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NY's Sports Loud Mouth 5-14-26 · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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It is the worldwide sports radio network.
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After getting swept out of the playoffs by the New York Knicks,
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the Philadelphia 76ers have fired general manager Daryl
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Morey after six seasons with the franchise.
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Morey, whose acquisition of James Harden flamed out years
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ago, will have his Philly tenure remembered for his big swings
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for big names who never lived up to expectations.
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Despite the failures of Mori, the next GM will have to work
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with head coach Nick Nurse, who is being retained.
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Were the Sixers right to change the guy holding the reins
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without changing the coach? Or will this move, spurred on by
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the embarrassment against Jalen Brunson and the boys from Penn
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Station, lead the Sixers to the bottom of the standings as star
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players Paul, George and Joel's and beads, wear and tear have
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turned them from superstars to immovable assets whose timelines
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don't match up with the burgeoning young backcourt of
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Maxi and Edgecomb. And before we crack a six pack
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with Speedy and check in on the NBA Playoffs, Conference Semi
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Finals and recap all the action in the second round of the
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Stanley Cup Playoff Finals, I'm sorry, Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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The boys will take a ride on the concrete jungle carousel and
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catch up on all the latest news for all the major sports teams
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in the tri-state area. On another all gas, no brakes,
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Wheeling and dealing, hustling and out muscling live Thursday
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night episode of the hottest streaming sports show in the
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biz. This is New York's sports
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loudmouth. The Mets lose their star player.
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They lose their star closer. The Mets are in a bad spot right
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now. I've never seen a Ranger team
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quick before the Olympics. We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see LeBron doing that. What Jack Hughes did after
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getting his teeth knocked down to play every single shift he
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got back in the game. Hello.
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Tonight on New York sports loudmouth, we got the NBA trying
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to stop tanking with A321 system like they're hosting a New
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Year's Eve countdown in Times Square.
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Meanwhile, half the league already tanked harder than my
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cholesterol after a Long Island daily run at 2:00 AM in the
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morning, the Knicks are out here making grown men cry on national
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television. Bronson is playing basketball
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like somebody stole his parking spot.
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And the Sixers, yes, the Sixers. Somebody file a missing person
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report because that team disappeared faster than a Mets
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lead in July. And can somebody explain to me
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how pitchers are throwing 103 mph now?
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Back in the day, if you threw 103, they checked if you were
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part of a Cyborg. Now every kid comes out of the
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bullpen looking like they were built in a laboratory under Area
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51. Five years from now, Tommy John
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surgery is going to have a rewards program.
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Congratulations, your 10th ligament replacement is free.
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Plus, Giannis rumors are everywhere.
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Every fan base thinks they're getting him.
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The Knicks fans already photoshopped him in orange and
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blue. The Celtic fans are talking
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trade, and the Heat fans standing outside South Beach
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with candles. Meanwhile, Milwaukee fans are
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looking like somebody just canceled Christmas and Trevor
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Bauer. Yes, Trevor Bauer keeps
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dominating while baseball acts like he's Voldemort.
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The man strikes out 15 guys in the MLB, reacts like somebody
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mentioned him three times in a mirror.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is the New York sports loudmouth
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where the takes are loud, the jokes are reckless, and the
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sports world gets roasted harder than a BBQ season on Long
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Island. I'm Errol Marx, and if you're
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soft, sensitive or a Philadelphia fan, this might be
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a rough night for you. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's
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been a crazy one. I've been sick for over 48
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hours. At last show on Monday, there
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was a lot of screaming and a lot of yelling.
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I scratched my voice box and what that happens when that
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happens with me, a lot of things happen.
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What happens is I start to sneeze, I start to get a cold.
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It's very weird. It doesn't make any sense.
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And I do have my tonsils. So I got sick and me and Quentin
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went back and forth. And that's what usually happens
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on the show. It is a crazy, crazy show.
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And sometimes because I have a very unique raspy voice, I can
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scratch my voice, but I'm here. I'm going to make sure that I'm
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going to fight through this tonight.
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I had 100.8 fever on Tuesday. That's how sick I was.
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And I don't know, it always happens to me at this time of
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year. I, I don't like the pollen, I
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don't like my allergies, but it happens to me.
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But I'm here, I make sure I fight through this and I'm going
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to fight through this for all the fans tonight, all the fans
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that know how I am and how crazy I am.
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I'm going to try to keep my voice tamed so I don't crush it
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because there is sometimes I get too loud and I hit a note that I
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just completely kill my voice. But Quentin, how are you?
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I know you were working yesterday, you had some business
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meetings. How are you my friend?
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I'm doing well, doing well, man. I had a little technical
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difficulties getting on tonight, but I changed my location,
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changed my scenery spiked like a little bit, you know, so you
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know, we just. You're looking sexy.
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I mean all the women think you're sexy.
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I don't want, I don't want to get you in trouble because your
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wife's probably watching. So I'll keep it calm and
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collective tonight. Not throw him under the bus even
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though it seems like I always do that.
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Anyways, we have a great show lined up for you.
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And a little bit later in the show at 8/20/20, we will be
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talking to movie director Richie Cam Chum and former 10 year NBA
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center Greg Odin. And the movie is it's called
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Bust, which is coming soon. First screening is May 27th in
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Miami. So he is going to be joining us.
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Greg Odin, the number one pick, the guy that was drafted before
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Kevin Durant. We know how and what Kevin
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Durant turned into. Greg Odin was going to be one of
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the biggest and the best big men in the league.
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Obviously with injury and and so many things that happened in his
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career. I guess you can call him a boss,
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but I I'm sure he'll laugh at it and he'll giggle about it.
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But we're very excited to get Greg on the show.
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He's an interesting cat and and Richie Camtun, who is the
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director of the movie and he's a big part of the movie.
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So we're very excited to get both of these guys on the show.
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We're going to interview him. We're going to have some fun
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with them. So get ready fans.
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It's going to be a crazy one, but we have to get into the
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craziest story right now in basketball, and it seems like
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it's hitting all the Philadelphia fans right in their
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forehead. ESPN reports that the
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Philadelphia 76ers have fired President Basketball of
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basketball operations Daryl Morey after six years with the
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team. Nick Nurse will remain the 76ers
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head coach for his fourth season with the team, believing they
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won't be a better coach. There won't be a better coach
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than him available in the offseason.
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Former Warriors general manager Bob Myers, who is now the
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president of Harris and Blitzer Sports and Entertainment that is
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Co owned by Sixers owner Josh Harris, will now leave the
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search for the next president. Myers will oversee the
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basketball operations and will have some influence on the
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decisions made by whoever the new president of the
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organization is. Reports say that Morey's
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decision to trade for Jerry McCain to the Thunder this
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season hubbed Joel Embiid and several of the players the wrong
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way. Trading for James Harden and
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only keeping him for about a year and signing Paul George to
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a Max contract where two were two other moves that obviously
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made him fishing a little fish hanging.
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But anyways, the 76ers were 220 and 200 and 22112 in the regular
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season with Maury as the president, but just 28 and 26 in
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the playoffs and never making it past the second round.
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Now the story is, and I, I, I know Joellen B runs this league.
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I, I'm sorry, not even runs this league, runs this team.
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It's no LeBron James's league, and it's the LJA.
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We call it the LJA because it's a LeBron James association.
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But this man is a flop. He flops.
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A lot of people can't stand him, and he's flopped for the 76ers.
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Every time the 76ers are on the cusp of making Easter conference
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finals, they choke. They choke or they bump into a
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team that's just that much better than they are.
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They beat the Celtics. They came back from A31 deficit.
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And you can give Joel Embiid a lot of credit for that.
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A lot of credit coming back on an injury.
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Shouldn't have played. He had many different injuries
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all season long. The guy cannot stay healthy, has
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knee problems, he's got foot problems, he's got ankle
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problems, he's got thumb and his ass problems.
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Everything about Joel Embiid would make you think he's a
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moron, and I think he's a moron. I think every 76er fan probably
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thinks he's a moron because I don't know if anybody watched
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Game 4 after the Knicks wiped them out.
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I mean wiped them out of their arena and the fans packed out.
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The 76ers executives were trying to give away tickets to get the
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76ers fans in there to blow out the Knicks fans.
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It never happened, by the way, as the Knicks swept them after a
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minute went by. At the end of the game, you see
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Joel Embiid holding his son. Not upset, not walking off or
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showing his disinterest on the Knicks winning.
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No, he's holding his son. Don't worry.
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And you can read his. We'll get him next year.
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Get what next year? The 76ers are an old bunch of
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guys now they have Edgecomb. He, he looks like he's going to
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be a fun kid to watch. And his growth and his
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development will be very, very important to this organization's
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growth in the future. But here's the problem.
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Tyrese Maxey is going to be a free agent in the next year and
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a half. Does he want to come back?
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Does he want to come back to this organization?
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That's an absolute joke. Paul George is still there with
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a Max contract until until 2028. He got caught with steroids.
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He missed 20 something games, He got suspended, came back for the
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playoffs, did nothing in the playoffs.
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I'm sorry. When you're making that kind of
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money, you should be showing up and playing at a high level.
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Paul George is not the same Paul George he once was.
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And Joel Embiid, who's been fighting injury since five years
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ago. The guy can't stay healthy.
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He's got knee problems. Like I was saying, he's a
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wipeout. Everything about this team, this
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76er team, comes back to Daryl Morey, who's built this team.
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Think about it. If you look at this team from
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Paul George to Joel Embiid, he extended Joel Embiid.
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He's the one who gave him that Max contract.
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He's the one who made that trade to bring James Harden in and
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then doesn't keep him for more than a year.
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James Harden never wanted to be there.
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James Harden never wanted to be there.
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So the consolation prize was, you know what we're going to do?
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We're going to change. We're going to trade James
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Harden for Paul George. That's what we're going to do.
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We're going to bring Paul George in and trade James Harden.
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Now, I'm not saying James Harden is what he was or I don't even
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know what he is because he doesn't show up in the play
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offs. Go ask the Cavaliers.
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But the fact here is when you look at this organization and
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the 76ers organization that's had how many top end picks?
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Nerlens Noel, remember him? Erlins Noel was a pretty good
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player. There's a guy that is, I don't
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know where he's playing anymore, but he was the number one pick
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or #2 I forgot his name, LSU guy, Speedy, who am I speaking?
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You're talking about the guy that loves to wear rich fashion
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on the sideline and play 10 games a year.
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And buy beautiful cars. You know what I'm talking about.
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Oh, the iconic Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons, the LSU guy that
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can't pass, you know, college. College course.
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Yeah, that guy. The fact here is when you look
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at the 76ers, they've made a lot of mistakes.
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Joel Embiid has been a slam dunk for them when he actually stays
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on a basketball court. There's a lot of problems.
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When you look at this organization and the 76ers, when
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you think about all their teams, when it comes to the
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Philadelphia Eagles, the Philadelphia Flyers, the
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Philadelphia Phillies, this is the least important team out of
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the the whole state of Sixerville.
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I I would say Philadelphiaville because the Philadelphia Flyers
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are the Philadelphia Flyers have been very, very important.
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Their hockey team, no matter how bad they are, they got Rick
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Tackett as their head coach. This team is beloved, beloved by
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the Philadelphia fans and the baseball team, the Philadelphia
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Phillies. They have Bryce Harper, they
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have Kyle Schwarber. This is a A-Team that's very
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beloved, very beloved by the Philadelphia fans.
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And they won a championship. They won a World Series a couple
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of years ago, actually more than a couple of years ago.
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It's been a long time. And then there's the
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Philadelphia Eagles that have won two championships in the
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last 10 years and they've been as good as any football team in
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the NFL. This 76er team, when was the
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last time they won a championship?
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Doctor Dre, Doctor Jay. That was was that though?
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I almost said Doctor Dre. Doctor Jay.
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The only world, the only winner in the 80s I think, besides the
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Pistons. That wasn't 1980. 31983 Now I'm
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not As a Knick fan, I can attack the Knicks in many different
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ways. The, The Knicks haven't won a
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championship since 1973. Okay, so we, we understand that,
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but the Knicks are beloved. If you look, you, you laugh and
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you giggle and everybody is going to giggle.
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If you look at all the New York teams, all the New York teams
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from the Yankees that have won and been consistent 27
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championships, haven't won a championship since 2009.
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But they have been a consistent organization of winning and
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they've been to how many back-to-back playoff runs and
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how many winning seasons. I think they've had over 35 or
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34 winning seasons, which probably will never be broken in
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professional sports again. Think about that.
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And then you have the Rangers, the Islanders, They're all
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beloved teams, every, every single team.
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The Mets very beloved. But for some reason, if you ask
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any New York fan, which is the most beloved team in New York,
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it's the New York Knicks. No matter how bad the New York
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Knicks are, they sell out every single game.
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Every single game. They could be the worst team for
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25 years. Bad basketball watching terrible
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basketball. When Patrick Ewing was traded to
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the SuperSonics, remember that after 99, everybody remembers
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that, that the team just completely fell apart,
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dismantled. Then they bring in Amari
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Stoudemire. Then they bring in Carmelo
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Anthony. They had a couple of good years
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but couldn't get over the hump. Never made it to the Eastern
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Conference finals with Carmelo Anthony or Mari Stoudemire.
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Never did. It took years after that until
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Leon Rose gets brought in. No more Phil Jackson, no more
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Mr. Fisher or anybody they brought.
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And there's a list of guys they brought in.
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After that no more, they bring in Leon Rose which the fans
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didn't like and they make a move and they sign Jalen Brunson.
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They give him a three-year deal, 60 something $1,000,000 contract
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and it changed the Knicks fortunes forever.
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Now, going back to the 76ers, what has changed this 76er team
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from at one point with Allen Iverson, one of the best teams
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in the Eastern Conference, one of the greatest guards to ever
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play this game. And we saw Allen Iverson on the
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sidelines during the Philadelphia games, his hand in
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his lap, his head in his lap, not watching the game, not
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interested in the game. Why?
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Because they're getting dominated by the New York Knicks
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by 3040 fifty. Whatever it is, it's an
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embarrassment. And when you look at this
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organization, there is nothing that stands out to me that
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there's going to be change. Now Myers has won before.
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He's 1. He, he built the Golden State
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Warriors. Everybody gives him credit.
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And then he, he, he pretty much dashed away as soon as that team
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was falling apart. They were getting old.
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Myers walks away. He completely steps down from
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the Golden State Warriors. He became an ESPN broadcaster,
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analyst for the NBA for a year. And then all of a sudden, Mr.
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Harris reaches out to him and says, hey, listen, I want you to
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help me run my teams. He works with the Philadelphia
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Eagles now he's working with the the Philadelphia Flyers and all
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these other teams and all these different organizations.
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It reminds me of the Portland Trail Blazers.
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If anybody remembers, remember the Portland Trail Blazers.
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I think if anybody doesn't know the story, you got to check it
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out on Netflix 30 for 30. It is a great, great story.
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They bring in AGM that the year before.
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Pretty much built the SuperSonics into a a contending
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team. He leaves, he goes to the Trail
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Blazers because of ownership, a new owner, a very rich owner
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brings him in and he wanted to build the team the way he wanted
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to. And then all of a sudden it
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wasn't about basketball. It was about all the
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organizations that he owned, including the the football team
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and all the other stuff behind the scenes.
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And the GM just had no interest, no interest in running anything
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but the basketball team. And then when he lost full
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control of the basketball team, everything started to compile on
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him. Now, I'm not saying Daryl Morey
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is that Daryl Morey is a complete ass.
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He was an idiot for six years, taking over this organization.
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And I don't know much about Daryl Morey, but what I've seen,
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what he's done for the 76ers, absolutely nothing.
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The only thing that you can pat him on the back for is you have
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Joellen B Joellen B bitching that he was never an MVP.
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And finally the NBA handed him an MVP.
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So if he wants to say that at one point he ran this
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organization and he had an MVP on the team, good for you.
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Congratulations to Daryl Morey, because this team, since he's
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been there, has never gone to a conference finals, never.
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And you think about what Edgecomb could be.
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I don't know what Edgecomb's going to be.
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He looks like he's going to be a nice player.
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I liked him in the draft. He looked like a good young
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rookie. He's he's not the best rookie of
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last year's class, but he's a good rookie.
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And you have Maxi, but now Tyrese Maxi, how many years does
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he have left on his contract? They paid him last off.
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Season, yeah, but how many years does he have left on his
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contract? How?
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What is it going to take for Maxi to say I don't want to be
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here anymore? That's what I'm saying.
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I if I'm Maxi right now, I know I have to deal with Joellen
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Beads crap. He's never healthy.
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I know Paul George is there till 2028 and he looks old as hell.
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That's why he's on steroids. Come on.
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I'm just saying think about it. Where is this team going?
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What is the back end? What?
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I mean, you could go after Giannis, but I I don't think
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anybody's going to take Joellen beads, bad knees.
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So what is it? And now you have Myers thinking
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that he knows more than everybody else.
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What's it going to take for Harris to say that Myers is a
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complete idiot? He's going to fire him because
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Myers had Steph Curry, he had Klay Thompson, he got lucky in
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the draft and then he drafted Draymond Green in the second
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round. It was all luck, everything.
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Now, I'm not saying you have to know something about basketball.
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Come on. Steph Curry is one of the
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greatest shooters. When I watched him play in the
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tournament, this guy took Davidson to the Elite 8.
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I mean, this little guy who was by the way, undersized, very
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thin, took his team to the Elite 8.
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How many 3 pointers did he hit in that tournament?
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I mean, everybody knew this kid was going to be a great player
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in the NBA if his if they can keep his ankles healthy because
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for the first three years he had how many ankle surgeries?
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And Klay Thompson, he was an absolute sure thing when he came
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out of the draft, great shooter. He fell right into Meyer's hands
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and they became the Splash Brothers again.
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You have to know something about basketball.
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I'm not taking that away from Bob Myers.
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But when you look at the the big picture here, what is he going
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to do? Is he going to bring in another
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Golden State Warrior executive? That's what he's going to do.
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And since Myers has left the Golden State Warriors, how good
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has the Golden State Warriors been?
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They've been bad. They have been a bad
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organization. Think about it this year, what
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were they, 11 seed? They were playing team.
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Playing team they beat the Clippers and then lost to
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Phoenix as a ten seed. Steph Curry can't stay healthy.
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Klay Thompson's no longer with the organization.
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Treymont Green doesn't shut the hell up on a stupid podcast.
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I saw him on the Kevin Hart roast.
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I mean, he's on his tail end. I mean, by the way, none of his
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jokes were funny, even though everybody was writing for him.
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I'm just. I'm just saying that though it.
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Wasn't funny. It wasn't funny.
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I watched the whole roast. It was not funny.
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It wasn't. There were a couple of guys that
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were very funny. The Long Island guy, he was
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really funny. Jay, he was really, really
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funny. I like Katt Williams was very
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funny. What's the one that got out of
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backlash about the George Floyd situation?
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Joke he made what he did something that the Trump rally
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did. I don't, I don't, I don't
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remember. But I, I didn't, I didn't really
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read what everybody wrote about the, the, the roast.
25:03
I just know what I, I thought and I'll probably write
25:06
something about the roast because I thought some of it was
25:08
pretty outlandishly crazy. But that's a whole nother story.
25:11
The fact here is this is not something that was surprising
25:16
when you heard Daryl Morey was going to be fired.
25:19
I was surprised that Nick Nurse kept his job, but I think with
25:24
the agreement of Daryl Morey getting fired, Harris wanted to
25:28
keep Nick Nurse. One of the reasons why is think
25:30
about it, Nick Nurse had to coach in this round when his
25:35
brother just passed away. His brother passed away in the
25:39
middle of this round in game #3 his, there was an announcement
25:43
that his brother passed away. I mean, I couldn't coach if I
25:46
was very close with my brother and he was very close with his
25:48
family and has been very close with his family.
25:51
I probably wouldn't have coached throughout the rest of the
25:53
playoffs. And the fact that he did that
25:55
and he stood, stood by his team and the players, that says a lot
25:59
about Nick Nurse. So maybe they give him one more
26:02
year, but you know damn well whoever they bring in as the the
26:05
president of this organization, if Nick Nurse has a bad season
26:10
as a head coach or even starts the season with a 10 and 20
26:14
record or something of that magnitude, he's going to get
26:16
fired because that's not his guy.
26:19
So the messy part of what I think ended Daryl Morey was the
26:24
whole James Harden thing. That is what I believed settled
26:29
anybody's thought of what was going to happen to Daryl Morey
26:32
and Daryl Morey extending Paul George to a Max contract Paul
26:37
George who hasn't been fully healthy in how many years?
26:40
How many games has Paul George played in a full season before?
26:44
I mean this year, how many games did he play?
26:47
I don't even know. I don't even have it up.
26:48
How many games did Paul George play this year?
26:52
How many games did Paul George play last year?
26:55
How many games did Paul George play when he was in with the
26:57
Clippers? Him and Kawhi Leonard can never
26:59
get over the hump. The fact here is you look at
27:04
this team, the 76ers are on their way down in this division
27:09
because think about it, Miami is going to get better.
27:12
Carol Hiley's going to do whatever it takes in the
27:14
offseason to bring in another star to come and play with Bam
27:17
out of bio. He is probably going to do
27:19
anything and everything to make a move that that that's going to
27:22
work. I don't think it's going to be
27:23
honest, but it'll be somebody, somebody out there that is going
27:27
to become available with an organization that's looking to
27:31
either get draft stock or whatever they're deciding to do.
27:34
That's what's going to happen. And then you look at all the
27:39
other teams, Charlotte's getting better.
27:41
I mean, Charlotte's going to be better.
27:42
Atlanta's getting better. Atlanta's going to have draft
27:45
stock. All these teams are going to get
27:47
better. All these younger teams are
27:48
going to get better. And the Celtics might make a
27:51
move in the offseason to make themselves better.
27:54
And we know Brad Stevens doesn't believe that this team is a
27:57
championship contending team. So you know he's going to make
27:59
one or two or maybe even 3 moves next year.
28:03
Cleveland's going to be good. If LeBron James heads there or
28:06
he doesn't head there, I'm sure Cleveland's going to add pieces
28:09
in the offseason. The Eastern Conference is going
28:12
to be fully loaded and the 76ers are going to have a bunch of old
28:15
guys you got limping to Ellen beat who can't walk straight.
28:19
You have Paul George sticking himself in the ass because it's
28:22
because he can't do the things that he did or once do.
28:27
And then you have Tyrese Maxey who took the extension.
28:30
I didn't even know he took the extension, but honest to God,
28:32
we, we know the NBA is a players league.
28:35
If Tyrese Maxey doesn't want to be there, he's going to ask to
28:38
be traded. So what do they have?
28:41
Edgecombe? Good for them.
28:44
They've got nothing. Their bench sucks.
28:47
They traded Tobias Harris for who?
28:50
I'm not saying Tobias Harris is a star, but I I mean he's half a
28:53
decent player. They've got nothing.
28:57
Their bench sucks. Nick Nurse is right now in the
29:00
dollhouse, and I mean the dollhouse because somebody's
29:02
going to be brushing his hair and putting a wig on him and
29:05
putting on a dress because that's what he's going to look.
29:07
He's going to look like the 76ers bitch because they're
29:10
going to fire him in 30 games next year.
29:14
That's where the 76ers are. That and now you're going to
29:17
bring in Myers. Oh, Myers is going to look over
29:19
everything. What does that mean?
29:21
Why did he take over as the GM? Why did he take over as the
29:25
president of the 76ers? You know why he don't want the
29:28
job. Nobody wants this job.
29:32
And the only reason why Myers is going to get involved because
29:35
he's going to go into his back pocket and he's going to make
29:37
some phone calls to the Golden State Warriors and he's going to
29:41
say, well, who am I going to bring in?
29:42
I'm going to bring in a guy that was under ME3 spots, under him,
29:46
under me, and knows what I'm going to be looking for.
29:48
If anything happens in this, this organization does or in the
29:52
next three or four years, it doesn't work with him.
29:53
I could fire. It's not me, it's him.
29:57
That's why nobody wants this job.
30:00
Nobody. And that's all I got to say
30:03
about this. Daryl Morey.
30:05
I don't think when we look at guys, it just absolute collapses
30:09
as AGM or president of an organization.
30:11
Let's go back. We've seen a couple with the
30:15
Knicks, but so I'm not going to mention everybody knows where
30:17
I'm going to go with that. Let's go with the Nets.
30:22
We we know a couple of guys and there's one right there still.
30:25
Sean Mark still has a job. It doesn't make any sense how
30:29
Sean Mark still has a job. Maybe because nobody wants that
30:32
job. And and right now the Nets just
30:35
know they're just a bad, badly run organization and it's own
30:39
it's own. I don't even know who owns the
30:40
organization anymore because it seems like it's they're jumping
30:44
from ownership every single five years.
30:47
Nobody cares and the great teams look, look at the great teams
30:52
that have great GM's, OKC, the Suns, even even when the Suns
30:59
have been bad, they they have a good GM and we'll see how that
31:02
works in the future with them. Dallas doesn't have a good GM,
31:06
as we all know, as we we all know.
31:08
Don't tell Carmelo Anthony, he said.
31:10
He's. A good job.
31:11
I'm trying to think off my head, who has Pat Riley?
31:13
Obviously we all know Miami, if it wasn't for Pat Riley, the
31:17
Celtics have Brad Stevens. So there there are teams out
31:21
there. Milwaukee has a terrible
31:22
president. Terrible.
31:24
And that's why when Giannis goes, so will the president and
31:27
so will the GM Everybody's getting fired over there because
31:29
that organization does not know what they're doing.
31:33
They're they're not easy to find.
31:35
And why, why I say this is the Knicks are smiling, smiling
31:40
happily, Because for all the fans out there now, I'm going to
31:43
bring this to the Knicks because I got to because all the fans,
31:47
when Leon Rose, when Leon Rose got this job, nobody liked this.
31:53
Nobody liked it. Any Knicks fan, we could go
31:55
back. What is it?
31:57
Five years ago, six years ago, when Leon Rose got this job, I
32:02
remember I was doing this show and every I had six or seven
32:06
fans. Yes, I had six or seven fans
32:08
argue with me. Four of them called this show
32:11
and told me the Knicks are in trouble.
32:13
How did they bring in an executive that is an agent, An
32:18
agent that was Karl Anthony Towns's agent and all these NBA
32:22
players? Why are they bringing an agent
32:24
who has no experience whatsoever?
32:26
And then you hear he's going to bring in worldwide W he's going
32:29
to bring all these executives that have background of NBA and
32:32
spotting talent and all that other stuff.
32:35
And it took a couple of years, but now Nick, oh, by the way,
32:38
the first two years Nick fans were complaining that he doesn't
32:41
talk to the media. He doesn't deal with the analy,
32:45
you know, analysts and, and talk to anybody behind the scenes
32:49
until the end of the season. It was crazy.
32:53
Now all of a sudden, this guy's a genius.
32:54
Look at him back-to-back. Eastern Conference finals.
32:58
Every single year they've they've jumped.
33:00
They went from the first round to the second round to the
33:04
Eastern Conference finals. And hopefully this year it's the
33:06
finals. That's growth.
33:09
Now let's go back to the 76ers. Let's see how Daryl Morey has
33:13
turned his team into a growing team.
33:16
Well, let's look in the last five years, how far has the
33:22
76ers gotten speedy You, you know more than anybody.
33:26
How far have they gone? They're.
33:27
Either one and done in the second round.
33:30
And they just got swept by the New York Knicks.
33:34
They got swept and and by the way, you came back from A31
33:37
deficit to the Celtics to the Celtics and you completely quit.
33:43
You quit in the the the second round against the New York
33:48
Knicks, who, by the way, didn't have a healthy OG and Anobi.
33:51
They had McBride star for OG and Anobi, who scored 29 or 27
33:56
points against the starters against the Philadelphia 76ers.
34:00
And all I kept hearing from Mr. Quinton Couples is Aubrey's
34:04
going to be a good player in this series.
34:06
Edgecomb's a pretty good player in this series.
34:09
This teams are good players in this series.
34:11
Yeah, they were great. Absolute joke.
34:13
The organization's a joke. Nobody wants this job.
34:17
I'm telling you right now, whoever they bring in for this
34:19
job, it's going to be a no name guy nobody's ever heard of.
34:22
Nobody wants this job, Speedy. No.
34:24
And, and it's tough when you look at what Mori had to do to
34:27
accumulate the previous semester.
34:28
Remember Elton Brand was there for a while too.
34:30
And and Joel Embiid was the only player that they had and even he
34:33
took two years to play. So you were kind of stuck trying
34:36
to rebuilding from that. And how quickly they did it with
34:39
Mori in the beginning maybe made Mori give a sense of false up.
34:42
I can do the same thing and I do in Houston, and I'll be able to
34:45
coach through the Eastern Conference because the Eastern
34:46
Conference isn't as good. Meanwhile, he still made a lot
34:49
of those same mistakes. It took a while for him to
34:51
evolve. The Sixers needed wing depth for
34:53
a while to go along with him, beat a maxi, and finally they
34:56
get Edgecomb. It falls into their lap
34:58
essentially. And then they just can't develop
35:01
a good bench and they train a good a guy in Jared McCain that
35:04
had a good rookie year when the rest of the team was crap.
35:06
Stop with the Jared McCain thing.
35:08
I mean, if this is a joke, you're going to complain.
35:11
You're going to Joel and Paul George and everybody complaining
35:14
about a young kid. Nobody gives a crap about.
35:16
Why? Because they traded him to OK C
35:18
so they can extend or try to bring in some young talent in
35:22
the future. This is ridiculous.
35:24
That had nothing to do with it. This Jared McCain complaining
35:27
and all the players not like it. He Daryl Morey was on the hot
35:31
seat before the season started. Before the season started, Daryl
35:35
Morey was probably going to get fired.
35:37
The only way they don't get fired.
