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Was Anthony Edwards out of line? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  I know Anthony Edwards would. And now, ladies and gentlemen,
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  he's been waiting calmly and carefully in his car and hanging
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  out as he always does. Ladies and gentlemen, we are now
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  talking to our friend Memphis Grizzlies play by play
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  broadcaster Eric Haseltine. Eric, what's up, buddy?
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  You like that? Well, you asked if I'm doing
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  anything crazy. Yeah, I'm doing something crazy.
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  I'm sitting, I'm sitting in a car in Memphis.
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  Do you know our carjacking rates?
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  So you see somebody roll up to my window.
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  Just give me a heads up. A little delayed dad taxi stuff
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  tonight. I was trying to get back to the
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  to the house, but on my way now. So that's.
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  That's fine. And we want to apologize.
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  I know you're a busy guy and we just, we're just happy that
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  you're, I just, we're happy that you're joining us because I know
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  you're a busy guy. But guess what?
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  The season is over and you don't have to watch that debacle as
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  we've watched throughout the season.
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  The Memphis Grizzlies go up and down.
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  I am a big John Moran fan and I want to get into the John Moran
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  story. Your thoughts to John Moran's
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  season this year, coming back from all the accolades and then
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  during the season, I mean at the end of the season, the shooting
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  up in the air with his hand gestures.
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  What are what? What are your thoughts to John
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  Moran's season 1 and what are your thoughts to John Moran
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  doing the things that he did off set as well?
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  Well, I think when you start with the season, you have to go
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  back to that. He tore his labrum last year,
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  and so I felt like he came back early.
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  Now, obviously medical personnel will tell you whether he's good
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  to go or not, and he'll tell you whether he's good to go.
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  But if you ask a pro athlete that should wants to be a star,
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  they're going to want to play any chance they get.
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  So his shot just didn't look the same.
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  And you know, the shoulder soreness and then it really kind
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  of unraveled. You got frustrated fans, you got
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  a lot of people chattering in social media.
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  And I thought some of it it it appeared to get to him.
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  And so there was some frustration, a new offense, a
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  change in the assistant coaches. And one of the guys that left
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  was his workout guy. And I equated it like this guys.
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  And I've said this, I'm not afraid to say it.
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  It's nothing against the guy that took the the departed
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  coach's place. But when I watched him work out
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  with the guy that left, whose name was Blake Ahern or is Blake
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  Ahern, he looked like he was having fun.
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  When I watched him with the new guy, it looked like he was just
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  doing it because he had to. I equated it to a kid getting an
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  ice cream cone to a kid getting a stick of broccoli.
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  It just didn't look the same. And so you switch the offense,
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  now you're all five out. It's more ball movement and and
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  last one guy dominating the the possession.
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  You drafted a 7 three, £300 center to set screens for a guy
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  and now you're literally not setting any screens.
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  So I think there was some frustration.
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  I think the coaching staff was put in a really difficult place
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  by deciding to change the assistant coaches, even though
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  the head coach didn't seemingly want to do that.
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  But he went along with it and then everybody questioned and
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  whether or not the sitting that coach was a sitting duck, which
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  he turned out to be when they fired him with 9 games left.
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  And you know, that's the front office's decision to make.
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  But when your star player isn't down with it, you got a problem.
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  Now with the other antics that you're talking about, I just my
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  belief is this, look, it's never a right to be a professional
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  athlete. It's a privilege.
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  You've earned that privilege with God-given talent.
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  But the league can still tell you, hey, these are our rules,
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  whether you like them or not. You can choose to break them.
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  That's fine. But there are penalties.
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  And so I'm not saying that Josh shouldn't do the things he wants
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  to do. But if you do something they
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  tell you to stop doing, then be prepared for the consequences.
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  And I don't think, obviously, that this is, you know, a
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  situation where other guys don't make the same gestures because
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  they do. But other guys weren't suspended
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  twice for brandishing a firearm on social media.
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  And so there's got to be some sort of awareness with that.
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  Now, the way I saw it just from my eyes was the first time he
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  did it and the Warriors complained about it.
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  My my guess is, and I'm not Privy, I'm just totally guessing
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  that they probably had got a phone call and said, Hey, stop
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  pointing your fingers at your opponents.
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  So the next game he pointed them at Scottie Pippen junior every
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  play and that's his teammate. So he's like, all right, I did
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  exactly what you said. I didn't point them at my
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  opponent. I pointed them at my teammate.
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  And then reportedly there was a, a, a warning saying if you do it
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  again, then you know, there's going to be consequences.
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  So after that he got fined. And then he went to the I'm
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  throwing word bombs and doing the grenade thing, which
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  everybody kind of chuckled at. And you see his influence
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  because you got kids now doing that in, you know, AAU ball.
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  They just had a big Nike EYBL tournament here.
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  I can't tell you how many text messages I got from people at
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  the event going this kid just did the jaw word bomb and I'm
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  like, OK, great. You know what?
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  It's summertime. We got swept.
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  I'm doing something else. I don't care, but I think the
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  guy showed at times. Again, he's one of the most
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  talented players in the league. I think he has an opportunity to
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  earn that back. He said all the right things at
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  the end of the year about the new coach to Omassi Salo.
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  He seems to really get along with them.
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  They're going to bring Zach Eadie out to Summer League.
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  They made that announcement to get him to understand the
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  offense and if Zach understands the offense, that gives him
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  someone in that role that Steven Adams played for years, which
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  allowed JA to really get downhill and and breakdown
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  defenses. And that just wasn't happening
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  last year. Now, they played fast, they
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  scored a ton of points and it was a different system.
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  But the one thing I think you guys would understand and and
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  and know about is when you throw something different at a league,
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  it takes them a minute to catch up.
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  But about game 40, when teams had read the seen the tape and
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  seen what the offense was doing and the Warriors were the first
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  team to kind of write the game plan.
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  We saw nothing but shell zone defense and nobody protecting
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  the middle because the Grizzlies weren't going to attack the
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  middle. They never did.
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  And they weren't going to be in the paint.
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  They were going to be on the perimeter.
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  They might get Jaron Jackson to score up a big that he could
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  overpower, but other than that, it was pass, pass, Chuck it up
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  from beyond the line or get all the way to the rim on a on a
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  breakaway. So teams figured it out out.
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  And when they figured it out, the offense kind of stagnated.
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  And then they got to the second-half of their schedule,
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  which was loaded with playoff teams and they did not produce
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  victories. And so despite the fact they won
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  48 games, made the playoffs at one point, this was the number
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  two team in the West. And I vividly remember a night
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  where they were playing Oklahoma City.
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  We're like, OK, here's your test.
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  This is clearly the best team in the West.
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  You're right now in the two spot.
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  Where do you stand? And a 23 point loss later, he
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  went, uh oh, maybe this to some of this fattening up on the bad
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  teams that you saw early in the schedule and teams that aren't
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  going to be in the playoff picture.
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  And then they go play a really, really good game, but make a
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  mistake and still find a way to win.
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  And you all right, You beat the Timberwolves twice and you could
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  have beaten the Rockets two out of the three losses that you
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  had. And you threw a game away here,
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  but you're blowing out these other teams.
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  But after the All Star break, I think the team that kind of got
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  them is now the team that's making the most noise in the NBA
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  and it's Indiana. They put a 50 point third
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  quarter on them and we all kind of looked at each other and
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  went, well, that escalated in a hurry, fellas.
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  And the second-half after that was kind of just a, it was a
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  rough go to say the. Least Eric, why are you?
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  Why are you trying to hurt our feelings?
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  You you had to bring up the Pacers.
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  You had to bring up the IT it we were we were good, me and you
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  were good. And then you had to bring up the
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  Indiana Pacers and piss me off. Yeah, well, you can blame us for
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  giving them confidence, I guess. You look.
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  Don't foul, Don't foul. Up three with 14 seconds.
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  Let him take the shot. Dude, that was the luckiest role
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  I've ever seen a player have in a playoff game.
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  I mean, that went up, that hit off the back of the rim and went
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  15 feet in the air and went right in.
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  It spun right into the rim. I mean, what are the chances
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  that happening? Very little but like this is the
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  third time they've seemed to do something like this, but I just
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  thought Thibodeau made a mistake fouling that early.
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  So and again and because you're basically putting all the
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  pressure on your free throw shooter 6 seconds, I'm all for
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  it. 14 I went little early. Just let the guy take an off
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  balance 3 and get the possession, give it the Brunson.
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  But I'm not an NBA coach. So it's look, our season ended
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  in a 40 sweep. So who am I to say anything to?
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  What the hell do I know? Well, you've been the Grizzlies
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  play by play guy for a long time, so you know something
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  obviously or they wouldn't be keeping you in that position.
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  I know. I'm old, I know I'm old, and
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  I've seen a lot of crappy basketball over the.
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  Hold on, Eric. How old are you?
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  How old are you? 907, No 50.
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  You're 52, so you're only, what, You're nine years older than me.
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  You're not that old, Eric. Stop making yourself older than
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  you should, because then you're making me as ancient as you, OK?
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  Please, I'm still I'm. I'm still dating 35 and under.
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  I'm good. There you go.
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  That's what I'm talking about, Eric.
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  He's a sugar daddy. Yeah, I'll be whatever they want
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  me to be. As long as they as long as they
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  come home, we're good. Good for you, Eric.
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  I've never met you, but I already like you.
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  That's fantastic. So, Eric, what?
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  Kind of laugh, is that? What are you, a crow with
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  something? What the hell is that?
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  Go ahead, Speedy, spit it. Out All right so another guy
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  that's making headlines is the guy that I used to be with your
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  team, Dylan Brooks and Draymond Green definitely feuding.
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  We've seen Dylan Brooks feuding with a bunch of other guys.
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  What is your thoughts of the whole rivalry with the two of
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  them? Were both when he was at Memphis
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  with you and now seeing it in this postseason?
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  Oh gosh, you know, look, I, I got along with Dylan.
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  Dylan's a different dude. He's that guy that when you see
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  him outside the gym, you're cool, everything's fine.
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  You see him in the gym, this guy would walk by you and not even
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  like blink the I, I don't even think he saw anybody around him
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  when he got to the arena. And I thought he embraced that
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  Dylan, the villain role, but maybe took it too far.
