Speaker 1: From the King of sports Books comes the Key Sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by bet MGM. Here's your host, Joanna's
Speaker 1: Papas and Olivia Harlan Decker. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Unleased.
Speaker 1: We are two rounds down and the n C Double
Speaker 1: A Tournament and the Sweet sixteen Action starts back up today.
Speaker 1: This tournament feels like it's moving kind of fast. You honest,
Speaker 1: don't you think? Yeah, it's moving very fast. And I
Speaker 1: love that you gave him three welcomes. Welcome, welcome, welcome,
Speaker 1: three times. Guys, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Well, that is,
Speaker 1: you're welcome here. And I just want to say, three
Speaker 1: welcomes is a lot, but it is. Let me see
Speaker 1: if I'm good at math nineteen times as than Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson has been accused of sexual mis conduct, so it's
Speaker 1: still a lot of welcomes. He's a big story, you know,
Speaker 1: we're getting into it. Yeah, yeah, that was kind of
Speaker 1: the story of the week. Got a lot of NFL news,
Speaker 1: you know what's crazy. I feel like this week has
Speaker 1: been as newsy and as busy in sports as we
Speaker 1: have had in a while. Like we should be so
Speaker 1: focused on March Madness and the NFL won't let us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it kind of was down ere for me
Speaker 1: because I love this tournament. It's so pure, kids playing
Speaker 1: their heart out, and then the NFL just comes with
Speaker 1: their kind of just their NFL kind of type news
Speaker 1: with massive contracts that don't make sense. Players who were
Speaker 1: a little bit you know, you know, they gotta they
Speaker 1: gotta birdie on each shoulder. There's a little devil here
Speaker 1: and maybe a little I don't know, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's soiled up the news for me, it's oiled up
Speaker 1: the time for me. I just wish the NFL could
Speaker 1: have waited till the tournament was over to start dominating
Speaker 1: the headlines because what a tournament it is right now,
Speaker 1: so much fun, so many upsets. St. Peter's baby, St.
Speaker 1: Peter's Wow. I mean, they're the Cinderella. They sure have
Speaker 1: been fun to watch. It's the thing with March Madness
Speaker 1: that's always great is you know, most of these kids
Speaker 1: will not go pro and this is their moment, and
Speaker 1: it's very cool to watch the personalities on center stage.
Speaker 1: So you know, you always have like some guy with
Speaker 1: some weird facial hair or some weird haircut or something.
Speaker 1: Just steal in the show and you fall in love
Speaker 1: with them. You have kind of an eccentric coach. You've
Speaker 1: never heard of. Steal the show, and I mean it's
Speaker 1: just great. How is your bracket doing, by the way, Well,
Speaker 1: as you know, I picked yelled to go all the way,
Speaker 1: So my bracket has been busted since the first round. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: I was just hoping that those eggheads could pull something off.
Speaker 1: We needed a miracle. It didn't happen, so my brackets
Speaker 1: been busted for a long time. But um, I really
Speaker 1: have been enjoying these games. I mean I was. I
Speaker 1: was on the road in Springfield, Massachusetts, which, uh, if
Speaker 1: you get a chance, don't go. And I mean really,
Speaker 1: if you shut your eyes all the way, Springfield looks
Speaker 1: exactly like Boston, but you gotta shut your eyes all
Speaker 1: the way. Yeah, I mean it's a real dump. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a real dump. And yeah, I mean the Basketball
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame is there. It couldn't be more. That
Speaker 1: building looks like a refrigerator with a tumor on it.
Speaker 1: It's whoever designed the Basketball Hall of Fame? Can you
Speaker 1: can we please redesign it and help that city out.
Speaker 1: I mean, they built a casino there to revive the city.
Speaker 1: So let's do it. MGM. You're it's an MGM two
Speaker 1: that which is where I stayed, where I perform, So
Speaker 1: we need to help Springfield out. What hotel was it?
Speaker 1: Where were you at? It was the so the club
Speaker 1: was called Roar, but it's part of the uh the
Speaker 1: MGM in Springfield. So it's uh, there's a casino there
Speaker 1: and and it's only a couple of years old. And
Speaker 1: um it's right across from the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: And those are the two things that Springfield has besides Murderer.
Speaker 1: I would think this time of year though, being there
Speaker 1: and they have a sports book, I assume. I bet
Speaker 1: that was really fun to be there. It was cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was always be a March madness fun. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: uh we watched all the games as many as many
Speaker 1: as we could in between shows, and it was just, uh,
Speaker 1: so many fun games, so many great finishes, and so
Speaker 1: many heartbreaks for a lot of kids. And that's that's
Speaker 1: what's so amazing watching it is the purity of it.
Speaker 1: It's so pure. You see the emotions, Like you said,
Speaker 1: this is so big for those kids. The thrill and
Speaker 1: the agony is on their face. It's nice to see
Speaker 1: pure Yeah, yeah, very very fun to watch. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: just tough going for the sec especially Kentucky, Tennessee burned.
Speaker 1: They're all out. Even the Big ten's kind of dropping
Speaker 1: like flies. They still have Purdue in Michigan and a
Speaker 1: one seed. Baylor is already out going into this week sixteen.
Speaker 1: So this is tough for the bracket world. I know,
Speaker 1: I'd be shocked if people still have perfect brackets out there,
Speaker 1: but you know someone somewhere does. Yeah, most people are down,
Speaker 1: but maybe there's a few who are still left. Who knows.
Speaker 1: But my condolences go out to everyone who had Kentucky, Baylor,
Speaker 1: Auburn in your final four. Obviously good picks, but that's
Speaker 1: this time of year. Anything can happen. So let's just
Speaker 1: say your bracket now has more excess than Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know that girl's racket up, but at
Speaker 1: least you aren't our guy, Michael A k A. Let
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Speaker 1: Speaking of the n C Double A Tournament, we have
Speaker 1: a really great guest today. I'm very excited he played
Speaker 1: at U c l A Who's still dancing, but instead
Speaker 1: of going to the NBA, he became the king of
Speaker 1: NBA Twitter. Josiah Johnson is joining us, you honest, We'll
Speaker 1: get his thoughts on the tournament, plus what it's like
Speaker 1: going viral and Lebron James retweeting you have you ever
Speaker 1: gone viral? Honest? I have gone viral a few times. Yes,
Speaker 1: I have. It's a good feeling. It's a really good feeling.
Speaker 1: And then you go, how do I do it again?
Speaker 1: How do I do it again? And you you try
Speaker 1: to replicate it again, and then it just you know,
Speaker 1: it's the magic of the Internet. It's hard to replicate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, who knows going viral. It's it's like something
Speaker 1: everyone's chasing in this industry. I just I don't get it,
Speaker 1: but Josiah does, and I'm really excited to pick his
Speaker 1: brain on it. Okay. I wanted to go over a
Speaker 1: couple of betting notes that's happened in the attorney so far.
Speaker 1: A lot of movement, a lot of line movement. Gonzaga
Speaker 1: opened at plus six hundred to win at all they're
Speaker 1: and how down to plus two thirty? People are loving
Speaker 1: the Zags second highest bet team behind Arizona in terms
Speaker 1: of ticket and handle, so the people and the money.
Speaker 1: Like Arizona, they are the biggest liability for sports books,
Speaker 1: highest handle and ticket percentage. At bet MGM, they opened
Speaker 1: at plus five thousand. They're now down to plus five hundred,
Speaker 1: which is the third highest odds behind the Zags and
Speaker 1: the Jayhawks. The most bet games so far in terms
Speaker 1: of ticket count have been Michigan Tennessee, that third seed Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Everyone was watching that game, North Carolina Baylor, Baylor going down,
Speaker 1: and Memphis Gonzaga. So those three have kind of been
Speaker 1: the ones that betters have really put their money where
Speaker 1: their mouth is. And one notable bet we've got to
Speaker 1: tell you guys about. It's at bet MGM. Someone put
Speaker 1: down four thousand bucks on St. Peter's at plus twenty thousand.
Speaker 1: So if this hits, they win eight hundred thousand dollars. Man,
Speaker 1: I mean, talk about some faith. Uh, this ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 1: This is never in a million years gonna happen. But gosh,
Speaker 1: it's when you hear some of those you're like, God,
Speaker 1: what would you do? Eight hundred thousand bucks? Take the
Speaker 1: year off, what would you do? Honest? First, that's chump
Speaker 1: change to you. You're rich. I wish, first of all,
Speaker 1: I would convert to Catholicism because of St. Peter's wins
Speaker 1: it then, yeah, I guess the cathol it's something has
Speaker 1: it has something to do with the Catholics because God
Speaker 1: has to get intervened for that to happen. It's God
Speaker 1: and that kid's mustache have to be working as one
Speaker 1: in order for St. Peter's to make it through. But
Speaker 1: why not? I mean if you got four grand, you know,
Speaker 1: why not? That's what betting is about, right, you know, betting,
Speaker 1: betting on the slow horses is what makes it fun.
