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All right, everybody, Yesterday part one of our 30 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: two part podcasts with Nick Wright. We jumped heavy for 31 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: about thirty five forty minut It's into the NFL today. 32 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: You know Nick Wright, and a lot of you understand 33 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: his passion and historic knowledge and current energy for the NBA. 34 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: And I love talking to Nick about hoops. I think 35 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: if you watch my show and have listened to my 36 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: show for years, you know I'm an NFL NBA guy 37 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: with some college football and I want to start with 38 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 1: discussing a place I used to work ESPN. This week 39 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: there was a moment Nick where Kendrick Perkins sort of 40 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: pushed back on Yokich, Steve Nash, and Dirt Navitsky winning MVPs. 41 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: So what Kendrick Perkins was asserting is there have been 42 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: three white players Dirt Navitsky, Dallas, Steve Nash, Phoenix a 43 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: couple of times and Yokich who are not top ten 44 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: in scoring but are winning MVPs. He said, what are 45 00:02:55,160 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: they all have in common? JJ? Reddick fired back, asserting 46 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: that Kendrick Perkins was playing, you know, the race card, 47 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: and it was unfair. It was a highly contested moment 48 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: and it was pretty riveting television. And I'm wondering, Nick, 49 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: because you've been outspoken where you think Yoki is an 50 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: overstated player. What was your reaction to that, you know, 51 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: very turbulent TV moment. I didn't see the whole segment, 52 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: but I saw the clip, so I will preface it 53 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: with that. There is nothing and I know we're gonna 54 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: talk about this, but I'm really glad we are. There 55 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: are very very few things that make me more frustrated 56 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: than when people who know better, smart people act like 57 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: someone invoking the idea that race could play a part 58 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: in things means they are calling giant swath of people racist. 59 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: Kendrick did not call NBA voters racist. Kendrick raised the point. 60 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: I believe what he raised was in NBA history or 61 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: in the last fifty years, whatever it is, there have 62 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: been three guys to win League MVP without or in 63 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: the last forty years, I think, without being in the 64 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 1: top ten in scoring, and it was Dark Nash and 65 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: to be Yo Kids this year. And in the last 66 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: sixty years, there's been one guy to win three straight MVPs, 67 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: Larry Bird, and now it looks like it's going to 68 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: be Yokis. Now that he raised that point and clearly 69 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: implied race is a factor, that does not mean you 70 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: are calling everyone racist. It is no different than if 71 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: when I talk about offensive coordinators who've made it to 72 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and the coaching opportunities they've gotten, and 73 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: then there's Eric Biennemy and Byron Leftwich. I think race 74 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: has played a factor, even if it is a subconscious 75 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: factor in this Yeah, And I think that if we 76 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: are just flatly analyzing the Yokits situation, since nineteen eighty three, 77 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: guys have won an MVP with a team not being 78 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:25,039 Speaker 1: a top three or four seed Moses in eighty two, 79 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: Russ the triple double year that you mentioned Yokits last year. 80 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,919 Speaker 1: So right or wrong, that was an aberrant event, that 81 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 1: was an So he got an exception that there right, 82 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: I just said, in the last sixty years, only one 83 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: guy has won three in a row. Yea, So him 84 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: winning three in a row would be an exception to 85 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: what the history is. Sure it is it in play 86 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: that there is. And I saw some an NBA trainer, 87 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: a white NBA trainer. I forget who it has actually 88 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: tweeted this. I think it's an interesting point. His belief 89 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: that the general media, the white general media, tends to subconsciously, 90 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: maybe unintentionally underrate good white players. They think, ah, probably 91 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: not that good the guys who are like actually, you know, 92 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: and those guys actually get underrated by maybe a guy 93 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: like JJ Redding. Right, Maybe JJ didn't get enough credit 94 