Speaker 1: When was the moment you knew your basketball career was over.
Speaker 1: I knew my career was over when one of my
Speaker 1: favorite coaches in the world put me in a position
Speaker 1: to say that other players was better than me, when
Speaker 1: he knew what my response was gonna be. I end
Speaker 1: up getting cut right before the playoffs started in San Antonio.
Speaker 1: I left with my integrity because I would never say
Speaker 1: somebody is better than me, especially after that just gave
Speaker 1: him forty in franknice Welcome back to another edition of
Speaker 1: What's Burning Jack were in the full swing of playoffs.
Speaker 1: The second round is officially started. Let's get started with
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns and Denver Nuggets. Last night, Phoenix erased
Speaker 1: a double digit deficit in the third quarter, only to
Speaker 1: create their own double digit deficit in the same quarter,
Speaker 1: led by CP three. I think his shoulders coming back
Speaker 1: to life. He had twenty one points, eleven assists, six rebounds,
Speaker 1: Devin Booker twenty one and eight, Jay crowder as fourteen,
Speaker 1: The young boy bridges steps up and gives you twenty
Speaker 1: three points with four threes, And the person I've been
Speaker 1: impressed with the most since the playoffs started for Phoenix
Speaker 1: is Andre Ayden. Who could Uh picks up another double
Speaker 1: double twenty and ten. Uh pretty much played Joker even
Speaker 1: Joker is that twenty two and nine? Jack? What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this series in particular and with CP
Speaker 1: three and his sons have been able to do and
Speaker 1: what the key to me was, you know, the energy,
Speaker 1: but also if Aidan can basically exile Yoki and they
Speaker 1: got a good chance to winning the series. I think
Speaker 1: the Booker Booker is definitely the best play in this
Speaker 1: series besides the MVP yokis, but he doesn't have that
Speaker 1: guard on his team to be as dominant as Murray was,
Speaker 1: So that's that's gonna be a big void, especially in
Speaker 1: this series, because the sons have all that. They have
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame point guard and CP they have
Speaker 1: an all star one gonna be a Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: Devin Booker, and Aiden is Aidan is a big man.
Speaker 1: He's gonna grow into his own. They have all the
Speaker 1: pieces to the puzzle. Never don't have that their wounded
Speaker 1: right now, and I don't think Yoki it's gonna be
Speaker 1: real difficult for him to pull his team out this
Speaker 1: series by himself. But the first game shows how how
Speaker 1: this team has all those aspects and they can and
Speaker 1: they can really be a problem in this series. I
Speaker 1: think you said something big if Aiden can nullify or
Speaker 1: pretty much uncel out Joker. As far as number wise,
Speaker 1: I don't think Denver has a chance because you know,
Speaker 1: Phoenix moves the ball so well, shoots the ball well.
Speaker 1: They're young players. The one thing I've been impressed with
Speaker 1: Phoenix is their young players haven't been scared of the moment.
Speaker 1: They've stepped up, hid big shots, made big defensive place.
Speaker 1: So glad to see CP is uh shoulders coming back
Speaker 1: to life. And man, I definitely underestimated this Phoenix team.
Speaker 1: And I can proudly say that because I said, we've
Speaker 1: always been rooting for Chris and wanting him to do well,
Speaker 1: like we were always big fans of Devin Booker Man.
Speaker 1: So it's fun to watch this Phoenix Suns team player.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Money Williams Man and the other series
Speaker 1: that got started. The Atlanta hasper able to steal home
Speaker 1: court advantage by going into Philly and beating the seventies
Speaker 1: sixers in Game one. Trey Rolling was amazing as usual.
Speaker 1: His confidence right now is off the chart, and his
Speaker 1: team is definitely following the lead. That's a very deep,
Speaker 1: exciting team. And be lad the Sixers with thirty nine
Speaker 1: and nine clearly wasn't his self. Jack Who do you
Speaker 1: feel like he needs to step up for the Sixers
Speaker 1: in order for them to take control of this series.
Speaker 1: The whole team needs to step up. Matt. You can't
Speaker 1: have your wounded star getting thirty nine and nine and
Speaker 1: nobody else show up, you know, everybody on the team.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons needs to come around and and try to
Speaker 1: find a way to be effective offensively. I think Seth
Speaker 1: Seth is doing a great job, but as a team,
Speaker 1: they need to find out how to play better defense.
Speaker 1: Um they were they were lying too much on Danny
Speaker 1: Green to be a defensive stopper. I've never known him
Speaker 1: to be a defensive stopper. So as a team they
Speaker 1: need to come together and be a better defensive team.
Speaker 1: I gotta give Atlanta Hawks coach all the credit in
Speaker 1: the world, Nate McMillan. He was a tough minded player
Speaker 1: and he's really got these kids going in there with
Speaker 1: real confident going in there with a tough mind and
Speaker 1: playing hard as they can. I think both teams both
Speaker 1: have one star in Bed and ice trade. But everybody
Speaker 1: else gonna have to figure out these teams are basically equal.
Speaker 1: I see some kind of way Philly pulling this, pulling
Speaker 1: this series out, but right now I don't see nobody
Speaker 1: else stepping on this team to help him them beat Yeah.
Speaker 1: I definitely think that Atlanta just came out with more
Speaker 1: energy and wanted it more again led by Trey Young.
Speaker 1: But this is a deep team. Jack about Danovich hit
Speaker 1: some big shots down the stretch. They got a vet
Speaker 1: like Gallinari and Lou Williams coming off the bench. Collins
Speaker 1: is playing well. They're young shooters are playing well again.
