WEBVTT - Ruh Roh Embiid 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.239 On this episode of This League, I have some words 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:07.040 for Philly fans. We talk about how Kyle Cousan's production 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:09.440 is down, but his value as a player has never 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:12.920 been higher. We cover the feel good story of the 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:16.200 year in Karis Lavert coming back from cancer, and we 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.439 also get into a couple listener dms, please find me 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:25.880 someone who gets ratioed on Twitter more for less than 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:26.159 I do. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.400 Please find me find one. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.159 Find one person that has a blue check mark or not, 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:39.240 that talks about anything any topic that gets ratioed for less. 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:40.559 Reasons than men. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:45.879 I can have never seen anything like this in my life. 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.200 It happened again, folks, Yes it did. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:52.199 Since I started talking about Ben Simmons, Sixers fans have 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:57.960 been ravenous in my mentions, ravenous. I think we have beef. 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:02.360 I think now it is a life long quarrel and 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.800 it's all one sided. I don't hate Sixers. I like 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:10.880 Tobias Harris, I like Darryl Moury, I like Doc Rivers. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.120 I love the whole concept of trust the process. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.160 You took embiid first in our All Star draft. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:15.720 Took embid. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.960 I'm glad you mentioned that. I'm glad you mentioned that 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.080 and Embiid. Actually I have a funny story about him, Okay. 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:25.640 So I interviewed him in the summer in the Upper 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.440 West Side, I think at Rucker Park. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:28.039 Okay. 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:29.560 It was like one hundred and. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.240 Five degrees out. It was so fun Have I told 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.760 you this story before? Never one hundred and five degrees out. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.920 Joel Embiid has a white T shirt on right, and 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:44.559 Joel Embie's big, big man, and there's music going right 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.680 like there was when Drake's Nice for what was out right? 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.920 So that was playing and Joel Embiid is body rolling, 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.520 just straight body rolling in his chair waiting for the 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:56.400 interview to start. 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.960 Right, So it's like twenty eighteen ish, uh. 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.800 Yeah, summer twenty eighteen. It was when Lebron had not 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.000 chosen where he was gonna go. Ah right, ye, And 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:10.239 so Joel Embiid had been tweeting about Lebron and basically 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.800 pitching Lebron to come to Philly. 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.799 And so I had never met Embiid, but he's one. 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.760 Of obviously the funniest guys in the league, one of 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.280 the best follows on Twitter, et cetera, et cetera. But 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.639 he is sweating at this point through his white T 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.480 shirt like I'm talking about uncomfort, like you're seeing And 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.000 at this point, Joel Embiid hadn't gone on the Kanye's 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:35.160 workout plan yet and so he his man his man 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.200 chest was prominent, right. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:40.320 It was uh, it was. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.920 It was sweaty and it was kind of like there 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.320 was there was like a little boob action going on, 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:52.960 right and I'm like, oh man, I'm uncomfortable for Joel Embiid, Like, hey, Joel, 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.280 you know what we could do? You know we could 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.359 we could just shoot you like chest up and he 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.600 was like why oh, And I'm like, what do you 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.000 mean why? Like you're sweating through your T shirt. It's 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.560 pretty hot, Like if you want, He's like, I love 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.160 my body. I love my body, and I go, you love. 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.560 He goes, I can take my T shirt off right now. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:14.720 We can do this topless. And I was like, we 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:16.440 don't have we don't have to do that, and he's like, 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.480 that's how much I love my body. And I never 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.519 have forgotten it to this day. I love Joel six 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.760 are fans. I love Joel Embiide. To be that confident 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.160 in yourself when you are sweating through your white tea 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:32.760 like it's fucking freaknick out there. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:35.720 Come on, now, come on now. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.440 I like a lot of things about the Sixers. You 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.960 know what I don't like six are fans. They are 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.480 the fucking worst, you guys. You guys have gotta be 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:52.640 one of the most easily triggered, sensitive, delusional, hateful fan 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.640 base this side of the LSU Tigers. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.640 Wait, come on, that's just that's just not fair or right. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.640 Come on, Marty delusional. 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.680 Well LSU fans aren't delusional, but you're easily triggered in 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:06.720 your mean and you're. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:07.640 Hateful, definitely mean. 