Speaker 1: The first order of business is the NBA Playoffs, and
Speaker 1: that's where we're getting started with. The finals are now
Speaker 1: set between the Indiana Paces and Oklahoma City Thunder. The
Speaker 1: Pacers made the finals while putting away the New York
Speaker 1: Knicks in Game six Saturday night, one twenty.
Speaker 2: Five to one oh eight.
Speaker 1: The Pacers were ultimately the better team, and now they
Speaker 1: head to the finals Thursday night to face the league
Speaker 1: MVP and Shae Gilgess. Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder
Speaker 1: can't say enough.
Speaker 2: Listen. I thought the Knicks were gonna win this series
Speaker 2: in seven games. I really really did.
Speaker 1: But when they blew it in Game one, I didn't
Speaker 1: know how they could and how they could recover from that,
Speaker 1: and sure enough they didn't. That's one element to appeal
Speaker 1: from it. Another element to appeal from it is that
Speaker 1: the Pacers were deeper, and they were exceptionally well coached.
Speaker 1: And even though we respect Tom Thibodeaux on what have you,
Speaker 1: the bottom line is is that he's not Rick Carlile.
Speaker 1: And then when you couple that with the fact that
Speaker 1: you got to look at the future in terms of
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks giving up five picks for and
Speaker 1: protect the first round picks for Michal Bridges, and you
Speaker 1: saw his level of production or lack thereof at times.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look too pretty for the New York Knicks.
Speaker 1: They were there, they were in the conference finals. They
Speaker 1: were two games away from an NBA Finals birth, but
Speaker 1: they didn't get it done. And to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say something that's not gonna be that popular.
Speaker 1: From a purely basketball standpoint, this is a better finals
Speaker 1: series than the Knicks would have given Oklahoma City Thunder
Speaker 1: because I think if the New York Knicks are going
Speaker 1: against Oklahoma City Thunder, they would have gotten blown out
Speaker 1: of the building. They would have gotten swept because they
Speaker 1: just weren't deep enough. And against Oklahoma City, you got
Speaker 1: to be deep enough. Rick Carlisle has played eleven players
Speaker 1: at least fifteen minutes a game during the regular season.
Speaker 1: So it's a better matchup for the Oklahoma City Thunder
Speaker 1: and it's a better basketball matchup all for us all
Speaker 1: to watch during the NBA Finals. That's my opinion. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's where I stand with it, but you probably prefer
Speaker 1: to hear from somebody else and joining me now to
Speaker 1: break down the Eastern Conference Finals and look ahead to
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. Is an NBA champion himself, Big Perk,
Speaker 1: as we affectionately call him, Kendrick Perkins, one of All
Speaker 1: with the Celtics in two thousand and eight, and he
Speaker 1: joins me now my partner in crime on NBA count
Speaker 1: Down and be young.
Speaker 2: What's up, big boy? How are you doing?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: How's everything?
Speaker 3: That's say?
Speaker 4: Two things? Are those veins popping out of yours? Are
Speaker 4: those veins?
Speaker 3: I see?
Speaker 4: Hello, bro, Hello, I see a different see a different
Speaker 4: glue in you right now?
Speaker 3: Man? You know what I mean. I'm seeing something. It's
Speaker 3: different right now. You know you got going days.
Speaker 2: You just teasing me, man, You just teasing me.
Speaker 1: You just teach me because you know how desperate I went.
Speaker 1: I was to get I get home. Because I was
Speaker 1: desperate to get home I got. I was being Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City in Minneapolis. I was sitting there praying we didn't
Speaker 1: have to go back to Minneapolis for Game six.
Speaker 2: You know that, you know that. But Perk, let me
Speaker 2: ask you this question. Man, Let's get right to it.
Speaker 2: You all, I mean, you got to give us an explanation.
Speaker 2: You swop up and down.
Speaker 1: There was no way in helly Indiana Pacers winning this
Speaker 1: series and get into the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: Yet lo and behold they are here.
Speaker 1: What the hell happened to the New York Knicks and
Speaker 1: in the Indiana Paces in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 3: Man, well, let me say this. I was wrong.
Speaker 4: I was wrong about this series, and I gotta give
Speaker 4: credit to the Indiana Paces. I will say that. But
Speaker 4: the Knicks, how dare you? How dare you? You're in
Speaker 4: the Eastern.
Speaker 3: Conference Finals, you just knocked out to defend the Chaps.
Speaker 4: How dare you let your foot off the gas in
Speaker 4: game one?
Speaker 3: That's what I keep thinking about when I go back
Speaker 3: to this series.
