Speaker 1: I wish I could say things are getting better in
Speaker 1: Jahn Morant's life, but that would be a lie. Things
Speaker 1: have developed in a negative way since the last update
Speaker 1: that we've had. You see, the problem that people don't
Speaker 1: realize when you put a spotlight on yourself is that
Speaker 1: when the light of day reveals your misdeats. In this case,
Speaker 1: now you have another incident in which Jaw wanted to
Speaker 1: fight a minor. I actually thought it was just the
Speaker 1: same story because it was so similar to the last
Speaker 1: story where Jaw wanted to fight a minor. Yeah, nobody
Speaker 1: seems more ready to scrap with minors than jaum Rant.
Speaker 1: It's like he's like Oprah, He's like, you get these hands,
Speaker 1: you get these hands. And I don't know if they
Speaker 1: know these people, these celebrities that once you get into
Speaker 1: the crosshairs of TMZ, they are going to dig and
Speaker 1: find everything. They are going to find any little bit
Speaker 1: of drama that they can pull out so that they
Speaker 1: can capitalize on your troubles and struggles for money. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's the issue that we have. TMZ just reported that
Speaker 1: Jaw was investigated by police in September of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two for a confrontation that took place at Jaw's sister's
Speaker 1: high school volleyball game. Okay, Jaw's sister apparently gets into
Speaker 1: a shouting match with another students. Does anybody else feel
Speaker 1: like the morants kind of have like got an aggressive
Speaker 1: problem anyway, So the sister gets into it with another student,
Speaker 1: calls her brother for backup, kind of like his mom
Speaker 1: called him allegedly for backup at the mall. And then
Speaker 1: Jaw told this some unknown teenager, I will beat your
Speaker 1: ass under eighteen. Presumably when told that, the guy was like, hey, uh,
Speaker 1: he's a kid. His kid's in high school with your
Speaker 1: little sister right now, you're gonna beat his ass. The
Speaker 1: disheartening thing was a witness told police that Jaw looked
Speaker 1: like he was ready to pull a gun out on
Speaker 1: high school kid over being called a bitch. Did I
Speaker 1: mention the Jaw makes two hundred and ten million dollars,
Speaker 1: Yeah in this story and did by the time this
Speaker 1: thing happened. Yeah, that's what happens when the spotlight comes
Speaker 1: out on you. All the dumb shit that you've done
Speaker 1: now comes to the day of light. These tabloids. Fine,
Speaker 1: everything turns out Memphis has been trying to cajole Jaw
Speaker 1: into growing the fuck up four months now. Steven Adams
Speaker 1: the night that Jaw went to the Strip club, well,
Speaker 1: the second that Jaw went to the strip club, we
Speaker 1: now know he actually touched down from Houston went immediately
Speaker 1: to what was it Shotgun Willies. Anyway, so he goes
Speaker 1: to Shotgun Willies when he arrives into town, literally gets
Speaker 1: off the plane, heads over to the strip club. Steven
Speaker 1: Adams before the night of the game against the Nuggets
Speaker 1: said hey, we've got to stay locked in on the road.
Speaker 1: We can't be doing crazy things. And then that very
Speaker 1: same day Jaw Gun Strip Club ig Live. That little
Speaker 1: pep talk from Steven Adams turns out worked terribly. There
Speaker 1: is more. According to Taylor Jenkins, they have had conversations
Speaker 1: in the past trying to guide Jaw and help him
Speaker 1: continue to evolve as a person and as a player.
Speaker 1: That is a direct quote. This obviously came to the
Speaker 1: head the other day. It put this process into action.
Speaker 1: Taylor Jenkins and the Memphis Grizzlies have been figuring out
Speaker 1: a way to get Jaw onto the straight and narrow
Speaker 1: and then to no avail. He then goes to the
Speaker 1: strip club gun suspension imminent and now the thing that
Speaker 1: they were trying to do, they have to do. Jenkins
Speaker 1: also reported the Jaw will be out at least another
Speaker 1: four games, and although no charge came from Colorado, the
Speaker 1: league also announced any penalty that comes will be solely
Speaker 1: at the discretion of Adam Silver and would be retroactive.
Speaker 1: So my opinion, that fifty game suspension a lot of
Speaker 1: people were thinking he might get, he will not get.
