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Speaker 1: be a road game for him, just like it was
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Speaker 1: thing kicked off and started. NBA All Star starters were
Speaker 1: announced last week. Lebron fans stepped up to the challenge
Speaker 1: got him in for his eighteenth straight time, which his
Speaker 1: NBA record. Now, when you look at that All Star squad,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty usual. Suspectically had some guys that they're
Speaker 1: broke through. Shout out to ice train tomorrow on the East,
Speaker 1: KD honest NB rounding out that squad. Now we have
Speaker 1: Lebron Joker Steph but a name that you know. Some
Speaker 1: may have been surprised by Andrew Wiggins snuck in the Warriors.
Speaker 1: Fans really did their due diligence, use their tech expertise
Speaker 1: to get Wiggins in there. But I want to ask
Speaker 1: you Joe actually played in the NBA. When you look
Speaker 1: at the way that the All Star starter voting is
Speaker 1: broken down, fans account for fift players get and media
Speaker 1: a lot of whom never got in a bucket in
Speaker 1: their life at any level. Again, when you see a
Speaker 1: guy like Wiggins and Wiggins having a great year, So
Speaker 1: no knock to him. But do you think that the
Speaker 1: All Star voting starting process needs to be adjusted or
Speaker 1: changed at all? I think they need to start looking
Speaker 1: at some other other creative ways. Um Wiggins, although he's
Speaker 1: having a great years playing on one of the top teams,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I think we were discussing earlier. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's the worst All Stars All Star selection
Speaker 1: started that the fans have put in place as a starter.
Speaker 1: But he did jump over Devin Booker, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's a big hole. Well Devin Bookers
Speaker 1: as well. He's on the second test or you know,
Speaker 1: they flip flop between one and two during the year,
Speaker 1: So fans gonna have to come up off with some
Speaker 1: of that. If that, If that's gonna if that's the selections,
Speaker 1: they're gonna make. How you feel about it, Well, if
Speaker 1: I'm Andrew Wiggins, I'm super happy that I decided to
Speaker 1: get the vaccine because remember he didn't want to it first,
Speaker 1: but now that he's getting that All Star baggage as well.
Speaker 1: But if I'm Devin Booker's sons, obviously top team in
Speaker 1: the NBA right now, no All Star starters, that's kind
Speaker 1: of egregious, especially for a community in the league that
Speaker 1: that embraces winning. We talked about winning all the time.
Speaker 1: Sons are having a great year CP three obviously helping
Speaker 1: Engineer's quite along with Aiden, And for me, if I'm
Speaker 1: Devin Booker, I'm feeling like that's that's some light skinned
Speaker 1: slander and it's like I'm opening my Drake ship. At
Speaker 1: that point, you have to be like, you know, I
Speaker 1: sensive an emotional Yeah, you have to turn a little
Speaker 1: light scan on the situation like that. What else does
Speaker 1: he have to prove he had a good But I
Speaker 1: feel like he had a good bubble that made a
Speaker 1: good run last year with him playing Robbing the Batman's
Speaker 1: uh two. CP three is Batman, So I feel like
Speaker 1: Devin should be mad. But I feel like every year
Speaker 1: there's somebody that ship gets piste up, piste off, the
Speaker 1: ends up, elevating their game is dame one year, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Now, Devin Booker might fall into
Speaker 1: this situation, But I'm happy for Andrew Wiggins. He was
Speaker 1: the number one pick. People didn't even feel like he
Speaker 1: was worthy of, you know what I mean, being in
Speaker 1: the league at one point. But now he's getting an
Speaker 1: opportunity to represent, you know, the Garden State Warriors, whether
Speaker 1: that be the techie software or whatever it is that
Speaker 1: they're doing. He's getting an opportunity to you know, be
Speaker 1: a beacon for that team. So hats off. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: not to Wiggins. I definitely thought he was. He was
Speaker 1: an All Star. Me and Gilbert Arena has actually had
Speaker 1: this conversation and I was like, you know, the way
Speaker 1: he's playing, true shooting percentage, I think close to just
Speaker 1: being being a stalwart on the defensive end, helping to
Speaker 1: leave this Warrior squad, which is a hot pack of
Speaker 1: ass last year now top two, top two in the West.
Speaker 1: And before we move on, we can't we can't not
Speaker 1: ignowed this. John Morant a phenomenal season in the NBP discussion,
Speaker 1: really out there getting it. You know, the dude with
Speaker 1: the long dredge. He's representing for the Twisties right now.
Speaker 1: I didn't think the eyebrows. Yeah, I didn't think that
Speaker 1: we've seen a high level of Twisty with an eyebrow
Speaker 1: slash player this caliber until we've seen until we've seen
Speaker 1: John Moran. It's been a minute. I can't think of
Speaker 1: one's here and there. But yeah, he's he's doing a
Speaker 1: great job. She deserves he spent some time away from
Speaker 1: the game. I know he went through it with the
Speaker 1: Grizzlies home base for a minute when he missed a
Speaker 1: couple of games. But he came back on fire. And
Speaker 1: it seems like the more attention he gets, the more
Speaker 1: he rises his game steps up to the level. And
Speaker 1: I think that goes to the you know, I think
Speaker 1: the mid major point guards are psychotic for some reason.
Speaker 1: I think them having to be the extension of a
Speaker 1: coach and mid majors and run systems, you know, make
Speaker 1: five passes and all that good ship before they can
Speaker 1: do that because they don't have five star players playing
Speaker 1: with him, I think they're there. They do well on
Speaker 1: the stage for whatever reason. I'm proud of him, you know,
Speaker 1: hats off to him, and you know, Scots Lem, he
Speaker 1: should be a He's gonna be hard to knock out
Speaker 1: of that All star started small for a minute now
Speaker 1: for sure. He shout out to Rasha Phillips, who was
Speaker 1: big on job coming out of the draft. Norman what
Speaker 1: shot said stuff. You know, I'm like, okay, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: gonna roll with this dude. I don't really you know
Speaker 1: too much about job playing the Murray State, but saw
Speaker 1: him do his thing in the tournament, and now he's
Speaker 1: out there getting it. Got the Grizzlies in contention. I
Speaker 1: don't know if if anybody's gonna be fearing them in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but but it's that good vibe from the Grizzlies,
Speaker 1: that GrITT and hustle, whatever that is. And they got
Speaker 1: him back into contention nobody. I don't think they planted
Speaker 1: on them being this early in their trajectory right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, more definitely, And we got All Star reserves
Speaker 1: getting announced later this week. The NBA may have led
Speaker 1: it leak that LaMelo ball appearance, and I don't have
Speaker 1: no problem with that. He's doing work Chino Hills Findings
Speaker 1: shot out players coming to fruition it really but we
Speaker 1: got other guys also looking to make their first team.
Speaker 1: Darius Garland, who got the calf's top three in the
Speaker 1: East right now, that's probably the bigger plan. He playing
Speaker 1: his ass off right now, you know what I mean
Speaker 1: a lot of people. I think the Lakers were supposed
Speaker 1: to you know, we're looking to consider him at one
Speaker 1: point in that draft. But shout out j B. He's
Speaker 1: doing a good job with that team. And yeah, he's
Speaker 1: definitely somebody that should be on the reserves. Yeah, most off.
Speaker 1: And then we've also got Fred Van Fleet putting up
Speaker 1: twenty two, five and seven this year. And you know,
Speaker 1: Mike got Harme rolling with generational talent, some of comparing
Speaker 1: them to the next m J and I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: that's too far fetched a man Edwards, Yeah, man, I
Speaker 1: mean this the grill sandwich is the nutshots on the
Speaker 1: dumb man consistently, consistently the twenty three, you know, for
Speaker 1: just the joy that he plays with. That's what I
Speaker 1: like about this new crop of players is the joy
Speaker 1: that they bring to the game. We went through a
Speaker 1: patch of where we were a lot of entitlement during
Speaker 1: the game. You know, a lot of people got to
Speaker 1: the All Star and we're perennial All Star selections, still
Speaker 1: having that entitlement, you know, in the game. But I
Speaker 1: like this new gratchet of young players. They seem to
Speaker 1: be real hoopers and I feel like you know, Lamello
Speaker 1: a man, Darius Garland, I feel like the game is
Speaker 1: in the right place with some of these youngsters. I
Speaker 1: mean It's crazy seeing how how quickly these young guys
Speaker 1: have developed and also just have this mentality where they
Speaker 1: will bust your ass. They do not care, they don't
Speaker 1: And LaMelo especially just coming with the slag swag, the
Speaker 1: lime green with the matching owning it. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know that's just super Bailer level things you can't teach, right,
Speaker 1: That's Dion Sanders type ship for sure of me. Like
Speaker 1: you know, walking in there and owning it and knowing
Speaker 1: you're a little loud, you know what I mean, slice,
Speaker 1: like you smoke some loud. You're walking into somewhere. It's burden. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're walking into somewhere. You know, you loud? You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? You gotta own that, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? You know your presentation has gotta be put
Speaker 1: together and you gotta perform. And that things what he's
Speaker 1: he's been doing that since he has a baby daughter.
Speaker 1: So I need to know who else do you think
Speaker 1: gotta be guaranteed? Locks gotta make this All Star game.
Speaker 1: I notice in Cleveland, Like I'm kind of excited. I
Speaker 1: know I've been down on Cleveland, but I'm gonna turn up.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get it in, get our flares out. You know, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: Cleveland deserves this. They survived the Lebron James down years
Speaker 1: and now they're building up a whole new brand for themselves.
Speaker 1: A couple of All star reserves that I can think of.
Speaker 1: I mean, we name them like Anthony Edwards, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Those are the guys I like. I
Speaker 1: like Fred What fran Van Fleets doing, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Depleting in Toronto, still holding it down. The
Speaker 1: Celtics are are struggling right now. We know that Jason Tatum,
Speaker 1: he gotta slide in. You know, Brown is probably gonna
Speaker 1: get squeezed. But you know, you might be Their team
Speaker 1: isn't shout out to Nate, you know we're talking about earlier.
