Speaker 1: I mean, you're one player. I feel like if your
Speaker 1: career started over in this new era, there ain't no telling,
Speaker 1: fan man, it ain't no telling. Ain't no telling with
Speaker 1: Jack told he welcome back to what's burning Jack, Let's
Speaker 1: get to it. Heat check Alert the Heat. The Knicks,
Speaker 1: the Bulls, and the Wizards have all started off at
Speaker 1: five at one at the top of the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: Out of those teams, who do you feel like as
Speaker 1: a real top four contender? The Heat? For sure? Did
Speaker 1: he belong on the top four? Um, they can stay healthy,
Speaker 1: you know with the new additions they added with Kyle
Speaker 1: Lowry and and the way those young guys been playing
Speaker 1: and continuing to grow. Uh, they definitely belonged on the
Speaker 1: top four and will be in the top four. I
Speaker 1: like the way that Jimmy Butler is playing. You know,
Speaker 1: he's back on his game. I think it points of game, seven, rebounds,
Speaker 1: almost six assists. Um, heater playing very well. I agree
Speaker 1: my surprise team of the season the way I picked
Speaker 1: Phoenix last year and they made their run. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the Bulls can do this, but my surprise
Speaker 1: team of the season is going to be the Bulls,
Speaker 1: and I see the Bulls with the seventies sixer is
Speaker 1: kind of being uncertain of where they're at. I see
Speaker 1: the Bulls being that fourth UH seed in the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference this year. Like good young team playing well, playing
Speaker 1: together led by Levine, then to Mars right there behind them,
Speaker 1: so I love what they're doing. Lonzo Balls playing well.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited for this Bulls team. But I really
Speaker 1: like the Wizards, man. I like what they've done. You know,
Speaker 1: Bradley Bild is over there doing Bradley Bild things. Uh
Speaker 1: Denwoodie is almost that twenty points of game. Harolds that
Speaker 1: almost twenty and ten. Kuzma is at sixteen and twelve.
Speaker 1: These dudes are playing off the wall. They've got Kyle
Speaker 1: will Pope over there. So I like what the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference is really looking like. You know, the Knicks are
Speaker 1: the Knicks but playing well as well, so we'll have
Speaker 1: to see what they do see, you know, if they
Speaker 1: can advance for them they did last year. But the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference looks fun right now. Headed out west, Golden
Speaker 1: State is at the top of the Western Conference tie
Speaker 1: with Utah Jazz at five and one. Jack. This team
Speaker 1: is playing with the confidence they definitely need to play with.
Speaker 1: Still don't have Clay, still don't have Wiseman, but still
Speaker 1: are doing what they do. Talk to me about this team, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did it last year. You know they did last year.
Speaker 1: Stepball Doll last year. He had the m v P
Speaker 1: season last year, and he's getting out to a great start.
Speaker 1: This team is too, and the young players that they
Speaker 1: got a chance to play a lot the last year.
Speaker 1: They last two years Clay has been hurt, they're started
Speaker 1: coming today on You add Clay, you got a championship team.
Speaker 1: You know, Jamond is gonna do what he does. So
Speaker 1: I like what they've been doing. I like the direction
Speaker 1: they've they've been going. But when we get Clay back,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be exciting for not only just for the Warriors,
Speaker 1: but for the game of basketball. Man. I keep my
Speaker 1: fingers crossed every day the Clay can just come back
Speaker 1: and be healthy. You know, he's coming off two major
Speaker 1: injuries achilles and a c L injuries. But been looking
Speaker 1: at him on social media. Looks great. I definitely hope
Speaker 1: to have him back. And then Wiseman. Wiseman was very
Speaker 1: impressive to me last year. He just did his job.
Speaker 1: He wasn't someone that needed the ball on the block,
Speaker 1: he can step out, hit the mid range, jumper, runs
Speaker 1: the court, hard, block shots, catch lives, rebounds. The Warriors
Speaker 1: are going to be something to mess with it. Don't
Speaker 1: be surprised if they If they have a lot of
Speaker 1: trade assets. Now man Lee and Pool are both at
Speaker 1: fourteen points a game. I loved the uh uh Pool.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a really good player out
Speaker 1: of Port of Jr. Round out that bench. So don't
Speaker 1: be surprised. We didn't even mention Iguodala. Don't be surprised
Speaker 1: if they have you know, I wasn't saying Iggy, but
Speaker 1: you know, something at the trade deadline to bring them
Speaker 1: in some more either depth or more star power. Uh
Speaker 1: to make a final push at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: Next up on the Radar, presented you by DraftKings Jack
Speaker 1: good early season test for the New York Knicks this
Speaker 1: Friday versus the world champion Milwaukee Bucks. Bucks are still
Speaker 1: odds on favor although they're off to a slow start.
