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Speaker 1: minutes scores. Frank covers the NBA has a has a
Speaker 1: show on serious sex m covering only the NBA. It's like, look,
Speaker 1: the Kyrie Irving injury thing is the thing. It's it's
Speaker 1: impossible not to point out that, you know, from Duke
Speaker 1: when he had the big toe injury to you know,
Speaker 1: he tore his knee his first year in the NBA
Speaker 1: Finals with Lebron, and he had the mesh that that
Speaker 1: got and screws that got infected in his knee when
Speaker 1: he was with the Boston Celtics, you know, to even
Speaker 1: getting hurt last year. Most of it is bad luck.
Speaker 1: It just is it's bad luck that dude has been
Speaker 1: He's walked underneath uh um ladders or something. I mean,
Speaker 1: miss twenty seven percent of his games in his career.
Speaker 1: So has he not performed at the highest level as
Speaker 1: often as Lebron James, of course not. But this is
Speaker 1: a little bit like the Chris Paul things, like, look,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to tell. But when he is healthy,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I mean he was amazing the
Speaker 1: other night. So like, I don't think I think diminishing
Speaker 1: anything he does on the floor on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the basketball is a mistake. The problem with Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving is he's so busy trying to prove that he
Speaker 1: knows more about so many different topics. We're just like, dude,
Speaker 1: just go play. That's that's kind of where the Earth
Speaker 1: is flat? Dug the Earth is flat? Yeah, I kind
Speaker 1: of I thought I thought that was just a challenge
Speaker 1: to Hey, you know when people say things, let's take
Speaker 1: a look at him. The problem is like he dug
Speaker 1: in his heels on that deal, like the Wild Conspiracy. Seriously, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I struggle with that one. You start going earth is
Speaker 1: flat and then you lose me. I'm actually I kind
Speaker 1: of get the ridding the spirits with sage like that's oh,
Speaker 1: stop it. There's lots of people who believe in that.
Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, Like you ever have, you're gonna
Speaker 1: if you're gonna try and you're trying to get rid
Speaker 1: of bad you know, bad juju. You take some sage,
Speaker 1: you burned, Like if it works, you know, that's what
Speaker 1: you're doing to get rid of bad juju? Is that
Speaker 1: what you do? I have done it. Yeah, you've burned
Speaker 1: sage dark. Yeah, you're supposed to do it. You come
Speaker 1: into new a house, you're supposed to do it. That's
Speaker 1: like an old wives tale. You know, my we we
Speaker 1: toyed with the idea recently of buying a tear down
Speaker 1: and building a house. And you know, my dad, of
Speaker 1: course he's not listening, but he's in Florida, and you know,
Speaker 1: he's old school. He's like, hey, just remember you want
Speaker 1: the front door to face this way in the oven.
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, stop all that stuff. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: way into that, and uh, I can't. I can't buy
Speaker 1: fully into that stuff, you know, I just can't. It
Speaker 1: is a it is a thousand year several thousand year
Speaker 1: old holistic remedy holistic and it it also like there's
Speaker 1: also like Batiste thible. No, I'm just look again, and
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm sorry. I'm not sympathetic towards people who
Speaker 1: are told they need to be vaccinated and chose not
Speaker 1: to do so. You know, I'm not I'm not sympathetic.
Speaker 1: That's a sick burn towards Anthony Fauci. No, I'm just kidding. No,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, not towards Anthony Fauci. If you if
Speaker 1: you misheard me or if I misspoke, I said, I'm
Speaker 1: not sympathetic towards people who were not vaccinated and after
Speaker 1: they were told they needed to be to perform their job.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, mel kiper Yeah, No, I mean, like, look,
Speaker 1: somebody told you how to do it. If you have
Speaker 1: to do it for your job, then do it. That's it.
Speaker 1: You know, if you have some grave medical condition, then
Speaker 1: you go and go. I got some medical condition and
Speaker 1: I can't I do Like you knew you had to
Speaker 1: be vaccinated. They said you have to do it to work.
Speaker 1: Then you go do it. Sorry, that's that's kind of
Speaker 1: the way that that's the way. That's the way it works, correct.
Speaker 1: We sometimes you know, if you try to not I
Speaker 1: want to go to college and not be vaccinated inoculated
Speaker 1: for other things. For everybody got inoculated when they went
Speaker 1: to college, and nobody asked questions about it and said
Speaker 1: they did their own research. You know. But anyway, the
Speaker 1: burning stage thing is actually like healthy for you. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna there are there are parts of there
Speaker 1: are parts of Kyrie that you do it does. I
Speaker 1: think he does want to make you think, and I
Speaker 1: can I can appreciate that, like, hey, why is it
Speaker 1: okay that somebody calls me a CS or somebody calls
Speaker 1: me an MF, Like why is that okay? The truth
Speaker 1: is it's not. The truth is it's not. It's like, look,
Speaker 1: you can you can boo, you can yell at guys,
Speaker 1: you can yell you suck or whatever. They're just there's
Speaker 1: just a level where you're like, really, like, that's what
Speaker 1: we're doing here. On the other hand, that shouldn't empower
Speaker 1: you to give it back to them. You can, but
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a path because in addition to
Speaker 1: them being you're paying customers, there's plenty of other paying
Speaker 1: customers that that's not what they came to. Well, Doug,
Speaker 1: you've seen the movie Gladiator, right, I think this is
Speaker 1: where the sports all emanates from. Like the gladiators were
Speaker 1: in the ring, you could say whatever you wanted, people
Speaker 1: fus stuff at them. That's where it came from. And
Speaker 1: you know some of these athletes, the modern athletes, are saying,
Speaker 1: well it was it was that way. Thousands of years ago.
