Speaker 1: On this episode of This League, we talk about the
Speaker 1: phenomenon known as courtside Karen shout out to all the
Speaker 1: teams that are playing defense. We get into the must
Speaker 1: anticipated Russell Westbrook segment that I promise you break down
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson's beef with Big Baby Davis and the Pistons,
Speaker 1: and of course we get into some listener of voicemails
Speaker 1: and oh are they hot? Oh I can't wait for that.
Speaker 1: So I told everybody that we were going to start
Speaker 1: today's show talking about Russell Westbrook unless something crazy happen,
Speaker 1: and something crazy appen show enough, Yes, sir, Nothing in
Speaker 1: my life I love more than a good victory lap.
Speaker 1: I am insufferable when I am right. My desire for
Speaker 1: everyone to recognize me for how right that I am
Speaker 1: on a consistent basis is an unfillable well, it never ends.
Speaker 1: No one loves taking victory laps as much as me.
Speaker 1: The tiniest things, for the smallest, most minuscule, irrelevant things
Speaker 1: in sports. But that's me. And that's probably because as
Speaker 1: a woman in sports media, you're always told that your
Speaker 1: takes are either wrong improperly delivered, that your shrill. So
Speaker 1: many things just take a little stab down the lane.
Speaker 1: That is the ig comment section of this league, and
Speaker 1: you'll see that. So when I'm proven correct, I feel
Speaker 1: obligated for all women, for the culture, really for progress.
Speaker 1: Sure to say, Yo, not only was I right, you
Speaker 1: were so wrong for aggressively coming for my neck. Not
Speaker 1: only am I right, you should have never ever ever
Speaker 1: spoken to me the way that you did about me
Speaker 1: being wrong. Anyway, so I digress. It appears that my
Speaker 1: take that players are in desperate need for fans could
Speaker 1: not have come in a better time, perfect take at
Speaker 1: the perfect time. Marty, Can you take play my take
Speaker 1: from Monday show?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: Imagine this, I thought, he thought, sitting there with her
Speaker 1: low cut top on body con dress, oily tan legs,
Speaker 1: looking at you like she wants to give you the
Speaker 1: business boy woo, and you're like, yes, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: her number after the game, and then right next to
Speaker 1: her you get posterized. What do you think that cocktail
Speaker 1: does to the male ego? You are one of the
Speaker 1: people that she came to watch perform, and then you
Speaker 1: got someone's nuts on your face and you think you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to smash after that? You better do
Speaker 1: something to reply and put that in her mind. You
Speaker 1: know what it does? It makes you want to compete.
Speaker 2: I need effort compete.
Speaker 1: I need effort compete. It makes you want to compete.
Speaker 1: To the booze the screams. What I said was, I said,
Speaker 1: we needed salty, aggressive hecklers, and we needed also thoughts hose,
Speaker 1: scantily clad hose and heckler's And what the universe gifted me,
Speaker 1: because I am obviously one of God's preordained children, he
Speaker 1: gifted me or she gifted me one human that encapsulated both.
Speaker 1: That is courtside Karen. I thought he thought that got
Speaker 1: so aggressive with Lebron James that she got ejected. Her
Speaker 1: and her man's got ejected for telling him. She said,
Speaker 1: I will fuck you up. She will beat him down
Speaker 1: court side. She did that. So before we get into
Speaker 1: Lebron's response and why, that vindicates exactly what I was saying.
Speaker 1: Let's just dig a little deeper into court side Karen.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Karen's real name is is Julieta Carlos. She's twenty five.
Speaker 1: Allegedly she's a tough twenty five. She's not. It's not
Speaker 1: even like she's bad looking.
Speaker 3: No, it's just this. It's so much plastic surgery for
Speaker 3: a twenty five year old.
Speaker 1: I mean, the level of confidence that you must have
Speaker 1: has gotta be kind of where my shoes are right
Speaker 1: now on the ground. So they live in Atlanta. She's
Speaker 1: she's married to this, she's the third wife to this
Speaker 1: liquor distributor, which is just like, maybe one of the
Speaker 1: skeeziest careers that you could possibly have is to be
Speaker 1: a liquor distributor. You just drink for a living and
Speaker 1: get other people drunk for a living. They live in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: which I like to call LA's ratchet little sister.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, La of the South where you can buy a
Speaker 1: McMansion for like one tenth of the price of a
Speaker 1: big city like LA. It's kind of like the Scottsdale,
Speaker 1: Arizona of the Southeast, I guess you would call it.
Speaker 3: Don't I don't hate that. I don't hate that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, glitz, glam, vanity plates, fake tits, you know,
Speaker 1: real Housewives of Atlanta type shit. Right, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, Right, Marty, you've been down there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all too well, all too well.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, for some reason, this guy Chris Carlos fifty
Speaker 1: seven with the twenty five year old allegedly twenty five
Speaker 1: year old wife. He's got liquor related beef. This is
Speaker 1: what my inside quote unquote sources say. He's got liquor
Speaker 1: beef with d Wade, a member of the Heatles. Right,
Speaker 1: So Lebron's best friends with d Wade, and he's like, yo,
Speaker 1: this one's on site. Fam. This is like it's like
Speaker 1: bloods and crips for like Pino noir. Right, So Lebron
Speaker 1: and this guy start drawing back and forth, and then
Speaker 1: Karen aka Juliana for some reasons, decides, you know, my
Speaker 1: man needs me to protect him. He uh, he's fifty seven.
Speaker 1: I'm twenty five. I'm in better shape maybe than him.
Speaker 1: So she people are saying he's on steroids. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of uh slander about Chris being on steroids and
Speaker 1: also having some facial plastic surgery of his own. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he does look like either loof Riigno or sly Stone
Speaker 1: or some combination of them both. But like that doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter to the to the facts of the story.
Speaker 1: So she starts saying some shit to Lebron James, like, yo,
Speaker 1: stop talking to my man or you're gonna catch these hands, bitch,
Speaker 1: And he's like, yo, bitch, shut shut your ass up
Speaker 1: and sit down. So she takes off her mask and
Speaker 1: then she gets ejected and then she goes insane on
Speaker 1: ig after she gets gets kicked out of the game.
Speaker 1: Play that last forty seconds of this clip. Anyway, I'm
Speaker 1: minding my own business, drinking, my having fun. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Lebron says something to my husband and I
Speaker 1: and I see this and I go, I stand up.
Speaker 1: I go, don't fucking talk to my husband. And she
Speaker 1: looks at me and he goes, sit the fuck down, bitch,
Speaker 1: and I go, don't fucking call me a bitch. You
Speaker 1: sit the get the fuck out of here. And I go,
Speaker 1: don't fucking talk to me. My husband like that, don't
Speaker 1: talk to my husband, and he literally was like, fuck
Speaker 1: you bitch, sit down, bitch, and all this excuse me,
Speaker 1: I have courts, excuse me that I pay for. Excuse me.
Speaker 1: Fuck you, Lebron, You're a fucking pussy. Get the fuck
Speaker 1: out of her. You're gonna let a twenty five year
Speaker 1: old girl intimidate you during a game. Bye bitch, Bye bitch.