Speaker 1: Their three and a half one odds to win the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference title. Although they're three and four, the Knicks
Speaker 1: are thirty five to one odds to win the Eastern
Speaker 1: Championship starting off five and one healthy New York Knick team, Jack,
Speaker 1: what does that look like in your mind? And what
Speaker 1: can they do? It looks like a great regular season,
Speaker 1: making it to the playoffs and getting exit after the
Speaker 1: first round. Um, they got, like I said, they got
Speaker 1: a great group of young guys. Is playing hard. Dad
Speaker 1: Roses coming into his own again and playing well, and
Speaker 1: he's finally healthy and great coach, a great tough minded coach.
Speaker 1: And the fans of the fans that getting back into
Speaker 1: the rain and screaming and and being great, being exciting
Speaker 1: Nick fans again. So it's good to see. But first
Speaker 1: round Nixon for those guys, You're happy to see that
Speaker 1: team you know back in just playoff talks. Agreed. I
Speaker 1: think they're definitely a playoff team. I don't see them advancing.
Speaker 1: I think they're one piece away still, so see if
Speaker 1: they're able to get that. But just love the fact that,
Speaker 1: you know, the Nick basketball is better when the Knicks
Speaker 1: are in the playoffs for however long that maybe uh
Speaker 1: Bucks are still trying to find their footing. We talked
Speaker 1: last week about the absence that you know, p J. Tucker.
Speaker 1: It doesn't alway show up on the stat sheet, but
Speaker 1: they will definitely miss him. Guys still in and out.
Speaker 1: Bobby Porters just returns uh Lopez has only played one game.
Speaker 1: It seems like they've kind of replaced Pj's defensive presence
Speaker 1: with offensive scoring. Grayson Allen's having a good season, have
Speaker 1: thirteen off the bench. I think we have to kind
Speaker 1: of hold judgment for the Bucks right now. So they
Speaker 1: really figured out, but you know, with Joannice, we know
Speaker 1: they're going to be there at the end. So this
Speaker 1: will be a fun early test for the Knicks. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the Bucks kind of know what it takes.
Speaker 1: They're still trying to find their footing with the Bucks
Speaker 1: thought matter like people. What people don't understand is they
Speaker 1: won the championship from rebounding and defense. You know, they
Speaker 1: score points and they make some big shots with militant
Speaker 1: and Greek freak, but they won games and all the
Speaker 1: big games with defense and rebounding. People was walking into
Speaker 1: the arena k even k D knowing I gotta wrestle
Speaker 1: with with with p J. Tucker for four quarters. Now
Speaker 1: they're going in that arena seeing Grayson Allen and cuttingson.
Speaker 1: They know they'ven go get thirty. So it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a different feeling. It's a different feeling walking into that arena.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, no, I agree. I agree. That
Speaker 1: team was great, grind, defense, rebounding, holding down the middle.
Speaker 1: You know, they tried to juice it up with scoring.
Speaker 1: So we'll see if that works for next up. One
Speaker 1: of our new segments, but one of our favorite segments,
Speaker 1: secured the bag by moneyline. Uh, Miles bridges to me,
Speaker 1: this kid is going to have a breakout season. He's
Speaker 1: already started that he'll be the most improved player. He
Speaker 1: turned down an extension that he didn't feel was adequate
Speaker 1: to his abilities, which turns out to be Jack looks
Speaker 1: like he made the right decision. I want to say
Speaker 1: they offer him around sixty million. Uh. The way this
Speaker 1: kid's playing, he's easily going to get over a hundred million.
Speaker 1: Thoughts on this young up and coming star. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: deserves money, and he's showing that he was worth it.
Speaker 1: If he don't get it in Charotte, he's gonna get
Speaker 1: it from another team. But I think Charlotte needs Sharotte
Speaker 1: is gonna do what they got due to keep him
Speaker 1: because they see the connection and the camaraderie to him
Speaker 1: and LaMelo have you know, they got the hand they
Speaker 1: got the handshake together. They looked for each other up
Speaker 1: and down the court almost every play. So they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to make some decisions there, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's gonna behave with he's making a lot of money.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to try to find some way to
Speaker 1: get Bridges paid right there, and Sharlotte Bridges is a
Speaker 1: cornerstone for this team. He's a franchise player. Him, Illa,
Speaker 1: Milla Ball are the faces of this team. To me,
Speaker 1: they would be absolutely crazy to let this young kid go.
