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NY's Sports Loud Mouth 4/30/26 · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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The New York Knicks took care of business on Tuesday at home at
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MSG, blowing out the Hawks for the second straight game to take
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a three, two series lead. Now in tonight's Game 6IN
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Hotlanta, the Knicks led by Jaylen Brunson, who dominated
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last game with 39 in Karl Anthony Towns along with the
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rest of the crew. Are they solved this pesky Hawks
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team? Or Will Young star Jaylen
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Johnson and 2026's Most Improved Player Nikhil Alexander Walker
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be able to force a Game 7 at the Garden on Saturday?
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And before we dial it up to 11 and dive inside baseball to wrap
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up the month of April for the 1st place Yankees, the last
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place Mets, and the rest of the MLB, we will take a seat at the
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NBA Roundtable and breakdown the entire first round of the 2026
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NBA Playoffs on yet another jam packed, chalk filled, brand
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spanking new live Thursday night edition of the hottest streaming
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sports show in the biz. This is New York's sports
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loudmouth. That's.
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In a bad. Spot right now I've.
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Never seen a Ranger team. The Olympic we're going to be.
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Looking at Aaron. Judging.
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Saying that he. Can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan. Said.
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I. Played 82 games, you don't see
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the fun doing that. What Jack Hughes did after
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getting his teeth knocked down to play every single shift he
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got back in the game. Take it back this kid go to the
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best defense and. Talk it to myself because I
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can't. Go there and back and forth
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through my mind behind the scene.
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I got my executive producer on the back end bothering the hell
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out of me. It's blurry.
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It's this, It's that. Relax, fish.
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Relax. It's a show.
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It appears. It goes away.
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There's nothing we can do when we're live.
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Nothing. Just so everybody knows, we're
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not magical. We're not magic magicians.
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Or I don't. I don't pull a damn rabbit out
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of a hat, OK. So I don't know how anybody
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thinks that I could change something on the fly either.
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Could speedy either. Could anybody?
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So you got to deal with it. But, you know, I've had a a
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really rough day, rough week. All right, Yesterday was my
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birthday. I turned 44.
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I I celebrated it. I celebrated it with my
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girlfriend. It was crazy.
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I went. Out to the jazz here in Long
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Island, New York. It's a new restaurant.
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It's a steak restaurant. It was good.
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I'm not going to go again because I'm not spending well.
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She's not going to spend another $450.
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I mean, we had all different things and I understand when you
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go to those fancy restaurants, they cost some money, but the
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food wasn't that good. It was good.
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It wasn't. That good?
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That's all I'm going to say now, I'm not saying I'm not going to,
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I'm not going to tell anybody not to go and try it or I I did
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like the lobster crab cakes. They were really good.
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The steaks, the steak was a little burnt.
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I'm just, I like it medium rare. I'm medium well.
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I almost said medium rare. I don't like it medium rare, but
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I like it medium well. But you see, when you go to
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those steak restaurants, you would expect that it just be
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nice. And by the way, the lamb chops
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will go too. I can't lie.
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The Lamb. Chops will go, too.
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I like lamb chops. Good choice.
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Yes, but everything else was I didn't even want dessert.
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Usually I'm a dessert guy. I like to try all the different
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desserts and Britney was like, go ahead, pick whatever you
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want, pick all of them if you want them.
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And I was like, no, I don't want any.
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I I'd rather go to Carvel. I wanted, I'm not going to
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Carvel. I want, I want I, I went to get
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a smoothie. I think it was a strawberry
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banana smoothie. I'm trying to stay away from the
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sugar drinks. I'm trying to stay away from
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sugar. Anyways, it was good.
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I had a very happy birthday for all the fans out there wished me
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a happy birthday, my friends, my family.
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Thank you to everybody for wishing me a happy birthday.
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I did enjoy my 44th, but it's all the same.
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It's all the same every time, every year, every year it's the
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same. When I was 34, by the way, when
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I was 34, my father passed away. So it's 10 years of the day.
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My father passed away five days after my birthday.
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So May 5th my father passed away.
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So that's how I remember it. It it's definitely not something
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that you want to remember. But nevertheless it it's been a
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crazy, crazy week. And then today, so I cracked my
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front tooth a couple of weeks ago, I told you this, we me and
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me and Q were talking and he wished me a happy birthday today
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again. And we were speaking about
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everything that's going on in the back end.
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And he asked me what did I do today?
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And I said I went to the dentist.
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So I am going to I'm probably in a bite down on my tongue because
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I got like fake teeth right now. It's like replacement teeth.
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They they didn't cement it in, but they glued it in.
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I'm waiting for my new teeth. So anyways, quick story is I
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cracked my tooth. I cracked my left tooth.
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So I went, went to my dentist and I said, what am I going to
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do? She said we can bridge it.
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We could do all different things.
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And I said, I don't want to bridge it.
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I don't want to do this. So she said, well, we can cap
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it. And I said, what does that?
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What does that persist? And what does that present to me
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on how I do that? And she's like, you never had a
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cap. I said I had a cap, but I
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haven't had a cap in a while. So she told me we got to go.
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We got to reach out to the insurance company.
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We're going to ask the insurance company if they're going to
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accept 2 caps in your front teeth because if you're going to
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replace 1, you got to replace the other.
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Well, they accepted it. So I went the day after my
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birthday to the dentist, scared as hell because this isn't your
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back tooth. This isn't 3 teeth away from
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your front tooth. These are your two front teeth.
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Think about it. And if something goes wrong, I
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mean, I'm screwed. I'm screwed, ladies and
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gentlemen. So she started shaving it down
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and then after she shaved it down enough, I asked her to give
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me a mirror. I want to see him.
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Guys, if you ever got your teeth shaved before you look like a
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crack baby. Has anybody looked at, have you
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ever seen anybody on drugs with when they look at their teeth
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and how rotted they out or how rotted they are or how crack
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they are? That's what it looked like.
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So I, I've always had nice teeth.
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I've never had bad teeth. So it's something that I never
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experienced before. It was really sickening to me.
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And then they, they put like replacements like I guess it to
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me it's temper. What do they call it?
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I I don't remember what they call.
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It bad people teeth, no? No, no, no, they put these teeth
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in for for a few weeks until I get my real teeth.
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So nevertheless, I was very upset today and now I'm trying
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to speak. So I'm trying to get used to
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these these teeth in my mouth because they're longer than
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usual. So you wanted me to show him on
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live radio? What they?
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Let's. Go, I'm not doing it right now.
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Maybe later, maybe, maybe later. Look, look, look, look at these
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things, look at these munchers. I, I'm, I'm, I'm telling you,
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it's hard to speak. So I'm, I'm going to get, I'm
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going to get through the show tonight.
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But it's really, I'm biting on my tongue and, and she said
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you're these aren't your real teeth.
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So just relax. And I said, I'm doing a radio
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show and it feels like something is clogging the front of my
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mouth. So I'm like holding my tongue
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back when I'm speaking. It's not easy guys.
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It's not easy. So I've had a really rough day
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and I, I, I got a chance to go to the mall, check out some new
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hats. Yeah, I didn't buy any new hats,
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by the way. So for all the fans out there,
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I, I didn't add to the 450 Yankee hats I probably have.
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So I, I stayed away from it. Ladies and gentlemen, I was very
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cool and collective when it came to buying hats anyway.
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They got a new hat too, by the way.
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I'm sorry, check into it. The Mets got a new hat.
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I'm not buying no Mets hat. I don't wear Mets hats.
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It's fine. I don't wear Mets hats so here's
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the facts if anybody knows what I like.
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I only wear my favorite teams hat so I buy all the Yankee
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hats, all the different colors it doesn't matter.
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It could be it could be purple, light green, lime.
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I buy all the color hats and now they have collectible items
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because they have like the the anniversary hats and all that
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other stuff. So I get all of them.
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I have every single one they've ever made.
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I'm serious. You come to my house, I probably
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have some of them from 10 years ago, 15 years ago.
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I collect hats. I collect Islander hats.
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I collect jet hats, eagle hats, because everybody knows I do
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root for the eagles. I do.
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I, I there's there any team that I root for, I wear their hats.
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Now jerseys are different. If I like the jerseys, I get my
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name on the back of it. I'm not wearing any player's
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name on on the back. Now there are certain jerseys
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that I do buy of my teams, like a Mattingly.
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I love down Mattingly. So I bought a Donnie Baseball
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jersey, Yogi Berra. I love Yogi Berra.
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I bought a Yogi Berra jersey. There are certain players I
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would buy with their names on the back of it, but usually I
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put my name on the back of it. So it's 34.
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It says loudmouth on the back of it.
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I do like this Minnesota. Yeah, this Minnesota
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Timberwolves star jersey. It's beautiful.
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It's beautiful. I I have to say that they're
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still in the playoffs. Might not be very soon, but hey,
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it's still nice. And I'm wearing a nice Yankees
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hat, so I like to look the color look the type on this radio
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show. So I hope everybody enjoys the
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way I look, except don't look at my teeth tonight.
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All right, That's all I'm going to say.
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Anyways, we got a very special guest shout out to Nathan a
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little bit later to show we will be talking to former 18 year NBA
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forward Metta World Peace, formerly known as Ron Artest
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will be joining us. He was in the NBA from 99 to
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2017, won a championship with the Lakers in 2010 when they
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beat the Celtics. So we remember that.
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Don't we kill as we always do. So, Ron.
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Artest. Will be joining us a little bit
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later in the show at 8:20, so stay tuned.
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Ronnie's never been on our show, so we're going to have a lot of
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fun with him. We're going to go over his
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career, his thoughts to LeBron James's take about him and
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Michael Jordan. I'm sure he's got his own take
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on that. And, and Ron Artest has defended
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some of the best basketball players of this era.
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So I am very interested to hear what he has to say about the
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type of player LeBron was and Kobe Bryant was.
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So a lot to get into with Ron. Our test but it's time to get
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into the Knicks because the Knicks saw the story as they can
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end this series tonight with the Hawks.
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The New York Knicks dominated the Hawks in Game 5 by a score
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of 126 to 97 to take a three two series lead.
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Jaylor Bronson led the Knicks with 39 points, 3 rebounds in
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eight assists and a + 23 rating. Both OG and Anobi and Karl
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Anthony Towns had a double, double and also two steals each.
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After having a good series for the first four games, the Knicks
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finally shut down CJ McCollum, holding him to a three of 10
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shooting game. No Hawks starters had more than
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20 points and only Alexander Walker made more than two 3
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pointers in the game. The Knicks bench got much more
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involved in game #5 which impacted the game.
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Jeremy Sochen and Jordan Clarkson and Jose Alvarado were
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very much involved in that game and the Knicks have outscored
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the Hawks by 54 total points in the 1st five games with Game 6
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tonight in Atlanta. I'm going to say this.
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Mikhail Bridges finally showed up.
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He hasn't showed up this whole series.
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He hasn't showed up at all in this series.
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But finally, this team, the second-half defended took out CJ
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McCollum. Johnson, all series long has had
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a problem shooting. Thank you, OG Annanobi.
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You can say whatever you want. It's OG Annanobi.
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He's played dominantly defensively in this series.
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And that's what we expect from probably one of the top three
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wingmen, wing defenders in the NBA.
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But to see Jeremy Sochen getting involved, Jordan Clarkson, Jose
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Alvarado, Jeremy Sochen came from the Spurs.
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He was waved by the Spurs. He picked the Knicks to come to.
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I thought he was going to play a big dividend to the the New York
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Knicks in in many different series, especially against the
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Celtics. If they match up against the
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Celtics, they're going to need Jeremy because Jeremy is a great
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rebounder and he's a great perimeter defender.
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This is what the Knicks need to do.
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They need to defend. They need these guys to be
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involved more and bringing in Sochin and Alvarado, these are
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two guys that are gifted defensively.
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We all know Jeremy Jaylen Bronson is not a good defender.
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We know Karl Anthony Towns is not a good defender.
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Any radio show, I don't care what it is, any podcast for the
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new year, New York Knicks are coming out there and saying, oh,
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Karl Anthony Towns can play defense.
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Jaylen Bronson can play defense. They cannot.
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We all know they're not two way basketball players.
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They're good at what they're good at.
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But to take out CJ McCollum, who's been dominant in this
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series, he's played fantastically.
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I'm not going to say anything bad about CJ McCollum.
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He's had a great career playing in Portland, then coming over
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here with the Hawks, being a leader over here, working with
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Johnson, working with Walker. This team is has a great future.
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They really do. But this series should end
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tonight. It should end tonight.
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Not because the New York Knicks are better, Not because the
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Hawks are not good enough to beat the Knicks.
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It's just because the Knicks need some time to breathe.
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The Celtics are having problems right now with the 76ers.
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That could go seven games. It really much.
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It really, really could. They're going.
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The Celtics are going back to Philadelphia.
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And finally, Embiid played a game that actually made
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something for the 76ers in game #5 they need, the Knicks need to
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beat the Hawks tonight because they need that time.
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They need and, and, and again, the Celtics are a completely
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different animal. They're not the Hawks.
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The Hawks are a young team. Yes, they're hungry.
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Yes, they're not ready for the big time.
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There are probably a year or two years away.
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They need another superstar to come play with Johnson.
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CJ McCollum probably is not going to be there 2 years, but
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they have a great future and they have the right now.
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If the if the if the draft were to start and it felt the same
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way, the way the lottery is working, they'd have the 7th or
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8th pick so they can get themselves a good player.
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Wilson, one of these guys that are out there in the the lottery
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that are going to be available at 7:00 or 8:00.
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Right now the New York Knicks cannot play around with this
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Hawks team. They got to put the foot on the
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pedal. That's, that's been a big
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problem for the New York Knicks. They let this happen all the
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time. They linger.
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They let this team stay involved in the game and then they play
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messy basketball. They they, they throw the ball
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away. They don't defend in certain
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parts of the game. They let teams go on a 9 or 10
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point run and then they play chase.
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They play chase. The New York Knicks cannot do
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that. They're not.
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I'm not saying the Knicks are not capable of competing with
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teams that are going to be chasing every single game.
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But the problem with the Knicks is when a team gets close, when
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the Knicks are up by 10 or up by 9 and it and a team cuts it down
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to 8 or 7, then the Knicks start to play sloppy.
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And then they put these guys like Mikkel Bridges who doesn't
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play ref doesn't play hard. There are games that I wonder if
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Mikkel Bridges is even in it or his head's in the game.
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OG and Anobi, there are games that he's playing great defense,
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he's playing great offense, or he just disappears.
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These guys got to be consistent. And I will say this, when they
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bring in Jose Alvarado, he's consistent, defensively
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consistent. He's going to give you between 8
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to 10 points. We this is the first time we've
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seen Jeremy Sochen and that's what we want to see.
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I want to see the young kid. I want to see him compete.
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The Spurs didn't use them enough.
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This kid has a tremendous ability of rebounding,
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rebounding. His a knack to go after the
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ball. He has a knack to defend the
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ball. You need these guys.
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And you saw in game #5 if the Knicks play team defense and
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they play up in their faces, the Hawks have problems shooting.
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The Hawks are great when they have these open 3 pointers.
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If you force them in spots, they're uncomfortable.
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CJ McCollum, Johnson Walker, they're always going to be
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uncomfortable taking those shots.
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They're young. This is the first year that
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Alexander Walker has played at an elite level.
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He's averaging. This is the first year I think
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he's I, I don't know what the the number is right now.
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I think he last year he averaged like 9 or 10 points.
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This year he averaged about 20 points a game.
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He's completely changed his game offensively.
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CJ McCollum is playing at a high clip in this series.
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He's before game #5 he was averaging about 2526 points a
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game. You cannot beat the Hawks when a
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3038 year old, 37 year old point guard is shooting at a clip the
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way he was clipping and boy, he was clipping the hell out of the
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New York Knicks. The fact here is when you look
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at the Knicks and you look at the position the Knicks are in
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tonight, it's put the pedal to the metal.
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Make sure this doesn't go to a game seven.
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You do not want to go back to Madison Square Garden.
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Give this team enough confidence to say, hey, all we got to do is
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show up. All we got to do is play hard,
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and if the Knicks don't play hard enough, we're going to beat
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them. You do not want to go into that
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game seven. I'm telling you right now, you
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want to make sure you end it tonight in Atlanta.
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You heard Jalen Brunson in game #4 he said there were more
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Knicks fans here in game #4 than I've ever seen a Knick TA Knick
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fan base show up at a Hawks game.
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There were just as many Knicks fans in game #4 in Atlanta as
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there were. In any of the games they played
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against the Hawks all season long.
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And when you see that when the Knicks fans are travelling and
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they're they're rooting and and you have the fans on your side,
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it gives you a little bit more confidence.
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But that is there's no reason why the Knicks cannot win this
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game. They have the best player.
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They have the second best player.
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Honestly, they have the three best players in this series.
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They really do think about it. They have Carl Anthony Towns,
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Jalen Brunson. Those are the two best players
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in this series. Repeat that, and then you can
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argue Ananobi and Johnson. You can argue it.
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You can argue it, you can argue it.
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So to me, there's no reason why they should go to Game 7.
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But you got to give you the Atlanta Hawks a lot of credit.
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They're young, they're hungry, and they're coming for all the
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Eastern Conference, all the NBA teams that are watching this
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series, They're coming. And that's why the Knicks got to
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make sure this is the if there's a year the Knicks can win a
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championship, it's this year. You could say whatever you want.
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I know you're a Celtic fan. You're going to say that and
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you're going to argue now, Celtics might not even beat the
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76ers. They might not.
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If this goes to a game seven, you're going to say, no way.
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We're going to get into it. The Knicks could be playing the
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76ers. They can be.
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You laugh, but if Joel Embiid puts up another thirty spot
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against that Celtic team tonight, I got news for you.
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It's going to go to a Game 7. If it goes to a game seven, it's
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any team's ball game. They were up 3 to one.
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They were. Up Massey doing right.
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We've seen Massey score 30 and lose right.
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I'm sorry. We've seen Massey score 30 and
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lose against. That's right.
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I, I do know that, but guess what?
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When you have Joel Embiid playing at that level and you
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have Maxi and Paul George giving you 1716 points, it's going to
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be hard to beat that team. It's going to be hard.
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As good as Jason Tatum is, as good as Jaylen Brown.
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We'll get into that because we're, we're going to get into
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the round table. The fact here is the Knicks
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would rather play the Celtics than the 76ers because if you
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look at the Knicks against the 76ers, lesser teams, the Knicks
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don't play well against. It's a fact.
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If you look at the Knicks in the in in the past, in regular
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seasons and playoffs, whenever they play a team that they're
22:31
better than, they don't play as hard and that team sometimes or
22:35
usually beats them. And I don't trust the 76ers.
22:38
I think the Knicks match up very well against the the the
22:41
Celtics. But again, when you look at the
22:44
big picture here, let's not worry about the Celtics and the
22:46
76ers. They need to worry about the
22:49
Atlanta Hawks because. If before we go further, though,
22:52
you think the Knicks are better than the 76ers?
22:55
On paper they are. On paper they are.
22:59
Would a healthy joke Joel Embiid?
23:00
Absolutely. How healthy?
23:02
Is he? I know you Can.
23:04
We always say how you know. But hold on one second.
23:06
Has the Knicks beat now? Has the has the Knicks beaten
23:09
Joel Embiid when he was healthy? Yeah, they have.
23:13
They have beaten Joel Embiid. I mean he was and Maxi.
23:16
Talking about one of us and regular season.
23:18
Games. No, I'm I'm talking about the
23:19
playoffs. I'm talking, you're telling me
23:22
they never beaten Joel Embiid in the playoffs?
23:25
I'm not saying that in heaven. I'm saying you.
23:27
Are you saying here live now that the New York Knicks as as
23:32
they are now, everybody helped on a roster, it's better than a
23:36
Philadelphia? Saint, Absolutely.
23:38
Everybody on a roster. Absolutely.
23:40
And this is the delusion that. There is no delusion.
23:43
If you look at their rosters, Paul George is not the same
23:46
player he once was. You're going to tell me Paul
23:48
George? You're telling me Paul George is
23:50
better than OG Ananobi? He's not.
23:52
He's not. He's not.
23:55
Maxi's better than Jaylin Brunson.
23:56
He's not. By far.
23:58
He's you're out of your mind. He's not.
24:00
No, you're out of your mind. No, you're out of your mind.
24:02
He's not. Matthew, way better than.
24:04
Jamie, you're you're crazy. He's not.
24:06
Just wait for Errol to tell, tell you the stat of he's not
24:09
going to the conference finals and you're going to tell me
24:11
right now the way Joel Embiid is is not healthy.
24:15
He's better than Carl Anthony Towns.
24:16
He's not. He's just not healthy.
24:18
Now let's not use that if. He's not better than Carl
24:21
Anthony Towns right now. Healthy now.
24:23
Currently. He's not better than Carl
24:25
Anthony Towns. OK, He's not, if you would ask.
24:28
Me, Karl Anthony Towns ever been up for MVP?
24:30
At all? Are you telling me their full
24:32
roster is better than the New York Knicks?
24:35
They're not. That's a good answer.
24:37
You didn't answer. I don't have to because if you
24:40
match, because if you match. Who's better than this?
24:43
Because if you, because if you match their rosters, the Knicks
24:47
are much better. Much better all.
24:49
Right, crazy. Really.
24:50
Tell me. All right, all right.
24:52
I'm not watching the games. All right, all right, I'm going
24:55
to. I'll tell you what.
24:56
I'll tell you what. Give me, Give me, give me.
24:58
Go ahead, give me. I got a question for you first.
25:01
I have a good question for you. Give me 5 players on that bench
25:05
right now. Who bitch?
25:07
The 76ers, don't look at that. Don't look at your screen.
25:09
Look up. Let me go.
25:10
Let me look at it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
25:12
no, no. Now you're cheating.
25:14
Then you're cheating. Then you're cheating.
25:16
Then you don't know ball. You are saying they're better?
25:19
Than the ball, yeah, you don't know ball.
25:21
You said they're cheating. You, you said.
25:24
You say they're better regardless on paper.
25:26
On paper On paper, the New York Knicks have a better bench than.
25:29
The 70s, they don't have nobody for Edgecomb, OK.
25:32
Who? Oh, is that what you brought?
25:35
Wing defenders that can guard Michael Bridges?
25:39
Come on. What?
25:39
Else Michael Bridges. Absolutely, absolutely.
25:43
Go look at, go look at, Go look at McHale.
25:46
Who you gonna put with Aubrey? Are you are you done?
25:50
Keep spinning. Keep spinning out.
25:53
Now sound like us. Hold on, go keep spinning out
25:57
names. Keep spinning out names.
25:58
Go ahead with that. Just keep spinning out names
26:00
because I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you after
26:02
you're done and. Then and then coming off your
26:04
bench, who you going to match up with?
26:06
Drummond. Are you done?
26:09
Yeah, that's three. Mitchell Robertson would kick
26:11
that crap out of Mitchell Robertson will kick kick the
26:15
crap out of Andre Drummond 1 Kelly Ubrey Are you kidding me?
26:19
Did you bring up Kelly Ubrey? Yeah, Kelly Oprey.
26:23
That's been a journeyman all over the NBA, that guy.
26:25
Kelly Oprey we're talking about now.
26:28
He's. Not good.
26:29
He's not good. He's not a good player.
26:31
What are you talking about? He's not good.
26:34
What is Kelly Oprey averaging right now in the NBA?
26:37
14.1 points. OK, I rest my case.
26:40
You're going to tell me? That's not that's that's what
26:42
I'm talking about. You got to understand this. 14
26:45
points out the This is good. OK, do you want?
26:47
Me as a as a role player indefensible looking for All
26:51
Star numbers. 20 is like second second option numbers.
26:56
You you don't understand that. That's what I'm trying to tell
26:58
you. First player is like 25 up,
27:00
second player is anywhere. Do you want to make another bet
27:03
to lose? I'll tell you what, I'll tell
27:07
you. What?
27:08
I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what.
27:10
I'll make you another bet. You want to lose another bet?
27:13
You lost two of them last week. You want to lose another one?
27:16
If the Knicks play the 76ers, the Knicks will win in five
27:19
games. They'll win in five games
27:22
against the 76ers. 5 games. That's that's that's my bet to
27:26
you if the Knicks play the 76ers in the next round.
27:30
What about the Celtics, 'cause you know.
27:31
Y'all, that's not the that's not the argument.
27:33
The argument here is. The argument here is if the
27:36
Celtics lose against the 76ers, you hear this, the Knicks will
27:41
beat the 76ers by in in, what is it, six games?
27:47
I'm sorry, five games? Four games to 1.
27:50
Four games to 1. Are you in game sis with Atlanta
27:53
Hope? Absolutely.
27:54
Yeah. Because.
27:56
Because I'm gonna tell you why I I was scared about the Atlanta
27:58
Hawks. Because you're young.
28:00
They're young, and they're hungry.
28:02
The 76ers are never hungry. The 76ers are choke artists.
28:06
And who's their coach? Nick Nurse.
28:08
Nick Nurse? Yeah.
28:10
What has Nick Nurse done in the last couple of years as a head
28:12
coach for the Philadelphia? Sevens playoffs.
28:14
Oh my God. And losing the playoffs against
28:17
you. Oh.
28:18
Yes, your New York Knicks championship.
28:20
I don't know why. You're New York Knicks.
28:21
Happy with the championships? It's only a handful of the
28:24
coaches has got a chance to win in the championship.
28:27
Here's the facts, my friend, and you could sit here till we're
28:30
blue in the face and we're going to get into the round table with
28:32
the Celtics and the 76ers. The Knicks are a better team
28:36
than 76ers. They just are.
28:38
And if you are arguing that and you're really going to go
28:40
one-on-one with me and trying to compare teams, then you are not
28:44
watching the games because it's not even close.
28:48
It's not even with a healthy Joel Embiid, they don't stand a
28:51
chance. They don't.
28:53
Not in the seven games. I'm crazy, I'm crazy, I'm crazy.
28:57
They really. I don't even have a bench but
28:59
it's high. Oh, the Knicks don't have a
29:00
bench. They don't have a bench.
29:02
Exhibit A Game five, please. Dude, are you really?
29:06
We're going to really argue this now?
29:07
The Knicks don't have a bench. We don't.
29:10
OK, well. I the main story of that was the
29:13
triple double correct? Not yes or no.
29:15
I'm just asking you, all right? I'm just asking.
29:17
You words to them winning the game.
29:19
They got to go through cat, right?
29:21
What do you I, you know what? I'm not even arguing anymore.
29:24
I'm not even arguing anymore. I'm stuttering because you're,
29:27
you're just going back and forth.
29:28
It makes no sense. None of this.
29:30
Makes you all the sense. It doesn't make sense.
29:32
You can disagree, but you can't say it don't make sense.
29:34
That's what I'm trying. To tell Anthony Karl Anthony.
29:37
We've been on platform, we've been on platform that said that
29:40
in order for the knits to win, they have to play through cat
29:42
You now today, all of a sudden you got a deep enough bitch that
29:46
you don't need to play through cat.
29:47
Then you just erase the triple double that he.
29:49
Had Are you good? That's what I'm saying.
29:50
Are you good now? Are you good now?
29:52
Because you don't let me cut in. You don't.
29:54
I'm trying to do you trying to. This is the problem.
29:57
You never let anybody interrupt. While ago I didn't interrupt, so
30:00
now I want to finish my point and then you'll have the
30:02
opportunity to come back. And you'll cut me off like you
30:05
always do. No, I'm not.
30:06
I'm not coming off. But if you don't let me speak, I
30:08
got to cut you off. That's all I'm saying.
30:10
So what I'm trying to tell you is you can't say that.
30:12
I'm not proving the point, but I'm giving you detail after
30:15
detail in regards to how the Knicks are successful.
30:19
I gave it to you. You got to play through Cat.
30:20
Cat had a triple double. Now you want to discredit all of
30:23
those things that say that the New York Knicks has a deep bench
30:26
and this is the reason why they're winning all of a sudden.
30:29
So what I'm here to tell you is that they don't play through Cat
30:32
and they're going to lose this game.
30:33
But no matter how much Jenny Brushes score, they're going to
30:36
lose the game and they're not going to be able to see us and
30:38
not on paper or y'all better team than it's stood up in 70
30:41
sisters if they are healthy. Now you're done now you're done,
30:45
now you're done because I'm going to tell you why you're
30:47
completely wrong. They will kick the crap out of
30:49
Celtics if they match up against the Celtics.
30:52
The Knicks are three and one against the Celtics this year.
30:55
They beat them in five games last year.
30:57
They're much better than the Celtics.
30:59
So if you want to go, I could go one-on-one with you with the
31:01
Celtics. As far as the 76ers are
31:03
concerned, go look at the Knicks record against the the 76ers in
31:07
the last five times they met in the playoffs.
31:10
Go look at the record. The record doesn't even compare.
31:12
And if you're you think that Paul George is the same player
31:15
he wants was, you're blind because he's not.
31:18
He disappears in series. That's why nobody wants him.
31:21
That's why the Clippers didn't want him.
31:22
That's why nobody in Indiana wanted him.
31:25
He stinks in the playoffs. OK.
31:27
And as far as Joel Embiid, the guy disappears.
31:30
He cries because he doesn't win the MVP.
31:32
He finally wins his MVP. That's all.
31:35
That's it. And he shouldn't have won the
31:36
MVP that year, but he cried about it.
31:38
So the NBA gave it to him like they always do.
31:40
It's A, to me, it's not about who who is better, it's a
31:44
better. It's a matter of who is a bitch
31:46
and who's going to cry about it, and that's Joel Embiid.
31:49
Now, as far as Maxi, I'm not going to put Maxi down at all.
31:51
But if you're going to bring Kelly Ubrey, you're going to put
31:54
Kelly Ubrey into this conversation.
31:56
That is a joke. That is a joke.
31:59
I would take McHale Bridges on a bad day over Kelly Ubrey on a
32:04
bad day on a bad day on a bad day talking.
32:10
About you take first of the shots.
32:11
Edge code? Did he really bring up edge
32:14
code? Did you go to overall stats?
32:16
He won't even let me finish. Overall stats you.
32:18
Didn't even let me finish you coming off. 1972 they've swept
32:23
them, and it's like nobody can we're talking about, right?
32:25
Now, did you just see what you did?
32:27
We didn't say over a series, we said on paper when you match the
32:30
paper up and you put these people stat side by side, you
32:33
know, comes out on top. And that's OK.
32:35
Did you, did you see just you just took back what you said.
32:38
You cut me off. You cut me off.
32:41
You cut me off. You didn't even let me finish.
32:43
You, you, you. Gave three tapes.
32:48
You just gave three tapes for no reason.
32:51
Let me cut you both off because the Knicks are on a 22 to two
32:54
run and are up 19 points. And we know what it is.
32:56
It's over. And I already told you it was
32:58
over. It's it's a massacre and I just
33:00
wanted to get get Speedy's take on what they did because you're
33:04
right, Q, they didn't go through towns as much in Game 5, but
33:07
that's because Brunson dominated like normal Brunson mode with
33:11
his 39 points on great shooting. No, he's wrong.
33:14
He was wrong because he said he's wrong.
33:17
He's wrong because he said the Knicks need Towns to have a
33:20
triple double to win. That's what he said.
33:22
Did he not speedy? Did he not say that?
33:25
Did he not say that? He said he did.
33:27
Say that he did say that you need, you need Paul Anthony
33:32
Towns to get you a triple double.
33:34
That's what you said. That's what you said.
33:36
I'm used to it. I'm used to a queue.
33:38
It's all good. Listen.
33:39
This guy keeps cutting me off. I can mutually.
33:41
Ubre Kelly Ubrey's a starter. He's not a bench guy for them.
33:45
He's started most of the season because Paul George has heard he
33:47
plays with Paul George on the court.
33:48
At the same time, he's a small ball for Gio and Anobi does
33:52
basically the same. Ross, Polio George, he's much
33:53
better than him. You're going to have Josh Hart
33:56
guarding Kelly Ubrey. That's a wash.
33:58
And then you're going to put Bridges on Edgecomb and that's
34:01
going to try to neutralize the rookie with a really good
34:03
veteran defender. And that's how they would take
34:05
care of it. Maxi would get his, Brunson
34:07
would get his. And then the only guy that
34:09
scares me is Embiid because you never know.
34:11
Whitney can go off because he's one of the when he's healthy,
34:13
he's one of the all time great players we've ever seen.
34:15
But he hasn't been healthy in a couple of years and you only get
34:17
those nights once a blue moon. I assume the Celtics are going
34:20
to win tonight, but we'll get to that in one second.
34:22
You assume it's all about the Knicks.
34:24
You assume it, but it's not going to happen you.
34:26
Assume you don't can't. You wouldn't expect MB to be
34:28
able to have back-to-back games like he used to.
34:32
You know, that's all I'm saying about it.
34:34
I don't think they can do it without him, but right now the
34:36
Knicks are absolutely pumping. See this Hawks team, Speedy,
34:39
what do you got for me? See what?
