WEBVTT - Courtside Karen 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.680 On this episode of This League, we talk about the 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.040 phenomenon known as courtside Karen shout out to all the 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:09.840 teams that are playing defense. We get into the must 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:14.040 anticipated Russell Westbrook segment that I promise you break down 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:17.280 Clay Thompson's beef with Big Baby Davis and the Pistons, 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:19.680 and of course we get into some listener of voicemails 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:24.600 and oh are they hot? Oh I can't wait for that. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:26.400 So I told everybody that we were going to start 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.520 today's show talking about Russell Westbrook unless something crazy happen, 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:37.080 and something crazy appen show enough, Yes, sir, Nothing in 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.520 my life I love more than a good victory lap. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.839 I am insufferable when I am right. My desire for 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.599 everyone to recognize me for how right that I am 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:54.880 on a consistent basis is an unfillable well, it never ends. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.200 No one loves taking victory laps as much as me. 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:05.639 The tiniest things, for the smallest, most minuscule, irrelevant things 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:09.959 in sports. But that's me. And that's probably because as 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.920 a woman in sports media, you're always told that your 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:17.120 takes are either wrong improperly delivered, that your shrill. So 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.839 many things just take a little stab down the lane. 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.520 That is the ig comment section of this league, and 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:29.479 you'll see that. So when I'm proven correct, I feel 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:34.200 obligated for all women, for the culture, really for progress. 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:38.840 Sure to say, Yo, not only was I right, you 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:44.399 were so wrong for aggressively coming for my neck. Not 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:48.480 only am I right, you should have never ever ever 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.120 spoken to me the way that you did about me 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:56.360 being wrong. Anyway, so I digress. It appears that my 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.400 take that players are in desperate need for fans could 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.080 not have come in a better time, perfect take at 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.240 the perfect time. Marty, Can you take play my take 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:07.080 from Monday show? 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:08.239 Sure? 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.400 Imagine this, I thought, he thought, sitting there with her 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:16.920 low cut top on body con dress, oily tan legs, 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.240 looking at you like she wants to give you the 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:23.240 business boy woo, and you're like, yes, I'm gonna get 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.840 her number after the game, and then right next to 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.520 her you get posterized. What do you think that cocktail 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.960 does to the male ego? You are one of the 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.960 people that she came to watch perform, and then you 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.320 got someone's nuts on your face and you think you're 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:40.800 gonna be able to smash after that? You better do 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.400 something to reply and put that in her mind. You 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:47.600 know what it does? It makes you want to compete. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.600 I need effort compete. 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:54.079 I need effort compete. It makes you want to compete. 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.840 To the booze the screams. What I said was, I said, 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:04.639 we needed salty, aggressive hecklers, and we needed also thoughts hose, 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:09.160 scantily clad hose and heckler's And what the universe gifted me, 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:15.040 because I am obviously one of God's preordained children, he 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.440 gifted me or she gifted me one human that encapsulated both. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:24.440 That is courtside Karen. I thought he thought that got 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:28.839 so aggressive with Lebron James that she got ejected. Her 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.800 and her man's got ejected for telling him. She said, 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:38.480 I will fuck you up. She will beat him down 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.720 court side. She did that. So before we get into 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:47.240 Lebron's response and why, that vindicates exactly what I was saying. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.120 Let's just dig a little deeper into court side Karen. 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:51.760 Let's do it. 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.960 Karen's real name is is Julieta Carlos. She's twenty five. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:00.920 Allegedly she's a tough twenty five. She's not. It's not 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:02.280 even like she's bad looking. 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.000 No, it's just this. It's so much plastic surgery for 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:06.880 a twenty five year old. 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.000 I mean, the level of confidence that you must have 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.600 has gotta be kind of where my shoes are right 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:18.039 now on the ground. So they live in Atlanta. She's 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.960 she's married to this, she's the third wife to this 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.359 liquor distributor, which is just like, maybe one of the 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.359 skeeziest careers that you could possibly have is to be 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:30.039 a liquor distributor. You just drink for a living and 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.520 get other people drunk for a living. They live in Atlanta, 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.479 which I like to call LA's ratchet little sister. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:36.320 Sure. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.360 Yeah, La of the South where you can buy a 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.800 McMansion for like one tenth of the price of a 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.960 big city like LA. It's kind of like the Scottsdale, 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.480 Arizona of the Southeast, I guess you would call it. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:52.800 Don't I don't hate that. I don't hate that. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:57.800 Yeah, you know, glitz, glam, vanity plates, fake tits, you know, 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.880 real Housewives of Atlanta type shit. Right, you know what 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:02.680 I'm talking about, Right, Marty, you've been down there? 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.160 Yeah, all too well, all too well. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:09.400 Okay, So, for some reason, this guy Chris Carlos fifty 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.840 seven with the twenty five year old allegedly twenty five 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.800 year old wife. He's got liquor related beef. This is 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.240 what my inside quote unquote sources say. He's got liquor 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:25.000 beef with d Wade, a member of the Heatles. Right, 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.400 So Lebron's best friends with d Wade, and he's like, yo, 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.840 this one's on site. Fam. This is like it's like 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:36.520 bloods and crips for like Pino noir. Right, So Lebron 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.440 and this guy start drawing back and forth, and then 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:44.839 Karen aka Juliana for some reasons, decides, you know, my 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:49.840 man needs me to protect him. He uh, he's fifty seven. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.920 I'm twenty five. I'm in better shape maybe than him. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.880 So she people are saying he's on steroids. There's a 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.560 lot of uh slander about Chris being on steroids and 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.440 also having some facial plastic surgery of his own. Oh yeah, 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:07.360 he does look like either loof Riigno or sly Stone 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.279 or some combination of them both. But like that doesn't 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.240 really matter to the to the facts of the story. 