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Speaker 1: mass by the score of one one on four. Lebron
Speaker 1: James his first triple double of the season and the
Speaker 1: oldest player in the NBA history to record a triple
Speaker 1: double twenty eight points, ten rebounds, twelve assists. Joe, you
Speaker 1: watch this game to night, you watch Lebron. What did
Speaker 1: you think? How did you think he looked?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: He looked great tonight, Ocho. He got off to a
Speaker 3: great start. You know that first quarter. He had sixteen
Speaker 3: in the first quarter, o Cho, I said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: he gotta go. He he when he started hitting you
Speaker 3: with that little walk out there, look out, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what time it is. You know what time
Speaker 3: it is. So I knew he was gonna be in
Speaker 3: for a great night. And I think he understands the
Speaker 3: moment too, man, knowing that you know, Luca's out. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he can go out there and get twenty five thirty
Speaker 3: on Ocho, but to be able to get tennisists with that,
Speaker 3: I think, uh, he knows that that's that's definitely needed
Speaker 3: for that team to keep other guys involved so they
Speaker 3: can just stay afloat to Luca getting back. And I
Speaker 3: mean it's the game to close out the All Star break. Bro,
Speaker 3: he knew how important this was just to have that
Speaker 3: winning morale, you know, going into All Star Break on
Speaker 3: a winning note, knowing that this second half of the season.
Speaker 3: It's gonna make it break you right here.
Speaker 1: Twelve assists and ten rebounds, along with twenty eight points
Speaker 1: ten or twenty from the floor. He didn't shoot the
Speaker 1: three ball well. Although he got off to a great
Speaker 1: starter of shooting the three ball. He missed his last
Speaker 1: I think he missed his last five attempts on the
Speaker 1: three ball.
Speaker 2: But I thought he played well.
Speaker 1: He knows, like you said, Joe, he knows Luca's out
Speaker 1: and Austin Reeves is on the minutes restriction, so he
Speaker 1: had to play well. I thought Ruy played really well.
Speaker 1: Also hit some big shots. They swung the ball like
Speaker 1: some nice catching shoots. But he also was able to
Speaker 1: put the ball on the floor. Now he'll get to
Speaker 1: put the ball on the floor and get to that
Speaker 1: mid range and pull up from there.
Speaker 2: But I thought the overall they played well.
Speaker 1: Look, the Mavericks are very under man They've traded Ad
Speaker 1: Cooper Flag is out with a mid foot spring and
Speaker 1: so clearly they're rebuilding. They're gonna center everything around Cooper
Speaker 1: Flag moving for and it says you know what, you know,
Speaker 1: they played hard. I mean I wish, I wish the
Speaker 1: Lakers could have kept Max Christy. I really like Max Christy,
Speaker 1: but hey, it is what it is. But this team
Speaker 1: right now, they're not gonna really compete. They might as well,
Speaker 1: you know, don't do that. Don't do what Utah is doing.
Speaker 1: And some of these other teams are doing trying to
Speaker 1: tank because this is a pretty solid draft coming up.
Speaker 2: Oh, Joe, you see Lebron do what he does, and Joe,
Speaker 2: you know the problem.
Speaker 1: The thing is is that when you've been great as
Speaker 1: Lebron has, people don't factor in that the man is
Speaker 1: forty one. We just oh, Joe, you know this with Tom?
Speaker 1: This how I work with Tom. I don't care he
Speaker 1: forty two. I don't care he's forty three. He's Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: And I want to see four hundred four touchdowns and
Speaker 1: no interceptions. And when you great, this is the level
Speaker 1: of expectations that people have for you. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like your kids, no matter how old they get. I'm like,
Speaker 1: y'all thirty got kids of your own, y'all still expect
Speaker 1: your Christmas gifts.
Speaker 2: Damn fang so but this was this look middle to it.
Speaker 1: I mean, Joe, they don't they don't have they're gonna this.
Speaker 1: I think this team Maverick is gonna look very different
Speaker 1: next year.
Speaker 2: I really do. Oh yeah, yeah, they're gonna look different.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, we just it's unfortunate because we never
Speaker 3: seen you know, obviously what Nico Harrison was trying to
Speaker 3: put together there in Dallas, and that was Kyrie and
Speaker 3: a d playing together Cooper fo Yeah, with Cooper Flag.
Speaker 3: You know, it's just without Kyrie, man, I'm gonna keep
Speaker 3: it real. No, none of this work, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, You just you just you just need him
Speaker 3: at the helm, you know, controlling things obviously him being
Speaker 3: a prolific score that he is.
Speaker 2: But they just they missed so much. Bro.
Speaker 3: It's just Yes, it's a tough time now for Dallas,
Speaker 3: so I expect that, you know, the Lakers to kind
Speaker 3: of blow this thing up to night.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: When you look at you look at Kyrie. He's a
Speaker 1: guy that can get his own shot. He's a three
Speaker 1: level scorer. He's the best under six foot of wil
Speaker 1: with all of us, He's the best finisher at his
Speaker 1: sides in NBA here.
Speaker 2: Street nobody can fins. Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he is above the rim, but the
Speaker 1: english that he can put on the ball right left,
Speaker 1: and people don't realize Kyrie does everything with his left
Speaker 1: hand except you the basketball with that being saved.
Speaker 2: I mean he's phenomenal. I mean, you can get the
Speaker 2: three ball off.
Speaker 1: We saw that in the NBA Final when he hit
Speaker 1: the biggest shot of his career in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: We know he can get to the mid range.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to putting the ball on the
Speaker 1: floor and pat in the rock and finishing at the rim, he's.
Speaker 2: Second to none.
Speaker 1: And he doesn't take a back seat to anybody. So
Speaker 1: he's special in that aspect. And I think him and
Speaker 1: Cooper flag in the pick and roll. I would have
Speaker 1: loved to see Cooper flag, Ad and Kyrie, but unfortunately
Speaker 1: we never got an opportunity to see that materialized. We
Speaker 1: didn't get a whole lot of opportunity to see Kyrie
Speaker 1: and Ad because as soon as as soon as Ad
Speaker 1: got there growing and then shortly after that, Kyrie ends
Speaker 1: up tearing his ACL. So we never, like you said, Joe,
Speaker 1: what Nico probably envisioned for this team, it never got
Speaker 1: an opportunity to materialize because both of the guys that
Speaker 1: he was counting on ended up getting hurt.
Speaker 4: You want to now I was gonna say, I really
Speaker 4: enjoyed a nice game, obviously the Lakers playing against a
Speaker 4: depleted as depleted MAVs team. But it's also talked to
Speaker 4: the greatness of Lebron James, that he doesn't get enough credit.
Speaker 4: A lot of people chastised him despite what he accomplished
Speaker 4: throughout his career, being in his twenty second twenty second
Speaker 4: to twenty third, being in his twenty third year, and
Speaker 4: seeing him evolve over the years, and seeing how he
Speaker 4: played the night, obviously Luca being out and Lebron, whether
Speaker 4: whether he has to play on the ball or off
Speaker 4: the ball, and being able to do some of the
Speaker 4: things he did tonight, obviously setting the tone for the
Speaker 4: Lakers very early in the game, you know, and getting
Speaker 4: those shots and getting everybody else and getting everybody else
Speaker 4: gone as the game went on, him being able to
Speaker 4: transition and playing on both ends of the court. I mean,
Speaker 4: it looked hell, he looked like Lebron that were used
Speaker 4: to seeing. So it sucks for the MAVs and the
Speaker 4: situations that they're in, obviously with Rees, but seeing seeing that,
Speaker 4: seeing the Lakers stay afloat in the absence of Luca,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's pretty cool. But again, they were
Speaker 4: playing the MAVs team that is completed, and they really
Speaker 4: not a full strength, not not even close for that matter.
Speaker 2: No, hey, look, Joe, we can't help it. They on
Speaker 2: the schedule.
Speaker 3: This is where they got playing this a a hey, hey,
Speaker 3: we ain't got nothing to do with it. He look,
Speaker 3: ain't nothing better than that when you go into a team.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they got about four five people here. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: we gotta get us all to night, Joe.
Speaker 4: So so, even as a player, knowing that their team
Speaker 4: is depleted the way it is, do you still count
Speaker 4: that as a win, knowing that everybody's hurt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're gonna kick you when you're down, man,
Speaker 3: We're trying to get it done.
Speaker 2: Broncos didn't have bow knicks. Uh huh.
Speaker 1: You think the patients felt sorry for the Broncos didn't
Speaker 1: have bow knicks. No, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, didn't feel sorry for y'all.
Speaker 1: When Carson went down in the first the first drive
Speaker 1: of the game, they didn't like, Oh man, you know what, man,
Speaker 1: hey Carson out of the game. Man, come on, mant
Speaker 1: fist bumping like you No, no, yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean I understand, but you know, just ay.
