Speaker 1: The NBA playoffs get underway next month, and I want
Speaker 1: to look ahead to the finals. Okay, but before I
Speaker 1: do that, if you listen to him, he'll tell you
Speaker 1: the world has been calling for him, the world has
Speaker 1: missed him. Everybody's got to see him. Nephew Josh is
Speaker 1: in the house. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: What's up man? How you doing?
Speaker 3: Bro?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 3: I'm great. Friday I had a bad day. I mean
Speaker 3: I got fired, got fired on Friday?
Speaker 2: You got fired? Yeah, even got fired.
Speaker 3: Well, I went to work.
Speaker 2: What you do?
Speaker 3: I went to work. I was I was drinking on
Speaker 3: a job, celebrating my contract. And how much do you get?
Speaker 3: Five years fifty million? Was it five years fifty million?
Speaker 3: Because I know you don't think the whole hundred million
Speaker 3: is yours.
Speaker 1: First of all, only a fool discusses their money's out. Secondly,
Speaker 1: it ain't nearly as it ain't as much as the
Speaker 1: report say. Number here's my question, here's here's mind. Couldn't
Speaker 1: know you don't have half?
Speaker 3: What that?
Speaker 1: You ain't my wife, I ain't marry you, we ain't
Speaker 1: getting divorced. You ain't getting ady.
Speaker 2: He told you that Number.
Speaker 3: One, you meet your wife. When you're an adult. We've
Speaker 3: been together since. I'm saying, box over here? Now, what
Speaker 3: were you saying?
Speaker 1: What the hell kind of hat you have on? Don't
Speaker 1: ask me for nothing?
Speaker 2: What do you have? What do you have for people
Speaker 2: to ask? What do you have?
Speaker 3: First of all, Friday, your nephew Jason came and woke
Speaker 3: me up talking about we rich I'm like, we, I
Speaker 3: know me and your uncle Richmond. Why are you saying
Speaker 3: that he the one to let me know that we
Speaker 3: signed the contract? Crazy find out from a twelve year old?
Speaker 2: So let me ask you.
Speaker 1: So, so, let me ask you this question because I'm curious, Bro,
Speaker 1: how is it that you're my nephew? I want you
Speaker 1: to explain this logic to me. How is it that
Speaker 1: you're my nephew and you think because I have a
Speaker 1: little something, you automatically have something. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to your own son, you saying what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: you don't. So, in other words, your uncle has an
Speaker 1: obligation to you, but you don't have an obligation to
Speaker 1: your own son.
Speaker 2: Explain that logic.
Speaker 3: Because my son spends most of his time with his mother,
Speaker 3: I be with you making sure you're right. You see me,
Speaker 3: I got here today on time. You're always say when
Speaker 3: I'm late, let the world now go? Was early today?
Speaker 2: You wan time? You on time for change? I give
Speaker 2: that you. But back to my point.
Speaker 1: He's still your son, I mean, and when you're not
Speaker 1: with him, it's supposedly because you're working. Right, So since
Speaker 1: you out there working, because you do know, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be responsible to take care of your responsibilities. Since
Speaker 1: you out there working, that's your son. Therefore you have
Speaker 1: more of an obligation to him than I do to you.
Speaker 3: Griff cut to the pictures because I don't think he's
Speaker 3: understanding where I'm coming from. I've been around since day one.
Speaker 3: Look at me. That's to me last time I graduated,
Speaker 3: by the way, But it don't matter. That's ups that's
Speaker 3: when you had a little hand. It's a little foward. Look.
Speaker 3: Don't nobody got these pictures but me. Shaw, I'm another one.
Speaker 3: Let me see smooth Stephen there. Look at Steve nads hairline. Look,
Speaker 3: I'm raising your value. They don't know you got this
Speaker 3: type of stuff, all white, slick. I was there for that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna kill you, you.
Speaker 3: Barbecue you back now.