Speaker 4: I keep thinking about that meltdown in Game one and
Speaker 4: how they ultimately costs the New York Knicks the series,
Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden things started downspiring from there,
Speaker 4: They've been paying ketch up ever since, and they never
Speaker 4: bounce back. Here's the thing I say, one unless Giannis
Speaker 4: calls and say he wants to go to New York,
Speaker 4: I think the Knicks ship running back. Obviously you get
Speaker 4: better with your bitch, but I'm talking about your starting
Speaker 4: five and Josh had you run it back right, But
Speaker 4: you hold guy's account, and I'm looking at Call Anthony Towns.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm certain give me out.
Speaker 4: Soon as the game was over, I went to the
Speaker 4: and there and everybody like, oh, first priority for the
Speaker 4: Knicks's train called Anthony Towns.
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, the hell's not. You're talking about a.
Speaker 4: Guy who gave you twenty three to twenty four points
Speaker 4: and almost twelve rebounds in this series.
Speaker 3: I believe it was right.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing, Cans Worldwhile Winston Leon Rose call Anthony Towns,
Speaker 4: they go all the way back to his Kentucky days. Right,
Speaker 4: that's a little bit over a decade ago. You shouldn't
Speaker 4: be able to hold him a count. The problem with
Speaker 4: Call Anthony Towns is strength and conditioning. He has to
Speaker 4: lose fifteen to twenty pounds. He has to be able
Speaker 4: to get up the floor. Then he has to be
Speaker 4: able to work on his lateral movement. Don't come telling
Speaker 4: me that he can't get better in his eighth or
Speaker 4: ninth season and say I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 4: You know why because I watched Steph Curry get better
Speaker 4: late in his career when he won his Sports Championship.
Speaker 4: You remember when people was picking on Steph Curry and
Speaker 4: say defensively, yep, and it stopped against the Boston Cilitis.
Speaker 4: You remember how you started guarding. They were trying to
Speaker 4: search him out. We saw him batleting on the low
Speaker 4: block with Al Horfer that Jaylen Brown and try to fall.
Speaker 4: He wasn't budget. That's what needs to happen with call
Speaker 4: Anthony Towns. I'm gonna say this, if I'm called Anthony Towns,
Speaker 4: I embrace all.
Speaker 3: The criticism this summer. I use all the criticism.
Speaker 4: Matter of fact, I have every single clip on my
Speaker 4: phone that is criticizing me being a defensive liability, out
Speaker 4: of shape, whatever you want to call it. I'm using
Speaker 4: that as motivation and I come back. I come back
Speaker 4: in better shape. Next year, I'll come back leaner, and
Speaker 4: I come back more focus.
Speaker 1: Is that your way of saying that the New York
Speaker 1: Knicks for some reason had an opportunity to get Giannis
Speaker 1: after the Coupo, they shouldn't move called Anthony Towns.
Speaker 2: Is that what your way of saying that.
Speaker 3: I said, let's he called, I wouldn't.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be reaching out If I'm the New York niggas,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't do that. Because God, because man, listen, we
Speaker 4: already know whether you and I agree with him or not.
Speaker 4: Called Anthony Towns is the emotional God. Right, Called Anthony
Speaker 4: Towns is the emotion of God. If he found out
Speaker 4: that Worldwide West and Leon Rose were reaching out to
Speaker 4: try to trade him, because you're gonna have to trade him.
Speaker 4: If you want Giddess, right, you're gonna have to package
Speaker 4: him up with something with some pieces and a third
Speaker 4: team involved, whatever it is the sense of draft picks.
Speaker 4: Then if you want Giddiness, you want them to contact you.
Speaker 4: You want Giddess to want to come to the Knicks
Speaker 4: before you even start entertaining that conversation. If not, guess what,
Speaker 4: Let's say you run it back. Two things. For sure,
Speaker 4: we know the bus some Celtics, they're most likely not
Speaker 4: gonna be there next year. Now they're gonna make some moves,
Speaker 4: but without Jason Tatum, they're not gonna be title contenders.
Speaker 3: You know, the Milwaukee Bucks eliminating themselves.
Speaker 4: Dame Dollard's probably gonna miss the entire season, so you're
Speaker 4: still just looking at the Pacers, right, and maybe the
Speaker 4: Cavs who are gonna bounce back. Other than that, the
Speaker 4: Knicks have nothing. I mean, who else are they worried about? Me?
Speaker 3: Eastern comforts? I know, detroying No man, Detroit?
Speaker 2: How about how about Detroit?
Speaker 1: How about Detroit who didn't have Isaiah Stewart, who didn't
Speaker 1: have Ivy available to them, and who has the rest
Speaker 1: of their team?
Speaker 2: What about them? I'm not underestimated Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 3: No I'm not. I'm not either.
Speaker 4: But I'm saying if the Knicks, which I believe they
Speaker 4: will do, go out and improve the depth and get
Speaker 4: better on the permemina right from the bench, I think
Speaker 4: they'll be just fine.