Speaker 1: But to win it all, like, can you imagine actually
Speaker 1: writing that check or taking out that cash for four
Speaker 1: thousand dollars? Honest? You and I have been in Vegas
Speaker 1: a couple of times together. You've seen me at the
Speaker 1: sports book, and you see me very slowly even put
Speaker 1: in a hundred and like four thousand on St. Peter's. Like,
Speaker 1: you're just your mental You're you're ill in the head.
Speaker 1: But they are they're kind of the cinder, like just
Speaker 1: a faithful Catholic. Yeah, I mean, they're the Cinderella. But
Speaker 1: let's not forget the big Cinderella of this month, that
Speaker 1: is the Ukraine. They're still standing. What a Cinderella story.
Speaker 1: Oh I was not excepting that. You always do that
Speaker 1: to me. You make me blush, you make me feel convertable.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here in Turkey. They're tin water from me
Speaker 1: right now. I'm not saying anything, but yes, there's still
Speaker 1: in the tournament. Goddess, they're still there. I mean who
Speaker 1: I mean? Everyone thought, you know, the blue bloods, everyone
Speaker 1: thought the blue blood program Russia was gonna take quick.
Speaker 1: But I mean, these kids are really putting up a fight.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I feel like it goes without saying right now,
Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers with the people of Ukraine. Okay, back
Speaker 1: to St. Peter's. They are a fifteen. They play three
Speaker 1: seed per Due. And what you got to know about
Speaker 1: Perdue is a kid named Jade and Ivy. He's been incredible.
Speaker 1: He's had the most movement in terms of votes for
Speaker 1: Outstanding Player and odds for most Outstanding Player now at
Speaker 1: plus twelve hundred, betters love him. He's the highest handle
Speaker 1: and ticket percentage. But from an odd standpoint, it's still
Speaker 1: Drew Timmy. He's the favorite at bet MGM at plus
Speaker 1: three hundred. So there's kind of a betting update for
Speaker 1: all Attorney games that you need to know. And this
Speaker 1: is gonna be pretty good. But we mentioned the n
Speaker 1: c Double A Tournament is usually the talk of March,
Speaker 1: but the NFL had other ideas. It's been non stop
Speaker 1: this offseason and last week, especially in the weekend, it
Speaker 1: seemed like we had more breaking news as quarterback dominoes
Speaker 1: continue to fall all over the league. So let's just
Speaker 1: start there. Let's just get into it on this week's Well,
Speaker 1: what a roller coaster of emotions it was for Cleveland
Speaker 1: brown fans. Last week, Baker Mayfield released an emotional letter
Speaker 1: thanking the fans, and of course when I say an
Speaker 1: emotional letter, I mean he posted it online. It appeared
Speaker 1: they were all moving on. Then it seemed like the
Speaker 1: Browns were out onto Shawn Watson and everyone thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's going to Atlanta, which is his hometown, or New Orleans.
Speaker 1: But then on Friday, out of nowhere, a deal with
Speaker 1: the Shawn Watson and the Browns was done. I guess
Speaker 1: I should say the Texans and the Browns was done.
Speaker 1: And as someone in the business. Let me just point
Speaker 1: out something very important in this timeline. It was a
Speaker 1: news dump. That's when you release info around five pm
Speaker 1: on a Friday, it gets buried. It gets way fewer
Speaker 1: headlines and coverage than it normally would midweek or even
Speaker 1: earlier on a Friday. So you should question anything that
Speaker 1: is released at around four or five pm on a
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon. That's just a little insider trick free folks.
Speaker 1: But the Browns traded for Deshaun Watson. The team said
Speaker 1: they did extensive research on them. I know they had
Speaker 1: a lot of meetings. They've kind of posted some of that.
Speaker 1: And just to update you on his legal battle that
Speaker 1: sidelined him all year. His twenty two criminal cases of
Speaker 1: sexual misconduct were dropped. There now twenty two civil cases. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm not a lawyer, I'm not god, judge or jury,
Speaker 1: and I'm not one of these women accusing him of this.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what happened. Probably safe to say,
Speaker 1: at the very least, with everything we know as media,
Speaker 1: as public as NFL fans, he's a creep at the
Speaker 1: very least, if not a sexual predator. But now that
Speaker 1: we know he's not going to prison. For this, the
Speaker 1: NFL is able to have Adam. A lot of teams
Speaker 1: started moving forward, and others, like the Dolphins, publicly passed
Speaker 1: said that they did their own investigation and we're passing.
Speaker 1: But whatever Watson said to the Browns in this meeting
Speaker 1: left them comfortable enough, making him the face of their franchise,
Speaker 1: trading three first round picks, two other picks, and a
Speaker 1: new five year contract worth two hundred and thirty million
Speaker 1: dollars guaranteed, which is the most guaranteed money on a
Speaker 1: single contract in NFL history. So that's my problem. This
Speaker 1: is a bad look for Cleveland. Some team was going
Speaker 1: to take the public brunt of bringing into Shaun Watson,
Speaker 1: of course, but to pay him that much, to give
Speaker 1: away that much, it's like it's rewarding him. They almost
Speaker 1: went the extra mile. I don't think it's a good look,
Speaker 1: like get him at a discount maybe when no one
Speaker 1: else wanted him, Maybe we knew he was going to
Speaker 1: play somewhere, But this just feels shameless. It makes the
Speaker 1: team pretty unlikable. I got to admit, I don't think
Speaker 1: many people are gonna be cheering for the Browns. You know,
Speaker 1: they're not likable or a team you want to see
Speaker 1: do well now, almost like the Bengals. I feel like
Speaker 1: if you have no affiliation with the Bengals or anything,
Speaker 1: he's still kind of like to see him win. That's
Speaker 1: just an example because that's right in their state as well,
Speaker 1: right down the road. But uh no, there's no doubt
Speaker 1: the Brown's got better on the field, of course, and
Speaker 1: if you think of it in that term, your job
Speaker 1: as GM is to win games. But boy, was this
Speaker 1: a bad pr move and the Browns have been shady
Speaker 1: with this, the whole handling of Baker Mayfield. I think
Speaker 1: saying we want an adult at quarterback. They said that,
Speaker 1: like this week, we want an adult at quarterback. That
Speaker 1: is a huge slap in the face to Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: It implies a lot about him that does not help
Speaker 1: him now as he is wanting to move on and
Speaker 1: be traded and they go for Deshaun Watson. So what
Speaker 1: message does that send? Like is that a man? Is
Speaker 1: that the face of your franchise? You're you're sick of
Speaker 1: Baker's what his attitude his? I don't think there are
Speaker 1: many antics with Baker Mayfield unless you're still penalizing him
Speaker 1: for some stuff he did in college, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people are They always bring up some funny or
Speaker 1: not funny stuff he did in college. But come on, now,
Speaker 1: you've got way more serious drama with the Shawn Watson.
Speaker 1: So good luck. And by the way, he's going to
Speaker 1: be suspended probably a minimum of four games next year,
Speaker 1: probably more because an NFL investigation is going on and
Speaker 1: they'll throw down some suspension. So at what cost did
Speaker 1: you get this guy? And we are a betting show? Well,
Speaker 1: I think the Browns are gambling on our collective short memory.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to think people will move on
Speaker 1: and as I mentioned, they're gonna win some more games now.
Speaker 1: I think because of this they're pretty loaded talent wise,
Speaker 1: and to Shaun is a great football player. But yeah,
Speaker 1: at what cost? It kind of bothers me. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean talk about heavy O h D. I mean wow,
Speaker 1: I don't even think I have nothing unleash on. I
Speaker 1: just want I just want to contribute to your unleashed
Speaker 1: I mean that it's where do you go from there?
Speaker 1: This is the one of the craziest things that's happened
Speaker 1: in sports. Unexpected, I mean, the most guaranteed money ever
Speaker 1: to him. He hasn't even played in a year. Like
Speaker 1: you said, there's so many things built into the contract
Speaker 1: to that are confusing right there. They're taking into account
Speaker 1: that he may sit out, he may have to miss games,
Speaker 1: et cetera. I I don't understand it, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I don't understand why you would give him
Speaker 1: so much money considering the situation he's in. But I
Speaker 1: guess Cleveland hates Baker Mayfield. Wow, what a way to
Speaker 1: find out. What a way to find out that you're
Speaker 1: not appreciated. I just don't see this working out for Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I mean, big prize, it's Cleveland, so what does But yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't have a good track record with bringing in quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Let's you know start there. Yeah, I mean, is this
Speaker 1: more money than um than Patrick Mahomes? Be honest, it's
Speaker 1: more guaranteed money. Yeah, yeah, No, Patrick mahomes contract with
Speaker 1: you know, over time and stuff is ultimately about half
Speaker 1: a billion. But no, this is the largest single contract
Speaker 1: ever with guaranteed money. So again, it it's it's just
Speaker 1: it's very awkward to hear that, you know. It's again
Speaker 1: it's like a reward, like that's what you got for
Speaker 1: this guy who should have been to be honest from
Speaker 1: just a pr standpoint, probably passed along by a bunch
Speaker 1: of teams saying things but no thanks, someone gets him,
Speaker 1: had a great deal. He rehabs his image, and then
Speaker 1: he's back. I mean, I hate to say it like that.