Speaker 1: And I think what we'll see is probably a twenty
Speaker 1: game ban or a twenty game suspension backdated for how
Speaker 1: many other games that he's missed by the time the
Speaker 1: suspension comes out. So he'll probably be back, in my estimation,
Speaker 1: by right in time for the playoffs, Which means, what
Speaker 1: is Jaw completely in shape for this? Is he ready
Speaker 1: to play basketball? Will he bring a gun on the
Speaker 1: road in the playoffs? Who knows one thing. I know
Speaker 1: it's gonna take a long time for Jaw to really
Speaker 1: fix his reputation. The reputation right now is Jaw, strip
Speaker 1: clubs guns. Shockingly, Powerade does not want to be associated
Speaker 1: with those three symbols. Powerade has polled Ja Morant's advertising
Speaker 1: campaign as of today, which sucks because Jaw would have
Speaker 1: been a tremendous candidate and spokesperson for this brand. It
Speaker 1: would have elevated him on a lot of different national scales.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to drop him all together,
Speaker 1: but they have dropped all advertising from that, especially considering
Speaker 1: the Jaw I forgot to mention got ratted out by
Speaker 1: the Strip Club. I don't know if you saw the photos.
Speaker 1: There was fifty thousand dollars of money like layered onto
Speaker 1: the floor. It's like Scrooge McDuck in there, and he
Speaker 1: had a lap dance and no shirt on, and it
Speaker 1: was a lot of things happening in there. By the way,
Speaker 1: as an aside, that part Sand's gun substituting or taking
Speaker 1: out the gun, that is what NBA players do on
Speaker 1: the road. If you think that NBA players as a
Speaker 1: whole at large don't hit the Strip club and spend
Speaker 1: it on godly amount of money on women's you're incorrect anyway,
Speaker 1: very sad narrative. Gilbert Reinez thinks it's gonna take years
Speaker 1: before Jah gets his reputation back and attacked, before he's
Speaker 1: a Tier one player again. I tend to agree the
Speaker 1: most sad thing, though, is that Jaw was one of
Speaker 1: the few players who could be like Alan Iverson, completely himself,
Speaker 1: completely close to the music, dreads a blue dread, a
Speaker 1: grill hitting the gritty. After wins and white America didn't
Speaker 1: say an Everyone loved Jaw. He was a national treasure.
Speaker 1: When have you ever seen someone like Jaw become someone
Speaker 1: that could be the face of the NBA not just
Speaker 1: the face of the NBA from the culture, but the
Speaker 1: face of the NBA from the actual powers that be
Speaker 1: in Corporate America, Powerade, Nike, Adam Silver. They were all
Speaker 1: ready to crown Jaw when Steph Curry left. And you
Speaker 1: know what, now all that shit's gone. Gilbert Reinaz thinks
Speaker 1: John needs to cut his hair in order to get
Speaker 1: his reputation even close to where he was before. And
Speaker 1: you know what, he might be right. He might be right.
Speaker 1: Things were getting into a place where players didn't have
Speaker 1: to fit into a box to be accepted and loved
Speaker 1: by Middle America. And now we started back at square
Speaker 1: one again. So congratulations, Jaw fucked up. I hope he
Speaker 1: does get back to some semblance of peace and tranquility,
Speaker 1: though I can't wait to see him back on the court.
Speaker 1: All right, Moving on, we stick with the grizz. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: did we have a full on fun back and forth
Speaker 1: between the grizz and the Warriors. And I think it's
Speaker 1: probably true. We now have a full on rivalry on
Speaker 1: our hands between Draymond Green, Dylan Brooks, Grizzlies Warriors. Let's
Speaker 1: break it down. So it all started with this interview
Speaker 1: that's Tim McEwan, I believe, from ESPN did on Dylan Brooks,
Speaker 1: the one we talked about, Dylan Brooks wants you to
Speaker 1: Stay mad. Dylan the Villain gave a ton of quotes,
Speaker 1: mostly about his demeanor, play style, but he said some
Speaker 1: things about Draymond, which we discussed. He said he didn't
Speaker 1: like Draymond at all. He doesn't like Golden State, doesn't
Speaker 1: like anything to do with them. He thought Draymond was
Speaker 1: trash in a bunch of different ways. He said that
Speaker 1: he talks a lot, he gets away with a lot,
Speaker 1: His game is okay, but if you put him anywhere else,
Speaker 1: he's basically just a guy. That's Dylan Brooks, right. We
Speaker 1: know that that's what he's gonna do. He's a shit
Speaker 1: talking extraordin there. So then I wondered to myself, is
Speaker 1: Draymond going to respond to this nonsense or is he
Speaker 1: going to leave it alone? He did not disappoint.
