Speaker 1: Let's get to some quick hitters in the headlines that
Speaker 1: I want to start with. Caitlyn Clarker, right, The Indiana
Speaker 1: feverstar was named Tom Magazine's Athlete of the Year earlier
Speaker 1: this week, and she took time to acknowledge that race
Speaker 1: played the role in her success this year. Here's a
Speaker 1: passage from the article in Times magazine. Quote. I want
Speaker 1: to say I've earned every single thing, but as a
Speaker 1: white person, there is privilege. A lot of those players
Speaker 1: in the league that have been really good have been
Speaker 1: black players. This league has been kind of been built
Speaker 1: on them. The more we can appreciate that highlight that
Speaker 1: talk about that, I think it's very important. I have
Speaker 1: to continue to try to change that. The more we
Speaker 1: can elevate black women, that's going to be a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: End quote. You see why I had no problem with
Speaker 1: her being Times Athlete of the Year. You see why
Speaker 1: I said that she should have been on Team USA.
Speaker 1: You see why I had to go off on the
Speaker 1: likes of Ryl Swoops and others who were clearly distant
Speaker 1: and dismissed and dismissive of her. No matter how much
Speaker 1: they try to deny it, there was resentment towards her.
Speaker 1: And here's why I said it was stupid, because when
Speaker 1: she came into into the WNBA for twenty two plus years,
Speaker 1: they had been flying commercial. They were begging for chartered flights.
Speaker 1: She arrives there and two weeks later they got chartered flights.
Speaker 1: She automatically and instantaneously improved the conditions. Attendance is still lagging.
Speaker 1: WNBA is still losing money compared to what you would
Speaker 1: hope it would earn. But clearly things are upward trending trajectory.
Speaker 1: It's improving and she has everything to do with it.
Speaker 1: Attendance for Indiana Fever games Are you kidding me? MWNBA
Speaker 1: draft games on ABC, ESPN television ratings. She's directly responsible.
Speaker 1: And people were resenting her for it, like she was
Speaker 1: the cause of the problems that they had, for the
Speaker 1: lack of recognition. No, she just happened to be born white,
Speaker 1: That's it. Caitlin Clark hasn't spoken against anybody. He as
Speaker 1: an assistant in denying anybody else the privileges they deserve.
Speaker 1: If anything, she's tried to provide assistance. A rising tide
Speaker 1: lifts all boats. She's trying to be the rising tide
Speaker 1: that lifts the boats, and it was sisters. Resentful of her,
Speaker 1: Be resentful of the system, be resentful of the folks,
Speaker 1: primarily to white folks who basically disenfranchised y'all all of
Speaker 1: these years before she came along, who denied you the
Speaker 1: acclaim and the allure and the prophet you richly deserved.
Speaker 1: But you don't take that out on Kaitlyn Clark, not her.
Speaker 1: She's the one that assists you. When black folks was
Speaker 1: marching during the Civil Rights era and fighting every battle
Speaker 1: they possibly could, they weren't dismissive, nor did they assist
Speaker 1: in denigrating the white people who marched with them. They
Speaker 1: saved the vendom for those who would it. You'll run
Speaker 1: away from people who support you, you run to them,
Speaker 1: especially when they're in a better position than you to
Speaker 1: help you. But it still seems like people are slow
Speaker 1: rolling their way to a form of progressive thinking that
Speaker 1: enables them to appreciate the Caitlin Clocks of the world
Speaker 1: instead of resenting her, which means, as always, no matter
Speaker 1: how far we've come, we still have a ways to go.
Speaker 1: Quick hit the number two takes us to tempe Arizona,
Speaker 1: where Bronie James played in this first ROLL game for
Speaker 1: the South Bay Lakers, and at a career night the
Speaker 1: Lakers rookie scored a game high thirty points and thirteen
Speaker 1: of twenty three shooting as the South Bay Lakers fell
Speaker 1: to the Valley Suns one O six, one hundred. Brownie,
Speaker 1: who was the fifty fifth pick in the NBA draft,
Speaker 1: is now averaging fourteen points, three and a half rebounds,
Speaker 1: and two point five assistant four games in the G League.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy he got action. I'm just happy that
Speaker 1: he showed up on a road game and got reps
Speaker 1: in the whole lebron James, Bronnie James. Things is done now.
Speaker 1: It's about Bronnie James earning his stripes and participating against
Speaker 1: that lesser competition and busting there, you know what, to
Speaker 1: show that he deserves to be in the NBA. Because
Speaker 1: even though people are gonna hate no matter what, the
Speaker 1: legitimacy of their arguments are going to dissipate drastically once
Speaker 1: you continue to show out like that, once you continue
Speaker 1: to show that you belong like you started showing last night.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to Bronnie James, but keep it up. It's a marathon, baby,
Speaker 1: it ain't a sprint, and nobody is in a better
Speaker 1: position to know that than your father, who is on
Speaker 1: a Mount rushmore basketball. One of the all time greats,
Speaker 1: Lebron ain't perfect, and I'm wanted the first to point
Speaker 1: out his imperfections on a basketball courte of course, nowhere else.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you something. He's an all time great.
Speaker 1: He's never cheated the game, and that brother works his
Speaker 1: tail of to improve all the time. Emulate Pops to
Speaker 1: the best of your ability, and you'll be just fine.
Speaker 1: For our last quick hit, I want to give major
Speaker 1: props to Travis Hunter of the Colorado Buffaloes. Hunter, who's
Speaker 1: a favorite to win the Heisman this weekend. Last night,
Speaker 1: at the thirty fourth Annual College Football Award Show on ESPN,
Speaker 1: took home four, count them, four big awards. He won
Speaker 1: the Associated Press Football Player of the Year, receiving twenty
Speaker 1: six to forty three votes Thursday from a panel of
Speaker 1: eightp top twenty five voters. In addition to that, he
Speaker 1: also won a Walter Camp Awards the Player of the Year,
Speaker 1: along with the Chuck betten Errick Award as a Top
Speaker 1: Defensive Player and Finally, Hunter won the Bolitnikoff Award. That
Speaker 1: honor is the best wide receiver in the country. He
Speaker 1: clearly should win the Heisman. That kid from Boise State,
Speaker 1: that running back ain't no joke though, But I'm Travis
Speaker 1: Hunter all day, every day, no question, and he deserves
Speaker 1: the Heisman and I hope he gets it. I'm proud
Speaker 1: of him. Four point zero GPA, special kids, special talent,
Speaker 1: great head on his shoulders, wishing him nothing but the best.
Speaker 1: He really deserves it. I'm really happy for him. But
Speaker 1: let's not stop there. Close the deal. Give that brother
Speaker 1: the Heisman. He's earned it.