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Is LUKA DONCIC done with JJ REDICK? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  and Raptors point guard, our friend the 1:00 we call Childs,
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  Chris Childs. Ladies and gentlemen, what's up,
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  Chris? What's going on fellas?
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  I'm tired man. Just got in from New York but
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  I'm here ready to put down some knowledge.
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  Well you you definitely put some knowledge down.
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  Just make sure it's not the knowledge I'm thinking about.
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  Hey, real. Hey, real quick, I got a
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  question because I was listening.
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  I was listening to you, yeah, talk about the Chauncey belt,
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  the gambling case. And so I'm trying to figure out
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  what are they charging them with because guys have been cheating
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  and gambling since I got to leave, whether it's fixed dice
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  or whatever. So is it because of the money
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  that they made and they didn't file taxes on it or are they
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  going to get tax evasion charges?
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  What are the What are the charges?
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  That's a good question. And obviously I would say tax
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  evasion. That's definitely something
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  because where's the money going and who's paying for it?
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  So I'm sure that's one of the things I speedy.
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  What is it? What what is he getting?
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  What is the illegal, the illegal issues that they're dropping the
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  hammer with him on? I I don't know exactly.
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  I was like fish to put it up in front.
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  Why are frog conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy alleged
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  involvement in a sprawling illegal gambling operation from
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  rigged high stakes poker games? There you go.
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  I mean, obviously, well, I mean laundering money.
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  If you're making a certain amount of money and you're not
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  claiming it on your taxes, you're laundering money that's.
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  OK, so that's why I'm saying the tax they're making money
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  laundering like their yes, illegal like use this.
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  That's charges that you put it put forth against a drug deal.
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  Now, I don't know Chauncey Billups personally.
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  I know you do, Chris. And I know I've heard that
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  Chauncey is a good dude. He's a good person.
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  When you hear a story like this, I was shocked that Chauncey
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  Billups his name, I was brought up into this conversation.
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  I, I mean, I don't know much about Jones.
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  I've heard about Terry Rozier. Terry Rozier has been betting on
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  sports for a while. It it's not to me.
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  It was no surprise that Terry Rozier's name was being brought
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  up in this conversation. But Chauncey Billups, I mean, I,
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  you know, Chauncey. What type of person is Chauncey
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  Billups? He's not the person that they're
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  betraying to be. I've never seen anything other
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  than class. I remember a story when I was
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  hurt and I was in Detroit and I wasn't playing.
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  He was disappointed because he wanted to play against because
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  he knew that I would bring out the best in them to come out and
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  physically challenge them. So and off the court, just the
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  class personified. So I was, I was shocked.
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  I don't, I don't know all the details and I can't say one way
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  or the other what's true or what's not.
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  The same thing with Damon and Rozier, allegedly.
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  But I know that he got into something before.
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  But I think with this case that the money that the Miami Heat
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  took from him, he got back I guess part of his contract.
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  So it's just a lot going on that we're not aware of.
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  And I guess the truth will come out here eventually.
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  Now obviously with Adam Silver, and I've been saying this about
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  Adam Silver over the last couple of years, he's let the players
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  take over the league. The league is being controlled
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  by the players. It's not being controlled by the
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  owners. It's not going to be controlled
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  by any of the sponsors and executives running these
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  organizations in these teams. It's run by the players.
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  And if a player doesn't want to be there, the player can force
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  his way out to wherever he wants to be.
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  It doesn't matter how much he's making.
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  And I think it's been a big problem over the last couple
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  years. Maybe it's because of LeBron
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  James era, I don't know. But now you have guys like Kevin
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  Durant coming out with these. Well, it's been going on with
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  these Twitter feeds and Twitter accounts that he has and, and he
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  is, he spoke his piece about, you know, the league and where
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  the league is transitioning in. And he thinks that the league is
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  it's, it's in a good place, it's in a good position.
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  But he thinks that some of the players in the league have too
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  much control over the league and and possession of the league of
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  where the league is heading. Do you think that the NBA is
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  the, the one league that has allowed players to push the
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  subject, push the the the issue on control and, and really put
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  themselves center stage where there is no way ownership,
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  there's no way that the league can stop them moving forward
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  because of all the money, all the sponsors and all the TV
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  deals they're getting now today? Well, yeah, it's top revenue.
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  The money has been made, but that's all controlled by the
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  CBA. They signed the deal, you know,
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  they put their signature on it. So the collective bargaining
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  agreement needs to be looked at again.
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  The players are able to push the needle either way they want to.
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  We're either load management or tanking or I'm not going to play
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  or I want this player here. And it's just a lot going on.
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  If they're not on the same page for the front office,
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  management, players, agents. I mean, you got agents out there
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  talking like their own. That's never happened before.
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  You never would have seen baby Fuck whatever the guy was that I
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  was a big time agent. You never seen those guys talk
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  about other players and wanting players to play here and play
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  there. That just wasn't allowed.
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  So I guess you it's some truth to the players are running the
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  league just like the prisoners run the prisoners run the
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  prison. You can't allow that.
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  And it it boils over because it starts in high school and
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  college. These college kids are making so
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  much money with the NIL deals when they should just be putting
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  it in the trust for the kids. But it starts there.
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  Then they get to the NBA and they're making even more money
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  and being able to control whatever narrative it is,
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  whatever team they want to go to.
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  So something. And Kevin Durant can't speak up
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  about it because he's one of the top players in the league that's
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  making a lot of money. So he should speak up, but also
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  be careful what stones you throw because they can be thrown right
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  back at you. So you have to be careful with
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  what you say if you're not living that life or doing the
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  same thing, so. You're talking about the tanking
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  controversy. That was a big thing that was
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  brought up after the All Star break.
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  And like, are these teams trying to lose deliberately?
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  Is there an issue with the NBA lottery?
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  Is there an issue with the way this draft is structured, too?
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  And now you're seeing it with this year's draft being very
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  highly tattered. You talk about one guy, Darren
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  Peterson. That's blow managing a lot of
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  college as it is already with the multiple injuries he's had.
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  What are your thoughts of that whole saga taking over the?
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  Other you can see his face right there.
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  You're in college, you want to play every minute of every game.
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  But I guess when you're making that kind of money, you're up
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  there to be one of the top draft picks.
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  And I've seen football players do it as well.
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  You know, if they're high draft picks and they get a little
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  sprained ankle, whatever, they would just sit out.
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  But I just, I wasn't brought up that way.
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  I didn't play that way. I wanted to play every day.
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  I wanted to play every minute. Now, I can understand you have
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  injuries. You watch your minutes, but you
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  don't sit out for a month or two months and then come back for
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  the playoffs. You play the first two months of
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  the season and the last two months of the season.
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  I mean, my, you know, injuries are a part of the game.
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  If you're hurt, you can play. If you're injured, you can't.
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  I hate it. Being on IR, sitting in a suit
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  behind the bench and watching other players play felt like I
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  was letting my teammates down. A lot of times I came back too
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  soon to play because I hate sitting and watching them go out
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  there and work. But I guess it's, you know, a
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  different era. Guys are trying to protect their
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  brand. I mean, I can, I'll be lying if
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  I say I get it because I don't. But I try not to speak on it too
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  much because I don't want people to, you know, DM me because you
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  DM me. I'm a DM, you back.
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  We are talking to former Nets, Knicks and Raptors point guard
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  Chris Childs. You know, Chris, we're going to
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  get it to the Knicks in just a few moments, but I really want
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  to get into this Laker thing that's going on right now in
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  Lakerville. And I, I'm sure you've heard
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  about it. LeBron James, Luca got a new
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  contract in the offseason. LeBron was the only one that
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  didn't show up to that contract media day, and Luca gave all the
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  players his sneakers, his new sneakers.
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  LeBron never got him. I don't know if LeBron was hurt
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  by it, I doubt it, but it was. It was actually pretty funny
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  when that story came out and now you're seeing that Luca and JJ
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  Redick were going back and forth with one another on on the
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  sidelines and JJ after the game says, oh, we have a good
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  relationship. I don't know why the media takes
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  this too far, but you know that JJ Redick was LeBron James's
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  guy. And if LeBron James is on his
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  way out, it seems like that's where JJ is going because
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  there's no way Luca is going to want JJ there in the long run.
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  Do you think the reason why JJ or how about this Luca is not a
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  big fan of JJ Redick is because of LeBron James?
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  Because there's got to be a reason why these guys don't
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  really see eye to eye. You can tell if you watch the
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  game when they sitting out, when a time out, Lebron's on one side
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  and Lucas on the other. They're never next to each
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  other. Do you believe there's some kind
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  of thought that these two guys really don't like each other?
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  I'm not sure. I'm not there, so I don't know.
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  But I'm not a JJ really fan, so I don't blame Luca.
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  It seems like he talks to guys in a manner that he doesn't have
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  a right to. You don't have a resume to speak
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  to a player of that caliber the way that he tries to.
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  I think when Luca was in Dallas, I think was Carlyle the coach
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  when Luca was there? Yeah, at the.
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  Beginning of his career, yeah. Yeah, so Carlyle was there, and
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  Carlyle's, he's feisty, but he's not going to talk to you in a
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  man. He's going to give you respect.
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  He's going to break it down to you in a manner that you can
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  understand it, but he's not going to disrespect you and talk
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  to you that way. And it just seems like JJ does
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  that and Luca is looking at him like, who are you?
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  You know, and we and everybody knows that the reason JJ got
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  their job was because of LeBron. And I don't think I don't see a
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  big issue with LeBron not being there.
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  But if it was me and you're trying to build a nucleus, I
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  would have showed up so that he knows I'm on the same page as
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  you. This is what we're going to do
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  together. But I never thought that they
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  would mesh well together because Luca dribble, dribble dribbles a
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  lot. You know, I think he's second
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  behind James Harden and then up there with my guy in New York.
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  So he needs the ball in his hand.
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  And LeBron is not someone that's going to sit him in a corner and
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  tell, you know, wait for the ball to come to him and shoot at
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  3. So I never, I never thought that
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  that that chemistry would work with them playing together.
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  But I don't know. We'll see.
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  I don't. I don't see JJ being there next
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  year if Lebron's not there, no. Chris Now let's get into the
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  Knicks because there's a lot of questions to the Knicks.
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  Last year they struck out in the Eastern Conference finals.
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  They had they were the better team.
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  They lost against the hot Hal Burton.
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  Hal Burton took his team all the way to the 7th game before he
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  tore his Achilles. He's out for the season.
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  Looks like they're choking, which the NBA needs to fix this
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  because it's absolutely hurting the league.
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  But nevertheless, you have the Knicks and I I think Leon Rose
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  doesn't get enough credit because this guy built this
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  squad, built this Ross him and worldwide W he put the right
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  executives around him. James Dolan has stepping away
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  from the team and he's letting this man control it.
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  A lot of fans didn't like Leon Rose in the beginning, an agent
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  taking over. And yeah, he was the agent of
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  LeBron and yeah, he's the agent of Karl Anthony Towns and Devin
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  Booker. But what does an agent really
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  know about the game and then all these different signings and
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  moves. I mean, Jalen Brunson coming
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  here from Dallas, the second round draft pick had one good
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  playoff run and he's become a star right in front of her eyes.
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  And slowly but surely, he made a trade for OG Anobe, giving RJ
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  Barrett away and quickly building a nucleus of players.
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  And then if you think about it, all the trade deadline moves
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  he's made, Josh Hart, big factor of this team.
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  Think about it now, Jose Alvarado, big factor of this
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  team off the bench. Do you think that Leon Rose now,
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  after all the things he's done and really nothing to say before
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  the end of the season, do you think that he's slowly but
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  surely being more respected by the league and now fans here in
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  New York? Yeah, of course that comes with
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  success. That comes with winning.
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  You know, if you make moves, you don't win, you're going to be
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  the scapegoat. But the guys are winning, the
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  guys are nesting, the guys are playing extremely hard.
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  Just unfortunate. Last night I think they were a
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  little fatigued. But the nucleus of that team,
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  how hard they played, I would like to see, you know, another
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  shooter he added to the team. But defensively, we're there.
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  We had a low the first two quarters, only scored 40 and
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  then I think we scored 40 and a third.
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  But we exuded so much effort in the 3rd to get back in the game.
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  I think we had a couple of defensive lapses in the fourth
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  quarter, but we were still there because the guys refused to give
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  up. The guys continue to fight.
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  They play. So there's no time on the clock.
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  And so I, I like what the, the, the way the team is going either
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  plan, like, you know, Crawford Towns are starting to play
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  better. I want to see him in the post
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  more so that we can get into the bonus early and get some guys in
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  foul trouble. We run a lot of pick and roll.
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  That's our that's our game. But getting them in the post
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  with the mortgage, I think he could do some damage, especially
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  if they're planning on getting smaller guys, he can punish them
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  and get us in the bonus early. But last night, I think the guy
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  just being there and seeing them up close, I think they were just
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  a little fatigue, but they fought through it.
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  It's a, it's a mentality, it's a mental thing.
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  And they they showed in the third and fourth quarter that
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  they're going to fight to the end and it's a great game.