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: for how good of a player he was because he 95 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: was white. That doesn't mean they're racist. It means race 96 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: works in our brains. A bunch of my ways. While 97 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 1: while that happens simultaneously, yeah, slightly slightly overrating the great 98 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: white players, right, and and do I think that happens? Yes? 99 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: Do I think it is noteworthy that every time Michael 100 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: or Lebron or Jannis one back to back, the voters 101 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: then said, Okay, let's let's try someone else. Let's you 102 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: know what I mean, let's just give someone else to try. 103 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: But Bird one three in a row and jokes about 104 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: to win three in a row. I think it's noteworthy. 105 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: I don't think that means we're calling anyone god dog 106 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: plans and it is. It is to me, trying to 107 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: shut down a conversation. I actually do not think. I 108 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: think if I'm listing all the reasons that Yokich is 109 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: now gonna win probably his third trade MVP race would 110 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: not be in my top five, but it would be 111 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: a it would be somewhere on that pie chart, a 112 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: very small one. So I think it is. I think 113 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: it is more nuanced than people give it credit for it, 114 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: And I I didn't. I would have been very upset 115 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: if I were Kendrick and a teammate did that to me, 116 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have liked it. So I'm listening to KG 117 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: his podcast with Paul Pierce, and he mentions how he's 118 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: like man, I've been in this league a long time. 119 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: I read body language. He goes, when Lebron had that 120 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: night and a D didn't even get up, I don't 121 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: care if you have a bum ankle, you get up. 122 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: And he said he thinks the Lakers are looking at 123 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: these next ten games without Lebron as the future of 124 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: a D. Can they win without Lebron at they can't 125 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: as he's gone. But it was really interesting. So I 126 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: mentioned something I'd been tipped by somebody and around the 127 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: Lakers that said, you know, Lebron and a D. After 128 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,839 Speaker 1: that reaction to Lebron breaking Kareem abduls Jabbar all the 129 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: time scoring record, they're not boys. It's not hostile, but 130 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: then they're not guys, right, You can tell from body language. 131 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: KG points this out. When I mentioned that two days later, 132 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: I got the strongest reaction from Lebron's people on anything 133 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: I've ever said. What does that tell you? They got 134 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: really defensive. I think there is a feeling Lebron feels 135 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: like it kind of needs him for at least this year, 136 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: because I had been told in the last year there 137 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: are times Lebron is disappointed. He came in post bubble 138 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: out of shape. It was his turn to sort of, 139 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: you know, triumphantly take the team when Lebron's missing eighties 140 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: often not playing as well. You know, they've only played 141 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: like twelve games together since the bubble. That's their longest streak, 142 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: and there's been some disappointment in the Lebron camp. When 143 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 1: I said that, major reaction from Lebron's group, and I 144 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: trusted my source. So my takeaway on this is Lebron 145 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:08,839 Speaker 1: left d Wade okay and didn't give him a heads up. 146 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: One of his best friends ever. You know, Mellow is 147 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: one of his best friends ever. He's never really actively 148 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,239 Speaker 1: pursued him and said bring him in. He did with Westbrook, 149 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: he didn't put Mellow, and I guess my takeaway is 150 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: this is that the Lebron a d thing is over, 151 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: but Lebron's really sensitive to it because he did move 152 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 1: off Wade. He did get criticized for it. I think 153 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: it's over. I think Lebron's smart enough to see the 154 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: temperature in the room. On social media, he's not He's 155 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 1: gonna He's gonna be there for him when he's miked, 156 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: He's like, I love you, man. He makes sure everybody 157 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: knows but I'm not going to just say A D's 158 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,839 Speaker 1: reaction to the Kareem moment is nothing. Well, listen, I 159 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: certainly not nothing. I don't know what it was. It 160 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: was one of the most bizarre things I've seen in 161 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 1: sports in a couple of years. I was one of 162 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: the most bizarre, shocking things I've seen in sports, and 163 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: I don't I don't have any sourcing on what was 164 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 1: going on. I think I speculated with you, but I 165 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: it's been so long and this was just blind speculation 166 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: because it was so bizarre. I thought something bizarre had 167 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,079 Speaker 1: to have happened. You know. That was right around the 168 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: trade deadline, and we knew the Lakers called about Kyrie 169 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: and we now know Durant was available. And I, again, 170 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 1: I have no sourcing on this, and I've said it 171 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: on TV a couple of times and no one has 172 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 1: sexed me like you're onto something, So I'm probably wrong. 173 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: I'm just saying in the moment, I was like, I 174 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: wonder if part of it. Once the nets were like, 175 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 1: we're not doing Kyrie, it's like, well, any interest in 176 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: Anthony Davis for Kevin Durant, And that that filtered back 177 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: to Kate to a d and he felt betrayed you 178 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: know what, and felt hurt you know whatever, because something 179 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:04,079 Speaker 1: had Here's what I do know, without having any sourcing, 180 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 1: something happened right because that was weird. That was as 181 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: weird as it gets. With all that said, I I 182 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: don't think the Lakers are dead this year. Man. I don't. 183 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: You can say I'm crazy. I just I go up 184 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: and down the Western Conference. I'm like, Okay, the one 185 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: seat is Denver. I know a healthy Lebron and Ad 186 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 1: can beat them. I know that. I've said one totally agree. 187 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: Memphis now is off into the week. Memphis is who 188 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: knows with Memphis? By the way, John Morant reportedly Jamax 189 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 1: said this to meet today on the air. Is that 190 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: and this was two days ago in this airs, is 191 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: that you know when Jaw goes out, his teammates don't 192 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: go with him. He's got his guys. Is that is 193 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: their resentment that he has blown the season up? In 194 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: that room? I don't know, but I do know that 195 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:03,439 Speaker 1: Memphis is right now not looking as good as they 196 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: were at any point in the last eighteen months. Yeah. 197 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: The Three Seed, God love them, is light the damn 198 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,079 Speaker 1: beam Sacramento and I got mad respect for Sacramento. My 199 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: lovely wife who you adore. She's from Sacramento. Love the 200 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: people there, no defense, none best offense in the league, 201 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 1: but no experience and no defense. Same with Dallas since 202 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 1: Kyrie showed up. They you shoot fifty three percent against 203 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: the MAVs. No defense, right. We joked about this on 204 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,439 Speaker 1: the show. NBA used to be a race to a hundred. 205 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:37,079 Speaker 1: With the MAVs, it's kind of like a race to 206 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,679 Speaker 1: one twenty five. It's like who's gonna get in there first, 207 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: like the um Phoenix. Set them aside for a moment. 208 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: They are, they should be the favorites. I get it. 209 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:48,559 Speaker 1: Dallas is my pick at the beginning of the year. 210 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: I don't think Kyrie's part of winning. I don't love it. 211 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: Last year they have the number eight. Defense's fallen apart. 212 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 1: I know you believe in the Warriors. I got a fact. 213 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: I got a nut fact for you, Colin in nineteen 214 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: eighty the worst road record to win a title twenty one. 215 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: In twenty the Warriors have won seven times on the 216 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: road this year. I don't think it's their season. Okay, 217 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: So now then you have the Clippers who made the 218 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 1: brilliant decision of adding Russell Westbrook for no reason whatsoever. 