Speaker 1: I heard about your thigh meat problem and like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: So I just stay away from you because ladies said,
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Speaker 1: a girl. What's burning? Jack? We got a special guest.
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Speaker 1: not even a guess. I guess it's the wrong word. Guess.
Speaker 1: It's definitely new member your guys house. I just want
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Speaker 1: Welcome Rachel to What's Burning. We appreciate you guys, What's Burning?
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for scheduling around my busy day to day.
Speaker 1: Can we discuss your clothes? Yeah, she made that. Jesus
Speaker 1: himself had to the way it looks, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: tell you a'd at it, and I get to Lord
Speaker 1: himself to send you point let me see, oh know,
Speaker 1: what's burning? Like? You should dress down normally. I'm shorts
Speaker 1: and T shirt. So we got you off guard today, Racheld.
Speaker 1: I heard about your thigh meat problem and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he got it, got rave reviews on the internet.
Speaker 1: So I just stay wait for you because ladies said,
Speaker 1: pull him up higher. I said, I can't. I got
Speaker 1: a girl. Anyway. Let's get to the show man coming
Speaker 1: in hot. Yeah for real, hottest team in the NBA
Speaker 1: right now Portland's Trailblazers um happy for chance and dame
Speaker 1: first and foremost. Uh four no, uh dam is back
Speaker 1: playing at all NBA level. Rachel, What has impressed you
Speaker 1: most by this early season start by the Trailblazers. Well,
Speaker 1: look Lillard, right, Western Conference Player of the Week. But
Speaker 1: here's all you need to know about Damian Lillard, right,
Speaker 1: this is the guy who if he's challenged, we know
Speaker 1: what he is coming back with. Right. So he missed
Speaker 1: her last season. A lot of people were like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know how he's gonna be. You know, Damian Lillard,
Speaker 1: he's not the best definitely in the NBA. All that stuff.
Speaker 1: If he gets hurt, what's all of that stuff? And
Speaker 1: it's any He's been talking a little bit recently and
Speaker 1: he talked about this first a year and a half
Speaker 1: ago that in the summer he ran into Lebron James
Speaker 1: at a w NBA game and Lebron was like, oh,
Speaker 1: come by the house sometime. So he's like all right,
Speaker 1: arrangements came by the house and guess who was there
Speaker 1: waiting for him, Lebron, Anthony Davis and some very expensive wine.
Speaker 1: And they basically spent the night trying to recruit him
Speaker 1: to the Lakers. I know, And he said that at
Speaker 1: the beginning, he was like, oh, let me think about this, right,
Speaker 1: at that point he wasn't not happy with the franchise member,
Speaker 1: and that he was like, you know what, through that
Speaker 1: conversation even reinforced me more, I want to do this
Speaker 1: my way on my team in my city. And from
Speaker 1: that point, and really from the point that they traded
Speaker 1: c J. Right, those things all happened within the same
Speaker 1: like six month period. He took an active role into
Speaker 1: building the squad that you are seeing out there today. Right.
Speaker 1: So Jeremy Grant, he played with him on the Olympic team.
Speaker 1: He recruited him, right. He knew that the defense bottom
Speaker 1: thirty the NBA the last couple of seasons needed a
Speaker 1: little pump. He recruited Gary Payton Jr. He has worked
Speaker 1: hard with Anthony Simon's so like, he has put so
Speaker 1: much more of himself into this team this year than
Speaker 1: I think we have ever seen him put before and
Speaker 1: this man is not done Jack. Obviously they're not going
Speaker 1: to go undefeated. Um, is this fool's gold or this
Speaker 1: sustainable for this team? I mean, it's good to see
Speaker 1: because you know, we're so many people over that we
Speaker 1: rock with, you know, Chon's Dame and the whole team,
Speaker 1: you know, and everybody's healthy right now. Nurkic is healthy,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole TiO. You have the whole team
Speaker 1: right now. So they're showing us what they can be.
Speaker 1: But we know it's a long season, you know, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's good to see right now. But I want to
Speaker 1: see this Portland team at the end of the season
Speaker 1: because Dame deserves to be, you know, at the top
Speaker 1: of the West. I got a chance to see Anthony
Speaker 1: Simon's play um in person, and I was so impressed.
Speaker 1: This young boy could put the ball in the basket.
