1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - NBA Chaos / A KC Man did WHAT?! - May 6th, 2025

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the couple Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. On 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticket FM.com. Give it to me, boom! In your face! We're back in a minute.

Tuesdays are so cool around here. here. It's like kids. You're not supposed to have a favorite day of the week. My favorite day I was asked this earlier today. And my answer was, they said, what's your favorite day? They asked my favorite show. And then my favorite day. And the answer is, whatever's next. Whatever's next. You can throw one-on-one in there as your favorite show? No, no, because I'm working. All right. But yeah, I'm working. But I'm not actually working because I'm having a ball. I'm having a good time. The sorry, I'm a hitman text line 424-6-4-5-6-8-5. comments, live opinions, live questions,

get them in. Sardahman text line is here for you. You can follow on all of the streams, Facebook, YouTube, X, Allo, General 961, and then if you'll want, download the ticket app, please, so that you have it on your phone, on your devices for need,

and you will have a need. Just going to let you know, you will have a need. Yeah, it's a good day to do it, too. I don't want to get too far ahead, but we do got Royals on the brick and mortar, but they do got the Chicago White Sox, you know, you might get to the seventh inning and just want to switch over to the ticket app.

Well, what that score shakes out like. Get on the app. You know, it's a weird thing because we have the different spectrums because here at the station, we don't have Channel 24 on Allen. But at home, I had it.

So I can watch the Royals with Channel 24 at home. I can't watch it here. I have to stream it. Just whatever, whatever the business cable account. But I stream everything anyway. So, you know, that's kind of my jam. Yeah, I unfortunately stream everything now.

I kind of despise it. I do miss the good old cable days. And that's why shout out Allos for still having those salt connections around. You know how times like you're paying for YouTube, you know, premium subscription. You go on vacation and you log into YouTube and it says, well, you're not in the right area code. So therefore you still can't watch the game even though we're charging you for your monthly. subscription to watch these games and i will fight you oh it drives me nuts so that's like well you got to have the paramount oh it's actually on disney plus for whatever reason this today is on tm tm t

it well there's certain states that because i travel a lot on certain states where certain apps don't work yeah that's what i'm talking about like there's certain states where hula doesn't work like you're just like hey you mess with my stream like get it right people get it right my biggest pet peeve of today's sports viewership i i miss the days where you just Everyone, Arnold's run the cable TV. You turn the game on. Who's got the login? Who's got the email?

Is my subscription? Yeah. Yeah. Still getting charged for it. Now that it's been a year and I forgot about it and it's taken $20 secretly. Everyone's like, I, I am frightened at how much I spend on streaming. Big 10 plus, NBA, Major League Baseball. You got the league pass?

The league pass. Sunday ticket. League pass. like 300 bucks is that I think for like all NBA teams right but but I look at it as it's a hundred dollars a month but then I also like the convenience of streaming yeah right flying being in hotels being away from away from it um but I also stream like Hulu and I want everything on it right and then because there's certain shows that are only on peacock or there's certain shows that are only on Netflix or Amazon Prime or Amazon Prime right so I have fully conceded that I am an

entertainment junkie. Hi my name's Derek and I am addicted to entertainment. We see you got the funds to award yourself the entertainment. It depends on who you ask. It's like do you need to see everything? Yes, because I don't know what they're going to ask me to talk about tomorrow. It is amazing how And this was pointed out to me by a radio guide. But Tony Cornizer once said how the biggest fear in this thing is that somebody would ask you a question about a thing that you don't know anything about. Right. You don't want to be a radio expert, radio show host and have somebody call in because back 20 years ago, people would call in.

There's no text on people who would call in. It was a crapshoot on what that call was going to be. and then they'd ask you a question. Hey, what do you think about Marquette's point guard? What? Huh? Hey, what do you know about, what do you know about Liberty's bowling team?

