Speaker 1: On this episode of This League, we talk about how
Speaker 1: Victor Oladipo held a funeral for his knee, why the
Speaker 1: Spider might become Utah State arachnid, why the Wizards need
Speaker 1: to set Bradley Beal free, and we answer a bunch
Speaker 1: more listener dms without further ado, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: a story that you are just simply.
Speaker 2: Not going to believe.
Speaker 1: You're gonna say to yourself, this is an onion article,
Speaker 1: this is fake news, no shot. I had to actually
Speaker 1: look in multiple different news sources, multiple different times just
Speaker 1: to make sure that this I wasn't getting pumped.
Speaker 2: It's so absurd, Even knowing that I've done my due.
Speaker 1: Diligence, You're still going to call bullshit. But there are photos, Yes,
Speaker 1: there are, there are videos, and it was covered on
Speaker 1: live TV.
Speaker 3: It was it was this was a story about the
Speaker 3: NBA that was actually covered on Utah's version of c Space.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, we've got this is what it is.
Speaker 1: We've got a female legislator dressed up as a referee.
Speaker 2: Let that sink in.
Speaker 1: We've got the house speaker with a Donovan Mitchell jersey
Speaker 1: on over his button up shirt. We've got a legitimate
Speaker 1: governmental resolution, all happening in the halls of government, and
Speaker 1: do you know what it's about Shack's comments about Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait, we talked I for a second.
Speaker 1: Just let's back that up. We have a government resolution
Speaker 1: about two NBA players, one former NBA player and a
Speaker 1: current NBA player that are beefing and they've decided, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that deserves our attention. So we talked about this on
Speaker 1: the last episode that Shaq said that Donovan Mitchell didn't
Speaker 1: have what it took to be a winner.
Speaker 2: He confronted him on live TV and then he doubled.
Speaker 1: Down on it on Instagram, saying, Yo, this is what
Speaker 1: greatness looks like at the guard position.
Speaker 2: And he showed star after star after star. It was
Speaker 2: like Kobe d Wade.
Speaker 1: I forget who else, but it was a ton and
Speaker 1: Utah's government took that extremely personal. So let me try
Speaker 1: and make sense of this. Enter Kira Brookland. She is
Speaker 1: the star in this story. She's a Mormon candidate for
Speaker 1: Missus Utah back in the day in twenty thirteen, and
Speaker 1: she's a state representative that moonlights as a women's high
Speaker 1: school basketball coach and referee.
Speaker 2: She decides that I.
Speaker 1: She decides that I have heard enough Donovan Mitchell's slander,
Speaker 1: and they take up a resolution in the government. So
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, January twenty sixth, House Resolution three was passed
Speaker 1: by the Utah State Legislature to honor and recognize Donovan
Speaker 1: Mitchell not just just not just like plainly recognizing Donovan Mitchell,
Speaker 1: but recognize Donovan Mitchell over Shaquille O'Neill.
Speaker 3: There is so much to unpack here. It's kind of ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I think I told you this story yesterday, Marty to
Speaker 1: a degree, and you were like, wait, what, Why.
Speaker 3: Had heard about it? I just hadn't heard the exact
Speaker 3: lengths that they had gone to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the resolution itself was pretty stunning. Some of the
Speaker 1: highlights include recommending Spider as the state arachnid, explaining why
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell doesn't get rebounds.
Speaker 3: Would they say, yeah, The quote was it is hard
Speaker 3: to pull down rebounds when All Star Rudy Gobert is
Speaker 3: on your team, grabbing more rebounds than anyone else in
Speaker 3: the league as a two time Defensive Player of the
Speaker 3: Year in parentheses more than shacks zero, one time league
Speaker 3: leader in blocks in parentheses more than Shack.
Speaker 2: I think they said that Shaq had zero there too.
Speaker 1: Also, they claimed that his that his points were less
Speaker 1: accurate than his playoff free throw shooting percentage. What a
Speaker 1: what an analogy there. They also talked shit in this
Speaker 1: resolution about the movie Kazam, which Shack starred in. They
Speaker 1: even cited the rotten tomato score.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: People get paid a government salary.
Speaker 1: This is this is tax payer dollars hard at work.
Speaker 2: I think we have an.
Speaker 1: Ambitious politician on our hands. She is someone with a
Speaker 1: pizzas for showmanship. Shameless, just shameless in her desire for attention.
Speaker 1: She wore a referee costume to give Shaquille O'Neil a
Speaker 1: technical foul for his slander on Donovan Mitchell. She got
Speaker 1: the house speaker to put on a Donovan Mitchell jersey
Speaker 1: over his playing clothes.
Speaker 2: So I got a chance to talk to this legislator
Speaker 2: earlier today, I think we should play the clips. There
Speaker 2: was some good nuggets in there.
Speaker 4: All right, perfect, how are you?
Speaker 5: I'm good?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 4: I'm good?
