WEBVTT - A Funeral For a Knee 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.040 On this episode of This League, we talk about how 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.760 Victor Oladipo held a funeral for his knee, why the 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:12.440 Spider might become Utah State arachnid, why the Wizards need 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.319 to set Bradley Beal free, and we answer a bunch 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.960 more listener dms without further ado, I'm gonna tell you 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.759 a story that you are just simply. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:24.919 Not going to believe. 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.520 You're gonna say to yourself, this is an onion article, 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:33.120 this is fake news, no shot. I had to actually 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:38.760 look in multiple different news sources, multiple different times just 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.400 to make sure that this I wasn't getting pumped. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:47.760 It's so absurd, Even knowing that I've done my due. 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:53.480 Diligence, You're still going to call bullshit. But there are photos, Yes, 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.760 there are, there are videos, and it was covered on 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:58.160 live TV. 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:00.880 It was it was this was a story about the 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.080 NBA that was actually covered on Utah's version of c Space. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.280 Yeah. I mean, we've got this is what it is. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:13.440 We've got a female legislator dressed up as a referee. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:14.520 Let that sink in. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:19.319 We've got the house speaker with a Donovan Mitchell jersey 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:25.400 on over his button up shirt. We've got a legitimate 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:30.720 governmental resolution, all happening in the halls of government, and 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:37.640 do you know what it's about Shack's comments about Donovan Mitchell. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.880 Wait wait, wait, wait, we talked I for a second. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.720 Just let's back that up. We have a government resolution 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.840 about two NBA players, one former NBA player and a 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:55.200 current NBA player that are beefing and they've decided, Yeah, 0:01:55.920 --> 0:02:00.160 that deserves our attention. So we talked about this on 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.960 the last episode that Shaq said that Donovan Mitchell didn't 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.800 have what it took to be a winner. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.800 He confronted him on live TV and then he doubled. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.680 Down on it on Instagram, saying, Yo, this is what 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.360 greatness looks like at the guard position. 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.200 And he showed star after star after star. It was 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:17.800 like Kobe d Wade. 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.760 I forget who else, but it was a ton and 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:27.960 Utah's government took that extremely personal. So let me try 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:33.080 and make sense of this. Enter Kira Brookland. She is 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:38.519 the star in this story. She's a Mormon candidate for 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.359 Missus Utah back in the day in twenty thirteen, and 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:47.000 she's a state representative that moonlights as a women's high 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:51.160 school basketball coach and referee. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.000 She decides that I. 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:59.840 She decides that I have heard enough Donovan Mitchell's slander, 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:05.040 and they take up a resolution in the government. So 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:09.040 on Tuesday, January twenty sixth, House Resolution three was passed 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:14.760 by the Utah State Legislature to honor and recognize Donovan 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:19.840 Mitchell not just just not just like plainly recognizing Donovan Mitchell, 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:24.160 but recognize Donovan Mitchell over Shaquille O'Neill. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.679 There is so much to unpack here. It's kind of ridiculous. 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.120 I think I told you this story yesterday, Marty to 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.960 a degree, and you were like, wait, what, Why. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.000 Had heard about it? I just hadn't heard the exact 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.040 lengths that they had gone to. 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:45.760 Yeah, the resolution itself was pretty stunning. Some of the 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:55.400 highlights include recommending Spider as the state arachnid, explaining why 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.360 Donovan Mitchell doesn't get rebounds. 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.080 Would they say, yeah, The quote was it is hard 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.000 to pull down rebounds when All Star Rudy Gobert is 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.160 on your team, grabbing more rebounds than anyone else in 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.600 the league as a two time Defensive Player of the 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:14.880 Year in parentheses more than shacks zero, one time league 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.760 leader in blocks in parentheses more than Shack. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.080 I think they said that Shaq had zero there too. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:27.560 Also, they claimed that his that his points were less 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:33.080 accurate than his playoff free throw shooting percentage. What a 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:37.080 what an analogy there. They also talked shit in this 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:41.039 resolution about the movie Kazam, which Shack starred in. They 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.320 even cited the rotten tomato score. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.360 Oh my god. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:53.200 People get paid a government salary. 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:57.560 This is this is tax payer dollars hard at work. 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.159 I think we have an. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:06.560 Ambitious politician on our hands. She is someone with a 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:13.320 pizzas for showmanship. Shameless, just shameless in her desire for attention. 