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Speaker 3: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4: I'm your host, O Choe my partner, I sho Joe Johnson,
Speaker 4: seven time NBA All Star, one of the best to
Speaker 4: ever do it, nominated for the Hall of Fame, coming
Speaker 4: up very soon.
Speaker 3: I will be there for his induction. Welcome to Nightcap.
Speaker 4: I don't know what uncle is, but we're gonna get
Speaker 4: this thing going anyway, Chat, how y'all doing?
Speaker 3: I love you? It's showtime.
Speaker 5: Hey, Hey, what's up? Twin as old with Bro? That
Speaker 5: the Hall of Fame. I ain't get picked this year, Bro.
Speaker 3: No, okay, listen, Hey we got time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I'm just letting you know. I'm just letting
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 5: You're probably, you know, getting your hopes up high thinking
Speaker 5: we're gonna you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, time, next time, next time, next time.
Speaker 4: It's it's gonna come. Let me tell you when it's
Speaker 4: gonna come. I'm gonna be there and listen, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: be the ghetto when in the in the in the
Speaker 4: in the stands.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with the air horn. Yeah, y'all gonna have an air horn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Joe, Oh, what's happening? Man? Hey? What's going on? Man?
Speaker 3: Hey? Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 1: Os this Teddy Bear?
Speaker 3: I mean, well ship, they all get the same.
Speaker 1: This Teddy Bear. Teddy I got my hair back now,
Speaker 1: he said, I look like a real, real live Teddy Bear. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So y'all did the intro?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had I had it.
Speaker 1: I had thought gonna take the intro.
Speaker 3: I did do it.
Speaker 5: Hey, ojo ojo did it? But I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 5: I could have. I could have did it way better
Speaker 5: than this ship. I would have. I would have. I
Speaker 5: would have had it spiffed up, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He yeah, but it was cool though. It was cool.
Speaker 4: Hey, listen, Joe, I'm not really an intro person, man,
Speaker 4: I'm not an intro person, you know.
Speaker 5: All Right, Okay, y'all, don't worry about it. Don't worry
Speaker 5: about it. You got you got it. You got a jamorrow, Joe, Man.
Speaker 4: Come on, I got it tomorrow, all right, all right,
Speaker 4: whych Joe? You're gonna mess up to or pleads up
Speaker 4: or plead See now, y'all in game.
Speaker 3: Too much time to practice.
Speaker 2: Now, Man, he gonna hey, hey, hey, he gonna be
Speaker 2: he gonna be in the mirror.
Speaker 1: He gonna let it down.
Speaker 3: Ain't gonna be practicing. I did mind right off the head.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look what you get used to it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you gotta remember the cut of the sequence
Speaker 2: of it. Like last night, I only have. I don't
Speaker 2: really use the proper anymore anyway, for the most part,
Speaker 2: only time I used I really use the problem unless
Speaker 2: I got to do an ad read or something like that.
Speaker 1: All the other stuff. You've done it so much, you know,
Speaker 1: to unity word by you you think about it. It's muscle.
Speaker 5: It's muscle memory, baby, Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what it is. Where's the rundown? Oh here
Speaker 2: it is, all right, guys. Well the Spurs they take control.
Speaker 2: They're back in front three. Two get a chance to
Speaker 2: close out the game in Minnesota thanks to a one
Speaker 2: twenty six ninety seventh victory win. He gets back to
Speaker 2: game five, he has twenty seven points, seventeen rebounds, five assists,
Speaker 2: and three blocks. And so now you think about it,
Speaker 2: what's the averaging, and he's averaging. Basically, this is Tim Duncan.
Speaker 2: If you can see it, I don't know if you
Speaker 2: guys can see can they see it? Okay? So Tim
Speaker 2: Duncan in his first playoff games to the right, his
Speaker 2: first ninth games played, he averaged twenty point seven points
Speaker 2: forty two minutes, nine rebounds, two and a half blocks,
Speaker 2: almost fifty six percent true shooting. Wimby is averaging twenty
Speaker 2: and a half points in twenty nine minutes, eleven point
Speaker 2: two rebounds, four point two blocks on sixty five and
Speaker 2: a half percent true shooting. So through their first nine
Speaker 2: playoff games, he's ahead. Not saying he's gonna be better
Speaker 2: than Tim Duncan. We know Tim Duncan is a transcendent player.
Speaker 2: Arguably he's ain't no argument he's a top ten player.
Speaker 2: You can make a case for him to be a
Speaker 2: top ten, top five player based on how much he's
Speaker 2: won the All NBA selections both offensively and defensively, the
Speaker 2: finals MVP, the regular season MVPs.
Speaker 1: They're he could have been.
Speaker 2: A defensive Player of the Year, but Wemby is a
Speaker 2: projected to be better. How was you know when you
Speaker 2: look at it? And we said this the other night, Joe,
Speaker 2: I'm not so sure in Minnesota win this game is
Speaker 2: if Winby doesn't get kicked out. And we all agreed
Speaker 2: last night they were gonna blow Minnesota out tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Minnesoulta got their hands for They're gonna have to be
Speaker 2: on their best behavior when the game swings back to
Speaker 2: Minnesota or they're gonna end this series.
Speaker 1: Joe, what did you like it from what?
Speaker 2: What did you like about san Antonio and more importantly,
Speaker 2: what did you like about Winby tonight?
Speaker 1: Oh? Oh, Joe, go ahead, I see you itching for
Speaker 1: some what you guys say?
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, listen, I don't know if coach made Weinby,
Speaker 4: you know, apologize to a teammates, or if he did
Speaker 4: something formal in the locker room, you know, for for
Speaker 4: what he did getting thrown out the game and putting
Speaker 4: putting the team in in such a inadvantageous situation, which
Speaker 4: which allowed Minnesota to win that game. But his apology
Speaker 4: to them was loud as hell. Once he got in
Speaker 4: that goddamned court. Yes, sir boy, he gave him boys, hell,
Speaker 4: Joe not gave him.
Speaker 3: Hell, I'm about right off the back, right off the
Speaker 3: back here.
Speaker 4: Let me show y'all how sorry I am by coming
Speaker 4: out here setting the tone and dominating early in the game.
Speaker 4: And once he started off like that, everybody else finished
Speaker 4: it off. The Wolves ain't having an't have a chance
Speaker 4: all night long.
Speaker 1: Man kept because I was looking, I was watching the game.
Speaker 2: I started watching the game in the lounge that I
Speaker 2: was watching on television, and they get out to a
Speaker 2: fourteen point lead, and the Wolves cut it all the
Speaker 2: way back down to two. They get out to a
Speaker 2: thirteen point lead, they cut it all the way back
Speaker 2: down to three. I was like, well, damn, Miniso San Antonio.
Speaker 2: Y'all can't keep any separation. Give Minnesota credit. They're not
Speaker 2: willing to die just yet. But then I looked up
Speaker 2: again they are eighteen, and next time I was like, well, damn,
Speaker 2: what what really happened? Obviously you see their different team
Speaker 2: with Wenby. Yeah, they're a different team with Wenby. There's
Speaker 2: no way riding You see what they shot thirty less
Speaker 2: than thirty forty percent from the field, less than thirty
Speaker 2: percent from the three point line. They did, they were aggressive.
Speaker 2: They got to the free throw line thirty times, made
Speaker 2: twenty four of those. The rebounding disparity again fifty to
Speaker 2: forty two plus eight for San Antonio everybody minus Julius
Speaker 2: random minus twenty two, Jade McDaniel's minus twelve, Rudy minus
Speaker 2: fifteen minus twenty man minus nine. And the problem that
Speaker 2: you're running to, Guys, If Rudy Goberry's gonna give you
Speaker 2: four and five and their Sinner's gonna give you twenty
Speaker 2: seven and seventeen, you're not winning that game.