35:38
It was a surprise that the Celtics got knocked out in the
35:41
first round, being up 31 and and a lot of people.
35:44
But if if the 76ers beat the Knicks or came back to beat the
35:48
Knicks, maybe more, he keeps his job for one more year.
35:51
Yeah, definitely. He definitely maybe.
35:53
I don't even know if that happens.
35:55
Again, you beat a team with the Knicks, you beat a team with the
35:57
Celtics. So I think a lot of people's two
35:58
favorites in the East going into the playoffs, I think, yeah,
36:01
you're going to keep your job at that point.
36:03
But it still doesn't justify what he did wrong.
36:05
And the Paul George contract, I think was the main thing.
36:07
And now, again, at the time, he they needed wings.
36:09
They needed guys that could shoot the three, guard the
36:11
perimeter because they didn't have that for a while.
36:13
They had a big team with Embiid inside.
36:15
Patrick Rito is a good power forward.
36:17
They had, I think they'll SAP for a little while over there,
36:19
but they had cases of wing depth in a league that you need wings,
36:24
3 and D league now you need wings.
36:26
And Paul George was their desperate option.
36:28
Oh, let's go pay him four years and $212 million when he could
36:31
barely stand in the court. He had a healthy year in 2023.
36:34
And that that gave Daryl Morey false hope to say, oh, we're
36:37
going to go extend him to this Max contract.
36:39
And a guy that had that, one of the gruesome knee injuries we've
36:42
ever seen in basketball recently, we're going to trust
36:45
that guy to stay healthy for a four year, $212 million contract
36:48
when he's old. I think that's what did him in
36:50
the most when you look at that. And I just think the refusal to
36:53
evolve when, you know, Embiid is not a flight risk.
36:57
Just get hurt all the time, not building good front court depth
37:00
around him, not evolving the team around Tyrese Maxi a little
37:03
sooner than he did. I think that's what did him in
37:05
the most. Somebody had to go or they had a
37:07
horrible season. I think also we can learn that
37:10
data and analytics is the end all be all when it comes to
37:13
playing the game of basketball. So you know, a couple bad
37:17
contrasts obviously, like mentioned before with Paul
37:19
George contract, that was pretty crazy.
37:23
Then he gave James Harden money for one year, you know, so he
37:27
made a bad a couple bad executive decisions.
37:29
But overall, I think, you know, when these situations happen,
37:32
especially when you get swept in the second round, you got
37:36
somebody got to take the blame. And so I think it was him at the
37:38
end of the day, I don't think like you said before,
37:40
Philadelphia 70s ain't going nowhere no time soon.
37:43
So whether you fire them or you keep them, they're going to
37:47
still be in the same position. But they had to based on, you
37:50
know, his past and his his results of the decisions that
37:53
he's made in regards to the contracts, in regards to the
37:56
scheme, in regards to the particular players that he
38:00
actually got rid of and that he signed, which was like you said
38:04
before, it was older guys that he signed.
38:06
And then it kind of got rid of like a Tobias Harris, who's
38:09
going to give you anywhere between 15 and 25 on a on a
38:13
nightly basis that can keep that consistent scoring to help you
38:16
get over the edge late in the ball game.
38:18
So, you know, he just made a couple bad decisions that I
38:21
don't think he could recover from, especially going down 31,
38:24
obviously coming back against the substance.
38:26
But then look, getting swept by the New York Knicks.
38:28
So, you know, yeah, it's typical NBA business.
38:34
And again, Phil, if you're a Philadelphia fan, you sit back
38:36
and you argue about it. There's nothing to argue about
38:39
it. They're they're going to bring
38:40
in a guy that's probably going to be new to the position and is
38:44
going to be run by Myers. And if if this guy fails in
38:48
three or four years, Myers is going to hide behind him because
38:51
he's going to say, I'm not running the team.
38:52
I'm just the higher up guy looking over and proceeding what
38:57
he is doing. So I'm looking at all the
38:59
different things he's doing. I'm making, I'm helping him make
39:01
the decisions, but I'm not making the decisions.
39:03
So Myers just not going to take the responsibility if this team
39:07
fails in the next three or four years.
39:08
And right now nobody wants Paul George.
39:11
Nobody wants it because of the injuries and nobody wants to LMB
39:14
because of his injuries. So where do they go?
39:17
They two guys that are on on in contract now that are still,
39:22
they're at the tail end of their careers, overpaid and not as
39:26
good as they were five years ago.
39:29
So that's the problem right now with the 76ers and you know what
39:32
that means. They're going to be bringing in
39:34
these veteran minimal pipe type of players that you think are
39:37
going to be good additions, but they're not.
39:40
They're they're going to be players that are going to just
39:42
even fall apart just like the other ones.
39:44
And and this team might be on the back end.
39:47
They might not make the playoffs for the next two.
39:49
Or three they're. Going to have to.
39:50
They're going to have to. They'll be the playoffs.
39:53
They could be a top eight team. That's not a hard.
39:55
That's not hard is. That the ceiling you want to go
39:57
for though. You say that.
39:58
That's what I'm saying. But they they got the talent to
40:00
be a top AC. The only thing that's going to
40:02
be the. Is Joel and be health?
40:05
If he can stay healthy for at least half the season, they can
40:07
easily be a top 18. They're not a bad team overall.
40:10
They just relied on data analytics and they didn't
40:14
prepare. They never made coaches
40:15
adjustments in the game. You paid that.
40:17
They did the same thing for four-game shakes against the
40:19
Knicks. You know, not to take nothing
40:21
away from the Knicks, but at the end of the day, like you don't
40:23
make those end game adjustments. You can't expect a different
40:26
result. And so in New York capitalized
40:28
off that and then got rid of them.
40:29
So this is a good, it's still a good team even though they owe
40:32
if they all healthy. You can't sit here and tell me
40:34
that they can't be a sit seven or eight seed in the East.
40:37
Well, again, I can tell you that, Joella.
40:39
Person that though Errol. If Joella could.
40:41
Be worse. And I'll.
40:44
Tell you right now, the real reason Maury's gone is because
40:50
of the James Harden debacle and then not getting enough for not
40:53
trading Embiid when he won the MVP.
40:55
If he traded Embiid when he won the MVP at age 28, he gets a
41:00
boatload. And now you got traded though
41:02
MVP. He never got out of the tech.
41:06
Well, here's the deal. Look at him.
41:07
He's never played more than 66 games in his career.
41:10
Ever. This highest happened.
41:12
This ain't. This ain't after.
41:13
This is not hindsight, this was what people were saying at the
41:16
time. He doesn't play and he's never
41:18
gotten out of the second round of the playoffs.
41:20
And that's still true about M Beat, especially after this
41:22
sweep. Maury's, you know who Maury
41:25
originally was? He was the guy who started that
41:27
MIT Sloan Analytic Conference and he was Danny Ainge's right
41:30
hand man in Boston doing all the cap stuff before Ainge got all
41:34
the guys together. He was gone in 2006, but he was
41:38
with Ainge for a long time. He knows what he's doing.
41:41
He was good with money. They're not screwed for the
41:43
future with the cap. They're OK.
41:46
The problem is he tried to make up for Hardin's disaster by
41:50
going for Paul George, and that was another disaster on top of
41:54
the first disaster. How are they?
41:55
OK, hold on one second. How are?
41:57
They they're not they're not cap screwed.
41:59
You know what I mean? Like I'm saying it like they've.
42:01
Got how many Max players? Now think about it, they've got
42:04
3 Max players. They have Maxi who's who just
42:07
signed a Max contract. Now you have Joel Embiid, who
42:10
signed a Max contract, and you have Paul George and you have
42:14
Paul George who has a Max contract.
42:16
So you're going to tell me he knows what he's doing with the
42:18
money? He obviously doesn't.
42:20
He overpaid 2 old guys. That's what he did.
42:23
It's balanced though, like those two contracts come off the books
42:26
and staggered in a way that they will have money each of those
42:29
years. That's all I'm saying.
42:30
He wasn't like some guys that are GM's that leave teams
42:34
completely screwed. You know, in all the sports we
42:36
know that and QA football staying is the best ability is
42:40
availability. I don't believe that crap, Joel.
42:44
I don't believe that. Crap 100% I don't believe you
42:48
can't be on the on the court. Wait a second.
42:50
What good are you? So you agree with Jeff?
42:52
That's what you're telling us right now?
42:54
That's who you agree with? No.
42:55
No. Him, Jeff, him.
42:58
That's what he that's what he's able.
42:59
To play, to be good, that's you. That's what you're saying.
43:02
You're, you're telling me a person that you can't stand,
43:05
you're agreeing with. Well, he might be right about
43:08
this one. Oh my God, you hear that ladies?
43:11
And. Gentlemen, Errol, Errol, do you
43:12
see what that was? Me admitting someone else I
43:16
might be right about. Something So now you're taking
43:18
shots at me. I'm just saying I think I'm
43:20
right about. It I think you're wrong because
43:22
if you think about it, you just said quote UN quote, they're not
43:26
in cap hell, they are right now. They are.
43:29
They got 3 Max players. Two of them are old, two of them
43:32
can't stay healthy. And you have a guy like Maxie
43:35
who's sitting there saying why do I want to be here?
43:37
I don't want to be here anymore. Trade me, Trade me.
43:41
He's not built like that, yes, he's got no be like.
43:44
I don't know. I thought that now, maybe two
43:46
years. I've thought that about a lot.
43:48
I never thought Giannis would ever leave the Milwaukee Bucks.
43:51
Never. They forced him out.
43:53
They didn't play. Hold on, hold on.
43:55
But my argument here is nobody would have thought that Giannis
43:58
would ever ask for his way out of Milwaukee.
44:02
Nobody. No matter what they did this
44:04
guy, as far as helping his family, getting his family
44:07
settled down in Milwaukee, he's a God there.
44:10
He's got his sneaker deals and all that other stuff.
44:12
He was a God in Milwaukee. Now all of a sudden, ladies and
44:16
gentlemen, he wants out. He don't want to be there
44:18
anymore. You know why?
44:20
Because the organization overpaid Chris Middleton.
44:23
They brought in Damian Lillard, and then they decided not to do
44:26
anything with Damian Lillard and they traded him back to the
44:29
Trail Blazers. I mean, the organization was an
44:32
absolute debacle. And that's exactly what's going
44:35
on with Philadelphia. So you're sitting here telling
44:37
me fish. Oh, oh, availability and all
44:40
this other crap. Here's what I'm going to tell
44:42
you. The organization isn't a sham.
44:45
And now you have a superstar player that give it a year, he's
44:49
going to say I don't want to be here anymore.
44:51
Trade me, Trade me to an organization.
44:53
It's going to be a year. Because next year they're going
44:55
to be really, really bad. Because, Joella, why you keep
44:57
saying? That joella if.
45:00
Paul George doesn't play. Now Errol's right about this.
45:02
If Paul George is one of those contracts and he's a 0 now.
45:07
He's been he's. Right and we they've been
45:09
playing the season yeah, you just talking about he right,
45:11
dude, he said there's. Gonna be a lot.
45:14
Listen to the logic, the logics that you have 3 Max contracts.
45:17
Yes, one of them sits out. Now you're paying for three Max
45:21
contracts. You only have two Max players.
45:22
Who's sitting up? If you combine Paul George and
45:25
Joel Embiid, they missed more than a full season.
45:28
But they played when they played.
45:30
Well, Paul George needs to take steroids to be able to have his
45:32
confidence. We know about Paul George, what
45:34
he played. They banned him for half the
45:36
season. They banned him for 25 games.
45:38
How many games did he play this season?
45:40
OK, less than half. He's not the same guy, Joellen.
45:44
You don't need to be. Declining he does if they're
45:46
paying him a Max contract. No, that's just bad.
45:49
He's just got money. All right, all right, all right,
45:52
all right. Joellen Bead.
45:54
Joellen Bead played 38 games and Paul George played 37 games.
45:59
All right, terrible. And let's go back.
46:01
Let's go back. Was it?
46:02
Was he? Was it?
46:04
What do you mean what seeds? I don't.
46:05
I don't know where it's really bad in.
46:08
Games savage seed with them not even.
46:10
Doesn't really matter. Yes, that's what I'm trying to
46:13
tell you. All right, They they made that
46:16
more. All right, Hold on, Hold on.
46:17
Hold on. Hold.
46:18
On you're not winning the. Change.
46:19
Let's look at Paul George. Nobody said hold on, hold on.
46:22
Get into the playoffs. Hold on, let's look at Paul
46:24
George, his career and games over the last.
46:28
Let's go eight years. In 2019 he played 48 games, 2020
46:34
he played 54 games, 2021 he played 31 games, 2020 two 56
46:43
games. 2023 he finally set played 74.
46:47
Last year he played 41 and now he's played 37.
46:50
You think that's good and you gave him an extension like that.
46:53
Then let's look at Joel Embiid. Then let's look at Joel Embiid.
46:56
Joel Embiid the last couple of years.
46:58
Well, this year 38 the year, last year 19, the year before,
47:02
39 the year before 66685151. I mean, the guy never plays.
47:09
He never plays, so how is this team going to win?
47:13
Is the team been? Has the team has success with
47:16
them not playing? Success.
47:18
Because they're an Eastern Conference, Yes or no?
47:21
But here's the thing. Q You're missing it.
47:24
QQ, You're missing it. The Eastern Conference is
47:27
getting better. That's what you're missing.
47:30
They're getting better. Charlotte's getting better.
47:33
The Hawks are getting better. We could go up and down the
47:35
Eastern Conference right now. They got better this year.
47:38
That's not the same thing. Oh my God.
47:42
All right, let's move on from this.
47:43
I'm not going to argue anymore into this.
47:45
Let's. Go.
47:46
But that's what I'm saying. I'm not more.
47:47
I'm not arguing. About this double down though,
47:49
you stay there. I'm not doubling down.
47:51
I'm not arguing about this anymore.
47:52
I gave you my opinion and played down to this. 76ers are never
47:56
going to be healthy, fully healthy, and you're not going to
47:59
say. That you said they're going to
48:00
have a terrible season. I I think.
48:02
They're going to be a playing team and they're not even going
48:04
to get into the. First, they're going to make the
48:06
playoffs. What do you mean is a play is a
48:10
play in making the playoffs, Yes.
48:12
No, it's not. Not to me, not to.
48:14
Me. Not to you.
48:15
What according to the 33? Max players that were superstar
48:20
whole and Maxi is like one of the big young superstars right
48:24
now in the league and you're going to tell me they're OK?
48:26
Hold on, you're going to be OK and being a play in team that's
48:30
OK with you. It's a success.
48:32
Oh, that's not a success. This is a success.
48:35
This is a success. That's the success.
48:38
Before before we get to the next segment, I I gotta, I just try
48:41
to throw this out there. I don't want to hear any more
48:43
bull crap about Maxi is better than Jaylen Bronson.
48:47
I think that conversation is now.
48:48
Over. That that conversation is
48:50
completely over. All right, It's completely over
48:53
as of right now. It's not an.
48:55
Argument. Let's move on.
48:56
Concrete jungle. Let's hit it.
48:57
Welcome to the jungle, baby. Welcome.
49:07
I'm trying to put Tiger Bomb on this jungle's nuts.
49:09
To the concrete jungle carousel. You've got it.
49:20
All right, ladies and gentlemen, let's go.
49:22
Here it is Concrete jungle carousel Speedy put on the music
49:27
up in stream yard if you can not through the back through the
49:31
stream yard. We talked about it.
49:33
Here it is, Nick's Nets concrete jungle carousel.
49:38
We've got it going right here with the Knicks.
49:41
We got a few rumors. Thank you.
49:43
Very good. Kendrick Perkins.
49:47
Remember the leader of those Kevin Durant, James Harden,
49:50
Russell Westbrook teams back in those days?
49:54
According to him. Let's get this music just a
49:56
little bit lower. Thank you very much.
49:59
He says that Jalen Brunson would be the greatest Knick of all
50:02
time if they win a title. That is a fascinating statement.
50:07
Who said that? Kendrick Perkins.
50:11
Please. Just a couple of more.
50:12
Shaq believes believes they're going to breeze past whoever
50:17
they face in a sweep, and Kenny Smith and Charles think it won't
50:21
be a cave walk. But the biggest thing is OG
50:23
Ananobi is participating in a limited fashion and practice.
50:28
He is optimistic he'll be ready for game one.
50:31
But again, we don't know when that will be.
50:33
If it's only six games between the Cavs and Pistons mean the
50:36
Cavs win in six. Tomorrow night's game it'll be
50:40
Sunday, but if it's a 7 game series, that series will start
50:44
on Tuesday, giving OG a little more rest.
50:47
What do you think about that statement by Perkins?
50:49
First of all, I love I, I, I don't love Kendrick Perkins, but
50:53
I, I like how he is a Knick fan and he's rooting for the Knicks
50:56
and he's, he's got the Knicks going all the way to the Finals.
50:59
He had the Knicks going to the Finals before the playoffs
51:01
started. So I like that about Kendrick
51:03
Perkins, but I'm not going to take his his advice on what the
51:08
Knicks are going to be or if the Knicks win a championship.
51:11
Jalen Brunson. Brunson goes down as the
51:13
greatest basketball player or the greatest nick of all time.
51:16
He's not. There's a lot of great Knicks.
51:18
Patrick Ewing was a great nick. He was also on a team that
51:21
didn't have another superstar. If you go back and you look at
51:24
those Nick teams, it was never another superstar.
51:27
John Starks wasn't a superstar. Xavier McDaniel wasn't a
51:29
superstar. Anthony Mason was a good player,
51:31
he wasn't a superstar. Charles Oakley wasn't a
51:33
superstar. There was no superstars on those
51:36
90 teams. But Patrick Ewing.
51:38
Then we go to the 99 season when they had Sprewell.
51:41
Patrick Ewing was at the tail end of his career.
51:44
He wasn't the same play. He was hurt you.
51:46
You had Larry Johnson, you had Alan Houston, but it wasn't the
51:49
same Patrick Ewing. When Patrick Ewing was at the
51:51
top end of his game, they never had another superstar.
51:55
Could you imagine if, let's say, I don't know, Patrick Ewing had
52:00
Shaquille O'Neal playing with him?
52:02
I'm just giving him Anthony Hardaway.
52:04
Anthony Hardaway playing with him.
52:06
Anybody I can, I can name anybody.
52:08
He had Kobe Bryant playing with him, Michael Jordan playing with
52:10
him, Scotty Pippen playing with him.
52:12
Does he win a championship? He does.
52:14
So I just gave you names. Elijah Juan.
52:17
Anybody playing with Patrick Ewing, they win a championship.
52:21
You shake your head. If you had Patrick Ewing, Elijah
52:23
Juan on the same team in those days, two pigs like that.
52:26
Forget it. Forget it.
52:29
Forget it, forget it. I disagree with you.
52:32
I mean. Who they going to be?
52:34
Will Chamberlain play with Kareem a Joel Jabbar?
52:37
Did he not? He did.
52:39
So to say that you can't win with those two players, you
52:42
absolutely can at the top end of their game.
52:44
So. I'm just saying Charles Barkley,
52:47
any one of those guys, if he had any one of those guys, he wins
52:51
the championship. Now, as far as the Knicks
52:54
winning against the Cavs or Detroit, the Knicks match up
52:58
better against the Cavs than they do with Detroit.
53:01
Detroit plays aggressive. The Knicks don't like that
53:03
aggressive game. And it it it's a it's been a big
53:06
problem all season long. Now, that doesn't mean that
53:08
Knicks can't beat Detroit and can't beat them in six or five
53:11
games. They can.
53:13
But I'd rather play the Cavaliers because the Cavaliers
53:15
are all offense and they don't play enough defense when it goes
53:19
up and down the court when they're playing at full speed.
53:22
James Harden don't play defense. He don't, and half of the other
53:26
guards that are on this team don't play defense.
53:29
Donna Donovan Mitchell does. He is the only guard on this
53:32
team that plays defense. So I I think the Knicks win no
53:35
matter who they play in the Eastern Conference Finals.
53:38
It only scares me that they've been sitting out and just
53:42
hanging out over the last couple of days.
53:45
You don't want to go into a game or into a series called.
53:48
That's the only thing that worries me.
53:50
OG and a no be healthy. Not surprised.
53:53
I think OG will be 100% when when the series starts.
53:55
So I I think the Knicks win in five or six games against
53:59
whoever they play. Yeah, the way the Pistons have
54:02
been playing recently, like you could definitely look at a case
54:04
of the Knicks really prepping well, especially with Duran
54:07
struggling as much as he has. Mitchell Robinson, who played
54:10
very well in the last series, could definitely get more
54:11
comfortable. And obviously Carl Anthony Towns
54:13
if you get Duran in foul trouble like he's been doing, could it
54:16
definitely make a difference. And OG and nobody gets a lot
54:18
more time to heal. That's going to help him.
54:19
If they have to play the Cavs with Donovan Mitchell or the
54:21
Pistons with Kate Cunningham because they didn't have Kate,
54:23
they didn't have OG guard Cade as much last year as they
54:26
probably should have. They made the adjustment later
54:28
in the series. Remember, Cunningham is a couple
54:29
30 point games against the Knicks when they played last
54:32
year. So I think that will help a lot
54:33
more. And I think the rest, it's only
54:36
going to help them more. I think it hurts more in hockey.
54:37
It's kind of neutral in baseball.
54:38
But I think in this kind of case with basketball, especially with
54:41
the way they're managing Robinson too, I think it's.
54:42
Good. Detroit don't have any secondary
54:44
scoring. That's why I think the Knicks
54:45
are going to be so much better in a playoff game because the
54:48
Knicks have multiple scores that can put the ball in the net.
54:52
And that's why I think they whoever they play against now,
54:55
they do the Cavaliers do. They have James Harden, They've
54:58
got guys. They've got guys that are
55:00
secondary. They have Nick Keller, Max
55:01
Streuse from a few years. Ago.
55:04
So they do. But I here's the problem.
55:06
We've seen the Cavs, they completely, for some reason,
55:10
don't play defense in certain quarters and they let teams
55:14
score 3940 points. They do that against the Knicks.
55:16
The Knicks are going to blow them out.
55:18
Blow them out. Yeah, I, I think that the Knicks
55:22
are doing a good job up until this point.
55:24
I think they don't match up well with Cleveland.
55:26
I know I'm gonna get a lot of kickback in regards to that, but
55:29
I do think that being an OB is coming off of a hamstring
55:33
injury. I don't think he comes back the
55:34
same type of player. So that with Jared Allen and
55:38
Evan Mobley being able to use their lid versus Cat and Obi, I
55:43
think that that that gives New York problems.
55:46
It'll be interesting to see. New York has been prideful about
55:52
the defense that they have played.
55:53
I think it's about one or two players that actually truly play
55:56
defense. But I think it would be a high
55:57
school in Eastern Conference finals.
55:59
I don't think Detroit overcome this.
56:01
I do think that tickets were Game 7 just because I think Cage
56:05
is going to give all he has for Game six and then he's going to,
56:09
you know, wear out and tie out during game seven.
56:12
He don't really have that efficient top scorer.
56:14
Like I said before, in the last take, Tobias Harris going to
56:17
give you about 15 to 20. You know, and that's not going
56:20
to necessarily be enough all the time.
56:22
You're going to need some extra support when you got, you know,
56:25
Donovan Mitchell going for 45 and James Harden going for 30.
56:29
You know, Evan Mobily going anywhere between 15 to 20.
56:32
Like that's a lot of points for you to make up with when you
56:34
only got one player scored 40 and then another was going like
56:37
15 to 20. You know, go just so you know,
56:40
you mentioned all the bigs on the Cavaliers.
56:43
Go look at Mitch Robertson's numbers.
56:45
Go look at his numbers against the Cavaliers.
56:47
In bolts I like to stay in real time.
56:49
Go look. Go look at Mitch Robertson.
56:51
Go look at what Mitch Robertson has done to the Cavaliers in the
56:55
playoffs. Then come back to me.
56:56
Then come back to me. Then come back to me.
56:58
Come back to. Me after that.
57:01
And I got news for you. I got news for you.
57:04
I told you. I told you about Mikhail Bridges
57:06
in the 76ers series, and I'm telling you about Mitch.
57:09
And most of his points came when y'all was up.
57:10
Just telling you, just telling you about Mitch Robertson, Mitch
57:14
Robertson. Mitch Robertson is going to be
57:17
one of the killers if they play the Cavaliers.
57:19
Remember I said that? Remember I said.
57:21
That you said the same thing about McHale, just what he did.
57:25
But anyway. Let's move on to say that.
57:27
Hold on, hold on. I would say that the Cleveland
57:30
Cavaliers were probably not the New York Knicks out in the
57:34
Eastern Conference. You'll be wrong on that one.
57:37
I'm sure I will not let's. Move on to the Nets.
57:41
The Nets got six pick after the the lottery balanced out.
57:47
Here are the names that we're expecting to see around six.
57:51
Darius Acuff junior Keaton Waggler might be there.
57:56
Kingston Flemings one of your favorites.
57:58
Errol if you're the Nets they got you know Dem in seemed like
58:02
of those five rookies they drafted previously, he seems
58:06
like he's might be able to be a player in the league.
58:09
They look like they need to get a play making guard to put with
58:11
him though at the very least. It's, it's Darius.
58:14
A cuff is going to be there. If he's there, unless some team
58:17
jumps up and tries to steal him away at a #5-A cuff will be the
58:21
guy for the Nets. He is going to be your future
58:24
guard, your future point guard. He can score, He can do
58:27
everything. He reminds me of a Damian
58:29
Lillard, That's who He reminds me of the guy that the pick that
58:33
they traded away, that eventually he went to the Trail
58:36
Blazers and the Trail Blazers drafted him.
58:39
So they have a spot right now and they have a place where they
58:42
can draft the guy that they let go years and years ago, which
58:46
became Damian Lillard. So I think it's Darius Acuff.
58:49
It's absolutely Arkansas. This guy's got a tremendous
58:52
offensive game. He also could play defense, not
58:55
at a high level, but he can work on that over there with
58:58
Brooklyn. And I think he's a slam dunk for
59:01
the Brooklyn Nets. Yeah, Acuff is definitely the
59:02
pick. I would go in that cluster of
59:04
guards. Waggler, he's a good shooter.
59:06
He's got a good stroke from the outside.
59:07
I got a. Deep name Waggler just scares
59:09
the hell out of him. He is not as good of a defender
59:11
though I think as Acuff as even Acuff being undersized a little
59:13
bit and him with Calipari learning in that system.
59:17
Are you? Going to trust the guy from
59:18
Illinois. I know I I like, I like Waggler
59:20
too. I just don't think he's as ready
59:22
as Acuff is right now. I don't trust.
59:24
Him, I think he's a good shot creator, but I think he's more
59:26
limited in terms of his in terms of a creation play making wise
59:29
compared to Acuff. I like them both right now more
59:32
than I like Flemings. Fleming is the better defensive
59:34
garbet like Dan Purcell was saying.
59:35
His offensive game is still not as developed yet and I don't
59:38
trust the Nets coaching actually make that work.
59:40
Yeah, But I agree, I think a cuff is probably the best pick
59:42
out of the out of the kid in that's left obviously out of the
59:46
top top five. So I think they pick a cuff.
59:49
I think he would be the best fit with him and Nick Caston can do
59:51
a little high pick and roll and kind of create some momentum off
59:54
of that. And then obviously they would
59:55
have to get into free agency and kind of get some type of role
59:59
player or some type of efficient.
1:00:01
Scores over 3D guy on the other side of the draft.
1:00:04
So yeah, I would say a Cup probably is the better pick for
1:00:07
this next election in the NBA draft.
1:00:09
The Yankees called up Anthony Volpe from AAA after Caballero
1:00:14
went down with a broken finger, so he's not playing right now.
1:00:18
Volpe will get most of his playing time at short and of
1:00:21
course, he had an error in his first game at the position.
1:00:25
Back in the big leagues, Max Freed left Wednesday's start
1:00:30
after three innings and 61 pitches with a sore pitching
1:00:33
elbow. They're saying it's the back of
1:00:35
the elbow, not the Tommy John part of the elbow.
1:00:38
So they don't think it's a Tommy John UCL related injury, but
1:00:43
we'll find out later tonight or early tomorrow because they
1:00:46
should be getting MRI results done today for free.
1:00:50
Not what they want to hear. The Yankees have lost five out
1:00:53
of their last six after being swept by the Brewers and now
1:00:57
losing two of three to the Orioles.
1:00:59
There's 2 1/2 games back of the race.
1:01:01
You can hit walls. This is baseball.
1:01:03
There's 162 games. The Yankees were playing at a
1:01:06
high level. They won nine games in a row,
1:01:09
and you knew they were going to hit a wall.
1:01:10
So for all the fans out there, and you want to blame Volpe on
1:01:13
the reason why the Yankees are in a slump, it has nothing to do
1:01:16
with Volpe. OK, Yeah, he made an error.
1:01:19
That's fine. He just came back to the majors.
1:01:21
He just came off a bad injury. He played all season long with
1:01:25
that injury. I'm not going to attack Volpe
1:01:28
until we figure out in 2025 games if the guy can hit.
1:01:32
I think he's going to be fine. I think he's still a good
1:01:34
defensive player. As far as the Yankees are
1:01:36
concerned, they got the pitching and they've got an AGM that's
1:01:40
going to make moves at the trade deadline no matter what.
1:01:43
If they need a a batter, they need a hitter, they need a
1:01:47
pitcher, a bullpen arm, they're going to make those moves first.
1:01:50
So Yankee fans, calm down. The Yankees will go on another
1:01:53
eight game-winning streak and I don't trust Tampa.
1:01:56
As good as they have played all season long.
1:01:59
They got a good coach, they got a good manager and they're a
1:02:01
smart organization. They don't really have big name
1:02:05
superstars. They don't.
