Speaker 1: On this episode of this League. Bitches just got closed out.
Speaker 1: A lot of them, a lot of them. We talk
Speaker 1: about them all. Few teams are now going fishing, going
Speaker 1: golf and going to the Hampton's, going to the bayou,
Speaker 1: wherever the fuck they're going.
Speaker 2: They're going somewhere.
Speaker 1: We break down what went wrong or what went right
Speaker 1: and give a slight preview of what's to come. We
Speaker 1: also talk about more those teams out west still slugging
Speaker 1: it out. I mean, the East is fucking weak. The
Speaker 1: fact that it was just gentlemen sweeps and sweeps gross.
Speaker 1: So Marty, do me a favor and drop that Mickey
Speaker 1: mouse beat.
Speaker 3: Take care. You'll be waiting for.
Speaker 4: The plan of a ghost the glean and I go.
Speaker 3: Let me go.
Speaker 4: When we reach the top, we cap going.
Speaker 3: West.
Speaker 1: Dearly beloved, we gather here today on this solemn occasion
Speaker 1: to more in the end of Trader Danny, the GM
Speaker 1: who only ever wanted to fleece you and grew so
Speaker 1: widely despised that teams and players reportedly took less valuable
Speaker 1: deals just to screw him over. The man who refused
Speaker 1: to make the hard choices to fix a ship. Everyone
Speaker 1: and their mother knew was sinking, and the man who,
Speaker 1: rather than do what is necessary to help his struggling coach,
Speaker 1: chose to be clever, too cute, and took the organization
Speaker 1: down with him. Rest in Paradise, Danny Ainge seriously, though,
Speaker 1: he got swept on a Tuesday night, and by Wednesday morning,
Speaker 1: the entire.
Speaker 2: Organization had been fucking dismantled.
Speaker 1: Woj bombs, Sham's bombs, Haines bobs, blew.
Speaker 2: It up from the fucking top down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a crazy, crazy blast, crazy way to
Speaker 4: start the day. It happened at what like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: like right after I.
Speaker 1: Got in yet actually like twelve hours, twelve hours after
Speaker 1: you got swept, right, Yeah, it had all just just blown.
Speaker 2: The fuck up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because sounds like you're started at ten, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: right after them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that just tells you it was a long time coming,
Speaker 1: a long time in motion for a while.
Speaker 2: Let's just take a pause. Pause.
Speaker 1: What did I fucking say. I've been saying this all year.
Speaker 1: I fucking knew it.
Speaker 2: I fucking knew it.
Speaker 1: I am the oracle of the NBA regarding the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 2: I predicted this pretty much this to a tee.
Speaker 1: Anything that you could predict, because there is something that
Speaker 1: you would not have ever been able to predict in
Speaker 1: any circumstance.
Speaker 2: I have the receipts.
Speaker 1: Marty, play the clip. Here's what I think happens. I
Speaker 1: think ownership gets a little tired of Danny Ainge. They say, hmm,
Speaker 1: let's start fresh. Let's find someone who can make some moves,
Speaker 1: that doesn't have a reputation for being toxic and a thief,
Speaker 1: and we can actually make trades to help this team
Speaker 1: during the season. But the world was like, Trista your cedecle,
Speaker 1: you hate the Celtics. Things aren't even that bad. We're
Speaker 1: an actual good organization. We could go to the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference finals. We were just in the Eastern Conference Finals
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 2: Rad is our guy. Getting rid of Danny Ainge will
Speaker 2: never happen.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that getting rid of Danny Ainge will
Speaker 1: never happen?
Speaker 2: The world told me that, Marty, didn't they. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: said that.
Speaker 4: I be sure I probably disagreed with you when you
Speaker 4: said it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That was March twenty second, three days before the trade deadline.
Speaker 1: Three days later, on March twenty fifth, at the trade deadline,
Speaker 1: apparently Danny Ainge informed ownership.
Speaker 2: He was stepping down at the end of the year. Hmm.
Speaker 1: In an alternative universe, here's what I think could have happened.
Speaker 1: Danny wasn't able to get Vucevich, Harrison, Barnes, Harrison Barnes,
Speaker 1: Harrison Barnes, Aaron Gordon, and instead they got the great
Speaker 1: French Hope, fucking Evan Fournier, which I knew and you
Speaker 1: knew and the whole world knew was not a great
Speaker 1: option for the tpe ugh ugh.
Speaker 2: And they were like, your time is up. Your time
Speaker 2: is up.
Speaker 1: And as an aside, as a quick decide for people
Speaker 1: who don't know how these things go, this is how
Speaker 1: it goes.
Speaker 2: When you come to the end of the road.
Speaker 1: With an organization and you're as high up and as
Speaker 1: esteemed as Danny Ainge, because he is esteemed has a
Speaker 1: long reputation, the organization says, here's what's gonna happen. You're
Speaker 1: gonna say you've been thinking about this for a long time.
Speaker 2: You're gonna say something in.
Speaker 1: Your past led you to think about maybe retirement. That
Speaker 1: for Danny Ainge was his twenty nineteen heart attack. And
Speaker 1: that is exactly what Danny Ainge said in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: I had a heart attack, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I started thinking about what I wanted to do with
Speaker 1: my life.
Speaker 2: And we were so good that.
Speaker 1: I just didn't want to do it. Now now things
Speaker 1: are calling and you have this. What it will be
Speaker 1: is like a two and a half month long negotiation
Speaker 1: between the Celtics and Danny Ainge in terms of what
Speaker 1: the messaging is gonna be. And now the messaging is
Speaker 1: firm and Danny Ainge is fucking out brutal. And then
Speaker 1: I don't know this for a fact, but Brad Stevens
Speaker 1: basically was quote unquote tired of coaching since the bubble.
Speaker 1: He was exhausted, young guy, exhausted from coaching basketball.
Speaker 2: And he's like, I'm burnt the fuck out.
Speaker 4: And then I do kind of buy that a little bit.
Speaker 4: Did do you a little bit? I mean, with the
Speaker 4: bubble and then going straight from that right into the
Speaker 4: seventy two game season, It's it's been a lot, you know,
Speaker 4: if there was already you know, stuff on his mind.
Speaker 2: Long off season. Now though, isn't it out the first round?
Speaker 2: You had some time.
