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The Valenti Show

Do You Get Concerned When Your Team's Players Play In The WBC, Olympics, etc.?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The guys discuss the Olympics, WBC, and other events involving professional athletes.

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0:00.0

Mr. Cott, do we have any texts?

0:03.5

We do have the text communications.

0:06.3

I think the Olympics should have more amateur athletes.

0:09.7

The risk of injury to top pro athletes is not worth it.

0:12.8

Have the top college prospects in sports participate instead.

0:16.6

The problem is we used to do that, but then, you know, the rest of the world started catching up with us and, you know, we don't like to lose.

0:26.7

And then there's everybody's basically on opposite sides of this.

0:29.9

There's no consistency. It's basically a 50-50 split on the text.

0:33.1

If it's not best on best, there's no point, totally fine with it.

0:37.0

That's kind of where I think I am with it, boys. Yeah, I love, you know, the hockey's been great. I thought the basketball people like Wojo, you know, hate Kevin Durant so much. Kevin Durant won the Olympic gold for the United States. And not the last Olympics, the one before that. I mean, it's all fine and well until your guy goes down.

0:56.7

Yeah.

0:56.9

Well, didn't Paul George, his horrific injury,

1:00.7

came in like an Olympic exhibition game, if I'm not mistaken,

1:04.8

because it was during the summer when he crashed into the back,

1:08.2

the basket support, his first injury, his first of many.

1:13.1

I was about to say he's been injured a lot.

1:14.7

Yes.

1:16.3

Let's go to Detroit.

1:17.7

Steve, what's going on?

1:20.4

Hey, what's up, guys?

1:21.5

How's it going?

1:22.2

Good.

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