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Speaker 1: The nets have upgraded James Harden, according to Adrian Wojnarowski,
Speaker 1: too doubtful for tonight's Game five, which means it's all
Speaker 1: on Kevin Durant. Do I rest him? How long can
Speaker 1: I rest James Harden? I guess depends on who wins
Speaker 1: tonight and really what his availability is. You can try
Speaker 1: to rush these things, but you shouldn't because this could
Speaker 1: lead to something even bigger in a longer period of
Speaker 1: time that James Harden is out Kyrie with that ankle injury,
Speaker 1: depending the severity of it. You know, he's had a
Speaker 1: couple of days, but doesn't look like he's going to
Speaker 1: be playing as well, So this falls on Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: and he's supporting casket. You would think that the smartest
Speaker 1: basketball fans would be people who played the game, or
Speaker 1: maybe the analytics experts, but the way things are going
Speaker 1: right now, the orthopedic surgeons might be the real experts
Speaker 1: because the NBA right now, according to mclovin, stands for
Speaker 1: National Body Part Association. It seems like every time you're
Speaker 1: hearing about a player, there's a body part attached to
Speaker 1: an Anthony Davis is growing, James Harden's hamstring, Kyrie Irving's ankle,
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid his knee, Donovan Mitchell's ankle, Trey Young shoulder,
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard's knee, Chris Paul's shoulder, and then you got
Speaker 1: Mike Conley's out, Danny Green and Philly Dante de Vincenzo
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. And the problem is, or isn't that players
Speaker 1: are soft. I mean they play hard. The problem is
Speaker 1: soft tissue. We knew this coming around the short turnaround,
Speaker 1: and there were there were going to be these kind
Speaker 1: of injuries, and teams and players need to have new
Speaker 1: strategies to keep guys on the and maybe load management
Speaker 1: isn't working, but that's a question for tomorrow. Right now,
Speaker 1: the health issue is really the key trying to figure
Speaker 1: out who's going to play for a championship this year.
Speaker 1: It's going to be the walking wounded. You know, the
Speaker 1: healthiest team is probably going to win an NBA championship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mclub. You just brought up a great point. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I forgot about how tight this season has been. It
Speaker 1: feels like there's less time in between everything. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels that way. Last night the Clippers got the win.
Speaker 1: You had Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, each scoring thirty one.
Speaker 1: Leonard and George are just the third duo in NBA
Speaker 1: history to score at least twenty points in each of
Speaker 1: their team's first eleven playoff games. The last duo Shack
Speaker 1: and Kobe, and the other duo also played for the Lakers,
Speaker 1: Jerry West and Elgin Baylor. Mitchell, by the way, had
Speaker 1: thirty seven, so he's the first player with six consecutive
Speaker 1: thirty point playoff games since Steph Curry did this in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Stat of the Days, That of the day,
Speaker 1: best out of the day, stat of the day dude
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Speaker 1: the poll results. McLevin okay. Our one and two was
Speaker 1: will Aaron Rodgers be the starter? Week one? It's up
Speaker 1: to sixty eight percent say yes, pretty much a majority.
Speaker 1: We were work shopping this poll question. Which favorite in
Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs is in the most trouble The Brooklyn Nets,
Speaker 1: who are the two seed versus Box or three, the
Speaker 1: Sixers who are the one seed, or the Jazz who
Speaker 1: are the one seed. All the series are tied at
Speaker 1: two two. Well, yeah, Philly, Philly's got to be really
Speaker 1: careful here, you know, tied to two games, and that's
Speaker 1: an Atlanta team that doesn't know enough to be nervous
Speaker 1: in this situation. I don't think there's a wrong answer
Speaker 1: here because I'm looking at the Clippers and now what
Speaker 1: happens in games. It feels like who wins Game five
Speaker 1: is going to win this series, even with Philadelphia and Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Because I said, hey, Philly's gonna win Game three in
Speaker 1: Atlanta is gonna win Game four? Well, here we are,
Speaker 1: and now you have Game five coming up tonight with
Speaker 1: the Bucks in the Nets. Well, I'm gonna say that
Speaker 1: the Nets are the favorites in Vegas. So are they
Speaker 1: in the most trouble? I think they put themselves. That's
Speaker 1: pretty vulnerable, man, because because the Bucks are healthy except
Speaker 1: for Dante di Vincenzo. But you know, we don't know
Speaker 1: who's going to show up and when they'll show up,
Speaker 1: and how good they will be when they show up
Speaker 1: with the Nets. Yeah, Polly, I was watching the Sixers
Speaker 1: last night, Ben Simmons's. He was one for five from
Speaker 1: the free throw line, one for five. No one on
Speaker 1: his team missed a free throw other than him. The
Speaker 1: rust of the team was one hundred percent. That's debilot,
Speaker 1: it it is, it's it's It's one of those where
Speaker 1: you just go and everybody knows when you go to
Speaker 1: the line you're going. You know, hopefully, hopefully the miss
Speaker 1: won't be that bad, because sometimes you can miss and
Speaker 1: it'll be like, oh, it's a brick, or that wasn't
Speaker 1: even close. You want it where it's like, oh, that
Speaker 1: almost could have gone in. Yeah. There's a situation where
Speaker 1: the Hawks were going to foul and Simmons inbounded it
Speaker 1: and ran the other way like he was running from
Speaker 1: a swarm of bees, so he didn't get grabbed. There's
Speaker 1: a story that I don't know if we have you know,
Speaker 1: verification on this, but the US Open is going to
Speaker 1: start Thursday Tory Pines in San Diego, and there is
Speaker 1: a story that's out there that the PGA Tour or
Speaker 1: the USGA went to Bryson Deshambo. He is the defending
Speaker 1: US Open champ. Brad Facson, former golfer, mentioned this on
Speaker 1: Sirius XM radio that the tour went to Bryson de
Speaker 1: Shambo and said, would you be willing to play with
Speaker 1: Brooks Kepka, Now that'd be great TV. They don't like
Speaker 1: each other, and according to Brad Faxson, Bryson de Shambo said, no,
Speaker 1: Now he's the defending champ. And I look, I know
Speaker 1: they manipulate these you know, threesomes or twosoms. I get that,
Speaker 1: and I would love to see these two play in
Speaker 1: an event, I think in a major, though that might
Speaker 1: be being unfair to Bryson de Shambo's he's the defending champ.