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.400 So she starts saying some shit to Lebron James, like, yo, 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.000 stop talking to my man or you're gonna catch these hands, bitch, 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.320 And he's like, yo, bitch, shut shut your ass up 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.040 and sit down. So she takes off her mask and 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.800 then she gets ejected and then she goes insane on 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.040 ig after she gets gets kicked out of the game. 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.120 Play that last forty seconds of this clip. Anyway, I'm 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:42.160 minding my own business, drinking, my having fun. All of 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.200 a sudden, Lebron says something to my husband and I 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.640 and I see this and I go, I stand up. 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.720 I go, don't fucking talk to my husband. And she 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.440 looks at me and he goes, sit the fuck down, bitch, 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.320 and I go, don't fucking call me a bitch. You 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.159 sit the get the fuck out of here. And I go, 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.480 don't fucking talk to me. My husband like that, don't 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.320 talk to my husband, and he literally was like, fuck 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.680 you bitch, sit down, bitch, and all this excuse me, 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.440 I have courts, excuse me that I pay for. Excuse me. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.880 Fuck you, Lebron, You're a fucking pussy. Get the fuck 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:14.720 out of her. You're gonna let a twenty five year 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.480 old girl intimidate you during a game. Bye bitch, Bye bitch. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.280 Hold on, just before I make a comment. No one 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:26.280 that's twenty five says, I'm twenty five. Hey, you're gonna 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.000 let a grown man. A grown man's gonna talk to 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.840 a twenty five year old like this. I think we 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:36.880 might have someone who has fabricated her age for her husband. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.880 So I don't know anyway, So she's starting to go 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:41.960 viral and then say, oh, better establish my age. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.240 Yeah, better established before people start looking into this here, 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.800 people asked her for her ID. She took a photo. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.880 I think she deleted it later, but she took a 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.920 photo and put her driver's license up on her Instagram 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:57.040 story because people were so convinced she was not twenty five. Okay, 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.680 so I digress again. So then she's sobs up right, 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.960 She's gained about eighty thousand followers. She's deleted some old posts. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.360 She wrote an apology, a press release really for her 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.280 newfound fans, which is what happens when you get fame. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:12.760 Let's do it, let's get into it. 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.160 Okay, here's what she said. She goes about last night 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.480 to say things escalated quickly. As an understatement, Yes, I 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.120 want to apologize for losing my cool and removing my 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.640 mask in the heat of the moment. Sports wouldn't be 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.480 sports without a little trash talking. What should have been 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.840 a quick back and forth between two adults got out 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.920 of hand, and my natural instraint instinct to stand up 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.240 for the man I love kicked in. Did I get 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.640 defensive when it happened, Yes, yes, she did. Did I 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.160 use offensive language when I could have taken the higher road? 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:40.880 A lot of them? 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.199 Yes? And for those things I take responsibility. 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:47.640 Was there an apology in there? 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:48.240 Not? 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.040 Really, there was, no I'm sorry, Oh no, I want 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.760 to apologize. I want to apologize for losing my cool. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.880 No apology for the words said to Lebron James, But 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:02.080 that's okay. Did you use offensive language, Karen, I would 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:02.440 say it. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:02.680 Did? 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.000 You called him a pussy and you told him he 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.200 could catch these hands. As a side note, because there's 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:09.680 a lot of side notes, a lot of thoughts that 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.520 I have about this thought. How much money do you 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.560 have to have in order to feel confident in your 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.200 ability to tell Lebron James that you you the one 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.800 hundred and five pound, soaking wet blonde chick with fake 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:30.600 tits and filled with diamonds, that you would fuck him up, 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.320 and you are safe after that, you can say that 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:39.120 and feel completely comfortable in your own skin, no danger whatsoever. 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.520 That's what that's what eate. He's two hundred and seventy 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.839 pounds pure muscle, one of the best players in the game. 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.840 You know that if he wanted some sort of retaliation, 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:54.080 he could get retaliation very very easily, very fast. I mean, 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:58.160 if that was Ron ar test ooh, can you imagine. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.120 It would have been a tough day for real It 0:09:59.160 --> 0:09:59.920 would have been a tough f. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:04.960 Day for Juliana Carlos too. Okay, So that's what eighty 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.240 million dollars gets you, the irrational confidence that you can 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:12.200 get in Lebron James's face and say, bitch, I will 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.480 beat your ass. Okay, back on point, on point. So 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.480 back to why I'm right. So they ask Lebron James 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.120 what he thinks about the incident. 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.520 No, at the end of the day, that's uh. I'm 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.440 happy fans are back in the building. I missed that interaction. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.120 I need that interaction. We as players need that interaction. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.840 I don't feel like there was warning to be kicked out. 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:37.560 There was a a you know, a back and forth 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:42.560 between two grown men and which and you know, we 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.640 said our piece. He said his piece, I said my piece, 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.160 and then with someone else jumped into it and said 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.280 their piece. But I don't I don't think they were. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.040 You know, it should have been kicked out, but they 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.280 might have had a couple of drinks maybe and they 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.160 could have probably kept it going in the game. Wouldn't 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.800 have been about the game no more so they had 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:01.840 to do well. 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.200 Where was the part where he was like, I thought 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:05.920 that was her dad. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.320 I don't know exactly what that was from. I did 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.560 see a graphic that said that, like, I was shocked. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.920 I was shocked. I thought that was his daughter sticking 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.319 up for him. No, folks, did you see how much 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.720 diamonds she had all over her body? That is not 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:25.360 his kid anyway, Folks, this is the greatest player in 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.160 the world saying he needs fan interaction, and let's face it, 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.640 we know that Lebron James is dialed in, dial the 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.880 fuck in, and even he admits the crowds get him 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:40.000 lit up like a Christmas tree. Remember when that front 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:44.319 office guy from Cleveland, he goes to Cleveland and misses 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:48.120 the last shot of the before halftime, and the front 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.160 office guy's clapping way too hard. That Lebron James missed 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.240 that shot and then he just destroyed the second half. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:12:00.240 Lebron James needs whatever fan interaction he can summon. Side 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:01.679 Karen was like perfect for him. 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.040 Yeah, And it's actually the second iteration of this kind 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:05.959 of you know that viral clip where when he was 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:10.840 still in Cleveland and he's like walking down the sideline 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:12.760 or whatever, and someone goes, hey, Lebron, hows it feel 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:13.760 to be a pussy ass bitch? 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.720 Oh? He turns his head, Oh, I do any proceeded 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:17.160 to go off. 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:18.480 Yeah, he was like going down the tunnel. 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.600 Yeah, folks, this is why I said teams are gonna 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.360 get dog walked by fifty on any given night. Why 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:28.120 we've got the bucks damn near walking around screens on 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.080 a random Tuesday, Because on a Tuesday without fans, it's like, 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.240 do I really need to compete? There's no urgency to 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:38.120 play defense? And I said this before Courtside Karen was 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.560 a thing. So you can just thank me now for 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.240 all the future takes that are going to be right 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.720 about forty eight hours before they become trending. Now I 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:50.560 have indisputable proof crowds not only do they matter, We've 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.760 got Lebron James telling me that it is an integral 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.800 part of high level basketball on a night to night basis. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:13.000 You are welcome. I mean, that's how could go forever? 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:13.440 Couldn't it? 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:14.600 So? 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.040 Okay? So kind of like the second part of this 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.840 Lebron James crowd thing, we talk about teams, some teams 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:25.720 mailing it in, and that's not entirely fair because there 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.960 are teams and our specific players, one of them that 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:35.680 you love now, that are locking up, locking up without crowds. Right, 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.120 it appears that some teams and some players have little 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.960 bit of self respect. They don't need to have the 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.200 threat of humiliation be breathing down their throat every single 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.640 night in order to do their fucking job that paid 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.080 millions of dollars, do you know, just like setting screens, 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.240 you know, doing the little things, chasing after loose balls, 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:57.200 playing hard until the fucking buzzer, keeping the points at bay. 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.480 And it shows. We've got the Lakers, who are not 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:04.040 surprisingly the best defensive team in the league. They have 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.960 obviously improved. They're giving up three points less a game 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.400 this year. But I want to talk about teams that 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:15.960 have actually made huge strides. Right, You've got talking about Knickerbockers, Clippers, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:17.840 and Sons. That's right. 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:19.960 I mean, I've been saying it. They're good. They're way 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:21.720 better than people realize. And like, I know, we got 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:23.520 kind of worked by the Pels last night, but this 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:24.120 team's good. 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.760 You got it, you got it. I like the Suns, 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.400 and we're gonna save them for last because I know 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.640 you get excited. You're already excited a little bit. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.040 A little bit. I like these other teams too. 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.680 But yeah, all right, let's start with the Knicks. It's 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.240 not a stretch to say that the Knicks have been 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:44.240 just atrocious defensively for the last forever. One of the 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.560 most surprising teams coming out this year, even though they 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:52.000 don't have a winning record right now, they are a surprise. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:57.560 And why why are they now the number two defense 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.440 in the league in terms of giving how much their 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.520 opponents are are scoring a game. I mean, it's no surprise. Right, 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.680 You've got Tom run those boys in the ground. Thibodeau, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.680 who's like, we are slowing it down on offense and 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:15.800 we are locking it down on d They're giving up 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.240 just one hundred and four point two points per game, 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:24.840 eight points better than last year. That is insane, and 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.480 they didn't even get that many players who should be 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.600 making a defensive I mean, Obi Toppins is not the 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.360 reason that they're giving up eight points less a game. 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:36.680 Let's be honest. We know Tibbs is for sure the reason. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.920 That's what he's known to do. Long practices and defensive 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:41.640 minded team. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:42.960 Yeah, and bugging locker rooms. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:43.840 Bugging locker rooms. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:45.680 I mean, he's nuts a little bit. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.320 I'll give him forty eight months, yeah, or no, twenty 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.680 four months, not forty eight. There's a reason ESPN called 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:56.840 his scheme the pinnacle of defensive strategy in the NBA. 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:58.880 He is on record saying if you are a top 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.920 five defensive team, you are a championship caliber team. But 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:07.080 the problem is, as a caveat, they're only scoring one 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.280 hundred and two points per game, So that's a two 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.840 point l You don't want that, right. You can't win 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.840 games if you're scoring less than your giving up. That's 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.000 just math. So even though their defense is keeping them in, 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.880 they just can't consistently win because they can't score, which 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.440 is also like a TIBs thing. He's slowing away down. 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:29.120 Yeah. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.360 So considering most people thought that they were gonna be trash. 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.200 The fact that they could possibly sneak into the eight seed, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.920 I mean, that's very impressive. That's like a David Blaine 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:44.240 magic trick. How could the Knicks actually be in any 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.160 way relevant while James Don'tan is still the owner. You 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:48.760 see it with your eyes and you're like, I still, 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.160 I still don't know if I can believe it. So 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:53.720 we have a Knicks. But then next up, we've got 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.800 the Clippers. And the Clippers have gotten better, not because 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.240 of a coaching change, even though they had a coaching change, right, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:04.320 You've got really the biggest reason is fucking Montres Harold 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.439 is gone and they've got Obacca. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:08.160 Now, Surge is so good for them. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.720 He's so good, He's so good at so many different things. 