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Speaker 1: at dp show. We all know that offense sells. Sports
Speaker 1: changed the rules to help scoring in the NFL. Did
Speaker 1: it with passing baseball, did it with baseballs And although
Speaker 1: they deny it, the NBA cut out a lot of
Speaker 1: the physicality which has created more spread out games. Often
Speaker 1: is the Rockets don't just spread the ball, they almost
Speaker 1: ignore two point shots. And they hoist up as many
Speaker 1: threes as possible, and right now tied with the Thunder
Speaker 1: at two games apiece opening round playoff series. In Game four,
Speaker 1: in a loss, they attempted fifty eight three pointers and
Speaker 1: they passed up easy two point chances kicked it back out.
Speaker 1: This isn't new for them. When it works, it's unstoppable,
Speaker 1: and when it doesn't work, it's unstoppable because they can't
Speaker 1: stop chucking up threes. The Warriors won titles with their
Speaker 1: version of this kind of offense. But the Rockets go
Speaker 1: to the next level. If they go to the next level,
Speaker 1: can it lead to a championship? And you've got basketball
Speaker 1: coming up tonight. It'll be the Thunder and the Rockets,
Speaker 1: the Blazers, Lakers, Magic and the Bucks. The Nuggets came
Speaker 1: back to beat the Jazz, and it's a three two
Speaker 1: in that series. The Clippers rolled the Mavericks and they're
Speaker 1: now leading three games to two. Yesterday, Reggie Miller, in
Speaker 1: the final hour of the show said he needed probably
Speaker 1: about sixty five points lean Paul George and Kawhi Leonard,
Speaker 1: and I said, well, I feel pretty confident that Kawai
Speaker 1: can give you thirty. I wasn't sure about Paul George.
Speaker 1: But last night Paul George played well. And what was
Speaker 1: interesting was not during the game and how he played,
Speaker 1: but what he said after the game. The bubble got
Speaker 1: the best of me. I was just in a dark place.
Speaker 1: I really wasn't here. I checked out. So these past
Speaker 1: couple of games, it was just it was just difficult.
Speaker 1: But shout out to people that stood behind me, that
Speaker 1: was in my corner, the positivity, my teammates, my family, friends, everybody.
Speaker 1: Thank everybody that reached out to me. I was just
Speaker 1: in a bad place and I found my way. I'm
Speaker 1: back and I look forward to the rest of his run. Okay,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, the last couple of days, is
Speaker 1: there something wrong with Paul George? Is there something wrong
Speaker 1: physically with him? And as it turns out, maybe mentally
Speaker 1: there has been. He was in a dark place, maybe
Speaker 1: depression there, and came out of it last night. Now,
Speaker 1: granted they were kind of hollow numbers, but if I'm
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers, I'm encouraged by what I saw that you're
Speaker 1: taking shots, making shots. You know, they blow out the
Speaker 1: Mavericks there, the Mavericks without Kristaps Porzingis and all. That's right.
Speaker 1: We had a bet last night. I almost forgot about that. Yes, McLevin,
Speaker 1: I'm so psyched. Did Jamal very bed No? No, No,
Speaker 1: we didn't do it, Jamal, we didn't do it, Jamal
Speaker 1: Murray Bay. No, we did a Luca don chick because
Speaker 1: I said Luca would not score over twenty nine points
Speaker 1: last night, and all four Dannetts said that they would
Speaker 1: take the over. You said he would score over, he
Speaker 1: would not for the series. No again, So I got
Speaker 1: the big German and Tyler they're making I think it's
Speaker 1: Boston cream pies there. Yeah, so that'll be for the
Speaker 1: latter part of the show. I don't want you having
Speaker 1: you know, pie all over your face for an entire
Speaker 1: hour there. But you guys lost a bet. It's content
Speaker 1: and you'll have to pay up a little later on. Yes, Polly,
Speaker 1: first of all, there's nothing that puts you in a
Speaker 1: better mood than this. You came in, springs under your
Speaker 1: feet and you walk today. Oh boys, I know I
Speaker 1: did come in and I go pie guys, I mean, hi, guys,
Speaker 1: big smile in your face and ask you to borrow
Speaker 1: some money that they just fly. I feel bad about
Speaker 1: wasting pies though, like, I don't mind getting hit, but
Speaker 1: the waste of I'm still eating mine. Well, we can
Speaker 1: set it up where I put you over a table
Speaker 1: and I hit you with it. Now, you guys, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking you guys do self imposed pies, like you have
Speaker 1: to smash your face kamikaze? Yeah? Yeah, what if we
Speaker 1: have to get one of the other Danettes, like oh,
Speaker 1: like Pawkie get Todd, or Todd can get Andrew? Or
Speaker 1: do you want to do front row back row where
Speaker 1: Seaton you do to Paulli and then Paully you do
Speaker 1: it to Seaton. You know what's better Paully Fritzie didn't.
