Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick. On this
Speaker 1: episode of the Heat Check, I'm back from Sacramento, baby,
Speaker 1: and I've got a first hand report on the Kings
Speaker 1: and the Lakers, and goddamn it, I didn't get to
Speaker 1: warm up on that beam.
Speaker 2: No beam for me.
Speaker 1: But what I got was a massive once in a
Speaker 1: generation storm that just cleared out three hundred thousand homes
Speaker 1: worth of power, put one hundred year old trees on
Speaker 1: roofs right next to my Airbnb. So I saw some
Speaker 1: shit that was historic. I had get into some drama
Speaker 1: surrounding Lebron. We move forward and we talk about John Collins,
Speaker 1: who has been just circulating in trade rumors since pre pandemic. Honestly,
Speaker 1: like he's had it. He's had it with the trade rumors.
Speaker 1: There's now trouble brewing in Brooklyn now that Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: has gone down with an mcl sprain, and oh my god,
Speaker 1: what is happening in Chicago with Zach Lavine and Billy
Speaker 1: Donovan because no one's seems to know the path forward.
Speaker 1: And of course we talk about what NBA player said
Speaker 1: he wanted to beat Skip Bayless's ass. Lot to talk
Speaker 1: about Nick so drop that generic beat. So I had
Speaker 1: the pleasure the honor of going out to Sacramento for
Speaker 1: the very first time. I had never been there in
Speaker 1: my life, let alone seen a King's Game. Let alone
Speaker 1: been to the new Golden One Arena, let alone enjoy
Speaker 1: the presence of Casey and Dill, Kenny Carroway, Damian Barling,
Speaker 1: who are the absolute best.
Speaker 2: But that King's Game was some bullshit. Let's be honest, Like.
Speaker 1: Kings Lakers, let's just before we get into it. The pageantry.
Speaker 1: It was I think their eighth or ninth consecutive sellout.
Speaker 1: The fan base was rocking. We got there, we went
Speaker 1: to dinner right across the way. The way that it's
Speaker 1: actually set up is really cool. So they've got this
Speaker 1: Kimpton hotel called the Sawyer right across from the arena,
Speaker 1: and all the players stay there and it's like you
Speaker 1: can tunnel in so you don't even have to leave.
Speaker 1: And I tell you what, when you know and you're
Speaker 1: a woman and you know where the players are staying
Speaker 1: one thousand percent, the lobby was wild, like even pregame
Speaker 1: before the team buses showed up. I mean, there were
Speaker 1: girls basically naked out there in the lobby of the hotel,
Speaker 1: just sitting there and just milling about.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, I know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: You're trying to catch a lebron You're trying to catch
Speaker 1: a shrewder like you're waiting.
Speaker 2: They had so much.
Speaker 1: This was like three point thirty four PM, right game
Speaker 1: starts at seven. They're like, nope, I'm not waiting for
Speaker 1: after at the after show. I'm gonna try to get
Speaker 1: them when they're in their pregame warm up and warm
Speaker 1: them up on my beam. And they were this amount
Speaker 1: of makeup that the women had on. It was crazy. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's like maybe like maybe one hundred yards from the
Speaker 1: entrance of the arena, which is fucking awesome.
Speaker 2: And they have these Kings residences too.
Speaker 1: So there's like this frosty glass door and it's like
Speaker 1: King's Residences. Apparently Demona Simonis stayed there for the entire
Speaker 1: duration of the season and he got traded there like
Speaker 1: a awesome condos, just very pimp shit, and so that
Speaker 1: was awesome. So we went to dinner quote unquote, it
Speaker 1: was like the it was like the Grandma Special. We
Speaker 1: ate at four because the game started at seven, so
Speaker 1: we went and got steak at this place inside the
Speaker 1: Sawyer Hotel called Echo and rig awesome steaks. They had
Speaker 1: like nine different steaks to choose from, all grass fed,
Speaker 1: really great. Chopped it up with Kyle.
Speaker 2: And Kenny and Damien.
Speaker 1: Then we went into the arena, met up with all
Speaker 1: the you know, big jay journalists like James ham and
Speaker 1: and we got to meet I got to meet Deuce
Speaker 1: and Mo who I've been on their podcast before.
Speaker 2: They're awesome, give them a follow.
Speaker 1: It was just one big, one big reunion of people
Speaker 1: who have never met each other, they had met each other.
Speaker 1: I got to see Phil Handy. He gave me a
Speaker 1: big hug. That was a whole thing.
Speaker 2: It was awesome. Got to be on the court.
Speaker 1: And then because we were just like ten deep of
Speaker 1: journalists like, oh.
Speaker 2: No, I love you, Oh no, I love you. Oh no,
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of your stuff. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: we gotta get together. Oh where'd you go at sacramto
Speaker 2: the security of the team. By the way, these are.
Speaker 1: King's journalists who have been there every single game so far.
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, you guys can't be here. You're too
Speaker 1: much right now, this is too much. There's professional photogs
Speaker 1: taking pictures of us. We've got like fans coming up.
Speaker 1: It was a thing, right, it was a thing. And
Speaker 1: and Damien and Kenny were like, we do this every game,
Speaker 1: like whatever's happening with you?
Speaker 2: They're not, they don't want this. We go through the tunnel, they're.
Speaker 1: Hardcore checking our credentials now, which, by the way, my credential,
Speaker 1: which was made out of paper, ripped off my wrist,
Speaker 1: so I had to just like show it like a badge,
Speaker 1: and they're like, just make sure you see it. So
Speaker 1: we all hung out in the media room, did our thing,
Speaker 1: go up to the media area, which is a great,
Speaker 1: incredible view. They were kind, they're kind of spoiled. They
Speaker 1: want to be down on the floor. But I've been
Speaker 1: in Staples before. They put you in the like six hundreds,
Speaker 1: you know, they like put you in the noseblazes, so
Speaker 1: really cool stuff. But in terms of the game, probably
Speaker 1: one of the better games of the season. I would say,
Speaker 1: back and forth and back and forth again. Final score
Speaker 1: one thirty six, one thirty four, so no defense was
Speaker 1: being played at all. Daron Fox is amazing, Like he's
Speaker 1: one of those players that you see up close and
Speaker 1: personal where you totally understand why he's better than you
Speaker 1: think he is on TV. In the fourth quarter, I
Speaker 1: don't know what he had in the fourth quarter. I
Speaker 1: want to say it had to been twelve.
