Speaker 1: Warning. If you are prone to get your feelings hurt
Speaker 1: and are a person that is serious and doesn't like
Speaker 1: to laugh, this pod is not for you. If you're
Speaker 1: looking for serious analysis breakdowns, x'es and o's hate that
Speaker 1: the NBA has so much drama, this pod is not
Speaker 1: for you. If you're looking for something soothing like ASMR,
Speaker 1: this pod is certainly not for you. On this episode
Speaker 1: of This League, we talk about why the nets are
Speaker 1: so damn messy, how the seventy six ers are playing
Speaker 1: hungover Saturday wreck Ball, why I was so so privately
Speaker 1: wrong about Steph Curry, I mean everybody else was. And
Speaker 1: we also talked to NFL insider Jay Glazer about scooping
Speaker 1: in the NFL, how it compares to scooping in the NBA,
Speaker 1: And then we hit listener questions from my DM. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a question we could probably ask every single day. Right,
Speaker 1: Just take a little stroll down his Instagram and you'll
Speaker 1: find yourself asking yourself the same question. I guess the
Speaker 1: latest chapter has me very concerned, very concerned about the organization,
Speaker 1: very concerned about Kyrie and Steve nash By. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: sure everybody knows that Kyrie is skipping games for personal reasons.
Speaker 1: He just didn't feel like playing. This is not Monte Ellis.
Speaker 1: That was like trying to pretend that he injured himself
Speaker 1: playing pickup basketball, but really he crashed his moped. This
Speaker 1: is Kyrie just being like, you know, I didn't feel
Speaker 1: like it. I just I don't know, wasn't my jam today.
Speaker 1: This is a marquee player that's sitting out for an
Speaker 1: indefinite period of time. I get that he's like everybody
Speaker 1: right now. He's affected by the political events going on
Speaker 1: in DC, and I get that. But the story for
Speaker 1: sure gets more spicy when Kyrie decides like I'm just
Speaker 1: not gonna tell people that I'm not gonna play. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show up for work and I don't have anything
Speaker 1: to explain. I have nothing to say. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: go a wall. That's that he never He apparently never
Speaker 1: alerted his coach that he would not be playing, which
Speaker 1: being the Mets Steve Nash decided to blow him up
Speaker 1: in the pressure.
Speaker 2: I haven't spoke to him yet.
Speaker 3: You know, I can't really comment because I haven't spoke
Speaker 3: to him as personal reasons, so it'd have to come
Speaker 3: from Kyrie but I don't believe that to be the case.
Speaker 1: I don't know really where to begin on this. First,
Speaker 1: you obviously have Steve Nash like clearly dry snitching, clearly.
Speaker 1: I mean, what can you really expect though, when your
Speaker 1: marquee Starr is not telling you or answering your calls
Speaker 1: or your texts and he's just not showing up for games.
Speaker 1: I get that, And on the other hand, Kyrie believes
Speaker 1: he's probably doing exactly the right thing. I have nothing
Speaker 1: to explain to anyone. You should know exactly why I'm
Speaker 1: sitting out. There's really nothing to say. Do you see
Speaker 1: the world burning right now? Do you see it? Do
Speaker 1: you need to know why I'm not playing games? Okay, good?
Speaker 1: But did Steve Nash really have to say? I don't
Speaker 1: know where he is right now. I haven't heard from him.
Speaker 1: Only the Nets could have that happened to them two
Speaker 1: weeks into the season. I think we have a dysfunctional
Speaker 1: organization on our hands. Maybe I'm just I'm just saying.
Speaker 1: Let's rewind back to the interview that Katie and Kyrie
Speaker 1: did together on Katie's podcast on the first of October.
Speaker 2: I don't really see us having a head coach. You
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Katie could be a headquach.
Speaker 2: I could be a head coach. Jacq Vaughn could do
Speaker 2: it one day.
Speaker 1: It could be, It can be.
Speaker 2: It is a collaborative effort, I think.
Speaker 3: On our part.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, okay, So you know who might Marty
Speaker 1: take a little exception to that.
Speaker 2: Who Steve Steve Nash?
Speaker 1: Nash, the guy who is paid handsomely to be that
Speaker 1: head coach, the guy that if the team loses, is
Speaker 1: going to be fired. There's no one else on that
Speaker 1: team that is gonna be on the chopping block if
Speaker 1: they lose, then hate he is. So, I mean, what
Speaker 1: can you expect when one of your star players says
Speaker 1: you're not the head coach and then the other star
Speaker 1: player agrees with him. Listen, you don't think I'm the
Speaker 1: head coach. You don't think I'm the head coach? All right,
Speaker 1: don't call me back, motherfucker. We'll see what happens. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna suer you in the press and say I don't
Speaker 1: know where Kyrie is. Maybe you should ask one of
Speaker 1: the other twenty head coaches that we have on the
Speaker 1: roster where he is. Ask Kris LeVert, the other head
Speaker 1: coach where Kyrie be.
Speaker 5: I would have loved to see Steve Nash's live reaction to.
Speaker 1: That, right, Yeah, what did he just say? What excuse?
Speaker 1: Kyrie also said in that famous or infamous interview, we
Speaker 1: don't need someone coming in here making us run drills,
Speaker 1: changing our offense, changing our flow. We got things handled here.
