WEBVTT - NBA refereeing is in the toilet 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.200 On this episode of the Heat Check, why are the 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.919 biggest stories in the NBA still fucking terrible reffing? 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:21.439 These guys are Jabbronis. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.680 We get into the reffing shenanigans that are afoot surrounding 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.640 the Pacers, Celtics and the Lakers Raptors game. You gotta 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.800 hear this quote from Dark Oh, it is incredible. We 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:32.720 also do a deep dive into the news around the league, 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:37.200 including Draymond's return, the Bucks defensive disaster, and Eric Spolster's 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:38.480 huge extension. 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:42.680 That happened on the heels of a big divorce. Congratulations 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:44.880 to Spo. You get to keep all that money plus 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:45.480 a lot more. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.560 Get right into it, Anthony and drop that motherfucking beat 0:00:48.600 --> 0:01:02.560 that should be Rihanna. Oh okay, can we just be 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:07.119 done with all this refin bullshit? That's the thing I'm 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.640 fired out, fired up about today. The one big thing, 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.520 as it were, all season long, We've got the refs 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:18.199 on some bullshit tossing Jokic for saying the B word. 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.000 Why did I say the B word? Saying the word bitch? 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.120 Why did I say the B word? Like I'm on 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.800 an FCC, I say fuck all the time and it's 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.720 like oh, saying the B word, blowing calls and crunch 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.760 time favoring one team over another. We got two huge 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:38.280 stories though, from the past two days, and they both 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:43.440 involve referees. Let's talk about the Celtics game first, because 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:47.960 that one is also egregious game on Monday night that 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.520 was once again marred by shitty reffing. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.600 Once again, the league came to the defense of their. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:02:02.040 Awful, no good sad sack, terrible, mediocre lazy riffs with 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.400 three point two malicious. With three point two seconds left 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.920 in a tie game, Jayalen Brown drove into a triple 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:12.640 team and was straight mugged by Buddy Healed. They called 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:18.320 the foul, but here's the kicker. Rick Carlisle is uh 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.760 pocketing challenges like gold coins, so he throws the challenge 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.520 the little thing that they do with their finger, and 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:29.160 the call gets reviewed. Right to the shock of everyone, 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:36.840 including the pacers. The call was reversed no foul, despite 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:43.160 very obvious evidence that our man Buddy Healed struck. 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.080 Down Brown on the head. Splat. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.280 On the other end, Porzingis gets fouled for a touch 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.320 fowl gets called for touch fowl on Ben Mathrin who 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:54.720 then nails two free throws and that was game. 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:57.000 And the Celtics, if you. 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.200 Might imagine, they have not calm down since, no. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:02:59.560 They have not. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:05.480 Alen Brown was irate, incensed and I don't mean nag champa, 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:10.280 I mean screaming that's bullshit while he was on the floor. 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.200 He has not calmed down in the postgame either. He said, 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.320 I think you obviously hit me in the head. I 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.239 think we definitely need to do some investigation. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:18.919 That's all I'm gonna say. 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:21.960 He went after the ref James Williams and asked if 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:23.560 he saw Buddy hit him in the head, and he 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.760 was like, no, I didn't, nope, which only made things worse. 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.000 He said, that's what pissed me off, because I know 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:31.760 I got hit in the head and you see it 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.040 on the replay. It's pretty obvious I got hit in 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:35.800 the head. Then you look at me in my eye 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:37.960 and tell me that you didn't see it. I think 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.360 that needs to be investigated. You cost my team a game, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.440 and of course I'm pissed about it. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.000 It was pretty obvious. I'm not gonna lie. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.160 Like seeing a man hit another man in the head 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.920 is not something that you just can't see when it's 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:58.040 on video. Buddy Healed tells Joe Miszula, Hey, I foiled him. 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.840 I did. Angels were on my side, he says. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:05.080 After the game, Missoula has not calmed down either, keeping 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.360 those crazy eyes on peak, he says, I just can't 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.720 wait till four o'clock, referring to the NBA's last two 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:12.240 minute report. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.360 I just can't wait for four o'clock. You know how 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:15.960 bad it is? 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.560 So even lebron James, who has been doing the lord's 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.600 work trying to get Darbnham fired, pouting talking about how 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.599 his son could actually play for the Lakers, when he 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:28.960 knows that his son, Bronnie James can barely play for 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.480 the USC Trojans. And he knows that because he goes 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.760 to every Trojan game where Bronni's getting like fifteen minutes 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.560 a game, averaging four point seven points or something per game. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.720 I think it's like six point seven. But still now 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.039 for the effect, it's not much. So let's be real, Braun, 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.760 your son can't play for the Lakers anyway. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.279 He is wouldn't even wish Ricky Rubio a. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.640 Sincere retirement because he was all pissed off because they're 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:55.880 losing games. He tweets about the game. See what I'm saying. 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.600 JB clearly got hit in the back of the head. 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.880 They reviewed the play just to reverse it and say 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.400 he didn't. Man, what good ass game to have an 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.680 ending like that. And y'all see why I be going 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:13.480 gorilla ape shit out there. When it happens, he does 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.880 g gae shit. Lebron absolutely loses his. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.760 Mind when a call is not called in his favor. 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.640 So okay, So the NBA releases. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:27.200 Their final two minute report, and of course, because they 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:28.960 are the mob, they say. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.599 That there was no foul on the play, even though. 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:35.120 They do say Porzingis's touch fowl should have not been called, 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:36.560 probably should have gone to overtime. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.360 But the lengths folks that the league. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:43.160 Will go to cover up for their own to really 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.880 just make a mockery of the sport. Bad refing, the 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:53.000 bad refings is shocking. So can we please not have 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:57.440 these refs in the mix anymore? Can we not have 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.560 the refs be a major plot line this season? Because 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.640 someone on Twitter did a little investigation, what do you 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:11.960 think they found about James Williams. So James Williams is 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:19.880 not only from Indiana, went to school at Indiana and 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:25.359 as shockingly reffed a ton of Pacers games. Do you 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.240 know what the Pacers record is? A team that's been 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:30.440 in the dregs for a while. 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:31.159 Now, Let's be honest. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.760 It's not we're talking about peak Lebron James Miami either. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:35.960 We're talking about the Pacers. Do you know what the 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:41.000 Pacers record is? When James Williams is reffing on the floor, 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:47.640 just guess thirty five and three? Are we serious? I 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.800 don't even think the seventy three and nine Warriors had 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.560 a thirty five and three under one ref. That does 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.680 not make the NBA does have to investigate the Pacers 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:02.679 their past history. Should not five and three against Muncy 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:07.080 Central High. I am telling you something is wrong. And 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.920 if that isn't bad enough that one ref scenario, we 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.840 got another full blown conspiracy on our hands, courtesy of 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:19.640 our man Darko Razovich, ra haf Rakovic, whatever you know 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:24.360 what I'm talking about, raw Hakovic, ra Hakovich. I think 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.960 that's it. The Raptors lost to the Lakers last night. 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.080 It was an awesome game, very back and forth, very 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:34.640 high scoring. Raptors were taking it to the Lakers, but. 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:36.840 They handed out in. 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:43.160 The fourth quarter, twenty three free throws to LA, twenty 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.600 three free thows to the Lakers in the fourth quarter alone, 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:51.600 and just two to the Raptors. Do you think the 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.800 head coach felt some kind of way about that? 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.720 You're sure? What do you think he said? 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.640 Probably something mild meek, Hey, we got to check these 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:02.360 refs out. 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:03.040 Here, something. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:07.040 No, it was an all time epic rant. You must 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:07.880 hear here. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:08.200 It is. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.520 Thank you Doug, Thank you Doug. 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.600 That's that's that's outrageous what happened tonight. 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.840 This is completely bias. This is shame. Shame for the referees, 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.280 shame for the league to allow this. 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.600 Twenty three free throws for them, and we get two 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:28.680 free throws. 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.280 In the fourth quarter, Like how to play the game? 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.920 I understand respect for all stars and all that, but 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:38.920 we have star players on our team as well. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.800 How's possible as Scottie Barnes. 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.440 Who is all Star caliber player in this league, he 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.600 goes every single time to the rim with fours and 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.360 trying to get get to the rim without flopping and 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.840 and not trying to get foul calls. He gets two 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.400 free throws for the whole game. How's that possible. How 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.720 are you gonna explain it to me? They had to 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.440 win to night if that's If that's the case, just 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.280 let us know so we don't show up for the game. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.720 Just give them a win. But that was not fair tonight. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.200 And this is not happening first time for us. Scottie 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.720 Barnes is gonna be all started. He's gonna be the 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.600 face of this league. And what's happening over here during 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.280 the whole season, I've been calling the back it's a 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:21.440 complete crap. 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.360 Do you feel like you're getting any explanations at all? 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.439 That offensive foul? Did you did you see like get 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:30.760 any ap? 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:32.880 No? No, there is no explanation. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:34.880 They just they just come up there, they review what 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.000 and they see what they want to see. They don't 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:38.880 want to hear us what we got to say. They 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.640 don't want to hear the players. They don't just want 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.559 to protect us. Over again, they got three six free throws, 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.439 twenty three free throws in the fourth quarter. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.360 What are we talking about? What are we talking about? 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.760 How are we gonna supposed to play? 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:53.959 There's a one off. 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.520 You feel this happening to your. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.000 Team at It's happening a lot. 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:02.560 But I'm telling our guys be professional, keep fighting, keep 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.440 going for the next one, but on kill the when. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:06.560 For how long? 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.319 This is incredible? I love Darko. I want to hear 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.079 Darko talk about anything. It's giving me real forty year 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:22.080 old virgin vibes. And I tell you what, it was epic. 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.079 Here's the context to Darko's mountdown. So Toronto went ten 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.240 for ten from the field to close out the game, 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.000 twelve for twelve if you count the pair of baskets 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.160 that got way for offensive fouls. In other words, the 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:38.960 Raptors offensively were perfect down the stretch, still could not 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:44.640 close a one point gap. Why twenty three free throws 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.120 to two free throws. The disparity of the free throws 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.000 were crazy. And when you play as well as Toronto did, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:51.560 I just don't think you should lose a game like this. 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:52.920 I just don't think you should. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:54.880 The Lakers are widely. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.840 Seen as getting, let's be real, a very favorable whistle 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.600 Lebron Jay James, any team he's on, very favorable whistle? 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.960 Why because, like you said, he goes ape shit whenever 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:06.960 he doesn't get a call. 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.720 I'm curious is Lebron gonna weigh in on this one? 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.080 Too, because I feel like he's very interested in refs 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.160 fucking around and getting calls wrong. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.800 It feels like maybe this would be one he would 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:19.720 want to get involved in. 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.720 Also, Darko was furious at Ben Taylor and his team, 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.679 and he did not hold back by the way Ben 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.280 Taylor has had He was the one that Fred van 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.440 Fleet was saying was fucking terrible. I think Ben Taylor 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.280 has a grudge against the Toronto Raptors. Now the NBA 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.840 has another roughing controversy on their hands, and as Jalen 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:42.240 Brown said so poignantly, so classily, so perfectly, the shit's 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.720 gotta be investigated, and these fucking refs have to stop 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.359 putting themselves into the spotlight before. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:49.679 We all lose our damn line. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.920 Let's move on a lot of quick hitters to catch 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.000 up this midweek episode from the Heat Check. We start 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.960 with a little update out of Brooklyn. So last week 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.840 we talked a little bit about Ben Simmons. We noted 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:05.760 that the Nets put out a release in December twenty 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.800 if that Ben was increasing his on court work and 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:15.040 they would update his status in two weeks. So to 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.880 my quick math on the calendar, it has been two 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.720 weeks and we have no updates on Ben Simmons and 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.840 what's going on. It's been crickets over there in the 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:24.920 Brooklyn organization. 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:25.560 Nothing. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.120 He was last seen on November sixth, when he had 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.840 two points in thirty three minutes in a four point 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:32.840 loss to the Bucks. Since then, we have seen no 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.839 hide nor hair of Ben Simmons in a uniform. Lots 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:39.880 of fit fits for the league, lots of you know, sweaters, 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.000 multi colored cardigans, lots of ice. You know, Ben Simmons 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:44.920 one of the best dressers in the league, but no 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:49.040 Ben Simmons in a uniform. So to that, I say, 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.960 it's very incredibly sad. I've never seen a player with 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.960 the stranger career arc than Ben Simmons. I don't doubt 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.719 that he does have those back problems, but like if 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:06.480 you've got back issues and you also really don't want 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:10.439 to be somewhere, the back issues are just tough to overcome. 