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Speaker 1: Nets got paid in Bitcoin? What are your thoughts about
Speaker 1: the way he does his creative contracts. Some mother's just
Speaker 1: too smart. You know what I'm saying, You've got too
Speaker 1: much time on your hands. Yeah, that could be the
Speaker 1: greatest ever given me. Welcome back to what's burning Jack,
Speaker 1: Let's get to it. Status check Eastern Conference that's just
Speaker 1: starting to find their rhythm when he's seven other last
Speaker 1: tenths and at fourteen and six, LaMarcus Aldrich has been
Speaker 1: turning back the clock, averaging nineteen over his last five.
Speaker 1: Just in Joe Harris ankle surgery out four to eight weeks.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this next team. YEA thought Joe Harris
Speaker 1: was hurt since last year. I ain't seen it. For
Speaker 1: the playoffs, he was absent, No, he was cast for
Speaker 1: the Ghost and now he's hurt. I hope he get
Speaker 1: back soon, but he wasn't doing that anyway. Um. LaMarcus
Speaker 1: Ardris is big for them, bro. It's big coming back
Speaker 1: after after he said he was gonna retire. But to
Speaker 1: see him back on the court, to see the contribution
Speaker 1: he's given to this team with everything they're going through
Speaker 1: like Joe Harris being out and Kyrie not being there,
Speaker 1: is big for that team and uh and Io. For
Speaker 1: his team to be successful even if Kyrie don't come back,
Speaker 1: he has to continue to play this way. He has
Speaker 1: to go back to his all star phone. I agree, Aldrich.
Speaker 1: I think we've talked about we think Paul Millsap needs
Speaker 1: to step up and Blake Griffin. You know, they kind
Speaker 1: of did the Kers recipe where they got a bunch
Speaker 1: of older free agents, uh for for a good price.
Speaker 1: And I think these guys are just gonna have to
Speaker 1: find the rhythm. Will Kyrie come back? I think that's
Speaker 1: still a question the world is wondering James Harden hopefully
Speaker 1: finding his rhythm of soon. He mentioned that it's it's
Speaker 1: been tough for him trying to really find his rhythm
Speaker 1: and when he's supposed to do what. But I think
Speaker 1: that's something he'll work itself through. Um Again, I think
Speaker 1: this team is fine. As long as you've got Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant and you can be healthy when it matters, you're
Speaker 1: always gonna have a shot to win bucks getting healthy
Speaker 1: turning the corner. Since Middleton came back seventh straight, had
Speaker 1: missed the previous eight before that, UH really like this team.
Speaker 1: I think Janice obviously took that step to show the
Speaker 1: world what type of player he is and what's he's about.
Speaker 1: It's good, it's good to have him back, and some
Speaker 1: the fact that he's the big shot maker. He initiates
Speaker 1: the offense and he takes a lot uh pressure of
Speaker 1: Greek free He's the most dominant player in the game.
Speaker 1: He gets all attention. But having Meddles in the court
Speaker 1: makes his team a championship team. Without him, they're not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's definitely their closer, and they just signed our brother
Speaker 1: DeMarcus cousins Man, So hoping he gets a chance to
Speaker 1: really kind of find his rhythm. These situations are tricky
Speaker 1: because sometimes they may sign you on a non guaranteeing
Speaker 1: you really not get a chance to do your ship.
Speaker 1: So hopefully they give him a chance to do something,
Speaker 1: because I definitely think he still has something in the tank.
Speaker 1: As of Monday, eleven teams are separated by only four
Speaker 1: games in the East. Obviously, the Nets are at the
Speaker 1: top of that Milwaukee number two, Washington three, Chicago, Milwaukee, Charlotte, Nick's, Atlanta, Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and then Boston and Philly are on the outside looking in.
Speaker 1: And the playing situations right now, this what this East
Speaker 1: is wild, and it's it's really similar to the to
Speaker 1: the West. But let's talk about the East right now,
Speaker 1: Like you can go on a four or five six
Speaker 1: game winning streak and climb from the gutter to a
Speaker 1: top four seed in the Eastern Conference. Yeah, because you
Speaker 1: gotta look at the East. You know, you've got so
Speaker 1: many teams that still don't even know they're for a roster.
Speaker 1: You know, You've got Philly, you got Brooklyn still missing Kyrie,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You've got a lot of
Speaker 1: teams in Chicago just getting guys healthy, Philly having guys
Speaker 1: in and out. You know, So the East is up
Speaker 1: for grabs. I think, you know, you know, Miami, Brooklyn
Speaker 1: and Milwalker should be at the top. But can He's
Speaker 1: got teams like Boston turning around, can Philly turning around?
Speaker 1: Atlanta's in the thick of the things. I don't believe
Speaker 1: the Knicks. I never will. Cleveland hots hots hoes, Cleveland
Speaker 1: in the top eight, like it's the Eastern Conference is crazy.
Speaker 1: Shouting to the coach um in Cleveland for getting these
Speaker 1: guys playing bigger staff Man, Right, that's the name bag
Speaker 1: staff right, Yeah, that's the home that that's the homie.
Speaker 1: But the way the East looks right now, I guarantee you, Matt,
Speaker 1: come April, it will not look like that. And I
Speaker 1: love again with what they're doing in Cleveland and that
Speaker 1: they're playing with the newfound energy and it's without their
Speaker 1: point guard if Colin Sexton, I'm not mistaken, it's still
Speaker 1: out but these guys play hard. Mobile is over there,
Speaker 1: uh in the Rookie b Year conversation. But I really
Speaker 1: obviously Brooklyn is Brooklyn, but I really like that Miami
Speaker 1: Washington Chicago that two three four area. Happy for Washington
Speaker 1: Chicago both with revamped rosters out there playing really good basketball.