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.440 They went out and I mean you have to think 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.280 Kawhi was sort of in charge of that decision or 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:21.400 somewhere led the charge for that. So they're now playing 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.480 lockdown defense. They were like middle of the pack last 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:28.240 year and now they're like fourth or fifth. So Abaca 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.280 at one point in his career was like third second 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:36.119 and defensive Player of the Year voting blocker defense. The 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:40.240 perimeter can switch get out in space, block shots and 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.800 then once he blocks one guy shot, I mean that's 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.320 just an ego shot, right, You're not throwing the ball 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.879 down to that player for a while, right, defensive menace. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:54.840 Every team that he's been on has been incredibly good defensively. 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.920 When he was with Okay, see, they were amazing Toronto, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.560 they were great. Obviously they fell off once him and 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:05.360 Marcasol left, and now the Clippers. Not to mention, he's 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:10.000 with Paul George and Kawhi, both very good perimeter devenders. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:14.000 I mean, just ugh made me trip up Paul George 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.960 and Patrick Beverley, the all time past Right. Okay, we 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.200 knew Zubac wasn't gonna be able to do the job. 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.679 He's gonna get cooked. But with Ebaka, this is the reason, 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.680 especially given that this team has chemistry, more chemistry with Ibaka, 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.560 that they are a hard rock squad, and they have 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:36.280 won like twelve out of fourteen games. So that's impressive 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.720 in a time where no one seems to care about 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.359 defense and no one seems to be defending them. Like 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:46.600 I told you, six hundred uncontested threes, no that they've had. 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:48.600 So okay, let's do it. Let's talk about the Suns. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:50.680 Let's do it. I'm so excited. 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.840 So, Marty, this is really not a Sun segment. This 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:57.120 is really a Chris Paul said. 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:58.640 That's fine, I'll take it. 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.280 I mean, every single team that Chris Paul has played 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:08.920 for improves its defense by at least five points per game. 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.159 That's insane. And then when he leaves, I hope he 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.359 doesn't leave you guys, it drops off a cliff again. Yeah, 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.840 he got to Houston. Here's some numbers. Got to Houston, 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.560 they gave up one hundred and nine point two. The 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.399 next year was CP one hundred and three point seven. 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.280 I don't like talking numbers, but this is absurd. When 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:31.040 he left back up to one hundred and thirteen point seven. 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:35.160 That you think that's an anomaly? Okay, last year in Oka, 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:36.919 see that he was there, they were giving up one 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.399 hundred and eight point six. Then the year after he 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.720 left they filled at one to fifteen point five. Not good. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.119 And last year Sons gave up a one hundred and 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.840 thirteen point four. You probably remember those games. 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:50.680 Yeah, it was tough, they were gross. 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.280 Yeah, this year one hundred and seven point five and 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:59.240 fifth in the NBA. All of that to say, can 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:03.920 we put some fucking respect on Chris Paul's name. Please. 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:08.359 Everybody says Chris Paul's washed. He doesn't do nearly as 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:10.879 much as you think he does. He's injury prone. The 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.159 Sons are fifth in the West. Folks, they didn't even 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.359 make the playoffs last year, and they are poised. I 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:16.639 know that. 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:17.159 You know this. 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.199 You're one of the very few. They are gonna make 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.040 noise in the playoffs. Yes, they're gonna make noise. People 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.760 hate on CP three for absolutely no reason at all. 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:27.960 He's not just well, okay, what do they Why do 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:28.520 they hate on him? 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:30.440 I mean, he's kind of an asshole. I've I've hated 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:32.160 him for a lot of his career just on the court. 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.880 He just bothers me. But like now he's our asshole. 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.280 So does anybody seem to have a problem with him 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:37.800 on your team? 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:38.440 No? 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.800 So maybe it's the pussy ass bitches he was playing with. 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:42.920 It's very possible. 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:48.359 So, I mean DeAndre Jordan's kind of never mind, I 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.240 don't want to I don't want to put one of 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:52.119 my friends slept with DeAndre Jordan's so I'll just like 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:56.240 keep it there. Oh okay, anyhow so you can say, oh, 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:59.919 it's DeAndre Ayton. He's progressed. Oh, Booker is becoming elite. 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:05.840 But let's be real, folks, Chris Paul is the connective 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:09.800 tissue of the Phoenix Suns defense. And you saw what 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.679 he did with Oka, see right. This is really just 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:16.120 to say Chris Paul is elite. Is he a Batman? 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:23.280 Absolutely not? But does he automatically make you in playoff contention? Oh? Absolutely, 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:26.879 He's gonna probably move you up multiple spots in whatever 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.960 conference you're in, go from eighth or ninth or tenth 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:35.880 to fifth sick. That's I would say, that's big time impact. 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:39.800 I'm not gonna this is a hot take. This isn't 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:41.840 really a take, but I just want to point out 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.600 that before Anthony Davis came to the Lakers, Lebron James 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:45.400 didn't make the playoffs. 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:46.200 That's right. 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:48.400 I just want to point out that even Batman can 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:52.720 miss the playoffs. Okay, see left for dead when Chris 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:56.679 Paul was traded there, right, everybody thought they were just 0:21:56.720 --> 0:21:59.119 like gonna fall off a cliff. They just had accumulated 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:03.040 a bunch of up picks for Paul George and no, 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:05.280 they were like one of the most exciting teams to watch. 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:09.239 They had Shay and they lost Russ and it was like, 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.479 oh shit, they could actually they almost won a series 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:14.560 that was very very close, and I think there was 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:18.240 looking back, some very suspicious calls late. 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:20.240 In a little bit that Game three. 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:23.240 That was the one that I'm thinking about. So we 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.159 talked about OBJ being thirty six and productive, c P 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:31.399 thirty five, very very productive. Yes he has injuries, but 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.439 he is still propelling teams to the playoffs. The Suns 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:37.960 are defensive. We'll call him, I don't know if a juggernaut, 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:38.840 but they're tough. Five. 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:41.120 Yeah, we're sniffing juggernaut level. 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.920 Sniffing the juggernaut level. I like that. You put him 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:46.920 on any team, and not only because he's great at 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:51.879 his half court offense. He's also tremendous on defense. Okay, Marty, 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:53.800 why is this not all about Chris Paul? 