Speaker 3: They know what they have to do this offseason to
Speaker 3: to upgrade Dave Ross.
Speaker 1: What about your concerns about calling Anthony Towns and how
Speaker 1: gimpy he looked throughout these playoffs? His legs, it looks shaky, man.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you right now, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I could depend on him in the next three.
Speaker 2: To five years because of that.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about his legs, how to tide twenty one
Speaker 1: feet questionable needs. That stuff has been has been pervasive
Speaker 1: in his life for years.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: It has to say. But that's why you get your
Speaker 4: big ass in shade. Let me let me give you
Speaker 4: an examp when I was when I first got traded
Speaker 4: in to Oklahoma City. Right the first year I was there,
Speaker 4: I was coming off of touring ACL and I uh
Speaker 4: strained my mnisis okay, And we went to the We
Speaker 4: end up going I believe it was to the Western
Speaker 4: Conference finals and we got knocked out by the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 3: I believe it was or in the second round. I
Speaker 3: can't really believe.
Speaker 4: Uh, I can't really hit it on the head right now,
Speaker 4: but it was either or right, all right?
Speaker 3: Cool, we getting knocked up that summer. I wasn't a
Speaker 3: lamb now, mind you. I in my eighth to.
Speaker 4: Nine season as well. And I'm not comparing myself to
Speaker 4: call him and in towns. I'm telling you, no, A
Speaker 4: matter of work that you need to put in to
Speaker 4: get to the level.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: The thunder souning trainer home with me, who was with
Speaker 4: me the entire summer, his name was Critis.
Speaker 3: They sent them down. They made me get on the diet.
Speaker 4: I had a book, this thick of things that I
Speaker 4: had to do and follow throughout the course of the day.
Speaker 3: I entered the season two hundred and eighty eight pounds.
Speaker 4: I came back into kel at two fifty three with
Speaker 4: nine percent body fat because I knew I had.
Speaker 3: To get in shape.
Speaker 4: One for my knees, but in order to be able
Speaker 4: to get up and down with Russell Westbrook, k D
Speaker 4: and James Horden, that's all you gotta do.
Speaker 3: Hold them account.
Speaker 1: Michel Bridges five first round picks for unprotected. How are
Speaker 1: you feeling about him right now?
Speaker 3: Got mixed feelings and say about Michel Bridges.
Speaker 4: While because it was times where I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: that's the mckeal Bridges, I know right there right and
Speaker 4: I don't want to just yet. He didn't have a
Speaker 4: great series or like he had an average series in
Speaker 4: the in the Eastern Conference Finals, but remember how great
Speaker 4: he was in that Boston series. The dude was bolled
Speaker 4: right in, especially in the fourth quarters on the road.
Speaker 3: So this is what I said about Michal Bridges.
Speaker 4: I think you have to address Jalen Bronson before you
Speaker 4: could start addressing McHale Bridges in the Oceana Noby and
Speaker 4: a lack of consistency offensively throughout the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 4: Jayler Brunston gotta get off the ball man like he
Speaker 4: gotta get off the ball and say he can't continue
Speaker 4: to start the game dribling, dribbling the oxygen out of
Speaker 4: the ball.
Speaker 3: He's he's starting to become a Luca Doncis.
Speaker 4: And I say that respectfully because both of those guys
Speaker 4: are Hillibook And you know, I'm a fan of the
Speaker 4: big body Bruston. But what I'm watching is I'm watching
Speaker 4: them walk the ball up the floor. I'm watching the
Speaker 4: Knicks start their offense with them in their fifteen on
Speaker 4: the clock, they're always borderline.
Speaker 3: Getting eight seconds called.
Speaker 4: And I'm watching mckial bridges at OGEA know we find
Speaker 4: their offense once Jayler Brunton goes to the bench.
Speaker 3: That can't happen.
Speaker 2: Man, let me transition.
Speaker 1: Because the New York Knicks had done and they got
Speaker 1: a lot of working offseason, we got plenty of time
Speaker 1: to talk about them. Your thoughts about the Indiana Pacers
Speaker 1: and their chances of winning a championship because they're going
Speaker 1: up against Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 3: They're gonna get game one. They better get game one.
Speaker 4: You remember when we was on countdown and I said
Speaker 4: the Denver Nuggets, I said the Minnesota timber Wolves.
Speaker 3: It was a month's men for them in thame one.
Speaker 4: Well, they better get Game one, I know, if they
Speaker 4: even think they have a chance in this series.
Speaker 3: You know why because.
Speaker 4: Game one a fill out game, right, So the Thunder
Speaker 4: they haven't played a team like the Pacers, a team
Speaker 4: that likes to get up and down, a team that
Speaker 4: spreads the floor a lot of they guys that could
Speaker 4: majority of their team could shoot the three point shot
Speaker 4: at a high cliff.