Speaker 1: That's tasty. Mm I like it, Toddy? Okay, with n
Speaker 1: whatever you guys wanted. Okay, wait, do you want to
Speaker 1: do it? That's fine. Do you want to blast Polly
Speaker 1: in the face with a pie? You know, I'm happy
Speaker 1: to you guys are looking for violence and broken noses. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not looking for violence, no broken noses. Whoever you
Speaker 1: assign me too. Okay. If you have Paully for violence
Speaker 1: and broken nose, that's wrong with you. So it's just
Speaker 1: a pie to the face. What's the reason for delegating
Speaker 1: specific people to specific people. It's content you and Paully
Speaker 1: have a little whatever you have, and I thought it
Speaker 1: might be fun if Pauli's gonna let you go first.
Speaker 1: By the way, that sounds about. Yeah, he wants to see.
Speaker 1: He wants to see how you administer the po Can
Speaker 1: we throw them at each other from like five feet away?
Speaker 1: To add like so athletic ability comes into this too,
Speaker 1: instead of having the right Well, I gotta make sure
Speaker 1: you get hit because you guys might have some kind
Speaker 1: of side deal where you go, Hey, Setan, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: act like I throw. I mean, PAULI can't throw. I
Speaker 1: could barely hit someone who's physically next to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Paul, he's got one good eye. Can't have that,
Speaker 1: all right. So that's a little bit later on today, Well,
Speaker 1: a poll question. You got a play of the day.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Ethan will come up with the stat of
Speaker 1: the day as well. There was a moment last night.
Speaker 1: You know, the game was out of reach with the
Speaker 1: Clippers and the MAVs, But there was a moment last
Speaker 1: night where Marcus Morris stepped on Luca don Chick's ankle.
Speaker 1: This just happened to be the sore ankle, this sprained ankle.
Speaker 1: Now it's hard to read into intent, but I'm not
Speaker 1: going to give Morris the benefit of the doubt. If
Speaker 1: this had been Paul George, then I would, Or Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard then I would. But I'm not going to in
Speaker 1: this situation here because if you look at Morris when
Speaker 1: he approaches Luca, he's not even making a basketball play
Speaker 1: because it's an out of bounds and he immediately it's
Speaker 1: almost like he targets Luca don Chick and goes right
Speaker 1: for the so of all the ankles he's stepping on,
Speaker 1: he steps on the bad ankle there, And what was
Speaker 1: he doing around don Chick in the first place after
Speaker 1: a basket and taking the ball out of bounds. I
Speaker 1: don't know if, like the NBA needs to at least
Speaker 1: say something because you've had the Montres Harold moment with
Speaker 1: what he said to Luca don Chick. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of chatter last night that the Clippers were saying
Speaker 1: things back to don Chick. Look, I don't want this
Speaker 1: to be Hey, let's tattletale and Luca don Chick, by
Speaker 1: all accounts, looks like a grown man. He can take
Speaker 1: care of himself. But the NBA has to worry about
Speaker 1: this because you can't pick and choose when you're handing
Speaker 1: out discipline, or you choose to look or listen the
Speaker 1: other way. And I think that I hate saying it,
Speaker 1: but I felt it last night. If last night's game
Speaker 1: was a close out game and the Clippers were acting
Speaker 1: the way they were on the bench and then this happened,
Speaker 1: you might have seen something where push came to shove.
Speaker 1: I think the commissioners got to at least, you know,
Speaker 1: send a message here that we're not going to put
Speaker 1: up with this. Rick Carlisle got tossed from that game
Speaker 1: last night because he thought that Morris did it on purpose.
Speaker 1: Not that he's going to say that he did it
Speaker 1: on purpose, but it looked like he did it on purpose.
Speaker 1: Here is Luca after the game. I don't want to
Speaker 1: talk to him. You know, He's just saying a lot
Speaker 1: of best stuff to me all the game, you know,
Speaker 1: and just I don't want to talk to him. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna move on, you know, like I say. But
Speaker 1: he's going to have their own opinion, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just hope he wasn't intentionate. And that's if that
Speaker 1: was intentional, that's really have been. Yeah, in the NBA
Speaker 1: at least has to get the Clippers attention, just to say, guys,
Speaker 1: you know what, We're not going to put up with this.
Speaker 1: And you don't want to appear to just be protecting
Speaker 1: Luca in this situation. But given what has happened already,
Speaker 1: remember when Luca got closlined and then Porzingis got a
Speaker 1: technical there, you know where they grabbed him and spun
Speaker 1: him around. So they've been and this is the book.
Speaker 1: You know, you're trying to be physical on him. You
Speaker 1: want to see what he can take. You know, they
Speaker 1: did this with Novitski when he first came in. They
Speaker 1: used to make fun of him on the sidelines his
Speaker 1: rookie year, calling him a lot of different things. Stuff
Speaker 1: like this happens. But in the bubble where we get
Speaker 1: to hear this and then we saw this, we saw
Speaker 1: the actual footage of what Morris was doing to Luca
Speaker 1: don Chick. In my opinion, it looked like he was
Speaker 1: trying to target him. And if I'm the NBA, you
Speaker 1: can't judge intent, But given the kind of temperature of
Speaker 1: this series, I'd be judging intent right now. If I'm
Speaker 1: commissioner Silver. Yes, Polly, if you're the NBA, and this
Speaker 1: is an obvious question, it's like the NFL at quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: don't you overprotect the stars? Especially with the ratings. You
Speaker 1: can't have a game without Luca Dodgick presence and anything
Speaker 1: to keep those stars on the court. You can ding
Speaker 1: a guy like Morris and no one will miss a
Speaker 1: beat if he's not in the game. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'll ask Charles Barkley about it because I'm not here
Speaker 1: to overly protect. But I do think that there are
Speaker 1: moments where you're letting the guy who has less talent dictate.