34:41
Adjustments. See what I mean?
34:42
You see what I mean? You.
34:43
Doesn't cut him off, but he cuts me off.
34:45
You've been cutting him off. I don't.
34:47
You cut me off all the time. You cut me off.
34:52
You cut me off all the time, dude, you cut me off.
34:56
Come on, just calm down and breathe like you had babies
35:02
breathe, breathe, man. Let everybody speak.
35:06
Go ahead, go ahead before Errol goes to a full hardcore yoga
35:09
instructor. By the way, OG had a Nobi's game
35:12
total so far as 14, which is by the way, Kelly Uber season
35:14
average. Do they have 12 assists already
35:17
on 15 in 15 minutes and just one turnover so far in this stretch.
35:21
Jalen Bronson already has four of those assists.
35:23
The guy that is apparently not better than Tyrese Maxi and the
35:26
Knicks have held the Hawks this potent offense with their wings
35:30
to just 15 points and none of them have more than five points
35:34
in this game, which is to kill Alexander Walker.
35:35
It's a it's a crazy run. 22 to two run is an unheard of run,
35:39
something you really only see with OKC and a few other teams
35:42
over the years recently. Guys, it's 40 to 15 at the end
35:47
of the first 40. This is old.
35:50
Early. That's early to get out there
35:52
early. Have the 76ers done that yet?
35:54
I'm. Trying to tell you.
35:56
Don't worry that. Takes too much time over the.
35:58
Clock. I know, I know, VJ I.
36:00
Won't win, by the way. Yeah.
36:02
So so they could beat the Celtics.
36:04
That's right. That's what we're going to do.
36:06
That's what we're going to do. We're going to run right through
36:08
the Celtics. But you have to get through the
36:09
76ers first, bud. And I don't think that's going
36:12
to really, really, we'll put a bet on that.
36:15
We'll put a bet on that because it seems like every time you put
36:17
a bet, you lose. So let's do it.
36:20
Let's do it. Throw it off.
36:21
Throw it out there, my friend. Bet for entertainment.
36:25
No, you're going to bet for withdrawal because the only way
36:27
that that'll happen is if the Celtics, he's going to blow a
36:29
three run lead, he's going to withdraw because every single
36:32
time. He would not withdraw.
36:35
Before the NBA season is over and the playoffs are over,
36:39
you're going to owe me a lot of money, my friend.
36:41
You like to come out and say, well, do you know Ball?
36:44
Yeah, I do know. I do know.
36:46
I lost the bet and I admitted that I lost the bet, but I made
36:49
the bet for entertaining purposes.
36:50
Did you so if you go back and. So you gonna make another bet
36:52
with the Celtics? I said the kid will only score
36:55
12 points and then we kept going on and I said no, forget it, let
36:58
me bet. And I bet I'm cool with that.
37:01
I'm cool with Luke. I have to admit that I lost, but
37:03
I can also admit that I put out there.
37:05
He will only score 12 points, man.
37:06
So go back to the film and check the film.
37:08
That's. It I don't need to check any
37:09
film. I watch the game.
37:11
I watch the game just like I always do.
37:12
When you tell me, do you watch ball?
37:14
You tell me. Hold on.
37:15
Go back and check out. Hold on, hold on.
37:17
Q, Let me speak for a second. I let you speak you.
37:20
You're probably you and I'm, I'm and everybody that listens to
37:23
this show. I have no problems arguing with
37:25
QQ. Just when he wants to speak,
37:28
he'll just completely talk over you until he finishes his set.
37:31
And he will not let you finish unless you want to cut in.
37:35
And even when you want to cut in, if it's me, he won't let me
37:38
cut in. So here's my fact here.
37:40
It doesn't matter who the Knicks play in the next round.
37:43
They're going to beat them. They're going to beat the
37:44
Celtics and they're going to beat the 76ers.
37:47
And that's a fact. And I'm going to tell you that
37:49
for a fact. And I and the only team that
37:52
scares me right now is if Orlando beats Detroit.
37:56
And you're going to say, well, wait a second, you're scared of
37:58
Orlando? Yeah, I'll tell you why I'm
38:00
scared of Orlando. They're bigger than any team
38:02
right now in Eastern Conference and they play and right now
38:06
they're playing fast. They all season long, they had a
38:09
problem fan playing fast pace. You can laugh all you want.
38:12
Look what they're doing in Detroit.
38:13
You're laughing. Please don't address me if you
38:16
don't want me to interrupt, no. Look what they're doing in
38:18
Detroit. And I don't trust Detroit.
38:20
I would probably bet if the Cavaliers get out of their
38:23
series, the Cavaliers have a better chance of going to the
38:26
Eastern Conference finals. But but to me right now, when
38:30
you look at Detroit, Detroit's not a good team.
38:33
They don't have, they don't have fun.
38:35
They're not playing fundamental basketball.
38:37
They're playing against a coach that looks like he's going to
38:40
get fired no matter if Orlando wins or not.
38:43
If Orlando goes deep into the players, maybe he keeps his job.
38:46
But even if they beat, they knock off Detroit.
38:49
He's not keeping his job because every single one of those
38:52
players can't stand their coach. So.
38:54
But in fact, what Orlando is doing, yeah, I'm afraid of them
38:57
because they're big, strong and go look at the Knicks record
39:00
against Orlando this year. They've had problems against
39:02
Orlando. It's size.
39:05
It's all about match ups. In the NBA, it's always about
39:08
match ups. It's not like hockey.
39:09
If you have a hot goaltender, you're going to win.
39:12
If you have baseball, if you have great pitching, you're
39:14
going to win a championship. That those are facts.
39:17
When you watch sports, if even football, everybody talks about
39:21
a quarterback. But when it comes to the
39:22
playoffs, if you have a good running game and you have a
39:25
great defense, there's a very good chance you can win.
39:28
You can beat the better quarterback.
39:29
And we've seen many teams do it many, many times.
39:33
So it's not what you think when you say, oh, you need a great
39:36
quarterback to win a championship.
39:37
Not really. I mean, we've seen teams win
39:40
without great quarterbacks. We've seen it if you have two
39:44
strong parts of your offense and your defense, you can beat the
39:47
better quarterback on the football field.
39:49
And that's the same thing with all the other sports.
39:52
But guess what? With basketball, it's different.
39:56
Basketball, no matter how great the players are, if you don't
40:00
have the two best players on the court, you're you're probably
40:04
going to lose. You're probably going to lose.
40:07
But when it comes to size and the advantages of size on a
40:11
basketball court, which we've seen many, many times, why did
40:14
Minnesota go all the way to the Finals last year?
40:17
Why did they go to the Finals last year?
40:20
Because of their size. Because of their size.
40:24
Are you laughing at what's so funny?
40:25
OG Anovi is unconscious, man. He's got his fourth three
40:29
quarter and he just stole the ball.
40:31
Oh my God. This guys having like a heart
40:34
attack over here coming season time.
40:37
Quarter. All listen all time game
40:41
happening right now by OG Ananobi in the first half, he's
40:44
doing everything. He just hit another three.
40:46
You knew he was going in. Jose Alvarado, by the way, stole
40:49
a ball and got fouled. He dove on the floor twice in
40:53
two different directions and got the the call.
40:55
That guy's unbelievable. I don't know what you're talking
40:57
about with the bench cue. I don't think anyone has a
40:59
better bench than the Knicks. I just don't think you know how
41:01
good some of those guys are. With McBride and Alvarado, you
41:04
got two small guys that can hound everyone of that type of
41:07
caliber on your team. Then you have the wing depth
41:10
that they can guard everybody as as well.
41:12
Coming off the anyone who has wings, you got well, the Hawks
41:16
ain't got nothing right now. The Hawks are packing it in
41:18
right now. This is an embarrassment at
41:21
home. They're doing this on the road,
41:22
coming out this strong man. I, I don't think they're packing
41:26
it in. I just think the Knicks have
41:27
played in the last two games, counting this game.
41:30
They're finally finding their legs and and when they find
41:32
their legs, we know they're better than the Hawks.
41:35
They're much better team than the Hawks.
41:38
They've turned them over 9 times.
41:39
I know Hawks have made seven shots this whole.
41:42
Game What I'm saying is, is the Knicks are finally finding their
41:45
legs. That's what's going on right
41:47
now. The whole series.
41:48
They've let the Atlanta Hawks outrun them, outplay them.
41:52
They're younger and and, and they played very well
41:55
defensively too. Throughout the first three games
41:58
they played very well defensively.
42:00
The Knicks needed to pick up the pace, They needed to start
42:03
playing their game as soon as they started playing their game
42:06
and game #5 we saw if you can compete with the Hawks and play
42:09
that fast-paced game, the Knicks are a better team.
42:12
And that's what the Knicks have figured out.
42:14
Now against this team, let's play fast-paced basketball, play
42:17
defense, play up on their face. We've got 2 great wing defenders
42:21
and we have plenty of guys on the bench that could rebound and
42:24
do those things very well. At a high level, we could beat
42:27
this team and that's what you're seeing right now.
42:28
That doesn't mean this game is over.
42:30
Right about that. The game is not over.
42:33
Even if it's 30 points, 40 points.
42:35
Teams can go on runs. In basketball, we've seen teams
42:37
go on 20 point runs, 25 point runs, 30 point runs.
42:41
So the game is not over. It is very early right now.
42:43
We're in the. Second, what do you?
42:45
What do you? Want to kiss me now?
42:47
What are? You kissing me now I'm.
42:50
So proud of you. I'm so proud of you.
42:53
We. Love you, we love you.
42:55
He's ready for his Heisman speech.
42:59
They're down 29. They're down 29.
43:01
I know, that's what I'm saying. We've seen not just it, we've
43:05
seen a lot of teams. Have you seen this?
43:06
A lot of time. It's just a lot of time on the
43:09
clock. Do you remember?
43:09
I'm not saying the game is physically over, but to shut to
43:12
you. You're close to saying it's
43:14
over. I don't know.
43:15
Well, here's why I'm saying that.
43:16
Q I've been a part, I've been a coach of, of teams like this,
43:19
both in football and basketball, Not at a high level, but you
43:22
know when the game is over, when you show up and you're flat in
43:26
the first quarter and you come out and they steamroll you and
43:29
before you know it, you're down to scores.
43:31
You got to throw the game plan out.
43:33
Now you're scrambling, trying to hit your Hail Mary plays, and
43:36
now it's just everything domino effect spirals out of control.
43:39
Before you know it, you just lost by 45 points.
43:42
I don't think, I do not think this game is going to be a 40
43:45
point lead by the New York Knicks.
43:47
They're going to win by 40 or win by 50I.
43:49
I do not see that. The Atlanta Hawks, they're going
43:52
to come out strong in the second-half.
43:54
They're going to cut it down to 1510.
43:56
We've seen them do this. This is a, this is a young team.
43:59
They're hungry. I do not think this game is
44:01
over, but this is what the Knicks needed to do.
44:03
They needed to shut the fans up and they'd have to make sure
44:07
that the fans are not going to be in the game because that's
44:09
what happens. Once the once the team, the
44:12
players drive off the fans, what happens?
44:14
They start playing at a high level.
44:16
And that's look what the Knicks did in game #5 the Knicks drove
44:20
off the fans. How loud the fans were at
44:22
Madison Square Garden. Look at Fish's face.
44:24
He's got more smiles, he looks like.
44:27
They just put a stat up. OG is out scoring their whole
44:30
team and out shooting and has more made shots than them.
44:34
It's freaking ridiculous, man. All right, let's go to the NBA
44:38
Roundtable. Let's go.
44:39
I mean, I'm not going to talk about the Knicks anymore.
44:41
I'm I'm losing my mind right now.
44:44
Let's go, speedy. All right, let's get into it.
44:46
Hit the music speedy, and let's get into the roundtable we got
44:51
to get to the rest of these series.
44:52
Let's start with the one that's been perhaps the most
44:54
interesting. We saw the injuries to Ant and D
44:58
Vincenzo completely changing the complexion of this series.
45:02
The Nuggets take Game 5 as predicted.
45:05
Without those two guys, can the Wolves take one of these last
45:09
two games, Errol? And even if they do and make it
45:12
to the next round, can they even go anywhere without Anthony
45:15
Edwards coming back at full strength?
45:17
Not going to happen. I I just think we've seen Nikola
45:20
Yokich, we've seen the Denver Nuggets go down twice, 3 to one
45:23
in the playoffs and twice they've come back and won that
45:26
series. Nicole Yokich is the best player
45:28
in this series. He's going to take over this
45:29
series now. Anthony Edwards is the second
45:31
best player in this series and now they don't have Anthony
45:34
Edwards. He could be out.
45:35
He is out for the rest of the series.
45:36
He could be out for the next series too, with a bone, with a,
45:40
a what was it? It was a bone bruise, a really
45:43
deep bone bruise. I, I just think that Nicole
45:46
Yokich and this team is much better.
45:47
They're going to find a way to tie this series 3 to 3 and take
45:50
it to a Game 7 in Denver and I expect Denver to win the series.
45:55
Yeah. You wonder if the Minnesota
45:56
Timberwolves can get enough wing shooting in Anthony Edwards
45:59
absence you have to be able to make up for with combined
46:01
production. Now Jaden McDaniels has looked
46:03
good offensively at spurts but more defensively known in in the
46:06
past. Can they get those younger
46:07
players going because that's the Nuggets biggest weakness this
46:09
year. They don't really have those
46:10
lengthier perimeter defenders. And if Aaron Gordon's healthy
46:13
cue you mentioned this match of last show, Nas Reed is going to
46:15
have to be a bigger role offensively if Minnesota's going
46:17
to win. And if the if Denver's getting
46:19
points off the bench by Brown, they're a different team.
46:23
That's why they brought Brown back.
46:25
He was one of the best six men in the league when he left and
46:28
then they brought him back. I think he's been in this, the
46:30
last game in game #5 he played fantastic.
46:33
He's aggressive and he's a great all around basketball player.
46:37
If they get that from Brown, I just I just don't see Minnesota
46:41
winning the series. Yeah, I think McDaniels will
46:44
have to step up in a in a way that I don't think we've ever
46:46
seen. He would kind of have to pull
46:47
out that Jaylen Brown type game where, you know, you're elite
46:51
defender, but also being able to put up enough offense to kind of
46:55
kind of counter whatever the Joker Joker put up.
46:59
So I would say we haven't seen that out of him yet.
47:01
So I can't necessarily give him that type of level of credit.
47:06
So, but like I said earlier, Nazri would have to step up and
47:10
that's pretty much it. I don't expect the Wolves to
47:12
come out of this game without Anthony Elvis.
47:14
They just need that it factor to, you know, counter everything
47:17
that the Denver Nuggets produce. They have a high level, high
47:21
level, high scoring level offense.
47:23
And you know, they pretty legit. They've been battle tested
47:26
before. So I can see the Denver winning
47:29
this game tonight and then forcing the Game 7 and then
47:32
closing it out. I just don't think they have
47:34
enough. You know, these guys will have
47:36
to play out their mind. They will have to do things that
47:38
they aren't accustomed to and then they will need just a
47:41
little bit more help from the bench to be able to get them
47:43
over the top. And I just don't think they got
47:45
enough firepower to be able to do that.
47:49
You know, I wanted to bring up a guy that we've kind of made fun
47:52
of over the years a little bit having probably his best playoff
47:55
series of his career. We haven't mentioned him yet.
47:57
Rudy Gobert. Rudy Gobert has really done his
48:00
best to neutralize Jokic and what I've seen, you know, I
48:04
think it's pretty clear what's going to happen in this game.
48:07
He did a really good job in the paint.
48:08
You know, Rudy Gobert is great in the paint.
48:11
So what do you want to do? You you want to bring Jokic
48:13
outside. But they had those great wing
48:15
defenders and those pesky guards and now two of them are injured,
48:18
right? The two best are injured.
48:20
So now they can bring Jokic back out to the top of the key.
48:23
Gobert King defends as well at the top of the key.
48:25
And it's just going to be what you expected for most of the
48:28
series, in my opinion. I think Jokic is going to have
48:31
his way with them these next two games.
48:32
There's nothing they can do about it.
48:33
You're right though, Nas Reed could be that X Factor.
48:36
If the Wolves win, it's because he did stuff in the paint when
48:40
nobody else. He's not good enough.
48:42
And Julius Randall is not showing up, which is the other.
48:44
Well, everybody's trying to figure out what's going on.
48:46
We. We know who Julius Randall is.
48:48
That's why he's no longer with the Knicks.
48:50
I called him the bricklayer. He doesn't show up in the big
48:52
games and he puts up a lot of bricks and and that's why Julius
48:55
Randall is no longer with the New York Knicks and he's playing
48:59
over there with the Tiny Tim's. That's what I call it.
49:03
Oh boy. All right.
49:06
By the way, the Knicks are currently in a 40 to 4 run.
49:09
That's great. Let's.
49:10
Move on to the Celtics and the Sixers.
49:13
I think everyone thought that series was going to end in five
49:17
and it did not in a pretty shocking way.
49:20
Joel Embiid had a throwback game which he hasn't played this
49:25
well, probably, I don't know, since before his injuries a
49:29
couple of seasons ago, you know, And the question is can if he
49:32
can keep this type of play up, the Celtics don't have a big to
49:37
answer for anything he can do. The Celtics are the better team
49:42
and if Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum show up in tonight's game,
49:46
they don't stand a chance. I That's the facts.
49:48
But if Joel Embiid and Maxi puts up a 30 spot and you get 1516
49:54
points from Paul George and a shutdown defender at the
49:57
perimeter and maybe keep Jaylen Brown to 2524 points, I, I think
50:02
the 76ers will take it to a Game 7.
50:05
Jason Tatum, to me has to play at a high level every single
50:09
game if they're going to beat the 76ers.
50:12
And there are games, and I'm not saying Jason Tatum isn't great.
50:15
He's not healthy. He's not 100% healthy.
50:17
So you're betting, you're betting on Jason Tatum to play
50:21
at 100% and he's just not at 100%.
50:24
The fact that he's come back, the fact that he's played hard,
50:26
the fact that the Celtics are playing at such a high level,
50:29
you got to give Jason Tatum and that team a lot of credit.
50:32
But if you look at the the fact here, they're not at 100%.
50:36
And that's why if they match up against the Knicks in the next
50:38
series with the Knicks at 100%, I got the Knicks and I I just
50:43
think that the Celtics are going to win this series if it goes to
50:46
a game seven. I still think the Celtics are
50:48
going to win Boston, but I wouldn't be surprised if
50:52
surprised if it goes to a game seven.
50:53
Yeah, their own worst enemy in a lot of times the Celtics, we saw
50:56
them shoot themselves out of game two last year against the
50:58
Knicks. Just they get a little too
51:00
comfortable just trying to shoot threes all the time.
51:02
And that cost him in Game 2. And I think that cost him in
51:04
this instance as well when they just have random offensive
51:07
Dodds. They had that too with their
51:09
previous coach, with Adoka and even with Brad Stevens with this
51:12
core. It's just sometimes that ends up
51:13
happening. I, I think they'll be fine in
51:15
Game 6 as well. I, I think they do win a Game 7.
51:17
Like Errol said many times, Joel and Beatty disappears a lot in
51:20
game sevens as well. And there's a reason he's the
51:22
only MVP that's ever made a conference finals in NBA
51:24
history. So you're looking at a case of,
51:26
I still trust the Celtics, but they can't beat themselves the
51:28
way they have. You just don't want it to go to
51:30
a Game 7 because the pressure's on the Celtics.
51:32
But I believe that the Celtics are the better team.
51:35
They have the two better players.
51:37
I just don't know how healthy Jayson Tatum is, and if he's not
51:40
going to give you 3035 points in one of these games, the Celtics
51:45
are in trouble. Yeah, it's Speedy said.
51:47
We are worst enemy. I think when we went up, I think
51:51
we beat them twice by 30 and then that next game we dropped
51:53
the ball on them and just got complacent.
51:55
So without us dropping those one or two games that we got
51:59
complacent with, I think that, you know, it just came this
52:02
series would have been over as far as what I'm predicting.
52:05
I think that it it possibly I'm I'm like, I'm like 45% thinking
52:11
that's going to go game seven. I think this is a game that the
52:14
NBA and the league wants to go to a Game 7 for Raiders and
52:17
things of that nature. And usually when those type of
52:19
situations happen, the refs get involved and they kind of shade
52:22
to one team to kind of keep the game, keep the series alive.
52:25
But overall, Jayson Tatum still ain't completely healthy, so I
52:29
don't really put too much blame on him.
52:30
Jaylen Brown, however, I think that, you know, this is the MVP
52:35
caliber type night that he need to have where he's showing up on
52:39
both ends of the ball. But a person that really has
52:42
cost us the most is probably Derek White.
52:43
He's just been a complete no show.
52:45
He hasn't really gave us any lift in regards to the game.
52:49
Pain pitches gave us a a crazy game the other night and you
52:53
know, we have some good best players.
52:55
I think Kayla can definitely keep up with MB on this bad leg
52:59
that he has not skill set wise, but I do think that he can
53:02
maintain and hold his own with that last game they gave him
53:05
some quick fouls and that kind of messed up everything that
53:08
kind of messed up his his rhythm.
53:10
And then once you get him out of rhythm, he's he hasn't been
53:12
established enough in the NBA to be able to, you know, overcome
53:16
some of those adverse situations and whatnot.
53:18
So I think it's in our heads, I, I, I do hope and believe that we
53:22
will put the game away tonight. And when I say we, I mean Boston
53:25
searchers. So I hope they put a game away
53:27
tonight. But I can definitely see it
53:29
going to Game 7 for monetary regions in regards to the
53:31
league. Kate is not known as an
53:33
offensive player. Though I think you're going.
53:34
To get that more with House or you're going to get that more
53:36
with even Gonzales coming off the bench, too, has been an
53:38
interesting rookie. Breaking news if you want to
53:41
jerk me off. Mainly focusing on defense will
53:43
be a bigger key for the Celtics. But if you're right, if it does
53:46
go to Game 7 and there'll be a lot of refs involved, we'll see
53:48
a lot of Joel and Beats. Breaking news, I got to go back
53:51
off now. That's rude.
53:53
That's rude. I just want to let you know so
53:54
when I start doing it to you don't get, don't.
53:56
Start breaking news. Do you want to jerk me off?
53:59
Right. Yeah, before we go to the next
54:02
one, they get the teeth. The Nets, he got caught. 41
54:08
points up 4160 to 19. Mitchell Robinson, who would
54:12
destroy Kata in a series, would make him look like a child with
54:17
an alley oop dunk forced them to call a timeout just.
54:20
Breaking news, I'm putting you on a leash.
54:21
Now what? We got.
54:25
All right, here it is. If it's going to work, it's not
54:29
working. There we go.
54:29
All right, Magic verse Pistons. What a fascinating series.
54:34
Pistons stay alive. I can't believe we're saying
54:37
that they were down 3 to 1. Kate Cunningham monster game to
54:41
stay alive. Only when they won by like a
54:43
handful but Kate Cunningham put up.
54:44
I think it was 45. They're going to need something
54:47
like that again. Durans look terrible this whole
54:50
series. He's been humbled.
54:52
I think he doesn't understand. Sometimes when a young guy gets
54:56
those veterans in the playoffs for the first time, it takes him
54:58
a while to figure it out, especially at the big position.
55:01
This has been kind of a rough one for him.
55:03
I love what Orlando is doing. They have the size, they're
55:06
hungry and they're playing at a high level.
55:08
We didn't see this all season long.
55:10
They snuck into the playoffs. They did what they did in the
55:13
the playing game and I I just love what I'm seeing right now.
55:16
They're knocking out Detroit. Detroit's not winning three
55:18
games in a row. I expect the Magic to move on
55:21
and I think they match up against the Cavaliers.
55:23
That's what I want to see. I want to see the size against
55:26
the wittiness in the the ageless James Harden who can't shoot in
55:31
the playoffs. That's what I want to see,
55:32
ladies and gentlemen. And I want to see if James
55:34
Harden can take or help A-Team go to an Eastern Conference
55:38
Finals, something that we don't see a lot of.
55:40
That's what I want to see. But I I like Orlando in that
55:43
series. Yeah, I do too.
55:44
I think they mentioned it Orlando getting the size to
55:47
cancel out enough with with Duran and inside against Isaiah
55:50
Stewart, guys like that. And we were I was questioning
55:53
Detroit's wing depth. That's why I I picked them in
55:55
this series. But I knew Orlando would be
55:56
pesky. I thought they'd Detroit were
55:58
winning six initially, but the weight the wings had not showed
56:01
up for Detroit at all. And this is the trade that fish
56:03
we talked about. I think on the show that Errol
56:05
wasn't here last year for Desmond Bain.
56:06
They gave up all those draft picks to get Desmond Bain.
56:08
I thought we thought it was a lot at the time, but he showed
56:11
up big in this series on both sides of the ball and he's going
56:13
to have to do it again against Cleveland if they end up
56:15
playing. Yeah, I got a Leno coming out of
56:19
the on top on this series as well.
56:21
I don't think Detroit got enough to get, you know, three games
56:25
straight. I do think that Kay probably got
56:26
one more good game in him, a huge game, but I don't even know
56:30
if that's going to be enough. I think the magic close it out,
56:33
close out this series. I don't like Detroit.
56:35
I never I never took the bait in regards to thinking that they
56:38
was like the best team in the East.
56:40
I think there was one of those teams that kind of crept around
56:42
through all season. Nobody really took them serious.
56:44
They respected Cave and whatnot. But when you got Isaiah Stewart,
56:48
who, you know, has to be an impactful player and whatnot, I
56:52
don't think so. They need them.
56:52
They need another score. They need a second score.
56:54
So we're like, you know, another guard that can really put up the
56:58
force. Don't and take some of that load
56:59
off cake and have maybe Devin Booker.
57:02
You know, there's a couple guy Cam Johnson, you know, somebody
57:05
that can kind of put up some other points to that arcade to
57:08
kind of get that rest that he needs to get them over the edge.
57:11
So hopefully in the offseason they take care of that need.
57:14
But I like the Orlando Magic going up against hopefully
57:16
Cleveland and and that match up will actually be pretty
57:20
impressive. But I think that Cleveland
57:21
experience would get them over the Magic.
57:24
And then there's Cinder Runner. Run from the Magic would be over
57:26
with from there. All right, let's let's take a
57:29
look. Before we move on, I wanted to
57:31
ask you guys if you know how many times an 8 seed has upset a
57:36
one seed since the year 2000? 16 I believe it is.
57:42
Seven I'm gonna go with. It 4.
57:45
The answer The answer is 4. It happened a couple years ago,
57:48
the Heat upset the Bucks, but before that it was 20/12/2012
57:54
the Sixers over I believe Tom Thibodeau's Bulls, the Grizzlies
57:59
the year before in 2011 over the Spurs, which was a big one.
58:03
And then I think everyone remembers the Baron Davis Golden
58:05
State Warriors upset of the of The Mavericks.
58:08
And those are the only ones since 2000.
58:11
Of course, everyone in New York remembers in 99 the Knicks.
58:14
Knocking off the heat. Why do we have to prove that 99
58:19
we lost, it doesn't matter. The whole importance, that of
58:22
the night right there. We lost in the championship.
58:25
I haven't been alive for any. I mean, yeah, I haven't been
58:27
alive for any actual full championships.
58:29
I've seen some good Eastern Conference.
58:31
Playoffs. We got swept by the Spurs.
58:33
That's all I got to say. Don't worry, Fish.
58:35
They won the NBA Cup. The NBA Cup champs this year,
58:40
Errol. Oh my God.
58:42
Wonderful. All right, I got a hat to prove
58:44
it. Let's talk about a couple of NBA
58:47
legends. Errol Verifiable Hall of Famers.
58:51
One of them's name is LeBron James.
58:53
He's had to shoulder this series almost all by himself until the
58:56
last game when Austin Reeves finally made his return.
58:58
Yep, lady came off the bench, had 22 points, didn't shoot very
59:03
well, and the Rockets were able to stay alive without Kevin
59:06
Durant, who tried to give it a go earlier in the series.
59:09
Apparently suffered an injury. No one really knows when it
59:13
happens, but it seems it's bad like a practice injury.
59:16
No one saw it wasn't in the game, but apparently a bad
59:19
enough ankle injury that he can't go.
59:22
So it's 32. Obviously we haven't seen Luca
59:25
yet. Reeves isn't 100%.
59:27
It's LeBron versus this young Rockets team.
59:31
Kevin Durant went to the Rockets to win a championship.
59:34
That's what he did. And I've seen players play with
59:38
broken fingers, broken toes and gone out there and played their
59:41
asses off. Hockey players do it all the
59:42
time. Broken teeth, broken fingers,
59:45
broken. I mean, I've seen somebody have
59:48
torn meniscus in play. You're an NBA basketball player
59:52
at the tail end of your career. You go out there and play as
59:54
hard as you possibly can. How many years do you have left?
59:57
Your team needs you. I don't want to hear it always.
1:00:00
His ankles are hurting him. Tape it up and go out there.
1:00:04
You're better than half the players on that run.
1:00:06
So you got to go out there and play hard.
1:00:08
This isn't like he's 30 years old and he's got a lot of
1:00:10
basketball left. He's 37 years old.
1:00:13
He's at the tail end of his career.
1:00:14
This is why he's never won a championship by himself.
1:00:17
He had to jump to Golden State and win a championship with.
1:00:20
Steph Curry. And Klay Thompson and Draymond
1:00:22
Green, that's what he needed to do.
1:00:24
You got to prove yourself, do it yourself with a team that
1:00:27
expects you to show up. Honestly, I look at Kevin Durant
1:00:31
as a little girl. That's what I think.
1:00:33
And there's no way they win this series without Kevin Durant, No
1:00:36
way in hell I expect them to lose and I expect them to lose
1:00:39
bad in the next game. I bet the Lakers win this series
1:00:43
in six as expected. Yeah.
1:00:45
The reason they traded for Kevin Durant was they needed that 3
1:00:48
point shooting. They needed that jump shooting.
1:00:49
And now you're getting you're losing him.
1:00:51
We already lost like Errol said many times, Van Fleet for the
1:00:53
entire year, you're not getting that type level production.
1:00:56
They have no point guard play. Yeah, none.
1:00:58
Yeah, they traded, they traded away Jaylen Green because he
1:01:00
couldn't shoot like they have just don't have enough scoring.
1:01:02
And I just don't think that keeps up against the Lakers.
1:01:04
They did well defensively last. We'll be able to keep up again,
1:01:07
especially with Reeves coming back and LeBron in many
1:01:09
different roles. You never know what he could do
1:01:10
and he steps up big in the playoffs.
1:01:12
So I I just can't say it either. Yeah, I would like to address
1:01:15
the the Kevin Durant slander first and foremost.
1:01:18
I think Fish LED off with that. He's actually tried and actually
1:01:21
tried to come back. But actually the bone contusion
1:01:24
and and what he's dealing with is obviously too severe for him
1:01:27
to get out there. And what I would say is that you
1:01:29
asking the 3740 year old to play through severe pain to elevate a
1:01:33
team, a young team who doesn't have any identity and a playoff
1:01:38
game and a playoff series that we're not at work.
1:01:41
The Houston Rockets are not actually going to win.
1:01:44
I think the Lakers will come out on top of this series.
1:01:47
I don't have the Houston Rockets being able to overcome the
1:01:50
deficit that they put themselves in.
1:01:52
Obviously there was down 30, but yeah, I think Le Bron that is it
1:01:56
going to play well. I think it does get interesting
1:01:58
in the end because Le Bron, this doesn't necessarily pay well,
1:02:02
but the other stars and I think he had his way with the role
1:02:04
players that he was able to actually dictate the game.
1:02:07
They're going to sit around, they're going to listen to
1:02:08
everything they everything that he say and everything he tell
1:02:13
them to do versus Luca who's very bald dominant and they are
1:02:16
who's very bald dominant. They're going to they already
1:02:18
proven score. So they're going to go out and
1:02:20
play their game and not necessarily do what's best
1:02:23
interest for the team. So I think the Lakers still come
1:02:26
out on top of this. I think that the Rockets
1:02:28
probably win this game right here, which is the next game,
1:02:31
which is Game 6 back and finish at in LA on Game 7.
1:02:36
So I would say that, yeah, I would say LeBron wins this
1:02:39
series. But then after that it's swept,
1:02:42
swept Sweet season with OKC for sure.
1:02:44
LeBron has not been a factor in a series.
1:02:46
It's the secondary players that have helped him and I again,
1:02:50
Canard has played very well. These guys, you need Austin
1:02:53
Reeves. When Luca Dodger comes back
1:02:55
after they eliminate the Rockets, the loneliness, Kevin
1:02:58
Durant, Rockets, they're going to move on.
1:03:00
I think the Lakers are dangerous.
1:03:02
If Luka Doncic I, I do because I think Luka Doncic adds that
1:03:06
persistent offense they have not had in this series.
1:03:09
You add Luka Doncic, who's going to give you 32 points.
