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Speaker 2: as we always regularly do, we'd start with what we're
Speaker 2: not getting into today. So what did not make the
Speaker 2: show today is Deebo Samuels unfollowing the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: I just don't care about these unfollowing Instagram stories, Luca's injury.
Speaker 2: It might show up in the show just a bit.
Speaker 2: And did Demanse actually learn what a green jacket is? Demonse?
Speaker 2: Right now, you, before we even get to anything, I
Speaker 2: will give you a thousand dollars cash right now if
Speaker 2: you can tell me who won the Masters yesterday. Oh crap, Oh,
Speaker 2: that's a loss for you. Buddy good thing. You don't
Speaker 2: do sports for a living now. So the answer to
Speaker 2: the question is Scotty Cheffler. Scottie Barnes plays small forward
Speaker 2: for the Raptors. He did not win the Masters this weekend.
Speaker 2: What are we talking about today?
Speaker 3: It looks like WoDES knew that Vogel was fired before
Speaker 3: Vogel did. Yep, Lebron gets another coach fired. Does this
Speaker 3: fix anything?
Speaker 2: Okay? First on that Lebron gets another coach fired. There
Speaker 2: have been five coaches that have been fired either while
Speaker 2: or right after coaching Lebron. James Paul Silas, who was
Speaker 2: blow five hundred except for when he got to coach Lebron.
Speaker 2: Mike Brown, who was blow five hundred except for when
Speaker 2: he got to coach Lebron and Lebron took him to
Speaker 2: a finals. David Blatt, who never coached in America before
Speaker 2: he coached Lebron and won't coach in America since then.
Speaker 2: Lebron took him to a finals. Luke Walton, who's terrible,
Speaker 2: was bad before Lebron got there, was bad with the Kings.
Speaker 2: And now Frank Vogel, who won fifty one percent of
Speaker 2: his games before he got to coach.
Speaker 3: Lebron and then one of the kind of crazy how
Speaker 3: bog gets fired when Lebron picked his teammates.
Speaker 2: Okay, feel like they should fire Lebron. Well, okay, what
Speaker 2: they should do is fire Rob Blinkett, the guy who
Speaker 2: actually picked the players and the GM. I agree with
Speaker 2: you there almost Listen. Does it fix anything? It doesn't
Speaker 2: fix a lot. But here's why Vogel had to go.
Speaker 2: You can't have the most disappointing year in the history
Speaker 2: of your franchise and not fire a bunch of people.
Speaker 2: That's first of all. Second of all, you look at
Speaker 2: this year's coach of the Year is probably gonna be
Speaker 2: Taylor Janet to Memphis, but other candidates are Manti Williams,
Speaker 2: Jason Kidd, and tylu What do those three guys all
Speaker 2: have in common? They are all people the Lakers could
Speaker 2: have hired to be their head coach, all people Lebron
Speaker 2: wanted them to hire after they got rid of Luke Walton,
Speaker 2: and yet they chose Frank Vogel. So those guys are
Speaker 2: clearly helping teams. Vogel. This Slakers team was a mess.
Speaker 2: I get all that, but they also had I think
Speaker 2: the second most blown double digit leads of any team
Speaker 2: in basketball. That's got to be partially on the coaching.
Speaker 2: But the point that you asked about, I don't even
Speaker 2: know if you were making it, But it's the more
Speaker 2: important point, which is the fact that this leaks while
Speaker 2: he's at the press conference, just shows another piece of
Speaker 2: evidence of how mismanaged and poorly run the Lakers are
Speaker 2: from top to bottom. That Woje's thumbs out this tweet
Speaker 2: and vogelast to answerport before anyone actually talks to him.
Speaker 2: That's just terrible management top to bottom within the Lakers.
Speaker 2: All Right, what's next?
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid won the scoring title. Yeah, he's the first
Speaker 3: center to win it in check. Yeah, so how big
Speaker 3: of a deal is this?
Speaker 2: All right? So I think it actually is a pretty
Speaker 2: big deal for a number of reasons. One is Embid.
Speaker 2: He's not only the first center to win it since Shack,
Speaker 2: but Embiid won it in the fewest minutes per game
Speaker 2: any scoring champ has ever had. So I've got the
Speaker 2: numbers in front of me. Thanks for our guy, Dustin.
Speaker 2: Embiid was thirty three point eight minutes per game. That
Speaker 2: the only player to average thirty four minutes per game
Speaker 2: when the scoring title was Steph Curry last year, the
Speaker 2: fewest minutes per game any big has ever averaged when
Speaker 2: the scoring title was Shack at thirty seven minutes per game.