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  I love the way he played, but when Dylan Brooks tried to be
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  more than Dylan Brooks was when the Grizzlies kind of had
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  issues. And it was a wild stat when he
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  was here when he scored 20 or more points, like the Grizzlies
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  were like 20-3 and four. But the only times he scored 20
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  points was when he took less than 15 shots.
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  And that doesn't make sense. He like this doesn't add up.
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  So he would be trying to get to 20 and failing and taking bad
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  shots. Now, when those two teams met,
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  there was some rivalry there. And then Dylan, look, in the
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  heat of the moment, he made a bad decision.
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  He was not going to block Gary Payton's shot on a breakaway.
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  I remember vividly watching him go up and going, what are you
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  doing? Because Gary Payton has what
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  they call the bounce, as you guys know.
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  And Dylan is not that bouncy. And when he was a step behind,
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  it's kind of one of those ones. You want to foul him, fine.
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  But you don't try to go up hard. And Peyton Falls, breaks his
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  wrists. And, of course, the next thing I
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  know, I'm walking through San Francisco before game three, and
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  everybody's driving by me going, hey, man, you're #1 except it's
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  not #1 it's the middle finger salute.
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  And I'm like, oh, I go, oh, I get it.
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  I got a Grizzly shirt on. I forgot not to put this on this
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  morning. Like, we literally were warned
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  when we went out there for Game 3 and that series, Like, hey,
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  you might not want to wear the team gear around the city.
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  And I was like, what are you talking about?
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  It's San Francisco. Nobody cares.
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  Yeah, turns out they do, because we could walk to our hotel from
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  the arena and I, it was beautiful out.
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  And I'm like, all right, I'll just walk back and I'm here.
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  I'm like, hey, yo, buddy. And I'm like, what are you, what
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  are you talking to? Like, why are you yelling at me?
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  I, I grew, I grew up out here. I'm like, nobody does this.
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  I'm not, I'm not in New York where I expect that stuff and I
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  I respect it. But you know, then Draymond, I
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  thought really, he really kind of stoked it all up when he
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  said, look, if the Grizzlies, if the Grizzlies are relying, I
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  think the quote was if the Grizzlies are relying on this
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  idiot to give them a championship, there's not going
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  to be a parade in their city ever.
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  And that was the whole big John Moran, there's going to a parade
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  in my city thing he was playing off of.
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  And Dylan took that to heart. And then he did it with LeBron.
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  He did it with Steph. And you know, he just gets under
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  your skin. But the one thing I will give
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  the guy a ton of credit for is he's a hell of a defender.
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  And I think in a lot of ways, nobody will admit it.
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  He's got a lot of respect for the way Draymond plays.
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  Draymond plays physical. He plays tough.
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  He goes at officials. I mean, I laughed when Nicola
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  Yokich got thrown out of a game and they said we'll use
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  profanity at an official. And I said that's how Draymond
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  Green addresses you guys. How does he?
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  Stand. And he doesn't call you by your
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  name. He's like hey dude, like it's
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  hey MF hurt like and that's what he calls you.
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  And but they understand that. And I'll tell you, like, I had a
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  conversation with an official outside the arena.
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  We just ran into each other, goes, hey, tell Dylan 30 seconds
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  into the game, he doesn't need to be complaining about every
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  call. And I was like, you know, you
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  know Dylan. And he goes, yeah, we all know
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  Dylan. I went, OK, that'll be fun.
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  So I like that rivalry with them.
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  I think there there's more room in our game for dislike.
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  I mean, your Jabba will tell you.
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  I'm sure when you played the Red Sox, you didn't exactly want to
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  go over and, like, give them pro hugs.
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  If they, you know, were yapping, they were going to get one in
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  the ear hole. And, you know, back in the day,
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  if you came across the lane, like, you know, I've become
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  friends with Rick Mahorn, he'll tell you the same thing.
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  He working for the Pistons. He's like, if you came in the
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  lane and I set a screen and you kept coming, I was going to let
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  you know, like, I'm going to hit you.
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  You're not you're not going to not feel me.
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  And I think there's there's room for more of that in the league.
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  This year allowed guys to be more physical and some guys
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  couldn't take it. And Dylan was embracing that to
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  the point where I was like, yo, man, that like when he did it,
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  like Desmond Bain, I'm like, that was your best friend here.
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  Why are you like knocking him to the floor?
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  And I'm like, wait, you're not on the same team when the ball
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  goes in the air. I don't want you to be my
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  friend. I want to kick your butt.
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  And I respect that about him. Eric, I, I love that you brought
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  that up because I, I wanted to ask you a question because we
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  see it from afar. You see it up front for you and
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  like obviously dealing with commentary and, and all the
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  other stuff. Like when you see things and you
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  have these interactions and you see it on the court.
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  Do you think there needs to be more guys that embrace that?
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  Like, hey, you're in the league. I'm going to give you what you
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  need. And do you think that JA at the
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  same time is kind of like he's in between that because he's
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  like, I'm going to be me and I'm going to do my thing, Or do you
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  think he needs to kind of take a step back and be like, just
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  understand the game and and how good he is?
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  You know, I think for JA, it all happened so fast.
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  It's one of those rocket ships to stardom situations where, you
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  know, you come from Murray State, you burst on the scene,
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  you have an amazing NCAA tournament.
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  All the sudden you're going to be at an NBA lottery pick in a
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  very small town and the the bright lights are there.
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  I think you let people be who they can be.
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  I've always said this about a professional athlete.
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  Look, if I, if I had the God-given ability to play any
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  professional sport, you give me my pick, whether it's shortstop
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  for the Yankees, quarterback for my favorite team, the Packers,
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  or any NFL team. And I'm, I'm 24 years old and
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  I've got millions of dollars in my pocket or I'm a point guard
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  for the Lakers and every girl in the building wants my number and
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  wants to talk to me. And, and with social media,
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  they're coming at you from 9 million different directors.
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  Hey, go live your life. Be a 24 year old stud, have a
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  blast. Do your thing until it affects
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  your play on the court. You know, when JA got named to
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  the All Star team, you got people coming out of the
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  woodwork. And that's part of the downfall
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  of social media. These guys are making a pile of
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  money from the exposure, but they also are subject to all the
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  criticism. Well, JA gets on the plane.
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  I mean, he's celebrating his first All Star appearance,
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  breaks out the bottle of Patrone.
• 18:38
  He's taking a hit of it. His dad's taking a hit of it.
• 18:40
  He tries to hand it to a security guard who I'm very good
• 18:43
  friends with. And he could say I'm on the job.
• 18:45
  And he's like, not on the plane, you're not.
• 18:47
  And but I know his security guard doesn't drink.
• 18:50
  And everybody's like, come on, man, you're a role model for
• 18:52
  kids. You can't drink tequila out of
• 18:54
  the bottle. And I'm like, why not?
• 18:56
  He's he's of legal drinking age. He's not operating a car.
• 19:00
  He's flying to the All Star game.
• 19:02
  It's not like he has a game tomorrow.
• 19:04
  Let him celebrate. But if you take it too far and
• 19:07
  now you're doing things that are putting yourselves in harm's
• 19:10
  way, like be yourself to a point where you're not endangering
• 19:13
  yourself. And I'm not going to sugarcoat
• 19:15
  the way things are in Memphis right now.
• 19:17
  Guys, it's rough. I mean, they're sending 1500 FBI
• 19:21
  agents here to try to help clean it up because the crime rate is
• 19:25
  not good. The violent crime rate is not
• 19:28
  good. I mean, we had 3500 cars stolen
• 19:32
  in a year. Do the math.
• 19:33
  That's a lot every day. And people here are just in
• 19:38
  that, hey, we're a blue collar grinded out city.
• 19:41
  And there's, there's been a big change since, you know, the
• 19:44
  pandemic and people are out of work and people are are
• 19:48
  struggling. And so, you know, there's an
• 19:49
  easy way to make money. And we all know breaking the law
• 19:52
  can do that. But when you put yourself in
• 19:55
  harm's way. And the point I'm bringing up is
• 19:57
  I know about 75 people that have firearms in their vehicles.
• 20:02
  They have a license to carry them.
• 20:04
  They're legal here, but they're not getting on social media and
• 20:07
  showing that. And they're also not getting on
• 20:09
  social media with 6,000,000 followers going live.
• 20:12
  You know, singing to a song and brandishing that after they've
• 20:15
  been suspended, That's where I go.
• 20:17
  Yo, you can be yourself. I don't have a problem with it
• 20:21
  as long as you don't like, put yourself in harm's way.
• 20:24
  And to me, I always said this, If you feel like you need to
• 20:27
  bring a gun to the club, you're going to go to a different club.
• 20:31
  Just go to a different one. Fine.
• 20:32
  Don't go there. Or if you feel like you need to
• 20:35
  have that kind of protection or you want to go to the club where
• 20:38
  all the ladies are, I'm pretty sure you have enough money to
• 20:41
  rent out the entire floor of the team hotel and bring them to
• 20:45
  you. And then nobody knows.
• 20:46
  And then don't turn on the Instagram Live.
• 20:49
  There's a way to go about it, but I can't tell people how to
• 20:52
  live their life because if I sat here and told you guys when I
• 20:55
  was 25 years old, I didn't do dumb stuff all the time, I'd be
• 20:58
  the biggest liar on the planet. I, I did things that I probably
• 21:01
  should have gotten in or should have gotten in more trouble for,
• 21:03
  but I didn't. I got lucky, unfortunately.
• 21:06
  Now, for an athlete of that magnitude and of that kind of
• 21:10
  notoriety, you're going to get recognized and you're going to
• 21:13
  have a target. And now you're, you're talking
• 21:15
  about being around circles where in this city, and I'm not trying
• 21:19
  to say we're like the the hardest place on the planet or
• 21:22
  anything like that, but the that that type of life in this city
• 21:25
  is very real. And these guys don't care that
• 21:28
  you're an NBA *. If you go in there and cross the
• 21:31
  wrong guys, you got problems. And people have kind of made
• 21:34
  that very clear to him. So you know it's.
• 21:36
  Be yourself, you know, Don't throw it all.
• 21:39
  Away. You know, it's crazy you bring
• 21:40
  up, you said 3500 cars, it's better than 3500 bodies.
• 21:44
  So I I would say that, but you know I not.
• 21:47
  Far off there. Either Well, that's probably
• 21:49
  true too, but you know what's crazy?
