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Speaker 1: as well. Tonight Clippers MAVs Game six Saturday will be
Speaker 1: the Bucks in the Nets. Congratulations to the Phoenix Suns
Speaker 1: they bounced the Lakers. Congrats to the Nuggets as they
Speaker 1: put the Blazers out of their misery and they advance
Speaker 1: as well. Nice stories, But the interesting story is the Lakers.
Speaker 1: In all of sports, we make wins or losses or
Speaker 1: referendum on star players, and we know that's particularly true
Speaker 1: when it comes to Lebron James, especially late in his career,
Speaker 1: because you know, we're thinking about his legacy. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to this year's Lakers, it's hard to pin
Speaker 1: this down. And can I pin it on Lebron James
Speaker 1: with the first round at it? Well, some of it,
Speaker 1: but I think we went into the first round with
Speaker 1: some trepidation to say Hey, That's why if I'm the Clippers,
Speaker 1: I would want the Lakers early because I didn't think
Speaker 1: they were going to be healthy enough. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's a question of if they were going to lose,
Speaker 1: but when, because even if Anthony Davis played well last night,
Speaker 1: forcing a game seven, at some point, these injuries don't
Speaker 1: go away. An ankle injury, hamstring, groin. They linger, and
Speaker 1: that would have stayed with Anthony Davis. It's not a
Speaker 1: question of if, but when. But you know, I'm going
Speaker 1: to give credit to the Phoenix Suns because they won
Speaker 1: this game in the first quarter last night. They look
Speaker 1: great in the bubble. Last year when undefeated, they added
Speaker 1: Chris Paul and that was the magic ingredient and they
Speaker 1: took it to the Lakers. And I don't know why
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis was cleared. I love when an athlete at
Speaker 1: least tries to play, but I could tell from the
Speaker 1: beginning I thought this had to do with all the criticism.
Speaker 1: I thought this had something to do with Charles Barkley
Speaker 1: nicknaming Anthony Davis street clothes. He did not want to
Speaker 1: be in street close. He did not want to have
Speaker 1: a picture of him in street clothes and he went
Speaker 1: out there. And as soon as he went out there,
Speaker 1: and you could tell the Suns new, they started attacking him.
Speaker 1: And Devin Booker is, you know, taking people off the dribble,
Speaker 1: and he's not afraid of Anthony Davis. We will always
Speaker 1: as a sports community give you credit for trying. You
Speaker 1: got out there, you tried, but you could tell he
Speaker 1: was laboring, he was in pain. He tried and played
Speaker 1: about five minutes. Phoenix Suns may have won that game
Speaker 1: no matter what. Devin Booker, that's the real deal. You
Speaker 1: if you ever want to go, you know, I'd like
Speaker 1: to work on my jump shot. You can just look
Speaker 1: at Devin Booker's jump shot. But he's more than that.
Speaker 1: Like he attacks and it's great, you know. He when
Speaker 1: you're a good player, to become a great player, what
Speaker 1: do you add to your game? And Devin Booker, I
Speaker 1: always thought of him as a shooter, almost like a
Speaker 1: Bradley Beale type shooter. And that's a great compliment because
Speaker 1: I think Bradley Beale is a wonderful shooter. But Booker
Speaker 1: is now you can see the confidence and he was
Speaker 1: taking it. He was taking it to the Lakers last night.
Speaker 1: You go back this season. Early in this season, I
Speaker 1: thought Lebron was on a mission to let every younger
Speaker 1: player know I don't need to have my minutes managed.
Speaker 1: I don't need load management here. I want to win
Speaker 1: the MV pick. I want to be the oldest MV pick.
Speaker 1: He got healthy, he played well, then went out with
Speaker 1: the injury. Anthony Davis went in another direction. The supporting
Speaker 1: cast was so good in the bubble last year. They
Speaker 1: were not good this year. Everybody's gonna make this about Lebron.
Speaker 1: I understand it. He's out of the playoffs. I don't
Speaker 1: know what people are going to talk about now. I
Speaker 1: mean they might actually have to talk about other teams,
Speaker 1: because really it's about Lebron. It's a referendum on Lebron
Speaker 1: and the Lakers do become really interesting here in the offseason.
Speaker 1: So what do you do? You got Anthony Davis, you
Speaker 1: got Lebron. Who you bring it in? Who you saying
Speaker 1: goodbye to? NBA? Offseason is pretty short, So Lebron and
Speaker 1: the Lakers are going to be back in the headlines
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Speaker 1: by the way, a defending NBA champ lost in the
Speaker 1: first round, It wasn't that long ago this team was
Speaker 1: eliminated by the Clippers. If that helps you with your hint.
Speaker 1: Couple of this team had a couple of Hall of
Speaker 1: famers on it. Mclovin. I heard it on the radio.
