1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Welcome in. We'll drive you to the great episode three fourteen. 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Those of you who were in the YouTube chat or 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: watching beforehand, you got a little sneak preview of the show. 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: Luckily you know what I mean, and you know I'm 5 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 1: not the all time legend Mike Francessa out here, just 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: you know, just scolding my producers for bad information, because 7 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: I got great producers that don't give me bad information. 8 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 1: I'm not even So you guys got a little preview 9 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: of us when we thought we were off the air. 10 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: We were on the air. But luckily we're professional at 11 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: all times drownd here, so we ain't got to worry 12 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:35,919 Speaker 1: about it. Being professional at all times seems to be 13 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 1: in short capacity in my industry these days. So let's 14 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: get right to it. Here's what missed the cut. Joker 15 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: came back, reminded everyone's Joker thirty nine, ten and ten 16 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans like, but maybe don't love Cam Moore. 17 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,959 Speaker 1: They might trade the pick major League Baseball opening Day. 18 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: None of that is on the show today because of well, 19 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: demon's a take it away. 20 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, so Lebron's had quite a day. Obviously, he hit 21 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 2: the buzzer Beaterer yesterday. Yeah, a little bit of a 22 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 2: rough game, but obviously the buzzerbader to win. 23 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,639 Speaker 3: Yeah, the McAfee hit. He's been having. 24 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 2: The whole stephen A Smith thing going on is, yeah, 25 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 2: you want to start with the game? 26 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 3: Where do you want to go with it? 27 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 1: So since the moment Lebron walked up on steven A Smith, 28 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: I would, aside from the groin injury, I would argue 29 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: everything has come up Lebron, and it would appear we 30 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: are in the midst. And our younger producers or co 31 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: host or audience can tell me if I'm using this 32 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: term wrong, but it would appear we are in the 33 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: midst from steven A of what the kids call a 34 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: crash out, and it is day by day by day. 35 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 1: The moment Lebron confronted steven A, just between third and 36 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: fourth quarter of a game, Bron's team was trailing by tena, 37 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 1: steven A's favorite team. On the day, stephen A had 38 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: gotten and deserved his new five year, one hundred million 39 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: dollar contract, and then he had to sit there and 40 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: think about how am I going to respond to the 41 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: fact that this guy came up checked me, kept it moving. 42 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: Did the worst thing you can ever do to someone 43 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: in our profession, not give us a chance to respond, 44 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: not let us talk, and then walked my team down 45 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: and beat him. And then Lebron is very very judicious 46 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: with the interviews that he gives. And it was not 47 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: coincidental that Lebron then decides to go on with McAfee, 48 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: who some people consider Stephen A's rival for face of 49 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: the network, no rival for face of the league, by 50 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: the way, more on that. In the moment, we know 51 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: who that is, and after this week we know who 52 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: face of American Sports is. But face of the network, 53 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: that's an argument, Stephen ay Er McAfee. So Lebron picks 54 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: that guy to go on that show on that network 55 00:03:55,320 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: and then that night, and this is where I will 56 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: get to the soap opera stuff in a second, but 57 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: this is where the greatest of all time remind you 58 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: that they are. Lebron had put extra pressure on himself 59 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: by doing that interview. And guess what, through three quarters 60 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: he had the fewest points he's had through three quarters 61 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: in a game since I was in college. He's unfathomable. 62 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: One two hundred and eighty two game streak of double 63 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: digit points. When the second most is eight hundred something 64 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 1: is in real jeopardy. And of all days, the day 65 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: that the streak's going to be snapped is a day 66 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: that you know, the biggest voice in sports media the 67 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: very next morning is going to do everything he can 68 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 1: to rip you to shreds. That's when your streak might break. 69 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: That's when you're gonna give a little more fodder to 70 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: the folks who say, oh, great player, but you know, 71 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: doesn't quite have that clutch gene. So how does he respond, 72 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 1: not only by immediately in the fourth quarter getting the 73 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: to double digit points and leading the Lakers to where Okay, 74 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 1: they're gonna win. Wait, did they just squander a twelve 75 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: point lead? Okay, Ruey hit those two threes, They're fine. 76 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: Did they just give up a seven to zero run 77 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: out of nowhere? And then a perfect, absolutely perfect you 78 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 1: want to put on Lebron James basketball tombstone, a fifteen 79 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: second sequence put the end of that Pacers game with 80 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: the context of the day. So here's what it is. 81 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: Down one, gotta get a stop. Can't double off guys 82 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: on the Pacers because they all can shoot. Bron realizes, 83 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: oh shot clucks down to three, You're not gonna have 84 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: time to pass. Sins Is double creates the terrible shot, 85 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: and before the shots even miss has leaked out and 86 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 1: would have the go ahead layup. Luca doesn't see it 87 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: in time. They pitch it ahead late. All of the 88 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: guys who have fewer career playoff buzzer beaters, who are 89 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: have worse career field goal percentage in the clutch, who 90 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: are by any objective measure, worse in the biggest moments, 91 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: but we deify because those players historically have put their 92 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,679 Speaker 1: personal glory ahead of the team. All of those guys, 93 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:01,239 Speaker 1: when they get the pitch ahead down one six are saying, 94 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: I don't care that a double is being sent my way. 95 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 1: I'm taking this damn shot, not Lebron James. Make the 96 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: right play in the moment and for the big picture. 97 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: In the moment, Luca's more open and big picture we 98 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: need him to be the guy and be great. I'm 99 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: giving him the ball. And Lucas said after the game, 100 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: how much confidence that gave him that in that moment 101 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: that day, the Lebron James ESPN day, he could have 102 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: said I'm making sure I'm taking the last shot. He said, No, 103 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: make the right play and Luca missed, But for the 104 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: all around greatest player ever, guess what, right position, right effort, 105 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: a little more energy, a little higher IQ in the 106 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: right spot for the tip, ind for his first buzzer 107 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: beater since he walked off the Raptors in Game three 108 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: of the Eastern Conference Semifinals in twenty eighteen as a 109 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: cav eighth career buzzer beater, third in the regular season, 110 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: five in the playoffs, which, for those keeping track at home, 111 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: more than Kobe and might combined more on Kobe, the 112 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: late great Kobe Bryant, who didn't ask to be brought 113 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: into this but got brought into this in just a moment. 