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Speaker 1: if you put Westbrook on Phoenix and said of Chris
Speaker 1: Paul did they go to the finals? Question? How you
Speaker 1: got him over Chris? Because he's he brings more to
Speaker 1: the table. He brings way more to the table. I
Speaker 1: understand that. Yeah, he got got the Henni seed, the chips,
Speaker 1: the pizza and all he's bringing all that. The mas potatoes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's bringing all that. Chris bringing a straight dinner. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Showtime Basketball in this season to premiere of
Speaker 1: What's Burning. We told you we wanted to continue to
Speaker 1: evolve this show. So What's Burning is here. We're gonna
Speaker 1: continue to evolve that all the smoke, we can continue
Speaker 1: to do some dope out of the box ship Jack,
Speaker 1: what's up with you? Bro? You good having to be back, Bro.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Welcome back to the pack. Life been treating
Speaker 1: you sent you've been back, feeling good, looking good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: gripping Wood understood that one of the newest members to
Speaker 1: Showtime Basketball, one and only Paul Pierces here. Maybe you're here,
Speaker 1: you're doing what's burning with us, but you're gonna be
Speaker 1: across the Showtime platform in general. Welcome to the family.
Speaker 1: Tell a roone where they see what you've got going
Speaker 1: on with Showtime. I'm excited. First of all, I'm excited
Speaker 1: to join the family. You know, you know, we always
Speaker 1: been family, but you know, just helping to contribute with
Speaker 1: Showtime Basketball. Also, you know, I'm gonna be involved in
Speaker 1: some boxing, some Showtime boxing, and I know I'm a
Speaker 1: huge boxing fan. Uh, I go to all the fights,
Speaker 1: been there since day one. Moving into our first segment,
Speaker 1: new faces in new places. Let's get it. The NBA
Speaker 1: is right around the corner. A lot of moves this season,
Speaker 1: a lot of impactful moves, a lot of big name movement.
Speaker 1: I think that's why the NBA is the growth continues
Speaker 1: to grow to a global game because of even when
Speaker 1: the off season, we still still headlines. When Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: moves or you know, these big names continue to move.
Speaker 1: It continues to keep the the attention of the fans. Um,
Speaker 1: so let's get into this season and some of the
Speaker 1: most impactful moves. We'll start with Russell Westbrook and Carmelo
Speaker 1: Anthony coming to the Los Angeles Lakers. Jack, what do
Speaker 1: you think? I mean, it's something that we've been hearing about.
Speaker 1: It ain't it ain't just like you know, pop up
Speaker 1: out the sky. We've been in about those moves being made.
Speaker 1: But it's good to see Melo get a chance to
Speaker 1: get a championship. And it's also good to see Russ
Speaker 1: you know, and Lebron and a d get together. I think,
Speaker 1: just just being a basketball fan and also form NBA player,
Speaker 1: to see those three guys on the same court in
Speaker 1: the same uniform, I was just exciting to see. But um,
Speaker 1: if they don't want a championship, it's gonna be hell.
Speaker 1: So it's all that, it's all or nothing. But my god,
Speaker 1: you don't win the championship, it's gonna be hell. I mean,
Speaker 1: this team has really given me that Karmelong, Gary Payton
Speaker 1: that when they when they was with Kobe has did
Speaker 1: that kind of feel. But you know, if they're healthy,
Speaker 1: they should get to the finals. But that's the sign,
Speaker 1: right there, How are you gonna house Westbrook gonna fit
Speaker 1: with Lebron? Westbrook's been ball dominant, but Lebron goo had
Speaker 1: a ball in his hands. I'm sorry, he's still twenty
Speaker 1: six seven and seven to night. Can Westbrook make that adjustment?
Speaker 1: And that's where we have to find out. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think it's you know, only time will tell.
Speaker 1: But when I look at these and when people try
Speaker 1: to say stars the pieces that it matters and it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But then I also look from a standpoint
Speaker 1: of how you guys have to sacrifice when you play
Speaker 1: for an Olympic team, or how you sacrifice, you know,
Speaker 1: in the All Star Game, and somehow Stars seem to
Speaker 1: make it work in those kind of situations. So again,
Speaker 1: I think only time will tell. My biggest thing with
Speaker 1: the Lakers is health, and I think they have to
Speaker 1: understand and their fan base has to understand all with
Speaker 1: all these big names, it's still a marathon with this
Speaker 1: team because this is one of the older teams in
Speaker 1: the league. Lebron going in his nineteenth year, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone's a little bit older. Him and Meller the last
Speaker 1: from the two thousand three class standard. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: so this is gonna be you know, continue to find tune,
Speaker 1: see what see with units, work patterns, work, continue to build.
Speaker 1: You let me say not then, but look, if this
Speaker 1: team gonna be something, Anthony Davis gotta be the n V.
Speaker 1: He gotta be saying he got to carry the team.
Speaker 1: Everybody still gonna have the role to play. Even with
Speaker 1: those guys, it's gonna be a one one, A one
Speaker 1: B and one seed guy. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Who is that gonna because Lebron ain't gonna be one seed. No,
Speaker 1: but Lebron you saw the first year that said he
Speaker 1: really gave the keys to a d too. Like you know,
Speaker 1: Carrien's through the regular season with all the energy. I
Speaker 1: want all the rebounds, I want all assists, I wanted
Speaker 1: all I think Russ had a point in his career.
Speaker 1: I think he had a point right now, like he
Speaker 1: gotta want to sacrifice. He'll sacrifice. I think he definitely will.
Speaker 1: But I agree with Paul. I think, you know, if
Speaker 1: there was talk that you know, Lebron told him last
Speaker 1: year and it's probably a lot to handle now, but
Speaker 1: this is his second year knowing that this is really
Speaker 1: his team, no matter who's spilling to the team who
Speaker 1: they added. Lebron is your teammate. Lebron has hand you
Speaker 1: to the key. So now it's up to a D.
Speaker 1: I agree with you guys. This year a D has
Speaker 1: to step up and again the main thing with in
Speaker 1: his health and then that's just that fired. I think
Speaker 1: having someone like Russell Westbrook and Mellow and Braun is
Speaker 1: gonna help like that fire on and as you know,
Speaker 1: is a great player, but it just seems like he's
Speaker 1: on cruise control. Sometimes you have that type of behind
Speaker 1: you and his skill level. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: great again. I think they should represent the West if
Speaker 1: they could stay healthy all the time. You see a
Speaker 1: D getting mad because he didn't win, to block and shot,
Speaker 1: nobody got the rebound. Russ don't get it. Rust coming
Speaker 1: a D not m VP candidate. I don't see this
Speaker 1: team when he got to be he gotta be looking
Speaker 1: at Greek freaking the eye and like, okay, I'm right
Speaker 1: here with you because he has that type of skill.
Speaker 1: Absolutely no question. Moving on with the Chicago Bulls, they
Speaker 1: were active this offseason, picking up the margin Rosen Lanzo
Speaker 1: Ball to go with Zach Levine and Vosovic Caruso Killer
Speaker 1: is also in that mix of Paul talked to me
Speaker 1: about the Chicago You know what, I like them. That's
Speaker 1: kind of underrated. You know, they should be a playoff team,
Speaker 1: you know, because you got the young stars Levine, Alonzo, Balls,
Speaker 1: Cartoner coming to us own. He looked good in preseason
Speaker 1: knocking them down. But then you got the Vets, the
Speaker 1: Mare who's been through the wringer o G. When stuff,
Speaker 1: stuff is tough, they can go to. Before it was
Speaker 1: just they was learning as they went. They added some
Speaker 1: Mozy Bosavic, you know, he's pretty much a o G
Speaker 1: at this stage. And so they got the makings of
Speaker 1: a playoff team and so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1: It's all gonna be on their health. Like everybody else
Speaker 1: in the coaching What do you think, Jack, It's good
Speaker 1: to see them make moves to get better, but they're
Speaker 1: still a seven six seven they see, Yeah, so to them, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're excited to see how that team can come together.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of good parts. Uh could be a
Speaker 1: piece away from really making noise in the Eastern Conference still,
Speaker 1: but definitely off to a good start. Moving on with
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks uh signing Kimba Walker. Uh Feigner, Jackie,
Speaker 1: want to open it up with your favorite team. It's
Speaker 1: good to see kim Walker go back home. We've seen
Speaker 1: him do some amazing things in their garden from college
Speaker 1: to now. So it's good to see him back. And
Speaker 1: that's it. You ain't giving him nothing, Coach TIBs. They
Speaker 1: then ocy back in the guard that that you want
Speaker 1: to give him, Oh my gosh, I mean, I like that,
Speaker 1: and that's underrated that that they got some underrated rules
Speaker 1: if Kimba can get back to being Kimba, because Kimba
Speaker 1: wasn't it self with Boston, you know, but rightfully so
Speaker 1: Boston got two nine dynamic wings for near a shooter solid,
Speaker 1: you know, and then coach Tibbs is the X factor
Speaker 1: because you know, regardless think about that team, that team
Speaker 1: wasn't ain't got that much talent. You know, the young
Speaker 1: boy r J. He's pretty good and so quickly quickly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they'll be a playoff team because they got good
Speaker 1: coaching and they added, you know, a nice solid back court.
Speaker 1: I still feel like they need and this is no
Speaker 1: disrespect to Julius Rando on the season he had I
Speaker 1: still think they need a one A. I think Julish
Speaker 1: Randall is a good one B. I think they're missing
Speaker 1: to score. I wanted to do what accomplished, what the
Speaker 1: story of that wing, that wingness, and you're talking about
Speaker 1: if they get a one day they could be a
Speaker 1: championship continue. Absolutely not, but I'm saying to be serious
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Confees, definitely not saying that. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously we know who the clear cut there's there's teams
Speaker 1: at the top, but I'm saying you just never know what,
Speaker 1: especially the way the league has been with injuries and
Speaker 1: people in and out. I think they're one play away
Speaker 1: from really making some noise. And I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: what they are, and I'm gonna keep it one hunted.
