Speaker 1: Let's go over to Los Angeles where things are going
Speaker 1: swimming lea. They have two games under their belt. Let's
Speaker 1: be honest. I'm reveling and being right. I am reveling
Speaker 1: in the feeling of soul rightness that I don't even
Speaker 1: know what to say. This is a complete and total meltdown,
Speaker 1: a complete teardown. Following an opening beatdown which we knew
Speaker 1: was going to happen against the Warriors on Ring night,
Speaker 1: the team followed it up with another nationally televised game
Speaker 1: against the Clippers, Kawhi Leonard's return. And let me tell
Speaker 1: you depending on who you asked, because to me it
Speaker 1: went great, it did not go well. How bad did
Speaker 1: things go well? I tweeted out the following after the
Speaker 1: game ended, a game where they were down by fifteen,
Speaker 1: came back looked like they had won the NBA Finals
Speaker 1: because they went up by one point. They I think
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley stood on the scorer's table and then they
Speaker 1: proceeded to lose by six. I tweeted. If there was
Speaker 1: a book called Lebron Teams for Dummies, Page one would say,
Speaker 1: surround him with shooters. Somehow, Genie and Rob haven't gotten
Speaker 1: the memo, went to bed, woke up in the morning,
Speaker 1: five hundred quote tweets and retweets and thousands of likes,
Speaker 1: and Rob Polinka started to trend on Twitter. The world
Speaker 1: wants him gone because, let's face it, after Game one,
Speaker 1: Lebron said, hey, we don't have any lasers, we don't
Speaker 1: have anybody out here to shoot threes, we don't have
Speaker 1: any guys that are forty percent career three point shooters.
Speaker 1: Their Laker guards shot one for twenty five from three.
Speaker 1: That's pretty bad, including an incredible for eleven from Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: And all Lebron had to say and all Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: had to say is we're not a team that's constructed
Speaker 1: of great shooting. No shit. I must have forgotten that
Speaker 1: watching Beverly and Westbrook miss one open, wide, open, look
Speaker 1: after another. People are blaming Legm for this, saying this
Speaker 1: is the team that Lebron wanted, that Hey, don't blame
Speaker 1: Rob Polinka, blame Legm. And so I thought about this.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen those like SVU episodes or like
Speaker 1: Law and Order where there's a murder and it's just
Speaker 1: too perfect, The crime is just too perfect, Like the
Speaker 1: body's there dead, with blood the murder weapons there with
Speaker 1: DNA and fingerprints on the coffee table is the matching
Speaker 1: fingerprint test result of the perpetrator in the corner of
Speaker 1: the bedroom. Is the perpetrator sitting on the table or
Speaker 1: sitting on the bed with his hands tied up and
Speaker 1: like a handcuffs, sitting there with the note that says
Speaker 1: I did it, And you're like, open case, close case.
Speaker 1: That's right. So that's kind of what this Lebron thing is.
Speaker 1: Lebron James having a team full of non shooters, not
Speaker 1: just good shooters versus elite shooters, like very bad shooters,
Speaker 1: all of them led me to believe, is this something
Speaker 1: that's too clean of a case? Is there a conspiracy
Speaker 1: a brewing? Why would Lebron James, one of the most
Speaker 1: powerful athletes in the world, sign off on a team
Speaker 1: of full of non shooters that not just don't aren't
Speaker 1: great shooters. They love to chuck and they look bad
Speaker 1: doing it. He's a smart guy, one of the better
Speaker 1: IQ's in the league, So why would he do that?
Speaker 1: And then a conspiracy rolled over my body like if
Speaker 1: the creator herself was speaking in my ear directly. The
Speaker 1: same of energy people talk about when they get abducted
Speaker 1: by aliens. Folks, I now know what's going on. First
Speaker 1: and foremost. We've talked about this before. Lebron James is
Speaker 1: a guy that we know loves attention, He likes the spotlight.
Speaker 1: A guy we know is never going to win the
Speaker 1: undisputed goat debate title, never based on rings alone, So
Speaker 1: he has to just basically break every individual record set
Speaker 1: on planet Earth. In the NBA, he's nipping on the
Speaker 1: heels of the all time scoring record by who Kareem
Speaker 1: abdul Jabbar, another Laker. So Lebron James in the Laker
Speaker 1: uniform is trying to beat and break the record of
Speaker 1: Kareem abdul Jabbar in his twentieth year. Who knows how
Speaker 1: long it's gonna be until Father Time takes over start
Speaker 1: breaking his body down. There's an entire national advertising campaign
Speaker 1: about this right now, Lebron James literally battling Father Time
Speaker 1: as played by Jason Momoa. It's on his mind. What's
Speaker 1: the one thing that slows that possibility down and allows
Speaker 1: maybe an injury catastrophe from stopping this. Sharing the ball
Speaker 1: with a bunch of lasers, a bunch of scorers, a
Speaker 1: bunch of bucket getters. With a team full of non shooters,
Speaker 1: Lebron can blissfully shoot and score thirty five forty five
Speaker 1: points per night and nobody will call him a ball hog.