Speaker 1: Then obviously Miami adding Kyle Lowry and these guys finding
Speaker 1: their rhythm. Uh, this is gonna be dope to watch
Speaker 1: down the stretch. Obviously, you know we've still got sixty
Speaker 1: plus games left in the season, but it's gonna be
Speaker 1: back and forth all season. Um, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: fun to watch. Now looking at the Western Conference, the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors, these dudes are amazing. Sitting at the
Speaker 1: top of the league at eighteen and two. Steph Curry
Speaker 1: is on some real Steph Curry ship. Probably put to
Speaker 1: me Jack playing the best basketball in his career. And
Speaker 1: that's saying a lot because he's the only United's MVP
Speaker 1: this league has ever seen. And I think he's playing
Speaker 1: the best he's played. Uh. He's at twenty eight point
Speaker 1: four points a game, six point nine and say seven
Speaker 1: assists and uh six rebounds shooting from the three. Uh,
Speaker 1: he is definitely in MVP mode. Um, Clay Thompson and
Speaker 1: James Wiseman, we're sent over to the G League to
Speaker 1: build the greatest G League ever. That Santa Cruz team
Speaker 1: is gonna be jumping for the next week or so.
Speaker 1: So Clay is close. Uh, what do you think about
Speaker 1: this Warrior team? That's what I think about him. Everybody's
Speaker 1: thinking the same way what you just said. We're close
Speaker 1: to having Clay back. We're close to getting out full
Speaker 1: team back. They get Clay and Wiseman back and continue
Speaker 1: to play at the level they're playing at. Man, this
Speaker 1: team is definitely a championship team. I'm not surprised, Like
Speaker 1: like I said, steps picking our way he left off
Speaker 1: last year. He's always been one of the best shooters
Speaker 1: in the game, first to ever hit a thousand threes
Speaker 1: in the season already. Goddamn uh was was still bro
Speaker 1: just this team. They can get healthy with Clay and
Speaker 1: get wising back to the way they posted play. This
Speaker 1: team can win the West easy. Not even It's not
Speaker 1: even a conversation a black people, like it's Clay gonna
Speaker 1: be healthy, what team is gonna be It's not even
Speaker 1: a conversation on where the way stuff playing, if Clay
Speaker 1: come back and why I can come back? This team
Speaker 1: can come out to West. Yeah. I think with or
Speaker 1: without um Clay, this team is a championship team. And
Speaker 1: that's saying a lot because we know what Clay is
Speaker 1: capable of. Um. Him coming back is important. You know,
Speaker 1: he's getting that bug he was. You know, he sat
Speaker 1: on the bench post game with the towel on his
Speaker 1: head like he's been out for two years. So I
Speaker 1: hope he can just come back and you know, walk
Speaker 1: his way back into shape because being out that long
Speaker 1: with the type of injuries he has is scary. Um.
Speaker 1: One thing I want to say about this team, though,
Speaker 1: that is different from other teams in the league, and
Speaker 1: this is probably why they're back on track, is this
Speaker 1: team has kept their core together. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can name another team you know, there's
Speaker 1: been able to keep their core core together. So even
Speaker 1: when they had, you know, two down years, Drey was
Speaker 1: still there, Steph was in there out being hurt, they
Speaker 1: were able to bring ing love back. Teams don't keep
Speaker 1: their court anymore, and they used to kind of be
Speaker 1: the staple of the NBA back in the day, but
Speaker 1: now that superstars move so much that it's rare for
Speaker 1: a team to keep their court together. And I think
Speaker 1: that's why now when they were able to develop these
Speaker 1: young players the last two years when the team was down, UM,
Speaker 1: shout out Jordan Pool. I think he's going to be
Speaker 1: a star. Um. It's been good to see the development
Speaker 1: of these guys and now they're ready. I think one
Speaker 1: person is gonna be a key for this team on
Speaker 1: both ends of the floor. And I think finally because
Speaker 1: he's always kind of been a what if to me. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Andrew Wiggins is playing really good basketball offensively
Speaker 1: and defensively. He's someone that could, you know, guard your
Speaker 1: best player, and you know that Clay coming back, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be slow for a little bit. That's normally his role.
Speaker 1: So I love what Wiggins has been able to do.
Speaker 1: He's finally in a great situation with a great you know, uh,
Speaker 1: great team around him in a bunch of events, and uh,
Speaker 1: like you said, Jack, this team is definitely preparing to
Speaker 1: come out of the West next up the hottest team
Speaker 1: that it was crazy to say that. You know, Golden
Speaker 1: State is eighteen and two, but NIX is one six
Speaker 1: team straight and they're sitting one game behind Golden State.
Speaker 1: UM as of Monday, Booker three straight thirty point games
Speaker 1: on the road, him and CP are doing with him
Speaker 1: and CP, do UM talk to me about this Phoenix team? Well,
Speaker 1: with me, I think this finished finishing me still from
Speaker 1: like they have something to prove, you know a lot
Speaker 1: of people and it's just it's just the facts. Every
Speaker 1: team they played last year in the playoffs had one
Speaker 1: of they start players injured. So they feel like they're
Speaker 1: not getting the respect that they deserve. And uh, and
Speaker 1: that's a that's a right of way to look at it.
Speaker 1: I think they still have something to prove. And when
Speaker 1: you play like that, it's it shows right now that
Speaker 1: the way they're playing right now that they have something
Speaker 1: to prove and they want to let you out know
Speaker 1: that we didn't make it to the Western Conference finals.
