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Speaker 1: is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Hello and welcome back,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Straight Fire for Tuesday, December twenty second. Boy,

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Speaker 1: what on earth happened on Monday night football? Just an

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Speaker 1: for the opening night of the NBA. Yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: was really no reason to, this is a bad game

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Speaker 1: between two unwatchable teams with a huge spread. You're probably

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Speaker 1: And it's seventeen nothing at halftime, and Pittsburgh never really

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Speaker 1: he passed for seventy eight yards at Pittsburgh lost. The

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Speaker 1: Josiah Johnson previewing the NBA season. In Winter's Favorite Town,

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Speaker 1: be you know, forces on social and dropping clips and

424
00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,960
Speaker 1: dropping jokes. So for me, it's just great to see.

425
00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,000
Speaker 1: But I'm friends with you know, just do through my

426
00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:39,879
Speaker 1: time hooping and stuff like that with a lot of

427
00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,359
Speaker 1: guys in the league, so they understand that it's all

428
00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,280
Speaker 1: done and good fun and you know it's gonna be

429
00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,600
Speaker 1: out of pocket of times. But at the end of

430
00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,000
Speaker 1: the day, I mean, well, you know sometimes you know,

431
00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:50,560
Speaker 1: I don't have a filter too, so I gotta kind

432
00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,440
Speaker 1: of reel it back in and you kind of realize, like,

433
00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:53,920
Speaker 1: I'm gona have to see these dudes on the streets.

434
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Speaker 1: So a lot of them, A lot of your favorite

435
00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,680
Speaker 1: your best stuff, I think is the movie clips. Um,

436
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,639
Speaker 1: A lot of it is nineties movies. It feels like you,

437
00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,479
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you grew up in the nineties. A lot

438
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,280
Speaker 1: of the movie like a boys Boys in the Hood, Um,

439
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:15,320
Speaker 1: a lot of white men can't jump? Are are the nineties?

440
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 1: Is that like your gold mine where you get moost

441
00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,640
Speaker 1: to your stuff? Well, I'm thirty years old, was born

442
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:24,560
Speaker 1: in nine two, a great year. Uh so, late late

443
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,359
Speaker 1: late eighties nineties stuff like you know, a lot of

444
00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,960
Speaker 1: like Eddie Murphy, you know a lot of a lot

445
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,359
Speaker 1: of John Singleton. I'll go through kind of phases like

446
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 1: artists have, Like I'll go through my my boys in

447
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:36,879
Speaker 1: the Hood periods and then my my, you know when

448
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,159
Speaker 1: John saying they passed away. I definitely went hard on

449
00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,160
Speaker 1: all his kind of classics, baby boy, you know, boys

450
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,720
Speaker 1: in the Hood, things like that. But we'll also just

451
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 1: kind of shift the movie. But the nineties for me

452
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:47,760
Speaker 1: was a great area. Is kind of like you know,

453
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,760
Speaker 1: coming of age. That was you know, my pew best

454
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 1: is like turning from a from a boy to a man.

455
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:53,920
Speaker 1: So a lot of that stuff resonates to me. And

456
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 1: there were just a lot of you know, I kicked

457
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,719
Speaker 1: myself now when we were younger. You know, my dad

458
00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 1: played in the NBA, so he got us this this

459
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,200
Speaker 1: huge out of light and we were, you know, ahead

460
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 1: of the time. It's like eighties, early nineties, so we

461
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,800
Speaker 1: were getting feed all over the country. We had League

462
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,880
Speaker 1: Pass before League Pass was even the thing. We would

463
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 1: get the coffee show three hours early, so we would

464
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,120
Speaker 1: know what was gonna happen on the show. And we will,

465
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:13,959
Speaker 1: you know, we will, we will play our play our

466
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 1: West Coast friends and you know, act like we hadn't

467
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: seen it and be like, right here, such such a

468
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,920
Speaker 1: go crap. So we had all that stuff and just

469
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 1: being immersed and growing up in that world and spending

470
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,359
Speaker 1: time as a kid on the set of Different World,

471
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 1: and you know, seeing Debbie Allen do her thing and

472
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,080
Speaker 1: rock out and just being able to kind of see

473
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 1: that stuff front and center. Now I'm just, you know,

474
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 1: so thankful and appreciative. It's kind of built this this

475
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: library in my head of just clips I have ready

476
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Speaker 1: to go at all times. All right, let's get to

477
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Speaker 1: the current NBA season. Tip off is tonight, Uh, I

478
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: gotta start. I know you're a Lakers big fan. Obviously

479
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,080
Speaker 1: you're a Lebron guy. We can get to Lebron Jordan

480
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 1: in a second. But who's the second best team in

481
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,440
Speaker 1: the NBA this season? I think that's the real question.