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:57.479 Well, I mean, it's all about Chris Paul is a 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:00.639 little weird way of saying. It's definitely. The culture impact 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:03.040 is definitely because of him. People are playing hard, better, 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:05.960 just focused on winning for once, which is something like 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:08.960 a lot of these guys haven't done since they gotten 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:11.479 the league. But I will say DeAndre Aiden's taken a 0:23:11.640 --> 0:23:13.639 major step defensively, and I think that is a lot 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:16.080 because of Chris Paul. But still his impact on that 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:19.920 end is a huge reason why the Sons are doing things. 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:21.560 And it's what people said he couldn't do when he 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:24.200 was coming out of the draft. And Michale Bridges might 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:25.919 be the best perimeter defender in the league. I know 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:27.359 a lot of people don't see a lot on him, 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:29.280 but he's really. 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:33.160 He's long too, He's really really long. He's great. And 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:35.120 the thing that you can just say about Chris Paul 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:38.520 is like the disrespect for what he's able to do 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:42.359 at this old of an age and still make an 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:45.879 impact and get young guys to actually want to what 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:51.120 comepy Pete here it is, folks, the hyped Russell Westbrook 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:55.240 segment that I promised you as an aside. I looked 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:58.040 for Russell Westbrook songs. If you go on Spotify right 0:23:58.040 --> 0:24:00.919 now and you search, which you don't have premium access 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:04.800 to this, If you look on Spotify and you search 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:10.840 for Russell Westbrook, there's like one hundred songs named Russell Westbrook. 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:13.040 That is insane that he may be one of the 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:17.479 most highly named rap song players. I don't know if 0:24:17.480 --> 0:24:19.040 that makes sense. I don't it. 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:21.160 Would make sense a little bit like why he would 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:21.640 be that guy? 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:25.000 Yeah, why you would title your song Russell Westbrook? Though, 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:30.640 oh all of the song titles were Russell Westbrook. That's crazy. Anyway, 0:24:31.320 --> 0:24:33.280 we'll probably do a segment on that in the future. 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:35.600 If you don't think we will. You are not familiar 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:38.840 with this league. You're just not just not okay. So 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:41.320 what is what is a time? What's the best time 0:24:41.320 --> 0:24:44.680 to talk about Russ? When he is healthy for the 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:47.720 first time all season, he puts up forty one in 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:50.639 one of the highest scoring games in NBA history to 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:52.439 beat the Nets that are supposed to be a contender 0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:58.919 when this Wizard's team is jush track. So do you 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:01.000 I know you didn't see the performance because you were 0:25:01.040 --> 0:25:03.920 sleep sleep. Did you go back and see the highlights? 0:25:04.040 --> 0:25:07.440 I did. I did, especially a fourth quarter that was sick. 0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:10.720 That was sick. Here is what Russell Westbrook had to 0:25:10.760 --> 0:25:13.800 say after the game, which is going to make my point. 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:17.720 It's like a nice Segue's. 0:25:16.640 --> 0:25:18.600 Probably my responsibility as a leader to make sure I 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:21.840 bring it every single night. And I take pride in 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:24.160 doing that because I don't think that's something that everybody 0:25:24.200 --> 0:25:26.040 do around this league and sports at general. 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:28.600 And that's something that I take pride in coming in 0:25:28.640 --> 0:25:29.080 every night. 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:35.119 Yes he does spitting straight facts. God damn it. I 0:25:35.160 --> 0:25:39.640 love some Russell Westbrook. Okay, So this is what I've 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:43.159 been thinking about for a long time. Russell Westbrook is 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:46.159 kind of how I feel about Kyrie Irving, and this 0:25:46.240 --> 0:25:48.720 is how it is. It's different, but it's the same. 0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:53.639 Kyrie Irving is cold on the court. He is one 0:25:53.680 --> 0:25:56.160 of the most skilled basketball players, if not the most 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:58.479 skilled basketball players in the NBA right now. He can 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:00.760 do things with the basketball that no one else can do, 0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:03.080 especially around the rim. But then you get what he 0:26:03.119 --> 0:26:07.159 does on Instagram, where he's like putting emojis of his 0:26:07.280 --> 0:26:10.119 zodiac on there and like all this subtweeting, and then 0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:12.879 he's taking games off, and then he's telling the NBA 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:15.119 players that they should start their own league and like 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:18.879 telling them to not be in the bubble. And you're like, dude, 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:21.640 I don't I don't like this. And then you see 0:26:21.680 --> 0:26:22.960 him do what he did a couple of nights ago, 0:26:23.000 --> 0:26:24.360 and you're like, oh my god. 0:26:25.320 --> 0:26:26.359 You separate it really quickly. 0:26:26.400 --> 0:26:28.320 It's easy when you see him do what he did. 0:26:29.200 --> 0:26:31.320 And and this has been how Kyrie has been for 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:36.080 ten years. He's gotten weirder and weirder for sure post lebron. 0:26:37.320 --> 0:26:40.879 But what Kyrie does off the floor, I mean, what 0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:43.280 Kyrie does on the floor kind of makes you forget 0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:44.480 about everything that he does. 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:45.639 Off the floor. 0:26:45.960 --> 0:26:48.720 Yeah. So how I feel about Russell Westbrook is this. 0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:56.000 He makes awful, awful, awful decisions on the court, like 0:26:56.119 --> 0:26:59.879 so blatantly egregious and obvious where you're like, what were 0:26:59.920 --> 0:27:04.960 you even thinking there? Remember here's a good one. Remember 0:27:05.040 --> 0:27:08.720 when Russell Westbrook tried to go shot for shot with 0:27:08.800 --> 0:27:10.720 Damian Lillard in the playoffs. 0:27:10.240 --> 0:27:10.520 I did. 0:27:10.680 --> 0:27:14.040 Yeah, Damian Lillard was hitting from everywhere and Russell Westbrook 0:27:14.359 --> 0:27:18.439 was ice cold. And like the more the more Russell 0:27:18.440 --> 0:27:20.720 Westbrook would brick, the more. 0:27:20.560 --> 0:27:22.399 He would shoot, right, Yeah, the more he feels like 0:27:22.440 --> 0:27:23.440 he needs to shoot. 0:27:23.200 --> 0:27:25.040 He's like, oh, it's a lot of averages, I just 0:27:25.080 --> 0:27:28.399 need to shoot more. Yeah, No, you're just you're off tonight. 0:27:28.640 --> 0:27:33.040 And that's Damian Lillard. Like Russell Westbrook in those moments 0:27:33.400 --> 0:27:35.919 is like a girl who goes to a party and 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:38.960 thinks that she can go shot for shot with the boys, 0:27:39.240 --> 0:27:41.600 like with fireball Er Jamison, and like how it ends 0:27:41.640 --> 0:27:45.119 up working out is she's just blacked out. She gets 0:27:45.119 --> 0:27:48.280 gum in her hair, she probably like peas on herself, 0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:53.760 Like it's just bad, right, she gets alcohol poisoning, she's 0:27:53.800 --> 0:27:56.760 like sleeping on the frat couch and you're just like, Wow, 0:27:57.359 --> 0:27:59.639 you knew going into this this wasn't a good idea. 0:28:00.160 --> 0:28:02.919 You're not the same size as these guys, and you 0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:06.359 tried to keep up. You knew you weren't capable of this. 0:28:06.880 --> 0:28:08.359 You knew that this was how it was going to be. 0:28:08.680 --> 0:28:13.320 And here we are on national television, Blazers versus the 0:28:13.320 --> 0:28:17.919 Oklahoma City Thunder, and you're just laying bricks against logo Lillard, 0:28:18.119 --> 0:28:21.159 like just getting yourself out of the playoffs all together 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:24.520 when you were the favorite like they were. Don't forget 0:28:24.680 --> 0:28:28.560 the Thunder were favorite in that series. But that's like, 0:28:29.000 --> 0:28:32.520 also is the exact same reason I love Russ, Like 0:28:32.640 --> 0:28:36.800 Russ is never going to take any possessions off. He's 0:28:36.840 --> 0:28:39.480 that guy that trains And I was talking to a 0:28:39.480 --> 0:28:42.520 friend about this, He's that guy. His mentality over the 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:45.680 off season is how do I prepare myself and my 0:28:45.880 --> 0:28:50.840 body to be physically able to be a Tasmanian devil 0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:55.080 on every single play. That's crazy. You're talking about a 0:28:55.120 --> 0:28:58.760 time when guys are walking around screens and you've got 0:28:58.840 --> 0:29:03.080 Russell Westbrook going one hundred miles an hour every single night, 0:29:03.320 --> 0:29:06.920 sometimes eighty two games. That's crazy. 0:29:07.120 --> 0:29:09.480 It is Even Lebron. 