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I'm gonna do 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.600 that right now, or at least retweet our show. We 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.039 have a huge show today. I'm very excited. There's a 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:31.640 lot to do. Also, this is not Dior's last podcast, 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.280 but this is the last podcast that she is required 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:40.200 to do in order to graduate from high school. Next week, 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.600 Deora will not be with us as she has a 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:48.120 graduation rehearsal on Tuesday, then an actual graduation on Thursday. However, 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.120 she is going to be back the following week and 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.480 throughout the summer because she has loved doing this so much, 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:58.320 and we have negotiated a flat fee for podcast appearance 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.200 as well. I've thought of one in my head. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:00.840 And have it. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:06.559 Also, today is a huge day for me because buying 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.839 a new car after the TV show. Very excited about that. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.680 And in the second segment of the show, to honor 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.160 Doorra's last day on the podcast as a high schooler, 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.720 I'm going to tell a story from about forty five 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:23.480 minutes ago. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.080 About just as a flat out. 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:36.120 Last mischievous Yes, Sonny, but I must admit it kind 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.200 of made me proud. Because I did the exact same 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.160 thing in the same circumstances. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.280 That just didn't happen, and you just claim that it's true. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:50.480 I need to thank producer Daniel and others who made 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:55.680 a sizzle reel for door of her appearances on the pod, 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.679 and we will get to Game three of the Finals 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:02.320 in a moment. However, speaking of Daniel, the Nuggets fan 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.600 who works with us who was trolling me during the 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:09.400 Lakers Nugget series, I got an email about him from 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.960 a loyal listener that I would like to read the 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.359 first half of chrit. I'm not going to read. The 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:20.400 guy's last name, christ Fer emailed love your work. I 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.760 listen every podcast and have for a while. You've even 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.640 gotten me into starting to watch poker. Two quick thoughts. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:32.880 Your banter with Daniel comes off note not only as harsh, 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:37.840 of which you've been accused, but also dictatorial, if not 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:42.240 even tyrannical. It is fine to have an on air 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:47.120 feud with someone, However, when that person is one's employee, 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.280 to threaten to fire him or give him extra work 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.880 that is not part of his job goes beyond a 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.640 good natured sports feud. I suspect that you and Daniel 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.280 have the kind of relationship where he knows you're getting 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.760 and dates it as However, at least of this longtime 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.680 listener and fan, your comments to him have been off putting, 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.760 off putting and grading. So a few clarifications there. One is, 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:16.080 Daniel is not my employee. Daniel is Gabe's employee. Gabe 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.120 is the boss Daniel. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.440 I WHOA, You're Daniel's employee. Base. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:26.679 No, We're on two different sides of the board chart. 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.320 That's first of all. Second of all, I suspect that 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.320 you and Daniel have the kind of relationship where he 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.760 knows you're only kidding and takes it as such. I 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.200 gotta be honest with you, Chris, I'm not sure we do. 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.560 Daniel and I don't know each other aside from this 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.000 because we live on opposite sides of the country, which 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.640 actually makes my behavior even worse. So I'm, you know, 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.680 in an ongoing lifelong quest to become a better person. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:56.960 One of the things I'm working on is taking criticism, 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:01.000 and he's starting that. I started it five days ago. Uh. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.280 They did nothing to do with the podcast. They didn't 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.280 more do with your mother. But I'm trying to not 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:11.680 take criticisms as attacks, and I've thought about it, and 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:16.000 I think emailer Christopher has some good points. So I 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:22.360 would like to almost unconditionally apologize to Daniel if anyone 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.279 else felt that way. The reason I say almost unconditionally 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.440 is I do think the broom emoji after Game two 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.480 of the Lakers series was over the line. But aside 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.200 from that, I take full responsibility for everything involving it, 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.279 and I hope Daniel didn't actually get a signed extra 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.919 work by Gabe, even though I texted Gabe on the 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.200 side and said, please assign him extra work. Okay, before 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.560 we get to Game three, here's what is not on 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.080 today's show. What missed the cut for today's show is 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.440 rest in Peace Man, one of the great wrestling villains 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.120 of all time, The Iron Chic, has died at eighty one. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:04.440 DeAndre Hopkins visits the Titans and Treylon Burks Titans receivers like, eh, 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.320 I don't know if we want him, And just moments ago, 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:14.039 Dalvin Cook has been released by the Minnesota Vikings. The 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:18.279 Dolphins are probably the obvious landing spot for him. Also, 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.880 if you're watching on YouTube and it looks like I'm 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.919 moving my arms oddly, that is because I foolishly, for 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.000 the first time in months, worked out, Uh tried to 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:29.360 get there? 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.040 That was like such like like you tried to flex 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.640 the real quickly? Yeah, guys, Like if it looks like 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.479 I'm moving a lot, I do. I worked out recently. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.840 I'm sorry, guys mortifying what I'm about to say. I 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.480 for the first time in months worked out, and I 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.479 seem to have done something to my arms that I 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.720 should not have been able to do with how lightly 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.160 I was working out, so I can't bend them properly. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:59.240 It's actually very embarrassing, almost as embarrassing as my halftime 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.919 tweet of you can get the heat plus five and 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.279 a half right now, justin FYI, only for them to 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.400 get blasted in the second half, which brings us right 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.960 to Game two, diora, go right ahead. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.160 The Nuggets made Game two look like a fluke. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.280 Game three, I should say, part of me brings us 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.160 right to Game three. Go ahead. Sorry for interrupting. 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:21.040 Apparently letting Yokic score wasn't a great idea. When the 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.480 series are tired one one, the winner of Game three 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.080 has won every series this year. Are you getting nervous? 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:28.560 Little bit? 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.080 And the first time you've ever admitted it. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:37.040 Well, listen, you gotta watch the games and evaluate them fairly. 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.000 The only thing I disagree with that you said is 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.960 apparently letting Yokic score wasn't a great idea that the 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.600 let Yokic get forty and keep the assists under ten. 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.640 I still think that game plan can work. Unfortunately, last 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.000 night he did. He had the perfect game for what 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.920 the Nuggets are trying to do thirty twenty ten, got 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.720 the double digit assists, still scored efficiently at a high level, 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:09.040 crushed the heat on the glass. And here's why I 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:15.680 am getting I will admit getting a little nervous. That was, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:21.880 in my opinion, a must win game for Denver because 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.480 the way they lost Game two, their coach calling out 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:33.440 their effort in game two. If they didn't respond, then 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.880 you would have to start to doubt whether they were 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:41.000 able to respond. But the key part to that is 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:46.960 and the reason it made me nervous, is key role 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:52.120 player Bruce Brown did not play well. Key role player 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:57.160 Kndavious Caldwell Pope did not play well. Michael Porter Junior, 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.040 who has been the third best player on the t 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:04.880 team throughout the year, once again had a brutal game 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.760 and once again saw his minutes cut. So why did 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:13.360 it make me more nervous? Because Jokich and Murray the 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:18.600 two stars of this team, the transcendent superstar Nikola Jokic 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:26.640 and the probably somewhat overqualified second option Jamal Murray. Flatley said, Nah, 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:31.360 we got this, And that's what you need. Moments like 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:36.840 that to win a championship. You need moments where the others, 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:41.560 as Shaq calls them, don't have it. You're on the 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:46.160 road and your stars carry you. And the fact that 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.839 they both had thirty point triple doubles, they both did 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:54.839 it efficiently, that they both answered the bell every single time. 0:09:55.400 --> 0:10:01.120 That's what wins titles. So right now, do I feel 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.920 like the Heat are dead? Of course not. But do 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:09.679 I feel like the Nuggets retook control of the series. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:15.079 I do, And I believe Jimmy's gonna have a monster 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.240 Game three and that we're gonna go back to Denver 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:24.120 tide to two. But the fact that Yokich and Murray 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:31.720 dug down deep and just both played exceptional games is 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:37.080 ominous for the Miami Heat, and for the Miami Heat, 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:41.080 they are the They went to the wrinkle of starting 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:46.280 Kevin Love then they found him mostly unplayable the rest 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:52.760 of the way. They don't have any backup option for 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.520 Bam there. I know it because they are still trotting 0:10:56.559 --> 0:11:00.280 out their Cody Zeller. Even if it's only for six minutes, 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.760 that needs to be zero minutes, and so there are 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.520 real reasons for concern for the Heat. Also, let me 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:14.640 give Michael Malone some credit here. This was a game 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:20.360 you had to have and he played minutes