Speaker 5: Hey, what we talk about the other night. Hell, when
Speaker 5: you got winby out there, bro, they already you already
Speaker 5: at a disadvantage. He just too He's just too big
Speaker 5: of a difference, Fellas. Listen, I'm watching hell. When they
Speaker 5: brought Julius, I mean, when they brought nads Read in,
Speaker 5: he got nads read throwing the ball all over the
Speaker 5: damn back.
Speaker 1: Boy.
Speaker 5: He trying sky hooks and all kinds of shit, trying
Speaker 5: to get.
Speaker 1: That ball over the man my face.
Speaker 5: Hey, hey, I'm talking about it ain't hitting no rim
Speaker 5: I'm telling you listen.
Speaker 1: So if he don't even block it.
Speaker 5: Hell, the chances of you making the shot, it's just
Speaker 5: almost impossible.
Speaker 3: Bro Olo, Hey Joe throwing what old Joe?
Speaker 1: I seen him throw one like this? Did he threw
Speaker 1: a hook? He threw a running hook.
Speaker 2: I said, damn, o Joe, you know you man, I
Speaker 2: show hate to tell somebody some because I know they
Speaker 2: go throw it up in my face. Man, I show
Speaker 2: hate to shoot this shot. I know women gonna throw
Speaker 2: this shot. Hey, But he know, but nas Reed knew
Speaker 2: he had that.
Speaker 5: That was his biggest defense, meaning like he gotta go
Speaker 5: ahead wimby. Man, it's hard to score over there, man.
Speaker 5: Bro Hey, when he's sitting there and you get buying
Speaker 5: all you go straight up, bro, it is hard to
Speaker 5: score that ball.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: I think the timboo I thought they played pretty good.
Speaker 5: The uh you know, the game got away from him
Speaker 5: at the end. But who he just too much fellas.
Speaker 2: The problem is is that when you look at it
Speaker 2: and you say, because that is not his normal shot.
Speaker 2: Every once in a wild guy, you know, you make
Speaker 2: a heat from half court. But that's not a shot
Speaker 2: that you practice. That's not your like you said, muscle memory,
Speaker 2: that's not your normal muscle memory his muscle Kareem. I
Speaker 2: mean I think I might have saw Kareem shoot a
Speaker 2: normal shot. I'm talking about like he shot a free
Speaker 2: throw from the field, maybe a handful of times.
Speaker 1: His muscle memory was this. Yeah, it was this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so nads going out there trying to throw
Speaker 2: that and you might hit it here there, but that's
Speaker 2: not your normal shot. Your muscle doesn't have the memory
Speaker 2: to shoot that shot. But you know, if I shoot
Speaker 2: a regular shot, I'm gonna have to eat that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Hey, hey, because when you playing the game of who's bro,
Speaker 5: you're playing off instincts. So like your moves not premeditated.
Speaker 5: You know, you you may give him a little hig
Speaker 5: high and whatever he go for and you go to
Speaker 5: the goal. Now you gotta figure out what you're gonna do.
Speaker 5: But hell, he right there. I'm like, damn, hey, it's
Speaker 5: it's challenging, man. But they got to continue to go
Speaker 5: at him.
Speaker 1: I I agree with you, Ojo women started the game. Bro.
Speaker 5: He was like, look, hey, my bad fella.
Speaker 4: Like you said, right, they was they was they was
Speaker 4: closing the lead down to two. Obviously, you know the
Speaker 4: game of basketball, so it's a game of runs, you know,
Speaker 4: so you're gonna have You're gonna have leads, they gonna
Speaker 4: close it down. And then a team like the goddamn
Speaker 4: Spurs that got damn Keldon Johnson. Oh yeah, I got
Speaker 4: damn Kelton Johnson off the goddamn Ben Hey, young young
Speaker 4: boy had twenty two.
Speaker 3: He was he was a fish in his hell the night.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he was one of the big differences
Speaker 4: because if you look at it right, shoot four out
Speaker 4: of the five for the for the Wolves shoot, they
Speaker 4: was in double figures. Hell, four out of the five
Speaker 4: forgot damn for the Spurs was in double figures too.
Speaker 4: But then you add got damn Keldon Johnson with his
Speaker 4: twenty one man, All that make.
Speaker 1: A difference, Joe, Yeah, do that make a difference.
Speaker 2: The thing is you said the Timberwolves and double figures.
Speaker 2: Look at what they shot to get double figures. Julius
Speaker 2: Ramdall has seventeen points on seventeen shots. Yeah, Jade McDaniels
Speaker 2: had for seventeen points on thirteen shots, Desamo had sixteen
Speaker 2: points on fourteen shots, and man had twenty points on
Speaker 2: thirteen shots. And now you come down and you looked
Speaker 2: at in Byama, he had nine on sixteen, eight of
Speaker 2: eleven for Stephan Castle, eight of eleven for Calton Johnson,
Speaker 2: fifty percent of Dylan Dylan Harper. And so that is
Speaker 2: the that's the difference in the ball game there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they got double figures. But if you gonna take if
Speaker 2: you go get seventeen points and it's gonna take you
Speaker 2: tell seventeen shots to get it, congratulations.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be hard to win like that. Congratulations, you know.
Speaker 5: And another reason in this series, Rudy ain't giving you
Speaker 5: no twenty nothing, you know what I'm saying. So you
Speaker 5: ain't getting no points from Rudy. And the only thing,
Speaker 5: the one thing that really hurts Minnesota, bro, is when
Speaker 5: Rudy's in the game, and that damn Winby don't have
Speaker 5: to guard no damn body man. He just clogging up
Speaker 5: the paint, you know, he he he.
Speaker 1: He liked their free safety out there, o Jo.
Speaker 5: He giving everybody hell, you know, because he can help
Speaker 5: off him, you know what I mean. So I know
Speaker 5: they try to bring nives read in so so he
Speaker 5: can kind of go at him and you know, obviously
Speaker 5: respect him and keep him away from the basket. But
Speaker 5: it's just so tough man, because Minnesota has to have
Speaker 5: a guy who's gonna play up in the thirties, meaning
Speaker 5: like a man gonna have to He got to be
Speaker 5: at least thirty five man for them to be for
Speaker 5: them to win, especially on the road.
Speaker 1: Like he playing great.
Speaker 5: Don't get me wrong, but you know, and under the
Speaker 5: circumstances that he's under.
Speaker 2: Joe, thirteen shots for him ain't gonna cut it. You
Speaker 2: not winning the game, You're gonna just what's gonna happen
Speaker 2: to you? If that man only take thirteen shots, you're
Speaker 2: gonna get blown out. He needs to be in the
Speaker 2: mid twenties.
Speaker 5: I think he's still he's still working through a little so,
Speaker 5: I mean, he looked like he getting better. But hell,
Speaker 5: they got so many guys meaning I need McDaniel's didn't
Speaker 5: play bad, but Julius Radland he gotta be a little better.
Speaker 5: Officially played good in this series, if we'll be honest.
Speaker 5: I know in this kind of it's hard, man, I
Speaker 5: know it's hard.
Speaker 2: But he has the advantage because he need to gonna
Speaker 2: have Champagne of a sall.
Speaker 5: But he got the advantage. He got the advantage, but
Speaker 5: he got he got covered too. On the man over
Speaker 5: the top.
Speaker 1: He and shit, he see him. Yeah, he can't get
Speaker 1: how he gonna get to the cup? Hen Man.
Speaker 5: That man got to shoot all them fadeaway jumpers. That's
Speaker 5: what he gotta make.