0:29:09.080 --> 0:29:13.280 Takes possessions off because he's not He's not insane like 0:29:13.400 --> 0:29:17.560 Russell Westbrook, So God bless him. Right, he makes the NBA. 0:29:17.800 --> 0:29:22.040 I believe he makes the NBA better, even though he 0:29:22.240 --> 0:29:28.680 sometimes makes egregiously terrible decisions. This is how Russell Westbrook 0:29:28.720 --> 0:29:31.800 is to his teammates. Players could learn something from Russell Westbrook. Like, 0:29:31.960 --> 0:29:34.080 and I know people don't like this comparison because it's 0:29:34.080 --> 0:29:36.160 not a very good one when you think about Russell 0:29:36.160 --> 0:29:39.720 Westbrook shooting because his shooting is egregious. But like, if 0:29:39.720 --> 0:29:42.640 Donovan Mitchell could do any of the things that Russell 0:29:42.640 --> 0:29:47.200 Westbrook could do, he'd be an amazing player, any of 0:29:47.240 --> 0:29:50.000 the things. Just stay being a shooter and do any 0:29:50.120 --> 0:29:52.760 of those things, whether it's rebounding, stealing. I mean, Russell 0:29:52.760 --> 0:29:56.720 Westbrook had the presence of mind to try to steal 0:29:56.720 --> 0:30:00.440 the ball, realize his teammates, stole the ball, go back 0:30:00.480 --> 0:30:02.920 to the three point line and hit the fucking three 0:30:03.040 --> 0:30:05.520 when he's not a shooter, to put them up one 0:30:05.760 --> 0:30:08.680 against a team that's supposed to be the contender. And 0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:13.920 he's like, yeah, I'm like that. So okay. So as 0:30:13.960 --> 0:30:17.400 infuriating as Russell Westbrook is, and you certainly do not 0:30:18.080 --> 0:30:22.640 ever want him on your favorite franchises team. Never like 0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:24.800 you would never want him on the Suns, right, Oh no, 0:30:25.880 --> 0:30:28.240 but he if you got him on a lazy team, 0:30:28.520 --> 0:30:31.480 it would be like ship up or ship out. Think 0:30:31.520 --> 0:30:36.320 about this. Russell Westbrook and James Harden grew up together. 0:30:37.200 --> 0:30:41.520 They played together in Okay. See they were good friends. 0:30:41.600 --> 0:30:45.720 Russell Westbrook and Harden planned on his move to Houston, 0:30:46.280 --> 0:30:49.120 and one season after viewing what James Harden was up to, 0:30:49.320 --> 0:30:51.320 he was like, you know what, I got a bounce. 0:30:52.560 --> 0:30:57.200 I'm gonna head out fam DC looks good. I'd rather 0:30:57.320 --> 0:31:02.160 play in a perennial losing team then play with someone 0:31:02.160 --> 0:31:04.280 who can't even show up for a film on time. 0:31:04.600 --> 0:31:06.240 And I know I've known you since we were in 0:31:06.280 --> 0:31:10.240 Little league. I don't care that he's awful to media members. 0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:13.800 He's been awful to me. Like a lot, like, oh yeah, 0:31:13.840 --> 0:31:17.600 a lot, Like he makes your skin crawl when you 0:31:17.640 --> 0:31:20.040 ask him questions after a loss. M. I mean that's 0:31:20.080 --> 0:31:24.440 not even I mean you're so terrified at one point. 0:31:25.120 --> 0:31:26.400 I mean you saw what he did to that guy, 0:31:26.440 --> 0:31:30.600 Barry Trammel. He literally would just be like next question, 0:31:30.720 --> 0:31:32.760 or he'd be like, I don't know, every single time, 0:31:32.800 --> 0:31:36.840 no matter how legendot the question was. Anyway, He's been 0:31:36.880 --> 0:31:38.720 one of those guys for a long time that's not 0:31:38.920 --> 0:31:43.280 great to be around. But no one you have to respect. 0:31:43.360 --> 0:31:48.320 No one gives their all every play like Russ. He 0:31:48.400 --> 0:31:50.080 was out there at the beginning of the season with 0:31:50.080 --> 0:31:51.880 a bad leg. He literally said, I was out there 0:31:51.920 --> 0:31:55.120 with one leg balling out. And now he's healthy. So 0:31:55.160 --> 0:31:58.360 we are going to see some fun things from Russell Westbrook. 0:31:58.800 --> 0:32:01.440 And at a time when no one is caring about 0:32:01.480 --> 0:32:07.240 doing anything, not trying for entire games, a healthy Russell Westbrook, 0:32:07.320 --> 0:32:09.440 I would say, is a nice change of pay. Clay 0:32:09.560 --> 0:32:13.720 Thompson is having a week. M. I love some Clay Thompson, 0:32:14.920 --> 0:32:19.840 I do. There's nothing funnier than when there's like a subdued, chill, 0:32:20.720 --> 0:32:24.000 low key guy who then out of the blue just 0:32:24.040 --> 0:32:26.360 says some savage ass shit and you're like, wait. 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:26.920 What did you say? 0:32:27.920 --> 0:32:29.680 Like did I did I hear that correctly? 0:32:29.960 --> 0:32:30.160 Yeah? 0:32:31.120 --> 0:32:34.880 This is actually what makes low key Clay one of 0:32:34.920 --> 0:32:40.480 the best follows, the most We'll call him the horniest, 0:32:41.000 --> 0:32:46.360 low key low key lady Killers. He's that guy that's 0:32:46.400 --> 0:32:49.280 like real g's move in silence. That is him. He 0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:50.720 takes that to a whole new level. 0:32:51.000 --> 0:32:53.240 Yeah, you remember what those Warriors guys. 0:32:53.000 --> 0:32:55.200 Had to say, Oh yeah, play the play the clip 0:32:55.200 --> 0:32:58.560 again with Kelly right now engaged? Who's now the king 0:32:58.600 --> 0:33:00.920 of horny ours Warriors? 0:33:01.720 --> 0:33:01.880 Oh? 0:33:01.920 --> 0:33:05.040 Without oh, without a doubt, without a doubt, Klay Thompson, 0:33:05.320 --> 0:33:10.200 Clay Thompson, like Klay Thompson king before even with Ubra 0:33:10.360 --> 0:33:13.959 a single, they put Steph, Kelly, Ubray and and and 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:16.360 Klay Thompson on one team. It's it's not it's just 0:33:16.400 --> 0:33:19.200 it's not. What is the point, Come on, But Klay Thompson, 0:33:19.200 --> 0:33:21.560 who was going out with what is what was her name, Laura, 0:33:22.240 --> 0:33:24.360 I forget her name, but she was a scow were 0:33:24.400 --> 0:33:25.840 going out for a little while and all the worst 0:33:25.840 --> 0:33:28.160 fans were very happy. It seemed like Clay had turned 0:33:28.160 --> 0:33:28.600 in the corner. 0:33:28.640 --> 0:33:31.400 And then unshockingly, he had not turned it. 0:33:31.320 --> 0:33:32.560 Broke up and Clay's back. 0:33:32.640 --> 0:33:35.120 So he's he's a king, He's undefeated. There's no there's 0:33:35.120 --> 0:33:36.760 no beating the Rick Fox of his generation. 0:33:36.880 --> 0:33:41.120 Oh my god, the Rick Fox of this generation that 0:33:41.280 --> 0:33:44.400 was low key king of horny hours with a murderer's 0:33:44.560 --> 0:33:49.320 row of X's just hot smokes getting left by the 0:33:49.360 --> 0:33:52.800 wayside at every turn, very clearly hotter than he is, 0:33:53.640 --> 0:33:57.840 just operating on his personality and intellect alone, and obviously 0:33:57.920 --> 0:33:59.880 his wet jumper that we won't see for a while. 0:34:01.160 --> 0:34:03.240 Nicest guy, one of the nicest guys in the NBA, 0:34:03.560 --> 0:34:07.800 who obviously now has the ability to be cutthroat when 0:34:07.840 --> 0:34:12.400 he needs to swift. So this is what happened. A 0:34:12.400 --> 0:34:15.120 few days ago. The Warriors played the Pistons and Clay 0:34:15.239 --> 0:34:19.000 was courtside as like a beat reporter or something. Yeah 0:34:19.000 --> 0:34:21.400 he was really good. Yeah, he even had something with 0:34:21.440 --> 0:34:23.959 Steph Curry where he asked when Steph Curry was gonna 0:34:23.960 --> 0:34:26.759 beat Ray Allen's three point record. So okay, So the 0:34:26.760 --> 0:34:32.480 backstory is this Pistons player, this listen, Wayne Hillington's not 0:34:32.520 --> 0:34:35.800 a good player. No he's not. I'm sorry, So Wayne 0:34:35.800 --> 0:34:38.200 Ellington gets into it with one of the other Warriors 0:34:38.280 --> 0:34:43.200 bench guys some wan something. This dude, Rodney McGruder is 0:34:43.239 --> 0:34:45.440 sitting on the bench. He's like an all time NBA 0:34:45.680 --> 0:34:49.560 bench warmer, been on a bunch of different teams, never 0:34:49.600 --> 0:34:54.200 really played a ton of minutes. And Rodney McGruder finds 0:34:54.239 --> 0:34:56.960 out that there's some beef going on, and so he 0:34:57.040 --> 0:35:04.120 decides to accost the Warriors bench after the game, And 0:35:04.200 --> 0:35:07.120 so the reporters have Clay next to them and they're like, hey, Clay, 0:35:07.800 --> 0:35:10.200 what's the deal with you and Rodney? What's the deal 0:35:10.239 --> 0:35:14.520 with Rodney McGruder? And Clay was like, and. 0:35:14.600 --> 0:35:16.400 Right after you work on your play by play, you 0:35:16.400 --> 0:35:19.040 can come back. Yeah, I thought it was okay. He's 0:35:19.080 --> 0:35:21.839 been killing you up here, Clay. What's going on over there, Clay? 0:35:21.920 --> 0:35:23.280 Rodney McGruder, Oh. 0:35:23.120 --> 0:35:24.560 No, this dude might be out the league soon. 0:35:24.560 --> 0:35:25.560 He's probably mad about that. 0:35:25.640 --> 0:35:29.400 Who knows shots over here? 0:35:29.480 --> 0:35:30.160 Checking my guy? 0:35:30.640 --> 0:35:31.080 You're good. 0:35:31.320 --> 0:35:34.200 Everybody seems to be okay, and everybody's going to their 0:35:34.200 --> 0:35:35.480 respective locker rooms. 0:35:35.239 --> 0:35:39.359 There, but yeah, I don't know. Oh so that will 0:35:39.400 --> 0:35:42.200 that will end it right there. But Savage. 0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:46.839 Trying to start something like he's a good players. 0:35:46.080 --> 0:35:53.560 Like, oh my god, how savage was that that? 0:35:53.960 --> 0:35:56.440 I mean, that's hilarious. You don't see players say stuff 0:35:56.440 --> 0:35:56.640 like that. 0:35:56.920 --> 0:35:59.239 He said, he's over here trying to start something like 0:35:59.280 --> 0:36:02.400 he's a good player or something. He's probably gonna be 0:36:02.400 --> 0:36:06.799 out of the league in a few games. Damn, holy shit, 0:36:06.920 --> 0:36:09.520 Clay Thompson. Okay, So then it gets even more un filter. 0:36:09.600 --> 0:36:12.480 Here's the tea, here's the tea. Draymond Then, for no 0:36:12.600 --> 0:36:16.560 reason at all, which is very common for Draymond Green, 0:36:16.719 --> 0:36:20.480 he decides again, like postgame, for no reason, I am 0:36:20.520 --> 0:36:23.400 going to talk about Rodney McGruder at length for almost 0:36:23.440 --> 0:36:24.000 two minutes. 0:36:24.600 --> 0:36:25.000 Raymond. 0:36:25.040 --> 0:36:26.640 What happened at the end there with macgruder. 