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Speaker 3: Welcome in first show back from Vacation. What's Right with
Speaker 3: Nick Wright? Episode one thirty two. So glad to be here,
Speaker 3: so much to discuss. We have some good NFL, we
Speaker 3: have a ton of NBA demons. Let's just get right
Speaker 3: to it. Here's what's not on today's show. What has
Speaker 3: missed the cut from today's show. Philip Rivers might want
Speaker 3: to unretire. I hadn't seen that story. It's one of
Speaker 3: the reasons on the show. The Chiefs pour one out
Speaker 3: for the land Shark. Frank Clark came to Kansas City,
Speaker 3: they won a super Bowl. He's leaving Kansas City having
Speaker 3: won another super Bowl. He honestly, they're gonna release him,
Speaker 3: and I'm just spend a second on this.
Speaker 4: Actually, he was.
Speaker 3: Underwhelming in most of his regular seasons and an all
Speaker 3: timer in the playoffs, third most all time playoff sacks.
Speaker 3: Got nothing we love for Frank Clark, and I use
Speaker 3: thirty two million dollars cap it. They had to release him.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 3: They couldn't get a deal done a renegotiation. Shout out
Speaker 3: to Frank Clark. And then also Lebron's rim cycle. Lebron
Speaker 3: has been watching games and tweeting about it. We'll get
Speaker 3: to that later. He's also been having dreams and tweeting
Speaker 3: about it. This is about watching Duke Carolina with Jordan,
Speaker 3: and then he woke up before it ended and he
Speaker 3: had to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah before we almost like Russell Wilson, Well.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it's Russell Wilson asked.
Speaker 4: What I would say is this.
Speaker 3: That's a very specific details of a dream. I find
Speaker 3: that believable because I have dreams like that. I sometimes
Speaker 3: dream about the next day's show, and like actually do
Speaker 3: like topics like halfway topics in my head that I
Speaker 3: then use on the air. But now, part of that's
Speaker 3: because I sleep with a nicotine patron, so like I
Speaker 3: have constant stimulus going yeah, you know, I'm Lebron obviously
Speaker 3: doesn't sleep with a nicotine patron, but he seems to
Speaker 3: have very vivid dreams. Here's the deal, and this is
Speaker 3: something honestly demons could learn as well. And there's no
Speaker 3: shame because Lebron hasn't.
Speaker 4: Learned it yet.
Speaker 3: Nobody won't to hear about your dreams. There's no story
Speaker 3: more boring to the listener than listen to this dream
Speaker 3: I had last.
Speaker 4: Oh wait, what are you to late? Are you saying
Speaker 4: that that's something that I.
Speaker 3: Do occasionally occasionally, Yeah, like, oh my god, I had
Speaker 3: the scariest, craziest dream. And then I'm like, okay, well,
Speaker 3: these next sixteen second in my life, I'm never getting back.
Speaker 3: You at least have the wherewithal to not tweet about
Speaker 3: it to forty million pp. But no, no matter how
Speaker 3: interesting the dream is to the dreamer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you'd if you just had to be there. You
Speaker 4: had to be.
Speaker 3: There and no one else was there. The only here
Speaker 3: is the only exception to the rule. If you sleep
Speaker 3: next to a person and you wake up from a
Speaker 3: dream like frightened or excited or whatever, they're like, baby,
Speaker 3: what's wrong. You're like, oh my god, I just had
Speaker 3: the scariest dream, or it's the craziest You have like
Speaker 3: a fifteen second window to give the most cliffs notes
Speaker 3: version of it. Yeah, that's okay, But like three in
Speaker 3: the afternoon the next day, you'd be like, hey, man,
Speaker 3: you won't believe this dream I had. I will believe it.
Speaker 3: I won't be interested in it. All right, let's get
Speaker 3: to the actual show. We got a serious topic. Start
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 5: Go ahead to all right, man, John Morant's been in
Speaker 5: the news a lot the last couple of months. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he was sidelined for two games by Memphis, but there's
Speaker 5: no timetable for his return.
Speaker 4: Are you optimistic that Jaw will turn things around?
Speaker 3: Okay, so let's give it the full timeline of just
Speaker 3: things we know about.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 3: We know that allegedly he was having a basketball game
Speaker 3: at his house involving a seventeen year old from the neighborhood.
Speaker 3: They got into a confrontation and he is alleged to
Speaker 3: have punched the kid and then alleged to have gone
Speaker 3: in the house and put a gun in his waistband
Speaker 3: and not necessarily not like pointed the.
Speaker 4: Gun, but just made it so they could see it.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: We know that's alleged. We know that his mom is
Speaker 3: reported to have gotten into a dispute at finish line.
Speaker 3: She called Jah and he showed up with nine other
Speaker 3: guys to the finish line, well to the mall parking lot,
Speaker 3: and then a guy who did not sign up for this.
Speaker 3: The mall security guard had to be like, I think
Speaker 3: this is a bad idea, to which Job allegedly said,
Speaker 3: I want to know what time he gets off. We
Speaker 3: know that's been reported. We also know that the Grizzlies
Speaker 3: got into some confrontation with some of Jos's friends. I'm
Speaker 3: sorry the Pacers did with some of Jos's friends. And
Speaker 3: then there were a couple cars. Job was in one
Speaker 3: of them. This we know this part. They were around
Speaker 3: the pacers loading area to the bus, and then from
Speaker 3: one of the cars supposedly that job was in, a
Speaker 3: laser pointer started going pacer by pacer and they're Obviously
Speaker 3: was speculation that these guys didn't have a laser pointer
Speaker 3: on them, that it was a laser sighted pistol, but
Speaker 3: they weren't able to figure that out for sure. We
Speaker 3: also know that Jav's dad and some of the Grizzlies
Speaker 3: got into it with Shannon Sharp, and we know unequivocally
Speaker 3: that Jab and this part is critical on his own
Speaker 3: Instagram feed, was shirtless in some club with a very
Speaker 3: small gun. Those are things we know. We tautology. We
Speaker 3: don't know what we don't know, We don't know what
Speaker 3: hasn't been reported. But as any parent knows, and I'm
Speaker 3: not trying to be printal towards Job, I'm just using
Speaker 3: his analogy for every time your kid gets caught doing
Speaker 3: something idiotic, it's like, oh, They've probably done that seven
Speaker 3: other times and I just didn't know or they got
Speaker 3: away with it. It's very very rare that every time you
Speaker 3: act a fool you get caught.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: So it's the same reason why again I'm mixing metaphors here.
Speaker 3: Anyone I'm not trying to take this lightly, but almost
Speaker 3: anyone could theoretically get a dui. But the moment someone
Speaker 3: gets too, it's like, oh, they're an alcoholic. Because it's
Speaker 3: possible that the first time you ever drank too much
Speaker 3: and drove you got pulled over. It's impossible it happened
Speaker 3: to you twice, and so it's likely your first dui.