1:03:12
Even if LeBron gives you 19 and Reeves gives you 25, they're
1:03:15
going to be hard to beat. They're going to be hard to
1:03:17
beat, I think, and they play better defense in the playoffs
1:03:21
then they were in a regular season.
1:03:23
I'm telling you, the Lakers. Are dangerous the two the.
1:03:26
Lakers are dangerous. I'm telling you, they're
1:03:29
dangerous. They're just as dangerous as
1:03:31
getting to the second round. Again, and just so you know, and
1:03:34
just so you know, Kevin Durant, you could say whatever you want.
1:03:40
You you tape your leg and you go out there and play.
1:03:43
You don't have many years. Yes.
1:03:44
What did the Rockets trade for Kevin Durant?
1:03:47
What did they trade? To be an elite player.
1:03:49
What did they trade? Kevin Durant?
1:03:51
They traded. Did.
1:03:52
He not play? Did he not play all season?
1:03:55
Kevin Durant is a choke artist. He's a loser.
1:03:59
He has never won by himself. Never, never won.
1:04:04
Oh my God. He played with Steph Curry, Klay
1:04:07
Thompson, Draymond Green. Of course he's the finals.
1:04:11
NVP. That's very good because they
1:04:13
were double teaming Steph Curry. I usually never stick.
1:04:17
Up for Steph Curry? I never stick up for Steph
1:04:19
Curry, but I'm going to tell you right now, don't come out here
1:04:22
and tell me he was two time Finals MVP when the guy can't
1:04:25
win by himself. He can never win by himself.
1:04:28
He's a choke artist and a pee wee.
1:04:30
Hey, if you go back and look at history, nobody's wrong about.
1:04:32
It he's a pee wee I'll. Have somebody.
1:04:34
There pee wee we got. We got our old.
1:04:36
Team game, we got game. We have our old Frank Tyler
1:04:40
Harrison in the comments section.
1:04:41
I'm sure he's waiting for this moment where you're finally
1:04:43
sticking for Steph Curry. I got to tell you something,
1:04:47
while you guys were fighting, the Knicks went up exactly 50
1:04:51
points and then Dyson Daniels tried to fight Mitchell
1:04:54
Robinson. That was not a smart move by
1:04:57
Dyson Daniels and that is still being reviewed right now.
1:05:01
Mike Brown ate the deck in this fight.
1:05:04
A bunch of other coaches and staff members, including an
1:05:07
official, got thrown down just from the two guys.
1:05:11
Kind of like in a sumo wrestle type of thing.
1:05:15
Pretty stupid person to go after.
1:05:17
I would argue Mitchell Robinson, not the guy I tried to make
1:05:20
angry at myself. If I was nice in Daniels, I.
1:05:24
Should have gone after Andre Drummond instead.
1:05:27
Bro it's 7222. And if it was Kevin Durant, he'd
1:05:30
curl up in a little ball. He'd curl up in a little ball.
1:05:32
He'd curl up in a little ball. Two times finding MVP.
1:05:35
Kevin, watch your mouth. He's supposed to go out there.
1:05:42
I've seen hockey players go out there.
1:05:44
Dude, dude, my. Doctor Ball players.
1:05:46
My doctor told me when I had my next surgery not to do a radio
1:05:50
show for two weeks. The next day I did a radio show.
1:05:54
That is a bitch move. It is a bitch move by Kevin
1:05:58
Durant, and it shows you he is not a team player.
1:06:00
He's all about himself. What a loser.
1:06:03
What a loser. Loser.
1:06:05
Loser, loser, loser, loser, loser.
1:06:14
And you compared that to your. Name.
1:06:16
They call me the ladies man and Mr. Still your girl.
1:06:19
I am a legend. My doctor told me not to do a
1:06:23
loser when my neck was hurt. Loser.
1:06:29
Are you kidding me, NBA? I had my trachea moved, moved,
1:06:35
moved and my voice box moved and he told me not to do a radio
1:06:40
show and I did it the next day. What do you?
1:06:42
What do you I tell you the truth?
1:06:44
I'm a team. You only have one trachea bro.
1:06:46
I am a. Team.
1:06:48
I am a team player. Look, I got my teeth done and I,
1:06:51
my doctor told me I'm biting my tongue during this show because
1:06:55
I had my teeth done because I don't have my real teeth right
1:06:58
now and I'm still doing the show and I'm going to bitch out for
1:07:02
you guys. No, I'm a team player.
1:07:04
I put on my Dukes and I fight. I fight, unlike Kevin Durant.
1:07:09
Wussy. I hurt my neck wussy.
1:07:13
They told me that to do my radio show.
1:07:15
I am a. Legend that win hits you that
1:07:17
win hits you. You'll mess up your own neck
1:07:19
all. Right, let's get through.
1:07:22
Let's get through the playoff. Series quickly.
1:07:25
The only one that's really competitive still is the
1:07:27
Cavaliers Raptors. Cleveland's leading 3 to 2.
1:07:31
They play tomorrow night in Toronto.
1:07:35
It's been pretty even series throughout, pretty back and
1:07:38
forth. Obviously the Cavs have a little
1:07:40
bit more experience. Maybe they're, you know, the
1:07:43
coaches is coaches are both seasoned.
1:07:45
But I don't know, this seems like the Cavs seem to have a
1:07:48
little bit more in this one. I love Kenny Atkinson.
1:07:51
I expect the Cavs to win this series.
1:07:52
It could go 7. I don't think it will.
1:07:54
I think it ends in six. But it's been fun to watch and
1:07:58
and the Cavaliers have looked like a team that doesn't show up
1:08:03
in quarters. They show up in one quarter,
1:08:05
they disappear in the next quarter, they show up in the
1:08:07
next quarter and they disappear in the next quarter.
1:08:09
The Cavaliers haven't played a full straight top end game in
1:08:14
this series. I want to see them completely
1:08:17
shut down the Toronto Raptors. They're not a good team.
1:08:20
As a matter of fact, in all the series, everybody thought that
1:08:22
this series was going to go in four.
1:08:24
They didn't even think it was going to be anywhere close.
1:08:27
And the fact that the Raptors are in and they're playing hard
1:08:29
as as hard as they've played in this series, you got to give the
1:08:32
coaching and you got to give the players a little bit more
1:08:35
respect for what the what kind of season they've had all season
1:08:38
long. Yeah, they're ahead of schedule.
1:08:39
This is the young team that's ahead of schedule. 5C made that
1:08:42
leap and they didn't need a little more offense to be able
1:08:44
to contend with their defense as good as Cleveland.
1:08:46
Cleveland's offense was the most efficient offensive season I
1:08:48
think they had since the one year they were the number one
1:08:51
seed. And I think the Cleveland
1:08:53
definitely has the experience. But like we said before, Orlando
1:08:55
in the next round can't be taken lightly either because they have
1:08:58
size that can counter with the Cavs.
1:08:59
The Cavs biggest strength of their size, Donovan Mitchell
1:09:01
kind of disappeared play hero ball in game four.
1:09:03
Besides that, he's played great. Yeah, this is kind of a
1:09:06
disappointing series to me. I expect the Cleveland to be way
1:09:09
better then Toronto Raptors. I thought it would be like a
1:09:12
full one, maybe even 40, you know, at the end of the day.
1:09:16
But you know, they, they like you said earlier, they show up
1:09:19
in certain quarters and then they just go ghost and others.
1:09:22
And I just think overall, they haven't been able to be
1:09:25
consistent enough to give them that edge that they're going to
1:09:27
need, especially when it comes down to postseason and you play
1:09:30
in different teams like the Magic, if they make when they
1:09:33
make it and then you're going to end up playing the central and
1:09:36
the finals and things that nature.
1:09:37
I think it's I think it's important that you know, you'll
1:09:41
be able to close out those type of games.
1:09:42
But they got the size, they got the experience.
1:09:45
I just don't really understand why is there, you know why they
1:09:48
series is tied 22 with the? I can.
1:09:51
Definitely see that they go Game 7 because at the end of the day
1:09:55
they they haven't been consistent enough to show that
1:09:57
they can finish series out. I love Lisa Ann.
1:10:00
Let's let's keep it going. The other two series were kind
1:10:05
of easy ones for both of the teams.
1:10:07
The top two teams record wise in the NBA this season?
1:10:10
The Spurs finished off the Blazers four games to 1.
1:10:13
When Benyama missed the game that they lost, he was in
1:10:17
concussion protocol. I guess Concussion protocol in
1:10:20
the NBA playoffs is 2 days. Two days, three days, 48 hours.
1:10:24
I'm pretty sure it's longer than that.
1:10:26
I've I've done concussion. Protocols in the playoffs, it's
1:10:29
48 hours. We've seen it.
1:10:30
Yeah, in the playoffs, it changes your brain.
1:10:33
Your brain can handle more because of the playoffs, so
1:10:39
that's OK. But you know when Benyama was
1:10:41
mad that he had to miss any time I.
1:10:43
Told you what it is. It's the LJA, the LeBron James
1:10:46
Association. How many times do I have to tell
1:10:48
you? But not even that, I think the
1:10:49
concussion protocol doesn't mean that you actually concussed.
1:10:52
I think it's just. To go.
1:10:54
Through a. That's all I'm going to say.
1:10:57
I would just say that a lot of concussion experts, we talked to
1:11:01
a bunch of them back when we were at the Super Bowl a couple
1:11:03
years ago, would have some issues with him coming back so
1:11:06
quickly in a contact sport, you know from that.
1:11:10
Does it really matter there? There were.
1:11:12
Portland had no chance in this series, no chance in this
1:11:15
series. The fact that they stayed in
1:11:16
this series the way they did, you got to give Portland a lot
1:11:18
of credit. They lost their coach in the
1:11:20
beginning of the season, Chauncey Phillips for that
1:11:22
betting, betting scandal and all that other stuff.
1:11:24
The fact that the Trail Blazers are here, it's been very
1:11:27
impressive. The Trailblazer has the Trail
1:11:30
Blazers have a future and their G Ms. done a very good job.
1:11:32
I like what they've done. But the Spurs, we expected this.
1:11:36
I expect the Spurs to be one of the dominant teams.
1:11:39
I expect the Spurs against OK C in the Western Conference
1:11:42
finals. That's what everybody wants to
1:11:43
see. But I'm going to tell you this
1:11:44
right now, watch out for the Lakers if Luca Dodge comes back.
1:11:49
They're scary, you say, man, but they're a very scary team.
1:11:52
I'm telling you, I'm telling you.
1:11:54
Walk it. Walk it.
1:11:55
Don't don't OKC play San Antonio Nets.
1:11:58
No, they play the Lakers in the next they play the Spurs, will
1:12:01
play the winner of Minnesota and Denver and I will say if Denver
1:12:03
comes. Back in this series.
1:12:04
If Denver comes back in this series, they're going to be
1:12:06
interesting against the Spurs too.
1:12:07
If Wendy's not 100% healthy either because Spurs, obviously
1:12:10
they're the better all around team, but the Nuggets have the
1:12:11
experience. Yeah, he'll dominate.
1:12:14
He'll dominate Joker. That ain't no issue.
1:12:16
But I think the Spurs there will.
1:12:18
I don't think that, like you said earlier, that the Portland
1:12:21
Trail Blazers didn't belong there, that, you know, that was
1:12:23
one of those teams that, you know, benefit from the play in
1:12:26
tournament and and that and what not.
1:12:29
So yeah, I think that the Spurs is overall the better team.
1:12:32
They're probably the biggest threat in the West to OK C over
1:12:35
anybody else. So I look forward to seeing them
1:12:37
in OK C battled out in the finals, in the conference
1:12:40
finals. Well, let's talk about them then
1:12:42
let's get into OK C It's the last series to talk about four
1:12:46
zero series sweep over the Suns. Devin Booker had a quite a lot
1:12:51
to say about the officiate and he should he should have.
1:12:54
SGA was getting every like he look.
1:12:57
We know SGA gets calls. He's really good at it.
1:13:00
He's not the MVP. I've said this already.
1:13:02
He's there's an art to it, but what was going on in that series
1:13:05
was a little more than I think he needs.
1:13:09
It's been going on all season long in Madison Square Garden.
1:13:12
A lot of people were questioning the referees, giving them all
1:13:15
the calls. Jalen Brunson was going up for
1:13:17
layups, getting smacked around, no fouls.
1:13:19
SGA, He's right at the free throw line, free throw line.
1:13:22
So it's it's to me, it's just a big problem.
1:13:25
The NBA needs to look into this. They're talking about figuring
1:13:27
out how to fix this lottery situation, not choking in the
1:13:31
middle of the season. That's great.
1:13:32
Figure out the flopping thing. Figure out everything that's
1:13:35
going on in the NBA that nobody likes to watch.
1:13:37
The NBA to me is a flopping game.
1:13:40
This wasn't like this in the 90s or the early 2000s.
1:13:43
It's gotten worse because at the LJA, the LeBron James
1:13:46
Association, LeBron does it, James Harding does it, Russell
1:13:49
Westbrook does it. The bitching, the crying, the
1:13:52
moaning. This is the problem right now in
1:13:54
the NBA. It's become a wussy sport and I
1:13:56
want to see it more aggressive. That's what I want to see.
1:13:59
Hand checking again. That's what made the NBA so fun
1:14:01
to watch, the aggressive nature. It's not like that anymore.
1:14:05
You shoot a three, you put a finger on him, you're shooting.
1:14:08
If you hit that, you're hitting A4 point play.
1:14:10
It never happened in the 90s like that.
1:14:12
It's been a big problem. And again, OKC is a great team.
1:14:16
They're great. They're the best team right now
1:14:18
going into heading into the playoffs.
1:14:21
But if SGA is getting all these calls, nobody has a chance
1:14:24
against them. Nobody.
1:14:26
No matter how good you're playing at a high level, there's
1:14:29
no chance you have to beat them if SGA is getting every single
1:14:33
call. Yeah, we talked about with some
1:14:34
of our guests last year, like they have the best combination
1:14:36
of not needing to shoot threes and still being able to play the
1:14:39
analytic game with the depth that they have and getting the
1:14:42
smart shots as you were. And obviously this will cater
1:14:44
into it when you have a guy that is as good as drawing fouls.
1:14:47
Q You were talking about it last show.
1:14:48
It's sometimes an art form to draw fouls the way he doesn't.
1:14:51
It's harder for somebody that's a point guard like that, but at
1:14:54
the same time he's got the length, he's got the quickest
1:14:55
he'll be able to do it. Yeah.
1:14:58
So in the playoffs, you know, everybody thinks that the game
1:15:00
gets more tougher and things of that nature.
1:15:01
So I think as I mentioned before that you know, SCA has a unique
1:15:05
talent and a skill set that to draw fouls and and allow the
1:15:09
referees to be in tough positions to make those calls.
1:15:11
And I think that, you know, the reigning MVP about to be two
1:15:17
time MVP, that's a great job with getting to.
1:15:20
The mid range. And really scored and really
1:15:22
scored from the mid range game and I think you're very
1:15:24
efficient and I think that's a contribute to some of the calls
1:15:28
that he get as well. Like when you scored at a high
1:15:30
clip, you easily can get guys caught up in the cookie cutter,
1:15:34
which is when you about to shoot that little gap in between your
1:15:38
chest and the and the ball is what we call the cookie cutter.
1:15:41
So it's easy to get guys in there because they're trying to
1:15:43
prevent you from getting to your spot.
1:15:45
They're trying to prevent you from elevating and getting a
1:15:47
shot off and most of the time it causes you to foul.
1:15:51
So OKC was the better team. I don't I really don't care
1:15:54
about the Devin Booker complaining about the officials.
1:15:57
Phoenix had no business been on the same court as OKC and no, no
1:16:02
point in time where they're going to ever jump out there and
1:16:06
be a contender versus OKC. So I think that, you know, I'm
1:16:11
sorry, Devin Booker, but you know, maybe when you get traded
1:16:14
or when you go somewhere else, you have a real opportunity of
1:16:16
winning in the West or the East. But you know, at the end of the
1:16:19
day, OKC was going to sweep them from the beginning and I look
1:16:23
forward to seeing them going all the way down to the final.
1:16:25
It's going to be difficult with Jaden Williams being on the
1:16:28
sideline, but for the most part I can see, OK, she's still
1:16:31
making it to the Eastern Conference.
1:16:32
Final probably back for the finals.
1:16:33
Here's here's the problem. Here's the problem and you keep
1:16:36
saying how do you expect to defend a player that you can't
1:16:39
foul? If you touch him, he's going to
1:16:42
the free throw line. So of course he's going to have
1:16:44
a high shooting percentage because nobody could defend him.
1:16:46
If you get into his face, he's going to he's going to draw a
1:16:49
foul. That's the problem right now.
1:16:51
The NBA needs how to figure this out.
1:16:53
They need to figure this out. Shut the music off, Speedy.
1:16:55
They need to figure this out because it's bad.
1:16:58
This is bad for the NBA. It's not fun to watch anymore.
1:17:01
It isn't watching James Harden flop, watching LeBron James
1:17:05
flop, and watching all these players looking at Steph Curry.
1:17:08
When he gets angry, he throws his mouthpiece because he's not
1:17:10
getting a call. To me, it's bad for the NBA.
1:17:13
This never happened in the 90s. It never did.
1:17:17
It was fun to watch the aggressive nature of basketball.
1:17:21
Now you're watching a bunch of guys become wussies.
1:17:23
And that's good. There's nothing to do with
1:17:26
skill. Set and I find it very.
1:17:27
None of these guys have Michael Jordan's skill set.
1:17:29
I'm sorry. None of them.
1:17:31
None of these guys have Michael Jordan's skill set.
1:17:33
No, they don't listen. No, they don't listen.
1:17:34
No, they don't. No, they don't.
1:17:36
No, they don't. Sit here because he's.
1:17:38
No, they don't. Competitor that say that they
1:17:40
don't have his skill set because when you look at the the
1:17:43
analytics or you look at the data or you're looking at the
1:17:45
looking at it on on screen, it's the same.
1:17:48
It's actually better in so many aspects.
1:17:50
And again, he was the best. He was the best player that
1:17:54
we've seen touching basketball. However, to sit here and act
1:17:57
like the skill set of these guys aren't even in comparison to
1:18:00
what he was developing. He wasn't shooting the three.
1:18:03
He couldn't go left for a certain amount of years.
1:18:06
So who would have talked about these guys are doing certain
1:18:08
things now that, you know, he would probably be able to do?
1:18:11
He was he wasn't that guy. He was the guy back there, but
1:18:15
he wouldn't be that guy now. Kill.
1:18:18
You can go back and forth and argue your points.
1:18:20
It's not going to make a difference.
1:18:21
If you're going to tell me right now any of these guys have his
1:18:24
skill set, you're out of your mind.
1:18:27
There is no, there is there is no comparison in any kind of way
1:18:32
when you look at SGA or any of these guys and try to compare
1:18:36
the skill set of what Michael Jordan brought into the game.
1:18:39
Michael Jordan brought the skill set in the game.
1:18:41
He is the game. That's what it is, Michael
1:18:44
Jordan. That's an interesting segue
1:18:47
right there, Errol. I am because I'm going to go
1:18:49
into my deuce of the day. Well, LeBron James comes out and
1:18:59
says some interesting things over the last 24 hours.
1:19:03
LeBron James on MJ debate. Our games are totally different.
1:19:08
As LeBron James approaches the end of his NBA career, he has
1:19:13
limited time to bolster his case as the basketball's GOAT above
1:19:19
Michael Jordan. While the debate might never be
1:19:21
settled, James, in a wide-ranging series interview
1:19:25
with ESPN conducted during the season, acknowledges the
1:19:29
influence of Jordan had on him. I hope I made him proud, at
1:19:34
least wearing the number 23, James said.
1:19:36
Or told Dave Mcmeny. The six foot nine £250.
1:19:42
James pointed out and inherited differences between him and
1:19:46
Jordan, who was listed at 6 foot 6 and 200 lbs when he played.
1:19:51
I never have compared myself to MJ because our games are totally
1:19:56
different, James said. I have been a point forward,
1:20:00
forward point my whole life. I have always looked to pass MJ
1:20:06
kind of looked to shoot. Not kind of.
1:20:09
He did. He looked for the shot.
1:20:12
There are a lot of things where I would say my game is a lot
1:20:17
different and a little bit better than his.
1:20:19
But blank S he was effing great. We're both great.
1:20:26
We're both great basketball players.
1:20:29
Here's what I'm going to say. LeBron James is a special
1:20:34
player. He to me, you can argue he's the
1:20:37
second greatest basketball player of all time.
1:20:39
I've said it many, many times, I think he's the second greatest
1:20:42
basketball player of all time. Everything that he's done for
1:20:45
the NBA and and having all the pressure that he had coming from
1:20:48
high school being called the king, it to me he's wrapped
1:20:51
everything that he has produced as an NBA player.
1:20:55
He's brought good things to the game of basketball and a lot of
1:20:57
bad things. But what I look at his game and
1:21:01
I look at Michael Jordan's game, he could say whatever he wants.
1:21:04
He he grew up a Michael Jordan fan.
1:21:05
So did everybody else growing up wanting to wear his sneakers
1:21:09
like everybody else. And now because of Michael
1:21:12
Jordan, he's a multi billionaire.
1:21:14
It really is. What Michael Jordan brought to
1:21:17
the game is completely different.
1:21:18
You want to compare SGA and try to compare his shooting
1:21:22
percentages to Michael Jordan's, That's great.
1:21:25
Nobody looked at that in the NBA in the 90s.
1:21:28
His dominance, what he did for USA Basketball, how he
1:21:30
transitioned USA Basketball and International Basketball in 176
1:21:35
countries, nobody could ever compare to as good as LeBron
1:21:40
James will always be looked at and be compared to Michael
1:21:43
Jordan. There is no comparison.
1:21:46
No matter what he puts to a paper, no matter what he says,
1:21:49
they play different positions. No matter what he says, I've
1:21:51
never compared his game to mine. You win on the ESPY Awards, your
1:21:55
family went on the ESPY Awards and quote UN quote said you're
1:21:59
the goat. My father's the goat.
1:22:02
All your friends from Dwyane Wade to Carmelo Anthony to Chris
1:22:07
Paul, all of you think that he's a goat except actually Carmelo
1:22:11
Anthony was kind of hesitant on it.
1:22:14
The fact here is there is no comparison to any of their
1:22:19
games. He's right. 1-6 foot 91's, a
1:22:22
Magic Johnson prototype player and there's a six foot six
1:22:27
absolute gliding man. What he did for the NBA, what he
1:22:31
changed for the NBA will never be compared to.
1:22:34
So to my honest opinion, this was brought up because a lot of
1:22:38
people are talking about it being that he's retiring and all
1:22:41
the statistics and all the numbers that he has.
1:22:44
The game is different. The game falls in his way.
1:22:46
If Michael Jordan played in the game now, Michael Jordan would
1:22:49
have all these numbers, all these statistics.
1:22:51
Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.
1:22:54
There's no comparison and I don't think we can argue that
1:22:56
ever again. That's my juice of the day.
1:23:02
The fact here is and I, I we're going to get met on I I want to
1:23:05
ask met his true opinion to it, but we got to go to a quick
1:23:08
break. When we come back, we will have
1:23:10
the great Metta World Peace joining us.
1:23:13
I played for the Lakers, played for Indiana, a lot to get into
1:23:17
with Metta World Peace, but we got to go to a sports minute.
1:23:19
We'll be back after this. This is.
1:23:23
A New York sports loudmouth sports minute.
1:23:30
All right, guys, Aaron Fishman here with your Sports Minute.
1:23:33
Got a couple of stories for you and then the scores tonight.
1:23:36
Now that the NFL draft is in the rearview mirror, it means the
1:23:39
NBA draft is just around the corner.
1:23:41
While much debate has been about this year's top pick, whether AJ
1:23:44
Debansa from BYU, Cam Boozer from Duke or Darren Peterson
1:23:48
from Kansas, who entered the season as the favorite to go
1:23:50
first, will claim that topic in the draft will find out.
1:23:54
But Peterson's up and down season may have cost him that
1:23:57
top spot this year. But Kansas and Hall of Fame
1:24:00
coach Bill Self will have another crack at having the top
1:24:03
draft pick if he doesn't get it next season on ESP NS NBA TIFF
1:24:07
Off show #1 High school prospect in America Tyron Stokes
1:24:10
announced that he has committed to the Kansas Jayhawks play his
1:24:14
college ball. Stokes made the announcement in
1:24:16
front of the legendary Inside the NBA crew as he was the prize
1:24:19
player in Kenny Smith's AAU basketball team, Coach Bill
1:24:23
Self. Stokes said.
1:24:24
Great coach, great person. He's been there from the
1:24:26
beginning. He's always fed into me, gave me
1:24:29
great advice through the entire process.
1:24:30
I just want to thank you to the University Rock Chalk Nation.
1:24:33
Just giving me the opportunity to go into the Allen Field house
1:24:37
and just leave my mark. I'm ready to go put on a show.
1:24:40
The Jayhawks and Stokes will try to get to the mountain top, a
1:24:42
place where last year's team couldn't, in part due to
1:24:44
Peterson, some were saying, not meshing with the rest of the
1:24:48
squad. Kansas last won a national title
1:24:51
Four Seasons ago in 2022 and scary news into the athletic on
1:24:55
Monday it says the greatest football player of all time no,
1:24:59
not Tom Brady. Former Giant linebacker Lawrence
1:25:01
Taylor apparently has been hospitalized since April 24th
1:25:05
with the medical emergency after first going to the hospital on
1:25:08
April 20th with a stomach ailment.
1:25:10
The latest news is the all time Great is dealing with a bout of
1:25:13
pancreatitis that is not considered to be
1:25:16
lifethreateninglatestreports@nj.com say Taylor's condition has
1:25:20
improved and recent days, yet he still remains hospitalized.
1:25:23
Taylor's lawyer gave a statement to The Athletic He remains under
1:25:26
medical observation and is showing signs of improvement.
1:25:29
Lawrence asked that I convey his sincere gratitude to everyone
1:25:33
who has been thinking of him and keeping him in their prayers
1:25:35
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1:25:38
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1:25:39
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1:25:43
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1:27:51
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What's up, buddy? Everything is great guys,
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everything is great. Nice to be here.
1:28:01
I can rather crush you guys over the last couple years and then
1:28:05
be connected on one on your post and you guys got me on the on
1:28:09
the podcast, man. Yes, Sir.
1:28:10
Thank you for. Having me.
1:28:12
Absolutely. Thank you for coming man, you
1:28:14
look. Good man, you look good.
1:28:15
You you could probably play in the NBA still, but there's a lot
1:28:19
of stuff to get into with your career and we'll talk about what
1:28:22
you're doing outside of your career.
1:28:24
We know you're coaching now, so we'll get into that in just a
1:28:26
few moments. Yeah, but there's a lot of
1:28:30
things that have happened over the last couple of years.
1:28:32
And I got a chance to watch the Netflix Lamar Jack, Lamar Odom
1:28:36
story, and you were in it. And you know, Lamar, because you
1:28:40
both grew up in New York, you grew up in Queens Bridge.
1:28:44
Tell us a little bit about your connection and and your respect
1:28:47
for Lamar Odom and all the things that he's gone through.
1:28:51
I love Lamar. The first time I met Lamar was
1:28:52
at DS Park in Ravenswood and Lamar was playing with a guy
1:28:56
named Raheem Johnson and Raheem Johnson was the best in our
1:29:01
class in New York City. Talk about 199593.
1:29:05
Raheem was playing in, you know, he was playing with, you know,
1:29:10
the 12th grade, the 10th graders.
1:29:11
He was in 8th grade. So Lamar was like 6.
1:29:13
When he come back the next year he was 66.
1:29:16
I know Lamar, you know me, Elton Lamar.
1:29:19
We also played on Riverside Church, so we got a lot of
1:29:21
history together. Even from playing in IS8.
1:29:26
We had a battle in there, you know, and, and, and I didn't
1:29:29
know a lot of the things about Lamar's history, you know, until
1:29:32
I seen like this duck. And keep in mind we got drafted
1:29:36
the same year, play the AAU and won a championship together.
1:29:40
Meta, now it's in the Palace. Everybody remembers that.
1:29:44
Everybody remembers the fight. I thought you did the right
1:29:47
thing. You stuck up for your players,
1:29:49
you stuck up for you yourself. Tell us a little bit about that.
1:29:52
I mean, it's, it's been a story for many, many years in the NBA.
1:29:57
Yeah, You know, the malice of the palace is very interesting.
1:30:00
I mean, the way they edited the content, because when people saw
1:30:04
it, they saw me leaving the, the, the, the the bench where I
1:30:09
was laying on the, on the scorer's table.
1:30:12
And then they tried to make the scorer's table look like, why
1:30:16
would you lay on a scorer's table to get out of trouble,
1:30:18
right. So, you know, when people
1:30:19
typically get in trouble in our hoods, in our neighborhoods
1:30:22
where we're from, you know, the neighborhoods that set the
1:30:24
culture, the neighborhood that set the trends, you know, they
1:30:27
say, hey, don't get into trouble, stay out of trouble.
1:30:30
But I literally got in trouble for trying to stay out of
1:30:33
trouble. And they also now they couldn't
1:30:36
quite make the edit. It wasn't that good.
1:30:39
They're pretty bad editors. They couldn't make the edit
1:30:42
where you couldn't see the splash.
1:30:44
So you so you saw the splash, right?
1:30:46
But they didn't show until the Netflix documentary came out.
1:30:50
That's when they showed the guy throw the bear and it hit me in
1:30:53
my face. So people often ask, right, why
1:30:56
would you do that? That's the narrative.
1:30:58
So media has the capability of changing someone's mind frame.
1:31:02
So then everybody's asking, why would you protect yourself?
1:31:05
And it was it was I was really impressed, which inspired me to
1:31:08
this day. I was really impressed with how
1:31:11
media can make people think a certain way, right?
1:31:14
Like, yeah, that's like saying somebody come to your office
1:31:17
with that number seven behind you and smack you in your face,
1:31:20
right? And we say, hey, why did you
1:31:24
protect yourself? Why did you not just take that
1:31:27
smack like a? Bitch.
1:31:33
Anyway, But you know what? That's water under the bridge.
1:31:38
You know, I lost a lot of money and took it on the chair like a
1:31:41
man. So I want to shift gears a
1:31:43
little bit to a more physical college era in the Big East.
1:31:47
You played at Saint John's for a while.
1:31:48
It was considered the heyday of the Big East going into the late
1:31:51
90s and early 2000s. Like, what were some of those
1:31:53
rivalries like? Do you have any iconic moments
1:31:56
of any of those matchups? I love the Big East, I love
1:31:59
Saint John's. I went to La Salle Academy,
1:32:00
Christian Brothers School, St. John's Catholic School.
1:32:03
I love Saint John's. I love my Catholic University.
1:32:06
I love New York City. CYO.
1:32:07
You know, I went to Saint John's because of, you know, being from
1:32:10
New York City, I could've went to Miami.
1:32:12
I was going to go to Miami. That was with that the hat I had
1:32:15
on MSGI also had a letter from Princeton.
1:32:18
I just made Princeton all I could've went.
1:32:20
And I also was going to go to Notre Dame for architecture.
1:32:22
That's my major. And so, you know, Saint John's
1:32:26
is something about New York City, something about New York
1:32:28
City that I love. And I, you know, so I sacrificed
1:32:31
all that and then, you know, UDC, the Police Athletic League,
1:32:35
menacing, all the stuff. That's what I love.
1:32:38
And then playing in the Big East, St.
1:32:40
John's, Chris Muller, Luke on the second, you know, I had a
1:32:43
chance to be a part of history and and, you know, and, and I
1:32:46
did, you know, he was in a drought since the Luke on the
1:32:48
second days. And I got us out there and I
1:32:50
helped us, you know, get out that drought.
1:32:51
You know, Tyrone Grant didn't break his wrist that year.
1:32:53
He broke his wrist. He was like the best team in the
1:32:56
in the college, I think, or top five.
1:32:58
Tyrone Grant breaks his wrist against UConn.
1:33:00
And it kind of set us back a little bit.
1:33:03
Tyrone Grant didn't break his wrist, you know, and we still
1:33:06
went to the elite and lost by two even though he came back,
1:33:09
but he wasn't the same like before he broke his wrist.
1:33:13
Yeah, Matt, thanks for coming on, man.
1:33:16
As a former Pro Football player, man, I just want to let you know
1:33:19
I'm a big fan first and foremost.
1:33:20
But then second, you know, from a football perspective, we love
1:33:23
to see what you did out there in Madison in the past and we would
1:33:26
root for you. We understand what it is.
1:33:28
You know, sometimes fans get carried away and, and and
1:33:32
discipline has happened. You know me.
1:33:34
You know that guy, He bet $50.00.
1:33:37
So I know John Green, the gentleman who hit me.
1:33:40
I call everybody gentleman, but gentleman hit me and I'm so
1:33:42
we're kind of friends now, which is ironic, right?
