WEBVTT - Worst Behavior 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:00.720 Warning. 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:03.640 If you're prone to get your feelings hurt and are 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.320 a person that doesn't like to laugh, this pod is 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:09.640 not for you. If you're looking for serious analysis and 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:12.440 hate the drama of the NBA, this pod is not 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:16.240 for you. If you're looking for something soothing like ASMR, 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.040 this pod is not for you. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.239 On this episode of This League, we break down the 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.079 holy shit hard into the nets, how we got there, 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.880 the latest developments for Kyrie Irving, the NBA strict new 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.600 COVID protocols that have some guys in a tizzy, and 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:34.800 we hit some listener voicemails. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.680 All right, let's get into it. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:42.400 We're when the Houston Rockets said they were willing to 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:47.120 get uncomfortable when it came to James Harden. 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:48.160 Uh. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.120 Yeah, that escalated pretty quickly, didn't it. 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.479 I would say that in the last few days things 0:00:53.640 --> 0:01:01.520 got pretty uncomfortable, like cringe levels of unc comfortable. Let's 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.319 recap where we were prior to James Harden getting shipped 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:10.560 out of Houston. Head coach gone, GM gone co star one, gone, 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:15.440 co Star two gone. I mean, Russell Westbrook was happy 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.520 to go to the Washington Wizards. That's how bad we 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.840 were at and James Harden saw all that and was like. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.160 The champion, the championship. 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.440 Window was closed, and he just knew that things were 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.360 not gonna work out, and I mean fair enough, they 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.200 weren't gonna work out. So then he asked for trade 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.679 right then after he asked the organization for a trade 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:40.200 through his handlers, he made sure that the trade request 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.000 was public, and. 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.200 Then Houston was like, thanks for that. 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.240 Uh, we hear you, but we're gonna wait until we 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.760 get the offer that we want. We are willing to 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:59.760 get uncomfortable as it relates to James Harden and maybe 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.440 just maybe when you see our roster or John Wall 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:08.679 or DeMarcus Cousins said, maybe you might feel differently. And 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:15.520 then Harden was like, you want to get uncomfortable. Challenge accepted, 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.239 Let's do this. I'm gonna go to strip clubs instead 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.359 of training camp. I'm gonna go and party in Vegas 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.960 with rappers. I'm gonna break COVID protocol. I'm gonna be 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:32.840 forced to quarantine. I'm gonna sprain my ankle. I'm gonna 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.519 have the least amount of points in a five game 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.600 stretch since the time I was a six man in Oklahoma. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:38.919 City. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:44.440 How uncomfortable are you down to get as uncomfortable as 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:49.960 I am in this baby blue jumpsuit. I'm willing to 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:57.000 show up forty pounds overweight, not even close to game shape. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:04.399 And then no news, zero crickets, just wide angled shots 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:10.000 of James Harden in a rapidly expanding weight and as 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:14.040 someone who's starting an NBA podcast, I was pretty fucking disappointed. 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.680 Yeah, I mean until the other night when they got 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.480 smoked by the Lakers. I got on that bet train, 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:21.120 did you Oh yeah, I had it. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.959 And the world wanted to know, James, why can't it 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.240 why can't you compete with the Lakers? 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:35.680 And he says, which was shocking. 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.640 Yeah, I mean one of the all time presser moments. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.480 I mean, right, the world was stopped. It felt like 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.200 he said. I was thinking he would say, you know, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.240 we tried hard, we went out you know, these lots 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.400 to do, lots of change or keeping our heads up, 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.640 and he said what he said was, Wow, We're just 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:01.200 not good enough. We're not even close to good enough 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:02.920 to the other elite teams. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:10.520 Chemistry wise, talent wise, everything everything. It's clear. I love 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:11.000 the city. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:17.800 I've done literally all I can the situation's crazy and 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:23.880 I don't think it can be fixed. And then he left, Yeah, 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.720 just got up left. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:31.039 What a world class bust toss. 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:34.360 I mean, seriously, when with the last time you heard 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.680 someone say that about anyone that they worked with, let 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:43.520 alone the entire roster, Like, just throw them all to 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:44.000 the wolves. 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.240 You guys are all trash. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:51.320 Not good enough, James Harden, Your seventeen point four points 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:52.719 a game isn't good enough. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.200 Shooting thirty eight percent isn't good enough. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:05:00.400 You showing up the way you look is certain not 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.960 good enough as it relates to chemistry. Holy fuck, you 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:08.640 seem like the toxic one here. Everyone else is pretty 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:13.400 much like looking around like yo, you James are the 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:18.120 breaking point that makes this situation impossible to be vexed. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:18.360 Fam. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:26.080 I gasped when I heard that, oh man, And then 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.200 the media, of course, was like, hey, John Wall, did 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.400 you hear what James Harden had to say about you? 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.200 And then he was like, yeah, no comment, but. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:38.600 He did describe the relationship so far with James Harden. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.480 Oh, I think it's been a little rocky. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.680 I can't lie about that. I mean, I don't think 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:44.160 he's been the. 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.320 Best he could be to be honest, that's all I 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:53.400 really could say. Oh gosh, and then I mean, yes, 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:57.080 it's been rocky. And then which is even better. DeMarcus 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.160 Cousins was like, let's throw the filter off this. 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:04.719 Bitch me personally, I don't feel betrayed at all my 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:09.400 interest playing with John Wall to be brutally honest. That 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:18.120 being said, the disrespect started way before, just a approach 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:22.240 to training camp. Showing up the way he did, the 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.480 antics off the court. I mean, the disrespect started way before. 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.240 So this isn't something that you know, all of a 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.880 sudden happened, you know, last night. But with that being said, 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.719 like I said, this is the nasty part of the business, 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:39.840 So it is what it is. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:41.360 Yeah. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.880 Uh. The part that I can't get enough of is 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:50.679 showing up the way he did. De Marcus Cousins says 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.800 James Harden. The disrespect started way earlier when he showed 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:59.039 up the way he did. You mean, fat as hell, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.080 couldn't even fit into his warm ups, looked like he 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.640 was in a Santa Claus suit with some baby blues on. 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.280 Folks, This isn't something that just happened last night. We 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:11.840 know that, we know that. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.520 Thank you, DeMarcus Cousins were saying exactly well. 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:16.160 We've been thinking. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:19.600 I mean, the shocking thing is that we hadn't heard 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.080 any of this until just a couple of days ago. 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.160 I'm surprised, I mean in this league. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.160 Yeah, I mean, it sounds like there were just so 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.760 many problems going on there, and like maybe if there were, 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.200 maybe James Harden was just afraid of DeMarcus Cousins and 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.080 just shocked couldn't be around them. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:35.520 No doubt. 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.280 I don't think anyone at this point after this presser 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.720 was like, the Rockets are in a good negotiating spot. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.480 At this point, It's clear James Harden's not coming back. 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.320 He is not safe to return to. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:57.920 This locker room because DeMarcus Cousins is there waiting for him. 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:09.120 And yet somehow, some way, the Rockets fleeced the Brooklyn 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:14.840 Nets into four first round picks and then four pick 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:21.320 swaps the max allowed. And then somehow the Rockets were 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:25.000 able to wriggle their way in. Were Tillman Frittata as 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.440 I would like to call him, found a way to 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.400 not have Kris the Vertz contract on their books, but 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.840 they haven't expiring in Victor Oladipo. 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.280 I just don't understand, Like. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.360 If the Rockets were forced to make this trade at gunpoint, 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:46.319 which they certainly seemed to be after that whole fiasco, how. 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:47.880 Were the Nets the one that got held up? 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:49.680 How? 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:51.920 Okay? 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:59.520 So the trades complicated to my little brain, Pacers, Nets, Rockets, Cats, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.920 And the interesting and crazy thing to me is that 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.120 like the three teams that got better are the ones 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:05.480 that did not get James Harden. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.080 Please explain to me this deal? 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:09.320 Mark? 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.440 All Right, I've got it. I've spent some time on 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.400 and I think I've got it down. Okay, So the 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:22.160 Rockets pick up Oladipo, Dante exim Rodion's currux are spelling? Sorry? 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.240 Three brook Brooklyn first rounders twenty two to twenty four 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.679 to twenty six one Milwaukee first. I guess this is 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.480 where the Calves thing came in. That's a twenty two 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:37.400 unprotected four Brooklyn first round pick. Swaps twenty one, twenty three, 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:41.760 twenty five, twenty seven. Nets get James Harden, Pacers pick 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.040 up Carris Lavert and a second rounder, and the Calves 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.720 somehow get Jared Allen and Torrian Prince. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.559 Torrian Prince quietly playing pretty well this This situation went 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:56.680 from He's uncomfortable to this looks pretty fucking bad to 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.960 oh my god, something's gotta give to are used to 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.520 this is real life. In like ten minutes, I needed 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:07.640 two phones to keep up. Harden not only bullied his 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.079 way out of Houston, he bullied the President of the 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.360 United States off of our timelines, like I can't even 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.240 actually tell whether the president was impeach is about to 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.080 be impeached? Is it a second time? Is it the 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.840 first time? Where we still talking it through, because that's 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.760 how much that dominated what we were seeing on Twitter. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.439 Yeah, it's funny. We kind of shrugged off the presidential impeachment, 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.839 right okay, and all. 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:35.080 Of this is going on, and I just have to know, like, 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:38.240 where's Kyrie in all this? 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:41.800 Where is Kyrie Irving? 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.560 This league the news if this James Harden thing wasn't 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.120 gonna come out and the big lead was gonna be 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.480 Kyrie Irving Because the moment we stepped out of this booth, 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.160 I got a little timeline update and it was like, Hey, 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.319 by the way, have you seen where Kyrie Irving has been? 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:58.760 He has not been. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:04.600 Contemplating philosophy and our democracy he was at a birthday 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:08.760 party for his sister, large gathering with zero masks on large, 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:13.760 putting himself front and center. Again, three shows in a row. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.520 Now where we're talking about Kyrie Irving? 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.720 So what did he do? Okay, so he went to 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:21.640 this birthday party. 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:23.920 Oh as an aside, by the way, did you see 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.520 what he put on his Instagram. 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:26.520 For his dad? 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:26.800 No? 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.240 I don't follow Kyrie. What he say? 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:34.280 Shocker? He said happy? What do you say? Happy? Journey 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.000 around the Sun? King? 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:37.160 Wait? 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:37.559 Wait? 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:39.280 Wow? 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.479 Okay, So if. 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:46.280 The Earth is flat, how can we rotate around the sun? 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:48.680 Anyway? 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.160 So Kyrie broke protocol and now we don't know if 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:53.760 he's gonna play basketball this. 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:56.120 Season, we don't know when he's returning. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.959 And now the NBA is looking into Kyrie for breaking protocol. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.160 And now he's got a test negative multiple times. 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.640 He's got to quarantine. The whole thing is just a mess. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.080 No matter what Sean Marks has to say, we're not 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:12.240 even sure if Kyrie wants to return. And the only 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.360 reason that we know he's still alive based on a 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.120 photo that surfaced of him with two hundred people on it, 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:23.720 which was like a zoom rally with a wait, a 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:31.320 former star of Sex and the City, Cynthia Nixon endorsing 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:36.400 some candidate for District Attorney of Manhattan, and Kyrie was like, yes, 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.440 me and my activist self are ready to go. Hey, 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.559 heads up, Kyrie, there's a game going on right now 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.800 that you're supposed to be playing in. As the zume 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.960 call is going on, you might have told them, Hey, 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.040 I have this Nuggets game on my calendar. 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.320 Can we reschedule a game? 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:53.720 Yes? 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.439 Fuck this guy. 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:00.600 That's a perfect describe it. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:06.800 And my wonder is, does the arrival of James Harden 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:12.400 make it more or less likely that Kyrie is coming 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:13.480 back to the squad. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.360 My guess is less likely. 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.240 Because he's already expressed I don't know if you remember this, 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.600 but because it's just all gotten lost in the shuffle. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.280 But Kyrie already expressed his lack. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:30.000 Of enthusiasm for the potential trade of James Harden. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:32.160 The quote is. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.720 What again, Marty Uh Okay, I've got it. It's James 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.160 is a great player, and we wish him well. I 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.880 just want him to be happy, be secure in who 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.839 he is as a man first and then as a 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:47.800 basketball player. Whatever happens. Thosetions are between them, but we're 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.960 focused on us. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.080 So much to unpack. In that sense, I think you 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:57.880 could very clearly say he was not anticipating James Harden's arrival. 