Speaker 1: On this episode of This League. We do some cleanup
Speaker 1: on our All All Star episode, so you talk about
Speaker 1: why Blake Griffin chose the Nets. We cover the best
Speaker 1: rumors circulating the NBA before the trade deadline, and we
Speaker 1: break down why walk the ball up. Nate McMillan is
Speaker 1: one of the worst potential coaches to coach the Atlanta Hawks,
Speaker 1: and yet he still has the job. Much like our
Speaker 1: All All Star episode, Marty, the ratings are in for
Speaker 1: the big Game in Atlanta and they are shocking.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I'm looking at it. The Nielsen ratings. It's
Speaker 2: pretty interesting. Five point nine million total viewers. But in
Speaker 2: the eighteen to thirty four age group, T and T
Speaker 2: just crushed crushed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was crazy to me. They were the most
Speaker 1: few network in primetime for people under forty nine and
Speaker 1: the game, folks, the game had a bigger audience for
Speaker 1: folks under forty five than the Oprah interview with Megan Markle.
Speaker 2: How about that that?
Speaker 1: I did watch it after the bat. The All Star Game, though,
Speaker 1: as we know, was designed to promote and market HPCUS,
Speaker 1: and the court was branded they. I think they donated
Speaker 1: three million dollars to HBCUs through the through the confines
Speaker 1: of the All Star Game, which in hindsight kind of
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like a lot at all. And other than
Speaker 1: I guess, mister balloon hands and NBAT, it was a
Speaker 1: pretty good All Star weekend all in all, and the
Speaker 1: league made a shitload of money. So I guess to
Speaker 1: recap Adam Silver took the calculated risk and made the
Speaker 1: right decision, you know, considering everything, the assess, assessing the
Speaker 1: potential blowback, the health issues, and decided to just, like Bucket,
Speaker 1: We'll just pull the trigger.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I guess the biggest takeaway for me is that
Speaker 1: it is what it is right now in covid Land.
Speaker 1: Right the league is going to be very lucky if
Speaker 1: only the Sixers get screwed coming out of the break.
Speaker 1: And I have some reason why why You may ask
Speaker 1: Marty why why Tristan, Because it's shocking that Atlanta was
Speaker 1: not the city that had the most NBA players parlaying
Speaker 1: during the All Star break, not even by a long shot.
Speaker 1: Where do you think they were?
Speaker 2: Because you're asking, I'm going to guess, Miami.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Miami, Miami, baby, Oh my god, one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty NBA players parlaying in Miami.
Speaker 2: That's so many. I mean, there's only like four hundred.
Speaker 1: Almost yes, almost half the league doing god knows what.
Speaker 1: And the reason, folks that we know that there were
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty NBA players parlaying in Miami is
Speaker 1: because they have to let the NBA know where they
Speaker 1: are so they can get COVID testing. And one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty of them were setting up their little COVID
Speaker 1: schedule using the Miami Heat Facility and there were lines,
Speaker 1: drive through lines around the block so the NBA players
Speaker 1: could go get a swamp up their nose. Twice again,
Speaker 1: that is absurd. So Brian Windhorst talked about this on
Speaker 1: his pod and he said the NBA had an accurate
Speaker 1: account of how many NBA players were there. I was
Speaker 1: told it was in the neighborhood of one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty players in Miami over the weekend. I don't know
Speaker 1: for sure, but I think the testing site was the
Speaker 1: Heat facility. They had to give the players a schedule.
Speaker 1: It was a drive through and they had multiple lanes,
Speaker 1: multiple lanes. Marty Adam Silver was right. I guess like
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna do what they want to do we might
Speaker 1: as well make some money during the All Star break? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, that actually makes a lot of sense that
Speaker 2: he would think about it that way. I mean, if
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a break, players are going to congregate.
Speaker 2: I mean we just see it in our everyday lives.
Speaker 2: People are gonna gather like people aren't gonna follow the
Speaker 2: rules one hundred percent of the time all the time.
Speaker 2: So yeah, And the All Star Game was great. I
Speaker 2: had enjoyed it, So yeah, I think he made the right.
Speaker 1: I think so too, given everything that is happening with
Speaker 1: the league and the salary cap and potential shutdowns and
Speaker 1: shutdowns last year, I mean, you might as well get
Speaker 1: some money out of it if you're gonna have over
Speaker 1: half the league, not social distancing and in one spot.
Speaker 1: So I my final takeaway I guess is this. I
Speaker 1: have a little trouble empathizing with NBA players who complained
Speaker 1: about the All Star Game being unsafe, saying that it
Speaker 1: shouldn't have happened, and then watching half the league board
Speaker 1: a party bus during All Star Week in Miami. Half
Speaker 1: the league, what do you think, like half the league
Speaker 1: just happens to have family in Miami.