Speaker 1: And one thing I like is he doesn't care how
Speaker 1: many shots he misses. He's gonna keep going. And I
Speaker 1: think you know that that that appreciate it from Dame standpoint,
Speaker 1: because although Dames playing great, he's getting older. He's not
Speaker 1: going to carry the load the entire time. So I
Speaker 1: like Anthony again two points in six minutes and the
Speaker 1: third quarter. Jeremy Grant was a great pick up. Obviously,
Speaker 1: g P two hasn't got a chance to get out
Speaker 1: there yet. But again, I like this team. I think
Speaker 1: they're more of a middle of the pack, lower playoff
Speaker 1: type team. But again, great start and hopefully I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I would love to see, like you said, I'd love
Speaker 1: to see Dame at the top of the West, but
Speaker 1: the West is tough and it's still early. Next up,
Speaker 1: one of the most impressive duos in the game, Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum and Jalen Brown Um picking up where they left
Speaker 1: off last year. Currently, Tatum is at thirty two and
Speaker 1: a half a game, eight rebound shooting from the field.
Speaker 1: Brown is at twenty four, five and a half, one block,
Speaker 1: one and a half blocks, and one and a half steals.
Speaker 1: Um off to a three and one start thus far
Speaker 1: slipped up. Last night, Tatum, Eastern Conference Player of the Week,
Speaker 1: broad didn't fitting in well. Early impressions on this Celtics
Speaker 1: team draft. I love the way they responded, you know,
Speaker 1: with everything going on out there, I love the way
Speaker 1: they had they responded out the gate. You know, they
Speaker 1: came out looking like this championship team looking like one
Speaker 1: of the best teams in the East. Uh, Tatum coming in,
Speaker 1: We said Tatum was gonna have to play a big
Speaker 1: role and up his gang with everything that's going on
Speaker 1: there and having a new coach on the sideline, and
Speaker 1: he doing that. Um, so they're responding the way they
Speaker 1: were supposed to respond. But you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: it's a long season, but it's a good way to
Speaker 1: see them start. Don't you think that the Celtics and
Speaker 1: the Suns have had the biggest fuck you energy in
Speaker 1: the league. You thought this offseason ship was going to
Speaker 1: derail us. You thought, oh, we're gonna fall apart, right,
Speaker 1: and both teams have been like, uh, this is the
Speaker 1: talent we have on the floor, and I love them,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Broaden Up. You know, being along the game long enough,
Speaker 1: bad teams, you know that'll mess up, like the Warriors
Speaker 1: out that situation with Draymond. Bad teams would you know,
Speaker 1: go in different directions. But these good, solid teams with
Speaker 1: solid foundation, it brings him together. And that's sometimes what
Speaker 1: the outside doesn't really realize. Absolutely. I mean, look and
Speaker 1: we're seeing it. And Boston is a question mark, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you lose your coach that close to the
Speaker 1: start of the season, it's a scramble and just any
Speaker 1: coach like he had these dudes playing great basketball in
Speaker 1: in the finals. Amen. And so it's it's a testament
Speaker 1: as you say to the good teams, to the guys
Speaker 1: like Tatum, to the house like Jalen who are able
Speaker 1: to say no, no, circle up, we got you. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be all right. The one thing I'll say about
Speaker 1: this team is their frontline depth worries me. And I
Speaker 1: definitely know that last year Robert Williams wasn't playing, wasn't
Speaker 1: healthy playing, and he saw he had to sit out
Speaker 1: every other game he had. His knee was flaring up.
Speaker 1: They need him to be significant in this league. I'm
Speaker 1: glad he got the surgery though, Yeah, because you just
Speaker 1: do it. Don't don't like inch along like last season.
Speaker 1: Just do it at the beginning to get healthy. You know.
Speaker 1: I like how they're you know, hey, we're not You're
Speaker 1: not going to see him till the second half of the
Speaker 1: the season, so there's no guests, Like, even if he
Speaker 1: feels better, make sure he rests because he's going to
Speaker 1: be an integral part, you know, everything he brings to
Speaker 1: that team they don't have, although they have other bigs,
Speaker 1: no one does what Robert Williams does. I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of him and he needs to be healthy for
Speaker 1: you know, Boston to be a serious contender this year,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Western Conference. Zion and the Pelicans off
Speaker 1: to a hot start. Zion's at twenty to a game,
Speaker 1: Ingram at twenty two a game, c J at twenty
Speaker 1: three a game. Um, I love this team. You know,
Speaker 1: our brother Willie Green is doing a good job over
Speaker 1: their head coaching. Um. Rachel first thought on this team's
Speaker 1: early start in what you've seen from Zion this far,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you brought up his name because everyone
Speaker 1: talks yeah, because Zion is just a magnet, right and
Speaker 1: never was like, oh, c J came in, and by
Speaker 1: the way, I am in the c J McCullum camp forever.