Speaker 1: They'll say that he is dastardly under manned. He is
Speaker 1: trying desperately to get this team to be competitive. No
Speaker 1: one will even say a word about him holding onto
Speaker 1: the ball like his life has depended on it. Plus,
Speaker 1: we know he won't have to go deep into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: His season ends in April. What does that mean, Well,
Speaker 1: we know playoff scoring doesn't matter for the title, but
Speaker 1: more so, like I said, his body, his body now
Speaker 1: gets April through October to rest, rejuvenate and take whatever
Speaker 1: jin blood that Tom Brady is taking to regenerate himself
Speaker 1: for the rest of time. Good players increase the probability
Speaker 1: of playoff appearances, which only hurt his goat argument because
Speaker 1: he has a bunch of playoff appearances and no titles.
Speaker 1: Just take the playoff appearances out, Just take that out.
Speaker 1: He's gonna put more tread on his tires. What are
Speaker 1: the point of the playoffs if Lebron James isn't gonna
Speaker 1: win at all? We've cracked the code. That's gotta be it.
Speaker 1: Why else would Lebron James have the worst shooting team
Speaker 1: in NBA history. What if Rob Plinka isn't doing his
Speaker 1: job poorly? What if Rob Plinka is doing his job
Speaker 1: to perfection. Bet you haven't thought about that. Think about that? Well,
Speaker 1: we talk about the Golden State Warriors. Good news and
Speaker 1: bad news out of Golden State. The good news the
Speaker 1: Warriors back to back championship off to a hot start.
Speaker 1: The team looked absolutely on stoppable, and that is with
Speaker 1: Clay on a minute's restriction. The bad news, Draymond Greenstone
Speaker 1: in the doghouse. He's probably making things worse right now.
Speaker 1: He's probably got a television crew recording part two of
Speaker 1: his documentary right at this very second. It's not about
Speaker 1: the punch anymore, I don't think either. I think it's
Speaker 1: just the tone deaf reaction to it, all, the backlash
Speaker 1: to the punch, and just lay down, lay down and
Speaker 1: take take your punishment a tone, don't clap back, don't
Speaker 1: make excuses, no content, no new media. Just be quiet,
Speaker 1: sh be quiet for a while. I talked about this
Speaker 1: on the last part, So I'm not gonna go through
Speaker 1: the details. It was terrible, But Zach Lowe has now
Speaker 1: reported that things are frosty. Is fuck in the dubbed nation.
Speaker 1: This is what he said. If anything, I think we
Speaker 1: may be underplaying the level of iciness and tension that
Speaker 1: they are navigating right now. And that's not to say
Speaker 1: are they gonna trade Draymond. Everything I've heard is that
Speaker 1: they're not trading Draymond, not going to They're trying to
Speaker 1: win the championship. And we'll try to write it out
Speaker 1: unless something drastic happens. But Draymond is going to be
Speaker 1: on the team all season. Locked On Warriors host Cyrus
Speaker 1: satsats He also talked about this. He said there is
Speaker 1: zero healing right now going on between Draymond and Pool.
Speaker 1: He said, I've had sources tell me behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: Jordan Poole has not forgiven Draymond. They haven't spoken. Wow,
Speaker 1: he's not happy. I don't know how you could be.
Speaker 1: It's a horrible look. The image of it is us awful.
Speaker 1: It's borderline emasculating. Yes, Jordan Poole got knocked out, he
Speaker 1: got knocked down, whatever you would say. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if he was unconscious. That's only you know, between Jordan
Speaker 1: Poole and his medical team. But I am absolutely shocked
Speaker 1: that Jordan Poole hasn't forgiven Draymond for just sunning him
Speaker 1: and punching him in the face. As for the Draymond documentary,
Speaker 1: by the way, it was entirely filmed, conceived, finished in
Speaker 1: the seven day that he was away from the team.
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr, Steve Kerr hasn't seen it. They didn't even
Speaker 1: know that it happened until I don't know, the media
Speaker 1: asked him about it afterwards, they were like, huh. Steph
Speaker 1: Curry said he hadn't seen it. He also said this,
Speaker 1: which was kind of a warning. He's been in production
Speaker 1: with the new media stuff and I'm sure that's not
Speaker 1: gonna end, but hopefully everything is in light of trying
Speaker 1: to protect the team and make it about what we're
Speaker 1: trying to do on the floor as the priority. Let
Speaker 1: me just let you in and on a little secret stuff.
Speaker 1: It wasn't about that at all. It wasn't There was
Speaker 1: no protection for the team. It was protection for Draymond.
Speaker 1: Draymond was about himself. Man. There's a ton of thin
Speaker 1: pieces out about this, like why would he do it?