Speaker 1: You know, if you were paired with Tiger, that meant
Speaker 1: you were playing for a championship. Now guys would talk
Speaker 1: about how you know, it was unfair with the crowds,
Speaker 1: and you know, you had to go through a lot
Speaker 1: more and yet a crowd that was pro Tiger there
Speaker 1: as well. But you were playing with Tiger. That meant
Speaker 1: you were probably playing for a title Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1: Maybe brooks Kepka and Bryson Dshambo end up getting paired
Speaker 1: on Saturday or Sunday. But I think to be fair
Speaker 1: to Deshambo asking him, I think that was the right
Speaker 1: thing to do. I do because they this isn't one
Speaker 1: of those all those guys they have a rivalry. They
Speaker 1: don't like each other. I mean, Keepka definitely doesn't like
Speaker 1: Dshambo and doesn't care if he knows it or not.
Speaker 1: In fact, he wants seem to know it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Deshambo doesn't like brooks Kepka, but it feels
Speaker 1: like brooks Kepka does not like Bryson Dashambo. Yeah, Poe.
Speaker 1: If I'm Kepka, I just say, well, Bryson, if you
Speaker 1: are on the leaderboard on Sunday, you'll be playing with me.
Speaker 1: You know, talks a smack or raise it up a
Speaker 1: little bit. Uh. Some phone calls here, Dave in Pennsylvania, Hi, Dave, Hey, DP.
Speaker 1: How are you doing. Always good to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Listen every day except for when I was in Vegas.
Speaker 1: I just got back to sporting and I hate to
Speaker 1: keep beating the dead horse. The Aaron Rodgers, however, always
Speaker 1: felt as the Vegas knew what was going on. They
Speaker 1: have the over under for green Bay at nine and
Speaker 1: a half. Now, that tells me that there's no way
Speaker 1: that Rodgers is going to play. Just want to see
Speaker 1: what you thought about that. Okay, all right, well that's interesting, Dave.
Speaker 1: Nine and a half. Yeah, m Cloth, that feels really low.
Speaker 1: It should be ten and a half. Her. Well, that's
Speaker 1: the point that he's Yeah, no, I'm totally I'm amplifying.
Speaker 1: I agreekably that that's interesting. You know, maybe he doesn't
Speaker 1: play for Green Bay, but does that mean he's going
Speaker 1: to play for somebody else? I just don't see the
Speaker 1: Packers trading him. Yeah, pull, I've got a few other
Speaker 1: websites that had the Packers at ten and a half
Speaker 1: or eleven wins as the over under. I'm not doubting him,
Speaker 1: but he may have gotten roughed up in Vegas and misremembered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I'm saying nine and a half, I might even
Speaker 1: take that with Jordan Wove. Yeah, there's teams. The teams
Speaker 1: that are nine and a half are like the Titans,
Speaker 1: the Saints, and the Cowboys. I think the Packers had
Speaker 1: thirteen wins last year. A couple more phone calls here,
Speaker 1: Jay and Indiana, hijay, what's on your mind? Hey? Dan?