Speaker 1: This is another team that you know, I needed to
Speaker 1: see it in the playoffs, and they went in there
Speaker 1: and handle business in New York. They come in and
Speaker 1: steal game one in Philly. This team, these you know,
Speaker 1: these young teams are dangerous because they don't know if
Speaker 1: they don't give a ship there, they're going to gets
Speaker 1: the one seed. They feel like they're the best team
Speaker 1: in in in the league right now. That's how you're
Speaker 1: supposed to feel with the young team. So Philly is
Speaker 1: gonna have to do something to counter that confidence because
Speaker 1: if they get another game in Philly, It's gonna be trouble.
Speaker 1: In the heavily anticipated series that everyone thought would be
Speaker 1: very equal, the Brooklyn Nets have come out and beat
Speaker 1: the ship out of Milwaukee. The first two games, minus
Speaker 1: James Harden, Katie and Kyrie have been in a groove. Uh.
Speaker 1: Milwaukee has yet to find their rhythm. Uh. Blake Griffin's
Speaker 1: is showing signs of lobs city Blake Jack, what can
Speaker 1: Milwaukee do to get back in this series? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't I really don't know, man to honestly, you
Speaker 1: you you didn't let Katie. You didn't let Katie get
Speaker 1: back in his bag and Kyrie getting his bag, and
Speaker 1: it's gon be hard to stop that train. Also, I
Speaker 1: gotta give Blake Griffin his credit. You know, you need
Speaker 1: somebody to to to be Philsicre, You need somebody to
Speaker 1: be that tough guy, to lay hit on, somebody to
Speaker 1: to just be that enforcing that. Blake is being that
Speaker 1: for this team with not with them not playing DeAndre.
Speaker 1: So I mean it's hard to say, Um, they that's
Speaker 1: obviously that can't stop Katie, they can't stop Kyrie. And
Speaker 1: just imagine if James is back next game, who knows
Speaker 1: you know, so, so then I think Neil Walkers in
Speaker 1: trouble right now. And um, you know, everybody trying to
Speaker 1: make this hype between Katie and and Greek freak man.
Speaker 1: Both of these guys are great. Let let these guys
Speaker 1: both be great in their own weight, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But you can't compare them at all. No,
Speaker 1: they're not even close. Obviously, honest is a two time
Speaker 1: m v P. But I don't even think he's in
Speaker 1: the same tier as Katie. Katie to me, and I've
Speaker 1: been saying it for a while. Before he got hurt,
Speaker 1: he was on the Virgin beat being the best player
Speaker 1: in the league, I think coming off an Achilles, which
Speaker 1: is crazy. I think it's nearly two years since the
Speaker 1: injury happened, he is officially the best player in the NBA.
Speaker 1: I think everyone and knows it. And that's what all
Speaker 1: due respect to Lebron, it's Katie's. It's Katie's league now,
Speaker 1: and I think one thing that Brooklyn is doing now
Speaker 1: is being able to play with house money. Obviously, with
Speaker 1: James pulling his hamstring or tweaking his hamstring in the
Speaker 1: first game, Jack, we both know a week time is
Speaker 1: not enough to heal a hamstring. He may need two
Speaker 1: or three weeks. And the way they're playing, you know,
Speaker 1: if this goes a sweep or even five games, that's
Speaker 1: gonna give him another week and a half to rest
Speaker 1: and then kind of depending on how the flow is,
Speaker 1: you know, they have the ability to still make it
Speaker 1: to the finals without James. I feel like I feel
Speaker 1: like Katie and Kyrie. On another level, the role players
Speaker 1: are playing great. Shout out Brown. He's been doing his thing,
Speaker 1: and all the role players UH have been shooting the
Speaker 1: ball extremely well. But I think again, they're playing with
Speaker 1: house money. Now. The better they play, the more time
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to rest James. Because, like I said,
Speaker 1: I think they can still get out of the East
Speaker 1: without James um. But just imagine if he comes back
Speaker 1: and is able to be of itself. I don't see
Speaker 1: anybody in the league fucking with this team right now.
Speaker 1: Next up on the Radar, presented you by Draft Kings,
Speaker 1: we got a big matchup out West that one Utah
Speaker 1: Jazz versus number four l A Clippers. The Clippers are
Speaker 1: pushed the seven games against the MAVs. Kauai stepped up
Speaker 1: got his team to the second round. Jazz or minus
Speaker 1: one thirty favorite to win this series. Why the Clippers
Speaker 1: are plus one oh five Jack thoughts on this upcoming
Speaker 1: series and and some players to watch out for. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting. Um. The player that I really want
Speaker 1: to see players Boogie. You know this. See they didn't
Speaker 1: have to play a big man in the last series
Speaker 1: against Datas because Datas doesn't really have a solid big man.