Speaker 1: And you know what, Kyrie was right because now, just
Speaker 1: like last year, the Nets are just losing games while
Speaker 1: Kyrie and Katie are still sitting on the sideline. So
Speaker 1: he's right about that. Brooklyn's five hundred less than five
Speaker 1: hundred because Katie came back last night and then Brooklyn
Speaker 1: lost by thirteen to the Oklahoma City Thunder at home.
Speaker 1: That is fucking disgusting. Wow, Kyrie is just still utilizing
Speaker 1: the we have unlimited PTO policy, just five hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars per game, just boom, just still collecting checks, not
Speaker 1: playing games. This is going to be a major topic
Speaker 1: of conversation something I am for shore keeping my eye
Speaker 1: on the relationship between Steve Nash and Kyrie is I'm
Speaker 1: saying it now, It is sus. It is super sus.
Speaker 1: Do you agree, Marty?
Speaker 5: I do completely, And as someone who's Steve Nash is
Speaker 5: my favorite athlete and Kyrie Irving right now one of
Speaker 5: my least favorite athletes. It's maybe the easiest sports beef
Speaker 5: I've ever had.
Speaker 2: To pick a side on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you have to admit the easiest thing that
Speaker 1: you could say as a head coaches. Yeah, me and
Speaker 1: Kyrie have worked this out. Yeah, he's handling some things.
Speaker 1: He's some personal issues. We'll get back to you when
Speaker 1: he's coming back. He's got some things to handle. You say,
Speaker 1: I haven't spoken to him. That is That is bus tossing.
Speaker 1: That is public bus tossing the most. You know those people,
Speaker 1: the sneaky, sneaky like I'm gonna get back to you,
Speaker 1: back at you, like six months later, passive aggressively. I
Speaker 1: got you. I'm gonna remember that's Steve Nash. Oh. Yes,
Speaker 1: the big news shockingly in the NBA right now. I'm surprised.
Speaker 1: I am stunned that this is a problem. Yeah, who
Speaker 1: saw this? COVID. COVID is now wreaking havoc in the NBA.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Heat Celtics was canceled yesterday, which was
Speaker 5: unfortunate for me. I had a nice teaser with the Heat.
Speaker 1: But I also had a teaser with the heat and
Speaker 1: that that game was postponed. So now all the money
Speaker 1: that I had is I don't know what happens. Actually
Speaker 1: it's in limbo. Yeah, so let's recap what's happening. The league,
Speaker 1: big money grab league. All leagues are money grab leagues.
Speaker 1: But the league decided we are gonna rush to get
Speaker 1: the league back on Christmas Day, Marquee game Day, just
Speaker 1: so happens a Christmas, a big time family holiday, people
Speaker 1: gathering in small and large groups alike. And wouldn't you know,
Speaker 1: just in the incubation period ending, we have an outbreak
Speaker 1: on our hands, not just in our country, but in
Speaker 1: the NBA as a whole. And now we have games
Speaker 1: being postponed legitimately. Now players are getting tested, The players
Speaker 1: are testing positive for COVID in game, folks sharing the ball,
Speaker 1: sweating on one another, breathing their little COVID juice on
Speaker 1: each other face and faces, all while having COVID. There.
Speaker 1: The seventy six ers had eight players on their roster.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they got steamrolled by fucking smoked.
Speaker 1: They really had seven guys, and then there was this
Speaker 1: like scrub that was sitting there just so they didn't forfeit.
Speaker 1: It was giving me serious, like Saturday morning wreck ball vibes,
Speaker 1: where you come in it's empty gym, you expect the
Speaker 1: crew to be there. You're there. You like four went
Speaker 1: is that a word? You four went going out because
Speaker 1: you're a responsible hooper. All of your teammates did not.
Speaker 1: They all went out hard, and then they somehow text
Speaker 1: you like minutes before, bro, not gonna make it. And
Speaker 1: you've got six dudes and girls right playing against a
Speaker 1: stacked team from the other side of the town, and
Speaker 1: they blow you out and you are gassed. You're ready
Speaker 1: to just fucking puke all over yourself. But this was
Speaker 1: not reck ball. This was the Philadelphia seventy six ers,
Speaker 1: an NBA team that is just crazy. Teams just legit
Speaker 1: missing half their roster, and Adam Silver's like your lead athletes.
Speaker 1: Just drink some Gatoray and keep going. You can do this.
Speaker 1: Just more minutes, you can play more minutes. It's fine.
Speaker 1: It seems like just yesterday, one dude testing positive prior
Speaker 1: to the game starting could shut the entire league down
Speaker 1: and then be the catalyst for the national shutdown of sports.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, Poor Rudy, Poor Rudy, Gobert.
Speaker 1: Fuck Rudy, go bear what poor Rudy Gobert. That man
Speaker 1: said COVID was fake. That man said COVID was a hoax,
Speaker 1: and then he put his hands and feet and breath
Speaker 1: all on a million microphones, and then he got COVID
Speaker 1: and we didn't get the final four, probably because Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 1: And then also, by the way, in hindsight, he said
Speaker 1: he regretted that decision. What else, Rudy, would your viewpoint
Speaker 1: be what you're you wish that there were more mics
Speaker 1: on the podium to touch? Is that really what you
Speaker 1: could possibly say? No wonder. Donovan Mitchell was like, get
Speaker 1: this dumb motherfucker out of here, this dumb French fuck,
Speaker 1: this COVID truther, shutting down our league, messing with my money.
Speaker 1: Like Michael Porter Junior, who also said COVID was a
Speaker 1: hoax out and definitely dumb idiot, don't even get me
Speaker 1: started on these dudes. It's like Kyrie Irving and his
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. Folks, this is not a concert be or see.