Speaker 1: He's a monster. He plays defense too. He's always garden
Speaker 1: the best players, you know what I mean. So this
Speaker 1: on the offensive end, he's incredible. I remember my last
Speaker 1: year with the Warriors, draymm was telling me about this
Speaker 1: kid and he was debating whether to come out or stay,
Speaker 1: and he was talking to the parents and everything, like
Speaker 1: in front of me and Ship and he was just
Speaker 1: telling me, like rotch Man, this little dude is gonna
Speaker 1: be a monster. And this motherfucking kid is a man.
Speaker 1: He's got a little bit of Blake Griffin in him.
Speaker 1: From from that athletic ability, but he's a he's a monster.
Speaker 1: He's a dog too, So love him definitely over a
Speaker 1: hundred million. I think MJ knows that, um, so don't
Speaker 1: expect him to hit the open market. Jack. They got
Speaker 1: a nice core over here in Charlotte. Um is this
Speaker 1: setting them up for long term success? I mean they
Speaker 1: got you know, they got still got Hayward, they got Rozier,
Speaker 1: who's very underrated to me. I love him. Uh you
Speaker 1: bre is having a nice season because this team, you know,
Speaker 1: long term do something in the Eastern Conference a long term.
Speaker 1: Maybe the core looks good, but the core doesn't look
Speaker 1: good with out Bridges and somebody who had to come
Speaker 1: out that core on Bridge us to be happy. So
Speaker 1: we'll see how they put how that plays out. Greed,
Speaker 1: I definitely think that again, if the two cornerstones are
Speaker 1: mellow and bridges um to build around that should be
Speaker 1: easy because it's it's fun now, it looks like it's
Speaker 1: fun to play over there. MJ is the owner. They
Speaker 1: got their ship together. So again, look for Charlotte too
Speaker 1: in the next couple of years to to make some
Speaker 1: noise in the Eastern Conference. Make sure you catch our
Speaker 1: brother Ace Boogie Wood Harris. His episode drops November four.
Speaker 1: Enjoy this teaser. Let me tell you a story. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm in New York pract I forgot what I'm working
Speaker 1: and working on something, but I'm telling them in New
Speaker 1: York City to something man had proper Manhattan. I'm in
Speaker 1: a hotel one of my homies. We're about to get
Speaker 1: on the block, right, and you know it's New York City.
Speaker 1: Were walking, you know what I'm saying. So I see
Speaker 1: this little area. They got this caution tape up. It's
Speaker 1: kind of thugged out to get the men on one
Speaker 1: side of the street and then women on the other sides.
Speaker 1: Though something had happened, right, This is a I being
Speaker 1: in the least. It's a long time ago. So I
Speaker 1: see I see the little security dude inside the inside
Speaker 1: the club and it's it's it's caution tape all in
Speaker 1: the club and ship we're walking by. I see the fly.
Speaker 1: I picked it up. It's supposed to be an Alan
Speaker 1: iverson party, right, So I'm like that probably, but is
Speaker 1: it really? Or they're throwing him other name on some ship,
Speaker 1: pulling in the crowd and you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: And get the money. Now they cleared the club out.
Speaker 1: The fight happened. They cleared the club out. No, Allen Iverson,
Speaker 1: who cares? We got all these people. So I see
Speaker 1: the security. Dude, I'm trying to keep game. I go
Speaker 1: ask him what's the game? Though? Bro? He know who
Speaker 1: I am. You know what I'm saying. He recognized the Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what's the game? Does this is this fake ship?
Speaker 1: Because you know I'm gonna keep it pushing, But is
Speaker 1: this fake? It's policing there and everything, right, So he
Speaker 1: said no, this was really Allen Iverson. Man, you know
Speaker 1: this and that? So okay, cool, I leave me in
Speaker 1: the homie league. We did. We're walking down the street
Speaker 1: and we get to the corner stretched white jag right,
Speaker 1: it's a I. He dipped the window because I had
Speaker 1: met him before, so you know, AI dipped the window down.