Speaker 1: Hold on, just before I make a comment. No one
Speaker 1: that's twenty five says, I'm twenty five. Hey, you're gonna
Speaker 1: let a grown man. A grown man's gonna talk to
Speaker 1: a twenty five year old like this. I think we
Speaker 1: might have someone who has fabricated her age for her husband.
Speaker 3: So I don't know anyway, So she's starting to go
Speaker 3: viral and then say, oh, better establish my age.
Speaker 1: Yeah, better established before people start looking into this here,
Speaker 1: people asked her for her ID. She took a photo.
Speaker 1: I think she deleted it later, but she took a
Speaker 1: photo and put her driver's license up on her Instagram
Speaker 1: story because people were so convinced she was not twenty five. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I digress again. So then she's sobs up right,
Speaker 1: She's gained about eighty thousand followers. She's deleted some old posts.
Speaker 1: She wrote an apology, a press release really for her
Speaker 1: newfound fans, which is what happens when you get fame.
Speaker 1: Let's do it, let's get into it.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's what she said. She goes about last night
Speaker 3: to say things escalated quickly. As an understatement, Yes, I
Speaker 3: want to apologize for losing my cool and removing my
Speaker 3: mask in the heat of the moment. Sports wouldn't be
Speaker 3: sports without a little trash talking. What should have been
Speaker 3: a quick back and forth between two adults got out
Speaker 3: of hand, and my natural instraint instinct to stand up
Speaker 3: for the man I love kicked in. Did I get
Speaker 3: defensive when it happened, Yes, yes, she did. Did I
Speaker 3: use offensive language when I could have taken the higher road?
Speaker 1: A lot of them?
Speaker 3: Yes? And for those things I take responsibility.
Speaker 1: Was there an apology in there?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 1: Really, there was, no I'm sorry, Oh no, I want
Speaker 1: to apologize. I want to apologize for losing my cool.
Speaker 1: No apology for the words said to Lebron James, But
Speaker 1: that's okay. Did you use offensive language, Karen, I would
Speaker 1: say it.
Speaker 3: Did?
Speaker 1: You called him a pussy and you told him he
Speaker 1: could catch these hands. As a side note, because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of side notes, a lot of thoughts that
Speaker 1: I have about this thought. How much money do you
Speaker 1: have to have in order to feel confident in your
Speaker 1: ability to tell Lebron James that you you the one
Speaker 1: hundred and five pound, soaking wet blonde chick with fake
Speaker 1: tits and filled with diamonds, that you would fuck him up,
Speaker 1: and you are safe after that, you can say that
Speaker 1: and feel completely comfortable in your own skin, no danger whatsoever.
Speaker 1: That's what that's what eate. He's two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: pounds pure muscle, one of the best players in the game.
Speaker 1: You know that if he wanted some sort of retaliation,
Speaker 1: he could get retaliation very very easily, very fast. I mean,
Speaker 1: if that was Ron ar test ooh, can you imagine.
Speaker 3: It would have been a tough day for real It
Speaker 3: would have been a tough f.
Speaker 1: Day for Juliana Carlos too. Okay, So that's what eighty
Speaker 1: million dollars gets you, the irrational confidence that you can
Speaker 1: get in Lebron James's face and say, bitch, I will
Speaker 1: beat your ass. Okay, back on point, on point. So
Speaker 1: back to why I'm right. So they ask Lebron James
Speaker 1: what he thinks about the incident.
Speaker 5: No, at the end of the day, that's uh. I'm
Speaker 5: happy fans are back in the building. I missed that interaction.
Speaker 5: I need that interaction. We as players need that interaction.
Speaker 5: I don't feel like there was warning to be kicked out.
Speaker 5: There was a a you know, a back and forth
Speaker 5: between two grown men and which and you know, we
Speaker 5: said our piece. He said his piece, I said my piece,
Speaker 5: and then with someone else jumped into it and said
Speaker 5: their piece. But I don't I don't think they were.
Speaker 5: You know, it should have been kicked out, but they
Speaker 5: might have had a couple of drinks maybe and they
Speaker 5: could have probably kept it going in the game. Wouldn't
Speaker 5: have been about the game no more so they had
Speaker 5: to do well.
Speaker 1: Where was the part where he was like, I thought
Speaker 1: that was her dad.
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly what that was from. I did
Speaker 3: see a graphic that said that, like, I was shocked.
Speaker 1: I was shocked. I thought that was his daughter sticking
Speaker 1: up for him. No, folks, did you see how much
Speaker 1: diamonds she had all over her body? That is not
Speaker 1: his kid anyway, Folks, this is the greatest player in
Speaker 1: the world saying he needs fan interaction, and let's face it,
Speaker 1: we know that Lebron James is dialed in, dial the
Speaker 1: fuck in, and even he admits the crowds get him
Speaker 1: lit up like a Christmas tree. Remember when that front
Speaker 1: office guy from Cleveland, he goes to Cleveland and misses
Speaker 1: the last shot of the before halftime, and the front
Speaker 1: office guy's clapping way too hard. That Lebron James missed
Speaker 1: that shot and then he just destroyed the second half.
Speaker 1: Lebron James needs whatever fan interaction he can summon. Side
Speaker 1: Karen was like perfect for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's actually the second iteration of this kind
Speaker 3: of you know that viral clip where when he was
Speaker 3: still in Cleveland and he's like walking down the sideline
Speaker 3: or whatever, and someone goes, hey, Lebron, hows it feel
Speaker 3: to be a pussy ass bitch?
Speaker 1: Oh? He turns his head, Oh, I do any proceeded
Speaker 1: to go off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was like going down the tunnel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, folks, this is why I said teams are gonna
Speaker 1: get dog walked by fifty on any given night. Why
Speaker 1: we've got the bucks damn near walking around screens on
Speaker 1: a random Tuesday, Because on a Tuesday without fans, it's like,
Speaker 1: do I really need to compete? There's no urgency to
Speaker 1: play defense? And I said this before Courtside Karen was
Speaker 1: a thing. So you can just thank me now for
Speaker 1: all the future takes that are going to be right
Speaker 1: about forty eight hours before they become trending. Now I
Speaker 1: have indisputable proof crowds not only do they matter, We've
Speaker 1: got Lebron James telling me that it is an integral
Speaker 1: part of high level basketball on a night to night basis.
Speaker 1: You are welcome. I mean, that's how could go forever?
Speaker 3: Couldn't it?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 1: Okay? So kind of like the second part of this
Speaker 1: Lebron James crowd thing, we talk about teams, some teams
Speaker 1: mailing it in, and that's not entirely fair because there
Speaker 1: are teams and our specific players, one of them that
Speaker 1: you love now, that are locking up, locking up without crowds. Right,
Speaker 1: it appears that some teams and some players have little
Speaker 1: bit of self respect. They don't need to have the
Speaker 1: threat of humiliation be breathing down their throat every single
Speaker 1: night in order to do their fucking job that paid
Speaker 1: millions of dollars, do you know, just like setting screens,
Speaker 1: you know, doing the little things, chasing after loose balls,
Speaker 1: playing hard until the fucking buzzer, keeping the points at bay.