219 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: So the and then there's Phoenix, which has everything you'd want, 220 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: not quite as much depth as you'd want. However, there 221 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: are certain teams that when an injury happens the Bucks 222 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: last year in Middleton, it's like, God, dog it what 223 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: terrible luck. Couldn't see it coming. Bad timing, bad luck. 224 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: There's certain teams when injuries happen, like the Lakers every 225 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: year post bubble, it's like, well, yeah, one guys in 226 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: year twenty and the other guys managers whole career. Or 227 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: the Clippers it's like, well, Kawhi is his body's breaking down. 228 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: The Suns, veteran leader and best player, are incredibly injury prone. 229 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: Now you can't like Kevin durant Is more Is post 230 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: Achilles is injured all the time. So I just say 231 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: that you can't. You always people always throw out the 232 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: caveat of if healthy. Well, there are certain teams more 233 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: likely to be healthy than others. And the Suns, Clippers 234 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: and Lakers are three teams that if they're hurt, it's like, yeah, 235 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: well that's you know, that's the risk you run. So 236 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: the point I'm making is I think. I think everything 237 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: you said about the relationship might be correct, and the 238 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: Lakers a long term might be correct. But I also 239 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: think if they can survive this time without Lebron, I 240 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: don't and I don't know the severity of the foot injury, 241 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: but if they survive it Lebron having three weeks off 242 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: before a playoff run in a wide open West, I'm 243 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: not ready to write them off yet. Maybe I'm, you know, 244 00:15:56,240 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: a romantic, but I'm not ready to them off. I 245 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: will tell you one team that I think is going 246 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: to feel like this could have been a year for 247 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: a great run. And now his question the amy run, 248 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: it was the Pelicans. Yeah, Pelicans are looking unbelievable. And 249 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: now we don't know when Zion's ever gonna play. Yeah, 250 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: and that's a disaster. Well, the Zion John Morant class 251 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: felt great. Zion can't get healthy and John Morant can't 252 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 1: grow up. Get off the bench. Bet the NBA with FanDuel, 253 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: America's number one sports book right now, FanDuel's given new 254 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: customers ten times. 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So, you know, 281 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,360 Speaker 1: it's one of the things, not that I defended job, 282 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 1: but I said, you know, in the NFL, you know, 283 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,120 Speaker 1: a guy comes in after four years at Georgia, three 284 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 1: or four years at Alabama, they've gone to college, they've 285 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: the global perspective of classmates, they've had hard coaching. These 286 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: are men, the two best guys in this year's draft 287 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: forgo college. Right. So it's AAU or international basketball to 288 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 1: a paid league, to the NBA. They can't drink in 289 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 1: the team hotel. So I think part of what sort 290 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 1: of endemic in this sport, and you've got to come 291 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 1: to terms with it, is these guys aren't emotionally ready. 292 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: And I think it's just a reality. I sort of 293 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: build it in is when I look at these rookies. 294 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,880 Speaker 1: First of all, they all hit a wall year one, 295 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:05,120 Speaker 1: because college basketball is regional travel mostly thirty six games. 296 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 1: NBA is domestic travel count preseason playoffs could be one 297 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 1: hundred games. So they all hit a walt like game 298 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: sixty five. They can't keep weight on, you know, they're 299 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 1: just they have to play defense. They're burning seven thousand 300 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: calories at night. By year two, expectations ramp up, social media, parents, 301 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: hanger honors. So the jaw situation, I think you'll get 302 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,440 Speaker 1: turned it around. And I'm not defending him, but isn't 303 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 1: this sort of something that's built into the sport. These 304 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: are kids now they have revenue, basketball, revenue, shoes, revenue, 305 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: social Oh it's overwhelmed. Listen. So here's the thing. I'm 306 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: amazed anybody at that age that money, that fame doesn't 307 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 1: just create disaster after disaster. So I am super you know, 308 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,400 Speaker 1: I've told the story to you before. I'm smart kid. 309 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 1: I think, good family, all the opportunities, forget getting fifty million. 