Speaker 1: Anybody else in the in the draft, Jack Kennon Lofton Jr.
Speaker 1: He can score, can shoot and do it all? Is
Speaker 1: that Kenny Lofton sons the baseball player? Like how the
Speaker 1: funk is your dad so small and he got so big?
Speaker 1: Welcome back to What's Burning? Jack, We officially have a
Speaker 1: champ in the NBA. The Golden State Warriors finished in
Speaker 1: six like you said they would. Congratulations them first and foremost.
Speaker 1: Did you get a chance to see any of the
Speaker 1: parade or or any of the edits floating around social media?
Speaker 1: Well one one uh the night they wanted Jamond something
Speaker 1: in a little texts and only the strung survive on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Uh of me saying that he shouldn't have been doing
Speaker 1: the podcast if he was playing, well, yeah, do it.
Speaker 1: But White the way he's playing, he shouldn't be doing it.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? And I know that's my
Speaker 1: little brother. We are. We go back and forth sometimes,
Speaker 1: but I'm so proud of him, bro, because he started
Speaker 1: off bad. And the reason why I said that he
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been doing the podcast during that time, man,
Speaker 1: because as me and you both know, how the old media,
Speaker 1: not us in the new media, would try to scrutinize
Speaker 1: him and try to his legacy and blame the whole
Speaker 1: series on on him on the podcast instead of their play,
Speaker 1: and it would have looked all bad. So that's how
Speaker 1: I was thinking. But I'm happy for my bro. Talk
Speaker 1: your ship, man, you deserve your ship. I watched a
Speaker 1: lot of him, Matt Clay, you know Clay. I was
Speaker 1: looking for Clay the whole time. He play all the time,
Speaker 1: and he didn't disappoint me. Dog for the organization, I'm
Speaker 1: happy for I'm happy for all of them. Man, it's big.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm happy to be a part of that family
Speaker 1: as well. No, definitely, I mean again, hats off to
Speaker 1: this team. Uh, it's unfortunate, like we live in a
Speaker 1: society today that that people feel like it's weak to
Speaker 1: show love. So instead of showing love this the whole
Speaker 1: season and even now people are knocking them for whatever
Speaker 1: reason they can possibly fine. But what I love is
Speaker 1: this team is is a tight knit group. They don't
Speaker 1: give a funk about what the outside has to say.
Speaker 1: And again, man, they're producing, you know, four championship in
Speaker 1: eight seasons. But what we talked about yesterday on ESPN
Speaker 1: was pretty funny because obviously there's some pettiness going on. Again,
Speaker 1: you don't remember as players, Man, we may not be
Speaker 1: present for everything, but somehow, some way gets back to us.
Speaker 1: Everything that's said by someone that's relevant eventually gets back
Speaker 1: to him. So Steph knew Steph has some petty ship
Speaker 1: going on. Uh, Clay has some ship. You know. Draymond
Speaker 1: was talking this ship, so I just think it was dope. Again,
Speaker 1: after all this team is accomplished, to kind of just
Speaker 1: get that ship off your chest, because again, I'm sure
Speaker 1: in the position they're in, they endured just so much
Speaker 1: hate along the way. It's got to feel, you know,
Speaker 1: vindicating to obviously when the championship. First and foremost, but
Speaker 1: to be able to just shut all these motherfucker's up, man,
Speaker 1: So shout out to the homies man Warriors. Eight years.
Speaker 1: We paid them fine for them to be able to talk.
Speaker 1: They talk their ship comfortably. We paid them dues that
Speaker 1: no definite, definitely offseason, man, they got a lot of
Speaker 1: choices coming up. First and foremost, Jordan's pool Uh is
Speaker 1: heading into the last year of his rookie deal. Uh.
Speaker 1: He has until the seventh to strike a new deal
Speaker 1: with the doves. Andrew Wiggins. I didn't realize Andrew Wiggins
Speaker 1: is this young? What is he? He's still in his
Speaker 1: twenties and the final season of his hundred forty seven
Speaker 1: million dollar Workie extension. Obviously, Wiggins express he wants to stay.