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:03.480 He needs to be secure in who he is as 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:08.079 a man first. That's a strip club shot. That is 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:12.200 a strip club shot. Anyway, Sorry, Kyrie, but he Harden 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:18.360 is now US. US now includes James Harden as long 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.840 as Kyrie is a NET. But now I'm not even 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.600 sure if this is true. But at the exact same 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.120 time that James Harden was being traded to the Nets, 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:33.240 there was a new tweet surfacing by sn y and 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:38.480 the tweet was update First, I'm hearing a ton of 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.440 Nets Kyrie stuff this morning. Sounds like an absolute mess 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:48.960 developing update big red flashing lights in the tweet. I'm 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:53.320 being told Kyrie's been furious at the organization for some 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.960 time for not giving him more input on the head 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:57.640 coach hiring. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:59.600 He was not in favor of Steve Nash. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:05.120 Also, also, his relationship with Kevin Durant has been described. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.440 As very distant recently. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:11.000 Ma'am. 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.440 I said it on the last episode. 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:20.440 This marriage is not built for the long term. Someone 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.400 is gonna go somewhere, and now that the Nets to 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:27.160 have James Harden and we know, I'm I'm sure what 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.480 Kyrie thinks of that. It's not a stretch to me 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.400 that Kyrie is gonna take the season off and just 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:36.520 be like you guys, do you I'm gonna continue on 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:41.080 these zoom rallies with the rest of my artist activist politicians. 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.680 What did I say about the Nets the last episode, Marty, 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:50.160 can you find that clip? I think we have a 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.119 dysfunctional organization on our hands. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:16:01.320 That aged perfectly, because I would say as things develop, 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:06.040 the more that takes sounds spot on. You've got the Nets, 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.800 who went from a pair of superstars, one that was 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:13.880 like somewhat known as being a cancer and another superstar 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:18.760 that's moody as hell to a superstar that's moody as 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.200 hell and another other star that's been known as a 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:26.120 locker room cancer. And then you add Kyrie to the 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:27.840 mix and we don't even know if he's coming back. 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:28.760 We're not sure. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.000 So now you have two possible cancers and a guy 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:34.960 who at best is. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.480 Moody with a lot of lower body issues. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:41.960 So we are one protest and one soft tissue injury 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:48.720 away from the Brooklyn Nets being the twenty twenty Houston 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.920 Rockets without John Wall just James Harden balling with a 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.800 bunch of Jags, just a bunch of just guys. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:57.720 And that is. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:04.280 The best case. The visitation no longer comes. Yeah, I'd 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.000 say that's a great place to stop it, because the 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.720 visitations are no longer coming for folks in the NBA. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:15.400 No no, since this last episode again timely COVID ravishing, 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.720 ravaging the league, and the NBA is like, Okay, let's 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:20.520 straighten this shit out. 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.560 We're going to make some new rules protocols. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:27.480 And I have to say, everything is hard to keep 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:27.880 up with. 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.680 How can I be up to speed? Marty? Please tell 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:31.439 me the new rules? 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:36.439 Okay, So here's the latest. Pregame and postgame Opposing players 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:40.560 are limited to fist and elbow bumps with no extended socializing. 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:45.000 No non team guests in hotel rooms that might be 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.800 an issue. Players are now prohibited from leaving the hotel 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:53.320 for non team related activities and at home for at 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.040 least the next two weeks. Players should avoid interacting with 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.159 people who don't live or work regularly in their homes, 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:03.520 and as for coaches and team staff members, are required 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.440 to remain at home when in their home markets unless 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:10.680 they are attending team related activities, exercising outside, performing in 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:15.119 essential activities, or going out for what the League termed 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.440 extraordinary circumstances. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:24.920 Oh my god, that is a lot, quite a lot. 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.719 So basically it's like, stay the fuck in your house, 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:32.320 see no one unless they live with you. Kind of 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:36.119 like I don't know, March, when we were all sheltering 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:40.679 in place when COVID levels were through the roof, but 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.119 also lower than they are right this fucking second. 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:45.800 Yeah, I mean, I can't imagine this is sitting well 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:47.720 with a lot of the vets. 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.800 Bingo, bingo. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:55.400 We already have vocal descent on our fans, folks. Okay, 0:18:55.400 --> 0:19:00.840 sees George Hill. We'll call them a journeyman about these 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:04.240 new rules. And I tell you what it was about 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.560 as close to fuck you, Adam Silver as you are 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:11.000 possibly going to get without him actually say saying those words. 