Speaker 1: It's shit boy. I'm back in the house in my studio.
Speaker 1: We got NBA finals to talk about. We've got anti
Speaker 1: immigration issues rating Los Angeles unintended by the way, we
Speaker 1: got senators being removed from press conferences forcibly. All of
Speaker 1: that is going on, and I didn't even bring up
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Speaker 1: federal ice raids and the subsequent protests happening around the country.
Speaker 1: The flashpoint happened in Los Angeles, California, when overnight curfew
Speaker 1: was lifted at nine a m. Eastern. The curfew covered
Speaker 1: about one square mile in downtown LA with a protest
Speaker 1: against ice raids and troop deployments in the city had
Speaker 1: been constant traded. Similar protests took place in other cities,
Speaker 1: including in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Austin, Texas, Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: and of course, the nation's capital, Washington, DC. Meanwhile, three
Speaker 1: Democratic governors defended the state's immigration enforcement policies before the
Speaker 1: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today. Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker,
Speaker 1: Minnesota governor and former Democratic Vice presidential nominee Tim Wallas,
Speaker 1: and New York Governor Cathy Hochel testified at what the
Speaker 1: committee describes as quote a hearing with sanctuary state governors.
Speaker 1: End quote, and check this out. This was the scene
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles just this afternoon as Homeland Security Secretary
Speaker 1: Christy Nome was speaking about the raids and protests. That's
Speaker 1: Democratic Senator Alex Badia of California, who was confronted by
Speaker 1: security and forcibly removed from that press conference. Badia spoke
Speaker 1: out during nomes initial remarks to reporters and attempted to
Speaker 1: shout questions at the secretary. The senator was shoved out
Speaker 1: of the room, taken to the ground, and handcuffed. End quote.
Speaker 1: You see, ladies and gentlemen, you see that right there.
Speaker 1: That's why they've been talking about Steven Nate Smith being
Speaker 1: a candidate for president the United States. That's why you
Speaker 1: should be looking at Governor Wes Moore of Maryland. You
Speaker 1: should be looking at Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania. You
Speaker 1: know the people that don't engage in this kind of nonsense.
Speaker 1: You talking about propping yourself up. It's all nonsense. It's
Speaker 1: all used as a tool to divide us. On one hand,
Speaker 1: we have the President of the United States focusing our
Speaker 1: attention on illegal immigration and really highlighting it to the
Speaker 1: umph degree to make himself look good. Because you can't
Speaker 1: point to the terrorists right now. You can't necessarily point
Speaker 1: to the economy right now. You can't you can't look
Speaker 1: at the war in Ukraine with Russia. You can't point
Speaker 1: to that right now. You can't point to doge in
Speaker 1: what they're doing because Elon Musk and you have had
Speaker 1: your little tiff over the last week, week and a half.
Speaker 1: So you can't point to that right now. So what's
Speaker 1: a winning hand to play. It's this, it's immigration, it's migrants,
Speaker 1: it's those who are undocumented or here illegally. That's a
Speaker 1: winning hand and that's what he's doing. So you got
Speaker 1: that side. And on another side here you have this
Speaker 1: Senator alex Badia. Can Christy Noan speak? Could you have
Speaker 1: waited till she finished to ask your questions to shout
Speaker 1: your questions. You are a senator, right, you couldn't wait?
Speaker 1: So that was just you out of control because you
Speaker 1: were just losing it. Hup. You are United States senator.
Speaker 1: Couldn't compose yourself and let the head of Homeland Security
Speaker 1: finish her thoughts before you ask the question? Could do that? Hah?
Speaker 1: Couldn't do it? Hah? I know you got an explanation
Speaker 1: for it. I know you got an explanation for it.
Speaker 1: And then fairness to you, because that's what we do here.
Speaker 1: Oh to Stephen A. Smize, I'm gonna be fit of
Speaker 1: you by making sure that people hear what you have
Speaker 1: to say. Go ahead, Senator alexbda, go ahead, let's hear you.
Speaker 2: If this is how this administration responds to a senator
Speaker 2: with a question, If this is how the Department of
Speaker 2: Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you
Speaker 2: can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks,
Speaker 2: to daily abords out in the Los Angeles community and
Speaker 2: throughout California and throughout the country. We will hold this
Speaker 2: administration accountable.
Speaker 1: Really, how are you gonna do that? Unless you win
Speaker 1: at the post? How are you gonna do that I'm
Speaker 1: all is take your time away. Hey, you gonna do that,
Speaker 1: because I don't see how it's gonna happen. Senator Alex
Speaker 1: ver did did you recognize that you sound a bit
Speaker 1: similar to a couple of other people. Let's take it
Speaker 1: to consideration. California Governor Gavin Newsom, according to a Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal, reading from an article right here, hitting all
Speaker 1: of the greatest resistance hits Democracy is under assault before
Speaker 1: our eyes. Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are
Speaker 1: at least able to defend themselves, who are at least
Speaker 1: able to defend themselves. He's assaulting the First Amendment. He's
Speaker 1: taking a wrecking ball to our founding father's historic project.
Speaker 1: This is what Gavin Newsom was saying about the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: Then that sounds similar to you, sounds similar to me.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at certain things like this, and I'm
Speaker 1: saying to myself, where's that gonna get you? Because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, when you bring up the
Speaker 1: fact that you don't like what Trump is doing, and
Speaker 1: you're coming to the defense of migrants of immigrants. While
Speaker 1: it's admirable from a humanitarian perspective, all of us as
Speaker 1: human beings as God fearing individuals. We don't want to
Speaker 1: see anybody suffering the way some of these migrants have
Speaker 1: been suffering. Make no mistake about that. This is not
Speaker 1: what that's about. This is about playing a winning hand,
Speaker 1: or creating a winning hand, or incorporating a winning formula.
Speaker 1: Are you doing that? Senate? Up a deal? Are you
Speaker 1: doing that? Governor Newsom? Because this ain't a winning argument.
Speaker 1: The polls showed that. I don't want to hear anything
Speaker 1: about how there's no mandate with Trump. He didn't win
Speaker 1: fifty percent of the vote. You didn't either. He won
Speaker 1: a popular vote, he won electoral college vote, he won
Speaker 1: every swing state, He increased his votes with young voters,
Speaker 1: black voters, Hispanic voters. Facts. It was an indictment against
Speaker 1: you as a party. And what has happened since that time.
Speaker 1: Now he's gotten into office and you're raising Holy hell
Speaker 1: because he's engaging in a level of extremism. To my degree,
Speaker 1: I feel this way. I don't like what I see
Speaker 1: Trump doing in Los Angeles at all. You heard Kevin
Speaker 1: Fraser come on the show just the other day and
Speaker 1: point out how overblown some things are right now, how
Speaker 1: this conspicuous presence that's been placed on the city of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, where you got four members of the National Guard,
Speaker 1: four thousand members of the National Guard, and at least
Speaker 1: seven hundred members of the United States Marines protecting federal property, etc.
Speaker 1: Is all of that necessary? It does seem a bit extreme.