1:33:44
It was a $50 bet. The guy who raised his hand, he
1:33:47
lost $50.00 to John. He raised his hand not because
1:33:50
he won. He raised his hand because he
1:33:52
was like, yo, you hit him, I owe you $50.
1:33:55
This is crazy. I was up there like Superman in
1:33:57
five seconds. I want to talk about another
1:33:59
moment that you had was a backup for James Harden.
1:34:02
I thought it was a celebration. I think that you have took the
1:34:05
villain road and mastered, you know, I know people gave you him
1:34:09
in regards to when it happened, but I think you you know, and
1:34:12
you lost a lot of money on the front end.
1:34:14
But I think you have mastered how to be that villain role and
1:34:18
still be, you know, positively impacted the world.
1:34:21
So I want to give you credit that, but take me through that
1:34:23
play. Was it but you just celebrated
1:34:25
and it happened? Or was you more so?
1:34:27
Nah, what happened? It was a poem.
1:34:30
So the thing about that game, I had 16 the first half and I, you
1:34:33
know, so he talked about that. I was I was I was getting in the
1:34:35
ass and then So what happened was I got I got I think I got a
1:34:40
steal. I was on a fast rate.
1:34:41
I got a dunk. The first thing I did was go to
1:34:43
the crowd and you know, shout out to James.
1:34:46
He's that's my guy. I love James.
1:34:47
He he and he rode tight with my son.
1:34:49
So so I I get the dunk with the left hand.
1:34:53
I go to the crowd and I'm making almost I hit like Ali go to the
1:34:57
baseline. I make AL towards the sideline
1:35:00
and James makes AL, you know, and comes up and on my back and
1:35:05
then shove me in the back. I didn't think it was James.
1:35:07
Honestly, I thought it was Ibaka when I thought it was Ibaka
1:35:11
because I'm like typically guys my size and my strength would
1:35:15
mess with me. Not like, you know what I mean?
1:35:17
Guys that don't really have a chance, right.
1:35:19
So I thought it was Ibaka. So when I, you know, when I when
1:35:23
I threw the elbow, like, you know, get up off me, get up off
1:35:26
me low, you know what I mean? Get up off me.
1:35:29
And then there was somebody my height, you know, and I'm like,
1:35:35
you know, and I didn't know who it was.
1:35:36
I also thought it could have been Perkins because, you know,
1:35:39
Perkins is a dog. Perkins is a dog.
1:35:42
So it's like, maybe it's Perkins and we can get a little drama
1:35:45
real quick. I didn't, I didn't even know,
1:35:47
honestly. I, I did not think it was James
1:35:49
Harden at all, you know, because it's just like, you know, like
1:35:54
what I didn't say anyway, it was a, it was a celebration.
1:35:57
But then after the celebration, it was like whoever's up on me,
1:36:01
I don't really know who it is, but you're about to get up off
1:36:04
me, right? And and it was a little bit too,
1:36:08
as you know, excessive. I think that's probably one of
1:36:11
the one things I regret in my career.
1:36:12
Like that one, you know, I could have maybe not did that.
1:36:17
That's one of the one plays, but I'm like the one one of the ones
1:36:20
I regret even more than like the the malice and the palace.
1:36:23
Does that make? Sense, right, Right.
1:36:24
Yeah. We are talking to former 18 year
1:36:27
NBA forward Metta World Peace, formerly known as Ron Artest.
1:36:30
Played in the NBA from 99 to 2017, won a championship with
1:36:34
the Lakers in 2010 when they beat the Celtics.
1:36:38
Now I want to get into so many great players you played with.
1:36:42
But one great player may rest in peace, Kobe Bryant.
1:36:45
Tell us a little bit about who Kobe was on and off the court.
1:36:49
Kobe was great. So I mean, at the end of Kobe's
1:36:52
career, he was guard down. We we saw way more smiles.
1:36:56
We wasn't we weren't winning, but we saw way more smiles.
1:37:00
That was cool at the beginning of Kobe's career, you know, the
1:37:05
Black Mamba's 5:00 AM practices in the summertime, that whole
1:37:09
thing, which is pretty, which, which, which is really
1:37:12
incredible, man. You know, you know Kobe, I seen
1:37:16
him work on a jab step like 100 times, like jab shot, jab shot,
1:37:20
jab shot Often when I would play with him, Keep in mind the year
1:37:26
before that I was averaging 25 against some of the playoffs.
1:37:29
So I was pretty good job. When I go to his team.
1:37:30
Now I'm a role player, right? And since I become a role player
1:37:34
and watching him on the court was like watching Superman, some
1:37:38
of the things he did was incredible.
1:37:39
The amount of game winners, the amount of shots to send into
1:37:42
overtime, the amount of big shots is virtually impossible,
1:37:46
you know, to be that clutch, you know, and game five in Boston
1:37:51
Garden, 25 straight points, all of him going from the 3rd to the
1:37:55
4th at one point in time. I'm like, this guy is
1:37:57
incredible. Like, you know, I'm, I'm just,
1:38:00
I'm just, I'm just Cody on the wing.
1:38:02
But I'm in awe, you know, but he he's an incredible guy.
1:38:08
RIP Kobe. We miss him.
1:38:10
Now we we've watched so much basketball, but you have done
1:38:14
some amazing things on and off the basketball court.
1:38:16
Tell us a little bit about the foundations you work with.
1:38:20
Yeah, you know, so I started my foundation back in 2007.
1:38:23
It was called Excel University because when I first made it, I
1:38:27
got a scholarship thanks to Riverside Church Earnest Lunch,
1:38:31
I got a scholarship to LaSalle Academy.
1:38:33
So when I made, I said, you know what, I'm gonna get people
1:38:35
scholarships. Now keep in mind I was coming
1:38:37
cash out of pocket paying somebody tuition.
1:38:41
So that's not a tax write off, right?
1:38:43
I didn't know about 5 O 1C threes in 1999 when I was 19.
1:38:47
So, so keep that all in perspective, you know, So when
1:38:49
you get to 2007, I start putting things to A5O1C3I named it Excel
1:38:53
University because I was sending people to school and I always
1:38:56
wanted to build my own university.
1:38:58
So I had these aspirations. I want to be an architect to
1:39:00
build, to build community centers, right?
1:39:03
So when you when you Fast forward and in my career, I'm
1:39:06
doing so much philanthropy, but I'm also going through a lot of
1:39:08
stuff. So it's like opposite.
1:39:10
I'm really positive off the court.
1:39:12
On the court I'm getting in a lot of trouble.
1:39:13
So I decided to just, you know, weather the storm and we changed
1:39:16
Excel university to art test university.
1:39:18
My dad has the art test foundation in New York City.
1:39:21
I got art test university in Los Angeles.
1:39:23
Initially he was focused on mental health initially with
1:39:25
scholarships and they went to mental health.
1:39:27
Now we're focusing on different forms of literacy for athletes.
1:39:30
You know, a lot of athletes make it and then when they so when
1:39:34
collectively, if we lose it, I always say collectively can be
1:39:37
all athletes. We all won.
1:39:38
People be be almost ashamed shaming them.
1:39:40
But the thing was this one, they helped other people's children.
1:39:44
Think about the amount of money that athletes just given to
1:39:47
people. That's somebody else's child
1:39:48
that just got 50 grand that they dad and mom come get them to 50
1:39:51
grand. So it's a lot of social impact
1:39:54
that people don't really discover when it comes to that.
1:39:57
Then 2, you know, when an athlete retires, if the athlete
1:40:01
doesn't have anything to fall back on, you see a lot of
1:40:03
athletes get overweight, a lot of depression, right?
1:40:06
You see a lot of athletes, they can't pull up in that Rolls
1:40:07
Royce no more, right identity crisis.
1:40:10
You know what I'm saying? So right now we just trying to
1:40:14
attack those issues all the time.
1:40:17
I went through my own thing also, you know, I was able to
1:40:20
luckily, I, I embrace therapy. You know, there's, there's a lot
1:40:23
of things where even the money, the more money you get tapped
1:40:26
into you into your emotions, right.
1:40:28
So it's not that you're a bad person, it's just that you never
1:40:31
had a chance to address issues. So now you might be spending too
1:40:34
much, you might be doing too many drugs, maybe I won't on
1:40:36
sex, you know, you might need a sex therapy, sex addiction.
1:40:40
You know, you, you put a Band-Aid over 1 and but
1:40:43
something else pops up. And this is what athletes has
1:40:46
gone through entertainers and even founders that are not
1:40:47
athletes. They just not in the public eye,
1:40:50
you know. So anyway, that's what I'm doing
1:40:52
from a philanthropic perspective also pushing World Peace.
1:40:55
World Peace. You know, I named myself World
1:40:57
Peace 2011 in America, you know what I mean?
1:41:00
So that's ballsy. That's ballsy.
1:41:03
You know, I'm always, you know what I mean?
1:41:05
In America, we want, we want peace.
1:41:07
That's what he's saying. And I'm the longest reigning
1:41:09
market at World Peace. There's nobody that's been
1:41:11
marketing World Peace longer than me.
1:41:13
What does that merit that merits the Nobel Prize right in
1:41:16
Queensbury? All they got to do is come to
1:41:17
Queensbury, give me my prize. I'm waiting, I'm waiting for it.
1:41:23
I'm ready. Let's reach out.
1:41:25
Let's reach out to Nas. Maybe we'll have him write a
1:41:27
song for you. Get that room.
1:41:33
I would love for Nas to rate my album.
1:41:37
Rate my album. Yeah.
1:41:40
So, so the guy that's coaching the New York Knicks now is a guy
1:41:43
that I coached you with the Lakers, you had a little bit of
1:41:45
a beef with in 2011, obviously taking over Phil Jackson, a
1:41:48
legend that he is, after you guys won the title in 2009 to
1:41:51
2010, beating Q's Boston Celtics.
1:41:53
Talk about the transition to Mike Brown and what went wrong
1:41:56
with that whole debacle. I didn't have a beat for Mike
1:42:01
Brown. Our O and five record.
1:42:04
That was the beat. That wasn't, you know, we just
1:42:07
started O and five, but that's an incredible job.
1:42:09
Imagine go O and five, you get 40 million and you get you get
1:42:13
paid. I'm like, damn, I want to go O
1:42:15
and five and get paid 40 million.
1:42:18
That was incredible. But I think like that year there
1:42:22
was no mix. It wasn't Mike Brown fault.
1:42:24
It was, it was a, it was a Little Mix of everything.
1:42:27
But also, you know, we didn't really have, I mean, Dwight
1:42:31
Howard just had a back surgery. Steve Nash wasn't even ready to
1:42:34
play, you know, and, and, and those two are two of our main
1:42:37
guys was coming off injury. So, and, and they're a major
1:42:40
part of the offense. And I don't think Mike Brown
1:42:44
wanted to feature those guys not 'cause they're not good enough
1:42:47
because they were injured. So Mike Brown had to do what he
1:42:51
had to do. And it started out bad and, you
1:42:53
know, started out bad and, you know, they got, they got rid of
1:42:55
them. You know, I play for Mike in
1:42:57
Indiana too. You know, for me, I was just,
1:43:00
you know, kind of just a role play.
1:43:02
You're on a team with with Kobe, Dwight, Pal, Nash.
1:43:07
At that point, you know, I'm saying you just watching this
1:43:09
crazy, just watching that. Yeah, that's.
1:43:12
Great. We had a great team though.
1:43:13
We had a really good team. So man, as a as a as a top
1:43:18
defender to ever lace it up man and I and as far as my eyes, you
1:43:22
definitely one of the top defenders ever.
1:43:25
The Hall of Fame, baby, check it out.
1:43:29
Let me ask you a question. So are you saying I'm the top
1:43:32
like so, so so the top that doesn't that merits the Hall of
1:43:36
Fame? Because you didn't say I'm the
1:43:38
bottom, you said I'm the top. Yeah, yeah.
1:43:44
Yeah, first NBA play with the Nobel Peace Prize in the Hall of
1:43:47
Fame, baby in. Your career like you kind of got
1:43:59
a chance to see both sides of the court in regards to planning
1:44:02
that, like, you know, Jordan 90s early 2000 area and then coming
1:44:06
into what what we see today on TV.
1:44:09
Talk to me a little bit now and I'm sure I'll go have a follow
1:44:12
up, but talk to me a little bit now in regards to the shift and
1:44:16
skill set. And also, you know, I, I think
1:44:19
the 90s get that tough, you know, competitive label and then
1:44:23
these guys kind of get the more skill set finesse label.
1:44:28
So tell me a little bit about, you know, both games.
1:44:31
Well, one, I think not the players, but too many people are
1:44:34
talking about the skill set, but we're not talking about the
1:44:37
traveling because Michael Jordan couldn't take you ain't going to
1:44:39
find it. You ain't going to find a clip
1:44:41
where Michael Jordan took four steps.
1:44:43
You know, I'm saying so you can't give guys a stroke.
1:44:45
No, no, no, no, we all grown men.
1:44:47
You ain't getting no handicap. Travel, travel, travel, travel,
1:44:50
travel, you getting merits and asterisks, right?
1:44:54
So and you know, on top of that, I think I think it's more I
1:44:59
think it's more talent. I think more people are a little
1:45:02
bit more skilled, more athletic and they have more technology.
1:45:06
You know, Larry Bird, those guys are playing in flip flops.
1:45:09
Go pull out some Pumas and some Converse old school.
1:45:12
And I want to see somebody the whole season in flip flops.
1:45:15
OK, play a whole season then tell me how athletic you are.
1:45:19
Like these guys had no support. None of the guys had arches.
1:45:22
They all have flat arches. That's a.
1:45:25
Fact. Yeah, yeah.
1:45:27
So hey, man, these guys, I say like the technologies, you know,
1:45:32
I think the technology is different, but Jordan played 82
1:45:35
games in flip flops. Now he had better shoes, but
1:45:37
Jordan played 82 games nine times.
1:45:39
Right, but they don't. Other side got LeBron who played
1:45:41
23 seasons and. That's one.
1:45:44
I'll talk about AC Green, I'll talk about John Stockton, I'll
1:45:47
talk about Carl Malone. How many games?
1:45:50
Hey, you want to know something? When we were with the Lakers,
1:45:53
with the Lakers, the goal was to play 82 games like that.
1:45:57
Last when we won that season, like it was a whole different
1:46:00
mindset. They like, hey, we here, we
1:46:01
played 82. First time I ever played 82 was
1:46:04
with the Lakers. And then we had like 4 people
1:46:06
play 82. Usually.
1:46:08
I'm saying there there are no breaks.
1:46:10
So anyway, that's the the difference is not I'm not going
1:46:13
at the players, I'm going at the people like making opinions
1:46:16
because you got to you got to lift up the hood you.
1:46:19
Definitely got a factor that is. Well, I just want to tell you
1:46:21
Meta, that's why I love you. That's why I love you because
1:46:24
you set him straight as as everybody knows, we are talking
1:46:27
to former 18 year NBA vets. Former formerly known as Metta
1:46:32
World Peace, formerly known as Ron Artest.
1:46:35
You can call him whatever you want.
1:46:36
You want to call him Metta? Metta World Peace, Ron Artest,
1:46:39
You can call him whatever you want.
1:46:40
You won a championship with the Lakers, but I want to get into
1:46:43
you. When you were drafted, you were
1:46:44
drafted by the Chicago Bulls at 16.
1:46:47
The Knicks passed up on you. The Knicks who you grew up
1:46:51
rooting for, you always wanted to be a Knick.
1:46:53
How did you feel when the Knicks passed up on you?
1:46:56
Meta. It was that, you know, it wasn't
1:46:58
supposed to happen. You look at my career, look at
1:47:01
everybody that went ahead of me was not supposed to have them.
1:47:04
I should have been a Knick. I love the Knicks to this day,
1:47:06
but I still, you know, sometimes I get into that mode in 1999
1:47:10
where I'm like, I should have been a Knick.
1:47:12
So they know how I feel the next the Knicks embrace my emotions.
1:47:16
So shout out to the Knicks organization, by the way,
1:47:19
because they treat me very well like the Knicks that they bring
1:47:22
me out, they give me out, they give me a legends jacket.
1:47:25
I only was there three months, right, I was only a Knick for
1:47:28
three months, but I think they understand like how how
1:47:30
important the Knicks is are are to me, right.
1:47:32
So from that perspective, like I should have been a Knick, I
1:47:35
should have been a defensive player of the year in New York
1:47:38
City. And like I see I get a little
1:47:40
bit better because I see these guys jerseys about to be
1:47:43
retired. I see guys playing well with the
1:47:44
Knicks. They're going to go down as Nick
1:47:46
Nick legend. But so my only argument is
1:47:49
imagine a defensive player of the year in the garden.
1:47:51
You understand, imagine imagine people coming in the garden and
1:47:54
not leaving the garden and you talking about hall of farmers,
1:47:58
right. You talk about imagine people
1:47:59
get unfortunately, I'll somebody from an organization I want to
1:48:04
mention to zero to 0 points for an entire season.
1:48:10
That's next level stuff on top of being a go to guy on top of
1:48:15
for six. Up until Kobe, I was I was a go
1:48:17
to guy. So now you talk about defense
1:48:19
and office in the Garden, you would never seen nothing like
1:48:21
it. It would have never been nothing
1:48:22
like it in the Garden. I love the I always look
1:48:24
passionate about New York. As you know, I tried to get the
1:48:26
Nick head coaching job. Shout out to Mike Brown.
1:48:28
Mike Brown got the job. They needed somebody from, you
1:48:31
know, right. Caddy corner from Nas block.
1:48:33
They needed a caddy corner from Nas block.
1:48:35
Queens Bridge on his front. That's what I thought.
1:48:38
Bridge. I love Manhattan.
1:48:40
I love Harlow. I love the Bronx.
1:48:41
I love all of New York City. You know, they really need a
1:48:44
little. Yeah, come on, man.
1:48:46
But a shout out to the Knicks. I love New York all.
1:48:50
Right, nada. How many kids do you have?
1:48:52
Man? I see kids crying in the back.
1:48:54
How many? Kids, do you have?
1:48:56
You have sons. How many kids do you have?
1:48:58
I got five children, 3 grandchildren.
1:49:00
Wow, your grandfather, man, you look good for a grandfather.
1:49:04
Yeah, I started early. I was 16 on a mall deep block.
1:49:11
All right, let's get into your coaching right now.
1:49:14
What are you doing as a coach? You said yeah.
1:49:18
What are you doing as a coach right now?
1:49:21
Yeah, You know, people said I wasn't coaching when I was
1:49:23
trying to get jobs. Mary doesn't coach this and
1:49:25
that. You know, I got to hear it.
1:49:27
They got everybody got their own little teams and little media
1:49:29
team. We won the CCAA, my women's
1:49:32
team, coaching for the last seven years, first time in
1:49:35
California history, Cal State history.
1:49:39
They've been around since 1947. We won the tournament first time
1:49:44
ever player of the year. I'm the lead assistant.
1:49:47
I am a real coach. This is not I'm not just like
1:49:50
some fly by night. I don't need a lot of it.
1:49:53
I don't need a lot of us former head coaches, you know, I don't
1:49:59
need a lot. You know, we going to get it
1:50:01
done. So I say that because I love
1:50:03
coaching. I'm obsessed with the game.
1:50:06
I did need a break from the game.
1:50:07
If you if you know, my career when I retired, I need a break.
1:50:11
So I did get a break from the game.
1:50:12
But now we're coming back to win the NBA championship.
1:50:14
Yeah, that's the goal. That's what we're going to do.
1:50:17
You know, and everybody that said it was never going to
1:50:19
happen. I'm challenge accepted.
1:50:23
You know, high level, high level to low level, high level to low
1:50:26
level, right? Challenge accepted.
1:50:30
I got a team for you right now. I got a team for you right now.
1:50:34
The Chicago Bulls are looking for a coach right now.
1:50:37
Why don't we you got? Drafted.
1:50:38
Yeah. So let me ask you so you know
1:50:42
how last year I was really public about trying to get the
1:50:44
big job right now this year, all the jobs that came up, I'm not
1:50:49
as excited. So I'm taking I'm taking a year
1:50:55
off of asking for coaching job. I'm not.
1:50:57
Looking for coaching job? It's the reboot.
1:51:01
On my own time, I'm just not looking.
1:51:04
This time I just had it, you know, so, so this year I'm not,
1:51:09
I'm not pursuing coaching right now.
1:51:12
You're holding up for the Lakers job when Arrow favorite coach JJ
1:51:15
Reddick gets fired. Well, first of all, it's the
1:51:16
LJA, it's the LeBron James Association.
1:51:19
It's not the NBA, it's the LeBron James Association.
1:51:22
So if LeBron wants Ron Artest or Metta World Peace to run that
1:51:26
organization, so be it. I'm gonna give myself credit,
1:51:28
say I'm, I'm just ready. I don't need anybody's approval.
1:51:32
I am. I'm ready.
1:51:34
I'm ready to go. I'm just waiting for an
1:51:37
opportunity. But you know, it's so exciting.
1:51:39
I'm going back to coach my girls again.
1:51:41
You know, it's been, it's been a hell of a ride.
1:51:44
I mean, you got people coming from Division One kept trying to
1:51:47
come back down, you know, and without NIL money.
1:51:49
So imagine that. They say I can't develop how I'm
1:51:52
in college, coaching college for seven years.
1:51:54
That's the development. That's a new freshman every
1:51:56
year, right? That's real development.
1:51:59
So, but I really do love it and thanks for giving me the
1:52:02
platform. Absolutely.
1:52:03
To talk about how great I am as a coach.
1:52:06
Meta First of all, I just want to let you know we wanted you to
1:52:08
come back on the show. We would love for you to come
1:52:11
back on the show and interact with us.
1:52:14
You know your foot, you know your basketball, I'm sure you
1:52:16
know your football, you know a lot about sports.
1:52:18
You've been all over the place and you've done so many great
1:52:21
things, not only in basketball. For all the different things
1:52:24
that you've done outside of basketball, it's pretty amazing.
1:52:26
We really appreciate you joining us.
1:52:28
Thanks for having me guys, hopefully you can have me again.
1:52:30
Absolutely, we'll do. Thank you, Metta.
1:52:33
We really appreciate it. Metta.
1:52:34
World Peace, ladies and gentlemen.
1:52:36
Fantastic. The fact that he joined us, he's
1:52:39
got his kids in the car, he's hanging out with the fam.
1:52:43
We really appreciate him. Thank you, Nathan.
1:52:45
Nathan, you got to give. Nathan.
1:52:46
Got to give the Nathan some credit here as the the
1:52:50
Nathmeister landed the great Metta World Peace.
1:52:53
He's doing so many great things right now in LA.
1:52:56
We want him to come back to New York.
1:52:58
Damn you, New York. I'm just kidding.
1:53:00
We'll see. Mike Brown.
1:53:02
Mike Brown's up 100 and 11:57. Thank you.
1:53:06
Great freaking interview with Meta at World Peace.
1:53:08
He had some interesting details. I didn't think he'd go in depth
1:53:11
like that into all the fights he had.
1:53:13
That was real interesting if you're a big Meta fan.
1:53:15
Like I thought he really was fantastic.
1:53:18
What? What a great guest.
1:53:19
He was and he's, he's just a great personality.
1:53:22
All the things that he's done, all the trials and tribulations
1:53:24
the guy's been through, it's pretty amazing.
1:53:27
And, and, and to me, if you look at his career, he always wanted
1:53:31
to be a Nick. Always wanted to be a Nick.
1:53:34
I remember, I remember the draft.
1:53:36
I was a kid. I was a kid.
1:53:38
I was in high school and I was like, I want meta.
1:53:40
I want meta. Well, I wanted Ron Artest.
1:53:42
I want Ron Artest. I want Ron Artest.
1:53:44
And I remember the Knicks were sitting there, if I'm not
1:53:47
mistaken, they were sitting there at 10 or 11 and, and they
1:53:50
passed up on Ron Artest. I was pissed.
1:53:54
I was pissed when they passed up on him.
1:53:57
He goes to the Bulls and we all know where where it all went.
1:54:00
Then he eventually went to Indiana and had his career
1:54:02
started. His career really just
1:54:04
completely elevated and and became the player now, now we
1:54:08
call Metta World Peace. So it's an amazing story and the
1:54:11
guys got a great personalities, personality.
1:54:14
He absolutely could be a coach in the NBA, 100% could be a
1:54:17
coach in the NBA and everybody would thrive.
1:54:20
To him, this guy was a great defensive player, great
1:54:22
offensive player, defensive player of the year, and he did
1:54:25
all The Dirty work. Everywhere he went.
1:54:28
He was really Kobe's protector. When he went to the Lakers, he
1:54:31
was out there protecting Kobe. Anybody pushed, anybody shoved
1:54:34
Kobe, he was the guy to get into your face.
1:54:37
He's to me. I've always loved him, always
1:54:40
loved him, always Rudy for him. And he did play for the Knicks
1:54:43
for three months. It wasn't long enough, but it
1:54:45
was at the tail end of his career.
1:54:47
But very happy to have him on the show.
1:54:49
And we got to give Nathan a lot of credit.
1:54:51
Nathan was the. One that but yeah, he had AI
1:54:54
could definitely see him coming in as a great coach and probably
1:54:57
having a, you know, Hall of Fame type coaching career like Doc
1:55:01
Rivers and and whatnot. So I really.
1:55:03
Oh please stop with this Doc Rivers crap.
1:55:08
Speedy. I just think he'd be like as
1:55:10
crazy as Joe Missoula, but way scarier because let's face it,
1:55:14
he would kill you. He's Joe.
1:55:16
Stratner should get so Joe could kill Son.
1:55:19
He's got he's twice Joe. He ain't Joe.
1:55:21
I mean, I'm not saying. Joe, What's he killing?
1:55:23
A rat? The real.
1:55:26
Question. Is if he does take the Lakers
1:55:27
job, how would he coach Brody James?
1:55:31
Oh please. The guy that shouldn't be in the
1:55:35
NBA right now. And actually develop at a lot
1:55:40
faster rate with better World Peace at his coach.
1:55:42
We should probably next time we have him on in like 8, like
1:55:46
whenever it is that JJ Reddick gets fired, we should ask.
1:55:52
Him if. It's wow, that's how that series
1:55:53
goes, you know? JJ, he's getting fired.
1:55:57
There's no way if LeBron James leaves and he goes to the cabs.
1:56:00
I know everybody heard, everybody seen Luka Doncic.
1:56:02
Yeah, he actually JJ Reddick, like the coat that he was
1:56:05
wearing was all over social media.
1:56:07
And then JJ was a Dior. It was Christian Dior jacket.
1:56:10
And he went and he bought him the same jacket.
1:56:12
And it's cool. I mean, when you're making
1:56:14
millions and millions of dollars, I'd buy him a, a
1:56:16
$15,000 jacket. I mean, that's like pennies.
1:56:21
That's like pennies to a guy like Luka Doncic who has a
1:56:23
sneaker deal like he has. So I, I mean, it's cool, but
1:56:27
there's no way JJ Redick has a job over there.
1:56:29
If LeBron decides to go to Cleveland, I'm just, I, I can't
1:56:32
see it. He's going to pick his coach.
1:56:34
Whoever he wants there is going to happen anyway.
1:56:37
I don't know. That's, that's a good question.
1:56:40
That's no, I don't think it's Tyron.
1:56:43
It's going to be It's going to be somebody like Jason Kidd if
1:56:45
he becomes available. If Jason Kidd gets fired, which
1:56:48
a lot of people believe he might, Jason Kidd is definitely
1:56:51
the next guy to get that job with the Lakers.
1:56:53
A hundred 100% because him and Luca are like this.
1:56:57
He did not want Luka Doncic being traded from Dallas.
1:57:00
He thought Dallas screwed him and really affected the growth
1:57:04
of this team. They went all the way to the
1:57:05
finals and then they traded him the next year.
1:57:08
It made no sense. That made Nico Harrison actually
1:57:10
made no sense. It made no sense.
1:57:13
Just so, everybody. Got the first pick.
1:57:14
What do you mean it made no sense?
1:57:15
Yeah, yeah, because, because the LJ gave them the first pick.
1:57:19
That's why we gifted you Luka Doncic.
1:57:21
Let's reward the worst GM ever. But they're going to the first
1:57:24
overall pick and they're going to gift them another top four
1:57:26
pick this year. I mean, what else do they need?
1:57:29
They might as well get everything anyway.
1:57:31
I. Actually have something exactly
1:57:33
what you're talking about, this great story and dial it up.
1:57:36
I'm sure you're going to love it.
1:57:38
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we call this All righty, then
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1 today. Now I'm going to read you this.
1:59:04
Is for you. Q.
1:59:06
From this article before we start.
1:59:09
All right, hold on. We are a little frozen in the
1:59:10
backstage. Oh wow, please Harry this up.
1:59:16
Blow my back out. Yeah.
1:59:21
Soundtrack back there in the back speed and you kill it.
1:59:25
Dildo. That's bad.
1:59:26
Jabba likes my shrimp cocktail. My.
1:59:28
Rear end thanks Errol for all the sound effects while I was
1:59:32
having technical difficulties. That's actually the first time
1:59:35
they've ever been useful in the show's history.
1:59:37
That was a fantastic job by you. Caitlin Clark just sold out
1:59:43
sneakers faster than concert tickets.
1:59:45
The WNBA better build her statue before Nike does.
1:59:51
Let's take a look at this article.
1:59:52
Here she is. Caitlin Clark.
1:59:54
Caitlin Clarke Nike Kobe 5 Pro TRO Rookie of the Year Sneakers
1:59:58
didn't just sell out, they vanished faster than the Mets
2:00:01
lead in the 8th inning. What she gonna happen tonight?
2:00:04
Within minutes, the shoes were gone.
2:00:06
Poof finished, reduced to sneaker resale purgatory where
2:00:10
desperate fans now have to sell a kidney to get a pair.
2:00:13
The $190.00 sneakers immediately hit resale markers for well
2:00:17
built retail after the drop sold out in mere minutes.
2:00:21
And if you're asking whether Caitlin Clark is the biggest
2:00:24
superstar in sports right now, buddy, she might be.
2:00:27
Or at minimum, she's in the conversation with the kind of
2:00:30
momentum most athletes would sacrifice a back for a backup
2:00:33
point guard for. Let's take a look through some
2:00:35
of the rest of the article. Caitlin Clark is not just the
2:00:38
WNBA star, she's a sports business nuclear weapon.
2:00:42
What she's already done in her career.
2:00:44
One MWNBA Rookie of the Year helped drive record attendance
2:00:47
and TV ratings for the league. Become one of the most
2:00:50
marketable athletes in America? That's absurd.
2:00:54
She's basically doing for the WNBA what Steph Curry did for
2:00:57
the NBA. If Steph arrived with a
2:00:59
flamethrower, a billion social media followers and sneaker
2:01:04
heads foaming at the mouth, Speedy.
2:01:08
All right, we'll start with a more generic one.
2:01:10
To start. This is KBD 13.
2:01:12
He he says, no, it's Kobe. If they weren't Kobe's shoes,
2:01:15
these numbers would be minimal. Well, first.
2:01:18
Thank you KBD. I'm sorry, but that one.
2:01:20
KBD, thank you for your your message, but you're wrong.
2:01:24
Kobe's sneaker was not the one that exploded sneakers.
2:01:27
It was Michael Jordan's. Jordan's in eight in the 80s
2:01:31
from 85 all the way through. He changed the sneaker deals.
2:01:34
He opened the floodgates. But right now, I've never seen a
2:01:39
sneaker sell out as fast as her sneakers done in minutes.
2:01:43
This she's the first woman to ever do that and she is changing
2:01:46
the game, changing the sneaker game.
2:01:49
Go ahead. All right, so this one kind of
2:01:51
agreeing with you, this is Evan P11.
2:01:52
She's going to get the signature to end all signatures, probably
2:01:55
a tier above the highest tech Nike models like KD and LeBron,
2:01:58
and even more than Wembe because big man's shoes are not going to
2:02:01
sell as much because of the size of the shoe.
2:02:02
Obviously, Evan, she has changed the world.
2:02:05
She's changed the women's basketball world.
2:02:07
She's changed the NBAI don't think we'll ever see a woman
2:02:11
play in an NBA game, but what she has done, she's opened the
2:02:14
floodgates to see that women can take and dominate a professional
2:02:19
sport. She is the transition that
2:02:22
everybody was waiting for. She's everything you want as
2:02:25
not, not just as a woman, but changing the the values of where
2:02:31
professional sports is going. I think it's great.
2:02:33
This is great for professional sports.
2:02:35
It's great for basketball. NBAWNBA.
2:02:38
She is going to be a rocket ship for the WNBA to get billions and
2:02:44
billions of dollars of contracts.
2:02:45
As we've seen, they just got their first billion dollar
2:02:48
contract. After that's up in the next 10
2:02:50
years, she's going to bring in another 6-7 billion dollars.
2:02:53
She is amazing and so easy to sell.
2:02:57
All right, this one is from 2:20 X.