Speaker 2: Yeah he got he got you shooting fadeaway jumper because
Speaker 2: you know he want to get to the rim.
Speaker 5: He want to pile up to the rim. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: think about it. If he trying to, if he big
Speaker 5: body in him. Hell, by the time you turn around
Speaker 5: and shoot, and women standing right there, Carudie right over here,
Speaker 5: he ain't really got to guard him, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. So it's it's it's it's tough, it's challenging.
Speaker 5: I see what's going on out there. That's why I
Speaker 5: say when Win ain't on the floor, Bro, it seemed
Speaker 5: like an even game, even when he go to the
Speaker 5: bench at times. Yes, you know what I mean, but
Speaker 5: they just so deep meaning San Antonio with guys coming
Speaker 5: off the bench. And I agree on yo, Kelden Johnson, Bro,
Speaker 5: he's probably the second most important player of the night, Bro,
Speaker 5: the way he played with that efficiency. Uh, and get
Speaker 5: into it. They're a tough team.
Speaker 1: Man. He is young.
Speaker 2: He made a mistake. He doesn't understand. He's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: you know, ain't nothing gonna happen. He didn't realize cause,
Speaker 2: like I think about it, think about this, this man
Speaker 2: is in the NBA. He's like he's because you could
Speaker 2: see Harrison barn telling him. He's like, what that he grabbed?
Speaker 1: What that means? You're rejected? I'm ejected. Yeah, they threw
Speaker 1: your ass out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cause he had no idea he's gonna come back.
Speaker 2: He thought they were gonna get him. You know, they
Speaker 2: shoot the fire shot, they and he gonna come.
Speaker 1: Back in the game.
Speaker 4: Hey you heard what he said? Oh okay, yeah, yeah left.
Speaker 2: Yeah, He's like, oh, I don't know if anybody remember
Speaker 2: the movie in Cold Blood with Truman Komproti wrote about
Speaker 2: the critical family. These guys were in prison and somebody
Speaker 2: was in prison told a lie that this family they
Speaker 2: had a farm, but they had lots of money in
Speaker 2: the safe. When of them was in the I mean
Speaker 2: they had a borderline iq O Joe and Joe And
Speaker 2: when he told him what happened, he thought because he
Speaker 2: told him what was what actually happened. One of the guys,
Speaker 2: because they found him and he told him what would happen,
Speaker 2: he thought Okay, we're going home.
Speaker 1: They're like, no, you're not going home. You're going to
Speaker 1: get hung damn.
Speaker 2: He's like really, He's like yeah really, so he doesn't
Speaker 2: he didn't know. He's like, oh, man, they gonna shoot
Speaker 2: five shots. I'm gonna be okay, It's all good. Hey
Speaker 2: m Then he's like, man, I cost our team a
Speaker 2: game because I'm of the inclination that me being Winby,
Speaker 2: they can't win with up, with me and alive up.
Speaker 1: He has to play bad.
Speaker 2: He gets in the twenties, Timberwolves not beating him, Joe,
Speaker 2: the only chance they got is that when he played
Speaker 2: really really bad. Yeah, I mean, what was he like,
Speaker 2: six or seventeen, five or seventeen. But if he scores
Speaker 2: in the twenties, yeah, and he's shooting a fit, they're
Speaker 2: not winning.
Speaker 1: Now, it's gonna be hard to beat him. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard. Hey listen.
Speaker 5: I think this was a very humbling experience for Winby,
Speaker 5: meaning this is a learning experience for him. You know,
Speaker 5: I can kind of tell through his demeanor throughout the game.
Speaker 5: Obviously he was so serious about the game. He's always
Speaker 5: been like that. But after the game interview, just listening
Speaker 5: to him talk. Uh, he understands that he pretty much
Speaker 5: you know, cost that game game four and you know
Speaker 5: with the thrust that he came out and played with
Speaker 5: in the first few minutes.
Speaker 1: Bro, Hey, it could be scary. Oho.
Speaker 5: I think that's the learning experience for him if they
Speaker 5: able to get up out this series obviously. Hey, look
Speaker 5: when you look, even throughout the game, the game is
Speaker 5: still so physical. Look how every time they get a
Speaker 5: chance to put their hands on their boy, what they're
Speaker 5: doing pushing them down, but putting their elbow on him,
Speaker 5: like just just just roughing him up.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 5: Look, and then hestead of getting filed every time he look,
Speaker 5: every time he get knock to the ground, he look
Speaker 5: up at the reft. Then he started to notice like, okay,
Speaker 5: this is how they play. Huh this hog, this how
Speaker 5: is going down? Okay, well look let me get my
Speaker 5: ass up and get on back on defense.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, y'all piss me off? Now yeah?
Speaker 5: Hey, hey, hey, similar hey, similar to when we was
Speaker 5: all in New York and y'all pissed me off and
Speaker 5: I went out.
Speaker 3: Hey, listen, he gonna he gonna, he's gonna let it down.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: That's that's how winby did tonight. I'm talking about he
Speaker 5: wasn't playing no silly games with them. Boy man, here
Speaker 5: a human.
Speaker 2: Greg Papavich went straight to the airport to seek with
Speaker 2: to speak with Winby as soon as the Spurs landed
Speaker 2: back in San Antonio yesterday afternoon. Here's the footage. Guys,
Speaker 2: I wonder what.
Speaker 1: He said, teaching them that old school pivot.
Speaker 2: Hell, Hey, like, look, son, you made a mistake. You're
Speaker 2: not You're not your worst mistake. You're not your best
Speaker 2: thing to happen. You're somewhere in the middle. Don't let
Speaker 2: don't let this moving forward take away your aggressiveness and
Speaker 2: how you played this ball game that has happened. We
Speaker 2: can't do nothing about that. The two days that we
Speaker 2: can't do anything about is yesterday and tomorrow. Don't let
Speaker 2: that enter into anything that we're moving forward. We're moving
Speaker 2: forward without that baggage. Leave that behind. You're the best
Speaker 2: player on the court now tomorrow, go two days, go
Speaker 2: show it. Go show why you're one of the MVP finalists.
Speaker 2: Go show why you're Defensive Player of the Year. Go
Speaker 2: show why in your third year you're gonna be an
Speaker 2: all the NBA selection. Go show why many project you.
Speaker 2: When it's all said and done, you're going to be
Speaker 2: in consideration for one of the great the greatest player
Speaker 2: of all times.
Speaker 1: Just go show them why leave no doubt?
Speaker 5: Hey, you know what else he told him, Understanding that
Speaker 5: you're a great player and the only way these guys
Speaker 5: can slow you down is by being physical and pissing
Speaker 5: you off and hoping you get out of carriage out
Speaker 5: the game.
Speaker 1: Yep, here, point blank only way to stopped him. Stay
Speaker 1: locked in.
Speaker 5: Understand they gonna be physical and that's part of the game.
Speaker 5: Just get back up, I think, And pretty much that's
Speaker 5: what I seen to night. I ain't really see a
Speaker 5: whole lot of discouragement, you know on his face. You know,
Speaker 5: he just kind of just took it as it came.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 2: Hey, he's a phenomenal He's a phenomenal talent. Do what
Speaker 2: I you know what what from from just watching and
Speaker 2: listen to him, he want to compete. Think about how
Speaker 2: he talked about an All Star game. I'm going to compete.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Think about.
Speaker 2: How he approaches everything. Ain't no, ain't no funny game.
Speaker 2: There's a time and a place for everything. But when
Speaker 2: I'm suiting up against other NBA players, that's not the
Speaker 2: time for funny games. Yeah, I'm trying to win. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to send a message. That's why the guys had
Speaker 2: to play hard. They didn't have no choice. They saw
Speaker 2: his ass out there playing hard.