Speaker 1: They want owner away from making more no straight up.
Speaker 1: Once they get rid of Jim Dolan or he selled
Speaker 1: the team, then you're gonna have some serious contention for
Speaker 1: the because players agency don't want to come there because
Speaker 1: New York is a big it's a big market, so
Speaker 1: they they always one player away from being at the top,
Speaker 1: and that's the owner's day. I'm rapping the Knicks as
Speaker 1: soon as that happen. The day I will be how
Speaker 1: big of an impact will Kyle Lowry be with the
Speaker 1: Miami Heat this year? Good addition to go along with
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler BAM. I think Tyler Hero needs to have
Speaker 1: a bounceback season. Um. Thoughts on the Miami Heat and
Speaker 1: the move with Larry Does that do anything in your
Speaker 1: mind to help them? Because to him a top contending
Speaker 1: in the East. Yeah, I like to move another dog
Speaker 1: with Jimmy Butler. Um, you know, they did some amazing
Speaker 1: things the last two years. Obviously last year wasn't the
Speaker 1: year they wanted to have because a lot of injuries.
Speaker 1: But I think this was this was a great year.
Speaker 1: That definitely a contend to coming out of the East
Speaker 1: with the way BAM been playing all and all of
Speaker 1: pieces to that puzzle. But Adam Kyle Lowry definitely gave
Speaker 1: them an extra notch up to get out of the East.
Speaker 1: Do they do they still got tragic or he gone?
Speaker 1: He's gone right, But he's been beating up the last
Speaker 1: two years. Yeah, he went from tragic to tragic. But anyway,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean he didn't help him last year,
Speaker 1: but Lowry great move that somebody who could take pressure
Speaker 1: off Jimmy Butler. Hopefully the kid Hero can tell the
Speaker 1: next step because when we saw from him in the
Speaker 1: finals a couple of years ago, I don't feel like
Speaker 1: he took the step that he needed to take. So
Speaker 1: if they can find a great role for him, whether
Speaker 1: to be a starter off the bench, I think the
Speaker 1: kid does have potential. If he takes the next step,
Speaker 1: then they got something because I put them in the
Speaker 1: same boat right now in Atlanta ballstond Uh the second tier,
Speaker 1: you know, but some of them players got to take
Speaker 1: the next step, and he's one of Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: it was an interesting him and Duncan Robinson. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know what, Duncan would be one of the best shooters
Speaker 1: in the game. They that they snuck up on the league,
Speaker 1: but you know how much your name starts moving up
Speaker 1: that scattering port and you're one of the first handful
Speaker 1: of guys you talked about every night. We start taking
Speaker 1: different things away, and I think that's what happened last
Speaker 1: year more than kind of taking a step. And now
Speaker 1: they have to understand what that is about and be hungry.
Speaker 1: But it looked like Tyre Hero all I don't put
Speaker 1: much water in the preseason has come out really aggressive
Speaker 1: in the preseason, shooting the ball well. So if those
Speaker 1: two guys can be there consistent outside threats, I definitely
Speaker 1: think they're go man, make some noise in the East.
Speaker 1: Moving on to the Ben Simmons saga, Clutch Sport released
Speaker 1: a statement saying they're trying to get Ben into camp
Speaker 1: at least to do what we'll discuss. But what if
Speaker 1: you guys thought about this ongoing dilemma really since the
Speaker 1: end of the East East playoffs last year. Par You
Speaker 1: know what, what I'm seeing right here is the players
Speaker 1: taking control of their own destiny. We saw James Harden
Speaker 1: do it. But how would you feel and how would
Speaker 1: you feel the coach throw you under the bus too?
Speaker 1: And your your teammate who supposed to be your role dog,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean he's feeling a certain kind of way.
Speaker 1: This era is different. You know, Feelings get hurt, and
Speaker 1: you know when Doc say, I don't know you could
Speaker 1: be a championship point guard, When your second your best
Speaker 1: players say something about you, it's like, damn, y'all really
Speaker 1: all don't want me here. So I understand that part.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, man, they are
Speaker 1: a contender with him. They were the number one team
Speaker 1: in the East last year, and I just think they
Speaker 1: got to find a way to work it out, truthfully,
Speaker 1: because I don't really see nowhere else where he's gonna
Speaker 1: have that opportunity to be who he wants to be. Maybe,
Speaker 1: but he was thriving in Philly, so you know, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I hope it works out. I blame Brett Brown. Come
Speaker 1: your g ass back from Australia and take all this
Speaker 1: heat because you know, no bullshit, because you're the reason
Speaker 1: why he never worked on his jump shot. You the
Speaker 1: reason why he came into the game in the first
Speaker 1: couple of years. He was content on just being the
Speaker 1: player he was because you never asked him to get better.
Speaker 1: You knew he was just coaching Australia. You've been knowing
Speaker 1: him as a youngster, so you just let him go
Speaker 1: as he wanted and never made him get better. So
Speaker 1: he handicapped him from the jump. You see him shooting
Speaker 1: them three hit him in the warm up, but don't
Speaker 1: don't shoot him in the game, what I'm saying, But
Speaker 1: that's on him. That's on Ben. You can't blame nobody
Speaker 1: else for that. You know what I'm saying. But the
Speaker 1: fact that Brett Brown never pushed him to games like
Speaker 1: he shooting in the summertime and to be that player.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Now, you've got other coaches
Speaker 1: coming in and what you expect me to do if
Speaker 1: I feel that this coach handicapped you, and you and
Speaker 1: you ain't the point going that you should be because
Speaker 1: you've been handicapped, I've not been to deal with. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you the truth. And that's basically what coaches,
Speaker 1: every every um, what Doc we was saying, every coach
Speaker 1: is saying. Everybody's saying, we're seeing it. Bro're not shooting
Speaker 1: you handicapped for your team. You can't have one of
Speaker 1: the dom the most dominant big men in the game
Speaker 1: and you passed the ball and they can double him,
Speaker 1: but kick it out to you and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: shoot it. That kills the whole offense, right A wrong? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I just think that the thing with Ben
Speaker 1: is that mental block. And we've all seeing guys in
Speaker 1: the summer killing the summertime and then when the games
Speaker 1: come around either can't hit or won't shoot in Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons case, and to me, it's just that mental getting
Speaker 1: over that hurdle because he has to be okay with missing,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what he's worried about his missing
Speaker 1: or a well, if you think of everybody missed, everybody
Speaker 1: miss you know what I mean. So he has to
Speaker 1: get over that. So I mean, to me, that's his side.
Speaker 1: And then to Paul's point, what Doc and and and
Speaker 1: Joel said, it wasn't to me that was they were
Speaker 1: even talking really shit. They were just speaking their mind.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like they were trying to dog in. There
Speaker 1: were just speaking their mind. But to me, as you said,
Speaker 1: you know where his mentalist, we're not really sure. And
Speaker 1: how he took that as he was offended by it.
Speaker 1: So fast forward to that he's coming up on a
Speaker 1: million dollars lost as of Monday. Now they're trying to
Speaker 1: get him in the camp to see what they do.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if the bridge can be mended
Speaker 1: or welded or cemented, but it'll be interestant because also
Speaker 1: they keep asking for a lot too, and they're trying
Speaker 1: to trade him, and I don't necessarily think they want
Speaker 1: to trade him, And that's why I think they're asked
Speaker 1: or so over the top, because I don't really think
Speaker 1: management wants to trade him, although he wants to be gone.
Speaker 1: So we saw James Harden kind of go through this
Speaker 1: last year, come in out of shape, not really wanted
Speaker 1: to be there, and they were able to give him
Speaker 1: to Brooklyn. You guys see him being moved. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: but what if what if the seven cents phone is
Speaker 1: not blowing up for Ben? For Ben Simmons? Yeah, what
Speaker 1: if that's the reason they're trying to get him in camp?
Speaker 1: Because the ain't nobody calling. Man, You don't nobody else
Speaker 1: want to deal with a six points on the table.
Speaker 1: So I don't care. What what the million dollars? It
Speaker 1: was eight million a couple of weeks ago, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: what miss that? I'm I'm gonna show up even if
Speaker 1: I were practicing. Man, let me get that. I ain't
Speaker 1: even know. Let me get that. I'm gonna already sit
Speaker 1: on the sideline here. Though y'all see him being moved,
Speaker 1: There's team is interesting. I just don't Obviously they add
Speaker 1: the price is too high? Will he be there post
Speaker 1: All Star break? I think the relationship is broken. Agree,
Speaker 1: I think it's broken. I think it's too But I
Speaker 1: don't think they at the point where they can't give
Speaker 1: him away for nothing. And I think that's what that's
Speaker 1: what it is right now, is not it's not gonna
Speaker 1: get try to get him back in camp, first team,
Speaker 1: all defense, lockdown, defender, bid on it if we can.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think right now at this point, I can't.
Speaker 1: I need to cast. At this point, he is who
Speaker 1: were gonna be. I can put together a highlight tap
Speaker 1: of him shooting threes like Steph Kurt. But like you said,
Speaker 1: that mental block he in the game, when that crowd,
Speaker 1: when the lights come on, when that popcorn popping, you
Speaker 1: know how you changed. But but you know what, and
Speaker 1: this for people that have never played in the game,
Speaker 1: and it's just some free game for y'all, it's some shooters,
Speaker 1: some of your favorite shooters. We you think that would
Speaker 1: be in a three part content. When it comes to
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter with the last couple of seconds, they
Speaker 1: can't hit that house. They was in the kitchen. So
Speaker 1: so that's just how it is. Even even though he
Speaker 1: can make them in the summertime, everybody can make him
Speaker 1: in the runt and the best shoots that played the game,
Speaker 1: someone can't make them at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: and that's just how at the side of the back
Speaker 1: war the playoffs, they can't make them. What's up? You're
Speaker 1: right about that job. That's a good point. Moving on
Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Lakers. We touched on them earlier,
Speaker 1: but this this team is loaded. If this this roster,
Speaker 1: if they had this roster ten years ago, they would
Speaker 1: be the clear cut favorite running for several titles in
Speaker 1: a row. But just to obviously Lebron James, Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: Russell West for Carlamelo, Anthony Dwight Howard, Kendrick Nunn, Malik Monk,
Speaker 1: bas Moore, Ellington Rondo, DeAndre Jordan, Trevor Reesa, Morton Tucker.
