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Are the LAKERS and LEBRON JAMES involved in a SPORTS BETTING scheme? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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  Why not pulling in one of the top three offensive players in
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  It's been a crazy one, It really has been.
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  And for all the fans out there that are probably wondering
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  where have I been? Well, this weekend's been a
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  crazy, crazy one. The weather is been back and
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  forth. It's been, I would say in the
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  30s and the 40s, man, everybody asked me what, what is, what is
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  New York weather right now? And it's hard to tell because
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  there is no humidity. There's no more animals or
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  insects. Riveting.
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  And whatever the sounds that they make out there, it's not
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  like that anymore. And I know what you're going to
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  say riveting is, is frogs. But they're, they make these,
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  these animals make these weird sounds outside.
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  There's no more birds chirping. There's none of that.
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  It's usually quiet. You could start seeing the the
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  smoke come out of your mouth, which means it's getting to that
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  winter time and you hear a lot, a lot of ambulance and cops
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  around for some reason, when it gets cold, there's more crime.
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  Or maybe there's just people I can't drive.
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  Nevertheless, it's been a crazy, crazy weekend for me.
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  As everybody knows anybody who knows my private life, you know
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  that I try to handle stress a little bit better than most, but
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  sometimes it's very hard to keep it away.
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  But nevertheless, I I don't want to get into too deep into my
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  life. Jabba, how was your weekend?
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  I was good. It was good.
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  We, we had some really, really nice weather here.
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  So it's Ng here in Nebraska. So anytime you can get out, it's
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  it's a bonus for us because you never know, we could have 6 feet
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  of snow tomorrow. But no, it was nice.
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  Got got some, a lot of stuff done.
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  Had a great family dinner with, with Carter and did all that
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  stuff. Got him back to to school before
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  they get all their break stuff. He's got one more week then
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  comes home and then goes back for finals and then he's back
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  for shit two months I think. So he was nice, nice to open the
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  windows for probably last time. It's still like 60 but it's like
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  dreary today. So it's supposed to be decent
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  weather, but it's I think the good, good weathers hit the
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  road. I like this weather.
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  To me, this is good weather for me.
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  I know a lot of people wouldn't say that, and a lot of people
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  would probably argue with me that this weather acts.
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  Why? Why would you like the cold
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  weather? Well, it's very simple.
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  When I walk outside and I'm cold, I'll just wear a jacket,
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  wear mittens or whatever the hell I wear.
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  I I wear leather jackets. Usually half of the the.
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  Winter time, Do you wear mittens or gloves?
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  Well. The gloves mittens, I mean,
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  because you wear I I wouldn't call them mittens, but it it
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  it's not not every glove. What do they call those gloves?
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  Like they they have gloves. They look like mittens.
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  That's what they are. I mean it's.
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  It's the one where your. Fingertips are, Yeah, those are
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  those. Yeah.
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  Those are mittens in, in my eyes, They're made the same way.
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  That's what they are. I mean, other people would say
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  differently, but they're handmade and leather.
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  I wear leather gloves, but usually when it gets cold
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  outside, who wants to wear leather gloves?
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  Because so I I wear those, you know?
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  Yeah, serial serial killers that eat string cheese like you wear
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  leather gloves. Well, that's true.
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  I mean, obviously everybody knows that I, I enjoy that and a
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  lot of people probably think that I enjoy other things.
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  But I, I do like to keep my window open at night, especially
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  when it's about, you know, in the 40s or the 50s.
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  But I do like the weather. Other people would beg to differ
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  on the weather or probably argue with me that the weather is, is
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  not one of those times. And this is, this is football
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  weather. I, and I've seen this, we've
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  seen playoff baseball happen when it's like in their 20s or
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  in the 30s. I've seen snow at this time
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  playing baseball. So a lot of people would
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  question that. But again, I just, I enjoy the
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  winter. I I'm not a summer guy, never
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  was. And a lot of people would say
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  they're more summer people. I am not and but.
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  You you're a sweater though. Like you sweat, right I.
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  Sweat a lot, I sweat a lot. So I, I sweat a lot and anybody
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  that knows me knows that when I go to the gym, especially when
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  I'm doing a workout, if I'm not sweating, I'm not working out.
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  So I, when I'm doing treadmill work or I'm doing elliptical
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  work or I'm doing the stairs, I'm, I'm sweating my butt off
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  I'm having I, I said it last week, I get swamp ass.
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  If I don't get swamp ass or I'm, there's no sweat dripping down
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  my back, I'm not getting real workout in.
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  And I do a lot of push ups too. So when I'm in the gym, I'm
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  doing at least 5 to 600 push ups after my workout, you know,
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  during my workouts and even after my workout, I'll do a
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  hundred 150 before I walk out of the gym after my, my elliptical
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  workout or, you know, my cardio. So I, I really am intense when I
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  get into the gym. Other people are different and
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  other people would argue with me.
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  You don't want to you, you don't want to go too deep into every
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  single day's workouts. But I, I do cardio every day now
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  and every other day I'm doing my workout.
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  So I'll do cardio and my workout.
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  So at a workout would take an hour in the gym and then adding
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  the cardio, it's usually half an hour, 45 minutes depending on
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  the day and how I feel and how much cardio I want to do.
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  But I don't go over 45 minutes because any more than 45 minutes
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  is beating my body and I'm drained after that.
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  And I'm trying to take at least a half a gallon of water when
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  I'm doing my my workouts in the gym.
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  So it's, it's, it's an intense workout.
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  A lot of people watching me, they, they wonder why do I beat
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  my body up the way I do? And even now I, I don't do pull
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  ups anymore because pull ups put a lot of strain on your, your
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  shoulders and your, your cuff. And, and I don't want that
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  because as you get older, your body starts to break down and,
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  and one of the first things that break down in your body is your
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  shoulders. So I, I don't want to beat up my
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  shoulders any more than I have to when I'm doing a chest
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  workout or I'm doing dumbbells or any of that.
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  So I, and, and especially when you're putting a lot of stress
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  on your shoulders when you're doing those push ups, 3000 push
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  ups every single week, 12,000 push ups every single month.
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  It's a lot, it's intense. So a lot of people would, would
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  tell me that I'm out of my mind on the amount of push ups.
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  But Herschel Walker, if you read his book and you know anything
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  about his workouts, he still to this day does 3000, sometimes
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  4000 push ups a week. So it says a lot about who he
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  is. And Herschel Walker's, he's got
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  to be in his 60s now. So the, the intense workouts
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  that he puts in, the, the calisthenic workouts that he
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  puts in at home and in the gym is, is incredible.
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  That guy's physique is, is one of the, the most ridiculous
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  physiques I've ever seen. Terrell Owens too, he does a lot
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  of cardio and he does a lot of calisthenic workouts.
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  And look at Tyrell Owen. I mean, he still runs.
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  What does he run? A 40 and like 4-4?
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  I think he did it last year. He ran Tyree Kill and Chado
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  Chosenko. They all raced and I think it
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  was a 4445 that he ran. I mean, it's ridiculous.
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  And he's like 5050. Isn't he 50?
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  One, he's getting up there in age, but he still can do that
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  work. Man, I got to give TOA little
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  bit more credit. He is a workout machine.
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  He knows what he's doing and I got a lot of respect for him
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  because the guy's incredibly built and I don't care what
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  anybody says. He did steroids when he played.
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  I don't know what I believe, but what I do know is I can, I can
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  never forget what Terrell was doing.
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  Terrell was doing at the end of his driveway when the media was
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  trying to come up there and ask him questions.
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  He was doing, he was doing sit ups at the end of his driveway.
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  So Terrell Owens is an interesting cat, There's no
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  doubt about it. I I have a lot of respect for
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  him. And when he went to the the
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  Eagles to play with my favorite player, Donovan McNabb, I was so
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  excited about the type of player he was going and in a type of
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  game he was going to bring to the Eagles.
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  Unfortunately, they never got over the hump.
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  They could not beat the New England Patriots in the Super
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  Bowl even with a broken leg. But Terrell Owens had a
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  sensational game. And I remember the the build up
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  of that, the two weeks that he was just trying to get ready.
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  Have anybody, has anybody seen a player go into a Super Bowl or
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  even a big game and play with a broken leg When you're playing a
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  major position, a wide receiver position and almost have, I
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  think he did break 100 yards in that game.
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  I'm not sure, so don't quote me on that.
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  But he had a sensational game when that Super Bowl against the
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  Patriots. It wasn't because of Terrell
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  Terrell Owens on why they didn't beat the New England Patriots in
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  in the Super Bowl. So and that was an Andy Reid
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  team who fell short again. So Andy Reid, who's now been one
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  of the more successful coaches in the NFL after going to Kansas
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  City and, and drafting Patrick Mahomes and, and building a
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  defense and bringing Spagnola. Now I, I think it's all
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  forgotten of what Andy Reid did before he went to Kansas City
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  and his great career over there with the Eagles and, and some of
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  the great drafts. If you look at some of the pics
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  that he had over the years, Shady is one of my favorite
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  players. Shady McCoy and yeah, he's got
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  his own podcast. I, I don't, I disagree with a
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  lot of things that he is doing when it comes to his takes with
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  the guys that he has on a show. But I, I love Shady.
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  I love what he does and I, I love his, his persistence as as
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  a football player, as a running back for the Philadelphia
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  Eagles. So you can't forget about that.
