Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick on this
Speaker 1: episode of the Heat Check, so much to discuss. I
Speaker 1: had one of the best weekends sports weekends of my
Speaker 1: life and it included watching the Detroit Pistons whoop our
Speaker 1: doves ass very disgusting performance for our Doves, the team
Speaker 1: that is slated to win it all, and it was rocking,
Speaker 1: full report on deck, so much fun. I also am
Speaker 1: breaking down two the best guards in the league right now,
Speaker 1: starting with Donovan Mitchell, and only one guard really that's
Speaker 1: playing better than Donovan, So we'll get into who that is.
Speaker 1: And of course we have to get into the drama
Speaker 1: surrounding who else? Who else? Could it be? Kyrie Irving?
Speaker 1: Lots popin Nick to do me a favor, drop that
Speaker 1: beat all right, before we get into the news, let's
Speaker 1: talk about damn. Detroit is a great sports city. I
Speaker 1: tell you what, it was absolutely electric. I went and
Speaker 1: saw Detroit Pistons play the Golden State Warriors at Little
Speaker 1: Caesars Arena, and let me tell you I've got some thoughts.
Speaker 1: Things started out first and foremost, bet MGM shout out
Speaker 1: to BEDMGM. They wind us, they dined us, they took
Speaker 1: us to the Michigan Michigan State game on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: They took us to the Detroit Lions playing the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins on Sunday afternoon, and then I got up in
Speaker 1: there watched the Pistons game as a credential media member
Speaker 1: on Sunday night. It was action packed. The only other
Speaker 1: people out there that did the same thing as me
Speaker 1: were Jalen and Jacoby, which was fucking awesome. And I
Speaker 1: tell you what, the Pistons playing the Golden State Warriors,
Speaker 1: coming off of an embarrassing loss to the Hornets, You're
Speaker 1: thinking to yourself, the Warriors should bounce back, right, The
Speaker 1: Warriors should get together and say, listen, we can't let
Speaker 1: these scrub teams on a road trip fucking beat us.
Speaker 1: Let's get our shit together, let's lock in, and let's
Speaker 1: tell the Detroit Pistons what's up. And you know what,
Speaker 1: I even took the Golden State Warriors minus nine and
Speaker 1: a half to beat the Pistons on an alternate line.
Speaker 1: That's how confident I was that the Golden State Warriors
Speaker 1: were gonna come in there and put the whooping on
Speaker 1: these boys. And you know what, No, this team event
Speaker 1: early on. The Warriors came out on a rule Steph
Speaker 1: put out thirty seven. They put up as a team
Speaker 1: thirty seven. Excuse me. In the first quarter, it felt
Speaker 1: like it was gonna be a blowout. We know what
Speaker 1: it does, we know the script. We've seen it a
Speaker 1: zillion times. And then all of a sudden, you look
Speaker 1: up and the Pistons are up twenty and you're like, hmm,
Speaker 1: that's odd outscoring them by sixteen to take an eight
Speaker 1: point lead at half. And here's what I saw at
Speaker 1: this point. It was a team that was despite being young,
Speaker 1: they are very committed to their starters. Right, You've got Bogdanovich,
Speaker 1: You've got as they call them, they call them a
Speaker 1: they call them beef Stewie, Beef Stewie, Isaiah Stewart, they
Speaker 1: call them something crazy. In Detroit, Cade Cunningham, Sadiq, Bay
Speaker 1: and Jade and Ivy all played thirty one minutes or more.
Speaker 1: Four of them ended with twenty one or more points.
Speaker 1: These guys are balling as the Warriors, we know are
Speaker 1: the greatest third quarter team probably in history. And that's
Speaker 1: what started to happen. The leads started to shrink. You
Speaker 1: look up, the Warriors are only down seven or something.
Speaker 1: The crowd starts to lose their feeling of excitement. They're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, what's gonna happen. E forty's in there getting
Speaker 1: exc You got roys to five nine legend they're playing
Speaker 1: eminem It was just starting to get tents in there.
Speaker 1: Jalen's on the sideline screaming, standing up, Come on, don't
Speaker 1: let the Warriors beat you. Pool had an insane third quarter.
