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Speaker 2: The biggest news of the day, Oh Joe.
Speaker 3: The Spurs have announced their shutting down Victor wimbin ya
Speaker 3: me Victor wen beyam excuse me down for the remainder
Speaker 3: of the season with a deep vein thrombosis. The San
Speaker 3: Antonio Express News reported that the Spurs are optimistic that
Speaker 3: Wimby will be ready for next season and that they're
Speaker 3: not as serious as the issue with Chris Bosh dealt with.
Speaker 3: If this is an isolated incident, the Spurs believe that
Speaker 3: it will be closer to what brandon Ingram dealt with
Speaker 3: six years ago, remember o Cho.
Speaker 2: In twenty nineteen, Ingram was diagnosed with a deep.
Speaker 3: Trombosis in his right arm that ended his twenty eighteen
Speaker 3: nineteen season, but he went on to win twenty nineteen
Speaker 3: twenty twenty Most Improved Player. He has not dealt with
Speaker 3: clotting issues since. Also Ojo. Since he's being shut down,
Speaker 3: he's going to be ineligible for winning Defensive Player of
Speaker 3: the Year because he won't meet the mandatory minimum of.
Speaker 2: At least sixty five games, right, would you?
Speaker 1: I have a question on yes, how are they able
Speaker 1: to diagnose how much the severity of the of the
Speaker 1: issue is.
Speaker 2: And they're saying it's not compared to what what Chris has.
Speaker 3: They say their hope, they hope it's more in line
Speaker 3: to what Brandon Ingram dealt with and not with Chris Bosch.
Speaker 3: Remember Chris Bosch tried to play again and it reoccurred.
Speaker 3: Because normally, when you have blood cloths, oh Joe, you
Speaker 3: have to take blood thinners. That's something that you stay
Speaker 3: on for the remainder of your life. So there's a
Speaker 3: problem because the cut, because the clots you take blood thinners,
Speaker 3: you don't get clotting. So what does that mean. You
Speaker 3: get a knit, you get a cut, you could bleed out.
Speaker 3: So there's always that, there's always that scare. Also probably
Speaker 3: I think you have a greater chance of a heart
Speaker 3: attack or something of that nature. My grandmother was on
Speaker 3: blood thinners right because she dealt with clotting and she
Speaker 3: ended up she ended up ended up having a leg
Speaker 3: app you just above the knee. And but like I said, oh, Joe,
Speaker 3: she was on blood thinterers for the rest of her life.
Speaker 3: And that's normally if I'm not mistaken. Serena Williams dealt
Speaker 3: with blood clots also, So it also depends on the
Speaker 3: severity where they are start getting me in your lungs
Speaker 3: and boy, whooh, you got something to deal with any
Speaker 3: place of a blood cud O, Joe, could be it
Speaker 3: could be a very dangerous situation. But they're saying their hope.
Speaker 3: It's more in lien with what Brandon Ingram dealt with.
Speaker 3: He missed the remainder of the season. He was able
Speaker 3: to come back when most improved, had had an issue
Speaker 3: with it since not like Chris Bosh what eventually led
Speaker 3: to his early retirement.
Speaker 1: Now now one of the things I do want to
Speaker 1: ask you, being that obviously I'm not a health expert.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't really know the background when it
Speaker 1: comes to things like this, is this something that's hereditary
Speaker 1: that does it just happen that regardless of age?
Speaker 2: Joe he twenty one? I know that that's Chris was
Speaker 2: probably what thirty? Yeah? Thirty? Yeah, like my grandmother was
Speaker 2: in we within the sixties. What you deal with us?
Speaker 1: So what deciphers whether it happens regardless of age, is
Speaker 1: it is? What is a diet nutrie? I mean when
Speaker 1: you think about somebody when bum Jan when Yama, you
Speaker 1: think he eats healthy?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: He always has?
Speaker 1: Could I I saw something earlier on Twitter today, Uh,
Speaker 1: someone you know be slick at the mouth and say,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you he probably he probably you know, he
Speaker 1: got the vaccine. I'm not saying I'm not a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if that has any type of effect,
Speaker 1: you know, on whether you get blood clots or not.
Speaker 2: I've listen, You've heard stories that it does.
Speaker 1: It's called it's caused people to have blood clots that
Speaker 1: didn't have before have to get in the vaccine. Know
Speaker 1: you think it's something that's probably in the family DNA.
Speaker 1: Other people have probably had clots that were you know,
Speaker 1: part of the family and it just it trickles down
Speaker 1: to to everyone else.
Speaker 2: Without without me knowing anything. Oho, it's really hard to say.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know. It says the blood clarks are solid
Speaker 3: masses deft on within the blood stream when platelets and
Speaker 3: fibrin a protein stick together, which called the clot. You
Speaker 3: need some clotting because hey, you get cut, you want
Speaker 3: your blood to clot. You start completing. Sometimes you take
Speaker 3: blood thinner if thans your blood. There's nothing that all
Speaker 3: clott it. Okay, boom, that's another issue you could have.
Speaker 3: Obviously you get blood clots, you have a heart attack,
Speaker 3: you have strokes. It leads to a number of other
Speaker 3: underlining conditions. So o Joe, without really knowing, I mean,
Speaker 3: that would be something that you'd have to have a
Speaker 3: health experts to be able to somewhat in cardiothoracic medicine
Speaker 3: or something like that, to be able to give you
Speaker 3: a more of a detail to look, what do they
Speaker 3: think led to it? Is this something that is a
Speaker 3: hereditary Oh Joe, I really couldn't tell you. I mean
Speaker 3: what seemingly is a twenty one year old, healthier male. Yes, sir,
Speaker 3: and boom. Like I said, Chris Bosh was probably thirty
Speaker 3: when he got it. My grandmother was in our late
Speaker 3: sixteen early seventies he got it. So I don't really
Speaker 3: know the rhyme or reason. Serena Williams got it. She
Speaker 3: was in her twentieth and I think if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 3: chat y'all can correct it from wrong. I think Serena
Speaker 3: might have had it in a in a lungs, had
Speaker 3: one of a lung or something. Maybe it was a
Speaker 3: calf or I'm not sure. But people get him in
Speaker 3: a variety of Sometimes they get him and they buy
Speaker 3: sometime they get him in their arm, they get him
Speaker 3: in their lungs. I really don't know, oh, y'all. It's
Speaker 3: really it's really really hard to understand some things are hereditary.
Speaker 3: I'm not necessarily certain that blood clarks are something that
Speaker 3: art a hereditary.
Speaker 2: Right man. That's tough.
