Speaker 1: The long national nightmare has come to a close. Yes,
Speaker 1: Ja Morant has fallen victim to Adam Silver's decisive hammer
Speaker 1: of justice, the guillotine if you will. He is now
Speaker 1: ned Stark of the NBA. You are not going to
Speaker 1: believe the amount of games Ja Morant has been suspended
Speaker 1: four Just to remind anyone, if anyone needs to be reminded,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure you don't. Jamorant has now been involved
Speaker 1: in three separate alleged incidents allegedly involving guns, including, as
Speaker 1: everyone already knows, the one incident where he filmed himself
Speaker 1: at the Strip Club with the gun in his hand.
Speaker 1: I'm tired of talking about this, but here we are.
Speaker 1: Adam Silver has weighed all the evidence and looked at
Speaker 1: league president and came up with an absolute nuke. Eight games,
Speaker 1: including the six he's already missed. So it's two games
Speaker 1: punishment now for Jahn Morant. Wow, how could you be
Speaker 1: so bold? Adam last I checked John checked into a
Speaker 1: rehab center in Florida. He was planning on working on
Speaker 1: his addiction issues. Some reports were that we wouldn't see
Speaker 1: Jaw for the rest of the year. Miraculously, because Jahn
Speaker 1: Morant is like a Marvel character. He was cured of
Speaker 1: all addiction issues and found new coping methods and adopted
Speaker 1: new coping methods in six days. Congratulations, that is a miracle.
Speaker 1: Then yesterday John Moran gave an exclusive interview to Jalen Rose,
Speaker 1: who I think I said, gave the only reasonable take
Speaker 1: go on the matter. Here is a clip asking Jahn Morant,
Speaker 1: what was up with the gun in the strip club?
Speaker 2: You at the spot shotgun Willies. I've been there. You
Speaker 2: were holding a gun and we both know how dangerous
Speaker 2: that can be. Whose gun were you holding?
Speaker 3: Well, the gun wasn't mind. No, it's not who I am.
Speaker 3: I don't condone and any type of violence.
Speaker 1: J'all was just filming a rap video. That's all it was.
Speaker 1: He was just being an NBA young boy. Here's a
Speaker 1: clip of Jamran answering what it's like to have your
Speaker 1: inner circle question.
Speaker 2: What's it been like for you to see people criticize
Speaker 2: you're in a circle. What have you learned about how
Speaker 2: you should move with your team going forward?
Speaker 3: I feel like in the past we didn't know what
Speaker 3: was at state and now you know, finally me having
Speaker 3: that time to you know, realize everything, have that time alone,
Speaker 3: I realize that, now, realize you know what I have
Speaker 3: to lose. Now I can't wait to be back out
Speaker 3: there on the floor. Now you know, knowing what my
Speaker 3: punishment is, and you know I accept that, and I
Speaker 3: feel like I deserved you know that punishment for you
Speaker 3: know my mistakes and you know what I did.
Speaker 1: The whole four minute interview did feel like a masterpiece
Speaker 1: of public relations. A lot of apologies, a lot of
Speaker 1: my faults, a lot of I take full responsibilities, a
Speaker 1: lot of I need to change, and the promise of
Speaker 1: the reformation. He had done some anxiety breathing in order
Speaker 1: to get himself right when he finds himself overwhelmed by life.
Speaker 1: So basically, John Marant went to Quebec like me. He
Speaker 1: went to the monastery to learn some breathing techniques. He
Speaker 1: did some yoga, he ate breakfast in silence, and in
Speaker 1: six days he was a changed man, just like I
Speaker 1: was a changed woman in my six days in Quebec,
Speaker 1: when I felt grounded and peaceful and was meditating for
Speaker 1: about three weeks. And now I am not meditating, I
Speaker 1: am not peaceful, and I am in need of Quebec again.
Speaker 1: That's human nature for you. Adam Silver called Jaw's behavior irresponsible, reckless,
Speaker 1: potentially very dangerous, not enough to do.
Speaker 4: Anything of note to send a message that playing with
Speaker 4: guns in a live stream in front of hundreds of
Speaker 4: thousands of people may not be great in a country
Speaker 4: where we've already had hundreds of mass shootings and it's
Speaker 4: only March.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like eight games. Doesn't really feel like he finds
Speaker 1: it to be that dangerous. Jaw's gonna be back March
Speaker 1: twentieth against Luca and Kyrie potentially Dallas Mavericks National televised game.