Speaker 3: You've probably done it one hundred times, but it's not
Speaker 3: you don't know it. But as soon as it happens
Speaker 3: more than once, it's like, oh, this happens all the time,
Speaker 3: and you just haven't gotten caught. So we have five
Speaker 3: reported incidents of something early with job. You then have
Speaker 3: this part of it, which I don't think enough people
Speaker 3: have made have focused in on. This is a slightly
Speaker 3: different story if it is John Morant shirtless with a
Speaker 3: gun and a club that someone else video tapes. And
Speaker 3: here's why it's still terrible dangerous decision making. But it's
Speaker 3: theoretically terrible dangerous decision making that he wouldn't have wanted
Speaker 3: out there. Oh, I didn't think anyone on your own
Speaker 3: ig Live is a different set of circumstances. I don't listen,
Speaker 3: I don't smoke weed, and smoking weed is again I'm
Speaker 3: mixing all these metaphors.
Speaker 4: But let's say I did.
Speaker 3: It's very different if I'm walking our dog smoking weed
Speaker 3: and somebody who recognized me snaps a picture and tweets it.
Speaker 3: Then if I'm walking our dog smoking weed and I
Speaker 3: tweet out a picture of myself thumbs up with the bullet,
Speaker 3: it's like these are You're doing the same thing, but
Speaker 3: your feelings of publicizing it. You follow what I'm saying here.
Speaker 3: It's it is he invited the world to nobles. Okay,
Speaker 3: so that's the timeline of all of it.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 5: The timeline kind of weird him doing the the finger emote,
Speaker 5: the little finger thing on the sideline and then him
Speaker 5: posting the picture and with the gun like two days later.
Speaker 4: Oh so I didn't even gut.
Speaker 3: It's not great. Uh So, here's so I want to
Speaker 3: talk about what Jah has in front of him from
Speaker 3: basketball standpoint. And then I want to talk about why
Speaker 3: I think this is actually a without being media hyperventilating,
Speaker 3: wildly dangerous. Okay, here's what he has in front of him.
Speaker 3: John Moriant legitimately could make a billion dollars. That's not hyperbole.
Speaker 3: The NBA is about signing new television rights deal. There's
Speaker 3: speculation that the new max contract is gonna be almost
Speaker 3: a million a game, that you're gonna have players making
Speaker 3: sixty five to seventy million a year. But Job's got
Speaker 3: what call it conservatively ten good years left. Again, go conservative,
Speaker 3: call it fifty million a year. It's already made one hundred.
Speaker 3: There's another five hundred million. He has a signature shoe.
Speaker 3: That's massive money. Only like six guys have a signature shoe.
Speaker 3: And then there's this part of it. I think people
Speaker 3: are overlooking the value in this demonse. Right now, who
Speaker 3: do you think? Just tell me you think the best
Speaker 3: player in the league is. Just give me a name. Okay,
Speaker 3: give me another guy who's in that conversation. Call it
Speaker 3: Luca Kevin, Luca Durant, Sure, Yo, kicch embiid all fair, right,
Speaker 3: So all of those guys, but Durant have something in common.
Speaker 3: They're not American Yiannis, Luca, yo kicchen Beiid, America Durant Old.
Speaker 3: Jah has a very real chance for a significant portion
Speaker 3: of time to be the best American born NBA player,
Speaker 3: like a five year run of that. So why do
Speaker 3: I bring that up? There is certain and this isn't
Speaker 3: a value judgment. It's just reality. Marketing and endorsements available
Speaker 3: to him that are gonna be unique to be because
Speaker 3: there is a different marketing for American born stars and
Speaker 3: other stars. So even without ever having to be the
Speaker 3: best player in the league, he could get a lot
Speaker 3: of those dollars because they're because for Luca and jokicchen
Speaker 3: Embiid and Yannis, it's not that they're not available to them,
Speaker 3: but it's different. It's just and so that's a factor
Speaker 3: that makes Jah. It's what people were hoping for Zion,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like it's a unique lane
Speaker 3: where because so many of the great, great, great great
Speaker 3: players foreign born, he actually could because like if the
Speaker 3: sixth best player in the league typically can get X
Speaker 3: amount of dollars, if the sixth best player in the
Speaker 3: league is the best American born player, they can get
Speaker 3: different types of dollars. So that's the money he's risking.
Speaker 3: Now the actual risk. All right, people won't believe this,
Speaker 3: but this is true. Memphis, Tennessee, is one of the
Speaker 3: most dangerous places in the Western world when it comes
Speaker 3: to gun violence. If we are talking about fully developed nations,
Speaker 3: Memphis has Bloomberg just had the story the third highest
Speaker 3: hum side rate in the country, and the United States
Speaker 3: is about the most dangerous place you can be in
Speaker 3: for gun violence.
Speaker 4: So in the most.
Speaker 3: Dangerous country for guns he lives in, it's Baltimore, Detroit, Memphis.
Speaker 3: For major American cities, if you bring out cities that
Speaker 3: are smaller, New Orleans then jumps up there. And I
Speaker 3: figured out if it was Saint Louis or Kanas City. Actually, unfortunately,
Speaker 3: but Memphis is the third most dangerous big American city.
Speaker 3: Bloomberg just had it. Little context, Memphis has for every
Speaker 3: hundred thousand people, forty five homicides. New York City has
Speaker 3: six nine times higher murder rate. No, New York City
Speaker 3: is actually a low key, very safe city on that regard,
Speaker 3: but nobody thinks of it that way.
Speaker 5: But it is.
Speaker 3: Young Dolph got murdered at a cookie bakery in Memphis, Yes,
Speaker 3: mining his own business. I don't know what Jow's doing.
Speaker 3: I don't know what Jozz.
Speaker 4: Cru is doing.
Speaker 3: I do know that Memphis a city I love. In
Speaker 3: a city I spend time in a city that your
Speaker 3: mom's best friend in the world lives in, your cousin
Speaker 3: lives there. We go there when I was in Memphis
Speaker 3: for the Southern Classic. That night a few months ago, me,
Speaker 3: your mom, and Nicole went out again. Keep in mind
Speaker 3: my level of fame compared to jazz, my level of
Speaker 3: jewelry compared to jozs I wear two chains typically. We
Speaker 3: went the first place we went to the guy who
Speaker 3: was throwing the party. Nicole had told him that we
Speaker 3: were coming. Had when we got there, He's like, hey, Nick,
Speaker 3: nice to meet you. I really appreciate you coming, said
Speaker 3: this is such and such.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be with you tonight. I'm like, huh. He's like, no,
Speaker 4: he's gonna be with you. Make sure you guys are good.
Speaker 4: I'm like, we're good.
Speaker 3: He's like, nah, he's gonna he's gonna be with you tonight.
Speaker 3: He's like, you guys are good, But I'd feel better
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 4: Whatever it is.
Speaker 3: It is a rough city, and I don't mean this
Speaker 3: like I'm no pun intended. John is putting a massive
Speaker 3: target on his back. And now let me talk about
Speaker 3: the kind of more nuanced piece of this. Okay, America
Speaker 3: is the most gun loving country in the world. We
Speaker 3: have more guns than people. People are a big person
Speaker 3: in this country. Second man, and second and second man,
Speaker 3: and then a black guy shows up with a gun
Speaker 3: and everybody freaks out. I understand that frustration. Earl, are
Speaker 3: my dear friend, and you know him. Laslow used to say,
Speaker 3: because he's as anti gun as it gets that we
Speaker 3: actually want gun control in this country. We need every
Speaker 3: eighteen to twenty four year old black man and states
Speaker 3: that have it show up at those NRA gun conventions
Speaker 3: and start start publicly buying up the firearms real quick.
