Club Shay Shay - 520 In The Morning - Jeff Teague on Knicks FIRING Tom Thibodeau, Thunder road to NBA Finals: Grizzlies, Nuggets & Wolves

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

On the Wednesday, June 4 episode of 520 in the Morning, Jeff Teague, DJ Wells, and B Hen look back on NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder's road to reaching an NBA Finals. SG...A and OKC swept Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies before facing the former champion Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets in the second round. After getting taken to seven games by the former league MVP, the Thunder beat Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves in 54 games. Plus, get Jeff's insight on the New York Knicks firing head coach Tom Thibodeau and what he thinks of the move, despite the Knicks making their first Eastern Conference Final in 25 years. 0:00 - Shout out Boost Mobile2:00 - Knicks fire Tom Thibodeau10:00 - Jeff's take on Thibs13:30 - Next coach for Knicks?15:00 - Michael Irvin17:30 - What's harder: NFL or NBA?28:00 - Giannis to Knicks?40:00 - Thunder road to the NBA Finals45:30 - Jokic needs help in Denver49:00 - Hoopin like Draymond?!51:30 - Zaire in the NBA53:00 - Summer runs55:00 - OKC vs. Pacers preview01:03:00 - Lakers, go get Mitchell Robinson01:04:30 - WNBA scores01:06:45 - MLB recap01:08:00 - Enhanced Olympics?! #Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:01:41 Good morning. Happy Wednesdays. 5.20 in the morning, your favorite sports show brought to you by Boost Mobile. You see the new sign behind us, we leveling up for show. We got a full house this morning. We got Mook, we got Teeb, Bishop. How y'all feeling this morning, man? What up, bro? What up?
Starting point is 00:01:56 Hey man, they wanna say, my two co-hosts on my left and right, man, they say y'all the reason why Teeb's on unemployment right now, man. Twitter went crazy on me. I'm sorry, New York, but it was Tom. We didn't want it to happen, but I mean, you know, shout out to my inside plug. I knew it, I just didn't want to give it away, man.
Starting point is 00:02:15 God bless Tibbs and his family, though. He's traveling good, bro. That's what I'm saying, man, he cool. Just bring Mike along in there. Tibbs about to see 30 million. Yeah, unless you've been living under a rock in the basketball world, you you've been living under a rock in the basketball world, you have found out
Starting point is 00:02:27 that Tom Thibodeau has relieved of his job duties. Yesterday, excuse me, yesterday by the New York Knicks, man, after one of their best seasons in a very long time period, five seasons with the Knicks, Tibbs went 22 and 174, almost 600, and listen, the New York Knicks were not that relevant before Tibbs got that back cracking for sure, man. How y'all feel about that just off the dribble?
Starting point is 00:02:48 Tibbs getting let go after that season. Did we see this coming? Did we think it was gonna happen? I mean, I get it, cause he's stuck in his ways, but it's like, at this point, what do you gotta do to remain a head coach in the NBA, bro? Nah, facts. Like, what do you have to do? He's winning, he turnt y'all back up, it's either championship or the NBA, bro. Nah, facts. Hey, what do you have to do?
Starting point is 00:03:05 He's winning. He turned y'all back up. It's either championship or you fired, bro. So do this mean Joe Mazzullo, if they don't win next year, he gonna get fired? Damn near. This is crazy, bro. I mean, like his predecessor,
Starting point is 00:03:16 see what happened with NBA, I know that was a different situation, but. I'm just saying, bro, everybody can't win every year, bro. Nah, it's just they want a younger coach. He's just not adapting with the times and tips is cool. Y'all know he one of my favorite. He's probably my favorite coach.
Starting point is 00:03:32 He's the coolest coach I ever had really. But he's just not adapting with the times and everybody's seeing how these new young coaches are playing and their team is exciting. Even though Rick Carlisle is an older coach, but he got them playing a younger style. And you can tell he listened to Lloyd Pierce and all his assistants.
Starting point is 00:03:49 You can tell that they got some influence on how Rick plays and how he coaches. And that's all they want for New York. TIBS is like a one man band. They pretty much do everything. He do all the scouts. He run, he don't let nobody control the offense. He controls the offense.