Speaker 1: Their team just isn't good enough right now for them
Speaker 1: to have two selections. But I would like to throw
Speaker 1: those names in. There is just shooes in, but those guys.
Speaker 1: You know, the league has been an interesting year, up
Speaker 1: and down with the standings and the schedules, people in
Speaker 1: and out. So um, yeah, it's probably gonna be Jackson
Speaker 1: Tatum or you know Brown? Is anybody else come to
Speaker 1: mind for you? Honestly? Man? Uh, you know, just the usual.
Speaker 1: It's the usual. It's tough. I mean you look, you
Speaker 1: look at this Laker squad and in a d and
Speaker 1: Westbrook obviously haven't had great years so far. So you know,
Speaker 1: just seeing some of the guys now, I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of kind of this turnover, right, it's kind of
Speaker 1: changing of the guarden. Now, these young dudes were last
Speaker 1: year if you would have said All Star, you know
Speaker 1: maybe I know he got snubbed out for Rickie the year,
Speaker 1: but just came back with a vengeance this year. Got
Speaker 1: the Timberwools contention now to be one of those top
Speaker 1: ten teams to make the playoffs. And I'm a big
Speaker 1: LaMelo guys, you guys, and I was paying sixties seventy
Speaker 1: dollars a big baller brand before. Yeah, he was no discount,
Speaker 1: he really, he was proud of it. Discount still got
Speaker 1: still got the merched that in your lane shirts everything
Speaker 1: like that. So I think it's gonna be a fun game.
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people are are big
Speaker 1: on Cleveland. I think Cleveland's gonna be fun. Man, it's
Speaker 1: gonna gonna be a show. Brown has had a good
Speaker 1: year Cleveland as a sports town. So it's you know
Speaker 1: it'll be their chance to show out and prove that
Speaker 1: you know, they they they they're worthy of. You know,
Speaker 1: all the accoladers they're getting right now and all the attention.
Speaker 1: Now as we mentioned, k D top vot getter in
Speaker 1: the East, will be a captain, will not be playing
Speaker 1: in the game most likely, And we gotta talk about
Speaker 1: the Nets man. The Nets, I think came in as
Speaker 1: as title contenders. They were the top squad in the East.
Speaker 1: Nobody wanted that fade. Obviously, Kyrie and his vaccination status
Speaker 1: and not playing in the Nets eventually caven and let
Speaker 1: them come because they need to get some of those dubs.
Speaker 1: They currently six in the East right now, lost six
Speaker 1: of the last ten in the midst of a five
Speaker 1: game road trip. That song, you know, trigg off a
Speaker 1: game to the Warriors. They've got the Sons, Kings, Jazz,
Speaker 1: and Nuggets, so you know, at least one win on
Speaker 1: on the on that docket with with the Kings on
Speaker 1: their Kyrie playing his longest trigger games this season. East
Speaker 1: is a huge traffic gym. You know, the Nets are
Speaker 1: two point five games away from from being the Heat,
Speaker 1: or from being from top of the Heat or the
Speaker 1: top of the conference. How big of a deal this
Speaker 1: road trip for the Nets. I mean, this will be
Speaker 1: the largest sample size we get to see if Kyrie,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, With James being out with
Speaker 1: the hand injury, with Katie being out, I mean, this
Speaker 1: is all clear. You know, maybe this forces Kyrie to
Speaker 1: take the vaccine because he's all by hisself right now
Speaker 1: with James in and out of the lineup. He shoulder
Speaker 1: in the majority of the lord the low. You can
Speaker 1: see him working out before games, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: trying to get locked in and doing whatever you can
Speaker 1: to do to help his team. But I just think,
Speaker 1: you know, this is gonna be the biggest sample size
Speaker 1: that we'll see of Kyrie this year. And I think
Speaker 1: as it pertains to him taking his vaccination status, I
Speaker 1: think this will put him in a different position because
Speaker 1: like he will have played, he will have some games
Speaker 1: to get some composition on the West ground trip, being
Speaker 1: around the fellas on the road, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a different it's a different bonding experience. So I
Speaker 1: don't see how he plays well in this stretch or
Speaker 1: the team plays well, and then he goes and disappears
Speaker 1: for you know what, I mean for the rest of
Speaker 1: the seas of the home game. I think this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a live page with Kyrie, and it's just
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see how it falls out, because
Speaker 1: they do need him, I mean, knowing how much that
Speaker 1: Kyrie loves hooping, and I want to ask you this,
Speaker 1: do you think that he's gonna play a home game
Speaker 1: this year? Because depending on how this shakes out, they
Speaker 1: don't finish in that top four, and now they're playing
Speaker 1: the whole post season. You know, with only getting three
Speaker 1: home games as opposed to four, that could that could
Speaker 1: be a different That's what I mean. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to get that up in you who you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, to get her back around the guys,
Speaker 1: to get back to hooping after the after the long layoff,
Speaker 1: and just to go say I'm gonna go sit back down.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's strong, he's got his convictions,
Speaker 1: you know what, he what he wants to do with
Speaker 1: his body. But as a competitor, I just think that
Speaker 1: I just don't see that happening. That's just gonna be tough,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Don't come back around home
Speaker 1: and start getting buckets. They're gonna start talking about him.
Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna start buying the shoes again. You know,
Speaker 1: shoe sales probably gonna go up on this West Coast
Speaker 1: strings swing. So I think I just don't see him
Speaker 1: sitting back down after this. And the question I would
Speaker 1: say if he decides, you know, I'm not gonna get
Speaker 1: the Vacs and then you're the Nets. Do you want
Speaker 1: to just finish the fifth or worse in the East now,
Speaker 1: so you get more road games and you get more
Speaker 1: potential Kyrie, you start those, you know, get those first
Speaker 1: two one. That's that's a serious consideration you have to make,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. They have been able to
Speaker 1: bend for him anyway, They didn't want him around totally.
Speaker 1: Then they found the clause where he could play, you know,
Speaker 1: on the rug games. So I think I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna take Kyrie however they can tacking. Long story short,
Speaker 1: and let's take a look at the rest of the East. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we got the Heat the top spot, followed by the Bulls,
Speaker 1: who you know, dealing with some some injury issues, six Ers,
Speaker 1: MBS out here really getting it. Ben Simmons no deal
Speaker 1: looking imminent, which is very you know, if if I'm
Speaker 1: Darryl Moore, I might I might have to stick back
Speaker 1: and kick it for a little bit. Ben, sweat it
Speaker 1: out my deal that are getting off? Nah, it's not enough.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, you're in a
Speaker 1: unique situation where Joel Embiad is playing out of his mind,
Speaker 1: you know, and he's making up for Ben Simmons loss.
Speaker 1: You know, you're still gonna need a couple of other
Speaker 1: players to step up, just making some bread, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So, but I have to deal with that.
Speaker 1: But Joel Embiad is making us forget about the Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons saga, love kid, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: I feel like if I'm more like you said, I'm
Speaker 1: not taking them deal is if he's playing like how
Speaker 1: he's playing right now, if y'all don't get it how
Speaker 1: I need it, perhaps you know what I mean, I
Speaker 1: might just cross my hands and do nothing. So it's
Speaker 1: trifling how it's going down. But unfortunately, out of this
Speaker 1: bad situation, a great thing has happening as well. We're
Speaker 1: getting the m v p uh that everybody thought joelanb
Speaker 1: would be, you know what I mean, two to three
Speaker 1: years ago. We're seeing that guy now and the hell legit?
Speaker 1: Do you think that the Calves are We also got
Speaker 1: the Bucks weren't playing well, but I want to act
Speaker 1: you Calves, Yeah, is this for real? Or is this
Speaker 1: kind of one of those feel good stories that they're
Speaker 1: gonna start to you know, solely but surely of the
Speaker 1: season where the injuries could help, like Chicago, you know,
Speaker 1: shout out you know that, you know, Grayson Allen, did
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? The East East Eastern Conference
Speaker 1: the biggest service you know, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: They could with that foul by knocking out the Caruso,
Speaker 1: and they got so many other players out the line up.
Speaker 1: But I think if Cleveland can stay healthy, they play hard,
Speaker 1: and they play hard and match up with everything they got,
Speaker 1: good size, they got, you know, mobile can switch out
Speaker 1: on the perimeter and do something. So I feel like
Speaker 1: if they come up against the team who's got people
Speaker 1: in and out the line up during the playoffs, they
Speaker 1: might be able to knock somebody off. They're not going
Speaker 1: to the Eastern Conference finals, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I hope they do, you know, shout out to j
Speaker 1: BNM if they do. But I personally don't think so.
Speaker 1: But I think they got a chance to surprise somebody
Speaker 1: in the early round. And last, but not least, Milwaukee Bucks. Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: if any champions actually got their first championship in fifty years.
Speaker 1: It feels like Yannest doesn't get the love and respect
Speaker 1: that he deserves as a player that you know every
Speaker 1: year m v P Caliber developing different levels of his game.
Speaker 1: Is this squad legit or or you know, they just
Speaker 1: accept that championship. We'll see y'all fifty more years. Well,
Speaker 1: you've been around Milwaukee a lot because Pops, you know,
Speaker 1: works for You were around the championship run last year.
Speaker 1: I appreciate. Yes, you've seen Janice even make incremental strides
Speaker 1: during the finals when he didn't have it going, when
Speaker 1: he had to adjust this game, when he had to
Speaker 1: play awkward and take shots that he was not comfortable taking,
Speaker 1: just for you know, the signs of the basketball game.
Speaker 1: I like the Bucks, you know what I mean too.