Speaker 2: It was nuts.
Speaker 1: It was at absolutely nuts, and he just couldn't miss.
Speaker 1: And the King's got into this huge deficit. We're starting
Speaker 1: to freak out because we're out by the concourse and
Speaker 1: by the NBC Sports Bay Area little booth meeting fans.
Speaker 1: We look up and they're down like nine, or like
Speaker 1: down twelve. Kenny's like, they'll cut it. Lebron's on the
Speaker 1: bench in the fourth quarter, They'll cut it to two
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens. And I tell you what,
Speaker 1: Fox just took over.
Speaker 2: Insane.
Speaker 1: Also, we've got to give love to my man Demonisa Bonis.
Speaker 1: He had a horrible, horrible night and Sabonis had what
Speaker 1: did he had? He had twenty five twelve and seven
Speaker 1: and he had one rebound in the first quarter. He
Speaker 1: was largely garbage in the first quarter. He got fouled
Speaker 1: out early and he still had twenty five twelve and seven.
Speaker 2: That's insane.
Speaker 1: He's so good.
Speaker 2: Thomas Bryant, though, this team, this King's team, needs.
Speaker 1: A backup five.
Speaker 2: This is the most Kings Talk will probably do in
Speaker 2: this detail.
Speaker 1: But I was there. So they need a backup five, right,
Speaker 1: they need one. They found one. His name's Thomas Bryant.
Speaker 1: He plays for the Lakers. He gave them twenty nine
Speaker 1: and fourteen. He was making he was making Sabonis look
Speaker 1: like a like a wet tissue paper. He was so movable, demonic.
Speaker 1: Sabonis is known for being so strong. So you know,
Speaker 1: like Steven Adams light and Thomas Bryant, Thomas Bryant. Can
Speaker 1: we just say Thomas Bryant put up twenty nine and fourteen.
Speaker 1: He's not that good.
Speaker 2: He's fine player.
Speaker 1: He had the second most points of his career that night,
Speaker 1: so he was a beast. Dennis Shrewder, the one who
Speaker 1: turned down eighty four million dollars from the Lakers, now
Speaker 1: is back on a veteran minimum. He had twenty seven,
Speaker 1: four and two. He had four threes, four for five
Speaker 1: from three, eight for eleven shooting. His drive is pretty
Speaker 1: much what sealed the game for them because Darren fox
Speaker 1: hip checked them. They called him for a foul. There's
Speaker 1: only two seconds left, and now, what what do you
Speaker 1: figure they're gonna do like, there's tie the tie game,
Speaker 1: Dennis Shooter now goes to the free throw line, but
Speaker 1: they call a challenge. They don't have any more timeouts now,
Speaker 1: and so Dennis Shooter hits both free throws. You're down two,
Speaker 1: You've got two seconds, no timeouts to advance the ball.
Speaker 1: I think they moved it actually up to three point
Speaker 1: six seconds. Daron Fox actually gets slapped on the arm
Speaker 1: while he's shooting from three after that hip check foul.
Speaker 1: No call on Russell Westbrook, just absolutely insane. And then
Speaker 1: of course Mike Brown after the game is like Barry
Speaker 1: and Keegan Murray because he had zero rebounds. So that's
Speaker 1: like what he came there for. It's a mess like
Speaker 1: the Kings right now. Don't let the national media foolia
Speaker 1: like me. The in Sacramento, they are quietly worried.
Speaker 2: They are quietly feeling like the only.
Speaker 1: Reason that we are still here is because the Clippers
Speaker 1: are on a slump six game, five game losing streak.
Speaker 1: The Warriors are on this little baby slump, and the
Speaker 1: Suns are on a massive six game slump. In terms
Speaker 1: of Golden One, I think it's a top three arena
Speaker 1: in the league. It's so insane. It's so amazing. You
Speaker 1: walk in the front entrance. I love stadium reviews. You
Speaker 1: walk in the front entrance and you immediately see the court.
Speaker 1: It's in like think about that. You immediately walk in
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, yeah, basketball is being played here.
Speaker 1: There's no walls or cylinders that keep you from seeing.
Speaker 1: Oh there's well, there's not banners, but you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. There's not banners, but where banners would be,
Speaker 1: you can see that. You can see the raptors where
Speaker 1: the banners will be. You can see like the dip
Speaker 1: into the bowl of the arena. You walk in and
Speaker 1: it's very much like indoor outdoor vibes. There's windows that
Speaker 1: they open up in the middle of the spring so
Speaker 1: that like little birds can fly through. I guess sunshine, wind, noise,
Speaker 1: who knows, just fresh air. There's a bar up top
Speaker 1: that functions as a standing room only section so that
Speaker 1: you can watch the game while you're at the bar.
Speaker 2: Just a total meat market. It's I think it's Sierra Nevada.
Speaker 1: Draft house spelled like drought house, you know, but that's
Speaker 1: how you spell draft I guess anyway, awesome. Lebron James
Speaker 1: amazing in that game, just insane. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, no beam for me, lots of trees down,
Speaker 1: lots of power out. Went to Little Speakeasy something after
Speaker 1: the game, hung out, got back to my Airbnb. No power,
Speaker 1: no heat, no power, no phone charging ability, nothing.
Speaker 2: So it was eventful, very eventful.
Speaker 1: Met some guys, one guy named Travis the Terror at
Speaker 1: a bar.
Speaker 2: It was awesome.
Speaker 1: I recommend going to Sacramento. That's enough Sacramento talk. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Lebron James. Lot of rumors surrounding Lebron James,
Speaker 1: tons of them. We got to get to the bottom
Speaker 1: of what's real, because it was. It was awesome seeing
Speaker 1: Lebron James as Laker. That was my very first time
Speaker 1: seeing him in purple and gold. He's probably better than
Speaker 1: I've seen him in a long time, going to the rack,
Speaker 1: not settling for jumpers, impossible to stop just to freight train.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been doing this too. I think he's
Speaker 1: probably better now than he is in his rookie season.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: He's better now than he was in his rookie season.