Speaker 1: H five eleven two ten. Pretty good shape for the
Speaker 1: shape I'm in. Lifelong lifelong musician over here? Doesn't that
Speaker 1: sound like a country that sounds like a country song?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm in pretty good. I'm in pretty good shape
Speaker 1: for the with the What was that again? I mean
Speaker 1: pretty good to say that. Yeah, pretty good shape for
Speaker 1: the shape I'm in. All right, sounds like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pass it on to Darius Rucker. Yeah, all right, do
Speaker 1: that man? All right, I'm pretty constant. I ever saw
Speaker 1: actually was Darius was Hoodie back of the Day side No, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: that stuff about Zeppelin and you know Bobby p not
Speaker 1: being able to necessarily do the those songs, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't know you're writing the song that's
Speaker 1: impossible to sing when you're twenty or whatever. I have
Speaker 1: heard like Don Henley and I could be getting the
Speaker 1: math wrong on this, but I heard they would write
Speaker 1: songs like a half step down and then record them
Speaker 1: a half step up, so it was more challenging to sing,
Speaker 1: and you get half to push that hard to get
Speaker 1: those performances in the studio and then play I'm an
Speaker 1: in standard key to where you're kind of halfway there
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like uh, you know, putting a
Speaker 1: donut on the bat and the on deck circle. You know,
Speaker 1: you set yourself up and then you're fast in the box.
Speaker 1: I don't do that one. I play and sing songs
Speaker 1: for a living. I don't do that one because you know,
Speaker 1: I got to do this, you know, three, four or
Speaker 1: five times a week. It's like load management, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Yeah, thank you so much. I love
Speaker 1: you guys. I'll spend every morning. What's y'all pretty? Jay?
Speaker 1: Jay's a professional, And yeah, you don't write songs going
Speaker 1: you you hope that you have that choice to sing
Speaker 1: something thirty four years later where you go. I can't
Speaker 1: quite sing this the way I used to, But I
Speaker 1: mean it's like McCartney when he sings, you know, the
Speaker 1: hits that he sings. It can't do helter skelter. The
Speaker 1: way he did Helter Skelter. Were the Beatles punk before punk?
Speaker 1: And I know I'm opening up a door here, maybe
Speaker 1: a garage door, But you know what was the who
Speaker 1: punk before punk? I'm just curious about that. I I
Speaker 1: was listening to Seaton gave me a scrunchy face. There.
Speaker 1: Can you see Beatles with maybe punk before punk? I
Speaker 1: actually just was reading something that is, the Beatles were
Speaker 1: the first punk and the most important punks, and nothing
Speaker 1: that would follow could have the same impact. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, yes McLellan. I just heard this
Speaker 1: thing about how in the sixties you had to choose
Speaker 1: between the Stones and the Beatles because that was a
Speaker 1: real deal, and the angry people went to the Stones
Speaker 1: and went to the Beatles date like a social I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I just heard this guy interviewed to be
Speaker 1: like there was so much pressure to choose aside. It
Speaker 1: was like he had to choose between Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
Speaker 1: Same thing. But I would think the Rolling Stones were
Speaker 1: a little more punk in a way, but then they're
Speaker 1: not punk at all. So the music, no, they they
Speaker 1: were blues, right, I mean that that was they were
Speaker 1: influenced by black artists. Isn't Pete Townsend slamming the guitar?
Speaker 1: Isn't that the Yes, that feels pretty punk. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know if anybody else was destroying their equipment because
Speaker 1: Keith Moon would do that too. The drummer is led
Speaker 1: Zeppelin punk. Ah, they were bluesy too, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know if they were punk that if you listen
Speaker 1: to Helter Skelter and when that came out, you're like, wait,
Speaker 1: the Beatles this song, like, it's crazy when you think
Speaker 1: in that guitar, I mean, it's it's pretty wild to
Speaker 1: do that. When they did that, who is getting who
Speaker 1: is consider the founding fathers of punk. Ramons are up there,
Speaker 1: MC five, the Stooges, so Iggy Iggy and the Stooges. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's punk. I never viewed the Ramones as punk. I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's poppy, yeah, blitzkrieg bump like, it's not
Speaker 1: that there's it's not an edge to it. It was unique,
Speaker 1: but I think I think playing that fast and that
Speaker 1: the songs being that short and that fast. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Okay, Yeah, point Divo was the even though
Speaker 1: they're not the hardest core punk band the world. They're
Speaker 1: the first ones ever got a lot of airplay because
Speaker 1: of MTV. Yeah, like there was punk bands didn't do videos.
Speaker 1: I know it's a lot later in the process, but
Speaker 1: in early Adies Divo got some pump. Yeah, they seemed
Speaker 1: gimmicky though ya mad like you know the weird thing
Speaker 1: you know hats on and we are not man, We
Speaker 1: are Divo now the Tubes. The Tubes were an interesting
Speaker 1: band as well. Yeah. I don't know where punk originated from,
Speaker 1: but it feels like the Beatles were right there at
Speaker 1: the forefront. Yeapo the lead singer the Tubes check me
Speaker 1: Roight fee Waybill was that the guy's name. His name
Speaker 1: was fee great name. I just remember having the album,
Speaker 1: but I don't I don't know the name of the
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Speaker 1: I don't love Rush. It should be one Rush song
Speaker 1: per show. That's it. Even then I might be stretching
Speaker 1: a little too much. NBA Competition Committee will reportedly look
Speaker 1: into the way certain shooters initiate contact and draw fouls
Speaker 1: with unnatural movements aka the Reggie Miller rule. James Harden
Speaker 1: and Trey Young have made a living out of doing this.