• 21:51
  I got a chance recently to watch the Gilbert arenas 30 for 30 and
• 21:56
  if nobody not and and I didn't really get a chance to watch
• 21:59
  that because it's been out for a while, but it's now on Hulu.
• 22:04
  If anybody has Hulu, get it. If you have a chance to go watch
• 22:07
  it on the Disney, whatever, the Disney app, it's great for 30.
• 22:11
  It's sensational. It's also on Netflix as well.
• 22:14
  It's interesting because I didn't know the story behind it
• 22:17
  until I got a chance. And I I used to blame Gilbert
• 22:19
  Arenas for the gun situation and it it kind of was, but it
• 22:24
  wasn't. And, and the story is with the
• 22:27
  NBA. The NBA is really taking a, you
• 22:29
  know, a big, you know, handle on this because of that Gilbert
• 22:33
  Arenas story. And Gilbert Arenas was only
• 22:35
  suspended for 50 games. And, and obviously the back end
• 22:39
  of it is there's an NBA player a part of that story that went to
• 22:42
  jail for a significant amount of time because he he killed
• 22:46
  somebody. So because of the whole Gilbert
• 22:48
  Arena story. So the fact is, is that the NBA
• 22:51
  is doing the right thing trying to get John Moran to try to
• 22:55
  clean this thing up before it gets worse and and where he
• 22:59
  might not have a career or might do something stupid where he
• 23:02
  could be going to jail for the next 25 to life type of, you
• 23:06
  know, situation. So it's a it's a terrible, it's
• 23:09
  a terrible thing that Gilbert Arenas, I mean, Gil, the Gilbert
• 23:12
  Arena story. But it's even more when you have
• 23:15
  a young player of this magnitude, John Moran, who is a
• 23:18
  superstar, one of the biggest electrifying players in the NBA
• 23:22
  and he can't control his self on the court as well as off the
• 23:25
  court. As everybody knows.
• 23:27
  We are talking to Memphis Grizzlies play by play
• 23:30
  broadcaster Eric Haseltine. Hold on, let me let me give you
• 23:33
  a side note to that. The, the, the, the documentary
• 23:36
  shooting guards. Yes, both of those guys were in
• 23:38
  Memphis at different times. Javares, Crittenden before.
• 23:43
  We were the team that sent him to Washington and then Gilbert
• 23:47
  came to us after and. I know that.
• 23:50
  I was so shocked with the Javares Crittenden story when I
• 23:55
  had interactions with that guy. Should we we on our broadcast,
• 23:59
  we stopped doing the before the game.
• 24:01
  You have, you know, team broadcasters will go, hey, we're
• 24:04
  talking to let's say, let's say we're interviewing Java before
• 24:06
  game and it's like, hey, Java, you guys face the Red Sox today.
• 24:10
  How tough is it to to get Alex or to to get Nomar Garcia para
• 24:15
  out at that time? And you're like, well, it's
• 24:17
  hard. He's hitting 347.
• 24:19
  What do you think? It's easy.
• 24:20
  I'm just going to throw him a 87 mile an hour cookie fastball.
• 24:23
  I've got to move the ball in. I got to move it out.
• 24:25
  I got to change speeds. I got to see where his hitting
• 24:27
  zone is today. It's the same.
• 24:29
  It's like, what am I going to say to a guy?
• 24:30
  What's it like to guard Kobe Bryant?
• 24:32
  Well, it's hard, dummy. He's he's Kobe Bryant.
• 24:34
  What do you think? So Javaris and I had some honest
• 24:38
  conversations. He was really bummed out he
• 24:40
  didn't get picked by Atlanta that year and they went with HD
• 24:43
  Law instead of with the second pick.
• 24:45
  We actually thought they were going to, they were going to
• 24:47
  take Mike Conley that year. Instead, he fell into our lap.
• 24:50
  And so Javaris when he was here was nothing but a gentleman was
• 24:54
  great. I saw no signs of that.
• 24:57
  And I remember somebody telling me and going, hey, you know,
• 24:59
  that guy, like when he was in LA was kind of tied to the Crips.
• 25:03
  And I was like, you're kidding. Like no way.
• 25:05
  Like that. You just kind of, you don't get
• 25:06
  that sense from him. He was just super easy going,
• 25:10
  polished and when you saw the documentary it's like it's
• 25:13
  because he had nobody there to lean on and these guys made him
• 25:16
  feel welcome. We get Gilbert after and you
• 25:20
  know all that prankster stuff you saw in that documentary.
• 25:23
  He was still had some of that, but it was a lot more guarded
• 25:27
  and I think he felt responsibility.
• 25:29
  It was his fault for the. Fact.
• 25:30
  It was, yeah. For the fact that, you know,
• 25:33
  he's, he thinks he's being funny, not knowing that Javaris
• 25:37
  is going like, hey, where I'm from in Atlanta and with my boys
• 25:40
  that I run in LA, we don't joke around about this stuff.
• 25:44
  And so I, I just, I'm, I'm watching this documentary and
• 25:47
  I'm going, how wild is it that both of those guys, when I walk
• 25:50
  into the arena every day, we have every team picture and I've
• 25:54
  shown my son who's 13 years old and you know, he's like, who is
• 25:57
  this guy? And I go, well, that guy made a
• 25:59
  big mistake, dude, that guy, some guy stole from him.
• 26:02
  He went after him, shot, missed him or hit the woman, hit a
• 26:06
  woman and did real jail time. And about Gilbert, one of the
• 26:09
  greatest players of his time. We got him at the tail end of
• 26:12
  his career. And so, yeah, that that
• 26:15
  documentary, it really changed how people look at it.
• 26:17
  And so, you know, the big question with y'all when that
• 26:20
  thing happened in Denver was did he bring the gun on the plane?
• 26:23
  Right. And you're like, well, I can't
• 26:25
  answer that. I don't know if it was on the
• 26:27
  plane or if it was in his luggage going underneath.
• 26:30
  Nobody knows. Nobody knows if he had it,
• 26:32
  somebody with him in Denver handed it to him.
• 26:34
  I don't know, Eric. But.
• 26:35
  Eric, I know he's screaming so. Eric the problem is with the NBA
• 26:39
  is with that whole story with Gilbert Arenas.
• 26:41
  He was actually buying guns in different States and flying them
• 26:44
  in. An NBA back.
• 26:46
  Back in an NBA plane and that's why he he was suspended for 50
• 26:49
  games. He wasn't suspended for the fact
• 26:51
  that he brought a loaded gun to a locker room.
• 26:55
  I mean, that to me tells me that the NBA has no control over
• 26:58
  their players. And, and with the whole Adam
• 27:01
  Silver and I say this and everybody knows on the show, I
• 27:04
  don't call it the NBA. I call it the LJA, LeBron James
• 27:07
  Association because ever since LeBron James has come to this
• 27:12
  league, he controls it. He controls the league and the
• 27:16
  pace. Is it a kowinky dink that LeBron
• 27:18
  James gets Luka Doncic at the trade deadline and The Mavericks
• 27:21
  win the draft, the lottery draft?
• 27:24
  They had a 1.8% chance of winning the lottery and they win
• 27:27
  the lottery. But you watch the NHL, by the
• 27:30
  way, and we watch the lottery. They actually do it in front of
• 27:32
  the television, like in front of the screen in the NBA, You they
• 27:35
  close the door. Do you think it's a Kowinky dink
• 27:38
  that The Mavericks won the draft after losing their best player
• 27:42
  and practice practically giving them away to the the Lakers for
• 27:45
  absolutely a bag of balls? See the only reason I the only
• 27:49
  thing that I can't get down with the conspiracy theory on the
• 27:52
  draft is you got to get 13 other teams to go.
• 27:55
  Yeah, we're cool if we don't get Cooper 5.
• 27:57
  We're OK with it and it's a billion dollar, you know, multi
• 28:00
  billion dollar company that now you're saying I would I'm with
• 28:03
  you. But they went back to the years,
• 28:05
  the Patrick Ewing draft and growing up in the Bay Area,
• 28:08
  we're in Golden State. The worst team in the league
• 28:10
  were like, Oh my gosh, we might get Patrick Ewing.
• 28:13
  And the word was that they put the Knicks plaque in the
• 28:16
  freezer. And if David Stern felt cold, he
• 28:20
  wasn't going to pull that envelope.
• 28:21
  So every time he touched and it was cold, he grabbed another
• 28:24
  one. And the Warriors ended up with
• 28:25
  Chris Mullen, which was great. But I think with the look you're
• 28:28
  talking about Nico Harrison, this is the same guy in a
• 28:31
  meeting when he was with Nike, called him Stephen Curry and he
• 28:34
  said, hey Steven, nice to meet you.
• 28:36
  And he goes, yeah, I think I'm going to go to Under Armour, who
• 28:38
  just sent Kent Bazemore, an undrafted guy out of Old
• 28:41
  Dominion, like 5 cases of gear to give away and Nike sweating
• 28:46
  me over getting some extra golf stuff for my dad.
• 28:49
  I'm going to switch brands here. And that was that summer where
• 28:52
  Under Armour got who they get Bryce Harper, Steph Curry,
• 28:57
  Jordan Spieth and all the Spaeth.
• 28:59
  Under Armour goes, yeah, hey, here we go.
• 29:01
  Let's, let's bring it on. So I, I just, you know, look,
• 29:04
  LeBron is the the guy that stirs everything up.
• 29:07
  There's no doubt about. It lja but I want you to do that
• 29:11
  when you're on live LJALJA. Don't call it the NPA anymore.
• 29:15
  The LJA. Next Lakers, Grizzlies
• 29:18
  broadcast. This is the LJA production.
• 29:22
  I like collecting a paycheck every two weeks.
• 29:26
  Download with you guys, I'm not going to lie.
• 29:29
  Could you imagine? Adam Silver mad at me.
• 29:31
  I think he's got some. Adam Silver's got some hidden
• 29:33
  fighting him. We had when we had our broadcast
• 29:36
  meetings this year, he came in and I swear I, I just thought he
• 29:40
  was this mild mannered guy and this dude just went to town with
• 29:44
  I mean, it was like almost Jerry Westlife.
• 29:47
  He's one of the ugliest men you'll ever see, dude.
• 29:50
  He's got the biggest freaking ears.
• 29:51
  His nose sticks out like freaking Pinocchio.