114 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 1: So go watch those last fifteen seconds and see why 115 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,719 Speaker 1: Lebron's the best player we've ever seen, Because in year 116 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: twenty two, at age forty, he understood when to send 117 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: a double, He understood how to leak out. He understood, 118 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: oh I'm getting doubled, it's not about me and my ego. 119 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 1: And he understood, in case Luca misses, let me be 120 00:08:53,640 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: in the right spot. And so on a day that 121 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: as much pressure as could be on a player in 122 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: a regular season March game, Lebron delivered with another brilliant 123 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: fourth quarter and with the game winning tipping and then 124 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: got on his phone found out that stephen A had 125 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: told the world if Lebron had put his hands on me, 126 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: I would have swung on him. And so he posts 127 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: the pictures, the video of steven A boxing and now 128 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: the feud goes on. So now to the stephen A 129 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 1: of it all. I said it before, I will say 130 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:15,559 Speaker 1: it again. It is a lost art in current culture. 131 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 1: Just taken l man, just taken L. All you had 132 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: to do the day after Lebron walked up on you 133 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: against the Knicks was do kind of what you did 134 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: on TV, which was be like, I don't really want 135 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: to talk about this. That was a father talking about 136 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: his son, and again that was a little misleading. It 137 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:51,559 Speaker 1: wasn't so much about stephen A's commentary on bronni as 138 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: much as it was about stephen A's commentary about Lebron 139 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: as a father. And listen, all you had to say 140 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: was I think I've been more than fair. Lebron obviously disagrees. 141 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: I would have told him that if he had given 142 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: me the opportunity he seems to be, and it was 143 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: communicated to me he was really bothered by what he 144 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: thought was me questioning him as a father. That was 145 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: never my intention. I would never do that, and it's 146 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: dead and it's over. Instead, you do half a dozen 147 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: podcasts about it, you start fantasizing about what if he 148 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:42,719 Speaker 1: had put his hands on me? You you do. 149 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 2: On the putting his hands on him thinking. Lebron ended 150 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 2: up posting the boxing video. Stephen A did say that. 151 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 2: He said later in the video he would thoroughly kick 152 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 2: my butt. 153 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 3: So I feel it. 154 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: I am. 155 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 3: He wasn't, you know, he wasn't like faking the funk there, no, but. 156 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,319 Speaker 1: He but it's well, I disagree to it. You're right, 157 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 1: you're totally correct. He didn't imply. Steven A didn't imply 158 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: I would have whooped his ass, right, yeah, no, no, no, 159 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. But he is creating you know 160 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: what he's doing. Oh, this is gonna make him mad, 161 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 1: This will hurt the this will cut and I don't 162 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 1: mean it too. But steven A, in real time the 163 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: last three weeks, on national television and podcast and every 164 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: platform available is doing what we've all done standing alone 165 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: in the shower. You know what I'm. 166 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 2: Gonna say, Yeah, like, go ahead, but yeah, I'm pretty sure. 167 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 1: Man, what I should have done. And then if I'd 168 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,319 Speaker 1: have done that, he'd have done this, and then I'd 169 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: have done that, and then he'd have done this. He's 170 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: recreating in real time how the interaction should have gone. 171 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: For our older audience, it's Costanza and the Shrimp and 172 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: the jerk store ran out of you. But in real time, 173 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: in real life, against the world's most popular athlete, that's 174 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: what's happening. We are seeing it. Ah, Man, that would 175 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: have killed him in the argument, Oh, I should have 176 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: said this, But if I'd have said that, that might 177 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: have put him over the edge, and then they might 178 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 1: have hit me. And if they hit me, man, I'd 179 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: have to hit them back. I know, I'd get my 180 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: ass kicked right after. Stop it, man, there's no need 181 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: for it. And we can say, you know, Lebron should 182 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: be above this. Lebron been above this shit for twenty 183 00:13:50,920 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 1: five years. Lebron went his entire career without everone saying 184 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 1: these two words. Skip Bayless never mention his name. And 185 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:08,959 Speaker 1: by the way, sidebar. 186 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 4: Man, Skip has to be sick livid that he is, 187 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 4: I mean just sick that this is. 188 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: Happening right now. The one of my demand knows. This 189 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: one of my kind of you know, sayings that I like, 190 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: sometimes you know, as a joke, sometimes as a lesson, 191 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 1: sometimes as an atta boy. Is every decision you've ever 192 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: made in your entire life has led to you to 193 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: this very moment. And that is true for all of us, 194 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: in every moment. And sometimes you know, it can be 195 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: a cut, it can be a positive, whatever it is, 196 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: you know. And again I have affection for Skip, and 197 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: so I'm not I'm just being honest. You know, there's 198 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: a moment last night or this morning when Skip is 199 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: like I'm about to instead of having this discussion on 200 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 1: national television sitting across from stephen A himself or Shannon, 201 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have this discussion in my house, sitting across 202 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: from Ernestine. And that's not how this was supposed to go. 203 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 1: Like this is like this would be the moment. And 204 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: again my record reflects that I don't think that's unfair. 205 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: I know that if the wrong people clip it, whatever, 206 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: I'll deal with this. 207 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 3: Situation. 208 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: That is the reality of the situation. And here's the 209 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 1: other piece of it. And I say this pretty confidently. 210 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: I do not think Lebron will ever talk about this again. Now, 211 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 1: maybe the fact that Stephen A evidently a few minutes 212 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: ago said took a shot at Lebron for not being 213 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: at Kobe's memorial, maybe that will generate a quick reaction 214 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: because that is what Lebron was talking about last night 215 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: or yesterday on McAfee, was like, there's basketball criticism, then 216 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: there's this other criticism. 217 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, like that's how it bounds, right, like as like 218 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 2: how that's a really I mean, that feels out abounds. 219 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: It feels out of bounds. I and now listen, I 220 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: try to be self aware enough. I look back and 221 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: I say, I've been out of bounds at times, but 222 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: I get when those guys don't like me, so like 223 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: something again, to kind of mix metaphors a bit, I 224 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 1: know you haven't. If people are kind of new to 225 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:09,640 Speaker 1: the pod, well hi welcome everyone, like rate, subscribe review. Also, 226 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: if you're super new, you probably don't. You're maybe a 227 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 1: little confuser. Don't know. Me and Demonse's dynamic. Demansey's my son, 228 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 1: and Demonse didn't grow up like wanting to be in 229 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 1: sports media. It just came about that. I wanted him 230 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 1: to do this with me, and so we've done it together. 