WEBVTT - NBA All Star Game Reaction, Incognito vs Martin, NFL Draft Top 5 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:07.160 The NBA All Star Game was an utter disaster, and 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:09.799 I got ways to fix it. And also there was 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:12.880 pushback from the players, Draymond Green and all of this stuff. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.360 And you know who actually broke it. It was the players, 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.520 and I'll explain to you why in just a few minutes. 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:22.640 But also the story about Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin, 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.840 the bullying incident with the Miami Dolphins. I told you 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.720 all this years ago, but now the truth comes out 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.919 and Richie Incognito feels like he's vindicated, but hell no, 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:37.680 you're not not at all. And also, the NFL Draft 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.479 is coming up. Who are your top five picks right 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.199 now with the teams that currently have them? Well, I 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.120 got that and so much more here on the Unafraid Show. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.680 Make sure that you like, subscribe, get notifications, and most importantly, 0:00:50.760 --> 0:01:08.520 tell a friend and share the show. Let's get to it. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.200 It has been years since the NBA put on a 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.240 good All Star Game. It's been a minute, and now 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.559 the players are starting to feel the pushback. You got 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.039 Kevin Durant on Twitter saying, well, why don't you just 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.040 give us a week off instead of if you hate 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:26.000 the game so much? And this and that Draymond Green 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.319 is upset that the Rising Stars actually played on the 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:33.320 same floor as the NBA All Stars. So there's so 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.680 much to break down, everything from the format to what's 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.840 going on, how to fix it, dunk contest, three point contests, 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.080 and a one on one game that we're probably gonna 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.600 get next year. But we're gonna start with just the 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:49.600 pushback from the players. And here is the biggest problem 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.960 with the NBA is that the players have forgotten that 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.360 there is a relationship between them and the fans, that 0:01:56.400 --> 0:02:00.000 there is an unspoken contract between them and the fans 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.360 about you show up and play hard, will show up 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.079 with our time and our money. And players are now like, yo, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.160 I mean y'all, y'all supposed to show up. We're supposed 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.200 to get get paid. This is the NBA All Star Game. 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:15.720 We're gonna do it how we want to do it. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.240 And then they're upset that people are pushing back and 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.720 even they're complaining about it. And we're gonna start with 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:26.040 the Draymond Green Green complaint. Actually, no, no, no, no, We're 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.840 actually gonna start with the disaster that actually started first 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:35.000 on Saturday night, which was the skills competition the three 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:40.280 point contest and the dunk contest. We're gonna start with 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:46.640 the skills competition because Victor Winbanyama and Chris Paul, former 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:51.520 head of the Players Association, that Chris Paul NBA veteran 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.960 long time Hall of Fame guy. So at first, when 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.400 him and Victor women Yama went up there and they 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.600 were doing the ski challenge, You're thinking, Okay, this is 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.840 a cool little pairing. They just instead of shooting the 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:06.600 ball like they normally would, they just threw them at 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.040 the basket. They were going for time because they knew 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.200 that they could execute it in time and get passed 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.840 even if they didn't make the baskets. So that was 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.960 an issue. And then so they essentially tried to cheat 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.880 the system. And initially this was pinned on Chris Paul, 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.440 and I was like, Chris Paul, what's up with you, bro? 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.480 You're too old for this. You were the president of 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.919 the Players Association. You can't be doing this. This is ridiculous. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.200 But then we find out that it was Victor winbn 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.880 Yama's idea, and this is his second year in the NBA, 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.480 so that means that Chris Paul, the savvy veteran, the 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.680 guy who knows the inner workings and understands the stuff 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.320 about the ratings, everything that's going on with the NBA, 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.040 the pushback from the fans, and he went along with this. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.440 That's the issue. You got the blind leading the blind 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.880 right now. And Chris Paul is too old, too long 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.000 the league. He was playing when all Star games were good, 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.680 and now all of a sudden you went along with 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.720 this BS to like cheat the fans. Do you realize 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:13.760 it was people in France that stayed up to watch 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.880 this trash that they put out and they're like, yeah, yeah, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.039 we're gonna move on to the finals. We're gonna win, 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:20.760 we're gonna get a tighter we're gonna get the check. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:27.120 Forgetting about the entertainment value for the fans. That's the 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:31.599 most important thing. Everybody keeps putting all this emphasis on championships. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:37.200 Championships are the the furthest thing from what fans need 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:41.120 and deserve because a particular fan base, yes they want 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:45.839 a championship, but NBA fans and basketball fans in general, 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:51.760 they want great basketball play, entertaining games, and stars to play. 