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Lakers fall to the Timberwolves! Will LeBron retire? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  You believe the Mets are going to give him a significant
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  They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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  Why not put it in one of the top three offensive players in the
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  league? 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, a game where you got
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  to go. I told you, Giant faith Saquon
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  Barkley at this Yes, yes, yes.
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  little bit later in the show as well.
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  And we have a great show lined up for you.
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  But first, yes, ladies and gentlemen, I celebrated my
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  birthday over the last two days. My sister came out on my
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  birthday. I got a chance to see my one
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  year old niece, my 21 year old niece and my 12 year old nephew
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  got to hang out with them, had a little birthday cake and you
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  know, off they went. And then last night I actually
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  went to dinner. It was a great dinner.
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  I thought it was, but we went to Teller's, a steakhouse.
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  It was delicious and I got myself a nice beautiful bottle
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  of Saint I, I, I forget what it's called, but it's it's
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  $150.00 bottle of Cologne. I love Cologne.
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  I collect Cologne. I collect everything it I
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  collect watches, never wear them.
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  If you if you ever watch a show you never see me with a nice
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  watch even though I have a ton of them.
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  Did you order chicken fingers or did you actually get steak?
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  I, I actually had steak. I actually, if you're going to a
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  steak house, you're going to eat steak.
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  And I do have steak. You never know.
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  No, I love steak. I I actually enjoy steak.
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  I had myself a rib eye. I love those rib eyes.
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  They're thick, they're juicy. And I had a chance to, you know,
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  have the nice mashed potatoes. How little it?
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  What was this goes? You get it.
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  Well done. I did.
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  I do I get it well done? I do.
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  I get my steak well done. Why wouldn't I?
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  What is? You want boot leather?
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  No, I get it well done, medium, medium well, OK, it's it's
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  medium well, but I don't like it like red or any of that stuff.
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  That's not my thing. You know it's not blood though,
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  right? No, I know that, but I just
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  don't like it Red I I get sick. I've been sick, I've gone to
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  steak houses and I've tried it Red.
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  My father was a carnivore. He would never he he barely even
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  cook the steak and he eat it like that.
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  I was like, that was. Called.
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  That's called black and blue. No, that's called sick, and
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  that's called a vampire or something sucking out that.
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  Carpaccio is basically just raw. Meat, even though raw meat I.
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  Just made rib eyes the other day in filets and it's got to be
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  medium rare. I have a medium rare I eat that
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  sometimes I eat them that sometimes I.
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  Usually say that if you go to a steakhouse and most of the time
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  it comes out medium. But that's why you always say
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  medium rare, because. I'll eat it.
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  I'm usually a medium well type of guy, but I'll eat it medium
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  rare. It it depends, but I I don't
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  really like the red. I every time I have it red or I
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  I've gone to a nice steakhouse. I went to Virginia one time and
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  we went to a steakhouse and it was actually pretty good.
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  I forget what it was called, but it was in the city of Virginia
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  and I got it medium well. I mean read it medium rare and
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  it wasn't it got me sick. I actually was throwing up all
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  night. So I don't, I don't usually eat
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  it medium rare. I try to stay away from that.
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  But nevertheless, maybe it was a bad piece of meat.
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  I don't know, but this game, this New York Knick game is
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  going to make me sick. And I have, I have a bad feeling
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  that they're going to go to a Game 7 in New York and we will
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  get into that a little bit later in the show because you know, a
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  lot to get into with the NBA craziness going on in the NBAI
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  finished my birthday. No, everybody says they spend a
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  week on their birthday. I will celebrate my birthday
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  once again May 17th as we head to Mohican Sun and all my
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  friends will come out or some of my friends will come out because
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  a lot of my friends live all all over the country so I'm not
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  going to really experience all the.
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  Crazy. Did you see what James said?
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  He said Earl. I loved Tellers and he didn't
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  give him an invite. Wow, I'm.
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  Sorry, James. I would apologize to James, but
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  I actually there was somebody that didn't like the steak, so
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  I'm just speaking the truth. As she said, she will never go
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  to tellers again. So I just, yeah, she will never
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  go to tellers again. She's a picky picky person when
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  it comes to steak and how it gets kicked to the bream and
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  heavy taste and doesn't taste burnt as she was saying so.
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  It's going to taste burn if it's well done.
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  Yeah, well, she didn't want it well done, but they, they, they
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  messed up on it. But nevertheless, I told her to
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  eat it. It's a piece of steak.
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  And then she didn't like the, I forget what they have this
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  special sauce. It had like a horseradish taste
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  to it. I liked it.
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  It was it made it even more juicy.
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  The one thing she liked was the bread, the bread and the garlic
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  butter. That was delicious.
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  But besides that, she didn't really like the mashed potatoes.
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  She was questioning. We actually had something taken
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  back. But I don't want to put tellers
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  down where people are going to be like, I'm never going to tell
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  her. So I don't want to say anything.
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  I liked my food. She did not.
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  That's just my. Are you a bit like when you have
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  your birthday dinner? Like we took Carter out for his
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  birthday with some of his teammates.
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  Sometimes I like it cuz you get a talk but sometimes my butt
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  goes numb because you sit too long.
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  I, I did, I thought it was very comfortable there, but you know
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  what it is, is they, they sell the, the arrangement and, and
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  where you're sitting and it looks like Italian and like,
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  like you're in a nice Italian yard.
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  But honestly, it looks like a weird warehouse painted like an
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  Italian, you know, Italian place.
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  I, I didn't, I didn't feel comfortable and was really,
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  really, I never called in a restaurant.
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  It was freezing. It was absolutely freezing in
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  the restaurant. So you're, I don't know why
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  they're blasting the, the air conditioning when everybody was
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  like dressed in shorts or nice shirts.
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  And, and, and that was another thing.
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  I went in shirt and a shirt and a polo.
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  I went to, I went there in a polo, short shirt and a shorts,
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  shorts on. We didn't realize how dressy you
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  had to be at tellers. So we walked right in and they
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  told me to take my hat off. I was wearing a hat.
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  They told me not to wear a hat in the restaurant.
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  So I took my hat off. My hair was a mess.
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  We didn't have to worry about that at Carters birthday.
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  It was, it was at a Mexican spot that yeah, all the.
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  Time I didn't get it. One of his buddies did get steak
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  and shrimp though. The others got just all kind of
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  whatever, but we got a good time at his birthday party.
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  My birthday will be celebrated May 17th Fish is going to come
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  out Speedy will come out you're invited with your wife or your
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  your fiance. If you guys want to come out
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  tomorrow weekend sun in Connecticut it's it's going to
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  be fun it always is and I get drunk I don't really drink so
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  I'll be dancing on bars or doing something stupid.
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  Hopefully I don't get arrested, but you know, obviously I was
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  wrong about the Lakers. Ladies and gentlemen, the
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  Timberwolves beat the Lakers one O 3 to 96 to upset them in five
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  games. Anthony Edwards took shots at
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  everybody that said the Lakers would win in five games and said
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  proving the haters wrong made the win feel 10 times better.
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  Anthony Edwards also called out Rudy Gobert, a dragon, after
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  having 27 points and 24 rebounds in game #5 game number fives
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  win, ESP NS Brian Windhorst called JJ Reddick saying he
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  coached very immaturely in the series.
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  Not surprised. Luka Doncic also suffered a back
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  injury during game five, and reports say he was cleared to
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  come back early earlier in the game but didn't come until the
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  midway point through the third quarter.
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  LeBron James told ESPN that he is uncertain about his future
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  despite his son Bronie still being a Laker.
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  LeBron has two years remaining on his contract, worth about 60
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  million per year with I'm sorry, with an option in 2027 and 2028.
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  Let me tell you guys something. Lebron's going nowhere.
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  He is going nowhere. I know this is what he likes to
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  do. He's done this before.
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  He was at the ESPY Awards with his family, as his family said
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  he was the greatest basketball player to ever play the game.
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  And everybody forgets what Michael Jordan was and what he
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  created for LeBron James and Kobe Bryant and all the greats
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  as everybody compared are really compared to Michael Jordan.
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  The fact here is LeBron James is out for himself.
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  We all know what LeBron James likes to do.
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  He likes to be the center of attention.
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  He goes up there at the press conference.
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  He says his peace and then he says I'm unsure about my future.
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  He absolutely is sure about his future.
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  The only reason why they made that move for a guy like Luka
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  Doncic was to give LeBron James a chance to add another
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  superstar and go on another run, maybe to for one or maybe even 2
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  championships. The fact is they just didn't
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  show up in that series. I think Luka Doncic wasn't 100%
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  healthy in the series. You can see it in his game.
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  This is a guy that averages over 33 points a game and seven
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  rebounds in about 8 in practically every single playoff
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  game of his career. And throughout this series, he
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  just wasn't really up the par. Now, obviously, JJ Redick is a
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  different coach. This is a different team than
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  the Dallas Mavericks. All the offense in Dallas ran
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  through him. In this offense, it ran through
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  LeBron and Luca Doncic and again, Luke has got to figure
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  out who he is, what is his identity with the Lakers, I was
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  very surprised they lost in five games.
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  If they were going to lose, I thought it was going to
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  definitely be in seven games. But again, we all understand who
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  Anthony Edwards is. He calls himself the truth.
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  We understand how talented he is.
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  He's a superstar player. He doesn't want to be the face
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  of the NBA, as he's come out and said, but he is one of the faces
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  of Team USA Basketball. We understand the talent he is.
