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Speaker 2: Have you ever.
Speaker 3: Known a couple maybe they got married a little too early,
Speaker 3: you know, right out of college, and you kind of
Speaker 3: knew when they were together, like, I'm not sure how.
Speaker 2: Long this is gonna last.
Speaker 3: And you start finding out hearing whispers right that they're
Speaker 3: on the verge of divorce and maybe even one of
Speaker 3: them moved out. You're like, oh, yeah, Cheryl's living with
Speaker 3: her sister right now. Oh yeah, what's John doing? I
Speaker 3: think eating a lot of potato chips, just kind of
Speaker 3: just kind of hanging out, building this fantasy team on
Speaker 3: the waiver wire. He seems okay, but he doesn't look okay,
Speaker 3: and then so it's like done right, He's just like done.
Speaker 3: And then, for some reason, some unforeseen circumstance, they get
Speaker 3: back together and they declare on social media, everything's fine.
Speaker 3: They've got they're holding hands, they're making posts. They're kissy, kissy.
Speaker 3: But when you look and you zoom in, because I'm
Speaker 3: a zoom in girl, like you take the photo, you
Speaker 3: screen capet. This is what you do screen capet and
Speaker 3: then you zoom right in, zoom into their eyes, see
Speaker 3: what's going on back there, the eyes of the windows
Speaker 3: to the soul. And you look and you're like, Cheryl's
Speaker 3: still hurting, she's not happy. John looks like he's ready
Speaker 3: to cry.
Speaker 2: This is bad. He's gray, he's gained ten pounds.
Speaker 3: This is not gonna work out.
Speaker 2: That's Katie and Nash right now. That's who that is.
Speaker 3: Here's what Nash said when literally everyone was like, hey, uh,
Speaker 3: how are you dealing with the aftermath of a star player,
Speaker 3: the one that considered you his Yoda not only asking
Speaker 3: out to not be with you anymore, but the only
Speaker 3: way that he would stay is if you were fired,
Speaker 3: like actually fired.
Speaker 2: You had to go in order for him to be happy.
Speaker 2: He said, We're good. Yeah, there's nothing's changed. Yeah. I
Speaker 2: have a long history with Kevin. I love the guy.
Speaker 2: Families have issues. We had a moment, and it's behind us.
Speaker 2: That's what happens.
Speaker 3: It's a common situation in the league. Pause is it
Speaker 3: is that a common situation in the league is I
Speaker 3: don't recall many instances of this occurring in this manner.
Speaker 3: I can't remember remember another player saying he would only
Speaker 3: stay the duration of his brand new contract if his
Speaker 3: head coach was fired, not only his head coach was fired,
Speaker 3: but his GM was fired. Which do not make any
Speaker 3: mistake about it. Is what Kevin Durant said to Josie
Speaker 3: when they had a meeting in Paris or London or
Speaker 3: wherever that meeting occurred. Nash must go, Sean Marks must go.
Speaker 3: These dudes are chaos, and I'm not trying to have
Speaker 3: all that. Of course, though the unforeseen circumstances take place,
Speaker 3: Trader Danny does Trader Danny things. He quote unquote fleeces
Speaker 3: the Minnesota Timberwolves in the deal for Rudy Gobert, making
Speaker 3: it impossible to get back anything reasonable because no team
Speaker 3: is going to give you what Rudy Gobert commanded.
Speaker 2: And that's for Kevin Durant. These are crazy price.
Speaker 3: So if Rudy Gobert gets five first round picks, what's
Speaker 3: Kevin get ten?
Speaker 2: We're not giving you.
Speaker 3: We don't even think the CBA allows ten first round picks.
Speaker 3: So it blew up the trade market, and then it
Speaker 3: made Katie impossible to trade, so they had to make.
Speaker 2: The best things.
Speaker 3: So, like these divorces, it's always money it's always money.
Speaker 3: So Cheryl and John they reunite, and now we get
Speaker 3: to see their asses on Twitter and social media trying
Speaker 3: to tell us and convince us that everything is fine.