310 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: I ride out of college one who wants to be 311 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: a millionaire and won fifty thousand, and it's gone in 312 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: nine months, gone with it. By the way, I didn't. 313 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: I didn't buy a car and have any assets. It 314 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: was spent. Gambling, drinking out is spent. People are like, oh, 315 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: you're paying for everybody's lifestyle. Yeah, of course you are. 316 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,679 Speaker 1: Of course you are that. So I'm going to defend 317 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:38,679 Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff, Like people are like, oh, 318 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 1: all these guys, they're paying for their friends. As soon 319 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 1: as you have money, you like doing things that cost money, 320 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 1: and nobody likes to do them alone. So it's like, hey, guys, 321 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: want to go to dinner, and if all your friends like, yeah, 322 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: I've got money for Fridays and you have money for 323 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 1: mass Rows and I guess what, You're all going to 324 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: mass Rows and you're paying the bill. It's like, hey, guys, 325 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,400 Speaker 1: it's the offseason. You're on vacation, and they're like, yeah, 326 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 1: I can pay for Branson and you're like, hmm, I 327 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: was thinking Barbados. I guess we'll all go and all 328 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: pay for it. So I understand, like all of that 329 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: stuff is to me totally reasonable. The gun stuff scares me, 330 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: and again I'm going to couch it with this part 331 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: of it. There is legitimate, understandable pushback from people who 332 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 1: are like, hold on a second, we got more guns 333 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 1: than people in this country. Everybody's allowed to have guns, 334 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 1: and we only freak out when it's a young black guy. 335 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: He wasn't breaking any laws potentially, all that got it. 336 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: I actually think in a lot of ways there are 337 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: fair points there as far as the apocrisy of it 338 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: all that. What is undeniable, though, is what he is 339 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 1: doing is dangerous. Forget if it's right or wrong, it's dangerous. 340 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: It would be dangerous anywhere. It is particularly dangerous in Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis, 341 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: Tennessee has the third highest homicide rate of any major 342 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: city in the country fifty biggest cities. Bloomberg just had 343 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: this fifty biggest cities in America. Memphis, Sinnesis murder rate 344 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 1: is number three. It is nine times New York City, Okay, 345 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 1: which means if you are one of as far as 346 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 1: gun violence, the most dangerous cities in America, you're one 347 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 1: of the most dangerous cities in the world in developed countries. 348 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: That's where he lives. We just saw in Memphis a 349 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 1: Memphis celebrity, beloved Young Dolph, a rapper, murdered at a 350 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: bakery in the last year. I don't know if Jah's 351 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: a real gangster or not. I don't know if he's 352 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: hanging with real gangsters or not. I don't know if 353 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,399 Speaker 1: he's just you know, playing for the Graham. I know 354 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 1: that city. My wife, who you adore, her best friend, 355 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:00,919 Speaker 1: who you've met a few times, saw the Super Bowl. Nicole, 356 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,680 Speaker 1: the who's with us all the time, lives in Memphis. 357 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: We go to Memphis a lot. I know the city, 358 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:12,359 Speaker 1: I know the nightlife. I told this story on my 359 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 1: pod the other day. I don't know if I should 360 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: tell it or not, but whatever. We went down to 361 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: Memphis for the Southern Heritage Classic, the Jet Dean Steam 362 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: Jackson State saw it. That night. We went out, went 363 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 1: out to a lot of the places that I know, 364 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:35,960 Speaker 1: like our places, Jagoes in Memphis. That that scene that 365 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:41,360 Speaker 1: those clubs. Right. One of the guys who's promoting one 366 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 1: of the parties that night knew I was coming. He 367 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 1: knew Nicole knew I was coming. Whatever. When we got there, 368 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: he said, hey, thanks for coming, nick I was like, yeah, 369 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: it's great whatever, and he said this is such and such. 370 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 1: He's gonna be with you tonight. Like huh, He's like no, 371 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,160 Speaker 1: He's like I brought it. He's one of my security guys. 372 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,439 Speaker 1: He's just gonna be with you all night. I'm like, no, 373 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 1: come on, man, like I thought he was doing it, 374 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 1: like I was like some big shot. He's