Speaker 2: I I you understand what I'm going to do to Oh.
Speaker 3: And Stevie, you're a human being. People don't think you
Speaker 3: got kid pictures. I'm here now you go to gils
Speaker 3: Arena and stuff like that. They need to know you
Speaker 3: was a kid at one point. People don't think you're
Speaker 3: a human being pushing sixty.
Speaker 2: Why they don't think?
Speaker 1: They don't think I'm a human being because I got
Speaker 1: a little nephew that's talking about robbing me all the
Speaker 1: damn tom taking half my stuff like he's my wife.
Speaker 2: You understand that.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm That's what that's the problem that I have,
Speaker 1: more so than anything like that. I can't believe you
Speaker 1: found those damn pictures. I'm going to kill you, I
Speaker 1: swear to you. When I get back home, you're gonna disappear.
Speaker 1: The world is gonna be acting where his nephew, Josh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be buried someplace when I get through with
Speaker 2: your ass. Ooh, I'm gonna get you.
Speaker 3: There's a lot more picks in the cut, and they're
Speaker 3: don't get released if I go missing. I watch Power
Speaker 3: and I set my scene. So what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: Today, and you set your seeds, you set your scene.
Speaker 2: You set your scene by the way. As an aside
Speaker 2: before we get into the finals, Yo, bro, I was watching.
Speaker 1: I was watching Raisin Kanan season premier Friday night.
Speaker 2: I like, I mean, I'm for it. I'm for it.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you that right now. I like what I see.
Speaker 2: Do you like that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Raising Kanan is probably my second favorite, after a
Speaker 3: Regular Power.
Speaker 2: That Raising All right, so we got something in common.
Speaker 1: But see, I like Regular Power and then I like
Speaker 1: Ghosts with Tyreek.
Speaker 2: Right that.
Speaker 1: That Forced with Tommy is good to you know. I
Speaker 1: personally think they should be and I've been telling them this.
Speaker 1: I personally think they should come out with a political
Speaker 1: show with Lorenz Tape as the star of the show
Speaker 1: is the bad guy, because I think him in power
Speaker 1: doing his thing. I think he's phenomenal, and I think
Speaker 1: that he should have his own series.
Speaker 3: When you think about that, I thought so too. Ahead
Speaker 3: of the Force, don't really Tommy. Tommy's good, but I
Speaker 3: need Tommy with somebody else. Laurence Tate is an a
Speaker 3: one actor and now to definitely work.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you need them with someone else. I like
Speaker 1: those brothers he's with though I like those brothers. But
Speaker 1: but let me tell you this though, that that yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that that Latina he's got Tommy and Ford says
Speaker 1: that she's nice, she's nice, she's nice.
Speaker 3: I got.
Speaker 2: I gotta give credit with credits. Let me move on,
Speaker 2: Let me move on, Let me move on.
Speaker 1: I got some NBA stuff that I was thinking about
Speaker 1: this over the weekend, and I said, let me ask
Speaker 1: Josh about this, because I know you watch the basketball.
Speaker 2: A little bit. I gotta ask this question. I'm giving
Speaker 2: you four options.
Speaker 1: Right, you can take ratings, you could take basketball. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna categorize them as the best basketball matchup and
Speaker 1: the best ratings matchup. Right, you can put them in
Speaker 1: any categories you want. Lakers versus Boston Finals, Lakers versus
Speaker 1: Cleveland Finals, Boston versus OKC, or Cleveland versus OKC. Give
Speaker 1: me one through four, your best your favorite to your
Speaker 1: least favorite.
