Speaker 1: I got to get to the NBA All Star Weekend
Speaker 1: in the Bay Area. First were hometown hero Steph Curry
Speaker 1: captured the second All Star Game MVP to the delight
Speaker 1: of the fans at the Chase Center in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Curry scored twelve points in Team shacks OG's forty one
Speaker 1: to twenty five victory Sunday in the first of forty
Speaker 1: finale against Charles Barkley's Global Stars to win the league's
Speaker 1: new round robin tournament. The two teams had dismissed Candae
Speaker 1: Parker and Kenny Smith squads in the semifinals. Some of
Speaker 1: the players acknowledged the new format led to a more
Speaker 1: competitive product, but it was met with mixed reviews overall.
Speaker 1: Case in point, mister Draymond Green. The biggest headlines of
Speaker 1: All Star Weekend may have been generated by him, who
Speaker 1: expressed his displeasure with the changes to the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: When asked to rate the new All Star Game format
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten during TNT's broadcast,
Speaker 1: he gave it quote a zero. He questioned the addition
Speaker 1: of the Rising Stars to the Sunday All Star.
Speaker 2: Game festivities and said the new.
Speaker 1: Three game format quote sucks end quote. Quote it ate
Speaker 1: basketball end quote. A couple of things before I get
Speaker 1: into this. Number one, Draymond Green, Jalen Rose, and Vince
Speaker 1: Carter were outstanding, absolutely outstanding, no doubt about it. They
Speaker 1: did their thing yesterday. They did what pregame shows are
Speaker 1: supposed to do. And in the case of Draymond Green,
Speaker 1: can't say enough he stole the show with some of
Speaker 1: his comments. This was one of them. Now, I went
Speaker 1: on Twitter and I said, for the record, I agree
Speaker 1: with him.
Speaker 2: It's All Star Weekend. You mean Rocky All Stars.
Speaker 1: They're not supposed to be a part of basketball on
Speaker 1: Sunday evening for the All Stars. So I think that
Speaker 1: Draymond Green was absolutely right and I had no problem
Speaker 1: with him.
Speaker 2: Expressing his displeasure.
Speaker 1: Well what NBA All Star Weekend had deteriorated into in
Speaker 1: terms of its main event, no doubt about it. But
Speaker 1: does it mean that he was complete in his synopsis
Speaker 1: and his breakdown of what disgusted him about the encore
Speaker 1: for All Star Weekend? Because you see, when you point
Speaker 1: to the game itself and the appearance and the participation
Speaker 1: of Rocky All Stars, Draymond Green left one thing out.
Speaker 1: One thing out. He left out the fact that it
Speaker 1: was the fault of the players, the legitimate All Stars,
Speaker 1: who have basically snubbed their nose and given the proverbial
Speaker 1: middle finger to the league, to sponsors and advertisers, and
Speaker 1: to the fans because you've shown up each week over
Speaker 1: the last two to three years minimum, and you have
Speaker 1: flat out sucked. You haven't given a damn. When you
Speaker 1: couple that with the load management issues that had concerned
Speaker 1: the league, and you considered the games missed and the
Speaker 1: activity of people missing games and announcing it the last
Speaker 1: minute that they were going to miss the games and
Speaker 1: stuff like that during regular season and beyond, it became problematic.
Speaker 2: So the dereliction of duty.
Speaker 1: Exercise while the players on All Star weekends, specifically the
Speaker 1: Sunday game, the main event, that stuff is what provoked
Speaker 1: rookie All Stars being added to it, because we knew
Speaker 1: that players were gonna get their backup and they didn't
Speaker 1: want to be the one going out there losing to
Speaker 1: the rookie All Stars. And you saw that happen, You
Speaker 1: saw an extra level of and elevated level of effort.
Speaker 1: You saw all of that. Why because they didn't want
Speaker 1: to get bounced out by rookie All Stars who they
Speaker 1: know were coming for them.
Speaker 2: That's exactly why the league did it.
Speaker 1: They did it to soak and milk every ounce of
Speaker 1: effort from All Stars who were supposed to.
Speaker 2: Be showing it. To begin with, I will remind y'all
Speaker 2: that did y'all know All Star activities is a part
Speaker 2: of their country? Did you know that it's a part
Speaker 2: of their country?
