Speaker 1: Speaking of Lebron James.
Speaker 2: So he's back, baby, after missing thirteen games with that
Speaker 2: foot injury. Planter Fasciu tear something. So they lost to
Speaker 2: the Bulls, which I think is hilarious. Won eighteen, went
Speaker 2: to eight. Bron had a pretty good game nineteen eight
Speaker 2: and three thirty minutes to play. Came off the bench actually,
Speaker 2: which was the first time that he's came off the
Speaker 2: bench since two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: Which is wild. What's funny, though, was.
Speaker 2: How Lebron described what it took to get him back
Speaker 2: on the court.
Speaker 1: Did you see this he said?
Speaker 2: According to Broun himself, the first two doctors that Lebron
Speaker 2: met with told him that he needed to have season
Speaker 2: ending surgery, but he didn't believe him. He went to
Speaker 2: a third doctor, called the Lebron James of foot doctors.
Speaker 1: And told him.
Speaker 2: This doctor told him if he did round the clock
Speaker 2: rehab been training, he could return in time to play
Speaker 2: out this year. Four weeks later, he's back on the court.
Speaker 2: But the Lebron James the foot doctors comment is.
Speaker 1: Really getting me.
Speaker 2: It's really I have there's so much to peel back
Speaker 2: on it, and I thought to myself, Oh, the Lebron
Speaker 2: James of foot doctors, he must mean the most obvious,
Speaker 2: disprovable liar of foot doctors, because that's to me what
Speaker 2: Lebron James is.
Speaker 1: He says such meaningless, small lies.
Speaker 2: If he reinjures his planter fascy itis or whatever it is,
Speaker 2: his little foot, little tendon on the bottom of his foot,
Speaker 2: and he misses the playoffs and has to have surgery
Speaker 2: in the off season, which he said he might have
Speaker 2: to have, and he's not gonna tell us.
Speaker 1: That means that is exactly right.
Speaker 2: The Lebron James the foot doctors is the type of
Speaker 2: doctor who would just lie about things that they know
Speaker 2: nothing about.
Speaker 1: Remember when he said, oh yeah, I knew that shake
Speaker 1: Gilges Alexander was gonna be an all NBA caliber player.
Speaker 1: I just saw him. I knew it.
Speaker 2: I saw the Mighos one time, and I knew they
Speaker 2: were gonna be.
Speaker 1: As big as they were.
Speaker 2: That's this guy, only he is taking Lebron James's health
Speaker 2: into his hands. Or also, like the fact that Lebron
Speaker 2: James is not just saying things in third person. He's
Speaker 2: not calling, oh yeah, Lebron James is tired today. Lebron
Speaker 2: James went through a workout today. He's he's calling someone
Speaker 2: else and referring to someone else in the third person
Speaker 2: of himself. I guess he's gonna be like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I went and saw Creed three. I love that Michael B. Jordan,
Speaker 2: Guy Lebron James of Actors, love that guy. He's really good.
Speaker 2: It's like, yep, yep. I don't know why he does it.
Speaker 2: I really was thinking about this because I think now
Speaker 2: it's on purpose, because he's not had one scandal in
Speaker 2: twenty plus years in the league, right, not one, Not
Speaker 2: one thing with his like, not one thing with infidelity,
Speaker 2: not one thing with I don't know, like going on
Speaker 2: ig live with a gun, like, not one time that
Speaker 2: he's been ultra inebriated in public or drunk or high.
Speaker 2: Nothing zero, not in the off season, not in season.
Speaker 1: Nothing.
Speaker 2: But then he sets these little banana peels out for
Speaker 2: himself to slip on, like these very weird things that
Speaker 2: get us to roast him for being one of the
Speaker 2: corniest people I've ever seen, the dumbest liar I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Remember he was running around.
Speaker 2: With uh I think it was Malcolm X's book, and
Speaker 2: he was on the front page for like the entire
Speaker 2: time he was in the bubble, said he loved the
Speaker 2: Godfather Washington a million times, couldn't find one quote. These
Speaker 2: are calculated pr moves to make him seem more human,
Speaker 2: because otherwise he'd be infallible. I don't understand it, small
Speaker 2: comical errors that do nothing really to change his reputation
Speaker 2: except for to just make him less likable. I don't
Speaker 2: understand it. I don't understand it. Let's move on away
Speaker 2: from Lebron.
Speaker 1: I think it's time. When we talked about the Bulls
Speaker 1: and Pat Beverley, I.
Speaker 2: Do didn't want to do it, didn't think it would
Speaker 2: amount to much, And over time we're seeing that the
Speaker 2: Bulls are better with Pat BEV. So we talked about
Speaker 2: him last the season. The only reason we talked about
Speaker 2: him is because he was the worst player in the
Speaker 2: NBA in terms of plus minus. I think he had
Speaker 2: the lowest offensive rating in the league. So he talked
Speaker 2: about that. We made fun of it. He barely played
Speaker 2: after that, the Lakers moved on from him. You know
Speaker 2: how that went. We knew that meant he was getting
Speaker 2: traded at the deadline. That meant he was probably gonna
Speaker 2: get bought out because he's making like.
Speaker 1: Ten million dollars.
Speaker 2: Whoever was going to take his contract on so Orlando
Speaker 2: Magic full circle said no, Patrick Beverley is not a
Speaker 2: player that we won on our roster with this young
Speaker 2: developing team.
Speaker 1: They buy him out. So then he signed with the Bulls.
Speaker 1: But it didn't happen right away. Took a little time.
Speaker 1: I think it took like ten days.