• 29:54
  And the guy really kisses dude. He might as well get on his
• 29:57
  hands and knees and kiss LeBron James's ass because that's what
• 30:00
  he does. I mean, every single time LeBron
• 30:04
  James is out there on social media, No, it's OK.
• 30:07
  It's it's OK, LeBron. You could do whatever you want.
• 30:10
  But if it was somebody else or Kevin Durant with his Twitter
• 30:13
  feeds, all seven or eight of them hiding behind his Twitter
• 30:16
  feeds, I mean, it's pathetic, dude.
• 30:18
  And here's another thing, do we remember the Kyrie Irving's
• 30:21
  antics, the anti-Semitic views that he had?
• 30:24
  Isn't hold on, isn't Adam Silver Jewish And he just, you know, he
• 30:29
  just brushed it under the rug. Who cares?
• 30:31
  Who cares? There's no Holocaust.
• 30:34
  I mean, seriously, it's pathetic.
• 30:36
  Adam Silver needs to and I used to like Adam Silver.
• 30:39
  I don't know personally, you probably met him and that's
• 30:42
  great. All the people love him and
• 30:44
  everybody thinks he's bringing all this money and that's great.
• 30:47
  And me and you can run the NBA and bring in all these these
• 30:50
  great sponsorships and advertisements.
• 30:52
  Stop it with the Roger Goodell and all these other guys.
• 30:55
  The fact is this guy let's the players run the league.
• 30:59
  That is the problem right now in the NBA.
• 31:01
  I've said this many, many times. If the NBA wants to be taken
• 31:05
  seriously again, they got to stop letting these players build
• 31:09
  their their fab 3 and, and, and make this make the league feel
• 31:13
  like, OK, well, I want to play in LA.
• 31:16
  So I'm going to make a I'm going to make a dominant team in LA
• 31:18
  where I'm going to play in Miami because I want to play for Pat
• 31:21
  Riley. So I'm going to bring in Chris
• 31:22
  Bosh, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James.
• 31:25
  To me, the NBA has made a mockery of the league.
• 31:29
  And now this, this 3 point, this is a three-point contest.
• 31:32
  Now in the regular season, it's Chuck up threes.
• 31:36
  Let's be Steph Curry. There's only one Steph Curry.
• 31:39
  So I just think it's just pathetic.
• 31:41
  I think the NBA is crap and and, and nobody cares about the
• 31:44
  regular season anymore. It's all about the playoffs.
• 31:47
  It's changed a lot. You're not wrong about that.
• 31:50
  And it's you know, I obviously I grew up in a time and you know,
• 31:54
  when the 80s NBA, it was fast. They scored, they didn't have a
• 31:58
  three-point line. I mean, you go look at some of
• 32:00
  Larry Bird's numbers and you imagine if they'd actually
• 32:03
  embraced the three. I think in one of his in the in
• 32:06
  the early days of the three-point line, I think there
• 32:09
  was here, Larry Bird took a total took a total of 82 threes.
• 32:14
  I mean, like you're like, this is the best shooter in the game
• 32:16
  right now. And you know, Casey Jones is
• 32:19
  telling them, yo, dude, that's not that's not a good shot.
• 32:22
  Step inside, take a 15 footer. Whereas I, I, I will never
• 32:26
  forget this. We were in Houston and Mike
• 32:31
  D'Antoni was coaching the Rockets at the time.
• 32:33
  And I want to say it was Nene was playing for them.
• 32:37
  And Mike D'Antoni was pretty strict about not taking a 15
• 32:41
  footer. And you see this dude like is
• 32:43
  not a a three-point shooter, but he's he takes the ball and backs
• 32:48
  out into the corner and shoots a three and somebody goes, why did
• 32:52
  you shoot that? He goes because I didn't want to
• 32:53
  get yelled at in practice for taking a shot that didn't work
• 32:56
  in our analytics. And I'm like, huh, it's an open
• 32:59
  15 footer. One of the things to me that
• 33:02
  makes shades Gilgeous Alexander so dangerous is this dude
• 33:05
  embraces that elbow jump shot. It's like, you're going to give
• 33:08
  me a 15 footer? I'm an NBA player.
• 33:09
  I'm going to make this more often than not.
• 33:12
  And I'm going to take two points.
• 33:13
  And I, I would lose my mind sometimes in our on our
• 33:16
  broadcast this year where we'd have a three on one breakdown by
• 33:19
  like 6 and guys pull up from 27 feet.
• 33:23
  I'm like, yo, nobody had any chance of stopping you getting a
• 33:27
  layup. Take the two points, get back,
• 33:30
  get another stop and if you have another fast break, take another
• 33:33
  layup. If you get into your offense and
• 33:35
  the play dictates a three-point shot, that's great.
• 33:38
  But hunting threes can be dangerous.
• 33:40
  Now it can also lead to massive comebacks.
• 33:42
  So I get it. But I I mean, not to bring up a
• 33:45
  bad subject, Tyrese Halliburton had a layup to tie that game.
• 33:48
  Instead he gets very lucky stepping all the way back
• 33:52
  thinking he shot 3 gets the bounce of a lifetime.
• 33:55
  Whereas if you go back at the end of that, let's just say that
• 33:58
  shot misses and you're going, dude, why didn't you just tie
• 34:00
  the game? Why didn't you just take the
• 34:03
  layup that you had? You had the man on skates, you
• 34:05
  had a lean and you might get an and one, you might get fouled,
• 34:08
  get two shots, miss 1, whatever. But why didn't you go all the
• 34:12
  way to the basket? Because that's not the way kids
• 34:13
  are now. And I'll tell you what, watching
• 34:16
  some of these youth basketball tournaments and I'm around the
• 34:19
  game a lot outside of my job and I saw some youth leagues and I'm
• 34:23
  like, this is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.
• 34:26
  If you gave me 5 kids, one of them being one of the better
• 34:29
  players on the court, the other 4 knowing how to team play team
• 34:32
  basketball, I'm going to kick every teams in this league's ass
• 34:35
  because we're going to set back screens, we're going to set base
• 34:38
  to base screens, we're going to play defense and we're going to
• 34:41
  pass the basketball. And I promise we'll win every
• 34:43
  game in this league by 15. And the one coach that did it in
• 34:46
  the league, I was kind of supervising at a facility here,
• 34:49
  they won every game by like 20 points.
• 34:51
  And I was like, how are you beating everybody?
• 34:52
  You don't have the best athletes.
• 34:53
  It's like because we play basketball, we don't play
• 34:56
  shooting contest. We don't play let me get a
• 34:58
  breakaway and try to dunk when I can't even barely get over the
• 35:02
  rim, even though I want to try to look cool.
• 35:04
  And you know, that's part of it. That's this like the image now
• 35:08
  for these guys. And I feel I, I get it Like
• 35:10
  they're young. There's so much money off the
• 35:12
  court, but to me, like when game time comes, who gives a flying?
• 35:16
  You know what what you're saying?
• 35:18
  It was what? Go ahead, pull the trigger.
• 35:20
  Say it, Eric. I can't.
• 35:21
  I'm just. Kidding.
• 35:22
  I'm just kidding. But like, look, Jerry West was
• 35:26
  the greatest Weaver of the four letter bomb I've ever heard.
• 35:28
  In fact, one day at a practice thought I was the TV guy and
• 35:32
  they said something that pissed him off and he he wove the F
• 35:36
  word into a paragraph that I'm pretty sure the only other words
• 35:39
  involved in said paragraph were you, US, them and paycheck and
• 35:46
  sign. And basically every other word
• 35:48
  was effer, effer or M effer. And I was like, wow, that was
• 35:52
  impressive. And I didn't like walk away
• 35:53
  scared. I was like, I'm impressed.
• 35:55
  And then you see the Showtime piece and he goes that that's
• 35:58
  not who I am. I'm not angry like that.
• 36:00
  And I raised my head. I said, I beg to differ.
• 36:02
  I have evidence of the contrary. But like, I like watching that.
• 36:08
  You would just you just want to go, what are we doing?
• 36:10
  What are we teaching kids? And, you know, like, learn how
• 36:14
  to play the game and you watch. To me, that's why to me,
• 36:17
  Oklahoma City is so dangerous. They play the game.
• 36:20
  They play the game of basketball.
• 36:21
  They play as a team. They move the ball, they share
• 36:24
  the basketball. They don't just constantly
• 36:26
  settle for threes. They will move and defend.
• 36:29
  I mean, like, and what planet did we ever think Alex Caruso
• 36:33
  would be a bright star in the playoffs when this dude, like he
• 36:37
  he walks out there, that dude walked into an open gym in
• 36:40
  Memphis. They'd be like, yo, who's the
• 36:42
  white boy? He can't play.
• 36:44
  And he would kick everybody's ass because he would play
• 36:46
  defense and be able to shoot. But he plays hard.
• 36:49
  And I think we've just gotten away from some of that because
• 36:53
  of all the extra stuff. And, you know, look that it
• 36:56
  makes me sound like the old guy in my neighborhood yelling get
• 36:58
  off my lawn. But I like the game when the
• 37:01
  game is played with ball movement and all these people
• 37:05
  that used to kill the Warriors and they're like, oh, I hate the
• 37:07
  Warriors. They they like for 19 out of 20
• 37:09
  years, they didn't make the playoffs.
• 37:11
  They grew their team organically, right?
• 37:13
  They get a bag full of money when the TV contract comes.
• 37:17
  So Kevin Durant goes, hey, I want to go play with them
• 37:20
  because I played with Steph in the Olympics.
• 37:21
  Now everybody hates them. But you watch the way they play.
• 37:24
  They move the basketball, they share the basketball.
• 37:27
  They're embracing a little bit of the new style, but they will
• 37:30
  still go to the basket. And you watch Steph and like all
• 37:33
  these people like, oh, I hate Steph Curry.
• 37:35
  First thing I say is why? Why do you hate a guy that does
• 37:38
  everything the right way? The same dribble routine?
• 37:40
  Every day I plead the works. His ass off every day because
• 37:43
  he's Eric asked because he asked.
• 37:45
  Errol about Steph Curry. Ask Errol about Steph Curry.
• 37:50
  I plead the 5th. I plead the 5th.
• 37:52
  Ask Errol about Steph Curry. Why don't you ask your question?
• 37:55
  I'm not going to get into this. We got we got a lot of other
• 37:58
  segments to go. I'm not going to Eric and me
• 38:01
  could talk off air or another show.
