they were, and the Warriors moved from number 26 up to number 15. 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:40.079 They're they are getting it together, the Warriors are, with um Yaxel and Steph as a power duo. 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:43.519 The front you know, the front guys. 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:48.400 Yeah, well, Golden State They started out slow. 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:55.279 They lost they lost the first three games, but they have won their last five. 00:19:55.599 --> 00:19:56.640 Oh wow, okay. 00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:57.759 Five in a row. 00:19:58.000 --> 00:19:58.079 Yeah. 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:00.640 So they are uh zooming. 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:08.240 But you know, what are they what do they do or can they do with Draymond, who got ejected last night. 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:10.400 I don't did you see the clip on this yet? 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:11.279 I did not. 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:12.559 Oh gosh. 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:18.640 Somebody made him mad, and you know, he went ultimately after Dylan Brooks by the throat. 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:20.799 Oh yes, I did see that. 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:22.640 That kind of did it for him. 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:23.680 I did see that. 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:28.640 You know, he seems to be able to keep that anger, his anger management, whatever you want to call this. 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:41.279 I'm not um professional psych, you know, psych person, so I don't know where you exactly put this, but I know it's unacceptable behavior that you've got to keep your anger and all your emotions under check when you're a professional athlete. 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:44.000 Yeah, when do you think it was gonna happen? 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:44.799 I don't know. 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:45.279 I don't know. 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:53.680 It started at one thing and then it ended up with that, ends up with a double technical and gets booted, and then everybody's holding the pieces at that point in time. 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:58.720 And it's lucky that the Warriors won because in the past they weren't winning when he would get ejected. 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:00.960 So anyway, we'll see what happens there. 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:12.559 But also, you know, a big shout out to our Blazers because they moved from uh number 15 in the NBA power ranking up to number nine, and so I think they're starting to maybe get some people's attention. 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:16.240 And you know, we're gonna talk in a minute about hamstring injuries. 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:33.599 Um, but you know, John Morant now is out for at least a month, and I think everyone, not everyone, but a lot of the commentators who don't live in the Pacific Northwest or even on the West Coast were thinking that the Blazers would be taking a back seat then to trying to win or get anything accomplished. 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:36.000 But they've got a team out there, fellas, you know that. 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:39.920 Yeah, and they're deep, and they won in Denver yesterday. 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:40.640 Yes, they did. 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:42.400 For the first time in a long time. 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:44.960 And eighteen eighteen games in a row or something. 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:46.240 I mean, it's been a long time. 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:50.240 There, I mean they've been able to beat them here at Moda Center. 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:55.759 I I was at a couple of games when that happened over the past few years, but they have not been able to. 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:59.759 And you know, it's tough on players, and we don't realize that both in Salt Lake City. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.400 City and in Denver, they're dealing with altitude. 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:08.240

And it's about a mile high in both of those places that the elevation is, and it's harder on your lungs. 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:11.839 And your Drew Holiday last night was gassed at the end of the game. 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:13.839 I mean, he's 36, right? 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:16.160 Or 37, one of those, 35, maybe. 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:19.440 He's in his well above his mid-30s, let's just say that. 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:29.519 And um, he said he goes, you know, our legs, everything was shot at the beginning of the game because we were trying to adjust to breathing and you know the air intake, even though we've been here for a day. 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:31.119 But that's not enough, obviously. 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:34.640 Not when you're running up and down the court like they were in the beginning. 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:42.559 So, but that bravo and cheers to our Blazers and and looking forward to more good games with them to see Yeah, they're five and one now. 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:46.079 Yeah, and their um what do you call it? 00:22:46.319 --> 00:22:51.279 Uh Emirates Cup starts on Friday night in LA against the Lakers. 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:55.039 And we beat them last the Blazers beat the Lakers last time they were there. 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:58.559 So you know that Lakers are gonna be kind of make them mad? 00:22:58.720 --> 00:22:59.279 Yeah, I think so. 00:22:59.920 --> 00:23:00.960 I think we made them mad. 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:02.319 They were embarrassed. 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:11.759 So anyway, so we've got let's talk about, you know, we we posted on Instagram that there are 79 players that are injured in the NBA right now. 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:12.799 That's 15%. 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:22.400 And some are long-term injuries, and others are, you know, just maybe a oui or a sprain or a strain that's gonna take some time, but not season ending. 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:24.960 But there are a few that are season ending. 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:38.880 And I thought we'd mentioned Ben Simmons before, who's now with the Kings, that he was looking forward to kind of a fresh, fresh start and getting his life pulled together and and then ends up with his um Achilles torn, so he's out for the season. 00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:39.200 Yeah. 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:40.799 And then what about OKC? 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:42.079 OKC? 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:42.960 Good cruise. 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:47.359 You mean uh that somebody's hurt uh all the time? 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:55.920 Let they have three or four three two starters, and Caruso has a strained ankle right now, so he's out. 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:02.880 And then I heard the other day that Chet's out, probably Chet Holmway's out for at least probably eight to ten weeks. 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:09.839 With some kind of right a small right patella tear, I wrote down. 00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:11.759 Oh, so it hurt his knee. 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:12.799 Yes, he hurt his knee. 00:24:12.880