Speaker 1: Why is it that way still? And I A lot
Speaker 1: of these conventional wisdom norms are being flipped, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean mental health, Doug. Can you imagine a professional
Speaker 1: football player or NBA player twenty years ago saying I
Speaker 1: need time off for mental health? Hell, fifteen years ago,
Speaker 1: the thirty years ago, no way, And now it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, that's fine, do that, you need it. We
Speaker 1: all need a mental break. And I think you're you know,
Speaker 1: in football mentality, it is, I think, and I think
Speaker 1: in basketball mentality again, it's only flipped in these guys
Speaker 1: in which it's one thing to challenge conventional wisdom, it's
Speaker 1: another thing to shut down or to you know, to
Speaker 1: hurl an insult back at a fan like that may
Speaker 1: look cool on social media. That does not look that
Speaker 1: does not look cool in you know in Okay, So Doug,
Speaker 1: here here's a comp right, So you open social media
Speaker 1: in the morning, you brush your teeth, you go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom, you do your normal things. You open social media,
Speaker 1: you happen to look at your mentions and it's I
Speaker 1: don't know, let's just say twenty people are saying, f you,
Speaker 1: you were wrong about this, You suck you shouldn't talk
Speaker 1: about sports blah blah blah. Okay, in no way, shape
Speaker 1: or form would anyone ever do that to you in public.
Speaker 1: So why should they be allowed to go on your
Speaker 1: social media and send all these nasty, like idiotic things.
Speaker 1: They don't know you, they're anonymous. That that's not how
Speaker 1: it should be. So obviously we block those people. I
Speaker 1: don't need that in my life. There's no for no
Speaker 1: reason should anybody be able to mf me for me
Speaker 1: just saying I think the Pelicans are choking dogs, so
Speaker 1: I am easily able to block them. Now, Doug, you've
Speaker 1: been in sports media longer than I have. I only
Speaker 1: moved out here to La to do FS one in
Speaker 1: radio six years ago. In my time out here, I
Speaker 1: have never once had people come up to me and
Speaker 1: say anything like they do on social media. People come up, oh, Jay,
Speaker 1: I love your stuff. I can't believe you said this, smiling, laughing.
Speaker 1: Want to talk engage about sports, fine, nobody ever does that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's happened to you before, but
Speaker 1: it's never happened to me. Even people drunk coming up
Speaker 1: to be a Dodger stadium Lakers games, they're all like
Speaker 1: oh dude, what's up? Man? Congrats, let me get a picture.
Speaker 1: It's all very normal, but on social media, people get different.
Speaker 1: People get liquored up in the crowd. They want to
Speaker 1: say stuff to Kyrie Irving. Yeah, I've got no problem
Speaker 1: with him firing back stuff. I've absolutely no problem with
Speaker 1: these with these athletes, they should not be subjected to
Speaker 1: some of this vile comments coming out of these liquored up,
Speaker 1: drunk idiot's mouth. So so here's there's but this is
Speaker 1: what do you do? You either mute them or you
Speaker 1: block them? Right easy for me? Yes, okay, no, So
Speaker 1: an NBA player, if they want and somebody else at them,
Speaker 1: they can go right to the officials and point the
Speaker 1: guy out and there is no discussion. They're escorted from
Speaker 1: the building. Yes, Lebron has done that, but watch, here's
Speaker 1: the question, why hasn't Kyrie done that? That is when
Speaker 1: we start to really drill down. He believes that he's
Speaker 1: fueling that energy is fueling him, and it does create
Speaker 1: like look again, as you know, I cut my teeth
Speaker 1: in this industry covering college basketball, right. But the crazy
Speaker 1: thing about it is if you ask fans to be like, well,
Speaker 1: I really love college basketball, it's just so much more
Speaker 1: energy and they play so much harder. Like look, if
Speaker 1: you watch the NBA Playoffs in comparison to college basketball's
Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament, which is incredibly popular, it's a great event.
Speaker 1: The NCAA Tournament does not have great atmospheres in every game.
Speaker 1: Most games, a matter of fact, do not even have
Speaker 1: good atmospheres because they're neutral sites. They're split up amongst
Speaker 1: eight schools or whatever. In terms of the tickets, the
Speaker 1: NBA Playoffs like that atmosphere the other night, and what
Speaker 1: it's going to be tomorrow night is unbelievable. Okay, but
Speaker 1: if the but if it, if people step over line, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to do what you've I've made the mistake
Speaker 1: before bro I was at I was at ESPN, and
Speaker 1: this is man, I'm old. This is like fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1: And you used to contractually have to do a chat
Speaker 1: like during basketball season once a week you'd sit down
Speaker 1: with or you'd sit down with an editor and they
Speaker 1: put you in a chat room. You remember chats I did,
Speaker 1: And you know, I always get the Notre Dame credit
Speaker 1: card thing whatever, you know, some sort of some sort
Speaker 1: of loser commentary and as a gag. One time I
Speaker 1: came back at two different people, and I think your
Speaker 1: website ran it actually where I said. I said something
Speaker 1: along the lines of, hey man, listen, just when I
Speaker 1: say thirty minutes or less of my pizza, thirty minutes less,
Speaker 1: you know my pizza, get my pizza to my house,
Speaker 1: and thirty minutesal less, right, And then there was some
Speaker 1: other insult somebody else, and I just said, listen, can
Speaker 1: you tell your mom? I left my jordansid her right?
Speaker 1: It was just like your mom jokes. I love those,
Speaker 1: very very sophomoric. I did not curse, you know, I didn't.
Speaker 1: So I got called in at ed espionas a got
Speaker 1: any Mark Gross? Who's a I think? I think A
Speaker 1: good dude, I you know I And even after this,
Speaker 1: I still think he's a He was. He was good
Speaker 1: at what he did. I thought it was a massive overreaction.
Speaker 1: He called in. He's like, look, we're we're gonna suspend
Speaker 1: you for a week. I was like, for what for?
Speaker 1: For hurling insults at our paying custom at our fans.
Speaker 1: I was like, when did I do that? He's like,
Speaker 1: here's this chat he said. If He's like, we were
Speaker 1: at a table, and I thought we should fire you.
