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Speaker 1: you touched on something with your tweet. I'm gonna read it.
Speaker 1: Defense is not a part of basketball. The more this
Speaker 1: is exactly what the league wants. I hate it. Elaborate. Um,
Speaker 1: there's no reason for fourth quarter playoffs where a guy
Speaker 1: can take the ball out after made bucket and dribble
Speaker 1: from one end to the other end and lay it up.
Speaker 1: That's that that that should never happened in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It never happened. We when we played and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you this, if that would have happened, we played
Speaker 1: coach like popish the sub the whole five hours. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to what's burning. Playoffs are here, um, But before
Speaker 1: we get to any of that, we gotta welcome the
Speaker 1: newest member to the Showtime Basketball family. And forgive him
Speaker 1: if he looks a little pale. He just got back
Speaker 1: from Coachella. He's off an old bender, but he's in
Speaker 1: the building. Man Chandler pars is. Welcome to the family.
Speaker 1: Brother Guy appreciate it. To have you appreciate man. You
Speaker 1: said you wanted to start getting into the media space. Man,
Speaker 1: we brought you over to death Row, I mean showtime
Speaker 1: and we made it happy. Man. So without further due,
Speaker 1: let's jump right into it. The playoffs are here, Um,
Speaker 1: who have been some of the best performances that you
Speaker 1: guys have seen over the over the first game or so,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously these young dudes with with Jordan Poole
Speaker 1: and with the Warriors and Anthony Edwards just to be
Speaker 1: the one that sticks out the most, obviously because you know,
Speaker 1: as a lower seed they got to win. They go
Speaker 1: on the road into Memphis, between the playing game and
Speaker 1: with the playing tournament, how he played and then the
Speaker 1: first game it's you know, he was unbelievable for that,
Speaker 1: you know, to be his first experience of that and
Speaker 1: him to ball out like that was nuts. Jack. What
Speaker 1: do you like most about Edwards game? He's not afraid
Speaker 1: of the big moments. You step up to those big moments.
Speaker 1: I think that was them. Um. Getting that spot and
Speaker 1: playing Memphis was was bad luck for Memphis. They wanted
Speaker 1: one and they wanted an older team. They want an
Speaker 1: old team. They could run and be the young team
Speaker 1: and bully them. They can't do that against Minnesota and
Speaker 1: that's why. Yeah, and you gotta think they got they
Speaker 1: got a cat. They got cat over there too, all Star,
Speaker 1: one of the best big men in the league. So
Speaker 1: they're in trouble. So switching gears a little bit, we
Speaker 1: touch base on a couple of these guys. But the
Speaker 1: young guns Jordan Pool, Uh, Anthony Edwards, Tyres Maxie over
Speaker 1: in UH Philadelphia. This new and infliction of younger players.
Speaker 1: Normally it takes a little about you want vets during
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but these younger players have come out and really,
Speaker 1: you know, made a name for themselves early on in
Speaker 1: their careers. Jack thoughts on these young boys just not
Speaker 1: afraid of the big moments. I think, you know, not
Speaker 1: only that they're not afraid map, but they get an opportunity.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of times when we was in
Speaker 1: the league, the young guys, the old coach didn't want
Speaker 1: to play am or even give him a shot in
Speaker 1: these big moments. But these young guys are taking a
Speaker 1: badge of the opportunity. So shout out to the coach
Speaker 1: that's that's giving these young guys the opportunity and having
Speaker 1: confidence in him. Yeah, So next up injuries, particularly to
Speaker 1: Luca um whose original light calf string. They realizing it's
Speaker 1: more than that me having calf strings. I know those
Speaker 1: are a lot more serious than people may think they are,
Speaker 1: and if you come back too early, it could be catastrophical.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm hopeful did he'll return, but Luca may
Speaker 1: not return in the first round. I don't think enough
Speaker 1: people are kind of talking about that. How important is
Speaker 1: he do you feel to the als Mavericks? I mean
Speaker 1: that's Luca is the MAVs, right, He's the guy there.
Speaker 1: He's and like you said, the calf is nothing. You
Speaker 1: can't mess with that, Like that's because something that's gonna linger.
Speaker 1: It's gonna bother him, and from what I've heard, it's
Speaker 1: worse than their perceiving age be. So I don't see
Speaker 1: him playing. If he does, I think he's gonna it's
Speaker 1: kind of scary with how young he is and his
Speaker 1: future is so bright, So I think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: cautious with it. But yeah, I mean with Luca, I
Speaker 1: like the map I was without them, I don't know
Speaker 1: tell it because I haven't really you know, Jack and
Speaker 1: I both haven't really trusted the Jazz, but this may
Speaker 1: be their time to be able to good break for them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you know, well, you know, doing doing everybody's playoff
Speaker 1: run along the way some teams that with a team
Speaker 1: that has an injured player to get into a series.
Speaker 1: Like I always saying, we won the championship when we
Speaker 1: played Dallas, Dirk was hurt, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And so look at Phoenix last year they played, They
Speaker 1: played a lot of teams, a lot of teams hurt,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So sometimes that's just a
Speaker 1: part of it. You know, you don't wish nobody hurt,
Speaker 1: but that's you know what I'm saying. You can look
Speaker 1: at the Clippers. Paul George couldn't play in the one
Speaker 1: game that mattered all year long. Um Jack only a
Speaker 1: game in for most of these series. But so far,
Speaker 1: what series has stood out to the most as the
Speaker 1: most exciting The Brooklyn and the Celtics series, for sure,
Speaker 1: But I actually I actually love the different swings. You know,
Speaker 1: going into the fourth quarter Brooklyn was down and they're
Speaker 1: getting the fourth quard and Kyrie go crazy. Than the end,
Speaker 1: you know, the end of shot by Tatum, just to
Speaker 1: just to have the wid with dogs, to think the
Speaker 1: time clocking, the spinning lead up. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Just just just the whole dynamic and Carrie, you know
Speaker 1: all that with the fans. That's just more than the
Speaker 1: most entertaining series for me right now. But that's what
Speaker 1: I want to get into next. Uh. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: you and I were out spoken, you a little less,
Speaker 1: but Um, the treatment of the Boston fans to me
Speaker 1: on first and formances, this is what makes sports sports.