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.800 He says, I'm a grown man. 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.400 This is a quote. I'm a grown man. I'm going 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:19.760 to do what I want to do. 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:21.680 If I want to go and see my family, I'm 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.080 gonna go and see my family. They can't tell me 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:26.280 I have to stay in a room twenty four to seven. 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.919 If it's that serious, then maybe we shouldn't be playing. 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:31.080 But it's life. 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.359 No one is going to be able to just cancel 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:41.159 their whole life for this game. Whoa whoa Marty. George 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.520 Hill was drafted in two thousand and eight. If I 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:44.640 remember correctly. 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:45.040 I think that's right. 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.880 How much has George Hill made in his career? 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:49.440 Uh? 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.480 Yeah, this is his thirteenth year in the league and 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.240 his lifetime earnings is ninety four million, four hundred and 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.800 sixty five thousand and some change. 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.359 Easy to say fuck to Adam Silver when you have 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:06.119 one hundred milli that you've made in your career. A 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:09.679 thirty five year old man with a decade of NBA 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.000 checks under his belt looking at these new COVID rules 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:13.399 and he's. 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:18.119 Like, you know what, sh I'm grown. We shouldn't play 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.480 if we are under lock and key. This is ridiculous. 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.560 And you know what those rules, those Kittler rules you 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:25.840 think you're about to put in place. 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:27.480 I'm grown. 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.280 I'm gonna do whatever I want to do. Good luck 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:35.119 trying to enforce those, Adam Silver. And you know, George 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:36.959 Hill for sure has a point. I mean that is 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:41.480 like a crazy set of rules. And then I thought 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.040 to myself, I wonder if everybody's feeling this way. I 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:48.920 wonder if the entire league is ready to overthrow Adam 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:51.080 Silver and his nonsense. 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:55.320 And then Shay Gilgris Alexander third. 0:20:55.119 --> 0:21:02.800 Year player, great guy, said this wildly different take. 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:05.199 It's what's necessary. 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:07.320 I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get rid 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.560 of COVID if it means I have to wear a 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:11.840 mask on the bench the whole time. It is what 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.960 it is, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna go back. 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.080 I want us to get back to normal living. Whatever 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:20.800 it takes to get back, I am gonna do it. 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.320 SHA's like, Yeah, I don't know what he's saying. 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:29.360 He's a company man. 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:31.840 So how much is Shane made in his career? 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:36.800 So Shay's lifetime earnings are seven point three MILI and 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.360 he's on his rookie contract until twenty twenty two. 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:42.000 Yeah, it's a little different. 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:46.000 A little different viewpoint from Shae. He's like, I don't 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:48.040 know what George Hill is talking about, but I am 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:52.119 down for whatever you guys need us to do in 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:54.359 order for this thing to keep rocking for me to 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:56.199 keep getting those checks. 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:58.080 I am on a rookie contract. 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:02.360 I've got bills to pay, and with the NBA stops, 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:05.200 I don't know where I'm gonna get my next paycheck from. 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.320 And if we cancel the season, then the CBA's ripped up, 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.600 and the CBA's ripped up that I don't get paid 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:15.119 coming into my new contract. I'll do whatever it fucking takes, 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:17.000 whatever I need to do. I'll wear a mask and 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:19.439 bad if I have to. I'll wear a mask in 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:24.119 the shower if I have to. Shit, don't listen to 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:26.960 George show. We got this, we got this. There's a 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:31.600 reason that there's no ring. George Hill saying this instead 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:37.640 of multiple ring winner Lebron James same age, and Lebron's like, shit, 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:40.920 I'm thirty six. I don't have any time to waste. 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.120 I got a legacy to build people. I have more 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:46.320 rings to accumulate. I am the greatest of all time. 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:49.880 The Lakers have one goal in mind, and it's like, yo, 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:52.200 let's repeat. I don't know what all these other people 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:56.159 are doing these jamokes, but we're gonna stay focused and 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:57.280 they're doing everything they can. 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:00.040 We haven't heard a peep about not a close. 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:04.840 Contact, not a COVID case, not anybody breaking protocol. Lebron 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:08.440 has got them locked in. No one's chirping about the 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:13.679 rules and LA is ground zero. That's the highest amount 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:16.119