Speaker 1: Do you think Adam Silver really cares? Do you think
Speaker 1: Adam Silver is concerned about Ja Moran's health and wellness
Speaker 1: or do you think he's concerned about us seeing Jah
Speaker 1: Moran on the basketball court as soon as possible, Because
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like it's the last part and
Speaker 1: I like John Moran a lot. He's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite players to watch on Planet Earth. I've said that
Speaker 1: a bazillion times. I care deeply for this person's health
Speaker 1: and wellness. Accountability is a big part of that. I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about this shit again. Thankfully, for us,
Speaker 1: we probably never will, right because John Moran is fully
Speaker 1: healed and we will never run into any more Ja
Speaker 1: Moran issues from now until the end of time. Good
Speaker 1: for Jog, Good for Adam Silver that they have found
Speaker 1: a speedy solution to something that usually takes most people
Speaker 1: with these types of issues. Yeah, six seven months, huhz whatever,
Speaker 1: business as usual, just like Adam Silver likes it. Let's
Speaker 1: move on. So I saw something fascinating last night. Scroll
Speaker 1: in the timeline ran across the CBS Sports article and
Speaker 1: the title was Nuggets open door for King to make
Speaker 1: a genuine push for the number one seed in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference. That sentence is not a sentence I am
Speaker 1: familiar with. Think about the Nuggets and the Kings battling
Speaker 1: for the number one seed twenty four months ago, thirty six.
Speaker 1: I mean, what in the actual fuck is going on
Speaker 1: with life as a King's I don't even think I'm
Speaker 1: a stand I don't know. I'm a supporter. I'm riding
Speaker 1: for them. We've been holding multiple tickets on their futures
Speaker 1: to win division, win the West. I would be ecstatic
Speaker 1: if they grabbed the number one seed. I would make
Speaker 1: a lot of money if they would win the number
Speaker 1: one seed. But if you look at the standings. The
Speaker 1: Kings and the Griz are currently four and a half
Speaker 1: games behind the Nuggets with fifteen games to go. Seems insurmountable, right, Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: Nuggets are reeling. They have lost four in a row
Speaker 1: despite being completely healthy. I mean, if you call what
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray is fully healthy, including losses to Chicago who
Speaker 1: LEDs to struggle bust and I think they lost by
Speaker 1: twenty Toronto, lost to Brooklyn, and lost to San Antonio,
Speaker 1: the worst team in the league that was supposed to
Speaker 1: be the cupcake part of the schedule. Here's where it
Speaker 1: gets hard. Now they've got problems on the horizon. They
Speaker 1: face a sixteen win Pistons team tonight, having lost to
Speaker 1: a seventeen wins Spurs team last week, and then after
Speaker 1: this Pistons game, they face a stretch of seven of
Speaker 1: eight games against playoff teams, including the Bucks, Sixers, Suns, Warriors,
Speaker 1: and Nicks. Rot row. That's not old boy. If you
Speaker 1: can't beat the Spurs, you're not gonna face Yannis and
Speaker 1: come out on the other side victorious. So say the Nuggets,
Speaker 1: for hypothetical sake, go three and five over those eight games,
Speaker 1: and say the Kings go six and two, for example,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, there's only a game between them
Speaker 1: with two weeks left to go, two whole weeks. So
Speaker 1: I thought maybe we would do a little dissection, a
Speaker 1: little analysis on what's going on with Denver, because nobody
Speaker 1: is talking about this, and I think that they should.
Speaker 1: This is supposedly gonna be the best team in the West.
Speaker 1: This is the team everyone has had said circled their calendars.
Speaker 1: This is the team. They are dominant. Jokic three time MVP.
Speaker 1: Everybody else is just a step below, right. No, everyone
Speaker 1: thought that they had a good trade deadline. I thought
Speaker 1: so myself. They added Reggie Jackson, added Thomas Bryant to
Speaker 1: he filled these holes in the lineup. But it turns
Speaker 1: out and then they did not address what was ailing
Speaker 1: them in the first place. They lost Bones Highland and
Speaker 1: they bring back Reggie Jackson, which, let's be honest, was
Speaker 1: not an upgrade. That was a big time down grade.
Speaker 1: Reggie Jackson is not very good. Yeah, Bones Island had
Speaker 1: some issues in the locker room. But don't don't we
Speaker 1: all don't we all that thought they were getting a
Speaker 1: backup center that could help Jokic in non Jokic minutes,
Speaker 1: protect the rim and not get destroyed. They got neither
Speaker 1: one of those things that they thought they were getting.
