WEBVTT - Ja Morant Headlines Busy Weekend In The West 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:07.160 You're tuned into Heat Check, buttal quick. On this episode 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:12.800 of the Heat Check, everyone is talking about Jaw Joe. 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.520 This is actually the only time in NBA history we 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.480 can say that joke, which is Joe, and it actually 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.439 makes sense. You're like, think about that. We'll fill you 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.280 in on what's happening with him. But I think probably 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.600 from a different perspective because the media, the media machine 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:32.040 is in full force and they're like vultures. The columnists 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.320 are like vultures circling around Jaw's cold body. I also 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.920 break down some news from around the league, including New 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.800 York Knicks bing Bong and how the perilous future is 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:47.920 for the new Brooklyn Nets, especially and particularly Sean Marks. 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:57.200 A lot happening, Nick, drop that generic ass beat. I 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.240 want to talk about basketball. I want to talk about 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.800 four of the best shot makers on planet Earth going 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.640 toe to toe on a Saturday afternoon. I want to 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.400 talk about Luca and Donchetz and Devin Booker going head 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.679 to head, face to face, smile to smile at the 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.440 end of a game. But you know what I have 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.560 to talk about. I have to talk about one of 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.640 the best superstars in the league, one of the most 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.600 electric players in the league bringing a gun and taking 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.280 off his shirt and going to a strip club after 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.920 getting his ass handed to him by Yo Kitchen the 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.240 Denver Nuggets And how did he get that gun to Denver? 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.400 I don't want to talk about this. I bet you 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.320 don't want to hear about this. I bet you don't 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:42.000 bet there's twenty five think pieces written about it already 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.400 for those who have returned from a darkness retreat and 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.680 don't know what I'm talking about. Jah Morant is I 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.960 don't even know if it's considered suspension because they didn't 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.400 say the words suspended. But Ja Morant is going to 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.880 be away from the Memphis Grizzlies for at least two games. Wow. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.520 He sorts his shit out, and the Grizzly sort their 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:07.000 shit out, and certainly the NBA sorts out what they 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.840 want to do with Jah Morant. Why Because in the 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:15.000 same week that a Washington Post article dropped about Jaw 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:19.680 flashing a gun, Jaw actually one on his own Instagram live. 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:24.239 He did himself, people, He went on his own Instagram 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.240 live and showed a gun in his own hand to 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:36.240 his own face. Why Jaw, Why At like two in 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.080 the morning of course it was at two in the morning. 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.440 What do you think it was at two in the afternoon. No, 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:46.480 there was alcohol involved, obviously, and he is in trouble. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.079 This is also on the eels of the Indiana Pacers 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.960 thing where they accused him and his friends pointing a 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:57.880 a laser scope gun thing. Adam, I don't even know 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.280 there were right words, because I don't have guns. That's 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.200 how you know. I don't know the terms. What is 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:08.120 what is going on? Everyone is wayed in. Gilbert Reinas 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.120 is weighed in. Gilbert Arenas is a fucking idiot, by 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:15.040 the way, Gilberna said, who, by the way, got suspended 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.720 fifty games for bringing a gun into the locker room. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.679 So I'm not gonna say he's the beacon of wisdom here. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.400 Thought maybe thought maybe he would have learned from this. 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.560 Gilbert Arenas's take is the ja moran. We should just 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:34.000 pretend we didn't see it. This is real take. That's 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:39.560 his real take. Boogie Cousins, why are all these people 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.720 you see how it's like it's never never, like Dame 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:47.400 Lillard like weighing in on it, you know what I mean? 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:53.920 It's like Boogie Cousins. Gilbert Ornus uh, Paul Piers like, 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.040 people who truthfully shouldn't be weighing in on this are 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.760 weighing in like that's I guess what makes it funny. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.720 Boogey Cousins says, this is why you need a strong 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.960 veteran presence in your locker room. Someone lobbying for a 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.800 job here. Also, Boogey Cousins, I don't know if that's you, right. 