Speaker 1: Herb Jones. We've talked about Herb Jones on the show before.
Speaker 2: I love them. I love them every time I read
Speaker 2: about him, every time I watch him, love him even
Speaker 2: more so. A big article just dropped from Mark Spears
Speaker 2: on what used to be called Oh I Forget, but
Speaker 2: it's now called Andscape. It's full of great nuggets about
Speaker 2: the Pelicans defensive stoppers. So this are the things that
Speaker 2: we learned. Number one, he's very cheap in the best
Speaker 2: possible way. So basically, Herb Jones isn't going to spend
Speaker 2: a penny of his money as long as he can
Speaker 2: help it. Like he has a hoodie, a WNBA hoodie,
Speaker 2: and the only reason he has it and wears it
Speaker 2: is because it was free. It was at a team
Speaker 2: event that he got it. When he shows up to work,
Speaker 2: shows up into the tunnel, he shows up and team issued.
Speaker 1: Why cause it's free.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna spend my money on clothes. I'm wear
Speaker 2: my team Issuy gear and my slides and my socks.
Speaker 2: He turned down a vacation even when Larry nance Junior
Speaker 2: said that he was gonna pay for it.
Speaker 1: Whyugh, Because I don't want.
Speaker 2: To go anywhere.
Speaker 1: I don't want to spend any money.
Speaker 2: His dad insisted he needed a vacation, so he got
Speaker 2: into his charger that he's driven since college. He has
Speaker 2: not bought another car and drove four hours to Greensboro, Alabama,
Speaker 2: for a short vacation. No money of any note was spent.
Speaker 2: He slept one night one day, went fishing the next day,
Speaker 2: which by the way, he caught zero fish, and then
Speaker 2: he drove back to New Orleans, returned to the Pelicans
Speaker 2: practice facility.
Speaker 1: Then he got back to work.
Speaker 2: So they asked him, like, why why don't you spend
Speaker 2: any money, and he's like, I'm thinking long term for
Speaker 2: my kids. I have to wear Pelicans gear or whatever
Speaker 2: team gear for the team I have for the rest
Speaker 2: of my career. That my kids or my kids's kids
Speaker 2: go to school for free based on what I earned
Speaker 2: in the NBA.
Speaker 1: That I'm good. I'm cool.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, Herb, that's that's awesome. Like how many
Speaker 2: kids do you have? You must have like a lot
Speaker 2: of kids if you can't buy new socks, like you
Speaker 2: have to just just just wear Pelicans team issued socks. None,
Speaker 2: he has zero kids. None, He's he's being cheap for kids.
Speaker 2: He does not even have yet.
Speaker 1: I don't know what.
Speaker 2: Kind of schools he's about to send these kids to,
Speaker 2: or how many kids he's planning on having. But I
Speaker 2: tell you what, you can buy some new underwear HERB
Speaker 2: Jones like you can. You can buy some jeans HERB
Speaker 2: Jones like you can. This guy is gonna make probably
Speaker 2: fifteen million dollars a year. He's in the second year
Speaker 2: of a three year contract making one point seven million
Speaker 2: dollars per year. Cause he was a second round pick.
Speaker 1: I bet you.
Speaker 2: He's still driving this Dodge Charger when his career is over.
Speaker 2: That's what I guess. HERB Jones over under on how
Speaker 2: many years he has twenty eighteen Dodge Charger, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say the total. I'm setting the line at six and
Speaker 2: a half years, so by twenty twenty eight, let's.
Speaker 1: Hope, all right.
Speaker 2: Pat Beverly, oh my god, why why is he this?
Speaker 2: By the way, he's got the worst I think he's
Speaker 2: got the worst rating on the court of any NBA
Speaker 2: player right now. While I was out in Portland at
Speaker 2: the fill Knight Invitational, Pat Beverly got suspended for shoving
Speaker 2: DeAndre Ayton. Just a classic Pat Beverly cheap shot, so
Speaker 2: they asked him about it. He was asked whether he
Speaker 2: would do it again, and he said, fuck that, fuck him,
Speaker 2: We're not going for that shit. Ask people that's played
Speaker 2: with me, Ask superstars that's played with me. That's the
Speaker 2: reason why guys want me on their team. Very unfortunate situation.
Speaker 2: If I could play it back again, I would do
Speaker 2: the same thing. So what got so mad? That's the question.
Speaker 2: Why why was he so mad at DeAndre Ayton? It
Speaker 2: kicked off when we did the tip off. I shake
Speaker 2: everybody's hand. I put my hand on DeAndre Ayton's hand
Speaker 2: and he doesn't shake my hand. So something was brewing
Speaker 2: there from the beginning. Yeah, I don't know, Pat Bev,
Speaker 2: because the last time you guys played in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: you shoved Chris Paul, made him fall to the ground. Yes,
Speaker 2: I think the players of that team probably don't like
Speaker 2: you very much. No one as salty as Pat Bev,
Speaker 2: especially now that he's on a losing team. Finally, good
Speaker 2: news out of Boston as Al Horford has signed a
Speaker 2: two year, twenty million dollar extension. Remember when he was
Speaker 2: in OKAC just like not playing at all, Like they
Speaker 2: just let him go into the hot tub and the
Speaker 2: cold tub and get acupucture.
Speaker 1: That was it.
Speaker 2: Like, we didn't even know if al horferd was gonna
Speaker 2: play again.
Speaker 1: He was coming off of playing.
Speaker 2: For the Sixers and it was just not working, and
Speaker 2: everyone thought that he was washed.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Not because it's like cheap, because Brad Stevens pretty cheap
Speaker 2: one third of the price of his former contract. But
Speaker 2: Brad Stevens said, yeah, he's a high level player who
Speaker 2: enhances everyone around him on both ends of the court.
Speaker 2: His work ethic, commitment to his body, to his craft,
Speaker 2: his unselfishness has set a daily example on how to
Speaker 2: win big in the NBA. His leadership has had a
Speaker 2: big impact on the coaches and players with whom he's
Speaker 2: competed here in Boston, and we are excited that he
Speaker 2: and his family are choosing to remain Celtics for years
Speaker 2: to come. So yeah, I mean, the interesting part of
Speaker 2: this deal is that it just fixes a massive historical mistake.
Speaker 2: The last time that al horfer was a free agent,
Speaker 2: he left, he bolted, and his career ground down to dust.
Speaker 1: He was no one was he was almost out the league.
Speaker 2: And now he's like, fuck, that I'm not hitting free
Speaker 2: agency this time. Let's just settle this now. And he
Speaker 2: says he regretted leaving. Last time he was open about it,
Speaker 2: and this time he said, has come to be a
Speaker 2: home to me, my family, my teammates. I continue to
Speaker 2: strive towards winning banner number eighteen. Great combo. He was
Speaker 2: always a Celtic. He should have stayed there. Everyone thinks
Speaker 2: of him as that. So Al Horford the Hawk, Al
Speaker 2: Horford the Sixer, Al Horford the Thunder. Those were not
Speaker 2: real moments, only Al Horford in Green and White. I'm
Speaker 2: happy he's locked down for what should be probably the
Speaker 2: rest of his career. If it's not already the rest
Speaker 2: of his career by the time he finishes that contract,
Speaker 2: it will be. Uh.
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