Speaker 1: But if you're a politician and you're trying to play
Speaker 1: a winning hand, if there's nobody in the streets throwing
Speaker 1: stuff at you, if there's nobody in the streets spewing
Speaker 1: hatred at you and being a bit belligerent, what would
Speaker 1: they have to show for the canvas? What would they
Speaker 1: have to show? And you, as a Democratic party, you
Speaker 1: have to remember what the backdrop of all of this
Speaker 1: is law and order from Trump, because they didn't appear
Speaker 1: to be law and order when Biden was in office.
Speaker 1: Open borders, you set nothing. Migrants coming through the streets
Speaker 1: of America, you set nothing. We got medical in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles paying over a billion dollars for migrants, but don't
Speaker 1: have some don't have enough for Los Angeleans who are
Speaker 1: born right here in the United States of America. What
Speaker 1: argument do you think is going to win? No one
Speaker 1: with since believes that President Trump is totally right. This
Speaker 1: is not about right and wrong with him. This is
Speaker 1: about him knowing he has the benefit of the doubt
Speaker 1: on his side because of what you did over for
Speaker 1: big over four years when he was out of office.
Speaker 1: If you were Gavin Newsom, as the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: alluded to, you know what you could have done to
Speaker 1: alleviate this. Since you want to take the Trump administration
Speaker 1: to court and say that he had no business federalizing
Speaker 1: the National Guard, you could have caught the National Guard.
Speaker 1: You could have made sure that law enforcement throughout the
Speaker 1: city of Los Angeles had a very strong, vibrant, conspicuous
Speaker 1: presence where there. It might have alleviated the possibility of
Speaker 1: him calling in, meaning Trump calling in the National Guards
Speaker 1: in the Marines. You could have done that, but you didn't,
Speaker 1: And because you didn't, you gave him the opening to
Speaker 1: do it. Because it makes you look like you're weak
Speaker 1: on on crime, you're weak on lawlessness, you're weak on borders,
Speaker 1: all the things that got him elected. You're playing into
Speaker 1: his hand. And not only did you do it, Governor
Speaker 1: news Now sen it up a deer did it because
Speaker 1: we all know you could have waited for her to
Speaker 1: finish speaking now, I will say this, they had no
Speaker 1: business putting cuffs on Senate a pidea escorting him out
Speaker 1: of the room, even forcibly was within bounds. The Secretary
Speaker 1: for Homeland Security was speaking, you let her finish, You
Speaker 1: don't want to let her finish, then hey, they definitely
Speaker 1: should have removed you from the room. That is it.
Speaker 1: They didn't need to put you on the ground. They
Speaker 1: didn't need to handcuff you. All they needed to do
Speaker 1: was keep you out of the room. You are a
Speaker 1: United States senator, very disrespectful, comes across as authoritarian President Trump,
Speaker 1: crossing the line without question, without question. But they didn't
Speaker 1: arrest them. They did let him go, and within minutes
Speaker 1: he was outside holding his own press conference. That is
Speaker 1: Senate up a deal. So let's take that into consideration.
Speaker 1: Now that I've said what I had to say about
Speaker 1: the Democrats, who I think I'm playing right in the
Speaker 1: Trump's hands and looking like absolute fools doing so. That
Speaker 1: doesn't absolve the Republicans, especially the number one member of
Speaker 1: the GOP these days, that is the forty seventh President
Speaker 1: of the United States. I want to race everybody out
Speaker 1: there listening. I almost caught a heart attack when I
Speaker 1: heard President Trump say what I'm about to show you.
Speaker 1: He said, play that tape. Please. We have a great
Speaker 1: country and we're going to keep it that way.
Speaker 3: And when it comes to Los Angeles or other cities,
Speaker 3: if we see other cities are gearing up, and these
Speaker 3: people are agitators, they're paid, they're professionals, they're insurrectionists, their troublemakers,
Speaker 3: they are all of those things.
Speaker 1: But uh, I believe they're paid.
Speaker 3: And we're going to find out through Pambondi and her
Speaker 3: great staff, her great people, and justice who they are.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you did it, No, you did it. Is
Speaker 1: that President Trump that just called somebody insurrectionists? People who
Speaker 1: are protested in the streets, dare I say looters, people
Speaker 1: that are defacing property with graffiti and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You called them insurrectionists. But those folks that stormed the
Speaker 1: US capital in twenty twenty one, bulldozing through barricades and
Speaker 1: capital security, they were insurrectionists. But you're calling these folks directionists.
Speaker 1: Really really? January sixth, defendants pardoned by Trump, over one
Speaker 1: thousand and five hundred of them were hardened by Trump.
Speaker 1: Where video is everywhere of them storming the United States Capital,
Speaker 1: going into chambers, sitting behind the desk of Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: chanting killed former Vice President Mike Pince. One woman was
Speaker 1: shot by Secret Service. There were a couple of people
Speaker 1: who died. And you call these folks in Los Angeles insurrectionists,
Speaker 1: see ladies and gentlemen. This is what I meant by
Speaker 1: when I said, this is what the politicians have done
Speaker 1: to us, not all of them. There's good on both sides,
Speaker 1: there's bad on both sides. But this is what the
Speaker 1: nation's capital, the elected officials legislating and holding purview over
Speaker 1: our country, has done to us. They serve to divide us.
Speaker 1: They're not about bringing us together. They're about keeping us
Speaker 1: divided so we can butt heads with one another, create
Speaker 1: and then live in the chaos we do create while
Speaker 1: they chill up on Capitol Hill having dominion over our lives.
Speaker 1: This is why these parties need to be purged. This
Speaker 1: is why there needs to be a cleansing in the
Speaker 1: nation's capital. I myself, I'm a fan of Governor Wesmore Maryland.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of Jos Shapiro of Pennsylvania. I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of Marco Rubio. As crazy as that may sound
Speaker 1: to some, of you because of what you see him
Speaker 1: doing as Secretary of State and heading our national security
Speaker 1: intelligence as well national security Rather, I get it. But
Speaker 1: seasoned politicians that know how to articulate themselves and are
Speaker 1: about legislation, are about policies and about laws in our
Speaker 1: land as opposed to creating chaos is what I'm down for.
Speaker 1: Guys like John Kasch, former governor of Ohio, Chris Christi,
Speaker 1: former governor of New Jersey, not popular with a lot
Speaker 1: of people, popular with me. Nikki Haley, I would have
Speaker 1: voted for her. You don't need this chaos. This is
Speaker 1: exactly what I was afraid of, exactly what I was
Speaker 1: afraid of. Gavin Newsom clearly believes his strategy is to
Speaker 1: be antithetical to anything that is Trump by showing his
Speaker 1: behavior can remen can can emulate Trumps, and other Democrats
Speaker 1: are gonna follow suit. Maxine Waters, God bless her. In
Speaker 1: her eighties, she goes to some event daring federal officials
Speaker 1: to shoot her. Really, really, that's how we're going to behave.
Speaker 1: Like I said when I started, no wonder folks have
Speaker 1: me as a candidate for the presidency of the United
Speaker 1: States of America not to be clear. I might cut
Speaker 1: some people out from time to time, ain't no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. But I would be about bringing people together
Speaker 1: and working on compromise. That's the kind of candidate we need,
Speaker 1: not me, but somebody committed to galvanizing instead of polarizing
Speaker 1: the way this was going right now, times are only
Speaker 1: gonna get uglier before they get better, because who's really
Speaker 1: sincere when they're talking about how we need to get better?