Speaker 1: I love crazy fans, but obviously I think it's been
Speaker 1: well document of the past few years that fans half
Speaker 1: crossed the lines with certain things. UM and Kyrie decided
Speaker 1: to retaliate Um with multiple flip offs and and and
Speaker 1: and telling people to suck his dick and all this
Speaker 1: other kind of things. And unfortunately he'll probably be fined.
Speaker 1: But as former athletes and here, we know how bad
Speaker 1: and how nasty crowds can get. To What was your
Speaker 1: thought when you saw kind of his antics, because that's
Speaker 1: not normally him. When he explained after, it's like there's
Speaker 1: only so much you could take, right, I mean, it's tough.
Speaker 1: I I totally understand it. I understand where he's coming from.
Speaker 1: I can't agree with it. Obviously, he's a professional, he's
Speaker 1: in the spotlight. This is just what comes with it.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, like he said, there's only
Speaker 1: so much you can take. There's a guy. That guy
Speaker 1: would never say that on the street or in a bar,
Speaker 1: and it will come up to you and call you
Speaker 1: a pussy or overpaid or whatever. So the fact that
Speaker 1: he thinks he can just buy a ticket and these
Speaker 1: fans can just be so unruly and talk to these
Speaker 1: professional athletes like that is nuts. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you have to have accountability to kind of keep your
Speaker 1: composure and not do things like that as well, because
Speaker 1: he's going to get a big fine and they could,
Speaker 1: they could what if they suspended to them the ruins
Speaker 1: that or what you know, who knows what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Probably not that, but like it's not the best look.
Speaker 1: You gotta have your you gotta have your you know,
Speaker 1: emotions and check during the especially in the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: but this is what makes it fun. This is what
Speaker 1: And and by the way, Kyrie's got to know it's
Speaker 1: only gonna get worse the next game too. So he's
Speaker 1: fueling their fire. And then it's which is great for
Speaker 1: entertainment and it's great for the fans, but yeah, he's
Speaker 1: got to keep us cool a little bit. They're also
Speaker 1: fueling his fire. Jack, what were your thoughts on the situation?
Speaker 1: You can do that all right, Gee, you can't do
Speaker 1: it in part? Right? Well, I can see you and
Speaker 1: respond to your face out of eye, just like you
Speaker 1: responded to me. And then what the worst part is then?
Speaker 1: But it's got to the point where they got the phones.
Speaker 1: Look what I'm saying, trying to go viral and ship
Speaker 1: like that. Like it's getting to the point where if
Speaker 1: the people in the stadium not gonna shut that down,
Speaker 1: then what we are we we got to protect ourselves
Speaker 1: and respond Like I I agree with Kyrie. He at
Speaker 1: the point now where I'm giving you the same energy
Speaker 1: that you give me. I'm coming in to play basketball,
Speaker 1: put on the show. But if you're giving me negative energy,
Speaker 1: then goddamnit, you're gonna get something bad. Has There has
Speaker 1: to to me be some kind of common ground in
Speaker 1: middle line, because there's no way they're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to hold fans all the way accountable for the ship
Speaker 1: they say, and they say some foul ship, So I
Speaker 1: think in retaliation, obviously, you don't want players just going
Speaker 1: off on custing tirades and cutting off all the fans.
Speaker 1: And that's he made the points like, I'm not mad
Speaker 1: at all the Boss fans, but there's a certain amount
Speaker 1: of fans that were disrespectful to me. I don't really
Speaker 1: think he should get fined because although he said some
Speaker 1: wild ship, that's not as wild like Guarantee as the
Speaker 1: ship he heard said to him. Sure, I had a
Speaker 1: cardboard cut out of me in the jail suit right
Speaker 1: under the goal on T n T. Nobody told him
Speaker 1: to move it. Nobody said move it, take it down
Speaker 1: to nothing. So why is it a problem with someone
Speaker 1: A player response, I don't think we can just take
Speaker 1: public and public embarrassment. But they can't. It's crazy, It's
Speaker 1: not right. Yeah, I really think it has to if
Speaker 1: anyone's gonna be Healthcounibal's got to be everybody, because like
Speaker 1: I said that the ship the fans are doing, you know,
Speaker 1: because there has been some fan altercations now and ship
Speaker 1: getting thrown in the stands and ship getting thrown to
Speaker 1: players and all kinds of stuff. So I think you touched.
Speaker 1: And I think when fans buy a ticket, they think
Speaker 1: they give them the right to say and do whatever
Speaker 1: they want, and that's you can't. Yeah, you can't. That's
Speaker 1: why I say it. There has to be a common ground,
Speaker 1: Like I don't think Ashley should be getting fined a
Speaker 1: bunch of money for retaliating because it's not like we're
Speaker 1: just gonna go out there and cut a fan out
Speaker 1: for no reason. And by the way, if you're a
Speaker 1: fan and you see kyrigans find a hundred racks for this,
Speaker 1: they're gonna say even crazier ship the next game to
Speaker 1: try and get him. They love, they love that he
Speaker 1: got fined for that. And you think at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, these fan really don't hate the players.