Speaker 1: And that's the problem I have with the Clippers. Montrez Harrold.
Speaker 1: He makes a lay up and he celebrates like he
Speaker 1: just won Game seven. You know Morris out there. You
Speaker 1: got to have these guys, These are valuable guys to
Speaker 1: win a championship, But you can't let that guy dictate
Speaker 1: what is going to happen. It's like when you have
Speaker 1: a goon in hockey and he all of a sudden
Speaker 1: is going to dictate what happens to the star players.
Speaker 1: It's just not good for the sport. And I think
Speaker 1: that that's something that any league should be looking out for,
Speaker 1: not just the NBA. Yeah, McLevin, but it never goes away.
Speaker 1: I mean, Draymond Is, there's a Draymond on every title team.
Speaker 1: Marcus Small, but Draymond Green's gonna be Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: when it's all said and done. Montrez Harold, nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: care about his career. But I still think Draymond's legacy
Speaker 1: might be got booted out of that finals for kicking
Speaker 1: a guy, I know, being stupid. It cost him a championship,
Speaker 1: but that's the role he plays. He's at least talented.
Speaker 1: You know these other guys. You know, Draymond has made
Speaker 1: All Star teams, Right, what do you think of Marcus Smart?
Speaker 1: Because he's got he's effective, like he plays super hard,
Speaker 1: but he's also seems kind of dirty. But I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's a cheap shot artist. This is I'm
Speaker 1: grabbing Luca goes to the hoop. This is how this started.
Speaker 1: And then they grabbed him and spun him around, and
Speaker 1: then he said something and that's when Porzingis came in.
Speaker 1: And then Porzingis ended up getting tossed in a game
Speaker 1: that had he not gotten tossed they would have won
Speaker 1: in my opinion, But if you're gonna play hard basketball,
Speaker 1: you know, a playoff foul is different than a regular
Speaker 1: season foul. Least it used to be. But that to me,
Speaker 1: you accidentally step on the best player on the floor
Speaker 1: on his injured an ankle, I don't think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you. And it wasn't in a scrum, it wasn't
Speaker 1: going up for a rebound or hey, I accidentally did it.
Speaker 1: To me, it felt like it was an opportunity. It
Speaker 1: just did. Yeah, I'm club. Is that sports though? You
Speaker 1: go after the injured part. I know it's like, I
Speaker 1: mean in football, I can tackle, but I can't do
Speaker 1: that in the NBA, where I'm going to go after
Speaker 1: your ankle by stepping on it where you're not even watching, right,
Speaker 1: But the history of the I mean football, you would
Speaker 1: go if you knew the running back had an injured ankle,
Speaker 1: you'd step on his foot in the pile every time
Speaker 1: you could. Right, it's a different, but it's football basketball.
Speaker 1: It is all in the seventies and eighties, I felt
Speaker 1: like it was kind of like that. But if you
Speaker 1: got caught, then that's where you have to answer. And
Speaker 1: in my opinion. You know, the Clippers played great, played
Speaker 1: great that should not be overshadowed. They played great, and
Speaker 1: maybe they looked at what the Lakers did the other
Speaker 1: night and went, you know, we better step our game
Speaker 1: up really quick here because we could be in trouble
Speaker 1: and they haven't played great. They're still getting their pieces together.
Speaker 1: But I'm not going to give Morris or Harold the
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt in these situations here because you
Speaker 1: haven't earned it. And Doncheck has said this has been
Speaker 1: going on. The officials need to police this because basketball
Speaker 1: doesn't plae itself. Because you don't have somebody on Dallas going, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm going to step on Imagine if somebody goes, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna step on Kawai's ankle. Hey, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: dirty to Kauai. You don't want that. We want the
Speaker 1: best players on the floor. I don't want some marginal
Speaker 1: player out there dictating what could happen. Imagine if Luca,
Speaker 1: you know, couldn't play in the next game. So we
Speaker 1: get cheated because of that because you allowed this to happen,
Speaker 1: or you didn't step in after the fact to say
Speaker 1: we're not putting up with this nonsense anymore. But you
Speaker 1: got games coming up tonight. You got the Lakers trying
Speaker 1: to close out the Blazers, Thunder and the Rockets, and
Speaker 1: that one is really interesting. Tonight Magic in a bux.
Speaker 1: The Greek Freak is the Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: He's also going to be the MVP. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many times you've had Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 1: n MVP in the same season. But you're seeing something
Speaker 1: special with the Greek Freak. I know he's not Musty TV.
Speaker 1: IS team's not musty TV. But he's turning in one
Speaker 1: of the great seasons the last couple of seasons, and
Speaker 1: I always want to see how you improve. He went
Speaker 1: from averaging six points to twelve, to seventeen, to twenty
Speaker 1: to twenty three, to twenty seven to almost twenty eight
Speaker 1: to almost thirty. Every single year is scoring has gone up.
