Speaker 1: It's almost a new year, so I'm gonna turn over
Speaker 1: a new leaf. It's I've got some some resolutions for
Speaker 1: a number of players and teams that I need to
Speaker 1: give out. So let's start in New Orleans where the Pelicans.
Speaker 2: They have a brief downturn. Brandon Ingram's been out. We
Speaker 2: know that, and I don't know when he's coming back,
Speaker 2: but that's an issue. But they're back to their winning ways.
Speaker 1: Zion the other night had forty three and people are
Speaker 1: calling him exactly what he is, which is a football
Speaker 1: player that plays basketball on a very talented team. But
Speaker 1: I have a new Year's resolution concerning Zion and I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm you guys gotta help me stay, stay steadfast
Speaker 1: to this because I don't know it's gonna be easy.
Speaker 2: You know, New Year's resolutions are never really gonna be easy.
Speaker 1: They take work, they take dedication, and this one's gonna
Speaker 1: take a lot of dedication and an accountability partner. And
Speaker 1: that is that is. I am not going to talk
Speaker 1: about Zion's way anymore. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: make any more Zion fat jokes. I'm not gonna say, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, Zion where's your where's your beignet? Oh?
Speaker 2: Zion?
Speaker 1: Zion's been eating a little extra kreole. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be like ooh Zion Zion had some steak last night.
Speaker 1: That's why he was a little I'm not gonna do
Speaker 1: any of that. Do I regret saying he was out
Speaker 1: of shape last year?
Speaker 2: No? I do not. I am not going to regret that.
Speaker 2: I am not going to apologize for that.
Speaker 1: Do I regret saying that before anyone else that he
Speaker 1: was gonna miss the entire season last year?
Speaker 2: No? No, I do not regret that. We were right
Speaker 2: on both accounts, But that doesn't mean it's nice.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna try to be nice to Zion because listen,
Speaker 1: do I regret making light of his weight issues when
Speaker 1: he was going through trials and tribulations with his health, Well,
Speaker 1: I gotta do, actually, especially when he said that those
Speaker 1: kind of comments and I never made them to be mean,
Speaker 1: but he said that they really hurt him.
Speaker 2: Not my jokes in particular.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he didn't even listen to him, but you know,
Speaker 1: the rhetoric of the media just saying that he's fat.
Speaker 1: He said, Hey, that's he goes Hey, that's mean, and
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, damn, I should probably stop talking
Speaker 1: about Zion. Do I think he's gonna still have conditioning issues?
Speaker 1: Probably like he's he's a big boy. It's like a
Speaker 1: big boy like Shack Shaq has had his own trials
Speaker 1: and tribulations. But I'm not going to say anything about
Speaker 1: Zion being out of shape because he eats too much.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say anything about Zion getting injured or
Speaker 1: twisting his knee because he's eating too much creole or gumbo.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to anymore. And if he stays on
Speaker 1: the court and he can't stay on the court, we'll
Speaker 1: cross that bridge when we get there. So down in Orlando,
Speaker 1: let's move on. I've also been pretty harsh on the
Speaker 1: Magic franchise, mostly because people don't.
Speaker 2: Really care about them.
Speaker 1: They have no fans and they're losing franchise, and their
Speaker 1: ownership group isn't great, and they really don't draft the
Speaker 1: right players, and their pr team is maybe the worst
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in all of sports, and that's really
Speaker 1: saying something. But my newly ears resolution for them is
Speaker 1: to just not say anything mean about them or doubt
Speaker 1: anything about Paolo Man Carrol. I'm not doubting.
Speaker 2: Anything about him. Again.
Speaker 1: The guy is special. He's gonna win Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: I saw him play live in college. I've seen him
Speaker 1: play live in the pros. I've seen him play live
Speaker 1: in the Summer League. And I'm damn near ready to
Speaker 1: say that Pallo could take the reins from Lebron James
Speaker 1: for the first time. I'm ready to say if it's anyone,
Speaker 1: it will be him. He patterns his game after Lebron.
Speaker 1: That's what he said. The person that I pattern my
Speaker 1: game off the most is Lebron James. And you can
Speaker 1: see it in his passing. You can see it in
Speaker 1: terms of how bald dominant he can be, how he
Speaker 1: can do many things, and he's very dynamic on the
Speaker 1: basketball court. But good lord, Powo is balling out, just
Speaker 1: absolutely insane. Only one player in NBA history has had
Speaker 1: more twenty games before Christmas their rookieyear. That's and his
Speaker 1: likeness is on half of the shoes in the league.
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan and Powell Polo. That's it, Michael Jordan and Powlo.
Speaker 1: Powlo probably is gonna make the All Star Game. He
Speaker 1: might make All NBA thirteen. He probably won't, but he is.