Speaker 1: So just before the game again Sacramento, Lebron was interviewed
Speaker 1: in an article in The Athletic. They claimed he was
Speaker 1: growing impatient with the lakers lack of action in the
Speaker 1: trade market, in the trade front, so he ends this interview.
Speaker 1: It's a full back and forth where he's playing cat
Speaker 1: and mouse with one of the Athletic reporters who will
Speaker 1: not be named.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 2: In the back and forth he ends the interview.
Speaker 1: Lebron James ends the interview and says, y'all know what
Speaker 1: the fuck should be happening. I don't need to talk
Speaker 1: to you because they're trying to prod them. Hey, do
Speaker 1: you wish they would do more? Do you wish they
Speaker 1: would do more? And he's like, listen, it's not my
Speaker 1: job to make them do more. And they're like, well,
Speaker 1: but you're you're playing so well, Like what do you
Speaker 1: think You're sort of still in your prime your championship window.
Speaker 1: And he's like, dude, just get off me, get off me.
Speaker 1: In at the end of the interview, he says, y'all
Speaker 1: know what the fuck they need to do, Like, just
Speaker 1: get I don't need to talk to you. So then
Speaker 1: they published the article, and in response to the article,
Speaker 1: because the headline was like Lebron's patience is waning, he says, actually,
Speaker 1: my patients, he quote tweets the article, by the way,
Speaker 1: I think by the reporter. He quote tweets the reporter,
Speaker 1: which is always a great sign. I think there's six
Speaker 1: thousand quote tweets, and he goes, actually, my patients isn't waning.
Speaker 1: You make it sound like I'm frustrated when I'm really not.
Speaker 1: I told you over and over my job is focused
Speaker 1: on the guys in the locker room. My job isn't
Speaker 1: on the roster. That's the reality of that conversation. And
Speaker 1: I said what I said with the utmost respect and calmness,
Speaker 1: because that's the mood I'm in. You're welcome, five game
Speaker 1: winning streak, smiley face, laughing emoji, wink emoji. Case closed. Right,
Speaker 1: that's the case closed. It's over, no drama. Lebron wants
Speaker 1: to stay in LA and everything's fine. He's happy with
Speaker 1: the lack of action. Nothing's happening, No one's going to
Speaker 1: trade for him, nothing. Right, this is the end of
Speaker 1: the segment. Well, it's not this league without this league. Right,
Speaker 1: you don't know the NBA If you don't think that
Speaker 1: GMS didn't see that article and say, let's just make
Speaker 1: a Callie call. Let's just ring ring, just do a
Speaker 1: little phone conversation, because the rumors today were full of gms.
Speaker 2: Preparing for a Lebron trade.
Speaker 1: According to Seandavaney at heavy dot Com, multiple teams are
Speaker 1: preparing for exactly that a Lebron trade. Let's break down
Speaker 1: this rumor. Devaney wrote, the notion of any team for
Speaker 1: enough to employ Lebron James in a trade sounds ludicrous,
Speaker 1: But if circumstances around James's current team, the Lakers continue
Speaker 1: on their current path, that could be the next step
Speaker 1: for James. According to executives around the league, multiple teams
Speaker 1: multiple teams are preparing for the possibility that James will
Speaker 1: seek to force a trade this summer, as he, having
Speaker 1: just turned thirty eight, looks to finish his career in
Speaker 1: a winning environment. And unlike this past offseason in which
Speaker 1: teams were blindsided by the trade demand lodge by star
Speaker 1: Ford Kevin Durant on the eve of free agency, front
Speaker 1: offices around the NBA will be prepared for James's potential move.
Speaker 1: Everyone was stunned when Kevin Durant asked for a trade.
Speaker 1: They couldn't even make it happen. They weren't in preparation mode.
Speaker 1: They didn't know Star was going to be available, so
Speaker 1: they didn't have assets or cap space or anything. They're like, fuck,
Speaker 1: I didn't know Kevin Durant could be available your Phoenix,
Speaker 1: and you're like, damn short of Devin Booker, we can't
Speaker 1: do shit. No, no, that's not gonna happen this time.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I hate to say, I saw
Speaker 1: it coming, but I did. The second this Westbrook trade
Speaker 1: went sideways, Lebron was either going to never make the
Speaker 1: playoffs ever again, that team would need a complete restart
Speaker 1: and he would be in hell in the most beautiful
Speaker 1: weather environment possible, or he'd be like, let me get
Speaker 1: the fuck out of here, let me get the hell
Speaker 1: out of Dodge, because there's just no way he could
Speaker 1: spend the rest of his career in like the goal
Speaker 1: being the play in tournament. His goal now is to
Speaker 1: play in tournament. That's where it is. That's just the facts,
Speaker 1: and the problem, of course, is that's Rob Plink's fault.
Speaker 2: The Lakers have no more aces in the hole.
Speaker 1: They have two first round picks that they are refusing
Speaker 1: to trade, and fair enough, because it's probably not gonna
Speaker 1: take him over the hump right, They're not gonna be
Speaker 1: a tender If they do that. Now, they're just even
Speaker 1: more fucked for the next year. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: no win.
Speaker 2: Situation, a hole that they've dug themselves into.
Speaker 1: And at this point you might not even be able
Speaker 1: to get Buddy Heald and Miles Turner anymore for the
Speaker 1: two first round picks that it was going to require,
Speaker 1: because Buddy hild is playing awesome, Miles Turner is playing awesome.
Speaker 1: An executive for the Eastern Conference Contender says this that
Speaker 1: is the most likely thing if he wants to end
Speaker 1: on a good note. The most likely scenario is to
Speaker 1: go back to Cleveland one last time.
Speaker 2: I'm coming home. I'm coming home.
Speaker 1: It is a good team, you can win, and it's
Speaker 1: where it all started. No one's gonna hate him for
Speaker 1: going to Cleveland again. The trick is that is getting
Speaker 1: the numbers to match up.
Speaker 2: If you could do.
Speaker 1: Something with Kevin Love's contract, that could be key. Pause
Speaker 1: what that is well, I think last year during the
Speaker 1: All Star break, he started to put the breadcrumbs out
Speaker 1: in the ether about how much he appreciates Kobe Autman,
Speaker 1: how much he loves what JB.
Speaker 2: Bickerstaff is doing.