Speaker 1: Like what He's like, you gotta understand, like those people
Speaker 1: like if you pay attention to those are the only
Speaker 1: thing people pay attention to is when you comment on it,
Speaker 1: which is like the quote retweet thing, you know, and
Speaker 1: you can't punch down it. It makes us all look bad.
Speaker 1: Those are your customers. These are the people that come
Speaker 1: for your information. Now, I look, I don't agree totally,
Speaker 1: but I do understand. I do understand, Like I understand,
Speaker 1: like you represent something way more and way bigger, and
Speaker 1: you're you're above that, and you have to act like
Speaker 1: you're above that. Now, there's somewhere in between using it
Speaker 1: for your energy and fueling you and being above it.
Speaker 1: And that's where Kyrie and Kad need to be. Instead,
Speaker 1: they're down the mud and they're letting the they're letting
Speaker 1: the bags bring them to the you know, the dbs
Speaker 1: bring them to their level. That that's what it feels like.
Speaker 1: Huh interesting, Doug, I will say, I love how you
Speaker 1: say that. Uh go and apt people on a chat
Speaker 1: now that chats don't exist in it. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just like Twitter. I mean, like, you know, I totally
Speaker 1: understand where these guys, you're going like, look, man, they
Speaker 1: you know, I'll post something on Instagram about, you know,
Speaker 1: my daughter's turned sixteen last last week, and you'll get
Speaker 1: somebody that slides in and wants to post something about
Speaker 1: something you said on a radio show. Really what are
Speaker 1: we doing? And but you know, as you get older,
Speaker 1: you just go like, I'm just gonna block this person. Yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no play whatever. But I look, I've I've gotten
Speaker 1: myself because every corporation is the same, you know, plenty
Speaker 1: of I've worked for three of them. Yeah, I'm at CBS.
Speaker 1: Are like, dude, you can't why well, why can't die? Well,
Speaker 1: I will say, Doug, listen, you've had a front row
Speaker 1: seat to this as well. You know that. And I
Speaker 1: hope I'm not an insulting people in this one. And
Speaker 1: that's probably a bad intro, but Doug, you know that
Speaker 1: guys who are married and had the kids and they've
Speaker 1: got like they leave work and you leave work right,
Speaker 1: you're at home, hang with the fam. You guys are
Speaker 1: going out to dinner, You're doing your thing. You got
Speaker 1: the kids, their homework, they're youth sports. Like you're busy.
Speaker 1: You don't have time to be on social media all
Speaker 1: the friggin time, seeing all the damn dumb comments. It
Speaker 1: doesn't get in your head because guess what, who cares?
Speaker 1: I've got other stuff going on in my life. But
Speaker 1: it's never gotten in your head, No dog. I mean again,
Speaker 1: I'm very fortunate. I had to be honest, it absolutely has.
Speaker 1: You know, I'd say years ago, ye years ago, I
Speaker 1: I would say it was I'm probably gonna go. Like
Speaker 1: nine years ago. I thought I was in that for
Speaker 1: like a year and a half there. I was like
Speaker 1: in that dark space of constantly checking the phone. Now
Speaker 1: I didn't check. I never checked my mentions. It was
Speaker 1: more the replies, you know, the edifications and the report Doug.
Speaker 1: We've been We've we know people we've I'm not going
Speaker 1: to name them here, but we've been front row for
Speaker 1: people who don't have a lot going on in their
Speaker 1: social life outside of work, and this stuff gets to
Speaker 1: them big time. If you let it get to you,
Speaker 1: it can. If you don't compartmentalize and walk away from
Speaker 1: this and just enjoy life and forget about these haters
Speaker 1: and these losers, it can get to you. Now. I
Speaker 1: know Kyrie Irving, I think he somebody that he's with
Speaker 1: a girlfriend or X or whatever. He has a kid,
Speaker 1: he has some stuff going on. UM, So I just
Speaker 1: wonder how much of it is he's letting the outside
Speaker 1: stuff get to him, because I'll tell you right now, Doug,
Speaker 1: he's really opening himself up big time. Like it's one
Speaker 1: thing for us to say the Pelicans had thirty nine points.
Speaker 1: He did, but they lost and if they lose again.
Speaker 1: And by the way, he was not great on the
Speaker 1: final possession fourth quarter. I know he had eighteen. Fourth well,
Speaker 1: he hit the key, hit the three, the three was incredible,
Speaker 1: but he basically said I want this final bucket. You know,
Speaker 1: when they were up one and they double teamed him
Speaker 1: and he waited two damn long Kadi had to force
Speaker 1: like a twenty five foot or off balance. I thought
Speaker 1: that was a bad possession by your so called leader, um.
Speaker 1: And then Kyrie and Kade both got called ball watching
Speaker 1: basically on the Jason Tatum cut just such a you know,
Speaker 1: I know you are bag basketball coach your kids. I
Speaker 1: instantly called my kids over. I pause the TV, I
Speaker 1: re wound, I go, guys, look at what Jason Tatum does.
Speaker 1: He simply cuts to the basket. He doesn't just stand
Speaker 1: there with his hand up, cuts to the basket, look
Speaker 1: at the defenders, just ball watching, and it's just a
Speaker 1: great basketball teachable moment. And listen, Kyrie will be better
Speaker 1: in game two. But Doug, I'm just saying they go down,
Speaker 1: oh two, wouldn't shock me if Barclays is booing in
Speaker 1: game three, if they if they're in a hole of
Speaker 1: any kind. Because Kyrie put this team together, fired Atkinson
Speaker 1: helped reshape the roster, allegedly, depending who you want to believe,
Speaker 1: drove James Harden out of town. And now you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you know we've been waiting for this.
Speaker 1: What is this your three with these guys, And it's like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, we can't even get out of the
Speaker 1: first round. And I'm just saying, Kyrie bring he wants
Speaker 1: all the smoke, that's fine. I just just be ready
Speaker 1: for the fall out if they cannot get by Boston.