like no, 375 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 1: He's like, eat, I know, I know my city, and 376 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 1: I know I'll feel better he'll be with you. His 377 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: point was, you have a little bit of notoriety, a 378 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 1: little bit of jewelry. I'd feel better if I knew 379 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 1: someone who knew everything about the city was here with you. 380 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,360 Speaker 1: And now some might say and if boss is here 381 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: this thing, I'd say, and Nick, maybe go to a 382 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: different club. Maybe maybe, But whatever it is, you're young, 383 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 1: you're having fun. That is where John lives. And whether 384 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 1: he is an actual tough guy or not actual tough 385 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: guys see these videos and see how he's inducting himself. 386 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:09,199 Speaker 1: And I don't think it's being hyperbolic to say what 387 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 1: he's doing is dangerous, not that he's going to hurt someone. 388 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 1: That's something could happen to him. And and this last 389 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: point I'll make on it, the opportunity in front of 390 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:26,879 Speaker 1: him there is like he's in a very unique spot 391 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: because if someone were to say, who are the best 392 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 1: players in the NBA over the next you know, six years, 393 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: So Lebron's gone, Durant's probably aged out of it, Staff 394 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: might be aged out of it. So like you know, 395 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: from twenty twenty six to twenty thirty two are the 396 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: best players? People probably say, well, Yannis, Luca, Yokitch embed 397 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: and then you say Jah Tatum whomever. Here's my point, 398 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 1: there is a lot of money in being He's never 399 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,399 Speaker 1: going to be the best player in the league, but 400 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 1: he might be the best American player in the league 401 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,360 Speaker 1: for a long time because all the guys ahead of him. 402 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: There's different marketing available for the best American player. There's 403 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 1: just is like they Luca and Yoki and Janis are 404 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,639 Speaker 1: not going to get all of the endorsements that the 405 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: guy who's the best player in the league should get 406 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: as an American guy. Would that could all go to job. 407 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 1: People love him, he's electrified, but the shit he's doing 408 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:37,919 Speaker 1: is dangerous. It's flatly dangerous, and I hope he I 409 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 1: hope he gets that, and I hope he's I hope 410 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: he's all right. By the way, I know you don't 411 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: buy the Warriors, but I do think it's interesting, not 412 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,679 Speaker 1: just because he's a member of the volume. But I 413 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,919 Speaker 1: watched the Warriors a lot, almost every game, at least half. 414 00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: He's a much bigger part of their offense as a 415 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: catalyst than people will ever admit. The ball moves significantly 416 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,879 Speaker 1: better when he's on the floor. He remains maybe the 417 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 1: best defensive player, certainly for his size in the league. 418 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 1: He's a classic Rodman annoyance, and I think he plays 419 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 1: with a There's so much intellectual capital with all those 420 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: playoff games, his spacing, his screening that when he went 421 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: after Jordan Pool. Some have suggested it hurt the team 422 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: on the road, that that's where you hang out together 423 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: and it's a more clicky team. People took sides after that. 424 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 1: Do you buy into that? Oh, well, that's that's really injurious. 425 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: I haven't heard that specific theory because the home road 426 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,239 Speaker 1: splits don't make it, don't make sense. It is but 427 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: the road. If a clicking teams aren't good on the road, 428 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 1: that would know. So maybe listen. Only Houston and Saint 429 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: Antonio have fewer roadwins this year. Think about that. The 430 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets have been better on the road this year. 431 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:10,360 Speaker 1: The Pistons have as many road wins. That seems impossible. 432 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,639 Speaker 1: It really seems impossible. So there's got to be something 433 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 1: going on. And the outlier event is exactly what you 434 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 1: said is Draymond's slugging pool. And I this is not 435 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: that one guy's you know, a vet's gonna punch a 436 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 1: younger player is going to happen. But this is one 437 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,439 Speaker 1: of the risks when you try to bridge generations like 438 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,679 Speaker 1: the Warriors with the light Years. Thing we're trying to 439 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: do is that you are going to have and it's 440 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: not like the NFL, where there's so many guys everybody, 441 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: can you know what I mean, have their own group. 