Speaker 1: I think what he does to a locker room when
Speaker 1: they brought him in, and so many people are questions
Speaker 1: of why do you spend this much in the trade.
Speaker 1: David Griffin knew exactly what he was getting and CJ
Speaker 1: has lived up to every part of that. Great player,
Speaker 1: but even better person, even better person, and just again
Speaker 1: the grown, He's grown up in the room, right, And
Speaker 1: you have of young players on that team. B I
Speaker 1: obviously incredibly talented, but it's up to Willy to manage
Speaker 1: all of that. And I think a lot of their
Speaker 1: early success comes from him knowing the right notes to
Speaker 1: hit at the right time. You can have a lot
Speaker 1: of talent and not know how to integrate them all.
Speaker 1: And those guys you can tell their team they're really
Speaker 1: playing together for each other. They're clearly gonna be a
Speaker 1: top five offense this season, right. And the questions the defense,
Speaker 1: and in that sense, it's just you know what I
Speaker 1: always say, it's how hard are you gonna play? The
Speaker 1: defense is just walk from the effort. Thoughts on this squad.
Speaker 1: Do you see them being a top seven team in
Speaker 1: the West? Top and you think they're in the top
Speaker 1: eight in the West? Let me put it that way.
Speaker 1: I see this team surprising a lot of people. I
Speaker 1: would say top eight team, like in that bottom half. Um.
Speaker 1: I just I think b I is going to go
Speaker 1: to another level with his game. I love you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying this kid. He has the attitude, he
Speaker 1: has the talent, he has a passion and the Janiel
Speaker 1: swing on you, and he's starting to come into his own,
Speaker 1: you know, he I think I think that they to
Speaker 1: pass him to touch on this team, let him know
Speaker 1: he's the guy. But just I, like you said, I
Speaker 1: like everything about it. It's gonna always My question is
Speaker 1: gonna always be Zion. How many games are gonna play?
Speaker 1: Like I've took worse of falls in that and I
Speaker 1: don't have he has, though I don't have the question
Speaker 1: he has and I got up and play, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I we need to see him
Speaker 1: on the court them to be successful Jack. I think
Speaker 1: if he had to play tonight, he would. I think
Speaker 1: there's only just more precaution because of his his past.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm looking forward for growth from him
Speaker 1: as a player. You know, obviously he's missed a lot
Speaker 1: of time, but he's still learning how to play this
Speaker 1: NBA game and he's putting up you know, video game
Speaker 1: numbers as far as you know, shooting percentage and you know,
Speaker 1: at twenty to a game. But I'm excited just to
Speaker 1: see his growth this year because I think there's so
Speaker 1: much more he can add to his game. But you
Speaker 1: hit on they had the key as his availability for
Speaker 1: this team next heading out to the the South Beach. I
Speaker 1: don't feel like there's any reason to be scared. But
Speaker 1: he or off to one of three start. Just what
Speaker 1: I expected, Jack thoughts get better. They did. They did
Speaker 1: not get better. This something. They didn't do anything to
Speaker 1: get better. The most entertaining thing they did this something
Speaker 1: was watching Jimmy work around with extensions. I was called
Speaker 1: him to you know, I said, jim how long I say?
Speaker 1: I told? I caught out my say. Jake Paul said
Speaker 1: he had bet hell but a million dollars. If you
Speaker 1: that that, you don't wear it all year, I say, bro,
Speaker 1: please wear it all. You saw I did this mirror,
Speaker 1: He said, I can't do it. They put down to
Speaker 1: his waist. If they didn't get better, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: as much as I want to see Jimmy here, dog
Speaker 1: like us, he come from my he come from our cloude,
Speaker 1: and I just want to see Jimmy win man, but
Speaker 1: they didn't get better. I don't see it happening right. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bet against that team until they show
Speaker 1: me that they can't get it done when it counts,
Speaker 1: because they have been there in that last chunk of
Speaker 1: the playoffs over and over and over again recently, so
Speaker 1: I give them the benefit of the doubt until they
Speaker 1: showed me they can't do it, and then I say, hey,
Speaker 1: what do we do need to fix them? I am
Speaker 1: amused that Jimmy Butler is going to have that photo
Speaker 1: taken on media Day thrown up on every broadcast for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season and maybe that might be
Speaker 1: his his look. Um, yeah, I'm with you, Rage, I'm
Speaker 1: not concerned. It's early. You know, all SPO teams are
Speaker 1: are gonna play hard to end up getting together. Jimmy
Speaker 1: is a great leader. What is Kyle Larry going to
Speaker 1: give this team this season? He's currently at about ten
Speaker 1: and a half points a game, but only shooting from
Speaker 1: the field. You see that Tyler Hero is now the
Speaker 1: starting point guard. I don't know if labels matter. I
Speaker 1: don't know Kyle Larry like that to know if it's
Speaker 1: going to bother him that Hero is the point guard.