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  The Athletic reported on Saturday that the NBA asked
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  multiple teams, including the Lakers, to turn over cell phones
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  and other documents and devices in connections with the ongoing
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  gambling investigation. The NBA is investigating phone
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  records from 10 different Laker employees, including LeBron
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  James, former shooting coach and former teammate Damon Jones, who
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  had a special access to the Lakers and was indicted last
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  week by the FBI. Two other Laker employees are
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  being investigated also have close ties with LeBron and have
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  known him for two decades. This doesn't include Maverick
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  Carter, who has acknowledged offshore betting with bookies on
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  the NBA in the NFL back in 2023 but was not charged in the
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  separate case. Reports also reveal an unnamed
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  starting player of the Orlando Magic disclosed information
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  about the team resting starters to a better in April of two,
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  2023. Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue
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  has also been reportedly connected to the betting charges
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  that both Damon Jones and Chauncey Billups were involved
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  back in 2019, but no charges against him have come out as of
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  yet. The Lakers, Heat, the Magic and
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  Cavaliers were confirmed to have their photo phones investigated,
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  but more are expected to be revealed soon, according to the
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  NBA sources. And gambling saga in pro sports
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  continues. We had Tim Donaghy on on the
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  show and he had his own thoughts with obviously the NBA in the
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  takes of Chauncey Billups and Jones and Terry Rozier.
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  And, and obviously you're hearing nobody speak about Terry
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  Rozier right now. And you heard that Tim said that
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  Terry Rozier, out of all the guys that have been brought to
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  the attention of these these betting scandals, the one that
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  he believes is going to get the hammer dropped on him more than
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  the other guys. But when you see the thought of
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  Jones being brought to the table with LeBron James and, and it
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  was brought to the everybody's attention at that with the
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  conversation with Tim Donaghy on LeBron James and maybe LeBron
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  James being implemented or implicated in this source.
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  Nobody wanted to talk about it because there was no guarantees
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  and no no information brought to the anybody's attention that
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  LeBron James was involved with it.
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  Everybody knew that Jones and LeBron are very, very close.
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  They played with one another and they know each other very, very
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  well. As a matter of fact, LeBron
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  James and Jones, I think Jones was at LeBron James's wedding.
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  I don't know if he was a part of the wedding party, but he was
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  very, very close with LeBron James over the years playing
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  obviously with the Cavaliers, the Heat and and the Lakers.
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  LeBron James is is probably been the biggest superstar since
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  Michael Jordan and that even he's even bigger and more known
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  of a superstar than Kobe Bryant was.
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  And that's not taking anything away from who Kobe Bryant is and
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  how great Kobe was as a player and and really a face of the
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  NBA. But LeBron James has always been
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  compared to Michael Jordan. And Michael Jordan and LeBron
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  James you can argue are the 2 greatest basketball players to
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  ever play the game. And when you think about this
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  story and LeBron James being a part of it, are we going to be
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  surprised if something comes out that LeBron knew something or
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  was a part of this sports sports scandal scandal?
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  No, because I believe that if LeBron was involved with it,
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  LeBron as we've seen, Otani as we've seen, a lot of big names
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  being brought to the forefront have been hidden.
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  I think the NBA knows that LeBron James has been a big part
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  of the growth of the NBA internationally, especially with
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  the shoe deals that he has brought to the forefront since
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  he's come into the league. The money that he's brought in
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  in so many different areas, not just with the NBA, but on the
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  back end with the different foundations that he's worked
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  with and all the things that he has done with the movie business
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  and his production company. Nobody wants to hear LeBron
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  James's name being brought into anything when it comes to sports
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  gambling because if it is true and the NBA over the last couple
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  of years, who I and I do believe Adam Silver knew what was going
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  on but really didn't do anything about it.
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  If it was David Stern, it would be different.
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  You heard Tim, Tim said that David Stern was a drill
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  Sergeant. The guy wanted to know more than
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  the FBI knew when that story came out with Tim Donaghy and he
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  he wanted to make sure that he pinned it on somebody and Tim
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  was the guy that he pinned it on.
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  I don't know if you can pin this story on just one person,
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  especially when there's different scandals.
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  It's not just one, it's like 3 or 4.
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  You got that, you know, Chauncey Billups with the, the glasses
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  and, and the different games that he was, you know, a part
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  of. And then there was the, the,
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  the, the point shaving the Terry Rozier and then Jones and then
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  Jones being a part of all the other stuff that was involved in
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  the back end and the back turns of this scandal.
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  There's just so much involved, solved with this scandal.
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  It's a lot worse than Tim Donaghy because Tim Donaghy was,
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  and I know the mafia was a part of that situation, but it was 1
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  mafia organization. It was the Gambino family.
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  Now you have four families involved with it.
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  You have different scandals, different things, so many
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  different things that are being brought to the forefront by the
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  FBI. The FBI has not really come out
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  with all the information they have because they want to keep
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  it closer to their chest because they're doing their
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  investigation. And now you're hearing other
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  teams being a part of it as we all see the Lakers, the Heat,
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  the Magic and the Cavaliers. What's next?
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  What is the NBA going to draw up when it comes to these scandals
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  and how is it going to be protected by not just the NBA
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  brand, but where the FBI wants to go with this?
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  The FBI can torch the NBA, they can torch the NBA right now.
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  Is the FBI going to be paid off now?
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  I again, a lot of people going to listen to the show and say,
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  how could you say that? How could you talk about our
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  federal, you know, our Federal Bureau and, and what they're all
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  about and, and protecting our country and our civilian lives.
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  The fact here is we can go back to the Otani situation.
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  How do you investigate a five to seven-year investigation of
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  sports betting and sports gambling with multiple people?
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  It wasn't just his interpreter. There were other people involved
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  with it and not understand that they were millions and millions
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  of dollars lost and Ohtani not knowing or not pinpointing where
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  that money was going. Now again, innocent until proven
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  guilty, as Jabba would say. So he doesn't want to believe
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  that Otani knew fine. There was no proven fact that
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  Otani knew fine. But here's the fact here that
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  how do you investigate something that's been around for seven
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  years and and really push it to the side after two weeks of
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  investigation? You can't.
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  And now the NBA is figuring out that the FBI is not going away.
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  As a matter of fact, the FBI is going to go after some of their
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  bigger stars. If LeBron James is brought to
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  this forefront and the FBI wants to drop the hammer on the NBA,
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  why not go after their biggest superstar?
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  Why not go after the guy that's taken the last 2225 years of the
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  NBA and put it on his shoulders? Because that's what that's what
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  LeBron is. LeBron, say whatever you want.
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  You want to hate LeBron James, say whatever you want.
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  He is broken almost every single NBA record.
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  Think about that. He is he's been everything to
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  the NBA and more than when when he came out of high school and
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  everybody was calling him the King.
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  And we've seen this many, many times.
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  How many players that we've seen come out of high school where
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  everybody thought that this guy was going to be the biggest
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  thing since sliced bread or this this female was going to be the
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  biggest thing since sliced bread and never really amounted to
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  anything. Now you have LeBron James.
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  LeBron James, everything he touches has turned to gold.
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  Say whatever you want, he's a multi billionaire.
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  He's the first player in in the four professional sports that
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  became a billionaire before he retired.
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  Think about it. Tiger Woods did, but Tiger Woods
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  plays. GG is is not considered the four
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  big sports here in the United States.
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  It is. I'll put in an order, Football,
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  basketball, baseball, hockey. Those are the four biggest
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  sports here in the States and the fact here is basketball is
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  the second out of all of them. And, and, and as far as the
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  stars are concerned, basketball has the biggest stars.
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  You go on social media right now and you go up and down the the
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  most followed players in professional sports.
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  I would tell you at least seven out of the 10 are basketball
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  players here in the States, here in the States.
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  Now, Messi is considered in the States, so if you want to
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  consider him here in the States, then maybe six.
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  OK, Basketball has been the most gravitating sport here in
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  America because of the players, because of fantasy sports.
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  Steph Curry, everybody loves them.
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  I'm I'm not one of them, but everybody loves them.
• 21:24
  And why do they love them? Because he stands for something.
• 21:27
  He's a little. Guy Only one basketball player,
• 21:30
  by the way. I'm sorry.
• 21:32
  There's only one basketball player.
• 21:33
  What on the list here in America?
• 21:37
  OK, well it was last year there were 6.
• 21:40
  Whatever. Who's on the list right now?
• 21:43
  LeBron. LeBron But who's on the list
• 21:45
  right now? You said on the top ten.
• 21:47
  Who's? But you're talking, are you
• 21:49
  talking top ten like are you just using Instagram or are you
• 21:52
  using all? Social all social medias all
• 21:54
  together. No, he's not even in the top
• 21:56
  five. On all the social media here in
• 21:59
  America, I'm not talking about here playing American sports in
• 22:03
  America, not foreigner, not National League, because you
• 22:07
  could go to soccer. There's, there's all different
• 22:10
  sports all around the world that is followed in in in here in
• 22:12
  America. If you're looking at the
• 22:14
  following, maybe you guys can look it up.
• 22:16
  I don't know what I when we talked about this last year, it
• 22:20
  there was like 7. I remember when Fish started
• 22:22
  with us, there were seven guys on the list out of out of the 10
• 22:26
  here in America on followers. The top five is LeBron is the
• 22:31
  only basketball player there's. Football is Kelsey and Mahomes.
• 22:37
  On all the social medias from Instagram, Twitter, all of them
• 22:40
  got it all right, basketball. But that's Instagram you
• 22:44
  worldwide. No, I'm talking about Instagram,
• 22:47
  Twitter, all of them, all of them together to tick tocks,
• 22:50
  everything. I, I remember, I remember when
• 22:53
  fish fish looked it up last year.
• 22:55
  I, I don't know what, I haven't really looked it up over the
• 22:57
  last past year, but when we looked it up, I think it was a
• 23:01
  year ago and I think it was one of fish's first shows.
• 23:05
  It was and we were talking about it.
• 23:07
  You know, who's the most followed on social media that I
• 23:11
  think 5 or 6, it might even be 7 of the top followers are and
• 23:16
  it's speedy. That's something you should be
• 23:18
  looking up right now and and same thing with you, Tommy.