Speaker 1: What was the purpose. But that's really not the question
Speaker 1: to ask. The question that we have to ask is
Speaker 1: should we actually believe Draymond that he cares about this
Speaker 1: interaction in any way, that he was appalled by his
Speaker 1: own actions. Was he really sorry? Was he spending his
Speaker 1: time away reflecting? Because if the first thing you do
Speaker 1: when you get pushed away from a team whatever, it
Speaker 1: was mutual, but it wasn't right. So the first thing
Speaker 1: you do is you call your agent and you set
Speaker 1: up a meeting with Omaha Productions, and then you call
Speaker 1: TNT to say, Hey, I've got a seven minute documentary
Speaker 1: to put on top of the documentary you guys are
Speaker 1: already making about me. Can you have a film crew
Speaker 1: come over to my house for the next seven days
Speaker 1: while I'm away until I come back for a ring night.
Speaker 1: That doesn't tell me you're like thinking about being very zen.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't feel like you're looking inward. It
Speaker 1: feels like you're kind of trying to push your own
Speaker 1: agenda and using your relationship with TNT to push said
Speaker 1: agenda to make you look better, probably to increase the
Speaker 1: value of your contract or increase your brand, or who
Speaker 1: the hell knows what. But listen, when you don't tell
Speaker 1: the Warriors ahead of time you're gonna do this, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that is night night sleep, Matt. That's a
Speaker 1: bad look, even to me, the sole fan on Draymond Island.
Speaker 1: We gotta watch this one. I don't know how it ends.
Speaker 1: Quick update on Jay Crowder for those who don't know.
Speaker 1: J Crowder is sitting out until he gets traded because
Speaker 1: the Suns aren't paying him what he's worth. They won't
Speaker 1: give him a starting role, and this has created yet
Speaker 1: in another locker room issue for the Suns. And with
Speaker 1: the eight and drama bubbling, they do not need this. No, no, no.
Speaker 1: Even if Aton said, oh yeah, yeah, everything's good now,
Speaker 1: we're back to normal now, I do not believe that
Speaker 1: normal is not a word that we can use to
Speaker 1: describe anything that's going on in Phoenix. When you have
Speaker 1: a point guard that grinds his teammates down to dust,
Speaker 1: you've got an owner who's currently selling the team because
Speaker 1: of all the isms. When you've got a big man
Speaker 1: who is the number one pick who you couldn't even
Speaker 1: muster up enough enthusiasm to offer him a contract until
Speaker 1: he was offered by another team. And now another player
Speaker 1: who's holding out, actually not even holding out. You've told
Speaker 1: him just to stay away from the team, which is
Speaker 1: fucking weird. It's fucking weird. A new article dropped yesterday
Speaker 1: from my guy, Jake Fisher, exploring how weird the whole
Speaker 1: situation has gotten since Phoenix decided to replace Jay in
Speaker 1: the starting lineup with Cam Johnson. We knew he was
Speaker 1: gonna want a trade, not going to offer him ten
Speaker 1: million dollars a year, which is what he's getting paid
Speaker 1: now to sit on the bench. So if Phoenix doesn't
Speaker 1: want Crowder and Crowder doesn't want to be there was
Speaker 1: the problem. Well, Jake says, the Suns rather famously may
Speaker 1: spend less on resources than any rival, draft scouting, and evaluation.
Speaker 1: Phoenix is curiously the only team in the NBA that
Speaker 1: does not owe any outgoing picks from previous trades or
Speaker 1: have any incoming picks on the horizon. This Sun's throne
Speaker 1: office appears to operate on one year's schedules, where each
Speaker 1: campaign is its own trip around the monopoly board with
Speaker 1: its own set of resources to reach go once again
Speaker 1: in prosperity. That way, you're never assets strapped with only
Speaker 1: distant first round draft picks to upgrade your roster. What
Speaker 1: does that mean? It means they do not care that
Speaker 1: Jay Crowder's sitting there at home on the bench, and
Speaker 1: they do not care about trading him. And what's very
Speaker 1: bizarre is why the Sons have banned Crowder from being
Speaker 1: around the team period. I don't know what that's about.
Speaker 1: He'd be very helpful at a time when Cam Johnson
Speaker 1: just goes down with a thumb injury all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: maybe Jay Crowder can increase his value, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: Starting some games, where is he gonna end up? Well,
Speaker 1: looks like he's going to land in Miami as PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker's replacement. Actually, it's not really p J Tucker's replacement,
Speaker 1: is it. It's it's PJ Tucker replaced him, and so
Speaker 1: he is replacing himself. Yes, yeah, he is. So. Jay
Speaker 1: Crowder was there when they went to the finals, then
Speaker 1: he left to go to Phoenix because Miami wouldn't pay him.
Speaker 1: And then now PJ. Tucker moved on for greener pastures.
Speaker 1: So he is he is his own replacement. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: really it. Yeah, very strange things though happening in Phoenix