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I mean they probably had to like fill
Speaker 2: out a form or like something like why they went.
Speaker 2: That's probably part of part of the protocol, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: if it is, I would love to see.
Speaker 1: Those I need names. Who was in charge of this,
Speaker 1: Who was the leader of the group chat that was like, hey,
Speaker 1: hey guys, I know just the spot where we can
Speaker 1: all come through. This had to be coordinated. You can't
Speaker 1: get that many players in one spot without there being
Speaker 1: some sort of organized effort.
Speaker 2: I would say Kelly oubre is the favorite to be
Speaker 2: the ringleader has.
Speaker 1: To be who formed the group chat and said Miami
Speaker 1: or NA this league so everyone knows the news now,
Speaker 1: Blake Griffin to the Nets. I broke that story. No
Speaker 1: big deal. I am Adrian Ward Janowski's little sister, just
Speaker 1: scooping pools left and right. But the thing that we
Speaker 1: didn't know until he came to the Nets was it
Speaker 1: as soon as he got traded or fought out there
Speaker 1: they went from did you know this, Marty? They went
Speaker 1: from plus four hundred to plus two seventy five to
Speaker 1: win the title.
Speaker 2: Yeah, making them the worst bet in sports right now.
Speaker 1: They're in some books now the favorites, right, the Lakers,
Speaker 1: the defending champs are the only ones that have better
Speaker 1: odds in some books at two fifty. Do you know,
Speaker 1: by the way, do you know the basketball smoothie story?
Speaker 2: No? What's that?
Speaker 1: You don't know that? I don't, all right, So, when
Speaker 1: Steve Nash came to the Nets as the head coach,
Speaker 1: I wrote a blog. Don't google the blog.
Speaker 2: Okay, the blog was.
Speaker 1: The blog was not super excited about Steve.
Speaker 2: Nash being the Oh okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: So I got called on the Barstool Radio for with
Speaker 1: Dan Katz, Big Cat and a couple of other employees
Speaker 1: at Barstool, and we went back and forth. We sparred
Speaker 1: on why I didn't like the move, how I thought
Speaker 1: anyone could do the job and win based around at
Speaker 1: this point just Kevin Durant and Kyrie or just those two, right,
Speaker 1: it was Steve Nash, Kevin Durant and Kyrie. And Dan said,
Speaker 1: if they if the Nets win the title, will you
Speaker 1: eat a basketball smoothie, a miniature basketball made of rubber
Speaker 1: and put it in a Vitamins and and eat it
Speaker 1: live on camera? And I said no, And then he
Speaker 1: was like, no, you will, And I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: if I'm very confident and that's aw' gonna win the title.
Speaker 1: So if they win, yes, on a live stream, I
Speaker 1: will eat a basketball smoothie. And you know, I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit concerned.
Speaker 2: Now, I didn't know that part of it. Damn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm concerned because there was no James Harden. There
Speaker 1: was no Blake Griffin. All there were were two best
Speaker 1: friends with an injury history and a first time head coach.
Speaker 1: There was no Mike D'Antoni. There was nothing, nothing.
Speaker 2: He hadn't filled out the staff yet. It was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 1: Just the bare bones. I feel cheated, and as things
Speaker 1: come together, I am getting more and more nervous. Tell me,
Speaker 1: let's go into the quote about what Blake Griffin had
Speaker 1: to say on why he showed the nets and why
Speaker 1: I should be nervous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Blake said they have a need power forward
Speaker 2: and I'm close with DeAndre and Bruce Brown. It was
Speaker 2: a tough decision and I wanted to be on a
Speaker 2: team that was contending.
Speaker 1: I loved that it was like Bruce Brown. Then it
Speaker 1: was one of the lynchpins of the Blake Griffin sign,
Speaker 1: Bruce Brown. I can't come out here without my best
Speaker 1: friend Bruce Brown.
Speaker 2: People's players seem to love him. Players seem to just
Speaker 2: love him.
Speaker 1: I mean, he can give you thirty five on any
Speaker 1: given night. I am a big Bruce Brown fan. There
Speaker 1: might be a Bruce Brown segment. Who knows it. Also
Speaker 1: recently was said on some media outlet that it was
Speaker 1: KD who recruited him the most to come to Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: which you know, I guess Kat was kind of in
Speaker 1: that Draymond Green rowle where he was He's trying to
Speaker 1: put the pieces together, play little mini GM. I am
Speaker 1: very curious to see how Blake fits into the system.
Speaker 1: I guess they're gonna use him as a playmaker.