Speaker 3: Durant said he wanted out because of a quote uncertainty
Speaker 3: around last year's team and all the drama surrounding Kyrie
Speaker 3: Irving and James Harden caused the situation where we were
Speaker 3: quote all hurt. What he didn't point out, though, much
Speaker 3: more important to me, is that the fact that Steve
Speaker 3: Nash played them, I don't know, forty five to forty
Speaker 3: eight minutes per game, just draining his batteries to the brink,
Speaker 3: to the point where in Game seven of the Milwaukee
Speaker 3: Bucks series he an airball in overtime.
Speaker 2: You never seen that.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen a wide open three airball by
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant in a clutch moment?
Speaker 2: Not me, he was absolutely gassed.
Speaker 3: Or the fact that Steve Nash had trouble figuring out
Speaker 3: what his lineups really were, who was on this roster,
Speaker 3: basically getting out coached multiple times in his very short career.
Speaker 2: He's basically, let's be honest, he's a Stepford coach. He says,
Speaker 2: all a little Teddy Ruckspin doll.
Speaker 3: You just pull the string and all the right little
Speaker 3: things come out of I'm okay.
Speaker 2: I love Kevin.
Speaker 3: It gets like, no, are you a human being, because
Speaker 3: there's no chance that a real human being would feel
Speaker 3: like everything's fine. He's just programmed. He's just programmed with
Speaker 3: like little sound bites. We're not trading James Harden. We're
Speaker 3: committed to James. It's like, dude, you're a liar. You're
Speaker 3: lying to everyone. You're really good at it. Of course
Speaker 3: he's gonna say everything's all right.
Speaker 2: Moving forward.
Speaker 3: Ben Simmons Steve Nash very high on him as well.
Speaker 3: He's coming into the camp in the best shape of
Speaker 3: his career, proclaiming he is happy to play the what
Speaker 3: the center position? Yeah, Ben Simmons is gonna play center
Speaker 3: for the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 3: I told the world he wasn't a point guard. He's
Speaker 3: so far from a point guard. He's actually a center, folks, Like,
Speaker 3: that's how much of a point guard He's not, Like,
Speaker 3: you don't just go ahead and play center or point guard.
Speaker 3: That's not where we're at. And even in position in
Speaker 3: this basketball that's not where we're at right now. And
Speaker 3: of course right now, Ben Simmons is being told by
Speaker 3: Teddy Rucksbin aka Steve.
Speaker 2: Nash, Hey, you don't have to shoot at all.
Speaker 3: You don't have to shoot not only do you have
Speaker 3: to shoot any threes, you don't have to shoot any
Speaker 3: jump shots at all, not one.
Speaker 2: Just be you just lean in to the things you do. Well,
Speaker 2: We're fine. And you know who else said that. Brett
Speaker 2: Brown said that right before he was fired.
Speaker 3: Brett Brown said that for Philadelphia seventy six ers, and
Speaker 3: those chickens came home to roost.
Speaker 2: Nash said on media, he does not meety day.
Speaker 3: He does not give a flying fuck if Ben Simmons
Speaker 3: ever shoots a jumper, because.
Speaker 2: Why Ben Simmons' versatility is so unique. That's what makes
Speaker 2: Ben great. I don't care if he ever shoots a
Speaker 2: jump shot.
Speaker 3: He's welcome to, but that's not what makes him special,
Speaker 3: and that's not what we need. He's a great compliment
Speaker 3: to our team. Are you serious, Steve Nash? He's got
Speaker 3: to shoot jump shots. We've got fives like Brook Lopez
Speaker 3: out here shooting threes. Yanna shoots threes. You're telling me
Speaker 3: he's not gonna shoot one jump shot if he's playing.
Speaker 2: The four or the five.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can get away with not shooting many jumpers,
Speaker 3: I guess, But Nash says he could still also play
Speaker 3: the point guard position. Also, Kyrie quickly said he willingly
Speaker 3: gave up over one hundred million dollars to not be vaccinated.