Speaker 3: They haven't.
Speaker 4: So now all of a sudden, dagnel, he has to
Speaker 4: go in in his bag a little bit. I'm interested
Speaker 4: to see what type of lineup he's gonna throw out there.
Speaker 3: Who he's gonna put on pass Gal Seattle, Seaka.
Speaker 4: But Game one is the most important game of the
Speaker 4: series for the Pacers.
Speaker 3: If they don't get Game one, they're gonna.
Speaker 4: Lose this series in five because by Game two, the
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City Thunder is gonna figure you out.
Speaker 3: And once they figure you out, it's a problem defensively.
Speaker 4: So you're going into Game one in the fill out game,
Speaker 4: you really gotta have you gotta have to really stretch
Speaker 4: that to going into the going into the second half
Speaker 4: of Game one, you need to be up by like
Speaker 4: fifteen to sixteen points on the score under than your
Speaker 4: asses brains?
Speaker 1: How elite is this Oklahoma City Thunder defense compared to
Speaker 1: defenses that we have seen throughout NBA history, And what
Speaker 1: makes them so good defensively?
Speaker 3: You saw I there, say you saw the closer person.
Speaker 4: It's one of the best defensive teams that we've seen
Speaker 4: in the history of the game.
Speaker 3: And people keep asking.
Speaker 4: Me who will win this twenty twenty five or this
Speaker 4: twenty twelve team, And I keep saying, I believe it
Speaker 4: will go seven games, but I would give the NOAWD
Speaker 4: to the twenty twenty five team because of that depth.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I've ever seen the team this deep,
Speaker 4: especially at the perimeter position, that have a bunch of
Speaker 4: dogs and could defend. Yes, we know about Luke DRTs,
Speaker 4: I saw you earlier the day make some great points
Speaker 4: about Alice Caruso in case of Vollace coming in.
Speaker 3: Off the bench.
Speaker 4: But we gotta remember hell SGA and j Duh them brothers,
Speaker 4: not no scrugs defensive like they defeared at a high level.
Speaker 4: So when I'm watching them and I think about my
Speaker 4: eight team with the Boston Celtics, who was outso Pacific,
Speaker 4: one of the best defensive teams you know.
Speaker 3: Still put on the floor. I'm like, bro, these dudes
Speaker 3: are just different. They're different, man.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at that right now, and it's scary
Speaker 1: because I look at lou dort Man. This brother is
Speaker 1: a linebacker playing basketball. He's a linebacker playing basketball. I
Speaker 1: saw Julius Randall, and this brother didn't put a form
Speaker 1: out there. He just used his chest and Brandall couldn't
Speaker 1: move him. Randall six', Eight randall powerful and couldn't move this.
Speaker 1: Brother And i'm thinking About halliburton and all of this
Speaker 1: noise About. Halliburton the brother can. Play he's not. OVERRATED
Speaker 1: i don't know who these players were that labeled him.
Speaker 1: Overrated he's not. Overrated the brother can, play make no
Speaker 1: mistake about. It but this is a different. Beat this
Speaker 1: is a different. Animal it's a different challenge that's coming his.
Speaker 1: Way AND i ain't gonna lie to. YOU i don't
Speaker 1: know how equipped Halla burton is to handle. This to
Speaker 1: be quite honest with, you it's gonna be interesting to.
Speaker 4: See you saw those eighteen points per game throughout these.
Speaker 4: Playoffs that ain't gonna cut. It that's not gonna cut
Speaker 4: it Against Oklahoma. City done the eighteen points a, game
Speaker 4: gonna get your. Swim he's gonna have to elevate this
Speaker 4: game even. More say he's gonna be have to be
Speaker 4: consistently if they have a shot twenty five to thirty
Speaker 4: points a night AND i don't see. It you know
Speaker 4: what he averaged in his two games against the thunder
Speaker 4: this sery this year in the regular city what.
Speaker 3: He averaged eleven?
Speaker 4: Points bro Bro he averaged eleven points against Ok see
Speaker 4: against Okay.
Speaker 3: See now, again you Know i'm waiting on.
Speaker 4: Him he didn't have his special moments if we just
Speaker 4: saw him take over four. Quarters but you're Dealing you're
Speaker 4: dealing with a different. Beast here's the one thing That
Speaker 4: i'm looking at. Close who is gonna go On Pascal?
Speaker 4: Siaka because if you talk about Putting Luke dort's oh
Speaker 4: Toy Reeves hamlerburg and the start is Ched, holmgren go
Speaker 4: be the one On Passal. Siakam or if you're, coach
Speaker 4: do you Start Jake dve On Passal?
Speaker 3: Siakam do you switch up your start lining?