Speaker 2: I don't know. There's actually kind of like a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff they could do with him. I don't really
Speaker 2: love it, honestly. I don't think Blake is really gonna
Speaker 2: move the needle for them that much. I think they're
Speaker 2: gonna try really hard and nothing really is going to
Speaker 2: change that much.
Speaker 1: And I guess I think that he could be excellent.
Speaker 1: I have seen a lot of Detroit Biscos games, as
Speaker 1: you know, Marty and Blake Griffin as a hustleman, as
Speaker 1: a man who can pass kick out. He has gotten
Speaker 1: double teams his entire career. He will no longer ever
Speaker 1: get double teams if he comes off the bench, you know,
Speaker 1: and play some second unit minutes and they can't double
Speaker 1: him because maybe Kyrie is in there and Joe Harris,
Speaker 1: pretty boyd, Joe Harrison of course all star Bruce Brown
Speaker 1: is in there hitting from the corner. I think it
Speaker 1: could be great. I think it could and you know what,
Speaker 1: and if it's not great, you're paying them the minimum?
Speaker 2: Well right, yeah, yeah, And I definitely think it needs
Speaker 2: to be a bench roll, like when they when he
Speaker 2: first got bought out, and I started thinking like, oh,
Speaker 2: like what if we brought him in Phoenie. I know
Speaker 2: people probably hate me because all I do is ever
Speaker 2: talk about my team, But when I was thinking of that,
Speaker 2: I was just thinking, like, if we could give Frank
Speaker 2: Kminski's minutes to Blake Griffin, like that'd be sweet. But like,
Speaker 2: that's all I was really thinking of. I wasn't thinking like, oh,
Speaker 2: let's get Blake Griffin to come in here and start
Speaker 2: a power forward for us. That was never a thought
Speaker 2: on line.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think especially when KD and as I think
Speaker 1: we're starting to see KD is more injured than people
Speaker 1: wanted to say in the beginning. They like to they
Speaker 1: like to use the wing and the power forward to
Speaker 1: facilitate the playmate, and when Kd's out, they can't do that,
Speaker 1: and that changes the complexity and the complexion of their
Speaker 1: offensive system in a way that can hurt them. So
Speaker 1: I think Blake could be that piece for them. I
Speaker 1: think it's a great pickup. And like I said, if
Speaker 1: it doesn't work out, you paid him one point two
Speaker 1: million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no risk.
Speaker 1: Great for the Nets, not for me, I would say,
Speaker 1: just another piece. If Vegas is starting to put them
Speaker 1: as the favorite to win it all, that's how you
Speaker 1: know it's a meaningful piece. I doubt that if I
Speaker 1: have to eat the basketball smoothie, I will ever get
Speaker 1: it down. Like, I don't even think that that's possible.
Speaker 1: I could go to the hospital for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you should google it. Is it even safe to do?
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm consulting my doctor about it. All
Speaker 1: I can say is this, Anthony Davis better get healthy
Speaker 1: right quick and maybe hopefully the Lakers can have a
Speaker 1: couple of tricks up their sleeve in order to make
Speaker 1: it even more difficult for the Nets and that is
Speaker 1: what the next segment is for it, Marty, how great
Speaker 1: is that for a segue for Dan Gilbert and Lebron James.
Speaker 1: I mean, just look at those lyrics. Look at those
Speaker 1: lyrics and imagine Celo Green is Dan Gilbert singing to
Speaker 1: Lebron James. Just imagine it, and and now you know,
Speaker 1: Now you know what this segment is all about. This
Speaker 1: is a perfect representation of Dan Gilbert cheap by cheating, stealing,
Speaker 1: doing whatever that he can to keep Lebron James in
Speaker 1: his grasp and to keep Lebron James from winning a
Speaker 1: title when he leaves just a salty, bitter ex that
Speaker 1: is Dan Gilbert. Dan Gilbert was trending, Marty. We talked
Speaker 1: about this a couple of days ago when it happened.
Speaker 1: He is trending because Andre Drummond, you know, wants out
Speaker 1: of Cleveland, as pretty much everyone wants out of Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and his big contract has rumored he's gonna get bought out,
Speaker 1: but he wants to go to La Right. People are saying,
Speaker 1: the world is saying, where's Andre Drummer gonna go? Is
Speaker 1: he gonna match up and come with Lebron James, be
Speaker 1: a big man to back up Anthony Davis is Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis gonna get healthy? Who knows Andre's perfect? And then
Speaker 1: Baron Davis comes through and Baron Davis drops a tweet
Speaker 1: to show us why Dan Gilbert is the biggest piece
Speaker 1: of shit this side of Donald Sterne. Let's go over
Speaker 1: Dan quickly before we talk about this tweet. Dan Gilbert's
Speaker 1: illustrious career as an owner of the Cast. He drafted
Speaker 1: Braun out of high school and surrounded this dude with bumps, right,
Speaker 1: I would say there were bumps for seven years.
