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Do the YANKEES have the best pitching staff in baseball? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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And now, ladies and gentlemen, for the first time on New York
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Sports loudmouth, we have a New York, a Long Island native, a
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champion that's never been on this show before.
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And I know he is a Piston guy and a lot of New York Knick fans
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are probably there. Why are you getting a?
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Because he's a New York guy, ladies and gentlemen, and we're
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very happy to have him. We're now talking to 12 year NBA
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point guard Mr. Mike James. Mike, what's up, buddy?
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How are you doing? You were ranked in the top 30
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today and we've been in the top 100 for over 2 months.
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We're kicking ass and taking names and we're kicking the hell
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at a Rick D Pietro's ESPN show right now tonight.
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I'm just saying I have to throw. That at you.
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Anyways, Mike, I, I am. I'm a New Yorker, man.
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I'm a New Yorker. I'm a New Yorker, as we all, and
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you are too. You're an Amityville, Amityville
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alum, and we're happy to have you on.
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You've never been on the show and I'm just excited to have you
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on because we had Metta World Peace on last week.
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Now we have another New Yorker from Long Island, another
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representative. I I know a little bit about your
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park. I checked out your park that you
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built over the years. Tell us a little bit about the
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the thought of bringing and putting a park together for all
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the fans and all the all the kids out there in Amityville.
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I mean, that was, that was my safe haven when I was a kid.
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And I was always, regardless of what was going on in the
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community, I always had access to be in the park.
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And, you know, when I was a kid, my park was considered
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dangerous. And most of the kids, they had,
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you know, courts in the front yard.
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And so I wanted to create it to make it a place to be a safe
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place for kids, you know, where they can go and, you know, put a
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little, little flavor with it. And just the remembrance and
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remind me of like what I used to have to do just to continue to
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keep my peace and my sanity and myself.
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I always had the gym in the park to always go to.
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So you're addressed by the Miami Heat kind of at the beginning of
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that Pat Riley era, I think you a year before Dwyane Wade, it
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really went over there as well. What was it like when you first
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got the call that you were when you going to Miami?
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You know the funny story about the Miami Heat The Miami Heat
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story is 1. I had a, it was, it was a three
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day workout for the heat, like a weekend workout.
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They had about maybe 20 free agents there.
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And I, they didn't know nothing about me.
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They just probably was just throwing me in there just to
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look out for someone. And I, I killed everyone and
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they said, wait, Mike, we couldn't evaluate you in three
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days. Myself and Malik Allen, they was
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like, can you guys stay another three days so we can evaluate
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you? So they brought in another 20
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free agents. We killed everybody.
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And they said, Mike, we couldn't evaluate you in three days.
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I mean, in the week. So can you stay?
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So can you stay a little longer for another week?
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So I did the same thing they did, brought free agents in
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again and it was the same result.
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And they put me on a partial contract and then I got, I made
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it all the way to the end and I was the final cut behind one of
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the greatest New York point guards to ever play the game.
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And I found out personally why he was one of the greatest New
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York point guards to ever play the game, Rod Strickland.
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And then I went to the CBA and, you know, killed in the CBA and
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from the CBA, Miami signed me back.
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I think one of my biggest, one of my worst decisions, I, I
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can't say that, but one of the decisions that I could probably
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say was one of my worst decisions is when, when I was in
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the CBA, San Antonio gave me, this is right before Tony Parker
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came to the, I played against Tony Parker the year before in
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France and I killed them. You know, our team used to kill
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them. So he already knew who I was.
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I knew who he was and really wasn't impressed with him.
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But this is the year before they signed him.
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I was, I got a 10 day contract with the San Antonio Spurs.
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And when the Miami Heat found out that I got a 10 day, they
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signed me for the remainder of the year and guaranteed me for
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the year. And I was like, shit, 10 days,
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you know, guaranteed whole year. I wasn't thinking Pat Riley,
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Gregg Popovich, you know what I mean?
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And so if I would have had, you know, people helping me
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understand like how Gregg Popovich really values people
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that he sees something in it was just a little different.
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And just, you know, so even like the whole era, just getting to
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the Miami Heat, I think that Pat Riley had kind of like a a mixed
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relationship with me because he had to learn me and he had to
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learn me through the fact of him finding me.
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So he think that I owed him something.
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So you had the opportunity to play for one of the most
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historical winning organizations in the Boston.
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I really can't hear that, I'm sorry.
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Yeah. We ask your question.
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I'll really. No, I was just gonna ask him,
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you know, how was it playing in Boston and, you know, teaming up
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with those guys that being able to, you know, compete for the
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box of suchas and being a part of a historical winning
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franchise. That was one of the main
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reasons. This is when I was my second
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year, I was playing in Miami, my third.
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That third year Miami wanted to give me, they wanted to give me
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a multi year deal. And this is one of my other and
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I'm I think I'm I, I don't think I'm just good and arrogantly
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thinking I'm good, but I think I'm better than what people are
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giving me value for. And so he played in the summer
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league and I was playing against Travis Best and all of these
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guys and they was Boston was about to sign Travis Best and
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they Jim O'Brien came to the Jim O'Brien came to the the workout
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and he saw me kicking like all the pros butts and Roger Bell,
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all of them was kicking chairs. And he looked at me and he said,
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Mike, I can't give you no money, but I can give you a chance.
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And I said, he said, I'm only going to give you minimal.
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And here it is. Miami is about to give me a
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multi year deal and and they was just like, I can only give you a
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partial a just a minimal gown and just a chance.
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And I was my first year starting in the NBA and I was averaging
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10/5 and five, you know, as a starter with Paul Pierce and
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when Antoine Walker was there and all these guys.
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So it was an amazing opportunity that Jim O'Brien gave me.
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But here's the here's the funny story.
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You know, John Carroll was the head assistant coach for the
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Boston Celtics. John Carroll when I signed to go
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to Duquesne University, That's a funny story in itself.
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I got my scholarship out the park.
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You know, they came to see me play and saw me do 2 moves and
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said we're going to bring you on a visit that Sunday.
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We worked out playing with all the Long Island Panthers.
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Shout out to Gary Charles and we was we was working out.
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He and I did 2 moves, went to a workout on Monday.
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They flew me in, signed my signed my scholarship on that
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Wednesday. They said, Mike, it's too late
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in the year. You can't, you can't sign no
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contract. Just trust me.
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They wrote on like a a little yellow pad and just basically
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just said, just come to this is the secretary's AD, this is her
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number. Just come on.
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The first day my boys brought me to college and John Carroll was
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the head coach. He told me I was the worst
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basketball player he's ever seen play basketball.
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He told me he said that he would rather have a walk on start
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before he let me start in the game.
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So here it is, you know, all of this happened.
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I'm distraught, my trauma is high.
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I got records in Amityville for shooting threes.
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I think I'm a really good shooter.
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And here it is. This man is telling me I am
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trash. And so now Fast forward, he's
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the head assistant coach for the Boston Celtics and I'm the
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starting point guard for the Boston Celtics.
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I never brought it up. I never said anything to him.
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But I used to look at him, I'll be like, yo coach, come rebound
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for me. And I would make the ball.
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I would make the ball shoot short so it it could go long.
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So he had to go run and chase balls.
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And in my head and in my head, I used to always think, man, you
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don't tell no kid like that, You know, you don't try to break no
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kid because you never know who that kid going to be.
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But I never brought it up to him.
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I never said anything. And then when when Jim O'Brien
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quit, when the trade happened with Antoine Walker and all of
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them and all of that stuff happened, he, John Carroll
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became the interim head coach. And one day we was in the game
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and I was just standing on. We was, he was given like a, a,
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a play. And the play was for me.
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And I was standing there and I'm sitting there like, wow, look at
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this. This is the same man that told
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me I could never be nothing as in college and he's my head
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coach in the NBA. That's crazy.
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I was like, this is crazy. One of my best Boston moments
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was we was playing against we was playing against Memphis When
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when what's his name, White Chocolate?
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Jason Williams was there and it was like the beginning of the
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season and Jim O'Brien drew a Paul Pierce just fouled out the
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game. Vin Bakers on the team, Eric
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Williams, all these guys is on the team.
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Anton Walker, Jim O'Brien drew up a play.
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It was like maybe 5-6 seconds left in the game.
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Did you ever play and said, OK, we're going to get the ball of
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Mike, we're going to step out the way.
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Mike, you go one-on-one, we win the game.
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Paul said what man, you blown? I wish you would.
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That's stupid. We got then we got this yadda,
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yadda, yadda. And all I'm thinking to myself
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is, oh, it's a wrap. This game is over.
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So as soon as you know the play start.
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Paul did all his cussing, whatever I'm he drew up the play
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I make the I, I, I, I, I do my whatever move one-on-one on.
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Jason Williams hit the shot buzzer beater, we win the game.
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I'm screaming, have faith in me, have faith in me.
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And guess who's picking me up at half court?
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The first person picking me up is Paul.
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I'm like, man, get out of here. But you know, these are the
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things that I've always had to when you when you when you talk
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about the stories of the NBA. I didn't really get to enjoy the
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NBA because I used to always fight adversity.
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I remember when I played in Milwaukee, you know, I had eight
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threes with like, with like. I looked up at the clock and it
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was the third quarter and it was still like 8 minutes and like 30
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seconds in the game. I said, oh, I said I don't know
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how many threes I'm about to make, but it's a rap.
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Something is coming down tonight.
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That's all I thought to myself. I was like, I don't know what's
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about to take place, but some record is coming down tonight.
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Terry Porter was the head coach. He was telling he subbed the
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players in. We blowing Boston out.
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This is after we, you know, I got traded to Detroit.
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We can go backwards and talk about Detroit.
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Yeah, we're going to get back. Yeah, but I got traded.
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I got I forgot what I was talking.
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About Oh, you were talking. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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OK, OK, OK. I got I I was shooting the
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threes and then the end of the game, I finished the game like 8
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for 15 from the three-point line.
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We blew Boston out. I had like 28 points.
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You know, I'm playing the game, whatever, whatever.
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Everyone's happy. Ha ha.
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I go in the locker room, Terry Porter says who the F you think
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you are? You think you just going to be
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shooting shots like that? We play against them next week,
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don't you think? You ain't.
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And I'm sitting there like, man, I'll do.
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I'm sitting there like, are you serious right now?
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Like, wait a minute, who gets young there for Kelly?
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I said hold on, dog. I said hold on, dog.
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This is crazy. So most of the times when
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everyone else was celebrating me, I was still going home
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confused and heartbroken a little bit.
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You know most I have more memories and stories of being
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playing the game and the coach cussing me out and telling me I
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ain't nothing, I should be happy I'm even in the league.
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And so it was always, it was never my game, it was always the
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person. And then when it became the
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person, they would challenge the person and then they would
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realize now I'm from Amityville, what y'all talking about?
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So even when they start talking like yo you ain't even from New
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York, you from Long Island. Now hold on.
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I hate when. People do my special.
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When people like Mike, I hate when people say that you go out.
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I go out to these summits and I'm dealing with all these radio
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guys and they're like, oh, well, you're not really from New York.
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If you're not from Manhattan or Brooklyn or Queens.
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I'm like, wait a second, I am from New York, I'm from Long
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Island, and I should be respected just like any one of
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those boroughs. There's 8 million people living
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here, and why can't I be compared to any one of those
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guys? I'm better than all of them and
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I can tell them to shove it up their ass.
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But you know what, I, I look at it, I look at it the same way
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like this when, when you're from Long Island, you go a little bit
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harder, of course, then you when, when a cat is from the
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boroughs because you got something to prove.
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So what they don't understand is when you even talk jail
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language, it's the catch from the island that's running the
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jails and not the catch from the boroughs because they've been
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going hard and they don't understand that when you start
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looking at Long Island cats, they got to live up to like even
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like I remember when I was in prep school, one of my boys, he
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was my boy. He was playing around, but he
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was a little serious when he said it.
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And I was like, man, you really playing.
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But he said, Mike, I could whoop you.
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And I said, man, what makes you think you could whip me?
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He said, Mike, I'm already one up on you.
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I'm from the Bronx, you from Long Island.
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Like you know what I'm saying? Like I've been fighting this my
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whole life, like, you know, having to prove yourself all
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because you from so even when I play basketball, like you don't
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understand, I've been playing against City players my whole
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life and I've been a new, I've been a Long Island basketball
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player. So I had to be extra rough.
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I had to be extra tough. I had to be extra.
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So you know what I'm saying? So anytime I saw anybody from
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New York City, it was just I could be playing against Steph.
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And I'm not thinking about a pro athlete right now.
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I'm thinking about Brooklyn right now.
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I'm thinking about, man you. You're not better than me.
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I see, Skip, I'm thinking Queens right now.
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Are you not better than me? I'm a Long Island boy, and I'm
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going to show you right now I'm nicer than you.