Speaker 1: I mean, the roster is deep, and I think really
Speaker 1: the success of this team again is how they approach it,
Speaker 1: you know how, and can they stay healthy? What are
Speaker 1: the chances of this team being one of the older
Speaker 1: teams in the league. A lot of experiences that can't
Speaker 1: beat experiencing the playoffs. Can this team get themselves to
Speaker 1: a point where they're gonna have enough soldiers on deck
Speaker 1: to go to war come play all time? Man, Listen,
Speaker 1: this is all a d and the main two guys
Speaker 1: we're talking about is a D and Lebron, both of
Speaker 1: them got to stay healthy. And Westbrook. If those three
Speaker 1: are healthy going to the playoffs, I don't care about
Speaker 1: the rest of them. You can replace the rest of
Speaker 1: them if though, you can put us three back out
Speaker 1: there with Lebron, A D and Westbrook and we'll be all.
Speaker 1: If they're healthy them through, they should be in the finals.
Speaker 1: I agree, totally agree. But that's the question mark every year.
Speaker 1: Think about the champions who win it, it's something happened
Speaker 1: with that. It's always healthy is always a concern. That's
Speaker 1: Toronto win if Katie don't get hurt. You know, even
Speaker 1: last year, do Phoenix make it to the finals if
Speaker 1: A D was healthy or this person was healthy? Jamal Murray,
Speaker 1: you know, injuries are always a factor. Every year we
Speaker 1: lost in Game seven, Perk got hurt. You know, it's
Speaker 1: always a factor every year, injury. So that's the biggest quote.
Speaker 1: I want to ask this to kind of a different question.
Speaker 1: Injuries weren't such a big concern while we were playing,
Speaker 1: and it was always a goal of everyone in the
Speaker 1: league at that time to play eight two games. Why
Speaker 1: do you guys think fast forward? You know we've all
Speaker 1: been moved, you know, going on five years now. But
Speaker 1: why is injury such a big part of the game.
Speaker 1: Are they playing too much basketball? Did the pandemic schedule
Speaker 1: funk up? The rest Olympics all the other stuff? But
Speaker 1: why is everything so hinging on injuries? And I don't
Speaker 1: ever recall it being this determined on injuries at any
Speaker 1: time in the history of the game. There's never been
Speaker 1: spoken as much like it is now. But we want
Speaker 1: a championship. In all three we played against, the Man's
Speaker 1: would have hurt without dirt because Dirk was hurt, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Fact, So I think from the
Speaker 1: from the course of time, it's been more highlighted and
Speaker 1: more highlighted of games, not that people not having their
Speaker 1: stars and the star players getting hurt in crucial times
Speaker 1: of the season. How can we kind of minimize this ship,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And that's I think that's
Speaker 1: how the conversation came about. I think it's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be something where they go back to the drawing
Speaker 1: board because I think that the pace of play, all
Speaker 1: the other playing that the guys are doing with all
Speaker 1: Star Games, Olympics, I think they may have to end
Speaker 1: up shortening the season because, like I said that, the
Speaker 1: pace is so much different than it was, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And obviously it's a lot of TV money.
Speaker 1: That's a whole another monster we're not going to get
Speaker 1: into right now. But to me, how do we put
Speaker 1: a premium on having our guys out there because everyone
Speaker 1: wants to get mad at uh rest? What was that
Speaker 1: should call when they rest? Uh? Rest? Management? Load? Man? Everyone?
Speaker 1: This funk that? But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like these dudes be getting hurt if they don't rest,
Speaker 1: and it's like they like unlikely the rest is a
Speaker 1: part of it. Something tell you girl when you want it?
Speaker 1: When you don't want to have six right now? Management,
Speaker 1: manage my manager's load real quick, little so we'll see again.
Speaker 1: I think the key to the Lakers season is their
Speaker 1: ability to stay healthy. Obviously excited to see Lebron in
Speaker 1: your nineteen is to continue to define the odds of physics. Um,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be again to pault point, the Lakers
Speaker 1: are gonna go as far as a d or take them. Well,
Speaker 1: how would they be on the sideline without Jay Kid
Speaker 1: this year too? Lebron is the coach that Nay. But
Speaker 1: you gotta have that guy. You have the guy, that
Speaker 1: guy on the sideline that can get that you can
Speaker 1: throw to you. I'm saying, on that coach, And you
Speaker 1: gotta have that one coach, even if it's not the
Speaker 1: head coach. You gotta have that one coach that you
Speaker 1: can talk to to get to the head coach. Was
Speaker 1: it the college? Well, let's try to make sense about
Speaker 1: the rest of the West. You know, we got the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns, you taught Jazz, the Warriors, the Nuggets, Clippers
Speaker 1: without Kauai, MAVs, Blazers. I mean, the West is always
Speaker 1: heavier to me, is to you guys. There's anyone that
Speaker 1: stands out. Obviously, the Jazz had a great season last year,
Speaker 1: but I thought, again, if I thought I was crazy,
Speaker 1: I thought they needed that second consistent twenty point score
Speaker 1: with Mike Connie in and out. They didn't have that.
Speaker 1: Do you guys see them as a threat in the West.
Speaker 1: The Warriors are healthy, Clay should be back some time
Speaker 1: in December. To me, I think the Warriors have a
Speaker 1: lot of assets to possibly trade before the deadline to
Speaker 1: bolster you know, their chance. The Nuggets. Jamal Murray is
Speaker 1: gonna be some time. But you know, Michael Porter genius
Speaker 1: sign in that new contract. They got the m v P. There,
Speaker 1: don't know what to expect it with the Clippers without
Speaker 1: Kauai um Luca Dame, with their respective teams. Thoughts on
Speaker 1: the rest of the West, they all in the same boat,
Speaker 1: all in because don't nobody outside the Lakers got two
Speaker 1: All Stars on their team consistent when you talk about
Speaker 1: Portland's game, when you talk about MAVs, it's only Luca, Like,
Speaker 1: who else got two All Stars? Chris Paul, I don't
Speaker 1: think it gonna be in the All Star Game this year.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna move over the booker. So who's the
Speaker 1: second guy? The Lakers the only one that could potistally
Speaker 1: have two three All Stars. You need two All Stars
Speaker 1: and make it to the finals minimum now, and so
Speaker 1: they're all in the same boat. To me, if the
Speaker 1: Lakers get injured, then now everybody in the same Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't agree. I can't disagree with that
Speaker 1: at Allhis look at all the things. But you know, Memphis,
Speaker 1: they're still trying to figure out who they are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Young and like you said, the rest of these teams,
Speaker 1: they're coming into the season. Okay, we know what we
Speaker 1: are and who we are. Let's just see how the
Speaker 1: season going in you know what I'm saying, because it ain't.
Speaker 1: It ain't like they're coming in with a new game
Speaker 1: plan of doing something different. Portland the same team, Dallas
Speaker 1: the same the same teams have been. They've been the
Speaker 1: same way the last couple years. And we're not gonna
Speaker 1: see nothing different from them. We know who they are
Speaker 1: where they're gonna landed the season, so they agree with you,
Speaker 1: But they're all in the same basket. To me, does
Speaker 1: Dame Litar get traded or before All Star or this summer?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think his whole thing and he's always
Speaker 1: taking the high road. I want you to build this
Speaker 1: team into me. They didn't. With all the respect to
Speaker 1: the pieces they had, they didn't move the needle um
Speaker 1: this offseason. Hell on this Dame wasted his good years
Speaker 1: import And you're someone who you know had to cross
Speaker 1: with your career, the star player. They weren't really adding
Speaker 1: like you needed them to add. You hung out there
Speaker 1: and ended up you know, getting KG and Ray winning
Speaker 1: the championship. Is there any like at the end of
Speaker 1: the tunnel for Dame in Portland. I don't see no.
Speaker 1: I don't see no like in Portland. Um, you know
Speaker 1: a great career, top fifty player. Ever, I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna retire in Portland. There's no moves to be made
Speaker 1: unless you compare him with who Greek freak like, which
Speaker 1: is not gonna happen. That's the move if you can
Speaker 1: get him the Portland. From Portland the Philly, that's the
Speaker 1: only move. That's the only move. The game goes to Philly.
Speaker 1: Where does that put them? With Brooklyn and Milwaukee? They
Speaker 1: they contenders. They contend straight up, They contenders. They got
Speaker 1: a closer and you gotta due. Got everything in between
Speaker 1: an n B n B. They contended that pick and roll.
Speaker 1: That's that's nasty, that's scary. I don't know that that
Speaker 1: needs to happen. They get out of that. Wanted. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to see Dave. But I get it. They're
Speaker 1: not loyal upstairs. They players gotta do what they gotta do.
Speaker 1: Thoughts on Kyrie Irving right now, I mean well publicized.