What? So you over-prepared for everything. And I tried to explain that, like I was telling Vashan that yesterday, that no matter what he had game planned in his show, it would be nice if he clued me in, but he didn't have to. Why? Because I'm so prepared in consumption that you could ask me about a wrestling match in

1974 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I could probably give you an answer as to what that was. If you asked me about, well, give me the starting five for the Seattle Supersonics NBA Championship, right? And you go, oh, the team led by Jack Sincol. but Freddie Brown and, oh, you want to go that route. Dennis Johnson, you want to go that route? Gus Williams coming off the bench.

Oh, that group. Oh, you want to talk about turnaround jumper, Jack Sidba? Not every, whatever direction Harrison wants to go, and that's why one-on-one is such a roller coaster ride, that depending on the listener, whoever I'm talking to, and whoever I just talked to, will dictate where the conversation goes. I'm,

I fully engaged that one-on-one is what Forrest Gump's mom was talking about. It was, it was chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. You tune in a one-on-one. You never know what you're going to get. You can get books, authors,

you can get religion, you can get faith, you can get comedy. Last time there was a full-on nature walk. Right. Well, Chubbs is a whole, Chubs is a whole thing. And here's the thing that happened today.

So I can, again, down the rabbit hole we go, right? That we've shared that Chubs is the kind of the station squirrel. And but so either Chubbs is talking to his friends or his friends have followed him. And it was like, wait a minute, Chubbs is never hungry. That dude and Chubbs, you're gaining weight, bro. You know where, you know where some food is. And so they follow him. And so this morning,

I put out usual stash, right? And I'll stack them, right? I'll stack them. And so I put some out by the trash can on the patio. And, oh, Chubbs was there. Because Chubbs has a reckless path to eating because he will throw shells everywhere.

He doesn't care. I've seen his scraps. He is, he is. is he is diabolical in it but he had a friend with him today and he let the friend eat which i've seen chubs chase away birds but on my walk in today i'm dropping seeds right here on o street a little bit down the road and these three birds fly down and they walk up to the seeds. Well, it's on a little grass area next to the to the bench down here. So I sit on the bench and I'm just like, oh, so a fourth bird shows up and I'm just, I have them in my

little pouch and I'm dropping seeds. And I'm leading them to the bench. And imagine the, the facial expression of cars and people walking down O Street to see this weird bird man with five birds at his at at his feet eating sunfire seats every city has one right but but i didn't know i was like i didn't know i was the guy i didn't know that was me at the age of 25 you ever see down the road like man i'm going to be the guy on the bench just feeding the birds i'm the scary bird guy right like i'm going to be the guy that one day you're going to see me feeding squirrels i'm fully convinced jubbs going to come in here on one of these episodes. He's just going to walk in.

He's going to be on your shoulder. He's just going to be it. Well, the birds, the birds had no fear. I mean, one, it was five of them, but they didn't have any fear. They were all around my feet, just eating. And when I got up, they kept eating. Like, dude was like, see you later. Like, I fully expected one wing just to pop up and just go, yo, bye, I appreciate you.

So now, and I've known this about me. I know that I end up with way too many relationships with animals because Becky calls me the puppy whisper because it's my jam. And in all these long walks around cities across America, me and the animals kind of reach an agreement that I'm going to be here. There may be some music. There'll probably be some snacks. Definitely going to be some. Right. There'll be some snacks.

But then you have to prepare for it. because if they, if they cross past with me and I don't have seeds, the guilt that I feel as a human, it's palpable. Like I'm, oh, man, dude, I'm so sorry. And they just look at you like, this is a joke, right? Like, I got the kids at home. I told him I was same plan as always. I got to bring some seeds.

Hey, man, like you, this is, we were going to the DP drive-thru, man. What, what, what's the problem? Like, and then, Chubs will follow me from 10th Street to 11th Street. Like he's just like, oh, no, no, no. I know in whatever direction you're going, there's some C. Always. So I'm, and then like the one, you tell him, I'll catch you tomorrow.