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And so it was always just that New York thing, you know what I
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mean? That was way, way more important
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then. And then it it felt even it was
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so much sweet in it for me because I was like, man, and I'm
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from Long Island now what? And so that was even more that
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made even more of a how I was playing and how I was doing it
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because when I always came to the city, my swag never changed.
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And the swag was still, yeah, Amityville in the building.
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Like we ain't, I'm not, I'm not playing against low barrel.
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I want, I want to add this and I want everybody to know who we're
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speaking to. We're talking to former 12 year
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NBA point guard Mike James. He played from 2001, 2014, won a
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championship in 2004 with the Pistons.
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It's one of the better teams that you can remember in the
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Eastern Conference when you talk about Rasheed Wallace, Ben
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Wallace. I was a huge Rick Hamilton fan.
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I love Prince and I, I love Chauncey Billups.
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He was a game breaker, always kicked everybody's ass,
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especially the New York Knicks. But I want to say something.
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And there are a lot of Long Islanders that have come out and
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played in the NBA. And if you look at the list, you
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have Julius Irving, who played it for Roosevelt, Tobias Harris,
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who's still in the NBA right now, Danny Green from North
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Babylon, Wally Zerbiak, Tom Gugliotta, Mitch Kubchak.
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I mean, you have all these guys, Jeff Roland.
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So there's there's a lot of them.
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And your name is on this list, but it's a short list.
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It's a real short list. AJ Price, Amityville.
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You know, AJ so Speedy Claxton, we saw what he did with Hoster
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this year. Toby Knight.
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When you look at Long Island, a lot of people would say this is
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a basketball place, This isn't a sports place, but it's it's
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growing now. James Mike, if you look at what
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we've seen right now in Long Island, look at the hockey
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players that have been drafted over the last couple of years,
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first round draft pick, second round talents.
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If you look at baseball, look at the talent that's been drafted
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over the years and now you look at football.
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Now some of the Long Island talent that's coming out of
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football, we have one right now pressing carry who's going to be
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playing for Georgia this year, could be a first round talent in
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the future. I think Long Island is building
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and everybody looks at Long Island.
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They say this is a lacrosse place, but they don't realize
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that there's a lot of. Talent out here, and that's why
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we're going out there. We're trying to build it.
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We have a Long Island mouth that we're building here for high
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school sports. We want to put them on the map
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and I think somebody like you can help us.
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I think that we could be working together.
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I have some Long Island NFL players.
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Chris Collier right now plays for the Raiders, and Dylan
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Lauby, he's another Raider right now playing as a running back
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over there with the Raiders. We need these Long Islanders to
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stand behind the game right now. And all the sports put Long
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Island in the map, give Long Island opportunity for a voice.
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And that's what we're here for, that we're one of the best radio
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shows in the country that people are starting to recognize.
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And. And here's the thing, we don't
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beat around a Bush. Yeah, we're from Long Island.
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Most of us Q's from Georgia, actually, he's from North
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Carolina and he lives in Georgia.
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Speed. He's from Connecticut, but we're
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we're based out of Long Island. We want everybody to know that
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we're not afraid of anybody. We're going to go at you and I,
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I love your personality. I want to get into the Pistons,
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man, because the Pistons to me were as dominant of an Eastern
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Conference team in the early 2000s than we've ever seen.
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What they did to what you guys did to the Lakers, the Shaquille
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O'Neal Lakers, the Kobe Bryant Lakers.
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I mean, that was a story by itself.
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You know, that team, it was just a bunch of just real dogs.
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You know, everyone on the team probably was overlooked at some
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point in their career or misjudged or miscalculated, but
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together form like Voltron. You know, when you you look at
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you look at RIP's career when he played in Washington, RIP was
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having a damn good career. He was having some damn good
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career at what he was doing, but it was overlooked and overcast
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by so much other. You look at Chauncey, he's
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bouncing around, but everywhere he went he was continuing to
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keep getting better and better and better.
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It's just so happy you couldn't find nowhere to stick.
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You look at Rasheed, he's leading the league in technical
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fouls and don't nobody want to deal with them.
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And he's such a hard person and just controlling.
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He just needs to be controlled. And so now you look at you know,
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Ben, he's a undersized big man, but now you got a 7 foot power
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forward. And but it's just like when you
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put everyone and you look at the bitch, you look at the Eldon
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Campbell's God bless your soul. You know, the Darvin hams, just
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a monster. You talk about myself, Lindsay
22:53
Hunter, the pit Bulls, like you pick a star team, but we're
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coming off the bench, Darko. Miller, but he'll.
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Be one of the best players in the league right now and you
23:03
have a memo memo occur who killed in Utah, But he was a 6th
23:08
man 7th man with Detroit put us all together.
23:12
It was all nothing but tough nails.
23:15
Everybody was tough, but at the end of the day, the workouts was
23:18
like key Lago Larry Brown was so cool.
23:22
You know Larry Brown would say hey, the working bees like hey,
23:26
the he was like hey, the the white collar guys y'all can
23:29
leave the working bees. Come on, let's work like you
23:31
know y'all lazy. They'll come in with sweatpants
23:34
on or shoes on Todd and he wasn't tripping You know Arnie
23:39
used to do all little stretches and it was really like little
23:41
dance moves that we used to have to do so that was cool Like
23:46
Chauncey and I would be we'll be in practice and Larry be like
23:49
Chauncey but Mike put some pressure on him and I'll be like
23:52
Chauncey, you know I know you're going to play 30 some minutes
23:54
tomorrow like don't trip, I got you.
23:56
So I'll be screaming and acting like I'm playing them hard, but
23:59
in reality, and so RIP would you know, we get off the bus, RIP
24:03
would say, yo, we meeting downstairs in 30 minutes.
24:07
Whoever eating come on, this is every game.
24:10
So whoever come in. So all 15 used to go out like a
24:13
game. So not only were we hanging out,
24:17
like with not only were we friends on the court, we was
24:20
friends off the court. Someone have a a birthday party
24:23
for a 5 year old, the whole team showing up, you know what I'm
24:27
saying, to a 5 year old's birthday party Like this is
24:30
something and something that was the most beautiful thing that
24:33
I've never seen my whole entire career that I've only seen once.
24:37
And this is the reason why Golden State normally has a
24:41
great team is when the starters are in the game, the bench is
24:45
up. But when the bench is in the
24:46
game, the starters are going crazy.
24:48
Everyone believes and everyone wants to see the best for the
24:52
other person. Everyone wants to see the other
24:55
person win. And so when you have an energy
24:58
like that and but then when you have everyone that's just tough,
25:02
but everyone just real. Oh my goodness, it's like
25:06
whoever eat, let's just eat. We out here.
25:09
I'm hungry. I, I need myself an Omaha steak.
25:11
That's what I need. But I, I will, I will say this,
25:14
my friend, I watch basketball religiously.
25:17
I've been a big, huge basketball fan growing up.
25:20
I was a hockey player. But everybody said, what is your
25:22
sport? What do you love more than
25:23
anything in the world? And that's the 90s Knicks.
25:25
I followed the Knicks 94. To me, I just I wanted to throw
25:30
up. That was our best chance to win.
25:31
And, and obviously we all know what happened.
25:33
John Stark, bricklayer. It's just horrible to watch.
25:36
It just made me sick to my stomach growing up.
25:39
I know you grew up a Knick fan. I know you grew up a Knick fan,
25:41
but you also probably watch Michael Jordan and emulated
25:44
everything Michael Jordan did. When you look at the game now
25:47
and you look at the past and when you were watching the game
25:50
and when you were playing in high school, what do you think
25:52
has been a different look to the transition to what it is today?
25:56
You've heard the stories of great players.
25:59
You know, they was just as wild as the guys are today.
26:02
The only thing that makes them be able to be visible is social
26:05
media. But you will hear the stories of
26:08
the Julius Irving getting off the plane and got the limo
26:12
waiting for him while everybody else going to the bus and got to
26:16
get on the bus and he got four or five girls in the car.
26:19
But Julius Irving having 35 tomorrow night with 15 rebounds,
26:23
you know what I mean? It was play hard but play
26:25
harder. You know these guys you you hear
26:28
the stories about how wild they were Michael Jordan be gambling
26:32
and all hanging out all night drinking and part whatever they
26:35
was doing. But at the end of the day, when
26:37
it was game time, they didn't play with game time.
26:40
You heard about Lawrence Taylor and the sniffing cocaine and
26:44
sniffing off females and all the wild party.
26:47
But I want but on Sunday he was the most animal, barbaric person
26:54
out there. And so he didn't allow what he
26:58
did to get him interfere with the game.
27:02
These kids allow what's on the outside interfere with the game.
27:07
And so it's more of the entertainment of the game
27:10
instead of taking the game serious.
27:12
And back in when we played, we didn't play with the game like
27:16
you can get your whole, you can get embarrassed tonight playing
27:19
with the game tonight, you can take this game today you can
27:21
take off. All right, I have a question
27:24
because one of our previous hosts that was with our network
27:26
years ago mentioned that Darko Milechick has the greatest
27:28
nickname ever, the human victory cigar.
27:31
What is the origin story behind that?
27:34
I mean, Larry Brown just didn't. He didn't like them.
27:37
He didn't like, you know, stubborn, you know, sometimes
27:40
these guys be stuck in their ways and you know, they they be
27:48
stuck in a ways and baby and they don't know how to evolve
27:54
with the game. And yes, Darko could have
27:57
helped, but you know, there was no real position for him there
28:00
because there was, you know, two players in front of him and he
28:03
had to spend that time learning. But it was hard with Larry Brown
28:06
because Larry Brown wasn't really trying to.
28:09
You know, it's one thing to build a person physically and
28:11
it's a whole entire another story when you break them down,
28:15
you know what I mean? I could tell her that that was
28:17
one of my biggest issues with Pat Riley was he'll build you
28:21
and turn you into this super monster like your body fat.
28:24
I didn't have the lowest body fat.
28:26
My body fat was 4.5. He'd find me.
28:29
He'd find me because my damn body fat went from 4.5 to 4.8 on
28:35
a vacation and I still got fine. But anyway, you know, but he was
28:39
able to change me physically, but mentally he used to break me
28:44
and mentally I didn't believe like what he used to say about
28:47
who I was as a player because he never told me, because all he
28:50
wanted to do was break me and create me into a person that he
28:54
wanted me to be. But you never created.
28:56
You never built my mind. And so because you never built
28:59
my mind, I was still having troubles mental like that mental
29:03
comfortable comfortableness. And so that becomes the problem
29:06
with a lot of times is that they want to break you down
29:09
physically, but they don't want to build you mentally.
29:11
And that's when you have the total control of the player.
29:14
That's the the reason why the Popovich's have so much success.
29:17
That's the reason why you know the Phil Jackson's have so much
29:21
success because they're not coming from just a physical
29:24
perspective. They come because they cut you
29:26
just like any child, like any person, you know, you get their
29:29
mind. You got them.
29:31
So like a coach you if I before I before I can get you
29:35
physically, you're going to buck me mentally If I can't get you
29:38
physically, but as long as as as soon as I take your bucking from
29:42
you, man, I got you Mars. Now look at me.
29:47
I'm your captain now. I, I will say this, you are an
29:52
interesting cat man. You definitely are.
29:54
We want to get you on the scope the next time you come on the
29:56
show because you have an interesting personality.
30:00
And I, I think that the fans want to see you and we should
30:03
talk off air because I think you can really help us if right now
30:06
the growth of Long Island sports is there.
30:08
We need, we need the some of these X NBA or NBA players right
30:12
now to come out and help out, just like the NHL we're working
30:15
with. Let's do it.
30:16
But I want to say something. There's a story coming out right
30:18
now, the LeBron James, Michael Jordan comparison.
30:21
Could you please seal this, that Michael Jordan is the greatest
30:24
basketball player of all time. There is no comparison.
30:27
Could we please? Let's let's, let's do this
30:30
first. Let's do the Michael Kobe
30:32
comparison. All right, let's do it.
30:33
You know, one thing, one thing I used to always tell people about
30:36
the Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant. Michael was the Michael was the
30:40
robot version, Kobe was the human version, you know, and and
30:45
and now the LeBron version. See what I value, what I respect
30:50
about what a person's game yes, you can value his longevity.
30:55
You know what I'm saying? That's commendable.
30:57
He takes care of his body. You know recovery.
31:01
If you're able to recover and do the same things over and over,
31:04
your mental is always going to take you to a whole nother
31:07
level. You've been able to handle your
31:09
body in a way to keep it rejuvenated.