• 38:03
  OK, We'll get Eric on the video feed a lot sooner than later and
• 38:07
  we could talk about this. Yes, we'll get him on the show
• 38:09
  again in the next couple of weeks.
• 38:11
  Go ahead. John no, Eric.
• 38:13
  Eric, mine is honestly like I, you see it from a different
• 38:18
  perspective. And the one thing you've
• 38:21
  answered a lot of questions that we've we've all had in our
• 38:23
  private chat and, and certain things.
• 38:26
  But what do you think? Like when you get guys to that
• 38:30
  standard of how they can be great?
• 38:34
  How do you think the people around them and, and you see
• 38:37
  their following, you see their entourage and what have you?
• 38:41
  How much do you think that affects kind of what they do?
• 38:45
  Are they yes man? Do they do they call them out?
• 38:48
  And how do you think that plays a part in who they are or what
• 38:52
  they become? OK, I I was having a hard time
• 38:56
  hearing the question. Can you relay the question to me
• 38:58
  real quick? Yeah, no, I just, I just said
• 39:02
  the entourage that they have and the people around them.
• 39:05
  Oh yeah, do. You think that plays a part in
• 39:07
  who they are and what they become, or are they playing up
• 39:11
  to that part? Yeah, you know, that's a great
• 39:14
  question because I'm sure you saw a lot of it.
• 39:17
  And, you know, it's hard to walk away from your friends.
• 39:20
  Like your friends are your friends, the guys you grew up
• 39:22
  with. And you want to you find it on
• 39:24
  boatload of success and you want to take care of people.
• 39:27
  And I get that. But look, some of your guys have
• 39:31
  to, you know, understand that you're not run up and down your
• 39:36
  your block anymore and, you know, protecting each other's
• 39:39
  backs. There's a brand, there's an
• 39:40
  image, there's a, there's a, a, a different lifestyle ahead and,
• 39:44
  and the quote UN quote keeping it real.
• 39:48
  You have to evolve. I'm sorry.
• 39:49
  Like, I have a friend of mine that if you would have picked
• 39:52
  the one guy out of my friend group that was going to become a
• 39:54
  near billionaire, he would have been the last guy I picked.
• 39:57
  But he did. And we don't see him as much.
• 40:01
  He has business meetings, he has exclusive places he goes.
• 40:05
  And as much as he'll hang out with all of us again, and none
• 40:08
  of us are, you know, sticking our fingers in our ears at at a
• 40:11
  nice restaurant or anything. But you know, like he invites
• 40:15
  you out and you you might meet a billionaire, you might meet Tony
• 40:18
  Romo, you might meet a guy that you know is just a regular dude.
• 40:22
  And in the end, we're all regular people.
• 40:24
  But. When you are a guy that is in
• 40:27
  the public image and between an unknown billionaire and an
• 40:31
  athlete, billionaire is astronomical.
• 40:33
  So if you can't as somebody's buddy, realize that, then to me,
• 40:37
  you got the athlete himself. To me, like, let's use John as
• 40:42
  an example. His best buddy is the one
• 40:44
  everybody's kind of pointing the finger at, and he's the one who
• 40:47
  got kicked out of Arbena for a year because he walked onto the
• 40:51
  court. And I said, I'm like, look, he
• 40:54
  can't walk on the court. I know he's your boy.
• 40:56
  I know two guys on the team are talking trash to him.
• 40:59
  You want to protect him. We got guys for that.
• 41:01
  That's not your role. Be his boy, right?
• 41:04
  And the The funny thing was the guy wanted to challenge James
• 41:08
  Johnson. He's like pointing at James
• 41:09
  Johnson, who was playing for the Pacers.
• 41:12
  James Johnson's a 7th degree black belt.
• 41:14
  And on the air I said, and I knew who it was, but I couldn't
• 41:17
  throw him under the bus. And I go, well, there's a fan
• 41:19
  that it apparently wants to fight James Johnson.
• 41:22
  And that would be the last mistake he ever makes because
• 41:24
  James will will knock him out where he stands and he may not
• 41:28
  ever get up. And James is a big dude.
• 41:30
  Like you forget like some of these fans that talk trash to to
• 41:34
  NBA players, MLB players, NFL players, you're like, yo, dude,
• 41:39
  that guy's 6 foot 5 and 250 lbs. You're five, 11180.
• 41:44
  He trains his body every single day.
• 41:47
  You # Coors Light and eat Cheetos like they're going out
• 41:49
  of style. He's going to break you in half
• 41:52
  before you blink. I don't care like it doesn't.
• 41:55
  Matter. We know some guys, we know
• 41:56
  they're athletes, but you know, there's the Greg Hardy's of the
• 41:59
  world that you just want to He tries to get into the mixed
• 42:02
  martial arts world in. Memphis his own, yeah.
• 42:05
  But look, I wouldn't want, I wouldn't want to fight Greg
• 42:07
  Hardy, but I wouldn't want to fight Greg Hardy.
• 42:10
  But I sure as hell would rather fight Greg Hardy than a true
• 42:13
  professional fighter. Greg Card, he's a bitch.
• 42:16
  He beats up women. He's a bitch, OK?
• 42:19
  He's just a big mongrel. Mongrel.
• 42:21
  Whatever they call him, he's to me.
• 42:24
  He I don't even know why he even stepped into the Octagon,
• 42:27
  because he every single time he stepped in the Octagon, he was
• 42:31
  he was, he was horrible, man. He what happened?
• 42:37
  Marc Gastano doesn't have a brain.
• 42:40
  OK, I mean, well, Marc Gastano doesn't even know his name.
• 42:44
  Is there a crazier human being on the planet?
• 42:45
  By the way, that by the way, The Jets 30 for 30 was great.
• 42:48
  Getting those guys back, I love it.
• 42:52
  But no, but I mean when you have an entourage to me and look, we
• 42:56
  had one of the most tragic stories ever with the Lorenzen
• 42:59
  Wright murder by his ex-wife and her lover.
• 43:02
  Horrible story. But but but Ren before that, one
• 43:05
  of the reasons the money was running out.
• 43:07
  He could never say no to his buddies and his buddies didn't
• 43:11
  necessarily get him in trouble. But you're paying your buddies
• 43:14
  to basically be your buddy. Like if I go win the Powerball
• 43:18
  tomorrow, and I believe me, I'd love to, I don't expect five of
• 43:22
  my buddies to be on my doorstep going.
• 43:24
  So do I get an $80,000 a year contract now?
• 43:26
  I'll be like, hell no, dude, you go get a job and we can hang
• 43:29
  out. I'll pay for every night out.
• 43:31
  I'll pay for dinners, I'll pay for trips.
• 43:34
  Stop it, Eric. Eric, if there you had, if you
• 43:37
  won the lottery and you had like $200 million, you're definitely
• 43:41
  giving everyone. I always said this and we got
• 43:43
  to, we got to let you go, Eric. But I and I wish we could keep
• 43:46
  you on the whole show. But I want to, I want to say
• 43:49
  something, man. If you made 250 or $200 million
• 43:53
  in the lottery and you got all your friends, I always said
• 43:56
  this, I'm giving every one of my friends $3,000,000.
• 43:59
  They're they you through 250 million dollars, $200 million.
• 44:03
  What are you going to do with that money?
• 44:04
  I mean, seriously, you're not going to die with it.
• 44:06
  You save some for your kids and your family and you enjoy your
• 44:10
  life. I mean seriously, you only live
• 44:12
  once. Illuminati, baby Illuminati.
• 44:17
  I'll tell you this, and I know you got to let me go.
• 44:19
  If I won the lottery, you know the weirdest thing I would do?
• 44:21
  I would have a brand new pair of socks for every day.
• 44:24
  Every single day I'd put on new socks.
• 44:26
  I think you'd have a girl every single day.
• 44:29
  That is different stream. She would be putting on the
• 44:31
  socks for me. You beat Steven Seagal, you have
• 44:36
  a different girl in every room. Well.
• 44:39
  God bless that. By the way, that's a great way
• 44:42
  and. Like she would be putting.
• 44:44
  On his socks. Anyways, Eric, you're fantastic.
• 44:49
  Let's get you on the show. The season's almost over.
• 44:52
  Let's get you on in like a month and we'll get you on and maybe
• 44:55
  and you'll stay on and we'll talk a little basketball, we'll
• 44:58
  talk some football with you. You stay on, you hang out.
• 45:00
  You'll be a guest on the show for the whole show.
• 45:02
  How about that? I would love it guys.
• 45:05
  Thank you so much. I apologize for all the
• 45:06
  confusion and I love the candor and the honesty of the program.
• 45:11
  Always, always appreciate being on.
• 45:12
  Thank you, Eric Haseltine. He's fantastic.
• 45:16
  The one and only the Grizzlies Maniac.
• 45:19
  Oh, well, I'm the maniac. He's just the grizzly, you know,
• 45:22
  he's the grizzly bear. Anyway, he was fantastic.
• 45:26
  Thank you to Eric Haseltine. I know he's a very busy man and
• 45:29
  his video wasn't working very, very well, but he came on the
• 45:33
  audio end of it and he gave us really, really good content,
• 45:37
  Speedy, a lot of stuff you can chop up and post it up on
• 45:41
  social. Media.
• 45:41
  I remember there was one time he was in his car, I think the
• 45:43
  second time he was on the show, but it didn't cut out like that.
• 45:46
  And I think he did actually mention that.
• 45:47
  Lorenzen Wright. Dude, that's another horrible
• 45:50
  thing. Yeah, he was telling the story
• 45:52
  from his perspective. He encountered some of the
• 45:53
  stuff. Well, I, I actually, I was
• 45:56
  studying. There was different things that
• 45:58
  came out about it. She just by the way, his wife
• 46:01
  just got indicted and she's jail for 25 years.
• 46:05
  The life, I mean, it was a long, long time before they can pin it
• 46:10
  on her. And then it took like like 10
• 46:13
  years before she she got indicted.
• 46:15
  It's a horrible, horrible story. And Lorenzo, right, was one of
• 46:19
  the nicest people. I never met Lorenzo, but he
• 46:21
  obviously Eric did and said when he he was one of the nicest,
• 46:25
  most careful, care, caring people you'll ever meet.
