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Speaker 1: game without Steph and Clay Thompson came out and was
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson. I'll tell you what. Clay Thompson came out
Speaker 1: last night, had twelve threes. Absolutely incredible performance. Uh. Somebody
Speaker 1: asked me in the press conference about the one shot
Speaker 1: where he waved Jordan's through and shot three in the corner.
Speaker 1: Absolute bullshit shot. I'm just gonna put that out there
Speaker 1: right now. But if you watch the clip, as soon
Speaker 1: as he's as soon as he waved Jordan through and
Speaker 1: he went to the corner, you see my body start
Speaker 1: to turn. I'm already going back on defense. I knew
Speaker 1: it was going up. He was having that type of night,
Speaker 1: And when Clay is having that type of night, you
Speaker 1: gotta expect a couple of those. Quite frankly, when he's
Speaker 1: not having that type of night, you gotta expect it
Speaker 1: a couple of those. But quite, I can't tell you,
Speaker 1: um how that feels. I don't know how that feels,
Speaker 1: so I can't really dive into that mind Instead of
Speaker 1: taking that shot, because I just don't know how that feels.
Speaker 1: But in saying that, it's as nostalgia washing Clay shoot
Speaker 1: like that against Oklahoma City. The only thing different was
Speaker 1: that it just wasn't in Oklahoma City. But as I'm
Speaker 1: watching him have that game while we're playing, I had
Speaker 1: a better seat than you. Um, I couldn't help but
Speaker 1: think back to Game six two thousand and sixteen, where
Speaker 1: Game six Clay was kind of born, and like it
Speaker 1: just brings a different energy over the body, like it
Speaker 1: puts the mind in a different place. You just feel good.
Speaker 1: So as I'm watching him how to and he's like
Speaker 1: these dudes up, I can't help but think if like, man,
Speaker 1: it was Kevin Durant in that jersey and it was
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook in that jersey, like, and you think back
Speaker 1: to that moment, which was such a huge, incredible moment.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless Clay came out. I think he finished the
Speaker 1: game with forty two points. Uh. Like I said in
Speaker 1: twelve three, as great as he played, I didn't think
Speaker 1: it was twelve threes like, which says a lot because
Speaker 1: Clay when he's scoring like that, he pouring on like
Speaker 1: he pouring on and it feels it's loud, But I
Speaker 1: just didn't feel like he had twelve threes. Like I
Speaker 1: knew he was lightening them boys up, but I did
Speaker 1: not think he had twelve three Who was aware that
Speaker 1: was Jordan, because Jordan's as you see Jordan, by the way,
Speaker 1: Jordan played one of the best games I've ever seen
Speaker 1: him play. And I know, you know, people have seen
Speaker 1: him get forty I think, or you know, thirty over.
Speaker 1: He played the best game I've ever seen him play.
Speaker 1: As you know, I'm not one that's just going to
Speaker 1: watch points and say, oh man, this guy played great.
Speaker 1: I got scored twenty in this league, thirty in this
Speaker 1: league and played like ship all the time. So that's
Speaker 1: that's neither here nor there. But the game Jordan Pooh
Speaker 1: played last night, at one point, I think he had
Speaker 1: two points and seven assists, And that says so much
Speaker 1: about the game that he was having because it was
Speaker 1: just in the flow. He was making the right play,
Speaker 1: you know, he had to offense, settle down, he was
Speaker 1: getting to the things that he wanted to get through
Speaker 1: having a shot, turning it down and making an extra
Speaker 1: pass like it's actually plays like that that sets us
Speaker 1: up to have the night like we had last night,
Speaker 1: Like it's been a long time since we really blew
Speaker 1: somebody out. But it's those small plays where it's like
Speaker 1: if Jordan's shoes at three on the right wing in
Speaker 1: the first high, nobody, no, no, nobody's mad. Like Jordan's
Speaker 1: a very good shooter and he's open. Nobody's mad or
Speaker 1: tripping about that shot. But you faked the pump, fake
Speaker 1: guy come flying, next guy, excuse me, next guy comes,
Speaker 1: and you swing it to Clay and Clay knocked it down.
