Speaker 1: My forty Niners travel up the five to play the Rams,
Speaker 1: and so far I'm gonna beat in that bitch too.
Speaker 1: I'll be rooting for the one and only Rams. I
Speaker 1: don't want you to score a touchdown. I don't want
Speaker 1: nothing good to happen to y'all. Y'all knocked the live
Speaker 1: wis out, so one thing I can do. It's not
Speaker 1: route for y'all. I'm gonna go down with my squads, y'all. Son,
Speaker 1: welcome back to What's Burning? Jack? What's happening cooling? My brother?
Speaker 1: What's the word? Man? A nice little playoff weekend of football.
Speaker 1: Some good basketball on the way, man, Let's get to it, man,
Speaker 1: West Side Connection. A lot of pivotal games going down
Speaker 1: in the West this week, Big games. MAVs verse Warriors Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Warriors are second in the West. They've cooled off of
Speaker 1: late three months, been out with that calf injury. Clay
Speaker 1: rested for some knees starts. We'll get more about Clay later. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Man the math. The MAVs eight out of their last ten,
Speaker 1: fifth in the West, top three defense right now during
Speaker 1: this run. And someone I think you and I mentioned
Speaker 1: on another show, but Javen Brunson man at sixteen five
Speaker 1: and a half shooting fifty from the seat. Uh, possible
Speaker 1: X factor. But uh, in the conversation for most improved player, Jack,
Speaker 1: what are you looking at with this upcoming Steph versus
Speaker 1: Luca matchup. It's gonna be a good matchup, good basketball,
Speaker 1: must see TV. I think this is uh the reason
Speaker 1: why I always say Draymond should be m v P.
Speaker 1: You know you have the team, you have Clay coming
Speaker 1: back to de w young stars. With Draymond out, the
Speaker 1: defense is nowhere where it needs to be, and you
Speaker 1: don't have that anchor and that playmaker on offense like
Speaker 1: you always have. So Jamond is a big part of
Speaker 1: that team. And that's why that's why you say seeing
Speaker 1: them slide of late with Dallas. Yeah, we spoke about
Speaker 1: Brnson being a tough guy and and and that and
Speaker 1: that guy that that brings the force for the team.
Speaker 1: But you never expected to buil a point guard, right,
Speaker 1: and you can only get so far with your muscle.
Speaker 1: Being a PointGuard that's gonna have. They're gonna have to
Speaker 1: find somebody in the inside to be their muscle and
Speaker 1: be the enforced to with tech Luca. Stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but Brush is doing a great job. He's definitely UH
Speaker 1: at the top of my list and not thirst, you know,
Speaker 1: behind til Hero for most improved m I like what
Speaker 1: you said about Draymond because, like I said, his numbers
Speaker 1: aren't overwhelming, but it's across the board every single night
Speaker 1: it's and they'll funk around and have five blocks and
Speaker 1: three steels and it's wild numbers like that. But like
Speaker 1: you said, we know he's probably in the in the
Speaker 1: first spot for possibly a defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: But what people don't understand is he's really the quarterback
Speaker 1: of that offense. Draymond is at the top of the
Speaker 1: key or at that free throw line area tho when
Speaker 1: dimes the entire time. And that's why people, like I said,
Speaker 1: they're gonna hit their stride once he gets back. But
Speaker 1: he is so important of just kind of orchestrating that
Speaker 1: offense to get Now he has Clay back too, they're
Speaker 1: gonna get going. But I agree with you, man, like
Speaker 1: his importance is I definitely think undervalued um in the
Speaker 1: worst success. Next up, we got the Phoenix Suns in
Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz They played Monday, second time in a week.
Speaker 1: Sons best team in the NBA, and I think they're overlooked.
Speaker 1: Um I personally overlooked them, but to be honestly, they
Speaker 1: won nine out of ten. They've been very consistent. You
Speaker 1: know how this game is about luck jack. Your star
Speaker 1: has gotta stay healthy, and they've done all this with
Speaker 1: Aiden eight. I do want to say Atan's only played
Speaker 1: like twenty eight games. He's missed about nine games of
Speaker 1: the out of the last thirteen. Um, so it really
Speaker 1: hats off the CP and uh Devin Booker and the
Speaker 1: rest of these guys. Coach Monty Williams on keeping this
Speaker 1: team where they are clearly the best team in the league.
Speaker 1: Thoughts on this game. It's gonna be a good game.
Speaker 1: I knew that things will come back and have a
Speaker 1: good regular season. I'm just not confident in them winning
Speaker 1: the championship. They're a great team, they can compete in
Speaker 1: the West. I just don't see them getting back to
Speaker 1: that championship for him with teams not being surprised of
Speaker 1: them coming. Now you know Phoenix is coming. Now you
Speaker 1: know you gotta put path for him. They're the best
Speaker 1: team in the league during a regular season. Uh Utah,
Speaker 1: that that's what you how it is. Man, They're gonna
Speaker 1: play well in the regular season. They're gonna have a
Speaker 1: great defensive team with Rudy Gobert anchoring the team. But
Speaker 1: you know, we've seen this before. I just don't believe
Speaker 1: when when it comes time, we always write about Utah.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna be a good game, man. Hopefully things
Speaker 1: will be different this year for both teams, but that
Speaker 1: that's just how it's been, you know, just the Signs
Speaker 1: just can't get over to help and be a championship team,
Speaker 1: and Utah just who they are. See, I'll disagree with
Speaker 1: you with the Phoenix ship. I think, you know, we
Speaker 1: could say what we wanted about how they got there.