2:02:58
These shoes took the whole beta sell out, then it went back on
2:03:00
sale a few days later. What a joke.
2:03:02
These were easily the worst of the CC Kobe 5.
2:03:05
First of all, you could say whatever you want.
2:03:08
You could say that. You joke a woman's sneaker is
2:03:11
selling out and then being brought back and they're trying
2:03:14
to find ways to bring it back into the stores.
2:03:16
And first of all, here in New York, they only had a certain
2:03:19
amount of those sneakers selling in all the stores because
2:03:22
they're very hard to get. They sold out on the Internet,
2:03:26
sold out on the Internet. To say that that's not amazing
2:03:30
that a woman's sneaker is selling that fast, it's crazy.
2:03:33
It is Kobe's sneaker. It is the fact that Kobe's name
2:03:36
is branded to it. Who cares?
2:03:38
What she's doing right now is changing the game for women's
2:03:42
basketball. All right, this one is from OK
2:03:45
Astronaut 2258. She's going a brand, not the
2:03:48
league. The league doesn't cover the
2:03:50
majority of players, and it's hard for fans to realize that.
2:03:52
He kind of extends it further. I didn't have room to show it
2:03:54
all. He was mentioning a lot of the
2:03:56
the casual fans are the only ones that care about Caitlin
2:03:58
Clark compared to the hardcore WWE fans.
2:04:01
OK, you're probably right. You're absolutely right.
2:04:03
You see, Q, he's he doesn't give a crap about Caitlin Clark.
2:04:06
He's got his own opinion, and that's fine.
2:04:09
But here's the here's the facts. She is going to change the game.
2:04:13
Say whatever you want. You hate her, love her,
2:04:15
disrespect her. This woman is changing the game.
2:04:18
She's helped the college game, and now she's helping the WNBA.
2:04:22
These women are not going to have to go overseas anymore.
2:04:24
They're going to get sneaker deals, everything.
2:04:27
They're going to get all these different opportunities to make
2:04:29
money. Why?
2:04:30
Because at Caitlin Clark, why do you want to hate her?
2:04:34
You should love her. All right, last.
2:04:36
One from Nomad Chief 789 taking shots of the WA and WNBA.
2:04:41
Maybe not loving her as much as they do.
2:04:43
The WMA will allow her to get treated like a ping pong ball.
2:04:45
That league will kill the golden goose the way it's run right now
2:04:48
instead of protecting their prized assets.
2:04:51
Norman, I agree completely with you.
2:04:54
I don't understand why none of these women want to stand behind
2:04:57
her. She has done so many things for
2:05:00
the WNBA. She's not going out there and
2:05:02
saying she's the best. She's going out there and making
2:05:04
more money for the WNBA growth. That's what you want to see.
2:05:09
The WNBA was falling apart. They were never getting this
2:05:12
billion dollar deal. Now all of a sudden Caitlin
2:05:14
Clark comes in and she's selling out games.
2:05:16
People are buying $400.00 tickets to go and watch Caitlin
2:05:20
Clark. It's pretty amazing.
2:05:23
How could you sit here and and attack her for what she's doing?
2:05:26
You're Norman me and you agree absolutely, totally that this
2:05:30
woman is changing the game. Why is anybody attacking her for
2:05:34
it? It's pathetic.
2:05:35
It's pathetic. Stand behind her all.
2:05:40
Right. I'm I'm going to have a heart
2:05:42
attack. How do you hate this woman?
2:05:45
How does anybody hate this woman?
2:05:47
All right, she's not the only WNBA player.
2:05:50
You're right. She's not.
2:05:51
That's fine. You don't want to give her
2:05:53
credit. Kudos.
2:05:53
Don't want to give her credit. That's fine.
2:05:55
But what she's doing for the WNBA, what she's doing for the
2:05:59
the WNBA is going to change the opportunities for these women.
2:06:04
That's what's going on right now.
2:06:06
More money is being brought to the table.
2:06:09
These women are not going to have to go to Spain, Portugal,
2:06:12
Argentina to go and play basketball.
2:06:15
They could stay here in America and make a ton of money.
2:06:17
Why? Because of a woman named Caitlin
2:06:20
Clark. And you're going to attack her
2:06:21
for it? OK, that's fine.
2:06:24
That's your prerogative. My prerogative is I'm going to
2:06:26
Rep her. I'm going to transition and tell
2:06:29
you she is the great Caitlin Clark.
2:06:34
The great Caitlin Clark, ladies and gentlemen.
2:06:37
That's why I wear her jerseys. That's why I wrap her.
2:06:41
And that's why, ladies and gentlemen, her sneakers will
2:06:44
continue selling out. Lovely.
2:06:47
That's why I wrote that to. How many people read that story,
2:06:49
Speedy? How many?
2:06:50
Because I. Put it in.
2:06:51
I put it in like the Nike group and the main basketball shoes
2:06:55
group. I got about 27,027 thousand
2:06:58
people read that story and I think everybody for reading it
2:07:01
hate it or love it. I'm out there to support
2:07:05
everything that's going good in professional sports.
2:07:08
I'm going to go out there. I'm not going to turn down
2:07:10
anything. And if anybody wants to attack
2:07:12
what I say, fine. I don't care.
2:07:14
That's fine to me. That's who I am.
2:07:17
I'm going to attack back. I'll bite your head off, I'll
2:07:19
bite your fingers off, and if I'm down on the ground, I'll
2:07:21
bite your toes off. That's what I'll do.
2:07:23
Here's going to create a Reddit account just to fight a bunch of
2:07:25
Angel Reese. Fans, right?
2:07:27
But don't worry about that, ladies and gentlemen.
2:07:28
He don't have two front teeth so therefore he wouldn't be biting.
2:07:31
First of all, I do have two front teeth.
2:07:34
I'm waiting for my teeth to come.
2:07:37
All right, you got about two weeks, ladies and gentlemen, 2
2:07:39
weeks, can't bite nothing. Screw you.
2:07:42
Kill one. I can't stand you, man.
2:07:44
I can't stand you. You do piss me off, man.
2:07:47
Sometimes I tell you something up.
2:07:48
There it is. I'll be drinking more than I'm
2:07:51
going. To do it already released it, I
2:07:53
have room to say something. You released it already.
2:07:55
You did your press release in the beginning of this show.
2:07:57
I have that. I can say something about it
2:07:59
now. I didn't make that face.
2:08:00
By the way, Qi did not make that face.
2:08:03
That was not my face, by the way.
2:08:05
I did not make that face. And I did not have to blow out
2:08:07
any candles. I told Brittany I was not
2:08:10
blowing out any candles and I was not having cake.
2:08:13
I do not want that. No, I'm not.
2:08:15
What you got to get scandals? Right.
2:08:17
I don't. It's embarrassing anybody.
2:08:20
Embarrassing. It's embarrassing.
2:08:22
You go to a restaurant and the first thing they're going to do
2:08:24
is come out and clap their hands.
2:08:26
Happy, happy joy, joy, happy, happy joy, joy.
2:08:28
I mean like, give me a break. I don't want to be happy.
2:08:30
Joy, joy. That's some of them.
2:08:32
That's what they say. I mean it.
2:08:34
Must be Italian. Whatever they want to say.
2:08:36
That's like Ren and Cynthia or something.
2:08:38
That's fantastic reference. Well, thank you anyways.
2:08:41
We call this Are you ready speedy inside baseball.
2:08:45
Now let's go deep. Deep what?
2:08:48
I am excited. This is inside baseball.
2:08:52
Let's go, ladies and gentlemen. We got a lot to get to do with
2:08:56
some baseball conversation. Let's start with the Yankees,
2:09:01
shall we? The Yankees are doing pretty
2:09:03
barn well right now. They just split a series in
2:09:06
Texas, had some injuries that we should probably talk about.
2:09:11
Dominguez, they brought him up. It's hit by a pitch on the
2:09:14
elbow. X-rays are inconclusive.
2:09:18
Got a CAT scan today. We'll find out if he has to hit
2:09:21
the ill tomorrow. They just brought him up to
2:09:23
replace Stanton, who has a calf injury.
2:09:26
All right, we're probably not going to see him for the next
2:09:28
six weeks, but again, I don't think anyone's really
2:09:32
complaining because we know Stanton just needs to be healthy
2:09:35
when we get to the playoffs. We know he still could play.
2:09:37
Garrett Cole successfully completed his third rehab start
2:09:41
yesterday, throwing 6 innings. Looks like he's probably going
2:09:45
to be back for his next start. Lewis heel was optioned to AAA.
2:09:49
He's really the only Yankee pitcher in the rotation that
2:09:52
couldn't get it going so far in the regular season first place.
2:09:57
Why is anybody complaining? They were in first place?
2:10:01
The Yankees are going to have injuries.
2:10:02
It's 162 game season. Here's the great thing about the
2:10:05
Yankees. When players go down, you bring
2:10:08
players up and go see what they just brought up.
2:10:10
Elma Rodriguez, which everybody couldn't wait to see a guy that
2:10:13
could throw 103 mph coming out of the bullpen.
2:10:17
It's an absolute great thing to see some of these young players
2:10:21
get called up. Eventually we're going to see
2:10:22
Jones. That's what we want to see.
2:10:24
That's what I've been waiting for.
2:10:26
Yankee fans, we're winning. There's no complaints.
2:10:30
Everybody knew that John Carlos Stanton wasn't going to stay
2:10:32
healthy all season. John Carlos Stan was the only
2:10:34
one that didn't believe they were going to stay healthy all
2:10:37
he was going to be healthy all season.
2:10:38
So ladies and gentlemen, I'm I'm dancing because the Yankees are
2:10:43
in first place in all of the American League.
2:10:46
Yeah, they have a leeway now with the rest of the outside of
2:10:50
the race. The rest of the American League
2:10:51
is struggling to get these kids up and get them comfortable in
2:10:53
these types of roles. Rodriguez, like Errol saying,
2:10:55
use the velocity right away to get that fastball going more in
2:11:00
that like lesser innings and then bullpen type role, which I
2:11:02
imagine once Gary Cole and grow down, get healthy, they're going
2:11:05
to transition him into that. So they're going to get him
2:11:07
working. I always say with the Yankees,
2:11:08
and I think they did this well with Severino at times, they did
2:11:10
it well with some of the other young pitchers in early in Aaron
2:11:13
Boone's tenure. They used him, got him used to
2:11:15
being in the bullpen at points where they could prep him mid
2:11:18
transition or starter later. And then Dominguez unfortunately
2:11:21
gets hurt. He gets his chance, finally gets
2:11:22
hurt. But if he gets another chance,
2:11:24
we'll see what he does in Lombard.
2:11:26
I know Jabba was talking about it last year, a fast riser in
2:11:29
that farm system. Hold on.
2:11:31
Garrick Cole will be back very soon.
2:11:34
Schmidt will be back very soon. Rodon will be back very soon.
2:11:38
Who has all these riches? The New York Yankees.
2:11:42
Nobody's complaining right now. The Yankees are 20 and 11:00.
2:11:45
They have a 645 percentage right now, winning percentage.
2:11:48
They're eight and five at home, 12 and six away, and they're
2:11:51
eight and two in the last 10 games.
2:11:53
Nobody's crying except maybe somebody at second base because
2:11:58
he's not getting an 8 year deal. I can guarantee you that.
2:12:01
So. Guess what though, you're
2:12:03
underselling it. Lombard junior was just promoted
2:12:06
to AAA after destroying AA. He's going to be ready next year
2:12:10
it looks like. And now Volpig is the candidate
2:12:15
to come back and take the roster spot of Dominguez if he has to
2:12:18
go on the IL. So we may be getting the entire
2:12:22
offense and the big elite pitching back within the next
2:12:25
three weeks and see what this team can really do.
2:12:27
I'm going to tell you this right now.
2:12:28
Anthony Volpe was not 100% healthy last year.
2:12:31
For all the Yankee fans that were putting them down and
2:12:33
screaming that he stinks, he stinks.
2:12:35
He couldn't throw to first base. It was because of his arm.
2:12:38
Now he's getting healthy. I'm telling you right now,
2:12:41
Anthony Volpe is a future 2nd baseman for the New York
2:12:44
Yankees. Jazz Chism is going to be traded
2:12:47
at the trade deadline because the Yankees aren't going to
2:12:49
extend them. They're going to try to get as
2:12:50
much talent back for him, and they're going to move Anthony
2:12:53
Volpe in a second, Lombard over there to shortstop, and the
2:12:56
Yankees are going to solidify their infield for many, many
2:12:59
years. Home run.
2:13:01
Let's go, baby, let's go. All right, how do you feel about
2:13:07
Rodriguez now? Rodriguez, he's probably only up
2:13:10
for a cup of coffee because those guys are coming back,
2:13:13
right? He wasn't great when he was up.
2:13:15
He throws hard, you know, speedy what, what's the scouting report
2:13:19
on him? What is it that he's got to work
2:13:21
on to, you know, be an impact player on this roster?
2:13:24
Can he be a guy they bring up for the bit, the bullpen for the
2:13:28
stretch run later this season? That's what I'm thinking because
2:13:30
I think if he's going to trust his fastball at the beginning of
2:13:33
his career, you would imagine that's more of a relief pitcher
2:13:35
type guy. A guy that you worry about,
2:13:37
maybe he's a starter that could overthrow and maybe get too
2:13:40
trusting of that velocity in games where again, these Major
2:13:44
League hitters are going to figure it out.
2:13:45
Now the cliche across base baseball is it's usually harder
2:13:48
to figure out a rookie pitcher than it is a rookie hitter when
2:13:51
they first come up. And because these guys aren't
2:13:54
used to it, it's still harder to get out if you're a hitter than
2:13:56
even the best hitters only get a hitter one out of three times.
2:13:59
So the cliche is that. But I think with the Yankee
2:14:02
situation, I agree with Fish. I think get the best approach is
2:14:04
to get him in the bullpen, maybe a spot start on occasionally as
2:14:07
an opener, but until he gets his other pitches expanded I don't
2:14:10
see him being a full time starter yet.
2:14:14
OK, let's go talk about the team on the other side of the city.
2:14:18
They're not doing near, not doing nearly as well.
2:14:22
The story really was, you know, about are they going to pull the
2:14:27
the cord and fire Mendoza? That still might happen.
2:14:30
It hasn't happened yet, but they've had some injuries.
2:14:34
Louis Robert Junior has a herniated disc in his lower
2:14:38
back. That's not particularly good for
2:14:40
a baseball player. That's a swing, a baseball bat
2:14:42
and run in center field. He we're not going to see him
2:14:45
for a little while. That's not good.
2:14:47
That was the big signing by Stearns to replace Brandon
2:14:50
Nimmo, right? Kodai Senga.
2:14:53
Everyone was so high on him. I was thinking about him as a
2:14:56
sleeper in fantasy this year. He's been got off for.
2:15:00
He's another one with a lower back inflammation.
2:15:04
Not good. We know Lynn Doors got the calf
2:15:06
the day that's. Lindor is a big one.
2:15:08
It's a big one. Polanco still down with the
2:15:11
wrist, risk for the risk for a power hitter.
2:15:14
Not a good thing to have injured.
2:15:16
I mean, it's terrible. And Jared Young, the guy that
2:15:18
they brought up to that everyone was real high on, he tore his
2:15:21
meniscus. So they're screwed.
2:15:24
I don't know if it's Mendoza's fault.
2:15:26
He shouldn't have to take the fall if they're trying to now.
2:15:29
AAA guys. It is David Stearns fault.
2:15:31
I've been saying this over and over and over again.
2:15:34
He's the one who built this team.
2:15:35
He was the one out there saying boba shet, Boba shet.
2:15:38
We come over to the third. He wasn't even a great
2:15:40
shortstop. We're going to sit here and
2:15:42
we're going to complain about this.
2:15:43
Boba Shet hasn't hit. Lindor can't stay healthy.
2:15:46
Juan Soto can't stay healthy. Polanco can't stay healthy.
2:15:49
Nobody can stay healthy. And you're going to blame a
2:15:51
manager who's been throwing everything out there he can and
2:15:55
everybody's been sitting here linked or and so does the other
2:15:57
one that sticks up for him. And those are two guys that
2:15:59
don't like each other, the locker room and as far as the
2:16:02
dugout they don't like. There's a lot of people on that
2:16:05
dugout that don't like each other.
2:16:06
You can see it. They traded Brandon Nimmo.
2:16:09
Brandon Nimmo was one of the leaders.
2:16:10
Alonzo was one of the leaders. McNeil was one of the leaders.
2:16:13
You traded 3 guys. You let go three guys that were
2:16:17
leaders in that locker room. And what did you bring in?
2:16:19
You brought in a bunch of me players.
2:16:21
Me, me, me. And that's why the New York Mets
2:16:25
stick and the Mets are going nowhere this year.
2:16:27
David Stern should be losing his job.
2:16:29
Mendoza should be losing his job.
2:16:31
Bring Mark DeRosa in. I've been saying it.
2:16:34
Bring it to New York. I like Mark DeRosa.
2:16:37
If the Yankees don't want them, bring them with the Mets.
2:16:40
I'll root for the Mets, too. Mark DeRosa, I'm out there for
2:16:44
him. So you know it's rock bottom
2:16:45
when there was a Instagram post on bet MGM posting that Brandon
2:16:49
Nimmo has a 823. I think OPS Pete Alonso, even in
2:16:54
a in a down year is still in the 750 range.
2:16:57
And then Jeff McNeil is it has a 739 OPS, which he hasn't done I
2:17:01
think ever as a bet in a full season.
2:17:03
I think he did when he first came up with 2018 to half a
2:17:05
season and then Marcus Simeon, 585, Beau Bichette, 575.
2:17:10
And a low flyer risk. We knew he was going to say it.
2:17:13
Speeding. Say it.
2:17:14
What do they do with them? What do they do with them?
2:17:17
David Stearns, What do the Mets do with them?
2:17:19
Well, they'll keep them as long as Say it.
2:17:20
Say it. You're fired.
2:17:22
Say it. No, I'm not.
2:17:24
I'm not, Josh. I'm not going to do wrestling
2:17:25
promos. You're fire.
2:17:27
I'll let Josh do that on his show.
2:17:28
At that point, that's what I'd be doing.
2:17:30
Yeah. I Yeah, Because I'd be out there
2:17:32
going to a Met game and I'd be like, you're fired, you're
2:17:35
fired. David Stearns, you're fired.
2:17:37
Yeah. You and Josh could go for a old
2:17:39
school fire and make those kind of analogies work.
2:17:42
I know for sure a wrestling fan, you could definitely kind of
2:17:43
make that kind of thing. I'm not a wrestling fan anymore,
2:17:45
but I just old school. I got to throw it out there.
2:17:48
I got to throw it out there. Vince McMahon, you're fired
2:17:50
because that's where David Stearns needs to be.
2:17:53
That team is an absolute debacle.
2:17:56
Get him out. He's following him out since the
2:17:57
last year straight deadline when that was an absolute debacle as
2:18:00
well. Getting Cedric Mullins, getting
2:18:01
three relief pitchers that did not work out.
2:18:02
They tried to trade for robbery last year and that would have
2:18:04
been an absolute disaster as well because he didn't hit in
2:18:06
the second-half of the season. Now he's hurt again.
2:18:08
Polanco, who you pay $20 million for for one year, he's hurt now,
2:18:12
and he's a fluky player to begin with.
2:18:14
So, yeah, you could have a couple stars that are playing
2:18:17
reasonably well. McLean, Clay Holmes actually
2:18:19
pitched pretty well. But when you don't have to have
2:18:21
hitting it all for offense are supposed to be a top five
2:18:24
offense on paper. And as Mike Francesa always
2:18:28
said, they stink. Yeah, that might be accurate in
2:18:33
this case, because you're now you lost two out of.
2:18:34
Three to fish we. Talked about this.
2:18:36
They were the 4th worst team at the end of since the end of June
2:18:39
last year. The nationals were one of those
2:18:41
teams worst, but they lost two out of three to them.
2:18:44
I I have like a a number thing with statistic.
2:18:47
It's not exactly advanced statistic.
2:18:49
It's. Just my like ballpark thing.
2:18:50
Errol, you might appreciate this one.
2:18:52
It's not advanced. It's just like a fish statistic.
2:18:54
If your OPS is below 700, you're not a great player.
2:18:59
If you're below 600, you're not a Major League player.
2:19:02
Let me tell you, the OPS is on this Mets team right now.
2:19:05
Now Juan Soto is at 1000. We know Juan Soto's a great
2:19:09
player. He's one of the 10 best players,
2:19:10
if not 5 best hitters in all of the game.
2:19:14
Boba Chet is at a 589, not a Major League player.
2:19:21
MJ Melendez only got a few at bats, hasn't played a lot, so
2:19:23
he's got good numbers right now. He had a good day, hit the home
2:19:25
run today. Mark Vientos, 560 something.
2:19:30
Brett Beatty 566. Marcus Semion, 566, Bench 526.
2:19:42
Alvarez is at 7. 18 but again he's been out and Ronnie
2:19:46
Mauricio just joined the team but he's at a like not even 400.
2:19:50
There are like 3 Major League players on this roster right
2:19:54
now. Not good, not good man fans not
2:19:57
good at all. Rock bottom.
2:20:00
Rock. Bottom little Eminem song.
2:20:03
Rock bottom. Really, really.
2:20:06
I don't want to sing. The metro aren't worthy for a
2:20:08
rapper like I don't want to. Scare anybody away so.
2:20:10
I'm not singing on the show. So do they fire Mendoza?
2:20:13
Are they just going to like, throw them to the wolf?
2:20:15
They're going to get out until the end of the month.
2:20:17
They're going to wait until the All Star break and then they're
2:20:19
going to fire him. They're going to give it time.
2:20:21
Because you get a couple of, you get like a week and a half to
2:20:23
get somebody in there to learn that roster.
2:20:25
I think they wait. David Sterns will wait.
2:20:28
He'll bring somebody in or bring a bench coach.
2:20:30
Gibbons, right, Probably him in. If he fails, David Stearns will
2:20:34
go in the offseason, and so will this whole coaching staff, which
2:20:38
is horrible. We're just all higher this year.
2:20:40
But besides Mendoza, yes. All right, let's move on.
2:20:45
All right, This one's real wild one.
2:20:47
The Phillies had a real slow start to the season.
2:20:49
No defense. No.
2:20:50
Pitching to be found on that roster to start the year with
2:20:53
Wheeler hurt, Lizardo struggling out the gate.
2:20:55
He's been a little bit better recently, but they fired Rob
2:20:59
Thompson after all the accolades and how everyone kind of
2:21:03
recognized him, I thought is one of the five best managers in the
2:21:06
game. I think everyone kind of felt
2:21:07
that way. Well, I guess you know, one
2:21:11
man's trash is going to be another man's treasure with
2:21:13
Thompson. But Don Mattingly gets to become
2:21:16
the interim manager right now. Although the Phillies, before
2:21:19
they gave it to Mattingly, offered the job to Alex Korra,
2:21:23
who was fired the day before or two days before by the Red Sox,
2:21:27
said no. Alex Korra doesn't want this
2:21:29
team. He wants to go to a young team
2:21:30
if the Padres open up. For a new coach next year, new
2:21:33
manager next year, I could see him going there.
2:21:35
He'll go to a team that makes sense for him.
2:21:37
Maybe Houston. If if Houston wants to bring him
2:21:40
in as an assistant coach and assistant manager and maybe
2:21:43
become the manager in the future, that could happen.
2:21:45
He wants to go to an organization that makes sense
2:21:47
for him. I love Don Madam, but Rob
2:21:51
Thompson, this is a guy that took this team.
2:21:53
All the way. Over the last two years, this
2:21:55
team was one of the best teams in baseball with all the
2:21:58
injuries and all the different players that he had to bring up
2:22:01
and, and and develop. This guy has been one of the
2:22:04
best managers ever since he took over for Joe Girardi, he's been
2:22:07
one of the best managers in baseball, one of the more
2:22:09
successful managers. No, he hasn't won in World
2:22:11
Series. Aaron Boo never won a World
2:22:13
Series and has one of the best records right now as a manager
2:22:15
in all the baseball. I'm not going to sit there and
2:22:17
blame Rob Thompson on the lack of talent that they have.
2:22:21
Schwarber's old, they extended him.
2:22:23
Bryce Harper is old. They extended him.
2:22:26
To me. This is an old team and, and,
2:22:29
and Zach Wheeler, as good as he is, he hasn't looked the same
2:22:32
this year. Even coming back, he's been
2:22:33
fighting injury. This is an old team.
2:22:36
They now to get more youth and now they bring in Donnie
2:22:38
Baseball. I love Don Manningly, he's my
2:22:40
favorite player. Don Manley hasn't won anything
2:22:43
as a manager, as assistant manager, as a player.
2:22:47
Donnie, I hope you do well over there.
2:22:48
I hope you succeed. I hope you win over there.
2:22:51
The chances of that happen are very slim.
2:22:54
Just a SEC. I think the Phillies are
2:22:55
probably looking for that same kind of spark though, when
2:22:57
Thompson was higher because Thompson was hired as an interim
2:22:59
at the time in 2022 when things just got very stale with
2:23:02
Girardi. Girardi went there in 2019 to
2:23:05
restabilize a team that had like 9 straight losing seasons after
2:23:08
they had that core that went to the World Series and made it to
2:23:10
the NLCSA lot. And he stabilized it to get to a
2:23:14
World Series as a six seed in the first year of a new
2:23:17
expansion of it. And again, it just wears down in
2:23:19
a lot of these players. A lot of these players have big
2:23:21
egos and eventually caught up to them.
2:23:23
So I think they're trusting that same kind of spark with now a
2:23:26
different type of mindset. Thompson was a younger manager
2:23:28
at the time, Manual. He's more of an old school guy.
2:23:30
Maybe they're trusting maybe an older team, a veteran team that
2:23:33
is maybe in this last ditch. I thought the last ditch effort
2:23:35
was going to come for them last year because they were going to
2:23:37
be very cashed up. Like you were saying, Errol.
2:23:39
They couldn't really do much this offseason besides signing
2:23:41
their own players back, really. And they really were not
2:23:44
thinking about doing that either.
2:23:45
Yeah. And they barely were able to do
2:23:47
it with Schwarber because Schwarber had a better offer
2:23:48
from Cincinnati. He elected to take less to go to
2:23:50
Philadelphia. And maybe he maybe he regrets
2:23:53
that because of Coach Thompson, because of Coach Thompson.
2:23:56
He wanted to stay there with Coach Thompson and now he's
2:23:59
getting fired 3030 something games into the season.
2:24:03
It doesn't make any sense. Now.
2:24:04
Again, Schwarber was not on the team in 2022 when they did that.
2:24:07
They were looking for that spark somewhere else.
2:24:09
Maybe they can get that with the rest of the players.
2:24:11
Maybe Schwarber will buy in later in the season because he
2:24:13
is a good playoff player. Obviously he's still valuable
2:24:14
for that kind of thing and the on base percentage.
2:24:16
So I think they're trying to recreate the 20/20/22 team by
2:24:20
making this kind of move and hoping they can get a quick
2:24:21
switch. I don't think they're as dead as
2:24:23
the Mets are, but I still don't know if it'll happen.
2:24:27
All right, let's get into some of the injuries in the league
2:24:29
before we get out of this. Oh, I'm sorry, I have one more.
2:24:32
That's a real big one, Errol. You're going to like this story.
2:24:35
Shohei Ohtani has gotten some flak because of playoffs.
2:24:39
Maybe he isn't the superstar that we thought of him as during
2:24:43
the regular season. This year, Dave Roberts and the
2:24:46
Dodgers have taken a new approach.
2:24:48
They're not having him hit on days that he pitches.
2:24:50
It's the first time that they're doing that.
2:24:53
They had not done that before. He'd always hit when he pitched.
2:24:56
They're trying to keep him fresh for October.
2:24:59
Seems like a pretty logical thing.
2:25:00
They're going to be doing it on a start by start basis, but so
2:25:02
far they have not hit him and he's been one of the best
2:25:06
pitchers in baseball to start the season on top of being his
2:25:10
usual pretty awesome self on offense.
2:25:12
Well, interesting. We know that Shea Otani is one
2:25:15
of the top three top two players in the league.
2:25:17
You can argue. He's having a great season as a
2:25:20
pitcher. He's having probably his best
2:25:21
season as a pitcher. And maybe Dave Roberts has it
2:25:24
right. But I know Shay Ohtani wants to
2:25:26
be in that lineup. I know he wants to hit every
2:25:28
single time he pitches. But it's for the team.
2:25:31
They want to win another World Series because we all know
2:25:34
they're going on strike next year.
2:25:36
Major League Baseball is going on a strike and they're probably
2:25:38
not going to have much of A season next year.
2:25:40
So they want to win their third championship in a row, which a
2:25:44
lot of teams are going to have their own thoughts to that, But
2:25:46
we'll see what happens. But Otani is one of the best
2:25:49
players in baseball. He's a Unicorn, as we've heard
2:25:52
Alex Rodriguez say it, as we heard David Ortiz say it and
2:25:55
Derek Jeter say it. He's a special player.
2:25:57
He might this year win a Cy Young.
2:26:00
If he wins a Cy Young, he's probably not going to win the
2:26:02
MVP because I don't think he can do those two things at a high
2:26:07
clip. What he's doing right now.
2:26:09
Yeah, but you're trying to protect your asset because you
2:26:11
have all the other pitchers that are hurt right now.
2:26:13
You have a guy in Sasaki that's really struggled, obviously
2:26:15
Fish, you mentioned Blake Snell's injury, so.
2:26:17
You want to be able to. Do it where you have enough
2:26:19
depth with the offense to make it work.
2:26:21
They've they're hitting like crazy.
2:26:22
Like Errol saying last week, they're young hitters are
2:26:24
hitting like crazy too. And when you have that
2:26:26
combination, you want him to be able to pitch at the best level
2:26:28
he's ever pitched in his career. The hitting will come,
2:26:30
obviously, oh, Tony had that rough first couple weeks to
2:26:33
start the season. But this is a team like the
2:26:35
Yankees that have the luxury to be able to do this kind of
2:26:37
experiment now where you can make it easier for Otani to
2:26:40
pitch at this highest level. This is the best he's ever
2:26:42
pitched and you want him to be able to get to that next level
2:26:44
to be able to three peat. I think they probably 3 peat
2:26:47
anyway if they don't have enough injuries as it is, but they've
2:26:49
overcome injuries in the past. Who knows to make it work.
2:26:51
I I like this move a lot. We'll see how long it lasts, but
2:26:53
I think it's good. Yeah, they got glass now as like
2:26:58
the number two over there, right?
2:26:59
Now, because he's been absolutely.
2:27:01
Killing it. He's another guy though.
2:27:02
Always worry about him with the injuries.
2:27:04
His body is glass. That's that's why I call it
2:27:06
glass now. He he, his body is his bones.
2:27:09
Are like Glass, so had to say, well, let's talk about other
2:27:12
guys who are on the Mr. Glass injury report on here.
2:27:17
I was reveling in it when we talked about the Red Sox firing
2:27:20
Cora on Monday. Well, Garrett Crochet since then
2:27:25
has been placed on the 15 day IL with left shoulder inflammation.
2:27:30
Not what the left-handed pitcher wants to hear.
2:27:34
If there's a year to shut him down to make sure he's not hurt,
2:27:37
it would be now. I encourage all Red Sox
2:27:41
management to just give up on the season now and let us beat
2:27:44
you up all here. Trade them.
2:27:47
They're not going to do that. It's typical Red Sox fashion.
2:27:51
When they quit, they quit big and the season is not over.
2:27:54
There's a lot of baseball to be played.
2:27:56
There's a lot of baseball to be left.
2:27:58
And now all of a sudden they're giving up.
2:27:59
This sounds like the New York Rangers.
2:28:02
Chris Drury wrote a story. What?
2:28:04
What was it? What, what was the thing that he
2:28:05
said? The sequel of the letter, The
2:28:07
sequel of a letter. We're not rebuilding.
2:28:09
We're retooling. We're retooling, retooling.
2:28:13
And he writes it 30 games into the season when there's like 50.
2:28:17
Games. Left of the season and giving up
2:28:19
on the season. It made no sense.
2:28:21
But that's Chris Drury, and he still has their job.
2:28:24
And now the Red Sox are doing the same.
2:28:25
They gave up on Alex Corry. They gave up on their coaching
2:28:28
staff because they started off very, very slow it and then they
2:28:31
went 17 to 1 and then they still fire him.
2:28:34
Why? Because he lost against the
2:28:35
Yankees. It's very Celtic like, if you
2:28:38
know what I mean. The Knicks beat the Celtics in
2:28:40
the beginning of the season and Jaylen Brown had to call a team
2:28:43
meeting because the Knicks beat them.
2:28:45
Come on, are you kidding me? Please.