Speaker 3: So congratulations to him or whatever that means in terms.
Speaker 2: Of whatever.
Speaker 3: Ethos that he's living by. I'm happy for Kyrie that
Speaker 3: he stood by his guns. Also, TJ. Warren will not
Speaker 3: be out, will not be back until at least November.
Speaker 2: I don't know which franchise is the most dysfunctional. I
Speaker 2: can't tell it. Is it Phoenix? Is it Boston?
Speaker 3: If you want to say Brooklyn's Number one, wouldn't blame you.
Speaker 3: I mean their former owner was a part of the
Speaker 3: fucking kremlin. I don't know. I won't argue with anyone
Speaker 3: dealer's choice. Choose whoever you want.
Speaker 2: They all have their own little, unique.
Speaker 3: Special wrinkles that make them some variation of completely dysfunctional.
Speaker 3: Lots of shit popping out in Lakerland.
Speaker 2: Number one, Number one, just the first one on the list.
Speaker 3: Lebron James is investing in professional pickleball leagues.
Speaker 2: Cool? If I have to if I have to start.
Speaker 3: Betting on pickleball or thinking about a new sport because
Speaker 3: it comes to this like boiling point, where the world
Speaker 3: somehow gives a shit about something we didn't care about
Speaker 3: a decade ago.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I think that's it for me. I think I'm hanging
Speaker 3: up my shoes. I think I'm hanging up my microphone.
Speaker 3: I think that's it. Patrick Beverly is saying that he's
Speaker 3: as good as of a three point shooter as Steph Curry.
Speaker 3: Let me say that again. Patrick Beverly is claiming he's
Speaker 3: as good of a catch and shoot three point shooter
Speaker 3: as Steph Curry. Check the stats, he says, and Kendrick
Speaker 3: Nunn seems to become the spokesperson for the entire team.
Speaker 3: I joke, I will continue to say until it becomes
Speaker 3: until Kendrick Dunn gets healthiest. You can't really judge this
Speaker 3: Slaker team until Kendrick Nunn is fully healthy. It's been
Speaker 3: twelve months, we still haven't seen it. Until he's fully
Speaker 3: integrated back in.
Speaker 2: The lineup, we don't know what they could be. Who knows.
Speaker 3: Maybe they're a contender. And right now, though there's two stories,
Speaker 3: I want to highlight. Because the propaganda machine is fully
Speaker 3: humming in Lakerland. One ad is trying to pitch us
Speaker 3: that he's gonna play eighty two games this year. They
Speaker 3: call him a paper skin and bones of glass.
Speaker 2: They call him a disney, they call him street clothes.
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis, eighty two games for someone who has a
Speaker 3: reputation of not playing any games is rich. Here's where
Speaker 3: I remind you that the last time Anthony Davis played
Speaker 3: anywhere close to eighty two games was his last year
Speaker 3: for the New Orleans Pelicans twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: It's been five years.
Speaker 3: That's four major five major surgeries and injuries ago.
Speaker 2: This is what he said.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited. I've got goosebumps just thinking about this year.
Speaker 3: Me too, Ad, I can't wait to watch this Doves
Speaker 3: or fire, I can't wait. I'm looking forward to a
Speaker 3: healthy year and doing what I know we can do.
Speaker 3: I went into this summer focusing on strengthening my body.
Speaker 2: Pause.
Speaker 3: Remember in the offseason when he hadn't touched a basketball
Speaker 3: for like three and a half months, and then he
Speaker 3: got bullied by the internet to touch a basketball. Also,
Speaker 3: every summer when you're as injury prone as you are,
Speaker 3: should be focusing on strengthening your body. So this is
Speaker 3: a new one for him. I have to be on
Speaker 3: the court and be at my best to put us
Speaker 3: in position to be our best. I'm ready to do
Speaker 3: that just now. Huh, just after you missed the playoffs,
Speaker 3: he says. He says, I'm ready to do it now.