1:02:07
They have good young players, but not guys that are going to
1:02:10
continue to play at this level. I think eventually they're going
1:02:13
to tip and the Yankees are going to jump them.
1:02:15
Yeah, the Yankees ran into a Brewers team that fish you were
1:02:18
talking about, like how many mediocre American League teams
1:02:20
there were last time we did inside baseball.
1:02:22
The Brewers were also one of those teams that were record
1:02:24
wise mediocre, but they had a really good run differential in
1:02:26
the National League that got me up alive.
1:02:28
So they were due for some good luck.
1:02:29
The Yankees were due to regress a little.
1:02:30
It just happens. It's the way it happens.
1:02:32
Max Friedy would hope is an encouraging sign that you said
1:02:34
at the back of the arm because he had some injury issues
1:02:37
towards the end of his career with the Braves, was healthier
1:02:39
kind of early in his career and he's been, besides the blister
1:02:43
issues last year, good with the Yankees so far.
1:02:45
As far as Volpe, yeah, you don't really have another choice at
1:02:47
this point with Caballero down. You didn't want to have to make
1:02:49
another guy play out of position either like Ryan McMahon or Jazz
1:02:53
Jism, who wasn't a great defender anyway.
1:02:54
And you don't have to worry about this division because the
1:02:56
Orioles, even though they're playing decent baseball, they're
1:02:59
five and five in the last 10 games.
1:03:01
The Blue Jays stink right now. They're not 18 to 24.
1:03:04
They've 3 for 7/3 and seven in the last 10 games.
1:03:07
And the Red Sox are five and five in the last 10 games and
1:03:10
they stink 218 to 24. The Yankees could go into a
1:03:13
little bit of slump and then pick up their game.
1:03:16
And the Yankees schedule is going to get easier in the next
1:03:18
two weeks. So watch the Yankees will go on
1:03:20
a 7 or 8 game-winning streak and watch out.
1:03:23
The Yankees will be back to where everybody thinks they're
1:03:25
going to be. They're going to be the best
1:03:27
team in the American League. They're going to have the best
1:03:29
pitch in the in the American League.
1:03:31
They got two guys right now that are going to be up for a Cy
1:03:34
Young and Young guys. We'll see if they can continue
1:03:37
playing that way. They've Garrett Cole coming
1:03:39
back, Rodon who's back. I mean, this team is going to be
1:03:43
fine. And if Freak comes back at the
1:03:44
end of the year and makes no wrong with the Yankees, you're
1:03:47
golden. Stop complaining.
1:03:49
Stop bitching, Yankee fans. Yeah, I, I think that, you know,
1:03:53
at the end of the day, they have to take care of themselves.
1:03:55
I think there's an injury bug. You know, we'll talk a little
1:03:58
bit later about my mess, but there's an injury bug flying
1:04:00
around in New York and they're just getting the short end of
1:04:03
it. I'm not necessarily concerned
1:04:05
about the Yankees, but I do think that this board upon more
1:04:08
oil sweep was definitely a bad look and definitely something to
1:04:11
complain about. But hopefully, you know, they
1:04:13
can get back healthy and obviously pitching has been
1:04:16
doing well in regards to keeping us alive overall.
1:04:19
But yeah, I think that they just got to stay healthy and
1:04:22
everything else to play except like you said, they use just
1:04:24
kind of in their hands and they're going to go as far and
1:04:27
just going to go as far as they go.
1:04:28
But for the most part, I just think they just took some bad
1:04:30
losses, especially the size 1 versus Baltimore with a 70
1:04:34
round. That's just not.
1:04:35
You cannot the, the, the one guy you cannot lose for the season
1:04:38
is Aaron Judge. If Aaron Judge is healthy and
1:04:40
he's in the lineup, they're going to be fine.
1:04:42
I, I, I do not believe this team is in trouble or worrisome.
1:04:47
You heard Aaron Judge, what was it 24 hours ago say we're going
1:04:51
to go on another winning streak? We're when is slump?
1:04:53
Right now, we're a good team. I'm excited for the season.
1:04:56
We're going to win a lot of games.
1:04:58
He said it and I'm not worried about if Aaron Judge is saying
1:05:00
it. I believe it.
1:05:03
So he put in a slump early, early in the year.
1:05:05
Just say I believe Aaron Judge. And he's already back to hitting
1:05:09
270. So, you know, he's fine as
1:05:12
everyone expected. Let's talk about those Mets.
1:05:14
Q. So the Mets, I guess, the
1:05:17
injuries, Francisco Alvarez, it just doesn't look like this is a
1:05:20
guy who's ever going to stay healthy.
1:05:22
He tore his meniscus. He's out two months.
1:05:27
It's just not an injury you want to catch or to get, just kind of
1:05:31
doing basic activities and he's tearing his meniscus.
1:05:34
Luis Robert, the big offseason acquisition, lower back
1:05:38
inflammation seems like a lower, like a disc issue.
1:05:41
He doesn't look like he's improving.
1:05:43
I'm assuming they gave him some kind of, you know, epidural
1:05:47
injection or something, See if it would calm it down.
1:05:49
It has not. So he is still out.
1:05:51
Lindor is getting an MRI this week from that calf injury, but
1:05:56
don't expect to see him until at some point in June.
1:05:59
So there's a lot of injuries. So they had to bring up the this
1:06:03
prospect, AJ Ewing has been great, who in his first two
1:06:06
games has been awesome. He had a historic MLB debut with
1:06:11
three walks, a AAA stolen base, multiple RBIs.
1:06:15
He hit his first career home run today.
1:06:17
Soto had a little scare yesterday's game, but he came
1:06:20
back and hit a home run today. Seems like he's fine, and the
1:06:23
Mets have won a couple of games in a row heading into this
1:06:26
weekend's Subway Series against the Yankees.
1:06:31
They're seven and three in the last 10 games and I again, the
1:06:34
Mets are in last place in their division.
1:06:37
That's a division and I'm not making fun of the Mets.
1:06:39
I think the Mets could come back.
1:06:40
I don't think they're making the playoffs.
1:06:42
Yeah, come out, come out. They're.
1:06:43
Not they're not making the. Playoffs not in the American
1:06:46
League. They're, they're not making the
1:06:48
playoffs, but they're going to play better.
1:06:51
I like Ewing. I like what they have right now.
1:06:53
I like Binge. I, I, they're, this is, they've
1:06:55
got some good young prospects, but Ewing is going to get into a
1:06:59
slump. It's not like he's going to play
1:07:01
at this high level. He's playing well.
1:07:03
He looked fantastic his first two games.
1:07:06
We'll see how as it progressively moves forward and
1:07:08
he plays against better pitching.
1:07:09
The Yankees have great pitching. They're going to have to walk
1:07:12
into Schlittler. They got to walk into Warren.
1:07:14
They got to walk into this pitching staff.
1:07:16
We'll see how that works. But I think the Mets are playing
1:07:18
better baseball and they're not firing Mendoza.
1:07:21
So for all the fans out there that thought they're going to
1:07:23
fire Mendoza, they're going to keep Mendoza until the trade
1:07:26
deadline. If Mendoza gets this team out of
1:07:29
the hiatus and and they they find their way into at least a
1:07:34
500 record going into the All Star break, he's going nowhere.
1:07:38
And I don't think David Stearns is going to move anybody.
1:07:42
He's right now we're going into a strike season.
1:07:45
So he's going to have to play and, and weigh in his options on
1:07:49
what this team is with the youngsters and the youth that
1:07:51
they have on this friend on this on this roster.
1:07:53
So I like what I see with the youngsters.
1:07:56
We have to see if they continue playing at a high level.
1:07:58
Yeah, they're both in the outfield, which I think is
1:07:59
something that that you look at between the Robert injury and
1:08:02
the fact that they had a lot of defensive guys before that with
1:08:05
Melendez, with just the rotation that they had going into the
1:08:09
year, Tyrone Taylor, Mike Tauchman who got hurt.
1:08:12
And so I think having those two guys more is a sure thing in the
1:08:15
outfit. To let them develop naturally
1:08:16
without these other guys hurt is a good step for the Mets going
1:08:19
forward. Yeah, brick by brick man.
1:08:22
That's what we're doing. Brick by brick man.
1:08:23
I know you guys don't like to hear me say it, but, you know, I
1:08:27
think this team is going to surprise us at the end of the
1:08:29
day. Just get into the fell just just
1:08:33
by the, you know, hair by 10 to 10:10.
1:08:36
But the guy, the only guy, young, young and the young and
1:08:39
he came in and gave us gave us a spark.
1:08:41
And I'm I'm cool with that. I think that there will be
1:08:44
players that will step up and I think that teams are going to
1:08:46
come in and underestimate the next and then they just steal a
1:08:49
couple games here and there. They're on a little hot streak.
1:08:52
Like you said earlier, they will go into a little slump and
1:08:54
that's expected because you know, baseball played about 8090
1:08:58
a hundred games and whatnot. So it's suspected.
1:09:01
You know, he's not a robot, but I do think that this team has
1:09:04
found some momentum and I think they're going to just build on
1:09:07
top of the moment that they have found brick by brick.
1:09:10
Like I said, day by day, game by game.
1:09:12
Let's go, Mets. All right, let's get to
1:09:15
football, the Giants and Jets. So let's just start with
1:09:20
something that leaked earlier today with the schedule.
1:09:23
Week 1 Jets, Titans. Robert Sala comes back to face
1:09:31
The Jets right off the bat in a grudge match.
1:09:35
What an interesting 1 he gets to gets them in Tennessee.
1:09:38
The only other news I have Reese Hall and I did a sportsman on
1:09:42
earlier this week, three years, $45.75 million contract and in
1:09:47
his press conference he said he's the only top 10 running
1:09:49
back that has been in a less than ideal situation in the
1:09:53
league and still putting up those.
1:09:55
Numbers. He's not wrong.
1:09:56
Nobody's going to argue with him.
1:09:58
He's not wrong. I think it was a great contract
1:10:00
for The Jets 15,000,000. I I think, and the, The Jets are
1:10:04
still going to have a lot of money to spend next year.
1:10:06
They've got a ton of draft stock and they needed their best
1:10:09
offensive option. He is their best offensive
1:10:11
option. He was great last year with an
1:10:14
offensive line that was tipping and towing all season long.
1:10:17
But it's a good young offensive line and now with the weapons
1:10:20
that they have now, they're going to explode right off the
1:10:23
paper with talent. So I, I, I like the Bruce Hall
1:10:26
signing and as far as who they're playing in the first
1:10:29
first game is who cares? Who cares?
1:10:32
We have to see how this roster falls together before we even
1:10:34
talk about who they're playing in the first game.
1:10:37
Second, Robert AKA Bambi Salah, Who cares?
1:10:40
Peace out. Who cares?
1:10:41
Goodbye All Brake no gas whatever the hell.
1:10:44
Or all gas no. Brake.
1:10:45
Whatever, whatever it was really all brake, no gas, because
1:10:49
that's all it was anyways, I'm done with.
1:10:51
That remember Q he was keeping receipts too.
1:10:53
Yes, Sir, yes. Sir, the only receipts he was
1:10:56
keeping is the ones in his ass. Meanwhile, The Jets were six and
1:10:59
three in 2022. Lost our friend, he bursts
1:11:02
Vikings. I fell completely apart after
1:11:03
that. But yeah, I think they did the
1:11:05
right thing with Breeze Hall. I I praised him last year for
1:11:07
paying Wilson and Saucer, and as good as they did, I did the
1:11:10
right thing. I get the drama not being there.
1:11:12
Yeah, we we we're sold out on offense and we're doing a good
1:11:16
job with acquiring talent. Now, obviously we got a training
1:11:20
camp and OTAs to kind of figure out how we're going to get this
1:11:23
talent to, you know, come together and fall into place led
1:11:26
by Geno Smith. So I think that this team is
1:11:29
built to win in a win now situation.
1:11:32
Obviously I got them going to the playoffs being a wild card
1:11:34
coming out of AMC East. But yeah, at the end of the day,
1:11:39
I think the Tennessee game is is kind of what they, you know, The
1:11:42
Jets always kind of get that first game as like a robbery,
1:11:44
like they fire somebody or they get rid of somebody and then it
1:11:47
just magically happened where they pay him the last, you know,
1:11:50
man, Aaron watches, you know, after he had his debacle in New
1:11:53
York, he went to Pittsburgh and then they first game they played
1:11:56
against Pittsburgh. And so I think the NFL loves to
1:12:00
see a New York team, you know, go head to head with somebody
1:12:03
that they just got rid of. But I don't think it'll be that
1:12:06
big of a thing. I think both teams are trying to
1:12:07
figure out who they are and get their identity.
1:12:10
I do think Tennessee is less talented than us.
1:12:12
So it'll be interesting. And I think that you know the.
1:12:15
Jets, why are we talking about that game?
1:12:17
Can we stop it? Because it's on the schedule,
1:12:20
it's that first game. On move on.
1:12:22
Go move on. Let's talk about other giants.
1:12:25
You're not a Jets. Fan New York Football Giants
1:12:28
will be the discussion Malik neighbors.
1:12:30
He had a second procedure done to clean out some stiffness in
1:12:34
the knee, which obviously sets his timetable back a little bit.
1:12:38
They say that they they think they're optimistic for Week 1,
1:12:42
which is not what you want to hear going into the season.
1:12:45
The other bit of news I have on the Giants looking over here is
1:12:50
they're under their top undrafted free agent rookie from
1:12:54
UNC AD back named Thaddeus Dixon for his Achilles in mini camp.
1:12:59
He is going to be done, unfortunately for him.
1:13:03
I'll say this, I told you about the neighbors thing.
1:13:06
I want everybody to know I said Malik Neighbors is not going to
1:13:10
be the same high flying offensive option that the Giants
1:13:14
had and they drafted from LSU. I think that's a big problem and
1:13:17
you're going to hear that all season long.
1:13:19
Hence the reason why the Giants needed to go for a wide receiver
1:13:23
in the first round and they didn't.
1:13:25
That's all I'm going to say about that.
1:13:26
Yeah, they went for the combined production, hoping a lot of
1:13:28
these streakier slot guys to make it work.
1:13:31
We'll see if it works in that system.
1:13:32
But yeah, I would say October would be the more likely thing
1:13:35
for him to play at the full potential again.
1:13:39
It's the Giants, man. They figured out how to blow it.
1:13:42
But Nah, yeah, I mean, not too much on the Giants.
1:13:45
You know, that's, it's pretty much that experience.
1:13:48
I'm interested to see how Jackson Dart come out and
1:13:51
actually play and see what you guys can do with him.
1:13:53
But yeah, I'll just leave it at. Who's he thrown to?
1:13:57
That's the problem. That's.
1:13:58
Arnelle Mooney and Calvin Austin.
1:14:00
Good luck, Giant fans, good luck.
1:14:03
Enjoy. Get that?
1:14:04
Out. Enjoy.
1:14:06
All right, to wrap up the car, so we're going to save hockey
1:14:09
for our hockey segment after. I just want to give a shout out
1:14:13
to. I want to, I want to give a
1:14:14
shout out to Matthew Schaefer for winning the Calder Trophy.
1:14:17
Shout out to Matthew Schaefer. He deserved it.
1:14:20
He got all the votes. He is.
1:14:22
He was the best rookie in the NHL this year.
1:14:25
Congratulations to him. Great kid.
1:14:27
Love everything about him. Matthew Schaefer, obviously the
1:14:30
top thing that happened there in the local area.
1:14:33
Looks like everyone recognized his greatness.
1:14:36
Tide, Leeches record for goals. Sabers, we'll talk about their
1:14:40
playoffs in the playoffs segment.
1:14:41
And the Bills signed the backup tight end and a backup pass
1:14:45
rusher. Congratulations to you.
1:14:47
That's the carousel and that is the carousel.
1:14:50
For Oh my God, I'm a little lost tonight.
1:14:53
A little lost as I've been sick all over the last 48 hours.
1:14:58
I'm on antibiotic antibiotics, I'm on steroids, I'm on
1:15:01
everything. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm still
1:15:03
here trying to entertain you guys.
1:15:06
All right, My deuce of the day. The deuce of the day.
1:15:10
You log. Not a log.
1:15:11
I don't have a log but. No.
1:15:20
Well, my deuce of the day goes to the old Jakey Poo, ladies and
1:15:23
gentlemen. Yes, you know who that is?
1:15:25
Mr. Jake Paul. And Jake Paul has his mouth
1:15:31
waving. And I'll say this, Jake Paul is
1:15:34
a marketing genius. This guy knows how to make
1:15:36
money. He's doing such a great job
1:15:38
right now on Netflix, raising money, bringing in all these
1:15:40
guys and and girls to fight. And it's it's sensational.
1:15:44
I love it. But then Jake Paul has the
1:15:47
audacity to go after Canelo Alvarez and challenge him and
1:15:50
tell him that he wants to plight him for $200 million and says
1:15:54
that he's offering him $200 million to get in the ring with
1:15:57
him. Meanwhile, there's a story
1:15:58
coming out that Jake Paul's eye sockets are still not healed
1:16:03
from the Joshua fight and his cheekbone is still not fully
1:16:06
healed and he might never fight again.
1:16:09
So why is he challenging probably one of the deadliest
1:16:12
punchers in the boxing world? It makes no sense.
1:16:15
It just shows you how stupid he is as a fighter.
1:16:18
But hey, if he wants to get in a ring with another guy to pop out
1:16:22
another of actually actually pop out his eye this time, good luck
1:16:25
to him, Jake Paul. Just stick to the marketing end,
1:16:27
man. You're sensational.
1:16:28
You're doing such a great job. You're making millions and
1:16:31
millions of dollars. You're helping the boxing world.
1:16:33
You're helping mixed martial arts and fighters really
1:16:37
obviously get an opportunity to make some money with the UFC is
1:16:40
not. You're doing things that Dana
1:16:41
White is not doing for the fighters, giving them insurances
1:16:45
and everything like that. You're doing all these great
1:16:47
things. Why do you want to get back in
1:16:49
the ring and be an idiot? This isn't Rocky, buddy.
1:16:51
And if you think you're Rocky, you're going to get knocked the
1:16:53
hell out. That's all I'm going to say
1:16:55
about that. So that is my deuce of the day.
1:16:58
Anyways, when we come back and they've been waiting carefully
1:17:02
and calmly, we will be talking to movie director Richie
1:17:06
Camchoom and former 10 year NBA center Greg Oden.
1:17:10
And by the way, they have a movie coming out called Bust,
1:17:13
Yes, and it's their first screening is going to be May
1:17:16
27th in Miami. We're very excited.
1:17:19
Maybe we'll go. Maybe we'll show up to the red
1:17:22
carpet and I'll dance around and prance around over there.
1:17:25
I don't think Mr. Odom wants to see me dance and prance around.
1:17:28
But anyways, we will be back after our sports minute.
1:17:31
This is a New York sports loudmouth sports minute.
1:17:40
All right guys, Iron fisherman here with your sportsman.
1:17:42
It got a couple of stories for you and then we'll go through
1:17:45
the scores this evening. The NFL unveiled the
1:17:47
international schedule for the 2026 season on Wednesday ahead
1:17:51
of the full schedule release tonight.
1:17:53
And as expected, there is a record amount of international
1:17:56
games on the slate. This year.
1:17:58
There will be 9 international games starting with the Week One
1:18:01
Thursday game on Netflix, of course, between the 49ers and
1:18:05
Rams in Melbourne, Australia. First time the NFL is gone to
1:18:09
the Land Don under as far as I know.
1:18:11
There will be 3 London Games featuring two games at Tottenham
1:18:15
Hotspurs soccer stadium in one game at the legendary Wembley
1:18:20
Stadium. The Eagles will play two of
1:18:22
those games in back-to-back weeks.
1:18:23
Across the pond, the first ever Paris game will also take place
1:18:26
this season in week 7 between the Steelers and Saints.
1:18:29
The rest of the locations include Rio de Janeiro, Mexico
1:18:32
City, Madrid, and Munich. The NFL's global reach keeps
1:18:36
expanding every year, and why not when there are so many
1:18:38
markets around the world that are just starting to love the
1:18:40
game and pay for merch? With London gaining 3 games this
1:18:44
season, it may be time to start asking when, not if, they will
1:18:48
either get an expansion team or have a team relocate from a
1:18:51
small market. My personal expectation would be
1:18:54
that it's the Jaguars will leave Duval to put on a suit of armor
1:18:58
for the London Knights, especially with their owner Shad
1:19:00
Khan already perhaps more focused on his Premier League
1:19:04
team Fulham FC than the Jags, who play in one of the smallest
1:19:08
markets in the NFL. And sad news in the NBA world
1:19:11
late on Tuesday that former NBA center Jason Collins has passed
1:19:15
away the age of 47 from brain cancer.
1:19:18
Collins revealed his Stage 4 glioblastoma diagnosis back in
1:19:21
November, making this news unfortunately not a surprise,
1:19:25
despite encouraging early news on a Singaporean treatment in
1:19:29
his battle. Collins was awarded the
1:19:31
inaugural Bill Walton Global Champion Award just last week,
1:19:35
but was too ill to attend. His twin brother Jaron, who
1:19:37
played with him in Stanford and also in the NBA for a decade,
1:19:40
accepted on his behalf. Jason Collins, who had a long 13
1:19:44
year career in the NBA with the Nets, Grizzlies, Timberwolves,
1:19:46
Hawks, Celtics and Wizards, was most famously known for being
1:19:50
the first ever NBA player and first ever player in any major
1:19:53
professional sport to come out as gay and as an active player,
1:19:56
which he did before his last season.
1:19:58
When he returned to the Nets to play for former teammate Jason
1:20:01
Kidd in 20/13/2014, Kidd took to social media to give his love to
1:20:06
his fallen teammate and friend. This one hurts.
1:20:08
Jason Collins was a pioneer. He had courage.
1:20:10
Like you've never seen. He was an incredible teammate
1:20:13
and having him in Brooklyn at the start of my coaching journey
1:20:15
meant so much. The Nets, who Collins played for
1:20:18
in eight of his thirteen seasons, added in a team
1:20:20
statement. We are heartbroken to learn the
1:20:22
passing of Jason Collins. Jason spent eight years in a
1:20:25
Nets uniform, helping define an era of our franchise and playing
1:20:28
a vital role on our back-to-back Eastern Conference Championship
1:20:31
teams in 2002 and 2003. It was a constant in our locker
1:20:35
room, Selfless, tough and deeply respected by teammates, coaches
1:20:38
and staff alike. Those who are around Jason every
1:20:41
day knew him not just as a competitor, but as a genuinely
1:20:44
kind, thoughtful person who brought people together.
1:20:47
His impact extended far beyond the court, and his courage and
1:20:49
authenticity helped move the game and the world forward.
1:20:53
Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and everyone
1:20:55
who had the privilege of knowing him.
1:20:57
Jason will always be a part of the Nets family and he will be
1:20:59
deeply missed. RIP to Jason Collins, an
1:21:02
important groundbreaking athlete gone far too soon.
1:21:05
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director Richie Cam Chum and former 10 year NBA center Greg
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Odin. What's up, boys?
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What's going on? Gentlemen, what's going on man?
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Thank y'all for coming on all. Right.
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Thanks for having us man. And I just want to let everybody
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know they have a movie coming out.
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It's called Bust and it's coming soon.
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First screening will be May 27th in Miami.
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So if you want to go to the to see the first screening, go meet
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Greg, go meet Mr. Richie. Ladies and gentlemen, go get
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your tickets. We might go myself.
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I mean, I'll be all over the place.
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I don't know. Anyways, we're very happy to
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have you guys on it. And Richie, I want to go in with
1:24:09
this this conversation with you because how did this come about?
1:24:12
I mean, obviously, you know, Greg and the back end of his
1:24:17
background. I mean, this guy was going to be
1:24:19
one of the greatest centers in NBA history.
1:24:22
He was drafted in front of Kevin Durant and then obviously his
1:24:27
injury problems. How did this come about?
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Yeah, it's a great question. I think I have to clarify
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because I think a lot of people think it's a Greg Oden.
1:24:37
I know something like that. I know, but it's not man.
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It's a, it's a film that is essentially inspired by my
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playing days. I played growing up and I did a
1:24:49
partial walk on a year in college and I was at, you know,
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that was the end of my, my career.
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And you know, my, my aspirations were always to play high level
1:24:58
college, you know, maybe play overseas or something like that.
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But, you know, take it, take it as far as I could because, you
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know, the game of basketball was my first love and that wasn't
1:25:07
the case. And, and I, and I'd always felt,
1:25:09
you know, to myself, to the people that believed in me.
1:25:12
I mean, my mom, she used to drive 2 hours every day to drive
1:25:16
me to school because I went to this private school in the DC
1:25:19
area to play ball. And you know the sacrifices that
1:25:22
she made, you know, the people around you make a lot of
1:25:24
sacrifices when you have a dream.
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So not only did I feel like I let myself down, I felt like I
1:25:29
let down people who love me, who believed in me.
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And so, even though a bust to something you think of with
1:25:35
someone like super high expectations, I lost someone
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like a Greg or somebody like Anthony Bennett.
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I I personally felt that that I was one, but I was, and when I
1:25:46
was writing the movie, I'm like, you know, I always knew I was
1:25:48
going to make a movie about basketball and just kind of
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close that chapter for, for the thing that I loved before
1:25:54
filmmaking. I felt like I was kind of being
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a little disingenuous because I'm like, you know, I feel like
1:26:00
this, but I don't actually have to live my life with the
1:26:02
perception of being called a bust.
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And well, I'm sure we'll get to Greg.
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I think most of us who have followed Greg's career know that
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when he was on the court, he actually did live up to
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expectations. So that label is unfair.
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But I know that what he's, I know that that term is something
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that he still has to grapple with the same way anybody who
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gets the bus label placed on them, whether it be via not
1:26:26
performing or via injuries or whatever the case may be, right.
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So when I was writing a movie, I thought I need to include real
1:26:34
life characters who can really relate to this to kind of bring
1:26:36
the whole thing in. And without giving away too
1:26:39
much, I'd like actually written several characters And it was
1:26:42
going to be like, kind of like this come to Jesus moment where
1:26:45
they all kind of come together and say, you know, talk about
1:26:48
what that experience is like. And they, they kind of like are
1:26:51
there for each other, almost like an, A, a group in a sense.
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But you know, nobody, nobody responded and a lot of people
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didn't want to join except for Greg.
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You know, I, I code emailed him to, you know, to make a Long
1:27:04
story short, I, I messaged him via code e-mail.
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I think he was coaching at Butler at the time.
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And he was really receptive. He responded within like a day
1:27:12
or two. And we spoke with some people
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from his team and just talked about what I was trying to do.
1:27:17
I think, you know, they wanted to really make sure that it was
1:27:19
the right thing for Greg. And I'll let Greg speak about
1:27:21
his experience, but from what from what I recall, they just
1:27:25
wanted to make sure it aligned with where he was trying to go
1:27:27
in his life right now. And I think he saw that I had
1:27:29
the right intentions with the movie.
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Otherwise I don't believe he would have done the movie.
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So that's how we got together. And he's been, you know, the
1:27:36
best executive producer and partner because, you know, as
1:27:38
much as I believe in the story, I think when people see that
1:27:41
Greg's a part of it, it gives it another.
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There's another stamp of validity.
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Like, OK, you've got someone who really went through this
1:27:47
experience and they know that we're trying to tell a story to,
1:27:53
you know, to, I think speak to that experience that so few
1:27:56
people can relate to, But it's, it's, but it's important, you
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know, the same way LeBron and all the Goats are important.
1:28:03
On the flip side of that, you know, what we call busts,
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they're important. They're just as important to me.
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And so, you know, we wanted to just make a, a sports story true
1:28:11
to the stories that we grew up on, but kind of bring it home
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today and, and, and, you know, make it personal for me, but
1:28:17
also make it broad enough that anybody can kind of see
1:28:20
themselves in that story. First of all, I don't like the
1:28:23
word bust. All right, I don't like it.
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I I think it's disrespectful because if you're a first round
1:28:28
pick and you're a number one pick, you're not a bust as far
1:28:31
as I'm concerned. He Greg Odin, if you look at his
1:28:34
background, he just had a lot of injuries and when he came into
1:28:37
the NBA, he was a lot of people thought this guy was going to be
1:28:41
explosive. As a matter of fact, if you look
1:28:43
at the people that he was compared to Shaquille O'Neal and
1:28:46
David Robertson, two guys that are Hall of Farmers superstar
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players, his ability played for the Buckeyes.
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I watched him. I, I thought this guy was going
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to be an absolute slam dunk. And, and Kevin Durant, everybody
1:28:58
was saying Kevin or Greg. I said Greg Odin.
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I was a kid and I said Greg Odin, I'm going after the bigs
1:29:04
because at the time bigs were more important than the, the
1:29:08
big, the big, you know, long shooter.
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I would, I would have went with the big man.
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And it's crazy because we have a guy in Quinton Coppols who was a
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first round draft pick. He was, he was a jet.
1:29:19
The Jets moved up to get him in the first round.
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And everybody in there knows the background.
1:29:23
The Jets always screw up players, always screw up
1:29:25
players. I, I, it's so crazy because I
1:29:27
talk to a lot of people and people watch our show and
1:29:29
they're like, you're working with Quinton Coppols.
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Oh, he's a bust. It's like a bust.
1:29:33
What makes him a bust? He played in the NFL for over 5
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years. He made a lot of money and he
1:29:39
was one of the greatest pass rushers to come out of North
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Carolina. And you're talking about, I
1:29:45
don't know, Lawrence Taylor, Julius Peppers, I mean, as a
1:29:49
pretty good players and he was just as good as any one of those
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guys coming out of North Carolina.
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So I don't like the word bust, but Greg, I've always looked up
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to a person like you because you've taken a lot of abuse, a
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lot of abuse in the past. Everybody speaks, you know,
1:30:04
poorly about you because they say, oh, what did he do?