Speaker 1: I think get eighteen points in the third quarter alone.
Speaker 1: Pistons did not flinch, folks. It was bucket after bucket,
Speaker 1: tough lay by Jaden Ivy and one making things uncomfortable
Speaker 1: for the Warriors, bodying them up, making Draymond make the
Speaker 1: tough pass. All of a sudden, they're shooting forty three
Speaker 1: percent from three against one of the best perimeter defenses
Speaker 1: in the entire league, Golden State Warriors. The Pistons came
Speaker 1: to play, and they they slayed the dragon. They slayed
Speaker 1: the dragon despite all of the third quarter antics, they
Speaker 1: still figured out a way to do it. And they
Speaker 1: didn't play afraid. And they were in games last year
Speaker 1: they lost a ton late, and I expect them to
Speaker 1: start winning some of those games this year. Another thing
Speaker 1: that was interesting really quick as an aside, is that
Speaker 1: the Warriors played all their starters all the way until
Speaker 1: like a minute and twenty seconds left in the game,
Speaker 1: and they were down big. They thought that they could
Speaker 1: still come back no matter what. They were pushing the pace,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry's coming off off ball, shooting threes. They're trying
Speaker 1: to figure it out, and I'm like, dude, give it up.
Speaker 1: You're down sixteen with ninety seconds left to play, but
Speaker 1: they don't care. That's how fast they score. What's different
Speaker 1: this year a veteran, a veteran Bogdanovich. And I wondered,
Speaker 1: why'd you guys get him? Why'd you trade for Bogdanovic?
Speaker 1: That don't make no sense. But every as I forget
Speaker 1: his name, what's his name, Henry hank Royce, my lift
Speaker 1: driver today was like, every young team needs a veteran presence,
Speaker 1: and he's right, and that's what Bogdanovich is. And all
Speaker 1: he is is a three point shooting bucket. And you
Speaker 1: know what, the Detroit Pistons also believe even Bogdanovich, because
Speaker 1: this weekend he signed a two year, thirty nine million
Speaker 1: dollar extension twenty million dollars a year for Bogdanovich. Can
Speaker 1: you believe who? He's averaging twenty three points per game? Bogdanovich?
Speaker 1: How good has he been from three? My man is
Speaker 1: shooting fifty two percent from three right now. He is
Speaker 1: a prop king. His three point point prop right now
Speaker 1: has been automatic. Kate Cunningham, I've said some mean things
Speaker 1: about him in his bus face, but man, was he
Speaker 1: so good. It started out slow, but he had twenty
Speaker 1: three ten to nine, one assist short of a triple
Speaker 1: double against the Warriors, against the real defense. KD was
Speaker 1: given it to him, giving him buckets after buckets, getting
Speaker 1: rebound after rebound. So yeah, I mean, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: a Detroit Pistons fan. Now, I'm kind of like Detroit now.
Speaker 1: Also met these amazing chefs in the elevator sus chef
Speaker 1: executive chef in the media elevator. I'm like, what are
Speaker 1: you guys cooking up? And they're like, just the best
Speaker 1: food in Little Caesars Arena, And I'm like, really, what's
Speaker 1: up with it? And they're like, come by, And I
Speaker 1: did come by, and you know what, they got me
Speaker 1: a nice little flatbread. They got me a nice beat salad.
Speaker 1: And then when I asked for the bill, they laughed.
Speaker 1: They laughed at me. There was no bill, there was
Speaker 1: no check. They told me, thank you for coming in
Speaker 1: and gracing them with my presence, like I was somebody
Speaker 1: so Detroit. Thank you very much for being as hospitable
Speaker 1: and the weather held up. It could not have been better.