Speaker 1: They can play that can be effective. But Rudy Gobert
Speaker 1: is probably the defensive player of the year, and um,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to kind of equal him out. I'll
Speaker 1: try to try to keep him out of the pain
Speaker 1: and try to keep him busy. You gotta play, you,
Speaker 1: big man. We know what Kauai gonna do. We know
Speaker 1: what Paul gear Is gonna do. We know what Donovan
Speaker 1: mitch are gonna do. I want to see the battlet
Speaker 1: of the big man. I want to see Sergibaka if
Speaker 1: he's health to come back. I want to see Boogiecusines
Speaker 1: go out there and make his imprint of the game.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing that. No, I agree, I
Speaker 1: definitely think this is gonna be a matchup. Whether their
Speaker 1: bigs are gonna be need to be utilized. They got
Speaker 1: zoo Bach obviously, all looking forward to you getting a
Speaker 1: chance to play. If surges Back is ready, they're gonna
Speaker 1: definitely need him. The West is wide open now. I
Speaker 1: think since the Lakers left, the Clippers are in a
Speaker 1: good rhythm right now. Although Utah is the number one seed,
Speaker 1: I feel like the Clippers have finally kind of figured
Speaker 1: out the chemistry they need. They made a few adjustments
Speaker 1: last series by you know, sitting people down and giving
Speaker 1: guys more minutes. The role players are playing well. Marcus
Speaker 1: Morris stepped up and hit i think seven threes in
Speaker 1: Game seven, tying him with Steph Curry, uh for the
Speaker 1: most threes in the game seven. So when your role
Speaker 1: players are doing things like that, that's will makes you dangerous.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, Utah's role players have been
Speaker 1: playing well too. They always moved the ball. This is
Speaker 1: two of the best three point shooting teams in the league, man,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be fun. Donovan Mitchell is hitting on
Speaker 1: all cylinders, and like you said, the two stars from
Speaker 1: the Clippers are hitting on all cylinders as well. So
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a fun series. This Thursday, June tenth,
Speaker 1: we drop our brother baron Davis's episode. Obviously, you guys
Speaker 1: been waiting for him a long time. But Jack, before
Speaker 1: we get to that, we also want to shout him
Speaker 1: out to He has a new movie called Domino premiering
Speaker 1: June eleven. Man, This dude does everything, man, so we
Speaker 1: definitely want to shout our brother out. And he also
Speaker 1: got a Domino app go log in. Yeah, so obviously
Speaker 1: shout out b D Man a very smart man, one
Speaker 1: of the best players I've ever played with, got a
Speaker 1: movie coming out this uh this week, and we got
Speaker 1: this episode coming out this Thursday. Man enjoyed the trailer.
Speaker 1: Bbfo Ill, Welcome to the NBA moment. What is it?
Speaker 1: Probably John Stockton cooked. They like stole the ball from me.
Speaker 1: Like imagine like just getting in the game and you
Speaker 1: look up trying to get an inbound pass and that
Speaker 1: ship gone. You think you gotta steal and it's like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I gotta steal that ship go. I could have played
Speaker 1: like eight minutes to night, but like the first two
Speaker 1: minutes it was just turnover, turnover, turnover, bucket and one
Speaker 1: and one, and I was like, what the fuck is
Speaker 1: going on go back in the same ship. You just
Speaker 1: couldn't find him. Bro. It was embarrassing. And then I say,
Speaker 1: the other one was Stephan Marlberry. You know, I'm a
Speaker 1: rookie coming off the bench. He was like yeah and
Speaker 1: one and he looked at me. He was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't, won't none of this. You can't guard me.
Speaker 1: And Elden Campbell was like, oh, you're gonna let him
Speaker 1: talk to you like that up. So I'm on the
Speaker 1: bench hot, I'm ready to fight everything. Uh. But that
Speaker 1: was like he was cooking me too. Other than that,
Speaker 1: I say, my first game cross Way Turner, preseason, I
Speaker 1: go off the duck and never nervous Pervis Ellison took
Speaker 1: a charge and not custom ever nervous, seven foot motherfucker.
Speaker 1: What you're doing taking a charge? He played in a
Speaker 1: crazy time where it was a young day, Steve Nash, Gilbert,
Speaker 1: you name it. People was out there, all of them,
Speaker 1: all of them at Chris Paulin there Williams at Darren Williams,
Speaker 1: at Jason Kidd, add Nick Van Naxel, at Rod Strickland,
Speaker 1: as Sam Casale, He's all the people we lost to
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. It was every era of every night,
Speaker 1: Mike Bibby, like you're getting a different look from a
Speaker 1: different point guard every night. And then you gotta go
Speaker 1: against the Greg Anthony's and the Charlie Wards who are
Speaker 1: like more defensive minded, and Eric Snow's defensive money Mark Jackson.
Speaker 1: I played against Mark Jackson. So all these like great
Speaker 1: point guards that you kind of watch growing up. It
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Speaker 1: the Portland Trailblazer. On the Clock. You know we've discussed it,
Speaker 1: uh is it? Dame? Is Dame time? Up? In Portland's
Speaker 1: Can they win with that backcourt. Uh, they fire coach
Speaker 1: Terry Stott's Dame came right out and said that he
Speaker 1: wanted Jay Kidd. Jay Kidd was in the mix and
Speaker 1: then pulled himself out of the mix. And we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that. What do you think the play for Portland
Speaker 1: is moving forward? Who knows? Who knows? I mean, who knows?
Speaker 1: Bro I mean, for me, I want to I want
Speaker 1: to see Dame leave. I'm gonna lawyer. You got to
Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, you got to do what's best
Speaker 1: for you, you you know. And and uh if Dame, you know,
Speaker 1: Dame's gonna be a great player wherever he wherever he goes,
Speaker 1: or wherever he is, He's gonna be a great player.
Speaker 1: I just think that with with with things not with him,
Speaker 1: not with Jason Kidd pulling out, and things not going
Speaker 1: as well as he wants, you know, I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna cause confusion with the next coach coming in, with
Speaker 1: the fact that he he requested Jason Kidd and Jason
Speaker 1: Kidd backing out. I don't think Dame's gonna be at home.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're really gonna take his opinion, uh,
Speaker 1: as they should, as him being the best player. So
Speaker 1: I don't know how to hold donamic is gonna play out. Man.