Speaker 1: UH want to do more research and and and let
Speaker 1: me say personally, you know, I respect any decision whether
Speaker 1: you want to get and Jack and I have had
Speaker 1: the discussion whether you want to get the vaccination or
Speaker 1: you don't want to get I respect because everyone has
Speaker 1: their reasons. Obviously, his is making headlines because he is
Speaker 1: a very key piece to a team that has a
Speaker 1: chance to win a championship. On top of it, there's
Speaker 1: forty million dollars on the table. UH. Coach Steve Nash
Speaker 1: came out a couple days ago talking about we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to just playing with them only half games. As
Speaker 1: a star player on your team and a really important
Speaker 1: player on your team, how would you take it, as
Speaker 1: guys in the locker room if one of your best
Speaker 1: players or your your side kick wasn't gonna be there
Speaker 1: for you for the whole season. I think it's a conversation.
Speaker 1: We gotta talk because you got your personal reasons. But
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, if you're telling me, if I don't
Speaker 1: take this shot, it's gonna cost me what twenty million dollars?
Speaker 1: Man give me that shot. Man, come on, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: eat this even if I don't want to twenty million dollars.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is what it is. I'm seeing my
Speaker 1: teammates take it. I'm seeing they having no ill effects.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing everybody around me not have no ill effects.
Speaker 1: It can't be all that bad. If it's gonna cost
Speaker 1: me a dub meal, yeah, I'll suck it up. Come on,
Speaker 1: bring it right here, bring it right here. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that? Jack? I mean, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I mean, I totally get that. But I'm more like
Speaker 1: to each his own, you know what I mean? That
Speaker 1: that's how you fail. I'm I'm I'm a million right here, Jack,
Speaker 1: take the shot. I'm just saying. I'm just saying this
Speaker 1: just all I'm saying to see it to to eat,
Speaker 1: to each his own, man, I mean, it's like, I'm, I'm,
Speaker 1: I'm your friend all the time, right So with regards
Speaker 1: what you choose to do, that's what you choose to do.
Speaker 1: That's your decision. I respected regards high go. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Well, either if I got to lose
Speaker 1: you as a teammate for party games or are you
Speaker 1: taking the job and you can you coming on and
Speaker 1: you're playing with Either way, I love you the same
Speaker 1: way I respect man. You know what I mean, I
Speaker 1: ain't the one to you to think about your family decision.
Speaker 1: Though Kyrie every didn't having no money problems with no time,
Speaker 1: ain't no money. But that's an extra dub, like you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, ain't having no money problems? No, no,
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. Yeah, I definitely don't think it's
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna hinge on the money. He's done well, obviously,
Speaker 1: very well off the court. To me, the question becomes,
Speaker 1: you know, Kyrie, there's there. The past few years have
Speaker 1: been off the court distractions have kind of overshadowed. And
Speaker 1: that's saying a lot because when he is on the
Speaker 1: court playing basketball, he's one of the greatest towns we've
Speaker 1: ever seen, you know, of the last few years, it's
Speaker 1: been personal reasons and this and we and we respect
Speaker 1: the family moves and what he needs to do. And
Speaker 1: to me, this is another this season again obviously with
Speaker 1: with the vaccination, which I think is crazy. They're not
Speaker 1: mandating it, but they're making it almost to the way
Speaker 1: where you have to take it to to start moving
Speaker 1: in this world. So that's the world we're headed towards
Speaker 1: right now. But you know what about his obligation to
Speaker 1: his team, because we've all been on teams and bro,
Speaker 1: that's how we became families from our team, and you
Speaker 1: have loyalty and family homies, you'll you know, you'll die
Speaker 1: with from the team. So what about his commitment to
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets. I respect his his personal being and
Speaker 1: it's his bodies for the rest of his life. But
Speaker 1: he's also getting paid a lot of money. This is
Speaker 1: it's still a two headed monster with Jane or with
Speaker 1: Kevin Duran and James hardness to me second to none
Speaker 1: in the league still, But with Kyrie is that third piece?
Speaker 1: To say that Kyrie is the third piece is crazy,
Speaker 1: like that is the recipe for multiple championships in my opinion.
Speaker 1: So this, this vaccination ship is not going nowhere, but
Speaker 1: this is going to be the same man the manager
Speaker 1: are probably gonna be stricter next season, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So where did they go as a team
Speaker 1: knowing that one of the best players in the world
Speaker 1: can only play half the game. And let's take a
Speaker 1: step further, what if they play the Lakers in the finals?
Speaker 1: You can't play in l A and you can't play
Speaker 1: in New York with the vaccine, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So what do you do when that happens? When this
Speaker 1: this this matchup that everyone is hoping for these two
Speaker 1: trains are gonna collide. What happens when they make it
Speaker 1: with Kyrie only playing half the season and then then
Speaker 1: the finals and he can't play. Retire? Retire, retire. You
Speaker 1: don't want to this, This is happening, This is coming
Speaker 1: at you. This is what's happening. If you're not feeling this, retire.
Speaker 1: But I think from a fans perspective, like just those
Speaker 1: three like everyone to me, that could be arguably the
Speaker 1: greatest trio scoring trio in the history of the game.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, how would you feel if you, as Kadi thought,
Speaker 1: how would you personally feel like you, k d that's
Speaker 1: his dog. But you gotta be called on, like come on, man,
Speaker 1: just real quick, just like something like something I don't know.
Speaker 1: So outside of the Buck and the Nets in the East, um,
Speaker 1: we spoke to if Dame Lillard goes to the Sixers,
Speaker 1: what happens? Uh? Anyone else you guys see making noise
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference? Heat, Hawks, Celtics, Pacers, Bulls. Wait,
Speaker 1: let me see if there's no Kyrie? Are they are
Speaker 1: the Nets still heading shoulders better than these other teams?
Speaker 1: Are they better than the Celtics with Jalen and Tatum
Speaker 1: and Atlanta or another duel you would take over those two.
Speaker 1: There's there's there's not another duel, not in the East.
Speaker 1: But but team wise, I mean, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, mill Walking is his head and shoulders ahead
Speaker 1: of them chemistry wise. And then the champs. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not a guarantee without Kyrie that this team makes
Speaker 1: to the finals, truthfully, because yeah, they got a dynamic duel.
Speaker 1: They got a little deeper this year with their talent,
Speaker 1: but they ain't really played together yet, and it's hard
Speaker 1: to bring a team together a first year and say
Speaker 1: all right, we're about to win it, right, But what
Speaker 1: I will say is they were a big toneail away
Speaker 1: from going to the finals without Kyrie, and it hurt
Speaker 1: James Harden with just k D. Like you said, p J.
Speaker 1: Tucker was a major piece of that defensive. You know,
Speaker 1: Core that you're gonna have to stop with the stars.
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see, you know, how this
Speaker 1: stuff plays out. It is definitely gonna be a fun season.
Speaker 1: Next step, we have a happy seventy five anniversary to
Speaker 1: the NBA, an organization that brought all of us a
Speaker 1: lot of joy and and and and great careers and
Speaker 1: and open doors. We couldn't imagine happy twenty or seventy
Speaker 1: five birthday to that best part about being at Boston
Speaker 1: Celtic and and the NBA player as a whole to you, Paul, Well,
Speaker 1: for me, you know, just the journey it took me on,
Speaker 1: you know, a kid out of Inglewood. Because of the NBA,
Speaker 1: I got to travel. I had to travel of the world,
Speaker 1: you know, I got to see places I never thought
Speaker 1: all the see and uh you know, be around them
Speaker 1: legends being a Celtic. Bill Russo read all back. Um,
Speaker 1: I owe the NBA everything how my life has uh transpired,
Speaker 1: and so I'm thankful for that. I'm thinking would be
Speaker 1: a part of the seventy five anniversary. Excited to see
Speaker 1: the Top seventy five. I know that because I remember,
Speaker 1: I think All Star, because I remember when they did
Speaker 1: the Top fifty. I think I was in high school
Speaker 1: and they did it and announced it at All Star weekend.
Speaker 1: And the one thing that stood out to me when
Speaker 1: the Top fifty was like shock was like in this
Speaker 1: second or third year and he was already a top
Speaker 1: fifty player. And so it'll be interesting to see how
Speaker 1: they remake this list because there are a lot of
Speaker 1: current players that need to be a top seventy five
Speaker 1: player all time and a lot of them are playing
Speaker 1: still today that I will put in the top seventy
Speaker 1: five all time. Jack. What the NBA do for your
Speaker 1: your life, your career and in georgs his open post
Speaker 1: career ship to Sugar changed my life, my family life. Uh,
Speaker 1: just playing a game of basketball. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: you're playing the game. It changed my life. Opened a
Speaker 1: lot of doors from me, um to be able to
Speaker 1: do things, you know, like we're doing that. We have
Speaker 1: the basketball, you know what I mean. So you know,
Speaker 1: and then they basically did the same thing for everybody
Speaker 1: to come from the areas we come from, you know,
Speaker 1: change our lives, change our family lives, and gives us
Speaker 1: opportunity to do other things in life. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously the journey, the relationships, the doors is opened. Um
Speaker 1: to think we got to to to play a sport
Speaker 1: we got we played as a kid for a career,
Speaker 1: I mean, to make make money off it and and
Speaker 1: now still living a dream. So definitely a lot to
Speaker 1: the NBA. How has the game changed? Obviously we had
Speaker 1: the seventies, we had the eighties is obviously when we
Speaker 1: kind of came into picture as far as fans the
Speaker 1: nineties with the Bulls and the type of play we
Speaker 1: all came into the late late nineties early two thousands,
Speaker 1: which was a certain type of play. To where the
Speaker 1: game is today, How do you feel like the game
Speaker 1: has changed over the years since you were a fan
Speaker 1: to where it is now? Well, the players are definitely
Speaker 1: more skilled. You know, they're way more skilled, never than
Speaker 1: I imagine that I'll be seeing seven foot or shooting
Speaker 1: threes at this rate, getting ten assins at this rate.