Speaker 1: I think we have a new face to replace Lebron
Speaker 1: James on the billboard of Cleveland. Folks. I think we
Speaker 1: have it. I think we know who it is. I
Speaker 1: know it's early, but boy, oh boy, legit. Right now,
Speaker 1: Cleveland fans are cheering this man's name every time he
Speaker 1: touches the ball, and they're screaming, MVP, MVP. We are
Speaker 1: talking Donovan Mitchell because damn, if he keeps playing like this,
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna be talking about Donovan Mitchell for MVP. Just
Speaker 1: remember on this podcast we said it first. And you
Speaker 1: know what I think, if Cleveland keeps winning, I think
Speaker 1: if they sit atop the east, I think Donald Mitchell
Speaker 1: does win MVP. I don't know what the odds are
Speaker 1: right now, but I tell you what it might be
Speaker 1: worth a sprinkle. It might be worth a little Pepperoni money,
Speaker 1: as they say, think about that Rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: stolen from him from Ben Simmons to MVP. I did
Speaker 1: not see that coming. I did not see that coming
Speaker 1: because and I think this is probably one of the
Speaker 1: worst things about donnal. I mean, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: bad things about Donovan Mitchell going to Utah, Like for him,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of bad things. The fan base is terrible,
Speaker 1: like they're very yet they're low he ist in every way,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, not a lot to do.
Speaker 1: They don't even allow coffee shops and most of that place.
Speaker 1: He went from New York to Louisville, Kentucky to Utah.
Speaker 1: Could there be more of a juxtaposition? I digress. But
Speaker 1: on top of playing for Utah, he's also got to
Speaker 1: play with Rudy Gobert. And Rudy Gobert, we don't know.
Speaker 1: We don't know how these two are meshing together. Is
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell worse or is Donald Mitchell better with Rudy Gobert,
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's a dynamic two guard, and we
Speaker 1: now see that dynamic two guards like Anthony Edwards are
Speaker 1: saying very shady things about what it's like to play
Speaker 1: with Rudy Gobert already six games in the season, saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: I actually like smaller lineups. It's better for me when
Speaker 1: this motherfucker's not here. As an aside to the aside.
Speaker 1: Turns out Tim Connelly, new GM of the Minnesota Timberwolves,
Speaker 1: told absolutely no one consulted, absolutely no one within the
Speaker 1: organization the player's side about bringing in Rudy Gobert did
Speaker 1: not ask for any gold stars, did not ask for
Speaker 1: any approval or hey, do you have any thoughts on
Speaker 1: this matter? Aunt Edwards Dicey his numbers are down, but
Speaker 1: we couldn't tell Donovan Mitchell for years what he was.
Speaker 1: Would he be better or would he be worse without Rudy.
Speaker 1: You have a team now full of players at that point,
Speaker 1: actually at that point they didn't make sense together, right,
Speaker 1: And Donovan Mitchell's averaging twenty six four and five, and
Speaker 1: you're saying, is he going to excel or is he
Speaker 1: going to decline? He goes to the Cavs and you're like, man,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of young guys that need the ball
Speaker 1: on that team. You've got Darius Garland, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: the rock. You've got Jared Allen, he's gonna need the rock.
Speaker 1: Evan Mobley, Caris Levert's a bucket. All these guys are
Speaker 1: gonna demand the ball. What is Donovan Mitchell gonna do.
Speaker 1: It's not like he's been this assist monster, but you
Speaker 1: know what, shockingly, surprisingly happily, I'm very happy because I
Speaker 1: like Donod Mitchell as a person. He's he's really fucking good,
Speaker 1: like much better than we even knew he's. He was
Speaker 1: held back in Utah. Let me just say that very clearly,
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell was held back on the Jazz, not just
Speaker 1: from a scoring perspective, but in every facet of the
Speaker 1: game as well. We know that Donovan Mitchell is really good.
Speaker 1: He's been really good for a long time, been an
Speaker 1: All Star for a long time. But now he's on
Speaker 1: a whole other level. He's on another planet right now,
Speaker 1: and he could probably, just like Jaw last year, be
Speaker 1: in the conversation for most improved Player. But that's kind
Speaker 1: of shady. I think when you're a star, winning most
Speaker 1: improved player is shady. He's improved in every area though
Speaker 1: career highs in everything from points to steals to rebounds
Speaker 1: to assists. Let's look what's happening his scoring, specifically from
Speaker 1: deep range, has jumped like crazy from thirty five to
Speaker 1: forty five percent from last year to this year. He's
Speaker 1: already hit in six games twenty five threes. What the
Speaker 1: fuck is that? Including eight in one game? What is that?