Speaker 2: So you could argue that Embiid had in modern NBA history,
Speaker 2: was the most successful on a per minute basis scoring
Speaker 2: big we've seen fifty years. So I do think that's meaningful.
Speaker 2: I also think it's meaningful that Embiid was available for
Speaker 2: way more than the minimum required games because Lebron was
Speaker 2: going to win this thing, but you got to play.
Speaker 3: You've got a question, Yeah, should Lebron have gone for
Speaker 3: the scoring title to salvage one of his worst seasons ever?
Speaker 2: So that's actually an interesting question. I like that you
Speaker 2: kind of throw in your little Lebron and needle one
Speaker 2: of his worst seasons. Every day he just average thirty
Speaker 2: eight and six is terrible. Lebron. You're you're nineteen and
Speaker 2: the next most points anyone's ever averaged in year nineteen
Speaker 2: was fifteen and Lebron average thirty. However, this is one
Speaker 2: of those with the Lebron haters out there, the people
Speaker 2: that have Lebron James derangement syndrome, where it's a Calvin
Speaker 2: Ball thing where it's heads you lose, tails I win.
Speaker 2: No matter what Lebron did, they were going to kill
Speaker 2: him for. And if Lebron had played in the final
Speaker 2: two games, because you have to play fifty eight games
Speaker 2: to be able to win the scoring title, and then
Speaker 2: played fifty six, and if he had played in the
Speaker 2: final two games and scored thirty in each game, he'd
Speaker 2: have won the scoring title. People would have rushed him
Speaker 2: for that. You know that, and I know that. But
Speaker 2: what I am curious about is this, are the people
Speaker 2: who loudly and angrily argue that Lebron James was sacrificing wins,
Speaker 2: that Lebron James was putting his team in a bad
Speaker 2: position to it not doing what it took to win
Speaker 2: because he was so obsessed with the scoring title. Are
Speaker 2: those people going to come on television and apologize for
Speaker 2: being as dead ass wrong about anything that anyone's ever
Speaker 2: been about in sports. When Lebron had a chance to
Speaker 2: win the scoring title, but because his team was eliminated
Speaker 2: from playoff contention, he just didn't play. Yes, of course
Speaker 2: his ankle was hurt, but if they were in playoff contention,
Speaker 2: he would have played, and I had to listen for
Speaker 2: the last two months that Lebron cares more about the
Speaker 2: scoring title than about playoffs. And yet once playoffs were
Speaker 2: out of the question and the scoring title was still
Speaker 2: there to be had, Lebron set will those people apologize? No,
Speaker 2: of course they won't. All right, what's next? Okay?
Speaker 3: And bid winning the scoring titles certainly helps his MVP case. Yep,
Speaker 3: who gets your vote? And how does all this impact
Speaker 3: your top fifty list?
Speaker 2: Okay? So I had so the Top fifty list episode
Speaker 2: we just released. One of the honorable mentions just missed
Speaker 2: was Nikola Jokisch and I recorded that about a month ago.
Speaker 2: Jokic is going to win MVP. And if I'm being
Speaker 2: totally honest, even though I don't think he should have
Speaker 2: won last year and I don't think he should have
Speaker 2: win this year, it Nash shouldn't have won the two
Speaker 2: he won, but he's on the top fifty years. Jokic,
Speaker 2: when he wins this MVP is going to have a
Speaker 2: strong case that he has done enough, even though he's
Speaker 2: only had four great seasons, if two of them are
Speaker 2: MVP years, done enough that he should crack the top fifty.
Speaker 2: But the list was compiled beforehand, it would I'd have
Speaker 2: to kick Bernard King out of it. I don't love that. Indeed,
Speaker 2: even if he were to win, it does not crack
Speaker 2: the top fifty. And then there's Yannis, who could win it.
Speaker 2: I don't think he will. Yannis is already firmly in
Speaker 2: the top twenty, whether he wins it or not. I
Speaker 2: think for Yiannis at this point, it's more about what
Speaker 2: he does in the postseason, which he already has a
Speaker 2: Finals MVP. So yeah, it would matter. And I wish
Speaker 2: that I had this information before we started unveiling the list,
Speaker 2: but such is life. I started this thing two years ago.
Speaker 2: At some point, you got to unveil it now. Who
Speaker 2: would get my vote? I've made the case for the
Speaker 2: last couple of months for Luca. Luca's team ended with
Speaker 2: fifty two wins. Luca's team had the fifth best record
Speaker 2: in all of the NBA. He has no All Star teammates.
Speaker 2: But I'm not even so much so adamant that Luca
Speaker 2: has to win it. I just think it's a four
Speaker 2: person race Luka, jokicch Embiid and Giannis. I think, done
Speaker 2: to my head, I would go with Yannis. When it's
Speaker 2: this close, He's clearly the best defender of the four.
