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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode one, What's Right with Nick Right live
Speaker 2: from Trinadge in Harlem, New York's premier women's boutique, alongside
Speaker 2: my lovely daughter Diora, fresh off a trip to see
Speaker 2: couple universities and California. Just spell it all, my big Well,
Speaker 2: that's where we were this week, and that's why you
Speaker 2: were not here on Tuesday. I have to tell the
Speaker 2: audience why you were not here Tuesday. Not here today
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles is our Concieri of the show. Second
Speaker 2: in command, Matt Ford. Matt is out either on personal
Speaker 2: business or on business business. But I do have to
Speaker 2: say one thing before we get in today. Show me
Speaker 2: the huge show the Heat beat the Celtics last night,
Speaker 2: as predicted by me, once again just rolling in correct predictions.
Speaker 2: I've gotten two things wrong these NBA playoffs. The Warriors
Speaker 2: beating the Kings I got wrong, and the Celtics beating
Speaker 2: the Sixers I got wrong, Which is interesting because both
Speaker 2: of those series I picked them to go seven games.
Speaker 2: And the reason it for me to be wrong this
Speaker 2: postseason it took literally the two highest scoring game seven
Speaker 2: performances in NBA history, Steph's fifty against the Kings and
Speaker 2: then Tatum's fifty one against the Sixers. But that's neither
Speaker 2: here nor there. What I was trying to get to
Speaker 2: is we're gonna get into that Game two of Nuggets
Speaker 2: Lakers tonight, the absolutely bananas expectations for Victor win. Minyamo
Speaker 2: all that, But first a note on Matt Ford. So
Speaker 2: here's a text I get from Matt Ford a few
Speaker 2: days ago, yesterday, actually nine thirty in the morning. Just fyi,
Speaker 2: Rafa meaning Rafa Nadal is plus six point fifty to
Speaker 2: win the French on fan duel. Right now, here's the
Speaker 2: breaking news alert I get from the New York Times.
Speaker 2: Ten minutes ago, Rafa Nadal said he would withdraw from
Speaker 2: the French Open because of a core muscle injury. Thanks
Speaker 2: for that betting tip, Matt Ford. He gave me an
Speaker 2: injured player the first piece of gambling advice Matt's ever
Speaker 2: tried to give me, to try to pay me back
Speaker 2: for all the great picks I've given him, and the
Speaker 2: guy withdraws due to injury. However, that is not the
Speaker 2: story today. The stories, of course the NBA playoffs. But
Speaker 2: before we get to that, here's what missed the cut.
Speaker 2: The PGA Championship already underway, Deora, the battle for the
Speaker 2: Wanamaker Trophy. The probably the least.
Speaker 3: It's like a character in like a Star Wars movie.
Speaker 2: Well it's not. It's the four. It's the least prestigious
Speaker 2: of all the majors, in all the golf majors. But
Speaker 2: it's still one of the four majors. Aaron Judge accused
Speaker 2: of cheating. He was not cheating, and d Loo knocking
Speaker 2: down shots with ladders in his way seemed a little dangerous. Also,
Speaker 2: whatever his pregame routine for well, and I don't know
Speaker 2: if we can roll this video or not, because right
Speaker 2: now it's just a still shit there it is, there's
Speaker 2: the latter. The problem is Delo. Whatever he did in
Speaker 2: the pregame, he shouldn't do before Game two because he
Speaker 2: was probably the worst laker in Game one. But we
Speaker 2: don't want to start out west. We want to start
Speaker 2: out east with the Heat Celtics game diora go right ahead, okay?
Speaker 3: Playoff Jimmy Wrin circles around the Celtics last night, and
Speaker 3: he had more He has more than earned his spot
Speaker 3: in Club Superstar. You followed a few incredible Heat playoff runs.
Speaker 3: Is this the most impressive one?
Speaker 2: Well, it's the most improbable. And so here's the deal
Speaker 2: I had been. If you watch the TV show or
Speaker 2: this show, you know that with a couple weeks left
Speaker 2: in the season, I was making the case that the
Speaker 2: Celtics were potentially in trouble as the two seed because
Speaker 2: Miami had not caught Brooklyn to get up to the
Speaker 2: sixth line. They were the seventh seed. They were gonna
Speaker 2: be playing Boston and around, and I thought the Heat
Speaker 2: had legitimate potential to beat Boston in Round one of
Speaker 2: the playoffs. That there is a massive difference between playoff
Speaker 2: Jimmy and regular season Jimmy and I didn't care that
Speaker 2: they looked like a mediocre team all year. They could
Speaker 2: be dangerous. But then they lost their first play in
Speaker 2: game to the Hawks. Fell to the do or die
Speaker 2: part of the play in almost lost that one. And
Speaker 2: then they're playing Milwaukee and even iyes someone that respects
Speaker 2: Heat culture and playoff. Jimmy did not think they could
Speaker 2: beat Giannis for the second time in four postseasons, but
Speaker 2: then Giannis got hurt, and then even when he came back,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler was absolutely sensational and they beat them. Since then,
Speaker 2: I've picked them in every round. Now. An eight seed
Speaker 2: getting to the NBA Finals, we've only seen it once.
Speaker 2: That was in the ninety nine to fifty game season
Speaker 2: with the New York Knicks, who actually beat the one
Speaker 2: seeded Heat to get there. This would be the most
Speaker 2: improbable of the Heat Finals runs. But we have to
Speaker 2: recognize that Jimmy Butler is one of the most unique
Speaker 2: players in NBA history because we have seen the bizarro
Speaker 2: version of Butler a ton of times in our lives.
Speaker 2: The guys who are unbelievable regular season performers and then
Speaker 2: fall off significantly come the postseason. We are used to
Speaker 2: those players, and in fact, the Celtics in the previous
Speaker 2: round played the poster child of that in James Harden
Speaker 2: and a guy who unfortunately is starting to build that
Speaker 2: resume up himself as well in Joel Embiid. Guys that
Speaker 2: are Harden at his apex was a consensus top three
Speaker 2: player in the league in the regular season and then
Speaker 2: was not a top ten guy come the postseason. Embeed
Speaker 2: in back to back to back years has been first
Speaker 2: or second in MVP voting, and in none of those
Speaker 2: years has been a top ten playoff guy. Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 2: on the other hand, was not even an All Star
Speaker 2: this year and has been the best player in the
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference side of the bracket the entirety of the postseason,
Speaker 2: so that should not be surprising. Here's the other thing
Speaker 2: that should not be surprising. Man Joe Missoula is not
Speaker 2: ready for this. Okay, he just isn't. Maybe he will be,
Speaker 2: but he's thirty four years old and he was not
Speaker 2: being groomed to be the head coach. The Celtics last
Speaker 2: year had Emi Udoka, who had stepped in for Brad Stevens.