Speaker 1: I know he's tired of losing. I can say that,
Speaker 1: and uh, I just want to see my brother win
Speaker 1: because he did that. He definitely deserved it. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I agree, Uh you know, and he made that that
Speaker 1: that post. How long do I stay dedicated? How long
Speaker 1: until opportunity meets preparation? Rest in peace? Nip? And that
Speaker 1: kind of got the red lights buzzing, like, oh, his
Speaker 1: Dames tired of this because he's been adamant about being
Speaker 1: loyal to this team. But like you said, loyalty could
Speaker 1: only last so long when you're not winning in this game.
Speaker 1: This game is about winning. He's that everything you possibly
Speaker 1: can to get his team there, and they can't seem
Speaker 1: to get over the hump. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: this Jason Kidd piece because obviously he him saying he
Speaker 1: wanted Jason Kidd. Then Jason Kidd pulling out. Do these
Speaker 1: guys know something that Jason Kidd pull out because he
Speaker 1: knows Dame is not gonna be there next year, Because
Speaker 1: I mean, no one's gonna want to take that job. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if you lose your best players, So there could be
Speaker 1: something to this um. Obviously, I don't know. I'm just
Speaker 1: throwing stuff off the wall. He still has four years
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy six million dollars left. His contract
Speaker 1: ends in five will be thirty four years old, so
Speaker 1: now his time, he's in his prime. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: an interesting summer to see if they can land a
Speaker 1: solid coach and another piece, or if Dame has Dame
Speaker 1: time is up in Portland, we'll have to see. Shout out.
Speaker 1: You never want to be lawyer to a fault. You
Speaker 1: never want to be layer to a fault. I was
Speaker 1: lawyer to a fault with Ron. You know, I don't mind.
Speaker 1: I don't regret helping my brother, but it cost me
Speaker 1: a lot of money. It cost me a lot of heartache,
Speaker 1: paign and stress. But at the same time, you don't
Speaker 1: want to be layer to a fault. Man. You can
Speaker 1: stay large to organization in the company, but they won't
Speaker 1: show no lawyer to to you. At the end, it
Speaker 1: might be time to make a move. We'll have to see.
Speaker 1: Next up our favorite segment, Fan Questions, Jack kick it off.
Speaker 1: First question at your boy underscore boat. What help you
Speaker 1: guys keep your head up and focus at the same
Speaker 1: time when you're at your lowers and your NBA career?
Speaker 1: What kept you going? M M, good question. Good question.
Speaker 1: I think I was at the lowest of my career
Speaker 1: coming on out of Philly where I hadn't played for
Speaker 1: two years, UM, and I end up at Golden State. UM.
Speaker 1: So obviously, you know we've discussed this whole lot of
Speaker 1: credit to our brother Baron Davis checked this episode out
Speaker 1: this Thursday. And then believe it in myself, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I think that doubt creeps in sometimes
Speaker 1: as athletes, and that's the one thing that can kill you.
Speaker 1: So I think believing in yourself, because who's gonna believe
Speaker 1: in you if you don't believe in yourself? And I
Speaker 1: would say the last thing is that tree. You know.
Speaker 1: That tree kept my mind stay steady and ready, didn't
Speaker 1: have me too sporadic. So when my opportunity came and
Speaker 1: Golden State, I jumped on it and made myself a
Speaker 1: household name and ran with my career. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of what I did, because I was definitely at my
Speaker 1: lowest point, UM, like two thousand and five, two thousand
Speaker 1: and six lowest point for me. I really don't know.
Speaker 1: I was a second to last pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: I broke both of my feet for I got to
Speaker 1: the NBA tried. I was seventeen teams. So I always
Speaker 1: made love depression, uh and and anything that I dealt,
Speaker 1: I came across our dealt with. You know, I got
Speaker 1: on my knees, gave it to God and uh and uh,
Speaker 1: I knew I had the strength to get through it.
Speaker 1: Trouble don't last always. I never was down to myself.
Speaker 1: I never not believed in myself. But I also knew
Speaker 1: that it's gonna rain some days. But like I said,
Speaker 1: don't rain always, just get up and deal with it.
Speaker 1: When I when I was in the brawl and I
Speaker 1: lost all that money, you didn't hear me complain. You
Speaker 1: didn't hear me blaming on nobody else. I went out
Speaker 1: then defended my brother. But right after I got back,
Speaker 1: got back with the Pacers, we made the playoffs. Who
Speaker 1: made a hell of a run. So uh, it's not
Speaker 1: it's not about what you go through, it's about what
Speaker 1: you do after that, and just pick yourself up and
Speaker 1: keep it moving. Absolutely. Next up we see greatness in you.
Speaker 1: What does the best advice you have for kings and
Speaker 1: queens out there who want to make a difference in
Speaker 1: the world but don't know how. It's a good question.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my boy Terrence, we see greatness in you.
Speaker 1: That's my guy. He's been with me since twenty six
Speaker 1: team we've been going to Flint giving away water. Uh,
Speaker 1: the seventeen states I've been to this year to give back.
Speaker 1: Since my brother George for died, Terence has been Uh,
Speaker 1: we see greatest. His name is Terence. He's been with
Speaker 1: us every step of the way. When you see a
Speaker 1: sign that say we see greatness, that's this guy, Terence.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best people I know in the world.
Speaker 1: He's always positive. What you can do is do your part. Uh.
Speaker 1: You don't have to have the biggest voice. You don't
Speaker 1: have to be rich, you don't have to be a celebrity,
Speaker 1: you don't have to be any of those things. Everybody
Speaker 1: has a voice and everybody has a part to play.