Speaker 1: But they need him because to me, they don't have
Speaker 1: very much depth. So what is Larry at at age
Speaker 1: thirty six, is gonna be able to give this team? Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know older players get off the slower start. To
Speaker 1: see CP getting off to a slower star. But what
Speaker 1: does Lowry still have left in the tank to be
Speaker 1: able to add to this team, because whatever it is,
Speaker 1: they're going to definitely need it. I mean, Tyler Hero,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he's bothered by losing the spot to
Speaker 1: Town the Hero. Tyler is not a point guard. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna pay Tyler that much money and not play
Speaker 1: him a lot. True, but he's definitely not a point guard.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna win with him bringing the ball up
Speaker 1: and running place. He's a scorer. He can score at
Speaker 1: a high clip. I think that's why he paid him
Speaker 1: to score the buck and not to one play. So
Speaker 1: but I know as a as a as a guy
Speaker 1: who played a while, I know that that ball is
Speaker 1: Kyle liar because he's a dog too and he wanted
Speaker 1: to play. I mean, that's that's just main characteristic, right.
Speaker 1: But to me, it's it's not how he started. Tell
Speaker 1: you finished, right? So whether you're starting games, I don't care,
Speaker 1: are you out there closing games? Right? That's and then
Speaker 1: it's true this last weekend ahead for the whole season too,
Speaker 1: how you're starting the season versus how you end the season.
Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry dealt with a lot of personal stuff last year,
Speaker 1: and it took him away from the court, and it
Speaker 1: took him away from his normal conditioning. And I'm not
Speaker 1: shocked if he's getting a slower start to ramp up
Speaker 1: to this season. Let's check in on him and how
Speaker 1: he's finishing in the second half of the season. Then
Speaker 1: I'll be working a Maratha. We know that um Jack's
Speaker 1: favorite team, the Los Angeles Lakers, is off to oh
Speaker 1: and three star. You don't have a pennant in your bedroom.
Speaker 1: You know he's lying, right if he ever told a lie,
Speaker 1: he's just told me what I mean. Obviously, it's it's
Speaker 1: again it's early in its three games, but it's the Lakers,
Speaker 1: you know, and and you know, when I do ESPN
Speaker 1: and RACHE, you can recall whether they're winning or losing.
Speaker 1: We're talking about them every single day. So it's just like,
Speaker 1: and it's funny too because I've been talking to Darvin
Speaker 1: him a lot lately, and you know, just kind of
Speaker 1: letting him know what he's in for, and he's picking
Speaker 1: my brain and asking me stuff too, And it's just like,
Speaker 1: this is probably the hottest seat in basketball. It will
Speaker 1: always be the hottest seat in basketball. This team is
Speaker 1: off to a slow start, um Jack, what's your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Russ? And and and and not so much as play,
Speaker 1: just the way he's the stuff we've seen him doing
Speaker 1: kind of away from the team a little bit. I
Speaker 1: don't want to make anything out of contest or make
Speaker 1: anything bigger, but we've seen a couple of times, you know,
Speaker 1: him not getting huddles, him not do this. You know,
Speaker 1: we saw a d and Lebron's reaction. Russ was going
Speaker 1: forward to for one when they had the lead against
Speaker 1: Portland's the crowd, his home crowd, he's from here, His
Speaker 1: home crowd is booing the dog shit out of him.