Speaker 3: We'll get some gun control, which, by the way, kind
Speaker 3: of happened. Actually, if you look at the assault weapons
Speaker 3: bands and when those things happened, they had a lot
Speaker 3: to do with fear of the black Panthers and the
Speaker 3: eighties and Reagan and all that set that aside. So
Speaker 3: I understand the folks who are tweeting, what did y'all do?
Speaker 3: It's open carry, It's allowed you don't need a license.
Speaker 3: Oh it's a problem in John. I understand the argument,
Speaker 3: but everyone though, well say it again.
Speaker 5: He's he's too big for that. I think that it's
Speaker 5: just got like a lot of kids watching him and stuff.
Speaker 5: It's not a good look.
Speaker 4: Also your own one.
Speaker 3: And even if technically you're correct, he's not breaking any laws.
Speaker 3: And everybody knows that is reckless. And by the way,
Speaker 3: I'm not certain no matter even in states where you
Speaker 3: can open carry typically, and we don't know if he
Speaker 3: was in Colorado or Tennessee.
Speaker 4: We think it was Colorado.
Speaker 3: Typically there are rules about does the establishment serve alcohol?
Speaker 3: Have they decided they're a gun for his zone? You
Speaker 3: know what I mean? People think he was at a
Speaker 3: strip club. I I've never heard of a strip club
Speaker 3: in the country. We're allowed to bring your pistol. I
Speaker 3: think even even in Texas, and Texas got a lot
Speaker 3: of them. It's not like, okay, yeah it's Texas, what
Speaker 3: are you gonna do?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 3: It is usually pretty significant pat downs metal. But even
Speaker 3: I understand the we freak out when black guys have guns.
Speaker 3: When black guys have guns, the cops freak out that
Speaker 3: nobody the all the Second Amendment. Absolutists never show up to,
Speaker 3: you know, argue for the black guy who was legally
Speaker 3: carrying a gun and the cops killed him. I understand
Speaker 3: all of that, and I understand the apocrisy of it.
Speaker 3: That's a different discussion than what we clearly have a
Speaker 3: pattern of wildly dangerous behavior, wildly dangerous that and here's
Speaker 3: my last point on this. Even John, now, even if
Speaker 3: he turns this around, John must be careful.
Speaker 4: He has.
Speaker 3: Put a huge target on his back. And I don't
Speaker 3: know if Jo's friends or gangsters. I don't know if
Speaker 3: Ja's a gangster. I don't know any of it.
Speaker 4: I do know that in.
Speaker 3: Any city, but particularly cities with real gangsters, sometimes even
Speaker 3: if you have matured, they view you a certain way,
Speaker 3: and that shit is dangerous. It is flatly dangerous. And
Speaker 3: I don't think it's like media hand ringing. And I
Speaker 3: feel like some people have been afraid.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm very confused by how a lot of media talks
Speaker 3: about a lot of things these days. And maybe there
Speaker 3: are some racial components here that I that I am
Speaker 3: not recognizing fully in why people are afraid to say
Speaker 3: what I think is patently obvious. Maybe I feel like
Speaker 3: I give myself more freedom to speak very openly and
Speaker 3: freely about exactly how I feel about this, because people
Speaker 3: can concuse me a lot of things, but being anti
Speaker 3: black is one that I think I'm pretty well insulated.
Speaker 4: On, so I can just be honest.
Speaker 3: I am worried that this could go really terrible, and
Speaker 3: I would be worried about that if he played in
Speaker 3: any city, but in Memphis, I am it is particularly worrisome.
Speaker 3: So I listen, He's got an amazing and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: say one other thing. There's been a lot of speculation
Speaker 3: about his parents. I don't feel totally comfortable joining in
Speaker 3: that speculation. I know the story. Do you know the
Speaker 3: story of him and Tea from when they were when
Speaker 3: he was little tem Martin his dad, Ye Tem tem
Speaker 3: Martin was a quarterback for Tennessee twenty five years He
Speaker 3: followed Peyton Manning Peyton Manning and win a national championship there.
Speaker 3: T Martin then did but set that aside Team Morant.
Speaker 3: Tim Rant was kind of like a version of Earl
Speaker 3: Woods Tiger's dad or Richard Williams. It was johe was
Speaker 3: like four years old, is like my life is you
Speaker 3: and turning you into an NBA player, and built put
Speaker 3: a court in their backyard and was his trainer, his coach,
Speaker 3: and put fifteen years of his life into John Morant
Speaker 3: becoming Ja Morant, right, and it worked. Yeah, And they
Speaker 3: seem to have an amazing relationship. And so I and
Speaker 3: now Tea, I think understandably maybe and getting I guess
Speaker 3: I am going.
Speaker 4: To engage some of the speculation.
Speaker 3: It would appear kind of feels like we made it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I you know what I mean. I dedicated my life
Speaker 3: to you becoming this you have. We did it together.
Speaker 3: John him seemed to have a great relationship, but that
Speaker 3: can become tricky if the kid then starts.
Speaker 4: Acting a fool.
Speaker 3: And he's It's also there's weird dynamics when well, his.
Speaker 5: Dad seems to be a little bit more hands off
Speaker 5: than you think that he is given the circumstances that
Speaker 5: you just said.
Speaker 3: But that's what I think because his dad's court sided
Speaker 3: all these games. His dad lives next door to him,
Speaker 3: so he's there. But the question is like, is he
Speaker 3: just did he just become like part of the the click.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to use that word, but yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like, it's a weird thing.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I also know this the his
Speaker 3: mom calling him saying they're giving me a hard time
Speaker 3: at foot Action their finish line, Hey show up ten deep,
Speaker 3: Like I I don't look.
Speaker 4: The whole thing.
Speaker 3: Strikes me as weird and right, well, what's the problem, Like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, it just strikes me as There's a
Speaker 3: lot of and some people have made this point. I
Speaker 3: didn't mean do twenty minutes on John Moriane, I apologize,
Speaker 3: but I think it's an interesting discussion. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 3: of people have made the point, Uh, he's hanging out
Speaker 3: with the wrong people. Some people, I think, I give
Speaker 3: him credit. I think Ryan Rosillo said this, but I
Speaker 3: think other people did too.
Speaker 4: Some people made the point he might be the wrong person.
Speaker 3: And I don't want to maybe Wild Wild said this
Speaker 3: off the air, but I'll I'm gonna quote him on
Speaker 3: the air now on this. He was like, even if
Speaker 3: you are with the wrong people, like if you're in
Speaker 3: Jamran It's group and Brian is a bad guy and
Speaker 3: a dope and always wants to do the wrong stuff,
Speaker 3: and Brian's like, let's go do this and jazz like no,
Speaker 3: I think we should go do this.
Speaker 4: Where's the group going right there?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Like the when you are
Speaker 3: the celebrity and the one funding everything, they're following you, right,
Speaker 3: and so I don't I don't know, but this is
Speaker 3: this has already gone left on him and it could
Speaker 3: go really, really way further left.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: That was twenty minutes on John Moran. My apologies, go ahead, next.
Speaker 5: All right, Sun's MAVs Sunday's Mornings MAVs. Son's game was
Speaker 5: juicy with storylines. Man, Yeah, Katie and Kyrie facing off
Speaker 5: for the first time since the trade.
Speaker 3: All right, let's stay there for a second. Okay, just
Speaker 3: for a second. Not a lot of interaction.
Speaker 5: Between the two.