Speaker 1: They got there last year, got their feet wet, and
Speaker 1: the only reason why I would say it wasn't luck
Speaker 1: and I think they can do it again is because
Speaker 1: they got a real threeheaded monster in one end, one
Speaker 1: of the best leaders in the game. And not to
Speaker 1: mention all their role players they got, you know, people
Speaker 1: like JaVale McGee. They picked up Bis mc beyondbo. You
Speaker 1: know what CP does with big, strong athletic bigs the
Speaker 1: role to the basket man. So I really feel like
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns can be a contender on the flips that.
Speaker 1: I agree, and I've been saying this for maybe the
Speaker 1: last two years. They are a great regular season team.
Speaker 1: They move the ball, they shoot the ball very well,
Speaker 1: but they're missing one more score. They need that consistent
Speaker 1: along with Donovan Mitchell, that twenty point of game score.
Speaker 1: You know every night he is going to be in
Speaker 1: that twenty range. And sometimes they get it from con Ley,
Speaker 1: sometimes they get it from Bogdanovich can get hot on you,
Speaker 1: but just consistently h night and night out. You know,
Speaker 1: Jordan Clarkson will give it to you off the bench.
Speaker 1: But I think they need that solidified robbin to Donovan
Speaker 1: Mitchell's batman. So I agree with you. Jazz gotta heavy
Speaker 1: schedule though, because after that they played Memphis UM on Friday.
Speaker 1: The grizzliest pass the Jazz in the standings ten and
Speaker 1: two in January. Marant's average six a game thoughts on
Speaker 1: that matchup gonna be a good matchup. Memphis is just
Speaker 1: rolling right now. I think they're a team that everybody
Speaker 1: wants to see. That their team that every is on
Speaker 1: everybody's radar. Jahn Moran is definitely playing in the All
Speaker 1: Star caliber like you should be carrying his team and
Speaker 1: or and even the role players, even the guys that's
Speaker 1: that's coming off the bench. They're coming in and doing it,
Speaker 1: doing their job, not doing more than needed are that's
Speaker 1: the need of just doing their job exactly, and that's
Speaker 1: why they're playing well. And this is one of the
Speaker 1: hardest playing teams in the league right now. So I
Speaker 1: think every time they're on TV, every time they're playing,
Speaker 1: people watching them now kind of piggyback and off what
Speaker 1: I said about their their their matchup earlier in the week. Um,
Speaker 1: and then with you know, Donovan Mitchell being out. He
Speaker 1: does so much for the team, you know, leading score, um,
Speaker 1: third and rebounds. He's a big part of that team. Uh,
Speaker 1: they've lost seven out of ten without him, So you
Speaker 1: look to guys like Mike Conley to step up. Clarkson,
Speaker 1: you need Rudy Gobert to be more aggressive, you know,
Speaker 1: one of their role players to get to get going. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you said, the Grizzlies, you know, I think they've
Speaker 1: come back down to earth a little bit. Morant's still
Speaker 1: been playing great, but the most exciting team in the
Speaker 1: game right now. So this will definitely be another good
Speaker 1: match up on Friday night, Jack, Let's check in with
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat. Uh. Now the number one team in
Speaker 1: the East. They're starting to get healthy and we see
Speaker 1: Brooklyn and Chicago not healthy. The one thing about the
Speaker 1: East though, was I want to say two and a
Speaker 1: half games operates one to six. And on the flip
Speaker 1: side on the Western Conference, I think it's twelve games.
Speaker 1: That represents Phoenix in Denver. So you can have a
Speaker 1: good week or a bad week and go from number one.
Speaker 1: And as you see the Bulls falling, I think they're three. Now.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on the Miami Heat. We've always been very
Speaker 1: high on this team. I think they've flown under the
Speaker 1: radar just how they want to. BAM's back right now,
Speaker 1: they're three and one of his return. He's at about
Speaker 1: eighteen and nine. UH. Thoughts on this Miami Heat team.
Speaker 1: We talked about Memphis playing playing hard and being one
Speaker 1: of the hardest playing teams. Well, this is the grittiest
Speaker 1: team in the league with talent, you know, and and
Speaker 1: and they play the way the style of basketball that
Speaker 1: we like to see. The physical they're gonna get. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be physical on both ends of the ball offense
Speaker 1: and defense that they got the guys that's gonna get
Speaker 1: in your face some defense, and you've got scores, you
Speaker 1: got you got proven All Stars, Kyle Lowry, Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: you know, Bama to Bayos back. This team can really
Speaker 1: do some damage in the East. Everybody is worried about
Speaker 1: this team. We'll be talking about Milwaukee, Chicago and uh
Speaker 1: and and Brooklyn. But we need to stop talking to
Speaker 1: buy them because with this team healthy and the way
Speaker 1: Tale Hero was playing, man, this team is gonna be scary.
Speaker 1: This team is only two years removed from the finals.
Speaker 1: I think how quickly people forget that um again. I
Speaker 1: just think they've been, you know, playing good basketball under
Speaker 1: the radar. Everyone's getting healthy. It's all about being healthy
Speaker 1: at the right time. They got the All Star break
Speaker 1: coming up. They're gonna get to rest a little bit.