442 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: There's only fourteen guys on a team. It's only nine 443 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 1: guys that matter at all, and it would it be 444 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: shocking for anyone because the only guy that kind of 445 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: straddles the line is Wiggins. As far as a you 446 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: have really young and then you have the four guys 447 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: who've been there for all of it, Steph, Clay, Draymond, 448 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 1: and Iguadal. That's it, and so it is a weird spot. 449 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: I also I also think this that winning that title 450 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: that they won was so important and so gratifying and 451 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: so much for all of those guys, A can't ever 452 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 1: tell me nothing nothing Title one. It's the first one. 453 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: The Calves were hurt, and then the very next year 454 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: Lebron killed him, which doesn't take that title away, but 455 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: it feels a little, you know what, It makes you 456 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 1: feel a little different about it. Then you're the best 457 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: team in the world by far. But there's the weird 458 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: thing with Kevin, you know what I mean, STEP's the guy, 459 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: but evans there and then Kevin leaves and you're in 460 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: the damn wilderness. You miss the playoffs outright, and then 461 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 1: you get knocked out in the play in. That's the 462 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 1: two years and then you win the whole thing again. Yeah, 463 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: I think, man, it is hard, Yeah, to amp yourself 464 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 1: back up. Yeah, there's a lot of people that watch 465 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: them even more closely than I do. That felt like 466 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: that was the last great moment for the franchise. Those 467 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: games in Boston. I think it's here's the thing, And 468 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 1: that could also explain the home road, which is they're 469 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: not that great of a team at this point. They 470 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: are emotionally spent, but at home they get that extra 471 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: oomp energy. Plus it is still intimidating for opponents. So 472 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: again I don't think there are seven, you know, seven 473 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: and twenty four level team independent. But it might be 474 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: that it's less about the road record being so awful 475 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: and more about the home record slightly inflated for where 476 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 1: it should be because that they get the boost from 477 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: the crowd and all of that. I just think that 478 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 1: strikes me as a it's a lot of years, Colin. 479 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 1: It's fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty one two. We're 480 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: in the ninth year from when they won their first 481 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,000 Speaker 1: title to right now and be what it can be 482 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: Like Lebron went to eighth straight two different teams. By 483 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 1: the end of the run in Miami they were spent, 484 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: and by the end of the run in Cleveland, they 485 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,479 Speaker 1: were spent. Lebron's ability to bridge that whole thing is 486 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: mind boggling. But we're now talking nine years of title contention. Essentially. 487 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,160 Speaker 1: That's a lot, man, That's a lot, And I just 488 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,560 Speaker 1: it's why I just have a hard time, hard time 489 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: thinking they can gear up for one more hurrah. Maybe 490 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: they can, but I think they might they if they 491 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 1: find themselves in the play in which is on the 492 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: board unlikely but on the board having to immediately gear 493 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 1: up for elimination level. Then it's just I just think 494 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 1: they're in a rough spot, which is one of the 495 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: reasons the West feels so open to me, Nick Ry, 496 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 1: we did thirty thirty five minutes on NFL yesterday, thirty 497 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: thirty five minutes today this morning. Before we go, Can 498 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 1: I just ask you one question in the NBA Eastern 499 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 1: Conference for a second, how much? Because I'm not able 500 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: to watch your show quite as I watch pieces of 501 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 1: it every day, but when I was in the mornings, 502 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 1: i'd be at home and i'd have it