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  Some people compare his skill to a Michael Jordan.
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  I don't know if you can actually compare him to Michael Jordan,
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  but his acrobatics and what he does on a basketball court is
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  sensational. He's fun to watch.
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  Rudy Gobert. This could have been his best
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  game of his career, I don't think.
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  You can be hands down without a doubt.
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  Yeah, I I've never seen Rudy Gobert put up the numbers in in
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  a playoff game, 27 points and 24 rebounds.
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  Now I've seen him put up kind of these numbers in a regular
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  season. But again, subpar teams.
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  When you're playing a Lakers team that made it to the
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  playoffs, we're a number three seed and we're one of the best
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  teams in the Western Conference all season.
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  To put up those kind of numbers the way he did was very
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  impressive. Now is he going to do it in the
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  next series? Who who knows?
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  The question is, is this the is this team different than they
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  were last year? They obviously had Carl Anthony
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  Downs. Now they have a little bit more
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  depth. I would say with Julius Randall
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  and Dante Diva Censo Dante's actually playing pretty good
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  basketball over the last couple of weeks and throughout this
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  playoff series, he's been pretty good off the bench.
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  He's added a a little bit of spice and that's something that
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  the Knicks are missing in this series.
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  They need that spice. They need that shooting type.
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  A guy that is really has that cold, you know, that cold stuff
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  going through his veins. I say cold stuff because I could
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  say hot stuff and you know, Speedy might be thinking of
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  something else, but I honestly believe that the Lakers need to
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  figure things out in the offseason.
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  I don't believe LeBron James is retiring, but they need that
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  other guy. They need a third type of player
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  that's going to give you about 1718 points off the bench if
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  need be, or maybe a starter that can play with Luca and and run
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  the offense through Luka Doncic with LeBron James.
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  You don't think that's Austin Reeves?
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  I'm sorry, No, no, no, no. I think Austin Reeves is going
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  to get traded. I think he's going to be a trade
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  piece. A lot of teams like Austin
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  Reeves. I know that the Knicks were very
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  interested in Austin Reeves last season and even after trade
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  deadline, there were stories coming out that the Knicks were
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  trying to make a move with the Lakers.
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  But I think that will happen in the offseason.
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  There are quite a few teams I have heard that Giannis might
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  become available now that they lost.
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  And I'm not saying Giannis is going to the Lakers because
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  they're going to have to give up a lot and they're going to have
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  to. He's going to have to opt out of
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  his contract and take less to go to the Lakers.
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  I think there are quite a few other teams that might be
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  interested and a guy like Yannis, but the Lakers need to
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  find the other guy. And LeBron James is definitely
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  not going to retire because he doesn't want to retire.
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  At least with 11 championship off of Kobe and two
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  championships off of Michael Jordan.
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  He wants to be compared to Kobe or even Michael Jordan.
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  He has to win a total of 5 or 6 championships to be compared to
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  any one of those guys. Now, he is not Michael Jordan.
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  There's no question that he isn't.
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  But I think LeBron believes that he has something left in him.
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  I don't think he can play the defense he once could, but I
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  still think he can give you that 2425 points.
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  He's going to give you that 7 to 6 rebounds and and maybe 8, you
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  know, 8 assists if he actually plays the point.
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  So there's a lot of questions for the Lakers and what do they
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  do with JJ Reddick? Do they bring JJ Reddick back?
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  I know everybody sits here and says says well, JJ Reddick had a
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  great season. But when they when it came down
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  to the nitty and the gritty in the playoffs, JJ Reddick didn't
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  call the right time out. He couldn't he couldn't match up
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  his team against the Timberwolves teams, Timberwolves
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  team that wasn't as good all season long as they were last
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  year. This is a Timberwolves team that
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  went all the way to the Western Conference finals.
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  They beat the champion, the Nuggets last year and a lot of
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  people thought they were going to knock off Dallas.
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  And then Luca obviously matched up so very well against the
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  Anthony Davis, Anthony Edwards. Last year you would have thought
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  that this would have been a back and forth series against Anthony
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  Edwards and it wasn't even close.
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  The best player on the court throughout this series was no
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  other than Anthony Edwards. The question is, is this
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  Timberwolves team good enough to go all the way through the
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  Western Conference? As we've seen the Nuggets, the
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  Clippers are still fighting to get through the next round and
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  then the Golden State Warriors in OK C.
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  And right now, whoever wins, and if I'm not mistaken, whoever
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  wins this Golden State Rocket series would be playing the
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  Timberwolves and then the Timberwolves.
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  And I think this might be the easiest, you know, the position
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  we've seen the Timberwolves go all the way to the Western
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  Conference because I think they're better than the Rockets
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  and they're better than the Golden State Warriors.
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  Jimmy Buckets is not 100% healthy.
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  And I think right now the Timberwolves are playing their
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  best basketball. They're the healthiest they've
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  ever been throughout the season and they can make a run.
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  I as a matter of fact, I wouldn't even be surprised if
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  the Timberwolves go all the way to the finals this coming this
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  year because I just think the matchups, the way it's matched
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  up for them throughout the playoffs, who they have to go
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  through. OK CI don't think the Clippers,
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  I don't think the Nuggets are going to beat OK C as what we've
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  seen so far in the playoffs. I do believe the Timberwolves
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  match up very, very well against OK C with the athletic ability.
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  And what if Anthony Edwards can do what he did against the
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  Lakers and Rudy Gobert can give you the numbers that he was
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  giving you in the series? Why not?
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  Why couldn't they beat the OK C Thunder?
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  So it's a lot of questions. I love what I see with Anthony
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  Edwards and even after the game, his personality and he is so
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  wrong on what people said about this team and himself throughout
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  the season. Remember, they were a six seed
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  last year. I think if I'm not mistaken,
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  there were a third seed in the playoffs.
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  So they didn't like the way they were mistreated and what the way
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  everybody thought that the Lakers like yours truly, we're
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  going to pulverize them in this series.
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  So congratulations to the Denver Wolves.
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  It was a fun series to watch, for them at least.
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  We talked about it at the trade deadline to the Lakers question
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  with their size and Rudy Gobert. Definitely they exposed that in
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  this game and it kind of took them a while to get that
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  adjusted because Anthony Edwards was playing so well.
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  So you're like, why are you going to go off the hot hand
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  type thing? But then the Lakers started to
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  take away Anthony. Where's the Rudy Gobert went
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  off? And I think that's what Brian
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  Windhorse was getting. At.
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  When he was saying that JJ Redick never adjusted to
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  anything like that. 27 and 24 is unheard of numbers for any era
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  of basketball. Maybe besides the 1960s.
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  Where? There and Yokich players, we've
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  seen Yokich do this. Yokich is the exception to every
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  rule right now with the records he's putting up in the modern
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  era. But nevertheless, like that,
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  that was a concern for their size.
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  And that's why I think you were re dangling the Reeves for
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  Robinson rumorship with the Knicks because the Lakers knew
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  they needed some extra size after training Anthony Davis.
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  Now obviously that doesn't justify how much they fleece to
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  The Mavericks and Nico Harris and all The Mavericks fan
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  shouldn't just be gloating about the Lakers losing either just
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  because just because they lost doesn't make the trade any worse
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  than it was. But nevertheless, the Lakers,
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  they're going to need another depth piece in the offseason
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  because they definitely need. More Why is Nico Harrison even
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  speaking? I don't know.
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  Why is he bringing it up? They they didn't even make the
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  playoffs. Why are they they didn't even
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  make the the round of what? The round of eight for the
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  Western Conference? Yeah, they won't.
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  He's trying to see why A So it makes it, it, it justifies the
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  trade. Nice try they would have had to
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  I. Don't think you can ever justify
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  what they just did. They will never be able to do
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  that until they make it to to the point that they made it last
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  year, which was to the NBA Finals, because otherwise you're
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  ever going to, you're never going to say that.
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  Yeah, OK. You want to, you want to take a
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  little credit with the Luka Doncic conditioning thing, OK.
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  But again, you brought in Anthony Davis, who got hurt in
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  your first game. So now who?
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  Doesn't want to be there. Bother.
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  Nevertheless isn't about the batteries, about the Lakers and
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  going back to the Minnesota Timberwolves, though.
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  And let's give them some props too, because I was talking about
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  it with Dante Di Vincenzo and Julius Randall, the bringing of
• 19:28
  the Romans. And we we talked about how bad
• 19:30
  Randall's been in the playoffs in the past.
• 19:32
  He actually played well in the season.
• 19:33
  Play a lot more efficiently, kind of taking a mid range
• 19:37
  shooting type role. He's not shooting as much any as
• 19:40
  many threes and D Vincenzo is really just playing as a
• 19:42
  specialist. I think they were adhering to
• 19:43
  that well and their coaching staff and Anthony Edwards is our
• 19:45
  credit for that so. He's he's been unbelievable.
• 19:48
  He really has. Been I think both of them kind
• 19:50
  of figured out like where their lane was and and how it fit with
• 19:54
  that team. And I mean, obviously Rudy Gaber
• 19:58
  go doing what he did was was was crazy.
• 20:01
  And we we've seen what Ant's going to do.
• 20:04
  And yeah, you don't want to be the face, but.
• 20:06
  It's sometimes you are kind of not like you can say you don't
• 20:11
  want to be the face, but you happen to be it just because his
• 20:15
  personality and the things that he can do on the court.
• 20:18
  And I love watching him and his interviews are great.