Starting point is 00:04:05 And it's a boring style of play. And with all those scoring pieces that they got, like they looked at Mike L. Bridges as a scorer because he averaged 20 in Brooklyn. They pay OG to max, so they expect him to get big numbers. And Jalen Brunson is the guy. And if they don't see like they flowing a little bit in the offense, they like, we got to try something different
Starting point is 00:04:23 because we paid all this money. And they can't really trade nobody. No, that's one thing I think a lot of in the offense, they like, we gotta try something different because we paid all this money and they can't really trade nobody. No, that's one thing I think a lot of people are like, all right, Tibbs, whatever, but what's up with Leon Rose? Because you traded five first-round picks from Mikael Bridges. Like, you put this roster together knowing that Tibbs is your coach.
Starting point is 00:04:38 But they thought it was just gonna work out, bro. They super, super top-heavy, man, talented, so I don't think they thought it was gonna go like this. They had a good year though, shit. That's my thing, it's not like I lost in the first and second round. Y'all made it to the conference finals. I was about to say go like what?
Starting point is 00:04:53 Cause nobody thought they was about to win the chip anyway. I mean, I think people thought they had a chance to win. I do too. I think they built that team for the Celtics though. I never thought the Knicks was gonna win. I thought they built New York Knicks for the Celtics though, bro. That's literally what they made that team for the Celtics though. I never thought the Nicks was gonna win. I thought they built New York Nicks for the Celtics though bro. That's literally what they made that team for.
Starting point is 00:05:09 Nah they did but I just didn't see it as they could beat them still. I didn't see it that way. That team was literally made for the Celtics. Oh, cause I was about to say shit. I thought they over achieved bro. They just didn't match up with each other. Yeah, I was gonna say if Porzingis didn't have the bird flu
Starting point is 00:05:20 bro it might have been a different case. It's like they over achieved bro. It's literally why they made that team. It's crazy. I'm kidding. It's crazy you said that. It's literally why they made that team. It's crazy you said that. That's literally why they made that team. It's just from the looks of it. Shit, like the big ass wings, like the match there. Yeah, of course, they did make it for that.
Starting point is 00:05:34 Yeah, some of my guys that be in New York work around the team, they told me we literally made this team for the Celtics. Oh damn, well yeah, there it is now. And they beat the Celtics. Why am I fired?, there it is now. And they beat the Celtics. So why am I fired? I did what y'all wanted me to do. But they didn't say y'all supposed to lose to Indiana.
Starting point is 00:05:51 That wasn't part of the recipe. Well they know they are sons, they ain't had no choice but to take that L. So every time I go somewhere in the playoffs, we send y'all home, they know the vibes. But the funny part about it is, same shit happened last year with Kat again. They built that Minnesota team to beat Denver.
Starting point is 00:06:07 And then they got to Dallas, got up out of here, and now Cat's in New York. They just didn't match up well with the Pacers, bro. Nah, the Pacers. Cat again, it's all this cat fault, bro. This is crazy. See, the Pacers are. The video they got of Cat is crazy going around, too.
Starting point is 00:06:19 The Pacers are. Insane. The Pacers are more like a quicker, faster version of the Celtics. Like you can key in on the Celtics. Like you know Jason Tatum getting the ball, you know Jaylen Brown getting the ball. And they gonna get it at some point and they're gonna ice on you.
Starting point is 00:06:35 So Michael Bridges, Josh Hart, and Inobi match up well with them. Them little quick fast guards that the Indiana got, they ain't all physical, they use finesse and speed. That ain't a good match up for them. Them little quick fast guards that the Indiana got, they ain't all physical, they use finesse and speed, that ain't a good matchup for them. Like you got Mike Hill Bridges running around here chasing Tyrese Holliburton, he wasn't built for that. He was built to bang with Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown
Starting point is 00:06:59 who gonna play this isolation ball. Tyrese running around like a little kid. You know what I mean? That's just what it made for that. That wasn't the team for that at all. Hey, I mean, should they beat the Southerners? They match their will with the Southerners. They do them patient.
Starting point is 00:07:13 They ran them out the gym, bro. Yeah. Man, it's just crazy. You know what I'm saying? Anytime you get that, oh, he's our guy, he's good. You know, something's coming. They just said, nah, he's good, great season. 24 hours later, fuck out of town
Starting point is 00:07:26 I don't know like I don't know who they're gonna hire. Would you hire though? I've seen some of the names I thought out there. I think one of the theories I'm reading into is Johnny Brad We talked about him being a finalist for the Sun's head coach job Maybe they had to move a little bit quicker because you know, he might be off the market soon The best the guy they won't expect like you said going younger. Maybe that's one I've seen Mike Malone We talked about that as a possibility. I like that Jay, right? I think to me is a reach I don't know how y'all feel about that. Where Mark Jackson at me. I'm not with no college coaches moving up I'm not with that move. This is two different games, bro
Starting point is 00:08:00 College and the NBA is I think the only one that's as a late that did well was Brad Stevens maybe. Billy Donovan. Billy Donovan it was. Billy Donovan, yep, Billy Donovan did. That's just a two different battles bro, I'm telling you. Yeah, well I mean yeah, I mean you got out of the business, I'm not gonna say this is why J. Wright got out
Starting point is 00:08:19 of the business but he left when it was time to start paying people. He didn't want to deal with it. Yeah, but you think you about to go to the NBA, they get paid. Yeah, and their attitudes are worse. You're about to yell at them like, You can't yell at them, you can't control them.