Speaker 1: He's definitely found at home there. Uh Looney who was
Speaker 1: pivotal uh in these playoffs. Uh is linked to possibly
Speaker 1: Sack and Mike Brown heading over there. Um the only
Speaker 1: guy to play every game this season a hundred and
Speaker 1: four games, eighty two in the regular season, twenty two
Speaker 1: in the post beautiful thing. If I was playing his minutes,
Speaker 1: I'll be ever played nine season straight. Got three rings,
Speaker 1: three of them. Other unrestricted free agents g P two,
Speaker 1: Iggy Otto, Porter, but Eliza, Damien Lee. Let's play GM
Speaker 1: four a little bit. I just gave you a list
Speaker 1: of people who are up. Let's talk about maybe some
Speaker 1: of the words top priorities. Pool and Wiggins for sure. Um,
Speaker 1: I think that's that's the two big ones. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you ain't coming back if I get
Speaker 1: to get jobs somewhere in the office is somewhere. Um,
Speaker 1: Damon Lee got a good shot because he brother in law. Stuff.
Speaker 1: So he might slide in there on on the minimum
Speaker 1: or something. But Pool and and um Wiggins are big
Speaker 1: keys to their puzzle. Wiggins is that stopper, you know,
Speaker 1: with with Clay slowing down a little bit. But I
Speaker 1: think they will be better next year. But did that
Speaker 1: dynamic having those guys as your core. I think that's
Speaker 1: that's what they're looking forward to to be able to repeat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting to see because you know, uh Pool is
Speaker 1: gonna probably demand anywhere from twenty to twenty five million
Speaker 1: per season. Uh Wiggins. You know, teams are gonna throw
Speaker 1: money at Wiggins. It'll be interesting to see, you know,
Speaker 1: who takes what um to keep this this team together.
Speaker 1: Also g P two UM, I think he'll get, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of million dollars situation to hopefully stay there.
Speaker 1: His journey has been a beautiful thing. Agreed, I think
Speaker 1: we have seen the last of Iggy, but if we
Speaker 1: have Man, four time champion, his accolades are are incredible,
Speaker 1: His leadership and just the way he carried himself. Man
Speaker 1: will definitely be missing this game. And also, someone else
Speaker 1: I think was important at times was Auto Porter. I
Speaker 1: think his versatility, his ability to make shots, Um played
Speaker 1: huge in this run for them, so they definitely got
Speaker 1: some stuff to do. But this team has showed they're
Speaker 1: not afraid to go into the luxury tax. Uh. They're
Speaker 1: deep in that motherfucker. So they're most like, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to you know. To me, it's it's all hands in,
Speaker 1: you know for steps final. You know, I feel like
Speaker 1: they have a two or three year window. I could
Speaker 1: be wrong, it could be a little longer, but you know,
Speaker 1: they're getting Wiseman back again. They got a lot of
Speaker 1: young talent they need to resign. But I think it's
Speaker 1: all hands in. As much as it costs to continue
Speaker 1: to put a competitive team around Steff while he's here,
Speaker 1: I think they have to do. Yep, Jack, we haven't
Speaker 1: done this a little while. We're back to fan question.
Speaker 1: Let's run through a few questions, uh for some of
Speaker 1: our fans that were tapping in from home, Starting with
Speaker 1: coach twelve. What's the best game you think you two
Speaker 1: have ever played? Is there a game that comes to
Speaker 1: mind for you? Jack? Best game I've played? Uh? I
Speaker 1: had forty three against Houston, I had thirty three in
Speaker 1: Game six against Dallas, and I had I led the
Speaker 1: team that scoring Game six West comments Finals for the Spurs.
Speaker 1: So those three games, that's big. That's big for me.
Speaker 1: Ship probably in a losing effort. Unfortunately. I had a
Speaker 1: thirty point in like tenor eleven rebound game against Memphis
Speaker 1: in the playoffs when I was with the Clippers um
Speaker 1: the last year before we got DC Rivers in Memphis.
Speaker 1: So it was a big game when Zebo tried to
Speaker 1: beat up uh Blake and I had a hard foul's
Speaker 1: e Bo. That's probably one of my uh yeah, probably
Speaker 1: one of my more memorable games. Next fan question, T D.