Speaker 1: We see that with coaches all the time, right, They'll
Speaker 1: go to some small school, rehab their image, and then
Speaker 1: they're back, and we all forgot that they also frequented
Speaker 1: sketchy massage. But but no, it's just uh, you know.
Speaker 1: And again, like I said, I have no idea what
Speaker 1: he's guilty of. I I kind of don't care. It
Speaker 1: doesn't pertain to me. And I would hate to falsely
Speaker 1: accuse someone, And I'd hate to roast someone. I'm not
Speaker 1: roasting to Sean, I'm I'm kind of roasting the Browns.
Speaker 1: But twenty two, I mean, we joked about it at
Speaker 1: the top, But twenty two allegations, that's nineteen more than
Speaker 1: the three welcomes you did. That's a lot. Twenty two
Speaker 1: is kind of hard. I mean, to get a conspiracy
Speaker 1: of twenty two people, I mean, that's really really bad luck.
Speaker 1: Conspiracy of twenty two people. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened. I wasn't there, but I mean twenty two
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't. I mean, there a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of people who haven't even kissed twenty two people,
Speaker 1: let alone have twenty two people say that you did
Speaker 1: something wrong. So yeah, I'm it's just it's a weird
Speaker 1: message to send for a guy who, yes, he's extremely talented,
Speaker 1: but is he that level? I mean, let's just talk
Speaker 1: that for a second. Do you think he's on that level?
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I think he'll be one of the
Speaker 1: top five six quarterbacks in the league. I do. I
Speaker 1: think he's so talented. I think if you're looking at
Speaker 1: it from just a talent perspective, yeah, I mean the
Speaker 1: Browns got better on the field. They did. It's curious
Speaker 1: now and this drops Thursday, what will happen to Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: Some people are saying Seattle, So we don't know. I
Speaker 1: know that Indie past on Baker and that's where he
Speaker 1: wanted to go. They got Matt Ryan. We have so
Speaker 1: much more to talk about with that. Matt Ryan to
Speaker 1: the Colts. We gotta talk with Peter Andrew about that.
Speaker 1: But a lot of NFL news, ye Honice. The a
Speaker 1: f C North is certainly going to be interesting next
Speaker 1: season now Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Deshaun Watson, so weird
Speaker 1: to say that, as well as whoever the Pittsburgh Steeler
Speaker 1: is ultimately go with. They signed Mitchell Robinsky, they still
Speaker 1: have Mason Rudolph. They have to name their starter. All
Speaker 1: signs point to Drabinsky. So we'll talk AFC North odds
Speaker 1: with Peter Andrew later in the show, as well as
Speaker 1: what Matt Ryan to the Colts means for their odds.
Speaker 1: I mean, the a f C is just loaded, but
Speaker 1: what do you say? We get back to Hoopsie Honice
Speaker 1: and bringing our guest. It's Josiah Johnson coming up. In
Speaker 1: the world of NBA Twitter, there's only one thing bigger
Speaker 1: than a woes bomb, and that's a tweet from our
Speaker 1: guest today. He's a very funny writer, producer that has
Speaker 1: been profiled in the New York Times, but that's not it.
Speaker 1: He also helped lead u C l A to two
Speaker 1: n C Double A tournaments during his time there. King
Speaker 1: Josiah fifty four is how you might know him. Josiah
Speaker 1: Johnson is here. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for that great intro. I wouldn't say lead.
Speaker 1: I was superstar Adjason when I was at U c
Speaker 1: l So I was adjacent to all action, but definitely nearby.
Speaker 1: We like to really hype our guests up. We we
Speaker 1: like that in this good environment. Yeah, I was gonna
Speaker 1: ask you. You know, early two thousands U c l A.
Speaker 1: You have some really famous teams, famous teammates. Trevor Riza
Speaker 1: as a mutual friend of ours, I love t A.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite memory of playing in the tournament? Like,
Speaker 1: is it one game that just had all the hype
Speaker 1: in the world or what? Probably just going out to
Speaker 1: eat now, I'm just kidding out of stop my favorite
Speaker 1: clip though, But what's funny about that clip is, uh
Speaker 1: like going out to eat in college was amazing because
Speaker 1: we go to nice restaurants, we get to splay if
Speaker 1: you'd actually get to live like Kings, but just being
Speaker 1: around the guy's locker room I was. I was blessed
Speaker 1: and fortunate to play with a lot of guys who
Speaker 1: went on the NBA, guys like Earl Watson who was
Speaker 1: still a close friend of mine, Matt Barnes, Jason Capono,
Speaker 1: Dan Gazer Reach Trevor. As you mentioned, Jordan Farmer Aarona
Speaker 1: Flo also got to be teammates with Lorenzo Mana, who's
Speaker 1: a living legend and is the third most famous Latino
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles behind Oscar de la Joya and Antonio
Speaker 1: via Rogosta. So just being on those squads, playing with
Speaker 1: Steve Lavin and then playing with Ben Holland's funny. My
Speaker 1: last game we lost to Texas Tech my senior year.
Speaker 1: We played in Tucson, but Bobby Knight was a coach then,
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking about that game. I saw Bobby
Speaker 1: Knight in the sidelines, like, O'm gonna get to shake
Speaker 1: his hand, and uh, one of the people on our
Speaker 1: team let us know, Like, uh, he doesn't do that
Speaker 1: after games. I'm like, okay, we'll see, Like he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a good sportsman game into though, he just sat
Speaker 1: stern face on the bench, didn't shake anybody's hand, didn't
Speaker 1: acknowledge anybody. So I've kind of always not respected Bobby
Speaker 1: Knight after that point. But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 1: I'm just sharing with you. Yeah that was after he
Speaker 1: won and no handshake, nothing, Yeah, no, just stern faced honestly,
Speaker 1: it hurt me for a long time. I used to
Speaker 1: do those Direct TV commercials. I didn't I didn't watch
Speaker 1: direct TV and the result of that for a very
Speaker 1: long time. But I've kind of since gotten over that
Speaker 1: and supported the brand. But you know, Bobby was kind
Speaker 1: of a d bag but all gravy. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're the only person to say that, so I think
Speaker 1: you're okay. How is your bracket? Is your bracket just
Speaker 1: horrible or did you go with your heart and take
Speaker 1: U c l A. I don't honestly make a bracket anymore.
Speaker 1: I've just been disappointed. You know, usually after like that
Speaker 1: first round of games on Thursday and even you know,
Speaker 1: the first four, I'm never even good about picking those
Speaker 1: teams to get into the mix. But I'm a u
Speaker 1: c l A guy, so if I did fill one
Speaker 1: out to be U c l A all the way.
Speaker 1: Obviously went to the final four last year. Jalen kind
Speaker 1: of put us out of our misery with the half
Speaker 1: quarter to win the game. But I think this squad
Speaker 1: has what it takes and is gonna make another push.
Speaker 1: Mccron has got these guys ready to go. Hopefully, Haimie
Speaker 1: hock has his ankle is good to go, but if not,
Speaker 1: this next man up. And you know, I've got some
Speaker 1: guys on the bench that are ready to step up
Speaker 1: and fill this place if necessary. Yeah, we even saw
Speaker 1: like a true freshman stepping up with They got pretty
Speaker 1: far down the bench in that game. They're a four
Speaker 1: seed facing an eight seed U n C who has
Speaker 1: had an incredible run. You would never say North Carolina
Speaker 1: is a Cinderella, but they are capturing everyone's hearts. I
Speaker 1: feel like they've faced a lot of injuries and player
Speaker 1: getting ejected in their last game, sending Baylor home packing.
Speaker 1: So a lot of eyeballs on this U c L
Speaker 1: a u n C game. You mentioned him a hockey
Speaker 1: junior's ankle. I mean, how concerned are you if he
Speaker 1: is out? You know this team very well. Homie is
Speaker 1: a beast. I think you know. For Homie did not play,
Speaker 1: and they got the benefit of getting the extra day
Speaker 1: off as well. I think they play Friday this week,
Speaker 1: So Himi's gonna play. I mean it's gonna take a
Speaker 1: lot for him. He did not play. He's a dog,
Speaker 1: He's got got a tremendous amount of heart. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a kid who was playing, you know, forty plus minutes.
Speaker 1: You know they play O T games. He wouldn't come
Speaker 1: out the game. So he's a guy who's gonna play.
Speaker 1: But if not, they've got a strong bench, deep guys
Speaker 1: that are ready to go. I think a guy like
Speaker 1: Jake Kiman, who I'm a big fan of, can get
Speaker 1: some buckets out there and help at least offset a
Speaker 1: little bit of what Hoimie has got. David Singleton to
Speaker 1: step up as well, But you know, bruins all the way.