Speaker 1: I think they have done a good job of replacing
Speaker 1: p J. Tucker's energy and a couple of other veterans
Speaker 1: that were on the they were on that bench, but
Speaker 1: the white Jannice plays, you know what I mean, the
Speaker 1: energy and how he's bringing it every night. We haven't
Speaker 1: seen something like Shack. I think that's why they complare
Speaker 1: it the shock, because it's dominance. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Damn there every night. Now, if as long as he
Speaker 1: continues to stay healthy and do that, they always have
Speaker 1: a chance. And let's let's look ahead at a couple
Speaker 1: of teams who you know in the playoff hunt one
Speaker 1: more surprise in the other. We got the Hornets, the
Speaker 1: Celtics Wednesday. LaMelo got this Hornet squad, you know, looking
Speaker 1: very good, very in. I saw a lot of that
Speaker 1: last year two and they kind of slowly slipped off.
Speaker 1: I don't want to ask you which young court. We'll
Speaker 1: take the next step. First. Obviously, you got the Tatum
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown situation. There's been some talking that they can't work.
Speaker 1: They're both putting up numbers, taking the average and eight
Speaker 1: Brown average, so that's just cool. And you got LaMelo
Speaker 1: Miles Bridges. They seemed like they got something else going
Speaker 1: in Charlotte, like I'm gonna go back to my sense
Speaker 1: of joy things. They got a sense of joy going
Speaker 1: on in Charlotte. LaMelo coming in with the Dion Sanders
Speaker 1: type swag, you know, lambowed up, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: with the shades and the ice and the grill and
Speaker 1: the whole ship. I don't see that with the Celtics.
Speaker 1: I just see I see like a two K team
Speaker 1: where you know what I mean, you get yours and
Speaker 1: I get mine, and you get yours and I get
Speaker 1: mine and then everybody else first something that between. But
Speaker 1: they're not doing nothing. It's been three or four years
Speaker 1: now with this experiment. It seems like it is. It's
Speaker 1: been what it is. We're seeing what it's gonna be,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Nobody's gonna take a backseat.
Speaker 1: There are two alphas. They don't really have a point
Speaker 1: guard out there that can, you know, vibe off them.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with Charlotte's. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: m J you know what I mean. In the front office.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Charlotte's young Core Miles Bridges, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, playing itself into a bag. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta stick with Charlotte. What about you? And I'm
Speaker 1: definitely wronging. I think LaMelo is gonna be generational and
Speaker 1: just all the criticism that he got obviously didn't have
Speaker 1: the traditional road, the college and everything like that. But
Speaker 1: playing out in Lithuania in the freezing cold, playing in Australia,
Speaker 1: New Zealand, you know, in NBA and all that good stuff,
Speaker 1: I think just hardened him. And I just love seeing
Speaker 1: that dude player. I remember watching him in Alonzo in
Speaker 1: Jelo in high school and you know, this kid skip
Speaker 1: the grade to play on the number one team in
Speaker 1: the country. I don't think that's talked about enough. It
Speaker 1: was getting buckets straight, you know, on until later on
Speaker 1: his career, pointing out the half court line, pulling up
Speaker 1: to start games to Johant. So he has that swagging
Speaker 1: competence but loves making the right play and it's just
Speaker 1: a guy who really you know, he can get buckets
Speaker 1: when he needs to understand just the flow of the
Speaker 1: game and love this dishing and distributing the ball to
Speaker 1: piggyback on what you said. I think he has a
Speaker 1: kid a chance to be these this latest generation Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan and Kobe type. Because he played in the social
Speaker 1: media basketball. He knows what it means to drop somebody,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, to make the shot a
Speaker 1: lot of He's just been in so many high pressure
Speaker 1: situations and in front of the camera. I feel like
Speaker 1: he has a chance to be you know, this generation's
Speaker 1: you know, Kobe or you know what I mean, any
Speaker 1: any type of big name player we thought of. Sure,
Speaker 1: right now, let's move to on the radar presented by DraftKings.
Speaker 1: So we got the Sixers of MAVs Friday n B
Speaker 1: Luca coming back from injury. But both those guys are
Speaker 1: making some noise in the m v P race, and
Speaker 1: Beat is the favorite right now plus two hundred. When
Speaker 1: you look at the Sixers MAVs matchup Friday, who you
Speaker 1: got rolling? Who are you rolling? Within that? I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been watching a couple of MAVs games, not as
Speaker 1: much as I would like to it, but it seems
Speaker 1: like they're a mystery, you know what I mean. You
Speaker 1: always Lucas gonna dominate, you know what I mean, the
Speaker 1: gonna you know, crawl in the games if they're somewhere
Speaker 1: there and in the fourth quarter. But to me, um,
Speaker 1: I just think that what's going on in Philadelphia right now,
Speaker 1: I think they're really locked in considering what the you know,
Speaker 1: the Ben simmonsagan and once you got a big dude
Speaker 1: rolling like that, you know what I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: hard to it's just hard to get get out of
Speaker 1: the way, you know what I mean. He's playing on
Speaker 1: the perimeter. For all the talk of big guys disappearing
Speaker 1: out of the NBA and it's being a generation of guards.
Speaker 1: I see Jokich, I see him b I see a
Speaker 1: d S you know what I see. And I see
Speaker 1: a lot of the big guys, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: holding down franchises, you know what I mean, and and
Speaker 1: changing the game. So I like what the Sixers got
Speaker 1: going in. I'm trusting a dock over ja kid for
Speaker 1: you know, I just I just got to it right now,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So if anybody's to row with,
Speaker 1: I think it's the Sixers. So you got I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Lucaman and it's it's interesting because you know,
Speaker 1: early on, even earlier this season, and there was a
Speaker 1: trade Luca debate, and even last year trade obviously leading
Speaker 1: the Hawks to the Eastern Conference Finals. I'm a rock
Speaker 1: with trade. I'm a big trade fan. But Luca kind
Speaker 1: of getting left to the cold, and I just got
Speaker 1: the two first team All NBA selections. People were kind
Speaker 1: of down on him this year. The matter struggling early on,
Speaker 1: he was battling some injuries. But now he's back, he's
Speaker 1: looking like he's getting into form. And again that's just
Speaker 1: that's just a guy who who's a game changer. We've
Speaker 1: seen him do it at the highest level. Obviously hasn't
Speaker 1: won a playoff series yet, but it's done big work
Speaker 1: in the bubble, you know. I mean, you drop a
Speaker 1: forty point games, game winners, and just things that you
Speaker 1: really want to see out of a rising superstar show.
Speaker 1: I can never not knock Luca, but I gotta give
Speaker 1: it up for Nbad and the wait Docs got this
Speaker 1: squad playing again. They came into season without Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: Everybody thought they were just gonna be a pushover, and
Speaker 1: be said that I'm gonna show y'all was really real.
Speaker 1: And you know, you're dealing with six Yets fans. Six
Speaker 1: Yets fans don't play that ship, so they don't play
Speaker 1: that at all. Play in the league, you know, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: if your home you would get bullied by by your
Speaker 1: own home squad. So yeah, but he seemed to being
Speaker 1: able to manage that and absorb that and continued He's
Speaker 1: built for Philly, you know, after it is built for Philly,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So that got him want
Speaker 1: it and beid and I think if you just continue
Speaker 1: to stay healthy, that's straight. You know. The m v
Speaker 1: P race is continue to shift. Started out early, Steph
Speaker 1: seemed like the clear cut favorite. He's kind of cooled
Speaker 1: off a little bit after breaking that three point record,
Speaker 1: and that's just what it is. You know. Now we've
Speaker 1: got people talking about is he regrets this that I'm
Speaker 1: never wanted to doubt Steff not doing that play coming back.
Speaker 1: Dre has been out, that's gonna be an issue. And
Speaker 1: I think they gave him enough padding up front, just
Speaker 1: busting everybody's as to start the season, and now they
Speaker 1: can show a little bit not cruise control. But you know,
Speaker 1: wait for guys to get back to you. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen why he's been played this season. So the m
Speaker 1: v P race continued to shift. We got mb leading
Speaker 1: the Charges too to one. According to draft Kings had
Speaker 1: a monster January thirty four, eleven and five, six one,
Speaker 1: eleven and three in that period. Jokers three to one
Speaker 1: also out of solid January thirteen and nine. But the
Speaker 1: Nuggs are six in the West right now. Not really nugget, like,
Speaker 1: you know, they're generally gonna give you that top three
Speaker 1: four spot. Curries four to one his January struggled a
Speaker 1: little bit, twenty one six and seven, thirty six percent
Speaker 1: from the field, thirty one percent from three in January.
Speaker 1: That's that's not very steff like. No, not steff like it.
Speaker 1: But I blame us for for for the steff and
Speaker 1: not being stepped like, because we're sweating a for try
Speaker 1: to break that three point record, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: he was out there jacking up bottom three. It's kind
Speaker 1: of doing things unstepped like, so we can you know,
Speaker 1: feel gratified, uh, in our fandom. But yeah, it's been
Speaker 1: a hell of an m v P race and shift
Speaker 1: this year. Like I said, the bigs are representing Curry's
Speaker 1: doing a good job for a Warriors team. You mentioned
Speaker 1: it before getting out ahead, so that they can at
Speaker 1: least figure out some lineups, get some people get some
Speaker 1: people have healthy Excuse me, but I mean just the year,
Speaker 1: the fact that they're eleven and three in January, it
Speaker 1: just tells, you know, if they we said the NBA
Speaker 1: is you know, we're a pacing emphasis on winning, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? And the Sexes are trying to
Speaker 1: you know, they can, they can do some things in
Speaker 1: the East. The fact that he's having that month and
Speaker 1: they're winning and those those those numbers don't go to
Speaker 1: waste just proves to me while he should he should
Speaker 1: be the be leading the m v P race from
Speaker 1: here on out. I feel like, because you said the
Speaker 1: Nuggets aren't doing Nuggets things they need Jamal Murray like
Speaker 1: a mouth, you know what I mean. We do still
Speaker 1: haven't seen Wiseman, so step Steps still needs some complimentary pieces.
