WEBVTT - Free Me 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.200 On this episode of This League, we talk about Kevin 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:06.640 Durant's wild Friday Night on Twitter, Kyrie's new beef with 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:11.399 an Internet comedian, Tom Thibodeau's notebook like romance with Derrick Rose, 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:13.960 and we also have a ton of listener dms, so 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.560 we'll hit those hard too. Without further ado, I don't 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.239 say this lightly at all, but Friday, one of the 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.840 craziest things in the NBA happened. One of the craziest 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.160 things that I've ever seen in the NBA happen. This 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.880 is a season where we don't know thirty minutes before 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.600 tip of a game is actually gonna even happen. This 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.320 is this is a season where we don't know if 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.879 players are gonna have COVID at any given time. We 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.320 got to witness in this season something that we've never 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.920 seen before. And of all places, Marty. 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:52.280 Yeah, Brooklyn, Yeah, I mean we are at Brooklyn nets Pod. 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:59.960 Remember exactly exactly. It's perfect. So KD, poor KD continue 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:05.280 to get snake bitten by COVID protocols, Adam Silver's insistence 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.400 to continue to move the goalposts, and I think Katie's 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.520 had enough. So this is what happened. KD was one 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.480 of the first people. I don't know if you remember this, Marty, 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.640 but KD was one of the first people to get 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:23.560 COVID in the NBA March of twenty twenty COVID March seventeenth, 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.760 he told Shams he tests positive. At that point, there 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:31.440 were only fifteen confirmed cases of COVID, so okay, so 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.120 we know that there is in some universe that maybe 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.959 Kd's immune, maybe he's not immune to COVID, which makes 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:42.160 this whole scenario a little more bizarre to me. So 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.200 this season rolls around in Boom January fourth, he has 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.280 a close contact with someone with COVID and he's forced 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:54.640 to miss a week seven days, didn't have COVID, never 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:58.639 tested positive for COVID, just out of an abundance of caution, 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.520 he had to sit out three games. And all of 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.320 that to me made sense at the time because the 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.440 league was really making sure that they were cautious. They 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.639 are trying to be careful in a pandemic, after all. 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.880 And then since then, the NBA is sort of made 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.480 a decision that they don't really care as much, clearly 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.600 drawing lines in the sand that money like Kawhi Leonard 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.400 said is much more important than safety. They're all over 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.600 the place in terms of when games are gonna get postponed, 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.600 when players get held out, when they're allowed to suit up. 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.799 Yeah, I mean it's been a real mess as of late, 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:37.840 how they've been handling things. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:42.520 I mean, this is messy. This is the girl that 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.440 gets drunk at the party throws up all over the 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:50.920 frat party messy. And then Friday night it got a 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.560 whole lot worse in my opinion, that the NBA finally 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.040 showed that they have zero idea what they're doing, no idea, 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:01.960 utterly completely clueless. Twenty five minutes before game time, this 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:06.399 is what happened. The news came down. KD is going 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.440 to be a last minute scratch due to COVID protocols. Again, 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.280 even though the man tested negative three times out of 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:19.680 an abundance of caution, he's not gonna play. Then, four 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.320 minutes before game time, KD was sitting on the next 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.440 bench and you're like, what's going on. Then he enters 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.880 the game as a reserve for the first time in 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:35.720 his eight hundred and sixty seven game career. Doesn't start insane. 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.840 Then midway through the third quarter, he gets a foul 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.400 and they're disputing whether he has a foul or not, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.600 and then all of a sudden, the Sandman comes and 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:52.120 drags KD off the floor, like okay, because that inconclusive 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:56.520 test from another close contact came back positive midway through 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:01.360 the game. So let's recap. Durant has already had COVID 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:06.200 and recovered from COVID. Has anybody's has returned two negative 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:12.320 PCR tests, which are the accurate ones. But someone the 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:19.880 net Star had interacted with had COVID, And so even 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.839 though he's been with his teammates all game, he has 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:29.880 to leave. And of course, obviously in that chaos, they lost. 