Starting point is 00:08:32 It's not gonna happen. Yeah, like even though if you coach the Knicks and all your guys are Villanova guys, the moment you start saying, hey, you better get your ass back, hey man. Yeah, you a little homie, you a little homie now. Cal said I would never coach an NBA again because he wanted to control it more.
Starting point is 00:08:49 Can't do that in the NBA room. Yeah, Cal came in the NBA at a bad time. Who he coached the Nets? Yeah. They was all crass. They was gonna whoop his ass. Whoop him, bro. That's that matching Derrick Hurley coming in
Starting point is 00:09:01 to that Knicks locker room. Ah, damn Hurley, boy. He get to yelling and doing all that crazy shit. That Hurley might be with the shits. I think he might be hard. Elbow him on the top of his head, man. What did the dress free will do? Man, he's gonna be part two.
Starting point is 00:09:16 That moment he called. The moment he mother effed my person, boy. You mother effing. Get your stupid ass out my gym. We be open. Man, he get elbow on top of his head. He be fired in the morning. Mr. Roberts is gonna pile drop that nigga so he talking about getting back.
Starting point is 00:09:32 Oh man. Is there, M.A. Udoka as a potential coach? Yeah, they said they was gonna try to reach out to M.A. J. Kidd as well. But they not gonna get a chance to speak to them. I'm about to say he coaches another team. I know they gonna ask for interviewing but he ain't getting there.
Starting point is 00:09:50 I know inmate shit, I know the Knicks probably can offer a lot more money than whatever he got from Houston, I'm pretty sure, but the Houston Rockets ain't gonna let him out that contract after the season they just had. And also the pressure in New York, like y'all ain't won a championship in how long? So y'all coach get to Eastern Conference Falls
Starting point is 00:10:05 and I get fired? I don't want that job. Nah, MA built for that job. Yeah. If there's one coach that's built for New York, it's MA. He can get it done. Yeah, he probably the best coach in the league. I ain't gonna lie.
Starting point is 00:10:18 And they'll be cold. Yeah. He'll turn them up. And he gonna make you guard and he gonna hold you accountable. He don't play none of that. He probably the best coach in the league. I ain't gonna lie. Okay. He's the best up. And he gonna make you guard, and he gonna hold you accountable. He don't play none of that. He probably the best coach in the league, I ain't gonna lie.
Starting point is 00:10:26 Okay. You're the best coach? Yeah. We definitely want him. The proof is in the pudding so far too. I don't know who's a better coach. Everywhere he go, that team turn up. When he was in Brooklyn, he was just the assistant.
Starting point is 00:10:38 That was time. He get the head coaching job in Boston. All of a sudden they had Brad. It went to a different level with M.A. Houston Rockets was some shit. Pieces of shit. Number two seed in the west. He come from under Pop though, so he know some shit bro.
Starting point is 00:10:55 Yeah, he. I ain't mad at that. Like yeah, M.A. making seven million a year, and Tibbs making 11. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, please. And the dope part about Tibbs was his 11. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:05 Please. And the dope part about Tibbs was his extension kicked in this year. Yeah. So next year, excuse me. So that's fire. Yeah, he get 30, they owe 30 million. Free 30.
Starting point is 00:11:14 Paperwise, Tibbs straight. Aw, he been straight. But to me, I think, just hearing you talk about him so much, bro, he loved basketball so much. What the fuck? That's all I want. Come to Nat, be an assistant coach for two years
Starting point is 00:11:25 and take a head coaching job again, bro. Cause he loves it. Yeah, bro talk about him all the time. Like he's sleeping at office, so. You see him in the booths, got the square window, he be in that shit all day. Two in the morning he be in there. Yeah I used to come shoot at like 1.30, two in the morning
Starting point is 00:11:40 he be coming out of the office. Like hey, what are you doing in here? I'm like what the fuck are you doing here? I mean, we just, look, this is a minute ago. It's me, John Lucas, and we went to a young Thug concert, and Thug, it was J. Cole, but Thug, I think Thug might have been out. I can't remember who the concert was,
Starting point is 00:11:57 but we all ended up going back to the gym and shooting and shit, and Thug and all them was shooting. Guess who come creeping out that mother fucker office? Here come tibs. We like, ah shit, what's up boy? What's going on? Like that, that's all right. These niggas ain't on my team.