Speaker 4: Up if you Coach daguel and you go small With
Speaker 4: chad at the, five and you bring In Alice caruso,
Speaker 4: early and now you have your defense.
Speaker 3: SET i, mean it's gonna be interested to.
Speaker 1: See i'm interested in seeing it as. Well i'm praying
Speaker 1: that we're gonna have an interesting. SERIES i, mean if
Speaker 1: we gotta go to cities Like indiana And, okay, see,
Speaker 1: damnit at least making a great. Series you know What i'm,
Speaker 1: Saying go six seven, Games that's What i'm looking. AT
Speaker 1: i know you don't feel that, way, because damn, it
Speaker 1: you loved In Oklahoma. City you should be the. Mayor
Speaker 1: they should give you the key to the. City they
Speaker 1: gave you a standing. OVATION i was standing right next to,
Speaker 1: you big. Bro they gave you a standing. Ovation and, okay,
Speaker 1: SEE i gotta ADMIT i was right BECAUSE i was
Speaker 1: getting ready to walk to the back with. YOU i,
Speaker 1: said let's. Go you, like stay with, me, Bro AND
Speaker 1: i didn't know what the hell was going. On and
Speaker 1: the next THING i, know they got you up on
Speaker 1: a big screen and the crowd is giving you a standing.
Speaker 2: Ovation how was?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 2: Man how that make you? Feel broll?
Speaker 4: One, well, One i'm thankful that you shared that moment with.
Speaker 3: Me that's number. One number two, Man it's all loved. There.
Speaker 3: Man it been that.
Speaker 4: Way and let's SAY i had some great years. There,
Speaker 4: right it was four and a half. Years but the
Speaker 4: THINGS i would, see a lot of people don't realize
Speaker 4: the things and how INVESTED i was in the, community,
Speaker 4: right like with the, tornadoes With, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving christmas, holidays
Speaker 4: like my wife AND iw be done a lot in the,
Speaker 4: community and we developed relationships.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 4: Man WHERE i never bought a house In. BOSTON i
Speaker 4: never bought a house In cleveland Or New. Orleans BUT
Speaker 4: i did own a house In Oklahoma. City and it took, me,
Speaker 4: seriously it took me Seven it took me six years
Speaker 4: AFTER i Left. Okay, see, yeah six years AFTER i Left, Okay,
Speaker 4: see finally sell my house BECAUSE i was thinking ABOUT
Speaker 4: i was actually thinking about going back. There we just
Speaker 4: think about living. Them that's how. Great that's how great people.
Speaker 4: Are that's how much loved they.
Speaker 1: Show you've often said That Shake Gildas alexander should be
Speaker 1: looked at, differently and then last week you came out
Speaker 1: and you, said this is the best player in the
Speaker 1: history Of Oklahoma. City Kevin durant's been, There Russell westbrook
Speaker 1: has been, there along with various, others but especially those two.
Speaker 1: Names you really really mean That i'm talking. About you
Speaker 1: said this before a championship has been. Captured you saying
Speaker 1: it right. Now you didn't say if they win a.
Speaker 1: Championship you've already Called Shake Gildas alexander the greatest player
Speaker 1: in the history Of Oklahoma City Thunder why?
Speaker 4: Yep, well, well number one third straight season of averaging
Speaker 4: thirty plus okay shooting number with fifty percent of the,
Speaker 4: field which joan Your goat And Michael jordan right for
Speaker 4: as players with most thirty points.
Speaker 3: Shooting Over Vigo.
Speaker 4: Vego yeah, yeah, yeah so that, team then he goes
Speaker 4: to win THE. Mvp then he goes to win THE.
Speaker 4: MVP i heard you on there. Too by the, WAY
Speaker 4: i ain't getting.
Speaker 3: Into the.
Speaker 4: He wins THE mvp all right. Now they're, saying he
Speaker 4: wins the scoring, title herd straight year of First Team ALL,
Speaker 4: nba all right, now takes the team to THE Nba
Speaker 4: Finals CONFERENCE. Mvp and the way that he's doing, it,
Speaker 4: man the way that he's doing, it no one can
Speaker 4: say that this man has, underachieved, Right And i'm just
Speaker 4: thinking about how he's embraced this. Coaching no one thought
Speaker 4: when they made the trade For Paul george that this
Speaker 4: team will be sitting there something four or five years
Speaker 4: later and we'll be talking about them making it to
Speaker 4: THE nba. Finals For KAWHI pg ty KAWHII pg don't
Speaker 4: even play together no more so just for him to
Speaker 4: embody this, Whole, okay see culture be like the.
Speaker 3: Face, MAN i.