2:28:48
Yeah, it's going to be a lot. Going to have to transform this
2:28:50
culture change. I know a lot of these other
2:28:51
pictures in the absence of Crochet are going to step up in
2:28:54
the quantity. When you look at somebody as
2:28:56
Crochet who does a lot of innings, was a, I saw young
2:29:00
finalists last year with a heavy strikeout guy and his advanced
2:29:04
stats were very good With the White Sox has just never got
2:29:05
overshadowed because the White Sox were such a crappy team and
2:29:08
a crappy run organization. Now he goes to the Red Sox.
2:29:10
You think you're going to a more stable organization.
2:29:12
And then once he gets there, Craig Breslow makes a big drama
2:29:14
about Rafael Devers for five months.
2:29:16
Then he gets traded and the team rallies around it for a while,
2:29:19
good enough to make the playoffs.
2:29:20
So you have these young players that have the adversity and now
2:29:22
who the hell is Craig Breslow? I mean, a guy that is getting
2:29:26
way too much in the way, just like Chris Drury likes to do,
2:29:28
just like the Rangers organization Asia likes to do
2:29:30
with their players and wants to try to defend them recklessly
2:29:33
for whatever reason, except for Raphael Devers.
2:29:35
Then you can just get thrown to the wolves like he has.
2:29:37
But you have a case, just had to do that.
2:29:40
You have a case where now you're doing this with crochet and you
2:29:43
really you just paid him. A good contract.
2:29:45
Seven years, 175 for a guy that's a top 10, borderline top
2:29:48
five pitcher of baseball when he is healthy.
2:29:50
And now you're going to try to tamper with this and not do it
2:29:53
right? And you're right.
2:29:54
This is a team that doesn't look like it's quitting.
2:29:56
They've won a lot since they've fire Cora.
2:29:58
We'll see if it lasts. But yeah, it's not an ideal
2:30:01
situation where you want to get these young players into that
2:30:04
system. And Fish, you mentioned it last
2:30:05
year too, or I think either on Inside Baseball or on Goody's
2:30:08
segment, something like that with the the Red Sox pitching,
2:30:12
Red Sox prospect development thing that's supposed to be this
2:30:14
new age thing. Well, it's not going to do well
2:30:17
if they keep treating their players like this.
2:30:20
Yeah. I just love that they have crap
2:30:22
management now. It's just a beautiful.
2:30:24
Thing that they're going to suck.
2:30:25
Let's talk about some of the other.
2:30:28
You know, did you see Junior Caminero fouled the ball off the
2:30:31
plate and it bounced up and whacked him in the face and they
2:30:34
thought he broke his jaw? Didn't There was no fracture in
2:30:38
the jaw back in the lineup? I actually saw a kid in a Little
2:30:42
League game I was playing foul a ball and break his nose just on
2:30:46
a foul tip and smashed him in those.
2:30:48
You ever see anything like a freak injury like that?
2:30:51
Yeah, I've seen a kid foul a ball and hit an umpire in the
2:30:55
you know what not. Wearing a cup, you know where he
2:30:58
was, you know where he went. Paramedics, hospital, here we
2:31:02
come. No balls for him anymore,
2:31:05
probably. I remember it.
2:31:07
I I actually was humping in that game when I found out the umpire
2:31:11
wasn't wearing a cup over there and we had to call paramedics.
2:31:15
I mean, he was in a lot of pain. That was a pretty hard foul ball
2:31:18
right in his private area, speeding in his keister right
2:31:21
over there. Yeah.
2:31:22
For somebody as big as Common Arrow.
2:31:24
So you definitely don't want that.
2:31:25
I don't know how big he was over there.
2:31:26
We'd have to ask. Yeah.
2:31:27
I don't know about your your Little League story.
2:31:29
It wasn't a Little League. It was high school or high
2:31:32
school. OK.
2:31:32
But I know you've mentioned that story in the past.
2:31:34
I I can't, Joe, I mentioned other stories.
2:31:37
Not that story. Yeah, you did mention this one
2:31:39
too to some of our guests. But as far as Caminero, he's a
2:31:43
powerful guy. So you wonder if something like
2:31:45
that, how much it'll affect? Him.
2:31:46
You definitely. Don't want this for a race team
2:31:48
that's that's hot right now. Somebody's got to stab the
2:31:51
riches of the Blue Jays and the Red Sox struggling.
2:31:53
It's been the race so far and you want for them that dealing
2:31:55
with all these pitching injuries, you want them to be
2:31:57
able to keep it up. This is a guy that I had a lot
2:31:59
of power last year. Definitely showed it from the on
2:32:01
base percentage perspective too in the second-half of the
2:32:03
season, kept them competitive for a while.
2:32:04
So hopefully it's not too bad. But you always wonder with
2:32:06
somebody that big, I'm not, I just had I probably would have
2:32:10
kept them out another day personally.
2:32:12
You know, I it just with that with something you get shook in
2:32:15
the head. Like that, you never know it's
2:32:16
going to react. Remember what happened to Rizzo?
2:32:18
You know, he was playing pretty well for the Yankees.
2:32:20
And then he had this like, mystery concussion.
2:32:22
They didn't diagnose it. He played with it and he he
2:32:25
never was good again. He just couldn't really play
2:32:28
again. I just worry about weird things
2:32:30
with the head. Let's just some of the other
2:32:32
injuries. Javi Baez, Casey Mize and the
2:32:34
Tigers both got hurt on the same day.
2:32:36
Both on the IL ankle for Baez, abductor strain for Mize.
2:32:41
One of the better players. Brandon Woodruff left his start
2:32:45
today not looking good. His velocity was down like like
2:32:49
7 miles an hour. That usually means you have a
2:32:52
really bad injury in your arm. Elbow.
2:32:54
They're probably it's probably a Tommy John thing.
2:32:56
He just had his shoulder fixed. You say?
2:32:59
Kikuchi left with shoulder tightness today.
2:33:02
Trevor Rogers, a coochie, A coochie.
2:33:05
Speedy say that a coochie A coochie, A coochie like a
2:33:08
coochie. Coochie, coochie, coochie.
2:33:10
Kikuchi. Say it, Kikuchi.
2:33:13
OK, there we go. I don't know about that one.
2:33:17
There's 3 Rodgers brothers, the one on the Orioles that used to
2:33:20
be on the Marlins. He has a serious illness.
2:33:23
They're not saying what it is. Is he related to Aaron Rodgers?
2:33:27
No, no, no, D I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
2:33:30
He probably has a wife that actually exists.
2:33:32
You're sure it's not his hand? Brittany No.
2:33:35
Trevor Rodgers, I'm saying there's a vote I got.
2:33:38
That as a vote there. Hi, Brittany.
2:33:40
How are you? I'm good.
2:33:41
Let me go. I'm going to put my hands in.
2:33:43
My pants tonight. OK, let's do it.
2:33:45
Let's go, Errol. I'm trying to say a man is sick.
2:33:48
I'm just talking to my hands. We have Nathan's watching.
2:33:54
Best wishes to him, hopefully. He's not that sick.
2:33:57
He'll be coming back. Jonathan India was shut down for
2:33:59
the season. Labrum Repair and Jeffrey
2:34:02
Springs, who's now on the Sacramento A's.
2:34:06
I guess he's one of their. He's probably one of their best
2:34:09
pitchers. He left with an injury today as
2:34:12
well. That's the injury report inside
2:34:16
baseball. How wonderful.
2:34:18
There's a lot of injuries in professional sports.
2:34:20
This is what? Happens you.
2:34:21
Play at a high. Level and things happen.
2:34:24
We're going to cry about it. I mean, Q cries about a lot of
2:34:26
things. I mean, you know what he should
2:34:28
wear a hat says instead of no idols, it should be no idiots,
2:34:32
no idols, no idiots. There's a lot of idiots, I can
2:34:38
tell you. But anyways.
2:34:39
It's been a great. Show, thank you.
2:34:41
Thank you to Metta World Peace for joining us.
2:34:42
He was sensational. It was a great interview and
2:34:44
it's been a very strong show and a lot of arguing, as it always
2:34:48
is, ladies and gentlemen. So if you like arguing, you like
2:34:51
craziness, well, this is the show to listen to as we talk to
2:34:54
our hands like Aaron Rodgers does.
2:34:56
Hello, How are you? Well, I'm good.
2:34:58
How are you? I'm going to put my hand in my.
2:35:00
All right, let's go. All right, when we come back, we
2:35:03
got a lot more to go. We have let's parlay the NCAA
2:35:07
expands on 76 teams. We're going to get into that.
2:35:11
Dial it up. A lot more to go and no talk in
2:35:13
your hands. Please stop, Don't get your
2:35:15
hands. Do not copy me on this show.
2:35:17
This could be really, really bad.
2:35:18
But we got to go to a sports minute.
2:35:19
We'll be back after. This is a New York sports
2:35:25
loudmouth sports minute. All right, guys, Aaron Fishman
2:35:30
back at you with yet another. Sportsman, I've got a couple of
2:35:33
stories for you. Before we get into the scores
2:35:37
tonight. So while the Derby is fast
2:35:40
approaching this Saturday, a wild story involving a low point
2:35:44
in the New York Giants 2025 season and a thoroughbred
2:35:48
trainer at the Derby whose life was saved by witnessing the
2:35:52
moment Mark Tooth Acre. No, not a dentist, a trainer for
2:35:56
Spendthrift Farms will be on hand to watch the Derby this
2:36:00
weekend, but will not be actively working the event.
2:36:03
Apparently last December when Tooth Acre was watching the
2:36:06
Giant and season replacement kicker Young Wei Ku whipping on
2:36:11
a field goal, kicking the ground and getting his foot stuck in
2:36:14
it, he laughed so hard that he had a seizure.
2:36:18
Upon reaching the hospital, Tooth Acre was discovered to
2:36:21
have a tennis ball sized brain tumor, which was luckily benign.
2:36:25
Despite the tumor being not cancerous, it was certainly life
2:36:28
threatening if not removed. Tooth Acre credits Coup with
2:36:31
saving his life. The kicker saved my life because
2:36:34
it could have happened any other time.
2:36:35
I wholeheartedly believe I was in the right spot at the right
2:36:37
time and he was the trigger for that happening.
2:36:40
It was a miracle. Tooth Acre reached out to Coup,
2:36:43
who was cut 2 weeks after that. Hilarious, actually, according
2:36:46
to Tootheger missing the kick to invite him to the Derby.
2:36:49
But reports from Yahoo Sports Sake, who was not open to the
2:36:52
idea Tootheger and Spencer Farms will be cheering on their horse
2:36:55
Further Ado, who has the second best odds at six to one starting
2:36:58
at the 18th pole position. At least somebody was better off
2:37:01
from watching that kick in the Giants in general last year.
2:37:04
It was announced earlier Thursday that long time Giants
2:37:07
wide receiver Darius Slayden will miss the spring offseason
2:37:10
workout program this year after undergoing core muscle surgery
2:37:13
this offseason. According to the NFL Network,
2:37:15
Slayden is expected to be cleared for training camp this
2:37:18
summer. They resigned Slayden before the
2:37:20
2025 season to a three-year, $36 million contract, which he did
2:37:23
not live up to in Year 1, perhaps due to the parts of this
2:37:26
nagging injury. He finished with only 37 catches
2:37:29
and 538 yards and one touchdown in 14 games played as the number
2:37:33
2 receiver. Even after #1 receiver Malik
2:37:36
Neighbors went down earlier in the season, Slaton was unable to
2:37:39
capitalize on more opportunities that should have gone his way.
2:37:42
Slaton will have some stiffer competition in this offseason
2:37:45
for that number 2 receiver role as the Giants added Malachi
2:37:48
Fields in the draft, Darnell Moody and Calvin Austin.
2:37:50
The 3rd and free agency brought back Isaiah Hodgins and are
2:37:54
flirting with giving Odell Beckham Junior a swan song back
2:37:58
in the Big Apple. Although head coach John
2:38:00
Harbaugh has downplayed some by saying we worked them out.
2:38:02
You look good. We just got a kind to continue
2:38:05
from conversations with them. I really like them.
2:38:07
We got to talk Tuesday night and kind of see where he's at, see
2:38:10
where we're at, see what he's thinking, see what we're
2:38:13
thinking now with the roster, see if it makes sense.
2:38:15
I think if we do anything, just being honest, it has to make
2:38:17
sense for the Giants. It has to make sense for him.
2:38:20
Slate in contract stood as one of Shane's duds last year and
2:38:23
Slate in who has always had questionable hands but great
2:38:26
speed, will likely have camp to figure it out or become a cap
2:38:29
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2:38:33
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www.worldwidesportsradio.com. Listen, I'm going to sit here
2:40:08
and I'm going to tell you guys I didn't expect the Knicks to win.
2:40:11
By 50. I didn't.
2:40:13
It's it's nice to see. Finally the Knicks showed up in
2:40:16
a game and in a series that they needed to blow A-Team out.
2:40:20
They're much better than the Hawks, and they finally shut
2:40:23
them up, shut the fans up over there in Atlanta.
2:40:26
So in that case, for all the fans out there, you should be
2:40:29
very, very happy. The Knicks are now relaxing,
2:40:34
sitting around, doing some podcasts and waiting.
2:40:38
For the. 76ers to win that series.
2:40:41
So I guess it's a good thing Cue didn't buy a premature ticket
2:40:44
for game three like it was a Kurt Tick.
2:40:46
Yeah, no, I won't buy no ticket. Man.
2:40:49
Shout out to the Knicks. Man, shout out to the Knicks
2:40:51
for. Making it happen What?
2:40:54
An incredible way. To end that series.
2:40:56
So it was incredible to them. It really was.
2:40:58
Yeah, series. It smells good.
2:41:00
It smells very, very good bro one. 40.
2:41:04
To. 89 they were up 50 for more than half.
2:41:07
Of the game and they played all their backup players the whole
2:41:11
fourth quarter. The whole fourth quarter was
2:41:13
playback and half. Of the third quarter and half of
2:41:15
the third quarter, yeah, it was crazy an absolute.
2:41:19
Bow out. It really is.
2:41:20
Are we gonna do you want you want me to go into the NCAA?
2:41:23
Tournament, yeah. We Chaz needs about 10 more.
2:41:25
Minutes. All right, so might as well do a
2:41:26
quick segment out of the way. Let's go into ESPN, as ESPN has
2:41:30
announced, well, Pete Thamel has reported that the NCAA is in the
2:41:35
final steps of approving a deal that will expand the NCAA
2:41:40
Tournament from 68 teams to 76. A lot of this expansion talk has
2:41:46
been driven by media companies, which are owned by Turner Media
2:41:51
for men's tournaments and ESPN for woman's tournaments.
2:41:56
The other big factor is driving this move has been several power
2:42:01
conferences wanting more at large bids with a chance for
2:42:06
their teams to be to make it deep or make deep runs from the
2:42:11
first for from the First Four like Texas did this year.
2:42:17
With this this new expansion, the Final Four weekend would
2:42:20
triple in size having 12 total games and 24 teams rather than
2:42:25
four games and eight teams. The remainder of the NCAA
2:42:29
Tournament format would still remain the same with 16 teams in
2:42:34
four different sections of the bracket.
2:42:36
This expansion isn't expected to be a huge money boost for the
2:42:41
NCAA, but still expects to be an improvement in overall profit.
2:42:49
If you're a college fan. If you're an NC double.
2:42:53
A basketball fan. You love.
2:42:55
This you. Love it because expansion and
2:42:59
opening up opportunity for college teams that are not
2:43:03
having great seasons because 76 teams making it.
2:43:07
A lot of these teams, especially ten of these teams or eight of
2:43:10
these teams are probably going to lose at least eight or nine
2:43:13
games. Think about it, maybe even more
2:43:15
than that. So you're going to see teams
2:43:18
that shouldn't be there make a run, and that's what you want to
2:43:21
see. Cinderella teams.
2:43:23
That's why I think this benefits college basketball because it
2:43:27
opens up the floodgates to see, hey, maybe not only a 16, what
2:43:31
are we going to call it a 20 team, a 20 seed?
2:43:34
I guess it's like the NBA, the NCAA version of a play in
2:43:37
because you're getting now, you're getting now essentially.
2:43:39
So what are they going to be considered a 20 or 21 seeds
2:43:43
would remain the same so that it's going to be like a play in
2:43:45
tournament. So the, the, I guess the worst
2:43:47
winner becomes the 16 or the the best winner becomes the 15.
2:43:51
Well, they got to figure this out first because they're making
2:43:54
these new rules. And when is this going to start?
2:43:55
Is it going to start right away? They they plan on starting at
2:43:59
this season if they can get other things approved.
2:44:00
There's a couple media deals that have to be approved.
2:44:02
And I think a couple. Legal things with the.
2:44:03
NCAA that's going to prove but what the famous report was
2:44:06
mentioning was they're likely to have a decision by July with
2:44:09
this that's the thing because over the years you see all these
2:44:13
rules the Cbas, it doesn't start until the the first CBA is done.
2:44:18
So are they going to just go right into it and and try to
2:44:20
transition into this and this does benefit the NCAA.
2:44:24
It definitely the advantages are some of for these non
2:44:27
conferences or the teams that you wouldn't expect to make the
2:44:30
tournament, make the tournament. Hofstra could make the
2:44:33
tournament every year. They get a team that sneaks into
2:44:36
the player Liu who snuck into the playoffs and snuck into the
2:44:39
tournament. They can make the tournament
2:44:41
every single year if they had the season they had this year.
2:44:43
And does this help recruiting because now you're looking at
2:44:47
there's 76 schools that can make this tournament.
2:44:50
Does it help the recruitment and does it open up the floodgates
2:44:54
for more NIL deals, more money? That's the thing.
2:44:57
And I think that's where you look at it.
2:44:59
If if you were to look at it in in in a common way, you would
2:45:02
look at it for the players, not really the teams or the NCAA
2:45:06
because they're going to make money no matter what.
2:45:08
But with all these NIL deals and and they still haven't figured
2:45:11
that out yet. There are players that are going
2:45:14
to be forced or are going to be approved to go to these
2:45:17
different schools that are not usually in the tournament and
2:45:20
now have a chance to make the tournament every single year.
2:45:22
And if you want to be a guy that wants to go to one of these non
2:45:26
conference teams and make the tournament and make a run, you
2:45:30
might be looked at as a higher draft pack pick or a draft
2:45:33
prospect. That's the way I look at this.
2:45:36
Does it benefit the NC double? It makes it more competitive, it
2:45:39
makes it more interesting. But I again with the NBA, the
2:45:42
way the NBA has these playing games, I don't understand any of
2:45:44
it. It, it doesn't make any sense.
2:45:47
I know that's what you want to see and, and you would like to
2:45:50
see a 10 seed make the playoffs and then make a run as an 8 seed
2:45:53
and and make it all the way to the, to the NBA championship.
2:45:56
But it usually doesn't happen that way.
2:45:58
We've seen it in the NFL when they brought the wild card, the
2:46:02
wild card teams in the first wild card team I can remember is
2:46:05
the Aaron Rodgers wild card team in 2011, right?
2:46:08
It was 2000. They were the first NFC one.
2:46:10
And then the Steelers in Ben Roethlisberger, second year in
2:46:12
the league, made the Seahawks in Super Bowl 40.
2:46:14
That was the first one ever. But when I remember, I remember
2:46:17
that Aaron Rodgers. Team and that was.
2:46:19
The only championship Aaron Rodgers ever.
2:46:21
Won. They made that run as a six
2:46:23
seed, if I'm not mistaken. So I, I, you like to see that,
2:46:26
you like to see Cinderella teams.
2:46:28
And I'm not saying you can't see that in college basketball.
2:46:30
Remember Davidson, the Steph Curry Davidson team that made it
2:46:34
to the I think they were in the elite 8 and and they made that
2:46:37
run. Nobody thought Davidson should
2:46:39
make it, but Steph Curry got hot and eventually became a top 10
2:46:42
lottery pick to the Golden State Warriors, almost to the New York
2:46:45
Knicks. So The thing is, does this
2:46:48
benefit you left? But the Knicks wanted him and if
2:46:51
if Golden State didn't draft him, he was definitely going to
2:46:53
the New York Knicks almost doesn't count though.
2:46:55
What I'm saying, I knew you were going to say something.
2:46:57
You have some kind of hatred for the New York.
2:46:59
Knicks. I know.
2:47:00
I love the Knicks, yo. You hate the Knicks, you city.
2:47:03
I know I really do hate him. I really do.
2:47:05
You sound like you hate him. You're my second.
2:47:06
Favorite team? Oh, your second favorite?
2:47:08
Team, I'm married to Jeff now. Yeah.
2:47:12
You're married. Yeah, I'm like.
2:47:13
Arrow I got, I got teams all. Over the place.
2:47:16
I don't have teams all over the. Place the only.
2:47:18
Team I root for. The only team I root for.
2:47:21
Outside of New York is Philadelphia Eagles, and the
2:47:24
only reason why I'm a Philadelphia Eagle fan is
2:47:26
because I'm a Donovan McNabb fan and my team, the only reason
2:47:30
that is the only reason why I'm a Philadelphia Eagle fan.
2:47:32
That's the truth. That's the only team.
2:47:34
That the only reason why I root. On that team is because that was
2:47:37
that was a team that drafted my favorite player.
2:47:39
Growing up, I had favorite players in sports and I rooted
2:47:43
for those players. When John Van Beesbrook was
2:47:45
traded from the Rangers and we've had Neil Smith on a show
2:47:48
and everybody knows the story. When he was traded to Vancouver
2:47:50
and then went into the expansion draft of the Florida Panthers.
2:47:53
I rooted for the Florida Panthers because I followed my
2:47:55
favorite player when eventually he stopped in with the
2:47:59
Islanders. For a year and a half, I just
2:48:00
stayed an Islander fan. I would call myself, but I was
2:48:03
John, I was 13 years old. So if you want to say I was a
2:48:06
front runner, that's what you call a front runner.
2:48:09
But Van Bieswerk wasn't Michael Jordan.
2:48:11
I didn't go and become a Chicago fan because Michael Jordan was
2:48:14
there. I hated Michael Jordan.
2:48:15
Florida was also an expansion team.
2:48:16
You didn't know they were not good.
2:48:17
I didn't know they were. Van Bieswerk was one the one
2:48:20
that made them that way, you know, But the fact here is when
2:48:23
I look at the NCAA and I look at this, this tournament, it opens
2:48:27
up opportunity, NIL opportunities for these kids.
2:48:30
That's the way I look at this. If if there's anything that I
2:48:33
could have move on this opportunity of expanding to 76
2:48:37
teams is the NIL the money that these kids can make and maybe
2:48:42
recruiting these players won't be so hard on these non
2:48:45
conference teams. Yeah, I like it for the players
2:48:47
perspective. Now here's the thing I do worry
2:48:49
about it because it's mostly the power conference teams that are
2:48:51
advocating for it is that the NCAA is still going to let in a
2:48:54
lot of these quote UN quote mediocre teams just because
2:48:57
either they have a harder strength to schedule or they
2:48:58
played the harder conference games.
2:49:00
Like I I think Zeus kind of mentioning in the private chat
2:49:03
too. You want those other Group of
2:49:04
Five teams be rewarded, Errol, you kind of mentioned that too,
2:49:06
like you want to see more of those second tier conferences
2:49:09
being rewarded. You want to see?
2:49:10
San Diego State and when I say it gets it and by the way for
2:49:13
everybody to say when I say non conference teams, I'm talking
2:49:16
about the Bing conferences. That's what I'm talking, not the
2:49:19
SEC or the ACC correct. No non power 5 conference.
2:49:23
That's what. That's where if the.
2:49:25
Committee. Can kind of level it out where
2:49:27
they don't just cater to those conferences.
2:49:29
Then it could work if they do just cater to them because, oh,
2:49:33
you have Bruce complaining that Auburn didn't get in or Oklahoma
2:49:36
or one of these other bubble teams that didn't get in from a
2:49:38
power conference that still had a fringe 500 record.
2:49:41
Yeah. Then the process isn't going to
2:49:42
look at it's good. Then it's going to look like a
2:49:43
money grab for those conferences because the NCAA is not really
2:49:46
the ones that have the power. It's those conferences that are
2:49:48
really leveraging this the most. The SEC, the Big 10 especially,
2:49:52
are going to leverage this the most because they're the richest
2:49:53
ones. But the Big 12 and the ACC,
2:49:56
Here's my question. I'm sorry to cut you off, but
2:49:57
here's my question. The.
2:49:59
College rankings, they were talking about maybe making it
2:50:02
into two conferences, making all the these teams into two
2:50:06
conferences. Remember when we were speaking
2:50:07
about this and we were arguing this, Jeff brought it up and
2:50:10
we've mentioned many times since then, instead of having a pack,
2:50:14
you know, a PAC 12 or whatever, a Big 10 and whatever, they call
2:50:17
these Power 5, Power 5 conferences.
2:50:20
Instead of doing that, putting the ACC, the SEC and the Big 10
2:50:24
together and then making another power conference and that's it,
2:50:27
2 conferences and they play against one another to get into
2:50:30
the tournament. That to me makes more sense than
2:50:33
having all these different conferences.
2:50:35
And what do they call it? The Mountain Conference and
2:50:37
yeah, the Mountain West you got? Yeah.
2:50:39
I mean, yeah, Conference USA. Stop with this crap.
2:50:43
Just put them all two different. Right, A10.
2:50:46
I mean, it makes no sense. It doesn't make any sense.
2:50:49
Anymore, but you would hope that the.
2:50:50
Committee is still going to reward those teams for still the
2:50:53
high quality of play compared to a team that stumbled in just
2:50:56
because they were playing a harder strength of schedule.
2:50:58
You still lost a game. But that's what scares these
2:51:00
kids to go into the I'm not doing that.
2:51:03
Who wants to go to a Mountain West team when it's going to be
2:51:06
hard? They can go to an SEC team.
2:51:07
No, I'm with you. I like it for the players.
2:51:09
I just don't like it for the quality.
2:51:10
That's why my opinion is it's just making it to two power
2:51:13
conferences, 2 conferences, put them, put the teams, you know,
2:51:17
decide where these teams are going and that's it.
2:51:20
Stop with this all 5 power conferences and then you have
2:51:22
all these other conferences. And but these other conferences
2:51:25
because of their strength of schedule, they can, unless they
2:51:27
go undefeated, they can't make the tournament.
2:51:29
It doesn't make any sense. If they're playing.
2:51:32
Just let them figure out how you're going to make your
2:51:34
schedules if they have harder schedules, if you put the harder
2:51:36
teams against the the non harder teams.
2:51:39
And that also brings the opportunity for these kids to
2:51:42
get recruited these, you know, mountain, Mountain West teams or
2:51:46
whatever you call these different there.
2:51:48
If there's no if there's two conferences, then you don't have
2:51:51
to worry about, well, if I go to this school, I'm never going to
2:51:53
make the tournament. There's no chance I could play
2:51:55
in this tournament. But if I go to the SEC or the
2:51:58
ACCI got a better chance. That's why I think you if you're
2:52:02
going to do this, you might as well just turn it into and Jeff
2:52:04
is absolutely shout out to Jeff. He's absolutely right.
2:52:07
Just make it into two big conferences and let them play
2:52:10
against one another. But I think it's already enough
2:52:13
underdogs that already get access to the tournament
2:52:16
initially. And so I don't understand
2:52:18
conference wins not because at large bids though, huh?
2:52:21
Because of them winning their conference, not because of at
2:52:23
large bids. Yeah, but but but also now
2:52:25
we're. Going to add.
2:52:26
Like what? 8 more underdog teams to to to.
2:52:29
Get in and to have a chance to compete.
2:52:31
I feel like in regards to the money where the big schools
2:52:34
already play the smaller schools and pay them for a win, so
2:52:38
there's money already been given gifted to these smaller schools
2:52:41
or whatnot. I just, I mean, it's a money
2:52:43
graph for sure. March Madness is what, top
2:52:45
three, top five biggest sports, number one, number one for
2:52:50
sports betting #1 for sports betting.
2:52:51
Oh yeah #1 so you know. That's it's already a golden cow
2:52:56
already, so I just don't really. Understand the metric behind
2:52:59
adding at least eight more teams.
2:53:01
And then if you're going to do that, are you going to cut
2:53:03
regular season schedule? Because all of these games ain't
2:53:06
no way they're going to fit into the the month of March.
2:53:10
Like you're going to be playing either into April or you're
2:53:13
going to be have to start in February to just the end to
2:53:16
start the season earlier or they're going to have to reduce
2:53:19
the conference tournament. But I'd rather I would.
2:53:21
I would rather. See more competition.
2:53:23
I want to see more competition. Quality competition.
2:53:26
Instead of watching this garbage at the tail end of the season
2:53:28
and then you watch conference championships, how about just
2:53:31
wave the conference championships, Make 2
2:53:33
conferences and whoever has the better records at the end of the
2:53:36
year, the top 76 teams make it or the the top 76 schedules that
2:53:41
have the multiple big wins get to go and make the tournament.
2:53:45
That would make more sense. Well if you win your conference
2:53:48
well then you can get voted in. Who cares?
2:53:50
Who cares if you win your conference?
2:53:52
To me it doesn't make any difference.
2:53:54
You can win the trophy and get knocked out in the first round.
2:53:57
So it does. What about the NIT?
2:53:59
So basically the NIT games are stupid shift so it's the in the.
2:54:04
At the end of the tournament. Yes, so those teams are crappy
2:54:08
the. Eight teams that make yeah,
2:54:09
there will be more from there, yes, yeah.
2:54:11
So not have the NIT anymore. Is the NIT really bringing in
2:54:14
money? Nobody.
2:54:16
Goes skipping it. Nobody watches the NIT.
2:54:18
Yeah, nobody does. They took the value from it.
2:54:21
It was absolutely a good thing like a couple years ago.
2:54:23
Like it was legit in. Regards to like a secondary
2:54:26
option to watch on TV at the while we're doing that the
2:54:29
football effect, they're skipping bowl games.
2:54:32
Let's let's throw this, OK? When you watch ESPN every night
2:54:36
when NIT is going on, does ESPN put that as a top story?
2:54:40
They never do. It's the last story.
2:54:42
It's the last story of the hour special.
2:54:45
Nobody cares and the ESPN pretty much throws it out there.
2:54:48
Nobody cares about NIT. So what are these schools doing?
2:54:51
Why do you even want to play in the NIT?
2:54:53
Notre Dame, remember, nor did Dan was supposed to play in a
2:54:55
ball game. They decided not to play in the
2:54:58
ball game because they got screwed out of the tournament.
2:55:00
And that's the way it should go. Why would I want to play in the
2:55:03
NIT's? Why don't?
2:55:04
Why do I care if I win the NIT championship?
2:55:06
Nobody cares. Nobody cares if you win that
2:55:09
Super trophy, nobody cares. Just get rid of the NIT's 70.
2:55:15
Six teams and stop with this. Play in this and play in there
2:55:18
and turn it into the NBA. The NBA is an absolute joke when
2:55:20
they're doing this. It's it's definitely just did it
2:55:23
too with the football they expected in 12 and that ain't
2:55:27
going. That was over 2.
2:55:28
Four was way too small for that. It's just stupid.
2:55:31
See, the NFL is different, and I'll tell you why.
2:55:33
The NFL because you play one game.
2:55:35
That's it. You play one, but they better
2:55:36
add another game they're trying to add.
2:55:39
Well, well, here's the thing. It's a cash cow.
2:55:42
The NFL is a cash cow the way Roger Goodell.
2:55:44
Looks at it and it's pretty simple.
2:55:46
Hey, we play one extra game. Think about this, how many
2:55:50
sponsors are we going to bring in?
2:55:52
How many jerseys are we going to sell?
2:55:54
How many games are we going to sell out?
2:55:56
That's the way he looks at it and he's right.
2:55:59
And it brings more money for the players, the owners and the
2:56:02
league. And that's what they're doing.
2:56:03
Now all of a sudden, how many foreign games are?
2:56:06
Do they play international games?
2:56:07
Do they play every single year? Now they're playing in a
2:56:09
Germany, Brazil, all over the place.
2:56:11
Why don't you make, why don't you do this?
2:56:13
Why don't you just make an international football team and
2:56:15
get it over with already? That'll be good.
2:56:18
We we should have one like NBA got Toronto.
2:56:21
I think that'll be good. Yeah, that's.
2:56:22
A good idea, but I'll be As a former football player, I tell
2:56:26
you right now, no football player wants to play 19 weeks.
2:56:28
How you say that right now we're not for it at all.
2:56:31
So it don't benefit us at all, even though you think it do
2:56:33
because of the check. But we do not want to play 19
2:56:36
weeks if they're headed to the playoffs.
2:56:38
It's rugged, right? No, nobody wants to see that.
2:56:42
I just think when you look at these leagues and it doesn't
2:56:45
matter if it's the NCAA. College football, college
2:56:48
basketball or the NBA, the NHL, the MLB or the NFL, it's all
2:56:53
about a money scheme. It's always about money.
2:56:56
They say it's not a going, it's not going to be a a huge money
2:56:59
boost. Everybody knows with these NIL
2:57:02
deals and NIL companies, the the opportunity to bring in money.
