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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Unplugged. This week's episode is brought to
Speaker 3: you by DraftKings. The Crown is Yours. First up, Nick's
Speaker 3: lose to the Warriors on Saturday and dre Mond was
Speaker 3: on Towns's ass to further discuss this us back and forth.
Speaker 3: Let me bring in someone who wanted to change his names.
Speaker 3: But the fans voted and they said, fuck that, welcome
Speaker 3: to the show, the neighborhood hater. The fans are spoken, bro. No,
Speaker 3: they did absolutely did not.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, first of.
Speaker 3: All, I've never heard LA's finest, and I've been around
Speaker 3: you for more than half my life. I had to
Speaker 3: look back at the numbers. The fans said, No, neighborhood hater.
Speaker 3: Hate fits you. It is what it is. Your hater
Speaker 3: is with love sometimes I see that. So, yes, it
Speaker 3: got me here. Yeah, I guess, so we're here now. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 3: did you get a chance to see the Knicks Warriors?
Speaker 3: And in Draymond's antics with Cat.
Speaker 1: I did, and thoughts Cat fell for all that shit
Speaker 1: he did. Draymond did what he was supposed to do.
Speaker 1: He does it to everybody he does, you know, and
Speaker 1: I've got a feeling he doesn't fuck with Cat like that.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. But you know who won that game.
Speaker 3: Let's trace this back a little bit, because obviously a
Speaker 3: week or two ago, Golden State goes into Madison Square Garden,
Speaker 3: and Cat doesn't play. Draymond on his show with b
Speaker 3: D says that Kat was running from the smoke, comes
Speaker 3: to find out that his girls' family someone had passed,
Speaker 3: and obviously you want to send condolences out to everybody,
Speaker 3: and obviously death is a tough pill to swallow. But
Speaker 3: whether it was running from the smoke or legitimately you know,
Speaker 3: wanted to miss it, it gets people talking. And now
Speaker 3: fast forward New York comes back to Golden State and
Speaker 3: Dre is on his ass.
Speaker 1: I love Cat.
Speaker 3: I think Cat is probably one of the most talented
Speaker 3: players in the league. But his issue is he's a cat.
Speaker 3: He's not a dog. Still skilled, still will be a
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer, still an All Star, but he's just
Speaker 3: not a dog. And I think Draymond can see that
Speaker 3: and sniff it out and he attacks.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's Draymond's job to do that. Absolutely, He's
Speaker 1: one of the greatest to ever do it. At that
Speaker 1: we sit here argue about his drama going to the
Speaker 1: Hall of He is first ballot? Is he first ballot?
Speaker 1: I think so? Under ten thousand points. I think so.
Speaker 3: Four time champion, two time Olympian All Star, defensive player
Speaker 3: year one of the greatest teams of all time. I
Speaker 3: think first Battle is stamped.
Speaker 1: Times have changed drastically, is all I'm saying. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the truth, like times of change.
Speaker 3: I think if you just look at his statistical numbers,
Speaker 3: people would question that. But I think you look at
Speaker 3: the accolades and what he's meant for that organization. I
Speaker 3: think that puts him over the top.
Speaker 1: With you. I don't want to hear no ship later
Speaker 1: on you're my dog because he's someone will slap you too. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to fight with Draymond, so you better,
Speaker 1: you better you're talking about him.
Speaker 3: But also again, uh, and I don't know, now, did
Speaker 3: Cat take offense to this or people are trying to
Speaker 3: make it seem like he took offense to his team,
Speaker 3: to his team. Now his team's dapping out, No, his
Speaker 3: team dapping up Draymond after the game. So the fans
Speaker 3: stirred it up. Okay, so yes, so yeah, so that's
Speaker 3: an interesting thing. I mean, and we got to talk
Speaker 3: him before the show, Like obviously Draymond has smoked with Cat.
Speaker 3: New York loses Cat heads to the locker room, and
Speaker 3: then you see a bunch of his teammates dapping up
Speaker 3: Draymond me and a old school meant the touch of yourself.
Speaker 3: What does that tell you if you see something like that?
Speaker 3: This league is soft and it's changed.
Speaker 1: And I got to see you in the locker room
Speaker 1: about it, Like you think pat Riley and all that
Speaker 1: is going for all of that shit from back in
Speaker 1: the day. No, no chance.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I'm to the you know, I was
Speaker 3: someone who lost probably six hundred thousand dollars worth of
Speaker 3: shit for taking up for my teammates. You know, So
Speaker 3: someone has smoke with my teammate and there's real smoke.
Speaker 3: It's smoke period, you know what I mean. And maybe
Speaker 3: we'll catch up after the game or in the summertime.