Speaker 1: But so much of this obviously is impacted by where
Speaker 1: Lebron James Junior lands Bronnie, and I doubt that Bronni
Speaker 1: wants to be spending the beginning of his career in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Ask Lebron Senor how Cleveland is when you're single, young, rich.
Speaker 1: It's not great. It's not great destination. Truthfully, there is
Speaker 1: another option out there. According to a Western Conference exec,
Speaker 1: if there's a bidding war going on at some point,
Speaker 1: this is where it gets really interesting for very important team,
Speaker 1: our team. There's a bidding war going on at some point.
Speaker 1: The Warriors are in a great position because they can
Speaker 1: give you the young guys, Wiseman coaminga moody Pat Baldwin.
Speaker 1: I can't believe Pat Ball wants thrown in there whoever
Speaker 1: the Lakers want. But you have to either add Jordan
Speaker 1: Poole Andrew Wiggins. And that's not easy. Pause, Yes it is, Yes,
Speaker 1: it is. For our dubs. I'll give everybody. I'll give Pool,
Speaker 1: I'll give Wiggeds, I'll give Wiseman. You could have them all,
Speaker 1: you can have them all. We'll take Lebron for our dubs.
Speaker 1: Get another chip, you know, what I mean, just continue
Speaker 1: the dominance. But if they want to win now, you
Speaker 1: can give up pool. If you're getting back Lebron, he says.
Speaker 1: If they keep Draymond and come back with Steph, Clay,
Speaker 1: Draymond and Lebron, that would be a fun, fun team
Speaker 1: to watch. There would not be a possibility that average
Speaker 1: people could afford tickets to go to those games. No
Speaker 1: one would be I mean, they would be sold out
Speaker 1: months in advance. The Nosebleeds would be like six hundred
Speaker 1: dollars court side, like Taylor Swift concert tickets. He's like
Speaker 1: thirty k a ticket for a courtside show of Steph
Speaker 1: Stephan Braun, even for one year. Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: don't think the Warriors could pull the trigger fast enough.
Speaker 2: If Stephan Braun.
Speaker 1: And it's fitting because they've been basically warring this whole time,
Speaker 1: right the first ten years of Lebron's career, twelve years
Speaker 1: or whatever it was. He just threw subtle shade shots
Speaker 1: at Staph. Steph kind of went back and forth. It
Speaker 1: was all very low key, nothing above the ground, but
Speaker 1: you knew there was like this little mini rivalry. If
Speaker 1: they come together, they will be in spot. It's like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know, I don't have words for it.
Speaker 1: This team would break every attendance record in every arena,
Speaker 1: every single game. It would be like Kobe and mj
Speaker 1: or Bird and Magic playing on the same fucking team
Speaker 1: in their prime years. It would transcend a superteam. It
Speaker 1: would be super super team. And somehow, now if you
Speaker 1: add Bronnie James in the mix, maybe you keep Lebron
Speaker 1: there for well past this prime. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: Joe lacob is paying five hundred million dollars with the
Speaker 1: luxury tax, our dubs still swimming in money. You raise
Speaker 1: the prices, you raise the popcorn, you raise the drinks,
Speaker 1: you raise the parking, you raise everything. Everything changes. Championships
Speaker 1: En Sue Katie was the story last offseason. Is Lebron
Speaker 1: gonna be the story this off season? If so, I cannot.
Speaker 1: Is there anything worse when a really awesome party just
Speaker 1: comes to an end way faster than you want, where
Speaker 1: they just cut the lights, they cut the music, and
Speaker 1: you're like shit.
Speaker 2: I was starting to get into this.
Speaker 1: I was starting to feel like maybe this party could
Speaker 1: be something. That's how I'm feeling right now about the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets. I was just starting to believe. I was
Speaker 1: just being like, oh yeah, Kd's MVP caliber. Right now,
Speaker 1: Kyrie is leading for guards, scoring and clutch time. Nets
Speaker 1: are on fire. They're the hottest streak in franchise history
Speaker 1: eighteen and two. In their last twenty they had a
Speaker 1: little kick to the teeth when Jimmy Butler got knocked
Speaker 1: into Kevin Durant's knee, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: something's bad. Katie went to the ground, He gets up gingerly,
Speaker 1: he leaves the game. He does not return.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: The Nets announced that Katie is going to miss a
Speaker 1: minimum of one month, say minimum two weeks, but later
Speaker 1: Adrian Warzanowski came out with another tweet said month isolated
Speaker 1: MCL sprain in his right knee. This is what happened
Speaker 1: last year as well, if you remember that kept Katie
Speaker 1: out six weeks.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is going to be tough.
Speaker 1: On average, and MCL sprain takes six weeks from diagnosis
Speaker 1: to full healing. Of course, this is changing from case
Speaker 1: to case. Of course, if you've sprained your MCL before,
Speaker 1: they're going to be a little bit more cautious. Not fun.
Speaker 2: Fun levels on all time low.
Speaker 1: Though fun levels on low, more minutes for Nick Claxton,
Speaker 1: more touches for my guy Seth Curry. It's tough because
Speaker 1: Katie was having this historic season in a year where
Speaker 1: everybody's going off for fifty or more. Katie probably the
Speaker 1: most consistent, dangerous offensive threat in the league. And I
Speaker 1: know what you're saying, it's Luca's Lucas, Lucas Luca. But listen,
Speaker 1: hear me out in terms of how well Katie was playing.
Speaker 1: According to Kurt Goldsbury, Durant is having one of the
Speaker 1: best shooting seasons I've ever seen. He leads the NBA
Speaker 1: in both jumpers attempted and made by a wide margin.
Speaker 2: But that's just the beginning.
Speaker 1: Among the NBA's fifty most active jump shooters this season,
Speaker 1: Durant has the second lowest shot quality. Via Second Spectrum,
Speaker 1: they estimate that an average shooter would produce an effective
Speaker 1: field goal percentage of just forty percent, which is awful
Speaker 1: on those durance jumpers. But Kevin Durant's actual efficient field
Speaker 1: goal percentage is fifty eight point four, which is elite
Speaker 1: in some Kevin Durant is taking extremely difficult shots but
Speaker 1: still producing hyper efficient results, and his team is following suits.