Speaker 1: So he does running itself into the ground. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna just be a monster m v P. Branks going
Speaker 1: down and I think it will end up being the
Speaker 1: most memorable one in m VP history. And just rounding up,
Speaker 1: we got your honest at three and a half to one,
Speaker 1: John Moran, Devin Booker twenty two one, LUCA thirty to one.
Speaker 1: Right now CP three also thirty to one. I feel
Speaker 1: like job John, Honestly, if the Grizzlies can keep this
Speaker 1: up and play this back half of the season, he
Speaker 1: can make some North. The thing I think that's hurting
Speaker 1: Jobs that the squad has been performing well even when
Speaker 1: he was out. I think they're like eleven and two
Speaker 1: in games that he hasn't played. So what you're seeing
Speaker 1: is this squad. I mean, obviously is a difference maker
Speaker 1: franchise player, but the Grizzlies throughout there putting in work
Speaker 1: and putting up dub So it's gonna it's gonna hurt
Speaker 1: his his his m v P, you know, resume just
Speaker 1: a tad but not enough, not enough. You gotta keep
Speaker 1: him in that, Yeah, he should after coming back from
Speaker 1: injury and turning up his play when he's you know,
Speaker 1: being considered for things like the All Star Game, and
Speaker 1: they're continue to serves. They haven't you know, taken a
Speaker 1: cliff dies and he's returned to the lineup. They've only
Speaker 1: continued to do with that. Then that happened all year,
Speaker 1: so you gotta have you know, it's gonna be interesting one,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be really interesting. And that was on the
Speaker 1: Radar presented by Draft Kings and for all you Man
Speaker 1: Staff fans that are looking for your fixed. They will
Speaker 1: be back Thursday with another episode of All the Smoke
Speaker 1: featuring Charles Oakley, and we got a little clip from
Speaker 1: that to show y'all. With the book coming out, what
Speaker 1: do you expect people to get from it, and do
Speaker 1: you expect them to see a different side of you? Um,
Speaker 1: it definitely always something they don't know about you. And
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of that in the book.
Speaker 1: But I'm talking about basketball in the way that a
Speaker 1: lot of people said they wish the basketball we played
Speaker 1: today the whole guy's accountaball Um, you know what you're
Speaker 1: doing the court. Um, you know, game situation, and I
Speaker 1: think that in the game today you watch basketball is
Speaker 1: just everybody like I and that's why you see so
Speaker 1: much bad talent on the floor and maybe the reason
Speaker 1: why the Lakers is struggling because it seemed like to
Speaker 1: me they on nobody know the identity but Lebron. And
Speaker 1: that's the head coach. You know, that's what you tell
Speaker 1: guys first thing training camp and you do this, you
Speaker 1: do this. It's why it's a role time possessing guys
Speaker 1: play three minutes together efficiencies. But it's a lot of
Speaker 1: us sloppy basketball now. And I agree with you the coach,
Speaker 1: and have that in the bud from the jump with
Speaker 1: this book, a lot of people don't know during the
Speaker 1: George Floor situation, you came down and supported me to
Speaker 1: my majorly supported me. You fed, you cooked for us
Speaker 1: every day. And you talk about a lot of this
Speaker 1: stuff in the book, what you're being there, talk about
Speaker 1: the living. Let the people know. You know that she
Speaker 1: was with me the whole experience in the time we
Speaker 1: had down there. Experience of having to George Floyd happened
Speaker 1: to me when I was in high school. I got
Speaker 1: stories in the book, like I was coming home for
Speaker 1: school most time I had to kissed two busses, and
Speaker 1: one time I was I was catching two bus was
Speaker 1: getting dark and one bus was coming late, so I
Speaker 1: tried to walk home. You know, Seather waiting in the
Speaker 1: bus stop and I was walking home. Police grabbed me,
Speaker 1: slam me about what the drugs that I had a backpack,
Speaker 1: like what the drugs? Threw me in the car and
Speaker 1: rolling around for five hours and nobody know I was sixteen,
Speaker 1: nobody knew why I was at But when the George
Speaker 1: Floyd thing happened and the way it happened, and just
Speaker 1: it's just it's shocked. You know, shot told men, the people,
Speaker 1: they everybody tried to come together because you know, seeing
Speaker 1: that happen. The guy got his knee on this guy
Speaker 1: he tell him I can't breathe and you still stand
Speaker 1: on top of him. I mean, they made everybody want
Speaker 1: to be family. Bring you know, let's stop this maddness.
Speaker 1: Seeing that and this guy just act like, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to smoke a cigarette and you want to day.
Speaker 1: He like, I got all day to do this. So
Speaker 1: it was an embarrassing but to come to his rescue.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody came to the rescue. But when you
Speaker 1: called me like, oh, I'm there, big brod Wheel, Um,
Speaker 1: it was just sad to see that, and um, what
Speaker 1: do you do his family? You know, I got to
Speaker 1: be more of the family because you know, like family
Speaker 1: came around this when families should come together, and they
Speaker 1: came together in a good way. And being in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: being in he was come into the ride, you know,
Speaker 1: and just seeing everybody just we for George, We for George,
Speaker 1: and then let's just put some of my chest. W
Speaker 1: n b A free agency is underway, and you know
Speaker 1: we had to bring in the voice of the w
Speaker 1: b A. Some would call her woad, I'm gonna call
Speaker 1: woach Christina because she's killing the w NBA game. She's
Speaker 1: the founder of Girls Talk Sports TV. W n b
Speaker 1: A Insider and Forbes thirty Under thirty Honore. We got
Speaker 1: Christina Williams in the building. How you doing I'm doing good.
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Thank you for having me. It's been
Speaker 1: a crazy morning. Yeah, most definitely. So obviously, you know
Speaker 1: free agency is kicked off. You're recently in Vegas for
Speaker 1: Athletes Unlimited. What can you tell us about the event.
Speaker 1: Athletes Unlimited is a new women's pro sports league and
Speaker 1: it's running for five weeks out in Vegas. Started an
Speaker 1: augural season this past week, and it's a great league
Speaker 1: to complement the w n b A. You have great
Speaker 1: talent out in Vegas playing right now. You have wm
Speaker 1: Champions and Natasha Cloud, Lexi Brown was participating w b
Speaker 1: All Stars and Williams also participating in this league. And
Speaker 1: so it's really given w b A players or hopeful
Speaker 1: you know, second chances to get back into the league
Speaker 1: or like it's a good way for them to stay
Speaker 1: um stateside instead of going overseas after this season. And
Speaker 1: so it's a new thing and it's just popped off
Speaker 1: last week, but it's great for women's basketball. You become
Speaker 1: the go to voice for all things in w NBA. News.
Speaker 1: What's it been like climbing that ladder and becoming a
Speaker 1: w n B A insider. Um, it's been It's been
Speaker 1: a journey climbing the ladder into becoming a w NBA insider.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a black woman, let's start there. But
Speaker 1: also I'm independent from major corporations, so the climb to
Speaker 1: the top hasn't been easy. But you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of the players and people in the league respect my
Speaker 1: grind and what I've been able to offer this league
Speaker 1: in terms of women's basketball media coverage, so much so
Speaker 1: that I made Forbes thirty on the thirty and one.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's been a lot of fun to be
Speaker 1: able to provide equitable media coverage for women in sports
Speaker 1: and also like just do my own thing and show
Speaker 1: people that anything is possible, Um, when you just grind
Speaker 1: out and are consistent and so yeah, it's been fun.
Speaker 1: It's been fun. Heard I say that last part again?
Speaker 1: What was that last part? Anything is possible when what
Speaker 1: anything is possible when you work hard and you're consistent
Speaker 1: with the work. But also bet on yourself because I've
Speaker 1: bet it on myself and it's been going great ever since. Man. See,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna ask you where you get your sources from,
Speaker 1: but I will say I see you breaking news, and
Speaker 1: then I'll see other publications further down the road trying
Speaker 1: to break that same news without giving your love. And
Speaker 1: I think you're always super respectful and polite about how
Speaker 1: you're gonna move, never get rude, but just hey, by
Speaker 1: the way, I did break this about two or three
Speaker 1: days ago, kind of deals. So what's it like? You know,
Speaker 1: the internet is is a tough play. It's like the
Speaker 1: wild wild West. But you've got great sources, you know,
Speaker 1: breaking news, breaking info. And do you feel like has
Speaker 1: been a shift in terms of making sure that you
Speaker 1: get the credit that you deserve when you're breaking these stories. Oh? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's definitely been a shift. I mean, I've been making noise,
Speaker 1: so people are gonna have to respect it eventually. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, like you know, my sources are my sources.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm always a journalist. First. I went to
Speaker 1: school for journalism, and so what I'm doing now is
Speaker 1: just marrying my two passions of storytelling and and journal
Speaker 1: and journalism and loving the game of basketball. And so
Speaker 1: you know, at first, when I first was coming up,
Speaker 1: you know, people would try to, you know, take the
Speaker 1: information to pretend like they broke it first. But now
Speaker 1: the fans know who I am. I've been able to
Speaker 1: create my own community within the women's basketball space. So
Speaker 1: if I'm not out there saying, hey, give me my credit,
Speaker 1: the fans. W NBA fans are so loyal that I
Speaker 1: don't even have to talk anymore. They will do it
Speaker 1: for me. So so it's been great, um being able
Speaker 1: to be that go to source for all things w
Speaker 1: n B A news now that even the major corporations
Speaker 1: are able to come to me and cite me on
Speaker 1: on and their articles are on their TV pro grams.
Speaker 1: About breaking the news first, I mean shout out to
Speaker 1: Chris Haynes. I mean the other day I broke some
Speaker 1: news and we'll get into that later, but you know
Speaker 1: he went back and said, hey, Christina was the first reporter,
Speaker 1: So just get in respect from O g s like him.