Starting point is 00:12:15 Yeah, they rappers, bruh, they rappers. Like you know what I mean, like they rappers. He was like, oh, hey, walk back in his office. See what I'm saying? So what is that man about to do, bro? He gonna be pissed at the crew. I think what they should have did, man, is just me being real. Obviously, Tibbs and Leon Rowe,
Starting point is 00:12:33 he's been his agent forever. All them, they like a big family over there. They should have just told Tibbs, hey man, we gonna put you in the front office. You gonna be like, like Brad Stevens did. Like Brad was like, shit, maybe I'm just not the voice for this team. We gotta pull somebody else in here
Starting point is 00:12:46 that can get the best out of them. They should've just did that with Tibbs. Like Tibbs man, we rock with you. They just might need a new voice. We're gonna pull you up to the front office. You're still gonna get your 30 million, but just be an executive for us. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:12:58 I don't think Tibbs wanna do that either. Yeah, but shit. But yeah, you gotta get your ass on. So, I don't wanna come through. That's probably his last coaching job, right? Head coaching job, you think so? Yeah, that's probably his last one. That's fucked up.
Starting point is 00:13:09 If my last head coaching job, bro, I would've said Eastern Conference Finals, bro. We had a great year. We went out good, bro. It's just, he just, it's a new wave, man. It's like, even coaching high school basketball, kids and young men are different, bro. Like, they not used to you.
Starting point is 00:13:25 Like even though Tibbs, he not a hard coach. He don't do nothing hard. Like he don't, like he's not confrontational at all. Like if you be like, man, get off that. He'd be like, hey man, come on man. Come on, all you gonna say is come on, come on. He not gonna argue with you back, he ain't gonna mother eff you, none of that.
Starting point is 00:13:42 He not that kind, but he's not personable. Like, it's hard to have a real, yeah, like I got a relationship with Tiz because I joke all day and I go in his office and but he not gonna be cool with everybody. Like if you the 10th man on the bench, he probably don't talk to you. He probably. These new kids need to, you gotta love on them pause,
Starting point is 00:14:03 like you gotta really embrace the personality. But then the difference is you got a team like the Pacers where you got 10 people that play and they all hugging Rick Carlisle. Or they all super cool with the assistants and everybody look like they just want- It's Moe Baker, he over there. He got a relationship with them kids too.
Starting point is 00:14:21 It looked like they just having a great time. Yeah. A lot of people say this could be potentially for the Knicks. and kids too, so. It looked like they just having a great time, so. A lot of people say this could be potentially for the Knicks. You know, Steve Curry from Mark Jackson moment. But it could also go worse. I'm not just saying you're gonna upgrade. Cause we all saying get Mike Malone, but shit. People didn't like Mike Malone in Denver.
Starting point is 00:14:43 In Denver, like. Yeah, and like you said too. People didn't like Mike Malone in Denver. In Denver, like. Yeah, and like you said, they said some of the players were in favor of moving off in the situation. They said some people didn't know their role, quote unquote. Hey, I see Mike Malone say, all right, the joke is cool, but everybody else get it off the mud. Yeah. It ain't gonna be a sweet transition
Starting point is 00:14:58 if they go in that direction. The grass ain't always green in New York. Y'all had a hell of a season. Yeah, I think y'all should get like some new young blood in there though. I don I think y'all should get some new young blood in there though. I don't think y'all should go with a veteran coach like that.
Starting point is 00:15:08 Unless you gonna get MAU Duc. Unless you gonna get Jason Kidd who proven how to play with these guys. Jalen Brunson played for him already. So he know how to get the most out of Jalen Brunson. He was killing out there. Unless you gonna get one of them too, scratch everybody else, get some new young blood.
Starting point is 00:15:25 This is Johnny Bryant, fuck it. I mean, y'all season might get worse, but shit. You ain't gotta pay him that much because you paying tips, 30, probably Johnny Bryant, four million a year. Probably less than that, he'll take a chance. You know what I mean? If you taking that route.