Speaker 3: I'm glad that, finally, five years later, you're committed to
Speaker 3: being healthy. I want him to be healthy. I really do,
Speaker 3: because I want to be able to say that the
Speaker 3: Lakers aren't good even when Anthony Davis is fully healthy.
Speaker 2: That's all I want. I want to be able to say,
Speaker 2: point blank period. I have the data.
Speaker 3: Ad played sixty five games, bron played seventy five games,
Speaker 3: Russ was traded for who, I don't care, Buddy healed,
Speaker 3: and this team was still an eight seed.
Speaker 2: I still want to be able to do that because
Speaker 2: everybody's like.
Speaker 3: Oh, we can't really can't really judge him, can't really
Speaker 3: fully know what Rob.
Speaker 2: Plink was envisioning. Because injuries unforeseen. They're not unforeseen.
Speaker 3: They happen every year with street clothes. Anthony Davis, Now
Speaker 3: I know why it Clutch sports hates me. I'm always
Speaker 3: saying he's hurt.
Speaker 2: It is what it is. He is a lot of people.
Speaker 2: This is what Ad says.
Speaker 3: He says the reason he played so poorly because I
Speaker 3: remember he couldn't shoot last year either when he was healthy.
Speaker 3: He was a bad jump shooter. So there's now a
Speaker 3: new reason that he was shooting poorly. This is what
Speaker 3: he has to say. A lot of people don't know this,
Speaker 3: but since January, I was battling a wrist injury. It
Speaker 3: was tough for me to shoot how I wanted to shoot. So,
Speaker 3: on top of all of the other injuries ankles, knees,
Speaker 3: lower extremity issues, we now have a wrist issue to
Speaker 3: start thinking about as a possible re injury as well.
Speaker 3: Is that what you're saying, Ad and Matt stopped you
Speaker 3: from shooting, which is probably one of the things that
Speaker 3: makes you very unique as a big man. Thanks for
Speaker 3: disclosing that eight months later. Appreciate that. Of course, He
Speaker 3: says that injury is now fixed and Ad is looking
Speaker 3: forward to being the lakers.
Speaker 2: Number one option. They said this last year. I have
Speaker 2: this in my notes from last year.
Speaker 3: AD's willing to take the ball bull by the Horns.
Speaker 3: AD's ready be the number one option. Lebron James is saying,
Speaker 3: take the reins, take the rains. Don't call me a cynic,
Speaker 3: but I'll believe it when I see it. I believe
Speaker 3: it when I see it. Second Laker story really quickly
Speaker 3: relates with Russell Westbrook. Very strange offseason with Russ. He
Speaker 3: fires Thad Bouchet, his agent because Thad says, listen, you
Speaker 3: got to be able to do whatever you need to do,
Speaker 3: and Russ wants out and he's telling them, listen, you
Speaker 3: should just stay the course. You can't be switching teams
Speaker 3: and getting buyouts and taking the minimum because at that
Speaker 3: point you're now a minimum player. Right, everyone thinks he's
Speaker 3: getting traded. We're speculating all the places that Russell Westbrook
Speaker 3: could end up.
Speaker 2: Is it Indiana to take a buyout, which would have
Speaker 2: been hilarious.
Speaker 3: Is it going to be a place like Oklahoma City
Speaker 3: where old stars come to be rejuvenated for multiple multiple picks.
Speaker 2: But no one has had.
Speaker 3: The career and their skills besmirched more in the last
Speaker 3: year than Russell Westbrook, by the way, an MVP, and
Speaker 3: you could never hold it against him. If people if
Speaker 3: he was salty when people basically said, hey, how do
Speaker 3: you feel about everyone thinking you're trash?
Speaker 2: But this is what he did.