Speaker 3: Not a lot of DAPs, hugs, pregame talks, postgame talks.
Speaker 4: Those are two kind of weird dudes.
Speaker 3: Though it also makes me wonder they did.
Speaker 4: Seem to be more like Buddy.
Speaker 5: I mean, there was a different dynamic when they were
Speaker 5: on the nets.
Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, But I wonder how how close a friends.
Speaker 5: They really were.
Speaker 3: I I think they were at one point, but when
Speaker 3: everybody thought it was dead, it actually was dead.
Speaker 5: Like when it when that point where Kyrie was doing
Speaker 5: all the bs.
Speaker 4: And yes, that's yeah.
Speaker 3: I think maybe I ain't that, and I know that
Speaker 3: Kyrie's like will always be brothers and all this stuff.
Speaker 4: I appreciate all that.
Speaker 3: I think that. I I think that sometimes you're really
Speaker 3: really good friends with someone, or you think you are,
Speaker 3: and then you start working together or you start living together,
Speaker 3: and by the end of it, you're not nearly as
Speaker 3: close as you were before you knew the person.
Speaker 4: So well, go ahead. It is a job at the
Speaker 4: end of the day.
Speaker 5: But there was Booker and Luca beefing from yeah, Usher's playoffs, obviously,
Speaker 5: and of course it came down to the wire.
Speaker 4: Is this suddenly the best rivalry in basketball? Definitely?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say so.
Speaker 4: I think it definitely is.
Speaker 3: And I think people are way underrating the MAVs ability
Speaker 3: to beat them in a series. I'm not saying they're
Speaker 3: better than them. What I'm saying is this last year,
Speaker 3: the MAVs were down three to two and.
Speaker 5: They lose it in close games. I feel like, I mean,
Speaker 5: at least like by the difference of ten.
Speaker 3: Well, right, well, they were down and then do you
Speaker 3: remember what happened in Game seven? Game seven was the
Speaker 3: game that was fifty seven to twenty seven at half
Speaker 3: man Luca dropped well, Luca outscored the Sons in the
Speaker 3: first half. Yeah, okay, and everyone's like and but and
Speaker 3: now the Sons have added Kevin Durant.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's talk about this.
Speaker 3: Though Sons have added Kevin Durant, they have lost Mikal Bridges,
Speaker 3: Cam Johnson, Mikale with their best perimeter defender. Also, they
Speaker 3: have kind of lost Chris Paul. I mean, he's still there,
Speaker 3: but so they've added Durant. They have fifty percent less
Speaker 3: Chris Paul, one hundred percent less Michail.
Speaker 4: Bridge, less came Johnson.
Speaker 3: The MAVs have lost Jalen Bruns and Dorian Finney Smith.
Speaker 3: They've added Kyrie Irving. I don't think it is not
Speaker 3: surprising me at all that this game came down to
Speaker 3: the wire. You know, it is surprising me a little
Speaker 3: bit everyone. Okay, let me ask you this, what did
Speaker 3: you think of Devin Booker talking trash to Luca.
Speaker 5: I think it's a little I thought it was a
Speaker 5: little early. I think that Luca is still he's Lucas
Speaker 5: still on top for what he did to him in
Speaker 5: the playoffs. Okay, think that he's got to get some
Speaker 5: type of postseason revenge.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I ask you that because you're the athlete
Speaker 3: on the show, I thought, I think you're allowed to
Speaker 3: talk trash whenever you want, but you open yourself up
Speaker 3: to some mocking or criticism if you do it to
Speaker 3: the guy who the last time you talk trash to
Speaker 3: him was after game five, and Lucas says, everybody talks
Speaker 3: tough when they're up. And then Luca baptized you for
Speaker 3: two straight games, and then in this game, you wait
Speaker 3: until big brother Kevin comes in hits the game winning
Speaker 3: shot Luca misses when you're not a part of the play,
Speaker 3: and then you're chu and I had everyone come after Nick.
Speaker 3: You don't understand how trash talk works. Eddie Johnson, can
Speaker 3: I tell you what Eddie Johnson said to me? Uh so?
Speaker 3: Eddie Johnson is a former uh uh, former what you
Speaker 3: gonna call it? Suns player, really good NBA player who's
Speaker 3: now on the color commentary for their games. I tweeted
Speaker 3: Devin Booker talking trash to Lucas absolutely hilarious. Eddie Johnson,
Speaker 3: who just won't leave me alone, tweeted that happened a
Speaker 3: year ago, just like you didn't have hair a year ago.
Speaker 3: Funny how that happens.
Speaker 5: He like the I don't think people understand how funny
Speaker 5: unfunny that type.
Speaker 4: Of when you just grew it right, exactly right.
Speaker 3: No people are really convinced, like that I got hair
Speaker 3: plugs or that I wear a wig. But this guy
Speaker 3: so last year during the series, I tweeted, MAVs should
Speaker 3: feel fine. Sons of no answer for Luca Phoenix at
Speaker 3: I rebound, hit three, desperation, end of shot clock shots
Speaker 3: in the second half killed me come back attempt. This
Speaker 3: series is going the distance, and I like Luca's chances
Speaker 3: at the end of it. By the way, great tweet
Speaker 3: by me in the midst of that game. Uh So
Speaker 3: I wrote the sons of no Answer for Luca and
Speaker 3: Eddie Johnson replies, I don't even follow. This guy replies
Speaker 3: to me sort of like you have no answer for
Speaker 3: steven A the like what do you?
Speaker 5: What do you?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: Oh God?
Speaker 3: And then during and then during one of the games
Speaker 3: later that MAVs were winning, I tweeted, where these dopey
Speaker 3: fan media folks from Phoenix that were living my mentions
Speaker 3: all week? They caught off the Wi FI in Arizona
Speaker 3: for the.
Speaker 4: Weekend or something.
Speaker 3: Uh, and there's what Ed did, Johnson rights, Nick, I
Speaker 3: assume you have me in that category. I liked that,
Speaker 3: especially from a five foot two inch, one hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty pound non athlete like yourself, who has zero idea
Speaker 3: that losses energize and focus you instead of running and
Speaker 3: hiding like you did when they took your ball, Let's
Speaker 3: have fun. I love it, Like, who does? I don't
Speaker 3: understand who this this guy? Uh?
Speaker 4: But whatever, it's Evin Booker Berner.
Speaker 3: No, no, but the thing is this he played seventeen
Speaker 3: years in the NBA. I used to go on his
Speaker 3: radio show like I don't understand. All right, let's go
Speaker 3: to the next thing.
Speaker 4: All right, it's all on into some football. Yeah.
Speaker 5: The Packers are reportedly done with Aaron Rodgers, the future
Speaker 5: Hall of Famers reportedly speaking to the Jets. Now, yeah,
Speaker 5: will this be the biggest move in Jets history? Or
Speaker 5: they bound to screw this one up to all right?
Speaker 3: Well, they did trade for Farv as well, under the
Speaker 3: exact same circumstances, which is pretty hilarious.
Speaker 4: That workout.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think Jets would screw this up. But
Speaker 3: I just don't think Rogers is great anymore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's a pain in the ass.
Speaker 3: He's super expensive, and he's like the twelfth best quarterback
Speaker 3: in football twelve. Yeah, I think thereabouts. Should we do
Speaker 3: the list? Should we do an impromptu list? This is
Speaker 3: what got me in trouble last year, which got me
Speaker 3: jail and Hurts twenty fifth? All right, no, no order,
Speaker 3: I'm just going down the standings.