Speaker 6: I wanted to talk to you about this resolution because
Speaker 6: it was just it made me laugh, But it also
Speaker 6: was just like a cool thing. How did this kerfuffle
Speaker 6: between Shack and Donovan sort of come into your view.
Speaker 5: Well, I coach high school basketball and when it's a
Speaker 5: couple of our players were talking about it.
Speaker 4: And then we used it on Saturday at.
Speaker 5: A game prior to the game because it was gonna
Speaker 5: be a tough game, tough game for our girls to win,
Speaker 5: and I just played the clip for everybody to make
Speaker 5: sure they saw it. And I was like, look, they're
Speaker 5: going to be out there thinking they can beat you.
Speaker 5: They're going to marginalize you. Donovan Mitchell doesn't care. He's
Speaker 5: in the NBA and he still is getting marginalized. Like,
Speaker 5: just go out there and get to work. And they
Speaker 5: came out so ready and we won, and it was
Speaker 5: a great victory.
Speaker 4: It was a feisty game, and I was like, we
Speaker 4: gotta highlight this.
Speaker 5: And and and the Speaker, Wilson and his team they
Speaker 5: were all about like they reached out and said we
Speaker 5: want to do this.
Speaker 4: Did you write the resolution or how did it come
Speaker 4: to be? So I didn't do a lot of and
Speaker 4: I gave input on it.
Speaker 5: The Speaker and his team worked on parts of it,
Speaker 5: but then it has to go to let's research and
Speaker 5: they work on parts of it, making sure it's accurate,
Speaker 5: making sure it's.
Speaker 4: You know, mostly correct information. There was a lot of
Speaker 4: facts in there.
Speaker 6: You had the playoff free throw percentage, you had the
Speaker 6: Rotten Tomatoes score, you had.
Speaker 4: Rudy Gober's stats.
Speaker 6: As to why Donovan Mitchell isn't like a huge rebounding threat, I.
Speaker 4: Mean it was kind of like the ultimate clapback. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, well our goal was just to stand behind our players, right,
Speaker 5: it doesn't it doesn't matter people are kind.
Speaker 4: Of pushing back. Oh, he's a grown man who can
Speaker 4: take care of himself. Why should he have to? Why
Speaker 4: should any of us have to?
Speaker 5: I know, if you don't like sports, why would you care? Right,
Speaker 5: But if you like sports and you recognize like these
Speaker 5: guys put up with a lot, and if we can
Speaker 5: just take five minutes and recognize them and appreciate them,
Speaker 5: why not do it?
Speaker 4: What made you decide?
Speaker 6: I know that you also have done some referee too,
Speaker 6: So what made you and the speaker put on a referee.
Speaker 4: Outfit and he put on the Utah Jazz jersey.
Speaker 5: Well, they just said, if you're going to do it,
Speaker 5: you have to give him a technical and you're going
Speaker 5: to give him a technical. You better be official, because
Speaker 5: I was just supposed to say go jazz at the end,
Speaker 5: and I was like, that's kind of weak. You know,
Speaker 5: I think the whole thing says go jazz. We got
Speaker 5: to summarize it real well, and they said give him
Speaker 5: a technical and so I just said, sure, all, we're
Speaker 5: all we're the jersey. I like it.
Speaker 4: I'm comfortable in a reugh.
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 4: So it was It was fun.
Speaker 6: Were you were you a hooper to begin with? Throughout
Speaker 6: your life too, just in high school, just high school basketball.
Speaker 6: Same same for me. Yeah, that's cool. Did you ever
Speaker 6: end up speaking to Dov and Mitrol.
Speaker 7: Like when this whole thing came No, no, no, no,
Speaker 7: I don't anticipate that, but I honest and truly, I
Speaker 7: really hope that our youth see this and go number one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he got marginalized, and I feel marginalized.
Speaker 5: Whether they're athletes or you know, in drama, whatever, they
Speaker 5: pursue like they're gonna have critics. And the way Mitchell
Speaker 5: responded was just classic, and it was the way that
Speaker 5: so many of us have to learn how to respond.
Speaker 5: Just take it and just move with it all right,
Speaker 5: like we're moving on now. So I wanted them to
Speaker 5: know that and see that that if don't have the
Speaker 5: Mitchell's getting shade, don't feel so bad when you're getting it.
Speaker 4: And that's all I really hope to accomplish from it.
Speaker 6: Thanks for fixed with the time, Representative.
Speaker 4: Take care.
Speaker 1: The best thing about hearing that interview is how many
Speaker 1: times the word marginalized was used.
Speaker 3: It's a good buzz word for them.
Speaker 1: You know, that's just not quite how I think of
Speaker 1: the word or t definition of marginalized is being criticized
Speaker 1: about your play on the court. I would say marginalization
Speaker 1: has to do with a lot bigger issues. But if
Speaker 1: that's the standard we're gonna use for marginalization, great, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's encouraging. This is the most politically driven interview
Speaker 1: I've ever heard, so many political talking points. She was
Speaker 1: dead ass serious that this was for the youth.