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:19.240 She wore a referee costume to give Shaquille O'Neil a 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:25.839 technical foul for his slander on Donovan Mitchell. She got 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.640 the house speaker to put on a Donovan Mitchell jersey 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.240 over his playing clothes. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.640 So I got a chance to talk to this legislator 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.040 earlier today, I think we should play the clips. There 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:40.960 was some good nuggets in there. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:43.560 All right, perfect, how are you? 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:44.640 I'm good? 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:44.960 Are you? 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:46.040 I'm good? 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.679 I wanted to talk to you about this resolution because 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.360 it was just it made me laugh, But it also 0:05:54.600 --> 0:06:00.880 was just like a cool thing. How did this kerfuffle 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:06.440 between Shack and Donovan sort of come into your view. 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:11.360 Well, I coach high school basketball and when it's a 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.040 couple of our players were talking about it. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.240 And then we used it on Saturday at. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.560 A game prior to the game because it was gonna 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.400 be a tough game, tough game for our girls to win, 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.280 and I just played the clip for everybody to make 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.320 sure they saw it. And I was like, look, they're 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.159 going to be out there thinking they can beat you. 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.240 They're going to marginalize you. Donovan Mitchell doesn't care. He's 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.760 in the NBA and he still is getting marginalized. Like, 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.680 just go out there and get to work. And they 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:41.440 came out so ready and we won, and it was 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:42.239 a great victory. 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.320 It was a feisty game, and I was like, we 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:45.600 gotta highlight this. 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:50.000 And and and the Speaker, Wilson and his team they 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.760 were all about like they reached out and said we 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:53.400 want to do this. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.800 Did you write the resolution or how did it come 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.200 to be? So I didn't do a lot of and 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:01.280 I gave input on it. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.440 The Speaker and his team worked on parts of it, 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.719 but then it has to go to let's research and 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.080 they work on parts of it, making sure it's accurate, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:12.360 making sure it's. 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:16.960 You know, mostly correct information. There was a lot of 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:17.600 facts in there. 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.280 You had the playoff free throw percentage, you had the 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.560 Rotten Tomatoes score, you had. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:24.840 Rudy Gober's stats. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:30.400 As to why Donovan Mitchell isn't like a huge rebounding threat, I. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:37.080 Mean it was kind of like the ultimate clapback. Yeah. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:41.960 Well, well our goal was just to stand behind our players, right, 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:43.840 it doesn't it doesn't matter people are kind. 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.400 Of pushing back. Oh, he's a grown man who can 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.480 take care of himself. Why should he have to? Why 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:48.720 should any of us have to? 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.080 I know, if you don't like sports, why would you care? Right, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.600 But if you like sports and you recognize like these 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.120 guys put up with a lot, and if we can 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.920 just take five minutes and recognize them and appreciate them, 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:02.120 why not do it? 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.240 What made you decide? 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.800 I know that you also have done some referee too, 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.960 So what made you and the speaker put on a referee. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.720 Outfit and he put on the Utah Jazz jersey. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.240 Well, they just said, if you're going to do it, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.120 you have to give him a technical and you're going 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.120 to give him a technical. You better be official, because 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.120 I was just supposed to say go jazz at the end, 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.280 and I was like, that's kind of weak. You know, 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.840 I think the whole thing says go jazz. We got 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.520 to summarize it real well, and they said give him 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.559 a technical and so I just said, sure, all, we're 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.480 all we're the jersey. I like it. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:38.960 I'm comfortable in a reugh. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:39.280 Sure. 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:40.600 So it was It was fun. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.000 Were you were you a hooper to begin with? Throughout 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.560 your life too, just in high school, just high school basketball. 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:50.199 Same same for me. Yeah, that's cool. Did you ever 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.120 end up speaking to Dov and Mitrol. 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.960 Like when this whole thing came No, no, no, no, 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:59.679 I don't anticipate that, but I honest and truly, I 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.880 really hope that our youth see this and go number one. 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.880 Yeah, he got marginalized, and I feel marginalized. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.520 Whether they're athletes or you know, in drama, whatever, they 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:14.240 pursue like they're gonna have critics. And the way Mitchell 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:18.240 responded was just classic, and it was the way that 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.319 so many of us have to learn how to respond. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.719 Just take it and just move with it all right, 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.520 like we're moving on now. So I wanted them to 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:28.360 know that and see that that if don't have the 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.840 Mitchell's getting shade, don't feel so bad when you're getting it. 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.199 And that's all I really hope to accomplish from it. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.000 Thanks for fixed with the time, Representative. 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:38.520 Take care. 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:48.400 The best thing about hearing that interview is how many 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.040 times the word marginalized was used. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:54.160 It's a good buzz word for them. 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.520 You know, that's just not quite how I think of 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:04.359 the word or t definition of marginalized is being criticized 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.240 about your play on the court. I would say marginalization 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.560 has to do with a lot bigger issues. But if 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:17.040 that's the standard we're gonna use for marginalization, great, I mean, 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:22.199 that's that's encouraging. This is the most politically driven interview 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:27.680 I've ever heard, so many political talking points. She was 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:29.760 dead ass serious that this was for the youth. 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:32.839 This is for the youth. Yo. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.000 She needs to take up a resolution for us. Here 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:40.079 at barstool, we are criticized and marginalized online all the time. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:46.400 This folks is our next senator from the state of Utah. 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:51.760 I guarantee she is the next Mitt Romney. Beautiful and 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:56.720 Mormon and from Utah. They say that politics is boring, 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:02.640 but shit was that boring? A referee suit and a 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.640 Donovan Mitchell jersey in the halls. No find someone who 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.320 loves you the way that Kiara Brooklyn loves Donovan Mitchell, 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.800 and the youth fighting for his honor, for all of society, 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.200 not just the state of Utah, for the youth as 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:22.760 a whole. This is the third resolution of the year 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.959 in the State of Utah, and it was that important 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:31.520 that this is the third one. To me that goes 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.320 to show you that Shack's comments got under their skin 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:34.920 a little bit. 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:40.080 They are in their fields, something that they. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.720 Probably wouldn't have said a word about unless they sort 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:49.520 of kind of maybe thought in their heart of hearts 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.320 that it was true. To me, Shack was spitting facts, 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.920 and as Donovan Mitchell would like to say, I that's it. 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:00.880 Let me tell you little story. 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.920 When I was trying to break into media, I had 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.200 a bunch of random jobs. I worked at a coffee shops, 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:11.760 sold juice, caddied, and lastly I was. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:14.320 I was in a pyramid scheme. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:21.920 Oh, I sold Herbalife protein powder. I have no idea 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.720 how it happened, but it just like one day I 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:24.640 woke up and I was. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:25.080 Like in it. 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.080 Yeah to all your Facebook friends. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.320 All my Facebook friends doing push up challenges and random 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.720 places encouraging people to lose weight get healthy using the 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.320 protein powder that I recommend. 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:37.760 And when I was trying. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.559 To build up my business for this passive mailbox money 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:42.440 income that they tell you you can do if you 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.640 just put in the hard work, we would go to 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.880 these meetings every quarter to get into the raw raw vibe, 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.920 and every one of these meetings had an inspirational speaker. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.160 There was like a Tony Robbins, There's like a less 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.839 Brown Brendan Burchard. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.719 And they tell you these They get you hyped up, 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.160 like you can do anything if you just put your 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:01.839 mind to it. 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:03.040 Everything's mental. 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.199 If you're just in the positive mind frame, you can 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.319 accomplish all of your goals very simply, very easily. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.559 You would never know if you walked. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:17.280 Into this conference that it was about selling protein powder. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.920 You would have zero idea. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.640 You would think we were selling We were like real 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:24.840 deal entrepreneurs. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.080 Twenty twelve to twenty fourteen, I was deep in the movement, 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:29.920 deep in it. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.080 I was listening to Napoleon Hill and how to Win 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.959 friends and influence people. Power of positive thinking. You should 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:42.000 just you literally can just power. Positive thinking just changes everything. 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.280 The universe will come to you. Safe to say, all 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:52.120 of that showed that I was brainwashed. Now that I've 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.640 come to from the fog, I mean, all my friends knew, 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:55.560 my mom knew. 