Speaker 1: Um as a player who has always been mental tough,
Speaker 1: and that's when Russ has been What is what is
Speaker 1: your thoughts on just that? What I just spoke on, Uh, well, one,
Speaker 1: I just want Russ. I'm looking into my single kind
Speaker 1: of Russ. You're a dog bro. You one of the
Speaker 1: best players to ever play this game. Get your confidence back,
Speaker 1: get tougher skin, and try to block everything out. And
Speaker 1: what you're going through. Every player has went through. Everybody
Speaker 1: has slumps, so everybody had up and down the games
Speaker 1: that's been up and down, so you're not going in
Speaker 1: going through anything that nobody else has went through. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people on around the Lakers are making it bigger than
Speaker 1: what it is because they're not winning and everybody expects
Speaker 1: the Laker to be this team. But Russ, from a
Speaker 1: brother to brother, man, keep doing you find your game
Speaker 1: back and find your love for the game back, bro,
Speaker 1: because we know you can do what you need to do.
Speaker 1: Rage thoughts on Russ, but also the lack of shooting
Speaker 1: that Lebron is dressed in the media. Right. So look,
Speaker 1: I think the criticism of us all day every day.
Speaker 1: He's the problem that has been way overblown. Pretending that
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook is the only issue with this labor squad
Speaker 1: is just willful. I'm sorry. I do think that he
Speaker 1: maybe shouldn't be out on the floor closing games as
Speaker 1: we saw the other night, And I do think that
Speaker 1: he has to adjust a little bit. You say, oh,
Speaker 1: go back and get your game back. I don't know
Speaker 1: if at this age that is available to him. What
Speaker 1: made Russell Westbrook Russell Westbrook and we all saw it
Speaker 1: at his peak, his athleticism was off the chart, insane
Speaker 1: from end to end, North South on the floor getting
Speaker 1: up for those dunks, all the stuff that he did
Speaker 1: that you knew when you were watching him. It is
Speaker 1: absolute best. That is not the kind of game the
Speaker 1: ages in the NBA, the way say Steph Curry can
Speaker 1: hit jump shots until he's sixty, right, So I think
Speaker 1: there does need to be a little bit of acceptance of, Hey,
Speaker 1: instead of just going and trying to do the same
Speaker 1: stuff that you have done your whole career, how can
Speaker 1: I be good and helpful at this age and in
Speaker 1: this way. That being said, I don't know if he'd
Speaker 1: be trying to go to for one at the end
Speaker 1: of the game if there were more shooters on that team.
Speaker 1: And that goes back to the stuff that Lebron has
Speaker 1: obviously been talking about, and and look, he's right. Nothing
Speaker 1: he said. You might question how he said it, but
Speaker 1: nothing that he said was wrong. And it is mystifying
Speaker 1: to me sometimes that this team started when he got here,
Speaker 1: building a team around him that did not have shooting,
Speaker 1: saying oh, we think there's a different way to play
Speaker 1: with Lebron. I mean they came out and said it,
Speaker 1: and you just sat there and go, Miami, look what
Speaker 1: they did. Cleveland the second time, look what they did
Speaker 1: even the first time they knew how to play with
Speaker 1: shooting around him, trying to reinvent the wheel. When he
Speaker 1: got to the l A at the end of his
Speaker 1: career was it made no sense to me. Then in
Speaker 1: that season and they won the title, there was a
Speaker 1: boatload of shooting around him him and it was like,
Speaker 1: oh see they get it awesome, great And since then
Speaker 1: they have dismantled the shooting around him, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if there is a fix for that this season.
Speaker 1: I do think that there will be more players available
Speaker 1: towards the trade deadline, more good players, all star players,
Speaker 1: then we've seen in a few years, because the parody
Speaker 1: is crazy around this league right now. A lot of
Speaker 1: teams that think that they're going to be in the
Speaker 1: top four in their conference are not. They're not going
Speaker 1: to be contenders. And with such a good draft class
Speaker 1: coming up, I think you're going to see teams cut
Speaker 1: bait midseason and all of a sudden, some of these
Speaker 1: really great players will be available at a little bit
Speaker 1: of a discount from what we might have seen previous years.
Speaker 1: So the Lakers could jump in then not now then
Speaker 1: and do something or and I hate to say this,
Speaker 1: when Lebron is the age. He is about wasting one
Speaker 1: of his seasons. It's criminal. But the fact of the
Speaker 1: matter is if they just wait until the off season,
Speaker 1: they got a max salary slot, they have what at
Speaker 1: that point they will be allowed to use three first
Speaker 1: round picks. They can only use too right now, because
Speaker 1: I gotta wait to see how the season flips out.