Speaker 1: But you know, Katie is out, Lonzo Ball had knee
Speaker 1: a surgery, Crusoe had, It's gonna have some had a
Speaker 1: risk injury. Uh, who's the Levine some knee trouble. So
Speaker 1: it's all about being healthy in today's game more than ever.
Speaker 1: So you know, hats off to them. It's got possibly
Speaker 1: the best game, best coach in the game and Eric
Speaker 1: spoelster Um. So yeah, they're they're they're sitting nice and there.
Speaker 1: They'll be ready for the playoffs. They're definitely a blue collar,
Speaker 1: hard working play the game the right way and like
Speaker 1: you said, they got stars to really carry them. Next up. Um,
Speaker 1: wish everyone we're gonna be healthy and playing in this game.
Speaker 1: But nets at the Warriors, Uh, Kyrie at staff. Both teams,
Speaker 1: I'll be dealing with key injuries. Katie with the knee injury,
Speaker 1: Draymond down, Clay was a late scratch one of these
Speaker 1: uh previous games due to knee soreness. Still gonna be
Speaker 1: a good battle, possibly still far away, but the finals.
Speaker 1: Preview Jack thoughts on this game. I think games like
Speaker 1: this for these type of teams, this caliber teams. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's good for guys like Kyrie, for guys like Clay,
Speaker 1: even if he, uh, excuse me, these younger guys that's
Speaker 1: coming off the bench to get more, get more planned
Speaker 1: time to get more you know, reps at it and
Speaker 1: Kyrie needs the reps. Everybody knows that these two teams
Speaker 1: are gonna be in the end of you know, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be there at the end you know what I'm say,
Speaker 1: When it's time to play for the West Conference Finals
Speaker 1: in the NBA Championship, one of these two teams are
Speaker 1: gonna be there at the end. So I think for
Speaker 1: them right now, just to try to stay healthy, get
Speaker 1: Kyrie reps, get these young guy reps. So when the
Speaker 1: team is healthy and everybody's the team is full and uh,
Speaker 1: and they have their normal rotations and guys will be
Speaker 1: ready to play failing to do what they need to do.
Speaker 1: Agreed selfishly. I can't wait to see that Kyrie Steph matchup.
Speaker 1: You know, two of the best in the game. You know.
Speaker 1: You know how Kyrie, they both take it personal when
Speaker 1: they where they play each other, man, So that's definitely
Speaker 1: gonna be a great showdown. Uh. You know, also real
Speaker 1: quick about Clay Uh, he came almost such a splash
Speaker 1: that people have to understand they thought that he's back.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a process. Man. He's like a
Speaker 1: late scratch for knee soreness. He's been out almost two
Speaker 1: and a half years, you know, so he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to climb his way back slowly. Knee soreness. He's probably
Speaker 1: gonna have some quad and calf issues. Hopefully you know,
Speaker 1: not go what he doesn't. But that's just normally what
Speaker 1: happens if you get these little nicks coming back from
Speaker 1: you know, major injuries, but just being out so long.
Speaker 1: So again, I think they understand that it's a marathon.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Nip and it's not a sprint with
Speaker 1: Clay so perfect to your point, you know, Jordan Pool
Speaker 1: came out and dropped twenty um. These these guys, young
Speaker 1: guys off the bench. Gotta stay ready, but definitely looking
Speaker 1: forward to that Stephen Kyrie showdown. He dropped Jordan Clarkson too,
Speaker 1: didn't he and cork Jordan Clarkson knew it, gave him
Speaker 1: the boo boo face and everything. Next up on the Radar,
Speaker 1: presented you by Draft Kings Jack Lakers have a big
Speaker 1: week ahead. But before we get to their schedule, a
Speaker 1: d was a late scratch. Try to get warm, couldn't
Speaker 1: get warm. That instantly tells me you need to sit
Speaker 1: back down for another week or two. If there's any
Speaker 1: kind of pain where he feels like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just not there with his big bulky knee brace, sit down, man,
Speaker 1: maybe sit down to All Star break, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? And get some good practices in over that
Speaker 1: time and then try to come back. But the fact
Speaker 1: it kind of scares me that, you know, he's been
Speaker 1: out since the seventeenth of December with an uh MCL sprain.
Speaker 1: He comes out with a big old knee brace. Can't
Speaker 1: really get warm. Sit him down, man, sit him down.
Speaker 1: There's no rush to get him back, although they really
Speaker 1: miss him. Sit down and rest um. But the week
Speaker 1: ahead their one and one on. They're on their Grammy
Speaker 1: trip right now, although the Grammys aren't this week. This
Speaker 1: is normally the Grammy trip for them, eleven day trip.
Speaker 1: They broke. They're broken even they beat Orlando, lost to Miami.
Speaker 1: Uh Next up, they got a wounded Nets team at home,
Speaker 1: so it'll just be hard and they'll we knel Kyrie,
Speaker 1: you know, Katie's out. Then they go to sixers where
Speaker 1: in Bed is playing like an animal, and they finish
Speaker 1: up with that young Hornets team in Charlotte. Jack there
Speaker 1: one game under five hundred. Do you feel like this
Speaker 1: team is over or under? Forty two and a half
Speaker 1: wins thus far there, twenty three and twenty four. I'm
Speaker 1: going away. It looks I'm going under. But as simple fact,
Speaker 1: that anytime somebody's out there warming up with precaution, that's
Speaker 1: basically saying that the organization is trying to make you
Speaker 1: come back quicker than you are ready to. When you're ready,
Speaker 1: you just go out damn warm up. But anytime you
Speaker 1: go out there and warming up with precaution, you know,
Speaker 1: that's the organization trying to push you back ahead of time.
