Speaker 1: I remember ship in Golden State where used to used
Speaker 1: to bring that Louis backpack and you didn't give it
Speaker 1: smelled like you would just throw the weed in there.
Speaker 1: We didn't even smell like there's in a plastic bag.
Speaker 1: So this naked Jack would walk through the whole plane
Speaker 1: and I'd see him walk through the uh where the
Speaker 1: media is at, and they would kind of smell it
Speaker 1: and look at each other. They need to motherfucker walked
Speaker 1: through the coaching section, and you know, Nellie didn't give
Speaker 1: a funk, but the rest of coach would kind of
Speaker 1: look and need to get up to us. And it's
Speaker 1: so loud. I'm sitting there like, goddamn, bro, did you
Speaker 1: just pour the wheat inside your Louis bagas or is
Speaker 1: it in a ziplock? Like? What is it? But Jackie
Speaker 1: used to carry around this brown Louis bag that just
Speaker 1: smell like a dumpe sack. I used to have my
Speaker 1: ship vacuum sealed, or I'd have it in an extra
Speaker 1: baggy with either coffee or fabric softener. Jack didn't give
Speaker 1: a funk about disguising to smell at all. Jackie like funking.
Speaker 1: I had a contract. I negotiated my own contract on
Speaker 1: this team. I'm just gonna walk on this bitch with
Speaker 1: weed in my pockets. I don't give a fund. That's
Speaker 1: what you get when you let me playing having for you. Hey,
Speaker 1: we believe documentary is in the works. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: A new week in the NBA and this is what's
Speaker 1: burning Jack. Katie is scheduled to take the next two
Speaker 1: games off because of hamstring soreness or tightness. Thoughts about that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Katie worked hard to get back
Speaker 1: on this court man, and you know, I think it's
Speaker 1: just his body catching up with him, you know, missing
Speaker 1: games for COVID and coming back. You know, he's not
Speaker 1: in the full rhythm yet, and the team is not
Speaker 1: in the full rhythm. But they need to find a
Speaker 1: way to get guys healthy and get back, you know,
Speaker 1: get back in the swing of things and trying to
Speaker 1: jail a little bit more, especially defense or whatever moves
Speaker 1: they're gonna make, they need to make them because it's
Speaker 1: coming to crunch time. And I think I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Katie needs to get health in this team
Speaker 1: to start figuring things out. Well, I think you you know,
Speaker 1: you hit it on the head. You know, Normally, coming
Speaker 1: back up a big injury like that, there's nagging things
Speaker 1: that are gonna happen. Luckily he's been able to avoid that.
Speaker 1: M Obviously he sat out with the contact tracing. UM. Now,
Speaker 1: I just think this is a little caution. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, early on he was up in that near
Speaker 1: that forty minute or a game range, which I kind
Speaker 1: of I personally think it's too high for someone coming
Speaker 1: off and achilles. Um. You know, so they've got to
Speaker 1: slow him down, rev him down a little bit. And
Speaker 1: I understand there's still more than half the season left,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's still it's still a marathon, not
Speaker 1: a sprint. UM. As far as CHEMISTRYLD goes, it's tough.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, Katie's to me someone that
Speaker 1: comes in and just does his job, you know, so
Speaker 1: he's someone you can slide right back in and you
Speaker 1: won't miss a beat. I think this is an important
Speaker 1: time for Kyrie and James to continue to build chemistry,
Speaker 1: which I think they're doing UM, which is probably the
Speaker 1: most important. And then tightened up on defense. And we
Speaker 1: all know defense is just energy and and and efforts.
Speaker 1: So they've started to clean those two areas up. I
Speaker 1: think when Katie gets back, Um, you know, he'll step
Speaker 1: in right where he left off in in the m
Speaker 1: v P conversation and his team will get rolling. Next up,
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis aggravated his achilles tendonitis against dev the other night. Um,
Speaker 1: this is a scary situation, Jack. You know, achilles are
Speaker 1: obviously nothing to play with with Your thoughts on this, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: this is not nothing to play with it at all.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people are not talking about this.
Speaker 1: Injury started in the finals last year. You know, he
Speaker 1: heard he heard the same achilles last year and he
Speaker 1: sat out a couple of minutes, and the way it looked,
Speaker 1: I didn't think he was gonna come back and play.
Speaker 1: But he came back and finished and won the championship.
Speaker 1: Now the season that started again real fast, and they
Speaker 1: got planning all these games, and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: way and tear on him. You know, he plays a
Speaker 1: lot of minutes and he does a lot for his team.
Speaker 1: So they got to be real cautious with this jury
Speaker 1: because if he goes down, this team is in trouble. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's you know, obviously the short turnaround, you know,
Speaker 1: similar to KD coming off an injury, but everything coming
Speaker 1: up so fast. You know, a D, like you said,
Speaker 1: injured it in the finals. We're creatures a habit. Were
Speaker 1: accustomed to having a certain amount of set time to
Speaker 1: let our bodies heal and then restart our engines and
Speaker 1: slowly but surely get the season going. It didn't happen
Speaker 1: this way. And um, I think Richard Jefferson was commentating
Speaker 1: the game and made a great point. You can feel
Speaker 1: absolutely fine, run, jump, slide, move around, but if you're
Speaker 1: bumped awkwardly, um, at any given time, that's all it
Speaker 1: takes to aggravate something. And obviously that's what he is. Um.
Speaker 1: You know. Luckily, they have Judy over there, who was
Speaker 1: Kobe's right hand woman and she's full time with the
Speaker 1: Lakers now, so she's got some of the best hands
Speaker 1: in the game working on him. So I hope she
Speaker 1: can figure it out. But that another concern is do
Speaker 1: you rant bronze minutes up for the absence of Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's a machine. He's been playing great, um, but
Speaker 1: obvious there's a concern of you know, is it too
Speaker 1: much too early thoughts on his minutes possibly going up
Speaker 1: with the absence of a d well, it could be
Speaker 1: a good and a bad thing. But like you said,
Speaker 1: anything could happened on the court. If you look at
Speaker 1: Lebrons points, you know, the game's they do being out
Speaker 1: At the last five games, he's averaging nine points. So, um,
Speaker 1: it's good to see the way he's playing. But you
Speaker 1: don't want that now. You want that in the end
Speaker 1: of the season. You want that in the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: they got to save some of that. But Lebronze playing
Speaker 1: was long and see healthy. You know, we we were saying,
Speaker 1: how's he doing this stuff right now? Year seventeen, Well,
Speaker 1: if he can do it all season, let him do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah eighteen, it's that's your eight one year older. But
Speaker 1: like you said, he you know, he's the he's the
Speaker 1: driver of that car. So it's gonna take everyone else
Speaker 1: stepping up. You know, this will be big. This is
Speaker 1: a chance for Montrese Harold to get some increased minutes,
Speaker 1: uh and step his role up. He's been playing really
Speaker 1: well and we got the trade deadline looming. You know,
Speaker 1: this is this a move that you know the Lakers
Speaker 1: possibly at look to add some depth on that front line.