Speaker 1: He is just a treasure. And he's turned a team
Speaker 1: that didn't make any damn sense, a team with misfit spacing,
Speaker 1: a team with too many players of the same position,
Speaker 1: and he's helped.
Speaker 2: Unlock bull Bull. He's unleashed Franz Wagner.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've spent so much time talking about the
Speaker 1: magic because of Powlo. He has transformed this franchise like
Speaker 1: Lebron James transformed the Cavaliers BN. Carro is actually better
Speaker 1: than advertised. He should have probably gone first when he.
Speaker 2: Was seventeen, Like Palo Ban.
Speaker 1: Carro could have gone first in twenty seventeen, and I
Speaker 1: think it would have been the right call. Like this
Speaker 1: is like when he was when he was fifteen years old,
Speaker 1: eating captain crunch, breakfast, lunch and dinner. He probably could
Speaker 1: have been a pro then. So I'm not questioning Palo
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three at all or beyond, because there's
Speaker 1: frankly nothing that he can do to surprise me anymore.
Speaker 2: Does Palow need work? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Does he need to be a better ball handler. He's six' fucking, Ten,
Speaker 1: Okay like, yes does he need to learn that part
Speaker 1: of the. Game does that need to increase in his dynamic? Ability,
Speaker 1: sure but he's six, ten two sixty and just an
Speaker 1: absolute wrecking.
Speaker 2: Ball lots of shit happening In. Atlanta that that leads
Speaker 2: me to my next.
Speaker 1: Resolution My new year's resolution for The hawks is just
Speaker 1: really to put my thinking cap on and my inspector
Speaker 1: krick head on and find out what the fuck is
Speaker 1: actually happening down. There because if you think the beef
Speaker 1: Between trey and Coach nate is, bad if you think
Speaker 1: that was, weird like a little, spooky things just. Disintegrated
Speaker 1: because now The hawks have taken another incredibly bizarre step
Speaker 1: of firing their FUCKING gm Before, christmas the SAME gm
Speaker 1: that almost WON gm of The year like less than
Speaker 1: eighteen months. Ago so, YEAH i am going to sink
Speaker 1: my teeth, thin make some calls and find out for
Speaker 1: y'all what is.
Speaker 2: Happening The hawks are on the verge of becoming a dumpster.
Speaker 1: Fire to be, HONEST i didn't see it coming when
Speaker 1: they went went to The Eastern conference, finals did, you?
Speaker 1: GUYS i don't know if anyone saw it. COMING i
Speaker 1: don't Think i'm, alone but it is toxic down there
Speaker 1: has A gm ever been fired Before christmas when it
Speaker 1: didn't involve like some sort of. Allegation he didn't do anything.
Speaker 2: Wrong he's just been.
Speaker 1: Inept LIKE i can't overestimate how rare and unusual move
Speaker 1: this is, teams especially once just eighteen months from An
Speaker 1: Eastern conference finals team does not do. That schlank, himself
Speaker 1: who's still on, staff but not THE, gm which is
Speaker 1: also weird as, Well like they just are, like, well
Speaker 1: we have to pay you no matter, what so fucking
Speaker 1: our coffee. Bitch that's basically what they're doing To Travish
Speaker 1: blank right. Now they're, like we can't if we fire,
Speaker 1: you we have to pay you and you're, unemployed so
Speaker 1: we're just gonna keep you on. Staff we're gonna make
Speaker 1: you do some bad, shit put The yellowstone brand on
Speaker 1: you so you can never fucking leave and tell our.
Speaker 2: Secrets.
Speaker 1: Anyway this is What Travis flank said himself and his exit.
Speaker 1: Presser he Said throughout the, Season hawk's Owner tony AND
Speaker 1: i had and multiple conversations about HOW.
Speaker 2: I have been feeling in the new.
Speaker 1: Year tommy has SUGGESTED i take a step back prioritize my,
Speaker 1: family whoa so he's officially an. Advisor but, listen, yeah
Speaker 1: one of the hottest gms in the, league a guy
Speaker 1: who signed in a lucrative extension is now essentially out
Speaker 1: of a. Job and the reason is the dysfunction in
Speaker 1: The Atlanta hawks, organization all of the things that they did,
Speaker 1: wrong all of the contracts that they, extended Extending John
Speaker 1: collins going out and giving more money To Clint, capella
Speaker 1: making that De Jonte murray. Trade the lists over and
Speaker 1: over and over of what he has done has been very,
Speaker 1: Suspect and of course number one on that list Is Trey.
Speaker 1: Young and whatever is going on With treyong and the
Speaker 1: people That Travis shlank hired to interact With treyjung is not.
Speaker 1: Good it either Is Trey young or it's everyone That travishlank.
