WEBVTT - Mr. Balloon Hands 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.400 On this episode of This League, we talk about Ben Simmons. 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.760 Oh my god, he hit a three Lebron James's spat 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.080 with a European soccer player that did not go the 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.480 way that he thought. Why the San Antonio Spurs, who 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.880 sit at fifth in the West are actually shopping their 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.040 two best players? Is that true? And we also work 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:22.439 on answering a bunch of new listener dms. Every single 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:27.240 time I can, I will mention Ben Simmons. He is 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:32.320 electric as a player, but even more so I'm keeping 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.040 an eye. I'm keeping an eye on when he shoots threes. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:39.720 And we saw the impossible we got ourselves Ben Simmons 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.839 three point shot sighting. It's only I think the second 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:44.120 or third time this year. 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.080 Yeah, I mean Simmons. He hit a running twenty seven 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.440 footer with two seconds left in ot uh when they 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:51.800 were down six against the Cavs. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:56.040 Unfortunately, Oh you mean so at a meaningless time he 0:00:56.080 --> 0:01:00.480 would shoot? Sure, so let's streak out. Clock's running down. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:05.199 Game is over and he decides that's when he wants 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:09.720 to try out a three as it expires. I think 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.360 the crazy thing though, when you see that is you 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:17.000 almost forget because he never shoots. His form is really good. 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.800 Oh yeah, he's very smooth. There is no reason that 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.840 Ben Simmons should not be out there. I know he 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.680 has a much better shot than Russell Westbrook, no shade. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.080 Like if Russell Westbrook is content to chuck up threes, 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.400 Ben Simmons should be content to chuck up threes. His 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:34.880 form is much better. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.440 That'd be an interesting three point shootout. 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.840 I would love to see that. How much would you 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:40.880 pay to see that? Like? 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.960 That should be the All Star Like, yeah, halftime show. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.280 The ugliest three point shooters all go head to head. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:49.880 I don't want to see the best shooters. I already 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:51.840 know they can shoot. I want to see Ben Simmons 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:57.840 go up against Russell Westbrook one on one against Yannis. Yeah, 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:02.240 Yannis Westbrook, who else Ben Simmons? 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.760 One more kemba, Sure, let's talk kemba. Yeah, good time 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:06.680 to kimba in there. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.760 So this illustrates exactly what I've been saying about Ben 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:15.440 Simmons all year. It's not that he cannot shoot. We 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.960 saw that practice video when he was with his trainer, 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:19.760 like maybe last summer or the summer before. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:21.480 Yeah, he can shoot. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:27.080 That man has a stroke. He just will not shoot, 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.280 will not some mental issue going on inside of his brain, 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.480 and that is a massive problem. And it begs the 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:40.880 question to me, Am I the only one that cares 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:46.280 about Ben Simmons? Truly? You could call me a Ben 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.120 Simmons hater, but really, like, truthfully, I'm the only one 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.400 that keeps discussing this. It's so weird, it's so strange 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.799 and bizarre, and yet somehow it's been normalized. Like the 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.320 rest of society right now, tons of things that are 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.079 totally outside of the boundaries of what should be generally 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.239 accepted practices, and yet we just go on and pretend 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:13.320 that they don't exist. Is totally normal. Point guard doesn't shoot, 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.160 will not shoot, has a mental hang up, But it's okay. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:21.880 He doesn't need to what It's okay? Point guards don't 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.480 need to do that. And like the Sixers, fans are 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.160 so delusional that they have just made up so many 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:34.640 excuses for him, like you know, Magic Johnson didn't shoot? 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.720 Are you thinking that Magic Johnson? Is it good? Like 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.960 John Stockton didn't shoot? Are was he not good as 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.360 a guard? By the way, folks, let me just bust 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.160 your bubble because you know who's saying that, or people 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.760 who are like below twenty five, they didn't see either 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.840 of those players play. They've got like pixelated YouTube clips. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.440 Magic Johnson shot thirty five percent from three his final 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.200 four years in the NBA. John Stockton was a thirty 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.360 eight point four percent lifetime shooter from three, and at 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.240 one point until Joe Ingles just surpassed his record, he 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.840 was the lifetime all time three point shooter in attempts 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:12.840 and shots made on the jazz What are you talking about? 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:14.920 And then what else do they say? Oh, he does 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:19.360 everything else well, so like that makes up for his inability, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:26.480 or we'll call it refusal, a blatant refusal to do 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.040 a big part of his job. His defense is underrated. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:37.720 So who cares that he won't do this? Excuses? Excuses, excuses, 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.200 and you know who does not want excuses? According to 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.680 multiple articles, because you know, I went in right after that, 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.440 Ben Simmons three read a bunch of things about him. 