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.160 You're gonna need to be one hundred and ten percent 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.520 in order to feel comfortable to come back. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.400 Why because you probably don't want to be there anyway, right, 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.319 And so if you don't really want to be there, 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.199 then you got a little tweak, You got a little paeni, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.200 a little swarmness, and you're like, I'm just not feeling 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.200 up to it. I'm just not ready to go out there. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.400 The nets won't even let us hear from him. 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.280 They treat him like he's in witness protection. He's played 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:37.160 forty percent of his games as a net, and it 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:38.959 looks like that number is going to continue to shrink 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:40.800 because he's obviously nowhere close to. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:41.760 Seeing the court. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:46.240 I mean, it's just very bizarre. I'm not sure if 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:47.800 we'll see him before the All Star Game. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.920 I don't think so. I mean, that's what I'm month 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:50.320 from now. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.599 At that point, would anything be shot shocked if you 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.240 got shut down for the rest of the year Because 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.679 this team is going nowhere very fastic. What is happening 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.760 with Ben Simmons. Nobody's asking either. It's almost like we 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.880 don't care. He's a lost cause. If Ben Simmons was 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.480 playing to the caliber or the level that he was 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.480 playing in the good times of Philly and then he 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.160 was just shut down for months on and we would 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.360 be wondering where he is. But the fact that his 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.960 production has gone down so severely, we think it's like 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:22.320 a joke. We think Ben Simmons is just not even 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.520 requiring an inquiry. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:25.760 We don't care. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:27.440 We don't care when he's coming back to the court, 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.600 the point of the court, because he's not effective anymore. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.640 Just like a very unique player, a very unique arc. 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.040 In his last game, he scored two points. He also 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.160 had fifteen rebounds and four assists, and he was a 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:39.560 lockdown defensive player. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.760 And it's the way that Ben Simmons was marketed. Really, 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:43.520 that's the problem. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.080 As a point guard, guy that can score, a guy 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:50.320 that's gonna be an all NBA caliber dude defensively and offensively, 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:50.760 but he's not. 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:52.360 He's a player that can help a team win. He's 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.200 just not who he thought he was. And that's okay. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.080 From the sound of it, or I guess the lack 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:58.720 of sound of it, It's gonna be a long time 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.040 before we see any Ben's. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:04.120 In a uniform again, all right. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:08.800 Moving on, Draymond Green's back in the news because after 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.720 about three and a half weeks, he has been cleared. 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.160 By the league to come back. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.760 Woj Is reported that next Monday at Memphis should be 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:24.280 Draymon's return to hoops. Imagine being gone so long on 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:29.520 a suspension, you have to recondition yourself to get there, 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.360 and Draymond said, to be honest, he'd be fine to 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.240 come back right away, but he didn't think that it 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.040 was the right thing for the team, right thing for him. 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:37.120 Maybe he injures himself. 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.800 Maybe it's bad for the team's success, even though the team, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.520 Let's Be Real, is dead already. But that's not really 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.840 why he's in the news. He's in the news because 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.200 he dropped this episode of The Draymond Green Show. It 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.320 was the first thing I listened to yesterday, By the way, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.240 I woke up, opened my little eyes, and I went 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.520 to the good old YouTube, and I watched the whole thing, 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.600 all fifty one minutes of it, all the entire breadth 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.360 and detail of his suspension. 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:02.600 You've probably seen. 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.880 Viral clips by now, like Steve Kerr and him out 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.480 in the lawn of his house, crying, holding hands, kumbayawing, 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:12.160 listening to Enya. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.520 He nagged, chompa something like that. He comes over. We 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:16.720 had a good old cry. 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.440 How Adam Silver talked him out of retiring, even though 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.240 he's in the middle of this deal which worth hundreds 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.200 of millions of dollars, which is obviously false. The fact 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.840 that he's upset that Kevin Durant so that he needed help, 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.760 the fact that he was very butt hurt by what stephen. 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:35.160 A said so interesting. 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.920 Stephen A does not believe that Draymond Green was ever 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.520 close to retirement because he said this, brother, Draymond Green 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.840 thinks about his future every day and it's got dollar 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.040 signs attached to it. 