Speaker 2: A lot of people thought the Bulls were going to
Speaker 2: dismantle their roster. Get rid of Vooch, get rid of
Speaker 2: de Rozen, get rid of Little Bean, get rid of Gruso.
Speaker 1: Potentially.
Speaker 2: There were multiple rumors about them just shutting it all down.
Speaker 2: So then the deadline came, The deadline went, and what
Speaker 2: do they do? They acquired Pat BIV. Everyone was climbing
Speaker 2: the move. Why'd they do it? This doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: And now Patrick Beverley continuing just to.
Speaker 1: Show us why we're all wrong. In fifteen games that
Speaker 1: Pat BEV has played as a Bull this year, here
Speaker 1: are his stats. They're not great.
Speaker 2: Let me just preface it by saying they're not some
Speaker 2: sort of all you're not going to see like he's
Speaker 2: averaging seventeen seven and five.
Speaker 1: That's not where we're going. But he's been impactful.
Speaker 2: Six six and four with one and a half steals
Speaker 2: in blocks per game in thirty minutes of playing time
Speaker 2: plus sixty nine In his time with the Bulls, the
Speaker 2: Bulls were ten and five when he's played in those
Speaker 2: fifteen games, they're ten and five.
Speaker 1: They were seven to nine leading up to the trade deadline.
Speaker 1: That is so impactful.
Speaker 2: They're currently in tenth place, three games ahead of the
Speaker 2: Pacers for the final playing spot, one half game out
Speaker 2: of the eighth place, which would give them two chances
Speaker 2: to make the playoffs. This could be the biggest turnaround
Speaker 2: in the NBA since the trade deadline, which makes Pat
Speaker 2: Bev potentially the most impactful player at said trade deadline,
Speaker 2: which is absurd to say, but it actually could be true.
Speaker 2: A lot of it is about Pat Beverly. All of
Speaker 2: his teammates have embraced him. People are now reevaluating Pat
Speaker 2: Bev's time with the Lakers, and they're saying, maybe it
Speaker 2: wasn't Pat Bev, maybe it was the Lakers.
Speaker 1: So they asked Pat Bev what happened?
Speaker 2: What was going on with the Lakers, and he said, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: if I'm a spoon Billy Donovan is using me as
Speaker 2: a spoon the Lakers. You know, I was a spoon
Speaker 2: and they used me as a fork. So basically, Darvin
Speaker 2: Ham is trash. That's basically if you don't know how
Speaker 2: to use Pat Beverly. When every place that Pat Beverly
Speaker 2: has gone has made the playoffs and he's been impactful
Speaker 2: in some way, then it's you, sir, You are the problem.
Speaker 2: Pat Beverly did the same thing to the Wolves. Every
Speaker 2: team that he's been playing for he's brought defensive intensity, Clippers,
Speaker 2: Houston Rockets, confidence, swag, a level of annoyance that gets
Speaker 2: opposing star talent to I don't know, just get technicals,
Speaker 2: be irritated, get into fights. Case in point, his revenge
Speaker 2: game against the Lakers. Did you see this? He had
Speaker 2: ten points, five assists, easy bulls win, which was very important.
Speaker 2: He wanted to knock the Lakers out of the playoffs,
Speaker 2: said that he had an ig post. He said, I
Speaker 2: am coming to La get your cameras out, and then
Speaker 2: add a full Sharman packet of Sharman in his car.
Speaker 1: Meaning the Lakers are Sharman soft. The shit talking unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Scored on Lebron James in this game game and gave
Speaker 2: him the too small gesture. He gave the too small
Speaker 2: gesture to Lebron James.
Speaker 1: Beverly said, yeah, yeah, I do it to everybody. This
Speaker 1: is just what I do. I have fun.
Speaker 2: I was getting lost in the game. I was just
Speaker 2: getting lost in the game. I'm having fun. Man.
Speaker 1: We're not construction workers.
Speaker 2: We're not guys that have to give up four in
Speaker 2: the morning or professional basketball players. It's about having fun.
Speaker 2: That's what we try to do tonight. That's what I
Speaker 2: try to do tonight. And also, he tried to knock
Speaker 2: the Lakers out of the fucking playoffs because they did him wrong,
Speaker 2: And that, folks, is Pat Bevan a nutshell. He lightens
Speaker 2: the mood, he brings the intensity. He gets soft players
Speaker 2: to be tough players. Him and Alex Crucier together are tremendous.
Speaker 2: And you know what he always do every single time.
Speaker 2: He always makes the playoffs every time. This Bulls team,
Speaker 2: to me, is a sneaky.
Speaker 1: Dangerous team.
Speaker 2: They're not going anywhere in the playoffs, but they will
Speaker 2: be very annoying.
Speaker 1: They play the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 2: The Boston Celtics are gonna get their hands full of
Speaker 2: Pat bev in Jason Tatum's face, in Jalen Brown's face,
Speaker 2: and remember Jalen Brown has that mask, so who knows
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen there. Remember he broke Devin Booker's nose
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. I'm just saying, watch your face, watch
Speaker 2: your butt around Pat Beverly, because Boston's already lost twice
Speaker 2: to the Bulls this year by fourteen and eighteen points,
Speaker 2: and that was before Pat Beverly got there. I love
Speaker 2: that he saved the season for Chicago, that's his hometown,
Speaker 2: which I think is impactful. If he manages to win
Speaker 2: a first round series, you will You saw what he
Speaker 2: did with the Timberwolves when they want to play in game.
Speaker 2: Just imagine what he will do if he wins a
Speaker 2: playoff series. And that to me is good for the NBA.
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