• 46:29
  The Thunder dominate the Timberwolves 114 to 88 to take a
• 46:33
  one nothing series lead in the Western Conference finals.
• 46:37
  After the Timberwolves LED by 4 at halftime.
• 46:40
  The Thunder outscored the Timberwolves by 26 points in the
• 46:43
  second-half. The Thunder had four players
• 46:46
  with double figures while the Timberwolves just had two,
• 46:50
  including Julius Randall leading the team with 28 points.
• 46:54
  Anthony Edwards was fined $50,000 for using profanity
• 46:59
  during his post game interview. Edwards used the F bomb when
• 47:04
  complaining about the fact that he only took thirteen shots
• 47:08
  during the game. Edwards just had 18 points, 9
• 47:12
  rebounds and three assists and game number ones Little.
• 47:15
  Here's what I'm going to say about Anthony Edwards.
• 47:17
  Stop talking and just play because every time you speak it
• 47:23
  makes me want to hurl. Everything that you say,
• 47:26
  everything that you do as a leader of this team shows your
• 47:30
  non leadership skills. After the game you don't want to
• 47:34
  take responsibility, you want to blame everybody else and you
• 47:37
  want to say that you only had thirteen shots.
• 47:39
  How about this? You want more than 13 shots, get
• 47:42
  in position so you can get a shot.
• 47:45
  Stop trying to dunk the ball. Stop dancing and prancing around
• 47:49
  the referees when you get fouled and crying the river like Carl
• 47:52
  Anthony Towns. That's why you guys are buddies.
• 47:54
  That's why I call you the timber bullies.
• 47:57
  That's what you are. You're a bully.
• 47:58
  That's what you are. Anthony.
• 48:00
  You don't want to take responsibility when you want to
• 48:02
  be the you don't want to be the face of the United States
• 48:05
  basketball, but you want to take responsibility when you're not
• 48:08
  getting the ball and you want to say that you're not getting a
• 48:10
  ball. That's why your team didn't win
• 48:12
  you. You didn't win because you're
• 48:13
  not a team player. If you actually step back and
• 48:16
  realize what team means, it doesn't mean Anthony Edwards.
• 48:21
  That Timberwolves as a team does not mean Anthony Edwards.
• 48:26
  And by the way, Alex Rodriguez, where the hell are you when you
• 48:30
  have a player with this kind of confidence?
• 48:32
  We all know, Alex, you are a great player.
• 48:34
  You're one of the greatest of your era.
• 48:37
  And you know you got to step back as a leader and an owner of
• 48:40
  a team after that game. We're watching that debacle of a
• 48:42
  game and pull Anthony Edwards to the side and say, listen, you
• 48:45
  haven't won nothing, buddy. I was the best player in the
• 48:48
  league for over 12 years and I didn't win a championship until
• 48:51
  I went to the Yankees. And it took me 5 years to do
• 48:54
  that with guys like Jabba Table and and Derek Jeter and all
• 48:58
  those bullies over there in New York.
• 49:00
  I've had to save the bullpen. I'm just saying it, you got to
• 49:03
  be a champion. And if you want to be a champion
• 49:06
  and you got to be a champion, you got to find a way to be a
• 49:09
  leader. And you going up there and
• 49:12
  cursing and prancing when all these kids are buying your
• 49:15
  jersey and buying your sneakers and doing that in front of the
• 49:18
  press shows you you're not mature enough to be here in the
• 49:21
  NBA and making millions and millions of dollars.
• 49:24
  I love the fact that he's come out and said that he doesn't go
• 49:27
  out there and spend his money on nice jewelry and buy, you know,
• 49:31
  these crazy cars that he saved saving his money because he
• 49:34
  doesn't want to go broke. I love his his whole demeanor
• 49:37
  when it comes to saving money and trying to be a professional.
• 49:40
  What I don't like about Anthony Edwards is I don't like his
• 49:43
  bragging. I don't like him coming out and
• 49:45
  talking about how much money he's making through endorsements
• 49:48
  and how much him as a player and as as he moves forward as a
• 49:53
  player, he can make and become a billionaire before the age of
• 49:57
  30. I don't want to know about that.
• 49:59
  All I want to know is when are you going to win a championship?
• 50:01
  When are you going to lead your team to a finals and actually
• 50:05
  have a chance to win a championship?
• 50:06
  Because we've seen it back-to-back years and we might
• 50:08
  see it back-to-back years where you're going to lose.
• 50:11
  And I'm going to say this, I'm going to give a shout out to
• 50:14
  Julius Randle. I got to give a shout out to
• 50:17
  this guy because as a New York Knick, this guy.
• 50:20
  Hold on, you're hold on. You're calling him by his name
• 50:23
  and not the bricklayer. I'm going to say this.
• 50:25
  I'm going to say it. When I watch it, I'm I'm an
• 50:27
  honest guy and I watch the game. He is as a Knick fan has always
• 50:32
  called him and I'm one of them, called him the bricklayer.
• 50:36
  I got to give him credit when this guy has been a laughing
• 50:39
  stock here in New York because he doesn't show up to playoff
• 50:42
  games and in the big games. And he loved to throw Jalen
• 50:44
  Brunson under the bus and say that he was the better player on
• 50:47
  the team. He's gone out there.
• 50:49
  He's been a team leader over there with the Timberwolves and
• 50:52
  he's played well and he's I think he's really transitioned
• 50:57
  into a team leader over there with the Timberwolves.
• 50:59
  You would expect that Anthony Edwards is the leading voice of
• 51:02
  that locker room. It's not.
• 51:04
  It's Julius Randle. And it's, it's crazy because
• 51:07
  after the game when they're interviewing Julius Randle,
• 51:10
  Julius Randle says we got to play better, especially me.
• 51:14
  I got to play better. I got to get these guys to play
• 51:16
  better. If I play at the top of my game
• 51:19
  and they're playing at the top of their game, there should be
• 51:21
  no reason why we shouldn't win. And, and by the way, Julius
• 51:25
  Randall is a comedian. He likes to make jokes.
• 51:27
  And you can see him and Anthony Edwards at the press conference,
• 51:30
  but Julius Randall is not going to go out there and curse, use
• 51:33
  the F bomb and things like that. That shows the in the, the
• 51:38
  maturity of of Julius Randall. It shows the non maturity of a
• 51:42
  guy like Anthony Edwards. And I it, it just bothers me
• 51:45
  because I don't know if the Timberwolves will ever get over
• 51:47
  the hump with this guy as their leader.
• 51:49
  Yeah. You also look at the comments
• 51:50
  that he's made in the past too. Like obviously some of them are
• 51:53
  crazy. Some of them are fan driven too.
• 51:54
  Obviously we talked about the Michael Jordan one that was more
• 51:56
  fan driven. I think it was him driven.
• 51:58
  The Olympics one definitely maybe was a little stretched
• 52:00
  calling himself the truth. Fine.
• 52:02
  This one is more on stuff you can control too.
• 52:05
  Like, why is he? You're blaming that you only
• 52:07
  took thirteen shots in the game. It's not like people were
• 52:10
  stealing the ball from you and hogging the ball.
• 52:11
  It's not like you had Carmelo Anthony dribbling the entire
• 52:14
  shot clock from Julius Randall or Dante D Vincenzo or somebody
• 52:17
  like that. You had enough time to shoot
• 52:19
  more than 13 shots. This is something you can
• 52:21
  control. I'm going to do something we
• 52:22
  haven't done in a while is actually protect Stefan Diggs in
• 52:25
  comparison. Remember Stefan Diggs
• 52:26
  complaining about the targets? Yeah, he shouldn't be doing
• 52:28
  that, but he's not controlling it.
• 52:30
  The offensive coordinator, the coaching, and Josh Allen's
• 52:33
  controlling it. Anthony Edwards, he's
• 52:35
  controlling it when he's holding the ball a bunch of the time.
• 52:37
  So you can't complain you only took thirteen shots.
• 52:39
  When you're the one holding the ball, you're not a big man,
• 52:41
  you're not a power forward. A stretch.
• 52:42
  Forward, it's a baby. Yeah, complaining about not
• 52:45
  getting the ball enough inside because you're not bringing the
• 52:47
  ball up, You're bringing the ball up and you're complaining
• 52:49
  you're only getting 13 shots. It's that's that's ridiculous
• 52:52
  today. I mean, come on, Like you want
• 52:54
  to curse out reporters questioning, oh, I only got 13
• 52:57
  shots and you want to take shots at them for saying why he's that
• 53:00
  you're the one controlling Chris Finch isn't taking the ball out
• 53:02
  of your hand and other guy Julius Randle's like going back
• 53:05
  to 2021 Julius Randle where he's hogging the ball forever.
• 53:09
  This that wasn't the case of that game.
• 53:10
  That's not why you lost the game, Anthony.
• 53:12
  Like you took thirteen shots? Spank it baby.
• 53:14
  Spank it, speedy. Yeah, maybe.
• 53:16
  Yeah, He seemed like he was trying to metaphorically spank
• 53:19
  the reporters. I like anal these.
• 53:20
  Aren't uncalled for. And it's absolutely uncalled
• 53:23
  for. Yes, I'm sure I'm.
• 53:24
  Sure, you. No, I'm T Dodger.
• 53:26
  Yeah, you're 100% right, though, because we've had this
• 53:29
  conversation when Ant has said, you know, he doesn't want to be
• 53:33
  the face, I think this just kind of shows exactly why, because he
• 53:39
  can't be the face because look at how he handles certain things
• 53:43
  and the way he handles it. Like there are certain guys in
• 53:46
  certain sports that just know how to handle media in certain
• 53:49
  ways. But he is, he has shown over and
• 53:52
  over that not only does he not want to be the face, but he's
• 53:56
  not even a leader of the team as one of the best basketball
• 53:58
  players that we have in the NBA, right?
• 54:00
  Like one of the most athletics that we have.
• 54:03
  And to do the things that he does, but then to subside that
• 54:09
  being on the other side where it's like, no, I just want to be
• 54:12
  me. I don't want to do anything.
• 54:13
  Well, if you want to lead the team to win, exactly what Ariel
• 54:16
  said, it's like they're not going to win a championship if
• 54:18
  he doesn't take ownership and leadership of that team and be
• 54:23
  who he should be. Because you are that dude.