• 23:21
  The followers are we're basketball players.
• 23:25
  But nevertheless, I don't really care.
• 23:26
  The fact here is the NBA has these superstars are very much
• 23:31
  being followed by the young fans and, and again, LeBron James is
• 23:36
  been the face of basketball. And now with this betting
• 23:38
  scandal and the thought of the betting scandal and, and what
• 23:41
  the NBA has not done over the years is really come out there
• 23:46
  and drop the hammer on the players.
• 23:47
  LeBron has been running the league.
• 23:48
  I call it the LJ because it's not hidden.
• 23:51
  There's nothing to be hidden on this.
• 23:54
  LeBron James always gets what he wants.
• 23:56
  I don't think it's a Kowinky dink that Luka Doncic is a
• 23:59
  Laker. And I, I honestly don't believe
• 24:01
  that the NBA had nothing to do with it.
• 24:03
  I think the NBA controls where and who goes where in the draft
• 24:09
  and I also believe that the NBA understands what is going to be
• 24:13
  brought to the forefront with sports betting.
• 24:15
  Adam Silver was one of the first commissioners that came out that
• 24:18
  he thought sports betting would be bad for sports.
• 24:22
  He was the first commissioner to come out and say that it
• 24:24
  shouldn't be legalized throughout the states.
• 24:27
  Then when the money was starting to come in and and the NBA was
• 24:30
  bringing in a significant amount of money, Adam Silver shook it
• 24:34
  off and kind of like brushed it onto the rock.
• 24:38
  And now you're talking about and and again, you're talking about
• 24:41
  where the NBA is at right now. And the NBA is really they're
• 24:46
  they're have to they have to figure out where this league is
• 24:50
  going to go if this story does come out and does have legs.
• 24:54
  And it's not just LeBron. If LeBron James is being brought
• 24:57
  into this, there's other big name players involved with it.
• 24:59
  LeBron is friends with everybody you're talking about.
• 25:02
  And I'm not mentioning names and saying that they're a part of
• 25:04
  it, but Carmelo Anthony is a very close friend with LeBron
• 25:08
  James. He's got a big podcast.
• 25:10
  Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul, these guys have been the faces of the
• 25:14
  NBA. You've seen them at the SP
• 25:17
  Awards when they're speaking about all the different things
• 25:20
  that are going on in the world, the political world that they
• 25:23
  talk about. They're all have their own
• 25:25
  podcasts. Every single one of them are on
• 25:28
  a podcast now. LeBron with Steve Nash, Carmelo
• 25:31
  has his Brooklyn 7th of Brooklyn.
• 25:33
  Everybody's got a podcast, they're bringing in
• 25:36
  advertisements, money, and then you talk about sports betting.
• 25:39
  I, I think that DraftKings and FanDuel are all a part of their
• 25:45
  shows. They all are sponsored by
• 25:47
  FanDuel and DraftKings. So you see how big sports
• 25:51
  betting is getting and now we're talking about, it's not like it
• 25:55
  was when Tim Donaghy was involved with it because sports
• 25:59
  betting obviously was illegal at the time, but it was illegal on
• 26:02
  all on facets of the board. There was no at the time fantasy
• 26:06
  sports was. It was just growing.
• 26:09
  Now it's everywhere. Fantasy sports is everywhere
• 26:12
  now. You could do anything with
• 26:14
  fantasy sports. You could play fantasy sports
• 26:17
  with ping pong now. I mean, there is fantasy sports
• 26:20
  with soccer and European football and, and there's
• 26:24
  everything and there's so much money to be made.
• 26:28
  And now you're talking about the, the fact where the NBA is,
• 26:32
  the NBA is behind everything, all the, all this, this, this
• 26:37
  scandals that we're seeing now. And it's just, and it all
• 26:40
  started this year, last year with the Otani thing.
• 26:44
  Now the NBA has been a part of everything.
• 26:47
  Everything that has gone on with this gambling situation has
• 26:51
  turned to the NBA. There was a little, there was a
• 26:54
  little dash of football players. I, who was the the wide
• 26:57
  receiver, got in trouble with gambling.
• 26:59
  Henry Henry Ridley. Ridley was a part of the
• 27:03
  gambling. He got suspended for what, Four
• 27:04
  games? Five games?
• 27:05
  I don't know what what their number was, but you could look
• 27:07
  that up. I.
• 27:08
  Think it was partially at the end of the season was the rest
• 27:10
  of the season. I think it would end up extended
• 27:11
  to 12 games the. There were a couple of players
• 27:14
  being caught with certain gambling situations with the
• 27:17
  NFL, but nothing like this. This is like, this is really,
• 27:22
  really bad. And when you have the FBI
• 27:24
  involved with it and trying to, they're digging deeper and
• 27:27
  they're going and they're investigating not just the NBA,
• 27:30
  but they're investigating former players that were a part might
• 27:34
  have been a part of this scandal.
• 27:36
  I mean, we've heard Kevin Garnett's name being brought to
• 27:38
  the forefront. I've heard Paul Pierce's name
• 27:40
  being brought to the forefront. So, and we've heard how many
• 27:44
  times Antoine Walker say that he lost all his money, became broke
• 27:47
  because of betting and going to the casinos, players and and
• 27:51
  again going back to the NBA or just professional athletes.
• 27:55
  Well, you're making millions and millions of dollars, OK.
• 27:58
  And I and I I've never made millions and millions of
• 28:00
  dollars. So I don't know what it's like
• 28:02
  to have, you know, being being presented a $10 million contract
• 28:06
  or a $15 million contract. Or how how about a $40 million
• 28:10
  contract? Never have Jabba has Nick Goody
• 28:12
  has that have been on the show. I have never seen that kind of
• 28:16
  money being handed to me. Hopefully one day I will.
• 28:20
  And I you, you wonder, these kids, a lot of these kids come
• 28:22
  from nothing. They come from the mean streets
• 28:26
  of LA, the mean streets of Florida.
• 28:28
  I mean, they, they were brought up in places that their families
• 28:32
  had nothing. They were living off food
• 28:34
  stamps. Look at Conor McGregor.
• 28:38
  Conor McGregor was on food stamps.
• 28:41
  He was a, a plumber. He was an assistant plumber at
• 28:44
  one point before he started fighting in in different fights
• 28:49
  in Ireland and then finally moved up in the UFC saw him and
• 28:53
  then he signed the contract at the UFC and then opened his
• 28:55
  mouth and used his personality to make him millions and
• 28:59
  millions of dollars and eventually fought Floyd
• 29:01
  Mayweather and made the most money and then turned that into
• 29:04
  whiskey, which he sold for 500 million.
• 29:06
  I mean, it's it's everybody's dream to be a multi multi
• 29:10
  millionaire. But how many people become that
• 29:13
  now? More now than it ever has been.
• 29:15
  Now it's hard. Now everybody wants to be a
• 29:17
  billionaire, but the fact here is think about, think about it,
• 29:22
  these guys, Jones made millions of dollars.
• 29:25
  I don't know if losing involved with it.
• 29:27
  LeBron James has made billions of dollars.
• 29:30
  Why would you put your name involved with a, a gambling
• 29:33
  situation where you're making 50,100 thousand here?
• 29:37
  That's Trump change for the amount of money that you're
• 29:39
  bringing in through your contracts, through endorsements.
• 29:43
  Why would you do that? Why would you put yourself and
• 29:46
  your family at risk to lose everything, and now you're
• 29:51
  thinking about LeBron James? I don't know if LeBron James is
• 29:55
  involved with it. And obviously if the FBI is
• 29:58
  going over there and investigating Lakers, it's not
• 30:02
  just LeBron James. It could be executives, it could
• 30:04
  be ownership, it could be a ton of people involved with it.
• 30:09
  And Lebron's just a name because it's LeBron James.
• 30:13
  And maybe LeBron James, out of all of the guys or the cows that
• 30:16
  are involved with it, maybe he's the least involved with this.
• 30:20
  And until the FBI, do you. Think they use Lebron's name as
• 30:23
  like, you know, like people call click bait to where now it's
• 30:25
  like, oh shoot, like if they're men, like like you said, maybe
• 30:29
  they're just ploying and be like to use his name and they're
• 30:32
  like, oh crap, Maybe if he's in like this will kind of get
• 30:35
  people to rat on somebody else so they can, you know, like take
• 30:38
  a plea or whatever. If it really truly, genuinely as
• 30:40
  deep as it is, like, hey, let's use the biggest name that we
• 30:44
  have and then maybe we can weed some and find out if there's if
• 30:47
  there's more to this than than what's just being read.
• 30:51
  Or what the where it's being presenting.
• 30:53
  And again, maybe Jones takes responsibility for it because
• 30:57
  LeBron James, his name is going to be brought going to be
• 30:59
  brought into it. Think about it.
• 31:01
  Otani's name was being brought into it.
• 31:03
  And who took the responsibility to pretty much put it all on
• 31:06
  himself? It was Otani's interpreter.
• 31:08
  Now again, Otani is a superstar. He's an international phenom.
• 31:13
  Everybody loves the guy. His jersey is the biggest jersey
• 31:16
  saw sold in professional baseball, one of the biggest in
• 31:19
  all of sports. I, I, I was the other day I saw
• 31:22
  Lamar Jackson walking on on the bus with an Otani jersey so and
• 31:27
  we seen Otani wear a Lamar Jackson jersey.
• 31:30
  So the transition of sports in and how many fans and how how
• 31:34
  these players are become fans of the opposite sports.
