Speaker 1: We've got a growing issue on our hands and it
Speaker 1: concerns the referees. And I'm not talking about the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Bengals getting screwed by the Kansas City Chiefs. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Lebron's nationally televised game you probably saw and the
Speaker 1: meltdown that you probably saw at the end of the
Speaker 1: Celtics Lakers game on Saturday night, one of the big
Speaker 1: centerpiece games of the year. All eyes on them, and
Speaker 1: did it deliver? It was so good. Here's the background. Lakers,
Speaker 1: who have laid actually have been pretty good. They were
Speaker 1: eight and a half point dogs in Boston. Should have
Speaker 1: been a blowout. Everyone thought it's gonna be a blow out.
Speaker 1: Why is this thing on national TV? Kings are playing,
Speaker 1: Kings are not on nationally TV. They got flexed out
Speaker 1: for the Lakers, which is part of the course. But somehow,
Speaker 1: so way, the Lakers delivered and put up a fight
Speaker 1: to the point where they were leading at halftime. They
Speaker 1: held on to the lead, and of course the Celtics
Speaker 1: were back like Celtics do and a game without question,
Speaker 1: that was decided by you guessed it the refs. You
Speaker 1: guessed it a non call for a star player the
Speaker 1: biggest star in the league in our last generation. Lebron
Speaker 1: James Celtics down three points with four point one seconds
Speaker 1: left to go. Jalen Brown gets a very suspect tickie
Speaker 1: tackie and one call, heads to the line. It is
Speaker 1: now tied up, Lakers have four seconds left to go.
Speaker 1: They give the Lakers the final shot of the game.
Speaker 1: Lebron James, like the dominant player that he was in
Speaker 1: his prime, decides he's going to put his head down,
Speaker 1: go straight to the rim, goes up for a layup
Speaker 1: and then smack what a five fingers say to the hand.
Speaker 1: I guess it was his forearm. Smack gets smacked on
Speaker 1: the forearm by Jalen Brown, looks at the ref dead
Speaker 1: in his face. No call. God damn. I don't think
Speaker 1: I've ever seen Lebron James that mad in his life.
Speaker 1: None never seen it. Fell down to the ground in
Speaker 1: what was either some sort of Minnesota Timberwolves play in
Speaker 1: glue yourself to the court experiment or an overly dramatic
Speaker 1: wine but it was a full on tantrum. Pat Beverly
Speaker 1: was so mad at the non call he somehow takes
Speaker 1: a DSLR camera from the cameraman to show the ref
Speaker 1: that his hand his arm was actually slapped by Jalen
Speaker 1: Brown or or maybe Jason Tatum and one of a
Speaker 1: more egregious non cause of the season, and that bringing
Speaker 1: out that was a whole new thing. I'd never seen
Speaker 1: someone grab a camera from a photographer to show the reft,
Speaker 1: but that's where we're at. Wasn't something that was reviewable,
Speaker 1: And of course it cost the Lakers the game one
Speaker 1: hundred percent because they would have set Lebron to the
Speaker 1: line with almost no seconds left on the clock, they
Speaker 1: would have been up to they would won the game,
Speaker 1: but instead, because of Pat Beverly's antics before the game,
Speaker 1: even the ot even begins, two free throws for the
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics tip off, and now they're leading, and they
Speaker 1: never give up the lead for the rest of the game.
Speaker 1: Lakers lose. Not even a question that it was completely blown,
Speaker 1: not even a question that the game was stolen. They
Speaker 1: asked Darvinham what he thought about it. Here's what he
Speaker 1: had to say.
Speaker 2: I mean, as much as I know I can't speak
Speaker 2: to anyone but myself, as much as you try not
Speaker 2: to put it on officiating, it's becoming increasingly difficult. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a bunch of stuff we could have did better
Speaker 2: in this game, but for the most part, we competed
Speaker 2: our behinds off, played the right way, played together, state aggressive,
Speaker 2: playing downhill, playing in the paint. And it's unfortunate that,
Speaker 2: you know, the game ends on a play like that.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's unfortunate, especially with and you know, I don't.
Speaker 2: You don't ask for favoritism. You just asked for consistency.
Speaker 1: You don't ask for favoritism, You just ask for consistency.