Speaker 1: What is that? He's a shooting guard, as we know,
Speaker 1: But now that Darius Garland has been out, he's been
Speaker 1: playing part point guarden with ease at an elite level.
Speaker 1: His career numbers for assists like four or five. What
Speaker 1: is the averaging now? Checks note seven and a half,
Speaker 1: seven and a half. And they're not just like swing swing,
Speaker 1: drive kick to a corner shooter. These are legit fucking dimes.
Speaker 1: These are bounced passes through a passing lane between defenders,
Speaker 1: threading the needle lay. And on top of that, because
Speaker 1: I've killed him on this, diam Midche's playing some defense. Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he leaves you. He's playing some defense.
Speaker 1: He has ten steals in six games, ten count them,
Speaker 1: ten steals. He had two blocks against the Knicks, two blocks,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, god in Utah. His defensive rating was
Speaker 1: one twelve, which is abysmal this year one oh five.
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday is probably the best on ball defender for
Speaker 1: a guard, his is one oh one, so like not
Speaker 1: that far off, truthfully, very big difference between one twelve
Speaker 1: and one oh five. His points per game, like I said,
Speaker 1: is up despite being on a better team. I don't
Speaker 1: understand it. He's averaging almost thirty three points per game,
Speaker 1: which is the fourth best in the NBA, and his
Speaker 1: career numbers are at twenty four. The dude is just
Speaker 1: out of his mind right now. One hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: three points total in six games. How does that happen?
Speaker 1: How is it possible? Then you add in he has
Speaker 1: forty four assist during that time, He's recorded ten steals,
Speaker 1: hit twenty five three pointers, and most importantly, the calves
Speaker 1: are five and one. That's kingshit right there. That's MVP.
Speaker 1: Put my face and my body on a billboard next
Speaker 1: to the queue and add some chalk in the air
Speaker 1: dust like Lebron James kind of shit. And if he
Speaker 1: keeps us up, people are gonna be replacing Lebron jerseys
Speaker 1: with Donovan Mitchell once because he's only twenty six years
Speaker 1: old and his ceiling apparently can get much much higher.
Speaker 1: We gotta move on because the only other guard right
Speaker 1: now this is crazy. You look at the numbers, is crazy.
Speaker 1: The only other guard right now that's on and Jaw's great.
Speaker 1: I love Jaw. Jaw's playing great, so I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: shade Jaw. And he's up there in stats as well,
Speaker 1: so don't get in my mentions and be like you
Speaker 1: didn't mention Jaw. But the only other surprising jump besides
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell is Luka Doncic. I knew he was playing well.
Speaker 1: I've watched the games. Obviously, you see him putting up numbers.
Speaker 1: You see him giving people the business. But then you
Speaker 1: look at the stats and you're like, that's not It
Speaker 1: can't be right. That cannot be right. If he does
Speaker 1: this continuously for the rest of the year, and we'll
Speaker 1: get into what will happen to the maps if he does,
Speaker 1: because it's not good. But if he does this for
Speaker 1: the rest of the year and keeps this up, he
Speaker 1: will have the best numbers in history we've ever seen
Speaker 1: from a guard. And that is including Michael James Jordan,
Speaker 1: Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Jeffrey Jordan is Jeffrey. It's not close either, Luca.
Speaker 1: You might not even realize it is averaging thirty seven,
Speaker 1: thirty seven, ten and nine. That would be the best
Speaker 1: statistical season in the history of guard play. James Harden
Speaker 1: at one point, averaged thirty six, seven and eight in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. In Jordan's career, he never averaged ten rebounds
Speaker 1: a game. Never Like this is Michael Jordan level and
Speaker 1: above type. Shit, Who the fuck? What the fuck is Luca?
Speaker 1: What's going on? What is he doing? His worst statistical
Speaker 1: game this year was thirty one, sixteen and ten. Let
Speaker 1: me just say that again. Luca's worst statistical game this
Speaker 1: year is thirty one, sixteen and ten against Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: He has scored over thirty one in every single game
Speaker 1: with a higher forty four points. He had thirty points
Speaker 1: in the first half against Magic the other night. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's doing it shooting twenty one percent from three.