• 31:38
  So I, I again, you're right, Jabba it, it could and and if if
• 31:42
  LeBron James is being brought to the forefront of this story and
• 31:45
  maybe he there, there's more in depth of information that the
• 31:49
  FBI is investigating and if they investigated even deeper, maybe
• 31:53
  somebody takes responsibility for it.
• 31:55
  Maybe they keep they try to pull the pull it away from LeBron
• 31:58
  James and that's what the leak is probably going to do.
• 32:01
  Who would want to see LeBron James get arrested?
• 32:04
  LeBron James, who's broken and maybe at one point if he plays
• 32:09
  another two or three years, have every single NBA record.
• 32:13
  He has been the longevity. He's been the Super of
• 32:16
  superstars in professional sports.
• 32:18
  We talked about Tom Brady and how long Tom Brady played
• 32:21
  football. Think about it, the the amount
• 32:25
  of torque you put on your knees and your ankles and, and this is
• 32:28
  a 6 foot eight, £250 behemoth. This is a man.
• 32:32
  This is not a man. This is like a a machine that
• 32:36
  goes up and down a basketball court.
• 32:38
  He plays 68, seven, averages 6768 games in a season.
• 32:42
  He puts all that torque on his body and he's still playing at
• 32:45
  the top of his game. He's still going to average
• 32:47
  between 25 and 8:00 and 7:00. I mean, think about that.
• 32:51
  And we watch this guy get arrested for sports gambling
• 32:54
  that he is a part of this ring, might be the face of this ring
• 32:57
  or one of the big names of this ring.
• 32:59
  Could you imagine what the NBA is going to feel if that
• 33:03
  happens? The amount of torque that the
• 33:05
  NBA is going at, the excuses that Adam Silver is going to
• 33:09
  have to make. You want to talk about a guy
• 33:10
  that's going to step down if this, if this is true and LeBron
• 33:15
  James is involved with this scandal and the FBI investigates
• 33:20
  it and finds his name to be one of the big names involved with
• 33:24
  this. You're talking about Adam Silver
• 33:26
  stepping down. Every single you talk about the
• 33:29
  Lakers, maybe, maybe there's a reason why the bus family sold
• 33:32
  their team. Think about it.
• 33:34
  They would never think about. I mean, I, I've, I'm not a
• 33:38
  Lakers fan, but there are 1,000,000 Laker fans and Doctor
• 33:42
  Boss built that industry, really built the NBA industry brought
• 33:46
  in we, we talk about what Jerry Jones did for football.
• 33:51
  Doctor Boss did it for basketball.
• 33:53
  Think about it. Anybody check out the the Laker
• 33:55
  dynasty? Go check it out.
• 33:57
  I think it's our prime. You can check it out.
• 33:59
  It's a whole story out when Doctor Boss took over the team
• 34:02
  and, and changed the league and, and brought the, the perception
• 34:06
  of what entertainment is for basketball brought in Magic
• 34:09
  Johnson. Why did he bring in Magic
• 34:11
  Johnson? Johnson?
• 34:12
  Because Magic Johnson had that flair.
• 34:14
  It wasn't. Larry Bird was different than
• 34:16
  Magic Johnson. You know, Larry Bird was the
• 34:19
  quiet assassin and Magic Johnson was the party smiling animal.
• 34:24
  And Doctor Busch used to go to parties with him.
• 34:27
  And then a lot of people believe Magic was big, as big a party
• 34:30
  animal as Will Chamberlain. Who do you think was partying
• 34:33
  with Magic Johnson? Who was Doctor Bus?
• 34:36
  But why did they sell the team? You're talking about a an
• 34:39
  industry that needed the bus family, that the bus family was
• 34:44
  everything to the industry. And now all of a sudden, within
• 34:46
  a year, they sold the team for what was it, $10 billion.
• 34:50
  And Magic Dots is part of that ownership group.
• 34:51
  Look at that. $10 billion. Think about it.
• 34:54
  And now all of a sudden this story comes out and this story,
• 34:57
  guys, this isn't this didn't happen overnight.
• 35:00
  This has been going on for years.
• 35:02
  Think about it. And again, I'm not throwing out
• 35:05
  assumptions. I'm just I'm looking at it a
• 35:08
  different way than other analysts or other sports radio
• 35:12
  show hosts are going to look at it.
• 35:14
  I don't think it's a winky dink, OK?
• 35:16
  I think there's always something behind that specific thing that
• 35:21
  has happened. We go back in time every decade
• 35:24
  changes a sport. If we go back in baseball, what
• 35:29
  changed baseball, it was the strike.
• 35:32
  And from the strike, the Expos moved on.
• 35:35
  And then steroids came to the forefront.
• 35:38
  And without steroids, I don't think baseball would be would be
• 35:41
  here today. I don't think baseball would be
• 35:44
  at the top of its game again if it wasn't for steroids.
• 35:48
  Say whatever you want. Bud Selig could say whatever he
• 35:51
  wants. Bud Selig was behind the steroid
• 35:53
  situation. Think about it, Every decade has
• 35:57
  its transition. We were talking about the
• 36:00
  commissioners last week. We talked about Goodell when he
• 36:04
  took over the team and when he took over the the NFL and and
• 36:08
  how the NFL transition from where where Paul Taglia Boo was
• 36:13
  running the leak from 1989 to 2000.
• 36:16
  What was it 2006, 2006? And then when Goodell took over,
• 36:19
  he transitioned the sport, brought a different style of
• 36:23
  game to the forefront, made it more offensively sound, made the
• 36:27
  game more to the fantasy world. Why do you think he made it more
• 36:31
  to the fantasy world? Because he knew the transition
• 36:34
  of the sport, where the sport was going.
• 36:37
  When it came to gambling and fantasy, people quote, UN quote,
• 36:40
  don't think it's gambling. It's absolutely gambling.
• 36:44
  Fantasy sports is gambling. Say whatever you want.
• 36:47
  It was legal gambling. You don't look at it that way.
• 36:51
  I mean, fish has been gambling baseball for how many years?
• 36:56
  Since he was in high school, because it's been around from
• 36:59
  that. I mean, and now you look at it,
• 37:02
  you watch 100. Who wants to watch 162 games?
• 37:05
  The gambler, the fantasy, the fantasy baseball fan.
• 37:09
  Because they've got teams. They're setting up their teams.
• 37:11
  It's all about money. It's about profiting.
• 37:14
  What do you think this scandal's about?
• 37:16
  It's about profiting. You're going to tell me that if
• 37:19
  LeBron James's hands are dig digged into the cookie jar that
• 37:23
  the NBA didn't know about it. Of course they knew about it.
• 37:27
  Of course they did. Why would anybody believe that?
• 37:31
  They didn't? And that's the problem right now
• 37:34
  in professional sports. Say whatever you want.
• 37:36
  You say that sports betting is legal.
• 37:39
  All right, Why has sports been sports been illegal over the
• 37:43
  years on betting? Now they're saying, well, you
• 37:46
  can bet on sports if you're an athlete, you just can't bet on
• 37:48
  your own. How does that make sense?
• 37:51
  I mean, think about it, if it's going on in every single sport,
• 37:56
  what is the difference? If they're betting on their own,
• 38:00
  I don't get it. And that's why in in
• 38:02
  professional sports and going back in time, sports betting was
• 38:08
  never legal. So if it's never been legal, it
• 38:11
  should have never been legalized.
• 38:13
  When it comes to these prop betting.
• 38:16
  And again, we'll go back on it. We can argue this.
• 38:19
  Well, what how do we figure out how to?
• 38:21
  And I, I talked to Jeff about this recently, Jeff from Tampa,
• 38:24
  and he kind of came up with his take on it.
• 38:26
  It was very interesting. And if I could get Jeff to come
• 38:29
  up come on the show one of these days.
• 38:31
  He made some great points on if he was the commissioner of
• 38:34
  sports, this is what he would do when it came to sports betting
• 38:37
  and it made a lot of sense. And the same thing he said about
• 38:42
  ownership and, and the situation with salary cap and deferred
• 38:45
  money and, and how it works for the Dodgers and how the the MLB
• 38:49
  can clean up that deferred money situation.
• 38:52
  He had his own take to it. There's ways of figuring out how
• 38:57
  to communicate, but communication doesn't happen if
• 39:01
  the league is trying to cover it, cover up on it.
• 39:04
  And that's that's what the NBA is doing right now.
• 39:07
  Trust me, if you think for one second, Adam Silver is not
• 39:12
  covering up on what he believes. What has been going on for
• 39:18
  probably a decade And you think that Chauncey Phillips, this was
• 39:21
  the FBI has been investigating this for years, Years.
• 39:25
  Has it been going on for a year? It's been going on for five
• 39:29
  years, six years. And again, the story hasn't even
• 39:33
  come to the forefront. I'm sure the FBI is going to
• 39:36
  come up with a whole list of things that nobody knows about
• 39:40
  through this scandal. And again, LeBron James is just
• 39:44
  one P. He's just one fish, but he's a
• 39:47
  big fish. And if this fish is going to
• 39:52
  catch on that fishing pole and they're going to slowly but
• 39:56
  surely bring them up to the top so they catch them, if that's
• 39:59
  true, what is the NBA going to do if that fish gets caught?
• 40:04
  Yeah. And I mentioned at the time of
• 40:05
  the Otani scandal that I thought it was always just a smaller
• 40:09
  piece because Major League Baseball, obviously it's
• 40:10
  worldwide, but it's not labeled as a worldwide corporation type
• 40:13
  thing where I think you look at something like sports betting
• 40:17
  and something that's gotten so big internationally as it is
• 40:21
  now. LeBron has all these other
• 40:22
  connections to LeBron James now with 10 different assistant
• 40:27
  coaches is what you're looking at now.
• 40:29
  And he's now connected with Otani had the two things.