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  So, and also, but also we don't get the benefit of of the 'cause
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  it was some not used as an excuse, but it was some horrible
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  call that, excuse me, didn't go our way.
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  And Shay got, you know, a billion of them, the flopping
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  and stuff. So Branson being a superstar he
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  don't get the benefit of the doubt of getting the calls like
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  other superstars especially at home which.
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  Was about to say that, yeah. Yeah, I was going to mention the
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  they've tracked it all year when certain stats getting more,
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  getting players, getting more stats.
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  Luka Doncic I think was the highest this year at free throws
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  per game and and Shay was second and last year they called him a
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  free throw merchant to like the selective treatment.
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  You think across the league, like I thought it was a LeBron
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  era thing and like LeBron was getting all these calls and
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  James Harden and all these guys. Like you think it's shifted a
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  different direction with the way these games are called and could
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  there also be some betting implications with that so?
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  Geez, I hope not. It wouldn't be a good look for
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  the league. But I mean, it's always been
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  like that certain guys in the league will get the benefit of
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  doubt and get called, especially, you know, after they
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  won a championship and got an MVP.
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  So you know they're going to get the benefit of doubt.
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  And I remember Joey Crawford was a referee.
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  It was Michael and somebody else.
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  And I was like, Joey, that's not a that's not a foul.
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  He was like, he earned it because how many years he
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  played, basically, that's cheating.
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  He earned it. It wasn't a foul, but he earned
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  that call. But that's just the way the
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  league is, guys that are superstars.
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  And and I can't say that the kid Shay does put pressure on the
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  defense, but so does Jayden. You know, he puts pressure on
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  the defense and he get grabbed and he hit a lot.
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  I, I didn't believe until I saw it last night, they physically
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  beat him up. And so it's unfortunate that
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  happens. But he's a, he's a resilient kid
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  and he's, he's smart. I saw how he was interacting
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  with the referees and Santa is bad.
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  He's sorry. And that's how you have to talk
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  to him because they have Eagles, too.
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  Chris going back to the Knicks and a lot of people are going
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  back and forth, who's the number two guy?
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  Who's the number three guy? We, I've been, and I want to
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  give a shout out to the objective, objective Knick fan.
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  I I've been on his podcast. He's sensational Quran and
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  Maxine. They're great and they get a lot
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  of views and a lot of Knick fans really follow them and they have
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  great content. And we went back and forth.
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  A lot of fans were like OG should be the number two guy,
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  but Carl and and then we're fans saying if Carl Anthony Towns
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  becomes the number one or somehow Carl Anthony Towns
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  should take over certain games in the second and third quarter
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  and then let Bronson finish. He's the best closer.
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  Make him take over in the fourth quarter.
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  Do you believe that when Karl Anthony Towns is playing at a
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  high level, he's the number one and Bronson's the number 2?
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  Because a lot of people going back and forth, Mikkel Bridges
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  should be the number 3, but some people think OG and Anobi should
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  be the three. It, there's just, there's so
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  many arguments where this Nick team is and if this Nick, if
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  this Nick team is going to make it, if they're going to go to
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  the Finals and compete against OK C or the Nuggets or whoever,
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  they're going to compete against in the Western Conference and
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  they're going to be they have to go through Detroit and then
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  they're really going to have to go through the Celtics now with
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  Tatum coming back. And I expect them to be just as
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  good going into the playoffs this year.
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  If Tatum's even 80%, do you think that Karl Anthony Towns in
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  some aspects of the game should be the number one and OG in
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  certain games should be the number 2?
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  The Knicks are like an old school R&B group, like a
• 19:35
  temptation. OK Jalen is David Ruffin, Carthy
• 19:43
  Towns is daddy Kin. Everybody else is Otis, You
• 19:49
  know. OK, that's just what it is.
• 19:52
  That's pretty funny. Yeah, that's what it, that's
• 19:55
  what it is. He's number one.
• 19:56
  He's #2 Now they're going to be times and games where cats going
• 20:02
  to have the mismatch and you got to feed him.
• 20:05
  The guys the on the team need to understand when he has a six,
• 20:09
  five guy on him, 6-6, tell him to get his get in the post and
• 20:14
  let's just feed him. Can't guard him.
• 20:17
  He's too big and strong. He's too skilled.
• 20:19
  So he might be #1 some games depend on the mismatch and most
• 20:24
  nights it's going to be Jalen. But O GS playing well.
• 20:29
  Bridges is playing well. It's a, it's a, it's a group,
• 20:32
  it's a band, but there's two lead singers and everybody
• 20:35
  else's backup dances. It's interesting because a lot
• 20:39
  of Nick fans are hoping that this is the year, this might be
• 20:43
  the the best year through the Eastern Conference, being that
• 20:46
  Halliburton's hurt and Tatum's not 100% and he's not playing 40
• 20:50
  minutes, even coming back from a torn, torn Achilles.
• 20:54
  I mean, the fact that he's back now and he's coming back as
• 20:57
  early as he is, it's pretty amazing.
• 21:00
  But he there's no way he's playing more than 28 minutes,
• 21:02
  especially having the injury that he had.
• 21:04
  Do you think that the team that the Knicks need to worry about
• 21:08
  going into the playoffs is Detroit or the Celtics?
• 21:10
  And tell us why one of those teams would be the team that you
• 21:13
  would be worried about the most. Well, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm
• 21:18
  different. I'm a firm believer that we
• 21:20
  were. We, we can only control.
• 21:21
  We can control. The Knicks just need to worry
• 21:24
  about winning as many games as possible and getting the best
• 21:27
  seed that we can. Once you get there, everything
• 21:30
  else, take care of yourself. We know who we're going up
• 21:33
  against. We know that we can beat them.
• 21:35
  We know what we have to do. But if you start thinking too
• 21:38
  far ahead about Boston and Detroit and all those guys, then
• 21:43
  you're you're putting too much added pressure on yourself.
• 21:45
  Just worry about what you can control day in and day out,
• 21:48
  getting better in practice, come to practice to work and getting
• 21:51
  off to a good start, especially at home.
• 21:54
  You know, we we can get off to a good start the other night and
• 21:58
  so we have to do a better job of that and we have to limit our
• 22:02
  turnovers and get into the bonus as early as possible.
• 22:05
  I understand these guys have a good team.
• 22:06
  Boston has a good team, Detroit has a good team, Philly has a
• 22:09
  good team. All these guys have good teams.
• 22:11
  We're a good team, but only thing we can control is
• 22:14
  ourselves and, and what we bring to the table and the outcome.
• 22:19
  So I don't want, I know what how fans think and what they want,
• 22:22
  what they expect. But I, I, when I was when I
• 22:26
  played, we knew all we want to do is get in the playoffs once
• 22:30
  we got in and we knew who we were going to play, which was
• 22:33
  the Heat and like, OK, we can beat these guys.
• 22:36
  So that's when you start thinking about it.
• 22:38
  But up until then, let's just worry about getting the best,
• 22:42
  win as many games as possible and getting the best see it as
• 22:44
  possible. So one of the things that was
• 22:46
  notable, obviously they got rid of Tom Thibodeau after last year
• 22:49
  and a lot of the players, I think besides Bronson and a few
• 22:52
  others were frustrated with him and they go to Mike Brown now.
• 22:55
  You've seen the pace be different.
• 22:56
  You've seen the the bench depth with a lot of the young kids,
• 22:58
  especially the ones they just traded for to be a lot different
• 23:00
  to. What are the some of the
• 23:01
  differences you've seen in the coaching style with those two?
• 23:05
  Well, I I love Tips. He was my defensive coach when I
• 23:09
  was playing. But but I see the freedom now
• 23:13
  from the players. I think with Tips he would call
• 23:15
  plays after a rebound, defensive rebound.
• 23:18
  These guys want to push, but Tibbs is yelling with him.
• 23:21
  So guys are turned around trying to run, you know, trying to get
• 23:25
  in transition. And then you you slow the ball
• 23:27
  down and you're calling the play.
• 23:29
  Now you're getting across half court.
• 23:31
  You only got 1416 seconds to operate.
• 23:34
  It's hard to operate like that. And then they get on Jalen
• 23:37
  because he's saying he's dribbling too much.
• 23:39
  But shoot, he just got the ball over half court because he's
• 23:41
  waiting for a play. Now he has a little more freedom
• 23:45
  and they're getting more baskets in transition.
• 23:48
  So it's just different terminology and coaching.
• 23:50
  Mike Brown is more of a you play defense after that, we're going
• 23:54
  to push the ball, Tibbs play defense.
• 23:57
  Let's make every possession like it's the last possession.
• 24:01
  You got to give guys some freedom and I think that's the
• 24:04
  difference with this team this year.
• 24:06
  We are talking to former Nets, Knicks and Raptors point guard
• 24:09
  Chris Childs. You know, Chris, we, we look at
• 24:12
  the league and, and I've been saying this, I wrote an article
• 24:14
  recently this past week about the point guard position.
• 24:18
  You played the point guard position in the 90s.
• 24:20
  And I thought that the 70s and 80s and the 90s was the bigs.
• 24:24
  It was all about the bigs. When you talk about Shaquille
• 24:26
  O'Neal and Elijahuan and all these guys, David Robertson and
• 24:30
  Tim Duncan, these guys and Shaquille, they all dominated
• 24:35
  all the way. And even in the 80s, Robert
• 24:37
  Parishes and on and on and on and on.
• 24:40
  But it's slowly but surely with the new rule changes, it's
• 24:43
  really become a guard league. Do you know why the the NBA
• 24:48
  transitioned as as it did from the the Seventies, 80s and 90s
• 24:53
  to now? And why you think the point
• 24:55
  guard is the most important position now in all the
• 24:58
  basketball? Well, that that transitions
• 25:01
  everything evolves in every sport, change rules, whatnot.
• 25:04
  But that started I think it was in 99 that it started.
• 25:08
  There was no more hand shaking. And that's when you couldn't
• 25:11
  guard Allen Iverson basically because you couldn't touch it.
• 25:14
  Terrell Brand and Rod Strick and all these great point guard.
• 25:18
  Just imagine if you couldn't touch Kevin Johnson who was
• 25:21
  Flash or Blur and now you got you got dual threat point guards
• 25:29
  that are initiating offense through themselves first usually
• 25:35
  go through the big guide and back to the guard.
• 25:37
  But no, it's point guard, 2 guard, small forward, power
• 25:43
  forward, then the center, you know, And that that had a lot to
• 25:46
  do with the influx of European players coming over them being
• 25:49
  more skilled in the States. We're used to having big guys
• 25:53
  post up, so once they saw the European players coming over and
• 25:57
  dominating. Now these guys are changing
• 26:00
  their games to be more small forward centers and power
• 26:03
  forwards or playing like small forwards.
• 26:07
  So the game is definitely changing and you need a point
• 26:10
  guard that is that can go out there and get you 2025 thirty
• 26:14
  points tonight because the opposing guard is going to get
• 26:17
  that much. I'm guarding the guy and I'm
• 26:18
  only, you know, scoring 12 points.
• 26:20
  You can still control the 12 points and maybe 10 assists, but
• 26:23
  he's getting 3035 and and 1010 assists.
• 26:29
  That's that's hard to compete with.
• 26:30
  So they're looking for more guards that can put up more
• 26:34
  points than before. You were looking for point
• 26:37
  guards that can run the offense and get guys in position and
• 26:42
  have a hefty number of assists. So it's just the game just
• 26:45
  evolves, you know, every 5 to 10 years, you know, at the game
• 26:52
  last night and they only had, you know, 40 points at halftime.
• 26:55
  It took me back to the days I was playing.
• 26:57
  So then they turn around, score 40 to 30.
• 27:01
  So that shows you I evolved the the game has become.
• 27:06
  Every decade, there's one player that dominates the league.
• 27:10
  Honestly, if you think about it, you think about the 80s, it was
• 27:14
  Byrd and Magic Johnson, and in the 90s it was Michael Jordan.
• 27:21
  In the 2000s, it was Kobe Bryant, and you could probably
• 27:26
  say LeBron James, the transition.
• 27:28
  And in the last, from 2010 to 2020, it was LeBron James.
• 27:32
  And now we're seeing a guy in Yokich.
• 27:36
  We've never seen a player like this ever.
• 27:38
  This is a guy that can pass, he can rebound, he can shoot, he
• 27:43
  does everything well. He was a second round draft
• 27:46
  pick, this guy, and we said that.
• 27:48
  I said this many, many times, LeBron should have won nine MVPS
• 27:51
  when he was at the top of the game.
• 27:53
  He should have won nine MVPS. And then when Michael Jordan,
• 27:55
  Michael Jordan should have won every single year.
• 27:57
  I didn't understand that either. But now you're looking at a guy
• 28:02
  like Nicole Yokich. I'm like, how did he not win the
• 28:06
  MVP last year? He had a triple double as a big
• 28:09
  man. Tell me the last big man that
• 28:11
  ever did that, None of them ever done that, not even come close.
• 28:14
  And now he's doing it again this year.