Speaker 1: When he shoots thirty five percent for his career from three,
Speaker 1: he could legit be scoring forty points per game by now.
Speaker 1: That is so insane. That's like only as shocking this
Speaker 1: year as Yiannis from like a total player perspective, and
Speaker 1: then only as shocking from a guard perspectives. Donovan Mitchell,
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. I don't understand it, and as
Speaker 1: good as Luca has been, the problem is really just
Speaker 1: that other teams don't care. Other teams don't actually mind.
Speaker 1: Other teams would prefer that Luca goes crazy, because as
Speaker 1: long as other Mavericks don't do anything, this Mavericks team
Speaker 1: is gonna lose a lot of games. This makes for
Speaker 1: a very simple defense when it's just like, let Luca
Speaker 1: go off and we'll just guard everybody else. And the
Speaker 1: issue is it's quite simply JaVale McGee. Unfortunately, hate say it.
Speaker 1: JaVale McGee is getting starting minutes and Javal McGee is
Speaker 1: not very good right now. He's the starting center on
Speaker 1: a team with two other centers that are much much better.
Speaker 1: I want to say that Javal McGee has a negative
Speaker 1: thirty five so far this year when he's on the
Speaker 1: floor in every single game. Combined Christian Wood, Javal McGee,
Speaker 1: Dwight Powell, all three centers right the team has the
Speaker 1: highest plus minus with Power, second highest with Wood, and
Speaker 1: behind them the team is committed to a negative plus minus.
Speaker 1: Guy JaVale McGee, he stinks. He stinks right now. I
Speaker 1: hate to say it. I love juve Al McGhee. Good player,
Speaker 1: really fun guy, nice guy. He stinks right now, He's terrible.
Speaker 1: You have Christian Wood right there, Christian Wood out one point,
Speaker 1: had sixteen points in a row, and Jason Kid put
Speaker 1: him on a bench. I do not know what's going on.
Speaker 1: I am not sure. Wood is bawling his per thirty
Speaker 1: six Christian Wood twenty three, eleven and one. But he's
Speaker 1: getting twenty five minutes per game with the second unit.
Speaker 1: He's not out there in the fourth quarter either. He's
Speaker 1: not closing games. I don't care if you don't start,
Speaker 1: but you're closing games. You're kind of a starter, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? They are now. The MAVs are
Speaker 1: now one of only a handful of teams right now
Speaker 1: to blow a sixteen point or greater lead with under
Speaker 1: four minutes to go against Okac and in game Wood
Speaker 1: Game one, when Christian Wood, like I said, had sixteen
Speaker 1: straight points against the Suns in the second half, Kid
Speaker 1: just took him out and never played again. Why? Well,
Speaker 1: house way? How? And then they asked Jason Kidd, how
Speaker 1: committed to you? How committed are you to continuing to
Speaker 1: start JaVale McGee? How strong is your commitment to him?
Speaker 1: And he said extremely strong, and I said, you're gonna
Speaker 1: lose a lot of games like that, so you can
Speaker 1: all love and I'm gonna love watching Luca ball out.
Speaker 1: He can put up video game numbers this year. But
Speaker 1: if he does, Mavericks fans need to be very scared.
Speaker 1: That's so bad. He had thirty in the first half
Speaker 1: against Orlando and the game was tied at halftime. So
Speaker 1: if he has to score forty every night, folks, Dallas
Speaker 1: just might be a play and team. And that is
Speaker 1: a scary, scary thought. It only took a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks in the league for Kyrie Irving to show me
Speaker 1: why he's a fucking buffoon again. I don't know, he's
Speaker 1: showing his ass again, folks. He's wilding out. It is
Speaker 1: time for him to support a very offensive anti Semitic documentary.
Speaker 1: That's what he's done this time, called Hebrews to Negroes,
Speaker 1: Wake Up Black America. As you can tell, that's probably
Speaker 1: not a great film to endorse, probably not an ideal one.