Speaker 1: And it shows. We've got the Lakers, who are not
Speaker 1: surprisingly the best defensive team in the league. They have
Speaker 1: obviously improved. They're giving up three points less a game
Speaker 1: this year. But I want to talk about teams that
Speaker 1: have actually made huge strides. Right, You've got talking about Knickerbockers, Clippers,
Speaker 1: and Sons. That's right.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've been saying it. They're good. They're way
Speaker 3: better than people realize. And like, I know, we got
Speaker 3: kind of worked by the Pels last night, but this
Speaker 3: team's good.
Speaker 1: You got it, you got it. I like the Suns,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna save them for last because I know
Speaker 1: you get excited. You're already excited a little bit.
Speaker 3: A little bit. I like these other teams too.
Speaker 1: But yeah, all right, let's start with the Knicks. It's
Speaker 1: not a stretch to say that the Knicks have been
Speaker 1: just atrocious defensively for the last forever. One of the
Speaker 1: most surprising teams coming out this year, even though they
Speaker 1: don't have a winning record right now, they are a surprise.
Speaker 1: And why why are they now the number two defense
Speaker 1: in the league in terms of giving how much their
Speaker 1: opponents are are scoring a game. I mean, it's no surprise. Right,
Speaker 1: You've got Tom run those boys in the ground. Thibodeau,
Speaker 1: who's like, we are slowing it down on offense and
Speaker 1: we are locking it down on d They're giving up
Speaker 1: just one hundred and four point two points per game,
Speaker 1: eight points better than last year. That is insane, and
Speaker 1: they didn't even get that many players who should be
Speaker 1: making a defensive I mean, Obi Toppins is not the
Speaker 1: reason that they're giving up eight points less a game.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest. We know Tibbs is for sure the reason.
Speaker 1: That's what he's known to do. Long practices and defensive
Speaker 1: minded team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and bugging locker rooms.
Speaker 1: Bugging locker rooms.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's nuts a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'll give him forty eight months, yeah, or no, twenty
Speaker 1: four months, not forty eight. There's a reason ESPN called
Speaker 1: his scheme the pinnacle of defensive strategy in the NBA.
Speaker 1: He is on record saying if you are a top
Speaker 1: five defensive team, you are a championship caliber team. But
Speaker 1: the problem is, as a caveat, they're only scoring one
Speaker 1: hundred and two points per game, So that's a two
Speaker 1: point l You don't want that, right. You can't win
Speaker 1: games if you're scoring less than your giving up. That's
Speaker 1: just math. So even though their defense is keeping them in,
Speaker 1: they just can't consistently win because they can't score, which
Speaker 1: is also like a TIBs thing. He's slowing away down.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So considering most people thought that they were gonna be trash.
Speaker 1: The fact that they could possibly sneak into the eight seed,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's very impressive. That's like a David Blaine
Speaker 1: magic trick. How could the Knicks actually be in any
Speaker 1: way relevant while James Don'tan is still the owner. You
Speaker 1: see it with your eyes and you're like, I still,
Speaker 1: I still don't know if I can believe it. So
Speaker 1: we have a Knicks. But then next up, we've got
Speaker 1: the Clippers. And the Clippers have gotten better, not because
Speaker 1: of a coaching change, even though they had a coaching change, right,
Speaker 1: You've got really the biggest reason is fucking Montres Harold
Speaker 1: is gone and they've got Obacca.
Speaker 3: Now, Surge is so good for them.
Speaker 1: He's so good, He's so good at so many different things.
Speaker 1: They went out and I mean you have to think
Speaker 1: Kawhi was sort of in charge of that decision or
Speaker 1: somewhere led the charge for that. So they're now playing
Speaker 1: lockdown defense. They were like middle of the pack last
Speaker 1: year and now they're like fourth or fifth. So Abaca
Speaker 1: at one point in his career was like third second
Speaker 1: and defensive Player of the Year voting blocker defense. The
Speaker 1: perimeter can switch get out in space, block shots and
Speaker 1: then once he blocks one guy shot, I mean that's
Speaker 1: just an ego shot, right, You're not throwing the ball
Speaker 1: down to that player for a while, right, defensive menace.
Speaker 1: Every team that he's been on has been incredibly good defensively.
Speaker 1: When he was with Okay, see, they were amazing Toronto,
Speaker 1: they were great. Obviously they fell off once him and
Speaker 1: Marcasol left, and now the Clippers. Not to mention, he's
Speaker 1: with Paul George and Kawhi, both very good perimeter devenders.
Speaker 1: I mean, just ugh made me trip up Paul George
Speaker 1: and Patrick Beverley, the all time past Right. Okay, we
Speaker 1: knew Zubac wasn't gonna be able to do the job.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get cooked. But with Ebaka, this is the reason,
Speaker 1: especially given that this team has chemistry, more chemistry with Ibaka,
Speaker 1: that they are a hard rock squad, and they have
Speaker 1: won like twelve out of fourteen games. So that's impressive
Speaker 1: in a time where no one seems to care about
Speaker 1: defense and no one seems to be defending them. Like
Speaker 1: I told you, six hundred uncontested threes, no that they've had.
Speaker 1: So okay, let's do it. Let's talk about the Suns.
Speaker 3: Let's do it. I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: So, Marty, this is really not a Sun segment. This
Speaker 1: is really a Chris Paul said.
Speaker 3: That's fine, I'll take it.
Speaker 1: I mean, every single team that Chris Paul has played
Speaker 1: for improves its defense by at least five points per game.
Speaker 1: That's insane. And then when he leaves, I hope he
Speaker 1: doesn't leave you guys, it drops off a cliff again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he got to Houston. Here's some numbers. Got to Houston,
Speaker 1: they gave up one hundred and nine point two. The
Speaker 1: next year was CP one hundred and three point seven.
Speaker 1: I don't like talking numbers, but this is absurd. When
Speaker 1: he left back up to one hundred and thirteen point seven.
Speaker 1: That you think that's an anomaly? Okay, last year in Oka,
Speaker 1: see that he was there, they were giving up one
Speaker 1: hundred and eight point six. Then the year after he
Speaker 1: left they filled at one to fifteen point five. Not good.
Speaker 1: And last year Sons gave up a one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirteen point four. You probably remember those games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was tough, they were gross.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this year one hundred and seven point five and
Speaker 1: fifth in the NBA. All of that to say, can
Speaker 1: we put some fucking respect on Chris Paul's name. Please.
Speaker 1: Everybody says Chris Paul's washed. He doesn't do nearly as
Speaker 1: much as you think he does. He's injury prone. The
Speaker 1: Sons are fifth in the West. Folks, they didn't even
Speaker 1: make the playoffs last year, and they are poised. I
Speaker 1: know that.
Speaker 3: You know this.
Speaker 1: You're one of the very few. They are gonna make
Speaker 1: noise in the playoffs. Yes, they're gonna make noise. People
Speaker 1: hate on CP three for absolutely no reason at all.