231 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: For now. The life of the podcast took a few 232 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:31,679 Speaker 1: months off. His sister filled in. But that's what it is. 233 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 1: And there's a reason I'm explaining this, especially early on 234 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: in the pod. If you really disagreed with me on something, 235 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:49,719 Speaker 1: you didn't say it, now you would like it's still 236 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 1: it's that's not like an asshole. It's my show, and 237 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: so you you understand the dynamic of it. But you 238 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: are You've been doing it long enough, and I think 239 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,080 Speaker 1: and also you're older than you were or whatever. Or 240 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: if you think I'm way out of bounds on something, 241 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: you'll politely or kindly or whatever. So here's the reason, right, 242 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:13,880 Speaker 1: here's the reason I mention it. There was time when 243 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: I know for a fact, even though he didn't put 244 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,439 Speaker 1: voice to it, demands thought some of my Kyrie Irving 245 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 1: stuff was out of bounds. It was like, hey, that's 246 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that's not about basketball. You 247 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: know that's unfair, And I in the is am I 248 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: putting words in your mouth like that? 249 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 3: Fair? I think it was a little heavy fork. 250 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: Right, Okay, So here's here's the reason I'm bringing that up. 251 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: If Kyrie Irving does not like me and has a 252 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:54,880 Speaker 1: real issue with me because of that totally fair? Now, 253 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,919 Speaker 1: what I like the opportunity ideally to at some point 254 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: because I am now not only really impressed by Kyrie, 255 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 1: but fascinated by Kyrie, and I actually think there are 256 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: a lot of really interesting things about him. If that 257 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: is how he feels about me, would I really like 258 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: the opportunity to give the full scope of my commentary 259 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: and say like, hey, maybe you haven't seen some of 260 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: these other things I've said, or you know whatever, I 261 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 1: would do. I think he owes me that, No, do 262 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: I just have to eat the fact. Hey man, that 263 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: guy might just think you're a fucking clown. He might, Yeah, 264 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 1: I hope not. And so I know that I was 265 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: unfair but a far about far less serious things. But 266 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 1: I took kind of basketball exclusive related cheap shots at 267 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,879 Speaker 1: Durant on Twitter, and he took him back at me. 268 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: And I have since tried, truly tried through kind of 269 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: back channels to repair that because it's and I don't 270 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: even know if it needs repairing. But it was like, hey, 271 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: I think we all knew what was going on there, 272 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: you know what I mean that? And I was keeping 273 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:18,120 Speaker 1: it purely about basketball, but it was it was there 274 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: were a couple things that were probably like, Okay, you're 275 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 1: going you are tweeting for the likes or whatever, rather 276 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: than it's not hardcore analysis and so like. But I 277 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: own that, I wear that, I know it. Part of 278 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: the business is accepting some of these guys aren't gonna 279 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 1: like you, and some of them are not going to 280 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: be wrong for not liking you. And here is where, 281 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 1: and this is where I think Steven A has made 282 00:20:51,920 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 1: a grievous error. He just today he's said, quote, He'll 283 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: smile on your face then stab you in the back. 284 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: That's why I don't like him. He's bringing up Wade's 285 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,679 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame induction, Kobe's memorial. He's saying, quote, he 286 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 1: literally circummitted meritocracy in the NBA. Here's the problem, man, 287 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: And this is where, by continuing to talk about this 288 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: and not allowing yourself to take the l you are 289 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 1: really putting yourself in a bad spot. You always claimed 290 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: you had no problem with Lebron. You always claimed he 291 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: only had a problem with you. Up until six weeks ago, 292 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: the stance was, oh, nothing but loving Lebron James. I, 293 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 1: you know, a a great person in the community, a 294 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,360 Speaker 1: great This a great that I just I just think 295 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 1: he's not the greatest basketball player ever. I just think 296 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,440 Speaker 1: he's only the second greatest player ever. And because of that, 297 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: he has a problem with me. That's been the public stance. 298 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: And now the guy makes fun of you on Instagram 299 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: and takes a couple of jokes at your expense on McAfee, 300 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: and you're letting everyone know, actually, no, never liked him. 301 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: And so if the if, if we are going to 302 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 1: do a full, real telling of it, it then the 303 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:41,199 Speaker 1: honest answer is, so why what's been the problem? Was 304 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 1: there something personal before? And the answer is no, Lebron 305 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: wouldn't talk to him, that was the problem. Lebron wouldn't 306 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:58,640 Speaker 1: talk to him or acknowledge him. And Michael Jordan texts 307 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: with him. That's it. It's the whole thing. That's the 308 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 1: start of it. And so I. 309 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 2: It is. 310 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: People ask me all the time, man, do you believe 311 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: what you say? And my answer always is, now, do 312 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: I say it louder or more emphatically, or add some 313 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: spice to it or whatever? Do I dress it up? Sure? 314 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: Of course? But the reason and this is not my quote, uh, 315 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 1: but this quote is correct. If you never lie, you 316 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: don't ever have to remember anything when you do as 317 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 1: And I'm not acting like I'm someone that never lies. 318 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: I probably have a bit of a I'm probably true 319 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,640 Speaker 1: character flaw of mine is I am my most honest 320 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 1: talking to you guys, friends and family. I might you 321 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: know what I mean. I might be like, you know what, 322 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: I can dance through the rain drops here a bit 323 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: and clean this up later. And that's not be honestly. 324 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: It's self serving. It's not out of some Woodrow and 325 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: Burnstein Woodward Woodrow Jesus Woodward and Burnstein journalism ethic. It's 326 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 1: because I don't want to have to. It is too 327 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: difficult to do this much content. If you're having to remember, 328 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: oh shit, I said that, and if your stance forever, 329 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: forever has been I have no problem with that person. 330 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,919 Speaker 1: He has a problem with me. And then the first 331 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 1: time you get pressed you empty the clip about everything 332 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 1: you've always had a problem with. People are gonna say 333 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: you're fucking lying to us. You were lying to us, 334 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 1: and I don't. And here is the problem with people 335 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 1: in general who don't have the ability to take an 336 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 1: l and who are very online and who are public figures. 