• 28:16
  And now they're saying Alexander is having a better season than
• 28:19
  he had last year. And Alexander should or could
• 28:22
  win this. He's a favorite of winning it
• 28:24
  again this year. Does this make sense?
• 28:26
  I don't understand it. How do you vote who the MVP is
• 28:30
  when you have a big man dominating and the way he is?
• 28:34
  Well, I think one year I didn't, I didn't vote for him.
• 28:39
  I can't remember who he went up against.
• 28:41
  But every year after that, I've watched this guy and I used to
• 28:45
  play against older guys in my hometown like him.
• 28:48
  And to see him do what he does on ANBA level where these guys
• 28:53
  are just swatting at him like little kids and he's able to
• 28:57
  still make plays for other people.
• 29:01
  I don't, I mean, I haven't seen anybody like that since maybe
• 29:06
  somewhat Tim Duncan, you know, as far as his ability at the top
• 29:10
  of the key in passing. But yokish, he's a different
• 29:12
  beast. And then to see the look in his
• 29:15
  eyes when he grabbed Williams from OKC.
• 29:18
  Now I can see why his brothers are crazy.
• 29:20
  That whole family is freaking scary.
• 29:23
  Like he was he was like possessed and I, I, I, I love
• 29:29
  it. I was like that from here, you
• 29:30
  know, usually just like he's just taking a walk through
• 29:34
  Central Park. But yeah, it's, I mean, the MVP
• 29:38
  races, right? It's always finicky, the voting,
• 29:41
  the people that vote shouldn't be voting.
• 29:43
  They should be in a retirement home somewhere, you know, eating
• 29:49
  Red Vines and drinking cheese. You know, they, they, they
• 29:53
  shouldn't. Be voting they should have some
• 29:56
  retired NBA players or executives that has played the
• 30:01
  game understand the game and would would give a fair
• 30:06
  assessment in voting to the players.
• 30:10
  Some people have their favorites, some people have
• 30:13
  their dislikes and that's unfortunately should be biased
• 30:16
  when it comes to the game of basketball or whoever the Most
• 30:19
  Valuable Player is. Most Valuable Player is the Most
• 30:22
  Valuable Player to his team in the league.
• 30:24
  And it should be the players that vote because I'm pretty
• 30:26
  sure players would vote for Yokich for the last five years.
• 30:31
  Guarantee it. It's not even close.
• 30:33
  I I. I don't, I didn't get it.
• 30:35
  I never get, I don't get it. How does a big man have a triple
• 30:38
  double? He's going to have a triple
• 30:40
  double again this year. Think about it.
• 30:42
  Who leads the now? Obviously Luka Doncic leads the
• 30:45
  league with 32 points a game, but obviously Yokic I think is
• 30:48
  top five. But everything out.
• 30:50
  Who leads the league in rebounding, Jokic.
• 30:52
  Who leads league in assist? Jokic, I mean a big man leading
• 30:57
  the league in assists. Where do you find somebody like
• 31:01
  that? I mean, these guys do not grow
• 31:03
  on trees. I mean, it looks like a tree,
• 31:05
  but they don't grow on trees. And, and, and, and I'm not
• 31:08
  taking shots at Alexander. He is special.
• 31:10
  He's great. He's a great player, but he is
• 31:13
  not Nicole Jokic. Nicole Yokich really doesn't
• 31:16
  have anybody on his team. Let's be honest.
• 31:18
  Murray is a good player, but Murray goes wherever Yokich
• 31:21
  goes. This this team is, is all,
• 31:24
  everything is run by this man and this man gets double team,
• 31:30
  sometimes triple team and you still can't stop them.
• 31:32
  The guy shooting threes, it's like 6050 feet and he's sinking
• 31:36
  them. I've never seen a big man as
• 31:39
  good. I honestly think everybody says,
• 31:42
  well, I saw the list of top ten big men in the league and I I've
• 31:45
  seen a bunch of these ex players have him at six or five.
• 31:49
  By the time this guy is done, I would put him in my top three.
• 31:54
  I might even put him at one. The the only thing that I I
• 31:58
  would question him is his defensive skills, his prowess.
• 32:02
  He's not as good of a defender as an Elijah Wan or as a good a
• 32:06
  defender as a David Robertson or or Tim Duncan.
• 32:10
  He doesn't have that ability, but he's everything else.
• 32:14
  I mean, none of those guys can even touch this man.
• 32:17
  None of them. Well, I think a lot of.
• 32:19
  The guys sentiment as far as where they rank him is because
• 32:23
  he hasn't played against the type of talent center wise guys
• 32:28
  in the 90s and 2000 and 2010 they played against.
• 32:31
  He didn't have to go up against an Elijah Wan, a Shaq, A Kareem,
• 32:35
  Patrick Ewing, the David Robinson most I mean all the
• 32:38
  great, great center so, but you can't blame him for that.
• 32:41
  That's just where he he wasn't born.
• 32:44
  You can only judge him against what he's done on the court,
• 32:48
  against the talent that was put forth to to him.
• 32:51
  I want to know who his mother and father is.
• 32:54
  I want to know who trains him. I want his birth certificate
• 32:57
  because I think he's older. Than he claims to be.
• 33:01
  Because he's too polished in so many different areas of the
• 33:04
  game, your basketball IQ has to be out the roof to be able to do
• 33:09
  what he does and be as slow as he is.
• 33:11
  So everybody look at the numbers.
• 33:13
  I watch his footwork. When he plays in his hands.
• 33:16
  He has great hands and he has great footwork.
• 33:18
  He's a big, big man, but he doesn't exert that type of
• 33:23
  energy that most NBA players exert other than when he's
• 33:27
  getting offensive rebounds, other than what if he's going to
• 33:30
  push it up to court? But everything he does is
• 33:33
  methodical and is well planned out.
• 33:36
  See you, We're all about speed, you know, teach you speed and
• 33:40
  power and strength. He uses that against guys and
• 33:43
  they have yet to adjust. Like he wants to feel you.
• 33:46
  He'll bump you off and he'll spin off you.
• 33:49
  So guys, they need to do the old Rick Mahorn trick and start
• 33:52
  pulling the chair from behind him and get him off balance
• 33:55
  because if he feels you're buying it, there's nothing you
• 33:57
  can do with them because it's too big and too skilled.
• 34:00
  Rick Mahorn, I haven't heard. That name in a long time.
• 34:02
  Detroit. Remember the Pistons guys?
• 34:04
  Rick Mahorn was part of the bad Piston teams with what's his
• 34:10
  name again? Joe Dumars.
• 34:14
  Joe Dumars, yeah. Isaiah Thomas?
• 34:18
  Yeah. Yeah, Sally.
• 34:20
  Yeah, John. Sally, huh?
• 34:22
  John is one of the nicest people I've ever met off the court, one
• 34:26
  of the and his podcast is pretty great.
• 34:28
  If you guys like basketball, John Sally has a podcast.
• 34:31
  He tells a lot of great stories and he's got a lot of them so
• 34:36
  and he has a lot of stories. But a lot of them are
• 34:38
  fabricated. There's my buddy Rick Tricky.
• 34:44
  Ricky. Tricky Ricky.
• 34:47
  And boy oh boy, they wore their shorts right up to there.
• 34:50
  You know what? How do they run?
• 34:54
  In that when it's up all the way up to the grind.
• 34:56
  I mean, seriously, I would never be caught dead wearing those
• 34:59
  shorts I wore something like that in.
• 35:02
  College, but I had the tights underneath it so they didn't
• 35:04
  look as bad. Oh man, oh man, Chris.
• 35:11
  Same guy for compression shorts. Well, you know.
• 35:15
  Did you see Kobe Bryant? Kobe Bryant bought into, what
• 35:20
  was it? What's the brand that he poured
• 35:23
  into? I I think it was all done Armor.
• 35:26
  What's that? Under Armour?
• 35:28
  He bought into Under Armour. He put $6 million into Under
• 35:31
  Armour or $9 million into Under Armour.
• 35:34
  He just sold his. Well, he's may rest in peace,
• 35:38
  but he he sold his. Stake.
• 35:42
  His wife just made $600 million off that stake.
• 35:46
  Think about this. Could you imagine that?
• 35:49
  600 I mean that guy. Was a way.
• 35:51
  Ahead of his time, think about it.
• 35:53
  He took a chance, put $9 million into something nobody's even
• 35:58
  heard of. A guy was selling shorts and
• 36:01
  hats outside of the back of his car, put $9 million or $6
• 36:04
  million into it, and just his stake just sold for $600
• 36:08
  million. It's ridiculous.
• 36:10
  I hope people. I hope I.
• 36:11
  Hope people don't take this the wrong way, but if that was me I
• 36:15
  would come back from the dead to get my 600 million.
• 36:21
  I'm like, baby, you ain't, you ain't.
• 36:22
  Spending all that money, I'm coming back for that.
• 36:25
  But that's, that's, that's awesome, man.
• 36:28
  Congratulations to the Bryant family.
• 36:33
  I don't know who was over his estate or who was keeping that
• 36:37
  because and she, she must have been on top of everything
• 36:41
  because you know, a lot of times stuff like that happen.
• 36:44
  Whoever the accountant is or whoever is handling this
• 36:46
  business would see that as opportunity to steal or do
• 36:50
  something they shouldn't have to.
• 36:52
  So kudos to Vanessa for being on top of everything.
• 36:57
  Congratulations. Speaking of raising.
• 37:00
  Money. You're doing such a great job
• 37:02
  raising money for kids and college tuitions and all that
• 37:05
  other stuff. Tell the fans what they can do
• 37:07
  to help you raise money to make sure that these kids are getting
• 37:10
  an education. Well, most of most of the stuff.
• 37:13
  I do is through private donors. Anybody that wants to touch and
• 37:16
  help can reach me by e-mail, goldenchilds@gmail.com and then
• 37:22
  I'll explain everything. But we just basically give kids
• 37:24
  an opportunity that might not have an opportunity to go to
• 37:27
  college. Everybody can go to college, so
• 37:29
  we teach them and put them in school to get a skilled trade.
• 37:34
  People look at different things, carpenters, plumbers and
• 37:36
  different things like that's beneath them.
• 37:38
  But we, I have friends, we have plumbers that make over $160,000
• 37:43
  a year. Carpenters make almost $200,000
• 37:47
  a year. So I know college is not for
• 37:49
  everybody, but we put them in positions to learn the skilled
• 37:53
  trade. And then we also do things in
• 37:55
  the community, feeding the homeless every other month,
• 37:59
  especially when it was cold, when they didn't have shelter.
• 38:02
  We had tents and blankets, coats, gloves, different
• 38:08
  necessities that they need to get through these rough times in
• 38:12
  the winter and summertime. So if anybody wants any more
• 38:16
  information, I can be reached at goldenchild@gmail.com and I'm
• 38:20
  going to donate. I do it every year.
• 38:22
  Speedy donated money and we, we love you man.
• 38:25
  And we love when you come on and when you come out here, when
• 38:28
  you're doing some kind of event, what you should reach out to us.
• 38:31
  We would love to work. We'll do a broadcast there.
• 38:34
  We'll interview some of the kids.
• 38:35
  We'll, we'll bring, we'll bring the fire over there and make
• 38:38
  sure that your project and, and what you're doing and the
• 38:41
  benefit of all the money that you're raising for these kids is
• 38:44
  going to be out there to the public.
• 38:46
  So if, if you're doing something out here, let us know.
• 38:48
  We would love to come and represent you guys.
• 38:51
  I would love to have you guys there.
• 38:52
  And I'll definitely or the next time I'm in the New York area,
• 38:55
  even if we're not doing anything, we can catch up, get a
• 38:58
  bite to eat and just talk sports and just really get to know each
• 39:01
  other on an up close and personal basis because we we
• 39:04
  talk to each other. I love being on the show.
• 39:06
  I think you guys are hilarious. I think you guys are well
• 39:09
  knowledge with everything you guys talk about.
• 39:12
  And that's why I don't have a problem coming on here sharing
• 39:14
  the things that I've learned over the years and like listen
• 39:19
  to you guys talk as well. So anytime, brother.
• 39:22
  How's the glove? How's the glove doing over
• 39:24
  there? How's the glove?
• 39:27
  How's the? Glove How is Gary?
• 39:29
  Payton doing Gary, It's Gary. We supposed to be in New York
• 39:34
  next week. My son is coming down with his
• 39:38
  wife and grandkids and I he just told me that that thank you
• 39:42
  thank you that big Gary is coming down.
• 39:44
  So I got to get him and and Stephon Marbury together so I
• 39:49
  can just sit there and listen to them both talk because Steph
• 39:52
  likes Steph likes to talk and Gary likes to talk.
• 39:56
  And then me, I guess me and Patrick, and we'll get John
• 39:59
  there as well. John Starks, because he likes to
• 40:02
  bump his gums as well. So yeah, it'll be a good time.
• 40:06
  Well, I would love to. Be the fly on the wall when I
• 40:10
  listen to Gary Payton and Stefan Marbury.
• 40:12
  I play ball with Stefan Marbury on the in the streets when he
• 40:17
  was before he went to Georgia Tech.