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.320 That's what fans want, and the idea that the players 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.920 are putting this trash out there is ridiculous. And then 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.159 and when calls for change happened, they're like, oh wait, wait, 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.240 wait no, just just pay us more money, shake Gildess. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.000 Alexander said that after his first NBA All Star Game, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.000 and it turned me off from him, not permanently, but 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.640 at least for a while. He's standing there in a 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:22.000 mink coat making twenty thirty million dollars a year saying, oh, well, 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.240 I mean hell, if you pay us more, will will 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.960 play hard in the All Star Game. That is an 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:31.680 absolute utter lie. You could pay these dudes a million 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:36.000 dollars each to win the game and they still won't 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.640 play hard. You know why? Because this is an internal issue. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.080 Do you know why? Kobe and Michael Jordan played hard 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.839 because it was important to them And the older players 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.960 Lebron James who I love, Kevin Durant who I love, 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.960 Steph Curry who I love. These dudes have allowed this. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.359 These players who I love, the Kevin, all of the 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.760 great players. Pay dudes have been the face of the NBA. 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:06.720 They allowed this. They are responsible for this. Yeah, who 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.440 else are you going to blame? This ain't the league's fault. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.320 The league can't force you to go out there and 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:15.440 play hard. And then you got Draymond Green out there. Oh, 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:20.000 oh my god, this is terrible. The Rising Stars were 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.279 on the floor with the NBA veterans. This used to 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:27.800 be a sacred ground, a hollowed place for the NBA 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:32.159 All Star Game. You know what, On one hand, Draymond 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.599 Green's one hundred percent right. It used to be a 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.560 hollowed ground for the All Stars. It used to be 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:43.239 a special place where only very few got a chance 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.200 to step on that All Star court. Put that All 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.560 Star jersey on, and now you got dudes in the 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.960 Rising Stars game on it. He's one hundred percent right. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.920 But do you know whose fault? That is your fault? 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.359 It's the player's fault, because the NBA would not have 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:06.200 needed to go to this drastic four team, single elimination tournament, 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.520 these many games if it weren't for the players coming 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:14.480 out there not playing hard. They are trying anything. They 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.760 are like parents with a bad behaving child and they're like, Okay, hey, 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.119 i'll pay you to get good grades. Okay, that's not working. Okay, 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.200 I'll cut your phone off. Okay that's not working. I'll 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:29.200 give you a whooping like that. They're literally trying every 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.560 single thing that they can to get with in without 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:38.000 the whooping part. In the new gentle parenting age. They're 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.120 trying everything that they can to get the players to 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:44.640 play hard, and the players still won't do it. So yes, 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:49.400 drastic changes have to be made. The NFL literally cut 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.080 out the Pro Bowl because players refuse to play hard. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.720 There was nothing they could do to incentivize them. And 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.520 the same thing is true of the NBA because it 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:03.240 is redamndiculous that we're I've been playing in you know, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.000 pick up games with the older guys in the NBA 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.040 when I was when when I was in my prime, 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:13.920 fresh jumping out the gym, and they play harder in 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:18.240 open gym and open runs in the summer. Then they 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.440 doing the NBA All Star Game. And that's for the fans. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.800 So games that they aren't even getting paid in they 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.240 play harder than they do in the NBA All Star Game. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:32.200 That's why there needs to be a fix. So you can, 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.480 they can get mad, Kevin Durant can push back on 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.320 the fans. Oh well, then just just get give us 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.240 a week off, give us this. Yet, this is the 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.559 issue with Jimmy Butler in his contract, Joel and b 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.920 Paul George, other guys. And I'm not saying that they 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.480 haven't been hurt at times. I'm talking about the load 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:58.120 management crew because there comes a point in time where 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:08.200 you are just curbing the what the fans need and 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.719 what the fans want, and you know what you're You're 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.480 gonna get what you deserve. The league is gonna get 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:18.280 what it deserves. There will be a pushback unless there 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.200 is some sort of change because if you keep putting 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.960 bad television out for fans, they will stop watching. I 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.960 don't care about Yes, they have signed lucrative TV deals, 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.760 but the difference between the NBA and the NFL is 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.560 NFL is always trying to put out competent products. The 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.640 difference in the NBA is there is a percentage of 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.800 the player salaries. It's either five or ten percent that's 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:48.360 held every single year in escrow and it's held in 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.360 case they don't meet revenue projections and then when when 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.520 they do, which they typically do, players get paid that 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:59.200 money back. But if not, the league keeps it. There 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.200 is going to be a year if they do not 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.360 change where the league ends up keeping that money and 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.640 players are not going to like that. And this is 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.319 why the Dallas Mavericks traded Luca, this is why they 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.559 have been pushing back on players contracts and everything else. 