Speaker 2: Didn't didn't acquire Amri Stottammeyer because he was too attached
Speaker 2: to JJ Hickson famously.
Speaker 1: JJ Hickson by the way, great Blazer, so terrible cat.
Speaker 1: Then Braun was like, you know what, I'm tired of
Speaker 1: playing with bumps. I'm tired of having to do everything
Speaker 1: I want to win a title. And he bounced, and
Speaker 1: then Dan Gilbert proceeded to write a letter in comic
Speaker 1: sans of distirating him, basically saying, you know what, Lebron,
Speaker 1: I've got a voodoo dall set up with pins and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna push inside of it. You're never gonna win
Speaker 1: a title. Yourselfish you're awful, like he said so much shit.
Speaker 1: It was like, I can't even believe that this is real.
Speaker 1: You're disloyal. You promised us, you promised Cleveland you would
Speaker 1: win a title. And then he said, you know what,
Speaker 1: We're gonna win a title before you do, Lebron James,
Speaker 1: which was you crazy?
Speaker 2: That was cootl hilarious. The funniest part of it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like Lebron was like, hey, I'm leaving. He
Speaker 1: didn't know where Lebron was gonna go. It was like,
Speaker 1: I'm leaving with Chris Bosh and to join d Wade
Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, Cleveland's gonna win a title for you, okay,
Speaker 1: And so they did. He he and they did win
Speaker 1: two titles, and he decided for some ungodly reason, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Lebron James, being one of the best humans
Speaker 1: on Earth, says you know what, I will go back
Speaker 1: to Cleveland. I will win a ring for Cleveland. That's
Speaker 1: just one of the craziest for stories.
Speaker 2: I love it to.
Speaker 1: Go back to the guy who said all of those
Speaker 1: things and he has zero interest playing for him, and
Speaker 1: he's like, I love Cleveland so much that I'm going
Speaker 1: to go back just to get them all ring and
Speaker 1: I am going to get the fuck out. So why
Speaker 1: on earth would Dan Gilbert be mad? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know why Dan Gilbert would be so petty
Speaker 1: still now that he has gotten a ring from Lebron
Speaker 1: James probably will never get a ring ever again. What
Speaker 1: is there to be so salty about? Don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: Dan Gilbert is just a prick. But Baron Davis then
Speaker 1: tweeted this, he decided to comfort Gilbert's neck when Drummond
Speaker 1: was rumored to be bought out, right, So what did
Speaker 1: h What did Dan Gilbert do? Because I guess Baron
Speaker 1: was on the calves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was. It was after the Mo Williams trade.
Speaker 2: It was Blake Griffin's rookie year Clippers. So uh, Baron
Speaker 2: Davis said, Uh, I remember, Dan Gilbert sent a message
Speaker 2: to me. He wouldn't let me out of my deal
Speaker 2: if I went to play with Lebron. Facts. He knew
Speaker 2: that where I was going. So they played hardball. He said,
Speaker 2: if I went to play with Lebron, he would win
Speaker 2: a title. I told him Lebron gonna win one anyway.
Speaker 1: And he did. My gosh, yes, Dan Gilbert. It was
Speaker 1: Baron Davis that was gonna stand in the way of
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat getting a ring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Baron Davis is gonna d up Dirk, Like, what.
Speaker 1: Are we doing here? This though? Is Dan Gilbert in
Speaker 1: a nutshell to me? Like the funniest thing is like
Speaker 1: the guy's gone and you're doing everything in your power
Speaker 1: to make his life worse. Like Dan Gilbert. To me,
Speaker 1: Marty is the girl. We'll call her Dan Yell right
Speaker 1: instead of Dan. He hooked up, got lucky with the
Speaker 1: hottest guy in high school, right, Like somehow, some way
Speaker 1: locked into this continuously gas lit Her boyfriend told him,
Speaker 1: You're not shit, You're never gonna be shit. You could
Speaker 1: only be with me. This is only gonna work with me.
Speaker 1: And for seven years he put up with it, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden he was like, Wow, there's
Speaker 1: this hot girl in Miami. She wants me, She's got
Speaker 1: a job, she's got good culture, good family. I wanna
Speaker 1: go and hang out with her. He leaves, and Danielle
Speaker 1: just goes full ham on Facebook, starting tweeting things away,
Speaker 1: starts talking about his mom, starts talking about things that
Speaker 1: aren't even true, showing up at his job, and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. A public life letter aka the Rets,
Speaker 1: turning all the family and friends again against them, saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, you're never gonna shit without me. You
Speaker 1: promised me, you promise me a baby. And then you
Speaker 1: know what, after he with that other woman has a
Speaker 1: couple of kids. It works somehow, some way, the family,
Speaker 1: the friend, someone got into his head and they were like,
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe you should try to make it
Speaker 1: work with Danielle. Maybe you should just go back there
Speaker 1: and see, you guys have been together for a long time.
