WEBVTT - It's finally NBA Opening Night! 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.200 On this episode of The Heat check. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:13.800 Man. 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:19.520 The NBA season starts today. We will get into all 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.440 final news coming out of training camp. We got some contracts, 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.079 we have to discuss holy shit, what are the Houston 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:26.520 Rockets doing eating up. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:27.720 Into all our capspaces? 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.200 And of course we have to talk about the WNBA 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:34.200 Game five Finals, the last Game five in w NBA 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:35.360 Finals history. 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:38.600 Man, I was there, I was in the building. It 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:40.320 was incredible. Vibes. 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:44.400 Anthony my man drop that motherfucking beat that should be 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.440 Rhanna but obviously doesn't want to pay for the rights. 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:47.280 Let's go. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:05.200 All right, I am talking to you when the actors 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:09.000 blows what I think was one of the most dramatic 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:14.200 series in basketball history. I think it was one of 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:19.160 the most dramatic close out games in basketball history, even 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.520 though the quality of the basketball was not that high. 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.840 The Links versus the Liberty at Barclay Center, and do 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:26.520 I have thoughts? 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:27.280 Oh yes I do. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:32.640 First of all, every single game in the series, except 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.000 for Game two, was just a sweat Game one will 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.039 break them down one by one, Stewie blows a free 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:44.000 throw to win the game. Link steals Game one in overtime, 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.280 and there was just like all kinds of crazy stuff 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:50.080 that happen, Like you had a violation in the jump ball, 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.520 you had a trolley call that didn't get caught, which 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.680 happens again. You then have Game three, Sabrina hits a 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:57.760 game winning three. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.720 From the logo nuts. 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:06.320 Last Sunday, you had the liberty taken out the Links 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.160 in ot Every single. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:09.680 Game though, was dramatic. 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.160 And a friend of mine, who by the way, is 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.600 a huge Kaitlyn Clark fan, said he was happy that 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.000 Kaitlyn Clark didn't make the finals because now we get 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:25.320 to see all the glory of the WNBA without Caitlyn 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:29.600 Clark being sort of hanging in the specter of it. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:34.440 Other players now get the spotlight, and my god, did 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.320 one of them over perform while two of them fizzled 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.160 in the linelight, Like isn't it FISA call you're the 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.520 best player in the league. Like she was a star. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:50.000 She was everything for the Links, not just in the finals, 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:54.360 but throughout the playoffs. She had many forty piece chicken 0:02:54.440 --> 0:03:01.280 nugget meals, playing lockdown defense, unstoppable turnaround fadeaways. You had 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:05.120 the footwork there, You had the cuteness factor for her 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:09.480 kid who loves Sabrina just an absolute star and every 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.760 metric you can measure. You have the fact that she's 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.680 a former Yukon player going up against another Yukon player, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:20.000 but clearly not the one that Gino loves. Watching her 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:25.040 carry the links for long stretches was just in delight. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.880 I was a Game one, I was a Game five Bookends, 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.000 and she was the best player on the floor in 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.800 all five games. I don't think it was particularly close. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.880 John CuAu was also awesome, though. Breonna Stewart, though two 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.240 time MVP, she was in prison. 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.720 Bro. She was in jail. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.800 They had her locked up, Clink Clink, couldn't even make 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:52.200 a phone call. She shot ten for forty, ten for 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:56.600 forty when the Feasta guarded her twenty five percent from 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:00.320 the floor, and that wasn't even the worst of it. 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:05.960 Alana Smith, who is awesome, who's a matt walking medical wing, 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:11.920 guarded her even better. She was not just the force 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.400 that you would expect the player of her quality to. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.200 Be in this series. Stewie was kind of wet, and. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.200 I like Stewie and I don't want anybody sam mean 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.960 shit Stewie or her wife, but like she deserves the 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.240 criticism that a two time MVP would get. Then you 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:31.680 got Sabrina Ynescu, who, by the way, I just love her, 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.719 you know, as a duck, as somebody who went to Oregon. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.760 I just I just love her. And she had a 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:42.200 huge Game three to put the liberty into the driver's seat, 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.440 hit that twenty eight foot game winner, but outside of 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.640 that shot and then the three when they were tied 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.840 up at seventy seven in game five, she was pedestrian. 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:59.159 Game five historically awful, Like you need to just tell her. 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.680 She knows. She even after the game said, listen, I 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.800 got the A, but I didn't do anything. 