• 40:19
  I, I I lived in Brooklyn. I played in Brooklyn.
• 40:22
  I played street ball over there in Flatbush Ave.
• 40:25
  I know. I knew Telifair.
• 40:26
  I knew all of them. Kenny.
• 40:29
  Kenny Anderson was there. I got a chance to know a little
• 40:31
  bit about Kenny. Yeah.
• 40:33
  So. I played a little street ball.
• 40:34
  And Stefan, there was something about him when he was playing
• 40:37
  street ball that you just like, this guy is going to be special.
• 40:40
  You just watched him. He was like, it was like even
• 40:44
  when he was doing a layup, when he was going up and crossing
• 40:46
  over and going right to the hole, I was like, this guy's
• 40:49
  special, you know, So and, and watching him play the game, even
• 40:53
  when he went to China, they built a statue of him over
• 40:56
  there. I mean, he's a God over there.
• 40:58
  So and over here in New York, he's considered a God too.
• 41:01
  They love him and they respect him.
• 41:03
  So yeah, he, he's a, he's a great.
• 41:05
  Guy, a lot of guys that grow up in the New York area and have to
• 41:08
  play for the Knicks and the Nets.
• 41:10
  It's a lot of pressure. And for him to make that
• 41:12
  decision to go to China, which I know it probably it was a tough
• 41:16
  decision, but it was probably the best decision for him
• 41:18
  because he can finally exhale and go over there and just play
• 41:21
  the game that he loved. And you know, going over here to
• 41:24
  China, which they want you to win, to win as many titles as he
• 41:29
  has. He's I've talked to him at games
• 41:31
  and stuff. He's king over there and he's
• 41:33
  doing a lot of great things in the States as well.
• 41:35
  Big up the stuff. Yeah, I used to buy his. $10
• 41:39
  sneakers or dollar sneakers when he was selling them, they used
• 41:42
  to. And I'll tell you, Steph, I'll
• 41:45
  never take shots of what they look like, but when you put them
• 41:48
  on, they always ripped. They always broke.
• 41:51
  I would play basketball with them.
• 41:52
  Within two or three times using them, the soles would come off.
• 41:55
  I was like, what? What the hell is he building
• 41:58
  these things with? Is he stitching them on himself?
• 42:00
  Just don't send him to Duke. Otherwise we'll have.
• 42:02
  Another Zion Williamson huge breaking incidents you.
• 42:06
  Can't use is glue on sneakers. Well, he's probably doing that.
• 42:12
  But Chris, Chris, we love you, man.
• 42:16
  I I love you guys too. I I'm going to send you.
• 42:19
  I'm going to send you some, you know, obviously money to your
• 42:22
  charity and I I want I let's let's get together, man, when
• 42:25
  you come out here, we would love to get together.
• 42:28
  Let's stay in touch, and I will. And by the.
• 42:31
  Way I will. We've got a.
• 42:32
  New show. Well, our show is transitioning.
• 42:36
  We're going to be bringing Quinton couples.
• 42:37
  Remember, Quinton Couples? I remember.
• 42:39
  Yeah. Yeah, Quinton.
• 42:40
  Couples New York Jet. First round draft pick, he's
• 42:42
  going to be joining the show and working with us moving forward.
• 42:45
  So we're very excited about that.
• 42:47
  Quinton's very excited about it and we're going to do some big
• 42:50
  things. And I, I just so you know, on
• 42:52
  Spotify and Apple, we have been at one point in the last past
• 42:56
  week and a half, we were a top 100 show, 56th in the country.
• 43:01
  So yeah, Yep. And right now, right now we were
• 43:05
  ranked. Today we were ranked 158th.
• 43:08
  It fluctuates, man, but we're putting up we're putting up
• 43:11
  great numbers and we're very excited for the future of where
• 43:15
  the show is going. And one of the reasons why your
• 43:18
  guests like you, people and personalities like you that come
• 43:20
  on and give us your take and like it or love it or you hate
• 43:24
  the Knicks or you hate this person, hate that person, you,
• 43:27
  you tell it how it is. And, and I love that about you
• 43:30
  is that you've always been honest when you've come on this
• 43:32
  show. You've never, you know, you
• 43:33
  never hid from anything that you said.
• 43:36
  Like you said, if you know, if I was gone, don't take it the
• 43:40
  wrong way. I'm I'm coming back for my $600
• 43:43
  million. I mean, you're not lying.
• 43:45
  You're not lying, my friend. And I'm pretty sure a lot of
• 43:47
  other. People would say the same thing.
• 43:49
  I'm afraid to say because I didn't say it to offend anybody.
• 43:51
  I'm saying it like, damn that is great, but I'm coming back to
• 43:55
  spend some of that money. So.
• 44:00
  Yeah, man. It's great.
• 44:01
  That you guys are doing that, man, because you guys are
• 44:03
  knowledgeable. You're knowledgeable about what
• 44:04
  you're talking about. So people are intrigued by that.
• 44:07
  And then if your guests come on and be honest and they're
• 44:10
  knowledgeable and they're just not shooting the BS, then you're
• 44:13
  going to do good numbers. So I'm glad that I was able to
• 44:15
  be on here. And like I said, anytime you
• 44:18
  guys need me, you know how to reach me.
• 44:20
  We appreciate you, Chris. Chris, by the way, I wishing you
• 44:22
  all the. Best with your mother-in-law?
• 44:23
  Absolutely. I didn't want to say anything.
• 44:25
  I don't want to say. Anything I don't want to.
• 44:27
  But I, I hope everything's going well with your family.
• 44:30
  I was going to send you an e-mail or send you a text Give
• 44:33
  speedy your number so we can I have, I have his number.
• 44:35
  All right, so. Let's let's.
• 44:36
  Click let's you know, talk offline.
• 44:38
  But I, I heard everything. I, I really hope everything's
• 44:42
  going well with your family. I appreciate it.
• 44:45
  Guys, thank you so much. Absolutely Chris Childs, ladies
• 44:48
  and gentlemen. Come on, give him a golf clap.
• 44:50
  Oh, yeah, give him a golf clap. You know, that's like a Patty
• 44:53
  cake for you, Speedy. Please, man.
• 44:57
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, we've got another segment and we
• 45:01
  call this All righty, then. All righty then.
• 45:07
  All righty then let's click it and stick it.
• 45:13
  Here we go, all. Righty then guys.
• 45:17
  Welcome back to our weekly segments.
• 45:20
  This is Arrows Literary segment. If you haven't been coming to
• 45:23
  the worldwidesportsradio.com. That's where we house a lot of
• 45:26
  the clips from the show as well as all the sports writing done
• 45:30
  by Errol and our team of writers, as well as guys working
• 45:34
  for and our media himself, our PR guy, Nithin Ramachandra
• 45:39
  hanging out on the backstage right now.
• 45:41
  What we're going to do is go. That's a whole mouthful.
• 45:43
  That's like. Ramachandra.
• 45:44
  What was it? Come on Speedy, do it with a
• 45:46
  little bit of flair. Ramachandra.
• 45:49
  Ramachandra, come on, how about you?
• 45:51
  I think it's a soft shot. Come on poops, give me, give me
• 45:54
  your take. Give me one.
• 45:55
  Give it to me, Give it to me. Let it flow, Let it flow.
• 45:58
  Ramachandra. Ramachandra.
• 46:02
  Like a tundra like a like a like some like a thumb.
• 46:04
  Tommy, Tommy How would a. Wrestling ring announcer say his
• 46:09
  name. Oh, that is that.
• 46:11
  The NR Media Nithin Ramachandra. He's lost his hair.
• 46:22
  Let's all highlight. The fact that Nathan finally.
• 46:23
  Doesn't have a played wall in his background.
• 46:27
  He is. Everywhere this guy goes, he
• 46:29
  doesn't have anything on the walls.
• 46:32
  He looks like he's in a jail cell.
• 46:33
  Is a blank house well. Nathan has added the color black
• 46:38
  to go along with the color white to his wall.
• 46:41
  Congratulations on that one. We're going to go through the
• 46:44
  article. Dibansa wants 40 minutes,
• 46:47
  Peterson wants race packs, and Boozer wants your soul.
• 46:51
  After I give you excerpts from this article, you get the whole
• 46:54
  thing again on worldwidesportsradio.com.
• 46:57
  Speedy is going to go through some of our comments on Reddit
• 47:00
  and you can interact with us on Reddit.
• 47:02
  And if you want to have your comments read on next week's
• 47:04
  episode edition of Alrighty, then stay tuned and comment on
• 47:10
  the articles. Here we go.
• 47:12
  Starting off right here, the NBA.
• 47:14
  Draft debate that's breaking my brain, and probably yours too,
• 47:17
  by Mr. L Marks. All right, basketball junkies,
• 47:20
  draft nerds, and the three guys on Twitter who think they could
• 47:23
  have guarded MJ in the 90s, Let's talk about the Holy
• 47:27
  Trinity of this year's NBA draft debate.
• 47:29
  AJ Debansa, Darren Peterson and Cameron Boozer.
• 47:33
  And yes, the basketball world says it's between Peterson and
• 47:36
  Debansa, but you, you're pounding the table for Boozer
• 47:39
  like you're flipping a poker chip at a draft night casino.
• 47:43
  And I love it. Let's get into it.
• 47:45
  Errol Marx, Jabba and the mouse style.
• 47:48
  So we got the Bansa. I'll play 40 minutes and then
• 47:51
  ask for five more. Darren Peterson, get bucket
• 47:55
  getter with a trainer on speed dial.
• 47:58
  But Cameron Boozer, the Duke villain you secretly want on
• 48:03
  your team. Cameron Boozer, son of former
• 48:06
  NBA All Star Carlos Boozer, plays for the mighty Duke Blue
• 48:10
  Devils, coached by John Shire. Pedigree.
• 48:13
  Check. Intensity.
• 48:14
  Check. Double check.
• 48:16
  Motor doesn't turn off. Peterson might get hot.
• 48:20
  The Banson might. Dazzle, dazzle.
• 48:23
  Boozer imposes. He plays like the he owes the
• 48:26
  game something. And let's be honest, do players
• 48:29
  come in NBA ready because they've already been hated by
• 48:32
  America? That's character development,
• 48:36
  Speedy. All right, so we're gonna start
• 48:38
  with the team. Groups.
• 48:39
  We'll start with the Wizards 1, because the Wizards group
• 48:41
  actually was the most successful with this article, so this is
• 48:43
  first from low brass. Well, first of all, how many?
• 48:46
  People actually viewed this in the Wizards group.
• 48:48
  It was 19. 1000 the total all together all about 22,022
• 48:52
  thousand so we'll. Start with low brass rumble.
• 48:54
  Boozer fits so well with Alex. Sorry.
• 48:55
  Obviously their number two overall pick from a few years
• 48:58
  ago and I'm a huge fan of his high processing, methodical
• 49:01
  game. However, he's a shorter than
• 49:02
  average power 4 without a great vertical.
• 49:04
  He was also mentioning the overall physicality compared to
• 49:07
  other power forwards in the NBA. Thank you low Brass for giving.
• 49:10
  Us your take and yeah, he's a little bit smaller and and
• 49:14
  obviously his vertical leap is not the NBA style of vertical
• 49:18
  leap that you're going to pick in the top three.
• 49:20
  But here's the thing that he gives that a lot of these these
• 49:22
  other players consistency. This guy's is consistent of a
• 49:26
  player right now in the country. He plays for Duke.
• 49:28
  Duke has a great bunch of young guys playing with him, but he is
• 49:32
  the guy that they're putting the ball in his hands at the end of
• 49:35
  the game. If Duke is down or Duke is up by
• 49:38
  5:00 and then they're close out the game, this is the guy that
• 49:41
  closes the game. This guy has a tremendous 18
• 49:43
  foot jump shot. He can shoot the three.
• 49:45
  He's only going to get better. His shots only going to get
• 49:47
  better. His inside game and his fade
• 49:50
  away jumpers, everything that he does, especially getting to the
• 49:53
  whole is consistent athletically gifted.
• 49:56
  He's not as athletically gifted as a Peterson or the Banza, but
• 50:00
  he he has the ability to do those things that can dominate
• 50:03
  games. And the one thing I don't want
• 50:05
  to see is him going to Indiana. That's the one thing I don't
• 50:07
  want to see this. This next one is from.
• 50:09
  A next group This is Fishy Blue, 11.
• 50:11
  He thinks Boozer is safe from a valuable standpoint.
• 50:14
  A primary perimeter creator will be more valuable in the playoffs
• 50:17
  because the number one thing is to have individual shot
• 50:19
  creation. Hold on one second, Fishy blue.
• 50:22
  Thank you for giving us your date.
• 50:23
  Hold on. What was the what was the word
• 50:26
  that I I disagree with Speedy, Could you guess Individual?
• 50:29
  No. Safe.
• 50:31
  Boozer is safe. I would not put Cam Boozer and
• 50:37
  use the word safe. This guy is an All Star.