Speaker 1: That's tough for him, that's tough for the Spurs, that's
Speaker 1: tough for the fans obviously in San Antonio. Hopefully, I'm
Speaker 1: hoping for a speedy recovery for him and he's able
Speaker 1: to come back strong next year and then continue to
Speaker 1: dominating the way he had so far since he's entered
Speaker 1: the league. A phenomenal talent, very good and prayers prayers
Speaker 1: to him and his family as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Serena because I think it happened at Wimbledon.
Speaker 3: I think she stepped on a glass, a piece of
Speaker 3: glass or something. She was celebrating a victory. I think
Speaker 3: I could, like I said, this has probably been twenty
Speaker 3: years ago, so I'm just going off the top of
Speaker 3: my head and made even long. I think it was
Speaker 3: like twenty something years ago, and she ended up getting
Speaker 3: a blood clot if I'm not mistaken in her lungs,
Speaker 3: I think that's what happened, Oh, Joe, Like I said, yes,
Speaker 3: as she saying yes, that's what's happened.
Speaker 2: I think she stepped on.
Speaker 3: A piece of glass, ended up getting a cut, ending
Speaker 3: up developing a blood clot in a young lung, which
Speaker 3: was very very, very very serious. So hopefully, like you said, oh,
Speaker 3: your thoughts and prayers go out to a speedy recovery
Speaker 3: for Wemby twenty one years old. Such a bright, bright
Speaker 3: future in front of him, so hopefully this is only
Speaker 3: a temporary setback for a major comeback. But you really do,
Speaker 3: like I said, they're hoping. One thing you didn't know,
Speaker 3: I can assure you. When Ris Box developed his no
Speaker 3: one thought that this was going to force his early retirement.
Speaker 2: You just never know.
Speaker 3: And then brandon Ingram get it. And so I think
Speaker 3: for me a lot of times, you know, you kind
Speaker 3: of expect you pray for the best. You expect the worst,
Speaker 3: but you pray for the best, the best, because the
Speaker 3: one thing you are bet it's self, you know, Oh Joe,
Speaker 3: You know, doctors always try to give you the worst
Speaker 3: case scenario because what they don't want to give you
Speaker 3: is a false cyst of security. Oh this is nothing,
Speaker 3: And then they come back the day later it's like, well,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, mister Sharp and mister Johnson, it's a lot
Speaker 3: more severe. So they try to always prepare you for
Speaker 3: the worst, but say, hey, pray and expect the best,
Speaker 3: and so it's always easier to get oh thank you,
Speaker 3: as opposed to like, who oh man, Lord have mercy
Speaker 3: doctor that was true? Oh yeah, so you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. So uh, like I said, hopefully weinby uh
Speaker 3: is because I mean he can do it all. You
Speaker 3: talking about the guy that's probably what seventh seven four
Speaker 3: and a half seven five with shoes on.
Speaker 2: Uh, he can shoot the three mid range. He defend
Speaker 2: at an elite, elite level.
Speaker 3: He's looked like he was projected to be one of
Speaker 3: the all time great players and historically great defensive players,
Speaker 3: with his prowess, blocking shots, challenging shots on the perimeter,
Speaker 3: obviously around the riming is everything is and people you've
Speaker 3: seen people pull the ball out, they get fast breaking,
Speaker 3: he's chasing. They're like, nah, I got a better chance
Speaker 3: of Longchia three than laying this ball up and having
Speaker 3: him pinning against the glass. But hopefully weinby this is
Speaker 3: like I said, something that's very very minor. It's not miny,
Speaker 3: but I'm saying hopefully it's something that he can bounce
Speaker 3: back from relatively quick. I think they said they're hoping
Speaker 3: that if everything goes according to playing, they'll be able
Speaker 3: that he'll be able to resume and be able to
Speaker 3: come back next season. So so March, April, May, June, July,
Speaker 3: all of September, tib but I think they start to
Speaker 3: see them so about eight months, so they'll see how
Speaker 3: it goes and move forward from there. But like you said,
Speaker 3: oh Joe, we really don't know. I mean this because
Speaker 3: when I saw it, the Spurs are shutting Winby down.
Speaker 3: I'm like, damn, God just plays the All Star Game
Speaker 3: and y'all shut him down. And you know, the Spurs, ojo,
Speaker 3: they normally air on the side of caution. Yes, sir,
Speaker 3: they started. It was them that started the load management
Speaker 3: with Duncan and Parker and Gernobili and then even with
Speaker 3: Kawhi as a young young player, he got a load management.
Speaker 3: So they're normally they normally are on the side of concient.
Speaker 3: But I was like, with damn, they've been overly cautious
Speaker 3: with this situation. And I read that because I just
Speaker 3: read the headline Spurs wouldn't be down.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, well, damn. And then once I read it, Okay,
Speaker 2: you understood why, yes, sir?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so uh that's uh, that's the Spurs are shutting
Speaker 3: Victim wimber Yama down because the blood clots uh and
Speaker 3: his right shoulder. They said, hopefully he'll be ready, uh
Speaker 3: the word they use ojo optimistic. Now he'll be ready
Speaker 3: for next season and this is not as serious as
Speaker 3: the issue that Chris Botch dealt with. Hopefully it's more
Speaker 3: in line to what Brandon Ingram dealt with. He missed
Speaker 3: the season, was able to come back and most improved
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, got a contract, got another contract,
Speaker 3: just got it. Recently signed a two three year deal
Speaker 3: with the Toronto Raptors. So hopefully we're praying for you
Speaker 3: Wenby and your family. So hopefully this is nothing that
Speaker 3: you that you can't overcome, and we look forward to
Speaker 3: seeing you in the future. So Boston prayers the victim, women,
Speaker 3: Yama and his family. Friends of love once.
Speaker 2: Oh Joe.
Speaker 3: Brian Windhorse says La is under immense pressure to get
Speaker 3: Luca resigned.
Speaker 2: He never said I want to be a Laker.
Speaker 3: There are dozens of players over the years who have
Speaker 3: made it crystal clear they want to be Lakers.
Speaker 2: Luca never said that.
Speaker 3: This hit them out of nowhere, Oh Jo, can you
Speaker 3: see the Lakers not resigning Luca in.
Speaker 1: L A absolutely not Listen, they need a superstar. They
Speaker 1: need Lebron only have what maybe one maybe two years left.
