Speaker 1: Let's move on to the drama. In the latest episode, as.
Speaker 2: The NBA turns Nets edition, we have a new coach
Speaker 2: in Brooklyn and his name is not Ema Udoka.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised. I'm surprised. Uh gheesh. I'm conflicted. I think.
Speaker 2: So. On one hand, I think it's like time is
Speaker 2: a flat circle because Jacques Vaughan was probably should have
Speaker 2: gotten the job.
Speaker 1: When Steve Nash did.
Speaker 2: We saw him in the bubble do a great job.
Speaker 2: They beat the Bucks as like twenty nine and a
Speaker 2: half point dogs, like one of the largest upsets in
Speaker 2: NBA history from a betting perspective, And so to him,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm happy for him. For Emai Udoka what he did.
Speaker 2: I think he would have been a really good coach.
Speaker 2: I think he would have been a really good fit.
Speaker 2: And he brings defensive mindedness to a team that you
Speaker 2: know they needed. And when Steve Nash was fired and
Speaker 2: immediately Sham's reported that he was not just the candidate,
Speaker 2: he was the only candidate as the replacement, It's kind
Speaker 2: of seemed like a done deal and it kind of
Speaker 2: felt like justice, you know, I like ime.
Speaker 1: I want him to succeed. I want him to have
Speaker 1: another shot.
Speaker 2: And to me, I was like, all right, he serves
Speaker 2: his little stinky suspension and then he goes back to
Speaker 2: our regular schedule programming, which is him in the front
Speaker 2: of a bench doing what he does win.
Speaker 1: And then it wasn't After a week of silence, they said.
Speaker 2: He was supposed to be on the road trip to DC,
Speaker 2: he was going to be on a private plane, and
Speaker 2: then the Kyrie thing happened, and we had radio silence.
Speaker 2: You had Adam Silver, you had all these news reports
Speaker 2: being like people are mad that the Nets are considering
Speaker 2: emy Udoka, women are mad, everyone's mad, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: and Kyrie's being dropped by Nike. There's a million things
Speaker 2: he has to do to get back onto the court.
Speaker 2: They're not winning games. And then you're like, all right,
Speaker 2: well we're not a contender, so why even deal with
Speaker 2: this bullshit?
Speaker 1: All right? And now you got.
Speaker 2: The new coach brought in and they're like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: wish you just maybe just make jacque Von the full
Speaker 2: time head coach. He has guided the Nets through many
Speaker 2: tumultuous times and I think he will get his chance
Speaker 2: and it's a good thing. My guy, Jake Fisher friend
Speaker 2: of Show wrote a detailed article on the hiring, and
Speaker 2: this is what I said. Jacques Vaughan was someone that
Speaker 2: a lot of people in the organization and a lot
Speaker 2: of people on the coaching side believe should have gotten
Speaker 2: a chance at this job after the bubble in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: before they hired Steve Nash to begin with. Yes, So
Speaker 2: on one hand, it was in a shock. On the other,
Speaker 2: you know, Poory Mayudoka. Honestly, he'll get another shot. Maybe
Speaker 2: he'll coach in Chicago or something. They're gonna fire Billy Donovan,
Speaker 2: or maybe I'll get a cook. At one point he
Speaker 2: was on the Philadelphia seventy six ers bench, and guess
Speaker 2: whose butt is hot right now, Doc Rivers, So maybe
Speaker 2: he'll coach the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Fisher notes that
Speaker 2: Udoku's hier was a foregone conclusion and that Vaughn was
Speaker 2: fine with that. In fact, when they started on their
Speaker 2: recent road trip, he had no clue that he would
Speaker 2: even be a possibility to get the job. But then
Speaker 2: they started winning, and their defense started picking up four
Speaker 2: games in a row that the net held opponents under
Speaker 2: one hundred points. Even the Knicks, who are scoring one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen one hundred and eighteen loud voices. Some
Speaker 2: rumors claim Adam Silver was one of them, warning against
Speaker 2: hiring email the cancerous, poisonous, per potential coach to women.
Speaker 1: It's a fucking.
Speaker 2: Strange, strange beat, but that's where we're at. Vaughan had
Speaker 2: a great answer when he was asked if he felt
Speaker 2: like he was a second choice. He said, well, I
Speaker 2: guess I was the right in candidate in the minds
Speaker 2: of the elections right now.
Speaker 1: But I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2: I said to my wife I might not have been
Speaker 2: her first choice either, and we've been together twenty years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love him. I love him. Also, his beard
Speaker 1: is so gray.
Speaker 2: From twenty twenty to now, he looked like he was
Speaker 2: my age, and now he looks like he's my mom's age.
Speaker 1: So God bless him.
Speaker 2: He deserves some sort of level of job security, some
Speaker 2: boost and pay.
Speaker 1: Hope they're giving him more money.