Speaker 1: We'll have to look for that and monitor these two
Speaker 1: injuries of A D and K D closely. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: over the next few weeks, who's hot and who's not.
Speaker 1: Devin Booker and the Phoenix Suns are on fire, winning
Speaker 1: nine out of their last eleven, sixth straight in the
Speaker 1: fourth spot, only two games out of third. Their defenses
Speaker 1: has been flying around their fifth in the league. Devin
Speaker 1: Booker over the last eight or nine games is close
Speaker 1: to twenty seven points a game. Jack. At the very beginning,
Speaker 1: we started talking about this was gonna be my surprise
Speaker 1: team to watch, and I thought that CP three, once
Speaker 1: him and Devin Booker got their chemistry going, that CP
Speaker 1: three was gonna be the best thing that could have
Speaker 1: happened to Devin Booker. That kind of looks like I'm
Speaker 1: right thoughts on the Suns right now and how CP
Speaker 1: three has got not only Devin Booker, but those sons
Speaker 1: playing on a whole nother level right now. Well, Devin Booker, man,
Speaker 1: we already knew what he could do. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been killing man and I I can honestly say
Speaker 1: I said that when he was in Kentucky, but I
Speaker 1: didn't think he was gonna be this good. But he's
Speaker 1: a killer man. But Matt, you were right. You were
Speaker 1: right about this team. But CP may not have the
Speaker 1: championships like Tom Brady, but he is Tom Brady on
Speaker 1: the court. He gets he's he's a he's a winner.
Speaker 1: He's a winner. He makes everybody win. That's why so
Speaker 1: many teams wanted him through his career. He makes everybody win.
Speaker 1: He's a quarterback on that court. He does everything. He
Speaker 1: makes it so much easier for Booker, he makes it
Speaker 1: easier for Aid, He makes it easier for Monty Williams
Speaker 1: to coach because he's able to get everybody in their
Speaker 1: positions and coach on the court while he's coaching on
Speaker 1: the sideline. So I gotta salute Chris paul Man. I
Speaker 1: knew what he could do, but what he's doing right
Speaker 1: now with this team is amazing. Bro. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I love to see it at this age too. You
Speaker 1: know where they they said he was washed in Houston,
Speaker 1: that just wasn't a good fit. He went to Okay See,
Speaker 1: took them to the playoffs. Now he lands in Phoenix
Speaker 1: with the young up and coming team. Monty Williams is
Speaker 1: you know a friend of his. They go back from
Speaker 1: New Orleans, and he's just an extension of money on
Speaker 1: the court. You know, Cris being one of the most
Speaker 1: clever mind's, greatest basketball minds to this game has ever seen.
Speaker 1: Like I said, was he put his veteran leadership in
Speaker 1: his knowledge on this young team. It can only go up.
Speaker 1: And you see Devin Booker benefited from that. Andre Aiden.
Speaker 1: You know, CP has a great history of of getting
Speaker 1: bigs paid and better. You know, he did it with
Speaker 1: Tyson Chandler, he did with DeAndre Jordan's, he did with
Speaker 1: Clint Cappella, and now Aidan who could be the best
Speaker 1: out of all the all four the three men I
Speaker 1: just uh mentioned uh is really benefiting. So this is fun.
Speaker 1: I love to see what they're doing. Happy for Montie Williams,
Speaker 1: happy for CP, Happy for book because books careers kind
Speaker 1: of just been on life support over there. But it
Speaker 1: looks like they have some real hope right there and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun to see what they can do
Speaker 1: finishing out the season. Next up, Who's not hot? The
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks are ice cold, losing seven out their last ten.
Speaker 1: They're in the middle of the pack in every important
Speaker 1: statistical category and Jack I could just see this as
Speaker 1: growing pains. This was another team. This was my Phoenix
Speaker 1: Suns of the Eastern Conference. Obviously they didn't grab CP three,
Speaker 1: but I thought this was a year for them to
Speaker 1: kind of break out and make a little bit of
Speaker 1: noise in the East. And they're struggling right now. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, so it's gonna be important for someone to
Speaker 1: step up as that leader. Obviously we know Rondo's over there,
Speaker 1: but Rondo's in and out of the the lineup. They need
Speaker 1: someone who's gonna consistently be playing to kind of take
Speaker 1: that leadership role for that team. Thoughts on this just
Speaker 1: this young team trying to find their identity in their footing.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're exactly right. You know, still got a
Speaker 1: young coach, a young team. They added a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of new players. You know, I didn't I didn't expect
Speaker 1: too much from this team, and it is growing pains.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe they would have to switch the lineup
Speaker 1: of you know, like other teams been doing. Even brookelen
Speaker 1: did it. They moved Kyrie to the two and put
Speaker 1: James at the one, start Rondo and let Trade play
Speaker 1: it too. He might be small, you might have some
Speaker 1: defense and some defensive mismatches, but still, you know, it
Speaker 1: might change the floor of the game. You gotta try
Speaker 1: some different things. But but nobody really expects his team
Speaker 1: to be there at the end. So I think now
Speaker 1: is the time to start experiment so these guys can
Speaker 1: grow and get about these growing things. You no, I agree.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I thought this was gonna be the
Speaker 1: year that people remember, you know, that they kind of
Speaker 1: put themselves on the map as a team on the rise.
Speaker 1: I still think feel like they're you know, two years
Speaker 1: possibly three years really from making noise in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: But I love what you're saying, you know, mix it
Speaker 1: up now. Now is the time to find that chemistry
Speaker 1: in that rhythm, uh, with different lineups and experiments and
Speaker 1: guys in and out. So it would be interesting to
Speaker 1: see how this plays out. You know, anytime you got
Speaker 1: Trey Yo, you've got a chance. You know, there's rumors
Speaker 1: of John Collins once we'll touch on later in the show.