Speaker 1: It means everything. It kind of puts a stamp on
Speaker 1: you know what I'm doing now. Chris Haynes is a
Speaker 1: real one, and I think that one thing we've seen
Speaker 1: and just in the women's basketball spaces, that bullying works.
Speaker 1: You know, in years past, the w NBA wasn't getting
Speaker 1: the love that it deserved. People started applying that pressure,
Speaker 1: and now we've got w NBA free agency, specially in
Speaker 1: all types of great things going on. So what's it
Speaker 1: like to you to see women's basketball getting the long
Speaker 1: overdue attention that it deserves. I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: great start with this. So it's such a long way
Speaker 1: to go in terms of coverage and the variety of
Speaker 1: coverage and the players that are being covered as well. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's a start, and I'm happy to
Speaker 1: see that. You know, people are starting to invest in
Speaker 1: women's sports, not only through through like blank blank statements
Speaker 1: on Twitter, but also just actively investing by putting it
Speaker 1: on TV. You know, it's all about give think these
Speaker 1: women the opportunity in the first place. So it's a
Speaker 1: great start, but there's still a long way to go. Well, look,
Speaker 1: we brought you here. Free agency just kicked off. It's
Speaker 1: time to get into the nitty gritty of what's going down.
Speaker 1: So give us some of the biggest storylines to look
Speaker 1: out for as free agency kicks off. What's burning in
Speaker 1: the w n B A let us know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I have all the tea of what's burning yes, um,
Speaker 1: so some of the storylines to follow. Obviously, Liz Cambridge
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest restricted free agents on the market,
Speaker 1: and she actually fired her agent one week before negotiations
Speaker 1: started on January fifteenth, and so all eyes on are
Speaker 1: on where Liz will end up. My biggest both prediction
Speaker 1: about where she will eventually end up maybe the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Sparks. That's a big personality. She she'll fit. She'll
Speaker 1: fit the l A lifestyle, absolutely, she fits she fits
Speaker 1: l A. Um. You know, she needs to be in
Speaker 1: a big market, I think. And but in order for
Speaker 1: that to happen, because the Sparks will have some cap issues,
Speaker 1: they would have to move some contracts, offload some players
Speaker 1: in order to get a player like Liz who is
Speaker 1: oh the super Max. And so that's one of my
Speaker 1: bold predictions about what will happen, either today or in
Speaker 1: the coming weeks. Also, all eyes are on Chicago's Sky
Speaker 1: uh Finals MVP Khalea Copper is expected to sign today
Speaker 1: on a multi year deal with the Chicago Sky. So
Speaker 1: when that happens, right, it puts it into a question
Speaker 1: whether or not Candice Parker will return, And I think
Speaker 1: that she will because the Chicago Style have has also
Speaker 1: acquired other free agents in twenty nineteen finals MVP Emma
Speaker 1: mesa Men who's from Belgium. She missed last season and
Speaker 1: the w NBA due to commitments to our national team,
Speaker 1: but the Chicago Sky is expected to sign her later
Speaker 1: today UM to their franchise as well, and so you know,
Speaker 1: they are really filling out the core of their team
Speaker 1: and possibly will have a chance to run it back
Speaker 1: and get another championship. Stephanie Dalson, who was on that
Speaker 1: championship team last year, She's signing with the New York
Speaker 1: Liberty and so uh James Wade, the Chicago's guy head
Speaker 1: coach and GM, he's really trying to, you know, keep
Speaker 1: that championship momentum going into the season, and UM trying
Speaker 1: to fill out some roster spots as well. UM lots
Speaker 1: of moves though, lots of moves though, lots of big moves.
Speaker 1: Angie mccottory another big name free agent to sign to
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Links. And this is going to happen because
Speaker 1: the FISA Collier, who was a former Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year and Yukon player. She's pregnant right now and so
Speaker 1: if that happen when Angel resigns, we could expect the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Links to suspend Collia's contract and them to also
Speaker 1: sign a few more players. Um. I'm told that the
Speaker 1: Links are also interested in free agent Odyssey Sims, who's
Speaker 1: playing in Athletes Unlimited right now. And she was a
Speaker 1: former Minnesota Links as well, uh and played for the
Speaker 1: Atlantic Dream last season. So all eyes are all with
Speaker 1: Cheryl Reeve is gonna do in Minnesota. Sylvia Foals, another
Speaker 1: Minnesota Links legend, is expected to return to the franchise
Speaker 1: for a fifteenth season, coming off a Defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year. I'm in a really great season. So Cheryl
Speaker 1: Reeves she has a lot to do in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, keeping her roster intact and also you know,
Speaker 1: creating that championship kind of roster at the Links that
Speaker 1: were used to. It's very exciting, very exciting moves happening today. Christina.
Speaker 1: I just wanna take my hat off to you because
Speaker 1: all of everything that you said was fascinating. Low key,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard the women's game spoke of so quite
Speaker 1: in depth in as far as player movement and even
Speaker 1: speaking to things as so far as a player might
Speaker 1: be missing time because they might be pregnant, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, that's a that's a that's an issue
Speaker 1: for in the woman's league that I think that, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, it's dope that you're even highlighting
Speaker 1: the issues on why why there is certain players movement
Speaker 1: or you know, players might go this and that. So
Speaker 1: I want to commend you because although I've been following
Speaker 1: the w n B, A that was like a masterclass
Speaker 1: and thirty or forty seconds that I don't think that.
Speaker 1: I'm very happy that you're on the show so people
Speaker 1: can understand where exactly the women's game is right now,
Speaker 1: as far as player movement, as far as people like
Speaker 1: you who can break news and tell you where and
Speaker 1: why these players are a good fit. Because it sounds
Speaker 1: like you've been following you doing your dude diligence for
Speaker 1: a long time now. So hats off to you from
Speaker 1: the w B and Shell Time team for sure. Speaking
Speaker 1: of player movement, um also you mentioned I mentioned the
Speaker 1: pregnancy thing with the piece of Collier, your players coming
Speaker 1: back from just having um, you know, just having kids.
Speaker 1: Uh and Cheyenne Parker, who is the only player on
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Dream at the protected veteran contract coming into
Speaker 1: this season, so Atlanta they have a lot of money
Speaker 1: to sign players. Um Shyanne's contract is guaranteed, so all
Speaker 1: eyes on her. She just recently had her baby last month,
Speaker 1: and so we're trying to see if she's going to
Speaker 1: be back into game shape to play come May. And
Speaker 1: then you have Kiki Herbert who's on the Seattle Storm,
Speaker 1: who's also playing an athletes unlimited her she just had
Speaker 1: a baby three months ago and she's already back on
Speaker 1: the floor. Shout out women, man, Shout out of ladies. Man.
Speaker 1: It's hard enough. You know, you get in shape during
Speaker 1: the season, you kind of a you're having a child
Speaker 1: and be the mother mother unit in a in a situation,
Speaker 1: it's just shout out for to the ladies of man.
Speaker 1: That's a huge sacrifice at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: putting your body up against it, you know, making that
Speaker 1: dedication to your team over your family. So my hats
Speaker 1: off to the ladies for that one for sure. And
Speaker 1: I just want to ask you really quickly, you know,
Speaker 1: with franchise can alter their future this offseason obviously said
Speaker 1: the Chicago Sky looking to come back and get that,
Speaker 1: you know, defend their championship with other squads out there
Speaker 1: are looking to make some noise and looking to try
Speaker 1: and get there to be hoisting that trophy this season. Well,
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Dream had a very very difficult season last year,
Speaker 1: and so they are the team to watch with the
Speaker 1: most money. Now. I didn't mention Cheyenne Parker. She's the
Speaker 1: only one with the protected veteran contract on that team,
Speaker 1: and so they really have the opportunity now to either
Speaker 1: trade and absorb some Supermax contracts from other teams or
Speaker 1: acquired teams today later with some signings UM and then
Speaker 1: it's been very very quiet. We know that DM d
Speaker 1: g M sorry g M Dan pat Over. He wants
Speaker 1: to bring back Kennedy Carter and Arie McDonald and build
Speaker 1: a team around the young core. But all odds should
Speaker 1: be on Atlanta because they do have the most money
Speaker 1: when we talk about cap and salary. One thing that's
Speaker 1: very interesting with the w n B A C B
Speaker 1: A is that it's going to be hard to sign
Speaker 1: a lot of veteran role players and in free agency
Speaker 1: because of the new CB A UM. I spoke to
Speaker 1: a few g ms who have said, you know, their
Speaker 1: priority right now is to retain their starters and star talent,
Speaker 1: and then once that money is taken up, you know,
Speaker 1: they don't really have cap space to sign uh veteran
Speaker 1: role players. And so when that happens, you have sometimes
Speaker 1: you know, players like an Asian Wilson, former m v
Speaker 1: P who Zoo for a max contract and coming out
Speaker 1: of her rookie deal with seventy thousand dollars she's supposed
Speaker 1: to be getting paid up words the two hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: she may have to take a pay cut so that
Speaker 1: the Aces can then sign some more talent um to
Speaker 1: help her. And so you'll have things like that that's
Speaker 1: happening with the new CBA that makes it difficult for
Speaker 1: teams to keep a twelve woman roster. They may have
Speaker 1: to go over to eleven all season do to simply
Speaker 1: cap issues. And so Atlanta is a team with the
Speaker 1: most money and they are the teams to watch as well.