Speaker 2: This is for the youth. Yo.
Speaker 1: She needs to take up a resolution for us. Here
Speaker 1: at barstool, we are criticized and marginalized online all the time.
Speaker 1: This folks is our next senator from the state of Utah.
Speaker 1: I guarantee she is the next Mitt Romney. Beautiful and
Speaker 1: Mormon and from Utah. They say that politics is boring,
Speaker 1: but shit was that boring? A referee suit and a
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell jersey in the halls. No find someone who
Speaker 1: loves you the way that Kiara Brooklyn loves Donovan Mitchell,
Speaker 1: and the youth fighting for his honor, for all of society,
Speaker 1: not just the state of Utah, for the youth as
Speaker 1: a whole. This is the third resolution of the year
Speaker 1: in the State of Utah, and it was that important
Speaker 1: that this is the third one. To me that goes
Speaker 1: to show you that Shack's comments got under their skin
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 2: They are in their fields, something that they.
Speaker 1: Probably wouldn't have said a word about unless they sort
Speaker 1: of kind of maybe thought in their heart of hearts
Speaker 1: that it was true. To me, Shack was spitting facts,
Speaker 1: and as Donovan Mitchell would like to say, I that's it.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you little story.
Speaker 1: When I was trying to break into media, I had
Speaker 1: a bunch of random jobs. I worked at a coffee shops,
Speaker 1: sold juice, caddied, and lastly I was.
Speaker 2: I was in a pyramid scheme.
Speaker 1: Oh, I sold Herbalife protein powder. I have no idea
Speaker 1: how it happened, but it just like one day I
Speaker 1: woke up and I was.
Speaker 2: Like in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah to all your Facebook friends.
Speaker 1: All my Facebook friends doing push up challenges and random
Speaker 1: places encouraging people to lose weight get healthy using the
Speaker 1: protein powder that I recommend.
Speaker 2: And when I was trying.
Speaker 1: To build up my business for this passive mailbox money
Speaker 1: income that they tell you you can do if you
Speaker 1: just put in the hard work, we would go to
Speaker 1: these meetings every quarter to get into the raw raw vibe,
Speaker 1: and every one of these meetings had an inspirational speaker.
Speaker 2: There was like a Tony Robbins, There's like a less
Speaker 2: Brown Brendan Burchard.
Speaker 1: And they tell you these They get you hyped up,
Speaker 1: like you can do anything if you just put your
Speaker 1: mind to it.
Speaker 2: Everything's mental.
Speaker 1: If you're just in the positive mind frame, you can
Speaker 1: accomplish all of your goals very simply, very easily.
Speaker 2: You would never know if you walked.
Speaker 1: Into this conference that it was about selling protein powder.
Speaker 2: You would have zero idea.
Speaker 1: You would think we were selling We were like real
Speaker 1: deal entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2: Twenty twelve to twenty fourteen, I was deep in the movement,
Speaker 2: deep in it.
Speaker 1: I was listening to Napoleon Hill and how to Win
Speaker 1: friends and influence people. Power of positive thinking. You should
Speaker 1: just you literally can just power. Positive thinking just changes everything.
Speaker 1: The universe will come to you. Safe to say, all
Speaker 1: of that showed that I was brainwashed. Now that I've
Speaker 1: come to from the fog, I mean, all my friends knew,
Speaker 1: my mom knew.
Speaker 2: Everyone was kind of looking at me like you are
Speaker 2: crazy right now?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And that was the first multi level marketing scheme to
Speaker 1: really hit popularity in the Internet. So I was ahead
Speaker 1: of my time, I would say. So all of that
Speaker 1: to say that I know how to spot someone that's
Speaker 1: being brainwashed. And I am here to tell you that
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets wing Victor Oladipo.
Speaker 2: Might be getting brainwashed.
Speaker 3: He's there, He's there.
Speaker 1: He is fully in the spin cycle of the wash
Speaker 1: right now, bully in it.
Speaker 2: And how do you know? How do I know?
Speaker 1: You may ask?
Speaker 2: Well. On the eve of.
Speaker 1: His twenty twenty to twenty twenty one NBA preseason finale
Speaker 1: in December, Victor Oladipo participated.
Speaker 2: In a funeral for his injured knee.
Speaker 3: Still as a member of the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 1: Correct Still as a member of the Indiana Pacers, the
Speaker 1: service was held to say goodbye to an injury mindset.
Speaker 1: This feels similar, which was weighing on the two time
Speaker 1: All Stars guard pursuit of fully recovering from a ruptured
Speaker 1: quad tending in his right knee that required surgery in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: What a story.