Speaker 1: Got to be a better free throw shooter. But I'm
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Speaker 1: You got a pole question before I get to Charles Barkley. Okay,
Speaker 1: just one kind of mean question. Would you rather win
Speaker 1: MVP and not get to the finals or not win
Speaker 1: MVP and get to the finals or win a championship?
Speaker 1: This is the Jonas Pole basically Johannis Pole, Like, is
Speaker 1: an MVP enough for this year if he doesn't get
Speaker 1: get all the way to the finals or is that
Speaker 1: going to be disappointing to would be disappointing, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: he had a disappointing playoff last year where they do
Speaker 1: and get to the finals. So yeah, I'd be disappointed. Hey,
Speaker 1: one more quick one. Who's the guy whose star has
Speaker 1: risen the most in the bubble, Jamal Murray, Damian Lillard,
Speaker 1: Don Chich or Spider Mitchell. That's a good one. Jamal
Speaker 1: Murray's getting there. The problem is as he plays in
Speaker 1: the afternoon, so you only get to see his highlights,
Speaker 1: him and Donovan Mitchell. But I would say Damian Lillard,
Speaker 1: we knew, don Chick, we knew. I'd say Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: because Mitchell was Rookie of the Year, wasn't he? And
Speaker 1: I think Jamal Murray. I keep looking at Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: and I go, bam out of bio Devin Booker, and
Speaker 1: I go, how did Kentucky only win one national title
Speaker 1: with all the talent that Tyler Harrow? I mean, good god,
Speaker 1: they have so much talent that went through there. All right,
Speaker 1: let me get to Charles Barkley, who, of course it's
Speaker 1: the star of TNT. Chuck, Good morning, How are you,
Speaker 1: Good morning, brother? How are you doing? I'm doing okay.
Speaker 1: I was worried about you last night. They were picking
Speaker 1: on you, and I thought if Kenny was a little
Speaker 1: bit bigger, you might have popped him. No, man, we
Speaker 1: just have fun. You know. It's it's crazy right now,
Speaker 1: working every day so we're just trying to make sure
Speaker 1: people watching and enjoying the show. The basketball has been good,
Speaker 1: But are you out of the prediction business foot today?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take some time off. I'm all for three
Speaker 1: on guarantee, so I'm gonna yeah, I'm gonna definitely take
Speaker 1: some time off. Yeah, but you have to have something
Speaker 1: attached to your guarantee, like if it doesn't happen, then
Speaker 1: this has to happen. Well. The good thing about my guarantees,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not in one of those states where
Speaker 1: I can bet on the on the app right now
Speaker 1: for fan duel so and I'm not near a casino,
Speaker 1: so right now, right right now, there's just words. Well
Speaker 1: that's probably a good thing. Uh. I did love the
Speaker 1: Blazer's prediction just from the fact that you were so
Speaker 1: strong with it and then Shaq broke your broom when
Speaker 1: you said there is going to be a sweep. That
Speaker 1: was good TV. Yeah, man, you know, the Blazers looks
Speaker 1: like they've run out of gas. But the main thing
Speaker 1: the Lakers are making shots. You know, they were the
Speaker 1: worst three points shooting team in the NBA all season,
Speaker 1: but the last three games they're making shots. I mean,
Speaker 1: we knew A D and Lebron were gonna play great,
Speaker 1: but now they're making shots the kids. Can they keep
Speaker 1: doing it? I mean, because even though they're on a
Speaker 1: hot streak, you know, the track records said they're the
Speaker 1: worst NBA three spots shooting team in the NBA all season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if Portland is gonna solve everything for
Speaker 1: the Lakers. To me, it was kind of the perfect
Speaker 1: team to face because they don't play any defense. But
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen this next round.
Speaker 1: I mean, Utah has been surprisingly good considering Conley left
Speaker 1: the bubble, Bogdanovic had the risk surgery there, So I
Speaker 1: don't know who. Who do the Lakers want to face
Speaker 1: between Denver and Utah? Wait, don't they play the Rockets next? Reggie?
Speaker 1: Reggie was saying yesterday that the Lakers facing Utah would
Speaker 1: be great. Well, well, first of all, Utah, I can't
Speaker 1: remember the brackets right off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: Nick Levin checked that for me. Did see if Chuck
Speaker 1: is right? Yeah, Lakers Rockets, Lakers Rockets okay or Lakers
Speaker 1: okay okay? Yeah, and listen, it all depends on Westbrook
Speaker 1: but they'd be favored over the Rockets. Listen that Denver series,
Speaker 1: if dem plays in the defense, I picked Denver to
Speaker 1: win that series. They played great last night, but um,
Speaker 1: that's still a pick them series in my opinion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out what the Rockets. I mean
Speaker 1: that philosophy you live by it and you die by it.
Speaker 1: You know, do you? I mean they pass up twos
Speaker 1: chuck to take a you know what. Listen, they have
Speaker 1: a style, they're gonna go with it. You know, in
Speaker 1: the third quarter and other night they made eight straight
Speaker 1: threes to start and they went out to a good lead,
Speaker 1: and then down the stretch they were five or twenty six.
Speaker 1: Were asked me four for twenty six. They threw one
Speaker 1: up at the buzzer that went in. It didn't count.