Speaker 1: On accident. We are we are we are. We are
Speaker 1: that team, and we're here to show it again this year,
Speaker 1: and they're getting off to a great start. I have
Speaker 1: one agree, and I was one of those people that
Speaker 1: kind of doubted them for the reasons you said earlier.
Speaker 1: I thought they had you know, obviously getting there is
Speaker 1: still tough, but I felt like it just laid out perfect.
Speaker 1: And I love when I'm wrong about stuff like this,
Speaker 1: Like Phoenix is a legit contender this season. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: they're getting healthy with Aidan back, JaVale McGee has been
Speaker 1: playing great. Shout out JaVale McGee stepped up big when
Speaker 1: Aiden was down. Uh, but CP has been able to
Speaker 1: turn back the clock. Man. CP is still in you know,
Speaker 1: normally you don't find point guards his age still able
Speaker 1: to do what he does and and and really run
Speaker 1: a team. And he's been doing a great job of that.
Speaker 1: And you know, we already know Devin Booker is one
Speaker 1: of the best players in the league. So shout out Phoenix.
Speaker 1: A couple of big injuries in the Western Conference. Jack
Speaker 1: Jah sprain knee will be out a few weeks. Glad
Speaker 1: it wasn't because I saw that when it first happened
Speaker 1: before they knew what happened, and it wasn't like a
Speaker 1: non contact. I'm just like, oh, ship, those non contacts
Speaker 1: are the dangerous one. Um. He's been having a breakout
Speaker 1: season at nearly twenty five points of games, seven assists,
Speaker 1: and uh about five and a half rebounds a game. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the team had to play without him last year and
Speaker 1: kind of stayed afloat. Talk to me about this Memphis
Speaker 1: Grizzly team and how important Jow is to this team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, as far as he go, they go, they
Speaker 1: go no world without John. I think, Um, the best
Speaker 1: thing about about the injury is we hasn't we haven't
Speaker 1: heard it is serious. We haven't heard that he needs
Speaker 1: uh season ended surgery or nothing like that. So it's
Speaker 1: just a sprain. We've all sprayed down, kneeds we and
Speaker 1: and it falls into that area of ten de nitis
Speaker 1: where you can't really move it. It's just real tender
Speaker 1: ice it. He'll be back. It's nothing serious. So um,
Speaker 1: I think that's that they need to just hold onto
Speaker 1: that and hold on to the positive because they know
Speaker 1: the season is is for nothing without John Moran. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this team has and again Thankfully it's not
Speaker 1: a major injury. But this I like this team. Man,
Speaker 1: They're young, they play hard. Brooke Jackson, you know, Kyle
Speaker 1: Anderson Bane they play hard over there, and they play
Speaker 1: a certain way. And I know that that that that
Speaker 1: Memphis City appreciates the way they played. Man. So definitely
Speaker 1: looking forward to him getting healthy and back on the court. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Michael porter Um possibly having or he's having back surgery.
Speaker 1: They haven't given a time to but back surgery normally
Speaker 1: means you're gonna be out for the remainder of the season. Uh.
Speaker 1: He just signed his five year extension the kicks in
Speaker 1: next season, so this was always the what if with him.
Speaker 1: You know, he had back problems coming in. Uh he
Speaker 1: was able to battle through those and and and show
Speaker 1: flashes of of how amazing can be awarded with the
Speaker 1: max extension. Uh, now he's going back under the knife.
Speaker 1: How does Denver approach this situation? And what do they
Speaker 1: do now that they're down him? And uh Murray, Uh,
Speaker 1: they have ship creep. I mean this this this is
Speaker 1: this is the same guy who dropped in the draft
Speaker 1: a couple of places because of the same back injury.
Speaker 1: Because they was worried about his back, and he missed
Speaker 1: the beginning. He missed the beginning of his rookie career
Speaker 1: because of his back. So this is this is not
Speaker 1: nothing that that's that's not serious, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: This He almost stopped playing because it is so too
Speaker 1: I honestly, just my personal opinion, I don't think he
Speaker 1: proved enough to get that five year extensions. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: played well in the playoffs a little bit, but he
Speaker 1: didn't prove enough to get that five year extension. And
Speaker 1: he didn't prove he was durable enough to because you know,
Speaker 1: when you when you give a guy that much money,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get the ball a lot. You need to
Speaker 1: be on the court, and I didn't see that in
Speaker 1: him from the jump. I'm sending pass to him that
Speaker 1: he gets well on the surgey and success, but I
Speaker 1: kind of had a feeling that this guy wasn't endurable
Speaker 1: enough to be a player, especially the money making. I
Speaker 1: agree with half of your uh statement there um As
Speaker 1: far as flashes and talent, I thought he was a
Speaker 1: max guy, and I knew because I've been following him
Speaker 1: for a while through high school and everything. I questioned
Speaker 1: the durability you know, anytime back because one of those
Speaker 1: things you can't funk with, like you can't back is
Speaker 1: to me, probably the worst injury, maybe even worse than needs,
Speaker 1: because you know back is can't walk with a bad back.
Speaker 1: So I agree, And that's what scares me. And and
Speaker 1: and once you start getting involved with nerves, and you
Speaker 1: know that's what I'm hearing, that's you know, some have
Speaker 1: to do some nerves as well. It's just an unfortunate situation, man.