Speaker 1: I don't see any evidence of it. I just don't
Speaker 1: coming up. My prediction is not wrong yet. But the
Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers are now up to one of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: Are the thunder finished? That's next? Right here on the
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Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Thunder. Will they even it up for
Speaker 1: Game four? Okay, meaning the Thunder? Will they even it up?
Speaker 1: They better? I'm giving you my picks for Friday night's game,
Speaker 1: so check it out. First up, will Tyrese Halliburton score
Speaker 1: more or less than eighteen and a half points. He's
Speaker 1: on his home turf, he's feeling comfortable, feeling himself, particularly
Speaker 1: after this performance and game thing. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: more on this particular answer. Next, we'll pass galsi Ikam
Speaker 1: score more or less than twenty and a half points.
Speaker 1: He was aggressive at the start, aggressive when it counted.
Speaker 1: I think he'll answer the call as well. I think
Speaker 1: he'll show up. I'm going with more with him as well. Next,
Speaker 1: Shay Gilges Alexander scores more or less than thirty four points,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with less on this. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna get about thirty thirty plus, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's gonna be as much as thirty four because
Speaker 1: I think that he's gonna need somebody else to step
Speaker 1: up and show go up and help out. Indiana's bench
Speaker 1: played lights out in Game three. They cannot play OKC
Speaker 1: that way. In Game four of OKC stands to win
Speaker 1: this game, they're gonna have to show up. Contributions are
Speaker 1: gonna have to come from elsewhere. I think it will.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm going with Shay doing less, because others
Speaker 1: will do more. And finally, will Jaylen Williams score more
Speaker 1: or less than twenty one and a half points. I'm
Speaker 1: going with more on this. So that's more for Tyrese Halliburton,
Speaker 1: more for Pascal Siakam, less for Shae Butter Shay gilg
Speaker 1: Just Alexander and more for his back court mate Jalen Williams.
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Speaker 1: let's get started with the NBA Finals that shifted to Indeed,
Speaker 1: where the Pacers now have a two games to one
Speaker 1: lead over the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Pacers got a
Speaker 1: huge boost from their bench when Benedict Matthern dropped that
Speaker 1: game high twenty seven points. Tyrese Haliburton added twenty two points,
Speaker 1: eleven assists and nine rebounds, and Pascalsiakam scored twenty one
Speaker 1: points as well. The Pacers now have a two to
Speaker 1: one series advantage over the heavily favored Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 1: I ain't know, I ain't know. It's gonna look like this.
Speaker 1: Give props where props is due. Pascalsiakam came out aggressive
Speaker 1: in Game three, set the tone. TJ McConnell came off
Speaker 1: the bench, had about three steals, was in everybody's face,
Speaker 1: dictating pace. He was a professional. Pesss Gotta give him
Speaker 1: a lot of love. Matthern is underestimated. You look at
Speaker 1: him coming off the bench, but people forget he started
Speaker 1: seventy nine He started like forty nine games this year, Okay,
Speaker 1: And not only did he start that many games this year,
Speaker 1: he was the third leading scorer on the team. So
Speaker 1: the brother could put the ball in the hole. He's
Speaker 1: got a very, very bright future, make no mistake about it.
Speaker 1: But if you're talking about the Indiana Pacers, you gotta
Speaker 1: give love to Tyrese Halliburgen because he nearly had a
Speaker 1: triple double, he balled out, he played the kind of
Speaker 1: game he's capable of playing, and all of this stuff
Speaker 1: that you point out about him. Everybody's been talking about it,
Speaker 1: and everybody getting on me for creating question marks about it.
Speaker 1: I'm getting a discussed, I'm getting disgusted personally, gun getting
Speaker 1: blamed for some shit I really really didn't do. All right,
Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is that I don't mean
Speaker 1: to down the brother because I think he can play.
Speaker 1: I think he can ball. Just because I don't think
Speaker 1: he's a superstar doesn't mean that I don't think he's
Speaker 1: a damn good player. Take her in towards greatness. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not the one that labeled him overrated. That was
Speaker 1: his contemporaries who were ignorant, by the way, because he's
Speaker 1: not overrated, which is something that I said. But evidently
Speaker 1: he's hard of hearing because as great as he is,
Speaker 1: or as great as he has the potential to be
Speaker 1: as a basketball player, he's not a great listener because
Speaker 1: when he had an opportunity to point out the real
Speaker 1: culprits spewing that nonsense about him, he wanted to point
Speaker 1: the finger in a very very familiar place. Listen to
Speaker 1: Tyrese Halliburton post game after the Pacers beat the Oklahoma
Speaker 1: said he thunder in Game three on Wednesday night. Check
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 4: Most of the time, the talking heads on the major platforms,
Speaker 4: I couldn't care less, honestly, Like what do they really
Speaker 4: know about basketball? I mean, at a time like this,
Speaker 4: I'm not really on social media as much, but you know,
Speaker 4: you see it, and you know ESPN might be on
Speaker 4: in my house and there it is.
Speaker 1: And Tyres Haliburton a couple of things. You do know
Speaker 1: that Charles Barkley is remember the media, right, So it's
Speaker 1: Kenny Smith, two time champions. So is Shaquille O'Neal, four
Speaker 1: time champion, Charles Barkkans all time seventy fifth Anniversary Team
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, gold medal, Olympic winner, Jay Williams, ESPN
Speaker 1: National College Player of the Year, National champion, the Duke,
Speaker 1: Kendrick Perkins champion with the Boston Celtics, Mark Heath, and
Speaker 1: Marcus Morris. Everybody's had comments about you, Okay, none of
Speaker 1: us would have ones who labeled you overrated. Those were
Speaker 1: your contemporaries when you played in the NBA Finals, and
Speaker 1: we pointed out how you shooting thirty three percent for
Speaker 1: the field and averaging fifteen points a game. Even you
Speaker 1: said you had to play better, this is an eight
Speaker 1: percent drop off. You're averaging twenty points a game better
Speaker 1: than fifty percent shooting. When you win the playoff games,
Speaker 1: you're averaging twelve points a game in the thirty percentile
Speaker 1: shooting when you're losing games, and in my estimation, when
Speaker 1: you are somebody that is great, when you are somebody
Speaker 1: that is considered a superstar, that level of inconsistency doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily exist. But far being for me to tell you
Speaker 1: that somebody's been covering the NBA for thirty years far
Speaker 1: being for me. Maybe you'll respect it if you heard
Speaker 1: it from Irvin Magic Johnson himself. Listen up, Please define
Speaker 1: a superstar.
Speaker 5: A person who can go on the road and sell
Speaker 5: the building.
Speaker 1: There we go, that's that's a simple justinis ship. Simple
Speaker 1: I'm going to see that person, right, So you ain't
Speaker 1: talking skill on the court. That's it about going to
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 5: A superstar gotta say, man, or you're running home from
Speaker 5: the office and saying, oh, I got to see him
Speaker 5: on TV. Right, And that's what you Larry Bird people
Speaker 5: running home, right, Charles bar people running home, Shock, people
Speaker 5: running home, Kobe, people running home. And then of course
Speaker 5: the greatest has ever played, Michael Jordan. People going running
Speaker 5: home to see him, or they're trying their best to
Speaker 5: get into the arena.