31:12
That's what's up. But other than that, the value
31:15
of a player comes in the last five minutes of the fourth
31:19
quarter. And if you put LeBron James
31:22
percentage, just the out, just the average alone of his average
31:27
of his career, the last five minutes in the fourth quarter,
31:30
he probably shooting about 37%. He probably averaging over 3
31:34
turnovers. He probably shooting from the
31:36
free throw line less than 60%. And this is when it's winning
31:40
time and this is how you compare winners and champions, not just
31:44
statistics. It's easy to blow up statistics
31:47
when you played a long period of time and you can get 30
31:50
something points in the 1st, 3/4 and 8 minutes left in the game.
31:54
Now all of a sudden the last five minutes you go ghost, like
31:58
hold up dawg, what happened? We need 10 points from you.
32:01
We need 4 assists from you dawg. We need you to shoot 90% from
32:04
the free throw line. But you peeing on yourself just
32:07
because you had 35, just because you had 35 and 14 and 10
32:12
rebounds for the game has nothing to do with the last five
32:16
minutes of the game. This is winning time and you
32:18
looking for other people to do it.
32:20
That's not fair. It's not fair to how you patting
32:23
them stats. That's patch that.
32:27
That's why I like you, the Long Islanders.
32:29
They're straightforward. They don't beat around the Bush
32:32
and we smack people around as we always.
32:34
Do yes, you are you you haven't won.
32:38
See, the problem is Scottie Pippen.
32:40
Yeah, Scottie Pippen. You got to understand Michael
32:42
Jordan made you great. Like you didn't get tough until
32:45
Michael Jordan had your back. Like Michael Jordan defended you
32:49
more than anybody else. Remember every time the Xavier
32:52
McDaniels them fights was your. Fight.
32:55
They was punking you and Michael Jordan was like, hold up, dawg,
32:59
you ain't going to be doing all that now.
33:01
They do all of it. Michael face.
33:04
So you got your confidence through Michael.
33:08
You didn't even get your game. You didn't even get your game
33:11
through yourself. So who you became and when you
33:14
got your chance to, when you got your chance to be your great
33:17
person, you show you need some help.
33:21
You can't do this by yourself. Michael, of course, needed you.
33:25
You was his Robin. You ain't never seen Batman beat
33:28
up anybody or win anything by himself.
33:31
I love it. They always got either or out of
33:34
something, but they always had each other's back.
33:37
That's you the greatest. But that's who I compare Magic
33:40
John. I mean, I, I compare LeBron to a
33:43
Magic Johnson. People disrespect and devalue
33:46
Mike Magic Johnson and who Magic Johnson was to the game of
33:49
basketball and how what and Mike Magic Johnson had a third eye.
33:54
Like I look at I laugh at who The Who, who like leading the
33:57
league in assists. You got centers leading the
33:59
league in assists. The point guards back in the
34:02
days were how dare that be the problem.
34:04
If the centers are average and 10 assists, I promise you Magic
34:07
Johnson would have been averaging 1718.
34:10
I promise you those guys like, you know, they look at a Rod
34:13
Strickland and he averaged 20 and 10 for his career.
34:16
But like 2010 assists was like, are you serious?
34:20
That is so hard to get in the NBA and especially during that
34:24
time and these guys was able to get it like it was nothing.
34:27
Like you look at these point guards now, they even look at
34:30
Steph Curry. I look at Steph Curry and you
34:33
call him. You call him the greatest point
34:35
guard to ever. Play today, tell him I'm loving
34:38
it. The problem I have.
34:39
The problem I have with Steph Curry being the greatest point
34:42
guard to ever play the game is the fact that you don't watch
34:46
Steph Curry make point guard plays.
34:48
You watch Steph Curry make plays for himself.
34:51
You watch Steph Curry make shots.
34:53
You watch Steph Curry shoot great, unbelievable, incredible
34:56
shots. He's the greatest shooter to
34:57
ever step on the court and play the game of basketball.
35:01
But you don't watch Steph Curry make plays for other people.
35:05
A point guard is a leader, a general, a playmaker.
35:08
He has plays for other people. Steph Curry is just a stone cold
35:13
killer. He probably one of the greatest
35:15
killers, but if you put him on your greatest team all time,
35:18
he's too small. I agree.
35:20
I agree. Manny too, Manny too small.
35:23
He going to be a he going to be a, he's always on the liability.
35:26
He's always on the worst defender on the other team.
35:29
Steph Curry has the easiest job in the NBA in basketball.
35:33
He runs off screens and they always fought and they always
35:36
looking for him. Everybody looks for the first
35:39
option at all times and he's just going to.
35:41
You got to chase him at all times.
35:44
Mike. You run him, he runs you so
35:47
crazy that you don't even want to play against him no more.
35:50
Now he got you one-on-one. Mike, you're absolutely right.
35:54
This is why us Long Island Islanders know what we're
35:58
talking about. So I've been arguing this on
36:00
this show for years. I do not believe Steph Curry is
36:04
a point guard. The fact that they put him in
36:05
the top ten of all time is ridiculous.
36:07
If you want to put him at 10, fine.
36:08
Put him at 10. He's the greatest shooter of all
36:10
time. Point guard?
36:12
Get out of here. He's not better than Isaiah
36:14
Thomas. He's not better than John
36:15
Stockton. He's not better than Magic
36:17
Johnson. He's not better than anyone of
36:19
those guys chasing Kidd. He's not better than any other.
36:22
He's not even better than Chauncey Billups was.
36:25
OK, He's not a point. Guard away.
36:32
Small too. That's what I think.
36:34
He's a 2. He had he just a great shooter.
36:37
I love Kyrie. More I do too.
36:39
I like him. I love Kyrie has the best ball
36:43
he see I'm from New York and you got had that pity pad with you.
36:47
You got that pity cat with him though.
36:48
I don't like basic point guards. You got to have a swag on the
36:52
court where you got that ball in your head like that.
36:55
Basic stuff is for the birds though.
36:58
Mike, you're fantastic. You have to come on this show.
37:01
We we got to get you on a scope. We definitely we got to talk off
37:05
air. I want to we're doing some stuff
37:07
with high school and and Long Island sports.
37:09
You can really help out. And I think it's great what you,
37:12
the background and the stories behind you and all the hard work
37:15
that you had to to go and, and, and really deliver and become
37:19
the player that you became in the NBA is pretty great story.
37:22
And and that's what we do. That's what we go out.
37:24
We go out there every single show, no matter how we go out,
37:26
we want everybody to know that we're going to go out there.
37:28
We're going to give 110% and we're going to make sure
37:30
everybody hears what we have to say.
37:32
We're not like everybody else. We're not copying Stephen A
37:35
Smith or Chris Russo, Mike Francesa, we don't do that.
37:38
We go out there, we give you our takes.
37:41
We have a little fun, we argue, we want to kill each other, and
37:44
then we kiss up. And you know, we kiss, we go.
37:48
That's your name. That's right.
37:51
You got to have that New York State of mind.
37:54
What you mean? That's right.
37:55
That's right. I love you, Mike.
37:58
Thank you for joining us. You're.
37:59
Sensational. You love you guys.
38:01
Absolutely time, Mike. James, ladies and gentlemen,
38:03
fantastic. His background, everything about
38:06
him. I love that he came out, He came
38:09
out hard. That's what I love about guys
38:11
like that. He will tell you the truth.
38:13
He went out there, I asked him about the Michael Jordan.
38:15
Everybody was like, oh, last question.
38:16
No, I got to ask you about Michael Jordan.
38:18
He brought up Kobe Bryant. He very interesting.
38:21
He said Michael Jordan is the robot version and comedy.
38:23
Kobe Bryant was the human version.
38:25
That was very interesting. When you think about that, the
38:27
comparison and then when he brought up LeBron James, he says
38:30
it's always about the last five minutes of the game.
38:32
Go look at LeBron James, the last five minutes of a game and
38:35
then look at what Michael Jordan has done.
38:37
He's absolutely right. There is no comparison to
38:40
anybody when it comes to Michael Jordan.
38:42
Michael Jordan was a different beast.
38:45
He was different and anybody. That's never you've seen them
38:47
and they're trying to compare them.
38:48
And for all those guys, for all the guys out there and girls
38:51
that never got a chance to, Michael might watch Michael
38:54
joining you, watching clips on YouTube and all these different
38:57
things. I'm telling you right now, it's
38:59
not the same thing. When I watched basketball in the
39:02
90s, I had to watch this guy go into Madison Square Garden and
39:07
put up 50, 6056 every single time and it made me sick to my
39:13
stomach. We had Patrick Ewing, Charles
39:14
Oakley, we had all these guys, Anthony Mason, Xavier McDaniel.
39:18
You heard what he said about Xavier McDaniel.
39:21
It's just John Starks. It made me sick to my stomach.
39:24
And and when you heard what Mike James had to say it it it says a
39:27
lot about what people look at Long Islanders as.
39:30
They don't look at us as Brooklyn and Queens and
39:33
Manhattan. We got to compete with all of
39:35
them. We got to be compared to all of
39:37
them. And I'm going to tell you this
39:38
and I'm going to say this once and we're going to move on to
39:40
the show. And I got to throw this out
39:41
there for anybody, anybody that thinks that Long Island can't
39:45
compete with any, any broadcasting or broadcasters out
39:49
there because we're from a little island and we're not
39:52
really considered New York any day.
39:54
Anytime you want to come on this show and you want to argue a
39:57
point about anything in sports, I promise you, you're going to
40:00
wish you never came on this show.
40:02
I could promise you anybody listen to this show right now?
40:04
I promise you, you come on this show and you want to argue any
40:07
sports with us, you better have your A game because if you
40:10
don't, we're going to eat you up alive.
40:12
I promise you I will not sit here and let you guys just
40:14
pulverize those. Oh, you're from Long Island.
40:16
Yeah, I'm from Long Island. I'll eat you up alive.
40:18
I'll eat you for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
40:21
And I'll have a little sweet at the end of the night because I
40:23
love. Wow, we're going to have her
40:25
first dual sound drop. Nathan has that drop now.
40:27
You're going to have it. Yes, there you go.
40:29
All right, let's go into save your tears.
40:32
Mom, what's one thing? That you can't talk to me about.
40:36
My sexual fantasies. Say yourself it.
40:41
Is not ideal, but if it's what it is, not ideal.
40:43
But if this is not ideal. But if it is what we?
40:47
You can't treble stamp a double stamp.
40:48
You can't treble stamp a double stamp, Lord.
40:50
You can't dribble stamp a double stamp Lord you guys.
40:55
Now it's time for save your tears.
41:01
All right, guys, welcome back to Save Your Tears.
41:04
They call me the ladies man and Mr. Still your girl.
41:08
Everyone's favorite lightning round type of a fantasy type of
41:12
thing and we have our five competitors once again the way
41:16
this works we have guys from the second round of the NBA playoffs
41:21
$15 salary cap you pick one player from each column.
41:24
The winner gets the compliment chorus next show I'm going to
41:27
show you the board. So if you're just listening at
41:30
home, this is when I tell you we also are can be found on video.
41:34
We also have a brand new YouTube page that is growing really
41:40
fast. Go and check it out.
41:41
It's where we're housing all our clips.
41:44
Smell my hat and we're. And we're also putting all of
41:48
the important stuff like Errol's drops that annoy everybody.
41:54
But Nathan's drops are just so sacred, you have to enjoy them.
41:57
Bam bam bam. Bam, only so many people enjoy
42:01
weird kinks. You have to learn that now.
42:05
Here's the list though. If you're not with the two games
42:07
we're going to pick are obviously going to stay with the
42:10
Knicks and Sixers game and we're going to go with that Wolves
42:13
Spurs game. So here's the list, $5 player.
42:16
Point guard is Jalen Brunson, followed by Tyrese Maxey, $3 for
42:20
DE Aaron Fox, 2 for Conley, one for Dylan Harper off the bench
42:25
at 2. Guard Anthony Edwards is playing
42:27
tonight. He goes in as a $5 player,
42:30
followed by Josh Hart, VJ Edgecomb, Stefan Castle and IO
42:35
Dosanmu at a couple of big games in the first round, $5 at small
42:38
forward. Kind of slim pickets at small
42:40
forward. Jaden McDaniels at that big 30
42:43
point game. Let's give him the five dollar
42:45
slot. Mikhail Bridges, don't look now
42:49
Q, he's got 10. He's got 9 points heading into
42:51
the half. She was going to take Kelly
42:54
Ubrey at 2:00. Devin Vasell at 3.
42:58
Kelly Ubrey junior at 2 and for a dollar, Jordan Clarkson at
43:03
power forward. Julius Randall's the $5 player,
43:05
followed by OG and a Nobi who's been playing that small bowl for
43:08
this postseason. Paul George doing the same for
43:11
$3. Justin Champagne for two and 6th
43:15
man Kelvin Johnson for a buck. And then at center we all go by
43:21
Wembe here. It just seems so long doesn't
43:23
fit in the box, so we're just going to call him Wembe for 5
43:26
bucks 5 bucks. Karl Anthony Towns for four.
43:28
Joel Embiid could be a nice fine.