Speaker 1: That's fascinating, all right, coming up next year, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna do. We'll get to the Kaepernick stuff little later
Speaker 1: on this hour. And it's only it's like I almost
Speaker 1: feel apologetic talking by Kaepernick because I think most people
Speaker 1: are like, dude, it's it's it's over, right, but maybe
Speaker 1: it's maybe it's not over. It's an interesting discussion. We'll
Speaker 1: get to that, and then Apper Coming up next, FRANKI
Speaker 1: Soul is going to join us. Of course, he has
Speaker 1: series XM NBA show. We'll ask him about Kyrie and
Speaker 1: whether or not his approach is good for the league.
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Speaker 1: want to do, Jason. Jason McIntyre, who of course founded
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Speaker 1: on the West. But m Colin Kaepernick was on the
Speaker 1: I'm an Athlete podcast and again like, I don't know
Speaker 1: where you are, Jason, but it's Cam Newton is kind
Speaker 1: of going to be in that in that discussion point. Now,
Speaker 1: as for this offseason, in preseason and during the season,
Speaker 1: somebody gets hurt, and why don't you bring in Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: Like because he can't throw a football anymore and he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to be really want to be a backup.
Speaker 1: But maybe they all say they want to be backups
Speaker 1: or do they or do they? But the Kaepernick thing
Speaker 1: is interesting because as much as there's there was this
Speaker 1: sense from some in public, many in mainstream media that
Speaker 1: he was blackballed out of the Nation Football League. The
Speaker 1: reality is back when he first was released by the Niners,
Speaker 1: there was a sense or people believe they couldn't sign
Speaker 1: him for lessons. He wanted starter money. Remember he visited Seattle,
Speaker 1: and Pete Carroll kept saying like, well, he wants to
Speaker 1: be a starter, right, he wants and they had Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Russell Wilson nixed that deal, like no way,
Speaker 1: no how, we're bringing that thing in the bringing that
Speaker 1: circus into my locker room, you know. But he said
Speaker 1: he changed, and this is what he said to Brandon Marshall.
Speaker 1: I think more than anything, it is a passion like
Speaker 1: you had those dreams from me to your kid. I
Speaker 1: mean like I'm gonna be an NFL player and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna win a super Bowl. And for me, I've I've
Speaker 1: unfinished business on that front. I've been to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: We're one play away. It's like, well I need to
Speaker 1: finish that. If you had a message for gms and
Speaker 1: owners and you wanted them to know anything, right now,
Speaker 1: what would you say? So, let me come in compete.
Speaker 1: You have your roster, you had a team. Let me
Speaker 1: come in compete, show you what I can do. What
Speaker 1: do you think, Jason, Yeah, I want to start here.
Speaker 1: So at the end of the first hour, you know,
Speaker 1: we always are texting about what we're gonna talk about,
Speaker 1: and Dougs like, I want to talk about Kaepernick. And
Speaker 1: my instant response was going to be maybe an expletive
Speaker 1: or why or and I thought about it. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, you know Doug's passage about this, let him
Speaker 1: go for me. Somebody mentions Colin Kaepernick. I say, wait,
Speaker 1: the last time he threw a pass was twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Wait is that right? Twenty sixteen, six years ago he
Speaker 1: threw a pass in the NFL. And he's a talking
Speaker 1: point now and I love his quote, and again what
Speaker 1: Kaepernick's done, Hey, more power to him. Let me compete.
Speaker 1: You can evaluate me from there. Listen. You can't just
Speaker 1: climb in the ring with Ali and just say hey,
Speaker 1: let me compete. Let me battle you. You know, and
Speaker 1: I joked to people when they say I can't wait
Speaker 1: to play basketball against you, I said, you can't just
Speaker 1: climb in the ring with Ali. Obviously, I'm not Ali
Speaker 1: at basketball. That being said, like, it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1: When Ron Rivera, when he was fired in Carolina, he
Speaker 1: ends up in Washington. You know what the first movie
Speaker 1: he did, Doug, he brought in quarterbacks that he had
Speaker 1: worked with before that knew his system. That's what you
Speaker 1: do in the NFL. When a certain guy gets to
Speaker 1: a certain TV network. What is the first thing he's
Speaker 1: gonna do. He's gonna bring you guys he knows that
Speaker 1: he works with, that he has a relationship with. You're
Speaker 1: not just bringing in random dudes. Off and again, I've
Speaker 1: got no problem with Kaepernick wanting to compete. I get that,
Speaker 1: but I don't see it happening. And Doug, that's really
Speaker 1: all I got to say, Like, I don't see it happening.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Well, that's where he screwed himself. Okay, because
Speaker 1: you mentioned guys he worked with and before they before
Speaker 1: they got Lamar Jackson, you know that they the Baltimore
Speaker 1: Ravens were kicking the tires and Greg Romans are offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator and John Harball, of course, I'm sure had faith
Speaker 1: in him from from his relationship with his brother Jim Harball,
Speaker 1: Like all that made sense. But then, of course, you know,
Speaker 1: his girlfriend at the time puts out a meme that
Speaker 1: likens the owner of the Ravens to Django unchained, and
Speaker 1: that deal got mixed. So there was a smart landing
Speaker 1: spot for him to have another chance, and he kind
Speaker 1: of ruined it. And then you know, you do a
Speaker 1: documentary and you call the NFL draft modern day slave trade,
Speaker 1: and I guess, are we supposed to forge? Are people
Speaker 1: supposed to forget all of that? Yeah? Well, because nine
Speaker 1: years ago was the last time you you you were
Speaker 1: really really good in the league, Like what's the statute
Speaker 1: of limitations on comments like that? Though it wasn't that
Speaker 1: long ago, it was it was within the calendar year
Speaker 1: that that that documentary dropped, and like Alli, like again,
Speaker 1: he's what he's saying. The problem with Kaepernick isn't the
Speaker 1: isn't the bringing him in. The problem is he's like, well,
Speaker 1: if I'm not good enough, cut me, Like come on,
Speaker 1: we know what, like you you get cut and they
Speaker 1: keep somebody else and in you know, you're going to
Speaker 1: be told that he's only getting cut because of his
Speaker 1: political stance. Um, look, if he's I would guess that
Speaker 1: if he's not signed here before the NFL Draft, it's
Speaker 1: really hard to see him, you know, get on a
Speaker 1: roster because it's not just the guys that are drafted,
Speaker 1: it's all the undrafted free agents. But I look, I
Speaker 1: like the fact that he said, hey, I'll come in
Speaker 1: at the minimum. The problem is that there was though
Speaker 1: It's it's humble in terms of salary, it's not humble
Speaker 1: in terms of approach. Hey, I'm I'm gonna be the starter. Like, Mmm,
Speaker 1: that's not you're gonna come team. You're gonna come in
Speaker 1: as a minimum guy. You're gonna come in his best
Speaker 1: chance of making it. I don't believe is in that situation.