Speaker 4: Okay, he is.
Speaker 5: Better than Trevor hold On, but go ahead, give me
Speaker 5: if you put some real dogs around.
Speaker 3: Him, right, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Lamar, Trevor Mahomes, Herbert
Speaker 3: Jailing Dak.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was got to say, now it's getting to
Speaker 5: what do you mean you're throwing Dak in there?
Speaker 3: Dak was way better than him last year.
Speaker 4: What are we if you put it?
Speaker 5: I'm not one of those guys like put him on
Speaker 5: this team. But could you imagine if Aaron Rodgers played
Speaker 5: with the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: I don't know, you played with DeVante Adams kept Jimmy
Speaker 3: g in the playoffs? Hey, what are we talking about?
Speaker 5: Guy?
Speaker 3: You guy at Jordan Nelson For years at DeVante Adams,
Speaker 3: Alien was a well listen when you when you when
Speaker 3: all of a sudden at age thirty eight, you're like,
Speaker 3: I need fifty million per years.
Speaker 4: It has to make some tough decisions.
Speaker 3: And even when they draft a bunch of rookie wide receivers,
Speaker 3: that's where he went. But then you spend your off
Speaker 3: season getting high as balls instead. I shouldn't have said
Speaker 3: that is getting high and all and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: it take you six weeks to get on the same
Speaker 3: page as them.
Speaker 4: It hurts your team. Give me a break. How many that? Gino?
Speaker 5: Gino?
Speaker 4: Ga?
Speaker 3: What I was at eight and I'm at okay, what's
Speaker 3: the problem, Gino?
Speaker 4: Pickings are getting all right?
Speaker 3: Hold on? Do we want to throw two in there?
Speaker 4: We want to throw two in there?
Speaker 3: Do you want there? I don't really want to or
Speaker 3: two in there? You like Daniel Jones?
Speaker 4: Are we brought party?
Speaker 3: No, we're not doing that. What about golf?
Speaker 4: GoF is crazy?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, I think we're this list?
Speaker 3: Yeah? There we go, twelve? I got there, all right?
Speaker 5: Next, all right, it's some another quarterback news. Derek Carr
Speaker 5: is going to the Saints and Gino is staying in Seattle.
Speaker 5: You debted the Derek Carr move, but I honestly disagree,
Speaker 5: being that the Saints now have the best quarterback in
Speaker 5: their division and possibly the second best quarterback.
Speaker 4: In the NFC if Rogers goes to New York. Meanwhile,
Speaker 4: Seattle's paying one hundred billion to Gino Smith, who regrets
Speaker 4: this decision.
Speaker 5: More in a year.
Speaker 3: I don't mind the Seahawks move for Gino because they
Speaker 3: can get out of it after two years and they
Speaker 3: don't have.
Speaker 5: A team that's gonna go super far.
Speaker 3: And it doesn't kill them like in their building.
Speaker 4: I don't mind it. The Saints, the Saints.
Speaker 3: I did this on the show on the TV Show
Speaker 3: and Wilds and Bruce said it was boring, and okay,
Speaker 3: the Saints keep borrowing from future year's cap to pay
Speaker 3: for this year's team, and they were. When when you're
Speaker 3: doing it to try to win a Super Bowl with
Speaker 3: Drew Brees, no problem. When you're doing it because you
Speaker 3: won't admit you missed your window, you are ruining your
Speaker 3: chance to actually build a Super Bowl contender. So the
Speaker 3: salary caps about two hundred million dollars. Dead money is
Speaker 3: money on the cap that you are paying to players
Speaker 3: no longer on your team because you structured the contracts
Speaker 3: such in a way where this year their cap figure
Speaker 3: is tiny, so we can get all these players, but
Speaker 3: then next year it explodes. So, for example, Michael Thomas,
Speaker 3: their off injured receiver this coming season, has a capital
Speaker 3: only four teen million dollars and his cap it's been
Speaker 3: low his whole time there. But next year's cap hit
Speaker 3: is fifty nine million dollars. It's the highest of any
Speaker 3: player or any position in the league. So obviously they
Speaker 3: will have to cut him. And then they when they
Speaker 3: cut him against their cap to not have him on
Speaker 3: the team will be fifteen million. So obviously you want
Speaker 3: to have as little dead money as possible, or take
Speaker 3: all your dead money hits in one season, strip the
Speaker 3: team down and then build.
Speaker 4: Does this make sense?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the year breezes last year there, they had
Speaker 3: forty million in dead money because they had gone all
Speaker 3: in the previous season. He then retires. They won't admit
Speaker 3: that they need to tear it down. They had fifty
Speaker 3: million in dead money. Now they're gonna cut Jamis. They
Speaker 3: already have They're already paying thirty million to guys who
Speaker 3: are not on their team this year. Already they're forty
Speaker 3: million a game and they are positioning it so next
Speaker 3: year and the year after they're gonna be on that
Speaker 3: dead money level. So what does that mean. It means
Speaker 3: you have twenty five percent less cap dollars every year
Speaker 3: than the rest of the league, as opposed to simply
Speaker 3: taking your medicine one year. So yes, I understand Cars,
Speaker 3: the best quarterback in the division. I understand all of that. However,
Speaker 3: they can't win a super Bowl right now, and they
Speaker 3: are ensuring that they stay far away from.
Speaker 4: Being able to win one.
Speaker 3: What they needed to do was clean up their books,
Speaker 3: stop trading away first round picks, and start anew Philly
Speaker 3: won a Super Bowl, tore it all down, built it up,
Speaker 3: and got to another one. Chicago had seventy five million
Speaker 3: in dead money this last year. Tore it down because
Speaker 3: they had seventy five million dead money. Team, they got
Speaker 3: the number one pick of the draft out of it,
Speaker 3: and now they have more cap space than anybody. Just
Speaker 3: take your medicine for one season, clean up your books,
Speaker 3: and try to build a contender for one of America's
Speaker 3: greatest cities. So I think that's the.
Speaker 5: That's the GM, that's that makes those types.
Speaker 3: Yes, greedy decisions, And I think it's I think it's insane.
Speaker 3: I think the Saints have been operating the way their
Speaker 3: football team the way I would operate my American Express
Speaker 3: card if a doctor told me I had six months
Speaker 3: to live. If it was like you have a terminal
Speaker 3: disease and it's guarantee, you like six months, your checkdout
Speaker 3: and be like, well, I guess everything's free then, right?
Speaker 3: Because like, but this team, they they've been operating like
Speaker 3: they have insight intel that the NFL is folding in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five until this bill will never come due.
Speaker 3: I don't understand it. Quick break right back, what's right?
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Speaker 5: Let's get right to it all right, Lakers are hanging
Speaker 5: on for dear life without Lebron, but are six and
Speaker 5: three since Westbrook left the team in the trade deadline. Meanwhile,
Speaker 5: the Clippers, the Clippers signed or bought out Westbrook and
Speaker 5: went on to lose five straight.
Speaker 4: Not to plenty any fingers at russ Man, but can't
Speaker 4: all be a coincidence?
Speaker 3: Right prior to the Clippers big fourth quarter comeback the
Speaker 3: other night? How many straight games do you think teams
Speaker 3: had lost that Russell Westbrook could start?