Speaker 5: You heard, and man said, and man said that. He said,
Speaker 5: that's what made him turn up. He said the way
Speaker 5: winby came out and he was playing. You know, he
Speaker 5: turned up. But I think that's affection affectionist for him, Joe.
Speaker 5: And I also really believe he wants to be the
Speaker 5: best player to play this game.
Speaker 1: Bro. He want to be the best player to play
Speaker 1: this game.
Speaker 5: You can you can tell, uh, a boy how he
Speaker 5: goes about himselves and uh, he understands that he's a
Speaker 5: he's a unique talent. And I think he's really locked in,
Speaker 5: bro to win. I'm talking about the win this year.
Speaker 5: He want to win now, Yes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: So I think going through this, you know, if they
Speaker 5: able to get about this series, I think he'll be
Speaker 5: a learning experience for him. And going against that OKC team,
Speaker 5: you know he'll be he'll have to hear.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to be locked in against them. Boy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and who say who says, I gotta wait my turn.
Speaker 2: I'm jumping the line, That's what I'm saying. Magic wait
Speaker 2: his turn.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Magic won his first year, Bird won in his second year.
Speaker 2: Kim Duncan wanted his first who said, I gotta wait
Speaker 2: and different. Yeah, no, I'm good, y'all, y'all, y'all. Wait,
Speaker 2: I ain't waiting. I told y'all get my chickens by
Speaker 2: smashing the eggs, not about letting them match. I want
Speaker 2: what I want right now. I want to get it
Speaker 2: to him and now take it. Okay, keep it, I
Speaker 2: come get it. I know where it's at. I know
Speaker 2: where they keep that Larry Brian trophy.
Speaker 1: Yet that show ain't playing too, Yeah for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he got a long he got, he got young guys.
Speaker 1: They ain't got no choice.
Speaker 5: But they hunger too. Them guys around him, they hunger too,
Speaker 5: and they understand the moment.
Speaker 1: Two fellas. Don't get it twisted.
Speaker 5: You know, they know they got a great chance because
Speaker 5: I know they're super confident playing against that OKC team
Speaker 5: because they've had so much success against them this year.
Speaker 5: What they want three three out of the four times
Speaker 5: on yep mm hmm. Yeah, So they gonna go in
Speaker 5: pretty confident.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't have I don't have a problem
Speaker 2: with that, with the way he approaches the game, the
Speaker 2: way san Antonio approaches the game. Those young guys. I
Speaker 2: like the fact that they're coming up together. We go
Speaker 2: a we're gonna win or lose this thing together. They
Speaker 2: got a squad because they if you look at Champagnee
Speaker 2: and Winby, obviously they traded for Fox, uh Basell Castle.
Speaker 1: There the nucleus man. They got deep. They got a
Speaker 1: nice little squad man they do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, who could definitely challenge Who's definitely gonna try and challenge? Okay,
Speaker 5: see bro to get to the finals. A, this is
Speaker 5: gonna be one of them, one of them is why.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm Yeah, uh, it's gonna be A man's gonna
Speaker 2: have to have one of these, another one of those
Speaker 2: out of body experiences. He's more than capable of doing that.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 2: But he damn show better. He damn suore better because
Speaker 2: that a that that dude with the size twenty shoes
Speaker 2: where you wear size too, he's stepping on folks. Hell,
Speaker 2: I'm surprised they ain't big. They bigger than that, And man,
Speaker 2: you know what they struggled.
Speaker 5: So they like even when they was at home that
Speaker 5: last game before women got kicked out, I think they
Speaker 5: were struggling.
Speaker 1: The score, they struggled. I'm talking about Minnesota. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: remember how it was in the paint.
Speaker 5: Yeah, That's what I'm saying. It's like, man, they got
Speaker 5: some good for you.
Speaker 1: No, I'm good.
Speaker 5: It's like, if Minnesota don't get out to a fast start,
Speaker 5: you know, I'll be a little worried at times.
Speaker 1: So I hope they.
Speaker 5: I hope they come out blazing and get it to
Speaker 5: a Game seven. Bro, I want to Game seven has
Speaker 5: just hit a little different fellas for sure, Yeah for sure, and.
Speaker 1: I want to see it. I'm here for it. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: we got some we got some Laker news.
Speaker 2: Luca reportedly does not want the Lakers to trade off
Speaker 2: the Reads for Yallis, according to The Athletic. Multiple league
Speaker 2: sources said that the belief was illustrated when Luca told
Speaker 2: people with any organization that he wouldn't want Read to
Speaker 2: be included in any potential trade for Milwaukee's Gianni's Antetokoumpo.
Speaker 2: Danchet would strongly prefer a team constructed that includes him
Speaker 2: Reeves alongside whatever star Lakers could acquire. The team also
Speaker 2: promised Luca a ballaced roster similar to twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: a Lakers anonymous Laker Room Lakers locker room sword said,
Speaker 2: we just don't have enough good players. When discussing the
Speaker 2: gap between the Lakers and the Thunder doing the four
Speaker 2: game suite to the defending champs for the Athletic GMS,
Speaker 2: Rob Polinka has made it clear he wants Lebron back,
Speaker 2: but stop short of calling him a number one priority.
Speaker 2: Of course, any team, including ours, would love to have
Speaker 2: Lebron James on their roster, the archetype of the roster
Speaker 2: that won't be going to be retrofitted around Luca and
Speaker 2: things he needs. Clearly, he's that leader and the player
Speaker 2: for the future that we want to build the right way.
Speaker 1: Joe, where does the Lakers go from here?
Speaker 5: I don't know when some scare out I was now
Speaker 5: because it didn't sound like, you know, they was gonna
Speaker 5: make it a priority to bring Broun back.
Speaker 2: No, well, we knew that. That's why they didn't reach
Speaker 2: That's why they didn't They didn't extend it. You remember
Speaker 2: this just the blast year. I mean, think about it normally
Speaker 2: when Lebron plays on the one year because he wants to. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because normally what do they do tear it up, give
Speaker 2: of the year and another player year.
Speaker 1: So normally he's on a two two year, three year deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is what they did this year. It's amazing.
Speaker 2: It's amazing how they want to be on the team
Speaker 2: a Ron, Luca. But when Lebron and for a certain thing,
Speaker 2: they never did that.
Speaker 5: That didn't joke. Okay, my bad, I'm sorry. Listen, here's
Speaker 5: what might be happening. They may construct a roster and
Speaker 5: still you know, obviously be able to you know, add Brun.
Speaker 5: But I think Bron wants to see them probably make
Speaker 5: some moves before he commit right away. He he ain't
Speaker 5: never gonna be in no rush. Oh Joe, you can't
Speaker 5: say he ain't coming back to me. Man, he playing,
Speaker 5: He on the team with his son, the building up
Speaker 5: forty to fifty million dollar house, and man.
Speaker 3: Come on, Joe, he not coming back.
Speaker 1: Joe.
Speaker 3: Let's let's just let's get this right.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Let's understand the way the Lakers are constructed, right, how
Speaker 4: many pieces are away from winning the championship. Think about it,
Speaker 4: Lucas said, he don't want Yiannis. We know why he
Speaker 4: don't want you, honest, even I have a better understanding
Speaker 4: of the game. That Jannis has to have the ball
Speaker 4: in his hands, Luca has to have the ball in
Speaker 4: his hands.
Speaker 3: Luke and Joannis. That's not gonna work.
Speaker 4: Why does he want Reeves? He and Reeves work well together.
Speaker 4: They work very well together. Lebron works well as well
Speaker 4: because now he diverts himself to being the third option,
Speaker 4: and he had nobody in certain himself, and he has
Speaker 4: no problem in certing himself in games when need be.