Speaker 2: Because Embiid's defense took a bit of a step back
Speaker 2: this year with his added workload on offense, I think
Speaker 2: he clearly is on the best team of the four.
Speaker 2: My vote, my ballot would have gone Giannis, Luca, Embiid, Jokic,
Speaker 2: with Devin Booker being five. All Right, what's next? Should
Speaker 2: look like?
Speaker 3: The Bucks take their final game to avoid Brooklyn in
Speaker 3: round one. Yep, Brooklyn, by the way, might get Ben
Speaker 3: Simmons back. I don't believe that, but sure are you
Speaker 3: okay with the defending champs taking for playoff position?
Speaker 2: So I'm okay with it under these circumstances, and then
Speaker 2: I'm going to fix the circumstances. The circumstances are the
Speaker 2: NBA doesn't want to do the obvious thing to remove
Speaker 2: all tanking for playoff position, which we'll get into in
Speaker 2: a moment, and because they are the defending champs, and
Speaker 2: because last year people forget two years ago. Giannis wins MVP,
Speaker 2: the Bucks play Miami, They go down three to zero
Speaker 2: to Miami and end up losing in five. Giannis doesn't
Speaker 2: even play Game five because he got hurt in Game
Speaker 2: four the very next year. Last season, the Bucks have
Speaker 2: the opportunity at the end of the year to avoid
Speaker 2: Miami in the first round. Instead, they go all out
Speaker 2: ensuring they get Miami in the first round, not trying
Speaker 2: to duck anybody. They end up sweeping Miami. They then
Speaker 2: up beating Brooklyn, beat Atlanta, then win four straight after
Speaker 2: palling two O to Phoenix. Win the title when you
Speaker 2: are already the champs and you went through a grueling
Speaker 2: one hundred game championship run the previous year, if you
Speaker 2: want to make your road as easy as possible, and
Speaker 2: as much as it was about potentially avoiding Brooklyn, it's
Speaker 2: also about getting Chicago Chicago that the last fifty games
Speaker 2: has been a sub five hundred team Chicago, which is
Speaker 2: as drawing dead as any sixth seed has ever been
Speaker 2: drawing coming into a postseason. I'm okay with the Bucks
Speaker 2: because they've proven they're not scared of anybody trying to
Speaker 2: make it so their road back to the finals is
Speaker 2: as quick and as easy as possible. I'm also okay
Speaker 2: with it because the NBA could fix it like this,
Speaker 2: but they refuse to. Once again, NBA I beg of you,
Speaker 2: especially with the play in now making it extra weird
Speaker 2: about a team being the seven of the eight seed
Speaker 2: that's way better better than the seven or eight seed.
Speaker 2: Typically would be allowing a team that gets hot or
Speaker 2: a team like the Clippers if they get Kwhi back
Speaker 2: the Clippers or six to one since they get Paul George.
Speaker 2: All of that, Let teams draft their playoff opponent. Phoenix
Speaker 2: has been the best team in the league by a
Speaker 2: mile all year. It is absolutely possible the Clippers lose
Speaker 2: their first play in game and then crush either the
Speaker 2: spurs of the Pelicans in the second playing game and
Speaker 2: a Clippers team that has been red hot since they
Speaker 2: got Paul George is your round one opponent. And then Memphis,
Speaker 2: which was not as good as the Clip as the
Speaker 2: Phoenix this year, gets the far easier Round one opponent
Speaker 2: in Minnesota. Like that absolutely could happen. Let the Suns
Speaker 2: pick their playoff opponent. What if another example, what if
Speaker 2: Kawhi they announced Kwhi's coming back. Then either it's a
Speaker 2: reward to play the Clippers, of course not. And in
Speaker 2: the East, the final day of the regular season was
Speaker 2: supposed to be awesome all thirty teams played. They staggered
Speaker 2: the games, so the games that matter would be happening simultaneously.
Speaker 2: But teams weren't trying to win. They were instead trying
Speaker 2: to lose. Except for in certain circumstances, it was a
Speaker 2: terrible day. There was almost no interesting basketball. And so
Speaker 2: if you were incentivized as far as you are going
Speaker 2: to get to pick whatever your favorite matchup is. So
Speaker 2: in the East, the Heat they get to pick whoever
Speaker 2: they want to play. And then the two seed Milwaukee
Speaker 2: would have been this advice to play for it, they
Speaker 2: didn't get to pick. Like, just let the one, two,
Speaker 2: and three seed draft their playoff opponents of the five
Speaker 2: through eight seeds and do it that way. That makes
Speaker 2: the regular season more important because teams clearly don't care
Speaker 2: so much about a homepoort advantage. They care more about
Speaker 2: who they're going to play. It's an easy fix. I
Speaker 2: don't know why they wouldn't do it. I know we
Speaker 2: technically don't have bonus time, but I want to get
Speaker 2: to bonus time anyway, because you have another question for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we now know some of the playoff matchups. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you said a few weeks ago you had the Buzz
Speaker 3: versus the MAVs and the finals. Yeah, did the way
Speaker 3: the bracket did, the way that the brackets fail change
Speaker 3: your opinion?