Speaker 1: She was your first. Just go back there, see if
Speaker 1: you can give her a baby. Just see they reconcile him.
Speaker 1: You know what. Yep, they have a baby together, and
Speaker 1: then Danielle proceeds to be one of the worst baby
Speaker 1: mamas of all time. Just still, after they break up,
Speaker 1: he leaves, of course to go to Angelo, right the
Speaker 1: City of Angels, and she continues to just wreak havoc
Speaker 1: at every step of the way. Still, Sophie still try
Speaker 1: to fuck up his life for no reason whatsoever, doing
Speaker 1: everything that she can to make his life worse. This
Speaker 1: think about this Marty, a billionaire, a billionaire doing everything
Speaker 1: he can for no reason, to make another billionaire's life worse,
Speaker 1: to thwart the plans of another billionaire. He just wants
Speaker 1: to be happy. He wants to be in love, yes, right,
Speaker 1: he wants love. Couldn't find love with Dan Yelle. Found
Speaker 1: love in Miami, found love in Los Angeles, went back
Speaker 1: to his home to give the love to his city,
Speaker 1: which he did, and Dan Gilbert just still doesn't is
Speaker 1: not satisfied with that. And let's just say this, do
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if you know this, Marty,
Speaker 1: but like this is not even a fraction of how
Speaker 1: bad Dan Gilbert is. It is not even close in
Speaker 1: his lowis moment, Go google quick and loans Justice Department.
Speaker 1: When you get a second, go down that rabbital. It's gross.
Speaker 1: It's gross. How gross is it's It's about as gross
Speaker 1: as a basketball smoothie will taste. If Dan Gilbert blocks
Speaker 1: Andrey Drummond from going to the LA Lakers, that's how
Speaker 1: gross it is this league. So March twenty fifth, the deadline, Marty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: got a couple of weeks and you know shit is
Speaker 1: about to pop. We have now going to skip the
Speaker 1: question segments all together, just so that we can cover
Speaker 1: all the rumors that are circulating, some of the wild ones,
Speaker 1: some of the most fun ones. I think the most
Speaker 1: fun one is about the most trash team. This is
Speaker 1: probably one of the most absurd stories that I've heard.
Speaker 1: Worst team in basketball, Houston Rockets. It appears that they
Speaker 1: are having a fire sale. Everything must go. Everything they said,
Speaker 1: everything's happull That's what happens basically when you lose the
Speaker 1: last thirteen games going into the All Star break. Jake Fisher,
Speaker 1: some reporter says that Raphael Stone the GM is quote
Speaker 1: unquote starting to call around on everyone, starting to pitch
Speaker 1: his little shopping cart filled with all of his players,
Speaker 1: like who do you want? Olivipo likely gone. Appears he's
Speaker 1: looking for a max deal, and he's rehabbing in Miami
Speaker 1: right now, so you know he's probably in Miami. He
Speaker 1: actually might be the one who started that group chat
Speaker 1: being like, hey, I'm doing a little redhab actionly trying
Speaker 1: to come PJ. Tucker also looks like he's gone okay.
Speaker 1: It looks like he either wants to go to any
Speaker 1: contender Bucks, Nets, heats Lakers, Philadelphia, Nuggets, Wolves, and but
Speaker 1: what was crazy is that that the Rockets were only
Speaker 1: gonna let him go at one point for a first
Speaker 1: rounder or three second rounders. How delusional is that PJ.
Speaker 2: Tucker is thirty five or thirty six.
Speaker 1: How he's thirty five and he's shooting thirty one from three?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, people don't realize how old he is because
Speaker 2: he spent six years overseas before.
Speaker 1: He came four and a half rebounds compared to six
Speaker 1: and a half. I mean, his book price is just plummeting,
Speaker 1: and they're like, give us a first rounder. Fuck you, No,
Speaker 1: nobody wants a thirty five year old guy for a
Speaker 1: first round pick. I'm sorry, we want PJ. Tucker, not
Speaker 1: at that price. John Wall also likely maybe once out
Speaker 1: if they have the fire sale and he's the only
Speaker 1: one left, Like James Harden, Remember what James Harden said,
Speaker 1: that could happen very fast with John Wall. Get me
Speaker 1: the fuck out of this place. All the supporting cast
Speaker 1: on the block, Daniel House on the block, Ben Macklemarn
Speaker 1: Sterling Brown, John Tate, and it appears that no one's saying.