Speaker 1: I mean they counted, so they were four really four
Speaker 1: for twenty six. Listen, it was great if it works,
Speaker 1: But I think shooting a basketball is probably the hardest
Speaker 1: part of basketball, and you're just gonna go through streaks
Speaker 1: where you can't make them. You know, that year they
Speaker 1: against the Warriors, it missed like thirty in a row,
Speaker 1: and my kid, my question is can they against an
Speaker 1: elite team, an elite defensive team. Can they make four
Speaker 1: out of seven days? And I just think that's too
Speaker 1: hard to do. Yeah, I'm with you on that. I
Speaker 1: think they're a great regular season curiosity, but when it
Speaker 1: gets to the postseason, I just think that system is
Speaker 1: flawed because their shooters aren't as good as Golden State shooters,
Speaker 1: and Golden State plays defense as well when they were
Speaker 1: having their title runs well. And also I think you
Speaker 1: put so much pressure on one guy. James is the
Speaker 1: best one on one player I probably ever seen, you know,
Speaker 1: no disrespect to Michael or Kobe, but James Harden. When
Speaker 1: I said it a few years ago, everybody said I
Speaker 1: was crazy. Now didn't know. This guy is unstoppable one
Speaker 1: on one. But the problem is you always get tired.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember when I was living I mean
Speaker 1: I live in Phoenix. I thought Steve Nash wore down
Speaker 1: every year. I believe that. I just think it's too
Speaker 1: hard to do that for two straight months. And the
Speaker 1: same with Iverson. You know, these guys who have to
Speaker 1: carry that every single night. People don't realize a the
Speaker 1: pressure and just the energy that you, you know, you
Speaker 1: exert trying to do that. Every single night. Well, and
Speaker 1: you know, Dan, one thing that I've said is you
Speaker 1: have to do it every single night. You think about it.
Speaker 1: Lebron had a bad game and they still beat Portland.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, Jamal Murray's had some bad Like James,
Speaker 1: Hard is the only player in the NBA who has
Speaker 1: to play great for his team to win every night
Speaker 1: because he has to ball one at the time. He
Speaker 1: has to play great every single night. There's no other
Speaker 1: player in the NBA who has to play greats for
Speaker 1: their team to win. I'd argue Luca has to play
Speaker 1: great for that team to win. Well, he but I'm
Speaker 1: saying he can get You know that the other day
Speaker 1: when he scored the forty points, that was fantastic, but
Speaker 1: if he got twenty five points, they could still win.
Speaker 1: James has to get in my just in my Opeam,
Speaker 1: James has to get a minimum of thirty a night
Speaker 1: for that team because he like he's the guy, especially
Speaker 1: with no Russ. Yeah, I understand what you're saying. And
Speaker 1: speaking of Luca, last night, you know the Clippers blow
Speaker 1: him out, but you know there's that moment where Morris
Speaker 1: steps on Luca's bad ankle. Now if you're the NBA,
Speaker 1: do you read anything. It's hard to read intent into something, Charles.
Speaker 1: But given the physicality and what's happening with the Clippers
Speaker 1: to Luca and what they've said and done, do you
Speaker 1: say or do anything to the Clippers? If you're the commissioner,
Speaker 1: you know the players that not look good in my opinion,
Speaker 1: because if you look at the play, the balls are
Speaker 1: the plays already dead, the balls in the basket, there's
Speaker 1: no reason for him to be going toward that basket.
Speaker 1: You would absolutely be getting back on defense. I don't
Speaker 1: want to get on your show and accuse somebody that
Speaker 1: playing dirty, but I will say this, there was no
Speaker 1: reason for him to be going toward Luca in that situation.
Speaker 1: I mean, the balls in the basket, and you normal
Speaker 1: would be getting back on defense. It's not a good look.
Speaker 1: I mean, Adam's gonna have to take a look at that,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't look good. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Once again, it's hard to read intent in there, but
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I said that about fifteen minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Morris is not making a basketball move. There's no reason
Speaker 1: for him to be going towards Luca because there it's
Speaker 1: an inbounds past there and then he steps on the
Speaker 1: back of his ankle there. So yeah, I mean, dan
Speaker 1: it Listen. I don't ever want to get on TV
Speaker 1: and I accuse somebody doing something dirty. But I'm saying, listen,
Speaker 1: the evidence does not look good. There's no reason. I mean,
Speaker 1: the balls in the bathroom, I've looked at it one
Speaker 1: hundred times. I'm exaggerating obviously. I'm like, Okay, the balls
Speaker 1: in the basket. He's not even close to the lane
Speaker 1: when the ball goes in the basket, and then he
Speaker 1: runs in the lane and steps on the guy ankle.
Speaker 1: It's not a very good look. What do you think
Speaker 1: of the Clippers right now? Last night change anything, Well,
Speaker 1: I think they saw the Lakers play with great energy
Speaker 1: and effort, and they're like, you know what, we can't
Speaker 1: beat that team the way we're playing. Listen. I think
Speaker 1: that one hundred percent of people in the world going
Speaker 1: into the season thought it was gonna come down to
Speaker 1: the Lakers and Clippers. I think it's fair to say
Speaker 1: it's pretty much still gonna come down to the Lakers
Speaker 1: and Clippers in the West. You know, Denver's really inconsistent
Speaker 1: and bad defensively. I think Utah the loss of Addonovitch
Speaker 1: is a really big deal. You know, I thought of
Speaker 1: Odonovits played that was a pick him series, So I
Speaker 1: don't think anything changed my mind. It's gonna be the
Speaker 1: Lakers and the Clippers in the Western Conference finals in
Speaker 1: my opinion. Charles Barkley, the All of Famer T and
Speaker 1: T's inside the NBA joining us on the program. Greek
Speaker 1: Freak is Defensive Player of the Year. Now he's gonna
Speaker 1: be the MVP. It's can you be the best player
Speaker 1: in the sport but not be the face of a sport? Well,
Speaker 1: listen to what he's accomplished at this age. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: And I tell you what, Dan, he's such a great kid.