• 50:40
  This guy's going to be an NBA All Star, a 9 or 10 year NBA All
• 50:44
  Star. He's going to be a superstar
• 50:45
  player in the NBA. He's a superstar player right
• 50:49
  now in college. He's probably going to win
• 50:51
  player of the year. He's definitely, he's definitely
• 50:53
  going to be ACC Player of the year.
• 50:55
  And you called him safe. Disagree.
• 50:58
  All right, we'll shift the gears a little bit.
• 50:59
  This one's just more to the Peterson end of it.
• 51:02
  This is okay instance 5059. The Pearson saga will get very
• 51:05
  interesting, especially if he gets pushed down to three and
• 51:07
  comparing him to head cases like DeAndre and obviously the
• 51:10
  scandal at Arizona, John Morant and the great Ben Simmons I
• 51:13
  compared him to last week. If a guy didn't want to keep
• 51:16
  playing, okay, he's better than all of them.
• 51:19
  He's bought, he's better than Ayton, he's better than Ben
• 51:21
  Simmons, he's better than Morant.
• 51:23
  His all around game is as good as anybody who's seen come out
• 51:25
  of the draft in 15 years. Some people say he's the most
• 51:28
  talented out of all the three guys that everybody keeps
• 51:31
  talking about. Problem with him is he didn't.
• 51:33
  The story is is he was promised some NIL money, more NIL money.
• 51:38
  He didn't get it. So now he's not playing as hard.
• 51:40
  He doesn't want to play as much. He wants to protect himself
• 51:43
  because he wants that big money after college basketball.
• 51:47
  And that's why a lot of people don't give Kansas any chance in
• 51:50
  the tournament because if if Peterson isn't playing, Darren
• 51:53
  Peterson isn't playing at a top level, they don't have a chance
• 51:56
  against some of the powerhouse teams like Arizona or Duke or,
• 52:00
  or how about Houston? Any of those teams.
• 52:02
  So I would agree with you, but I I think the only thing I would
• 52:06
  say that I would disagree with you is Peterson's going to be
• 52:09
  better than all three of those guys because of his ability.
• 52:12
  All right, let's go to. This one is from.
• 52:13
  A Duke group I believe, a 15 warrior, 15 boozer and an
• 52:16
  awesome college player but I don't I don't think his NBA
• 52:18
  ceiling is as high as others. He's just one of those guys that
• 52:20
  develops quicker at a younger age.
• 52:22
  Definitely national player of the year but doesn't see the
• 52:24
  number one pick. Thank you. 15 Warrior for giving
• 52:28
  us your take. Here's the thing, every place,
• 52:31
  every every position he was in from 8th to 9th to 10th, every
• 52:35
  grade, this guy was the best player on the court.
• 52:38
  He was ranked number one in the nation, number one in the nation
• 52:41
  coming out and going and going to play college ball.
• 52:44
  Now Darren Peterson's great and we understand what the Banza is.
• 52:50
  His father was an All Star. His father was successful and he
• 52:54
  has a better understanding of a game and and his game than his
• 52:58
  father does. Carlos Boozer ended his career
• 53:00
  with 16 points. He was a career 8 or 9 rebound
• 53:03
  guy. Boozer to me is going to be
• 53:05
  better than his father if his if he's if he was averaging 16 and
• 53:09
  8 or 16 and 9, this kids going to average probably seven or
• 53:12
  eight points more than his father.
• 53:15
  If he's doing that, he's doing Carmelo Anthony numbers.
• 53:19
  That's an that's an All Star, that's a Hall of Famer.
• 53:21
  This guy's a Hall of Famer to say that his game wouldn't fit
• 53:24
  in the NBA and he's he's already hit the Max of development
• 53:29
  that's ridiculous. The kids 18 years old.
• 53:31
  He's got a lot of game. He needs his body to be filled
• 53:34
  out. This guy is going to have all
• 53:35
  the ability in the world to be maybe even a 30 point score in
• 53:39
  the NBA. All right, last one for this was
• 53:41
  capable. Sandwich 422 kind of a mixed bag
• 53:43
  here. Die bands of the top pick.
• 53:45
  Cam is probably the third pick. I don't think the stuff with
• 53:47
  Darren Peterson will manage much because the NBA already does low
• 53:50
  management. So Peterson was already NBA
• 53:52
  ready first of. All thank you to Sandwich for
• 53:58
  22. I'll just say sandwich for. 22 I
• 54:02
  think it's a great take and I think he's right.
• 54:04
  Peterson has really protected himself all season long and it's
• 54:08
  the LeBron James protection. LeBron plays a certain amount of
• 54:12
  games. Actually, you know, who's been
• 54:14
  really taking over when it comes to the advantages of these,
• 54:17
  these advantages in the NBA is, is Embiid.
• 54:20
  Embiid. I don't want to play
• 54:21
  back-to-back games. I I don't have to.
• 54:23
  I'm a 50 to me, I'm making $50 million and I'm an MVP candidate
• 54:28
  every single year when I do play.
• 54:30
  Here's the thing, I, I, I do believe that the NBA works in
• 54:35
  Peterson's favor and a lot of people think that Peterson's
• 54:40
  game fits the best out of all three of these guys.
• 54:42
  What worries me about Peterson is not his game, it's his his
• 54:47
  will and wanting to play. If this guy gets hurt, he he
• 54:52
  hurts his his ankle, high ankle sprain, which we've seen Jaylen
• 54:56
  Brunson have tons and tons of times, or hurts his wrist.
• 54:58
  Is he going to sit out a couple of weeks because he's making the
• 55:01
  money or is he going to try to rush back because he wants to be
• 55:03
  a good teammate and he wants to win championships?
• 55:06
  I don't think out of all three of these guys, I would say the
• 55:10
  Banza is the one that wants to play more minutes and he wants
• 55:13
  to win his many championships. I think Boozer want it's all
• 55:16
  about legacy with him and Peterson.
• 55:18
  It's all about money. So out of all three of these
• 55:21
  guys, that's how I would rate these guys.
• 55:23
  But I still believe Cam Boozer is the best player going into
• 55:27
  this class. And if people fail to to know
• 55:30
  that or respond to what I'm saying here, you will see give
• 55:34
  it 3 or 4 years. This guy is going to be one of
• 55:36
  the top five top 6 scorers in the NBA because he has the
• 55:40
  outside game and the inside game to dominate.
• 55:43
  Maybe not as athletically gifted or he doesn't have the size of
• 55:47
  the Banza or Peterson. But what this guy has, those
• 55:51
  guys don't they? He has a father that played in
• 55:53
  the NBA. He is.
• 55:55
  And I, we've said this many, many times, Speedy how many
• 55:57
  players have gone to the NBA or gone to the NHL or gone to the
• 56:02
  NFL that their fathers were stars in the league and really
• 56:05
  developed into either better players or stars like their dad?
• 56:08
  There's not many of them. This guy, there is one Patrick
• 56:11
  Sir Tan. His father was a star in the
• 56:13
  Hall of Famer and Patrick Sir Tan is going to be a star.
• 56:16
  Well, he is a star and he's going to be a Hall of Famer when
• 56:19
  he's done. There's very few players like
• 56:21
  Deion Sanders. That's why Shidor Sanders is
• 56:23
  getting a bad rap because his father said, oh, my son's the
• 56:27
  great. He's a great, great player and
• 56:29
  he's going to be a superstar in the NFL.
• 56:31
  But prime was one of the greatest at his position and his
• 56:34
  son is not going to be one of the greatest at his position.
• 56:37
  You could see it. And neither will, Neither will
• 56:39
  the great Brody. That's true.
• 56:41
  Ronnie James is another one. Dwyane Wade son is playing for
• 56:44
  the G League for the Utah Jazz because his his his father has a
• 56:48
  piece owns a stock of the company and of the organization.
• 56:52
  I'm I'm only saying this Cam Boozer, his father was an All
• 56:56
  Star play for Team USA, was a great player and also great
• 57:00
  college player. He's better than his dad.
• 57:03
  Think about that. There are not many NBA players
• 57:07
  that transition like that. Look at Carmelo Anthony's son
• 57:09
  right now. He's trying to get to the NBA.
• 57:12
  He's playing for Syracuse. He's not doing so well over
• 57:14
  there playing NCAA basketball. Carmelo was player of the year,
• 57:19
  won a championship, won a national championship his one
• 57:22
  year that he was playing for Syracuse, and it was the only
• 57:24
  championship that Syracuse won in in the last 30 years.
• 57:28
  So what I'm trying to say here is it's not easy, you know,
• 57:32
  being in somebody's shoes, especially your father's, and to
• 57:36
  be considered better than your dad going going into the NBA
• 57:39
  next year says a lot about who he is.
• 57:41
  That's all I'm going to say about that.
• 57:43
  So there you go. All right, We're going to get in
• 57:46
  some Luka Doncic action as we we know there's stuff going on over
• 57:52
  there in Lakerville. Here it is during Saturday's
• 57:56
  game between the Lakers. Boy oh boy was that a funny 1
• 58:00
  and the Warriors. A video surface surfaced of a
• 58:04
  heated exchange between Luka Doncic and Lakers head coach JJ
• 58:08
  Reddick. The video shows that Reddick
• 58:10
  following Doncic down the court when he was trying to call a
• 58:15
  time out so he could sub Doncic out of the game.
• 58:19
  As Luca left the court, you can see that the two of them yelling
• 58:24
  at each other before Lakers forward Jarrett Vanderbilt
• 58:28
  stepped between them. Boy, you guys got to look at
• 58:32
  this video. It is is absolutely crazy.
• 58:35
  Reddick said after the game that shouting matches like this
• 58:38
  happen frequently and says he always believed he and Luca have
• 58:44
  a great relationship with each other.
• 58:46
  Several Lakers sources also downplayed the incident, saying
• 58:51
  there isn't a superstar player in the NBA that wouldn't be
• 58:55
  frustrated with a three-game losing streak, which is what the
• 58:59
  Lakers were on for their win that night.
• 59:04
  Reddick says how he manages the tension like this instance is a
• 59:10
  big reason why he wanted to coach a big market like the
• 59:15
  Lakers. The Lakers have won three games
• 59:17
  in a row since the incident, and Luka Doncic has scored 26 points
• 59:22
  or more in all three games. They visit Nikola Jokic and the
• 59:26
  Denver Nuggets tonight, trailing them by only a half a game game
• 59:31
  in the playoff standings for the fifth seed in the Western
• 59:34
  Conference. Let's be honest, guys, you heard
• 59:38
  it from Chris Childs. I think everybody knows the big
• 59:42
  picture here. Luka Dodgek does not like JJ
• 59:46
  Redick. Why doesn't he like JJ Redick?
• 59:48
  Because he's Lebron's guy. Luka and LeBron do not like each
• 59:53
  other. I don't think anybody is
• 59:56
  blindsided to notice. They don't like each other and
• 1:00:01
  all the players love Luca. He goes to practices, he's the
• 1:00:05
  first one they're practicing, and he's the last one to leave.
• 1:00:09
  He plays his heart out. Yeah, he's an injury prone
• 1:00:12
  player and it's been a big problem when he was playing for
• 1:00:14
  Dallas. And if Luca is not 100% healthy,
• 1:00:17
  are the Lakers ever going to win a championship?
• 1:00:19
  Who knows. But Luca took a Dallas Maverick
• 1:00:22
  team to the Finals. He's taking a Dallas Maverick
• 1:00:26
  team. To the Western Conference
• 1:00:28
  Finals. This is a guy that can win.
• 1:00:32
  This is a guy you can build your team and your organization
• 1:00:35
  around. Nico Harrison didn't believe it,
• 1:00:37
  but everybody and their mother believe it as they thought that
• 1:00:41
  this was the worst trade in NBA history, which I would beg not
• 1:00:45
  to differ. The fact here is JJ Reddick will
• 1:00:50
  not be here at the end of the season, especially if LeBron
• 1:00:53
  James takes his talents somewhere else.
• 1:00:55
  If it's the Cleveland Cavaliers, the New York Knicks, the Golden
• 1:00:58
  State Warriors, wherever he decides to go or unless he
• 1:01:01
  decides to retire and and you know, tie up his, you know, his
• 1:01:04
  sneakers. The fact here is you look at the
• 1:01:08
  big picture, the Lakers are playoff team.
• 1:01:12
  And LeBron James knows that this team isn't good enough because
• 1:01:16
  he came out flat and he said it on his podcast.
• 1:01:19
  This team is not good enough to win.
• 1:01:21
  And how does that make Luka Doncic feel when Luka's been
• 1:01:26
  playing his ass off? He leads the league in points.
• 1:01:28
  He's doing everything he can when he's healthy to try to win
• 1:01:31
  as many games as he can. And your superstar player or
• 1:01:35
  your leader in LeBron James comes out on his podcast and on
• 1:01:41
  different platforms saying this team isn't good enough.
• 1:01:45
  It doesn't matter where we're seated.
• 1:01:47
  We're not winning anything this year.
• 1:01:48
  We just don't have enough depth. I would piss me off.
• 1:01:52
  And JJ Redick is in between this because he's Lebron's guy.
• 1:01:56
  And trust me, if LeBron is not showing up to practices or, or
• 1:02:01
  he is showing up to practices and he's running the practice
• 1:02:04
  and Luke is like, I'm the star. The practices should be run
• 1:02:08
  through me. That would piss me off.