Speaker 1: He retweeted it to his four million followers. The film
Speaker 1: apparently is supposed to quote unquote uncover the true identity
Speaker 1: of the children of Israel. Oh Boy, which apparently Quote
Speaker 1: espouses ideas in line with more extreme factions of the
Speaker 1: Black Hebrew Israelites, which have a long history of all
Speaker 1: the isms misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia and especially anti Semitism,
Speaker 1: according to the Manchester Guardian, So when he was called
Speaker 1: out for it, do you think he deleted the tweet
Speaker 1: right away? Do you think apologized right away? Hey, I
Speaker 1: didn't know what I was saying. I just watched the movie.
Speaker 1: I was high. I was just I was just looking
Speaker 1: my name up on the internets and stumbled across this film.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what I was doing. Guys, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: That was dumb of me. No, of course not. He
Speaker 1: dug in his heels. He tried his damnedest to defend
Speaker 1: being an asshole. He told Nick Fredell, you can't control me.
Speaker 1: I'm not your puppet. Well shot, We'll play the clip
Speaker 1: in a bit. Joe Si condemned the post, The Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Nets followed suit, the actual league disavout it, and eventually,
Speaker 1: after this very awkward presser today, he deleted his post.
Speaker 1: But he was very defensive about the whole thing. Here
Speaker 1: is what he had to say when he asked about
Speaker 1: some of the support of these bullshit conspiracy theories like
Speaker 1: Alex Jones and really just Nick Fridell and his exchange
Speaker 1: together something you have to listen to.
Speaker 2: Okay, read what we're on the topic of promotion. Why
Speaker 2: did you decide to promote something that Alex Jones said
Speaker 2: that was a few weeks ago. I do not stand
Speaker 2: with Alex jones position narrative court case that he had
Speaker 2: with Sandy Hook or any of the kids that felt
Speaker 2: like they had to relive trauma or parents that had
Speaker 2: to relive trauma, or to be dismissive to all the
Speaker 2: lives that were lost during that tragic event. My post
Speaker 2: was a post from Alex Jones that he did in
Speaker 2: the early nineties or late nineties about secret societies in
Speaker 2: America of occults, and it's true.
Speaker 1: All right, So this Alex Jones, I wasn't planning on
Speaker 1: going into this, but the New World Order a conspiracy
Speaker 1: theory about the government putting chips like micro chips inside
Speaker 1: of our skin and tracking us and creating fake viruses,
Speaker 1: well real ones, but creating them in the lab to
Speaker 1: control the world, a plague designed to control the world.
Speaker 1: He just decided to randomly casually throw it in the
Speaker 1: a cults, which is colts. If you just throw an
Speaker 1: oh in front of him, still makes the cults are true, Folks,
Speaker 1: stop it.
Speaker 2: So I wasn't identifying with anything of being a campaigning
Speaker 2: a campaignerst for Alex Jones or anything.
Speaker 1: Anytime you retweet someone and say things that they said
Speaker 1: were true, that you are endorsing them. That's what you
Speaker 1: are doing. You are agreeing and amplifying their voice.
Speaker 2: Keep going, I'm just there to post and it's funny.
Speaker 1: I'm just there to post.
Speaker 2: That's it's actually hilarious because out of all the things
Speaker 2: I posted that day, that was the one post that
Speaker 2: everyone chose to chose to see. It just goes back
Speaker 2: to the way our world is and works. I'm not
Speaker 2: here to complain about it. I just exist. And to
Speaker 2: follow up on the promotion of the movie in the book,
Speaker 2: you please stop calling her promotion. What am I promoting?
Speaker 1: Put it out on your platform, but.
Speaker 2: I'm promoting it. Do you see me doing? Do you
Speaker 2: sign in front of you out there that people are
Speaker 2: going to say that you are put it out there
Speaker 2: just like you put things out there, right? Yeah, but okay,
Speaker 2: you put things out there for a living right right,
Speaker 2: but my stuff, Let's move on. Let's move on. Let's
Speaker 2: move on. Don't dehumanize me up here. I'm not I'm
Speaker 2: not doing another human thing. I post whatever I want,
Speaker 2: so say that and shut it down and move on
Speaker 2: to the next question. Kyrie, you have to understand that.