337 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: This applies to I guess some of our actual politicians 338 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: and some of our potentially would be or want to 339 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: be politicians. All you can do is keep doubling, tripling, 340 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:49,199 Speaker 1: and quadrupling down because you don't have the ability to 341 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: be like I was wrong. You constantly are reminded of 342 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:06,880 Speaker 1: the incident at hand, and you are constantly reading people 343 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 1: make fun of you or rip you. So again, I 344 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:18,199 Speaker 1: am not trying to act like I am some I 345 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 1: am you know, the silver bullet on this stuff. However, 346 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 1: I do have one kind of just natural superpower, I guess, 347 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: and another decision I've made. The natural superpower is this 348 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: I am totally fine being wrong, like, oh shit, got 349 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,679 Speaker 1: that one wrong. My bad, not a problem. And the 350 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: other one is I don't read my mentions, so people 351 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: are like, I'm I am not finding my and had 352 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: a third thing I'm very good at. I'm I'm on 353 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 1: the right side of the great athletes conversation. Like. The 354 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: other thing is like, I you know, I in the 355 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 1: hey Lebron James good or overrated. I had the foresight 356 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 1: to be like, I'll go with good, you know what 357 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 1: I mean. I think I'll plant my flag on good 358 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,160 Speaker 1: and see how it plays out. Over the next fifteen years. 359 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: And so that's been help that's been helpful, But I 360 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: I can't believe that this is how these last few 361 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: weeks have gone. And the fact that so here's the 362 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:35,920 Speaker 1: other piece of it that's important, demands on one one 363 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: party in this is fighting a war of war work. 364 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: I can never say that war of words reminders reminder 365 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: of the new people in the audience and young people. I, 366 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: as someone who my only skill is speaking and arguing, 367 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: had a really bad speech impediment growing up and couldn't 368 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: say my rs are my ls And now I do 369 00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: it for a living. So I this is kind of 370 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: a s bar, but just for you know, young people 371 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,160 Speaker 1: out there or whatever, like yeah, you can get over anything. 372 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 1: I shouldn't say anything, but you can work on stuff 373 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: and it won't hold you back. 374 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 3: Go ahead, No, I was just flexing on you. 375 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: No, well yeah, and we're world and girl. Anything that 376 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: has the R L next to each other like that. 377 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: I still struggle with a bit. And I've told this 378 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:27,919 Speaker 1: story nothing worse. And not being able to say your 379 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,159 Speaker 1: rs and your last name starts with a hard R, 380 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: and when it's not an R, it sounds like a 381 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 1: different word. You don't know how many times I went 382 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 1: to basketball camp as a kid. They're like, what's your name? 383 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: Nick White? They're like, no white, white, no white. It 384 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: was brutal. Maybe that only happened once, but it's it 385 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 1: seared me. It scarred me. The guy wrote down on 386 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: my jersey right, and I'm like, no, it's not white, 387 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: it's white. Brutal doesn't matter. I'm good now. 388 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 3: Brutal. 389 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: Here's the point I was making. In a war, stephen 390 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: A is fighting a war of words. Lebron gets actually 391 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: go out and play the games, and he's still awesome. 392 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 1: So think about it. In the couple weeks since this 393 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 1: all happened, Lakers had a winning streak, Bronni drops thirty 394 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: nine drops, a career high in the NBA, has another 395 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: good game the other night, bron last night hits a 396 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: game winner. And you have positioned yourself. I can't imagine 397 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: being this box stend. You have now positioned yourself where 398 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 1: any time you give fair analysis about a good Laker 399 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: game or Bronni or whatever, you're gonna get ripped for 400 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: that too. Like you are all. You are so boxed in. 401 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: And the guy, honest to god, so much of this 402 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: as I've said before, so much of the toxicity of 403 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 1: sports media, across all sports and all our debates is 404 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 1: actually about Michael Jordan and that era and that era 405 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: of people who came up in that era being like, man, 406 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: my childhood was the best, I promise like and not 407 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 1: seeing that every single human being ever it's like, hey, 408 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: what's your favorite type of music? And for everyone it 409 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: just happens to be the exact type of music they 410 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 1: were listening to when they first got their car and 411 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: first were able to drive. Who were the best athletes 412 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, it just happens to be for everyone, 413 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 1: myself included the athletes like we watched in our formative 414 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: years and then into adulthood and not being able to 415 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 1: see that it's not special, it's just how human beings 416 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 1: brains are constructed. But point is, this whole thing really 417 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: generates from MJ's my body. This guy won't talk to me. 418 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: I must, against all odds, support MJ's legacy. But MJ 419 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,120 Speaker 1: ain't playing anymore. You're never gonna be able to go 420 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 1: on the show and be like, ah, look what Michael did. 421 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: But this other guy won't fucking quit. He's he is. 422 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 1: We are in a span of ten days, his son 423 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: almost drops forty in the G League and scores are 424 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: leads the Lakers in points in the NBA, and he 425 00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 1: has a buzzer beater. And so it's just a war 426 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 1: you're not gonna win. And it's a war you're not 427 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: gonna win because I think because of your popularity and 428 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 1: success and talent, people of what enough people have watched 429 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 1: you for long enough that we know what the record says, 430 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: and we know you have always claimed you have no 431 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 1: problem with Lebron. He has a problem with you, and 432 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: then today you say he will smile on your face 433 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: then stab you in the back. That's why I don't 434 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: like him, is that just in the last two weeks, 435 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: literally circumvented the meritocracy in the NBA. That in the 436 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 1: last two weeks, and also again on the two online 437 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 1: of this, if you were born in the previous century 438 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 1: as I was, as demands was, if you were born 439 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: as not in the two thousands, and you use the 440 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 1: phrase as evidently he did today privately via text or 441 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 1: god forbid, on television, but hurt, you're either way too 442 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:42,880 Speaker 1: online or you're just way too online, and so like. 443 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 3: What are we doing steven A said, but hurt. Yeah, 444 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 3: I thought that was Matt. I'm sorry that. 445 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 1: No no, no, no, you thought I was just taking 446 00:33:54,120 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: a random shot at Matt Midranto. No no, And listen, I. 447 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,560 Speaker 3: The boxing video is bad. 448 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,319 Speaker 1: Here's the thing. The boxing video is not bad. And 449 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 1: that's here's here's what I mean. And this is where 450 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,720 Speaker 1: I'm And nobody ever listens to the whole thing. Nobody 451 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,879 Speaker 1: ever hears the whole thing. I shouldn't say nobody ever. 452 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:26,719 Speaker 1: But if you I stand by these shows in their 453 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: entirety one it's hard to always stand by little individual snippets, 454 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But in their entirety, I 455 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 1: think I'm fair. I really do. Here the so this 456 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,960 Speaker 1: is a piece of boxing video is not bad. Steven A, 457 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:50,600 Speaker 1: by his his own claim, was not in the shape 458 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 1: he wanted to be in. Was overweight by his client. 