Speaker 1: Come on on this episode of the Heat Check Steph,
Speaker 1: the Steph Ice Cold game, all that prep I put
Speaker 1: into him being just absolutely nuclear last episode that I
Speaker 1: didn't get to. That segment went kaboom, and somehow the
Speaker 1: Warriors still win without Steph making a single three. We
Speaker 1: are shipping off to Boston heading into Game six. I
Speaker 1: will break that game down briefly with some news around
Speaker 1: the league as well, including the Sixers dropping some very
Speaker 1: shocking news and Anthony Davis getting shamed into shooting a basketball. Finally,
Speaker 1: all right, bro, drop that beat national.
Speaker 2: All right, the Warriors take control of the fine or
Speaker 2: by the player that everyone expected to go absolutely ham
Speaker 2: our man, Andrew wig What putting on a performance for
Speaker 2: the Ages.
Speaker 1: Game five, the Andrew Wiggins game twenty six points, thirteen rebounds,
Speaker 1: back to back off of another stellar performance where seventeen points,
Speaker 1: sixteen rebounds. I didn't even know Andrew Wiggins was a rebounder, right, Like,
Speaker 1: that's not his game, my lord. Add this to the
Speaker 1: fact that he's been a defensive stopper all playoff long,
Speaker 1: taking on the challenge to guard Luca Jylen Brown, Jason Tatum,
Speaker 1: a little inside baseball in the fact that Andrew Wiggins
Speaker 1: trains with the same trainer that Jason Tatum trains with,
Speaker 1: Drew Hanlin Pure Sweat, so he knows exactly all the
Speaker 1: moves that Jason Tatum's been working on in his bag,
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, nope, now I know where you're going.
Speaker 1: People might actually stop bitching about Andrew Wiggins making the
Speaker 1: All Star Game now or k Pop getting him into
Speaker 1: the All Star Game is what gave him the confidence
Speaker 1: to get to this point. Who knows it's chicken of
Speaker 1: the egg at this this moment, I can't tell. And
Speaker 1: on my Bengo card, I did not have Wiggins showing
Speaker 1: up with the lights are brightest. I just never thought
Speaker 1: that that would ever. I would have bet my house
Speaker 1: on it. Probably something just last year, we were all
Speaker 1: joking about playoff Wiggins, crunch time, clutch time Wiggins. It's
Speaker 1: like he turns into a pumpkin, and now he turns
Speaker 1: into Lebron James. They're calling him Maple Jordan again. Maple
Speaker 1: Jordan jokes on us because this dude's been the best
Speaker 1: player or second best player on the floor for long
Speaker 1: stretches of the time. Kurr decided he was gonna speak
Speaker 1: on Wiggins showing more emotion. He also says something very
Speaker 1: quickly that I have not in my notes, but off
Speaker 1: the top of my head. He basically said that Wiggans
Speaker 1: shows that every player in the NBA can reach impact
Speaker 1: player potential if they're put in the right situation. That
Speaker 1: just leads me to wonder what players are just hiding
Speaker 1: on the bench that are not being fully utilized. I
Speaker 1: think that's actually true of all human beings. I think
Speaker 1: we all can be more if we're in the right situation.
Speaker 1: Cur spoke on Wiggans showing more emotion. He says, he's
Speaker 1: a very mild mannered guy Canadian, but he's taking a
Speaker 1: leap in these playoffs in terms of his impact on
Speaker 1: the game. Defensively. The biggest thing right now is that
Speaker 1: he's a two way player. Lots of jokes happening right
Speaker 1: now about Wiggins maybe stealing the finals MVP from Steph,
Speaker 1: which would be an atrocity. Steph, who did not make
Speaker 1: a three for the first time in one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty two consecutive playoff games and two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: three straight games as a whole, It's been two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty three games go to mass school that's like
Speaker 1: four years, four or five years or something like that.
Speaker 1: Where Steph has made a three oh for nine, Will
Speaker 1: it cost him the finals? MVP next up on Undisputed. No,
Speaker 1: don't bet it on it. Don't bet on it. And
Speaker 1: Wiggins was the reason though, one hundred percent that the
Speaker 1: Warriors got this win, not something I anticipated. He was
Speaker 1: also oh for six from three, So Wiggins and Steph
Speaker 1: oh for fifteen from three and they still win by ten. I,
Speaker 1: by the way, had Warriors to win by at least
Speaker 1: nine and a half. And boy was that a backdoor sweat.