on, so 503 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: i'd kind of always hear you. Now you're on while 504 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: I'm prepping and I don't know about you. I try 505 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 1: to consume almost nothing before I go on the air 506 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,480 Speaker 1: because they're all like it will get in my brain, 507 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 1: and you know, I don't want to um. How much 508 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 1: have you talked on your show about the New York Knicks? Well, 509 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,760 Speaker 1: not a lot. I think that that's the right answer. Yeah, No, 510 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: I'm not asking you to talk about him now. Yeah, 511 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 1: I just that's the reason I asked you was because 512 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 1: the amount of attention that the moment they have a 513 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: good two weeks, this team that's been out of Round one, once. Yeah, 514 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: this millennia gets because my theory on it is the following. 515 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 1: I really asked you that just so I could go 516 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 1: on this rain My apologies. I think media that works 517 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:51,880 Speaker 1: in New York likes Knicks. Fans liking them. Yeah, they 518 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,080 Speaker 1: like walking on the street and having oh yo, shout 519 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 1: out to the Knicks, thanks for giving the Knicks love. 520 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: And I won't do it and be well, yeah my show. 521 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 1: They're like, oh, ready to admit the Knicks are a 522 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 1: threat to who? So what? And I said today, I said, 523 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:13,359 Speaker 1: over the last fifty years, the Calves, who by the way, 524 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,279 Speaker 1: are currently the four seeing the Knicks of the five, 525 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 1: have been a better franchise. Yeah, like, what do you 526 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:23,120 Speaker 1: It's flatly true. The last fifty years, the Calves have 527 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,319 Speaker 1: the same. In the last forty years, the Knicks have 528 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: no titles. Last fifty years, the Knicks have won, the 529 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,840 Speaker 1: Calves have won. The Cavs have the one of the 530 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,960 Speaker 1: I'll be generous here two greatest players ever, really greatest 531 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,640 Speaker 1: players ever. The Knicks have the thirty fourth greatest player ever. 532 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 1: They give me a break, and even recently and right now, 533 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: who has the best player between them? The Calves? Who's 534 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,400 Speaker 1: the best young player between the calves. But the I 535 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 1: don't usually believe in like coastal media bias except for 536 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:58,280 Speaker 1: on two things, New York Knicks coverage and wildfire coverage 537 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 1: in LA. In the other direction, I believe this is 538 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 1: a totally random taked in the show on I believe 539 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,920 Speaker 1: if anywhere on the Eastern Corridor had fires the way 540 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,720 Speaker 1: Los Angeles does, it would be wall to wall news 541 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: coverage every time it happens. If if if twenty miles 542 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,880 Speaker 1: north of Washington, DC, you had one hundred and fifty 543 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,840 Speaker 1: acres on fire, I have a feeling CNN would be 544 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 1: all over. But it happens in that California are like, 545 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,880 Speaker 1: I don't even know. It's weird out there. There's oceans, mountains, 546 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,759 Speaker 1: like nobody talks about it. It's crazy to me. But 547 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: Knicks coverage, the overcoverage of the Knicks and the undercoverage 548 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,879 Speaker 1: of the California weather stuff, that's where I believe East 549 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,800 Speaker 1: coast media bias happens. Yeah, that's my Knicks. It's a 550 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:48,400 Speaker 1: TIBs team, play really hard every night. Effort wins a 551 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:52,080 Speaker 1: lot of regular season games. In the playoffs, everybody plays hard. 552 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,160 Speaker 1: It's talent and they don't have enough offense and you 553 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 1: don't have an extra gear. You can't do it if 554 00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,400 Speaker 1: you're always, if your foot's always to the round on 555 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,600 Speaker 1: the accelerator, then when someone else goes into fifth gear, 556 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,200 Speaker 1: you're like, I was already there, and now I can't 557 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: win the race. Yeah, I've seen that. I've read this 558 00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 1: book before. All Right, buddy, once a month we bring 559 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,000 Speaker 1: him in. We do an hour. I usually do thirty minutes. 560 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:21,600 Speaker 1: Congratulate your success. Oh, thanks you too. Congrats on this 561 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 1: highest rated TV show ever. You're crushing. Love you, man, 562 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:41,960 Speaker 1: I'll talk to you soon, all right. 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