459 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 1: Not it's not me Nick saying it his client. So 460 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 1: this guy at fifty something hired a trainer, lost a 461 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 1: bunch of weight, got pretty jacked, and took up boxing. 462 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:18,279 Speaker 1: That's fucking awesome. That's cool. Actually I respect that and 463 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 1: him feeling good about what he accomplished and being like, hey, 464 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,840 Speaker 1: here's me, you know, sparring or whatever it is, like 465 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,400 Speaker 1: people can make fun of it looks better than it 466 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: if I did it, and I'm twenty years younger than it, 467 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:40,440 Speaker 1: that's cool. Actually, the problem is knowing that that is 468 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 1: out there and then being like, yeah, man, me and 469 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 1: bron might have had to throw down in the middle 470 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:56,640 Speaker 1: of Staples Center. You can't. You just can't leave yourself 471 00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: open like that. Like there is again it. There are 472 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 1: a few old uh tiktoks that either your sister, your mom, 473 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:26,120 Speaker 1: or uh your auntie posted that I am like the 474 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:30,360 Speaker 1: funny final reveal of like a dance they're doing. Okay, 475 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:35,520 Speaker 1: those have never gone like megaviral, but they're there. There's 476 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 1: somewhere you can find them through the internet. You better 477 00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:44,319 Speaker 1: believe that. If I ever was like, you know what, 478 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on TV and explain how you know, 479 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 1: if this happened, I'd give it to Chris Brown like that. 480 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 3: I might be like, oh no, wait a minute. 481 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:02,120 Speaker 1: Wait, wait a minute, that's got gonna end well for me. 482 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:14,040 Speaker 1: And I do think there is an element of megal 483 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:26,239 Speaker 1: Lamania two in the same timeframe. Thinking even though I'm 484 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:30,040 Speaker 1: on the wrong side of the argument, I'm gonna win 485 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:37,920 Speaker 1: this pr battle with Lebron James, and that's going to 486 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,120 Speaker 1: be one of the side quests. I'm on the other 487 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:46,760 Speaker 1: one is seriously contemplating running for president of the United States, 488 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 1: like like, maybe maybe we've bitten off a little more 489 00:37:55,560 --> 00:38:01,880 Speaker 1: than we can chew. So I really wonder in a 490 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,759 Speaker 1: year and two years and three years, how we're going 491 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:08,440 Speaker 1: to look back to this period and whether we're going 492 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:18,240 Speaker 1: to say, holy shit, this catapulted stephen A into another stratosphere, 493 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:24,640 Speaker 1: or if we're going to say that was as far 494 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:29,719 Speaker 1: as cultural, social, political relevance the high water mark. We'll see, 495 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 1: I know what I would bet, but we'll see to 496 00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,680 Speaker 1: the basketball piece of it for just another moment. I 497 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:49,120 Speaker 1: really do want to harp on that game itself, and 498 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:55,000 Speaker 1: the end of that being why I am I think 499 00:38:55,040 --> 00:39:03,319 Speaker 1: it is so ludicrous to think any other player in 500 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,600 Speaker 1: the history of the sport is in the general vicinity 501 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:17,440 Speaker 1: of this guy in Lebron. The double digit point streak 502 00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:24,000 Speaker 1: is something that I am old enough to remember. It 503 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,319 Speaker 1: was a big deal once upon a time when it 504 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:32,800 Speaker 1: was Jordan's and everyone was like, this guy scored ten 505 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:39,080 Speaker 1: plus points for ten more than ten years in a row. 506 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:46,280 Speaker 1: In every single game. It was considered unbreakable and unfathomable. 507 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,120 Speaker 1: And now that instead of the record being in the 508 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:55,239 Speaker 1: eight hundreds, the records in the high twelve hundreds. It 509 00:39:55,400 --> 00:40:00,319 Speaker 1: is an afterthought. It is never mentioned, and I think 510 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,200 Speaker 1: a lot of people watched last night and weren't even 511 00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:02,640 Speaker 1: aware of it. 512 00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:02,839 Speaker 3: Now. 513 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:08,160 Speaker 1: There was just an article written this week about about 514 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,440 Speaker 1: people betting on it, and it was really interesting. People 515 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,760 Speaker 1: bet Demond's air betting like, you know, minus ten thousand 516 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:18,080 Speaker 1: or I don't even. 517 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,319 Speaker 3: Just for the for the double digit to hit that night, 518 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:21,520 Speaker 3: for him to continue. 519 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:25,040 Speaker 1: Will Lebron get ten plus points? People are betting the yes. 520 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,840 Speaker 1: Sharp betters are betting the yes and just taking the 521 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,560 Speaker 1: one percent return or whatever it is. And there was 522 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,759 Speaker 1: an article written about it literally four days ago, and 523 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,080 Speaker 1: then it looked like it was gonna get snapped last night. 524 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:47,799 Speaker 1: It was crazy. But and there is a one of 525 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:53,000 Speaker 1: my favorite kind of Lebron anecdotes is he has suffered 526 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,360 Speaker 1: two major injuries in his career. Major the torn growing 527 00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,800 Speaker 1: on Christmas against the Warriors his first year with the Lakers, 528 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:08,000 Speaker 1: and Solomon Hill somersaulting into his ankle and messing up 529 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000 Speaker 1: his ankle and foot he missed months. Those are the 530 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,320 Speaker 1: only times he's missed months in his career. The Solomon 531 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:18,560 Speaker 1: Hill game, which knocked him out for months. After when 532 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:25,000 Speaker 1: Solomon Hill hit him, he had seven points, there was 533 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:29,919 Speaker 1: an injury, there was a timeout, Lebron said, I can 534 00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:35,839 Speaker 1: keep going, played one more possession, hit a three in 535 00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,360 Speaker 1: the corner to keep the streak alive, and did not 536 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:45,000 Speaker 1: play again for a couple months. He so it. Those 537 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,319 Speaker 1: types of things don't mean everything to him, but they 538 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,239 Speaker 1: mean enough that he was like, let me see if 539 00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:55,040 Speaker 1: I can knock down one shot because I'm about to 540 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:59,359 Speaker 1: be out of here for a bit. And so last night, 541 00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:04,279 Speaker 1: at no point was ill he'll score ten. The only 542 00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:09,120 Speaker 1: way he won't score ten is suffering a very early injury, 543 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,640 Speaker 1: or if at some point he gets thrown out of 544 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:15,960 Speaker 1: the game. Those are the only ways they're either. Last night, 545 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,160 Speaker 1: there was no question to me whether or not even 546 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,440 Speaker 1: with three points going into the fourth quarter, he was 547 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:21,960 Speaker 1: gonna get it go ahead. What are you about to say? 548 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,600 Speaker 3: I'm just thinking, like, what was the last time Lebron 549 00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:24,640 Speaker 3: was thrown out of the game. 550 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,160 Speaker 1: I don't I think he's been thrown out a couple times. 