Speaker 1: We got some tea, some news poppin' from around the league,
Speaker 1: and it is some hot hot tea.
Speaker 2: Spencer DINWITTI, this is just so great. I just love
Speaker 2: it so much.
Speaker 1: It was just I have been thinking about it and
Speaker 1: talking about it to friends all day. Guard for the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets, Spencer Dinwittie who also used to be a
Speaker 1: guard for the Brooklyn Nets and was traded. So Kyle Kuzma,
Speaker 1: former Laker wing champion, currently exiled in Washington with the Wizards,
Speaker 1: have officially reignited their beef.
Speaker 2: Did you see this?
Speaker 1: There is there's a lot to get into, right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you my thoughts. I'm gonna explain it. But
Speaker 1: for those who don't remember, let's give you a little backstory. So,
Speaker 1: Dinwitty and Kus were teammates right for a hot second,
Speaker 1: because Dinwitty was added to the Wizards when Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: asked to be traded, right he was included in that
Speaker 1: like fifteen person trade and then moves to Washington. Dinwitty
Speaker 1: was just coming off of ACL surgery and the Wizards
Speaker 1: needed a point guard and during his very short tenure,
Speaker 1: because he was traded from the Wizards to Dallas for
Speaker 1: kristavs Porzingis.
Speaker 2: It was the kristavs Porzingis trade, so he was there.
Speaker 1: For like a few months, and apparently in those few months,
Speaker 1: Dinwitty and Coups fucking hated each other pretty much did
Speaker 1: not vibe at all. Dinwitty was traded before the season finished,
Speaker 1: and then when the MAVs played the Wizards before Spence
Speaker 1: was later included in the Kyrie trade back to Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: Spencer decided he was going to take a low key
Speaker 1: shot at the Wizards franchise, and if you're in the know,
Speaker 1: took an under the radar shot at Kuzma.
Speaker 2: This is what he said.
Speaker 1: They're not playing for nothing, for real. For them, it's
Speaker 1: just a showcase. They're over there just trying to get paid,
Speaker 1: not trying to play winning basketball.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Kuzma took to Twitter and then said, funny thing is
Speaker 1: they the MAVs don't play winning basketball either.
Speaker 2: Game on.
Speaker 1: Remember, Kuzma thinks he's like different because he already won
Speaker 1: a ring. He thinks that whatever he's going through and
Speaker 1: doing does not apply because he's already won. So he
Speaker 1: feels like he sealed his legacy. So then Spencer Dimwittie
Speaker 1: goes on fandual TV and they're like, hey, did you
Speaker 1: see that Kuzma's comments about you? How come he didn't
Speaker 1: like clap back? And he's like, yeah, I wanted to
Speaker 1: respond to that Kuzma tweet, but my agent told me
Speaker 1: to stand down, that we had bigger fish to fry
Speaker 1: things to do get to the playoffs. You know now
Speaker 1: that I'm not in that environment. I'm in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and he's not.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 1: This, of course was after the Nets made the SUC
Speaker 1: seed the Wizards failed to make the play in tournament.
Speaker 2: So then Spence took.
Speaker 1: It even further and decided to say the quiet part
Speaker 1: out loud.
Speaker 3: Life fame, all that stuff that we could see that
Speaker 3: you know, his priorities tend to vary, right, Like, that's
Speaker 3: why he addressed the way he does. He you know,
Speaker 3: approached the basketball the way he does, the comments he makes,
Speaker 3: and like I said with the Draymond quote, insecurity is loud,
Speaker 3: like you know that you're there, you know, shooting shots
Speaker 3: to try to get a contract. You're probably not even
Speaker 3: a third star really on a good team, because if
Speaker 3: you were, the Lakers would have kept you. Right part
Speaker 3: of the reason you left was to try to make
Speaker 3: more money. Like these are all things that are facts,
Speaker 3: and so at the end of my career, one thing
Speaker 3: that I want to be known besides a guy that
Speaker 3: did whatever took to win in whatever spot he was at,
Speaker 3: is a guy that was also very honest. And so
Speaker 3: like my complete response to you know, cous and all
Speaker 3: the other stuff to address it directly, I mean, I
Speaker 3: played with the guy, you know what I mean, we
Speaker 3: know what the priorities were, and you know a lot
Speaker 3: of times people thought I was talking about Brad or
Speaker 3: whatever anything like that. I look at Brad in the
Speaker 3: same light as like a Dame. I think he's Lord
Speaker 3: of DC. I think, you know, probably on a championship team,
Speaker 3: he's probably got to be paired with like a Yiannis.
Speaker 3: He's probably one B, which is no shot. I know
Speaker 3: on a championship team, you know, I'm probably the third guy,
Speaker 3: kind of like a Drew Holliday with a Chris Middleton
Speaker 3: and you know Yiannis or whatever. I'm very scared with
Speaker 3: who I am in my career. I knowing a really
Speaker 3: good team, I can be a number two kind of
Speaker 3: like we al right here with the Brooklyn Nets. We
Speaker 3: got Micheale, we got me. We're still a playoff team.