Speaker 1: They say ship to get a reaction. They just want
Speaker 1: to a period. They want to reaction. You get a
Speaker 1: reaction within the player gets fined for it. So that
Speaker 1: this week anyway, Jack, this weekend, Uh, you touched on
Speaker 1: something with your tweet. I'm gonna read it. Defense is
Speaker 1: not a part of basketball no more. This is exactly
Speaker 1: what the league wants wanted. I hate it elaborate. Um,
Speaker 1: there's no reason for fourth quarter playoffs where a guy
Speaker 1: can take the ball out after a made bucket and
Speaker 1: dribble from one end to the other end and lay
Speaker 1: it up. That's that that that should never happened in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. It never happened we when we played and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this, if that would have happened
Speaker 1: we played coach like popish been the sub the whole
Speaker 1: five out. That don't happen in the player. I'm just sorry.
Speaker 1: There's no attention to detail and and and and there's
Speaker 1: no attention to actually uh stop to like I said,
Speaker 1: focused on defense because those things like it's it's too
Speaker 1: many breakdowns in the defense, there's too many layups and
Speaker 1: on mismatches and like that. It's just not attention to
Speaker 1: detail the defense no more in the league and we
Speaker 1: are we we know they wanted a scoring league and
Speaker 1: that's what it is now. But I still think even
Speaker 1: though Boston they play hard on defense, they compete. I
Speaker 1: just think as a whole and I'm not singing in
Speaker 1: our one team. I'm just thinking as a whole defense
Speaker 1: it's not as important as it used to be. Him.
Speaker 1: I would agree with that, but is that to me?
Speaker 1: Is that more on players or more on the rules
Speaker 1: of the game. It's the players and the rules of
Speaker 1: the game. Because if they changed the rules, they changed
Speaker 1: rules and we played, but we figured out how to
Speaker 1: still be aggressive and get away with being aggressive. Bruce
Speaker 1: Bawn they changed the rules two or three times when
Speaker 1: he was in the league, but he stayed aggressive. He
Speaker 1: stayed in one of the top defenders. So it ain't
Speaker 1: it ain't It ain't really the rules. The players got
Speaker 1: to learn how to adjust. I will say I like that.
Speaker 1: I liked how physical the Boston Brooklyn game was. I
Speaker 1: mean they were that was a physical To me, that
Speaker 1: was kind of playoff basketball. I think everyone. The announcer
Speaker 1: spoke on it, Katie spoke on it after the game,
Speaker 1: just how physical. Um that wasn't to me, I think
Speaker 1: that's good for basketball. I mean I understand, you know
Speaker 1: where you're taking. They want highlights, they want you know,
Speaker 1: they want threes, they want dunks, they want high scoring games.
Speaker 1: But playoffs to me has to be you know, that's
Speaker 1: when you lock in, you know. But we'll have to
Speaker 1: see how that goes. But I really liked And then
Speaker 1: there was another, you know, kind of below Hunter's point
Speaker 1: game in uh Chicago and Milwaukee. You know, both those
Speaker 1: things were going at it. So there's a little bit
Speaker 1: of defense being played, but not much. I mean, Jack
Speaker 1: was it was a two way guy. I was more
Speaker 1: of a defensive player. You someone who obviously made your
Speaker 1: money on the offensive end. What are your thoughts on
Speaker 1: just the way the game is called today and play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean even from when you guys played to when
Speaker 1: I played too. Now it's just the physicality is a
Speaker 1: lot less, right You're gonna you know, your star players,
Speaker 1: you're just trying not to get into foul trouble now
Speaker 1: because you can't play as physical. Um. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: see it both ways. I think now with with all
Speaker 1: the exciting three point shooting everything the league, the fans,
Speaker 1: they love offense, right, but now you're starting to see
Speaker 1: that guys like Patrick Beverley, these guys are getting attention
Speaker 1: for playing defense. How every regular guard played when we
Speaker 1: played right back in the day. But now they're like
Speaker 1: an anomaly. And now it's like a new crazy thing
Speaker 1: when you play defense and lock up and scream like
Speaker 1: now it's nuts. Now he's like one of a kind.
Speaker 1: Right when back in the day that was just a
Speaker 1: normal guard plant like clamping Yeah, that's that's exactly what
Speaker 1: it is. Well, obviously we've been talking about the teams
Speaker 1: that are in the playoffs, and in a team that's
Speaker 1: not in the playoffs but still obviously gets talked about,
Speaker 1: is the Los Angeles Lakers. You know, when you start talking,
Speaker 1: I wasn't had the trumpet, you know that where oh man,
Speaker 1: that would have been perfect right now talking about these
Speaker 1: you know, obviously odds on favorite at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season to possibly bring home another championship for the Lakers. UH.
Speaker 1: To me, the main reason was injuries, but some people
Speaker 1: would say, you know, pieces didn't fit. Um. Obviously, they
Speaker 1: fired Frank Vogel. He was going to be a casualty
Speaker 1: of war. Not necessarily sure it was his fault. UM,
Speaker 1: but that's a that's an easy kill. And then you
Speaker 1: want to bring someone in. Um. They got two years
Speaker 1: seventy eight and a half million dollars left for Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis plus a player option. Russell Westbrook. Next year you'll
Speaker 1: make forty seven million. He'll opt into his player option.
Speaker 1: Braun has one more year left at forty four point
Speaker 1: four million, and Taylor Horton Tucker one year at ten
Speaker 1: million plus eleven million dollar player option. Chandler, I'll start
Speaker 1: with you. I mean, with no significant draft picks, not
Speaker 1: very much salary cap space, what do you see happening
Speaker 1: this off season and the next season for the Lakers. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think they're in trouble. I think you know what
Speaker 1: they do. They need to leave flexibility for the guys
Speaker 1: at the end of the bench. Right they always give
Speaker 1: these guaranteed deals to the you know, Camp Baysmore, Dwight
Speaker 1: Howard and these teams like Golden State. They leave flexibility
Speaker 1: and then a guy like Gary Payton Jr. Blossoms and
Speaker 1: who didn't start on a guaranteed contract. Lakers didn't do that.