1:30:06
What did he do in the NBA? And here's what I would say.
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It doesn't matter what you did or what you didn't do in the
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NBA. It's how you got to the NBA.
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And why don't you tell your journey to the NBA and, and, and
1:30:17
why you believe that in your career and what you've done in
1:30:21
your career is even more better than people look at you and what
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you didn't do in your career? Well, I appreciate all that and
1:30:32
for having me. But I mean, guys look at the NBA
1:30:36
and that's how they look and that's how they measure
1:30:38
everybody, you know? And I've only played in 82
1:30:43
games. I did make it to the Finals when
1:30:45
I was with Portland. You know, I was one guy one
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season to have one of the only 20 rebound games.
1:30:52
I think it was only like Dwight Howard and Kevin Love that year.
1:30:56
Maybe one other person. And I started to come into my
1:30:59
own before my injuries hit. But if you want me to go back to
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it, I'm the guy. My first basket in the 4th grade
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was for the other team. And then in the 7th grade I
1:31:13
dumped for the first time. And then I never turned around
1:31:17
because I went from that to three state championships in
1:31:21
high school, Two time parade, all American McDonald's, all
1:31:26
American, two time Gatorade player of the year, went to the
1:31:30
national championship, You know what, the Ohio State University,
1:31:36
you know, and then number one overall pick, which there was
1:31:39
only one, I'm one of 79 in the history of the world.
1:31:43
So when somebody says that, you know, that's my rebuttal.
1:31:46
What are you 1 of 79 in the history of the world at?
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You know, but I don't like to talk down to people like that.
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So I appreciate the journey. But I know when I was in the
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league, when I was on the court, I was able to contribute.
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It's just after all the injuries, you know, my
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athleticism, which was a big part of my game, you know,
1:32:08
wasn't there no more when I got to the Miami Heat.
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So that's it. But I'm a move on and say this
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movie I'm happy to be a part of. Richie put a lot of blood, sweat
1:32:21
and tears in this. This is his story.
1:32:24
I just happen to live it on the other end.
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But I I'm just very proud to be a part of this project and
1:32:33
everything that we're putting out.
1:32:34
So we do want people to pop up in Miami, buy some tickets, come
1:32:38
see the movie. It's going to be a good time.
1:32:41
But it it's a a real life story. And as Richie says, humanizing,
1:32:45
you know, the other guys, we got the goats, but the other guys
1:32:48
that aren't compared or quite on that level is humanizing them.
1:32:53
So I want to go to your Ohio State career.
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You made the finals, you know, 7.
1:32:57
You played with Mike Conley, who's had a very good NBA
1:32:59
career, is one of the better defensive point guards for 15
1:33:02
years, pretty much at that model.
1:33:04
A coach that has kind of gotten forgotten about Ohio State,
1:33:06
obviously overshadowed by the football program.
1:33:08
What was your career like with the Buckeyes?
1:33:12
Well, one, Mike is definitely not a defensive player.
1:33:17
He's he's all the 6th 1. You see what they're doing to
1:33:21
him in the playoffs now? Nah, you know, he he did get his
1:33:27
steal, especially when he was with Memphis.
1:33:29
He he was amazing. I'm I'm so happy to and proud to
1:33:32
be his friend. He's one of my best friends and
1:33:36
I'm happy to see him out there still doing this thing.
1:33:40
But when we were at Ohio State, the one thing I like to tell
1:33:43
people was in Columbus I was able to be a young man.
1:33:47
And that's very rare these days. A lot of these kids are going to
1:33:52
schools for a transactional reason just to get the money and
1:33:56
get to that next level. But for me, I got to actually
1:33:59
enjoy Columbus, OH, I got to go out on Thursday nights to the
1:34:04
Nini Paninis is a little campus bar.
1:34:07
See, I don't know nothing about that, but I'm smiling right now
1:34:10
thinking about those memories, you know, but then then had to
1:34:13
be up at 6:00 AM, you know, for a lift on Friday.
1:34:17
So I just really appreciate that I was able to be a kid while
1:34:22
also putting in the work to get to that next level.
1:34:25
It happened a lot faster than it does for most.
1:34:28
I live in Columbus, OH now. I just appreciate it.
1:34:32
And you know, once you're a Buckeye, they don't let you go.
1:34:36
Yeah. So Richie and great.
1:34:38
Thanks for coming on. Rich, I want to start with you
1:34:40
first. When you hear the when you heard
1:34:43
first heard the word bus, I guess what was that mindset and
1:34:46
thought process? And did you initially feel like
1:34:49
you were a bus due to the expectation that, you know, your
1:34:53
family and, and, and your and your community, how they viewed
1:34:58
you in regards to where they expected you to go and things of
1:35:00
that nature? And how did you process that
1:35:03
once you realized that you weren't going to be able to
1:35:05
compete at the levels that you had initially planned to be at?
1:35:09
Yeah. That's a great question,
1:35:11
Quentin. Again, appreciate y'all for
1:35:13
having us on. I always loved talking to
1:35:15
especially people that have played the game and and even the
1:35:18
show being so sports centered. I think you, you guys know, with
1:35:22
the media, funny enough, I think without giving away too much
1:35:26
about the movie, I think my introduction to the word bust
1:35:30
was via sports media, right? I would just see the way people,
1:35:35
like, I guess we'd call them talking heads, you know, growing
1:35:38
up would just kind of like throw people to the side, right?
1:35:42
And maybe I heard a segment. I mean, I was a kid too, you
1:35:46
know, thinking about that time, but maybe I might have heard
1:35:48
something about Greg. Maybe it was Anthony Bennett,
1:35:51
maybe it was Johnny Manziel. I'm also from the DC area, so
1:35:54
Freddie Adu and soccer was a big deal for us, my peoples.
1:35:57
We from Cameroon, so soccer. Guy, Freddie.
1:36:00
Yeah, man, yeah. So that we, you know, so soccer
1:36:04
is a big deal for us from my home country, Cameroon.
1:36:06
So I remember him when I was like 10 years old, he was a
1:36:08
sensation. And then I would just hear the
1:36:10
way like my folks would talk about him, like, yeah, he blew
1:36:13
it. You know, I so I think it was
1:36:16
the conversations happening, you know, growing up around and
1:36:19
playing sports and then watching the media and just hearing the
1:36:22
way people sometimes will talk about athletes.
1:36:25
I realized, you know, Greg spoke to we talked a lot about what
1:36:28
this movie, if we had to boil it down to, a lot of it is just
1:36:31
about humanizing these people. And the opposite of that is just
1:36:35
it was so much dehumanization, just so much like, OK, you are
1:36:38
not you did not live up to these expectations.
1:36:40
So we were just going to place this label on you.
1:36:43
You know, to me, like you say, arrow to me is a very offensive
1:36:46
term because it removes all context, like, right, Like
1:36:50
whether it be injuries or whether somebody had something
1:36:52
going on mentally. If you just remove all the
1:36:55
context and you just say this is what you are.
1:36:57
And it's not even just this is just what you are right now.
1:36:59
Like you got to carry that around the rest of your life.
1:37:01
And that's how people see you. So I think growing up, I just
1:37:04
realized, OK, this is the thing. But if I'm being honest, right?
1:37:07
Like I didn't personally relate to it because I I never made it
1:37:10
to that level. But when I got cut from the team
1:37:13
my freshman year, I was like, oh, this hurts.
1:37:18
And I remember thinking even on my small scale, right, I never
1:37:21
made it to me. But even on my small scale,
1:37:23
dribbling the basketball around the neighborhood, I was the kid.
1:37:26
I was OK, that kid might, you know, like you might do
1:37:29
something with this basketball thing.
1:37:30
And so having to go back home or tell folks like, yeah, you know,
1:37:34
they they got rid of the Walk On program this year or I'm not,
1:37:38
you know, I just remembered the the sinking feeling of folks and
1:37:42
you know, that that that cared about me, right?
1:37:44
And it's not that they were disappointing me.
1:37:45
They were just like, we know how much you cared about this.
1:37:47
And I just felt like a loss of identity.
1:37:49
To answer your question, Quentin, I just felt like, who
1:37:51
am I? This is all I've been doing,
1:37:53
playing AAU, going to the court every day, waking up at whatever
1:37:58
hour to go to practice and then go to school and then go to AAU
1:38:00
practice, whatever the case may be.
1:38:01
I've given everything to this and now it's just going to stop,
1:38:05
right? I'm only 19 years old and 20
1:38:07
years old, however old I was. And the ball to stop, you know,
1:38:10
the ball starts to dribbling and, and, and to be honest with
1:38:13
you, it was like a year long grieving period where I had to
1:38:16
just find myself and figure out what I wanted to do.
1:38:20
And what happened is I knew, OK, I finally came to terms with it,
1:38:25
you know, like halfway through my sophomore year and I was
1:38:28
like, but I still love the game so much.
1:38:30
The career path I want to take is out undeclared at the time is
1:38:33
I want to become a sportscaster. Like, I want to be like one of
1:38:37
those people that are that that are talking about the games,
1:38:39
right? And took a so I declared in
1:38:43
communications digital media, but then I took a creative
1:38:46
writing class as a part of the program.
1:38:48
And, you know, we had to write like a short story.
1:38:51
And it just blew my mind. I was like, oh, this is fun.
1:38:54
You know, this is I found something that stimulates me
1:38:57
almost to the degree, not quite at the time, but almost to the
1:39:00
degree that basketball will, when I would just go to the
1:39:02
court and get shots up and dream about, you know what, what, what
1:39:05
a career could look like playing this game, right?
1:39:07
Dream about hitting the last second shot just like every
1:39:09
other kid and that class led me into the rabbit hole of starting
1:39:15
to make short films starting to make documentaries and I have
1:39:18
made all these things I made you know web series short films
1:39:20
documentaries. I I Co wrote a feature film with
1:39:23
a good producer friend of mine and I was just like something is
1:39:27
missing. You know something about this
1:39:30
chapter. You know, who I was before
1:39:32
basketball is missing here. And and as I was writing, the
1:39:36
movie actually wasn't called bust at the time.
1:39:38
I think it was I didn't even have a title for it.
1:39:40
But I realized writing just brought up so many feelings that
1:39:44
I had kind of buried underneath where I'm like, you know,
1:39:48
basketball, who I, who is who I was in the past.
1:39:51
But as I was writing the, the the film, I remembered all those
1:39:53
feelings of letting people down. And I was like, no, I think this
1:39:57
is the movie. I think the movie is bust
1:39:58
because that's what I feel like. I feel like.
1:40:01
I'm I didn't succeed in this thing that people expected of
1:40:05
me. And again, and, and as I was
1:40:07
writing it and I was getting close to the end, I realized
1:40:10
although I feel this way again, I have to pull in the real life
1:40:13
experience. So it started, you know,
1:40:14
relatively young me being familiar with the bus term.
1:40:17
But as I was writing it, that's when it starts to feel very
1:40:20
personal. And I think that's what
1:40:21
hopefully, you know, if people think this film is good, what I
1:40:25
always view as a good story is something that's able to take
1:40:28
something specific but make it universal.
1:40:31
Lies a bust is another word for what people deem as a failure.
1:40:35
And then I realized that could apply to sports, that can apply
1:40:38
to your personal life, that can apply to anything, right?
1:40:40
And so the the film is ultimately a personal story of
1:40:44
overcoming what people see as failure and making peace with
1:40:49
your own life. Yeah, Greg and the follow up
1:40:52
with that I've I've, I've had the privilege of, you know,
1:40:56
seeing some of the things that you've accomplished post these
1:40:59
comments in regards to being labeled as a bus.
1:41:03
Talk to me a little bit about how you we're able to actually
1:41:07
process, you know, the the media outlets and everybody coming at
1:41:11
you in this way of considering you a bus and overcoming that
1:41:15
and then getting into coaching and getting into different
1:41:19
philanthropical situations that you have overall post this.
1:41:25
What I was thinking that, you know, based on looking at some
1:41:28
of your story is you overcame like, you know, the depression
1:41:31
or the, the, the critics and the media attention and then you
1:41:36
being labeled as this person and just counseling out all the
1:41:39
accolades and things that you accomplished.
1:41:42
How was your mental? What was it?
1:41:43
What was the breaking point when it was like, you know, I'm going
1:41:47
to, I'm going to overcome this by just being successful in
1:41:50
other endeavors? Well, to overcome that, that
1:41:56
mentally it came with a lot of alcohol and a lot of weed,
1:42:00
because it was definitely very demoralizing when you're
1:42:05
watching inside the NBA, you know, and you just hearing guys
1:42:10
talk about you and, and you can't do nothing about it.
1:42:13
So definitely a lot of coping mechanisms, a lot of time to
1:42:17
myself just being depressed, a lot of tears.
1:42:20
I, I can admit that I cry sometimes, you know, because I,
1:42:24
I couldn't do anything about it. But really, I think it was going
1:42:30
back to school that was the, the opening thing for me.
1:42:34
When I realized I was 28 in line with all these 18 year olds and
1:42:40
I just had to pick myself up. And it was crazy because when I
1:42:44
went back to school, I actually wanted to learn.
1:42:48
You know, when we was there at first, you know, we was there
1:42:52
for a reason. We was there to hoop and have
1:42:54
fun. But it's really weird when
1:42:57
you're like sitting up in the front row, not because they told
1:43:00
you because you really want to, you want to be all up in it.
1:43:03
You want to ask questions. You wanted to learn something
1:43:06
that and that motivated me. But I think a big one was when
1:43:09
my daughter was born too. I look at it as I can't tell my
1:43:13
daughter she needs to go to school if I'd never got my
1:43:16
degree. And by doing those things
1:43:18
things, it just kind of just kind of fell into it like me
1:43:22
playing basketball, my mom worked 2-3 jobs.
1:43:25
So I was just at the Boys and Girls Club and I'm just on the
1:43:29
basketball court. Happened to get tall and good at
1:43:31
one point. You know, it wasn't like I came
1:43:34
in with the mindset of I'm going to be the best basketball player
1:43:37
out here. I honestly just did it and
1:43:40
happened to be good. And so that's what happened with
1:43:42
me in school. You know, I, I was just, I was
1:43:45
doing it to I promised my mom I was going to get my degree.
1:43:48
And then I started working with a, a author kind of life coach
1:43:54
guy and started trying to find my purpose.
1:43:56
And I intentionally wanted to know who I was because when the
1:44:00
game was taken away, you know, we all have that who am I
1:44:04
outside the game moment. And I realized that I love being
1:44:09
a mentor. I I love helping out the kids.
1:44:12
I love speaking to people. So right now, you know, I'm, I'm
1:44:16
doing public speaking. I'm also working with a, a, a
1:44:21
sports management company based out of Florida, Elite Life
1:44:23
Consulting, consulting with them on the basketball side, helping
1:44:27
these kids get to schools, get NIL deals.
1:44:31
I'm doing the work. I'm still teaching financial
1:44:33
literacy for a company called Educor based out of Baltimore.
1:44:38
You know, just being able to give back that education that,
1:44:41
you know, I wish I would have had at that time.
1:44:44
And you know, that's that's where I'm at right now.
1:44:47
I love giving back. I love speaking.
1:44:51
Public speaking is really where my heart is right now, trying to
1:44:55
get my story out. Just like the bus movie, you
1:44:58
know, it's not a basketball story, it's a life story.
1:45:01
And people can learn a lot of things about resilience, you
1:45:04
know, pushing yourself through when you fail, picking yourself
1:45:08
back up. You know, that's that's what I'm
1:45:11
doing now and I'm just happy the situation I'm in.
1:45:14
I would love to get paid more, but you know, as we all would
1:45:23
not the same. But you got to be you got to be
1:45:27
cautious of that because you know, when we get done playing,
1:45:29
you start you still spending like you getting that same
1:45:32
check. And that's how a lot of guys go
1:45:34
broke. So I appreciate where I'm at
1:45:36
right now. I'm happy and I think that's the
1:45:39
most important thing about life. We are talking to movie director
1:45:43
Richie Pam Chum and former 10 year NBA center Greg Odin.
1:45:47
They have a movie coming out called Bust coming soon.
1:45:49
First screening is going to be May 27th in Miami.
1:45:53
I've got names. I'm going to throw you guys
1:45:55
names. All right.
1:45:56
Jamarcus Russell, Ryan Leaf, Kwame Brown all consider busts.
1:46:03
All consider busts, but are they?
1:46:05
Think about it this way. Jamarcus Russell made a lot of
1:46:08
money. Ryan Leaf made a lot of money.
1:46:11
Kwame Brown made a lot of money. And by the way, you know who
1:46:14
drafted Kwame Brown? Michael Jordan.
1:46:17
Think about it that way. And I, the, The thing is, when
1:46:20
it comes to bus, I think it's bullying.
1:46:22
And we, we talk about things that people do to try to look
1:46:27
better or stronger or tougher than somebody, somebody's fat or
1:46:30
somebody doesn't look the part or something of that magnitude.
1:46:34
They're going to pick on you, they're going to attack you.
1:46:36
So when I look at it, anybody that knows my story, I was an
1:46:40
athlete. I was a very good athlete.
1:46:41
I was a hockey player. I hurt my knee.
1:46:43
I stepped away from the sport. And then I never want to get
1:46:46
back into the sport because I got there was things that
1:46:49
happened. I didn't sign my letter of
1:46:51
intent and I went to a Canadian tournament.
1:46:54
I hurt my knee and I was on crutches for six months.
1:46:56
And then when I wanted to get back into it, they told me to go
1:46:59
F myself pretty much and say you got to play be a be a play on
1:47:02
player, try out and maybe we give you a hassle scholarship
1:47:05
and then after the first year maybe we give you a full
1:47:08
scholarship and maybe 15 years of hard work and dedication.
1:47:11
This is what you you give to me playing United States hockey,
1:47:14
junior B, junior A hockey and I was playing at a high level at
1:47:18
the age of 14. To me, it was like I was being
1:47:21
brushed under the rug. And, and again, I, I don't think
1:47:25
of it as a bust. I just think of it as a position
1:47:29
that you put your, I put myself in and a lot of people put
1:47:33
themselves in and, and, and you think derogate, you know, you,
1:47:37
you, you think it, you think it in a way where you can't protect
1:47:40
yourself. You can't put yourself in a
1:47:42
position where you can help yourself.
1:47:44
And that's what I think when I look, when I look at the the
1:47:47
name Bostor and trying to consider a bust a bust.
1:47:51
I don't think a bust is a boss. I think that you made it to the
1:47:56
highest level. Think about it in the NBA, how
1:47:59
many players play on an NBA team?
1:48:02
Think about that. And then you look at the NFL,
1:48:04
there's only 200 and 52150 players that get drafted every
1:48:08
single year. And really, if you're not a from
1:48:13
the first or fourth round draft pick, you're not even making the
1:48:15
team you got to you got to work your ass to make that team.
1:48:19
So I the fact that you were a first round draft pick, and I
1:48:23
say this to Q all the time because me and Q off off air, we
1:48:26
go back and forth and I have a lot of Jet fans that if you look
1:48:30
at the biggest bust in Jets history, Hugh is one of those
1:48:36
busts, one of the top five busts.
1:48:38
And I'm like, and I'm looking at it.
1:48:39
Yeah. And I'm looking at it.
1:48:41
I'm like, wait a second, This is the same guy that sacked Tom
1:48:44
Brady, sacked Drew Brees, sacked Philip Rivers, I mean, Vernon,
1:48:51
just. Saying that alone.
1:48:52
He is not a bus, by the way. But that's what I'm saying.
1:48:55
That's what I'm saying. So I don't understand what a
1:48:57
bust is. So I'm I'm trying to figure out
1:49:00
why people call people a bus. It's not easy to get to the high
1:49:03
level and then when you get to the high level, you've got to
1:49:05
compete against the best in the world.
1:49:08
So what is a bust? I don't get it.
1:49:10
You may. Just expectations, man, like at
1:49:13
the end of the day, they they have they project this
1:49:16
expectation on you, you know, I mean, and it's just like you're
1:49:19
not a good football player or not a good pro unless you, you
1:49:23
know, at the top of the top. So instead of you saying,
1:49:25
instead of them looking at your game and see how good you are
1:49:29
within the game, they'll say, oh, but you ain't Jordan or you
1:49:31
ain't LeBron or you ain't Tom Brady or you ain't Lawrence
1:49:34
Taylor. Like they can pay you at the top
1:49:36
of the top and not recognize like what you are actually doing
1:49:39
within the game. And again, you're competing
1:49:41
against the best of the best. And then the person that's given
1:49:44
the opinion ain't even the best at what they're doing.
1:49:47
And so that's the other issue with it.
1:49:49
When it's like, and then we as athletes, we can't say nothing
1:49:52
because we've become the bad guy.
1:49:54
And then through media training, they teach you how not to
1:49:57
respond to basically those controversial comments.
1:50:00
And we're supposed to be just a bigger person and let it.
1:50:02
Go and I'll respond to all right, you don't you guys don't
1:50:05
have to respond. I'll respond.
1:50:06
Go after yourself. That's what I would say I'm.
1:50:09
Richie Well, Richie doing it too, though.
1:50:10
So I think what the you think about the movies and the short
1:50:13
films and things that nature, it gives the athlete a voice to be
1:50:17
able to articulate what is actually transpiring.
1:50:20
Now you get to see me, you know, sack Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers
1:50:24
and Drew Brees and all these different players.
1:50:26
Now you get to see Greg as I get it repaired a year as taking
1:50:30
Ohio State to national championship.
1:50:32
Ask all this double double machine like when you get a view
1:50:35
and see that from the inside out and not just say when I turn on
1:50:39
the TV and it's a game on, I seen that he had a bad game
1:50:43
because you're not you're not seeing what happens to that.
1:50:45
And a lot of times there's there's actually teams that
1:50:48
position you improperly that allow you not to actually be
1:50:52
successful in the in the in the NFL or the NBA.
1:50:56
And so I think that's another accountability that nobody gives
1:50:59
credit to. If you, if you get into it with
1:51:01
a coach and a coach don't like you, he can bench you, he can
1:51:04
put you out of position, he can do anything to you.
1:51:06
And we don't really have that controlled.
1:51:08
And if we do stand up for ourselves, it's because now
1:51:11
we're tearing, now we a bad apple on the team and things of
1:51:14
that nature. So it's like a lose, lose
1:51:16
situation for us until we get out and we get meet guys like
1:51:19
Richie and Greg and they actually set in a platform for
1:51:22
us to be able to speak. But that's what I mean.
1:51:24
Well, LeBron James came from high school.
1:51:26
Everybody was calling him the King before he even stepped on
1:51:29
an NBA basketball court. Did he transform into the King?
1:51:32
Yeah. He became one of the greatest
1:51:34
basketball players of all time. What are the possibilities that
1:51:37
he he falls flat on his face? We've seen that.
1:51:40
You mentioned Anthony Bennett. Anthony Bennett was the number
1:51:43
one pick. Nobody thought Anthony Bennett
1:51:45
in that draft was the number one pick, but the Cavaliers drafted
1:51:49
him. Wait wait wait, hold on.
1:51:51
Are we not going to talk about that?
1:51:52
He literally had a double double every game in college.
1:51:55
Yes. Like literally 20 bounds the
1:51:58
game, 15 rebounds the game. Nobody can stop him at UNLV.
1:52:03
Like when you say that, you say Kwame Brown.
1:52:06
He was literally the strongest man in the NBA.
1:52:09
Nobody talks about that. Jamarcus Russell, He had the
1:52:12
strongest arm coming out that class, right?
1:52:15
Ryan Leaf was a beast in college.
1:52:18
A freaking beast. You know that they put this
1:52:21
stuff on them, but they don't talk about why they was drafted
1:52:25
at that level. As Q just said, it's it's about
1:52:28
everybody else's expectations. And they put us in this certain
1:52:31
type of box. Like they're talking down on
1:52:33
LeBron and he averaged 22 at 41 or 42.
1:52:38
Like they talking about the down year.
1:52:40
It's like, come on now. And then they just to pick it
1:52:43
back on Jamarcus Russell, you talking about a guy that didn't
1:52:46
know where his next meal was coming from to a guy the next
1:52:49
day having 20, thirty, $40 million in his in his bank
1:52:52
account with no direction, no structure, no nothing.
1:52:56
Just go out here and figure it out.
1:52:58
Like in Oakland at that. In Oakland, you know me like so
1:53:03
it's just different things, you know, that comes with the, you
1:53:06
know, this term that they just casually throw around.
1:53:10
But again, I can't thank you guys enough for, you know,
1:53:14
becoming a force for some of the guys that have been in our
1:53:17
position and been labeled as of us.
1:53:20
Now that all thanks goes to Richie.
1:53:22
That's what I'm saying. Look, and I'm I'm a throw right
1:53:25
back around because this is exactly why I was like, you
1:53:28
know, Greg needs to be a part of this film.
1:53:31
We need to be on a show like this because they just y'all
1:53:34
just spoke to something that even I can't even speak to.
1:53:37
They just broke down the intricacies of it, the lived
1:53:40
experience of it and why Jamarcus Russell, Ryan Leaf,
1:53:44
Anthony Bennett aren't bust. And they, you know, essentially
1:53:47
said what I what what I'm trying to say within the film, You
1:53:50
know, the only reason this bust term exists is exactly what they
1:53:54
said is because you're comparing it to the opposite of that.
1:53:57
And to me, it's a reflection of life.
1:53:58
OK, Technically, everybody is a quote on quote bust if you're
1:54:02
not at the top of the the very top of the food chain, right.
1:54:05
So if you're not LeBron, Jordan, Tom Brady, then technically
1:54:09
everybody else is a plus, right? Like it's the same thing in
1:54:12
life. If you ain't Elon Musk or
1:54:14
whoever the case will be right? You don't got a billion dollars,
1:54:17
then technically all of us are trying to make our way right.
1:54:19
So I just think it's because, man, we have to make things so
1:54:23
black and white with things like because of just how I think the
1:54:27
media works and how we like to talk.
1:54:29
Not to blame all of it on the media, but.
1:54:31
Yeah, blame it on the media. About to say yeah, blame it
1:54:33
because. It's good, the media.
1:54:34
Yeah, it's all dim, you know, even though we in this space.
1:54:39
We know these shows, right? They got to put somebody here,
1:54:41
somebody here, they got to debate it, and this is how these
1:54:43
things operate. So to me, the only reason a term
1:54:46
like a bust exists is because of this ecosystem of comparison.
1:54:50
And only one person can win, right?
1:54:52
But when when, as Quentin said, you may or not actually, Errol,
1:54:57
you said this like, and it's the same thing that I have some some
1:55:00
of these lines in the scripts, like you and the 1% of the 1%,
1:55:04
anybody that ever threw a pigskin, shot a basketball on
1:55:08
the hoop, kicked the soccer ball.
1:55:09
They was trying to be at that level and these guys did it.
1:55:12
Greg and Quentin did it. They made it.
1:55:14
They've already made it. Whatever happens after that is
1:55:16
gravy. Of course, I'm sure they wanted
1:55:18
to, you know, potentially do more.
1:55:20
But things happen, right? Context happens to where that
1:55:23
these things don't all materialize in the way that you
1:55:26
potentially see it. But regardless, these guys are
1:55:29
like, like you what, 250 guys who drafted a year maybe.
1:55:32
I don't know, let's just be safe. 8000 guys who played in
1:55:35
the NFL in in history, maybe 3000 guys who played in the NBA
1:55:39
in history. How you know how many dudes then
1:55:41
picked up a basketball throwing the football right now in my
1:55:44
neighborhood, it was about 100 of us that was playing any day,
1:55:47
like trying to get to it, you know, so that's just in my
1:55:51
neighborhood. So man, it's a it's just crazy
1:55:55
to me and that's why I felt really important for me to make
1:55:58
this to make this film but get their perspective, because the
1:56:00
way they broke it down and spoke to it, it's you know, nobody
1:56:04
else can speak to that the same way.
1:56:07
I think anyone else who goes through something you want to
1:56:09
hear from the horse's mouth, right?
1:56:11
And that's why it's important. I mean, and and luckily, thank
1:56:14
God, as Quentin noted, we have these platforms now to where we
1:56:17
can you all can tell y'all stories.
1:56:19
I mean, how many athletes I know when you're not the only one?
1:56:22
So many. Athletes.
1:56:24
How many athlete podcasts? And I love it.
1:56:26
It's like, no, you gonna I saw Jaylen Brown was doing a live
1:56:29
stream the other day and Carmelo Anthony was like, now I love
1:56:33
that Jaylen Brown live stream. Like more athletes need to speak
1:56:36
directly to to y'all. Hold on, hold on, don't say
1:56:39
Carmelo Anthony because there's some stuff that comes out of
1:56:42
Carmelo mouth. They.
1:56:44
Don't agree with? Carmelo Anthony, the things that
1:56:47
come out of that guy's mouth on his show, just mind boggles me.
1:56:51
I I guess. Because it's it's.
1:56:53
Ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous.
1:56:56
It's like this guy and I got to give, I got to give some people
1:57:00
a lot of credit. A lot of these, a lot of these
1:57:02
ex athletes, they go into broadcasting and a lot of them
1:57:05
are good and some of them are just so very bad because of
1:57:09
their names, because of who they are, their personalities they're
1:57:11
following on social media. Because you know this Greg, when
1:57:14
you were playing in the NBA, there really wasn't social
1:57:16
media. There really wasn't ABS.
1:57:18
It was after you left. Could you imagine if social
1:57:21
media took off when you were playing in the NBA?
1:57:24
Forget about it. You would have been torched.
1:57:27
You would have been torched. I still want to fight some
1:57:30
people from Facebook by the way. It's horrible.
1:57:36
Yes, Sir. I'll tell you.
1:57:38
Guys don't age me that. Quick.
1:57:39
Yeah, he puts it back there. I'll tell you guys.
1:57:43
I'll tell you guys. Something.