0:36:27.400 --> 0:36:31.040 I don't know. I was in the locker room, but 0:36:31.360 --> 0:36:34.399 apparently he was taking up Awayne allienson Wayne the fuck 0:36:34.560 --> 0:36:37.000 Rodney McGruder become the tough guy on the team, Like, 0:36:37.520 --> 0:36:39.960 I don't know, man, everybody in the league tough these days. 0:36:40.280 --> 0:36:42.919 It's crazy. I've seen a lot of tough guys this year. 0:36:43.960 --> 0:36:49.600 I don't understand it. And don't nobody do anything like 0:36:49.640 --> 0:36:51.360 if you really wanted to do something, you could have 0:36:51.400 --> 0:36:54.239 done it. She walk over there talking shit like he's 0:36:54.239 --> 0:36:56.839 a team tough guy. The hell out of here. 0:36:56.960 --> 0:37:01.160 God, he goes on Rodney, Rodney, Rodney tough guy. 0:37:01.400 --> 0:37:03.840 Also, I'm rocking with y and t jy T was 0:37:03.840 --> 0:37:07.960 about to bring that town that town bit bitness. I'm 0:37:08.040 --> 0:37:09.279 rocking with Wye T on that one. 0:37:09.280 --> 0:37:10.000 Anyway we'll go. 0:37:10.120 --> 0:37:12.400 But also I think it was something that like that 0:37:12.680 --> 0:37:15.400 one said in the first or second quarter to Wayne Allington, 0:37:15.760 --> 0:37:17.719 you ain't got nothing better to do that you're still 0:37:17.760 --> 0:37:19.920 thinking about something in front of the first or second quarter 0:37:20.120 --> 0:37:23.440 when you weren't in the game. So apparently Wayne Ellington 0:37:23.520 --> 0:37:25.840 must have went over to the bench. I guess he 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:30.120 went and told Rodney McGruder because he hadn't been in 0:37:30.160 --> 0:37:32.359 the game. I don't know, man, it's too many tough 0:37:32.400 --> 0:37:34.840 guys in this league these days for me. But I know, 0:37:34.880 --> 0:37:38.200 ain't nobody scared of No damn Rodney macgruder, like fucking 0:37:38.239 --> 0:37:38.680 kidding me. 0:37:38.880 --> 0:37:44.920 It's crazy, Okay, Wow, Draymond, he's going to give him 0:37:44.920 --> 0:37:47.440 the town business. That means he will fuck him up. 0:37:47.800 --> 0:37:52.399 To Rodney mcgruiter sitting on the bench getting the tea 0:37:52.520 --> 0:37:56.360 spilled someone snitching about an old aldercation, and he decides, 0:37:56.480 --> 0:37:59.040 I am going to run up on these guys after 0:37:59.080 --> 0:38:02.800 the game an idiot. So, okay, who is this Rodney McGruder? 0:38:03.560 --> 0:38:06.520 Is he is? He like a good player, Marty. 0:38:08.040 --> 0:38:11.080 I don't think he is. Here's what the Detroit Free 0:38:11.120 --> 0:38:14.319 Press had to say. He's been an integral part of 0:38:14.320 --> 0:38:18.880 the Pistons retooling strategy, and he's embraced being in the organization. 0:38:19.080 --> 0:38:22.480 When he had his introductory news conference in December, he 0:38:22.520 --> 0:38:25.399 said he immediately thought of the bad Boys Pistons team 0:38:25.600 --> 0:38:27.920 when his agent told him he had been traded to Detroit. 0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:33.040 Talking about bad boys, Rodney McGruder wasn't even live when 0:38:33.080 --> 0:38:38.279 the Pistons Bad Boys era existed. No chance. Okay, so 0:38:38.840 --> 0:38:41.040 let's look at his stats. Let me pull this up. 0:38:41.680 --> 0:38:46.200 So he's played checks notes a total of five games 0:38:46.200 --> 0:38:52.319 this year, averaging checking again, rechecking again to make sure 0:38:52.320 --> 0:38:56.280 this is right, a seven minutes a game and three 0:38:56.360 --> 0:39:01.560 points per game. Why did the Pistons say he's an 0:39:01.600 --> 0:39:05.560 integral part of their retooling strategy. I don't understand. 0:39:06.040 --> 0:39:08.160 Yeah, Integral is a weird word to use there. 0:39:08.320 --> 0:39:13.440 Integral means you cannot get rid of him and the 0:39:13.520 --> 0:39:16.600 team continue as is right. But by the way, that 0:39:16.760 --> 0:39:18.560 might be true, since they are one of the worst 0:39:18.560 --> 0:39:21.920 teams in the East, so maybe that's true. Get the 0:39:21.920 --> 0:39:25.080 fuck out of here, Rodney McGruder, take your fake ass 0:39:25.160 --> 0:39:30.239 name with you. Do not be accosting Warriors when you 0:39:30.280 --> 0:39:32.680 don't get any minutes and you don't score any buckets. 0:39:32.880 --> 0:39:38.160 That's just those are the rules. I hate seeing bench 0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:40.840 warmers get bodied try to body you and they like 0:39:41.000 --> 0:39:44.600 play all captain save a hole on Wayne Ellington and 0:39:44.640 --> 0:39:48.000 then like, neither one of you guys should be talking 0:39:48.120 --> 0:39:51.759 any trash. You weren't even there, you weren't even in 0:39:51.800 --> 0:39:54.360 the game, and all of a sudden you try to 0:39:54.400 --> 0:39:57.799 like you try to like start some shit. Yeah, all 0:39:57.840 --> 0:40:01.200 three of the players involved, Wan Toscano and Wayne Ellington, 0:40:01.320 --> 0:40:05.680 Rodney McGruder, they all aren't good and they all have 0:40:05.840 --> 0:40:08.600 names that sound like check in names. If you were 0:40:09.239 --> 0:40:11.600 at the Bellaggio and the NBA was doing a bachelor 0:40:11.640 --> 0:40:15.240 party and they were trying to like keep things low key, 0:40:16.440 --> 0:40:18.440 all right, So it also gets more strange. This isn't 0:40:18.480 --> 0:40:23.080 even the full story. So then someone random quoted Klay 0:40:23.120 --> 0:40:28.000 Thompson's comments on Instagram and Big Baby Davis been out 0:40:28.080 --> 0:40:31.200 the league for a while now. My Tiger LSU Tiger 0:40:31.719 --> 0:40:35.000 all of a sudden decided to chirp Klay Thompson and say, 0:40:35.960 --> 0:40:39.080 saying shit like that, I see why he stay hurt 0:40:39.640 --> 0:40:45.400 karma hand a face emoji. Wow. 0:40:45.719 --> 0:40:46.040 All right. 0:40:46.160 --> 0:40:49.600 Then Clay also decides, because he doesn't have anything better 0:40:49.640 --> 0:40:52.880 to do either, I'm gonna clap back. Dang, Big Baby. 0:40:53.040 --> 0:40:55.600 This what we on now. I can't wait till I 0:40:55.600 --> 0:40:58.240 see you on the court next year. I'm calling iso 0:40:58.400 --> 0:41:00.719 every time. I'll probably get four in a quarter with 0:41:00.760 --> 0:41:06.800 big fella chasing me. Okay. Then Big Baby responds and says, 0:41:06.920 --> 0:41:09.640 you're right about giving me forty, but you can't check me. 0:41:09.880 --> 0:41:12.520 It's barbecue chicken on the block. I bet my life 0:41:12.560 --> 0:41:17.239 on that. And I imagine, like cuz, ye, holy shit 0:41:17.360 --> 0:41:20.480 in the grand scheme of things, Yes, a very savage 0:41:20.480 --> 0:41:23.040 thing to they say, but Big Baby is not touching 0:41:23.080 --> 0:41:26.440 basketballs and he hasn't played since twenty fifteen. He hasn't 0:41:26.480 --> 0:41:29.080 touched anything except for like a meat lover's pizza since 0:41:29.120 --> 0:41:29.760 twenty fifteen. 0:41:30.080 --> 0:41:32.600 Yeah, before we go any further, I have a story 0:41:32.600 --> 0:41:35.920 about Big Baby bat mus me. Okay, so this is 0:41:35.920 --> 0:41:38.000 my freshman year at LSU. It's like two thousand and 0:41:38.120 --> 0:41:41.680 nine height of his fame in how famous was he 0:41:42.040 --> 0:41:44.480 and bat room is huge? Okay, Well, like people knew 0:41:44.520 --> 0:41:46.960 who he was. So I was out like somewhere at 0:41:47.000 --> 0:41:49.360 like a pizza joint, which is funny that you say that. 0:41:49.640 --> 0:41:52.280 And he had on a T shirt that said freelance 0:41:52.320 --> 0:41:54.560 gynecologist and I thought that was very funny. 0:41:54.680 --> 0:41:59.880 What big baby Davis stands for. I'll give you some 0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:05.600 big babies with my Davis, like eleven pound babies Davis. 0:42:05.880 --> 0:42:08.359 Sorry if I broke that, No, that was that was good. 0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:12.200 I like that. Okay. So Klay Thompson, we know two 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:14.799 back to back injuries ACL and Achilles, way too much 0:42:14.800 --> 0:42:17.360 time on his hands. He with this much time on 0:42:17.400 --> 0:42:23.000 his hands is a media menace, breaking hearts, spitting facts, 0:42:23.239 --> 0:42:27.040 just slapping down former NBA players trying to stay relevant 0:42:27.040 --> 0:42:29.160 in the game, like get the hell out of here, 0:42:29.200 --> 0:42:32.560 and current NBA players trying to stay relevant. And you 0:42:32.640 --> 0:42:37.160 know what, Marty, this is probably my fault to say this. 0:42:37.280 --> 0:42:41.080 You can fault me for this. And I know that 0:42:41.160 --> 0:42:44.040 me saying this out loud is toxic. I get that, 0:42:46.120 --> 0:42:48.560 but I am here for the shit twenty four to seven. 0:42:48.920 --> 0:42:51.880 Inject this shit in my veins, because this is where 0:42:52.120 --> 0:42:58.040 the name this league came from. Folks, this tea, this league. 0:42:58.120 --> 0:43:02.160 We've got some voicemails, and we're going to save the 0:43:02.239 --> 0:43:05.319 last one, uh, the best one for last, because it's 0:43:05.320 --> 0:43:08.640 a troll and I have so many things to say. Yo. 0:43:09.120 --> 0:43:12.359 Love the Pod wondered what you were thinking about Jared 0:43:12.400 --> 0:43:17.640 Dudley's comments about your guy Pandemic pe Okay, So, I 0:43:17.640 --> 0:43:20.360 don't know if anybody's heard about this. It's like sort 0:43:20.360 --> 0:43:22.920 of breaking, not really breaking, but just came out today 0:43:23.080 --> 0:43:26.600 or yesterday. So this stems from this new book that 0:43:26.680 --> 0:43:28.799 Jared Dudley just put out, I think it's called In 0:43:28.840 --> 0:43:33.120 the Bubble and had some comments about Paul George aka 0:43:33.239 --> 0:43:36.640 Pandemic p aka Playoff p Right, Okay, here we are. 0:43:36.800 --> 0:43:38.480 So first of all, let's just skip over the fact 0:43:38.480 --> 0:43:40.560 that Jared Dudley has had enough time on his hands 0:43:40.640 --> 0:43:42.760 to write a book since the Bubble. 0:43:44.040 --> 0:43:45.200 He had like a month and a half all. 0:43:45.320 --> 0:43:47.200 Like a month and a half off and like probably 0:43:47.200 --> 0:43:49.000 has been writing it now. And when I say let's 0:43:49.000 --> 0:43:50.960 skip over it, I mean, like, let's get into. 0:43:50.760 --> 0:43:51.920 That for a second. 0:43:53.320 --> 0:43:57.520 He's played twenty minutes all year. Jerry Dudley. He's hit 0:43:57.960 --> 0:44:03.800 three buckets all year total, not average, total toll, twenty minutes, total, 0:44:03.800 --> 0:44:06.640 three buckets all season. So what I would say about 0:44:06.640 --> 0:44:09.840 this is he's just living off that Lebron James friendship, 0:44:10.239 --> 0:44:14.399 Like he is just clinging to that time where they've 0:44:14.400 --> 0:44:19.160 played together. Just like this reputation as like this locker 0:44:19.239 --> 0:44:23.000 room guy just making two and a half million dollars 0:44:23.040 --> 0:44:25.200 just to keep the vibes tight, you know what I mean, 0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:28.479 just being like, yeah, Lebron, everybody says that Michael's the goat, 0:44:28.600 --> 0:44:31.560 You're really the goat. He's like foam rolling with Lebron 0:44:31.600 --> 0:44:34.520 at like two in the morning. He's microwaving his food. 0:44:34.760 --> 0:44:37.680 He's making sure that like his calm app is set 0:44:37.719 --> 0:44:40.720 and calibrated for like the light rain that he needs 0:44:40.760 --> 0:44:43.840 on his beats by Dre headphones at night. You know, 0:44:44.080 --> 0:44:46.399 two and a half million for that. Ye what a guy, 0:44:46.520 --> 0:44:50.840 Lebron James. What a guy? Shout out to Lebron James. 0:44:51.120 --> 0:44:54.160 He just gives people bunny, He just They say Lebron 0:44:54.280 --> 0:44:57.680 James spends one hundred million dollars on his body every year. 0:44:58.280 --> 0:45:00.720 I think that two and a half is he's paying 0:45:01.000 --> 0:45:03.160 or having the Lakers pay Jerry Dudley for his mind, 0:45:03.840 --> 0:45:06.040 just like the ultimate hype man that's just there on 0:45:06.080 --> 0:45:08.720 every road trip to just make you know, play whatever 0:45:08.760 --> 0:45:12.160 socially distanced whatever game insert game here. 0:45:12.520 --> 0:45:15.360 Yeah, and he actively talks about it too, Jared Dudley 0:45:15.360 --> 0:45:17.480 about the fact that he's being paid to be just 0:45:17.600 --> 0:45:21.719 a chemistry. 0:45:19.760 --> 0:45:21.799 I want to get paid to be a vibes guy. 0:45:22.280 --> 0:45:24.680 Sure, Lebron James. 