Speaker 3: So but what that tells me is like, are they
Speaker 3: really riding with Cat like that? Like if someone is
Speaker 3: dogging Cat and then after the game, the person that's
Speaker 3: dogging Cat the team is lining up and showing bro love.
Speaker 3: If I'm Cat, I'm kind of looking at these niggas like,
Speaker 3: what's what's the deal? But remember you said Cat is
Speaker 3: a cat?
Speaker 1: Cat is a cat? Yeah, so I don't see Cat
Speaker 1: really steppingto nobody like that. Okay, I love you too.
Speaker 1: Cat all right, so don't be like that. When I
Speaker 1: see you, CAT won't slap you at all. You'll be
Speaker 1: all right. They can't whip us. Might he might be
Speaker 1: able to whoop you, but he's not real quick man.
Speaker 1: Was there ever a time when someone was talking shit
Speaker 1: and a teammate had to stand up for you, or
Speaker 1: that you had to stand up for a teammate. Not, No
Speaker 1: one had to stand up for me.
Speaker 3: I was always I mean, bro, I lost again, probably
Speaker 3: eighty five percent of the money I was fine was
Speaker 3: standing up for teammates.
Speaker 1: Did they ever pay a fine?
Speaker 3: Kobe was the only dude that paid my fine. Kobe
Speaker 3: was the only dude that pay I got in trouble
Speaker 3: for Blake, I got in trouble for Chris, I got
Speaker 3: in trouble for some other dudes. The only dude to
Speaker 3: pay my fine was Cod. But again, like I said earlier,
Speaker 3: like if his smoke is smoked, like my teammates and
Speaker 3: my family, and if you're talking shit to my teammate
Speaker 3: to me and you were cool, I'm not giving you
Speaker 3: no love during that because I got to go to
Speaker 3: war with my teammate every day. I again, I'll catch
Speaker 3: you in the summertime or in the off season later
Speaker 3: that night. But if his smoke is smoked, so I
Speaker 3: just think outside looking in, we'll see what the New
Speaker 3: York Knicks do. Obviously, it's one game, it's not a
Speaker 3: big deal. Brunson was out. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: I'm kind of if I'm cat, whether I say some
Speaker 3: or not, I'm looking at all these niggas.
Speaker 1: It was dapping up to due.
Speaker 3: It was dogging me for the last two weeks, like
Speaker 3: damn that that's how y'all feel. We shall see. So
Speaker 3: I saw the Sparks are looking for some male players
Speaker 3: to get out there and and and uh give them
Speaker 3: a good look in practice, and you kind of came
Speaker 3: to mind. Actually I saw Cameron Brink speak on it
Speaker 3: and how disgusted she was of just all the sexually
Speaker 3: driven energy that came from that post. But I'm not
Speaker 3: sure what they really expected. But could I see you
Speaker 3: out there with some real sparks out there and some
Speaker 3: being gay on your knees and guarding people.
Speaker 1: I'm up, I'm up. Okay, I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: your up right now?
Speaker 3: Okay, no, I want to. I can make a call.
Speaker 3: I mean, is there do you have any juice left
Speaker 3: in them, kneecaps.
Speaker 1: I went to get some shots up. Man, I'm ready
Speaker 1: to go. You can be a practice player on man.
Speaker 3: Who would you guard on that team, Ricky, Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 1: You would guard. I want on full court. Oh, man,
Speaker 1: have her back you down the whole time. No, but
Speaker 1: you know they need some physical you know they need
Speaker 1: some physicality.
Speaker 3: But people are laughing like this. This happens a lot, though,
Speaker 3: like women's teams get men, wreck players and former players
Speaker 3: to come out there and give them a good look.
Speaker 3: But I just thought, you know, as soon as I
Speaker 3: saw the question, I didn't even go to the comments. Initially,
Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, these comments are going to be
Speaker 3: fucking wild because they put four beautiful women up there
Speaker 3: to represent the sparks in which you kind of like
Speaker 3: with the perverted mind that men have. I don't know
Speaker 3: what they expected from that post.
Speaker 1: No. They need to get tougher though, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: that's why they bring them in in, right, I'm sure, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Moving right along the Warriors fourteen and one since Jimmy
Speaker 3: Butler's been on the team, second rated defense overall during
Speaker 3: that stretch, fifth rated offense over that stretch. Jimmy's numbers
Speaker 3: are modest, but I've always you know, sixteen, six and six,
Speaker 3: but I've always said his numbers don't reflect his impact,
Speaker 3: first of all on the team he's on, but particularly
Speaker 3: that game. One thing that has stepped up during that
Speaker 3: time is Steph has gone from twenty two or twenty
Speaker 3: three a game to twenty nine, six and four shooting
Speaker 3: forty two percent from the three point line. Kaminga's back, now.