Speaker 1: Boom boom wood this and that. Yo. I jumped in
Speaker 1: the whip with him, so now we're chilling. We're driving
Speaker 1: when we kicked back, so I tell him as soon
Speaker 1: as I get in there, I was like, yo, man, caution,
Speaker 1: that's it dead over there. Like we drove by, We've
Speaker 1: seen the crowd all like it was and we gets
Speaker 1: kept it pushing right. So we end up driving around
Speaker 1: city of New York for like while. I just talking, talking, talking, talking, talking,
Speaker 1: chopping it up right and just having a good time.
Speaker 1: And put you like having a good time. So he
Speaker 1: take me back to the crea. I go back to
Speaker 1: the hotel. Now it's probably like two in the morning.
Speaker 1: You know, it might be two thirty three in the morning.
Speaker 1: I watched a little tier of false slip. I wake up.
Speaker 1: He on TV now, right, they're playing Jason Kids. He
Speaker 1: playing the nets. So he over the he over the
Speaker 1: water now playing the nets. So it's the AI with
Speaker 1: the dark circles and the hair ain't done right. So
Speaker 1: I know that AI now when you see and the
Speaker 1: hair ain't done right. He might have had a good time.
Speaker 1: He might have had a good time to night before, right,
Speaker 1: but he put forty three and twelve on the He
Speaker 1: had forty three and twelve. He had That's my story.
Speaker 1: He had forty three and twelve. If he don't go
Speaker 1: out and have a good he might not play good.
Speaker 1: His routine has to be the same. He just different.
Speaker 1: That's super different. Jack. Today, we got a fund with
Speaker 1: men our brother someone we've been trying to track down
Speaker 1: for a long time, no fingerprints, no evidence, Fam himself
Speaker 1: Jamal Crawford, I know you've been looking forward to this interview. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: that's my brother, man, one of my favorite backcourt mates. Man,
Speaker 1: one of the most talented players I've ever played with
Speaker 1: the game. I call him Dion prime time, you know, because, uh,
Speaker 1: you know when he like Dion, he showed up when
Speaker 1: when the popcorn pop And that's what he used to
Speaker 1: always say. But somebody who I highly respect, man, and
Speaker 1: somebody who I hope he gets his his just due
Speaker 1: from the from the basketball family, in the basketball world,
Speaker 1: because you know, he's definitely a Hall of fame in
Speaker 1: a lot of people's minds. And and somebody that they
Speaker 1: pushed out the game to earlier. Agree, long, beautiful twenty
Speaker 1: year career. Um. So, man, make sure you got stay
Speaker 1: tuned for the Jamal Crawford interview. Alright, we now bring
Speaker 1: in our brother Jamal Crawford, uh to finish up this
Speaker 1: episode of What's Burning? Uh. Also, his episode of All
Speaker 1: the Smoke will be dropping eleven eleven, so make sure
Speaker 1: you tap in and check that out. Fam. How was
Speaker 1: the game changed? As we celebrate seventy five years of
Speaker 1: the NBA, in your mind, the game has changed a
Speaker 1: couple of different times. I remember when we all first
Speaker 1: came to the league. You know, you had a dominant
Speaker 1: post players, so you had a shock and call him alone.
Speaker 1: You know, you had Tim Duncan, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnet exactly,
Speaker 1: so it was inside out. I remember, you know, coming
Speaker 1: and training him and I'll take my first three point
Speaker 1: off the drew and they stopped practice, like, man, what
Speaker 1: are you join? Like you can get that shot with
Speaker 1: five seconds left? Like you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: that's the worst shot in basketball. But now if you
Speaker 1: can shoot that shot, it's a weapon. So if you
Speaker 1: can do that, you're more likely a probably your franchise player,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You're the one of the
Speaker 1: ones and one of the faces of the league. So
Speaker 1: to see it go from one opposite end of the
Speaker 1: spectrum to the other has been crazy. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: one player. I feel like if your career started over
Speaker 1: in this new era, there ain't no telling, fan man,
Speaker 1: it ain't no telling. It ain't no telling, ain't no
Speaker 1: telling what, ain't no telling what Jack told Helen be crazy?
Speaker 1: You got you got you got role players shooting fifteen
Speaker 1: threes in the game, like you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like it's it's crazy, so don't get hot, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. That's where it's really over. You might
Speaker 1: have dropped. You might have dropped eighty nine. I couldn't
Speaker 1: pull a cold, you know, it was one on one,
Speaker 1: but I could have. I think I could have got
Speaker 1: like my prime in this era. I probably could have
Speaker 1: got like seventy five. I think, yeah, I think you
Speaker 1: could have touched seventies. Like you said, people could. People
Speaker 1: are shooting at abnormally a large number of three pointers,
Speaker 1: so I mean he touching back on the seventy five anniversary.