Speaker 1: And then instead of Brad just stepping down, somehow Brad
Speaker 1: got a promotion. He was tired of and ineffective, we'll
Speaker 1: say at leading troops, inspiring troops.
Speaker 2: I said, you can't motivate.
Speaker 1: You can't motivate a fucking can't have pinkt let alone
Speaker 1: superstars like Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
Speaker 2: And it's like instead.
Speaker 1: Of you being like, well, maybe you need to figure
Speaker 1: your own self out and go take a mental health year,
Speaker 1: sit with some teams, get your head right, they were like, no, no,
Speaker 1: leave the.
Speaker 2: Entire mission, Brad Stevens.
Speaker 1: What what We love what you're doing? Just we're gonna
Speaker 1: give you more power, more money, and more responsibility.
Speaker 2: Are you fucking kidding me?
Speaker 4: That certainly was the most surprising part about all this,
Speaker 4: that Stevens with a that like, I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: think we had like a huge inkling that he would
Speaker 4: be gone, but we certainly didn't think he would stay on.
Speaker 2: I thought he would be gone.
Speaker 4: Okay, but like him becoming the president of the team,
Speaker 4: I don't think anyone had that mine.
Speaker 2: You were so right.
Speaker 1: Even I could not have forecasted that fucking banana move,
Speaker 1: that fucking bananas move.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know.
Speaker 2: Who else couldn't forecast it? Dropping breaking news?
Speaker 1: Right? Before this recording, Other front office members inside of
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics organization also didn't foresee it.
Speaker 2: Why In late breaking news, apparently at least one.
Speaker 1: Major Celtics executive lobbied to fire Brad Stevens mid season,
Speaker 1: and opposing exec told SNY that he wanted to fire
Speaker 1: Stevens immediately, but Danny Ainge was among those who lobbied
Speaker 1: to keep him. The exec further noted a lot of
Speaker 1: us thought that Age and or Stevens maybe let go,
Speaker 1: but I certainly did.
Speaker 2: Not see Brad moving upstairs.
Speaker 1: Wow, to go from that close to being fired to
Speaker 1: being the head of the organization, not just a new.
Speaker 4: Job of the top job, I mean highly coveted.
Speaker 1: Job, highly coveted job GM of the Boston Celtics organization.
Speaker 2: Plenty of names that would have taken that well.
Speaker 4: I would say that's one of the more highly coveted
Speaker 4: jobs in the entire league.
Speaker 1: In probably all of sports thirteen and thirteen after the
Speaker 1: trade deadline, has anyone failed upwards faster than Brad Stevens.
Speaker 3: That s.
Speaker 1: How do you go from almost being fired and being promoted,
Speaker 1: not just promoted, push to the.
Speaker 2: Top, top, tippy top, best job in sports.
Speaker 1: He basically said, Steve Nash, hold my fucking beer, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's bring it. I can't believe this. This is a disaster.
Speaker 1: This is maybe worse. This is worse than even I,
Speaker 1: who doomsday on the Boston Celtics all year long. I
Speaker 1: think episode two was when I was like, things are
Speaker 1: bad there, Like, things are.
Speaker 4: Really bad there. I remember that, Yeah, like.
Speaker 1: Wow, like I kept I think we've talked about this
Speaker 1: being a disaster for like ten shows, and you know what,
Speaker 1: rightfully fucking so rightfully so they dismantled the organization twelve
Speaker 1: hours after they got swept man. And then a little
Speaker 1: nugget of new news was the NBA gms after the
Speaker 1: fact say that Boston will look to trade their most
Speaker 1: coveted and tradeable asset, Marcus Smart in the off season.
Speaker 1: I don't need to show receipts to know that. I've
Speaker 1: been saying that all season. We all know I've been
Speaker 1: saying that all season.
Speaker 2: The world knows.
Speaker 1: I've been saying that all season. But Trista, he's the
Speaker 1: heart and soul of this team. Listen, folks, let me
Speaker 1: make this clear, very very clear. There is no heart
Speaker 1: and soul of the Boston Celtics organization. This team is dead.
Speaker 1: This organization is a shell. There is no soul, there
Speaker 1: is no heart, there is no life. It's Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: and that's it. You literally just upended your entire franchise
Speaker 1: and are having a fire sale for Marcus Smart, for
Speaker 1: Kimball Walker, who knows who else, who knows who else?
Speaker 1: It is just Jason Tatum playing his best impression of
Speaker 1: Will Smith walking into an empty house.
Speaker 2: Come preseason's that's the way it will be.
Speaker 1: Everything must go, everything, especially Marcus Smart.
Speaker 2: You know, you know, if.
Speaker 1: Brad Stevens is the one leading this team and leading
Speaker 1: this franchise into the direction that they're gonna go. He watched,
Speaker 1: he had a front row seat watching Marcus Mart go
Speaker 1: three for nineteen from three in the last two games.
Speaker 2: He knows what Marcus Smart is capable of. He knows
Speaker 2: what his upside is.
Speaker 4: That is funny. That was the final impression. That is
Speaker 4: kind of funny.
Speaker 1: That man's gone. That man is gone. If they can
Speaker 1: get anything for him, he is gone. And people are
Speaker 1: even saying now that they might not even be able
Speaker 1: to get.
Speaker 2: A first round for him. What do you do then?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you're not getting the great first round
Speaker 4: like you're not getting.
Speaker 1: You're getting like a late first round from Marcus Smart
Speaker 1: and then everyone's made lottery lottery. Yeah, so Bronal and
Speaker 1: the other high value asset guy, every delusional ass Boston
Speaker 1: fan thinks that they can get a boat low for
Speaker 1: glue guy, Kimba Walker. New news came out all that
Speaker 1: it's all dropped all at once, by the way. New
Speaker 1: news came out that GMS believe that Kemba Walker is
Speaker 1: considered a negative asset.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I saw that too going around Twitter
Speaker 4: and like, I mean, duh wait wait yeah, yeah, one
Speaker 4: of the worst contracts in the league.
Speaker 1: This is Kevin Love and Kemba Walker. Those are the
Speaker 1: two worst contracts.
Speaker 4: In the NBA right now, breaking John Wall bad contracts like.
Speaker 1: I don't like gonna have to send picks in order
Speaker 1: for another team to take Kimba Walker, which tough, very tough.