Speaker 4: Listen much love and respect TO kd and much love
Speaker 4: and respect To. Russ What rus's, done that was tremendous three,
Speaker 4: years averaging a triple, DOUBLE MVP, kd him being THE,
Speaker 4: mvp multiple scoring. TITLES i get all of. It but
Speaker 4: WHEN sga is doing right, now we're talking about history,
Speaker 4: here Stephen. A we're talking About he's sitting at the.
Speaker 4: TABLE i Saw Adam offson post. Something it's, Him Michael
Speaker 4: jordan And Alan offerson sitting at another seat that we
Speaker 4: didn't think he was gonna be sitting.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 3: Damnit he's sitting at that table now and he haven't
Speaker 3: even completed the mission. Yet so imagine when he completed the.
Speaker 4: Mission AND i, think out of all and you you
Speaker 4: tell me If i'm, Wrong he's gonna be The he's
Speaker 4: everybody else From Anthony ill Was, Luca Jason, Tagum Jaylen,
Speaker 4: Brown Donovan mitchell are gonna.
Speaker 3: Be playing ketch up to him because once he completed this,
Speaker 3: MISSION i believe they're gonna win the.
Speaker 4: Championship he's gonna enter that room of superstars With, lebron WITH.
Speaker 3: Kd what still with jokis with got this because he's gonna.
Speaker 1: Check all The and the other thing, too is that
Speaker 1: he thoroughly Outplayed Anthony edwards in The Western Conference. Finals
Speaker 1: there's no, WAY i, mean there was two superstars that
Speaker 1: were going up against one. Another one departed elevating his,
Speaker 1: status another departed lowering his. Status even THOUGH i love
Speaker 1: me some Ant, man but you cannot show up in
Speaker 1: the game five and you're down twenty in the first,
Speaker 1: Quarter you're down thirty at the, Half you're getting blown
Speaker 1: out of the building in a close out. GAME i
Speaker 1: Know Oklahoma city is a better, team but you still
Speaker 1: expected more from Ant man than what you. Got let
Speaker 1: me throw this interesting question by. You five to Twenty
Speaker 1: jeff T five to Twenty podcast said That shay basically
Speaker 1: saved THE nba because he reminded everybody of a mid
Speaker 1: range game instead of everybody just running out there dependent on.
Speaker 1: THREES i thought he made a valid point in. That
Speaker 1: regard your thoughts about that real, QUICK.
Speaker 3: I agree with. It why agree with?
Speaker 4: Them he got, us he he he made us focus
Speaker 4: and brought us back to. Realities right, like just when
Speaker 4: people are the analytics start the mid range game was,
Speaker 4: dead it. Wasn't and as she ain't reminded us of
Speaker 4: that because people can talk about he's the free throw
Speaker 4: merchant and all that. STUFF i DON'T i don't want
Speaker 4: to hear all, That Like Richard jefferson puts up that
Speaker 4: up Where Richard, jefferson, damn there was averaging more free
Speaker 4: throws THAN sg eight out of like two or three
Speaker 4: seasons of his. Career right now it's been over eight
Speaker 4: and he's he's he's getting to the mid. Range and
Speaker 4: like we talked about the saying he's legit, six he's
Speaker 4: legit sixty. Six so that means He's kobe M j
Speaker 4: height right in the separation the debris of difficulty that
Speaker 4: he's getting on because these ain't just wide open mid range.
Speaker 4: Shots these are contestant turned arounds over both, shoulders the,
Speaker 4: women the flash up and under the school blazing to
Speaker 4: finishing around the basket right the left.
Speaker 3: Hand he's school.
Speaker 4: Blaying on the right side with the left, hand tough
Speaker 4: finishes like this man is, special and he had reminded
Speaker 4: the world that don't fall in love with the trade.
Speaker 3: Ball BUT.
Speaker 4: Seea let me say this to you real. Quick last
Speaker 4: year when The celtics won it, problem they didn't shoot
Speaker 4: the ball that well from the three in THE Nba,
Speaker 4: finals we forgot That hollan day and those guys start
Speaker 4: cutting out of the corners Because dallas was trying to
Speaker 4: disrespect them for as knocking down. Threes The celtics was
Speaker 4: getting to the, Paint Jamea brown And Jason tatum was
Speaker 4: getting to that new raised.
Speaker 3: Junction but SG a just then took it to another.
Speaker 4: Level AND i think that's the separation between the between
Speaker 4: him And Anthony elvis right. Now right Like Anthony elvis
Speaker 4: is either three or all the way to the, BASKET
Speaker 4: sga got everything in.
Speaker 2: Between everything in.
Speaker 1: Between not a three point, yet But god help us
Speaker 1: all if he perfects three point shooting and he gets
Speaker 1: significantly better at. That lord helped the. World lord helped
Speaker 1: the basketball. World two more questions Before i'll let you
Speaker 1: get on out of. Here one would be this going
Speaker 1: back TO. Kd you, know we saw how the crowd
Speaker 1: just thundered no pun intended When Shae Gilgess alexander won
Speaker 1: the LEAGUE.