Speaker 1: I think that Taylor Horton Tucker deal was awful. They
Speaker 1: should have kept Caruso, who's huge for Chicago. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're making Russ and Vogel escapegoats. I think they got
Speaker 1: to figure out the rust situation. Even if it's a
Speaker 1: lateral move, he's not happy, they're not. He's out of there.
Speaker 1: Even if it's someone for like John Wall or something.
Speaker 1: They just gotta switch it up. But obviously it's gonna
Speaker 1: start with the coach and it's got to be someone
Speaker 1: that Lebron respects, it's gotta be someone I like Quinn Snyder.
Speaker 1: I think what he's done in Utah is unbelievable. I
Speaker 1: think he's a real coach, he's offensive minded, he he
Speaker 1: can relate to players. But if it's not someone like him,
Speaker 1: I think they go with like a fizz or someone
Speaker 1: that Lebron works with. Jack thoughts on this team and uh,
Speaker 1: for me, I just think, you know, everything went downhill
Speaker 1: when Jaki left. That's just my honest opinion. I think
Speaker 1: Jay Kidd was the glue. Um you know. You know,
Speaker 1: we can say injuries and all that, but a D
Speaker 1: is A is a D. He's not going to change.
Speaker 1: He's not just gonna all of a suddenly turn into
Speaker 1: Lebron and spend a million dollars on his body and
Speaker 1: come back chills with like a D is who he is.
Speaker 1: So we have to accept that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: They had it, they had a great run, But I
Speaker 1: just I'm not gonna just throw I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna throw Russ under the bus. He led them in
Speaker 1: all categories, stept scoring, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that to us. Everything would start
Speaker 1: going down here with j K left. But they got
Speaker 1: to figure this out. But like you said, that's a
Speaker 1: good thing though, they gotta lease some flexibility, flexibility for
Speaker 1: the guys on the bench, and Plink Plink put this
Speaker 1: team together, right I. Obviously it's the risk you're willing
Speaker 1: to take when you have Anthony Davis making that much money,
Speaker 1: when you've gotta almost factor in him being out some time.
Speaker 1: But Rob Blinka put this old team together with not
Speaker 1: a lot of flexibility with the coach no one really
Speaker 1: respected in the beginning. So like I think that was
Speaker 1: the key, so much of him not being a good coach.
Speaker 1: You have to have that respect, especially when you're playing
Speaker 1: with a team full of older future Hall of famers
Speaker 1: first and foremost. But you guys both bought up a
Speaker 1: point and obviously you know some of the injuries this
Speaker 1: year Anthony Davis, they would have sucked anyone up. But
Speaker 1: knowing his tracker in his history, he's got a two
Speaker 1: plus one left. Would you entertain deals in the all
Speaker 1: season for Anthony Davis if you're the Lakers? Absolutely not?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. Ain't that still even with all the injuries,
Speaker 1: you ain't going to find too much like Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: Now you can talk about Vid. It ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: no food. You know what I'm saying. This is still
Speaker 1: at the day that we're talking about. You can't to
Speaker 1: the name four or five, two or three players like
Speaker 1: him that do what he does in his prime to
Speaker 1: you almost you almost got to go the other way.
Speaker 1: It's shop Lebron knowing he might leave in a year
Speaker 1: or two. And it do see, it wasn't was It
Speaker 1: was an ankle, you know what I mean. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like he tore Achilly. It was just an ankle, and
Speaker 1: he'll be back. He'll be back, right. I'm not mad
Speaker 1: at that, But you do something there at the end.
Speaker 1: Do you take a look if if if, if you're
Speaker 1: a GM, if you're a Polinka, would you take a
Speaker 1: look if someone offered you a crazy pack? For the point, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got one more year left. He's thirty six years old.
Speaker 1: He's openly said he wants to play with his son.
Speaker 1: So like the minute his son goes to a contender
Speaker 1: or you know, someone takes him, Lebron's going there. And
Speaker 1: if he's still a factor and he can still play,
Speaker 1: why am I building this team when it's you know,
Speaker 1: this guy could possibly leave, and we do have a
Speaker 1: piece of Anthony Davis who's in his prime that we
Speaker 1: can build around. So yeah, I think I think gets
Speaker 1: They gotta go younger, they gotta you know, that'll be
Speaker 1: a lot. He vouching for Mark Jackson. You get Mark
Speaker 1: Jackson the coach, then leave uh. Next up on the radar,
Speaker 1: presented by draft King us, take the look at the
Speaker 1: odds on in each conference. Um. Starting with the Bucks,
Speaker 1: they're a plus two ten, The Celtics are a plus
Speaker 1: three hundred, the heat or a plus three eight, the
Speaker 1: Nets are a plus five hundred, and the long shot
Speaker 1: the seventies sixers at plus five fifty. Let's stay in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference, Chandler, out of those five teams who
Speaker 1: intrigues you the most, probably Brooklyn honestly a plus five
Speaker 1: hundred with Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving. I'm I'm I'm taking
Speaker 1: the odds on that, and that's I love Brooklyn. I'm
Speaker 1: a fan, and I hope they make a ruin. But
Speaker 1: I think we're talking about this off camera. Kyrie and
Speaker 1: Katie have to be absolutely incredible every single game, but
Speaker 1: I think everyone's talking about the in the sort of
Speaker 1: Tember wards they could beat me. I think Boston or
Speaker 1: I think Brooklyn can still come back and people they
Speaker 1: could have won Game one. Katie was nine for the field.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna have another one of those. Jack out
Speaker 1: of those a group of people, UH, to me, what
Speaker 1: team do you feel like it's the best And if
Speaker 1: you're betting, what team would you bet with? Uh? The
Speaker 1: team I feel like is the best at right now,
Speaker 1: it's the Bucks. But the team I will bet with
Speaker 1: us I'm going to Ceps the next because I think
Speaker 1: they could turn around. Just I'm I'm really looking at
Speaker 1: the coaching right now, not as much as the players.