Speaker 1: Due to the coronavirus pandemic, they couldn't do the funeral
Speaker 1: in person. They had to do this ceremony via zoom
Speaker 1: with motivational speaker, educator and pastor Eric Thomas, as well
Speaker 1: as Eric Thomas's business development and bit managing partner.
Speaker 2: It gets better.
Speaker 1: Oladipo read a letter at the wake of his departed
Speaker 1: knee and burned it after probably with Oregon music in
Speaker 1: the background. This is how I envision it going today.
Speaker 1: I'm bearing everything related to my torn.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I am bearing and letting go of everything.
Speaker 1: I am letting go of tearing my quad and the
Speaker 1: injury that happened. I am letting go to being one
Speaker 1: of the three people to ever get the injury. I'm
Speaker 1: letting go of the negativity, yes, Lord, surrounding the fact
Speaker 1: that I am one of the three people and youngest
Speaker 1: to get this injury. I'm letting go of my knee.
Speaker 1: Might not be strong enough to do everything I want
Speaker 1: on the basketball court. Yes, I am letting go of
Speaker 1: hoping that my knee is strong enough so I can
Speaker 1: be an All Star.
Speaker 2: Amen. Can we just take a step back.
Speaker 1: And dig into this just a little more? He had
Speaker 1: a funeral for his knee. I thought that the first
Speaker 1: story was absurd that we just talked about.
Speaker 2: This is insane. Now there is a reddit subreddit called a.
Speaker 1: Brand new sentence, and a funeral for a knee is
Speaker 1: a brand new sentence never uttered before until it happened
Speaker 1: to Victor Oladipo. Victor Oladipo hired Eric Thomas, a motivational speaker,
Speaker 1: to be the pastor of a fake funeral held on
Speaker 1: Zoom for a body part he still has.
Speaker 3: That really is the most absurd thing. It's still very
Speaker 3: much there.
Speaker 2: It wasn't amputated. It's just it's really a funeral.
Speaker 1: For the pain and trauma of the injury. Eric Thomas
Speaker 1: charges thirty thousand dollars for a virtual speaking fee. He
Speaker 1: also brought his business manager, Eric Thomas did as a
Speaker 1: witness for this funeral. He'm both known for being business
Speaker 1: savvy and financially responsible. And then we find this shit out.
Speaker 2: I am concerned.
Speaker 1: This is like the beginning of a thirty for thirty.
Speaker 1: What if I told you an injured quad led to
Speaker 1: the bankruptcy of an all star wing who got involved
Speaker 1: in a complex pyramid scheme selling protein powder and energy
Speaker 1: tea to John Wallenbegee cousins out of his Marriott Hotel room,
Speaker 1: paying everything to Eric Thomas, the hip hop preacher.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know Charlottan's when I see him. I have
Speaker 1: been duped a million times, so from the outside it
Speaker 1: is very obvious to me. Someone lurking behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: waiting for you to be vulnerable so that they can pounce.
Speaker 2: They are everywhere, they are everywhere.
Speaker 1: They convince you you need to pay a one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand for some managerial course. I think it's called the Pilot,
Speaker 1: the elite Pilot program that Eric Thomas runs that Victor
Speaker 1: to Olidipo is currently involved in. And this funeral was
Speaker 1: a part of that little package.
Speaker 2: Insane.
Speaker 1: It was a real funeral, a ceremony that ended with
Speaker 1: him burning the letter. I Marty have questions, what did
Speaker 1: Eric Thomas do if he was if a Victor Olidipo
Speaker 1: was reading the letter?
Speaker 2: Is he just there for emotional support.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 2: What about the business manager.
Speaker 1: Was he like, Hey, Victor, we have a twelve thirty
Speaker 1: heart out, just keeping time, adding extra charges in case
Speaker 1: it goes over. Hey Victor, yeah yeah, he's so eric,
Speaker 1: so happy to be doing this. But if et ends
Speaker 1: up crying on Zoom, that's ten thousand dollars extra. Someone
Speaker 1: there to be like mmmmm ah, I.
Speaker 2: Get an amen, Marty, Amen, baby amen.
Speaker 1: It is not shocking to me that after this happened
Speaker 1: on the eve of the NBA season starting, that the
Speaker 1: Pacers were like, ahh no, mm mmm, we need to
Speaker 1: get this boy out of here before this news breaks. Uh.
Speaker 1: First up, this makes the injury look really fucking bad.
Speaker 1: If you need spiritual guidance to fix with modern medicine, can't.
Speaker 1: We're never gonna be able to trade him. He's gonna
Speaker 1: walk for nothing. Surprisingly, this news stayed on the hush
Speaker 1: until they traded him, till they could find their mark.
Speaker 2: Who was this idiot that would take Victor Oladipo.