Speaker 1: And that ain't a good look. They need a d
Speaker 1: They know he already fragile. You got Shock on the
Speaker 1: sideline screaming. Every u's telling me you're playing too fucking fast.
Speaker 1: It's just and uh, you know, I just think that
Speaker 1: they don't they don't see what people on the outside see.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Anthony Davis. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be for the rest of the season. You know,
Speaker 1: it's especially coming out there with that big old brace.
Speaker 1: That's not that's not that's gonna affect this game a lot.
Speaker 1: With the athleticism being a big part of his game,
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be able to move like that with
Speaker 1: that big old brace. Song. So I know that the
Speaker 1: organizations trying to rush him back. But a D B
Speaker 1: smart bro, because this can be something that can make
Speaker 1: you miss hold miss the whole entire next season. If
Speaker 1: you go out there and try to push on that leg,
Speaker 1: you might end up hurting something else. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't really know, and I agree you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: it is the organization. This could be a DA, could
Speaker 1: be a combination of both. But I think at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we're almost We've got one more
Speaker 1: week left in in uh January, two weeks into February.
Speaker 1: Then you have the All Star Game hit, So why
Speaker 1: rest him to the All Star break? Um, so we
Speaker 1: know that he has that much more rest, and then
Speaker 1: they're gonna make their stretch run. Getting him back in
Speaker 1: shape after All Star Break, but coming back to early
Speaker 1: can be very detrimental. We all know that, and he's
Speaker 1: injury prone, so wish him the best. So you go,
Speaker 1: you got under forty two and a half. That means
Speaker 1: they'd have to win like a to get any nineteen
Speaker 1: in around nineteen twenty more wins to get that. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be optimistic and say over just because you said under,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say over just to say but again, because
Speaker 1: we both have talked about this, I feel like they're
Speaker 1: gonna hit their stride after All Star Break, Lebron admitted it.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm having one of my best you know,
Speaker 1: scoring uh seasons of my career. I don't plan on stopping.
Speaker 1: Lebron is playing off the chart right now. I always
Speaker 1: tell people Jack, when you play in l A, particularly
Speaker 1: for the Lakers, there's so much more to it than
Speaker 1: bass ssketball. You know, Russ has got a chance to
Speaker 1: play in like Oklahoma d c um some of some
Speaker 1: of these d season on a small market, but Oklahoma
Speaker 1: definitely is There's noise, but it's not as loud. When
Speaker 1: you're playing in l A. The noise is every single
Speaker 1: day as loud and complies to be so, even for
Speaker 1: guys that don't you know, have been great at blocking
Speaker 1: it out. In l A, you're gonna definitely hear it.
Speaker 1: I remember talking to Kobe Kobe, Remember remember Kobe told
Speaker 1: I heard it all and it all hurt. Remember that. So,
Speaker 1: and we know he was one of the most tough
Speaker 1: minded motherfucker's this game has ever seen. So Russ is
Speaker 1: on that same kind of tough mind frame. But I
Speaker 1: know Russ is here in the chatter and then to
Speaker 1: hear Shaq tell him, you know, slow your motherfucking ask down.
Speaker 1: This team is just there's so much noise around it.
Speaker 1: But I think you know, with Lebron, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to silence that post All Star break. Hopefully they
Speaker 1: don't rush a d back, let him rest till post
Speaker 1: All Star Break and really just you know that that
Speaker 1: last six weeks get right going into the playoffs. We
Speaker 1: got a mid season special with our homeboy Kendrick Perkins
Speaker 1: is out now make sure you go to Showtime Basketball
Speaker 1: YouTube check it out. Here's a teaser. Man, it's coming
Speaker 1: up on two years since the passing of Kobe, Gig
Speaker 1: and the other people on the helicopter man sending love
Speaker 1: and lightening energy to the family part real quick. You
Speaker 1: had two runners with code in the finals. Talked to
Speaker 1: us about both them. You got one at home, then
Speaker 1: you got hurt in the finals and they got it
Speaker 1: at home. Two thousand and ten, he said that was
Speaker 1: the loss, was his hardest Lord series he ever took,
Speaker 1: and in the wind, that was his best championship. It
Speaker 1: was it was and his loss. Cole gave everything he
Speaker 1: possibly could. Like we were to the point in two
Speaker 1: thousand and evel we was like, you know what, we're
Speaker 1: gonna give Code. Yeah, we we ain't gonna give it
Speaker 1: to him, but we can't stop. So it is what
Speaker 1: it is. You know, ray On wasn't stopping his ass.
Speaker 1: So we're already battling down there with these two trees
Speaker 1: and Latmire old them. So it was like, we gotta
Speaker 1: counsel everybody out here gonna get his Let me tell
Speaker 1: you what that two thousand and ten ship, it hit different,
Speaker 1: and I feel like it hit different for Code because
Speaker 1: I was watching and man, he struggled that whole game.
Speaker 1: He really kind of struggled that whole series. But every team,
Speaker 1: each the team that won that game in that series
Speaker 1: wanted the rebound in battle, and Kobe knew that ship.