Speaker 1: They've been doing a lot all Yeah, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the coaching right now because that's what's gonna really matter
Speaker 1: more than anything else. Heading over to the West, UH
Speaker 1: odds on favorite overall Phoenix Suns and minus one fifteen
Speaker 1: the Lakers and made a big excuse me, the Warriors
Speaker 1: made a big jump at plus three twenty Grizzlies coming
Speaker 1: to the third slide at plus six fifty. In the
Speaker 1: long shot, you taught Jazz at plus seven hundred um Jack,
Speaker 1: out of those four teams the best team and if
Speaker 1: you were betting. Who would you roll with the best teams? Definitely?
Speaker 1: Phaenis right now, man, they just they rolling. Brop she
Speaker 1: P did your thing last night, Brow. I meant to
Speaker 1: text you with your old asses out there doing your thing, Bro,
Speaker 1: They've been rolling for a minute, and that's how you
Speaker 1: want to go into the playoffs the way they're playing.
Speaker 1: But I'm going with the Warriors, man. Man, you said
Speaker 1: this on the show. If they get a healthy team
Speaker 1: and everybody's back, it's gonna buil a problem, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? And I would I would definitely go
Speaker 1: with them that I got a chance to do ESPN
Speaker 1: Radio for Game one in um San Francisco and they
Speaker 1: put a lineup of Dre at the five, Wiggins at
Speaker 1: the four, Clay at the three, Pool at the two,
Speaker 1: and Steph at the one. And I haven't seen the
Speaker 1: offensive lineup like that in the Best Crazy in a minute.
Speaker 1: So we got to think of a new nickname for
Speaker 1: that team. Um Chandler, same thing. Best team And yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I love the best Team's Phoenix by far,
Speaker 1: best team all year long, and a great Bucks best
Speaker 1: in the East. But I mean the odds don't really
Speaker 1: moving from here. I think Phoenix is gonna win the West.
Speaker 1: I'll take them as the worst. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: win it no matter what I do. Like the Warriors,
Speaker 1: odds if I was gonna go some another direction, but no,
Speaker 1: I'll take this sons mine as one as sounds tough.
Speaker 1: Everybody's playing their part too. Let's go again. Oh man,
Speaker 1: All right, now we want to welcome to the show
Speaker 1: you ce l A's prize recruit. I say that proudly,
Speaker 1: Amari Bailey. I was welcome to West Burning bro bro
Speaker 1: So five star McDonald's All American Jordan's Classic iverson Class MVP.
Speaker 1: You calling it that, ye because you know my squads.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna let him rock. He's been killing
Speaker 1: his whole life, you know what I mean, So it's
Speaker 1: time to keep killing. You know, I'm gonna let him rock.
Speaker 1: So you were at Sierra Canyon with a lot of
Speaker 1: other notable names. What was that experience? Like? Man, it
Speaker 1: was um, it was definitely relicuoc to say the least.
Speaker 1: I think like during like my high school experience, I
Speaker 1: got to go through a lot of things that some
Speaker 1: like other kids wouldn't really be able to go through. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, like when to show up every night, like
Speaker 1: knowing that those lights are gonna be on you, um
Speaker 1: knowing that uh, like figuring out early, learning earlier that
Speaker 1: no one cares that you gotta like, I mean really
Speaker 1: not to just tripper crivingough, spill milk. So just really
Speaker 1: get into it and then learn like the game, like
Speaker 1: off the court, knowing that it's a game within a game,
Speaker 1: and learn how to like maneuver around. So you relax
Speaker 1: a little bit, bro get comfortable in that year. You
Speaker 1: mean a lot, a lot, a lot of legends in
Speaker 1: the bed on that there you go, you go get loose.
Speaker 1: You decided to you know, a lot a lot of
Speaker 1: kids are jumping to the to the G league. You
Speaker 1: decided to take your talents to Westwood. We're me and
Speaker 1: a couple of users went, what what what do you
Speaker 1: see they do to win you over? Honestly, I didn't
Speaker 1: like during It was kind of easy during the recruit process,
Speaker 1: if I'm being honest, because I didn't. I didn't really
Speaker 1: see myself in anywhere else. Um id committed. I was
Speaker 1: committing my freshman year. And then they got a new
Speaker 1: coach and then chronic came. Man I saw what he
Speaker 1: was doing with the program. Um, it was something I
Speaker 1: want to be a part of. I feel like you
Speaker 1: c l A. It is hard to really just pass
Speaker 1: up on, you know, and then uh like being from
Speaker 1: Chicago and then moving to l A, having to uh
Speaker 1: mass media markets behind me, and then like endless opportunities
Speaker 1: who I'll be able to you know, I might sit
Speaker 1: next to Steven Spielberg in class and I'd ever know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So just the relationships that I built there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the business of basketball. I was playing high school ball
Speaker 1: and such on the spotlight, like I know, I went Tokyo,
Speaker 1: I got some shine. None about what you talking about,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And but but now it's
Speaker 1: it's totally different when I was in high school, Like
Speaker 1: it's basically like the NBA because of social media and
Speaker 1: so much stuff. How Like, how was that dealing with
Speaker 1: that every night? It was definitely a lot at first,
Speaker 1: but yuh, honestly, like I doubled a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: like off the court, like leading up to like coming in,
Speaker 1: like to the spotlight and just honestly keep the main
Speaker 1: thing the main thing, like you know, knowing that like
Speaker 1: nothing else really matters. If I'm not if I'm not
Speaker 1: producing on the court, so that kind of like shut
Speaker 1: all the outside noise from me. And I kind of
Speaker 1: just viewed as like a simulation like on the Second
Speaker 1: life type like vibes like I've been here before, I
Speaker 1: then put my work in. So most most people don't
Speaker 1: think of it like that. And that's impressive because you've
Speaker 1: got celebrities at the game, and most people get caught
Speaker 1: up in that instead of getting caught up what they're
Speaker 1: here for, you know what I mean. But that shows
Speaker 1: why you separate yourself as far as being the top
Speaker 1: player from most players, because everybody can play under that light.