Speaker 1: No one is untradable for the Houston Rockets. And the
Speaker 1: funniest thing was what one assistant GM said that Houston
Speaker 1: is going to burn the house down.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. Yeah, this is gonna be a completely new
Speaker 2: team next year. Yeah that that feels like it's on.
Speaker 2: That's the trajectory for it.
Speaker 1: It's just christian Wood. Good luck, christian Wood. Houston's a
Speaker 1: beautiful place in the summer right here. So then let's
Speaker 1: move on. Let's move on. It's not it's actually a
Speaker 1: ship home. Next we move on to the unusual case
Speaker 1: of Kyle Lowry. I've been saying this, You've been saying this.
Speaker 1: Everybody's been saying Kyle Lowry to the Sixers right. House
Speaker 1: is sold in Toronto and he lost money on it.
Speaker 1: He lost money on a house. Okay, that tells you things.
Speaker 1: Things are happening. When you're losing money on a house sale,
Speaker 1: you're out. You want to move it fast. You're looking
Speaker 1: for a new place in a new city. Bill Simmons
Speaker 1: and Risillo spilled the tea.
Speaker 2: Did you hear this team on their latest part or yeah?
Speaker 1: That he has been running around telling Kyle Lowry has
Speaker 1: been running around telling everyone that he's getting traded for
Speaker 1: a month now. And then Lowry came up on ig
Speaker 1: and was like, Hey, the lies people telling them me
Speaker 1: are amazing. Do not put a thing out if it
Speaker 1: didn't come for me. Matt sounds like salty balls because
Speaker 1: then he also said Toronto will always be my home.
Speaker 1: Toronto will always be my home, which also means you're
Speaker 1: out of the door. No one says like James Harden
Speaker 1: said that right when he left. Yeah, Houston will always
Speaker 1: be my home. And it's like you're in Brooklyn right now.
Speaker 1: He also then said he also then said, I want
Speaker 1: to retire a raptor, even if it's on a one
Speaker 1: day contract.
Speaker 2: That seems like you're out the door for sure.
Speaker 1: Anyway. Also, Nikola Vucevic, another name on the trade block,
Speaker 1: gotta be one of the most desirable names that could
Speaker 1: possibly be trade right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. In terms of actual production, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: He's averaging twenty five twelve and four, shooting forty one
Speaker 1: percent as a big man from three and he has
Speaker 1: two seasons left on his contract. I think everyone everyone
Speaker 1: wants Nikola Utavic, and especially Boston. His stock price right
Speaker 1: now is hoigh high high. The Magic says we don't
Speaker 1: want to move him, but really you don't. Are you
Speaker 1: sure you're the Magic? You're not winning any time soon,
Speaker 1: anytime soon. We also know LaMarcus Audres is on the move.
Speaker 1: Your boy Greg Popovich said that he's gonna try to
Speaker 1: work something out for LaMarcus because he's been good to
Speaker 1: the franchise, so he's not gonna play him. Here's the
Speaker 1: little spin. Here's a funny spin. When Detroit and Cleveland
Speaker 1: don't play their stars, they're a shitty organization, right because
Speaker 1: and then when Popovich does it, it's like he's being
Speaker 1: good to LaMarcus. He's like, LaMarcus, you've been so good
Speaker 1: to our team. We don't want to see you get injured.
Speaker 1: We're gonna sit you out when you're healthy. And everyone's
Speaker 1: like Pop is the best. I love Pop. It's like
Speaker 1: the exact same thing. And then last night they went
Speaker 1: six minutes in the fourth quarter without scoring, and they
Speaker 1: because they had a healthy scratch LaMarcus Aldridge sitting on
Speaker 1: the bench, and everybody's like Greg Popovich is the best.
Speaker 1: That's the medium for you. Also, let's talk Celtics for
Speaker 1: a second, because the Celtics are probably the biggest team
Speaker 1: that's been swirling with trade rumors since the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season. Right, Trader Danny's gotta do something. Trader Danny
Speaker 1: says he's gonna do something. Trader Danny needs to do something.
Speaker 1: Here's some Barnes. They just keep saying, here's some Barnes,
Speaker 1: here's some Barnes. Kings are asking a lot for him.
Speaker 1: They say that they want to use Tatum at the four,
Speaker 1: Harrison Barnes at the three line up flexibility. Great, Harrison
Speaker 1: Barnes is on a team friendly deal. I think he
Speaker 1: makes twenty this year, eighteen next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that. Too much.
Speaker 1: And Celtics fans, I hate to break it to you,
Speaker 1: but the key centerpiece of this trade Marcus Smart. Marcus
Speaker 1: Smart might be traded. It's either Robert Williams or Marcus Smart.