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.240 And you are going to see it more. This sixty 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:21.199 five game rule to make all NBA and all that stuff. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.360 That's not going to impact the older players because they've 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.760 already gotten max deals. They're on the way out. For 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.600 the younger players, this is going to be huge because 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.959 you're gonna have less players qualify for max deals because 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.760 they haven't won MVP, they haven't made all NBA teams 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.280 because you're not playing enough games. So that's where they're 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.960 trying to push it back. But let's go back to 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.680 the All Star Game for a second. You had them 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:53.680 three teams drafted by TNT and inside the NBA analysts 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:57.560 you had Kandas Parker, Shaq Yet Kenny and you had 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:02.400 Charles Barkley and Candas had the Rising Stars team. But 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.360 the issue with it is it was a three hour game. 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.760 You ended up three games to forty points, so you 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.240 only got one hundred and twenty points from one team. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.240 It took three damn hours, And I know I did 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.320 not mind the tribute to T and T because they 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.640 have been honestly a bigger part of the NBA then 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.920 the NBA has been, especially recently. You knew you could 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:30.280 count on Chuck and Shaq, Kenny and Ernie to entertain you. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.480 Even if the game didn't entertain you, they were going 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:37.000 to entertain you. So yes, I did not mind the 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.680 saying good goodbye and all of that. But Trey Young, 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:46.960 Shake Gilders, Alexander Jalen Brown, all of them were frustrated 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.040 with the amount of breaks and the you know, the 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.760 long layoffs and everything else. It was terrible. It was 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.640 terrible for the players because they got to calm down, 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:01.160 get rapped up everything else. But the league and the 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:05.400 players have no fault but of their own. Now, if 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:10.480 I were a governor slash owner in the NBA, I 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.960 would be savage and I would be ruthless because on 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:18.840 one hand, I am four player empowerment. This is where 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.240 I don't want this to get lost. Is I am 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.920 all four players getting as much money as they can 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.640 in the shortest period of time that they can, being 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.440 able to have some freedom to move. But there's a 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.600 responsibility to that that the players are not holding their 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.960 end up right right now. They're not. And I'm talking 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.280 about the players as a whole. They're not holding up 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.280 to their end of the barget, which is to show up, 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:49.360 play hard, night after night. That's it. But I want 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.640 to give a shout out to the exciting whites and 0:12:53.720 --> 0:13:00.480 the exciting whites. Mac McClung and Blanking Ship over with 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:05.239 the Philadelphia Eagles and Cooper degene over with the Philadelphia 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.959 Eagles as well. Those are the exciting whites. They are 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.760 playing positions in dB at the NFL level and playing 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.079 it at a high level, and people are not used 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.400 to that. I even had a white offensive coordinator when 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.040 I was in the NFL, when I was playing in Jacksonville, 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.600 and we had a call that if a white dB 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.000 came in the game. He was like, white dB, white dB, 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:34.720 we're throwing at him. But the exciting whites are saying, no, no, no, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.319 not so fast. You got Mike mac mcclun over in 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.440 the NBA. Dude has only played like seventy one NBA 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:46.040 minutes his whole career, but he's a three time NBA 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:51.559 Dunk Contest champion, and honestly, he's been fantastic. He's been entertaining, 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.520 But here's how to fix the dunk contest. Since you 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.120 know the Lebron James is the Anthony Edwards. The current 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.960 stars now aren't getting in it, which is which is whack. 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.520 But they need to do either one or two things 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:10.760 with the dunk contest. Either actually make it an award 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:16.000 for the best in dunks in season dunk going from 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.400 last All Star game to this All Star game, and 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.200 you give it out an award. You turn it into 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:24.880 a show right of the best dunks like Shocked in 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.240 the Full and then allow the All Stars to vote 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.160 on who had the best dunk like people would be 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.720 going crazier for the in game dunks, which would actually 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:39.360 increase interest in the NBA. Or the second option that 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.720 you can do is take take Mac mcclunk, treat him 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:47.920 like the professor and one let dude hit the road 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:53.040 and find marginal basketball players who can jump out of 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.840 the gym and do the spectacle dunks. Because the reality 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:01.160 is NBA players are more focused on their moves and 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:05.240 skills than they are with perfecting dunks, as they should be. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.280 So but I'm sending Mac McClung, like the Professor, on 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.280 an and one tour all over the country, find the 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:17.000 best dunkers from every single city every year and bring 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:21.400 them to the NBA Dunk Contest. That's it. That's it. 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.720 And with the Skills Contest, it's clearly a joke now 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.600 that Wenby and Chris Paul did what they did trying 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.080 to exploit the loophole, and they got disqualified, which I 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.680 am thankful for. Like, don't put that bs out there 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.240 and expect us to think it's okay, because it's not. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:42.840 It's not. So you can throw the skills challenge in 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.720 the trash if you want to, and replace it with 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.680 a one on one game. That's what you need to do, 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.680 because you know what players will do. They will play 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:57.480 one on one and there's no hiding there, there's no 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:02.400 uh you know, of faking it. Oh, I'm not gonna 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:06.120 play defense because you will get embarrassed. You know who 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.600 said he would play James Hard hell of a one 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:12.920 on one player, Kyrie irvit. He even baked Wimby. I 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:14.840 want to see these one on one games. I want 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.080 to see Victor Women, y'ama plan. I want to see 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:22.560 Jason Tatum versus Jalen Brown. I want to see Anthony Edwards. Yeah, yeah, 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.920 bring all y'all to the one on one game, because 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:29.440 that may actually well not even may I believe you 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.480 give the winner of the one on one tournament million dollars. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.800 Oh they're gonna show up and what they were already 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.760 gonna play hard with it, but you give him a 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.120 mill on top of it. Oh yeah, oh yeah, buddy, 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.400 I love it, love it. That will actually work one 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:49.920 on one next All Star game. The women just did it, 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.720 and this is ridiculous that the women who are just 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:57.160 getting All Star games. WNBA is young compared to the NBA, 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.440 and they got to show the men the way in 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.560 this come on, man, and like the women were actually 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.680 out there playing hard in their one on one tournament. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.679 Loved it and the feast of caller baller. So but 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.320 here is the truth about the NBA All Star Game 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:21.920 is that the older players played harder and now this 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.840 generation has messed the game up. And yes, it's the 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.280 players that we love the most have messed it up, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:31.000 because think about this. From nineteen seventy four to two 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.560 thousand and eight, there were as many overtime games in 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.840 the All Star Game as there were fifteen plus point 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.960 blowouts in six and then since two thousand and eight, 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.760 We've still had eleven games decided by ten points or less, 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.720 but the average score of the winning team has been 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.639 up over one hundred and eighty points. That means nobody's 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.600 even trying to play defense. These are the best players 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.800 in the world, and it is hard for the NBA 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:03.680 to compete with the nostalgia, like it's hard for you know, Lebron, 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.960 James Steph and all the great players now to compete 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:11.160 with the ghost of Michael Jordan when Michael Jordan wasn't 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.879 perfect either, because in order to get a game like 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.280 you had thirty years ago, you probably have to limit 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:22.480 three point attempts to ten or fifteen per half. You 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:27.240 would have to do that. But this what they're putting 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.760 out there right now ain't gonna cut it at all. 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.400 All right, next thing up, now, this is a story 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.280 that goes back to when I was playing in the NFL. 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:41.600 You got Richie Incognito versus Jonathan Martin, and ESPN did 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.439 a profile of Jonathan Martin, who is now at the 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:49.000 Wharton School of Business just like Josh rosen Is, and 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.160 he's moved on from football and is now into crypto. 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.840 So now Jonathan Martin also had to buy at like 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.520 a shooting threat at a high school out out here 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.919 as well. People just gonna glance over, but here it 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.720 is so going back. So Richie Incognito, known asshole, like 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:13.040 known jerk in the NFL, he was accused of bullying 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:17.399 Jonathan Martin. They both played offensive line, and it was 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.480 said that Richie Incognito did all sorts of stuff to 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.400 him and this and that, and Richie Incognito was like, yo, 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.840 actually we were a friends, right, And I have talked 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:30.280 about this for decades. I well for almost this has 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:35.000 almost been twenty years now, and I've been talking about 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.480 this this whole time whenever anybody asked me about it. 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:42.920 I know somebody who's making a documentary about it as well. 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:49.119 And Jonathan Martin essentially admitted that this story was not 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:53.280 true in terms of him being bullied. But the question 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:55.600 is how did it get so out of hand? So 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.600 Jonathan Martin said that he confided in his parents about 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.000 a situation with his teammates that made him uncomfortable, and 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:07.760 then his mom used the word bullying in a subsequent interview. Now, 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:12.760 how NFL locker rooms work is it is like the 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:18.360 Lord of the Flies everybody is clawing for a position 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:24.960 to be that alpha dog, and people will try you. 