Speaker 1: Let's look at these players a little closer. Reggie Jackson
Speaker 1: is a disaster. He's an absolute dumpster fire right now
Speaker 1: on the Nuggets. He might be the reason that the
Speaker 1: Nuggets have had this swing in the standings. This is horrible.
Speaker 1: He's in negative fifty nine and twenty minutes a game.
Speaker 1: He's only played ten games. He's negative fifty nine. They're
Speaker 1: five and five in the games that he's played. That
Speaker 1: is a team that is in the playing hunt. Keep
Speaker 1: in mind, the four top plus minus players in the
Speaker 1: entire NBA this year are his teammates. Not shockingly, he
Speaker 1: got a DMP coach's decision the other not chalking. He's horrible.
Speaker 1: I can't say enough about how bad he is. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they did that. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: I really don't. According to Zach Lowe, Mike Michael Malone,
Speaker 1: I like to call Mike Michael Michael Malone is doing
Speaker 1: this bullshit with this three small guard lineup. And it's
Speaker 1: Reggie which he lost me there, Murray and Bruce Brown.
Speaker 1: What are we doing. They are getting absolutely cooked with
Speaker 1: those three men on the floor. Obviously, obviously Bruce Brown
Speaker 1: is the only guy who can defend. Out of those three,
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray's probably the only one that you can consistently
Speaker 1: rely on to score. The rest who knows. Who knows.
Speaker 1: It's like one of those random tins of popcorn you get.
Speaker 1: Who knows? Is it gonna be Is it gonna be
Speaker 1: Carmel in there? Is it gonna be shit?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's basically what that three guard lineup is. The bigger
Speaker 1: issue is than the Nuggets have a Jamal Murray problem.
Speaker 1: So we know he's missed two years. That started the
Speaker 1: year slow. That's pretty normal, right, He got cooking mid
Speaker 1: season and that was that no, and he's his old
Speaker 1: explosive self. Then he banged up his knee again. In
Speaker 1: the last four games, all losses. As you might remember, Uh,
Speaker 1: he shot thirty two percent from the field and averaged
Speaker 1: sixteen to three and six, which is very very much
Speaker 1: down from his twenty point average across the season. But
Speaker 1: what's worse is that he's pretty much Reggie Jackson plus
Speaker 1: minus in those minutes, and in those games he's a
Speaker 1: negative fifty one in those games. God Lee, it is
Speaker 1: hard to watch too. Jamal Murray and Reggie Jackson are
Speaker 1: hard to watch. Jokich, course, is his usual terrific self.
Speaker 1: Thomas Bryant was supposed to relieve a little bit of
Speaker 1: the Yokic burden. It has not worked out at all.
Speaker 1: I have no idea why I like Thomas Bryant. He's
Speaker 1: getting four and a half points per game on twelve
Speaker 1: minutes with a negative four plus minus per game. That's
Speaker 1: not what we were looking for, especially for a team
Speaker 1: that must go to the finals in order for everyone
Speaker 1: to think that they are success. Uh. Maybe getting Yaka
Speaker 1: Pertle would have helped you. I don't know. According him alone,
Speaker 1: he says, I ain't going nowhere. Uh, I'm gonna find
Speaker 1: guys that are ready to fight with me, because right
Speaker 1: now we're just in chill mode. We've got to find
Speaker 1: a way to get our swagger back. We've gotten away
Speaker 1: from who we are. I don't know, man, Maybe bringing
Speaker 1: in Reggie Jackson wasn't a good idea. Maybe playing them
Speaker 1: all at the same time is not a good idea.
Speaker 1: I think this team could be dangerous. They need to
Speaker 1: figure out what they're doing with the guard position. They
Speaker 1: also need to find another wing. Most likely, I could
Speaker 1: see them catching the Warriors in the first round and
Speaker 1: getting sent home in five Night Night Sleep Mask, See
Speaker 1: you later. They need to ditch that three small guard offense.
Speaker 1: They need more consistency from Jamal Murray. Thankfully, they've got
Speaker 1: Christian Brown, who's a rookie from Kansas, playing excellent. He's
Speaker 1: been incredible, pretty much the only bright spot from this
Speaker 1: team in terms of players that are showing out towards
Speaker 1: the end of the season. Very high basketball IQ, very
Speaker 1: high motor, can rebound, can shoot, a player who's going
Speaker 1: to compete on both sides of the ball. I don't
Speaker 1: think that the Nuggets are going to give up the
Speaker 1: number one spot in the West, but the fact that
Speaker 1: we're even talking about it is concerning. It's a very fun,
Speaker 1: very wide open West this year. If they keep losing,
Speaker 1: oh boy, all bets are off.