Speaker 1: And I tell you who I would want to buy
Speaker 1: was the kids. His name is not time Lord, his
Speaker 1: name is not Robert Williams.
Speaker 2: If Robert Williams.
Speaker 1: Loves report native Robert Williams can't make a flight on time,
Speaker 1: Robert Williams, I tell you what if Marcus Smart ends
Speaker 1: up getting traded, the victory lap will be nonstock. I
Speaker 1: might say it on every single episode. Hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: just like I said, need to move on from Marcus Smart,
Speaker 1: you did, and you're gonna be better for it because
Speaker 1: now you have Harrison Barnes. Anyhow, Celtics looks like Celtics
Speaker 1: look like they want LaMarcus Audridge. They're looking for a
Speaker 1: big man that can shoot. Larry Nance Junior is also
Speaker 1: on the radar. They're high on Jeremy Grant, which they
Speaker 1: will not get. Everybody thinking that they can get Jeremy Grant.
Speaker 2: It's just a certain I don't know why, Like it's
Speaker 2: having a career year in his first year on a
Speaker 2: new team that they really don't have any other assets
Speaker 2: to be proud of, Like I don't Yeah, no, there's
Speaker 2: no way they're getting.
Speaker 1: Rid of him anyway. The TPE, we'll talk about the
Speaker 1: trade player trade a player exception, not going to use
Speaker 1: it until the off season appears. So Boston is big trash.
Speaker 1: They need to make a move. I hope they trademark
Speaker 1: smart just so that I can be right. I don't know, Mary,
Speaker 1: Boston has a problem. The problem is that they had
Speaker 1: great players and they traded those players away and they
Speaker 1: got worse players in return, or they left in free
Speaker 1: agency and they and they didn't get anything for them.
Speaker 1: Would you agree that that's.
Speaker 2: The problem They've got several problems. Their rosters just constructed
Speaker 2: really weird. Uh yeah, I don't know, it's hard to pinpoint,
Speaker 2: but yeah, no, they had not been managed particularly well
Speaker 2: the last like season and a half.
Speaker 1: No, we're going to be keeping a close eye on
Speaker 1: these rumors. There's going to be every single week, every
Speaker 1: single day, it feels like something else is coming out.
Speaker 1: So we're going to be keeping an eye. We will
Speaker 1: update you more on next episode in advance of the
Speaker 1: March twenty fifth deadline. Let's move on. Yeah, I'm feeling myself.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling myself because we talked about Nate McMillan as
Speaker 1: the interim head coach. My initial instinct was this is terrible.
Speaker 1: This is a terrible decision. And I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: as a woman in the media, they will flame you
Speaker 1: if you are not bringing facts coming with scats, numbers,
Speaker 1: hard data. They're gonna be like, you don't know basketball.
Speaker 1: So I said, okay, I'm gonna go off and do
Speaker 1: some research, read a bunch, go back into the history
Speaker 1: books about his time as a head coach, and you
Speaker 1: know what, I feel the same way, feel the exact
Speaker 1: same way. So my original feelings were pretty much spot on.
Speaker 1: So I'm feeling myself. Let's get into it. Zero point one.
Speaker 1: This is what we know. Nate McMillan does not want
Speaker 1: the head coaching job of you Lite. He does not
Speaker 1: want to be a head coach in this league because
Speaker 1: I believe this is me just my belief is that
Speaker 1: he knows he's in over his head and he's not
Speaker 1: good at that job. That's what I believe. I know
Speaker 1: that he does not want that job because he said
Speaker 1: he reluctantly took it and he had to be forced
Speaker 1: into it by Lloyd Pierce. Lloyd Pier's like, YO, just
Speaker 1: take the job. Just take it for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. You don't have to even have it after
Speaker 1: the season is over, Okay. What we also know is
Speaker 1: that Nate McMillan has a reputation, a reputation for being
Speaker 1: very slow, for being very methodical, and he is now
Speaker 1: the interim coach of one of the youngest, hottest, precious,
Speaker 1: fastest teams in the NBA. I would say those two
Speaker 1: facts are almost everything you need to know unless you're me,
Speaker 1: So I have to give more data. So what we
Speaker 1: also know is that Nate McMillan he can get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and he can't do much more than that.
Speaker 1: In the nine years that he's been head coach, how
Speaker 1: many times do you think his teams Marty have gotten
Speaker 1: out of the first round.
Speaker 2: Ooh, it's not zero.
Speaker 1: It can't be no zero, it's not zero one two,
Speaker 1: it is one. It's not two, and it's not zero one.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. So he was a head coach in Seattle,
Speaker 1: head coach in Portland. This is how I know him.