551 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,879 Speaker 1: He's fouled out obviously a few, but fouling out takes 552 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:38,719 Speaker 1: out so much later. But the double digit point thing 553 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,840 Speaker 1: is just a added piece. The end of the game. 554 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:51,880 Speaker 1: Is why he's I'm gonna go back to hold on, sorry, 555 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:59,600 Speaker 1: And this might glitch for a moment Lebron's first career 556 00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:07,360 Speaker 1: playoff games because it is instructive. So it's not so 557 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:14,279 Speaker 1: much that in Lebron's is that hold on. Let me 558 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,319 Speaker 1: make sure I have this right there. It is. It's 559 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,160 Speaker 1: not so much that his first ever career playoff game 560 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,600 Speaker 1: he played all forty eight minutes and had thirty to 561 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,839 Speaker 1: eleven and eleven. That's not the story I'm telling here 562 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,239 Speaker 1: when he was twenty one years old. It is that 563 00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:40,280 Speaker 1: if you remember that first playoff series, he was playing 564 00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:47,120 Speaker 1: the Wizards, and in that very first Playoff series, ever 565 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:51,200 Speaker 1: after that brilliant Game one, I'm gonna pull up the 566 00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:59,799 Speaker 1: play by play it was so maybe it wasn't Game one. 567 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,600 Speaker 1: I have to find the exact game it'll. I promise 568 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:08,400 Speaker 1: this story will be worth it. He got it was 569 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:14,600 Speaker 1: game one or Game two. He was criticized because down 570 00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:19,400 Speaker 1: three late, he passed to the open guy. They didn't score, 571 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,480 Speaker 1: and they ended up losing and it was you have to, 572 00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:29,640 Speaker 1: you know, take the final shot. And so, you know what, 573 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:31,719 Speaker 1: I have the year wrong because the next game he 574 00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,560 Speaker 1: did hit the game winner. That happened, but he did 575 00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,680 Speaker 1: hit the game winner. I want to because I was 576 00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,960 Speaker 1: doing radio in Kansas City. So this is later in 577 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:44,680 Speaker 1: his career. Oh no, that's not it either. Gosh darn it, 578 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:49,680 Speaker 1: I don't have it, and I apologize. Uh morel of 579 00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:54,160 Speaker 1: the story is, in one of his first playoff series, 580 00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,560 Speaker 1: he passed the open guy for a playoff game winner. 581 00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:04,839 Speaker 1: The I missed and he got annihilated for it. And 582 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,399 Speaker 1: you know what I do have I do have it right. 583 00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,600 Speaker 1: It is his first playoff series because that's how the 584 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:14,920 Speaker 1: series ended, and then he hit a game winner of 585 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,160 Speaker 1: his own, but he had been criticized for not taking it. 586 00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:24,879 Speaker 1: And then, at twenty one years old, in his first 587 00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:29,120 Speaker 1: playoff series ever, the final two games go to overtime 588 00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:37,759 Speaker 1: and in both of them he has the opportunity to 589 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:43,000 Speaker 1: take it himself, and in game five he does and 590 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,359 Speaker 1: hits what should have been his first career playoff buzzer beater, 591 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,960 Speaker 1: but there was zero point four left and in game 592 00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:54,000 Speaker 1: six to win the series because the other team is like, no, 593 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:58,319 Speaker 1: you're not doing this to us again. He finds the 594 00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,840 Speaker 1: open guy in Damon Jones, hits the game winner and 595 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:08,560 Speaker 1: they win. And that has flatly been who he's always been. 596 00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:12,040 Speaker 1: And it was last night when, on a day nothing 597 00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,640 Speaker 1: would have been better than him hitting the game winner, 598 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,880 Speaker 1: he found Luca because it was a better shot, and 599 00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,160 Speaker 1: then he still ended up with the game winner that 600 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:27,720 Speaker 1: first play. This is why the Lebron narrative has always 601 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:34,400 Speaker 1: been so batshit. First playoff game ever thirty three eleven 602 00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:41,560 Speaker 1: and eleven, third playoff game ever down one five seconds left, 603 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,759 Speaker 1: jump shot to win the game. Fifth playoff game ever 604 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:51,479 Speaker 1: down two point four left lay up to win the game. 605 00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:56,440 Speaker 1: So he had two not quite not technical buzzer beaters, 606 00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,200 Speaker 1: but two inside five second playoff game winners in his 607 00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:05,040 Speaker 1: first five career playoff games, two in his first five, 608 00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,160 Speaker 1: and it was still and then the very next year 609 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:17,560 Speaker 1: had essentially three game winners or game tying ones in 610 00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:22,239 Speaker 1: the same game, the forty eight special against Detroit, that 611 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:26,080 Speaker 1: game where he scored twenty five straight points, where he 612 00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,640 Speaker 1: scored twenty eight of the last twenty nine or twenty 613 00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:35,400 Speaker 1: nine of last thirty he had dunk to put the 614 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:42,680 Speaker 1: game in overtime. He then had a and then in 615 00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:47,200 Speaker 1: overtime had a three to tie it, and then a 616 00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:56,240 Speaker 1: layup to win it. And still the narrative was created, Guys, 617 00:47:56,280 --> 00:48:02,120 Speaker 1: not clutch because instead of serving his ego or instead 618 00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:07,120 Speaker 1: of with respect to the late great Kobe Bryant, doing 619 00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,920 Speaker 1: what Kobe would have done, which is what Michael Jordan 620 00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,239 Speaker 1: would have done, which is I'm taking this shot no 621 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,600 Speaker 1: matter what he said, I'm gonna make the right play. 622 00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,799 Speaker 1: And last night he made the right play and the 623 00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:27,840 Speaker 1: basketball gods rewarded him with a game winner. Anyway, and listen, 624 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:32,400 Speaker 1: I don't know if you'll play tonight, coming off the injury, 625 00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:34,920 Speaker 1: second night of a back to back. My guess is 626 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:40,120 Speaker 1: he will because he plays. I do know this, I'm 627 00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:43,400 Speaker 1: gonna be there in Memphis. I don't know if that games. 628 00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,239 Speaker 1: I don't think that games. I thought the game was 629 00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:47,000 Speaker 1: gonna be on national TV. I don't think it is 630 00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:52,080 Speaker 1: on League On League Pass, you'll be able to see me, 631 00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:58,600 Speaker 1: and I you know, listen, for all I know, Lebron's 632 00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:00,480 Speaker 1: gonna run up on me and I'm gonna a month 633 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:04,319 Speaker 1: long media tour. 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But I think it was I think 670 00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:31,200 Speaker 1: it's the audience wanted there. 671 00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:32,319 Speaker 3: It is worth it. 672 00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:36,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, So Dame is out indefinitely with a blood clot 673 00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:40,080 Speaker 2: in his leg. Giannis missed the loss last night against 674 00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:44,319 Speaker 2: the Nuggets. Bucks are rough shape right now, and they're 675 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,920 Speaker 2: their odds are dropped from plus twenty thousand. That's a 676 00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,560 Speaker 2: thirteenth best in the NBA for the title. What do 677 00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:50,759 Speaker 2: you think about that right now? 678 00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:54,840 Speaker 1: I think they're I think they're totally cooked. Yeah, and listen, 679 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,920 Speaker 1: the way I understand blood clots is very simple when 680 00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,440 Speaker 1: it comes to the NBA. If you get put on 681 00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:05,799 Speaker 1: blood thinners, you are out six months. So that's why 682 00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:15,760 Speaker 1: the Spurs instantly ruled out, ruled out Wimby and brandon 683 00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:19,760 Speaker 1: Ing Listen, brandon Ingram missed six months of Sir Thompson 684 00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,880 Speaker 1: missed six months. Wimby they think he's gonna miss six months. 685 00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:28,040 Speaker 1: So this is brutal for Dame. And I think it's 686 00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:35,319 Speaker 1: obvious that the Bucks championship aspirations, while they were quite thin, 687 00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:40,319 Speaker 1: are now down to zero. Despite how great Giannis is. 688 00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:48,040 Speaker 1: I also think that Jannie's future in Milwaukee comes into 689 00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:54,120 Speaker 1: question a bit. He's thirty years old. It is he 690 00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:59,600 Speaker 1: has finished Demon's a This is his MVP finishes over 691 00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,560 Speaker 1: the last seventh season. Simmons brought this up, and he's, 692 00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:08,680 Speaker 1: I mean it's remarkable first, first, fourth, third, third, fourth, 693 00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:12,359 Speaker 1: and this year he'll finish fourth, maybe third, but third 694 00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:16,280 Speaker 1: or fourth. It'll be Tatum and him or him and Tatum. 