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:35.880 So I think, right now, Katie's had enough. And when 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.400 he got taken out, he decided to come at the 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.160 NBA on Twitter in perfect Katie fashion, and I'm not 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.760 even talking about using his burner. I had to look 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.600 at dates. I had to look multiple times to see 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.520 if it was correct. I think. I came up to 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.760 you and I was like, this is this is from 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.880 right now, right, this is him tweeting, live tweeting the game. 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:00.279 He's literally live tweeting the nets game free. 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.080 Yeah, and then he tweeted, yo, NBA, your fans aren't 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.120 dumb with a bunch of exclamation points. You can't fool 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.480 them with your whack ass PR tactics. Hashtag free seven 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:11.440 free seven. 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.599 I love that. So what does that mean? It means 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.320 that Kevin Durant is smart enough to know that the 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.640 NBA does not give a fuck about COVID. He's like, Yo, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.400 you're pulling me after sitting with my teammates all night 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:32.760 just for the look. You do not know what you're doing. 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.400 All you care about is the perception. That's what he's saying. 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.160 All you care about is your whack ass PR tactics. 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.880 You just want the perception that you care about player 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:47.560 safety when you do not. And then shockingly KD was mad, 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.599 His teammates were mad, and James Harden said this postgame. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.479 They said it was just contact tracing. I'm thinking to myself, 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.359 if it's contact tracing, then we were all in the 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.960 locker room together. That means that there's no game if 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.000 he's not going to be able to play. That was 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:09.039 my thought process, Marty, That's anel that just plainly should 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.400 not have happened. Yeah, and there are lots of reasons 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.719 that you can blame the NETS for taking else to 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:20.560 inferior teams like Steve Nash and his trash ass rotations 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.520 that he makes. But but like this night, this is 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.760 not on the Nets. This is on Adam Silver in 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.680 the league one hundred percent. Once the ball tips, you 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.679 can't pull your marquee player in the middle of the game. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.800 Like he's already out there. Yeah, he's already been sweating 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.800 and sitting with his teammates. He was never removed from 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.880 his team to begin with. He's been side by side 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.680 with them for hours. Now what do you think this 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:52.360 other fifteen minutes is gonna do? Like it's it's just dumbfounding. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.040 Tyler Harrow had the same exact same thing happened to 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.200 him a couple of weeks ago. His roommate tested positive, 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.240 nothing happened, he got to play no games postponed. This 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:08.160 is insane, fucked. So now the Nets are going to 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.640 have to miss the centerpiece of their offense for multiple 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.520 games because he's got a quarantine for seven days. He 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.840 misses the Pistons game and the Pacers game, so they'll 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.800 probably lose. I mean they'll probably lose both of those 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:24.000 the way the Pistons are playing. So here's here's the 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:29.640 bottom line. It's it's this is not good. This is 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.760 not I don't consider this a part of that. This 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:36.000 is a dysfunctional organization thing. This is a dysfunctional We've 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:40.520 got a dysfunctional league on our hands. The Nets have 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:46.200 already been in chaos. Their Big three is not meshing. 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.960 In the best of circumstances, the Nets have only had 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:54.640 five games with Harden, Kyrie, and Katie together out of 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:59.720 a total of twelve With Durant gone. This week, they're 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.560 gonna have fourteen games without one of their big three. 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.640 Sometimes they miss two out of those three. 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.200 Yeah, over a quarter of a seventy two game season 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:10.680 without one of their stars on the floor. 