Speaker 1: So as a lot of people predicted the Denver Nuggets
Speaker 1: beat down the Heat, they gave them a good old
Speaker 1: kurb stomp in Game one.
Speaker 2: You could say the little bit of it is.
Speaker 1: A hangover from the long series that the Heat had
Speaker 1: against Boston where they let that sweep slip away. You
Speaker 1: could say it was that insane difficult to breathe altitude
Speaker 1: in Mile High City. You could even say that the
Speaker 1: Heat were just got off of from three and that
Speaker 1: was the reason. Probably all three have a bit of
Speaker 1: truth to them, really, but the reality of the situation is,
Speaker 1: for at least tonight, Denver was just better. They were
Speaker 1: just much much better than Miami. Because, by the way,
Speaker 1: they're a better team, they have better players, they have
Speaker 1: a better star, they have a better second star. They
Speaker 1: are the superior team. What do we like about Miami
Speaker 1: other cockroaches.
Speaker 2: That's what we like about him.
Speaker 1: And you know what happens with a cockroach, Blow up
Speaker 1: the home that the cockroaches in and see what still
Speaker 1: lives the cockroach. That's the only narrative we have really
Speaker 1: to go off of. Score one oh four ninety three
Speaker 1: was never really that close. Caleb Martin was a tercious Duncan, Robinson,
Speaker 1: Max Juice all together shot an astounding two for twenty three.
Speaker 2: From the field.
Speaker 1: Yep, you heard that right. Three of Miami's snipers from
Speaker 1: three shot the ball twenty three times. They came away
Speaker 1: with checks notes six points total.
Speaker 2: That's bad. That's really bad.
Speaker 1: The Nuggets held Jimmy Butler to He was not himmy.
Speaker 2: He was more like I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was more like forgimme, like because you
Speaker 1: forgot about him.
Speaker 2: He had thirteen points.
Speaker 1: The heat will not beat anyone if their four snipers
Speaker 1: shoot a combined eight for thirty seven. That is twenty
Speaker 1: one point six percent from the field, nineteen total points
Speaker 1: for a quartet that averaged sixty seven points per game
Speaker 1: in the Celtics series. The only player on the entire
Speaker 1: team with a positive plus minus is a shocking, shocking
Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry ota plus two, which, let me be honest
Speaker 1: with you didn't see that coming. But really it was
Speaker 1: really just all about the Denver Nuggets and what they
Speaker 1: did right. You know, their starters they scored ninety points
Speaker 1: compared to Miami sixty one. They played all a minimum
Speaker 1: of thirty six minutes. The only player on the starting
Speaker 1: five that didn't score in double figures was Kentavious called
Speaker 1: woll Pope. Jokic pretty much was able to do whatever
Speaker 1: he wanted, dimed everybody up like he was selling rock
Speaker 1: in Inglewood. In Snowfalls twenty seven, fourteen and ten. He
Speaker 1: could add forty twenty and twenty. Honestly, Jokic can score
Speaker 1: whenever he wants. Against bam Adebayo Murray twenty six along
Speaker 1: with ten assists, he was incredible. They looked like the
Speaker 1: team that everybody built them as. They nullified much of
Speaker 1: what Miami does really well while managing to be exactly
Speaker 1: what they were supposed to be, and their identity of
Speaker 1: the team was on offense. It was really fun to
Speaker 1: watch if you're a hardcore basketball fan. It was really
Speaker 1: fun to watch if you're a Denver Nugget fan, and
Speaker 1: if you're anyone else, probably was horrible. Actually, specifically if
Speaker 1: you're a Miami Heat fan. I'm sure Dan LeBatard and
Speaker 1: them boys are shaking in their boots. The thing though,
Speaker 1: about this win, the Nuggets just really didn't do anything extraordinary.
Speaker 1: They didn't need a fifty point game from Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: or Yokic. I'm sure Yokic, though, could have given them
Speaker 1: fifty at any point in time. In the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: he decided, oh, I want to score now, and he
Speaker 1: just made everything. They played their starting five pretty much
Speaker 1: the entire game, and they said, listen, see if you
Speaker 1: can beat our starters, and they could not. Not in
Speaker 1: the first quarter, in the second quarter. Now, in the
Speaker 1: third quarter, the only time Miami got traction was when
Speaker 1: the starters for the Nuggets were not on the floor,
Speaker 1: when it was our man Christian Brown and Jeff Green
Speaker 1: getting minutes.