Speaker 1: And for these guys to walk up A prominent agent
Speaker 1: in the league said to me a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He said, the problem with the All Star weekend is
Speaker 1: that the players look at the league like a bank
Speaker 1: instead of looking at them like partners.
Speaker 2: You know what is a bank.
Speaker 1: It's the place that holds your money and you're allowed
Speaker 1: to come get whatever they're contractually obligated to give you
Speaker 1: based on a salary that you receive and nothing more.
Speaker 1: As opposed to looking at the league as partners who
Speaker 1: helped you get an eleven year, nearly seventy seven billion
Speaker 1: dollar deal.
Speaker 2: With a league average salary being of over ten million dollars.
Speaker 1: Well, god's getting generational wealth. And what we're not seeing
Speaker 1: here is that you got cats that are making nine figures. Well,
Speaker 1: over one hundred, well over two hundred million, in some
Speaker 1: cases over three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2: And literally you got cats.
Speaker 1: Going out there signing their contract and playing for their
Speaker 1: next contract or protecting themselves for their next contract without
Speaker 1: honoring what the present contract that they signed their name
Speaker 1: too and what they're obligated to fulfill before they've done
Speaker 1: anything in regard to that. Let me position myself to
Speaker 1: acquire generation of wealth. But before you fulfill your obligations
Speaker 1: to earn the money you just signed off for. Let
Speaker 1: me tell y'all something right now. NBA All Star Weekends
Speaker 1: in the world of trouble. Last night was a step
Speaker 1: in the right direction because we saw some effort for
Speaker 1: the first time in a while, which was a good thing.
Speaker 1: Because I'm here to tell you right now, had they
Speaker 1: showed up and not given any effort similar to what
Speaker 1: they did the last two to three years, had they
Speaker 1: done that last night, I'm here to tell y'all right now,
Speaker 1: the NBA All Star Weekend was in danger of being canceled.
Speaker 1: I'm not guessing. I'm telling you what I know. It
Speaker 1: was on the verge of being canceled. So please understand
Speaker 1: that that's what we're talking about here that really really is.
Speaker 1: So I was pleased with what I saw compared to
Speaker 1: what I saw for the previous two to three years,
Speaker 1: but it still wasn't anything to knock my socks off.
Speaker 1: It really really wasn't. And I didn't blame Draymond Green
Speaker 1: one second for saying what he said. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you got to put the owners where it belongs, which
Speaker 1: is on the players who's.
Speaker 2: Wet the bed in terms of their effort. By the way,
Speaker 2: we got two examples last night.
Speaker 1: Listen, how you Lebron James, and you're gonna announce right
Speaker 1: before to the league that you can't participate. You showed
Speaker 1: up to San Francisco and you can't play. You didn't
Speaker 1: know that beforehand, so they could have made sure to
Speaker 1: have somebody like a Norman Power of the Clippers or
Speaker 1: somebody else that was there to fill your spot. Adam
Speaker 1: Silver didn't have time to name a replacement because Lebron
Speaker 1: James let him know at the last minute. Do any
Speaker 1: of us believe that Lebron James didn't know he was
Speaker 1: gonna play. Do any of us believe for one second
Speaker 1: that he decided at the last minute he was gonna play.
Speaker 2: Nobody believes that.
Speaker 1: Nobody by I mean spit talking about spending somebody's face
Speaker 1: telling them is reigning.
Speaker 2: Nobody's believing that he could have let.
Speaker 1: Him know, but he did it. I got news for
Speaker 1: you too. Who says anything about Steph Curry, I mean
Speaker 1: the great Steph Curry, I mean talk about a godlike figure.
Speaker 1: I mean, to say anything negative about this brother is
Speaker 1: damn They're sacrilegious because he is, to quit essential ambassador.
Speaker 1: He is perfection personified as.
Speaker 2: A human being.
Speaker 1: He's God fearing, he's decent, He's a family man, don't
Speaker 1: get himself in any trouble, don't talk bad about anybody.
Speaker 1: Nothing Seth Curry special. But is it just me, fellas
Speaker 1: ladies talking to myself?
Speaker 2: Is it just me?
Speaker 1: Am I the only one that had a problem with
Speaker 1: the fact that the three point shooting contest was taking
Speaker 1: place right there in San Francisco on his home turf,
Speaker 1: and he wasn't a participant.
Speaker 2: Is it just me? Is it just me? I mean,
Speaker 2: he's only.