Speaker 1: If people stop worrying about what other people doing and
Speaker 1: worry about what they control and do their part, we
Speaker 1: will be all right. But it's too many people worrying
Speaker 1: about judging people on what they're doing, what they're not doing,
Speaker 1: and how they're doing it. If you just do your part,
Speaker 1: whether you're a man or a woman, keen or queen,
Speaker 1: that's all that matter, because we all have a part
Speaker 1: to play. M couldn't have said any better myself. I mean,
Speaker 1: sports is so sononymous with life in general. I think
Speaker 1: he's learned so many life lessons from sports. And one
Speaker 1: quote that I love the Doc Rivers that is being
Speaker 1: a star in your role. Like Jack said, there's a
Speaker 1: role for everybody to play. Play your role, stop worried
Speaker 1: about everyone else, and that's how you can do your part.
Speaker 1: But definitely shout out to Terrace Man very positive brother. Man.
Speaker 1: I've never been around someone who's so goddamn positive. So
Speaker 1: I loved it, loved his energy, and definitely shout out
Speaker 1: the homie. Next fan question, Devin, No one cares. Dame
Speaker 1: is one of the most large superstars in the NBA
Speaker 1: on record, but if Potland doesn't get him help, should
Speaker 1: be loyal enough to leave. Man. We just touched on this, Um,
Speaker 1: I I think he should. You know, I think it's
Speaker 1: time for him to start thinking about itself. Thirty one
Speaker 1: years old. Uh, in the prime of his career, most
Speaker 1: clutch player we have in the game, and he's done
Speaker 1: everything he possibly cancers. He got in this league to
Speaker 1: get this team over the hump, and they haven't been
Speaker 1: able to do it. I respect the loyalty, I love
Speaker 1: the loyalty. But at the same time, man, that clock
Speaker 1: is ticking on his career, so we'll have to see. Uh.
Speaker 1: For me, he deserves to experience the finals one time.
Speaker 1: I'm so blessed and humble that I was able to
Speaker 1: play with him Dr David Robinson and experienced the finals.
Speaker 1: And Dame is as much as work as he as
Speaker 1: much damage and as good as he is. I just
Speaker 1: for me as a fan of Dame, I just want
Speaker 1: him to experience the finals. And if that takes him leaving,
Speaker 1: so be it. Agreed. Agreed. Next up, Lepertron Chris. What
Speaker 1: player on a terrible team has a chance to be
Speaker 1: a star if moved elsewhere? Good question? Ah, what player
Speaker 1: on the terrible team? Uh, that's a good question. I
Speaker 1: think one person I like to Shay Gil just Alexander.
Speaker 1: I know. Uh. Doc at the time was very skeptical
Speaker 1: about putting him in the PG trade, and he was
Speaker 1: the centerpiece that made that trade go. This kid is
Speaker 1: a young star over in Oklahoma City. Who know, I'm
Speaker 1: sure they're gonna try to hold on to him, but
Speaker 1: I would love to see him get in a situation
Speaker 1: where he's in the playoffs a year in, year out,
Speaker 1: because this kid is definitely gonna be a star. Next
Speaker 1: fan question, elus, when was the moment you knew your
Speaker 1: basketball career was over? And what was that? Like? Man,
Speaker 1: I retired, you know after that two thousand seventeen championship
Speaker 1: with the Warriors, and it was just one day I
Speaker 1: woke up and felt like, you know what was next?
Speaker 1: You know, I played a fifteen year career. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: business started moving. Wasn't chance of getting this chance to
Speaker 1: see my twins as much as I'd like to, So
Speaker 1: I wanted, you know, get that dad duty on because
Speaker 1: you know this this travel life is a grind, and
Speaker 1: you know, my transition was smooth. You know, luckily I
Speaker 1: had planned ahead. So like I said, when I tied
Speaker 1: to step away, I knew exactly what I was doing
Speaker 1: and where I was headed. So uh never really looked back. Um.
Speaker 1: Love basketball, still coach it, watch it, analyze it, but
Speaker 1: don't miss it at all. So you know, I was
Speaker 1: one of the lucky ones that kind of got to
Speaker 1: walk away um on my terms and and start chapter two.
Speaker 1: I knew my career was over when my one of
Speaker 1: my favorite people in the whole world, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite coaches in the world, put me in the position
Speaker 1: to say that other players was better than me, when
Speaker 1: he knew when my response was gonna be. And uh,
Speaker 1: I end up getting cut right before the playoffs started
Speaker 1: in San Antonio, popular in a position where he said,
Speaker 1: I need to come in the locker room in front
Speaker 1: of the team and admit that something, that certain players
Speaker 1: were better than me going into the playoffs after I
Speaker 1: just crushed them all in practice and was talking crazy
Speaker 1: trash to him. And Pop, the smartest coach I've ever
Speaker 1: been around, he knows my response is gonna be and
Speaker 1: he knew I wasn't gonna say that. And at the
Speaker 1: time when he asked me to say that, Trace McGrady
Speaker 1: was already on the plane coming in town. And that
Speaker 1: was right before the playoffs. And you know that, man,
Speaker 1: you get cut, you get cut right for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It's basically over for you. And this this was almost
Speaker 1: at the end of my career, so I knew I
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna play again. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: left with my integrity because I would never say somebody
Speaker 1: is better than me, especially after I just gave him
Speaker 1: forty in practice. I feel that man. Next up, Nons
Speaker 1: thirty five underscore. How do you guys feel about the
Speaker 1: Lakers early playoff exit and what is the future looking
Speaker 1: like for this team? I knew it was gonna happen
Speaker 1: once a D went down, you know. Um. Obviously I
Speaker 1: d m Brin and told him, you know, he's done
Speaker 1: impossible so many times, just to give him some give
Speaker 1: him some motivation, like anything like he needed. But I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of Lebron, you know, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: see him do it impossible again. Obviously didn't happen because
Speaker 1: he's older now, he's he and he was injured as well.
