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So, Gil, what do you make 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:41.200 about this tweet? 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.920 They said, Lebron James posting aggress a passive aggressive tweet 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.559 after a loft signs off with his teammates before the 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.240 pr staff cuts him off. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.040 Where do the Lakers go from here? Because he's like that. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.880 I think the reporter asking is there anything that you 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.480 want to say to your teammates to play Boston tomorrow night? 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.880 And he said, no, just do their job. Then after 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.360 the game he posts an hour glass. Now, I don't 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.759 know who the hour glass was intended for. I don't 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.640 know if it was Jennie Buss or the hourglass was 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.520 intended for his teammates. You sorry, time is running out 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:17.080 on you sorry mofos or Jeannie time is running out 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.920 on us or Darvin Ham time running out on you? 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:24.520 For real? Though, what you think he meant? 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:25.240 You? 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:29.800 Remember that story you told about that girl asking for 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:31.720 the protect. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.560 Yes, yes, yes, yeah yeah, I think that Lebron was 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:39.360 saying the same thing. Pack your ship, you out right, 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:40.400 just right. 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.280 There's no conversation, no more on just everybody pack it 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:46.600 and get on out of their sweetheart. 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.120 Hey, I heard what you saying. But look the. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.920 Cab that that uber outside right just right, Hey, all y'all, 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:55.880 this UBA's outside. 0:01:55.560 --> 0:02:00.400 They waiting for you. Get gone, get gonna done. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.000 Yeah you ain't you ain't got you ain't got to 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:04.440 lead the NBA. But you got to get the hell 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.960 out of La sir. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.280 But but Gil, they've stopped playing. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.080 I think they've given up like one hundred and thirty 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.200 five points over the last five games per game. 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:16.680 Now. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.400 I understand that it's kind of a little elevated because 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.160 of the double overtime, and I think it was what 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.200 one forty something, It got to the one forty, but 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.200 they gave up one thirty plus back to back nights 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.560 to Houston and Atlanta. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.799 And they're supposed to be defense. The problem. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:37.520 The problem is this, the game is harder for them. 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:42.480 You know, they rank last and three point attempts they 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:44.480 rank last and three point attempts. 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:49.880 Hell, they ranked last in three points made too. They 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.240 can't keep They just can't keep up. They just can't 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:52.680 keep up. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.280 And they don't realize if if teams are shooting threes 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:56.520 and us in they're trying to get to. 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.840 The free throw line, team is gonna blow you out. Yeah, 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:01.520 because they're on most nights. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.080 The only thing that they're the only way they're able 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.520 to keep it as close as they do is because 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.400 they go to the free throw line so much more 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.959 than their opponents. Yeah, but they're normally on a nightly basis, 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.799 losing the three point battle by at least fifteen points. No, yeah, 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.079 they this year, they probably they've. 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:24.960 Probably shot more threes and forty w forty six games, 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.040 probably five. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:28.200 More than the other team. 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:28.880 Yeah. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.040 Yeah, they losing that battle on the nightly basis, and 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:31.560 it's hard. 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.960 It's hard to consistently overcome because threes are more than twos. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.520 That's why teams are taking more of those, because they believe, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.680 hey we're forty percent from three, we'll overtake the fifty 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.800 percent from two. So when you when you look when 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.400 you look at it, Gail, and that's why you know. 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.960 Teams are obviously getting up more threes. But it's hard 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.160 on a nightly basis when a team is outscoring you 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.640 by so many points from the three point line to 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:58.720 win ball games. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.520 Yeah, bad part about the free throw they're winning at 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.880 the free throw line with just two players. It's not 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.000 like they're all shooting free throws, right, It's not like, 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:13.200 you know, it's Andy Davis or goddamn Lebron. Right, it's 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:17.440 not like Lebron is averaging Tennessee, he's the only averaging five, right, 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.719 you know, so ad Yeah, So most of the time 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.240 they're hanging on a d's shoulders to get them to 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.880 the free throw line. So that is that is the 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.360 hard part. Everybody needs to do their part to try 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.960 to generate points. I like what Vando has been doing. 