Speaker 1: So definitely praying for m Hope to leave this surgery. Um,
Speaker 1: we'll get him into a position where he could return
Speaker 1: next year, and and and and keep hoooping because again
Speaker 1: this kid is six nine, six ten, can shoot, can jump,
Speaker 1: can dribble, can do everything, man, So we definitely want
Speaker 1: to see him back on the court. Next up on
Speaker 1: the Radar, presented you by DraftKings Man, we get a
Speaker 1: treat this week. The Warriors and the Sons, the team
Speaker 1: with the two best records, play Tuesday and Friday Western
Speaker 1: Conference Finals. Odds Draft King has the Warriors at three
Speaker 1: to one odds and the Suns at five and a
Speaker 1: half to one odds. Jack, is it too early to
Speaker 1: think that we're seeing the Western Conference Finals this week.
Speaker 1: Way too early, way too early. We know how injuries
Speaker 1: playing part in the season. We know how some teams
Speaker 1: can turn their team around. We know how one trade
Speaker 1: can turn the team around so many aspects in the
Speaker 1: season that that could be a big that it's too early.
Speaker 1: We've both been a part of this league for a
Speaker 1: long time. We know the dynamics and making the season
Speaker 1: successful and making the season unsuccessful, and you have so
Speaker 1: much time for all those things to come into place.
Speaker 1: So it's hard to say right now. I completely agree.
Speaker 1: And I think as players, we know we never looked
Speaker 1: at it, even like if you were on the top
Speaker 1: team playing another top team early in the season, we
Speaker 1: were never like, oh is this We're going to see
Speaker 1: them and the It was never really liked that for players. Um,
Speaker 1: it's more just you know, to me, it's more outside
Speaker 1: media stirring up, you know, trying to get more eyeballs
Speaker 1: on the game. But what I will say is I'm
Speaker 1: just excited to see these two teams play period. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, Phoenix with sixteen straight Warriors at eighteen and two, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be some good basketball anytime. Stephan cp Link,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a battle. But forecasting the future, Um,
Speaker 1: if we do see this in the Western Conference finals,
Speaker 1: Stephan cleft, fully health healthy, Stephan Clay backcourt, fully healthy,
Speaker 1: CP three, and Devin Booker backcourt. What backcourt are you taking?
Speaker 1: Just backcourts alone. I'm going with Steph and Clay because
Speaker 1: you got you got two of the best shows of
Speaker 1: the Dame that you got. Even book is one of
Speaker 1: the best shows in the game too, So I'll go
Speaker 1: with Stephans before I go with CP book. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I would agree with you, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: CP and book are definitely, you know, getting their recognition
Speaker 1: as one of the best best backcourts in the game.
Speaker 1: But you know, you gotta go with the old, faithful Javille.
Speaker 1: I think JaVale McGee is gonna be the the fact
Speaker 1: in that game. Yeah, he's big. I love the way
Speaker 1: he's been able to do what he does next up
Speaker 1: securing the bag buy money line. Uh, Spencer did when
Speaker 1: he is an interesting dude. I never got a chance
Speaker 1: to meet him, but I've always heard from Afar just
Speaker 1: a creative way he's been structuring his contracts. Uh. He
Speaker 1: got a three year, fifty four million dollar deal from
Speaker 1: the Wizards in one of the craziest signing trades ever.
Speaker 1: But he has these incentives where he gets one one
Speaker 1: and a half million if he plays fifty or more games,
Speaker 1: so coming off an injury, um, A hundred k if
Speaker 1: the Wizards make the second round, five hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: one thousand if the Wizards make the Eastern Conference Finals,
Speaker 1: in another four hundred thousand if the Wizards make it
Speaker 1: to the finals, and only one dollar if they win
Speaker 1: the finals. So he has a bunch of these weird
Speaker 1: incentives in his contract. But you remember when he was
Speaker 1: with the Nets, he got paid in bitcoin. Um, this
Speaker 1: dude is definitely money oriented and thinking about you know,
Speaker 1: just the future, in the in the way we should
Speaker 1: receive money. What are your thoughts about the way he
Speaker 1: does his creative contracts. Some mother is just too smart,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like like like he too smart,
Speaker 1: Like I listen scowdos to him. I wish, I wish
Speaker 1: I was just smart to him. But bro, you've got
Speaker 1: too much time on your hand, all right? I do
Speaker 1: you funk with you? I love a kind I love
Speaker 1: with you the way you play, and I love it
Speaker 1: you overcame the injury and came back. But bro, you
Speaker 1: got too much time with your hand. Yeah, that could
Speaker 1: be the greatest you ever given me. But one thing
Speaker 1: outside of his creative contracts and you're amazing answer. He's
Speaker 1: fitting well over there. He's right at up right under
Speaker 1: fifteen points a game. So definitely bounced back from his injury.
Speaker 1: Now he's solid Madden. When he was in Brooklyn, you know,
Speaker 1: he was a big part of Brooklyn successful. He got hurt.
Speaker 1: He belonged in this league and he gonna dominate, and
Speaker 1: he overcame an injury. That that gives other people who's
Speaker 1: going through stuff like that the motivation to get out
Speaker 1: of it and to still be successful. He's doing that.
Speaker 1: This guy before he got hurt, no telling where his
Speaker 1: career would have been and no telling what role will
Speaker 1: have on what team right now because he was one
Speaker 1: of those players like this kid can run the team.