43:31
There, by the way, I just want to throw something.
43:34
The Knicks are up 23 by half. At the half, right at the half,
43:39
killing them. Not surprising.
43:41
The Knicks are going to win this series in three games.
43:44
They don't even need 4. It's going to be that that easy
43:46
for them. I'm just joking.
43:47
No, I don't think that. I think it goes 5.
43:50
That's. That's, I think it's five too,
43:51
probably, but I'm really confident with the Knicks.
43:54
We'll see with our picks in a little bit.
43:56
Go Bears $2.00 Nas Reed is the doll.
43:59
By the way, OG and Anobi is shutting down Mr. Maxi, just so
44:03
everybody knows. Got to throw that out there.
44:05
So let's take a look at the board.
44:07
I I won this one. So I'll announce the order this
44:11
week. So the first person up will be
44:14
Mr. Nathan. I'm going to go Dylan Harvard.
44:24
Actually, scratch that, I'm going to go to Jalen Brunson.
44:28
Michael, Molly and I'm going to go.
44:30
Stephon Castle, Molly Watson and then I'm going to go.
44:37
The Devon vessel. Ram Jam all these prostitutes.
44:44
Old George. And then I'm going.
44:46
To go loose. I'm going to go Rudy Gobert.
44:50
Again, I'm anal. He's. 15.
44:52
He's all right. All right, the numbers are good.
44:54
Brunson Castle, Vessel George and Go Bear suck.
44:59
My Indo. Let's go.
45:02
To cue. Let me go, Brunts and Whitby.
45:08
Pass Liquor. Let's go, Castle.
45:13
Cream pie. Squeeze the cheese.
45:21
So you got 3 left for the two forward positions.
45:27
Athletes. Let me do how much you say I got
45:32
what 3 left for the. 3 left for those two positions.
45:35
Doo Doo Doo Doo. I mean, you got to take.
45:42
I love Lisa Ann. After all the crap you've been
45:45
talking about, Kelly Uber. No, that's what I'm trying to
45:48
tell y'all. Y'all, y'all making it think
45:50
y'all act like I'm talking about him as an All Star.
45:53
I'm just saying like he can contribute.
45:55
So his contribution of 5 or 710 points ain't going to help me in
46:00
this situation. Well, you get points for
46:03
rebounds, assists. It's all the daily fantasy stats
46:06
on Yahoo. Problem with Kelly Ubrey is it
46:09
doesn't play defense. I'm going to do.
46:11
It's not very good. I got $3.00 so.
46:14
The problem is he's a below average basketball.
46:17
Yeah, he's a good offensive player, just doesn't play
46:19
defense, doesn't defend. I can only do it once, so let's
46:24
do champagne and. And Clarkson.
46:34
Yeah. Clarkson All right, I got
46:39
Brunson Castle, Clarkson, Champagne and Wemby.
46:44
All right, let's move on to Speedy.
46:47
All right, give me I like the $1.00 value with Harper.
46:51
I'll take that. Give me Wemby as well.
46:56
Let's say give me Vassal, give me Randall.
47:07
And that leaves me with I believe that leaves me with
47:10
Dassomne. Let me see if I'm doing it
47:11
right. 5101314 Yeah, that leaves me to some new.
47:17
All right, so here's what I got for you, Speedy Harper,
47:21
Dassonne, Vassal Randall, and Wembe Errol.
47:29
All right, I'm going to go Bronson Desan MU Devon vessel.
47:37
How much do I have left here? That's nine, so you got 6 left.
47:43
Web and Yama, Web and Yama and I got one right?
47:47
Yep. So you got left with Johnson.
47:48
I'll take Kelvin Johnson. All right, yeah, I got Brunson,
47:53
The Sun Move a cell, Johnson Wembe.
47:55
I got to make my team as the defending, reigning, defending
47:59
champion of this tournament here.
48:03
I'm going to go with Brunson as well, and I'm going to go a
48:11
little bit out of character. I'm going to go down to $3.00 to
48:16
Mr. Embiid at centre, even though I hate that guy.
48:22
Suck my indo. Exactly.
48:27
I'm going to go with Johnson at. Forward I farted.
48:30
As well for a dollar so that gives me 9.
48:33
I got 6 bucks left for the other for the 2 wings.
48:37
Butt plug. And oh, interesting.
48:42
I'm going to go into, all right, somebody's got to do it.
48:47
I'm going to take Kelly Ubrey junior.
48:52
It's a good choice. I heard he's really good and
48:55
like plays great defense and what else was he good at you so?
49:01
Say a pad. They call me the ladies man and
49:02
Mr. He's going to make a hack place.
49:06
He makes an impact and that will give me Josh Hart.
49:09
No one took Josh Hart. He had a great series last
49:11
round. Maybe that'll get me the win
49:14
this one. So I got Brunson and Hart, the
49:15
Nova boys with Kelly Ubrey, Keldon Johnson and Joelle and
49:20
the guys will go through these. The winner next Monday after.
49:24
The We're not counting Tonight games, right?
49:26
We're Not Tonight game at the first four games of the series.
49:29
OK. So it's like all of it.
49:32
All right, So I didn't know that, but OK, All right, that's
49:35
cool. All right, I thought it was the
49:37
next game, but it doesn't matter.
49:39
Great job with Mike James, by the way.
49:41
Yeah, Mike was great. He really was.
49:43
I have a lot of respect for him and some of his stories were
49:47
just absolutely great. And for anybody that missed that
49:49
interview, check it out. We will post it up.
49:52
It'll be on Spotify, it'll be on Apple, so you'll get a chance to
49:55
watch the video. And he wasn't, unfortunately, he
49:57
was driving. You could tell that he was in
49:59
his car. But we'll, we'll get him on
50:01
again and he'll be in studio and but fantastic stories, great
50:05
background in basketball and his knowledge and understanding the
50:08
game and how it transitioned. By the way, he pretty much said
50:11
this, the game now is a bitch game.
50:13
That's pretty much what he said is that what they did in the 90s
50:16
is completely different. What they do tonight, tonight or
50:19
today and and what the game, the basket, what basketball has
50:22
transitioned into. He says they're not tough.
50:24
They're they're not tough guys anymore.
50:26
And, and I, I agree with him and it's funny how he kind of
50:29
transitioned into the, the LeBron and, and Michael Jordan
50:33
to Steph Curry and, and point guards and not comparing Steph
50:36
Curry to a point guard position, which I've been saying for a
50:38
very, very long time, he's not a point guard.
50:40
He's a shooting guard. If you want to say that he's one
50:43
of the greatest shooter guards, I would say yes, but Michael
50:47
Jordan was a shooting guard. Is he better than Michael?
50:49
Is he better than Kobe? Is he better than Dwyane Wade?
50:52
I, I can argue that. That's just my point that those
50:55
guys play defense too at a high level.
50:57
That's all I'm going to say. All right, concrete jungle
51:00
carousel. Welcome to the jungle.
51:03
We got fun and games. You know where you are, did.
51:07
You. Do in the jungle, baby welcome.
51:10
I'm trying to put Tiger Bomb on this jungle's nuts to the
51:12
concrete jungle carousel. All right, welcome back to the
51:26
Concrete Jungle Carousel. This is the segment we do when
51:29
we want to hit all the other major sports in the tri-state
51:33
area. We're going to start off with
51:36
baseball. Go through some news and notes
51:38
with the Yankees first. So Anthony Volpe's rehab window
51:42
after left shoulder surgery is over, but they did not promote
51:46
him. He was sent to AAA, presumably
51:50
because Jose Caballeros played well in his absence.
51:53
And he hasn't looked great in his rehab and he hasn't looked
51:57
great in a couple of years. This, however, was very
52:01
surprising to most fans. And to, you know, general
52:04
consensus out there was when he came back, he was going to be
52:07
the shortstop. This was going to be his last
52:09
chance. They don't seem to be even
52:11
giving him a chance. Errol.
52:14
He's got to relax. The kid just came back.
52:17
He needs to get a little bit more healthier.
52:18
He needs to get more comfortable.
52:19
You send him back to AAA, figure things out.
52:22
He'll be called up eventually. Eventually Cabriero will.
52:26
How do you pronounce his name? Caballero.
52:28
Caballero is going to figure, you know, he's going to get it
52:31
to a slump and Volpe's going to figure it out.
52:33
I I think Volpe just needs to get healthy at 100%.
52:36
We got to see him play at 100% AAA.
52:39
He's going to get more backs over there in AAA and, and the
52:42
Yankees are right now playing at a high level.
52:44
Look at what Cam Schlittler's doing.
52:45
Look at what will Warren's doing.
52:47
They have the pitching right now.
52:49
You have guys like Derek Cole coming back, Schmidt's coming
52:52
back, bro, Don's coming back. This is a great pitching team
52:55
and and they're getting timely hitting.
52:57
So and you have Rice at an MVP caliber.
53:01
You have Judge figuring things out.
53:02
He's hitting 260 now. I mean, when this lineup starts
53:05
to fall apart and, and, and Vulpey proves himself right now
53:09
in AAA, you're going to see him get called up.
53:11
Don't worry fans, he's going to play at least 80 or 90 games up
53:16
sometime this year. I think in the next two or three
53:18
weeks you're going to see Anthony Volpe up.
53:21
Yeah, just because it's the end of the rehab window doesn't mean
53:23
he's fully healthy. I agree.
53:24
Well, let him heal until he's 100% healthy because he's
53:26
somebody that relies on his power a lot and we still have to
53:29
work on that base percentage and obviously still have to work on
53:31
the defense. But if he has to heal that
53:32
shoulder a little more, that's going to affect the biggest
53:34
thing in his defense because the throwing ability.
53:36
So I think let him heal a little more in AAA, Let him not have
53:40
forced it as much on the defensive side where obviously
53:42
the Yankee fans are going to give him a lot of pressure, I
53:44
think. This is a good decision.
53:45
Qi wanted to connect this to something that maybe you know,
53:48
you experience as a player when you get drafted high or you have
53:52
these expectations, it doesn't work out right off the bat.
53:54
A couple of years in now into that contract, you know, some
53:58
people have given up on you, some people haven't.
54:00
What do you think this guy's going through at this time from
54:04
the mindset of an athlete? I mean, I think it's probably
54:08
stressful, you know, I'm saying not to have that support there.
54:10
I think going, you know, being have being injured and then
54:15
having to deal with people not supporting you, it's, it's
54:17
pretty difficult because at the end of the day, you know what
54:20
you're capable of doing. So you have to kind of sit with
54:22
that and not be able to display how good and gifted you are as a
54:26
talent. So he's probably, you know, I
54:28
don't know him personally, but sometimes players battle it
54:31
through and it don't really bother him.
54:33
Sometimes people use it as chip on their shoulder and whatnot.
54:36
But for the most part, you know, I, I think it is human to be
54:40
able to feel, you know, that people are not supporting you
54:44
and doubting you. But I think that, you know, is,
54:47
is, is he progressed in his rehab and, and he get better.
54:51
I think, you know, that all that goes away because he's having an
54:54
opportunity to go out and actually play the game.
54:56
So one of the biggest distraction and one of the
54:58
greatest gifts that you can have is the opportunity to go out and
55:02
play the game. And that kind of keeps your
55:03
mindset stable while you going through the rehab process and
55:06
trying to get back to who you really are.
55:09
You know, that's interesting. You said I always kind of agreed
55:11
with that. Like most people are like, oh,
55:12
how could you play something bad Just happens.
55:14
Like that's the best. That's the thing I want to do
55:17
right now. I don't want to think about any
55:18
bad stuff that's happening. Let me just get out there, do it
55:21
and have some fun, you know, and just like get in some of the
55:23
zone, you know, get into a workout or do whatever it is.
55:26
Like you don't want to think about those things.
55:28
And sometimes that's a way to do it.
55:30
You want a game away, you know what I'm saying?
55:31
You had that one good game and then you get that momentum and
55:34
you know, before you know it, you back the peak yourself.
55:37
So, you know, it's just a process, but you know, sometimes
55:40
it is difficult knowing that you don't got that support system
55:43
that you traditionally would have when you're on the up.
55:47
You know, before we move past the Yankees guy, I said it in
55:50
The Sportsman. I wanted to give you guys a
55:51
chance to comment on the passing of John Sterling.
55:55
I actually have some kind of inside sources, even though he
55:59
was 87, it was kind of a sudden thing.
56:02
He was just going in for a routine type of exam for his
56:07
heart and next morning that was it.
56:10
So, you know, you never know, God bless his, you know, him,
56:13
his family every all his loved ones.
56:16
Obviously it's time. But, you know, Huge impact on
56:20
Yankees baseball in New York sports.
56:21
Huge impact on me. I've been listening to John
56:25
Sterling since I was a little boy.
56:27
I've been a big fan of his. I got a chance to meet John
56:29
Sterling at a bar and bat mitzvah I was DJ ING at.