Speaker 1: I know who it is, okay, and I was shocked. Now,
Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs in twenty fifteen. They were still pretty
Speaker 1: good then too, aren't they? Yeah? Yeah, but that was
Speaker 1: seven games by the Clippers. That's last time a defending
Speaker 1: champ lost in the opening round back in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: All right, mclovin, what kind of poll question do we
Speaker 1: have today? So we have to milk Lebron for all
Speaker 1: we can, Right, will Lebron James win another title? Ooh,
Speaker 1: that's saucy, But you were mentioning, you know, what do
Speaker 1: they do, Like do they have any flexibility to bring
Speaker 1: in another another real impact player? Well, Dennis Shrewder play
Speaker 1: better last night, but still I couldn't count on him,
Speaker 1: like he had to play better than the previous game
Speaker 1: when he didn't score. I think everybody looks better when
Speaker 1: Lebron and Anthony Davis are playing and playing well. The
Speaker 1: supporting cast somehow looks a lot better. I don't know
Speaker 1: what Andre Drummond's future is. I know Marcus Sol's got
Speaker 1: another year. If I'm Kyle Kou's mom a little nervous,
Speaker 1: if I'm Dennis Shrewder a little nervous. Crusoe is a
Speaker 1: free agent? Can you get a point guard in here? Like?
Speaker 1: What do you get? What can you get? What do
Speaker 1: you need? And I think that that's something that the
Speaker 1: Lakers are probably going to be starting to work on
Speaker 1: today as they move forward. Yeah, mclub, Do you think
Speaker 1: Lebron has enough juice himself to do it if they
Speaker 1: have the right pieces around him. Oh, he's gotta have
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, Like he didn't have any room last night
Speaker 1: to do the Lebron things. It felt like he had
Speaker 1: a double team on him all night long. Yes, he
Speaker 1: has to at the age, he can't put up the
Speaker 1: numbers he did ten years ago. We know that. But
Speaker 1: he also has to have a he has to have
Speaker 1: a supporting cast. And Anthony Davis is really the key
Speaker 1: ingredient because when he's great, the Lakers are great. Lebron
Speaker 1: can be great, that doesn't mean the Lakers are great.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is the key. And this was a best
Speaker 1: defensive team in the NBA, and it just didn't matter
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Speaker 1: another Kenny win a title? Can Damian Lillard win a
Speaker 1: title in Portland? No? Yeah, And I don't know what
Speaker 1: he wants to do because he's done everything he can do.
Speaker 1: If I'm CJ. McCollum. I'm probably nervous here. They got it.
Speaker 1: Somebody has to move, you know, is Carmelo coming back?
Speaker 1: But what do you do? Or you know, can Terry
Speaker 1: Stotts keep his job? Like there's a lot of questions there,
Speaker 1: but you have this unbelievable talent and he was gassed
Speaker 1: last night, I mean after the double overtime game in
Speaker 1: the loss, and then you could tell where he was
Speaker 1: spent and and and Lillard just turned thirty, so he
Speaker 1: has to be thinking I can't go through this the
Speaker 1: next couple of years, like I want to win a championship.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's tucked away in the Pacific Northwest. You
Speaker 1: really have to go out of your way to find
Speaker 1: his games. Normally, what you do is you'll see a
Speaker 1: box score, you'll see highlights. You go, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he did it again. But he's given you what eight
Speaker 1: or nine years now, and I can understand the frustration.
Speaker 1: You know, he talked about how much more dedicated should
Speaker 1: I be? And I think there's some and I haven't
Speaker 1: heard anything, read anything, seen anything where Lillard is going
Speaker 1: to force his way out. I mean, I love when
Speaker 1: a player is loyal to a franchise. You just want
Speaker 1: the reciprocation there. Can they build a team? Do you
Speaker 1: still have time there to be able to because the
Speaker 1: Lakers are going to reload. The Sons are young except
Speaker 1: for Chris Paul. Utah is sneaky great. It just feels
Speaker 1: like and we don't know what the Clippers are going
Speaker 1: to be. Clippers don't know what they're going to be.
Speaker 1: Is Dallas going to continue to get better? Like, you
Speaker 1: have your moment, you've got to take advantage of your moment.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what Portland does, but watching Lillard,
Speaker 1: who's one of my favorite players, you can see where
Speaker 1: like the frustration has to set in because you've done
Speaker 1: everything you can possibly do, and here you do, here
Speaker 1: you go, you know, bounce out of the first round. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: he got a Super Max less than a year ago.
Speaker 1: He's under contract to Portland through the twenty four twenty
Speaker 1: five season. He'll make about forty four million dollars a
Speaker 1: year the next four seasons. Chris Paul turned down an
Speaker 1: option that was going to pay him about forty two
Speaker 1: million dollars. Now doesn't mean he's gonna leave Phoenix, but
Speaker 1: probably means that he's gonna try to do a three
Speaker 1: year deal I saw for a one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: Is Chris Paul going to be the highest paid player
Speaker 1: career wise in NBA history? Yeah, PAULI, that's a good
Speaker 1: call by you. Right now, he's at oh Man time
Speaker 1: to play careers salary with those Phoenix Son's Chris Paul.
Speaker 1: Here's your host, Paulie. I gotta stretch out for this one, right.
Speaker 1: I got Chris Paul at three hundred and four million
Speaker 1: after this season when this because he's an end just
Speaker 1: basically now, okay, he's got forty four million if he
Speaker 1: wants it next year, it appears he's gonna bow out
Speaker 1: of that and probably sign a nice three year deal.