Speaker 1: Let me give you a team. Uh. And again I'm
Speaker 1: just floating this. I'm not fully saying I believe it.
Speaker 1: But you want to look at a team that has
Speaker 1: no chance of competing this year. They have an uncertain
Speaker 1: quarterback situation at best, but they have a coach with
Speaker 1: a contract security, they have a GM with contract security,
Speaker 1: and the kapper and I really don't like using this
Speaker 1: word dug. I know it's like a popular buzzword, but
Speaker 1: they are It's kind of a woke city and that
Speaker 1: would be yes, Seattle. Um. All reports are that that
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll loves Drew Locke. Maybe he's dating Pete Carroll's daughter.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but nobody loves Drew lock. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Drew Locke is been a very bad NFL quarterback by
Speaker 1: any statistical measure. But if you're Seattle, you you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna end up drafting one in Malique willist as a
Speaker 1: rid or whoever Sam Howell, and then you got Drew Locke.
Speaker 1: If if you draft, if you draft a quarterback, you're
Speaker 1: not bringing in Colin Kaepernick. Well, I mean, listen, somebody's
Speaker 1: gonna have to sit out and hold the clipboard every week.
Speaker 1: Drew Locke gets hurt all the time. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's the worst thing in the world to bring him
Speaker 1: in for a look. See if you give him a
Speaker 1: shine and don't forget, you get some media pub simply
Speaker 1: from bringing in Kaepernick. And guess what Seattle is going
Speaker 1: to be in the toughest division in football. And oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, Doug, they play the AFC West. The
Speaker 1: AFC West is unbelievably stacked, so there's a chance they
Speaker 1: go own four against the AFC West and maybe Ohen
Speaker 1: six against Arizona San Fran and the Rams. So now
Speaker 1: you're looking at oh and ten, you're looking at a
Speaker 1: three win team. You give Kaepernick his five minutes of
Speaker 1: fame that he wants and give him a chance. Maybe
Speaker 1: he throws a pass and you get a lot of
Speaker 1: You know, Darren Ravelle loves to mention this free advertising
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. Will well, well we'll circle but
Speaker 1: we'll circle back. But your your your your thought. You
Speaker 1: were good and then you started spinning. The world started
Speaker 1: spinning off its access there when you when you went
Speaker 1: to the went to the let's get some positive media
Speaker 1: pub by throwing in Colin Kaepernick for a play and
Speaker 1: you get networks, which is great, right, You get basted
Speaker 1: and you get love, so you get it all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know how that helps the bottom line in
Speaker 1: any way or helps you actually win football games or
Speaker 1: gets you close to rebuilding. Let's let's let's get back
Speaker 1: to basketball with Jason McIntire. I'm Doug Gottlieb. This is
Speaker 1: the Dan Patrick Show. Frank Is solo joins us. Of
Speaker 1: course covered the league for years, long time scribe. You
Speaker 1: can hear a serious XM show um on NBA Radio.
Speaker 1: You can fall him on Twitter at the Frank Isola. Frank,
Speaker 1: let's let's start. Let's start with with Philly last night.
Speaker 1: How are so many so wrong about Toronto's ability to
Speaker 1: be competitive in this series. Yeah, that's a good point,
Speaker 1: and maybe people were just looking back at last year's
Speaker 1: playoffs series that the last time you saw Philadelphia in
Speaker 1: the playoffsainst Atlanta, the way they lost Game five at home,
Speaker 1: the way that they lost Game seven. I think Scottie
Speaker 1: Barnes going out it's a big loss, but again it's
Speaker 1: still only two home wins. If you know Toronto, you
Speaker 1: know back in their building will be tough. And I
Speaker 1: think Joel Embiid just added a pretty good storyline because
Speaker 1: him and Nick Nurse getting into it at the end
Speaker 1: of the game, and then Joel Embiid saying that he
Speaker 1: told Nick Nurse to stopp complaining about calls. So I
Speaker 1: think that series is still going to have a little
Speaker 1: bit of juice when it goes to Toronto, even though
Speaker 1: right now Toronto's down two. Yeah, Frank, I would look
Speaker 1: at it is Toronto was a bad matchup for Philly
Speaker 1: because of all the Wings they could contain Harden. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody anticipated Tyrese Maxie being the second best player,
Speaker 1: not even on Philly, but in the entire series, he
Speaker 1: looks incredible. Do you have now new thoughts on the Sixers?
Speaker 1: Can they push this Miami team? Hell? Can they beat
Speaker 1: them next round? Well, and well, that's gonna be the thing.