Speaker 1: But I just think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: this is growing pains and them trying to find who
Speaker 1: they are as a team. Someone who is definitely hot
Speaker 1: right now was scary Terry Rosier out there in Charlotte,
Speaker 1: um Jack, I like what this team is doing. Rosier
Speaker 1: in particular, you know, twenty seven points a game in
Speaker 1: the month of February. Um he had to adjust his game.
Speaker 1: With Gordon Hayward coming over, who's you know at about
Speaker 1: twenty three points a game? Mellow? Who is you know?
Speaker 1: My rookie of the year. I think he's just ignited
Speaker 1: that team. They seem like they have a new energetic surge.
Speaker 1: Their enthusiasm, their energy, their effort, all of it is
Speaker 1: off the charge looks like they're having fun. But Terry
Speaker 1: rose Eero is something to take note of. This dude's
Speaker 1: killing them late. Well, you know, and he's and he's
Speaker 1: the best defender, but just the thing, you know, coming in,
Speaker 1: Like you said, these guys had to figure each other out.
Speaker 1: Even the coach had to figure the line of that
Speaker 1: works best. And for me, they finally gave the ball
Speaker 1: to LaMelo. He's your point guard, Scary Terry is your
Speaker 1: to guard, and hey, what is your three guard? Now
Speaker 1: they fit. Now they're starting to figure out where they're
Speaker 1: gonna be, whether minute is gonna be with roads they're
Speaker 1: gonna play. I think though, with those three guys they
Speaker 1: can make the playoffs in the East, maybe a fifth
Speaker 1: of six seed, but the way they playing, they can
Speaker 1: keep it going. They're gonna be a scary team with
Speaker 1: scary Terry, with scary Tarry. Like I said, I love
Speaker 1: the energy. It seems like, you know, obviously there's some
Speaker 1: great pieces over there. But to me, it kind of
Speaker 1: started when Melo was inserted in the starting lineup, and
Speaker 1: I think the energy and the effort and just the
Speaker 1: fun of that team has taken off. So this is good.
Speaker 1: You know, it looks like Mike got got one right
Speaker 1: there with LaMelo. That's a great backcourt between LaMelo and
Speaker 1: uh LaMelo. When Terry Rosier, you know, they've got miles
Speaker 1: bridges with what they call them Airbnb. So they got
Speaker 1: they got, they got some pieces over there, and it's
Speaker 1: just fun to watch this young team figure it out.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously with with Gordon being a vet in
Speaker 1: him kind of finding his foot and get happy for him.
Speaker 1: So you know, Charlotte is is in a good place
Speaker 1: right now and can definitely be a tough first round
Speaker 1: matchup for anybody they play. The week ahead, um as
Speaker 1: Brooklyn's out on their West Coast swing, They're heading to
Speaker 1: l a this week with two tough matchup the Lakers
Speaker 1: and Clippers. Um, you know, Katie is supposed to be
Speaker 1: back for that Laker game on Thursday. Oddly enough, this
Speaker 1: will be if Katie plays. The first time that Katie
Speaker 1: and lebron of match steps since the two thousand and
Speaker 1: eighteen finals UM with Golden State in Cleveland. So this
Speaker 1: will be fun and interesting. You know, with with hamstrings
Speaker 1: and nagging injuries, they like to put numbers on them
Speaker 1: of games, but as players, we know it's all about field,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So hopefully within those two
Speaker 1: games or you know, these two games he has off,
Speaker 1: he's starting to feel better, but you know, I err
Speaker 1: on the side of caution. Um a D is out now,
Speaker 1: obviously we spoke on that with his achilles situation. These
Speaker 1: are two teams we can possibly see at the end. Um,
Speaker 1: missing key guys right now, what do you do your
Speaker 1: thoughts on this game coming up this Thursday? Jack, It's
Speaker 1: gonna be exciting to see Himan. He's still got Kyrie,
Speaker 1: Irving Swerve and Irving and ustill ain't still got James Harden,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So the killer, So I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's still gonna be interesting. But both of
Speaker 1: these teams need to get ahold of these injuries nipped
Speaker 1: them in the bug. Get these guys healthy so they
Speaker 1: can take off running the uh second half of the season,
Speaker 1: and that's what they really need to focus on. Yet,
Speaker 1: these games mean a lot, and these matchups mean a lot,
Speaker 1: and these wins mean a lot right now. But health
Speaker 1: is the most important thing for both of these teams. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: But I think you go back to the luxury of
Speaker 1: having three superstars on one team. You know, obviously Katie
Speaker 1: is a huge part of this team and moving forward,
Speaker 1: they're gonna need him healthy. But you know, when Katie
Speaker 1: goes down, you still forget you have the luxury of
Speaker 1: having Kyrie, who's one of the best players in the world,
Speaker 1: and James Harden. You know, obviously, when the a D
Speaker 1: goes down with the Lakers, that's a big hit because
Speaker 1: it's just the lebron and obviously you know they have
Speaker 1: a very solid team built around them, but they only
Speaker 1: have two stars there. So it'll be interesting to see,
Speaker 1: um if Katie's back, we don't expect a D to
Speaker 1: play UM, But like I said, I'm just excited because
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. There's still a lot
Speaker 1: of talent on that floor, and it's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a great Thursday night game. So they got the Lakers
Speaker 1: Thursday Night. Sunday is the Clippers. Uh. We got a
Speaker 1: great game a few weeks ago in Brooklyn where they
Speaker 1: were able to uh beat the Clippers. But that was
Speaker 1: a special game that went down to the wire. I'm
Speaker 1: excited about this game Sunday because there's so much star
Speaker 1: power in this game, you know, hoping that the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: has all three of their stars. The Clippers are playing
Speaker 1: really well right now. There should be a fun match up.
Speaker 1: You know, there's great matchups across the board in this game.
Speaker 1: It these the teams we want to see play and
Speaker 1: and these teams bring the best side of each other.
Speaker 1: If you remember last game in Brooklyn, as you spoke up,
Speaker 1: we see James get down and make a stop at
Speaker 1: the end of the game, I take a tough shot.
Speaker 1: Kyrie was unbelievable in that fourth quarter. What he's known
Speaker 1: to do take over games, and nobody couldn't stop Katie.