Speaker 1: Let's say these signs. What do you think he would
Speaker 1: get for three years? Three years for a hundred Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he'll we have four hundred five million dollars, four hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars. Guy, I think he'd be the first four
Speaker 1: in a million guy, because KG I think was the
Speaker 1: first three hundred million dollars guy. Yeah, him and Kid
Speaker 1: and Shack and a Rod and guys like that are
Speaker 1: at the three hundred plus mark. Yeah, where's Lebron surprisingly
Speaker 1: not as much. Hold on? Oh okay, what else do
Speaker 1: you have? McLevin? By the way, I can drop it
Speaker 1: on you anytime you want. I have the perfect Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard trade. Oh okay, do you need a big, big
Speaker 1: production here? I okay, I have no idea if the
Speaker 1: dollars make sense, which is tough with NBA trades. Do
Speaker 1: you know have that NBA trade machine on ESPN? How
Speaker 1: about laymen? Hold on? Yeah, I just got something very
Speaker 1: important that was sent to me. Todd has a limerick
Speaker 1: on the Lakers and the Suns, so we should get
Speaker 1: to that before we get to your Damian Lillard possibility.
Speaker 1: Are we doing a one and done limerick today? Ton?
Speaker 1: I have a Laker sons and I did a Blazer's nuggets, right, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, well let's let's get to the Suns and
Speaker 1: Lakers because it's really important. And here's Todd's Yeah, this
Speaker 1: should make Lakers fans feel better. Yes, this will, by way,
Speaker 1: I'm excited. This is like I don't want to you know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to follow Richard Pryor, but this will
Speaker 1: be great day to follow. You do want to follows
Speaker 1: like comedians would be? Hey, can I follow Todd, can
Speaker 1: I follow that Fritzie guy wow to here's your here's
Speaker 1: your chance? Your Laker fans are feeling bereft after a
Speaker 1: Phoenix Staples Center theft? What's next for Purple and Gold?
Speaker 1: Now a little less bold the champ's early exit stage left?
Speaker 1: All righty, thank you, Todd. I appreciate that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: the Laker fans feel a whole lot better after hearing that. McLevin. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could top that in terms
Speaker 1: of sheer, excitement and sizzled No, you can. Okay, My
Speaker 1: Sixers trade Ben Simmons and Tyrese Maxie to Portland for
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard. Both sides happy, although the Sixers might not
Speaker 1: give up Maxie, but why not. Potland's gotta start over,
Speaker 1: like you just said, and the money. Simmons gets paid
Speaker 1: a ton and Lillard gets paid a ton. All right.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that it's bad or crazy, but
Speaker 1: if I'm Portland, do I want Ben Simmons? Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: the week links all of the Yeah. Like you're getting
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, Okay, he's younger. I'm losing one of the
Speaker 1: more electric players in the NBA. Somebody that you come
Speaker 1: out to see. So you're gonna go, Hey, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get rid of one of the great shooters in history
Speaker 1: and bring in one of the worst shooters in history. Hey,
Speaker 1: but he plays a great all around game and he
Speaker 1: can play defense. I don't know. He's got some sizzle though.
Speaker 1: He's Ben Simmons. Oh, he had sizzle when he went
Speaker 1: out with a Kardashian. That was it. Are they not
Speaker 1: dating anymore? I don't think I know Devin Bookish with
Speaker 1: a Kardashian. Yeah, we've all been with a Kardashian. Come on, okay,
Speaker 1: bed Sip, I can't believe you're so down on bed
Speaker 1: sim It's tyres Maxie people. I'm I'm down on Portland
Speaker 1: giving up Damian Lillard. So CJ. McCollum would be the
Speaker 1: shooter then, no, no, no, you're probably right. It's not outlandish,
Speaker 1: but I think it's out of the realm of possibilities
Speaker 1: here because if I'm Portland man, I that'd be a
Speaker 1: tough sell. Hey, we're bringing in Ben Simmons and Tyrese Maxie. Okay,
Speaker 1: I need to bring in some a little better than that.
Speaker 1: But I don't know what you're gonna get for a
Speaker 1: Lillard because you have to match up some other big
Speaker 1: contract that no one's gonna I didn't know he was
Speaker 1: thirty by the way. Yeah, I would want to keep
Speaker 1: him and then try to bring in some pieces there.
Speaker 1: How about a Jaylon Brown still to say not quiet? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're gonna get him. Oh, I
Speaker 1: think the Celtics might look maybe would do that. No,
Speaker 1: but they have Kemba. Well they're trying to get rid
Speaker 1: of Kemba and they can't. What else do you have? Oh? Okay,
Speaker 1: what would be the weirdest team to come out of
Speaker 1: the West. If you're looking at who's in there, the Jazz,
Speaker 1: the Suns, the Nuggets, and if the Mavericks beat the Clippers,
Speaker 1: which is a team that people are they all equally weird, Like,
Speaker 1: do you realize one of those teams is going to
Speaker 1: be in the NBA Finals? Yep, yep. I would say, Utah,
Speaker 1: they shoot the three, they played good team defense, got
Speaker 1: a rim protector Mitchell. I think having Mike Conley, having
Speaker 1: him healthy, making sure that he's healthy. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is going to be a war of attrition if you
Speaker 1: win the title this year, it's going to be that
Speaker 1: you were healthier, because can the nets stay healthy? And
Speaker 1: doesn't it feel like the nets in the box feels
Speaker 1: like an NBA Finals and that's the next series coming up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mcluv I'd be curious. Can you make a case for
Speaker 1: all four of those West teams if the Clippers bout?