Speaker 3: We're able to keep the ship right. But in DC,
Speaker 3: if you got three Max dudes for Zengis Brad and
Speaker 3: KU's like, how you missed the playoff? Like he doesn't.
Speaker 3: None of these things make sense, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Unless your priorities aren't.
Speaker 1: In order, Unless your priorities aren't in order. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. He he absolutely ethers Kyle Kuzma in
Speaker 1: the span of three minutes with straight facts. So then,
Speaker 1: of course, because Kyle Kuzma didn't have a place to
Speaker 1: talk on FanDuel TV, which would have been incredible, he
Speaker 1: goes ape shit on Twitter and he says, the Wizards
Speaker 1: and I have so much real estate on din shitty Island.
Speaker 1: This guy got signed by a team for sixty mills
Speaker 1: and was traded before the season was over.
Speaker 2: What in the world have you won in this league?
Speaker 1: You've been bounced around like a basketball My boy, Kuzma,
Speaker 1: you can thank Kyrie and KD for spearheading the thirty
Speaker 1: four wins before.
Speaker 2: The All Star break.
Speaker 1: You're eleven and thirteen after the break for your playoffs. Oh,
Speaker 1: you think you're a second option more like a second
Speaker 1: point guard. My man, I watched you for two months
Speaker 1: at the end of your wizard's tenure. Being the second
Speaker 1: option averaging eight four and four sounds good, but I'm
Speaker 1: glad you're hooping now.
Speaker 2: Last, but not least.
Speaker 1: The only way you'll ever be worth your contract is
Speaker 1: if the NBA finally gives you your wish of being
Speaker 1: paid in crypto. Check the markets downward arrow, my lord?
Speaker 1: Did that escalate quickly?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: Of course today.
Speaker 1: Spence responded and he said, did you see Kuzma's tweet?
Speaker 1: The funny part about it is that there are a
Speaker 1: lot of contradictions. He resorted to name calling dinshitty things
Speaker 1: like that, which I haven't heard since I was probably
Speaker 1: ten years old, things of that nature. I think at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, the biggest piece here was
Speaker 1: like a theory from eight Mile the way Eminem approached
Speaker 1: the final battle.
Speaker 2: If you approach you with the truth, what do you
Speaker 2: have to hide?
Speaker 1: There's nothing there, right, So that's probably the last time
Speaker 1: I'll address because I want to focus on Philly, the
Speaker 1: team and what we're doing. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I spoke truth and I got rebutted.
Speaker 2: With a ten year old insult. He said, what have
Speaker 2: you done in this league?
Speaker 1: If we're going to talk about my career and the
Speaker 1: things that I've done that are unique and possibly different.
Speaker 1: I led a team to the playoffs when their max
Speaker 1: players were hurt back in twenty twenty, averaging over twenty
Speaker 1: a game, So I won a lot of games there.
Speaker 2: I've been to the Western.
Speaker 1: Conference finals with Luca, and the MAVs been to the
Speaker 1: playoffs every year for the last five or six years.
Speaker 1: And then on top of that, I would say people
Speaker 1: are blessed to be in situations. We don't get mad
Speaker 1: at Rick Fox for winning a championship with Kobe and
Speaker 1: Shack like some people are blessed and that's great, but
Speaker 1: we can't act like Rick Fox led them to a championship.
Speaker 1: Let's not do that, goddamn real quick. Rick Fox and
Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzma average the same amount of points ten in
Speaker 1: the playoffs on those championship teams for the Lakers. That's incredible.
Speaker 2: So now that you're caught up, why is it like
Speaker 2: this between them?
Speaker 1: Here's what I've gathered and here's what I believe. Spencer
Speaker 1: Dinwoodie is what I call a tree shaker. He comes
Speaker 1: to situations and he assesses, he asks questions when things
Speaker 1: are not operating properly. The Washington Wizards do not, as
Speaker 1: you guys can see, operate properly.
Speaker 2: They we don't make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They're not a very good franchise, and they've kind of
Speaker 1: been sitting there in the middle of the doldrums for
Speaker 1: a very long time. The Wizards are not the most organized,
Speaker 1: winning franchise in the NBA. Spence got there with I
Speaker 1: think Baby Holiday. I believe it was Justin or Aaron.
Speaker 1: I think it was Aaron Holliday, and they were like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this place is fucked up. Can we all get some roles?
Speaker 1: Can we figure out what our roles are? Hey, like,
Speaker 1: I don't even care what my role is, just can
Speaker 1: we get one? And not in Washington? My boys, No,
Speaker 1: we don't have a winning culture here. You don't get roles,
Speaker 1: you don't get organization, you don't get direction.
Speaker 2: You just go out there and hoop.