Speaker 1: This is what we're dealing with. What a world. You're
Speaker 1: now to the point where the NBA has redefined all
Speaker 1: of their rules. Close contact is now I don't even
Speaker 1: know what. I'm not sure you can play in games
Speaker 1: against someone who has COVID is now no longer close
Speaker 1: contact whatever. Okay, And we're to the point where teams
Speaker 1: are missing damn near half their roster and for weeks
Speaker 1: at a time, and no one seems to blink. What
Speaker 1: a time to be alive. Now. I got lit up
Speaker 1: multiple people in my DM's like two segments for Collin Sexton,
Speaker 1: not a goddamn word about Steph Curry. And you know
Speaker 1: that's fair. So I'm giving Steph Curry an entire segment
Speaker 1: breaking down his greatness. The haters. The haters are strong
Speaker 1: for Steph Currey. They are they really are they. There's
Speaker 1: nothing that he can do right for some people.
Speaker 5: Lots of hate, yeah, I mean people say he's an
Speaker 5: overrated system guy, like not tough, bad defender, you know,
Speaker 5: all that, all that noise.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with that?
Speaker 3: I don't. I never have.
Speaker 5: I've I've been a big Stephan for a while.
Speaker 1: Things got extremely slanderous when Steph, you know, he had
Speaker 1: Steph hasn't been himself for a little bit, so things
Speaker 1: got extremely slanderous. We'll say recently, and you know what
Speaker 1: I am. I'm gonna admit something to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't told people this publicly. I have told
Speaker 1: people this privately. I was one of those people. No,
Speaker 1: I was one of those people slandering Steph Curry. I
Speaker 1: thought maybe he needed Clay and Kadi to open up
Speaker 1: his game. I thought maybe he made too many bad
Speaker 1: decisions to be a leader, chucking from three from fucking
Speaker 1: three seconds in the shot clock a million times anytime
Speaker 1: he wanted, being real, casual with his passes, just sloppy
Speaker 1: at the well at anytime, anytime, sloppy with the rock.
Speaker 1: I thought, does Steph Curry have the toughness to be
Speaker 1: the one to lead a team? Yeah? I was shit
Speaker 1: talking Steph.
Speaker 5: I just think, yeah, I just think that's wow.
Speaker 1: I mean, games like last night were why two of
Speaker 1: sixteen shooting historically bad night, just poor, just terrible. When
Speaker 1: he looks bad, let's just say this, when he looks bad,
Speaker 1: he looks really bad. But it wasn't even just me, though,
Speaker 1: you had you had NBA champions, NBA champions like Channing
Speaker 1: Fry saying the same damn thing. They were standing for
Speaker 1: Lebron James. They were saying like, oh, look at this
Speaker 1: roster lebron James. He all he had was Eric Snow
Speaker 1: and this and that, and Steph Curry's had three all
Speaker 1: stars on his team. Really, what has he accomplished on
Speaker 1: his own? And then Steph Curry heard all that he
Speaker 1: was listening for sure, took all of that as fuel,
Speaker 1: as rocket fuel, and he put up sixty two against
Speaker 1: my Portland Trailblazers, which was regrettable, very sad. Then he
Speaker 1: put up what thirty eight against the Clippers? Thirty eight
Speaker 1: against the Clippers. He's taking shit personal. He even said it.
Speaker 1: He said, cue the Jordan meme. I took that shit
Speaker 1: extremely personal. He I mean, there's no what he is.
Speaker 1: I mean, he took it personal. He did he did
Speaker 1: doing things he's maybe perhaps never done in his entire career,
Speaker 1: except for when he was at Davidson, also being slandered
Speaker 1: when he didn't get offers to schools that he should
Speaker 1: have gotten offered to. He's now in that most contrary
Speaker 1: to popular belief, We're not a podcast. It breaks down
Speaker 1: XS No, So That's not what I'm gonna do. I'm
Speaker 1: here to make jokes, okay, So I don't need to
Speaker 1: tell you about that crazy left handed cross court pass
Speaker 1: that Steph Curry made to like, I forget who in
Speaker 1: the corner on a backscreen, which is inc Okay, we're
Speaker 1: not doing that, right. What we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: is why me and the rest of the world except
Speaker 1: for you, apparently, Marty, are so fucking dumb. Our brains
Speaker 1: do something. Our brains do something that's crazy. It's the
Speaker 1: guys in lab coats they call that. They call it
Speaker 1: recency bias, they call it a prisoner of the moment,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. It means we place
Speaker 1: greater importance on the things that have happened most recently. Right, So,
Speaker 1: as soon as someone hits the struggle bus, doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what they've done in the past. Two time MVP, five
Speaker 1: consecutive finals appearances, one bad stretch, five games Steph Curry
Speaker 1: played last year five broke his hand. He was with
Speaker 1: a bunch of random dudes, a jump alieh of Randoms
Speaker 1: that he had never played before with. And it's like,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry is awful. He is just trash. Now. What
Speaker 1: happened nine months off? What like, legitimately probably we could
Speaker 1: call it more than nine months off. I would say
Speaker 1: that those five games aren't enough to really get into
Speaker 1: a rhythm. So the last time that Steph Curry played
Speaker 1: a game in rhythm was the NBA Finals against the Raptors. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's been a while and he's coming back. He's
Speaker 1: trying to get his mojo, has his little slump, and
Speaker 1: it's like, Steph Curry is garbage. He is so overrated.