Speaker 2: Even Jake Fisher, who's well connected as anyone, says exactly
Speaker 2: why Vaughn got the job and not Udoka is still
Speaker 2: quote unquote murky man.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be hearing about this one for a long time.
Speaker 2: I am sure a couple of things I think are
Speaker 2: worth highlighting on this. I think Vaughan should have gotten
Speaker 2: the job after taking the team to the bubble. He's
Speaker 2: beloved across the NBA. That's what Fisher said, and I
Speaker 2: think that's true. He's widely hailed as a brilliant communicator.
Speaker 2: He's about as genuine as they come, in which plenty
Speaker 2: of dogs have eaten other dogs. Right. He continues to
Speaker 2: stay alive. Staying alive in this business very important. Great dude.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna get a fair shake. I don't
Speaker 2: think this is a rented seat. I think he if
Speaker 2: he continues to have this team locked in and playing well.
Speaker 1: Unlessen Katie's endorsement is very meaningful.
Speaker 2: He said more about Vaughan last night after the win
Speaker 2: against the next, blowout win against the next, more than
Speaker 2: he's ever said about Steve Nash, who he considered his Yoda. Right,
Speaker 2: So he's never said, yeah, he's got us all clicking,
Speaker 2: he's got us bought into his schemes. Have you ever
Speaker 2: heard Katie say that about Steve Nash? Not a fucking word. Uh. Second,
Speaker 2: I feel for Imai Doka. This is this is not good.
Speaker 2: I think he got hammered by his team, and this
Speaker 2: time he's just sitting at home. He's the coach in waiting,
Speaker 2: and now he's not. He doesn't even know what's happening.
Speaker 2: He's literally just sitting there. And then the tides are
Speaker 2: changing before his very eyes. The sand is just slipping
Speaker 2: through the cracks of his fingers, the whispers of the
Speaker 2: due diligence was not fast enough on the net side.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what that means. We're gonna just
Speaker 2: move on. Hopefully things will quiet down in Brooklyn. Maybe not,
Speaker 2: Maybe Kyrie will just be released. Kyrie has been released
Speaker 2: by Nike. Now Phil Knight.
Speaker 1: Saying things about that. Maybe we'll talk about that more
Speaker 1: in detail. But can they win a chip with Katie
Speaker 1: in this supporting cast. I don't think it.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think so. But I'm
Speaker 2: very curious to see how Von manages this team. And remember,
Speaker 2: they got thirty five million dollars in cap space after
Speaker 2: this offseason Starts can't have a show apparently without a
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving update. This time it's about his standing connection
Speaker 2: with Nike. Following the passing of Kobe, people are been
Speaker 2: migrating over to Kyrie's shoes, and he makes phenomenal basketball shoes.
Speaker 2: I think, and I've said this long before, Kyrie top
Speaker 2: three basketball shoe in history, just really good shoe outside
Speaker 2: of the Kyrie six, Kyrie Irving shoes elite. That bridge
Speaker 2: now is burned. Kyrie's shoes are now all out with
Speaker 2: the window. Anti Semitism controversy swirling around Kyrie has caused
Speaker 2: Philly Phil my uncle. He's not really my uncle, but
Speaker 2: you know, we went to the same school Oregon go
Speaker 2: Ducks quack quack.
Speaker 1: But Uncle Phil has cut ties with Kyrie.
Speaker 2: Not just Nike, mind you, but the Godfather himself is
Speaker 2: weighing in on it, being like, yeah, I blessed it.
Speaker 1: He's fucking out. We're done, see you later. I'm good.
Speaker 2: Nike suspended the deal with Kyrie, and Phil said this
Speaker 2: on CNBC, Kyrie stepped over the line. I doubt that
Speaker 2: we would go back, but I don't know for sure.
Speaker 1: Then he says this, I was good with it. I
Speaker 1: was good with the move.
Speaker 2: He stepped over the line, and I was good with it.
Speaker 2: I don't know for sure. Is a very interesting piece
Speaker 2: because I do know for sure. I think it's hard
Speaker 2: for Nike to pick up that relationship again, unless Kyrie says, listen,
Speaker 2: I thought I was thought I was being really smart,
Speaker 2: and I was being really dumb, and I was just
Speaker 2: trying to explore my heritage and that caused me to
Speaker 2: downgrade other people's heritage.
Speaker 1: And you know what, that was foul of me. And
Speaker 1: I'm just not gonna say anything anymore. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: hoop and I'm gonna sell shoes. I don't even think
Speaker 1: that gets it done, because the more Kyrie gets backed.
Speaker 2: Into a corner, the more stubborn and absolutely just very
Speaker 2: vocal that he gets.
Speaker 1: It's a shame. It's a shame.
Speaker 2: Those Kyrie basketball shoes are fire. I've got a pair
Speaker 2: in the crip. You're gonna continue to wear those though,