482
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 1: Lakers are the best, we know that, who's the second best?

483
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,639
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking at what Katie and Kyrie are

484
00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 1: doing at Brothlyn right now and just knowing that style, D'Antoni,

485
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 1: Nash kind of a Maori, just the crew they have

486
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 1: in place there, in the style they're gonna play with.

487
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 1: I say, if those guys can stay healthy, they're definitely

488
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 1: gonna be a problem for a lot of a lot

489
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 1: of teams in the league. You know, you look at

490
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Speaker 1: the bucks. I love Drew Holiday, that love what he

491
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,159
Speaker 1: brings to the table. I think he's gonna really flourish

492
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: in uh you know boot holder system and really get buckets.

493
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what Jannice needed to help kind

494
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,240
Speaker 1: of elevate him. So we're talking about Janice back to

495
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 1: back m vps. Now, you know, piste off with how

496
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 1: the bubble went and not not you know, reaching the Elisi,

497
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 1: you know, conference finals, let alone the finals. So he's

498
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 1: gonna have a chip on his shoulder. It's really gonna

499
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: be you know, we're gonna see what kind of work

500
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Speaker 1: he's put in. And I'm worried about the Lakers. I

501
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 1: think they are the best team. They definitely improved on paper.

502
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 1: But you're talking like, you know, a seventy day layoff Lebron.

503
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 1: Now year a team Lebron the senior cities and Lebron

504
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,160
Speaker 1: needs that rest, he needs that, that rehab, he needs

505
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 1: that that summer field going to Brannie's games and banging

506
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: out in au lines and stuff like that. So he's

507
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 1: been denied that opportunity and a d another guy I

508
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: think who could could have benefited for some rest, and

509
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Speaker 1: it seemed like they're still playing at a bub whole

510
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 1: like finals type level. And my pops always jokes, you

511
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, when when you're your mid season

512
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 1: for him a little too early than you're a late

513
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,679
Speaker 1: season for him, and by the time the playoffs come,

514
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: you're just tired, you know what I mean. You picked

515
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,160
Speaker 1: you kind of reached your your say. So I'm hopeful.

516
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful. I know Lebron is not advocate of loads

517
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 1: man management, but I'm hopeful that he will really invest

518
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 1: in that and really buy into it. You know, seventy

519
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: two games season minus whatever kind of Corona does to

520
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 1: the schedule. Hope and he plays around fifty games, let

521
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Speaker 1: him let him. You know, re season is irrelevant to

522
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 1: Lebron fans right now. We know what our what our

523
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: destiny is. We gotta go fulfill it. We gotta get

524
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Speaker 1: that five so we can match Kobe, and we can't.

525
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 1: We can't. You know, once you match Code can get

526
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: to that six and take down Jordan, even though we've

527
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: already done that. But for square square metrics and square accolades.

528
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: That kind of how they rank things that you know,

529
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,159
Speaker 1: that will kind of shore that up. You do realize,

530
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 1: even if he gets six, they're gonna say, yeah, but

531
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,880
Speaker 1: Michael never lost in the finals Lebron, Like, there's nothing

532
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 1: that you can say to them. It's it's just a

533
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: it's a conversation that it's impossible to have. You it's

534
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,160
Speaker 1: certainly out on social media. You know this. I've asked

535
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 1: this question of people who I thought had some semblance

536
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 1: of basketball intelligence. I asked, I asked him this, what's

537
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: a better record? Six and oh in the finals? Were

538
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 1: six and six in the finals, But that's what it

539
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 1: ends up being. And more times than that they tell

540
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,199
Speaker 1: me six and no. My responses are, so you'd rather

541
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 1: not make the finals than make the finals, like you'd