Speaker 3: Well, number one would be Boston OKC. And I'm gonna
Speaker 3: tell you why. I want to see Jason Tatum kind
Speaker 3: of dominate the playoffs all over again because of how
Speaker 3: he was treated in the Olympics. And I also want
Speaker 3: to see the player, the forward on Serbia that had
Speaker 3: outmatched him so bad that he couldn't play one second
Speaker 3: in the Olympic game. I think that he's on the
Speaker 3: path to destruction as far as the league, and he's
Speaker 3: being disrespected all yeah, y'all even have segments of how
Speaker 3: and why he's suspected. It's time for him to come
Speaker 3: out and show that he could be the face.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're saying the number one finals matchup you want.
Speaker 2: To see is Bosston versus ok s. Okay, what's number two?
Speaker 3: Number two? Is not anybody that that that you had
Speaker 3: in there? Because I feel like you're forgetting about Steph Curry.
Speaker 3: Why isn't he Why isn't.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't. I don't think. I don't
Speaker 2: think go to State, going to the funals, you don't think?
Speaker 2: So now, no, no, I don't think they got the horses.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, Steph Curry has gotten Harrison Bonds a championship
Speaker 3: as a small forward, Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant is Kevin Durant,
Speaker 3: but Andrew Wiggins champion. And now he got Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 3: I have seen Jimmy Butler go with with Tyler Herro
Speaker 3: and Kyle Lowry. Now he got Steph Curry. You don't
Speaker 3: think they're gonna put a run together.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think. I'm not saying they're not gonna
Speaker 1: put a run together. I'm saying that I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna get them to the finals. Who you got
Speaker 1: next after that?
Speaker 3: Cleveland and the Lakers. You'll know why, storyline stuff, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Lebron returning to Cleveland.
Speaker 3: Lebron returning to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what you got is for.
Speaker 3: For OKC and against Donovan Mitchell and them. I would
Speaker 3: like to see Shay against Donovan Mitchell. I'd be That's
Speaker 3: my c TV. That's a my S matchup.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me tell you why.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you my order right now, right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you why. First of all, when you think
Speaker 1: about OKAC versus Cleveland, that's the best game of the
Speaker 1: regular season this year.
Speaker 2: That's far.
Speaker 1: When OKAC went to Cleveland and Cleveland be there, it
Speaker 1: was the best game of the season.
Speaker 2: That was a thriller. Right.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you what I want right now,
Speaker 1: Cleveland versus la Lebron returning to Cleveland to try to
Speaker 1: knock them off and prevent them from capturing the championship.
Speaker 1: I think that would be huge ratings, all right, so
Speaker 1: I would want that that's number one. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Boston l a number two because that's just I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just epic.
Speaker 2: Yo, that's just epic. That's what See, that's you not
Speaker 2: knowing your history.
Speaker 1: Eighteen championships from Boston, seventeen for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaker 1: The two of them combined to capture thirty five championships.
Speaker 1: That's forty five percent of the seventy eight championships that
Speaker 1: have been won in NBA history. See, you don't know
Speaker 1: this stuff, you young whipping snapper. This is why I'm
Speaker 1: here for you. Okay, So that would be number two
Speaker 1: on the list. Number three on the list. Number three
Speaker 1: on the list would be okay, s versus Cleveland because
Speaker 1: of what we saw during the regular season, all right.
Speaker 2: And last would be okay, see versus Boston.
Speaker 1: But I think those last two will both be that
Speaker 1: would be the last of the four.
Speaker 2: That'll be the last of four.
Speaker 3: That's where I'm coming from with you got the Lakers
Speaker 3: at the top of your list twice you mean talking
Speaker 3: my list? You would rather see the Lakers in the finals.
Speaker 3: And you just mentioned that two times, right.
Speaker 2: Josh, Josh, Josh, Josh Josh. Where do I want to
Speaker 2: be in June?
Speaker 3: Where do you what?
Speaker 2: Where do I want to be in June?
Speaker 3: In LA? We all know that. Why why you basing
Speaker 3: what we gotta watch off where you want to be?
Speaker 3: We got a hundred million, we can go to LA after.
Speaker 2: We don't. We don't. We don't have that.