56:33
It was pretty, pretty cool to get a chance to meet him and
56:36
have a conversation with him and talk a little Yankee baseball
56:40
during my break when I was eating dinner.
56:42
It's, it's really cool to see a guy that really did not only
56:45
developed his voice, he became the voice of the New York
56:48
Yankees. And what changed my my thought
56:51
of sports radio and listening to Yankees and listening to sports
56:56
was guys like John Sterling. He really developed the thought
56:59
of what sports should be sounding like and always all the
57:02
different home run, you know, takes that he had.
57:05
And even when they weren't going outside of the ballpark, it's
57:08
going, it's going, it's caught. I mean, he was he was one of
57:14
those guys that you just love to listen to And, and I'm my my
57:17
heart goes out to the Sterling family.
57:19
I know I think one of his nieces just graduated from college and
57:24
he's just a great, great person and I I wish nothing but the
57:26
best for his family. Absolutely cherished broadcast
57:29
career for sure in New York to do it as long as he did for
57:31
yeah, you can mock all the things.
57:32
Oh, he missed the home run. It was a it was a fly ball out.
57:35
But a lot of broadcasters do that when they get older, even
57:38
the great ones. I saw that happen.
57:40
Sam Rosen's final year. It happens like I just get old
57:42
but. Another nice guy, by the way.
57:44
For to just do it as long as he as he has is incredible for a
57:47
team like the New York Yankees that's so storied and such a big
57:49
impact on a lot of a lot of fans both outside of New York and in
57:53
New York. He's going to be an absolute,
57:55
absolute broadcast legend. He will definitely be missed.
57:59
You know, Errol, we talk about this all the time.
58:01
You know, it's like he's not just an announcer, he's a
58:04
personality, you know what I mean?
58:06
Like this is a guy that people felt like they knew because he
58:10
was such an interesting person. And every will, everything that
58:12
people said today, Michael Kay, his long time partner from the
58:15
90s before Michael Kay was on TV by himself, you know, or rather
58:19
with a booth, both guys. But being the lead guy, he was
58:22
with John Sterling as his color guy.
58:24
And they were real. That's the the two guys that I
58:27
grew up with that I thought were the best at the time.
58:29
They complemented each other pretty well for some strange
58:32
reason. But that's when the Yankees
58:33
started winning in 1990s, with the two of them behind the mics.
58:36
I will say this, when you, you think of John Sterling, you
58:40
don't think of him at, at the 1980 Yankees, but he knew a lot
58:43
about Don Mattingly and Thurman Munson and and Reggie Jackson
58:49
and, and I, like I said, when I got a chance to talk to him, it
58:51
wasn't about the 90s Yankees. It was really about the 80s
58:54
Yankees. If you think about the 80s
58:56
Yankees, they had more wins than any team in professional
58:59
baseball and never won a championship in the 80s.
59:02
Never won a championship in the 80s.
59:03
Think about that. Then more wins.
59:05
There was no wild card. There was no nothing.
59:07
They had more wins than any team in baseball and never won a
59:10
World Series in the 1980s. So it's an interesting story.
59:15
Let's talk about the Mets real quick.
59:17
We mentioned a little bit about the shortstop situation.
59:20
Yeah, well. I mean, Ronnie, Ronnie Mauricio
59:24
was supposed to replace, you know, Lindor while Lindor is
59:29
coming back from this, you know, injury.
59:31
That's probably going to take a little while.
59:33
Well, he just broke his thumb and he's going to be out two
59:36
months. So that's not going to work as a
59:39
solution. So what are they doing?
59:41
They're put in Beau Bichette. Smart move, everyone thought.
59:44
Everyone thought couldn't play the position anymore.
59:47
I disagree. I'm just saying the statistics
59:50
say he's well below average at this point in his career as a
59:53
shortstop. But that's the solution right
59:55
now. And that's where they're at.
59:57
He was a -. 12 in defensive run save last year playing
1:00:01
shortstop. You know, it just seems like
1:00:05
they're piercing it together and we just hit May.
1:00:08
Pretty. Wild.
1:00:08
I'm going to say I wanted to cut you off because I don't care
1:00:11
what statistics will tell you when it comes to this.
1:00:13
If you look at his numbers as a hitter, as a shortstop, they're
1:00:17
much better than him playing third base.
1:00:19
If he can go back to his natural position and he doesn't have to
1:00:21
worry about making mistakes, he can go out there and start
1:00:24
worrying about hitting the ball, which he has done a lack of this
1:00:28
year. That's what the Mets are trying
1:00:30
to do. Fish, if you're not
1:00:30
understanding this, I'll explain it to you.
1:00:32
You don't move a guy out of position because you decided to
1:00:35
pay him $42 million and say, hey, you're going to play third
1:00:38
base. It's not Alex Rodriguez.
1:00:40
He's not that type of talent to move him back to shortstop.
1:00:43
For him to get comfortable again playing that position where he
1:00:46
doesn't have to worry about making a mistake, throwing the
1:00:48
ball, offset or wherever the hell he's throwing the ball.
1:00:51
You're putting a guy into his natural position.
1:00:53
To me, it's going to help him at the plate and he's going to
1:00:56
start hitting and that's what the Mets need to do.
1:00:59
They need to get him back to where he's comfortable at.
1:01:02
So I think this is a great move. I disagree with anybody that's
1:01:05
trying to look at analytics and statistics.
1:01:07
You got to look at the the real thought here.
1:01:09
This makes sense. Yeah, Mauricio was going to be
1:01:11
the one that got the first shot because he really has been
1:01:13
positionless in his time with the Mets.
1:01:14
And I kind of feel bad for him because he's one of those like,
1:01:16
freak athlete prototypes, but didn't have the traits to make
1:01:19
it work at the big league level. And he just never really had a
1:01:21
position once the Mets started pursuing other veteran guys.
1:01:24
And now he gets a chance and he ends up getting hurt trying to
1:01:27
dive into first base, which is not ideal.
1:01:28
You know, you always talk to run through the base.
1:01:30
And now he's out six to eight weeks.
1:01:31
He was going to get his chance. And now, unfortunately, they had
1:01:33
happened in. But, yeah, but that is the
1:01:35
obvious option here to just try to make it work.
1:01:37
You're not going to play him at center field.
1:01:38
He was adequate enough at third base.
1:01:40
But like you said, Errol, it impacted his offense enough
1:01:42
where it just make him comfortable.
1:01:44
And then that's all the yeah. I mean, obviously he's not the
1:01:47
only problem with the offense, but they need all the hitting in
1:01:49
the world if they want to have any shot at just trying to look
1:01:51
like a competent baseball team for once.
1:01:54
You know, Hugh, if I told you that, you know, someone got this
1:01:59
year, you're going to play off ball, all right, you're going to
1:02:02
play off the ball and then, you know, 4 weeks into the season,
1:02:07
guy gets hurt. Hey, you're going to put your
1:02:09
hand down again. We're going to go back to you're
1:02:11
putting your hand down. Go ahead and work your Indies,
1:02:13
work your technique. I'm sure you'll be just fine in
1:02:15
one week. We need you on the field.
1:02:17
And then five weeks later, late season, you know, the the
1:02:22
starter comes back, Lindor comes back, and you're back playing
1:02:26
off ball again. How is this going to work?
1:02:30
It's not going to work. It's pretty insane.
1:02:32
You talk to somebody who went from AD lineman to a linebacker
1:02:35
and played corner in the NFL. So I can definitely relate in
1:02:39
regards to making these timely decisions to reposition natural
1:02:44
talents into other positions. But yeah, I mean, first I would
1:02:47
like to shout out that the Mets won, though.
1:02:51
I know, I know. We are dealing with a lot of
1:02:53
injuries and a lot of confusion over.
1:02:55
There they won 203 games and that's another crappy team in
1:02:58
the Angels. By the way, Michael, by the way.
1:03:00
We are stacking Wiz by however they come.
1:03:03
We are stacking. Here we go.
1:03:05
That's all that matters here. We go by the way, Mitchell, by
1:03:09
the way, McHale bridges 11 points, just so you know, I was
1:03:12
right about that there. He is wrote the.
1:03:14
Barrier I was right for everybody out there.
1:03:16
I was right. Don't want me. 18 Yeah, keep
1:03:18
talking about. You're not getting it.
1:03:20
You don't understand, Betty. You really don't.
1:03:22
You really don't I? Understand, but sorry you don't
1:03:25
like. Darryl kept saying 10 1/2. 10
1:03:27
1/2 and. You and you said it, but you
1:03:29
should be pretty sure. Don't worry dude, you were wrong
1:03:32
again. You were wrong again.
1:03:34
You were wrong. Look up or had you look up?
1:03:37
Dude, I said whatever I I said I predict 18.
1:03:41
To 10 1/2. Oh I bet he could score 10 and.
1:03:43
1/2 All right, dude, dude, you're not paying attention.
1:03:46
Score. You're not team, I said.
1:03:47
I can't bet it. I said if you feel that good,
1:03:49
let him go to 20 and he said no, he's going to score 18.
1:03:53
And then when you told him what Vegas said, he now his number is
1:03:56
10 and a. Half dude, dude, you cannot bet
1:03:58
that he's going to score 18. When it comes to sports betting,
1:04:01
you're not getting it here. I said me.
1:04:03
And you? We're not Vegas.
1:04:06
Dude, you were wrong. Me and you talking, not Vegas.
1:04:10
You. Said eighteen.
1:04:11
You're. Wrong.
1:04:11
I didn't say what Vegas said. I said you're.
1:04:14
Wrong. I say you're wrong.
1:04:15
That's all I'm going to say. I said you're wrong.
1:04:18
I think Q's more used to just like betting people straight up
1:04:22
just, I don't care we. Just did it last week.
1:04:25
Yeah, you did it last week. He'll do it a bit and you're
1:04:27
doing it tonight and you lost again.
1:04:29
He. Was going to score 12.
1:04:30
And he lost again. And he just scored 20.
1:04:33
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
1:04:35
Oh God, that's what I'm saying. I asked you a bit of something
1:04:37
first. I'm not very.
1:04:38
I'm going to take back. I'm going to tell you what I
1:04:40
said because you're not listening.
1:04:42
I said in the beginning I think he's going to score 18 plus.
1:04:46
But, but, but no, no, no, hold on, hold on.
1:04:51
No, no, no. Now you're not listening to what
1:04:52
I said. I asked Speedy, Speedy, do you
1:04:54
remember? Hold on.
1:04:55
Could you shut up for a second? For one second?
1:04:58
Speedy, what did I say after that?
1:04:59
What did I say? I said what is Vegas?
1:05:01
You said what did I say? Vegas?
1:05:02
No matter what. What did I say after that?
1:05:04
Could. Your people go over 10 1/2. 10
1:05:06
1/2 so I said bet bet over 10 1/2 that's what I said, and
1:05:09
you'll win money. That's what I told.
1:05:10
Bet at 10 1/2 and. You're going to win for the
1:05:12
audience. You're not talking to me.
1:05:13
You bet me. All right.
1:05:15
Move on, move on. You're wrong.
1:05:17
Move on. Wrong.
1:05:18
Move on. Wrong.
1:05:19
Let's talk about wrong. Let's do our one annual talk
1:05:23
about the Brooklyn Nets draft lotteries this weekend.
1:05:28
And the Nets are going to be positioned with a 14% chance of
1:05:32
getting the number one overall pick.
1:05:35
They're tied with the Pacers and Wizards with the best odds.
1:05:38
Despite having one more win than the Pacers and three more than
1:05:42
the Wizards, the Jazz and the Kings are at 11.5%.
1:05:47
Obviously we've seen teams with very low percents get up there,
1:05:51
but the Nets could be in line for one of these top three elite
1:05:55
players and we know that there are a couple of guys outside the
1:06:00
top three that everyone really likes.
1:06:02
So pretty good draft situation for the Nets.
1:06:04
They're not getting a top three pick.
1:06:07
Expect Indiana to be there. I I would expect them expect
1:06:11
Utah to be there because for some reason Danny Ainge gets
1:06:14
lucky or the NBA just likes to fall in right onto his
1:06:17
fingertips. That's where it seems like it's
1:06:19
going to happen. But if Indiana gets the number
1:06:22
one pick, I'm just saying Kamboozer's going to them.
1:06:26
But the Nets are going to get a good player.
1:06:28
They're going to get a top five, top six player.
1:06:31
There are a lot of good positions.
1:06:32
Wilson could be there at 5. The North Carolina offensive
1:06:35
talent. I think that that could that
1:06:38
could be very much a good spot for the Nets.
1:06:40
They're going to get themselves a franchise player they can
1:06:42
build around. I don't think they're getting a
1:06:44
top three pick. Unfortunately for all the Net
1:06:46
fans, they just, I just don't see.
1:06:48
Yeah, there's a lot of teams that have, we've seen the
1:06:50
patterns that end up being overdue.