• 20:22
  Like when he was walking out, Oh, they said Lakers, blah,
• 20:25
  blah, blah. And then he's just laughing and
• 20:26
  just walking out like a normal dude.
• 20:28
  And, you know, it's just, it's one of those things where he
• 20:34
  doesn't really have a choice because it's going to kind of
• 20:36
  happen. It's it's how he embraces it and
• 20:39
  what he wants to do with it. He can say he's not the face,
• 20:42
  which is fine. I mean, it's kind of the same
• 20:44
  thing that Mike Trout did in baseball.
• 20:46
  Like, I don't want to be the face, but you're still talking.
• 20:49
  You're still at the forefront of everything.
• 20:50
  You know what bothers me, Jabba? I'm watching Carl Anthony Towns
• 20:53
  in the playoffs with the New York Knicks and this Carl
• 20:56
  Anthony Towns, who's a sensational player, and we were
• 20:58
  so happy that we thought we fleeced the Timberwolves.
• 21:02
  We're watching Karl Anthony Towns in this series.
• 21:04
  He hasn't been that good. I mean, he's been up and down in
• 21:07
  this series. He had one good game, one bad
• 21:09
  game, one good game and all bad games.
• 21:11
  I mean, he hasn't played up to par what we expect a Karl
• 21:15
  Anthony Towns to play. He wanted to go to New York.
• 21:18
  And then you look at Julius Randle.
• 21:20
  Julius Randle's playing well for the Timberwolves as they almost
• 21:23
  swept the Lakers. And then you have Dante Diva
• 21:25
  Chanzo. We've seen what Dante Diva
• 21:27
  Chanzo and the Knicks in the fight in the preseason and then
• 21:31
  obviously what it took took Dante Divacenso to figure things
• 21:33
  out in the second-half of the season.
• 21:35
  And now that he's figured it out, he's been an important
• 21:37
  piece right now for the Timberwolves.
• 21:40
  Wouldn't it be fitting to watch the Timberwolves go all the way
• 21:43
  to the Finals and win a championship with Randall and
• 21:45
  Dante Divacenso and the Knicks get knocked out by the Detroit
• 21:48
  Pistons? It makes me sick to my stomach
• 21:50
  and and it has a lot to do with Carl Anthony Towns.
• 21:53
  And it really, really bothers me when I watch Carl Anthony Towns
• 21:56
  play and he lays up a lousy goose egg in a game that he
• 22:00
  should have taken over. When, when your best player is
• 22:03
  not playing well and Julius and Jalen Brunson and you have a
• 22:06
  chance to take over a game. And the same thing happened with
• 22:09
  the Timberwolves last year when Anthony Edwards wasn't playing
• 22:12
  well. You would, you would expect that
• 22:14
  Karl Anthony Towns would take over for the team and, and, and
• 22:17
  shoot more of those threes and really dominate the boards.
• 22:20
  Well, Karl Anthony talents did not do that.
• 22:23
  And that's why they lost against the Dallas Mavericks.
• 22:25
  And I, I could see why where, where you look at Karl Anthony
• 22:29
  talents, the talent that he has, the athletic ability as a big
• 22:32
  man, you could see how he disappears in the big game.
• 22:36
  And it bothers me because that's what we saw in Julius Randall.
• 22:38
  And that's why we were so happy. And I know Fish would agree with
• 22:41
  me. That's why we were so happy
• 22:43
  while when the Knicks landed a Karl Anthony Towns.
• 22:45
  It just, it's just so fitting that you watch the New York
• 22:49
  Knicks play and you watch Karl Anthony Towns play in big games
• 22:52
  and not produce. And then you watch Julius
• 22:55
  Randall put up the numbers he's putting up and Dante Divichenzo
• 22:58
  being a specialist and really at some points in the Lakers series
• 23:02
  just was absolutely dominating shooting the three.
• 23:05
  So it's just, it's, and the Knicks problem this year was
• 23:09
  shooting the three and they traded, they had to trade Dante
• 23:12
  Diva Chancel. I, I know a lot of Knick fans
• 23:15
  were not happy when the Knicks added Dante Diva Chancel.
• 23:18
  You have to give a little bit or you have to give a lot to get a
• 23:20
  great player. I put you, it's very fitting.
• 23:23
  Why why you watch a team like the Timberwolves play the way
• 23:26
  they did in that series and knock off Luka Dantic and LeBron
• 23:29
  James and and not have Karl Anthony Towns and watch Karl
• 23:33
  Anthony Towns getting their get get their butts whipped against
• 23:36
  a young Detroit Pistons team, which by the way has been out
• 23:40
  rebounding Karl Anthony Towns all series long.
• 23:44
  It makes me sick. And and let's get into the
• 23:46
  Pistons in Knicks series. The Pistons beat the Knicks one
• 23:49
  O 6 to one O 3. Absolutely horrible to stay
• 23:52
  alive in the series, which is now 3 to 2, which is on live
• 23:55
  right now on MSG or actually TNT.
• 23:59
  The Knicks where without Jaylen Bronson and Josh Hart in the
• 24:03
  final minutes of the game after both suffered injuries.
• 24:06
  Through five games, the Pistons have 153 points off the bench
• 24:11
  while the Knicks have 63, second least among playoff teams.
• 24:15
  Tom Thibodeau said the Knicks do not need any significant lineup
• 24:20
  or rotation changes, but just to play with more intensity.
• 24:25
  What a crocky. You know what, I got to say
• 24:27
  something. Tom Thibodeau loses his series.
• 24:30
  If Tom Thibodeau doesn't win one or two games against the Celtics
• 24:34
  and don't give the Celtics a challenge if they get through
• 24:37
  this Piston series, he should be absolutely gone.
• 24:40
  I don't know why any Knick fans think that this is OK.
• 24:44
  Tom Thibodeau not calling a time out.
• 24:46
  I don't care if he had one time out.
• 24:47
  You had two minutes left and you want to get your two best
• 24:50
  players in the game and you didn't get a chance to bring
• 24:53
  them in until what, 30 seconds left of the game?
• 24:56
  That's not good enough. And this New York Knick team had
• 24:59
  a chance to win that game. It wasn't Kate, it wasn't the
• 25:02
  Kate Cunningham show. It was everybody else that was
• 25:05
  dominating the Knicks. And to me, I didn't.
• 25:08
  See. Did they have a?
• 25:09
  Did they have no timeout? They had a timeout, they had one
• 25:12
  timeout. They could have called the
• 25:13
  timeout and and and that's the problem.
• 25:15
  They were trying. And if you know that your best
• 25:17
  players aren't in, then foul. You need to get Jalen Brunson in
• 25:21
  the game. Get somebody that is is not in
• 25:23
  foul trouble and just. But obviously, they have to go
• 25:26
  to the free throw line. And, and here's the thing, the
• 25:28
  Knicks couldn't have, couldn't hit a free throw in that game if
• 25:32
  their life depended on either, could they?
• 25:34
  The Detroit Pistons, Thompson missed like four or five free
• 25:38
  throws until he hit one. It was embarrassing.
• 25:40
  That game was an embarrassment. And the New York Knicks had a
• 25:43
  chance to end them in Madison Square Garden.
• 25:47
  It's just I don't understand Tom Thibodeau.
• 25:50
  I don't understand his reactions after the game telling me that
• 25:53
  there shouldn't be any rotation changes.
• 25:55
  What, are you kidding me? First of all, and I'll say this
• 25:59
  again, why is it Mitchell Robertson on the court with
• 26:03
  their best players, OG and Anobi Karl, Anthony Towns and and
• 26:07
  Jaylen Brunson? Why don't you rotate Mikhail
• 26:09
  Bridges here and there? Why don't you rotate Josh Hart
• 26:12
  off the bench, try to give them more depth off the bench.
• 26:16
  And McBride has been absolutely horrible in this series.
• 26:19
  He couldn't hit a shot if his his life depended on it.
• 26:22
  The watching the Knicks does give you Ajita.
• 26:24
  This is a Detroit Piston team that's very, very young.
• 26:28
  And again, they're still trying to figure things out with a
• 26:31
  coach that's been there for how long?
• 26:32
  One year? I mean, they're still trying to
• 26:35
  find their own identity. Kate Cunningham is a great
• 26:38
  player. He's sensational.
• 26:40
  But if the Knicks know that he is dominating them when he goes
• 26:44
  to the hole, why isn't OG and Anobi on the court defending
• 26:47
  against him? You know he's your best outside
• 26:50
  perimeter defender. Why isn't he defending Kate
• 26:54
  Cunningham the whole game? It doesn't make sense when if
• 26:58
  you guys remember Miami when they played Derrick Rose in the
• 27:01
  Chicago Bulls, Derrick Rose was the MVP.
• 27:03
  You guys remember that LeBron James was one of the best
• 27:06
  defensive players in the league and Derrick Rose was killing the
• 27:09
  Lakers, I'm sorry, killing the Miami Heat the first two games
• 27:13
  he was dominating, going to the Hall.
• 27:15
  You know what LeBron James decided to do?
• 27:17
  He decided to take everything into his own hands, and he
• 27:20
  defended Derrick Rose for the rest of the series.
• 27:22
  Do you know how many games Chicago won after that?
• 27:25
  0 zilch. And that's what your best
• 27:28
  defensive players, that's what your best players are supposed
• 27:31
  to do, step up to the plate and knock out the best player on the
• 27:35
  other team. I don't understand Tom
• 27:37
  Thibodeau's theories and thoughts after the game.
