1 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: This is an emergency. I am Rappaport podcast. J R. 2 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: Smith has just been traded to the fucking Cleveland Cavaliers 3 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: and the Knicks apparently got hipped in return. They got 4 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: draft picks. And I know I'm hardheaded, and I know 5 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 1: that we're building for the future, but what the funk 6 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: are we going to do for the rest of this year? 7 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 1: This is the Knicks, This is the New York Knicks, 8 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: this is Mattheson Square Garden. We have the greatest, most 9 00:00:54,720 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: winning ist coach, one of the most brilliant basketball minds 10 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: as a GM, and we are conceding the two thousand 11 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: and fifteen season. And I know, I know what you're saying. 12 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: They have to do it. They have to do it, 13 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean it fucking feels good. We we 14 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: were we we traded A Mon Schumpert and j R. 15 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,960 Speaker 1: Smith to the Cavaliers. So they are immediately on my 16 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: shit list. They're immediately on my shoel list. Now they're 17 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 1: on the fucking Calves who have Lebron James, Kevin Love Kyrie. 18 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving is so ill and now they got j R. Smith. 19 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: Chauncey Billips told me that Jr. Smith is the most 20 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: talented person he's ever seen play. Whether he lives up 21 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: to those expectations, it remains to be seen. We've seen 22 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: flashes of it. Two seasons ago. He was the six 23 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: Man of the Year. You see it in Spurts. That 24 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: one season he was he was great, he was consistent, 25 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: he was he was focused. He he won six Man 26 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,959 Speaker 1: of the Year. But I'm sure he's gonna go back 27 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: to being great with the fucking Cavaliers. Lebron gonna make 28 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: him better than what he really is now. I put 29 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: the Cavaliers as the favorite, yes, sir, and and and 30 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: And what hurts me about the Knicks is that, you know, 31 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 1: it's probably has some of it has to do with 32 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: the fact that I directed When the Garden Was Eating 33 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: and and that film, and and me just sort of, 34 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: you know, uh, sentimentalizing the team and thinking that once 35 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: Phil got there, you know, everything would be okay. But 36 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: Phil probably knew better than I did, and he knew 37 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna be I mean, no one could have 38 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: imagined it was gonna be like this, where we're five 39 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: and thirty one or five and thirty two. That's why 40 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: his ass ain't there. That's why his ass saying at 41 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: the guarden he doesn't Why does he need to be 42 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: there anymore this year? If I if I was in, 43 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I would just be at home watching what 44 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,839 Speaker 1: I'd be at home skeeting. I don't want to talk 45 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: about what the fuck phils do if he's skeeting. Because 46 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 1: j R. Smith, he's one of the more polarizing figures 47 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: in the NBA. With all that talent comes a disposition 48 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: that's confusing. And I say this because the fucking guy 49 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: has tattoos up to his jawbone, from the top of 50 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: his fucking feet that you see his skin on his 51 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: ankle to the fucking jawbone on his neck. He's covered 52 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: with tattoos. Now you're like, yo, what does that mean. 53 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: I'm covered with tattoos. I don't have any problem with tattoos. 54 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: I got fucking tattoos myself. Let me finish. He never 55 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: seems to change his expression. He does something good, he 56 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: does something bad. He just seems a little bit disinterested. 57 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: Yet he has all that talent. And I first saw JR. 58 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: Smith in a rookie symposium. There was a there was 59 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: a thing on him and a few other players. I 60 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: remember a Mecca oaker for that year, that other, that 61 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: other point guard. They did a thing on him. And 62 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: when he first came into the league, he was real 63 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: soft spoken, real humble, mild mannered kid, come from a 64 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 1: nice home in Jersey. And then you see his whole swag, 65 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: his whole program, and he's on that ship and I 66 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 1: and when he's eighty five. The thing about I want 67 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: to see some I know sometimes you'll see pictures with 68 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 1: like an old guy with like a tattoo on his arm, 69 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: But I want to see a picture of an eighty 70 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: year old guy covered in tattoos. When you're old and 71 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: your ship is sagging and you don't have any muscular 72 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: definition anymore, and you've got all those tattoos to fit 73 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: this year old, muscular, young body, it looks great. But 74 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 1: when you're fucking eighty six and you're fucking balls have 75 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: dropped and and and you're no longer doing push something, 76 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: you're no longer playing basketball, and you're no longer doing 77 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: whatever the funk you're exercises, what is going to happen 78 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 1: to those tattoos? Them ships are gonna look crazy. I 79 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 1: was wondering about the guy who put Abraham Lincoln on 80 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: his neck. Oh oh oh yeah, oh yeah. Five dollar bill? 81 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: The five dollar bill? What's the guy's name? We don't 82 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,359 Speaker 1: fact check here at the I. M. Rapp report. The 83 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: guy who wanted to fight, he wanted to fight Lebron. 84 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 1: I liked him for that, but I was also like, man, 85 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: even you're taking it a little too far, bro chill man, 86 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: what's that guy's name? Five dollars? He was a good player. 87 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: I wonder if he's stile in the league. You think 88 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 1: they got rid of him. You think that guys with 89 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: tattoos on their face that are in the NBA, that 90 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: Commissioner Stern and now Commissioner Adam Silver, they're like, if 91 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: he does one fucking thing, get him out, get him 92 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: the funk out of get him out, get like fucking sterling. 