Speaker 2: All right? Nothing changed my opinion about the East. I
Speaker 2: think the Bucks win every series in five or less.
Speaker 2: I think they will sweep the Bulls. Then in round two,
Speaker 2: I think they will beat Boston in five, and in
Speaker 2: round three they're going to beat either Miami or Philly
Speaker 2: in five. I think the Bucks are going to cruise
Speaker 2: out West. I still am riding with the MAVs, but
Speaker 2: I wanted the MAVs to get the three seed to
Speaker 2: avoid Phoenix in round two. They got the four seeds,
Speaker 2: and I reserve the right to totally abandon that pick.
Speaker 2: If Luca is going to miss serious time, because the
Speaker 2: one thing that did happen on Sunday night was Luca
Speaker 2: tweaked this calf. As of recording, we don't have news
Speaker 2: on this, and I don't think we're really gonna have
Speaker 2: news on it for days. Anyway, Luke is out any
Speaker 2: amount of time, they are drawing dead to win any
Speaker 2: game without They don't have another top seventy, top sixty
Speaker 2: player on the ROSP. So if Luca, if the cavstrains
Speaker 2: are scary. If Lucas missed two weeks, they're dead. But
Speaker 2: if not, I think that they will annihilate Utah in
Speaker 2: round one. Play an epics series with Phoenix in round
Speaker 2: two where Luca is the best player. Ended up going
Speaker 2: to the NBA Finals. So I'm still going Fox over
Speaker 2: MAVs as my finals pick. Will be right back.
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Speaker 2: I actually knew that the person that won the Master's
Speaker 2: name was Scotty. I thought it was risky that someone
Speaker 2: might feed you the answer plate.
Speaker 3: So like if I said Scotty, like that should count
Speaker 3: beam me Up Scotty.
Speaker 2: Maybe they have something to do with Nicki Minaj's album cover,
Speaker 2: Beam Me Up Scotty is from Star Trek.
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean I just figured, you know, beat me
Speaker 3: Up Scotty, like Scotty's hitting the ball.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think. I don't think Nicki
Speaker 2: Minaj named her album anything to do with the number
Speaker 2: one golfer in the world, Scotty Scheffler.
Speaker 3: I could be wrong. Maybe she's a big golf fan.
Speaker 3: It honestly makes it's definitely from Star Trek. Now that
Speaker 3: I go and I look at the album cover, it's
Speaker 3: like futuristic, but it kind of it makes sense.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, all right, if you're ready, let's just get
Speaker 2: going before we get to this or that. Welcome back in.
Speaker 2: By the way, what's right with nick right? Podcast? What
Speaker 2: are we starting? This segment with my friends? Started with
Speaker 2: some Tom Brady.
Speaker 3: Okay, he was reportedly almost minority owner of the Dolphins. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he would have retired to play for them, but the
Speaker 3: Brian's Flora's lawsuit blew it up.
Speaker 2: Yep. So now what do you make of the entire
Speaker 2: Brady retirements? On it? All? Right? I now, thankfully it
Speaker 2: makes some sense. I am a guy that gets very
Speaker 2: frustrated when things don't make sense, and Brady's sham retirement
Speaker 2: never made a lick of sense. It's why I said, Okay,
Speaker 2: he was just fake retiring to get to San Francisco,
Speaker 2: and I was mostly right. I just had the coast wrong.
Speaker 2: It wasn't San Francisco, was Miami. He was fake retiring
Speaker 2: so he could get to the Dolphins. And then when
Speaker 2: the Flora's lawsuit happens and the Dolphins thing becomes untenable,
Speaker 2: then he says, Okay, I will come back to Tampa,
Speaker 2: but only under certain conditions, and it would appear one
Speaker 2: of those conditions was Bruce Arians being out as the
Speaker 2: head coach. And by the way, Bruce Arians it didn't
Speaker 2: interview this past I think it was Friday, and he
Speaker 2: was talking about guys getting credit. He was like, listen,
Speaker 2: when it comes to the offense, I get too more
Speaker 2: much credit. Tom gets way too much credit. Byron left,
Speaker 2: which he deserves the credit. So he's kind of getting
Speaker 2: Byron elect to which credit. But he's also kind of
Speaker 2: taking a shot at Tom. That relationship seemed to not
Speaker 2: be great, but now we get it. This entire retirement
Speaker 2: was always in often it was and by the way,
Speaker 2: I just I understand that at times people think, a
Speaker 2: nick you bring things back to Lebron too. Well, okay,
Speaker 2: that's probably a fair criticism, but it isn't fair to
Speaker 2: say that if there's any athlete, current active athlete in
Speaker 2: the world that should be judged by the same harsh
Speaker 2: goat esque standard as Lebron, it's Tom Brady. Is that fair? Okay?