Speaker 1: He's not just well, okay, what do they Why do
Speaker 1: they hate on him?
Speaker 3: I mean, he's kind of an asshole. I've I've hated
Speaker 3: him for a lot of his career just on the court.
Speaker 3: He just bothers me. But like now he's our asshole.
Speaker 1: So does anybody seem to have a problem with him
Speaker 1: on your team?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: So maybe it's the pussy ass bitches he was playing with.
Speaker 3: It's very possible.
Speaker 1: So, I mean DeAndre Jordan's kind of never mind, I
Speaker 1: don't want to I don't want to put one of
Speaker 1: my friends slept with DeAndre Jordan's so I'll just like
Speaker 1: keep it there. Oh okay, anyhow so you can say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's DeAndre Ayton. He's progressed. Oh, Booker is becoming elite.
Speaker 1: But let's be real, folks, Chris Paul is the connective
Speaker 1: tissue of the Phoenix Suns defense. And you saw what
Speaker 1: he did with Oka, see right. This is really just
Speaker 1: to say Chris Paul is elite. Is he a Batman?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not? But does he automatically make you in playoff contention? Oh? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: He's gonna probably move you up multiple spots in whatever
Speaker 1: conference you're in, go from eighth or ninth or tenth
Speaker 1: to fifth sick. That's I would say, that's big time impact.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna this is a hot take. This isn't
Speaker 1: really a take, but I just want to point out
Speaker 1: that before Anthony Davis came to the Lakers, Lebron James
Speaker 1: didn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: I just want to point out that even Batman can
Speaker 1: miss the playoffs. Okay, see left for dead when Chris
Speaker 1: Paul was traded there, right, everybody thought they were just
Speaker 1: like gonna fall off a cliff. They just had accumulated
Speaker 1: a bunch of up picks for Paul George and no,
Speaker 1: they were like one of the most exciting teams to watch.
Speaker 1: They had Shay and they lost Russ and it was like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, they could actually they almost won a series
Speaker 1: that was very very close, and I think there was
Speaker 1: looking back, some very suspicious calls late.
Speaker 3: In a little bit that Game three.
Speaker 1: That was the one that I'm thinking about. So we
Speaker 1: talked about OBJ being thirty six and productive, c P
Speaker 1: thirty five, very very productive. Yes he has injuries, but
Speaker 1: he is still propelling teams to the playoffs. The Suns
Speaker 1: are defensive. We'll call him, I don't know if a juggernaut,
Speaker 1: but they're tough. Five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're sniffing juggernaut level.
Speaker 1: Sniffing the juggernaut level. I like that. You put him
Speaker 1: on any team, and not only because he's great at
Speaker 1: his half court offense. He's also tremendous on defense. Okay, Marty,
Speaker 1: why is this not all about Chris Paul?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, it's all about Chris Paul is a
Speaker 3: little weird way of saying. It's definitely. The culture impact
Speaker 3: is definitely because of him. People are playing hard, better,
Speaker 3: just focused on winning for once, which is something like
Speaker 3: a lot of these guys haven't done since they gotten
Speaker 3: the league. But I will say DeAndre Aiden's taken a
Speaker 3: major step defensively, and I think that is a lot
Speaker 3: because of Chris Paul. But still his impact on that
Speaker 3: end is a huge reason why the Sons are doing things.
Speaker 3: And it's what people said he couldn't do when he
Speaker 3: was coming out of the draft. And Michale Bridges might
Speaker 3: be the best perimeter defender in the league. I know
Speaker 3: a lot of people don't see a lot on him,
Speaker 3: but he's really.
Speaker 1: He's long too, He's really really long. He's great. And
Speaker 1: the thing that you can just say about Chris Paul
Speaker 1: is like the disrespect for what he's able to do
Speaker 1: at this old of an age and still make an
Speaker 1: impact and get young guys to actually want to what
Speaker 1: comepy Pete here it is, folks, the hyped Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: segment that I promised you as an aside. I looked
Speaker 1: for Russell Westbrook songs. If you go on Spotify right
Speaker 1: now and you search, which you don't have premium access
Speaker 1: to this, If you look on Spotify and you search
Speaker 1: for Russell Westbrook, there's like one hundred songs named Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: That is insane that he may be one of the
Speaker 1: most highly named rap song players. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that makes sense. I don't it.
Speaker 3: Would make sense a little bit like why he would
Speaker 3: be that guy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, why you would title your song Russell Westbrook? Though,
Speaker 1: oh all of the song titles were Russell Westbrook. That's crazy. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll probably do a segment on that in the future.
Speaker 1: If you don't think we will. You are not familiar
Speaker 1: with this league. You're just not just not okay. So
Speaker 1: what is what is a time? What's the best time
Speaker 1: to talk about Russ? When he is healthy for the
Speaker 1: first time all season, he puts up forty one in
Speaker 1: one of the highest scoring games in NBA history to
Speaker 1: beat the Nets that are supposed to be a contender
Speaker 1: when this Wizard's team is jush track. So do you
Speaker 1: I know you didn't see the performance because you were
Speaker 1: sleep sleep. Did you go back and see the highlights?
Speaker 3: I did. I did, especially a fourth quarter that was sick.
Speaker 1: That was sick. Here is what Russell Westbrook had to
Speaker 1: say after the game, which is going to make my point.
Speaker 1: It's like a nice Segue's.
Speaker 4: Probably my responsibility as a leader to make sure I
Speaker 4: bring it every single night. And I take pride in
Speaker 4: doing that because I don't think that's something that everybody
Speaker 4: do around this league and sports at general.
Speaker 5: And that's something that I take pride in coming in
Speaker 5: every night.
Speaker 1: Yes he does spitting straight facts. God damn it. I
Speaker 1: love some Russell Westbrook. Okay, So this is what I've
Speaker 1: been thinking about for a long time. Russell Westbrook is
Speaker 1: kind of how I feel about Kyrie Irving, and this
Speaker 1: is how it is. It's different, but it's the same.
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving is cold on the court. He is one
Speaker 1: of the most skilled basketball players, if not the most
Speaker 1: skilled basketball players in the NBA right now. He can
Speaker 1: do things with the basketball that no one else can do,
Speaker 1: especially around the rim. But then you get what he
Speaker 1: does on Instagram, where he's like putting emojis of his
Speaker 1: zodiac on there and like all this subtweeting, and then
Speaker 1: he's taking games off, and then he's telling the NBA
Speaker 1: players that they should start their own league and like
Speaker 1: telling them to not be in the bubble. And you're like, dude,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't like this. And then you see
Speaker 1: him do what he did a couple of nights ago,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: You separate it really quickly.
Speaker 1: It's easy when you see him do what he did.
Speaker 1: And and this has been how Kyrie has been for
Speaker 1: ten years. He's gotten weirder and weirder for sure post lebron.
Speaker 1: But what Kyrie does off the floor, I mean, what
Speaker 1: Kyrie does on the floor kind of makes you forget
Speaker 1: about everything that he does.