accordingly, meaning 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:25.000 Yo Kitchen Murray forty four minutes each. Now what will 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.000 that mean for Game four, that's the only game of 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:32.959 the series on one day rest. It maybe the Heat 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:37.880 take advantage of a slightly tired Yo Kitchen Murray in 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:43.600 Game four. I think that's on the board. But Yogicchen 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:48.240 Murray were outstanding. And that is how you win a 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:53.120 title In a night that KCP, Michael Porter Junior and 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:58.040 Bruce Brown go a combined three of sixteen and one 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:03.400 of eight from three. You control the entire game, well 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.920 the final two and a half quarters of the game, 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:14.160 because your stars play like stars. And I understand Heat 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:18.800 fans are upset at some of the officiating, particularly in 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.320 the second quarter, and I didn't think it was good. 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.560 I tweeted Tony Brothers having himself a moment here, But 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:32.280 that doesn't explain away the third quarter when the Nuggets 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:36.920 took full control of that basketball game, and the Heat 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:41.480 were lucky to only be down fourteen after three. It 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:45.040 could have been twenty and the Nuggets were great, most 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:49.040 notably obviously Jokicchen Murray. So, yeah, if you picked the 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.040 Heat like I did, of course you're a little nervous, 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:52.679 all right. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.520 Next, you've said Jokic needs to prove it in the 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.000 finals to be the best in the world. The Joker 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.920 became the first player ever to record a thirty, twenty 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:04.880 and ten finals triple double. Are you seriously gonna wait 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:06.520 for him to get a ring to crown him? 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:11.840 Well, these are to me two different discussions, right, So, 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:19.959 has Jokic validated those MVPs? Sure, I still really don't 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.040 like last year's because they were the sixth seed and 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:23.880 that's not how we've done it in the past. But 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.160 if he hadn't won last year, he would have had 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.920 a great, even better case to win this year. So 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:38.400 set that aside. Has Jokic unquestionably proven that this is 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:44.240 not a regular season phenomenon that his offensive game translates 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:51.240 to deep playoff runs absolutely, and anyone saying he had 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:55.120 already done that is just lying he hadn't. Now you 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.680 can say it wasn't his fault. You can say it's 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.880 foolish that I need to see it, But that's the 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:08.000 standard I've had with everybody. Everybody in the NBA got 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.400 to see you do it on a deep playoff run 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.840 before you get that this is either the best or 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.520 the second or third best player in the world status 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:24.360 that Luca, as much as I loved him, needed that 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.880 Western Conference run carrying his team Western Hemmends finals run. 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.280 And I understand Joker had been to one conference finals 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.240 prior to this year, but he also played poorly in 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:40.400 those conference finals. Lebron made a finals very early, Durant 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.800 made a finals very early. Steph the year everyone was 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:50.800 crowning him, won the title. So asking you to go 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:57.800 on a deep playoff run is not unfair. What would 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:02.080 be unfair would be if the Heat come back and win, 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.400 If I'm like, if someone me or anybody's like, see 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:10.840 told you no, no, no, that's now off the board. Jokic 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:16.600 has answered every question. He's been exceptional in every round 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:21.200 of these playoffs, he is averaging thirty three, fourteen and 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:27.600 nine on almost sixty percent shooting. These finals. He's having 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:36.080 an all time postseason real quick? Does that make him 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:43.840 the best player in the world? Though? For that, I 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:49.880 do need them to finish the job, because the guy 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.240 who going into the playoffs I would have said is 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:59.080 the best player in the world was Yannis. Yannis got 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:03.480 beat by the Heat. If Jokic gets beat by the 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:08.240 same Heat team, I don't know that it's then fair 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.680 to be like, oh, okay, because Jokic played them. Later 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.960 Jannis loses his belt, Jannis will have the same number 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.840 of MVPs would have a ring in. Jokic wouldn't still 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:24.960 in his prime. So has Jokic proven the doubters wrong? 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.920 Of which I was wrong one of them? Sure? Am 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:34.000 I ready today June eighth to say he's the best 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:38.920 player in the world? Not yet. Would like him to 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:44.560 finish the job for that, But at worst he's second best. 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:51.040 That's what he's earned. And Vegas would tell you, the 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.840 odds would tell you, because they're overwhelmingly likely to win 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.840 the title, that he's going to get that title here 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.960 in the next week. That's your follow up. Go ahead, 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.880 do your okay? Goat what's up? 