Speaker 3: O, Joe, when you see that on the schedule, you
Speaker 3: see you see they depleted the way like the MAVs are.
Speaker 3: If you the Lakers, you penciled, you.
Speaker 4: Already got it checked off.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: If I like Broun, say, going into the break, you
Speaker 3: see how he came out.
Speaker 2: He came out with it on your mind. He wasn't playing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he got straight the team like that that you
Speaker 1: just make sure you make sure you don't let off
Speaker 1: the gas and let them nip you. Because that that's
Speaker 1: that's the frustrating point part part excuse me, is that
Speaker 1: you know they're they're nicked up, they're banged up, and
Speaker 1: then you take them lightly. No, you killing that with
Speaker 1: a sledgehammer. You make sure so you do what you're
Speaker 1: supposed to do to those that that team. So like
Speaker 1: Joe saying, I don't feel no, sorry, man, we ain't
Speaker 1: have our best player and y'all put somebody out there, right,
Speaker 1: So so he didn't get his ass to it, but
Speaker 1: the mother left them got their ass toe up.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 3: But show that's say, look, that's what guys be thinking.
Speaker 3: Man when you going to games and you see the
Speaker 3: injury report or you see that this team being nicked
Speaker 3: up for a while. Oh yeah, we got the maths
Speaker 3: in the night. Yeah, we got to go and get
Speaker 3: them up out of Joe. It's not like Rebember he
Speaker 3: called somebody this at the beginning. Is that they would
Speaker 3: literally try to get your best player out the game,
Speaker 3: which is the quarterback will knock your lass out the game.
Speaker 2: We greatly increase our chances to win it.
Speaker 1: So right, I had damn man, I feel bad for
Speaker 1: y'all quarterback.
Speaker 2: I just said that, bro, I don't right.
Speaker 3: And but looking basketball in BASKETBALLO, you know, sometime it
Speaker 3: can backfire you too, because they got guys that's playing
Speaker 3: and then they start having these out of body experiences.
Speaker 3: You're like, he wasn't even on the scot report. I
Speaker 3: mean you look up, this man got twenty seven. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so it can backfiure you at times too.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, I think the thing is when you look
Speaker 1: at Lebron sometimes Joe that's a blessing and a curse
Speaker 1: is that he get off to that hot start and
Speaker 1: then he'll fall in love with the three. Because you
Speaker 1: remember he hit that first three and then he came
Speaker 1: back down he checked it, and I was like damn
Speaker 1: in transitional blessing and a curse because he will he will.
Speaker 1: I got to see if I got it to night,
Speaker 1: so I gotta take at least one to two more
Speaker 1: from about twenty eight to twenty nine, just to see
Speaker 1: if I'm still good. But the fact that he was
Speaker 1: getting everybody, that was getting people involved, he probably should
Speaker 1: have had a few more assists because Jackson Hayes let
Speaker 1: one go out of his bounds, he had a wide
Speaker 1: open dunk. Ruin let one bounce off his knee, So
Speaker 1: he had a couple that he probably should have had
Speaker 1: about fourteen to fifteen assis.
Speaker 2: But I thought overall they played, they played pretty well.
Speaker 1: Marcus mart could not buy basket the night he was
Speaker 1: four fourteen, but he but he normally plays really well.
Speaker 1: I mean, his defense is what he's known for. He's
Speaker 1: the four defensive player of the Year. But he just couldn't.
Speaker 1: He just couldn't make a shot tonight. Joe, Nah, he
Speaker 1: normally you know what it is oo. He normally a
Speaker 1: game change.
Speaker 3: I know he's been starting lately, but normally when he
Speaker 3: comes off the bench, he's good at gauging what the
Speaker 3: game needs, right, like if they're down, he know how
Speaker 3: to muck it up a little bit, make the game
Speaker 3: a little ugly, and you know what I mean, some way,
Speaker 3: somehow trying, you know, get the Lakers the momentum to
Speaker 3: kind of get things going. But he's been shooting the
Speaker 3: three ball all well. I think tonight, you know, it
Speaker 3: was just one of these nights, one for nine from three.
Speaker 3: He just couldn't buy when he finally made one that
Speaker 3: second half. But man, listen, he a dude who can
Speaker 3: play on my team in any day. Ocho, you need
Speaker 3: fighty guys like that, Bro, you need guys like that
Speaker 3: on your squad. Yeah, I mean he's gonna make it
Speaker 3: on the ball. He's a defensive guy. Yeah, try to
Speaker 3: take some pressure off the guy. He normally tries to
Speaker 3: guard the.
Speaker 1: Best team's wing player, hopefully normally if that's a point,
Speaker 1: is not, you know, even though he try to guard KD.
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't have a whole lot of great defenders.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you really look at this team, the Lakers,
Speaker 1: they got smart and they got a listen, Vando, that's it.
Speaker 1: Jackson Hayes is a rem protector. He's not a great
Speaker 1: on ball defender, and you know, yeah, he can help
Speaker 1: weak size. He's not a king, he's not big Wallace,
Speaker 1: He's not but tumbo guys like that that can defend
Speaker 1: their position. He's a great help defender. He got great
Speaker 1: leaping ability. But they really have two own ball defenders.
Speaker 1: They probably need another guy. Unfortunately they weren't able to
Speaker 1: get one at the trade deadline, which makes it really
Speaker 1: because your three best players aren't defenders that Lebron can't
Speaker 1: defend anymore.
Speaker 2: He can defend for a possession or two.
Speaker 1: But to ask a forty one year old to still
Speaker 1: be able to defend at the level that he could
Speaker 1: in his twenties, you're asking a bit much. Hey, Luca,
Speaker 1: it just it is what it is. He gonna give
Speaker 1: you thirty to forty, but his guy might have twenty
Speaker 1: five to thirty. Austin reeves, Hey, he tries, but hey,
Speaker 1: it is what it And yeah, I don't even want
Speaker 1: to talk about d A.
Speaker 3: I just man, listen, look yo, cho in basketball, man,
Speaker 3: if you cannot guard that first dribble, if you getting
Speaker 3: beat off the first dribble to first move, we can't
Speaker 3: get help there fast enough because every play we're gonna
Speaker 3: be in the huckle Buck. They're gonna be penetrating the paint,
Speaker 3: kickout for three throwing lives, So we're gonna have to
Speaker 3: pick our poison.
Speaker 2: That's when I.
Speaker 3: See what the Lakers bro. They getting beaten off the
Speaker 3: first dribble. You can't do nothing about that. The whole
Speaker 3: defense weaken. Yeah, it kills you. It breaks your whole
Speaker 3: defense down because now you let penetration in the teeth
Speaker 3: of your defense, and now you're exposed because you got layups,
Speaker 3: you got lobs, you got kickout for.
Speaker 2: Threes, ay Joe.
Speaker 4: And that's the same conversation we've been having over the
Speaker 4: years when it comes to the Lakers obviously has obviously
Speaker 4: having so much offensive power, but being a liability defensively. Yes,
Speaker 4: I mean, at some point it all come down and
Speaker 4: you got to hustle. You got to want to at
Speaker 4: least a pick and choose, pick and choose your times
Speaker 4: when the play goddamn defense. But if you always get
Speaker 4: beat especially off the goddamn first dribble, I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't care how many points you score if the other
Speaker 4: team scoring just as many.
Speaker 3: Yeah you hey, look, that's why in the playoffs, an Ojo,
Speaker 3: the Lakers don't need to see the timber Wolves or
Speaker 3: the Thunder. They don't need to see them type of
Speaker 3: teams you need, I don't know how, Like you probably
Speaker 3: rather play against Denver, but you don't want you don't
Speaker 3: want them teams that got them dudes that go off
Speaker 3: the bounce like that.
Speaker 2: It just can't. It's too much costs too much, Bro,
Speaker 2: They give up too many points.
Speaker 1: Even though the Lakers, if you look at their record
Speaker 1: and clutch time right now, Joe, they're probably one of
Speaker 1: your better teams than clutch time. By the game within
Speaker 1: five points the last five minutes of the ball game,
Speaker 1: that's what clutch means.
Speaker 2: They're probably one of the better teams.
Speaker 1: But come postseason, when you get beat off the dribble
Speaker 1: like that in clutch situation, guys are gonna get getting
Speaker 1: white layups. They don't get wide open shots. And you
Speaker 1: can because you want to make it as difficult as
Speaker 1: you possibly can. Well, if you can't guard anybody off
Speaker 1: the first dribble and I got to come help.
Speaker 2: Now, I've weakened my defense.
Speaker 1: And so that's the problem that they have is that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I said, the regular season is one thing. The
Speaker 1: postseason is something entirely, entirely different. So they have success
Speaker 1: in the regular season and think that carries over it,
Speaker 1: but no team's weekend.