Speaker 1: Those scrubs that came in at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: they were trying those Boston the Aaron Nis Smiths of
Speaker 1: the world were trying to my bed up folks. Wiggins
Speaker 1: fifty more or more from the field forty three minutes
Speaker 1: in both games. And what's fascinating right now to me
Speaker 1: about this performance of Andrew Wiggins is that now Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler always liked Andrew Wiggins. Just now we're getting all
Speaker 1: the glowing endorsements from everyone that's ever been on a
Speaker 1: team with Andrew Wiggins coming out from the woodworks in
Speaker 1: ways that are just odd timing. Now Tim Tom Thibodeau
Speaker 1: has glowing remarks for Andrew Wiggins. Two dudes who've been
Speaker 1: riding Andrew Wiggins asked telling them all your girl, if
Speaker 1: you don't like run on these run these suicides. Like
Speaker 1: they've been saying, he's been lazy since he was drafted
Speaker 1: by the Cleveland Cavaliers, and now it's just coming out
Speaker 1: that he's always had this amazing work ethic. Like Andrew
Speaker 1: Wiggins from beginning of time till now has always been
Speaker 1: incredible competitor. He's always been a hard worker. We just
Speaker 1: didn't see it. And now Jimmy Butler and Tom Thibodeau
Speaker 1: resounding praise. Draymond Green been like first thing soon as
Speaker 1: that trade went down, Tom Thibodeau called me up, and
Speaker 1: he and why called me up. He's like, you're getting
Speaker 1: a great dude. You're getting an amazing player in Andrew Wiggins.
Speaker 1: Where was this when the trade happened? Come on? Now
Speaker 1: these stories. As for the Celtics, they needed a legit
Speaker 1: ball handler. I don't know how they're going to get one.
Speaker 1: We've said, like, I don't understand what moves you make
Speaker 1: because you're already in the finals, and you can't really
Speaker 1: mess up with a good thing. But listen, Marcus can't
Speaker 1: handle the rock. Jalen Brown can't handle the rock. Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum sometimes can't handle the rock. The best ball handler
Speaker 1: on this team's probably Peyton Pritchard, and he's getting like
Speaker 1: twelve minutes a game. Peyton Pritchell. Pritchell has handles. Nobody
Speaker 1: else has handles. I don't trust a single one of
Speaker 1: them driving into the lane and not turning the ball over.
Speaker 1: Congrats also to Boston for winning the third quarter for
Speaker 1: the first time all series. Didn't matter. Congrats to the
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics on stopping Steph for a full game. Did
Speaker 1: not matter. But it kind of just feels like that
Speaker 1: seven game series that they've had in every series along
Speaker 1: the way except for the Nets. One right, you sweep
Speaker 1: the nets, then you go seven with the Bucks, seven
Speaker 1: with the heat, and now you're probably tuckered out, need
Speaker 1: a warm milk and your mom to read you a
Speaker 1: bedtime story because you look like it's night night time.
Speaker 1: It does. I'm hoping, I'm hoping that they can make
Speaker 1: some moves. Someone dremmd Green's bed in Boston. Can we
Speaker 1: get that? Can we get somebody to pee in Ayisha
Speaker 1: Curry's somewhere because something hotel room, I don't know, Airbnb.
Speaker 1: I need a Father's Day matchup? I do. I need
Speaker 1: a Father's Day Game seven. I need it. I don't
Speaker 1: just need it, I want it. I'm praying for it.
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown says, we're not scared. We do not fear
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors. I'm glad about that. That's the
Speaker 1: spunky attitude they're gonna need. At a boy, Jalen Brown,
Speaker 1: Don't stand down, don't let them push you around, sir,
Speaker 1: keep your head up. That's what we need. That's what
Speaker 1: we all deserve. A Game seven, that's what we need.
Speaker 1: After game. After the Andrew Wiggins game, went on SVP,
Speaker 1: which tells you pretty much where he's at as a
Speaker 1: media member. He's on SVP and he's at n SVP's
Speaker 1: asking him what Brian thinks about that game. So heads
Speaker 1: up to all the Warriors media. Brian Winhorse is kind
Speaker 1: of a big deal of NBA insider, two times New
Speaker 1: York Times bestselling author, number one NBA podcast host, so
Speaker 1: he chimes in and what he said went goes viral
Speaker 1: viral viral. So I want to play it for you
Speaker 1: because it's It became the talk of the town in
Speaker 1: Warriors media, and they freaked.
