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IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant's Rant: 10-28-20 The Lakers Danny Green doesn't get it.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant Napear

Football, Basketball, Sports

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

So let me help you all understand some things about the NBA.  It's not a charity.  Playing the game is how the league generates revenue to pay the players.  Danny Green of the Los Angeles Lakers thinks 8 weeks off before starting up the season again is too short.  I got some news for ya, Danny.  I'll tell you in today's rant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's time for Grant.

0:03.0

Grant.

0:04.0

Hi good everybody, it is time for Grant's rant and today we talk about the NBA.

0:09.0

Now they're trying to get on the court playing games by December 22nd. That's the word. Why? Very simple. It means

0:16.0

about an extra $500 million to the gross revenue of the league if they're up and playing

0:21.1

by Christmas and we know they lost a ton of money last season and so yeah comes down to economics I get that but don't tell that to Danny Green of the Lakers who said quote if we start in December I think most guys are like I'm not going to be there to have that quick of a restart.

0:35.5

I wouldn't expect LeBron to be there for the first month of the season.

0:39.0

Hey Danny I think LeBron can speak for himself. I really do. You don't need to be speaking for LeBron James I think he's got it that's number one

0:47.0

Number two

0:48.1

Danny I don't know if you're wherever it or not but we are in a pandemic and there have been a ton of people that have lost their jobs and are doing everything that they can to feed their families and they're working their ass off.

0:59.0

And the last thing they want to hear is you bitching and complaining because you just went through the

1:03.9

NBA finals and now you're complaining that in two months you're going to have to

1:09.8

be playing games again. Oh poor Danny Green only two months before you have to get

1:16.1

back on to the court. Hey Danny let me break something to you all right you didn't

1:20.0

play the last half of March you didn't play in April you didn't play in May you didn't play in June you

1:26.3

didn't play in July shut up dandy would you please seriously I mean I don't know if you're

1:31.1

aware of this dandy but players every four years go from the Olympics right in the NBA training camp basically and the world games where players are playing all summer

1:40.1

They get a couple of weeks off and then they're back playing.

1:43.0

Danny I don't know if you remember this in the NBA like the Caron balloons of the world and Michael Jordan and Larry Bird and I can go on and on.

1:50.0

They played all 82 games and you know what? They practiced every day. Not in 2020. Uh-uh.

1:56.4

No, you got to have your rest. You can't do this. You can't do that. Let me bitch and

2:01.0

complain to the rest of the country that we're working too hard as

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