695 00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:24,200 Speaker 1: A seven year run of dominance with one great playoff run. 696 00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,600 Speaker 2: And we don't put many of the deconstruction of the 697 00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:32,399 Speaker 2: Bucks on you, honest, Like, I think he really wanted uh, 698 00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:34,279 Speaker 2: I think you really wanted Drew Holliday out of the 699 00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:37,919 Speaker 2: building because he thought that Damian Lillard had the better 700 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,600 Speaker 2: chance of getting them back to the championship and that 701 00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:41,919 Speaker 2: you're just seeing that play out. 702 00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:48,719 Speaker 1: You're listen, You're not wrong. You're not wrong. Like the 703 00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:53,120 Speaker 1: the Bucks went all in to get Drew because they 704 00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,040 Speaker 1: had to get over the hump. They did, and they 705 00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:59,560 Speaker 1: won a title the next year. I think they were 706 00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,920 Speaker 1: the best by a lot. I think they would have 707 00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:07,880 Speaker 1: crushed sorry the Warriors in the finals. But Middleton gets hurt. 708 00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:12,480 Speaker 1: Your guy Tatum goes crazy in that round two in 709 00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:17,040 Speaker 1: game six, and then Grant Williams. Tatum's crazy game was 710 00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:21,160 Speaker 1: Game six. Grant Williams had the Game seven that that 711 00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:26,000 Speaker 1: Game six was, you know, and I talk about this 712 00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,200 Speaker 1: game a lot because this is one of those just 713 00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:36,000 Speaker 1: insane playoff moment games where Tatum was unbelievable and Jannis 714 00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:39,759 Speaker 1: was unbelievable, but Boston ended up running away with it. 715 00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:47,000 Speaker 1: So Yannis in that game forty four twenty and six, 716 00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:51,959 Speaker 1: forty four to twenty and six, but Tatum forty six, 717 00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:55,759 Speaker 1: nine and four on you know, seventeen of thirty two 718 00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:59,239 Speaker 1: from the field, seven of fifteen from three and they win. 719 00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:02,960 Speaker 1: And then Game seven, if people don't remember it, I 720 00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:08,239 Speaker 1: call it the Grant Williams game because Grant Williams let 721 00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:12,600 Speaker 1: me I have hit seven three pointers and the Celtics 722 00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,600 Speaker 1: went twenty two to fifty five from three, and you 723 00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:17,000 Speaker 1: just lose, you know what I mean, It's just you lose. 724 00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,799 Speaker 1: Then the next two years, Gianni's hurting the playoffs. But 725 00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:27,520 Speaker 1: in the interregnum of those next two years, they trade 726 00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:31,719 Speaker 1: for Dame because they're worried Giannis isn't gonna resign the 727 00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:36,680 Speaker 1: Signs extension and the Dame thing hasn't worked out, just hasn't. 728 00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:41,359 Speaker 2: And appreciate it though, you appreciate say it again, I said, 729 00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,840 Speaker 2: we appreciate it though who's. 730 00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:44,440 Speaker 1: We the Celtics. 731 00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:45,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, the Celtics. 732 00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,880 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well that's the other thing. By trading Dame 733 00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,960 Speaker 1: and we win, they know. But also that's how you 734 00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,439 Speaker 1: guys get Drew, Like. 735 00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:58,759 Speaker 2: Oh, that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about Drew 736 00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:02,120 Speaker 2: Holliday saying I'm saying thank you Giannis for you know, 737 00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:03,440 Speaker 2: wanting to get him out of the building. 738 00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:07,960 Speaker 1: And I got yeah, And I mean he wasn't traded 739 00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,080 Speaker 1: from Milwaukee to Boston, but. 740 00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,319 Speaker 3: That's how they got the same type of deal, right, yeah, no, 741 00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:14,560 Speaker 3: it is right. 742 00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:17,279 Speaker 1: He's part of the Dame trade and then he ends 743 00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:24,960 Speaker 1: up being shipped to Boston and it is Yeah. So 744 00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,959 Speaker 1: I tough times in Milwaukee, and you know, they've made 745 00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:32,719 Speaker 1: some mistakes. Firing the head coach for Doc probably was 746 00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:37,040 Speaker 1: a mistake. The Dame trade has not worked out, and 747 00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:38,600 Speaker 1: I just I do want. 748 00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,600 Speaker 3: To try to get a technical last night on purpose 749 00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:42,279 Speaker 3: and get I don't know if you saw that, but 750 00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:44,120 Speaker 3: they wouldn't give it to him. They wouldn't give it 751 00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:44,400 Speaker 3: to him. 752 00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:47,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, he need the time, they wouldn't give it to him. 753 00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:48,920 Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the next topic. 754 00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:52,759 Speaker 2: Seeah, last night, not Tatum, no problem. He obviously went 755 00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,560 Speaker 2: down with an ankle injury against Sacramento the other day, 756 00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,600 Speaker 2: but yeah, they still beat up on the Suns. You 757 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:02,160 Speaker 2: said the Celtics are in a dynasty or deconstruction tier. 758 00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:03,560 Speaker 3: Please explain that. 759 00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:09,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, so here's what I mean. Oh, let me send 760 00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:16,000 Speaker 1: this text. If they win the title this year, I 761 00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:18,800 Speaker 1: just think they have to. They are obligated to run 762 00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:24,760 Speaker 1: it back with everyone. Everyone's under contract except for Horford, 763 00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:29,000 Speaker 1: and they could go for a real dynasty, a three 764 00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:34,960 Speaker 1: pet if they don't win the title, especially if they 765 00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:40,280 Speaker 1: somehow don't make the finals. Got new ownership, there's some 766 00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:44,360 Speaker 1: private equity involved. It's gonna be the most expensive team ever. 767 00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:51,880 Speaker 1: I wonder if they cut salary. So the new ownership 768 00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,840 Speaker 1: always worries me, man, Like, listen, new ownership came in 769 00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:59,360 Speaker 1: with the Suns, did the opposite of cut salary, like 770 00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,760 Speaker 1: we're going crazy. But it hasn't gone well, right, New 771 00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:08,080 Speaker 1: ownership came into the MAVs and it wrecked basketball in 772 00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:14,760 Speaker 1: Central Texas, just ruined it. I don't know, so that's 773 00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:20,120 Speaker 1: what I listen. I think the Celtics are. I think 774 00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:23,240 Speaker 1: the Celtics are the smartest bet right now to win 775 00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:28,560 Speaker 1: the Championship, even though I'm picking the Lakers because I 776 00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:35,360 Speaker 1: could see at least two maybe three teams coming out 777 00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:40,600 Speaker 1: of the West, the Thunder obviously, the Lakers obviously, and 778 00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:45,440 Speaker 1: maybe Denver. I could not see anyone coming out of 779 00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:48,200 Speaker 1: the East. But Boston. I just don't think the Caves 780 00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:50,720 Speaker 1: can beat them in a series. So the Celtics, to me, 781 00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:54,160 Speaker 1: are the smarter play. So I'm not knocking them, but 782 00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:59,920 Speaker 1: if they don't win, tough one, tough one, tough one, 783 00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:07,080 Speaker 1: all right, let's let's go on to uh the Travis 784 00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:09,520 Speaker 1: Kelcey thing, just because I want to have some fun 785 00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:10,200 Speaker 1: before we go. 786 00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:13,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, So Travis and Jason, they saw that you were 787 00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:15,919 Speaker 2: trying to come on the show and do like the cat. 788 00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:18,240 Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to come on the show. They were 789 00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:21,720 Speaker 1: looking for a cap expert, and I knew that. They 790 00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:24,280 Speaker 1: were like I'm sure that they in the head were like, 791 00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:26,400 Speaker 1: we should ask Nick, right, Oh, he's super busy. 792 00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:27,360 Speaker 3: We don't want to bother him. 793 00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:29,800 Speaker 1: And so I was just like, guys, don't worry about it, 794 00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:30,960 Speaker 1: but go ahead. 795 00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:32,440 Speaker 3: So what one hundred percent? 796 00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:34,880 Speaker 2: And so they mentioned you on the show and we're 797 00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:36,240 Speaker 2: just gonna play that for the fancy. 