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:34.919 I'mna I'm gonna give him his credit. He's been doing 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:39.120 very well putting himself in positions now to get easy buckets. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.239 He's not sitting at the three, he's slicing, cut and diving. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.320 So you know, you have hope. But at the end 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.080 of the day, times up, times up. Hey, I don't 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.159 know if y'all watching Lakers, but I'm gonna tell. 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:53.280 You what you do. This is what you do. Right, 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.040 there's this there's. 0:04:54.800 --> 0:05:00.480 This team, right, I think they play in they call 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:04.080 you USC Right. There's a player on that team he 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:09.279 has like it's James on the back right, right, James 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.559 on the back right, you chiff for him like he's 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:19.080 your son and therefore the father of that son. 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.400 Mike, consider you a. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.760 Friend, and Mike you to stay on the team because 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.640 other than that, God damn it, if he right now, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:32.800 won't your ass gone? 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:33.640 You gone? 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:38.200 Sixty six players has been traded when Lebron's on the team. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:43.440 That means ain't he don't hold back from cutting the fact. 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.880 Dlo, up until last night, had played really, really well. 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.240 Do you think Delo steal it? Because I thought he 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.159 looked he played a stretch. He had three straight possessions 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.040 in which he turned he turned the ball two and 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:02.839 then got a look at bounce on the other one 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.880 because he's about to turn that over it got the 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.320 flag to win to Anthony Davis and ad laid it up. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.480 But then after three. 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.400 Horrible possessions he comes back and he hits the three 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.080 and he pulls up and he doesn't even think about 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.479 it with no hesitation guilt. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:25.159 And this is the issue, that's this is the issue 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:29.679 with someone like d Low. You mentally know you've been traded. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.960 So now you don't care, now that you don't know, 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.680 you're playing free, Now you don't care you playing free 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.279 because you're gone. Right, the d load that we see 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:43.000 today is the d load that we needed from the 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.320 beginning for us not even to be in this position. 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.160 Right, you are the third option. You are It's not 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:55.000 Austin Reeves, not Lemon, Daddy Ryan, it's not him. It's you. 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.719 You're the You are the all star play right, You're 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.359 the one who's been here before. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.480 You need to be doing what you're doing. 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.160 I think because he feels he's free and he's out, 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:06.920 he might as well just go out there and let 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:07.200 it go. 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:08.400 And that's what he's been doing. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.640 Right but right now, I mean Kobe of the Ozarks, 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:17.559 Austin Reeves has been the third most consistent player behind 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:18.520 the ad and Lebron. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:23.320 And that's not I mean that needs to be d Lo. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.120 Dlo needs to be the third, the third most consistent player. 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:28.920 They need to be able to count on him on 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.640 a nightly basis. Now his average is bumped up. It 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.000 look good because he's, you know, had a couple of 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:36.840 thirty point games in there, and he's been in the 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.800 high twenties. But the last he needed to play the 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.800 last ten He needed to play the previous thirty games 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.760 like he played the last ten games, yes, sir. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.080 And but the people that they're trying to trade for, 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.880 I'm like, right. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.120 You don't like de Jonty Murray. What he's about six 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:57.400 to two? 0:07:58.560 --> 0:07:58.760 See? 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.400 I thought I thought he liked six four man. 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:02.800 He ain't. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.800 He ain't Delo size. He's not. No, he's not Delo size. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.800 Delos are big guard, right, you know, Delos are big guard. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:17.800 So you know, yeah, I'm giving up. I don't know. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.040 I do like I do like you know, the name 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:21.560 is baby Boy. I do like him. 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:26.880 I washed him this summer up in in Washington, and 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:31.720 he can he can hoo he can really play, uh, 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.880 baby boy Murray, did you ja yeah he can really play? Yeah? 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:38.560 Yeah yeah, yah yeah yeah yeah yea yeah yo. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.679 You know, I don't mind it, but you know, I 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:45.199 never like losing height, you know, But I guess when 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.280 you got Lebron and you know, a d back there. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:51.520 You know, it's fine, but they say Murray. They got 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:53.640 Murray listed at six five. He ain't six five. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:55.720 He ain't look six five to me, but I mean 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.720 he could be that, you know, like, but he looked like, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.320 I mean, he looked. I mean, he don't mean obviously 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.280 ain't gonna have any girls. He don't have any like, 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.240 but he looked, he looked angular. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.880 I'm not even gonna lie. I'm just be honest, you know. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:13.480 You know, uh, that kid in Detroit, Stewart, Yeah, yeah, 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.720 see he was after me over there, right because I 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.480 said something. So you had you had to keep your 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:18.760 handles with you. Yeah. 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.520 Well I was, you know, I was like, I wasn't 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.520 proud when I was sitting in the stands. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.520 I was kind of more on a low like this. 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.840 So he might a little bit smaller than I really think. 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:30.000 So he really. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:31.599 So? 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:33.880 So hold up, so how did this happen? I think 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:34.559 I heard the story. 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:38.199 Okay, you had said something about oursel Stewart on the 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.000 podcast on your podcast. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:45.640 No, No, I wrote something okay on Twitter. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:47.520 Yeah I don't want to be I want to say 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:51.240 he didn't read it right, right, but you know, I 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:52.920 don't want to know. I don't know what college you 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.280 went to. But let's just say he didn't read how 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:55.959 I wrote it. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:57.400 What I was. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.520 This is what you do when the NBA. You wait 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:06.360 for your teammates to get around. You hold you back, 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.280 and you fake like you want to do it right. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:10.160 You don't get fined. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.800 You get to pretend you're aggressive. Okay, that's what you're 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.160 supposed to do. That's a rule, right. I don't know 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.000 if the blood was in his eyes still when he 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:22.160 read that that that that that that that uh, because 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.120 he took you like you were scared, like you really 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.040 didn't want to do nothing. 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.360 He said, yeah, so you waited. So he came to me. 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.040 It's like, yeah, so you think I waited till my 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:29.920 teammates came. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.480 My teammates ain't here now, And I'm. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:40.839 Like, yeah, your teammates ain't here the whole he read 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.600 his step to you give dah like your teammates ain't 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:44.600 here to hold you back. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:49.880 God, damn boy, did you just did you? Did you 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:55.400 just threking me? So from there? So what did you say? 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.400 So when he said that, what you say? Can you 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:58.000 stand up? 0:10:58.240 --> 0:10:58.280 No? 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:04.840 I know, no, no, what like, listen, listen. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:10.079 I'm a podcast, so I had to think about my episode. 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:11.319 I got shows to do. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.920 I can't be dragged up and down there goddamn hallways 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.720 over over some shit he couldn't read, right. That ain't 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.600 my goddamn fuck because he couldn't read what I wrote right. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.760 I'm not sitting here trying to argue because obviously he 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.040 musta knew I was coming or seeing me, and he 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:29.240 was triggered. 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.400 Right, I'm not where is he from? Is he from Washington? Yeah? 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.400 He went to Washington? Okay, yeah, what damn Gil? You 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.360 went to his third I know, that's what I'm saying. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:39.520 He pulled up. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.840 I'm trying to have a nice little conversation and he 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.839 pulled up, and I'm sitting like, listen, I know, listen, 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.040 I'm not even gonna lie. 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:48.920 When he said it. I had to go to Google 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.560 to make sure I said what I said? Like what 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.559 not me? I said, what you said? Did you try 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:55.040 to explain it? 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:55.240 Bro? 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.000 This is what I said. This is what I meant. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.400 I'm sorry that you took it that way. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.240 No, because I didn't really like I don't remember saying 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.400 anything bad about him, So I had to go back 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.160 and read it and said, no, he read it wrong. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:13.720 Nah, he read it that public edu you have you 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:15.600 loved up like Toma hearns had Mark. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.000 I didn't want no part. Listen, I fight people. I 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:28.160 know I can win. Listen fighting, you only fight if 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.360 you can win. If you don't think you can win, 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.199 don't fight. What I mean, but whether you so? When 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:38.480 he said what he said? What did you say? 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:47.839 Huh? But you're talking about you just say nothing. I 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.480 don't Bill, I ain't doing two thousand pushes to day. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.920 What's wrong with you? But you didn't say. You could 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.080 have said, Bro, that's not what I meant. You took 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.760 it the wrong way. How do I supposed to tell 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:04.000 this big dude he can't read? That is telling you. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:08.400 I said, Bro, you took it the wrong way. I'm saying, Look, 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.920 I understand. Ain't nobody trying to get fined. What I 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.600 was saying is that, look, you wait till your teammates 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:16.400 grab you. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:17.920 You act like you want to do something. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.640 Bro, I know you're gonna squabble in the streets, but 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.600 in the streets and in the game, it's something entirely different. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:28.480 You ain't trying to throw your career away. I hear you, 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.319 but my feet was more forest comp style. 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:32.640 Baby. 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.200 I was ready to run. I had to stop myself 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.760 from running. I said, oh shit, I got to show 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:44.560 to do it. Come on, I couldn't be dragged Gil. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:49.800 You just gotta I mean, looking like Bro, I was like, nah, Bro, 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:51.959 I said, do you just you just took it wrong? 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.160 Yeah, listen, just like just like you know how people 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:57.200 be talking on the internet. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.320 Yeah, you go to have that keyboard day, have thune. 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.320 Well, you see me, I'm one of them dudes. Oh no, 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.760 I don't have to say I had to say smoke 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:11.560 once I see you. No, No, I pretend that I 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.680 didn't say none of it. Right, unless I know I 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.400 can win the fight, and which ninety eight percent of 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.240 the people I talked shit about, I probably can't win 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:26.760 that fight. So that four, I'm made to run, right. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.800 I'm not even gonna be ashamed. Baby, I'm out of there. 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:35.720 Uh, what what is your take on? 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.360 You gotta play at least sixty five games to be 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:46.160 eligible for awards MVP all NBA Defensive Player of the Year. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.320 You missed you you you what sixty five seventeen? So 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.520 you missed more than seventeen games, you're ineligible for those awards, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.200 and Tyre's Halliburton. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.920 Has an opportunity to get for the extra million. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.840 He's probably unless he hey, unless he get on the 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.240 ball here, you gonna he gonna here, gonna miss out 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.560 on that bread. Joel eb has an opportunity that I 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:12.160 hear the thing if Joel and B said he doesn't 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.880 care about the MVP. The only other trophy though, the 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:20.040 only thing that matters to him is the finals. We'll 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.480 get your big ass healthy, don't worry about the m 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.480 v P and they'll get healthy, and let's go win 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:26.240 the championship. 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.040 Now, that's what he said. 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.840 He said the record, because after he dropped that seventy, 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:33.320 he said, that's fining good. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.080 But the most important thing to me is the NBA Championship. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.920 Come on, you know that's you know, that's players, that's 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.760 playing media right what you what? What do you really 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.000 supposed to say? Do you really supposed to be selfish? 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.760 Like Eli, I'm going for that m VP, baby, I 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.720 need I need to show y'all that I earned this one. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:52.920 So I'm going back to show you on He can't 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.320 say that, you know, back to back cares a lot 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:55.560 of way. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.840 It puts you in a different category. Yeah, so I 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.000 have to play so a player. It plays the political game. Yeah, 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:02.920 I don't really care about that. I don't cared about 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.320 the championship. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:08.160 Knowing damn well, you think I'm averaging thirty five of 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.360 the game, not the win back to back end VP 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:13.560 must be silly. 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.480 Now they should have thought, oh, Gil, this is what 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.480 those players should have thought when they was sitting there 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.240 ASTs side, and there wasn't nothing wrong with it. And 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:28.080 now the owners and the player and hey, the NBA 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.160 PA agree to this. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.200 This is the rule that the players agreed to. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.160 So this is not something that the owners just instituted 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:39.040 without players being involved, because it seems to me the 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:44.120 other players got tired of the superstars just arbitrarily sitting out. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:50.480 Now, okay, so the only problem with it is is. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:53.800 You're putting. 0:16:55.000 --> 0:17:00.760 You're putting number on something that's an anomaly. Right, If 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.560 I play under sixty four games, my chances of making 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:09.960 the All NBA team is not that high, right, it 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:14.720 really is, madlease, But if I played that dominant I 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.879 might make it, right, right. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:17.880 Like, you know what I mean? 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.359 So what you're taking away is you're taking away the 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.920 anomaly of it, right, the you know, in NBA history, 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:28.679 there's only three players who's played under sixty five games that's. 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:33.520 Won in MVP. Right, there's only been three, Right? Did 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:38.520 they have great years? Right? Bill Walton eighteen and thirteen? 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:40.480 Who played that? 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:40.919 Was? That was? 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:42.680 That was the year? That was the year you won? 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.440 They won the final, They won the championship with seventy seven. 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.240 But George gert but he played fifty eight games. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.480 George Gervin played all eighty two games, averaging twenty seven. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.320 Yeah, right, so you know what I mean, even running up. 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.720 So you know, unless it like if it was the 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.480 other way, it made sense, the fact that he's averaging 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:04.320 thirty five a game that oversees your. 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.080 Number, right, Gil, But guys was sitting out and it 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.800 wasn't nothing wrong with them. So now what you've done 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.080 is because you were sitting out. So now we got 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.800 to punish you. Everybody there, So I believe there's something 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.560 seriously wrong with Joel and Bee's knee. But because he 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.480 and so many other players over the last decade had 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.479 arbitrarily taken off, well I don't want to play tonight, 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.960 I'll play tomorrow night. So the NBA said, no, we're 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:33.760 not gonna have you. 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.400 We got games on TNT, we got games on ABC, 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:37.920 we got games of ESPN. 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.119 We got these games, and y'all sitting out. No, that 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.640 ain't gonna happen. We're gonna stop it. So okay, we're 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.680 gonna take money at your pocket. That's the only thing 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:47.399 that matters to you. 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:52.159 Yeah, but like, there shouldn't I don't think there should 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:57.760 be a number on it, right, sixty There shouldn't be 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:58.240 a number. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:03.520 Just make it simple, right, just make it simple. Totals. 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.800 I've always believed in totals. 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.520 Right, Yeah, totally play sixty five games? No, No, four? 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.200 Like total points. Like if you're the scoring the scoring leader, right, 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:14.800 the scoring. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.920 Leader is who has the most points, not who has 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:19.240 the highest average. 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:20.920 Right, it's too late for that now. 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:25.000 No, But that's how it always been, Right, who has 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:30.159 the most points overall? When the season ends, if you 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:34.800 played fifty games and you average the you know thirty five, Right, 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.520 I played all eighty two games and I averaged twenty seven, 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.359 and I have more points than you. I am the 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:45.840 scoring champ, right, the scoring yet the most points is 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:49.320 the scoring shot, the most assists is the assists leader. 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:50.560 Well that's how it will look. 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.840 Baseball's not like that because baseball goes by batting average. 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.280 Somebody can have more hints and not be the batting 0:19:56.320 --> 0:20:00.400 average leader. But in football it's numbered. It ain't no, oh, 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.760 he averaged he averaged this many yards. Again, well, he 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:04.960 ain't got the most rush yards, so he ain't the 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.240 rushing leader. You don't have the most passing yards or 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:11.080 the most receiving yards. But basketball. But see, that's why 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:18.879 basketball and baseball stats are more or more sacred, because 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:22.879 you know what certain numbers are. I mean, if somebody 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.280 would have asked, okay, who has the most rush yard? 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:28.760 What's the most rushing yards in NFL history? You know 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.320 you might know Ms Smith has it, but you don't 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.160 know how many. You see, if if I was talking 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.399 baseball and I say fifty six, you know that's a 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:40.800 fifty six grame industry, that's Joe demajail. If somebody says 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:44.639