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Today we find out 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.160 in the YouTube rankings we're the number thirteen podcasts, not 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.720 just of sports, but of all things, all the there 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.800 are over five hundred different podcasts that's on YouTube. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.280 Will number thirteen? Five? 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.400 Ok, five, they're five thousands. There are thousands of podcasts 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:03.960 on YouTube. 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:05.440 Wait, number thirteen. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.120 We're the number one sports podcast of all the people 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.680 that do sports. Yeah, we're number one on YouTube of 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.280 all the people that do sports. We don't need to 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.520 call no name, we don't need to HiPE ourselves up, 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.800 but try to talk down to someone else. But I'm 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.720 just saying this is only because of you, because none 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.000 of this is possible without you. All the things that 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.440 I've been through and oh Joe still by men, Joe 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:29.920 came back and joined us. All of this is because 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.279 of you, and I personally can't thank you enough. What 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:33.880 you want to say with Joe, Wait a. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.280 Minute, I'm listening to the numbers. The numbers is astonishing. 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.120 Now we barely into that in our second year. Now 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.279 we talk about thousands of thousands and thousands of other podcasts, 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.160 many that have started before us, and the fact that 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.440 we're thirteen that's tremendous. 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.000 That is an amazing accomplishment. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.760 And obviously our success is all because of you that 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.920 continue to watch and support us. Y'all of the meat 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.920 and potatoes to why this thing is going the way 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.280 it is. And I want to thank you from the 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.200 goodness and the greatness of my heart and and and 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.359 and what we just started. And we're gonna get to 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:06.240 that number one spot. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.560 We're gonna were gonna get there, that's our goal. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:11.640 You know. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.080 Joe came on with us last year and uh to 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.880 do basketball, and he came back with us again this year. 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:18.880 So we want to thank Joe for being a part 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.040 of this. And uh uh A lot of people were 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.000 trying to get Joe, but Joe, he was looking for 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.760 the right situation, some way be himself, be comfortable and 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:28.760 talk about not only basketball, but he wanted to talk 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.520 about other topics as well. So we think Joe is 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.880 the perfect fit for Nightcap to be a big three 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.600 that's on Wednesday night, and as I said, as we 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.839 move into the new year, hopefully Joe did want to 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:38.800 come on for an extra night. 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.400 But we'll see how that pans out. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.160 Oh yeah, all you guys that's watching, that's listening, that 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.200 spread us, that spread Nightcap the word of mouth. Oh 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.359 Joe and I and Joe want to personally thank you 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.479 for your support and you'll continue support. But first we 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.479 got to start with some basketball. Joe Rich Paul time 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.840 with the Los Angeles Clippers, and I guess they say 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.320 the second time is not better than the first time. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.240 Paul sent home by the franchise late last night, in 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.000 the middle of a five game road trip CP three 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.960 rode on Ig just found out I'm being sent home. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.040 The Clippers then are now saying that they had released Paul, 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:15.839 saying Chris is a legendary Clipper and had a historic career. 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.120 But I want to make one thing very clear. No 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.760 one is blaming Chris Paul for our underperformance. I accept 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.680 responsibility for the record we have right now, and there 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.080 are a lot of reasons why we've struggled. We're grateful 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.520 for the impact Chris has made on this franchise. According 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.919 to Shams, chris leadership style clash with the team and 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.880 he had not spoken to ty Lou for several weeks. 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.520 Per Chris Haynes, Chris Paul requested a meeting with Lou 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.839 to discuss perception he was a negative presence on the team, 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.680 and Lou refused to meet. Joe, having played seventeen years 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.160 in the NBA, had been one of the leaders at 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:55.440 a lot of different places. What do you deduce what happened? 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.239 And how did what seemed promising the second time around? 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.160 How did it go so bad so quickly? Well, Uncle Ocho, 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.000 sounds like to me. I played with obviously, I played 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.960 with toront Luke. He was a point guard here in Atlanta. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.720 I had a chance to play with Chris Paul in 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.280 the USA and two thousand and six, and I played 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.520 with him in Houston. That that one year with James 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:21.720 Harden was just unbelievable and we lost to the Warriors game. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.520 What was that seven to the win to the finals. 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.160 So I know I know both of these guys pretty well. 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:32.080 Uh Chris, Chris Paul is a point guard, is very bullheaded. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.960 You know, he is a national leader. So if he 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.120 sees something that he doesn't like or he don't think 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.640 that's that's helping the team. Man, he's obviously gonna voice that, 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.760 he's gonna say something. You know, he's just one of 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.560 those guys who can't help it. But Uncle Ocho, y'all know, 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.840 losing exposes a lot, Man, it exposes a lot. And 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.520 when you're getting your butt kicked night in and night out, 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:53.560 you know, I feel like you have to put the 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:58.760 blame on someone. And unfortunately, you know, it seems though 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.520 even though they came out with statement and said Chris 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.320 is just has nothing to do with it. You know, 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.840 his our record is why we excusing him from the team. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.440 But it's just a bad look, man on a guy 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.840 who's already who is a Hall of Fame point guard, 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.240 who's already said that this is last year planned, you 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.240 know what I mean. So it's like, what was so 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.120 bad or egregious that he couldn't stick it out this 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:22.840 full year? 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:24.040 Uh? 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.720 That's that's yet to be determined. Obviously it'll take one 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.360 of those guys to kind of speak on it. But 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.160 it just seems like an unfortunate situation. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:36.040 Man losing does a bill character. It reveals character and what. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.760 Transpired, what transprit Let me tell you, Let me let 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.120 me tell you from a football perspective, and let me 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.520 know what you think. Joe, Yeah, you see, Chris Paul 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.040 has always been one of the two or three best 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.080 guys on the team. He's an All NBA selection, he's 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.280 an All DEMBIA, a defensive selection. He's one of the 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.920 top two or three point guards year and the year out. 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.600 You see, Oh, Joe and Joe, as you start to slip, 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.920 your voice is not as loud and it can't be 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.920 is loud. So things that you would normally say when 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.200 you was All NBA, you was all defensive, You could 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.800 go to the coach, the man, the meeting and no problem. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.480 You see, Oh Joe, you know this. The fifty third 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.120 man can't get a meeting with the head coach. The 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.160 one two, three four guy can get a meeting with 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.560 the head coach. And you see what transfired. Yeah, he's saying, 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.960 what's going on? But nobody wants to hear that, Chris, 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.760 because you're not the player. You can't help us get 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.240 out of what's going on. This is what I take from. 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.200 This is what I take I think happened. This thing 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.839 went awry when they gave up all those picks for 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.320 Paul George and they moved heaven and earth to get Kawhi, 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:40.320 Leonard Kawhi had they won one championship. You see, Toronto 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.480 gave up a lot to get Kawhi. It was well 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.920 worth it because what Joe, they won a championship. You see, 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.840 now the Clippers are farther away from winning a championship 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.400 than when they were before they even got Kawhi. Yes, 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.720 so now we're giving up all these picks. Y'all see 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.480 what Shaye doing on a nightly basis. Not only did 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.040 it win a championship, he's Finals MVP, the league MVP. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.319 And we had him, Joe, we had him. We had 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.800 a goose that was laying golden eggs, and we gave 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.600 him away. We made the biggest mistake, says ASoP, gave 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:10.400 us Kingdom away. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:10.920 Four horse. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:17.000 That's what happens as you get old, and it happens 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.679 to all of us. Were all not gonna have the 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.960 same ability to go speak or to go knock on 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.800 the Boston door and have a conversation with him. It 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.120 will happen to us all. And that is what happened 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.640 to Chris Paul. Chris thought he was from out from 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.880 outside looking at in chat. I haven't talked to anybody. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.000 I have not talked to anybody. So I'm just saying 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.840 from my standpoint, yes, Chris is looking at himself. He's 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.760 Chris Paul and CP three in name only, not in play. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.959 So if you can't produce the same way, you can't 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:49.880 expect to have the same kind of leeweight. 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.360 You can't be that critical. 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.320 Because you could be critical when he was that guy, 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.960 when he was in New Orleans or all these other 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.200 place where he's in Houston and he's a whole KC. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.000 You could have that. Yeah, when you. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.600 Play eight ten minutes a night, guys, you don't get 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.439 that kind of you don't get that kind of leeway. 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.120 You don't have that kind of luxury. That's what I 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.679 deduce from what happened in this situation. 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:17.880 A Joe and Uncle. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.240 I'm curious obviously with Chris Paul. With Chris Paul playing 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.600 as long as he's playing, being a seasoned veteran in 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.280 the game, understanding what it takes to win. The Clippers 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:30.120 have had mishaps obviously with the trade, which with Shay 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.280 and other things not going right with the Kawhi trade. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:38.400 Why not why not he not be able. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.920 To express themselves and say, this is what you what 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.640 we need to do if you want to see things 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.520 go in the right direction. Why would they not listen 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.720 to him? Why would they not take heed to what 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.880 he's saying? Does management or do the people in positions 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.200 of power have that much of ego? Are they that 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.480 prideful to let someone that has put the kind of 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.640 work that Chris Paul is done in the league itself 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.679 and being successful Hall of fame at that they won't 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.000 even just listen. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:09.080 Oh so it sounds more like of how the message 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.680 is being delivered to me if you ask me, like, 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.360 it's a way you can still lead. Although he's coming 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.839 off the bench, he's trying to be that spark plug, 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.559 that lead off the bench. You know, he can't help, 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.080 you know, to get a little emotional probably, you know, 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.079 throughout this course of the season, man, it's been a 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.280 rough patch for the Clippers early. You know what I mean. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.840 I watched him play numerous of times, so I know 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.160 the frustration has set in. Like like I'm saying, when 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.680 emotions is high, logic is low, you know what I mean. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.800 So they standon, had a meeting, he released the he 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.080 released the IG post at three in the morning, said 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.600 they were sending him home. From my understanding, they was 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:46.760 meeting up to that point. That's how long it took 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.240 for them to kind of get an understanding. So it 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.400 ain't just clear cut and dry that they just let 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.600 him go like. It was more to the situation that 0:12:55.720 --> 0:13:00.079 obviously that'll probably never get out to the public, right, Yeah. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.560 It was a situation, O Joe. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:07.240 Maybe there was certain It's hard for me to believe 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.040 this is an isolated ancident, This is a one time thing. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.760 Maybe Chris being the vocal leader everywhere he's being, was 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:15.559 being vocal. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.319 Maybe he was being a little too vocal. Oh Joe, 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:18.960 I'm sorry. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.400 A special Teams guy is not gonna say Marvin, I 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.319 need to talk to you, and Marvin opened his door. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.240 That's not happening. You could do that. Carson could do that. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:29.240 Voluntee Burfett could do that. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:30.200 MH. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:35.480 You have to understand that in the pecking order, everybody 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:39.600 doesn't Bill Davis. Bill Davis, my college coach, told me 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.360 one time. He showed the team one time. He said, 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.360 I'm an cheat to treat y'all all fair, but I'm 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:44.320 not gonna treat you the same. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:48.840 Do it that a chat? Do with that what you want? 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:53.600 You know, on the job, the boss might treat y'all 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.040 all fair, but some of y'all said, well, he got 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.440 favorite X, Y and Z, but they don't treat you 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:02.600 all the same. Kawhi get privileges. I remember Paul Jordan 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.320 even had a conversation. That's what Rob pat bailed them 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.120 the wrong way. Them guys coming late. We got a hold. 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.520 We can't start practice, we can't take off on the bus, 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.080 we can't take off on the plane. Well, that's what 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.000 happens when you're one of the two star players. You 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.600 get listened to. When you're not the star player and 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:24.480 you're not even playing fifteen twenty minutes a night, it's hard. 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:26.880 First of all, the guys are not gonna listen to 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.560 you to save or Joe that guy that oh Joe. 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.280 How many times the special team guys said, come on, 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.760 oh Joe, let's go. You looking at him like, if 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.840 you don't sit your ass down to get out my face, 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:39.960 I can't tell you what somebody told me. 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:40.800 I'm telling you what I know. 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:45.680 Absolutely absolutely he At the same time, you know, I 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.960 know CP he understands like, Okay, I got a great 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.280 relationship with James Hard and I got a good relationship 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:55.000 with Kawhi Leonard. He ain't if it's really something that 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.640 wrong or you know, something that's really messing with him, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.680 I'm sure he would go to them and hey, look, man, 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.320 we gotta go talk to coach. We gotta go talk 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.120 to t Lou. He'll go to James Harden, He'll go 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.040 to Kawhi. We need to go talk to t Lou 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.240 about this situation. Man, Hey, we gotta be better here. 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.880 We gotta be better that. I just can't see him 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:15.280 over going over James Harden and Kawhi and then just 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.160 going straight to the source being like, hey man, we 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:18.960 got an x y Z you know what I mean? 