Speaker 2: Look yikes.
Speaker 1: Also another bit of news that dropped all at the
Speaker 1: same time, the Great French hope Evan Fournier, the guy
Speaker 1: used your tpe for He is requesting upwards twenty to twenty.
Speaker 2: Five million a year. They are not resigning Evan Fournier
Speaker 2: and if they do, they are fucking idiots. They're idiots.
Speaker 1: So to recap, just to recap for folks who that
Speaker 1: was a lot of information for all at once.
Speaker 2: Smart.
Speaker 1: Smart is probably getting traded. Fournier probably isn't resigning. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to be offloading picks in order for another
Speaker 1: team to take Kimball Walker because his contract is inedible
Speaker 1: to even the worst most trash franchises like the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 1: It's pretty much pretty much what everything I've been saying
Speaker 1: all year, everything I know.
Speaker 2: Can you just give it to me, Marty, Just say, Tristy,
Speaker 2: you were right.
Speaker 4: Just it. I mean, you were right about these two things.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was right about the about we'll call it
Speaker 2: the bird's eye.
Speaker 1: View of the league. I've been right about the bird's
Speaker 1: eye view what I've been wrong about. But later about
Speaker 1: the Celtics. Yes, but Celtics fans just don't want to listen.
Speaker 1: And you know what, all I really have ever wanted
Speaker 1: was to hear that, Marty. No caveats though, I just
Speaker 1: wanted with this news, Trista. All your long, people were
Speaker 1: telling you you were delusional and you were right. Yep,
Speaker 1: just show me or belly, let me put my boot
Speaker 1: on your neck.
Speaker 2: I won't push hard.
Speaker 1: All I want to do is just the vindication that
Speaker 1: I was right, because that's all I care about. It's
Speaker 1: all I care, all right, So of course we're going
Speaker 1: to be speculating the offseason about who's going to take
Speaker 1: Brad Stevens's job. So Stevens is going to be interviewing
Speaker 1: probably internal candidates.
Speaker 2: I had to guess.
Speaker 1: I guess that Laran Nage is probably going to be
Speaker 1: the one.
Speaker 2: That comes on.
Speaker 4: He'll probably be the first one they talked to. For sure.
Speaker 4: I kind of liked the idea of Atkinson a little
Speaker 4: bit and say, yeah, and I could just see him
Speaker 4: in Celtics screen and Becky Hammond would be interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean Boston is not the most open to new ideas.
Speaker 1: They did have They did have a female assistant who's
Speaker 1: now coaching the women's team at Duke. The other choice
Speaker 1: is oh boy, Lloyd Pierce being on this list at
Speaker 1: six to one, he was pretty much disliked by.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's terrible. He was terrible, Like, we see
Speaker 2: how good this Hawk's team could be. I know you left,
Speaker 2: but no.
Speaker 4: For sure, Yeah, no, they I mean they they did
Speaker 4: not enjoy him.
Speaker 2: No one liked him.
Speaker 1: It was like the guy that everyone calls sergeant Nate
Speaker 1: McMillan is more liked by this organization and these teams,
Speaker 1: these teammates then than Lloyd Pierce. I mean that just
Speaker 1: tells you everything you need to know. Also, Jeff Van Gundy,
Speaker 1: Jeffan Gundy, Jeff.
Speaker 2: And Gundy, Jeff and Gundy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's.
Speaker 1: That's just absurd. The fact he's on that list is ludacris. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's just break down Jaylen Ornega for a second. Forty
Speaker 1: something year old X's and o's guy coaches son inspirational
Speaker 1: speaker been tabbed for coaching superstardom since he played like
Speaker 1: D three and coached overseas. He coached, He coached the
Speaker 1: Ireland team. So TD Garden's like nothing to him. The
Speaker 1: TD Garden vibes is nothing.
Speaker 4: It's like, what, well, he really coached the Irish national team.
Speaker 4: That is funny.
Speaker 1: He's like, I mean you think TD Garden's bad, Like
Speaker 1: come to Ireland, no disrespect?
Speaker 2: What a wild shout out, uh D'Antoni.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you were happy, if you were excited
Speaker 1: as a Celtics fan watching one forty three, one thirty
Speaker 1: seven losses. Then d'antoni's a guy for you, Like D'Antoni
Speaker 1: is that guy?
Speaker 2: Just no defense? Uh, just all offense?
Speaker 1: So so many things breaking down. I cannot wait to
Speaker 1: watch the rest of the chips fall. I will be
Speaker 1: watching closely because bad moves will it will ensue.
Speaker 2: I promise that the.
Speaker 4: Streets come on.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Is it hard to like Lebron? Sometimes the world thinks
Speaker 1: I'm a Lebron hater, But god, damn fuck, dude, how
Speaker 1: are you gonna leave the game down thirty two with
Speaker 1: five forty two loss He.
Speaker 4: Had to get treatment trista ankle injuries to get treated. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he would have gotten the same treatment. If they were
Speaker 4: up thirty, we would have gotten this. He would have
Speaker 4: gotten the same. But more to the point, he would
Speaker 4: have gotten the same treatment. If they were tied.
Speaker 5: He would have.
Speaker 2: Gotten the same treatment. If they were tied.
Speaker 1: He needed that treatment at seven, at whatever it was,
Speaker 1: nine eighty two, whatever the fuck? No. From opening tip,
Speaker 1: we knew, we knew, right, we knew as soon as Ad.
Speaker 2: Was ruled out it was gonna be a mollywop.
Speaker 4: Well, then you could tell watching the game of Lebron
Speaker 4: came out, and so like I've kind of noticed Lebron.
Speaker 4: He has like several tiers that he goes through like
Speaker 4: throughout a game where and he like he like saves
Speaker 4: up to use like that god teer yep. And it
Speaker 4: looked like from the opening tip he just knew like no,
Speaker 4: God know what. Well, it looked like he tried to
Speaker 4: go that like full game and he did in the
Speaker 4: first like five six minutes, and I was like, this
Speaker 4: is good, Like he's not gonna be able to do this.
Speaker 4: He's gonna get tired and seven surely enough.
Speaker 2: Like that's what happens when you're thirty six, not twenty six.
