WEBVTT - Trysta At 2022 NBA Summer League 1 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:12.680 On this episode of The Heat Check, Katie goes completely dark. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.119 I will explain what that means for the Nets. Bradley 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.759 Beale signed his extension that can only be mean one thing, 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.600 and it's probably not what you think. Donovan Mitchell apparently 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:27.960 is not forcing Utah to trade him yet and I 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.240 think I know why. And I also solve the mystery 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.760 of an anonymous hit piece in the New York Post 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:41.360 today on Portland Trailblazer's owner Jody Allen. Oh, yes, of course, 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.839 because we are here live in Las Vegas. I will 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.040 also break down all of my initial thoughts from the 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.760 happenings of the first day of Summer League. Can't wait 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.279 to get into it, so brock to it fast. Go 0:00:52.320 --> 0:01:02.160 ahead and drop that beat. So let's get into a 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:07.800 little news around the NBA. Kadie my man Kevin Durant 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:13.280 has gone completely dark, and in his absence, the Nets 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.240 have become I don't know, the Nets have become a 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:22.679 thirteen year old with NBA two K in franchise mode 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.320 and they're just trying to swap one player for an 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.880 entire team. They're also like who you experience all the 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.000 time if you play fantasy football and you've got that 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.560 one guy in the league who thinks that he can 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:40.560 trade you Alvin Kamara for like Matt Stafford and Josh 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:46.760 Jacobs and Darren Wallers like my g No. The latest 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:52.600 is that they tried to convince the Minnesota Timberwolves to 0:01:52.720 --> 0:02:00.880 give up aunt Cat and four first round picks for Katie. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.960 I'm sorry, what you so? What? Click? That's one of 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:10.519 those Hey, what's up, Seana? It's uh a rod and 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.639 it's uh, who's run? Tim Conley? It's Tim? What's up? Uh? 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.040 You won't excuse me? What? Click? That's like that's an 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.760 immediate go fuck yourself? So why would the Wolves or 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.440 Kevin Durant sign off on that? Like why would DLO 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.760 and Kevin Durant remix in this alternate universe where Kadie 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.519 was in assign a trade for Dlo, who's also in 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.040 a sign of a trade, Like why would Kevin Durant 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:41.639 want to play with Jaden McDaniels h d Loo And 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.840 like nas read, he wouldn't like you wouldn't. It doesn't 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.200 help anyone other than the Nets in this case. And 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.320 and first of all, if you get Nets, if you 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.520 are the Nets and you get Karl Anthony Towns and 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.919 Aunt Edwards for Kevin Durant. There are no picks being 0:02:55.960 --> 0:03:01.280 exchanged exchanged, There is absolutely none. You get player Edwards 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.320 is probably Michael Jordan. Have the nets ever seen him play? 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.600 I don't know, like because it's he's the next Jordan. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.160 I'm not giving you baby Jordan for a thirty plus 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.880 guy who probably doesn't want to play in Minnesota anyway. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.080 And Brian Windhorse hit it on the head when he 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.799 said this, and I thought to myself, we got to 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.160 talk about this. The market does not want to pay 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.720 a super premium price for Kevin rand because if he 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.919 trade all away these top assets on your team begin him, 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.240 he becomes then less valuable to you because you're no 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.760 longer a contender. And all of that is a golf 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.360 and why we are in a stalemate right now, and 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.320 you could have one for a while. And the latest 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.480 now is also that there's no Kyrie trade until Kevin's traded. 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.800 So Kai is gonna just sit there and rot even 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.760 though he's out in the in I want to say, 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:54.000 he's in La playing in the valley. In all these 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.160 NBA leagues, he's chopping it up with all the stars 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.800 he's given them buckets, proven that he's one of the 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.320 best scores on Earth, and you know what, for the Nets, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:07.200 it doesn't matter. And for Kevin, people want to know. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.800 Players are reaching out to him, agents are reaching out 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:13.560 to him, Teams are reaching out to him, not answering, 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.920 not answering calls, not answering texts, not answering emails, barely 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.680 even responding to tweets, which we know he loves to do. 