• 27:40
  You see that his he's a deer in the headlights.
• 27:42
  I don't even think he knows how important this series is for the
• 27:46
  New York Knicks. And it's not even it's not even
• 27:49
  drawn up that they're going to play the Celtics in the next
• 27:52
  round because Detroit has absolutely daggered them in
• 27:56
  certain parts of these games. They have kept the games close.
• 27:59
  They've been putting pressure on their best players.
• 28:01
  And Jaylen Bronson, he was averaging over 30 points a game
• 28:05
  going into that game and then lays up a lousy goose egg.
• 28:08
  I don't want to hear that He's hurt.
• 28:10
  He don't play defense. We expect Jaylen Bronson to put
• 28:13
  up a 30 spot against a team that don't play defense on the
• 28:16
  perimeter either. Kate Cunningham is not one of
• 28:18
  the best offenders at his position in the league.
• 28:21
  He's a decent one. He's not a great one.
• 28:23
  And how is Schroeder knifing through the defense is the way
• 28:27
  he has in this series? Schroeder, he is not a great
• 28:30
  offensive player. He's a decent one.
• 28:33
  I remember when he was drafted. He's good, but he's not great.
• 28:37
  It doesn't make any sense. And there's no excuse to the
• 28:41
  team defense that we've seen all season long.
• 28:43
  I think Tom Thibodeau has lost his team and and this this is a
• 28:47
  defense. This is a team that was one of
• 28:49
  the best defensive teams in the league back-to-back years since
• 28:53
  Tom Thibodeau has taken over. What happened to this defense?
• 28:57
  What is going on with this team? It doesn't make any sense.
• 29:00
  I don't care if they were the third seed, they should have
• 29:03
  never finished as the number three seed because now you're
• 29:05
  going even if you get out of this series, you got to match up
• 29:08
  against the green and white. And I don't want to see the
• 29:11
  Knicks play the green and white the way the Celtics played
• 29:13
  against Orlando, who, by the way, is a much better team than
• 29:16
  and the Detroit Pistons. Yeah, there's I also saw a stat
• 29:19
  that the the three wing players for the Knicks were shooting, I
• 29:23
  think 9 for 57 from a corner 3 standpoint, which is also
• 29:27
  inexcusable. Like Jalen Bronson and Karl
• 29:29
  Anthony Towns have hit their share of threes, but like if
• 29:32
  nobody else could shoot threes, that's something that you have
• 29:34
  to adjust to as a coach. Next with Jalen Bronson too, if
• 29:37
  you know he's like playing banged up, like, why are you
• 29:39
  having him still like attack so much as as he is?
• 29:42
  Yes, he's your point guard. Yes, he's the clutch player of
• 29:44
  the year in the NBA. Fine.
• 29:46
  I'm not saying never do it, but don't wear him out so much where
• 29:49
  you're he's already returning from injury pretty early as it
• 29:51
  was at the end of the regular season.
• 29:53
  And then there was the other part of that too.
• 29:55
  If McBride is struggling as bad as he is, he still not should
• 29:58
  not be remaining the backup point guard.
• 29:59
  I know he's loyal to his ways because when Jalen Bronson got
• 30:02
  hurt, he said, oh, Miles McBride is going to get more minutes.
• 30:04
  Well, if you're not scoring, take him out of the game.
• 30:06
  Leave him for defensive possessions only in that case,
• 30:09
  you don't need him for offense. It's the same thing that
• 30:11
  happened in the pacer series. So Miles McBride got really cold
• 30:14
  and then they never recovered and when they had all those
• 30:17
  other injuries. And I think Thibodeau does have
• 30:19
  to learn to just evolve. It's not hard to get out.
• 30:21
  Why is McBride playing if he's not hitting a shot?
• 30:24
  How many point guards are right now on the bench playing for the
• 30:26
  Knicks? We haven't seen any of them
• 30:28
  because you know why? Fibs don't like to play younger
• 30:31
  players. Kollek should be playing.
• 30:33
  This is a guy that can dribble the ball, take the ball off,
• 30:36
  play, defend multiple positions and do a lot of things right.
• 30:40
  Why isn't he playing? You know why?
• 30:42
  Because Thibodeau doesn't like to play young players.
• 30:44
  It's disgraceful when your team is is not playing great all
• 30:48
  around basketball. You got to take chances.
• 30:50
  That's what you do. If you're a good coach, you take
• 30:53
  chances, win or lose. You could say, hey, I tried
• 30:56
  everything. I did what I can.
• 30:58
  I set up, you know, rotations that I thought would work
• 31:01
  against a young, more talented, you know, athletic team.
• 31:05
  And it's true there Detroit is much more athletic than the New
• 31:09
  York Knicks. They, the Knicks, are playing
• 31:10
  like an old team, even though they're not old.
• 31:12
  They're playing old, old basketball.
• 31:15
  That doesn't work against the that will not work against the
• 31:18
  Cavaliers, as we've seen what Kenny Atkinson has drawn up in
• 31:21
  that series. It's despicable.
• 31:24
  And Thibodeau has no excuses. He's the reason why they lost
• 31:27
  that game. And if they lose this series,
• 31:29
  he'll be the reason why the Knicks don't advance.
• 31:31
  Yep. And before you go fish, I just
• 31:33
  want to mention the other guys you were mentioning too.
• 31:35
  Because I think the I think the game plan for the first two
• 31:37
  games was to try to bracket Kate Cunningham and then let everyone
• 31:41
  else score, which is something that hurt them when they played
• 31:43
  Miami two years ago. And all these random guys are
• 31:45
  going off because Thibodeau is trying to game plan for Butler.
• 31:47
  And now all of a sudden you have, like you said, Dennis
• 31:49
  Schroeder going off of the random points, Tobias Harris
• 31:52
  going off on the random points, Tim Hardaway Junior going off on
• 31:55
  the mean random points, and. Thompson absolutely out
• 31:58
  rebounding Karl Anthony Town and Mitchell Robinson.
• 32:00
  Very well and like you said Mitchell Robinson should get
• 32:02
  more minutes or just play the matchups accordingly because the
• 32:04
  the piston size is being too much.
• 32:06
  Even their wings, even their small forward, power forward
• 32:09
  type players are taller in general than the Knicks outside
• 32:11
  of Ananobi because that because the Knicks are trying to play
• 32:14
  too many like heart at the three and stuff like that.
• 32:17
  It just doesn't work that way. And I don't even care about the
• 32:20
  position labels as much as the individual matchups.
• 32:22
  He's just getting out matched by a coach that he with the
• 32:25
  Cavaliers, they beat four games to 1-2 years ago.
• 32:27
  It's the same coach now you're getting out coached by him.
• 32:29
  I kind of disagree. I was kind of mesmerized by the
• 32:32
  lack of defense as you guys were talking about it going on on the
• 32:36
  court right now. The Knicks are up right now by
• 32:39
  over 10 points after the beginning of the second.
• 32:42
  They're doing well. The problem with the Knicks in
• 32:44
  that game is they shot the ball horribly.
• 32:45
  They were, I don't know, it was like 65% from the line speedy in
• 32:49
  that game. I just kept missing.
• 32:51
  Brunson uncharacteristically had a terrible shooting night and,
• 32:55
  and I think Tibbs just said to himself, you know, we play this
• 32:58
  game nine times, you know, 8 * 9 times out of 10, we win this
• 33:02
  game if we just shoot normal as opposed to how we shot that
• 33:05
  night. So I don't think, I think that's
• 33:06
  why Errol, he said he didn't want to make adjustments.
• 33:09
  He just thinks it was a bad shooting night.
• 33:11
  My problem watching the game was what are you doing not getting
• 33:16
  Bronson and Hart back on the floor when you had a couple of
• 33:19
  minutes left in the game and a time out.
• 33:21
  I know you want to save it, do something else.
• 33:24
  I mean, you don't you don't really want to intentionally
• 33:26
  foul when you're down with a couple of minutes left, but I
• 33:29
  probably would have the the result was terrible.
• 33:32
  Kate Cunningham is a problem guys.
• 33:34
  That guy can play basketball at a real you know who he reminds
• 33:38
  me of a little bit? Errol, this is a throwback 90s
• 33:40
  reference for you before he had the ankle problems.
• 33:43
  He looks like Grant Hill. That's this is what he looks
• 33:47
  like. He's he curls around, drives to
• 33:49
  the hoop. He has that same kind of finish
• 33:52
  ability, obviously very different hair, but it's it's a
• 33:57
  special talent that we're watching blossom before our eyes
• 34:00
  on this. Team You know who he reminds me
• 34:02
  of? He reminds me of Clyde Drexler.
• 34:04
  That's who we that's. Interesting.
• 34:06
  That's interesting. I don't know if he gets up like
• 34:08
  that, but it it's he's really talented.
• 34:11
  But his game, his game is just like Clyde Drexler.
• 34:14
  He likes to get into the pain. He can shoot.
• 34:16
  Drexler could shoot. And when he was on Portland and
• 34:19
  even when he went to the Rockets, he takes over games
• 34:21
  because he defines the perimeter.
• 34:24
  He completely dominates. He has a, he has a spot, his
• 34:27
  sweet spot. If you notice Hal Burton, when
• 34:29
  he goes to his left side, he sets up to get that shot.
• 34:33
  He loves to do that fadeaway jumper.
• 34:35
  He goes to the whole left, he can go to the whole right.