Speaker 1: How serious are you looking at the Warriors right now?
Speaker 1: Real serious? I mean, Jimmy is a beast, and plus
Speaker 1: we've never seen him when he's happy. And he's happy, No,
Speaker 1: they're getting w's and this is what happens with him.
Speaker 1: I remember telling you guys, I wanted Jimmy with us, Yeah,
Speaker 1: when they're good when we first were trading for guys.
Speaker 1: And I feel like he's taking so much pressure off
Speaker 1: of Dre and Bordell. They just playing at peace now
Speaker 1: and we're seeing it right now.
Speaker 3: I've never been a fan of Jimmy's antics sometimes how
Speaker 3: he forces his way out of situations or dogs certain people.
Speaker 3: But I've always been a fan of his blue collar
Speaker 3: work ethic when he's out there and he plays he's
Speaker 3: giving you everything, and he's happy. He's giving you everything
Speaker 3: he's got. And to see a playoff Jimmy with the
Speaker 3: playoff Steph with the Draymond, with the young Kaminga and
Speaker 3: that supporting cast. It is going to be interesting these
Speaker 3: last game We got fifteen, sixteen games left, this last
Speaker 3: stretch because obviously we see Okay See at the top.
Speaker 3: And I've said this before, this very well could be
Speaker 3: the year that Okac says, fuck the Western Conference. We've
Speaker 3: taken our lumps and we're going to represent the Western Conference.
Speaker 3: This can also be a year that one of these
Speaker 3: more experienced teams, your Lakers, Denver or Golden State possibly
Speaker 3: comes out the West. So I think this stretch run
Speaker 3: of these last fifteen is going to be fun.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure the top three teams don't want to
Speaker 1: see us the Lakers. I'm sure they don't want to
Speaker 1: see Golden State. Is there a big problem right now?
Speaker 1: But I see them winning the championship too, though who
Speaker 1: the Golden State? You can see Golden State winning one
Speaker 1: be only because I don't see I'm not sure about
Speaker 1: Okay See. So to that question, markusl why I couldn't
Speaker 1: go to State win the championship this year.
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily disagree. I mean, I don't think they
Speaker 3: have the size necessarily, but they've never really had the
Speaker 3: type of size that you would expect from a championship team.
Speaker 3: With Looney down there and and and Davis and obviously
Speaker 3: what Draymond brings you, Steph's if Steph is out of
Speaker 3: his mind, if Jimmy is out of his mind, if
Speaker 3: Kaminga is locked in Porzinski, I mean, they have the
Speaker 3: pieces to compete. So I think this is going to
Speaker 3: be a great last fifteen and really excited for what
Speaker 3: the playoffs are.
Speaker 1: Going to bring.
Speaker 3: On the flip side, Bron went down in Boston, your
Speaker 3: team lost four straight on the road, turned the switch
Speaker 3: on Sunday, Luca and them boys really got in the
Speaker 3: Sun's asses. And before we talk about what your Lakers
Speaker 3: were able to do, Katie seems like he's fucking miserable.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: His body language is off and he's been getting into
Speaker 3: little beefs with motherfuckers. And Katie has always been someone
Speaker 3: that always risen above everything. If there's issues, Katie has
Speaker 3: always risen above everything. But I really think that owner
Speaker 3: trying to throw him in the trade because Bradley Beal
Speaker 3: clogged up the pipeline. I think it fucked Katie's mental
Speaker 3: luck and it really I think he really felt disrespected.
Speaker 3: I saw him talk I think andre Mond Show where
Speaker 3: obviously he didn't want to move things during that time,
Speaker 3: but he kind of to me left it open to like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this offseason, I could.
Speaker 1: Be out of there.
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts with that just team overall? I mean,
Speaker 3: the experiment has failed, There's no question about it. There's
Speaker 3: been word that Devin Booker is verbally committed to that
Speaker 3: team for the rest of his career. You know, you
Speaker 3: got three stars on that team, and it's it's it's
Speaker 3: just a nasty team. They still have a chance to
Speaker 3: make the playoffs because Dallas is down and out, But again,
Speaker 3: I feel like they're a top heavy team. They're a
Speaker 3: team and I said this last year, they're a team
Speaker 3: that lifts only upper body and their legs are super
Speaker 3: skinny with the big old buff, motherfucking body up. Top
Speaker 3: thoughts on this Phoenix team and do they make the playoffs?
Speaker 3: And if they don't, do you see any of their
Speaker 3: stars moving?
Speaker 1: I mean I was talking about there from the beginning,
Speaker 1: like when they first came together, like volume shooters that
Speaker 1: team for surprise surprise. Oh yeah, too many volume shooters
Speaker 1: on that team for it to work. People haven't picked
Speaker 1: to win the championship, like right right away as soon
Speaker 1: as they got together. But I think their run is over.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's time to move on from those three
Speaker 1: guys and they're almost well, especially KD, Like it's sad
Speaker 1: to see him go out like this with this Mantallia beau.
