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They're like, yeah, we want to be paid to. I love it.

And then pull out a copy of art of the deal and right in their face.

I've been reading art of the deal

I have Merrill Hodges I have Art of the Deal

I bought art of the deal.

how many times do you think LeBron has read The Godfather the book read The Godfather yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah how many times do you read it twice cover to cover

I don't like sit down and watch all the time it's just always kind of on that's like shooter yeah it's on it's on it's on it's like no actually everything's giving like my like in between football games it's godfather like everything's like the radio in your house yeah it's just background noise godfather

He's read The Godfather, the autobiography of Malcolm X.

He's watching The Godfather.

He probably just left the book and his wine cooler.

I don't allow another man to read The Godfather in front of me

you ever read The Godfather not the no you never read The Godfather the book yeah the book I didn't even know that existed

He said I'm looking for dudes who go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and bring the tartar sauce with him

I actually have a 5,000 like a 4,000 word paper on Moby Dick

When I was a kid, he used to read me Lord of the Rings. . . So he uses Lord of the Rings photos, the Matrix photos that Matrix photos Star Wars, you just kind of goes off everything for my childhood just kind of makes me feel like it's still a kids game

Horace Grant is on the hot seat. So Horace Grant who was on the show a couple of weeks ago adamantly denied that he was the snitch for Sam Smith's book Jordan rules.

They're addressing The Jordan Rules book, the famous book that goes to go out and read, which does have a part about how, you know, MJ doesn't, you know, doesn't go back to Chicago for a practice and blows Doug Collins off Christmas Eve.

Sam Smith quoted myself, be a cartwright, John Paxson, and a whole bunch of others in that book. And what he quoted us is what we said. And for for MJ to say, I was the source of this book, that's a lie. That's a downright lie. And he knows that.

He joked in it about Scotty's headaches. He called him headaches.

I've read Angela's book, so probably cheating a little bit.

But I can define Grit as a quarterback, I think.

They found that Grit was the most important trait for success. It beat out brains. It beat out brawn.

She is Grit exploitation. She is the big Grit industrial complex. Most of us out there learn to appreciate Grit because we had to because we lacked talent in sports.

I've never read a word of Harry Potter. I've never seen a second of Harry Potter. I've never seen a second of any Harry Potter movie.

I read the books when I was a kid I was right in the age room and that's actually when I read books. I love the books hated the movies

I've read it yeah okay we're not nervous so we don't read it so tell us should we read it yeah I think it's both a children and adults it's

Dykes are also wrote down a quote from the book Moneyball in which fellow fellow former Met Billy being said that Dykes had no concept of failure

It's like the Jonah Hill money ball meme. The money ball find really tall guys to play on your basketball team.

then I think that might just be it for me in reading. It might just be a big short visit and I'm walking off off that.

I've never seen like originals I've I mean you guys know I read one book it was The Big Short and that's I've said it a million times the book is better than movie

Probably The Great Gatsby.

You might like that Scott Fitzgerald.

Kyler Murray who I think Susie Colbert might be taller than him says that his favorite movie of all time is great Gatsby

that is the biggest red flag we've ever seen if you're going to pick a DiCaprio movie it should be catch me if you can if you're real quick.

either it's a try hard move to be like I I love movies that were books or you're just lying because there's no there's no one on earth who thinks great cats these are favorite movie right

All Quiet on the Western Front got a lot. I watched that movie. Is it good? Yeah, so I watched it on Friday night and I watched it because I was like I can't wait to tweet about how I read the book And the book was better.

anyways All Quiet on the Western Front was a great book.

All Quiet on the Western Front I was big I read that book

You know that's art of war at its finest. Like how I don't understand I don't understand how you could give your opponent any opportunity to feel good about themselves on your half of the turf.

So what we use with our offense like with the guys is now this is I don't you know This is obviously different from when he wrote it, but like there's only five musical notes there's only five primary colors and mixing all those together, you know, having the simplicity of only five but when you add them all together you get this beautiful you know this this array of colors or the beautiful music using simplicity to you know, get complexity out of it

This is a Sun Sushi quote. You ready for this? The bell check. Yeah, exactly. He says all warfare is based on deception.

Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable. When using our forces, we must appear inactive. And when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away.

I said green light to start you guys have Matthew McConaughey on his books called green light

You wrote it, you had a journal for 35 years. And then I read that you wrote it by going to the desert for 52 days without electricity. Is that true?

I always write things down not to remember. I write things down so I can forget them.

I've done Peyote in rail, De Kectores, Mexico in a cage with a mountain lion.

The game turned on Trenton Hunter S Thompson's interception as he has Steelers fans hoping to feel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for the Super Bowl.

The Colts had a chance to tie it late, but it was Daniil Hunter S. Thompson who went gonzo mode on the struggling Colts QB.

I started it. I'm not really a book finisher, but I started it and I wanted to start the interview with the chapter on the gift of hunger.

Go check out Chris Bosch's new book. It's called Letters to a Young Athlete

you're writing a book yeah about writing a book it's a working title but essentially it's it's kind of like one of the the working title is Letters to a Young Athlete

I thought it was a span the Bell tolls

Ernest Hemingway you couldn't have gone with like for whom the ball tolls mm-hmm that could be good.

My fire fest is Gary Paulson died. And that's my favorite author. So please respect my time right now. Hatchet, one of the best books of all time.

Going by the Hank book method, a long book, a very long book, over 180 pages. No illustrations either.

Greatest survival book of all time when you got Hank, you say something?

I read when I was in scary Paulson about a huge nonfiction guy

Hank, what do you think about Don Quixote? Have you started reading it yet? I got a... You guys said audiobook didn't count. Yeah. So I started audiobook, reconsidered that. We're going to dive into some chapters soon, maybe.

That's another Don Quixote reference, Hank. I'm sure you've finished that book by now because it's been so long.

He also is a New York Times best selling author no big deal sprawl ball

Well, that's a big theme of my book and i've been treating this graphic for a couple years like mv p's by position

He also did lead analyst for USA Basketball, and he has a new book out Kirk Goldsbury.

I'm the climate change guy for the NBA that's perfect.

I will endorse this book as my official father's day pick or gift this year especially if your dad's like my dad won't shut up about George Mike and how great he was you talk a lot about like George Mike and he was a great defensive player but he just goldened so much that they had to change it was legal he should have yeah which was why do you need a but Mike and is interesting too.

and if you also hate James Harden this is the book for you okay I have a question about the book and uh through all your research who is who has the most unusual heat map who that's really sprung that one on me man.

Kirk Goldberg sprawl ball it's out now literally out today right thank you yes today's the big day today's the big day a visual tour of the new era of the NBA listen even if you're on a numbers guy there's a lot of cool pictures a lot of pictures yeah.

there's another great book called selfie about how the idea of individualism is comparatively new and terrifying it just doesn't work for human beings

Have you ever read that book? The secret?

No, it's that book that says the secret to getting everything that you want in life is to just pretend like you already have it.