• 40:34
  Otani had the interpreter, he had one of the other assistant
• 40:36
  coaches. I think that was indicted at the
• 40:37
  time for something. And there was something with a
• 40:39
  Las Vegas nightclub. But now all of a sudden you have
• 40:43
  Otani getting away with it. Like you said, Damon Jones is
• 40:46
  how long? We don't know how long he's been
• 40:48
  doing it too. Damon Jones has known LeBron
• 40:51
  since 2010. This other these other coaches
• 40:53
  have basically looked at it as they've known him since high
• 40:57
  school and they wanted them for 20 years.
• 40:59
  So LeBron has triple the amount of mutual connections Otani did.
• 41:04
  And yes, Adam Silver is going to quote UN quote cover it up
• 41:07
  because oh, him and LeBron are running the league.
• 41:10
  Oh, we're we're growing the league, everybody we're trying
• 41:12
  to make it the LJA, the player run league.
• 41:14
  And then all of a sudden now he's investigating all this
• 41:17
  Tyronn Lue. Let's not take him lightly
• 41:19
  either because Tyronn Lue collected with the Clippers.
• 41:22
  We know the scandal that was happening with the Clippers with
• 41:24
  Steve Ballmer and Kawhi Leonard when they were trying to cover
• 41:26
  up there, too, using money from a a company that we don't even
• 41:30
  know if it actually is real or not, to try to make sure Kawhi
• 41:33
  Leonard got paid and the Clippers didn't go over the
• 41:36
  luxury tax a lot more. So who says he's not involved?
• 41:38
  Not to mention, oh, he also coached with somebody named
• 41:40
  Chauncey Billups, who was just caught with a mafia ring.
• 41:42
  So, yeah, I don't think you're going to have destroy your
• 41:45
  reputation, Adam Silver, any more than you already are by
• 41:47
  just trying to cover it up anymore.
• 41:49
  And if LeBron is as evolved as he is with this, he is this is
• 41:54
  going to destroy his entire legacy as a basketball player.
• 41:56
  He. Doesn't go to the Hall of Fame,
• 41:58
  no. You can't, you can't put him
• 42:00
  there. You, this is a guy that's
• 42:02
  letting people, so many people get involved, get away with
• 42:05
  criminal operation for who knows how long too.
• 42:08
  Damon Jones started coaching when he was with the Cavs.
• 42:11
  So that's all. That's almost 2 decades if if
• 42:13
  all of this is true and what Damon Jones was saying, like
• 42:15
  Donnie was saying too. Like yeah, maybe he had
• 42:18
  protection with Damon Jones, but LeBron was involved that David
• 42:21
  Stern was involved with it as he said worse than any mafia boss.
• 42:24
  So it's just crazy how long it can go on.
• 42:26
  It's going to be 20 years worth. Yeah, I just, it, it's all weird
• 42:32
  to me. I mean, obviously it's more
• 42:34
  prevalent now in in the mainstream than it used to be.
• 42:38
  Obviously everybody back then was calling their bookie or
• 42:40
  doing whatever. So it's, it's obviously more
• 42:42
  readily available. But it, it's, we've talked about
• 42:45
  it and you brought it up earlier, Errol.
• 42:47
  It's it's it's kind of like what, what does this
• 42:51
  conglomerate that you've already created worth a billion?
• 42:55
  And I'm just using LeBron, but just Damon Jones or Taran Liu,
• 42:58
  Like they've made very, very good livings for themselves.
• 43:02
  I mean, Taran's basketball career is famous for getting
• 43:05
  stepped over, stepped over by AI and coming from Nebraska as one
• 43:08
  of the highest draft picks ever. I had to throw that out there
• 43:10
  because we don't have many basketball ones.
• 43:12
  So I had to throw that out there.
• 43:14
  Sorry, John, and you're not. Going to like what Errol and I
• 43:16
  think of as a coach. No.
• 43:18
  Oh yeah, no, he's doodoo Magoo. Which is fine.
• 43:20
  I don't. Care.
• 43:20
  It's a good one. But it's he's been a coach for a
• 43:25
  long time. And like I just it, it really,
• 43:28
  really blows my mind when you get to hear some of these names,
• 43:32
  like why are they even involved in this, in the amount of money
• 43:38
  that they've already made? I get we all like to, you know,
• 43:42
  have our vices or, or what have you, But I mean, that's like
• 43:46
  March Madness. We all do it.
• 43:47
  We, you know, there's vices. You put 20 bucks in 100 bucks,
• 43:50
  whatever it is, but when it gets into this involvement in in
• 43:54
  names like LeBron, it, it really kind of throws me off like maybe
• 43:58
  some of the lesser names, like some of the guys you just like
• 44:01
  maybe nickel and dime and cup of coffee guys like where it's like
• 44:05
  boom, you know, this extra 5060 grand.
• 44:07
  If I can help and and do something in the in this
• 44:10
  venture, but not when guys are like and and I'll I'll give you
• 44:14
  Otani in that aspect where you don't know and you know, it's
• 44:20
  just it never ceases to amaze me what people will do for the
• 44:25
  chase and it's not always good, right.
• 44:29
  And it's sometimes ends up and and like we talked with Tim, I
• 44:33
  was like, you know, we asked a question.
• 44:34
  Obviously it's now coming out more and more in every sport.
• 44:40
  I mean, what it would the only only ones who really don't have.
• 44:43
  I mean, obviously it's it's happened in soccer.
• 44:46
  I mean, now you you look at every sport.
• 44:48
  There's there's odds on every sport now, like you, I mean, you
• 44:52
  could probably do rock, paper scissors at this point.
• 44:55
  So it's just it's it's really when it when it's this readily
• 44:58
  available and people still use bookies.
• 45:01
  It don't don't think they don't because they do.
• 45:05
  I I know first hand. Actually, I have a couple
• 45:07
  buddies that actually do it, of course.
• 45:09
  They do. They're not going to stop.
• 45:10
  Yeah. It's never going to end in in
• 45:13
  that that way. But like when it comes to these
• 45:16
  names of of guys doing it, it really, it really blows my mind.
• 45:20
  And if it does go deeper and and like you said, speedy it if it
• 45:24
  goes back 1520 years, 10 years, whatever the relationship that's
• 45:27
  been created and if they've, you know, been in cahoots with each
• 45:31
  other. I mean, we saw like in in this
• 45:34
  one, I can kind of see the the umpire from baseball, him and
• 45:37
  his buddy and his buddy ended up getting, you know, caught up and
• 45:40
  his name was on the account or what have you.
• 45:42
  But that's just trying. That's just having a little
• 45:43
  feel. But yeah, some of these have
• 45:45
  been drug on for how long? I mean, and now it's like when
• 45:51
  the FBI gets involved, you're just like, hey, this isn't just,
• 45:54
  you know, the PD, this is like a step above it.
• 45:57
  So it just, it's kind of interesting.
• 46:00
  And I don't I don't think it's going to stop anytime soon.
• 46:02
  I think now it's just like we've said, it's the tip of the
• 46:05
  iceberg where you only see a little bit of it.
• 46:06
  I think it's just going to keep coming, coming to the forefront
• 46:10
  and and we'll see how deep it really goes or how deep they
• 46:13
  want to dig or how many names they want to bury and how well
• 46:17
  they are going to try and cover it up.
• 46:19
  Well, they're not going to cover it up anymore than what they
• 46:21
  have over the last couple of years.
• 46:22
  Because if anybody thinks that the NBA had no clue what was
• 46:26
  going on, well, then you guys are on drugs and maybe you guys
• 46:29
  are gambling too much and you've lost the will to understand
• 46:33
  what's going on in professional sports right now.
• 46:35
  Because we all know it's not going away.
• 46:39
  And everything that's gone on over the last couple of months
• 46:42
  in not just here in basketball, in baseball, mixed martial arts,
• 46:47
  we're hearing there's been sports betting.
• 46:48
  Now in gambling. You guys actually think that in
• 46:52
  just basketball and football and in the major sports, this isn't
• 46:57
  been going on. I mean, people are going to bet
• 46:59
  on the Olympics. Now the Olympics are right
• 47:01
  around the corner. You don't think they're going to
• 47:02
  be betting on who's going to win speed racing, who's going to
• 47:07
  win? I mean, everything that's going
• 47:10
  on right now has to. Do with I'm a big fan of
• 47:13
  curling, so I'm I'm going to bet on.
• 47:14
  That I like curling too, you know?
• 47:18
  It's not. We had.
• 47:18
  We had. I want to say it was probably 5
• 47:22
  or 6 years ago we had the Olympic qualifying curling in
• 47:25
  Omaha. It was awesome.
• 47:30
  I I just, I was like. There's there's no way like this
• 47:33
  is going to be cool. And one of the dads, it was
• 47:35
  during basketball season and one of the dads was we were, we were
• 47:40
  out playing bags or cornhole, whatever you guys want to call
• 47:42
  it. And he goes, dude.
• 47:45
  Was cornhole? Was cornhole made in the
• 47:48
  cornfields? I mean, seriously.
• 47:50
  I honestly, I know like the background of it, I know what it
• 47:54
  is, but I don't know exactly where it was invented.
• 47:56
  But yeah, it was just a it was a redneck throwing it together
• 48:00
  like as a game. But yeah, no.
• 48:02
  So. See, you could say redneck.
• 48:03
  I can't. Well, I just said it, but I
• 48:06
  can't say. Something like that.
• 48:07
  It's it's a true, it's a true thing.
• 48:09
  I mean, this is what it is. It's not.
• 48:14
  It's if people take it out of context.
• 48:16
  I mean, it's a real thing. But he was like, dude, the
• 48:20
  qualifier for the Olympics, curling is in Omaha.
• 48:23
  And I'm like, yeah, he goes, I want to go.