Speaker 1: So in game seven, I thought he shot like maybe
Speaker 1: six for twenty four from the field, but I believe
Speaker 1: he had like eighteen rebounds, six or seven in the
Speaker 1: motherfucker's was offensive to go to the free throw line,
Speaker 1: Like that's how bad he wanted this ship? Yeah he will,
Speaker 1: And then you have to realize this it was him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had assault because Aul wasn't the same at the time,
Speaker 1: and no disrespect took us all. But he's not in
Speaker 1: the same He's not in the same conversation with be
Speaker 1: Paul kg so, so in Kobe Ey's it's really it's
Speaker 1: one against three and I didn't took you. I didn't
Speaker 1: took out on one D. Yeah, one ded, I got
Speaker 1: y'all have one D. I got one D. You was
Speaker 1: playing well though two for you hurt your knee. You're
Speaker 1: playing really well out there trying to get it, man,
Speaker 1: We're trying to get it, sir Jack, your moment that
Speaker 1: stands out to me. Obviously you guys have some great
Speaker 1: battles the league, but your McDonald's all American experience, Like
Speaker 1: you told to us about that, you knew the vibe
Speaker 1: coming in code stamp that you should have been m
Speaker 1: v P talked to us about that ninety six McDonald's
Speaker 1: game with Cold Man. That was a good experience, man,
Speaker 1: you know, just being able to grow up with him,
Speaker 1: you know, know him as a teenager and seeing them
Speaker 1: the player he becomes, you know, one of the greatest
Speaker 1: ever to do it, you know. But for me, my
Speaker 1: greatest moment with Cole was when me and you was
Speaker 1: on Golden State. It was a tie game, you know,
Speaker 1: actually we were up to Kobe comes down and hits
Speaker 1: the three. I was going back and forth. I come
Speaker 1: back and hit another three, Kobe and put us up.
Speaker 1: Kobe come back and hit another one in l A
Speaker 1: did I come back and hit another one and just
Speaker 1: what happened. We was playing. We played them back to
Speaker 1: back nights. We played them ut in l An then
Speaker 1: they go to State. But just that night, you know,
Speaker 1: so I watched that game all the time, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, to be going back and forth with
Speaker 1: him and on that on that stage, what was was
Speaker 1: something I always remember. But he said he was gonna
Speaker 1: be one of the greatest man. He did that. A
Speaker 1: lot of people say ship and don't do it now
Speaker 1: he did that. Yeah, I mean I just got to see,
Speaker 1: you know, from going to someone I watched since I
Speaker 1: was in college up at U c l A. Coming
Speaker 1: up on campus, to competing, to almost getting into a fight,
Speaker 1: to become a teammates, to really getting to know him
Speaker 1: as a as a brother, as a man, as a father,
Speaker 1: and just the bond we built outside the basketball. We
Speaker 1: had some cool times during basketball, but you know, him
Speaker 1: always sent in the twins. Every time he dropped the shoe,
Speaker 1: he sent the twins and their team shoes. If the
Speaker 1: Twins played at nine and g G played at eleven.
Speaker 1: COVID hit me the night before time you guys played
Speaker 1: nine am cobil come two hours early and watched the
Speaker 1: Twins play I'm gonna go watch eight year olds nine
Speaker 1: year olds. He just did it because he loved it
Speaker 1: so just to really get a chance to see him
Speaker 1: outside of the Mamba, to get to get to get
Speaker 1: to know Kobe was a very experience to me. So again, Man,
Speaker 1: rest in peace, star brother man. We love when we
Speaker 1: miss you. Make sure you check out Kobe Bryant muse
Speaker 1: on Showtime. Great Film, Great doc. Next up one of
Speaker 1: our favorite segments fan questions. Make sure you guys keep
Speaker 1: sending them and we'll keep answering them. Um, this is
Speaker 1: my fist. Do you think of one game suspension for
Speaker 1: Grayson Allen was enough for what he did to Caruso?
Speaker 1: Let me, let me and you do that. That's a
Speaker 1: spending for the year at least three. But what I'm
Speaker 1: saying on the flip side, though, not to cut you off, Jack,
Speaker 1: I'm fucking Grayson Allen up. Like next time we play
Speaker 1: them or another team that comes in and sees what
Speaker 1: he's doing, I'm I'm giving him a hard flag and
Speaker 1: foul to off the off the rip, because he's known
Speaker 1: for doing and and and I don't necessarily think he
Speaker 1: tried to hurt him. He knew that it was gonna
Speaker 1: end up with him fracturing his wrist. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, that's a dangerous you know, as basketball players,
Speaker 1: when people in the air, they're super fragile. You mean,
Speaker 1: so you're grabbing some dude's arm, some bad's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But off the rip. I'm sucking Grace and Allen up
Speaker 1: next time the team, next time Chicago plays him. And
Speaker 1: if if if I was on the team, Jackie, we're
Speaker 1: going to play Milwaukee, I'm sucking him up. Just off
Speaker 1: GP because you know you shouldn't be doing that. I'm
Speaker 1: glad I played on Change with a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: real niggas. You know what I'm saying. And I mean
Speaker 1: that when I say that, because if something happened to
Speaker 1: me like that, somebody going, somebody going in gray some
Speaker 1: mouth with with a nice right hand or left hand
Speaker 1: for me. Even if I if I can't get to him,
Speaker 1: somebody else gonna get to him. I know one thing, Matt,
Speaker 1: I know I made some hard files in my career,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't known is doing ship like that to
Speaker 1: heard them? Motherfucker right, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: like he's known, this ain't This ain't the first time
Speaker 1: he's done something like that. He did some like that
Speaker 1: in college too, you know what I'm saying. So this
Speaker 1: ain't the first time. So they need to watch him.