Speaker 2: And that's what OKAC. They were great in the clutch situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because their game plan for OKC is to weigh
Speaker 3: you down. Okay, yeah, you may get a couple appetizing shots,
Speaker 3: but we want this tempo and we know Ojo at
Speaker 3: the end of the game, under five minutes in crunch time,
Speaker 3: we know you're gonna be dead. Leg got that, man,
Speaker 3: you ain't gonna be able to get too much. We're
Speaker 3: gonna be still like we in the first quarter.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when one of your three best players is Lebron
Speaker 1: at forty one, played the second most game, the most
Speaker 1: minutes in NBA history, he can't get up and down
Speaker 1: like he once could. That's not Austin Reeves, and and
Speaker 1: and and and and and uh Luca. They're not speed merchants.
Speaker 1: So the one thing that you don't want to get
Speaker 1: get into it with these teams is attract meet. You're
Speaker 1: a distance runner and you're trying to sprint. Now, it
Speaker 1: ain't gonna work.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while you might have a guy,
Speaker 1: I mean, you had a guy that could run the
Speaker 1: mile or the half mile. He was on your mile
Speaker 1: relay team, but he was really really special. That ain't
Speaker 1: what the Laga have. Lega got a lot of distance runners,
Speaker 1: so they getting last. You're just putting them out there
Speaker 1: with you to get some points. Hey, that's how I coach, Coach,
Speaker 1: all get out there, coach, I ain't even ran, I
Speaker 1: ain't ran the eight hundred dollars year. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: You get last, but that's a point.
Speaker 2: WHOA, wow, what you mean? I was you already do?
Speaker 2: But that's a point, right man.
Speaker 1: Nicola Nicolas Topic made his NBA debut four months after
Speaker 1: battling testicular cancer. The Serbian garb was the twelfth pick
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty four NBA draft. He missed all
Speaker 1: of last season with a torn a c L he
Speaker 1: suffered before the draft, and then he received testicular cancer
Speaker 1: diagnosis during the preseason. He had a procedure in October,
Speaker 1: then underwent chemo and worked his way back into shape.
Speaker 1: He entered Thursday night game against the Milwaukee Bucks late
Speaker 1: in the first quarter and received a loud ovation. That's
Speaker 1: really one of the blessings O Joe and Joe, you
Speaker 1: guys know this is that player of professional sports. Because
Speaker 1: when you go get the physical, they give you a
Speaker 1: batter of they find out.
Speaker 2: Everything, every everything, they find everything. They find out.
Speaker 1: If you got diabetes, they find out you got cancer,
Speaker 1: they find out you have you know, you know, certain
Speaker 1: certain ailments that pro probably probably a lot of times
Speaker 1: the general population, it goes undetective until it's too late.
Speaker 2: So congratulations to the young man that he got treated.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's had had a tough time of it,
Speaker 1: tears his acl he battles his way back from that,
Speaker 1: and then coming back into the preseason.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, by the way, you have testicular cancer.
Speaker 3: I've seen that too, man. I've seen him getting the game.
Speaker 3: I seen him give them standing ovation.
Speaker 2: Man. That was dope to see on cho.
Speaker 3: I don't know about y'all, but you know, my mother
Speaker 3: passed away twenty nineteen from cancer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know that's that's a you know, that's
Speaker 2: a tough battle. Bro.
Speaker 3: I watched her take this battle for probably over a decade,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, just going in and out
Speaker 3: of remission. But you know, when I when I hear
Speaker 3: about stories like this, bro, it was good to see
Speaker 3: that young man back out jail. Glad he pulled through.
Speaker 1: My father died. My father died from it at thirty
Speaker 1: nine from cancer. He had two brothers that barely made it.
Speaker 1: One of them didn't make it the fifty and the
Speaker 1: other one was fifty. So me and my brother has
Speaker 1: outlived my dad and my uncle's tenfold. Now we do
Speaker 1: have the oldest one, Richard is uh, I think ninety
Speaker 1: one ninety two. But so I'm on the other side, Joe,
Speaker 1: I go get a Oh, yeah, I met the de duct.
Speaker 1: But let me go what I need doctor?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get everything, yeah, every yeah, well you know,
Speaker 2: we don't think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's something I need to worry about.
Speaker 1: So go, hey, go and send me to a specialist.
Speaker 1: It's covered.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So hey, they're like, well, you know, there's an abnormality
Speaker 1: going on. I said, what does that entail? They said, well,
Speaker 1: we can numb, we can numb your penis up and
Speaker 1: put a thing. I said, no, y'all cann put me
Speaker 1: to sleep. But y'all still put that don and let
Speaker 1: me see what's going on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, hey, uncle Joe. That's one thing about it.
Speaker 4: If it runs in your family, uh, if it's hereditary,
Speaker 4: you know, and and other people get it in the past,
Speaker 4: you got you got to go check and even if
Speaker 4: it doesn't, you know, especially for us fellas man when
Speaker 4: you hit, when you hit a certain age, it's very
Speaker 4: important to continue to get those checkups, you know, to
Speaker 4: make sure to make sure you're okay man every six months,
Speaker 4: I mean you mean to a year or whatever whatever
Speaker 4: it may be, or whatever a doctor sees fit for you,
Speaker 4: especially if it runs in your family, because it does,
Speaker 4: it does get passed down, you know, you know, through
Speaker 4: through the generations, especially if if if you had others
Speaker 4: or uncles and the uncles and and aunts that have
Speaker 4: that have that have passed away from certain certain you know, cancers.
Speaker 4: So I mean, it sucks if it sucks the fact
Speaker 4: that we made so much, so much movement and in
Speaker 4: certain areas when it comes to medicine and technology, but
Speaker 4: it doesn't seem we haven't been able to find a
Speaker 4: cure for some of these monsters.
Speaker 1: There ain't no money in the cure, the money in
Speaker 1: the treatment. If I cure you, how do I get
Speaker 1: more money from you?
Speaker 2: If I cure you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I need to treat you. Listen, I didn't I
Speaker 4: don't want to say that part.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: The the funny thing about it, Joe is funny and
Speaker 4: is we can find a way to do everything else
Speaker 4: we can help. We can find a way to get
Speaker 4: to the goddamn moon. We have card Joe that can
Speaker 4: drive themselves without us. And when it when it comes
Speaker 4: to some of the some of some of the simple formalities,
Speaker 4: when it comes to to to us as humans, I mean,
Speaker 4: what do you mean we can't. We don't, we don't
Speaker 4: have I mean, really, yeah, we do. We mean you listen, we.
Speaker 2: Wiped out polio, we wipened out smallpox.
Speaker 4: Come on, now, you know, I know, if if they really, if.
Speaker 1: They really, but to your point, oh Joe, Yeah, people
Speaker 1: that look like your men, that look like you would me,
Speaker 1: you and Joe. Because normally God had to come to
Speaker 1: the foot of the bed. Oh you know, I saw
Speaker 1: God last night. Let me go.
Speaker 2: Let me go to the doctor. Yes, sorry, that was
Speaker 2: that was when we absolutely had to go.
Speaker 1: But we didn't have health care and my grandfather in
Speaker 1: my you know, before us, they didn't want to hurting
Speaker 1: uhing with those bills.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So but you know what, hey, let me go ahead
Speaker 1: and get let this go ahead and take me because
Speaker 1: I can't leave my family in debt for forever and
Speaker 1: forever and forever.
Speaker 2: So it was a situation.
Speaker 1: No, they weren't going to the doctors and considering they
Speaker 1: weren't trusting the doctors, like like they're like, oh no,
Speaker 1: I get sick of when I go to the doctor.
Speaker 1: It's what it seemed like. Yeah, can they keep waking
Speaker 1: your ass up every ten minutes? And I say, damn
Speaker 1: if I can sleep, if I could get better and
Speaker 1: get the hell up out of here, but y'all keep
Speaker 1: waking me up.
Speaker 2: Mister Sharp, you gotta check your but my blood is
Speaker 2: fine and morning right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, can y'all woke me up? I need to tell
Speaker 1: more than that you finally dom cause here. So I'm
Speaker 1: trying to block that out as soon as I get
Speaker 1: to sleep. Sharp wa yeah, right right, Hey, I know
Speaker 1: exactly what you mean. Well, I swear man, it's like,
Speaker 1: uh so, But I'm glad the young man. I'm glad
Speaker 1: the young man got it.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: Got diagnosed because I think early early detection is one
Speaker 1: of the best formers treatment. Yes, you're catching into initial stages.
Speaker 1: Now they can treat it. Say nothing about you. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: treat it and get you on the road to recovery.
Speaker 1: So congratulations to Nikolai Topic made his NBA debut four
Speaker 1: months after battling testicular cancer A year after he suffered
Speaker 1: the pre draft ACL tear. Still was able to go
Speaker 1: with the twelfth pick in the NBA Draft in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, and he finally made his NBA debut.
Speaker 2: So congratulations, say a live man. Yeah, that's that's all right, guys.