Speaker 1: Like do you do you see the Nuggets and the
Speaker 1: MAVs and the Suns having a path as well? I
Speaker 1: don't see the MAVs because that that's just one person
Speaker 1: and you're you're really relying on everybody else. Can can
Speaker 1: you have two other people step up each night? And
Speaker 1: plus can Luca continue to be Hey, I'm going to
Speaker 1: get a forty points every single night. I know he's young,
Speaker 1: but that's that's a big ask there. Um, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: could see if Chris Paul's healthy. For the Phoenix Suns, Um,
Speaker 1: you know their supporting cast is really good Utah, Yes, Denver, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if they if they had, you know, a healthy lineup,
Speaker 1: then you would look at them and you might look
Speaker 1: at them as the favorites here. The Joker had another
Speaker 1: great game last night. I'm sure mclovin was yawning watching
Speaker 1: his highlights. But the Joker had another wonderful night Lags.
Speaker 1: I saw him hit an eight foot little hook shot.
Speaker 1: He didn't leave his feet, you know. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: the opposite of Vince Carter. He averaged thirty three points
Speaker 1: per game in the six games against the Blazers. He
Speaker 1: went for thirty six last night. The Nuggets were actually
Speaker 1: down by seven at halftime. I like to call him
Speaker 1: the yoker. You know, I don't call him joker. I
Speaker 1: call him the yoker. And he doesn't really dumped that
Speaker 1: much too. Ironically, I'm anti yoker. Yeah, but what's not
Speaker 1: have to do with oh yoke to dunk? You know
Speaker 1: the verb yoke yoker? I thought that's where you meant
Speaker 1: he yoked on him. Isn't that a word? Do the
Speaker 1: kids say that? I don't think so, And I never
Speaker 1: used that word yoke. Yoke got big in the late eighties.
Speaker 1: Checking my notes, I just remember people being yoked like
Speaker 1: they were muscular jacked. Yeah. Yeah, I never heard like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna yoke on you. I think yolk is a
Speaker 1: synonym for dunk in certain circles. Yeah, I heard that
Speaker 1: back in the eighties early ninety Yeah, I'll double check that.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard it used in at least sixteen years.
Speaker 1: They got yoked on. Yeah, he got yoked on. I
Speaker 1: never heard I like the yes, I think I meant
Speaker 1: here we got no I know, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, that's the way he plays. He's
Speaker 1: cholestero all in. That's that's what I thought you were getting.
Speaker 1: I was a big wind up. We got a great guest,
Speaker 1: an egg joke. There was like an egg yolk joke
Speaker 1: tip or swinging him though. Wow, he just rung me up.
Speaker 1: Ye see you cholestero all in yolk smoked Texas Spicy
Speaker 1: drumsticks today, Crispy baked chicken thighs with Buffalo sauce, and
Speaker 1: Tragger smoked whole Law. Yeah, you guys are welcome. That
Speaker 1: sounds like we went manly after what happened, the tragedy
Speaker 1: that happened last Friday with Tofu with mclovin, Are you
Speaker 1: still getting hate mail? I mean it's like I'm like
Speaker 1: one of the bad guys in America. Last week, the
Speaker 1: tweets and the note tweet got it was so funny.
Speaker 1: Mclovin goes, I'm getting all these emails and tweets and
Speaker 1: they're so mean, And like I said, what'd you say? No,
Speaker 1: remember I wanted tofu I go oh oh, sorry about that.
Speaker 1: All right, let me take a break. Jalen Rose just
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Speaker 1: what does the word yok mean? Yo used to be strong,
Speaker 1: diesel um, having a great pussy, physically imposing. Did you
Speaker 1: ever hear it used for a dunk like he got
Speaker 1: yoked one? I did, like when I was really young.
Speaker 1: That's when like, yeah, I was like seventies early terminology.
Speaker 1: But you know what else is funny to hear in
Speaker 1: modern day slang? And I love Rashi Wallace. That's my
Speaker 1: brother won a championship with the Pistons. By the way,
Speaker 1: my guy. But it's funny to me when I hear
Speaker 1: people believe that he created ball. Don't lie Like people
Speaker 1: weren't saying that in the early seventies. I never heard
Speaker 1: the expression, you know, getting yoked done. I just thought
Speaker 1: it meant that you had like you were muscle bound.
Speaker 1: Any time somebody gets dunked on as an expression for it,
Speaker 1: that's been used at least once, you know, especially some
Speaker 1: bad puns. Also, I'm sure, what's the worst dunk that
Speaker 1: you ever got posturized on? I've never been dunked on
Speaker 1: because I didn't play defense, and I understood the geometry
Speaker 1: of the floor, and I was a student of game
Speaker 1: and played attention to the players launch points and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. You know, it's just a right hand player
Speaker 1: jumping off his left leg. Can he go off two feet?