Speaker 1: He could be the star of the team. But to
Speaker 1: bounce back from this injury and the way Washington is
Speaker 1: plan right now being one of the top teams in
Speaker 1: the East, it says a lot to him. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean he's healthy now, he's secured the bag. Now he's
Speaker 1: getting paid creatively. But most importantly, he's putting. He's putting,
Speaker 1: He's doing what he's supposed to do on the court,
Speaker 1: and that's what's most important because all this other ship
Speaker 1: wouldn't matter if he wasn't playing well. And he's been
Speaker 1: able to come you back, like for an injury, like
Speaker 1: you said, and play well and help his team be
Speaker 1: a top four team in the Eastern Conference. Man, So
Speaker 1: definitely shout out spent to them way this Thursday, December two.
Speaker 1: Make sure you don't miss the conversation Jack and I
Speaker 1: have with our brothers. Shout out million dollars with the game.
Speaker 1: And Gillian Waller, we had a dope conversation with him
Speaker 1: when we was out in New York. Um, enjoy this teaser.
Speaker 1: Who you feel like it's gonna win the championship this year?
Speaker 1: I feel like it's gonna be hard to beat Golden State.
Speaker 1: I feel like when they get the kid wise men
Speaker 1: back because he's a defensive, he's a he's a ring
Speaker 1: protector and and he he could finish a little bit
Speaker 1: and he got a little fifteen and seventeen footed that
Speaker 1: he can knocked down. I feel like the boy's gonna
Speaker 1: be up they already running the ship. Imagine when they
Speaker 1: get clean and cleanland man, let's be for real, man
Speaker 1: clean like a lion sitting there looking at goddamn seventeen,
Speaker 1: Will the beast walk up? What I'm saying? He can't
Speaker 1: wait to get come back. They're gonna be on one.
Speaker 1: And we already knew he's gonna come back because he
Speaker 1: one of them kids. He put the work in and
Speaker 1: he feel disrespected to he didn't get the top sent
Speaker 1: He feels disrespected and I'll feel do he Probably he's
Speaker 1: the second grader shoot of all time in my opinion,
Speaker 1: you have no question. I feel like if you second
Speaker 1: to do anything in the league, should probably be in
Speaker 1: the fucking top seventy five. And you got championships as well,
Speaker 1: and you big reason why y'all won the championships. It's
Speaker 1: could have been m v P and any one of
Speaker 1: them champions absolutely So for me, it's like I don't
Speaker 1: see nobody beating Golden State. We're now to fan questions.
Speaker 1: Here we go. Jesse underscore, h underscore ninety four. Good question.
Speaker 1: Who wins a seven game series? Fully healthy? We believe
Speaker 1: Warriors or the current Warriors squad? Listen, Bro what's burnings
Speaker 1: bro Bed healthy? Bed healthy and a healthy team. We're
Speaker 1: beating anybody. We We showed you all we can beat anybody.
Speaker 1: We beat the Mavericks, the best team in the league
Speaker 1: with d VP, so we can beat anybody if we're healthy.
Speaker 1: I don't give it that who it is. The first
Speaker 1: The first thing people would say is we they have
Speaker 1: Steph but healthy Baron Davis who can guard to motherfucker's
Speaker 1: don't know Bed was playing defense to full court. They'll
Speaker 1: pick you up. And I think we would have gave
Speaker 1: We would have had to put stuff on the ground
Speaker 1: a couple of times though, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we were me like we were a mean team. They
Speaker 1: have a little bit of you know, obviously Draymond holds
Speaker 1: it down for that team, and that team, you know,
Speaker 1: we're not taking anything away from what they did. Obviously
Speaker 1: you're asking two players that played on the other team.
Speaker 1: But I think fully healthy and with this team right now,
Speaker 1: we definitely give them some problems. We had three Draymond's
Speaker 1: with a three ball man man and they don't forget
Speaker 1: about j rich or give you thirty peters to come
Speaker 1: in and give you twenty mon come and get man,
Speaker 1: be a drench is running the floor, blocking shots, rebounding,
Speaker 1: catching dunk tips lives Like, Yeah, we had we had
Speaker 1: some ship. It would have been fun. Bro. I wish
Speaker 1: there's a way some what some smart motherfucker needs to
Speaker 1: come up with a way to replay like simulated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like a real simulation of the eight you know, I
Speaker 1: mean the ninety two bulls and whoever, and me and Draymond.
Speaker 1: Don't get text. It's not a real simulation. Who are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Meet them right with y'all? That's what
Speaker 1: I used to tell people with this thing. I was like,
Speaker 1: we had a whole team of Draymond's like as far
Speaker 1: as his approach and his attitude and the way he
Speaker 1: has his teams back, like we all were ready to fight.
Speaker 1: He's the one that has to fight for that team,
Speaker 1: like we was all ready to fight on or off
Speaker 1: the court. So it was always some ship with us.
Speaker 1: Next fan question and Jen, if either you were to
Speaker 1: give your draft your drafted young self any advice about
Speaker 1: the best way to prepare and stay in a long
Speaker 1: term career as a player, what would it be? Jack?
Speaker 1: You know what's crazy is it's just so much attention
Speaker 1: on ship like that. Now, when we came in, we
Speaker 1: was just on our own. I think obviously shout out
Speaker 1: to our vets because that's how that's who used to
Speaker 1: kind of show us the ropes. But it wasn't really
Speaker 1: no talk about saving, investing and all this other ship
Speaker 1: and how to you know, eating healthy, like, none of
Speaker 1: that was talked about it. It's crazy because it wasn't
Speaker 1: really that long ago, but you know, it was twenty
Speaker 1: years ago. So um, if we came in now knowing,
Speaker 1: you know, how to invest our money, we can turn
Speaker 1: our money into bitcoin, and we need to eat healthy
Speaker 1: and do this, and we didn't do none of that
Speaker 1: ship and still lasted fourteen years and did well on
Speaker 1: both sides. So uh, would I give myself any advice? No, man,
Speaker 1: I would just I would say stay out of trouble.