Speaker 2: Udoka was a rookie head coach. He actually did an
Speaker 2: awesome job, and they had a deep bench of coaches
Speaker 2: in Damon Stottemeyer and will Hardy. Well Stottameyer's gone. Hardy
Speaker 2: gets poached to go be the head coach of the
Speaker 2: Jazz and then Udoka has to you know, get suspended
Speaker 2: and then has to essentially resign Slashby fired due to scandal.
Speaker 2: So the Celtics are left scrambling. It would be as
Speaker 2: if don't take this the wrong way, baby, as if
Speaker 2: we're doing this show and all of a sudden, Demanse,
Speaker 2: who had been doing it with me for a year,
Speaker 2: gets hired by the ringer to go host his own show,
Speaker 2: and then out of nowhere, I have to resign in disgrace.
Speaker 2: And they're like, uh, Diora, I guess you're doing it
Speaker 2: one day, maybe you'd be ready. Maybe well, it's just
Speaker 2: it would be too much, too soon, it would not
Speaker 2: And you were like, okay, so I need to just
Speaker 2: do this thing solo for an hour every you would
Speaker 2: you would not have gotten the training or the experience
Speaker 2: to be good at it. And that's the and now
Speaker 2: what you have is Missoula up against the best coach
Speaker 2: in the sport. He's varied his postgame press conference yesterday.
Speaker 2: It was detached from reality. Yes, the third quarter flipped
Speaker 2: the game, but the idea that the Celtics that the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter was not a huge prime to them as
Speaker 2: well is not true to fact. He kept not on
Speaker 2: think he was meaning to, but he was by default
Speaker 2: blaming his players. He's like, we were well prepared, we
Speaker 2: had a plan. We've sid next few. That's putting it
Speaker 2: on your players. During the forty six point third quarter
Speaker 2: by Miami, he called no timeouts. He's not ready for this.
Speaker 2: And then there's the Celtic superstar Jason Tatum, who's coming
Speaker 2: off the best game of his life, the fifty one
Speaker 2: in Game seven, who takes zero shots in the fourth
Speaker 2: quarter and has three horrible crunch time turnovers, a pass
Speaker 2: right to Jimmy Butler and then back to back traveling violation.
Speaker 3: We're definitely going over time today.
Speaker 2: I don't know that we are.
Speaker 3: And I would just like to point out you said
Speaker 3: that you said that Jimmy is the most unique, huh,
Speaker 3: And you know you usually like to correct me on
Speaker 3: my grammar, but unique isn't something that you're the most
Speaker 3: at you're the unique or you're not.
Speaker 2: So are you sure about that? Or is this the
Speaker 2: setting you up?
Speaker 3: I'm completely sure being you're not the most unique. Being
Speaker 3: unique is being different from others. You're not the most
Speaker 3: different from others. That's not really it doesn't really work.
Speaker 3: Now you could admit you're wrong.
Speaker 2: Well, if I'm wrong, I will admit I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: No, you won't.
Speaker 2: No, hold on a second, here, you so hold on?
Speaker 2: I just can you be the most unique? So let
Speaker 2: me uh. The word unique means unlike any other, the
Speaker 2: only one of its kind. It is an absolute condition,
Speaker 2: There is no comparative form, and takes no adjectives. Thus
Speaker 2: you are wrong. Can't not be so unique, the most unique,
Speaker 2: or any other kind of unique? Okay, I am wrong.
Speaker 2: That is a great job by you. Also, that means
Speaker 2: the word is used incorrectly all the time. Really no, no,
Speaker 2: because I don't think people use it to mean one
Speaker 2: of a kind.
Speaker 3: No, you can say someone's very unique. You can't say that.
Speaker 2: I can't. That's no. No.
Speaker 3: But you can say you're very like No.
Speaker 2: You can't. It literally says takes no adjectives.
Speaker 3: No, your name it your name is very unique.
Speaker 2: Like that. But oh my gosh, you were right for
Speaker 2: a moment. Now we have to move on. But you
Speaker 2: were right for a moment, and now you're you're going
Speaker 2: against exactly what you just taught me. That's the point
Speaker 2: I'm making, which is, evidently you can't be very unique
Speaker 2: or so unique, you're just unique. That's weird. Okay, let's
Speaker 2: keep it moving. As I was saying, I'm not ready
Speaker 2: to move on yet, I'm still talking about things you're
Speaker 2: over here trying to.
Speaker 3: I think I think you can be I think we
Speaker 3: can go on to the next one.
Speaker 2: No, we actually can't. And so Bruce Sard and I
Speaker 2: on the TV show got into not a heated argument,
Speaker 2: but uh real back and forth about who would you
Speaker 2: rather have for this series, Tatum or Butler? And if
Speaker 2: you are ranking NBA players at large, Tatum of course
Speaker 2: would be ranked ahead of Butler because of what he
Speaker 2: does over the course of an entire season, But come
Speaker 2: the postseason, I don't. And it's not because Jimmy or
Speaker 2: Tatum's not a good postseason performer. I don't know how
Speaker 2: you could argue there's almost any wing in the league
Speaker 2: right now you'd rather have than Jimmy Butler in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: He's a great defender. He plays forty four minutes. He's
Speaker 2: tough as nails, and he gets buckets, and he's a
Speaker 2: terrible three point shooter that come the playoffs finds a
Speaker 2: way to hit him. In the last four years, he's
Speaker 2: tied with Luca for the most forty point postseason games,
Speaker 2: with eight of them. He had zero in the regular season.
Speaker 2: Last night he had thirty five points was it, six assists,
Speaker 2: seven rebound, six steals. He is He joins Iverson and
Speaker 2: MJ as the only guys in playoff history with multiple
Speaker 2: thirty five, five, five and five games in the postseason.
Speaker 2: His other one was in the finals against Lebron and
Speaker 2: then Dior. Lastly, before we do move on, there is
Speaker 2: there is the issue of your brother here. He's gonna
Speaker 2: be very, very upset.
Speaker 3: We should start cheering him up now.
Speaker 2: Then I don't know how we do.
Speaker 3: Send them money.
Speaker 2: You want to know something, Oh, he's gonna be mad
Speaker 2: at me about this. I don't care. I'm gonna tell him.