Speaker 1: It has to be a superstar to put to put
Speaker 1: butts in those seats. Correct, And who is that that
Speaker 1: is Luca, don't it. That is exactly what he's gonna
Speaker 1: do at some point. Once he gets gets in shape,
Speaker 1: once he gets in rhythm, once he gets his legs
Speaker 1: and feet up underneath him, we're gonna get to see
Speaker 1: the same Luca that we saw in Dallas averaging twenty
Speaker 1: nine average and thirty doing what he doing what he
Speaker 1: normally does every night. And he is the future for
Speaker 1: the LA Lakers. And absolutely at some point they're gonna
Speaker 1: start building around him as the star. Think they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to pay. But when do they pay him? When
Speaker 1: does that happen?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: I was reading the other day, Oh Joe, they said
Speaker 3: that Luca can side a two year deal. So what
Speaker 3: is this year eight for Luca? Ask you? This year
Speaker 3: eight for Luca? He signed a two year deal that
Speaker 3: gets into year ting in. Now he be in like
Speaker 3: and he makes the old NBA team first team one
Speaker 3: of those two years in the contract. Now he is
Speaker 3: eligible for a super Max and now he can get
Speaker 3: that four hundred million dollar contract.
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 2: How is that how it goes? Ash? Well, let me
Speaker 2: see here is it your seven? So he.
Speaker 3: Okay, so signs a two year extension O Joe, this
Speaker 3: is your seven Next year, you signed a two year extension,
Speaker 3: so three years he can sign, that'll be ten years.
Speaker 2: Get him to ten and now he is eligible for
Speaker 2: a super max.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: This is very This is very important because here's the thing,
Speaker 2: Oh Joe.
Speaker 3: Remember now, you traded the guy that you really thought
Speaker 3: was gonna be the secession plan to Lebron a D.
Speaker 2: You bring in a guy that's five years younger, and.
Speaker 3: Say, now, instead of having made four or five years
Speaker 3: with a D, we could possibly have ten to twelve
Speaker 3: years with Luca.
Speaker 2: But Luca, now you've already traded a D. You lose Luca?
Speaker 2: Now what wait?
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think you're gonna lose him. You
Speaker 1: know you're not gonna lose him. Obviously.
Speaker 2: He knows he's gonna be the centerpiece and be the
Speaker 2: focus for the future of the Lakers.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of other teams he is going to
Speaker 3: be the centerpiece. Huh, there are a lot of other
Speaker 3: teams he can go and be the centerpiece.
Speaker 2: You know he's not leaving la Come on, now, you
Speaker 2: know better than that.
Speaker 3: Listen his history. Shaq was gonna leave Orlando. They didn't
Speaker 3: think Lebron was gonna leave Cleveland. Did you think Lebron
Speaker 3: was gonna leave Miami? Did you think Lebron was gonna
Speaker 3: leave Cleveland the second time?
Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, he.
Speaker 6: He promised him something. He promised him something, He gave
Speaker 6: him what he wanted and then he went on by
Speaker 6: the business. Did you think Lebron James was gonna leave
Speaker 6: in Cleveland? Remember he's he was born and I with
Speaker 6: North of Cleveland, an actorate he left. Nobody saw it coming. Nobody.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1: You don't you know, you don't just up and leave
Speaker 1: a franchise like that, especially not a not an organization
Speaker 1: like the Los Angeles Lakers. Not when you're you're the
Speaker 1: main focal piece of everything. You are going to excuse me,
Speaker 1: you are going to be the face of the Lakers.
Speaker 1: You understand that. He understand that they traded for you
Speaker 1: for a reason.
Speaker 2: Oh Joe, he knew.
Speaker 3: He wasn't Wiled, he wasn't Kareem, he wasn't shocked, He
Speaker 3: wasn't Bob McAdoo, he wasn't Lebron. He didn't request to
Speaker 3: go there, he didn't make it. That's what that's my
Speaker 3: destination of choice.
Speaker 2: Hold on, uh, come on. Now, let's let's let's let's
Speaker 2: let's be sensible. Right. Yes, you've already, you've already. You're
Speaker 2: in Dallas. You're in a great place. They shocked you
Speaker 2: with a trade.
Speaker 1: Yes you go to you bet you go to a
Speaker 1: historic franchise, a winning franchise like the La Lakers with
Speaker 1: the Kobe Bryants have played, with the Kareem abdu Jabbars
Speaker 1: have played.
Speaker 2: Where they're going to worship you, where they're the unique.
Speaker 2: There has to be a star. Yeah you are. You
Speaker 2: are that star, and you think the time comes he'd
Speaker 2: rather go somewhere else? Where else is there to go?
Speaker 2: Where else will?
Speaker 3: So let me ask your question. If Luca went somewhere else,
Speaker 3: he wouldn't be the star, he wouldn't be the.
Speaker 2: To be the star.
Speaker 7: But what better place is it than l A Ain't
Speaker 7: nothing better than that? No disrespect to other places though
Speaker 7: for you, that's not for him. Does Lucas strike you
Speaker 7: as a guy that's in all that kind of stuff?
Speaker 3: Remember that? But you were playing. Players are different. You
Speaker 3: look at Nicola Yokics, He's like, when can I go home?
Speaker 3: We got the parade? Man, I can't go back and
Speaker 3: get to my porches. They don't see see you're looking
Speaker 3: at it through the lens of an American playing for
Speaker 3: the Lakers.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't, You don't.
Speaker 1: You don't think Luca values the franchise and what and
Speaker 1: what it brings, what it brings to him, the brand
Speaker 1: of playing for the other Lakers, the brand of playing
Speaker 1: for the New York the New York Yankees, or the
Speaker 1: brand for playing for the LA Dodgers.
Speaker 2: You don't think he understands that.
Speaker 8: And and Miguel Soda left the Yankees and went to
Speaker 8: and you and went to the Mets. That's right around
Speaker 8: the corner that that ain't the Yankees. That's out the Yankees.
Speaker 3: So look, I'm not saying that he is, but I'm
Speaker 3: not saying it's not a foregone conclusion that he will resign.
Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And I agree that it's not a foregone conclusion that
Speaker 3: he's going to sign. But I think it's very incumbent
Speaker 3: upon the Lakers that they're hoping and praying, and I'm
Speaker 3: sure they've promised him the heavens and the earth because
Speaker 3: if they lose him, it's over. Because remember, they ain't
Speaker 3: got no draft picks. They just traded the thirty one
Speaker 3: and I think they got what the twenty seven and
Speaker 3: the two they just traded what they traded thirty first
Speaker 3: or twenty ninth. But I only look they got one one,
Speaker 3: you know, top a lot of unprotect the pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, listen, I'm you'd have been around the game
Speaker 1: a very long time, very long time, and you know
Speaker 1: not Miguel so wan so though one so, even though,
Speaker 1: even though even if he European players don't have that
Speaker 1: same feel for playing for historic franchises like the Lakers.