Speaker 1: But outside of that, I liked, you know, I was,
Speaker 1: I was learning on the fly. Well, my answer probably
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with basketball. I wouldn't. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: told myself, don't be such as a fucking rock star,
Speaker 1: John be such a don't be Yeah, I was a
Speaker 1: rock star, like I was living the rappers life in
Speaker 1: the NBA. You know what I'm saying I was. I was.
Speaker 1: Actually I was doing shows on the road, like I
Speaker 1: was doing a whole bunch stuff that didn't have nothing
Speaker 1: to do with basketball. So I would tell my younger self,
Speaker 1: don't be so much of a rock star. I know,
Speaker 1: I know it's hard for me to accept that because
Speaker 1: I am one, But I would have told myself, don't
Speaker 1: be a rock star, just chill out and play basketball.
Speaker 1: Me knowing you, the way I know you, the way
Speaker 1: I look at you, you put your life. You was
Speaker 1: a rock star than a gang banger than an NBA player. Accurate,
Speaker 1: very accurate, very accurate. Third, basketball was third on your
Speaker 1: list if you still did a great job at it,
Speaker 1: but the other two were the priority for you. Ship last,
Speaker 1: and you still did it good. You mustage the other
Speaker 1: two things great ship I trained underscored thirty two. Do
Speaker 1: you like the rule change in the flow of the
Speaker 1: game this season? Uh? Not really, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: like the rule that they put in this probably don't
Speaker 1: think I like. I don't like the rule they put
Speaker 1: in for James Harden just because James Harden's smart enough
Speaker 1: to get your arms locked in every time you reach
Speaker 1: when you drive. That's a skill, don't take don't take
Speaker 1: that away from him, because a lot of players aregatint
Speaker 1: stupid files by using their hands and not sliding their feet.
Speaker 1: So that's the only thing I hate. They James Harden
Speaker 1: was exploiting the league and exploiting a lot of defensive
Speaker 1: players not been able to move they feel and use
Speaker 1: their hands. And now that it took that away from him,
Speaker 1: And I don't think that was fat, bro, I think
Speaker 1: it's affecting this game. Definitely affected his game. But I'm
Speaker 1: on the other side, I love it because, you know,
Speaker 1: having to guard him. I used to hate when I
Speaker 1: was playing good defense and he was somehow get my
Speaker 1: hand wrapped up in this fucking armpit. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 1: I wasn't even near your artfit. How's my my motherfucking
Speaker 1: handing your armpit right now? So I like that, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, because but again, great skill. He
Speaker 1: found out a way that he was a cheak code.
Speaker 1: He found out a way to get this dude was
Speaker 1: getting fifteen to twenty free throws every single night, and
Speaker 1: with him not getting that now is is part of
Speaker 1: the reason why I feel like he's struggling. He has
Speaker 1: to kind of just go back to because he's always
Speaker 1: been a great player. He's gonna figure that out. He's
Speaker 1: always one of the best scores we've ever seen. But
Speaker 1: he had manipulated the game so much that he knew
Speaker 1: he was gonna get fifteen. Could you imagine every night
Speaker 1: knowing he's gonna get fifteen to twenty just from the
Speaker 1: free throw line? Bro crazy, insane? But yes, I like
Speaker 1: the flow of the game. Um, you know, they get
Speaker 1: to be a little bit more physical now they're not
Speaker 1: calling these these these weird wrap wrap up foul. So
Speaker 1: definitely the flow of the game is better. Next fan
Speaker 1: question at Chris Booze the Nawski should Ki? Should the
Speaker 1: Keys try to be built around the arean ox is
Speaker 1: trading for a young talented big slash draft picks or
Speaker 1: have da beyond tyrese backcourt duo? This is a good
Speaker 1: question for me because you know I'm over there working now. Um,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't know. Dearra Fox is a great young talent
Speaker 1: who scores the ball well. Um, but I think he
Speaker 1: la or when he needs to learn how to do
Speaker 1: is be a leader. He's the best player on the team,
Speaker 1: but he's not necessarily the leader. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what that team lacks. And then another thing I feel
Speaker 1: like that would put him to the next level. I
Speaker 1: still think it's coming, is being able to set his
Speaker 1: teammates up because he's not a very good creator for teammates.
Speaker 1: And you know, we're in a such a shooting league
Speaker 1: now that uh, you know, you need a point guard
Speaker 1: that could do both and he could definitely score. He's
Speaker 1: starting to find his rhythm this season. UM, So I
Speaker 1: don't know. I wouldn't say that he is a franchise player,
Speaker 1: so to speak. And I say that with all due
Speaker 1: respect because I really like his game. I think he
Speaker 1: would be if if they were able to get a
Speaker 1: true number one, I think he would be a great too. Um.
Speaker 1: They got a lot of talent though, with Davion Davion
Speaker 1: Mitchell and and Tyrese Halibert in their backcourt. Um, and
Speaker 1: they probably are the future of the team. Um. But
Speaker 1: right now, I like dearon Fox. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I went in and I went in on I feel
Speaker 1: like King's management needs to do a better job of
Speaker 1: putting talent um uh in that small market because you know,
Speaker 1: they just fired Luke Walton. You know you're a big
Speaker 1: fan of Luke, but it's gonna be a revolving door
Speaker 1: that that that seat in Sacramento is gonna keep turning
Speaker 1: over until they put some some some real talent out there.
