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Today is a 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.160 special day for a number of reasons. It was just 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.720 brought to my attention on Twitter. Today is just the 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:34.479 twenty seventh ever what people call sports equinoxes, where the NBA, 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:41.800 the NFL, the NHL, and Major League Baseball all are 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:46.440 playing games today. All four major American pro sports have 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.240 games day. We have playoff Baseball this evening. We have 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.320 an NFL game this evening. I guess there's hockey games 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.360 going on you I'm not the one to ask about that, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:59.120 And of course two potentially awesome NBA games as tonight. 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:03.080 You have the Bucks making their season debut against the Sixers, 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.080 who did not look good in the opening night of 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.720 the season, and then the Clippers making their season debut 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.400 against the Lakers, who also did not look good to 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.960 open the season. Demonse and I were at the Nets 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.040 game yesterday, as we will be staples at as even 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.880 though I do not root for that team is our 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.799 fascinating team and we have season tickets. So we will 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.200 discuss that shortly in the show. But as we always do, 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.840 we must start with what we are not discussing on 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.480 today's show. Here's what did not make the cut. Drama 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:37.400 at the NFL Owners meetings. Drama Jim Irsay calling out 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.639 the Dan Snyder, Jerry Jones or Robert Kraft getting into it. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:46.960 Russell Wilson saying he has wolverine blood, which led to 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:51.720 this tweet from Demonse. Well, there's the tweet. Russell Wilson 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.720 says he's hoping to play this week, says he's feeling 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:58.040 much better already, said maybe he's got wolverine blood. Demonse 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:04.480 then chimes in and tweets to him the following Oh different, 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.160 it was a different tweet on my apologies. Russ also 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:12.120 tweeted for your glory, Jesus, and then Demanse with a 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:16.120 spicy tweet, Jesus isn't gonna save you from this one. Russell, 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:17.840 would you like to explain yourself? 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.560 Yeah, I mean, I'm just tired of people bringing Jesus 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:22.040 into it. 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.120 Oh, they're just like if you suck, you suck. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:26.119 Wow. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.040 It's like much similar to my friend. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.120 I gave him money, he swore up and doubt he 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:33.000 was gonna pay me back, and like it came down 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:34.480 to the time and I was like Hey man, I'm 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.200 really gonna question you as a man if you don't 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:37.119 give me this money back. 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:37.560 Okay. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.119 And he's like, oh, it's a good thing. Only God 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.360 can judge me. Okay, Well, ask God for the money 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.600 the next time. Okay, Wow, let's go. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.680 Demanse said, there's something I want to say about this tweet. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.840 Little did I know he was going to use not 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.400 only this show and this platform, but the open of 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.240 it to vaguely threaten someone who owes him money. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:03:59.160 Wow. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.600 Yeah, I mean listen, the listeners and viewers can view 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.480 it however they choose them. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.120 Okay, all right, how much money are we talking about it? 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:08.960 It was two hundred bucks. 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.960 Oh that's a lot of money. Is it still old? Yeah? No, no, No, 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:14.600 he's paid. He's paid off most. 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.080 Of it, okay, most Wow, two hundred dollars a lot 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.240 of money. All right, let's start the show with a 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.000 team that's got a payroll of nearly two hundred million. 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.840 But you couldn't see it from last night. The Brooklyn 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:27.440 Nets go ahead to Monsey, So. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.120 Obviously you went to the Nets Pelicans season opener last night. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.359 Yeah, Ben Simmons finally played, but the Nets looked terrible. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:34.440 Yeah, blown out. 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.880 Zion put up thirty in his first game after missing 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:38.120 his last season twenty five. 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:39.920 Zion had twenty five in his first game. 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.159 But go ahead, Okay, sorry about that. Was this a 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:43.960 bad sign for the Nets or is it a good 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:45.120 sign for the Pelicans? 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:49.360 All right, so there's a lot there. Let's just talk 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.919 with the Pelicans quickly. It's a great sign for the Pelicans. 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:56.400 The Pelicans are going to be good. And if Zion 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.839 in his first game in a year is this level 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.800 and he's you know, you would expect him only to 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.919 get better. Pelicans could be very good. You got some 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.919 pieces well, and they have a move the I'm just 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:14.280 gonna keep dropping these little breadcrumbs I think there is 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.160 If they want, they're gonna give it a lot of time. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.240 And maybe Zion and Brandon Ingram are gonna be a 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:24.120 great duo if they end up wanting to shift some 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.240 things around. Brandon Ingram's a hell of a piece. It's 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.840 a hell of a piece on a good contract, and 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.080 he's on a max contract, but it's the rookie max. 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:37.000 He's young. You could so that the the key for 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.120 the Pelicans is is Zion gonna be the guy he's 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.080 been for his eighty five game NBA career, which is 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:48.120 one of the most efficient high volume scorers in NBA history. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.200 That's what he's been through eighty five games. He showed 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:52.960 you again. I mean last night he was fifty percent 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:56.040 from the field, and that's actually a downgrade from where 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.880 he'd been. It was first game back. He looked awesome. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.520 He's flying around the court. He also got four steels. Okay, 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.640 so that's the good, but that's not the most interesting. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.680 The most interesting is the nets. Hard to count all 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:14.040 the issues on one hand, guys. So Durant's awesome. 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:14.480 Of course. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.240 I mean Durant had an easy thirty and you know what, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.159 I shouldn't say easy, because nothing's easy with him because 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.920 they don't run an offense. But he had thirty. He 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.839 had I think four or five blocks as well. He 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.960 did his job. But every other concern you have about 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:35.600 the nets reared its head. They still we are in 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.000 what year three of the Nash era, appear to have 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.560 no interest in playing defense. This despite the fact that 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.000 Kyrie Irving more on him in a moment, said he 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.200 he wants to win Defensive Player of the Year. Okay, 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:56.080 said that the defense stinks. They don't have any front 0:06:56.120 --> 0:07:00.880 court depth. They just don't. It's Durant Claxton and some 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.640 guys was like, oh, they traded for roy O'Neil. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:04.560 Who gives it? 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:08.200 Damn they trade for roy O'Neil. But the real issues are, 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:13.920 of course they're starting backcourt. She have Kyrie Irving, who's 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:19.320 submarine their season last year, who gave like it. Just 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.680 the interviews he's giving are so weird. 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.520 He talked about how he. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.800 Talked to Sham's and talked about how, you know, he 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:33.160 has respect for the Celtics and the history, and you know, 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.320 he wished he had handled things differently when he was there. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.640 The dude gave the double middle. 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:45.840 Fingers in one of the most recent games he played, in. 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.080 The playoff game. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.120 Out of the Gate. It was so it was Easter 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.920 Sunday of this past Easter. They the double middle fingers. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.200 I just remember because we watched that game from my 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.400 mom's house. Remember we watched the game winning layup. Sorry 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.080 remember exactly when it was. He also, I mean, it's 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.880 just so he's such an odd duck. And then there's 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:11.200 Ben Simmons. In his first game in he was two 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.000 for three, two three his first game of the year, 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.760 first game more than a year. Fouls out in twenty 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:23.600 three minutes. Fouls out in twenty three minutes, has no 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.880 discernible impact on the game. On a max contract with 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:28.720 three years remain. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.200 He also hasn't played basketball in a very long time. 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:32.400 Let's give him a break. 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:39.400 I understand that, but he is folks. My dear friend 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:44.040 steven A picked the Nets to at least make the finals, 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.480 if not win the championship. Brussard picked them to make 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.920 the finals. A lot of people think they could be great. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:56.000 It is the same old Nets, but now they have 0:08:56.240 --> 0:09:02.760 added Ben Simmons, one of the least reliable MAX players 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:07.280 in NBA history, to go alongside Kyrie Irving, one of 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:12.080 the other least reliables MAX players in NBA history. And 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:17.000 everybody gives me Kraft for Mike Kyrie, like, oh, Nick, 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.600 you wanted him on the Lakers. Of course, we'll talk 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.440 about the Lakers in a moment. They need shooting, and 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:28.240 Lebron has shown you he's the one guyne Yes, yeah, 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:33.679 but the Kyrie Irving legend so far outstripped the Kyrie 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:39.280 Irving production. He's Stefan Marberry, except Marbarry at least had 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:43.920 super affordable shoes and was a hero in China. Instead 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.880 of affordable shoes and being a hero in the Asian markets, 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:53.240 Kyrie Irving's got conspiracy theories and is a hero to 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.600 some of the dumbest people on the internet. Kyrie's talking 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.080 about wanting, but when they sit down with Shams, he 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.079 wants to win all the hardware Defense Player of the 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:08.000 Year MVP. This is where I remind people Kyrie Irving 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.160 has been in the NBA for a decade. Every year 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:19.079 five people get I'm sorry. Every year, way more than 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:23.880 five people get MVP votes, but there are one hundred voters. 