Speaker 1: Obviously they dropped the seventy five players. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I really don't get too into that, you know, especially
Speaker 1: because to me, I think it's so hard to judge
Speaker 1: the older players based on the way the game has
Speaker 1: transpired and transformed so much athletically and skill wise. But
Speaker 1: with all that said, there were some snubs T mac Um,
Speaker 1: Dwight Howard. Who are some other ones? Jack Kyrie, Kyrie, Yeah, Kyrie?
Speaker 1: Who were some of the did anyone stand out? I mean,
Speaker 1: I obviously Kyrie is Kyrie he's you know, super talented,
Speaker 1: definitely deserves to be on the list. But I was
Speaker 1: looking more at what Dwight Howard brought to the table
Speaker 1: here the first ten eleven years of his career and
Speaker 1: how he was snubbed off it. Thoughts on Dwight, you
Speaker 1: know you battled against him a lot in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: You've seen him at his best. Was he something he
Speaker 1: felt got snubbed? Absolutely? Dwight was superman man. Look at
Speaker 1: his body and work. He checks off the I test
Speaker 1: box and he checks off the body of work box.
Speaker 1: So it's it's actually a no brainer, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like it was one of the faces of the
Speaker 1: the league, and people forget the White had a McDonald's
Speaker 1: commercially with the bron Like, like, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: liked White was putting in work for years and I
Speaker 1: think the past the past four or five years, people
Speaker 1: will start disrespecting him and not getting his full credit.
Speaker 1: It's full dude, if you look at it, it's undeniable.
Speaker 1: How how he should be on that hit look at
Speaker 1: I think he was a leading vote getter and for
Speaker 1: the All Star Game with Lebron, Kobe, you name it.
Speaker 1: All these dudes is still in the league. De White
Speaker 1: with the leading vote getter in the All Star Game,
Speaker 1: So I definitely think he's someone who's overlooked and disrespected.
Speaker 1: I not to cut you off, mad, but I feel
Speaker 1: like the league the list of some bullshit because some
Speaker 1: of them old players. I know, I know I would
Speaker 1: have bust some of them old players that as a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of them, and uh and then and then
Speaker 1: the two. You gotta think about it too, bro, some
Speaker 1: of these people that's on there. It was only eight
Speaker 1: teams in the league, so you're planning against the same dude, Like,
Speaker 1: you're planning the same dude over and over and over
Speaker 1: and over to get your stats. So if I had
Speaker 1: to play against Luke Walked my whole career, I prober
Speaker 1: the average eighties. So you know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: look at stuff different team mcnaw and that teeth. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: that's all bullshit to me. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: really rolling with honestly, like and I have. I'm such
Speaker 1: a student of the game, and just like if you
Speaker 1: go back and look in time, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And just look at some of these people. If you
Speaker 1: put some of these people playing right now on that
Speaker 1: time era with no disrespect. It wouldn't even be like
Speaker 1: and the game has just grown, It's evolved, and that's
Speaker 1: how I supposed to, you know what I mean? So
Speaker 1: we have to start looking at things besides that, just
Speaker 1: like eye test, what's your eyes tell? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah? I think they because I didn't want
Speaker 1: to just I just started looking up some of the
Speaker 1: guy's names and I don't even want to mention their
Speaker 1: names because I just had never heard of them. And
Speaker 1: I looked at what they did and their numbers and
Speaker 1: and and the way the game was played back then.
Speaker 1: I was like, there's no fucking with these guys wouldn't
Speaker 1: even make the NBA today, And you got him on
Speaker 1: the Greatest List. And I tweeted that too. Afterward. I said,
Speaker 1: we gotta start making our own You gotta stop letting
Speaker 1: people get creating people that have boats and say so
Speaker 1: that I haven't actually done it, like Pierce North. You
Speaker 1: need to start a governing board. Fam We'll follow right along.
Speaker 1: We'll start making our own lists. Every time ESPN come out.
Speaker 1: I got time. Hey, uh a player who reminds me
Speaker 1: of yourself in this present day. Do you see anybody
Speaker 1: out there like young fam? Oh, that's some young go getters.