Speaker 1: His humility. You know, I think about last year when
Speaker 1: we had him on the Award Show and he won
Speaker 1: the MVP. He was crying. I mean even last night
Speaker 1: when we gave him the Defensive Player of the Year,
Speaker 1: he was emotional. He's a great kid. You know, I
Speaker 1: heard you guys talking about earlier one of your pole questions.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's only twenty six. You know, Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: didn't win his first championship and he until he was
Speaker 1: twenty eight. I think the same thing with Lebron. You know,
Speaker 1: I get frustrated when these guys in the media, not you,
Speaker 1: but the guys in the media time but, well, if
Speaker 1: he don't win the championship this year, he's got to
Speaker 1: leave Milwaukee. I'm like, nobody said that to Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: when he would you know, I think I love the
Speaker 1: way these guys like, oh, he hasn't won it. He's
Speaker 1: got to leave Milwaukee to win the championship. I hope
Speaker 1: he's wins the championship. It'd be great for the NBA.
Speaker 1: I hope he stays in Milwaukee. I'd hate to see
Speaker 1: him join the Super Team because you know that the
Speaker 1: loops to NBA. But what he's accomplished so far is incredible,
Speaker 1: and I would love for him to be the face
Speaker 1: of the NBA because he's such a great kid and
Speaker 1: a hell of a player whose reputation has gone up
Speaker 1: the most in the bubble. Damien don Chick, Jamal Murray,
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell, Well, that's a really difficult question and a
Speaker 1: great question. You know, Listen, I think that Dame was awesome.
Speaker 1: You know that team, man, they got a lot of talent.
Speaker 1: I hate that they ran out of gas. I wish
Speaker 1: they could be together for the entire season because they
Speaker 1: would have been a one or two seed. But what
Speaker 1: Donovan has done so far and what Luca has done, Man,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't. Listen, the NBA has got some young,
Speaker 1: some great players. They're really close to being superstars. I mean, man,
Speaker 1: I feel really good about what we're going in the future.
Speaker 1: But I don't think you can say I'll take any
Speaker 1: one of those guys you mentioned. Man, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I mean, they've been great in the bubble
Speaker 1: and listen, I want to give Adam Silver shout out.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, man, I have been on
Speaker 1: the record. I thought there was no way this thing
Speaker 1: would work. I thought it was no way this thing work.
Speaker 1: The same thing with my boys in hockey. Shout out
Speaker 1: to the Tampa Bay Lightning. Hell of a game last night,
Speaker 1: my boy John Cooper to coach. I was watching the
Speaker 1: whole game. But let me tell you something. I thought
Speaker 1: there was no way this steam could work without a
Speaker 1: bunch of positive tests. But shout out to Garrett Betman
Speaker 1: and Adam Silver, and also to the players for staying really.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had a couple of hiccups, but I
Speaker 1: cannot believe we made it just forward no positive tests.
Speaker 1: Now that's going to change the next round when we
Speaker 1: started bringing in families and things like that. But we've
Speaker 1: all really have been further than I ever thought we
Speaker 1: would get. And also Paul George said he was in
Speaker 1: a dark place. He was battling depression in the bubble there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not sure what that was about. I
Speaker 1: have already talked to a couple of players when they
Speaker 1: were complaining about the food and things like that. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. When you're listen the people who are living
Speaker 1: in a pandemic, who've lost their jobs. You know, we
Speaker 1: got a hurricane balling down on Houston and two hurricanes,
Speaker 1: you know. So I don't think guys making millions of
Speaker 1: dollars to be worried just because they're stuck in a
Speaker 1: place where they can go fishing and play golf and
Speaker 1: playing basketball to make millison of dollars, that's not a
Speaker 1: dark place. The thing that just happened in Wisconsin, the
Speaker 1: thing is happening with this pandemic, all these people losing
Speaker 1: their job, Those people are at a dark place. We
Speaker 1: are the luckiest people in the world to dribble a
Speaker 1: stupid basketball to make millions of dollars. We're never in
Speaker 1: a dark place. I just think we need to be
Speaker 1: careful what we complain about. I mean, those people who
Speaker 1: getting ready to get hit with those two hurricanes in
Speaker 1: the middle of a pandemic. That's awful, man, My thoughts
Speaker 1: to those people. You brought up what happened in Wisconsin
Speaker 1: with Jacob Blake, and there was talk yesterday that some
Speaker 1: of these players were looking at maybe sitting out, you know,
Speaker 1: the Raptors, a couple of Fred van Vleet, that maybe
Speaker 1: they would sit out a game in protest of what
Speaker 1: happened when he was shot seven times. This might come
Speaker 1: down to does Lebron Like, I don't know how much
Speaker 1: pressure is on Lebron to do something, because when Lebron
Speaker 1: does it, then everybody else does it. But do you
Speaker 1: think that that there's a potential of these players maybe
Speaker 1: sitting out a game as a show a protest with
Speaker 1: what happened. Yeah, I'm not sure what that would do.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I think they got an
Speaker 1: amazing platform. I thought, like last night, Doc Rivers, I
Speaker 1: thought stole the show I thought he is amazing, just
Speaker 1: their emotion, you know, Dan, Like I say, I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna tell anybody that right or wrong the way they
Speaker 1: want to protest. But I'm not sure how sitting out
Speaker 1: a game, boycotting the game would have an effect on
Speaker 1: the situation. You know, we need police reform, we need
Speaker 1: prison reform. Those are two things we really need. You know.