1:06:51
Now Utah, like you said, I've gotten lucky some other years,
1:06:53
got unlucky kind of last year and end up getting Bailey at 5,
1:06:56
which I guess helped out a little compared to what the
1:06:58
value was. But you've seen that would seem
1:07:00
that with Sacramento and other teams fall like that, the
1:07:03
Wizards haven't gotten in a while.
1:07:05
So maybe there's an option for them to get that high.
1:07:08
But it's weird to think, Fish, that the 14 percent is the same
1:07:11
for all three of them. So usually the fluctuation
1:07:13
doesn't end up going that way. So just the way the weird
1:07:15
lottery system works where it should be based on some games
1:07:18
back, not the top 3%. Expect a team that shouldn't be
1:07:22
there to jump from like 8 or 9 to the top three.
1:07:25
Congratulations to the Atlanta Hawks are getting the number
1:07:27
one. Pick they they could.
1:07:28
They very much could. I wouldn't be surprised.
1:07:31
Yeah, I, I don't think that much of it.
1:07:33
I think they're definitely get a, a franchise pair to build
1:07:36
around. But outside of that, they are in
1:07:39
a rebuilding phase. There will be no winning in
1:07:42
Brooklyn no time soon. So, you know, I don't think
1:07:45
they'll get that top three pick. Like they said, I think it
1:07:47
they're probably around 5:00 or 6:00 or 7:00.
1:07:50
I could see them probably throwing it, throwing them in
1:07:53
there between those numbers. But the top three, it's pretty
1:07:56
much set and I don't think they're going to give it to
1:07:59
Brooklyn. All right, let's let's move on
1:08:01
to the next, which is football and again, not a lot of news.
1:08:04
We just finished the draft. So there's obviously the
1:08:07
undrafted free agents were signed.
1:08:09
We'll see how they do every once in a while.
1:08:12
Those one of those guys does make it.
1:08:14
Let's start with the Giants. The Giants added a couple of
1:08:17
veterans that already kind of made the deal, but it's
1:08:20
official. Patrick Ricard is the fullback,
1:08:23
big fullback that was on the Ravens.
1:08:25
He joins the Giants officially and Shelby Harris was defensive
1:08:30
tackle, played on that Browns line.
1:08:33
He's been around the league. He's not a nose tackle.
1:08:36
He's more of a three technique. So he's going to be in that
1:08:39
rotation. They still need to find the nose
1:08:41
tackle. They have not gotten 1 yet.
1:08:44
Errol a lot of people are talking about DJ readers, a
1:08:47
couple other guys out there, but the Giants have waited and
1:08:51
didn't get one in the draft and now they still don't have a big
1:08:55
guy in the middle. I think the giants are going to
1:08:58
have to look to next year because there's nobody about no
1:09:01
obviously they can get with guys off of waivers if a team waves
1:09:04
them after after pre season and there might be a player out
1:09:08
there, an older player, veteran player, but Ricard, we knew he
1:09:11
was going to take a full back position and and they were going
1:09:13
to bring in another Baltimore Raven.
1:09:15
They might bring in more Baltimore Ravens if they get
1:09:17
waved their the full back position is nonexistent anymore.
1:09:20
Really. I, I, I don't know if that's a
1:09:22
big deal. It's just leadership.
1:09:23
That's what the Giants want to bring.
1:09:24
And Harris, it's a hit or miss with him.
1:09:28
So I, I think the Giants are in a lot of trouble.
1:09:30
You need that defensive tackle. You need a a stud defensive
1:09:33
tackle. Look at what The Jets had to do
1:09:35
in this year's draft. And, and I don't think The Jets
1:09:38
are done at the defensive line. I think The Jets are going to
1:09:40
add some guys off waivers because even though they drafted
1:09:43
a guy in the fourth round that he's still raw.
1:09:45
They need to bring in a guy that actually has been there and has
1:09:49
done it at a high level. And I, I think there'll be
1:09:50
somebody out there that The Jets like, but maybe a lion if they,
1:09:54
if somebody gets waves. But I, I honestly think if
1:09:58
you're a giant fan, you'd have to worry about this position
1:10:01
because they have nobody to fill in.
1:10:02
I and they added a guy in the draft that plays the same as
1:10:06
Abdul Carter. I'm just saying maybe they can
1:10:09
move him inside as a linebacker because he could do everything
1:10:11
to help out the running game. But they're going to have to do
1:10:13
something at that line linebacker position if they're
1:10:16
going to smother teams and stop them from running the ball.
1:10:19
Yeah, it's interesting because they're going to rotate a bunch
1:10:20
of different types of prototypes.
1:10:22
So you said Fish deep. Shelby Harris played a little
1:10:24
more 3-4 defensive end with other team.
1:10:27
I think when he started with Miami and a bunch of other
1:10:29
teams, he was it was mainly the Broncos he started with was a
1:10:31
defensive tackle. Then you got trade to Seattle in
1:10:33
the Russell Wilson deal. So it's just to see how they use
1:10:36
it. The other thing, the other thing
1:10:37
that can be an interesting dynamic Fish because they played
1:10:39
him a defensive tackle sometimes when they had guys hurt, where
1:10:43
the Giants consider using him like Nikita Whitlock years ago,
1:10:46
where they put him with a defensive tackle and as a goal
1:10:48
line running backs type thing. Would they consider doing that
1:10:51
with Ricard and put it on defense too?
1:10:53
I want to say something before we go back in.
1:10:55
I'm sorry to cut you off. Cue this Nick team we didn't see
1:10:58
all season long. They're kicking the crap out of
1:11:02
the Philadelphia 76ers right now, torching them.
1:11:06
It it's pretty incredible what the Knicks are doing right now.
1:11:08
Really, since game five and game six it's it's been incredible.
1:11:13
You know, it's it's Mike Brown. Dude unlocked them.
1:11:18
Shout out to the Knicks, man. They are killing the boys man.
1:11:22
But yeah, I think that by the. Way, by the way, Michael Bridges
1:11:26
did it just hit a three, so that makes it 14, all right.
1:11:30
Just you didn't make the bet. You didn't make the.
1:11:33
Bet I don't have to make the bat everybody that.
1:11:35
Was right, I was right. But you didn't make the bad.
1:11:39
You didn't make the. Bad I'm not making.
1:11:41
Scared to make? Dude, I'm not taking.
1:11:42
I don't have to take your money. I already know I'm going to win.
1:11:45
I already know I'm going to win. Make the bet.
1:11:47
I know I'm going. To win the bet, now you know you
1:11:49
talk from higher side. Don't worry, Don't worry.
1:11:52
It's OK. I'll help you with ball.
1:11:54
I'll teach you a little bit after the show.
1:11:55
I'll. Be you're not having a ball at
1:11:57
all, I'll. Teach you a little bit, I'll
1:11:58
teach you a little bit about. You never played basketball.
1:12:00
Yes, I did. Actually.
1:12:01
Yes, I did. Very.
1:12:02
I was a very good basketball player, by the way.
1:12:04
Yes, I was. I was a very good basketball
1:12:07
player, just so you know. Please stop it.
1:12:09
You could stop all you want. I played varsity basketball in
1:12:11
9th grade. What are you talking about?
1:12:14
Yeah. What are you laughing at?
1:12:15
I. Did it where at that's that's
1:12:17
the problem What? Do you mean what do you mean?
1:12:19
TABI went for AI, played for a private school in Brooklyn,
1:12:22
right next to Lincoln. I played basketball with.
1:12:24
That's two What? What are you talking about?
1:12:27
I played against Lincoln. Okay, So what are you talking
1:12:31
about? Okay, did you go to Lincoln?
1:12:33
All right, I just gave you I didn't go to Lincoln.
1:12:35
I went to a school went TAB. I went to a school called TAB.
1:12:38
All right, just so you know. All right, throw you out there.
1:12:41
Go ahead, spit down. Yeah, I mean, the Giants is the
1:12:45
Giants man. They're still trying to rebuild
1:12:48
and trying to get it right. But, you know, it'll be
1:12:50
interesting to see, you know, with them adding all these
1:12:54
different players and and the new coach that Harbard is trying
1:12:57
to set over there. But for the most part, I don't,
1:13:00
I don't it's too early to be able to tell what's really going
1:13:03
on and whether or not these signs signees are going to be
1:13:07
impactful or not. And they had a crazy draft,
1:13:10
which they drafted, like Earl say, drafted somebody in the
1:13:13
same position. So that's going to be
1:13:16
interesting seeing how he's able to maneuver that and make a a
1:13:20
great defensive scheme. But those two guys are playing
1:13:23
the same role. But we'll see.
1:13:25
All right, let's talk about The Jets real quick.
1:13:27
Yeah, not a lot of Jets news, just some of these undrafted
1:13:31
free agents, you know? By the way, Mikhail Bridges has
1:13:35
17 points now, just so you know, just so you know.
1:13:38
They may Poland, though, because they might as well bench
1:13:41
everybody because it's. I'm just saying I he's doing
1:13:43
everything I said he was going to do.
1:13:45
Just all. Yep.
1:13:46
There, you know, Speedy, you're we got a couple of guys.
1:13:50
I don't know if they're related to anyone in the league, but
1:13:53
Colin Lacy was a return man from Louisville.
1:13:57
He's going to be fighting for a spot on the on The Jets.
1:13:59
That's the guy that may make that roster.
1:14:01
Those return guys, special teams guys.
1:14:04
I got a kicker from BYU. I like that, by the way.
1:14:06
I like it. Which is another guy that I've
1:14:09
heard of. And then there's some small
1:14:12
school linebacker, Kendrick Blackshear from Texas, San
1:14:16
Antonio. So that's really all that's
1:14:18
happened with The Jets. Nothing really to write home
1:14:20
about it. We'll get into more football
1:14:23
news as it comes out. Let's talk hockey.
1:14:27
The hockey lottery is tomorrow, so the hockey lottery is Tuesday
1:14:32
night. Let's talk about the draft odds.
1:14:34
The Rangers come in with the third highest odds to get the
1:14:38
number one pick at 11.5%, which means 115 combinations out of
1:14:43
the thousand. That's how they do it.
1:14:45
Only behind the Blackhawks at 13 1/2 in Canucks, who were God
1:14:49
awful this year at 18 1/2 percent.
1:14:53
Devils and Islanders are both outside the top ten with 2 1/2
1:14:57
and 2% chance to get the top pick.
1:14:59
But obviously if you don't get the top pick, the Rangers are
1:15:02
sitting at that third spot. They'll just move back one spot.
1:15:05
They'll still end up with the top 4-5 or six pick in the
1:15:08
stroke. Well, just so everybody knows,
1:15:10
when the Islanders drafted Schaefer, they drafted him.
1:15:14
They were quoted at 10 and they moved all the way to #1 So to
1:15:20
say that the Islanders can't move up or the Devils can't move
1:15:23
up, it can happen in the NHL draft.
1:15:25
We've seen it. And they do the lottery right in
1:15:27
front of everybody. It's not like the NBA where you
1:15:29
don't know what's going on. You're going to see it right in
1:15:31
front of your face. I love that about what we've
1:15:34
seen with the NHL. And Gary Bettman has been a
1:15:36
genius. I think he's the best
1:15:37
commissioner in professional sports right now.
1:15:40
As far as the Rangers are concerned, no matter where they
1:15:42
pick, it's defense. Stop with these offensive
1:15:44
players. You're going to go with McKenna.
1:15:46
You're going to go after the kid from Sweden or Switzerland or
1:15:48
wherever the hell he's from, You're making a mistake.
1:15:51
You got to go after defensive talent, the kid read.
1:15:54
And the kid from North Dakota that I like, You go, you go
1:15:57
after one of those guys. You, no matter where you draft
1:16:00
one or two, wherever they draft you go defense.
1:16:04
The Rangers got to be smart here.
1:16:05
I don't trust Chris Drury. That's why you should fire him.
1:16:08
But the Rangers are going to get a top four pick no matter what.
1:16:12
Get that, defenseman. Yeah, it's just all about a
1:16:14
developmental process which the Rangers have failed that with
1:16:16
these other top prospects. The Rangers send it to better
1:16:18
with the second tier prospects a lot more when you look at guys
1:16:21
like Will Cooley that actually have had a pretty good career
1:16:23
with the Rangers who wasn't a big name prospect.
1:16:25
But then you have the Capocockos and Alexei La Ferneir is.
1:16:28
One of them looks good. Looks good, looks good.
1:16:30
Hopefully that turns into something that was a lot of
1:16:31
people thought that was a good late round pick.
1:16:33
Hopefully that'll turn into and Matthew Robertson is a
1:16:35
defenseman's look pretty good and early, right.
1:16:37
They've done well at developing these younger defensemen early
1:16:40
in their careers, and then it fizzles.