Speaker 1: He could go full god mode for an entire game
Speaker 1: when he was age twenty six, but not now.
Speaker 4: I mean he's still great, he's still managed it great.
Speaker 4: But it just without AD, they're they're just bad. They're
Speaker 4: just a bad team without AD.
Speaker 1: They are a bad team without a d I talk
Speaker 1: to a PT guy because, like I said, I'm doing
Speaker 1: this ankle treatment, so every every time I go in,
Speaker 1: I ask him about athletes injuries and he was like,
Speaker 1: I promise you this. Lebron knows this team is going
Speaker 1: nowhere without AD so.
Speaker 2: They have given up.
Speaker 1: They have decided they are done for the year. They
Speaker 1: are no more. Uh, the weirdest thing. And I don't
Speaker 1: I think you had an issue with it or you
Speaker 1: thought it was weird that I asked this question in
Speaker 1: the group chat. But Chris Paul playing with one arm
Speaker 1: up thirty somehow playing in the game.
Speaker 2: Why was he still out there?
Speaker 4: It was early third player. You don't pull players early
Speaker 4: third tea.
Speaker 1: When they you do when you're up thirty, and Chris
Speaker 1: Paul has been battling an injury.
Speaker 2: An injury, that's that's what you do.
Speaker 4: It didn't cross my mind, really it did. I mean,
Speaker 4: he he could have been out of the game. I
Speaker 4: just think, I mean, it was very early third quarter.
Speaker 1: Don't care up thirty super concerning for not just this series,
Speaker 1: but for the rest.
Speaker 2: Of the playoffs. I would say, I know.
Speaker 1: You want the Nuggets and probably not the Blazers, but
Speaker 1: I mean, he just does doesn't.
Speaker 4: Look right CP. Yeah, I mean he was starting to
Speaker 4: he hit a three before that. I mean, he he
Speaker 4: hasn't had an MRI. Everyone's saying he's gonna play tonight,
Speaker 4: So I'm not completely discouraged, but it is. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's clearly going to be a thing that lingers and
Speaker 4: effects and moving forward. So it's all about you know,
Speaker 4: how managed, how can manage it?
Speaker 2: How do you manage it?
Speaker 1: And then in terms of AD, you can pretty much
Speaker 1: listen to every episode post AD going down for that
Speaker 1: first injury to know, like I knew he was fucked.
Speaker 2: This dude gets injured all the time, all the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to know how psycho of a fan
Speaker 4: I am. I'm still like, oh, by no means am
Speaker 4: I like comfortable?
Speaker 1: Because AD is sending like gang signs to the fans
Speaker 1: and the back being.
Speaker 2: Like six, I'm cut back for six and it's like, no,
Speaker 2: you're not.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: What was funny was the article I read about that
Speaker 4: It said, uh, like AD I in game six return
Speaker 4: and then like the first thing like said that that
Speaker 4: he had motioned six or whatever, and then everything after
Speaker 4: that like none of it was encouraging. Yes, it was
Speaker 4: like that your headline.
Speaker 2: Is a Lebron's like, don't rush it. That's how you knew.
Speaker 1: Lebron was like we're done for the year, We're shutting
Speaker 1: it down. Don't rush it, don't rush it. It's like
Speaker 1: you're done. You're done, because if you don't rush Ad
Speaker 1: back from this groin strain, you lose, You go home
Speaker 1: end of the season.
Speaker 2: It's a rap. It's a rap, and that's fine.
Speaker 1: Like I get that you don't want to play around
Speaker 1: with injuries for the long term because Ads so young.
Speaker 1: But boy boy, even Snoop knows this team is getting
Speaker 1: fucking cooked.
Speaker 2: He went in on ig.
Speaker 1: People hate me when I say the word soft, but
Speaker 1: soft is a word that.
Speaker 2: People throw around, and Snoop through the fuck around, he said.
Speaker 2: He sounds like me. Never thought I'd say it.
Speaker 1: But we sorry, True, and the Clipper's better than us, True,
Speaker 1: Frank vowel, we can't coach. True, And why the fuck
Speaker 1: is Montrez Harrell ain't getting no run?
Speaker 2: True? Fuck, this is heartbreaking. A d is hurt more
Speaker 2: than Mary J. Blige records. True, we saw true, And
Speaker 2: don't call my phone. I'm going down. I mean, yes,
Speaker 2: Ad is always fucking hurt. Always. What a brutal loss
Speaker 2: for the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Things you hate to see as a Portland trail Blazers
Speaker 1: and a Sun fan.
Speaker 4: It's just awful. I mean they're fans, truly. I mean,
Speaker 4: I said in the last pot. But they really have
Speaker 4: been through so much and they're deserving of all good things.
Speaker 4: So yeah, thowsome prayers for Lakers fans.
Speaker 1: Thought some prayers. Can't say I saw a fucking second
Speaker 1: of that game. I only saw it on on social
Speaker 1: media because Marty Dame time.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we the collective.
Speaker 1: We in all of the NBA on Twitter, just every
Speaker 1: fan on earth except for you, Marty experience.
Speaker 4: Did you watch a game after the CP injury. I
Speaker 4: was just like, okay, can't focus on that, And it
Speaker 4: was like it was like nearing the end of the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter in the Blazers game. So I did switch
Speaker 4: over to like take my mind off of it. So
Speaker 4: I saw the good parts.
Speaker 1: We experienced something historic. Even Kevin Durant was at a
Speaker 1: loss for words. He changed, He tried to tweet like
Speaker 1: four different times. Even said I concocted four different tweets.
Speaker 1: We experienced with Katie called himself god mode.
Speaker 2: Trailblazers went down twenty two early.
Speaker 1: I have to tell you that was not the kind
Speaker 1: of effort you saw me. I was tweaking before the game, tweaking.
Speaker 1: I watched that video back and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I was on one on one, then Dame Dalla put
Speaker 1: the team on his fucking back and somehow, some way,
Speaker 1: we're only down three at halftime. And like, truthfully, I
Speaker 1: think the take home message is that the Nuggets don't
Speaker 1: respect the history of the game. They really just don't
Speaker 1: care about basketball, because if they did, they'd allow the
Speaker 1: Blazer to win that game. They would have allowed us
Speaker 1: to have that because what would it be historically.