Speaker 1: We got a very very special guest joining it. You know,
Speaker 1: he'll a love of nightcap. He started to Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 1: parade yesterday, y'all knowing E J the fourth, Ernest Jones
Speaker 1: the fourth. Congratulations, man, Hey, you say that I'll be back.
Speaker 2: I'll be bad.
Speaker 1: Wasn't all the sports Maga terminator shut? I'll be back
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be carrying hard with with your congratulations. Jay,
Speaker 1: you you was on the Rams when they won this
Speaker 1: thing actually in uh in your own home stadium.
Speaker 2: What is there difference? I mean, do you can you
Speaker 2: uh compare or contrans the two if you could?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the biggest thing, man I won that
Speaker 5: I want in la my rookie years. So I thought
Speaker 5: it was sweet, man. I thought that's what I thought,
Speaker 5: that's what you do every year.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: You know, it took me, you know, three four years
Speaker 5: to get back to this point, and to do it
Speaker 5: with this group man, the way we love each other,
Speaker 5: the way we we fight for each other each and
Speaker 5: every day. Man, it definitely was different because I, you know,
Speaker 5: I understand the you know, the the struggle and how
Speaker 5: hard it takes to get back to that point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, O Jo Joe, Hey, look, you won a Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: you know, with two different teams. Bro, tell me, tell
Speaker 3: us what's like, what's the mindset in preparation that separates
Speaker 3: you know, championship teams from you know, I probably would
Speaker 3: say just regularly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the biggest thing. I think it's the mindset. Like, man,
Speaker 5: we went into that game, like, you know, we weren't
Speaker 5: gonna be denied. We were coming out of that game
Speaker 5: with something and it had it was something we were
Speaker 5: coming out there would win. And mentality on you know,
Speaker 5: all sides of the ball was just that. And I
Speaker 5: think that's what separates you know, the teams that you
Speaker 5: know get the job done versus those that you know
Speaker 5: don't make it all the way.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, ej.
Speaker 4: After watching that game and the way you guys dominated defense,
Speaker 4: obviously having a Moniker for your defense now called the
Speaker 4: Dark Side that is reminiscent of that of the Legion
Speaker 4: of Boom. Did you know you would dominate the game
Speaker 4: in this way, in fashion the way you guys did.
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I mean we we we were watching it,
Speaker 5: you know, watching the film for the you know, two weeks.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: We were like, man, ain't no way you give Mike
Speaker 5: McDonald two weeks. But not only that, we're watching the
Speaker 5: film and we're like, man, we've seen it all. What
Speaker 5: is this team gonna do against us? And you can
Speaker 5: tell from on film that we're we're a different group,
Speaker 5: but when we get in front of you is much different.
Speaker 5: It's real life at that point. So I knew we
Speaker 5: would come out there and dominate.
Speaker 1: A j You must have been on the port here
Speaker 1: yesterday because you all be the other day because you
Speaker 1: were feeling good.
Speaker 2: Man. I was like, what I wish I had some
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 5: I wish, nah, Man, that was a little bit of
Speaker 5: that done then.
Speaker 2: But you get that T shirt, bro, I had it
Speaker 2: made on the spot. I had I had it.
Speaker 5: I had been seeing it online, like I seen the
Speaker 5: pictures of it floating around, and I'm like, man, I've
Speaker 5: been saying if you and about my quarterback all years,
Speaker 5: So let me go ahead and get this shirt when you.
Speaker 2: When you answer what's upthing? You mention your first super Bowl,
Speaker 2: your rookie.
Speaker 1: So you're coming in and you got Jay Rams, you
Speaker 1: got Aaron Donald, you got you got veteran players, you
Speaker 1: got obj, you got Stafford, you got von Miller, you
Speaker 1: got Leonard Floyd, you got veteran guys on that team.
Speaker 2: Now you're in a different role. You're a leader now,
Speaker 2: and so now guys are looking to you because even
Speaker 2: though you were a rookie on that team, they're looking
Speaker 2: to you. Okay, EJ, what do we need to do? Okay,
Speaker 2: we win the championship game?
Speaker 1: What do we need to do between the time we
Speaker 1: win the championship game leading up to the to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl to the actual Super Bowl game?
Speaker 2: So what type of advice were you able to give them? Man?
Speaker 5: Honestly, for me, you know it was it was a
Speaker 5: lot different being in LA because our super Bowl was home.
Speaker 5: Everything we did, you know, was at home. Media Day,
Speaker 5: you know, everything was at home. So I just told him,
Speaker 5: you know, get ready to enjoy the experience. But ultimately, man,
Speaker 5: when it comes down to when it's time for us
Speaker 5: to go go to practice or go to meetings, Man,
Speaker 5: let's be locked in. We came here ultimately to win
Speaker 5: the you know, win this game, win us a super Bowl,
Speaker 5: and that's what we're gonna do. So that's that was
Speaker 5: mainly my advice.
Speaker 2: What do you do now?
Speaker 4: You got the trophy, you got the ring, coming all
Speaker 4: seasons here? Obviously your all season is starting a little
Speaker 4: bit later than others that didn't make it to the playoffs.
Speaker 4: So what does what does EJ do now that the
Speaker 4: season is over?
Speaker 5: Man, I'm about to go get away, you know, me
Speaker 5: and me and my family. We love going to Hawaii,
Speaker 5: So we're gonna get away here for a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then you know, at some point I get back
Speaker 5: into live and get ready to go, you.
Speaker 4: Know, do this thing again.
Speaker 2: Yep. You from Georgia, j Yeah, South Georgia. What part
Speaker 2: way across Georgia. Yeah. See that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: You didn't even you just finding this out.
Speaker 2: I don't know you from Wait Cross? Yeah, man, I'm
Speaker 2: right there. Man. We used to catch chicken over a
Speaker 2: way Cross and Baxlet Backsley. Yes, sir, hey check this out.
Speaker 1: That ring you guys kind of started a joy normous
Speaker 1: one of those big I'm talking about this thing, this
Speaker 1: big around you trying to you trying to top that
Speaker 1: with the Seahawks.
Speaker 5: Most definitely got to They got I'm hoping and praying
Speaker 5: they let me design this thing and you know, let me,
Speaker 5: you know, get a few ideas out there.
Speaker 2: Man, the Seahawks. He might be a real instead of
Speaker 2: the head, he might be the whole sea off.
Speaker 1: But on a more serious note, John Snyder smoke at
Speaker 1: the ceremony of your presentation about how you, Jake Bobo,
Speaker 1: Drew Locke, and Charles Cross all lost.
Speaker 2: Your father's this year.
Speaker 1: Talk about that special kind of bond that you guys
Speaker 1: had going through loss but still having the main focus
Speaker 1: because you know, the football season doesn't stop even though
Speaker 1: there might be a loss or tragedy that that someone
Speaker 1: in the family might have faced.
Speaker 5: Man, it was definitely tough when we all had those
Speaker 5: conversations together. You know, I think I lost my father first,
Speaker 5: and then right around the time that I was losing mind,
Speaker 5: you know, Charles had started going through you know, the
Speaker 5: complications were his. So it was tough man, you know,
Speaker 5: speaking to him and you know, not having all the
Speaker 5: answers myself because I'm still trying to deal with it.
Speaker 5: But we got a great support system there. They that team.
Speaker 5: I tell you, they look out for you. They really
Speaker 5: truly care about you. So it was easy when we
Speaker 5: came back to work because they knew, you know, that
Speaker 5: we were dealing with stuff.
Speaker 2: But they let us.
Speaker 5: They let us grieve, they let us have our moments.
Speaker 5: They let us come back and be around our boys
Speaker 5: and you know, do this thing that we love. So
Speaker 5: it honestly, you know, made it easier being around the
Speaker 5: guys because.
Speaker 1: It takes a special typic compartmentalization because you realize, like
Speaker 1: you know what I am. I am grieving, but I
Speaker 1: know my dad would want me, would want X, Y
Speaker 1: and Z, And I know the level of expectation because
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of times sports is sports is
Speaker 1: not like a regular job. In a regular job, they
Speaker 1: might give you bereathing a time and you might get
Speaker 1: able to take a to that ain't how professional sports working. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe in baseball, I could just speak the football. So
Speaker 1: I don't want to get out of you know, get
Speaker 1: out of character and say what I this is how
Speaker 1: it is in basketball. I'm talking about football.
Speaker 2: Man. Basically, you go to the pay so you go
Speaker 2: into a funeral when you when you think you'll be back, Yes,
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 5: And that's what I say, like for you know, for
Speaker 5: most most teams, and and I can't speak for every team,
Speaker 5: but I know that you know, they wouldn't be willing
Speaker 5: to let their start middle lineback and leave too much
Speaker 5: and miss that much of time during training, camping and
Speaker 5: things before. And they didn't stress me out about it
Speaker 5: at all. They let us, you know, do what we
Speaker 5: had to do. So I really appreciate them for that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's funny, especially when it comes to losing
Speaker 4: loved ones. I think teams understand that the owners of gms,
Speaker 4: obviously the head coaches. We've all dealt with loss. Sometimes
Speaker 4: it happened during the season and end season. I lost
Speaker 4: my father. I lost my father when I was with
Speaker 4: the Patriots. He passed away from pancreatic cancer as well.