• 34:37
  And he goes up strong too, like Clyde Drexler did.
• 34:40
  So that's who he reminds me of. That's that's the type of game
• 34:44
  that he reminds me of. I can see that he and he just
• 34:47
  toasted us without the two of those guys in there.
• 34:49
  The problem for the Pistons is they also have no answer for
• 34:52
  Jalen Brunson, and Schroeder is not going to do it.
• 34:56
  They've thrown every defender at him.
• 34:58
  He makes shot after shot. He's going to win the Knicks
• 35:00
  this series like he does all the time because he's one of the
• 35:03
  best players in all of basketball and they're going to
• 35:05
  win because of him. But it's a lot uglier than we
• 35:09
  would like. It's a very physical Pistons
• 35:11
  team. They're really letting up.
• 35:13
  Karl Anthony Towns know he needs to step up his physicality if
• 35:17
  he's going to be a playoff contributor at the level that we
• 35:20
  need. Him, OG and Nanobi has played
• 35:21
  very well in this series defensively and offensively.
• 35:25
  Ever since he's come back from his injury, he's looked really,
• 35:28
  really good on the basketball court and and honestly the best
• 35:31
  player all around in this series is OG and Nanobi.
• 35:34
  He's defended multiple positions.
• 35:36
  And why isn't he playing Kate Cunningham?
• 35:38
  I don't get it. Does nobody he should be.
• 35:41
  He should be mirroring him the whole game.
• 35:43
  I don't. He doesn't.
• 35:44
  That's not what his dubs he. Could change that.
• 35:49
  He should change that. That I don't think a coach is
• 35:51
  going to change this point in the season unless, you know, you
• 35:54
  might throw a zone at him every once in a while.
• 35:55
  That, that that's something those guys do.
• 35:58
  But if his principles are, you know, you, you switch on
• 36:01
  everything, that's what they play.
• 36:04
  You know what I mean? For better or for worse, and I
• 36:06
  would say for worse in this series, I I agree with you.
• 36:09
  It's a problem. My bigger issue is the, like you
• 36:12
  said, McBride not ready for the moment.
• 36:15
  Second year in a row in the playoffs campaign.
• 36:18
  Not my favorite player in the NBA.
• 36:21
  The two of them try to share the duties when they're in as the
• 36:24
  backup point. Guard, I'll tell them both on
• 36:26
  the court at the same time what could possibly go.
• 36:27
  Wrong. I'll tell you this, I'll tell
• 36:30
  you this. They're big man Duran.
• 36:32
  Duran was drafted by the New York Knicks.
• 36:34
  He was drafted by the New York Knicks and then traded Duran to
• 36:38
  Detroit and they obviously got Detroit's pick, which was a part
• 36:41
  of the Mckell Bridges trade and, and, and, and look what Duran's
• 36:45
  done in this series. He's absolutely dominated.
• 36:47
  The I'd rather have Duran than Mitchell Robinson just for the
• 36:50
  health and the fact that he's a little younger but similar type
• 36:54
  of player as Mitch. I would say Mitch's look good in
• 36:58
  his minutes he's played, but he's just a backup center right
• 37:00
  now. He comes in for Towns when Towns
• 37:02
  needs his blows. They're not playing them
• 37:04
  together, really, and I think they're going to need a whole
• 37:07
  offseason to figure that out with the two of them.
• 37:09
  That's the. Problem.
• 37:10
  Oh, it's very simple. You're going what they're going
• 37:12
  to do, for that matter what they're going to do, and I'm
• 37:14
  going to tell you what the Knicks are going to do.
• 37:15
  They're going to use, they're going to trade Robinson, they're
• 37:18
  going to Trail, they're going to trade Mikhail Bridges.
• 37:20
  They're going to try to go after Dante Divicento in the offseason
• 37:23
  and bring him back here because they need perimeter shooting.
• 37:26
  And I, I do believe Dante wants to come back to New York.
• 37:29
  He is a free agent after this year.
• 37:31
  So that could happen. Not Julius Randall, but I could
• 37:33
  see Dante Divicento and I couldn't, I could believe that
• 37:37
  the Knicks will do whatever they can to go after Giannis
• 37:39
  Antonacupo if if he becomes available.
• 37:42
  If he what? Would you have to give up for
• 37:44
  him though? It's very simple.
• 37:46
  You would have to trade McBride. I would probably say Robertson,
• 37:50
  Carl Anthony Towns and somebody else.
• 37:52
  I'm trading towns in that. Deal.
• 37:53
  I absolutely will. I absolutely will.
• 37:56
  You're doing it to have them play together.
• 37:58
  You're doing. It to towns?
• 37:59
  No way. Who's terrible defending the
• 38:01
  pain? That's the problem this year.
• 38:04
  He can't defend the pain. At the you're going to have to
• 38:06
  trade Karl Anthony Towns for Giannis.
• 38:08
  Absolutely. 0% chance. Really, that How are they going
• 38:11
  to pay Karl Anthony Towns, Giannis and Jaylen Bronson and
• 38:15
  Miguel Bridges? Trades like that because this is
• 38:17
  the team. But here's here's another thing
• 38:19
  point card situation. They could they could sign and
• 38:21
  trade Miguel Bridges. Miguel Bridges is.
• 38:23
  He's the guy that would move. Miguel Bridges is a guy that the
• 38:27
  Knicks could sign and then trade him in a trade.
• 38:29
  But I absolutely believe you're going to have to trade Karl
• 38:32
  Anthony Towns, and I disagree with you.
• 38:33
  McBride, bridges, Mitch and a bunch of seconds and maybe a
• 38:39
  first down the road. Probably enough.
• 38:41
  I don't think so. He's also on his way out if
• 38:43
  that's the case, but he might not be trying to go anywhere.
• 38:46
  He's he's hasn't floated that. He just everyone just figures
• 38:49
  that he would because it's the logical thing to do at this
• 38:52
  point in your career when you're in like this small market for so
• 38:55
  long. But again, he was from the
• 38:57
  streets of Greece, man. Like he loves this game at a
• 39:00
  level that only a few do. And that's why he's.
• 39:02
  So I think that the Knicks, and I'll go back to what you were
• 39:05
  saying, if the Knicks bring in Giannis, I trade Karl Anthony
• 39:08
  Towns, I trade McHale Bridges and try to go after Devin
• 39:11
  Booker. Devin Booker will become
• 39:13
  available in the offseason. There are stories coming out
• 39:15
  that that the Phoenix Suns will be interested in trading him
• 39:20
  because I do believe Kevin Durant is opting, opting out of
• 39:22
  the contract. And what are you going to have?
• 39:24
  You can have Bradley Beal and Kevin and Devin Booker there.
• 39:26
  That's not going to happen. Devin Booker will become a
• 39:28
  available and we all know Leon Rose, it was his agent before he
• 39:32
  decided to take over the New York Knicks job.
• 39:34
  So Devin Booker could be in addition to the New York Knicks
• 39:37
  and so could a Giannis antenna. Kupo.
• 39:40
  I think that would make more sense than keeping Karl Anthony
• 39:43
  Towns there and playing with Giannis.
• 39:44
  It doesn't make any sense. I don't see that.
• 39:46
  I think that makes a lot of sense.
• 39:48
  I don't compliment each other very well.
• 39:50
  One's an inside guy, one's an outside guy.
• 39:52
  Carl Anthony Towns. Carl Anthony Towns doesn't not
• 39:55
  play better, does not play well with another big man on the
• 39:58
  court. Go ask Rudy Gobert, OK?
• 40:01
  Like he was not very different. It doesn't matter.
• 40:04
  Rudy Gobert and Yannis. Yannis is a point.
• 40:07
  How are they? Well, hold on one a second.
• 40:09
  Yannis is a good defender, right?
• 40:10
  That's what he is. He's a good defender.
• 40:12
  He's a good defender. Which he's so mobile and he
• 40:16
  covers up for so much around the rim if they and.
• 40:18
  So does Rui Gobert. He was defensive player of the
• 40:20
  year twice. I I understand.
• 40:22
  So is he. But it's on the offense.
• 40:24
  I disagree with you. Gobert is a 0.
• 40:27
  Karl Anthony Towns has not played well with a big man
• 40:30
  playing beside him and I do not believe it.
• 40:32
  It's too many big men on the court taking up too much room.
• 40:36
  It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't.
• 40:38
  They compliment each other. If you're going to do it, those
• 40:41
  are the two guys to do it with. It is a really hard thing to do
• 40:44
  2 centers. Very few teams have ever been
• 40:46
  successful with it in the modern era.
• 40:48
  I mean I can't even think of one since until you unless you go
• 40:50
  back to like the 80s with like Elijah.
• 40:53
  One and Tim Duncan and David Robinson.
• 40:55
  Duncan and Robinson is the last one.
• 40:58
  That was 99 two thousand. But that's but that's when they
• 41:00
  were true centers. That's like now.
• 41:03
  When there wasn't 5 out sets. Every time Duncan was a four and
• 41:07
  David Robinson was a five. It was.
• 41:09
  And I Duncan did play 5, but he was more known as a four.
• 41:13
  Yeah, he was more of a four. But if I go back and I, I really
• 41:17
  think about it, Bynum and and Shaquille O'Neal, I think they
• 41:20
  played together. They were pretty good together
• 41:22
  at one point. They were good.
• 41:24
  I don't. Think they ever crossed paths?