0:45:24.000 --> 0:45:27.279 Just getting guys paid. JR. Smith. Let's just go through them. 0:45:27.360 --> 0:45:30.000 These are just a few off the top. JR. Smith, 0:45:30.680 --> 0:45:35.440 Jared Dudley, Alice Caruso, KCP, Tristan Thompson. Do you have others? 0:45:35.680 --> 0:45:37.600 I like Caruso. I guess that's all. I was going 0:45:37.640 --> 0:45:38.480 to say, Oh, CRUs. 0:45:38.320 --> 0:45:39.920 Is good, but let's be real, he wouldn't get the 0:45:39.920 --> 0:45:41.960 money that he's getting unless he's with Lebron James. Sure, 0:45:42.080 --> 0:45:44.800 Lebron James wants a janitor, and that is who Alice 0:45:44.880 --> 0:45:48.839 Cruso is. Tristan Thompson at one time, Matthew Delvandove at 0:45:48.840 --> 0:45:54.120 one time, Timothy Moskof at one time, that edible dude 0:45:54.160 --> 0:45:57.000 from Syracuse deon waiters. Yeah, I mean that was on 0:45:57.080 --> 0:45:59.040 multiple teams. He was on Cleveland and then he was 0:45:59.080 --> 0:46:01.879 back to La. Jared Smith was back from Cleveland to La. 0:46:02.640 --> 0:46:06.239 Emon Schumper from Cleveland to La. He's just like, Yo, 0:46:06.480 --> 0:46:09.000 I'm here for the vibes. I'm here for those Cleveland vibes. 0:46:09.040 --> 0:46:12.880 But in La, I can go all day about dudes 0:46:12.880 --> 0:46:16.440 that Lebron James gets on the payroll. KCP. That contract's crazy, 0:46:17.239 --> 0:46:21.360 just eating off big homies, buffet platter, just a friendship, 0:46:22.000 --> 0:46:26.520 friendship contract. We'll call it. God damn it. I love 0:46:26.600 --> 0:46:28.400 Lebron James and this isn't even a part of the story. 0:46:28.760 --> 0:46:32.040 Just we digress. So Jerry Dudley has this book right, 0:46:32.400 --> 0:46:35.560 and the book is like, hey, we hear some of 0:46:35.600 --> 0:46:37.759 those guys talking about how they're the team to beat 0:46:37.800 --> 0:46:42.319 in La. It's fine if Kawhi says stuff like this, God, 0:46:42.800 --> 0:46:45.840 this is a heavy tea episode. It's fine if Kawhi 0:46:45.960 --> 0:46:48.480 Leonard says that they're the team to beat in La, 0:46:48.680 --> 0:46:52.280 he's de fanning a championship. We didn't trip when Patrick 0:46:52.320 --> 0:46:54.920 Beverley was talking trash because that's how he feeds his family, 0:46:55.000 --> 0:46:58.480 meaning he has to summon himself to play high level 0:46:58.520 --> 0:47:02.160 basketball by shit talking. That's what he does. We respect 0:47:02.160 --> 0:47:07.000 that hustle, but it is disrespectful for Paul George, who's 0:47:07.080 --> 0:47:09.920 never won at any level, to put himself on the 0:47:09.960 --> 0:47:12.719 level of Lebron James and Anthony Davis. That is what 0:47:12.840 --> 0:47:16.040 motivates us, first of all, Jared Dudley. Second of all, Jared, 0:47:16.160 --> 0:47:17.319 I don't even know if this is are we at. 0:47:17.360 --> 0:47:20.319 Third of all, Jared Dudley, You're not playing games, so 0:47:20.440 --> 0:47:24.600 it doesn't motivate us. It motivates them. Right, We've talked 0:47:24.600 --> 0:47:30.120 about this. This is intriguing. I think that this whole 0:47:30.160 --> 0:47:33.279 little beef that Jared Dudley is fueling is gonna make 0:47:33.320 --> 0:47:38.440 for a nice Western Conference Finals battle. Shit talking. You've 0:47:38.440 --> 0:47:41.320 got Pat Beverly talking shit, Paul George probably doing something 0:47:41.920 --> 0:47:44.600 if the Clippers, of course, do not blow a three 0:47:44.640 --> 0:47:46.879 to one lead like they did last year, so it's 0:47:46.880 --> 0:47:50.160 gonna get chippy. And then Paul George responds, thankfully he's 0:47:50.200 --> 0:47:53.480 gotten some advice, maybe from a PR firm or something, 0:47:53.520 --> 0:47:56.360 because instead of putting gasoline on the fire, he does 0:47:56.719 --> 0:47:59.680 and has responded with this. He says, God bless you. 0:47:59.760 --> 0:48:02.400 Jerry Dudley. I don't know what this is. Dudes are 0:48:02.400 --> 0:48:05.200 throwing my name and stuff God bless you, Jared. So 0:48:05.360 --> 0:48:07.120 someone is learning. What do I think about it? I 0:48:07.200 --> 0:48:10.719 think it's great caller. I think that this is great 0:48:10.760 --> 0:48:14.080 for the game because again I am toxic and I 0:48:14.120 --> 0:48:15.560 love the tea. 0:48:15.960 --> 0:48:20.799 Next voicemail, Yo, if James Harden could smoke weed, do 0:48:20.880 --> 0:48:23.880 you guys think he would smoke mids? 0:48:23.719 --> 0:48:25.080 It's an ongoing bet. 0:48:26.000 --> 0:48:29.319 Let us know, it's an ongoing bet. Who has a 0:48:29.360 --> 0:48:33.239 bet about NBA players in the quality of weed that 0:48:33.280 --> 0:48:33.640 they smoke. 0:48:33.880 --> 0:48:37.120 Also, just he's asking if James Harden could smoke weed, 0:48:37.120 --> 0:48:38.879 I mean Newslash he can and does? 0:48:39.040 --> 0:48:40.920 Does he? Because what I've heard is that he he 0:48:40.960 --> 0:48:44.400 goes to strip club sober. Oh I heard he goes 0:48:44.520 --> 0:48:45.240 for the vibes. 0:48:45.440 --> 0:48:46.600 Okay, that he doesn't. 0:48:47.040 --> 0:48:49.640 He goes not to get lit, but for the vibes. 0:48:49.680 --> 0:48:52.680 So okay, Let's just assume for a second that James 0:48:52.719 --> 0:48:56.520 Harden does smoke weed, and I. 0:48:56.440 --> 0:48:58.399 Guaran I just assume they all do. So if he doesn't, 0:48:58.400 --> 0:48:59.759 I'm sorry, sorry, James. 0:48:59.600 --> 0:49:01.960 I don't know, I have no I cannot confirm, nor 0:49:02.000 --> 0:49:03.880 did't I but what I have heard from multiple people 0:49:03.920 --> 0:49:06.879 is that he's like a sober strip club goer, which 0:49:06.880 --> 0:49:09.040 is just kind of crazy. It's just like a weird 0:49:09.080 --> 0:49:11.600 thing to do. Like most people have to like summon 0:49:11.640 --> 0:49:14.319 a little bit of liquid courage in order to just 0:49:14.360 --> 0:49:18.919 see girls like clapping their ass in your face. Anyway, 0:49:19.000 --> 0:49:21.439 if he were to smoke weed, I don't think he's 0:49:21.440 --> 0:49:24.600 smoking low quality weed. He bought little baby a five 0:49:24.680 --> 0:49:27.800 hundred thousand dollars. Watch you think he's like smoking whatever 0:49:27.840 --> 0:49:32.880 it is dab or like low quality shwag like you 0:49:32.880 --> 0:49:36.040 think he's making splits with tobacco. Get the fuck come 0:49:36.080 --> 0:49:38.920 on now, I would promise you top shell for the beard. 0:49:39.040 --> 0:49:44.239 I put my last breath on it. Okay, Uh, let's 0:49:44.239 --> 0:49:45.480 get into the one that I want to comment, and 0:49:45.480 --> 0:49:47.080 I've been wanting to comment for a few days on 0:49:47.760 --> 0:49:51.680 we'll call him Mail Karen. I hope he's listening, Y know. 0:49:53.120 --> 0:49:56.840 I'm taking a shit listening to this girl gets takes 0:49:56.880 --> 0:50:00.600 on sports. Its not that the takes are so, it's 0:50:00.680 --> 0:50:03.680 just why is it so theatrical? 0:50:03.840 --> 0:50:05.799 Why is it so theatrical? 0:50:06.960 --> 0:50:09.520 Why is she yelling at me? I mean, stephen A 0:50:09.719 --> 0:50:12.640 yells and that's fine because he's not a nagging woman. 0:50:12.800 --> 0:50:16.759 Oh yeah, Jesus Christ, what are you guys doing? I mean, 0:50:16.760 --> 0:50:19.360 you want ideas for the show. Will replace her with me, 0:50:19.800 --> 0:50:21.560 all right? You needed me to read off of a 0:50:21.680 --> 0:50:24.520 computer and nobody will be annoyed and have a migraine 0:50:24.560 --> 0:50:27.279 at the end of it because my boy doesn't do that. 0:50:27.920 --> 0:50:31.680 Okay, calculator, I think we've got a salty male Karen 0:50:31.760 --> 0:50:34.920 on our hands. I don't know his name and I 0:50:34.920 --> 0:50:40.200 have his phone number, but let's just say this. There 0:50:40.280 --> 0:50:45.000 is a reason, sir, that you are you sitting on 0:50:45.040 --> 0:50:48.719 the toilet giving feedback on a voicemail. You had to 0:50:48.719 --> 0:50:51.880 find that voicemail first of all, that's insane. Okay. You 0:50:51.920 --> 0:50:54.080 had to find that I hadn't posted that all week. Okay, 0:50:54.560 --> 0:50:57.799 there's a reason that you are you, and I am me. 0:50:58.680 --> 0:51:02.080 This is not meant to be arrogant, but I have 0:51:02.320 --> 0:51:08.719 never once shown my raging misogyny for the world to see, wow, 0:51:08.880 --> 0:51:12.919 simultaneously pitching myself as a replacement for said hosting job. 0:51:13.440 --> 0:51:19.719 I have never once phoned anyone while taking a shit. Never, 0:51:21.080 --> 0:51:23.239 And I forget. I don't know if this guy has 0:51:23.239 --> 0:51:27.600 a name. We'll call him Chad. Chad. I had a 0:51:27.600 --> 0:51:31.200 deadbeat job like you once. I remember driving to work 0:51:31.239 --> 0:51:34.120 every day being like I'm a coal caller on a 0:51:34.160 --> 0:51:37.359 thirty K salary and just like so sad, just a 0:51:37.400 --> 0:51:43.919 soul killing, terrible Sunday, scary inducing, just like I hate 0:51:43.920 --> 0:51:46.719 my life kind of job. And you know what, I 0:51:46.800 --> 0:51:50.400 never called in to a podcast to say this person 0:51:50.480 --> 0:51:53.880 is trash. They should hire me. What I did was 0:51:54.640 --> 0:51:58.560 make it happen. My goddamn self created it, my goddamn self. 0:52:00.120 --> 0:52:03.040 I am the creator of this league. I am the 0:52:03.040 --> 0:52:06.280 writer of this league. I am the voice of this league, Chad, 0:52:06.560 --> 0:52:09.560 and with Marty, we are producing a podcast twice a 0:52:09.600 --> 0:52:13.680 week on the NBA, on one of the largest podcast 0:52:13.760 --> 0:52:17.160 networks in the world. And what are you doing. You 0:52:17.200 --> 0:52:21.799 are taking large shits and feeling sorry for yourself like 0:52:21.840 --> 0:52:27.480 a goddamn simp. Dave Portnoy, who I am sure is 0:52:27.520 --> 0:52:31.080 your greatest idol. You probably jack off to Dave Portnoy's 0:52:31.120 --> 0:52:35.400 ddtgs or fucking pizza reviews. He chose me to be 0:52:35.480 --> 0:52:38.040 the leader of this league. He signed off on that, 0:52:39.640 --> 0:52:42.560 So why don't you just trust his judgment, Go fuck 0:52:42.600 --> 0:52:45.399 off and create your own goddamn project instead of trying 0:52:45.400 --> 0:52:48.719 to take mine. Get at me when you figure it out, 0:52:49.640 --> 0:52:52.279 and get off the toilets. You can fucking compete. 0:52:52.440 --> 0:52:53.000 Compete. 0:52:54.560 --> 0:52:58.120 I hate that guy. He is debrief on this guy 0:52:58.160 --> 0:53:00.200 for a second, What the fuck are you doing? 0:53:00.680 --> 0:53:03.360 Weird move for that to be the time to do. 0:53:03.400 --> 0:53:05.319 You think I'm not listening to the voicemails. 0:53:05.640 --> 0:53:07.800 I guess maybe he just thought it was gonna get lost. 0:53:08.080 --> 0:53:09.320 Maybe he just thought it was gonna get to the 0:53:09.320 --> 0:53:11.160 producer and they were like, you know what, you're right, 0:53:12.440 --> 0:53:16.719 you're right. We don't like that. That's all the time 0:53:16.719 --> 0:53:19.920 that we have for this league. Guy doing That's all 0:53:19.960 --> 0:53:22.319 the time that we have for this league. Please subscribe, rate, 0:53:22.480 --> 0:53:26.600 review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. It makes a massive difference. 0:53:26.640 --> 0:53:28.480 We also have This League hoodies on sale in the 0:53:28.480 --> 0:53:30.760 Barstool Store. Thanks for listening.