Speaker 1: We're gonna win thirty two games this year and we're
Speaker 1: gonna be in the lottery and we're gonna pick up
Speaker 1: I don't know, some random kid, Johnny Davers from Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Kuzman didn't want roles, what did he want? Kyle Kusman
Speaker 1: wanted to hit shots. Kyle Kuzma wanted to take shots
Speaker 1: to the tune of twenty five of them a game,
Speaker 1: first to be a fashion icon and second to chuck
Speaker 1: so much that Beale and his other teammates were regularly
Speaker 1: pissed at him for ball hogging, and Ruey Hotchim Murray
Speaker 1: was supposed to be the guy, but Ruey Hachimura had
Speaker 1: his own mental health issues and they couldn't build around Rui.
Speaker 1: So what do they do? They said, I guess we'll
Speaker 1: take this Cou's guy. KU's got mad at Spencer Dinwiddie,
Speaker 1: from what I can gather, did some snake stuff started
Speaker 1: spreading rumors to the media like Kevin O'Connor, and before
Speaker 1: you knew it, Kevin O'Connor wrote, the Wizards want to
Speaker 1: move Dinwittie because he looks like a shell of himself
Speaker 1: and his teammates don't want him here.
Speaker 2: Holy shit shell of himself.
Speaker 1: I am no sleuth, I am no inspector gadget, but
Speaker 1: it does feel like the organization and the people who
Speaker 1: were at a deficit by accountability wanted to basically get
Speaker 1: the tree Shaker gone, so they besmirched his name. So
Speaker 1: the comments made from the Wizards pretty bad, pretty bad,
Speaker 1: could have damaged his entire reputation, could have cost him
Speaker 1: his career, damn near ruined his career. If it wasn't
Speaker 1: for his time for with the Dallas Mavericks, he might
Speaker 1: not have gotten a real opportunity. And I get that
Speaker 1: Spencer can sometimes say some crazy shit, and I get
Speaker 1: that he can be his own worst enemy. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: all can be. He recently said he has the petty side.
Speaker 1: He takes joy in the Mavericks collapsing because he has
Speaker 1: friends on the team. And you know what, they traded
Speaker 1: him and he didn't want to be traded back to
Speaker 1: cous I'm not sure though, that Kus is an honest guy.
Speaker 1: Do Kus want to win? Who's want to get paid?
Speaker 1: This KU's want to be the man? Well, he recently
Speaker 1: discussed this when he was talking about free agency. Here's
Speaker 1: what he said. It's not about the money.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get.
Speaker 1: Paid regardless of where I go here in DC too,
Speaker 1: but it's about where I work every day and where
Speaker 1: I can be the best version of myself aka, where
Speaker 1: I can chuck the most amount of shots that I
Speaker 1: possibly can. I can wear crazy outfits in the tunnel
Speaker 1: and I can be the guy. So good luck Cou's,
Speaker 1: good luck in Detroit, good luck in Indiana, good luck
Speaker 1: in DC, good luck on a place where winning is
Speaker 1: not the first and foremost issue or prior. You'll make
Speaker 1: your money, you'll chill, you'll look good, and you'll take
Speaker 1: eighteen shots a game. And here's the thing that people
Speaker 1: won't talk about is that these rivalries have two sides, right,
Speaker 1: one with the most social clout Coups and Spencer Dimwitie,
Speaker 1: who's kind of a weirdo. Everybody wants to take KU's
Speaker 1: side because Kuz has a huge following, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1: But eventually the truth comes out. And the question that
Speaker 1: I have is if Dinwiddie was such a bad teammate
Speaker 1: and such as shell of himself, like, why would Brooklyn
Speaker 1: want him back? Why would they trade for him again?
Speaker 1: Why would they ask for him to come back in
Speaker 1: that trade? Why would coach Vaughan speak so highly and
Speaker 1: reverently about Dimwitti's leadership. Why can't you find anyone in
Speaker 1: Dallas who will say anything but good things about Spencer Dimwitddie.
Speaker 1: Why is it the only place that has labeled him
Speaker 1: some sort of malcontent, some sort of cancer, some sort
Speaker 1: of shell of himself. Is the one of the worst
Speaker 1: franchises of modern NBA Mint Memory, Why, like, think about it,
Speaker 1: Think about who's really at fall, think about what's really
Speaker 1: going on. I'm telling you, if it was like san
Speaker 1: Antonio who came out at Spencer didnt when he was
Speaker 1: a cancer and he's a shell of himself.
Speaker 2: Or like Miami, he'd be like, Okay, I get it.
Speaker 1: When Sam Prest he's out here saying, yeah, we had
Speaker 1: trouble communicating with this guy, I would sit.
Speaker 2: Up and listen.
Speaker 1: But when it's the Wizards, the Wizards and it's Kuzma,
Speaker 1: come on now, sidey, I'm giving you the side eye.
Speaker 1: I am skeptical. People see through it. As Barkley said,
Speaker 1: there's a reason most of the same teams are in
Speaker 1: the lottery.
Speaker 2: You're in and you're out. It's a culture thing.
Speaker 1: And when someone comes in and tries to shake the
Speaker 1: branches and try to change the culture, that toxic culture
Speaker 1: comes for you because they don't want people who point
Speaker 1: out problems. If you point out problems, you're the problem,
Speaker 1: and now Spencer didn whod He gets that and hopefully
Speaker 1: has learned from that too,