• 48:26
  And I was like, dude, let's go. And he, but he like he was
• 48:30
  really into it, I guess, but he bought like memorabilia and
• 48:33
  stuff. But seeing it live and like how
• 48:36
  they like talk about it and like pregame and like strategize, it
• 48:40
  was super cool. Like the types of shoes are
• 48:42
  different between the, the, the washer and the pusher.
• 48:45
  Like it's awesome. Like, it was really, really
• 48:47
  cool. I, I love curling.
• 48:49
  Watching it on television. I don't know if I'm going to go
• 48:52
  out of my way and say, hey, I want to be a curler.
• 48:54
  I got to go to Buffalo and curl and learn how to curl because
• 48:57
  that's that's where you, if you want to go and play or you want
• 49:00
  to actually be a part of the United States curling team to
• 49:03
  Buffalo to be a curler. Well, you could be an Olympic
• 49:06
  athlete and be a Walker. That's true.
• 49:08
  I mean, I don't know if that's what I want to do.
• 49:10
  Does anybody want to work, walk in like, like those?
• 49:14
  What are you like Nets on the bottom of your feet?
• 49:16
  I've seen that before. Oh, those like snowshoe.
• 49:18
  Slides. Yeah.
• 49:19
  I don't know what the hell that. No, like there's like walking.
• 49:22
  Walking is in the Olympics. Yeah, well, in the winter or in
• 49:25
  the summer. Not the winter one.
• 49:26
  The winter. Yeah, well, not the winter one.
• 49:28
  It's. Probably the closest thing.
• 49:29
  Yeah, I guess, I guess. You're before we move on,
• 49:32
  Speaking of, what's that one where they have all?
• 49:36
  I know CC did it, but they have all the dogs and they do that
• 49:38
  stuff. What is that called?
• 49:41
  What is it? Snow I'll.
• 49:42
  Go look it. Up No, it's like the dog, like
• 49:44
  the I did a rod or whatever it is.
• 49:46
  Yes, that's it. Oh yeah, I did a rod.
• 49:49
  Never heard it I heard. That's unbelievable.
• 49:51
  Side note, sorry. I would not have remembered that
• 49:53
  name, but yeah. I'm not side noting that because
• 49:55
  I I probably would get lost. I couldn't imagine have a
• 49:59
  trusting in dogs or wolves to try to get me where I need to
• 50:04
  be. I mean training now.
• 50:06
  He said it was unbelievable. I'm sure, I'm sure.
• 50:09
  I don't know if I would do it, but I'm sure it's incredible.
• 50:12
  It's an incredible option. Incredible, incredible
• 50:15
  opportunity. Speaking of incredible or not
• 50:18
  incredible, Browns backup quarterback Shador Sanders made
• 50:22
  his NFL debut on Sunday after Dylan Gabriel was ruled out with
• 50:28
  a concussion in the third quarter of their game versus the
• 50:32
  one and only Ravens. Sanders was a disaster,
• 50:35
  completing just 4 of 60 passes for 47 passing yards and an
• 50:41
  interception and two bad sacks. He finished with a passer rating
• 50:46
  of 13.5, the lowest of any NFL quarterback since, what a name.
• 50:54
  Brandon Whedon's. I remember him debut with the
• 50:58
  Browns in 2012. I think he was like 2526.
• 51:01
  He was like 28 when he was rough.
• 51:02
  Yeah. Who had?
• 51:03
  A5 baseball though. Yeah, who had a 5.1 rating.
• 51:08
  His 25% completion percentage is tied with Terry Bradshaw for
• 51:14
  third worst in their debut since the NFL merged in 1970.
• 51:20
  Sanders came into the game with the Browns leading the Ravens,
• 51:26
  I'm sorry, leading the Ravens, but could not hold it as the
• 51:30
  Ravens came back to win 2316 despite poor play of Lamar
• 51:36
  Jackson, who was only 14 of 25 for 192 yards and two
• 51:41
  interceptions and had only 10 rushing yards.
• 51:45
  Browns guard Wyatt Teller defended Shidor, saying he
• 51:49
  played his heart out despite getting barely any reps with the
• 51:53
  starters and not knowing many of the audibles.
• 51:57
  Head coach Kevin Stefanski said that Dylan Gabriel will remain
• 52:02
  the starter if he is healthy, but Sanders will get first team
• 52:07
  reps in practice to get him more chemistry with the starters.
• 52:13
  Well, there's a lot. There's a lot about this story
• 52:16
  that kind of makes you think that the Browns really don't
• 52:21
  like Shudor Sanders. First thing I like that Teller
• 52:26
  came out and stuck up for Shudor Sanders.
• 52:29
  I felt bad for Shudor Sanders. Yes, you heard it from me.
• 52:32
  I felt bad for Shudor Sanders at the end of the game.
• 52:36
  What I don't like about Shidor Sanders and after the game is
• 52:41
  Shidor Sanders not getting up and being a man and going to the
• 52:45
  middle of the field like any other quarterback, no matter how
• 52:47
  bad you played and go to Lamar Jackson, do the handshake.
• 52:53
  Lamar probably had some nice words to give you a nice choice
• 52:57
  of words. This is a guy that a lot of
• 52:59
  people thought was not going to be a good player in the league.
• 53:02
  I remember when he was drafted in the first round.
• 53:04
  He was the final pick of the first round when when we talked
• 53:06
  about the guys that were in that draft, the Josh Rosen's, the
• 53:09
  Josh Allen's, how about the Sam Darnold's or the Baker
• 53:12
  Mayfield's. Lamar was the final pick of the
• 53:16
  first round by the Baltimore Ravens and honestly the best
• 53:19
  quarterback in that class. It's not even an argument when
• 53:22
  you think about it. But here's the thing, Shidor
• 53:27
  Sanders weeping and crying and patting, patting himself on the
• 53:32
  back after the game saying this is on me, Da da, da da da.
• 53:36
  You know, it's always been on you, Shidor.
• 53:40
  It's always been on you because you played under your father,
• 53:46
  your father who spoke very, very highly of you, that you're going
• 53:50
  to be a star in the league, that you have the ability to be an
• 53:54
  elite quarterback in the NFL. And then you play in a game
• 53:58
  where you took over for Dylan Gabriel.
• 54:01
  When when Dylan Gabriel took the job, you were making jokes, you
• 54:04
  were cracking jokes, you were throwing him to the media and
• 54:07
  the wolves that you thought that you should be the starter, that
• 54:12
  you have the better talent, that you are as good as any
• 54:17
  quarterback right now, Any rookie quarterback that came out
• 54:20
  of this draft class. OK, you had the whole
• 54:23
  second-half to prove that. Did you prove it?
• 54:26
  No. What you did was you patted
• 54:29
  yourself on the back at the end of the game or you put your
• 54:32
  hands on your head wondering what happened.
• 54:35
  And then you're hearing that Kevin Stefanski was not really
• 54:37
  behind you. And obviously that means a lot
• 54:40
  when your head coach is not behind you.
• 54:42
  When you're hearing that after the game that if Dylan Gabriel
• 54:46
  is healthy, he is going to be the starter, but Chador will get
• 54:50
  the first reps if need be. And I, I've, I've heard a lot of
• 54:55
  these analysts come out and say Rex Ryan came out and said it
• 54:58
  today that how do you have a, a quarterback who's your second
• 55:03
  string quarterback not play with first team reps?
• 55:07
  Well, here's my question. If you believe as a head coach
• 55:12
  and Rex, I, I respect you, you, you were a head coach in this
• 55:15
  league. You coach The Jets, you coach
• 55:17
  the gets The Jets to two back-to-back AFC Championships.
• 55:22
  If you're not liked by the organization, if you're not
• 55:27
  liked by the players around you because of who you are and who
• 55:31
  your father is, why should you get that respect?
• 55:35
  And here's another thing, OK, why did they draft them?
• 55:38
  Anybody would have drafted Shador Sanders in the fifth
• 55:41
  round being that he had first round talent as his father
• 55:46
  claimed he was the best player in the class.
• 55:49
  So taking a shot at Chador wasn't because they thought he
• 55:53
  had anything in him as a player. They took a chance from him
• 55:56
  because his father said he could be an elite quarterback in the
• 55:59
  league and he fell to them in the fifth round.
• 56:03
  How many fifth round picks? How many fifth round picks have
• 56:07
  we seen over the years become successful in the NFL?
• 56:11
  The answer is I can't remember. There is none.
• 56:15
  Quarterbacks or are you just talking about?
• 56:16
  Quarterbacks, Tom Brady is the only one that pops to my head.
• 56:20
  And Tom Brady was drafted in the fifth round, right?
• 56:22
  It was fifth round, sixth round. Tom Brady is the only
• 56:25
  quarterback and, and, and I'm sorry, Brock Purdy too.
• 56:28
  Brock Purdy was drafted. He was the final pick of the
• 56:30
  seventh round a couple years ago.
• 56:31
  But Brock Purdy, to me, he only fits the offense because of Kyle
• 56:35
  Shanahan. And, and the way Kyle Shanahan
• 56:37
  runs his offense, it's really through the running game.
• 56:39
  So we we all know that maybe if Shador Sanders is what was under
• 56:43
  Kyle Shanahan, maybe that would be different.
• 56:45
  But he's not. He's under Kevin Stefanski and
• 56:47
  Kevin Stefanski is an offensive genius.
• 56:49
  Anybody that wins 2 coaches of the year with this offense and
• 56:54
  with a bunch of no name quarterbacks.
• 56:55
  And, and I say no name because Deshaun Watson is a no name now
• 56:59
  he's a no, he's a no show because he never is on the
• 57:03
  football field. So the, the fact that Stefanski
• 57:06
  won coach of the year twice in a 5 or 6 year span is pretty
• 57:10
  incredible on a, on a Browns team that has a really an elite
• 57:15
  defense. But no offense, I, I look at
• 57:18
  Sanders and to me the players seem to not like him.