Speaker 1: They shoot the ball way better. And that's just the
Speaker 1: involvement of the game when you look at it over
Speaker 1: the years. How they're just evolving again, you know, and
Speaker 1: a lot of us to say, you know, it's softer
Speaker 1: and and the way the game is called. But they're
Speaker 1: more skilled players more um, they're they're the i q
Speaker 1: s is off the chart, and you're gonna continue to
Speaker 1: see the game evolved to what level next? Because when
Speaker 1: I look at as a whole, when you see guys
Speaker 1: seven foot bringing the ball up, think about that when
Speaker 1: you came in or think about that growing up. The
Speaker 1: big man never even put the ball on the ground
Speaker 1: to where they're shooting threes now, and so I love
Speaker 1: the direction the game is going. We got young stars,
Speaker 1: but the European players they're taking over the league. You
Speaker 1: might have translated into a European game. If you think
Speaker 1: about the top five player, there's three of them might
Speaker 1: be European. And that just shows you how the game
Speaker 1: is involved around the world. M HM. Thoughts of how
Speaker 1: the game is changing your opinion from your your style
Speaker 1: of players, how the game is played today. The game
Speaker 1: is definitely faster, like I agree with and for the
Speaker 1: most part, like these players are way more skilled shooting
Speaker 1: one leg threes and like like just the way the
Speaker 1: game has advanced and the different way these guys are
Speaker 1: working out and preparing for the game and the drills
Speaker 1: and stuff that they're doing now is totally different when
Speaker 1: we was coming up. So I just think the preparation
Speaker 1: that they're doing to play these games and and to
Speaker 1: get better as a basketball player has changed to make
Speaker 1: the game change. We came into where obviously late nineties
Speaker 1: early two thousand's we caught the end of a really
Speaker 1: physical defensive era to we were still able to play
Speaker 1: some type of defense. Obviously, defenses is few and far
Speaker 1: between um these days. Thoughts on that part of the game.
Speaker 1: But then also I feel like the game has grown
Speaker 1: because there is more scoring, there is more threes, there
Speaker 1: is more dunk So we used to have games that were,
Speaker 1: you know, eighty nine, seventy eight, you know, battle grinders.
Speaker 1: Now games are up to where they're at now. Thoughts
Speaker 1: on how the defense has kind of gone out the door,
Speaker 1: but again the game and started to expand because of
Speaker 1: all the offensive highlights. You can't touch nobody anymore. I
Speaker 1: I really don't like that product. I like the physical
Speaker 1: me personally. I like because it hypens up the competitive side.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. If you know that you
Speaker 1: can go out there and Billy, if it's gonna defense,
Speaker 1: to compete and try to shut somebody down, and knowing
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be out the game in the first
Speaker 1: quarter for two quick files, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: That the competition goes hi you. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I don't know too many guys in the league. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying everybody, but I don't know too many
Speaker 1: guys in the league that's going out there to try
Speaker 1: to stop somebody today anyway, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it was different from my time. Yeah, I agree
Speaker 1: completely with you. Stack Uh, it's less competitive. And to me,
Speaker 1: even though they're more skilled, the way I look at
Speaker 1: it as almost as if the league has become a business.
Speaker 1: You know, the money guys. When you got guys making
Speaker 1: two D three hundred million. You know, now you've got
Speaker 1: low management. It's like I gotta protect my brand, I
Speaker 1: gotta protect my body. And it's making it a little more,
Speaker 1: little little less competitive. I mean, like we prided ourselves
Speaker 1: and playing every game. It's like now if you have
Speaker 1: a small thy bruise, it's like, hold on, I can't
Speaker 1: go out there like that. And that's the it's not
Speaker 1: as competitive. And but we've made it that way. I
Speaker 1: don't like it because think about this, when I look
Speaker 1: at the league, how many competitive like think about a
Speaker 1: competitive When I say competitive, it's only a few guys.
Speaker 1: To me, Pat Beverley, I say, Draymond Green, I throw
Speaker 1: Westbrook in there, Anti to Coompo, and then I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't even think of a fifth. These are just
Speaker 1: my top five, okay, Jimmy Butler top five most competitive
Speaker 1: in the league. Where it's like in our you got
Speaker 1: three of them right just sitting right here. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: you know right now, I can't even think of ten
Speaker 1: guys when I say, damn he competitive is is here? Man?
Speaker 1: It's a business different. But again you have to left behind.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like it's a position like Okay, you
Speaker 1: play guard, you play competitive because you're gonna be done
Speaker 1: when to play. But that's why you see kind of
Speaker 1: the last of a dying breeze with p J. Tucker
Speaker 1: maybe Trevor Reason, like the last of kind of our
Speaker 1: guys that were kind of hanging on where you really
Speaker 1: got to lock in and that was your job and
Speaker 1: you took pride. And then today it's more you know
Speaker 1: about you score I score types. Not that they're not trying,
Speaker 1: because they are, but it's just not a there's not
Speaker 1: a focus on it and the way the game is
Speaker 1: called you, if there was a focus on it, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to be effective in it. So moving on,
Speaker 1: next up our segment on the Radar presented by DraftKings,
Speaker 1: odds on favorite to win a championship this year and
Speaker 1: dark Horses so odds to favorite. Let's go from the
Speaker 1: top Brooklyn is at a plus two hundred, next with
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Lakers at a plus four hundred. The
Speaker 1: defending champs, the Bucks are at a plus nine hundred.
Speaker 1: Surprising right here for us. We were talking about this before,
Speaker 1: Golden State at the plus eleven hundred, uh, the Jazz
Speaker 1: plus fifteen hundred, the Clippers plus seventeen hundred, Phoenix seventeen hundred,
Speaker 1: Philly so on, Denver plus two thousand, um, all the
Speaker 1: way down to the Knicks at plus ten thousand. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we know health is going to be a big factor
Speaker 1: this year. The top two teams in the league Brooklyn
Speaker 1: odds on favorite Lakers plus two hundred and plus four hundred, respectively.
Speaker 1: Who are you guys taking, If you guys are betting
Speaker 1: men this year? My title favorite, I'm going with the
Speaker 1: We're going with the Nets. I mean I've been even
Speaker 1: without Kyrie k d and hardness is too much. If
Speaker 1: they're healthy, I got I'm going with them. M mmmmmmmmmmmm.
Speaker 1: That's all my little brothers over with us. You ain't
Speaker 1: gonna ask me the Nets going with the Nets? I'm torn,
Speaker 1: you know. Obviously, being a huge Laker fan my whole life,
Speaker 1: even while as a player's Laker fan. It's hard to
Speaker 1: bet against Lebron. It's like brandany gainst Brady, right. It
Speaker 1: always something comes back to bite you in the ass.
Speaker 1: Can they stay healthy? To me, the Nets have a
Speaker 1: better chance of staying healthy because their stars are younger. Um,
Speaker 1: if they figure out how to bring Kyrie in the mix,
Speaker 1: that's just more to the fire. So the Lakers are
Speaker 1: right there for me. But I'm gonna have to take
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets plus two hundred. Never thought about he
Speaker 1: might be healthy because they have a deeper team. He
Speaker 1: wanted to do as much a d He always get
Speaker 1: hurt because he has to do so much for that team.
Speaker 1: He got a lot of people. He always get hurt
Speaker 1: because I don't think he hit his body different, you
Speaker 1: know and not. You know, he got a good friend,
Speaker 1: But I don't think he he I don't think he
Speaker 1: really just focused on the off season and the stuff
Speaker 1: away from basketball, like how we see Lebron, you know,
Speaker 1: because who takes a beating more Lebron take a beating.
Speaker 1: But he's so conditioned. If a D follow Lebron on
Speaker 1: that off season workout and what they do when they're
Speaker 1: not practicing, hitting the weights, and doing all that, I
Speaker 1: think he wouldn't see him get hurt as much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that recovery is real. Again, that's just with
Speaker 1: that era to in particular, a D was kind of
Speaker 1: that first AU era where you were seeing guys coming
Speaker 1: at a young age but all getting hurt early because
Speaker 1: they had played so many AU games. Obviously, the wear
Speaker 1: and tear of the league is night and day above
Speaker 1: AU and your brief stop in college. That NBA is
Speaker 1: a grind with the travel throwing in there and the
Speaker 1: games and then and just all the ship we have
Speaker 1: to do. So if a D is healthy, it's needed
Speaker 1: next up, best bet to win in VP, and we'll
Speaker 1: throw some dark horses in there. So they got again Luca.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, it wasn't the odds on favorite
Speaker 1: last year. Again, Luca at the top plus three eighty,
Speaker 1: kat At plus six hundred and beat At plus seven hundred,
Speaker 1: Janice plus nine hundred, Steph Curry plus nine hundred, Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard plus fourteen hundred, the Joker the reigning m VPS
Speaker 1: plus fifteen hundred, right there with Lebron James at the
Speaker 1: same fifteen hundred James Harden plus two thousand, Tree Young,
Speaker 1: Devin Booker hundred eight hundred, Kauai is out Westbrook plus
Speaker 1: twenty five hundred, PG three thousand, Tatum at plus three thousand,
Speaker 1: and Donovan mitchelled around that out at plus three thousand.
Speaker 1: Who do you guys like? I mean, obviously, Luca is
Speaker 1: an up and coming star, gonna be the greatest European
Speaker 1: player barring injury. I think we've ever seen. Um, it's
Speaker 1: hard to go against k d uh and beat is
Speaker 1: in that mix, Greek freak, Steph went crazy, Dame always
Speaker 1: goes crazy. Uh. Thoughts on potential MVP in dark horses,
Speaker 1: I'm going James Harden. Last year, James Hard with the
Speaker 1: one m v P. People have got hurt the way
Speaker 1: he was averaging the triple double. Uh. He went over
Speaker 1: the putting down back and he was winning. And you know,
Speaker 1: I remember me and g talked about it. I had
Speaker 1: if you wouldn't have got hurt last year, Dog, I
Speaker 1: think he was. I think he had a good chance
Speaker 1: to winning m VP. And if the fact that if
Speaker 1: Kyrie doesn't play, he plays well without Kyrene, and that's
Speaker 1: all that's not I'm not trying to start no fund
Speaker 1: just and you gotta remember, even with Kyrie on the court,
Speaker 1: he was the point guard, he was the playmaker, he
Speaker 1: was doing all those things with Kyrie on the course.