Speaker 1: Later on, he says, the best player on Earth can't
Speaker 1: get a call. It's amazing. Braun wasn't as angry as
Speaker 1: I thought he would be. But he was just just sad,
Speaker 1: just resigned, some some sort of emotion I had never
Speaker 1: seen from Lebron. So they ask him challenging, challenging.
Speaker 2: I don't get it. I don't get it. I'm attacking
Speaker 2: the paint just as much as any of the other
Speaker 2: guys in his lead as shooting double digit free throws
Speaker 2: in the And I don't want to say.
Speaker 1: That shooting double I should be shooting double digit free
Speaker 1: throws a nightem getting into the lane just as much
Speaker 1: as these other guys, I just do not get it.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: According to Dan Wolkee, the League immediately reached out to
Speaker 1: the Lakers to confirm that, yes, the refs indeed did
Speaker 1: blow them the call and Tatum should have been called
Speaker 1: for the foul that would have given Braun two shots
Speaker 1: from the line to win the game. Last two minute
Speaker 1: reports said the same thing even they had. Ref Eric
Speaker 1: Lewis admitted that they blew the call. Right after the game.
Speaker 1: They asked him what was up, and this is what
Speaker 1: he had to say. Hey, uh, why was Patrick Beverley
Speaker 1: assessed a technical foul at the end of regulation? His
Speaker 1: actions were inappropriate in addressing resentment to a non call.
Speaker 1: It looked like he brought a camera out. Was he
Speaker 1: trying to show you something? Yes, that was part of
Speaker 1: his inappropriate actions. It looked like there was contact on
Speaker 1: Lebron's drive at the end of regulation. Why was there
Speaker 1: no foul call? And what did you see? There was
Speaker 1: contact at the time during the game, We did not
Speaker 1: see a foul. The crew missed the play. No shit,
Speaker 1: that was very obvious. It was egregious. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Blown calls happened. It sucks. YadA, YadA, YadA. YadA. But
Speaker 1: if you're a Lebron James and you are the LA Lakers,
Speaker 1: or you are a Laker fan, you should lose your
Speaker 1: goddamn mind about this. Why because it is affecting whether
Speaker 1: or not you can go to the playoffs or not.
Speaker 1: This is the fourth time in the last two months
Speaker 1: the Lakers have been hosed in the last minute of
Speaker 1: a game that has cost them said game three times.
Speaker 1: The league admitted their mistakes the fourth time when they
Speaker 1: said Russell Westbrook wasn't fouled on a game winning attempt
Speaker 1: where Joe El Embiid literally grabbed his wrist, probably one
Speaker 1: of the most egregious of the bunch. So if you
Speaker 1: were to add those four wins that were stolen from
Speaker 1: the Lakers, I can't even believe I'm discussing it this
Speaker 1: way because I hate them so much. The Lakers are
Speaker 1: currently twenty three and twenty seven. If they had won
Speaker 1: those four games, they would be twenty seven and twenty three,
Speaker 1: which looks at the standings, would be fourth place in
Speaker 1: the West, a game out of third place. Instead, they
Speaker 1: are sitting right around tenth, and that is a massive
Speaker 1: difference with the West and turmoil. According to the Lakers'
Speaker 1: official Last two Minute report. There have been This needs
Speaker 1: to be said, there have been thirty four incorrect calls
Speaker 1: or non calls in the final two minutes of nineteen
Speaker 1: games that the league classifies as close. Twenty one of
Speaker 1: those thirty four incorrect calls have gone and favored the Lakers.
Speaker 1: So you might say when the Lakers get more calls.
Speaker 1: But four games now in the last two months have
Speaker 1: been stolen. And I'm going to predict that some team
Speaker 1: at some point is going to get screwed out of
Speaker 1: the playoffs by a bad call. They will. There will
Speaker 1: be a team that because of a bad call ends
Speaker 1: up missing the play and makes missing the playoff. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's the Lakers. If I'm a d and I am
Speaker 1: Russ and I am Braun, I would not be happy.
Speaker 1: I would feel like we are gelling at the right time,
Speaker 1: and somehow, some way we just cannot buy a win.
Speaker 1: We are getting wins pulled out from under us. And
Speaker 1: it is turning a team that could be quote unquote
Speaker 1: successful or improving to a team that has really no recourse,
Speaker 1: really no hope, really no desire to do anything else.
Speaker 1: If they get to the playoffs and we aren't are healthy.