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:54.080 Ben Simmons doesn't want excuses, folks. He told ESPN his 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.920 number one weakness is that he has to rely on 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:02.120 other people to hold him account. He does not personally 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.800 hold He is such a perfectionist and needs people to 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.320 push him to do the things that make him uncomfortable, 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.200 because he won't do that for himself. He's so afraid 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.839 of failing. His perfectionism is such to an all time high. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.000 He needs people to push him, to force him to 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:21.880 do things he does not want to do because he's 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.640 not great at them. And so maybe his teammates are 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:29.200 failing him. Maybe his coaching staff is failing him. Maybe 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.280 his goddamn fan base is failing him, and they just 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:38.200 keep enabling this behavior, gaslighting that these deficiencies don't matter. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:43.520 I'm sorry, folks, they matter. That matters. We are just 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.400 in the wrong. I am a hater. I am in 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:50.000 the wrong for even making mention that he won't shoot 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.560 every time. It's like, oh, you're just trolling us. You're 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.360 just no, no, folks, I'm not. I mean, I am, 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:01.360 but I'm not. Ben Simmons knows this is a problem. 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.040 You know how I know because he hired a sports 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.080 psychologist to get him over that mental block, which has 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:12.120 not happened. He hired a skills trainer to teach him 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.679 to be comfortable shooting. That has not worked. He said, 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.799 I could be one of those guys shooting thirty percent 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.040 from three right now. But I would rather be one 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:26.479 of those guys shooting forty percent. I mean math, that's 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.640 math for you. He's so caught up, and I'm worried 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.880 about being one of those guards that can't shoot threes. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:37.040 I'm worried about being Rajon Rondo. I'm worried about being 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.719 Russell Westbrook. So you know what, fuck it. I'm just 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.080 not gonna shoot until I can shoot fifty percent from three. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.440 And it's like you're never going to get there if 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.560 you don't do it in the game, Ben Simmons, that's 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.599 a fear base. To me, that's a fear based mentality. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:55.160 That's a mental hang up that is associated with perfectionism. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.919 Would you agree absolutely. I mean, there's no doubt that 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:00.920 there's some sort of block going on there for him. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:01.880 There's no doubt. 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:06.000 Because even if you shot thirty one percent from deep, 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.920 you are now a more dangerous team. Ask Jannis just 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.400 one out of three. We know that Jannis can make 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.040 a few, so we're not going to just let him 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:21.760 shoot at will from three. Ben, do not be scared 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.800 to fail. You are too good to be scared to fail. 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:29.880 The sports psychologist said this, which was so incredibly important 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.200 and also lets me know that his team, organization and 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.640 fan base is failing him. She says, if I was 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.240 in charge of the Sixers, I would tell him, if 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.320 you don't take a pull up jumper and a perimeter 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:44.240 shot in every half, I don't care what your percentages are, 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.880 you're sitting on the bench. A mental health expert who 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:52.840 has a PhD in this told Brett Brown and probably 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.960 Doc Rivers that the blueprint to making Ben Simmons be 0:07:56.000 --> 0:08:02.520 a monster is to hold that man accountable. Carrot and stick. 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.200 He already has the carrot. We all praise him. Oh, 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.840 Ben Simmons, so great, best defender in the league. There's 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:15.040 no stick except for me. Stick stick stick. You know 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:19.440 it's crazy, it's crazy. I promise you, though, Ben, I 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:25.320 promise I will be there for you. I care about you. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:27.440 I will be there every step of the way to say, 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:32.959 great game, Ben, Still no shooting sick three pointer when nothing, 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:38.040 literally zero was on the line. Nice work. Where did 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:42.960 you go in the fourth quarter? Ben Simmons? Still hitting 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:47.040 those hook shots, staying in your comfort zone, Like you said, 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:53.960 hard against the backboard, doing nothing that makes you uncomfortable. Literally, 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:58.000 he said, I could shoot at three. But I could 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.199 also hit this sick cook shot that I've been doing 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.959 my entire life. I'm much more comfortable doing that. No shit, 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:12.480 So fans and Ben and Ben's sister, the PSA is this. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.679 You may hate me, you may call me Trista Bayles, 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.800 you may say you're a fucking troll. But to me, 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.040 this is tough love and tough love. I'm ready for 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.120 the smoke. I am ready for that because Ben Simmons 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.439 could be one of the most transcendent players we've ever seen, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.960 or he can be a multi All Star that looks 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.760 back on his career and says, what if what if 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.080 I went outside of my comfort zone? It would shoot? 