Speaker 1: Can he go out? Like you gotta calculate all of
Speaker 1: that stuff. Well, you gotta whack that arm or whack
Speaker 1: that shoulder. You know, there's a lot of footage of
Speaker 1: me getting scored on them, but the ain't no footage
Speaker 1: in the game. We had Bosh on the other day
Speaker 1: and I forgot that he was with Toronto when Kobe
Speaker 1: put up eighty one, like, he quickly pushed the blame
Speaker 1: on to other players. He said, he goes. I kept
Speaker 1: looking up at the scoreboard, I go, how's this guy
Speaker 1: scoring five points at the time? Here? Because Kobe Bryant
Speaker 1: is on the all time great at basketball. And you know,
Speaker 1: one of the things I actually now appreciate about being
Speaker 1: a part of that game is the opportunity to continue
Speaker 1: to celebrate his legacy, talked about his legacy, talked about
Speaker 1: that game and really acknowledge for people with the Mamba
Speaker 1: mentality is and it's embodied in that game. He didn't
Speaker 1: have any highlights in that game. It wasn't When you
Speaker 1: watch like the celebration of that game, you're gonna like
Speaker 1: see him get a breakaway too hand dunk. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see him make like a five hundred threes on me,
Speaker 1: But like you're not gonna see like any oh, any
Speaker 1: killer cross over, any dunk on somebody. And the reason
Speaker 1: why I like to point that part out is because
Speaker 1: that's what happens when you're really locked in. And the
Speaker 1: other thing is he never talked trash one thing about
Speaker 1: and I was I'm a trash charker, was always a
Speaker 1: trash sharker. That once you start talking a lot of trash,
Speaker 1: then you don't necessarily get to fifty or sixty or
Speaker 1: seventy or eighty because people start to load up on you,
Speaker 1: start to try to file you, and thinks of that nature.
Speaker 1: So that game really embodies his all time greatness. And uh,
Speaker 1: at least we kept him under a hundred. We can't.
Speaker 1: We can't. We kept Will's record safe for him. He's
Speaker 1: Jay and Rose. He'll appear on NBA Countdown tonight at
Speaker 1: eight Eastern, leading into the MAVs Clippers game on the ESPN.
Speaker 1: Well let's start there. What do you think happens tonight?
Speaker 1: I believe the Clippers find a way to win this series,
Speaker 1: and they better because when you put together Kawhi and
Speaker 1: Pg's that's the version of what the Lakers were doing
Speaker 1: with Lebron and a D. Kawhi top two or three
Speaker 1: player Paul George top twelve player. You can't go from
Speaker 1: losing in the second round to the Nuggets when you
Speaker 1: were up three to one, changing coaches and Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: now to t Loop and then getting bounced in the
Speaker 1: first round by one man All NBA show in the
Speaker 1: previous game where two guys scored in double figures and
Speaker 1: they put Boban out there, and Carlisle did a terrific
Speaker 1: job of making the adjustment of playing a lot of zone.
Speaker 1: I remember watching his Dallas maps do that in the
Speaker 1: finals against Lebron. They brought a lot of zone, brought
Speaker 1: a lot of porzingis using their side. But I still
Speaker 1: just with each team, with each role, team winning the game,
Speaker 1: winning every game this series. I think the Clippers find
Speaker 1: a way to force a game seven. I think they
Speaker 1: still find a way to win this series because Luca
Speaker 1: just overall just doesn't have enough offensive help. Okay, I
Speaker 1: know that the Lakers will always garner headlines in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and rightly so. But if the Clippers bow out without
Speaker 1: an excuse of somebody being injured. Like, what's more, I
Speaker 1: don't know, disappointing embarrassing the Lakers bowing out in the
Speaker 1: first round or the Clippers. So here's was more disappointing
Speaker 1: the Clippers bowing out after watching the Lakers get bowed out.
Speaker 1: Just think about this. You get a chance as the Clipper,
Speaker 1: two nights to go, three nights to go to go
Speaker 1: to bed tim feet tall, Like, you know what, Lakers
Speaker 1: just lost the phoenix. You know, if we go out
Speaker 1: and play well against the Mass, we can advance and
Speaker 1: we could be the team of LA that's still participating.
Speaker 1: And I can't front Dan who would have thought a
Speaker 1: couple of years into adding firepower with the Lakers and
Speaker 1: the Clippers that we wouldn't get them in a playoff series.
Speaker 1: We didn't get them last year, we ain't We're not
Speaker 1: going to get them this year. So to be disappointing
Speaker 1: for the Clippers, it just reminds me it's like being
Speaker 1: Alliance fans, like Clippers fans can't have nice scene. You know,
Speaker 1: as soon as they have a little expectation, we started
Speaker 1: to believe in them, started to put them on primetime
Speaker 1: tv um and all of a sudden they come up short.