1:57:45
So we do this show every week, twice a week, and after the show
1:57:50
I get direct messages from different people and I tell
1:57:53
people I'm going to answer every single message.
1:57:55
I'm also a writer. I write because I like to piss
1:57:58
people off. That's just my personal
1:57:59
personality. It, it's just the way I attack
1:58:01
people and I, they all attack me.
1:58:03
They all have something to say. And all the, all the things that
1:58:06
I've said on the show, I mean it.
1:58:09
I don't, I don't beat around the Bush.
1:58:10
I tell you how it is. You don't like it, then attack
1:58:13
me. And every single time I get a
1:58:15
message from these guys and they, they're attacking what I
1:58:18
say. OK, then rebut me, give me an
1:58:20
answer on why I'm wrong. And none of them, none of them
1:58:23
can come up with an argument that would beat my argument on
1:58:27
the show. So I said, well, why are you
1:58:29
writing to me then? It makes no sense.
1:58:31
Why are you attacking me when none of your perspective on what
1:58:35
I said makes any sense? So I don't get it.
1:58:39
And then the media, by the way, they are guys like Pat McAfee
1:58:43
and I'm, I'm not going to mention any more names that go
1:58:46
out there and they talk about basketball.
1:58:48
What do you know about basketball?
1:58:50
Seriously, Pat, the fact that you have Hal Burton on your show
1:58:54
because you're a Pacer fan and and all these other guys that
1:58:57
want to come on your show because you're you have a big,
1:58:59
you have a big show, it's on ESPN, you're making millions and
1:59:01
millions of dollars. But then when he comes up and
1:59:04
he's speaking about basketball and hockey, I'm like, dude, you
1:59:06
don't even know what you're talking about.
1:59:08
That to me turns me off on your show.
1:59:11
So why? Well, let me let me say this
1:59:13
about Pat. Pat lives in Indianapolis and I
1:59:16
don't know if you know anything about Indiana.
1:59:18
Yes, we are all basketball experts.
1:59:21
Yes, every last one of us that live in Indiana.
1:59:24
So I'm just throwing that out there.
1:59:26
So I'm gonna give Pat a pass because I grew up in
1:59:29
Indianapolis and Terre Haute. So you know us, Indiana, We, we,
1:59:33
we live and die by our basketball now.
1:59:35
I got it. I got it.
1:59:37
But the the fact here is there are things that Pat McAfee says
1:59:40
on his show when it comes to basketball makes no sense.
1:59:42
I I'm sitting there and I'm listening.
1:59:44
Listen, Greg, I know you're going to stick up for your
1:59:47
Indiana guys and you're going to stick up for your Ohio guys.
1:59:50
And I respect you. Me.
1:59:52
I don't care if you're from New York, Chicago, Miami, or LA.
1:59:57
If I don't like what you got to say, I'm going to bite your
2:00:00
friggin head off. And I could care less what you
2:00:02
think of me and that. Sounds like a New York guy.
2:00:05
I am a New York guy. I'm a.
2:00:07
Very I got a question for you and this is a dumb question I
2:00:10
guess. Why are you reading DMS?
2:00:15
Because to me. It's a good question.
2:00:18
So I'll tell you this, I actually like reading the DMS
2:00:21
just as much as I like people writing about my stories and
2:00:24
attacking me on their stories. We have a, we have a segment
2:00:27
called Alrighty then and we read off.
2:00:29
We picked the biggest story. So I'll, if there's 25,000
2:00:33
people that read the story, my, my producer will read off
2:00:37
certain things that people write, good or bad, and I will
2:00:41
read it off and I will answer them during the show.
2:00:44
And it's funny because they're, they hide behind their stories.
2:00:47
They give you their false little names, Cum Guzzler or MM and Ike
2:00:52
or something. Like that?
2:00:53
Yeah, there's some, there's some weird names, man.
2:00:56
And they, and they have like weird names and they, they
2:00:59
attack me in every kind of way. And I'm looking at it, I'm like,
2:01:02
OK, so if you got such a problem, why don't you just call
2:01:05
the show or why don't you just air out your opinion some other
2:01:08
way? We could talk or nobody does
2:01:11
that. You know why?
2:01:12
Because everybody has an answer. Everybody thinks they're a
2:01:15
genius. They know all about sports and
2:01:17
they're no more about sports than you do.
2:01:19
And then the athlete like Quinton, they'll attack Quinton
2:01:22
and say, well, you weren't good in football.
2:01:24
Really. I wasn't good in football.
2:01:25
I was a first round draft pick. I sacked Tom Brady, you know, so
2:01:31
I I don't, I don't, I don't get it.
2:01:33
Like the people have their own opinions, but their opinions are
2:01:37
not solid enough to even answer. So why you ask me why I read it?
2:01:40
Because I want to laugh at it. I like to laugh, I like to
2:01:44
giggle. I read it off to my girlfriend.
2:01:46
She thinks it's funny. I don't care what people think
2:01:49
of me. And that's why I do this,
2:01:52
because I can tell you to go F yourself a million times and
2:01:56
I'll come on this show every single time and tell you if you
2:01:59
got a problem with me, I'll tell you where I live, you can come
2:02:01
and meet me. So don't.
2:02:03
Do that. I'm not going to do it that way
2:02:05
because you know, they'll you'll have a whole gang gangling of
2:02:08
people over here trying to I live in a cul-de-sac.
2:02:11
They're going to be, you know, they'll be yelling and cops and
2:02:14
everything like that, baseball bats and you know, all that
2:02:17
other crap. But you know what it is it it
2:02:19
the problem with the world is, is people think that they're
2:02:22
geniuses because they watch sports.
2:02:23
They think that they know more than the athlete does or know
2:02:26
more than the analysts do. And, and the problem is, is guys
2:02:30
like Stephen A Smith, who I actually respect, I actually
2:02:34
respect for what he's done in the industry, he's brought an
2:02:38
opening for people to do what he is doing.
2:02:41
And now everybody thinks they could be the next Stephen A
2:02:43
Smith. Everybody thinks they can bite
2:02:45
somebody's head off and make millions and millions of
2:02:46
dollars. That's why there's a million
2:02:48
podcasts out there, a million podcasts and half of them suck.
2:02:52
They'll never break. I don't know if you guys know
2:02:55
this. More than half.
2:02:56
We're we are a top 100 show in the country, in the country
2:03:01
where we're at right now and we've been that way for almost 2
2:03:04
1/2 months on Spotify and Apple. We don't have ESPN, we don't
2:03:09
have CBS, we don't have all these different companies
2:03:12
telling us, oh, or feeding US money.
2:03:15
We're doing it ourselves. And what that tells me and tells
2:03:18
what we do better than everybody else is we're honest.
2:03:21
We sit there. We're not hiding behind a
2:03:23
director, a producer telling us, you better say this or you're
2:03:27
fired. No, I'm going to say what I want
2:03:30
and you can kiss my ass. That's what I'm going to say.
2:03:33
And then after that, you're going to pay me to tell you to
2:03:36
kiss my ass, because that's what Pat McAfee did with ESPN.
2:03:40
And that's exactly what we're going to do when they're calling
2:03:43
us into their little rooms and telling us, well, we'll give you
2:03:46
this, we'll give you that, we'll give you this, we'll give you
2:03:48
that, I'll give you this. That's what I'm going to give
2:03:51
you. And that's it.
2:03:52
And and that's, that's how I am. And and that's why Quentin kind
2:03:56
of calms me down and levels me out because I I'm a very
2:04:00
personable person. What you what you speaking to is
2:04:04
to me is like that authenticity, man, like I think, you know,
2:04:07
even when we first joined on the show, I was like, man, the
2:04:09
energy on we were in the you know, the backstage room and I
2:04:12
was like the energy on this show is amped.
2:04:14
I'm like, I love it Like it's I could just tell they it's no
2:04:18
holds bars, right. You get in the real and to to to
2:04:21
kind of piggyback from earlier as far as you know, even though
2:04:24
there are some athletes that aren't so good at media
2:04:26
podcasting, I would prefer or I just appreciate the fact that
2:04:30
they have the opportunity, right?
2:04:32
Because you have some guys that are really good.
2:04:33
Were you like, man, you could tell this guy is going to have a
2:04:36
long broadcasting career. And then you have some guys
2:04:38
where they struggle or they might try to say something that
2:04:40
just, you know, for whatever reason.
2:04:42
But I just appreciate that they have the opportunity because
2:04:44
1520 years ago that like other people were speaking for them,
2:04:48
right? And, and to, you know, to this
2:04:50
movie, to someone like Greg and Quentin, like they played, they
2:04:54
played basketball and football respectively.
2:04:56
And they're speaking about their experience.
2:04:58
It's just the fact that they can now share their stories, share
2:05:00
their perspective and whether you're an athlete or you're
2:05:03
somebody such as yourself, Arrow or somebody like Pat man, I
2:05:06
think I just think today people are like, yo, cut the bullshit.
2:05:10
I want the real, whatever the real is.
2:05:11
If it's from your perspective as an athlete, give me the real.
2:05:14
Tell me what it's like in that locker room.
2:05:15
Tell me what that you know what it was like getting ready for
2:05:18
that big game five. And if it's the observer's eyes,
2:05:21
I'm not going to give you the cookie cutter thing.
2:05:23
I'm going to tell you, you know, I'm going to keep it.
2:05:24
I'm going to give it to you straight.
2:05:25
Like you said, F you like like how arrows doing.
2:05:27
So I just think, man, people want the real and that to me is
2:05:31
reflective of the world. Where to your point Arrow?
2:05:33
It's not about acting like you know everything and being a
2:05:35
genius. It doesn't matter what you look
2:05:37
like. For instance, our producer and
2:05:38
our Co host right over here, and I say it on the show this he's
2:05:41
autistic. Nobody would know that unless
2:05:44
you know him personally. He's one of the great analysts
2:05:49
when it comes to play by play. Greg, he probably tell your
2:05:52
analytics from your last season in the NBA.
2:05:55
He would know it. He would tell you what you did
2:05:58
in certain games, how many rebounds, how many assists
2:06:00
you've had in in in in a certain amount of game.
2:06:03
The guy is a genius, an absolute genius, but the problem is with
2:06:08
with autistic kids, they're not going to give him a chance
2:06:11
because he's autistic. They're looking at him as
2:06:14
deformed or not normal. So we're not going to give him a
2:06:17
chance even though he's got all the talent in the world.
2:06:19
When I looked at him when I first started working with him,
2:06:22
I didn't look at him as that. I looked at him as an equal and
2:06:25
I still look at him as equal. As a matter of fact, he's one of
2:06:27
the most talented people in this industry.
2:06:30
And when people get to know who he is and his personality and
2:06:34
his drive and his love for for the business and sports, he
2:06:38
wasn't a great athlete. I can tell you this right now.
2:06:40
He can't shoot a basketball, he can't throw a football and he
2:06:42
definitely can't throw a baseball.
2:06:45
My boy can dance. He cannot.
2:06:48
Dance. He's a voice.
2:06:49
Dancer, I'm telling you. He's the one.
2:06:52
He's down on that dance floor now.
2:06:54
He could be a Rockette, That's about it.
2:06:56
I mean, that guy's got high kicks and, and he's not afraid.
2:06:59
He's not. He doesn't fear anything.
2:07:01
What makes him so special is not because of who he is and what
2:07:05
people see him as. What makes him special is what
2:07:08
he believes himself to be. That is what makes him special.
2:07:12
He doesn't hold back on anything he says.
2:07:14
And I told him when he came here, when he started work with
2:07:16
me. The one thing you need to do is
2:07:18
be yourself. Don't worry about what anybody
2:07:20
thinks of you or how they portray you to be.
2:07:22
Just bite their friggin heads off.
2:07:24
There you go. There's the middle fingers.
2:07:26
Kiss my ass. That's all I'm going to say.
2:07:28
And this guy, you could speak in here everything.
2:07:31
What was the first thing I told you when you came into our
2:07:33
studio? What was the first thing I told
2:07:35
you? Hey.
2:07:38
This is a fool. You obviously the first show.
2:07:40
What was the first thing I told you after you left, After I
2:07:43
cancelled the first show that you were?
2:07:45
In Hey, thank you my boy. What did I tell you?
2:07:47
No. That you believed in me, I
2:07:48
remember. That that I believed in you.
2:07:50
And what else did I told you? That's horrible dancing.
2:07:53
Horrible dancing. Dude, you get the folks in the
2:07:57
back. Girl dude, I'm clearing them
2:07:58
all. Clearing them all.
2:07:59
I'm the one to open the dance floor for him because I want him
2:08:02
to break it down. Listen, I'll tell you this and
2:08:05
Richie, what you guys are doing, Greg, what you, what you have
2:08:09
done and what you continue to do, you speaking and, and
2:08:12
speaking who you are and, and being a public speaker.
2:08:15
It's something that I love to do too.
2:08:17
When people ask me to talk to soldiers and people ask me to
2:08:20
talk to kids, I always am open to do that because everybody
2:08:23
asks me what makes you what drives you to do this?
2:08:25
And I it's the love and the passion for this business.
2:08:28
I love it. And it's not because I want to
2:08:30
be a millionaire. I want to my face on a
2:08:32
television for everybody to kiss my ass.
2:08:34
And if you want to do that, you're more than welcome.
2:08:35
I'll pull my pants down. You can kiss my ass.
2:08:38
But, but nevertheless, what I do in this business and, and how I
2:08:42
do it, it's, it's, it's passion, it's love it, it's understanding
2:08:46
how to entertain people. That's what I love about this
2:08:49
business has nothing to do with being a superstar.
2:08:52
The problem in this business is everybody wants to be the next
2:08:56
Stephen A Smith, the Pat Mcafee's.
2:08:58
And there's just not many positions out there that's going
2:09:01
to give you that. And the only way you're going to
2:09:03
get there is to show yourself as a different person.
2:09:08
And I think Greg, I, I don't believe in bust.
2:09:11
I don't believe in the word bust.
2:09:13
I don't believe in, I don't believe in anything of those
2:09:15
magnets. If you were a first round draft
2:09:17
pick and as far as I'm concerned, you were one of the
2:09:21
great centers coming out of college.
2:09:23
If you look at your numbers when you want, you were playing in
2:09:26
the national championship. And throughout that tournament,
2:09:29
you did things that other players still to this day have
2:09:32
not done, have not done. And when was the last time the
2:09:35
Buckeyes were in a national championship game?
2:09:38
Please let me hear that one. O7.
2:09:41
Yeah, it's not. It doesn't happen every day.
2:09:44
It doesn't happen every year. It takes years and years to
2:09:47
accomplish that opportunity. And you were one of the leaders
2:09:50
that took them there. And as far as you, Richie, I'm
2:09:53
getting to know you and, and really the back end of your
2:09:56
story communications and where you've gone and where you jump
2:10:00
from one thing to another and, and decided to write a book like
2:10:03
this and make a movie like this and kind of bring it, bring it
2:10:07
to the forefront. And then you get Greg Odin
2:10:08
involved and, and really put the perspective together.
2:10:11
That to me shows more of an accomplishment than most people
2:10:16
can do in a lifetime. And honestly, I give you nothing
2:10:19
but my utmost respect. I, I really look, I look up to
2:10:23
people like you because what I do in this this business and
2:10:26
where I want to go in this business is going to drive me to
2:10:29
the next level and watching people like you do it and Greg
2:10:32
do it and and even quit and do it at a high level.
2:10:35
That's where I want to go in this business at a hot the
2:10:38
highest of high levels and compete with the best.
2:10:42
And what we, you know, I certainly appreciate.
2:10:44
I know Greg does. Just again, getting the
2:10:46
opportunity for us to talk about the film, talk about our
2:10:49
stories. It's not every day, man.
2:10:51
And again, like I said, like the energy that you guys have is is
2:10:54
contagious. Like you making me want to run
2:10:56
through a brick wall. Maybe you got to get in the
2:10:57
coaching because I feel like I've run through a brick wall,
2:11:00
right? Now.
2:11:01
You know, just like cut, cut, cut the water noise, cut through
2:11:04
all the BS. Like we only want the real man
2:11:07
and Arrow just from being on the show with you guys for an hour.
2:11:10
I'm like, what you guys are doing is real and and we need
2:11:13
more of that. And and again, I certainly love
2:11:15
you know what you're doing quitting and speedy, like you
2:11:18
guys bringing y'all's, you know, respective perspectives to this
2:11:22
show, man. And again, I'm just so like I
2:11:25
was just beaming ear to ear, just hearing Quentin and Greg
2:11:28
talk about their experiences, like we got two different
2:11:30
sports, which is what I was trying to do in the movie.
2:11:32
I'm like I want all these. Different sports.
2:11:34
Talk about this experience, man. It's like a fraternity that you
2:11:37
know that you guys have that experience that like I'm sure
2:11:41
that I'm sure you guys don't even have to talk about.
2:11:43
It's like like a telekinetic thing like you know is man, you
2:11:46
know, so I'm just I'm just appreciative that y'all had us
2:11:49
on the show. We were able to have this
2:11:51
experience, man. And you know, again, this is
2:11:53
this show is unlike anything I've ever been a part of and I
2:11:56
just love the energy. And you know, I know you said
2:12:00
you don't want to talk too much on Pat McAfee.
2:12:02
I honestly don't watch much of Pat McAfee, but you got all the
2:12:05
same traits, man. When I'm all here and at the
2:12:06
times I've seen Pat McAfee, I just see him off the rails
2:12:09
speaking the real. And that's what I've gotten on
2:12:11
the hour that I've been with you.
2:12:12
And it seems like you guys have like a really great dynamic.
2:12:15
So I know this show is going to the moon, man.
2:12:17
So in the same way, you know, we were able to inspire you by
2:12:20
telling our story. You guys are inspiring us, man.
2:12:22
So really appreciate the support.
2:12:23
So about but I got one question for both of you guys, because
2:12:26
this is an argument on this show a lot.
2:12:29
Quentin has this LeBron James love and I got Michael Michael
2:12:33
Jordans love. I almost said Michael Jackson,
2:12:35
but Michael Jordan love. So I want to know you both your
2:12:38
opinion. Greg, you first.
2:12:40
Who's the greatest basketball player of all time?
2:12:43
Please, let's settle this. I've asked.
2:12:45
I've asked Mike James this. Mike James, you know where he
2:12:48
went? And I've asked.
2:12:49
I've asked Metta World Peace this and you know where he went.
2:12:53
So I want to hear what you guys got to say.
2:12:55
Who's the greatest basketball player of all time?
2:13:00
Yourself. Wilt Chamberlain Hey, so I put
2:13:08
it like this. Michael Jordan changed the game
2:13:12
and made it global. He made everybody want to go out
2:13:15
there and play the game of basketball.
2:13:17
LeBron James by the numbers, is the greatest basketball player
2:13:23
to play the game. And if we're going by analytics,
2:13:29
LeBron James is. But also LeBron changed the game
2:13:33
in his own perspective, but also so did Steph Curry.
2:13:37
He changed the game in his own perspective as well.
2:13:40
So there's a lot of people that you can say I'm at the age where
2:13:43
I grew up watching Michael Jordan.
2:13:46
And then I also played with Le Bron James in Miami, who I
2:13:50
thought was a creative player. I think the Miami Heat Le Bron
2:13:55
James is the greatest basketball player.
2:13:58
Be quiet, Cute. Stop, Stop, Stop, stop, stop
2:14:01
you. Be quiet.
2:14:02
You all right, Rich? Where were you got?
2:14:04
Where do you got it? I'm gonna disappoint some folks,
2:14:07
man. I try.
2:14:07
I never wanted to say this out in public, but I'm exclusive
2:14:11
guy, man I play. I grew up in the area when I was
2:14:14
coming of age where Jordan's Wizards years and I'm a
2:14:17
storyteller, man. Like I I believe in like the
2:14:19
magic of the whole reason I would go to the court by myself
2:14:22
shooting hoops is because of that first scene in Space Jam
2:14:25
when he's when his dad is trying to get him off the court, man.
2:14:27
So I understand what Greg is saying and that LeBron by the
2:14:32
numbers is, is I guess the GOAT. But I just can't quit Mike, man.
2:14:36
Like it's just when I watch him, it's it's something else.
2:14:39
It's something else. And so for me, Jordan, Jordan is
2:14:43
the GOAT. But I'm here's where I'm at,
2:14:44
though. 10 years ago I would have fought it.
2:14:46
I don't know, like, no, wait, LeBron is better than Jordan.
2:14:49
I'm at the point now where I'm not arguing like what he's doing
2:14:52
is objectively insane. Like 42 years old still, you
2:14:57
know, they talk about what team is he going to go to next year
2:15:01
to help them put them over the top.
2:15:02
So like, if I'm being honest, like probably, you know, maybe
2:15:06
he's the GOAT, but the fact that like I can't decide to me is
2:15:11
good enough. And you know what, and I'll
2:15:12
leave it on here. Both Jordan and LeBron, I feel
2:15:14
like I've been talking about the GOAT debate recently.
2:15:16
Like Jordan did the whole thing with Mike, forget the last name,
2:15:19
the last dance, that interview and he was like, there is no go
2:15:22
really. How can you compare?
2:15:23
LeBron just did something with Dave, I forget dudes last name
2:15:27
too, but he just did something where he was like, yo, I hope I
2:15:30
made made Mike proud. So it feels like as LeBron is
2:15:33
ending nearing the end of his career, they're both like man,
2:15:36
put this to bed. Like we, we are the 2 greatest
2:15:39
of all time. And so for me, I might give MJA
2:15:42
slight edge and Greg gives LeBron the edge man.
2:15:45
But these are the 2. These get it rich get it rich.
2:15:48
Anyone whoever wanted to basketball wanted to be one or
2:15:52
the other, you know, And what I'll say is the fact that LeBron
2:15:56
is 69270. I knew I could never do a little
2:16:00
part of me, even though Jordan is also one percentile athlete,
2:16:04
thought, OK, maybe I could do the fade away.
2:16:06
I could do the up and under. So LeBron is just an anomaly.
2:16:08
Can't nobody play like that, man?
2:16:10
You know, I think that's why more of us, when we dream in the
2:16:12
game, we like Mike and Steph and these little these smaller guys.
2:16:16
Yeah. We'll stay away.
2:16:17
We'll stay away. We'll stay away from Space Jam 2
2:16:20
with LeBron James it. Was a pit.
2:16:21
Bull. My daughter likes that one, so
2:16:23
thank you. Thank you.
2:16:25
Kids watched it too. So what are you talking about?
2:16:28
It's just an era. It's just whatever era you would
2:16:30
have put it in. My.
2:16:31
Kids wore it out or whatever man, but I.
2:16:34
Swear. Yeah, Thank you guys for coming
2:16:35
on, man. Tell the people where you know
2:16:37
they can find you guys and then talk to them.
2:16:41
Talk to them about, you know, where they can locate the movie,
2:16:44
The theater, and where they can see the screening if they're
2:16:47
around. Well, I just want to say thank
2:16:50
you guys for having us. I'm gonna let Richie take it
2:16:53
home, but next week, Miami is it next week, two weeks, two weeks
2:16:59
on the 27th Miami African American Film Festival, please
2:17:04
come out and support the Movie bus.
2:17:07
Thank you guys for having us on your platform so we can talk
2:17:10
about it and God bless. Craig, we'll get John.
2:17:14
We'll get you guys on. After you get the showing and
2:17:17
everything, we'd love to hear your take on every.
2:17:20
How many people showed up? We would definitely like to hear
2:17:22
your take on it. Yeah, absolutely.
2:17:24
Yeah. As Greg noted, May 27th in Miami
2:17:27
Beach, 5 O 5:00 PM at O Cinema. You can come see Bust for the
2:17:31
first time and then just keep and and and if you can't make it
2:17:35
to that screening, follow Bust Movie on Instagram.
2:17:38
Again, that's just Bust Movie. We'll give you that guys, all
2:17:41
the updates on what other screenings we're going to be
2:17:44
doing. This is just the beginning.
2:17:46
We hope to be doing screenings throughout the year.
2:17:49
And so, yeah, again, really appreciate the opportunity to
2:17:52
come on. The show has been a blast and
2:17:54
really appreciate the support for our film.
2:17:56
Thank you guys. By the way, we were just talking
2:17:58
to Richie Cam Chum and former NBA player, 10 year vet Greg
2:18:05
Oden. And guys, go check out the movie
2:18:07
Bust It's coming. Soon.
2:18:09
And 1st screening, like they were saying May 27th in Miami,
2:18:14
fantastic interview. They're fantastic.
2:18:16
And shout out to Greg, shout out to Richie.
2:18:19
They're they're just great personalities and and what
2:18:22
really makes them unique is they were straightforward.
2:18:25
They they they explained a little bit about the movie.
2:18:28
They don't want to give anything away because they want people to
2:18:30
go and see it. But you can see that the love of
2:18:34
the game game, the love of the game of basketball, Greg, you
2:18:37
know, you heard it. I it was interesting because
2:18:40
I've never heard Greg Onan ever be ever have an interview and
2:18:43
say that he cried and he was smoking weed and drinking.
2:18:46
I never even know that. So that was that.
2:18:49
That was a good question. Q And we got a chance to get to
2:18:53
know Greg a little bit as a person, not just as an athlete,
2:18:57
as a normal person, as a father. And that, that is unique by
2:19:00
itself. Honestly one of the best
2:19:02
interviews we've ever had. I've interviewed over 5000
2:19:05
people, 5000 people, athletes, analysts, writers, movie stars,
2:19:12
everything Speedy. I mean, I've interviewed
2:19:13
everybody. And what makes these two guys so
2:19:17
unique is they were honest. A lot of people just like to
2:19:21
beat around the Bush. They don't want to give you
2:19:22
answers. I told everybody, Jamie and
2:19:25
Sherwood, he came on our show two years ago and you weren't on
2:19:28
the show. Q And everybody, I was like, oh,
2:19:31
we got Jamie and Sherwood on the show and he was on the show.
2:19:34
He would not give me any answers.
2:19:36
I I open up people, I get them involved and and they he just
2:19:40
would not open up. He was just boring.
2:19:43
And I was like, I can't stand this guy.
2:19:45
And then then the year, late year later, they just give him a
2:19:47
four year extension. I was like, why me?
2:19:50
Why me so typical typical Jet fan ladies and gentlemen, The
2:19:55
Jets sign people I don't want. So thank you very much for all
2:20:00
the Jet fans out there. If you're watching kiss my ass,
2:20:03
that's. It wow, sorry.
2:20:04
And you call yourself A and you call yourself a.
2:20:06
Jet. I'm a real Jet fan.
2:20:08
I don't want. Jamie, you're telling you.
2:20:10
I don't like Jamie and Sherwood. I love, I love Davis.
2:20:14
I love, I love the I love the fact that they brought him back.
2:20:17
That was a Rex Ryan guy. I love it, but why the hell
2:20:21
there it is? I I'd be running there it is.
2:20:24
Perfect. Perfect.
2:20:26
That is perfect. Get yourself in trouble now.
2:20:32
That's me running over Q if anybody wants to know if if
2:20:35
anybody wants to. We don't know who that guy is.
2:20:37
That's you Qi mean this beautiful.
2:20:41
There's everybody, by the way, anybody that knows Q on this
2:20:44
show and I'm sick today, but I'm I'm getting back, I'm I'm
2:20:48
getting back some energy on this show.
2:20:50
I've been dealing with fevers and being sick, losing my voice.
2:20:53
And I'm here giving you the entertainment.
2:20:56
I will say this every time I talk to Q, he talks how he's a
2:20:59
supermodel, he's beautiful, he's good looking and all the women
2:21:03
want him. And I say, aren't you married?
2:21:06
Don't you have to give you get up here lying?
2:21:09
God's gift I don't. Talk about how many we.
2:21:12
Hire, Hire. Right now, am I gifted in the
2:21:17
looks area? I've been told, you know, I've
2:21:21
been told. So you know, but outside of
2:21:23
that. Ladies and gentlemen, he has
2:21:25
lost his mind that's. Perfect.
2:21:27
Oh Bob, By far one of the top five handsomest guys you ever
2:21:31
had on this show. Get the hell out of here.
2:21:35
You're looking at the most handsome guy on this show.
2:21:37
Right over here, right here, ladies and gentlemen, right
2:21:40
here. They call me beautiful.
2:21:42
You look sick. Yeah, you look.
2:21:45
Hey, listen. Listen, I don't need any grief
2:21:50
from you and all the bullcrap that comes out of your mouth on
2:21:52
this show. I'm losing.
2:21:54
I'm losing. I'm trying to keep my my voice
2:21:57
flushed with this pink crap. OK, All right.
2:22:00
Crystal light. Crystal light with, you know,
2:22:03
some antibiotic symptoms, you know, I mean, I'm how.
2:22:07
Old Are you still chopping up antibiotics?
2:22:10
Dude, I I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm just.
2:22:13
Take the medicine, why are you chopping it up and put it in a
2:22:16
drink? Because it's more tasty that
2:22:18
way. I don't like to, you know, I I
2:22:20
don't know you know what you know what you know what I, I
2:22:23
can't stand about you is when, when it comes down to it, you
2:22:27
tried to attack me for the dumbest reasons and then and I.
2:22:31
Stay here. You just.
2:22:32
Like to attack me on this show for the dumbest reasons.
2:22:35
That's the. Question.
2:22:36
That's not an attack. That's not you're antagonizing
2:22:39
me, that's what you're doing. I asked what are you 2?
2:22:42
I'm drinking crystal. Light with antibiotics in him.
2:22:45
What do you want me to say? That's what I do with kids.
2:22:48
Like, oh, it's not like he's eating Flintstone vitamins or
2:22:51
anything like that. Actually, actually that's
2:22:54
delicious, by the way, love, love that.
2:22:56
I love it. I actually have the Flintstones
2:23:00
Benadryl because I don't like yes, I actually eat that.
2:23:03
I chew that stuff. It's good.