Speaker 1: So even when he's being defended nearly perfectly, being draped
Speaker 1: by multiple guys, he's hitting tough, fade away mid range shots.
Speaker 1: He's shooting nearly twenty percent above what is expected. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: That's literally that doesn't make any sense. And that's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons that the Nets are eight and two
Speaker 1: hunderd Jaqvon is in part because one he's obviously a
Speaker 1: better coach than Steve Nash, which we know, but also
Speaker 1: because Kevin Durant is leading the best offensive team in
Speaker 1: the league and they're following his lead. I don't know
Speaker 1: how it's gonna work without him. Very fascinated to see
Speaker 1: how the Nets respond. I need to know. Is Kyrie
Speaker 1: gonna just put up fifty now? Are they going to?
Speaker 1: Are other teams going to double and triple team Kyrie?
Speaker 1: Who's gonna step up offensively? Are we gonna get bucket
Speaker 1: bucket after bucket from TJ. Warren the bubble God. This
Speaker 1: is gonna absolutely test shock funds coaching chops. It's gonna
Speaker 1: put a ton of pressure on Kyrie. The Warriors without
Speaker 1: Steph for six and five, it's pretty much it's better
Speaker 1: than I expected. Five hundred. I thought they would be
Speaker 1: like three and seven the Nets without KD. They have
Speaker 1: the Celtics, the Thunder, the Spurs, the Suns, the Jazz
Speaker 1: and Golden State the next two weeks.
Speaker 2: It's a bummer.
Speaker 1: It's a bummer if you're a Nets fan. But now
Speaker 1: you're gonna get to see what this team is really.
Speaker 2: Made of without KD.
Speaker 1: Maybe some more Ben Simmons minutes Other than Miles Turner,
Speaker 1: is anyone more tired of being rumored to be traded
Speaker 1: than John Collins. John Collins has been in trade rumors
Speaker 1: since before I was born.
Speaker 2: Really like he's been, He's been. It's just the thing.
Speaker 1: It's death taxes and John Collins on the trade block.
Speaker 1: Because John Collins had to be asked about it again,
Speaker 1: and he's just like so sick of it. You can
Speaker 1: just tell I'm over this. He goes off on this
Speaker 1: reporter when they're like, hey, you're still on the trade blok.
Speaker 1: This team still wants to get rid of you. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts about being traded again? There's just nobody
Speaker 1: in the NBA who doesn't know that John Collins would
Speaker 1: rather be anywhere than on the court watching Trey Young.
Speaker 1: Like we know that trade. Hug's not a fun player.
Speaker 1: We all know that they fucked up when they traded
Speaker 1: Luca for nothing. This is a team that absolutely fumbled
Speaker 1: the bag worse than Dennis Shruder. But you know, we
Speaker 1: have Collins who doesn't like trade. He was the first
Speaker 1: to call out Tray back three years ago. There was
Speaker 1: articles written about it. But damn, here we go. So
Speaker 1: Collins finally has had enough. Right, they ask him about
Speaker 1: his status. Does he actually know his dad?
Speaker 2: Wed? No, one knows his status. I don't even think
Speaker 2: the Atlanta Hawks.
Speaker 1: Know his stady. So he decided to just say, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm taking off the kid gloves.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say what I.
Speaker 1: Really think, he says. I could say, hey, I want
Speaker 1: to do this, I want to do that, and they can.
Speaker 2: Just do whatever they feel.
Speaker 1: It's fair. You saw it with Kevin Durant last summer, right,
Speaker 1: He's begging for a trade in Brooklyn's Like, nah, not
Speaker 1: saying that I'm Kevin Durant.
Speaker 2: But that's just the mentality of Yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Can say whatever you want to go wherever, you can
Speaker 1: make a public scene, you can do whatever. It does
Speaker 1: not matter. That's pretty much the crux of the issue. Right,
Speaker 1: you can desire a trade. Teams can do whatever they
Speaker 1: want with you. They can decide where you go, what
Speaker 1: it takes. They can hold you hostage. That's the nature
Speaker 1: of being in a contract. Right and right up until
Speaker 1: he resigned, Travis Schlank was bound in the termines to
Speaker 1: keep Collins in Atlanta. Who knows why Collins does not
Speaker 1: want to be there. Schlank does not want him there,
Speaker 1: and Collins will pine how hard it's been playing for
Speaker 1: three different coaches with three different systems in Atlanta. Obviously,
Speaker 1: so much of what happens with his destination, what happens
Speaker 1: with the teams outside of his control. But then the reporter,
Speaker 1: of course, probably the same one that pressed trade young
Speaker 1: Uh pressed him about a possible trade again.
Speaker 2: And he finally had enough. He was, Oh god, it's best.
Speaker 2: I don't give a damn, He says, I don't give
Speaker 2: a damn.
Speaker 1: Honestly, you know what I mean. I play basketball every day,
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I play basketball. Come in
Speaker 1: and I play basketball, and whatever happens happens. Because I
Speaker 1: don't control that side. I don't have any control over
Speaker 1: the decisions to get made. Where I am, where I
Speaker 1: play I don't have any control over that. Is it
Speaker 1: safe to say John Collins is sick of this bullshit?
Speaker 1: Is it safe to say John Collins would like to
Speaker 1: be anywhere but to be asked about, Hey, you're on
Speaker 1: the trade block again. One thing is for certain, like
Speaker 1: the Hawks are not going to allow Trey Young to go.
Speaker 1: And it is very hard to see where John Collins
Speaker 1: and Trey Young fit on a team that is centered
Speaker 1: on a guy who really his first, second, and third
Speaker 1: option is to score. His fourth option is to lob
Speaker 1: the ball up, really to keep the defense honest for
Speaker 1: option one, two and three. That's really it. You're only
Speaker 1: getting lobs to help Tray Young, that's it. And you're
Speaker 1: not getting play calls for you at all. So how
Speaker 1: bad are things in Atlanta? Well, according to Shams, Nate
Speaker 1: McMillan strongly considered resigning after the whole Trey Young incident
Speaker 1: that we covered a couple weeks back. Now, Nate insists
Speaker 1: that that was not true. He says, these are allies.