Speaker 1: I like. I love Caris LeVert obviously the John Murray's
Speaker 1: from home. He got some stuff that's similar Kevin Porter
Speaker 1: as well. Uh. Then you look at like Bones Highland,
Speaker 1: like that new energy coming in, he go get it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And then there's some people
Speaker 1: I see like that, like the younger one's coming up.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's one person like exactly, but I
Speaker 1: think some of those guys who you gotta see. Who
Speaker 1: do you see man? Oh man? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about John Murray because I remember when
Speaker 1: we came to your wedding and we played that basketball game,
Speaker 1: and you would tell me about this a little dude
Speaker 1: that's kind of like me. It's still he was still
Speaker 1: in high school. I wanta say, left grade, twelfth grade,
Speaker 1: right eleven grade or going into twelve. This little young
Speaker 1: nigga came in and killed I said, oh my god, Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean all I mean, majority of us were high
Speaker 1: and drunk, So it was to me it was just
Speaker 1: fun to watch him do what he does. Because this
Speaker 1: dude wanted to start the game. What time was like
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock at night, Jack the gym. Jack
Speaker 1: the gym was fucking rocking, eight thousand people in there,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know me, I'm I'm going to
Speaker 1: a wedding, so I'm already in vacation most so I'm
Speaker 1: blow drunk everything. We gotta play the glass like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're really playing that ship? Was man, you already know that.
Speaker 1: You know I'm gonna do what I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 1: I just you know, just mindus the alcohol. That's how
Speaker 1: he played in the league cause I wasn't really tripping. No, absolutely,
Speaker 1: it was crazy to watch and knowing he knowing he
Speaker 1: was special. Even after that performance, Matt where everybody's talking
Speaker 1: about him, everything's going viral. He wasn't one of the
Speaker 1: ones on Twitter like yeah I did that ship he was.
Speaker 1: He didn't like nothing, he didn't favorite nothing, just another
Speaker 1: day and he kept working. Yeah. I like that point
Speaker 1: grind to grind. Uh. This new NBA and the rules, Um,
Speaker 1: I think you were someone who, if you know, I
Speaker 1: found not mistaken. You lead the league and four point
Speaker 1: plays right, So I really feel like on a different level,
Speaker 1: with all due respect to how great James harden was.
Speaker 1: I think this new rule is because of him. I
Speaker 1: think he mastered that manipulation of arms and contacted everything
Speaker 1: so much that they had to do something, and that
Speaker 1: I think everyone else kind of started following along. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on them not calling that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff no more and these guys not really getting to
Speaker 1: the line as much. Draymond Treated tweeted something the other
Speaker 1: day he loves just to flow in the pace of
Speaker 1: the game. A lot of people are fans of just
Speaker 1: letting these guys play more. I love this ship, and
Speaker 1: I tweeted, and I'm gonna score you guys know I'd
Speaker 1: rather do offense and give me offense twice. I'll sit
Speaker 1: down here, give me offense, give I love. And I
Speaker 1: love this rule like I love it. I absolutely love
Speaker 1: it because it took out the defender. Like I hated
Speaker 1: team saying, oh, we need a defender, and it's like
Speaker 1: Jackie's crazy, we need a tea, say we need a defender,
Speaker 1: and you can't play on these things you can't touch, right.
Speaker 1: I mean so now, like the area we grew up in.
Speaker 1: I hate to sign the old guy in the room,
Speaker 1: but the area we grew up in you had Ai
Speaker 1: and those guys they were getting fouls. You couldn't. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like you know what I mean. So it was
Speaker 1: like they showed their skill boards, like, okay, some of
Speaker 1: these some of these fouls guys have been getting over
Speaker 1: the years. It will start a fight if we're opened, Jim, Like,
Speaker 1: come on, that's some bullshit, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 1: so now we're getting back to it. I'm loving seeing
Speaker 1: the double overtime games. You went on six, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, I love that ship. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: nigga said give me offense twice twice. Yeah, you were
Speaker 1: someone that could score in a variety of different ways.
Speaker 1: Get hot with the hottest of them. Uh. I want
Speaker 1: to have just like a little open conversation right now
Speaker 1: with some of the top guards in the league. John Moran,
Speaker 1: Luca LaMelo, Trey steph Uh, talk to me about that
Speaker 1: group of young talent right there, and not young steps
Speaker 1: a little older, but that group of talent right there.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it because I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: the energy of young guards. This remind me with like
Speaker 1: Bead and Steve Francis, like the then young guards that
Speaker 1: come with that new energy a new way of playing.