• 1:02:10
  And, and no matter what you say, JJ Reddick is Lebron's guy.
• 1:02:13
  They did a podcast together before JJ had to step away from
• 1:02:17
  that because you can't have a coach and a player doing a
• 1:02:20
  podcast together when he's coaching the team that the
• 1:02:23
  player is playing on. That's why Steve Nash is doing
• 1:02:26
  the podcast with LeBron James right now and it's probably much
• 1:02:30
  better. I haven't checked it out.
• 1:02:33
  Reddick is not an NBA coach. You heard it on Chris Charles
• 1:02:37
  take. He's not he's not an NBA coach.
• 1:02:41
  He was a good player, wasn't a great player.
• 1:02:44
  I think he won. I think he'd been in the All
• 1:02:45
  Star game maybe once or twice and that was because he had
• 1:02:48
  great shooting years. He was more of a six man.
• 1:02:51
  That's what he was a Duke Blue Devil.
• 1:02:53
  I I rooted for JJ Reddick. I sincerely like him as a
• 1:02:57
  person, as a coach. I'm not taking any advice from
• 1:03:01
  him. I'm not.
• 1:03:03
  He's not a Lenny Wilkins. He's not even at Mike Woodson.
• 1:03:07
  He's not even those guys. And Lenny Wilkins is one of the
• 1:03:09
  greatest coaches of all time, one of the winningest coaches.
• 1:03:12
  And Mike Woodson was a good coach and still a good coach in
• 1:03:16
  college. I don't look at JJ Redick as a
• 1:03:19
  guy that I'm going to sit there and and listen to like a Monty
• 1:03:22
  Williams. Monty Williams is a very well
• 1:03:25
  respected player and coach since he's come to the NBA.
• 1:03:30
  JJ Redick's never coached there. He's never coached minor league
• 1:03:33
  basketball. He's never been in this position
• 1:03:35
  until LeBron James said, hey, you want to coach my team?
• 1:03:38
  Here you go. Here's the here's the sheets or
• 1:03:40
  here's the here's the keys to the franchise right now.
• 1:03:43
  Because every time LeBron James gives the keys to somebody, they
• 1:03:47
  flourish because LeBron James is at a high level and he makes
• 1:03:50
  everybody look good. But guess what?
• 1:03:52
  LeBron James is not at a high level right now.
• 1:03:55
  Luca is at the high level right now.
• 1:03:57
  And Luca is being disrespected by, I believe, JJ Redick.
• 1:04:01
  He doesn't like the way he's coaching his team.
• 1:04:03
  He doesn't like the way he uses him in the offense.
• 1:04:06
  No matter how much he's scoring in the game, it's not bringing
• 1:04:08
  wins. And Luca is all about winning.
• 1:04:11
  You could score as many points as you want.
• 1:04:12
  If you're not putting anything in the win circle or you are
• 1:04:16
  putting wins, but you're you're being told by your your
• 1:04:19
  superstar player or your leader that you're not good enough to
• 1:04:23
  go far in the playoffs because you don't have enough depth,
• 1:04:25
  then why play? Why play if LeBron James is
• 1:04:29
  coming out and throwing the organization and team under the
• 1:04:32
  bus? Hey, you know what?
• 1:04:32
  The team's not good enough. So what do we play for?
• 1:04:35
  OK, so you know what, LeBron? Why don't you sit out for the
• 1:04:37
  rest of the season and decide where you want to go and say
• 1:04:40
  that to a guy like Steph Curry? See what Steph Curry or Draymond
• 1:04:43
  Green will tell you. You get knocked the hell out.
• 1:04:46
  Or how about going to the Knicks and saying that to some of the
• 1:04:48
  Knick players. Tell that to OG and Anobi.
• 1:04:51
  Or say that to Mitchell Robinson.
• 1:04:53
  See what happens to you. It's not going to work that you
• 1:04:56
  want to be Joel Embiid there. Go play with Joel Embiid.
• 1:05:00
  I do you. I'm a superstar player.
• 1:05:02
  I do not want to hear that my season is being wasted because
• 1:05:05
  hey, I'm not good enough. And that puts lightning up my
• 1:05:08
  ass. If I'm Luka Dodgek right now,
• 1:05:11
  I'm trying to get into the playoffs as the highest seat I
• 1:05:13
  possibly can. And I'm going to shut LeBron
• 1:05:15
  James up because I'm going to take I'm going to take over
• 1:05:17
  because Dallas when they went to the Western Conference Finals,
• 1:05:20
  Dallas, when they went to the Finals, nobody expected them to
• 1:05:24
  come out of the West. Nobody, nobody.
• 1:05:28
  And for anybody to think that Luka Doncic isn't a good team
• 1:05:32
  player, go watch the videos, Go watch the practices when Lucas
• 1:05:37
  sitting when they're they have a drink break.
• 1:05:40
  So whatever the hell they're doing.
• 1:05:41
  I've seen some of the videos and he's sitting between the young
• 1:05:43
  guys and he's having conversations and telling them
• 1:05:45
  where they should be on the court so he can get them the
• 1:05:47
  ball. Do you see LeBron James doing
• 1:05:49
  that? I've heard stories about LeBron
• 1:05:51
  James yelling at players in at halves during quarters that
• 1:05:56
  you're in the wrong place, you got to play better or you're
• 1:05:58
  going to be sitting. You mean, have you ever heard
• 1:06:01
  Lucas say that? Have you ever heard that Lucas
• 1:06:03
  ever said that or thrown anybody?
• 1:06:05
  Him and him and Porzingis didn't get along.
• 1:06:07
  Him and that Porzingis, before Porzingis went to the Dallas
• 1:06:11
  Mavericks, We're very close, very good friends.
• 1:06:14
  And then when he went there, there was a problem going on
• 1:06:16
  because Porzingis wanted to be the guy and he was never going
• 1:06:19
  to be the guy. He should have stayed with the
• 1:06:20
  Knicks. And it didn't last over there,
• 1:06:22
  not because of Luca, because Luca didn't go out there and
• 1:06:25
  throw anybody under the bus. It was Porzingis, just like he
• 1:06:28
  wanted to own a piece of the Knicks when he was there.
• 1:06:30
  Him and his brother wanted to run the organization.
• 1:06:33
  How did that go? How far did that go?
• 1:06:35
  And then Porzingis tried to protect himself after that and
• 1:06:38
  then looked like a Jackass after that because he went overseas
• 1:06:42
  and jumped off a boat, I don't know, 50 feet in the air and
• 1:06:46
  hurt his knee and was out a significant amount of time.
• 1:06:49
  Do we all remember that? And it's just to me, I love that
• 1:06:54
  Luka Dodge cares. I love that he shows emotion on
• 1:06:59
  the basketball court. He doesn't go and say anything
• 1:07:02
  more than what he sees on a basketball court.
• 1:07:05
  And if you know your coach doesn't know what he's doing,
• 1:07:07
  you're going to call him out on it.
• 1:07:08
  And that's what he did, ladies and gentlemen, he called JJ
• 1:07:11
  Reddick out because JJ Reddick has absolutely no idea what he's
• 1:07:15
  doing in his in over his head. Yeah, Luca Doncic's been stuck.
• 1:07:18
  With a lot of these bigger egos throughout his career,
• 1:07:20
  Porzingis, Karl probably being the first one of that group, and
• 1:07:23
  then obviously Kyrie Irving after that and now LeBron James,
• 1:07:27
  all feel like they want to have this kind of control.
• 1:07:29
  And you're also dealing with also ownerships that want to
• 1:07:30
  feel that way too. Now, obviously Mark Cuban loves
• 1:07:33
  Luca Doncic, so he's been on a side, but obviously Mark Cubans
• 1:07:35
  been in some controversy too and the same kind of thing with the
• 1:07:37
  bus family before they eventually sold the team last
• 1:07:39
  year. Luca Dodge has been just kind of
• 1:07:41
  stuck where he hasn't really gotten his vibe across to the
• 1:07:44
  Lakers as full as he wanted did and but The Mavericks the same
• 1:07:47
  kind of thing and that was amidst him still making the
• 1:07:49
  finals. They were 5C, they don't see
• 1:07:52
  five seats probably besides Miami, haven't seen a lot of the
• 1:07:54
  teams under 4 that have made it to the NBA Finals.
• 1:07:56
  And Luka Doncic did that going through a very difficult Western
• 1:07:59
  Conference. They beat OKC, they beat, they
• 1:08:02
  beat Denver, beat other good teams.
• 1:08:04
  And now he's stuck on a case of an identity crisis where I, I
• 1:08:08
  think JJ Reddick will look like it.
• 1:08:10
  Look at like you'll be fired. And if LeBron goes somewhere
• 1:08:13
  else, unless Steve Kerr steps down, like you're not getting JJ
• 1:08:15
  Reddick to go along with you too, unless he comes in as an
• 1:08:17
  assistant because Cleveland's not firing Kenny Atkinson and
• 1:08:21
  the Knicks are. I'm not firing Mike Brown.
• 1:08:23
  So let's Golden State steps down.
• 1:08:25
  Like, good thing you're going to get that.
• 1:08:27
  But Luka Doncic is finally going to get that kind of grace with
• 1:08:29
  the new ownership that actually supports him.
• 1:08:31
  Hence why they LeBron got all pissy because oh, finally Doug
• 1:08:34
  Hership, that's supporting me. Don't you love?
• 1:08:36
  He makes that. He makes that voice.
• 1:08:40
  Is that how LeBron sound like Barney?
• 1:08:42
  Yeah. Isn't that how LeBron?
• 1:08:43
  Sounds like when he when he doesn't get his way though.
• 1:08:46
  Because that's the LJ for you. Well, the LJ is run.
• 1:08:49
  By one and one person. And it shouldn't be called the
• 1:08:51
  NBA anymore. It's the LJ.
• 1:08:52
  And when LeBron James to start support ways and retire, he's
• 1:08:56
  going to own a team because Adam Silver is going to make sure
• 1:08:58
  that one way or another, one of these teams are going to fall
• 1:09:00
  into his lap and he's going to run an organization because
• 1:09:03
  that's what LeBron wants to do. And what LeBron wants, he gets.
• 1:09:07
  The NBA always knows that who and what has changed and been
• 1:09:11
  the forefront of the change of this league.
• 1:09:14
  It's not Adam Silver, it's not executives, it's not other
• 1:09:17
  players. It's LeBron Joe as he's playing
• 1:09:20
  his banjo all the way home as the LJA.
• 1:09:25
  So that's all I'm going to say. Anyways.
• 1:09:27
  The NHL trade deadline is Friday at 3:00 PM.
• 1:09:31
  And while some big moves were made before the Olympic break,
• 1:09:36
  including Quin Use and Mr. Artemi Panarin, there already
• 1:09:42
  have been a few moves ahead of tomorrow's head deadline, with
• 1:09:46
  plenty more to come. Although after the Flames traded
• 1:09:50
  defenseman Mackenzie Wieger Wigar to the mammoth, Utah GM
• 1:09:55
  Bill Armstrong said the no trade and no movement clauses have
• 1:10:01
  made trade negotiations more difficult than ever.
• 1:10:05
  The Avalanche and Ping swapped defenseman as a long time
• 1:10:09
  Colorado defenseman Samuel Gerard and was swapped with
• 1:10:14
  Brett Kulak. Other than Western Conference,
• 1:10:17
  contenders like the Oilers and Wild and Golden Knights have
• 1:10:22
  also been very active at the trading trading deadline for
• 1:10:26
  multiple players. The Wild could still make
• 1:10:29
  another swing for a big veteran center, while Edmonton and Vegas
• 1:10:35
  could be in for a goaltender on the market.
• 1:10:39
  TS NS Pierre Lebrun Lebrun reports that the Canucks are
• 1:10:44
  open to the idea of trading Mr. Peterson, and the Hurricanes and
• 1:10:50
  Red Wings are expected to be the favorites to trade for him.
• 1:10:54
  TS NS Darren Dragger reports that the Blue are asking for a
• 1:10:59
  large prospect pool of forwards for Robert Thomas, with him
• 1:11:04
  being 26 years old and having 280 point seasons in a row
• 1:11:10
  before this year. The Hurricanes and Red Wings are
• 1:11:13
  expected to be on him too. Reports say that the Penguins
• 1:11:19
  could still be open on the idea of shopping Evgeny Malkin at the
• 1:11:26
  right price with Sidney Crosby out for another 4 weeks, which
• 1:11:30
  means he's not going anywhere and Malkin set to become a free
• 1:11:34
  agent after the season. Dragger also reports that the
• 1:11:37
  Panthers have already committed to being sellers at the trade
• 1:11:41
  that like wow and have even shopped Sergei Babaratsky, even
• 1:11:47
  if they have to take on some of his remaining contract.
• 1:11:51
  I, I will say this, I'm very surprised.
• 1:11:54
  Florida, who I thought could have 3 peated this year.
• 1:11:59
  I really did. I they started off really,
• 1:12:01
  really bad and they're getting up there in age.