Speaker 2: You know, good and well, he ain't going nowhere? Good, well,
Speaker 2: he ain't going no. Well, we'll come back to this.
Speaker 2: Right now.
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Speaker 2: Why? Let me hold something?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: You got it, Bady listen put it on the floor.
Speaker 2: Well I'm gonna pick it up. Man, James.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about this great season that you had over
Speaker 3: a thousand yards. I think what fifteen rush touchdowns during
Speaker 3: the season had an outstanding Like we just dropped in bed.
Speaker 3: Withers guy, he's on his cell phone. He was kind
Speaker 3: enough to join us. He was not gonna be in
Speaker 3: a situation where he could get land.
Speaker 2: But I'm bad. I appreciate that, bro, Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3: As I was saying, great season running the football, revamped
Speaker 3: offense as far as running the football offensive coordinator for
Speaker 3: first time full time, he blended took over last a
Speaker 3: year ago. In the halfway through the season, when you
Speaker 3: look at what you what you were able to do
Speaker 3: in particular, and what this team was able to do
Speaker 3: considering all the pieces that you lost. You lost your
Speaker 3: two top receivers Matt Mullonel was injured a lot of
Speaker 3: the season, a lot of your dbs, both of your
Speaker 3: safeties and White gone. Nobody really expected you guys to
Speaker 3: be in this situation. Did you really think that you
Speaker 3: guys had an opportunity chance to end up being where
Speaker 3: you were in the AFC Championship game and what three
Speaker 3: points away from actually winning that game.
Speaker 5: Without a doubt. I mean when you got on seven
Speaker 5: back there, it's always a chance. Like That's what I say, Like,
Speaker 5: I just feel like he wanted the best and he
Speaker 5: gonna put us in the best situation always win.
Speaker 2: So he back there and we back there and we
Speaker 2: connecting is something great.
Speaker 1: Listen, Everybody always talks about Josh Allen. They always talked
Speaker 1: about him losing you know, some of this of losing
Speaker 1: digs and then not having a superior weapons on the outside.
Speaker 1: But what people don't talk about enough of is what
Speaker 1: you've been able to do. You take some of the
Speaker 1: pressure off of h Josh Allen. Listen, you stepped into
Speaker 1: a bigger role in the Bills offense. You know, how
Speaker 1: have you embraced being a centerpiece in that system. I
Speaker 1: just can't to work every day forever, real, Like that's
Speaker 1: all I can ever do. Like I can control what
Speaker 1: I can control that end of the day. But when
Speaker 1: you don't come in there and work, and you don't
Speaker 1: come there and be that guy and that be that
Speaker 1: neither in the locker room, that you would never be nothing.
Speaker 1: So that's what I tried to come and do, and
Speaker 1: I feel like it's been working. I'm a team guy.
Speaker 5: I'm always coming there and work and when they come
Speaker 5: on Sundays, I gotta gotta.
Speaker 2: Kill you, Jane. When I look at you, guys, I mean,
Speaker 2: you get so close every year.
Speaker 3: You had the best record in the AFC two years
Speaker 3: ago and then you end up losing at UH to
Speaker 3: Baltimore and then this year you had an unbelievable season
Speaker 3: and Elite lose to Kansas City in the championship game.
Speaker 2: What is the next step?
Speaker 3: What do you guys need to do in order to
Speaker 3: get over that hump, which is Patrick Mahoons.
Speaker 2: In the AFC. You got to be aggressive, Like I
Speaker 2: just feel like we gotta be aggressive.
Speaker 5: And with a guy like one five back there, you
Speaker 5: gotta you gotta just gotta beat them, like Laurls story,
Speaker 5: like I can't say nothing, she just gotta beat them.
Speaker 5: So when you come in games like that and you know,
Speaker 5: when of your back against the wall, then you gotta win.
Speaker 5: And you got your guys next to you, you gotta
Speaker 5: go win. Ship you know, you playing one five.
Speaker 2: You know, you know, you know how it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: You know it's gonna be ebbs and flows of the game.
Speaker 5: So you gotta just control what you can control and
Speaker 5: go out there and play football at the end of
Speaker 5: the day.
Speaker 2: So you would you would like to be more aggressive
Speaker 2: early on.
Speaker 3: You feel like you got when you guys fell behind,
Speaker 3: then you became aggressive.
Speaker 6: You'd like to see that from the word jump oh
Speaker 6: off the rip, Yeah, you know, and it never happened.
Speaker 1: It never happens that way for some reason, especially when
Speaker 1: you get to playoff games with games of extreme importance.
Speaker 1: Most of the time, I think sometimes, especially from a
Speaker 1: coaching standpoint, as an officer coordinator, you say you overthink,
Speaker 1: you overthink the game instead of just playing free. You
Speaker 1: know you you already have what you've already done throughout
Speaker 1: the entirety of the season because you're playing the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs.
Speaker 2: There's no need to press.
Speaker 1: Just continue to do what you've always done, and you
Speaker 1: use your bell Kyle, you for instance, in seventeen and
Speaker 1: just rock out. And I think they lost sight of that,
Speaker 1: or he the officer coardy, had lost sight of that
Speaker 1: once you got to that game, and not allowing himself
Speaker 1: to just just play freely, call the plays freely, because
Speaker 1: you got all you need right there in hand, and
Speaker 1: I think for one y'all are going to consistently be back.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously you're in AFC, Obviously I'm a Bengal fan,
Speaker 1: but understanding what you guys have and I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about you from an individual standpoint and how much
Speaker 1: your game has evolved from a rookie to now and
Speaker 1: where you are right now, what do you think you
Speaker 1: need to work on? As good as you've gotten from
Speaker 1: your rookie season to this point, what do you think
Speaker 1: you need to work on to continually evolve at the
Speaker 1: running back position.
Speaker 2: I just feel like I can.
Speaker 5: I just got to keep getting better and you know,
Speaker 5: like be able to be on fair every dawn like
Speaker 5: and key situations like I feel like I could do it.
Speaker 2: Ship just look at this point what else more I
Speaker 2: could do?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: So, I just feel like, man, just keep me on
Speaker 2: the feeling and great games will happen. Hey, also, hold on,
Speaker 2: I got I got one more.
Speaker 3: I like.
Speaker 2: I like this here, I like this.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of good running backs in the league,
Speaker 1: right you know, Henry's, the McCaffrey's, even even though it
Speaker 1: was injured for most of the season. If there was
Speaker 1: one thing you could take from one of the running
Speaker 1: backs in the league that you look up to and
Speaker 1: and and you're a fan of, if there was one
Speaker 1: thing from their game you can add to.