Speaker 1: So I got James hard I like that. It's a
Speaker 1: nice dark horse, Paul, you got for me? Uh, dark horse, no,
Speaker 1: best bet. I'm gonna go with Curry because I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a better team. I think the Warriors
Speaker 1: could be a top four seed. And if he has
Speaker 1: the season this year that he had last year with
Speaker 1: a better team, with a better team, I gotta go
Speaker 1: with Curry. And then my dark horse something going on
Speaker 1: with Jason Tatum. Uh. If Boston could be a top team.
Speaker 1: I've been seeing this kid get better every year, put
Speaker 1: up multiple fifties last year. He's my dark horse. I
Speaker 1: like that. You know, normally it's tough, they say when
Speaker 1: there's you know, a group of stars, they kind of
Speaker 1: cancel each other out. Um. I don't know if that
Speaker 1: would be the case. Um, but you know, to me,
Speaker 1: Katie is the best player in the game right now. UM,
Speaker 1: and he's the guy I'm gonna go with. UM. Love
Speaker 1: Luca just to know where their team is at. UM
Speaker 1: loved the Harden pick. I loved that would be my
Speaker 1: dark horse, Jack, and not even dark horse, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, because like for every reason he said,
Speaker 1: he's not necessarily a dark horse. He's one of the
Speaker 1: best players in the game. Um. Love the Jayson Tatum?
Speaker 1: Uh you know, is it is he ready to take
Speaker 1: that team to the next step? Because it's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be on his shoulders. You know, if that team
Speaker 1: is gonna make a step, it's gonna be on his shoulders.
Speaker 1: With all respect to everyone else. So how is Westbrook
Speaker 1: more favorite to win m v P ver Tatum? Because
Speaker 1: Tatum is the guy and Westbrook on on the Lakers,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like third or four, Bob shad d
Speaker 1: You know that's weird. We shall see next up something different.
Speaker 1: We haven't really done. But Jack is they're a player
Speaker 1: in the league today that reminds you of yourself? I don't.
Speaker 1: I think the only guy that I can say that
Speaker 1: reminds me of myself is t J. Warren. I think
Speaker 1: I said that before he really made a name for
Speaker 1: himself in the bubble, and uh he was injel Lash.
Speaker 1: I think he broke his foot or something. But he's
Speaker 1: a He's a guy, not just because he played for
Speaker 1: the Pacers, but he plays hard on both ends and
Speaker 1: he got a nice jump shot. Paul, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Jason Tatum. You know, you know, you remind me
Speaker 1: a lot of myself. We got the step back in
Speaker 1: this game. He getting stronger, going to the whole whole stuff,
Speaker 1: just like you got the mad post game. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with j T. That's a good car. I like that.
Speaker 1: Which player you know me? I'm one of those last
Speaker 1: of the breed and I think I mentioned earlier like
Speaker 1: I'm a t A, you know, three and D Just
Speaker 1: you know, that's why I think we were it to
Speaker 1: last as long as we're good, because you could put
Speaker 1: us anywhere, you know what I mean, you could plug
Speaker 1: us in any system, any team, and we're gonna go
Speaker 1: do our jobs. So to me, you know, Trevor is
Speaker 1: a p. J. Tucker type player with just plugging play,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be straight. Well you had you had a
Speaker 1: jumper though, yeah, definitely got better. Which player do you
Speaker 1: expect to make the big leap this year? Paul? The
Speaker 1: big lead, big lead, Damn. I'm gonna go with uh Damn.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna make the big lead that's a good when
Speaker 1: they gotta be somebody young who just like, who's gonna
Speaker 1: get to the Austar. I'm gonna go Alonzo Ball. I
Speaker 1: think Alonzo Ball gonna prove a lot of people wrong.
Speaker 1: I saw I saw some good things out of him
Speaker 1: in preseason. The dropper looked right. He didn't win from
Speaker 1: this ship. Now you know he he's dropper looking right.
Speaker 1: I think he got a raw deal. I think if
Speaker 1: you think about the process and you're being from l
Speaker 1: AE kid drafted to the Lakers and your dad writing
Speaker 1: checks before you even steps in magic like the next
Speaker 1: great thing. I think he had a lot. So I
Speaker 1: think the first step was a great movie getting him
Speaker 1: out of l A because obviously the kid can play.
Speaker 1: He showed flashes in New Orleans. I really think he
Speaker 1: comes into his own in Chicago. You know he's away
Speaker 1: from the right, from the crib um, new young team,
Speaker 1: exciting team again. He's worked on this game tremendously, so
Speaker 1: it'll be fun to see what he's able to do
Speaker 1: this year. Jack, anybody stick out to you to have
Speaker 1: a breakout season this year, it's hard. I would say
Speaker 1: if anybody will have a breakout season, I would say,
Speaker 1: Cam Reddish. He's been hurt all that ship and when
Speaker 1: he got a chance to play a little bit, he
Speaker 1: was bawling out. And he's getting off to a good
Speaker 1: star this year too. In the previas, so I say, anybody,
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Speaker 1: All right, So what contract most bang for your buck? Uh?
Speaker 1: Coming up? I'm a listic a handful of players with
Speaker 1: their deals. You guys tell me, is that a secure investment?
Speaker 1: Or would you first stop Kyla Lowry before we go
Speaker 1: to Kyle Lowry? Is her Hall of Famer? Oh ah, championship?
Speaker 1: Was her one or two time All Star Man. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that didn't make Hall of Fame. Like, look, okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I don't
Speaker 1: think so you think, Okay, I'm just gonna put it
Speaker 1: like this, I don't think so. Mochis and Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer Chauncey Billers not so they all belong in that.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Moscheese Hall of Famer, you got an all
Speaker 1: the favorite and Kyle Lowry not a All of Fame.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, though, Mr big Shot, you got a nickname.
Speaker 1: Mr big Shot is not in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: That name. Come on, then I can't put Carl Lowery
Speaker 1: in there. That's facts, that's fact. I agree with that.
Speaker 1: Moving on, Kyle Lowry got a nice deal whether he
Speaker 1: goes or not. The year eight million to go to
Speaker 1: get tanned on South Beach. Hopefully don't wear socks on
Speaker 1: the beats like you Jack three years eighty five millions.
Speaker 1: That a secure investment, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, you bring Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're making somebody's experience that want to play, that's gonna
Speaker 1: play hard, and that that's the same type of player
Speaker 1: as Jimmy, that has the same type of par rolly mentality.
Speaker 1: Team We're coming to win with some dogs out there.
Speaker 1: So if it's perfect, they couldn't find a better point
Speaker 1: guard to fit in with those. That's good value. That's
Speaker 1: good value. Not the best value based on the offseason signings,
Speaker 1: but that's good value. Bringing a bad leader a champion,
Speaker 1: Uh get a little so body who's gonna stabilize the
Speaker 1: locker room a little more with Jimmy, it's a good value.
Speaker 1: Next up, LUNs of ball cashed in this offseason four
Speaker 1: years eighty million Paul Secure Investment, Secure Investment. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna take the biggest leap. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be recognized as um a very good point
Speaker 1: guard somewhere along the lines, you know where I see
Speaker 1: his kind of career going towards like a Drew Holiday
Speaker 1: type career. You know, people we underrated Drew Holiday for
Speaker 1: so many years. You know, a guy who hasn't been
Speaker 1: to the All Star Game multiple years, but he's one
Speaker 1: of the most respected point guards, like guys like him
Speaker 1: and Mike Conley. I think Alonso is gonna fall into
Speaker 1: that category. Really good player, really didn't get the get
Speaker 1: to that All Star level, but he's gonna be right
Speaker 1: there right there. Definitely someone too that that they plays
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. People forgot how I mean
Speaker 1: he was picking up full court really, you know, making
Speaker 1: people work Jack Lunds of ball four years, eighty million,
Speaker 1: secure investment. Yeah, great pick up for them, something they needed,
Speaker 1: you know, he got. He got a lot of great
Speaker 1: qualities as a point guard as far as knowing how
Speaker 1: to make plays. And also he's uh expanding his range
Speaker 1: with his three point balls. So I think just having
Speaker 1: him on the team, he's gonna take a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure up to those other guys. I think they are
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be in the playoffs with with with signing
Speaker 1: him over there, the margin Rosen, same team, Chicago Bulls
Speaker 1: three years, eighty one million, jack secure investment, great investment.
Speaker 1: Another compliment, you know, to the rest of the guys
Speaker 1: over there at the Bulls. I mean, how can you
Speaker 1: not add the rose and the roses and one of
Speaker 1: those guys you can guarantee eighteen twenty twenty three points
Speaker 1: a game. Uh mid range. You know, I don't give
Speaker 1: how old you get, uh what you add to your game.
Speaker 1: You got a mid range shot, You're gonna last a
Speaker 1: long time. And he wanted the best at it. So
Speaker 1: and and he's reliable to I think um with him
Speaker 1: the contract and it's gonna be more than numbers with
Speaker 1: him this year than it has been in the past,
Speaker 1: because you're asking him to kind of play second fiddle
Speaker 1: to zackly Vine. But the value when he his value
Speaker 1: is not gonna come in number. His value is gonna
Speaker 1: come in, like I said, his experience, his leadership is
Speaker 1: gonna have to be the defensive guy that's year too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna he's gonna he's gonna have to put
Speaker 1: that on the you know, he's gonna teach Levine how
Speaker 1: to win, how to play the game, because you think
Speaker 1: about it, they they got a lot of similarities. You know,
Speaker 1: Levine got a three ball, but like they both athletic
Speaker 1: wing guys, and he could really show them the ropes.