Speaker 1: I love all them guys, you said, because they're all
Speaker 1: a little bit different, you know what I mean. Jobs
Speaker 1: doing his thing where he's kind of like a mix
Speaker 1: of meats, like a young Rose and young CP, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Luca got a little bit of
Speaker 1: b roy and with how cool and smooth he plays
Speaker 1: at the time, right, Yeah, And so Tray Tray Young
Speaker 1: is doing some ship where it's like damn, like you're
Speaker 1: shooting from there. He's like a young stuff, right, So
Speaker 1: they all come with a different energy, but that it's
Speaker 1: all needed. It's all at the same time. And truth
Speaker 1: be told, they're keeping each other sharp because they're all
Speaker 1: paying attention who's doing right. It's that young energy. And
Speaker 1: I'm loving thoughto I love LaMelo, love his He doesn't
Speaker 1: play with an agenda, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: he doesn't play. He's not the guys like all playing
Speaker 1: just to get in assist. I'm watching them play. He's
Speaker 1: always head up early here. You can you can make
Speaker 1: the play like his. Trust his his style of players contagious.
Speaker 1: He's somebody you want to play with, you know what I
Speaker 1: I mean. He brings that that youth to him. He
Speaker 1: brings that energy to him. He's not faced by pressure.
Speaker 1: I just love watching him. He's a He's a great
Speaker 1: young player for sure. If they added a comeback Player
Speaker 1: of the Year award, um, who would have won the
Speaker 1: last season? I know Katie came back from Achilles and
Speaker 1: dominated last year. Was the player that we all thought
Speaker 1: that he would be. Um, your thoughts are to his
Speaker 1: two questions starts on Katie and the evolution of the
Speaker 1: nets and then who would have who would be your
Speaker 1: comeback player to year? Well, I think that question is
Speaker 1: rolled it one because Katie made a chat to look
Speaker 1: like an angler screening later. He was just unbelievable. He
Speaker 1: was unbelievable like Jack, he was better than that. Like
Speaker 1: he was so sharp, he was so sharp, he was
Speaker 1: so crisp, And I think it gave him time to
Speaker 1: climb another mountain in a different way. Like I think
Speaker 1: that's part of the reason why he left Golden State, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we can go the finals, we can win it, but
Speaker 1: I need a new challenge. And when you're that great,
Speaker 1: you're always looking for challenges, the same reason why MJ
Speaker 1: may have left and came back, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I think Katie, I think they do need to
Speaker 1: bring back comeback player of the Year, and Katie would
Speaker 1: have wanted it going away because he's better than he's
Speaker 1: ever been. Whatever he say, he lost his uh you
Speaker 1: know a miller step your stuff, just progression of that
Speaker 1: injury he shot through that He's sharper, he shoots better.
Speaker 1: He he's so unselfish like and you guys both know
Speaker 1: him and playing with him, it's like he's he's something different.
Speaker 1: He's been the best in the world to me for
Speaker 1: a while, agreed. I think what you said at the end,
Speaker 1: he's been and and and when we say that, it's
Speaker 1: not a disrespect to Lebron or what Lebron. Lebron has
Speaker 1: done and what he's continuing to do. But just as
Speaker 1: far as one player, the best player, I think Katie
Speaker 1: has been the best player in the league for a
Speaker 1: minute now for sure. And and like you said, all
Speaker 1: respects with I got Lebron is one of the very
Speaker 1: best ever, just like I got killed. But Lebron is high,
Speaker 1: high on it. So yeah, no disrespect to Lebron or
Speaker 1: no other players. Just Kevin. What I'm looking at my
Speaker 1: eyes a lins right, they definitely not well will we
Speaker 1: ever see will we ever see another team back in Seattle, Yes,
Speaker 1: we absolutely will. I got word a few years ago
Speaker 1: the hockey team was coming before they came, and they
Speaker 1: told me that was part of the one two steps
Speaker 1: to kind of kind of get things in motions. So
Speaker 1: the hockey team is here, is is thriving, is getting
Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen thousand people every single night. I think the
Speaker 1: NBA will follow. I mean, Seattle such a beautiful city.
Speaker 1: I mean we was talking about Jack's family restaurant out there,
Speaker 1: and just the energy out there in Seattle is incredible.