Speaker 1: I know him from Portland. I am intimately familiar with
Speaker 1: Nate McMillan in Portland. Like, this is a guy who
Speaker 1: told Brandon Roy walk the ball up. Let me say
Speaker 1: it again. This is a guy who told Brandon Roy
Speaker 1: to walk the ball up even if there was a
Speaker 1: fast break opportunity, even if the other team missed the shot.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine walk the ball up? I mean, what
Speaker 1: what is this? This is like in twenty and twelve.
Speaker 1: In twenty twelve, the average points per game was ninety
Speaker 1: six point three. The Blazers scored like eighty eight points
Speaker 1: per game. He was always below the league average in pace.
Speaker 1: Every single time he's the head coach, his team is
Speaker 1: like the best that they possibly have been is twenty
Speaker 1: fourth ranked in pace of play. They're always the bottom
Speaker 1: in points per game two, they're the bottom tier in
Speaker 1: pace and points. That is gross. And what we know
Speaker 1: is now that's kind of like where we're going, right.
Speaker 1: The NBA is fast paced, needs lots of points. Offense.
Speaker 1: There was just an article written about the Brooklyn Nets
Speaker 1: changing the NBA because it's all offense all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean the Mike D'Antoni Sons, that four h five,
Speaker 2: like seven seconds or less team. I think if you
Speaker 2: if you took them and put them in today's NBA,
Speaker 2: they'd be like twenty seventh, twenty eighth in pace. Like
Speaker 2: it's changed that much in just like fifteen years.
Speaker 1: It's gross. Nate's most here's a fun fact. Nate's most
Speaker 1: two most successful years, the Blazers finished dead last in
Speaker 1: pace of play. Yuck. He got fired. Why because guys
Speaker 1: just weren't listening to him anymore. They said he lost
Speaker 1: the locker room. Yeah, no, sh you're dead last. No one,
Speaker 1: no Hooper in their right mind wants to walk the
Speaker 1: ball up to half court. Not even when you're six,
Speaker 1: not when you're twelve, and certainly not when you're a
Speaker 1: pro player making million dollars a year and somebody hits
Speaker 1: the ball off the rim and you're like, yo, I
Speaker 1: can go out on the fast break. Don't get feel
Speaker 1: good right from the shorties on the line. So yeah,
Speaker 1: he went from Portland and then somehow, some way he
Speaker 1: bamboozled his way to Indiana. Larry Bird said that the
Speaker 1: reason that he fired Frank Bogel was because he wanted
Speaker 1: to play a faster style. Frank Bogel was like last
Speaker 1: an efficiency and he wanted to have a more efficient
Speaker 1: and fast offense. I'm sorry, fast pace doesn't always go
Speaker 1: with efficiency. It needs to be noted that Larry Bird
Speaker 1: resigned after he hired Nate McMillan. That very next year
Speaker 1: he resigned, So wasn't a great idea all of that
Speaker 1: to say. Now he is the interim head coach in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: In Atlanta with Tray Young, Cam Reddish John Collins, the
Speaker 1: team that was scoring like one hundred and thirteen points
Speaker 1: per game. How many points do you think that they're
Speaker 1: going to score now in the second half this season?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're talking about John Collins who said,
Speaker 1: I'm tired of a drill sergeant. I'm tired of this
Speaker 1: authoritarian guy who's not listening to us, and you hired
Speaker 1: your interim head coach whose nickname is Sarge. What are
Speaker 1: you guys doing? Trav Travish like has to know all
Speaker 1: of these things. He has to. If I know them,
Speaker 1: he knows them. This is the decision making that I
Speaker 1: don't understand. That is puzzling me. These guys are constantly
Speaker 1: saying to Lloyd Pierce, the head coach of the Atlanta Hawks, Hey,
Speaker 1: we want to play a more free flowing style of offense,
Speaker 1: especially in the fourth quarter, like let us kind of
Speaker 1: rip and roll and read and react, and then they
Speaker 1: hire Nate. Were they listening? Were they listening to what
Speaker 1: these players wanted at all? John Collins, Trey Young, Cam Reddish.
Speaker 1: If you don't think it can get worse for you,
Speaker 1: it can. You don't like discipline, get ready for wind
Speaker 1: sprints and push ups and suicides F five am when
Speaker 1: you didn't walk the ball up on a fast break.
Speaker 1: The question that I have is is there a worst
Speaker 1: coach to replace Lloyd Pierce than Nate McMillan. If you
Speaker 1: tried to find one, I don't think you could. This
Speaker 1: better be fucking temporary Atlanta. Holy shit, but the only
Speaker 1: good news that I have for you and me, Marty,
Speaker 1: is that it creates a great opportunity for gamblers. I
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