And it's like, okay, he'll eat twice. And then I know that Saturday he ate three times because Luke came in and gave him like cookie crumbs. Oh, Jesus. So Chubbs earned him. his name by eating in full. So yes, no matter what you tune in for one-on-one, you never know what you're going to get based on it. It's a busy sports night.

My caps are kicking off. They've already dropped the first puck. They're hosting Carolina in a best of seven series. No score so far. And then the Pacers and Cavs in game two, Pacers taking game one of the series on the road. The Knicks are good. East is shaky. Right out of the gate for round two. Well, all every series.

The West, though, you kind of feel like, ah, these can all go either. But Denver's the four seed, went to the one seed and got a win. Yeah, I get what you're saying. The Knicks are the four seed, went to Boston and got a win. To me, that's much more surprising than anything in the West. The Knicks beating the Celtics, the Cavs, again another younger team i'm not saying that's the wrap on those series i think what the heat even got one on the celtics last year or so i'm not like saying it's over but those still

definitely shocks me the west feels so close and it did right of the playoffs i mean all those teams were like 46 32 heading into it so the seating you know you got one through rate morality the game separation between all those teams outside of okay c it's hardly anything like it's one maybe two games that's most well but it's what we were talking about this weekend i'm not sure that we know this group of eight teams, especially in this vacuum, in this, the condensed, pressurized, higher ceiling, wider reach, fewer mistake conference semifinals paints a different picture. And you have to play different, different players have to play different. Coaches have to coach difference. And we were talking, Bach and I were talking

earlier day. I cringed at the idea of being ahead of Denver by two with under 15 seconds left four different possessions and not letting the clock play out, not being able, as a coach, I want, I have a mission. And that is to give my, to have a lead with a chance to win late. And I don't want to turn it into a multiple possession free throw shooting contest. I can't I'm going to talk about this because okay. See, especially at the end there. They're up by three. You're,

you're, they filed. Well, well, they're up by two. What's the two there? They're up by two on three possessions. And it worked out fine because they made the free throws on the previous

three possessions on possession number four. They missed them both. Doink and doink. Plus. The idea that if I'm setting. up a three point defense, right? If I'm setting up a defense, setting up a defense to defend a three is different than a two or one. That's three different defensive ideologies, three different schemes. And you missed the free throws. You had a one point lead, you had two free throws.

You missed the first one. Okay, so immediately that expands the floor. You have more space because a two also works. A two also works. So you have to defend the whole floor now. The whole offensive end, you don't have to defend it. You missed the second. It's a one-point game, so a bucket beat you. But you have to defend the entire floor. But here's also what happened. It's much more difficult to set up a defensive scheme against a one, two, or three when It's in transition, off a rebound, off a long rebound. They get the rebound outlet. You can't set up your defense and you can't get beat back.

I ask the question that if he misses the first free throw, immediately everybody's at half court. Yeah. Because if he makes it, they got to take it out. They miss it. You need, it is far more important for you to have your defensive scheme set up and people in place than it is for you to compete for a rebound. Right?

Yeah, I mean, especially hindsight being 2020. You got two guys down there and you got someone covering the free throw shooter. All of a sudden you got three guys on the backside of the court. Jamal Murray gets the right. I think it was Murray who ended up picking it up or was the yokechew, whoever it was. I mean, they took off right away from it. They got three guys on the back. They get it.

You get it to Westbrook, Westbrook. Westbrook, again, explosive point guard. Takes off. Doesn't want to shoot it. He just missed another game winning opportunity, game tying opportunity, game winning opportunity. He doesn't want to shoot it. Ah, but there's somebody that does on opposite side of floor,

spacing his offense, offense and space. And because it was off a rebound, you have people that got caught up in the wash and they were underneath the three and now it's three on two and open three. again, open threes versus contested but don't foul threes. Entirely different universes. Plus, you have to defend the bucket first because you're only up by one. The two kills you as well.