Speaker 1: Why I know you gave like the politically correct answer,
Speaker 1: but what is it like seeing Drake court side? Obviously
Speaker 1: seeing braun a lot since you're playing with Brunie. When
Speaker 1: that first happened, obviously you grew out, you grew to
Speaker 1: get used to. But when it first happened, was that
Speaker 1: like it was honestly five? But if if I'm really
Speaker 1: being honest with you, like there aren't like really too
Speaker 1: many people that like that'll like put up to the game.
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, now, the first time when Drake came,
Speaker 1: that was that was like, definitely, I figured Drake and
Speaker 1: Brown are probably the two you know, ran across everyone
Speaker 1: in l You know one chief Keith because he doesn't
Speaker 1: leave his crib, like yeah, can't lee. You can't get
Speaker 1: him to come out of the crib for anything. So
Speaker 1: I saw him at a game that was that was
Speaker 1: definitely the jam Drake for shore Um. Definitely. After we lost,
Speaker 1: he gave me some some words of encouragement. Is to
Speaker 1: keep my head up and this happens, it's best of us,
Speaker 1: but we'll see. What I like is like you said,
Speaker 1: you're getting a taste of what that next level is like.
Speaker 1: And to be level headed already when you take that jump,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be more prepared. Obviously, gonna be hit with
Speaker 1: some new situations ship because once you get in the league,
Speaker 1: it's like unlike anything you've ever seen. But obviously it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a process. But to be levelheaded at this
Speaker 1: point going into it, you gotta head start. Um, what
Speaker 1: are you looking forward to the most about the Ibanson Classic?
Speaker 1: Obviously Jack is going to be your coach. He's already
Speaker 1: put it out there. You win an m v P.
Speaker 1: So what are you looking for? Uh forward to about
Speaker 1: that game. You know, I don't just talk just to
Speaker 1: be talking. Never that. Sometimes he does, but not this time.
Speaker 1: UM probably just in like they just enjoying my time
Speaker 1: being one of the guys. U Like, there's so many
Speaker 1: and so many knowledgeable guys are gonna be around me.
Speaker 1: Um just enjoy like pick people's brains and just um,
Speaker 1: really it's my last high school game, so just going
Speaker 1: out with a bang and just enjoying myself. Really, that's
Speaker 1: what's up, UM prepared for you. C l A. Obviously
Speaker 1: going right up the street. What aspect of your game
Speaker 1: are you focusing on right now? Rush a lot of
Speaker 1: you A questions. Guy, I mean, I get it. I
Speaker 1: get it though, I get it. Though I get it,
Speaker 1: get it. I'm just saying I get damn. I'm just
Speaker 1: want to throw that. I get it, Okay, I get it.
Speaker 1: This is the kind of hate we get. Hey, I
Speaker 1: just had to throw that out there. By, I had
Speaker 1: to throw that out there. See just I don't mean
Speaker 1: to interrupt. I had them to my nigga, had let
Speaker 1: them get it. So, you know, like when you're light
Speaker 1: skinned with good hair and got bro, I get it, bro,
Speaker 1: I get it. You may at some point I have
Speaker 1: to fight for it. That's just what you do. What
Speaker 1: that's just what? Anyway, before we were interrupted, No, but
Speaker 1: what are you really focusing on in in the off game?
Speaker 1: Obviously jumping from high school to college is going to
Speaker 1: be a big change. But combo guard, point guard to guard,
Speaker 1: what do you prefer to play when you're out there?
Speaker 1: Probably just a combo guard being able to being a
Speaker 1: little bit bigger than the guards and really boring and
Speaker 1: getting out coming to like a one man fast break
Speaker 1: and really just create for others and then uh taking
Speaker 1: over and going I really want to need to whatever
Speaker 1: else my team really needs me to do. One thing
Speaker 1: I like about you your world around Do you play
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. But if you could point
Speaker 1: out a weakness or two on the offensive siety of game,
Speaker 1: what would you say you feel like you need to
Speaker 1: improve it? Probably Uh, probably slowing and slowing my game
Speaker 1: down and pace them, change changes speed, um, and just
Speaker 1: my jumper. I feel like I don't think I'll ever
Speaker 1: be maxed out on that. UM. I'm the only six
Speaker 1: four or six five, so I gotta be able to
Speaker 1: get my jump off, get to pull up a mid range,
Speaker 1: a floater over like bigger guys. So I'm definitely still
Speaker 1: gonna try to punch on them every time you should.
Speaker 1: Is there anybody that you kind of see with a
Speaker 1: similar game to you this already in the league. Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are a couple of players I like, like Devin Booker, UM,
Speaker 1: John Moran, UM, Jason Tatum, Bradley Bill, some type of dudes.
Speaker 1: They tell us all kill us. How was the n
Speaker 1: I L experience? How has it been? It's been fired
Speaker 1: so far? I mean I have a couple like I
Speaker 1: talked about it or no, but yeah, so are we sure? Yeah?
Speaker 1: No facts because she was I don't I don't you
Speaker 1: want to be sack fires partner? Right? Yeah? No? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So like I gotta I have a like the little
Speaker 1: s great spray brown backpacks. I'm doing one of my
Speaker 1: my little sister and I so she could walk around
Speaker 1: like with herself and like get a bad friend a
Speaker 1: little like all her friends, just just a rock. Try
Speaker 1: to get them in the stores just for everyone to
Speaker 1: kind of have. Like I started like like my own
Speaker 1: ten Wave, but it's really like your own way, like
Speaker 1: you Garadge your on wave and ten is like me personally,
Speaker 1: but like everyone could ride it on wave and like
Speaker 1: their own land, you know. So that and then I
Speaker 1: just did a deal with C four that was fired. Yeah,
Speaker 1: swore strings just for Andrew Drake staying right. And then
Speaker 1: I just got an n I L deal with UH
Speaker 1: with Porsche. So how you forget about that one? She
Speaker 1: had to remind you about that one. She's about to
Speaker 1: get a car. Yeah, can you imagine motherfucking being well?