1:16:41
Outlook at the guy that is playing for the Carolina
1:16:44
Hurricanes right now. I know you think what think
1:16:47
about that. This was a first round talent.
1:16:50
They let him go for practically nothing and he's been one of
1:16:54
their best defensemen. I know, and that's what I was
1:16:55
saying. They developed him earlier in
1:16:57
their career and then they either get them, let them get
1:16:59
either too loose or they don't develop them properly.
1:17:01
Obviously the coaching changes may have something to do with
1:17:03
it, but they let him get into these spirals where it ends up
1:17:06
happening. And outside of Adam Fox, that's
1:17:08
really been their process with these younger guys that have
1:17:10
just been not steady enough. So that's when you have to reach
1:17:12
for free agency. Now, again, with the draft
1:17:15
lottery odds, yeah, they definitely could rig it for the
1:17:16
Rangers. Who?
1:17:17
Knows do you want me to make a crazy?
1:17:18
Prediction God. You want me to make a crazy
1:17:20
prediction? What?
1:17:21
The New Jersey Devils are going to get into the top ten this
1:17:24
year? I my prediction is the Devils
1:17:26
are going to find their way in the top five this year.
1:17:29
I have. I have this feeling, yeah.
1:17:31
I was feeling, you know, who has, who has the number of five
1:17:33
odds that they'll probably rig the lottery for is the Leafs.
1:17:36
Oh please. Not that it'll do anything for.
1:17:39
Him. I have another bet.
1:17:41
I have another thing to throw out.
1:17:42
You guys don't be surprised if Austin Matthew gets traded to
1:17:45
the New York Rangers in the offseason.
1:17:47
Wow. Remember I That's good to me.
1:17:49
Remember I said that? Let's let's finish this up.
1:17:52
Let's talk about the Sabres. Sabres the only yacht team
1:17:56
actually really worth talking about.
1:17:57
They're in the playoffs. They won their first round
1:17:59
series, kind of humiliated the the Bruins in the last couple of
1:18:03
games of that series. Bruins kind of no showed it.
1:18:07
A lot of older players were very critical of the team afterwards.
1:18:11
This looks like a team that may be entering a rebuild after all
1:18:15
this. The Sabres on the other hand,
1:18:17
you know this is their first series win, playoff series win
1:18:20
since 2007. I was at that series win.
1:18:24
It was against the Rangers and the Yamir Yaga.
1:18:28
That's the one where Chris Jury actually scored a game tying
1:18:31
goal with like 7 seconds left. Or to go send it to overtime on
1:18:36
Lungfest in game five. I was at that one.
1:18:39
It was one of the best hockey games ever seen, except the
1:18:41
Rangers loss so it sucked at the end.
1:18:43
The Sabres had four defensemen's, Byram, Dolan, and
1:18:48
Bowen in power. All had four points in the
1:18:51
series. Their defense is awesome.
1:18:54
Tuck and Thompson were awesome in the series and and now they
1:18:58
get to take on Montreal who upset the Lightning in seven
1:19:02
games. Errol.
1:19:03
Here's my prediction for all your fans out there.
1:19:05
You want to put some bets on this?
1:19:06
Whoever wins this series is going to the Stanley Cup Finals.
1:19:11
Whoever wins this series, I love Martin St.
1:19:14
Louis. I hope, I hope he plays and this
1:19:16
team plays at a high level. But I think this is the Buffalo
1:19:18
Sabres year. They're young, they're
1:19:20
energetic, they're fun. Darlene, they got great
1:19:23
goaltending. I mean, Tom Tage Thompson is one
1:19:26
of the best American born hockey players.
1:19:29
I mean, I love it. I want to see Buffalo win it.
1:19:31
I want to see Buffalo take home the Stanley Cup.
1:19:35
I think this is the this is the probably the best series out of
1:19:38
all the series that are out there.
1:19:39
I think Disco GO-7. Yeah, there's definitely a lot
1:19:41
to like when you look at the defensive depth of plate as well
1:19:44
as Buffaloes did in that game. And obviously the goaltending is
1:19:46
still rising when it comes to switching off between Lekinen
1:19:50
and Alex Lyon. Whereas Montreal had a kid in
1:19:52
Dobis who started for the Czech in the Olympics that played very
1:19:55
well in the series. Gets Tampa.
1:19:56
I was always saying that the Tampa Lightning and Montreal
1:19:59
winner was going to the Cup anyway, I picked Tampa.
1:20:01
I was wrong. But that was a really good
1:20:02
series or probably the best quality series overall in the
1:20:04
first round. But.
1:20:05
The team, these are two of the youngest teams in the NHL that
1:20:07
are already really ahead of schedule.
1:20:09
Buffalo probably has a little more stronger suit with the
1:20:10
offensive side. Montreal overall, with the depth
1:20:13
that they have and the experience, but still, it's
1:20:15
going to be a really good series, very fast-paced as well.
1:20:18
I don't trust Carolina. I don't trust that goaltending.
1:20:20
Frederick has played very well, but I don't trust him.
1:20:23
We've seen him do it in the playoffs.
1:20:25
He'll show up in a series and completely disappear against
1:20:28
they're. Not a good for some reason.
1:20:29
Carolina is also not a good transition team either, but they
1:20:32
haven't really been tested in that and if they play Flyer,
1:20:35
have to play one of these two teams that they're going to be
1:20:37
very tough in transition. The only thing that concerns you
1:20:39
of Buffalo is the size of the wings a little more compared to
1:20:42
Montreal who has some bigger wingers.
1:20:43
So if they they have to try to play physical with some
1:20:46
undersized guys, did you see? The first series, did you see
1:20:49
what they did to Boston? I know.
1:20:50
Did you see the fighting? Did you see how tough they
1:20:52
played them? I don't think that's going to be
1:20:54
a problem. I really don't.
1:20:56
But Montreal had a lot of fighting too, though.
1:20:58
I'm just saying, I don't think they're worried about that.
1:21:02
All right, guys, that is the Concrete Jungle carousel.
1:21:05
It'll spin again, probably in a couple weeks.
1:21:08
All right, And I want to give a shout out to the Buffalo Bills
1:21:11
because anybody, if you watch or you listen to any of these
1:21:15
draft, you know, shows and these podcasts, which I've tuned into
1:21:18
a couple of them, I wanted to see what they rated the Buffalo
1:21:21
Bill Bills, which didn't have a first round draft pick.
1:21:23
They traded out three times. And everybody on our panel
1:21:26
thought I was nuts saying that I thought Buffalo was good.
1:21:30
I thought they won the first round.
1:21:32
Every single one of these podcasts that I've listened to
1:21:34
gave them an A+ or an A. They thought they hit home runs.
1:21:38
So and I still think Buffalo needed to add a lot of depth.
1:21:42
They didn't have a lot of picks. I think Buffalo did very, very
1:21:44
well. So shout out to the Buffalo
1:21:46
Bills bean and all the the garbage that we were saying to
1:21:49
about them and their executives. I think they're they're a smart
1:21:52
organization. So I I think there were a lot of
1:21:54
great moves that they made. We'll see how everything falls
1:21:56
together. All right, Speedy 6 pack of the
1:21:59
week. Let's have a sensor.
1:22:02
Hey, who wants to play Print the Beer?
1:22:04
It's time for the Speedy 6 pack of the Way All.
1:22:10
Right, we'll start with that aforementioned series that Fish
1:22:13
was referring to, the Montreal Canadiens winning Game 7 two to
1:22:17
one over the Tampa Lightning to advance to take on those Buffalo
1:22:20
Sabres. They won with nine shots on goal
1:22:23
in Game 7, the lowest in NHL history for a Game 7 winner.
1:22:26
But enough defense, enough goal sending goal taskiness.
1:22:29
Here's the here's the thing, Martin St.
1:22:31
Louis, he's been there, he's done that.
1:22:33
He's won Stanley Cups before. He understands how to coach
1:22:36
A-Team. You've seen what he's done over
1:22:38
the years. The background between, you
1:22:40
know, what he did with the Rangers playing during the
1:22:42
playoffs when his, I think his mother died.
1:22:44
I mean, the stories about Martin.
1:22:46
Martin St. Louis is legendary and he's the
1:22:49
coach of the Montreal Canadiens and he's built this team.
1:22:52
He's been there for the last three years helping this team
1:22:55
build and figure out what their identity is.
1:22:57
And they made a couple of moves in the offseason.
1:22:59
They had a no adoption. They traded away 2 first round
1:23:01
draft picks. It's helped them extremely well
1:23:04
and and they've had such an edgy team.
1:23:06
I think they have so many good young players.
1:23:09
I I love what I I seen with them.
1:23:11
But I'm going to tell you this, their goal tending right now is
1:23:14
one of the best in the playoffs. You can see it.
1:23:16
Their defense is playing at a high level.
1:23:18
Buffalo is going to be bumping into a trap.
1:23:20
We'll see how it works out, but I think both teams have played
1:23:22
at such a high level. It's been fun to watch.
1:23:24
Yeah, they have the skill with certain wingers when it comes to
1:23:27
Slakovsky was a number one overall pick.
1:23:29
Ivan Demandov has been a nice player.
1:23:31
The kid Kapanan that was in the Rookie of the year race along
1:23:33
with Schaefer as a finalist, and they have a good combination
1:23:36
with the veteran leadership, too.
1:23:37
This is a team that just went granted a very fluky Cup, but
1:23:39
what's the Cup four years ago in the shortened season?
1:23:41
Should have been the Islanders. Yeah, kind of a kind of weird
1:23:44
one. Yeah, the Islanders lost to
1:23:45
Tampa that year, and then Montreal, because of the way the
1:23:48
Canadian division aligned, he got to end up playing all the
1:23:50
Canadian teams, and then they beat Vegas out of nowhere, who
1:23:53
was one of the best teams in the league.
1:23:54
So kind of a weird year, but a lot of those guys, not everyone
1:23:56
on that team. We've got some experience from
1:23:58
that. All right, let's move on to the
1:23:59
other series. The Flyers taking down the
1:24:01
Penguins in an overtime game-winning goal by Cam York.
1:24:04
I believe you covered his draft as a defenceman.
1:24:07
It was the first round pick I believe in 2019, edging out the
1:24:09
Penguins won nothing in overtime.
1:24:11
Now they get to take on the Carolina Hurricanes.
1:24:12
They lost the first Game 2 to nothing.
1:24:14
And right now it's two to two game #2 and it's in overtime.
1:24:18
So we'll see if Flyers, the Flyers can win this game.
1:24:20
They lose this game, the series is over because Carolina is not
1:24:24
going to give you any bites. And you're in Carolina, You're
1:24:27
going back to Philadelphia. Yeah.
1:24:29
I just, I don't trust it. They have to win this game.
1:24:32
They want to make this a series. They have to win the game.
1:24:34
If they lose this game, it's over.
1:24:36
Series is over. I I I think Philadelphia has
1:24:39
done a lot of great things this year.
1:24:40
They beat out the Islanders and, and did what they did in the
1:24:44
first round of the playoffs against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
1:24:46
And, and looks like Sidney Crosby's could be his last year
1:24:48
with the Pittsburgh Penguins. We'll see.
1:24:50
We'll see how it all falls together.
1:24:51
I've heard also floating rumors of if getting mulku becomes
1:24:55
available in Montreal could be interested.
1:24:56
In I heard that too. And I heard Sidney Crosby to
1:24:58
Edmonton. Crosby, David, together, that'd
1:25:01
be that'd be something. That's what I heard.
1:25:03
Yeah. And with the Flyers offense, it
1:25:05
was something that was a question mark going into this
1:25:07
postseason with did they have enough depth?
1:25:09
Did they have enough? The power play was one of the
1:25:10
worst in the league. And Carolina, you saw what they
1:25:12
did. The auto won the first round.
1:25:13
It's going to be a stifling task.
1:25:15
They're going to have to win this game if they have any shot
1:25:17
in the series. I agree.
1:25:18
All right, The Golden Knights taking down the Utah Mammoth,
1:25:21
they were down 2 to one. They won three games in a row
1:25:24
and then five to one in the final games.
1:25:26
Vegas Golden Knights have won at least one round in all all the
1:25:28
years that they've made the playoffs in their franchise
1:25:30
history so far. Listen, the Golden Knights are a
1:25:33
good organization. They know how to build.
1:25:35
They get Marner in the offseason.
1:25:37
It seems they have a bag of riches every single offseason.
1:25:40
And the real weakness with them they're they're just like the
1:25:43
Edmonton Eulers. You don't know who your goalie
1:25:45
is. They find a goaltender, they
1:25:47
sneak one in, they got a third string goaltender that shows up
1:25:50
and has a great playoff run. I, I just worry about their
1:25:55
goaltending in, in the series when they move on into the next
1:25:57
one. I, I just, I don't trust them.
1:25:59
And I, I think that the Western Conference is loaded, loaded.