Speaker 1: And so his value is not gonna be in his numbers,
Speaker 1: but just being around the guys, and he's gonna have
Speaker 1: nice to where hes gonna be the guy on certain
Speaker 1: nights and that's where his value gonna come in. That.
Speaker 1: I definitely think his value along with what you guys
Speaker 1: said in the playoffs. You mean, he's someone who's been
Speaker 1: there and this is a very young team that hasn't
Speaker 1: really experienced playoffs success though, so you know, to be
Speaker 1: to be the vet on this team is definitely gonna
Speaker 1: serve him good. I agree, uh, Evan four and four years,
Speaker 1: seventy three million dollars to the New York Knicks. P
Speaker 1: secure investment. I think so because you know, normally I
Speaker 1: wouldn't think so, but since you know there's a premium
Speaker 1: on shooting in this league, you gotta need guys to
Speaker 1: shoot the three, and you know, if you can knock
Speaker 1: down some three, you're gonna get it back. And that's
Speaker 1: definitely what he does. Play well in the Olympics. The
Speaker 1: type of money is getting doesn't warrant that contract. I
Speaker 1: don't know, not the best value, but I get it,
Speaker 1: you know, based on they need more spacing for Rando
Speaker 1: and r J and sou. Not a bad investment, but
Speaker 1: not the best. Yeah, at all. I'm not secure at all.
Speaker 1: I mean you want to You're coming off that money
Speaker 1: right now with the young guys you got, and you're
Speaker 1: trying to build around. You need to, like you said,
Speaker 1: you need another star. You need somebody else that that's
Speaker 1: been around, that's that wasn't stared but kind of diminishing
Speaker 1: a little bit, and stidn't come in and help change
Speaker 1: things or the outlook at this team. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you bringing somebody in that nobody's gonna listen to.
Speaker 1: Nobody's going I'm just being real, nobody's gonna listen to,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna respect. And he's not the type of guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna come in and be the leader of that team.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm saying, you need somebody to come in
Speaker 1: that deck and stand, uh, stand next shoulder to shoulder
Speaker 1: with a round them, you know what I mean, be
Speaker 1: the leader. Not somebody's gonna come in and just walk
Speaker 1: around and don't say nothing, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So I think I think, you know, you gotta sign somebody.
Speaker 1: You gotta spend that money. But I think they could
Speaker 1: have got something else for that for seventy three million.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Randall, he signed a four year extension for
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventeen million. UH most improved Player last year.
Speaker 1: Uh took the team to the playoffs. Didn't play well
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, but I'm sure that's that first time
Speaker 1: Jitter looked at him to bounce back this year. Jack
Speaker 1: without a secure investment. Yeah, I mean, he deserved it.
Speaker 1: He earned that money, you know, man, he watched you
Speaker 1: out to the playoffs. And all that, But at the
Speaker 1: same time, you got to understand how much more can
Speaker 1: he grow? How much more can his game? Bro? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. We've been watching around it for
Speaker 1: a minute now, you know what I'm saying, And I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know if if his game has really changed,
Speaker 1: But I just think he just got a better opportunity
Speaker 1: in the in the next organization to be that guy
Speaker 1: to get the ball and get more shots. But I
Speaker 1: think this game has changed so and I think his
Speaker 1: jumper got matter. But I'm just saying it hasn't changed
Speaker 1: drastically like that, you know what I'm saying. So at
Speaker 1: this point, Okay, you're paying him. He deserved the money.
Speaker 1: Where is he gonna what's the next level for him?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Is he gonna get to
Speaker 1: that next level in the next four years? No? No,
Speaker 1: you know, he will never be a one A superstar,
Speaker 1: you know, and we understand that. But he made the
Speaker 1: All Star team last year. But he's a good compliment
Speaker 1: to that one and that's why wasn't sign You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. What you think about I like Randall?
Speaker 1: I as I said earlier, I think he's a great
Speaker 1: one B. I think if you have some one B
Speaker 1: and then possibly a four year as your third option
Speaker 1: type two, you gotta you know, you got Kimba in
Speaker 1: that mix, obviously, but I think they get that one
Speaker 1: A and take some pressure off, because I think that's
Speaker 1: what got to him last year, was that pressure me
Speaker 1: and the guy that knowing that he had to put
Speaker 1: the team on his back, he wasn't ready for it.
Speaker 1: But I looked him again. I liked him a lot.
Speaker 1: Look from the bounce back. Next step, last, and not
Speaker 1: least Michael Porter jr. Um surprising to some. I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of this kid. But he got a five
Speaker 1: year one seventy two with the possible two oh seven
Speaker 1: max rookie extension, uh Paul secure investment. Yeah, because you're
Speaker 1: basing this off his potential, and he got superstar potention.
Speaker 1: I mean, right now, he reminds me of a poor
Speaker 1: Man's k D. I mean he's six ten. Wow, he's
Speaker 1: athletic poor Man's k D. I mean, you know you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. He's six tiens. We think athletic.
Speaker 1: He gotta work on this. He's creating his own shot.
Speaker 1: But he athletic. He's six ten's jumper. He's a stretch four.
Speaker 1: You can play him at the five, the three too,
Speaker 1: if he gets some kind of handle, because Kate didn't
Speaker 1: have that handle coming in. That's why I said, poor
Speaker 1: Man's the potential is there. You know, everybody don't reach
Speaker 1: their potential, you know, like poor Man's. Don't mean he's
Speaker 1: gonna be KD, but he got those type of tools.
Speaker 1: What do you think? I think? Um, Like you said,
Speaker 1: the potential, what he what he's done, what you've seen
Speaker 1: he can do. He earned that money, deserved him. Mother.
Speaker 1: At the same time, he is not the toughest. He's
Speaker 1: been hurt a lot, you know what I'm saying, And
Speaker 1: I think the moments where they needed him most to
Speaker 1: step up was when Murray was down and he couldn't
Speaker 1: be that player consistently. He said, I think, but this
Speaker 1: is his first time in that spot. He was his
Speaker 1: first time in that spot. To Jack, I get you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1: So but not stepping up to the place, stepping up
Speaker 1: to that big moment, you know what I'm saying. Look
Speaker 1: at Cole he air ball, no question all We're not
Speaker 1: going fair. You gotta go. You gotta go through being
Speaker 1: a young time, first time on that stage and young
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta go through the fan of him,
Speaker 1: I think to me, I think he's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I see some tea making him some tea mack as
Speaker 1: far as that, you know, the way he shoots, the
Speaker 1: way it's up on the shooters athletes, explosive this when
Speaker 1: gets to the basket. Uh. If he wants to lock
Speaker 1: in on defense, to me, that that's the next step. Obviously,
Speaker 1: continue involves the offensive game, but he has the tools
Speaker 1: to be a six ten stopper on that wing along
Speaker 1: with Aaron Gordon, which I think it's gonna take their Broy,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I didn't say nothing about your twin brother,
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverly away Man, we love you, but I just
Speaker 1: ain't saying nothing about you, Jack Man. I ain't saying
Speaker 1: nothing about you, nothing about your twin today, Brodaa's come on,
Speaker 1: I love you, Come on next up man, one of
Speaker 1: our favorite segments. Jack, you can kick this off. We
Speaker 1: got fan questions, alright, first fan question offseason, Dot Randazy,
Speaker 1: how do you think Clay Thompson is going to play
Speaker 1: this season after coming off to consecutive season and didn't
Speaker 1: injuries twist him. I'm nervous because, as we see, normally
Speaker 1: when you come back from one there there's a lot
Speaker 1: of nagging stuff that happens. You know. He came back
Speaker 1: off the uh, the knee and then toward his achilles.
Speaker 1: So hopefully we're not doing this drastic of injuries. But
Speaker 1: normally when you're coming back off stuff like that, something
Speaker 1: else starts to nag. So I hope that he you know,
Speaker 1: he's took a long time. We haven't seen Clay and
Speaker 1: we almost three years. Its been a minute to and
Speaker 1: a half, you know what I mean. So it's like
Speaker 1: like for me, for him riding a bike, it's like
Speaker 1: riding a bike. He just shoot right. He ain't never
Speaker 1: losing that, Like we always want to to ride a bike.
Speaker 1: I cannot ride a bike, But ten years I'm still
Speaker 1: not a rod. He always gonna be able to agree. Well,
Speaker 1: his his his his role is so fine tuned. My
Speaker 1: my question is he was an underrated defensive player. He
Speaker 1: took a lot of pressure off stuff. He's always guarding
Speaker 1: the best player of the Dames. To see Jays that
Speaker 1: you name him, he was guarding him will he still
Speaker 1: be able to move latterly? Again, I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of Clay again his leg and like pasted, this game
Speaker 1: is so specific, but he's so good at it. Can
Speaker 1: he get back there? I think he in, But I'm
Speaker 1: just hoping he's I think that's gonna be where you're
Speaker 1: gonna take a hit that defensively, you know, when you
Speaker 1: go through a c L S and Achilles can, you
Speaker 1: ain't gonna move the same. You can't move the same.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's where you're gonna take as big as here.
Speaker 1: But shooting the ball, he's still gonna be able to
Speaker 1: do that. Next step was a NAS thirty five underscore.
Speaker 1: Do you think the Nets can win a championship without
Speaker 1: Kyrie Paul? Without a question? You got the best duel
Speaker 1: in the league. James Harden, who was an MVP candidate
Speaker 1: this year, gonna be an MVP candidate. I mean he
Speaker 1: was a MVP candidate last year, will be again this year.
Speaker 1: And k D is arguably the best player in the game.