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.000 Yeah, we were both at that game where it was 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:15.480 Oregon versus LSU. They called it back then, the Cowboy Classic. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:16.960 That's what they called that. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:17.719 Jerry's World. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.480 Jerry's World at and T Stadium, Yes, sir, one hundred 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.240 and five degrees outside. I'm in my little green and 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:28.520 yellow hungover at the time, and I'm walking the streets 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:33.000 of Dallas and there's fucking LSU fans dragging a dead duck, 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.480 multiple dead ducks, bloody. 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.400 On a string and saying. 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:43.080 Tiger bait y'all ducks, just tiger bait yep to kill 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.520 another life, to take a life for the sole purpose 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:52.400 of trolling a fan base is fucking mentally insane. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.080 Okay, first off, I feel like they use those ducks 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:00.000 for a different purpose after that, so it wasn't completely irresponsible, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:01.800 and I find that hilarious. 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.800 Sorry, it's horrifying, Marty, It's horrifying. 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:09.239 So outside of LSU, I mean, there was a bloody duck. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.320 Oh my god, I'm like, am I? Next? Am I 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:13.599 getting on the string? Next? 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:18.599 We had Philly fans posting my address on Twitter? 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:20.479 Oh damn, that's tough. I didn't know. 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.880 Multiple times, like what did you want from that? What 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.239 did you want? Did you want people to show up 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.320 at my house? Was that? What that was? Did you 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.000 want people standing outside my lobby. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.440 With the like peta with the bucket full of fake 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.240 blood to go splash as soon as I leave? Like? 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:40.880 What were you trying to do? 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.840 Are you encouraging people to send anthrax to my crib? 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.760 I had the craziest sweatshirt sent to me, Marty. It 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.400 was it I'm gonna bring it in. I might wear it, 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:52.800 but I'm afraid to wear it because I think like 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.680 it may be a signal that that's her, like go 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.839 kill it. It was it was like I'm telling you, 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.720 it's the most insane streetwear hoodie that I've ever received. 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.240 It was it was one person. It was like almost 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.400 like a Roman. A Roman look. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.520 Two people, one person grabbing the other person's head like 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.440 almost like justice. Just that person's dead. It's a decapitated 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:18.080 head and it looks all like Roman. And there's like 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.400 a gold chain around that person, the killer's neck, and 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.360 on the back it says one eight seven. That's a 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.360 police code for murder, oh for homicide. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.560 I did not order that fucking hoodie, oh lord. 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.839 And that came the day after those tweets where my 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:39.480 address was posted, so they had to have been sending 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:44.920 that beforehand. Let's just say it's gotten to a new low, right, 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.200 So this is what happened that caused this rift. 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.720 You know, I have been saying that a lot. This 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.719 is what happened. As it relates to Sixers fans. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.440 Jojo embiid my guide I Love my body went down 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:00.000 with an injury. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:00.560 Look bad. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.200 I was watching it live. No one at this point 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.640 knows if the injury is serious or not. And I 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:12.360 was like, rot Row, that looks serious to myself. That's 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.320 what I said aloud, rot Row, Holy shit, what's going 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.520 on here? This is threatening to the title hopes of 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.320 the Philadelphia seventy six ers fans. And I didn't mean 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.520 it in a way that was a troll. I meant 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:28.560 it like truthfully, rot Row, Oh my god. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:29.120 Fuck. 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.280 I could have said uh oh, I could have said 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.120 oh no, but I didn't. I just thought, I don't know. 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.480 I just thought rot Row, Embiid. And you could think 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.320 I was hating Philly because of what I said about 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.040 Embiid and Ben Simmons and the haircut. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.920 Did you see, by the way, what Ben Simmons said about. 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.440 His barber, Yeah, I did this morning. He said, uh uh. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:49.520 He sent me a text. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.880 He felt bad, but you know, it is what it is. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.680 It's a crazy time right now. He's still my barber 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.080 for sure, because he's got those fresh lineups. 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.000 Because he's got those fresh lineups and now the annibody 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:01.400 Ben Simmons and now. 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:02.600 The antibodies as well. 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.400 That's the key piece really, Ben, is that he's got 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.640 the antibodies for a good six months, so you're in 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.200 the clear for those lineups. 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:13.760 Fam So you may be. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.640 Thinking I was coming for Philly and shooting from the hip, 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.040 and then I also quote tweeted it right, and it 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.960 was like, you know, I wasn't trolling. I'm not meaning 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.000 to hate on you. And people were like, oh, nice pivot. 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.160 Way to turn around, way to flip it and try 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:32.320 to recover. No, no, no, I don't do that. I 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.400 don't recover. I don't pivot when. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.280 I am standing in my truth. Marty, I own it. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.840 Did you see my mister balloon Hans video after I 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:46.200 made those comments? I will double triple, quadruple down. I 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:47.080 never pivot. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.280 I never say ooh that was a bad look. Maybe 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.600 I should try to get out of this. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.760 No, I don't like Sixers fans, I don't like mister 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.120 balloon hands, and you know what, I really like Joel 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.560 Embiid and the rot row. Maybe he didn't like the 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.800 way it sounded. Maybe you thought it was sarcastic. But 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.079 I am sorry. But I am not someone who's going 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.839 to pivot, not once. I never run from the smoke, 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.120 not once, not never, No way, ratioed ratio. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.040 Did you see the tweet? 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.800 I did four hundred and sixty seven comments, two hundred 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.360 and ninety seven quote tweets, fifty two likes, surprising that 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:26.280 there were even fifty two likes. Truthfully, between the two 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.520 tweets over a million impressions. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.000 That's Philly fans for you. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.480 One of the things that was said to me was 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.840 that you're the worst kind of humans. That was one 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.520 of the nicest things said. So I'm sorry, King Simmons 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.679 won two three seven nine two one. But when you 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.560 put another man's name in your handle, King Simmons, that's 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:49.240 your Twitter handle, maybe you are the worst kind of human. 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.160 Maybe if you call someone a cunt and tell them 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.120 to put a bullet in their brain, you, King Simmons 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.959 seven two three four seventeen, are the worst kind of human. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.040 Maybe when you post a. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.720 Woman's address on social media implying that someone should go 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.240 out and hurt her, cause harm to her, find her, 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.880 stock her, maybe you, Philly native, are the worst kind 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.480 of human. I talked to a Philly native, one of 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.200 the guys working in the sports world, and he said 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:15.560 this to me. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.280 He texted this as this was going on. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.599 First of all, he was like, yo, I think that 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.560 people are taking us way out of context, out of hand, 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.800 so fucking sensitive. 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.360 So yeah. The update on Mbd's injury is that it's 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.800 going to be a couple of weeks. It's nothing serious. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.360 He's probably out of the MVP race, but that really 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.600 doesn't matter. I mean, this is what you need. You 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:40.000 need him in order to go deep. So better to 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.040 have this happen in March than in May. And remember 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.760 Philly fans when you said I didn't know basketball because 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.839 I said Ben Simmons was being poorly used as a 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.840 point guard and he was really more of a power forward. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.839 If you think that that was a hot take, you 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.320 think that was a bad one. Like take a listen 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.800 to Washington Wizard's announcer Justin Kutcher and what he recently 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:04.280 had had to say during a Wizard's Wizard Sixers broadcast. 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.520 Yeah, I mean, I've said it before, and I know 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.840 I'll take flack Ford as Westbrook gets of the free 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.599 throw line as the call on the floor stood the 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.800 challenge by Doc Rivers. I think Ben Simmons is one of, 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:21.439 if now, the most overrated players in the NBA, and 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.199 he's gotten so much love and attention that people aren't 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.240 paying attention to what Tobias Harris is actually doing. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:28.520 On the floor. 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:29.280 We'll cover that later. 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:37.760 Oh my god, Justin Kutcher, I am a fan, especially 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.000 after he followed that by doubling down. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.160 I like a man that doubles down, he said. He 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:43.680 tweeted this. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.160 Yes, I said that Ben Simmons is one of the 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.160 most overrated players in the NBA, and I stand by it. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.280 I didn't say he was bad, just not as good 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.240 as everyone makes him out to be. Great defender, potential 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.360 defensive Player of the Year. But I think he made 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.120 All League All Star teams based. 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:05.800 On hype and good night Wow. Listen. 