Speaker 1: But I knew once a D went down that team
Speaker 1: was gonna be the same. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: You can't you can't have uh, your your point guard Schroder,
Speaker 1: you know, laying the egg, playing twenty seven minutes and
Speaker 1: not and not scoring one one point at all. I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know if I ever played a
Speaker 1: game where I played twenty minutes and then score at
Speaker 1: one point, the supporting cast wasn't there, And then what
Speaker 1: made it worse, they tried to bring a d back.
Speaker 1: Now you got your team in a deciding game depending
Speaker 1: on the most hurt player on your team. Y'all relying
Speaker 1: on the hurt player and that killed them the momentum
Speaker 1: of the other guys who are healthy that you need
Speaker 1: to play well because now you know what you said
Speaker 1: to them. Okay, well we have a healthy team. We
Speaker 1: have a guy like Montres who's healthy that can help
Speaker 1: this team. But we want to see we can hurt
Speaker 1: player can come and do the job. That killed the
Speaker 1: morality team. And that's what I knew. It was over,
Speaker 1: Uh injuries to me, injuries. They weren't healthy at the
Speaker 1: right time, and that's the key. Uh. You know, Lebron
Speaker 1: has to do so much at his age, he needed
Speaker 1: to be healthy and then your next best player has
Speaker 1: to be healthy too, and they didn't have that. So
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens in the future for this team.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna get more into this in our next segment.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say my real analytic take for that
Speaker 1: next up, quick Hitters, what's next for the Lakers? I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, Jackie said a lot of great points in
Speaker 1: the last segment. I think just health is important. Um.
Speaker 1: Health is very important for this team because they're led
Speaker 1: by and an aging superstar and a star who is
Speaker 1: injury prone. And we all said if if they were healthy,
Speaker 1: no matter what seed they were, it would be favored.
Speaker 1: And they weren't healthy. And again the fact that I
Speaker 1: think that they put a D out there knowing he
Speaker 1: had a growing injury. Uh, that didn't look good on
Speaker 1: the Lakers or their staff, their medical staff because again,
Speaker 1: someone who's injury prone, and I think I talked about
Speaker 1: either on this show or on ESPN that to me,
Speaker 1: you don't risk a D because he is someone who
Speaker 1: is susceptible to injuries. You don't risk playing with a
Speaker 1: growing like that. We saw even in warmups that he
Speaker 1: didn't look like himself and tweaked it really early. So
Speaker 1: I was disappointed that they actually even let him play.
Speaker 1: And then to your point, jack when a D plays,
Speaker 1: role players have to have a different mindset. If they
Speaker 1: would have known a D wasn't playing, they would have
Speaker 1: known they're gonna have to come out and gun in
Speaker 1: this series, so their mindset was different. Uh, a D
Speaker 1: is in than a D is out. So now the
Speaker 1: mindset has completely changed. And to me, they just they
Speaker 1: didn't have it. But again, you know, I think Lebron
Speaker 1: still has to me. I think last year next year
Speaker 1: is possibly Lebron's last window. Um and I and I
Speaker 1: hate the fact I think someone brought this up, but
Speaker 1: I kind of hate the Lebron slander. You know, this
Speaker 1: guy has been arguably the best player in the game
Speaker 1: since he's came in the game, top two or three
Speaker 1: players in the game since he's been coming in the game,
Speaker 1: and now that his numbers aren't astronomical like we're accustomed to,
Speaker 1: but they're still very solid. And he was hurt. There's
Speaker 1: all this all this he's done talk, he's washed talk,
Speaker 1: he's too old talk, which is which is really disappointed
Speaker 1: because this guy's gave him the game so much. And
Speaker 1: and and I can already tell that the slander is
Speaker 1: coming because people love when the mighty fallen. Not that
Speaker 1: he's falling yet, but obviously he's on the back side
Speaker 1: of his career, so I think it's gonna get ugly
Speaker 1: as far as criticism for him, which is gonna be
Speaker 1: fucked up, but you know we're gonna hold him down
Speaker 1: on this show. People hate what they can't beat, point blank.
Speaker 1: People hate what they can't beat. They can never be Lebron,
Speaker 1: they can never be a talented le Bron, so the
Speaker 1: only thing they can do is hate people. So many
Speaker 1: people are all they can do is try to say, well,
Speaker 1: he's not Cobe, he's not Jordan's and as players, we
Speaker 1: don't expect him to be. He's Lebron James, the one
Speaker 1: and only the King, so we don't compare us. We
Speaker 1: know what time it is with Lebron, and he's one
Speaker 1: of the best to ever see the court, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna continue to give him his props to continue to
Speaker 1: have his back. Second, for me, karma hits everybody, and
Speaker 1: karma is real, and karma hit the Lakers. You can't
Speaker 1: treat the X six Man of the Year like trash.
Speaker 1: Then when you need him and you try to bring
Speaker 1: him in the game, you expect his mental to be right.
Speaker 1: That's not real. You didn't play him early in the season,
Speaker 1: you didn't play him in the playoffs at the beginning
Speaker 1: of playoffs, and you didn't give him the minute that
Speaker 1: he deserved as coming in as that rain of six
Speaker 1: Man of the Year. So now when a D go down,
Speaker 1: now you want to throw him in there to see
Speaker 1: if he can be effective. No, his mental not right.
Speaker 1: So this is karma killing them. They should have known
Speaker 1: that a D was injury prone and it was the
Speaker 1: possibility that he can go down for injury, and with
Speaker 1: that possibility, you gotta keep Montres happy. They didn't do
Speaker 1: that and it came to backfire them. Be interesting to
Speaker 1: see what happens to him. Um, if he stays to leave,
Speaker 1: because obviously he expressed his diss his unhappiness. Excuse me?