Speaker 3: Out because Andrew Wiggins, he's not an underdog. He makes
Speaker 3: thirty two million dollars. While the Warriors were down these
Speaker 3: last couple of years, winning no games, they kept spending
Speaker 3: money because they've got it. They resigned Raymond Green, they
Speaker 3: re signed Steph Curry, they resigned Looney, they kept Andrew Wiggins,
Speaker 3: and boy died to show up tonight. Andrew Wiggins with
Speaker 3: a supreme moment in his career. He was a throw
Speaker 3: in in the trade. Other teams would have totally gotten
Speaker 3: rid of him. They stuck with him. They have a
Speaker 3: three hundred and forty million dollars payroll when you consider taxes.
Speaker 3: You don't just have to beat the Warriors on the court.
Speaker 3: You got to beat their checkbook. And nothing away from
Speaker 3: Andrew Wiggins tonight. But this was a checkbook win for
Speaker 3: the Warriors.
Speaker 1: Check book win for the Warriors. I mean, he's not wrong,
Speaker 1: he's not. I mean he said except for the check
Speaker 1: book win part, which is definitely a little shady. It's
Speaker 1: a little shady, But everything else he said was completely factual, right,
Speaker 1: so then KMBR decided to chime in. They're they're one
Speaker 1: of two local radio stations out of the Bay area.
Speaker 1: Let's see what they had to say. They took exception,
Speaker 1: didn't they They did.
Speaker 4: Why in the world would people pay attention to Brian Windhorst,
Speaker 4: That's the first question, Like, why would anything he says
Speaker 4: rile people up? It's like, really, Brian Windhorse.
Speaker 1: I got you, Yeah, he got a mer skill.
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, really, I mean that's like I
Speaker 4: did that. I saw it and I said, well, that's
Speaker 4: just it's wrong and it's ludicrous, is what it is.
Speaker 1: Boss. This man, this man, Brian windhors has eight I
Speaker 1: just checked eight hundred and twelve thousand Twitter followers. Let's
Speaker 1: look at kmbr's Twitter account. Uh, the actual station where
Speaker 1: this man is speaking. Tom Tolbert, former NBA Uh, Let's
Speaker 1: be honest. Journeyman hasn't averaged more than ten points a
Speaker 1: game in his entire life as an NBA player, But
Speaker 1: that's has nothing to do with it. One hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty one thousand followers on KMBR, Sir, don't act like
Speaker 1: what Brian Horse says doesn't send ripples around the league.
Speaker 1: Stop that stop that please, So then then we've got
Speaker 1: the ninety five to seven game people in the crew.
Speaker 1: We also had Steve Berman, Bay Area reporter for the
Speaker 1: Athletic Key Guys. He says his postgame podcasts make me
Speaker 1: feel bad for Zach Low for being forced to do them.
Speaker 1: The constant Lebron mentions saying Steph wasn't actually hurt in
Speaker 1: Game four, spouting owners talking points about a CBA they
Speaker 1: agreed to, isn't surprising. This isn't a hot take. To
Speaker 1: say that their deep pockets bought two championships with KD
Speaker 1: isn't even mildly controversial. They are two hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: into the luxury tax two hundred million dollars, folks. So
Speaker 1: ninety five to seven, the game which the Morning Roast
Speaker 1: has a little beef with me. He spouted on twit
Speaker 1: about me being some hot take artist that craps whatever
Speaker 1: on Warriors. It's not even true. It's him though, that
Speaker 1: I have a problem with. So they have Brian windhors
Speaker 1: on and I went just accidentally on the ninety five
Speaker 1: to seven The game app at around ten in the morning,
Speaker 1: and this is what they had.
Speaker 5: I hear you on like the checkbook stuff. But aren't
Speaker 5: they the model of how to run your business. Not
Speaker 5: only did they pay all of these you know, different
Speaker 5: contracts from within, they also built a stadium with their
Speaker 5: own dollar and reinvested it back into the team. To me,
Speaker 5: they should be lauded as what every owner should be
Speaker 5: doing right now in sports, not just in the NBA.
Speaker 5: This is how you should run your business trying to
Speaker 5: compete at the highest level. I don't know why that's
Speaker 5: a negative.