Speaker 1: Katie was just the easiest sniper, you know, getting this
Speaker 1: points easy, doing the whole game. But seeing it's sit
Speaker 1: in round two. I think the clip is gonna be
Speaker 1: more inspired to get this dub at home. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be another good game for us to watch. I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna miss it. I like where the Clippers are sitting. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I said last year, being a former Clipper,
Speaker 1: there was too much hype on the Clippers. They're not
Speaker 1: used to hear in championship, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: We gotta take baby steps when I say we obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, because I was a part of their organization.
Speaker 1: But I like where they're sitting. You know, they're in
Speaker 1: the third spot right now. Utah is making a lot
Speaker 1: of headlines with the best record in the league. The
Speaker 1: Lakers are the Lakers, but the Clippers are consistently playing
Speaker 1: good basketball right now that they got their chemistry down. Uh,
Speaker 1: Tyler's got those guys playing at the top of their game.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna be a great matchup on Sunday. Um,
Speaker 1: Like we saw a great one in Brooklyn, I expect
Speaker 1: the one in l A to be nothing, uh, nothing
Speaker 1: less than great. And I'm excited about the game, So
Speaker 1: we have to check that out on Sunday. Continuing to
Speaker 1: look ahead, Utah has headed to Hollywood this week, Jack
Speaker 1: with two big matchups against the Clippers. Uh Man, Utah
Speaker 1: has been playing their asses off. Salute to Quinn Snyder
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell, and we both said it when Shaq did
Speaker 1: what he did a few weeks ago. Some people took
Speaker 1: it as disrespect, hate, whatever, but we both thought it
Speaker 1: would be motivation. And since then, Uh Donovan Mitchell has
Speaker 1: been on fire. His team has been on fire, shooting,
Speaker 1: shooting a three ball at a record pace. Um, defenses
Speaker 1: number two in the league, offenses number four in the league.
Speaker 1: And this guy's chemistry is really clicking, you know. Like
Speaker 1: I said, we said it before, said to me, they
Speaker 1: just remind me so much of those San Antonio Spurs teams,
Speaker 1: obviously minus a Tim Duncan figure, but just the situation
Speaker 1: and in the way these guys Jael and play together. Um,
Speaker 1: do you think they can come out here and get
Speaker 1: two against the Clippers? Man, I don't know, but these
Speaker 1: are the games that they should have circle of their calendar, Lakers, Clippers, Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: all the top teams. Yeah, y'all rolling right now, y'all
Speaker 1: getting up to the best start of anybody in the
Speaker 1: league right now, And that's good. Y'all put yourselves in
Speaker 1: a great position, but it does not matter if you
Speaker 1: can't beat these teams and you can't compete with these
Speaker 1: teams comes into the season. So these are the measurement
Speaker 1: games for them. You know, Like I said, I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to downplay the great start they'd be having,
Speaker 1: uh kudos to coach Schneider, But these games against the Lakers, Clippers,
Speaker 1: teams like that, these are games they really got a
Speaker 1: circle and buckle down because this this they test, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be to tell where they where they're gonna
Speaker 1: be at the end of the season. Yeah, no, I agree.
Speaker 1: You know, it's all about the playoffs. Um, this team
Speaker 1: has been steady throughout the regular season for the past
Speaker 1: few years and stumbled in the playoffs and people kind
Speaker 1: of you know, some people agree with some people look
Speaker 1: at me crazy. It's like, you know, does Utah make
Speaker 1: a play before the trade deadline? You know, obviously their
Speaker 1: chemistry is great and normally you don't want to mess
Speaker 1: that up. But although they're playing this well, I still
Speaker 1: feel like they're they're they're missing that piece. And that's
Speaker 1: with all due respect to everyone who's playing well on
Speaker 1: that team. I just kind of still feel like they're
Speaker 1: missing that piece. I hope they proved me wrong. But
Speaker 1: this will be a great test um getting you know,
Speaker 1: two games in a row against the Clippers in l A.
Speaker 1: You know someone would that we would that we figure
Speaker 1: will be there, uh come playoff time and the Clippers.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna be a great matchup and really
Speaker 1: a good measuring stick. But you know, Utah is the
Speaker 1: hottest team in the league right now, and it's they're
Speaker 1: fun to watch. Headline looming. There's definitely some people who
Speaker 1: are being talked about a lot, and we'll start with
Speaker 1: Zach Levine, someone who's having an absolute career season twenty
Speaker 1: eight points a game from the field, forty from the three,
Speaker 1: six from the line, so he's flirting with that fifty
Speaker 1: forty nine. His team is on the outside looking in. Jack.
Speaker 1: Is Lavine someone they're gonna build around or is he
Speaker 1: someone they're gonna be able to trade and get a
Speaker 1: lot of good assets for to build around their younger core. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't think the Bulls know what they're doing. I
Speaker 1: think we need the body to give them some ideas.
Speaker 1: They don't know what they're doing. And if I was Zach.
Speaker 1: I would trade the Bulls. I wouldn't let them trade me.
Speaker 1: I would trade them. Uh. He's having a hell of
Speaker 1: a year, Matt, a career year. I think he needs
Speaker 1: to be somewhere we can help in contempt for a championship. Man.
Speaker 1: This kid doesn't need to be wasting these years and
Speaker 1: with the Bulls because they have no idea what they're
Speaker 1: doing over there. And hopefully he can get somewhere with
Speaker 1: where they appreciate his talents, because this kid is something special.
Speaker 1: Ship I can't even say what I mean. I'm with you,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm happy to see how well he's playing,
Speaker 1: but would love to see him help a contender. You know,
Speaker 1: he never really had a real opportunity to play on
Speaker 1: a winning team or for a winning franchise at this point.
Speaker 1: Um so that now he's at the top of his game,
Speaker 1: I'd love to see it. Next up Bradley Bill, who's
Speaker 1: leading the league at nearly thirty three points a game.
Speaker 1: Team isn't going anywhere, obviously, his name has been thrown
Speaker 1: around with a few teams Utah, as we mentioned earlier Denver,
Speaker 1: but why like like we continue to say he's always
Speaker 1: gonna say and do the right thing. So publicly he's
Speaker 1: saying he wants to be a Wizard. Um, but the
Speaker 1: Wizards really aren't going anywhere. So do they try to
Speaker 1: trade him because obviously right now you'll be able to
Speaker 1: get a lot for him, or you know, do they
Speaker 1: write out this storm and you know he continues to
Speaker 1: put up amazing numbers on a terrible team. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we know he can fit in anywhere and he's super special.