Speaker 2: Yours, what what would it be?
Speaker 5: Go with Christian McCaffrey, just like just all the explosiveness
Speaker 5: that he got in his game and what he can
Speaker 5: do with the ball and so many positions that he
Speaker 5: can be in and you don't even know when he
Speaker 5: getting the ball and he just get the.
Speaker 2: Ball and just cod this bitch like yeah, like all that.
Speaker 5: Like so just putting that traits in my game and
Speaker 5: be able to learn from from what he doing in
Speaker 5: my Like I looked up to my brother, so it's
Speaker 5: like whatever he could, whatever I learned from him, I
Speaker 5: put that in my game. And yeah, just trying to
Speaker 5: just go out there and play football.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day. Shit, we've been doing it.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, there are reports to James and you can
Speaker 3: confirm with it now is that you want to be
Speaker 3: the highest paid running back in the NFL and men like,
Speaker 3: hold on, wait a minute, now, I don't know if
Speaker 3: he's earned that or he's deserving of that. What do
Speaker 3: you say to the people that says, man James could
Speaker 3: don't deserve to be the high.
Speaker 2: Pinted running back. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: At the end of the day, I feel like we're
Speaker 5: just going to get his running backs and I feel
Speaker 5: like we deserve to get paid. And because when they
Speaker 5: come down to the back end of the season, we
Speaker 5: we we play a big part of this ship.
Speaker 2: Like so.
Speaker 5: However, they want to take it. Then I'm staying with
Speaker 5: the running back ship. We deserve it ship.
Speaker 3: Now if I'm not mistaken, you could correct me if
Speaker 3: I'm wrong again. Now it's reported that there were a
Speaker 3: phone call between a lot of the top running backs,
Speaker 3: yourself and McCaffrey and Deck Hennery and Saquon Barkley, and
Speaker 3: I think Josh Jacobs was on that call when you
Speaker 3: guys had that call. If you were on that call,
Speaker 3: what was that discussion?
Speaker 2: Ship?
Speaker 5: Were valuable and were deserving what we need because we
Speaker 5: were in the trenches every time ship we vain ship
Speaker 5: when they come down to the stretch, you you got
Speaker 5: to run the ball.
Speaker 2: So it's like, like, how is we not valuable? Like,
Speaker 2: how does we not valuable?
Speaker 5: If we can we the back end of the season,
Speaker 5: you have to run the ball when it's snowing, y'all,
Speaker 5: this ship gets six feet of snow.
Speaker 2: Like we got to run the ball. So it's like,
Speaker 2: what more can you? Like, how's we not valuable? Like
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, like.
Speaker 5: His is point blank period and you could see like
Speaker 5: what we do in the position that we play. We
Speaker 5: play a big part of offenses like this.
Speaker 1: Period and you know what you are correct in the
Speaker 1: NFL owners, I'm not sure when that dynamic shifted to
Speaker 1: where the running back position wasn't valued the way it
Speaker 1: used to be. Obviously during unks era. You know, during
Speaker 1: my era, you know, the running back was a very
Speaker 1: important position. And you guys can actually fight. You guys
Speaker 1: have a case. You guys can voice your reason for
Speaker 1: wanting and commanding the kind of money you want because
Speaker 1: players like you Sa Kwon, Derrick Henry, Christian McCaffrey, and
Speaker 1: maybe maybe two others. You know, you're Jonathan Taylor, Gibbs, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jacob Jamier Gibbs, Josh Jacob as well. You guys are
Speaker 1: at the forefront of being able to command the kind
Speaker 1: of money you want because of what you guys are
Speaker 1: able to do and taking some of the pressure off
Speaker 1: your quarterback.
Speaker 2: When the team needs you, guys to grind the clock out.
Speaker 2: Who's the one to show up?
Speaker 1: Y'all? Bell, calves, bell, cow, That's what it is. And
Speaker 1: most of you can play three downs. You's a goddamn
Speaker 1: dual threat, so you you should be getting two goddamn checks.
Speaker 1: You can line up outside, you can catch it out
Speaker 1: the backfield, you can hand it off to you I mean, listens,
Speaker 1: I'm with you, especially when it comes to getting paid,
Speaker 1: because y'all bring a different dynamic than more than just
Speaker 1: being a running back, because you do more than just
Speaker 1: running goddamn ball.
Speaker 5: And I can say just one thing though, I just
Speaker 5: feel like I just feel like like we just do
Speaker 5: so much, like just like by going to practice and
Speaker 5: doing all the good shit right, and I just feel
Speaker 5: like we're deserving of it, like like why not, Like shit,
Speaker 5: we work all our life to get paid, like send
Speaker 5: me the big bucks, like shit, why not?
Speaker 2: Bro?
Speaker 5: Like I want to go chase the highest highest of
Speaker 5: the highest, like and I'm gonna keep doing it like
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna stand over what I stand on, like
Speaker 5: and I don't want to feel like a cancer at all,
Speaker 5: because I never I don't like all that attention and
Speaker 5: all that all that like that's not me, like honestly.
Speaker 2: Like and I just I'm just standing on business man.
Speaker 5: If you think about it, and what I deserve, go ahead, no,
Speaker 5: go ahead, finish jum, that's it what I deserved.
Speaker 3: When if you think about it, James, since McCaffrey got
Speaker 3: that sixteen million, nobody's even come close to that number.
Speaker 3: And so now you know you're going to uncharted territory.
Speaker 3: You look at what Saint Quan got. I think Saint
Speaker 3: Kuan got about thirteen and a half. You saw what
Speaker 3: Dave Henry got, He got about what eight and a half? Ah.
Speaker 3: You see what Josh Jacobs got. I think he was
Speaker 3: around twelve eleven and a half twelve? So you know
Speaker 3: when you say you want to be the highest paid
Speaker 3: and McCaffrey, is that the number that he's after? You
Speaker 3: know you're reaching for the stars. Are you hope you
Speaker 3: land on the moon and get something close to that?
Speaker 3: Or you want a super or you want to jump
Speaker 3: over that?
Speaker 2: And I just want to get what I deserve. Sh
Speaker 2: that's all. That's all. I wanted to get what I
Speaker 2: asked for, That's all. What role the mess? Your question?
Speaker 2: I had a brother that played in the league.
Speaker 3: Before I got there, I idolized my brother and I
Speaker 3: wanted to be just liking, what role did your brother play?
Speaker 2: And how good?