If you had said to me, I'm going to have two rebounders, but I'm going to have three defenders at midcourt. Oh, we take away the long outlet pass. I'm going to make you dribble it up. if I can make you dribble it two times, I have an advantage. And I always coached from the belief that I want one, I need,

I would rather have to stop you once than stop you four times. They chose the foul four times. I mean, that's just overcoaching to me. As someone who's never coached, I see those, it's me, it's just, it makes that your opinion just overthinking it when you get to that point in time?

You get caught up in it. To me, if I have a two-point lead and I don't have to, one, you still have to defend the two, right? When you had a three-point lead, because you had a three-point lead, you filed them right away, they get two free throws. You have the one-point lead, and they're going to file you to give you two more free throws. But if I'm up three and I only need. one stop. Now, if I'm up three, I don't have to defend the two. I can one, I can big man the paint

to defend the two. So I'm four out. Literally, I can make them pass around the perimeter of a three with my heels on the three point line in those four places. Yeah. And I need one stop. They turned it in the four possessions and then you missed the two free throws and judge the millionaire it's tough i fell for chat as soon as he got that whistle to you could tell he didn't at least to me it's obviously when you're looking at that but it just felt like he's not going to be there walking a long mile i just i it always pulls me i don't understand when teams are ahead to the desire to extend the game because the analytics say you'll have a higher percentage if you start fouling now and it's like you're just A lot.

Like the nuggets are also playing with the analytics here of doing anything they can to extend the game. So I mean, you're just playing right into their hand there. It was a lot. It was a lot to watch. It was a lot to. And when he missed the first one, I went, oh boy. Oh, boy. Because again, it changes.

It makes you have to spin the wheel and get into new defenses, new schemes, new conversation. And remember, no time out was being called. So you could stop. And Aaron Gordon. was hot. I mean, you didn't know he was going to be the guy to take the shot. But he, I mean, is he one of the most underrated players? Because he's great with Yokich, but I mean,

the dunk contest part of him never left. He is still one of the best finishers in the game right now. Well, but I mean, you're playing with Joker. You have the best passing big man. You have I mean, if you're defending Denver in a critical possession, I'm

doubling Joker and hopefully somebody else. Ideally, I'm doubling off Westbrook, right? Or at least playing under Westbrook. If I keep him in front of me, I have a shot. Yeah, you're just trying to help him force an error. He's a great open three shooter.

He is not a great contested three shooter. So, but at this level, at this time of year, there are no easy outs in any possession. I mean, just asked Jared Brunson. He got the perfect look, great cutter, got it to the glass, spun out. spun out and he was standing there reassessing some things right Celtics cross court pass on the wing tied up you imagine can you imagine having the ball thrown to you play drawn up you on the wing the ball's delivered somebody takes it from me i mean literally grabs it from

you gut wrench that's worse than uh russell westbro ripping it from Chris Dunn and getting the technical versus the Clippers because that was the trade too. I think people like Clippers got rid of Russell Westbrook for Chris Dunn and at the end there Russell Westman says you know what Chris Dunn this is what I think about that trade

rips it away in that game seven I get the game was over at that point but give me I just I think everybody's a fan of Russell Westberg at this point in his career it's hard not to refer a guy that plays that hard he deserves highlights. Yeah it's a weird it's a weird vacuum for for Russell

Westbrook over who likes him who doesn't like him. It's a weird thing about the NBA. Not the news to our guy, Haas, but, you know, the Laker fans in particular, I had so much beef with Russ, and I'm like, you know what? You're not really doing a lot

to help Russell Westbrook out at all on this roster. Laker fans haven't liked anybody, really, that matter. They love Austin Reeves. They loved who's headband dude. Caruso. Yeah, Alex Caruso. It's weird who Laker fans,

like they like the dudes who can. help them win titles, but they hate the guys who can help them. Like they yelled at Dwight Howard. They yelled it. They hated Dwight Howard. They hated anybody that came along. All the guys that were chased out of L.A., they hated them. Well, the Mickey Mouse title.