Speaker 2: Mvp we also saw.
Speaker 1: We Saw Russell westbrook come back as The Denver nuggets
Speaker 1: get a standing. Ovation we saw you and the love
Speaker 1: that you see as a commentator now as a former
Speaker 1: player for The Oklahoma City. Thunder and the love and
Speaker 1: AFFECTION i know for a fact BECAUSE i was in
Speaker 1: that city with you EVERYWHERE i. WENT i mean the television,
Speaker 1: stations the, street big, perk big, PERK i mean. Jasus it's, Ridiculous,
Speaker 1: okay the love that you. Received Kevin durant is without,
Speaker 1: question one of the greatest.
Speaker 2: Players who has ever.
Speaker 1: Lived for obvious, reasons he didn't get that applause when
Speaker 1: he came back to Ok see because he decided to
Speaker 1: depart after they were three to one lost and lost
Speaker 1: the series To Golden, state and then he took his
Speaker 1: talents to The Bay area With Steph curry and those
Speaker 1: boys less than a month after losing to. Them But
Speaker 1: i'm looking at the love And i'm, Like, damn this
Speaker 1: is one of the greatest players who have ever. Lived,
Speaker 1: BROOKLYN okc before, that Obviously Golden state after OK, c
Speaker 1: and now he's In phoenix and one of the greatest.
Speaker 1: PLAYERS i, mean if we don't give him any, love
Speaker 1: where the hell is he gonna get it?
Speaker 2: From have you thought about that at?
Speaker 1: All and have you questioned whether or not one Day
Speaker 1: Kevin durant will ever regret LEAVING.
Speaker 2: Okac to be, HONEST i.
Speaker 4: DON'T i don't see how he Left. Okay s is
Speaker 4: say like those fans haven't. Change they've been that. Way
Speaker 4: they've they've been that. WAY i remember when WHEN i was,
Speaker 4: playing we just used to go ON tv AND espn
Speaker 4: used to have like this this meter where it's like
Speaker 4: now we can't even hear ourselves in this. Way so,
Speaker 4: again Like katy decided to make the. Choice one of
Speaker 4: the thing THAT i Wish kad would do is put
Speaker 4: his dawn pride to, side which we know that's hard
Speaker 4: for him to do and just make it right with
Speaker 4: that fan base And Sam.
Speaker 3: Presty here's the question.
Speaker 4: THAT i want to know THAT i want to, know
Speaker 4: And i'm gonna Ask Sam, presty especially if they win this,
Speaker 4: championship like have you even spoken TO Kd you Ain't
Speaker 4: katy even talked since he departed From Oklahoma, City like
Speaker 4: that's a real. THING i want to know BECAUSE i
Speaker 4: know him And Russell westbrook got a. Relationship every TIME
Speaker 4: i look. Up Russell westbrook now got a car dealership out.
Speaker 4: There he just building some type of part for the.
Speaker 4: Youth he's building up another, community apartments for people on low.
Speaker 3: Income like he's. Invested he goes back there right. There
Speaker 3: Love Russell.
Speaker 1: Westbrook Russell westbrook quiet has Kept Russell westbrook does a
Speaker 1: lot of special things in the community and BOTH okc
Speaker 1: And Los angeles that people don't know. About he just
Speaker 1: ain't about. That But Russell westbrook is a good, dude.
Speaker 1: Bro he could be all he could come across as
Speaker 1: abrasive and truckuling all he wants. To he does a
Speaker 1: lot of, great great things in the. Community he really.
Speaker 2: Does my thing is.
Speaker 3: You're right and say. Well my thing WITH kd is.
Speaker 4: When he's, up when it's all said and, done what's
Speaker 4: the place he's gonna fall?
Speaker 5: Home LIKE i don't know everyone everyone has that, Place
Speaker 5: LIKE i, KNOW i Know braun he played with The
Speaker 5: lakers in the, heat but he's always gonna Say cleveland
Speaker 5: was his.
Speaker 3: HOME i just strongly believe that.
Speaker 4: Right, obviously still he has found his whole damn career
Speaker 4: With Golden, state And.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at And.
Speaker 4: Yannis even If yannis does move on and he goes
Speaker 4: to another team this most, season he's always gonna say
Speaker 4: he's always gonna be remembered as A Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: What's kate gonna be? Remembered?
Speaker 4: That JUST?
Speaker 3: Kd or? Who? Yeah like what organization is attached? Steal?
Speaker 2: None? None because he did to want to be attached to.
Speaker 4: THEM i WANT i wonder If Sam preston is even
Speaker 4: going to retire in his.
