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extended psirraeic preseason is saturday against the denver nuggets.p to o nly four preseason games. veterans get bulk of the minutes. kerr doesn't want the guys resting on laurels. >> needs to be awareness, not lasting forever. you have to have talent and keep the edge. lose the edge, this league is too tough. teams knock you off our perch. only reason we're going to win, reason we won last year and 2015 is combination of talent and edge. we know we have the talent. edge is up to us. >> nba's board of governors passed new rules to eliminate the tanking used by teams to get the highest draft picks. 14% in 2019 for the three worst teams in the league. 76ers the most blatant for years and loaded with top picks. should be decent. >>> derek carr has a tendency to start slowly in games. problem in washington last week. carr, start, finish, middle everything was bad. nane of 31, 113 yards and touchdown. two picks. ending streak of no interceptions. sacked four times after only once all of last season. heading into a rowdy environment inen dr.ve out what went

extended practice as first preseason is saturday against the denver nuggets.t week's trip to china, only four preseason games. veterans get bulk of the minutes. kerr doesn't want the guys resting on laurels. >> needs to be awareness, not lasting forever. you have to have talent and keep the edge. lose the edge, this league is too tough. teams knock you off our perch. only reason we're going to win, reason we won last year and 2015 is combination of talent and edge. we know we have the talent. edge is up to us. >> nba's board of governors passed new rules to eliminate the tanking used by teams to get the highest draft picks. 14% in 2019 for the three worst teams in the league. 76ers the most blatant for years and loaded with top picks. should be decent. >>> derek carr has a tendency to start slowly in games. problem in washington last week. carr, start, finish, middle everything was bad. nane of 31, 113 yards and touchdown. two picks. ending streak of no interceptions. sacked four times after only once all of last season. heading into a rowdy environment in den

practice today as they ramp up for their first preseason game saturday at oracle arena against the denver nuggetsey're off to china. they have four preseason games, two in china. steve kerr said the veterans will get the bulk of the minutes. kerr wants to make sure complacency does not set in here. >> there needs to be the awareness, that it doesn't mean it's lasting forever. you lose the edge, this league gets too tough. the teams are going to knock you off your perch. the only reason we're going to win, the only reason we won last year and in 2015, because we had that combination of talent and edge. can't lose our edge. we know we have the talent. the edge is up to us. >> the nba's board of governors passed new rules to try to limit the blatant tanking that's been going on by teams trying to get high draft picks. the worst team in the lottery has a 25% chance of getting the number one pick. that will drop down to 14% in 2019 for the three worst clubs in the league. the philadelphia 76ers have been the most blatant tankers for years. as a result, they're not loaded with number one picks. and the

thinking 20 years ago, 21 years ago, an nba player, mahmoud abdul from the denver nuggets wouldn't stand for the anthem. looked at coverage how that filtered through the media at the time. universal condemnation. no politicians saying, no right 0 to free speech. bob dole said he should sit down. the media landscape then. not long ago in the grand schemes of things. 20 years ago, sports fans probably remember that thing. and media coverage now is different. how does that affect both sides, really? republicans, do they feel it's changed too much? democrats feel, this is good, we're winning? >> think how different the country is in 20 years. isn't all that much, you say. seen the rise of gay rights movement. the rise of black lives matter and awareness of police brutality against black people. aware of cultural moments and cultural issues that are very resonant to a lot of people standing up and speaking out in a way they didn't back then. if you disagreed, you just didn't talk about it. >> didn't have the venue to do it. didn't have facebook, twitter. >> even if the players 20 years ago, o