Speaker 1: But come on, we know what Shams does. Shams is
Speaker 1: getting multiple sources. He is not peddling in rumors. There
Speaker 1: is fire behind the smoke, so do not hold it
Speaker 1: against John Collins. Think about how toxic things are there.
Speaker 1: I heard from somebody within NBA circles that reached out
Speaker 1: to me. Hey, they said, players don't like playing with Trey,
Speaker 1: Coaches don't like Trey. There's nothing they can do. He's
Speaker 1: the franchise. That's it, end of story. So yeah, retirement
Speaker 1: looks a lot better than dealing with the freaking chucker
Speaker 1: every day who's gotten attitude issue. And I like Trey
Speaker 1: Young ish, But do you want to bet John Collins's
Speaker 1: pro nate on this little beef? I would bet. I
Speaker 1: would bet so bottom line very safe to say there's
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that would like Chun Collins on
Speaker 1: their roster. His points are down, But let's be honest,
Speaker 1: why why is there point? He's why why is this
Speaker 1: points down?
Speaker 3: Because Trey Young's first, second, third option is scoring for
Speaker 3: himself and he's shooting twenty nine percent from three, but
Speaker 3: he is averaging eight rebounds in a block and a
Speaker 3: half and a steal per game.
Speaker 1: So will John Collins be on the move? I don't know. Again,
Speaker 1: this is well before my time that these rumors started.
Speaker 1: But like Miles Turner, don't bring up the trade number.
Speaker 1: The word trade around them if you don't want it
Speaker 1: to be a confrontational situation.
Speaker 2: No team is that.
Speaker 1: A bigger crossroads right now? Well, maybe I don't know
Speaker 1: that's actually true, but the Chicago Bulls are at an
Speaker 1: impassed the Bulls currently nineteen and twenty one. They're currently
Speaker 1: ninth in the East.
Speaker 2: But here's the little wrinkle that kind of makes it
Speaker 2: more interesting.
Speaker 1: They've also won seven of ten, so they're the second
Speaker 1: hottest team in.
Speaker 2: The Eastern Conference behind Brooklyn. So what do you do?
Speaker 1: What do you do if you're the Chicago Bulls? Do
Speaker 1: you try to salvage the rest of the season in
Speaker 1: hopes of maybe trying to make a play in tournament
Speaker 1: like seven or eight seeds? Do you cut bait? You rebuild?
Speaker 1: Do you hope that a Lonzo comes back fully healthy
Speaker 1: next year? I don't even know if the Bulls know
Speaker 1: what they want to do, Honestly, I don't. They keep
Speaker 1: making these statements, They keep doing one thing, saying another.
Speaker 1: But everyone seems to be on the trade bark right now. DeRozan, Levine, Crusoe,
Speaker 1: Vooch all rumored to be on the move. That's a
Speaker 1: lot of players that are superstars or stars, so Caruso
Speaker 1: I would consider to be a very high valuable piece.
Speaker 1: Derozen was leading in clutch field goal percentage for most
Speaker 1: of last year, had MVP buzz. Levine is obviously a
Speaker 1: certified bucket. Vouch is a guy who can get you
Speaker 1: ten rebounds, doesn't play a lot of defense, but he
Speaker 1: can score his ass off and all are rumored to
Speaker 1: be gone. What might seal the deal though on this
Speaker 1: are the rumors courtesy of the Chicago Sun Times, is
Speaker 1: that there might be big trouble with team chemistry. You
Speaker 1: say it ain't so, say it ain't so. A growing
Speaker 1: rift between Zach Levine and Billy Donovan. Could not have
Speaker 1: seen that coming whatsoever. According to the Sun's Times reporter
Speaker 1: Joe Cally, Levin Billy Donovan player relationship player coach relationship
Speaker 1: remained somewhat strained in the wake of a November eighteenth
Speaker 1: late game benching in which Donovan chose to ride out
Speaker 1: the final minutes minutes against Orlando with Leavin out of
Speaker 1: the game. I remember this like it was day, Like
Speaker 1: it was just yesterday. Why is Levin not playing in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter? It became kind of a thing. Lavin
Speaker 1: expressed his displeasure. That's one way of putting it right.
Speaker 1: He was pissed with Donovan's decision immediately after the game, stating, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's Billy's decision.
Speaker 2: He's gotta lay with it. They lost that game. He's
Speaker 2: gotta lay with it. Do I agree with it?
Speaker 1: No? I think I can go out there and still
Speaker 1: be me even if I miss some shots. That's his
Speaker 1: decision and he's gotta stand on it.
Speaker 2: Whoo whoo whoo.
Speaker 1: November eighteenth, guys checks notes.
Speaker 2: It's coming up on two.
Speaker 1: Months ago that that happened. He's still upset about this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: apparently so. The trouble, though, of course, is that both
Speaker 1: of them just signed long term deals like just last fall,
Speaker 1: Donovan in secret in like September. Did Levine sign a
Speaker 1: max contract in June or July that pays him through
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven season he will
Speaker 1: where he will make a shocking forty nine million dollars
Speaker 1: per year.
Speaker 2: This is like a very side road.
Speaker 1: I don't think secret extensions should be a thing. That
Speaker 1: does not make sense. Why are we signing Billy Donovan
Speaker 1: to an extension in secret? Because they know nobody is
Speaker 1: for it, you know, and you know you're gonna get
Speaker 1: heat for that. Do not try to sneak this in
Speaker 1: on a slow news day, do not anyway. Lavigne obviously balling,
Speaker 1: he's a bucket, but he's battling injuries. He's averaging twenty
Speaker 1: three game his knee, I think is going to give
Speaker 1: some teams pause. I do good enough probably for someone
Speaker 1: to take a chance, because he's just that good at scoring,
Speaker 1: if the Bulls actually choose to shop them. But that's
Speaker 1: the big question. The trade deadline is a month away.
Speaker 1: If the Bulls fade or go through a slump, he
Speaker 1: actually could be on the move. If they play well,
Speaker 1: he'll probably stay. They might actually be buyers at the deadline.
Speaker 1: And now you've got Kdie out for a month. At least,
Speaker 1: you got the Celtics in disarray. Other teams are struggling
Speaker 1: at various times. He obviously have been okay recently, but
Speaker 1: not really good period, and I think it's probably going
Speaker 1: to take a big time falling out for the Bulls
Speaker 1: to give up on the season. So you're looking at
Speaker 1: all these other teams that are struggling and you're.