Speaker 1: To see that brother play.
Speaker 5: That's a superstar who could go on the road and
Speaker 5: sell the building. Now, of course, a superstar player, superstar player,
Speaker 5: they gotta lead you to the championship. They gotta lead
Speaker 5: you to the championship. And it's gotta mean so much
Speaker 5: to them. It's gotta be painful, it's gotta hurt, you know.
Speaker 5: And so superstar is a guy who makes his teammates better.
Speaker 1: Right, it's not.
Speaker 5: Just getting yours, but how do you also inspire the
Speaker 5: other guys to bring them up to a level that's
Speaker 5: a superstar to me, That makes an impact on that team,
Speaker 5: in that locker room, in that city.
Speaker 1: You get the picture. Now, You damn sure ain't the
Speaker 1: first category, but you got a chance to be the second.
Speaker 1: You win the championship over Shake Gilders, Alexander, the ring
Speaker 1: in League MVP, who walked into Game three in Indiana
Speaker 1: averaging thirty six. You take him out in the Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City thunder. We got to look at you differently. Tyree's Aliburton.
Speaker 1: You right about that, But for this particular moment of time,
Speaker 1: there is an absence of consistency, and there certainly isn't
Speaker 1: a box office element that is not disrespectful. That's factual. Now,
Speaker 1: I do understand that certain players who will remain nameless,
Speaker 1: who happen to be superstars in this league, believe that
Speaker 1: that's hating on players. We don't do enough to tell
Speaker 1: your stories. We don't do enough to support and blow
Speaker 1: y'all up and talk about the positives. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: thought talking about the game was positive. If you have
Speaker 1: a game. If you have a game and somebody's talking
Speaker 1: about how good your game is and comparing it to
Speaker 1: the greatest who ever played the game, isn't that complimentary?
Speaker 1: Last time I checked, I thought that was. So let's
Speaker 1: be very very careful about what we're thinking about when
Speaker 1: we say some of the things that we say. It's
Speaker 1: real easy to point the finger at the media or
Speaker 1: the media doesn't know. The media doesn't know, well, can
Speaker 1: we watch? How much does a person need to know
Speaker 1: to watch you shoot thirty three percent from three point range?
Speaker 1: To watch you attempt seven shots over the first forty
Speaker 1: minutes of a game of a game two of an
Speaker 1: NBA Finals, knowing that you're the engine you're destroyed that
Speaker 1: stirs the cup for the Indiana Pacers office. How much
Speaker 1: expertise is needed to see you be handcuffed, to see
Speaker 1: you be passive aggressive, to see you have the entire
Speaker 1: left side of the basketball court wide open in a
Speaker 1: one on one situation against a defender and don't even
Speaker 1: look to go in that direction because you run into
Speaker 1: a crowd of defenders. What level of expertise is needed
Speaker 1: in order for you to get the picture? We know
Speaker 1: you can play, We know you're not a scrub. We
Speaker 1: know you don't deserve to be overrated like some of
Speaker 1: your contemporaries do. But please don't fall for the regular
Speaker 1: old okie doke where you're pointing a finger at the media.
Speaker 1: Just play your game. The better you play, we'll notice,
Speaker 1: just like we notice when you don't play, we'll notice
Speaker 1: when you do. By the way, Oklahoma City's in trouble.
Speaker 1: They have to win Game four. If the Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: is done, they do not win Game four, it's a rap.
Speaker 1: The Indiana Pacers have changed this series around. You see
Speaker 1: what Oklahoma City has been doing in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: of the two losses, thirty six percent shooting from the field.
Speaker 1: That ain't gonna cut it. And Indiana's making buckets. I'm
Speaker 1: telling y'all, Indiana's not losing three straight. They go up
Speaker 1: three to one. After Friday Night, they are winning the championship.
Speaker 1: So that makes Game four Friday Night in Indiana. That
Speaker 1: makes it in Indianapolis, That makes it the game of
Speaker 1: the series. I believe who wins Friday Night wins the chip.
Speaker 1: Whoever loses loses. Remember I said that, Remember I said
Speaker 1: that I got something to talk about with the Knicks
Speaker 1: very very important next conversation, but not until I pay
Speaker 1: some bills. We'll be right back in a minute. All right, everybody,
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Speaker 1: let's get to the New York Knicks and then search
Speaker 1: for a new head coach, which doesn't appear to be
Speaker 1: going well. By the way, the Knicks, who fired Tom
Speaker 1: Thibodeaux after advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals, have been
Speaker 1: turned down by several teams seeking to speak to their
Speaker 1: head coach. According to multiple sources, the Mavericks denied the
Speaker 1: next permission to interview Jason Kidd. The Timberwolves did the
Speaker 1: same with Chris Finch, The Rockets did the same with
Speaker 1: Emy Udoka, The Bulls did the same with Billy Donovan,
Speaker 1: and the Hawks did the same with Quinn Snyder. So
Speaker 1: the situation looks disastrous for New York, who fire the
Speaker 1: head coach that led them to the Eastern Conference finals
Speaker 1: without a plan. Here's my point, what the hell are
Speaker 1: you doing calling Quinn Snyder? You let go of Tom Thibodeaux,
Speaker 1: and your answer to New Yorkers was going to be
Speaker 1: Quinn Snyder is the next head coach of this franchise.
Speaker 1: Quinn Snyder, who by the way, knows basketball, who can coach.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to disrespect him in any way. I'm
Speaker 1: just simply saying, what is he accomplished that's gonna make
Speaker 1: you say, Okay, it's all right that Tims is going.
Speaker 1: We got this guy now, because that's what you need
Speaker 1: to do. When you got a coach that gotted you
Speaker 1: to back to back fifty plus win seasons or fifty
Speaker 1: win seasons and took you to within two games of
Speaker 1: an NBA Finals, you're going to need to have somebody
Speaker 1: bonafide in order to replace him, wouldn't you say? I'd
Speaker 1: say so. Billy Donovan, two top national champion at Florida,
Speaker 1: respect the hell out of that man. But in Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City and then now in Chicago, he's not the answer
Speaker 1: for the New York Knicks at this particular moment in time.
Speaker 1: He's just he's just not.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 1: I can understand you reaching out to email you Doka,
Speaker 1: you had no chance tell infatit. They ain't let that
Speaker 1: man out of that contract with two years left on
Speaker 1: this deal. He loves them. I understand you reaching out
Speaker 1: to other coaches adjacent Kidd in Dallas, Mavericks weren't letting
Speaker 1: him go. Anthony Davis is coming back, Kyrie Evan eventually
Speaker 1: coming back. We are about they're about to draft Cooper Flag. Okay, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: the ain't they ain't letting Jason Kidd go not happening.