Speaker 1: On an expiring someone so mentally scarred that he had
Speaker 1: to hold a fake funeral on Zoom just to get
Speaker 1: past the trauma. Oh yes, Houston Pockets owner Tillman Ftata,
Speaker 1: the guy who picked up Kevin Porter Junior, the food.
Speaker 2: Assaulter, and he was like, yep, yes, sir.
Speaker 3: That'll do.
Speaker 2: Something's been missing.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Bradley Beal, Poor Bradley Beal. He does need
Speaker 1: something different, he does.
Speaker 2: God damn. The Washington Wizards are three and eleven.
Speaker 3: Just gross. They're gross to watch.
Speaker 1: And it's sad because he's playing so well and no.
Speaker 2: One will watch them.
Speaker 1: Beal has put up forty ten times this year, and
Speaker 1: in all ten occasions, the Washington Wizards have lost that game.
Speaker 1: That is a record statistically never happened before. Ye. They
Speaker 1: are the second worst defensive team in the league. They
Speaker 1: just flat out don't even try. Bradley Beal's like, we
Speaker 1: can't guard anyone. We can't guard a park car.
Speaker 2: You know who?
Speaker 1: They need Marty in the locker room for just a
Speaker 1: small thirty thousand dollars virtual zoom fee.
Speaker 3: Uh maybe Deepot's hip hip hop preacher.
Speaker 1: That's right, play the clip again. How come Scott Brooks
Speaker 1: can't do that? The NBA community is fed the fuck
Speaker 1: up for Bradley Beal. Twitter pundits, fans, We've all had enough.
Speaker 1: I think the community as a whole is now requesting
Speaker 1: a trade on Bradley Beal's behalf. This is what Stephen
Speaker 1: A recently had to say about Bradley Beil.
Speaker 8: Bradley Beal is a star. He deserves better than what
Speaker 8: he's getting in the nation's capital. The Washington Wizards at
Speaker 8: this particular moment in time are atrocious. They are horrible,
Speaker 8: and it's primarily because of their defense.
Speaker 3: Last year they gave.
Speaker 8: One hundred and nineteen points per game if I remember correctly,
Speaker 8: and I think they were ranked like second to last.
Speaker 8: This year is second to last, but they're giving up
Speaker 8: one hundred and twenty points. Bradley Beal was quoted a
Speaker 8: week over a week ago Max saying, we can't stop
Speaker 8: a parked car. We can't guard a parked car. That's
Speaker 8: how bad he described their defense. Okay, and if you
Speaker 8: saw him and Molly, it's one.
Speaker 2: Of those things creative. Wow. Bradley Beal did say. I
Speaker 2: went back and checked. We can't guard a park car.
Speaker 1: That means a vehicle that's literally stopped on the road,
Speaker 1: you can't stop it from moving past you.
Speaker 2: And then the craziest thing is he followed it up with.
Speaker 1: Saying, but I'm optimistic about how the season is gonna go. Really,
Speaker 1: the Wizards do not deserve a man who's optimistic for
Speaker 1: no reason like this, a man who's put the entire
Speaker 1: team on his back. This team's been trash mostly for
Speaker 1: his entire NBA career. And instead of being like James Harden,
Speaker 1: who's like this is on file, Bradley Beal's like, all
Speaker 1: sign an extension. I want to be in DC. I
Speaker 1: want to win in DC. And then what do they do.
Speaker 2: Man Tommy Shepherd.
Speaker 1: Tommy Shepherd then trades Bradley Beal's buddy who's finally healthy,
Speaker 1: for a guy who can't get a bucket in Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: And you know what Bradley Beal said. He didn't say
Speaker 1: no Moss. He said, I'll just do more. He's averaging
Speaker 1: more than he ever has in his entire career, and
Speaker 1: his defense is now not garbage. Without John Wall, the
Speaker 1: Wizards were tenth in the East last year, and then somehow,
Speaker 1: after adding another guard in Russell Westbrook, the expectations were
Speaker 1: lower than ever before, one hundred and twenty five thousand
Speaker 1: to one to win it all by Vegas' odds.
Speaker 3: I have ten bucks on that do you.
Speaker 1: And if you can believe it, things are actually worse
Speaker 1: now than they were preseason. They're now the worst team
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Marty, I think it's time. Beal's now
Speaker 1: growing frustrated. An optimist, an eternal optimist who's like someone
Speaker 1: asked him, Hey, Beal, are you frustrated? And his response
Speaker 1: was is the sky blue? Beal's wife tweeted just all
Speaker 1: by herself and all by itself, sick of this shit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we are too, We all are sick of this. Please
Speaker 1: trade him. The Wizards are young, with up and coming pieces,
Speaker 1: prime for a rebuild. Beal's extension doesn't even kick in
Speaker 1: until next year. You could probably get so many pieces
Speaker 1: for him. Draft picks an asset. I don't care that
Speaker 1: fan base loves Bradley Beal. I don't care he is beloved,
Speaker 1: but you know what I used to live in DC.