Speaker 1: Johnson eight seven. Is Steph Curry a top ten playoff
Speaker 1: all time? He has to be. I think he has
Speaker 1: to be. I'll know exactly where he fits in the
Speaker 1: hierarchy before we get to this. Did you see Skipping
Speaker 1: Shannon's top ten list yesterday? I'm glad I didn't. Probably
Speaker 1: uh uh. Skip had Lebron at number nine, which is
Speaker 1: fucking ridiculous, and then Shannon had Kobe at number nine
Speaker 1: and didn't even have Shock in the top ten. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: like two nine basketball players. I respect him both and
Speaker 1: I love them both. I fun both of them. But
Speaker 1: come on, fellas, come on, fella, did you disrespecting the game.
Speaker 1: Top ten, Yet to me, Steff is definitely top ten.
Speaker 1: A transitional talent if you think about people who have
Speaker 1: kind of revolutionized the game. Uh. You know, obviously the
Speaker 1: all time leading score cream at Blue Jabar sky hook
Speaker 1: that will never be matched, and all those Steph shoots
Speaker 1: the three and other people shoot the three. No one
Speaker 1: shoots that motherfucker like Steph. So to me, I feel
Speaker 1: like he's, you know, kind of had a transitional movement
Speaker 1: in the game. He's moved the game forward. And you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about this all the time, and me coaching
Speaker 1: my kids and being at the tournament to watching younger
Speaker 1: kids jack. These kids don't warm up in the paint
Speaker 1: no more. These motherfucker's put their shoes on and start
Speaker 1: shooting the ball from half court to get warmed up.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's, you know, the Steph Curry effect.
Speaker 1: And then not to mention all his accolades, you know
Speaker 1: a lot of people said he needed this Finals MVP
Speaker 1: to define his legacy. Whoa whoa Uh. To me, I
Speaker 1: think step is more uh worried about team success and
Speaker 1: and he was able to help capture this fourth championship
Speaker 1: in eight years at the finals MVP two. But yeah, Jack,
Speaker 1: I definitely think Steph is in the top ten by far,
Speaker 1: not even close. He's in the top ten. Um when
Speaker 1: you talk about little little little guards best ever, I
Speaker 1: mean Ai, Uh, Isaiah Thomas. I love Ai to death
Speaker 1: and a number one for a long time, but step
Speaker 1: is the pasted Ai, you know, and you know how
Speaker 1: I feel about as uh. Step Definitely, step is definitely
Speaker 1: in my top ten, not even close, best six three
Speaker 1: and under player and that that I mean, I think
Speaker 1: he's jumped. With all due respect Ai and Isaiah Thomas.
Speaker 1: Some people have Isaiah Thomas up there and and and
Speaker 1: for good reason, but I think stuff has has has
Speaker 1: surpassed both those legends. Shankar underscore tennis. What are the
Speaker 1: Clippers prospects next season assuming a healthy Kauai MPG. I heard,
Speaker 1: you know they possibly trying to get Kyrie to so
Speaker 1: you imagine I don't know what the club is doing,
Speaker 1: but uh, they're not doing nothing if Kauai yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Kauai is obviously the key. Shout out t
Speaker 1: lou Man. He's able to have been able to keep
Speaker 1: this team competitive and in the playoffs with stars missing
Speaker 1: majority of the whole season. PG came back at the end,
Speaker 1: but I think those two healthy automatically put this team,
Speaker 1: uh in the top five position in the league. Also,
Speaker 1: have heard the rumors about Kyrie Irving, and can't you
Speaker 1: imagine if Kyrie came to l A put basketball first
Speaker 1: and work with those two killers, it could be a problem.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, definitely looking forward to the Clippers getting healthy
Speaker 1: next year. Ebridge three nine A player do celsiony to
Speaker 1: your eyes to get over the last hurdle? Who I mean?
Speaker 1: I think this experience for the Celtics was a great
Speaker 1: learning experience. I think Jayson Tatum is gonna learn a
Speaker 1: lot um from this experience and use it to drive
Speaker 1: him this offseason to get better. Uh. These guys play great.
Speaker 1: They just ran into, you know, a really good veteran team.