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.880 In facts facts, He's not turning down that money. 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.600 Mostly though, the interview was a fascinating look at how 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.200 somebody who loves the limelight and says that they want 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.040 to stay out of it is also devastated by it 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.080 and yet still attract to it like I'm off to 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:01.520 a flame. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.520 He will not stop making content. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.480 We know that from this big long YouTube episode. He's 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.399 got a big deal coming out with Volume. I'm sure 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.879 it took him a year and a half to concoct 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.160 and figure out that deal, so I'm. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:16.919 Sure there's a lot of money on the line. I 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:17.679 promise you. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.600 No matter how much his therapist tells him, hey, you 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:24.119 should probably stop making content, He's not stopping making content. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:25.840 That deal is done a lot of it. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:30.240 I think the things that are dangerous to him and 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.720 the issues and devastation can come from the stigma of 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.200 having to ask for help, not just like a male thing, 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.080 but also from where. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:42.240 He comes from kind of thing. 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.840 And Draymond was very clear about that he needed and 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:49.160 needs help. He needed to talk to somebody. He's wanted 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.520 to go to therapy, but was terrified about it. He 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.080 was very clear about where he grew up in Saginaw, 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:58.560 asking for help was not really thought about on that subject. 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.640 Stephen A said this about Draymond quote, as a black man, 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.480 when you are confronted by the consequences of your own actions, 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.080 it's one thing to be suspended, but when the label 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.520 is therapy and that you need help, and you think 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:15.600 that narrative is being created about you, it hits you different. 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.320 Stephen A knows about this too, because remember he ended 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.679 up getting fired from ESPN, and he said he had 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.240 to do a little soul search in himself, a little 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:27.359 changing of his mindset and getting past the patterns of 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.400 his behavior from where he grew up to But it's 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.480 hard to ask for help under even the best the circumstances. 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:39.480 And when you grow up without resources in a culture 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.440 that looks at therapy as weakness. 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:44.440 When you get. 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:48.480 Resources even ones to seek help, to find someone to 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.920 help you sort your shit out, which is, by the way, 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.359 very expensive. You know you can it's like four or 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.359 five hundred dollars per session sometimes for therapists, even just 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:59.560 mediocre ones. So the resources are kind of a critical 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.399 component to getting the help. But even when you have 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.920 one hundred million dollars, I get it hard to get 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:08.080 the help that you need. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:13.720 Draymon's gonna be back on the court. He promises, no antics. 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.840 How many days until we get antics? We move on. 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.280 Just a few days ago, Yanna said this in his 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:24.639 postgame after another just terrible defensive performance by the books. 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.280 So he said this, we have to be better. We 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:29.600 have to play better, we have to defend better, we 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:31.879 have to trust one another better. We have to be 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:36.600 coached better, every single thing. Everybody has to be better. 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:37.480 Everybody. 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:42.840 It starts, It's best part. It starts with the equipment manager. 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:44.720 Have you ever heard those lines? Ever? 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.000 It starts with the equipment manager. He has to wash 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:49.119 our clothes better. 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:50.080 Is there a stain? 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.760 Is there a stain on Giannis's clothes that he shows 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.680 up to the game and there's like a little piece 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:00.399 of smudge on his jersey, the leaders. He has to 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.280 wash our clothes better. The bench has to be better. 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.360 The leaders of the team have to be more vocal. 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.040 We have to make more shots. We have to defend better. 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.159 We have to get better strategy. We have to be better. 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.040 We have four months to get better. 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:16.400 So let's see this boy's out. He's out. 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:19.600 I don't think I don't think he's staying. I know 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.600 he signed an extension, but I don't think he's staying. 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:24.840 I don't think Dame's long for Milwaukee, and I don't 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:28.400 think Giannis is long for Milwaukee. Honestly, can you blame mom? 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:30.440 There's so many better places out there in the United 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:34.360 States to play basketball than Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Oh, shade to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.000 with big shade to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.240 But let's go back to Giannis's comments. 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:44.080