Speaker 2: I don't have to understand anything from you. It's not me, nothing,
Speaker 2: no people that you're making bro move on.
Speaker 1: But by posting on.
Speaker 2: Next question, any question, you guys have any more questions?
Speaker 2: And they're gonna say, you guys have any more questions?
Speaker 2: This is going to be a clip that he's going
Speaker 2: to marvel at. Is this any more questions? But you're
Speaker 2: not answering the question. Is another answering your question? Oh
Speaker 2: my god, let's make another Instagram clip so we could
Speaker 2: be famous again.
Speaker 1: That was absolutely bonkers religious I don't, I mean, these
Speaker 1: are just this is just very ridiculous for ridiculous non answers.
Speaker 1: You've got this circular logic, very much par for the course.
Speaker 1: Whenever he gets cornered and Nick Wright, who I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily always agree with, posted something I think that was
Speaker 1: a great take, he tweeted. I think it's absolutely in
Speaker 1: play that Kyrie hasn't even watched this movie and certainly
Speaker 1: hasn't even read the book it's based off of. However,
Speaker 1: because he's Kyrie, and now that Cy and others have
Speaker 1: criticized him for promoting this nonsense, he's going to dig in. Yes,
Speaker 1: I agree, no chance he read this book. Kyrie legit said,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to stand down on anything that I
Speaker 1: believe in, and then he deleted the post digress. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we know you pedal this anti vaccine stuff. You're still
Speaker 1: peddling it now. And that's the problem right now, and
Speaker 1: I don't even actually care. When I was talking to
Speaker 1: Vince Goodwill last night about this, and I said, I'm
Speaker 1: conflicted on Kyrie because Kyrie, I think, really doesn't know
Speaker 1: that he is this damaging, that he doesn't actually know
Speaker 1: how bad this is and how detrimental and dangerous his
Speaker 1: rhetoric can be in spreading hate for certain groups of people.
Speaker 1: And he and Vince said something that shook me, and
Speaker 1: it's true. He said, actually that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: What matters is that Kyrie is dangerous and that's the fact.
Speaker 1: So whether he knows it or not is really immateial
Speaker 1: Kyrie's being dangerous and he needs to get somehow reprimanded
Speaker 1: or stopped in some sort of way. He's on one
Speaker 1: hand in denial about all this influence that he has,
Speaker 1: while in the same breath talking about his platform and
Speaker 1: how he's in this unique position to have a level
Speaker 1: of influence on his community. Do you have an influence
Speaker 1: or do you not have an influence? You can't have
Speaker 1: it both ways. No one has worse takes than Kyrie.
Speaker 1: We've been going on with this since the flat earth stuff.
Speaker 1: He's a free spirit. He gets high. He's like trying
Speaker 1: to think too hard about what the conspiracy theories that
Speaker 1: the illuminati of the world, but he doesn't even know
Speaker 1: what research to do. It's not even based in any
Speaker 1: historical fact. What we don't need is any more division.