Speaker 2: I text him Tuesday before the POD. I was like,
Speaker 2: I got a surprise for you, buddy. He's like, what's that? Oh, No,
Speaker 2: I said, I think I'm gonna I said, I think
Speaker 2: I'm going to buy you a ticket to Lakers Nuggets
Speaker 2: Game three, and he texts back, He's like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: thank you so much. That would be really I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: He's like, that would be so amazing because it's on
Speaker 2: a Saturday. He could go and be perfect. You know.
Speaker 2: He text me back, He's gonna be mad at me here, sorry, pal,
Speaker 2: text me back like thirty minutes later, He's like, I
Speaker 2: really appreciate the offer, and I'd love to go. But
Speaker 2: if you just want to send me the money that
Speaker 2: that ticket caught would cost instead, that'd be cool too. Like, no, man,
Speaker 2: I'm not offering you cash, I'm offering you an experience.
Speaker 2: So I mean, I think he's he was very very confident,
Speaker 2: as most Celtics fans were going into this series. The
Speaker 2: problem is that Heat have the best player in Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 2: and it's a one versus thirty coaching matchup. All right,
Speaker 2: now we can move on what's next.
Speaker 3: So, despite losing, you say you've never felt more confident
Speaker 3: about the Lakers. Yeah. Jokic ended with a triple double
Speaker 3: and then stole the ball from Lebron to close it out. Yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe you saw a different game than we did. But
Speaker 3: how did losing actually how was losing actually winning in
Speaker 3: your mind?
Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal. I thought the Lakers would win
Speaker 2: Game one, so I was I was wrong about that.
Speaker 2: That's the first Laker game I've gotten wrong this postseason.
Speaker 2: The streak is over. It's very sad after getting twelve
Speaker 2: correct in a row. But and people were because I
Speaker 2: tweeted something similar to this, and people were like, oh,
Speaker 2: moral vicctories. Here's what I think some people don't understand
Speaker 2: about the postseason. No, there are not moral victories, but
Speaker 2: there are also not actual victories except for winning the series.
Speaker 2: It is first to four, and each slice of that
Speaker 2: pie is harder to acquire than the previous and so
Speaker 2: early in a series. Yes, of course you want to
Speaker 2: stack win steel, home court, all of that, But what
Speaker 2: you really want to do, at least what I like
Speaker 2: to do, is someone that's going to evaluate and look
Speaker 2: at it is, say, okay, who has advantages? Where what
Speaker 2: adjustments can be made and what is sustainable? What the
Speaker 2: Lakers succeeded at to me, almost all of it except
Speaker 2: for shooting fifty percent from three, But they only made
Speaker 2: eleven was sustainable. They got easy shot after easy shot
Speaker 2: after easy shot. Lebron didn't have to sweat to get
Speaker 2: nearly a thirty point triple double ad at the quietest forty. Now,
Speaker 2: He's not gonna score forty every night that I can remember,
Speaker 2: and it's because the Nuggets do not have the personnel
Speaker 2: to guard the Lakers. Conversely, is what the Nuggets did sustainable,
Speaker 2: some of it, but not all of it. Jamal Murray
Speaker 2: is a very good player. He is not going to
Speaker 2: shoot sixty percent in this series. He is, on the
Speaker 2: other hand, going to be forced to defend, and I
Speaker 2: don't think he can. Jokic is great, undeniable. However, through
Speaker 2: three quarters he had that what Mark Jackson called or
Speaker 2: Van Gundy one of the two one of the greatest
Speaker 2: playoff games he has ever seen. That level of play
Speaker 2: is not going to sustain over the next four games.
Speaker 2: It wasn't even able to sustain over the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: where he was essentially shut out. Turn the ball over.
Speaker 2: It didn't make a basket. Jokic. And this is where
Speaker 2: the broadcast was like, Oh, if you haven't watched jokicic,
Speaker 2: this is what he does. No, it's not I have
Speaker 2: watched Jokic and he's excellent, but some context. Game one,
Speaker 2: first game of his playoff career. He took multiple threes
Speaker 2: without a miss career, second most rebounds of his playoff career,
Speaker 2: second most assists of his playoff career, the highest kind
Speaker 2: of catch all stat game score, the highest game score
Speaker 2: in victory of his entire playoff career. So, even by
Speaker 2: his lofty standards, that was arguably one of, if not
Speaker 2: the greatest postseason game of his career, and he did
Speaker 2: it all through three quarters. What else is not sustainable?
Speaker 2: The Jokics three at the end of the third quarter
Speaker 2: and the Murray long two from the same spot at
Speaker 2: the end of the shot clock. Those are one in
Speaker 2: fifteen shots, and they made them both. Now you can
Speaker 2: say Austin Reeves banked in a three, but also Michael
Speaker 2: Porter Junior hit a stupid one from the corner. Those
Speaker 2: two cancel each other out. The Jokich Murray those two
Speaker 2: shots not sustainable. The Lakers had their worst defensive half
Speaker 2: of the playoffs, and despite that, had the ball with
Speaker 2: forty five seconds left, down three, with the ball in
Speaker 2: Lebron's hands, and he missed. Listen, Lebron at the end
Speaker 2: of the game, missed about a twelve footer, missed that
Speaker 2: three and two, the ball over, and so the Lakers
Speaker 2: could have stolen that game. But I see some replicable
Speaker 2: things the Lakers can build off of. And the fact
Speaker 2: that down eleven with a second left in the third
Speaker 2: and Jokic hits that stupid shot to put the Lakers
Speaker 2: down fourteen, the fact that they didn't just say okay,
Speaker 2: not our night and fold their hand to me is
Speaker 2: indicative of a team that truly believes we have real
Speaker 2: edges here. We are going to be able to score
Speaker 2: at will in this series. And that is not what
Speaker 2: the Lakers' strength is is scoring. The strength is defense.
Speaker 2: So all of that is to me reason for real
Speaker 2: optimism going into tonight's game and going into the rest
Speaker 2: of the series.
Speaker 3: Interesting, go ahead, No, just like losing is winning is
Speaker 3: like a very unique, very very unique take.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's not that losing is winning, oh.
Speaker 3: And very it's an adverb. I feel like it could
Speaker 3: go in between.
Speaker 2: Okay, again, you're now contradicting your own correction of me.
Speaker 2: But that's fine. The pardon me. The point that I
Speaker 2: am not saying it was better for them to lose
Speaker 2: than to win. What I am saying is there are
Speaker 2: certain times that in a long playoff series, you feel
Speaker 2: like in the very beginning, oh, we have figured things out.