Speaker 1: Hired and you know, what now we're gonna find out
Speaker 1: who it really. Was his short, career he's already killed one,
Speaker 1: coach he's threatened to kill, Another he's buried A gm
Speaker 1: that we thought might Be executive of The, year and
Speaker 1: now the franchise might be shook as. Well so maybe
Speaker 1: with a NEW, Gm Trey young will find someone that
Speaker 1: makes him. Happy so, yeah my resolution is to look
Speaker 1: into The Atlanta, hawks keep my eye, open keep both eyes,
Speaker 1: open and find out what's happening with this dumpster fire
Speaker 1: and report. BACK i, really really seriously pondered whether my
Speaker 1: Next New year's resolution should be to not talk about
Speaker 1: The lakers again until they break five. Hundred but then
Speaker 1: that would mean No laker talk on the Heat, check wouldn't.
Speaker 1: It SO i realized that would maybe make no sense for,
Speaker 1: us and then they would maybe mean No laker talk
Speaker 1: until they actually have their first round pick of their
Speaker 1: own and maybe become a team that can actually, compete
Speaker 1: and that's.
Speaker 2: Probably twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Nine So i'm not gonna make a commitment to do
Speaker 1: to not talk about The lakers, until you, Know i'm
Speaker 1: damn near forty years.
Speaker 2: OLD i can't do. That i'm more than forty years.
Speaker 1: Old, instead My New year's resolution is just simply to
Speaker 1: enjoy The Lake, show because there's nothing more pornographic than
Speaker 1: to know that The lakers have let go of the rope,
Speaker 1: truthfully like to know that they have given, up and
Speaker 1: that new Reports Rob polink coming out and, saying, hey you,
Speaker 1: know we might just stand pat the new reports or
Speaker 1: The lakers are considering doing absolutely nothing again at the trade.
Speaker 1: Deadline that is two years in a. Row if you're
Speaker 1: keeping a track that is just that is just enough
Speaker 1: for me to subside on for. Decades according to The
Speaker 1: La Times Dan, walkie The lakers are seriously considering to
Speaker 1: just say fuck it and ride out the season with status.
Speaker 1: Quo that means no, trades no major, deals no desperate
Speaker 1: plays at the deadline for a player who's going to
Speaker 1: further burden this, team and no trading of their own
Speaker 1: two first rounders left in this. DECADE i know your
Speaker 1: first question is the same as. Mine how do you
Speaker 1: Think bron's gonna feel about? This? Well not great as
Speaker 1: it turns. Out this is What braun said in The
Speaker 1: pressure the other.
Speaker 2: Day i'm a.
Speaker 1: WINNER i want to, win AND i want to win
Speaker 1: and give myself a chance to win and still compete for.
Speaker 2: Chips that has always been my.
Speaker 1: Passion that has always been my goal SINCE i entered
Speaker 1: the league as an eighteen year old out Of, Akron.
Speaker 2: OHIO i know the steps it takes to get, there do, you, Though?
Speaker 1: Braun do? You but once you get there and know
Speaker 1: how to get, there playing basketball at this level just
Speaker 1: to be playing basketball is not in MY.
Speaker 2: Dna.
Speaker 1: Pause if you don't want to play basketball, anymore just
Speaker 1: to play basketball, anymore.
Speaker 2: Then you have two.
Speaker 1: Options one leave THE La, lakers two retire because it's
Speaker 1: not happening anymore. There so then he, says this is
Speaker 1: not MY. Dna so we'll see what happens and see
Speaker 1: how fresh my mind stays over the next couple of.
Speaker 2: Years that seems like a guy who is trying to
Speaker 2: push on the leverage.
Speaker 1: Button, YEAH i could possibly just take my ball and go.
Speaker 1: HOME i could just Andrew luck this, bitch because he
Speaker 1: doesn't wanna. Lose that's why he deleted a tweet from
Speaker 1: a year ago recently about how he'll never miss the
Speaker 1: playoffs again in his.
Speaker 2: Career he knows that.
Speaker 1: Was, bullshit. Bullshit he knows what the future IN la looks.
Speaker 1: Like and, folks it's not. Great it's not being five,
Speaker 1: hundred it's not making the playing, team and it's certainly
Speaker 1: not making the fucking playoffs and contending for a. Championship
Speaker 1: So i'm not gonna go out of my way to
Speaker 1: stoke the. Fire But i'm not gonna poke The laker
Speaker 1: bear anymore THAN i have. To But i'm just gonna
Speaker 1: get my marshmallows and My Hershey bars extra dark and
Speaker 1: get ready to make s'mores over the dumpster fire that
Speaker 1: is The La lakers for
Speaker 2: A, long, long long time