Bruce Arthur

You go look and go look on a Holly Dowling, and you'll go see where she has been.

I think it's Bruce, Bruce somebody or something.

A sports reporter went after her.

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Don't know if it's gonna happen now.

Lo and behold, if you'd watched the Really Big Show, you would've seen this coming.

[laughs] So this is Bruce Arthur.

I think he's a sports reporter at none other than the Toronto Star.

So Musk also saying they would be better off, Alberta and Saskatchewan should separate, too.

We got Sheila Gunn Reid of Rebel News sharing this, replying to this Liberal guy here, Bruce Arthur, "Elon Musk retweeted Ezra Levant this morning.

Anyone getting the picture yet?" Taylor replying with, "And yet here you are on Elon's platform.

Bluer skies are beckoning you." We got Scott Moe being asked about this, and he simply said, "No," on separation.

Yeah, and I think like, you know, the reporting on, yeah, they're always like shady with, they sign an extension and that's it.

You know, you got the Shams, you got the Bruce Arthur, you got the sort of allusions to this being sort of the prequel to perhaps him signing for less money for more years at the end of the first year of the extension and all of that.

I guess let's go there, Katie, because I kind of talked about this yesterday.

It feels like there's a very different tone and intent from Kawhi coming back this time.

What was your analysis?

So we have Bruce Arthur, who was, uh, who obviously covers the Raptors for the Toronto Star.

We had him on Basketball Illuminati last week, and we talked about this extensively, about Kawhi's place in Raptor Dom, like how the fans feel about him, how the organization feels about him, and their willingness to do this, to in, in a sense, uh, like extending a, a contract that everyone else is saying, "Why would you pay him? He's always hurt," et cetera, et cetera.

And the Raptors are very confident, Dan, because they've had him before.

We'll talk about that coming up in a second here.

Some interesting stuff from Bruce Arthur and his write-up on the deal today in the Toronto Star.

But I think like this is as much about getting Kawhi on the team and raising the ceiling right now as it is showing Scottie Barnes like, yeah, this is a place you can be and feel comfortable that we're going to do everything we can to help you win over the course of your prime.

And that extends beyond the life of the contract he's currently on.

And I think even those who are a little put off by the aspiration and the cap circumvention and everything, I feel like I'm already seeing the sort of uncertain corners of the fan base come around on this.

And I think that's right.

I think it's, you know, as Bruce Arthur wrote today in a piece that we'll talk about a little bit coming up, you know, second chances are, you know, a thing, you know, second lives, all of that.

it's a second chance for the raptors in kauai here and they have a few years of runway to figure it out and i think that is very darn cool you know they don't have the runway of the spurs or these other teams that are loaded with early 20-somethings and plenty of infinite runway and room for error they got to get it right they got to be smart about the moves they make but i think having kauai on the team makes everything that much easier because i don't know if you've heard he's really good at basketball we'll come back on the other side and get into the player option which uh you know the bobby webster special player option on a contract and i think the first blush response from most raptors fans is another player option does this man have a sickness i don't think it's really that much of a concern in this instance we'll talk about why that is coming up in just a second Today's show is brought to you by Wayfair.

Yeah.

Look, at the end of the day, if you, you know, follow all the reporting related to Uncle Dennis over the years, including from Bruce Arthur, like in Toronto and the Lakers, all this stuff.

Dennis Robertson was looking for a fish to hook.

And multiple franchises refused to be that fish.