• 41:25
  I think they were. I think Bynum and Shaquille did
• 41:27
  play speedy. Look that up.
• 41:28
  I'm pretty sure Jack. Went to the Heat at that point
• 41:32
  and then they drafted. I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure
• 41:36
  Bynum maybe. OK, maybe it was what's his name
• 41:39
  again? Who played from came from
• 41:41
  Memphis. Who's a big man who came from
• 41:44
  Memphis BD You should know this Mr. I know everything.
• 41:50
  Who's Kobe's good friend? He was the I forget it's all
• 41:53
  yes. Good, Saul.
• 41:55
  Yeah, he was. Bynum was drafted in O5 the year
• 41:58
  that. So it was.
• 41:58
  It was Gasol and Bynum. They played together and they
• 42:01
  played very, very well. Together.
• 42:03
  Yeah. Yeah, that's probably it.
• 42:04
  That's probably the last one. I I could go back if I think
• 42:08
  about it, I could probably think of something else, but.
• 42:10
  Or last notable. One, yes, but if you really,
• 42:13
  really think about it, you can. There are teams that it has
• 42:15
  worked with. I just think you don't do so
• 42:18
  many moves like this. If you're the Knicks, you don't
• 42:21
  keep doing all this unsettling of the of the locker room.
• 42:24
  You don't trade friends. You already traded one.
• 42:27
  You're not going to get away with trading 2.
• 42:29
  It's just not a good culture builder, unlike my fantasy
• 42:32
  teams. You know that if you play like
• 42:33
  Madden and like NBA2K, they actually have like a chemistry
• 42:37
  thing that doesn't let you make trades like this frequently
• 42:40
  every year or something. I and I always turn it off
• 42:43
  because like you want to make your team stacked and everything
• 42:46
  and I don't think you can do that in real life.
• 42:48
  And I don't think the Knicks should do that.
• 42:49
  I think they need to look around the edges.
• 42:51
  I would improve McBride. I've this is 2 years in a row
• 42:55
  where I'm not impressed with him in the playoffs.
• 42:57
  He's still young. Maybe you give him another shot,
• 42:59
  but I would try to improve there.
• 43:00
  He's he's got a very good contract.
• 43:04
  I think he's making 12 million a year.
• 43:05
  So the Knicks could absolutely move that.
• 43:08
  Actually he's not making. He's making 3,000,000 a year.
• 43:10
  He just signed, I think it was three years, 12 million or
• 43:13
  something like that, a 4 million, but he's not making a
• 43:16
  lot of money. I would trade McGraw.
• 43:17
  Is the guy I want. That's why I think that if if
• 43:21
  this team does not beat the, if they get through Detroit and
• 43:25
  they play the Celtics and they can't beat or make even
• 43:27
  challenge the Celtics in that series, you're going to have to
• 43:30
  move Karl Anthony Towns. You're going to have to move
• 43:33
  McHale Bridges. I think you have to rebuild this
• 43:36
  team from the inside out. Now, that doesn't mean that you
• 43:39
  have to get rid of Josh Hart or you don't have you have to get
• 43:42
  rid of Jaylen Bronson, but you need more defense.
• 43:44
  OG and Anobi stays there. I think you need more defense.
• 43:47
  You had a Giannis, you had a guy a shoot like a shooter like
• 43:50
  Devin Booker. I would go that route and bring
• 43:52
  in it. Dante Diva Chenzo back.
• 43:54
  I think that makes more sense. I don't know if the Knicks are
• 43:56
  going to do that, but the Knicks need more depth.
• 43:59
  They don't have depth and it's been a big problem throughout
• 44:03
  the season and they depend too much on Jaylen Bronson and Carl
• 44:06
  Anthony Towns and when they're both not playing, they can't
• 44:09
  score. It's been a big problem.
• 44:11
  Mikhail Bridges, who I love, I actually love Mikhail Bridges.
• 44:15
  He just hasn't had a good season with the Knicks this year.
• 44:17
  Maybe he needs to figure things out, maybe a full year and an
• 44:20
  offseason with the Knicks. Because you remember he was
• 44:23
  traded to the Knicks before preseason, just about when
• 44:26
  preseason was about to start. So really didn't get any time to
• 44:29
  practice with some of these guys.
• 44:31
  He did go on a couple of podcasts, including, you know,
• 44:33
  what do they call their show? I don't remember what Jalen
• 44:36
  Brunson calls the show. The guys, roommates.
• 44:38
  Roommates. That's what I was about to say,
• 44:40
  the guys next door, but whatever.
• 44:42
  But oh, hey, now, yeah, who knows, but they might be.
• 44:45
  I, I, I would, I would actually predict that Josh Hart is the
• 44:48
  guy next door. But nevertheless, I, I do
• 44:51
  believe that Karl Anthony Towns does not play play well with
• 44:55
  another big man. And I think that the Knicks are
• 44:57
  going to have to decide very carefully in the offseason if
• 45:01
  Karl Anthony Towns is a long term guy.
• 45:04
  Remember, he's 30 years old. He's going to be 31 next year.
• 45:06
  If you're going to bring a Giannis who's going to be 32, I
• 45:09
  think you. Giannis is only 30.
• 45:11
  He'll be 31 in December. Right.
• 45:13
  So he'll be 32 next year. He'll be 30. 131 Next.
• 45:16
  Year he'll be. Yes, he'll be 31 this year.
• 45:19
  Isn't he going to be 31? How old is he?
• 45:21
  Right? When's his birthday?
• 45:23
  Speedy. You should be looking this up.
• 45:25
  You are the producer of the show.
• 45:27
  I got it, I got it, I got it. But he should, he's the producer
• 45:30
  when people are saying things, he should be instead of watching
• 45:33
  the game, which he's sticking his head out in the game, he
• 45:36
  should be concentrating on the show.
• 45:37
  But I, I have no idea why his hat has his head up his ass.
• 45:41
  ESPN reports that the Pacers organization has told Tyrese
• 45:45
  Halliburton's father, John that he is no longer allowed to
• 45:49
  attend any Pacer playoff games for the the rest of this season.
• 45:54
  This came after a confrontation with Giannis after the Pacers
• 45:58
  eliminated the Bucks in Game 5 saying how he treated Giannis
• 46:02
  was disrespectful. That was Hal Burton's Hal Burton
• 46:05
  saying about his father. Cuz speedy, didn't you know,
• 46:07
  really explain that? Giannis said he was waving a
• 46:10
  towel and swearing at him after the game and Giannis said it was
• 46:16
  a green light for him to to be disrespected or disrespectful
• 46:21
  towards Hal Burton's father. Stephen A Smith said that the
• 46:25
  NBA has to discipline Hal Burton's father and says this
• 46:29
  isn't the first time this incident has happened during a
• 46:33
  game. Charles Barkley said if he was
• 46:37
  Giannis, I mean he was, I'm sorry.
• 46:39
  If he was in Giannis's position when he was playing, it would
• 46:44
  have been a lot more violent. Tyrese Halliburton even said to
• 46:49
  his father that there is no place for this among basketball
• 46:53
  fans and he acted irrationally because he was very excited.
• 46:58
  The Pacers advance to the second round after beating the Bucks
• 47:02
  119 to 118 on a buzzer beater by Halliburton and will face the
• 47:07
  Cavaliers in the second round. First of all, they don't have
• 47:11
  any chance against the Cavaliers.
• 47:13
  I I do not believe they match up very well against the Cavaliers,
• 47:16
  especially the way Kenny Atkinson has his team playing
• 47:19
  defensively. I absolutely agree with Charles
• 47:23
  Barkley. If I was Yannis, I would have
• 47:26
  knocked his father out. You come on the basketball court
• 47:29
  and you're threatening and swear, swearing at me when I'm
• 47:33
  one of the best players still in the league.
• 47:35
  I was an MVP, I won 2 MVP's in the NBA and you're going to
• 47:40
  attack me? What does your son want?
• 47:42
  That's what I would have said. What does your son want?
• 47:44
  He's won nothing on a basketball court.
• 47:46
  He's never been up for an MVP. He's not even the best point
• 47:50
  guard in the Eastern Conference. I I would just go right at him.
• 47:53
  And I would have said that to Halliburton's father.
• 47:55
  But nevertheless, I think what Giannis is, he's a, he's a real
• 47:59
  pro. He's not going to go out there.
• 48:01
  He's not going to swear or threaten anybody.
• 48:03
  Remember, this is a kid that really has had an amazing story.
• 48:08
  This is a guy that came from Nigeria, went to Greece, and
• 48:13
  then somehow I got into the NBA and it took him a couple years
• 48:17
  and became a superstar right in front of her eyes.
• 48:20
  This is a guy that a lot of people thought was never even
• 48:22
  going to be a first round talent and if he wasn't drafted in the
• 48:25
  top 16, might have never played in the NBA.
• 48:28
  It's a crazy story and if you haven't checked that out, go on
• 48:31
  Disney. But Stephen A Smith is
• 48:34
  absolutely right as well. This shouldn't be going on in an
• 48:37
  NBA game. The NBA should have security
• 48:39
  guards and police officers protect their players.
• 48:43
  I know it's Hal Burton's father. I know he was excited, but we've
• 48:47
  seen this many, many times. We talked about Danny Hurley and
• 48:49
  what Danny Early was doing the Edie, Zach Edie in a college
• 48:53
  championship game and what he was saying to the players.
• 48:56
  I could say the same about Hal Burton's father.