Speaker 1: I was driving around in the four door uh Snoop
Speaker 1: Deville when I was in high school, Lincoln Continental velvet seats.
Speaker 1: Door wouldn't stay closed, had to hold the bitch closed
Speaker 1: like this. This motherfucker's me driving a Porsche first day
Speaker 1: of college. Well, the next question is who is helping
Speaker 1: you with the business decisions? But we see mom is
Speaker 1: holding it down that she should be. Well. Man, we
Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us. Best of luck in the Iverson Classic,
Speaker 1: Best of Lucky you see, we know we'll be out
Speaker 1: there checking you out. Man and man, God blessed man,
Speaker 1: continue to do your thing. Brout appreciation, bro next stop
Speaker 1: something you were gonna speak And it was funny too,
Speaker 1: because I was watching your story laughing the whole entire
Speaker 1: weekend while I stuck working here at party in that
Speaker 1: Coachella UM experience. Tell us about it. Some of some
Speaker 1: of the actually saw me and Jack. Gotta get her
Speaker 1: asses out there next year. You guys would absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: It's fun. It's you know, it's in Palm Springs two
Speaker 1: and a half hours away and it's just a big
Speaker 1: as adult playground outside great music, all these parties. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, you go to like a Revolve party and
Speaker 1: Post Malone and Jack Harlow will perform. Then you'll go
Speaker 1: to the festival and they have you know, whatever tastes
Speaker 1: some music you like. If you like deep house, DJ's
Speaker 1: from Abiza, they have that. They have twenty one Savage
Speaker 1: and Big Sean and they have that. Then they have
Speaker 1: like the Doja Cats and the Billie Eilish. So you
Speaker 1: just kind of bounce around. You absolutely cannot be sober. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's packed. It's packed, but it's fun, bro, It's it's
Speaker 1: just such a good party. You just bop around. You're
Speaker 1: getting this printer. You go from party to party. You
Speaker 1: see everybody in the world. Um, and it's just a blast.
Speaker 1: That is why I look like absolute dogshit right now.
Speaker 1: Said you said you made a drive home and you
Speaker 1: never understood what rest stops, so I have always made
Speaker 1: fun of these rest stops, right, these trucker stops. I
Speaker 1: had a two and a half hour drive home this
Speaker 1: morning to where I did as stopped and a rest
Speaker 1: stop and took a nap for twenty minutes. I was
Speaker 1: actually feeling like like it was dangerous for me to drive.
Speaker 1: It was bad. You know. That's something I've always wanted
Speaker 1: to do, never had an opportunity. But we definitely got
Speaker 1: to make maybe we can take all the smoke out,
Speaker 1: to get all the smoke outs out of Coachella. I
Speaker 1: was we definitely got to go to Coachella. But I
Speaker 1: want to send a shout out to bun By and
Speaker 1: trail Burgers. Bun But brought trail Burgers down to the Coachella.
Speaker 1: He killing them. He killing the restaurants. Yeah, restaurants, brands.
Speaker 1: They have their little pop up stations. There's food there
Speaker 1: you don't go to. It's not like no and no
Speaker 1: sit down dinners. It's all there on the property. It's
Speaker 1: fire So all right, Well, if we're if you were
Speaker 1: gonna pick a lineup for Coachella, Jack, I'll start with
Speaker 1: you first. Who would be five acts you personally want
Speaker 1: to see at Coachella Alive that Alive No, because they
Speaker 1: know they got the holographs. Remember Pop made his debut.
Speaker 1: Pop made his debut Coachella. Boy, you just did something
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah. So I'm going Pimps and Bumby holl
Speaker 1: you know, Holly Graham PC. I'm going Michael Jackson. Um,
Speaker 1: I would love to see Chris Brown with Mike Why
Speaker 1: why would that be dope? Um go Bye Marley, And
Speaker 1: I think I'll go Janet Jopping because she can put
Speaker 1: out the Texas and she was she used to turn up.
Speaker 1: She was on everything popping and she brought off to
Speaker 1: So yeah, y'all know what time being there someone who
Speaker 1: is uh one of the festival experts. So you know
Speaker 1: what kind of energy turn artists bring? Who would be
Speaker 1: your five person lineup? So I like a little I
Speaker 1: like a variety R like I would go with I
Speaker 1: would go with the old school. I would go with
Speaker 1: like Snoop and Dre. I would go with Current, I
Speaker 1: would go with Drake. I would you gotta go something
Speaker 1: for the white people? With the DJ. He's definitely talking
Speaker 1: about the experience. He's head, So you gotta go like
Speaker 1: Calvin arrass Or chains More. You gotta get a white
Speaker 1: DJ in there, you have to. And then the millennials.
Speaker 1: These days, you gotta throw in like a Billie Eilish
Speaker 1: or a Dogent Cat someone like that. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: like a little variety of it. But Drake and Snoop
Speaker 1: the headliners. I like how he broke it down because
Speaker 1: he's been there. Martin my list, my list I would do,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. For old school, I would go Snoop,
Speaker 1: Dre and Pox hologram Um and then I let Nipsey
Speaker 1: come out and do a little set with them too,
Speaker 1: since we're just doing holograms Um. For the ladies, I
Speaker 1: would do a for the first time ever on stage.
Speaker 1: I'd bring Briyonce and Rihanna together. They did it with
Speaker 1: jay Z. Yeah right. Um. For the white people, I
Speaker 1: would do with Jack Harlow and Post Malone and who's
Speaker 1: a girl in a Doja Cat? They love her um.