Speaker 1: I'm still wondering why they have it picked or at
Speaker 1: least interviewed Mike Malone, former coach with the Denver Nuggets,
Speaker 1: who won a championship just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: What the hell is that about? To not even talk
Speaker 1: to this man, to not even interview this man knowing
Speaker 1: that he brings championship credentials to the table. What's up
Speaker 1: with that? With all of that being said, y'all know
Speaker 1: where I'm going. I'm waiting for Mark Jackson to get
Speaker 1: the call hand down, man. Damn that dude. I'm waiting
Speaker 1: for a guy that started Bishop Blacklan in Brooklyn, New York,
Speaker 1: that went to Saint John's University and stood out, they
Speaker 1: got drafted by the New York Knicks and was Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year. I'm talking about that Mark Jackson. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Mark Jackson, who was last seen as an
Speaker 1: outstanding a team member of you know, the a team
Speaker 1: calling games on the NBA for ESPN and ABC with
Speaker 1: Jeff Van Gundy. I'm talking about that Mark Jackson. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about to Mark Jackson that guided Steph Curry and
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson and Draymond Green through the early parts of
Speaker 1: their career that set the table for Steve Curdi capitalized
Speaker 1: on and ultimately become a champion as a coach. How
Speaker 1: in God's name does this man Mark Jackson, who's been
Speaker 1: out of coaching for a decade, not even get a
Speaker 1: job in over a decade, not even as a lead assistant.
Speaker 1: How's that happen? I'm really really wondering about that. I
Speaker 1: really need to understand that. And so I say all
Speaker 1: of that to say to you, this guy Mark Jackson,
Speaker 1: New York would stand up and salute at such a
Speaker 1: decision without question. He would be embraced by New Yorkers
Speaker 1: everywhere because we all know he was a damn good coach,
Speaker 1: and we all knows he deserves the opportunity. He doesn't
Speaker 1: deserve to be blackball like it appears he's been blackballed.
Speaker 1: The other name that I would throw out there is
Speaker 1: Sam Cassell, lead assistant on the Boston Celtics. It's been
Speaker 1: an assistant coach in various places, including Philadelphia and now Boston.
Speaker 1: He's been a bevy of places. He has paid his dues.
Speaker 1: By the way, He's a two time champion as a player.
Speaker 1: He knows the game of basketball. He's in your face,
Speaker 1: he's about holding you accountable. By the way, he also
Speaker 1: won a championship with Boston if I remember correctly, with
Speaker 1: KG and the Crew. Sam Cassell is special basketball mind
Speaker 1: and incredibly incredibly relatable. The players will get in their face,
Speaker 1: call them the hell out, and still have them hugging
Speaker 1: them and saying let's go out to dinner. That's how
Speaker 1: much love they got for him and respect they have
Speaker 1: for him. Sam Cassell has the credentials. Mark Jackson or
Speaker 1: Sam Cassell next head coach for the New York Knicks.
Speaker 1: Why not? Why not? Because clearly the Knicks don't know
Speaker 1: what the hell they're doing. Maybe it was Dolan that
Speaker 1: forced leon Rose to get rid of him, even rid
Speaker 1: of Tom Thibodeaux. Even though he wasn't able to force
Speaker 1: leon Rose to do anything else. He gave leon Rose
Speaker 1: latitude with everything else. Why would he have a heavy
Speaker 1: hand when it comes to Thibodeaux. And if the players
Speaker 1: had something to do with this side, why did Leon
Speaker 1: Rose have to capitulate to them? Is he not the
Speaker 1: president of basketball operations? Where was Jalen Brunston going to
Speaker 1: go when you got his boy Michel Bridges and you
Speaker 1: got to call Anthony Towns. You got another one of
Speaker 1: his boys in Josh Hort. There where was he gonna go?
Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell's going on with the
Speaker 1: New York Knicks. I just know that the way they're
Speaker 1: being talked about now, just a couple of weeks after
Speaker 1: getting to the conference finals, it's tantamount to how they
Speaker 1: were being talked about when they were hot garbage, which
Speaker 1: means that chaos once again has reigned over the New
Speaker 1: York Knicks franchise, discombobulated all over the place, lacking maturity.
Speaker 1: It's got doling written all over it. Hopefully they'll make
Speaker 1: the right decision with who their next coach is gonna be.
Speaker 1: But we shall see, we shall see. Coming up, the
Speaker 1: latest poll is out and America has weighed in on
Speaker 1: the best French Fries. I'll get into that straight ahead.
Speaker 1: Plus I respond to your tweets and answer your phone
Speaker 1: calls as well. It's your boy, Steven. Ain't nobody hiding.
Speaker 1: I'm right here and I'll be back when you're back
Speaker 1: in just a moment. Welcome back to Steve the Swiss Show.
Speaker 1: Before I get to your tweets, I need you to
Speaker 1: take a look at the results of these fast food
Speaker 1: French fry rankings that were just released. The survey was
Speaker 1: conducted by Seating Masters and results were based on the
Speaker 1: analysis of more than forty thousand Yelp reviews. According to
Speaker 1: the analysis, In and Out has the best French fries
Speaker 1: of any fast food restaurant, scoring a three point eighty
Speaker 1: six out of five average. As if that result was
Speaker 1: not shocking enough, McDonald's was left entirely out of the
Speaker 1: top ten with a one point eighty six average. KFC
Speaker 1: ranked dead last, and you can see the rest of
Speaker 1: the top ten here, including Shake Shack, Bojangles, Chick fil A,
Speaker 1: and Harty's. First of all McDonald's not being on this list.
Speaker 1: As of gregious, the French fries are delicious. Okay, they're
Speaker 1: delicious now if you leave them out long enough and
Speaker 1: then get soggy and stuff, it is different. But I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the natural, crunchy French fries. I mean, it
Speaker 1: don't get much better than McDonald's.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something right now, most of this
Speaker 1: stuff I've never tried. I tried bo Jangles once, I
Speaker 1: ain't feeling it, Freddy's once. Now, shake Shack's got some
Speaker 1: decent fries. I'll give a credit where credit is due,
Speaker 1: all right, in and out, Burger sing all right, raising canes. Nope,
Speaker 1: I never tried it. Zaxby's, RB's, Harty's, Checkers and Rallies.
Speaker 1: I tried that once. To me, McDonald's should be top five.
Speaker 1: I put Chick fil A with number one. I'm a
Speaker 1: Chick fil A with the fries kind of dude for me, parshally,
Speaker 1: Chick fil A works for me. Only problem I got
Speaker 1: with Chick fil A they ain't open on Sundays. Other
Speaker 1: than that, I always want them. I always want Chick
Speaker 1: fil A. So I like Chick fil A a lot,
Speaker 1: and I would say they should be number one, and
Speaker 1: McDonald's I'm gonna go as far as they they should
Speaker 1: be top three. I do not blame Burger King for
Speaker 1: not being on this listens. All their fries are awful
Speaker 1: in my opinion, a humble opinion. I just don't like
Speaker 1: it's no taste to it whatsoever. I can't stand fries
Speaker 1: from Broke King. The one thing I will also tell you,
Speaker 1: you know who got some good fries too. Sometimes White Cash,
Speaker 1: white cass. Now people around laughing at me, people around
Speaker 1: me laughing at me all the time. They're like, oh
Speaker 1: God God, because any time they bring up White Castle,
Speaker 1: they know me. I love my cheeseburgers, my double cheeseburger.
Speaker 1: It's the greatest laxative ever known to man. It's the
Speaker 1: greatest laxative ever known the man. If you gotta go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom and you want stuff to come out
Speaker 1: just flowingly, you understand saying you go to White Castle.