Speaker 1: I think they need to add some depth, first and
Speaker 1: foremost in a point guard. I know it won't happen,
Speaker 1: but someone like a Jathen Brunson, who can run the team,
Speaker 1: who can play defense, who can move smart over because
Speaker 1: the smartest done a tremendous job of playing point um,
Speaker 1: but I don't really feel like he's a natural playmaking
Speaker 1: point um. I just think he's been able to be
Speaker 1: so talented. He can play the position, but you know,
Speaker 1: a solid guard that that plays his role. You remember
Speaker 1: they've tried to have They've they've tried Kimba, they tried Kyrie,
Speaker 1: and a scoring point guard doesn't work. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: Brunson can score out of necessity. But I also think
Speaker 1: he does a good job of running the team and
Speaker 1: he locks up on defense. So those are just a
Speaker 1: few things that kind of came to mind for me
Speaker 1: talking about the Celtics. I think they really really put together.
Speaker 1: You know, the Eastern Conference champs, just made it to
Speaker 1: the finals. I don't even think it is too much
Speaker 1: they need to do. I think they can go small
Speaker 1: if they add another guard, like maybe like a guy
Speaker 1: you said, Colin Sexon or something like that. They can
Speaker 1: add a guy like that and play smaller where they
Speaker 1: can play Brown and take them at the three and
Speaker 1: four instead of the two and three, and that way
Speaker 1: you can play Marco Smart at the two guard and
Speaker 1: he can do what he do best shut the two
Speaker 1: guards down. Thata look better than me. But for the
Speaker 1: most part, Dog, they just need to stay healthy, get
Speaker 1: Williams healthy and see what they can do. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: like a Malcolm Brockton. Yeah. I hope williams uh gets healthy.
Speaker 1: I heard he had to need drinks several times during
Speaker 1: the playoffs, So hopefully he'll be able to get that
Speaker 1: calm down and right before the season starts. Malcolm Brockton
Speaker 1: is a good name. The Smith's twenty one. What is
Speaker 1: the biggest what if? Of your guys careers? For me,
Speaker 1: it's easy. What if I never got into that brawl
Speaker 1: in Detroit? Would have been a multiple All Star? I
Speaker 1: had out two years why average twenty, I would have
Speaker 1: got more accolades than what I had and probably looked
Speaker 1: that different. I didn't get those accolades just because of that,
Speaker 1: because I was looked at as a bad guy something
Speaker 1: like that, and uh infected my career. So what if
Speaker 1: I didn't get the joint also getting a lot more
Speaker 1: money and not being able to keep your money? I
Speaker 1: think my biggest what if? So or what if the
Speaker 1: motherfucking Lop City Clippers got it together and and really
Speaker 1: funk with each other on the court like we're supposed
Speaker 1: to and and put egos at the door the way
Speaker 1: that Warrior's team did. When I got a chance to
Speaker 1: go there because I felt like for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: we had the most talent in the NBA, the deepest team,
Speaker 1: and we should have won at least played for a championship.
Speaker 1: And I saying we should have't want it, but we
Speaker 1: should have at least played for a championship, but we
Speaker 1: couldn't get out of our own ways. So my biggest
Speaker 1: what if is what if the Lob City team funked
Speaker 1: with each other? Yeah? Chip, definitely a chip. Next on
Speaker 1: the radar presented you by DraftKings, the DraftKings three odds
Speaker 1: on favor for the NBA champ being Chip. God damn
Speaker 1: let the Warriors, bro. You already know that it's on
Speaker 1: to the next You know that the conversation is already
Speaker 1: what then are the Lakers gonna do? And who's gonna
Speaker 1: win it next year? You know how how fast ship moves.
Speaker 1: So DraftKings has surprise, surprise that l A Clippers at
Speaker 1: a plus six hundred right along with the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1: They're both odds on favor to win. You can throw
Speaker 1: Boston in there with the plus six hundred as well,
Speaker 1: Brooklyn with the plus six fifty, Milwaukee with the plus
Speaker 1: eight hundred, Phoenix with a plus nine hundred, and to
Speaker 1: round out the top ten, Philly with the plus fift hundred.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this real quick, Jack, before
Speaker 1: we get out of here. Doc Rivers was seen on
Speaker 1: TMZ and they're asking what's up about James Harden and
Speaker 1: he was, you know, saying everything positive he could think of,
Speaker 1: because I think he remembered last time when he spoke
Speaker 1: on Ben Simmons all the drama cars in the off season, Jack,
Speaker 1: do you think James will get a MAX from Philly
Speaker 1: or do you think he'll leave the team some flexibility
Speaker 1: to be able to go out and grab another another star.