542
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: rather lose in the first round, or you'd rather not

543
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. And you think that's you know, in

544
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: terms of your accolades. It's a weird like Lebron is

545
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,360
Speaker 1: the only player and it's crazy to see that gets

546
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,360
Speaker 1: punished for being successful when he was in the East,

547
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: the East was weak. Uh, he's just he's skating through,

548
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 1: you know, no respect for it for you know, I

549
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 1: think with eight or nine, eight straight finals appearance, whatever

550
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: it was, go to the West. Now, oh the West

551
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,400
Speaker 1: this week? Oh you know, it's just like which one

552
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,640
Speaker 1: is it? He came to the West, winner, Ring came

553
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: to the Lakers. There was a lot of last year

554
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 1: when he was hurt, kind of just oh he's done.

555
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 1: Lakers need to train him. They just need to go

556
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: ahead and cut their losses. And then here we are

557
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 1: on the bubble, hoisting trophies. The hardest championship in NBA history,

558
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 1: the only championship performed during a pandemic, in a bubble,

559
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 1: no home court advantage, all the things that we covered

560
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 1: as Laker fans, if you've been a Staples to a

561
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 1: Lakers game, didn't have any of those things. Still gave

562
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: everybody those hands. Was supposed to see the Clippers still waiting,

563
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: still waiting for that one, supposed to see the Bucks

564
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: still waiting and got mad that we beat the team

565
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: that that won the Eastern Conference. As if Lebron was like, oh,

566
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 1: I want to play the heat, you know, which was

567
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of poetic justice going up against Pat

568
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 1: kind of how you know, I brought up two ranks,

569
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: didn't really get the thank you notes and flowers and

570
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: things that we hoped as le Bron family received. So

571
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: let me try to drill down on why people don't

572
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,719
Speaker 1: like Lebron, And honestly, somebody should do like a thesis

573
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: for college on the mindset about the hate for Lebron,

574
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: because again, this is the guy who's the best of mine. Now,

575
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: I've never been arrested, never got in trouble off the court,

576
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: none of that stuff. Been a model citizen after being

577
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 1: on the cover of s I at like sixteen, and

578
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: we know a lot of those, you know, early fame

579
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 1: kids turn out not so well. Do you think this

580
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: all stems back to the decision and go into Miami. Look,

581
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: I think when you look at that, and you know,

582
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: people always overlook the fact that he raised millions of

583
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: dollars for the Boys and Girls Club. This was a

584
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 1: guy who never really got the opportunity to do that

585
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: in college. Right, That's the whole big thing when you

586
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: when you're making your pick, I'm taking my talents to

587
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: whoever gives me the biggest bag. But uh, you know,

588
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,959
Speaker 1: so I think people are just bitter Lebron. It really

589
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 1: extems from a lot of m J hate and as

590
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: I've become an older Lebron fan. I used to be

591
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: a super radical Lebron fan out there just riding, you know,

592
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day and inside of my vision, right,

593
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: it brought me to the wrong side of the four.

594
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: So I had to come to the correct side. And

595
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: I think you just deal with a lot of MJ

596
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: fans who are kind of bitter. And I grew up

597
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: in the nineties and I remember thinking how like high

598
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: level that that era basketball was. But then you really

599
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: go back and look at it. You know, six expansion

600
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: teams in seven years, the type of output that was

601
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: getting put out. You know, I went back and just

602
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: did some research on you know, basically looking at expansion

603
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: teams in Jordan's teams versus the teams in the first

604
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: couple of years. It was like, you know, he's going

605
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 1: thirteen and o fourteen, and know, it's just like these

606
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: are lay up games on the schedule, right, because you're

607
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: taking this team that's literally been taken from the bottom

608
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: of you know, the bottom rosters of the teams in

609
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 1: the league. So a lot of people don't understand that.

610
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: They kind of look past that and they just take

611
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: it for face value. But what we're seeing now is

612
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: a game that's exploded. That's literally literally international. Dudes have

613
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: bags from all types of countries all over the world.