Speaker 1: With the Pelicans, the idea that they could basically buy
Speaker 1: their way into a championship contender, it's a time honors
Speaker 1: Laker tradition. Free agents want to come to Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: The Lakers are one of the sterling brands. You could
Speaker 1: have a whole new team in June, and there is
Speaker 1: something to be said for if there's a great deal
Speaker 1: out there the deadline, take it. But if there isn't,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a long it's here. If they
Speaker 1: take that route, which which makes the most sense, though
Speaker 1: it's painful, you don't want to obviously, you don't want
Speaker 1: to waste seving Bron's in year twenty. You don't want
Speaker 1: to race any of his time. You know that he's
Speaker 1: continued to bless us with his greatness. But that makes
Speaker 1: the most sense because, like you said, you know, you're
Speaker 1: hearing rumors that maybe a Terry Rosier or you know,
Speaker 1: things that can come to the team. But people really
Speaker 1: think that Russ is the main and there's something there's
Speaker 1: not a very good roster. They don't play. There's so
Speaker 1: many other issues outside of Russ, but Russ is the
Speaker 1: escape goat. One thing I wanted to touch on Rachel,
Speaker 1: which I think you made a great point about, is
Speaker 1: Russ's game aging that he hasn't you know, kind of
Speaker 1: come to his head about, you know. And a perfect
Speaker 1: example to me is is someone like CP who has
Speaker 1: been able to modify his games to his age and
Speaker 1: being able to slow down and change the speeds and
Speaker 1: what made Russ so great. Now it's kind of harming
Speaker 1: him because that's the only way he knows how to go.
Speaker 1: There's never really been a change of speed, but he
Speaker 1: hasn't had to change speed because this speed was confunct
Speaker 1: with his speed. But now that it's slowing down and
Speaker 1: it's you know, and I think people are in his
Speaker 1: head as far ashoot. I mean, Russ has been you know,
Speaker 1: a pretty consistent when he was going a mid range shooter,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And now like it's hard
Speaker 1: when people just at ship. I'm not guarding that that
Speaker 1: ship is hard to make a shot with people you
Speaker 1: know they're a you're at the three point line of
Speaker 1: people just turned their head and walked to the rebound.
Speaker 1: That ship gets in your head. So I would love
Speaker 1: to see Russ find it. I don't know what to
Speaker 1: find it looks like at this age, but I just
Speaker 1: know there's just a lot of noise in l A
Speaker 1: around this team, and I don't know if they can
Speaker 1: they can straighten it out. So on the Radar presented
Speaker 1: you by Draft Kings, we have our odds on favorite
Speaker 1: to win m v P this year. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: through maybe the top eight uh. Luca plus four fifty.
Speaker 1: Joannice is number two with plus six fifty. Jaw made
Speaker 1: a nice jump. He's at plus seven fifty uh m
Speaker 1: B plus eight hundred, Jason Tatum plus eight hundred, Katie
Speaker 1: plus twelve hundred uh. Steph Curry is on their plus
Speaker 1: two thousand games at plus um Zion snuck on their
Speaker 1: um thoughts on m v P. Although you know we're
Speaker 1: three or four games and it doesn't really mean anything
Speaker 1: right now, but who on that list has really impressed you?
Speaker 1: So far. Jack Uh, there's obvious to go with two guys,
Speaker 1: John Mara and Jackson title. The way they're starting off,
Speaker 1: I think those guys have a great chance of actually
Speaker 1: winning this award, not just being up here. You know,
Speaker 1: the early season picks, they really have a shot at
Speaker 1: winning m VP right well, look right now, but the
Speaker 1: odds Luca's up top and then Janice I flip those personally,
Speaker 1: just because I don't know how many games the Mavericks
Speaker 1: are gonna win, and as someone who's voted on a
Speaker 1: lot of these awards, you do take that into account.
Speaker 1: The Bucks, we know they're going to be right, if
Speaker 1: not the top, around the top of the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: And he's just Janice is thirty to cut you off,
Speaker 1: thirty two and a half a game, twelve and a
Speaker 1: half rebounds, five and a half with the number one
Speaker 1: defense in the league, right, and that he is a
Speaker 1: huge part of right. So I just I still got
Speaker 1: to give it to him as a favorite going in
Speaker 1: here and what that would mean in terms of the
Speaker 1: history of the game having him win it for a
Speaker 1: third time. But I just I think that Luca could
Speaker 1: be right up there because when Sprounson left Luke is
Speaker 1: gonna like pick up more numbers. I just don't know
Speaker 1: how many wins. Doubts gonna get jaw Jaws on the mission.