Speaker 1: Those are Camaradero rebuilding plays. Those are plays that get
Speaker 1: everybody involved, that get the crowd involved, that make you
Speaker 1: feel good. Jordan's hit that three, Greade, gotta kick out,
Speaker 1: knock the three down, book, but to make that extra
Speaker 1: pastic Clay. Those are the plays that leads to blow
Speaker 1: out like we did last night. And so just getting
Speaker 1: back to what I was saying about, Jordan playing an
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible game, dished the ball um twelve assists, four turnovers,
Speaker 1: but let's talk about them four turnovers. Three of those
Speaker 1: turnovers came in and within his last minute or two
Speaker 1: in the game, just trying to do everything he can
Speaker 1: to force feed play the ball because he knew Clay
Speaker 1: was close to breaking his own record, and so he's
Speaker 1: just trying to force feed him the ball. And three
Speaker 1: of those turnovers came. Then no one's mad about that,
Speaker 1: no one's blaming that. Everybody knows exactly what's going on.
Speaker 1: And so the reality is he really had twelve turnovers,
Speaker 1: twelve twelve assists in one turnover. And now lets get
Speaker 1: into his shot making totally let the game come to him,
Speaker 1: didn't force anything. Let me take you back. So what happens.
Speaker 1: Jordan catches the ball on on Jordan catches the ball
Speaker 1: off the offensive rebound tap out from me, and he's deep,
Speaker 1: very very deep out there, maybe from thirty seven ft out,
Speaker 1: and he shot the three. Now, let's rewind it back
Speaker 1: a little bit. Steph Curry through on his mouthpiece, same
Speaker 1: exact play, the ball gets tipped out. He shot it
Speaker 1: from forty what's the difference the differences? He was in
Speaker 1: such a groove. Number one, it went in, but number two,
Speaker 1: he's in such a groove play such a great game
Speaker 1: that you don't even really feel that shot even if
Speaker 1: he misses it. He's playing so well like you deserve
Speaker 1: to take that shot, like he's played that well. And
Speaker 1: so I gotta give a lot of credit to jp
Speaker 1: Um and Clay and last night just our backcourt in
Speaker 1: general and last night win. But like I said, JP
Speaker 1: had an incredible game. Let the game come to him.
Speaker 1: And no, he's not gonna play that way every single night.
Speaker 1: But you need more of that, And because that's the growth,
Speaker 1: that's his next step and growing to becoming the player
Speaker 1: that he should and wants to become. That's that next step.
Speaker 1: More of those and I thought that was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: And then on the defensive end, see what you must
Speaker 1: understand about okay, see is they run a lot of
Speaker 1: guard guard picking rolls um and they're really just waiting
Speaker 1: on the guard to mess up the switch or just
Speaker 1: give a little crease. And once they get their crease.
Speaker 1: This that team is number one in drives in the NBA.
Speaker 1: For those of who that may not understand that. That's
Speaker 1: they drive to the paint, drive to the whole more
Speaker 1: than any team in the NBA. And so that was
Speaker 1: a big thing in the scout report. So they're looking
Speaker 1: for the guards to mess up that switch and they're
Speaker 1: gonna attack that lane as soon as they see a
Speaker 1: little Crease. I said all of that to say Jordan
Speaker 1: was also very good defensively, and that's also another step
Speaker 1: in his growth, which brings it all together into why
Speaker 1: I said he played probably the best game that I've
Speaker 1: ever seen him play, absolute masterpiece of a game, which
Speaker 1: led us to uh, pretty convincing blowout, which, like I said,
Speaker 1: it's been a while since we had one of those.
Speaker 1: We needed it. H end up winning the game by
Speaker 1: twenty seven points. That's great as we get ready to
Speaker 1: head out on the road um for this game in Portland,
Speaker 1: and which is tomorrow night, and as we all know,
Speaker 1: Dame has been on the heater, so I gotta go
Speaker 1: ahead and try to stop that. Did you see this
Speaker 1: shot Dame hit last night from forty eight feet like
Speaker 1: forty six ft, one step inside inside half court like
Speaker 1: most people gotta push that ball to to hit that
Speaker 1: shot like and and it luckily goes in. No one
Speaker 1: was shocked. He made that shot the same rota, same four,
Speaker 1: as pure as ever as if he shot it from
Speaker 1: thirty ft. Yeah. So that was a great game by
Speaker 1: Clay and a great game by Jordan's which led us
Speaker 1: to the win which we needed before before we moved
Speaker 1: past Clay. You said that three of Jordan's turnovers were
Speaker 1: as he was trying to sort of force Clay the
Speaker 1: ball towards the end of that little stretch. When you
Speaker 1: play what you've had the opportunity to play with guys
Speaker 1: that have made double digit three is a lot of
Speaker 1: times now when you see a guy getting that hot,
Speaker 1: how much are you trying to force feed them the
Speaker 1: ball versus just letting the offense flow, letting the ball
Speaker 1: sort of find them, as Steve sort of talks about,
Speaker 1: the natural thing would be to just let the ball
Speaker 1: find and do but as human beings, it's the most
Speaker 1: unnatural thing to do. Um. The reality is in the
Speaker 1: thought processes that the ball has found them the whole game,
Speaker 1: it will still find them, but Ay, we're blowing them out,
Speaker 1: and you know he's gonna come out at some point,
Speaker 1: so you can't really just flow um with the offensive.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing about when when Clay has these type
Speaker 1: of knights or when Steph has these type of knights,
Speaker 1: is we usually blow people out in and how these
Speaker 1: type of knights, and so there are times where you'll
Speaker 1: see guys how these type of knights around the league,
Speaker 1: and like they're down the stretch in the game the
Speaker 1: last four minutes. Very rarely, dude, those guys have that
Speaker 1: type of night and the teams are still in it.