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:05.440 On the group assignment. 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.719 She was one for nineteen from the field in a 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:15.000 close out game one, one for nineteen, and there were 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:19.120 people who were stumping for her before the series saying 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:23.400 she should have been first team All WNBA over Kaylyn Clark. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:28.280 Let me ask you this, If Caitlyn Clark four years 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.920 from now, three years from now is in the finals 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.640 and goes one for nineteen, do you think that's not 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.880 news on first take? Do you think that's not one 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.279 of the things that people talk about the most. Do 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.159 you think that the criticism isn't louder for Caitlin Clark 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.960 right now than it is for Sabrina. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.320 I don't know. I think it is. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.320 I think her reputation as a clutch player from the 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.120 Kobe Disciple Tree has taken a hit in the series. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:00.719 That kind of sucks. 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.760 She's my girl, like I want her to succeed. She 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:09.080 had the Oregon Duck. Sabrina's on, come on, I want 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.120 a roof for her. But she's been in a shooting 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.400 slump since coming back from the Olympic break, and I 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.400 think she's gonna need to figure out a way to 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.920 cool off, rest, relax, and come back better. But the 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.320 real issue, though, isn't that. Like, the real issue was 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:28.640 the officiating, which was historically bad, some of the worst 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:35.800 we've ever seen. Rarely does anything unite in a Twitter timeline, 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.960 but it was almost fully united that the Minnesota Lynks 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:40.640 got fucked. 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.200 They got hosed by the refs. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:47.240 They were up ten, should have been up twenty, and 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.560 it was blatant. It was obvious the way that the 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.760 referees not only let the Liberty come back but just 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:58.400 gave them the game. Just giving Breonna Stewart two free 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.880 throws with two seconds left to go felt like deja vu, 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:03.960 Jesus Christ. 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:05.720 She was tiptoeing. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:10.600 She was tapped dancing down the lane five steps before 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.080 ever putting up a shot that got blocked clean by 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:18.360 Atlanta Smith. And once you hit the ball, your downward 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.960 motion can touch an arm. That's what the facts of 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.640 the rules are, except for the Reughs decided they were 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.440 gonna call it otherwise and give Stewie the shooting foul, 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.400 which is immediately challenged because it was bullshit, And then 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.960 it was upheld with the absurd proclamation that Smith was 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.840 not in a legal guarding position. We don't even know 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:45.920 what that means. Stewie hits two free throws, shocking because 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.000 she had been awful all night. She missed to in 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:53.160 a row one time earlier that game. We go to overtime. 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:57.680 Courtney Williams, who was atrocious in Game five, like really 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.240 really bad, takes the first three shots of ot which 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.640 she should not have been doing, gets benched. Minnesota shits 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:12.120 the bed and that was that. Ooh, liberty or world chimps. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:17.480 They dropped the confetti. I saw camelon Aubrey Plaza going nuts. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.480 Ellie drops it down low like her name was Cassie, right, 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:22.080 on the court. 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:24.280 It's nuts. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.080 The more you look at it, though, like you're like, man, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.320 the leaks got really fucked. 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.960 They really did caller in her career. 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.720 I saw this stat you know facts, she had never 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.480 in her career shot more than eleven times in any 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.480 game in college or the pros. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:41.480 And not go to the line. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:47.360 Game five, Nafisa Collier shot twenty three times, did not 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:52.559 get to the line a single time, despite getting slapped 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.640 in the face like her name was Chris Rock repeatedly. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.480 Liberty shot out shot, got the links from the line 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.080 by a margin of six to one. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:05.880 Oh my god. 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.840 You had numerous NBA WAA players coming out. You had 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.280 Lebron James who said, I'm sorry, that wasn't a foul. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.240 Let the damn players dictate the outcome of the game. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.200 Damian Lillard refs called this game like they knew the 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.440 assignment in the second half, boy, the assignment for those 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.960 who don't really fully lock in on the w The 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.400 assignment for my casual fans. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.400 Is that the New York Liberty. 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:34.760 Owned by Joe Sai, co founder of Ali Baba, in 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.080 a massive market in a city that is the center 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.480 of the United States, in the like basically in our 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:43.720 universe needs to win one. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:45.199 The gotta have it. 