Speaker 1: We don't have that, And and the bottom line is
Speaker 1: that we got to go where the action is. So
Speaker 1: the point is wherever the games are is where I
Speaker 1: have to be.
Speaker 2: At least this year. That next year.
Speaker 1: You understand, I may not be on the NBA like
Speaker 1: that because you know, we got Chuck and Shack and
Speaker 1: them coming to ESPN and stuff like that. So I
Speaker 1: ain't got to go to the finals like that. So
Speaker 1: I don't have to be there like that. Don't bother me.
Speaker 1: You under saying they want me, they want me to
Speaker 1: They don't, they don't. I'm good, But I'm just telling you.
Speaker 2: This right now.
Speaker 1: I gotta be there this year because I'm covering the
Speaker 1: finals for ABEC. So of course I'm gonna think about
Speaker 1: my life. Man, I don't if I don't have to
Speaker 1: travel to Oklahoma City. Why would I want to do that.
Speaker 2: I don't do that. I ain't even no direct flights there. Well,
Speaker 2: since you put them, I had to flying the Dallas
Speaker 2: to drive three outs.
Speaker 3: Since you put it that way. I want to see
Speaker 3: the leaguers in the in the in the finals two
Speaker 3: because we will be there.
Speaker 2: We're gonna you come in to the finals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So why don't you tell an audience it doesn't
Speaker 1: happen unless I give you permission to go. Because you
Speaker 1: are the nephew and I am the uncle, why don't
Speaker 1: you tell an audience.
Speaker 3: That, Oh no, I got Genie Buss on Instagram and
Speaker 3: now my my, I got a blue check. So I'll
Speaker 3: be dming celebrities and stuff like that, and they be answering.
Speaker 3: So you're in trouble.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: I would slap you upside your head for lying and
Speaker 1: playing around if I didn't run into a couple of
Speaker 1: celebrities here in LA just the other day that said
Speaker 1: you had you had spoken to them?
Speaker 2: You've been you, you have been speaking to them. I
Speaker 2: know what's wrong with you.
Speaker 3: On March nineteenth, I bought a whole role at Glowriller's concert,
Speaker 3: at the Hammerstein Ballroom with the company cars. So you
Speaker 3: see it on the invoice. Don't text me about it.
Speaker 3: I told you ahead of time. You can come too.
Speaker 3: It's eight tickets.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna file your ass. You keep trying
Speaker 1: to spend my money. Tell you that right now.
Speaker 3: Can't unephew me sing the Gills Arena.
Speaker 2: That's it for this edition. That's Steven A. Smith. Shall
Speaker 2: go ahead say the last word. How ay y'all?
Speaker 3: I have one more thing to touch on, So you're
Speaker 3: not gonna bring me with you on Gills Arena. But
Speaker 3: I do want them to know. They were all basketball players.
Speaker 3: So when they was on the interview to be drafted
Speaker 3: by a team, that energy that they had during the interview,
Speaker 3: where you drop the street and you one hundred percent
Speaker 3: corporate because you're trying to get somebody's money. That's what
Speaker 3: you do. You do it all the time, you do
Speaker 3: it twenty four to seven. You live like you're on
Speaker 3: an interview. So when they add when they call you
Speaker 3: whatever they call you, when they question your blackness and
Speaker 3: stuff like that, I'm here to bring it back because
Speaker 3: if you have any questions, as you can see, i'm
Speaker 3: as black as they come, and then as black as
Speaker 3: it gets, we from the same house. And if anybody
Speaker 3: has a uh, you know, a problem with you, they
Speaker 3: have a problem to make.
Speaker 2: My little nephew coming. Hold on for second, here, did
Speaker 2: that's just hear my little enough, you try to speak up.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna grab some tissue. But it ain't nothing.
Speaker 3: The money sacks here, but I gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: expose us like that. You gotta cut it.
Speaker 2: I gotta go go. Good Bye, y'all, goodbye y'all.