Speaker 1: No one goes to those games. Bradley Beal does not
Speaker 1: sell tickets. Michael Jordan did not sell tickets in DC.
Speaker 1: Beeal does not sell jerseys. They're not winning games.
Speaker 2: What's the issue. What's the issue.
Speaker 1: I think it's time to start anew because being a
Speaker 1: Wizard's fan with Bradley Beal is just pain you expect
Speaker 1: at least mediocrity because he's doing all kinds of amazing
Speaker 1: things on a night to night basis, and what you're
Speaker 1: getting in return are mediocre hopes squashed by dog shit
Speaker 1: play three and eleven. So now, yeah, yeah, Rumors flying
Speaker 1: around Bradley Beal most likely heading out, and I think
Speaker 1: I know the exact perfect place for him to go,
Speaker 1: not far from DC, which he is feeling in, trenched
Speaker 1: in that community, him and his wife love it. There
Speaker 1: a guy, a place that could use him. It's a contender,
Speaker 1: a team that has a piece that they are just
Speaker 1: dying to get rid of.
Speaker 3: Based on these clues, I think there's a former LSU
Speaker 3: Tiger playing in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right. Let's get rid of Ben Simmons.
Speaker 2: Get them the fuck out of Philly.
Speaker 1: Fans want it, Ownership wants it, basketball fans need it.
Speaker 2: Sixers are deep.
Speaker 1: They already play decent defense even without Ben Simmons on
Speaker 1: the floor. If you replace Simmons with Beal, now you've
Speaker 1: got a half court offense that's built for the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I mean, Ben.
Speaker 1: Simmons isn't even that good of a transition offense runner
Speaker 1: They're like, I think they're twelveth in points per one
Speaker 1: hundred possessions. Simmons cannot shoot, everyone knows that, but he
Speaker 1: can defend, and that is the one thing that we
Speaker 1: know that the Wizard's need, gigantic need. I think with
Speaker 1: that trade, the Sixers immediately become.
Speaker 2: The favorite to come out of the East.
Speaker 1: And we know that Beal loves DC and that DC
Speaker 1: loves him.
Speaker 2: But there's an.
Speaker 1: Old adage, if you love someone, set them free. We
Speaker 1: had a ton of dms last week, so I want
Speaker 1: to clear the decks.
Speaker 3: Let's finish them, all right. I like this one. Uh,
Speaker 3: can you roast my Pelicans? There's a lot of roasting
Speaker 3: to do there.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, how do you go from being one
Speaker 1: of the most exciting young teams into.
Speaker 2: One of the worst to watch in the West? You
Speaker 2: hire a Van Gundy? That's how?
Speaker 1: Can we just talk about Stanley and Gunny for a minute?
Speaker 1: Because what was GM David Griffin thinking? He is considered
Speaker 1: one of the smart guys and then he goes and
Speaker 1: does this.
Speaker 3: It's actually the one part of Griffin's tenure that he
Speaker 3: doesn't really nail. He doesn't nail coaches that well, yeah.
Speaker 1: Because what he got h tylu but he got what's
Speaker 1: his name not Blackman, David David Blatta.
Speaker 2: He also had Mike Brown.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he made that higher, but he had.
Speaker 1: Some bad coaches actually that he hires yea facts, that's facts.
Speaker 1: Why would he hire one of the most old school
Speaker 1: coaches this side of Bobby Knight to coach one of
Speaker 1: the youngest teams in the league. They are the most
Speaker 1: get off my lawn coaches of all. The Van Gundys
Speaker 1: are and and Kendrick Perkins bless his heart, bless his heart.
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge Kendrick Perkins take fan, but he
Speaker 1: said something the other night and I one hundred percent agree.
Speaker 2: He said, how come.
Speaker 1: No one's talking about how a Stan Van Gundy has
Speaker 1: this offense looking super?
Speaker 2: Sus they do.
Speaker 1: You can't lose to the Timberwolves without Karl Anthony Towns
Speaker 1: by ten.
Speaker 3: In those green jerseys.
Speaker 2: Gross. Gross.
Speaker 1: They haven't beaten a good team all year. The only
Speaker 1: team that they've beaten, of note, is the Raptors, and
Speaker 1: the Raptors are like eleventh in the East. That's just
Speaker 1: like beating them on name alone. And now they're trying
Speaker 1: to get rid of guys who are the only ones
Speaker 1: that are really even productive. You've got them trying to
Speaker 1: get rid of JJ Reddick, They're trying to get rid.
Speaker 2: Of Lonzo Ball, which gives me zero faith that they're
Speaker 2: making good decisions.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why they didn't hire Sam Cassel or
Speaker 1: someone like him, someone to bring these young guys up,
Speaker 1: that players, young players can respect, and he can, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, teach him the way to play the game.
Speaker 1: Give him some kind of like a Mark Jackson how
Speaker 1: he did with the early Warriors.