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:28.240 They will test you, and if you don't step up 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:33.879 and draw the line of boundary, they will continue to 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.479 push it over on you. They will. It's just the 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.960 nature of the locker room. And I was asked about 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:46.200 the bullying, and here's how NFL locker rooms work. And 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:50.360 this is true of anything in life. Because I had 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.439 a little kid on my team that I used this 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.040 prime example because he was being bullied by another kid. 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:00.399 If you stand up for yourself, people will come help you. 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:04.480 If you do not stand up for yourself and just 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:08.200 let things happen to you, people are gonna be like, oh, okay. 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:10.240 He was cool with it, and it wasn't that big 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.760 of a deal. He liked it. They were just joking. 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.840 They were just piling around. So if you don't stand 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:19.679 up for yourself in life, people will not stand up 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:22.479 for you. But if you stand up and make noise 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:28.760 about it, oh, now they don't have a choice. And 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:33.040 so after his mom came out with that, it came 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:35.919 down whether to whether Martin was gonna stand up to 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:39.199 his teammates and then also clear the error about a 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:43.040 narrative that he didn't entirely believe or he was gonna 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:46.840 have to participate in the Ted Wells investigation and go 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:49.960 along with his parents' attempt to protect him from a 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:54.119 toxic situation. And then now the rest is history. The 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:59.040 report came out, the phone call recording of Richie Incognito 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:03.959 calling John Than Martin. N word was included along with 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:08.719 the other accolades accusations from the other people, and then 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:12.200 Incognito ended up missing about a year and a half 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:15.359 of his career and up to about ten million dollars 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:19.840 in career career earnings. So now Richie Incognito, obviously after 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:24.000 hearing that his parents made it up, he's like he's 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:26.960 pissed and he's on the internet taking a victory lap. 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:33.800 Now I understand his emotions are understandable, and neither Jonathan 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:36.840 Martin or Incognito has had it easiest in the last 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:42.800 ten years. And Incognito smashed the car in his own yard. 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:48.080 Martin publicly threatened suicide that that's what I was talking about, 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:52.120 and people were scared on his former high school campus 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:55.919 out here in Cali, and then the story faded. But 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:58.919 with this last revival, it's back in the news cycle. 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:02.960 So you got Incognito acting like he's an innocent victim 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:05.640 in the situation, but he's not. You called the dude 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:09.560 the N word on the on the voicemail, and we 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:13.240 supposed to feel sorry for you. No, you you were 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:17.480 not vindicated like you were some like there. You were 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:20.680 not guilty. That's what it was. You were not guilty, 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:24.600 Richie Incognito of the bully, but you are not innocent. 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:28.280 Those are two separate things. There is innocence and then 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:33.119 there is being not guilty. This was an this isn't 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:38.719 a circumstance of being not guilty. Yes, Richie Incognito is 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:42.119 not innocent. He is this two days he wasn't the 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:45.680 best person around in a Walter Payton Man of the Year. 0:23:45.800 --> 0:23:49.840 Nobody would ever describe that about Richie Incognito, got kicked 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:54.960 out of college, got and all of that. So we 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:56.480 were not even finish. Sit here and act like the 0:23:56.560 --> 0:24:00.520 dude is innocent. But and this is what I will 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:02.400 tell parents, This is what I would tell people out 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:05.680 in the world. Stand up for yourself, make enough noise 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:08.880 if people are bothering you, because otherwise people will say 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:12.840 that you liked it and then if somebody lies, man, 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:15.800 this is like somebody making a false allegation. You cost 0:24:15.840 --> 0:24:19.159 this man ten million dollars. He should sue you or 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:21.919 you should be thrown in jail. This is what I believe. 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:24.640 You make false allegations on people, you should have your 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:29.199 ass in jail. Book it all right. The last thing 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:31.679 I want to talk about is in the NFL. The 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:36.480 NFL Draft is coming up, and the top five draft selections, well, 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:40.159 top five picks right now are as follows Tennessee Titans 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:45.800 and one Browns, two Giants, three Patriots for Jaguars five. Now, 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:48.960 four of these five teams stink that. I think the 0:24:49.040 --> 0:24:51.719 Jaguars roster is the best out of all five of 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:55.520 those teams. But then you get to talking about who 0:24:55.600 --> 0:24:58.960 is going to be drafted where, And I have looked 0:24:58.960 --> 0:25:07.240 at this. I like Shador Sanders, I like cam Ward Love, 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:14.240 Travis Hunter, super Love, Mason Graham out of Michigan, like 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:21.480 Abdual Carter, Love Aston gent Love, Will Carter, like Tyler 0:25:21.560 --> 0:25:25.960 Warren Love, Coaston Lovelin. That's where I'm at right now, 0:25:26.040 --> 0:25:28.400