Speaker 1: So that's my take. Next up, Middy Smitty Underscore Hooper fifteen.
Speaker 1: If the NBA were to introduce a new award that
Speaker 1: recognized a tough, scrappy players like yourselves, p J. Tucker,
Speaker 1: Pat Bev, et cetera, what would call that award? Um,
Speaker 1: good question. I probably would call it Hustle Player Award.
Speaker 1: Hustle Player. That's that's the Hustle Award, the hustle a war.
Speaker 1: That's a really a that's an NBA term. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say something like the Gutter Award, Yeah, the grinder,
Speaker 1: But I like you at the Hustle Award. I like
Speaker 1: that they can actually they might be able to use
Speaker 1: that jack the Hustle Award. Mm hmm. We would have
Speaker 1: definitely got a couple of hustle awards. That's one world
Speaker 1: I Noah could have won. Are they can call it
Speaker 1: the Tony Allen Award, ronad Tess Awards, something like that.
Speaker 1: They ain't gonna name the award after the real nigger. No, no,
Speaker 1: because because if that's gave Vernon Maxwell, I one man
Speaker 1: yearning Maxwell as long as partner. In closing. Congratulations to
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant on passing Alan Iverson for twenty five all
Speaker 1: time on the scoring lead. Next up is ray Allen
Speaker 1: Patrick ewing your West, Reggie Miller, and then Alice English
Speaker 1: to get the twenty. Uh. Jack Katie has been a
Speaker 1: hell of a scorers whole career. When it's said and done,
Speaker 1: where do you feel like he'll be in on the
Speaker 1: scoring list? Shout out to Senim Reaper. That's when our
Speaker 1: real brothers, they ain't just somebody we're cool with anybody.
Speaker 1: That's when our real brothers. He had part of the fraternity,
Speaker 1: to the real Shout out to the snipe. Um. I
Speaker 1: think he'd finished top ten, if not top five, if
Speaker 1: he stay healthy. If he would have missed the time
Speaker 1: he missed, he would have been closer than that. Um.
Speaker 1: He's he's he's most of one of the most efficient
Speaker 1: players we've seen. He's guaranteed the average with he's averaging
Speaker 1: now every year. If he stay healthy, I see him
Speaker 1: top five, top ten. Yeah, I agreed. I definitely think
Speaker 1: he'll reach that top five, because what is the early thirties.
Speaker 1: He's still gotta He's still got a good five years.
Speaker 1: And the great thing about him is his game not
Speaker 1: based on athleticism, you know what I mean. So he's
Speaker 1: six eleven doing all that ship. So even when he's
Speaker 1: not as athletic as he is now, he'll still be
Speaker 1: able to do what he does because it's it's footwork
Speaker 1: and it's the length and getting to his shots. So
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a problem. You got still got Katie
Speaker 1: on your hands for another good run man, Next stuff.
Speaker 1: John Wall has met with the Houston Rockets. He wants
Speaker 1: to return to playing. You know, he's million over the
Speaker 1: next two They try to trade him. No one's taken
Speaker 1: that contract. Uh. The Rockets want him to play a
Speaker 1: secondary role on this team, a come more of a
Speaker 1: complimentary role. H What do you think? Um, how do
Speaker 1: you think that's gonna work out? I don't know. John
Speaker 1: Wall is my brother as well, but my cousin is
Speaker 1: the coach of the team, Steven Silas. But I think
Speaker 1: they need to send him to a team like Philly
Speaker 1: as somewhere else. But I think the younger, the young
Speaker 1: guys they got, they need to start developing them. We
Speaker 1: know what John Wall is, we know what the player
Speaker 1: he is. He's still one of the best point guards
Speaker 1: in the league. But I think he needs to be
Speaker 1: on the team that has a chance to win the
Speaker 1: championship now to get the best out of his last
Speaker 1: couple of years because he's been so injured. You know,
Speaker 1: I I don't think that's gonna work. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a point where he's overshadowed young guys that
Speaker 1: they want to see growth and it's not gonna it's
Speaker 1: not gonna turn into winning, and it's gonna become a problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I still think John Wall is a lot
Speaker 1: of good years left. Um, you know, for him to
Speaker 1: bounced back off the injuries he had, averaging twenty game
Speaker 1: when he was playing last year. But I don't know
Speaker 1: if Houston is a spot. But then again, no one's
Speaker 1: gonna take that two years ninety plus a million dollar contracts.
Speaker 1: So it's it's gonna be interesting because if he is
Speaker 1: gonna play, it's gonna have to be in Houston for
Speaker 1: a little while. And like you said, now it's time
Speaker 1: to develop the young talent on that team. So really
Speaker 1: see how this plays out. But let me say this,
Speaker 1: though Ben Simmons for for John Walt, Ben Simmons can
Speaker 1: become can go there, be with the younger guys and
Speaker 1: play a better position than the point guard. He can
Speaker 1: pay a power forward and be a you know, a facilitator,
Speaker 1: and and and and in the contracts, you know, so
Speaker 1: it's ways to get around. I just don't see you
Speaker 1: know that working with John wat But I would love
Speaker 1: to see h Philly next up. Shout out Boogie Cousins.
Speaker 1: Son's a non guaranteed deal to add some depth to
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks. Uh thoughts on this the lostate toughness
Speaker 1: with p J. Tucker. They need to get that toughness back.