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:04.600 Nothing? 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:05.679 Okay, go ahead? 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.760 Were the Joki Murray double thirty point triple double is 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.119 more impressive than Lebron and Kyrie's forty point games in 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:13.840 twenty sixteen. 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:23.880 Oh I, they were very different because Lebron. Here's the thing. 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:28.320 Lebron and Kyrie did it in elimination games. If they 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:34.000 hadn't done it, they lose. And I'm gonna say no, 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:40.720 but they're in that vicinity. And they are certainly in 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.360 the vicinity of a lot of the Shaq Kobe games 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.879 from that three pat And that's why Nuggets fans should 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:53.520 be so excited, is you have this kind of It's 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.160 not a new age Shack in Kobe, because as good 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.480 as Jamal Murray is, he's not what Kobe was, especially 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:05.440 for those third titles. Jokic is a very different player 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:11.080 than Shank, but has similar impact, not quite the same level. Again, 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.360 I think people forget what Shank did in those finals. 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.719 We don't have to go over it, but I mean, 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:21.080 the guy was across those three finals thirty five fifteen, 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:27.080 four assists, three blocks across three NBA finals. But this 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:34.720 is a path to contending for a title every single year, 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:40.960 and you now have proof of concept that as long 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.760 as these two guys are healthy and still in their primes, 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:49.479 you're going to be right there every single year. Uh. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.879 And I you know, I've talked a lot about finals MVPs. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.280 I'm of the belief that you should not have to 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:01.560 win the title necessarily to be the finals MVP. The 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:06.800 first ever finals MVP Jerry West lost in nineteen seventy four. 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:10.120 Kareem should have won it over John Havlichk in a loss. 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.159 Lebron should have won it in twenty fifteen over Andrea 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:18.280 I Guidala in a loss. Right now, it would appear 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:23.920 to me it would be shocking to me if at 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.560 the end of these finals, no matter who wins, if 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.280 I don't feel that Nikola Yoki should have been the 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.679 finals MVP. Now the voters historically have not agreed with 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:38.119 me on it, but that would ultimately be a pretty 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.480 hilarious ending to this if the Heat come back and win. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.960 But Jokic, who my biggest complaint on has been that 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.840 we change the rules for him if he ends up 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:53.879 winning a finals MVP in a loss, something Lebron should 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:57.480 have done in twenty fifteen, but only four of the 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.720 eleven voters voted for him. That might be the basketball 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.800 gods kind of sticking one to me a bit, But 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.359 right now, it would be shocking to me if at 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.480 the end of this series I thought anyone else deserved 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:10.680 Finals MVP. All right. 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.280 Next, Chris Paul is set to be a free agent 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.960 after it was rumored the Suns will wave him. Well, 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:20.719 CP three be the next great Lakers point guard now 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:22.000 that Pat Bev is gone. 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.159 I think it's absolutely on the board. I don't like 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.399 the Pat Bev stuff. And Pat Bev also had a 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.399 ridiculous tweet about me the other day, but I'm not 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:35.840 gonna engage on it. Uh So, the Suns. The new salary, 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.240 the new CBA has put the Suns in a bit 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.679 of a pickle. Durant's on a Max, Bookers on a 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:46.200 Max Eighton's on a near Max, and Chris Paul was 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:50.080 scheduled to make thirty million, only half of that was guaranteed, 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:54.280 so they wave him. He gets fifteen million. They have 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.760 fifteen million on their books and now there is a 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:02.679 possibility he comes back to Phoenix at five million, and 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:05.680 then they save ten right, that's how that would work. 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:10.879 I don't think that's going to happen. I think he 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:18.240 is going to Los Angeles, probably the Lakers, maybe the Clippers. Now, 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:23.320 if you're Chris Paul and injuries have been your biggest 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:26.840 concern at this stage of your career, Both of those 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:30.960 teams have injury concerns. But the Clippers injury concern is 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:34.879 so much greater because of Kawhi and at this point, 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:37.600 Paul George to a degree, and he has a great 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:43.840 relationship with Lebron. I think Chris Paul and the Lakers. 