Speaker 6: I Well, first off, I don't know why you're implying
Speaker 6: what I said was a negative. Why are you implying
Speaker 6: what I said was a negative? I was giving the
Speaker 6: Warriors a compliment, okay, for being able to stick. It's
Speaker 6: spending through their through their rebuild, and that's why they
Speaker 6: have the depth on this team. But but, and I mean,
Speaker 6: nobody would argue that that Bob Myers in his front
Speaker 6: office have not done a tremendous job and that and
Speaker 6: that Joe Lacup and Joe and Uh and Peter Guber
Speaker 6: have done a great job in financing the team. But
Speaker 6: it is not a level playing field.
Speaker 7: Well, is it that the faults?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 6: What's that?
Speaker 7: Is it that the fault of the other owners because
Speaker 7: the Warriors are using their resources well within the rule
Speaker 7: book to spend the money if they have, and he
Speaker 7: spent it on a lot of homegrown talent. Complain last right,
Speaker 7: Dallas Mark Cuban makes allest, but he doesn't spend at all.
Speaker 7: That's his fault.
Speaker 6: I don't understand. I'm still I'm still not sure why
Speaker 6: you guys got your back up.
Speaker 5: Because it feels like a backhanded compliment. I mean a
Speaker 5: backhanded statement because of last year they paid for Kelly
Speaker 5: Oubre and nobody was complaining when they're paying thirty five
Speaker 5: million dollars for Clay to not play a dribble of basketball,
Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden, now that they're winning.
Speaker 5: Just my interpretation, it felt like you were picking up
Speaker 5: water for some of the poor owners who refuse to
Speaker 5: get dip into the luxury tax. That's the way I
Speaker 5: interpreted it.
Speaker 6: It wasn't a criticism. It was I was praising them. Okay,
Speaker 6: I'm saying, when you go against the Warriors, you're not
Speaker 6: just going to You're going against a team that has
Speaker 6: incredible financial might. That's just a true statement.
Speaker 1: They're so den skin defensive. Stop it, please, please stop it. Yes, Brian,
Speaker 1: if you're sensing hostility coming your direction, you are. If
Speaker 1: you is sensing with your little spidy senses that their
Speaker 1: hackles are up and they're waiting to strike like a
Speaker 1: little viper on you, and that they're not going to
Speaker 1: talk you behind your back. As soon as you're off
Speaker 1: the phone, you are correct. You are correct. This is why,
Speaker 1: this right here, I look for examples in real time
Speaker 1: for folks to know why it's hard, why it's hard
Speaker 1: for me to love and adore one of the best
Speaker 1: teams assembled, one of the best franchises run all that,
Speaker 1: one of the most likable teams. This is why. Because
Speaker 1: Bay Area reporters, bay Area media people are like this.
Speaker 1: They have the thinnest skins I've ever seen. Accusing Windhorse
Speaker 1: of being an irrelevant hot take artist just makes y'all
Speaker 1: look like low budget fanboys with microphones and credentials. Listen,
Speaker 1: don't pretend then to have a station that really quote
Speaker 1: unquote covers the team. Don't. They're thin skinned with their
Speaker 1: hackles up because one national media member said something that
Speaker 1: was one hundred percent true and not even the tag controversial.
Speaker 1: Because it makes them defensive about why they won and
Speaker 1: why they continue to win. If you were to add
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant to the Boston Celtics right now, would Warriors
Speaker 1: fans be whining? Yes, yes, they would be whining because
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant to any team makes things unfair when you
Speaker 1: already have a stacked roster that can get to the finals,
Speaker 1: and that would still be less than the Warriors are paying.
Speaker 1: I bet you Dub's media would be wit wit. They
Speaker 1: can't spend that much. Andrew Wiggins and Jonathan Kaminga are
Speaker 1: a downstream effect. Let me just say this very very clearly.
Speaker 1: You have, without out spending and finding a way in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen to sign Kevin Durant with that little tiny
Speaker 1: gap of period of time where Steph hadn't been signed yet,
Speaker 1: Clay hadn't been resigned yet, and you signed KD. Without
Speaker 1: that moment in time, you don't have Andrew Wiggins, you
Speaker 1: don't have Jonathan Kaminga. You over paying for KD is
Speaker 1: how you got to this place. So it is a
Speaker 1: checkbook win. Let's be honest people. That's what they try
Speaker 1: to say. Oh, we've organically built the only players that
Speaker 1: we quote unquote paid for our bi Alicia and Chris
Speaker 1: Chiosa and uh somebody else that's not relevant to this scenario.
Speaker 5: J J.