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:25.760 And it's all essentially in rich Clement's hands now. So no, obviously, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.000 no Kevin Durant cameos in Summer League. It would appear 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.080 haven't seen him, haven't heard about him. It would appear 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.839 this is going to drag on for some time. WOJ 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.039 thinks it's going to going all is going, WOG thinks 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.680 it's going to go all the way up into a 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.800 training camp. That would be gross. This has got the 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.240 whole league on hold, and of course the trade could 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.040 drop at any moment, so you got to keep those 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:52.400 alerts on for that very reason. Moving on, let's move on. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:57.520 Brad Beal. Brad Bial signed his five year, two hundred 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:07.880 and fifty one million dollar extension with the Wizards. I 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.720 gotta say for him, Go get your money, my guy, 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.120 do you deserve it? Take those money and then just 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.800 hang out in DC. And we know that he's loyal. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.479 But here's the kicker. Bradley Beal asked for and got 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.719 a no trade clause in his contract. He's the only 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.640 current player in the league with that in his contract. 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.880 And Ted leonsis the owner of the Wizards, owner of 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.200 what is it, monumental Monumental Sports, says that he does 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.800 not want to be traded and we don't want to 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.720 trade him. All that sounds nice. On Friday, July eight, 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:48.560 twenty twenty two, we'll see how this goes. In July eighth, 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:53.520 twenty twenty six, we'll see when he's thirty years old. 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.960 Leons says he sees this as a partnership and now 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.680 the Wizards can't don't bill for a boatload of picks 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.760 without his say so, which is you know, smart business 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.640 for Bio in the NBA. You can't end up in Sacramento, 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:08.920 right like he is going to be able to pick 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:13.080 his next destination when when he comes to grips with 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:17.080 what we all know and Brock knows that he will 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:21.720 never win anything in Washington. He will never make it 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:26.560 past the first round. Again, I said it. And let's 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.760 be clear about something here. This is no shade on 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.040 Bradley Beal when I say this. But when he signed 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:38.800 this extension super Max no trade clause, I'm all in 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.799 no player option. That was the moment that I knew 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:48.080 Bradley Beal does not prioritize winning a championship. It's not 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.240 He's not going to win a title in Washington, and 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.840 any smart person can see this. The team is a mess. 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.680 The team is so messy that there's not really much 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.760 of a chance that they even will make the playoffs 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.400 this year. Their idea of giving Beal pieces to help 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:09.560 him was to sign Monty Morris, Will or Monte Will Barton, 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:15.239 the Lawn Wright junior. They drafted Johnny Davis, which means, folks, 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.320 that this team has signed four guys who either have 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:25.240 or currently play the shooting guard position, which is the 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:30.400 exact same position that Bradley Beal plays. I don't know. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.000 I mean, of course, Morris and Wright can play the point. 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.160 And basically what you're saying is that the Wizards added 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.480 a pair of backup point guards. Monty Morris at thirteen 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.040 and four right at four and two, and then basically said, 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.760 Bradley Beal, you go ahead and carry the load. You 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.120 go ahead and be the point guard. Make Johnny Davis 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.320 the two. And we know that Bradley Beal is loyal, 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.160 but we also know Bradley Beal is smart and signing 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.080 with the Wizards right now with a baby on the 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.720 way is a smart business move and it's a smart 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.480 life move. It's just not the one that's going to 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.520 give him a title. And that's facts, and that's okay. 