Speaker 4: And they allowed me to to to to do what
Speaker 4: I needed to do to do it was necessary as
Speaker 4: far as funeral arrangements and going to a funeral and
Speaker 4: and and and having having to come back and they
Speaker 4: understand that. Most of the time, your brothers in that
Speaker 4: locker room, they understand what you're going through. So sometimes
Speaker 4: it's somewhat good and you want to be back in
Speaker 4: that environment of your extended family, you know, to be
Speaker 4: around the fellas to kind of get away from that
Speaker 4: because most of the time you go to go to work,
Speaker 4: especially after a tragedy like that, that that's that's your
Speaker 4: sense of peace. Peace being around your brothers. Man, it
Speaker 4: may make you feel a lot.
Speaker 2: Better, Oh for sure, definitely.
Speaker 1: But the thing is the best thing about that with you, Aj,
Speaker 1: is that you're a vested player because a lot of times,
Speaker 1: I remember my great grandmother passed, I was afraid to ask.
Speaker 2: I was like, I ain't ask.
Speaker 1: Then when my grandmother, my grandmother, my dad's mom passed,
Speaker 1: we ended up like we're gonna have to have this
Speaker 1: thing on a Monday, because if you don't have it
Speaker 1: on the Monday, I'm not gonna be able.
Speaker 2: To make it.
Speaker 1: So, you know, fortunate enough, like you said, you're a
Speaker 1: vested player, and you know they gave you that kind
Speaker 1: of time because they, like I said, we understand that
Speaker 1: this says they say this, This is what they say oh,
Speaker 1: you know, the family is the most important, man, stop it.
Speaker 2: It's football important too.
Speaker 1: Exactly, man EJ. Congratulations, man, We're proud of your Thanks
Speaker 1: for coming on during the season and talking o Jo
Speaker 1: n a nightcap. Congratulations. Two time Super Bowl champ now
Speaker 1: in the same division, one with the Rams, now with
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Been a livebacker for the Seattle Seahawks. Great defense,
Speaker 1: had an unbelievable game. But before we get you out
Speaker 1: of here, what did you guys see on tape? Because
Speaker 1: y'all brought Spoon a lot more on the Bliitz. Normally
Speaker 1: it's Emo that would come on the Blitz, but this
Speaker 1: time it was Spoon and he was getting home because
Speaker 1: he tied it up perfect.
Speaker 2: What did you guys see that? Say? You know what
Speaker 2: that make that? Coach Max said, you know what, Spoon
Speaker 2: you got home? We got him play him next year.
Speaker 4: But I will say this, I will say this, the
Speaker 4: the way coach Mike seen.
Speaker 2: It is how it worked. So in other words, they
Speaker 2: had a tail, they had they had a little tail
Speaker 2: and okay, and we had to do what we had to. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well that's awesome man.
Speaker 1: Congratulations man, and joy at get away with your family
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: It's either being the hunting. Yeah, a lot of hunt
Speaker 2: though we still what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: All right, Man, congratulations your time off and uh we'll
Speaker 1: see you down the road.
Speaker 2: Thank you the board. Super Bowl champ of the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 4: Man, Man, they got to be a great feeling, Uncle
Speaker 4: Joe Man, And obviously you experienced it just winning Super Bowls. Man,
Speaker 4: just winning Super Bowls, just being in the winning environment
Speaker 4: and that they got to be one of the greatest feelings,
Speaker 4: one of the greatest feelings I've never been able to experience.
Speaker 4: And sometimes I'm in awe of players when when when
Speaker 4: they I don't want to call it lucky. You just
Speaker 4: have the opportunities to be on certain teams where they're
Speaker 4: structured the right way. We just have the opportunity to win.
Speaker 4: I think it's a great thing. And just seeing seeing
Speaker 4: seeing ej happy like that, man being able to do
Speaker 4: it as rookie year and then come and do it
Speaker 4: again on a team like the Seahawks. Man, with a
Speaker 4: great group like that, that's dope. That's really really dope.
Speaker 1: It is it is, O Joe. It's an unbelievable feeling.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can just imagine coming there as a rookie.
Speaker 1: I came in the Broncos after they had gotten their
Speaker 1: eyes beat out fifty five to ten by the the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: But winning that first Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Look, and I was very fortunate, like you said, went
Speaker 1: back to back ninety seven, ninety eight, and then went
Speaker 1: to the Ravens in two thousand and one again.
Speaker 2: But ain't nothing like that first one. Ain't nothing like it.
Speaker 2: Ain't nothing like it the second one, O yoe. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't even think I go into the parade. I
Speaker 2: ain't go to the ceremony Baltimore, same thing.
Speaker 1: It's it's something about the first your first love first,
Speaker 1: you know, your first time.
Speaker 2: You don't say your first time first Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Ain't nothing like it, I mean, And I was very
Speaker 1: fortunate that it meant so much to me. I gave
Speaker 1: my first ring to my brother because me, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was a part of the journey. And his career got
Speaker 1: cut short, like two years after he ended a year
Speaker 1: after he.
Speaker 2: Ended up retiring.
Speaker 1: They go to the Super Bowl and win it, so
Speaker 1: and he retired, you know, his last year, ohho eighteen
Speaker 1: touchdowns ninety four catches and never played another snap.
Speaker 2: He was twenty nine years of age. So I was like,
Speaker 2: you know what, man, And I told him.
Speaker 1: I remember doing the interview with NBC, It's like, bro,
Speaker 1: we went to superow, I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you the ring.
Speaker 4: And you know what I thought about too.
Speaker 2: What you think? You see? You see?
Speaker 4: You see how the rings look? You know when during
Speaker 4: when Jerry Rice played, Yeah, yeah, they was how small
Speaker 4: the rings?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I do.
Speaker 4: Do you think would it be possible for players to
Speaker 4: be able to upgrade those rings?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Have him looking No, I'm just saying, have him look
Speaker 4: like today's rings, but still have the date, the dates
Speaker 4: from back then.
Speaker 2: It won't it won't have it won't have the same meaning.
Speaker 4: Well, it don't look like no meaning when you compare
Speaker 4: it to any guy.
Speaker 5: Damn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I guess I don't know. I guess
Speaker 1: you'd have to look at it like a class ring
Speaker 1: or something like that. You know the rings, I mean,
Speaker 1: ain't nobody have no no fifteen twenty carre. I mean
Speaker 1: they're like a handful of people that have big diamond rings,
Speaker 1: not everybody. Everybody in the NFL. White got a big
Speaker 1: ass diamond ring, so for me, But I mean, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean though, right, Yeah, it's I think.
Speaker 2: What it what it means. The size doesn't doesn't add
Speaker 2: more meaning to it.
Speaker 1: I won the super Bowl. They could have gave it
Speaker 1: to me at a cracker a crackerjack box. I'm a
Speaker 1: super Bowl. I'm super Bowl thirty two, thirty three champ,
Speaker 1: and I get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking at my ring and I've seen.
Speaker 4: Guys like god, yeah, hey, did you see you saw
Speaker 4: the Philadelphia Eagles ring last year? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I saw that. I saw that.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I see what Jason of Beverly Hill,
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of pieces from him, have all
Speaker 1: the rings that he's basically designed. Yeah, since then Tampa
Speaker 1: and the Eagles, and and and the the Rams, yes,
Speaker 1: the Patriots, the Patriots, yea, the Chiefs. So he's kind
Speaker 1: of I think he did the Chiefs, but I know
Speaker 1: he's done the Rams. I know he did the Eagles.
Speaker 1: He did someone else's too. And you're right, oh, I
Speaker 1: mean you look at you like God Lee, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: the meaning behind it be sides don't even matter. I
Speaker 1: mean you look at look at look at the Packers
Speaker 1: on the first one. I'm like, damn, that looks like
Speaker 1: a class ring. But when you see a world champ
Speaker 1: on the side.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I don't know, it's like
Speaker 4: an upgrade. I mean, Joe, sometimes, you know, it's always
Speaker 4: good the upgrade things. Sometimes the upgrade things to make
Speaker 4: him look look a little better. You know, as as
Speaker 4: time involved.
Speaker 2: You have to get a whole new ring. You can't.
Speaker 2: You can't. You can't.
Speaker 1: That's it is what it is. That's not that's not
Speaker 1: like a house that you could add on to. You
Speaker 1: have to get a whole new rings. I give it
Speaker 1: an example, Joe. It's kind of what we did with
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame rings. Yes, we had one company
Speaker 1: that was doing the rings and they were small, and
Speaker 1: then I think K came in.