Speaker 1: Scrubs of the world. The argument is that they've developed
Speaker 1: all of their talent internally and organically organically, but the
Speaker 1: Wiggins trade didn't happen without KD. That's savvy tactician work.
Speaker 1: How they get Wiggins? They signed KD in free agency
Speaker 1: checkbook move. Then he decided to leave. They wouldn't let
Speaker 1: him leave for nothing, so they went and got d
Speaker 1: LO for no reason at the time, it felt like,
Speaker 1: but no, they wanted to make sure they had a
Speaker 1: chess piece on their board because once you once, you
Speaker 1: don't if you lose if you use it. If you
Speaker 1: don't use it, you lose it. Right, So then you
Speaker 1: do a sign and trade to get DLO, and then
Speaker 1: you flip d LO for a pick and Andrew Wiggins stop.
Speaker 1: How is that internal growth? How Wiggins makes? Wiggins makes
Speaker 1: thirty two million dollars a year, y'all add that to
Speaker 1: steph forty Clay thirty eight dre twenty four. That's one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty million dollars for four players. That's more
Speaker 1: than the entire fifteen man Celtics roster. One hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty two million between four guys. The NBA salary cap
Speaker 1: is one hundred and twenty two million dollars. What is
Speaker 1: wrong with you? How do you not see this? You're
Speaker 1: eighteen million dollars in the luxury tax with eleven more
Speaker 1: players left to sign. How is that internal growth? How
Speaker 1: is that organic? James Wiseman makes ten million dollars a
Speaker 1: year and he hasn't done a thing and I don't
Speaker 1: know how long he hasn't seen the court once the
Speaker 1: season he got shut down at the end of last season.
Speaker 1: Are you really trying to tell me that deep pockets
Speaker 1: haven't impacted this series? Really? Really, you're trying to tell
Speaker 1: me we just find and attract the best talent, which
Speaker 1: is why we're the best stop That four hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five million dollars four hundred and sixty five million
Speaker 1: dollars with the repeater tax, that is what Golden State
Speaker 1: is paying nearly a half a billion dollars. The Celtics
Speaker 1: with their luxury tax hit one hundred and thirty four million.
Speaker 1: Do you see what is so clear as day. That's
Speaker 1: not a knock, that's not a dig. They just outspend.
Speaker 1: That's what they did. Kevin Durant was to outspend. Everything
Speaker 1: that comes from Kevin Durant is the same thing right
Speaker 1: down again. And trust me, this is not a shot
Speaker 1: at Warriors ownership at all. I understand. Brilliant move, Joe lacub,
Speaker 1: Bob Myers, brilliant guys. How can I say that they
Speaker 1: didn't do what they were supposed to do. Nobody thought
Speaker 1: Wiggins was any good. You can outspend other people and
Speaker 1: it be bad decisions. A lot plenty of teams outspend
Speaker 1: and it's bad plenty. But they outspent and got a
Speaker 1: place and a player that they knew could fit into
Speaker 1: what they wanted to do in their system. I respect it.
Speaker 1: I think every team possible should do it. But don't
Speaker 1: be so disingenuous to say that you're light years ahead
Speaker 1: of everyone else. It's like that that rich ass kid
Speaker 1: with parents that are rich, that has an awesome job
Speaker 1: and they've gotten up to this place where they're the
Speaker 1: CEO of a company. But it's like, yo, how did
Speaker 1: you get here? You started on third Stop it, stop it.
Speaker 1: There's no way Andrew Wiggins gets to this roster without
Speaker 1: you having a lot of money. That's it. That's all
Speaker 1: we can say. Not a chance that you can make
Speaker 1: the trade work to get Andrew Wiggins without having Delos
Speaker 1: salary and him being overly paid, overpaying somebody that you
Speaker 1: can get to trade for another overpaid person. That's the
Speaker 1: only way that you get that done. There are Warriors
Speaker 1: media that I love. We had him on on Monday,
Speaker 1: John Dickinson, love him. You know what he told me.
Speaker 1: He said, between me, you and the lamp post. He's
Speaker 1: disgusted by the two is. It's disgusting, it's gross. This
Speaker 1: is absolutely baffling. You guys are are awful. And don't
Speaker 1: let me get excited enough to start putting my hat,
Speaker 1: my name in the hat to cover the Warriors. Don't
Speaker 1: make me head out to the bay because I'm getting close.