Speaker 1: I think Jaws on the mission to lead the league
Speaker 1: and scoring their teams exciting. This is the new NBA.
Speaker 1: These dudes celebrate their party. They dance after games, they
Speaker 1: do selfies like, I love this new energy. Uh. They
Speaker 1: got stars at their game in Memphis. They're dancing on
Speaker 1: the court like. I love what. They've embraced him. He's
Speaker 1: their leader. They've they've thrown the grindhouse mantra out. They
Speaker 1: have their own I don't know what they're called now,
Speaker 1: but whatever it's called, that needs to be dope. But
Speaker 1: I love what he's doing, what this organization and team
Speaker 1: is doing, and I would love to see him go
Speaker 1: up there and grab that this year. But again it's
Speaker 1: early and Steph Curry still around um Man and closing thoughts,
Speaker 1: Adida's decides to terminate the Kanye West contract, along with
Speaker 1: several other brands that have kind of left his side. Rachel,
Speaker 1: what's your thoughts on this? They had to I'm wearing
Speaker 1: these today because I'm in support of their decision. You
Speaker 1: can't have someone saying that. And by the way, it's
Speaker 1: not just these most recent comments. We're talking about this
Speaker 1: before the show for a minute. The stuff he has
Speaker 1: been saying over the past few years, as great as
Speaker 1: an artist as he is, as much as he has
Speaker 1: given us sort of you know over over this time.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that stuff incites violence. We have seen a
Speaker 1: one to one of violence coming from the things he said.
Speaker 1: And when you are saying and doing things that physically
Speaker 1: are hurting innocent people, there's sorry. The KKK hijacked this movement.
Speaker 1: I think that was kind of the final step with
Speaker 1: the people that were on the freeway this past week
Speaker 1: and you know, throwing up the white power signs and
Speaker 1: Kanye's right. Jack thoughts on the situation, It's just it's
Speaker 1: it first, is this hard. It's hard to It hurts
Speaker 1: your heart, especially as a black man, to see somebody
Speaker 1: like Kanye, who we look up to, say so many
Speaker 1: hurtful things, not just only to other to other races,
Speaker 1: but to his own race, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And for me, it just hurts the things he said
Speaker 1: about George Floyd, you know what I mean, Because now
Speaker 1: his daughter asked coming off from school, asking why people
Speaker 1: bringing that up again? Right? And I went through a
Speaker 1: tough time doing that whole you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: in the whole George Floyd stuff, to try to have
Speaker 1: to relive it again, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: I just think that it just it just hurt from
Speaker 1: somebody we always we listened to and somebody would look
Speaker 1: up to to say these things. And uh, you hate
Speaker 1: to see the things happen to him, But you say,
Speaker 1: stupid ship you get stud I'm hurt too from a
Speaker 1: standpoint of what he's been able to mean for the
Speaker 1: culture when he was on the right path, and what
Speaker 1: he's been able to build for itself. If you think
Speaker 1: of what what he's been able to build for himself
Speaker 1: as far as music and fashion and culture, like he
Speaker 1: was up there, he was icon status. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't mind the ignorant stuff he says, because to me,
Speaker 1: that's freedom of speech, and you're not always going to
Speaker 1: agree with what people say. I just obviously have a
Speaker 1: problem with the hate, you know. And and and as
Speaker 1: we were talking off Fair, he was saying a lot
Speaker 1: of hateful stuff for a while. But you know, he
Speaker 1: spoke on the Jewish slavery you can't say that. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: you can't. You can just there's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: you can't say when it comes to hate. And like
Speaker 1: the end, he's been you know, kind of stabbing at
Speaker 1: all racist when it comes to that. But you know,
Speaker 1: he spoke on the Jewish community and almost taunting him
Speaker 1: like you can't, I can do this, you can't, and
Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately just I mean, that's just something you
Speaker 1: don't want to test. But again, and I overall, man,
Speaker 1: I just pray for him, you know, because I know
Speaker 1: he just needs some help, some hugs, some you know,
Speaker 1: you know, he spoke on his mental health issues and
Speaker 1: and and you know that probably needs to be addressed,
Speaker 1: but you never want to use that an excuse. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, man, I just you hate to
Speaker 1: see it because he's a father too, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, and you know his kids and he's gone,
Speaker 1: you know, he's had a you know, a situation with
Speaker 1: this girl, and whenever there's kids involved, it's just hard
Speaker 1: because his kids are old enough now to hear and
Speaker 1: you don't never want to hear nothing bad about your
Speaker 1: mom or they all got phones. Though they all got phones,
Speaker 1: they want to hear stuff. About your mom and dad
Speaker 1: and when it when it comes to this negative stuff.