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.640 I'm not sure that that type of person matches up 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:22.960 with you and your reputation. Paul Pierce, of all people, 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:29.200 also chimed in. God. He says, I don't care what 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.480 y'all say about jaw. I carried a gun after I 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:38.039 was stabbed. Okay, oh god, Uh, we all don't know 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.640 what he's going through. Everyone got something to say. Until 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.279 you really know what's going on in someone's life, when 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.160 you black and rich, you're a target period. 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:53.160 Okay, So we should just enact an open carry license 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.680 for every NBA player because they're all rich and they're 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.640 ninety five black. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.880 So I guess that's what we'll do there. For Paul 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:07.640 Pierce to feel comfortable, I can say this with complete confidence. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.080 I don't think anyone is checking for these men's opinions 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.440 on this subject. I don't think anyone's like, hey, Adam, 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.200 when are you gonna make it a decision about what's 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.880 going on with Jaw. Well, I need to hear all 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.200 the stakeholders' opinions. I need to hear what Paul Pierce 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:30.200 and Gilbert's Arenas and Boogie Cousins have to say. First, 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.960 the guys who I can really rely on to give 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.680 me a cogent understanding of all the facts on the 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:46.800 ground here. Ah, everyone wants to lecture, Everyone wants to 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:51.760 point out what Jaw's doing wrong. People want to pile 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:56.560 on fucking columnists. They are vultures, aren't they. They come 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.479 out of the woodwork. I don't even know what they do, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.800 what they would do without this type of stuff. Like 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.800 I'm sure Nancy I haven't read one column because why 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.040 would I. But I am certain that Nancy Armor has 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:13.440 a column. I'm certain Christine Brennan has a column. I'm 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.720 certain Sally Jenkins has a column. That Dan Wolkan, who, 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.960 by the way, I love I know these people like personally, 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.719 so it's no shame to them. But Dan Wolkin covers 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:29.000 college football. Okay, what does Dan Wolkin need to say 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:35.680 about Jahn Morant. Not a damn thing. It's kind of gross, 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.039 isn't it. Like when you think about it, they all 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:44.120 have some POV about how Jaw is going the wrong 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:50.680 direction and how without proper guidance and leadership, and there's 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:55.320 always some socioeconomic thing that these yts have to say 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:59.240 about it. Right, it's wild. It's when you think about 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.240 it from that, it's absolutely Bonker's land what we're living in. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.480 They just sit around and they wait in a corner 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:11.080 somewhere until somebody, some athlete does something bad and then 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:15.800 they have a think piece ready to go. They have 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.400 no connection to Ja Morant, They have no connection to 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.720 these streets. They have no connection to being someone who's 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.040 that young with that much money that quick. And I 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.160 already said I think Jaw's being an idiot, so that's obvious. 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.840 But these think piecers they got to get the fuck 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.480 out of here with that. Also, the person that I 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.840 did like when he had to say the only person 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:41.280 that I think had anything to say good was Jalen Rose. 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.200 Let's listen, I am Jahn Morant. 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.480 Like you guys have got a chance to see me 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:52.360 grow up. For public consumption since nineteen ninety one, and 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:59.960 I've been involved in drug raids, I've survived assassination attempts. 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.960 I've been that undisciplined young person that was trying to 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:09.080 figure out how to be famous, how to be successful, 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.640 and how to change the dynamics of my family. The 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.880 one thing that young people have to understand, and in 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.840 John Moran's case, when you first get drafted, you go 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.240 from being a member of the family, a member of 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.000 the crew, to being the leader, to being the bread 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.080 winner and first and foremost. I hear a lot of 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:34.240 people talking about like his family and his crew. When 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:38.439 you're the leader, it's on you because you end up 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:43.520 searching that lifestyle. You end up wanting to be down. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.880 And what I had to learn is that people come 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:52.840 into your life for four reasons. To add, subtract, multiply, 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:57.959 or divide. You have to choose wisely. He has way 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.040 too much to lose. Trust me. I've been that young 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.920 player carrying a gun and Will Bond alluded to this. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:09.680 When you start waving it, that could get you killed. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.520 That that ain't that's that's all. That's an entirely different 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.520 thing than we're talking about. A superstar athlete should be 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.400 putting themselves in position. And as Stephen they mentioned, that's 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:27.200 him on the video on his ig live. Ain't nobody 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:31.880 coaxing him, Ain't nobody got a uh, Ain't nobody egging 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.800 him on to do that. That's a personal choice. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.200 That's a personal choice. Jalen Row is the only person 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.199 I'm listening to listening to on this that is straight 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:45.400 up facts. Because as much as uh, everybody's like, oh, 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.200 John needs to pick better friends, Oh, he's too loyal 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:53.600 to people who I saw his uncle on my Instagram 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.960 and his uncle posted that Jalen Rose video and said, facts, 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.920 that's his uncle. Okay, so I've I think everybody's kind 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.000 of in agreement. Jaw's being a little bit of an 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:07.120 asshole right now. He's doing things the wrong way on 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:11.600 his own. It was Jaw who decided allegedly to beat 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.000 that seventeen year old kid down when the kid threw 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.640 the basketball at him. It was Jaw flashing the gun 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:21.280 on his own Instagram on social media, which is just crazy, 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:25.400 Like that decision is just baffling to me, as someone 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:30.920 who's made my own share of Instagram live decisions wild. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:35.120 This is wild, and as I say, I say this 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.440 that Jaw could be the problem, Like Jaw is his 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.640 own worst enemy. That is an issue that needs to 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.440 be addressed. Who he decides to have with them is 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:49.160 only augmenting what's going on. I think Jaw is the 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.840 most exciting player in all of sports, period. End of story. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.560 I love Damian Lillard. I think John Moran is the 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.480 only player I would go to the Capitol One Center 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.680 to see. It's true, Capitol One is trash. The lighting 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:07.079 is horrible, the vibe is awful, parking awful, Chinatown, all 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.960 of it, all of it. But I said, you know what, 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.120 I'm gonna go and see Jaw at the Capitol One. 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.360 Did I see John? No? I did not. That's a 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.400 totally different story, a different day. It's a low management discussion. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.200 But I was like, you know what, I'm still gonna go. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.800 Why just so I can get a glimpse of Jaw 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.400 in street close. That's how cool and how exciting and 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:31.400 how electric Jaw is. You want to know what his 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:38.000 vibe is at any given moment, but Jaw clearly has not. 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.840 Is just the problem, has a problem, and he alludes 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.880 to it on his statement the pr statement that like 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.080 his Olivia Popes put out. He said, I take full 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:53.120 responsibility for my actions last night. I'm sorry to my family, teammates, coaches, fans, partners, 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.760 City of Memphis, and the entire Grizzlies organization for letting 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.040 you down. But this is the key piece. I'm going 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:03.280 to take some time away to get help and work 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.200 on learning better methods of dealing with stress and my 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:12.920 overall well being. Straight out of the Josh Primo pr handbook. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.560 I think that's like basically what he said. I'm gonna 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:19.640 take some time away and find some better methods to 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:26.000 coping with stress. The keywords get help, learning better methods. 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:31.360 It is very clear that Ja Moran has had I 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:36.080 don't know if problems is the right statement, but definitely 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:44.559 things surrounding alcohol, and it's clearly something that's being used 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.520 in a way that could be construed as destructive and toxic. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:52.880 It's certainly not new. I remember thinking ooh when I 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:57.120 watched Jaws again. Another Instagram wive, this man wants to 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.319 broadcast all of his business out on the streets for 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.319 no reason, clearly being like Ooh, I get drunk, I'm 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.040 so cool. So he posted on a private plane on 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.520 the way to Cleveland last year to the All Star Game, 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.679 his first All Star appearance. I'm watching him not shirtless, 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.640 but just guzzling a bottle of tequila on the plane 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.880 with his friends, loud dancing. Fine, but it was like, 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:25.080 you're already fucked up, you are already trashed, and you're 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.120 taking another bottle of alcohol to the head. Not good. 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.880 And then he was like, oh, yeah it was lit 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.360 at All Star Game. Ooh it was lit. Yeah, okay, yeah. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:39.720 The like a lot of this surrounds bad decisions when 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:44.959 you are not sober and you lose control, things happen 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.640 in your brain. Those sensors that tell you, hey, you 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.840 shouldn't do this, Those sensors go away when you've had 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.839 too much tequila. Hence the whole blame it on, Blame 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.320 it on Henny, Blame it on Patron, Like that's you 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.120 can't you bring a gun to the club. You can't 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.480 blame it on the alcohol. You can't. Sorry, Like it's 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.559 the truth, and you people forget Jaws only twenty three 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.480 years old. He's a baby. Yeah what I was doing 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:12.840 at twenty three years old? My lord, my lord, It 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.240 doesn't excuse anything. But this is a guy who just 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.120 signed five years two hundred and thirteen million dollars. Nothing 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.360 can prepare you for five years two hundred and thirteen 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.080 million dollars at twenty three years old. And I love 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.800 him because he's defiant. He's defiant, and that is what 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.280 that Instagram life was. Oh, Washington Post, you want to 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.760 post a story about me putting a gun in my waistband, 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.280 let me show you this gun to the face, no 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.320 shirt on. Like, okay, I don't think you get it, sir, 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.800 Like you can go to jail for this. You've now 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.840 moved a gun allegedly. I don't know how the gun 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:46.560 got there, but the NBA is gonna want to know 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.440 the gun got from Memphis to Denver, across state lines, 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.560 maybe on a team plane. Now you're talking about felony, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:59.440 You're talking about Gilbert Arena's suspensions. All kind of things 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:04.840 are in play, and now this just came in today. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.640 Colorado police are now investigating the incidents to see if 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.200 job Brokenny laws. It is believed that jaws Ig Live 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:15.000 was filmed in Glendale, a suburb of Denver known for 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:19.600 its strip clubs. He since he was only It's the 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.000 only county in Colorado that is not an open carry County. 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.920 Very unfortunate scenario for Jahn Morant. He may be now 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.120 in play for a weapons violation. That is, in addition 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.520 to whether it can be ascertained if it was his 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.640 playing his own gun on the team plane, which would 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.240 break all kinds of NBA locker room type laws. This 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:45.840 shit could get ugly very fast. Sometimes it's better to 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.560 be a slept on team. The Grizzlies, I think, are 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.560 a team that's better to be slept on them as 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.960 the team that everybody's looking for, they do not know 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.640 how to handle that. You have Dylan Brooks with sixteen 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.000 technicals already at this point in the year. He's getting 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:01.120 suspended suspensions. You've got John Morant happy. This is probably 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:07.400 the worst weekend for the Grizzlies in team history because 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.000 they lose Brandon Clark to an achilles injury, which is 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.440 not being discussed. It would have if this jaw thing 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.640 wouldn't have happened. You've had Steven Adams missing a bajillion games, 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:22.560 knows when he's coming back, and now you've got one 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.760 of the thinnest teams as a two seed and you're 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.080 losing to the LA Clippers. When you had a fifteen 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.680 point lead in third quarter. You're just pew Downstandings, Sacramaro 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:36.040 Kings breathing down your throat, Clippers breathing down your throat, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.960 MAVs breathing all down your throat. I want Jaw back, 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.800 but I only want jawback if he's changed as a player, 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:49.520 if he's changed as a human being, Because if he 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.040 has the same baggage in the Satis decision making tree 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.400 that he had when he decided, Oh yeah, you think 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.480 