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There are things we do when 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:28.840 we are up and coming media people try to raise profile, 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:33.440 get garner attention, and this would have been a good 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:33.840 one for. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.600 It's like abstract hazing. It's like things that we do 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:39.520 in the media when we're new. 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:44.959 You don't think I did stupid wacky goofy all the 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.280 time on the radio in Kansas City and Houston. The 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.200 only reason I want to make this clear, the only 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:55.760 reason I'm not making you do it as a prerequisite 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:00.240 of the show is because we're so late. Now that 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:05.840 it's been done by so many people, they understand the 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.480 gimmicks that we sometimes are resorted forced to resort to. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:10.359 That's right. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.240 You give me a gimmick that doesn't involve putting something 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:14.200 inside of my body. 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:19.960 It's drinking a beer on the one hundred percent does 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:20.960 not even apply there. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:22.640 What do you mean it doesn't apply. I'm saying one 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:24.120 hundred percent. I understand what you're saying. 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:40.480 Okay, but you it's disappointing. Welcome in. It is another 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.079 episode of What's Right with Nick Right, the podcast and 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.320 YouTube show. We are right around the corner from sixty 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.880 thousand subscribers on YouTube. So if you're listening to this 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.040 on your phone, if you're a podcast listener, click the 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.880 subscribe button. I don't know what our podcast subscription numbers are, 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.760 but if you're watching this on YouTube and you'd like 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.640 to subscribe to it on iTunes or Spot, we would 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.560 greatly appreciate that. This past the previous show. This week 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.160 was our longest show by a mile. It was an 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.840 hour and twelve minutes long, and that was in part 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.080 because I had been off work for a week, in 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.520 part because I'm still not on television yet this week 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.880 because we have an important, exciting announcement regarding First Things 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.839 First coming soon, but that is temporarily keeping me off. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.600 There are all good things though today we're still not 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.720 on TV right now, but we're not gonna go an 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.360 hour twelve. We're gonna do our best to stick to 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.160 the format and keep the podcast around forty minutes, so 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.360 let's get right to it. First. Let's discuss what we're 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:39.400 not discussing today. Here's what did not make the cut 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:44.480 for today's show. Any Jimmy g scenario possible, Nick Saban 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.839 getting a record deal at Alabama, and the Yankee fan 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.360 who uses a hot dog for a straw. That last 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.720 one didn't make the show because Demanse cowardly refused to 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.840 participate in the bit for it. I don't know why 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.000 he's still angry that I'm even referencing it, and there 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.720 is I am holding it out small hope that his 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.560 refusal to do this is all an elaborate ruse, and 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.640 that in the final segment of today's show, Demandy's gonna 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:13.080 break out. Uh, you know a bud and a Nathan's 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.680 hot dog. You say it again. 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.000 It won't be a budder, You're like a Budweiser. Is 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:19.440 a bud just like a term for beer? 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.320 Yeah no, a Budweiser, Oh yeah no, won't be doing it. 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.080 Oh what's wrong with a with a nice American logger? Buddy, 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.960 It's gotta be like a Corona's Okay, Corona's good. But 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.080 I don't know if the Corona I feel like it 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.160 doesn't matter. We're not doing it because Demande said he's 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.680 not doing it, So that's fine. He doesn't want to participate. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.760 So let's get to the actual show. Demons. Good to 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.760 see you. Even though I'm a little disappointed in you today, 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:42.279 I have a feeling that guy. 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.000 Is actually disappointed that I don't want to do. 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.400 Yeah, of course I am, man, It's of course I am. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.160 But that's fine. We'll move on. Don't worry about it. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:49.279 What are we starting with today? 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.599 The Cage Katie trade Shenanigans are finally over after two 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:56.039 months yep. After requesting a trade and issuing an ultimatum, 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.440 Katie has decided he's going to stay with the Nets. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:04:58.719 Yep. 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:00.720 Uh last week he said there. 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.800 Not last week, but last episode you said Katie was 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.599 definitely going to get traded from the Nest yep. 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:05.479 So what happened to you? 