Speaker 2: I'm just curious, guys, how do you think it would
Speaker 2: be covered if in two days Lebron James announces his retirement,
Speaker 2: If the day after he starts kind of himming and
Speaker 2: hawing but saying no, I want to spend time with
Speaker 2: Bryce and Bronni and Savannah in my family. And in
Speaker 2: six weeks he unretires and the next day the Lakers
Speaker 2: fire Polenka and they're like, no, it had nothing to
Speaker 2: do with it, just total coincidence. And then it came
Speaker 2: out that it was because he was trying to buy
Speaker 2: the Cavs and go play for them, but it fell apart,
Speaker 2: so it wasn't ut to you think it might be
Speaker 2: a subject of major ridicule and scorn for Lebron. Lebron
Speaker 2: got more criticism for sending out an April Fool's tweet
Speaker 2: that he was done for the year. Then Brady has
Speaker 2: gotten for a sham retirement, followed by coach fired power play,
Speaker 2: followed by it reportedly he was trying to get to
Speaker 2: Miami a different team, and I'm just curious how all
Speaker 2: of this lands with the Bucks. The Bucks were like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're all in it. Where Tommy's back when they find
Speaker 2: out his whole plan was to go buy another team
Speaker 2: so he could play for them, Like, it just feels
Speaker 2: like this should be a big story. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: Speaking of the Flora's lawsuit, We're staying there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Speaking of the Flora's lawsuit, Steve Wilkes and Ray
Speaker 3: Horton joined the lawsuit against the NFL.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: They say the NFL set up sham interviews with minority candidates.
Speaker 3: The lawsuit was enough to blow up the Brady to Miami. Yeah,
Speaker 3: does all this prove the laws?
Speaker 2: Is je prove the loss? It is legit. We're gonna
Speaker 2: keep going that. I already believed the lawsuit because I
Speaker 2: think Brian Floor is a man of massive integrity and
Speaker 2: his story. Unlike Brady's retirement, the story always made sense,
Speaker 2: Like it's like, yep, did I think Dolphins were tanking? Yep?
Speaker 2: Do I think that teams regularly interview minority candidates when
Speaker 2: they have no intent of hiring them. Absolutely, And by
Speaker 2: the way, the other piece of news that came out
Speaker 2: was actually a news from a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Mike Malarkey a couple of years ago was on a
Speaker 2: podcast and was asked about opening question about the biggest
Speaker 2: regret of his coaching career, and he said, well, in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, I took part of a sham interview process.
Speaker 2: I knew I had the Titans job, but they hadn't
Speaker 2: complied with the Rooney rule, so they interviewed minority candidates
Speaker 2: that I knew weren't getting the job. That podcast was
Speaker 2: that two years ago. Nobody noticed it until right now. Now.
Speaker 2: That's part of the Floors lawsuits. I just think it
Speaker 2: is such a stinging indictment of some people that run
Speaker 2: NFL teams that they are so certain there is no
Speaker 2: possible chance that there might be a black or minority
Speaker 2: person qualified to run their team that, even when they
Speaker 2: know they have to spend the time, money, and energy
Speaker 2: required to do an interview they won't even do it
Speaker 2: in good faith. It's like, we we have to do this,
Speaker 2: but I know there's no chance that the end result
Speaker 2: is I actually think this person and should be able
Speaker 2: to run my team. So I would rather break the rules,
Speaker 2: waste their time, insult my own and their own dignity,
Speaker 2: rather than just go into it with like, hey, maybe
Speaker 2: this black guy is qualified for the job. It's so
Speaker 2: embarrassing for all parties involved. But yes, of course Flores's
Speaker 2: lawsuit has massive legitimacy, and I applaud Steve Wilkes and
Speaker 2: Ray Horton for putting their names to it, even though
Speaker 2: it probably drastically hurts their future NFL job prospects. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's try to have some fun before the end of
Speaker 2: the segment. Let's play a game. This game is called
Speaker 2: this for that demonse, what's the first one pick a
Speaker 2: breakout start of the playoffs? Yeah, Job or Tatum. So
Speaker 2: this one's tough because I think Jaw's better than Tatum.