Speaker 1: You know, he got two blue bloods going up against
Speaker 1: each other, you and see, we respect him, but you
Speaker 1: know we're trying to give him buckets to give him
Speaker 1: these hands. And uh, when you talk about two programs,
Speaker 1: obviously U c. L A is here in North Carolina's
Speaker 1: like right there. They're almost at our level, but not quite.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I think we're gonna get that
Speaker 1: win and then hopefully we'll face St. Peter's in the
Speaker 1: Elite eight. I think that would be a beautiful story.
Speaker 1: We get to send them home and you know they
Speaker 1: can get back to church just in time, huh, just
Speaker 1: in time for services on Sunday. That I love that.
Speaker 1: I would argue U n C and U C l
Speaker 1: A are to all time in terms of school colors,
Speaker 1: Like those are my two favorite color combos. It's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I think Carolina Blues got true blue beat. I will
Speaker 1: say that, like, you know, Carolina Blue Pat Leather Jay
Speaker 1: is probably my favorite shoe ever. But we're getting there.
Speaker 1: You know, We've definitely got the Jordan's Nike deal in place,
Speaker 1: and we're getting our swag. Right when I was there,
Speaker 1: we had Adidas and no knock to Adidas. But definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, when we play other schools and we look
Speaker 1: at their shoes and we look at our shoes, there
Speaker 1: was always a little bit of jealousy, and I think
Speaker 1: that had a mental stigma, and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you're going to play in a school like organists got
Speaker 1: every you know, pair of Nike's imaginable and we're kind
Speaker 1: of rolling out in pro models. It was definitely, you know,
Speaker 1: tough to to motivate to play those games. I'll have
Speaker 1: you know, my dad went to Kansas I grew up
Speaker 1: in Kansas Ku Country, and I had a U C
Speaker 1: l A hat as a kid just because I picked
Speaker 1: it based on the colors. So that that's there's a
Speaker 1: there's truth to that, or you're smart, intelligent, you know,
Speaker 1: you got great taste, and I can respect great taste.
Speaker 1: You know, as you watch these games, and NBA is
Speaker 1: mostly your niche, but you know you're tweeting about the
Speaker 1: tournament as well. Do you watch these games differently kind
Speaker 1: of looking for something funny to think your teeth into,
Speaker 1: or how do you watch these games knowing that you
Speaker 1: want to tweet about them. I'm just more reactionary, so
Speaker 1: whatever is going on, I'm kind of just watching the game,
Speaker 1: enjoying it. But you know, when we're all watching home
Speaker 1: and we see these moments and these things happen, like St.
Speaker 1: Peter's being the Peacocks, you know, great legendary mascot, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna think of peacock videos. So obviously been some
Speaker 1: great Peacock videos that have hitting that recently. They'd be Kentucky.
Speaker 1: I haven't ready to go just and just put those
Speaker 1: things out there. But for me, I just always stay ready.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of sugar Free and he always
Speaker 1: said if you stay ready, ain't got to get ready.
Speaker 1: So I just try to follow his lead and follow
Speaker 1: that motto as best I can. But I never really
Speaker 1: go into any game or event or anything like that, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I've just got to put this certain piece of content
Speaker 1: out more disreacting to what's going on in the world.
Speaker 1: And when you get a situation like St. Peter's upset,
Speaker 1: you just you know, it's all hands on deck. You
Speaker 1: gotta really just get that content out as quick as possible,
Speaker 1: cause I know I'm competing with millions of people around
Speaker 1: the world who've all seen those same moments as well.
Speaker 1: So just trying to be not necessarily first, but try
Speaker 1: to be best with whatever content then I'm putting out.
Speaker 1: You have two hundred thousand followers, Like, that's crazy. You've
Speaker 1: gone viral so many times. Obviously you've had huge celebrities
Speaker 1: retweet you, quote tweet you. How do you describe to
Speaker 1: someone who's not familiar with your account or what you do?
Speaker 1: How this came to be really is a lot of
Speaker 1: hard working grind. I think a lot of people they
Speaker 1: see the memes and they you know, they see the following,
Speaker 1: and they think it's easy work. And like I like
Speaker 1: to tell people, you've got the same Internet as me.
Speaker 1: So if if it's as you think it is, you know,
Speaker 1: go go do it, you know, so if they can't,
Speaker 1: then they need to just show a little bit of respect.
Speaker 1: But it's just a ton of work, it's a ton
Speaker 1: of energy effort put into it, but really just trying
Speaker 1: to stay consistent and also just trying to bring the humor.
Speaker 1: You know, I played high school basketball, played college basketball.
Speaker 1: The thing about those experiences in the locker room, you're
Speaker 1: with a bunch of guys and there's just a lot
Speaker 1: of jokes that are flying. You're doing two days and
Speaker 1: practices and games are traveling. There's a lot of fatigue
Speaker 1: in those situations. So just trying to keep the mood, like,
Speaker 1: trying to keep people's spirits up and just trying to
Speaker 1: get a joke in here there. So I've been you know,
Speaker 1: blessed and fortunate and successful at it so far. It's
Speaker 1: gonna keep it going. But you know, when you have
Speaker 1: people like Lebron James or John Legend or Able du Vernet,
Speaker 1: you know, big up in you on social media, you
Speaker 1: know that you're doing doing, you're trending in the right direction.
Speaker 1: So I just try to, you know, never drink my
Speaker 1: own kool aid, never believe the hype, and just show up,
Speaker 1: you know, every day, and you treat every day the same.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna work as hard as I can and just
Speaker 1: put content out that I hope people will enjoy. And
Speaker 1: so far it's been working, so I don't see a
Speaker 1: reason to stop. Now, Yeah, it's been working. How many
Speaker 1: Coach K tweets do you have ready to go for
Speaker 1: when du cluses? You know, I always keep the Coach
Speaker 1: K clip ready for any moment, and Coach K nice guy,
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm a u c l A guy.
Speaker 1: So when I hear people saying that Coach K is
Speaker 1: a better coach than John wouldn't, naturally we take offense
Speaker 1: to that, and naturally we have the jokes ready to go. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they lost, Duke lost his last home game and at
Speaker 1: you and see, I had to let the let the
Speaker 1: clips fly out. But we'll have some stuff ready to go.
Speaker 1: But also would love to see his squad make a
Speaker 1: good run this tournament. Send him out in the right foot,
Speaker 1: you know, but you know, definitely not beating U c
Speaker 1: l A if they cross passed. Yeah. Yeah, So when
Speaker 1: I am drafting a tweet, now, I'm coming from it
Speaker 1: more of like a journalist standpoint, especially if it's like
Speaker 1: a player injury or some news or something, and I
Speaker 1: just read it over and over one checking I'm not
Speaker 1: spelling like you're and you're wrong, because that drives me
Speaker 1: crazy there and they're like, I hate a misspell but
Speaker 1: also it's just a sensitive time, and I just I
Speaker 1: proof read my own tweets a lot. Do you find
Speaker 1: yourself tweeting any differently than you did in the past,
Speaker 1: like just making sure your tone is always right or
Speaker 1: that you have all the right information. Yeah, I think definitely.
Speaker 1: Being in social media, you always want to make sure
Speaker 1: to be respectful. Nobody wants to be on the summer
Speaker 1: jam screen or get ratioed or post that thing that
Speaker 1: you know people interpret the wrong way. So I'm just
Speaker 1: like you. Before I put anything up, I proof readed
Speaker 1: a number of times. There's nothing worse than putting a
Speaker 1: tweet out with the typo or I'm misspelling. But also
Speaker 1: we live in a world where I think people can
Speaker 1: fill in the blanks. So a lot of times if
Speaker 1: I see somebody else who's done that, I know the
Speaker 1: gist of what they were trying to accomplish in their
Speaker 1: their tweet with the caption, I'm still gonna hit it
Speaker 1: and retweet it if it's funny to me. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely gotta check a number of times. Like like
Speaker 1: you said, you have to be sensitive to kind of
Speaker 1: everything going on in the world, and I aim to offend,
Speaker 1: but do it in a classy way where even the
Speaker 1: people that you know I'm taking a shot out of
Speaker 1: joking about, they can read it and get some humor
Speaker 1: out it as well. So you know, I put up
Speaker 1: a couple of tweets after St. Peter's be Kentucky and
Speaker 1: even had Kentucky fans like, look, I'm miserable and depressed
Speaker 1: right now, but this is funny. So I had to
Speaker 1: go ahead and retweet it and just help people get
Speaker 1: through those moments. And I'd like to say I'm an
Speaker 1: equal opportunity clowner, so it doesn't matter who it is.
Speaker 1: If you say losers, I gotta get some some u
Speaker 1: s A jokes out That just kind of how it goes.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do it, but I react to
Speaker 1: whatever is going on in the world in the culture.
Speaker 1: So sometimes you know, you gotta gotta do things to
Speaker 1: people that you love the most and clown them as well.