--> 00:24:13.440 That's what it is. 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:21.759 Okay, and um you know the the injury of the the last couple of weeks seems to have been hamstrings. 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:23.759 Oh my gosh, that's what you hear all the time now. 00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:26.160 Yeah, that was jaw exaggerating. 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:26.640 Uh-huh. 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:29.759 Um, but that that's just plaguing them. 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:37.599 There are currently 11 players out of the NBA with hamstring tears or injuries of some kind. 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:39.599 Three of them are on the Pacers. 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:40.799 With hamstrings. 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:41.920 So let's talk about. 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:46.720 Last night the Pacers only suited up six players. 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:51.599 That was the first time since the 1940s that that happened. 00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:53.359 I mean, that is amazing. 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:54.480 That's all they had. 00:24:54.720 --> 00:25:04.079 And somebody made a comment I was listening to the radio this morning about they could have played uh Pascal Siakum, but they rested him. 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:15.119 And he said, the commentator said, and I don't blame them because he'd go out there and bust his butt, pardon my language, and with these guys that he'll probably never play with again, maybe this year. 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:18.640 Anyway, it was just so whatever it was, but it was only six players. 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:20.000 That's way bizarre. 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:26.240 I, you know, apparently everybody was not available. 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:27.759 So I don't reef. 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:29.519 Anyway, that's what happened there. 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:33.440 Also, two two of them on the Hornets are out with hamstrings. 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:34.000 I saw that. 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:36.079 Uh Khan and Grant Williams, yeah? 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:36.240 Yeah. 00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:37.519 Grant Williams, yeah. 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:38.079 Mm-hmm. 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:38.720 I know. 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:44.400 So hamstrings are kind of the excuse me, injury de jour, so to speak. 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:54.960 Yeah, one of the uh one of the phenomena that's happening also is the West is outplaying the East conference by a lot. 00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:59.279 You know, I think there's seven teams with just one win. 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:00.880 Six and one. 00:26:01.039 --> 00:26:05.039 I mean one and six, like, well, I think in the West or the East. 00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:07.039 No, it mostly in the East. 00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:08.319 Okay, okay. 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:14.240 Yeah, it's kind of becoming the lambs and the goats or whatever. 00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:15.359 How, you know, what is that? 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:16.319 The wolves? 00:26:16.880 --> 00:26:17.200 Yes. 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:18.720 Yeah, yeah. 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:20.480 You know, either you got it or you don't. 00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:23.759 So we're starting to see the divide, I guess, is maybe what we're saying. 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:26.400 But it's still so early, you know, it is. 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:33.279 It's not even ten games yet, and people are making these predictions for what's gonna happen uh in the playoffs and stuff. 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:37.680 I said, get ripped, you know, stop, because nobody knows that much in the future. 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:48.960 Again, look what's happened to OKC and does Mark Dagnall have enough uh coach-isms and things to kind of keep the team they won last night, so it's not impossible. 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:50.319 Not impossible. 00:26:50.559 --> 00:27:09.440 So also I wanted to mention that Steph is only about sixty points away from being the all-time um high, actually not all-time, uh to be five thousand three-pointers that he have will have in his records on and he is the one, he's the man. 00:27:09.599 --> 00:27:14.799 And the next one behind him is James Harden, and he's about twelve hundred points below that. 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:21.599 So I think uh Curry's gonna have that record and be that person for quite a while to come. 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:23.599 So pretty amazing. 00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:27.519 Yeah, but um Lamello ball. 00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:29.039 Oh, I saw that. 00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:29.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:37.279 See, he he has uh he he was the fastest player um to make a thousand three-pointers. 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:37.839 Right. 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:42.319 Um, in fewer games, thirty fewer games than anybody's done it before. 00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:47.119 So he's gonna if he has a long career, which I'm sure he hopes he does. 00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:48.160 Hopes he does, yeah. 