Speaker 3: He has been doing what Robert Sarro should do, which
Speaker 3: is looking inward and fixing himself after Russell Westbrook has been,
Speaker 3: I would say, very difficult to deal with from a
Speaker 3: media perspective.
Speaker 2: This is what he had to say.
Speaker 3: When they asked him a very disrespectful but also relevant question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Russ, you said you've bought it, your buying into
Speaker 2: the Lakers. Do you think the Lakers are buying into you?
Speaker 2: Do you think the Lakers?
Speaker 3: Once you hear when you look at Russell Westbrook's eyes
Speaker 3: when he's looking at that media member, he's about to
Speaker 3: rip his head off, and then he realizes, Russ, everything
Speaker 3: you do right now is going to be evaluated and scrutinize.
Speaker 3: Chill the fuck out, don't kill him, go back into
Speaker 3: personal development mode.
Speaker 1: I mean, whether that they want me here or not,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. Honestly. My job is to be
Speaker 1: a professional, show up to work like I've always done
Speaker 1: thus far, do my job the best way I know
Speaker 1: how to, and that's it. I Mean, we all have
Speaker 1: jobs that sometimes people at our jobs don't like us,
Speaker 1: so don't want us there, as you guys probably can
Speaker 1: attest to in any other job across the world. And
Speaker 1: as a professional and as a working man, I have
Speaker 1: to do my job and do it the best way
Speaker 1: I know how.
Speaker 3: Pr class what that? I can't believe that. I saw
Speaker 3: that and I was like, that's Russell Westbrook. Classy move.
Speaker 3: He's now said he's willing to come off the bench.
Speaker 3: He's willing to do whatever Darwnham wants from him. He's saying,
Speaker 3: I don't care whether you want me here or not.
Speaker 3: I'm making my forty something million dollars and you guys
Speaker 3: will like that and take it. And considering how he's
Speaker 3: been depicted I think as a very salty, sort of sharp,
Speaker 3: prickly human, think that's pretty awesome.
Speaker 2: Whether things work out with him or l in La
Speaker 2: it gets not.
Speaker 3: They're already Rob Plink is already saying he's willing to
Speaker 3: We didn't even talk about the fact that that Lebron
Speaker 3: James basically forced the Lakers to trade those first round
Speaker 3: picks in order to sign his extension. It was a
Speaker 3: tit for tat move. If you don't get rid of
Speaker 3: those two first round picks. I'm not signing with you.
Speaker 3: And Rob Plink came out during media day and said, listen,
Speaker 3: we're getting rid of it.
Speaker 2: We're trading those picks. We're trading them. Why why are
Speaker 2: we trading them now? Why are we committed?
Speaker 3: Because Lebron is committed to us and we owe that
Speaker 3: to him. So if those picks aren't getting Russell Westbrook
Speaker 3: out the door for some sort of peace, I don't
Speaker 3: know what that is.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3: But we'll have to see if he's happy living in
Speaker 3: the end of the bench making forty million dollars and
Speaker 3: they keep those two first round picks and they go
Speaker 3: out and get Kyrie Irving in free agency. I tell
Speaker 3: you what, as much as I hate the Lakers, they
Speaker 3: could get good real fast. They're just not gonna be
Speaker 3: good now. Somebody tried to say, oh, if the Lakers
Speaker 3: are fully healthy, are they a five seed.
Speaker 2: No, they're not. They are a bad team.
Speaker 3: And I hope that Anthony Davis is healthy enough for
Speaker 3: us to find out.
Speaker 2: That's all the time that we offer the heat check.
Speaker 3: We will be back Monday with a new episode for
Speaker 3: those who have missed it. We have three interviews with
Speaker 3: Jerry West, all different, all interesting. I love the last
Speaker 3: one where he was basically Rainman just giving me player names,
Speaker 3: and I just give him player names and he just
Speaker 3: gives me a full evaluation and breakdown. We also have
Speaker 3: an interview with Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse, which
Speaker 3: was very rare, very special.
Speaker 2: He doesn't do those a lot, so check that out.
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