Speaker 2: Draymond talks a lot. You talk a lot now, so
Speaker 2: if you have four rings, sure you talk a lot more.
Speaker 2: For All Stars, you probably talk a bit more. Defensive
Speaker 2: Player of the Year, you for damn sure would talk
Speaker 2: more to Olympic gold medals. You definitely would be talking
Speaker 2: because that would mean you beat Team USA, and we
Speaker 2: all know how to that go. So gets away with
Speaker 2: a lot too, What exactly do I get away with?
Speaker 2: I have fifteen texts, one less than your dumb ass. Okay, great,
Speaker 2: his game is cool. If you ever wondered wider Memphis
Speaker 2: Grizzlies is not ready took a pee for a championship,
Speaker 2: Look no further than this idiot right here. They're actually
Speaker 2: depending on this guy to help them win a championship,
Speaker 2: and he says his game is cool. Quite frankly, that
Speaker 2: just shows how little you know about basketball.
Speaker 1: I mean, it goes on and on, It went on
Speaker 1: and on, and so then everyone was like, oh, Dylan
Speaker 1: Brooks was packed up into a suitcase, put into the
Speaker 1: trunk of a car, in a hearse into his grave.
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks is dead. Dylan Brooks, Oh he died, Oh
Speaker 1: he did now. Uh. The problem is that the Grizzlies
Speaker 1: and the Warriors had some basketball to play on primetime
Speaker 1: Thursday night. Let's just say it did not go well
Speaker 1: for our dubs. They got destroyed one thirty one, one ten.
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks Electric Factory tried to go to bait Draymond
Speaker 1: and getting into an altercation. It did not work. Twenty
Speaker 1: one point win, where Xavier Tillman came on the record
Speaker 1: and said, listen, we were doing this for Brooks. Did
Speaker 1: not want to let him down. Draymond sixteen five and
Speaker 1: seven with three steals, he was a negative one for
Speaker 1: the game. Brooks fourteen four and six, one block, one
Speaker 1: steal plus twenty two four said game. If you want
Speaker 1: to know, did the talking stop there? What happened next?
Speaker 1: It did not stop there?
Speaker 2: This rivalry you want to call it that or not
Speaker 2: if you want to call it that, but I would disagree.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, where you want to call it, I
Speaker 3: guess like basketball game, no worse, no worse. Obviously, Dylan,
Speaker 3: you have some decent in your podcast. Deal, have something
Speaker 3: to say you guys on the court tonight. Just I
Speaker 3: guess when when two teams get that competitive like that,
Speaker 3: how much for you guys? Is that still that still
Speaker 3: fire you guys up a little bit or is it
Speaker 3: just kind of you're used to it at this point.
Speaker 2: No, I expect it. Team's been getting up for us
Speaker 2: for years and talk like they can beat you and
Speaker 2: then not. That doesn't create a rivalry. Rivalries are created
Speaker 2: by you win. I win, and clearly we won four times,
Speaker 2: and I think their organization has zero championship, So I
Speaker 2: can't consider that a rivalry. Say when you ain't talking
Speaker 2: about in March, you're talking about I mean, anybody can
Speaker 2: win in March. Anybody can win at March. What that
Speaker 2: means I have a hard time getting out of my
Speaker 2: bed in March.
Speaker 1: Oh, I have a hard time getting out of my
Speaker 1: bed in March.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 1: So Dylan Brooks directly after the game at this message
Speaker 1: for Draymond.
Speaker 2: That was an oppressive showing tonight. Hey, thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you should give them Mike to Draymond talk to
Speaker 2: people in what was that make them keep talking about
Speaker 2: me so I can play better.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, guys, it's cute, it's fun. So is it
Speaker 1: a rivalry? What makes a rivalry? I think they're both right.
Speaker 1: They battled into the postseason. Memphis did send their ass
Speaker 1: home in the playing tournament. Golden State obviously beat them
Speaker 1: last year. One thing that we do know is it
Speaker 1: this Grizzlies Warriors rivalry is going nowhere. It is going
Speaker 1: to be hotly contested. I need a first round matchup
Speaker 1: between the Grizzlies and the Warriors. I need it so
Speaker 1: damn bad. I need Jaw, maybe a second round. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're both gonna get to the second round,
Speaker 1: but if Jaw's fully healthy and Steph is fully healthy,
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks and Draymond Green, it's going to be fireworks.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait. I need it, I need it, I
Speaker 1: need it.