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 3: Because keep in mind he only started He started the
Speaker 3: first couple games of the year, but he started them
Speaker 3: all last year. So how many games? How many consecutive
Speaker 3: games do you think Russell Westbrook had lost as a starter,
Speaker 3: Give it a guest. We know it was five with
Speaker 3: the Clippers, right, call it seven and nine. We're gonna
Speaker 3: go fifteen to Monsey this year. No, the end of
Speaker 3: last year, lost eight straight as a starter. Then two
Speaker 3: straight started this year, then stopped starting. Then the Clippers
Speaker 3: were like, you can start for us, buddy, and they
Speaker 3: immediately lost five in a row and then needed a
Speaker 3: wild fourth quarter comeback to beat You know the Clippers
Speaker 3: were who they beat, by the way, the Grizzlies. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're without Jah, Steven Adams, Dylan Brooks, and Brandon Clark
Speaker 3: four their six best players. I I had Russ I
Speaker 3: think thirtieth on my NBA list, but.
Speaker 5: I don't do it. Are you about to say he's dropping.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I'm not saying he's dropping. What I am
Speaker 3: saying is that he he's an all time great player
Speaker 3: who I loved, who now just damages your team. He
Speaker 3: just is incapable of being a part of winning basketball
Speaker 3: at this point in his career. He can't defend. He
Speaker 3: kills your spacing, so the few things he does well,
Speaker 3: you can't make up for it.
Speaker 4: Like I, this is not.
Speaker 3: A It does not mean he is not an all
Speaker 3: time great, but at this point he is negative and
Speaker 3: I lost a little.
Speaker 5: Bit of his athleticism that he used to have, so
Speaker 5: it's a.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: And his shooting is worse than it was and was
Speaker 3: never good it's just it's just a big problem.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Do you think Russ is who Lebron was
Speaker 4: talking about in this tweet? Okay?
Speaker 5: Preferring to Bronni being better than some of these cats,
Speaker 5: I think we're gonna put it.
Speaker 3: Up, all right, So too things. So Lebron wrote, Bronni
Speaker 3: definitely better than some of these cats have been watching
Speaker 3: on the league past today. It's lightweight, hilarious.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: So we wrote that at eleven forty three Eastern time.
Speaker 3: All right, So, I first of all, I want to
Speaker 3: say this. I think it's a bad tweet by Lebron.
Speaker 3: I think it's a bad idea. Yeah, I think it
Speaker 3: puts a bit of a target on Brons and I
Speaker 3: don't think it's a good idea. But I also think
Speaker 3: I've determined who he's talking about. So are we if
Speaker 3: we assume he's talking about a game he was currently watching.
Speaker 3: There were only two games going on at that point
Speaker 3: in time, Raptors Nuggets was one of them. Okay, so
Speaker 3: let's talk about who played in that game. He's not
Speaker 3: talking about Siakam and Unobi, Scottie, Barnes, Purdle or Van Vliet.
Speaker 3: Those are all good players. Legit, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: good high level players. The only other the only Will
Speaker 3: Barton played. Will Barton's fine players not talking about him.
Speaker 3: Gary Trent Junior played a lot. Gary Trent J're not
Speaker 3: very good player, but good players not about him. Then
Speaker 3: there's precious that you and Chris Bousche, who are bigs.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna assume Lebron is not comparing Grannie to a
Speaker 3: six to nine guy. Okay, So then you have the Nuggets.
Speaker 3: The Nuggets Aaron Gordon, who's a fringe All Star, Michael
Speaker 3: Porter Junior is an amazing talent, and Jokic, Murray and
Speaker 3: Kendaves called Pope he won a championship, not talking about them.
Speaker 3: On the bench for the Nuggets, Jeff Green, who Lebron
Speaker 3: played with and went to the finals with. Bruce Brown,
Speaker 3: who's a good player, played for it. Now he was
Speaker 3: bad last night. Maybe he's about Bruce Brown, but I
Speaker 3: don't think so. Thomas Bryant, who played for the Lakers
Speaker 3: this year and is a Sinner, and Reggie Jackson's been
Speaker 3: in the league ten years, so I don't think he's
Speaker 3: talking about anybody in that game. So now we go
Speaker 3: to Pelicans Kings. The Kings.
Speaker 4: Everybody who played for the.
Speaker 3: Kings was it was a starter, except for one guard
Speaker 3: played for them, and it was Deli Matthew Delavadova, who
Speaker 3: Lebron went to the finals with and then I think
Speaker 3: was on the teamless. So he's not talking about Delhi.
Speaker 3: So now we have narrowed it down to the Pelicans.
Speaker 3: It's not talking about the starters. The Pelicans guards who
Speaker 3: played last night were Dison Daniels, who is the eighth
Speaker 3: pick of the draft, around where I think Lebron thinks
Speaker 3: Bronni could go this year. And Dyson Daniels last night
Speaker 3: did what he does in most games, not much. And
Speaker 3: then Kiral Lewis Junior, who was the thirteenth pick of
Speaker 3: the draft a couple of years ago. I believe Lebron
Speaker 3: was talking about either Curler Lewis Junior or Dyson Daniels.
Speaker 3: That's what my investigation has revealed. There are Kuryler Lewis
Speaker 3: Junior is six ft one, Dyson Daniels, well, you know
Speaker 3: what Daniels, I forgot. He's a guard, but he's six
Speaker 3: you know, he's six seven. I think he's talking about
Speaker 3: Kurla Lewis Junior. Sorry, Kira Lewis Junior. But I did.
Speaker 3: He's six to one. He was one for seven last night.
Speaker 3: Uh he had one rebound, one assist, one steal in
Speaker 3: nineteen minutes over three from three, one for two from
Speaker 3: the foul line.
Speaker 4: I think that's who.
Speaker 3: Lebron James was talking about. Sorry, curious, So, Kira Lewis Lewis,
Speaker 3: this is not for social guys. This is a podcast
Speaker 3: and YouTube.
Speaker 4: Exclusive single This man out Listen.
Speaker 3: I did an investigation. That's what I think is happening.
Speaker 5: All right, next, All right, man, So we must be
Speaker 5: living in crazy times right now, because it seems that
Speaker 5: the Knicks are somehow relevant. Yeah, since since Josh Hart's
Speaker 5: joined New York, they're undefeated nine to zero, including two
Speaker 5: wins versus my beloved Celtics. You said the.
Speaker 4: Knicks are a threat to No One in the East.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you live in New York. Are you're seriously
Speaker 5: gonna look into the camera and say that they're gonna
Speaker 5: get bounced out of the first round given these last
Speaker 5: few games where the.
Speaker 3: Camera, Yeah, they're not beating Cleveland. So who they playing
Speaker 3: first round? Milwaukee? Okay, well they're not beating them, Boston.
Speaker 3: Well they're not beating them, Billy, They're not beating them.
Speaker 5: Oh what about I love that you're talking like that.
Speaker 5: You're you're saying they can't beat my Celtics in the postseason.
Speaker 3: No, listen, the Knicks are a nice story. People pretending
Speaker 3: like they are a super talented team are crazy and
Speaker 3: everyone's like, Oh, Nick, why don't you give the Knicks
Speaker 3: more love?
Speaker 4: Why don't I give this Calves more love?