Speaker 3: He's such a great Yeah. If KD were to move,
Speaker 3: do you see any particular landing space, and don't say
Speaker 3: the Lakers, nigga, Like, let's be real, you see any landing.
Speaker 1: The only real landing spot for him, I think is
Speaker 1: the Rockets. The Rockets sorry about ok I guess, but
Speaker 1: what are they going to give up to get him back?
Speaker 3: If you're OKAC management and understanding the great career start
Speaker 3: he had there and he left on kind of sour terms,
Speaker 3: but obviously one of the greatest players. Would you shake
Speaker 3: up that lineup to bring up or shake up that
Speaker 3: roster to bring KAD in for maybe a two or
Speaker 3: three year championship run.
Speaker 1: I'm not giving up chat or one of our top
Speaker 1: three guys to get him though, So if they can
Speaker 1: get him with some picks or whatever else magic they
Speaker 1: can use to get him there, then yeah, but I'm
Speaker 1: not giving up our main guys right now.
Speaker 3: So no JD, no Chat, and obviously SGA is right untradable, right,
Speaker 3: so none of those three. But outside of that, anyone
Speaker 3: else can go absolutely, and you guys can have all
Speaker 3: our picks. I wouldn't say all of them, because you
Speaker 3: guys have a lot I mean, okay, see he has
Speaker 3: a lot of but k is worth a lot of Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, if Bridges his five picks and and motherfucking
Speaker 3: Rudy Gobert is what eighteen first round picks, like, Katie
Speaker 3: is definitely still at this age, going to demand that respect.
Speaker 1: And but it'll be.
Speaker 3: Interesting, you know, obviously Houston's a young team with U
Speaker 3: dunk Over one of the best coaches in the league,
Speaker 3: and they got a great young core, and it'll be
Speaker 3: interesting to see what those two teams do in this
Speaker 3: playoff run because obviously Houston's still young, so they're still
Speaker 3: rolling the dice. But okay, being at the top, okay,
Speaker 3: so he's been at the top of the division the
Speaker 3: last two years, and we'll see if they're be ready
Speaker 3: to take that job.
Speaker 1: Why can't we get them? Why can't the Lakers get KD? What?
Speaker 3: What would you have to give up for that? You'd
Speaker 3: have to give up a R? And before you didn't
Speaker 3: want to before you want to give up a R.
Speaker 3: But I think he's shown you his that white boy
Speaker 3: magic on that Laker team is strong, going hard. Now
Speaker 3: that you throw Luca in that category, he's got a
Speaker 3: little uh, he's got a little pigman and him.
Speaker 1: Connect actually is balling too, man like.
Speaker 3: He still got that chip on his shoulder, bro and
Speaker 3: Connect is one of those rare four years if I'm
Speaker 3: not mistaken, college guys that came in was ready to
Speaker 3: play right away, you know what I mean. So I
Speaker 3: don't see him going to the Lakers. I don't think
Speaker 3: you really do either, but you can be hopeful.
Speaker 1: And he's not going anywhere east right.
Speaker 3: I don't know, k No, you never know a KD man,
Speaker 3: You never know. I mean, he may not go anywhere.
Speaker 3: He may end up staying in Phoenix. I don't see it,
Speaker 3: but it's possible.
Speaker 1: Braun.
Speaker 3: During his time down, he got a chance to go
Speaker 3: see Bryce up in Sacramento win the state championships. Credit
Speaker 3: congratulations Sierra Canyon Mission League, Mission League in the house,
Speaker 3: Sior Cannon got the championship out there and in Sacramento,
Speaker 3: Bron was able to catch that. And they say he's
Speaker 3: supposed to be back and possibly another week. The Lakers
Speaker 3: have four home games this week. Do you think this
Speaker 3: team is trying to kind of find something without Braun?
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm all for broun resting going into the
Speaker 3: playoffs because they're definitely gonna need him. You guys have
Speaker 3: a legitimate shot to represent the Western Conference right now.
Speaker 3: What have you kind of seen from this team with
Speaker 3: Braun out?
Speaker 1: I mean, guys are finding their place. I'm sure I
Speaker 1: watched Bron last night, just sit back and watch. She
Speaker 1: wasn't clapping or anything, just saying who the guys will
Speaker 1: be when he gets back. But to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: is the first time I realized how bad we need
Speaker 1: a Bron in games, especially at the end of games. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, we get him help all through the through
Speaker 1: the game, but at the end of games you really
Speaker 1: need him. And Luca's Luca triple double guy, right all
Speaker 1: he is is triple double all of a sudden to.