Speaker 1: But but here's the here's one of the roster issues
Speaker 1: with the Clippers. I've been saying this all season. They
Speaker 1: have good young talent, like a man, and I just
Speaker 1: wish each of their league guards was one player, like
Speaker 1: like the intellect and leadership of Jon Rondo, the confidence
Speaker 1: of the offensive confidence of Reggie Jackson, the athleticism of Man,
Speaker 1: the shooting uh of the Canard Like. I just wish
Speaker 1: all of them was one player. But since they're four
Speaker 1: or five players, you end up looking at the end
Speaker 1: of the game at Kawhi when he takes a three,
Speaker 1: when he's the only one of the only players on
Speaker 1: the team that didn't shoot from forty this year, and
Speaker 1: they close out the game and they don't look well.
Speaker 1: But I'm still gonna pick the Clippers to win this series.
Speaker 1: But let's celebrate Luca's greatness. You don't just see guys
Speaker 1: out there getting forties at fourteens like he's been doing.
Speaker 1: The reason why the Lakers were eliminated is injury. Ad
Speaker 1: plays the entire seven games the Lakers win this series,
Speaker 1: but injuries have been a part of AD's history. Just
Speaker 1: like they've part of MB's histories, They've been a part
Speaker 1: of Chris Paul's history. That just happens with certain players.
Speaker 1: It's why you don't want to be a seventh seed.
Speaker 1: It's why seventh seed has never won the championship because
Speaker 1: the Lakers would have been required to be the two seed,
Speaker 1: a three seed, and likely a one seed. You know,
Speaker 1: and that's just tough sledding. And you have no rule
Speaker 1: for error. When he shoots a jumper in the early
Speaker 1: before the end of the regular season, he comes down
Speaker 1: on the scoreboard, he twists his ankle. You know, you
Speaker 1: have no room for error against injured hers is growing,
Speaker 1: have no room for error. And the other thing I
Speaker 1: must say, I get Phoenix a lot of credit and
Speaker 1: shout to Monty Williams horst player development with his young
Speaker 1: guys and integrating Chris Paul and Devin Booker. Was outstanding
Speaker 1: taking over the game and had had a big time
Speaker 1: first half. But Lebron look fatigue out there. We can't
Speaker 1: ignore that the last two or three games, in particular
Speaker 1: in the second half, there's a lot of footage of
Speaker 1: four on three breaks, five or four breaks were Lebron
Speaker 1: trailing to play he looking at the rest, He looking
Speaker 1: a little bewildered and looking like the old man out
Speaker 1: there at the run. And that happens when the team
Speaker 1: looks faster, they look younger, and they look out like
Speaker 1: like they have an opportunity to close you out. And
Speaker 1: that's what the Suns did. What kind of changes do
Speaker 1: you think the Lakers should or will make? So here's
Speaker 1: how the NBA offseason works. For the media. Every every
Speaker 1: player is not going to be linked to the Lakers
Speaker 1: or to the Knicks. So two Dame Lillard does it
Speaker 1: tweet all of the medias, don't put them on the
Speaker 1: Lakers or the Knicks. There's no knee jerk move for
Speaker 1: the Lakers. You're not changing your GM, you're not changing
Speaker 1: your coach, and you want clearly want Lebron and a
Speaker 1: d back. You know there may be a move there
Speaker 1: if you try to figure out if you want to
Speaker 1: do something with Kuzma or choose not to bring back Shrewder,
Speaker 1: but you have his bird rights, so it's probably in
Speaker 1: your best interest. But either way, right, there's no true
Speaker 1: knee jerk move. But they will make some roster move,
Speaker 1: but you still need Lebron, James and Ad to be
Speaker 1: the best players. You still need them to be the
Speaker 1: driving forces, and you build the role players around your superstars,
Speaker 1: not the other way around. If you were Jamie and Lollard,
Speaker 1: what would you do bo was Vane Dollar? He has
Speaker 1: total around four hundred millions signed in contracts. He's actually
Speaker 1: probably my favorite player. Um the only guy to have
Speaker 1: a fifty ten assists in ten May threes in the
Speaker 1: game and become d plus performer lad Portland the playoffs
Speaker 1: each year. He's on every commercial, got He's on every commercial.
Speaker 1: But they they ain't got more brands, don't. You can
Speaker 1: never say you can't get endorsements in a small market.
Speaker 1: They ain't got every commercial. And he has a rap album.
Speaker 1: I believe that, multiple rap albums. I just think they
Speaker 1: probably changed coaches and Terry Stotts, and how about this
Speaker 1: for a noble idea, how about fire Terry Stott if
Speaker 1: they do so. And by the way, I think Terry
Speaker 1: Stotts did a great job, so I'm not calling for
Speaker 1: him to be fired. I just feel like when Nurkis
Speaker 1: comes out and saying what he said after the game,
Speaker 1: and you've been there as long as he had, and
Speaker 1: they've had so many first round actors. I think he
Speaker 1: just becomes the change. But how about in Portland you
Speaker 1: do a Boston did you let going Terry Stotts from coaching? Hey,
Speaker 1: you're making the rest. How about that? What a noble thing?