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.920 He'll be thirty four years old when his extension is finished, 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.760 and so that's maybe when he decides to go chase 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.720 a ring. Like everybody else, I don't hate it. He's 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:19.280 creating this multi generational wealth and being loyal to a 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.400 city that he loves, and I'm for that. But the 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:28.960 cost of being loyal oftentimes is winning. Just asked Damian Lillard, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.640 who himself doubled down and took a two year, one 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.319 hundred and twenty two million dollars deal with the Blazers, 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:38.839 how much money is that? Let me go to mas 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:44.040 school sixty sixty something million dollars a year. Well, if 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.360 you're gonna lose which twenty nine teams every year. Do 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.640 you might as well make sixty million dollars a year 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:54.839 doing it. Let's move on to Donovan Mitchell, quick update 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.360 him on him and the Utah Jazz. I don't have 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.679 it today. I don't think I have it. Last we 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:06.000 looked in on the Jazz Trader, Danny had leveraged Rudy 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:11.600 Gobert for about one hundred first round picks from the Timberwolves. 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.680 People are very split down the middle on this. I 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.680 put out a clip on the internet, would you rather 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.200 spend thirty million dollars on Christian Wood? We talked about 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.640 this on the podcast. Obviously, Christian Wood and Jabail thirty 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.199 million or Rudy Gobert and cated at one hundred million, 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.920 and people were very mad. People told me to get 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:32.079 into the kitchen. People told me to never watch basketball again. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.760 People told me that I should just focus on the 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.600 women's side of the game. It's just one of those 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:43.720 scenarios where this was more controversial folks than I even thought. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.200 At least though at least, the Wolves are committed to 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.000 doing something to try to win now, and that for 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.240 a lot of folks who have never seen the Wolves 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.360 do a damn thing is very exciting. This team could 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:01.439 be very fun, even though it's a wing driven league. 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.360 As Kevin Durant would say, and you've got two centers 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.319 now that make a hundred million. I don't want to 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.400 talk about that, though. What I do want to talk 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.920 about is what the Jazz are doing given this end 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.960 of things, and what they're going to do moving forward. 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:22.520 Q that Brian Windhorse dramatic reading what is going on 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.719 in Utah. It turns out, according to Brian Windhorse, what 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.960 is happening in Utah is nothing yet. They're the only 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.560 team in the NBA who hasn't signed anyone in free agency, 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.080 not one single person, not a single soul. All they've 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:41.319 done is just trade things, trade Roy O'Neill, trade Rudy Gobert, 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.880 and accumulated a ton of first round picks. And that, 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:50.080 my friends, probably not a sign of encouragement to my man, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.440 Donovan Mitchell. Probably not good news if you're a Jazz 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.199 fan and you think then maybe they're building around them, 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.000 because that's what they keep saying, We're building around Donovan. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.199 We don't want them to go. And then other reports 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.840 are coming out saying that Donovan Mitchell is concerned with 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:09.480 the moves that this team is making facts. I get that, 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.160 and I don't think I'm making a hot take or 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.320 saying a hot take to say Donovan Mitchell is probably 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.960 not long for the Utah Jazz. This team's in rebuild mode. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.480 They just are not admitting it yet because they think 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.480 they're getting an All Star Game in Utah, which they 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.800 may or may not have, and they need to have 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.200 one player that's an All Star the one year that 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:35.679 they go to that trash as city or the fan 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.840 base will probably riot, probably bring their tiki torches out. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.320 Oh yes, the All Star Game is two weeks though 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:47.960 before the trade deadline this year. Coincidence, I don't think so. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:49.840 I don't think so. So if you're in New York, 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.800 you play the waiting game. I mean New York, not Brooklyn. 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.360 Other than Sam Presty and OKC. We talked about this before. 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.960 There's not really any other team that has as many 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.840 first round pick. This is the next especially expendable ones. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:06.160 They have eight tradable first round picks in the next 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:12.360 handful of years. So unless they do something panicky or dumb, 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.840 they're gonna be in a really good position to add 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:19.320 Donovan to this team and a backcourt of Mitchell and 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:24.559 Brunson is pretty intriguing. It's definitely better than a backcourt 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:31.080 of Mike Conley Jr. And Donovan Mitchell, but truthfully, Mike 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:36.400 Conley in his prime probably better than Jaylen Brunson. Not 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.800 gonna lie. Wendy says that the Jazz are not talking 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.760 to anyone about a trade right now for Donovan, and 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.000 I think that makes sense only if they're planning on 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.360 holding on to him for the short term, because building 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.760 around him makes no damn sense. And what we know 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.800 about Danny Age is this, he is not afraid to 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:59.400 and seems to like to blow up the show. Let's 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:26.079 say lets some forward, so summertime in the wintertime, things 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.600 are getting quite strange. Uh, And I want to discuss 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.680 something that is near and dear to my heart, but 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:38.319 something that also makes no sense. So let me preface 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.240 this by saying, I have come, in my short time 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.000 of hosting radio in New York City about New York 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:49.120 sports sports teams on w fa N that New York 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:53.280 City doesn't really care about basketball. They don't. They don't 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:57.440 care about local New York basketball almost at all. And 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.880 there's like reasons for this, and they really don't matter 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.720 that much to you. I'm sure the Nets aren't seen 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.000 as a New York team. They keep trying to buy teams, 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:11.240 it never works. They dominate national news in the basketball world, 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.800 but honestly, New York fans just don't really give a shit. Secondly, 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.200 the Knicks haven't been good and they've been largely irrelevant 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:23.760 ever since, like the Riley era. So they're owned obviously 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.480 by a man in James Dolan, who probably rivals Dan 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:32.080 Snyder as most popular owner in all of sports. I 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.520 have nothing negative to say about James Dolan, however, lots 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:42.880 of other people do so. Imagine brought my surprise, as 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:49.640 a lifelong Portland Trailblazers fan that I open up an 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:56.920 article a hit piece Blazer's owner Jody Allen in the 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:05.480 New York Poe. Why would they do that? Does it 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.800 make any sense? The second I saw this, I put 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:15.400 my sleuthing hat on, because, let's be real, shit like 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.880 this doesn't happen. New York Post doesn't care about us. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.080 New York fans don't care about us. You have to 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.680 fight just to get New Yorkers interested in Kyrie and 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.560 Kevin Durant fighting their way out forcing their way out 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:34.000 of the nets. Why would they care about Portland? The 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:38.160 quickest answer is they do not. They don't and so 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.920 to me it seemed very bizarre that they would write 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.240 this piece. So I started to read the article in depth. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.000 It's like a five thousand word think piece. And The 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.400 New York Post is not noted for their five thousand 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.240 word think pieces. It's noted for their two hundred word 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.640 stories with eight tweets embedded. This is not Pulitzer Proprize 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.680 journalism here. So I went to the author. The only 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:13.360 think linked was the name s. Nathan Nyp, anonymous author 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.800 publishing a five thousand word hit piece on one of 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.240 the major newspapers in the world. The author has written 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.800 exactly two pieces in his or her history of The 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.840 New York Post. One was a pr spin piece redeeming 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:35.840 Brian Williams, noted liar, and the other was this vicious, 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:41.200 ugly hit piece on Jody Allen. So I started to read, 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:49.520 and it was an absolute hammer job, just like a 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:55.640 hatchet on her reputation. Literally everything Jody Allen has ever 0:16:55.840 --> 0:17:00.360 allegedly done was dragged out and dissected in depth. And 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:06.720 this includes the following allegations by the author, and it's 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.119 gonna get weird. So I just need you to hang on. 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:14.199 I need you to hang on. Brock. She created a 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:18.359 toxic environment in Portland. She still is. That's pretty normal. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:23.680 Lots of teams do that, right, that happens. She allowed 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:28.280 Neil Osha, former GM to basically run the most dysfunctional 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.720 front office this side of Phoenix, which led to his firing, 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.919 and that Jody Allen knew about it and did nothing 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:41.320 to stop it. Okay, that's like shady. It's bad, Okay, 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:46.560 all right? Uh, that Blazer CEO Chris McGowan resigned because 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:50.520 of frustration with Jody and this other guy cold who 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.320 is Paul Allen's college roommate and friend, who's basically running 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.080 the team, and he's She's now allowing Burt Cole to 0:17:56.119 --> 0:18:02.480 make all the decisions. Okay, that's fine. Here's one that 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.720 I thought was a little strange. That she ghosted Damian 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.879 Lillard and did not return his emails. That one went viral. 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.040 That's the one in this whole list that went viral. Okay, 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:18.639 not probably a great move, all right? Uh. That she 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:26.959 bought European cut boxer briefs for her security detail and 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.919 asked them to put on a fashion show for her. 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:39.200 That one caught my attention, but it was this one 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.159 that really took the cake. It was this one that 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:47.120 had my mind blown. I'm gonna read the first the 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:54.080 full full quote here. Former members of Paul Allen and 0:18:54.160 --> 0:19:00.879 Jody Allen's security detail, including veterans of Elite million terry units, 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:08.040 great set and sworn depositions in twenty twelve that yes, 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:15.040 she sexually harassed bodyguards, but she also directed them to 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:24.119 smuggle animal bones out of Africa and Antarctica. At least 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:28.119 two former employees said that they heard themselves that Jody 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.760 had smuggled ivory out of Africa, which is in violation 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:37.360 of US and international law, though none admitted to actually 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:47.200 seeing her do. So what giraff bones? You can't make 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:53.879 this up. The USDA actually destroyed seventy two pounds of 0:19:54.000 --> 0:20:01.960 girafft bones allegedly stolen and smuggled. So how big is one? 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:06.680 Just like a femur of a giraffe? Is that itself 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:12.680 seventy two pounds? And if you google, just google smuggle 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:14.919 giraffe bones? Because I thought to myself, what do you 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:18.280 make with giraffe bones. Do you turn them into dust 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.120 and then turn that dust into like a fake diamond? 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:23.800 Do you snort that dust? Do you put that dust 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.600 into your smoothie in the morning? Do you put it 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:30.320 on the flakes of your ko salad? Like? What are 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.240 we doing with this? Do do you make furniture out 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:36.919 of it? So I googled furniture? Maybe that? So I 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:42.920 googled what do we use giraffe bones? For nothing? There's 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:48.359 nothing there. Then I googled smuggle giraffe bones. I thought 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.760 maybe if I got a little context into what people 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.480 were finding and doing with this, then I would understand 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:56.919 her motives. I swear to God. The only thing that 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:01.840 comes up if you google smuggle giraffe bones is just 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:05.359 Jody Allen and Paul Allen. That's it. That's all that 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:09.560 comes up, is just article after article after article about them. 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:13.679 So they're like the only person people in history on 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:17.320 the Internet to have ever tried to steal the bones 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:23.480 of a giraffe, which means which means probably like iron fist. 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:29.080 There's some like ritualistic thing where they turn it in. 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.560 They've got this like map, and then they find an 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:37.200 ancient tattoo artist with this giraft bone and this metal bowl, 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:40.520 and they do a ritual and then they turn Jody 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:44.919 Allen into the iron Fist. That's the only way I 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:48.280 can think it makes sense, which to me, it's worth 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:51.800 losing your team over. You know, honestly, you're gonna be 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.720 the iron Fist. It's pretty much no one who can 0:21:54.760 --> 0:22:01.199 stop you. Even the New York Post. So and Larry Miller. 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:06.640 Larry Miller pops up all over this article. He's the 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:10.560 former president of the Blazers and a former executive of Nike, 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:15.400 also of the Jordan brand. You might also know him 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:18.720 as a guy who made news earlier this year by 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:24.960 asking forgiveness to a woman for a man he murdered 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:30.560 thirty years ago, asking his wife for forgiveness. Why am 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:35.080 I reading this because there's always a motive right and 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:42.840 here it is. Larry Miller said this. It's time for 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:49.520 a change in ownership. Stable, good, solid ownership is what 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:54.000 leads to winning. You can't win if you don't have solid, consistent, 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:59.800 reliable ownership. Portland has definitely not had that since Paul passed. 