Speaker 1: But but one game here now that's not enough. I
Speaker 1: like Grace and Elan though, too. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I love how hard he plays. He's a tough nose player. Um,
Speaker 1: he's had a great season for that team, but every
Speaker 1: once in a while he'll do something like that and
Speaker 1: it's just someone have to teach him a lesson. Next
Speaker 1: fan question, if Fred dots seven seven to three, what
Speaker 1: is your favorite Kobe story from a guest you've had on? Man?
Speaker 1: So many people have talked about him, Man, that's a
Speaker 1: hard question to be honest with you, Does anyone come
Speaker 1: to your mind? The only stories that I can't remember
Speaker 1: it because I've heard him on this show and off
Speaker 1: the show was from the battles him in Rip Hammonton
Speaker 1: had growing up in high school, you know, with with
Speaker 1: games with Kobe had fifty and Rip had forty eight.
Speaker 1: You know, games like that. That's the that's the type
Speaker 1: of stories that that that I vaguely vaguely remember from
Speaker 1: from one of our guests. I thought it was dope
Speaker 1: when Don Staley mentioned that he was in high school
Speaker 1: coming up and playing with the Sixers. That's that's dope.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean so many people have talked about him.
Speaker 1: I would have to really sit down and think about
Speaker 1: each guest, because I mean, we make it a point to,
Speaker 1: you know, carry on our brother's legacy through a show
Speaker 1: like this. So good question, though, sorry, we couldn't give
Speaker 1: you more than more than that, though, Little Marsky, what
Speaker 1: team that's playing now? Do you compare to the We
Speaker 1: Believe team m Memphis to me right now? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say undersized when they got some big guys,
Speaker 1: but they play small h they played hard, they played fast,
Speaker 1: athletic point guard. That's leading the team we had that
Speaker 1: with Beat, so kind of similar. I wish people could
Speaker 1: really saw go back and watch Baron David Baron Davis
Speaker 1: highlights when he was on because he was doing some
Speaker 1: ship with US and Golden State. But I feel like
Speaker 1: his most athletic time was used with the Charlotte Hornets
Speaker 1: because people can say you're crazy comparing John Moran to
Speaker 1: Baron Davis. Now, Baron Davis was bigger than John Moran
Speaker 1: doing the similar ship, if not the same, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep it real. I'm gonna keep it all the way
Speaker 1: and one hunter with you. John Morans a bad motherfucker
Speaker 1: in the NPP conversation. But go check out Baron davis
Speaker 1: highlights when he's with the Charlotte Hornets and you'll see
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. Disappointed at all, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great call. I love the way this Memphis
Speaker 1: team plays. They got a bunch of dogs that they
Speaker 1: do a lot of different things, and that's the same
Speaker 1: thing you know we have. So that's a good call.
Speaker 1: Good question. Next fan question, that's j C forty one.
Speaker 1: Is Jrew Holiday and All Star this season? I think
Speaker 1: Jew Holiday has has been an All Star a handful
Speaker 1: of times in his career, um, but I just don't know.
Speaker 1: There's so many Eastern Conference guards and I kind of
Speaker 1: compared Drew Holiday different type different players, because Drew was
Speaker 1: just as successful on defense as he was an offense.
Speaker 1: But to someone like Joe Johnson that like the whole
Speaker 1: league knows as nice as fuck. Like everybody knew Joe
Speaker 1: was nice. You know, we always talk about how how
Speaker 1: how nice we think you holiday is. Is he an
Speaker 1: All Star this year? I hope so, But I don't know.
Speaker 1: With the West panning out in the East Man and
Speaker 1: all the guards, I don't think so. If they ever
Speaker 1: sin too from that team, it's gonna be militant in
Speaker 1: uh in the Great Break. So you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I I don't see him being all stuff. But like
Speaker 1: you said, he has the respect of All Star around
Speaker 1: straight up, straight up consistency till he's consistent at what
Speaker 1: he does. Jamaican Prince oh three, If you can be
Speaker 1: in any era beside your own, which one would it be?
Speaker 1: And what team? Oh? Good question. I'm going back right now.
Speaker 1: I would love to be in this era right now,
Speaker 1: and I would like to be um on one of
Speaker 1: the teams that's in a fourth, fourth, filth six spots
Speaker 1: somewhere around there. That way I can go in there
Speaker 1: and kill and get a hunting five, hunting something million,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and do what I need
Speaker 1: to do. You know what I'm saying, because you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I did that with less. Maybe make
Speaker 1: one fit then and watch what I do. So you
Speaker 1: can go to like Milwaukee is four, Cleveland is five
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference, Utah in Dallas, Dallas, Dallas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I can go. I can go over there with Luca.
Speaker 1: I'm an average about eighteen to a dub people from
Speaker 1: fifteen to a dub and ship. That's payday right there.