Speaker 1: Everything it's incredible. You guys remember that trip when we
Speaker 1: when we when we came to the league. It was
Speaker 1: you hit Portland, Seattle and cool like that whole that
Speaker 1: whole strip. Yeah, that whole strip. Yeah, for sure, different times,
Speaker 1: the good old days, the good old days. If you
Speaker 1: were to start a franchise in Seattle again with one
Speaker 1: young one of the younger players, I would probably say
Speaker 1: four years and under. Who would you start that Seattle
Speaker 1: franchise with. I think I'll started with Job. I think
Speaker 1: I'll started with Job just just because his maturity level.
Speaker 1: Remember when the bubble happened, and you know, people had
Speaker 1: certain complaints about this or that he was one of
Speaker 1: the young ones, like, I have no excuses. The food
Speaker 1: is good, I have somewhere to sleep, I'm good, I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go. And you could just tell the way
Speaker 1: he was raised and his maturity is far beyond just
Speaker 1: basketball and how you listed things. You can tell his
Speaker 1: father has been president. Everybody there has been doing a
Speaker 1: great job with him, so he can handle that kind
Speaker 1: of responsibility. Be in the face of franchise of the
Speaker 1: new place. I think he'll put people in the seats.
Speaker 1: But I think he's maturity level of vets who want
Speaker 1: to play with him too, so I would put him
Speaker 1: in there like that dark horse. This season, Chicago Bulls
Speaker 1: is gonna make noises. I said it before the season starting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll I think they can win a
Speaker 1: playoff series now, you know, after not going for so long.
Speaker 1: I think the margin Rosen gives them stability. He stabilizes them.
Speaker 1: He can, you know, be on that wing with Zach
Speaker 1: but also kind of teach him why he's there. I will.
Speaker 1: I think they'll make a run. I think Billy Donovand
Speaker 1: has the hell of the offense. I like Lonzo with them,
Speaker 1: so I think they'll be right there and making a
Speaker 1: winning a series and play Yeah, I picked uh, I
Speaker 1: mean obviously not knowing what they're gonna do as far
Speaker 1: as they were gonna go. But I picked Phoenix last
Speaker 1: year as my surprise team, and I feel like this
Speaker 1: is gonna Like I said, I agree, I think they
Speaker 1: can get to the playoffs. I think they can win
Speaker 1: a series. I think they could definitely get to the
Speaker 1: second round and compete in the second round. So this
Speaker 1: is my surprise team and the year. I agree with you, Jack,
Speaker 1: finish it out going. Who would end up at the
Speaker 1: top of the East and the West? He's person If
Speaker 1: Kyrie is playing basketball by time of the season, and
Speaker 1: the Nets will not only be at the top of
Speaker 1: the East, they will win the championship, no doubt about
Speaker 1: if they If he does not, if he does not
Speaker 1: come back, then I got mil walking from out the
Speaker 1: EGI West the Lakers. I think the Lakers are built
Speaker 1: for the playoffs. I think they're built when the game
Speaker 1: slows down. They have the the i Q, and Lebron
Speaker 1: is gonna find a way to make sure the competitive
Speaker 1: mellow states hot like he will and does what he does.
Speaker 1: He's the key for them because he's the one person
Speaker 1: that he's the one person that can play with everybody
Speaker 1: because it's catching shoe game and so lethal right now,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that he'll they'll be there in
Speaker 1: the end games if Kyrie playing Kyrie is playing five.
Speaker 1: I still think it's see the thing about the thing
Speaker 1: about as he's so dynamic, he's so like he he's
Speaker 1: the one that can get your your your crowd with you,
Speaker 1: the other crowd, which you your your team, which he
Speaker 1: gives a whole different energy when he's going. His two
Speaker 1: points is so loud that it gets everybody excitement. Now
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, the things just start moving like that.
Speaker 1: Especially when James said, okay, I'll be the point guard.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you going. I'mnna get you in care
Speaker 1: of all. That was the game changer right there. James
Speaker 1: became a supersized okay see virgin when he used to
Speaker 1: make players like you know what I mean? So that
Speaker 1: was that was the thing that was a lot of
Speaker 1: people forget. Before James got hurt last season, he was
Speaker 1: one of attention for m v P because he was
Speaker 1: averaging the triple double. Yeah, which is crazy. He's been
Speaker 1: what I think three of the last three the last
Speaker 1: five years, he's finished the top three m V people,
Speaker 1: which is crazy. Yeah, he's always been there, but his
Speaker 1: his basketball intelligence is what I think he's underrated about him. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you Jamal for closing out this episode of What's
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