I mean, Dwight Howard, say what you will about him. Javel McGee, say what you will. Alex Caruso. I get another role player, and they fell in love with ACs. He can't put him in that group. But Dwight Howard, DeWelle McGee were massive in that playoff run. And then Anthony Davis as well, I mean, you are, nowhere near winning that. That was a, the best run, Anthony Davis had this entire career was that

COVID finals run. And he was phenomenal in a lot of those games. He hated him. Yeah. And then they got, listen, chased out. You're a generational seven footer. And you got chased out. Nobody chases a big like L.A. No, but I, but that's the, that's my real problem with L.A. right come on you never satisfied and the way they can complain about Celtics fans they've become self-ex fans yeah they're the same i also if you go to like any of the red at leakers right it's a lot of yannis to the lakers i mean that's starting out like literally but they get in this vacuum of talking to each other and they expect everybody else to go along with it because they're in there just it's all of your miserable friends in one place.

Like it's a party and your visible friend is having them, having, so do you know that you answer to the riddle? He said, if you call a black person and ask them to come to a party what their first question is, do you know the answer? No, I got no idea.

Who all is going to be over there? Because I'm not coming if it's just a bunch of complaining people and a bunch of people with toxic. No, I'm not doing it. So a black person invites you to a party. The first thing you asked, who all was going to be there? Because they may not out be for you. They may not all be for you.

Write that down. Right. Hey, write it down. I'm here to help. We'll go to break. We'll come back more one-on-one here on the ticket. You're listening to One-on-One with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 937,

The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. I'm going to keep explaining it to you. You never know what you. going to get out one-on-one you never so when i was in utah i used to do a segment every day of criminals are dumb criminals are dumb and it was popular because people would send me stories oh yeah people love doing that's why that's a you know right fortunate hit in the newspaper but everybody reads that well we could start it for one-on-one and just have people send it we'll give a prize to whoever sends the best story oh okay i like right like we just make it a final segment uh in the

five the you know whatever the five minute segment but because we're here here. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to introduce you to someone. I will let me introduce you to Gordon Pierce the third. Okay. What's the headline of this thing? Gordon Pierce the third. Now, he's the third. That means there's two others. There's two others. All right, Casey. Okay. Hello. So Kansas man allegedly stole.

rare, historic, 800-pound cannon from the park. His reason? Drug money. He needed money. And so the story goes that Pierce told Wichita Police officers that he believed his life was in danger after a drug dealer claimed Pierce owed him money, leading him to steal the cannon for said money. report states that Pierce told police he went searching for copper statutes to steal to make money to pay back the dealer found the 800 pound cannon on the morning of april second i found the cannon i can't believe this is the object he found an 800 pound cannon didn't belong anybody was just sitting there was just sitting there pierce allegedly told the officers he had been a meth user for 20 years

We're all shocked by that. Went to the drug dealer who gave him a pound of meth. Now, write your own story there. Right. That's crazy. Okay. The story goes on. But he said after he gave him the meth, he was not comfortable with that amount because

it's a pound of meth and he wouldn't be able to use it or sell it. He told him someone attacked him and stole the meth. We'll get back to that later. I promise you. But the dealer did not believe him and wanted his $20,000 back or bad things would happen. Pierce told police he saw a home, he saw a homeless man in a nearby pavilion and offered them in meth in a pipe in exchange for helping him, uh, chain the cannon. Now remember, he had just told them that somebody stole the meth.

But he had meth. Okay. the homeless man agreed to help him and then the two smoked back together at the park before attempting to steal the cannon. Due to the weight of the cannon, police tipsters told police that he and the homeless man were unable to load the cannon into his Chevy Tahoe. Of course, it was 800 pounds. Of course it's the Chevy Tahoe. It had to be a Chevy Tahoe. It absolutely, he says, we tried to pull the candy.

with the SUV, but the chain kept breaking. He then told him he left the cannon, drove to a nearby friend's house to borrow a chainsaw, a new chain or saw. Friend declined to help, but he dragged, him and his

friend were able to drag it to the friend's house and stored inside of his garage. Now, imagine what kind of neighbor you have to be to allow somebody to bring a stolen 800 pound cannon to your garage. I just like the thought process of being like, I'm not stupid. I'm not going out there, but you can store it.