Speaker 3: Me, not all of a sudden. He's been this guy.
Speaker 3: You just didn't want to admit it. No, you first
Speaker 3: got him.
Speaker 1: True that, true that, But really now that I have
Speaker 1: to buy into our team, well just now that.
Speaker 3: You watch him, see you play, see him play every
Speaker 3: day like it's crazy. And then this idiot DeMont is
Speaker 3: still out here talking shit about Luca. He's You're the
Speaker 3: biggest fucking clown in the whole NBA. Tell him you
Speaker 3: are the biggest clown. Just shut up, Just stop talking
Speaker 3: about it, like you fucked up. Take that fuck up.
Speaker 3: But shut the fuck up.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 3: You keep talking about Luca as he's continuing to obviously
Speaker 3: move on and do his thing, and you're like the
Speaker 3: X that continues to talk about Like, man, shut the
Speaker 3: fuck up.
Speaker 1: We go ahead. Luca's my guy, now, okay, so lucas
Speaker 1: your guy. Yeah, I'm with you all the way seventy seven.
Speaker 1: I'm buying your shoes and everything. Yeah, but we're looking good.
Speaker 1: I think when Lebron gets back and all of our
Speaker 1: guys come back, it's time to jail and get together.
Speaker 1: Like I think we're the team to beat in the West.
Speaker 3: I'm not even mad at that statement. I'm really not.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I saw Stephen A. Smith talk about
Speaker 3: something this morning on ESPN that he feels like Boston
Speaker 3: would probably run the Lakers out of the gym in
Speaker 3: the finals, and I think I kind of agree with
Speaker 3: that because they do have the youth and the experience.
Speaker 3: But he was talking about what an amazing finals would
Speaker 3: be with Lebron versus Cleveland.
Speaker 1: That'd be crazy. I mean, imagine, okay, see versus Cleveland.
Speaker 3: No one wants to see that, I don't think, with
Speaker 3: all due respect. And that's two great young teams with
Speaker 3: Mitchell and Shaye, but I don't think the ratings are
Speaker 3: going to be what they're expecting with those two teams.
Speaker 1: But Adam silver Man do the shite button? Yeah, come on, man,
Speaker 1: let's go.
Speaker 3: So you want to see Lakers Boston or Lakers Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Or they both have storylines, don't they great? So Cleveland
Speaker 1: trying to get it against Lebron? Pause you that would
Speaker 1: be huge for a television game. You can throw Gold
Speaker 1: and State in there. The storylines with greatness absolutely question.
Speaker 3: This is not even all script. But if Steph gets
Speaker 3: another ring during Lebron's watch, what does that do to
Speaker 3: the hierarchy.
Speaker 1: Of the game. Well, I don't care how many rings
Speaker 1: he gets. This man has fifty k. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of so regardless of however many rings Steph gets above him,
Speaker 1: they're building a whole new section of the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame for Lebron. So do I think it'll wreckus? I don't.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it. I think wreck You can't take
Speaker 3: away with brons diminish. But I remember, like the talk
Speaker 3: has always been like who got it on your watch?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Who got it on M's watch? Who got it on
Speaker 3: Open Shacks watch? Now, who's getting it on Lebron's watch?
Speaker 3: And if someone that came in is played similar I
Speaker 3: mean le Bron's he played four more years than Steph,
Speaker 3: of I think. But if Steph somehow walks away with
Speaker 3: five rings and Lebron walks away with four, does that
Speaker 3: strengthen anyone's argument to Lebron's greatness?
Speaker 1: Yes? And I only say that because how could you
Speaker 1: lest someone get more rings than you? Your watching guy? Yeah?
Speaker 3: So and the guy that stayed in the same spot
Speaker 3: yeah the whole time?
Speaker 1: Yeah Yeah, But I don't think they'll ever let Steph
Speaker 1: move around Lebron even though they say that he's been
Speaker 1: the guy to changed the game so much. But I
Speaker 1: don't think he'll ever be able to. I don't care
Speaker 1: how many rings he gets.
Speaker 3: So Lebron is top three and if you put them one,
Speaker 3: two or three best respectable as Steph cracked the top ten?
Speaker 1: No, yes, I'm sorry, Yes, yeah, absolutely has he cracked
Speaker 1: the top ten? Com one thousand threes?
Speaker 3: I'm asking some people probably say.
Speaker 1: No, four thousand threes is crazy. Absolutely he gets five. Ooh,
Speaker 1: are you asking me if he's going over magic? Don't
Speaker 1: ask me that because I'm from a La baby and
Speaker 1: nobody's going over magic for me like that. So no,
Speaker 1: And you gotta think what magic?