2:57:06
And these kids, they see the opportunity.
2:57:08
Look how many kids decided to go back to play college basketball
2:57:11
next season. Why did they do that?
2:57:13
They don't have to go in the first round because they're
2:57:15
making millions and millions of dollars off the NIL deals.
2:57:18
And until they figure that out, and I say this, I was for the
2:57:21
NIL deals before it even came out.
2:57:23
For for years I've been repping these players, these college
2:57:26
players to make money. But now that all these kids are
2:57:29
making so much money and there's opportunity to make millions and
2:57:32
millions of dollars, there's no control over it anymore.
2:57:34
What happened you said you was rooted for?
2:57:37
No, I'm not there. Has to be a cap.
2:57:42
There has to be because, because what's going on, what's going,
2:57:46
what's going on right now? These kids, these college.
2:57:49
Kids. Are making.
2:57:50
So much money, they're they don't know what to do with the
2:57:52
money. And then they're starting to do
2:57:53
stupid things off the field. And guess what?
2:57:57
The NCAA didn't know what to do with those billions of dollars,
2:57:59
and they was making stupid decisions as well.
2:58:01
There's no question. I mean, OK, so Johnny Manzel did
2:58:05
that, and he did a lot of stupid.
2:58:07
Things but. The the fact here is.
2:58:09
There's got to be some kind of control.
2:58:11
There has to be control. If there's no control, the
2:58:14
league is going to go haywire. And, and again, I look at these
2:58:17
kids, I, I want these kids to make as much money as they
2:58:20
possibly can. I'm behind it.
2:58:21
I'm for it. Everything that's going on with
2:58:24
the transition of these leagues and and college into
2:58:26
professional sports, what hurts the sport is let's say you're a
2:58:31
New York Jet fan and we've seen this happen.
2:58:34
Remember, there was a chance that The Jets could have gotten
2:58:37
Peyton Manning and Peyton Manning decided because he had
2:58:40
one more year left, he could go back to play college football
2:58:44
and play one more year college football because he didn't want
2:58:47
to play for The Jets. He did not want to go to The
2:58:49
Jets. So what did The Jets have to do?
2:58:50
They had to draft Keyshawn Johnson.
2:58:52
Now it's a consolation prize. It wasn't a great one because he
2:58:56
started with Wayne Quebec called him a flashlight and we all know
2:58:58
what happened to him. He went to the Buccaneers and
2:59:00
win a Super Bowl with them. The fact here is I sit here
2:59:03
today, there has to be some kind of control.
2:59:06
And if there's no control, if if a player and their father says,
2:59:11
oh, I don't want to play for that team, well, I'm going to go
2:59:13
back and play college football. I don't care because I'm making
2:59:15
all this money anyways. I could play one more year and
2:59:18
not enough to go to that organization and that team
2:59:20
because they're an absolute joke.
2:59:21
And that's what's going to happen with Arch Manning.
2:59:23
I'm telling you, mark my words, guys, remember I said this, if
2:59:27
it's Miami or The Jets at the top of that draft, remember I
2:59:30
said this, Arch Manning is not going to come out next year.
2:59:33
He is not. You best believe he's got that
2:59:36
Red Bull contract. He's making five and a half
2:59:38
million dollars. Why does he need to come out?
2:59:40
He does not need to come out. There it is again.
2:59:44
There it is again with The Jets. Here's.
2:59:46
The thing though, why is it when the?
2:59:48
Players get controlled. There becomes an issue when.
2:59:51
Organizations in these leagues has have controlled all the
2:59:54
whole time and they can misuse us, they can misuse the players,
2:59:57
they can put us in bad positions and let's be honest.
3:00:00
If you're not doing a good job at getting the right coaches and
3:00:03
creating the culture, why am I obligated to go to you because I
3:00:07
have the option to come out instead of doing what's best for
3:00:10
me and going back to school and getting a better option in
3:00:13
regards to team and organization?
3:00:15
That's what I'm trying to figure out.
3:00:16
I don't understand why there's an issue when the players do it.
3:00:19
But the league, we see it around the league all the time.
3:00:21
The league. Trade, trade, trade picks, trade
3:00:24
players. They draft this player for one
3:00:27
or two years, then get rid of them bitch players, you know,
3:00:30
and just set people up for a bad to have bad career.
3:00:33
So once the players got the control now and they have the
3:00:36
option to be able to make a decision, it seems like
3:00:39
everybody has an issue saying that it's running rampant when
3:00:41
it's like, no, like if I can go back in school to pay another
3:00:44
year and get with a better program, why wouldn't I do that
3:00:47
versus just going to an organization that sucks and
3:00:51
ain't trying to be better and then put me in a bad position
3:00:54
and I have to figure it out. Cute.
3:00:56
Now they're taking away where they're trying to make rules
3:00:58
where you can only portal one time 1.
3:01:01
Time in your college career, because now they are players
3:01:04
jumping ship. They're going from one team to
3:01:06
another team to another team and they have all the time in the
3:01:09
world to stay there. They got four years that they
3:01:12
could play. Some of them could play five
3:01:13
years. We've seen players play five
3:01:15
years of college ball, yes. So it happens like that and it
3:01:18
works but and now they could jump ship.
3:01:21
But now the NC. AA is.
3:01:22
Figuring out ways where they can't do that, where if you jump
3:01:25
ship, you decide after two years you're going here, you can't
3:01:27
jump to another team just because you can get more money
3:01:30
from NIL companies and IL deals. And that's that's where I think
3:01:34
they're going to be able to close in or figure out how to
3:01:37
control this and the money that these kids are making.
3:01:39
Because you can jump ship whenever you want.
3:01:42
And it's a big problem because you have guys like, I'm not
3:01:45
going to mention names, guys, coaches going to Saudi Arabia
3:01:48
trying to find money there. And you know what I'm talking
3:01:50
about. All right?
3:01:51
You know what I'm talking about Dion Sanders, who goes over
3:01:54
there and he's trying to find every bit of the money he could
3:01:56
possibly use to bring in NIL companies and, and money to pay
3:02:00
these kids. Oh, you want to come and play
3:02:02
for me? I'm going to get you $1,000,000.
3:02:03
I'm going to get you 2 million. I'm going to get you 5 million.
3:02:05
Hey, where are you getting it? Who cares where I'm getting it?
3:02:08
I'm getting it somewhere. I got it in my back pocket.
3:02:10
I know a Prince from Saudi Arabia.
3:02:12
That's the problem right now. When you can get money and you
3:02:16
can drive that money wherever you want, that's the problem
3:02:19
there has to. Be control.
3:02:21
Before this gets it becomes in a gun slinging.
3:02:24
They're not, you know what parents are going to do?
3:02:25
They're just going to red shirt, but they're going to sit out
3:02:28
like they just going to choose that.
3:02:29
Why then you're not going to get dressed, You're not happy with
3:02:32
your results, and that's what I'm saying.
3:02:34
What it does is the coaches. Need to take the responsibility
3:02:38
and be able to impact the player and create a culture where the
3:02:42
the actual player wants to stay. Obviously some of the stuff is
3:02:45
money driven but at the end of the it's all money driven.
3:02:48
Most Power 5 schools can afford the player however they.
3:02:52
Don't know how. To actually coach the player and
3:02:55
to help him understand personnel, understand where he
3:02:58
fits in and actually have a successful career.
3:03:02
These coaches are making 10s of millions of dollars.
3:03:05
They're making ridiculous money. You have Nick Saban coaching,
3:03:08
you have Nick Saban going out there.
3:03:09
I don't want to coach anymore because I think the NIL
3:03:11
companies are overpaying these players.
3:03:13
He's going out there, but it's OK for him to make eighteen, $19
3:03:16
million every single season? That doesn't make any sense.
3:03:19
Jim Harbold does what he does. Whatever happened over there,
3:03:22
Michigan jump ship and gets what, 20, $1,000,000 or $18
3:03:26
million from the the Chargers. It's a big problem.
3:03:30
It to me, there's so much money. It's all about money.
3:03:32
Professional sports, college sports, it's all money driven.
3:03:36
It has nothing to do. Oh, I want to go play there
3:03:38
because they're a champion. Oh, I want to go play in
3:03:40
Georgia. No, I want to go into Georgia
3:03:41
because they're going to give me a million and a half dollars to
3:03:44
come over there under the table. That's why I'm going to Georgia.
3:03:47
That's the facts and that's the problem right now.
3:03:49
College football and college basketball, it's betting Now
3:03:54
these kids are figuring out ways how, how they can hide and, and
3:03:57
find somebody to bet or bet on a sport and bet against them
3:04:00
because they know what's going to happen or they know a player
3:04:02
that's heard they know it. And Allen Iverson said it best.
3:04:06
And I, I heard him on a podcast, he says this is going to affect
3:04:09
not only college basketball, but the NBA for the worst.
3:04:12
And you've seen what's going on with Chauncey Billups and
3:04:14
everything Jones and Rozier. The problem right now in
3:04:18
professional sports is there's so much money to be made, so
3:04:21
much money to be made. And it scares me because these
3:04:24
kids, all they have to do is make one mistake, bet on sports,
3:04:27
do that their careers over, careers over.
3:04:30
Because all they care about is how much I can get in college,
3:04:33
how much I can make off a stupid little bet under the table out.
3:04:36
It's going to make me $50,000 when I can make a a million and
3:04:39
a half dollars for a signing bonus to go into the New York
3:04:42
Knicks. It makes no sense.
3:04:44
Figure figure betting that's what they're doing for not a
3:04:47
Sonic, but there's no Sonic bonus with names.
3:04:49
But, you know, we don't play the contract.
3:04:51
We play to make money. Well, I understand that, but
3:04:54
that's a big problem. That's the big.
3:04:55
No, it's not the love of the game.
3:04:58
It's not for the love of the game too.
3:04:59
Yes, never it used. To be that's not no, never,
3:05:02
because there was everybody else was eating.
3:05:05
And stuff. It was never, it was never.
3:05:08
It was always about the money. It was all.
3:05:11
Right when it was getting paid. Under the table who?
3:05:13
Who seen Jerry Maguire? Anybody see Jerry Maguire?
3:05:16
Anybody remember that that? Part Remember when Jerry's in
3:05:19
the bathroom, he says, why do you play football?
3:05:21
And he says, do you play for the love of the game?
3:05:23
You play for the love of the game.
3:05:24
Right, right, right. You do your job, I'll do mine.
3:05:28
He looked at him. It was always about the money.
3:05:31
It was. Always about the money.
3:05:32
That's what Cuban, Cuban junior said.
3:05:35
He he made it. He pretty much flipped it on
3:05:38
you. Yes, it's always about the
3:05:39
money. Has nothing to do with the
3:05:41
sport, nothing. Well, I know somebody that
3:05:44
always does it for the money. He does it in the second.
3:05:48
Half. Speedy, bring them in.
3:05:50
Yes indeed, it's we got Mr. Chaz triumphant return.
3:05:54
We were waiting for him and I I'm going to I want to say
3:05:57
something. Welcome back, Chaz.
3:05:58
I'm going to say that's been here for a little bit.
3:06:00
We got Chaz in. We're going to go into let's
3:06:02
parlay. We got let's parlay and we're.
3:06:04
Going to get. Into it when we were.
3:06:05
Waiting I I knew I wanted to attack this this way.
3:06:09
I'm sorry, Chaz, but my my plan here is is I I think that
3:06:13
something needs to be corrected here.
3:06:14
You want to expand you want to bring in money.
3:06:16
You think this is better for the sport that's great.
3:06:18
You think it's going to eventually take all take this
3:06:21
sports to higher heights, that's great.
3:06:23
But when these things that are going on in professional sports
3:06:26
and college sports and it's uncontrolled and now this
3:06:28
betting thing is only going to get worse.
3:06:30
That's what scares me. That's where these kids are
3:06:32
going to get arrested. That's where these kids are
3:06:34
never going to play professional sports because they have no
3:06:36
control. There's no control over the
3:06:38
money that's being brought to the table.
3:06:40
That's my argument here and that's why I think this is not
3:06:43
good for the sport. All right, we call this Let's
3:06:45
parlay. Welcome back.
3:07:00
Chaz, I'm sorry we held you up, but to.
3:07:02
Me we got to get. Into what really is the problem
3:07:06
right now in college sports and professional sports it's all
3:07:09
about money and you know here's my take here's my take there was
3:07:13
a £300 guy right and he. Didn't have money for food
3:07:17
Sunday night because his car didn't work right.
3:07:20
They don't get meals that Sunday night and I'm laughing.
3:07:22
That guy's flipped, now owns a McDonald's.
3:07:25
Come on, talk to me. He just told you.
3:07:29
Now that guy owns a McDonald's. Big.
3:07:30
Problem. Now he can go to McDonald's
3:07:32
anytime he wants. Hey, I want a hamburger, I want
3:07:35
a whopper, I want some fries. Get me some frost.
3:07:38
There's no frost in there. Telling you right now, give me a
3:07:40
milkshake. You're a top if you're a top
3:07:42
rated player, you could say. To a guy that owns 5 or 6 or
3:07:46
some of these guys own 20 McDonald's right I want a
3:07:49
McDonald's franchise and I'll go play that IL for you and I
3:07:52
guarantee one day someone's going to get that what's not
3:07:54
really happening to Chaz you right it's definitely going to
3:07:57
happen all right Chaz you know and anybody doesn't know let's.
3:07:59
Parlay Chaz is going to give us. His top three picks of the week
3:08:03
and his fourth to parlay. Are you ready, Chaz?
3:08:06
He's got a bunch of Derby stuff. Well, hold on, hold on.
3:08:09
Hold on, hold on. What week is it?
3:08:12
Oh yeah, it is Derby. Derby week and there's not a
3:08:15
shot. Hell, I'm looking at a.
3:08:16
Hockey. Game this week.
3:08:18
I'm not looking at a basketball game.
3:08:20
Yeah, March Madness could roll around in the first week in May
3:08:23
and I might not even watch March Madness and I had the Michigan
3:08:27
in my bracket, so no. So Chaz, you're gonna set a
3:08:30
championship basketball. The queue.
3:08:32
How you feeling Chaz? Before we get into this, how you
3:08:34
feeling? I We.
3:08:35
Haven't seen you in a while. Well, you know what?
3:08:37
You know why, right? I took.
3:08:40
I took a sabbatical to finish. My screenplay.
3:08:42
And my sitcom pilot and they're done.
3:08:45
Good for you. So I am now in the process of I
3:08:47
got them proof, sent them out to some people.
3:08:50
I. Probably, I don't know, two
3:08:52
weeks away from aggressively looking for a production
3:08:55
producers and agents and stuff. So pretty excited about that.
3:08:58
Well, maybe you can get one of us on your nice.
3:09:01
I got, I got a little. There's no doubt about.
3:09:04
Might have to step right into the movie theaters, you know?
3:09:08
Everything I every. Story I tell has sports betting
3:09:10
in it so there you go but So what I'm thinking is I'll just.
3:09:13
Start with there's, there's 2 pages I have remember I have
3:09:17
this is my 20th year. So I started capturing the date
3:09:20
IN20O72OO7. Now it's 2:20.
3:09:24
It's 220 years. This is 20th year and we do very
3:09:27
well. As you know, every single year
3:09:29
with the same guys, we go to Del Mar, we get all banged up, doped
3:09:34
out, we have a good time and then we go to dinner.
3:09:36
But we almost every single year we hit the the trifecta and last
3:09:42
year, of course, I gave out on this very show.
3:09:44
No, it wasn't called less less probably last year.
3:09:46
I don't think it was it was it was was it?
3:09:49
Yeah, I gave out this very I gave out the the cold 1 you.
3:09:52
Hit the one exact Yeah, you're hit.
3:09:54
You're 80. $4000 or whatever that was, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
3:09:58
So what happens? Is I, I judge.
3:09:59
By all these variables. And then I give.
3:10:02
A point if you're in the top. And so like it's your 6 for a
3:10:05
long time, your mile time, it's buyers, it's 88 or 9 different
3:10:10
variables. And then I just see how many
3:10:12
they have. And so this is what I do.
3:10:14
And, and then in my notes, it says trust the data because it's
3:10:19
done so well. We're talking about 73% of the
3:10:22
time I've had the winning horse for the Kentucky Derby.
3:10:25
Those are pretty good numbers, right?
3:10:26
That's, that's now, that's only for 11 years though, because I
3:10:30
didn't capture it. I didn't for 20 since 2007.
3:10:34
I got the data, but I didn't, you know, see how good I was
3:10:36
doing until 2015. But even that's eleven years.
3:10:39
That's pretty good. So, So what I got is further
3:10:42
ado, Golden Tempo and so happy. They all have 7 points.
3:10:46
They all have top buyers, they've raced in the best races
3:10:49
they can close. They got good times.
3:10:51
Those are my top three. So last year it was, I think it
3:10:55
was one of those numbers as well.
3:10:57
It was sovereignty and journalism, right?
3:10:59
I saw them 1-2 this this year I, I really think for introduce the
3:11:03
best horse in the race, but it's a Derby.
3:11:06
All it takes right is 1 horse to kick something in your face.
3:11:08
There's twenty of them. These some of these races, guys
3:11:11
that are prep races, they have 5 freaking horses in it.
3:11:14
You go from five horses to 20 horses.
3:11:17
Think about it. So, so that's my top three
3:11:19
further ado Golden Tempo and so happy.
3:11:22
Then I have a second page where I put my bets together and
3:11:26
that's where I put together the trifecta bets and the exact.
3:11:31
Now I'll do superfectas as well, but in the old days of normal
3:11:34
betting, it's a $0.10 bet on Derby.
3:11:37
They would overwhelm them. So they make it a dollar
3:11:39
supplied demand curve, you know, So I'll have some of those.
3:11:43
That's now, those normally are. That changes your day.
3:11:46
You hit a try, you hit this Derby superfecta.
3:11:49
It changes your day and some people have changed their life.
3:11:53
If they get lucky and they're betting numbers, I'm never going
3:11:55
to have it change my life because I'm all the horses on
3:11:58
betting are good. The thing is on Derby day you
3:12:00
could get away with some of that.
3:12:02
So the top six horses were those three further ado.
3:12:05
Oh, I get. So here's what I said to
3:12:07
somebody today. This is cute.
3:12:09
I said I am so happy that out without further ado, I can tell
3:12:15
you that I hope. I hope.
3:12:17
Golden Temple wins. The Kentucky Derby and they
3:12:20
didn't get it. They didn't get.
3:12:21
That was just the three horses I like.
3:12:23
So the next group is Chief Wallaby.
3:12:25
Commandment and silent. Tactic, now silent tactic, was
3:12:28
Wesley's pony. He got scratched, though.
3:12:31
Then the next two are potent. Potent.
3:12:34
I don't even know how to pronounce anything.
3:12:35
That's Baffert's horse. And Renegade and then Emerging
3:12:37
Market and Incredible. So I watch every race, every
3:12:41
single race the LED up to this. I watched it twice.
3:12:44
I do it every year. This is the biggest week of my
3:12:47
this is almost Christmas. Christmas is better, but this is
3:12:50
called and so I have further ado Golden Temple, so happy,
3:12:56
Renegade and Incredible. I have that five horses.
3:12:59
So I'm going to give those numbers out 18111819.
3:13:05
I'm telling you right now, I think it's 60 bucks.
3:13:08
You box it for 60 bucks and you thank me later.
3:13:14
I thank you for. Joining us as you always.
3:13:17
Are. Yeah, you know what?
3:13:18
I'll tell. You once once I get.
3:13:20
Once I get the somebody to see my vision.
3:13:22
With my writing and my and my scripts and stuff, I mean, one's
3:13:25
100 pages and one's 30 pages. So it's a lot of writing.
3:13:30
Then I could come on as an author.
3:13:32
Yeah, that would be cool. Anything you do, you try to do
3:13:36
at 100%. If I come up with a high level
3:13:39
chase, you gotta. Come up with a pen name now.
3:13:42
A pen? Well, no, no, I mean, it's Mark
3:13:45
Chaz Velardi. That's me.
3:13:46
I mean, that's if you. Know me?
3:13:49
If you know me, you call me Chaz.
3:13:51
If you don't really know me, you call me Mark.
3:13:54
That's kind of how it rolls. There you go.
3:13:56
You got to be nice to him. Yeah.
3:13:57
You call him Chazzy. I like the AI, Tommy, you know?
3:14:00
Tommy's been out a couple times, he's doing that, but that one in
3:14:03
the right. Hand corner, that's his shirt.
3:14:05
I'm I'm wearing my sports betting weekly shirt Saturday to
3:14:08
the Derby. So I'm telling you right now, if
3:14:11
I hit the trifector, the superfector, there will be a
3:14:13
video of me and it may be a lot of beeps.
3:14:17
He'll be. He'll be like this, No.
3:14:22
You know what? Let me tell you.
3:14:24
Well, that's bottles by the. Way, boys and girls, when?
3:14:27
You've got the program when you've got the program.
3:14:29
Rolled up in your hand and you're watching the big screen.
3:14:32
And you're hitting your ass. You're hitting your.
3:14:33
Own ass. There's nothing like it, man.
3:14:36
Speedy does it every night. Don't give Nathan any idea.
3:14:39
Speedy does it every night. He smacks his ass every night
3:14:42
before he. Goes to bed and then he wakes up
3:14:43
at 12. I check in with the I already
3:14:46
checked in with Wes. I check in with pretty much
3:14:48
everybody. Derby.
3:14:49
Day And actually, you know, for me it's a tough one because I
3:14:52
lost my stepdad and my mom two months apart recently.
3:14:56
And So what happens is the the Yeah, well, that was every year
3:15:00
on Derby day, every year, every year because he was a big horse
3:15:03
race. Player How's.
3:15:04
Your father doing? I mean, how's I'm not enough,
3:15:06
Father, How's your brother doing?
3:15:08
Yeah, you know. He's better, he's better, but
3:15:10
he's, you know what he got? He had a couple grandkids come
3:15:12
into. His life and.
3:15:14
So he was able to, he was in the military retiree.
3:15:16
So he's able to live the good life now.
3:15:18
And that's really helping because he's, you know, he's
3:15:21
suffering from memory issues, but he's got people that are
3:15:23
there. So he's starting to embrace.
3:15:26
I just, they tell me what to do when I do it.
3:15:28
And that's, and I and I, you know what I told him, you know,
3:15:32
he's not really religious and I am, I said, you know what I'm
3:15:34
telling you, that's a gift, man. You know, a lot of people look
3:15:37
like a curse, but you look like a gift.
3:15:39
And it's a special thing because he's got people to love him.
3:15:41
They take care of him. He goes on his golf trip, one of
3:15:43
the nephews goes with them. I pick him up, I take him to the
3:15:46
airport, I wait, get him on the plane.
3:15:48
You know, we do that stuff. And and because you know, you
3:15:52
when you love somebody, you hate to see him suffering.
3:15:55
You know so well what you do is you do what Aaron Aaron Rodgers
3:15:58
does. He pretends he has a woman that
3:16:00
he married. And he names his hand Brittany,
3:16:02
and he puts that ring finger on his hand.
3:16:04
That man's married. He's not now.
3:16:07
Nobody's met her. Nobody's met this lady.
3:16:10
Nobody's met this lady. He's a private life.
3:16:13
Really private life. That.
3:16:15
Man has a private life. He made a Netflix documentary.
3:16:20
Who was that? Who's Bill Lee?
3:16:21
Remember Bill Lee? He was in a.
3:16:22
Little space this. Dudes, you got him, that dudes
3:16:24
out. There he lives in a different
3:16:26
world, Different world she's he's telling you in.
3:16:32
A different world he live. In a different.
3:16:33
Yeah, we married to his hand. We will also.
3:16:36
We will also do. Mushrooms Saturday at the Derby.
3:16:39
But I'm not going to go into. A cave in the desert, and I
3:16:43
wouldn't mind doing that. That's a fun time, man.
3:16:46
That's a fun time. Alright, gentlemen.
3:16:49
So you got the numbers, You wrote them down, Petey.
3:16:51
Yes, he's got it. And speedy you.
3:16:55
Know, I told I. Here's the thing, I my wife
3:16:58
needs a new piece of furniture. So I told her if I if I hit the
3:17:01
for 1700 or more, I'll buy her furniture.
3:17:04
Speedy will have his Speedy will have his hands in his pants when
3:17:07
that that that shot goes off. Here we go.
3:17:09
And he'll. Be running all the way down.
3:17:12
I'm just kidding. Anyway, go baby Chaz we.
3:17:14
Got stay out. Of trouble, huh?
3:17:15
Yes. We'll try.
3:17:16
We'll try. We'll try.
3:17:17
We'll talk soon. Yes, Chaz.
3:17:19
As always. He.
3:17:21
Is fantastic. We're having a lot of fun
3:17:22
tonight. I'm a little there.
3:17:24
You go baby with I wonder. Listen, I have a lot of crazy
3:17:27
responses. I I will.
3:17:29
Say this for all the fans out there when you do almost.
3:17:32
A four hour show, things go many different ways, and especially
3:17:37
in the first part of the show when there's all arguing, pretty
3:17:41
much, I want to RIP his head off, he wants to RIP my head
3:17:43
off, and then I want to smack Speedy around half the time and
3:17:46
then Fish jumps in because he just wants to piss me off even
3:17:49
more. That's what that's how this
3:17:50
works. That's how it works, ladies and
3:17:52
gentlemen, for anybody that doesn't watch this show or
3:17:55
listens to this show or downloads this show, downloading
3:18:00
and just see how these guys just pissed me off every single show
3:18:02
anyway, you know what I'm going to shut up you I mean.
3:18:08
This is going to be for the next two.
3:18:10
Weeks these teeth jokes. Listen, they're not that bad.
3:18:13
They're actually pretty good. Look, let's see.
3:18:15
Look, they're pretty good. What's the speed?
3:18:19
What's to do Mr. Rogers is it? Was it Mr. They're good.
3:18:26
They look good, but they're not. They're not going to go before
3:18:28
my time. They're not my good ones.
3:18:30
All right. Shut up, Q You know, I I got to
3:18:33
sit here, listen, I got to listen to this listen if I can
3:18:38
actually put. My hand in the screen and smack.
3:18:40
You around a couple times I'd do that I would do that man I would
3:18:44
go too short I'd be like 5-2 I am not 5 two wait until you meet
3:18:49
me you're. You're an idiot.
3:18:51
You and. Jabba, you guys.
3:18:52
Have like this thing like Jabba even called you 52.
3:18:55
No, you know what's funny with Jabba?
3:18:57
When I I've met Jabba a couple of Times Now and when I saw
3:19:00
Jabba recently, I'm like I, I the first thing I said, 510 and
3:19:04
a quarter. You're going to you're going to
3:19:05
make fun of my size. You're not that much taller than
3:19:07
me, Mr. Jobster. And he looked at me and says I'm
3:19:10
still taller than you. You, you you, you called me some
3:19:13
shrimp. Get the hell out of here.
3:19:14
I'll body slam you Jobby. Anyways, I got to I got to move
3:19:18
on. We got to move on.
3:19:19
Anyways, we call this dialect up this regularly scheduled hot mix
3:19:23
to bring your important news book.
3:19:25
We got a big broadcast to do. Here, we're about to dial it up.
3:19:31
Wow, look at that. Welcome back to Dial it Up.
3:19:35
It's. Moving faster than ever before.
3:19:38
This is everyone's favorite segment because it's a lightning
3:19:41
round sports segment. With stories.
3:19:43
That Errol has not seen yet. He's going to dial up a take and
3:19:48
then we're going to react to his on the spot reaction.
3:19:51
Errol, Are you ready to dial it up?
3:19:54
Yeah, just throw it at me. Here's the one that we have to
3:19:57
start with Steve Kerr. Came out the other.
3:20:00
Day and said that Draymond Green is the best defensive player he
3:20:06
has ever seen. Please.
3:20:08
And here's the quote. And that's saying something.
3:20:12
That's saying a lot, given that I played with Scottie Pippen and
3:20:16
Dennis Rodman. He said that to an interview in
3:20:20
The New Yorker. The modern game demands so.
3:20:23
Much more. Than it did in the 90s.
3:20:26
You have to be able to guard all 5 positions because there's so
3:20:30
much pace and energy and cross matches.
3:20:33
You race back on defense, you've got to guard the guy in front of
3:20:36
you. Then there's the pick on game.
3:20:38
The opposing team is going to bring the weakest defender into
3:20:40
every pick and roll to gain advantage.
3:20:42
Draymond. He can guard any action, any
3:20:45
position, any player. And he can also blow up up the
3:20:49
play behind the play if he's not involved with the action because
3:20:51
of his brain, his speed, his reach.
3:20:54
I think he's no more than six 5 1/2 Draymond, the best defensive
3:20:59
player you ever saw, Dial it up. How many tons does Steve Kerr
3:21:04
put his hands in his pants? I don't know Every.
3:21:06
Time Draymond Green's next door. Oh boy.
3:21:09
Here's the facts. Draymond Green is not the
3:21:12
greatest defensive player of all time.
3:21:13
There's a guy. Named yeah, Bill Russell, who
3:21:16
won 11 championships. I'm not going to sit here and to
3:21:18
try to make up some kind of stupid attempts to try to
3:21:23
nitpick players that I play with.
3:21:25
He's not better than Scottie Pippen.
3:21:27
He's not better than Dennis Rodman.
3:21:29
He's not better than Michael Jordan at his position, who shut
3:21:32
down players at his position at a top level.
3:21:35
What is he drinking? What is he smoking?
3:21:37
There's no way in hell Draymond Green is the greatest defensive
3:21:41
player of all time right now in the league.
3:21:43
Webbing. Yama's way better than he is.
3:21:45
I'll tell you this. Half the guys in the league is
3:21:48
better than him. You're going to say if he's that
3:21:49
great of a player, he should be up for defensive play of the
3:21:52
year, even at the age of 80. Get out of here.
3:21:56
Yeah. And I'll tell you this, two out
3:21:58
of those three, he should not have one defensive.
3:22:00
Player of the Year, just so you know.
3:22:02
Just so you know, he shouldn't have.
3:22:05
No, he shouldn't have do. You want me to?
3:22:09
Do you want me? To tell you who was around, No,
3:22:10
there's. No, you can't.
3:22:11
There's nothing. You can say.
3:22:12
He has three trophies. Yeah, that's because I've said
3:22:15
this say. You can tell me the NPA gives
3:22:19
these stupid trophies out to guys they love and.
3:22:23
Draymond Green, they loved until he started going crazy in the
3:22:27
middle of his career. He went crazy in his middle of
3:22:29
his career. He did.
3:22:32
I'll give you that. He did.
3:22:35
He was. In.
3:22:36
In his first. 56. Seven years of the NBA.
3:22:38
I love Draymond Green. As a matter of fact, Speedy, how
3:22:40
many times have I gone back, forth, back and forth?
3:22:42
Early in your time, I knew you kind of stuck up.
3:22:44
I stuck up for Draymond Green. He's a two way basketball player
3:22:48
to me. He was the backbone of the
3:22:50
Golden State Warriors after the the ridiculousness that he was
3:22:54
doing on and off the court, taking pictures of his you know
3:22:57
what, and posting it up on Snapchat and all that other
3:23:00
garbage and then doing things on the basketball court and then
3:23:04
thinking that everybody's racist.
3:23:07
Every time he had to say something to the media, it was
3:23:09
like, you're racist, you're racist, you're racist.
3:23:14
Play the Bam basketball game. Why are you even bringing this
3:23:16
up? Nobody cares what you think,
3:23:18
Draymond. Just go out there and play the
3:23:20
game. Yeah, You guys share some of the
3:23:22
same qualities in your personality, so I could see how
3:23:25
you related to him early on in his.
3:23:27
Career I loved him. He was one of my favorite
3:23:29
players early, early and. Then he went haywire.
3:23:34
Real haywire. We say that about you.
3:23:36
Sometimes as the show go too so I can see the comparison well.
3:23:41
I'm definitely haywire, there's no doubt.
3:23:43
I mean, Kerr said. He's 6/5 and 1/2.
3:23:46
You're 510 and a quarter, you know, same kind of not. 510,
3:23:50
let's cut it. OK?
3:23:51
Wait till you see me. Wait till he's like 5-8 at best.
3:23:54
I'm definitely not 58. I'd say he's 510.
3:23:57
He's close. To 510 if he's not 5-10. 5/8 is
3:24:00
close. Shut up.
3:24:01
Q Shut up. Q Listen, I could.
3:24:05
Be 510 five. 8 I'll just take you down.
3:24:08
I'll go wayside Dr. My shoulders, drive my shoulders,
3:24:12
baby drive my shoulders behind none of this you talk.
3:24:16
About Really. You think I have no strength?
3:24:19
Wow, you just walk the trim bill.
3:24:20
Every day. No, I lift.
3:24:22
Dude, I lift. Dude, are you?
3:24:24
Kidding me, I lift every day. I lift every day, buddy.
3:24:28
Every day. Push us every day.