Speaker 1: And listen, we understand the game. We know we're going
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. This guy is there more. He's there,
Speaker 1: this guy. That's the only reason he went there every
Speaker 1: when it was this time, to be there with his
Speaker 1: guy to secure the bread. I know what he was doing.
Speaker 1: He knew he had to play his best. He knew
Speaker 1: he was gonna get that brand. And from his guy.
Speaker 1: Of course he's gonna get that bread. He gonna get
Speaker 1: it right there from this guy. The guy he ran
Speaker 1: over there too, the guy that's coddling him, the guy
Speaker 1: that's letting him playing whenever he wants to, and play
Speaker 1: as hard as he wants to when he wants to.
Speaker 1: That guy, the same guy he was in with in
Speaker 1: Houston that he didn't win with, the same guy in
Speaker 1: Philly that he hasn't won with yet, that's the guy
Speaker 1: he wanted to. That's the guy that's gonna pay. So
Speaker 1: is he do you think? You know? Obviously he's been
Speaker 1: able to acquire a ton of money and and the
Speaker 1: goal of players is to get as much money as
Speaker 1: you can while you can. Knowing that he's accomplished every
Speaker 1: individual accolade you can accomplish, with all scars and scoring
Speaker 1: titles and and triple double records and ship, do you
Speaker 1: think he takes every penny on the table or he
Speaker 1: leaves a team some flexibility to go grab another star.
Speaker 1: If I'm James, I definitely um get the most I
Speaker 1: can and still put my team in a position to
Speaker 1: get better. But at that but I don't think he.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to do that, you know
Speaker 1: I I think You're gonna get the maximount he can
Speaker 1: and and see if him and him and m B
Speaker 1: can do it by themselves right there in Philly and
Speaker 1: if I lose and that, hey, I'm still I'm still
Speaker 1: in Philly, enjoying myself, dream chases, Still rich as fuck.
Speaker 1: Closing thoughts. Uh, to me, what makes the NBA continue
Speaker 1: to grow is that even though the championship has been decided,
Speaker 1: it'll still be the talk of the summer because there's
Speaker 1: gonna be so much but there has been in the past,
Speaker 1: so much movement amongst star and key players. Probably the
Speaker 1: biggest storyline this offseason, Jack will be your boy Kyrie?
Speaker 1: What will he do? The Nets sound like they're fed up.
Speaker 1: They said they want someone who's ready to, you know,
Speaker 1: to put basketball and the team ahead of themselves. We
Speaker 1: all know when Kyrie is focused and locked in the game,
Speaker 1: there's not five better players on the planet, Uh than
Speaker 1: Kyra and than Kyrie. You've heard these rumored to the Knicks, Lakers,
Speaker 1: and Clippers. Uh. What do you think will happen with
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving this offseason? You tell any grown man to
Speaker 1: put the basketball before their health first, they should look
Speaker 1: at you crazy me personally, Bro, if it's over there,
Speaker 1: I would love to see him back with Braun. I mean,
Speaker 1: I hope that happened. You know, they didn't. They didn't
Speaker 1: made up publicly and privately, and Um Kyrid and came
Speaker 1: out soon as the seam was over and said he
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind, you know, he wished you could fix some
Speaker 1: things and and listen more to Lebron. So I think
Speaker 1: that would be a good look for him. L ain't
Speaker 1: got all them problems that New York had. It will
Speaker 1: be a new start for him. And he got a
Speaker 1: crib in l A. So it ain't like it don't
Speaker 1: like he's not like he don't be out there anyway.