Speaker 2: The example I used on the TV show that I'll
Speaker 2: use again is the twenty fifteen Finals Warriors Calves Game
Speaker 2: three that the Calves and Lebron won. At the end
Speaker 2: of that game, the Warriors figured some stuff out with
Speaker 2: Iguadala on the court that led to the winning the
Speaker 2: next three games. And while I don't think that putting
Speaker 2: Rui on Jokic is this catch all cure all like
Speaker 2: some of the media does, I do think that is
Speaker 2: an interesting wrinkle. I think they will put Lebron on
Speaker 2: Jokic occasionally to let ad roam. And I think the
Speaker 2: Lakers can throw a lot of different looks at the
Speaker 2: Nuggets defensively to try to cause some problems. I do
Speaker 2: not think the Nuggets have the personnel to slow down
Speaker 2: the Lakers offensively, and I don't think the Nuggets are
Speaker 2: gonna score one thirty three more times in the series.
Speaker 2: All right, next, Okay.
Speaker 3: Draymond said that the Warriors will still be in the
Speaker 3: playoffs if he didn't If he didn't punch pull Pool
Speaker 3: in October. Sorry, I don't know what just happened to him.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Steve Kerr also said there was some trust loss, but
Speaker 3: he confirmed Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: No, that that's that. That is not your fault. That
Speaker 2: was a Ron Burgundy moment. That was the script auto
Speaker 2: corrected that to Thanksgiving, and you were just reading what
Speaker 2: was in front of you, So don't worry about that.
Speaker 2: He confirmed that the team needs to Draymond to win titles.
Speaker 2: That's what he confirmed.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, now, bottom line, do the Warriors need to
Speaker 3: need to out need to put up with Draymond our script?
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen that. By the way, I don't know who
Speaker 2: in the in the back did that, but thank you.
Speaker 2: This is bad. This is what you get for trying
Speaker 2: to correct my grammar. Is all of a sudden, the
Speaker 2: script goes hey wire on you. Also, I asked you
Speaker 2: right before the show if we need to go over anything,
Speaker 2: and you were like, no, Gabe, and I did that.
Speaker 2: We're just fine. I probably could have caught that for you,
Speaker 2: but don't worry about it. Actually, as we're going, here's
Speaker 2: the deal. The Warriors are stuck. They're stuck for a
Speaker 2: bunch of different reasons. And we are going along today
Speaker 2: and we've talked a lot about the Warriors, but one
Speaker 2: of the reasons is this. They do need Draymond back,
Speaker 2: but they need him back at a discount. But there
Speaker 2: is no chance they can ask Draymond to take less
Speaker 2: than what they're paying Jordan Poole, who was unplayable in
Speaker 2: the postseason, and they can't pay him more than Jordan
Speaker 2: Poole at thirty two million a year, So they probably
Speaker 2: have to trade Jordan Poole, and they will be trading
Speaker 2: him at his absolute idea when it comes to his
Speaker 2: trade value. None of that is a recipe for an
Speaker 2: aging team coming off a bad season to get back
Speaker 2: to contention. So listen, all year long, I said the
Speaker 2: Draymond punch and the fact that he wasn't actually punched,
Speaker 2: it was as big of a story as one could imagine,
Speaker 2: and people thought people thought that I was making too
Speaker 2: big of a deal of it. He and Kerr acknowledged
Speaker 2: that of course, knocking out your teammate, having the entire
Speaker 2: world see it, and having the team then say we
Speaker 2: can't punish the guy because that would mean he misses
Speaker 2: ring Knight was going to have real impact on a
Speaker 2: team's ability to compete for a championship. All right, last.
Speaker 3: Okay, the Spurs won the draft lottery, their prize Wimby.
Speaker 3: Now that we know where he's going, it's time to
Speaker 3: plant your flag on the Frenchman. Is he the next
Speaker 3: can't miss number one pick? Or is he just another
Speaker 3: over hype foreign born player.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I don't think he's an you know, I
Speaker 2: don't think he's Frederick Weiss. I don't think he's an
Speaker 2: over hyped, you know, foreign born player. I understand why
Speaker 2: there's this hype surrounding him. He's seventy five. He's a
Speaker 2: seven to five guard. Essentially, the health is an obvious
Speaker 2: concern for anyone in NBA history taller than seven to three.
Speaker 2: We've talked about it. Injuries have been a huge part
Speaker 2: of their career, so that's a concern. But set that aside,
Speaker 2: Set the health stuff aside. The hype, though, has now
Speaker 2: gotten to an insane place. And this is not me
Speaker 2: being anti Victor Winbinyama. But when woj comes on TV
Speaker 2: and says multiple league executives believe by his third year
Speaker 2: he could be the league's best offensive and the league's
Speaker 2: best defensive player, what you're saying is there's only one
Speaker 2: player in league history that that's been true of Kareem.
Speaker 2: And Kareem played four years of college basketball at UCLA
Speaker 2: and was an adult by then. Wimby is nineteen coming
Speaker 2: from a league in Europe. The idea that they believe
Speaker 2: he's going to be Kareem that is too much, flatly,
Speaker 2: And I did this thought exercise on the t Sorry
Speaker 2: you were I know, I don't mean I didn't like
Speaker 2: on the show yesterday and I said, okay, let's just
Speaker 2: go the last thirty years, number the best number one picks.
Speaker 2: Here's how you would rank them. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: do all thirty, but the top six Lebron Won, Duncan, two,
Speaker 2: Shack three a d four Iverson, five, Dwight. Six of
Speaker 2: those guys right now, who do you think he'll have
Speaker 2: a better career than? And Brussard said, forget Ad, Dwight
Speaker 2: and Iverson. If Win Binyama doesn't have a better career
Speaker 2: than a Keem Elajuan, he's a disappointment. Well, that's unfair.
Speaker 2: If the expectations are If he does not become one
Speaker 2: of the eight greatest players in the history of basketball,
Speaker 2: he's a disappointment. It's unfair, and people have said, well,
Speaker 2: that's what we did. The expectations were of Lebron and
Speaker 2: that has haunted him. The fact that he has lived
Speaker 2: up to them does not mean it hasn't been an
Speaker 2: anvil around his the entirety of his career. Lebron is
Speaker 2: still twenty years in held to an impossible standard. So yes,
Speaker 2: of course I would take wimby number one. I do
Speaker 2: think he profiles as the best prospect since Lebron. Not
Speaker 2: the best prospect ever, but the best prospect since Lebron.
Speaker 2: But if we are saying if Victor Winbinyama wins three
Speaker 2: rings and two MVPs, we're gonna say that's a disappointing career.
Speaker 2: Brew on the show yesterday said, if he's Kevin Durant,
Speaker 2: it's a disappointment. That's crazy. That just strikes me as unfair.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, No, it strikes me as just an unfair expectation.