Speaker 3: Off the floor.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So how I feel about Russell Westbrook is this.
Speaker 1: He makes awful, awful, awful decisions on the court, like
Speaker 1: so blatantly egregious and obvious where you're like, what were
Speaker 1: you even thinking there? Remember here's a good one. Remember
Speaker 1: when Russell Westbrook tried to go shot for shot with
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Damian Lillard was hitting from everywhere and Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: was ice cold. And like the more the more Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook would brick, the more.
Speaker 3: He would shoot, right, Yeah, the more he feels like
Speaker 3: he needs to shoot.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, it's a lot of averages, I just
Speaker 1: need to shoot more. Yeah, No, you're just you're off tonight.
Speaker 1: And that's Damian Lillard. Like Russell Westbrook in those moments
Speaker 1: is like a girl who goes to a party and
Speaker 1: thinks that she can go shot for shot with the boys,
Speaker 1: like with fireball Er Jamison, and like how it ends
Speaker 1: up working out is she's just blacked out. She gets
Speaker 1: gum in her hair, she probably like peas on herself,
Speaker 1: Like it's just bad, right, she gets alcohol poisoning, she's
Speaker 1: like sleeping on the frat couch and you're just like, Wow,
Speaker 1: you knew going into this this wasn't a good idea.
Speaker 1: You're not the same size as these guys, and you
Speaker 1: tried to keep up. You knew you weren't capable of this.
Speaker 1: You knew that this was how it was going to be.
Speaker 1: And here we are on national television, Blazers versus the
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City Thunder, and you're just laying bricks against logo Lillard,
Speaker 1: like just getting yourself out of the playoffs all together
Speaker 1: when you were the favorite like they were. Don't forget
Speaker 1: the Thunder were favorite in that series. But that's like,
Speaker 1: also is the exact same reason I love Russ, Like
Speaker 1: Russ is never going to take any possessions off. He's
Speaker 1: that guy that trains And I was talking to a
Speaker 1: friend about this, He's that guy. His mentality over the
Speaker 1: off season is how do I prepare myself and my
Speaker 1: body to be physically able to be a Tasmanian devil
Speaker 1: on every single play. That's crazy. You're talking about a
Speaker 1: time when guys are walking around screens and you've got
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook going one hundred miles an hour every single night,
Speaker 1: sometimes eighty two games. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: It is Even Lebron.
Speaker 1: Takes possessions off because he's not He's not insane like
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook, So God bless him. Right, he makes the NBA.
Speaker 1: I believe he makes the NBA better, even though he
Speaker 1: sometimes makes egregiously terrible decisions. This is how Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: is to his teammates. Players could learn something from Russell Westbrook. Like,
Speaker 1: and I know people don't like this comparison because it's
Speaker 1: not a very good one when you think about Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook shooting because his shooting is egregious. But like, if
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell could do any of the things that Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook could do, he'd be an amazing player, any of
Speaker 1: the things. Just stay being a shooter and do any
Speaker 1: of those things, whether it's rebounding, stealing. I mean, Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook had the presence of mind to try to steal
Speaker 1: the ball, realize his teammates, stole the ball, go back
Speaker 1: to the three point line and hit the fucking three
Speaker 1: when he's not a shooter, to put them up one
Speaker 1: against a team that's supposed to be the contender. And
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, I'm like that. So okay. So as
Speaker 1: infuriating as Russell Westbrook is, and you certainly do not
Speaker 1: ever want him on your favorite franchises team. Never like
Speaker 1: you would never want him on the Suns, right, Oh no,
Speaker 1: but he if you got him on a lazy team,
Speaker 1: it would be like ship up or ship out. Think
Speaker 1: about this. Russell Westbrook and James Harden grew up together.
Speaker 1: They played together in Okay. See they were good friends.
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook and Harden planned on his move to Houston,
Speaker 1: and one season after viewing what James Harden was up to,
Speaker 1: he was like, you know what, I got a bounce.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna head out fam DC looks good. I'd rather
Speaker 1: play in a perennial losing team then play with someone
Speaker 1: who can't even show up for a film on time.
Speaker 1: And I know I've known you since we were in
Speaker 1: Little league. I don't care that he's awful to media members.
Speaker 1: He's been awful to me. Like a lot, like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot, Like he makes your skin crawl when you
Speaker 1: ask him questions after a loss. M. I mean that's
Speaker 1: not even I mean you're so terrified at one point.
Speaker 1: I mean you saw what he did to that guy,
Speaker 1: Barry Trammel. He literally would just be like next question,
Speaker 1: or he'd be like, I don't know, every single time,
Speaker 1: no matter how legendot the question was. Anyway, He's been
Speaker 1: one of those guys for a long time that's not
Speaker 1: great to be around. But no one you have to respect.
Speaker 1: No one gives their all every play like Russ. He
Speaker 1: was out there at the beginning of the season with
Speaker 1: a bad leg. He literally said, I was out there
Speaker 1: with one leg balling out. And now he's healthy. So
Speaker 1: we are going to see some fun things from Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: And at a time when no one is caring about
Speaker 1: doing anything, not trying for entire games, a healthy Russell Westbrook,
Speaker 1: I would say, is a nice change of pay. Clay
Speaker 1: Thompson is having a week. M. I love some Clay Thompson,
Speaker 1: I do. There's nothing funnier than when there's like a subdued, chill,
Speaker 1: low key guy who then out of the blue just
Speaker 1: says some savage ass shit and you're like, wait.
Speaker 2: What did you say?
Speaker 1: Like did I did I hear that correctly?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: This is actually what makes low key Clay one of
Speaker 1: the best follows, the most We'll call him the horniest,
Speaker 1: low key low key lady Killers. He's that guy that's
Speaker 1: like real g's move in silence. That is him. He
Speaker 1: takes that to a whole new level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you remember what those Warriors guys.
Speaker 1: Had to say, Oh yeah, play the play the clip
Speaker 1: again with Kelly right now engaged? Who's now the king
Speaker 1: of horny ours Warriors?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Without oh, without a doubt, without a doubt, Klay Thompson,
Speaker 2: Clay Thompson, like Klay Thompson king before even with Ubra
Speaker 2: a single, they put Steph, Kelly, Ubray and and and
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson on one team. It's it's not it's just
Speaker 2: it's not. What is the point, Come on, But Klay Thompson,
Speaker 2: who was going out with what is what was her name, Laura,
Speaker 2: I forget her name, but she was a scow were
Speaker 2: going out for a little while and all the worst
Speaker 2: fans were very happy. It seemed like Clay had turned
Speaker 2: in the corner.
Speaker 1: And then unshockingly, he had not turned it.
Speaker 3: Broke up and Clay's back.
Speaker 2: So he's he's a king, He's undefeated. There's no there's
Speaker 2: no beating the Rick Fox of his generation.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the Rick Fox of this generation that
Speaker 1: was low key king of horny hours with a murderer's
Speaker 1: row of X's just hot smokes getting left by the
Speaker 1: wayside at every turn, very clearly hotter than he is,
Speaker 1: just operating on his personality and intellect alone, and obviously
Speaker 1: his wet jumper that we won't see for a while.