Speaker 2: And they they're they're big now and so and so
Speaker 2: they like.
Speaker 1: Gradually gradually gradually, and they just like ended up and
Speaker 1: guys got got bigger rings. But I think also guys
Speaker 1: started wearing them on the index finger, they started wearing
Speaker 1: them on their mingle middle fingers, and they.
Speaker 2: Started putting them on their thumb.
Speaker 4: We wear yours.
Speaker 2: If I wear it, I wear it on my on
Speaker 2: my right ring finger right I.
Speaker 4: Mean if I, Joe, if so happened, if I was
Speaker 4: ever ever able to win one, I would I would
Speaker 4: have I would have had mind him a pinky. Why
Speaker 4: don't you, because I mean that's I mean, I wear
Speaker 4: every everything on my pinky.
Speaker 2: They say that, they say it's like some pimpstyle.
Speaker 4: I don't know about that. Joe live that lifestyle, Joe.
Speaker 2: I just now I'm just asking. I'm saying when you
Speaker 2: went in pinkerreing like, no, no.
Speaker 4: It just it just it's always been me. It's always
Speaker 4: been me. You know, I have I have garage.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get on the rick because you want it big.
Speaker 1: You already talking about the size. It ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: the same size on your piker and it would or
Speaker 1: your middle finger.
Speaker 4: Yeah, totally looked weird there. Yeah middle finger sometime.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, it's it's fit to my ring finger.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, this one, yes, okay, okay, okay, yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, look, I know it feels I'm sure it
Speaker 3: feels good to you know, win a championship, win a
Speaker 3: super Bowl, But can you imagine making it that far
Speaker 3: and losing?
Speaker 2: No, I take that. You gotta take that into the summer, Like, no,
Speaker 2: I can't imagine because I know I'm a sore loser.
Speaker 1: My whole family is a sore loser. My sister was
Speaker 1: all My sister had a headache because she was so worried.
Speaker 1: She showed up and it seemed like there was so
Speaker 1: many Green Bay Packer fans.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And she was so worded because they got the ball
Speaker 1: and would go straight down the field. Oh your eighty
Speaker 1: yard for a touch down, and she's like, Lord, have mercy,
Speaker 1: here we go.
Speaker 2: So she was. She was a nervous wreck.
Speaker 1: I don't think my my sisters, I don't think in
Speaker 1: the pros. I don't think she saw we lost little
Speaker 1: Every game that she's come to, we won. Yeah, m
Speaker 1: but unfortunately she didn't like coming to the games. But
Speaker 1: I suposed to get that one game the normally the
Speaker 1: first game of the year, if it was home.
Speaker 2: She would be to that. My supter say, if y'all
Speaker 2: go to the super Bowl, I see y'all there. If not,
Speaker 2: that's it for me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now my mom would come come, you know, she would
Speaker 1: have to go get to get Sometimes she would get
Speaker 1: the kids and bring them out. So that was right
Speaker 1: up for atlet But yeah, no, I couldn't. I can't
Speaker 1: that dare that to lose that game. And you see
Speaker 1: how Drake Maye was trying to find Sam Donald and
Speaker 1: then everybody just like disappeared. They had done roped it
Speaker 1: off and confetti falling and everything they ushered it okay,
Speaker 1: moving moving along, moving along.
Speaker 4: Hey, they got Hey, they got to be the worst
Speaker 4: feeling man when they scoot your ass off the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Joe, Hey, imagine how san Antonio felt in game six,
Speaker 1: they already got the court. They all brought the champagne out,
Speaker 1: and then reality hit that shot and now they got
Speaker 1: the guy and they pushed the champagne back in the
Speaker 1: locker room and.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, listen, and you get to see that as
Speaker 3: players though, because I'd have been in a few close
Speaker 3: out games. Uh And the one that I can really
Speaker 3: remember is when I was playing in Phoenix two thousand
Speaker 3: and four, Uncle Ojo. We was playing against the Spurs.
Speaker 2: They was up on us.
Speaker 3: They was up on US three one, and we was playing.
Speaker 3: Uh no, they was up on US three zero and
Speaker 3: we was playing at the house for game four. Soon
Speaker 3: as we come into the arena to go warm up,
Speaker 3: Uncle Oyo I'm talking about Man, they got Confederate stuff.
Speaker 2: I already pinned up. They got champagne. I went in
Speaker 2: a room. It was ship.
Speaker 3: I said, oh, man, they finished trying to celebrate on
Speaker 3: our yea tonight and we can't look. I went back
Speaker 3: and to say, hey, man, I'm for ready to celebrate anything.
Speaker 2: Anyway. We end up winning the game. But man, yeah,
Speaker 2: when you see that, yeah, it'll make you It'll make
Speaker 2: you look again.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Joe oh chose NBA find Utah Jazz five hundred k
Speaker 1: for the what leagues call conduct detrimental to the league,
Speaker 1: and Indiana Pacers will find one hundred k for violating
Speaker 1: the league's player participation policy. In addition, Adam Silver said
Speaker 1: in an NBA news release that the league is seeking
Speaker 1: to implement further measures to root out this type of conduct.
Speaker 1: Overt behavior like this prioritized draft position over winning, undermines
Speaker 1: the foundation of the NBA competition and will respond accordingly
Speaker 1: to any further actions that compromise the integrity of our games. Additionally,
Speaker 1: we are working with our Competition Committee, Competition Committee, and
Speaker 1: Board of Governors to implement further measures to root out
Speaker 1: this type of conduct. On February the seventh, the Jazz
Speaker 1: played Orlando Magic in Orlando. Louri Marketing and Jared Jackson
Speaker 1: had combined to score forty nine points over the first
Speaker 1: three quarters, helping Utah to a ninety four to eighty
Speaker 1: seven lead entering the fourth quarter, but the Jazz held
Speaker 1: out Marketing at Jackson fellow starters Yousef Nurkic for the
Speaker 1: entire fourth quarter, and they lost the game one one seventeen.
Speaker 1: Two nights later, Jazz carried an eighty five eighty two
Speaker 1: lead over the Heat in the fourth quarter, and once again, Marketing,
Speaker 1: Jackson Nurkic did not play in the final period, but
Speaker 1: Utah ended up beating Miami one fifteen, one eleven. Utah
Speaker 1: Jazz odor Ryan Smith responded to the five saying, agree
Speaker 1: to disagree. Also, we won the game in Miami and
Speaker 1: got fined. That makes no sense. The Jazz oh a
Speaker 1: protected first round pick of the twenty twenty sixth draft. Hey,
Speaker 1: what the hell are they trying to do?
Speaker 2: Joe?
Speaker 3: Let me tell ya something, Joe. Uh, I'm I'm with
Speaker 3: Adam on this as far as finding these teams. But
Speaker 3: if i'm these teams, I'm gonna take that little fine,
Speaker 3: because look, let me tell you it's talented. It's this
Speaker 3: draft class. It's gonna be. It can put you, it
Speaker 3: can put your head fifteen twenty years. Oh yo, you
Speaker 3: you get the right you pick the right one. You
Speaker 3: know it's there's some it's gonna be some stars in
Speaker 3: this draft class.
Speaker 2: Bro. And if you got un.
Speaker 3: I really believe even if you got a top five,
Speaker 3: top seven pick, you're still gonna get great value.
Speaker 2: Bro. It's deep.
Speaker 3: This is this is this is this is a good one.
Speaker 3: This is a good this is a good draft class.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the fine too. If I'm the NBA team, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take that fine too.
Speaker 1: The problem that Utah have, Ojoe, if their pick is
Speaker 1: eight or down, they have to turn that pick over
Speaker 1: to Okay, see, so they want to make they want
Speaker 1: to try to get as many ping pong ball as
Speaker 1: they possibly can. Right, just stay one through seven, so
Speaker 1: we get to kill right, because the last thing you
Speaker 1: want to have is a top ten pick. That's eight
Speaker 1: somewhere eight of young below and I be damn, we
Speaker 1: got to turn this thing.
Speaker 2: Over to them. They already got abundance of wealth and
Speaker 2: now we gotta.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that sucks. That sucks for the players that's playing,
Speaker 4: that's playing on the jazz thttle Joe. So it's it's like,
Speaker 4: I mean, we were going out here playing and I
Speaker 4: know management they're trying to tank. They taking us out
Speaker 4: the game, they taking away our men were out here,
Speaker 4: you know, got a job to do, and yeah, that
Speaker 4: ain't part of our job trying to worry about will
Speaker 4: be drafting that.
Speaker 3: Hey, look Ojo, you're absolutely right. And as a player,
Speaker 3: you ain't finna go out there points shaven. You're trying
Speaker 3: to get to the money. Look, you want your numbers
Speaker 3: to look good too at the end of the year
Speaker 3: when you're trying to go up there and negotiate your contract.