• 57:22
  Teller looks like he's the only player that has any respect for
• 57:26
  him. And you can see it because when
• 57:29
  he was sitting on the bench at the end of the game and his
• 57:32
  hands were all, they were on top of his head wondering what was
• 57:35
  going on and what was happening. The only person that went up to
• 57:38
  him was Teller. Nobody else.
• 57:41
  No coaches, no players, nobody went up to Shador Sanders and
• 57:46
  said, don't worry, boy, we got you'll be fine.
• 57:49
  Next game, you'll be you'll be good.
• 57:51
  Don't worry about it. How many players we see that
• 57:53
  over the years, Justin Fields, I mean Justin Fields just lost his
• 57:58
  job today. Tyrod Taylor, every time he
• 58:01
  stepped off the field, went over there.
• 58:03
  Justin Fields patted him on the helmet, patted on the shoulder.
• 58:06
  Don't worry about it. We'll get you'll get him on the
• 58:08
  next route. Have you?
• 58:10
  Did you see anybody go up to Shudor Sanders besides Teller
• 58:14
  And, and all Teller was doing after the end of the game was
• 58:16
  complaining that I forget who's offsides, but one of the
• 58:20
  defensive players at the defensive line of scrimmage was
• 58:23
  offside. Who cares?
• 58:25
  Who cares? You were going to get sacked
• 58:27
  anyways. The guy has no idea what he's
• 58:31
  doing and you can see it. First team or no first team
• 58:35
  Chador Sanders is a debacle. I feel bad for him because they
• 58:39
  threw him to the wolves. The Browns threw him to the
• 58:41
  wolves. The Browns knew he wasn't going
• 58:43
  to be ready for this and it was just a matter of time and all
• 58:47
  the fans that for some reason he has the 4th sold jerseys right
• 58:52
  now. I think his jersey is fourth in
• 58:54
  the NFL and sold. Why?
• 58:56
  Because he's he's a Sanders. Did anybody think Chador Sanders
• 59:01
  was going to show up and just absolutely throw 4 touchdowns
• 59:05
  and just completely dominate after what we have seen and all
• 59:09
  the stuff that we've seen on and off the field?
• 59:11
  I mean, after the draft, after the first round of the draft,
• 59:14
  he's he's rapping in a DJ booth. I mean, come on, is anybody
• 59:20
  going to take this guy seriously?
• 59:21
  And Terry Bradshaw, let's not put him in the same conversation
• 59:25
  as Terry Bradshaw. Terry Bradshaw won four Super
• 59:27
  Bowls. Do we ever believe that this man
• 59:31
  is ever going to win one Super Bowl?
• 59:33
  The answer would be no. Terry Bradshaw could go down as
• 59:37
  one of the winningest quarterbacks ever play.
• 59:40
  Shadour might go down as one of the biggest flops of all time.
• 59:45
  Lamar Jackson is the perfect guy to go and speak to.
• 59:48
  And what did you do? You were weeping on the bench
• 59:51
  because you didn't know what was going on.
• 59:53
  You didn't know what was happening.
• 59:56
  All you needed to do is get up and go meet your peer in the
• 1:00:00
  middle of a football field and just have a conversation with
• 1:00:03
  him and all you did after the game to the media.
• 1:00:07
  It's on me, it's on me. I need I need a little bit more
• 1:00:10
  work. You need a lot of work, boy, you
• 1:00:12
  need a lot of work. You maybe you need to get your
• 1:00:15
  dad to come down there and and hang out with you, maybe take
• 1:00:18
  you to the peewee Football League.
• 1:00:20
  They teach you how to throw a football again, because I'm AI
• 1:00:22
  don't know about you guys. I could throw a football better
• 1:00:25
  than you doors. I mean, come on, guys, I was
• 1:00:28
  throwing with my nephew over the weekend.
• 1:00:31
  I was throwing better spirals than this guy was.
• 1:00:36
  I mean, it's embarrassing and and honestly, I didn't see what
• 1:00:40
  prime. Said Is there video evidence of
• 1:00:42
  this? Is there video?
• 1:00:43
  Evidence. I did.
• 1:00:44
  I was throwing with my nephew. You don't believe me, I'll bring
• 1:00:46
  my nephew on. I absolutely was throwing a
• 1:00:48
  football over the way I could throw a football.
• 1:00:50
  I'm I have a pretty good arm. I'm not Nevertheless, I'm I
• 1:00:53
  don't how I can't throw it 60 yards.
• 1:00:55
  But again, he didn't throw it 60 yards left.
• 1:00:57
  Handed and right-handed. Right-handed I I'm a lefty and
• 1:00:59
  righty depending on the sport. Hockey I play lefty and righty.
• 1:01:03
  I could score on both righty and lefty.
• 1:01:05
  I was very unique because I had two different style.
• 1:01:08
  I had two different sticks. Depending on the game, you're
• 1:01:11
  amphibious. I mean ambidextrous.
• 1:01:13
  Ambidextrous. Yes, yes.
• 1:01:16
  But nevertheless I in both in many different ways, if you know
• 1:01:19
  what I mean. But I.
• 1:01:20
  Knew that I knew you couldn't get away with that.
• 1:01:22
  No, but hey, listen, you know, one hand scratches the other or
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  one nut scratches. I guess I know one hand
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  scratches the nut. I don't know.
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  Anyway, don't. Tell the Shawn Watson.
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  That I definitely don't want him touching my nuts, but I, I to
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  me, the problem here lies on Chidor.
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  As much as I felt bad for him after the game because the, I
• 1:01:45
  think the, the team threw him to the wolves.
• 1:01:47
  I think they did. There must be a reason why the
• 1:01:51
  team don't like him. It must be a reason why the
• 1:01:53
  coaching staff don't like him. There's got to be more than
• 1:01:56
  meets the eye here because honestly, and that's my new
• 1:02:00
  favorite line on his show, there's a lot more to this story
• 1:02:04
  than has been brought to the forefront.
• 1:02:06
  Why isn't a second string quarterback getting a chance to
• 1:02:09
  play with first team players? Maybe because they don't think
• 1:02:12
  he's any good and he shouldn't even have a chance to step on a
• 1:02:14
  football field. I'm not saying that Dylan
• 1:02:16
  Gabriel is some game changing quarterback.
• 1:02:19
  I'm not saying that. But I mean, Dylan Gabriel on his
• 1:02:23
  worst day look better than Chador Sanders did in the
• 1:02:27
  second-half. He was horrible and there's no
• 1:02:31
  excuse. Don't give me this.
• 1:02:32
  Well, the offensive line didn't look like they were playing for
• 1:02:34
  him or they did the the offensive line didn't know his
• 1:02:39
  play calling at the line of scrimmage or what?
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  What do they call his cadence? Oh, they didn't know his
• 1:02:43
  cadence. Get get out of here.
• 1:02:45
  Stop this crap. And that that's just you're a
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  professional athlete. You're a professional football
• 1:02:50
  player. You're going to tell me, you're
• 1:02:51
  going to bring up his cadence? This is ridiculous.
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  Nobody here today and honestly that knows football and
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  understands the quarterback position and gets drafted and
• 1:03:02
  says that he's an elite quarterback, he's the best
• 1:03:05
  rookie in this class, and he's going to prove it.
• 1:03:07
  Nobody's going to believe that when this guy stepped on a
• 1:03:10
  football field and the players weren't playing for him or he
• 1:03:13
  didn't, or they didn't know his cadence.
• 1:03:16
  I honestly believe that this guy thought that this team or the
• 1:03:21
  team in front of him was going to play for him.
• 1:03:24
  They didn't want to play for him.
• 1:03:26
  They don't like him. I don't like him because his
• 1:03:29
  father always speaks about him. His father who honestly didn't
• 1:03:34
  do him right. His father throwing him to the
• 1:03:38
  NFL, Wolves. And I say Wolves.
• 1:03:41
  Not the Wolves, the Wolves, the media.
• 1:03:45
  Because they're not wolves. They're wolves.
• 1:03:48
  That's what they are. They'll chew on you until they
• 1:03:51
  can't chew anymore. They won't eat you like a wolf
• 1:03:54
  wall. Well, no.
• 1:03:56
  They'll wolf you. They'll eat you and they'll chew
• 1:03:59
  on you and they'll spit you out. And that's what they're doing.
• 1:04:04
  That's what they're going to do to Chador.
• 1:04:06
  Chador is never going to last in the NFL.
• 1:04:08
  You know why he's never going to last in the NFL, ladies and
• 1:04:10
  gentlemen? Because of who he is and what he
• 1:04:15
  is brought to the forefront as a young player, he is already
• 1:04:19
  considered a superstar. Why?
• 1:04:21
  Because of the contracts he got considerably because of his last
• 1:04:27
  name. Think about it.
• 1:04:29
  He just got a, what was it, $150 million contract from an
• 1:04:33
  organization? Because for his jersey sales,
• 1:04:35
  what was it? Does anybody have the number
• 1:04:37
  that he got, $147 million he made?
• 1:04:42
  And he might never step on an NFL football field.
• 1:04:44
  Might never. He did, but he might never.
• 1:04:47
  After this year, he might never play football again on an NFL
• 1:04:50
  football field. We'll see.
• 1:04:52
  This guy just made $147,000,000 because of his last name.
• 1:04:55
  Has any play? I definitely want to ask Mr.
• 1:04:58
  Purcell when Dan comes on the show.
• 1:05:00
  I want to ask him because he he's been around professional
• 1:05:02
  athletes for a long, long time. I would love to ask him.