93 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: I know that people are gonna be saying, you're fucked up, Mike, 94 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: You're you're you're saying no, I'm not saying that. But 95 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 1: but what I'm saying is is why you do that 96 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: to your face when you made it, It's got an 97 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: expression of yourself. We know you're richer in the NBA. 98 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: Why do you have a five dollar bill tet? Why 99 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: don't you get a hundred dollar bill or something and 100 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: a five dollar bill and Abe Lincoln. Then once you 101 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: ask free in the first place, don't digress. This is 102 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: an NBA emergency podcast. This is an emergency. Don't digress, Moody, 103 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: Moody blues this. Stay focused. Talk to me about where 104 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: you where we're at now with the Knicks. We went 105 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: to the Knicks game the other night. Okay, we're so 106 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: appreciative and so humble. My affiliation and association and and 107 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: and my my connection with the Knicks means everything to me. 108 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: I'm just heartbroken. I'm upset the Knicks. Carmelo is gonna 109 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: sit out the rest of the season or most of 110 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: the season because he has a knee injury. It's just 111 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: there's five and thirty one or five and thirty two 112 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: or six and thirty one something five. Don't give no game. 113 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: God damn. They gotta as themselves. They gotta get rid 114 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: of all their acts, like Jerald Smith is an asset. 115 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: I gotta get rid of this motherfucker. Try to get something. 116 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: And you see fucking Phil Jackson said, you know I'm 117 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: not with this ship. Derek Fisher, and I got you 118 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: a job. Motherfucker. Five million per you never coached p 119 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 1: A L. I got you five mill. Stick your ass 120 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: right there. You're gonna hear New York people say fuck 121 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: you and fire Derek Fisher. Yeah, I got you five years, 122 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: I got you five mil, and you never coached anyone. 123 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: So you you suck that up. You deal with the 124 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: people that Fisher because if it wasn't for me, you'd 125 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: be home. You know what the personality Phil understands basketball man, 126 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: if he he understands the league better than anybody, he 127 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 1: couldn't have predicted this, But I guess this is the 128 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: only thing to do now. It just sucks that it's 129 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: not even the middle of the season. And and you 130 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: know who I feel bad for. You know I feel 131 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: bad for because I used to I think for me, 132 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: I used to take him for granted. Walt Frasier. Walf 133 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: Frasier is one of the fifty greatest players of all 134 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: time in any era, in any era, Walf Frasier sty 135 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: is that guy? Is that dude? Yo? Thirty four points, 136 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: nineteen assists some amount of seventh game Clyde Frasier that 137 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: he has to call the games. And that fucking guy 138 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: the one Nick who I don't like the way he 139 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: plays this fucking guy, Jason Smith on the Knicks, not 140 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: not j R. Smith. He fucks around. He never seems 141 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: like he's biggest ship. He's the white dude. He's about 142 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: two seventy to eighty. He's not tough, he shoots outside. 143 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: He seems to be joking around. Walf Frazier. His fucking 144 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: power forward when he played was Dave the Buscher, a tough, 145 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: hard nosed, rugged, fucking working class motherfucker from Detroit. And 146 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: now he's got to call the games. And Jason Smith 147 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: is shooting threes, He's seven ft and hitting unds. I 148 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: feel fucking bad for the I feel bad for myself, 149 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: and I feel bad for the fans. But I'm a fan. 150 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna support the Knicks, but I have to vent. 151 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: The reason why we created the I Am Rappaport podcast 152 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: was because Twitter, I can only articulate a hundred and 153 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: sixty fucking characters per per tweet, and and and and 154 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,319 Speaker 1: the amount of emotion and and and feelings and anguish 155 00:09:54,679 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: and frustration and and morbid, twisted, painful, delicate, redundant feelings 156 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 1: Knicks fans have can't be articulated. Over fucking Twitter. This 157 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: is the I Am Wrapp Report emergency podcast discussing the 158 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:20,719 Speaker 1: new trade that happened just last night, where j R. 159 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: Smith Imon Schumpert quam, oh yeah you remember Qua, Take 160 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: that fucking haircut and get the funk outta here. Take 161 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: that fucking haircut and get the funk out of here. Man, 162 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: I'm on, fuck it, man, Yo, get the funk, Get 163 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: on the first thing, smoking the Cleveland Assholet We're done. 164 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 1: Take a fucking walk, man. And I know Ja Smith's 165 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: gonna have probably the best season he's ever had. He's 166 00:10:54,520 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 1: with Lebron, he and he's with Kyrie. God, they gotta 167 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: fucking crew out there, and now and now I have 168 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: to suffer. See, Lebron, it's not just you, it's because you. 169 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:13,200 Speaker 1: You are so great that you attract all these other 170 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: great players. Do Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, fucking Mike Miller, 171 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: Ray Allen, your whole crew down in Miami. The reason 172 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: why I shoop on you is because you're so great, 173 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: and I have some personality problems with you. But and 174 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: and I let me get this straight about Lebron James. 175 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: If there was Twitter when Larry Bird played in the NBA, 176 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: he would be the most vilified, hated motherfucker all over 177 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: the internet. The only people that loved Larry Bird were 178 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: Boston fans. Imagine if there was Twitter when Larry Bird 179 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: was tearing the fucking NBA up. I never, ever, not 180 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: one minute, for one second, let my guard down and 181 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:01,839 Speaker 1: was able to appreciate Larry Bird when he played in 182 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: the NBA because I fucking hated him because he was 183 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: so goddamn good. So, Lebron, when you feel the wrath 184 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: of Mike Rap, when that fucking wrath, that storm that 185 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: I come with comes to you, Lebron, know that it's 186 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: coming out of respect, but within that respect, I say, 187 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 1: fuck you, Lebron. James, fuck you, man.