Speaker 1: What a noble thing? And who did better in their
Speaker 1: teamier as a head coach Terry Stops or brass evil.
Speaker 1: But either way, I think they started listening to the
Speaker 1: calls for CJ McCullum. Yep. But you do whatever makes
Speaker 1: Dame happy is what you do. And if I'm Dame Dollar,
Speaker 1: I think I still want to be in Portland at
Speaker 1: least one more season because I think he may have
Speaker 1: a chance to help him pick a coach some of
Speaker 1: them decided what to do, possibly with CJ. McCullum and
Speaker 1: Nurkicch and have his finger prints on the roster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel bad that he's thirty, and you know,
Speaker 1: at some point you start to look around and go,
Speaker 1: am I ever gonna play in a big game? Am
Speaker 1: I gonna play for a championship here? And I don't
Speaker 1: just play it in the big game. Last night they lost.
Speaker 1: It was a first round game. I mean, that's not
Speaker 1: a big game. They was in the US the Conference
Speaker 1: finals two years ago and got swell. Yeah, yeah, here's
Speaker 1: what I just wanted to cast it all media and fans.
Speaker 1: And I've been saying this for years. Let's not get
Speaker 1: into the ring countant. Then you forced players to start
Speaker 1: ring chasing. Now everybody wants Bradley Bill to leave Washington,
Speaker 1: wells Dame Lillard to leave Portland. We're gonna start looking
Speaker 1: at League pass and it's gonna be like eighteens with
Speaker 1: all of the All Star maybe less than that. No,
Speaker 1: I hope Beal stays in Washington, and I hope that
Speaker 1: Dame stays in Portland. I just don't know what that
Speaker 1: frustration must be like for him where. I mean, he
Speaker 1: made the tweet, you know, the Nipsey Hustle tweet last night,
Speaker 1: like how how you know? Dedicated? You know? Should I
Speaker 1: be here? So that I don't know, and I know
Speaker 1: it's after a loss there, but I would just like
Speaker 1: to see him get an opportunity to show everybody just
Speaker 1: how great he is instead of just highlights on Sports Center.
Speaker 1: So Jannis is showing us how how great he is.
Speaker 1: If they lose to the next in this round, people
Speaker 1: are gonna be saying the exact same thing about him.
Speaker 1: Jannis shouldn't have stayed. I don't know why he resigned.
Speaker 1: If I was Jannis, I would go to Dallas. He
Speaker 1: should go to Miami. Like, And then a couple of years,
Speaker 1: you know what we're gonna be doing saying the same
Speaker 1: thing about Luca, Luca should lead. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: doing on. Then we'll be saying it about Zion. Should
Speaker 1: Zion resign? Then we're gonna do it about John Moran,
Speaker 1: Should John Morant? Like? I just don't want players, fans
Speaker 1: and media to get into this idea that the best
Speaker 1: team and or the best players supposed to win the
Speaker 1: championship every single year or be the favorite, because that's unrealistic.
Speaker 1: Are you in New York right now? On the street?
Speaker 1: You know you hit those subways? You know that just
Speaker 1: found different. You hit the pans on the street. Meat
Speaker 1: behind me. In LA they have fruit on the street.
Speaker 1: Out here they have street meet Do you people say
Speaker 1: to you on the streets in New York? What up? Dough?
Speaker 1: You're the people what they want? You'd be Crisp on TV.
Speaker 1: You got the best hairline in the game. I know
Speaker 1: somebody named jay Len I would it like to have
Speaker 1: Kobe score anyone on I love the Fast five. I
Speaker 1: wore a black socks because of you. The list goes
Speaker 1: on and on and all. It's all up. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: pretty good, you know, because New York fans they can
Speaker 1: be kind of mean. So I'm glad that they're saying
Speaker 1: nice things about you. Oh yeah, that's all love. I'm
Speaker 1: a man of the people. You know how we do it?
Speaker 1: Of course I know that. Hey, great to talk to you,
Speaker 1: and we'll be watching tonight. You can see Jalen and
Speaker 1: company NBA countdown at eight Eastern leading into the Maps
Speaker 1: Clippers Game six on the ESPN. Jay have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. I appreciate the love and check
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Speaker 1: Speaking of Devin Booker, Lebron James had this to say
Speaker 1: about the Phoenix sun Star. I love everything about d
Speaker 1: book I've had numerous conversations with him in the pass
Speaker 1: and you know he continues to make the jump. Book
Speaker 1: said that after the game, the Suns aren't celebrating like
Speaker 1: they won anything. You know, this team over here, these
Speaker 1: guys are are battle tested and they've been farther than
Speaker 1: the first round Jay Crowders in the finals last year.
Speaker 1: So you know, we're not going to celebrate our first
Speaker 1: series like like we won a championship. We know we
Speaker 1: have a tough opponent in Denver coming up soon. You
Speaker 1: know we're gonna take take tonight, take the plane rod home.
Speaker 1: You know, celebrate and yeah and get on to Denver.
Speaker 1: After the game, Booker asked Lebron James for his jersey.
Speaker 1: Lebron signed it and gave it to him. Paul and
Speaker 1: I would lead to this off. By the way, Mike
Speaker 1: Shashevski will join us coming up top of the hour.