Speaker 1: The Lakers will be dangerous, but it looks like it
Speaker 1: might be difficult for them to do that the way
Speaker 1: that things are going, if the refs don't get out
Speaker 1: of the way. Moving on, so we got to talk
Speaker 1: about this new news about Bob Myers, Bob Myers GM
Speaker 1: of the Golden State Warriors. There are some things rumbling
Speaker 1: about him. We know the Warriors have had a tough
Speaker 1: year so far. They had the punch that was heard
Speaker 1: around the world with Draymond Green and Jordan Poole. It's
Speaker 1: even gotten stranger than that. Currently they are sixth in
Speaker 1: the West twenty five and twenty four, but also two
Speaker 1: and a half games out of thirteenth place, So things
Speaker 1: are teeter tottering on either success or brink of disaster.
Speaker 1: The West, like I just said earlier, is an absolute
Speaker 1: meat grinder, and this team is still six to eighteen
Speaker 1: on the road. So there's some things going on. There's
Speaker 1: some issues for our dubs. We don't know where they're
Speaker 1: gonna land, whether it's gonna get fixed or smoothed out.
Speaker 1: But in the midst of all of this quote unquote,
Speaker 1: we'll call it instability inconsistency comes the news the Bob Myers,
Speaker 1: the architect of the dynasty. You could argue also Jerry
Speaker 1: West is unhappy. It might be on the move. Bob Myers,
Speaker 1: the architect of the dynasty, might be on the move.
Speaker 1: So he recently said in a podcast about leadership, he
Speaker 1: said this about his future in the Bay. He said, well,
Speaker 1: I do really like what I do now. I love
Speaker 1: our group. I don't think it's anything immint as far
Speaker 1: as stepping outside of this job, but it is healthy
Speaker 1: to ask where you're at and what you're doing. And
Speaker 1: since then, the rumor mill has been buzzing, where will
Speaker 1: Bob Myers go? Why is he may be unhappy? The
Speaker 1: most likely scenario if he does go, apparently as a
Speaker 1: move to Los Angeles to rejoin with Jerry West and
Speaker 1: a very very rich owner in Steve Baumer. The ruler
Speaker 1: is suspect. It does make sense though, considering that Myers
Speaker 1: wants to be the highest paid GM in the league.
Speaker 1: That's the thing is, you've got Lake of paying a
Speaker 1: lot of money to all these plays, deep into the
Speaker 1: luxury tax, and they're not winning to the level this
Speaker 1: year that they expect. And then you have Bob Myers saying, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I too need to be paid. I am on an
Speaker 1: expiring contract. What are you going to do next? Is
Speaker 1: Meyers unhappy in Golden State? I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's the right word for it. Maybe he's burned out,
Speaker 1: Maybe he needs a new challenge, maybe he needs some
Speaker 1: more money. It's a very high pressure job, especially considering
Speaker 1: you've got that half a billion dollar payroll that you're
Speaker 1: staring at and expectations from an owner of multi generational,
Speaker 1: dynastic runs. But listen, the Clippers are a good job.
Speaker 1: This could be another opportunity to reunite with Jerry West,
Speaker 1: and for me, that would probably be a very good combination.
Speaker 1: I know that they like Lawrence Frank in LA, but
Speaker 1: I don't know that you turned down an opportunity to
Speaker 1: get Bob Myers. The stability, though for the Warriors for
Speaker 1: our Dubs, has been in large part due to Bob
Speaker 1: Myers being the captain of the ship. He's one of
Speaker 1: the very few talent agents that have ever come into
Speaker 1: the front office of a team and immediately succeeded. Franchise
Speaker 1: faces huge decisions ranging from what to do with Clay
Speaker 1: to Draymond Green, to how the two timeliner proach is
Speaker 1: going to go. You've got two or three cornerstone pieces
Speaker 1: that you thought Wiseman and Moody who are very far
Speaker 1: away from being starters, and the other one and Jonathan
Speaker 1: kaminga very raw So it might be the right time
Speaker 1: for Bob Myers to step away. Since his contract was
Speaker 1: up in December, there has been no news on a
Speaker 1: new negotiation. This could be the final year for Bob Myers.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be something? And I'll be honest as a
Speaker 1: lifelong Dubs fan. Without Bob Myers, things just would not
Speaker 1: be the same.