Speaker 1: And I expect people to do the same thing to
Speaker 1: me too when I'm in those situations. I think I
Speaker 1: read you said somewhere that your followers are in the joke.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like you have a niche following of
Speaker 1: people who not only know NBA culture, basketball culture, but
Speaker 1: they kind of don't take themselves too seriously. Do you
Speaker 1: feel like that's accurate? Definitely? I think you know, my
Speaker 1: style has changed a lot. I used to be a
Speaker 1: lot more inflammatory, but the problem becomes when you have
Speaker 1: people like Kevin Durant to start to follow you, and
Speaker 1: just knowing how KD operates it moves on social I
Speaker 1: gotta kind of reconsider how my approach. I really like
Speaker 1: to just tweet in a way that these guys can
Speaker 1: see it in the locker room, they can laugh about it,
Speaker 1: and also being sensitive just kind of mental health situations
Speaker 1: going on across the world of sport. So doing things
Speaker 1: that even if guys are you know, quote unquote the
Speaker 1: butt of the joke, they can look at it, still
Speaker 1: laugh about it and kind of move on from and
Speaker 1: never want to do anything in a mean spirited type
Speaker 1: of way. Always just from a you know, funny humors
Speaker 1: every way, sometimes satirical. But I also like to keep
Speaker 1: things team centric as opposed to individual players. But if
Speaker 1: somebody does something funny that warrants a tweet, then I'll
Speaker 1: definitely have to let it fly. Yeah yeah, well you
Speaker 1: brought up k d Let's get to the NBA. I
Speaker 1: know you're a Lakers fan. They've struggled this year. Are
Speaker 1: you surprised it hasn't worked with Russ and this roster
Speaker 1: or were you skeptical from the beginning. I'm a big
Speaker 1: Westbrook fan, obviously the u c l A guy. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, it's tough to see them where they season started,
Speaker 1: all the stuff he's dealt with, But it seems like
Speaker 1: ever since he's had an interaction with that Toronto fan
Speaker 1: before the Raptors game, that he's kind of changed a
Speaker 1: little bit. He's hit another gear. He's starting to play
Speaker 1: a lot better, play a lot smarter, play a lot
Speaker 1: more fishing. I know it's only a three game, you know,
Speaker 1: window that we've seen it, but they're two on one
Speaker 1: in the last three and I think that this squad
Speaker 1: still has some noise to make. Obviously A d S
Speaker 1: kind of bounced back from the ankle injury. He's looking
Speaker 1: like he's ramping up. Kendrick Nunn's been on the squad
Speaker 1: all season. We're trying to figure out what exactly is
Speaker 1: going on because you know, now it's almost into March
Speaker 1: and he still has to play the game. But if
Speaker 1: this team could play at least one game at close
Speaker 1: enough to full strength, I think that they can start
Speaker 1: to turn the tide. And the way they're position themselves
Speaker 1: right now, you know they have still the potential to
Speaker 1: get the A C from the Clippers, depending on how
Speaker 1: these next ten or eleven games pan out, and they
Speaker 1: could set themselves up they win that first playing game
Speaker 1: as a a C that they're looking at going up
Speaker 1: against the Medfriends. Budles where obvious talking a little bit
Speaker 1: of smack earlier in the season, not being scared of
Speaker 1: the Bronze footsteps, but also mely, I think any team
Speaker 1: that has lebron James on it you always have to
Speaker 1: keep your eye out on and not root against. Yet,
Speaker 1: the season hasn't gone the way that we would hope
Speaker 1: it have went, but there's still time left and they're
Speaker 1: still noise to be made. So excited about the squad.
Speaker 1: You know, a week ago, if you would ask me
Speaker 1: this question, I would have told you it was a
Speaker 1: done deal. They're probably not gonna make the playoffs, but
Speaker 1: they've reinvigorated. They're kind of starting to finally try to
Speaker 1: figure it out. And I think once a d comes
Speaker 1: back and they can feeld a little bit more healthier
Speaker 1: competitive squad, they can definitely do something. I think what
Speaker 1: people forget about Westbrook is coming out of college, the
Speaker 1: scouting report on him wasn't glowing, like he was never
Speaker 1: known as a great scorer. He was known as someone
Speaker 1: who would drive it in the lane, in great defense.
Speaker 1: He was defensive player of the year in the conference.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you're seeing the pieces of him
Speaker 1: that we're always great? Do you feel like you're getting that,
Speaker 1: at least out of him. I mean, you're you're so
Speaker 1: familiar with his game. What do you see from rus
Speaker 1: Because a lot of people think his defense has been
Speaker 1: so disappointing. I mean it's crazy because everybody kind of
Speaker 1: has this negative opinion of Russ and you've seen that
Speaker 1: following throughout his career. I mean, need average triple doubles.
Speaker 1: I think four times in his career. It hadn't been
Speaker 1: done more than once with Oscar Robinson. So even that stuff,
Speaker 1: But then people started to devalue triple doubles, and you
Speaker 1: know you hear like a stat patter or stat chaser,
Speaker 1: which for me, I've never really understood, like when you're
Speaker 1: playing a games, like, oh man, this guy's hustling too much,
Speaker 1: he's trying to get too many stats, like like stat hunting,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like there's just words people
Speaker 1: use who have never played basketball at a high level.
Speaker 1: Always cracked me up, because like what is he supposed
Speaker 1: to do? Not go get that rebound, not hustle and
Speaker 1: not make the right pass for an assance, not score
Speaker 1: you know. So, I think Russe and Lebron they took
Speaker 1: a little bit of time for them to figure it out.
Speaker 1: They're kind of working it out. They're both dominant ball
Speaker 1: handlers and primary ball handlers, and Lebron has kind of
Speaker 1: had to sacrifice a little bit and rust Is definitely
Speaker 1: had a sacrifice a little on his game. But when
Speaker 1: you look at Russell and number, I think he's averaging
Speaker 1: with like eighteen nineteen the games still field coal percentage
Speaker 1: isn't the best, but it's not you know, I think
Speaker 1: more we're looking at those kind of moments and look
Speaker 1: the Lakers across the board, have had a lot of
Speaker 1: bone headed players this year, a lot of bad turnovers,
Speaker 1: a lot of bad moments. But I feel like Russ
Speaker 1: specifically gets targeted out and even him he had to
Speaker 1: kind of stick up for himself and say he's tired
Speaker 1: of it enough enough. But that's a great thing about
Speaker 1: being on the Lakers. The Lakers, I've seen it, you know,
Speaker 1: with Danny Green, Kuzma, KCP and other guys. You know,
Speaker 1: they are pretty consistent with their slander and with their
Speaker 1: vidal if you're not producing at the level that they
Speaker 1: hope and expect you to, but you can also it's
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, you can turn the crowd
Speaker 1: very easily with some some stellar play. And I think
Speaker 1: that's all Lakers fans are really asked from Russ is
Speaker 1: we don't need, you know, the exorbit numbers. We just
Speaker 1: need you to come play hard and make the right
Speaker 1: passes and you know, keep the turnovers down. So he's
Speaker 1: starting to lock in. I feel like Westbrook will get
Speaker 1: the last laughing. Like I said, you never rood against
Speaker 1: the squad with Lebron, at least I don't, and it's
Speaker 1: worked out well this far, So we just keep that
Speaker 1: thing going. Yeah, no, I know you're a big Lebron fan.
Speaker 1: He had thirty eight the other night against Cleveland. He
Speaker 1: had fifty twice in the last month. He's now second
Speaker 1: all time and scoring. Do you think he stays in
Speaker 1: l A. I mean, I'm not saying stat stuffing like
Speaker 1: you were just saying, but he's clearly going after the
Speaker 1: scoring record, which is great he should. But what do
Speaker 1: you think is his ultimate goal here in the next
Speaker 1: handful of years. I means to be interesting to see.
Speaker 1: I think you know, when Lebron first came to l A,
Speaker 1: the narrative was that he was just coming out here
Speaker 1: to be a movie star. He didn't really care about
Speaker 1: basketball anymore. I think he had the Lakers in like
Speaker 1: fourth places first season before he suffered the injury that
Speaker 1: caused him to miss a bunch of games, and obviously
Speaker 1: they got bounced out. And then you talk about the
Speaker 1: second season, you know, they're dominating the West, literally beat
Speaker 1: the Clippers and Bucks and consecutive games, and then you know,
Speaker 1: the whole pandemic starts, come back in the bubble, win
Speaker 1: a championship in the hardest conditions in NBA history, and
Speaker 1: even that, you know, he gets a limicky or the
Speaker 1: bubble or whatever, but just that's just kind of his game.
Speaker 1: Then obviously, last year they were in position to to
Speaker 1: beat the Suns in the first round of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: a d go down with the injury, kind of the
Speaker 1: rest is history. So Lebron has always kind of had
Speaker 1: that winning spirit, competitive spirit. It's crazy for me to
Speaker 1: see people And it's tough too, because I was expecting
Speaker 1: the Broun hopefully to play fifty game this season Max
Speaker 1: and the stuff he's been doing and just showing showing
Speaker 1: he he loves the game. I also feels like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's trying to go for the scoring title, but he
Speaker 1: also knows he has a finite number of games left.