• 1:12:04
  Some of their players are getting up there in age, so they
• 1:12:06
  got to get younger. Bob Rodsky is he's got to be
• 1:12:10
  3738 years old. He's getting he's he's getting
• 1:12:13
  too old to play the position. He might be a good fit for
• 1:12:17
  Edmonton if they're trying to win a championship.
• 1:12:20
  This is a guy that's won back-to-back championships.
• 1:12:22
  But Brodsky going over there, Edmonton, they get their guy and
• 1:12:25
  maybe you see a guy like McDavid and and dry side will actually
• 1:12:29
  win a championship because they're too good not to.
• 1:12:31
  They're always there and they can never get over the hump
• 1:12:33
  because of goaltending. But everybody forgets what the
• 1:12:36
  Islanders have not done yet. And I think the Islanders are in
• 1:12:39
  on some Canuck players and Saint Louis Blue players.
• 1:12:42
  I would say that there's no names or there hasn't been any
• 1:12:46
  conversation that the Islanders are in a mix for any of these
• 1:12:50
  players. But I believe they're absolutely
• 1:12:52
  in on Peterson. I think they're, they're,
• 1:12:55
  they're on Robert Thomas and maybe some other Saint Louis
• 1:12:58
  Blue players. I, I think the islands can make
• 1:13:01
  a splash. They're playing good hockey
• 1:13:02
  right now. And I, I obvious and I, I look
• 1:13:05
  at here's another thing I keep saying, obviously because I'm,
• 1:13:08
  it's obvious where the islands are looking.
• 1:13:11
  Their team is playing such good hockey.
• 1:13:12
  So maybe the the executives there or the president or GM's
• 1:13:18
  over there, their GM over there is not willing to trade anybody
• 1:13:22
  because we've heard that there were some players on the trade
• 1:13:25
  block. Anders Lee is a free agent at
• 1:13:28
  the end of the year. Pajo is a free agent at the end
• 1:13:30
  of the year. So do they move one of these
• 1:13:32
  guys? Do they decide to send one of
• 1:13:34
  these guys off and and bring in a younger or more talented guy
• 1:13:38
  at the position? There are teams looking for
• 1:13:40
  face, face, face off guys. Pajo is a great face off guy and
• 1:13:45
  Anders Lee is a is a 30 goal scorer when he's on the top of
• 1:13:47
  his game. And I I do believe that the
• 1:13:50
  Islanders will extend him unless they decide to put Bo Horvat as
• 1:13:55
  their captain. And Bo Horvat, before he left
• 1:13:57
  the Canucks, he was the captain of the Canucks.
• 1:13:59
  So maybe that's their plan or maybe a Barzell or maybe making
• 1:14:03
  math young Matthew Shaffer an assistant captain on this team
• 1:14:06
  in the future, very near future because he's been such a great
• 1:14:10
  bright spot for the New York Islanders.
• 1:14:12
  But right, these are there's a lot of other players that have
• 1:14:15
  been talked about and spoken about over the last couple of
• 1:14:18
  weeks. There could be a lot of slam
• 1:14:20
  dunks. How about this Makar if if, if
• 1:14:23
  Colorado doesn't believe they can re sign him at the end of
• 1:14:27
  the season. I know it's crazy.
• 1:14:28
  This might be a crazy day, guys. Makar is probably the best
• 1:14:32
  defenseman in the league. You can argue that he is and
• 1:14:34
  he's been the most consistent. If they know that Macar is going
• 1:14:39
  to free agency because he's seeking a seventeen, $18 million
• 1:14:42
  contract, maybe 20 to kind of tie McDavid because I think
• 1:14:46
  Mcdavid's making 20 a year. Maybe they trade him.
• 1:14:52
  Think about it. Colorado could get a boatload of
• 1:14:54
  players for Cal Macar. You could get future
• 1:14:59
  consideration stars and, and guys top six centers or top six
• 1:15:04
  players, you know, 4 a guy like Cal Macar and they won't miss a
• 1:15:09
  beat. Now Cal Macar is to lose a
• 1:15:11
  player of that that stature. It's huge.
• 1:15:13
  But only Colorado, only Joe Sakic knows that he can't sign
• 1:15:18
  Cal Macar. He's the one that's inside.
• 1:15:20
  Source. I remember, remember Tavares,
• 1:15:23
  Tavares told the Islanders that he wants to be an Islander for
• 1:15:26
  life. Meanwhile, the Islanders decided
• 1:15:29
  not to move them. He screwed the Islanders because
• 1:15:32
  he didn't want the Islanders to get any prospects because he
• 1:15:34
  wanted to make sure that Toronto had a future.
• 1:15:36
  And he screwed the Islanders. Now, it didn't help Toronto
• 1:15:40
  because Toronto hasn't won anything.
• 1:15:42
  So. But just think, Cal Macar could
• 1:15:45
  tell Colorado that he's going to stay there and the Rangers could
• 1:15:49
  offer. I know the Rangers don't have
• 1:15:51
  the money, but I'm just saying the Rangers are one of these big
• 1:15:53
  known organizations that have money and that have a good team
• 1:15:56
  around them. All they're missing is 1
• 1:15:58
  superstar away from being a championship contender and Cal
• 1:16:01
  Mccarr could be that guy to fill in and be that player.
• 1:16:04
  So I mean, there could be a big swing of stars that could become
• 1:16:08
  available. What we what we are talking
• 1:16:11
  about? Why?
• 1:16:13
  And everybody thought Sidney Crosby was going to be traded
• 1:16:15
  this year, but now that he's out for four weeks, do they move him
• 1:16:18
  or does he want to be traded? I mean, here's a chance to win a
• 1:16:21
  championship. Could you imagine if he gets
• 1:16:23
  traded to Edmonton to play with McDavid and dry Sidle to try to
• 1:16:28
  win that, that that third championship, which he's
• 1:16:30
  missing? So Sid the kid, he, he's
• 1:16:34
  definitely going to finish the season off as strong as he
• 1:16:37
  possibly can. I believe that Crosby will play
• 1:16:40
  another two years at least. If a veg kids playing, why
• 1:16:42
  shouldn't Crosby play and play as much?
• 1:16:44
  As long as he stays away from the concussion protocol
• 1:16:47
  situations that he's been over the last couple of years, I
• 1:16:50
  think Sid the Kid could play another 2-3 years.
• 1:16:52
  So I will tell you guys this. When you look at all the players
• 1:16:57
  that are being talked about, I would say half of these guys are
• 1:17:00
  not moving anywhere. And players that we haven't
• 1:17:02
  spoken about that are not in the tabloids right now are the big
• 1:17:06
  names are the big names that might be traded more quicker and
• 1:17:09
  more persistent in the next 24 hours.
• 1:17:11
  That's why I think you're seeing a lot of these.
• 1:17:12
  Eastern Conference teams still be a little fishy with wanting
• 1:17:15
  to do all that. I think the reason the Red Wings
• 1:17:17
  are brought up is because they definitely know that they have
• 1:17:19
  the cap space. And while the Islanders and
• 1:17:22
  while the Islanders and Buffalo and other teams like that are
• 1:17:25
  kind of in the early cusps of their young core, like Detroit
• 1:17:28
  knows it's kind of a make or break with their young core.
• 1:17:31
  And they've missed the playoffs every year really since
• 1:17:33
  Iserman's come in there. I think they might have made the
• 1:17:35
  short year, but I think besides that, they haven't gotten over
• 1:17:38
  the hump yet. So they know that the guy like a
• 1:17:40
  Peterson or a Robert Thomas is going to make a difference where
• 1:17:43
  they need the offense to go along with Larkin and Lucas
• 1:17:45
  Raymond, guys like that. And the Islanders, I think maybe
• 1:17:48
  are we're going to be in on it. But you wonder if somebody like
• 1:17:51
  Darsh, like he was with Tampa, was going to be a little more
• 1:17:53
  patient with their prospects because they know how good their
• 1:17:55
  prospects can be. And they're going to not mess
• 1:17:58
  with what's working in a year where they're probably going to
• 1:18:00
  be second now in the metro if Crosby's going to be out for the
• 1:18:03
  next few weeks and they just get the playoff experience.
• 1:18:06
  And Malkin if he gets traded. Yeah, and Malkin gets traded and
• 1:18:09
  Crosby's out for the next couple of weeks.
• 1:18:12
  They automatically jump to. So they feel like, I think they.
• 1:18:14
  Feel like they don't have to like force their hand with
• 1:18:17
  anything big. Now, obviously there's going to
• 1:18:18
  be rumors with with other of the wingers too, but I don't think
• 1:18:21
  they're going to force their hand because Thomas can play
• 1:18:23
  center that that's what he's going to want to be paid like a
• 1:18:25
  center to. And and obviously Peterson's
• 1:18:27
  already has a big contract, A10 and a half, $1,000,000 contract.
• 1:18:29
  So that's what they're going to be able to take on.
• 1:18:31
  And the Hurricanes are the same kind of thing they're been.
• 1:18:34
  Where are they going to get their production finally on
• 1:18:36
  offense? And obviously the goaltending's
• 1:18:38
  been a problem for a while too. But Florida's not going to trade
• 1:18:40
  but Brofsky to the Hurricanes. But they know they're on this
• 1:18:43
  last year for every year, pretty much.
• 1:18:44
  So they've traded for Denzel over the years.
• 1:18:46
  They traded for Patch already. Like, where's this other winger
• 1:18:48
  going to come? Florida also has a ton of a.
• 1:18:51
  Ton of great gold tending prospects in the farm system.
• 1:18:54
  That's why I think Bob Brodsky, the only reason why Bob Brodsky
• 1:18:57
  is still there is because they've won.
• 1:18:59
  He's won back-to-back championships and he's he's been
• 1:19:01
  a big part of those championship teams.
• 1:19:03
  I think Edmonton should absolutely make a call to
• 1:19:06
  Florida. You're not going to have to give
• 1:19:07
  up much for Rob Brodsky. What are you going to give up?
• 1:19:09
  A third round draft pick? And again, the only reason they
• 1:19:11
  weren't. Going to do that either because
• 1:19:13
  they knew that his contract wasn't going to be tradable as
• 1:19:16
  sellers in the past and obviously now since they've won,
• 1:19:18
  it would be a competitive team. They're not going to do it for a
• 1:19:21
  lesser price either. So they're just going to sell
• 1:19:23
  off a lot of the veterans that they know they're not going to
• 1:19:26
  keep. So they they dealt one in
• 1:19:27
  Minnesota with Petrie. They were trying to, I think
• 1:19:30
  they were trying to shop some of their bottom 6 forwards.
• 1:19:32
  They were key to that Stanley Cup team and they know that the
• 1:19:36
  only reason they would do Babrovsky is just try to get
• 1:19:38
  that kind of value because they know how well they can develop
• 1:19:41
  their systems. And that's why a lot of these
• 1:19:42
  Western Conference teams are biting in on a lot of these
• 1:19:44
  veteran guys. The weakness of Edmonton.
• 1:19:46
  For years has been the goaltending.
• 1:19:48
  This is a team that goes to the Western Conference finals every
• 1:19:51
  year. They've been to the finals
• 1:19:52
  before. They have the best player in the
• 1:19:54
  world. He is the best player in the
• 1:19:57
  world. It's not even an arguable even
• 1:20:00
  an argument to say, oh, you know what?
• 1:20:02
  I'm going to argue that, well, this guy's better than him or
• 1:20:05
  that guy's. It's not even close.
• 1:20:07
  This guy is the best player in the world by a long shot.
• 1:20:10
  And then they probably have the second best player in the world
• 1:20:13
  or third best player on this in the world on this roster.
• 1:20:17
  In German dry Sidle, who is a sensational player, he's a
• 1:20:22
  sensational player. Fifty goal scorer, he's that
• 1:20:25
  kind of player just like McDavid.
• 1:20:26
  Every year these guys are going 100 points and they're not even
• 1:20:30
  playing on the same line. They only play on the power play
• 1:20:32
  together and they're every year and it it's not just them.
• 1:20:36
  They've got a great defense. They've got great players.
• 1:20:38
  They've got a great coach and Knobloch, a Ranger fans will
• 1:20:41
  probably wish that he's coaching.
• 1:20:42
  Yeah. You wonder how their
• 1:20:43
  prospective. Elements been hurt with that.
• 1:20:44
  Thank you, Chris. Thank you, Jerry.
• 1:20:46
  But I, I mean, they're missing the one piece that wins
• 1:20:50
  championships and that's goaltending.
• 1:20:52
  Why not go after the guy that's won back-to-back championships?
• 1:20:54
  A guy that's going to the Hall of Fame, a guy that's a leader,
• 1:20:58
  a guy that can absolutely take over the pipes and, and, and
• 1:21:00
  bring it to bring you to where you want to be.
• 1:21:03
  And that's being a contender because every year they're a
• 1:21:06
  contender. But everybody knows that
• 1:21:09
  depending on who they're playing, if they don't have the
• 1:21:12
  goaltending or they're goaltending, those that surprise
• 1:21:14
  people and and look at their goaltending last year, their
• 1:21:17
  goaltending. I mean, he was, it was a
• 1:21:19
  surprise how well he was playing in the playoffs.