Speaker 1: That's where he worked out there. So it is what
Speaker 1: it is. Man. Uh, whatever team you go to, he's
Speaker 1: gonna help him. And I'm gonna always you know, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm always rock with It'll be interesting to see if
Speaker 1: he leaves. Uh the nets Um obviously player and powerman
Speaker 1: were all for that. But what it took for them
Speaker 1: to put that team together. He personally is the reason
Speaker 1: why Kevin Durant went to Brooklyn. Uh, James was in
Speaker 1: and out of there, got up out of there. Uh
Speaker 1: you know it's but to me just the question is
Speaker 1: and this is again not hating on nobody, because everyone
Speaker 1: teams like when you say something you don't agree with
Speaker 1: his hate. Is basketball going to be a priority to him,
Speaker 1: because again, like I said, when he what it is,
Speaker 1: he's incredible. But you've seen, you know, to his own
Speaker 1: admittance in Cleveland, he was a little too immature to
Speaker 1: handle the situation where bron goes to Boston, it doesn't
Speaker 1: work there. Uh, goes to Brooklyn doesn't work here. Also
Speaker 1: heard that he was throwing um practices after practice. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know outside of Steve Nash. And you remember when
Speaker 1: Steve Nash was you know what what it was the
Speaker 1: coach when they announced it, you know, Kyrie came out
Speaker 1: and said, like, you know, we coach ourselves. You know,
Speaker 1: Katie can coach, I can coach so kinda and we
Speaker 1: both know that respect in that locker room is what
Speaker 1: you need. So that's why I don't know if going
Speaker 1: back to the Nets um is a possibility because I
Speaker 1: just don't think there's any respect for the head coach UM.
Speaker 1: So Kyrie could be on the move. Imagine him coming
Speaker 1: to the Lakers. I'm sure that trade would involve Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: That means Russ would head back to the to the Net,
Speaker 1: to the Nets to reunite with k d could be
Speaker 1: really interesting man. And then again we talked about earlier
Speaker 1: what he would do with uh Kauai and PG could
Speaker 1: be scary as well. So uh, he'll definitely be the
Speaker 1: first domino UH that will kick off. I'm sure what
Speaker 1: is gonna be a crazy uh NBA free agency summer.
Speaker 1: Kenny Atkinson decides to walk away from being the Charlotte
Speaker 1: Hornets um head coach. The numbers weren't specified, but I
Speaker 1: heard it was a four year deal and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think on average coaches again, in four years twenty million.
Speaker 1: They could have possibly offered him more, but Jack, he
Speaker 1: left twenty million on the table. Uh, you have an
Speaker 1: emerging young superstar in UH ball Miles Bridges, a lot
Speaker 1: of young key pieces thoughts on him turning down that
Speaker 1: job and decided to stay in chair number one UH
Speaker 1: in Golden State. I get it. I get it. I
Speaker 1: stayd as number one CED a year too. I'll get
Speaker 1: you know, another option might come around, but for now,
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable being on this team to see in this
Speaker 1: next run that we've been to go on. It could
Speaker 1: be a two, it could be a three P two P,
Speaker 1: that could be anything. But I think he wants to
Speaker 1: sit there and experience that and after that's over, maybe
Speaker 1: explore another job, because I'm pretty sure to come around again. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I think I agree. I mean, I think obviously he
Speaker 1: would have the keys in Charlotte, but building everything is
Speaker 1: that that's gonna take a lot. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: you know, there's a pecking order in the East. You know,
Speaker 1: although the old is to make it, you know, there's
Speaker 1: no real shot at winning the championship in the next
Speaker 1: five years in Charlotte. You know, maybe he knows something
Speaker 1: we don't. You know, maybe he know he ain't the
Speaker 1: coach with Charlotte, Yeah, but he maybe he knows something
Speaker 1: Golden State. You know, maybe you know Steve Is is
Speaker 1: going to ride off on the sunset when Steph decided
Speaker 1: to step down and he can either be next in
Speaker 1: line or like you said, possibly get in line for
Speaker 1: a better job than Charlotte. Uh So man turns down
Speaker 1: twenty million to stay with the winning organization. To me,
Speaker 1: it just says a lot about the organization, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Golden State has built something built on principle,
Speaker 1: starts at the top with ownership, and it trickles down.
Speaker 1: And when I tell you, man, it's just beautiful to
Speaker 1: be a part of. I definitely understand him turning this
Speaker 1: move down. Well, since Atkins is turned down this job,
Speaker 1: one of your favorite coaches to ever grace the floor.