Speaker 1: Regg is the godfather of this, he joins us. Now
Speaker 1: we're gonna call it the Reggie Miller rule. What do
Speaker 1: you think this is getting ridiculous? I'm serious, I mean
Speaker 1: I got penalized. I shouldn't say I but they put
Speaker 1: the rule in about the leg kick, which to this
Speaker 1: day I still believe as a good move and a
Speaker 1: good shot. Though you're kicking your leg out to draw.
Speaker 1: I'm not chaking. I'm just creating space, that's all. This
Speaker 1: is my space. So look, okay, explain this though. What
Speaker 1: they're focusing this rule on James Harden and Trey Young, right,
Speaker 1: and we've been hearing this year about those two players,
Speaker 1: and I guess you can probably throw Jannas in there
Speaker 1: as well. Offensive players seeking out contact on drives, on
Speaker 1: those floaters and initiating the contact and getting the call
Speaker 1: it is. I think it's going to be so hard
Speaker 1: to monitor for these officials. They already got enough on
Speaker 1: their plate. Now they've got to figure out in a
Speaker 1: split second at times, without the help of replay, who's
Speaker 1: initiating the contact they wanted scoring up. So what they're
Speaker 1: really doing is penalizing the shooter and the scorer in
Speaker 1: this instance. So I'm a little surprised at that, because
Speaker 1: freedom of movement, this is what they've always wanted. So
Speaker 1: this is gonna to me kind of hurt some of
Speaker 1: the scores because as a natural born score as I won,
Speaker 1: was you do seek out contact? I felt I played
Speaker 1: better and I shot better when I knew where the
Speaker 1: defender was, when I could feel him. It was a
Speaker 1: much harder shot for me if I was wide open
Speaker 1: as opposed to someone closed into me, closing on me,
Speaker 1: or being right on my body. I felt I was
Speaker 1: a little bit easier for me to get the ball
Speaker 1: off and score. But it feels like Trey Young and
Speaker 1: James Harden there's a gimmick about them drawing their contact.
Speaker 1: I'm more surprised they haven't talked about like the traveling
Speaker 1: than the stepbacks and the sidesteps. To me, that's more
Speaker 1: infuriating than seeking out contact. But I kind of get
Speaker 1: it a little bit. Less free throws, maybe faster games.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what the NBA's trying to do here. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Again, you're you're you're adding and piling on
Speaker 1: these officials to make split second decisions in big time
Speaker 1: moments of playoff games or for next year. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think they're overloaded already, the officials, and now you're
Speaker 1: telling them they got to be able to differentiate between
Speaker 1: who's making the contact. Yeah, good luck with that. Do
Speaker 1: you think that there were referees that didn't like you,
Speaker 1: like truly didn't like you. I wouldn't say didn't like me,
Speaker 1: but there were certainly some officials I felt at times
Speaker 1: I had a bias. I wouldn't say it didn't like
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a strong word. I felt like I
Speaker 1: could communicate with most officials. There were some officials that
Speaker 1: you just couldn't say anything too. It was a quick
Speaker 1: tea and you're kind of muted for the rest of
Speaker 1: the game. But I felt I've had a pretty good
Speaker 1: relationship with most officials, though I did talk a lot
Speaker 1: to them and complain a lot to them. It's how
Speaker 1: you go about it. And does complaining work REGI, No
Speaker 1: it doesn't, but it sure made me feel better. No,
Speaker 1: it does. It isn't a day, No it doesn't. But
Speaker 1: what you're trying to do, and what I was trying
Speaker 1: to do, you're always trying to plant a little bit
Speaker 1: of seed because if it's a close game and the
Speaker 1: game is in the balance, you want all that talking
Speaker 1: you did through three and a half quarters to matter
Speaker 1: in the last two minutes of a close game. That's
Speaker 1: probably the only reason why I talked so much, was
Speaker 1: trying to plant a seed. REGGI will be on the
Speaker 1: call for the Eastern Conference Finals. Who do you expect
Speaker 1: to be in the Eastern Conference Finals? Wow? Last week
Speaker 1: we talked about this was going to be a sweep
Speaker 1: by Brooklyn. They were looking great, and I keep telling people,
Speaker 1: it's great to have the best talent in the world.
Speaker 1: It's great to be well coached, But to win a championship, Theodore,
Speaker 1: you've got to have a lot of luck on your teams.
Speaker 1: You think about Kobe's and Shacks three peat with the Lakers,
Speaker 1: Do you think about MJ and Scottie and back to
Speaker 1: back three peats? A lot of luck? Were they talented, absolutely?
