[speaker002:] well so you you don't know too much about the Dallas Mavericks this this
[speaker001:] no what where they at this year uh they win in their division
[speaker002:] no they are uh only just a slightly a bit better than uh the other expansion teams they're they're they're a team in disarray right now
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh do you do you have a season pass you go watch them or
[speaker002:] actually I used to and I gave it up this year because I thought well Roy Tarpley wasn't going to make it and sure enough about a week after I decided not to buy my ticket he went down with his uh his drug problems
[speaker001:] uh-huh huh
[speaker002:] and uh boy the team just is going into a tailspin since then
[speaker001:] yeah that's too bad I'm I guess I'd be most familiar with uh the Jazz
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh and I've never watched them but uh interestingly enough I I I got to meet Carl Malone
[speaker002:] you're kidding
[speaker001:] huh-uh uh well it I live about forty five miles from Jackpot Nevada
[speaker002:] how'd you manage that um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh it's a town it's a town where they uh have uh uh casinos and so forth and I guess that's one of his pastimes I caught him down there and he was playing the slot machines and uh yeah you know would you know it somebody like him he hit a five thousand dollar jackpot and then he turned around hit hit another two thousand dollar jackpot and they came and took his picture and you know got the uh the IRS forms and stuff and he sat there and put all the money back into the machine lost every penny of it didn't bother him a bit
[speaker002:] sound sounds like a real game huh
[speaker001:] just yeah just doing it for enjoyment
[speaker002:] well he must he must be a pretty big guy
[speaker001:] it was incredible when he stood up he just towered he was a good foot above anybody in there
[speaker002:] gee
[speaker001:] and uh everybody everybody was uh kind of excited to see him and he's he oddly enough he was uh very friendly and cordial and stopped to sign a few things and
[speaker002:] well it's it's it's nice to see those those you know those kind of guys when they get paid all those big bucks to uh you know to be halfway friendly
[speaker001:] so it was it was neat yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] but I know what you mean about talking about being big I mean that's when I was in high school I got I went to a Cleveland Cavaliers game I'm from Ohio and a friend of mine runs or used to run the clock down on the floor so he'd let me get down on the floor at half time and I stood by these guys they all walked out and and gee whiz they're just monsters
[speaker001:] um-hum  uh-huh
[speaker002:] seven foot doesn't sound that tall but boy when you stand next to one it it is real tall
[speaker001:] yep yeah I hear you so
[speaker002:] so if you you don't you don't get down to uh basketball games very often then
[speaker001:] I don't no we've got a small of course this isn't professional basketball but uh the CSI Golden Eagles
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I don't know if you've heard of them they're they're number they're the number one junior college in the state in the nation excuse me
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] and uh so they're here and they're kind of fun to go watch but uh uh that's that's the the most closest I get to in fact I've only seen one professional basketball game uh
[speaker002:] so you didn't watch the all star game uh yesterday
[speaker001:] I kind of watched it on television parts of it I didn't I didn't see the whole thing
[speaker002:] yeah I I got out the weather was so nice here that I got out and didn't didn't see any of it
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh yeah well well what do you think about Magic Johnson should he play or should he
[speaker002:] well that's uh you you talking about the Olympics now
[speaker001:] yeah I guess the summer Olympics is uh what they
[speaker002:] yeah the summer Olympics is his next thing well I really you know it's it's his choice to play but there's a lot of other people you know the other team's choice not not to play against him I think he's gonna find a lot of people just say well heck I'm not going to worry you know I'm not gonna mess with that
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh yeah well I don't I think they that they'd feel that way too interestingly enough they've kept a seat a seat open uh and he may even play in the in the tournament games for uh LA
[speaker002:] are you serious
[speaker001:] I'm serious I heard that the other day on a sports
[speaker002:] how can how can they do that if he doesn't played the whole season
[speaker001:] I I don't know I don't know I guess the roster's one man you know there's a hole there still
[speaker002:] oh unless they yeah unless they're just carrying a one odd guy instead of carrying the ten or eleven that they carry just carry one less
[speaker001:] yeah right that's what they've done
[speaker002:] well I you know I didn't watch the game but a a friend of mine was telling me that he you know he played a lot but he he played then he'd sit down then he'd play and he'd sit down and it wasn't like he was out there for twenty or thirty minutes at a at a go
[speaker001:] and there's yeah no he wasn't and the the the part I saw is he he made the last shot of the game off balance three pointer and
[speaker002:] I guess so yeah once once uh he starts losing that weight and can't keep it on you know he'll have to slow down and not not do that kind of stuff that that's got to be awful tough awful tough on his body
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah uh-huh well when's your Mavericks gonna do something
[speaker002:] oh gee whiz the the they are
[speaker001:] they need more people they need a coach what do they need
[speaker002:] they need players and and they need a front office that that can judge players we've traded away so many good players in the past five years and got nothing for them
[speaker001:] players
[speaker002:] and drafted so many bad players and you know they haven't turned out
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] it's uh it's very frustrating we had we had one year where we had two first round picks and we picked uh a guy by the name of Bill Wittington uh who's a seven foot center a white guy and Uvay Blob another seven foot white center and they are both okay but I think both of them are playing in the Italy now
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] and they you know they they traded away Mark Aguirre and got nothing for him I mean he had to go but they they
[speaker001:] um-hum