Speaker 1: Kevin Garnett. In the final hour of the program, Dan
Speaker 1: Lebatar will stop by as well. Hey, Paul, Hey Dan. Well,
Speaker 1: you know with Mike Hushovsky, you bring me to another
Speaker 1: quick point. You know, he's retired, Roy Williams retired, and
Speaker 1: Brad Stevens would rather play two K my GM with
Speaker 1: the Celtics roster like chess instead of coach and take
Speaker 1: money from Indiana, Texas or any of those schools. You know,
Speaker 1: I think we're seeing a major shift in college basketball
Speaker 1: here for the future. But my point for today was,
Speaker 1: you know, some people can't stand when Lebron gets closer
Speaker 1: to Jordan's numbers, you know, personally and makes him angry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, now Lebron just got bounced from the
Speaker 1: first round for the first time in his career. Jordan
Speaker 1: got bounced in the first round three times. He's creeping
Speaker 1: up on that number for Jordan, Dan. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how the Jordan sycophants are going to
Speaker 1: react to that. Nobody ever brings up Michael bowed out
Speaker 1: of the first round three times, never comes up. Never.
Speaker 1: This will be a big deal. This will stay with
Speaker 1: Lebron just because it's Lebron. Doug in North Carolina joins
Speaker 1: us Hey Doug. Hey, Dan, I gotta tell you. I'm
Speaker 1: a graduate of UNC, and when you grow up here
Speaker 1: in North Carolina, you have to choose between Carolina and Duke,
Speaker 1: and my family chose Carolina because it was the state
Speaker 1: school and Duke was considered the rich boys school. It
Speaker 1: was the school that the northerner sent their kids too.
Speaker 1: But in spite of that, I love coach Kay and
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you about the moment that he
Speaker 1: personally won me over. And I think you may have
Speaker 1: been there in person to witness this. I had to
Speaker 1: watch it on TV, but it was the moment at
Speaker 1: that sp Awards when he helped Jimmy Be up to
Speaker 1: the stage. Yeah, that just captured my heart. And you
Speaker 1: could hate his players, but you could no longer hate
Speaker 1: the guy after that. So I know you're going to
Speaker 1: interview him, please pass on the well wishes of at
Speaker 1: least one tar Hill fan and just thank him for
Speaker 1: what he's done for the state and for the sport,
Speaker 1: and we just wish him well. All right, Well, thank you, Doug. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was there those spies and we didn't even know
Speaker 1: if Jim Valvano was going to be there. We didn't
Speaker 1: know if he was going to speak, And then when
Speaker 1: he got up there, we didn't know how long he
Speaker 1: could speak because he was clearly failing in health. And
Speaker 1: he got up there and the red light came on
Speaker 1: and you saw the entertainer into his eyes and Jimmy
Speaker 1: be wanted to put on a show. And then after that,
Speaker 1: I remember Dick my talent Mike Shachevski went up there
Speaker 1: to help escort him off this stage. A powerful moment.
Speaker 1: But we've had those moments, Craig Sager, Stewart Scott, really
Speaker 1: really powerful moments there, Robin Roberts and that Jimmy V Award.
Speaker 1: It stands for something, something pretty powerful. All right, what
Speaker 1: did we come up with? Mclovin, Oh, we did? Will
Speaker 1: Lebron win another title in his career? Sixty percent say no,
Speaker 1: that's not bad sixty forty because it is a it's
Speaker 1: a hard climb to win a title, and the Lakers
Speaker 1: are not exactly set up for easy success. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: panic if I'm the Lakers. Let's not panic here. Let's
Speaker 1: just get healthy. It was a quick turnaround. After winning
Speaker 1: the championship. Lebron was out. I thought that might benefit
Speaker 1: the Lakers. He was out for six weeks with the ankle,
Speaker 1: then Anthony Davis, you know, bothered by a couple of
Speaker 1: different injuries. So now you got extra time here, got
Speaker 1: an extra month off that you didn't think you were
Speaker 1: going to have. Use that to your advantage, and then
Speaker 1: you start at then you're gonna have some tough questions here.
Speaker 1: Who are you bringing back? Then? Who can you bring in?
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't I wouldn't overreact or overhaul here. Yeah, mclovin,
Speaker 1: do you think there's some of these young stars are
Speaker 1: sort of realizing themselves. Maybe I'll have more competition moving forward,
Speaker 1: like Luca Devin Booker, or if is a healthy ad
Speaker 1: Lebron still the team to be well, I want to
Speaker 1: see where Lebron is next year, because at some point
Speaker 1: he's not Lebron. He's going to be the second option
Speaker 1: here and he probably is that already, but at some point,
Speaker 1: you wonder it caught up with it, catch us up
Speaker 1: with everybody. Dwyane Wade dealt with it in a pretty
Speaker 1: interesting way and he learned to be a different kind
Speaker 1: of player, and I think Lebron's going to have to
Speaker 1: do that. He just can't take it over play forty
Speaker 1: two minutes and dominate Mike Shashevsky coming up top of
Speaker 1: the hour back after this