Speaker 1: He needs three All Stars in order to be good.
Speaker 1: What happened. All he does is chuck from thirty five feet.
Speaker 1: He's not an All Star. Well, I think people believe
Speaker 1: he's an All Star, but they don't think he's as
Speaker 1: good as he is. The truth is, Steph Curry is him.
Speaker 1: He is him. He is gonna get his he is
Speaker 1: going to get off. He is one of the greatest
Speaker 1: shooters we have ever seen, and now he's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be better because he doesn't have those collection of stars
Speaker 1: that he needs to share the ball with anymore. He
Speaker 1: can do anything he wants now. And you know, just
Speaker 1: like in his Davidson d days, he has to shoulder
Speaker 1: the burden or this team will not win. So we
Speaker 1: get to see Steph Curry be Superman. God damn near
Speaker 1: every night that is exciting, even on an offshooting night
Speaker 1: like last night, led the team in rebounds. So much
Speaker 1: more fun than seeing him with Steph. Seeing Steph with
Speaker 1: Clay and KD and Draymond to their peak. I don't
Speaker 1: want to see a dynasty. I want to see a
Speaker 1: guy be superman so on, behalf of all of us
Speaker 1: dummies everywhere. I would like to say this for those
Speaker 1: who want to see Steph be a human highlight reel
Speaker 1: and him probably get an MVP this year.
Speaker 4: Steph faser a world class and if they'll Scooper and
Speaker 4: owner of Unbreakable Jim, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I'm here right now a breakable were Fortunately we're
Speaker 3: closed down in signs we got to adopt no matter what.
Speaker 3: These times we actually moved our gym to the parking lot.
Speaker 3: Just keep our health as wealth baby.
Speaker 4: Parking lot pimping as it were.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: So I was doing some background research and I came
Speaker 4: across this quote, the phone never stops. I've got to
Speaker 4: take every single call that comes in. I was on
Speaker 4: a date with the young lady last night and I
Speaker 4: told her these calls are going to come in, and
Speaker 4: I've got to take every single one. So my question
Speaker 4: is this, is there elite enough vagina out there that
Speaker 4: you will pass on scoops for like not disturbed scoops
Speaker 4: are off, no scoop zone.
Speaker 2: No. Well, if something's coming in, I mean I deal in.
Speaker 3: Uh, I'm an information broker and I don't decide when
Speaker 3: that is. So, you know, I used to back in
Speaker 3: the day. There's one time I was I finally had
Speaker 3: enough money to go to like a nice restaurant in
Speaker 3: New York. So the first ten years of my career
Speaker 3: I have, I made ninety seven hundred bucks a year.
Speaker 3: It was brutal, and I finally had enough money and
Speaker 3: I went out to this beautiful, like fancy restaurant in
Speaker 3: New York and I had my girlfriend at the time,
Speaker 3: and the scoop came in. It's when the ear piece
Speaker 3: first came out, remember the one that just hung And
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, I gotta take this call.
Speaker 3: So we got to act like we're snuggling and I'm
Speaker 3: whispering sweeting nothings in your ear, but I'm actually taking
Speaker 3: a call about who the next coach of Washington O
Speaker 3: bag got.
Speaker 4: So even if it was like halle Berry or like
Speaker 4: some of these elite.
Speaker 2: Understand I gotta be charming. I gotta get them to understand,
Speaker 2: you know, that's what I do.
Speaker 3: Now It's ruined every relationship I ever had, So let's
Speaker 3: put that point in.
Speaker 4: Also, yeah, yeah, because I have a guy that I've
Speaker 4: been dating and he his shit never stops and it's
Speaker 4: just ding ding ding Friday night, eleven thirty pm.
Speaker 2: Annoying. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, now, plus for me, I'm out in La So
Speaker 3: I got some coaches who'll call, you know, I'm like, man,
Speaker 3: I'm like their therapists. So you know, they're on the
Speaker 3: way to the office at six o'clock in the morning
Speaker 3: their time, at three o'clock in the morning my time,
Speaker 3: and they just want to talk and like for Also,
Speaker 3: when you're getting scooped, it's not just haking me scoop.
Speaker 3: You build these relationships, you know, and oh yeah, it
Speaker 3: doesn't stop. It definitely takes a certain type of young
Speaker 3: lady who could deal with it.
Speaker 4: How often have you had to multitask You mentioned it
Speaker 4: a little bit. How often have you had the multitask
Speaker 4: scooping while loving?
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Probably one of the funniest was with
Speaker 2: the flat gate.
Speaker 3: I was in Arizona at the Super Bowl and when
Speaker 3: my third source called to tell me the NFL is
Speaker 3: zoned in on they have film and they're jeering in on.
Speaker 3: Uh was the locker room attendance, I think and the
Speaker 3: Patriots to fly it in. That was the worst possible
Speaker 3: time for me to ever get a phone call. But
Speaker 3: to take the phone call and we're talking about the flategate,
Speaker 3: so it was it was even worse. I was like,
Speaker 3: You're word was, wait, what's happened to your stopping because of
Speaker 3: what what is this? And I was like, you know,
Speaker 3: the big story stuck. No, I have no idea what
Speaker 3: you're talking about. And I'm like, I'm trying to explain myself.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it was Uh, like I said, the scoop
Speaker 3: business runs its own.
Speaker 4: Course, mid mid pop scoop. Is scooping a passion or
Speaker 4: isn't an addiction?