2:23:04
It's good. What it's good.
2:23:07
I. Allergic.
2:23:07
It's delicious. It's delicious.
2:23:09
I actually eat that stuff. Yabba dabba Doo.
2:23:11
Yabba dabba Doo. Yeah, it's definitely yabba
2:23:13
dabba Doo. Anyways, thank you to Greg Oding
2:23:16
and and obviously Richie Camp Chew.
2:23:19
I'm going to chew him. By the way, Richie is fantastic,
2:23:22
man, He really is. I you know what it is?
2:23:26
I I love stories and I love storytelling and I could tell I
2:23:30
want to go and see that movie. So I because I I like the
2:23:34
stories behind the story. So very, very interesting.
2:23:38
Both very, very nice guys and hope we get them on the show
2:23:41
again. Anyways, we call this all
2:23:44
righty, then all righty, then all righty, all righty, then all
2:23:55
right, let's go. All righty then.
2:23:58
Here we are once again with our literary segment of the week.
2:24:03
All righty then. This is the one where.
2:24:05
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2:24:32
interview that we just had with Greg Owen and Richie Kamchum.
2:24:36
So the article is about Giannis. I'm going to share the screen
2:24:39
with you. I'm going to read an excerpt of
2:24:40
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That's where you go. Let's bring this one down and
2:24:58
bring up the article Giannis trade rumors have the NBA acting
2:25:03
like Facebook marketplace at 2:00 AM.
2:25:07
Let's take a look here it is Giannis.
2:25:10
The NBA has officially entered the every fan base thinks
2:25:14
they're getting Giannis stage of the offseason.
2:25:17
You got fans in Brooklyn posting fake Photoshop edits, fans in
2:25:20
Houston making fake trade machines, fans in Miami are
2:25:25
already learning how to spell and Ted Akumpo after 12 years.
2:25:29
And Knicks fans, Knicks fans are standing outside Madison Square
2:25:32
Garden folding boom boxes like it's a 1987 romance movie,
2:25:37
screaming Yannis, please, we have Deuce McBride.
2:25:41
Now, the scary part. This time it actually makes
2:25:45
sense. Let's skip down the East Coast
2:25:48
part is what should terrify everybody.
2:25:51
What making this EV crazier is the growing belief that around
2:25:54
the league that Giannis would prefer staying in the Eastern
2:25:57
Conference and on the East Coast if things go South in Milwaukee
2:26:02
to immediately made Knicks fans, Heat fans, Celtics fans, and
2:26:05
every fake NBA insider with a microphone lose their minds
2:26:08
simultaneously. Because suddenly this isn't just
2:26:12
maybe someday Giannis leaves. Now it's, Oh no, this man, we
2:26:16
could actually be 45 minutes away from playing at Madison
2:26:19
Square Garden. That changes everything, Speedy.
2:26:26
All right, just for you. Q, We'll start with the Celtics
2:26:28
comment. This is Shaolin swerving, Monk
2:26:31
referencing the spacing. If the Celtics were to trade for
2:26:35
Giannis, he'd rather try for swinging for a better big man
2:26:38
than keep Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum together.
2:26:42
Shaylen, thank you for your your thoughts and your comments.
2:26:46
What do you want? Drugs.
2:26:47
Giannis right now, he had his best season before he got
2:26:50
injured. This year, Giannis is playing at
2:26:52
a high level and Giannis is better than Jaylen Brown or
2:26:56
Jayson Tatum. It's no doubt about it.
2:26:59
If you look at the top five players before Giannis went
2:27:01
down, he was a top 4 player for MVP and you're going to tell me
2:27:05
you can find it. But who's better than Giannis
2:27:07
right now? That's going to be available in
2:27:09
the offseason. What big man?
2:27:10
You had no big man. You got eliminated by the 76ers,
2:27:14
who, by the way, the Knicks wept.
2:27:16
Good luck on that one. All right, we'll go to a Nets
2:27:19
comment here. Cooley.
2:27:20
Cooley, with the new tanking rules, it makes so much sense
2:27:22
for the Nets to build naturally with the way that the tanking
2:27:25
rules are, especially with the next article.
2:27:27
You just broke it as well with this new 321 rule.
2:27:30
I like the new rules for the Nets, even with the Nets getting
2:27:32
hurt by it. And he was mentioning teams like
2:27:34
the Wizards and the Pelicans getting lucky.
2:27:37
Cooley, Cooley. And I agree with you.
2:27:39
I, I, I do agree with everything that you said.
2:27:42
But here's the thing. The tanking rule makes no sense
2:27:46
for the NBA. It would work for the NHL.
2:27:49
It would work for practically every other sport but the NBA.
2:27:54
Because how many times do you see a team go to overtime?
2:27:58
How many times do you see that? You don't see it at all.
2:28:01
It makes no sense how the NBA is drawing that.
2:28:05
And as far as I'm concerned with the Nets, the Nets are a losing
2:28:08
organization. They're never going to get
2:28:10
Giannis. They're never going to get
2:28:11
another superstar because they have Sean Marks running the
2:28:13
show. And it doesn't matter if they
2:28:15
get a cuff, they get Waggler, whatever and Wangler.
2:28:19
It doesn't matter to me. They're an organization that
2:28:23
bombs everything. So thank you, Cooley.
2:28:25
Cooley. All right, this one, this is
2:28:26
Peace Porridge, 90 old. He thinks the Toronto Raptors
2:28:30
watch out for them as a dark horse.
2:28:31
They got some bad contracts, mentioning Emmanuel Quigley and
2:28:33
Jacob Purtle, mainly that I'm sure that I'd love to turn into
2:28:36
Giannis. They have to pony up in terms of
2:28:38
picks and young players, but they do have the stock to do it.
2:28:41
Now, peace. Thank you for your take on that.
2:28:44
Do you really think Giannis wants to go to Toronto?
2:28:48
Come on, He has already said he wants to stay on the East Coast.
2:28:51
1 #2 he wants to play in a big market.
2:28:54
Toronto is more of a hockey market.
2:28:56
Why would he go there? He's not going to sell much over
2:28:59
there. He'd probably rather go to
2:29:00
Miami, New York, Chicago. He wants to go to one of those
2:29:04
big markets where he can build his brand.
2:29:06
So that's not going to happen. But they have pieces that if he
2:29:11
waves this no trade clause and he wants to go there.
2:29:15
I don't know if he has a no trade clause, but with the NBA,
2:29:18
no trade clause is for every single contract for a big
2:29:21
superstar because if he gets traded over there, he doesn't
2:29:23
want to play there. There's no reason to trade for
2:29:26
him because he's going to be asking for his way out.
2:29:28
It's not going to happen. Yannis is going to make his
2:29:30
choice on where he wants to go. It's just not going to be
2:29:32
Toronto. All right, that's one from
2:29:33
Warrior Popes. This is for the Miami Heat.
2:29:37
He wouldn't shock me. The Heat will get him because he
2:29:39
thinks it's on Giannis shortlist.
2:29:40
Now the Heat does not believe that the Heat Max offer is going
2:29:43
to compare to a team like Toronto, A-Team like Houston or
2:29:47
OKC in the West and a lot of these other teams that are more
2:29:49
young talent than the Miami Heat.
2:29:50
Do all right, I I agree with you.
2:29:53
The heat makes a lot of sense. Pat Riley knows how to find the
2:29:55
guys, but guess what? If you trade for Giannis, you're
2:29:59
going to have to trade Bam out of bio because there is no way
2:30:03
you're getting Giannis for nothing.
2:30:05
Who do you have? You don't have much draft stock.
2:30:07
You really don't. You don't have, you're not going
2:30:09
to get a top ten pick with Bam on a bio there and Tyler Hero on
2:30:12
the pieces that you have over there.
2:30:14
So it wouldn't make any sense to just do that.
2:30:17
You're going to have to get another team involved if he goes
2:30:20
if you want to keep Bam on a bio there and add Yanis.
2:30:24
All right, last one. This is just a more general one,
2:30:27
taking shots at the Bucks organization.
2:30:28
No one's trading with the Bucks. They've lost all credibility and
2:30:32
they'll have to hope for a miracle to get anything they
2:30:34
want. Is that cat?
2:30:36
Is that his name? Thank you, Cat.
2:30:39
And I agree with you. Right now, Giannis is in the
2:30:42
driver's seat. The organization is in shambles.
2:30:45
They don't know what they're going to do.
2:30:47
They don't have any pieces. They don't have any draft stock.
2:30:49
They don't have anything right now.
2:30:50
Milwaukee is up shit's Creek, as they would say.
2:30:54
So my opinion here is Giannis is going to put the organization on
2:30:59
his back and he's going to make sure wherever he gets traded, if
2:31:02
he loves the organization, he's going to make sure they get
2:31:04
pieces back that they can build with.
2:31:06
If Giannis don't give a crap about the organization, he's
2:31:09
going to tell the organization to kiss his ass and he's going
2:31:12
there and you get whatever is given to you.
2:31:15
I think Giannis loves the organization.
2:31:17
I think he loves Milwaukee. He's going to make sure that
2:31:19
they don't get screwed out of any trade.
2:31:21
So that's my opinion. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
2:31:24
and that is all righty. Then the Buffalo Sabres and the
2:31:28
Montreal Canadiens are tied to two with Game 5 going on
2:31:32
tonight, which I think it's three.
2:31:35
No, it's 63 right now. Looks like Montreal is going to
2:31:38
close them out tonight and go up 3:00 to 2:00.
2:31:42
Montreal. Montreal dominated game three
2:31:45
with a six to win, but the Sabres even the series in game
2:31:50
4, winning three to two on a game-winning goal by Zach
2:31:54
Benson. The winner of the series will
2:31:56
face off against Carolina in the Eastern Conference Finals after
2:32:00
they swept the Philadelphia Flyers, which it seems like
2:32:03
every Philadelphia team is getting swept as we speak.
2:32:07
The Vegas Golden Knights lead the Anaheim Ducks 3 to 2 and
2:32:11
with game six dropping the puck soon.
2:32:14
Rookie Pavel, how do you pronounce this Dora?
2:32:17
Fiev. Dora Fiev scored the overtime
2:32:21
winner, his seventh goal already in the postseason.
2:32:25
The winner of this series will face off against the Colorado
2:32:27
Avalanche, who advanced to the Western Conference Finals with a
2:32:31
four one series win against Minnesota, which was incredible.
2:32:34
Minnesota's a good team. Colorado trailed 3 nothing after
2:32:39
the first period and three to one with under 5 minutes
2:32:42
remaining in Game 5 before winning in overtime on a goal by
2:32:47
Brett Kulak. So there you go.
2:32:50
And Colorado to me is almost unbeatable.
2:32:54
I think whoever wins the Montreal and Buffalo series,
2:32:57
which it seems like Montreal is going to go up three to two.
2:32:59
I think this goes seven games. I've we we've predicted that.
2:33:02
I, I think Buffalo is not going to die out in Montreal.
2:33:06
I think I expect them to go strong in Montreal and and take
2:33:10
this to a game seven in Buffalo and see how that turns out to
2:33:15
happen in Game 7. But Montreal, everybody knows
2:33:18
what I like, what I think about Martin St.
2:33:21
Louis. I think he's a great head coach.
2:33:23
I think he deserves a lot of credit for rebuilding this
2:33:26
organization. This is an organization that has
2:33:28
not played in the Stanley Cup. When was the last time they
2:33:30
played in the Stanley Cup? In the 80s?
2:33:31
Well, they did four years ago and that was that really short
2:33:34
season. No, I'm not talking about that.
2:33:35
They got. They got their.
2:33:37
Let's not talk about that. It was 93.
2:33:39
Yeah, when Patrick Woah was the the goaltender and honestly,
2:33:42
this might be the best chance they have to win a Stanley Cup.
2:33:46
This is a good team. They're young, they're fast,
2:33:48
they're mean, they score, they've got tremendous talent.
2:33:51
They have no adoption from the Island, from the Islanders they
2:33:55
traded 2 first round draft picks for and Dobson's had a great
2:33:58
season. I love watching Nick Suzuki.
2:34:00
He's 511, he's fast, he's got tremendous ability.
2:34:03
Love watching the kid and he's a superstar.
2:34:06
I I've always enjoyed watching him and I watched him play in
2:34:09
the OHL and all that other stuff.
2:34:10
So this is a good Montreal team and and Martin St.
2:34:14
Louis, let's think about it. Martin St.
2:34:16
Louis on skates is like 5-8 off skates is like 5756.
2:34:21
The last guy I can remember at that size that played at such a
2:34:23
high level like him was Theo Fleury.
2:34:26
Remember him and a Hall of Famer and should be.
2:34:29
If he's not in the Hall of Fame, he should be in the Hall of
2:34:30
Fame. So I expect Montreal to, you
2:34:36
know, play at a high level no matter what happens in the
2:34:38
series. And I love watching Montreal as
2:34:40
far as I don't want to get it to Carolina, because Carolina
2:34:42
really to me hasn't lost the game.
2:34:45
But they haven't beaten anybody. They haven't beaten anybody.
2:34:49
They've gone through the first round of the second round with
2:34:51
ease. Why?
2:34:52
Because they didn't play anybody.
2:34:53
And Rob Bruno Moore is going to be walking into series in the
2:34:58
Easter Conference finals. If you look at Rob Brindamora's
2:35:00
numbers and the Carolina Hurricanes numbers over the last
2:35:04
couple of years in the Easter Conference finals, they're not
2:35:06
good. So I it doesn't matter if it's
2:35:09
Montreal or Buffalo, they have their work cut out for them no
2:35:13
matter who they play against. And as far as the Western
2:35:16
Conference finals, it doesn't matter if Vegas wins or Anaheim
2:35:19
wins. Nobody is going through
2:35:21
Colorado. Nobody.
2:35:23
The only two teams that might have a chance to beat them is
2:35:27
Buffalo and Montreal. And I think Montreal more
2:35:29
because they're pesky and they're fast and, and they've
2:35:33
had great goalie, great goaltending throughout the the
2:35:36
throughout the playoffs. Montreal, when Montreal was at
2:35:39
its highest level, they had Patrick Wall in 93 and I and it
2:35:44
was he won 2 Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens.
2:35:47
It was 93 and I think it was 86 when they won two set.
2:35:50
They won another Stanley Cup that that was when they were the
2:35:54
they were a great team. They had great goaltending.
2:35:56
If this kid continues to play at a high level like this, Montreal
2:36:00
is going to win the Stanley Cup. This is this is a great team.
2:36:03
This is a great young team and but Colorado is they're a pretty
2:36:08
good team, man. The only thing that worries me
2:36:11
as it always does every year is their goaltending.
2:36:14
Their goaltending has been pretty good in the playoffs.
2:36:16
But if you look at their team from top to bottom, from offense
2:36:20
to defense, their weakness, goaltending, and we'll see.
2:36:25
And honestly, I got to, I got to give him a lot of credit cuz
2:36:27
Minnesota's a good team, They're a good team, they're a loaded
2:36:30
team. And to do what they did against
2:36:33
Minnesota, the way they did it, it was very shocking, very
2:36:36
shocking. Yeah, they had to pull their
2:36:38
goal after the first period. Minnesota went up 3 nothing in
2:36:41
that game and Minnesota still put enough good pressure on them
2:36:45
to win that game. Colorado was getting good shots
2:36:48
from their stars. They just weren't getting enough
2:36:49
depth and then finally their guys came through later in the
2:36:52
game. You they traded back for cadre
2:36:54
in order to get that depth. They were able to spread the
2:36:55
wings out as well, which is something that Colorado I don't
2:36:58
think was able to do a lot of the beginning of that series.
2:37:00
Even though they were winning besides that one nine goal game,
2:37:03
they were still very star reliant and and even W was
2:37:06
mentioning it too and a couple of times he was betting there.
2:37:08
Sometimes Nathan McKinnon driven too much and it's sometimes the
2:37:12
depth hinders them, but they were able to show the depth
2:37:14
later in that series and make it work.
2:37:15
Minnesota is a very good team. This is a more physical team,
2:37:17
more centered than they've had in years past.
2:37:20
And Esper Walstadt was a very good young goalie that had a
2:37:23
great first two periods of that game but then just fell apart.
2:37:26
Late, let me ask you a question. Is Joe Sakic right now the best
2:37:31
GM we've seen in the last 30 years?
2:37:33
Because this guy has built teams and gotten rid of players and
2:37:38
built teams again? Think about it, they they traded
2:37:41
with the Islanders, they traded Devin Thames, they traded a
2:37:46
second round draft pick for Devin Thames and Devin Thames
2:37:48
becomes he's become one of the best all around defenseman in
2:37:52
all of the NHL. Think about all the moves that
2:37:54
he has made and he's played for good Colorado teams.
2:37:57
Think about it, he played with Peter Forsberg, Claude Lemieux,
2:38:00
Patrick Wah, Huey Croup. He played with some great
2:38:04
players, those teams, Adam Foot, I remember those teams.
2:38:08
Think about that. Joe Sackey, after he retired, he
2:38:11
took over as the executive, lead executive in the GM of this
2:38:15
organization and has changed the fortunes of this organization.
2:38:20
This is a winning organization. It's been a winning organization
2:38:24
since he's taken over it. It's amazing what this guy has
2:38:27
done with this and this guy was a winner when he was a player,
2:38:30
Hall of Famer as a player. He is going to be a Hall of
2:38:33
Famer as AGM. Let's answer my question here.
2:38:39
How many players that are Hall of Famers became Hall of Famers
2:38:43
as G Ms. Do you know anybody that's ever played in the NHL
2:38:49
that became a Hall of Famer as a player and then became a Hall of
2:38:52
Famer as AGM? The answer, and I've got the
2:38:55
answer. Nobody, nobody's ever done that.
2:38:58
And I'm going to tell you this right now.
2:38:59
If you would ask me if he wins the Stanley Cup this year with
2:39:02
this team, he's a Hall of Famer. Everything that he's done,
2:39:06
everything that he's done has been incredible.
2:39:08
Yeah, it's a storyline that you look at them trying to get
2:39:12
Landiscock back. That's something that I think
2:39:13
that they've. And he still hasn't even played
2:39:16
at a high level. But they're rallying around that
2:39:18
kind of thing and they know they have to get the combined
2:39:20
production. They're making it work with a
2:39:22
lot of these veteran guys that are shifting positions now.
2:39:25
Like I said, them training for cadre, they've had to rotate a
2:39:27
lot of it and they made it work. Minnesota has a lot of stars
2:39:31
that end up working out depth players that end up playing well
2:39:33
in the and most of the playoffs. They just didn't have enough for
2:39:36
the Wings. The second, I would say the two
2:39:39
and threes of Colorado later in that game, then later in that
2:39:42
Game 4 as well, when that game was tied 2:00 to 2:00 and then
2:39:44
Colorado big third period, they win 5 to 2 all of a sudden and
2:39:47
they're on to the Eastern Western Conference finals.
2:39:50
It's amazing how this guy can pick out talent through the
2:39:54
draft finds guys, he added he added players.
2:39:57
He made a trade with the Islanders at the trade deadline
2:40:00
last year that a lot of people questioning that move, giving
2:40:03
away first round draft picks and all this other stuff.
2:40:06
And look what he's turned out to be.
2:40:07
Brock Nelson has been so important to this team
2:40:10
defensively and offensively as a player.
2:40:13
I mean, he is an incredible GMI don't care what anybody says.
2:40:17
You might not like Joe Sakic. I I I know if you don't like the
2:40:21
core back Nordique. So the Colorado Avalanche, you
2:40:23
know nothing about this guy. This guy.
2:40:26
Was not just a special high. This guy in in the late 90s and
2:40:30
early 2000s was one of the best centers in the league, one of
2:40:35
the best players in the league at such a high level.
2:40:38
Go look at Joe Sakic's numbers. It's unbelievable.
2:40:42
Anyways. Shifting to another good GM too
2:40:43
in Vegas with George McPhee, though that team is still been
2:40:46
built well. Long Island native.
2:40:47
Yeah, we questioned it with the coaching change and again, it's
2:40:50
something that was very unconventional.
2:40:52
The talent was never out of the question, though, and now
2:40:54
they're getting it with some younger guys, too.
2:40:56
This was a team that was very old for a while, but somebody
2:40:58
like Dior D4, I'm breaking out the way he did.
2:41:00
Did you ever have you ever seen George McPhee?
2:41:03
The way he dresses? I, I got a chance to meet him
2:41:06
when Vegas, they had their first draft and everything like that.
2:41:10
I got it. And he came from the Islanders
2:41:12
organization, just so everybody knows.
2:41:14
And he has been there since they became a franchise.
2:41:18
And this guy is a genius. But the way he dresses, he
2:41:21
dresses like a prep. He, he wears those high socks.
2:41:25
His, his, his suit pants. You can see what he's wearing on
2:41:29
his socks. It's, it's, it's pretty funny.
2:41:31
Or I saw him the second year. He was wearing no socks, no
2:41:35
nothing. You could just see his ankles.
2:41:37
He, he knows how to dress, man. He, he's definitely a classy
2:41:41
dresser. I got to give him some credits.
2:41:42
That's all I had to add that. Yeah, What's interesting with
2:41:44
this Vegas team is I think it's a little different than some of
2:41:46
the other ones were. Like I said, they're getting
2:41:48
more reliable science on the on the younger wing players.
2:41:50
Their defense in the rush too, which is something that you
2:41:53
didn't see a lot of with Tortorello without some of the
2:41:55
other stops he was with. He definitely died with the
2:41:57
Rangers later on when the defense got old.
2:41:59
He didn't have this kind of talent.
2:42:00
No, Vegas defense has always been very deep as it is and now
2:42:03
you're getting them more involved in the offense, which
2:42:05
is very which is very interesting compared to their
2:42:07
previous coaches and obviously Jack Eichel's star.
2:42:10
They have other stars galore too, but they also have a lot of
2:42:12
the other stuff that makes it work, the defensive depth, the
2:42:14
center depth, which always is the number one thing you need
2:42:16
for a hockey team in order to win and rather rallying around.
2:42:19
It's interesting because I picked them at the beginning of
2:42:21
the year to win the Cup and then I deviate off of it because they
2:42:23
made the coaching change. But they're embracing Tortorello
2:42:25
very well and they're not going to go away easy.
2:42:27
Even if they play Colorado next round, they're not going to go
2:42:30
away easy Vegas by any means, especially with the center that
2:42:32
they have, the face off capability they have.
2:42:34
Everybody loves John Tortorello. Everybody that's a Ranger fan or
2:42:38
even a hockey fan, American fan, loves John Tortorello.
2:42:41
His personality, his, his grudge against the league and his
2:42:46
attacks against certain players, the way they get treated on the
2:42:49
ice. I mean, everything about John
2:42:51
Tortorella screams New Yorker because that's what he is.
2:42:54
I mean, he acts like a New Yorker.
2:42:56
So you root him on. But I will tell you this, it
2:43:01
don't matter if it's Vegas, it don't matter if it's any, if
2:43:07
it's Anaheim. None of them are beating
2:43:09
Colorado. It might.
2:43:10
It might go six games. Might, maybe.
2:43:13
Nobody's beating Colorado. I'm telling you, unless they're
2:43:16
goaltending completely falls flat on their face.
2:43:19
This team is too good. I mean, really, really.
2:43:23
So worldly talented. I, I, I, I, I can't say it.
2:43:28
That's all I'm going to say. All right, going into the now
2:43:30
shifting to Montreal and I agree with you on the Carolina angle.
2:43:33
I think the same way I mentioned in basketball where I think it
2:43:36
helps the Knicks for resting, Carolina resting this long, I
2:43:39
think it could hurt them because Montreal tactically has a lot of
2:43:42
different ways they've been able to score in this series.
2:43:45
And they I was again, they're one of the younger teams.
2:43:47
You're looking for that veteran leadership to come through and
2:43:50
who's come through. It's an Alex Newhook, a guy that
2:43:52
was on that Colorado team that won a cup and Montreal signed
2:43:55
him to be one of their veteran leaders, a hybrid winger, center
2:43:58
type that has scored five goals in this series and has provided
2:44:00
a spark for them to in addition to all the younger players that
2:44:03
they have with with with Demidov and Slakovsky.
2:44:06
And like you said, there's a lot of guys that were teen draft
2:44:09
picks too. Slakovsky's the only one that
2:44:11
was the number one overall pick. They've had other guys like Lane
2:44:14
Hudson that was a first round pick who's become one of the
2:44:17
best defensive in the league. But he wasn't like he wasn't
2:44:20
hyped up like Dalene was or anything.
2:44:21
I didn't even know Slavkowski was the number one. 2022 draft
2:44:25
he was the number one pick and. I didn't even know.
2:44:26
That there was debate over it. The Devils took Simone Nimic at.
2:44:29
Numbers. I knew he was a top ten pick.
2:44:30
I didn't know. He's the only one in that
2:44:33
cluster that's like that where a lot of the other ones have been
2:44:36
built through those teens picks or they built through trades and
2:44:39
fishes were mentioning it a couple of times.
2:44:42
They've taken the Atlanta Braves model of paying them early and
2:44:46
it kind of the opposite of what they did when Carrie Price was
2:44:48
there. They they gave Carrie Price a
2:44:50
big contract and tried to justify it by paying a lot of
2:44:52
veterans. And those contracts hurt them
2:44:54
for a while. They paid Jay Weber for a while
2:44:57
patch already. They kind of kept too long and
2:45:00
they just kept getting blockaded by that.
2:45:01
But now this is a good young team that's here to stay.
2:45:03
Now again, Buffalo will put up a fight to their defense has been
2:45:06
strong first in their wins, weaker in their losses.
2:45:09
We'll see if it comes through. They're not going to go down
2:45:11
easily by any means. And you look at a case of their
2:45:15
where are their veteran players going to come from?
2:45:17
Because I question their goaltending coming into this
2:45:19
post this postseason. You can't question them now.
2:45:22
No, Alex Lyons played well again, it just I it was still
2:45:25
the biggest weakness of their team.
2:45:26
I trust in Montreal a little more.
2:45:27
That's why I had them winning. But Buffalo, if they can get the
2:45:31
level of defensive upside that we saw in previous series, even
2:45:34
early in this series too, because in addition to Dolly,
2:45:36
who's phenomenal, he's one of the best in the league.
2:45:38
You look at Bowen Byram, you were at his draft was the 4th
2:45:41
overall pick from the Colorado Avalon said Owen Power was the
2:45:43
number one pick. So they have the upside that's
2:45:45
there. But Montreal has the physicality
2:45:48
with their defense. Matheson, who was on the Florida
2:45:49
Panthers team that won a Cup. And that's where I think they
2:45:52
still have the edge here. That Darlene's draft, yes, I
2:45:55
know I was there too. So I, I remember him when he was
2:45:58
drafted and I remember how great everybody said this kid was
2:46:01
going to be. And it took him a while to
2:46:03
really develop. But when he became the developed
2:46:06
defenseman that he's becoming Buffalo leader, captain of the
2:46:09
team, he is special. He really is special.
2:46:12
He hits, he scores, he's a leader, he's a born leader.
2:46:16
And it's it's fun. The NHL playoffs are always fun
2:46:18
to watch more than any sport. Anybody that tunes in and
2:46:22
watches playoff hockey, I, we were, we were at the football
2:46:26
field today first thing this guy that one of the fathers told me,
2:46:29
he says, are you watching hockey?
2:46:30
I said, of course we're watching hockey.
2:46:32
And he says, man, there's so many fights that this is this is
2:46:35
great. He's like, hockey players are
2:46:37
tough as hell. He's like, I thought football
2:46:39
players are tough. Hockey players are even tougher.
2:46:42
So it's it's crazy. It's been fun to watch.
2:46:44
The NHL has such a great product.
2:46:46
Congratulations to Gary Bettman. To me, everybody boos him every
2:46:49
single draft. He has the best product right
2:46:52
now in professional sports. I don't even think that's here.
2:46:55
There's an argument right now of what they're doing right now
2:46:57
with the NHL and the growth here in the United States and
2:47:00
throughout the world, so. Yeah, last thing on Carolina
2:47:03
too, I also want to mention there if there's one weakness
2:47:05
that they have, it's been a lot of these faster teams in
2:47:08
transition to which I think both Montreal and Buffalo have shown
2:47:11
they can play at and play and they could score goals in
2:47:14
ripples or you've seen Montreal in this game, you saw Buffalo in
2:47:17
game one. They can score at will.
2:47:19
And I think even though Carolina's defense was only
2:47:21
allowed ten goals through eight games, which is crazy, I think
2:47:24
that could be something that can be exposed because Philly, like
2:47:26
you said, Philly's not the same offensive team by any means at
2:47:28
Pittsburgh. This is the worst year for the
2:47:30
metro in a while. So they definitely had the the
2:47:32
easiest route so far. All right, who do we have on it
2:47:35
so. Let's parlay is going to come in
2:47:37
in just a bit. Let's go to break for now, all.
2:47:39
Right, let's go to break and maybe we'll sneak in Tic Tac.
2:47:42
No, and then let's parlay. All right, break we go.
2:47:45
This is a New York sports loudmouth Sports minutes.
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All right, guys, Aaron Fishman here with your sportsman.
2:47:59
I got a couple of stories for you, then we'll get into the
2:48:01
scores this evening. Here we go.
2:48:04
On Wednesday, after hiring a new general manager and lucking into
2:48:08
the first pick overall in the NHL Draft lottery last week, the
2:48:12
Toronto Maple Leafs fired head coach Craig Beruby.
2:48:15
The decision was new GM John Chaka's call, according to The
2:48:18
Athletics, Chris Johnson and Jonas Siegel stating that
2:48:21
President and CEO of the team Keith Pelley left it in Chaka's
2:48:25
hands, who virtually immediately let him go for the chance to
2:48:29
pick his own leader of the squad.
2:48:32
Craig is a tremendous coach and an even better person.