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.560 He must know that hating Ben Simmons gets you a 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.640 little get you a little law. I don't know something 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.439 in the ether, Ben Simmons had a great clapback, he said. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.920 When I asked his comments, Ben Simmons says, isn't he 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.640 like a five to five comments er for the Wizards. 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:25.959 I don't give that too much attention. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:27.240 Is that a good clapback? 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:28.440 I don't know. 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.200 Like funny, Yes, it's funny. 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.120 It's funny. What would be a better clapback? 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:34.760 I mean, I don't know. Yeah, he probably had to 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:35.240 go there. 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:36.240 By the way. By the way. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.679 As an aside, I don't know if you know this, Marty, 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.719 but Ben Simmons's sister, the one who tweeted at me, she. 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:43.840 Deleted her account. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.280 Oh, I didn't know that she deleted her account. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:47.240 I bet you. 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.440 Ben Simmons had a little talk with Live and was like, 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.520 what the fuck are you doing on Twitter right now? 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.720 Like delete your account? This is insane. 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:00.400 You can't be going after people in the media. Let's 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:04.160 say negative things about me anyway. Listen, say whatever you 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:08.400 want about me. I only call Ben Simmons overrated when 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.640 he's on the court. This guy, justin Kutcher. Ben Simmons 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.720 isn't even playing at this point. He's in a COVID 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:19.040 protocol and he brings up his name for no reason. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.080 At all, no reason. 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:26.040 Justin my best friend just content to ricochet shot Ben 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:32.319 Simmons from across the floor anytime, any place, that, folks, 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:33.520 that is the guy. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:34.239 Ah. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.760 Let's talk about the Lakers for a little bit. Tons 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.600 of information coming out on the Lakers. They deserve their 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.520 own segment. I almost did something on Lebron as well, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.200 but it would have just been too long, so we'll 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.640 do that later. First off, Anthony Davis news is out, 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.440 just as I thought, Just as I said, Anthony Davis 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:57.240 isn't playing anytime soon, folks. Every time it's okay in 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.080 two weeks. We're gonna reassess again in two weeks. The 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.400 only thing that Anthony Davis is doing right now is 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:03.520 lifting weights. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.160 He's not running, he's not jumping, He's not doing shit. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.480 And I talked to people in the soft tissue business 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.880 when this injury went down, and they said, it's not 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.720 happening folks until May. He's not playing games until May. 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:16.400 I'm sorry. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:20.320 That means he's got two three weeks before playoffs. 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.760 Get him ramped up, get him ready to go. Who 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:23.520 fucking cares? 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:24.160 Right? 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.800 Yeah, I mean at this point, but they're making it 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.680 like on ESPN, David mcmanhamhon my favorite Spin Zone analyst 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:35.000 who's like on Lebron James's Jock Hard Hard. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.360 He moved from Cleveland to LA to be with Lebron. 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.840 Okay, so we already know what's going on there. The 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:47.440 headline was Anthony Davis progressing well, and underneath it was like, 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:48.720 nothing's happening. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.280 Reevaluate in two weeks? He do? We know that he's 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:52.120 progressing well? 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:53.640 Like it made it seem like he was about to 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.440 get on the court Like now, I was like, oh okay. 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.320 David mcmannimon, got it, got it. 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:04.280 I see that's such the easiest like report to make. Yeah, 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.040 like an injured player when there's no news, he's progressing. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:07.560 Well, progressing well. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.359 You could say that about literally anybody. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.120 Update, progressing well, closer to closer to getting back on 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:12.560 the court. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.120 So I know everyone's excited to. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.640 See Ad again because he is a baller, and the 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.040 Lakers are better with him for sure on the court, 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.600 and they're slipping and sliding all over the place down 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:24.440 the standings. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.280 But it's gonna be a while. That's the way of 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:27.720 the world. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.040 And if the Lakers can keep Ad on ice until 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:35.080 he's ready and hold the bleeding off, stay in the 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.000 top tier, they'll be fine. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:38.120 They'll be fine. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.760 The next news in Laker world is from our friend 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:45.160 Kyle Kuzma. Hit the drop on the the intro for Kuzma, 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:49.600 Oh yes, oh yes at six eight from Flint, Michigan, 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:55.160 representing the Los Angeles Lakers taking his first moderna shot. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.600 It's Kyle Kuzma, goos good. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:07.000 Is there a better quote out there than Kyle Kuzma. 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.200 There is not. There is not. In what world do 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.000 you find a human being? I don't know where. 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.720 One one night after the game, he's like, yeah, I 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.400 fuck my teammates to give me. 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:23.600 The ball, very sexual, very sexual. I I fuck him. 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.520 And then the next you drop a quote about Jesus 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:27.720 play the clip. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:28.840 Was that a set play? 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:29.400 Did you? 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.600 Did you think Lebron had a passing lating to you there? 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:34.160 Yeah? 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.080 I mean, I mean we were looking at each other. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:38.960 The entire possession. 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.480 You know, I was was pretty much a pretty much 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.880 high fuh. You know he found me. 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:54.960 And makes Oh my god, nobody's progressed more with the Lakers, thanks, 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.680 but he still makes comments like this one. At any 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.440 point in time, when you see a guy like Bull 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.240 Bull in front of you, is there any doubt At 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.960 what point did you know that ball was going up 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.000 from ar where you were out when you got it? 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.639 I think Jesus could be in front of me on 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:10.520 out rod still. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:10.800 Shooting, so. 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.119 Matter me pretty sure. 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.720 That's not the first time I've heard Kyle Kuzma say that, 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:18.359 because when I heard that quarter, I was like, I 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:23.360 feel like that was said eighteen months ago. Kyle Kuzma 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.400 will shoot over Jesus himself. That's the type of confidence 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.360 that Kyle Kuzma has in his own abilities, folks. He 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.160 believes he is the best laker all in the court 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.840 at any given time. That's what he said. I'm not 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.280 even the only one who knows that he thinks he's 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.080 better than Ad, than Lebron. He even thinks he's better 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.880 than the goat himself, Alex Crusoe. That is the kind 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.800 of confidence that has a potential of blowing a team 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:54.240 completely up. But instead, what are we talking about. We're 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.040 talking about Kyle Kuzman, his growth and his development and 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.320 how good he's become. And that's because his confidence has 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.720 been rained in from one of the great skills developers, 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:09.960 mentors and Phil Handy. He is now very much outperforming 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.159 the contract that everybody was like, what. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.720 The fuck are we paying Kyle Kuzma forty million dollars? 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:20.680 Why on the eve of this season after his contract 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:21.360 was announced. 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.080 So usually it's like, cuz, you know, that's when the 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.800 celebrations come, right, But instead, here's what one article had 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:33.439 to say. Kuz was expected to They said Kuzma Kuzma 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:38.080 was expected to develop into a serviceable starter alongside Ad 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.920 and Lebron, and that hasn't exactly happened. 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:41.919 This is so fucked up. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.080 He's a player coming off the bench and not exactly 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.480 a key component to the title run. 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.880 He also doesn't I mean, is there anything positive about him? 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:51.320 Is there? 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:55.200 He's also shown he doesn't shake off criticism very well 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:59.000 and that has impacted his game. He hasn't been paid 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:03.720 much and going to coast to another championship. Oh my god, 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.840 he's before he's overpaid by a bad team, complaining that 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:09.200 he's not in LA anymore. 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:10.440 Holy shit. 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:17.520 If I could construct an article to help this argument, 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.359 there would be no better article than that. Folks, the 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:23.679 world was saying, Kyle Kuzma, all you are is a 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.119 guy that looks like Cisco out here with your gold 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.359 fucking hair showing up on league fits. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.880 He does get fits off. He does get fits off. 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.400 He does. Yeah, he kisses fits off, boy. But that's 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:39.440 what he's known for. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:44.480 He has been a laughingstock in some ways based around 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:46.680 all of his antics. But guess what now he's a 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.800 key piece on the team. We can think, of course, 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.960 Lebron James, but really we can thank Phil Handy. According 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.639 to an article in The Athletic, Handy says that Kyle 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:00.520 has worked his ass off, and he he has worked 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.879 his ass off to get Kuzma to buy in to 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:06.320