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
Speaker 3: I think you need to be passionate about if you
Speaker 3: want to be great, you gotta have some passion and uh,
Speaker 3: I don't just want.
Speaker 2: To be somebody. So it's both.
Speaker 3: It's well, I've curbed the addiction throughout the years because
Speaker 3: it used to be like I was the first one to.
Speaker 2: Do the inside and stuff minute by minute.
Speaker 3: It was me first guy whom Len Pascarelli from ESPN,
Speaker 3: and then you know, I think Clayton Moore would chime
Speaker 3: in a little bit, but not much. It's just us
Speaker 3: and we were grinding, grinding, grinding, every second, every story,
Speaker 3: a fifth round pick signed, a guard was traded, everything
Speaker 3: we were battling for. And that was started in nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety nine when that whole Internet thing came out. I
Speaker 3: think it's going to take off. I think the Internet
Speaker 3: thing it's going to work.
Speaker 2: Just to hint here.
Speaker 3: And now they all do it right. But over time
Speaker 3: I said, okay, I kind of did that.
Speaker 2: It is really.
Speaker 3: Consumed my life. It is is an addiction, and I
Speaker 3: want to have more in my life. So now I
Speaker 3: want to make sure that on Sundays on Fox and
Speaker 3: Vil Sunday, when I say something as crazy as it
Speaker 3: may sound, people go, okay, we can take it to
Speaker 3: the back. As Goose Glazier said it, because I care
Speaker 3: more about being right than I do about being first.
Speaker 2: Always hell yeah.
Speaker 4: Is it a team sport or an individual sports?
Speaker 2: Individual?
Speaker 1: For me?
Speaker 2: For the rest of them, I thing is probably a
Speaker 2: team that could work.
Speaker 3: Together but I've always been a low wolf when it
Speaker 3: comes to it.
Speaker 2: It's my relationships.
Speaker 4: Yeah, people get real solid when they get scooped on
Speaker 4: to They miss a scoop two minutes early or two
Speaker 4: minutes to take, so they try to like link up
Speaker 4: and get that third source.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they do. Again.
Speaker 3: For me, it's just my No, it's it's always just
Speaker 3: been me and my contacts and my I call my
Speaker 3: glaze bafia.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you for sure are in a mafia. You and
Speaker 4: h Stra are definitely in the mafia.
Speaker 2: Yep, no doubt.
Speaker 4: What's uh, what's the story that you sat on that
Speaker 4: you ended up getting reported but you weren't about to
Speaker 4: publish or break it because you felt like it was
Speaker 4: gonna break loyalty.
Speaker 3: No, it was not so much that. It's a lot
Speaker 3: of times. Look, my job is to break stuff on
Speaker 3: Fox a double Sunday. I don't work for Twitter, you know.
Speaker 3: And back when I was working at Fox Sports dot Com,
Speaker 3: I break stuff by a minute. But now it's for
Speaker 3: Fox Cuble Sunday or for Time for Thursday. So I
Speaker 3: gotta wait on stuff and hope it holds the stress.
Speaker 2: Of things holding.
Speaker 3: And there's been some times I've waited two weeks because
Speaker 3: I didn't have that third source and big stories, huge stories.
Speaker 2: And then that that's what gets me. And you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: like you know, you wake up every morning you're like,
Speaker 2: is it out? Is it out?
Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, boom, it's out. And you know,
Speaker 3: there's a lot that we all that we all know.
Speaker 3: But when you come out of left field with stories,
Speaker 3: that's what I love. But sometimes those stories that seem
Speaker 3: like I came out of left field on them, I've
Speaker 3: been working on them for two weeks.
Speaker 4: Bro I mean you talk about having anxiety, and that
Speaker 4: shit must fuel the anxiety.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh, it's terrible. It's it's horrible.
Speaker 3: It's it's And the crazy thing too, is the rush
Speaker 3: you get when you break a story like look I
Speaker 3: broke the other night bet Is Bryant, right, And it
Speaker 3: was the real time that his test was inconclusive, and
Speaker 3: it was he was pulled for the field and got
Speaker 3: retested as we were doing the game on Fox, right,
Speaker 3: we're doing pregame, and it was crazy how it unfolded
Speaker 3: and there was such a high for it from it
Speaker 3: for about forty five minutes and then you crash. It's
Speaker 3: like being a child star and everything' is like, oh,
Speaker 3: you're like, it's great, and then all of a sudden, man,
Speaker 3: you don't have that next role. So for us, uh,
Speaker 3: he just keep going after that high. But the high
Speaker 3: goes away really, especially nowadays. When back in the day
Speaker 3: you have a story and that was it. Nowadays everybody
Speaker 3: just jumps on and takes it all. So that's why
Speaker 3: I even try to shift from men and my ben
Speaker 3: at breaking news to more insidery stuff and more insight
Speaker 3: than you would and be more entertaining than any other place.
Speaker 4: How do you think that the NFL drama compares the
Speaker 4: NBA drama?
Speaker 3: In your line of NFL is the greatest reality show
Speaker 3: on the planet, you can kidd me.
Speaker 2: I mean, hell, we have the lockout years ago.
Speaker 3: It was a lockout in the off season that led
Speaker 3: every sports newscast and every Oh it's not even close,
Speaker 3: that's that led the first five stories and then you
Speaker 3: got to, oh, baseball is opening or basketball is the player.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just the NFL is that it reigned
Speaker 3: supreme in that thank god.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's you can tell that even though the NBA's
Speaker 4: off season is I think more exciting because there's so much.