this is gonna harm me, I'm gonna put the gun 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.160 in the ig life. If that shit is going, this 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:05.280 is gonna get bad very fast because Jaw, we don't 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.720 deserve it. But really, Jaw doesn't deserve it. Really, Jaw 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.919 needs to sort himself out. He deserves to play with 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:17.159 new tactics to deal with being him. Outside of just 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.399 bottles of Henny and strip clubs and guns. There's gotta 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:27.000 be other things. Kyler Murray chooses call of duty. Maybe 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.200 it's call of duty. I don't know what the methods 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.520 of coping are going to be for Jaw, but this 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.359 clearly can't be the method because obviously it's leading to 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:40.080 being reckless and reckless decisions with a superstar with pajillions 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.480 of money on the line. We're talking about sponsorship, we're 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.000 talking about the league is not going to work. And 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.399 I will wait and we should all be ready to 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.959 wait for as long as necessary for this new version 0:17:51.520 --> 0:18:10.080 of Ja Moran to come back. I was thinking about 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.760 the Brooklyn met Nets and Shawn Marx the other day. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:20.359 She just just the Saturday. So Shawn Marks gets like 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:25.000 a lot of flak right for being this mediocre or 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.440 poor GM. Everybody says it, Oh, Shawn Marks doesn't know 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:32.080 what he's doing. Shawn Marks can't build teams. But if 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.160 you look at this that I'm about to tell you, 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.440 there may be no better GM in the world than 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.320 Shawn Marks. I can hear you, like Trista, what are 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:46.000 you talking about? Their team has eroded, they have no picks. 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:51.359 Find another GM in the league that has built three 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:57.320 Eastern Conference powerhouses and had the team he took over 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:01.080 build a fourth. Find that no one in the NBA 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.840 has built more winning teams than Shawn Marks. The only 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:08.640 problem is they're not his team. They're not his teams. 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:12.520 There are other teams that he's building. So in fact, 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.560 the Brooklyn Nets are responsible for building right, now the 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:20.520 top four rosters in the East that are not him. 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.760 Let's break it down. At the top of the East, 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.280 you have the Boston Celtics. Now this is not Sewn Marks, 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.080 but it is the Nets. While this slightly pre date 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.120 Shawn marks tenure with the Nets, he did not arrive 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:37.520 until February twenty sixteen. The Nets famously trade Boston for 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.280 a couple of warm corpses and included the draft picks 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:45.199 that turn into Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown for you 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:52.239 guessed it, Paul Pierce and Garnet. Well done, Brooklyn. You 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:56.280 just gave two of the most prolific two way wings 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:02.439 four guys who did not contribute to you whatsoever. Next up, 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.000 you have the Milwaukee Bucks, who have one of the 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.480 best defenses in the NBA. The center of that defense 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.399 is not Yannis. The center of that defense is actually 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:16.240 Brook Lopez, Yes, the same Brook Lopez, who has scored 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:18.920 ten thousand points for the Nets, which is the most 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.320 in team history. He's one of the leaders right now 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:26.400 for Defensive Player of the Year. He came over from 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.240 the Nets to Milwaukee just to show how Sean Marks 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.359 is a good dude. The Nets are actually paying Javon 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.879 Carter four million dollars this year to play for the Bucks. 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:38.159 Carter has started thirty three games this year and is 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:41.240 averaging a career high eight three and two with a 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.800 steel per game and a plus minus of plus seventy eight. 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.960 Brook Lopez was traded to the Lakers and then signed 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:52.800 with Milwaukee in twenty eighteen. Third is the most interesting one, 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:56.160 I think is the Sixers. So we know that Sean 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:03.920 Marks traded James Harden, but he is also kind enough 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:07.080 at that same time to take on the worst contract 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:10.280 in the entire NBA in Ben Simmons. So you give 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:15.960 this team James Harden and take back Ben Simmons. Ben 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:18.800 right now is probably a negative asset. You're probably gonna 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.480 have to give up two first round picks to get 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:27.240 him off your hands. And yes, the Sixers, like you said, 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.440 like you may know, gave up two first rounders to Brooklyn, 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.560 but not ever first rounder as equal folks. This included 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.919 the twenty twenty two unprotected first rounder which was deferred 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.560 to twenty twenty three, which will end up probably being 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.560 between twenty five and thirty, and then also a twenty 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.840 twenty seven first round protected which is top eight that's garbage. 