Speaker 1: Renee Montgomery she needs to break some bread. Okay, we
Speaker 1: need to hear Renee doing too much work. I know
Speaker 1: she got some deep right, and we do know that Atlanta,
Speaker 1: for one, they are not bringing back Courtney Williams or
Speaker 1: Crystal Bradford. Crystal is expected to sign a one year
Speaker 1: deal with the Chicago Sky today, and Courtney Williams is
Speaker 1: expected to sign with the Connecticut Son. She will be
Speaker 1: returning back to the Sun after helping lead them to
Speaker 1: the WBA Finals in the Sun really was lacking, you know,
Speaker 1: a good guard who could you know, create her own
Speaker 1: shots and score off the ball as well. So Courtney
Speaker 1: Williams will bring that back. And they really have their
Speaker 1: core team from the finals trip and bringing back a
Speaker 1: Courtney Williams type of player, and so that should be exciting.
Speaker 1: I know Connecticut fans are happy to have her back
Speaker 1: as well. Shoot, Christine, we appreciate you pulling up and
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Speaker 1: so much for pulling up and you know, keep breaking
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Speaker 1: continued success. Thanks for having me than movies and hoop
Speaker 1: basketball Cinema and not just so happened to have basketball
Speaker 1: Cinema's royalty King Josiah Johnson by association. But you're still guilty, brother.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the iconic basketball movies, Uh,
Speaker 1: script scripted, you know what I mean of all time? Obviously,
Speaker 1: Pops was Raymond and white Men Can't Jump one of
Speaker 1: my favorite top five before we get into some of
Speaker 1: our most interesting characters. What famous basketball movies come to
Speaker 1: mind when you think of hoops and basketball starting with
Speaker 1: a white man can't jump. So when you talk about
Speaker 1: white man can't jump, I know a lot of you
Speaker 1: guys are watching What's Burner right now. You look at
Speaker 1: me like, who the funk is this? Dude? Well, I'm
Speaker 1: Josiah Johnson Dominate Twitter. You probably know that my dad
Speaker 1: is Marcus Johnson played Raymond and white Man Can't Jump
Speaker 1: in the Guy who Robbed the Liquor Store. So one
Speaker 1: of the things I remember about that is it was
Speaker 1: probably is and I was going to all the rehearsal
Speaker 1: practice and all that type of ship going on, and
Speaker 1: Wesley Snipes was easily one of the worst basketball players,
Speaker 1: and it became a thing where they'd be doing drills
Speaker 1: and ship and nobody wants to do drills with Wesley.
Speaker 1: So they have these drills going on and we'll see
Speaker 1: and every time Wesley would get to the front, guys
Speaker 1: to kind of step back or you know, start holding
Speaker 1: the hand me or whatever West called winning it. He
Speaker 1: was like, man, funk, y'all know what y'all doing. But
Speaker 1: so shout out to to Ron Shelton and the editing
Speaker 1: and the cinematographer on that for making it give the
Speaker 1: appearance anytime you saw those kindaways reasons ship between the
Speaker 1: legs or whatever, the round the back layups. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was supreme level editing. But that's probably my favorite movie
Speaker 1: of all time. How about yourself? You stole mine? If
Speaker 1: it's not that it's above the rim, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, for obvious reasons, Tupac, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: the whole story, mo talk, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: For a lot of my favorite actors were in that movie.
Speaker 1: But White Camp, my man Camp Jump was always one
Speaker 1: of my favorites, even before I knew you know you
Speaker 1: guys and pops. But that's funny to know Wesley is
Speaker 1: the ultimate karate man, but he can't that's the interesting
Speaker 1: bag you're figured. Yeah, he got the black belt in
Speaker 1: jiu jitsu, but he can't master the layup line. That's
Speaker 1: a club game. But you can't have everything a lot
Speaker 1: for sure. It's like when we used to say football
Speaker 1: players are us come in and try to you know
Speaker 1: the Freddie mentions of the world. Yeah, you know, guys
Speaker 1: try to land and couldn't, then try to get jumpers
Speaker 1: up and just got awful. But it happens. That's the game.
Speaker 1: It happens. We don't go out there on the football
Speaker 1: field and try. But but we have the head night,
Speaker 1: you know. But you know it's it's it's born. So
Speaker 1: we're coming up, Oh, Ship, we're coming up on the
Speaker 1: thirtieth anniversary of a white man can't jump. That's okay. Besides, Pops,
Speaker 1: give me one of your favorite scenes out of that film.
Speaker 1: I mean Ship, I think the you know you're shooting
Speaker 1: for the Sudan when he when he has to make
Speaker 1: the get on the Jeopardy and Billy Hoyle is probably
Speaker 1: one of the greatest simps in basketball movie history. Did
Speaker 1: anything for his boo, His boot stuck with him through
Speaker 1: the Stookie Brothers and all that type of situation. Honestly,
Speaker 1: you know, Stookies are on the hunt. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: go to l A. I'm gonna go somewhere random and
Speaker 1: go to the Bady. I'm gonna go somewherehere. They're not
Speaker 1: really gonna be looking for me. But you know, the
Speaker 1: game is the game. The game is the game. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite scenes is when he was in his zone.
Speaker 1: I'm in a zoom, man, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm in a fucking zoom you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I just love that part from Woody. He killed that
Speaker 1: whole aspect of Billy hull thing. Give him the chump,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So many scenes for that movie,
Speaker 1: comedic timing, you know, and just mixed with good storytelling
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, because that's how we
Speaker 1: fade on the West Coast, you know, I mean, go
Speaker 1: out to the park at the beach. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: we look at that as a basketball movie. Is really
Speaker 1: a roum come and shout out to run show new different.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't watch it as a rom com though.
Speaker 1: We just enjoy all the basketball scenes in the l
Speaker 1: a street life whatever. But we know, damn well, Billy
Speaker 1: Hoyle's white ass was showing up and watching these other spots.
Speaker 1: He's getting pressed, he's getting robbed, jumped, you know, before
Speaker 1: you can get to the court ultimate press. He would
Speaker 1: definitely came out to David Robins since he was playing exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we need us. So if you had to start in
Speaker 1: the draft of starting five of fictional basketball characters, Keen, Joe, Saya,
Speaker 1: who are you going with? So I'm surprised with people
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna really dig deep into the stats here
Speaker 1: in first and foremost, I'm gonna go with Ernest p World,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest movies ever made, Slam Straight to Videotape, Freaching,
Speaker 1: Future Cream Up doing jabar Is the arch Angel gives
Speaker 1: Ernest these great pair of sneakers. They give him game
Speaker 1: shout out still Cozart who was in White Man Can't
Speaker 1: Jump also and Slam Ernest watching You know, the Earnest
Speaker 1: catalog is one of the most phenomenal things of all time.
Speaker 1: You know, Ernest versus t just goes to camp really
Speaker 1: a big part of my life. Clear next day to go,
Speaker 1: Jesus Shuttle's worth obviously, as long as his uncle Bubb
Speaker 1: didn't get in the way, I think, you know, he
Speaker 1: would have been some recruiting violations with Jakie Ship going on,
Speaker 1: Pops in prison, Let Pops out of jail to to
Speaker 1: to get this man to sign you know, you know
Speaker 1: he's messing with you know you know the the hommies. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know his lady friend that she's put into work
Speaker 1: and everything like that. You gotta go with Raymond from
Speaker 1: White Man Can't Jump, because that's my dad trying to
Speaker 1: stay in the wheel at some point. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Hopefy, it's a long time down the road,
Speaker 1: but I need that back. Uh. Then gotta go Stacy
Speaker 1: Patten from Eddie Shout out Malik Sealey rest in peace
Speaker 1: of the legend. You know Stacy Patton wasn't real where
Speaker 1: he just needed to learn to play team ball. Eddie
Speaker 1: kind of got that out of him, so I think
Speaker 1: he's definitely gonna do it. And last, but not least,
Speaker 1: I gotta go with Roger Murdoch a Kareem up do
Speaker 1: with Jabbar from the Airplane series. Some of you are
Speaker 1: watching this you are young, watch Airplane, but just the
Speaker 1: Kareem part. You know he's out there busting his buns
Speaker 1: every night, dragging while linear up the court for forty
Speaker 1: eight minutes. So I gotta give Kareem his love and
Speaker 1: risk back. But I want to hit you now, you
Speaker 1: got your your top five as hard as the top
Speaker 1: mind is gonna be kind of Jankie after that, because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be you picked some great cinematic moments. I
Speaker 1: feel like my ship, my less is gonna be based
Speaker 1: off a little bit more bullshit. But I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: at the point. I'm gonna have to start edited Wesley
Speaker 1: at the point. You know what i mean, edited Wesley
Speaker 1: for number Yeah, yeah, I'm editing Wesley at the point.
Speaker 1: You know what i mean. Trick bag. You know Dimes,
Speaker 1: you know he had the Jankie jumper that was working
Speaker 1: on the outside court. You know what, what's the MJ's
Speaker 1: asked telling him you should play some aproprile but it
Speaker 1: might mess up this game. And imagine if JA was
Speaker 1: like you should come pray something like that's my game,
Speaker 1: they might do that. L A Do are known for
Speaker 1: capping like that level of cap. Yeah, you see on
Speaker 1: the East Side mainly, but l A Dodd without question
Speaker 1: after two, Uh, I might take I'm gonna take Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Jesus at the two. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you gotta take Jesus shudders weren't at the two. Three.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking to somebody like, um, actually, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to even list my people. I'm definitely taking penny from
Speaker 1: Blue Chips, you know what I mean. I can't you
Speaker 1: get plenty from Blue and His. But you gotta deal
Speaker 1: with the mom baggage. You gotta deal with the mom baggers.
Speaker 1: But I think we're gonna be able to put that together.
Speaker 1: You know, man, we got a lot of resources on hand.
Speaker 1: I need two more people. I'm gonna go with Chep,
Speaker 1: Oh Chep. I was thinking about a chep, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, I think about a chef. Never take
Speaker 1: um chef was good. I gotta chep Shepherds up there.
Speaker 1: And I feel like I'm missing somebody. Man. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with who was corn bread Earl jamal Worth? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with corn bread silk getting there, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? And I might even go with
Speaker 1: who was the hommy that died in Cooley High? Oh? Cooleyhi?