• 1:21:21
  Who was their goalie? Stewart Skinner.
• 1:21:22
  Who was Skinner? Literally either a shutout or he
• 1:21:24
  would allow six goals in a game. He was.
• 1:21:26
  He's never. Consistent.
• 1:21:27
  Yeah, never consistent. And again, that's why they've
• 1:21:29
  tried to experiment. With Skinner's been there for a
• 1:21:31
  couple of years. Yeah, he.
• 1:21:32
  Was just traded this year. So the Penguins, you know, it
• 1:21:34
  didn't work out over there. And the other.
• 1:21:36
  Thing they always sometimes were missing was the fact that
• 1:21:39
  they're even strength versus the power play.
• 1:21:40
  They were relying on the power play a lot in certain playoff
• 1:21:43
  series as well, which which worked for them obviously
• 1:21:45
  against Dallas in the Western Conference finals.
• 1:21:46
  In other years getting to the the first time in the Western
• 1:21:50
  Conference to the Stanley Cup. But they didn't have the even
• 1:21:53
  strength guys. And this year one of their big
• 1:21:54
  issues has been their face offs. Even with Tri Sidal and McDavid,
• 1:21:57
  they've been really low. That's why they made a couple
• 1:21:59
  trades for centers already too, because Minnesota and Vegas,
• 1:22:02
  they both win face offs very well.
• 1:22:03
  Colorado, they've been looking for center as well.
• 1:22:05
  How about reaching out to the ologist?
• 1:22:07
  For Paggio, I mean, Paggio is a great face off guy.
• 1:22:10
  You're not going to have to give up much for him.
• 1:22:12
  What? What are you going to have to
• 1:22:13
  give up a fourth round draft pick, right?
• 1:22:14
  No, you're not going to have to give him much.
• 1:22:16
  Pajo is a good playoff player too and I think that's something
• 1:22:18
  that could be valuable. Colorado I heard was trying to
• 1:22:21
  go after Nasim Khadri again too so they don't get him.
• 1:22:23
  That could be another fall back option.
• 1:22:25
  Forget Pajo because Minnesota and Vegas both win face offs
• 1:22:28
  very well and those the other two teams cadre the guy that
• 1:22:32
  the. Islanders were going after in
• 1:22:33
  the offseason and couldn't seal the deal with him.
• 1:22:35
  Yeah, yeah, they had a lot of cap issues.
• 1:22:37
  At the time to have to deal with, but again he hasn't been
• 1:22:39
  the same players. Yeah, I was going to say.
• 1:22:42
  The Flames were not really the good system for him because that
• 1:22:44
  was a very old team, as it was with Bennett before they traded
• 1:22:48
  him. He was reaching.
• 1:22:48
  He took the most. Money with the Flames because
• 1:22:51
  there was no way because that was that was the year when they
• 1:22:53
  traded Matthew Kuchuk and they were trying to find somebody was
• 1:22:56
  going to give him not maybe not as much offensively, but just
• 1:22:59
  because because remember he cadre was getting I think that
• 1:23:03
  year he had like 30 something goals and everybody was like
• 1:23:07
  adding him and filling him in for Matthew Kuchuk.
• 1:23:09
  You got all those, all those pieces and yeah, Kadri, you're
• 1:23:12
  probably a better team with more depth.
• 1:23:14
  And honestly, Matthew could Chuck going to Florida, which I
• 1:23:17
  thought wasn't really a great trade, was a slam dunk.
• 1:23:19
  Florida went back-to-back championships with that deal.
• 1:23:21
  Yeah, that was something that Florida.
• 1:23:23
  Was too much of A finesse team and they needed obviously a
• 1:23:26
  bigger winger to go along with them.
• 1:23:27
  It's funny because Uyghur was one of the guys trading in that
• 1:23:29
  deal and I thought he was great in Florida and he was good with
• 1:23:32
  the Flames, but not to the level that they end up the same with
• 1:23:34
  it. And then the rest of their team
• 1:23:35
  just got old all at once. So they kind of got stuck in
• 1:23:38
  mediocrity, a lot like the Islanders at the end of Snows
• 1:23:41
  tenure where sometimes they made the playoffs but they usually
• 1:23:43
  didn't win playoff series because of that.
• 1:23:44
  They had so many bad contracts. That's the word where they think
• 1:23:47
  about how many guys. Are still on this team that are
• 1:23:49
  from Garth Snow yeah think about it Anders Lee I'll just say
• 1:23:53
  Barzel if I look at the roster right now and I pointed out the
• 1:23:57
  Mayfield I I would go poolock all these guys are still on this
• 1:24:02
  roster from Garth snow so all the Islander fans that couldn't
• 1:24:06
  stand Garth snow he wasn't good at bringing in free agents
• 1:24:08
  horrible so was Lou Lou was so bad at that but he brought in Bo
• 1:24:12
  Horvat which was a slam dunk and you're seeing what Bo Horvat has
• 1:24:16
  brought to the table especially in the last three years and this
• 1:24:20
  year but Errol something about that I.
• 1:24:23
  Wanted to bring up quickly about Bull Horror that's specifically
• 1:24:26
  played for the Canucks and there's been a lot of stuff and
• 1:24:30
  I didn't really want to save it for the concrete jungle carousel
• 1:24:33
  later since we're talking about it right now.
• 1:24:36
  The Canucks and the Islanders, apparently the scouts for both
• 1:24:40
  teams have just been all over each other's, been reported by
• 1:24:44
  all the beat writers. There's some big type of trade,
• 1:24:46
  Stephen Rosner. I know.
• 1:24:48
  He's the one, the big mouth, Stephen Rosner.
• 1:24:51
  That's why I just said hockey do.
• 1:24:52
  I didn't want to bet you this day.
• 1:24:54
  No, it's not just. Him I have like.
• 1:24:56
  Four different guys reporting and there's a couple of
• 1:25:00
  different theories. The the boring theory is the guy
• 1:25:03
  like Garland, it'll be like a like a second or three.
• 1:25:06
  I heard they're lesser on him. Now.
• 1:25:07
  Though I keep. Hearing it's the guy that they
• 1:25:11
  wanted in the offseason, Brock Besser, and couldn't get and
• 1:25:16
  they had the cap issues. He went for about 7 point and
• 1:25:19
  change million per season. I don't think the Islanders
• 1:25:22
  could get over 6 1/2 in the offseason, and now they're going
• 1:25:26
  to try to get him again that and pair him with Bo Horvath and,
• 1:25:30
  you know, just get that winger replacement for Palmieri.
• 1:25:34
  Well, we'll see. And.
• 1:25:35
  Palmieri is signed A2 year deal and he'll be back next year.
• 1:25:38
  We'll see if he comes back or he decides to retire because that
• 1:25:42
  was a bad injury tearing your ACL as a hockey player, as a,
• 1:25:44
  you know, a little later in your career as you're not the same
• 1:25:47
  player. But he he wasn't built for
• 1:25:50
  speed. Palmieri is he has great hands
• 1:25:52
  and that's his game. But I you also a power play
• 1:25:56
  specialist. But I I will say this, Vancouver
• 1:25:59
  makes a lot of sense. It makes a lot of sense.
• 1:26:01
  You put him with Bo Horvat, Besner with with Bo Horvat and
• 1:26:06
  Borzell that you know, then you have a top end line and then
• 1:26:11
  next year you have all these players that you have in your
• 1:26:13
  farm system. A lot of lot of guys that are
• 1:26:16
  one of them was playing college hockey this year who some people
• 1:26:19
  think after the college hockey season is over, fully over, he's
• 1:26:22
  going to the AHL and he's going to get his chance.
• 1:26:24
  And what's his name again? I am Eiserman.
• 1:26:28
  Eiserman, who a lot of people like and think has an NHL type
• 1:26:34
  of game and he's a goal scorer. Don't be surprised if he makes
• 1:26:37
  this team at the end of the season and and goes for the ride
• 1:26:41
  for the Islanders playoff run if the Islanders are a second seed
• 1:26:44
  or third seed or if they make the playoffs.
• 1:26:45
  So I think there's a lot of things to be excited about with
• 1:26:49
  the Islanders and I I just don't want them to give up a first
• 1:26:53
  round draft pick, which is what they would have had to do for.
• 1:26:55
  Thomas or Patterson probably. And I think I think the Canucks
• 1:26:59
  were even asking them about Eiserman.
• 1:27:00
  So so I think they were keeping him off limits at that point.
• 1:27:03
  And I think anyway of the way I would not trade Eiserman.
• 1:27:06
  First of all, he was the leading scorer for Team USA Junior
• 1:27:09
  hockey. This year he was the leading
• 1:27:11
  scorer and he helped Team USA really play as well as they did
• 1:27:16
  in the junior and always does every single year.
• 1:27:18
  I remember John Van Beesburg, he was telling me about this kid
• 1:27:21
  before the Islanders drafted him and he fell to the Islanders.
• 1:27:24
  Think he fell in the 20s and this guy was supposed to be a
• 1:27:28
  top ten pick. He fell because there was some
• 1:27:30
  questions about his defense. But this guy's got great hands
• 1:27:33
  and he played for one of the Boston schools.
• 1:27:34
  I think it was Boston College or Boston, I think it was Boston
• 1:27:37
  College, Boston you or Boston College.
• 1:27:39
  But he's got an ability to put the puck in and the Islanders
• 1:27:43
  have been craving for a player like that.
• 1:27:45
  Barzell has all the skills in the world that I don't know if
• 1:27:47
  he has the the goal scoring hands that everybody thought he
• 1:27:50
  was going to be. And, and again, Barzell's making
• 1:27:54
  a lot of money, but Horvitz making a lot of money and
• 1:27:56
  they're going to have to move pieces away.
• 1:27:57
  And Anders Lee, I don't know if if I were the Islanders do I re
• 1:28:01
  sign Anders Lee or do I? I move on from Anders Lee next
• 1:28:05
  year and and make Bo Horvat my captain.
• 1:28:07
  I think that makes a lot of sense.
• 1:28:08
  Anders Lee has value. On a lesser contract just not
• 1:28:11
  seven and a half million a year like he's getting is he going to
• 1:28:13
  take less yeah I I yeah that's that's what the commitment to
• 1:28:16
  the organization will have to come from him because he he's
• 1:28:19
  probably not going to get more than three maybe three and a
• 1:28:21
  half million somewhere else anyway.
• 1:28:22
  So if he does he commit to this young core, is he a good enough
• 1:28:26
  like chemistry with the as an assistant captain?
• 1:28:28
  Because I think he is a good leader.
• 1:28:29
  It's just about him getting that much money at the time with at
• 1:28:32
  the end of Garth Snow senior too.
• 1:28:34
  Like I said, just bad with free agents and just giving a
• 1:28:35
  contract if he signs with the Islanders.
• 1:28:37
  He'll be the captain, yeah. They're not going to take the
• 1:28:40
  sea away from him if he's a captain already.
• 1:28:42
  He's been a good captain. But I think what the Islanders
• 1:28:46
  are trying to transition in is Bo Horvat.
• 1:28:48
  Bo Horvat was the captain of the Canucks.
• 1:28:50
  That was when the Canucks were at a top level.
• 1:28:52
  He they were a good team and well, the year that they traded
• 1:28:56
  him, they weren't, they were good at the beginning of
• 1:28:58
  Horvath. 'S tenure not as much.
• 1:28:59
  In the end they had that good. In the short year they were
• 1:29:01
  pretty good though and I I think Bo is.
• 1:29:04
  He's ready to take over for this team and, and be the face of
• 1:29:07
  this organization. And he, he said it I, he was on
• 1:29:10
  a podcast recently and they asked him, could you have made
• 1:29:13
  more money going somewhere else? And he says, actually, I
• 1:29:15
  probably would have made an extra million and a half if I
• 1:29:18
  went somewhere else. But I, I love the island and,
• 1:29:21
  and as soon as I got traded to the Islanders and I realized
• 1:29:24
  that I, I love the, the area, he said I wanted to raise my family
• 1:29:28
  here. And he says he loves Long
• 1:29:29
  Island, he loves New York and he, he, he doesn't wish to play
• 1:29:32
  anywhere else but here. So it says a lot about who
• 1:29:35
  Bohorvad is. And, and he could have went to,
• 1:29:38
  you know, he could have take his pick.
• 1:29:39
  He could have went to the Rangers Panera.
• 1:29:41
  I wanted him with the Rangers Panera.
• 1:29:43
  Wanted to be. Wanted to be a Ranger.
• 1:29:45
  The Islanders had a chance to get Panera, and he was.
• 1:29:48
  He was one of the guys that the Islanders were going after.
• 1:29:51
  He had no interest to playing for the Islanders.
• 1:29:53
  No interest. So that's what I was saying at
• 1:29:55
  the time too, because I remember.
• 1:29:56
  The Islanders were in the market for a lot of wingers at the time
• 1:29:59
  and I was saying, oh, the Rangers needed a center at the
• 1:30:01
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• 1:30:03
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