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:46.319 And truthfully, maybe I'm helping looking at his performances every 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:50.600 time I go ham on Twitter. The first game back, 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.280 he had a career performance forty two points. I said, Ben, 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.920 you're not efficient, and I know he saw it because 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.000 his sister saw it. Wasn't efficient. I think he would 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.080 fifty seven percent from the field that game, even after 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.240 the forty two point performance, and it was like, how 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.000 do you go one hundred percent from the first quarter 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.560 and still shoot less than sixty percent from the field 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.920 when you're in the restricted area and his sister tweeted 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:17.040 at me, went after my lips, and you know what 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.280 happened the next game? Oh my god, Ben Simmons' most 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:24.280 efficient performance I've ever seen. So I am going to 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.520 continue to inflame. I am going to continue to poke 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.000 the bear. I'm going to continue to take the smoke. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.840 You know why, because I want the best for mister 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.720 balloon hands. I'll be honest. When I saw this news, 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.199 I didn't want to touch it. I saw its LUFTI 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.200 say some shit about Lebron that seemed like it was 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:50.440 bordering along politics, and you know, I mean it wasn't bordering, 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.760 it was just right there. And I was like, no way, 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.720 this is not making the rundown, folks. I'm staying all 0:10:58.760 --> 0:10:59.839 the way away from this. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:05.160 Yeah, I mean, you're talking about our boys. Lot On Ibrahimovich, Yeah, man. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.240 Best known in the US for playing for the Galaxy, 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:13.240 played in Sweden saying Outland. He also has been saying 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.800 outlandis shit all the time. Yeah, he is one of 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:23.319 those people who has said egotistical comments galore. And what 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.920 he said was about Lebron. This is what he said. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:31.120 I don't like it when players talk about politics. Do 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.240 what you're good at aka the sport that you get 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.120 paid for, and stay out of politics. And there was 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.800 no response at this time from Lebron, so I was like, 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.880 you know what, why even touch this topic at all? 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:48.520 It's too hot. But Lebron is such a huge footy fan. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.439 Dude is even a minority owner of Liverpool. Did you 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:53.079 know that, Marty? 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.520 Yeah, I mean I remember he used to wear like 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.920 a Liverpool like crest and like postgame stuff, So. 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.200 Yeah, yeah, was put for it last year's EPL Champion, 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:06.480 Champion League winner. Hundreds of lists of the crazy things 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.960 Laton has said over the years, ranging from I can't 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.920 help but laugh at how perfect I am to when 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.559 you buy me, you're buying a Ferrari, not a Fiat 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.640 or I forget what the other car that he was. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.280 So I was like, I was ready to move on right, 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.480 And then someone fanned the flames and they were like Lebron, 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.080 which I love. I love when reporters know they're gonna 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.240 they're gonna get an answer that's going to rock the airwaves. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:32.760 Yeah. 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.120 And I don't know if you've ever been in these moments, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.280 but like when it's you, your heart's just pounding because 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.640 you know you are about to set the Internet a blaze. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.120 Yeah, I mean, I can imagine. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.760 Your heart is pumping. Okay, how do I get this 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.600 out right? How do I say it perfectly where I'm 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.760 not the one that gets gets flamed and I'm not 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.960 the one that's like basically accused of inciting drama because 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.720 that's what you're doing, right. You know that you want 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.640 an answer, and an answer that's going to transcend the Internet. 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.160 So they asked lebron, hey, what do you think of 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:11.240 Laton's comments? And what we got, my Lord, was a 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:19.520 two minute slow motion Tamahawk Kobe dunk right on laton 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:26.440 nuts and Laton's face, Edward's dunk in interview form, play. 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.480 The clip at the end of the day. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.240 You know, I will never shut up about things that's 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:37.000 that's wrong. I preach about my people, and I preach 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:43.719 about you know, equality, social injustice, racism, you know, a 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:49.840 systematic voting, voter suppression, things that go on in our community. 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.080 Because I was a part of my community at one 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:53.560 point and seeing the things that was going on, and 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.880 I know that you know what's going on still because 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.760 I have a group of three hundred plus kids at 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.040 my school. That's going to say. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.160 When he says he has three hundred kids for folks 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.680 who are not up to speed, he's talking about the 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:13.280 I Promise School that he founded created funded a school 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:20.000 where he pays for underprivileged kids, their tuition, their breakfast, 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:24.120 lunch and snacks, food for the family for the pantry program. 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.760 School supplies including a computer, a bike with a helmet, 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.880 transportation for the kids within two miles, ged assistants for 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:36.120 the parents, free college education for anyone who graduates. I mean, 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.240 come on now. So when he's saying he's putting his 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.880 money where his mouth is and he cares about his community, 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.480 that's not all talk continue and they. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.520 Need a voice, and I'm their voice. I'm their voice, 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:50.520 and I use my platform to continue to shed light 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.640 on everything that may be going on not only in 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.880 my community but around the uh you know, this country, 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:55.560 around the world. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.120 So pause. So this video alone, at the time that 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.360 I looked this up, more than three million views. So 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.880 when he's saying that his voice transcends, that's what he's 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.000 talking about. Massive platform plaguing. 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.280 You know, if there's no reason, well now I want 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.320 to say no reason, but there's no way I will 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.720 ever just stick to sports because I understand how you know, 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.240 how this platform and how powerful my voice is. Facts 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:25.920 And he can just ask Renee Montgomery, you know if 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.880 I would have shut up and just dribbled seeing that 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.680 beautiful black woman today, you know, be a part of 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.560 a group where she's part of ownership group now with 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.040 the Atlanta Dream down in Atlanta. And it's funny he 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:39.800 say that because I. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.560 Believe in like eighteen so also he talks about Renee 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:48.520 Montgomery that was in Atlanta. Also, Lebron in Atlanta worked 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:53.239 with not only the Hawks, but multiple other NBA franchises 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.640 to create voting centers inside of NBA arenas to stop 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.320 voter suppression. And that's not voter suppression of any one 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.280 particular group. That is well, I mean it is, but 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.200 it's for everyone to use. It is for what everyone 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.640 to use. It's not like certain groups are kept out 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:12.080 of those voting centers. That is not a political move. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.200 That is a patriotic move. Play again. 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.640 And he was the same guy who said when he 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:21.360 was back in Sweden talking about the same things because 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.960 his last name wasn't a certain last name, that he 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.360 felt like it was some racism going on when he 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:30.720 was out in the pitch, Right he did say that? 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:31.040 Right? 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.280 Yeah? I thought he was. I thought he said that. 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:40.520 A pause is Lebron going directly at Slaton's head because 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.280 it appears that he is. He is calling him out 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.520 on his bullshit. And what you don't see because you're 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.480 listening to a podcast, is that on this video, which 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.560 you can see, Marty because you're playing the clip, he 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:59.080 has a perfectly centered smirk on his face while he's 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:05.199 sitting shirt off looking ripped as fuck. Just did he 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:06.879 say that? Because I think he said that. I was 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:08.440 pretty sure he said that. Keep going. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.840 I'll speak from a very educated mind. So I'm kind 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.040 of the wrong guy to actually go at because. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.200 I do my homework. I'm kind of the wrong guy 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.919 to go ass Laton because not only do I do 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.439 my homework, I complete the tests, I even teach the 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:28.000 lessons and I put my money where my goddamn mouth is. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.800 Did he pull out receipts faster? What? Oh my god, 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:36.600 Oh my god? Is that true? What did Laton actually say, Marty? 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:38.320 What was what was Lebron referencing? 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.359 Okay, here's the full quote. Because they the media still 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.040 attacks me because they cannot accept that I am Abrahimovitch. 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.840 If another Swedish player would do the same mistake I do, 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:50.960 they would defend them, But when it comes to me, 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.399 they do not defend me. This is about racism. I 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.480 don't say there is racism, but I say there is 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:59.000 undercover racism. This exists. I am one hundred percent sure 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.040 because they am not Anderson or Svenson. If I would 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.080 be that, trust me, they would defend me, even if 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.399 I would rob a bank. But they're not defending me 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:08.680 in the way that they should. 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:15.480 It doesn't seem like Latana is talking about soccer. It 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:19.240 doesn't seem like he's staying in his lane about what 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.200 he's good at. Seems to me that Latana is talking 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:27.520 about race and racism exactly what he's saying. Lebron should 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.119 not be talking about in a different country that he 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.600 is not a part of and is not fully aware 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.639 of the dynamics in And guess what, By the way, 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:41.480 as an aside, do you know Marty who's Latan's hero? 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.720 Is no no idea. 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:49.119 Muhammad Ali is his hero. I think consensus is that 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:53.160 Mohammad Ali is the most political athlete who has ever lived. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:58.800 I fucking hate hypocrisy so goddamn much. I was in 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.399 LA when the Galaxy and anounce that they had signed Laton. 