Speaker 3: I don't care that.
Speaker 2: That's why they have to sit those guys out because
Speaker 2: if they don't they know the marketing and JJ they
Speaker 2: try to win. Hold on, you're messing up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hold hold on, Hey, hey, Joe, And like, how
Speaker 4: do the players feel about this, knowing knowing what the
Speaker 4: team is doing.
Speaker 3: Man, players go play bro like they may like obviously
Speaker 3: with those guys, they sending them guys out in the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter. He probably already told them. But man, ain't
Speaker 3: no guys going out there lolly gaging, Ojo. Guys, really
Speaker 3: because they got they got some nice pieces over there.
Speaker 2: That's having pretty good like given George, George, George. They
Speaker 2: just gave up a boatload of pigs to get triple
Speaker 2: j Yeah, you know, fired Tylerue. That's trying to take
Speaker 2: Tyler is like I ain't trying to take. I'm playing
Speaker 2: my guys. I'm playing my best player.
Speaker 4: He got to go there, bro, Hey Joe, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be that type. You know, if I'm wanting if I'm
Speaker 4: one of the ballers on the jazz, honestly, I mean,
Speaker 4: knowing me and my mentality, I ain't. I don't care
Speaker 4: about what you're trying to draft, and you definitely ain't
Speaker 4: take me out no game And I'm.
Speaker 2: Just my time five for conduct detrimental. See how that worked?
Speaker 2: What absolutely they gonna because I don't want to come
Speaker 2: out the game. Yes, that's contract detrimental to the team.
Speaker 3: O Jo, wet We already we already ain't won, but
Speaker 3: like sixteen games, ain't like we're gonna make no playing
Speaker 3: and no playoffs, like we we we need more ping
Speaker 3: pong balls so we can try to get one of
Speaker 3: these pheenoms.
Speaker 2: That's coming out. Now the team ain't gonna come out
Speaker 2: and say that. But we we.
Speaker 1: Get looking like the Spurs. They get David Robinson and
Speaker 1: then they get Kim Duncan.
Speaker 2: How they get with me?
Speaker 3: But look, how did they get Tim Duncan. That's because
Speaker 3: David Robinson them had set out pretty much that year.
Speaker 2: I hurt. So they won.
Speaker 3: They was one of the weakest teams in the league.
Speaker 3: They ain't up getting the number one pick. And you
Speaker 3: get Tim Duncan and David Robinson together. Now you got
Speaker 3: a dynasty. That's the start of it.
Speaker 2: That was you len me. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So so it's all it takes, man, You one more
Speaker 3: piece that you tah can add to that puzz over there,
Speaker 3: and they could be one of the top teams.
Speaker 2: In the West real quick. And you gotta get lucky.
Speaker 2: I mean you look at the Lakers.
Speaker 1: The Lakers win the NBA Championship and guess what to
Speaker 1: get the number one open, they get James Worthy?
Speaker 2: How the hell hold on.
Speaker 1: And koreb We win the championship and guess what the
Speaker 1: number one overall pick University of North Carolina six foot
Speaker 1: eight James Worthy.
Speaker 2: Ain't How did that happen. They never happened.
Speaker 1: How you win the championship and get the number one pick,
Speaker 1: but you know early on Joe, uh, just before your time.
Speaker 1: But you could draft like the Celtics drafted Lard Bird
Speaker 1: his junior year and kept his rights, So you could
Speaker 1: draft the player and still have his rights.
Speaker 4: Great, I'm not I'm not even gonna ask.
Speaker 1: Oh, because used it used to be you drafted territorial right,
Speaker 1: so you drafted a player that was in that in
Speaker 1: that area.
Speaker 2: Okay, so but you could draft them.
Speaker 1: You could draft the player, draft the player, he go
Speaker 1: back to school, and you still maintained his rights.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: So that's what happened with the Celtics, and the Celtics
Speaker 1: did a good thing. They ended up trading Joe Barren
Speaker 1: Carroll and guess what they traded Joe Barrakell They got
Speaker 1: Robert Parris and oh Lloyd Bole, Kevin McHale.
Speaker 2: So now you got a Big three four.
Speaker 1: And you trade you getting Nate Archibaal, You get rid
Speaker 1: of Nate Archiball and then guess what you get DJ
Speaker 1: who had just won the finals.
Speaker 2: I think he was a finals MVP with Seattle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had a whip they had a whilly now
Speaker 3: that Boston Cells the team was.
Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of the rules back in the
Speaker 1: seem like in the free throw Joe used to get
Speaker 1: three to make two. You got three attempts to make
Speaker 1: two shots. There was a lot of like, damn a
Speaker 1: so you may you made one, you missed one at
Speaker 1: one more free throw. But uh, and I agree with you, Joe.
Speaker 1: I see what the Jazz are doing. It doesn't it
Speaker 1: doesn't look good. Uh that you tank, but they gonna tank.
Speaker 1: Ain't nothing you could do.
Speaker 2: And now you're gonna have. You're gonna just eat that.
Speaker 3: Fine at the end of the day, if we get
Speaker 3: the number one pick or even the number two pick,
Speaker 3: O Joe were back in business, baby, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Hope hopefully those picks turn out.
Speaker 2: Joe.
Speaker 4: You say we got they got you gotta deep. You
Speaker 4: got a deep class this year.
Speaker 3: Oh, Joe, them top I'm talking about for show them
Speaker 3: top four five picks. They're gonna be special. Orlando got
Speaker 3: shot and then guess what that's going on? They got
Speaker 3: the next year, Chris Webber. They traded Curtch Whoeber for
Speaker 3: Penny Hardaway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it worked out. You get the getting the
Speaker 2: right player all the dass won. Yeah, yeah, yes, that's it.
Speaker 2: It changing for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a smart move. I wonder I wonder
Speaker 3: why Orlando just didn't take Penny one. I think because
Speaker 3: Chris Webber was so he was so people don't realize
Speaker 3: how good. I see where it was before Ease.
Speaker 4: Gave out.
Speaker 2: Man, see where was a monster.
Speaker 3: Well, coming out of college, he was a he was
Speaker 3: a beast Joe in college, but coming coming into the league,
Speaker 3: he just you can't, you can't look, you can't. You
Speaker 3: couldn't see him in shock on the same team, and
Speaker 3: then I couldn't.
Speaker 1: Really it was perfect because you remember leading up Penny
Speaker 1: and Shaq was in blue chips.
Speaker 2: You remember, Yeah, yeah, that's one of my favorite basketball
Speaker 2: Oh no, nothing about that.
Speaker 3: I ain't see that, Joe, oh Man, what we might
Speaker 3: take your black card behind.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you can go. I'm sure you can go
Speaker 2: see it on something like that. Yeah, Amazon, matter of fact,
Speaker 2: you do it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna watch that tonight because you know I slept.
Speaker 4: I slept another four hours before we started. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: was knocked out, Joe.
Speaker 1: You see up there be seen right now. The top
Speaker 1: ten top ten prospects of Darren Peterson, sixty six guard
Speaker 1: freshman guard out of Kentucky, Cameron Booz, a sixty nine freshman,
Speaker 1: aj B Debonza, a six nine freshman, Kingston Flemings a
Speaker 1: six four freshman, Kaylen Williams a six to ten freshman,
Speaker 1: Keaton Wagler a six to sixth freshman, Michael Brown Junior,
Speaker 1: a six y five freshman, Nate i Met a six
Speaker 1: ten freshman, Lebron phil jon Is a six four sophomore,
Speaker 1: and Braylen Mullins is a six to six freshman.
Speaker 3: They gotta have a little des a company. He leading
Speaker 3: the SEC and scoring and assists. Ain't no way he is?
Speaker 2: He right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: He getting money over there as a freshman. Oh Joe,
Speaker 3: he leading the SEC and scoring in the cists. Partner
Speaker 3: like that, Yeah yeah, Hey.
Speaker 4: You know what at my daughter's school, I think he.
Speaker 4: I think he towards a c L last year. He
Speaker 4: was supposed to be from what I from. I heard
Speaker 4: the number one pick.
Speaker 2: School.
Speaker 4: He got you got got, you got the braids a
Speaker 4: little bit towards a c L last year.
Speaker 2: I think I seen him. He playing.
Speaker 4: I think he's I think he's playing. He was at
Speaker 4: Arizona State first. I think if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3: Oh the big big fella. Yeah, they ain't. I mean,
Speaker 3: Kentucky doing all right, but they ain't like having no
Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Hey, and uh, if Gil's son keep playing like this,
Speaker 2: he gonna throw his damn name in that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: See, the thing is he talked like, uh, Joe about
Speaker 3: he about six, he's about six seven, He about six salm.
Speaker 2: He got some nice living on him.
Speaker 3: But the thing is for him because he you know,
Speaker 3: he kind of came out, you know, he's such a
Speaker 3: late bloomer to the party. But he'll go to like
Speaker 3: a good team and end up paying out. He can play,
Speaker 3: he can get money, he can play. I watched him.