Speaker 3: Because I'm surprised, I think everybody surprised you didn't follow
Speaker 3: his path at Florida State. You went to Georgia. You're
Speaker 3: probably glad you did, But what role did your big
Speaker 3: brother play? And the guy that we see today that's
Speaker 3: turned into one of the premium running backs in.
Speaker 5: The NFL, A big role. Honestly, just like the just
Speaker 5: if I asked him a question, is just he always
Speaker 5: there for me. It's like he always telling me to
Speaker 5: be myself, don't never like stop from what got you
Speaker 5: here to like crede myself to then somebody that I'm not.
Speaker 5: So I just feel like that's what he told me,
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna keep continuing to being myself and just
Speaker 5: always have that older brother in my ear to always
Speaker 5: guide me in the right direction. And almost that's my
Speaker 5: oldest brother and I'm always listening to him. So I
Speaker 5: feel like, here's the great ship. He just said to
Speaker 5: stand it. So it's like why not follow it. It's
Speaker 5: like if I if I don't follow it, it's like
Speaker 5: I set myself short because I had an older brother
Speaker 5: to lead the way and show me the ropes on
Speaker 5: how to get there, and if I don't follow it,
Speaker 5: I'm a failure.
Speaker 2: I feel like, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So it's like always just keep working hard and keep
Speaker 5: grinding and get what you wanted life ship, That's what
Speaker 5: I say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, you know, you know What's funny when I
Speaker 1: think about it, I would I would have loved the
Speaker 1: opportunity to have a brother, you know, Santana you I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of.
Speaker 2: Give me, give me more, said a brother. TJ. Watt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that man, that has to be like the
Speaker 1: greatest feeling to have a brother. And when y'all were
Speaker 1: growing up, did y'all compete? Did y'all compete? Now, obviously
Speaker 1: I know you wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not sure when he was that central,
Speaker 2: When he was that central, you wasn't that though? Obviously? Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Now that that has to be the greatest feeling. Bro.
Speaker 2: We still compete to this day. It'd be so crazy.
Speaker 5: We compete in you know still yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: we compete in the game ship, we we whatever.
Speaker 2: We compete because I were brothers.
Speaker 5: And we understand, like we're never going to go against
Speaker 5: each other, and we always understand like at the end
Speaker 5: of the day, you my oldest brother, and I respect
Speaker 5: you to the most up high, and I never do
Speaker 5: nothing ever even fail my family, like because I know
Speaker 5: like I was got the right way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, what are some what what
Speaker 3: do you listen to to get you in, that move
Speaker 3: to get you locked in in before the game. So
Speaker 3: what when you when you when you got to have
Speaker 3: the beats on? You got the headphones on? You?
Speaker 5: What you what you buy the way to get you
Speaker 5: locked in in? I ain't even gonna lie to you.
Speaker 5: I want young okay, young boy's time. And it's like
Speaker 5: I gotta get up. I gotta get up for the game.
Speaker 5: So it's like before the game, I slow down, listen
Speaker 5: to a little R and B. Okay, calm myself down
Speaker 5: before the game. Never get too low, never get too high.
Speaker 5: So pre game, getting myself together, vibe into a little
Speaker 5: R and B. Calm myself down. But before I get
Speaker 5: on the field, it's smellss hot and young boys, it's
Speaker 5: time to go.
Speaker 2: Hey, it has it ever bothered you?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 2: Obviously being a Florida boy, you know how the weather
Speaker 2: is out here. It's it's always hot.
Speaker 1: You know when we get when we get a cold front,
Speaker 1: our cold front is bat seventy degree as the weather.
Speaker 2: Have you gotten used to the weather out there in Buffalo?
Speaker 2: Has it bothered you at all? Oh? No, you you
Speaker 2: can get adjusted to it. I feel like that's a mindset. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like ship.
Speaker 5: You gotta go out there and feed your family ship.
Speaker 5: You gotta go out there and play at the end
Speaker 5: of the day, right, Hey, to just shut that, shut up?
Speaker 2: What they paying? I ain't gotta be out there for
Speaker 2: two hours in it? I'm good.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, hey, James, thank you man. Congratulations little great season.
Speaker 3: You made the Pro Bowl. Hopefully bigger and better things
Speaker 3: to come in the future. Hey, stop back by when
Speaker 3: you signed that big pay, they stop back by and
Speaker 3: drop some of my for us.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that, ladies and gentlemen. Right, I got you
Speaker 2: all right, O Joe.
Speaker 3: Earlier to say, Sean's posted a statement from Jeff Schwartz
Speaker 3: of Excel Sports Management. The overwhelming sentiment have to confirm
Speaker 3: with multiple nationally recognized doctors is that the Lakers should
Speaker 3: not have failed Mark Williams on his physical O Joe,
Speaker 3: what do you make of this?
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, that's one thing. That that's one thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my alarm, that's it. They wake me up for a nightcap.
Speaker 2: You know, you're.
Speaker 1: Doctors most of the time make mistakes. Very seldom, excuse me,
Speaker 1: very seldom make mistakes. I think as a player he
Speaker 1: should be upset. I'm not sure if he would take
Speaker 1: legal action.
Speaker 2: He can't. What do you mean he can't? What are
Speaker 2: you gonna do? What are you gonna say? You there's
Speaker 2: nothing wrong with me, and you failed me in the
Speaker 2: physical and you got his call. He's not a doctor.
Speaker 2: They failed him on the physical.
Speaker 1: If there's nothing wrong with him and you fail me,
Speaker 1: who's responsible? Oh, Kathy, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1: So Drew Rees should have sued the Dolphins because they
Speaker 1: failed him on the physical. Hold on his shoulder was
Speaker 1: messed up. On his shoulder was actually messed up for real.
Speaker 1: Well maybe maybe to their standard. His knee or his
Speaker 1: back is messed up to their standard.
Speaker 3: You gotta realize each team sets the standard in which
Speaker 3: they will won't pass it. We took marks loret his
Speaker 3: he had, he had terrible needs. But if you want him,
Speaker 3: you take it. So if you don't, you fail it.
Speaker 1: How about this, Yes, how about just saying how about
Speaker 1: just telling the truth, you know what, we really don't lie,
Speaker 1: We really don't want you.
Speaker 2: You really don't fit what we're trying to do. You're
Speaker 2: not the type of player with what he actually.
Speaker 3: Does fit what they want to do. Luca wanted a
Speaker 3: law threat. If you go look at what they got.
Speaker 3: Would likely lively look at what they got with Daniel Gaffert.
Speaker 3: That's what they want. That's what he wanted. He wanted
Speaker 3: a law threat. That's why they were willing to trade
Speaker 3: young Dalton connect just in order to get him to
Speaker 3: a peas Mukah. So they absolutely wanted it. But here's
Speaker 3: a guy that's twenty two years ago. Come on, now
Speaker 3: here's a guy that's sixteen and nine. Why they're trading it?