Speaker 1: I talked about it last night on the show. I said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm disappointed that because bad cops are making
Speaker 1: it I'm safe for the good cops. That's what the
Speaker 1: That's what what I said last night. If all the
Speaker 1: good cops and most of the cops are great, I
Speaker 1: don't care what anybody says. I think most of the
Speaker 1: cops are great, but they're making it unsafe for the
Speaker 1: good cops. Are bad cops, and I'm disappointing the police union.
Speaker 1: I think the police need to get together and get
Speaker 1: rid of their union. To be honest with you, because
Speaker 1: they're making it I'm safe for the good cops. We
Speaker 1: need cops. If it wasn't for the cops, I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody called the cops things are bad, but we had
Speaker 1: some cops who shouldn't be cops. My bodyguard is a
Speaker 1: cop for thirty years. His wife was a cop for
Speaker 1: thirty years. Shout out to James Heywood and he talked.
Speaker 1: We talked about it all the time. I always get
Speaker 1: his opinion on on these shootings and he always say, hey,
Speaker 1: he'll tell me when the cops are right, He'll tell
Speaker 1: me when the cops are wrong. And so this clearly
Speaker 1: was a you know, the shoot a guy in the
Speaker 1: back with kids in the car. You know, I know
Speaker 1: that was an altercation beforehand, which I'm not sure. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what's going on with the media. They did
Speaker 1: not show us to altercation in advance. There was an
Speaker 1: altercation in advance before he went to his car. They
Speaker 1: have to show us that. But that being said, I
Speaker 1: think there's a final We got to find a way
Speaker 1: to de escalate the situation without shooting a guy in
Speaker 1: the back seven times with his kids in the car
Speaker 1: and unarmed and on armed. Uh, you know, I think
Speaker 1: you have to really be careful there, Dan, Like I said,
Speaker 1: I know he wasn't armed, but you know, if you
Speaker 1: get in a fight with somebody and they go to
Speaker 1: their car, it's a really every situation. But there's got
Speaker 1: to be a better way than shoot the guy seven
Speaker 1: times in the back with his kids in the car.
Speaker 1: Good to visit with you? Uh? Have you got thunder, Rockets,
Speaker 1: Magic Bucks, Blake, Blazers, Lakers? Exciting? You know, Dan, this
Speaker 1: is turned into like a real job. We work every day.
Speaker 1: It's like NCAA. Truman. Yeah, but that's only a couple
Speaker 1: of days, you know working. You know, Dan, I'm fifty seven.
Speaker 1: I've never worked every day in my life. This is
Speaker 1: not this is no joke. Hey, I'm starting to like
Speaker 1: you and nerds a lot more now. It's like, Man,
Speaker 1: how do y'all get up and go to work every day?
Speaker 1: This is no joke. I don't know how people don't
Speaker 1: get up every day and go to work. Well, they
Speaker 1: called professional players, they're called jocks. We don't go to
Speaker 1: work every day. Are you playing golf today? No? Man.
Speaker 1: Other has been awful in Atlanta. You know, we're in
Speaker 1: a bubble in Atlanta. It has rained every day for
Speaker 1: you know, we're getting the ruminants of those two hurricanes.
Speaker 1: So it has rained every day for a week, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna rain every day for another week. Because, like
Speaker 1: I said, we're not in the path of the hurricane,
Speaker 1: but we're getting the side effects. Have you had Shock
Speaker 1: out playing golf? No? No, no, no, Shaq is he's
Speaker 1: two business smoking hookah to play golf. Wait, do you
Speaker 1: have a video of Shock smoke on his hookah? Shock
Speaker 1: does hooka every single day? Then he loves hookah. You
Speaker 1: know I've been. I've been a couple of times because
Speaker 1: I'm not a big hookah guy. But he loves his hookah. Man,
Speaker 1: he loves it. What kind of feeling does it give you?
Speaker 1: You know, it didn't do anything for me. I don't
Speaker 1: know how it affects other people. It didn't do anything
Speaker 1: for me. It's kind of like when I smoke pot.
Speaker 1: I smoke pot like five times in my life, and
Speaker 1: all it made me want to do is eat for
Speaker 1: tato chips. Like I got a couple homeboys who love
Speaker 1: pot and smoking all the time. I've tried about five
Speaker 1: times in my life, and like I say, all it
Speaker 1: makes me want to do is eat potato chips. You
Speaker 1: don't need pot to do that. No, No, But I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like I love potator chips obviously like most people do.