Speaker 1: I'm getting close. Don't make me take your job. Don't
Speaker 1: make me take your job. I love Kendrick Andrews, I
Speaker 1: love the light Years guys, but this low rent fanboy
Speaker 1: that has got to go gotta go, folks, please another
Speaker 1: fan base that loves me. Uh, Philadelphia, Let's dissect the
Speaker 1: little news. It's tough out here on the streets right
Speaker 1: now for a Philadelphia seventy six ers fan. Are you
Speaker 1: guys sitting down? Are you You're going to be shocked
Speaker 1: when you hear the latest from Sixer Land. Keith Pompey
Speaker 1: of The Inquirer cannot speak to his legitimacy, as we know,
Speaker 1: everyone is under scrutiny right now when the Warriors media exists,
Speaker 1: but he drops some fascinating and frankly unbelievable news. I
Speaker 1: had to literally read it multiple times in order to
Speaker 1: really allowed to seep into my soul. Basically, everyone but
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid and James Hardener on the trade block. Everyone
Speaker 1: literally everyone. I don't understand. I don't understand. This is
Speaker 1: the team that people told me was a monster. This
Speaker 1: is the team that people told me had enough wing depth,
Speaker 1: had enough shooting. Joel Embiid MVP level, Everything moves around him.
Speaker 1: You signed Tobias Harris, you got Danny Green, You've got
Speaker 1: Matis Stible as a defender on the perimeter. I was
Speaker 1: told this was a championship ship roster. For the last
Speaker 1: three years they were just getting bad luck. So imagine
Speaker 1: my surprise to read the Sixers realize quote realize that
Speaker 1: their current roster is not suited to win an NBA championship.
Speaker 1: They're determined to upgrade it with established players that can
Speaker 1: help propel them. I am stunned. I how could that
Speaker 1: possibly How how could they possibly come to this conclusion.
Speaker 1: Philly fans have attacked me for years now over this
Speaker 1: exact thing that the ownership. I need to get paid.
Speaker 1: I need to get paid to tell hard truths to
Speaker 1: franchises such as the Sixers, because this would have been
Speaker 1: a lot easier three years ago to do. This would
Speaker 1: have been a lot easier when he didn't pay Tobias
Speaker 1: Harris and he had Jimmy Butler. I tell you that
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen would have been just the year to start
Speaker 1: thinking about tinkering with your wrong like I don't know.
Speaker 1: I pointed out timidly, having a point guard who doesn't
Speaker 1: shoot probably not the best idea. That was right. I
Speaker 1: pointed out that putting one hundred and seventeen percent of
Speaker 1: your offense on the back of a center who has
Speaker 1: a litany of injury concerns and issues and history knees,
Speaker 1: chronic knee issues, back issues, orbital things happening, ankles, backs,
Speaker 1: all those things, maybe not the best idea. He falls
Speaker 1: like every other possession. Maybe maybe you want to get
Speaker 1: him some help the trading, I said, maybe trading two
Speaker 1: first round picks for a guy who forced his way
Speaker 1: out of a place just twelve months ago, only to
Speaker 1: force his way out of another place in that twelve
Speaker 1: month period, while he's still fat and lost his explosiveness
Speaker 1: and wants fifty million dollars a year. By the way,
Speaker 1: maybe just maybe won't work either. Hell hell, I even
Speaker 1: pointed out that maybe just maybe paying Tobias Harris more
Speaker 1: than Luka Doncic isn't a sound financial strategy. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I am absolutely baffled. The Philly thinks that their roster
Speaker 1: has to be significantly upgraded in order to build and
Speaker 1: compete for a chip. POMPEII is now reporting, as of
Speaker 1: today this is the news of the day that the
Speaker 1: Sixers are interested. I read it multiple times. The Sixers
Speaker 1: are currently interested in trading get this list, Tobias Harris, Matisset,
Speaker 1: Thaibel Ferkman, Cork Moss Sheik, Milton, Danny Green, and now
Speaker 1: even the number twenty three pick in this year's draft,
Speaker 1: because why hell not? Let's trade everyone. That is, literally
Speaker 1: every person on the roster. Don't know what to say
Speaker 1: about that. It's winter in the summertime for Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: It's what that is. He said, summer in the wintertime.
Speaker 1: It's winter in the summertime for my man. Ad Well,
Speaker 1: it only took twenty four hours for the entire internet
Speaker 1: to shame Anthony Davis into touching a basketball again, if
Speaker 1: you didn't know, or in this week, which went viral
Speaker 1: because it was an accidental Instagram video where Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: admitted I haven't touched a basketball, not shot a basketball.