Speaker 1: And for me personally, I wouldn't want to see for
Speaker 1: my last act. I wouldn't want to see a Drake
Speaker 1: and jay Z. That'd be my list. Before we get
Speaker 1: out of here, Jack, this guy was in Coachella. I
Speaker 1: was working the playoffs. You were working in Dallas at
Speaker 1: the Earl Erroll Spence fight. Uh, doing some analysts work.
Speaker 1: What was that experience like from the way into the
Speaker 1: fight to everyone you saw we all got big ship popping. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a blessing to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: First of all, you know it was in Texas. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a Cowboy fan, so this is my
Speaker 1: first time in a T n T stadium, so you
Speaker 1: felt like a win too, or because the person you're
Speaker 1: rooting for one, Yeah, and we actually got a win
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah cowboys. But then again I got chanced
Speaker 1: to roam around the stadium my first time going the
Speaker 1: locker room out. So it was a great experience for me.
Speaker 1: And to see Erroll take care his business after he'd
Speaker 1: been through the eye Sergeman and been the car and
Speaker 1: so much to see him come out and go through
Speaker 1: that adversity with Ben. We've Ben, you know, shaking a
Speaker 1: little bit to come out and stopping the fight. The
Speaker 1: whole environment. I had number eighty eight right in front
Speaker 1: of me, Michael Irvin, you know legend. I had Michael
Speaker 1: Pearson right behind me, the future Hall of Famer Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year this year, in the NFL. Had Dad's
Speaker 1: Brian to the right, have Van Miller to the right,
Speaker 1: all Texas boys. So it was it was a Ray
Speaker 1: Kawan to my left. It was and Steve knows I
Speaker 1: appreciate it, but it it was just a great time.
Speaker 1: I even was there when Charlos got into it with
Speaker 1: Ben the Vidas, so they've been talking a lot, and
Speaker 1: they and they was right in front of men. That's
Speaker 1: when those and it was about to go at it,
Speaker 1: and who you are, who are you gonna jump in with?
Speaker 1: I was jumping in with nobody. Charlot's Charlot people. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Yeah, but you had too much Drewry
Speaker 1: on the fight that week. But I wasn't fighting anyway
Speaker 1: because I'm not getting paid through nothing for none of
Speaker 1: this ship. So I was just stepping between it, y'all.
Speaker 1: But all, y'all save your money. I know what it
Speaker 1: feels like to lose money fighting when you shouldn't be,
Speaker 1: especially in the stands, So y'all chill out. But I
Speaker 1: was being a piecemaker, bro, because I was enjoying it.
Speaker 1: I was enjoining the knife turned over leave. I popped
Speaker 1: on the TV for one second. I had to turn
Speaker 1: it off because you had too much Drewry on for me. Instantly,
Speaker 1: it was just too much. I had to just I
Speaker 1: had to go back to Twitter and you have too
Speaker 1: much jewelry off for me. I couldn't handle it. It
Speaker 1: was too much. But anyway, man, I'm looking forward. So
Speaker 1: I mean through that fight. You know, errow One shot
Speaker 1: out Errol Man. He called out Bud Crawford. I was
Speaker 1: in the locker room with him and I was putting
Speaker 1: on his bells. Mat I say, you know, I was
Speaker 1: just saying it out, Who's next? Who's next? He came
Speaker 1: around to him say, you know who nixt So you
Speaker 1: know Bud Crawford, which is my guy to it's gonna
Speaker 1: be his. Yeah. I think Bud Crawford's trainers that they're
Speaker 1: gonna beat the ship out of Old Boy too. So
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a good boy. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good one. We can catch that one at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. Real quick, Jack, it's your birthday. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know we sent you some shoes. I didn't know. Um, no,
Speaker 1: these are special. Yeah you did a regular box. Yeah,
Speaker 1: theither some custom ships. So these it was hard to
Speaker 1: get these, but we know you know what kind of shoe,
Speaker 1: kind of sewer you are, and how you have fits
Speaker 1: for everything. So open that's very one can see. Y'all
Speaker 1: know I like ship. The cameras show them dog modes.
Speaker 1: Oh god, let everyone see so everyone could laugh. This
Speaker 1: is fucking classic. Look at this bullshit. The proteges. This
Speaker 1: was Jack's custard. That's the stags. So tell everyone just
Speaker 1: to reminder of what happened the first time you wore
Speaker 1: those in go the stated or something. Anybody who have these,
Speaker 1: let me go and break them down to you. Okay,
Speaker 1: your first two job steps, you're gonna need a new pair. Okay,
Speaker 1: because this whole side gonna come off, and the first
Speaker 1: time you do the first lay up, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: have no soul in the back. I had to wear
Speaker 1: a different pair of every quarter. This is the worst
Speaker 1: shoot ever. Bro. I shout out Al Harington, like they
Speaker 1: get these. It's somebody, Hey man, that's a rap. Yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out Nate. Yeah, me and Nate worked on ya
Speaker 1: got me? Yeah? Man? What's birdie can catches every week
Speaker 1: on Showtime Basketball YouTube that has some ship. I couldn't
Speaker 1: be read on here to maybe think there's fermittally it's real.
Speaker 1: And on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, you bastard, and again
Speaker 1: Chandler welcome to the family, bro. We'll get you next time. Man,
Speaker 1: that's let me do it. I got do that though.
Speaker 1: And on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok and Show Basketball and
Speaker 1: again Chandler welcome to the family, bro. Looking forward to
Speaker 1: getting to work with you with him, Yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, because you know he's got the experience.
Speaker 1: We'll see you all next week. Pace m hm hm m.
Speaker 1: They called me tech don Willie Wonka up to my
Speaker 1: gob stupers and seals and it's all true. I am talking.
Speaker 1: Does some want to another planic? Do know what this is?
Speaker 1: To know thissease? So take them now. The world's been
Speaker 1: asking who am I? M h