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.960 We need we need the big market teams to win them. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:50.599 And by the way, cute. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.000 Little Minnesota Lynx, you're cute and all. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:54.400 Small mark, but you've won enough. 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.920 You've taken the league by storm in a period where 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.920 no one gave a fuck. Right now, we got a 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.720 give it to the city. There was beeping cars, you 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:11.360 had people screaming. Anyway. Tiffany Hayes Aces WNBA six Man 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.120 of the Year, six Player of the Year, whatever, six 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:18.520 Women of the Year tweeted, y'all like the travel I 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.199 tell you what. The low key amazing storyline in this 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.600 is how much the Aces hate the Liberties guts like 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.840 they really do. They're like, you guys are a food 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.360 gaisy super team. You guys don't even like each other. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.800 Remember twelve months ago when the Aces win the whole thing. 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.400 Kelsey Pum's like, yeah, they're not a real team, you know, 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.800 They're just a collection of random players. They don't even 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.000 fuck with each other like that. They have beef. There's 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:46.080 real beef going on here. Thousands of others joined in. 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:50.760 It was just unanimous choir, a chorus of anger and 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:55.199 frustration and this is fucking bullshit. You had people breaking 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.120 down the fact that the WNBA commissioner came to the 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:07.560 arena in it literally a scape eight eight. She had 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:13.600 the whole skyscraper of New York on her dress. The 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:19.000 entire dress was the skyscraper of New York City. I'm sorry. 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:24.240 Was there also a second dress that had like the 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.439 Twin Cities on it? Was that? 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.360 Was there? Saint Paul? Did you have a Saint Paul 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:30.560 dress ready to go? 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.720 No? She didn't. She who comes with the city of 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:42.000 New York plastered on the dress? Sidney Coulson decided she 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.679 was going to put that on Instagram her also in 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:51.839 that same dress, trolling Kathy Engelbert Cheryl reeves after the games, like, Yo, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.160 I don't care what anybody says. I don't care if 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.320 I get fine. That shit was stolen from us. Have 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.720 you ever heard a coach blatantly say that. They'll say, no, 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.160 there was some bad calls along the way. We could 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.800 have played better down the stretch. The game's not decided 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:12.640 by one call here or there. No, she said that 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:19.760 shit got stolen from us. She didn't even get fined. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:21.880 They're like, yeah, we did. Steal that. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:28.560 It was like Debo in Friday, Like, you know, Minnesota Lynx, 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.040 We'll just share this title. We'll just keep it at 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.160 our house, you know what I mean. Like it was like, 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:38.199 this is my fucking bike, this is my trophy. WNBA 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.440 finals though were lit, a lot of people were talking 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.240 about it. The fact that people were talking about it 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.440 and the controversy kind of makes it more exciting. And 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.640 guess what, less than twelve hours after Barkley's clears out, 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:53.040 the WNBA Players Association said, you know what, We're opting 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.920 out of your collective bargaining agreements and now we have 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.319 maybe a workstoppage on our hand, we have a negotiation 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:00.839 on our hands. 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.880 Player salaries will go up. How high they will go. 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.600 Up remains to be seen. But I want max players 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:07.760 making a million dollars. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:09.640 That's what I want. 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.080 Cash that, Caitlin Clark ticket ladies, is time to make 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:14.959 five x what you were. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.520 Making just a year ago. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.680 Cannot wait for next season because guess who's coming. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.199 Page Backer's Pagebackers. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:25.600 Page Becker's page backer is gonna get even fucking more exciting. 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:31.560 All right, Before we get into the actual NBA major injuries, 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.199 transactions we got a little news from around the league. 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.280 Paul George, who lets face it, I did not think 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.200 would be a good podcaster, and he proved me to 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.559 be wrong. He just said, at least two or maybe three. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.000 Fan base is on fire. What did he say? 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:50.040 He said, I've been on teams where the culture just 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.000 wasn't there, and when that happens, no matter how much 0:13:54.080 --> 0:14:00.400 talent you have, it just doesn't click. Like Indiana, towards 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.560 the end, I was mentally checked out. I felt like 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.680 the front office wasn't doing enough to make the team competitive. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.120 So when I was told I'd be playing the four 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.840 after dealing with injuries, that just added to it. I 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.400 wasn't mature enough at the time to separate myself from that. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.280 It led into the locker room, and I wasn't the 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.320 vet I should have been. If everyone is in the line, 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.600 it isn't gonna work real quick. I interviewed Paul George 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:28.080 that year before he left, like maybe three months before, 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.480 and he said he wanted to be a pacer for 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.600 the rest of his life, For the rest of his career. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.680 He said, I want to die a pacer. I want 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:39.520 to retire a pacer. Bro, you're talking about I was 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:44.920 mentally checked out. Paul George lied to me. He lied 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:50.640 to my face. What that's what I took from that quote. 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.000 I don't know about what you guys did from that quote, 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:54.960 but I'm like, yo, I was lied to. 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:01.720 Just blatantly lied while he was eating skittles, chilling on 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.720 a like velvet couch at the All Star. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.680 Game in New Orleans. I want to. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:13.840 Say, anyway, so obviously he named Indy, but was he 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:14.640 also talking. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:15.720 About Oklahoma City? 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.840 The Clippers? All three don't leave us hang in PG. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.280 We need receipts, we need names, we need what else 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.160 was going on? We need details. There's a lot of 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.480 Okase fans on Reddit right now who are seething. I 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:34.920 assume the way that things ended with La, Clipper fans shouldn't. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:35.200 Be happy either. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.520 So like Sixers are the only team, we don't know 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:44.800 whether the culture is there or not. And a year 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.160 from now, I'm sure Philly fans will take this very 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:53.080 rationally and very logically, very gently, considering that they're one 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.440 of the more patient fans, one of the more rational 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:56.200 fans on Earth. 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:57.560 I'm sure when he. 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.680 Slumps or gets hurt again, they will be supportive of him, 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:05.520 they will come to his defense. Gross, this shit is 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:09.360 going bad. This is gonna go left fast in Philadelphia 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:10.400 if he doesn't stay healthy. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:11.640 Anyway, let's move forward. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:15.960 Anthony Edwards moving making news again, and this time it's 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:20.560 not about basketball. He said this to CBS Sports. I 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.880 told my buddies, if I win a ring in the 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:27.160 next three to four years, I'm gonna play football. Excuse me, what, 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.720 ant Man, You're a phenomenal athlete. I love the starting 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.240 five on Netflix. By the way, get a bigger house. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:40.440 You're a max player. Now, also pack your own clothes. 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:44.920 I've covered the NFL for twelve years. I've interviewed hundreds 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.280 of players. When I say you don't want Fred Watt 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:53.640 Warner laser sighting your ribs as you stretch for a 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:57.200 pass over the middle, I am saying you don't want that. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.560 Like you want contact, you want physicality. You want that 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.159 in the NBA because they've got a limit. There is 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:09.520 no limit in football. You are a superior athlete, but 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:13.639 the NFL is another level. Levonte David, Oh my god, 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.280 licking his chops. Max Crosby, the first time you get 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:22.480 chucked by Jordan Whitehead, you will be laying out hoping 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.840 you can get back to Minnesota anyway. He said, if 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.439 I was in the locker room lifting weights like y'all, 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.800 you'd be toast. Dude. 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:35.360 They all lift like that every day. You wouldn't be unique. 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.800 You would just be ripped more ripped. 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.479 Stick to basketball. Your body's gonna thank you for it. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:44.720 Moving forward, Joel Embiid and the Sixers announce that he 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.720 will be undergoing load management this year, and he said, 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.680 I'm never planning back to back ever again. 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.000 Wow, he said the quiet part out loud. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.520 We knew it was kind of coming, but no one 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.240 really like said an anything about it, except for Kevin Durant, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.600 who said quite a lot about it. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:16.240 Fucking job calls for you're not practicing, You're not even 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.280 playing a whole fucking you don't playing the summer like 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.399 you see. If you're playing in the summer, you on 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.359 the playground. You went to the Olympics, then his training camp, 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.960 y'all do thirty days about fucking tour days. Okay, that's 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:29.320 when you get rest. Man. 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:30.480 I don't want to hit that shit. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.560 Man, I don't want to hit none of this shit. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:34.760 Eighty two games, his. 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.399 Eighty two games, KG tell him tell him how you 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.040 feel if you're healthy, Joel and Bid, you need to 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:42.399 play games. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:43.280 People. 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:44.800 The MB's at forty two. 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.120 He just tarned thirty. 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.320 It's not unrealistic to be like, hey, I want to 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.040 pay money to see the player that I've come to see, 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.840 which is Joel MB. I'm not here to see a 0:18:55.920 --> 0:19:00.600 broken down Andre Drummond. 