• 54:25
  Like, you are that dude and I don't care whether you want to
• 54:29
  admit it or not and be the face. You don't have to be the face,
• 54:33
  right? Mike Trout came out when he was
• 54:35
  when he was doing in baseball. He said I don't want to be the
• 54:38
  face because I just want to do me and I want to be me.
• 54:41
  But when it comes to the NBA, it's a little different.
• 54:44
  And he just hasn't shown leadership or anything to show
• 54:49
  us where we could even be like, that's the guy that we want to
• 54:53
  be the face of this game right now because there's a passing of
• 54:56
  the torch in every generation and we get generational talent.
• 55:01
  And he could be that if he would just embrace instead of pushing
• 55:04
  it away and trying to not be somebody that he's not.
• 55:09
  Like, you can go into these interviews and be pissed off
• 55:13
  That's fine. Like I understand that.
• 55:15
  But when you go and you're dropping expletives and
• 55:18
  whatever, like that's just not necessary.
• 55:21
  That's just the maturation of you becoming a player.
• 55:24
  Maybe it gets better in a few years.
• 55:26
  Maybe when he grows up and somebody gets in his ear and you
• 55:30
  see what can happen. You just don't know.
• 55:32
  But right now, no chance. And you know, LeBron saying
• 55:36
  that, you know he's going to be the face, which that is, is a
• 55:41
  great, great compliment, right? But you don't embrace it or take
• 55:45
  it for what it's worth. Because as much as people like
• 55:49
  or don't like LeBron, he handles the media very well and he says
• 55:53
  what he but and he just, he just doesn't do the things that I
• 55:56
  think, And this is just me personally, where I wouldn't
• 56:00
  want that to be the face of the NBA.
• 56:03
  Isn't there like a crazy ceiling and a crazy floor for him?
• 56:08
  100% in his. Career which in most cases he
• 56:10
  like I defended him a lot of the time but not I can't hear.
• 56:14
  So I'm glad everyone's coming around to the dark side, which
• 56:17
  was my opinion on Anthony Edwards for a while now because
• 56:21
  I just worry about his lack of maturity and he's now in the
• 56:24
  League 5. Years Ram Jam.
• 56:26
  There's there's a guy that played in the league six years
• 56:30
  and was like really great young guy who was going to take over
• 56:33
  back in the day era when when I was in high school, so in the
• 56:37
  early 2000s and he fell off a Cliff.
• 56:41
  Because if you don't mature in time, your athleticism doesn't
• 56:45
  stay as you get older, you lose some of it.
• 56:49
  So if you don't start playing the game in a way where the ball
• 56:52
  gets back to you enough that you take enough shots and you're not
• 56:56
  in, you run sets well, so you get the ball at the end of them.
• 57:00
  Let's face it, that's on you. If you start with the ball and
• 57:02
  you don't end up with it, what are you talking about?
• 57:05
  Like you're the one starting the play.
• 57:08
  You've started. You've initiated offense.
• 57:11
  What are we even talking about that?
• 57:13
  So my guy that I, I'm worried about as the floor, what if he's
• 57:17
  Stevie Franchise? Stevie Franchise was a super
• 57:21
  dunker, was an All Star every year.
• 57:24
  And then the athleticism went a little bit, lost the shot a
• 57:27
  little bit and he was basically an afterthought.
• 57:31
  Ended up on the Knicks as an afterthought, of course, on
• 57:33
  those horrible Knicks teams and was out of the league in less
• 57:35
  than 10 years. That is the floor for him
• 57:39
  because he has the athleticism. Will his maturity catch up in
• 57:43
  time? And then obviously, franchise,
• 57:46
  Stevie, franchise suffered a bad knee.
• 57:48
  We're not saying anything like that's going to happen, but
• 57:52
  that's the worst case scenario, right?
• 57:54
  Someone who's already rising to that level.
• 57:57
  Brandon. Roy was a great player for five
• 57:59
  years. First of all, Anthony Edwards is
• 58:02
  a much better player than Stevie Franchise.
• 58:04
  Sure. Much better player.
• 58:06
  I mean, you're talking about a top three player right now in
• 58:09
  the NBA. You can argue he's just as good
• 58:11
  as Yokich. He's just as good as Shy
• 58:14
  Alexander. He is that good.
• 58:15
  I don't know why anybody doesn't think that he is.
• 58:18
  The problem with him is he thinks he's the best that ever
• 58:21
  was. He compares himself and I know
• 58:24
  he doesn't want to say it, but he compares himself to Michael
• 58:26
  Jordan. He's not Michael Jordan because
• 58:28
  Michael Jordan did nothing but win.
• 58:30
  What does this guy want? He's won nothing.
• 58:33
  He had Karl Anthony Towns. He has had a good roster really
• 58:36
  since he was drafted. Has he ever gotten over the
• 58:39
  hump? By the way, he used to have
• 58:40
  Jimmy Buckets on his team. It was Jimmy Buckets, Karl
• 58:43
  Anthony Towns and him and they still couldn't win with Tom
• 58:47
  Thibodeau, by the way, who's the defensive guru?
• 58:51
  So I don't want to hear it anymore.
• 58:53
  I, as far as I'm concerned, Anthony Edwards, go out there
• 58:56
  and play the game, show everybody that you should be
• 59:00
  considered the best player in the league.
• 59:02
  And until you do that, you're never going to be.
• 59:05
  And by the way, Kevin Durant, that was his God, that was his
• 59:08
  favorite player growing up as Kevin Durant.
• 59:11
  How long it took him to win a championship.
• 59:13
  It took him from going from one team to another.
• 59:16
  Does Anthony Edwards have to do that to win A and I'm not taking
• 59:20
  shots at Kevin Durant. He was the best player on that
• 59:22
  Golden State Warrior team, but he had to jump from one team to
• 59:25
  another and not be be the leader of the team to go to go with
• 59:29
  Steph Curry and be the other guy, even though he was the best
• 59:32
  player. Does Anthony Edwards have to do
• 59:34
  that in the future to win a championship?
• 59:36
  To me, that doesn't make you the best.
• 59:38
  That makes you really a top five player at best, and that's where
• 59:43
  he's looked at by a lot of players in the league.
• 59:45
  He's not a top three player because he's come out and said
• 59:49
  that he doesn't want to be the face of the NBA.
• 59:50
  He doesn't want to be the face of Team USA basketball.
• 59:53
  He just wants to play basketball and play his video games.
• 59:55
  Take your video game video games and shove it up your ass, bro.
• 59:58
  Take it and shove it up your ass.
• 1:00:00
  That to me, video games is not going to tell me what type of
• 1:00:04
  player you are and what the type of player you're going to be in
• 1:00:07
  the future. What it does tell me is that you
• 1:00:10
  don't care about the game as much as you should.
• 1:00:12
  Because she should be like Kobe Bryant at 5:00 in the morning,
• 1:00:15
  going to the gyms and shooting up those threes and those free
• 1:00:18
  throws and trying to make yourself better in the gym than
• 1:00:21
  going out there and playing video games till 4:00 in the
• 1:00:24
  morning after you're you're playing an NBA playoff game.
• 1:00:27
  So it's pathetic. And that's the difference we
• 1:00:29
  talked about with talent versus leadership.
• 1:00:31
  And I think it's even more prevalent in the NBA than it is
• 1:00:33
  with any other sport because obviously in football you want
• 1:00:35
  to have the leadership be emphasized in certain positions
• 1:00:37
  too, obviously. I don't play video games but
• 1:00:41
  what I've heard recently, not in this series, that when he was
• 1:00:45
  losing or he lost the game in the last series.
• 1:00:49
  I think it was one game that they lost in the last series.
• 1:00:51
  He was playing video games to 5:00 in the morning after that.
• 1:00:55
  That game, I think there was one of the playing.
• 1:00:57
  Games. It was a story.
• 1:00:58
  Career to where that was like that.
• 1:00:59
  He was, he was up to all hours of the night playing video games
• 1:01:02
  because it shows you that he was mocking the team that he was
• 1:01:05
  playing, that he didn't think they were much of a challenge.
• 1:01:07
  So he said, you know what, I don't care.
• 1:01:09
  I don't have to sleep. I can go out there and play my
• 1:01:11
  game and beat them. Hands down to me, it's
• 1:01:14
  despicable. And if you're a leader or you're
• 1:01:16
  a part of an organization that doesn't have leadership that can
• 1:01:19
  control this guy, then you don't have a team and you don't have,
• 1:01:21
  you're never going to win a championship.
• 1:01:23
  Right. And that's what you and Fish
• 1:01:24
  were debating on Monday. By the way, check out our clips
• 1:01:26
  on our on our social media just posted earlier today debating at
• 1:01:29
  the awards leadership, if it's enough to be able to do it.
• 1:01:31
  And again, there's a difference with leadership and talent that
• 1:01:33
  comes now. I gave him the credit for being
• 1:01:35
  able to lead over somebody like Julius Randall, somebody over
• 1:01:38
  like really Rudy Gobert that's had issues with their other
• 1:01:40
  teams in the past and now it this seems.
• 1:01:43
  Like the bagel? Whole reverse thing where you're
• 1:01:46
  going to throw them under the bus inadvertently by saying, oh,
• 1:01:49
  I only took thirteen shots. That's not him.
• 1:01:52
  Breaking news that's not I'm putting you on a leash now.
• 1:01:55
  Anything. Yes, and the AdWords should be
• 1:01:58
  put on a leash from those types of combats, metaphorically
• 1:02:01
  speaking, not physically like Rudy Gobert.
• 1:02:03
  Shoving him and. Stuff like that.
• 1:02:04
  But like metaphorically speaking, saying it's not our
• 1:02:07
  fault that that you didn't get as much shots in the game as
• 1:02:11
  you're doing like in baseball, like there's uncontrollable
• 1:02:14
  aspects you have. If you have a 5 hitter or
• 1:02:15
  something that can only get to the plate five times, you're not
• 1:02:18
  going to say I didn't get enough plate appearance.
• 1:02:19
  The top. Four guys and then say, like I
• 1:02:22
  was talking about with football with Stefan Diggs, like there's
• 1:02:25
  only some controllable aspects that a game plan is going to
• 1:02:27
  have where you're being peppered with targets all the time in
• 1:02:30
  basketball, in basketball. I need a genuine tonic.