You can place it here. Brough. Brough. Okay. Like halfway there. You were almost there to make a good decision. He told police that over the next hour hours, he used the saw to cut the cannon into four or five pieces,

which he placed in his Tahoe, leaving the largest piece of the cannon in the garage. Yeah, if David St. St. Pierce told police he took the cannon pieces to his drug dealer to show him that he was working in good faith to get the money. Oh, but the drug dealer called Pierce stupid telling him, bad things are going to happen and get out of my house.

Drug dealer also reportedly told Pierce, I'm going to get you the next time I see you. Pierce told police the threat made him feel helpless again after dragging an 800 pound cannon. And he went to his mother's house to explain what happened. You're involving your mom now. He's 37, by the way. he went to he went to his mom's out he doesn't love the cannon pieces at that time

hey mom he got a story to tell um he allegedly told police he chose the cannon because it was in a dark area and the text said Pierce did not have a plan to sell the cannon pieces since he did not have an ID which is typically required

to sell scrap materials I mean I think it's pretty obvious when he brings the canons to the dealer itself I can't believe the part where he's like, I'm trying. Look at the canton pieces. Where are you going to sell a cannon, bro? I think he was hoping that the dealer would know a guy or that maybe even his mom would know someone who's looking for Gator.

Mom would know how to. He's a locking those things around everywhere. Oh, bro. He said that they found, police were able to track Pierce from the indentations in the road that were caused by Pierce dragging the air. dragging the 800-pound cannon to his friend's house. They found a baggie of crystal meth, which he identified as meth.

He remains in jail and charges of theft, property, aggravated, criminal damage, property and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond has said it $200,000, which we know he doesn't have. He also waived his hearing and set for arraignment, because, again, he does not want to be on the show. streets. The cannon was gifted to the city in 1900 and is a priceless fixture in our community. The swift investigation shows the dedication to hold individuals responsible when they victimize our community. A 125-year-old cannon, 800-pound cannon, cut into five pieces.

You got nothing for it except for arraignment. Wow. Sir, sir. I wonder how bad those incitations were on the road, too. 800 pounds, man. Like, you're at the man, pulling out to the guy's driveway, and there's just a clear. There's a path. And you're like, no, they won't.

They won't connect the ties here. And you're the guy whose house it is. He's got to have a ton of charisma. I'll give him that much. I mean, he's moving 800 pounds of a cannon. And he, he convinced his buddy to stop there. He's getting chains. he convinced the random homeless guy with just the you know i'm having a hard time believing he also

got rob for that pound considering he just seems to always have some they they stole they still all that i didn't say it was all of it it was it's amazing what what what we do uh again easy on the we there hey i never of my life have i thought about richard historical landmark i just the headline was spectacular and I had to share the headline. The best part was the idea of copper statues beforehand. I was telling you, I don't know what it is about copper. And just like, I encourage those guys, you know, if you're in that situation, just look at metal prices before you pick the statue.

You'd be surprised that he was using his phone to figure out how much copper was worth by the pound. He's a creative guy. He could have figured it out. Harrison. You know, public library, stuff. You didn't have an ID. You can't go. What are you going to do?

You can't check out books. You can go to read, but you can't check them out. Yeah, copper. I just don't know what it is about copper. Harrison, go to your phone and tell me what the weight, what's the value of a pound of copper? Like, what's that worth? Right now today, not bad.

You can make about five bucks, 477 for a pound. So if you got 800, let's figure that out. $40,000, $32,000. Between $32,000. Yeah, $4,000. So $4,000 for $800.

No. Yeah, wow. Bro, that was a bad idea. $4,000 for all that way. You're not even going to get the money. That was a bad idea. So again, copper. I think 800 pounds of it.