Speaker 1: The greatest shooter God ever created. It's a three point
Speaker 1: shooting contest. I appreciate the fact that Damian Lillard was
Speaker 1: a two time champion and then he ultimately lost. It
Speaker 1: probably had something to do with all that damn activity
Speaker 1: is going on where y'all interrupting their rhythm. He damned
Speaker 1: it looked like he was taking a nap on a
Speaker 1: bench before it was his turn to shoot. Maybe if
Speaker 1: y'all had disrupted this rhythm, he would have been better off.
Speaker 1: But any event, it came down to Buddy Heel versus
Speaker 1: Tyler Hero. Ain't no shame in that both the brothers
Speaker 1: can shoot. But All Star Weekend is in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: on the home turf of Steph Curry, and the greatest
Speaker 1: shooter God has ever created chose that three point shooting
Speaker 1: event to not participate.
Speaker 2: Is it just me?
Speaker 1: Is it just me?
Speaker 2: Would have been nice to see him. Just wanted to
Speaker 2: say that.
Speaker 1: Let me move on to the next subject, because we
Speaker 1: got to get to the Dunk contest, where we saw
Speaker 1: Mac mcclun become the first player to win it three
Speaker 1: straight years, beating rookie Stephan Castle of the San Antonio
Speaker 1: Spurs in the final. His first dunk was over a car,
Speaker 1: and after his performance, NBA stars John Moran and Jannis
Speaker 1: after the gunpo publicly contemplated participating in the context next season.
Speaker 1: John said he may have to enter the fray next
Speaker 1: year and shout at out former champ Zach Lavigne and
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon, and Yanna.
Speaker 2: Said he would participate if Moran entered.
Speaker 1: The contest, which basically means neither of the Imna gona
Speaker 1: participate because we know John Moran is just talking.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: This is a brother that has been a skywalker for years,
Speaker 1: but suddenly you go, I want to participate?
Speaker 2: Who you fooling? Don't believe it, ladies and gentlemen, until
Speaker 2: we see it. I'm so sick of this stuff. I
Speaker 2: really really am. It really really rakes my nerves.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Yannis, you're seven feet I'm not
Speaker 1: that interested in seeing you in the dunk contest. Honestly speaking,
Speaker 1: if we really really think about it, do we really
Speaker 1: care to see a seven footer in the dunk contest?
Speaker 1: You barely have to come off your tippy toes to dunk. Now,
Speaker 1: Mack McClung ain't spud Wab, but the brother Special and
Speaker 1: props to mac McClung because that brother can dunk.
Speaker 2: White dudes can jump.
Speaker 1: Evidently, remember the movie White Man Can't Jump, where Wesley
Speaker 1: Snipes and Woody Harrelson white Man evidently can dunk cause
Speaker 1: that brother Mack McClung not one, not two, but three
Speaker 1: times back to back to back champions. Having said that,
Speaker 1: with all the credit this kid deserves, then we take
Speaker 1: a moment to pause.
Speaker 2: To give it some proper perspective.
Speaker 1: Sherry, don't laugh too much, Griff, don't look sad because
Speaker 1: Mack McClung looks like you and you're looking out for
Speaker 1: your brother.
Speaker 2: Just listen to me.
Speaker 1: Can we just be very, very honest and realistic about
Speaker 1: something here, ladies and gentlemen. Draymond's assertions about All Star
Speaker 1: Game should also.
Speaker 2: Apply to the Slam Dunk contest. Do you know that
Speaker 2: Mac mclung is in the G League?
Speaker 1: Do you know that he has three Slam Dunk championships
Speaker 1: and it almost matches the number of NBA games he's
Speaker 1: actually played in his NBA career. Do you know that
Speaker 1: Mac McClung has played a grand total of five NBA
Speaker 1: games in his career and he's won three Slam Dunk titles.
Speaker 1: This is not to throw any shade on him whatsoever.
Speaker 1: It's to show how disgraceful the players are nobody can
Speaker 1: participate in this. Lazier gentlemen, let me stay for the
Speaker 1: record right now, this is not piling on because Lebron
Speaker 1: James is the second greatest player in the history of basketball,
Speaker 1: who I believe is grossly underpaid, is worth more than
Speaker 1: he's being paid. Is in the ambassador for this league,
Speaker 1: is a marquee and has spent the vast majority of
Speaker 1: his career showing up in every way one can imagine,
Speaker 1: except for one thing, and that is slam dunk contest
Speaker 1: of All Star Weekend. Lebron James single handedly ruined this competition.
