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The Skip Bayless Show

Chet Holmgren | Baker Mayfield

The Skip Bayless Show

West Coast Sports Broadcasting

Basketball, Football, Sports

4.5915 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Skip looks at the start of Chet Holmgren's NBA career and how the Thunder center will fare in the pros. He also reacts to Baker Mayfield's trade to the Panthers, and how moving to a new team will impact the quarterback's play. Follow the Skip Bayless Show on all platforms: https://twitter.com/skipbaylessshow https://www.facebook.com/SkipBaylessShow/ https://www.instagram.com/skipbaylessshow/ https://www.tiktok.com/@skipbaylessshow https://www.youtube.com/c/skipbaylessshow Listen to & follow more FOX Sports podcasts: http://sprtspod.fox/b7si4wkv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm relentless. Can you feel this? I'm going all in. It's time to cash in. One moment in time. Let's get at this. Be tremendous.

0:11.0

Relentless.

0:13.0

I'm relentless.

0:15.0

Here we go. This is the Skipela show, episode 26. This is the Skipela show, episode 26. This is always is the un-undisputed. This is everything I cannot share with

0:39.8

you during a two and a half hour go for the throat debate show known as undisputed.

0:48.1

Today, first up, I will give you the backstory of a long runningrunning controversy I have been involved in concerning white American

0:58.0

centers being taken in the NBA draft lottery, which will bring us to one Cheat Holngren, Beast, or Bust.

1:10.0

Then I will tell you about why the Baker Mayfield debate is the single strangest and most unfair debate I have ever been involved in in all my years of debating sports on

1:26.9

television. I will answer your questions about which team Kevin Durant will represent once he is

1:37.5

inducted into the Hall of Fame as he certainly will be.

1:45.7

And then I will answer your question about the one thing, the one and only thing

1:49.8

LeBron is better at than Jordan.

2:11.0

And finally, if you're still with me at that point, I'm going to go way deep. I mean raw and real deep and tell you the story of the man who propelled me into this media business of mine, the man who drove me to write the single gut-seest

2:17.9

opinion piece I ever dared to write. But first up, as always, it is not to be skipped.

2:32.2

Chet Holngren has been the 7 foot 1 inch lightning rod of the NBA Summer League.

2:38.6

Everybody has an opinion on 7 foot 1 Cheat, beast or bust. I'll give you mine in just a second. But to better

2:48.6

understand my evolving opinion on Cheat Holgren, allow me to walk you back through the back story of that opinion.

3:01.0

In my early days at ESPN, starting in 2004, and then going into 5,

3:06.2

7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, I began to notice that there was one type of player you should not draft with a lottery pick.

3:19.2

That player was any seven foot or taller American white center.

3:28.8

I'm sorry, they just weren't as skilled.

3:31.1

They weren't generally as tough as the Euro centers, or for that matter the Euro power forwards.

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