614
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: You know, you're looking at Lucas and the Slovenian. You know,

615
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: when I was coming up, we would have never respected

616
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 1: any Slovenia hooper. You know, no disrespect of Slovenia. But

617
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: oh I gotta Slovenian dude on me. I'm about to

618
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: go for forty. This is not this is not a

619
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: question to Luca now arguably being the best player in

620
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,160
Speaker 1: the NBA. So you've seen the way that the game

621
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: is just skyrocket of the league hasn't expanded, I want

622
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: to say since like two thousand three or whatever it was.

623
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 1: You know, I'm start in terms of teams, so you're

624
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: literally it's now caught up. So you're getting to the

625
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 1: highest level of basketball. So what Lebron is doing now

626
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: in year eight team is unbelievable. It's unprecedented. You know,

627
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: I saw that guy back in I think in a

628
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: series against the Bulls. I was in Cleveland. High ankle sprain.

629
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,959
Speaker 1: That high ankle sprain would have normally sidelined a guy

630
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: for two or three weeks Lebron rubbed some testing on.

631
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: It took like two minutes on the bench, came back

632
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: out and to drive. You know. I mean, it's just

633
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: like things that you shouldn't, you know, as a human being,

634
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: be able to see as a basketball player. So the

635
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: way he takes care of his body, his mind, in

636
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: his contribution to the game, even beyond basketball, you're looking

637
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: at him as a as a man and what he's doing.

638
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: It's hard to be like, oh, I can't really rock

639
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: with that guy. It's just like, how like, what's just weird? Yeah,

640
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: you made a good point. Uh, you know you said

641
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: Slovenians in the nineties. I mean remember Tony Cook coach.

642
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: We we saw that in last Dance. Uh, they just

643
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: went at him and mocked him the Olympic team. And

644
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: now try to do that with Luca Donche's We saw

645
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: the Clippers try it, and he basically fought back and

646
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: took them all down by himself without borzingis like, won

647
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: a game Like Luca is incredible too. Is he your

648
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: m v P pick for this year? It's it's like

649
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: I'm always riding with Lebron. I think Lebron shouldn't want it.

650
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: Last year were regardless of I know, Janice had the

651
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: and it's the thing you deal with people and it's

652
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: like y'all just had a historic gear. It's like, okay,

653
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: how the story was it? Did you get finals? MVP?

654
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: Like where was? When's the parade? Like? Okay, so what

655
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: are we saying? Because when Lebron does these type of things,

656
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: I hear terms like staff adding or you know, things

657
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: that guys on them. Uh, you know, of course you

658
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: can do that. Look at his team. That's kind of situation.

659
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: And I think Lebron was able to do obviously in

660
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: the Western Conference, which was the significantly better conference, and

661
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: just raise the sticks and raise the bar. But now

662
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Luca. If Luca stays healthy, I don't

663
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: know how you stop that guy. He looks like me.

664
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: He's built, like you know, he just down six packs

665
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: all day. But he gets on the court and just

666
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: gives you straight buckets like built like straight, like you know,

667
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,239
Speaker 1: like a retired tight end type body, but goes out

668
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: there beast mode, just gets buckets, playing a fishing and

669
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: playing at a level where you know, every time you

670
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: watch that guy, literally I you know, I scream loudly,

671
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: you know, and audibly, you know, imprompted, just watching him

672
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: like that game winner on the Clippers, just like, yeah,

673
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: what do you what? What more do you want to

674
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: see from? You know, and you just see those moments

675
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: Like you look at Kobe's career, you see those moments

676
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: that define his career and elevate him to that next level.

677
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: You look at Lebrons, same situation, and now you're looking

678
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: at Luca and like, this dude is gonna be a problem,

679
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: and don't let him in, honest or somehow whatever. In

680
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: these these stars and whatever, you know, team up with

681
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: some of these great euro dudes, you might really just

682
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: see a domination of Euros like we've never seen. Uh,

683
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: let me quickly ask you about Zion Williamson. It's weird

684
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: him and Luca, you know, basically young guys, and everybody said, oh,

685
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: would you rather have Luca or Zion? And instantly Luca

686
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: takes off. Last year, goes to the playoffs. Um, I

687
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: feel like there's almost no Zion buzz right now. And

688
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: I read reports he lost like twenty five pounds, He's

689
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: playing big minutes in the preseason. I have a feeling

690
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: he's gonna sneak up on people. This year. Um, are

691
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: you surprised there's no more Zion excitement at this point?