Speaker 1: And you gotta right cross from somebody uh acted crazy
Speaker 1: towards them. Yeah, they already know j kid. No, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pro take Luca. Yeah, it would be this era
Speaker 1: for sure because the bread is head dead. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: you made me change my mind. But if if money
Speaker 1: wasn't uh uh an issue, I don't want to go
Speaker 1: back to the eighties of the nineties. I want to
Speaker 1: be bleed in that one area where you can hard
Speaker 1: found motherfuckers to keep playing and sometimes you really got
Speaker 1: to fighting. You weren't gonna get fine, like a hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Yeah you had to ice yourself back then.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I would have like tape your own ankles. No,
Speaker 1: but I would have liked to play in that real
Speaker 1: physical era. I think that opened up. But that money here, Ma,
Speaker 1: you just made the money era sound man, real good
Speaker 1: moneyball Man, Man, Man Jack, I'm not gonna motherfucking lie
Speaker 1: to you. This was probably the best week in the
Speaker 1: football I've ever seen in my life. And I wasn't
Speaker 1: feeling good too, so I got to see. I have
Speaker 1: to agree with you, bro Man, I got agree with you.
Speaker 1: I got the games. I've watching a lot of football,
Speaker 1: but yesterday was probably the best day of football I've
Speaker 1: seen in my life. That got damn Chiefs Buffalo Bill's
Speaker 1: game and scored what twenty six points in the twenty
Speaker 1: five points twenty six points in the last two minutes
Speaker 1: of the game. Man, my homes does what my homes
Speaker 1: does and got them down. Hit Kelsey up. The scene
Speaker 1: that kicked the field goal. Tamma Bay Rams game was crazy, man,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rap game was crazy. Bro. Hey, Brady got
Speaker 1: Brady Man. Hats off to man Matt Stafford. You know
Speaker 1: he's always been waiting for this opportunity. You know, they
Speaker 1: had a chance to get him, the Cowboys, you had
Speaker 1: a chance to get him. He's a gun slinger. And
Speaker 1: I was talking ship to on Twitter yesterday during the
Speaker 1: game because I wanted to play the ramp that's right up.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a home game for US week A team.
Speaker 1: There was so much red in that motherfucker. And I
Speaker 1: said that Matt. I said that Matt Stafford butthole gets
Speaker 1: tight pressure. That motherfucker made the perfect through Lad the
Speaker 1: team down there to kick the game winner. Brady. You
Speaker 1: think Brady's done, No, He's not done, man, And I
Speaker 1: mean they still almost won that game, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, just think about it. He did everything
Speaker 1: he was supposed to do it. You're going up against
Speaker 1: you're going you're going up against one of the best
Speaker 1: d lines ever. They're getting pressure every time, and it's
Speaker 1: hard to make those plays, you know, And it was
Speaker 1: a lot of it was a lot of passage drop two.
Speaker 1: Then he gotta think he doing that with guys that
Speaker 1: they're filling in, guys that ain't playing. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So so I still take my
Speaker 1: hat off to Brady. I don't think he done. I
Speaker 1: think I think he's gonna sit down. Him and Grunt
Speaker 1: and the coach. They're gonna come back with a with
Speaker 1: a with a couple more weapons. They're gonna yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: make up one more run. Yeah, no, I agree the
Speaker 1: football guys. That was funny. The football guys were with
Speaker 1: Tampa bay Man. They gave the Rams were given chances.
Speaker 1: That the fumbles the all that they have their chances obviously,
Speaker 1: like you said, missing key weapons. What was your thoughts
Speaker 1: on even though he didn't create it? He A B
Speaker 1: posted on his story about the Bucks being out. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, to me, that's just something I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do me personally, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do like when when the Spurs cut me
Speaker 1: right before the playoffs, not knowing I couldn't sign another
Speaker 1: playoff team. I didn't go on to meet and say
Speaker 1: funck pop fuck the Spurs. That that that that that
Speaker 1: that shows uh, your character, you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: I think that's low on his part. Bro, Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're not on the team and I'm gonna move on.
Speaker 1: Whether they want to lose, it has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with you, you know what I'm saying. But the fact
Speaker 1: that you're wishing the worst for these folks, You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, It says a lot about you. But
Speaker 1: I don't I don't wish the worst for nobody. I'm great.
Speaker 1: You mean Tom Brady got this dude in two different spots.
Speaker 1: He got him in England. And if you do, you
Speaker 1: ain't hating Matt Come on, man, I agree. I just
Speaker 1: think it's a bad look. Man, It's definitely a bad look.
Speaker 1: And you know the way he talked about Tom once
Speaker 1: he laughed, and I'm just like, these motherucker's are really
Speaker 1: giving you a chance, bro, And you out here laughing
Speaker 1: at him and posting memes and you know the common thing,
Speaker 1: you know, because I don't know enough about Abe to
Speaker 1: really make one, but the common motherfucking theme is him
Speaker 1: with these teams. Pittsburgh got him out, The Raiders got
Speaker 1: him out, New England got him out, Tampa Bay got
Speaker 1: him out. Like how much more can it be? Them
Speaker 1: against you? And we both know, because Jack, we've both
Speaker 1: been a situation. We probably talked to all motherfucking asses
Speaker 1: into getting traded. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like you got to look at yourself in the mirror, bro, Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm the common theme with all this craziness. But you know,
Speaker 1: back to the point, I just I think it was
Speaker 1: a bad look because it's due to the Hall of
Speaker 1: fame caliber receiver, you know what I mean, motherfucker just
Speaker 1: watching everything, you know, and I think deep down he's
Speaker 1: hurt because he really still wants to be out there.