Speaker 1: And when you start to see the end in that
Speaker 1: light at the end of the tunnel, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm not gonna take this game off. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep going, just I don't know how many more of
Speaker 1: these games I got left. And I think Lebron the
Speaker 1: type of guy, you know, he could go twenty three
Speaker 1: seasons if he wants to. But they're also don't gonna
Speaker 1: come a point to where father time' is gonna come
Speaker 1: creeping at that door. And so far we've been able
Speaker 1: to avoid it. But to see the stuff he's been
Speaker 1: doing this season, leading the league and scoring at various points.
Speaker 1: You know, I think he's like a percentage point right
Speaker 1: now or whatever it is ahead of a NBT or
Speaker 1: whatever it is for scoring leader. But just to see
Speaker 1: what he's doing in this game at thirty seven years old,
Speaker 1: year nineteen, with all those miles and all those minutes
Speaker 1: on his body. But you're also talking about a guy
Speaker 1: who's gonna break Kareem's record, like, you know, hundreds and
Speaker 1: hundred fifty games earlier than Kareem did it. So for
Speaker 1: everybody who says he doesn't have that dog in him,
Speaker 1: he's not a score, he doesn't have that killer mentality,
Speaker 1: I mean he sure does get a lot of buckets
Speaker 1: and and play hard. The only guy with you know,
Speaker 1: thirty K, ten K rebounds and tank k assist. He's
Speaker 1: just a team basketball player. So from it's been great
Speaker 1: to see it. And that's kind of you know, as
Speaker 1: being in my Lebron fandom, I've been rocket with since
Speaker 1: he came into the league. Four m VPS, four championships,
Speaker 1: four finals, MVPs. He's playing with house money right now,
Speaker 1: but ultimately the end of the day, super competitive. He's
Speaker 1: not just gonna go out you know, he's not gonna
Speaker 1: go out like a loser. He's gonna do it was
Speaker 1: necessary to help elevate his team to the highest level.
Speaker 1: Very Tom Brady on brand. He's not going out a loser.
Speaker 1: He's going to give it another finished business like Brady,
Speaker 1: I like seven rings, they've been has been finished time.
Speaker 1: You're just playing with house money now. But go on vacation,
Speaker 1: Enjoy vacation. Okay, team, I wanted to ask you about
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves. They've been rolling since All Star Break, eight
Speaker 1: and two in their last ten, best record in that span,
Speaker 1: and they're a half game behind Denver for the sixth seed,
Speaker 1: keeping them out of the play in, which would be huge.
Speaker 1: What about this team intrigues you or are you not
Speaker 1: buying in on them yet? I'm a big Teabos fan.
Speaker 1: I think when you look at that squad, I'm a
Speaker 1: big Anthony, average guy, like you know, I've seen people
Speaker 1: compare him to Jordan's. Yeah, i think he's got a
Speaker 1: lot of room in a lot of room to bro
Speaker 1: to get there. But the kids a dog man, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know he loves dunking on people, loves playing hard teams.
Speaker 1: Also taking on the identity of Pat Beev. Whether you
Speaker 1: love or hey Pat Beev, you know, just knowing his story,
Speaker 1: know how hard he worked to get to the league,
Speaker 1: and that that grit and that grind that he plays with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for me, it's tough when I see him, you know,
Speaker 1: Pat Lebron on the button getting in his face and
Speaker 1: overclapping and kind of some of the hysterics, and you know,
Speaker 1: you know, Westbrook has obviously been super anti him. You know,
Speaker 1: there's certain things about this game that I definitely don't like,
Speaker 1: but there's a ton about it that I do love
Speaker 1: as well. And Carl Anthony Towns, I think what he's
Speaker 1: been able to do obviously the sixty point game he
Speaker 1: dropped recently, but just his ability now to kind of
Speaker 1: lock in. This is a squad that I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people didn't respect coming into
Speaker 1: the season, but they're playing at a high level. And
Speaker 1: also for them, I would hate to see them get
Speaker 1: in a situation, you know, playing as well as they
Speaker 1: played so far as the season where now they're getting
Speaker 1: the playing game and don't make the playoffs. I think
Speaker 1: that would you know, that would kind of defeat the
Speaker 1: whole purpose of this this playing game. In this situation,
Speaker 1: I think they've got like a seven or eight Gay
Speaker 1: League on their next closest you know team in that regard.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they've got a great squad, great makeup, and look,
Speaker 1: Minnesota is called and you know, the weather is is
Speaker 1: definitely not somewhere I would want to live. But I
Speaker 1: got to give them a ton of love and respect
Speaker 1: going into it, and you have they can squeek that
Speaker 1: that six set out and actually make the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: think it would do a lot for that team and
Speaker 1: just their confidence from from this point and going forward. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: Minnesota is not that bad. You know, the Midwest isn't horrible.
Speaker 1: It's not terrible. Believe I got some friends in Minnesota. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I would probably never go out there in
Speaker 1: the wintertime, but summer you can catch me out there,
Speaker 1: maybe turning up now. My husband was teammates with Patrick
Speaker 1: in Houston and with the Clippers, and they were fast friends.
Speaker 1: But he just always said he's a different animal, like
Speaker 1: he's you know, so much energy all the time, always
Speaker 1: just like kind of junkyard dog mentality. So I'm kind
Speaker 1: of a life for Pet Beev fans, so I love
Speaker 1: watching him in Minnesota Rock with Pat Bev. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, there are certain things he's
Speaker 1: done in his career that I'm not necessarily a fan of,
Speaker 1: But I think overall, hearing this story, the underdog story,
Speaker 1: you know, any average like thirty eight in high school
Speaker 1: and just the road he took to get to the league,
Speaker 1: you see why he played with that chip on his shoulder.
Speaker 1: But he's a guy who truly appreciates the opportunity that
Speaker 1: he has to play in the NBA. So never root
Speaker 1: against guys like that. No, No, So the Brooklyn Nets,
Speaker 1: they're such an interesting team this year, and a lot
Speaker 1: of that has to do with we haven't really seen
Speaker 1: them fully healthy or fully playing. We're still waiting on
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. Kyrie can't play at home. He's only played
Speaker 1: in three of the last eleven, but he's been awesome.
Speaker 1: Those three games include a fifty piece and a sixty
Speaker 1: point game. What do you make of this team and
Speaker 1: how far they can go in the East or do
Speaker 1: not want to judge until you really see him? Really
Speaker 1: depends on what happens with the vaccine mandates of Kyrie
Speaker 1: is able to start playing home games, which it feels
Speaker 1: like that thin could turn at any point. But this squad,
Speaker 1: you know, they were tough. You know, they started, they
Speaker 1: were top of the league. They kind of fell in
Speaker 1: some tough times. The whole situation with Harden in that
Speaker 1: Big three, you know, Harden one and out, Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: coming in. It's crazy to me that Ben has kind
Speaker 1: of been chilling all season. Trade happens and now he's
Speaker 1: ramping up and now you know he's got you know
Speaker 1: what it herniated disks or whatever, need an eper, dural
Speaker 1: and all that type of stuff. But even if they're
Speaker 1: not able to have been this season, you know, adding
Speaker 1: a guy like Seth curry on and that roster is
Speaker 1: gonna be great. And again, Katie is a guy that
Speaker 1: can overcome a lot of things. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: coming off the Achilles injury, it's like he got better
Speaker 1: at basketball, which is wild thing is back in the
Speaker 1: day that injury was a career killer. And to see
Speaker 1: the way he's elevated his game in the level he's
Speaker 1: playing at and Kyrie as well. When Kyrie is locked
Speaker 1: in and motivated and ready to get Buckets. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna root against that squad, but it's interesting
Speaker 1: to see and crazy how it's gonna pan out if
Speaker 1: they don't finish. Top four in the East would actually
Speaker 1: be more beneficial to them because now that's more road games,
Speaker 1: that's more opportunities for Kay to play. So that's a squad.
Speaker 1: If I'm in the East and I get the Nets
Speaker 1: in the first round, I'm just like, yo, like, why
Speaker 1: does God hate me? You know? Why did the basketball
Speaker 1: guys want to torment me? But that's the team you
Speaker 1: could definitely see rolling through and get into the finals.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, obviously I level Lakers Nets
Speaker 1: that be the dream final, but seeing a Warrior's Nets
Speaker 1: final as well, I think would be super intriguing. And
Speaker 1: having those quads and not say they're bad blood between
Speaker 1: them all, but obviously Katie playing with the Warriors and
Speaker 1: not going to the Nets. You know, Kyrie and Steph's
Speaker 1: whole situation them going at each other for numerous NBA finals.
Speaker 1: This would be a great way to cap off this season.
Speaker 1: So two players on that NETS team have bigger world
Speaker 1: issues that are attached to their name. Ben Simmons with
Speaker 1: mental health and then Kyrie with the vaccine, and as
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about what we're talking about with tweeting
Speaker 1: and how you want to be sensitive and you want
Speaker 1: to you know, stand your ground and have a stance
Speaker 1: and stuff, where do you draw the line with that? Like,
Speaker 1: not in terms of poking fun so much like you said,
Speaker 1: are being mean spirited or taking a very political stance
Speaker 1: with your opinion on if Kyrie should be able to
Speaker 1: play at home or not? Like, where do you draw
Speaker 1: the line for me? I mean, I always try to
Speaker 1: just you know, whether it'sachiric or whatever, do just try
Speaker 1: to do things in good taste. I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: every pretend like I was a fan of kyrie stance,
Speaker 1: especially having the platform that he has in the ability
Speaker 1: to impact a lot of other people out there who
Speaker 1: you know, the height of the pandemic. You have a vaccine,
Speaker 1: you have options obviously to help, you know, pick things
Speaker 1: up and get things back open again, and deliberately kind
Speaker 1: of not do that for whatever the reason interrational is.