Speaker 2: And I know I said we'll leave the injury stuff aside.
Speaker 2: That tall. The injury concern is not a well, yeah,
Speaker 2: anybody can get hurt type of concern. It is a real,
Speaker 2: omnipresent concern. Note from producer Matt Ford, who says he
Speaker 2: was refunded his bet when Rafa withdrew. So while I
Speaker 2: now withdraw my defamatory comments, I won't, Matt. And here's
Speaker 2: why you, lovable dufas you thought ostensibly that plus six
Speaker 2: point fifty was good value for Rafa, instead of thinking, Wow,
Speaker 2: why is he plus six fifty? Is it possibly because
Speaker 2: he's dealing with a significant injury, And the fact that
Speaker 2: he ended up having to withdraw due to the injury
Speaker 2: just means we're lucky it was as significant as it
Speaker 2: was because it was five percent better and he tried
Speaker 2: to fight through it and gets knocked out in round
Speaker 2: three because he's hurt. We're out a lot of Come on, Matt,
Speaker 2: be better, quick break right back? What's right?
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Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: No, that's a lie.
Speaker 2: Job. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I figured you were
Speaker 2: still busy reading about Thanksgiving in the middle of the
Speaker 2: Warriors question.
Speaker 3: I was not funny. That was not my fault.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I mean, listen, you gotta adjust on
Speaker 2: the fly. You're about what this professional stage performer? Well exactly,
Speaker 2: That's why I'm saying. You're about to be a professional
Speaker 2: stage performer. Sometimes there's gonna be lighting miscues, there's the
Speaker 2: director's gonna.
Speaker 3: Get you your face.
Speaker 2: Okay, you want to welcome us in, Yeah, I will go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, Welcome back episode. Now, we're going to start with
Speaker 3: the Jaw update.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Jow release the statement that, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: was either four hundred words too short or forty words
Speaker 2: too long. And we'll get into the statement Jaw released
Speaker 2: in a moment. But this job update is actually going
Speaker 2: to be something of a media critique. First, I I
Speaker 2: gotta say I am constantly impressed by some of my
Speaker 2: colleagues ability to se shamelessly create content that I do
Speaker 2: not think they actually believe because they know it will
Speaker 2: get them Internet applause. And here's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: And because there there is, there is this whole genre
Speaker 2: of discourse that is just catnip for what I can
Speaker 2: what I would call at people are gonna get mad
Speaker 2: whatever what I would call the either the dumbest smart
Speaker 2: people or the smartest dumb people. I'm not sure which
Speaker 2: group it is, but they're they're very similar. That, which
Speaker 2: is things that sound really smart at absolute surface level,
Speaker 2: but the moment you do, I'll give you a non
Speaker 2: jaw example, it's it's the same genre of well, why
Speaker 2: is it offensive to say all lives matter? Don't they?
Speaker 2: Of course they do. Are you saying when you say
Speaker 2: black lives matter? That what if I said white lives matter?
Speaker 2: Why are they not the same? Why is there a
Speaker 2: black entertainment television? What if there were a white entertainment television?
Speaker 2: Like those things, at the very surface level, you might
Speaker 2: be able to get some and be like, hmm, raises
Speaker 2: some interesting points. Hadn't thought of it? And then the
Speaker 2: moment you did one percent deeper, it's like, oh, the
Speaker 2: reason we're saying, like black lives matter instead of all
Speaker 2: lives matter. Is because there is right now a crisis
Speaker 2: of violence perpetrated by the state against a specific community.
Speaker 2: Much like if there was a giant uptick in breast cancer,
Speaker 2: we might, I don't know, have breast cancer Awareness Month
Speaker 2: and do marches. And that's not us saying, hey, anybody
Speaker 2: with colon cancer go to hell. It's like, oh, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: that makes more sense. Uh. And the jaw commentary that
Speaker 2: is folks just out saying what law did he break? Huh?
Speaker 2: You tell me why he should be in any trouble
Speaker 2: at all. That's an open carry state. He's broken no rules. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you are correct that John Moran should not be arrested
Speaker 2: for what he did. And you are correct that we
Speaker 2: have a lot of political figures in this country that
Speaker 2: flaunt guns as a way to appeal to their constituency,
Speaker 2: put them on Christmas cards with their kids holding them.
Speaker 2: And yes, of course you are correct. And we all
Speaker 2: know that there is a massive hypocrisy in how the
Speaker 2: general public reacts to people carrying guns depending on if
Speaker 2: that person is white or black. Everybody knows that that
Speaker 2: is a real issue that deserves significant discussion and remedy.
Speaker 2: But None of it applies to this situation.
Speaker 3: None of it.
Speaker 2: Jah is in trouble because he has allegedly, over the
Speaker 2: last year done the following, gotten in a fight with
Speaker 2: a seventeen year old, hit the seventeen year old, and
Speaker 2: then allegedly came outside to confront the seventeen year old
Speaker 2: with a pistol in his waistband gone to the mall
Speaker 2: because his mother was being allegedly disrespected by a foot
Speaker 2: by a foot action or foot locker employee and told
Speaker 2: the security guard, I will wait till you get off work.
Speaker 2: Went to a volleyball game where his mother allegedly was
Speaker 2: disrespected by a high school girl and allegedly threatened her,
Speaker 2: got in a car with his buddy Deontay Pack and
Speaker 2: others where allegedly a laser sighted pistol was pointed at
Speaker 2: Indiana Pacers players, and then most recently, waved a gun
Speaker 2: at a strip club and apologized for it and said
Speaker 2: he would not do it again, And then fifty two
Speaker 2: days later waved a gun in his car both on
Speaker 2: Instagram Live and seemingly apologized for that. There are plenty
Speaker 2: of jobs that would not want the face of their
Speaker 2: company doing that. Are there jobs where that would get
Speaker 2: you a promotion is one of those jobs insanely seemingly
Speaker 2: certain districts of the United States House of Representatives. Yes,
Speaker 2: does job work in one of those jobs? No, it's
Speaker 2: not complicated, Go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, No, I think I think the main problem here
Speaker 3: isn't the fact that he owns a gun, is that
Speaker 3: he uses it like a toy to show and flaunt around.
Speaker 3: And of course, and like you're saying, like, like, the
Speaker 3: NBA is not a job that you just need a
Speaker 3: gun for.
Speaker 2: No, Like, well no, but it's also there's also different
Speaker 2: responsibilities for it. And I use this example for I
Speaker 2: will use it again. If John Morant two months ago
Speaker 2: posted on Instagram a homemade sex tape with him and
Speaker 2: his girlfriend and the NBA and the Grizzlies were like buddy, no,
Speaker 2: and then he was like, I'm sorry, I won't do
Speaker 2: it again, And then last week posted a new one.