Speaker 2: I know he did some.
Speaker 1: Wild shit, but like Mark Jackson, without all the voodoo,
Speaker 1: without all the.
Speaker 3: Like Christian no cursing in the word.
Speaker 1: Dogma, Yeah, without all the curs you know, with all
Speaker 1: the Christian dogma in the forest church sessions. I used
Speaker 1: to only play two K with the Pelicans last year,
Speaker 1: and now you couldn't pay me to do that.
Speaker 2: Yikes. So I have a lot to say, yes about
Speaker 2: the Pelicans. I go on and on and on.
Speaker 3: Oh, so I want to mention Eric Bloodstone was garbage. Uh,
Speaker 3: we can take that out if we want to.
Speaker 2: No, he is garbage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't stand that guy, what's the best NBA
Speaker 3: game you've seen in person?
Speaker 1: You know, I've been to a bunch of finals. I
Speaker 1: used to I cover the Finals three years in a row,
Speaker 1: and when I saw this question, I was trying to
Speaker 1: find the best Finals game. And it was weird, like
Speaker 1: in my subconscious, this one game that was in like
Speaker 1: a cold night of November kept popping into my head.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I used to live in DC. Lebron
Speaker 1: and the Calves came into town and my friend got
Speaker 1: tickets and he was like, Hey, I've got courtside tickets
Speaker 1: Calves Wizards.
Speaker 2: Are you trying to go? And I was like, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1: Lebron James was a human. This was twenty seventeen. He
Speaker 1: was a human highlight reel. This is last year on
Speaker 1: the Calves. Fifty seven points he put up on the Wizards.
Speaker 2: He did everything.
Speaker 1: I saw him, going back to the basket, turn around, fadeaways,
Speaker 1: all night, bullying, Beal.
Speaker 2: Wall Oubra over and auto Porter.
Speaker 3: Too many Porter juniors sefox him.
Speaker 2: That was right before they maxed y. It was absurd.
Speaker 1: He had like seven seven assists and five rebounds and
Speaker 1: three steal He was.
Speaker 2: Like going insane.
Speaker 1: And then I looked later about this game, and it's
Speaker 1: the second highest scoring game Lebron James has ever had
Speaker 1: in his entire career, and the most he's ever had
Speaker 1: in the Cavs uniform.
Speaker 2: No wonder of that game stuck out.
Speaker 1: He was bullying everyone, and the game came down to
Speaker 1: the wire, which is always fun. Yeah, and actually Capitol
Speaker 1: One Arena wasn't empty, so that was huge. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I've seen a ton of finals with Lebron
Speaker 1: in them, but this was like something that Lebron James
Speaker 1: never really does, was to play bully ball.
Speaker 2: What was the best game you've ever seen live?
Speaker 3: Uh? The one that's coming to my brain And this
Speaker 3: may be wrong. I went to the Western Conference finals
Speaker 3: one year, but the funnest game I've been to was
Speaker 3: like two thousand and five or something like. That was
Speaker 3: Lebron's like second year and JR. Smith's rookie year. Oh nice.
Speaker 3: The Caves were down like twenty at some point and
Speaker 3: they came back in one. But Jr had like forty
Speaker 3: as a rookie head. So this was against the Suns, No,
Speaker 3: against the Hornets. It was in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh that's dope.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, a new one is what's your Chinese zodiacs?
Speaker 2: What a question.
Speaker 1: I don't know who asked that, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: answer it for whoever, the four people that care about this.
Speaker 1: I don't think that many people want to know, but
Speaker 1: I will answer. I am a nineteen eighty six baby,
Speaker 1: which is a fire tiger.
Speaker 2: Okay, fire tigers are this is the description of them.
Speaker 2: Since we did this last episode, we'll do it again.
Speaker 1: These tigers are composed and enjoy gaining knowledge.
Speaker 2: They will meet many.
Speaker 1: Supportive and helpful figures in life. Maybe that's you, Marty.
Speaker 1: They are lively and friendly, like a little cat. However,
Speaker 1: they keep their claws sharp just in case.
Speaker 2: That part is facts.
Speaker 3: I see it. I see it completely.
Speaker 5: Do you know what you are?
Speaker 2: What year are you born?
Speaker 3: Ninety one?
Speaker 1: All right, let's look nineteen ninety one Chinese zodiac.
Speaker 2: You're a goat. Let's look you're a goat. Let's go.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, let's go nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 1: Let's see what kind of goat you are. You're a
Speaker 1: You're a gold goat, of course, a metal golt.
Speaker 2: Here we go. The goat's personality, calm and gentle. I
Speaker 2: like that. The gold goat Oh wait, I don't know
Speaker 2: if this is gold Goat. See hold on, here we go,
Speaker 2: here we go.
Speaker 1: Ambitious and kind hearted, with a strong sense of responsibility
Speaker 1: and work. I agree, sometimes a little too stubborn.