Speaker 1: Was okay? A basketball moving Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? It might
Speaker 1: have been before my time to job because I can't
Speaker 1: even remember was in it. But you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be my fire for for different reasons. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna through Antoine Tyler in there too. From the sixth
Speaker 1: man could Deem Harderson stayed getting a basketball back. He
Speaker 1: was in White Man Can Jump talking about we going
Speaker 1: the Sizzler. Yeah, you know, but there's like a black
Speaker 1: dude that were in every basketball movie thinking about Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was Flight with Flight and Willie you know, I'm
Speaker 1: going to the seven, drop you off at the fifth.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just a legendary crew. You said that, dude,
Speaker 1: we were really getting bread back. Then. We need to
Speaker 1: bring those days back because we could. We could definitely
Speaker 1: use something. Yeah, they need to call us to green
Speaker 1: light some of these and bring these back, like above
Speaker 1: the Rim and a couple of these features. Joey, you
Speaker 1: gotta man, you're doing big time work now called hey,
Speaker 1: then tell her to put something the pan and let
Speaker 1: us get us up out of here. They got a
Speaker 1: new white Man Can't Jump coming out. I need to
Speaker 1: get that Raymond Roll. I know Sharona Jackson also vying forward.
Speaker 1: If he got the part, I wouldn't be hurt. But
Speaker 1: y'all need to show me some love. Y'all pull up.
Speaker 1: You need to do something you need. It's only right
Speaker 1: have them come in there and be uh, it's just
Speaker 1: on the right generational. Let him be rand man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: give me a shot to let me be somebody man
Speaker 1: Man and before we forget shot out Gene Hackman. He
Speaker 1: just turned ninety two. But to manage all these types
Speaker 1: of different and talented personalities, what fictional coach are you
Speaker 1: gonna go with? I mean you got obviously Nick No
Speaker 1: and Blue Trips you gotta rob with. I'm probably going
Speaker 1: Samuel l Coach Carter locking him out the gym. Stop playing.
Speaker 1: That's a good car, you know, that's a great Cards
Speaker 1: off the Street, the original Splash Brother. You know, everybody
Speaker 1: says step changed the game, but everybody knows you was
Speaker 1: out there really long range, pulling from deep way back yonder.
Speaker 1: But it is what it is. Yeah, I'm not mad
Speaker 1: at you that Nick No. I gotta road with Nick No.
Speaker 1: Nicknoy decided to do everything you can do to keep
Speaker 1: the team and and the franchise together. He was great,
Speaker 1: some great scenes as a coach. But what's the what's
Speaker 1: the homies name from Glory Road? Oh shit, I don't
Speaker 1: even know the actually does a good job whatever the
Speaker 1: actor of his name. I was on Glory Josh Lucas
Speaker 1: Glory Road. He's got some he's got some decent thing,
Speaker 1: But shout out Josh Lucas on Glory Road. He was
Speaker 1: he was a monster as a coach. He clearly did
Speaker 1: his homework. So that's a big part of the movie
Speaker 1: of the game. You got to get the coaching aspect
Speaker 1: right when you cast, and I feel like those were
Speaker 1: some of the better ones. Now, look, this is what's
Speaker 1: burning basketball show. But we had championship Sunday past weekend.
Speaker 1: I know you saw and your super side. You know,
Speaker 1: I wanted everybody to little, just to be real, but
Speaker 1: we had the Rams over the forty Niners. Jimmy Jimmy
Speaker 1: true to form shot out Mina Kimes. Meta Comes caught
Speaker 1: a lot of flak this week from some former quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the game for predicting what was gonna happen. Hit
Speaker 1: him with the duck faced mean gotta love it. The
Speaker 1: downtown and third quarter came back to win. We'll host
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. We're not you know, they're not leaving
Speaker 1: so far. It's still gonna be a road game for him,
Speaker 1: just like it was when the nine that was strifling
Speaker 1: to that was bad. I don't know how l A
Speaker 1: let that happen, but you gotta think that all the
Speaker 1: compton of forty Niners fans for reasons that if you
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm not about to sit here and extremes.
Speaker 1: And that's what you have to understand about team affiliations.
Speaker 1: Understand about this period, but may not that sh it hurt.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: thought we was going. I kept texting everybody, we're going,
Speaker 1: We're going, and then he dropped in this session, man,
Speaker 1: and you don't look like we ain't going. Ain't going
Speaker 1: And shout out to to Joe Shystein the Bengals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one three going in the half, Andy Reid. So every
Speaker 1: b enemy who get the blame of the play. Don't work.
Speaker 1: But if it did, Andy Red called it. But Andy
Speaker 1: Reid called that play the end of the second quarter. Uh,
Speaker 1: that got held up, didn't get any points on the board.
Speaker 1: Joe come back to winning overtime. Isn't anybody bitching about
Speaker 1: overtime rules this week? Conveniently? Yeah? Them shifts old and data.
Speaker 1: That's an antiquated model. And then he stopped that ship.
Speaker 1: I'm getting tired of that because you know, luckily, like
Speaker 1: some of the talent doesn't know, I don't get a
Speaker 1: chance to match you because you score a touchdown because
Speaker 1: you're not a coin tip. It just seems a little dated, man,
Speaker 1: That's why. So we got Burrow Verse Stafford. Stafford obviously
Speaker 1: the l a guy Burro h honorary light skinning just
Speaker 1: for everything he's been so I want to know they
Speaker 1: both go to Roscoe during super Bowl Week. Who's less
Speaker 1: likely to get pressed Bro? Yeah for sure, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Burrow gonna buy instance a painting uh T shirt to
Speaker 1: go play. You know what, You're definitely gonna get Obama.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get the Obama Special to go. He's gonna
Speaker 1: buy the dvd, you know what I mean. It's definitely
Speaker 1: gonna be like Joe Burrow will buy a sou playing
Speaker 1: DVD just on the strength off the top, support, the community,
Speaker 1: off top. I ask you if you got if you
Speaker 1: got the sequel, even though the sequel and may not
Speaker 1: even even that exists. Joe Burro just seemed like that
Speaker 1: guy coming in and the body in shades with the
Speaker 1: whole ship the cigar things. Seems like he's just a
Speaker 1: guy that you know that the brothers can rally around
Speaker 1: super Bowl fifty six Bangers and Rams. Rams are actually
Speaker 1: the away team for the Super Bowl because I think
Speaker 1: AFC has it my limited football knowledge, who do you
Speaker 1: got winning this game? Damn? And I don't like playing
Speaker 1: these type of games because I'm salty and when you
Speaker 1: beat my team, you know I'll help your ass a little,
Speaker 1: so you know I ain't gonna front. But oh no, man,
Speaker 1: it seemed like Joe Burrow them boys got something going on,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I like the defense, they
Speaker 1: got a good running back that received Chase is obviously nice.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go for Burrow in the upset. I think
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh is gonna do something silly during the game,
Speaker 1: like he almost did against the forty Niners. I feel
Speaker 1: like he starts, he gets pressed, and then he starts
Speaker 1: overthinking his genius ship and then he starts doing it.
Speaker 1: That's noting called for. I think Zach Taylor is going
Speaker 1: to have a good job of having this young, hungry
Speaker 1: group ready to play behind Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow is
Speaker 1: a monster. He got sack nine ten times a game.
Speaker 1: They did a good job of keeping him upright the
Speaker 1: last game. I think he only got sacked once. I
Speaker 1: think if they can do that, then keep him up.
Speaker 1: He's a baller man, He's gonna be there at the end.
Speaker 1: You can obviously come back from a deficit. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with the Bengals in the upset. And it
Speaker 1: is on partly because some salty ship, because they put
Speaker 1: some the niners. I mean, the thing is, when you
Speaker 1: look at Sean McVeigh, everybody calls him a genius, But yeah,
Speaker 1: you're a genius. You got the Avengers on your squad.
Speaker 1: I'm saying you've got O B J Jalen Ramsey, a
Speaker 1: bunch of hitters. I'm a big Jalen Ramsey fan, so
Speaker 1: i gotta roll with the Rams in his local. Really,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to see the Pepsi halftime show with
Speaker 1: Dre and Snoop and that whole crew. That's what it's about.
Speaker 1: But I'm getting excited for it. But I know Super
Speaker 1: Bowl halftime shows are traditionally a hot pack of asks.
Speaker 1: They're never a Jodable, never playing the hits're not playing
Speaker 1: the songs I want to hear you. I need some
Speaker 1: F words and a bunch of cussing, and you know
Speaker 1: they nice, you know, yeah, they're not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to give it. They need a Nate damn Dog hologram
Speaker 1: if you give me the l A every day in
Speaker 1: the hologram the city division, it's legal in l at Man.
Speaker 1: Now we can smoke a recreational if he's so put
Speaker 1: fire to it. It just but this is a certain effect.
Speaker 1: Last thing I want to hit you on. In NFL News,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady pulled the ultimate punk fact had Adam Schefter,
Speaker 1: who you know, I just work with Adam NFL Networks,
Speaker 1: the end up dude. He doesn't report news unless he's
Speaker 1: convinced of it. I've seen I've seen it, but I've
Speaker 1: seen him sitting on like the focus, like yo, I
Speaker 1: can't report it yet till it was ready. So it
Speaker 1: feels like Brady's camp gave him a little pump. Fake
Speaker 1: reported that Brady's retiring. Brady's agents said, not so fast.