Speaker 2: Do you know how ridiculous you would look if you
Speaker 2: went on TV and be like, huh, Pornography's all over
Speaker 2: the internet. There's billions of views on porn Hub. And
Speaker 2: you're telling me John did something wrong. What law did
Speaker 2: he break? You don't have to break a law.
Speaker 3: For it to be wrong, for to piss.
Speaker 2: Off your employer, is it? Everybody knows this.
Speaker 3: That's also like it's gonna be with freedom of freedom
Speaker 3: of speech. You say something stupid, you can still get filed.
Speaker 2: Oh of course, you just can't get arrested for it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the the the, And this is what's so frustrating. Everybody
Speaker 2: knows what I'm saying is correct, but they also know that, Man,
Speaker 2: I will go viral if I say, tell me, why
Speaker 2: would Joe? That is wrong? Even though in your own
Speaker 2: brain you're like, well, obviously if this were my brother,
Speaker 2: or my son or my daughter, I would say, what
Speaker 2: the hell are you doing? You have a Can you imagine?
Speaker 2: I'll use demands as an example again. Can you imagine?
Speaker 2: Demanse does not make fifty million dollars a year as
Speaker 2: the face of the Memphis Grizzlies. Demonse has a good
Speaker 2: job at Box and is like a partial face of
Speaker 2: this podcast. Can you imagine if on social media he
Speaker 2: was riding around in a car playing with a gun,
Speaker 2: what I would say to him, like, I'm beside myself
Speaker 2: and everybody knows that. And the reason it bothers me
Speaker 2: is because I feel like it is folks taking the
Speaker 2: easiest road possible on what could be a fascinating conversation
Speaker 2: if you want to talk about gun control in this
Speaker 2: country and you want to talk about the fact that
Speaker 2: the NRA and a lot of the conservative right in
Speaker 2: this country defend at your right to carry an AR
Speaker 2: fifteen into a Chipotle, yet doesn't seem to ever ever
Speaker 2: stand up for the armed black citizen who is killed
Speaker 2: by a cop, not because they were pointing their firearm,
Speaker 2: not because they were wrong place, wrong time cop saw
Speaker 2: a black guy with a gun and killed him. You
Speaker 2: want to have that conversation about why those people aren't
Speaker 2: supported or listen to it. You want to have the
Speaker 2: actual historical conversation that so many of these dopes don't
Speaker 2: even aren't even aware of. Do you know who and
Speaker 2: why initially passed? Like how why does California to this
Speaker 2: day have strict gun laws? What got that ball rolling
Speaker 2: Governor Ronald Reagan with the support of the NRA in
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty seven? Why because the Black panthers armed themselves
Speaker 2: and marched on the Capitol and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: a conservative governor and the NRA helped pass the Mulford Act,
Speaker 2: significant gun control legislation. It was scary black guys with guns.
Speaker 2: We can have those conversations if you want to have them.
Speaker 2: They're interesting to me. I ain't. They are important ones
Speaker 2: to have, but to do it, to not do it,
Speaker 2: But instead he futs around with it, acting like John
Speaker 2: Morant is a victim here instead of having a the
Speaker 2: tougher conversation is ridiculous. Now, last point on this. When
Speaker 2: I said his say was either forty words too long
Speaker 2: or foreigner words too short, Here's what I mean. Jah
Speaker 2: continues to make bad choices in how he's handling this
Speaker 2: because he is apologizing for his behavior, seemingly with no
Speaker 2: intent to stop the behavior. And this is this is
Speaker 2: something oddly like in not stuff like this obviously, But
Speaker 2: you and I have kind we've talked about similar, which is, hey,
Speaker 2: if you've decided I am going I am okay with
Speaker 2: the consequences of X. So I am going to do it.
Speaker 2: So you're eighteen now, I've had this conversation with your brother.
Speaker 2: It's every when you're a little kid, so be it.
Speaker 2: Go with God. But if you have decided I am
Speaker 2: going to do X, because I am going to say
Speaker 2: I did why and I don't think I'm ever gonna
Speaker 2: have to deal with the consequences of it. Then it's
Speaker 2: a terrible decision. Then that means you know you're making
Speaker 2: the wrong decision, but you just think I won't ever
Speaker 2: be held accountable for it. That, to me is what
Speaker 2: If joh thought what he was doing was fine, he
Speaker 2: wouldn't have apologized to Adam Silver, and he wouldn't have
Speaker 2: gone to seventy two hour rehab whatever the hell it was.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what type of rehab it is,
Speaker 2: like decision making rehab. I don't know the so Jock
Speaker 2: could have and I guess before he released this statement,
Speaker 2: Jock could have gone this route. I've done nothing wrong.
Speaker 2: I'm a legal gun owner. I can have it in
Speaker 2: my car. You guys are only bothered because it's rap
Speaker 2: music on in the background. I've never been arrested, I've
Speaker 2: never been in trouble. I dare you to suspend me.
Speaker 2: I will see you in court. Show me what law
Speaker 2: I broke, Show me what I violated. He could have
Speaker 2: gone that tact. I would I personally wouldn't support it,
Speaker 2: but I know a lot of two A folks who would.
Speaker 2: I think he would get significant like conservative media, favorable coverage.
Speaker 2: Who doesn't like the woke NBA anyway? And he could
Speaker 2: just say lying in the sand doing it. That's an option.
Speaker 2: The other option is to cut this stupid shit out. Instead,
Speaker 2: he chose the worst path. I'm very sorry I let
Speaker 2: my teammates down. I've got to get better with decision
Speaker 2: making on and off the court. I've got to mature.
Speaker 2: And thirteen days later, he's on Instagram live first second
Speaker 2: time playing with a pistol. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous again.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna use a parenting analogy here. You're eighteen. You
Speaker 2: and I have different feelings on tattoos. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: have a few tattoos. Your mom's got a giant, beautiful
Speaker 2: tattoo on her shoulder. Your brother's got a few tattoos
Speaker 2: that a couple of them I think are fine. One
Speaker 2: of them I think's dumb, but doesn't matter. I'm anti
Speaker 2: young people getting tattoos because I know when I was
Speaker 2: eighteen the tattoo I wanted to get, and I'm so
Speaker 2: glad I'm not. Okay, Well, we all think we're not
Speaker 2: dumb when we're eighteen, but then we look back. But
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Point I'm making is this. You now could
Speaker 2: go get a tattoo and there is nothing I could
Speaker 2: do about it. If you were to do that, with
Speaker 2: the plan being I'll just make sure I'm always covered
Speaker 2: up wherever this is when I'm around my dad. Then
Speaker 2: it's a terrible decision. If you were to do it
Speaker 2: then and say I'm doing it, I'm eighteen, believe I
Speaker 2: want it. I'll deal with the consequences. Maybe I think
Speaker 2: it's a terrible decision, but at least you are doing
Speaker 2: it planning to be able to stand by it. Ja
Speaker 2: apologizing for things that he never intends to stop doing
Speaker 2: shows to me such an overwhelming lack of maturity. It's stunning.