• 48:58
  But guess what? Hal Burton's father is not a
• 49:00
  coach. He's not assistant coach.
• 49:02
  He is a fan. He should not be allowed to step
• 49:05
  on a basketball court. No matter if his son wins or if
• 49:08
  his son loses. There should be some kind of
• 49:11
  control and this is again, the LJA, the LeBron James
• 49:15
  Association, as LeBron James for years has had his family after
• 49:20
  winning championship after championship, run on the
• 49:22
  basketball court and, and, and cheer and celebrate with LeBron
• 49:26
  James. The NBA needs to find a way to
• 49:29
  protect their players because who knows what can happen in the
• 49:31
  future. Maybe a guy with a gun or a
• 49:34
  knife or something of that magnitude.
• 49:36
  Could you imagine that happened after a basketball game?
• 49:39
  I mean, John Marantz dancing and prancing around shooting, you
• 49:42
  know, shooting the, I mean, he doesn't have a gun in his hands,
• 49:45
  but he's shooting his fingers up in the air.
• 49:47
  And we all know what John Moran's done off the basketball
• 49:50
  court. But it's it's starting to make
• 49:52
  me worried that professional athletes are not protected by
• 49:56
  the league. The league needs to figure out
• 49:58
  why this is happening. How about in Ranger games after
• 50:02
  the Rangers win a series or knockout a team that the Ranger
• 50:05
  fans are knocking out other fans or we've seen that at Madison
• 50:09
  Square Garden. Why isn't there security?
• 50:12
  Why isn't there enough security in these playoff games where
• 50:15
  they can protect the fans and protect the players?
• 50:18
  I I just don't get it. And how Burton's father is she
• 50:21
  should be ashamed of himself. You're going to talk to Giannis
• 50:25
  and one of the best, the Greek Freak, one of the best young,
• 50:28
  one of the best young stars that the NBA has provided over the
• 50:31
  last 20 years. And you're going to go after him
• 50:34
  because he got knocked out because one of his players, one
• 50:36
  of the best better point guards in the NBA got knocked out with
• 50:40
  a Kelly Achilles hair. I mean, seriously, it.
• 50:43
  Makes his son. It makes his son look terrible.
• 50:45
  It does, But you know, I like what Hal Burton said after the
• 50:49
  game saying that there's I don't that that there's no right that
• 50:53
  is he had no right to go on the basketball court and say what he
• 50:56
  said to Giannis and that he says this doesn't this doesn't work
• 50:59
  and it shouldn't fit in the NBA. So I like that Hal Burton came
• 51:03
  out. He's a young star in this
• 51:04
  league. I'm sure he's embarrassed by his
• 51:07
  father, but it it shows his. But did you see his mom?
• 51:10
  His mom hit Giannis. Yep, Yep.
• 51:13
  I I don't get they. Didn't say anything about her.
• 51:15
  No, because she's a woman. That's that's why they they're
• 51:18
  not going to say that. You think that both.
• 51:20
  Should be held accountable. 100 percent, 100%.
• 51:24
  And Charles Barkley is absolutely going back to Charles
• 51:26
  Barkley. I love what Charles has to
• 51:28
  Charles has to say. Because if it was Charles
• 51:30
  Barkley, Charles Barkley would have knocked him the hell out.
• 51:33
  Charles Barkley would have knocked him fly.
• 51:35
  Could you imagine him running Halliburton's father running to
• 51:38
  Ron Artest and calling him there?
• 51:40
  Could you imagine what Ron Artest would have done to him if
• 51:43
  he was mouthing off to Metta World Peace?
• 51:45
  I mean, seriously. That was before Metta World.
• 51:47
  Peace. I'm just saying if.
• 51:49
  Peaceful now. Yeah, well that's what he says
• 51:51
  he is. Two piece back then, yeah.
• 51:54
  But you don't go on the basketball court and attack
• 51:57
  somebody of this magnitude and think that you're not.
• 52:00
  You're not going to have repercussions.
• 52:02
  It's embarrassing and the NBA needs to clean this up.
• 52:04
  Adam Silver should be controlling the fans after the
• 52:08
  games. I see so many times after the
• 52:11
  games that the fans are allowed to step.
• 52:13
  Spike Lee, he is obviously a famous director.
• 52:16
  He's always on the sidelines at the Madison Square Garden and
• 52:19
  all these superstars are going to the game after the game.
• 52:22
  Why are they allowed to step on the basketball court and have
• 52:25
  conversations with the athletes? What makes them better than the
• 52:28
  fans? They're paying the same amounts.
• 52:31
  But let me ask you like, so if they come on the court, you're
• 52:36
  basically in my office and you start talking trash or whatever
• 52:40
  and then I bust you upside the head and then you sue me A. 100.
• 52:46
  Percent. You're literally like losing for
• 52:49
  losing. You can't do anything if if he
• 52:52
  punches him and knocks him out and breaks his jaw, he's he's in
• 52:57
  the right. Well, I wouldn't, I wouldn't
• 52:59
  blink twice. But what's he going to do?
• 53:02
  Oh, he hit me. I didn't do anything to him.
• 53:04
  Well, you know how many times we've dared people jump in the
• 53:07
  bullpen talking garbage? How about if you step Jabba, How
• 53:11
  about this, I'm sorry to cut you off.
• 53:13
  How about if you were on the mount and you were in the 9th
• 53:15
  inning, game seven of the World Series and you strike out the
• 53:20
  side and you jump in the air and celebrate and all of a sudden
• 53:23
  some crazy guy comes out from the the fans in the audience and
• 53:28
  jumps in the middle of the pile and smacks you in the back of
• 53:31
  the head. What are you supposed to do?
• 53:32
  Stand there and take it? You just won a World Series and
• 53:35
  this guy, another fan from the other team, from the Padres,
• 53:38
  comes out and smacks you in the side of the head.
• 53:41
  What do you do? You're going to stand there and
• 53:42
  take it. No, you're going to knock him
• 53:43
  the F out. That's what you're going to do,
• 53:45
  and you're going to get 2 for it.
• 53:47
  You know what's crazy though is we have a meeting about that in
• 53:50
  spring training, like when people storm the field because
• 53:53
  if you remember it was probably 10810 years ago.
• 53:59
  Matt Diaz, outfielder for the Braves, tripped the dude that
• 54:02
  was running and he tried to sue. Him.
• 54:03
  I remember that, by the way. I do remember that.
• 54:06
  And so they're like, don't touch him.
• 54:07
  And I'm like, you're literally on our field.
• 54:10
  Like, what are we supposed to do?
• 54:12
  Like I'm trying to, if you're running at me, like the dude
• 54:16
  that ran on the field in the football game and, and I don't
• 54:19
  remember who it was, but they tackled the guy.
• 54:21
  Like we can't protect ourselves. And it makes it even worse that
• 54:24
  it's a father that comes on. And I get heat of the moment and
• 54:28
  we've all done dumb stuff in the heat of the moment.
• 54:30
  But you got to have a little feel to, to one of the best
• 54:33
  players in the world. And the way he just looked at
• 54:36
  him. I, I give him all the credit in
• 54:38
  the world for not like as you're head to head to just not grab
• 54:42
  him by the throat and throw him down.
• 54:44
  All the credit in the world to Giannis for not doing anything.
• 54:46
  Because I agree. I, I would have snapped, like
• 54:49
  especially in that situation. Obviously let him beat me off
• 54:52
  the dribble. And you know, I'm pissed at
• 54:55
  myself and losing the series. Like I, I commend him because I
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  would have, I would have two piece chicken and a fry with
• 55:03
  him. I would have made that thing go
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  hard. Yeah, And you, you always wonder
• 55:08
  this fan versus player relationship type thing we've
• 55:10
  seen in especially in the NBA because it's just hard because
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  it's they're courtside, they're right there compared to other
• 55:15
  sports where it's a little more distant with the way the field
• 55:17
  is. And we've seen this with Russell
• 55:19
  Westbrook, we've seen this with James Harden in the past.
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  We've seen it. It's a lot of instances like
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  that. Obviously the the Knicks fans
• 55:25
  with Trey Young was a big deal when they play in the playoffs,
• 55:28
  but it really good crosses the line when you're doing it like
• 55:31
  that close to a player like that.
• 55:33
  Fans are going to fight with fans all the time.
• 55:34
  It's going to happen with Eddie fan base like Errol saying
• 55:37
  Raiders fans are fighting with each other.
• 55:39
  We've how many times do we see Oakland Raiders fans get into
• 55:42
  parking lot brawls with each other?
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  But when you're doing it to a player like you're watching the
• 55:45
  game to go see them and see them shine the way they are, and now
• 55:49
  you're going after. Young, but it's speedy.
• 55:52
  It's one thing to do it from the stands, but it's another to do
• 55:54
  it when you're on the damn court.
• 55:55
  Yeah, and again, there's there's a limit to obviously you can
• 55:58
  hack, you can Boo them all you want, you could do all trash
• 56:01
  talking during the game is fine, but whatever he's saying must
• 56:04
  have crossed in the line using. All you're a multi billion
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  dollar organization. The New York Knicks, they're one
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  of the richest. If the Knicks were to sell their
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  team right now, James Dolan, sell their team, they'll make
• 56:14
  like $12 million off the New York Knicks and the organization
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  you're talking about a basketball game.
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  Giannis is one of the biggest superstars in the NBA and
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  there's no protection after the game.