Speaker 4: Let Luca do what he does, let Reid do what
Speaker 4: he does. Still, they have nobody that can defend. They
Speaker 4: have no defenders outside of Marcus Smart DeAndre Ayden.
Speaker 3: I mean no disrespect the young Bull, but he hasn't leved.
Speaker 1: Do you mean the abomination?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, but they need too many Oh man, Joe,
Speaker 2: I mean you talking about the big hallucination.
Speaker 4: Hey, listen, Joe, whatever you want to whatever you want
Speaker 4: to call him. They need too many pieces. And it's
Speaker 4: and it's and it's not enough players that they didn't
Speaker 4: get right now this year or next year. All of
Speaker 4: a sudden, we're gonna come in and be able to
Speaker 4: compete with the other teams in the West.
Speaker 5: Damn, oh, Joe, they were just missing the top score
Speaker 5: of Luca. Okay, since Luca asked for all this, Damn
Speaker 5: can he stay healthy enough throughout the postseason so we
Speaker 5: can see what we really got.
Speaker 3: You know what it was gonna look like.
Speaker 4: Regardless what you mean, Joe, if Luca was hurt, you
Speaker 4: just they still.
Speaker 3: They meant what they better want? What one one one game?
Speaker 1: We don't know, o, Joe. He the leading scorer in
Speaker 1: the NBA. We don't know.
Speaker 5: He's he's you know, he's played well against them type
Speaker 5: of teams.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he knocked him out to the finals.
Speaker 1: Heymen, him and who hemmy Kyrie.
Speaker 3: Ain't no Kyrie on the Lakers.
Speaker 5: Come on, Bro, you got Brun, You got Brun and
Speaker 5: Austin Reeves. We don't know, Bro, We don't really know.
Speaker 4: Like I like the way you being naive, Joe.
Speaker 5: No, I think I think they I think they do
Speaker 5: need another piece or two. But damn, they gotta stay healthy.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 5: This is why we say, not only do you want
Speaker 5: to be clicking in April going into the postseason, but
Speaker 5: you need your guys to be healthy as well. Bro, Hell,
Speaker 5: if you ain't healthy, it don't. I mean, look, bro,
Speaker 5: we got people playing out of position.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So so hold on, let me let me get
Speaker 3: this correct.
Speaker 1: Joe up before you go.
Speaker 4: Joe, are you saying if Luca paid, if Luca played,
Speaker 4: if Luca was healthy, that this series, but the thund
Speaker 4: that would have when when it would have been different
Speaker 4: could be?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 5: Hell, they missing an allstar over there, and uh for OKC.
Speaker 1: And Jaylen Williams.
Speaker 5: So if you got Luca and he giving you thirty
Speaker 5: a night, thirty plus a night, you know, brun giving
Speaker 5: you anywhere from eighteen in the twenty four to night
Speaker 5: are giving you his twenty.
Speaker 1: Two and and and.
Speaker 5: Uh ruy out here shooting the blood out that thing.
Speaker 1: Huh, Joe, I don't know, Joe.
Speaker 4: We ain't playing two K. This ain't NBA two K, Joe,
Speaker 4: this real life we talking about.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I.
Speaker 3: Don't A healthy Lakers team is not beating the Thunder.
Speaker 4: They might win a game, maybe one or maybe two
Speaker 4: if that, and if they win too, it's only because
Speaker 4: the NBA and the refs colluding so they could pay
Speaker 4: the bills that's it.
Speaker 3: Let's be realistic.
Speaker 1: Ain't stop putting fuddle that name. Think about it.
Speaker 2: They win the champions they win the championship, and he
Speaker 2: breaks the team up. Why would you ever get rid
Speaker 2: of Caruso? Yeah, you need three in these guys. He
Speaker 2: talking about the team that Luca had around him in Dallas.
Speaker 2: What did he have, Joe? Guys that can defend? He
Speaker 2: had two scores, guys that can defend and shoot the
Speaker 2: three he had Washington? But GAFFERD what was gafferd rebounding?
Speaker 3: Love?
Speaker 1: Threat? Ye? Lively? What was he rebound? PJ? Washington? Three?
Speaker 2: And then you had Kyrie in him. But that's not
Speaker 2: what That's not what what you call him did? He
Speaker 2: wanted to break it up. What I don't understand for
Speaker 2: the life of me.
Speaker 1: Joe.
Speaker 2: You remember when they was in the bubble what somebody said,
Speaker 2: what's y'all game plan for us?
Speaker 1: Let him shoot? Yeah?
Speaker 2: They said, let him shoot. And then the next ship
Speaker 2: what they do they go sign They got it. They said,
Speaker 2: we're gonna let him show. Make it make sense. Now,
Speaker 2: y'all up to see see. Now, y'all, don't piss me off.
Speaker 2: Let's be all the way real. If Rob Polinka was
Speaker 2: not KBE's agent. Does he have that job? No, sir,
Speaker 2: But y'all don't want to talk about that. All you
Speaker 2: want to talk about, Well, Lebron got his son on
Speaker 2: his team. Lebron hand picked this. Let's have a real conversation.
Speaker 2: I got time today. Yeah, what about them picks? What
Speaker 2: about Sarafino Hood? Who is Sara Fedos? What is Sara
Speaker 2: fenal Hood?
Speaker 1: Where is he? Here was your first round pick a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago? Where is he? Joe? No, I
Speaker 1: have no clue. Bro Oh okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Out of Indiana. Yeah, you're right, Okay, I'm just checking.
Speaker 2: You had defenders, you had your veil, you had Dawhight Howard.
Speaker 2: You not paying them thirty million dollars? You break it
Speaker 2: up just because?
Speaker 1: And get what? Say? You know what?
Speaker 2: I think we'll be better if we have Camelo and
Speaker 2: Kamelo's for a phenomenal player. He's a phenomenal offensive player.
Speaker 2: But Camelo was old and he couldn't defend. Russ has
Speaker 2: never been known as a defender, and he couldn't shoot.
Speaker 2: I give you a prime example. I remember the one
Speaker 2: time I really got upset at Mike in nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 2: we played.
Speaker 1: Against DC deal Carter his whole career in Kansas City.
Speaker 2: We were coming there on a Wednesday and say, you
Speaker 2: know what, guys, he's gonna do something to cost his team.
Speaker 2: He's gonna get a penalty, he's gonna get sneaky, he
Speaker 2: gonna get a little lazy with his eyes, and he's
Speaker 2: gonna give It's a big play what it might do.
Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety nine, go sign the very guy said
Speaker 2: we need to stay away from because but y'alln't want
Speaker 2: to talk about rob Oh y'all talking about hold on?
Speaker 2: Whoa whoa, whoa whoa? What about Magic? Do y'all really know?
Speaker 1: Y'all?
Speaker 2: See, I got tied today. I got a little bit
Speaker 2: of time on my hand today because you know, I've
Speaker 2: been busy. Had to get up early this morning, shoot
Speaker 2: the pod jump on the flight, had to come down.
Speaker 2: Ask say we got a shooe? I said, no, I
Speaker 2: gotta take a shower. I gotta smelling like get back
Speaker 2: right now. So I gotta get in a shower. I
Speaker 2: gotta get that up off me. Hey, ain't nobody asked
Speaker 2: why Magic Johnson quit? Why you just quit up and
Speaker 2: quit Himmy Jenie's sisters, brother sisters, they like brother sisters. Oh,
Speaker 2: they wanted Luke Walton Man said, y'all you know what,
Speaker 2: y'all keep Luke.