Speaker 3: Sure is that right?
Speaker 2: Sure? Yeah, all right?
Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety one the gold Goat. That's what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start calling you, playboy, Marty, the gold Goat.
Speaker 3: Love it, love it so much. Okay, the next one's
Speaker 3: going a little way from backstall too. It's uh, should
Speaker 3: the Cowboys pursue Matthew Stafford or stick with an injured
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: The fact that anyone would do this to me, knowing
Speaker 1: that I'm a Cowboys fan is fucked up. If anyone seriously,
Speaker 1: But I don't think this is a serious question, because
Speaker 1: it's a troll. It's gotta be a troll. Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: is basically Andy Dalton with a little bit more efficiency.
Speaker 1: He uh is not elite. We'll say He's had some
Speaker 1: really good weapons and the Lions have never been quite there.
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott is elite.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott is like probably now that we know that
Speaker 1: Drew Brees has fallen all the way off and Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's almost there.
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott's top five quarterback in the league.
Speaker 3: He's either there, like right or sits.
Speaker 1: It's like Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dak Prescott. Can you think of anyone else?
Speaker 3: Ooh uh not off the top of my head. I'm
Speaker 3: bad at ranking.
Speaker 2: I think that's it. Yeah, I think that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's five or six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dak's from my neck of the woods. Yeah, La Houghton,
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Northwest Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Lahunt and Louisiana. He's been oh hot, yeah hot.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So he uh he wanted to be a cowboy his
Speaker 2: entire life. Uh huh, and people.
Speaker 1: Are really trying to push him all the way out
Speaker 1: when he just wants what he has deserved, which is
Speaker 1: his money.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So no, Matthew Stafford should not be any consideration for
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. They need to just pay Dak, pay him
Speaker 1: the franchise tag now and move down their merry way
Speaker 1: make things work. Trade Michael Gallup, this is not this
Speaker 1: is an NBA podcast, but I will I will go
Speaker 1: into detail. Trade offensive weapons to get some offensive line help.
Speaker 2: You have plenty to work with.
Speaker 1: Get a safety or get a corner in this draft
Speaker 1: and like let that cook.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, and now we have what is the favorite
Speaker 3: part of your podcast?
Speaker 1: So when I was deciding to create this, I wanted
Speaker 1: it to be like me talking about basketball with my friends.
Speaker 2: So I grew up at my mom's house. When I
Speaker 2: grew up, had.
Speaker 1: A basement and on the wall there were speakers okay
Speaker 1: that played music, and we would like talk shit about basketball.
Speaker 1: We'd play video games and music would be blaring in
Speaker 1: the background with our little hot takes that we would
Speaker 1: be getting off shit talking music going. In the summer,
Speaker 1: I would play basketball and all my friends would be
Speaker 1: sitting either sitting on the bench and like cheering me
Speaker 1: on outside or they would be playing so like the
Speaker 1: music's blaring outside in the park, the sprinklers are on,
Speaker 1: there's like barbecue smell going, You've got boomboxes out sick.
Speaker 1: That's basketball, right, yeah, hip hop going beats.
Speaker 2: And then for me, not many.
Speaker 1: People know this, but from the time I was like
Speaker 1: seven or eight, I started writing hip hop songs. No shit, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually got an offer from Sony to be like
Speaker 1: a solo artist.
Speaker 2: They were gonna like it. Was gonna be bad.
Speaker 1: It was gonna be like they were gonna force me
Speaker 1: to drop out of high school and live in like
Speaker 1: some bullshit apartment here in New York City and like
Speaker 1: be at a small label and they probably take all
Speaker 1: my money.
Speaker 2: So my mom said no. But hip hop is in
Speaker 2: my soul.
Speaker 1: So when I was thinking about creating this podcast, I
Speaker 1: wanted it to feel like that. And I've always been
Speaker 1: someone who cares about the connection between relevant music and
Speaker 1: the things that I'm talking about. So being able to
Speaker 1: like select music that I think is funny for the
Speaker 1: upcoming segment just gives me so much joy. And I
Speaker 1: think anyone who sees me coming out of that music
Speaker 1: can tell the same. Like that Puff Daddy song going
Speaker 1: into Funeral for a knee, that's just like.
Speaker 2: Not to pat myself on the back, but that's just
Speaker 2: very funny.
Speaker 3: I always very much look forward to what songs you
Speaker 3: give me to play for the episodes. That is something
Speaker 3: I look forward to.
Speaker 2: Do you think about like, oh, how is that going
Speaker 2: to connect to the segment?
Speaker 3: Sometimes yeah, so it always does.
Speaker 1: That's just a little tidbit. So yeah, shout out to
Speaker 1: j Cole. We're playing the song at the end of
Speaker 1: this podcast for you, Happy birthday. Yesterday was his birthday.
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