1:26:04
So it's good that they got it. They got out of that mammoth.
1:26:08
And by the way, shout out to Keller.
1:26:09
I think he's one of the best young studs right now in the
1:26:11
NHL. We're going to see this kid
1:26:12
develop into a super superstar. He's already a star, but I think
1:26:16
he's going to be one of the best players in the world in the next
1:26:19
year or two. So but they they still little
1:26:22
behind the little behind. Yeah, I mean, they made good
1:26:24
progress this year. Remember, this was not an
1:26:26
expansion team. This was a relocation from
1:26:27
Arizona. They took a lot of those
1:26:28
players. They got made some trades after
1:26:30
that state aggressive, the deadline, got some depth, had a
1:26:32
good goal. Young, good young toll too with
1:26:34
Mr. Jelka. Just not enough with this Vegas
1:26:36
offense and defense that I've always said is one of the best
1:26:38
in the league. So Vegas moves on.
1:26:40
They will take on the Anaheim Ducks, who they won five to two
1:26:43
in in their final game against the Oilers, should advance in
1:26:45
the second round along with the Minnesota Wild also winning
1:26:48
their game five to two. Both of them advanced to the
1:26:50
second around and that means Caroline is the only team left
1:26:53
in the conference finals from last year.
1:26:55
Dallas and Edmonton now knocked out.
1:26:56
Florida obviously didn't make the playoffs, so.
1:26:58
Who do you want me to get into? You want me to get into the
1:27:00
wild? I think the wild could really
1:27:02
shock the world. I think they're so very good, so
1:27:05
I can't say anything. I love queen news.
1:27:08
I think he's eventually going to be a devil.
1:27:10
He's going to go and play with his brothers.
1:27:12
Everybody predicts that. But if the Wild wants to keep
1:27:15
them, they got to keep making this run all the way to the
1:27:17
finals because they have everything.
1:27:19
They're loaded. They got great goaltending, they
1:27:22
got great defense and they got great offense.
1:27:25
They're loaded. Bill Guerin's built this team
1:27:28
into an absolute star, stunning team, so they should make a run.
1:27:34
Now, what else you want? Anaheim was the other.
1:27:36
One, you know what I think about the Anaheim Ducks.
1:27:38
I think the Ducks is going to shock the world.
1:27:41
I think they're going to play at a high level and I expect them
1:27:44
to play at a high level. I don't know if they're going to
1:27:46
get out of this round. I still think when I look at
1:27:49
there's nobody beating the ABS, I just, I can't see it.
1:27:53
But the Wild Anaheim, you would like to see one of those teams
1:27:56
beat the AVS, but I don't think it's going to happen.
1:27:59
But my my prediction is the AVS win the whole thing.
1:28:02
But if any one of those teams come out of nowhere and beat the
1:28:05
AVS, I wouldn't complain about it.
1:28:08
Anaheim's defense definitely showed a lot.
1:28:10
Their depth was kind of a question mark too, kind of like
1:28:12
I was saying with with the Sabres, but they held Conor
1:28:15
McDavid to just one goal in that series.
1:28:17
And that has to say a lot about their game planning, their
1:28:19
coaching that obviously we we both the same thing, saying that
1:28:22
Quembell shouldn't be in the league right now, but he's still
1:28:23
obviously a very good coach. X's and O's, YS and.
1:28:26
He's a disgusting, disgusting human being.
1:28:28
I know, I'm not saying I'm advocating.
1:28:30
For that I choked on the words because I, you know, as Q would
1:28:34
know on my teeth are getting in my way, but you know.
1:28:36
But yeah, as a hockey coach, we definitely had them prepared to
1:28:38
take on Conor McDavid, take on those Edmonton stars in that
1:28:41
game. Minnesota's definitely got a
1:28:43
level of physicality I don't think you saw in previous years.
1:28:45
And I think with the trade deadline acquisitions, with the
1:28:48
defensive depth that they have, it definitely could bode well.
1:28:51
I'm not crazy about John Hines as a coach, but I definitely
1:28:53
think he coached a lot better than you've seen in previous
1:28:55
years against the Dallas team. That is still very good.
1:28:57
All right. Kind of more of a general one.
1:28:58
A lot of overtime games in round one for my second to last one in
1:29:01
the NHL. 13 overtimes, fifth most for a single round, and
1:29:05
every first round matchup had an overtime game.
1:29:07
I'm not surprised. I, I think all these teams are
1:29:09
very close together except the ABS.
1:29:12
I said it, the ABS just ran right through everybody.
1:29:15
I, I, I think that this might be the most interesting playoff
1:29:19
run. And if anybody can knock off the
1:29:21
ABS, it's anybody's hockey game, anybody's hockey series or
1:29:25
anybody's Stanley Cup. ABS get knocked out.
1:29:28
It's open for any one of these teams.
1:29:30
I just, I just don't think there's anybody better enough,
1:29:33
good enough to beat them in A7 game series.
1:29:35
I think they're just so good, so well put together.
1:29:38
Joe Sackett Sakic is a genius. An absolute genius, yeah.
1:29:41
It's a combination of a lot of top seeds that were younger
1:29:43
teams and outside of that Central Division, which their
1:29:46
top three was that much better than I probably pretty much the
1:29:48
rest of the league besides Carolina and Buffalo.
1:29:50
Like you're seeing a combination of a lot of good parody.
1:29:53
Well, I think overall kind of a lower scoring Stanley Cup Final
1:29:56
Stanley Cup playoffs too than we've seen in years past as
1:29:58
well. Probably besides that Vegas and
1:30:00
Utah series race as well. All right, last one, we'll
1:30:02
finish with the Colorado Avalanche, who won their first
1:30:05
game against Minnesota 9 to 6. Love it.
1:30:07
It was a so they were up 3 nothing.
1:30:09
Then Minnesota took the lead 5 to 4.
1:30:11
Colorado tied at late 55 in the second period.
1:30:13
Then Colorado ran away with it in the third, the first fourth
1:30:16
highest scoring playoff game error.
1:30:19
First time since the 1985 Edmonton Oilers were defenseman
1:30:22
collectively combined for 10 points for the Colorado
1:30:24
Avalanche 12 in that game. Kale Mccarr was the only one
1:30:27
that scored twice as well of those fifteen goals.
1:30:29
What makes me sick is Devin Thames is it had one goal in
1:30:33
three assists. He's an ex Islander.
1:30:35
The Islander. This guy is an old world
1:30:37
defenseman. He was great with the Islanders.
1:30:40
The Islanders let him go. They traded him and he they got
1:30:42
I think they got a second round draft pick for this guy.
1:30:45
This guy's been one of the best defenseman in the NHL.
1:30:47
Yes, they have Shaffer, yes they've Got Talent coming up in
1:30:49
their in their farm system, but this just makes you sick.
1:30:53
Plus Brock Nelson. And Brock Nelson, who's playing
1:30:55
great hockey, which we knew was going to happen, He, he's, he's
1:30:58
a great player, great leader. I mean I Nekus, whatever his
1:31:02
name is, nature. Nature.
1:31:03
One of these days, we'll get it right.
1:31:04
Yeah, and Nathan McKinnon, who I love very, very much.
1:31:07
I know Josh was there when he was drafted and interviewed him.
1:31:10
So this team is loaded out absolutely, completely.
1:31:14
And they, oh, I'm sorry, they had a country too, at the trade
1:31:17
deadline, which makes you sick to your stomach, too.
1:31:19
He had a goal, too. Yes he did.
1:31:22
Car was the only repeat Goal 8. Shots Eight shots on goal.
1:31:25
How many plays? He led the team with eight shots
1:31:27
on a goal. Yeah, pretty effective.
1:31:28
He had eight. He had only well left shots on
1:31:30
goal of the Canadians in Game 7. Eight shots.
1:31:33
Think about this guys. We just talked about the the
1:31:36
Canadians only having nine shots and they won that game.
1:31:39
This guy had eight shots by himself.
1:31:41
Colorado. The same out of goals.
1:31:44
Makes you sick to your. Story thing I was mentioned this
1:31:46
with Minnesota with they're having they definitely have the
1:31:49
offensive potency there. I mentioned the center depth has
1:31:51
been the better thing for them and they're going to need that
1:31:53
in this kind of series. Colorado, the one thing that's
1:31:55
been questioned with them in years past has been the center
1:31:57
depth. Now having Brock Nelson and
1:31:59
cadre playing as well as they did, that definitely is going to
1:32:01
make a difference in the series. You wonder with the goaltending
1:32:04
who had played so well with Ballstead, if it ends up being
1:32:06
broken, that'll be the difference in the series.
1:32:07
Because I think Minnesota skaters could definitely compete
1:32:09
with them depth wise with Colorado and they have
1:32:11
experience with them in the in the Central Division as well.
1:32:14
But if their goaltending is not broken, they could definitely
1:32:16
compete. In this series, if it ain't
1:32:17
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1:32:21
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I, I, I appreciate you, Tom. You might not, you might not
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think that, but I I'm going to throw this out to you.
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If you ever listen to the show, you were listening to the show,
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We love you man and we wish nothing but the best for you.
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we have on Monday and Thursday all.
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Right, return to Thursday. Returning to the show on
1:33:59
Thursday. She was on with us a couple of
1:34:01
years ago. She's an agent.
1:34:03
She also was a semi pro snowboarder.
1:34:04
And she's at the Super Bowl. Yes, she was at the NFL draft as
1:34:07
well. She's an agent from several
1:34:09
different players, the owner of the CEO of BG Sports
1:34:12
Enterprises, it is Brittany Gilman.
1:34:14
She has a new book out as well. It is No Stilettos on the Field.
1:34:18
Just released the day of the draft.
1:34:20
Yeah, she does have nice legs. I can't lie.
1:34:22
I can't lie, ladies. And.
1:34:23
Gentlemen, Oh my. God, I mean, look, those are her
1:34:26
legs. Those are real, dude.
1:34:30
Justin, she, she, by the way, she was Olympic, Olympic
1:34:34
snowboarder and she's doing such great things.
1:34:37
And Brittany's been a friend of the show and.
1:34:39
She does a lot of travelling. And I have a lot of fun with her
1:34:41
when she comes on the show. I always shoot the crap with her
1:34:44
And she loves, she loves coming on the show.
1:34:46
We have a lot of fun on the back end of it.
1:34:47
So I'm excited to get her on the show.
1:34:50
I'd like to speak about her business and, and all the things
1:34:53
that she's doing on the back end of it.
1:34:54
So thank you, Brittany, and I'm sure you guys will enjoy her.
1:34:58
She's got a lot of stories and a lot of craziness with us.
1:35:01
But yeah, anyways, anything set up for next week too?
1:35:05
Yes, Nathan did get Vince Papale, the former Eagles
1:35:09
receiver, first undrafted free agent ever.
1:35:11
Invincible the movie. He's on Monday at 8:20.
1:35:15
And then Greg Odin and the director, I don't know the
1:35:18
director's name. I'll ask nothing on that one.
1:35:19
The first. Pick of the Kevin Durant dress.
1:35:22
May 14th at 8:20 Greg Odin will be on and like I said, Brittany
1:35:27
Gilman will be on 8:00 on this Thursday.
1:35:30
And don't worry, everybody I know, you know guys like Hugh
1:35:32
wants to make fun of man boobs, but these are pecs.
1:35:35
He doesn't have any. So I can help him out.
1:35:37
If you need some workouts and training, I can help him out on
1:35:40
that. He doesn't do any push ups
1:35:41
anymore, but I'll help him there.
1:35:43
I can do it. And if he needs help with his
1:35:45
basketball knowledge too, I can help.
1:35:46
Him there? It's pointy.
1:35:47
It's over there. There is nothing pointy about my
1:35:51
my pecs, man. I've actually got pecs.
1:35:54
You don't. That's OK, It's OK.
1:35:57
I like to show up my. Muscles out, closes out.
1:36:01
I'm sorry, but you, you it's OK. It's OK dude.
1:36:04
You like the high that they're pointy?
1:36:06
He doesn't know what point he is, but he's, he's got, he's got
1:36:10
like he likes to hide his chest because he's probably, you know,
1:36:13
he's probably growing. Up a round table over there.
1:36:16
A round table. Don't worry, I'll help Quinn
1:36:19
out. Quinn needs some help.
1:36:20
I'll help him out with some workouts.
1:36:21
Like you know I gave some tips to Jabba so I might give QA
1:36:24
little bit of workout try. Anyways.
1:36:27
Anyways, that's it for the show. Mr. Pointy Man and Mr. Know it
1:36:31
All man is there. I'm going to say goodnight.
1:36:34
Farewell. We'll talk to you Thursday.
1:36:36
Shoot a lick or shoot a shot or just win a basketball game,
1:36:40
which the Knicks did. Michael Bridges did, too.
1:36:41
Ah, that's over. Goodnight.
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