Speaker 3: He's been getting to it out there. So Peterson, it's
Speaker 3: a deep draft, man. Hey, marsh Man, it's gonna be fun. Okay,
Speaker 3: Oh Joe, we're gonna have to do brackets. I know
Speaker 3: I'm gonna beat out in that. Now you're gonna do that, Joe? Yeah,
Speaker 3: in brackets. We all fell out of brain that you're
Speaker 3: not gonna.
Speaker 2: Do that, Joe.
Speaker 4: No, that's definitely not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Man, Please, Yeah, we definitely gonna do that. But you're
Speaker 2: not winning Joe.
Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown posted on IG twenty four to twenty five.
Speaker 1: The record was thirty ninety sixteen. They were the two
Speaker 1: seed going into the break. Now in twenty five twenty
Speaker 1: six they're thirty five and nineteen, two seed offensive rating,
Speaker 1: defensive they were number four in offensive rating. Now they're
Speaker 1: number two in offensive rating they were fifth, and defensive
Speaker 1: rating this time.
Speaker 3: They're ninth and rating net rating they were third this
Speaker 3: year their third. Yeah, put them facts out there.
Speaker 1: Hey, can your question joby said? He say one person
Speaker 1: tweet he say bro saying he better than JT.
Speaker 4: Hey, Joe, Hey, now that we're at the halfway point,
Speaker 4: it's all Star break. Is what message is is JB
Speaker 4: trying to send? Outside of we've seen he's improved. You know,
Speaker 4: he's playing extremely well even with JT not being in.
Speaker 4: But is there is there a reason for doing this
Speaker 4: or is he trying to send a message to the Celtics.
Speaker 3: Now he sending a message to I think the people. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think for everybody who counted them out to start
Speaker 3: the season. Nobody had them coming out the East. Nobody
Speaker 3: had them at the top of the East, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. And they've stayed afloat and honestly, oh Joe,
Speaker 3: he's in the MVP compisition and rightfully so, he's been balling.
Speaker 2: Bro he's been balling.
Speaker 3: But they've had other guys who stepped up, Peyton Bridge
Speaker 3: up this wells Houser.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, the Celtics counted him out. They're the one
Speaker 1: that sold all those pieces they the on wasn't that
Speaker 1: Let they all help Horford go? They traded Chris stap Persingers,
Speaker 1: they traded Holiday. What you talking about we the fan? No,
Speaker 1: y'all did that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't.
Speaker 1: Think you were gonna be as good as you are.
Speaker 1: But JB, like you said, it's averaging twenty eight points
Speaker 1: a game. Peyton Pritchett has been Peyton pritchet Colehauser. Though
Speaker 1: they've had Derrick White's played phenomenal, they've had guys to
Speaker 1: step up. It's surprising that the Boston celf is considering
Speaker 1: all that JT went down, and he was not expecting
Speaker 1: that he may or may not come back this season.
Speaker 1: But when you get rid of Horford, when you get
Speaker 1: rid of Holiday, when you get rid of Pazingers, I
Speaker 1: don't think nobody thought they would be in the position
Speaker 1: that they're currently in and he's just singing.
Speaker 2: Their praise And I don't have a problem with him
Speaker 2: doing that. Yeah, I don't either. I don't either.
Speaker 3: But they've had other guys outside the guys that Uncle mentioned,
Speaker 3: they've had other guys come off the bench.
Speaker 1: Oh Simon, you remember Simon's was playing well before they
Speaker 1: traded him. He contrastraates he that she was playing well.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like plug and play guys.
Speaker 3: It's like a great system and guys just kind of
Speaker 3: go out there and do their thing, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. Yeah, it's been fun to watch they've been competing.
Speaker 3: He's talk about the fab No, no, no, the bosson
Speaker 3: Celfic y'all did. They didn't think y'all was gonna be that.
Speaker 3: Because they thought y'all was gonna be that. They kept
Speaker 3: them pieces right, But J A. J. B letting the
Speaker 3: critics know. He letting everybody know who was like, oh yeah, Boston, they.
Speaker 2: Gonna do X y Z.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he let y'all know when you far off from
Speaker 1: where we was at last yet, like we really in
Speaker 1: the same sho when you got two guys making three
Speaker 1: hundred million, they damn sure better keep best.
Speaker 2: That would go out. They better still float break this up?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they second in it. Look I'm gonna say
Speaker 4: they second in the east right now at the break right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, far do you see him?
Speaker 4: How far do you see him going? Especially with.
Speaker 2: It's matching. I think it's matchups, me, I think, I
Speaker 2: think because if.
Speaker 3: You get the wrong matchup in the first round home,
Speaker 3: you could be Yeah, you come serious, you could be.
Speaker 3: It's some teams. Look, I know we talk a lot
Speaker 3: of crap, and I don't know how long they can
Speaker 3: keep it up. But the Hornets prior to the loss
Speaker 3: against the Pistons other night and the little bron they
Speaker 3: had and the Hornets had one. What absolute if they
Speaker 3: end up if they continue to keep playing, well, let's
Speaker 3: say they do get into play in and do get
Speaker 3: the seventh or the a seed, man, they can cause
Speaker 3: problem there, young te.
Speaker 2: Toronto, Yeah, Toronto. The hey, them.
Speaker 3: Teams gain confidence, Bro, It'd be hard to shut them,
Speaker 3: shut them off in the playoffs when they at there
Speaker 3: playing just having fun, not unreally understanding the man, just
Speaker 3: enjoying the game.
Speaker 1: Since JB let that hair go, he ain't painted no more.
Speaker 1: He been Hey off to the races, free get a
Speaker 1: drop yeah, j Hey, j.
Speaker 2: B looked good out there. Man.
Speaker 3: I'm jump sure they gonna they gonna try to give
Speaker 3: for this second half, make it, make a make a
Speaker 3: good run. But it's it's it's sitting top heavy in.
Speaker 1: The East form a lottery pick all Rickey team selection
Speaker 1: Jeremy Showhand. So Hand has decided to side with the
Speaker 1: New York Knicks. He would join the Knicks once he
Speaker 1: clears waivers. He reached the bottle agreement with the Spurs
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. So Hand had entered from ten teams before
Speaker 1: deciding on the Knicks. Joe, how much did this siding
Speaker 1: help the Knicks?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: I like him, I guess because the Spurs so deep that,
Speaker 3: you know, they had to give up something Uncle Oto.
Speaker 3: But he's a he's a great guy, like a twiner
Speaker 3: who can guard multiple positions, plays with high energy.
Speaker 2: I like it. He gonna help the Knicks a lot.
Speaker 3: As you can see the Knicks, you know they they
Speaker 3: they've made some key change a little Alvarado over.
Speaker 1: There, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, see that's Sperado man. Yeah yah,
Speaker 1: picking people's pockets.
Speaker 4: Alvarado balling man. Yeah he does, Hey, Joe, I don't
Speaker 4: mean to change the subject I roto remind me of
Speaker 4: the young dude. Man, I can't think. Was he Puerto
Speaker 4: Rican player? He was short but real high energy on
Speaker 4: both ends of the court. Man, I think he played
Speaker 4: for the MAVs.
Speaker 2: Was it the MAVs? Oh you're talking about J J. Barrera?
Speaker 2: JJ bre what jj ad?
Speaker 4: He don't play that vote.
Speaker 2: I think he coaching still at the Maths.
Speaker 4: John Joe, I don't know he can make your point
Speaker 4: that Joe.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: But now he didn't he had like twenty year what
Speaker 3: twenty five the other night, Old Joe. That's a you know,
Speaker 3: Nicks trending in the right direction.
Speaker 2: Man. Sometimes you just need to go to a team
Speaker 2: and you get an opportunity. See people pay all these guys,
Speaker 2: I mean in some of them.
Speaker 1: But when you that size and you make an NBA roster,
Speaker 1: you can play like people look at Peyton Pritchett and
Speaker 1: people probably see him like, man, I cooked his white dude,
Speaker 1: boy that you will drop fifty on you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not for real in the summer Yeah, in the
Speaker 3: summer league. Yeah, he will drop fifty sixty points on you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, that boy be out there getting money. Man,
Speaker 2: That boy could play a t J. McConnell. There's another
Speaker 2: one you look at like Pouf of the cook Oh boy,
Speaker 2: oh yeah yeah. Hey hey Joe and the Cameral doing
Speaker 2: all this O O Joe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hey Joe. They have They had to show me Joe.
Speaker 2: Oh they will.
Speaker 4: They had to show me Joe.
Speaker 2: They won't have no problem with that. He can. Don't
Speaker 2: you see what you call him? Peyton Pritcher get thirty
Speaker 2: in an NBA game. Yeah, he ain't playing out there.
Speaker 2: Ojo nice Yeah,