Speaker 1: I'm up out of here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lebron wanted ty Lou the man won a championship,
Speaker 2: coached unbelievable. Nah, we're gonna keep. We gonna were gonna
Speaker 2: keep Luke Walton Man. But you see what Luke did
Speaker 2: with Golden State. I could have coached Golden State with
Speaker 2: Steph KD. Draymond and Clayton wr the hell couldn't coach
Speaker 2: them to a championship.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: Look with the Lakers. Hi, look with Sacramento. Mm hmm yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: So he wanted that, so he wanted, he wanted to
Speaker 2: do that. I ain't gonna do a that's what you want,
Speaker 2: But now you want to make all these things you
Speaker 2: want to get exactly. But I'm gonna tell you what's
Speaker 2: gonna happen. And y'all know, Luca one of my favorite players.
Speaker 2: You're not with it name of time. You got a
Speaker 2: back court that's defensively challenged that you want a championship with.
Speaker 1: It? Ain't want why name think about it?
Speaker 2: What did they say when they played Luca, we want
Speaker 2: Luca the guard, so we gonna put him in the
Speaker 2: picket roll as great as he is offensively. When you
Speaker 2: see the clutch situation the last five minutes a game.
Speaker 2: What happened Austin Reeves last night? What did they do
Speaker 2: every time they wanted a basket? Correy k Mitchell or
Speaker 2: Shape whoever he's guardened bring it to me. I need
Speaker 2: to see it, y'all watch the game. Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be very very interesting. You better get some guys that
Speaker 2: can defend whether Lebron is there or not. I'm ready
Speaker 2: for Lebron to leave. I really am, because all they
Speaker 2: do is blame him, because all I know they didn't
Speaker 2: they from their last championship was twenty ten, and the
Speaker 2: next one they wanted was twenty twenty. In the pandemic,
Speaker 2: nobody once Kobe retired, because you gotta realize Kobe was
Speaker 2: hurt his last couple of years. Kobe was shooting under
Speaker 2: forty percent his last couple of years. Nobody was even
Speaker 2: talking about the Lakers until Lebron went there, and you
Speaker 2: didn't have to recruit him. He went on his own. Hey,
Speaker 2: I want them to leave, and I want to see
Speaker 2: how many championships because if you think about it, Joe,
Speaker 2: let me tell you something you've never heard about the Lakers.
Speaker 1: The Lakers, how many championship? They want a lot, not
Speaker 1: a Heat.
Speaker 2: The Heat had one championship, And what do they sell
Speaker 2: you before they got any more championships?
Speaker 1: Heat? Culture? Yeah you here, Golden State.
Speaker 2: You mean to tell me a team that got seventeen
Speaker 2: championship ain't got no culture. M huh, I'm looking for something,
Speaker 2: Joe coming that. Now, who they developed Kareem wasn't there?
Speaker 1: Shot? You didn't drag shout shot We last time they
Speaker 1: developed a player. M hmm. I see where you're going.
Speaker 3: Hey, but they try to move boy Rob Rob Rob, think.
Speaker 2: About Okay, you're hot. You wanted loot, so Magic says,
Speaker 2: I'm up out of here. The next year later you
Speaker 2: lose Tylo. Now you go get Vogel. Guess who his
Speaker 2: backcourt was. Two of the smartest people that ever play
Speaker 2: in the NBA, Lebron James and Rajon Rondo. Yeah, what
Speaker 2: y'all want to run? What y'all run and run? I
Speaker 2: happy to get up, get sweated, my knees hurting the night, Hey, Bron, Rondo.
Speaker 2: My knees and my back hurt. I'm sitting down tonight.
Speaker 1: Handle that.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know what Frank Buller is, Fraik. They have
Speaker 2: a down here. Lebron get hurt, they get swept. I think, uh,
Speaker 2: the Suns, then you get Darvin Ham. I just want
Speaker 2: to know what y'all gonna do. I'm anxious to see
Speaker 2: because I'm a Luca fan. I'm an Oustar Reeds fan.
Speaker 2: Ostar Reed's story. It should be a documentary. Yes, for
Speaker 2: a guy to come out that's an undrafted free agent.
Speaker 2: The average seven points nine points, thirteen point I mean
Speaker 2: nineteen points twenty three points.
Speaker 1: It should be studied.
Speaker 2: Just go to show you what you can do when
Speaker 2: you put your mind to it and you put the
Speaker 2: work in. A lot of it has to do you
Speaker 2: joke sometimes, you know, you gotta go to the right situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah he went to the right situation. Yeah, he spoke
Speaker 2: in glowing terms how Lebron took him on his wing.
Speaker 2: It didn't have to. But I'm gonna be watching. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be watching now. I'm gonna need to see some
Speaker 2: championship Laker fans. I want to see some championships in
Speaker 2: the next five years. I need to see some championship takers.
Speaker 3: Okay, now you see in the next five years.
Speaker 4: Now, that makes much more sense because what they need.
Speaker 1: You want me to be You want me to be
Speaker 1: more generous, I say ten.
Speaker 3: Nah, he.
Speaker 5: Man, they got they gotta they gotta take a real
Speaker 5: look at you know, uh, some roster changes just in
Speaker 5: order to get you to what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: In the next five years, will okay, see be better
Speaker 2: or worse than what they are alright now, Joe.
Speaker 1: They gonna be shit. They're probably gonna be better on
Speaker 1: the same Okay.
Speaker 2: In the next five years, San Antonio, they're gonna be
Speaker 2: better or worse than what they are right now, Joe.
Speaker 3: What damn?
Speaker 2: So either they need to move to the Eastern Conference
Speaker 2: or the Lakers need to step their game up.
Speaker 1: Now one of the two need to happen. You better
Speaker 1: figure it out.
Speaker 2: The problem was, and I don't know if Lebron really
Speaker 2: really factored this in. It's kind of like the situation
Speaker 2: where you don't fully evaluate the situation. We go in
Speaker 2: and we drop a couple of bombs on Iran, and
Speaker 2: what's the worst they can do where they can shut
Speaker 2: that thing down?
Speaker 1: And you're making hell on you hm hm, Lebron.
Speaker 2: That's see, I'm not really homegrown. I've been their most
Speaker 2: beloved and cherished players, chief rivalry for a decade plus.
Speaker 2: How am I gonna see how they going to feel
Speaker 2: if I come in? Because people minds are warped. See
Speaker 2: they don't they like well? He trying to erase Kobe's legacy.
Speaker 2: How you erased somebody's legacy. Kobe's already done what he did, right.
Speaker 2: He is trying to enhance the Lakers, make the Lakers relevant.
Speaker 2: No matter what you think. Lakers wasn't on the on
Speaker 2: TV like they were when they had all them guys
Speaker 2: and they were celebrating and hitting do it all kinds
Speaker 2: of crazy stuff. Don't nobody talking about the Lakers? Go
Speaker 2: back when last time? We hadn't talked about the Lakers
Speaker 2: since Kobe's what that sixty point game? We didn't talk
Speaker 2: about the Lakers before, and we hadn't talked about him
Speaker 2: since until one twenty three showed up. Yeah, Crusoe nine
Speaker 2: million dollars a year, that's what the Bulls offered him.
Speaker 2: Now we ain't gonna match that. A guy that is
Speaker 2: three in d outstanding defender and knockdown shots. Remember he
Speaker 2: made three big threes last night night and he played
Speaker 2: outstanding and he plays outstanding defense. That's what he's known for.
Speaker 2: I mean, you had him and k C P. But
Speaker 2: you know what they said. You know what, we don't
Speaker 2: want to leave a Tucker Taylor, Horton Tucker. We don't
Speaker 2: want to lose him Joe. So we're gonna give him
Speaker 2: three years, thirty two million. And now, now where is
Speaker 2: he currently?