Speaker 1: It just really depends on where you know that that
Speaker 1: that they're trying to trade him to and where, you
Speaker 1: know what, what options he has as far as as
Speaker 1: winning the losing, because he can easily get traded to
Speaker 1: a team where he's in the same situation he's in
Speaker 1: in Washington. So, you know, I I understand what he's doing.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna burn my bridges, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It said, I want to get out of here and
Speaker 1: go to somewhere worse. You know, I've been here, my
Speaker 1: family's here. You know, I'm I'm I've been here in
Speaker 1: my whole career. So you know, I just really just
Speaker 1: see how things are playing out and continue to do
Speaker 1: my job. And that's what he's doing. Man, he's he's
Speaker 1: definitely the best player, having the best season in any
Speaker 1: player in the league right now. Yeah, I mean a
Speaker 1: consummate pro, someone who does the right thing on and
Speaker 1: off the court. Um. So as far as far as
Speaker 1: just with his individually achieving, I love to see it,
Speaker 1: but I know it's got to be frustrating. You know,
Speaker 1: his wife tweeted out something a few weeks ago that
Speaker 1: they're tired of it. So although they're saying everything right publicly, Um,
Speaker 1: who knows what's going on behind the scenes. But like
Speaker 1: I said, I would love to see him getting in
Speaker 1: a situation where he could really contend for a title.
Speaker 1: The Hawks have a big decision. Uh. You know, there's
Speaker 1: talks about trading John Collins um to me, which doesn't
Speaker 1: seem smart. Um, he's at eighteen points nearly eight rebounds
Speaker 1: from the field. Obviously his numbers are a little down
Speaker 1: now because they've added some frontline depth in Capella and
Speaker 1: a few other guys. Uh, Jack, do they pay him
Speaker 1: or did they trade him and get some assets for him?
Speaker 1: I think they're asking for a lottery pick for him.
Speaker 1: So thoughts on John Collins. You won't get a lottery pick,
Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, but one thing I like is that
Speaker 1: the Hawks are not pulling the auto porter. They're just
Speaker 1: not gonna throw somebody in a hundred million dollars. Thank
Speaker 1: you for for appreciating your hard earn money to a
Speaker 1: lot of Hawks. Because look at this, like you just said, Matt,
Speaker 1: they got Cappella, they can they can get rid of
Speaker 1: him and get some more piece that then too. Let's
Speaker 1: be honest, his game is limited. He's a great athlete,
Speaker 1: but he only can do so much out there, and
Speaker 1: him and Trade do have a great chemistry. But you
Speaker 1: have Cappella who does more on the court. So he's
Speaker 1: definitely expendable and they can get something for him. But
Speaker 1: I'm glad they didn't pay him becase that would have
Speaker 1: been a big mistake. But I want all these young
Speaker 1: men to get their money. But in Atlanta, now y'all
Speaker 1: trying to win, you gotta go. You gotta use that
Speaker 1: money somewhere else. So you think trade him before the
Speaker 1: deadline and get some assets. Yes, yeah, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to wait and see. I mean, that's that's where you're at,
Speaker 1: that's where you lay your head. You know that team
Speaker 1: pretty well, so it'll be interesting to see what kind
Speaker 1: of moves they make with him? Like I said, I
Speaker 1: think he's a young, up and coming talent. Um game
Speaker 1: hasn't fully developed yet, but he's still young, you know,
Speaker 1: so he's got some time. So we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: wait to see what they do with him. Are they
Speaker 1: gonna pay him or they're gonna get some pieces for
Speaker 1: him before the trade deadline. Someone else who there's talks
Speaker 1: around is Kevin Love. He's only played two games this season,
Speaker 1: but hasn't played more than sixty games since the two
Speaker 1: thousand seventeen season. Healthy, He's definitely someone who can help
Speaker 1: a contender, but he hasn't seemed to be healthy then.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's just not wanting to play
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. They paid him that big bread. Since Lebron's left,
Speaker 1: that team has been in a ship hole. Um, so
Speaker 1: is he just saving his legs for someone to comes
Speaker 1: save him or are these injuries starting to catch up
Speaker 1: with him? And then also Andre Drummond, the Calves have
Speaker 1: decided not to play him anymore until they can find
Speaker 1: a trade partners. So they got to highly paid pieces
Speaker 1: sitting on that bench. What do they do with them?
Speaker 1: Jack Well, is anybody in the NBA L cool J
Speaker 1: because he the only one I know need love Kevin
Speaker 1: Love and he played no. I don't know how long
Speaker 1: you know. Okay, we've I've seen we played, and I've
Speaker 1: seen Kevin Love give Blake Griffin forty points in tw rebounds,
Speaker 1: so I've seen that. But he's not that Kevin no more,
Speaker 1: and he hasn't been playing it. I don't think, you know,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to take on that big contract for a
Speaker 1: guy that they don't know if he's gonna be healthy
Speaker 1: or not. I'm a big time Kevin Love and he
Speaker 1: hasn't played. But I just don't I just don't see
Speaker 1: a team breaking it back to pick up Kevin Love Drummond.
Speaker 1: He's an energy guy. He can he has to find
Speaker 1: out where he's gonna play his role at. You're not
Speaker 1: a star, Okay, you're not. You're not a two guys
Speaker 1: and I gonna drop the ball down to you twenty
Speaker 1: times a game, drumming. You're a great athlete. You need
Speaker 1: to start watching uh DJ with Brooklyn. How he plays,
Speaker 1: he rebounds, he catch lives, and he's an energy guy.
Speaker 1: I think once he comes into that role and realize
Speaker 1: he's not a drop down guy like in Beat, I
Speaker 1: think he'll start coming into his own as a player.
Speaker 1: Somebody has to bring up down to reality. Now. I
Speaker 1: think that's a great point. And do you risk picking
Speaker 1: up Kevin Love with his you know, his injury record
Speaker 1: and then to drum and I think it starts back
Speaker 1: in the summertime because I like drumming. But everything I
Speaker 1: see of him in the summer, he's trying to play
Speaker 1: point guard and and and and and doing that. But
Speaker 1: that's not what he's really gonna play in the summer.