Speaker 2: Ruined it.
Speaker 1: Lazier gentlemen, to get Mack McClung out the way, y'all
Speaker 1: do understand that Mac McClung. Those are prop dunks. That's right,
Speaker 1: I said it, Griff, don't be offended. Gon'll be afraid
Speaker 1: enough talking about your brother like that.
Speaker 2: It's the truth. It's the truth.
Speaker 1: He doesn't even Dominique Wilkins, who didn't have much of
Speaker 1: a hand, who used to dribble. He doesn't dribble. What
Speaker 1: he donks, there's always assistance or he's always getting some
Speaker 1: running start. Did you see Vince Carter in.
Speaker 2: Two thousand.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: Did you see it? I saw it.
Speaker 1: Did you see Zach Levie in twenty and fifteen that
Speaker 1: wasn't even his best? Did you see him in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen against Aaron Gordon?
Speaker 2: Did you see it? I saw it? Did you see it?
Speaker 2: I mean, these brothers were sensational.
Speaker 1: Did you see Jordan in eighty eight against Dominique Wilkins.
Speaker 1: Did you see him? See him cuff the ball? You
Speaker 1: see Doctor j back in the day. You see sput Webb,
Speaker 1: you see Jason Richardson. Did you see Dawaight Howard versus
Speaker 1: Nate Robinson. I appreciate so much what Matt McClung did
Speaker 1: over the last three years to save the dunk contest,
Speaker 1: but let's stop talking.
Speaker 2: About him like he's on those brothers level. It's not true.
Speaker 2: It's not true.
Speaker 1: He's not, but you have to make it seem that way,
Speaker 1: because at least he had the decency to be fearless
Speaker 1: enough to participate, which is more than we could say
Speaker 1: for a whole bunch of brothers legitimately in the NBA, who.
Speaker 2: Are stars who want no part of this competition. And
Speaker 2: it all started with Lebron.
Speaker 1: Doctor j participated, David Thompson participated, Dominique Wilkins participated, Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan participated, Vince Carter participated, Tracy McGrady participated.
Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant participated.
Speaker 1: All the megastars who played above the Rim participated until
Speaker 1: Lebron James refused.
Speaker 2: He ruined the slam dunk contest.
Speaker 1: Which is why if you can have a Matt mcclun
Speaker 1: coming from the G League, I would strongly advise people
Speaker 1: to embrace my suggestion.
Speaker 2: Remember when I said over the airways before, not just
Speaker 2: this show, but on.
Speaker 1: ESPN, I would personally attach my name to a nationwide
Speaker 1: contest going throughout the cities of America to find the
Speaker 1: top ten slam dunkers in the country to come to
Speaker 1: All Star Weekend. And what I would do is use
Speaker 1: ten All Stars to sponsor the players that they support
Speaker 1: that they think would win, where they could be active
Speaker 1: participants but play the role of cheerleaders and sponsors while
Speaker 1: you let them dunk. First prize a million dollars, second
Speaker 1: prize half a million dollars, Third prize one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: We got brothers in the streets starving for a portion
Speaker 1: of those dollars. At one hundred thousand, let alone five
Speaker 1: hundred thousand of a million. Could you imagine what they
Speaker 1: would do to participate in a slam dunk contest on
Speaker 1: All Star Weekend? It would be the best slam dunk
Speaker 1: contest maybe ever. That's what we should be thinking about.
Speaker 1: That's what we should be thinking about again. Props to
Speaker 1: Mac McClung. Appreciate his contribution. But let's stop acting like
Speaker 1: we ain't seen better. We have.
Speaker 2: I gave you a plethora of examples.
Speaker 1: And boy of zach Lavine gets back in it next year,
Speaker 1: and Aaron Gordon gets back and I think it's too
Speaker 1: late for Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 2: They'll be at too old to be doing that.
Speaker 1: But zach Lavine, John Morant certainly has the ability, but
Speaker 1: he didn't want to do it.
Speaker 2: So what you want to do it now? For? I
Speaker 2: don't believe it. Zack Levine already did it twice.
Speaker 1: He doesn't owe us that. But if he gave it
Speaker 1: to us a third time, boy, where the treated would be?
Speaker 1: That's all I wanted to say about that. M