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:09.880 All right? So I a credit to my two television 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.480 co hosts, who, in addition to being great partners, and 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.440 I'm sure if asked to drink hot dog through a 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.400 beer through a hot dog straw, they would have done it. 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.680 Unlike my podcast partner. They both nailed this in a 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:26.360 way that I didn't the day of Katie's trade request demand. 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:30.240 I guess July first, Kevin Wilds has a tweet where 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:34.039 he's talking about all the different Katie takes and he 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.120 has a gift of a roulette table roulette wheel, and 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:38.880 he said, I'm going to put a few chips on 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.440 the After a few weeks, this all settles down and 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.320 Katie stays, and no one at the time was saying 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.400 that that's what happened. Also credit to Chris Broussard, who 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:54.360 for the last six weeks on TV has been adamant 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:58.120 with me that the Nets should hold firm that unless 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.400 they are going to get the greatest return for any 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.040 player in franchise history, they should tell Kevin Durant, you 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.160 got four years left on your deal, You're not going anywhere. 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:13.000 And that's exactly what happened. And so I incorrectly assumed 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.919 that Katie would not break the decade plus long streak 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.600 of superstar players in this league getting exactly what they wanted, 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.880 and even if it was slightly delayed, we have not 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.720 seen a superstar that wanted to get traded not end 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.600 up getting traded. James Harden had to wait a couple 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:39.000 weeks longer than he wanted to. But guys who been Simmons, 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.279 who's not even a superstar, had to wait a couple 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.680 months longer than he wanted to. But they all got 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:48.760 their way. So why didn't Durant get his way? I 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:53.160 think it was a confluence of a bunch of somewhat 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:57.520 unrelated events. The first reason that I truly believe Kevin 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.719 Durant did not get his way has to do with 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:04.040 Dan Age and the Minnesota Timberwolves. I think the Rudy 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:09.400 go Bear trade was such a ridiculous return for such 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:15.200 a wild, good, clearly flawed player, it skewed the market 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:21.200 for everything else. And so if I'm gonna use a 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.680 mediocre analogy here, but if you're thinking about selling your house, 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.960 and you think your house is worth about, I don't know, 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.480 call it three hundred thousand dollars, and a guy up 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.080 the street who has a worse house than yours by 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:42.040 every worse, smaller square footage, fewer bathrooms, more issues, worse 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:46.239 roof all that stuff, sells his house for eight hundred 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:50.800 and fifty thousand dollars. Then all of a sudden you're thinking, well, 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:55.320 I have to get at least that, and if you don't, 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.400 then then you're probably like, well then it's not the 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.400 right time to sell. So I think the go Bear 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.600 trade up the marketplace significantly. I think it's affecting the 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.600 ability to trade. Donovan Mitchell. I think it's affecting a 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.360 lot of things in the league right now. That's the 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:13.240 first point. The second point is Kevin Durant handled this 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:19.040 incredibly oddly. He did not go public with his trade request, 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:25.280 but nobody was disputing that it happened. He then met 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:29.080 with Joe Cion Sean Marx and demanded the coach in 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:33.560 the GM be fired, which I thought was the checkmate move, 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.160 because how can you ask the coach in the GM 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.600 to work with him after he makes that demand. He doesn't. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.559 He's active on Twitter, he doesn't dispute any of these things. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:50.240 Then it is reported he is contemplating retirement. He immediately 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:54.599 comes to Twitter to dispute that notion, which while I 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.040 don't think many people believed it was really his one 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.280 of his last remaining leverage pieces. And then at the 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.880 end when they announced, make this announcement that we're all 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.840 one big, happy family again, We're gonna work together. He 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:13.480 has his company the boardrooms letter had on it alongside 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.800 the nets, so that was a joint announcement. So kt 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.480 never put out any official statement demanding of trade, but 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.840 he did let his company's letter had be used on 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.080 the announcement saying we're not trading anybody. So I think 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.560 all of that was very odd, and I think Katie 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.600 handled it in an odd way. The last piece of 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:39.600 this is I think KD and myself underestimated the medal 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.280 of Joe Side, the owner of the Brooklyn Nets, who 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.400 I think, ultimately I thought Joe said was going to say, 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:51.679 I just don't want this embarrassment, this distraction. What it 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.400 would appear Joe Sigh's motivations were, I am not going 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.160 to be told what to do by anyone. I am 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.160 one of the richest people in the history of the world. 