Speaker 4: You know, it's a player, yeah, starg of the league
Speaker 4: versus you know, the NFL is so much more team oriented,
Speaker 4: I think, but the NFL is you know, twenty four
Speaker 4: to seven. How do you compare the difference between how
Speaker 4: news is broken in the two sports.
Speaker 2: I just he woke everywhere. So you know, I've known
Speaker 2: him for a while and I just love how he
Speaker 2: does his job.
Speaker 3: You know, we're get a world of trust and again
Speaker 3: he doesn't get stuff wrong and he builds these relationships.
Speaker 2: It's funny because he and I used.
Speaker 3: To shoot hours all the time at the ESPN and
Speaker 3: like for me when I first started this, I would
Speaker 3: I would pick a fight with ESPN when I felt
Speaker 3: they'd steal my stories.
Speaker 2: And people used to think I used to get so
Speaker 2: mad about it. I wasn't. It was just a good brand.
Speaker 2: It was David versus alive. They should whip me in
Speaker 2: everything they do.
Speaker 3: So every time they would take some that I broke,
Speaker 3: I would just I would try and make it a
Speaker 3: fight because that's our mentality.
Speaker 2: And you know for woes, you got him paid good
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 4: You know, he's known for being like this down this
Speaker 4: don mafioso guy in the NBA scoop Land. Yeah, is
Speaker 4: there has there ever been any equivalent to that in
Speaker 4: the NFL where it's like you bring these scoops to me.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think we all have relationships like that, And
Speaker 3: it's like I've always told my God, listen, it's gonna
Speaker 3: get out anyway, might as well let me break it.
Speaker 3: Like you know, I'd love I'd love to be the
Speaker 3: one that you come to if it's gonna get out
Speaker 3: in anyway. So I think we all have kind of
Speaker 3: relationships like that. He's just dominated that field.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he really does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we kind of we kind of break up the
Speaker 2: pie a little bit more over here for sure?
Speaker 4: Are you on like any scoop inner chat like where
Speaker 4: it's like you and Wold passing.
Speaker 2: No, I said, I'm I'm my own lone wolf.
Speaker 3: And even like when I started covering the league, I
Speaker 3: the reason why my relationship with stray and so close
Speaker 3: is I had you know, I was still I was
Speaker 3: fighting on the side right, and so I had more
Speaker 3: in common with the football players I was covering than
Speaker 3: my fellow media. And they used to kill Michael and
Speaker 3: I kill us like they would just murder us for
Speaker 3: our How close we were and how we're not supposed
Speaker 3: to be as close, and man, I'm you know again,
Speaker 3: I had more in common with the player than I
Speaker 3: do the my fellow reporter. Not as I've gotten older,
Speaker 3: it's probably changed a little bit, but I always have
Speaker 3: had kind of a different mentality.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that there are newsbreakers that don't really
Speaker 4: like obviously their peers having friendships with players. But at
Speaker 4: some point you either get it from the agents or
Speaker 4: you're getting it from the players.
Speaker 3: And then for those who say you're not objective, well
Speaker 3: they're not objective when they write something bad about somebody
Speaker 3: who won't.
Speaker 2: Talk to them, you know. So it's my job is.
Speaker 3: To get the fans the best, most accurate information as
Speaker 3: fast as I can something that they were not here
Speaker 3: anywhere else.
Speaker 2: That's my job. That's what myalty list time.
Speaker 4: What's the angriest someone's gotten, like either a family member
Speaker 4: or a spouse about something that you've had to report?
Speaker 2: Strandon, I almost fought in the locker room one time. Uh,
Speaker 2: that was a big one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had get separated in there and a bunch
Speaker 3: of guys had to jump in there.
Speaker 2: We had to get separated. What was the story?
Speaker 3: Hell, I don't remember something I had written he got
Speaker 3: pissed off about and then we kind of.
Speaker 2: Went at it and we separated.
Speaker 3: Uh, there's been a couple other guys, but for the
Speaker 3: most part I've had, there's been a lot of respect
Speaker 3: I've also I've had.
Speaker 2: I'm a lot calmer now.
Speaker 3: I used to be a lot and I used to
Speaker 3: be a lot more itchy, trigger finger, I kind of
Speaker 3: like ready for looking for something. I'm kind of always
Speaker 3: looking for a fight. So now thank god I've grown up.
Speaker 2: Someone.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you've been with Fox. Now how many years?
Speaker 2: Thirteen sixteen, no, eighteen, well, two thousand and four, let's
Speaker 2: have let's.
Speaker 4: That equal seventeen seventeen years, Anti Rita and now you
Speaker 4: and Stray are like, yeah, run in the town and
Speaker 4: now Tony Gonzalez too, yep, our.
Speaker 2: Little crew and that listen.
Speaker 3: Michael and I became friends our first week in the
Speaker 3: job ever nineteen ninety three, and when I didn't have
Speaker 3: enough money to go from New York to Giants Stadium
Speaker 3: and back every day because I didn't have enough money
Speaker 3: for bus fair, he drove me back in the city
Speaker 3: every single day, literally every day, so I own.
Speaker 2: Like twenty eight Grand and Lincoln Tunnel Fair.