Speaker 2: It's just absolutely stunning. Uh So that's it. That was long.
Speaker 2: They just put overtime on the screen. There. We haven't
Speaker 2: even gotten to the game. All right, let's do the
Speaker 2: game real quick. To you are I'm gonna do the
Speaker 2: game in less than three minutes. We're gonna do thirty
Speaker 2: seconds of question. Yeah, I'm gonna do the game in
Speaker 2: less than three minutes. I don't know if we still
Speaker 2: can do it, Gabe, you can tell me in my
Speaker 2: ear if we have to pivot off it. If not,
Speaker 2: we'll do it real quick to you, or just start
Speaker 2: reading and we'll go go ahead.
Speaker 3: Hey, AD has followed up all of his big playoff
Speaker 3: games with absolute duds. He had forty and ten in
Speaker 3: Game one. Things aren't looking good tonight, right or wrong,
Speaker 3: AD will show up in game two.
Speaker 2: Right, he'll show up. I don't think he's followed up
Speaker 2: all his playoff games with duds. He's followed some big
Speaker 2: offensive games with bad offensive games. What they need from
Speaker 2: Ad tonight is defense and rebounding. The points will be
Speaker 2: a bonus. I think he'll be really good tonight next.
Speaker 3: Davante Adams says that he proved he didn't need Rogers
Speaker 3: to be Gate great after one hundred catches, fifteen hundred
Speaker 3: yards and fourteen touchdowns on your boy, Derek Carr. Now
Speaker 3: he'll have a chance to prove it again with Jimmy
Speaker 3: G as his quarterback. Right or wrong, Adams will still
Speaker 3: feel QB proof with Jimmy G.
Speaker 2: I think it's right. I think Davante Adams will great,
Speaker 2: and I think Jimmy will target him a ton I
Speaker 2: think the Raiders will stink, but I think Davante will
Speaker 2: have it demand a great player, and I think he'll
Speaker 2: have a monster season.
Speaker 3: Next, reports are that Joe Burrow is considering his other
Speaker 3: big name teammates when negotiating his contract. If he takes
Speaker 3: a discount to keep Chase and Higgins will they will
Speaker 3: be perennial AFC phase Right or wrong, Burrow's generosity should
Speaker 3: worry the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Wrong for twofold one is I think Burrow's about to
Speaker 2: become the highest paid player in the history of the league.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. Listen, Burrow takes thirty million a year, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but he's not going to He's gonna probably get closer
Speaker 2: to fifty five and nothing should work. The Chiefs the
Speaker 2: best team by a mile. Next, We're sorry, we're all
Speaker 2: Bronni Okay, that's right.
Speaker 3: Thought. USC hoops coach said that Lebron isn't being overbearing
Speaker 3: with Bronnie at all. Maybe he's sort of busy right
Speaker 3: now with all the things that he's doing, you know,
Speaker 3: right or wrong, USC fans should want the Goat more involved.
Speaker 2: Wrong and listen, I don't think that's Bronnie's style or
Speaker 2: lebron style. I also don't think uh his wife would
Speaker 2: allow it. I think Savannah. There's a great clip of
Speaker 2: from a couple of years ago of Savannah and Lebron
Speaker 2: being interviewed about Bronni and I forget if it's sixty minutes,
Speaker 2: whatever it is, and Savannah is asked, They're asked, what
Speaker 2: do you want for Bronni? And Savannah is like, I
Speaker 2: really just want him to be happy and be a
Speaker 2: good person, and you know, chase his dreams and to
Speaker 2: just have a happy life and Lebron just do As
Speaker 2: a matter of factly, I want him PLAYBA like Lebron's
Speaker 2: But I think Savannah has done a really good job,
Speaker 2: and I think Lebron is doing his best on making
Speaker 2: sure that Lebron's wants don't trump what's best for Bronni here.
Speaker 2: And Bronni's not gonna be the best player on that team,
Speaker 2: and I don't think Lebron's gonna be the type to
Speaker 2: be the helicopter parent. All right? Last one?
Speaker 3: Okay, Fox Sports NFL asked chat GBT to rate the
Speaker 3: top ten teams since two thousand. Yeah, here's the list.
Speaker 3: Most notably, You're twenty nineteen. Chiefs come in at number ten,
Speaker 3: behind some very suspect teams. Right or wrong, Your job
Speaker 3: is safe from the robots.
Speaker 2: Why listen. I think it's right that my job's safe
Speaker 2: inm the robots for now, It's not even because of
Speaker 2: this ranking. They also had chat GBT ranked the top
Speaker 2: ten Chiefs ever, and Travis Kelce wasn't on there. I
Speaker 2: do think chat GBT got it right that the O
Speaker 2: Semn Patriots is the best team of the last twenty years,
Speaker 2: even though they didn't win the suit Super Bowl. But
Speaker 2: that twenty nineteen Chiefs team wasn't even the best Chiefs team.
Speaker 2: Twenty eighteen Chiefs run in the twenty nineteen Chiefs. Twenty
Speaker 2: eighteen Chiefs just doing the Super Bowl, twenty twenty Chiefs
Speaker 2: are read in the twenty nineteen Chiefs. They just didn't
Speaker 2: win the Super Bowl. So yeah, I don't think. I
Speaker 2: think the robots will come for all of us at
Speaker 2: some point, but no time soon. Quick break right back,
Speaker 2: answer your questions in the chat What's right?
Speaker 3: Welcome back, episode one fifty two. Now we're gonna read
Speaker 3: your fan questions. First question, Brandon Lacey asked, will Wemby
Speaker 3: win an NBA title in his first five years?
Speaker 2: I would be shocked, Guys. Guys typically don't win rings
Speaker 2: till they're twenty seven. He's nineteen. His body's got to develop.
Speaker 2: There's again, he's the clearcut number one pick. He's almost
Speaker 2: assuredly the best prospects since Lebron. But we are putting
Speaker 2: too much on this kid. If he's if he comes
Speaker 2: out and changes the league and stays healthy and is
Speaker 2: what all these guys say to him, more power to him.