Speaker 3: Only played eleven years, went to the finals nine times,
Speaker 3: got five rings, three finals MVPs. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 3: I'm just going off the top of my head. But
Speaker 3: that's a hell of a feet.
Speaker 1: That's her though. Man, you gotta stop playing with his
Speaker 1: name the magic. Yeah, man, you gotta stop playing.
Speaker 3: This next segment is brought to you by Rose Sparks.
Speaker 3: Is it Sparks or five? Did you see this video
Speaker 3: of scal this weekend? This dude at the park, I did,
Speaker 3: But what do you think about that? I loved it.
Speaker 3: I fucked with scal like we used to go at
Speaker 3: it in college. I used to think he was an asshole.
Speaker 3: He probably thought I was an asshole. But he's always
Speaker 3: had game. And for me, he's always been one of
Speaker 3: the most disrespected dudes. But he had super game, has
Speaker 3: always had game. This dude, Messiah is an older dude.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you want to call him a
Speaker 3: park legend, I want to disrespect them. He may be
Speaker 3: a park legend out there, but when he plays these dudes,
Speaker 3: all he does is fallum and talk shit. And Scout
Speaker 3: wasn't having none of that. Scout was ready to scrap.
Speaker 3: Have big fella throwing the ball over the fence. Skout
Speaker 3: was throwing him on the ground. Gave him my elbow
Speaker 3: to the chest, and I personally fucking loved it.
Speaker 1: I loved it.
Speaker 3: And I made a comment like you guys think shit
Speaker 3: a sweet with pro players, like we were pros for
Speaker 3: a fucking reason, you know what I mean? And actually,
Speaker 3: the Messiah dude hit me and asked me if I'm next,
Speaker 3: and I said, play, motherfucker's your level?
Speaker 1: Bro?
Speaker 3: Quit talking to me, like because if you found me
Speaker 3: like that, I'm gonna fight you on the spot. You
Speaker 3: didn't foul me, cut it out, but the way this
Speaker 3: dude was fouling scal. But I loved with Skal. Shout out, Bro.
Speaker 3: I know we're not really close or type by any means,
Speaker 3: but I fucked.
Speaker 1: With what you did this past weekend.
Speaker 3: Bro, Way to hold it down for us overtired motherfuckers
Speaker 3: and people who man just stop thinking shit is sweet.
Speaker 3: You mean we're getting older so we may not be
Speaker 3: able to move as much. But like we played in
Speaker 3: the pros for a reason fifteen years in this shit
Speaker 3: he asked me for Like, no, motherfucker, I'm not next.
Speaker 3: You want to fight now, I'm playing. I ain't trying
Speaker 3: to fight you. You weren't paying I was trying to
Speaker 3: fight you now. But I was happy for it because
Speaker 3: I think people get the misconception of guys that may
Speaker 3: be on the end of the bench or or or
Speaker 3: don't play a time like can't play like No.
Speaker 1: They're a pro for a reason.
Speaker 3: You give them an opportunity to get out in another
Speaker 3: setting and they will dominate. So I think his name
Speaker 3: is Messiah, George the Messiah stick to playing dudes that
Speaker 3: didn't play real basketball and bullying them because Scout.
Speaker 1: Gave you everything you look for, had you out there.
Speaker 3: Crying, boohooing, throwing the ball over the fence, pout and
Speaker 3: talking about fouls when all you do is foul Scott
Speaker 3: wait to bust his ass, bro.
Speaker 1: So what we just watched is the Sparks. The fire.
Speaker 1: That's motherfucking fire. Yes, a great period fire.
Speaker 3: He was a Messia might have been on Sparks, but
Speaker 3: Scout was on. Scout was on real fire and I
Speaker 3: loved it. Well, gino man, I appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Hopefully uh Bron will be back this week or by
Speaker 3: the in the next week, so we'll be talking about
Speaker 3: his comeback in the team's final ten games headed into
Speaker 3: the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Shout out Row indeed.
Speaker 3: So March Madness is officially here and All the Smoke
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Speaker 3: for grabs. Obviously, March Madness is here, and I think
Speaker 3: one of the hottest topics of late has been the NCUBLEA,
Speaker 3: the nil and these old ass men playing college basketball.