Speaker 1: So interesting summer for the Lakers. Uh. They always seem
Speaker 1: to bounce back and grab a piece when they needed,
Speaker 1: so we'll have to see if that happens this summer.
Speaker 1: Next up, we have the Boston Celtics with Danny Age
Speaker 1: stepping down and Brad Steam is not able to get
Speaker 1: the job done on the bench. Uh, they promote him
Speaker 1: and put him in Angels position. Uh. So they're looking
Speaker 1: for a coach and uh, man, who do you feel
Speaker 1: like it's the best fit. That's a young athletic team
Speaker 1: with two of the best young guard stars in the game.
Speaker 1: Obviously they missed Jayson Brown in the playoffs, but we
Speaker 1: all know what Tatum can do and did Uh thoughts
Speaker 1: on this team and in this situation, jack Well shout
Speaker 1: out to Danny Ainge man. Dan Age made a lot
Speaker 1: of good moves and and and in his career his
Speaker 1: management also he drafted me. The Signs had one pick
Speaker 1: in the draft for the second pick in the draft,
Speaker 1: and he took a chance on me. So I will
Speaker 1: always appreciate Danny Age and have his back. I think
Speaker 1: they need to go with san Carosell. San Carosell won
Speaker 1: the championship there, He's been around DC Rivers for a while.
Speaker 1: He's been in Boston on the bench and and as
Speaker 1: and as a player. I think Santa Sell will be
Speaker 1: a perfect fit for these guys. For me, it has
Speaker 1: to be a player. It has to be somebody that
Speaker 1: Jalen and Uh and Tatum can can can talk to,
Speaker 1: can confide in, and have a lot in common with
Speaker 1: us being players. One thing about players, that's coaching. They
Speaker 1: know a lot about in game moments and how to
Speaker 1: deal with the ups and downs of the game actually
Speaker 1: from a player. So when you can when you can
Speaker 1: correlate that to another player and y'all have that understanding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a better chance that they can build
Speaker 1: and go forward and half success. So I think it's
Speaker 1: it's better for them to have an ex player or
Speaker 1: some type of player to have a voice that these
Speaker 1: two young guys respect that it helped them go forward. Yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely too. And even if it's the first time coach.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously it's Chauncey out there, there's Jason Kidd
Speaker 1: who's been a coach before Sam Cassell, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: and that's the one thing I think sometimes they complained
Speaker 1: about inexperience. But similar to what Steve Nash is able
Speaker 1: to do over in New Uh in Brooklyn, it surround
Speaker 1: himself with great veteran coaches and guys that have been there. So,
Speaker 1: you know, two nice jobs on the horizon this year
Speaker 1: with Boston and the Blazers. I'm sure they'll be more
Speaker 1: a lot of black head coach candidates, so it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see if if who gets the opportunities this
Speaker 1: and are also shout out Becky Hammonds. I know she's
Speaker 1: gonna be in the running for a head coach jobs.
Speaker 1: She could possibly be the first female head coach in
Speaker 1: the NBA, so always pulling for her as well. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be an interesting not only movement as far
Speaker 1: as players this summer, but you know, there's some big
Speaker 1: names out there as far as head coaches, and we'll
Speaker 1: see where they land this summer as well. Hey man,
Speaker 1: give one of the brothers a shot at a coaching
Speaker 1: with two good players. Stop giving the brothers the job
Speaker 1: with with the worst teams in league. Give one of
Speaker 1: the brothers a shot with a great teams like just
Speaker 1: like that did Steve Nash. I think it's time let
Speaker 1: him walk into a good situation. I agree. Last, but
Speaker 1: not least, uh coach Tibbs wins Coach of the Year
Speaker 1: for with the New York Knicks. Obviously hats off to him.
Speaker 1: Great season, completely changed the mindset of that organization, got
Speaker 1: them back to the playoffs. Baby steps. I know their
Speaker 1: fans weren't happy, but it's again baby steps. Although I
Speaker 1: feel like my vote would have went to Monty Williams
Speaker 1: and what him and CP have been able to do
Speaker 1: to Phoenix, but I don't have a vote, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But Monty did win Coaches Pick of coach
Speaker 1: of the year. So Jack thoughts on this, man, I
Speaker 1: got I got love with Tims that he's a tough
Speaker 1: minded coach. She wants to win, he has passion. But
Speaker 1: Money wins. Is the coach of the year. Ain't no
Speaker 1: question about that. Everybody, all the players said, all the
Speaker 1: coaches said, we all know. It's a lot of people that,
Speaker 1: uh that's voting for this, that never played the game
Speaker 1: of basketball and don't even understand what it takes because
Speaker 1: for Money, uh, everything he's been through with his for
Speaker 1: his family, to coming back to being getting his team
Speaker 1: in Phoenix to the to the top of the Western Conference,
Speaker 1: it takes a lot. Nobody knows what everything he's been through.