Speaker 1: But I also think at this point the numbers have
Speaker 1: lowered and you know, things are opening back up. He
Speaker 1: doesn't need to be punished for that decision that he
Speaker 1: meant and with Ben Simmons, I think, you know, mental
Speaker 1: health is something you're that's extremely sensitive subject. Just to
Speaker 1: see the way that he was treated by his own
Speaker 1: team and coach, you know, after the postseason last year,
Speaker 1: it was kind of a lot of throwing him under
Speaker 1: the bus and blaming him for a lot of situations.
Speaker 1: And now you're trying to trade him and you're mad
Speaker 1: that you're not getting the return you want after you've
Speaker 1: literally bashed a guy. It's like, yeah, that's that's not
Speaker 1: a healthy workplace. And I think he was very spot
Speaker 1: on in his assessments, and you know, now he's it's
Speaker 1: funny Ecauveryone's like, oh he got traded and now the
Speaker 1: mental health is gone. Like yeah, have you ever like
Speaker 1: left the job and went to a better job and
Speaker 1: not felt better about the job you were at? Let
Speaker 1: it's amazing we can do leaving a toxic working environment.
Speaker 1: Exactly like now she's happy she she dumped him and out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly like that that was the point, upgraded, moved on
Speaker 1: to something better. But I'm curious to see if Ben
Speaker 1: is able to play this because it's it's tough, man,
Speaker 1: it's tough to be able to have to sit out,
Speaker 1: and then you're coming back for post season playoff basketball,
Speaker 1: which is obviously the hardest highest level of the game
Speaker 1: after not getting any real reps in. But even if
Speaker 1: they don't get been in this post season, I think
Speaker 1: you know, the Nets are ports and make a run
Speaker 1: in these post season in the playoffs. Okay, who do
Speaker 1: you like in the NBA Finals this year? You've kind
Speaker 1: of said he'd want to see. Yeah, I think you know,
Speaker 1: believe me, I never want to root against the bron
Speaker 1: But I feel like a Warrior's Nets finals kind of
Speaker 1: what we're trending towards you. Obviously, Warriors have been battling
Speaker 1: some issues, Clay coming back after there's two year absence,
Speaker 1: Draymond battling his stuff, and now coming back on minute restriction.
Speaker 1: STEP's kind of been battling some stuff too. But once
Speaker 1: that squad gets locked in, gets together, if they can
Speaker 1: so healthy for the playoffs, you know you're not rooting
Speaker 1: against the Splash brother's Draymond. You know, if James Wiseman
Speaker 1: can even just be somewhat proficient when he comes back
Speaker 1: into the mix, I mean, you've gotta squad that nobody's
Speaker 1: really gonna want to see in the postseason. Okay, but
Speaker 1: which NBA Finals match up would be the funniest for
Speaker 1: Twitter content? Funny for Twitter content would be like Lakers,
Speaker 1: Lakers and Nets probably just I mean a lot of
Speaker 1: you know. Okay, again, you have the Bucks Sons last year,
Speaker 1: two great teams, but those finals numbers just, you know,
Speaker 1: not not a lot of Phoenix, not a lot of
Speaker 1: Milwaukee fans. Probably not the ideal finals matchup from a
Speaker 1: rating standpoint, where if you get Lakers, you get l Avers, Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: The amount of jokes that you can get East Coast,
Speaker 1: West coast, you know, it extends beyond basketball and the
Speaker 1: hip hop, all levels you know of culture that that
Speaker 1: you be able to get out of that. I think
Speaker 1: that would be a finals for the ages. Okay, I
Speaker 1: like that. I know where your head's going. You've got
Speaker 1: to think about the content. So with every guest, we
Speaker 1: like to play little games. I want to end with
Speaker 1: a quick game and it's with how the NBA always
Speaker 1: does an All NBA team, But I want you to
Speaker 1: name the first ever All NBA meme team. So from
Speaker 1: James Harden rolling his eyes at the end of an
Speaker 1: interview to Alonso Morning, shrugging and talking to himself on
Speaker 1: the bed. If you can picture those two really quickly,
Speaker 1: give us your starting five All NBA meme team. Okay,
Speaker 1: so all it means the first and foremost, gotta go
Speaker 1: with the Kobe. It's like a Kobe dunk contest where
Speaker 1: you don't know if it's gonna be a Tanner in
Speaker 1: l And you literally watched the bated breath every time
Speaker 1: somebody post that me. Did you see the reaction? And
Speaker 1: whoever did the photoshop of the l on it was
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. Um, gotta go Lamello New year, knew me
Speaker 1: saying me though, definitely gotta be in the mix for that.
Speaker 1: Katie's Ashley Ankles, definitely got to be in the mix
Speaker 1: for that Whoka don chick who was last season but
Speaker 1: burst onto the scene, the guy who hit the hook
Speaker 1: and then got the steel like Ed Reid and came
Speaker 1: back through with the bucket. Also, I think from this
Speaker 1: year for me, uh, Katie and Big Baby when Big
Speaker 1: Baby was in the wrong seats at the Celtics game
Speaker 1: and you get Katie off screen like those anto sees
Speaker 1: Big Dog just at the level of trolling in shame,
Speaker 1: and Big Baby took that walk of shame, and uh,
Speaker 1: definitely the lab on Austin Reeves. I think Lebron told
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves something. Austin Reeves kind of looked around and
Speaker 1: he had no clue what was going on. But those
Speaker 1: means for me, uh are always hitters go to is
Speaker 1: and definitely ones you would use if you want to
Speaker 1: run some numbers up. I think you forgot a couple
Speaker 1: of big ones, though I'm sure I did. What I forget.
Speaker 1: I think you forgot when you said Lebron, I thought
Speaker 1: you were going to say to j R. When he
Speaker 1: forgot the time in Game one versus Warriors. Lebron's got,
Speaker 1: I mean, but that's the thing, Lebron. Lebron got the
Speaker 1: stair one that I always used to He's got. You
Speaker 1: could just go the whole Lebron library of memes. But
Speaker 1: so many great moments. There was a Luca Doctrick one
Speaker 1: this year when he was wiping his eyes, you know,
Speaker 1: talking trash like great, yeah, crying Jordan. Obviously it's kind
Speaker 1: of kind of the pinnacle. But I feel like it's
Speaker 1: it's it's gone to a whole another level. It's, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't really use it anymore. Yeah, it's just surpassed
Speaker 1: the transcended sports in general, Like everybody uses that. Now,
Speaker 1: what about swaggy p huh the swaggy shot at the
Speaker 1: Cassi Athena who shot that? The question? But also that's
Speaker 1: why EP mystery pointer where he thinks he makes it.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's a lot of great and that's
Speaker 1: what makes NBA twitter in my mind and be the
Speaker 1: best sport because the memes just are always flying. We
Speaker 1: play the most games other than baseball. But no, it
Speaker 1: really cares about baseball unfortunately, just because you know MLB.
Speaker 1: MLB is way too strict with like footage usage and
Speaker 1: me you can't even make memes the stuff without getting
Speaker 1: your account nukes, so don't learn. Yeah, it's like weird,
Speaker 1: like why wouldn't you want people promoting your league? But hey,
Speaker 1: more power to them and more power to the NBA.
Speaker 1: Well you were awesome, guys. If you weren't already, you
Speaker 1: are missing out. Follow Josiah Johnson on Twitter at King
Speaker 1: Josiah fifty four. Thanks so much for joining us. This
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. Appreciate you. Now let's bring
Speaker 1: in our good pal bed MGM betting expert Peter Andrew Peter,
Speaker 1: Let's talk sports, my friend a f C North, Let's
Speaker 1: talk Cleveland brown odds with now their new quarterback, Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: How are you? First off, I'm well, what crazy weekend
Speaker 1: with March madness, which I'm sure we'll get into, but yeah,
Speaker 1: things are shaking up and shaping up in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I think obviously the Browns one is the talk of
Speaker 1: last week and into the weekend. They're now plus sixteen
Speaker 1: hundreds to win the Super Bowl. That's a fairly dramatic increase.