798 00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:37,600 Speaker 1: Let's hear. 799 00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,360 Speaker 5: We could go outside of the organizations and go to 800 00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:45,200 Speaker 5: somebody who is just maybe he used to work in 801 00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,520 Speaker 5: the NFL or works in the media. Nick Right threw 802 00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:50,440 Speaker 5: his hat in the ring on Twitter. 803 00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:57,200 Speaker 3: Nice known Kansas City chief Homer fucking love Nick Right. 804 00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,600 Speaker 1: My god, my guy, Trav. 805 01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:02,720 Speaker 3: What a delight. 806 01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:08,280 Speaker 1: So here's the thing. Trav and I have not like 807 01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:16,200 Speaker 1: talk talked since he's been serious with Taylor Swift, since 808 01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:20,440 Speaker 1: he's been become like a super celebrity. No, I just don't. 809 01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:24,280 Speaker 1: So it's the here's the thing. I didn't. I don't 810 01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:27,080 Speaker 1: want to bother him during the year and then last 811 01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:33,400 Speaker 1: offseason he was traveling the world with Taylor I and 812 01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:37,360 Speaker 1: then at the parade last year we were going to 813 01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:43,640 Speaker 1: I think get together after the parade we're during, but 814 01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:46,640 Speaker 1: there was obviously the tragedy and the shooting at the parade, 815 01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:48,680 Speaker 1: and so everything got a skewed. So I didn't. I 816 01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:52,280 Speaker 1: haven't talked to trave in a while, so appreciate the 817 01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:54,400 Speaker 1: shout out on you know, one of the world's most 818 01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:57,800 Speaker 1: popular podcasts, and also to the folks. I think it's 819 01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:01,200 Speaker 1: Wave that does that. Into the New Heights, I'll do it, 820 01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:04,280 Speaker 1: and I'll wave my appearance fee just to help them out. 821 01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:07,480 Speaker 1: They want someone to come on and really just break down. 822 01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:10,160 Speaker 1: I don't have an appearance fee. Really just break down 823 01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:14,560 Speaker 1: the cap. Nothing would thrill me more. All right, let 824 01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,120 Speaker 1: me before we get to our listener questions, remind you. 825 01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:19,560 Speaker 1: This episode of What's Right is brought to you by 826 01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:23,360 Speaker 1: DAYA Pizza featuring dairy free cheese made with their new 827 01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:26,480 Speaker 1: Daya oat Cream blend. 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Follow 844 01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:30,400 Speaker 1: Daya on Instagram and TikTok for more updates and recipes. 845 01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:33,680 Speaker 1: All right, demande, Let's get to these last two things 846 01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:34,240 Speaker 1: before we go. 847 01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:39,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, So, New England signs Stefan Diggs to a three 848 01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:42,800 Speaker 2: year deal that's gonna be worth a twenty six million 849 01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:45,720 Speaker 2: is going to be guaranteed there, so he's obviously coming 850 01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:47,040 Speaker 2: off his torn aco. 851 01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:53,640 Speaker 3: I thought this was crazybe yeah, I mean I twenty. 852 01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:55,600 Speaker 1: Six people are like, well, it's really just a one year, 853 01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:59,280 Speaker 1: twenty six million dollar deal and then that's fine, but 854 01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:04,320 Speaker 1: million he's not gonna be ready week one. So, like Diggs, 855 01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:11,520 Speaker 1: Diggs was a good slot receiver last year, but the 856 01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:17,880 Speaker 1: yards per catch deterioration concerns me. So here is Stefan 857 01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:25,320 Speaker 1: Diggs the last three years yards per catch thirteen point two, 858 01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:37,000 Speaker 1: eleven point one, ten point six. That's that's alarming. And 859 01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:41,440 Speaker 1: now he's coming off an injury, and you know this 860 01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:43,920 Speaker 1: is going to be And I like Drake May, but 861 01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,720 Speaker 1: the worst quarterback play he's had in years and years 862 01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:49,880 Speaker 1: and years. After all that time with Josh Allen and 863 01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:55,040 Speaker 1: CJ that, I understand that they feel like they have 864 01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:57,680 Speaker 1: to add a wide receiver and they have money to spend. 865 01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:00,240 Speaker 1: I just don't know that. I think Digs is still 866 01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:03,160 Speaker 1: a real difference maker. 867 01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:05,800 Speaker 2: I was gonna say for Stefan Digg's career, like it 868 01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:08,280 Speaker 2: kind of seems like you're that's where you're at in 869 01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:10,480 Speaker 2: your career now, like you're kind of just it seems 870 01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:13,400 Speaker 2: like you'd be done, like close to It's like, not. 871 01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:17,280 Speaker 1: Good for him for getting one more payday, but yeah, 872 01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:21,960 Speaker 1: not competing for anything and rough spot all right, the 873 01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:26,760 Speaker 1: sweet sixteen tonight. So I gave out with our friends 874 01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:29,920 Speaker 1: at DraftKings. I gave out a nice little three to 875 01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:35,000 Speaker 1: one parlay yesterday plus actually three thirty to one, and 876 01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:39,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna roll with that. It's going to stay pretty chalky. 877 01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:44,760 Speaker 1: So I like Houston, Bama, Tennessee and Michigan State all 878 01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:47,520 Speaker 1: just straight up to win, not against the spread, just 879 01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:53,040 Speaker 1: straight up to win. I am if I were of 880 01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:58,200 Speaker 1: the games today, the one that if I had to 881 01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:02,360 Speaker 1: pick an up set, the one upset that I would 882 01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:06,880 Speaker 1: go with is Arkansas over Texas Tech. I just think 883 01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:09,720 Speaker 1: Coach cal I think those guys. I know they're a 884 01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:13,080 Speaker 1: ten seed, but I think that's again I'm not betting it, 885 01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:17,160 Speaker 1: but I would. I think that one's certainly more plausible 886 01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:25,080 Speaker 1: than the other three. And tomorrow, maybe I'm crazy, but 887 01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:30,320 Speaker 1: I think Michigan could beat Auburn and so but either way, 888 01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:33,760 Speaker 1: I listen. We talked about this on Tuesday. The lack 889 01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:40,000 Speaker 1: of upsets means we are going to get an unbelievable 890 01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:45,360 Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen in the leit eight and all these games 891 01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:47,720 Speaker 1: should be close, they should be good, and I can't 892 01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:50,439 Speaker 1: wait for it. And I'm also excited to see if 893 01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:53,920 Speaker 1: Duke can kind of, you know, finish this thing off, 894 01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:56,640 Speaker 1: or if someone's gonna clip them. Duke was the smart bet, 895 01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:59,360 Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. And the team I picked Tennessee, 896 01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:02,560 Speaker 1: they got their hands full with Kentucky tomorrow, so like 897 01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:04,760 Speaker 1: that's that's going to be a war. Just to get 898 01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:06,800 Speaker 1: to Houston. Just have a chance to get to Duke. 899 01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:10,360 Speaker 1: But I wonder if someone can clip Duke or if 900 01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:15,040 Speaker 1: Duke's just too talented. One quick listener question Hayes asks 901 01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:17,920 Speaker 1: when is the grand opening of Club Superstar? Same time? 902 01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:22,040 Speaker 1: It is every year, right before, you know, very beginning 903 01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:23,560 Speaker 1: of the playoffs. We don't have a set date, but 904 01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:25,840 Speaker 1: it's the very beginning of the playoffs, all right. Demon's 905 01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:29,880 Speaker 1: a great job, Blue Dock, great job. DraftKings volume day. 906 01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:33,240 Speaker 1: Appreciate y'all like rate, subscribe reviews. Seems like we might 907 01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:35,280 Speaker 1: have had a lot of people watching us live. We 908 01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:39,600 Speaker 1: appreciate that. So if you're new, if you would subscribe 909 01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:42,680 Speaker 1: to this on YouTube, if you would also subscribe on 910 01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:46,000 Speaker 1: iTunes or Spotify, that oddly helps us out a ton. 911 01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:49,520 Speaker 1: Greatly appreciated. I will see you guys on TV in 912 01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:50,600 Speaker 1: a few hours. What's right,