Speaker 1: But I'm not really trying to overshadow tips. I congratulate him,
Speaker 1: but we all know who deserves that job, and I
Speaker 1: think Money definitely deserved it completely agree. Rounding out the show, Jack,
Speaker 1: we just came back from Miami this weekend to watch
Speaker 1: the Mayweather Paul fight. A lot of energy. I had
Speaker 1: a good time outside of the rain that kept starting
Speaker 1: and stopping. Um thoughts on this weekend. I had a
Speaker 1: good time, Manum. I enjoyed being down that shot. Show
Speaker 1: time for bringers down. I love boxing. I love being
Speaker 1: that fights. Um. I think for the most part, I
Speaker 1: was proud of Ocho Sinko. Um. It takes a It
Speaker 1: takes a lot to get in there to train to
Speaker 1: actually fight somebody. Like I always say, Man, somebody got
Speaker 1: to hit me or swinging me, and I gotta fight
Speaker 1: out reaction. I can't train and and and walk into
Speaker 1: a ring and get a path to fight. Nobody ain't
Speaker 1: how I move. I'm a street fighter and uh, but
Speaker 1: it's it takes a lot to fight. Fighting on the
Speaker 1: street in boxing is totally different, two different things. Now,
Speaker 1: I gotta I got a salute Chad for going in
Speaker 1: there but fighting all those rounds and finishing the fight
Speaker 1: on his feet. You know, a lot, a lot a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't understand how hard it is, so
Speaker 1: I salute him. My Muslim brother bobble Jack came on
Speaker 1: and put on the good fight. You know, he really
Speaker 1: punished that guy. Um de Floyd and uh and uh
Speaker 1: and Logan Paul situation for me, I'm giving all the
Speaker 1: props to Logan not not somewey as far as fighting wise.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows who Money Maywear is. He's a businessman. Nobody
Speaker 1: makes more money than Floyd. Floyd Hey like Floyd say,
Speaker 1: if it ain't beneficial, it's artificial. It's about the money.
Speaker 1: I understand that, but I don't want to see four
Speaker 1: flight no more. I don't want to see four and
Speaker 1: fight no more at all. I expect him to punish
Speaker 1: Logan at least knock him down. But we were right there, Matt,
Speaker 1: and Logan did his thing. He stood in there with Floyd,
Speaker 1: even though it's a big way difference, and this is
Speaker 1: the weight class is weight classes for a reason, as
Speaker 1: you see now, it was entertainment. But I don't want
Speaker 1: to see Floor fight again. I want to flow out
Speaker 1: the ride off in the sunset, continue to make his money,
Speaker 1: and all his business eventually got because he's still because
Speaker 1: people are. What people don't understand is even though he
Speaker 1: now he might not fight again, he's still making thirty
Speaker 1: part of million off the quarter years, so I mean
Speaker 1: out of boxing the year. Floyd is one of the
Speaker 1: smartest boxes and part of the smartest business man we've
Speaker 1: ever seen, so that aspect of it. He did his job.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to see him fight no more.
Speaker 1: Uh Logan, Paul, I don't see him being a professional
Speaker 1: fight either. Um when if he parts somebody his size,
Speaker 1: they're probably punish him. But he's entertaining. He did his job.
Speaker 1: He made twenty million. Salute, Floyd made a hunt in
Speaker 1: thirty million. Salute to him to if it ain't about
Speaker 1: the money, what it is about hmm again Yeah, definitely
Speaker 1: shout out to Otosinko man. To me, he won three
Speaker 1: out of four rounds, and it's disappointing to me that
Speaker 1: all people want to show is the knockdown because he
Speaker 1: for him not being a boxer, he outboxed someone who
Speaker 1: aims to fight for a living. You know we were there,
Speaker 1: Ocho one three out of those four rounds, got clipped
Speaker 1: with his chin up one time and went down but
Speaker 1: then got back up. But definitely shout out to him.
Speaker 1: The Mayweather in Paul's situation. To me, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, I think you said it all.
Speaker 1: It was a business move for Floyd. Um Logan looked
Speaker 1: about fifty pounds heavier, but you know that he went
Speaker 1: eight rounds and you know we were again, we were
Speaker 1: right there and there were times where Floyd was coming
Speaker 1: for him and hit him with some good shots and
Speaker 1: I just think the weight difference, you know, logan eight
Speaker 1: some of those. So obviously, Floyd, the greatest boxer ever,
Speaker 1: has made plenty of money, did plenty of things, but
Speaker 1: this was this was definitely a money play. And then
Speaker 1: you see, uh, you know, Jake Paul will fight Tyrone
Speaker 1: Woodley later in this summer. Uh. You know, boxing purists
Speaker 1: hate this, but at the same time, I just think
Speaker 1: it's bringing eyes to boxing. You know, whether you agree
Speaker 1: with it or not, it's bringing eyes to boxing. These
Speaker 1: guys are making money. So what I hope comes out
Speaker 1: of this is, you know, we can continue the momentum
Speaker 1: for boxing and hopefully get these fighters paid more because
Speaker 1: you know, these guys are coming in Logan Paul is
Speaker 1: gonna make upwards the thirty forty million when it's all
Speaker 1: said and done. You saw Floyd is gonna make a
Speaker 1: hundred or more off this. You know, uh, Logo, Jake's
Speaker 1: gonna get paid Tyroone Woodley off this one fight is
Speaker 1: gonna make more than he ever made in his m
Speaker 1: m A career. So hopefully what this does is just
Speaker 1: starts getting these fighters in both sports paid more because
Speaker 1: they definitely deserve it. But you know, it was a cool.
Speaker 1: It was an event. It was entertainment, um, and that's
Speaker 1: what I took it as. But I agree. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, Floyd has nothing else to prove. Uh, He's
Speaker 1: still gonna make money regardless. But I respect this, this
Speaker 1: Paul wave right now. I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are hating on it. I think at some point it's
Speaker 1: gonna come to an end. But until somebody, it's coming
Speaker 1: to an end. Bro, It's coming to an end as
Speaker 1: soon as somebody, until someone BCSE dudes, man, you know,
Speaker 1: check check it or respect it, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: either one either way. So we're gonna see what happens
Speaker 1: this summer with t Woodley. I think a lot is
Speaker 1: on the line for the culture uh in that fight. Uh.
Speaker 1: And will definitely be front road checking that out. Well
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