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.040 They all submit five names, So ten years times one 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:32.280 hundred voters, there's one thousand five names. Five thousand names 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.760 have been submitted one through five on MVP ballots during 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:41.080 Kyrie Irving's ten year career. Derek Rose when he was 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.360 on the Knicks, name showed up on a ballot. Little 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.040 Isaiah Thomas when he was on the Celtics, his name 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:48.080 showed up on a ballot. 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:54.240 David Lee, Joe Kim, Noah, Mike Conley, Gore on Draga. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:59.319 All of these guys in Kyrie's career names have shown 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.560 up on an MBA ballot. Kyrie Irvings has not. He 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:08.360 has never gotten a single solitary fifth place MBP vote 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:12.640 once at the end of the year. Once he's been 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.000 voted a top ten player in the league. And by 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.480 that I mean he has been first or second team 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.520 All NBA one time. He was second team All NBA once. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:27.160 Kyrie Irving has not had a single memorable or productive 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:34.600 playoff moment outside of the first round. Since he left Lebron. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.520 He has talked about like he is this great player. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.800 He is a great talent. He is not a great player. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:49.760 And I that the Nets last night, you know what, 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.160 they played like a team that wanted the coach fired. 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.280 And riddle me that their superstar demanded the coach be 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.640 fired a few months ago. It's intriguing. 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.480 All right, next, all right, we got the Lakers. They 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.200 got smoked by Golden State in their first game. They 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.839 played the Clippers tonight, who they've lost seven straight against. Yeah, 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.360 and game one Lebron drop thirty one, fourteen and eight. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.079 Oh quick, By the way, shout out the NBA stat 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:20.360 adjustment this morning. They an extra rebround. So thirty one, 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:21.360 fifteen and eight. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:22.280 Okay for the. 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.640 Third oldest player in the league, a guy in year twenty. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.040 If Lebron doesn't play another game all year, it's already 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:29.960 the best year twenty anyone's ever had. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:35.320 Look it up, go ahead, all right, twenty seven and 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.120 Russ had nineteen coming off. 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:38.840 The bench, or he didn't come off the bench. He 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.680 came off the bench in the preseason. He started their game, 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.400 which is why he had nineteen. Okay, sure, go ahead. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.440 Lebron's already making excuses saying, it's not like we've got 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.320 lasers on our team or anything. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:51.920 Are you mentally prepared for Lebron's evolution? 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.080 Is the good guy the good the guy with good 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:55.520 stats on a bad team. 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.480 Oh yeah, I'm mentally prepared. In the Lakers stick and 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.600 he's right other shooting. I mean, it's a terribly built roster. 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.120 It's just idiotic the way they've built it. They have 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.920 right now the worst starting backcourt of any team that's 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:17.040 not taking are Russ Patrick Beverly backcourt is just insane, 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:18.920 and it's what they're rolling with. By the way, I 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.280 should have mentioned this were live on YouTube, so you 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.880 can do comments or questions in the chat and in 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.200 the C block. We'll get to him. The Russ thing 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:32.080 coming off the bench thing though, is interesting because so 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.960 Russ came off the bench in the final preseason game 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:40.040 Demons right, and then said he tweaked his hamstring, and 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.360 then they started him in the in the first regular 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:46.440 season game, and he was asked about the hamstring, and 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.640 you know, Russ historically doesn't love the media, and he 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.480 was asked like, hey, do you think part of why 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.880 you hurt your hamstring was like your body's not used 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.920 to like coming off the bench, you weren't warm. And 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.520 Russ's eyes lit up and was like, absolutely, I think 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.720 that's part of it. I've been doing one thing my 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.679 whole career and I didn't know what to do. 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.079 And this or that. There's odd. 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:19.840 Call it rumbling speculation that Russ's hamstring injury was a 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:24.000 warning to the Lakers. You asked me to come off 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:30.000 the bench. I can't guarantee like my body can do that. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:34.000 That rut because by the way, obviously the best move 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.320 for the Lakers is to trade Russ, But in the meantime, 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.080 their next best move is to bring them off the 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.080 bench for two reasons. One is they are eventually going 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:49.600 to trade him. So develop your starting lineup and chemistry 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:54.160 within the unit. And while he's there, maybe the best 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.440 version of him would be running his own unit for 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.240 five minutes, you know what I mean a half. He'd 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.840 play more than five minutes half, but running that second 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.840 unit for five minutes a half, all of that makes 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.440 a lot of sense. And there's also been and I'm 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.120 gonna talk about Russ trades in a moment, there's also 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:18.440 been an odd kind of backlash to the backlash, and 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.040 Barkley did a thing. He was like, trade him. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.640 This is ridiculous. You've stolen his joy for the game. 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.640 Okay, Obviously Russ and the Lakers hasn't worked, and I'm 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.160 a Russ fan long you know, over the totality of 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:34.400 his career, but there is some accountability on Russ's behalf, 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.520 not justin that he hasn't played well and he hasn't 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.960 evolved as a player or adjusted his game. He opted 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:41.600 into this guy. 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:41.760 I was. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.040 Letna say, he could have got out of there, could 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.720 have left right and gone anywhere he wanted. He chose, 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.000 which is his right, and mostly the vast majority of 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.560 people would have done it. The forty seven million dollars 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:59.040 he's owed under the player option over being in a 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.120 situation where maybe he's more appreciated as more freedom can 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:02.840 play his game. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.880 Whatever. So I'm not I'm not going to be, you know, 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:11.440 playing any violins for Russ being in a bad situation 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.840 when he had a player option and opted in because 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.120 more power to him, he wanted the forty seven million. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.000 I don't blame him for that, but that is what happened. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:25.480 Now on the trade, there's a lot of talk right now, 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.800 and this is the only place I'll defend the Lakers. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.400 I won't defend them in their offseason signings. I won't 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:34.160 defend them in the lack of shooting there is oh, 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:35.960 you know, before I even get to the rust trades. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.440 One other thing about that game, Anthony Davis was unbelievable 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.560 in the first quarter and then the next three quarters. 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.680 He had the same bs he's been doing the last 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.640 few years and just kept shooting jump shots over the 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.960 last two seasons prior to this one the single worst 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:56.640 jump shooter in the NBA thirty five percent effective field 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:01.440 goal percentage on jump shots. Anthony Davis. He either needs 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.560 to fix his shot or play the position he's meant 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.000 to play, which is center. Because in the first quarter, 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.080 who's playing center and against Golden State was dominating their 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.960 lack of their front line. And then he started floating 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.600 around and doing this nonsense and wasn't that good the 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.439 rest of way. Now on the Russ trade, yes, they 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.600 could have traded him for Healed and Turning. You include 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.520 the picks where I will defend the Lakers on not 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:30.879 making that move as this, I believe demonse because of 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:36.440 Big Vic, Victor wind Binyama and Scoot Scoot who's gonna 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.280 be the number two pick of the draft, who would 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.399 be the number one pick in almost any other draft. 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.800 Because of those two guys, there is going to be 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:50.520 an unprecedented number of teams that quickly this year decide, Yeah, 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.440 we thought we were gonna try to get the eight seed, 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.680 but we are out of here. We're trying to rip 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.719 it down. Charlotte's an example there. Portland might end up 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:03.400 being an example there. Utah is already there. Because of that, 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:08.080 I think there are going to be more players available 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.159 than in years past. So if the Lakers want to 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:16.960 hold their powder to see, Okay, we know we could 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.320 get Turner and Healed, what if we can get a 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.840 better package from Portland? Or from Charlotte, or a team 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:23.840 that decides. 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:25.600 As far as like picks well. 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:29.400 As far as players trade Russ and picks for rotation players. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.959 This year, I think that is. I think that's why 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.600 they haven't made the trade. It's also why discussing the 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:40.320 Lakers is kind of crazy right now, because this is 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.480 not the team they're gonna have. Once they make the 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:44.679 Russ trade, we'll see who they're gonna be, and then 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.840 they can be fairly evaluated either way. It's gonna take 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.320 a minor miracle for them to be a contender, all right. 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.200 Next on a TV show or YouTube. Oh, by the way, 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.280 our poll, I should say seventy percent of the audience 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.800 says Lebron is just a good stats, bad team guy. Okay, 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.199 that's fine. He's also in your thirty one, fifteen, and 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:03.480 eight in year twenty. Seems good. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.200 Go ahead, on the TV show this week, you predicted 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:07.680 Dallas beats Philly. 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:08.520 In the NBA finals. 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:10.959 Yeah, and your fate and you say that you're fading 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:12.640 the Bucks because they don't have enough death. 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:14.840 Yeah. Meanwhile, the MAVs. 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.280 Just have Luca and they also blew a twenty two 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:19.560 point ly least, but they. 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.440 Had a twenty two point lead. You gotta think about 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.040 it like that on Phoenix. 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:24.880 But they blew it like the Ravens. 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.879 Are you blinded by Game seven Luca last year against 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:28.560 Phoenix or what? 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:33.280 What's going on? Okay, that is that's that's wild. What's wild? 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:37.120 You're fading the Bucks but you're going okay, MAVs. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.639 Oh well, listen, the Bucks things a bit of a zag. 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:42.879 I will admit I picked the Bucks to win the 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.000 title to the last two years, and I believe they 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:48.200 would have crushed the Warriors if they had been healthy. 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.679 I think they obviously would have beaten the Celtics of 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.320 Middleton were healthy. Your Celtics, by the way, looked phenomenal 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.240 in the first out of the year against you know, 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.720 Robert Williams out for like two more months, but they 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.479 I mean, you do Robert Williams. Uh. 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.359 I do think maybe there was a little bit of 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:08.280 an overreaction to the Udoka. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:09.880 Stuff with the Celtics, just. 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.560 A bit like people maybe overreacted in that that just 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.280 ruins the Celtics when maybe they shouldn't have Philly. I know, 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:19.600 so let me just explain myself on the Bucks thing. 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:26.000 What the playoffs did show me last year is no 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:30.440 matter how brilliant Yiannis is in an East as deep 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:33.840 as this one, if the Bucks entire big three is 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:38.560 not there, they can be beaten. Gianna's played a triple 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:43.080 plus basketball. Drew Holliday was sensational and they lost that series. 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.800 So it is concerning to me, not just because Middleton's 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:52.840 not back yet, but even if he's healthy. Drew Holliday 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.439 is a guy that has dealt with injuries throughout his career, 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:01.600 and he's played a lot long seasons last few years 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:05.680 with Milwaukee. Something tells me he's gonna get danked, and 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:08.800 because of that, I just can't pick Milwaukee. I know 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:11.960 it seems speculative. Giannis is the best player in the league. 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:15.320 I just something doesn't feel right to me about them 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.959 this season. So I'm taking that piece. I'm taking off 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:22.920 the chessboard. The nets are a joke. I'm taking them 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:25.840 off the chessboard. Celtics were very impressive in Game one. 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:26.680 I will admit that. 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:28.640 Let's leave them on the chessboard. 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:30.600 It beat the people that you said were well, it's 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:32.960 eighty two game season Philly. 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:38.679 I believed the Philly pick was threefold. One is embeid 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:41.760 continue is going to continue to play like a top 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:45.200 four player in this league. Second was Harden was gonna 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:47.560 be healthy, which he wasn't last year. He looked in 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:49.600 this game exactly looked a little too healthy. He dribbled 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.920 the ball five hundred and fifty times, and the third 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:55.800 one elape from Maxi and in fact a fourth when 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:59.960 the same thing I was saying about this unpresented team 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:04.840 tearing their rosters down and guys becoming available. Philly because 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:07.720 they have a great GM and Darryl and the Tobias 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:13.359 Harris contract plus Tible is gonna be involved in a trade, 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:15.840 I would imagine. I think they're gonna add another piece 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:16.840 for all those reasons. 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:17.520 I like Philly. 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:21.840 Dallas is purely a bet on Luca. I don't know 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:24.480 if you remember the series the fifty Greatest Players last 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:26.199 fifty years, but Luca Anti it's already one of the 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:27.600