Speaker 3: The Calves have a the last fifty years, the Cavs
Speaker 3: have been a better franchise than the Knicks. The I mean,
Speaker 3: they just have been. They would have the best player
Speaker 3: in the series. They have the best young player in
Speaker 3: the series. They've been better this year. Give me a
Speaker 3: break again, Knicks fans get all mad at me. But
Speaker 3: what do you again, Knicks fans, what do you think
Speaker 3: your team is a tough out in Round one? Congrats,
Speaker 3: that's the best you've been since Ewing left. That's it. No, No,
Speaker 3: not even the biggest Knick fans think this team has
Speaker 3: a shot at making the conference finals. Not a prayer
Speaker 3: they the Knicks fans are hoping, is that in Round
Speaker 3: one Donovan Mitchell won't do to them the last time
Speaker 3: they got. We're exciting because they made the playoffs with
Speaker 3: Julius Randall and Trey Young, came New York and let
Speaker 3: them on fire.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the only thing the Knicks have going
Speaker 5: for them is the fact that they're in New York.
Speaker 3: Of course, that's what it is.
Speaker 4: When the New York switch like franchise.
Speaker 3: Of course that's what it is. They're like, Oh the
Speaker 3: rich history, Demanse, and the Knicks are one of the
Speaker 3: original franchise. They've been around forever. How many titles do
Speaker 3: you think they have in their entire franchise history?
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 4: Is it one? Or is it it's two?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 3: When do you think the most recent one was? Just
Speaker 3: give it a guess? Do you think I was alive?
Speaker 3: I called it nineteen eighty four, nineteen eighty four as
Speaker 3: the Eero is born No. Nineteen seventy three. They won
Speaker 3: the title in seventy and seventy three. They they have
Speaker 3: one championship since the floppy disc was invented. And I'm
Speaker 3: told I need to put more respect on their names, Demanse,
Speaker 3: since this is true, since I graduated high school hung
Speaker 3: twenty years. How many playoff series do you think they've won?
Speaker 5: Playoff series since you've graduated college.
Speaker 3: You said, yeah, I want to make sure I have
Speaker 3: the year correct on this. So I graduated high school
Speaker 3: in two thousand and three. And so you know what,
Speaker 3: we can we can go let's you know what, let's
Speaker 3: just go to from oh one to now. We can
Speaker 3: go further back oh one to now this series playoff series,
Speaker 3: remember because they had Carmelo. Oh yeah, one is the
Speaker 3: correct answer one, And everyone's like, oh, Nick, put some
Speaker 3: respect on the Knicks. I got people dming your mom saying, well,
Speaker 3: tell your tell Nick to watch his mouth all. Can
Speaker 3: I tell you what happens with the Knicks.
Speaker 4: The media is based here.
Speaker 3: A lot of the media grew up rooting for the Knicks,
Speaker 3: but all of the media has to walk these streets.
Speaker 3: And you know what, sports media loves not only to
Speaker 3: be recognized, but for people were like, hey, loved what
Speaker 3: you said about the Knicks A little fist bump. I
Speaker 3: just don't care about that, And so people are like,
Speaker 3: put some respect on the Knicks name why why.
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 3: I will respect the Knicks almost as much as the
Speaker 3: rest of the national media respects the Cats, which is
Speaker 3: they don't talk Kevin Donovan, Mitchell and Evan Mobley and
Speaker 3: Jared Allen and Darius Garland, Jalen Brunson's been awesome. I
Speaker 3: give him a ton of credit. And Julius Randam whatever,
Speaker 3: stop it. All right, let's play a quick game this
Speaker 3: or that.
Speaker 5: All right, we're playing this is that today. Let's start
Speaker 5: with stat patty while you're gone. The media started accusing
Speaker 5: Jokis of stat patty. Meanwhile, Sunday Night, Yannish, your guy
Speaker 5: actually was stat patty quite literally and an NBA and
Speaker 5: the NBA took away a triple double from him more
Speaker 5: egregious stat pattern? Is Jokic or Yanish?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: I don't think Jokic is stat patter at all. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I's thinking that it's the way he plays. So I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna criticize him on that at all because I
Speaker 3: only he does it.
Speaker 5: I think I think even if was like somewhat of
Speaker 5: a stat pattern if you compared to what Yannis did,
Speaker 5: like that is literally.
Speaker 3: Right, Yanas, And I think Yannis did it as a joke.
Speaker 3: But I also think low key it was a shot
Speaker 3: at the MVP discussion. So it's like, oh, he's gonna
Speaker 3: win MVP because he gets all these triple doubles.
Speaker 4: Okay, here's a triple double.
Speaker 3: Like you know what I mean, like it was a
Speaker 3: Yannis is the best defensive player in the league. Averages
Speaker 3: damn near ten more points than Jokic, does everything, but
Speaker 3: does every single thing a basketball player can do, score, defend, rebound, lead,
Speaker 3: all of it better than Jokic except passing.
Speaker 4: Jokicic is is very good. Pass Verge six is this game.
Speaker 3: Joki is one of the best passing big man ever,
Speaker 3: and Jokic is gonna win all the MVPs. Then yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like, okay, look, triple double crown me all right?
Speaker 4: Next? Okay?
Speaker 5: Uh, Today is the deadline. Today is the deadline to
Speaker 5: use the franchise tag. Tony Pollard, Darren Payne, and Josh
Speaker 5: Jacobs have been tagged, with Daniel Jones and Lamar Jackson
Speaker 5: likely to follow. The quarterback to stick with their team
Speaker 5: longer is Daniel Jones or Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones because I don't think Lamar is gonna be
Speaker 3: on the Ravens this year, and I think Daniel Jones
Speaker 3: is going. It's very simple. I also the franchise tag
Speaker 3: news is gonna come out if you're not watching us live.
Speaker 3: By the time you hear this, the news will already
Speaker 3: be out, so you can watch the TV show today
Speaker 3: where we'll have the live cover to that. We'll talk
Speaker 3: a lot more about the franchise tag what actually happened.
Speaker 3: We'll have that on Thursday on the pod.
Speaker 4: Next, let's talk about some come stories.
Speaker 5: As of yesterday, Calvin Ridley has been fully reinstated to
Speaker 5: the NFL following his one year suspension for gambling on
Speaker 5: NFL games. Yep, and after three years away, John Jones
Speaker 5: returned to the octagon.
Speaker 4: And became the heavyweight champion.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the more riveting comeback is Calvin Ridley or John Jones.
Speaker 3: Jones is unbelievable. The guy went up in weight class
Speaker 3: and won. He won the fight two minutes. He's demonse
Speaker 3: he's had thirty I want to make sure I'm right.
Speaker 3: I think it's thirty fights in his career. He's never
Speaker 3: actually lost, So his career record, I think it's twenty
Speaker 3: eight one and one, but no, it's twenty nine one
Speaker 3: in one. So it was thirty fights, but his two
Speaker 3: losses one he won the fight and then afterwards tested
Speaker 3: positive for a banned substance, so they called it a
Speaker 3: no contest or something, and the other he won the fight,
Speaker 3: but they said he did it with illegal elbows, so
Speaker 3: they decued him. No one has ever beaten him. He's
Speaker 3: done it multiple weight glasses. He has serious personal and
Speaker 3: substance abuse issues, unfortunately, so he's had to go away,
Speaker 3: come back, away, come back, and then he comes back
Speaker 3: and he just crushes it. And his brother is Chandler Jones,
Speaker 3: the Raiders player who mush faced Mac Jones. Yeah, a
Speaker 3: lot of Jones's talking about here. Yeah, it's unbelievable athletic family.