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.160 Everyone was kind of looking at me like you are 0:13:58.280 --> 0:13:59.240 crazy right now? 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:00.000 Oh yeah. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.680 And that was the first multi level marketing scheme to 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.360 really hit popularity in the Internet. So I was ahead 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.720 of my time, I would say. So all of that 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.200 to say that I know how to spot someone that's 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:17.960 being brainwashed. And I am here to tell you that 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:22.000 Houston Rockets wing Victor Oladipo. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.119 Might be getting brainwashed. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:25.440 He's there, He's there. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.760 He is fully in the spin cycle of the wash 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.040 right now, bully in it. 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.720 And how do you know? How do I know? 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:33.480 You may ask? 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.200 Well. On the eve of. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:42.320 His twenty twenty to twenty twenty one NBA preseason finale 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:48.720 in December, Victor Oladipo participated. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:52.840 In a funeral for his injured knee. 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.200 Still as a member of the Indiana Pacers. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.600 Correct Still as a member of the Indiana Pacers, the 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:03.320 service was held to say goodbye to an injury mindset. 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.280 This feels similar, which was weighing on the two time 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:11.000 All Stars guard pursuit of fully recovering from a ruptured 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.880 quad tending in his right knee that required surgery in 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:14.560 twenty nineteen. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:16.240 What a story. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:20.840 Due to the coronavirus pandemic, they couldn't do the funeral 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:28.880 in person. They had to do this ceremony via zoom 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:36.120 with motivational speaker, educator and pastor Eric Thomas, as well 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:40.640 as Eric Thomas's business development and bit managing partner. 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:43.240 It gets better. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.320 Oladipo read a letter at the wake of his departed 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:52.680 knee and burned it after probably with Oregon music in 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.600 the background. This is how I envision it going today. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.000 I'm bearing everything related to my torn. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.880 Yes, sir, I am bearing and letting go of everything. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.320 I am letting go of tearing my quad and the 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.120 injury that happened. I am letting go to being one 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.840 of the three people to ever get the injury. I'm 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.480 letting go of the negativity, yes, Lord, surrounding the fact 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.880 that I am one of the three people and youngest 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.560 to get this injury. I'm letting go of my knee. 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.440 Might not be strong enough to do everything I want 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:34.080 on the basketball court. Yes, I am letting go of 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.960 hoping that my knee is strong enough so I can 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:37.760 be an All Star. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.320 Amen. Can we just take a step back. 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:50.480 And dig into this just a little more? He had 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:56.560 a funeral for his knee. I thought that the first 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.520 story was absurd that we just talked about. 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:03.640 This is insane. Now there is a reddit subreddit called a. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:08.000 Brand new sentence, and a funeral for a knee is 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:14.639 a brand new sentence never uttered before until it happened 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:21.800 to Victor Oladipo. Victor Oladipo hired Eric Thomas, a motivational speaker, 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:26.160 to be the pastor of a fake funeral held on 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.320 Zoom for a body part he still has. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.520 That really is the most absurd thing. It's still very 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:35.119 much there. 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.600 It wasn't amputated. It's just it's really a funeral. 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:44.200 For the pain and trauma of the injury. Eric Thomas 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:50.960 charges thirty thousand dollars for a virtual speaking fee. He 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:55.280 also brought his business manager, Eric Thomas did as a 0:17:55.320 --> 0:18:02.520 witness for this funeral. He'm both known for being business 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:08.480 savvy and financially responsible. And then we find this shit out. 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:10.119 I am concerned. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.840 This is like the beginning of a thirty for thirty. 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:21.439 What if I told you an injured quad led to 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:26.000 the bankruptcy of an all star wing who got involved 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.440 in a complex pyramid scheme selling protein powder and energy 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.679 tea to John Wallenbegee cousins out of his Marriott Hotel room, 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.760 paying everything to Eric Thomas, the hip hop preacher. 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:42.040 I mean, this is crazy. 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.679 Yeah, I know Charlottan's when I see him. I have 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.040 been duped a million times, so from the outside it 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.360 is very obvious to me. Someone lurking behind the scenes, 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.159 waiting for you to be vulnerable so that they can pounce. 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.080 They are everywhere, they are everywhere. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:18:59.640 They convince you you need to pay a one hundred 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:05.479 thousand for some managerial course. I think it's called the Pilot, 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.920 the elite Pilot program that Eric Thomas runs that Victor 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.840 to Olidipo is currently involved in. And this funeral was 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:12.120 a part of that little package. 