Speaker 1: Nicest guy, one of the nicest guys in the NBA,
Speaker 1: who obviously now has the ability to be cutthroat when
Speaker 1: he needs to swift. So this is what happened. A
Speaker 1: few days ago. The Warriors played the Pistons and Clay
Speaker 1: was courtside as like a beat reporter or something. Yeah
Speaker 1: he was really good. Yeah, he even had something with
Speaker 1: Steph Curry where he asked when Steph Curry was gonna
Speaker 1: beat Ray Allen's three point record. So okay, So the
Speaker 1: backstory is this Pistons player, this listen, Wayne Hillington's not
Speaker 1: a good player. No he's not. I'm sorry, So Wayne
Speaker 1: Ellington gets into it with one of the other Warriors
Speaker 1: bench guys some wan something. This dude, Rodney McGruder is
Speaker 1: sitting on the bench. He's like an all time NBA
Speaker 1: bench warmer, been on a bunch of different teams, never
Speaker 1: really played a ton of minutes. And Rodney McGruder finds
Speaker 1: out that there's some beef going on, and so he
Speaker 1: decides to accost the Warriors bench after the game, And
Speaker 1: so the reporters have Clay next to them and they're like, hey, Clay,
Speaker 1: what's the deal with you and Rodney? What's the deal
Speaker 1: with Rodney McGruder? And Clay was like, and.
Speaker 3: Right after you work on your play by play, you
Speaker 3: can come back. Yeah, I thought it was okay. He's
Speaker 3: been killing you up here, Clay. What's going on over there, Clay?
Speaker 1: Rodney McGruder, Oh.
Speaker 3: No, this dude might be out the league soon.
Speaker 1: He's probably mad about that.
Speaker 3: Who knows shots over here?
Speaker 5: Checking my guy?
Speaker 2: You're good.
Speaker 4: Everybody seems to be okay, and everybody's going to their
Speaker 4: respective locker rooms.
Speaker 3: There, but yeah, I don't know. Oh so that will
Speaker 3: that will end it right there. But Savage.
Speaker 2: Trying to start something like he's a good players.
Speaker 1: Like, oh my god, how savage was that that?
Speaker 3: I mean, that's hilarious. You don't see players say stuff
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: He said, he's over here trying to start something like
Speaker 1: he's a good player or something. He's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: out of the league in a few games. Damn, holy shit,
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson. Okay, So then it gets even more un filter.
Speaker 1: Here's the tea, here's the tea. Draymond Then, for no
Speaker 1: reason at all, which is very common for Draymond Green,
Speaker 1: he decides again, like postgame, for no reason, I am
Speaker 1: going to talk about Rodney McGruder at length for almost
Speaker 1: two minutes.
Speaker 2: Raymond.
Speaker 1: What happened at the end there with macgruder.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I was in the locker room, but
Speaker 4: apparently he was taking up Awayne allienson Wayne the fuck
Speaker 4: Rodney McGruder become the tough guy on the team, Like,
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, everybody in the league tough these days.
Speaker 4: It's crazy. I've seen a lot of tough guys this year.
Speaker 4: I don't understand it. And don't nobody do anything like
Speaker 4: if you really wanted to do something, you could have
Speaker 4: done it. She walk over there talking shit like he's
Speaker 4: a team tough guy. The hell out of here.
Speaker 1: God, he goes on Rodney, Rodney, Rodney tough guy.
Speaker 4: Also, I'm rocking with y and t jy T was
Speaker 4: about to bring that town that town bit bitness. I'm
Speaker 4: rocking with Wye T on that one.
Speaker 3: Anyway we'll go.
Speaker 4: But also I think it was something that like that
Speaker 4: one said in the first or second quarter to Wayne Allington,
Speaker 4: you ain't got nothing better to do that you're still
Speaker 4: thinking about something in front of the first or second quarter
Speaker 4: when you weren't in the game. So apparently Wayne Ellington
Speaker 4: must have went over to the bench. I guess he
Speaker 4: went and told Rodney McGruder because he hadn't been in
Speaker 4: the game. I don't know, man, it's too many tough
Speaker 4: guys in this league these days for me. But I know,
Speaker 4: ain't nobody scared of No damn Rodney macgruder, like fucking
Speaker 4: kidding me.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, Okay, Wow, Draymond, he's going to give him
Speaker 1: the town business. That means he will fuck him up.
Speaker 1: To Rodney mcgruiter sitting on the bench getting the tea
Speaker 1: spilled someone snitching about an old aldercation, and he decides,
Speaker 1: I am going to run up on these guys after
Speaker 1: the game an idiot. So, okay, who is this Rodney McGruder?
Speaker 1: Is he is? He like a good player, Marty.
Speaker 3: I don't think he is. Here's what the Detroit Free
Speaker 3: Press had to say. He's been an integral part of
Speaker 3: the Pistons retooling strategy, and he's embraced being in the organization.
Speaker 3: When he had his introductory news conference in December, he
Speaker 3: said he immediately thought of the bad Boys Pistons team
Speaker 3: when his agent told him he had been traded to Detroit.
Speaker 1: Talking about bad boys, Rodney McGruder wasn't even live when
Speaker 1: the Pistons Bad Boys era existed. No chance. Okay, so
Speaker 1: let's look at his stats. Let me pull this up.
Speaker 1: So he's played checks notes a total of five games
Speaker 1: this year, averaging checking again, rechecking again to make sure
Speaker 1: this is right, a seven minutes a game and three
Speaker 1: points per game. Why did the Pistons say he's an
Speaker 1: integral part of their retooling strategy. I don't understand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Integral is a weird word to use there.
Speaker 1: Integral means you cannot get rid of him and the
Speaker 1: team continue as is right. But by the way, that
Speaker 1: might be true, since they are one of the worst
Speaker 1: teams in the East, so maybe that's true. Get the
Speaker 1: fuck out of here, Rodney McGruder, take your fake ass
Speaker 1: name with you. Do not be accosting Warriors when you
Speaker 1: don't get any minutes and you don't score any buckets.
Speaker 1: That's just those are the rules. I hate seeing bench
Speaker 1: warmers get bodied try to body you and they like
Speaker 1: play all captain save a hole on Wayne Ellington and
Speaker 1: then like, neither one of you guys should be talking
Speaker 1: any trash. You weren't even there, you weren't even in
Speaker 1: the game, and all of a sudden you try to
Speaker 1: like you try to like start some shit. Yeah, all
Speaker 1: three of the players involved, Wan Toscano and Wayne Ellington,
Speaker 1: Rodney McGruder, they all aren't good and they all have
Speaker 1: names that sound like check in names. If you were
Speaker 1: at the Bellaggio and the NBA was doing a bachelor
Speaker 1: party and they were trying to like keep things low key,
Speaker 1: all right, So it also gets more strange. This isn't
Speaker 1: even the full story. So then someone random quoted Klay
Speaker 1: Thompson's comments on Instagram and Big Baby Davis been out
Speaker 1: the league for a while now. My Tiger LSU Tiger
Speaker 1: all of a sudden decided to chirp Klay Thompson and say,
Speaker 1: saying shit like that, I see why he stay hurt
Speaker 1: karma hand a face emoji. Wow.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Then Clay also decides, because he doesn't have anything better
Speaker 1: to do either, I'm gonna clap back. Dang, Big Baby.