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.240 Like, it's crazy. I mean, I would say that's meaningful. Yeah, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.760 I would say that's a meaningful stat So, yeah, I 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.480 would say that the league pulling this fuckery on the 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.560 Nets is definitely not the same as shutting down a 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.960 team like the Washington Wizards for a month. You've got 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.320 a team that's a contender. There's a top four team 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:33.400 in the league. KD is the league's most marketable player, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.160 top two player in the league, and he is just 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:40.920 getting completely fucked by Adam Silver in the league. This 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.120 is just not what you hope for if you were 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.440 the Nets who mortgaged your future for James Harden. Just 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.520 not Like, despite what Steven Asmith says, this team is 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:52.800 not a lock to go to the finals. This team 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.040 is not a lock to do anything besides just make 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.760 the playoffs. I'm sorry, Nets fans, that's the truth. So 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:04.440 let's just recap. Kdie sits for seven days now due 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:09.920 to a close contact. But every maskless player that shared 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.320 the court with him in warm ups and on the 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:17.839 bench and on the court is good to go. Fine, 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:22.520 nothing happens, No Raptors games postponed, no Nets games postponed. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.920 But KD can't play for a week. Like, aren't they 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:31.360 the close contact to the close contact those teammates, Like 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.320 if he potentially has COVID, don't they potentially have COVID? 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:35.120 Yeah? It makes sense. 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.800 I wonder to myself what the league is gonna do 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.240 when a close contact of an All Star tests positive 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:49.280 the week of February fourteenth. Huh, I wonder. I hope 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.480 it happens. Let's stay tuned. This league still mad about Katie? 0:09:55.480 --> 0:10:00.080 How bad do you have to fuck up? For the 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.120 entire Internet? To take the side of Kyrie Irving. Think 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:08.640 about that, the entire Internet hates Kyrie Irving and yet 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:14.600 they all defended him. That's that's crazy for a variety 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.679 of reasons too. You've got Boston Celtics fans that hate him. 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.439 You've got lebron stands that hate him, Blue Lives Slash, 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:25.520 All Lives Matter certainly hate him. Steve Nash fans like you, 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:26.720 Marty hate him. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:28.480 Facts you hate him, Yep. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.679 Geographers hate him. People who know in their heart of 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:37.440 hearts that the earth is round hate him. Just likes 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:42.040 people who care about the truth hate him. All of 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.840 them came to Kyrie's defense, all of them because why 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:51.560 Because a basketball comedian on the Internet name Max's Nice 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.760 decided he was about to get some get mean. So 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.800 Max's Nice made a spoof video making fun of Kyrie 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.600 Irving burning stage. Did you see this? Yeah? No, I 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.240 saw it, and I thought it was funny at the 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.439 time I did. It was like KD and Kyrie b 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.319 like and then He's got Sage and Sage the burning 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.720 stage in the background. To be fair, it did seem 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:17.000 harmless at the time, given that Kyrie did burn Sage 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.920 in TD Garden and at the time that he burned 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.640 the sage in td Garden, I was like, Wow, Kyrie 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.600 Irving is really trying to clear the negativity of his 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.760 time in Boston. That was where my drama filled head went. Yeah, 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.840 that was obviously not the case. I just thought it 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.319 was like a new age hippie thing. I hadn't done 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.640 nearly in the amount of research clearly that I needed 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.199 to do. And it turns out neither did. Max's Nice 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:48.320 and Kyrie Irving took big offense. So Kyrie commented on 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.160 the video what did it say? 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.480 Yeah, it was an Instagram comment and it said, I 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.079 respect the comedy, but tell your ignorant counterpart, Max is Nice, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:01.680 do not disrespect my ancestors Tennis culture with his gestures. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.360 My god, it's sacred to us natives to burn sage 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.880 and it's a remembrance of the people who died to 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:08.319 preserve our customs. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:13.800 I mean, Okay, that's not good. That is a bad 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.720 look for maxis Nice. Yeah, it's a bad look because 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:22.120 Kyrie came at him in a very respectful way. In 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.000 case you didn't know, and I think a lot of 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:29.640 people miss this. Kyrie's mom is Elizabeth Ann Larson, who 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.600 passed away when he was four, and she was a 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:38.720 member of the Standing rock Suit tribe, adopted when she 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.280 was a baby, but her native name is Elizabeth Ann 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:49.880 White Mountain. Kyrie is a seventh generation Native American. He 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:54.120 is active in the Sioux community. His Native American name 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:59.040 is Little Mountain. And you know that it's serious because 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:03.240 that's the first thing that's on his Instagram profile is 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:07.160 his native American name. And ig obviously Marty is a 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:12.080 huge thing in the Kyrie Irving universe. I mean, yeah, 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:16.040 that I would say is quite disrespectful given that this 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:21.320 is a custom in Native American culture. And instead of apologizing, 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.439 your boy Max is Nice, decided no, I'm not gonna 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.240 do that. I'm gonna fan the flames and say, you 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:32.200 know what, Kyrie, you can catch these hands. He said, 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.960 do you want a box and put boxing gloves on. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.160 The comment to Kyrie, that is a bad, bad, bad look. 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.719 And then the Internet goes crazy, as it does, and 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.640 not in the normal like fuck you Kyrie kind of way, 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.559 not in the oh, Kyrie's the worst kind of way. 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.800 I mean, this is the craziest ratio. It was one 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.679 hundred percent against Max's nice one hundred percent. Oh yeah, 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.400 that is how egregious everything that Max's Nice did. I 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.160 don't know if he recovers. He's tried to recover. He's 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.800 apologized sense, but it's like a little too late now. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:12.360 The spoof ignorant but forgivable. The reaction was just toxic. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.000 It was like, I know I'm ignorant, but I'm going 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.480 to double down on my ignorance. I can't believe you 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.480 sunned me on Instagram, So I'm just gonna be mad 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.160 at you and tell you you're wrong and we can just fight, 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.160 we can just scrap. Instead of me being like, yeah, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:32.680 that was pretty ignorant. He just didn't have any idea 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:37.040 that this could be offensive, and it was. So. I know, 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.680 I have some bad takes. I made some bad takes 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.560 I don't even want anyone to remember, but if someone 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.680 called me out on them, I would certainly say, you 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.440 know what, that's on me. Sometimes you just have to 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:55.320 own up or you're gonna be lifelong burned by NBA twitter. Ah, 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:59.120 find someone who loves you and wants you as much 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:03.920 as Tom Thibodau wants Derrick Rose. This is the best 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:09.800 romance on this side of the notebook. Just adorable. I mean, 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.560 especially given the fact that Derrick Rose is a broken man. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.800 He has been discarded by multiple teams after he was 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:20.240 an MVP. How many teams has it been on? Five? 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:24.920 I think five teams For someone who was an MVP 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.840 to be discarded, you are fragile. And you know what, 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.320 Tom Thibodeau is going to lift Derek Rose up. He 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.680 is now rejoined with Tom Thibodeau on the New York Knicks. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.600 This is the third time he's been on a Tom 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:44.720 Thibodeaux team. That is wild, That is insane. That is 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.800 something that everyone can can be inspired by. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:49.800 Love that. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.640 I love that. How can you love Tibbs not love 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:58.520 Tibbs being out of the league. And then he gets 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.960 his job in New York and he's like, Derek, don't worry, buddy, 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.440 You're one of my first priorities to bring back. Like 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:06.280 you're coming home. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:07.400 I'll get you out of Detroit. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.440 I'll get you out of there, buddy. Like, don't worry, 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.720 I'm gonna make sure that James Dolan is not in 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.560 love with Emmanuel quickly. I'll barely play him any minutes. 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.680 He won't even know what he has. You're gonna be 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:23.880 starting in no time. It's okay, Dennis Smith Junior. He 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:25.480 wants to be on the G League. We'll send it 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.920 to Detroit. That's the next best thing, right, It's all good, 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:33.000 It's all good. He made sure to go get Dereck Rose. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.880 It's not even halfway through the season yet, it's not 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.280 even to the trade deadline, and he goes and gets 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:42.560 his guy. Detroit was just not using him, and TIBs 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.200 was like, you know what, I'll take him. Let us 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:49.000 have it. This is just crazy. As a human being, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.440 as my therapist would say, as human beings, we want 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:57.560 to be deeply seen and known. TIBs sees Dereck Rose, 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.360 he sees how special he is, how special he can 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:06.600 be again, and God blessed Tom Thibodeaux. He knows how 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.840 he can use him and how it can work. And 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.800 Lord knows. For some reason, Tom Thibodeau isn't going to 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:17.240 use Emmanuel quickly until he's thirty. Tom Thibodau'll be gone 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:21.639 by then. He's holding that other twenty minutes for Dereck Rose. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:26.600 Dereck Rose has never averaged less than twenty seven minutes 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.600 a game. Playing with Tom Thibodeau. This boy's about to start. 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:32.760 This boy is about to start as soon as he 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.680 as soon as he passes COVID protocols. That's crazy. What 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:43.240 a love story in the middle of a cold, cold February. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.080 All right, let's get into some dms. I had over 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:52.040 four hundred dms for basketball related questions. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:53.000 That's quite a lot. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:54.000 Let's get into it. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.919 Okay, First off, we have why is Anthony Davis playing 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.040 so soft this year? 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.679 I mean the thing about these questions that I loved 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.320 is that they all are the things that are in 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.879 my head that I can't say out loud and now 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:15.600 and now big Underscore Bob could say him for me. Yeah, 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:20.160 Anthony Davis is soft. Period. We talk about like resting 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:28.359 bitch face, Anthony Davis and his resting state are is soft? 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:29.960 Do you agree with that, Marty? 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:32.760 I may not go that far, but I see I 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.240 could see how a lot of people think that and 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:35.840 arrived there. 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.080 Yes, explain I don't. 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:41.920 I mean, it just seems a little weird to call 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.359 someone who can go out and play the way I 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.640 have seen him play at times soft at times? Yeah, 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:48.280 at times. 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:53.800 So what I said is resting, resting state is soft. Sure, 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:57.400 of course, can he if he is put someone puts 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:01.480 a shot collar on him, turn into a dog In 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.720 the playoffs, yes, we saw Anthony Davis turn into a dog. 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.280 But we know that Lebron James had the remote in 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.760 his hand and the shot collar around Anthony Davis to 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.800 turn him into a junkyard dog. That is what we 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:20.480 see all last season and during part of the playoffs. 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:24.159 I say, Wow, this Anthony Davis kid can disappear. He 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:28.000 can disappear for stretches. He can be a marshmallow. I'm 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.720 not saying he always is a marshmallow. I'm not saying 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:35.320 that he always is soft, but he can be that 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.960 way for long periods of times, games at a time. 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:41.520 And I know people are gonna get very mad about 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:45.720 this on social and I don't care. This is just 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.639 the way it is. Here's a little stat for you, 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:54.440 Marty ad may be shooting better this year percentage wise 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:58.920 and points wise, but he's averaging the fewest rebounds and 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:03.399 blocks in his entire career since his rookie season. What 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:04.439 do you have to say about that? 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:06.880 I mean, that makes sense. I've seen him play this year. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:10.480 That makes sense that that's where he's at statistically this year, he's. 