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:49.200 So you give up James Harden, and now the Sixers 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:51.760 looking like one of the most potent Eastern Conference teams 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.160 in the league. The two man game between Joel Mbi 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:57.320 and James Harden is looking very very good. And why 0:21:57.359 --> 0:21:58.760 did you do that deal? I don't know why he 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:00.920 did that deal? Do you know what? Does it make 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:03.439 sense to anyone? I don't know. Next up is the 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:07.560 Cleveland Cavaliers, who have some of the best defense in 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.840 the league as well, And you traded Jared Allen for 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:14.600 no reason to get James Harden, who turned into two 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:21.840 random first round picks and Ben Simmons. Oh yeah, you 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:25.880 traded Torrian Prince as well away. Torrian Prince turned into 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:31.480 Ricky Rubio. The Calvs also used the twenty eighteen draft 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:35.399 pick from the Nets to get Colin Sexton, who they 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:40.439 eventually use checks notes as a major piece for Donovan Mitchell. 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:45.280 So Ricky Rubio, Donovan Mitchell, and Jared Allen all because 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:48.439 of Sean Marks and the Nets. So we're talking Jared Allen, 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:57.159 Ricky Rubio, Colin Sexton, Donovan Mitchell, Brook Lopez, James Harden, 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:03.560 taking on Ben Simmons and Javon Carter all because of 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:09.800 Sean Marks. That is that's impressive. That's impressive. No, nobody 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:14.679 is more friendly to the competition than are Kiwi Shawn Marks. 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:18.560 He even traded Spencer Dinwi to do the Wizards for 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:22.040 no reason in a five player trade with the Russell Westbrook, 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:26.480 just because just because he was a mensch, only to 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:29.840 trade back for him a year and change later, same 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:33.800 amount of money. The draft capital, if you look at 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:37.000 this team is very wonky. I think they're gonna need 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:39.600 to make some moves. They have three first rounders this year. 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:42.480 They have their own Phoenixes and the sixers, but none 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:44.480 of those are likely to drop into the top five. 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:47.560 And that's where franchise altering players are unless you're Denver 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:50.280 and you can find Jokic and the forty fourth pick. 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:53.119 They have one first rounder phoenix which is likely in 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:55.720 the twenties between twenty twenty four and twenty twenty six. 0:23:55.920 --> 0:23:57.679 They're probably gonna have to attach to some of their 0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:00.680 later futures just to get out from under Ben Simmons contract. 0:24:00.800 --> 0:24:03.520 And the bigger problem they don't have any of their 0:24:03.560 --> 0:24:07.640 own first rounders because they traded them all to get 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:13.160 James Harden. So Houston has all their own first their 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:15.840 first rounders, and they're probably gonna be a lottery team 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:19.399 before long. I don't know what's going on. You have 0:24:19.440 --> 0:24:22.800 Sean Marx, Josigh. They're swinging for the fences. They miss, 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:25.639 they get Kyrie and Cady, they miss on them, they lose, 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:29.720 They get very little back for them. Now you're stuck 0:24:29.760 --> 0:24:31.760 till waiting till twenty twenty seven. We have two first 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:35.960 rounds picks. That's four years. Four years from now to 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:39.119 start building through the draft, that's three whole years away. 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:41.960 Michael Bridgers at this point is gonna be an unrestricted 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:47.600 free agent. I don't think that people realize how screwed 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:52.600 Brooklyn is unless this team somehow becomes really, really good. 0:24:52.800 --> 0:24:54.399 At least in the short term. They're gonna have to 0:24:54.440 --> 0:24:57.080 hit home runs in their first three first rounders this year, 0:24:57.400 --> 0:24:59.119 or bundle them and move up to the draft to 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:02.040 get like a top ten off I pick, to figure 0:25:02.080 --> 0:25:04.199 out a way to get Brandon Miller or somewhere the 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:07.639 Thompson Twins or something. No one has more writing on 0:25:07.680 --> 0:25:10.639 this draft than Sean Marks. Does. You either pull a 0:25:10.720 --> 0:25:12.440 rabbit out of the hat or you have to trade 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:14.560 mckel Bridges. That's that's it. Those are the only two 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:17.480 options you have. You have one year, two years to 0:25:17.520 --> 0:25:21.000 save your job. But if Josie cuts ties with him, 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:24.320 there's probably a lot of GMS out there they'll owe 0:25:24.359 --> 0:25:26.720