Speaker 1: That's my personal opinion. I mean anything, you know, you're
Speaker 1: feeling bloated, like stuff is just stuck there, and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Oh White Castle, get rid of all that,
Speaker 1: and it's delicious. I love White Castle. And their fries
Speaker 1: are good too. But Chick fil A definitely should be
Speaker 1: number one, and make donald should be top three. But
Speaker 1: in and out their fries, they're not bad. They deserved
Speaker 1: to be in the top five. I ain't got no
Speaker 1: problem with that. I ain't got no problem with that. Now,
Speaker 1: let's get to your tweets, all right, before I get
Speaker 1: to your phone calls, and get the hell up out
Speaker 1: of here so I can go cover Game four. The
Speaker 1: NBA finals let's see what tweets you got up here
Speaker 1: at CFC Accountable Rights. Steven A. Smith, mister Smith, my
Speaker 1: girlfriend found out about my wife. Huh damn? Let me
Speaker 1: rewind that. Okay, my girlfriend found out about my wife,
Speaker 1: and now she's threatening to ruin my marriage and the
Speaker 1: lives of my three kids if I don't pay her
Speaker 1: a monthly fee of hush money. How do I fix
Speaker 1: this precarious situation without ruining my marriage? Your advice is
Speaker 1: my only hope. Don't put it on me.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 1: There's you. That's you right there. Now, here's the thing
Speaker 1: that's bugging me out about you. It's usually in reverse.
Speaker 1: It's usually the wife finding out about the girlfriend she
Speaker 1: didn't know about, not the girlfriend finding out about the
Speaker 1: wife she didn't know about. Now, I could be wrong,
Speaker 1: I'd be outdated. I'm not a woman. I haven't been
Speaker 1: in y'all situations. But it's usually the other way around
Speaker 1: from my understanding. So you lined about being married, right
Speaker 1: about being married? Here's the thing she's threatening to ruin
Speaker 1: your marriage. Bro, that's you. You are in danger using
Speaker 1: your ruining your marriage. You the one that messed us up.
Speaker 1: You got a wife and three kids. And you're gonna
Speaker 1: mess around with a girl and don't tell her, and
Speaker 1: then she comes back at you, and she's letting you know, y'all,
Speaker 1: I'm good if you pay me off. Usually a woman
Speaker 1: that's feeling you ain't good at all. She want to
Speaker 1: your damn world because you've wrecked hers because she don't
Speaker 1: have you. Except this girl is saying she's perfectly fine
Speaker 1: as long as you pay her. So I gotta ask
Speaker 1: you to see a question, my brother, how much money
Speaker 1: you got? Somebody gonna ask you. Now, if you're broke
Speaker 1: ass you know, world trouble. But if you were broke,
Speaker 1: chances are this girl sounds like she wouldn't have messed
Speaker 1: with you because she would have known beforehand. She might
Speaker 1: not have known about the white, but she damn sure
Speaker 1: knew whether you had a bank account. So that means
Speaker 1: that you might be well off enough to pay her
Speaker 1: a monthly fee. Now, now we have to ask ourself
Speaker 1: the second question, how much is money? Meaning you? Because
Speaker 1: if you a hawk for your money, you the type
Speaker 1: of person that will probably say, hell with that, I
Speaker 1: ain't paying her. But then she's tell a why And
Speaker 1: unlike her who wants the money, the wife will definitely
Speaker 1: get the money because she got not one, not two,
Speaker 1: but three kids from your ass. You don't messed up, bro,
Speaker 1: you don't messed up. I understand you saying my advice
Speaker 1: is your only hope. The one thing I can give
Speaker 1: you is hope. Not in this situation. You're in a
Speaker 1: bad spot. I would say to you, you know, you
Speaker 1: can sort of couch it, like, you know, spend money
Speaker 1: on her while doing stuff for her. She's getting the money,
Speaker 1: but she's also getting you. But that would be encouraging
Speaker 1: you to continue committing adultery and I can't do that.
Speaker 1: That was not very nice. You're gonna have to pay
Speaker 1: in some way. Bro, You're just gonna have to pay.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the money. You have to pay
Speaker 1: the price because you did wrong. You shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 1: Next up at Bob on the rob Right, Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 1: I'm in a bit of a sticky situation. My neighbor's
Speaker 1: delivery was sent to me, but I didn't know at
Speaker 1: the time, so I opened it up and found a
Speaker 1: toy used to experience pleasure. I'm having problems trying to reseal,
Speaker 1: and I don't want them to know that I saw
Speaker 1: what was inside? What should I do? Act like you
Speaker 1: never got it? That's all. They ain't got to know
Speaker 1: that you got it unless you want to use it,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to tell them. All I'm saying
Speaker 1: is you don't have to acknowledge that you received that.
Speaker 1: Bad boy. I don't know what you're talking about. Let
Speaker 1: them find it, let them do, let them deal with
Speaker 1: that with the damn postal work or something. You know
Speaker 1: why I say that, because who's going to come right
Speaker 1: knowing that they bought a toy for their pleasure. Who's
Speaker 1: gonna walk over to that neighbor and said, I had
Speaker 1: I was expecting a delivery? Did you see it? Did
Speaker 1: you see it? And then when you say no, When
Speaker 1: you say no, right, it's not like they gonna get specific.
Speaker 1: They ain't gonna get specific because they don't want to
Speaker 1: tell it themselves. They want telling themselves. So you got
Speaker 1: that going for you. I would say, deny, deny, deny,
Speaker 1: throw it away or keep it for yourself and swear
Speaker 1: that you never received a delivery because you can't reseal
Speaker 1: it right, and that would be more embarrassing. So since
Speaker 1: you opened it by accident, already saw it and you
Speaker 1: don't want them to know. Just act like you never
Speaker 1: got it. That's all, that is all, and just roll
Speaker 1: with it and whatever they think. They think, but they
Speaker 1: don't know definitively, and they're certainly not going to want
Speaker 1: to extend the conversation when they're talking about what they
Speaker 1: were doing to themselves fear of those toys. You feel me?
Speaker 1: Try two more to go. Let's see here at what
Speaker 1: is this? Turvis Scott writes Stephen A. Smith. Rank these
Speaker 1: rappers Kendrick Lamar, jay Z, Nas, Lil Wayne Damn. This
Speaker 1: is a tough one. Jay Z's my all time favorite,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna put him number one. Lil Wayne and
Speaker 1: Nas are legends, and before this year, Kendrick Lamar would
Speaker 1: have been fourth. But after not like us, after the
Speaker 1: way he eviscerated Drake, after seeing what he provoked Drake
Speaker 1: to respond like, and what he has done, I mean,
Speaker 1: Kendrick Special, Kendrick Special. I just I listened to his
Speaker 1: song die Hard every day. I love that song. Kendrick
Speaker 1: is a bad brother, make no mistake, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to put him up there. I would tell you
Speaker 1: as a rapper, NAS's special. But when's the last he's
Speaker 1: made some music. I would have to put Nas, then
Speaker 1: Lil Wayne, then Kendrick than jay Z. That's me. And
Speaker 1: you might say, well, when's the last time jay Z
Speaker 1: did something? While you're gonna put jay Z ahead of Kendrick, Well,
Speaker 1: Kendrick performed at the Super Bowl? Who picked him jay Z?