Speaker 2: Oh? Don't they make you think? What's going on?
Speaker 3: With what's going on when somebody they start training the
Speaker 3: other Like, hold on, why do you train him sixteen
Speaker 3: or nine?
Speaker 2: He's twenty two? Something made right? See look the Hornets
Speaker 2: contested it like there's nothing wrong with him.
Speaker 3: But the NBA like ro they medical team, they medical staff,
Speaker 3: thank doctor Ellen Trosh me or Ellen Trosh. They got
Speaker 3: some The Curland Joel Clinic is what handled a lot
Speaker 3: of what the Lakers do. I know those guys. They
Speaker 3: was out went to the Curland job and they did
Speaker 3: both EPs. Yeah, so I'm very familiar with them. But
Speaker 3: like like I said, O Joe, your doctor said, hey,
Speaker 3: man Shannon, good to go. Another doctor say, man, boy,
Speaker 3: that y'all don't even know how you walking with them?
Speaker 2: Something ain't right now.
Speaker 1: As doctors, right, I think everybody had the same protocol.
Speaker 1: Everybody had the same procedures. It's not like one doctor
Speaker 1: doing something different than the other doctor when they've all
Speaker 1: when they've all learned the exact same way, especially when
Speaker 1: they come to looking over patients, especially players that play
Speaker 1: at the highest level.
Speaker 2: So how one get it wrong and the other one
Speaker 2: get it right? Something ain't make no sense.
Speaker 3: Oh Joe, you have to understand each team has to
Speaker 3: have their own own set of what they will and
Speaker 3: won't accept.
Speaker 2: It's like that, you think, Oh, let mess your question.
Speaker 3: Do you actually think all thirty two team NFL doctors
Speaker 3: have the same guidelines on what they will and won't
Speaker 3: pass it down on the physical when you go to
Speaker 3: the combine. Some team doctors failing, Some teams doctor don't.
Speaker 3: Some teams have red flags, some teams don't.
Speaker 2: Did you hear what you just said?
Speaker 1: Yes, if they like you regards to what happens in
Speaker 1: those procedures, they will sign you if they want you,
Speaker 1: if they know they can use you. Yes, So why
Speaker 1: not just say you don't want him because he had
Speaker 1: no problem playing where he's playing.
Speaker 2: Now that's them. Oh Joe, Okay, all right, you're right,
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right.
Speaker 3: You see you make it say like, oh, just oh Joe,
Speaker 3: this is a professional setting.
Speaker 2: Why don't the doctor just tell you you gonna die?
Speaker 2: Just be truthful? Won't they tell you that? O Joe?
Speaker 3: Won't they tell you, hey, you're not gonna be able
Speaker 3: to do this, or you're not gonna be able to
Speaker 3: do that. Cold Now, I'll tell you the medical is different.
Speaker 3: You just can't tell somebody. You try to be as
Speaker 3: positive as you possibly can. They don't tell you one
Speaker 3: way or another. Let's see, let's see what happens. I
Speaker 3: get it, I get it. While his agent that's the Lakers.
Speaker 3: Would you rather be in Charlotte? Would you rather be
Speaker 3: in La? Playing with Lebron and Luca are playing with
Speaker 3: Miles Bridge and LaMelo Ball? Now would you rather be?
Speaker 2: I mean obviously La? Okay, exactly? You see you see
Speaker 2: what you just said? What would you rather be? Yes?
Speaker 2: And now that goes back to my question, why would
Speaker 2: you think Luca would want to leave? Because Mark Williams
Speaker 2: is American. Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 3: Does Luca look at the American play Look at the
Speaker 3: European players, Oh Joe, when they retired, what did they do?
Speaker 2: They go back? Yeah, they go up.
Speaker 3: They don't stand. They don't stay. In La, they don't stay.
Speaker 3: And wherever they play at think go back. It's not
Speaker 3: that it's not the same to them. You looking at
Speaker 3: it from our perspective as being Americans, and a lot
Speaker 3: of people look at America or they look at La
Speaker 3: and they look at you your like, oh, that's where
Speaker 3: I want to be. But that's not how they proceed it.
Speaker 3: And so you have to look at it through their
Speaker 3: leans and from Luca.
Speaker 1: And it's funny when I think about it and think
Speaker 1: about Miami, right, and don't talking about playing I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about basketball in the sense Miami is a melting
Speaker 1: pot for every ethnicity, even if you are from wherever
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: This is a place you want to be. Why because
Speaker 2: you have a community that looks just like those where
Speaker 2: that are where you're from. When I think about La,
Speaker 2: where where's Luca from? Again, Slovenia.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you there's a Slovenia community community in LA
Speaker 1: because there's every ethnicity, restaurants, people, So why wouldn't you
Speaker 1: want to be there.
Speaker 2: It's not like you're going to be by yourself and
Speaker 2: not like you're going to be in solitude.
Speaker 1: Those that and are like minded, just like you, from
Speaker 1: your community, from your background or right there.
Speaker 3: Because here's the thing, Oh Joe, you say they got communities,
Speaker 3: what does Slovenian have ninety five ninety eight percent obedience?
Speaker 2: They don't have a community. They got a whole country.
Speaker 3: So you know, it's like, look, you got little Haiti,
Speaker 3: you got a little cute little Havana, yet here everything.
Speaker 2: Guess what. Guess what Cuba got big Havana. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know what, don't don't nobody want to be there.
Speaker 3: Now that's a bad They definitely don't want to be
Speaker 3: under that that resu But uh, look I get what
Speaker 3: you're saying. It's like, bro, but it's just like anything.
Speaker 3: I mean, some doctors when you go to the combine,
Speaker 3: some doctors gonna say, hey, down the road, he might
Speaker 3: I feel abnormal laxness in his knee.
Speaker 2: I feel abormal laxness in the shoulder.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Some guys, like some daughters might say, nah, I don't
Speaker 2: see a problem. But here's the thing.
Speaker 3: You don't see a problem in two years in that
Speaker 3: guy's nick you know you out, you know you're gonna be.
Speaker 2: Out of a job, right. Yeah, So that's why they
Speaker 2: are on the side of caution.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what they air on the side of caution,
Speaker 1: depending on who it is. They are on the side
Speaker 1: of caution, depending on who the player is.
Speaker 3: Because Ojo, you got to realize the basketball players guarantee.