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.840 Getting fouled less this year, which means this boy doesn't 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.679 want to go anywhere near the rim. This boy is 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:20.680 I get it, like you win your ring, you want 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:24.240 to stick around the perimeter for a while. I mean 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.800 it's tough. It's tough down there on the block. I 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.480 don't care that he grew up in Chicago. He was 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:37.520 crown King very young. AA you entitled soft spoken, like 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.960 soft and I like the guy, I really do. And 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.719 as a human being, I can see why Lebron James 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:48.240 also loves Anthony Davis. He is an unselfish player. But 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:52.800 with that comes someone who is very very clearly not 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:58.000 a pitbole just not that is just not. Fortunately for 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.640 Anthony Davis and his legacy and Lebron James and his legacy, 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.760 and the Lakers and their legacy, Anthony Davis has clearly 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:10.800 shown when the lights are bright, that boy goes ham. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:15.240 But he is no Jimmy Butler. He is no like 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:19.280 hard rock that just will give it to people on 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:24.440 a night tonight. Basis so Laker fans, yes, you're gonna 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:28.520 have to suffer with Anthony Davis being quite soft looking 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:32.560 throughout the regular season and probably through stretches of the playoffs. 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:35.359 But don't worry. You've got the ultimate dog in Lebron 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:40.399 James and the Caesar Milan. This is fucks a fucked up. 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:43.200 This is a fucked up analogy. But the Caesar Milan 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:48.320 in Lebron James turning Anthony Davis into oh I just 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:50.440 can't just you know what I have what I'm saying 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.199 on a he's turned him into a junkyard dog in 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:55.400 the playoffs, but not on a night to night basis. 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:57.399 That was I mean, this could get me ratios, but 0:21:57.440 --> 0:21:58.280 this is that's the truth. 0:21:59.480 --> 0:21:59.840 Gotcha? 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:00.439 Okay? 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:03.920 So the next one is who should the Celtics use 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:05.639 the traded player exception on? 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:09.040 So they have twenty eight and a half million and 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.840 the traded player exception. Aine has said he wants shooters 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:17.040 with size, So who are those people? Do you have 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:22.640 any names? Mind? Kelly, Kelly ub shooters with size. That boy, 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:26.160 Kelly Ubra, he he will shoot. We know that Kelly 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:31.399 Ubra will shoot. Harrison Barnes, I like he's averaging seventeen 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:36.320 fifty percent from the field, forty one percent from three. 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:40.360 He could be an addition, he's he can also defend. 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:42.840 I would say, Yeah, I love the idea of PJ. 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:45.960 Tucker because, like, I think that the Celtics need to 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.680 get Marcus Smart out of there out. I love Marcus Smart. 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:52.520 I love his toughness. I love what he can do, 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:56.359 but boy does he make some bad, bad decisions on 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:58.879 the offensive side. He thinks he's a good He doesn't 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:04.200 Kelly Ubra shit he does he does. We're like, whoa, 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.400 he does shit that Draymond Green does where it's like, Yo, 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:11.400 why are you shooting from the logo right now? Did 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:14.719 anyone tell you to do that? Did anyone say, Marcus Smart, 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:18.479 this is your game to go out and shoot thirty 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:22.960 times tonight? No? So I want Marcus Smart out. PJ. 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:26.000 Tucker doesn't do that shit. He does not. He's just 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:30.400 as tough as Marcus Smart. He's bigger, he can hit threes, 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:33.600 and he makes so much better decisions. So I like that. 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:38.440 Who else? I really like Julius Randall, But I don't 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:40.159 think the Knicks are I think the Knicks are playing 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:42.200 way too good and I do not I think they 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:44.760 love themselves and Julius. 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:45.920 Randall, Oh yeah, they're gonna see what they have in 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:46.480 him right now. 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:50.560 Yeah, I mean before before Tibbs runs the tread off 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:52.680 of Julius Randall and then they have to trade him 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:56.720 for nothing. I don't think. I don't think they're gonna 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:58.600 get rid of him. I've also heard that the Bulls 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:01.959 are shopping marketing, but I don't think marketing plays good 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:05.920 enough d for them. Also, like, I just don't think. 0:24:06.200 --> 0:24:08.000 I just don't think that moves the needle in any 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:11.880 exciting way for a while, though I love but they 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:14.320 see here's the thing about the Ennis Cant thing, like 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:16.399 they don't know how to use They obviously don't know 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:20.359 this is a Brad Stevens segment in the future. But 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:24.639 Brad Stevens clearly misused Ennis cantor Nis Cant for the Blazers. 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:28.800