Speaker 1: The one if you go back to last year's playoffs
Speaker 1: Miami against Milwaukee, No, Jannis really bullied Bam out of Bio,
Speaker 1: Bam out of bout. It is a terrific defender. But
Speaker 1: he's also six foot nine, so they'll have some trouble
Speaker 1: if those two teams do end up meeting in the
Speaker 1: second round. It's Philadelphia in Miami. Miami will have some
Speaker 1: issues with EMBIID. And you've brought up a good point
Speaker 1: about Maxie, who now has kind of become their third
Speaker 1: best player. And if you're gonna have Tobias Harris as
Speaker 1: your fourth best player, that's pretty good. So they certainly
Speaker 1: have enough offense. You still wonder when Harden is going
Speaker 1: to get going. Like last night, You know, if you
Speaker 1: lose that game and you look at hard and the numbers,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be man he's got to be better than that.
Speaker 1: But you know, I still think, you know, Harden is
Speaker 1: going to have some really good moments. You know. I
Speaker 1: think it's funny because there's so much pressure on the Sixers.
Speaker 1: If they don't go far, I don't think Doc will
Speaker 1: be the coach there. And obviously James Harden left the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets in the first thing. He said, what I
Speaker 1: can't philadep to give myself a better chance to win
Speaker 1: a championship, which is kind of a slap in the
Speaker 1: face to Kevin Durant. So they have a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure on them, but let's be fair, they've been pretty
Speaker 1: impressive their first two games. I will I will say this,
Speaker 1: though I believe players know, and I believe those stories
Speaker 1: to be true that Durant knows. I don't think he
Speaker 1: has the juice anymore. I just I just don't. And
Speaker 1: I think that's what we're seeing here is he's always
Speaker 1: struggled a bit in the playoffs because it's the game's
Speaker 1: officiated differently. But I just I'm not sure he's got
Speaker 1: the juice anymore. He's a great player, but you don't
Speaker 1: take care of yourself for that long and that many
Speaker 1: times now he started to get a little bit older.
Speaker 1: I think that that's caught up with him, or catching
Speaker 1: up with him, not that he's washed, but but the
Speaker 1: but the superstar James Harden days I don't think are
Speaker 1: still are still around. Yeah, Doug, I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot to that. And you know Hardened, you know, he's
Speaker 1: a terrific player, and the word is that he puts
Speaker 1: in the work. Now, I don't think he put in
Speaker 1: as much work than the off season. And when he
Speaker 1: showed up a training camp in Brooklyn, he wasn't in
Speaker 1: great shape and early on when he wasn't getting calls,
Speaker 1: and he complained about that. But then he also revealed
Speaker 1: that he really didn't play much five on five over
Speaker 1: the summer because of that hamstring injury which knocked him
Speaker 1: out for a couple of games against Milwaukee, and to
Speaker 1: his credit, he was playing on one leg in that
Speaker 1: second round series at the lost. But I also think, listen,
Speaker 1: he enjoys the spoils of being a rich, single professional
Speaker 1: athlete where you know, he you know, he has a
Speaker 1: lifestyle where he likes to go out, he likes to
Speaker 1: hang out. But that catches up to some guys, you know,
Speaker 1: some guys, I remember covering a million years ago Latrell's
Speaker 1: Freewell in New York and Latrelle could like burn the candy,
Speaker 1: you know, the candle at both ends, be out all night,
Speaker 1: and he would come out, he'd be flyinal for the court.
Speaker 1: It never affected him. But I think with a guy
Speaker 1: like Harden, that's something that he's going to have to
Speaker 1: watch because clearly he's he doesn't look the same as
Speaker 1: he did last year. And if you guys remember when
Speaker 1: he first came to Brooklyn and he was playing every
Speaker 1: game and Durant was out and Kyrie was doing whatever
Speaker 1: Kyrie was doing, he was out as well. Everyone was
Speaker 1: talking about the MVP as being either Yokich or hardened.
Speaker 1: So there was a while there last season when Harden
Speaker 1: was playing at an MVP level. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: gotten back to that standard just yet. Help us out
Speaker 1: with Frank Shula Jinius covered the NBA for years at
Speaker 1: Serious XM NBA Radio. Where are you in the Kyrie?
Speaker 1: Like I you know, fans obviously, especially in that triangle
Speaker 1: of Philly, New York and Boston, You're you're always going
Speaker 1: to have fans. And because he's antagonized and because of
Speaker 1: his time with the Celtics. You knew what was going
Speaker 1: to happen. But the double birds, the yelling, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm not just gonna push back against it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk back to it. Where are you on how Kyrie's
Speaker 1: handling this? Now, there's one thing to talk back to it.
Speaker 1: I think the hand gestures. I think that's a bad look,
Speaker 1: and obviously the league frowns upon that. You know, I
Speaker 1: remember covering a lot of playoff games in Madison Square
Speaker 1: Guard and two villains there for a long time were
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller and Alonso Mourning. Reggie had a way of
Speaker 1: kind of probably engaging the fans a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Alonso Mourning really to go down that road. They just
Speaker 1: kind of accepted it, took it, and they just carried on.
Speaker 1: They didn't really ever talk about it, you know. You know,
Speaker 1: Kyrie also has to take a little responsibility here from
Speaker 1: this standpoint. Last year, when they played their final game
Speaker 1: in Boston before taking the Celtics had in five games,
Speaker 1: he stomped on the center court logost lucky and kind
Speaker 1: of wiped his feet there. This year, he said that
Speaker 1: the Celtic fans are like a scorn girlfriend who done
Speaker 1: understand why I broke up with them, So he's kind
Speaker 1: of fed into it, almost in a good natured way,
Speaker 1: so it's almost encouraging the fans and poking them a
Speaker 1: little bit. It clearly affect his play for the most part.
Speaker 1: I would say the game on Sunday because he had
Speaker 1: a great game, but I also wonder, you know, he
Speaker 1: hits that three with forty five point nine sentence Togo
Speaker 1: and at the time it looked like a dagger three,
Speaker 1: and then the last forty seconds for the next were
Speaker 1: a disaster. But on their last offensive possession, you know,
Speaker 1: was he thinking at that time, I'm going to stick
Speaker 1: it to the fans one more time because he dribbled
Speaker 1: himself into no man's land. Then he passed it out
Speaker 1: to Durant and you had to shoot a ball out
Speaker 1: three late in the shot clock, which obviously started the
Speaker 1: fast break where the Celtics get the game winning basket.