Speaker 2: But I think Jaw's already broken out. I think Jaw
Speaker 2: is already considered other than Luca, the best young player
Speaker 2: in basketball. Tatum has a real opportunity if the Nets
Speaker 2: win to Tuesday night. If the Nets win Tuesday night,
Speaker 2: they're the sevenths. They are. And by the way, if
Speaker 2: the Nets don't win Tuesday night, Cyborg for our answer
Speaker 2: this Thursday night, you and I are going to Berkas
Speaker 2: because if they don't win Tuesday, assuming the Hall, if
Speaker 2: the Nets lose Tuesday and the Hawks win Thursday, then
Speaker 2: it's Nets Hawks winner goes is the eight seed. Loser
Speaker 2: goes home. And Trey Young has a chance to become
Speaker 2: an all time New York City sports buility. He shent
Speaker 2: the Knicks home last year and they had the f
Speaker 2: Tray Young chance. If he sends the next home this year,
Speaker 2: that would be an unbelievable sporting event to be at.
Speaker 2: So we'll go to that game if that happens. But
Speaker 2: let's assume the next win on Tuesday, then they're the
Speaker 2: seventh seed. They're playing the Celfies. I My answer is
Speaker 2: Tatum because Tatum has a chance to win a series
Speaker 2: against Apex Kevin Durant. That's a hell of a thing, man,
Speaker 2: Giannis did it like, who are who's are the last
Speaker 2: people to beat Apex Kevin Durant, A healthy Kevin Durant,
Speaker 2: No matter the teammates in a playoff series. Johannest did
Speaker 2: it right, he never lost a series when he was
Speaker 2: with Golden State healthy. So the Steph did it in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, and Lebron did it obviously in twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: and I think Duncan did it like those. I think
Speaker 2: is the list of guys over the last decade that
Speaker 2: have beaten a healthy Kevin Durant a playoff series. So
Speaker 2: my answers Tatum and I think Celtics would do it.
Speaker 2: Celtics are better coach, more death, better defense. I think
Speaker 2: Celtics would win that series. All right, what's next? Exciting?
Speaker 2: Tiger committed to the British Open? Yeah, you're over it?
Speaker 2: Or will pretend he can win? Yeah?
Speaker 3: By the way, Yeah, what color jacket do you win
Speaker 3: for winning the British Open.
Speaker 2: You don't win a jacket for winning the British Open.
Speaker 2: You win a green. You win the claret jug. The
Speaker 2: clart jug is that like a hydroflask, like a I
Speaker 2: don't know what a hyder flask is, buddy, but it
Speaker 2: it's a gorgeous silver jug with inscripted The names of
Speaker 2: the winners are inscripted on it. You don't it's you
Speaker 2: thought they want a different color jacket for each major.
Speaker 2: I mean I thought it might have been like like
Speaker 2: a blue one or something. No, it's not a blue one.
Speaker 2: The green jacket associated with the Masters, but I mean
Speaker 2: it's not. But you win a jug like that, it's
Speaker 2: a trophy. Okay, nothing, Let me show you a hydroplast Claire.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna show you what the cleric jug looks like,
Speaker 2: so you can jug. Okay, hold on, you tell me
Speaker 2: that's this is right? Here is in a gorgeous trophy.
Speaker 2: Let's let me show you this thing. Let me see
Speaker 2: if I'm zoom in on this sucker. Look at that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's nice, right, it's ancient. It's the oldest golf tournament
Speaker 2: in the world. They're playing at Saint Andrew's. Old Tom
Speaker 2: Morris do you know the two greatest golfers ever at
Speaker 2: one point were Old Tom Morris and young Tom Morris,
Speaker 2: father and son. That's true story playing St. Andrew's for
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty years. That's why Tigers playing in it.
Speaker 2: If that is the answer is, it's not pretending he
Speaker 2: can win. He can win. Did Tiger have a rough weekend?
Speaker 2: He did? Did Tiger? You know shoot closer to eighty
Speaker 2: on both Saturday and Sunday. He did, But he made
Speaker 2: the weekend, didn't he? Did he do something Bryson de
Speaker 2: Shambo didn't do? Yeah? Sure did did Was he ever
Speaker 2: gonna catch Scotty Scheffler, who was just a man on
Speaker 2: a mission this week? No? So it's no pretending. I'm
Speaker 2: not pretending he can win. He can win. He's won
Speaker 2: at Saint Andrews before, maybe the most historically important golf
Speaker 2: course in the world. And I can't believe you thought
Speaker 2: for winning major championships it was always just a different
Speaker 2: color jacket. That. That's all the trophies in golf were jackets.
Speaker 2: All right, what's next? Hey man?