Speaker 4: No, that's my guy. Me and Strayer have played a
Speaker 4: ton of golf together in LA and he talks talks
Speaker 4: really highly of you. I mean, you guys are an
Speaker 4: interesting duel though, because like you always talk about living
Speaker 4: in the gray and he's basically mister sunshine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so that you know, I got to kind
Speaker 3: of learn from that. But yeah, I mean living in
Speaker 3: the gray. I've always needed kind of that team, and
Speaker 3: guys like him have always been there for me, like
Speaker 3: for me to get through my depression, having a team,
Speaker 3: which is why I'm here, Like even those places closed
Speaker 3: for me right there in a cage, Like I didn't
Speaker 3: have a lot of self worths kid growing up.
Speaker 2: So in a cage is where I felt I belonged
Speaker 2: and not even a win to more take beatings in there,
Speaker 2: and for.
Speaker 3: Me, it's a team is what lists me up. I
Speaker 3: just felt I deserved it. I didn't really feel worthy
Speaker 3: of Yeah, I didn't really have a lot of self
Speaker 3: I felt like I deserved kind of take beatings there.
Speaker 3: And I wasn't raised like my parents didn't beat me
Speaker 3: or anything like that. I was just born with depression.
Speaker 3: Like it's just how I just how it is, and
Speaker 3: it's like so for this team.
Speaker 2: They they kind of lift me up.
Speaker 3: And that's where like with Stray and Tony and all
Speaker 3: these guys, they became this other team for me to
Speaker 3: help me through the gray the off season when we
Speaker 3: don't have foxing up all Sunday, I really struggle.
Speaker 2: It's really hard for me.
Speaker 3: And because every Sunday I have that crew, and I
Speaker 3: don't get to see Michael anymore. I only get to see
Speaker 3: him on Sundays when he comes in. And then you know,
Speaker 3: the other thing is being of service, and that's what
Speaker 3: we did. We started MVP out of here, our merging
Speaker 3: best some players foundation. That really gets me through the
Speaker 3: grade to see to see some blues being of service
Speaker 3: to other people.
Speaker 2: And he's along the way with that too.
Speaker 4: You're gonna have to get us spot in New York
Speaker 4: in the Upper West Side to kick it with Stray more.
Speaker 2: We're going to know why he got freaking nineteen levels
Speaker 2: of his place. That it's great when your friends make it,
Speaker 2: fly on their planes, stay at their places.
Speaker 3: We're good. That's fat, drink their tequila. It's fantastic.
Speaker 4: That's all I got. Thank you so much. For coming
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Speaker 2: Obviously we have to because of all the players and
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Speaker 3: But I'm really excited and a portion proceeds actually goes
Speaker 3: to our our vets and players at MVP trying to
Speaker 3: build that build that team back up again.
Speaker 2: We're in five cities, in five.
Speaker 3: Locations, and the number of success stories we've had of
Speaker 3: our veterans that we've helped pull up out of homelessness,
Speaker 3: out of suicide, out of.
Speaker 2: Uh, just really bad situations in that transition.
Speaker 3: I'm really proud of the lives that we've saved and
Speaker 3: empowered and said they keep empowering me. Also, so keep
Speaker 3: you know. You're we're nowt expanding out our our team
Speaker 3: to be able to help, you know, with this GMC
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Speaker 4: You're doing God's work, Jay, Thanks, thank you, thank God.
Speaker 5: How about we opened some dams.
Speaker 1: Let's do it I'm in all.
Speaker 5: Right, let's see, how do we got here? What's the
Speaker 5: most points you ever dropped in a game on someone?
Speaker 1: So this is this is how you know that? Like
Speaker 1: my ego is so big. It's my freshman year in
Speaker 1: high school and I still remember this. Nineteen points. Your
Speaker 1: girl was throwing up buckets and we're down three. There's
Speaker 1: like forty seconds left to go, bringing up the rock
Speaker 1: shoot at three in transition, get fouled. The girl and
Speaker 1: I are john back and forth and think she pushes
Speaker 1: me technical foul. Four free throws in a row to
Speaker 1: seal the game ice water. I'll never forget. It was like,
Speaker 1: definitely my best game I've ever had. My mom still
Speaker 1: talks about it on holidays. I remember when you hit
Speaker 1: those four free throws in a row, you were ice cold?
Speaker 1: Then what happened? Uh?
Speaker 5: All right, this is an interesting one. What are your
Speaker 5: thoughts on the Raptors playing in Tampa and can you
Speaker 5: see this as an expansion city?
Speaker 1: What are the Raptors? Uh? What's the Raptors record right now?
Speaker 1: Do they have? I would say that's the Tampa effect.
Speaker 1: I would say Tampa and people are going to disagree
Speaker 1: about this. Tampa's not a good sports city. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think it's a snowbird city. I think it's a
Speaker 1: city that most of the people there are remarking Bob
Speaker 1: Coosey's accomplishments, and they're not looking to see Fred van
Speaker 1: Fleet shoot threes all day from thirty seven feet. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that the Raptors would ever move there. I
Speaker 1: just don't think it's a great NBA city. Yes you've
Speaker 1: got the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Yes you've got the Lightning.
Speaker 1: I just don't think it works for the NBA. I think,
Speaker 1: especially you need to give a team back to Seattle
Speaker 1: before you do fucking anything anywhere else. I agree, Okay,
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I do.
Speaker 5: I mean Tampa they're winning right now. But no, they
Speaker 5: don't deserve an NBA franchise.
Speaker 1: They just don't. They just don't. They just don't.
Speaker 5: Uh, this is a personal one. How many NBA players
Speaker 5: have you slept with?
Speaker 1: So this is a great story.
Speaker 4: So zero.