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:06.000 I am incredibly powerful, I'm incredibly successful. Kevin Durant is 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.800 not dictating terms to me disrespect. Yes, I think that's 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:14.960 very clear that's what happened, and Katie realized, Okay, I 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:20.600 don't have any other options, any other great options. The 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.760 last piece of this is there was an odd report 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:29.000 that we kind of discussed on the previous pot about 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.840 the Grizzlies wanting to be involved. But in that report 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:36.160 it said the Grizzlies did not want to trade John Morant, Fine, 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:42.400 Jaron Jackson Jr. Huh or Desmond Bane for Kevin Durant. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:49.559 Then there was a report the Pelicans considered brandon Ingram untouchable. 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.959 And then there was a report that the Celtics, while 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.120 they would include Jalen Brown, would not include him in 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:00.880 concert with either Marcus Smart or Robert Williams. So what 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.440 does that tell you? That tells you the rest of 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.800 the league. While no one denies how great Katie is 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:12.040 trying to give, we're skeptical of trading for him when 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.240 they were I think afraid, maybe a little afraid about 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.880 his health, but more afraid that he's gonna get sick 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.040 of being here in a year or two and do 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.520 this whole thing again. So all of those things came 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.000 together to make it to where he's going to run 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:26.480 it back. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:27.000 Now. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.520 I'll let you will get into whether or not I 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.560 think it can work in a moment, but it's incredibly 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:39.960 odd and I do not consider this story over. I 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.040 think there are I think it is now almost a 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:47.400 guarantee that Durant is going to start the season with 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.240 the Nets. And by the way, vindication for my season 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.360 ticket purchase. Ye about that while my takes went down 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.400 in flames, those season tickets. You realize game one of 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:02.200 this NBA season, you and me and your mom and 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:03.640 one of your sisters. 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.400 And one of my sisters, you got four tickets. 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.880 One of them is gonna get left out. Uh are 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:15.120 going to be rowt in center court Barclays watching Kevin 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.959 r and Kyrie Urvay playing Zion and then and the Pelicans. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.200 It's gonna be so dope. So in that regard, that's great. 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.719 All right, now let's talk Let's stay here and talk 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.720 about how good they that. Oh wait, I didn't finish 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.480 the thought. Just sorry, he's going to start the season 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:37.760 with the nets. If those sideways, if Ben Simmons still 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:41.920 can't play, or if something happened to Kyrie, or if 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.800 there's a big blow up with Steve. 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:45.720 Nash, what can happen with these guys? 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.040 I do and the other and the other part of 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.400 why there could be a trade mid season a lot 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.800 of these teams. Darryl Morey said this to me once 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.880 not long ago, and it's a smart point, which was 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.080 the reason this time of year, right before a season 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.800 starts is the hardest time to make a trade is 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.360 because everyone loves their team. Everyone loves the moves they 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.320 made in the offseason, everyone loves their draft picks. Everyone. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:13.679 Right. 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:18.960 Yeah, But if we're six weeks into the season and 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:25.920 say the Pelicans are like, oh man, the brandon Ingram 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.040 looked great without Zion, but now with Sigon, with the 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.640 ball in his hands that much, and with CJ, he's 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.160 kind of being minimized to be there are things that 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.079 can happen that can make a team that otherwise wouldn't 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.600 engage re engage. And if things are uncomfortable and bad 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.040 in Brooklyn, So I don't. I am still not fully 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.720 convinced Rant is finishing the year with the Nets, but 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.360 he is going to start the year with the Nets. 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.840 So I got that wrong. Go ahead next, all right? 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.720 So the Nets are now plus nine hundred to win 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.439 the twenty twenty three title. Yep, they have obviously got Ben, 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.360 Kyrie and Katie. Yeah, what do you think are the 0:13:59.400 --> 0:13:59.920 Nets contend? 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:01.120 Absolutely not? 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:02.160 Absolutely not? 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:03.160 Absolutely? 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:03.440 Wow. 