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.280 That's not what I'm trying to see right now. 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.399 Also, he's making fifty one million a year to play 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:10.960 what sixty games? Sixty games is gonna be a lot 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.720 for MB to even make. MB will never win an 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.280 MVP ever again. Once he got his MVP, that sixty 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.080 five game rule came about, we now know he'll never 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:24.240 be in contention for it ever again. All Right, we 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.000 alla look at the final entry report. Everybody knows that 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.600 Kawhi isn't going to start the season with the Clippers 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.159 as he rehabs his injured knee. There's no timetable for 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.879 his return, which is danger, danger, danger danger. I feel 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.160 they should trade him. A lot of people think that's 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.880 a rash decision. I don't think Kawhi Leonard will ever 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.280 be healthy again. We know that his injury is degenerative. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.359 You also lose your first round pick to OKC Thunder, 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:51.760 So maybe you want to try to get a first 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.320 round pick in this year to a contender. I don't 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.320 know Cooper Flag though. By the way, to okay se 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.840 would break the internet. But it's not all bad news. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.359 You do open the into it Dome this week. You 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.639 got a new Clippers fight song composed by Hans fucking Zimmer. 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:06.760 You got a new logo. 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:11.080 The man who scored Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Interstellar. Pretty 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.520 much every dope movie in the past forty years has 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:17.439 now been hired by Steve Balmer to write a Clippers 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:21.000 song and it will debut on opening night. Expect a 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.520 TikTok for me breaking down that shit. 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:24.800 In Denver. 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:30.000 Jamal Murray not surprisingly still not healthy. Michael Malone says 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:34.280 that Murray's nee started to feel funny, and if there's 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.480 one thing designed not to make Michael Malone laugh, it 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:42.680 is more Jamal Murray knee information. He was spotted late 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.720 last week with a big old ice back wrapped around 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:49.639 his knee. Not a great sign. Not a great sign. Also, 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.200 Michael Malone said the league has gotten so soft. Everyone's 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:58.600 afraid to condition and run while we have to. By 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.119 the way, who is he talking about. I don't know, 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:04.040 I need to know, but also maybe not Jamal Murray. 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:12.480 Jamal Murray honestly will be the main catalyst for how 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:16.240 this Denver Nuggets teams goes. I have no idea if there. 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:19.080 If he is not healthy, they are fucked. They are 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:23.040 so fucked. They are like Lakers when Ad and Lebron 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:26.240 are both out fucked. Yokic can get you a lot 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.640 of wins, a ton of wins, but without that closer 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.440 guard Jamal Murray, who's a big bodied guard, you are 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:38.840 so toast compared to a team like Minnesota, compared to 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:42.040 a team like ok See, compared to a team like 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:45.959 the Dallas Mavericks who just added players as well, You're like, 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:49.320 they need to sort that out right now. On the 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:53.359 other side of the coin, Lonzo Ball returned for the 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:57.719 first time in nearly one thousand days. God, I remember 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.800 when he went down. His basketball IQ still off the charts. 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:03.240 He had a great slash line eleven three and three. 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.679 I just love this for Lonzo. I really hope it 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:10.679 works out. I really hope he's fully healthy. I really 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:13.680 hope he helps the Bulls and gets the fuck out. 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:16.960 I really really hope that he turns his career around 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:20.800 because he deserves it. He's a nice guy, He's worked 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:24.000 really hard. He was one of my favorite players when 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:25.840 he ended up turning his career around. 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:27.080 Anyway. 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:29.680 Out in New York, it was announced that Mitchell Robinson 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:32.480 will definitely not be back before the new year, which 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:35.520 makes Precious a chewiest strained left hamstring a bigger issue. 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:39.439 Now imagine if they didn't trade for Cat, what do 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:41.760 they have? They don't have anybody. It would have just 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:45.360 been Julius Randall at the five are we are you serious? 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.399 Kat's back out now, get back up? Will now be 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:53.600 out as much as four weeks, maybe longer. And the 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:56.399 man who said all this chaos and emotion, Isaiah Hartenstein, 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:58.399 also small fracture in his left hand. 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:01.040 He will not be a reevent evaluated for six weeks. 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:03.399 Can you imagine if they had our Ziah Hartenstein on 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:05.000 this team too for the next. 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:07.679 Like, what do you even have? Anyway? 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:10.719 His return might take as long as late December. Major 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:12.959