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  There's no security that can protect this guy when somebody's
• 56:28
  running on a basketball court and wife smacking him in the
• 56:31
  back of the head and this guy's yelling and cursing and saying
• 56:34
  these disgusting things to him after getting knocked out of the
• 56:38
  playoffs because one of your best US players was knocked out
• 56:40
  in game four-game 5 because of Achilles tear.
• 56:43
  I mean, it's disrespectful. The Pacers are becoming the bad
• 56:46
  boys of the NBA right in front of our eyes.
• 56:49
  Everyone keeps talking about Detroit, but the Pacers last
• 56:51
  year, remember what they did in the Knicks?
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  How many times? How many times?
• 56:55
  Yeah, they were, they were hitting the Knicks.
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  And, and Rick Carlisle, he's a great coach, an aggressive
• 57:01
  defensive coach. When they won, when Dallas won
• 57:04
  the championship with Dirk Nowinski and that team, they
• 57:06
  played very aggressively against Miami.
• 57:08
  That's why they won that series. Yeah.
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  The same thing goes to the Pistons.
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  They don't have superstars on a team.
• 57:14
  What's the biggest name on that team right now?
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  Who's the biggest name? Hal Burton.
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  That is the biggest name. I'm sorry, I'm talking about the
• 57:21
  Pacers. The biggest name on the Pacers
• 57:24
  is Halpern. After Halpern, who's the other
• 57:26
  star? Who's the other star that they
• 57:28
  have? And Siakam is not even really a
• 57:31
  star. He's a great player.
• 57:32
  He's not a star. So it it it says a lot about
• 57:36
  this team and the way they play. They play rough, they play very
• 57:40
  good defensively and they have a great bench.
• 57:42
  That's why the Pacers have always given teams like the
• 57:45
  Knicks problems because the Knicks have no depth.
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  So it's despicable. It shouldn't have been done.
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  And the NBA needs to protect these players.
• 57:52
  They're superstars for years to come.
• 57:54
  Because I don't like it. I don't like this how how a
• 57:57
  player, player like this, of this magnitude who's done
• 57:59
  nothing to anybody. Have you ever seen Giannis go
• 58:02
  out there and try to say something or disrespect anybody
• 58:05
  on a basketball game? Never.
• 58:07
  You don't ever hear anything about him, really.
• 58:09
  I'm always amazed at how like soft and well spoken he is in
• 58:13
  his interviews. You know how how he's always and
• 58:16
  he came out in this interviews like I just believe you should
• 58:18
  handle yourself like a gentleman.
• 58:21
  I was like, this guy is so intense on the court and he's so
• 58:25
  reserved off the court. It's really impressive.
• 58:27
  He is honestly, he's the type of guy you want to root for and
• 58:31
  Halliburton is the type of guy you don't want to root for.
• 58:33
  I couldn't stand. I loved when he was going to lay
• 58:37
  against like Jaylen Brunson and like WWE events after they had
• 58:41
  their playoff series. It was pretty cool that he did
• 58:43
  that. His father doing this is out of
• 58:45
  control. I can't believe the Pacers were
• 58:47
  the ones that stepped in and said that they're banned from
• 58:49
  all their games. Not like.
• 58:51
  It's home and not the LJA. Road like it's just like,
• 58:55
  listen, you got to do it. And Errol, you had a theory that
• 58:58
  you shared with me earlier today on why they did that.
• 59:02
  And I thought, I think it's a good time for you to share with
• 59:04
  them because why would they want to be so afraid of that?
• 59:08
  Well, and I, I didn't want to mention it because I, I can
• 59:11
  answer and, and mention that after the offseason, but Giannis
• 59:15
  is going to be available in the offseason.
• 59:16
  A lot of people believe that. And the Pacers are an
• 59:18
  organization that has a tremendous amount of a room to
• 59:21
  bring in another superstar to play with Alberton and Yanis
• 59:24
  being that he's a big man and he he needs that other point guard
• 59:27
  to run the point. It would make a lot of sense on
• 59:31
  why the Pacers are one of those teams and one of those
• 59:33
  organizations has a ton of stock when it comes to draft picks to
• 59:37
  trade for a Giannis into the Kupo.
• 59:39
  And and now after this happened, do you think Giannis wants to go
• 59:42
  over there to India, Indiana and play with the Pacers?
• 59:46
  No, So you have Hal Burton coming out and and protecting
• 59:49
  the players and protecting Giannis.
• 59:51
  Maybe that gives Giannis and thought, hey, maybe the Pacers
• 59:54
  aren't that bad. But if I was Giannis right now
• 59:56
  and if he becomes available, which he probably will, do you
• 59:59
  want to go and play for the Pacers now after what Hal
• 1:00:01
  Burton's father? This ruins any chance they have.
• 1:00:05
  To land a guy like Giannis I, it's just pathetic.
• 1:00:08
  Maybe not though, if if Halliburton reached out to him
• 1:00:12
  and be like, hey, that was my pops, it wasn't me.
• 1:00:15
  You've obviously seen the way. I just want to pay my respects.
• 1:00:18
  Like if it depends on how it was handled on the other end.
• 1:00:22
  And obviously we have ways of getting hold of each other's
• 1:00:25
  numbers. So I would hope that he would
• 1:00:28
  have handled it in in that manner because it obviously
• 1:00:32
  wasn't him. It was his father, and so
• 1:00:35
  hopefully he did. So I, I wouldn't, I wouldn't
• 1:00:39
  say. But this as of now, not knowing
• 1:00:42
  the insides of it, I would like if it was me in that situation
• 1:00:46
  happened, I'd if, if they even call, I'd be like go the kite.
• 1:00:50
  But if he was like, Hey, you know what?
• 1:00:52
  That ain't me. That was him.
• 1:00:54
  I had nothing to do with it. I apologize for him and you
• 1:00:59
  know, let's let's let's try to move on.
• 1:01:01
  But I think it's just how it's. Handled by the way the the
• 1:01:04
  Knicks are screwing this up again.
• 1:01:05
  The the Knicks had a 15 point lead in the second quarter and
• 1:01:09
  now I if I'm not mistaken, they're down in this quarter.
• 1:01:12
  So it's typical New York. Knicks fashion, they're up one
• 1:01:15
  on our end. Oh, OK, so.
• 1:01:17
  No, they were up by 15 though, and now they're up by 1.
• 1:01:20
  It's what happened now I don't you're you're probably a lot
• 1:01:23
  ahead of ahead of us. So it's just I'm watching
• 1:01:27
  stream, so it's on another stream if I go to another.
• 1:01:29
  Stream it was. It was a buzzer beater at the
• 1:01:32
  end of the quarter. At the end of the half, he had a
• 1:01:34
  three and it's down to at halftime.
• 1:01:37
  It's typical. It's a typical New York Knick.
• 1:01:40
  What goes on runs and they don't hold up well defensively, so
• 1:01:44
  it's just trading runs. I don't know how that's going to
• 1:01:47
  get you to a championship. There's something needs to be
• 1:01:50
  done. Yeah, it's called coaching.
• 1:01:52
  It's called coaching. The, the coaching, you just
• 1:01:55
  wonder, you know, I, I think I made this.
• 1:01:57
  I don't know who's on the air or off the air, but I, when the
• 1:01:59
  Golden State moved on from Mark Jackson, Mark Jackson had raised
• 1:02:03
  that young group together and was their coach and brought them
• 1:02:06
  to a certain point. But then they didn't believe he
• 1:02:08
  can go past that point. And Mark Jackson hasn't coached
• 1:02:11
  really since. And I'm wondering if the Knicks
• 1:02:15
  are thinking the same about Thibodeau at this point.
• 1:02:18
  Thibodeau has not won before. He's been an assistant on
• 1:02:20
  winning on the Celtics when they won, but he hasn't won as a head
• 1:02:23
  coach. His style, people are upset
• 1:02:26
  about the minutes. People are upset about, you
• 1:02:28
  know, being so ardent in the way that he plays.
• 1:02:31
  And if he doesn't have the guy, it's almost like Wink
• 1:02:33
  Martindale. And like the defense the Giants
• 1:02:35
  try to run. They didn't have the guys, but
• 1:02:37
  he wanted to run it that way anyway.
• 1:02:39
  Tips is like that. Tips is very similar to that.
• 1:02:41
  This is what I run. I'm going to be smart enough to
• 1:02:44
  adjust with everybody, but this is what we do.
• 1:02:47
  If you can beat that, you win. And teams can beat that,
• 1:02:50
  unfortunately, in the playoffs, right?
• 1:02:51
  Now team defense, you're not going to win.
• 1:02:54
  It becomes a half court game. And the Knicks have not really
• 1:02:57
  produced any team defense in this series.
• 1:03:00
  And if Detroit wins this game there, it's going to be very,
• 1:03:02
  very hard to go back to Madison Square Garden with the with the
• 1:03:05
  momentum on Detroit's side and go to Madison Square Garden in
• 1:03:08
  the Game 7 and knock off Detroit.
• 1:03:10
  I think the pressure will be on the Knicks.
• 1:03:12
  And even if the Knicks somehow pull it out, then they got to
• 1:03:14
  deal with the Celtics with probably a week's worth of time
• 1:03:18
  to rest it. It's really the Knicks are just
• 1:03:21
  a team that just makes you, it just pulls your heart right out.
• 1:03:24
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• 1:03:27
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• 1:03:39
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• 1:03:45
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• 1:03:47
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• 1:03:51
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• 1:03:54
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• 1:03:58
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• 1:04:02
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