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:14.560 Insane. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:18.359 It was a real funeral, a ceremony that ended with 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:25.960 him burning the letter. I Marty have questions, what did 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.680 Eric Thomas do if he was if a Victor Olidipo 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:29.520 was reading the letter? 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.120 Is he just there for emotional support. 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:34.280 Ah. 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:35.520 What about the business manager. 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.119 Was he like, Hey, Victor, we have a twelve thirty 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:43.760 heart out, just keeping time, adding extra charges in case 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.200 it goes over. Hey Victor, yeah yeah, he's so eric, 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.920 so happy to be doing this. But if et ends 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:56.359 up crying on Zoom, that's ten thousand dollars extra. Someone 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:00.119 there to be like mmmmm ah, I. 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:02.640 Get an amen, Marty, Amen, baby amen. 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.680 It is not shocking to me that after this happened 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.800 on the eve of the NBA season starting, that the 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:14.520 Pacers were like, ahh no, mm mmm, we need to 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:19.639 get this boy out of here before this news breaks. Uh. 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:23.000 First up, this makes the injury look really fucking bad. 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:29.240 If you need spiritual guidance to fix with modern medicine, can't. 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.440 We're never gonna be able to trade him. He's gonna 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:38.320 walk for nothing. Surprisingly, this news stayed on the hush 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:42.320 until they traded him, till they could find their mark. 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:48.119 Who was this idiot that would take Victor Oladipo. 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:52.880 On an expiring someone so mentally scarred that he had 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.960 to hold a fake funeral on Zoom just to get 0:20:56.000 --> 0:21:01.480 past the trauma. Oh yes, Houston Pockets owner Tillman Ftata, 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:06.560 the guy who picked up Kevin Porter Junior, the food. 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.960 Assaulter, and he was like, yep, yes, sir. 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:12.159 That'll do. 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:13.600 Something's been missing. 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:17.960 Oh boy, Bradley Beal, Poor Bradley Beal. He does need 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:20.840 something different, he does. 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.440 God damn. The Washington Wizards are three and eleven. 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:27.480 Just gross. They're gross to watch. 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:33.280 And it's sad because he's playing so well and no. 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:34.800 One will watch them. 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:39.199 Beal has put up forty ten times this year, and 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:43.000 in all ten occasions, the Washington Wizards have lost that game. 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:49.560 That is a record statistically never happened before. Ye. They 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:53.200 are the second worst defensive team in the league. They 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:57.560 just flat out don't even try. Bradley Beal's like, we 0:21:57.600 --> 0:21:59.960 can't guard anyone. We can't guard a park car. 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:01.320 You know who? 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:03.520 They need Marty in the locker room for just a 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:06.480 small thirty thousand dollars virtual zoom fee. 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:08.720 Uh maybe Deepot's hip hip hop preacher. 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:12.240 That's right, play the clip again. How come Scott Brooks 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:16.760 can't do that? The NBA community is fed the fuck 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:21.960 up for Bradley Beal. Twitter pundits, fans, We've all had enough. 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:26.080 I think the community as a whole is now requesting 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:30.919 a trade on Bradley Beal's behalf. This is what Stephen 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:32.600 A recently had to say about Bradley Beil. 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:37.320 Bradley Beal is a star. He deserves better than what 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:40.480 he's getting in the nation's capital. The Washington Wizards at 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:44.359 this particular moment in time are atrocious. They are horrible, 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:47.400 and it's primarily because of their defense. 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:49.000 Last year they gave. 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.879 One hundred and nineteen points per game if I remember correctly, 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:54.879 and I think they were ranked like second to last. 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:58.240 This year is second to last, but they're giving up 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:01.800 one hundred and twenty points. Bradley Beal was quoted a 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:05.520 week over a week ago Max saying, we can't stop 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:09.280 a parked car. We can't guard a parked car. That's 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:13.159 how bad he described their defense. Okay, and if you 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:15.159 saw him and Molly, it's one. 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:21.080 Of those things creative. Wow. Bradley Beal did say. I 0:23:21.160 --> 0:23:24.880 went back and checked. We can't guard a park car. 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:29.920 That means a vehicle that's literally stopped on the road, 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:32.040 you can't stop it from moving past you. 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:35.600 And then the craziest thing is he followed it up with. 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:41.800 Saying, but I'm optimistic about how the season is gonna go. Really, 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:47.119 the Wizards do not deserve a man who's optimistic for 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:50.040 no reason like this, a man who's put the entire 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:54.679 team on his back. This team's been trash mostly for 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:58.560