You're still not going to get that number you need. Just just not that. That's stuff that like we used to do back the day is kids. we'd go strip wire for copper thinking that was a lucrative thing and you know at the age of 10 we figured out you don't make a whole lot of money doing this i i made spending money collecting coke bottles for a penny a piece or three cents each aluminum cans you had to collect like a bag to have enough to get a slurpy bro yeah all right harrison yeah we'll give we'll give we'll give we'll give we'll give NBA and NHL updates when we come back to one on one you're listening to one

one with DP sponsored by Mary Ellen's food for the soul on 93 7 the ticket and the ticket FM.com the cabs are off to a good start and trying to even this thing out they were up big now they're up 13 in the first period second period caps and Keynes goes to the first intermission that's going to be a full night of course you get to see golden state and minnesota tonight you get to see uh i'm i'm intrigued play off jimmy buckets versus aunt wrong mic on there a lot history between that one too right because uh minnesota passed on step curry twice i don't know how much he really thinks about that but they got ricky rubio and i can't remember the other guy is that he's not even in the league

anymore. They passed on Curry twice. Jimmy Butler, he was the Timberwolf for a time. You could argue he burned a bridge of there or left on his own terms. Either way, no longer a Timberwolf. And then he got Anthony Edwards, who's quite literally, his whole thing is just taking names right now with Kevin Durant. Who's they have in the first series? I'm blanking on it now. Well, but, Steph Curry. But here's, this is the thing. So they got the Lakers, right? He brings up. Yeah, Lakers. Right? And so Hawson sends the LeBron, Randy Orton legend killer meme and I'm like aunt is not a legend he hasn't earned it yet I love Anthony Edwards but you look at all their series as well he he isn't dominating those games

he's having great moments but he he's not dominating those since when do you become a legend you have money what are we talking about like what are we what are we even talking about rising star that's what we're talking about yeah like I mean say that but legend yeah no Man, you, you were giving away to, you're giving away the goods. You know, I mean, we had this conversation decades ago. We had it about Barkley. We had it about Alan Iverson. And Iverson, you know, he was the answer.

And you said, okay, at least let him get to a championship. He never wanted, he got to the championship. But he took that Sixers team with Eric Snow and company and took them to a finals against the Lakers. That was legendary. Never got off the strap. Um, Sixers with Barclay, same deal. He goes to Houston, Phoenix, same deal. You're not a legend just because you're playing well.

You have to do more. And I don't like, Ha, stop it. He's not a legend. Stop doing it. So, you know, and I don't know, would it be a surprise if they beat Golden State? Nothing to me. They're the higher seat. Yeah, the seats to me.

Like, again, I always go back to it. Like, there's just, no, there's not. enough separation for me to being like, well, the seeds right here are. I don't feel good about going with a higher seed in any of these series. Even the OKC Thunder. Like the Thunder by far in a way had the best win-loss total, but you see this with the younger teams all the time, they take their lumps and bruises,

and then they finally break through. How many times do the Celtics get to the Eastern Conference finals before it finally happened, despite them dominating the East year and year-out, they hit a wall and, you know, that Nuggets game, the Nuggets stealing one at home already, it's,

makes you hold your breath a little bit if you're a thunder fan who's the team to beat in the west this team the beats to me still the Celtics in the west it's I could not tell you that we would not be surprised by anybody winning it and we wouldn't be surprised by anybody not winning the only thing I'm going to be surprised by

is the Celtics not making the finals that's it otherwise yeah the West like because even if I you know the want to go to the easy answer whoever the nuggets because they got the best player in the world right now but then you go look at the Timberwolves. They're specifically designed to beat the Denver Nuggets, and they proved that last year.

So if it's a Nuggets, Timberwolves in the Western Conference Finals, then I'm thinking Timberwolves. Cleveland's number one seed. Cleveland got a big, it's in a point game now. Indiana was like, oh, I guess we're playing for keeps. I guess we need to cut this into pieces here.

Yeah, they just said to remote. That's pacer's pace to play. When they start firing off on all cylinders, I mean, it's... They cut the cannon. They cut the cannon into pieces. They cut the cannon into pieces. She was.

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