Speaker 1: I can't recall many, if any, And so, yes, you're
Speaker 1: supposed to let the ball find him and all of
Speaker 1: those things, but that human element comes in, like, Yo,
Speaker 1: he's hot and we're gonna do everything we can to
Speaker 1: find him, and so you have everybody's screen. So then
Speaker 1: what happens. Everybody's running looking from the screen. So then
Speaker 1: he ends up in like bunches and like he's not
Speaker 1: open because everything's bunched up, and then you're trying to
Speaker 1: force force the ball through like four people and you
Speaker 1: get turnovers like I've seen this quite a few times now,
Speaker 1: and and I've also done it like that, I'm either
Speaker 1: the pastor or the screener and trying to get him open.
Speaker 1: It sucks because you end up causing more, you end
Speaker 1: up hurting more than you're helping. But in saying that,
Speaker 1: the natural thing and what a great teammates gonna do
Speaker 1: is what we do is do everything you can to
Speaker 1: find him, do everything you can to screen from get open,
Speaker 1: because ultimately what what it ends up being is your
Speaker 1: heart's in the right place, like you know, it's all
Speaker 1: coming from a good place and with that you can
Speaker 1: live with it. So I understand what Jordan was going
Speaker 1: through for sure. I think it's sort of its depending
Speaker 1: on the context. Like you're talking about the okay See game,
Speaker 1: the real game. Six Clay game is a playoff game,
Speaker 1: a really important one. But where does this game rank
Speaker 1: on like the hottest you've you've seen Clay where you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my, you feel every SHOT's going and it can't.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's had so many great nights, obviously, but
Speaker 1: he came out firing this. This one's up there. Obviously
Speaker 1: it's okay See on a soft Monday, right before all
Speaker 1: start break dog days not much. You know, the game
Speaker 1: doesn't mean a ton um, so that's gonna drop it automatically,
Speaker 1: like you can't put it above games and then the
Speaker 1: sixty point game or you know, all right, that was
Speaker 1: crazy thirty seven in the quarter. I mean, I've seen
Speaker 1: this dude have some nights, so I can't put the
Speaker 1: Monday game against Okay See four games before all start
Speaker 1: break up there. But just in terms of his shot,
Speaker 1: I mean, he hit some tough ones. He got some
Speaker 1: easy ones, but he hit some tough ones. And I
Speaker 1: mean that's Clay though, Like like I spoke about the
Speaker 1: one where he drilled it to the corner. He didn't
Speaker 1: drive it to the corner and missed that like bas shot.
Speaker 1: He dribbed it to the corner and missed it and
Speaker 1: slapped his hands like it was supposed to go in, Like, bro,
Speaker 1: that's an awful shot, but he thought he's supposed he's
Speaker 1: supposed to make it. It's I just can't. I can't
Speaker 1: get my mind there. I don't. But that's not me,
Speaker 1: Like I don't, all right, But he actually believed he
Speaker 1: should have made that shot, and then you know, you said,
Speaker 1: and you think about it, and the reality is that's
Speaker 1: why he's capable of having the knife that he has,
Speaker 1: because Lord knows the shot club would have been run
Speaker 1: and not I would have felt bad about taking that shot.
Speaker 1: So I guess that's the difference between me and Clay. Uh.