2:48:35
In the news release from Jaka, this decision is more reflective
2:48:38
of an organizational shift and an opportunity for a fresh start
2:48:43
than it is an evaluation of Craig.
2:48:46
We are grateful for his leadership, professionalism and
2:48:48
commitment to the Maple Leafs organization and wish Craig and
2:48:51
his family nothing but the best moving forward.
2:48:54
To be fair, the writing was on the wall for Burubi this season
2:48:57
as the Maple Leafs floundered their way out of playoff
2:49:01
contention, leading to this front office overhaul and now
2:49:04
head coaching change. It is a disappointing end to
2:49:06
Beruby's 2 year tenure, which started with a bang and a second
2:49:09
round playoff exit in 2024-2025. Now the Leafs will look to add a
2:49:15
new head coach who will likely preside over a rebuild or
2:49:18
perhaps simply just a retooling of the roster sent it around
2:49:23
likely number one overall pick Gavin McKenna.
2:49:27
In shocking news into ESPN on Wednesday, Memphis Grizzlies
2:49:30
forward Brandon Clark was found dead of an apparent drug
2:49:33
overdose in his Los Angeles home.
2:49:35
He was 29 years old. Clark was drafted in 2019, 21st
2:49:39
overall, and traded to Memphis, where he played his entire
2:49:42
career. He made the All Rookie team in
2:49:44
2019-2020 and finished fourth in Rookie of the Year voting that
2:49:48
season. Clark was mostly rotational
2:49:50
player off the bench for the Grizzlies, and his availability
2:49:52
and usage declined significantly due to injury.
2:49:55
After tearing his Achilles tendon in March of 2023, Clark
2:49:59
only played in two games this season due to various elements.
2:50:01
Clark starred at Gonzaga, helping lead the Bulldogs to the
2:50:04
NCAA Tournament final in 2018-2019.
2:50:08
Gonzaga head coach Mark Few commented on the loss of his
2:50:12
former star player. We are devastated to hear the
2:50:15
news about Brandon. He had such a kind, gentle and
2:50:19
warm soul and I will always remember the great smile he had
2:50:22
on his face whenever you were around him.
2:50:24
BC was one of the most easygoing players we have ever had and he
2:50:27
was part of one of the greatest teams in our program's history.
2:50:31
Brandon was a spectacular player and competitor and a phenomenal
2:50:35
teammate to all. He was a true legend who will
2:50:37
never be forgotten here at Gonzaga.
2:50:40
RIP to Brandon Clark and best wishes from New York sports
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2:52:18
What's? Going on what's going on Johnny
2:52:22
in the building tonight you don't need it for a good treat
2:52:24
tonight we get Johnny in the building.
2:52:27
Johnny Como, he go bring some heat and.
2:52:29
He's got a he's got a screaming kid in the back.
2:52:32
His kid sounds like he wants to RIP somebody's head off.
2:52:36
And you know, Johnny's hair is all fluffed around.
2:52:39
You know, he's like, he's just hanging out and.
2:52:42
Enjoying. The old quaff, As we all say, he
2:52:46
definitely has a quaff. But yeah, so we call this Let's
2:52:50
parlay. It's time for Les Parlay.
2:53:03
So do we have Wes coming in? I texted him to come back and he
2:53:07
said he would have been ready in 5 minutes but I don't know, I
2:53:09
guess he's still trying to deal with this kid.
2:53:11
All right, so we got 2P Bears, so we'll go with Reno Johnny
2:53:15
first. We'll get his top 4.
2:53:18
As everybody knows, it's very simple.
2:53:20
He's going to give you his top three picks for the week or the
2:53:24
weekend and give you his fourth, which will be a parlay for you
2:53:28
guys. Are you ready, Reno?
2:53:30
Yeah, we're ready. Couple things here.
2:53:33
Got to get the kid ready. He's out there wrestling mom, so
2:53:35
I'm going to tap her in here in a little bit.
2:53:38
He's about to start playing soccer, so we got soccer,
2:53:41
basketball, baseball. Football.
2:53:43
We got getting. Ready, you know.
2:53:44
He's going to be my kid. He's going to be my kid.
2:53:47
We don't. Have to play some sports.
2:53:48
So yeah, look, I had, I think I have a redemption coming because
2:53:53
I think last week I was off my game.
2:53:55
Let's just put it this way. I'm going to take a game that
2:53:57
already started and y'all know me, I, I'm not lying about it.
2:54:01
I'm on the Knights. I know they're up one.
2:54:02
Oh, I think the Knights have been the better team.
2:54:05
But one thing about this game is if you look at Game 3 when they
2:54:09
went to Anaheim, they were favored by -150 they lose that
2:54:13
game and now you're looking at on the road, they're going to be
2:54:16
a modest 110. So you're getting a bunch of
2:54:18
value. But the Knights are the better
2:54:19
team. They're doing it a little
2:54:21
differently this year. It's not their defense or
2:54:23
defense is actually kind of shaky.
2:54:24
Their goaltending, not something I want to get behind.
2:54:27
But their offense is is phenomenal.
2:54:28
I think they're one of the better offenses in in the NHLI.
2:54:31
Think the Anaheim Ducks are playing a little bit above the
2:54:33
league. I like them to win this game and
2:54:36
move on. I do think the Knights will get
2:54:38
to the Stanley Cup Finals, whether they win or not is to be
2:54:43
seen, but I do think they get to the to the the Western Cup
2:54:47
finals. Why I I like them to win
2:54:48
tonight. close it out tonight on the road.
2:54:50
All right, W, give us your number one.
2:54:54
I'm going to lay off of tonight's game because Anaheim
2:54:58
is already down by 1. But I, I did like that going in,
2:55:02
but I'd be foolish. I'd be foolish to take it now
2:55:04
while they're down. So I'm going to I'm going to so
2:55:07
I'm going to I'm just going to go with both the NBA games for
2:55:09
tomorrow. The first one the the first one
2:55:14
I'm going to do tomorrow is I like San Antonio to close this
2:55:18
thing out. I, I, it's what Wendy came out
2:55:23
possessed last night after the elbow after I mean, he's, we all
2:55:29
know his skill set is like something we've never seen for
2:55:31
his size. But just looking at the way that
2:55:34
he came out last night and the way that they just jumped right
2:55:37
after them, I, I don't see Minnesota doing anything.
2:55:42
But what scares me here is the the line hasn't moved and 75% of
2:55:49
the tickets are on San Antonio. But the odd thing is I went back
2:55:54
and looked most of the San Antonio games where their
2:55:57
favorites by like more than two or three.
2:56:00
That is the case. They the line doesn't move
2:56:03
because big money just likes to fade them.
2:56:08
They're not a very deep team. That's my only knock on them.
2:56:13
If you believe in conspiracy, if you believe that the NBA is
2:56:16
thirsty for a face, then you probably would.
2:56:19
You probably put San Antonio in the Finals and have them taken
2:56:22
out. OK, C that that would probably
2:56:24
be the story that makes the most sense.
2:56:26
But as far as tomorrow night goes, I'm going to lay the four
2:56:28
and a half. I like the way that D Aaron Fox
2:56:30
has been contributing these last 2-3 games.
2:56:33
And I think this team just picked up a little bit of
2:56:36
experience with Wenby getting thrown out early the other
2:56:39
night. All right, Reno, give us your
2:56:41
number 2. Can't argue with anything, W
2:56:43
said. I do think the Spurs are the
2:56:45
better team. I think the one knock with their
2:56:47
with their depth is Minnesota's even less deep.
2:56:51
I think that's why they're, that's why they.
2:56:52
Can't take you seriously on that take because you're a Spurs fan,
2:56:56
we all know that. Yeah, but I've made money
2:56:59
betting against the Spurs. So look, I've, I've fared the
2:57:03
Spurs a lot this year and I've actually had good spots.
2:57:06
I think when you look at depth, Minnesota's where they struggle.
2:57:09
I'm going to take this game in a different way.
2:57:11
I'm take the over the overs hit every game but the first game
2:57:14
when it was 206 points, other than that game thread thing land
2:57:17
on 2/17, it was 216 1/2. So that's overs been right
2:57:21
around that number every single time.
2:57:24
And ultimately it comes down to the pace.
2:57:26
And I think ultimately what you, what I think is surprising is
2:57:30
you see the Spurs not slowing it down.
2:57:32
They are pushing that pace, which is probably not the best
2:57:35
thing for Minnesota because they're going to try to match
2:57:37
that. They just can't compete.
2:57:38
They can get enough shot volume. The pace is going to go down.
2:57:41
They can knock down some threes. I don't expect.
2:57:43
I think the other night it was like 4 points in the 1st 8
2:57:46
minutes of that game from Minnesota.
2:57:47
I don't expect that at all. I think they're going to be a
2:57:50
kind of a fast tempo game. The only issue here is if it's a
2:57:53
blowout, which we saw last game, we had two and a half minutes
2:57:57
where we needed, we needed the the bench bench to score like 6
2:58:01
points and they scored exactly like 8.
2:58:04
So that's where we kind of get in trouble with the total.
2:58:06
I'll take the over in San Antonio.
2:58:08
All right, Mr. W, give us your number two.
2:58:11
Yeah. I'm going to go to the early
2:58:13
game tomorrow, the, the Cleveland and, and Detroit game.
2:58:18
And I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to take Detroit, I'm going to
2:58:21
take the, the points on that one.
2:58:23
And it's not because I like Detroit as a team better than
2:58:26
Cleveland. I do think Cleveland's going to
2:58:27
close out this series, but I think it's going to take him
2:58:29
seven games in order to do it. I, I just, I'm going to talk on
2:58:33
the other side of my mouth tomorrow.
2:58:35
I, my thought is I have trouble taking James Harden in a close
2:58:40
out game. I think he'll have his, his soft
2:58:43
game tomorrow and then he he might just kind of be middle of
2:58:47
the road for a hardened performance.
2:58:49
And Mobley is going to be who ends up taking out Detroit in
2:58:53
Game 7. But tomorrow I like taking the
2:58:56
points. Now whether or not Cleveland
2:58:58
wins, that's irrelevant to me as as an investor here. 3 1/2
2:59:01
points with the line not moving 63% of the tickets is on
2:59:06
Cleveland at home. And this is an odd geography.
2:59:09
Remember we're Michigan and we're Ohio these these these
2:59:14
it's it's very easy travel. So I'm not saying that the
2:59:18
homecourt advantage is canceling it out, but it's it's a lot more
2:59:23
balanced than what you would see in some of these games like
2:59:26
Minnesota, San Antonio, They have true home field advantage,
2:59:29
but the driving distance between these two stadiums.
2:59:32
But I just, I like taking the points.
2:59:34
I really have had fun watching this series, but I'm taking 3
2:59:38
1/2 points. I think it's going to be a two
2:59:39
or three-point game. All right, Reno, give us your
2:59:42
#3. Yeah, you know, not afraid here
2:59:44
to lay the points here with with Cleveland.
2:59:46
I thought I was on see the money line in in their last game at
2:59:49
plus one 45150. Look, Cleveland's been the
2:59:52
better team through this series. Even in the first two games,
2:59:55
Cleveland was in earshot to win both of those games.
2:59:59
Last game, I bet on the money line and I was like, damn it,
3:00:02
the exact same thing happened as games one and two.
3:00:04
They're in at the whole game. Detroit goes on a run on home at
3:00:08
home and it's over. But Cleveland showed a lot of
3:00:10
resilience being able to go on an 11-O run by 2 1/2 in the
3:00:15
final 2 1/2 minutes to win to to get it to overtime at the end
3:00:18
when the game pulled away in overtime.
3:00:21
This is a better team. I was not thrilled with Detroit
3:00:23
even beating Orlando. I thought of Romando for much of
3:00:26
that series. Looked like the better team.
3:00:28
They came back down three games to 1.
3:00:30
This this series has mostly been dominated by the home team
3:00:33
overall though, I I can't even knock James Harden in this
3:00:37
series outside of game two. He scored 19 points in in every
3:00:40
other game he shot at least 38% from the field, including a
3:00:44
couple times at 40 and 57% from the field.
3:00:47
He's actually and and clutch situations has actually been the
3:00:51
go to guy and making those shots.
3:00:54
I do think we're going to see a Cleveland win.
3:00:56
I do think that you just took the sales out of Detroit after
3:00:59
they're being up by 9 points at home.
3:01:03
You have the nest. Jenkins making his first start.
3:01:05
The crowd is fired up and Cleveland still bounce back.
3:01:09
I think Detroit has seen that their season is going to be over
3:01:13
and I don't think they bounce back in this game.
3:01:15
Lay the 3 1/2 points. Cleveland will win tomorrow in
3:01:18
the blowout all. Right, Wes, give us your #3.
3:01:21
This is a really strange one for me, but I am looking at a
3:01:25
baseball game that just my algorithm spoke to me and I, I,
3:01:28
I have some AI that monitors baseball for me and I'm looking
3:01:33
at, I'm looking at Washington and Baltimore and I'm just just
3:01:37
numbers, right? I, I, I would probably struggle
3:01:40
to, to name 15 players in, in the entire MLB, but I'm looking
3:01:44
at what I'm looking at Washington coming off of a 15 to
3:01:49
one loss. OK, they're they're going to
3:01:52
they're going to and that was on the road, They're going to stay
3:01:54
home. So that's humiliation.
3:01:56
Teams don't typically have two of those in a row in any sport.
3:01:59
I'm sorry. But then you look at Baltimore,
3:02:02
who is coming off of A7 to nothing win against the Yankees.
3:02:07
So I'm going to take the home dogs and it's plus 1/20.
3:02:12
I like I like Washington to to win this game.
3:02:15
In fact, I'm going to play some some live action and some early
3:02:22
inning action because I, I think that Washington's going to score
3:02:24
some runs early. But me, it's just the classic
3:02:26
coming off of a high, coming off of a low.
3:02:29
We're looking at dead cat bounces.
3:02:31
I'm going to take Washington tonight.
3:02:33
All right, Reno, give us your final pick of the night.
3:02:36
We're going to hockey here and this is going to be a play
3:02:39
straight on value and in baseball and MLB and in
3:02:43
basketball, what I typically do in the playoffs is I will pick
3:02:46
my horse and I will ride them till the wheels fall off.
3:02:50
Buffalo in this series was who I was going to ride.
3:02:52
I thought Buffalo was going to come in and win this series.
3:02:55
If you look at Game 2, they probably should have won that
3:02:57
game. All four Montreal goals were
3:02:59
were mistakes by Buffalo. I thought they'd bounce back.
3:03:02
They really haven't. They got humiliated on their
3:03:04
home ice 6:00 to 3:00 and you're probably going to get a lot of
3:03:07
people thinking Montreal closes it out on their home ice.
3:03:10
Little fun fact about hockey in the playoffs, home ice is not
3:03:15
typically that great. It's not as like I think in the
3:03:18
NBA. I think you have great home
3:03:20
homecourt advantages in the NBA. Hockey is a little different
3:03:23
with the way it's kind of set up basketball.
3:03:26
I feel like you feel like the fans are more involved in the
3:03:28
game and hockey it's a little different.
3:03:30
Yes, it gets loud. The goals that you know, I've
3:03:32
seen the Vegas science games when they blow that horn 45
3:03:35
seconds a goal, it's great. I just don't think that the home
3:03:39
price is is is going to I'm going to lay -160 on Montreal.
3:03:43
I think the value is going to be on Buffalo.
3:03:45
I'm going to take plus 140 on Buffalo.
3:03:47
I think that they do win that game.
3:03:49
I do think they come home and win the series.
3:03:51
I just sprinkled right now for them to come back and win this
3:03:53
series because I just think the values on them and the Golden
3:03:56
Knights are up to nothing, by the way.
3:03:59
All right, Wes final. Pick So I'm taking Montreal
3:04:03
also, so I apologize you're you're not getting variety.
3:04:05
But I, I just want to add there is a significant advantage in
3:04:11
hockey in the playoffs when you have home Mounties, you get the
3:04:15
last, you get the last player substitution before the puck
3:04:19
drops. And that matters when you're
3:04:22
talking about Montreal coaching staff versus Buffalo coaching
3:04:26
staff. So I think Montreal's got a
3:04:27
better coaching staff. There's a closeout game in
3:04:30
Canada. This is a franchise that has
3:04:32
waited a long time to to get to this position.
3:04:35
Every year Canada is choking. So Johnny, I agree with you.
3:04:40
I Chaz and I had a conversation about this a while back and why
3:04:43
the the home ice is is so important in the NHL.
3:04:47
It's just, you know, players are moving in and out, but but that
3:04:50
home team gets the last thing. So if if you're you're away and
3:04:55
you're trying to get some guy in you, you don't if the home team
3:04:58
doesn't move them so it it can be something of a chess match.
3:05:01
That's awesome in a Mississippi State shirt.
3:05:10
Nightmares about block Ms. You know, the only thing I have to
3:05:19
say I have it. I can't find it in my notes.
3:05:23
Rd. teams have actually probably I think they've won a couple
3:05:26
more games this this year at home on the road.
3:05:30
And I get the the what you you expect.
3:05:33
Yeah, the the last substitution. You have your home, you got the
3:05:36
buzzer and the crowd. I get that.
3:05:38
But in the NHL playoffs over the last couple of seasons, home ice
3:05:42
has especially considering at home.
3:05:44
What are you laying -180 -? 200 the values not there for the
3:05:51
win rate at home in the playoffs.
3:05:54
That's all I would say in hockey, yes.
3:05:56
Everything else that's up, like where they have it's an
3:05:58
advantage, but overall they're they're not winning to justify
3:06:03
laying the amount of juice you have to lay at home in NHL
3:06:06
hockey. Interesting.
3:06:08
No, but the playoffs, the playoffs.
3:06:10
Laying the 1 1/2 in the NHL is better than laying a 1 1/2
3:06:14
during the regular season. In the regular season, I, I'm
3:06:16
either betting, I'm either betting the the dog money line,
3:06:21
the dog outright, or I'm just not betting it at all because
3:06:23
there's no you, you don't want to lay it because they don't
3:06:26
always pull the goalie. But in the playoffs they are
3:06:27
pulling that goalie. It's just a matter of if, if the
3:06:30
puck ends up in the back of the net, it, it doesn't really make
3:06:33
a difference if they win by 5 or they win by one, that goalie's
3:06:36
getting pulled. So.
3:06:38
But, but, but here, but here we can get off.
3:06:40
We can get off it. But look, I'm looking over the
3:06:42
last 10-10 days, a favorite, a favorite which you have to lay
3:06:49
either 200 or the 1 1/2 goal. The favorite has only won by
3:06:54
more than one goal one time. And I'm all the way back on May
3:06:58
7th right now. So there's no justification to
3:07:02
lay it because even on the I'm looking at the favorites, you
3:07:06
know, they're not winning. I think on the seven will be
3:07:09
game #2 Carolina won by by by by by margin there.
3:07:13
The Golden Knights are coming in at -110 that they won by margin.
3:07:16
They're cool. The Sabres were the favorite in
3:07:18
that game when they lost outright.
3:07:20
Flyer Hurricanes one by one, Wild underdogs, 1 outright.
3:07:25
Ducks underdogs 1 outright Canadians.
3:07:28
For the record though. For the record though, we, you
3:07:32
and I both are on the same pick. We both agree.
3:07:35
That what that Buffalo you took Montreal.
3:07:37
I think I'm on Buffalo. Oh, all right.
3:07:39
Well then. Well, yeah.
3:07:41
Are you in a closet? No, that's where they, that's
3:07:45
where they kept me. I mean, this is the way they
3:07:47
positioned me over here. So I'm, I'm stuck in the middle.
3:07:51
I'm stuck in the middle of this. But in the closet, man.
3:07:54
I'm not in a. Closet By the way, it's good to
3:07:56
see you 2 disagree again. You guys were too agreeable
3:07:58
during the college football season.
3:08:00
By the way, I've got Buffalo winning Game 6, just so you
3:08:03
know. Anyway, I I think he does go to
3:08:06
a 7th and we'll. See what this this ain't going
3:08:09
to work buddy. For me I need a 2X small.
3:08:14
Anyways, thanks boys. We appreciate you.
3:08:16
See you next. Week away.
3:08:18
From Canada, Canadian football 2 weeks, you guys know CFL 70%
3:08:23
time. There it is.
3:08:24
I might be betting on that too. So if.
3:08:28
I don't, I don't bet on that, but I'll definitely tail picks
3:08:31
here because I don't know shit about Canadian football so I'll
3:08:34
probably tell with his picks. Diego Pavia, I believe, well, I
3:08:41
believe it's Winnipeg that owns the rights to Diego Pavia if he
3:08:45
ends up in the, in the Canadian Football League.
3:08:47
And it's weird the way that they draft.
3:08:50
Like I, I've watched a lot of the Canadian draft and, you
3:08:53
know, maybe we have an episode on that era.
3:08:55
Yes, well, he just so you know, I think he still makes the
3:08:58
Baltimore team. So that's just my opinion.
3:09:00
I still I think he makes the Ravens team.
3:09:02
I think he makes the roster. Anyways, thanks boys.
3:09:05
I appreciate you. Yep.
3:09:07
Take care. Let's parlay fantastic Wes and
3:09:11
Mr. Reno Johnny sensational. All right, Speedy 6 pack of the
3:09:15
week, Lance hammers Sensor. Who wants to play?
3:09:19
Drink the beer. It's time for the Speedy 6 pack
3:09:22
of The Way. Do you want to jerk me off?
3:09:27
Now I'll pass. I'm not going to want to jerk
3:09:29
anything off. So I think for the first time
3:09:31
since our NBA. Off I am a legend.
3:09:34
I've actually done a full NBA 1, so this is just recaps from
3:09:37
Games 5 and the OKC sweep. We'll start with that.
3:09:39
Cavaliers and Pistons series, Cavs on their end, winning one
3:09:43
17113 I mentioned before. Max Streuse 20 points on six of
3:09:48
eight shooting from three in that game in Detroit.
3:09:51
I love Lisa has only. Lost one time before that in the
3:09:54
playoffs. Let me tell you something about
3:09:56
Detroit. They don't have secondary
3:09:58
offense and because they don't have secondary offense, they're
3:10:01
not going to beat the Cavaliers it even if it goes to a seventh
3:10:05
game. And as you heard W say, it's
3:10:08
Reno, Johnny. They both think the Cavaliers
3:10:11
are going to win the series. I do too.
3:10:13
I think the Cavaliers are a better overall team.
3:10:16
I think Detroit and I think the Knicks are better off playing
3:10:19
the Cavaliers in Detroit because they're mean and the Knicks, for
3:10:23
some reason, when teams push them around, they don't play
3:10:25
very well. So I think they're better off
3:10:28
playing a slacking team like the Cavaliers that sometimes don't
3:10:32
show up in quarters. Offensively, I've seen teams
3:10:35
score 3940 points in a in 1/4 against the Cavaliers because
3:10:40
they don't show up playing defense, and I think the Knicks
3:10:42
are going to do that. Yeah, I think, I think you guys
3:10:46
are right. But I do think it goes seven
3:10:48
games. I think that Detroit comes out
3:10:51
like I mentioned earlier, they come out and do everything and
3:10:53
they power to win game six. And then on the 7th game
3:10:57
Cleveland Colts is out because they just have more, they have
3:10:59
the better talent. And I just don't think that
3:11:02
Detroit can continue to just dig themselves out of these holes
3:11:05
that they have all the way through from Orlando up until
3:11:07
this point now. And so yeah, I got, I got
3:11:10
Cleveland winning overall and giving the next hell in the next
3:11:14
round. All right, so the big, big thing
3:11:16
in Game 5 was Jalen Duran was benched, benched.
3:11:19
He just paid 25 minutes overall, no minutes in the fourth
3:11:22
quarter, averaging just 10.6 points per game in the last
3:11:24
series and just 9.5 in this series.
3:11:27
He's going to. Turn for their second best
3:11:28
player. I don't know if he's showing up
3:11:31
throughout the playoffs. Maybe he's heard, maybe we're
3:11:33
going to hear things at the end of the season when they get
3:11:35
eliminated that there's something going on because this
3:11:38
is a guy that has played at a high level for the last two
3:11:41
seasons and then all of a sudden at the second-half of the season
3:11:44
completely falling off. That doesn't make sense.
3:11:46
There's something going on. Yeah, he had a couple of games
3:11:49
that was all right in versus Orlando, but yeah, he's been a
3:11:52
shell of himself ever since then.
3:11:54
And I just. I I feel bad for him because
3:11:56
this is his contract year and for him to be performing this
3:11:59
poorly in the playoffs, definitely going to impact how
3:12:01
much money he get. But yeah, he has to step up
3:12:04
tremendously. Don't think he could do it in
3:12:06
enough time to help them get out of this series.
3:12:08
But yeah, I think he, he, he's in a world of trouble right now.
3:12:11
I'm going to throw something out you guys for for you guys to
3:12:14
understand. Don't be surprised if Giannis is
3:12:18
a guy that could go to Detroit because I'm just.
3:12:23
I could see it. I'm just saying Durant.
3:12:26
What? What is he going to?
3:12:27
Because they have young talent, they have young talent, they
3:12:30
have young talent over there. You put Giannis over there with
3:12:32
Cunningham, good luck. I'm telling you that could
3:12:35
change everything. The whole perspective.
3:12:37
But but Kate is more of a tool than.
3:12:39
I'm telling you right now, it makes a lot of sense.
3:12:43
It makes a lot of. Sense it looks good on paper but
3:12:45
I just don't see why he would go, especially when he keep
3:12:47
talking about he want this big brand and all this and that.
3:12:50
Detroit. Absolutely it.
3:12:52
Used to be, there ain't nothing going on.
3:12:54
I don't know, man. I I think Detroit would be a
3:12:56
great place for Giannis. To really be miserable in
3:12:59
Detroit. Stay on the East Coast.
3:13:01
Go ahead, Speedy. All right, so kind of a quicker
3:13:03
one here. We got the OKC sweeping the
3:13:05
Lakers, the first team that have swept 2 rounds in the playoffs
3:13:08
since both the Cavs and the Warriors in 2017, when they.
3:13:12
Face, let me tell you guys something.
3:13:13
The Lakers didn't even have all their players.
3:13:15
Luka Doncic didn't play it all in that series.
3:13:18
Maybe they, maybe they beat. They will.
3:13:20
They probably beat them, but they don't sweep them.
3:13:23
If Luka Doncic was on that team, that's great.
3:13:26
For the OKC Thunder, it's been easy all the way to the Western
3:13:29
Conference Finals. Good luck.
3:13:31
They're matched up against the Spurs, that's all.
3:13:33
Let me tell you this, the Oklahoma City Thunder would have
3:13:36
swept them with or without Luka like they did.
3:13:38
So at the end of the day the Lakers had no chance in beating
3:13:42
them. OKC only team that can beat them
3:13:45
or they can that can compete with them is the San Antonio.
3:13:48
So that'll be a good matchup next round.
3:13:51
But overall, OKC was going to sweep them and they they didn't
3:13:54
have a shot to be OKC no matter who they had.
3:13:57
Disagree. They needed they needed two
3:13:59
superstars. Disagree.
3:14:01
So the second-half of this part is an interesting stack
3:14:04
comparison. So SGA barely outplayed LeBron
3:14:06
in that series. 24.5 to 23.3 in terms of points per game. 6.3 to
3:14:11
5.8 assists. Slightly in favor of SGA, but
3:14:14
LeBron actually shot better 50 to 47.
3:14:17
Good news for you guys, SGA is not the league.
3:14:20
NVP. I don't have to say it over and
3:14:22
over and over again. I can tell you until you're blue
3:14:24
in the face, SGA is a great player.
3:14:27
He's a great offensive player. He wasn't even the best.
3:14:30
He wasn't the leading scorer in the league all season long was
3:14:33
Luke Adamcic. And this guy's going to win the
3:14:36
MVP. He's a -, 2000.
3:14:39
Good luck. I'm going to tell you guys this,
3:14:41
the MVP, it means nothing. It means nothing if you're going
3:14:44
to give the MVP to Joel Embiid a couple of years ago.
3:14:46
It means nothing. Just so you know.
3:14:49
And as far as I'm concerned, congratulations to a great
3:14:51
career LeBron James. I don't know if he goes to the
3:14:55
Cavaliers. I don't know if he goes to the
3:14:57
Knicks. I don't know if he comes back
3:14:59
next year. Maybe he just walks away and
3:15:01
says hurrah. I don't know.
3:15:02
But something tells me he wants to have that final year where he
3:15:07
can do that, you know, jump from one place to another and he gets
3:15:11
all these awards and all these gifts and a great LeBron James,
3:15:16
the King. So I think he does come back
3:15:18
because of that. Yeah, LeBron James will be in LA
3:15:23
next year, guys, don't even worry.
3:15:24
No, he won't. No, he won't.
3:15:26
Yeah, he'll be in LA next year. How much?
3:15:28
You how much you really want to bet on that?
3:15:30
Let's. Make it real bet.
3:15:31
No, no, no, we're talking about real bet.
3:15:33
Listen, let's make SCA is the will be the MVP.
3:15:36
He will go on and win the MVP. It's not just about scoring all
3:15:41
the time. We make it about points for TV
3:15:44
and media and that's, that's what we brag about for the most
3:15:47
part. But leading the team and being
3:15:49
#1 consistently throughout the year and actually playing at a
3:15:52
higher level is, is something to be recognized and respected
3:15:57
within the league. So that's why he'll be winning
3:15:59
MVP. As far as him competing against
3:16:00
the Bar Jays, Bar Jays had picked up, he went from #3 to #1
3:16:04
so obviously he was getting more shots up and obviously that's
3:16:08
more opportunities for him to score versus SCA where that was
3:16:11
blitzing him, that was sitting double teams like that.
3:16:13
So he had to be more of a facilitator and orchestrate the
3:16:16
offense versus more to just being a pure scorer and his team
3:16:19
stepped up and helped get the job done.