• 1:02:34
  Basketball, there's five guys in the court, there's not as much
• 1:02:37
  things to be able to steal that kind of thing where you're only
• 1:02:39
  shooting 13 shots. I don't think you can shoot 33
• 1:02:41
  shots. But there should be some kind of
• 1:02:43
  a balance in a playoff game that's already led to this point
• 1:02:46
  and created good things and he just doesn't have that.
• 1:02:48
  And Kevin Durant, you were talking about it.
• 1:02:50
  Maybe it was the same kind of way at the beginning of his
• 1:02:51
  career where you're questioning his leadership and the whole if
• 1:02:54
  you get beat him joining things, he joins Golden State and then
• 1:02:57
  they went to champions. That's.
• 1:02:58
  What's going to happening, Anthony?
• 1:02:59
  And it's definitely possible, I think.
• 1:03:00
  That's what's going to happen. Obviously it's not going to
• 1:03:02
  happen this year because he just.
• 1:03:03
  Signed the contract, but. 2-3 years down the.
• 1:03:05
  Alex Rodriguez is running that team and so is Gloria.
• 1:03:08
  The Marlins, we all know what that team did after they won a
• 1:03:11
  championship. They sold their players.
• 1:03:13
  So that's what they're going to do.
• 1:03:14
  Eventually. Anthony Edwards is going to be a
• 1:03:16
  piece that he's in a sellaway after he sells the team.
• 1:03:20
  And and same thing with Alex Rodriguez.
• 1:03:21
  They bought the team for like under 2 billion or at 2 billion.
• 1:03:25
  Dollars 1 1/2 Yeah, so one and a.
• 1:03:27
  Half 1 1/2 billion dollars, they got an NBA team and they're
• 1:03:30
  going to sell it for 6 or 7 billion.
• 1:03:32
  It's an absolute slam dunk and honestly was one of the probably
• 1:03:36
  best moves Alex Rodriguez has ever done in his career when it
• 1:03:39
  comes to business deals because so he's sitting there pretty.
• 1:03:43
  He owns a basketball team with one of the best players in the
• 1:03:45
  league and he's going to sell them away just like we've seen
• 1:03:48
  it before. Mark, remember, he owns the WNBA
• 1:03:52
  team as well. That's right, Mark.
• 1:03:53
  Always has a price if you got. That which is all a.
• 1:03:57
  Price, you got it, basketball, and I don't remember that.
• 1:04:00
  One of the best free throw shooters ever.
• 1:04:02
  I'm just saying Mark always has a price.
• 1:04:04
  Job I wonder if the Timberwolves are on pace for have one
• 1:04:07
  spending spree offseason like the great Marlins team of 2011
• 1:04:10
  by Burley and Jose Reyes. At all Jose Reyes Well, they had
• 1:04:14
  to because they got in trouble the year before because they
• 1:04:17
  didn't spend anything and their payroll was like.
• 1:04:19
  It's not a single player million.
• 1:04:21
  That's crazy. I think the Cardinals are on
• 1:04:23
  pace for that this offseason too.
• 1:04:24
  I totally finally I think got one like in February or
• 1:04:27
  something like that. Cardinals are playing good
• 1:04:28
  baseball, but we're not getting into baseball right now.
• 1:04:30
  But I, I, I will say this, if, if they don't win tonight, I, I
• 1:04:35
  think the Timberwolves are done. They, they have to win this game
• 1:04:39
  tonight. If they plan to go back home and
• 1:04:41
  make this, make this, I think the Timberwolves should win this
• 1:04:45
  series. If Anthony Edwards is playing at
• 1:04:47
  the top of his game and the way Julius Randall is playing, they
• 1:04:50
  should win this series. I think they're the better team.
• 1:04:52
  I really do. I, I know everybody likes OKC
• 1:04:55
  and the talent that they have. I still think Anthony Edwards is
• 1:04:59
  the best player in this series. As good as Shy Alexander is,
• 1:05:03
  Anthony Edwards could take over a game like we've never seen a
• 1:05:05
  player do since Michael Jordan. I've seen this guy completely
• 1:05:09
  dominate a game and just do everything on a basketball
• 1:05:12
  court. If he figures this out and, and
• 1:05:15
  starts to play his game and shuts his mouth and plays that
• 1:05:18
  dominant fashion play type of basketball, then I, I think
• 1:05:22
  they're better than Shy Alexander's OKC Thunder.
• 1:05:24
  But I the way we've seen it over the last couple of months and
• 1:05:29
  and really for the last three years of this guy, this guy is
• 1:05:33
  his own worst enemy. And I think this is going to be
• 1:05:35
  a big problem moving forward in this series because OKC is
• 1:05:38
  licking their lips and OKC has a chance to win their first title
• 1:05:42
  since their expansion, You know, chances with Kevin Durant,
• 1:05:46
  Russell Westbrook, James Harden and Serge Ibaka.
• 1:05:49
  This is this is a team that actually can win with less
• 1:05:51
  talent, so. It's watching the game right
• 1:05:54
  now, Errol, it's early in the game and Jalen Williams just
• 1:05:58
  went down with an injury. It's a good sign.
• 1:06:00
  Muck things up a little bit for OKC.
• 1:06:03
  Don't know how bad it is, but they did take him out for a
• 1:06:06
  minute, so we'll see what happens with him.
• 1:06:09
  Look, you're absolutely right. If they can't win this game,
• 1:06:12
  they're in a lot of trouble. Look, they'll go home, but
• 1:06:15
  there's so much shooting on that OKC team and so much ball
• 1:06:19
  movement and movement without the ball, especially from the
• 1:06:22
  forward and center position with Hardenstein.
• 1:06:25
  For a guy like Gobert to keep up with, for a guy like Randall who
• 1:06:28
  we know loses guys to keep up with, it's going to be a tall,
• 1:06:32
  tall order. I don't think they match up very
• 1:06:35
  well at all. Chet's going to give Randall
• 1:06:37
  problems if he's going to be on the outside.
• 1:06:39
  On the inside, Hardenstein can give him problems It it's just
• 1:06:43
  it's just not a great match up for Minnesota in my opinion.
• 1:06:46
  And Edwards, why Think about it, if he initiated the offense, why
• 1:06:50
  didn't he get the ball back? Because they're face guarding
• 1:06:53
  him. And when he's supposed to get
• 1:06:54
  the ball back, because the coach knows, because the coach is a
• 1:06:57
  good coach. So guess what?
• 1:07:00
  You're going to have to take the ball into your own hands and
• 1:07:02
  lead. And if not you, you're not going
• 1:07:05
  to win. And I think we're finding out
• 1:07:07
  right now he's never going to be the best player on a
• 1:07:09
  championship team. Can he be the second best player
• 1:07:11
  in the championship team? I bet he could.
• 1:07:14
  But is he going to be that guy? I don't think he has them to be
• 1:07:17
  that guy. Well, great players find a way
• 1:07:19
  to win. And by the way, Anthony Edwards
• 1:07:21
  is playing a good team basketball game right now.
• 1:07:23
  I'm watching the game. He's passing the ball, he's
• 1:07:25
  using his teammates around him. Something that we know Jalen
• 1:07:28
  Brunson has not done in game #1 So if if we see.
• 1:07:32
  If yet they're still down 10, you know, like it's it's just
• 1:07:37
  it's just like and you know, Shay, just as we said, does a
• 1:07:40
  turn around fade away on D Vincenzo off the glass like Tim
• 1:07:44
  Duncan, and it's just this is a problem.
• 1:07:47
  It's early not compete with that shooting.
• 1:07:49
  It's early, it's early again this I believe still the
• 1:07:54
  Timberwolves are very, very, very aggressive team and they're
• 1:07:57
  very well coached and if they can win this game and they can
• 1:08:00
  go back home to Minnesota, they can win this series.
• 1:08:03
  I, I do and I they're very hard to beat in Minnesota just as
• 1:08:06
  well as OKC is at when they're at home.
• 1:08:09
  I think OKC has only lost six games at home all season long or
• 1:08:13
  something of that magnitude. So I, I just, I'm not going to
• 1:08:16
  sit here and say this series is over.
• 1:08:18
  I know it's one game to none. I know you don't think the
• 1:08:21
  Knicks series is over, but you think.
• 1:08:24
  You think as you use the word think.
• 1:08:26
  I I just. Keep.
• 1:08:27
  What are you even talking about? You just, you said it.
• 1:08:31
  You want you want me to go back to what you said.
• 1:08:32
  You just. You did say that, I think.
• 1:08:35
  If I if I think I got so many things, I'd love to say, but.
• 1:08:40
  They're bagel holes. I'm not going to.
• 1:08:42
  I am a legend. Very eerily similar.
• 1:08:44
  Someone who doesn't listen when they've been told 99 * 1 thing
• 1:08:49
  and you heard one thing out of the other one of 100 and you
• 1:08:52
  stick with the one. Now the real question does Joeys
• 1:08:55
  bag of doughnuts come with bagel holes?
• 1:08:57
  Don't worry, when we get to our sports minute later, Joey
• 1:09:00
  Bagadonis is making a return. Don't you dare worry about that.
• 1:09:04
  Well, you I worry about everything I was going to.
• 1:09:07
  Say I would worry about everything that goes through
• 1:09:10
  that guy's mind. Well, it's you have to worry
• 1:09:12
  about what goes through my mind. I mean, seriously, there are a
• 1:09:15
  lot of things that come out of my mind that, you know, offset.
• 1:09:18
  I don't have the energy to worry about what's going on in your
• 1:09:21
  mind. That's true.
• 1:09:22
  There's a lot, I mean, there are things that I do offset that
• 1:09:25
  probably you'll get people worried, you know, but
• 1:09:28
  nevertheless, I don't want to mention those crazy things.
• 1:09:31
  You, you have to know me off air to know that if you think I'm
• 1:09:35
  crazy on air, I'm a lot worse off air.
• 1:09:37
  But nevertheless, I know and I understand the game of
• 1:09:41
  basketball and I do believe Anthony Edwards is as good as
• 1:09:44
  Shy Alexander when it comes to this game.
• 1:09:46
  And if, if Anthony Edwards wants to beat OKC, he's going to have
• 1:09:50
  to play his dominant fashion of basketball.
• 1:09:54
  And he didn't do that against Luka Doncic last year and that's
• 1:09:56
  why they lost against The Mavericks and he's not doing it
• 1:09:59
  right now against OKC. But again, it's still early and
• 1:10:03
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• 1:10:05
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• 1:10:08
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