3:24:30
Every push, dude. I do.
3:24:32
Are you kidding me? I do. 600 push ups.
3:24:34
A day. Sometimes just give me a break,
3:24:39
you know, give me a break. They're not sponsored.
3:24:41
I look. At it, I'm trying to get them to
3:24:44
you see what I'm saying? Horseback showing them.
3:24:46
I'm getting Corbett that you know.
3:24:48
A big boot, I can tell you that. Let's get that.
3:24:50
Let's. Get that?
3:24:51
Going. Here.
3:24:52
With the next one we're going to.
3:24:53
Go to baseball arrow I told you about.
3:24:55
This the other day, I love this Major League Baseball.
3:24:58
Force the Guardians to bench. They're starting.
3:25:02
Broadcasting crew in favor of a younger crew in order to get
3:25:07
this arrow. Preserve them to keep them fresh
3:25:10
for the season. Yes, load management for
3:25:15
broadcasters of a baseball game. This could only come from the
3:25:19
great Rob Manfred. So here's the report.
3:25:22
Let me read it to you because it's hard to believe this is a
3:25:24
real story. Paul Hoynes of the cleveland.com
3:25:29
MLB Local Media, which produced the Guardians telecast this
3:25:32
season along with the local telecast for the for all 13
3:25:36
other teams in the league, directed the Guardians to make
3:25:39
some subtle changes to the broadcast booth.
3:25:43
What they try to do is they basically are benching long time
3:25:46
broadcasters to Matt Underwood and Rick Manning, who's done it
3:25:49
for 37 years and saying and that last series against the Blue
3:25:54
Jays last weekend, they forced these younger guys.
3:25:58
Al Polowski was play by play and former catcher Chris Jimenez was
3:26:04
the color commentator. Chris Jimenez ladies, gentlemen,
3:26:08
a lot of people on social media were not.
3:26:11
Happy with this decision and then as it.
3:26:13
Got revealed the MLB was behind it.
3:26:16
I thought you might have some feelings when you dial it all.
3:26:21
Well, it's pretty simple. Rob Manfred, as Jabba calls.
3:26:25
Him or Manfred, whatever you want to call it, the guy is
3:26:28
completely blind. He has absolutely no idea how to
3:26:31
run an organization or a league. So he goes out there and an
3:26:34
organization that has done so very well.
3:26:37
If you look at the broadcasting that this organization has had
3:26:40
over the years, they've not won in 70 or 80 years.
3:26:42
It's been a long time, but this organization has consistency you
3:26:46
they've been an A top organization when it comes to
3:26:49
developing players. And if you look at their
3:26:50
broadcasting, I have Nick Goody. Nick Goody's a good friend of
3:26:53
mine. He was broadcasting last year
3:26:55
with some of the the older guys. They did they decided not to go
3:26:59
with him, but they're going to bring Jimenez.
3:27:01
They're going to bring all these guys.
3:27:02
I don't even know the other guy. I don't want to ask where they
3:27:05
found these guys. They're a bunch of idiots.
3:27:07
I listened to their broadcast the other day after the fact
3:27:10
that you told me this, I listened to the broadcast.
3:27:12
They don't even know what they're watching.
3:27:14
They have absolutely no idea if they know what a strike is or a
3:27:18
bull is. One of the guys actually to a
3:27:20
fly ball and they said it was caught when it was a home run
3:27:22
it. It's pathetic.
3:27:24
Honestly. Baseball needs to stay the hell
3:27:27
away from these organizations. These organizations have done it
3:27:29
right. Charlie Slows, good friend of
3:27:31
the show, good friend of mine, this is a guy that has been
3:27:34
fighting to keep his job year in and year out.
3:27:35
He's afraid that some of these young guys are going to take his
3:27:38
job away from them because they're looking to get younger.
3:27:41
The younger guys don't know anything about the sport.
3:27:44
They think they do. They want to believe they do,
3:27:47
but they're complete morons. You know what I really think?
3:27:49
Rob Manford's a moron. His idiocy, everything that he
3:27:53
does for the league has ruined the league.
3:27:55
So get him the hell out, 2028. Kick his ass out, Bam, bam.
3:28:01
Outside of baseball, find somebody else that actually
3:28:04
knows what he's doing. Rob Manfred, Manfred man ass
3:28:08
man, hand job. Get him out of here.
3:28:11
Yeah, it's ridiculous that they're trying to force certain
3:28:13
off days on them. Like usually these broadcasters
3:28:15
have a certain amount of games they do a year.
3:28:17
I know I don't know how it exactly works with the
3:28:19
Guardians, but I know what the Mets like.
3:28:20
Gary Cohen gets 120 games and he'll get to choose his own off
3:28:23
days. Keith Hernandez, they want to
3:28:24
choose his own something like for a guy that's that's been as
3:28:28
with the team as long as he has, like, why is he being forced to
3:28:31
take particular off days in order to do that?
3:28:33
Let him pick when he wants. I'm sure he has things scheduled
3:28:36
with his family that he wants to go see.
3:28:37
And you're going to force a particular game on a guy that's
3:28:40
been with the team forever? You think Rob Manford cares
3:28:44
about his only he doesn't. And that's the moronic thing
3:28:47
here, that you're not respecting a well respected broadcaster.
3:28:50
To be able to pick his own off case.
3:28:52
It's pathetic. It's absolutely pathetic.
3:28:55
He should be ashamed of himself. Him in his red eyes, I guess
3:28:58
he's a devil. Or that's what he's trying to
3:29:00
portray himself to be. He's a devil.
3:29:02
He's an absolute moron. He doesn't know what he's doing.
3:29:05
He needs to get out. Yeah, he's a puppet master.
3:29:07
I need to smack him around. If I was in front of Rob
3:29:10
Manford. I heard that Rob Manford's
3:29:12
actually a pretty tall guy. He's like 6-2.
3:29:14
I give him a nice. I give him a nice knee to the
3:29:16
ground and give him a nice knee right into his abdomen.
3:29:19
Watch him fly on the ground. Eat that.
3:29:22
Give me that little trophy, baby.
3:29:24
Sorry. Let's go.
3:29:27
All right, You're going to like this one too.
3:29:30
I think you're going to really like this.
3:29:31
One Q can you? Believe oh please, what Carmelo
3:29:35
Anthony had to say about. Nico.
3:29:39
Harrison deserving credit for Cooper flags.
3:29:45
Oh my God, Rookie of the. Year campaign.
3:29:50
Is he out of his freaking mind? I agree.
3:29:55
Oh my. God.
3:29:56
So I mean, look, I don't really, there's not much.
3:29:58
More to say Mellow got on his. Podcast.
3:30:01
Was sitting there sipping his red wine as he tends to do.
3:30:05
He needs to sip more of it. Outlandish statements and.
3:30:10
This is what he says. And this is.
3:30:12
Reported all over. The media.
3:30:14
Social media, the quote shout out to Nico Harrison, man for
3:30:19
seeing this right here, for understanding this vision.
3:30:22
No matter what happened, how it happened, Dallas got something
3:30:26
back. They got the number one pick.
3:30:29
You start talking about Cooper ceiling and a young face of the
3:30:31
league in the NBA, that's Cooper flay.
3:30:35
Can you believe that? He's shouting out Nico Harrison
3:30:39
for getting lucky and winning the lottery when they had no
3:30:43
business of doing so, when it was probably had some frozen
3:30:46
envelope juju going on because they gave the Lakers Luka Doncic
3:30:51
and that for Anthony Davis was the the prize in that deal.
3:30:54
If we remember he gone too. Errol Melo wiling out.
3:30:59
Dial it on. I I'd like to thank the LJA, the
3:31:03
LeBron James Association. For giving me.
3:31:05
Cooper flag. Oh boy, that's what I'd be
3:31:07
saying because there's no way in damn hell that Nico Harrison
3:31:12
should get any credit for trading Luka Doncic.
3:31:16
That is pathetic. Honestly.
3:31:18
The NBA is a joke and and, and Carmelo Anthony is.
3:31:21
He'll sell anything. Carmelo Anthony wants to sell
3:31:24
ratings. That's what he's doing.
3:31:25
He wants to give Nico Harrison who's never going to get AGM job
3:31:28
ever again. Nobody's stupid enough will give
3:31:31
him the opportunity to run their organization.
3:31:34
This guy ruined the Dallas Mavericks and yes, he got lucky
3:31:38
getting Cooper flag, but let's thank LeBron James.
3:31:41
Let's think a thank Adam Silver. It's pathetic.
3:31:44
It really is. Everybody knows the lottery is
3:31:47
bullshit. Everybody knows it's crap.
3:31:49
And honest to God, Carmelo Anthony coming out and saying
3:31:52
that just tells me one thing. Carmelo Anthony doesn't know
3:31:55
where the hell he is or what he's doing on his podcast.
3:31:58
He really just likes to open his mouth, sip, wait, whatever he
3:32:01
said is a windbag that sips wine and thinks that he knows
3:32:05
everything about basketball because he's a Hall of Famer and
3:32:08
he was a Nick. The guy never won anything.
3:32:10
I'm not taking any advice from a guy that really never played in
3:32:13
a final, never won anything. Why am I even taking any
3:32:16
information from a guy that knows nothing that he thinks he
3:32:19
knows? Honestly, Carmelo Anthony.
3:32:21
Carmelo Anthony, he never won anything.
3:32:22
Who we talked about. Yeah, Carmelo Anthony is a born
3:32:24
loser. Born.
3:32:26
Loser, loser, loser. That's what it is.
3:32:30
You see how he did this? It's.
3:32:32
Really. This of all times loser L.
3:32:34
What are the greatest of L loser?
3:32:36
Ladies and gentlemen, he's a loser.
3:32:38
That's. The loser No.
3:32:40
No, this is it. He always.
3:32:41
He did. This he.
3:32:42
Did that. Did.
3:32:43
That for the three points. No, I'm doing this.
3:32:45
He really shot 33. Percent on L for loser.
3:32:48
Anyways it. Is pathetic.
3:32:51
There was no luck the NBA. Gave him Cooper Flag and and
3:32:54
honest to God, a lot of people thought that Cooper flag might
3:32:57
have not or shouldn't have not won the rookie of the year.
3:33:02
So I mean, there's a lot of questions to that.
3:33:05
I mean, there was a guy over there in Charlotte that had a
3:33:07
pretty good season too, if you know what I mean.
3:33:09
I I like Cooper Flag. I want Cooper Flag to win.
3:33:12
But to say this or even try to pitch this to anybody that
3:33:16
watches sports or actually knows what the NBA is doing right now,
3:33:21
that is a crock. Look, Carmelo, if you ever came
3:33:24
on this show, I would eat you up alive.
3:33:26
Eat you up alive. Eat you up alive on this show,
3:33:29
you know? Are you kidding me?
3:33:32
You kidding me? I would eat him up a lot, dude.
3:33:35
He wouldn't even listen. To you, you're a Celtic fan.
3:33:37
Carmelo Anthony wouldn't even listen to you.
3:33:39
You're a Celtic fan. He wouldn't.
3:33:41
I'm a player, yeah. He wouldn't listen to you.
3:33:44
You're a Celtic. Fan, he would He hates the
3:33:46
Celtics. No, he's he's not.
3:33:48
He's not a fanatic to the poor where he can't.
3:33:52
Respect Somebody on your Celtics called his wife Honey in a
3:33:55
Cheerios. He likes Boston.
3:33:58
I agree, but listen, Nico definitely deserved the credit.
3:34:01
You know, at the end of the day, he.
3:34:02
Did end up getting. The lottery pick, he was
3:34:05
responsible, he was the GM and for Dallas Mavericks and they
3:34:10
did trade Lucas Dodgers for Cooper flag and there's a
3:34:15
generation of talent for no, they traded Luca for a guy
3:34:19
that's no longer on the team. They did not.
3:34:27
They got rid of Luca Duchess they get he end up getting the
3:34:30
lottery pick which end up being Cooper flag at the end of the
3:34:34
day. OK, see, you're froze.
3:34:38
You know why you're froze? I was saying was because they
3:34:40
know. You're not froze, Yeah.
3:34:42
You did. You're froze.
3:34:42
You know why it's not on my It's not on my ear.
3:34:45
Because the gods in the. EAR are telling you you're an
3:34:47
idiot, but anyway. I'm talking all right.
3:34:50
No idiots. Nico deserves the print.
3:34:53
He deserves some credit, even though everybody.
3:34:56
Thinks it was rigged. Everybody thinks that it is the
3:34:59
lottery was rigged. It is just so happened to fall
3:35:01
in this lap. It absolutely.
3:35:03
Did that this. Type of situation.
3:35:05
Would happen, but at the end. Of the day it happened in the
3:35:07
drafted. Cooper flag and you got.
3:35:09
To give some credit, what credit is due.
3:35:11
You give AG so hard If you give AGM credit for for where your
3:35:15
spot is in the lottery, that's not exactly like.
3:35:18
A presidential thing of this guy is defined as a good GM.
3:35:22
Oh, the Sun's got the number one pick.
3:35:24
Are we going to say their GM was any good when they got DeAndre
3:35:27
Ayton at the time? Do you remember I said give some
3:35:30
credit? Do we say give them?
3:35:32
Do we give them the year award? Do.
3:35:34
We give them some credit. Do we remember of the year for
3:35:37
why does he have a job? He could have won more games.
3:35:40
He could have won more games. And never even been.
3:35:41
Do we remember? Do we?
3:35:44
Remember when Nico Harrison came out at?
3:35:47
The press conference in front. Of the media.
3:35:49
And had to make his, I guess claims to what he was planning
3:35:53
to do after trading Luka Doncic. And he had Jason Kidd sitting
3:35:56
right next to him and giving him a look like, what are you an
3:36:00
idiot? You traded our best player that
3:36:02
took us to the final last year. I I mean, what a joke.
3:36:05
And you're going to sit there and try to sell that Nico
3:36:07
Harrison will never get AGM job. He'll never get an executive
3:36:10
job, just like Billy King. No, he doesn't.
3:36:13
No, he doesn't. They fired him 10 months too
3:36:15
late. Don't worry.
3:36:17
He's still a mouthy of the year. He's 25.
3:36:19
He is Billy King esque. And you know what?
3:36:21
You know what Billy King did? Remember what Billy King did?
3:36:24
Oh, I remember he made a trade with the Celtics, if you
3:36:27
remember that, which gave him, I don't know.
3:36:30
Or Jason Tatum. Jalen Brown.
3:36:32
Yeah, exactly. Stupid.
3:36:34
Have another GM. Stupid.
3:36:36
No, we won't. I'll put money on.
3:36:37
Maybe the Nets will be dumb enough to hire him, but we're
3:36:41
covering in. No, we won't.
3:36:42
I'm never covering Nico Harrison if he does get a.
3:36:45
GM job will cover again and mocking him.
3:36:47
The whole time I will not show up to the show if we cover Nico
3:36:50
Harrison. Okay, that guys a moron.
3:36:52
I would never cover him. That guy probably made the worst
3:36:56
trade in NBA history. It is the worst trade in NBA
3:36:59
history and to. Give him credit for getting like
3:37:01
what should have been the 13th pick.
3:37:03
You know to become the. 1st pick, I don't think he deserves
3:37:06
credit. That's like getting oh, you,
3:37:07
you're so great at investing money.
3:37:09
How'd you get that money? Oh, I won the lottery.
3:37:11
Oh, you're such a genius. You're inherited money.
3:37:13
Like, yeah, I love that Q's frozen with a smile right now.
3:37:17
It's good. Right, it is good.
3:37:19
It's, you know, the. Gods up, you know, Up in the
3:37:21
air, it's out. You pop out.
3:37:22
And pop back in. If you could hear I'm going to
3:37:24
pop you out the screen just for a second there it.
3:37:27
Is I did that to it, but he needs to come back in.
3:37:30
And out stream yard was going after.
3:37:32
Him for his conspiracy theory. Maybe that's what happened the
3:37:36
stream yard. Cancelled him for like 5 minutes
3:37:38
or so. They probably said, OK, Q.
3:37:40
It should be no idiots, not no idol.
3:37:43
You know what we're going to do since.
3:37:44
Q's frozen. We were already planning on
3:37:46
this. We're going to bring in our our
3:37:47
intern zoot. Zoot is gonna be and all our
3:37:50
interns they're almost done with their semester got another week
3:37:53
of shows like congratulations to all our interns all the hard
3:37:56
work and dedication that they put into our back end it's.
3:37:59
Been great and looking forward to seeing you guys grow
3:38:04
everywhere you go in your careers.
3:38:06
Yeah, So Zoot had a request, you know, I said, is there anything
3:38:09
you want to do before we were done with the internship?
3:38:11
And he said I'd like to get talk about the Kentucky Derby.
3:38:14
So I said, fine, let's bring it in.
3:38:17
Here's a Kentucky Derby preview featuring our buddy Zoot.
3:38:22
Let me give you a little bit. You got a bunch already from
3:38:25
second-half Chaz. He was a little all over the
3:38:28
place with the odds. His odds were not the ones I'm
3:38:30
looking at. He has three different parlays
3:38:32
or he has a three and A5 horse parlay.
3:38:34
That was no, I'm aware of that, but.
3:38:36
He said that the guy with the best odds is actually the guy
3:38:39
tied for. 2nd Renegade has the best odds despite the fact being
3:38:44
on the number one pole post at 4:00 to 1:00.
3:38:47
If 4 to 1's the best odds, it's a wide open race obviously.
3:38:50
And that's what Chaz was saying. A commandment and further ado
3:38:53
Chaz's favorite are tied at six to one.
3:38:56
Chief Wallaby, he mentioned as well 8 to 1, the Puma 12:50.
3:39:00
So happy in emerging market are the next tied at 15 to 1.
3:39:06
I got some notes from Zoot, you know, again, the inside post
3:39:10
hasn't won since 1986. That's the year I was born.
3:39:13
That's a forever ago. I owned by Mike Ripoli.
3:39:16
Owned by Mike Ripoli, St. John's alum or been an investor
3:39:21
in the UFL. He's never had a winner.
3:39:24
And the jock, you're just rude. You don't like jockeys.
3:39:27
Why do you have to be mean to the jockeys, Jackalac?
3:39:33
They're already so little. Monstrous.
3:39:39
Come on, fish that one. I guess so.
3:39:41
You make an. Excellent point, Errol.
3:39:44
The jockey is. Junior, arguably the best jockey
3:39:49
in the country who has not won the Kentucky Derby.
3:39:52
The other one that you should know about is the Puma, lost to
3:39:55
Commandment by a nose in the Florida Derby, and it looks like
3:39:58
that might be the horse of Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift.
3:40:02
Stay away from that horse. Stay away from that horse.
3:40:06
Stay far away from that horse. We've heard a lot about the
3:40:09
Derby. I got to hear your take.
3:40:14
All right, so I'm not a Derby fan, but I like the name Chief.
3:40:17
Wallaby, that's a cool name. I'm going to go with the Chief
3:40:20
Wallaby this year, 8 to one favorite.
3:40:23
I wear a lot of Pumas, so I'm going to go with Puma in seconds
3:40:27
and then I'll go Renegade because I like to Renegade every
3:40:31
night, ladies and gentlemen. So I'm going to go Chief
3:40:35
Wallaby, the Puma and Renegade as my 123 just because I can't.
3:40:42
That's three great choices. Those are three of the best
3:40:45
horses in the field. It's definitely one.
3:40:47
Of the more wide open derbies in the last few years, just the
3:40:52
fact that in the morning line, Renegade was 4 to one favorite.
3:40:56
Right now in the betting, Renegade still the favorite, but
3:40:58
it's 5 to 1. It's just it's going to be any
3:41:01
anybody's Derby. But I think the biggest story of
3:41:04
the Derby this year is with Renegade.
3:41:07
Mike Ripoli. He is, I don't know if you know
3:41:10
about Ripoli, but he is. I do actually.
3:41:12
He he loves to talk. He loves to talk crap about his.
3:41:16
Horses. Just about whatever he can he he
3:41:21
wants to be the commissioner of horse racing.
3:41:23
He's always tweeting, talking crap to other owners and he's
3:41:27
great for the game. He's so much fun to listen to.
3:41:31
He's had some great horses over the years and yet he's never
3:41:34
been able to win a Derby. And he's got a pretty good
3:41:38
chance this year with Renegade. But then he drew the one post on
3:41:42
the inside, which like he said, hasn't had a winner since 86.
3:41:47
But I'm telling you, if Renegade wins the Derby this year, that
3:41:51
post race interview with Micropoli on NBC is going to be
3:41:54
must watch television. He's going to go off on
3:41:57
everybody who said he never had a chance, who said his horses
3:42:00
stink. He's going to go off.
3:42:03
I, I, I want Renegade to win just because I want to see that
3:42:06
my top pick for the Derby. I like commandment.
3:42:09
He's won four races in a row. He's beaten some of the other
3:42:12
top horses. He beat Chief Wallaby, he beat
3:42:14
the Puma. Those two horses just look
3:42:17
really good. They've ran some big races as
3:42:19
well, and Commandment is also one at Churchill Downs where the
3:42:24
Derby is run. So you know he's going to take
3:42:27
to the ground because each each track is a little bit different.
3:42:30
So when you win at Churchill Downs, you know they're going to
3:42:32
like that, that ground. He's just so consistent.
3:42:35
He battles on. He doesn't win big like some of
3:42:39
the other horses like Further Ado, who Chaz mentioned earlier.
3:42:42
He has the fastest race, the biggest number.
3:42:46
Yeah, he he, he won by like 11 lengths in his last race, which
3:42:51
is huge, but Commandment doesn't have that.
3:42:54
But he's going to grind. He's going to battle.
3:42:56
That's why I like him. Wow.
3:42:58
I like the Chief Wallaby because it's a cool name and I like I
3:43:02
like being chief. I like being the chief, so I
3:43:04
think that was going to go. I'm going to go.
3:43:06
Wallaby got to do that for me. Speedy.
3:43:08
Wallaby. Wallaby, Wallaby.
3:43:10
Wallaby. I think that was the one Chaz's
3:43:12
friend had. It was one of the five.
3:43:15
Yeah, that cluster. Speedy.
3:43:16
If Chief Wallaby, if Chief Wallaby wins, I want you to go.
3:43:20
Go ahead, Wallaby. Yeah.
3:43:22
Like wee, Like wee. There we go.
3:43:27
I like that. Yeah.
3:43:28
Let's go. We got one left, boys, and this
3:43:31
one is related to the New York. Football giants, of course, so
3:43:38
you may have heard Colin Coward make some.
3:43:41
Comments about the Giants. Offensive line About 10 days ago
3:43:47
after the draft he made some more comments about how you
3:43:51
know, they just are kind of mediocre in the trenches, need
3:43:56
to go build up the trenches. Insulted Jermaine Illuminor
3:44:00
saying he was a journeyman offensive lineman.
3:44:05
So this was on for Tony. Called him that.
3:44:07
He said he was overpaid after he got a three-year $39 million
3:44:10
contract this offseason. Illuminor responded saying he
3:44:14
has no clue what he's talking about, that he earned every damn
3:44:16
petty. He was one of the best right
3:44:18
tackles in the league last year according to PFF, had a 76 seven
3:44:23
pass blocking grade as evidence to dispute that.
3:44:26
Anyway, it continued. Colin Cowherd, as you can
3:44:30
probably expect, double down on it after the Giants draft saying
3:44:33
that they did a good job because they needed to address the
3:44:37
trenches. Illuminor basically went back in
3:44:40
the same way that people go back at Stephen A Smith saying he's
3:44:43
doing it for the clicks and that he has no idea what he's talking
3:44:47
about. Errol, I think you lay somewhere
3:44:50
in between where I feel and Colin Cowherd feels about.
3:44:54
This one. But I'm curious to hear it dial
3:44:57
it up. First of all, I I would agree
3:45:00
what you mean Illuminor. It's all about clicks with this
3:45:03
guy I. I like Colin Cowherd but he has
3:45:06
said some stupid, dumb things for many, many years and the one
3:45:10
thing I could say he was right was Sam Donald will win a Super
3:45:13
Bowl. But besides that, he has been
3:45:16
wrong and everything that's come out of that guy's mouth.
3:45:18
I think Jimmy and Aluminor was one of the best right tackles in
3:45:21
the league last year, especially when Thomas came back.
3:45:24
There's no question and I wouldn't attack Jermaine
3:45:27
Aluminor unless I know how to protect myself and Colin.
3:45:30
Coward is a little bitch and people just smack him silly.
3:45:34
I'd stay away from any of the Giant game, Stay away from
3:45:37
Jermaine Aluminor because if he if he shows his face at any one
3:45:41
of those games, he's going to drop the hammer on him.
3:45:44
Honestly, the Giants are going to be a good offensive line.
3:45:47
They added, they added to that offensive line, they added to
3:45:50
the beef. I think they're going to be very
3:45:52
good this year. The question is who's running
3:45:54
the ball and who's catching the ball?
3:45:56
Only time will tell when it comes to that.
3:45:58
Is Jackson Dark going to hold the ball too long or he's going
3:46:01
to run outside of the pocket and get killed?
3:46:03
That's not the offensive line's fault.
3:46:05
That's because there's no playmakers on the football
3:46:07
field. And Malik Neighbors, when he
3:46:09
does come back, is he going to be the same Malik Neighbors?
3:46:11
That's the problem. It's not the offensive line.
3:46:13
I think the offensive line is proven.
3:46:15
If Thomas is healthy, they can play at a high level.
3:46:18
I I'm somewhere in between on this because I don't think that
3:46:22
Thomas is the. Only reason.
3:46:24
Why they can be good. I think Mal Noah going there is
3:46:26
going to be a big deal going forwards in the future, but it's
3:46:29
more about just having a unit that works well together.
3:46:32
Look at Illuminor stats last year.
3:46:34
Howard's not wrong. He was an average overall tackle
3:46:38
because in the run game he wasn't much, but he also had
3:46:41
nobody at guard playing next to him to double team with him in
3:46:44
the run game on these three techniques, so they weren't
3:46:47
going to be good. So it's hard to look at those
3:46:49
stats because overall he was ranked 54th out of 89 tackles,
3:46:54
like a round average. But if you look at the pass pro,
3:46:57
which is really what you need the tackles need to do, that's
3:47:00
the most important thing. He was 20th in the NFL, which
3:47:04
means he's a well above average pass protector.
3:47:06
And if he put a real good guard next to him like they just did
3:47:09
with Mount Noah, I bet he's above average there, too.
3:47:13
So when you draft somebody in the trenches, it's not because
3:47:17
you have a journeyman, which is not true.
3:47:18
He was only with the Raiders before this and he got a
3:47:21
contract with the Giants and then he proved that he deserved
3:47:23
another contract. He's getting 13 million a
3:47:24
season. That's an average to above
3:47:26
average player at that position. It's not a star player, but it's
3:47:30
a good player to have. And if you put a potential star
3:47:32
next to him, now you got a guy that can make the Pro Bowl.
3:47:35
And that's what Cowher doesn't understand.
3:47:38
But I think you're right. That guy couldn't care less to
3:47:40
understand the nuances of this game.
3:47:42
He just wants to get the shock reaction and Illuminor bit into
3:47:45
it. Maybe it helps Illuminor in the
3:47:46
future with his media stuff, but it certainly helped Cowher the
3:47:50
same way it always does. But he's wrong, like he always
3:47:53
is. And that has been dial it up,
3:47:56
Wallaby. Go ahead, Speedy Wallaby.
3:48:00
There you go. A nice.
3:48:01
Little smack, you know, like you sound like a woman in heat.
3:48:04
You know, don't, Don't quit. Nothing aroused.
3:48:08
Nathan's always aroused. He always is aroused.
3:48:10
Right, Nath? Let's put Nathan in there for a
3:48:12
second. Let's Let's say.
3:48:14
Hey, Nath, what are you watching over there?
3:48:19
He's just rocking out to some. Dexter kill scenes, hey.
3:48:25
Hey hey hey, fan Spotify playlist.
3:48:30
Boom, boom, Dropping bones. Dropping bones.
3:48:32
Dropping bones. All right, Knock him out, Knock
3:48:34
him out. Knock him out.
3:48:36
All right. Nathan's in his own little
3:48:37
world. What the hell is he doing over
3:48:39
there? I who blessed music out like
3:48:42
that at 11:00 at night? Does he actually have neighbors?
3:48:45
I mean, he's in a condo over there.
3:48:48
He put them all on a leash. Oh, that's right.
3:48:50
I don't have the button. I could put him on a leash.
3:48:53
Anyways, thank you to Metta World Peace for joining us.
3:48:56
Thank you to Nathan for landing him.
3:48:57
That was sensational. He was great.
3:48:59
He really was hanging out in the car, which usually happens when
3:49:03
it comes to Nathan guys. But nevertheless, just getting
3:49:06
him on the show and having a lot of fun with Metta.
3:49:08
That was a great interview and we really appreciate Nathan
3:49:10
being what he is and and it's been a big part of our show.
3:49:13
So thank you to Metta for joining us.
3:49:16
I don't know what happened to Q, but I guess Q realized that
3:49:19
there's no reason to get back into the scope if he doesn't
3:49:22
want to get killed at the end of the show.
3:49:23
Because it shouldn't be no idols.
3:49:25
It should have been just no idiots as as some of the idiot,
3:49:30
idiot things that he said tonight that just got me turned
3:49:33
out. And if anybody watched the
3:49:35
beginning of the show, it turned me out.
3:49:37
There's no question I I lost it. But I love you.
3:49:40
By the way, Q is one of the best partners to work with.
3:49:43
He really is. I love him and I appreciate you
3:49:46
coming on and being a part of this show.
3:49:48
And I think we're going to do a lot of great things here at New
3:49:51
York sports. You might you might have been a
3:49:53
blessing in disguise. He when we got into the jockeys,
3:49:55
he might have started making more height jokes.
3:49:57
That's true too. You know what it is?
3:49:59
I'm not. This is what always happens.
3:50:02
I heard it from Jabba for almost a year and a half, and now I'm
3:50:05
hearing it from Quentin. I'm nowhere close to the size of
3:50:07
Quentin. He's 6 foot six, £250.
3:50:10
I'm not that. But if he thinks that I don't
3:50:14
work out, I don't lift. I'm 215 lbs.
3:50:18
I'm 510 and a quarter, 5/10 and 1/4.
3:50:20
I was out there at the quarter. But for him to think that, wait
3:50:24
until he gets gets a low to me. Wait until he get a low to me.
3:50:27
Remember that movie Batman? Remember that?
3:50:29
Yeah. Jack Nicklaus, Jack Jack
3:50:32
Nicholson, whatever Nicholson, I'm losing my mind today.
3:50:36
It's a I'm tired, OK? I stand for four hours doing
3:50:39
this show and I'm I had to sit and watch my beautiful teeth
3:50:43
teeth get messed up today. And now I got to wait for my new
3:50:46
teeth to come in the mail. I got pretty pretty much come in
3:50:49
the mail. So I got to deal with that.
3:50:51
Anyways, that's it for the show. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you
3:50:53
to all the fans on all the platforms, especially every fan
3:50:58
on Spotify and Apple video and audio.
3:51:00
There it is that's what it looks like.
3:51:02
That's what it feels like right now.
3:51:04
What am I supposed to be a Beaver there?
3:51:05
I mean, Chip Chipmunk, I told Fish to make you make you like
3:51:11
the. Christmas chipmunks so you all I
3:51:13
want for Christmas my. 2 front teeth, you guys, idiots.
3:51:16
I do want my 2 front teeth fixed right now, but my teeth do not
3:51:20
look like that right now. I showed you guys it just it
3:51:22
feels a little weird because it's not it's not right.
3:51:25
It doesn't fit right. But anyways, thank you again to
3:51:28
all the Spotify and Apple fans, all the TikTok, Instagram and X
3:51:33
fans, New York sports loudmouth, our YouTube fans, our YouTube
3:51:37
channel, our new YouTube channel that's growing.
3:51:39
Thank you to all our interns, Zoots and all of them, every one
3:51:43
of them. So and again, if I left any of
3:51:47
them out, Zach, all of them, they're all sensational, not Dom
3:51:51
everybody out there that's been working with us.
3:51:53
We love you guys. Keep up the good work and and
3:51:56
always stay in touch with us. What whatever you guys do in the
3:51:59
future, stay in touch with us, whatever you need references,
3:52:02
anything we're here for you guys and you can come on and and work
3:52:06
with us as well offset of whatever you're doing as well.
3:52:09
So we really love you guys. Thank you very much and thank
3:52:12
you to all the fans all over the country tuning in, downloading
3:52:16
us US looking at us. I mean, looking at my crazy
3:52:19
teeth right now, everybody that has tuned in and and yes, go New
3:52:22
York, go New York, go and speedy Walla B, Walla B, Walla B, there
3:52:31
you go. All right, that's.
3:52:32
It for our. Show, ladies and gentlemen,
3:52:33
Kentucky Derby this weekend. I got to go.
3:52:36
My feet are hurting me. Good night.
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