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:47.800 Going super old Chris Paul to the Lakers does make 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:52.520 a lot of sense. I also think the Lakers need 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:55.480 to treat next season. Take a page out of Greg 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:59.199 Popovich's book, and Lebron and Chris Paul need to be 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:02.479 twent eight to thirty two minute of a game. Guy's 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:07.159 sixty game a year. Guys, You've got to find a 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:12.159 way to get them to the finish line. At their age, 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:15.440 the health concern would be massive. You would have two 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:18.639 of Lebron and Chris Paul two of next year, probably 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:22.879 the four oldest players in the league. But Lebron showed 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:26.280 you this year that he was willing to play off 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:36.720 the ball more and a starting five of CP three Austin, Reeves, Lebron, Ruye, 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:40.880 and Ad is interesting. It also would mean the Lakers 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:43.919 likely move on from D'Angelo Russell, which is something I 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:47.680 would encourage them to do. Either way, I'm not slamming 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:51.640 the door on Chris Paul back to Phoenix because Isaiah Thomas, 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:56.679 the original Isaiah Thomas, went on TV yesterday and said, 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.600 don't slam the door on him going back to Phoenix. 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:03.680 That's noteworthy because Matt Ishbia, the new owner of the Suns, 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:08.280 reportedly wanted to hire Isaiah and then there was blowback 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:11.000 on that so he didn't. But when if you remember 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:14.679 when Jokic pushed Ishbia in round two, sitting next to 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:17.840 him was Isaiah. He seems to be an informal advisor, 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:21.960 so he does have inside information. So the Suns likely 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.359 want to bring Chris Paul back. The question is is 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:28.119 that where Chris Paul wants to be or does he 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:30.680 want to go to LA potentially to play with Lebron. 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:33.720 See if Chris Paul can get his first ring. That's 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:37.119 what I think is gonna happen. I'd certainly rather be 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:39.200 in that business. If I'm the Lakers than a Kyrie 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:43.040 Irving on a Max business, So I think that is 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:46.280 something to watch. I don't think he'll be back with 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:48.399 the Suns, but I don't think it's zero percent. All right, 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:51.880 last tour it overtime. We went a little We're going 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:53.639 a little long today, but that's fine. Go ahead. 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:56.240 On Tuesday, News wrote that the Live Tour and the 0:23:56.280 --> 0:24:01.359 PGA were merging. Then a Saudi soccer team offered Messi 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:05.159 one point six billion dollars. Can you explain to me 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:07.840 in the rest of the sports world why this matters? 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:12.879 All right? There are better people, people, far better qualified 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:16.440 to talk about the Live Tour and the PGA Tour. 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.800 There's plenty of podcasts you can listen to of people 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:23.439 that golf is their area of expertise. I'm not. I 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:27.000 think I have a cursory understanding of it from listening 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:30.199 to those podcasts, so I'm not just gonna regurgitate that. 0:24:30.560 --> 0:24:32.040 The only thing I want to say about the Messy 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:36.639 deal is shout out Mike Ryan of the Dan Leviottard 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:40.600 Show and Metal Arc Media for having the Messy story 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:45.320 for a year. He has been dead right on this 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:51.440 scooping insiders globally, and he took a victory lap yesterday 0:24:51.480 --> 0:24:56.200 and he should have. Why this matters to the rest 0:24:56.240 --> 0:25:03.680 of the sports world is very simple. Is Saudi Arabia's 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:11.280 sovereign wealth fund going to purchase a major American sports team? 0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:15.000 They are now in the PGA Tour, they kind of 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:18.680 own it. Are they going to buy a baseball team, 0:25:18.680 --> 0:25:21.399 a basketball team or a football team? We had a 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:26.679 Russian oligarch buy a basketball team in proker Off and 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:32.640 you know, to quote Logan roy from Succession money wins 0:25:34.000 --> 0:25:40.720 and there was a lot of standing on principle, trotting 0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:46.040 out nine to eleven victims families done by the PGA Tour, 0:25:46.880 --> 0:25:50.080 and then they bent the need of the money. Is 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:54.959 there a dollar amount this sovereign wealth fund in Saudi 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:59.560 Arabia could offer the NFL to where they could own 0:25:59.600 --> 0:26:05.840 a team. I think dismissing it as an impossibility would 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:10.280 be naive. I don't think it's the likely outcome, but 0:26:10.320 --> 0:26:13.600 I think it's on the board, and in European soccer 0:26:13.640 --> 0:26:16.960 it's already happened, so it absolutely could happen. Here. Is 0:26:17.000 --> 0:26:21.160 there something you wanted to ask? So I don't what 0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:25.600 this means for golf, go to the golf experts on 0:26:26.040 --> 0:26:29.479 what it means for the rest of the sports world 0:26:31.840 --> 0:26:36.000 is fascinating. And the other piece of the messy news 0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:39.720 with them, they already got Christiano Ronaldo. I think offering 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:43.560 Messi one and a half billion for a few years, 0:26:44.720 --> 0:26:54.320 will there be a major American basketball player at some 0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:59.119 point that takes that money. I don't think they have 0:26:59.200 --> 0:27:02.359 the infrastruatetion ructure of a basketball league like they do 0:27:02.440 --> 0:27:05.000 a soccer league. But if they were to build one up, 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:11.359 and you know, they offered Tiger Woods eight hundred million 0:27:11.440 --> 0:27:14.400 dollars to join the Live Tour, he turned it down 0:27:14.400 --> 0:27:18.199 on principle, and then the PGA merged with him. Tiger's 0:27:18.200 --> 0:27:21.560 probably furious they offered. Rory says they didn't offer him money, 0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:23.520 but the reports were it was, you know, a few 0:27:23.600 --> 0:27:27.199 hundred million. What the PGA Tour is going to do 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:30.000