Speaker 1: Were they well coached, absolutely, But you've got to have
Speaker 1: a lot of luck. Can you even remember when MJ
Speaker 1: even thought about this in a game because of an
Speaker 1: injury when he was I can't remember if he ever
Speaker 1: did this a game. And it wasn't like he was
Speaker 1: just shooting jump shots. I mean he would driving punishing
Speaker 1: people and no twisted ankles, no knee issues. A lot
Speaker 1: of luck goes into winning championships. And we're the healthiest
Speaker 1: team is going to win this year's championship. Who's gonna
Speaker 1: be standing at the end. I mean it's it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: Injuries are a part of the game. You just don't
Speaker 1: want them at this time of the year, which we're
Speaker 1: seeing right now. Yeah, in Harden's status, he's upgraded to
Speaker 1: doubtful for tonight. Yeah, he's not gonna play now. It's
Speaker 1: on Kevin Durant, and he's had the benefit of these
Speaker 1: super teams recently. Now it's back to all right, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's say let's see what you can do. Let's see
Speaker 1: go out there, let's see you win a big game.
Speaker 1: I will say this, if there's any one player who
Speaker 1: could deliver a huge game in a moment like this,
Speaker 1: it's Kevin Durant. And I will say this, role players
Speaker 1: play better at home. I expect Brooklyn and some of
Speaker 1: these guys that normally don't get the limelight because it's
Speaker 1: Kyrie or James Harden along with Katie, they'll shoot better,
Speaker 1: they'll play harder. That New York crowd will kind of
Speaker 1: energize them a little bit. It's you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: going out on a limb here. Who wins tonight? To me,
Speaker 1: wins the series between Milwaukee and Brooklyn. If I'm Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: all I'm saying is look, let's just win our home games.
Speaker 1: We win our home games, we advance to the conference finals.
Speaker 1: But this is Milwaukee's best chance. This will maybe their
Speaker 1: only chance, because if it goes seven games, I can't
Speaker 1: see them winning back in Brooklyn. This is the chance
Speaker 1: for Milwaukee to win the series. They've got to win tonight.
Speaker 1: With two superstars down for the Nets and just Katie,
Speaker 1: it's got to be all our chips in the center
Speaker 1: of the table for Milwaukee. They they must win tonight
Speaker 1: to win this series. It's a bigger game for Durant
Speaker 1: or a bigger game for the Greek Freak because he
Speaker 1: doesn't have any excuses here. I agree. I think there's
Speaker 1: built any excuses for Katie because he doesn't have Kyrie
Speaker 1: in hard but to be it's the only game tonight.
Speaker 1: All eyes will be on this matchup. And let's face it,
Speaker 1: Milwaukee has come up short the last two years. They've
Speaker 1: had the best records the last two years and they've
Speaker 1: fallen short. And Greek has not played up to MVP
Speaker 1: expectations by winning back to back MVPs come playoff. He
Speaker 1: has disappeared. He had a great Game four, but you're right,
Speaker 1: Why has he taken those threes? What's that? Why is
Speaker 1: the Greek freak taking those threes? I have no idea.
Speaker 1: And they're daring him. They're daring him, they're baiting him
Speaker 1: into it. But that's a recipe for your disaster. I
Speaker 1: just don't get it. I really don't get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I don't want him going to the hoop if
Speaker 1: i'm if i'm Brooklyn, I if you stay on the perimeter,
Speaker 1: that means you can't rebound and you're not a good shooter.
Speaker 1: So go ahead take those shots there. And here's the thing,
Speaker 1: it's not only the three. I almost beat him into
Speaker 1: long twos too. If you're in a settle, yeah, if
Speaker 1: you're not gonna put pressure on Blake Griffin or any
Speaker 1: of our interior bigs, I'll settle for that. I'll win.
Speaker 1: That's a win if you're Steve Nash and Brooklyn. He's
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller, the Hall of Famer, turn is sports NBA analyst.
Speaker 1: He'll be on the call for the Eastern Conference finals.
Speaker 1: Chris Paul getting a lot of love after the sweep.
Speaker 1: And I was talking to your buddy Mark Jackson yesterday
Speaker 1: on where is Chris Paul on the all time point
Speaker 1: guard list, and he had Chris Paul up there pretty high.
Speaker 1: I like Chris, but is it asking too much that
Speaker 1: he hasn't won And I'm not talking about an NBA
Speaker 1: title and he hadn't even had an appearance there, But
Speaker 1: like getting to the Western Conference finals, I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is this will be his second appearance in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference finals throughout his thirteen or fourteen year career,
Speaker 1: and he's played on good champ he played. I will
Speaker 1: say this, if Chris ends up winning a championship, not
Speaker 1: this year or any year, in my opinion, he moves
Speaker 1: into the top five right now. He's not in my
Speaker 1: top five, top seven, eight right now? Okay, so it's
Speaker 1: magic magic magic, Yeah. Step we're considering step a point guard,
Speaker 1: Step Stockton, maybe Jay Kidd. Okay, that would probably be
Speaker 1: my that would probably be my five. Now if he
Speaker 1: wins a championship, I think he would bump Stockton out
Speaker 1: of my top five. Wow, if he was to win
Speaker 1: a championship. If he doesn't win a championship, he would
Speaker 1: probably be six or seven. He's just got Oscar out there.
