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The Ringer NBA Show

Is the NBA No Country for Old Men? | The Answer

The Ringer NBA Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Chris is joined by The Ringer’s Shea Serrano to look back at the LaMarcus Aldridge era of the Spurs in light of the recent news that Aldridge and the Spurs are looking to part ways (01:30). Later, Chris is joined by Justin Verrier to discuss the list of former All-Stars currently past their primes in the trade and buyout market who might be serviceable on contending teams (14:30). Host: Chris Ryan Guests: Shea Serrano and Justin Verrier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:19.0

Hello and welcome to the Answer on your host Chris Ryan and this week's big question.

0:24.0

Is the NBA no country for old men? The biggest news out of the week is probably out of San Antonio where it sounds like Marcus Aldrich's days with the spurs are numbered.

0:33.0

Aldrich joins Blake Griffin who moved from Detroit to Brooklyn and Kyle Lowry who's seen his name in the rumor mill up in Toronto.

0:42.0

These guys are lions and winter looking for somewhere to play in the post season.

0:47.0

It seems as if the biggest names that will move at the deadline or in the buyout market are going to be very expensive aging stars looking to catch on for one last shot at a ring or at least a shot at a ring.

0:57.0

Talk about Aldrich the spurs middle aged one stars who could move at the deadline. I'm joined today by Shay Serrano and Justin Varia. So let's get into this week's answer.

1:08.0

Now I'm joined by the answers San Antonio bureau chief Shay Serrano. Shay, what's up man? What up baby boy.

1:16.0

Look man, I know that this is a tough question to start off with but I know that you move you recently moved to San Antonio and I wanted to know.

1:24.0

You know how much of that was rooted in you wanting to be a part of the Lamarcus era and how much do you now regret your move.

1:30.0

It was 100% I wanted to be by Lamarcus and now I'm 100% regretting that but wherever he goes. That's where I'm going to go.

1:39.0

I'm going to take the whole family on the Lamarcus mystery tour which is kind of keep on following him around.

1:46.0

Come on now for real though but describe to me the the Lamarcus era in San Antonio like what was it to you.

1:53.0

So to me the Lamarcus era was I remember the day that they announced that he had signed to come to San Antonio and this was after we had won the title and 14 and when new Timmy was on the way out and we knew that we had

2:07.0

ready to like be the new guy and here comes the Lamarcus to step in and be like the second guy and so we were fired up like I think I tweeted a bunch about how they should just go ahead and start carving our name onto the championship.

2:21.0

12 because nobody was going to be able to touch us. It was really really exciting and it was it was cool for a bit and then it felt like like he didn't quite do what we wanted him to do in the playoffs when we got there and it was like a.

2:34.0

The situation where we weren't used to seeing that we weren't used to seeing it look like the water had got to be for someone because we're so long we had watched Timmy and Tony and pop and mono together.

2:46.0

For you know we were the Timmy was there for 19 years Tony Tony got there in the early 2000 2002 so around there what we have been watching you guys for a while.

2:58.0

Whatever we were used to we were used to the playoff starting and we were used to if we lost it was because we got beat by a better team it was never really felt like because our players didn't play how we expect them to.

3:08.0

Yeah for a couple of years there especially in the mid 2010s like I mean it just definitely did feel like the only thing that could beat the spurs was the spurs getting injured right like there would be.

3:19.0

You guys had a couple of of seasons there where I think there was some injury luck whether it was like totes hamstrings or quads or whatever but then like the Marcus was brought in and it was almost like.

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