Speaker 1: That's more than enough to win the championship. Agreed at
Speaker 1: BAM underscore Rubble and this is to you stack which
Speaker 1: NBA player question will be a first time All Star.
Speaker 1: Which NBA player will be a first time All Star?
Speaker 1: Good question. I have no idea. John marn he didn't
Speaker 1: make it last year. He hasn't made the All Star teams.
Speaker 1: He I'm around. I go with John Muran because I
Speaker 1: don't know who else first time? Yeah, r damn. He
Speaker 1: already self proclaimings of the top five point guard in
Speaker 1: the league. I'm looking forward to. Is he a top
Speaker 1: five point guard in the league? Six seven? Not top
Speaker 1: five yet? Right right right there? Not there yet there
Speaker 1: six seven, six seven, alright, alright, brom six seven, the
Speaker 1: top five point though. I don't know if he's there
Speaker 1: right right right there. After this season, he could put
Speaker 1: itself right there like his explosive. Don't know how real
Speaker 1: he is. He would say that. He said that already.
Speaker 1: So we got Chris Paul, Chris Paul in there, Luca Docs,
Speaker 1: Luca James. Sorry, it's like James, you can't don't start, Okay,
Speaker 1: you gotta put stuff. Let's go step staff order, steph
Speaker 1: Luca dag dang same James, James in the top five.
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook, come on, Jack, come on, when you got
Speaker 1: him over? But who you got him over? You just
Speaker 1: said we didn't put him in the er no order,
Speaker 1: But who you got him over Chris Paul? Yes, damn
Speaker 1: we saw what Chris. I've seen what he did and
Speaker 1: I also seen what he did in the finals. Alright, left,
Speaker 1: So step Dame step Dame that James Harden James was
Speaker 1: that fifth Lillard. No, I already put that Steph, Steph,
Speaker 1: Dame Dame, James, James, Kyrie, Kyrie, about Kyrie Kyrie coming
Speaker 1: off his best season two seven to night. You got
Speaker 1: Russ in there, you got Rusted in there, the best
Speaker 1: for him. But I want to see basketball. Motherfucking I'm
Speaker 1: not top five, but you got Russell for Tray young
Speaker 1: do sir? Yeah? I think Rust to me, I think
Speaker 1: Russ's man big This mother gonna give you twenty a night.
Speaker 1: I'm about to just pour this. I gotta wake up man.
Speaker 1: Russe is an animals. I love Russ. I love Russ.
Speaker 1: Who you love Brody bringing with Russe's bringing Nobody? Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't want to finish that question. Nobody, nobody in
Speaker 1: the games is bringing with Russ's broadcast? So who who
Speaker 1: to who? We just listed? So we had we had
Speaker 1: a baby, Steph, we had Steph Dame, Luca, Kyrie, and James.
Speaker 1: We don't even have CP in there. So out of
Speaker 1: those five, who did you put who you put Russ
Speaker 1: in front of? I didn't have James as the point
Speaker 1: go up and I just thought about it. He is
Speaker 1: a point guard here, a point guard. He led the
Speaker 1: League of Assists last year. I still like Chris Phoenix.
Speaker 1: Go to this listen, if you put Westbrook on Phoenix
Speaker 1: instead of Chris Paul, do they go to the finals? Question?
Speaker 1: How you got him over Chris? Because he's he brings
Speaker 1: more to the table. He brings way more to the table.
Speaker 1: I understand that. Yeah he got that, forgot the Hennis seed,
Speaker 1: the chips, the pizza and all. He's bringing all that,
Speaker 1: the mash potatoes, Yeah, he bringing all that. But Chris
Speaker 1: bringing a straight steak dinner. And so is it? Is
Speaker 1: it because I'm bringing more if I'm bringing better? But
Speaker 1: he bringing But he's bringing one fark and one cup
Speaker 1: and it's all on the right side. He ain't putting
Speaker 1: nothing on left. Everything you do, everything on the right
Speaker 1: side can't up left. So everything you gotta do, you
Speaker 1: gotta do with you right here. And he's rush. You
Speaker 1: got a buffet remind you can go left right, duncan
Speaker 1: do you want me to do with Chris everything? You
Speaker 1: got to be on the rights of scissors buffet in
Speaker 1: one steak from Morton's stake, Sisslors buffet. Are you want
Speaker 1: the bash smart? I said? I said, Chris is a
Speaker 1: smart and he's a Hall of Fame point guard, and
Speaker 1: he's a he's a better leader on the court. But
Speaker 1: as far as putting two players on the court, who's
Speaker 1: gonna give you more? I mean clearly the stats, I
Speaker 1: mean any more. I need, I need, I need, I got,
Speaker 1: I like the like my floor general to be boom boom,
Speaker 1: I q boom, cluss shots boom everybody you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they both got to the finals. And that's what's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting. This is what's gonna be interesting. Where do
Speaker 1: you gonna rank those two all times they do or
Speaker 1: don't win? Like as afterday they both went to the finals.
Speaker 1: Brodie got an m v P. They called him brody
Speaker 1: baby Oscar. Who are they calling Chris? And so are
Speaker 1: you saying that Westbrook all time is better than christ
Speaker 1: Just I just made a statement. That's all you are
Speaker 1: and all time rest above CP and all time rankings
Speaker 1: and all time rankings. You got west Brush, Do you
Speaker 1: have Rust ahead of CP and your all time rankings? No,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that. What is your own your argument?
Speaker 1: The last time? This is what I'm saying, is CPS
Speaker 1: rest kind of players who CP is as a player, CPS,
Speaker 1: we were respected. He's gonna be a Hall of famer
Speaker 1: all ever, CP really want nothing. What is he done
Speaker 1: for y'all? Just to put him above Rust? But you
Speaker 1: just said you would put CP above Russ in the
Speaker 1: all time rankings, all time rankings, because resting a notch's
Speaker 1: creal over Chris create the over Rust is knocking on
Speaker 1: the door to Rust. The rest Russ is gonna be
Speaker 1: three the triple double face of basketball when he was tired.
Speaker 1: Chris is gonna be a group point going. That's all claim,
Speaker 1: even Jackie up, all right, that's the truth though, right, Um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a hall of fame. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, just like you know, Williams is the face
Speaker 1: of the sixth man who lou Will lou Will Will
Speaker 1: he got three he got three, four of them? No,
Speaker 1: it was Jamal now is lou Willy? But I think
Speaker 1: he got four now Mr underscore, Polo cash masview Matt
Speaker 1: Who's going to surprise Who's gonna be a surprise team
Speaker 1: this season? Last year, my surprise season with the team
Speaker 1: was the Phoenix Suns. May surprised the fucking world. What's
Speaker 1: this this year's surprise team. I want to see what
Speaker 1: Memphis does. I think with the healthy Jaren Jackson, young
Speaker 1: pieces again marants. From year to year, development continues to go.
Speaker 1: I like that good young team they have over there.
Speaker 1: They added um the big boy from Okay see New
Speaker 1: Orleans Steven Adams centerpiece over there to hold sin see
Speaker 1: what he can do a g Joseph One. Are Kay
Speaker 1: cutting Ham and Jaden Green the real deal? Paul jenn
Speaker 1: and Green the real deal? Question question? He didn't really
Speaker 1: skilled player in the draft last year. He should win
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year because he's gonna every have every
Speaker 1: opportunity in Houston because they're gonna be weak, and so
Speaker 1: he's gonna play all the minutes. Kay Cunningham, he's good,
Speaker 1: really good players should elevate the Pistons. But jann and
Speaker 1: Green is gonna be that dude. I'm biased to like
Speaker 1: wing Man's who can handle shoot stuff. He from Frasno ya,
Speaker 1: he from County. I got a rock at the back.
Speaker 1: I gotta because he has good here and I don't
Speaker 1: want Jack to get over, but I was gonna say that.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Yeah, somebody were curly here, gonna win them
Speaker 1: and closing. Good to be back. What's Burning? Great first show, Fellas.
Speaker 1: We will continue to rotate guests again to try to
Speaker 1: bring you a different perspective um this year with What's Burning,
Speaker 1: you'll definitely see Paul here and all over the Showtime platform.
Speaker 1: You know we're Jack and his wet hands will be
Speaker 1: one more thing before you get up out of your fellas.
Speaker 1: Random drug test for cannabis in the NBA have been lifted.
Speaker 1: What was saying when we play? We know they was
Speaker 1: testing when we was playing, so they're not testing. No
Speaker 1: more thoughts. Good job, Matt, now myself pass next. I
Speaker 1: think it's a big statman again because I mean we
Speaker 1: you know, we we were not you know, we haven't
Speaker 1: hidden the fact that we smoked, you know, through our
Speaker 1: career for our reasons, and it was a job to
Speaker 1: smoke in the NBA, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: we really had to go to extra mile to make
Speaker 1: sure we stayed flushed and hydra raided. Uh So I'm
Speaker 1: glad it's just one less stress these guys have to
Speaker 1: worry about. You know. To me, if you're an owner
Speaker 1: a gym, you want your players out there sucking around
Speaker 1: with whatever else is out there in the streets, and
Speaker 1: you want them sitting back smugging to joint recovering. I
Speaker 1: think that's how simple the question is. Uh being shout
Speaker 1: out to the NBA players associated in the NBA for
Speaker 1: getting your doctors and doing your homework. You know, myself
Speaker 1: out Herrington. There's a handful of us that kept pushing
Speaker 1: the line and pushing the envelope, and we're glad to
Speaker 1: see that not only the NBA, but professional sports as
Speaker 1: a whole has started to come along with the medical
Speaker 1: the medical research has been given. So you guys are welcome.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna coming to one of you guys hotel room
Speaker 1: and smoke with you this year just because going off.
Speaker 1: Also make sure you check out Russell Westbrook's new documentary,
Speaker 1: Passion Play Russell Westbrook, available now on Showtime. We'll see
Speaker 1: you guys next week.