Speaker 1: I haven't touched a basketball since April. Excuse me, what April?
Speaker 1: That's two months from now, that's two months ago. That
Speaker 1: is let's be honest, alarming for me, that's alarming. Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith had a and JJ Reddick had a spirited discussion
Speaker 1: about it, and somehow both managed to be wrong at
Speaker 1: the same damn time. Let's play a little bit of
Speaker 1: that for the people.
Speaker 8: This dude shot eighteen from three point rates. Are you
Speaker 8: gonna tell me that after you missed the playoffs, you
Speaker 8: missed the play in with Lebron James is your teammate,
Speaker 8: and you don't work on and you're not working on
Speaker 8: your suit used to be shooting every day. Here's to
Speaker 8: be shooting, playing round. He used to be shooting norf basketball,
Speaker 8: used to be shooting the garbage cads.
Speaker 4: You usuld be shooting.
Speaker 8: Used to go to the rest box and throw the
Speaker 8: damned seat and in the garbage.
Speaker 1: I don't give a deal what it Isold Molly, last
Speaker 1: point before Marvey goes.
Speaker 8: Anthony Davis Went Healthy is a top seven player on
Speaker 8: the planet. I want him to know. That's how I
Speaker 8: think about him. Anthony Davis is big time went healthy,
Speaker 8: But there is no getting around how glaringly absent his
Speaker 8: perimeter shooting was this past season.
Speaker 1: Pause pause, pause, pause, past pause pause. That's a lie,
Speaker 1: that is what. This is a very keen trick that
Speaker 1: stephen A does. He over exaggerates on the positive to
Speaker 1: make an equally outlandish comment on the negative. I know
Speaker 1: your tricks. I do these things. He's not a top
Speaker 1: seven player in the league right now. He's not better
Speaker 1: than Luca. He's not better than Tatum. He's not better
Speaker 1: than Lebron. He's not better than Jaw. He's not better
Speaker 1: than KD. He's not better than Yannis. He's not better
Speaker 1: than probably even Jay Lebron, not Jokic, not Mbat. You're
Speaker 1: not even a top ten player. You're not even probably
Speaker 1: a top fifteen player. If I really had to do
Speaker 1: some analysis on this. So then what did JJ Reddick say.
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick said, Hey, steven A, this is normal. This
Speaker 1: is totally normal. I myself went sometimes two months without
Speaker 1: shooting in the offseason. JJ Reddick for point shooter, and
Speaker 1: frankly so does Steph. Guess what Anthony Davis is not
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. Anthony Davis is not JJ Reddick Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: to get to an elite shooting level. Let me just
Speaker 1: put it this way. You need to put upshots. Practice
Speaker 1: makes perfect. Yes, Anthony Davis struggles with being healthy, but
Speaker 1: you don't have to get up. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: dribble dribble pull up. I'm talking about working on form.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about things that you can do wow in
Speaker 1: the midst of training. Get your body right. Secondarily, JJ
Speaker 1: Reddick and Steph Curry have long seasons. Anthony Davis has
Speaker 1: barely played this year. What are we talking about? Also,
Speaker 1: when your reputation is that your your work ethic is
Speaker 1: in question. Multiple people that I've talked to inside of
Speaker 1: the league have said Anthony Davis has been lazy since
Speaker 1: high school. Anthony Davis has been a top talent since
Speaker 1: he was probably twelve years old, and as a big man.
Speaker 1: Big men on their own have a reputation of not
Speaker 1: being as hard working because the game comes to the
Speaker 1: I'm easier because of their height advantage early on in
Speaker 1: their life and also the fact that they are pushed
Speaker 1: into the game in ways that little guys are not.
Speaker 1: Even if you don't love basketball, if you're about to
Speaker 1: be seven feet tall, you sir, my son, my daughter,
Speaker 1: you are playing basketball. So Anthony Davis reputation for not
Speaker 1: being a hard worker, reputation for slacking in terms of
Speaker 1: his training regimen. Do I think Anthony Davis is getting
Speaker 1: it in pt and putting in three four hours of
Speaker 1: pet to get his ankle right so that he doesn't
Speaker 1: become what do they call him? Glass of bones and
Speaker 1: skin of paper? What is it? What is it they
Speaker 1: call him? Anyway, it's they say. They say it's like
Speaker 1: bones of bones, of glass and skin of paper. I forget,
Speaker 1: But like Anthony Davis, I am certain is not getting
Speaker 1: his body right four or five hours a day. I'm
Speaker 1: certain Anthony Davis not shooting for the touching of basketball,
Speaker 1: not touching not handling nothing when he struggles with the perimeter.