Speaker 2: Saying, this is our opportunity. I mean until then.
Speaker 1: The Bulls are a team to watch closely, and people
Speaker 1: will say, like, which one do you choose if there
Speaker 1: is a big time riff like Nate McMillan and Trey Young,
Speaker 1: do you choose Billy Donovan or do you choose Zack Lavine?
Speaker 1: For me, it's very simple.
Speaker 2: It's actually like should have been done a long time ago.
Speaker 2: Neither neither.
Speaker 1: I don't want either of these guys. Zack Lavine one
Speaker 1: of the most ball dominant dudes in the NBA with
Speaker 1: one knee. He's had multiple arthroscopic surgeries. Like, this guy
Speaker 1: is getting paid fifty million dollars. He can't play defense.
Speaker 1: He's going to eventually slow down in terms of getting
Speaker 1: separation to the rim, getting buckets on his own. They
Speaker 1: both make way too much damn money because they are
Speaker 1: not affecting winning in any way considering that this team
Speaker 1: is hoping to be a playing team. Billy Donovan is
Speaker 1: a classic college coach, like Yukon's head coach Dan Hurley,
Speaker 1: where it's like he's yelling at players, he's a control freak.
Speaker 1: He's just absolutely benching dudes for no reason. Both of
Speaker 1: these are trash. Both these are trash decisions for the Bulls,
Speaker 1: and lately we saw it. So happened today Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: gave up on Cliff Kingsbury less than a year after
Speaker 1: extending him. He gets fired to day, So neither should
Speaker 1: have been extended. If the Bulls want to rebuild, they
Speaker 1: blow it all up. They get rid of the be
Speaker 1: and they get rid of de Rosa, they get rid
Speaker 1: of Donovan, and they get rid of I guess you
Speaker 1: get rid of Caruso because you're gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: for him, get rid of Vouch. Literally, just rebuild it
Speaker 1: all up. You gotta ditch both bad contracts for sure.
Speaker 1: Send Levine off, probably can get two first round picks
Speaker 1: for him, Send Billy back to some college team like
Speaker 1: maybe like some other version of Iona, and you know,
Speaker 1: take those picks and rebuild that team from the bottom up.
Speaker 1: So there was some news recently that someone in the
Speaker 1: NBA wanted to beat the shit as Skip Bayless. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that doesn't shock me. There's no sports media commentar that
Speaker 1: has had a worse week than Skip Bayless. There's plenty
Speaker 1: of people who have had worse weeks in Skip Bayless
Speaker 1: outside of that. In the week, wait though, of the
Speaker 1: Monday night game between the Bills and the Bengals. Skip
Speaker 1: obviously tweeted a bunch of dumb bullshit about how the
Speaker 1: game needs to be played. It was not really well worded.
Speaker 1: He took a bunch of heat from the Fox Exacts. Shannon,
Speaker 1: his co host, didn't show up. As you can imagine,
Speaker 1: everyone was mad at Skip Bayless. Shannon Short Sharp was mad.
Speaker 1: They got into an argument. As it turns out, according
Speaker 1: to Matt Barnes on All the Smoke, he had to
Speaker 1: hold back an NBA player from losing his shits on
Speaker 1: Skip Bayless.
Speaker 2: This is what Matt said.
Speaker 1: I have personally had to diffuse two situations, one with
Speaker 1: a coach and one with an NBA player They wanted
Speaker 1: to fuck Skip up. One was this year, one was
Speaker 1: last year. Luckily, cooler heads prevailed. But it's just gone
Speaker 1: too far. In my opinion, Does this shock anyone?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Skip is the king of saying shit.
Speaker 1: He does not mean that degrades and dehumanizes people in sports,
Speaker 1: these personal biting attacks. Remember the Richard Sherman back and
Speaker 1: forth that happened in Richard Sherman's like second or third year,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna end up hurting Skip. I think now, I
Speaker 1: don't wish pain and suffering on anyone, but if your
Speaker 1: Skip Bayless, you probably want to ratchet down those takes
Speaker 1: you do when you're doing things like questioning why teams
Speaker 1: would pay someone when you have that big of a microphone.
Speaker 1: This is probably not gonna end well.
Speaker 2: The question that I have is like, who is the player?
Speaker 1: Who was it? I need to know. I don't know
Speaker 1: who it was. I need the tea, I need Matt
Speaker 1: Barnes to tell me. Let me know who you think
Speaker 1: it is. I need to know is it. I could
Speaker 1: see it being like a Pat Beverly. I could see
Speaker 1: it being like a like a Boogey Cousins Man. Boogie
Speaker 1: Cousins would small Skip Bailoss All right?
Speaker 2: Quick update.
Speaker 1: Remember our episode before Christmas about the Dallas Mavericks. I
Speaker 1: went on record saying that of all the moves that
Speaker 1: the MAVs could make, signing Kemba Walker, probably the most
Speaker 1: inexplicable move made no sense. According to people on social media,
Speaker 1: I should just get into the kitchen and let the
Speaker 1: big boys talk. But the who was I really to question?
Speaker 1: Mark Cuban the MAVs for an office et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Guess what. Guess what, folks, I have an update for you.
Speaker 1: The MAVs just waved Kemba Walker after three dismal weeks
Speaker 1: for two way guard McKinley Wrights, just days before Kemba
Speaker 1: Walker's salary was guaranteed.
Speaker 2: Are you guys kidding me?
Speaker 3: You see what I sang?
Speaker 2: They waved him three weeks is all.
Speaker 1: It took three weeks.
Speaker 2: Color me stunned. Stunned, folks.
Speaker 1: I could not have possibly seen now that was gonna
Speaker 1: go sideways. I could not have possibly seen how that
Speaker 1: was going to be an impossibility for them to be
Speaker 1: good in any way with someone who does not play defense,
Speaker 1: with bad knees, who's undersized, on a team that needs
Speaker 1: buckets and defense.
Speaker 2: Listen, I am.
Speaker 1: Really floored that Facundo Composo and Kemba Walker weren't the
Speaker 1: answers for the mass. I just thought it couldn't see it,
Speaker 1: couldn't see it. Jalen brunts and leaves and yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a hole that Fakundo Composo and Kemba Walker can fill.