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:50.720 Um he may he may beat all of them. 00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:51.200 Yeah. 00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:52.079 It'll be interesting. 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:54.799 Yeah, and we'll see watching it. 00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:57.200 He is a good three-point shooter. 00:27:57.440 --> 00:27:58.160 Yeah, yeah. 00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:04.880 And the players of the week this week were Wemben Yama and Tatum. 00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:11.359 Did you happen to see anything on social media with Wim all of Wemby's Halloween costumes that he had? 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:12.480 I I did not. 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:14.000 I heard that he had a happy. 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:19.440 He was into big time into Star Wars and to, you know, the space alien stuff. 00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:25.519 I mean, he's can you imagine seven foot plus walking in with some of these with masks and everything? 00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:28.960 And I hate masks, so that would just be like, oh my gosh, you know. 00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:32.640 I s I actually saw them, but I didn't know who was in them. 00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:35.279 You couldn't tell. 00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:36.799 Oh, that's too funny. 00:28:36.960

--> 00:28:38.000 That's too funny. 00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:39.200 Oh my goodness. 00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:42.640 Well, okay, so let's kind of wind it down, Phyllis. 00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:42.960 Okay. 00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:45.119 And we did mention that November 1st. 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:47.119 Did we mention it on the air or just to each other? 00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:48.000 Just to each other. 00:28:48.240 --> 00:29:15.279 Okay, so that November 1st, just the other day, was the 80th anniversary of the very first game in the NBA that was previously the BAA, Basketball Association of America, back in the 1940s, November 1st, so it'd be uh 1946, um, that it was an Assi Schecht Schechtmann scored the first basket. 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:15.920 Okay. 00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:34.640 And he became quite a legend in his own Jewish community, and apparently there is a um maybe a museum or there's something that he is much, very much honored in as far as uh Jewish athletes is concerned, which I didn't know about, but I thought that was really darn cool. 00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:35.119 Nice. 00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:40.720 And to remember him, and he died uh when he was in his 90s a while back, but that was pretty cool. 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:47.599 And then I think also if you want to make the announcement about what the Gonzaga team was able to do last night. 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:50.480 You mean when Gonzaga beat Per Purdue? 00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:52.960 For the first time ever. 00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:53.759 Ever. 00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:54.240 Ever. 00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:58.160 They were in um is it Pullman? 00:29:58.559 --> 00:29:59.039 Spokane. 00:29:59.279 --> 00:29:59.680 Spokane. 00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:00.640 They were in Spokane. 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:04.000 Pullman's right next to Spokane in Washington up there. 00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:05.920 But anyway, um not that close. 00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:06.559 Not that close. 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:10.960 Well, and that's where Washington State is, so you know I get my I get a little scattered. 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:11.839 Okay, I know you know. 00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:12.880 I worked there. 00:30:13.119 --> 00:30:14.720 You did in Pullman. 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:15.200 All right. 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:18.480 Anyway, so Mary Lou, what do your cousins think of that? 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:20.319 I know I haven't talked to any of them. 00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:21.920 I'm sure they're not very happy. 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:25.119 Um but we're not even gonna get go there because it's early. 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:27.680 They'll say it's everyone will say it's early in the season. 00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:28.640 It was just one game. 00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:34.640 But I say good for Mark Few and for his coaching staff, and those kids were very well prepared. 00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:38.640 Boy, does he have some height, you know, in that team. 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:39.039 Yes. 00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:44.400 That, you know, uh there was and Purdue was more playing a shorter team, it looked like last night. 00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:51.359 I don't know if that's their forever starters and things, but again, it's the first game, so coaches are trying to figure some things out. 00:30:51.440 --> 00:31:01.440 Anyway, yeah, so we will do more with college coming up in the next few weeks, I'm sure, because they're getting going and there will be some standouts and highlights that we will want to emphasize. 00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:04.079 And anything else you can think of before we say goodbye? 00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:10.880 No, I I think we've covered what we want to cover, and congratulations to the Valkyries. 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:11.440 One more time. 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:13.680 One more time and Gonzaga last night. 00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:14.720 Yeah, good job. 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:15.680 Alrighty, cool. 00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:21.680 And we have no undefeated teams now in the NBA, so maybe that kind of levels the playing field again. 00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:23.200 So off we go. 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:24.400 So everyone take care. 00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:26.480 You know, life is better with basketball. 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:28.319 And be kind to each other out there. 00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:29.279 Amen.