Speaker 1: Do you have it for me street clothes? Yeah, eighty
Speaker 1: street clothes for sure. When your nickname is street clothes.
Speaker 1: Because you never play basketball, you don't need more time off.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, you don't need more time off.
Speaker 1: And this is here's my stephen a move. I love
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis when his game is on, I do. I
Speaker 1: think he's a really good player. I think his confidence
Speaker 1: has diminished as his health has diminished. He's maybe the
Speaker 1: only guy in the NBA who can actually defend Giannis consistently.
Speaker 1: And when he's healthy, I think he's a top fifteen,
Speaker 1: top twenty buck getter in the league. But the key
Speaker 1: word here, folks, is when when he's healthy, and when
Speaker 1: is not very often. His shooting has gotten worse over
Speaker 1: the past five years. He's gone from a high of
Speaker 1: thirty four percent from three to twenty seventeen to eighteen
Speaker 1: percent from three last year. His free throw percentage has
Speaker 1: fallen from eighty five percent in the bubble to seventy
Speaker 1: one percent last year. So forgive me if I say
Speaker 1: it might be worth touching basketball in the off season
Speaker 1: to get that sat up and then this jem. This
Speaker 1: gem dropped on Instagram literally twenty four hours later from
Speaker 1: Chris Matthews, a well known shot doctor who goes by
Speaker 1: the name of Lethal Shooter. So he posts this on Instagram.
Speaker 1: It's amazing twenty four hours after. It's like on first
Speaker 1: take and mad Dog's chime in in and JJ Chaiman
Speaker 1: in and stuff's happening. Letho Shooter says, great workout today
Speaker 1: getting my brother Anthony Davis ready for next season. It's
Speaker 1: been over in a year and a half since we
Speaker 1: locked in. God is truly good to help others master
Speaker 1: the art of shooting. Brothers for life, stay locked in.
Speaker 1: The post had a photo of them to standing courtside,
Speaker 1: which could have been taking at any time. Honestly, pause,
Speaker 1: look at this. It's been over a year and a
Speaker 1: half since we locked in. That's a rickish shot at
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. Listen, kid, maybe you need to pay me
Speaker 1: so we can get into the gym and your shots
Speaker 1: can go up. Come on now. First of all, I
Speaker 1: love how the Internet shamed Ad into putting basketball in
Speaker 1: his hand again. He called up Lethal Shooter and he's like,
Speaker 1: I gotta figure this out. This is they're burning me
Speaker 1: up in the streets right now. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to say. I got Rob Planket calling me, I got
Speaker 1: Genie Buss calling me. I got Braun being like, what,
Speaker 1: you don't touch a basketball for two months? What? I
Speaker 1: wish the internet existed in like the nineteen twenties, so
Speaker 1: people would have like tracked this and been like, Yo, Picasso,
Speaker 1: haven't seen you with my many brushes in your hand?
Speaker 1: Where's the art at? What's happening? First take? Next? Up
Speaker 1: on first take? What's happening? I saw this Instagram video
Speaker 1: Picasso mentioned that he hasn't touched a paint brush in
Speaker 1: over three months. You know that's very normal, actually, Jean
Speaker 1: Michelle baskyat, I think he's done the same thing. You
Speaker 1: don't know art, You don't know how these things work.
Speaker 1: Jackson Paula doesn't need to pick up a paint brush.
Speaker 1: He goes, he has to keep his hands sturdy. And
Speaker 1: then the next day and then the next day you
Speaker 1: see like awesome, awesome time in the lab ig post
Speaker 1: of him working on musicians with masks, just Pablo getting
Speaker 1: the work in with the brush, yep, working on my
Speaker 1: surrealism cubism today just me and Lethal Painter in the lab.
Speaker 1: Imagine having to be shamed by the Internet into playing
Speaker 1: the sport in which you're currently making thirty five million
Speaker 1: dollars a year to do. Hey, if you're a Laker fan,
Speaker 1: it could be worse. You could have Ben Simmons who
Speaker 1: never touches the basketball. Literally. I think I saw it
Speaker 1: on Twitter's like Ben Simmons is doing a collab with
Speaker 1: a Ferrari. Somebody quote tweeted, When's he gonna do a
Speaker 1: collab with a basketball? That's all the time that we
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