Speaker 1: This is wild. He's a legend. I love Kemba Walker,
Speaker 1: but he's broken. He's broken, and for people to say, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Our eyes tell us everything we need to know.
Speaker 1: Just know that our eyes see everything and the and
Speaker 1: the key to life is to not allow other people
Speaker 1: with bad eyes to tell you your eyes don't work. That's
Speaker 1: the key, because they will gaslight you. And sometimes people
Speaker 1: with perfectly good eyes try to tell you your eyes don't
Speaker 1: work when they see I'm talking to you, famous los
Speaker 1: talking to you got into my comments section about Jordan
Speaker 1: Poole being an absolute disaster. There are people who try
Speaker 1: to gaslight you that see exactly what you see, and
Speaker 1: they will tell you in a quiet moment that they
Speaker 1: see that. But on the internet they tell you you
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about. You don't know basketball,
Speaker 1: and you're seeing something that no one else sees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't let them do that. Never let them do that.
Speaker 1: As an addendum, Jason Tatum is lobbying to bring Kemba
Speaker 1: Walker back to Boston, as if the Celtics have any
Speaker 1: more reason to add drama to their plate. Kemba Walker
Speaker 1: in Boston made Brad Stevens never coach again. Literally, he
Speaker 1: gave up the game. He was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: This isn't for me, This isn't for me. X is
Speaker 1: in a leader of men. Kem is leading a revolution
Speaker 1: in the locker room. There's a coup happening, don't I mean,
Speaker 1: don't sleep. Kemba was leading a revolution in Boston. Joe
Speaker 1: Missoula is gonna need a new set of prayer beads.
Speaker 2: What are those called? The rosary beads. He's gonna need a.
Speaker 1: New, a new, brand new spankin set of rosary beads
Speaker 1: to try to handle Kemba Walker, Brogden and Marcus Smart
Speaker 1: in the same Walker room. If that ship were to
Speaker 1: go down, that's absolutely bonkers. That's just something that needed
Speaker 1: to be said that There's really no news there other
Speaker 1: than hey, the MAVs wave Kemba Walker. But that's this podcast.
Speaker 2: Finally, let's move on. We've covered Kyrie.
Speaker 1: A lot, because, let's face it, he's just a walking
Speaker 1: soap opera and that's just lovely. His entire tenure with
Speaker 1: every team, not just the Nuts, the Celtics, the Calves,
Speaker 1: all that. Since though, what was it anti setematism gait,
Speaker 1: Kyrie has been absolutely insane, quietly balling the fuck out.
Speaker 1: The question, though, is why Kyrie was asked this recently
Speaker 1: and told Brian Lewis, a reporter for the New York Post,
Speaker 1: is what we said, Well, if basketball is a very
Speaker 1: simple art for him, So if I don't bring all
Speaker 1: my extra distractions or anything that I'm going through mentally
Speaker 1: into the game, that's something that I've taken responsibility for
Speaker 1: on my own end, just to be positively reinforcing what
Speaker 1: we can do to win games no matter what's going on.
Speaker 1: Dare I say Kyrie Irving? Is Ben Matrid say it ain't.
Speaker 1: So he continued just being mentally prepared, using a lot
Speaker 1: of sessions in the summer, challenging myself to be ready
Speaker 1: for these moments where I don't have to be swayed emotionally.
Speaker 1: I'm in control of my emotions, in control of my thoughts. Listen,
Speaker 1: He's always said he's a mental warrior on the court,
Speaker 1: and I think this is very in step with that philosophy.
Speaker 1: But it's really not always worked. People can say that
Speaker 1: they control what they can control, but let's be honest,
Speaker 1: the mind is a dangerous place to let play out.
Speaker 1: And right now he's doing what he says he's gonna do.
Speaker 1: Since his suspension at Kyrie Irving is averaging twenty six,
Speaker 1: five and five, and the Nets have just won every
Speaker 1: single game. It feels like eighteen of twenty. There's nothing
Speaker 1: you can do to stop them. Fourth quarter scoring Banana's
Speaker 1: just like first quarter. His poise is elite, His calm
Speaker 1: demeanor is even making Kevin Durant absolutely gush over him.
Speaker 1: And yet yet the big Kyrie news this week is
Speaker 1: that he wore a pair of shoes that said free
Speaker 1: all oppressed people.
Speaker 2: It's probably an old pair of shoes that he just
Speaker 2: forgot had that on.
Speaker 1: It Sunday in his game versus the Heat, you know,
Speaker 1: the one same game where Kevin Durant went down with
Speaker 1: an MCL's brain. Of course it made news. But again,
Speaker 1: like I said, are this old pair of shoes? I've
Speaker 1: had these for a while. You know, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to make any new statements. I've had these sins, you know.
Speaker 1: October of twenty twenty one. Who is he speaking of?
Speaker 1: Who is he speaking of these oppressed people? Is he
Speaker 1: talking about you know, just the collective, just everyone, like
Speaker 1: the wigurs in China? Is he talking about the Native Americans,
Speaker 1: indigenous people who lost their land? Is this a continuation
Speaker 1: of this HOTEP message about the original black Israelites. I
Speaker 1: have no idea. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'd like to know.
Speaker 1: He probably won't say because he's maturing. But the fact is,
Speaker 1: the two days previous, Kevin Durant wore a pair of
Speaker 1: shoes that read free all of My people in a
Speaker 1: game against the Pelicans, and no one said anything. The
Speaker 1: reason is because Kyrie Irving says a lot of dumb
Speaker 1: shit and everyone's waiting for him to say something dumb again.
Speaker 1: That is maybe the right thing, maybe the wrong thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know, But in these quiet moments when shit
Speaker 1: is not hitting the fan, you have to say the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets and Kyrie Irving are one of the greatest
Speaker 1: shows on the court, and I love watching him play basketball.
Speaker 1: I need more of it, please and thank you, because
Speaker 1: we know what's gonna happen. There's gonna be another Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving controversy and his play is gonna diminish. He's probably
Speaker 1: gonna step away temporarily, and before you know it, you
Speaker 1: just kind of have to enjoy the sunshine before the
Speaker 1: next bomb cyclone comes and drops another tree on a house.
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