Speaker 1: Obviously a shot is better than mine, but the mindset,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, his man slapped his hands and ran
Speaker 1: back like like he shot a good shot and missed it. Dude,
Speaker 1: you just wave Jordan Pool out the way with two
Speaker 1: people over there, no problem. Shot shot off a shot.
Speaker 1: Gotta love clay Man. He's the best, but yeah, it
Speaker 1: maybe top five in terms of hotness, but it just
Speaker 1: don't really have the same punch because he does that
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Speaker 1: Steph going out. Um, Steph is I don't know I've heard.
Speaker 1: I've heard three weeks, I've heard multiple weeks, I've kind
Speaker 1: of heard all this the same thing that you've heard.
Speaker 1: But what I will say is this, I think it's
Speaker 1: important to see how, um, how steph body reacts over
Speaker 1: the next few days, um you know, just with him
Speaker 1: being in pain, just how to pain subside and how
Speaker 1: his body recovers over the next few days, because the
Speaker 1: reality is, you know, if you if you've read up
Speaker 1: on the injury at all, like you know, uh, when
Speaker 1: when I need to know things, I go to dr
Speaker 1: Google and if if you've read up on the injury
Speaker 1: at all, Like it's one of those things where it's
Speaker 1: kind of like a pain tolerance type thing, and you know,
Speaker 1: when you have acute injuries like that, those first couple
Speaker 1: of days of brutal like you're feeling that pain like
Speaker 1: nobody's tomorrow. But depending on how that pain subsides, that
Speaker 1: will probably determine whether he's out for three weeks or
Speaker 1: whether he's out for five weeks, Like no one knows,
Speaker 1: because again, it's one of those things. And so I'm
Speaker 1: hoping fingers crossed that you know, over the next couple
Speaker 1: of days, the panel start to subside a little more
Speaker 1: and then you kind of get a better outlook. But
Speaker 1: right now, no one knows. Absolutely sucks. Um, you know
Speaker 1: my question not really, it's more of a rhetorical question
Speaker 1: of just one that you're really just thinking about his life.
Speaker 1: He had got kicked in that same spot essentially game before, Like,
Speaker 1: did that have any baring on him getting hit? You know,
Speaker 1: once he got hit there didn't have any bearing on that.
Speaker 1: There's a there's never really a way to know, um
Speaker 1: if that did or if it didn't. But definitely gonna
Speaker 1: be off an All Star game, uh, is what I've heard,
Speaker 1: which sucks, um, But as an opportunity for someone else
Speaker 1: to get in, and Steph still gets his All Star appearing,
Speaker 1: so um. Never, as as much as that sucks, it's
Speaker 1: also an opportunity for someone else to add one to
Speaker 1: the resume, So that's always great. And Darren Fox, guest
Speaker 1: of The Draymond Green Show, can get his first one.
Speaker 1: Maybe Darren Fox, definitely, Maybe Anthony Edwards possibly Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 1: We'll see. UM. I think those are probably the two
Speaker 1: front runners for the replacement spot. Me personally, I don't
Speaker 1: think you can go wrong either way. If I had
Speaker 1: a vote. As much as I think Darren Fox deserves
Speaker 1: to get in, and I mean did hearn Fox is
Speaker 1: an All Star and he should have been an All
Speaker 1: Star even without replacement consideration. But if I had a vote,
Speaker 1: I would probably put Anthony Edwards in the Harris Why.
Speaker 1: The reason being is Cat who's an All Star, got
Speaker 1: hurt and Anthony Edwards has kept that team afloat. He's
Speaker 1: kept him right in the mix of the playoffs. Uh,
Speaker 1: and he has had big games, so that maybe why
Speaker 1: if I had a vote that I will vote Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 1: But again, by all means, the Anthony I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Dean Fox is an All Star, point blank period. Now,
Speaker 1: on top of my reason that for Anthony that was
Speaker 1: getting in, I also say the King's already having All
Speaker 1: Star in, but they are also a top three seeds,
Speaker 1: So should they have to if they have two players
Speaker 1: that's capable. Probably so the number two seed you got
Speaker 1: to subs in and Jaren Jackson and John Morett. Number
Speaker 1: one seed didn't get too in in Denver, but if
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray was healthy longer, they would have gotten to in.