Speaker 1: Mike D'Antoni is supposed to be meeting with m J
Speaker 1: about that vacancy. His offense could work there, But you
Speaker 1: know one thing he doesn't do his has his team
Speaker 1: played defense? Jack, what do you think about Mike D'Antoni
Speaker 1: possibly being the head coach of Charlotte Hornets. That's how
Speaker 1: you feel. It's so many young coaches of all races
Speaker 1: that cycle that that that are not Dannfoni, that hasn't
Speaker 1: won nowhere everywhere he's went. He the kids know how
Speaker 1: to score. You need to understand how to play defense
Speaker 1: and how to be on the same page on the
Speaker 1: string on defense. Nobody needs Dannfoni. And Damnfoni as corny
Speaker 1: as he is, as as disconnected from the culture as
Speaker 1: he is, how could he coach Miles Bridges and and
Speaker 1: and and and LaMelo ball is not gonna work, MJ.
Speaker 1: There gotta be somebody around it to to get you in.
Speaker 1: But like, bro, look at this and look at this
Speaker 1: you can. You can look at that and tell that
Speaker 1: don't go together. So please don't do that. Please don't
Speaker 1: do that, Charlotte, because I'm trying to come to some
Speaker 1: games this year and I don't want to see Dannfoni
Speaker 1: over there the season though, man. And then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you what it's gonna do. LaMelo gonna go off
Speaker 1: on him. Then you're gonna have problems with LaMelo because
Speaker 1: he want to win. And then what's gonna be next.
Speaker 1: Somebody gonna be asking for trude these guys for foreseeing
Speaker 1: the future, I think, you know, email Udoka has showed
Speaker 1: that we need to give. Why do we continue to
Speaker 1: recycle coaches that haven't won anywhere? And all? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I'm I was a fan of Mike dun Tony's
Speaker 1: offense when it first hit, but I think that ship
Speaker 1: has kind of died out. Like you said, Jack, these
Speaker 1: kids coming in the league now could score. That's what
Speaker 1: they do. They score. They need someone who's gonna bring
Speaker 1: the best out of them, who can be a leader
Speaker 1: and who can help them, you know, strategize on the
Speaker 1: defensive end, because you've seen, you know, the top two
Speaker 1: defensive teams in the league played in the finals this year.
Speaker 1: You know that's definitely not Mike D'Antoni. So I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we've got to stop recycling coaches in the
Speaker 1: league and giving some of these young up and coming
Speaker 1: former players that have their ship together opportunities because we
Speaker 1: continue to show left and right, um that they're worthy
Speaker 1: of the opportunity. Moving on, Bradley Beal says he's healing
Speaker 1: from his wrisk surgery, and we're also starting to hear
Speaker 1: a little bit of possible movement. Someone who has stayed
Speaker 1: loyal similar to Dame Lillard stayed loyal to the soil
Speaker 1: in d C. You know, but there's there are some
Speaker 1: toxic he could possibly move. He can sign a super
Speaker 1: max there if I'm not uh mistaken with the Wizards.
Speaker 1: But jack Off Bradley Bill were to get up and
Speaker 1: move cut ties to d C. Where could you see
Speaker 1: him fitting in at everywhere? Anywhere? Right, It don't even matter,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? I think going to Portland
Speaker 1: would be a good look for him, having him a
Speaker 1: Dame together. They said him him going to UH labels
Speaker 1: the possibility and him going somewhere else was a possible.
Speaker 1: But it don't matter. Man, anybody that can get a
Speaker 1: guy like Bradley. Bill is getting the all star, top
Speaker 1: player in the league that's gonna come in and put
Speaker 1: up numbers and compete on both ends of the ball.
Speaker 1: So it's win win with him. I think him going
Speaker 1: to Miami would be big because Jimmie Butler could just
Speaker 1: kind of fall back into I don't have to score
Speaker 1: be the leading score, but I can score if I
Speaker 1: need to. And then also imagine, you know, James Harden
Speaker 1: is is it one of the best playmakers in the
Speaker 1: game still even though he's not scoring. So imagine Bill
Speaker 1: Harden and then beat in Philly. Uh uh would be
Speaker 1: real scary. So happy for this dude, man, I hope
Speaker 1: he decides to you know, you only have one career.