Speaker 1: He's t Gary Payton out there. Jerry West, is he
Speaker 1: considered a point guard, he's in that mix, and that
Speaker 1: he's a shooting guard. But I mean people are gonna
Speaker 1: say that about step as well. But Steph is classified
Speaker 1: as a point guard. Yeah, but he's only Alan Iverson's
Speaker 1: shooting guard. Now he's a point guard. Are we putting
Speaker 1: Ai as a point guard or a shooting guard? Now
Speaker 1: he's a point guard. He's a score, he's not a
Speaker 1: shooting guard. I think Eric Snow was the point guard
Speaker 1: on that team. Okay, okay, what is Lebron? He's a
Speaker 1: point guard, yes he is. So is he the greatest
Speaker 1: point guard of all time? No one will ever trump
Speaker 1: Maggie Johnson as the best point guard ever. Well, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, we got Lebron is the second best
Speaker 1: player of all time. Reg so he's the second best
Speaker 1: player of all time. But he's not the best point guard. No,
Speaker 1: it's not the best point I just boxed you in
Speaker 1: a cort I just I'm Scottie Pippen. I'm picking you
Speaker 1: up full court, Yes, a way to get around you.
Speaker 1: Because Lebron's a point guard. He's a point forward, so
Speaker 1: is Scottie. Scottie Pippen was a point forward. So who
Speaker 1: are you taking Scotti or Lebron Lebron. Yeah, but all right,
Speaker 1: so Lebron's the second best point guard of all time,
Speaker 1: Yes he is. I guess you gotta put Lebrons. He's
Speaker 1: gonna end up top five in assists. Out of there,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Step no order, magic, Isaiah Step. Those three are
Speaker 1: game guarantee. Those three are guaranteed. There's two spots that
Speaker 1: will always be up for debate. As if you couldn't
Speaker 1: play with magic, let me take magic out of this.
Speaker 1: The point guard you would want to play with current
Speaker 1: or pass? Either Isaiah or Jason Kidd for my skill set,
Speaker 1: for my skill set, one of those two. But did
Speaker 1: you hate Isaiah oh Man couldn't. Well, it's that Central
Speaker 1: Division couldn't stand him. Just like him, Jay, Okay, you
Speaker 1: would be smiling all your face. I can like be
Speaker 1: your friend and stuff. Taking the biggest chief jug ever
Speaker 1: and one of the toughest point guards. I love me
Speaker 1: some Zeke former coach coach me. Yeah, but sneaky, nasty,
Speaker 1: sneaky sneaky. Does he know people don't like him? I
Speaker 1: don't think he cares. Really, I don't think he, like
Speaker 1: Bill ain Beard didn't care Isaiah. I think cared. Remember
Speaker 1: the whole thing with you know what they were gonna
Speaker 1: freeze out Jordan and like that bothered Isaiah. Well they weren't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't wrong, it was true. Did you so you knew?
Speaker 1: Were you start? I was not on? Let all started
Speaker 1: to but rumors. What would you have frozen out Jordan? No?
Speaker 1: If you were on it on if Isaiah said, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna throw in the ball, I don't know how
Speaker 1: you can freeze out. I don't know how you can
Speaker 1: freeze know you just act like he's not open. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: do you think it's true though, that he froze out Mike? Um?
Speaker 1: I think there was a little friendly animal, Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was friendly. I don't think it
Speaker 1: was friendly. Judging from the last dance, it's not friendly.
Speaker 1: That's not friendly at all, certainly from Michael's perspective. I'll
Speaker 1: roll it with Zeke z if. I said, you could
Speaker 1: have Zeke or Mike from my skills that like to
Speaker 1: play with. Yeah, I'm not rolling with out of one
Speaker 1: of them. Look, I got built I got built up issues. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't roll with either. How about Steve Nash? You
Speaker 1: can play with Steve. Yeah, that's a Steve Nash is
Speaker 1: the top eight, right, He's got to be in that category,
Speaker 1: certainly top two. The amazing thing is the Phoenix Suns
Speaker 1: had Jay Kid, Kevin Johnson, and Steve Nash at the
Speaker 1: same time. Yes, wow, I mean wow. And kJ was
Speaker 1: the starter, right, so the backup those are the Hall
Speaker 1: of famers with J Kidd and Steve Nash. I don't
Speaker 1: think Kj's a Hall of famers. No, But for those
Speaker 1: of you who have never seen Kevin Johnson, I mean
Speaker 1: that's who those two dudes learned from. Was Kevin Johnson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one of the best picking role players maybe ever, maybe ever.
Speaker 1: He was athletic, man, Oh he was good. He was
Speaker 1: Oh by the way, he and I we go back
Speaker 1: to our robberty between UCLA and CAW so we were
Speaker 1: the same draft. Look, I've had a lot of times
Speaker 1: seeing Kevin Johnson. So I got you playing eighty games
Speaker 1: or more in a season ten times. Durant, Harden and
Speaker 1: Kyrie have played eighty or more games in a season
Speaker 1: seven times combined. Would you would you have load management?
Speaker 1: Now though you have to know, I mean that's but
Speaker 1: travels better, nutrition is better, like everything is better now.