Speaker 1: So you can make the argument that they are the
Speaker 1: third seed and they should get to in. And I
Speaker 1: can't argue that because again, Dean hearn Fox is an
Speaker 1: All Star. But I've given you my reason on why
Speaker 1: I may give. I probably would give Anthony Edwards Ton,
Speaker 1: but we shall see. Uh. For those that don't know,
Speaker 1: Adam Silver picks the replacement. Uh, that's not something that's
Speaker 1: voted on by coaches. That's not Oh, this guy is
Speaker 1: next in line. That's the commissioner's call. And so I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing who commission go with because that's
Speaker 1: a tough one and someone's gonna be upset. So we'll
Speaker 1: see Lucas out right now with a Bruce Hill. Those
Speaker 1: things are funny. So you may end up having another
Speaker 1: replacement anyway, because that could very well, Um, that could
Speaker 1: very well not be ready. Uh. And and what's All
Speaker 1: Star next weekend two weekends from now? Maybe that's not ready. Um,
Speaker 1: And you get both of those guys in and and
Speaker 1: and it is what it is, and no one's upset,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be interesting to see if it's only
Speaker 1: one who commissioned, there's who the commissioner goes with. That's
Speaker 1: a tough one. You have two guys that are very deserving.
Speaker 1: We shall see. Before we get out of here, we
Speaker 1: must talk about the biggest news in the NBA. Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irvin requested the trade last Friday. Kyrie Irvin two days
Speaker 1: ago was traded to the Dallas Mavericks. Let's let's talk
Speaker 1: about it. I mean, you got two of the best
Speaker 1: offensive talents in the NBA on the same team, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, you had two of the same best
Speaker 1: offensive talents on the same team in the NBA when
Speaker 1: Kyrie was with Brooklyn As. We all know what Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant is to this game of basketball and what he
Speaker 1: does and what he brings. But now you got him
Speaker 1: with Luca. I don't love it. The reason I don't
Speaker 1: love it that's very hard to stop. It's very hard
Speaker 1: to stop. Kyrie Irvin is one of the best scores
Speaker 1: we've seen, one of the best, if not the best,
Speaker 1: ball handler we've seen. Tough shot taker, tough shot maker.
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irvin also can spot shoot. And that's what makes
Speaker 1: it interesting because everyone says, all Kyrie needs the ball,
Speaker 1: Luca needs the ball. That's true, but Kyrie can actually
Speaker 1: spot shoot. Luca is not the best spot shooter lucas
Speaker 1: more get his rhythm off the dribble, shoot it off
Speaker 1: the dribble. But Kyrie can spot shoot and Luca as
Speaker 1: we know, finding you. So I don't love it from
Speaker 1: that standpoint. Not I don't love the trade now, I
Speaker 1: don't love I don't love it because I from an
Speaker 1: offensive stamp that's gonna be tough, tough, tough to guard
Speaker 1: um Defensively, I feel like as of late in Kyrie's career,
Speaker 1: he's defended more, He's taken on those challenges of guarding
Speaker 1: these great guards. And so if Kyrie is going to
Speaker 1: continue to take it on that challenge of guarding great
Speaker 1: guards as I don't see him stopping. Was was Spencer
Speaker 1: Denwiti a better defender than Kyrie? I think not, And
Speaker 1: no disrespect to Spencer Denity, but he's definitely not the
Speaker 1: offensive player Kyrie Irvan is. So you you have to
Speaker 1: know that that team upgraded now from a long term perspective. Also,
Speaker 1: one thing you should understand about that trade is Dorian
Speaker 1: Phinnie Smith played in the game against US the night before,
Speaker 1: which means that wasn't even talked like in talks because
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have played because if he gets hurt in
Speaker 1: that game, that blows the whole trade up, especially then
Speaker 1: when he played in the game with us the night before.
Speaker 1: If he gets hurt, blows the whole trade up. So
Speaker 1: number one thing about how fast that trade had to
Speaker 1: come together. We played them in the game the night before.
Speaker 1: By noon the next day he was they were traded
Speaker 1: for Kyrie. That came together fast. Got a credit Nico
Speaker 1: Harrison for having the guts to pull a trigger like that,
Speaker 1: Like he didn't have much time to think, he pulled
Speaker 1: the trigger. I respect that from Nico. You know why
Speaker 1: I respect that because this is what have you done
Speaker 1: for me lately. Lead and gms and coaches are usually
Speaker 1: the first to go Dallas not having a great year
Speaker 1: what they would have expected to have coming off of
Speaker 1: the year that they had last year. But also they
Speaker 1: lost Jalen Brunson, and so now you're essentially placed replacing
Speaker 1: Jaylen Brunson with Kyrie Irving. Yeah, Jayleen bruns is good,
Speaker 1: but Kyrie Irving is Kyrie Irving. So kudos to Niko
Speaker 1: for pulling the trigger. Like he pulled the trigger. What
Speaker 1: is the downside to this trade? The downside is it
Speaker 1: doesn't work. Kyrie hasn't signed an extension it doesn't work,
Speaker 1: and you pissed Luke off and Luca wants to leave.