Speaker 1: And that's why I get, you know, I think with
Speaker 1: some of these guys in the summertime, like work on
Speaker 1: know your role, work on what you're gonna do in
Speaker 1: the game, like you're seven ft you're never gonna be.
Speaker 1: And this is not hating on him or we love
Speaker 1: to see everyone expand their game, but it's just not
Speaker 1: game like as Rico hunts, but saying like, no, you're
Speaker 1: a big picture, No your role, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: work on things you know you're gonna get to do
Speaker 1: in the game. And I think DeAndre Jordan is a
Speaker 1: great example. And I'll tell you a funny story I
Speaker 1: talked to DJ about that because when he started getting
Speaker 1: a little bit better with the Clippers, he wanted more touches.
Speaker 1: And the way I broke it down to alms like
Speaker 1: look at Tyson Chandler in New York. All he does
Speaker 1: is grab Rebrowns, block shots, ketch Lablin. He's an All Star,
Speaker 1: he's on the Olympic team, and he gets paid well.
Speaker 1: And you're a better athlete than him, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: go take that to heart and do what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: So someone needs to have a heart to heart with
Speaker 1: drum Me because there is a lot of talent there,
Speaker 1: but I think he has to focus it and tunnel
Speaker 1: it on what is actually gonna happen in the game
Speaker 1: and not thinking that he's a guard or someone that's
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of touches. You've gotta be able
Speaker 1: to find your work with inside the game. But, like
Speaker 1: I said, two highly paid pieces sitting on that Cleveland bench,
Speaker 1: it will be interesting to see what happens with both
Speaker 1: of them come Trade Deadline. All right, back with one
Speaker 1: of our favorite segments, fan questions, Jack, Let's get to
Speaker 1: it first. Up, Smokey Bail. If the league was planning
Speaker 1: to expand, what cities would you like to see an
Speaker 1: NBA franchise started in um me, I would just go
Speaker 1: back to the two cities. I'm familiar, Seattle in Vancouver.
Speaker 1: I enjoy both of them cities. Way we leave wing
Speaker 1: both those cities. They got a great tree in both
Speaker 1: those cities. I love Seattle. We got a chance to
Speaker 1: play there with the Warriors. I think was that Katie's
Speaker 1: rookie year. That was like right before they moved. Um.
Speaker 1: I love Seattle. Never got a chance to go to Vancouver,
Speaker 1: but I heard a lot of great things. But I
Speaker 1: completely agree with you. If they were gonna pick up
Speaker 1: two cities, those are the two cities I pick up
Speaker 1: right there. That's an easy call. Fan question number two
Speaker 1: Michael m Villa. Do you think the Spurs can get
Speaker 1: into the postseason? Are the playing tournament in the tough
Speaker 1: Western Conference? I do. I think they're sitting in six
Speaker 1: right now in the West. Um, you know, I think
Speaker 1: getting in they should be able to do that. You
Speaker 1: never want to underestimate a pop team. I don't see
Speaker 1: them really making noise once they get in, But I
Speaker 1: just love the way they got De John Murray playing. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the mar de Rosen is doing what he do, but
Speaker 1: those two have been playing extremely well this year, and
Speaker 1: you know, there are a team that no one's talking
Speaker 1: about sitting at six. So that said, you know, hats
Speaker 1: off to popping what they've been able to do. But
Speaker 1: if they get in, I don't really see them making
Speaker 1: much noise outside the first round. Next question from Stinky
Speaker 1: Danky Underscore seven. Why is Johanna's not getting any m
Speaker 1: v P love cover in the conversation this year? It's
Speaker 1: all Lebron, Joki Embiid and k d Well because I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people have seen I think he's
Speaker 1: reached the selling. You know, people want to see him
Speaker 1: get to that championship. People want to see him be
Speaker 1: a chap raised that troph and get to the next level,
Speaker 1: and he hasn't. We've seen so many players that's regular
Speaker 1: season players come come come through the league, you know,
Speaker 1: and they get their accolades, but they never they never
Speaker 1: become champions. Yeah, he's been an m v P but
Speaker 1: now people are like, Okay, yeah, you're good, but we
Speaker 1: want to see the next level. We haven't seen that,
Speaker 1: so there's no need for him to be an MVP
Speaker 1: conversation no more. I mean, I completely agree. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, we debated on this on the Jump a lot,
Speaker 1: where you know the m VP is based off just
Speaker 1: the regular season, but I think people are starting to
Speaker 1: smarten up to me, you can't be an m VP
Speaker 1: if in the playoffs down the stretch, I can't go
Speaker 1: to you for a bucket, like name a number the
Speaker 1: MVP he and the history of the game where he's
Speaker 1: not the go to guy or at least one a
Speaker 1: you know with Shaq and Kobe is a little different.
Speaker 1: But outside of those two, how can you not be
Speaker 1: able to go to the m v P down the
Speaker 1: stretch to get you a bucket when the game was
Speaker 1: on the line. And unfortunately Janice hasn't developed that side
Speaker 1: of his game. Now now he's one of the most
Speaker 1: scariest players we've seen in the history of the game
Speaker 1: in transition with the ball in his hands attacking the rim,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about that. But we all know with
Speaker 1: playoffs game by game adjustments shutting that pain down. Once
Speaker 1: you shut that paint down, you really slow him down
Speaker 1: and you forced everyone else to do stuff they're not
Speaker 1: necessarily accustomed to doing, which is stepping into that leader role.
Speaker 1: As far as the leading score So I I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with him not being discussed as the
Speaker 1: m v P, because you know, he's one of the
Speaker 1: great towns in the league. But he's not the best
Speaker 1: player in the game to me, and he's not someone
Speaker 1: you can go to down the stretch in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And to me, that's what the m v P is,
Speaker 1: someone that can take his team at least to the
Speaker 1: conference finals, if not the finals, especially with kad back.
Speaker 1: Especially with Kadi back. Next fan question sports w Underscore Chris,
Speaker 1: how important do you think a good veteran is to
Speaker 1: a team's success? This is a great question, and it's
Speaker 1: unfortunate because they don't have Vets no more. The league
Speaker 1: continues to get younger and younger, and we first came in,
Speaker 1: there was always always Vets on every team. Those guys
Speaker 1: are around thirty thirty six, you know, played fourteen fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Whether they're still getting minutes or not, they're very important
Speaker 1: to the development of the young players, important to the
Speaker 1: team staying on track, and just all around good guys.