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:03.120 The issue is that Burt doesn't want to sell and 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:09.600 he will drag this out as long as possible. By 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:13.280 the way, if you've been under an NBA rock or 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:16.800 just not on the internet. Jody Allen twenty four hours 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:20.880 ago put out a memo saying that the Blazers were 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:25.439 currently not for sale and that they will not be 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:31.760 for sale most likely for another ten to twenty years. 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:36.639 Let me ask you this, what other owners that aren't 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:38.720 going to sell their team for the next ten to 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:42.880 twenty years put out memos saying that they're not selling 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:45.320 the team and that the team is not for sale. 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:48.480 They just continue doing business right and don't sell the 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:50.600 team Like that pretty much tells you everything you need 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:54.280 to know. So I see that memo and I'm like, 0:23:54.800 --> 0:23:58.040 I know, Phil Allen put in a bid for two 0:23:58.040 --> 0:24:00.880 billion dollars to buy the Blazers, And then I see 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:07.479 this hit piece and it all clicked. Why would this 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:11.200 be coming out? And it's because Phil Knight is going 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:17.639 to pull pull that Portland Trailblazers franchise from Jody Allen's 0:24:17.960 --> 0:24:25.879 cold dead giraffe bone acquiring hands. And he's gonna do 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:29.199 it using any means necessary. He's gonna use the New 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:33.040 York Post. It's only just begun. He's gonna probably use 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:37.240 the Sun in Britain, He's probably gonna use New York Times. 0:24:37.240 --> 0:24:40.080 He's probably gonna use La Times. I mean the Oregonian. 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:43.240 We're probably already gonna see something with Oregonian. I bet 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:48.200 he makes a shoe with proceeds going over to Africa, 0:24:48.760 --> 0:24:54.560 like the anti poaching shoe with fake animal prints giraffe 0:24:54.560 --> 0:24:58.000 print on the shoe, just to try to create a 0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:01.560 marketing campaign out of it. So you've got an anonymous, 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:06.840 detailed article in a major newspaper that absolutely cares zero 0:25:06.880 --> 0:25:10.679 about Portland alleging everything under the sun against current owner 0:25:10.840 --> 0:25:14.000 of a Portland team just a couple of weeks ago, 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:16.399 after she says she was not going to sell the 0:25:16.440 --> 0:25:18.560 team to Phil Knight, by the way, didn't even take 0:25:18.600 --> 0:25:21.960 his calls, according to this article, who just made a 0:25:22.080 --> 0:25:24.879 massive bid to buy the franchise. You don't need a 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:28.119 conspiracy theorist baby to see the writing on the wall. 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:34.560 The lesson is this, billionaires get their way. There is 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:40.639 almost no clean and squeaky billionaires, almost none unless they 0:25:40.640 --> 0:25:43.200 acquired it from their inheritance. And that guy who acquired 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:46.399 the billions probably not squeaky cleaning either. And if a 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:50.600 guy like Phil Knights wants to buy your team and 0:25:50.760 --> 0:25:53.560 is giving you a fair offer, and you have to 0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:57.199 sell that team, and you are being a see you 0:25:57.320 --> 0:26:00.880 next Tuesday by telling him in the world that you're 0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:05.040 not selling the team for another ten to twenty years. 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:10.439 Get ready, and you're not squeaky clean, and you're buying 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:15.120 European boxer briefs for your security detail and asking them 0:26:15.119 --> 0:26:19.760 to parade around for you. You better expect for those 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:24.000 dirty European boxer briefs to be aired out all over 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:28.359 from here to Kingdom. Come on every national news source 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:31.600 that we can find. This is just the beginning, baby, 0:26:32.080 --> 0:26:40.480 because Wall Street Journal is what comes next. Emergency segment, emergency, emergency, 0:26:40.600 --> 0:26:47.040 we we we. Shit is popping always at the Summer League. 0:26:47.080 --> 0:26:51.040 And while this show was being recorded, James Harden has 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:54.720 signed with the Sixers and the terms are kind of shocking. 0:26:56.160 --> 0:27:01.600 James Harden is taking a fifteen million dollar pay cut 0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:06.359 for next season that allowed Philadelphia to elevate the roster 0:27:07.200 --> 0:27:10.960 with their sole focus on a championship run. In twenty 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:14.399 twenty three, he opted out of his forty seven million 0:27:14.480 --> 0:27:18.280 dollar player option and now plans to sign a new 0:27:18.320 --> 0:27:22.520 two year deal with the player option in year two. 0:27:23.080 --> 0:27:29.639 This is what Shams tweeted. Wow, still so much for 0:27:29.720 --> 0:27:34.639 that myth that he's the most selfish player in the NBA. Also, 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:38.480 is thirty five million dollars really a pay cut for 0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:41.439 James Harden? Like, I don't think so. I don't know 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:46.160 that he's worth thirty five million, but hey, also still 0:27:47.080 --> 0:27:49.960 I want to know how does James Harden look? How 0:27:50.000 --> 0:27:53.160 does he feel? He's been fat, He's been out of shape, 0:27:53.320 --> 0:27:57.000 his hamstrings been in shambles, He's been doing houkahs all 0:27:57.040 --> 0:28:00.440