Speaker 2: If we won that game going down twenty two the.
Speaker 1: Preordained Damian Lillard's speech that he gave to all the
Speaker 1: team members that was written about by the Athletic and
Speaker 1: Jason Quick. And then to come out go down twenty two,
Speaker 1: grit and grind, fucking go god mode and win Game
Speaker 1: five on the road.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a thirty for thirty. They stole a
Speaker 2: thirty for thirty for months.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It really isn't saying that he gave us all
Speaker 4: of that and it was a loss. It really isn't.
Speaker 2: Just that's just very disrespectful to the game.
Speaker 4: Is I mean, that's the most heroic performance and a
Speaker 4: loss maybe ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Wait, I'm trying to la I honestly, I'm just now
Speaker 4: thinking of that that would actually be kind of fun
Speaker 4: to think about. But it's up there. It's an it.
Speaker 4: That's that's top three, top five.
Speaker 1: Top three, top five. Like that was more impressive than
Speaker 1: the Reggie Miller. Like, how many ever threes he hit
Speaker 1: in the last like twenty seconds?
Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, because Dame hit three threes. He
Speaker 4: hit three straight threes, three straight threes.
Speaker 2: And that like rainbow.
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard fifty five points, ten assists, the best in
Speaker 1: postseason history, twelve for seventeen from three, all time record
Speaker 1: for made threes, game tying threes in the final seconds
Speaker 1: and in regulation and in overtime he had three three pointers.
Speaker 2: The rest of the team fucking.
Speaker 4: Trash well for years. Twelve was just the all time record. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: not just playoffs.
Speaker 1: CJ terrible game, eighteen points seven for twenty two. Just
Speaker 1: a bad mistake going out of bounds. That is unacceptable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Blazers also not helped by the refs a couple of
Speaker 1: like Nurkic had three moving screens, three illegal screens.
Speaker 2: Listen, you could call that every fucking time. Why are
Speaker 2: you doing that? He's not even tilting his hips that much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have been calling that a lot more this year.
Speaker 4: Than past years though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean David leaves to do that shit all
Speaker 1: day time, Like, fuck, these guys, this is just rude.
Speaker 2: You can't even call that.
Speaker 1: Once every three plays. Probably, Yeah, I was optimistic.
Speaker 2: I was exuberant. I had frenetic injury like energy.
Speaker 1: It was something maybe I've never felt in the history
Speaker 1: of being a Blazer fan, which was like I could
Speaker 1: picture the finals in my mind, like I could picture it.
Speaker 2: I could see it.
Speaker 1: You know, us playing the nets like one forty seven,
Speaker 1: one thirty eight's you know, like who knows.
Speaker 2: Nobody plays defense. It's just all offense.
Speaker 1: Like I was excited and the balloon popped, of course,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, you know what, Hope is
Speaker 1: a useless for emotion in sports, useless, completely useless, And
Speaker 1: it's like being scarred by a relationship where you're like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to love again, I never want to
Speaker 1: love again.
Speaker 2: I'm never gonna have hope in a game.
Speaker 1: Just like we came out with all of that, and
Speaker 1: then we just just trailed off, and like Damian Lillard, right,
Speaker 1: is just I was so excited for my team, for
Speaker 1: my city, and then all of a sudden, like I'm
Speaker 1: simultaneously so so sad for Dame, like Roco Roco, Robert Covington,
Speaker 1: and that not only that miss bunny at the end
Speaker 1: of the game in regulation, also the missed fucking rim
Speaker 1: check dunk on the back of it. What do you
Speaker 1: even call a dunk like that that goes off the room?
Speaker 1: Is it still a rimcheck?
Speaker 4: I don't even know, But like, how do you try
Speaker 4: to throw a hammer in that situation? Get the fucking points?
Speaker 4: Just get the points.
Speaker 2: Why are you trying to make a statement right now?
Speaker 4: Jason Richardson lost the Sons a game a million years ago,
Speaker 4: and wasn't it nearly this big a game? Because of that?
Speaker 4: And I've hated him forever because of it. Get the
Speaker 4: goddamn points, Like.
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys, these dummies are not doing my god,
Speaker 1: any fucking favors. Like these dummies, my God, Damian Lillard,
Speaker 1: I was like full, I was like a full religious
Speaker 1: zealot running around, running around preaching for Dame.
Speaker 2: And like Denver just fuck us, fucked us over out
Speaker 2: of history. So I am a Dame believer. I think
Speaker 2: you will.
Speaker 1: Never trade CJ, even though, like I think the calls
Speaker 1: to trade CJ were so great.
Speaker 2: Then, like after that. I don't think that's gonna happen because.
Speaker 1: CJ historically has cooked Denver cook them. What do you think,
Speaker 1: what do you think, just like get rid.
Speaker 4: Of them, get rid of CJ. I don't know. I
Speaker 4: mean I don't think Dame would be super happy about that.
Speaker 4: He's a big loyalty guy. So I think you I
Speaker 4: think if you're Portland, you have to you're basically at
Speaker 4: will to Dame Liland. So whatever Dame says, it's kind
Speaker 4: of his call.
Speaker 2: I mean, we better fucking win game six. We better
Speaker 2: win it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like if we lose, CJ was like, I hate
Speaker 1: to see that Dame's performance was wasted, Like you fucking
Speaker 1: stepped out of bouce.
Speaker 4: I mean you played fifty minutes and scored eighteen points. Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I expect Portland to win, though I do.
Speaker 2: I do too. I am a Dame believer, but if we.
Speaker 1: So, in my mind, I think to myself this, what
Speaker 1: are like what a religious zelots say.
Speaker 2: When something bad happens, Well, they say.
Speaker 1: They say it's all for a greater purpose, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the greater purpose is that we will win Game six,
Speaker 1: and we will win Game seven in a more historic
Speaker 1: fashion than the entire series, this run to the finals,
Speaker 1: maybe a title that we win. We won't win, but
Speaker 1: that's the that's the religious Zela in me where I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like this is just a bump in the road to
Speaker 1: our title contention, you know, our title road, sure, or or.
Speaker 2: Like since I'm not religious, nothing fucking matters.
Speaker 1: And it was just an amazing performance that will go
Speaker 1: down in the history of allmosts.