3:16:22
All right. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
3:16:25
That's all I'm. Going to say about that, right?
3:16:26
It's. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
3:16:28
And by the way, Most Valuable Player means Most Valuable
3:16:31
Player to your team and SGA is not the most valuable.
3:16:35
Player and they win without. Oh yes.
3:16:37
But is he the most valuable? Absolutely.
3:16:39
No, Jokic. Nicola Jokic is the Most
3:16:42
Valuable Player done on to the next.
3:16:44
All right, we'll. Finish it off with the Spurs and
3:16:47
the Timberwolves Game 5 as Reno, Johnny and Wes were mentioning
3:16:51
Wemby with a redemption story. But more of this downside for
3:16:54
the Timberwolves. Rudy Gobert, a rough one for
3:16:56
him. Just four points in Game 5 and a
3:16:58
-, 15 as a defensive rating. Also like Duran Jalen Duran just
3:17:04
playing 22 minutes in that game. Here's the problem.
3:17:08
Anthony Edwards is not 100% healthy.
3:17:10
Everybody knows that. If Anthony Edwards isn't 100%
3:17:13
healthy, they don't have a chance in this series.
3:17:16
The fact that they've been in this series is really because
3:17:18
webbing Yama has been an idiot. He he needs to keep his hands to
3:17:22
himself. This series probably is over
3:17:25
already. If webbing Yama didn't get
3:17:27
didn't get thrown out of that game, they they should have won
3:17:30
the series four games to 2. And that's the only reason why
3:17:33
Minnesota is still in this. If if was the 5th, we'd all be
3:17:36
drunk. Listen, the Spurs end up winning
3:17:39
this game, but at the end of the day, I think that the Minnesota
3:17:42
Timberwolves come out and they do everything they play out of
3:17:46
their mind for game six and then it forces a game seven.
3:17:49
I don't think the NBA is ready to be done with the Western
3:17:53
Conference semis. And so I think that they were
3:17:56
going to go out and be physical. When we when we coming off that
3:17:59
suspension, obviously it was going to be a lot of momentum.
3:18:01
He's going to be excited about getting back on the floor and
3:18:05
bringing some of these tools out of the toolbox and using it
3:18:09
against Rudy Gobert, which like you said, Speedy had an awful
3:18:12
game. So I think that Minnesota win
3:18:15
Game 6 and they go to Game 7 and and win me, they win it back
3:18:18
home in high fashion. This is not going to a Game 7.
3:18:22
OK, All right, I'll finish it off with Wimby.
3:18:24
The stat line is 27.17 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 blocks.
3:18:29
And probably if you look at his overall stats besides, obviously
3:18:31
the game he got ejected probably has been the best playoff
3:18:33
performer of anybody left. I listen, We all know what
3:18:38
Webiyama is. He's like 3 inches bigger than
3:18:41
everybody on a basketball court. He doesn't even have to jump to
3:18:44
jam the ball. He can shoot, he can dribble.
3:18:47
He's a a point forward, a point center, whatever you want to
3:18:50
call him. He can do everything.
3:18:52
He's a great player. Nobody's going to take away his
3:18:55
talents. The only problem that worries me
3:18:58
is he's injury prone. He's had blood clots.
3:19:01
That's the only reason why I've attacked Webbingyama.
3:19:03
I thought he was going to be a good player.
3:19:04
I don't know if he's ever going to have that long standing
3:19:07
career. Yao Ming was supposed to be a
3:19:09
long standing player. He never really got a chance to
3:19:12
do that because of injuries and foot problems.
3:19:14
Big guys like this always have problems with their knees, their
3:19:19
feet and everything like that. That's the only reason why I
3:19:22
don't think Webbingyama is going to go down as one of the
3:19:24
greatest big man of all time. Well, yeah, he's an alien for a
3:19:28
reason. He would definitely go down as
3:19:29
one of the big greatest big man. I mean, the guy's averaging like
3:19:32
three or five blocks. He's also a double, double
3:19:34
machine. So he he had all the momentum
3:19:37
with him last last game been been that he got kicked out and
3:19:41
he felt like he had to put the team on his back.
3:19:44
And he was I mean, he was doing punk face step throughs.
3:19:46
He was playing out of his mind. He was playing like so I just
3:19:49
don't see Minnesota giving up like that in Game 6.
3:19:52
So I think that they're going to have a different defensive
3:19:54
scheme for him and he'll probably get his average, you
3:19:57
know, anywhere between 18 to 22 points and 12 rebounds and
3:20:02
probably 5 three to five blocks and whatnot.
3:20:05
But I I definitely don't think that the series is over.
3:20:08
But he had a hell of a game coming off the kick out, being
3:20:13
the off that injection off. It's over.
3:20:15
Don't worry. Ladies and gentlemen, I you can,
3:20:18
you can bet on it. This series is over.
3:20:20
You didn't do so well the last time.
3:20:22
You shut down. I'm I'm telling you right now,
3:20:24
it's over. There is no way they're coming
3:20:26
back and going to a game seven. I I'm webbing Yama, home quarter
3:20:30
webbing Yama and that team the way D Aaron Fox is playing right
3:20:34
now. Good friggin luck.
3:20:36
All right, we'll call this Dial it Up.
3:20:39
This regularly scheduled. Hot mix to bring your important
3:20:41
news. We got a big broadcast to do
3:20:43
here. We we're about to dial it up all
3:20:48
right. Yeah, welcome back, Dial.
3:20:54
It. Up everyone's favorite Lightning
3:20:58
Round Sports News segment. Errol, you know what the deal
3:21:04
is. Squeeze the tease.
3:21:07
But you haven't heard yet. We're going to start with a big
3:21:10
one and then you're going to dial up a take and we'll react
3:21:15
to it. Here we go, dial it.
3:21:17
Up first story, Errol in hockey, the Oilers fired Chris Noblock.
3:21:26
Yes that Chris Noblock that took them to back-to-back Stanley Cup
3:21:30
finals almost all the way twice. Obviously not as good of a
3:21:36
season this year. Eliminated in the first round.
3:21:39
McDavid playing on a broken ankle.
3:21:42
Blame the coach, pretty much the top coach available instantly on
3:21:47
the market. Errol, I'm sure you have
3:21:49
something to say about this when you.
3:21:51
Dial it up. Well, here's the thing, I I have
3:21:55
no idea what this organization is doing because if you look at
3:21:58
the Edmonton Oilers, their record this year was 41 and 3093
3:22:03
points. They were the second best team
3:22:05
in the Pacific Division. Think about this, this guy took
3:22:08
you, took you to back-to-back championship games.
3:22:13
You lost and you give up on him after two years.
3:22:17
It makes no sense. I'm going to tell you this right
3:22:20
now. They're going to be 5-6 teams
3:22:22
lining up for this guy. He's a kid.
3:22:25
He's still a young man getting to know and getting to
3:22:28
understand the game. The NHL at the pace that it is.
3:22:31
This guy is one of the best, three best coaches in the NHL.
3:22:36
It makes no sense. Edmonton is on their way out and
3:22:39
you might be right. A lot of Ranger fans might be
3:22:42
very excited about this because Connor McDavid might not want to
3:22:45
be here much longer. Yeah, we talked about last week
3:22:47
why Joel Krenville has a job with Anaheim.
3:22:49
Stan Bowman's in that same scandal, yet he has a job
3:22:51
because the Oilers can't hire a good GM whatsoever.
3:22:54
Ken Holland was not great before that, before there was Chia
3:22:57
Rally, it was one of the worst. And you're going to now look at
3:23:00
a job that, yeah, I guess Connor McDavid is there, but you're
3:23:03
looking at a case where it's going to be a desirable for
3:23:05
somebody working for Bowman at this point.
3:23:07
So the Oilers are just digging their own grave when it looked
3:23:09
like they finally got out of it the last five years they went to
3:23:11
the two Cups and now they're firing a head coach.
3:23:14
I did a phenomenal job with their young players.
3:23:16
And you're right, any young team as we look at that fish, the one
3:23:19
I mentioned to you is Detroit. They're a team that Eiserman I
3:23:22
they in a collapse that was worse than the Islanders.
3:23:23
And he gets to keep he's keep his job.
3:23:25
That's a young team. The Kings I would look at to a
3:23:27
very young team. Seattle.
3:23:28
There's a lot of teams are going to be lining up for him.
3:23:30
The fact that he got fired is absolutely ridiculous.
3:23:33
You know, I, I think it was because they leaked that Cassidy
3:23:38
was someone they wanted to get the job.
3:23:40
He's out there from Vegas. Vegas said no.
3:23:43
But since Vegas said no, it became public knowledge that
3:23:46
they're that they were looking to move on from him.
3:23:48
So I guess they had to do that. But now also they don't get
3:23:52
Cassidy. Yeah, if he has the rights, like
3:23:54
you can't do that since you make it look really bad.
3:23:56
Good job Stan Bowman, who shouldn't have a job.
3:23:59
Yeah, I mean, I put it in the graphic.
3:24:02
I just don't think it was the coach that should have been
3:24:05
fired in the situation. I think it was the GM who can't
3:24:07
fire himself. Let's move on to the next story
3:24:12
here. And this one goes to baseball.
3:24:15
And this is the slumping Cal Raleigh.
3:24:19
Get this, Errol. He showered in his uniform
3:24:22
because he was over 36. He ends up with a couple of
3:24:27
hits, a couple of RBI's in the game.
3:24:29
They shower him with Gatorade. Do you realize how bad he has
3:24:36
been this season? How bad is he?
3:24:41
Well, I'll tell you, he's so bad he's considered the ninth worst
3:24:45
hitter in all of baseball, hitting like 160.
3:24:48
And on top of it, after this great two hit game that he
3:24:53
celebrated like he hit sixty home runs, which he did last
3:24:56
season, he went on the IL with a strained oblique.
3:25:03
Dial it up for the big dumper. Here's the here's the facts.
3:25:07
He's one of the best switch hitting power hitters in
3:25:09
baseball. But if you remember what
3:25:11
happened in the WBC, he lost his job.
3:25:14
He wasn't even the final catcher for Team USA because he couldn't
3:25:17
hit the ball. He's not what he was last year.
3:25:19
He was having an unbelievable season.
3:25:21
Everybody was compare him to Mickey Mantle.
3:25:23
He's not Mickey Mantle and that was the reason why the voters
3:25:26
decided to go with Aaron Judge because Aaron Judge did it
3:25:29
consistently and this guy hasn't been as consistent.
3:25:33
He is a special player. He's a great defensive player at
3:25:36
the catching position. He's a great leader.
3:25:38
He's got power, but he's a hot and cold player and when you're
3:25:41
a hot and cold player, you can't look at him as an MVP type of
3:25:45
player. Now as far as what he's doing
3:25:47
right now, I think he's going to get out of this slump.
3:25:49
He's too good of a hitter to get to hit the way he's hitting
3:25:52
right now. But it it's alarming when you
3:25:54
look at a player that hit how many home runs last year over
3:25:58
over 5859 as a switch hitter and how many how many home runs does
3:26:03
he have right now? I rest my kiss.
3:26:07
Remember these few like big home run seasons from catchers that
3:26:12
never had another big home run season.
3:26:14
Then The Jets, The Jets, the Mets have somebody like that was
3:26:17
a Jeff Hunley or something, Todd.
3:26:19
Hunley, Todd Hunley. Todd Hunley had a 40 something
3:26:22
home run. Who?
3:26:23
Eventually became an Alfie I made.
3:26:24
That I made that a question last year.
3:26:26
A tic tac. That was a trick because you
3:26:27
would guess my Piazza. Quick, quick story is, is that
3:26:30
Speedy reached out to Todd Hudley a long time ago and he's
3:26:33
a horse guy and we wanted to get him and talk, talk about horses.
3:26:36
That was Paula Duka. No, no, it wasn't Paula Duka.
3:26:39
Paula Duka was the horse guy, but I did reach out to Hunley
3:26:41
so. It was something with Hunley
3:26:43
that happened and he didn't want to come on and I didn't
3:26:47
understand that, so screw Todd Hunley anyway.
3:26:51
Well, I mean, my point is, you know, there's been a lot of guys
3:26:54
like this in baseball that have the one huge season, maybe not
3:26:58
as huge as what Raleigh did last year, and then just kind of had
3:27:02
a regret fresh into being a normal player.
3:27:04
And because you play catcher, think about it, remember what
3:27:07
happened to Joe Mauer? That guy was like a 35360
3:27:11
hitter, you know, 1520 home runs and he couldn't even move after
3:27:16
about six years that they had to put him behind first base and
3:27:19
then he couldn't. He had no pop.
3:27:21
Yeah, because Morneau got hurt all the time too, so they kind
3:27:23
of had to do that for him as well.
3:27:24
But I'm just saying at the catcher position, you know,
3:27:26
Buster Posey famously took a beating and shorten his career
3:27:30
that these there's a it's a really, really tough position to
3:27:33
stay good for a long time. That's why things like Posada
3:27:36
don't get enough credit in my opinion, historically, Yogi
3:27:39
Berra should get more credit historically than he does.
3:27:42
The catcher is the toughest position to play up for a long
3:27:45
time, at least in baseball. So let's get to the So I don't
3:27:50
really don't think Kyle Raleigh might be any good unless he was
3:27:53
playing hurt. Errol, you know, sometimes guys
3:27:55
like that play hurt. He's a catcher trying to, you
3:27:58
know, take care of the pitching staff.
3:28:00
He's. Too good of a player?
3:28:01
He'll figure it out. He had a lot of swing and miss
3:28:04
to his game before last season. We'll see how he is after the
3:28:08
injury. I tend to think you're right.
3:28:10
Let's take moving on from the big dumper to a big contract for
3:28:14
a Miami Dolphin running back. Devon, A chain gets paid the
3:28:20
third highest contract for a running back in the entire NFL.
3:28:25
Four year, $64 million contract extension.
3:28:30
Max value of 68. Total guaranteed money for a
3:28:34
running back 32,000,000. I'm old enough to remember when
3:28:39
Joe Shane was angry to have to give Saquon half that average
3:28:44
cap hit 16,000,000, but this year it's only 2.3.
3:28:51
It's a lot of money for a running back that catches a ton
3:28:55
of passes and it's probably faster than everybody, but it's
3:28:57
also been hurt, I think, every year of his career.
3:29:00
Dial it up. Here's the facts.
3:29:03
Mike McDaniel is not there anymore.
3:29:05
So is he going to be as explosive as he was when Mike
3:29:08
McDaniel was there? That's one.
3:29:10
Number two, you're paying a guy that I do not believe is a top
3:29:14
five running back in the league. He's a great player.
3:29:17
He can catch the ball, he can run the ball.
3:29:19
You can't take away his gifts. He's he's fast, he's everything.
3:29:24
The problem with him is he's undersized and eventually he's
3:29:27
going to get hurt. And for some reason, the Miami
3:29:30
Dolphins like to overpay players to I mean, they're still paying
3:29:34
that guy. They're playing.
3:29:36
They're still paying defensive players that they traded away.
3:29:39
This is an organization that overpays an owner that overpays
3:29:42
players that shouldn't be overpaid.
3:29:44
My opinion? Good job where to go.
3:29:46
We love overpaying players. That's what we do.
3:29:48
You know what I mean? But at the end of the day, he's
3:29:51
he's all they got. So at the end of the day, it's
3:29:53
not no strange to have overpay or pay or run it back this type
3:29:59
of numbers when pretty much what else can you say is coming out
3:30:01
of Miami, absolutely nothing. So congratulations to where he
3:30:06
did his thing. He got a big contract.
3:30:08
Look forward to seeing what he do this year.
3:30:10
I'm not expecting much to come out of Miami outside of
3:30:14
highlights from him, but other than that, man, it was a big
3:30:17
payday. So we go celebrate that, right?
3:30:19
We're not going to talk down about a player getting paid.
3:30:25
If you're a fantasy player who plays in PPR leagues, you know
3:30:29
he is like this boom or bust legend in fantasy where he can
3:30:34
just go off for crazy crazy games because of all the
3:30:37
receptions. Very curious to see what he does
3:30:40
without McDaniel scheming him open on a lot of those short
3:30:43
passes. They're still using the same
3:30:45
way. It'll have to be it'll, it'll
3:30:47
have to be someone who's like, would just love a player like
3:30:51
that. No, you don't have nothing else.
3:30:55
Well, I mean, like, at least like coaching wise, like I go
3:30:59
back and I think about a lot of the scheme historically.
3:31:02
Like Steve Spurrier was the first guy to send running backs
3:31:04
out of the backfield on like angle routes and things like
3:31:07
that. And then it became more option
3:31:09
routes as we went forwards into the 2000s.
3:31:11
And now you got guys full on just being receivers out there.
3:31:15
And they can also be running backs and they're like, it's
3:31:18
like almost like the wing back in the day.
3:31:20
I I think a chain can do everything.
3:31:23
You want him on the field, but you want someone who knows how
3:31:27
to abuse him best. And it's like he can be misused,
3:31:31
I think. And you don't want to run him 20
3:31:33
times into the back of the offensive line.
3:31:35
And I think someone might do that.
3:31:37
You have a green. Bay Packers executive and a
3:31:40
Green Bay Packers coach that's never done it before.
3:31:42
Good luck, move on. Well, worried about it.
3:31:45
Let's go back to baseball. This one's more media story
3:31:48
Errol and it's about the Braves and their regional Sports
3:31:53
Network that they created because the entire deal with
3:32:00
what was it the FanDuel Sports Network collapsed before the
3:32:05
season started, right? So the deal is last year they
3:32:09
made 4.3 million in quarter one of 2025.
3:32:13
This year in Braves Vision and their deal with MLBTV, they only
3:32:19
made 2.5 million, which, you know, quarter one means like I
3:32:24
guess before the season started, but they're not getting anyone
3:32:27
to look at it. And there's a lot of worry
3:32:30
because there was a lot of promises made that this was
3:32:33
going to bring the same type of revenues in.
3:32:36
And if this doesn't work, is the regional sports model completely
3:32:39
over? Dial it off.
3:32:41
I want to give a shout out to maybe Rest in Peace Ted, Ted
3:32:45
Turner, who passed away a couple of weeks ago.
3:32:47
I never got a job chance to say that he owned the Braves for a
3:32:49
very, very long time. He was a great owner and a great
3:32:53
executive. So I want to give a shout out to
3:32:54
the Turner family as far as the Braves are concerned, this is a
3:32:58
one of the best teams right now in baseball, one of the best run
3:33:00
organizations in professional baseball and professional
3:33:03
sports. And you have Rob Manfred as
3:33:06
Jabba would call him or Rob man ass or whatever the hell you
3:33:09
want to call him. He's a complete moron.
3:33:11
He doesn't do the right thing. This is not and a problem and
3:33:15
and I don't get it either because George Steinberg who
3:33:18
opened up opportunity for organizations and television
3:33:22
companies and all that other stuff and making the yes network
3:33:25
and it it exploded for all professional sports.
3:33:28
Why is it that this guy, ever since he's taken over for Bud
3:33:31
Selig has screwed up the league? Everybody says, well, there's
3:33:35
money coming in. It's being more recognized
3:33:37
really, because if anything, if you look at the back end of it,
3:33:41
you're looking at teams that are doing so very well that have
3:33:44
been forgotten and they're not doing as well as they should be.
3:33:48
So it doesn't make any sense. They've got stars like a Cunha
3:33:51
and they got all these different young players coming up and and
3:33:54
playing at a high level and they're not making money.
3:33:57
Please. And here's another thing that
3:33:59
makes no sense to me. When you have an organization,
3:34:02
by the way, the Atlanta Braves, besides the Atlanta, the Atlanta
3:34:06
Hawks and the Atlanta, the Atlanta Falcons, the number one
3:34:10
sport in Atlanta is baseball. It is baseball.
3:34:15
I don't care what anybody says, baseball, I hear that the
3:34:18
Atlanta Braves sell out every single game.
3:34:20
How is their TV deal not bringing them the month any
3:34:23
money? It makes no sense whatsoever.
3:34:26
Baseball needs to figure this out and figure it out fast, or
3:34:29
this strike is going to be a lot longer than people think.
3:34:32
Yeah, Originally I figured it was the Bali sports deal
3:34:35
originally when they're just spread out on other networks and
3:34:38
then the FanDuel do try to duplicate that.
3:34:39
Obviously bringing in a betting network with that, you would
3:34:42
think it would work to some degree.
3:34:43
And you're right, for a team that getting good attendance,
3:34:46
they're very well. Wrong.
3:34:47
They're they're, I think last year they were fifth in the
3:34:50
league and selling out. I mean, they're every year,
3:34:53
they're in the top 10 every year, and they have the best run
3:34:57
organization in professional baseball.
3:34:59
Yeah. So you would think that FanDuel
3:35:01
that has that kind of backing would be able to help them more.
3:35:03
Obviously, they're spread out in other areas as well.
3:35:05
But still, I'm surprised with how much revenue that they're on
3:35:08
an uptick that it wouldn't be able to help them this much with
3:35:11
how well they play. Because last year, like you said
3:35:13
this in the graphic, they triple the salary for a team that was
3:35:16
banged up all year. Yeah, and they're the best team
3:35:20
in baseball right now and they're losing money.
3:35:23
That's that should be said as well.
3:35:25
Let's move on to the last story of the evening.
3:35:29
I'm sure we're excited to get there.
3:35:30
This one's hilarious. Your buddy.
3:35:36
No, not real buddy, but Mr. Nick Wright, another talking head on
3:35:40
TV. He had a very interesting
3:35:43
comment that went viral about Joel Embiid and having his son
3:35:48
at the post game press conference mentioned you.
3:35:51
You touched on it a little bit at last night earlier in the
3:35:53
night. But he had to say something
3:35:56
saying that there should be no kids at these press conferences
3:36:01
anymore, especially if a team loses, because they're using the
3:36:06
kids as a shield to keep them away from asking tough questions
3:36:12
in front of the kid. And I would just be have to have
3:36:18
to mention that a lot of former players like Paul Pierce did not
3:36:22
like this take. But Mr. Nick Wright, he said
3:36:26
that it was ridiculous. NBA players are bringing their
3:36:29
children to the podium for decades, and a reporter
3:36:32
shouldn't be too intimidated by a child's presence to ask
3:36:36
professional questions. What do you say?
3:36:40
Dial it up. Let me ask Nick Wright a
3:36:42
question and, and this is a really good question, Why
3:36:46
haven't you said it about Patrick Mahomes when he's done
3:36:48
it so many times? Patrick Mahomes was doing it
3:36:51
with his kids. You're a Kansas City fan, you're
3:36:54
from the Kansas City area, but you have no problems not saying
3:36:58
it to Patrick Mahomes. Why?
3:36:59
Cuz he won a couple of titles. But even when they were winning,
3:37:02
he was bringing him up, his kids to the, you know, to meet the
3:37:06
media. That's crap.
3:37:07
Steph Curry's done it for years. Carmelo Anthony did it with his
3:37:10
son. Everybody does it.
3:37:13
But now you're going to attack Joel and beat because you don't
3:37:15
like Joel and beat. Everybody knows that Nick Wright
3:37:17
don't like Joel and beat. Hey, Nick, let me ask you a
3:37:19
question. Why is it that every time people
3:37:23
look at your social media, the first thing they see is your
3:37:26
kids? Why do we have to look at your
3:37:29
kids? You're an analyst.
3:37:30
Nobody cares who how many kids you have.
3:37:32
I don't care how many kids you have.
3:37:34
Why are your kids all over your pictures?
3:37:37
How about that? Who cares if Joel Embiid has his
3:37:40
son at the press conference he's trying to block away?
3:37:44
That is the most ridiculous statement.
3:37:46
It just shows you how stupid Nick Wright is.
3:37:49
Nick, why don't you worry about arguing your points about LeBron
3:37:52
James being better than Michael Jordan?
3:37:54
And your arguments are crap. Everything that you're posting
3:37:57
up and everything that you said on your show is absolute
3:38:00
ludicrous. So everything that comes out of
3:38:02
this guy's mouth is overpaid. Fox Sports is making a huge
3:38:06
mistake giving this guy the money, and his snarls will poke
3:38:09
you right in the eye. That's all I'm going to say.
3:38:11
I don't really understand the issue with him bringing the kid.
3:38:13
Like I said, everybody kind of brings the kid in the NBA.
3:38:16
So I'm doing it in the NFL, other professional sports at
3:38:20
all. I don't think that I also don't
3:38:22
believe in once somebody get eliminated from a series that
3:38:25
it's the time to attack them and it's the time to, you know, RIP
3:38:29
them apart because they they got swept in the in the NBA playoff
3:38:34
series. So I think it's kind of childish
3:38:37
that they keep trying to to say that this kid was used as a
3:38:40
shield. The mic is still there.
3:38:43
Joel B came and he's present. So whatever you want to ask him,
3:38:47
just ask him. I don't think he brought the kid
3:38:49
to be like, oh, yeah, now that I got my kid, they're not going to
3:38:51
ask me tough questions. Nobody's thinking that.
3:38:53
Listen, he accepted his loss. He went to the podium.
3:38:56
He got the mic asked whatever question you got to ask.
3:38:59
The problem is why are you trying to attack him just
3:39:02
because he got swept? Like it should just be
3:39:04
basketball questions. Like what did you see, what went
3:39:07
on? What is something that you guys
3:39:09
can take away from this game and use it as momentum going into
3:39:12
next season? Those are the type of question
3:39:14
that should be asked. It shouldn't be, oh, I'm trying
3:39:16
to get AI got you moment or whatever.
3:39:18
But if you look back over the last week or two, Nick Wright
3:39:21
has just been doing anything possible to just go viral or to
3:39:25
be in everybody's algorithm because he's just been making
3:39:29
the most outlandish takes over the last week or a week or two.
3:39:32
So yeah, I just think it's some BS in regards to making it seem
3:39:36
like he brought the kid to try to away from the questions.
3:39:39
He's right there. He was at the podium.
3:39:42
He's also doing this thing where he's being like a professional
3:39:47
poker player on the side, Nick Wright, and he was trying to be
3:39:50
in real bragging about how much money he's betting because he's
3:39:53
doing so well. And I just thought it was a
3:39:56
ridiculous take for someone to have who's at who?
3:40:00
Also is like bragging about like wasting money professional
3:40:03
gambling when you're a professional sports guy.
3:40:06
All right, so my take here with Nick Wright before we go is I
3:40:10
met Nick Wright a couple of years ago at a summit and he
3:40:13
told me he started going back and forth with me in the
3:40:16
backroom talking about Jordan and LeBron.
3:40:18
And I said, hey, here's my card. Come on a show.
3:40:21
I I'd like to go out. Yeah, absolutely.
3:40:24
I'll reach out to you. I'll send you a text.
3:40:26
Never sent me a text. Never wanted to come on the
3:40:28
show. So the the problem with Nick
3:40:31
Wright is it's it's pretty straightforward.
3:40:33
Nick Wright, he he plays like he's a man on his show, like
3:40:36
he's the man and everybody's got to kiss his ass.
3:40:39
When he was speaking at this summit, everybody had, oh, look,
3:40:42
it's Nick Wright. Yeah, Nick Wright who doesn't
3:40:44
cut his hair and he has a big snozz and he thinks he's like
3:40:48
God's gift to the world. The problem with Nick Wright is
3:40:50
pretty simple. His takes are all about an
3:40:54
algorithm. He doesn't care on his on on who
3:40:58
he hurts or how he throws A curveball as long as it gets
3:41:02
click bait. And that's the problem with Nick
3:41:05
Wright. Anybody that likes Nick Wright,
3:41:06
anybody that knows anything about Nick Wright knows that Fox
3:41:10
has made a big mistake extending his contract because the guy
3:41:13
doesn't know anything that he's talking about.
3:41:15
He kisses Le Bron James's ass because Le Bron actually goes on
3:41:18
his show. He kisses all the people's asses
3:41:21
that come on his show. Anybody else that's told him no,
3:41:24
not interested. That's the guys like Joellen
3:41:27
Bead. Joellen Bead has told Nick
3:41:29
Wright for years. I will not come on your show.
3:41:32
And what does Nick Wright do? He attached to Ellen Bead it it.
3:41:35
It's pathetic. It it just shows you how and who
3:41:38
Nick Wright really is as a person.
3:41:40
That's all I'm going to say about that.
3:41:41
That's the end of the show. Thank you for our two very
3:41:46
special guests. Richie Camshoom, who is
3:41:49
fantastic, fantastic and center Greg Odin.
3:41:53
And by the way, Greg Odin was not a bust for anybody that
3:41:56
understands basketball. He played ten years in the NBA.
3:41:59
He wasn't a bust and check out the bust movie, which is coming
3:42:03
out soon. Their first screening is going
3:42:05
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3:42:09
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3:42:17
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3:43:38
And if you don't know who Chrissy Freud is, she was the
3:43:41
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3:43:46
the things that she said about Diana Rusini.
3:43:49
You know, anybody that knows the story, but we're not going to
3:43:52
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3:43:58
She has not jumped on many different shows because of the
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3:44:04
So we really appreciate her and we'll have some fun with her.
3:44:07
We'll talk a little NFL with her.
3:44:08
So she was at the draft and I'd love to hear her take on The
3:44:11
Jets and the Giants pick. So we're happy to have her.
3:44:14
So thank you very much. And we'll we'll stay tuned for
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3:44:23
ladies and gentlemen. And maybe we'll see a Knick game
3:44:27
on Monday or Tuesday. It could happen if the Cavaliers
3:44:31
close out the Detroit Pistons. I'm excited.
3:44:35
I want to, I want to see the Knicks play.
3:44:37
The quicker the better because the longer the Knicks wait, the
3:44:39
more I think it it could affect the Knicks.
3:44:42
I want to see them on the basketball court as soon as
3:44:44
possible. Anyways, that's it for our show.
3:44:47
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