Speaker 1: What we don't need is any more things that promote
Speaker 1: or add to the stereotypes of certain people that have
Speaker 1: been I don't know, killed for their religious beliefs and
Speaker 1: their race. As someone said, when you look around and
Speaker 1: your supporters are bad guys, you are also a bad
Speaker 1: guy too. I think everybody's had enough Ofri's bullshit. I
Speaker 1: like him as a player. I kind of feel for
Speaker 1: all these people who have been saying this about Kyrie,
Speaker 1: and I have some advice. If you want a conspira,
Speaker 1: if you want to continue to spread your conspiracy bullshit,
Speaker 1: create a burner like your fucking teammate. And when Kanye
Speaker 1: West supports you, who has been dropped from every single
Speaker 1: brand and every single label that he's been around, it's
Speaker 1: time to check yourself. Josh Primo has been released from
Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs. They picked up his team option
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, eight million dollars left on
Speaker 1: the books. He was one of the players that they
Speaker 1: were really excited about. We talked about him being under
Speaker 1: the radar, top ten player to watch, just a very young,
Speaker 1: fun player that even Jerry West loved. And let's give
Speaker 1: a brief recap and update for people who haven't been
Speaker 1: following this on TikTok or Twitter. Number twelve pick in
Speaker 1: the draft, Spurs reached for him, eighteen years old, youngest
Speaker 1: player in the draft, went to Alabama. Was an absolute bucket,
Speaker 1: was a really key piece of that Alabama team. Dude
Speaker 1: had all the skills to be a star. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people have thought that he had a
Speaker 1: little bit of Kawhi in him, a little bit of
Speaker 1: DeRozan in him, and they were a big part of
Speaker 1: the Spurs future. He was a big part of the
Speaker 1: Spurs future. Plants right they picked up his fourth year
Speaker 1: option two weeks ago to the tune of four million,
Speaker 1: and on Friday, out of nowhere, on Friday Night, the
Speaker 1: Spurs straight released him. All of a sudden, you get
Speaker 1: a Sham's bomb, a woj bomb, and it's like the
Speaker 1: Spurs have released him. They've waived Josh Primo. They didn't
Speaker 1: tell anybody why. They scrubbed him from their Instagram, they
Speaker 1: scrubbed his jersey from their team page, they scrubbed his
Speaker 1: jersey from the NBA team store, and no one knew
Speaker 1: what was happening. Turns out, not a single good thing
Speaker 1: was happening at all. Apparently, Allegedly, Josh Primo has been
Speaker 1: exposing himself to multiple women as Spurs employees. There are
Speaker 1: rumors that there are multiple women in different capacities. Some
Speaker 1: people within host tells not good. Looks like we've got
Speaker 1: a very like Deshaun Watson esque situation going on. Everyone
Speaker 1: deserves their dan in court, Josh Primo says that he's
Speaker 1: working through some trauma right now, He's gonna take some
Speaker 1: time away from the game. But I tell you what,
Speaker 1: when the Spurs and Greg Popovich cut ties with you,
Speaker 1: that's not good. It does not look good. This is
Speaker 1: a legendary franchise that works with players when they're going
Speaker 1: through something, and when they don't stand by you and
Speaker 1: they cut ties and they don't figure out a way
Speaker 1: to get you your help that you need and take
Speaker 1: take a time, take time, step away from the team.
Speaker 1: There is a reason for that. Today Josh Primos has
Speaker 1: cleared waivers and it was officially a free agent. I
Speaker 1: don't know if we're ever gonna see in the NBA again.
Speaker 1: There's no clear answer for that. We don't know if
Speaker 1: any teams are gonna pick him up. I think more
Speaker 1: is gonna come out about this, but I have to
Speaker 1: let everyone know because this is a big piece of news.
Speaker 1: He's very low key, niche player. Maybe casual fans don't know,
Speaker 1: but if you've been following him, this shit is shocking.
Speaker 1: Quickly some breaking news from the league front office. The
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy six ers were stripped of their twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three twenty twenty four second so two second round picks
Speaker 1: for tampering, not over James Harden if you can believe it. No,
Speaker 1: the Sixers got hammered with communicating with Daniel House and PJ. Tucker.
Speaker 1: You lost two second round picks for those guys. Apparently
Speaker 1: Philly violated team rules over the timing of free agency
Speaker 1: and now must pay the play the price. And since
Speaker 1: second round picks have this huge value now from you know,
Speaker 1: Jokic to Io de Summu to Herb Jones, pretty big
Speaker 1: loss for the Sixers, who seem to be in disarray.
Speaker 1: Also hot seat time, Doc Rivers on the hot seat.
Speaker 1: Things are looking bad. We'll do more maybe later on
Speaker 1: this week on what's going on with the Sixers. But
Speaker 1: now they have only two trade second round picks over
Speaker 1: the next seven years for a team that's struggling and
Speaker 1: maybe very as desperate to add another piece at the
Speaker 1: trade deadline. Very sad news for the Philadelphia seventy six Ers.
Speaker 1: Hate to see it happen to a team as upstanding
Speaker 1: as them in a city as great as theirs. And oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, the Knicks tampering and investigation over Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunson is still ongoing. The league put something out that
Speaker 1: was very ominous about that as well, so more news
Speaker 1: coming down on that front very soon. All I can
Speaker 1: say about that is rot Row. That's all the time
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