Speaker 1: And you know they're still guys out there that could
Speaker 1: be that. You know, Jamal Crawford's and and and and
Speaker 1: you know, guys like that, but they're just not getting
Speaker 1: a chanceing more because the league is so young. So
Speaker 1: I think it's unfortunately they don't have real vets on
Speaker 1: the teams anymore that you know, help you know, bridge
Speaker 1: the gap with new players and just kind of keeping
Speaker 1: the team as a whole in focus. Last question from
Speaker 1: Proof Underscore Greg, funniest non basketball story you've had while
Speaker 1: traveling with your team pro It's just pro for you
Speaker 1: because you never went to college, so it says proer college. Well,
Speaker 1: I gotta ship. It's funny to me. Uh. I mean
Speaker 1: when I was in Charlotte, Man, when we had UH
Speaker 1: at a game. We had to leave that night to
Speaker 1: go on the West Coast, and you know how long
Speaker 1: that flight is, and I got out of the locker
Speaker 1: room late, so you know, I like the smoke I
Speaker 1: get on the plane. You know what I'm saying, smoke.
Speaker 1: We wanted to you know, it's a matter of fact.
Speaker 1: I'm a matter of fact man. We was on the
Speaker 1: road for getting ready to go West Coast and uh
Speaker 1: as as as we get as we take the bus
Speaker 1: to the airport, we're about to get off, and I'm geeking,
Speaker 1: So I'm like man, what can I do? Bro? I
Speaker 1: went in the bathroom on the bus. Who lit up
Speaker 1: to my four? Look to my four? Five pulls? And
Speaker 1: I walked out right. And as I walked out, you
Speaker 1: know the bus driver always always is off the bus helping,
Speaker 1: you know, with the bags and stuff, getting the bags
Speaker 1: on the plane. So as I get off, I'm walking
Speaker 1: up the steps on the plane, I look back and
Speaker 1: I see him coming out the bathroom. Bro, here is
Speaker 1: so mad dog oh man, But look at least he
Speaker 1: was high. He got a contact. I was high for
Speaker 1: the rest of my flight, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's one of my crazy stories, man, And that's a win.
Speaker 1: I remember ship in Golden State where used to used
Speaker 1: to bring that Louis backpack and you didn't give it
Speaker 1: smelled like you would just throw the wheat in there.
Speaker 1: We didn't even smell like there's in a plastic bag.
Speaker 1: So this niked Jack would walk through the whole plane
Speaker 1: and I'd see him walk through the uh where the
Speaker 1: media is at, and they would kind of smell it
Speaker 1: and look at each other. Then need motherfucker walked through
Speaker 1: the coaching section, and you know, Nellie didn't give a funk.
Speaker 1: But the rest of coach would kind of look and
Speaker 1: he'd get up to us, and it's so loud. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there like, goddamn, bro, did you just pour the
Speaker 1: wheat inside your Louis bagas or is it in a ziplock? Like?
Speaker 1: What is it? But Jackie used to carry around this
Speaker 1: brown Louie bag just smelled like a dope sack. I
Speaker 1: used to have my ship vacuum sealed, or I'd have
Speaker 1: it in an extra baggy with either coffee or fabric softener.
Speaker 1: Jack didn't give a funk about disguising to smell at all.
Speaker 1: Jackie like funk it. I'd contract. I negotiated my own
Speaker 1: contract on this team. I'm just gonna walk on this
Speaker 1: bitch with weed in my pockets. I don't give a fund.
Speaker 1: That's what you get when you let me play in California. Man, Hey,
Speaker 1: we believe documentary is in your works. You'll be ready
Speaker 1: for It's gonna be fun. What's burning? Quick Hitters? The
Speaker 1: Portland's supporting cast has really stepped up since Nurkics and
Speaker 1: c J McCullum went down. Headed by Carmelo Anthony. He
Speaker 1: thought about nearly nineteen points a game over the last
Speaker 1: seven or eight games. We spoke about it a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago. He passed Oscar Robinson for twelve all time.
Speaker 1: Jackie's surprised by what Melow's doing. I know, I'm not
Speaker 1: not at all. Man. We knew what he could do.
Speaker 1: He's still driving by guys still, Duncan Melo loves to
Speaker 1: play basketball, and not too many people work hard in
Speaker 1: the off season, So I'm not surprised he's gonna He's
Speaker 1: a future Hall of Famer. Like you said, he's continuing
Speaker 1: to get better. I'm not surprised with Mellow at all.
Speaker 1: Keeping keep in mind, he's only two five points away
Speaker 1: from passing the Chema A one in the eleventh spot.
Speaker 1: This dude is gonna be a top ten score of
Speaker 1: all time by the time it's said and done, I think,
Speaker 1: and I just love to see it. Um Next up,
Speaker 1: Cantor stepped up huge for Nurkics. Been a double double machine,
Speaker 1: nearly a thirteen rebounds a game. I love with his
Speaker 1: toughness brings to that team. Yeah, I mean that, that's
Speaker 1: the big part of his game. He don't back down
Speaker 1: from the body. You see the other day he took
Speaker 1: an elbow, was licking the blood off his face. He
Speaker 1: had animal man, you know, and he come from a
Speaker 1: rough background, so you know, he shouldn't be afraid of anything.
Speaker 1: He's going out there. He's demanding his presence in the
Speaker 1: paint and that's something they need right right now with
Speaker 1: guys down. So it's playing wealth for him. Definitely. Uh.
Speaker 1: Gary Trent Jr. Someone who played really well in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: struggled at the beginning of the season, but is that
Speaker 1: nearly twenty points a game over the last eleven stepping
Speaker 1: in for C. J. McCullum. I love when guys you
Speaker 1: don't anticipate doing well just kind of step up and
Speaker 1: do their thing. And he's definitely someone that plays on
Speaker 1: both end of the ball, shoots the ship out of
Speaker 1: the three ball, and plays defense. Yeah. Well, the two
Speaker 1: guys we're talking about are both fielders guys you know,
Speaker 1: look at we're talking by Garrett Trent Jr. His dad
Speaker 1: was a fearless guy, a guy did everybody respect this,
Speaker 1: so he has that same DNA. So both of these
Speaker 1: guys are tough guys that they need right now with
Speaker 1: guys down, and when when they get to add those
Speaker 1: stars back, this team can really make some guards in
Speaker 1: the West. You know, this is something that no one
Speaker 1: ever talks about. But Portland's just has terrible luck with
Speaker 1: injuries because, like we're talking about their supporting castles stepping
Speaker 1: up and playing well for guys that are very talented.