Speaker 1: So maybe that in that last moment, maybe he got
Speaker 1: a little too caught up, and it's clearly bothering him
Speaker 1: because he's responding to everything and he kind of has
Speaker 1: rabbity ears, and even that video of him walking off
Speaker 1: the court at halftime where you know, the one fan
Speaker 1: you know he's a knucklehead, yells out, Kyrie, you stink.
Speaker 1: I'm put him stink in parentheses. You know. Kyrie's response
Speaker 1: that like, uh, you know he really raised it to
Speaker 1: a different level. You know you're in New Yorker. You
Speaker 1: love that, don't lie? No, I don't listen. I don't.
Speaker 1: I think it adds to a playoffs series. But I
Speaker 1: just think the league has to be careful here because
Speaker 1: I told a story that kind of got under reported
Speaker 1: last week Byles British has walking up the court of Biles.
Speaker 1: British had a great year. He's a terrific player. He
Speaker 1: throws his mouthpiece at some fan who I'm sure the
Speaker 1: guy is probably a knucklehead. Him bustling his chops the
Speaker 1: whole game. He misses and hit some young girl in
Speaker 1: the head. So and then his thing was, yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't mean to hit her. I was thrown at somebody else.
Speaker 1: Is it that's still acceptable? Yeah? I just think that, like,
Speaker 1: the league's gotta be careful with a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, last year when Russell Westbrook had popcorn dropped
Speaker 1: on him, like we had to paul Us for like
Speaker 1: a day and get lectured on how fans need to
Speaker 1: behave at games. It was treated as if the guy
Speaker 1: was throwing darts at Russell Westbrook. Now we have Miles
Speaker 1: Bridges throwing his mouthpiece and hitting some girl on the
Speaker 1: side of the head. You know, it is disgusting. You know,
Speaker 1: wet mouthpiece s live all over and in the age
Speaker 1: of COVID, and that story didn't even he didn't get
Speaker 1: suspended for that believer, I thought there was a chance
Speaker 1: he might get a three game suspension. I know he
Speaker 1: got fined, but I just think I understand that the
Speaker 1: fans probably take liberties a little too much, but the
Speaker 1: players also just have to be careful. The last thing
Speaker 1: you want is another malice in the palace. Yeah, Frank Lebby,
Speaker 1: ask Kyrie Irving. And this is a tough word for
Speaker 1: some people to digest when I say it, but is
Speaker 1: he just absolutely overrated? Because I know he's an incredible talent,
Speaker 1: Like he's great at dribbling the basketball, getting to the bucket, finishing,
Speaker 1: he's a great scorer. But is he overrated as a
Speaker 1: player because he never wins anything? And Frank, I've been
Speaker 1: pushing this narrative today. If they lose this series. This
Speaker 1: is all going to be on Kyrie Irving because guess
Speaker 1: he's the one who built this team. He fired the
Speaker 1: last coach Atkinson's he wants all the smoke from Boston fans. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know. Listen, Kevin Durant's the best player on the team,
Speaker 1: and Kevin Durance was like watching Kyrie Irving in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I know he brought them back, but if
Speaker 1: he cannot get them out of the first round, there's
Speaker 1: a guy who was unvaccinated, which is whether the seventh
Speaker 1: seed to begin with, it's overrated too strong of a
Speaker 1: word to describe Kyrie Irving. I think it is. I
Speaker 1: will say this and Doug mentioned it before, where players
Speaker 1: know and if you hear players talk about Kyrie, you
Speaker 1: know they talk about his skill level. I think the
Speaker 1: biggest issue with Kyrie is that he just doesn't play enough.
Speaker 1: And when he does play, you know there are some games,
Speaker 1: especially on the defensive end, what he's just that as engaged.
Speaker 1: So if you go back to that that TNT game
Speaker 1: back on was that mark I think it was early
Speaker 1: March when they played to Philadelphia. There was a big
Speaker 1: thing about, you know, Kyrie Irving and James hard. It
Speaker 1: clearly there was an issue there, and Kyrie was so engaged.
Speaker 1: I mean he locked up hard and big. That game
Speaker 1: was over by the first quarter. I thought at the time,
Speaker 1: you know, Kyrie has the ability. Yep. If he defended
Speaker 1: like this on most nights, yep. We know he's a
Speaker 1: terrific offensive but layer. But he played seventy years a year,
Speaker 1: he would be an MVP. Kennedy. He listen, Frank Frank
Speaker 1: Brad Stevens told me, and this is back when he
Speaker 1: was playing for him, He's like, Kyrie could lead the
Speaker 1: league and assists every single year. I was like, why
Speaker 1: doesn't he He's like, you're gonna have to ask k
Speaker 1: I read that one, but you know it's he has
Speaker 1: He's there's a bit of an enigma there and we
Speaker 1: have to if you're just being honest, you just call
Speaker 1: it like it is. The last two baskets were scored
Speaker 1: right over him, layups right by him. Now he's not
Speaker 1: a rim protector, but his defense was soft on the
Speaker 1: first possession and then he did. You know, it wasn't
Speaker 1: totally his fault at all with the with the ball watching,
Speaker 1: but he was ball watching and and miss Wood could
Speaker 1: have been a steel wasn't in position to make Tatum
Speaker 1: go through his body. So but but but man, I mean,
Speaker 1: their magic happens when he does have the basketball. Frank,
Speaker 1: great stuff. Look forward to hearing your show a little
Speaker 1: bit later on in series. Sex M thanks so much
Speaker 1: for joining us to the Day Patrick Show. Here guys,
Speaker 1: all right, that's the great Frankie Solo joining us on
Speaker 1: the Dan Patro with Jason McIntyre. I'm Doug Gottlieb. Let's
Speaker 1: circle back to the to the Kaepernick thing. Okay, we'll
Speaker 1: circle back to the Kaepernick thing. Should he get it?