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:10.360 I it is gobsmacking to me that people are going 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:15.439 to step on this rake again. The oh on paper, 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:21.600 I mean, look at this team. This team was sixteen 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:27.280 playoff wins away from a championship. You need sixteen wins 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:32.040 to win a title. They got zero. They were sixteen 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:37.840 wins away. Yeah, KD played all of their playoff games. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:42.200 Kyrie played all of their playoff games. Oh but Nick 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:47.520 add Ben Simmons, They add, I've never seen so much 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.720 love for TJ. Warren except for the two weeks in 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.600 the bubble he looked awesome. Guys played like twelve games 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:57.840 since then, and they added Royce O'Neil. Those three editions, 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.560 you lose Dragics, but he so what, You probably lose Blake, 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:05.680 So what, It's fine, those three editions are worth how 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:10.720 many playoff wins one and a half two? Now if 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.440 will they be better in the regular season and therefore 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.480 not play a team as good as Boston Round one? 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.640 But like, look at the things that happened with the 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.360 Nets last year, Like as far as Kyrie not playing 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:25.000 half the season, you know, Ben Simmons came, it came late, 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.960 didn't play any games on them. Exactly what do you 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.280 what do you think happens when these guys start in 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.000 the beginning of the season with each other and like 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.480 I think you just think that the players won't mesh 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.240 well because there I feel like, with all of their 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:42.520 skill levels, there's no reason they shouldn't be contenders on paper. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:48.360 But the the idea that we are, they did not 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:54.120 make an earth shattering player edition. Let's be clear that 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.720 Royce O'Neill and TJ. Warren are rotational guys. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:15:59.360 Right. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.200 Their major addition is Ben Simmons, who has not played 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:07.440 a basketball game in a year and a half and 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.960 when we've seen him in the playoffs has been questionable 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:16.240 at best. Let's call him that, right. The coach who 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.440 had massive issues just from being a coach now is 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.080 deal with the fact that his star player, who the 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:26.240 iconic Steve Nash image of his entire nets tenure. I'm 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.000 gonna show it to you because I don't know if 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.480 you remember. It was after the best game of Kevin 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:36.160 Durant's life, the Game five against the Bucks, a game 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.240 I was in attendance at and geat he played all 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.120 forty eight minutes at forty eight nineteen and ten or 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:46.120 something to potentially save their season. That's the image of 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.160 Nash just gugging him. Give him the giant bear hug 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.400 that guy said fire him. Yeah, I mean that's gonna 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:53.920 go great. 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.200 Chemistry is definitely, but I just feel like they have 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.440 no choice but to get that chemistry out. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:16:59.680 Okay, I gotta make it or break it. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.800 That's what everybody says. Man. With this team, they're like, no, 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.600 I do not believe in them as contenders and this idea. 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.639 Everyone's like, Oh, but Kyrie Irving, he's gonna he's learned 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:15.960 his lesson. No he hasn't. No, he has not, and 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.920 so they will. Here's the problem for the next At 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.440 their best, they will look like one of the very 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:27.040 best teams in basketball. In order to win a championship, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:31.439 you must be at that level for two months. They've 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.960 barely been able to be at that level for two 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.840 weeks over the last two years. So no, I don't 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.720 think that's gonna change. And they're still gonna suck defensively 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.719 even with Ben Simmons. Okay, what's next? 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.000 Okay, so sorry. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.520 After the Kadie News broke, Patrick Beverly took to Twitter 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:54.240 to speak his mind. Yeah, Beverly is basically saying talking 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.280 about how the situation was mishandled or handled poorly. Should 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.280 I say, is Patrick Beverley just inserting himself or does 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:01.600 he actually have a point. 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.440 All right, here's the tweet. Y'all can sit and don't 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.760 say nothing, but that ain't cool. It's dude with families 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:09.760 out here and we haven't got a job because of 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.040 this KT sh and to be on and off ain't cool. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:17.320 Blessing Gang. Beverly then tweeted, it's not good business. These 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.160 owners can't wait until new deal comes. All we doing 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.320 is hurting the future. Good day, Blessing Game. Katie then 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:28.160 tweets hashtag blame Katie, and Beverly says, damn gang who 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:29.960 said I was talking about. 