Speaker 2: Fuck, we better win tonight, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Sixers Wizards, I mean that's kind of what we
Speaker 1: thought it was gonna happen.
Speaker 2: The Wizards are not that great. The Sixers can do whatever.
Speaker 1: They want with just Ben Simmons, Matist Saibel and the
Speaker 1: rest of the gang.
Speaker 2: They don't need mbeat.
Speaker 4: That's starting lineup last night was weird, like like who
Speaker 4: was the five? Like I don't even know, Like.
Speaker 1: They had Dwight Howard on there for a little bit.
Speaker 1: They had Tobias he didn't I didn't start though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like it was weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they went small, which is what I think they
Speaker 1: might do against the Hawks. I would they could be
Speaker 1: the Wizards. Like even if the Wizards lost or won
Speaker 1: last game, I think they could have still won the
Speaker 1: series with m b for sure.
Speaker 2: So this MBAT injury is no fucking joke.
Speaker 1: Again, talking to the pets, they said, meniscus, tear, rot row,
Speaker 1: this is in his healthy knee for one two it's
Speaker 1: a full tier in the lateral and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: hampering him regardless if you can play or not. This
Speaker 1: would normally be a one month long injury, sitting out
Speaker 1: partial tears, they said, like even still, it would be
Speaker 1: a one month long recovery, or you would snip it out.
Speaker 1: So I think what they will do is avoid playing
Speaker 1: him as long as they possibly can.
Speaker 2: As long as they can.
Speaker 1: Bottom line, Sixers are good and that's really all I
Speaker 1: have to say. Ben Simmons also very aggressive, triple double scorer,
Speaker 1: Sixers win, do it every single time.
Speaker 4: Embidless Sixers versus would be really fun.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was just saying this last night. I
Speaker 1: was like, the Sixers are more fun without EMBIID.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying.
Speaker 1: What I mean by that is like there's more parody
Speaker 1: with the other teams, Like it's not a curb stock.
Speaker 4: No, it's gonna be much more. Yeah, it's gonna be a.
Speaker 2: Much more entertaining series. That's all I mean.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: Like I would for sure rather have embiid if I
Speaker 1: was a Sixers fan or the Sixers organization.
Speaker 2: But like as a fan, it's much more fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, And they won't have to guess who they're
Speaker 4: going to throw out to defend Trey.
Speaker 2: Young correct, correct exactly.
Speaker 4: Games that won't be a coaching decision exactly.
Speaker 2: And then Hawks versus Nicks they need a star. Knicks
Speaker 2: need a star. They have no star.
Speaker 1: Probably Julius Randall is not going to get his contract
Speaker 1: this summer anymore.
Speaker 2: They're gonna wait.
Speaker 1: Like eight gms have said gone on record about this,
Speaker 1: and like seven of them have said that they would
Speaker 1: wait to give him the contract, let him see how
Speaker 1: that goes for one more year that he's not a
Speaker 1: MAX player. So many narratives now coming back to haunt Juliusandall,
Speaker 1: Like you said, Pelicans Randall, Lakers Randall. So he did
Speaker 1: not play well, Hawks played solid defense on him. Apparently
Speaker 1: John Collins was on him the most. Yeah, and John
Speaker 1: Collins was cooked for him, cooked against him in the
Speaker 1: regular season and this time great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he and Hunter kind of tag team.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, for sure, Nicks had no answer for Trey none,
Speaker 1: which I thought was very surprising given this was the
Speaker 1: top five defense all year. Frank Melakina could have been
Speaker 1: the lynchpin to this Yes or no going seven Frank,
Speaker 1: filthy Frank like get him out of the leak, get
Speaker 1: him out of the fucking league.
Speaker 2: And also brilliant coaching decision coaching moves from Nate McMillan.
Speaker 2: I stand up, I put my hand up. I was wrong.
Speaker 1: I said Nate McMillan wouldn't get out the first round.
Speaker 1: I would be crowing running around the streets.
Speaker 2: I was wrong. He he was good, He was good,
Speaker 2: but he it has.
Speaker 1: Been twenty years, so like if you were a statistical
Speaker 1: person that was a betting person, like if you hadn't
Speaker 1: been out of the first round in twenty years, like
Speaker 1: you could probably bet that he wouldn't this time. But
Speaker 1: he also said we needed to make sure that we
Speaker 1: closed it out in MSG because we didn't want to
Speaker 1: give the Sixers rest, which I thought was shrewd, very shrewd.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he's been taking care of business again. Wrong
Speaker 2: on Nate McMillan, Hawks get Sixers.
Speaker 1: We will preview that on Monday show.
Speaker 2: Utah is for real, Yes they are, They look real.
Speaker 4: They do.
Speaker 1: I don't think they get out of the West still
Speaker 1: because it's Utah. That's only why that would not be
Speaker 1: a shocker if they did not get out. Now you
Speaker 1: got Mike Conley who has a hamstring injury. They're saying
Speaker 1: that is he's saying no big deal, just a little tweak,
Speaker 1: But I think it's a big deal.
Speaker 2: Spider's ankles still sore.
Speaker 1: Jazz hit seventeen or more threes in the last four games.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of threes. That's a shitlow of shooting.
Speaker 4: I mean, they led the league. They led the league.
Speaker 4: To their credit, they.
Speaker 2: Led the league in the threes.
Speaker 1: Do you think that continues against the team that can
Speaker 1: actually defend the perimeter.
Speaker 4: I mean we beat him three times. The Suns beat
Speaker 4: him three times in the regular season. I like the
Speaker 4: matchup a little bit again like we Sons still have
Speaker 4: business to do, so not getting ahead at all. But yeah,
Speaker 4: they have looked the best in the West. I would say,
Speaker 4: granted they were playing the eight seed, so they should
Speaker 4: should Yeah.
Speaker 1: They're like the sixers, and that they have the glipath
Speaker 1: and they should have the gldpath because they were the
Speaker 1: number number one seed. Man, you would be feeling really good,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you if you were the one seed right now?
Speaker 4: I would have liked to see how they played the
Speaker 4: Lakers and how the Suns played the Grizzlies, like how
Speaker 4: it would have worked?