Speaker 3: And I want to make this very clear, By no
Speaker 3: way do I fault the players that are taking advantage
Speaker 3: of a situation that or the nc double A has
Speaker 3: no control over. But if you look at a team
Speaker 3: like Auburn who has an average age older than the
Speaker 3: Oklahoma City Thunder, you look at Rick Patino, who's team
Speaker 3: who is a two seed, congratulations, but he's talking about
Speaker 3: I'm not recruiting high school players. Dan Hurley talking about
Speaker 3: half his team will jump in the portal after winning
Speaker 3: back to back championships, Like, I think there's a real
Speaker 3: issue in the NCUBA, whether it be money, and we've
Speaker 3: always screamed for money, so we can't really be complaining
Speaker 3: about the money. But I just think there needs to
Speaker 3: be some sort of regulation and age limit in college
Speaker 3: because college used to be for amateurs. College used to
Speaker 3: be for eighteen year old kids coming out of high
Speaker 3: school and looking to get to that next level. And
Speaker 3: now you're seeing twenty three, twenty four, twenty five, twenty
Speaker 3: six year olds playing college sports and it's to me,
Speaker 3: it's ridiculous. And again, by no means of my faulting
Speaker 3: the athletes because the money's there and there's no regulations
Speaker 3: on it. Get all the motherfucking money and experience you can.
Speaker 3: But I just think that shit is wait. I think
Speaker 3: college is supposed to be for kids coming out of
Speaker 3: high school trying to get to that next level, and
Speaker 3: they're being washed out looked over having to go to
Speaker 3: Jac's because there's fucking twenty six year old men with
Speaker 3: two kids that are playing in front of them. So
Speaker 3: I don't agree with that. I think it's stupid. I
Speaker 3: think the NCAA needs to do something. Was always behind
Speaker 3: the curve always. They've always been behind the curve. They've
Speaker 3: never been ahead of anything. It's always been a mess.
Speaker 3: You guys need to let Jay Billis run that shit.
Speaker 3: Jay Billis is always talking real shit. You guys need
Speaker 3: to get the fuck out the way.
Speaker 1: Jay.
Speaker 3: You need to retire from your analyst job and go
Speaker 3: run the NCAA because I think you make the most
Speaker 3: sense every time you talk about it. But that's neither
Speaker 3: here nor there. Another thing that's been talked about a lot,
Speaker 3: Shaka Smart and what he's doing over at Marquette, not
Speaker 3: allowing agents in the mix to get cuts of his
Speaker 3: players in il money or collective money, and some of
Speaker 3: his top players are using him as a representative. He's
Speaker 3: not taking no bread and these guys are getting their
Speaker 3: full money, so it'll be interesting to see. Obviously, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of what ifs in that kind of situations
Speaker 3: that do you have that kind of trust in other programs?
Speaker 3: Who knows? But I love what Shaka is doing. He's
Speaker 3: allowing these kids to kind of really eat in a
Speaker 3: safe environment without predators praying over the top of these youngsters.
Speaker 3: We've been in recent conversations with colleges about doing some
Speaker 3: nil stuff and creating content around it, because we know
Speaker 3: that content is king, and these kids really want to
Speaker 3: learn how to grow their brand. So there's definitely a
Speaker 3: laye there, and I'm excited that we're going to be
Speaker 3: able to start helping some of these college kids develop
Speaker 3: their brand off the court. But let's get to what
Speaker 3: it is right now. Man March Madness one of the
Speaker 3: best times of the year. Myself and the team got
Speaker 3: a chance to go to UCLA this past weekend and
Speaker 3: host a panel for the women's team. Shout out coach Corey,
Speaker 3: who has always been amazing and goes out of her
Speaker 3: way to reach out to the men alumni to be
Speaker 3: a part and seeing the bigger picture and understanding it
Speaker 3: was a really awkward situation because I went in there
Speaker 3: on Sunday and the men's selection show was just ending
Speaker 3: and I saw my guy, Doug Erickson. He was kind
Speaker 3: of surprised, like what are you doing here? And I
Speaker 3: was like, you know, Coach Corey wanted me to come
Speaker 3: do a panel for the women's team, And it was
Speaker 3: just kind of a weird feeling that the UCLA men's
Speaker 3: team and Coach Cronin and you know, whether you like.
Speaker 1: Him or not, it's really not ever leading up to me.
Speaker 3: I don't really care, but how he just doesn't give
Speaker 3: a fuck about the guys that came before at all.
Speaker 3: No conversation, no effort, no nothing. And on the flip side,
Speaker 3: Coach Corey, who's been there for nearly fourteen years, goes
Speaker 3: out of her way to reach out to us, send
Speaker 3: us gear, send us shoes, check on the family. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I never played for her, never knew her before this opportunity,
Speaker 3: but she's just amazing and really wanted to give her
Speaker 3: a shout out for just the way she goes about it.
Speaker 3: But Anyway, I went up there and hosted a panel
Speaker 3: where I got a chance to talk to coach Corey,
Speaker 3: talk to Lauren Bett's Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year,
Speaker 3: Kicky Rice all Big Ten, and Gabrielle hakez Hi MAI's
Speaker 3: little sister who was out there doing her things.
Speaker 1: So it was really cool.