Speaker 1: It could have helped Nash with his back, could have
Speaker 1: helped Larry Bird maybe with load management there. Um, does
Speaker 1: it make sense to play eighty games in a season
Speaker 1: if you love the game? Yeah, Theodore, I mean I
Speaker 1: love the game. I loved playing, I love performing. Looking
Speaker 1: back on my career and someone told me the staff
Speaker 1: I played in ninety six percent of my games. I
Speaker 1: played over thirteen hundred games. There's something about lacing them
Speaker 1: up each and every day, now that I look back.
Speaker 1: Could I have taken a game or two all, certainly?
Speaker 1: But I always felt there was some fan kid, mom,
Speaker 1: dad that was saving up their piggy bank to come
Speaker 1: watch the Indiana Pacers play, either at home or on
Speaker 1: the road. And they heard about this guy named Rachie
Speaker 1: Miller who talked a lot of trash and shot thirty
Speaker 1: five forty footers. This was gonna be their one opportunity
Speaker 1: to see. I didn't know who they were, but I
Speaker 1: felt it was an obligation to play. That's with my
Speaker 1: mentality of playing. Nobody thinks that now stopping the money, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, but I think that you know that you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to get into another contract if you
Speaker 1: limit your your games, you get ready for the postseason,
Speaker 1: and like you know, Kauai, that knee is going to
Speaker 1: be an issue. I don't know how serious that knee is.
Speaker 1: If it's just arthritic and it's going to be there,
Speaker 1: you know, the rest of his life. But he might
Speaker 1: be playing himself into one more contract because of load
Speaker 1: management here, and I understand it. I don't like it,
Speaker 1: but I do understand where this is a business. Everybody's
Speaker 1: expendable and these athletes are trying to stay as long
Speaker 1: as they can, and you've got to maximize what your
Speaker 1: body will deliver. And I get it, and I understand it.
Speaker 1: These are billionaires talking to millionaires, and I totally get it.
Speaker 1: I get it because you only have one body, you
Speaker 1: only have one career, and you only have a certain
Speaker 1: window to make as much money as you can. And
Speaker 1: that's why you see certain guys take off during the
Speaker 1: regular season. But to me, it's kind of catching up
Speaker 1: till them come playoff time because their body is not
Speaker 1: used to all the pounding come playoff time and just
Speaker 1: being in shape. Reg will be on the call for
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference Finals. Great to talk to you again, Rech.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon you know or you're the best.
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Speaker 1: what we learn, what's in store tomorrow. I'm thinking thinking
Speaker 1: of letting mclovin the Redemption Tour with me Friday. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking you don't sound confident though, No I don't. But
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be a little more. You know, I
Speaker 1: always give second chances and I want to give you
Speaker 1: a second chance after the tofu snaffoo and um, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe we uh maybe we do a meet Thursday. Can
Speaker 1: you pull it together? And actually this is your redemption tour?
Speaker 1: We doing meet Thursday on a Wednesday. We're going to
Speaker 1: do a meet Thursday on Thursday on Thursday. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got it. Yeah, that'd be good. It's plenty of time.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of farm stands that are wait ooh,
Speaker 1: this is this your last chance because the audience is
Speaker 1: spoken and I'm I'm trying to fight for you here.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a meat Friday and you had tofu?
Speaker 1: What part of meat Friday? Don't you understand? But I'm
Speaker 1: willing to let you try one more time to do
Speaker 1: something manly. Are you up for the challenge? I think
Speaker 1: I am and I want the challenge. Okay, I want
Speaker 1: to be uh you know, I want to expand my
Speaker 1: horizons here. Nothing organic, just dead flesh. Okay, yes, boy,
Speaker 1: I can't feel like we're being set up though, didn't it? Yes,
Speaker 1: like he's gonna walk in with some beyond Burgers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: although I've had Beyond Burgers. I'm okay with them. I'm
Speaker 1: all right with it. All right, let's get some phone
Speaker 1: calls here. Even though Todd says don't, I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 1: He brought us with like bacon, egg and cheese. No, no no, no,
Speaker 1: you always say don't get to phone calls. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I do. Say that. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they really contribute. Kyle in California, Hi, Kyle, what's on
Speaker 1: your mind today? Well, Todd, thank god, no Limerick today.
Speaker 1: That's all I gott about it. I'm just playing. But
Speaker 1: the DP in terms of the Nets, I mean, if
Speaker 1: any other of these big three versions ever lost two
Speaker 1: of their Big three. We saw what happened to Warriors
Speaker 1: they lost. You know, if Lebron and Wade get hurt
Speaker 1: and Bosh is left over whatever, you know. Yeah, now
Speaker 1: you're relying on guys like Mike James and Tyler Johnson
Speaker 1: and you know mclove and you watch the Nets and
Speaker 1: you watch Philly too. I think this is Philly's problem.
Speaker 1: You watch last you get down in the end of
Speaker 1: the close game, and who are they relying on? You
Speaker 1: got Joel embid, but he can't create or start a play.