Speaker 1: So you know, obviously planning for everybody involved, and you know,
Speaker 1: I mean I just hope he you know, gets some
Speaker 1: help that he needs and and and can get hisself together. Um.
Speaker 1: Another sad situation of Brittany Grinder latest, Um, her appeal
Speaker 1: was denied today. Yeah, right, was denied today. Um upheld
Speaker 1: that they're giving her time served, so they say at
Speaker 1: this point she still owes another eight years. Um. This
Speaker 1: is just sick to me and and all over. They're
Speaker 1: obviously trying to make any example but a little cartridge, Um, Jack,
Speaker 1: anything you want to say to her, uh, in case
Speaker 1: we can get that out to her on b G.
Speaker 1: You know we love you, uh men you've always been cool.
Speaker 1: We bought it to each other a couple a few times,
Speaker 1: but you know, we ride for you. Um. We know
Speaker 1: you've been doing wrong and anything we can do, we're
Speaker 1: trying to do it. But you have our support and
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll see you home soon. Right tel anythings support
Speaker 1: for b Well, I mean it's every time I see
Speaker 1: when she's up against I mean, my just heart drops.
Speaker 1: It just seems it's barbaric. I mean, there's no other
Speaker 1: word for what she's going through. I do have a
Speaker 1: question for you, guys, and I don't know the answer,
Speaker 1: so I'm just legitimately asking. She is one of the
Speaker 1: faces of the w n B A right, if this
Speaker 1: was one of the faces of the NBA who had
Speaker 1: been in this position, what do you think would be
Speaker 1: different in terms of what our government might do to
Speaker 1: help her out or the common public opinion. I think
Speaker 1: if it was a male star, he would be out
Speaker 1: when talking about this right now, have been out. No,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be talking about that. And I think obviously
Speaker 1: that's all guests, but it's a pretty solid guess. Like
Speaker 1: if if one of our stars, and I'm even throwing
Speaker 1: on his name, but if one of our bigger stars,
Speaker 1: faces of the NBA happen to get caught with some
Speaker 1: treat overseas and this kind of ship happened, I just
Speaker 1: have a feeling that he wouldn't still be sitting there.
Speaker 1: It just keeps every time I see it. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: you know what this happened with and I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe it w I mean, with the relationship between Russia
Speaker 1: and America right now is not good, and I think
Speaker 1: if it was a male started NBA, we would not
Speaker 1: be talking about this right now because we wouldn't be
Speaker 1: in there. But anyway, b G, we're sending the prayers
Speaker 1: out to you, your family, your loved ones, everyone involved
Speaker 1: in this situation. Keep your head up, um and you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully something will cry down to right. Hopefully cut someone
Speaker 1: come down for the pipeline and uh, you know, get
Speaker 1: you up out of there. But you, guys, thank you
Speaker 1: for your time today. That's a rap. What's burning? You
Speaker 1: can catch us on Showtime Basketball YouTube and on Twitter,
Speaker 1: Instagram and TikTok Show Basketball before we go. I saw
Speaker 1: the gleam in in in the smiling your face when
Speaker 1: you were up and going to state. How good was
Speaker 1: it to get back on the saddle. It was you
Speaker 1: guys know you're up there recently, but even more so,
Speaker 1: you guys are family to that organization. There's no better
Speaker 1: place to be on a night like that. Ring ceremony.
Speaker 1: I'm all in for a ring ceremony. Ring ceremony anytime
Speaker 1: in any sport. It's fantastic. And then you know you've
Speaker 1: got like first ballot Hall of famers everywhere you look there.
Speaker 1: It is just so much fun and great to reconnect
Speaker 1: and talk to those guys, and I'm excited about what
Speaker 1: they're gonna be this season. They're fun to watch. I
Speaker 1: was happy for you because I just a couple of
Speaker 1: times to camera caught you and you were just smiling.
Speaker 1: She was back in her elements. I love this game,
Speaker 1: you know that. Whenever anyway, man, We'll see you guys
Speaker 1: next week. Jeez,