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.400 Like I think I think he has I know he 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.640 has more sense in that, and obviously his value and 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.240 his say so into this through those dudes, obviously it 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:32.120 will be heard, you know a lot better as though 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.440 it's just coming from him. So I really I'm not 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.760 sure what really got him to this point. But like 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:39.640 I said, man, I've watched him play a few times 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.360 and it hasn't been pretty. 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.880 The man getting D and p's healthy scratches. It's only 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.760 a matter of time. That is the prideful man. That 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.840 man has played twenty with twenty one NBA season, Joe, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.000 like I said, he's a top seventy five player all time. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:56.680 Hut that sink in for just a second. 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:57.000 Chat. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.640 He's getting healthy D and PS, D and P healthy scratch, DMP, 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:06.120 healthy scratch, not an injury, not coaching decision, healthy stratch. 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.280 So now is telling you now, I don't, Like I said, 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.320 I don't know. Maybe you know, Hey, y'all need to 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.600 do this. Y'all need to do that. Man, it's kind 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.880 of hard to tell somebody something when you're not doing 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.040 it or you can't help us do it. Yeah, but 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.880 this situation is bigger than Chris Paul because the Clippers 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:27.960 right now, Chat and y'all know this, and everybody that's 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.400 listening to us know this. The Clippers are farther away 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.680 from winning a championship right now than when they were 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.880 before they got Kawhi. Kawhi injuries has helped harmed this team. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.480 Giving up all those draft picks. Do you know, Oto, 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.640 but ok see Thunder still get the clippers number one 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.240 draft pick in twenty six. Think about that, all those 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.680 picks they got, they built this roster. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:50.320 They built a team that's. 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:55.200 Set for the next decade thanks to the Clippers. Thanks 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:56.040 to the Clippers. 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.800 Yeah, they missed. They missed big time. This is more 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:00.320 than miss. 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.720 I'm not sure I can think of another word, you know, 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.600 to to definitively describe what the Clippers did when they. 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:06.159 Let Shay go. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.880 And Uncle, I asked, I mean Joe, I asked Uncle 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.800 this or earlier. Most of the time, if you if 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.080 you can see you know, scouts and gms, there's there's 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.600 a there's a visual where you can tell a player 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.880 special because certain players look better than other players, even 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.040 if they're young and they're just coming to your team, 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.800 you can already see the promise and the potential in them. 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:27.160 So I asked, Uncle, well. 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:28.600 How the hell they even let Shake get out the 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.360 goddamn building anyway? When he's as special as he is, 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.920 You're not gonna tell me, Oh, he's with the Clippers, 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.439 and he's like, I you know what I think we 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.919 can we can do without this individual. And then all 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.520 of a sudden, he goes to Oklahoma and looks like 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.280 he does now one of the best in the league. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.800 O Joe, Hey, Judy, maybe one depending on who you 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.639 god damn asked, based on preference on the position and 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:53.880 play you actually liked. 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:55.919 So what the hell was the Clippers looking at? 0:17:56.240 --> 0:18:01.160 Dang, they didn't see this, bro, So this they see. 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.280 They knew he was gonna be special. They knew he 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.320 was gonna be special. But Ojo, I promise you, they 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.960 ain't see this, bro. They didn't see I'm gonna be 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:10.399 honest with you. I ain't see this. I thought he 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.520 was a hell of a player, right, but the mega 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:17.399 starring on that he's jumped himself into the consistency that 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:21.160 he plays with and being reliable night in and night 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.880 out with thirty plus points at night obviously, the one 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.800 championship looking like they gonna repeat. 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:33.080 Yeah, yea man and boys twenty one and one man. 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:38.199 Yes, he couldn't be this. You know why he couldn't 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.200 be this because he wasn't gonna be number one with Kawhi. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.960 You see he's the unquestioned leader in Okay. See, so 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.320 now if you bring Kawhii in, Kawhi gotta get the ball. 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:54.120 Yeah no, and Kawhi made it be Let it be known. 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.960 If you don't make this deal to get Paul George, 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.320 I'm going to side with the Lakers and after the 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.359 Davids and James, and if you're the Clipper, you cannot 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.480 allow that to happen because they already had Lebron. Now 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.440 they got another superstar and after the day was the 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:09.159 pair with him, and you want them to get a 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:09.640 third win. 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:15.000 Hey, and not only that, Uncle Ojo, Kawhi and Paul 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:19.439