Speaker 1: Like the Yeah, every time Quinn Snyder has led a
Speaker 1: team to the second round, he's lost his starting point
Speaker 1: guard in the process. Twenty seventeen, George Hill didn't play
Speaker 1: as the Jazz got swept by the Warriors. Twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: Ricky Rubio was out for Utah's loss to the Rockets.
Speaker 1: And now who knows with Mike Conley playing the winner
Speaker 1: of mav Clippers, which will probably be MAVs.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the Grizzlies in the offseason. But man,
Speaker 1: was that a fun team to get into the playoffs?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm happy for them. I'm happy for Jaw.
Speaker 2: He has arrived. He's finally gonna be seen.
Speaker 1: I think that the best thing about the Memphis Grizzlies
Speaker 1: getting into the playoffs was that the NBA will respect them.
Speaker 1: In terms of nationally televised games. They were the least
Speaker 1: nationally televised team.
Speaker 2: In the league.
Speaker 4: Yet, Na, he's the man.
Speaker 2: He's the man. He is the man.
Speaker 4: Is he already on Grizzlies Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 2: I think so? I think so. Yeah, Like in the
Speaker 2: middle of.
Speaker 4: It, Conley gaol Zebo.
Speaker 2: In direct correct love me some Zebra.
Speaker 4: He averaged thirty in this series, most by any Grizzly ever.
Speaker 1: It's he has been him and Trey and Dame have
Speaker 1: been it like Musty TV.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert last night twenty three points, fifteen rebounds, three blocks,
Speaker 1: ten for thirteen. Gobert is the second player in NBA
Speaker 1: history to average at least fifteen points per game and
Speaker 1: ten rebounds while shooting seventy five percent or better from
Speaker 1: the field in the best of seven playoff series.
Speaker 4: Pretty sure Eighten is on track to do that as well.
Speaker 2: Weirdly, uh yeah, Ayton Is.
Speaker 1: Ayton has been tremendous this series, and I think he's
Speaker 1: going to continue to be really good. Donovan Mitchell last
Speaker 1: night thirty points, six rebounds, ten assists. Mitchell is the
Speaker 1: first player in Utah Jazz history to record at least
Speaker 1: thirty points, five rebounds, and ten assists in a playoff game.
Speaker 1: He's also the first player in franchise postseason history to
Speaker 1: record a thirty point game while playing less than thirty minutes.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Utah Jazz Sun's Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 2: That's that's it right there.
Speaker 1: If the Blazers lose tonight, which you'll know by by
Speaker 1: the time this episode comes out, yeah tomorrow or Friday,
Speaker 1: when this episode is out, I'm rooting for the Suns
Speaker 1: the whole way out.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, justin I'm.
Speaker 2: Rooting for the Suns the whole way out.
Speaker 4: I just thank you first off, just want to just
Speaker 4: just want to thank you for that. As far as
Speaker 4: the Jazz go, doesn't it just seem weird, Like I
Speaker 4: just can't picture Rudy Gobert holding the Larry Brian Trophy
Speaker 4: or Donovan Mitchell at all? Yeah, at all. I'm overcoming
Speaker 4: the hospital.
Speaker 3: I don't RENI impossibly, he said. I was being a
Speaker 3: lot to go.
Speaker 5: But I have to become me a stoppable and why
Speaker 5: would I not got a lot to do to wear topical.
Speaker 3: Don't call me.
Speaker 4: I ain't calling you. I do not watch the clean
Speaker 4: You just id to want to watch my movies.
Speaker 3: I can take you just on that.
Speaker 2: Now we're gonna clean up just a little around the
Speaker 2: league clean up.
Speaker 1: A lot of talk recently about the dislike between Jay
Speaker 1: Crowder and Lebron James. The best that might be the
Speaker 1: best matchup going in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: That was the rivalry that's been bubbling.
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize was bubbling, and now it's like
Speaker 1: fully boiling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he clearly annoys him.
Speaker 1: Clearly they don't like each other, and so I was
Speaker 1: doing a little digging. One of the things that I
Speaker 1: like about Jay Crowder is one he's a fucking dog
Speaker 1: and two he's loyal, loyal to his guys. This goes
Speaker 1: back to one the time that Jay and and Isaiah
Speaker 1: Thomas were both Celtics playing against Lebron James for all
Speaker 1: those playoff runs where Lebron went to like a million
Speaker 1: straight finals, and two when Jay Crowder and Isaiah Thomas
Speaker 1: were shipped to Cleveland for Kyrie Irving and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Lebron James.
Speaker 2: Discarded that was pretty much the end of Isaiah Thomas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he discarded Isaiah for Larry Nance Junior and Jordan
Speaker 1: Clarkson to the Lakers and then quickly discarded Jay Crowder
Speaker 1: to Utah. And Jay Crowder told a couple of reporters
Speaker 1: could not wait to get.
Speaker 2: The fuck out of Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Hated it there, hated the culture, hated playing with Lebron,
Speaker 1: don't like Lebron, and hate what he did to my
Speaker 1: guy it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that was the worst stretch of his career.
Speaker 4: I think if you go, look, don't have numbers in
Speaker 4: front of me, but I would. I would be surprised
Speaker 4: if that will Choffel. He looked.
Speaker 1: And he was not well liked with the organization. They
Speaker 1: weren't taking care of him. He wasn't a good cultural fit.
Speaker 1: And you're talking about Crowder, the glue guy, like the
Speaker 1: guy that you put on the opposing team's best defender
Speaker 1: to like get him, get him mad. And now what
Speaker 1: we're seeing is like Lebron James just wanting to give
Speaker 1: Jay crowd to the business every single time down.
Speaker 2: It's like so fun to watch love that, love that.
Speaker 2: How hot is this rivalry?
Speaker 1: You may ask? I clipped a second, a seven second
Speaker 1: wordless interaction between Jake Crowder and Lebron James, and it
Speaker 1: got over five hundred thousand views on TikTok and thirty
Speaker 1: like thirty thousand likes on In twenty four hours. That's
Speaker 1: that's how spicy that rivalry is. So I cannot wait
Speaker 1: for tonight's game. All right, more drama between Nike and
Speaker 1: Vanessa Bryant. Vanessa Bryant ended a relationship with Nike, right,
Speaker 1: we know that, But before she did, they were in
Speaker 1: talks to create this Mamba See tissue for Gig Bryant
Speaker 1: black and white only for the Mamba Sita colorway with
Speaker 1: the black. We'll call it like snake skin design with
Speaker 1: Kobe's name on one sneaker, Gigi's on another with the
Speaker 1: two on it.