Speaker 1: Because jay Z is running the Super Bowl halftime entertainment
Speaker 1: for the National Football League, Because he's jay Z, and
Speaker 1: then there's everybody else. That's why I got to put
Speaker 1: him number one, next one, last one. What you got
Speaker 1: here at Jenks Hoops right, stephen A Smith? Which team
Speaker 1: would Kevin Durant benefit more playing for the Spurs or
Speaker 1: the Wolves? Well, first of all, the Spurs are young.
Speaker 1: But if you got a healthy Victor Winmbinianna with Castle
Speaker 1: CP three still there that kind of thing, I would
Speaker 1: have to go with the Spurs. But I would tell
Speaker 1: you I love the notion, the idea of Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: parent with aunt man Anthony Edwards, because Anthony Edwards needs
Speaker 1: another bona fide scorer to pay with him, to take
Speaker 1: some pressure off of him. I mean, okay, so he
Speaker 1: was playing like a matchup zone, but it looked like
Speaker 1: a man, the man, they were all over him. It
Speaker 1: was two guys in the facinity at all times. The
Speaker 1: minute he put the ball on the floor with six
Speaker 1: hands coming at him, it was something special to behold.
Speaker 1: So I would say to you, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: different when it comes to him, and I get that part.
Speaker 1: I just think that KD would be a perfect compliment
Speaker 1: for most teams, but especially Aunt Man. I like that.
Speaker 1: That would be my answer to this question. Let me
Speaker 1: get on out of here in a second, but not
Speaker 1: before I take your phone calls, because I promised you
Speaker 1: I was gonna take some phone calls and I definitely
Speaker 1: want to do that right now. There's some people that
Speaker 1: wants to talk to me before I get on out
Speaker 1: of here. I see the lines are filled up, so
Speaker 1: let's get right to it. Let's go to Jonathan and Charlotte.
Speaker 1: You're live with Stephen. Ay, what's up, Jonathan? How are
Speaker 1: you new?
Speaker 4: Ones?
Speaker 7: How you doing?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 7: I'm a right talk to me, Yeah serious, I was
Speaker 7: calling with the folen's going on right now, sir. For
Speaker 7: each team, I know the papers one yeah they know,
Speaker 7: two up and one for the thunder. If who can
Speaker 7: be the best for the team to get them past
Speaker 7: the paces right now, between Sta and Tyres Caliburton, who
Speaker 7: can be the best for the team to get on
Speaker 7: the trophy.
Speaker 1: I don't understand what the hell you're asking, Bro, because
Speaker 1: you sound all over the place. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I heard Halliburton, I heard as Gash gild Just Alexander
Speaker 1: between the top.
Speaker 7: I'm about between the two who can be the best.
Speaker 6: For the team they get to the team.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, good lord, Bro, slow down when you ask questions.
Speaker 1: I couldn't understand you. Shake gil Just Alexander's the reign
Speaker 1: in the league. Shake gil Just Alexander is the rann
Speaker 1: in league. MVP. Shake gil Just Alexander dropped thirty eight
Speaker 1: and thirty four in the first two games of this series.
Speaker 1: Up until last night, they dominated seven of the eight
Speaker 1: quarters they played against one another. So I look at
Speaker 1: it from that standpoint, and my answer is gonna be
Speaker 1: shaped because even though Halliburton can ball, I mean, I
Speaker 1: know people are a bit sensitive about him at this
Speaker 1: particular moment in time, But ain't nobody saying he can't ball.
Speaker 1: Ain'tbody say and he's not a young star on the rise.
Speaker 1: We know he's missed the clutching in terms of hitting
Speaker 1: five or five or fifteen seconds left or less in
Speaker 1: regulation or over time to tie or win a game.
Speaker 1: Tyre's Halliburton this postseason is five for five. The rest
Speaker 1: of the NBA is four twenty six. The brother Special
Speaker 1: and he deserves credit, but superstar status now, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna give him that. I'd give it to Shae. Shave
Speaker 1: is something to behold man. And when you look at
Speaker 1: Shay and what he brings to the table, were really
Speaker 1: really hurt him last night, or rather Wednesday night against
Speaker 1: against Indiana was that Rick Carlile and the Pacers run
Speaker 1: the ball even after made shots, so they're pushing the
Speaker 1: ball up the court constantly. It was about three or
Speaker 1: four times Shay was noted to the floor. He just
Speaker 1: laid there to get rest. That's what he did. That's
Speaker 1: what we're talking about here, and I think that's what
Speaker 1: we got to pay attention to. I mean, Halliburton is nice,
Speaker 1: Halliburton can ball, but he ain't Shay gives us Alexander
Speaker 1: when all lose. He's not Shay gilgess Alexander. So let's
Speaker 1: be clear about that. Appreciate the call. Jonathan. Next up,
Speaker 1: Mitchell in Virginia. You're live with steven A. What's up, Mitchell?
Speaker 6: Hey, stephen A. What a pleasure to speak with you, sir.
Speaker 6: I hope all as well. I'm a fellow in New
Speaker 6: Yorker here, an old time Knicks fan. Very disappointed in
Speaker 6: the next loss to Indiana. Quick question for you, though,
Speaker 6: in terms of the progression of of of Hallie Burton,
Speaker 6: did you did.
Speaker 5: You see the star.
Speaker 6: You know when he first came into the league. Was
Speaker 6: he signaling like, hey, I'm going to be in elite
Speaker 6: like an s G A territory.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, but listen, he can play, but he's
Speaker 1: a bit awkward or whatever. But he's productive and when
Speaker 1: he plays well, Indiana Pacers win and when he does it,
Speaker 1: they don't. And so it just shows his impact on
Speaker 1: the game on the outcome. But coming into the league,
Speaker 1: I wanted the Knicks to draft him. I thought they
Speaker 1: needed a point guard. If you recall they drafted Obi Topping.
Speaker 1: I wanted them to draft Tyreezse Halliburt and he ended
Speaker 1: up going to Sacramento. I wanted them to draft him
Speaker 1: because I knew the brother could play and I knew
Speaker 1: he was needed. So you know again, for him to
Speaker 1: be in the game in the finals, showing himself the
Speaker 1: way that he has right now and playing under immense
Speaker 1: pressure and pressure rized situations. I can't say enough about him.
Speaker 1: Just because I don't think you're a superstar yet doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that I don't think you can really really ball.
Speaker 1: And you're very damn good in inching towards greatness, there's
Speaker 1: no question about it. And he's got that clutch gene,
Speaker 1: he's got ice in his veins, he's not scared. All
Speaker 1: of those things are contributing components to him ultimately being
Speaker 1: recognized as a great, great player. But listen, within the
Speaker 1: next week or so, it may not matter because he
Speaker 1: may be crowned a champion, and we all know that's
Speaker 1: the ultimate title to have. So that's what I would
Speaker 1: tell you on that I got to get on out
Speaker 1: of here. I appreciated Mitchell thinking you so much. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Kyle in Oklahoma City. You're live with steven A.
Speaker 1: What's up, Kyle?