Speaker 3: CJ McCollums tweeted he wouldn't be playing much Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and fans shouldn't bet on him. Yeah, CJ is heroic
Speaker 3: or going to be in trouble.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think he's going to be in trouble.
Speaker 2: He shouldn't be in trouble. He can't embrace gambling sports leagues.
Speaker 2: And then CJ McCollums a hero there, let me show
Speaker 2: you some of them. I was like, you know I'm
Speaker 2: in that that Uh well, how do I put it.
Speaker 2: Don't say the name of this chat, Okay, but I'm
Speaker 2: in a let's call it a consortium of like minded
Speaker 2: individual and we gamble together, okay, and we gamble. Just
Speaker 2: drawing one of these bricks. I had to pay off
Speaker 2: one of my master's bets. That's how I was going
Speaker 2: to win the forty k that for Tiger to win,
Speaker 2: I had to pay off that bet, but I also
Speaker 2: got to collect my winning bet about Tiger making the cut.
Speaker 2: Uh read read what I texted the group at let
Speaker 2: me see at two forty four yesterday. Just read the
Speaker 2: top of that this one right there. What does it say.
Speaker 3: If any of y'all have fan duel, don't know, you
Speaker 3: might be able.
Speaker 2: To draft kings or draft kits. That's what DraftKings.
Speaker 3: You might be able to hammer all the CJ unders
Speaker 3: for another ninety seconds or so.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw the CJ tweet right when he tweeted it,
Speaker 2: and I was like, Hey, I'm not in a position
Speaker 2: right now where I can bet it. All My money's
Speaker 2: tied up in other things. But I told him so Yeah,
Speaker 2: CJ McCollum, great job, buddy. So yeah, No, it's heroic
Speaker 2: and anybody By the way, I have no sympathy for
Speaker 2: gambling proprietors that are slow on the draw. I once
Speaker 2: one time in college, I'm gonna tell a quick story,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna go a little over time. We're already
Speaker 2: at zero. Sorry, we'll get in the last thing. I'm
Speaker 2: gona tell a quick story. This is not I don't
Speaker 2: know saturree to limitations. I feel like this passed. It's
Speaker 2: been almost twenty years. I'm not gonna look great in
Speaker 2: the story I'm tellry right now. But I had a
Speaker 2: bookie in college who I realized. I one time text
Speaker 2: him trying to bet the second half of a college
Speaker 2: basketball and he text me back like twenty minutes later,
Speaker 2: and he was like, uh, just saw this. You still
Speaker 2: want to bet? But he wasn't like even like paying attention.
Speaker 2: I was like, how could you let me make a
Speaker 2: bet on a second half bet when the second half
Speaker 2: is now halfway over and you're giving me the option?
Speaker 2: And I realized this bookie had a bad drinking problem,
Speaker 2: and almost every night he was out drinking. So I
Speaker 2: would bet second half college basketball games. Into the half,
Speaker 2: I would get a good line on it, get an
Speaker 2: angle and I and it paid for a lot of
Speaker 2: my junior year of college. He then surely that after
Speaker 2: stopped being a bookie, probably because he's a bad bookie.
Speaker 2: But the point is you have a bookies out there
Speaker 2: and betting proprietors. I had access to the CJ. We'll
Speaker 2: call them tweet So did you. That's on inside info.
Speaker 2: You got to be quick on the trigger there, all right,
Speaker 2: what's next?
Speaker 3: The USFL is using chips in football to measure first downs? Yeah,
Speaker 3: instead of chains. Yeah, the NFL should use it or stay.
Speaker 2: In the past. I think they should use it, and
Speaker 2: I'm I think it's an obviously good idea because there
Speaker 2: are some It's less about the chain measurement and more
Speaker 2: to me about sometimes you're watching the game and you
Speaker 2: just notice you're like, okay, well the referee screwed that
Speaker 2: up immediately, like he spotted that a yard short of
Speaker 2: the first down. I think it matters. My real question
Speaker 2: is I want to watch how this is done, because
Speaker 2: it's less about it's very easy to figure out exactly
Speaker 2: where the football is. We have to figure out exactly
Speaker 2: where the football is when the player is down. So
Speaker 2: how are they going to sync up the technology of Okay,
Speaker 2: the football right at this moment was right here. I
Speaker 2: want to see how they do it. If they can
Speaker 2: do it seamlessly, and I'm sure they've thought about this,
Speaker 2: then it's an obvious improvement and the NFL should go
Speaker 2: to it. We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back
Speaker 2: in final segment of today's show. Few quick reminders. One is,
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Speaker 2: that just started earlier this week, the fifty Greatest Players
Speaker 2: of the last fifty years in the NBA. That's going to
Speaker 2: be a weekly special edition series. We just released episode
Speaker 2: one of that, which has players fifty to forty nine.