Speaker 1: That motherfucker wants to play football. So this is kind
Speaker 1: of his way of, you know, laughing at it. You know.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe maybe the high tears man. But I
Speaker 1: hope he, you know, just have just a little bit
Speaker 1: more respect, bro, because the common denominator and all this
Speaker 1: ship is you. I mean, if I was if I
Speaker 1: was running around hanging with Madonna, Kanye, you know, and
Speaker 1: all these other people to the last thing I would
Speaker 1: be worried about is the fucking Tampa Bay is now.
Speaker 1: But deep down, like I said, I think that, like
Speaker 1: we're all athletes and competitive, and he's a bad motherfucker man,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I think obviously, deep
Speaker 1: down he much rather be out there. So maybe it's
Speaker 1: it's laugh instead of crying for a b man. So
Speaker 1: we'll see if he gets another goal. But that's was
Speaker 1: ugly taste. But let's get to this week's games man
Speaker 1: NFC Championship, a f C Championship. First, let's going to
Speaker 1: the a f C side Bengals verse my homes Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow versus my homes two good offenses. Uh, Kent City's
Speaker 1: defense is tough. Thoughts about that, man, since my team
Speaker 1: uh some well on vacation shipping Daggers. I'm pulling for
Speaker 1: the Bengals, man, I'm gonna I'm gonna for the underdog.
Speaker 1: I like Chase, I like Burrow. I was a pan
Speaker 1: of Borough College. Uh. You know l s U is
Speaker 1: the Squizzard. I'm pulling for them, and I went to
Speaker 1: Bangles win. Obviously my homes and and Kansas City is
Speaker 1: a big battles the best task for him being underdogs.
Speaker 1: But they've been playing well and I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: gritty theirself, the little gritty dance on out of Hill
Speaker 1: to the championship all the way to the Super Bowl. Bangles, mate,
Speaker 1: I'm going Bangles the Bengals boys. Before I give you
Speaker 1: my pup, I want to say shout out Josh Island man.
Speaker 1: That motherfucker is a monster too. Forty two fifty gets
Speaker 1: downhill will run a DV over and heard him one
Speaker 1: of the best arms in the game the the You know,
Speaker 1: if I feel like the Bills would have won that game,
Speaker 1: if they would have won the coin flip and O
Speaker 1: T that's how good both those quarterbacks were playing. With
Speaker 1: that being said, Homes is a motherfucker man, and I
Speaker 1: like Burrow. I like the underdog, but I'm a fan
Speaker 1: of my Homes. I'm a fan of Kelsey. Um, so
Speaker 1: I'm picking uh them Boys to win. Next up, we
Speaker 1: come out West. Oh, it's gonna be a showdown out here, Jack.
Speaker 1: My forty Niners travel up the five to play the Rams,
Speaker 1: and so far, I'm gonna beat in that bitch too.
Speaker 1: It's gonna beat crazy Niners to beat the Rams six
Speaker 1: straight games. We beat them in week eight teen to
Speaker 1: even get to the playoffs. We're six seed. Man knocked off,
Speaker 1: knocked off, then Boys knocked off Green Bay this past weekend.
Speaker 1: I got a roll with my team. You know, it's
Speaker 1: gonna hurt my feelings when we end up playing Casey
Speaker 1: in the in the super Bowl again. But anyway, man,
Speaker 1: I got the I got the Niners. And one more thing,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of red two and and
Speaker 1: and so far representing the Niners. So it's could be
Speaker 1: possibly be a home game for us. Anyway, I'll be
Speaker 1: in Montego Bay and overwater Buns. Though, watching this game,
Speaker 1: rooting for the one and only Rams, I do. I
Speaker 1: will try to win. I don't want to want. I
Speaker 1: don't want you to score a touchdown. I don't want
Speaker 1: nothing good to happen to y'all at all the whole game.
Speaker 1: I'm like Davie, I'm hating y'all. Knocked the glove woise off,
Speaker 1: so one thing I can't do. It's not rude for y'all,
Speaker 1: but when they feel good to get knocked off by
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl champ though, No not. It feels better
Speaker 1: to call you and say welcome, welcome to vacation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we can run it back back to if you want.
Speaker 1: You still owe me some money from the Niners. Rams,
Speaker 1: we can double. I'm definitely not betting on any team
Speaker 1: but the Cowboys. Why would you bet on I bet
Speaker 1: on the Rams when I've been on the Cowboys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go down with my squad. I feel y'all sunk.
Speaker 1: So okay, I got Niners, Kansas City, you got Bengals.
Speaker 1: Who would you pick in the Super Bowl? Feels the
Speaker 1: Bengals versus the Rams of the Super Bowl. You're rolling
Speaker 1: with the Bengals all the way out. I'm going with
Speaker 1: Bengals all the way out, and I got the Niners
Speaker 1: all the way out, so we shall see closing thoughts.
Speaker 1: Shout out at Yoka League Kansas State Center. She says
Speaker 1: the n C double a Division one women's basketball record
Speaker 1: with sixty one point game. Not only just the sixty
Speaker 1: one point game, Matt, but against them fourteen rand team Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: That's big. Sixty one thirty from the field, bro fifteen
Speaker 1: and seventeen from free throw line, twelve rebounds, three blocks,
Speaker 1: no turnovers. Talked to him, man, shout out. I saw
Speaker 1: the highlights on ESPN and she was school back to
Speaker 1: the basket getting it done. Down load man shout out.
Speaker 1: Sixty one points. That's a lot of points. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the w n B A I Yoka leave you keep
Speaker 1: doing that for real. You can catch what's burning every
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