Speaker 1: That's the downside to the trade. But again, if I'm
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks and I'm Niko, you gotta swing like
Speaker 1: you have to swing, and they swam and now we'll
Speaker 1: see how it plays out. But I think that's the downside.
Speaker 1: And then the other downside is, and here's why I
Speaker 1: won't tell you this side is not as down as
Speaker 1: you may think. But the other side is, Kyrie didn't
Speaker 1: sign the extension, and Kyrie walks, and you traded a
Speaker 1: first round pick, you traded second round picks, you traded
Speaker 1: Spencer den Witty, you traded Duran Phinney Smith. So if
Speaker 1: Kyrie walks this summer leaves your roster in a tough spot.
Speaker 1: But hare's why it's not as down as you think,
Speaker 1: because if Kyrie does walk, that's forty million dollars off
Speaker 1: your caps, off your books. Christian wood is is um
Speaker 1: a free agent. That's another fourteen fifteen million off your cap.
Speaker 1: That's fifty million. And it's Dallas with a superstar there.
Speaker 1: Can you go attract somebody to put next to Luca?
Speaker 1: Even if Kyrie does walk, you have the cap space
Speaker 1: to do that. And so even if he does walk,
Speaker 1: you're not in the worst position because you still have
Speaker 1: cap space to go out in free agency and get someone.
Speaker 1: Dallas is in a bad city, No state taxes, got
Speaker 1: Luca dontre there, Mark Cubans spends money on the team.
Speaker 1: The list goes on and on. So it's not as
Speaker 1: down as you think. In most situations where if you
Speaker 1: traded for this guy he walked in four months, it's
Speaker 1: not all bad because you get all that cap space
Speaker 1: and you can go out in free agency and you
Speaker 1: can swing and you can possibly attract another superstar or
Speaker 1: a damn good second option. And so I give credit
Speaker 1: to Nico with the trade. Um as far as the
Speaker 1: next net, as far as the nets go, I am
Speaker 1: told that they would not trade them to the Lakers.
Speaker 1: And that is what I call billionaire petty. That is
Speaker 1: Joe's high saying, listen, man, that's where he want to go.
Speaker 1: I don't care if they offer the best deal or not.
Speaker 1: I can be petty too, and billionaire petty is a
Speaker 1: different level of petty, and not many people can compete
Speaker 1: with billionaire petty. So before we get out here, I'll
Speaker 1: tell the most interesting thing about the tweet, excuse me
Speaker 1: about the trade was Lebron James's interview that releases in
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Kyrie mean trade? Hey, that interview, which
Speaker 1: is a great interview. By the way, check the interview out.
Speaker 1: Bron and the great Mike wilbon Um. They did an interview,
Speaker 1: and it's more so about like, as you all know,
Speaker 1: it's clickbait. The only thing they're gonna post is Brian
Speaker 1: talking about Kyrie. But if you actually watched the interview,
Speaker 1: like Brin's talking about passing Kareem, which is incredible, talking
Speaker 1: about how he wants to do it, he don't want
Speaker 1: it to be a free throw um, and all of
Speaker 1: these things. So it's a great interview. You got two
Speaker 1: goats sitting there having a conversation. But I'll tell you
Speaker 1: it's hilarious how that all played out and how Kyrie
Speaker 1: is getting traded that day, and they did an interview
Speaker 1: and it comes out three hours after Kyrie has traded.
Speaker 1: Absolutely incredible moment, hilarious. Looking forward to Lebron breaking the
Speaker 1: scoring record this week. I have tempted to go to
Speaker 1: the game in l a but I just don't want
Speaker 1: to go and then he don't break it. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna sit this one out. So for everybody said, oh,
Speaker 1: what Draymond going, would he not? I'm tempted to go,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna save my money on a private jet
Speaker 1: from l A to Portland that I would have to
Speaker 1: get if I go to that game because we gotta
Speaker 1: go to Portland. Um So, for those of you who
Speaker 1: are saying I'm not, I'm making a decision not to go.
Speaker 1: That's that. That's a rap from this episode of The
Speaker 1: Draymond Green Show. Until next time.