Speaker 3: His other brother, I think Arthur Jones played for Syracuse. No,
Speaker 3: he's the greatest. He's the greatest.
Speaker 4: And by the.
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Speaker 3: We'll drive with Nick right straight to the listener questions,
Speaker 3: Go ahead, all right.
Speaker 4: Dustin, Dustin said Nick.
Speaker 5: Would the Jets be better off in the twenty twenty
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty three with Rogers or Jordan Love?
Speaker 3: I think it's no questions, Love, of course, you save
Speaker 3: you have an extra, so much money saved against the cap.
Speaker 3: You have a pick you get from trading Rogers and
Speaker 3: turn the page with Jordan Love like it's just it's
Speaker 3: just absolutely what I would do.
Speaker 4: All right, Next, what's haden in music?
Speaker 3: Did you just erase all that? Or did they erase?
Speaker 5: Letting me this time?
Speaker 3: Okay, hold on, let me I don't have an okay,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, well you can put it back. Go Matt,
Speaker 3: go ahead and put it back while you asked this question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what's had in music?
Speaker 5: Demonds have volunteers tribute if you need an la friend.
Speaker 4: Oh that would be good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, if you like playing board games, I'm all
Speaker 5: for love, playing really love. I've got a risk date tonight.
Speaker 3: Oh really yeah, an actual date.
Speaker 5: An actual date where we're going to play risk. Hold on, say,
Speaker 5: is that bad?
Speaker 3: Well, I've seen you get very you gotta you get
Speaker 3: very frustrated.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: I think that's a really bad idea. Actually I like
Speaker 3: it otherwise, but you get so mad with risks.
Speaker 4: You get read the room.
Speaker 3: Man, Hey, man, I think okay, all right.
Speaker 4: Good luck.
Speaker 3: I'm just telling you.
Speaker 5: You get frustrated and you get I think games that
Speaker 5: involve dice do tend annoy you.
Speaker 3: And you, I mean, and you're like I knew it
Speaker 3: and like, ah, like you get mad, Like I'm definitely
Speaker 3: not gonna gotta be you gotta be chill, buddy. I've
Speaker 3: played a lot of board games with you, and you
Speaker 3: get really frustrated when the dice going on.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna yeah, man, I can. I can definitely
Speaker 4: read the room. Okay, all right, good luck?
Speaker 5: All right, all right. Bryce Esl said, do you think
Speaker 5: if Gino's performance remains equal remains equal to his twenty
Speaker 5: twenty two season and the Seahawks draft well and also
Speaker 5: pick up some extra pieces that they can make a
Speaker 5: deep NFC run.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean they had all these great young players that
Speaker 3: are only going to be better.
Speaker 4: How old is DK Metcalf?
Speaker 3: I want to say twenty seven seven?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean young they yeah, twenty five?
Speaker 4: Wow? What about Lockett? Locket's older. Locket's older, but he's
Speaker 4: still there.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I mean that defense they drafted two tackles they
Speaker 3: played well, Looten was awesome or wooll and I should
Speaker 3: say was awesome. Yeah, and the NFC is wide open.
Speaker 4: I do think that.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: Next?
Speaker 5: All right, super and over twenty two said Nick, Do
Speaker 5: you truly see the maps making it out of the
Speaker 5: first round? Of course, currently they are the seventh fighting
Speaker 5: for the play in positions and on the defensive.
Speaker 4: On the defensive end, they aren't great. How do they
Speaker 4: fix this? For the posts?
Speaker 3: Okay, so listen right now. The seedings in the West
Speaker 3: are really weird because yes, they are the seventh seed,
Speaker 3: but they are also one game out of being the
Speaker 3: five seed and one game out of being the nine seed,
Speaker 3: so like that is or a half game out of
Speaker 3: being the nine seed. So but as the seventh seed,
Speaker 3: they would play Memphis as the sixth seed, they'd play Sacramento.
Speaker 3: And while I love lighting the beam, the I like Luca.
Speaker 3: Luca in the playoffs has been so dominant and such
Speaker 3: a sure thing. Your mom's at the door, so we
Speaker 3: got to hurry up. All right, last couple go.
Speaker 5: Baby, Pat said, when do you start to believe that
Speaker 5: a young quarterback could be your franchise guy?
Speaker 4: Is it all eye tests? Is it accolades?
Speaker 5: Team success? What more? What more do guys like Hurts
Speaker 5: to a Lamar Daniel Jones have to prove well?
Speaker 3: I only think Hurts as really anything more to prove
Speaker 3: right because he in the playoffs seed in the regular season,
Speaker 3: it's tough. One second, baby, your mom's waiting to get
Speaker 3: in demons. Go let her out so she doesn't get mad.
Speaker 3: Tua has to prove its stay healthy. Lamar's got a
Speaker 3: I guess, kind of prove he can do it in
Speaker 3: the playoffs. But Lamar's already worth a long term deal
Speaker 3: without question. Daniel Jones has to do it a lot
Speaker 3: more than he's done. And then coach Mystic asks top
Speaker 3: three meals I had in Brazil. I ate a place
Speaker 3: called Satira Cone, which was this unbelievable seafood place where
Speaker 3: your mom of course ordered the King Crab that was
Speaker 3: for two people, but it was just for her.
Speaker 4: But then I did eat some of it.
Speaker 3: It was unbelievable. Uh, we had we ate it. This
Speaker 3: great steak. Steak is the national.
Speaker 4: Food of Brazil.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know the you don't forget to chow that's
Speaker 3: from Brazil and the churse scenaria. So that style of
Speaker 3: they have a one hundred restaurants like that where they yeah,
Speaker 3: they come over.
Speaker 4: They didn't cut to sing.
Speaker 3: So we ate a few great steak places and we
Speaker 3: ate a this we'd add this chef's table thing at
Speaker 3: this really fancy restaurant where they had you ate in
Speaker 3: the kitchen and you watched the chef's cook and they
Speaker 3: brought you stuff over. But here's the truth. What I
Speaker 3: learned that I loved in Brazil that I had never
Speaker 3: eaten chicken heart.
Speaker 5: Chicken heart.
Speaker 3: It's do you remember do you remember King City? Do
Speaker 3: you remember Go Chicken Go and the gizzards?
Speaker 5: So it's like that.
Speaker 3: It's like that, except it to the heart instead of
Speaker 3: the gizzard. And I'm telling you, I ate the first
Speaker 3: piece thinking it was a gizzard, and I was like, gizzard,
Speaker 3: if you're gonna kill the animal hull as we use
Speaker 3: every piece.
Speaker 4: Of it, buddy.
Speaker 3: But then we were I ate. I was like, this
Speaker 3: is really good, and so I ate a few more
Speaker 3: and I said to your mom, I was like, this
Speaker 3: doesn't look like a gizzard. And I was like, it
Speaker 3: looks like it, you know, it kind of looks like
Speaker 3: a heart, like it has the little like the vindriful things.
Speaker 3: And then I I translated was on the menu and
Speaker 3: it was chicken heart. But then I ordered it at
Speaker 3: two other places as an appetizer. They were delicious dark. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's today's episode. See you guys Thursday.
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