Speaker 1: You've got to rely on Tobias Harris and Cork Moss
Speaker 1: and all these guys. I think, when you look at it,
Speaker 1: you need these guys who can handle the ball at
Speaker 1: the end of the games. Ben Simmons can't be that guy.
Speaker 1: So when I'm looking now at the field, it's you know,
Speaker 1: would you rather have anybody else but Chris Paul or
Speaker 1: Devin Booker handling the ball late like that? Well, those
Speaker 1: guys make free throws too. That's that's another. It's health
Speaker 1: and then the ability to make free throws because we're
Speaker 1: seeing that, uh that you got guys who were injured,
Speaker 1: and then you have teams that can't make free throws
Speaker 1: who as well? Yeah mclub, Yeah, Jannis is free throws?
Speaker 1: Do we mentioned Ben earlier there? That percentage is still
Speaker 1: very low? Tom in New York? Hey, Tom, what's on
Speaker 1: your mind? What's going on? Six foot in a sexy
Speaker 1: one seventy eight? All right, so guys, and that's bucks
Speaker 1: over under is two seventeen point five tonight? Should I
Speaker 1: take the under or over? I'm thinking I can't help
Speaker 1: you there, Tom, And let's maybe, um, I don't know
Speaker 1: you have you want to lose money? Yeah, well why
Speaker 1: didn't you give your suggestion and then Tom can be
Speaker 1: the other way. Here's what I'm thinking. The Bucks are
Speaker 1: just gonna blitch uh Kevin Durant all night and there's
Speaker 1: no way the nets get offense going. I'd go under
Speaker 1: vise it PJ. Tucker, But kask are they gonna call
Speaker 1: stuff on PJ. Tucker? Is Steve Nash gonna be a fact? Well,
Speaker 1: if you're not going to get those calls at home,
Speaker 1: then you're not going to get those calls anywhere. If
Speaker 1: if they're going to, I wonder if they call a
Speaker 1: a touchy foul on PJ. Tucker early and almost sets
Speaker 1: the temperature there. But you said this is a lot
Speaker 1: on Durant, Yes, but he just doesn't. If you're the Bucks,
Speaker 1: who else you scared of? There's just nobody. Just put
Speaker 1: all your guys on him. Make someone else speach it. Uh.
Speaker 1: Christian in Maine, Hey Christian, Hey Dan? What's up? Hi?
Speaker 1: You called me? Hey? Yeah? I called? Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to down I want to throw down the gauntlet
Speaker 1: to the saucy Offie and the Hebrew Guru on their
Speaker 1: limericks and bring it back to your Irish and my
Speaker 1: Scottish heritage. All right, here's a limerick koya. All right.
Speaker 1: There once was a bald man named Fritz whose limericks
Speaker 1: gave me the fits. He loved. Holler notes his mock
Speaker 1: headlines weren't jokes and he can't even rhyme the word park.
Speaker 1: I see what he did there, great creative, okay, creative
Speaker 1: stuffy and it's a shot there. That's all right, that
Speaker 1: was well done. I could. I could deal with it
Speaker 1: as long as if it's good. We're clever than I'm Hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: what's up? Yeah? What do you got for them? Adonnis
Speaker 1: bod clearly? Uh suck it back right? Uh? Look Dan,
Speaker 1: that Brighton situation. I can't get over it. Okay, who
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to compare it up with their arch rival,
Speaker 1: especially after the publicity where he purposefully pissed Brooks off
Speaker 1: walking behind his interview. He's got the ultimate all eyes
Speaker 1: on me situation and you decline like I seriously don't
Speaker 1: get it. Steve Elkington nicknamed him science in what universe
Speaker 1: are you supposed to be? The scientist? And he shy
Speaker 1: away from the greatest experience experiment name another great player
Speaker 1: in sports history that would hide in a box when
Speaker 1: faced with their arrival. Look, I like Bede's game, but
Speaker 1: you gotta step up to the plate when the time
Speaker 1: presents it. So all right, thank you, Jonathan. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard enough, and Deshambo is probably saying
Speaker 1: I'm the defending champ. They at least came to me.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't want a side show. You gotta
Speaker 1: focus on winning. Here, yes to where's the Shambo really
Speaker 1: photo bombing? Maybe I missed something. He purposely went out
Speaker 1: of his way to try to get in the shot
Speaker 1: of the video. I thought he just happened to be
Speaker 1: walking by the interview. I don't. I don't think he did.
Speaker 1: I think he talks loud, and I think Brooks has
Speaker 1: problems with Shambo's metal spikes that he wear. I don't know,
Speaker 1: like it's at this, You know, it's one of those
Speaker 1: where you go, those two don't like each other, and
Speaker 1: then you forget why is it they don't like each other?
Speaker 1: I just think Bryson comes off is to know it all,
Speaker 1: and then you know, maybe Brooks is just like, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't need to hear all this equals MC square.
Speaker 1: We don't need that, And maybe that's what bothers him
Speaker 1: that Bryson has received so much attention publicity on being
Speaker 1: this mad scientist and he just doesn't view it that way.
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