Speaker 1: So people, it started this debate, you know, go verse
Speaker 1: goat Brady versus Jordan's Who is the better goat in
Speaker 1: your mind? Damn Joe, you know what? I like Thomas, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's definitely sizzling on him. I like Thomason and everything,
Speaker 1: but I mean the goat. Nobody started talking about to
Speaker 1: go until Michael Jordan's started coming around, you know, six
Speaker 1: or six you know m VPS, tom Brady doesn't play defense,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, just to play. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: he played one position, like we said earlier, at a
Speaker 1: high level for a very long time. Still did a
Speaker 1: lot of ship. Nobody has at that position. But for me,
Speaker 1: we're talking about finals appearances m v P being a
Speaker 1: transcended talent playing offense, being I respected as an offensive
Speaker 1: and defensive person. So that go debate to me is Solda,
Speaker 1: But you know MJ for it, you know, until until
Speaker 1: notified else I'll leave it like this. At points in
Speaker 1: MJ's career, and you know, Lebron got Lebron's ultimate gover.
Speaker 1: Don't get into that at this particular juncture. But MJ
Speaker 1: was the best offensive and defensive player at point. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady only playing half the game, I don't have to
Speaker 1: play enough. If Brady was out there playing quarterback and lineing,
Speaker 1: got bit dB or safety or something like that. Give
Speaker 1: me with the Ronnie lit chopped the finger off, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead to keep going. Maybe maybe you know
Speaker 1: Dion both ways, I'm literally picking it and catchy touchdowns
Speaker 1: on that ad and I got a baseball game I
Speaker 1: gotta get to, so get the chopper. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, but tons of respect for Brady. Seven super
Speaker 1: Bowl wins and if he does call it quits and
Speaker 1: this is it, man, you gotta just show him the
Speaker 1: ultimate amount of respect. But he's not on George's level
Speaker 1: from a ghost. And let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1: Does he have the right to pump fake? Yeah? Oh,
Speaker 1: and you can say he could pump fake all the
Speaker 1: way through the start of the set to this all
Speaker 1: the numerous times, squads, I'm going to the rivals. I'm
Speaker 1: going to the jail. I'm just lingering. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: want to do no training camp. I'm gonna be up
Speaker 1: against it as a last minute. So I think Tom
Speaker 1: Brady has earned his right pump fact and I hope he.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, we might be looking for a quarterback,
Speaker 1: Thomas saying, if you wouldn't come back to the crib,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, we can put you. We
Speaker 1: ain't gotta practice to do now that ship, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. He can come and get your CBD
Speaker 1: together because we thought a Rod, but a Rod is
Speaker 1: not really with that back, so he can only really
Speaker 1: come through the road. I'm saying, Yeah, he gotta be
Speaker 1: on that ky read. He could play on the road,
Speaker 1: but he can't play at home. They might, they might
Speaker 1: do it, but home game. And I think that's good
Speaker 1: for trades, for somebody to sit behind, you know, Trey
Speaker 1: Lance maybe a couple more years. I don't think Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo was the right person to learn from because Jimmy's
Speaker 1: get up at the end of it, that Jimmy he does.
Speaker 1: He just that ship because he wants to sometimes, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And it ended up biting us
Speaker 1: in our ass. But sometimes it's work, like ghetto ship does.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Brady has the right to fund fact and
Speaker 1: I'm excited for his future. So we got some closing thoughts.
Speaker 1: NBA trade deadline is next week, you know, hoping to
Speaker 1: see some moving and shaking. If you're lost Angeles Lakers fans,
Speaker 1: you're hoping that rober Link is working the phone right now,
Speaker 1: not getting sent the voice mail. Another squad who's looking
Speaker 1: to make some move the Knicks. The Knicks brought in
Speaker 1: Cam Reddish. Reports coming out of New Yorker is that
Speaker 1: Cam will be chilling on the bench. They don't want
Speaker 1: to bring him in the rotation. That's what they do.
Speaker 1: I'll let you Knicks fans worry about that. But they
Speaker 1: got you know, four new years. Camba birds are all available. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you see any moves happening in New York? Who
Speaker 1: wants them? No? I don't, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: no disrespect, you know what I mean? I know people
Speaker 1: get paid a lot more money to do analytics and
Speaker 1: run things than you know, former players. But as a
Speaker 1: as a fan, and I'm thinking I have some knowledge
Speaker 1: of the league, I think the Knicks are in a
Speaker 1: peculiar situation where those assets that they acquired and spent
Speaker 1: bread on, like the assets don to depreciate it, you know,
Speaker 1: pulled it off the lot. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: You don't gave the the They pull it off the lot,
Speaker 1: and the appreciation happened, like right away. Julius Rundall's going
Speaker 1: through all types of ship out of there. They probably
Speaker 1: kind of have to consider making him available. So I
Speaker 1: don't just don't know what the Knicks can do with
Speaker 1: those pieces, because I'm not taking on for the a's
Speaker 1: contract to do what he've been doing. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe that somebody got a system where he fits in.
Speaker 1: I mean, what are your thoughts on it? If I'm
Speaker 1: the Knicks, I'm looking for good flight deals to Camcoon,
Speaker 1: getting getting the hotel reserved in advance. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think Julius Randall's coming off that great year, got the bag.
Speaker 1: Don't really know what's going on with him, you know,
Speaker 1: from a mental standpoint, and it's just ya, I can
Speaker 1: see anything happen in New York, but I don't really
Speaker 1: think it's gonna help. They're kind of you know, they
Speaker 1: had their run bing Bon and all that ship. Ever
Speaker 1: since Big Bond started, we went from bing Bon to
Speaker 1: Ping Pong. Like, I'm just gonna be real, but that ship,
Speaker 1: it gets you, that bing bound ship. That ship is flighty.
Speaker 1: That's that's not gonna it's not it's not gonna stay
Speaker 1: with you. That's the thing that's here today and gone tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That's you gotta stop that being Bong ship. The Kings
Speaker 1: were in the Ben Simmons Sweet states more he was
Speaker 1: asking for too much. Yeah, so you know when the
Speaker 1: Kings are like, now we cool, playboy like, that's because
Speaker 1: you know they've tried to put together a package probably
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, they know they can't come in into
Speaker 1: the negotiations bullshit. So yeah, More he's playing hardball, man,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But like his name is More,
Speaker 1: he said, give me some more. He's saying, let me
Speaker 1: see it. You know what I mean, Ben losing a
Speaker 1: lot of bread, you know what I mean? While you
Speaker 1: know the Bugatti but the Bugatti payments, is is that enough?
Speaker 1: I think he knows that too, so using that to
Speaker 1: his advantage. I know that the things were too high
Speaker 1: then when they're asking or high, but maybe he crosses
Speaker 1: his arm to get that deal and catches somebody desperate.
Speaker 1: I mean, what team do you think could benefit from
Speaker 1: from bringing in a guy like dearon Fox or Buddy Healed?
Speaker 1: And for Buddy, I'll tell you a team that could
Speaker 1: have benefited that probably should have made that move in
Speaker 1: the summertime with the Los Angeles Lakers. But who needs
Speaker 1: those services? Now they got a hairy and get them
Speaker 1: deals out of there before they get attainted, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Sacramento is in the best place to
Speaker 1: play anyway, you know what I mean. They have some
Speaker 1: coaching changes, you know what I mean. I know Alvin
Speaker 1: Gentry is going through it over there. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean trying to find trying to identify what type
Speaker 1: of culture that they could even begin to have. Luke
Speaker 1: went through it. I still think it's an awesome franchise.
Speaker 1: I love Sacramento, you know. I spent a little bit
Speaker 1: of time in there when I have time off. The
Speaker 1: city's dope. They get behind that franchise. So I just
Speaker 1: see whatever team Fox or He'll go to. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to They're gonna unless it's a special
Speaker 1: coach a Popovich, some type of situation where you have
Speaker 1: to go in there and like dial in right away,
Speaker 1: I don't. I think they're gonna still be a little
Speaker 1: ways away from their best basketball if they go to
Speaker 1: a new destination, it's not just gonna be like they're
Speaker 1: there and they're cracking right away. And if we're looking
Speaker 1: at the Ben Simmons sweet steaks, will the Sixers make
Speaker 1: a deal for Simmons before the deadline or they're gonna
Speaker 1: hold that piece and hope that hardened opts out and
Speaker 1: like cheese steaks. James looked like he do like cheese.
Speaker 1: I mean, who doesn't delicious, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna have a cheese steaks you probably
Speaker 1: have one and the yes, so he would be a
Speaker 1: smart man for that. Look and beat is cooking, man,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I think even if
Speaker 1: Being does come back, what does he do at this point?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? What what else is he
Speaker 1: besides another body? You know what I mean? Maybe he's
Speaker 1: on the same game. I think it's Kyrie can only
Speaker 1: play rug games. I don't know what that looks like. Um, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: they just that Moria ain't gonna do ship but sit
Speaker 1: there and wait for this season to expire and ride
Speaker 1: out joel them beads and BP seas and you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully one of those other players step up, you know,
Speaker 1: and maybe they make a move and get somebody some
Speaker 1: extra out of help. But I don't think he makes
Speaker 1: a move or else he would have made it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most definitely. And now shifted back to the West. Utah
Speaker 1: Jazz got some some some devastating news. Joe Ingles suffered
Speaker 1: the torn yell out for the season. Yeah they're already
Speaker 1: you know, four and twelve in January. This is a
Speaker 1: huge boat of their depth. Can the Jazz recover from this? No? No,
Speaker 1: I don't think, you know, I think Ingles was a
Speaker 1: glue guy, and you know, I don't know how glue
Speaker 1: guys is. Rudy's not a big enough offensive guy, although
Speaker 1: he's gonna hold you down on defense. I think they're
Speaker 1: missing so much offense right now. I don't see them
Speaker 1: making a move anything that they do move. I think
Speaker 1: the jazz or who they are, I think Joe, the
Speaker 1: Joe ingles Uh injury is gonna hurt them more than
Speaker 1: they think they do, more than I think, more of
Speaker 1: than we think they will. And I'm not looking for Utah.
Speaker 1: Everybody I know Quince Snyder is a good coach. They've
Speaker 1: got some young talent like Donovan Mitchell, I like Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 1: I'm just not looking for Utah like that most death
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