Speaker 1: He oversees someone? Damn Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Lebron James is a free agent. Austin Reeves has
Speaker 2: a player option. Rui is a free agent. DeAndre Aighten
Speaker 2: player option, Marcus Smart player option, Luke Kennard free, Jackson
Speaker 2: Haye free, Maxic Kleeber free.
Speaker 5: You want to bring a couple of them guys back,
Speaker 5: try and bring help them guys back.
Speaker 2: Well, ru it definitely should be. You should definitely should
Speaker 2: try to bring Rud back. You definitely should bring Rud back.
Speaker 2: That's it, you know, I'm saying that.
Speaker 3: Look, I mean.
Speaker 5: Bring back as going back Austin out of that, I
Speaker 5: think that's that's gonna be that. I think that's gonna
Speaker 5: determine a lot aar is he gonna get is he
Speaker 5: gonna get a MAX deal, or is he gonna get
Speaker 5: somewhere close to a max or or is he gonna
Speaker 5: take somewhat of a generous discount? Because if he take two,
Speaker 5: if he takes two fifty okay, oh Joe, Yeah, that's
Speaker 5: a big chunk of the pie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because if you look look at that group, the
Speaker 2: only guy in that group that can defend is Marcus Martin.
Speaker 1: Yep, he's the.
Speaker 2: Only guy to confair. I thought he did a great
Speaker 2: job on Shay last night. Yet he got his buckets,
Speaker 2: but he made it, he made him work for it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when you talk about for a series, When he
Speaker 5: talked about for a series, I thought he'd done a
Speaker 5: hell of a job. If you ask me, you ain't
Speaker 5: listen you Guarden arguably the best play in the game
Speaker 5: right now. Who's probably gonna be the m v P.
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen.
Speaker 5: Out of four games, bro, he got yeah, he had
Speaker 5: one game to where he was him he went off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta live with that. Somebody talking about you lied.
Speaker 1: Lakers wasn't on TV.
Speaker 2: I don't remember Lakers being on TV when Kobe went coch,
Speaker 2: I don't remember them on be on TV because Kobe
Speaker 2: was hurt.
Speaker 1: You a lie. Lacos wasn't on TV. But I tell
Speaker 1: you who was on TV.
Speaker 2: The Cleveland Cavaliers, Oh yeah, and the Golden State Warriors,
Speaker 2: the Boston Celtics when they had them young guys coming up,
Speaker 2: Tatum and Brown, smart Al Horford.
Speaker 1: I can tell you who was on TV.
Speaker 2: You would say, you see, it's easy to say that
Speaker 2: now cause Lebron there, They're gonna be on TV after
Speaker 2: Lebron leaves called Luca's there. But you a lie, You
Speaker 2: a lie. They wasn't on TV. Yeah, they was in
Speaker 2: LA market, but they wasn't broadcast. Nash don't do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the product with the product wasn't the same.
Speaker 2: No, it was, it wasn't. It wasn't the Lakers. LA
Speaker 2: is predicated on the winning. Yep, it's predicated on winning.
Speaker 2: So if you don't win, what do we? Oh, Joe, Joe,
Speaker 2: we know because we have the luxury of being able
Speaker 2: to go where we want to go. There's too much
Speaker 2: going on in LA for for you to go sit
Speaker 2: in a building. When you got you can sit on rooftops,
Speaker 2: you can sit on decks, you can go to the
Speaker 2: beach and I'm gonna go sit somewhere where they lose
Speaker 2: it and I can be up and malleable. I can
Speaker 2: be on Venice, I could be at.
Speaker 3: Newport Santa Monica. Peer too much to do.
Speaker 2: It takes a lot to boy, but it's it's amazing
Speaker 2: how we remember things. It's you know, sometimes our memory
Speaker 2: is what we wanted to be. Yeah, we can go
Speaker 2: back and look at that. What's the first thing they say? Guys,
Speaker 2: I don't quite remember it like that. I bet you don't.
Speaker 2: I bet you don't. But we're gonna find out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're about to find out. I hope that.
Speaker 2: Look, Luca lucam my got. I don't root for it.
Speaker 2: I rooted for him when he was in Dallas. It
Speaker 2: was great when he came to the Lakers because Lebron
Speaker 2: was there. Our root for Luca. But I'm a Lebron fan.
Speaker 2: I ain't make no secret about that. I've been a
Speaker 2: Lebron fan.
Speaker 1: Ain't hold on.
Speaker 5: So, but do you really feel you really think it's
Speaker 5: a great chance he going somewhere else?
Speaker 4: So, yes, I told you, Joe, I said that what
Speaker 4: that last night shows?
Speaker 3: What show that was? I said that? Yeah, I said,
Speaker 3: I said, I'm telling I'm telling.
Speaker 1: You, he's hard. It's just hard. Joe.
Speaker 3: Come on now, the warriors.
Speaker 2: You've been making Joe, you've been making fifty millia. How
Speaker 2: long you been making fifty million? And they want to.
Speaker 1: Break you off with a little eight piece.
Speaker 2: You don't have fifty. You don't have been even fifty
Speaker 2: n fifty pieces. They try to go on you that
Speaker 2: little six piece. You're like, man, come.
Speaker 4: On now, hold on, hold on, Hey, I got listen,
Speaker 4: and I got I got something that can fix that too.
Speaker 4: Now what they want to give him a little six piece?
Speaker 4: You've been getting fifty all this time, Right, I got
Speaker 4: one place he can go. Wait, they can get him
Speaker 4: that six piece and he can make up that fifty based.
Speaker 1: On what in huh go to New York? Huh that I.
Speaker 5: Hey, I'm not saying New York won't be a great place,
Speaker 5: but they still playing and we don't know how they
Speaker 5: may finish out. So you know, that's kind of hard
Speaker 5: to kind of because they're not gonna want to break that.
Speaker 2: Hey, let's just say, for the sake of argument, they
Speaker 2: go to and they win the championship. They're not gonna
Speaker 2: be foolish. Time people break down tied roster, talking about, oh,
Speaker 2: we get a big name now, because you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to get off some of those pieces that make you click.
Speaker 1: Why would you people gonna walk Miles Bridges, hold on.
Speaker 3: Bridges, lebron is free unk you have to give up
Speaker 3: on You don't have to give up nothing.
Speaker 1: But but to make set to make the salaries work.
Speaker 4: Joe, I just so, I just told you he'd take
Speaker 4: the six piece because he can make more off the court,
Speaker 4: because he's in New York.
Speaker 1: I can make that. I can make that anyway.
Speaker 5: Hen I can't he look o Joe, I know he,
Speaker 5: I know he would love to win another title. But
Speaker 5: I don't see that man taking no discount. Bro, I don't,
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't see him taking.
Speaker 2: That kind of haircut. Oh ya, I want to like fade.
Speaker 2: You gave me, You gave me all fad, you followed me,
Speaker 2: you gave me the Kojak.
Speaker 4: But listen, I just I just gave you the only place,
Speaker 4: the only place, maybe the only other place. That's the
Speaker 4: only place, the only other market where if you do
Speaker 4: take a discount, you're gonna make up four times.
Speaker 3: Ten being in New York. Anyway, Well, if that the case.
Speaker 1: He can make up for it in l A too.
Speaker 2: All of his projects are out there, his production companies
Speaker 2: out there, the TV show, the game show, the movies,
Speaker 2: the documentaries.
Speaker 3: They're not winning nothing. They need too many pieces.
Speaker 5: No, they just need a couple. They need like another piece.