Speaker 1: So I got a I went to college with this
Speaker 1: kid who ended up being in the front office of
Speaker 1: one of the NBA squads. And he calls me and
Speaker 1: he goes, hey, Tee, I know you're getting into media.
Speaker 1: This is like when I was real baby in the media,
Speaker 1: and he's like, hey, I just want to let you
Speaker 1: know that if you fuck an NBA player, everyone's gonna know,
Speaker 1: not just every NBA player, but every person on the
Speaker 1: front office of all thirty teams is gonna know why
Speaker 1: because these guys they just like, of course they want
Speaker 1: to talk about taking down a media ho for sure, right,
Speaker 1: So that's like an extra little like pin in their
Speaker 1: leather jacket. So he tells me, if you want to
Speaker 1: get information from us GMS, if you ever want to
Speaker 1: be a newsbreaker, you will be persona non grata, that
Speaker 1: was his word. I was like, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: And he's like, that means no one is to fuck
Speaker 1: with you when it comes to legitimately taking you seriously
Speaker 1: because you are a ho and not a professional. So
Speaker 1: I never did it. And uh. He told me a
Speaker 1: story about this media girl who's very prominent in the media,
Speaker 1: and the security guard of one of the NBA teams
Speaker 1: took her from one player's room to another player's room
Speaker 1: in the same night. And those guys were co stars.
Speaker 1: They knew about it. She knew about it, and you
Speaker 1: can't unsee it. Once you've seen it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? You see them together, she interviews them, and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, yeah, they fucked bad luck, super bad luck.
Speaker 1: So I've never done it zero? All right?
Speaker 5: Uh? Would you rather have a career like Charles Barkley
Speaker 5: where you were multi time All NBA but never won
Speaker 5: a championship or be a role player like ri and
Speaker 5: wins seven plus?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Robert Ory, we won like seven titles Charles Barkley zero.
Speaker 1: You know you may not know this about me, Mikey,
Speaker 1: but I have a massive ego, like crazy. I mean here,
Speaker 1: I'm in here in a podcast studio about my fucking self.
Speaker 1: So you know who it's gonna be, right, Like, Tk's
Speaker 1: no role player. I'm not hitting quarter threes. I don't
Speaker 1: care how many fucking rings I get. I want to
Speaker 1: be transcendent pop culturally for the rest of my life,
Speaker 1: like Charles Barkley. That is my goal to continue to
Speaker 1: be relevant in the headlines causing drama with current NBA
Speaker 1: players with zero rings?
Speaker 5: Uh, do you consider Luca a top five player this year?
Speaker 1: Bro? Come on, that's that? See what it is? Now?
Speaker 1: You know what it is, isn't it? It's the recency
Speaker 1: bias again. People are now people are now all in
Speaker 1: on Luca. And what I'm gonna say is this hard
Speaker 1: to be a top five player when everyone around you
Speaker 1: is not good. And that's what's happening on the MAVs.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna be good. I'm sorry they don't have
Speaker 1: more three and D help. KP is probably gonna log
Speaker 1: forty games Max. It's just not no, no, he's not.
Speaker 1: I don't even think he's a top ten player right now.
Speaker 1: That's facts. He's very close, but he's not. He's right there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's funny to me every year, like whatever team
Speaker 5: Josh Richardson goes to, everyone acts like he's going to
Speaker 5: improve their teams.
Speaker 1: So thank god you said that. Someone asked me that too.
Speaker 1: They said, now that the MAVs have improved their three
Speaker 1: and D and I was like, is that a Josh
Speaker 1: Richardson comment, because he's he's not three and D. He's
Speaker 1: he's what you would hope to be three and D.
Speaker 1: But he is not good. Sorry Josh Richardson.
Speaker 5: Yeah, much respect, Please subscribe. Okay, will Lebron James ever
Speaker 5: win another MVP?
Speaker 1: Great question from whoever asked that. I would say no,
Speaker 1: because he's gonna have Anthony Davis on his team for
Speaker 1: the rest of his career. You cannot win an MVP
Speaker 1: right now as Lebron James the most dominant force we
Speaker 1: have seen in a very, very long time with Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: who's the top five player, Because as Lebron has famously said,
Speaker 1: are you really that valuable? You know who's going to
Speaker 1: win an MVP? Another one, Steph Curry is gonna win
Speaker 1: another MVP because right now he's the most valuable player
Speaker 1: to his team. People have an MVP fatigue and for
Speaker 1: some reason, they have a very short leash when it
Speaker 1: comes to Lebron James.
Speaker 5: You agree, I do, And yeah, the voter fatigue, I
Speaker 5: think I think it has more to do with that.
Speaker 5: The MVP has become more of who owns the headlines,
Speaker 5: like who owns the story of who's MVP this season?
Speaker 5: And Lebron almost never, you know, starts it off like that,
Speaker 5: Like twenty fourteen I think was the last time Lebron
Speaker 5: was like a serious MVP contender.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it almost has a life of its own, like
Speaker 1: Heisman voting. Yeah, all of a sudden, you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: Devonte Smith is who we're choosing this year. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: already pre ordained. I think it is preordained for Steph
Speaker 1: Curry at this point. As long as the Warriors keep
Speaker 1: winning and they make the playoffs, because they should not
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, and he's doing the things that he's doing,
Speaker 1: I think it's his in the bag. And I think
Speaker 1: voters love them some Steph Curry. They love it.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, then yeah, Steph Curry finally has a comeback story.
Speaker 1: Yeah crazy, yep. All right, that's all the time that
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