Speaker 1: Did he get a shot? Seattle? Is what Jason said.
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Speaker 1: Ey Soul. That was great. We'll get back to the
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving and the enigma that is talk some Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors, uh some quietly again Phoenix Suns just eviscerating
Speaker 1: an opponent and Chris Paul the point God doing what
Speaker 1: he does. And of course Jalen Brunson was amazing last night.
Speaker 1: So we got some NBA talk. Um, we've we've, we've
Speaker 1: discussed and we'll continue to discuss. These three young wide
Speaker 1: receivers in the final year of the rookie contracts who
Speaker 1: are kind of locking arms and wanting the market, you know,
Speaker 1: to catch up with them. But I do think that
Speaker 1: like Jason, I'm I'm I'm with you. I mean in
Speaker 1: your initial reaction when I heard the Kaepernick thing, and
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, when he went and through footballs
Speaker 1: at Michigan, I think, wait, hold on, hold on, time out,
Speaker 1: Doug holding through footballs at Michigan. I was unaware of that.
Speaker 1: I just remembered. I said in the last segment, you
Speaker 1: got a partner up with guys that know you Jim Harball, Yeah, Kaepernick. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wonder if Harball had got to the league this
Speaker 1: past offseason, which sounded like it was more I want
Speaker 1: more money as opposed to everyone to go to the NFL.
Speaker 1: That was his guy. He thought I was getting that
Speaker 1: Minnesota gig. I think I think he did, and I
Speaker 1: think that the GM, who of course was had worked
Speaker 1: with him some in San Francisco. I think he just
Speaker 1: decided to go a different Wow. That's a bummer for CAP,
Speaker 1: honestly because Minnesota there was some talk that they could
Speaker 1: move on from Kirk Cousins and not moving on from
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. Wow, look at the numbers. There's just no
Speaker 1: way they had to read think what numbers the vikings
Speaker 1: missing the playoffs again or know the numbers in terms
Speaker 1: of that contract so bad they actually had to redo
Speaker 1: it so in the future it's not as bad, but
Speaker 1: it's it just so so prohibitive against the CAP. There's
Speaker 1: there's no way. Plus, they like they like him, they
Speaker 1: think he's good. They don't think he's the problem. He
Speaker 1: may not be the solution, but he's also not the problem.
Speaker 1: He definitely is not the solution. I mean, listen, good quarterback,
Speaker 1: top just fifteen quarterback. But that's I mean, they're not
Speaker 1: making He just went from he's not the solution to
Speaker 1: top fifteen quarters. Yeah, top fifteen quarterback. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: fifteen us don't make the NBA NFL playoffs. Like, I
Speaker 1: don't know that he is the solution. Who would you
Speaker 1: rather have going forward? Kyler Murray or Kirk Cousins. Whoa
Speaker 1: you gotta think that would over? I like Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: a lot, dude, he was and I know he was
Speaker 1: banged up, but he was bad the end last year
Speaker 1: and he was worse the end of this year. Dedre
Speaker 1: Hopkins when you took DeAndre Hopkins away from him, Okay,
Speaker 1: he was better, A better one, better one, Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: because Kyler Murray's on the rookie Derek Car. Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: Kyler or Kirk Cousins. Derek Carr. Here you go, but
Speaker 1: not by the Car made the playoffs. Not by a ton.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr made the playoffs throwing the hunter renfro and
Speaker 1: a couple of guys that drive for door Dash in
Speaker 1: the offseason. Bro Like Derek Carr's a good quarterback and
Speaker 1: underrated by the way. Waller was hurt. He miss half
Speaker 1: the season, didn't he? I understand Darren Waller was pretty good. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm like, look, they make the playoffs. It was awesome,
Speaker 1: and it's about his leadership. But like he's he's still
Speaker 1: the fourth best quarterback in that division. Yes he is, Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: Like let's not go crazy because the Raiders somehow miraculously
Speaker 1: made the playoffs. It's interesting we both rather have Derek
Speaker 1: car than Kirk Cousins. And again, I'm not gonna hammer
Speaker 1: this point home. I mentioned unvaccinated. I don't I think
Speaker 1: if you were to ask, if you gave some truth
Speaker 1: serum to Zimmer, I guarantee you he'd bring up the
Speaker 1: unvaccinated stuff. With Kirk Cousins, I guarantee it. By the way,
Speaker 1: the Carson wentz unvaccinated ticked off the Indianapolis Colts front
Speaker 1: office to no end, and when they missed the playoffs,
Speaker 1: it was like, get this guy and wait, there's there's
Speaker 1: no there's no question, okay, and and what the what?
Speaker 1: What the the the non vacks you know, shout at
Speaker 1: the wind. Guys have to understand is again, it's a
Speaker 1: lot like the mel Kapert like, look, man, we told
Speaker 1: you this was the deal. You knew it's the deal.
Speaker 1: Football is the ultimate team sport. To be a good teammate,
Speaker 1: that's what you have to do. And he didn't do it.
Speaker 1: That that that said, it's like everybody wants to replace
Speaker 1: a quarterback. Do you have one waiting in the wings?
Speaker 1: You know, and you just don't. It's hard to find
Speaker 1: a guy. It's really hard to find a guy. A
Speaker 1: quarterback list. Wilderness is brutal as the Miami Dolphins. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean the Dan Marino the Bears have been searching
Speaker 1: for for years. Jet never really had Jets, Baby, I
Speaker 1: got my Jet. I mean, look, the Browns just gave
Speaker 1: a ridiculous contract to a guy who hadn't played in
Speaker 1: the year and had two ACLS twenty two civil suits
Speaker 1: against him because they need one. They're in that they're
Speaker 1: in that desert. All right, we'll get out of that
Speaker 1: desert and we'll get to is Steph Curry in the
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