Speaker 1: Obviously with Nurkicchen and c J mcculluman, if they can
Speaker 1: ever just all stay healthy at the same time, they
Speaker 1: have one of the most talented rosters in the NBA.
Speaker 1: So we hope both these guys can come back healthy
Speaker 1: and these guys that have stepped up in their absence
Speaker 1: continuing their good play. Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: make a statement last week saying that they will not
Speaker 1: play the anthem before the games. The NBA stepped in
Speaker 1: and put that fire out. Um. I love what Cuban
Speaker 1: was thinking, because if you know the history of the
Speaker 1: song the anthem, it's the bullshit. But the NBA stepped in.
Speaker 1: Jack thoughts on that shout out to Mark Cuban, man,
Speaker 1: and absolutely I appreciate them for having a gust to
Speaker 1: do it and and be a leader. But he said
Speaker 1: the key thing that nobody's saying. I talked to my community.
Speaker 1: He talked to his community before he made that decision,
Speaker 1: and nobody stands behind that. This is not the land
Speaker 1: of the free. You know, this is not the land
Speaker 1: of the free. You know, nobody and a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't stand behind the national anthem. I just slude
Speaker 1: him for for jumping out there, you know, and and
Speaker 1: and and listening to the people around him, the people
Speaker 1: he worked with, the people that support him, and and
Speaker 1: let everybody have a say so on that decision. Mark
Speaker 1: Cuban has always been on the front lines and always
Speaker 1: been awoke when it comes to social issues. So I
Speaker 1: definitely respect his movement and what he's about in the
Speaker 1: efforts he had to, like you said, listen to his community,
Speaker 1: but you know, the NBA thought otherwise. But definitely salute
Speaker 1: to Mark Cuban for thinking outside the box and really
Speaker 1: caring about what people around him think in the midst
Speaker 1: of Black History months. Jack, I know we both watched
Speaker 1: Black Messiah this weekend. Shout out to us, Shaka King
Speaker 1: and my brother Ryan Klueger for a beautiful film. Thoughts
Speaker 1: on that film because I watched that ship last night
Speaker 1: and they had my fist clinched the whole time, hey Man,
Speaker 1: shout out to them brothers man of film. That definitely
Speaker 1: was needed the next film, I need to roll in it. Um.
Speaker 1: But but I think, Matt, I I want to just
Speaker 1: start the whole movie over and watch it again, you know,
Speaker 1: especially with everything that that that transpired in my life
Speaker 1: the last year, you know, and and me meeting people
Speaker 1: you know that that that that lived their life similar
Speaker 1: to Fred happened Hampton, with my with my friend Zeke
Speaker 1: and Detroit. So I think just the story being told,
Speaker 1: how they was treated, how they stood, you know, and
Speaker 1: and and and the connections, how he brought everybody together.
Speaker 1: All this stuff needed to all this stuff needed to
Speaker 1: be told, man. And and I'm glad I was educating it.
Speaker 1: And it was more motivation for me to see the
Speaker 1: things that I've been doing and know, I'm a lot
Speaker 1: of things that I'm doing. I'm doing it like some
Speaker 1: of the greats, and I'm doing I'm doing it in
Speaker 1: the in the right way. Man. This is good to
Speaker 1: see for me. It was refreshing. Yeah, it was beautiful
Speaker 1: to see this story told. Obviously they've been trying to
Speaker 1: hide this story for years. To think that Fred Hampton
Speaker 1: was only twenty one when he was executed. Um, assassinated,
Speaker 1: but the Rainbow Coalition, you know what I mean. He
Speaker 1: took a lot of chances and going into areas that
Speaker 1: normal people wouldn't go in to bring people together. It
Speaker 1: didn't matter your color, and that's what I loved and
Speaker 1: I think that's what they fear. Um. I hope this
Speaker 1: this film gets the critical acclaim it deserves because most
Speaker 1: of the times when you highlight the bullshit the cops
Speaker 1: have been on, the usually try to sweep in movie
Speaker 1: to the back. But this movie was definitely a statement.
Speaker 1: It was a message, is something that everyone needs to
Speaker 1: be seen, and it just, you know, it confirmed on
Speaker 1: you know, policing was built on racism, and we're still
Speaker 1: you know that that that film took place, and I think,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, was a time period they captured
Speaker 1: that and here we are in one with the same
Speaker 1: kind of bullshit still going on. So I love that
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff is being brought to light. We
Speaker 1: need to educate ourselves on this. You know something else
Speaker 1: that I thought was crazy, and it's kind of a
Speaker 1: side note. I think in Utah parents were allowed to
Speaker 1: take their kids out of black history and that ship
Speaker 1: just tripped me out because are we allowed to be
Speaker 1: taken out the white history. They a lot that they
Speaker 1: lie to us about, but they're giving parents in Utah
Speaker 1: the option for their children to opt out of Black history,
Speaker 1: which is crazy. So I love the fact that they're
Speaker 1: finally starting to teach Black history, but it just shows
Speaker 1: what kind of country we're in where that the school
Speaker 1: is going to give parents the option to not let
Speaker 1: their kids learn Black history, but they don't give us
Speaker 1: the option not to learn the bullshit they're trying to
Speaker 1: teach us. So I think we've come far, but we
Speaker 1: still have a long way to go. And this is
Speaker 1: just a beautiful film. Again, big shout out to Shaka
Speaker 1: King and Ryan Coogler on a great film. I hope
Speaker 1: it gets the praise and eyeballs and recognition to deserve
Speaker 1: because it's something that needs to be shown, it needs
Speaker 1: to be told, and they did a great job of
Speaker 1: doing that. And everybody that loved this film, especially us
Speaker 1: the people, we gotta support it because, like Matt said,
Speaker 1: a lot of time they try to overshadow and try
Speaker 1: to hide stories like this and try to hide the truth.
Speaker 1: But if we can continue to support these people and
Speaker 1: change and that if it stand up with movies like this.
Speaker 1: Then we'll continue to learn the truth. That's a rap
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