Speaker 1: This what we on now. I can't wait till I
Speaker 1: see you on the court next year. I'm calling iso
Speaker 1: every time. I'll probably get four in a quarter with
Speaker 1: big fella chasing me. Okay. Then Big Baby responds and says,
Speaker 1: you're right about giving me forty, but you can't check me.
Speaker 1: It's barbecue chicken on the block. I bet my life
Speaker 1: on that. And I imagine, like cuz, ye, holy shit
Speaker 1: in the grand scheme of things, Yes, a very savage
Speaker 1: thing to they say, but Big Baby is not touching
Speaker 1: basketballs and he hasn't played since twenty fifteen. He hasn't
Speaker 1: touched anything except for like a meat lover's pizza since
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, before we go any further, I have a story
Speaker 3: about Big Baby bat mus me. Okay, so this is
Speaker 3: my freshman year at LSU. It's like two thousand and
Speaker 3: nine height of his fame in how famous was he
Speaker 3: and bat room is huge? Okay, Well, like people knew
Speaker 3: who he was. So I was out like somewhere at
Speaker 3: like a pizza joint, which is funny that you say that.
Speaker 3: And he had on a T shirt that said freelance
Speaker 3: gynecologist and I thought that was very funny.
Speaker 1: What big baby Davis stands for. I'll give you some
Speaker 1: big babies with my Davis, like eleven pound babies Davis.
Speaker 3: Sorry if I broke that, No, that was that was good.
Speaker 1: I like that. Okay. So Klay Thompson, we know two
Speaker 1: back to back injuries ACL and Achilles, way too much
Speaker 1: time on his hands. He with this much time on
Speaker 1: his hands is a media menace, breaking hearts, spitting facts,
Speaker 1: just slapping down former NBA players trying to stay relevant
Speaker 1: in the game, like get the hell out of here,
Speaker 1: and current NBA players trying to stay relevant. And you
Speaker 1: know what, Marty, this is probably my fault to say this.
Speaker 1: You can fault me for this. And I know that
Speaker 1: me saying this out loud is toxic. I get that,
Speaker 1: but I am here for the shit twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1: Inject this shit in my veins, because this is where
Speaker 1: the name this league came from. Folks, this tea, this league.
Speaker 1: We've got some voicemails, and we're going to save the
Speaker 1: last one, uh, the best one for last, because it's
Speaker 1: a troll and I have so many things to say. Yo.
Speaker 1: Love the Pod wondered what you were thinking about Jared
Speaker 1: Dudley's comments about your guy Pandemic pe Okay, So, I
Speaker 1: don't know if anybody's heard about this. It's like sort
Speaker 1: of breaking, not really breaking, but just came out today
Speaker 1: or yesterday. So this stems from this new book that
Speaker 1: Jared Dudley just put out, I think it's called In
Speaker 1: the Bubble and had some comments about Paul George aka
Speaker 1: Pandemic p aka Playoff p Right, Okay, here we are.
Speaker 1: So first of all, let's just skip over the fact
Speaker 1: that Jared Dudley has had enough time on his hands
Speaker 1: to write a book since the Bubble.
Speaker 3: He had like a month and a half all.
Speaker 1: Like a month and a half off and like probably
Speaker 1: has been writing it now. And when I say let's
Speaker 1: skip over it, I mean, like, let's get into.
Speaker 3: That for a second.
Speaker 1: He's played twenty minutes all year. Jerry Dudley. He's hit
Speaker 1: three buckets all year total, not average, total toll, twenty minutes, total,
Speaker 1: three buckets all season. So what I would say about
Speaker 1: this is he's just living off that Lebron James friendship,
Speaker 1: Like he is just clinging to that time where they've
Speaker 1: played together. Just like this reputation as like this locker
Speaker 1: room guy just making two and a half million dollars
Speaker 1: just to keep the vibes tight, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: just being like, yeah, Lebron, everybody says that Michael's the goat,
Speaker 1: You're really the goat. He's like foam rolling with Lebron
Speaker 1: at like two in the morning. He's microwaving his food.
Speaker 1: He's making sure that like his calm app is set
Speaker 1: and calibrated for like the light rain that he needs
Speaker 1: on his beats by Dre headphones at night. You know,
Speaker 1: two and a half million for that. Ye what a guy,
Speaker 1: Lebron James. What a guy? Shout out to Lebron James.
Speaker 1: He just gives people bunny, He just They say Lebron
Speaker 1: James spends one hundred million dollars on his body every year.
Speaker 1: I think that two and a half is he's paying
Speaker 1: or having the Lakers pay Jerry Dudley for his mind,
Speaker 1: just like the ultimate hype man that's just there on
Speaker 1: every road trip to just make you know, play whatever
Speaker 1: socially distanced whatever game insert game here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he actively talks about it too, Jared Dudley
Speaker 3: about the fact that he's being paid to be just
Speaker 3: a chemistry.
Speaker 1: I want to get paid to be a vibes guy.
Speaker 3: Sure, Lebron James.
Speaker 1: Just getting guys paid. JR. Smith. Let's just go through them.
Speaker 1: These are just a few off the top. JR. Smith,
Speaker 1: Jared Dudley, Alice Caruso, KCP, Tristan Thompson. Do you have others?
Speaker 3: I like Caruso. I guess that's all. I was going
Speaker 3: to say, Oh, CRUs.
Speaker 1: Is good, but let's be real, he wouldn't get the
Speaker 1: money that he's getting unless he's with Lebron James. Sure,
Speaker 1: Lebron James wants a janitor, and that is who Alice
Speaker 1: Cruso is. Tristan Thompson at one time, Matthew Delvandove at
Speaker 1: one time, Timothy Moskof at one time, that edible dude
Speaker 1: from Syracuse deon waiters. Yeah, I mean that was on
Speaker 1: multiple teams. He was on Cleveland and then he was
Speaker 1: back to La. Jared Smith was back from Cleveland to La.
Speaker 1: Emon Schumper from Cleveland to La. He's just like, Yo,
Speaker 1: I'm here for the vibes. I'm here for those Cleveland vibes.
Speaker 1: But in La, I can go all day about dudes
Speaker 1: that Lebron James gets on the payroll. KCP. That contract's crazy,
Speaker 1: just eating off big homies, buffet platter, just a friendship,
Speaker 1: friendship contract. We'll call it. God damn it. I love
Speaker 1: Lebron James and this isn't even a part of the story.