• 1:05:05
  Has he ever seen a player that's never played or really has
• 1:05:08
  barely has never played a full football game in his in an NFL
• 1:05:12
  football game in his career, get $147 million at any point of his
• 1:05:17
  career as an athlete? Think about it.
• 1:05:22
  Yeah, the only one I could think of is probably Bronny James, but
• 1:05:24
  even Bron. James Bronny.
• 1:05:24
  James didn't get that. I don't.
• 1:05:25
  Think he got 147 though he was getting, he was getting a lot of
• 1:05:28
  it with with the extra endorsements in college and
• 1:05:31
  stuff like that and obviously before his career.
• 1:05:32
  But yeah, definitely wasn't 147. I just want to mention this
• 1:05:35
  quickly because our guest is in. You look at Stefanski, like he
• 1:05:38
  brought up Errol. I don't think he ever wanted
• 1:05:40
  Shador Sanders. And I think that's really being
• 1:05:41
  evident now. I think Gabriel was his guy.
• 1:05:43
  Shador Sanders was the ownership's guy.
• 1:05:45
  And now there's a little bit of a disconnect to where I could
• 1:05:47
  even see Stefanski. Not even if he just gets fired.
• 1:05:49
  He might just step down himself at this point because I think
• 1:05:51
  the ownership, they want to make this Shidor thing work, but it's
• 1:05:54
  the Browns. You know, the ownership has been
• 1:05:56
  corrupt with them for a while and they're going to get on this
• 1:05:58
  media circus and continue to be a circus as long as Shidor is
• 1:06:00
  still there. But you're right, Errol, I don't
• 1:06:02
  based on his performance on the field, can you trust him to last
• 1:06:05
  then at the NFL? There's really no chance.
• 1:06:08
  Yeah, I don't. I mean it's the experiment.
• 1:06:10
  I don't know how far it's going to go, but also too, I mean, he
• 1:06:13
  it's over, it's over to the wolves.
• 1:06:15
  But at the same time he's he's a rookie quarterback.
• 1:06:18
  The game is different, the speed is different.
• 1:06:20
  It's he wasn't going to be a miracle in his first ever
• 1:06:23
  appearance. So it is it's worth a grain of
• 1:06:26
  salt. Throw it on some food.
• 1:06:27
  Don't throw it on some food. Put it back in the cabinet.
• 1:06:29
  Nobody cares. It's over.
• 1:06:30
  I think it's over. He will be back next week and if
• 1:06:33
  he has any, any kind of game that everybody says, Oh well, he
• 1:06:37
  threw 150 yards, he threw a touchdown, Maybe there's
• 1:06:41
  something there. I think it's over.
• 1:06:43
  I I think he's ruined already. I think he's ruined already
• 1:06:47
  after 1/2 a football because what he did is he put too much
• 1:06:52
  pressure on himself. Him and his father put too much
• 1:06:54
  pressure on him. Same thing with Travis Hunter.
• 1:06:57
  What do you think? Did I did anybody really think
• 1:07:00
  that Travis Hunter was going to really explode right off the
• 1:07:03
  paper? The answer would be no.
• 1:07:05
  I told you guys why I didn't think Travis Hunter was going to
• 1:07:08
  be any good And and the main reason why is because Prime
• 1:07:12
  Prime went out there and said these guys are the two best
• 1:07:14
  players in this class and how special they are and what is fun
• 1:07:19
  son could do on a football field.
• 1:07:20
  His understanding of the game. Yeah, he looked like he really
• 1:07:23
  understand the speed of the NFL football game.
• 1:07:25
  He had no clue what he was getting himself into.
• 1:07:28
  None. This isn't college football.
• 1:07:30
  He wasn't playing. First of all, how many SEC teams
• 1:07:33
  did he play when he was in college football?
• 1:07:36
  Honestly, I don't know what the number is.
• 1:07:38
  Not many. The SEC is the best in college
• 1:07:40
  football. As everybody says, Alabama,
• 1:07:42
  Florida, all those SEC teams dominant way, the way they
• 1:07:46
  recruit players. Do you believe for one second
• 1:07:50
  that if he played in the SEC that's he would be anybody and
• 1:07:56
  he would have been ever been considered a first round draft
• 1:07:58
  pick? The answer is he what?
• 1:08:00
  He was drafted where he should be.
• 1:08:03
  He was drafted in the fifth round where he should be.
• 1:08:07
  He's not. He's never going to be an elite
• 1:08:09
  quarterback. He's not an NFL style of
• 1:08:11
  quarterback. He was never going to be a Caleb
• 1:08:14
  Williams or Jaden Daniels or any of those kind of quarterbacks.
• 1:08:17
  I don't know why anybody believed that he was because of
• 1:08:20
  his last name. Speaking of last names, our golf
• 1:08:24
  clap of the day. This deserves a golf clap.
• 1:08:28
  No doubt. Golf clap.
• 1:08:30
  Golf clap. My golf clap of the day goes to
• 1:08:35
  it's got to be Virginia Tech. I mean, seriously, it's
• 1:08:39
  definitely a golf clap. Who would have thought that?
• 1:08:42
  James? Yes, I said it.
• 1:08:44
  James Mastermind himself, Penn State's former head coach who's
• 1:08:50
  owed a lot of money, was going to go to Virginia Tech.
• 1:08:53
  Well, Virginia Tech lands, I believe, the biggest free agent
• 1:08:58
  of the offseason, the best coach available in college football,
• 1:09:02
  not from LSU. You know what I'm talking about.
• 1:09:07
  James Franklin, I believe, is a perfect fit for Virginia Tech.
• 1:09:11
  And it's really only one reason less pressure He he can go and
• 1:09:15
  recruit the players that he wants to recruit.
• 1:09:17
  He's not going to have anybody hounding on him on who he should
• 1:09:21
  bring in. He's going to be running.
• 1:09:23
  He's going to be the director. He's going to be the guy that's
• 1:09:25
  going to be the mastermind behind Virginia Tech football.
• 1:09:29
  And like me and Fish we're talking about, this guy will
• 1:09:32
  take you to that final 12. I believe that one way or
• 1:09:35
  another might be once, twice, maybe even three times, maybe
• 1:09:38
  even take you to a close, maybe close to a national championship
• 1:09:43
  in the future. This guy knows how to recruit.
• 1:09:46
  This guy knows how to coach. And now where he's not worried
• 1:09:48
  about the Penn State and the people behind him, The, the,
• 1:09:52
  the, the money, the money grabbers or, or Florida deciding
• 1:09:56
  not to go to Florida or all the other schools, USC or wherever.
• 1:09:59
  I well, it wasn't USC, but you know what I'm talking about old
• 1:10:02
  miss if it if that becomes valid available or wherever.
• 1:10:06
  James Franklin decided to go to Virginia Tech for one reason or
• 1:10:09
  one reason only because he didn't want to deal with the
• 1:10:12
  mob. He didn't want to deal with the
• 1:10:14
  media. He didn't want to deal with
• 1:10:15
  everything that would have been there if he took one of those
• 1:10:19
  high profile jobs. I think this is great for
• 1:10:21
  Virginia Tech football and I think if I'm not mistaken, the
• 1:10:25
  last time Virginia Tech was a contender was with Michael Vick,
• 1:10:29
  Am I right? Yeah, that was a while ago.
• 1:10:31
  They had one undefeated season, I believe.
• 1:10:33
  I think that was the last time I can remember Virginia Tech was
• 1:10:36
  going or was being spoke about a national championship.
• 1:10:41
  So bringing James Franklin in, it's got to be a golf clap.
• 1:10:45
  My golf clap of the day goes to not James Franklin to Virginia
• 1:10:49
  Tech. So my golf clap of the day goes
• 1:10:52
  to Virginia Tech landing the free agent of the offseason for
• 1:10:57
  college football. Congratulations to them.
• 1:10:59
  Well, it's not the offseason yet, but snagging him up as fast
• 1:11:03
  as they did was good because there were quite a few other
• 1:11:06
  teams interested in James Franklin.
• 1:11:07
  I think he's the best one available.
• 1:11:09
  So congratulations to James taking the job and that could
• 1:11:12
  change Virginia Tech football for the better.
• 1:11:14
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• 1:11:38
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• 1:11:43
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• 1:11:44
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• 1:12:14
  about bold ex pitchers and don't be surprised if Jabba's name is
• 1:12:22
  being thrown out there and the the future of this article.
• 1:12:25
  So beware of my complications of bold pitchers that walk away
• 1:12:30
  from the sport of baseball. So yeah, so Jabba might be the
• 1:12:35
  lead guy on this story. So, you know, I might attack my
• 1:12:39
  fellow cohost on this show. Anyways, yeah, that's it for the
• 1:12:43
  show. Who do we have on Wednesdays?
• 1:12:45
  Mary, thanks to Nathan for getting this guy.
• 1:12:46
  Former Rockies, Yankees, Pirates and Astros pitcher and now the
• 1:12:49
  head coach of the Trenton Thunder, Sean Chacon, will be
• 1:12:52
  joining us. Oh, Jabba's favorite.
• 1:12:54
  That's a good one. That's a that's a slam dunk.
• 1:12:57
  Hands free. You know, Jabba, you're, you're
• 1:12:59
  ready to go. You're ready to go and eat some
• 1:13:01
  food. I know you're probably ready to
• 1:13:03
  do something. He looks like he's about to
• 1:13:05
  meditate. He looks like he's about to RIP
• 1:13:07
  my head off my body. It looks frozen.
• 1:13:10
  I don't know. No.
• 1:13:11
  He's not frozen. You sure?
• 1:13:13
  Yeah. It looks a little frozen to me.
• 1:13:16
  He's sitting. I see him breathing, so I guess
• 1:13:18
  he's not. Anyways, that's it for a show.
• 1:13:20
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