Speaker 8: Talk to me, steven A.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 1: How are you? You know?
Speaker 8: I'm good. I hope before I get started, I hope
Speaker 8: that the town and the people Okay see treated you. Well,
Speaker 8: while you were here.
Speaker 1: They did. The hospitality was off the charte. Nothing compared
Speaker 1: to the love they show for big perk Ken Perkins though,
Speaker 1: Oh my lord, they gave you the key to the city.
Speaker 1: They I mean, he could run for mayor and they
Speaker 1: vote for him. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 8: Well, you're you're probably you're probably number two in that book.
Speaker 8: I'll tell you, man, it's it's been. It's been crazy
Speaker 8: here in Okay. See you know, the town, the state
Speaker 8: of Oklahoma just with with us thunder what they've done.
Speaker 8: But today's been kind of rough. We're all kind of
Speaker 8: in morning right now. Not to say that it's over,
Speaker 8: but last night, last night was hard. How do we
Speaker 8: how do we get back on track for Game four
Speaker 8: tomorrow nights not.
Speaker 1: Playing with urgency, by understanding your season is on the line,
Speaker 1: by understanding this is no longer a joking. You're no
Speaker 1: longer deemed a prohibited favorite. These guys have taken it.
Speaker 1: It came back from a fifteen point deficit with a
Speaker 1: little over nine minutes left in Game one to beat you,
Speaker 1: and then last night they ran away from the game
Speaker 1: and they beat you. You gotta answer the call a
Speaker 1: championship is on the line. You gotta stand up and
Speaker 1: answer to what people are saying. There is no question
Speaker 1: about that. You have to do that. This is what
Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Thunder have to do. Collectively. They've been
Speaker 1: the best defense in basketball. They have the league MVP.
Speaker 1: They've been the number one seed over the last two
Speaker 1: regular seasons. They advanced. You knocked off Nakola jokicch you
Speaker 1: knocked off John morand you knocked off ant Man. But
Speaker 1: Halliburton's gonna take you out. I mean, think about that.
Speaker 1: If you're Oklahoma City, that should be your attitude. Halliburton
Speaker 1: can ball, Pascal Siakam can ball, no question about it.
Speaker 1: Nie Smith, them hard turn up. They all candball. TJ McConnell, Matthern,
Speaker 1: they all could ball, especially that damn TJ mcca. Oh
Speaker 1: my lord, him coming off the bench being the little
Speaker 1: energize a bunny, who could you know, just wreaking havoc steals,
Speaker 1: you know, pestering, dictating pace. Can't say enough about TJ McConnell.
Speaker 1: But here's the bottom line. Oklahoma City is still considered
Speaker 1: the better team. That means you got to show up
Speaker 1: and answer the call. And you know, what this is
Speaker 1: reminded me of. This reminded me of when the Detroit
Speaker 1: Pistons ram Rod at Kobe and Shaq and the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Lakers. That's what this is reminded me of. They
Speaker 1: were supposed to be the better team, but they ran
Speaker 1: into a buzz sor in Detroit. Led by the great
Speaker 1: coach Larry Brown. They had Rashie Wallace, Big Ben Wallace,
Speaker 1: tays Sean Prince along with Chauncey Billips and Rip Hamilton,
Speaker 1: and the Lakers couldn't do anything with them because they
Speaker 1: were the better team they played together. Oklahoma City may
Speaker 1: be the best team in terms of what you collectively
Speaker 1: see them as, but Indiana is playing better, or at
Speaker 1: least they did in Game three. Oklahoma City has to
Speaker 1: win Game four, otherwise they're going to lose the championship.
Speaker 1: They cannot overcome a three to one deficit. I don't
Speaker 1: believe it. I don't believe they're going to do that.
Speaker 1: They have to win Friday night and we'll see if
Speaker 1: they do. Let's go to one more call before I
Speaker 1: get on out of here. Please, Jackson in Illinois, you're
Speaker 1: live with Steven A. What's up, Jackson? How are you.
Speaker 9: Hey, I'm pretty good, Stephen.
Speaker 6: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm all right? Thank you for calling go ahead.
Speaker 9: Uh So, I have a question for you about Aaron Rodgers. Obviously,
Speaker 9: you know, very very interesting guy off the field, but
Speaker 9: I just want to talk about what he does on
Speaker 9: the field. I don't want you to tell me what
Speaker 9: maybe Pittsburgh Steelers fans should be expecting from them stat wise,
Speaker 9: at least this season, assuming he doesn't get hurt, and
Speaker 9: assuming that the wide receiver corps we have right now
Speaker 9: is the one we're entering the season with and going
Speaker 9: all the way through with.
Speaker 1: I believe that Aaron Rodgers will throw for at least
Speaker 1: four thousand yards.
Speaker 9: Okay, Okay, I can get down.
Speaker 1: I believe that he'll throw for any from twenty five
Speaker 1: to thirty touchdowns. He'll have about nine to ten interceptions.
Speaker 9: You know, I don't know if I quite agree on
Speaker 9: the interception number, but I can get down with almost
Speaker 9: everything else. I kind of if we're comparing him to
Speaker 9: like another fringe top ten quarterback that we always look at.
Speaker 9: It are you are still a San Jackson, oh big
Speaker 9: Jealers fan?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let me tell you something you understand
Speaker 1: that you should be happy no matter what.
Speaker 6: Right, Oh, absolutely, because.
Speaker 1: We walked into a quarterback room. We were contemplating walking
Speaker 1: into a quarterback room, okay with with I mean, who
Speaker 1: the hell was it, Skyla Thompson, Okay, Mason Rudolph and
Speaker 1: Will Howard. Nah, I can't have that. We desperately needed AMMONA. Rodgers.
Speaker 1: So the fact that we have him is a beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful thing. I'm not mad about it one bit. And
Speaker 1: I think he's a bad man, a git so he
Speaker 1: has not been that, but I believe he will return
Speaker 1: to that stature this season because he has to in
Speaker 1: order for the Stealers to be relevant and ultimately win
Speaker 1: their first playoff games is twenty sixteen. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: holding on too.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, absolutely, most quarterbacks look terrible in a gesture the anyways,
Speaker 9: It's true.
Speaker 1: All right, Jackson got to get on out of here.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, man. Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: That is it for this edition of The Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith Show. Hope you enjoyed it. I'll be back with
Speaker 1: you after the weekend is out. Game five in Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City will be Monday night. Happy Father's Day to everybody
Speaker 1: out there by the way. You know what I saying
Speaker 1: this Sunday. I mean, Dad's the most underappreciated people on
Speaker 1: the planet as far as I'm concerned. That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: our children will love us, doesn't mean that just means
Speaker 1: that everybody loves Mama's more well. Sunday is our day.
Speaker 1: Happy Father's Day to all the great fathers out there
Speaker 1: in the world. I ain't talking to the dead beats.
Speaker 1: I ain't got no love for y'all. Oh excused to
Speaker 1: be a deadbeat dad, But all the loving father's out
Speaker 1: there Happy Father's Day. Know that there are people out
Speaker 1: there who truly appreciate and love you for all you
Speaker 1: do and all you are. Until next time, Stephen, They
Speaker 1: signing off place of love.