Speaker 1: But you know, I tried to be like one of
Speaker 1: my boys, like yo, man, try to try this. And
Speaker 1: I tried, and I'm like, it didn't make me feel
Speaker 1: no type of way. I'm like, yo, man, it just
Speaker 1: makes me hungry. It's kind of like yoga. Like yoga,
Speaker 1: I've done yoga before. They're like, well, don't they take
Speaker 1: you to a different place. I'm like, no, it don't
Speaker 1: do anything for me. I feel like I'm stretching. No,
Speaker 1: it doesn't free my mind or anything. It just makes
Speaker 1: me feel like I'm stretching. Good Divinci with you and
Speaker 1: all right, man, thanks for having me, Man, thank you
Speaker 1: for having me. That's Charles Barkley. We take a break.
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Speaker 1: coming in his ankle. He's got the ball and this
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Speaker 1: Lucas Giolito no hits the Pirates. They pipe in the
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Speaker 1: Giolito throws the first no hitter of the twenty twenty season,
Speaker 1: struck out thirteen, he walked one, and they beat the
Speaker 1: Pirates for nothing. The White Socks they want eight of
Speaker 1: their last nine. There are one and a half games
Speaker 1: back of the Twins at the top of the Ales Central.
Speaker 1: I believe the Nationals traded Giolito to the White Sox
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen for Adam Eaton. I like the White
Speaker 1: Sox talent. I don't know if anybody even in Chicago
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Speaker 1: more done. I mentioned the number of players who went
Speaker 1: to Kentucky. You know, I'm watching Devin Booker go off
Speaker 1: and Jamal Murray, bam Adebayo, Eric Bledso you start to
Speaker 1: run down Anthony Davis, and then you go Kentucky won
Speaker 1: one title with all of that talent that went through there.
Speaker 1: It's like the Atlanta Braves. You know, the Braves won
Speaker 1: one World Series title and they won all of those
Speaker 1: two visions. They had like fourteen playoff appearances and they
Speaker 1: won one title and had one of the great rotations
Speaker 1: in the history of baseball. But you start to run down,
Speaker 1: like I didn't even mention Daron Fox, Shay Giljis, Alexander Enis, Cantor,
Speaker 1: Kevin Knox, Malik Monk. Who else is on the Good
Speaker 1: God new Lands? Noel Patrick Peterson, Julius Randall, Rajon Rondo, Karl,
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns, John Wall, PJ. Washington. That's probably twenty five
Speaker 1: players from Kentucky who are in the NBA right now. Man, yeah, boy,
Speaker 1: And you know that John Calla Parry when he's recruiting
Speaker 1: those kids, puts that list front and center on the desk.
Speaker 1: Here's the what my guys have made. Here's what he
Speaker 1: always talks about it. His foreign players have made a
Speaker 1: billion bucks. But do you brag about it? Because I
Speaker 1: would then go, how many championships did you win? I
Speaker 1: know you're only there one year. And Coach cow is
Speaker 1: up front, he's transparent with that, but like, accidentally, you'd
Speaker 1: think you'd win another title with that group, And didn't
Speaker 1: they win a title? And Anthony Davis in the title game?
Speaker 1: Did he not score in the title game? I think
Speaker 1: he had like a couple of foul shots or something
Speaker 1: he got on the board, but barely. Yeah. Yeah, but man,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of talent going through there. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like when I watch an NFL game and I'll go, oh,
Speaker 1: that guy went to LSU, and that guy went to
Speaker 1: LSU and that guy went to LSU. Like you just go,
Speaker 1: They're just some of these schools have so much talent, Yes,
Speaker 1: but it's not as bad as like a North Carolina
Speaker 1: football that had eight first round picks and they're not
Speaker 1: good at all. Yes, there are times when you go, oh,
Speaker 1: I went to North Carolina oh, he went to North
Speaker 1: n How is North Carolina not any good? L you
Speaker 1: expect them to be good? Coming up next hour, Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers will join us on the program The Colts Quarterback.
Speaker 1: Would you rather have the career of Philip Rivers, Ben Roethlisberger,
Speaker 1: Eli Manning? I'll hang up and listen. M. Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: no titles, Roethlisberger a couple of titles, Eli, a couple
Speaker 1: of titles. I'm gonna go Roethlisberger because Roethlisberger, I think,
Speaker 1: has been great during the regular season, and he's also
Speaker 1: got a couple of Super Bowls. Eli was just sort
Speaker 1: of present during the regular season, and then he had
Speaker 1: a couple of magical postseasons. But Philip hasn't hasn't done
Speaker 1: anything in the postseason. They're all three gonna be Hall
Speaker 1: of Famers, but Ben would be a first ballot Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer. I don't know if Eli is God. I
Speaker 1: don't want to go down that path. Where is Eli elite?
Speaker 1: Is he a first ballot Hall of Like? Oh, I
Speaker 1: can't do that to you, all right? Did we settle
Speaker 1: on the pole question? McLevin, We're good. We have a
Speaker 1: very intriguing option that I will tell you after the break.
Speaker 1: Look at you teasing? All right? One hour in the books,
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