Speaker 2: And she told Nike.
Speaker 1: I want to sell these shoes in honor of Gigi,
Speaker 1: and I want all proceeds to go to the Mama
Speaker 1: Sita Foundation. And then all of a sudden the relationship ended.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, I think she believed that she wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna get enough from Nike to honor her husband, or
Speaker 1: she didn't think that they were honoring him the right way,
Speaker 1: or something about how many Nikes they were producing. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of scuttle butt about why. So then she
Speaker 1: was like, no more shoes getting produced. So then the
Speaker 1: prototypes of these Mamasitas got produced and they were planning
Speaker 1: Nike was still planning to put them out in the
Speaker 1: summer of this year. The designs got leaked on like
Speaker 1: Sneaker News, and some of the shoes got put on
Speaker 1: Goat and on flight Club for like two thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: So Vanessa and Bryant went on ig today and was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: what the fuck?
Speaker 2: Like this is dirty? She said, I don't even have
Speaker 2: a pair myself. This is what she said on Instagram.
Speaker 1: The Mamba Seat is shoe is not approved for sale
Speaker 1: and all proceeds were supposed to go to the Mamba
Speaker 1: Seat to Sports Foundation. Nike has not sent any of
Speaker 1: these pairs to me or my girls.
Speaker 2: I do not know how someone.
Speaker 1: Else has their hands on shoes that I personally designed
Speaker 1: for Gigi myself and sent the designs to Nike in
Speaker 1: honor of my daughter, and we don't have any I
Speaker 1: hope these shoes never get sold. They've been sold, they
Speaker 1: are not on flight Club anymore. Someone's got them on
Speaker 1: her feet. So holy fuck is that bad. I have
Speaker 1: no idea what's gonna happen with that moving forward.
Speaker 4: That's a tough story. I mean, what a what an
Speaker 4: awful look for Nike. I'm shit.
Speaker 1: Wait twenty twenty one has not been kind to Nike. Yeah, yuck,
Speaker 1: fuck'm fuck them.
Speaker 2: In shocking news.
Speaker 1: Eric Pinkes of Bleacher Report dropped the bomb show and
Speaker 1: he said, this is the moves Marty, we are Are
Speaker 1: you ready?
Speaker 2: This is the news.
Speaker 1: He dropped the bomb show when he said conclusively, not speculatively,
Speaker 1: that Chris Paul intends to decline his forty four point
Speaker 1: four million dollar option with the Suns.
Speaker 2: Things I did not see coming. That was one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're focused on the Lakers in Game six.
Speaker 1: Let me say this, the Chris Paul saga fascinating. Fascinating
Speaker 1: because even with the shoulder injury, I don't think Chris
Speaker 1: Paul's value is any higher than it is right this moment.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's going to continue playing so and like
Speaker 4: he has until the end of this. I mean, if
Speaker 4: he just I don't know, God forbid, keeps getting hurt,
Speaker 4: it might go down a little bit. But right now, yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean he's still worth that much money for sure.
Speaker 1: I think absolutely he is worth because you take the
Speaker 1: forty four he declines that, and he says he wants
Speaker 1: more than one hundred million dollars over the course of
Speaker 1: the next three years, which is just over thirty three
Speaker 1: in change, right, he's getting forty four and a half.
Speaker 1: So is he worth twenty seven a year for the
Speaker 1: next two years after that first year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of maybe.
Speaker 1: So I think that puts the Sons in a tricky
Speaker 1: position because it's like, well, you have to make that decision. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your name now, and if you don't win the title
Speaker 1: this year, I think you say, yay.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, no, no, no, you bring him back. That
Speaker 4: The same people that like are amongst like Sons Twitter,
Speaker 4: the same people that are of the opinion that we
Speaker 4: should decline the option or not try to resign them,
Speaker 4: are the same people that didn't want to trade Uber
Speaker 4: and Rubio for him, Like they're just scared. Don't understand,
Speaker 4: Like you have to make moves like this, you have
Speaker 4: to eat money sometimes it's a no brainer to me. So, like,
Speaker 4: it really doesn't affect how I view this team that
Speaker 4: much right now.
Speaker 1: I think you know this about Chris Paul. He's a
Speaker 1: very smart, very shrewd businessman who understands the power and
Speaker 1: the nature of leverage. He was then MBPA president for
Speaker 1: many years, so he understands how negotiations works very well.
Speaker 1: And I think he's gonna get his money from the Suns,
Speaker 1: and I think he deserves that money from the Suns.
Speaker 2: And fuck it, Like, even if he ends.
Speaker 1: Up getting hurt, I still think he can turn And
Speaker 1: the cell to me is like, I think I can
Speaker 1: turn DeAndre Ayton into a top three center in the league,
Speaker 1: and I think I turned Devin Booker into a top
Speaker 1: three shooting guard in the league regardless.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like his presence even if he's not like fully
Speaker 4: there ineffective. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, Actually I
Speaker 4: didn't quite think of that. I mean, it just is
Speaker 4: kind of funny that three years. It's like that's that
Speaker 4: third year is like right at the point where you're
Speaker 4: just not gonna want to do it. But I mean
Speaker 4: that's why that's what happens with all these mega deals.
Speaker 4: Now though, like you you take it like you know,
Speaker 4: it might hurt, like in the last year or the
Speaker 4: last two years, but it's worth it.
Speaker 1: You're willing to sacrifice the future, yeah, for the right now.
Speaker 1: And Chris Paul is the right guy for right now.
Speaker 2: And he just squeezed extra.
Speaker 1: Fifty six million dollars out of the Suns because I
Speaker 1: guarantee you they're paying it.
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Speaker 5: big dog, walk in with the dog.
Speaker 3: I'm a risk it all. I'm a risk it all.
Speaker 5: I'm a whisk it all all. Line line, big, big,
Speaker 5: big big dog, way dog, big dog walk in, big dog,
Speaker 5: walkay with the dog.
Speaker 1: Hall.
Speaker 3: I'm a muscu it all. I'm a riscuit all. I'm
Speaker 3: a biscuit off
Speaker 6: Mm hmm