Speaker 2: But I'm not gonna be part of the crowd that
Speaker 2: if this guy is twenty points and six rebounds as
Speaker 2: a rookie, which is about what I think, which would
Speaker 2: be unbelievable, that we're gonna say he's disappointing. All right.
Speaker 3: Next, Okay, Oscar Marshall asks, do you think that the
Speaker 3: final part of the prince that was promised ARC is
Speaker 3: for the is for the Jags to be permanently based
Speaker 3: in London. Seems like the NFL is slowly leaning towards
Speaker 3: making it happen.
Speaker 2: I don't know about permanently being placed in London, but
Speaker 2: I could see like a half schedule in London. I could,
Speaker 2: and that is unbelievable that that fits with my royalty
Speaker 2: princes that was promised up Next.
Speaker 3: Okay, negative foreign too asked if Jay Buckets and the
Speaker 3: Heat want to ring this year, would it be the
Speaker 3: toughest ring of all time?
Speaker 2: I don't think it'd be the toughest ring of all
Speaker 2: time because a Round two matchup with the Knicks throws
Speaker 2: a bit of a wrench into that, and there is
Speaker 2: no juggernaut out west. I mean, the Lakers are the
Speaker 2: seventh seed. The Nuggets are really good, but they're not
Speaker 2: a juggernaut. It would be the most surprising and unlikely
Speaker 2: ring of all time. These guys were fifteen to one
Speaker 2: to win the title twelve hours ago, fourteen hours ago,
Speaker 2: and so, and there were only four teams left. All right, next?
Speaker 3: Okay? Nick Adams asked, when Lebron retires, who do you
Speaker 3: think You're root for? Team or a person?
Speaker 2: So, yeah, because I don't have a team, I root
Speaker 2: for whatever team Lebron's on because Kansas City didn't have
Speaker 2: a team. And when I was a little kid, I
Speaker 2: was a Knicks fan. And then my high school basketball
Speaker 2: teammates and I were the same high school class as Lebron,
Speaker 2: and we would watch his games on ESPN, and I
Speaker 2: just decided, when I was a high school senior, whatever
Speaker 2: team drafts him That's why I'm gonna go with and
Speaker 2: then I so I was with the Calves, Heat Calves
Speaker 2: again Lakers now, uh, which is not the greatest, you know,
Speaker 2: mark on my sports fandom. But because kansasity never had
Speaker 2: a team and I didn't have a team growing up,
Speaker 2: I feel like it's okay. I mean, I'll roll with Luca.
Speaker 2: It's gonna I like the Kings because of the family connection.
Speaker 2: I like this. You know, I like Darryl Mory a lot,
Speaker 2: so I like the Sixers. But yeah, I think it's
Speaker 2: hard if you don't have a hometown team to just
Speaker 2: have one team that's your die hard team. So I
Speaker 2: have the Chiefs, I have the Royals. I mean, I
Speaker 2: Jokic is fine, but I'm not exactly known as a
Speaker 2: Jokic fan, so I don't think I'll be a Nuggets guy.
Speaker 2: But Luca. I probably roll with Luca once Lebron's done,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Scott Fraser asked who got the best breaks with
Speaker 3: the NFL schedule and who got screwed. I e Rams
Speaker 3: get it, get four teams off the buy.
Speaker 2: So I think the Rams are probably the highest on
Speaker 2: the list. I'll be honest with you. I know Warren
Speaker 2: Sharp's done a ton on this. I haven't dug into
Speaker 2: the intricacies of it. I know the Chiefs are at
Speaker 2: a big rest disadvantage, but a lot of that listen,
Speaker 2: if you're a great team, they're gonna sket They're gonna
Speaker 2: be more worried about putting you on National TV and
Speaker 2: making giving you big prime slots than they are about
Speaker 2: the fairness of rest. And I'm actually okay with it.
Speaker 2: It is an entertainment product, after all. This is an
Speaker 2: unbelievable fact. Though the Chiefs obviously have seventeen games this year,
Speaker 2: I bet this will blow Gabe's mind. Of all the
Speaker 2: people listening, Producer Gabs the one that I think will
Speaker 2: be most interested in this seventeen games for the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: How many do you think are in the traditional one
Speaker 2: o'clock on Sunday window, the one o'clock or you know what,
Speaker 2: one o'clock or four o'clock, meaning, how many of their
Speaker 2: games are not either a night game on National TV
Speaker 2: or the four point thirty prime spot on Fox or CBS.
Speaker 2: The answer to that question is one. The Chiefs have
Speaker 2: one game all year that is not either Monday night,
Speaker 2: Sunday Night, Thursday night, a stant like a standalone Saturday
Speaker 2: holiday game or the four point thirty on Fox or
Speaker 2: CBS game one game all year, all right, last, okay,
Speaker 2: So that's a tough name. Anastasios Markopolos, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Ask if the Nuggets versus Celtics in the NBA Finals,
Speaker 3: who are you be rooting for?
Speaker 2: Well, it's tough. I'd like for demands to be happy,
Speaker 2: and that would mean the Celtics. But I don't have
Speaker 2: an Emmy to root for the Celtics, never like the Celtics,
Speaker 2: so probably the Nuggets and Jokis will have earned it.
Speaker 2: I don't have anything against Jokics. I had against the
Speaker 2: fact that I thought he was treated in a way
Speaker 2: we've never treated a superstar before they won anything. But
Speaker 2: if he wins, he wins. All right, last one, go ahead?
Speaker 3: Okay. So Christian Lazzo asked what I would change about
Speaker 3: how you dress?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Just slight more coordination, but not too much coordination, because
Speaker 3: sometimes you're too matchy matchy, and sometimes it's a little
Speaker 3: bit everywhere.
Speaker 2: So I think what the guy's getting at is because
Speaker 2: I don't think you feel this way. I think they're
Speaker 2: wondering if you would prefer if I dressed more like
Speaker 2: the other dads, like at your at your school. So suits,
Speaker 2: well I wear suits on TV. But yeah, like or
Speaker 2: like polos and khakis and like boat shoes.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, I couldn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not me. Listen, do you or and I?
Speaker 2: Despite the fact she corrects my grammar and you know,
Speaker 2: comes at me a bit on the pot occasionally, Uh,
Speaker 2: do you or and I have a great relationship. And
Speaker 2: I think she likes she likes a lot of things
Speaker 2: about my personality, even though she thinks I'm a weirdo.
Speaker 2: Not a weirdo, but no, I think you're weird fair enough,
Speaker 2: all right, See you guys on Tuesday. Enjoy the game tonight.
Speaker 3: Mhm.