Speaker 2: So now the heat.
Speaker 1: Are They're facing a deficit for the first time in
Speaker 1: this playoffs. I think even they might have potentially expected this.
Speaker 1: We have no Jimmy Butler press conference footage, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure he's gonna say they remain confident and to be fair,
Speaker 1: if Miami comes out and they compete well in Game two,
Speaker 1: I think that's a big victory for them to split
Speaker 1: it in Denver, or even just compete in game two.
Speaker 2: Spolster is going to counter.
Speaker 1: We know that the question is can you attack the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets and make your offense The primary thing that
Speaker 1: they need to counter. Are the Nuggets gonna go with
Speaker 1: their starting five nearly the whole game once again. Are
Speaker 1: we gonna see Miami shoot some fucking threes? What is
Speaker 1: Michael Malone aka Mike Malone going.
Speaker 2: To cook up? What a fun start to the finals.
Speaker 1: It is almost midnight and I am still juiced, so
Speaker 1: ready for Game two, which comes Sunday. Let's move forward
Speaker 1: though somber news from Adam Silver in front of the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals Game one. So as you know, Adam Silver
Speaker 1: takes the podium before the Finals every year, takes the
Speaker 1: mic just before the NBA's most important event, and he
Speaker 1: gives a speech on.
Speaker 2: You guessed it, Jam Morant, and let's just be honest.
Speaker 1: When I watched it, I did not come away thinking, well,
Speaker 1: that's good news for jaw My guy came away thinking
Speaker 1: oh fuck. It had the tone of the conversation in
Speaker 1: Adam Silver's pause and cadence, and just the entire tenor
Speaker 1: of the vible call vibe check bad. Had all the
Speaker 1: gravity of a president in a sci fi movie standing
Speaker 1: up in front of the American people and saying, we
Speaker 1: got ourselves. Unfortunately, we have miscalculated and we have an
Speaker 1: alien invasion. That's what it felt like, Folks looked he
Speaker 1: looked so sad to be announcing this news. He looked
Speaker 1: even almost menacing, like he was about to hand down
Speaker 1: two years of suspension, like a Mormon father who catches
Speaker 1: his daughter sneaking into the house drunk at four am.
Speaker 2: That is short of it. Really, As I call him now.
Speaker 1: Darth Silver, he basically said that we were investigating Jaw
Speaker 1: as we do, and we found some shit, and we're
Speaker 1: not going to tell you what that shit is right
Speaker 1: now out of respect for our premier event, the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: And honestly, he's already indefinitely suspended, so it's not gonna
Speaker 1: change much. I was like, holy shit, he said, he's
Speaker 1: already indefinitely suspended. Here if you don't want to believe me,
Speaker 1: I've got obviously receipts.
Speaker 3: In terms of the timing, We've uncovered a fair amount
Speaker 3: of additional information. I think since I was still asked
Speaker 3: about the situation, I would say, we probably could have
Speaker 3: brought it to a head now, but we made the decision,
Speaker 3: and I believe the Players Association agrees with us that
Speaker 3: it would be unfair to these players and these teams
Speaker 3: in the middle of the series to announce the results
Speaker 3: of that investigation and given that we course in the offseason.
Speaker 3: He has now been suspended by his by the Memphis Grizzlies,
Speaker 3: and definitely and so nothing would have changed anyway.
Speaker 1: Nothing would have changed anyway doesn't mean he's been emancipated,
Speaker 1: feel sleeve. If nothing would have changed, He's probably about
Speaker 1: to be suspended, folks. Adam Silver looks like he's presiding
Speaker 1: over a wake. He has all the demeanor of a
Speaker 1: doctor telling a young, seemingly healthy twenty seven year old
Speaker 1: that he has terminal cancer.
Speaker 2: It was rough, it was bad. Bad. Jaw is gonna get.
Speaker 1: Suspended, suspended like ooh, like Gilbert or Rena suspended.
Speaker 2: I don't even know, man. Maybe it's the entire season.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, because shit's got to hit the fan and
Speaker 1: the Tea Morant Jahn Morant household. We might be losing
Speaker 1: one of the biggest stars, a player who now everyone
Speaker 1: is wearing his shoes for a half a season minimum.
Speaker 2: Maybe the whole damn year. Wow.
Speaker 1: Bad for business.