Speaker 1: Just we digress. So Jerry Dudley has this book right,
Speaker 1: and the book is like, hey, we hear some of
Speaker 1: those guys talking about how they're the team to beat
Speaker 1: in La. It's fine if Kawhi says stuff like this, God,
Speaker 1: this is a heavy tea episode. It's fine if Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard says that they're the team to beat in La,
Speaker 1: he's de fanning a championship. We didn't trip when Patrick
Speaker 1: Beverley was talking trash because that's how he feeds his family,
Speaker 1: meaning he has to summon himself to play high level
Speaker 1: basketball by shit talking. That's what he does. We respect
Speaker 1: that hustle, but it is disrespectful for Paul George, who's
Speaker 1: never won at any level, to put himself on the
Speaker 1: level of Lebron James and Anthony Davis. That is what
Speaker 1: motivates us, first of all, Jared Dudley. Second of all, Jared,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if this is are we at.
Speaker 1: Third of all, Jared Dudley, You're not playing games, so
Speaker 1: it doesn't motivate us. It motivates them. Right, We've talked
Speaker 1: about this. This is intriguing. I think that this whole
Speaker 1: little beef that Jared Dudley is fueling is gonna make
Speaker 1: for a nice Western Conference Finals battle. Shit talking. You've
Speaker 1: got Pat Beverly talking shit, Paul George probably doing something
Speaker 1: if the Clippers, of course, do not blow a three
Speaker 1: to one lead like they did last year, so it's
Speaker 1: gonna get chippy. And then Paul George responds, thankfully he's
Speaker 1: gotten some advice, maybe from a PR firm or something,
Speaker 1: because instead of putting gasoline on the fire, he does
Speaker 1: and has responded with this. He says, God bless you.
Speaker 1: Jerry Dudley. I don't know what this is. Dudes are
Speaker 1: throwing my name and stuff God bless you, Jared. So
Speaker 1: someone is learning. What do I think about it? I
Speaker 1: think it's great caller. I think that this is great
Speaker 1: for the game because again I am toxic and I
Speaker 1: love the tea.
Speaker 2: Next voicemail, Yo, if James Harden could smoke weed, do
Speaker 2: you guys think he would smoke mids?
Speaker 3: It's an ongoing bet.
Speaker 1: Let us know, it's an ongoing bet. Who has a
Speaker 1: bet about NBA players in the quality of weed that
Speaker 1: they smoke.
Speaker 3: Also, just he's asking if James Harden could smoke weed,
Speaker 3: I mean Newslash he can and does?
Speaker 1: Does he? Because what I've heard is that he he
Speaker 1: goes to strip club sober. Oh I heard he goes
Speaker 1: for the vibes.
Speaker 3: Okay, that he doesn't.
Speaker 1: He goes not to get lit, but for the vibes.
Speaker 1: So okay, Let's just assume for a second that James
Speaker 1: Harden does smoke weed, and I.
Speaker 3: Guaran I just assume they all do. So if he doesn't,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, sorry, James.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I have no I cannot confirm, nor
Speaker 1: did't I but what I have heard from multiple people
Speaker 1: is that he's like a sober strip club goer, which
Speaker 1: is just kind of crazy. It's just like a weird
Speaker 1: thing to do. Like most people have to like summon
Speaker 1: a little bit of liquid courage in order to just
Speaker 1: see girls like clapping their ass in your face. Anyway,
Speaker 1: if he were to smoke weed, I don't think he's
Speaker 1: smoking low quality weed. He bought little baby a five
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars. Watch you think he's like smoking whatever
Speaker 1: it is dab or like low quality shwag like you
Speaker 1: think he's making splits with tobacco. Get the fuck come
Speaker 1: on now, I would promise you top shell for the beard.
Speaker 1: I put my last breath on it. Okay, Uh, let's
Speaker 1: get into the one that I want to comment, and
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to comment for a few days on
Speaker 1: we'll call him Mail Karen. I hope he's listening, Y know.
Speaker 2: I'm taking a shit listening to this girl gets takes
Speaker 2: on sports. Its not that the takes are so, it's
Speaker 2: just why is it so theatrical?
Speaker 1: Why is it so theatrical?
Speaker 2: Why is she yelling at me? I mean, stephen A
Speaker 2: yells and that's fine because he's not a nagging woman.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Jesus Christ, what are you guys doing? I mean,
Speaker 2: you want ideas for the show. Will replace her with me,
Speaker 2: all right? You needed me to read off of a
Speaker 2: computer and nobody will be annoyed and have a migraine
Speaker 2: at the end of it because my boy doesn't do that.
Speaker 1: Okay, calculator, I think we've got a salty male Karen
Speaker 1: on our hands. I don't know his name and I
Speaker 1: have his phone number, but let's just say this. There
Speaker 1: is a reason, sir, that you are you sitting on
Speaker 1: the toilet giving feedback on a voicemail. You had to
Speaker 1: find that voicemail first of all, that's insane. Okay. You
Speaker 1: had to find that I hadn't posted that all week. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a reason that you are you, and I am me.
Speaker 1: This is not meant to be arrogant, but I have
Speaker 1: never once shown my raging misogyny for the world to see, wow,
Speaker 1: simultaneously pitching myself as a replacement for said hosting job.
Speaker 1: I have never once phoned anyone while taking a shit. Never,
Speaker 1: And I forget. I don't know if this guy has
Speaker 1: a name. We'll call him Chad. Chad. I had a
Speaker 1: deadbeat job like you once. I remember driving to work
Speaker 1: every day being like I'm a coal caller on a
Speaker 1: thirty K salary and just like so sad, just a
Speaker 1: soul killing, terrible Sunday, scary inducing, just like I hate
Speaker 1: my life kind of job. And you know what, I
Speaker 1: never called in to a podcast to say this person
Speaker 1: is trash. They should hire me. What I did was
Speaker 1: make it happen. My goddamn self created it, my goddamn self.
Speaker 1: I am the creator of this league. I am the
Speaker 1: writer of this league. I am the voice of this league, Chad,
Speaker 1: and with Marty, we are producing a podcast twice a
Speaker 1: week on the NBA, on one of the largest podcast
Speaker 1: networks in the world. And what are you doing. You
Speaker 1: are taking large shits and feeling sorry for yourself like
Speaker 1: a goddamn simp. Dave Portnoy, who I am sure is
Speaker 1: your greatest idol. You probably jack off to Dave Portnoy's
Speaker 1: ddtgs or fucking pizza reviews. He chose me to be
Speaker 1: the leader of this league. He signed off on that,
Speaker 1: So why don't you just trust his judgment, Go fuck
Speaker 1: off and create your own goddamn project instead of trying
Speaker 1: to take mine. Get at me when you figure it out,
Speaker 1: and get off the toilets. You can fucking compete.
Speaker 3: Compete.
Speaker 1: I hate that guy. He is debrief on this guy
Speaker 1: for a second, What the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 3: Weird move for that to be the time to do.
Speaker 1: You think I'm not listening to the voicemails.
Speaker 3: I guess maybe he just thought it was gonna get lost.
Speaker 1: Maybe he just thought it was gonna get to the
Speaker 1: producer and they were like, you know what, you're right,
Speaker 1: you're right. We don't like that. That's all the time
Speaker 1: that we have for this league. Guy doing That's all
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