Speaker 1: Jersey, Yeah AND i tell, you, WELL i think he,
Speaker 1: should BUT i don't know if you can if the
Speaker 1: audience doesn't want, it because the crowd may not want,
Speaker 1: it know what have? You and to, me it's one
Speaker 1: of them situations where if Oka, see by some happenstance
Speaker 1: doesn't win the championship this, year with all the assets
Speaker 1: That Sam presty has available to, Him phoenix would jump
Speaker 1: at the opportunity to get assets from Okay see in
Speaker 1: exchange FOR. Kd but why would you bring him back
Speaker 1: to a city that you know clearly he didn't want
Speaker 1: to stay?
Speaker 2: In and that's. Why that's what everybody has told. Me
Speaker 2: SO i don't know.
Speaker 1: Very last question BECAUSE i got to get on out of.
Speaker 1: Here who do you have win in this? Series and
Speaker 1: how many GAMES i?
Speaker 3: GOT i? GOT i, GOT i got ok se in.
Speaker 4: Six i'm Gonna i'm gonna give the pacers some respect
Speaker 4: that they could get too home, Right i'm gonna give
Speaker 4: them some respect to say that they can win two
Speaker 4: games at.
Speaker 3: All let me say this to you real. QUICK i
Speaker 3: haven't told, nobody not even.
Speaker 4: YOU i want the world of never that me and
Speaker 4: The Great Charles barkley has no beef no.
Speaker 3: More we actually talked and compensated.
Speaker 4: Yup so Because i'm sitting up there, thinking and you
Speaker 4: know how my wife could be. Right she be on
Speaker 4: my ass and everybody and she asks and my, stuff
Speaker 4: and she was, like you have a, thought what are.
Speaker 3: You And barkley taking shots at each other for a?
Speaker 3: While y'all? Beef AND i, said she, said it's just.
Speaker 3: Stupid SO i reached.
Speaker 4: OUT i reached out to our, legend Our, colly our
Speaker 4: good Brother Michael willboard did AND i, said, hey Will,
Speaker 4: bard big, bro can you put? Me can you Give
Speaker 4: barkley my? Number and telling the coll. Me, MAN i
Speaker 4: just think it's. Stupid he put us in the, message
Speaker 4: and he wrote this whole paragraph and, say both of
Speaker 4: y'all great friends of, mine two of my most favorite
Speaker 4: people on the Planet. Earth i'm making this, introduction and
Speaker 4: maybe we could sit down and break bread and eat
Speaker 4: go to dinner In.
Speaker 3: Chicago SO i.
Speaker 4: Responded, Appreciated, uh, Appreciated big Bro, charles what's, Up, chuck what's?
Speaker 3: Up legend?
Speaker 4: MAN i would love to sit down with you and break,
Speaker 4: bread he, responded big.
Speaker 3: Perf, Man, hey, listen you're doing our standing.
Speaker 4: Job we shouldn't be throwing shots at each other in
Speaker 4: THE nba.
Speaker 3: Finals, Man let's link up and break.
Speaker 4: Bridge so we squashed that, beat that little that little
Speaker 4: beef that we. Had it wasn't nothing but some pork
Speaker 4: chops when we squashed.
Speaker 3: It that's that's. Fun that's. Fun excuse. Me it wasn't
Speaker 3: not but some hamburger, me but we squashed.
Speaker 1: It now you if you, remember first of, all you
Speaker 1: did the wisest, thing because Nobody that's why we Call
Speaker 1: Will bond The, godfather because ain't nobody better than bringing
Speaker 1: people together Than Will. Bond IF i have a run for,
Speaker 1: office he'll he'll be my secretary Of. State that, brother
Speaker 1: THAT'S i, mean that's just who he. Is, SECONDLY i told,
Speaker 1: You i've been telling you for the last couple of.
Speaker 1: Years barkley's a good. Dude, Man barkley gonna say what he.
Speaker 1: Feels but a lot of most of the, times it's
Speaker 1: all in. Fun and if he disagrees with SOMETHING i tell,
Speaker 1: you he calls me a fool at least once a.
Speaker 2: Month at least once a. Month what are you?
Speaker 1: Doing but but we got nothing but love for. Him
Speaker 1: and by the, way we're looking forward to THE tnt
Speaker 1: crew coming TO.
Speaker 2: Espn.
Speaker 1: Man but, LISTEN i got to run on out of, here,
Speaker 1: MAN i gotta. RUN i appreciate the big. Perk thanks so.
Speaker 2: Much. Man i'll talk to you, sooner, Right i'll see you.
Speaker 3: Soon and, okay, see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Yeah i'll see you. Soon But i'm not rushing.
Speaker 1: It i'm not rushing. IT i, MEAN i, Mean i'm
Speaker 1: a very friendly a. Confine i'll holl let you lady.
Speaker 1: Man thanks a, lot all, right