Speaker 1: And I know he's a good kid and and wants
Speaker 1: to stay loyal, but you know, if he wants to win,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be in DC. Remember that game
Speaker 1: in Philly, Well, Bill had fifty and Bey had like
Speaker 1: forty six something like that. That was crazy. Nobody understands.
Speaker 1: But like you said, Bill's canna help anybody. Jack. NBA
Speaker 1: Draft is Thursday. The latest mock draft has come out
Speaker 1: and they have Jabari Smith going number one, check Hole
Speaker 1: Gring going number two, Polo going number three, and to me,
Speaker 1: one of the most interesting prospects in the draft Jaden
Speaker 1: Ivy going number four. Thoughts on those guys. You got
Speaker 1: to see a couple of them, uh in the Alice
Speaker 1: iverson Classic, Yeah, I can. I'm good friends with Markets
Speaker 1: Daniels Jabari Smith from coming from Arburn. Marquis telling me
Speaker 1: this kid is ready athlete. Good kid can do a
Speaker 1: lot of things on the court. So I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: see number one, you know, taking Market's advice, Chet and Apollo,
Speaker 1: Um Man, these kids gonna be great. Chet is long.
Speaker 1: He hungry, though, Bro, he really wants to learn the
Speaker 1: game of basketball and be the best best he can be.
Speaker 1: I saw him at the fight, the Charlo Fight in
Speaker 1: l A and Polo, Man he has he has an
Speaker 1: NBA body already, you know, and he has the confidence
Speaker 1: as well. Um he wants to be great also, man.
Speaker 1: So both both of those kids gonna be great in
Speaker 1: the league. The draft is gonna be exciting. One person
Speaker 1: that I processed you don't want to touch on again
Speaker 1: is Jade Nivy. There's a lot of John Morant comparisons
Speaker 1: and Sacramento as we stand now, excuse me, as they
Speaker 1: stand now, we're sitting in that fourth position. Obviously they've
Speaker 1: chosen Dear and Foxes as as the you know, the
Speaker 1: the driver of their team by trading Haliburton last year.
Speaker 1: But you know, I say this to say I say
Speaker 1: that to say, you know they missed on Luca a
Speaker 1: few years ago. Drafting market, Marvin Bagley, I really hope
Speaker 1: that Sacramento is not going to look back two or
Speaker 1: three years from now and seeing Jay Nivey terrorized the NBA, like, damn,
Speaker 1: we could have got Ja Nivy. So we passed on
Speaker 1: Luca and j Nivey. So Sacramento sitting in that tough
Speaker 1: for position again because they have a point guard. But
Speaker 1: you want to pick with the best talent that's left
Speaker 1: on the board, and if the draft goes to the state,
Speaker 1: he's the next best talent, could be even higher up.
Speaker 1: But you know those three you mentioned before really good.
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see what Sacramento does um
Speaker 1: with that fourth pick if they end up trading it
Speaker 1: away anybody else in the in the draft, Jack that
Speaker 1: uh intrigues you or you're happy for? Yeah, man, it's
Speaker 1: it's a care from my hometown. Put off the Texas
Speaker 1: that went to Louisiana Louisiana Tech. He's been um making
Speaker 1: a lot of noise and all the NBA Caps Kennon
Speaker 1: Lofton Jr. Big man left. He can real agile on
Speaker 1: his feet, can score, can shoot and do it all.
Speaker 1: And he had a great year in college. So they
Speaker 1: got him prospect to go twenty five to the Spurs.
Speaker 1: But the kid is steady having having a good summer.
Speaker 1: Something happy for him, and I definitely want to see
Speaker 1: him in the league because he'll be the second from
Speaker 1: Port Author. That's dope, is that Kenny Lofton, son of
Speaker 1: the baseball player through the third third part? No, um no,
Speaker 1: that's not that's not the same. That's not about to
Speaker 1: say like, how the funk is your dad so small
Speaker 1: and he got so big? Yeah, now that his dad
Speaker 1: o g from Port Arth to take us. Man, all right, man,
Speaker 1: best of luck to all the upcoming draft ease in
Speaker 1: this draft that's coming Thursday, and we'll see y'all out
Speaker 1: of the summer league. Y'all gotta come sit down and
Speaker 1: chop it up with the old man. But man, you
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