Speaker 1: Boogiees that guy. Obviously he's not on the wing with it,
Speaker 1: but the toughness, that respect he has and him being
Speaker 1: on the court, it's gonna it's gonna make Greek more confident,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna take a little pressure from having Book
Speaker 1: on the people don't know. The last couple of last
Speaker 1: year we've seen Book in the playoffs. He was carrying
Speaker 1: the Clippers for a couple of games against the Clippers.
Speaker 1: I mean, excuse me, gets the finish signs They just
Speaker 1: didn't play him that much. He played well in the
Speaker 1: playoffs last year and showed he still had a lot
Speaker 1: in the tank. Hoping he gets the opportunity to play
Speaker 1: there and give this team some good minutes. I'm happy
Speaker 1: for Buggy Man, but it just it hurts my soul
Speaker 1: to think about how his his his his career has
Speaker 1: kind of detoured because his first what seven years, he
Speaker 1: was the best big man in the game, better than
Speaker 1: Joel and be don't get no one says no one
Speaker 1: was doing what book he was doing, point triple doubles,
Speaker 1: point point center. He was mean, he was nasty. I
Speaker 1: love Boogies game. And then he's one hustle play away
Speaker 1: from signing a two million dollar extension and tears his achilles.
Speaker 1: I was at that game, man, and then just starts
Speaker 1: bouncing and then gets then tears a qua and comes
Speaker 1: back in record time for the Warriors and then tears
Speaker 1: the a c L. I'm just like god Dad, this
Speaker 1: dude was on pace to be and hopefully he'll still
Speaker 1: make it. But first about Hall of Famer man and
Speaker 1: and be predominant, perdominant, you know, dominant big in the game,
Speaker 1: and you know with joking with all due respected Joker
Speaker 1: and in b they weren't as good as Boogie. Um,
Speaker 1: so just fucked up. Always praying for him, happy for him.
Speaker 1: I hope again, like I said earlier, hope he really
Speaker 1: gets a chance though, you know, I mean, don't sign
Speaker 1: him and have him sitting there, you know, let him
Speaker 1: get to get his feet wet, learned the offense, and
Speaker 1: then give him some time to really, you know, show
Speaker 1: that he can help the team, because I hate when
Speaker 1: situations like this happened, where he'll get signed to a
Speaker 1: ten day or whatever the funk deal they're gonna give
Speaker 1: him and then not really give him a chance and
Speaker 1: cut him because then not now another team that that
Speaker 1: will probably be his last chance. Another team is not
Speaker 1: gonna give him a chance after that. So I hope
Speaker 1: you give him a chance to play and shout out
Speaker 1: my bro Boogie. And no big man has had the
Speaker 1: bag that Boogie had on the court, but a chem
Speaker 1: Elijah on it was no big mag crossing over between
Speaker 1: his legs. Alijuan was the only one to do that.
Speaker 1: Boogie was the second coming of that and he was mean.
Speaker 1: It was Shock and Kim Elajuan combined for seven years
Speaker 1: and then he moved out to the he moved out
Speaker 1: to the perimeter to for some Rashid Wilace and this ship,
Speaker 1: like Boogie was his motherfucker man. And what I loved
Speaker 1: about it he was mean and they just don't have
Speaker 1: them type of players no more. But yeah, best of
Speaker 1: luck our brother, Boogie part Man. Condolences UM to Virgil
Speaker 1: Ablow Rest in peace. UM sending love and and and
Speaker 1: strength to his wife and two children. Uh. The iconic
Speaker 1: artist passed away this weekend. Um Man fashion icon off
Speaker 1: most people, if you're not really into it, only known
Speaker 1: for maybe the off white stuff. But this man has
Speaker 1: been in the game for a long time. Tight with
Speaker 1: Kanye Um forty one, you know, you never really know.
Speaker 1: You know, he had this battle, same with Chadwick Boseman.
Speaker 1: He know he did it in private. You know he
Speaker 1: struggled with it with with with just his family knowing
Speaker 1: and never really told no one. So when he died
Speaker 1: it shocked everyone. But it just really goes to show man,
Speaker 1: you just never know what people are going through, what
Speaker 1: people are dealing with, man, And people treat people right
Speaker 1: live because you never know. When you know, forty one, man,
Speaker 1: I'm about to be forty two next month, you know
Speaker 1: you're forty two forty three. Is it's sad man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you never know what people are going through.
Speaker 1: And the one thing about it, everybody's going through something.
Speaker 1: You might not see it, they might not tell you,
Speaker 1: but everybody's going through some sources. It's improudive that you
Speaker 1: cordially treat people the way you want to be treated.
Speaker 1: That's something we stand on. Um, I got, I got,
Speaker 1: I got on my off right today for for Virgin Man,
Speaker 1: rest in peace and love to your family. But icon
Speaker 1: trend set us. Uh, he would definitely live on because
Speaker 1: his fashion and this imprint on the fashion game, uh
Speaker 1: is something that can't be duplicated. So we're gonna continue
Speaker 1: to represent for him. Man. Like I said, I got
Speaker 1: my off fight on the day, and I'm gona continue
Speaker 1: to rocket for him. Uh. This one hit different, Jack
Speaker 1: because like when I saw it um this week and
Speaker 1: I'm just like damn, and I've never met him, never
Speaker 1: shook ends, don't know him at all, So I just
Speaker 1: know him as a fan of his art, and it
Speaker 1: hit you know normally, you know, obviously in the circles
Speaker 1: we in, we kind of know a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and so it's it means a lot when someone dies.
Speaker 1: But I didn't know this guy at all, but still
Speaker 1: like when this one hit, I'm just like, damn, Like,
Speaker 1: this dude really did an amazing job and and really
Speaker 1: lived his life man and again sending love to his family.
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