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.000 I know that he's great, and I know he says 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:05.720 a lot of stupid shit too. 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.320 When he took out the full page ad oh God welcome. 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:13.119 Yes, when you say the kinds of things that Laton says, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:18.399 maybe it's you that should stick to just talking about 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:22.720 your sport. Maybe for the folks who have other interests, 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.320 are educated on other topics and want to make an 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:29.440 impact outside of the game, they can talk about other things. 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.199 Maybe it's just Use Laton that needs to follow your 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:36.159 own goddamn advice, because an articulate, educated, intelligent man should 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.240 be able to talk about other things than just what 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:43.439 he does for a living, especially when it gets people 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:47.640 to get an ownership percentage of a new team, especially 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:49.919 when more people are able to vote as a as 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.879 a result, and especially when hundreds of kids end up 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.360 going to college because he decided to fight for them. 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:03.440 So maybe, as Use Laton wh be quiet this league. 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:07.480 Here's what we know. The Spurs are shopping, and they're 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.200 not shopping to buy. It appears they're shopping to sell. 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:16.080 Spurs are fifth in the West, but it looks like 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:20.159 they're moving. Maybe they're two best players in LaMarcus Aldridge 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:24.639 and Jama Derosen. That doesn't make sense, does it to me? 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:25.880 Does it make sense to you? 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.120 Aldridge? Maybe? DeRozan, No, he's playing pretty well. 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.960 Aldrich does make sense because he's coming off the bench. 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.760 But really, what are you gonna be able to get 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:37.280 for him? Right? 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:38.440 Yeah? No? In ms return? 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.600 Yeah, twenty million dollars a year, and it's like, I 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:46.399 don't want that player. Uh So it doesn't make sense 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:50.080 at first glance, but when you look closer, it kind 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:54.880 of does. DeRozan and Audridge both on expiring contracts. Damar's 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:59.280 making twenty eight million and Audridge is making twenty one 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.320 and it appears Listen, I don't know what's gonna happen, 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.000 but it appears that neither guy is going to get 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:09.440 a deal done to re sign, and instead of losing 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.760 them for nothing, they the Spurs look like they're trying 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:14.840 to move forty nine million dollars off the books right 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:20.600 this second, which says possibly maybe they're also a buyer. 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:22.960 They have forty nine million dollars in a media cat 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:26.239 space the West. Who knows how open. It really is. 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:31.320 Utah's running away a couple of LA teams. Who knows 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.520 anything can happen. Just ask the Denver Nuggets, right, if 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:37.080 they don't trade them now, they will lose them for 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:42.440 sure for nothing Tomorrow is valuable. LaMarcus is not valuable. 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:47.560 He probably won't receive another contract outside the minimum after this. 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:50.240 He's gonna be like a Hassan white Side, in my opinion, 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:53.920 go to like a place like Sacramento, chill out at 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.840 one point, make one point six million dollars a year 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:00.399 after his massively inflated contract that the Spurs took on. 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.600 And so as good as the Spurs can play, I 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:07.440 think that they have to know to a degree they're 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.640 not gonna win the championship this year, right, Yeah? 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:12.920 I mean no, yeah, no, not even worth talking about. 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:16.280 They're the best team exactly right, the best team nobody 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:19.400 is watching, no one. But they're also pretty fucking hot. 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:24.040 They've won twelve out of their last sixteen. DeRozan is 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:28.080 averaging twenty five and seven. Audredge has missed ten games 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:31.600 this year with an injured hip. He's averaging fourteen five 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:36.639 and two. So it's an interesting balance, right, Because fans 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:38.560 are excited. They're like, Oh, it's the first time in 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:41.200 years we're gonna go to the playoffs. Boom. 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:43.000 They got that new Fiesta court design. 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.879 Oh my gosh, I love that. And the incentive is 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:49.800 at this point just to hold on to players with 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:53.199 expiring contracts, even if it's not the right move for 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:56.520 them long term, because who knows how far we can go. 0:22:56.920 --> 0:22:59.199 We can't win, but who knows how far we can go. 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:03.399 That's exciting for fan base that has been down, down bad. 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:06.399 So in addition to people now talking about the Spurs 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:09.360 being sellers, there's awesome rumors that they might be interested 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:11.960 in Poorzingis. Did you hear that? Have you heard that? No? 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:13.080 I have not heard this rumbling. 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:15.679 Yeah, I've heard that. The rumor is DeMar could be 0:23:15.760 --> 0:23:19.879 moved since he's rumored to have already turned down the 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:23.679 extension with the Spurs. And I don't think Rcpuford is 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:26.520 going to let DeMar Derosen walk for nothing. He might 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:29.520 let LaMarcus Aldrige walk for nothing because you're not gonna 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:32.360 get much back. And they appear to be interested in Porzingis, 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:36.399