Speaker 7: Now that you will get hurt. Guess what that two
Speaker 7: hundred million you're gonna get all that three d get
Speaker 7: all that. That's the chance we have to take. That's
Speaker 7: the chance we have to take, depending again, depending on
Speaker 7: who the players.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at look at no disrespect, no disrespect,
Speaker 1: you know, Kawhi Leonard, Yes, Paul George. I mean there
Speaker 1: are a number of players that I can name that
Speaker 1: that that got the bag because of what they can
Speaker 1: do on the court and unfortunately do the unfortunate.
Speaker 2: Circumstances they got hurt.
Speaker 3: They could do about that just because somebody else is foolish,
Speaker 3: That don't mean I gotta be foolish. Now, deep down inside,
Speaker 3: what you think they're thinking about giving your Joel and
Speaker 3: Bean when he had two years left another three years
Speaker 3: at one hundred and ninety three million dollars. So now
Speaker 3: he's got five years that two hundred and forty million
Speaker 3: dollars coming right, How you think they're thinking about that? O, Joe?
Speaker 2: Can I ask you a question? Yeah? When Joel and
Speaker 2: Biid is on the court, Yeah, and he's steeling. Okay,
Speaker 2: you know what you get? Right?
Speaker 3: Let me ask you to see what you just said.
Speaker 3: Before you said court? What before letter word did you use?
Speaker 2: Win? Right? Win?
Speaker 3: He's played four hundred and twelve games, he's missed four
Speaker 3: hundred and five.
Speaker 2: Is there another replacement for Joel Andbiid? Is there another
Speaker 2: Joeling bead out here? Hell?
Speaker 3: I can't get Joel and Bead out there. I don't
Speaker 3: need a repair, just need him. I don't need a replacement.
Speaker 3: I beat his ass out of the core. You're talking
Speaker 3: about the replacement again. This is this is this is
Speaker 3: what I'm talking about. This is what I'm talking about too.
Speaker 3: Now we talking about a special player. Yes, that ain't
Speaker 3: just you ain't just picking them off off the trees
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: That you will take the chance and pay him what
Speaker 1: he's getting paid despite the amount of games he missed.
Speaker 1: Why because he's special? Yes, And you understand what you
Speaker 1: get when he is on the court. So you know
Speaker 1: what we gonna pay because we know we get when
Speaker 1: he is in the court, despite the injuries he may have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's the difference in young Bull that's in Charlotte,
Speaker 1: that who had an opportunity to play.
Speaker 2: If he was if he was anything like a Joel Ebid,
Speaker 2: he'd be with the Lakers. They would have definitely passed
Speaker 2: him on that test.
Speaker 3: But if you think about it, Oh, Joe Bill, they
Speaker 3: gonna be in a big Now, good luck trying to
Speaker 3: get off Paul George. He just signed four years that
Speaker 3: two hundred and whatever million dollars. Jordan be got two
Speaker 3: hundred and forty and sixty coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, what's the likelihood of these as these guys getting older,
Speaker 3: they get healthier.
Speaker 2: It's tough. It's tough now, yeah, yeah, and listen, as
Speaker 2: they get older, what you can do.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but don't have them on the
Speaker 1: ball as much, allowing them to if I mean, as
Speaker 1: a player, I think you have to evolve where you
Speaker 1: don't need to touch the ball as much, where you
Speaker 1: you're not putting as much stress and work on yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure there's a way that you can
Speaker 1: make it happen. You're not the main focal point. Well,
Speaker 1: Paul George isn't the main focal point. He was supposed
Speaker 1: to be that third wheels. He was supposed to be
Speaker 1: Joeling Bee, ty Reese Max and Paul George. That's what
Speaker 1: it was supposed to be.
Speaker 3: But it looks like now it's ty Reeves MAXI team
Speaker 3: and it's Tyree's Maxy, Joel Enbiid and Paul George. But
Speaker 3: Paul George has been nicked from the jump. Yeah, Joel
Speaker 3: Embiid with the problem that I got with embid. If
Speaker 3: you think about it, O Joe, he was he got
Speaker 3: hurt at the end of the season. He was nick
Speaker 3: during the postseason. You would have thought that, you know what,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take my you know what, guys, I know,
Speaker 3: I promise you guys that I was gonna come to
Speaker 3: the Olympics, but I gotta get healthy because the goat
Speaker 3: if I Philly, I wouldn't let him play. No hell now,
Speaker 3: gold medal versus me trying to win a ring, gold medal,
Speaker 3: ring Olympics.
Speaker 2: Don't pay no money.
Speaker 3: I appreciate and I know Jordan Bead is extremely happy
Speaker 3: he immigrated from Cameroon. Hey, everything is so much of
Speaker 3: what he's been given from America, and he should he's
Speaker 3: grateful and he's thankful than he should be. But at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, Ojo, the Olympics don't put
Speaker 3: five hundred million in your pocket.
Speaker 2: The Philadephia seventy six is half. I got you, I
Speaker 2: got you, and so that's that's just my thinking.
Speaker 3: Me bro Hey, I would love to, you know, be
Speaker 3: on that last ride because what we had, the bird
Speaker 3: magic Jordan, you had steph U Durant and Braun. That
Speaker 3: was to be a part of that and to win
Speaker 3: the goal. And I watched that next blitch, that Netflix special.
Speaker 2: It was unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Following the Olympic team and guys tried to and and
Speaker 3: they got access to you hear the Canadian team and
Speaker 3: you see ut Liftomania, uh, the Serbian team with Yok
Speaker 3: and Bondanovitch and you got the Americans.
Speaker 2: But no, no, no, bro you you you you you compromised.
Speaker 3: The sixth of season, oh Joe, because he hasn't been healthy,
Speaker 3: not one day since the season kicked off.
Speaker 2: And Joel and Be been healthy. Dang.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's it's it's uh, you know, I feel
Speaker 3: bad for the seventy six ers. I really do, because
Speaker 3: they're doing everything they possibly can. Look, they got Ben
Speaker 3: Simmons that didn't work out. I mean whatever, whatever, what
Speaker 3: whatever whatever they had James Harden. And James Harden is
Speaker 3: like he's the hardening. You know, he wanted to be there,
Speaker 3: but he wanted his money. He took a pay cut,
Speaker 3: and that's what.
Speaker 2: That's what. That's the thing on Joe. Stop taking pay cuts.
Speaker 3: Stop giving these teams discounts because they get you over
Speaker 3: the bowl and then they're like, well, we're not gonna
Speaker 3: pay you Noah. James Harden like, bo, wait a minute, bro,
Speaker 3: I meet that Brad. Yeah, hopefully, uh we'll see
Speaker 1: The volume