Speaker 5: And they need these guys to stay healthy. Oh, Joe,
Speaker 5: you can't. We never seen them full strength for real, bro,
Speaker 5: And when we did. Hey, look, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 5: another thing. I listened to bron press conference. He ain't
Speaker 5: really sound like he was too He ain't sound like
Speaker 5: he was too happy about that. Damn that role he
Speaker 5: was playing early in the year. No, he asked me.
Speaker 5: He sounded like, you know, I played it because you
Speaker 5: know that was best for the team. But you know,
Speaker 5: like he said, man, hell, he hadn't played that role.
Speaker 5: He said since however, he said Then he said ever, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he said ever, because.
Speaker 2: He's like, hold on, I get Luca. I get Luca.
Speaker 2: But how aust the Ridge just pulled voute me. He said,
Speaker 2: I can't Luca. It's fourteen to fifteen millis years younger.
Speaker 2: He could score the basketball just like I can. He
Speaker 2: could rebound the ball just like I can. He could
Speaker 2: facilitate I just like I can respectfully. How Austin Reeves
Speaker 2: jumped me though, because I was just an All NBA
Speaker 2: selection last year. Listen, I was just in the All
Speaker 2: Star Game last year. Luca was first team. If I'm
Speaker 2: not mistaken, Luca what first team All NBA? So I
Speaker 2: get Luca. I'm not arguing that, but I just want
Speaker 2: y'all to tell me how to.
Speaker 5: They r jump me, because listen, Okay, we ain't think
Speaker 5: Aar was gonna come out to shoot blazing like he
Speaker 5: was the first twenty twenty five games. The man was unconscious. Yes, hey, hey, listen, listen,
Speaker 5: we know you big dog over here. Man, Hey, we
Speaker 5: need you to kind of just fit in with the
Speaker 5: guys because we don't want to pull the rings back
Speaker 5: on Aar. We want him to keep going, but we
Speaker 5: need you to fit in seamlessly. Be that Swiss army knife,
Speaker 5: you know, you know, keep the morale of the team up,
Speaker 5: and see what you can add and see if you
Speaker 5: can be a yeah, value of service to what we're.
Speaker 1: Trying to build.
Speaker 5: You know, I thought that, you know, maybe the Lakers
Speaker 5: thought Ar was gonna be good, But I ain't think
Speaker 5: I don't think they was anticipating that. To start the season,
Speaker 5: Fellas without Brun on the court, that man was insane
Speaker 5: the first twenty twenty five games.
Speaker 2: Was he was cutting up by little. But let me
Speaker 2: ask you a question. He y'all, he was talking about
Speaker 2: he forty one and aar this and that. Who looked
Speaker 2: the best in the playoffs against the thunder? To be honest,
Speaker 2: put your this like a head aside. Who looked the
Speaker 2: best against the Thunder? Well, listen, listen, hollo, y'all know
Speaker 2: I'm waiting on the chatter to respond. Give me a second,
Speaker 2: just a second, jo.
Speaker 3: Whoa hold on?
Speaker 1: Not just a minute ago?
Speaker 2: I was talking and y'all was just hot all this
Speaker 2: this every taple Lebron just coming up? Who led the
Speaker 2: Lakers in points? Who led the Lakers and rebounds? Who
Speaker 2: led the Lakers in a seals? You mean to tell
Speaker 2: me a forty one year old out played twenty five,
Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty seventy, y'all? Something ain't right, Joe? Well,
Speaker 2: you say, boy, something in the milk and clean? Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: come on, do.
Speaker 5: You know hey there you know they bore a different breed.
Speaker 5: Now you're a different breed. Broun it's a different breed.
Speaker 3: Hey, everybody took about Ruie Rut.
Speaker 2: I told Rud was the most consistent. But that was
Speaker 2: one of the questions. See how they changed it? Oh Joe,
Speaker 2: But who did I say? I said who out of
Speaker 2: Austin reason?
Speaker 1: Lebron?
Speaker 2: You see instead of geting Lebron? Greaty what they do
Speaker 2: with Joe? So you had a or B? They say, see,
Speaker 2: but see what one of the options?
Speaker 1: You see how they did know Joe?
Speaker 3: Yeah, a Swiss a narrative.
Speaker 2: Huh see, I see y'all debate for fun? Y'all going,
Speaker 2: they bet your homeboy, I'm a professional debater. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: see how boxed to be in. They didn't even know
Speaker 2: how boxed it is. But they did what I wanted
Speaker 2: to do, Joe. I wanted him to put Rud to
Speaker 2: make my point. O, Joe, you see how you debate.
Speaker 2: You give them one or two answers and when they
Speaker 2: give you something else, bam, drop the hammer.
Speaker 1: How you do it?
Speaker 2: See, that's how you walk somebody into a trap when
Speaker 2: you debate. Yeah, and they didn't even know it. They
Speaker 2: thought they were doing something. Ruy Ruy walked you into
Speaker 2: a trap. You didn't even know I had set for you.
Speaker 1: Now, what was you gonna say? Joe? Hell, I forgot
Speaker 1: what we were talking about. Uncle.
Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, I'm still I'm still made hell on all right,
Speaker 4: I'm still I'm still mad you. You you said they
Speaker 4: god damn Lakers healthy would have beat the Thunder. You said,
Speaker 4: we don't know. I know, Joe, Joe, don't do that, Joe,
Speaker 4: you happy leap.
Speaker 1: John O Joe, Oh Joe.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying they would have beat them, but I
Speaker 5: can't think damn sure, don't think they would have got swept.
Speaker 5: And what I'm saying is the fact that Okay se
Speaker 5: is down an All Star player, probably the second leading
Speaker 5: score man.
Speaker 1: You don't know how things.
Speaker 5: Hey, look if Luca would have been in this series
Speaker 5: hottest fish, he averaging forty.
Speaker 4: Joe, we've seen, we've seen the Thunder without Shade, they
Speaker 4: ain't miss a beat. We see Shade go to the bench.
Speaker 4: They still ain't miss a beat, and they still don't
Speaker 4: have their second leading score.
Speaker 3: They not missing the beat. They have too much depth.
Speaker 3: It's not happening. I got I got one for you,
Speaker 3: real quick. What you got knock knock?
Speaker 1: Who's that?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: See Okay, see who Okay, see your ass leader next year, Lakers.
Speaker 5: Listen, Bro, Look, I think with the Lakers running in
Speaker 5: the OKA see yeah, meaning them being the best team
Speaker 5: in the league. Bro, well what they had, I thought
Speaker 5: they I thought they put up a pretty damn good fight.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 5: The thing is, Ayr had to catch rhythm throughout the series.
Speaker 5: Oh jo, he the man had been out over a
Speaker 5: damn month with this, with this real thing. So for
Speaker 5: you to jump right back in the fire against the
Speaker 5: best team, okay, not only the best team, but the
Speaker 5: best defensive team, Come on, Bro, it's gonna take you
Speaker 5: a couple of games before you really can get back
Speaker 5: to yourself. If you can get back to yourself, I
Speaker 5: thought he gave him pretty good. I thought he gave
Speaker 5: him a couple of pretty good games, uh, considering you
Speaker 5: know what they was fighting up against. But man, look,
Speaker 5: if you got Luca, Bro, I just think it would
Speaker 5: have been a different series. Okay, all right, I think
Speaker 5: they'll still be playing hell. Okay, that's my honest opinion.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 3: I got I got you, I got you. Listen. You
Speaker 3: know better than me, man, Listen, I'm just I'm learning
Speaker 3: on the flat.
Speaker 5: That's like, Hey, look, think about it. You got the
Speaker 5: the number one score in the NBA. Okay Boom, we
Speaker 5: gotta take him off your team during the playoffs, Like,
Speaker 5: come on, bro yeah
Speaker 2: M