692
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: I think we all we all drank and I'm still

693
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: drinking it that the Zion cool aid early last year,

694
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: you know, hoping that he was obviously gonna be the

695
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: life for Rookie of the year. You know, over job

696
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: he gets hurt and kind of you forget about him

697
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, the Pelicans kind of you know,

698
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: just kind of faded to oblivion. So you hope this

699
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: year that he's gonna really have a chance to do it.

700
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: Because I saw on the limited sample side, was like,

701
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: who really gonna want to guard this? He's the type

702
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: of dude when you have to guard him, you're honestly like,

703
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: come on, dog, somebody else help. I need somebody else

704
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: get this dude. So to see the way that he's

705
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: you know, got his body right, I know, that was

706
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: kind of the big knock. I was a little confused

707
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: how they had you know, four or five months off

708
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: and he came back to the bubble and he looked,

709
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: you know, still kind of out of and it's like, wait,

710
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: you just had, you just had and you're young, like

711
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, You're like you know, you're

712
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: a young dude. How how did the recovery should have

713
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: been there? But now him actually having a little bit

714
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: more time, you know, kind of benefiting from them, you know,

715
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: not making the playoffs to to get get that rest,

716
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: get that rejuvenation, kind of get over that first rookie year,

717
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: which is always a pain in the butt, let alone

718
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: in a pandemic where you know, you have the longest

719
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: season in league history and all that good stuff. So

720
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: I think Zion'll be ready to make noise. I'm a

721
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: big fan of Linzo b I that whole crew. It

722
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: really pained me to see Lebron have to trade them

723
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: for a d you know, I'm I'm a big LaVar

724
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: guy and just a big believer in the whole you know,

725
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: big baller culture. So between Linzo and the Mellot, you know,

726
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: I just look at Linzo like he didn't get a

727
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: fair shake in l A. I think a lot of

728
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: people didn't really appreciate what he brings to the table.

729
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: And I'm hopeful that with this squad he has now,

730
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: he'll be able to really do what he does. And

731
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: that's kind of be that that j kid type facilitator

732
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: with with the Jakie Jumper. My my guess is you're

733
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: gonna do a lot of LaMelo bawl stuff this season. Now,

734
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, I'm impressed with the preseason stuff

735
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: I've seen. I think he's gonna have a good year. Man,

736
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: Gordon Hayward is a good kind of fulcrum in that offense.

737
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: I think LaMelo can. He could put up like twelve

738
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: and seven. Maybe is that? Is that too ambitious? The

739
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: thing about LaMelo, my older brother Chris actually was was

740
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: a coach in the j b A. And you've seen

741
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: the way that LaVar you know, from from Lithuania to

742
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: starting the j b A, which I would argue with

743
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: significantly better talent level than high school. You've got guys

744
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: in there, you know, early twenties, you know, grown men

745
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: literally fighting and scratching and klawn to keep their basketball

746
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: dreamed alive going against this, you know, seventeen year old kid,

747
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: and LaMelo was out there holding his own, really getting it,

748
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: giving these dudes buckets. A lot of the same stuff

749
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: I'm seeing now translated to NBA games, which you never

750
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: really know that the kid is out there, but those

751
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: full court dimes and just his court vision you know,

752
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: you look at Lonzoline those court vision and it's impressive,

753
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: and you almost think LaMelo may have better court vision,

754
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: the lines of which is one of the ultimate compliments

755
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: you can give somebody. So looking at LaMelo, I think,

756
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: you know, George selecting him for a reason. He seems

757
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: to me like a guy who doesn't He's never really

758
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: phased by stuff he's used to. It's funny like watching

759
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: watching lines on that that Chino Hills crew. Lines always

760
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: struck me as this kind of quiet, like shy kid.

761
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 1: Then you look at his like he was doing like

762
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: live streams at the crib and the way he was

763
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: cracking jokes and clowning each other, and he just let

764
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: it be known that he's really kind of you know,

765
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: in that house, you had to be able to hold

766
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: yourn kind of like we were talking about locker rooms earlier.

767
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: So La Melos kind of hurt at all. He's not

768
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: really gonna be phased by no trash talk, nothing that's

769
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 1: going on. And you're talking about a kid who skipped

770
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 1: the eighth grade I believe to go to high school.