Speaker 2: Spoiler alert it's Bernard King and Permelo Anthony. But we
Speaker 2: also discuss the rules of the list, the honorable mentions
Speaker 2: to the list. I throw in some Reggie Miller slander
Speaker 2: because he wasn't even an honorable mention of the honorable mentions.
Speaker 2: So all of that on the exact same feeds that
Speaker 2: you're seeing or listening to this on. But as we
Speaker 2: always do final segment, they don't tell me what we're
Speaker 2: talking about. Demanse and the producers do it together. Demanse,
Speaker 2: what are we doing?
Speaker 3: You came to me last night randomly simmy drunk, I
Speaker 3: think and drunk.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The words he send like.
Speaker 3: Explain things a little bit slower when you've had a
Speaker 3: few drinks, you know.
Speaker 2: But okay, accusing me of drinking on the work.
Speaker 3: And you demanded I remind you to discuss baseball headphones.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, thank you, good job, buddy. I forgot about that.
Speaker 2: Baseball headphones. So here's what I knew if you said
Speaker 2: that to me would spur this. Okay, so news came
Speaker 2: out this week after this terrible owner and league induced lockout,
Speaker 2: the commissioner in Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred, sent every
Speaker 2: player a pair of posts headphones. Okay, so let's do
Speaker 2: this math quickly. And you're gonna think this is gonna
Speaker 2: be hard math to do, but it's not. There's thirty teams,
Speaker 2: twenty five players a team. So what's thirty times twenty five?
Speaker 2: That's easy. What's three times twenty five is seventy five? Correct?
Speaker 2: Add the zero seven to fifty okay, seven hundred fifty
Speaker 2: total players. Let's say the headphones worth a thousand bucks each,
Speaker 2: which they're not, so then to be seven hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars. They're half that. They're five hundred bucks
Speaker 2: each at most of what's half of seven hundred thousand,
Speaker 2: three hundred and seven five thousand dollars. That's a good
Speaker 2: way to do quick math, America. You're welcome, so b
Speaker 2: it is a total at most the nicest most headphones,
Speaker 2: with the most expensive shipping and packaging all of it.
Speaker 2: It's three hundred and seventy five grand totally. Hey, sorry,
Speaker 2: we squeezed you out of you know, hundreds of millions
Speaker 2: of dollars at the negotiating table. And this the reason
Speaker 2: I want to talk about it is, and this is
Speaker 2: a lesson for everyone. There are times when giving a
Speaker 2: gift is more insulting than not giving anything at all,
Speaker 2: if the gift in and of itself is insulting. So
Speaker 2: you've got you were invited to a wedding and you
Speaker 2: didn't go, and you're like, ah, we should send a gift. Maybe,
Speaker 2: But if you're going to send the cheapest item that's
Speaker 2: left on their registry, you're going to send the Spatula
Speaker 2: six pack. Skip it entirely. There are I'll give you
Speaker 2: an example for me. I one time was I think
Speaker 2: far and away not I think I know the most
Speaker 2: valuable and important and profitable employee at the radio station
Speaker 2: in kans City. And one day I was working on
Speaker 2: my birthday. Boss calls me into his office. After he's like, hey, Nick,
Speaker 2: happy birthday. I'm like, oh, thanks, and he's like, hey,
Speaker 2: this is just you know, this is from the company.
Speaker 2: Thank you. It was like, oh, that's super nice of
Speaker 2: you guys. Wow. Thanks. I went home and I opened
Speaker 2: the envelope and it was twenty five dollars in credit
Speaker 2: to Dave and Busters. And I was like, okay, First
Speaker 2: of all, I know for a fact they're a sponsor,
Speaker 2: so you have a drawer full of these. Second of all,
Speaker 2: it's twenty five bucks. Man, give me not act like
Speaker 2: you forgot it, Like, don't give me twenty five Dave
Speaker 2: and Busters bucks as a birthday present? Open? Yeah, I did.
Speaker 2: I waited untill I got home. I'm like, oh, man,
Speaker 2: finally this hard work is paying off. They're finally respecting
Speaker 2: me around here. And it was twenty five Dave and
Speaker 2: Busters Bucks. It's like, okay, you know what does That's
Speaker 2: what Honestly, I was like, you know what, I'm out
Speaker 2: and if I'm a Major League Baseball player, and I
Speaker 2: had to worry about am I getting paid this year?
Speaker 2: And what they send me are headphones that undoubtedly Bo's
Speaker 2: gave them because they're a sponsor of the league. I
Speaker 2: think i'd rather have gotten that's today's