Speaker 1: They were somewhere in the one range, so a pretty
Speaker 1: big lift from there. From from Baker Mayfield now to
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. I mean, the contract is crazy. Just the
Speaker 1: fully guaranteed, you know, given everything that's happened is nuts,
Speaker 1: and it's that's a crazy precedent for the next quarterback
Speaker 1: that goes. And you know, I'm a local local bias
Speaker 1: with the Niners, but what is Jimmy Garoppolo potentially yet
Speaker 1: I know he's not gonna get guaranteed full contract, but
Speaker 1: probably gives him something some sort of leverage, and then
Speaker 1: the next dominoes the fall for the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: So fairly crazy, but yeah, I could shake up in
Speaker 1: the NFL this week. I love how you say local
Speaker 1: bias and you're sitting in your New Jersey apartment with
Speaker 1: the heat on you local, You're just that. After I said,
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, that's actually not right. You're like, Oh,
Speaker 1: the buzz in the Bay Area here is is really?
Speaker 1: Where do you think Jimmy goes Pittsburgh? It seems like Pittsburgh, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they got a quarterback. They have Travisky, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: they like him. That's that's not a quarterback him. I
Speaker 1: feel like he goes somewhere the Niners are going to
Speaker 1: do him right. I don't think he goes somewhere like
Speaker 1: Atlanta that seems like a complete rebuild. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: He's got to go somewhere. He's a proven winner. They're
Speaker 1: going to treat him well after he's taken him to two,
Speaker 1: you know, a super Bowl, in an NFC championship. I
Speaker 1: think it's got to be somewhere where he can be competitive.
Speaker 1: That makes the most sense to me. They have a
Speaker 1: great run game now with Nowgie Harris. They have good
Speaker 1: wide receivers. They get guys that can run good routes.
Speaker 1: He's not going to throw the ball deep, nor did
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger last year, who couldn't throw it over twenty yards.
Speaker 1: So I think the scheme in a weird way, actually
Speaker 1: fits nicely for him. Where the you know, Tomlin and co.
Speaker 1: Are running something very comparable till last year. It could
Speaker 1: be anywhere, like I think Carolina Carolina a decent team too,
Speaker 1: or a team I think that has some potential. The
Speaker 1: Giants with Daniel Jones. Is that the right fit for
Speaker 1: this year and beyond? I don't think it is. So
Speaker 1: there are a lot of teams that he could make
Speaker 1: his move to. I think it happens in the next
Speaker 1: couple of days, because it's already probably taken two to
Speaker 1: three weeks. I think people are just a little iffy
Speaker 1: on the shoulder surgery that he had, but I expected
Speaker 1: happened over the next you know, a couple of days.
Speaker 1: If not, we now what about Indie. They just got
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan over the weekend. That's huge. That's great for
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, good online, good running back. That just added
Speaker 1: a couple of years to his career. I think that
Speaker 1: worked out fabulously for him. What did it do for
Speaker 1: the Colts odds, yeah, plus three thousand over to plus
Speaker 1: somewhat dramatic. But I love the Colts. It on, like
Speaker 1: you said, a really good team, the number one running
Speaker 1: back in the league, and Jonathan Taylor had an incredible
Speaker 1: year and now they can actually open up play action
Speaker 1: a bit better. I mean, he's a significant upgrade from
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. No offense to him, but that's a really
Speaker 1: good team now, and I think they make some noise
Speaker 1: there right. I think they're tied as favorite to win
Speaker 1: the South with the Titans, but I like their team
Speaker 1: a hell of a lot more than I like the
Speaker 1: Titans team. Let's talk some sweet six team, my friend,
Speaker 1: what were the lines looking like? You know, what were
Speaker 1: some of your moments? We had a We had a
Speaker 1: pretty good week at the book. You know, one of
Speaker 1: the day is actually a lot of favorites one, but
Speaker 1: I mean the money was so even across some of
Speaker 1: the dogs. And then you get games like St. Peter's
Speaker 1: versus Kentucky on Thursday night. I mean that's the local team.
Speaker 1: It's actually a mile away from us here, so it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool to see. But it was a crazy week overall.
Speaker 1: So I think the one bracket that I'm still a
Speaker 1: little confused on is that Gonzaga bracket, because again, you've
Speaker 1: got some pretty strong teams there, but the others are
Speaker 1: wide open. I really like Perdue, really like Miami UNC
Speaker 1: I mentioned last week as a team to look out
Speaker 1: for crazy future odds, and now they're in the sweet
Speaker 1: sixteen and they got a legit shot. I think they're
Speaker 1: playing u C l A On. I think it's Friday,
Speaker 1: and they have as good as shot as anybody to
Speaker 1: make it to eleade it and potentially to the third
Speaker 1: round of the weekend. Yeah. U NC is easy to
Speaker 1: cheer for. They've had players leave the team early in
Speaker 1: the season. In that game, they had players ejected, their
Speaker 1: players who are injured like they're they're scratching incline. They're
Speaker 1: kind of fun to cheer four now. And then, like
Speaker 1: you said, the West with Gonzaga, it's pretty chock of
Speaker 1: a one verse four and then three verse two and
Speaker 1: everyone is circling that number two duke. So when you
Speaker 1: look at Texas Tech verse duke at three versus two,
Speaker 1: are a lot of people betting on coach k What
Speaker 1: are people doing here for? I felt like for the
Speaker 1: first weekend everybody was fading him, but I think the
Speaker 1: tide starting to change a little bit. They wrapped up
Speaker 1: their season fairly poorly. Obviously, they didn't look great in
Speaker 1: the a CC Tournament a couple of games. I mean,
Speaker 1: they almost lost for Syracuse. They obviously lost that UNC
Speaker 1: game at Cameron, but they looked to have turned kind
Speaker 1: of the momentum a little bit and look really good.
Speaker 1: I think they move on and I think it's Zaga
Speaker 1: beats Arkansas pretty handily. What I saw in the second
Speaker 1: half of that game was work your offense around you, Timmy,
Speaker 1: and they basically jet at ten fifteen point deficit and
Speaker 1: and looked really really good in the second half. And
Speaker 1: I think that game alone has put him as favorite
Speaker 1: for most outstanding player in the tournament. So I think
Speaker 1: he's like plus three D. So they clearly figured something out.
Speaker 1: I think they kind of follow suit there this week
Speaker 1: and find their you know, find themselves in the elite.
Speaker 1: So you said St. Peter's was a mile away from
Speaker 1: the bed MGM offices, that's pretty cool. They're fifteen seed.
Speaker 1: There's still dancing. What's the line right now? In their
Speaker 1: matchup with Purdue? And would you sprinkle a couple of
Speaker 1: Bucks on it. So I'm gonna get political for a second.
Speaker 1: We can't bet St. Peter's in New Jersey, so there's
Speaker 1: a restriction around it. I will not be sprinkling any dollars,
Speaker 1: but for anybody outside in New Jersey, I think plus
Speaker 1: twelve and a half is a really good number. I
Speaker 1: do think Purdue wins. I mean j Nive is awesome,
Speaker 1: but I think they keep it close. I think it
Speaker 1: becomes kind of a heartbreaker game towards the last two
Speaker 1: three minutes. But plus twelve and a half, that dude,
Speaker 1: Doug Eater with his with his stash, maybe just stuck
Speaker 1: a fun team to watch. I got Seaton Hall friends
Speaker 1: here that are hoping their coaches their coach next year
Speaker 1: now that Willard left. They're super fun. You know, the
Speaker 1: the Cinderella story always stops somewhere. Unfortunately, I think it's
Speaker 1: against Purdue, but I think it's relatively close. That's a
Speaker 1: big number. I like it. I think there will be
Speaker 1: a lot of eyeballs on that game. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's probably the only thing to all the team that's there.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can make a case for like Miami
Speaker 1: and Larnega, but they are a power conference teams, So
Speaker 1: they're not the same. They're tensee but but they're a
Speaker 1: good squad traditionally. So yeah, everybody's gonna be rooting for
Speaker 1: Peters if they find their way into lead a to
Speaker 1: be crazy, but again, they're in a bracket where a
Speaker 1: couple of big teams are out. They've they've got the shot.
Speaker 1: They don't have to go through all these crazy powers
Speaker 1: as they kind of done it already. That kid, Uh,
Speaker 1: what's his name with the stash? Do you think he
Speaker 1: grew the stash for the tournament or do you have
Speaker 1: like you know he might have if he Doug Eater
Speaker 1: is his name. If he keeps it going through this,
Speaker 1: he's going to find himself with the same contract that
Speaker 1: Drew Timmy has for his stash. I think he signed
Speaker 1: with a shaving company. So have you guys noticed when
Speaker 1: he shoots, he kind of pushed. He shoots from like
Speaker 1: his chest like a kid. Pay attention. It's like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he shoots like I can't believe he's able to get
Speaker 1: those shots off because he shoots from so low. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a true Cinderella story. I Texas Tech. I think
Speaker 1: Texas Tech is gonna win. I'd put some money on
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. Yeah, I kind of like him against Duke too.
Speaker 1: It's clashing styles. Tech is very defensive minded, their physical
Speaker 1: If this goes down to the wire, they're gonna make
Speaker 1: Duke Arnett. So that's gonna be a great game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can make case any other four teams. Any of
Speaker 1: those four teams can win the bracket. Oh man, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a good weekend in the Sweet sixteen. This
Speaker 1: is a lot of fun. Peter, thanks for joining us
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