771
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 1: It was on the number one team in the nation,

772
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, the undefeated playing the highest

773
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 1: level of basketball, playing against future pros out there holding

774
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 1: his own. It's just stuff you've never really seen so ever,

775
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: since that kid was thirteen fourteen years old, we knew

776
00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: that he was destined to kind of be doing what

777
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: he's doing right now out So I'm excited to see

778
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: him again. If you can stay healthy. Who's gonna stop him?

779
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,879
Speaker 1: One last one before I get to the final question,

780
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: So would you say the big difference between Alonzo and

781
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: LaMelo is Alonzo's kind of quiet reserved and LaMelo, I

782
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: don't want to say, looks cocky, but he looks like

783
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: he's so confident that he fears nothing. The thing about

784
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: the thing is Linsos not even quiet reserve. Alonzo gives

785
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: that impression maybe to the public, but you've got Alonzo

786
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: dropping albums, cracking jokes on dudes, you know, doing TV shows,

787
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: all that type of stuff. So LaMelo as the youngster,

788
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: the most right, He's gonna get it from from from

789
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: Alonzo and from Jelo, So he's gotta be able to

790
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: hold his own. You're talking about a thirteen fourteen year

791
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: old kid out here playing with brown, you know, eighteen

792
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: year old high schoolers and getting buckets. You know, at

793
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: no point looking like damn, get this kid off the court.

794
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: He's out there getting buckets, shooting shots. So I can

795
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: only imagine over the last five six years to Lithuania,

796
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: where you're dealing with dudes who don't speak the language,

797
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: nobody cares about big baller brand out there. You're going

798
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: up against, playing these these these hungry Euros. To the

799
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: j b A same situation, you're playing against these grown

800
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: man that that are all fighting the scrap claw to

801
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 1: be able to keep their dreams alive. Like he's dealt

802
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: with it already. It wasn't a traditional path and it

803
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: remains to be seen how it will work out. But

804
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: I think LaVar deserves a lot of credit for literally,

805
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: you know, I remember every step of the way Lithuania,

806
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: LaVar is getting clown. How can you do that to

807
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: your kid? He should have a high school experience j

808
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: b A. Well, you know, LaVar is trying to start

809
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: his own league. Next thing, you know, we get the

810
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: G League unite, Like these things are coincidences. Right next

811
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: thing you know, Oh wait, the NBA is doing the

812
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: same exact thing. NBA's on their own j b A too.

813
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: Now LaMelo getting you know, I think I would have

814
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 1: loved seen when the Warriors with Steph and claim what

815
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: they would have been able to do to his game,

816
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 1: like it's it's you know, I love Wiseman, but don't

817
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: get you know, LaMelo getting tutelate from Steff I think

818
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: would have created a monster that nobody would have really

819
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: been prepared for. But now getting that same type of

820
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: situation from Jordan, who obviously is a gold standard for

821
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: some I think, you know, a lot is gonna be

822
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 1: expected of him, A lot always has been, and he's

823
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: always delivered to this point, so I don't anticipate that changing.

824
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: All right, I'll go out on this one. Josiah the

825
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: best guy you've ever dunked on or going up against

826
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 1: in pickup hoops out at u c l A. The

827
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,240
Speaker 1: best guy gone gone up against and pick up hoops.

828
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: Kevin garnett I had to. I had to. I had

829
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 1: to guard Kevin garnett um for for a summer. He

830
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: came through, and you know, and it's like I'm in

831
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: I'm in college this point, it's like he's arguably the

832
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: best player in the league around this time, if not

833
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: one of the top five. You know, I remember, you know,

834
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: I'm guarding the dude and its pickup. Right, So there's

835
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: this trick where if a guy shooting you can you

836
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: can hit their elbow and it'll it'll suck the shot

837
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: up and you know, you know, no reft there to

838
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: call it. So my dumbass does that to KG, right,

839
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: KG literally stops the game, proceeds and just like cuss

840
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: me out with me apart. But after that, after that,

841
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: I was board a board machine, getting buckets, doing stuff.

842
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: I used to always killing those games because NBA guys

843
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,240
Speaker 1: will be going about and I'm going about a hundred

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