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:30.800 You that part was crazy. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.119 I'm speaking about how it was done both sides to 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.600 keep this private, but noted all of this was crazy. 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.200 First of all, Damn Gang who said I was talking 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.040 to you about you. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.920 You buddy, that that part's crazy. 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:45.640 When he said because of this KT shit. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.280 Yeah that's wild. 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:51.480 But his initial point does I don't really like how 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.960 this honestly, But now that you say that, I. 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:56.520 Think that you made a good point about it. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.840 The owner not being disrespected by Katie or being little 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.600 kind of makes sense because Katie didn't seem to stall 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:05.120 out and he wanted to stay there. 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.040 He stalled out and ended up staying there because. 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.200 He had no choice, had no choice. 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.439 So in that sense, I guess you really can't blame. 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.720 But the other part of listen the whole thing Beverly 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:19.280 is just it's such a ludicrous he again, I've made 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.919 this point for and I will make it again. You 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:27.120 if you want to talk trash about Kevin Durant, you 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:34.119 must either be a great, great basketball player or not 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:35.359 a basketball player. 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:35.600 Right. 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:42.399 Nobody wants to hear Patrick Beverly's Kati takes. I'm sorry, 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:47.200 they just don't. Nobody's like, oh man, what's the amazing 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.080 Dave Chappelle's skit where he's talking about how after nine 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:54.000 to eleven MTV called up job Rule to get his 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.600 take on it? And Dave Chappelle's like, Chappelle's like, I 0:19:57.640 --> 0:19:59.880 don't want to hear buy John Rule. I'm scared, man, 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:04.040 Like where's John what's Johnsony? Like was there anyone in 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.480 the world that after the Katie stuffs, are like, oh man, 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:10.520 what's Beverly's take on it? But the best part of 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:16.840 the Beverly tweet is the noted but noted what noted for? 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:20.920 What fucking Roos, What are you gonna do about it? Now, 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.320 Patrick Beverley, you're a foot shorter than him, and the 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.440 last time you played him in a relevant game, he's 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:31.000 scored fifty on your Clippers with This is back when 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.119 he was with Golden State, his last the about a 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.560 month where he blew his achilles. He scored fifty on 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:39.080 the Clippers and Patrick Beverley and Lou Williams drass about 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.960 after the game and they both just started laughing when 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.640 they were asked about why you couldn't stop him, and 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.199 Lou Williams goes, we tried, and Patrick Beverley's laughing. He's like, 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.400 what do you want to do? Is Kevin Durant? And 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.520 now Patrick Beverley is like, and there's the clock. We 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.439 got go a little long but not super long? Uh? 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:59.320 Patrick revers like, oh, noted? Can you? Patrick Beverly is 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:02.320 gonna be doing his stupid little stance with his forearm 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.119 in Durant's back and Durant's gonna have to look down 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:06.280 to see him. 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:09.320 I'm such a good think Katie took the high ground 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:11.200 as far as like the hashtag. 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:14.000 But yeah, Katie's funny on Twitter. Yeah, Katie's got a 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:17.080 good Twitter persona. Katie was on one yesterday on Twitter. 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:20.640 So no, I'm I'm all for that. But okay, let's 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:22.920 let's wrap this up because I said, we're not gonna 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:23.760 go super long today. 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.320 Let's talk about your boy. Now that Katie and Kyrie 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:28.600 are staying, Yes, your boy. Now that Katie and Kyrie 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.879 are staying in Brooklyn, the Lakers seem to it's probably. 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:33.040 Stuck with Russ Uh. 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:35.760 It seemed like when Lebron resigned that they'd give up 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:37.879 the one and two pick the trade for Kyrie. But 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:41.440 that's definitely not happening now. So what should the Lakers 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:44.800 do with Lebron now this is their situation or their reality? 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:45.440 Should I say? 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:52.160 Okay, so all right, I'm not yet certain Kyrie won't 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.120 end up on the Lakers, because, like I said, I'm 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:57.800 not yet certain this thing doesn't still blow up in Brooklyn. 0:21:58.560 --> 0:21:59.960 This is obviously less than. 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.240 Idea yep for the Lakers. 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:07.960 There was a scenario where everyone was gonna win. Katie 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:10.320 was going to go to Boston, Kyrie was going to 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:13.080 go to the Lakers. We could have a Lakers Celtics 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:16.879 NBA Finals, the two most storied franchise in NBA history, 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:21.720