Speaker 3: Got a chance to sit down talk to them, talked
Speaker 3: to them about their experience at UCLA, their upcoming battle,
Speaker 3: and and and their seed in the tournament, and it
Speaker 3: was a great time. They got the number one seed
Speaker 3: and we'll be playing at home their first two games,
Speaker 3: which is amazing. They're down the road cross rivals Juju
Speaker 3: and the USC Trojans got the fourth number one seed
Speaker 3: and their coach came out and felt a little disrespected
Speaker 3: about that seed. But nevertheless, I know SC will be
Speaker 3: ready to rock.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: The crazy part I would say, I will say that
Speaker 3: the men's there's more hype around the men's bracket this year,
Speaker 3: But I would also say is there's a lot of
Speaker 3: hype around the women's tournament. Uh this uh this upcoming March.
Speaker 3: So really excited to see both. I know the men's
Speaker 3: are the men the men are of the seventh seed.
Speaker 3: I think they play Utahs State in the first round,
Speaker 3: which will be a solid matchup, and if they're able
Speaker 3: to get by them, they'll play the winner of the
Speaker 3: Tennessee game. And Tennessee's playing some good ball right now.
Speaker 3: So wishing the men's team well in their journey and
Speaker 3: definitely wishing the women's side well. You know, they got
Speaker 3: a nice draw, and if it all comes down to it,
Speaker 3: I think they would play sc in the final four,
Speaker 3: which I was hoping to have that on them on
Speaker 3: the other side, and possibly play them in the National Championship.
Speaker 3: We're obviously not looking ahead, but if we are looking ahead,
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a crazy final four.
Speaker 3: But good luck to all the teams in this bracket,
Speaker 3: in this madness. I remember personally, March madness was the
Speaker 3: funnest time, one of the funnest times of my life.
Speaker 3: So enjoy it, embrace it, play every game like at
Speaker 3: your last, because it can be Our brothers, Ac and
Speaker 3: Barack sat down with the one and only Ryan Garcia
Speaker 3: on ring Champs. Take a look at this, at it.
Speaker 4: But again, at that time, nothing was gonna get to me.
Speaker 4: Bro I swear, I swear I was in a whole
Speaker 4: different universe.
Speaker 5: To be honest, did you think you would never come
Speaker 5: back one hundred? I didn't think. I'm like, I'm surprised
Speaker 5: I'm here right now.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 4: I was training it every day, every single day people,
Speaker 4: even the day of the fight. Day of the fight,
Speaker 4: I just got so involved in just trying to cope
Speaker 4: whatever was going on inside. And like I said, I've
Speaker 4: been struggling mentally for for years, and it just it
Speaker 4: just wouldn't stop for me. So, like I said, that's
Speaker 4: how I coped.
Speaker 1: What was the turning point.
Speaker 4: Turning point is to realize, like, damn, bro, I'm slucking
Speaker 4: my life up, you know, And getting arrested was a
Speaker 4: big part of it.
Speaker 5: Almost losing my kids was a huge part of it.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about what happened that day? Uh?
Speaker 4: I decided to take a bunch of shrooms and something
Speaker 4: I was doing already, but this time I took too many.
Speaker 5: And I kind of just lost it.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 5: I can't really say anything else. I mean they were
Speaker 5: saying that you trashed the room.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I ended up breaking everything
Speaker 4: in the room.
Speaker 5: I don't I really don't remember, Bro. I was drunk
Speaker 5: and fucked up to.
Speaker 6: The But to his point, who were you with that day?
Speaker 5: The same people?
Speaker 1: You see.
Speaker 6: This is the thing, though, I'm sure those people love you.
Speaker 6: I'm sure you know some of them love you or whatever,
Speaker 6: but that doesn't mean that they know what's good for
Speaker 6: you in your career and your life.
Speaker 1: And your spirit, you know what I mean. That's all.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that people love you. I ain't trying to
Speaker 1: knock them.
Speaker 6: I'm just trying to say, do you think you should
Speaker 6: have been around that kind of people that's comfortable when
Speaker 6: you getting drunk and being an athlete?
Speaker 1: That's all I was trying to say.
Speaker 4: No, no, I respect that, and now man, I feel
Speaker 4: I just didn't have those type of people.
Speaker 3: You can catch that episode this Wednesday with some of
Speaker 3: our newest members of the All the Smoke Fight family,
Speaker 3: ring champs our brother Acken barack Man. Congratulations fellas, welcome
Speaker 3: to the family and definitely looking forward to seeing this
Speaker 3: Ryan interview. That's a wrap for this week. I'm unplugged.
Speaker 3: You can catch us on All the Smoke Productions YouTube
Speaker 3: and the DraftKings Network. We'll see y'all next week.