Starting point is 00:15:41 Yeah, and we'll talk about some of the roster things that they're looking into as well, but like like you said ain't no point in doing all those roster changes if you got a coach training a player. Yeah but I'm just thinking like he's still old Tiff's 30 million I pay another coach 10 million too I mean shit I know it's New York money ain't nothing to them but shit. Yeah it's all come from the Jayler Bronson savings account. Yeah. Shout out to him for sure. Listen, the NBA finals are almost here,
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Starting point is 00:20:52 We got a video? Aw yeah. Aw yeah. Ain't even no sound on and I know he wildin'. Why he got a belly ring, bruh? Look at this. Vin Diesel said, I knew I'd come a long way from home, but this just been failed.
Starting point is 00:21:10 Wait, what does he got? Catch this. Marco Urban, man, he got a belly button ring. Y'all might be right about football. I might pull Bobby from football. Bobby might have to go golf. We saw the CT right there in that video. It is present for sure. That is insane, bro.
Starting point is 00:21:33 Yeah, I'm glad you brought up football, because people was really writing me like, you stupid, you don't know the X's and O's of football. Oh, they was really mad at you. I'm like, bro, the whole point, we weren't talking about that you don't know the X's and O's. I'm just saying, if you just played football, we know that it takes skill and you gotta have a good memory
Starting point is 00:21:50 and remember plays and shit. But if I tell somebody, hey, I'm gonna give you the ball and they're gonna do their job, they're gonna block right here, I just need you to run directly through that hole and don't do anything else, just run, you can do it. through that hole and don't don't do anything else just run you can do it you can't run straight then you got real problems you can't you only play you only deploy okay that's a drill I get it
Starting point is 00:22:17 nah I've seen that you don't feel game you dumb as hell if you if everybody's out here just run there. No in the game Are moving bro. Yeah, you have to have some type of IQ to get to Yeah, that's what it's supposed to be I'm like everybody job like you get paid to do the play I'm saying like very standard school. That's bro. He had to adapt bro. Yeah they were sad. That's why he retired early. He had to run for his life every play. Cause they line wasn't doing their job.
Starting point is 00:22:48 A real online Barry would have been in basketball time. So to his point, to Barry Sanders bro, I had to have some type of IQ. To not die. Right, literally though. You think you gotta have a high IQ to drive? To drive a car? Damn near bro. We found No this morning
Starting point is 00:23:10 No, you don't It's a lot of people who drive cars that don't go high attention bro, that's all I'm saying Instinct muscle that's all instincts, but you don't want to get hit It's like you just said over 100 miles per hour. Yeah, 100 miles per hour baseball can what you gonna do? I don't think you're gonna say Listen a fly come by your ear right now, what you gonna do? I'm used to flies. They're homies, not flies. I'll tell that to my childhood.
Starting point is 00:23:50 Not that homies. All right, I was about to say something that's gonna get us cancer. If you get down to rich, you can die on the ball. I was about to say something so crazy. I just don't like how y'all speak on football. I'm not disrespecting football. Those people's probably ODing your DMs or whatever,
Starting point is 00:24:06 but I just think y'all disrespecting the show. How? Because all y'all basically saying, listen bro, those playbooks bro be this big. We not saying, that's what I'm saying. We get that part, you gotta remember that place, but you only gotta remember. Listen, all you gotta do is remember your job.
Starting point is 00:24:23 Like in basketball, you can't, there's no disrespect, but yo job like in basketball you can't there's no disrespect But yo both ends and you gotta you can't have a job in basketball like Somebody fall and trip or whatever in a basketball game or like say we about to go do a huddle They get to the line that can see what's about to happen. Like oh shit. Nah. Nah, he blitzing. He blitzing Nah, nah switch the package blah blah blah. You can't do that in basketball. The ball go up in the air, if a dude just start running at me and my teammate just keep running, it's a wrap. I can't switch the package.
Starting point is 00:24:52 You might have to guard any player, you don't have like, that's why I'm playing, y'all is too fast, bro. You switched too fast. You running down a court, you gotta match up with a six-fotted. Force the offense and defense that fast, bro. They get to stop every play reset call to play He blitzing. Yeah, it's no disrespect, but I'm just crazy coming from YouTube. It's easier to control It's easier to control
Starting point is 00:25:17 Think about it was actually You it be the crash no, no, it's cuz he is head to me time Ball I'm saying And football is the definition of just do your job. He's making our point. He's one of the coldest, bro. He's an idiot. Come on, bro. Shout out to Michael Irving, man. What I'm saying, football is the definition of just do your job. So is basketball, bro.
Starting point is 00:25:55 No, it is, bro. You're not like Rose, nigga. Patrick Beverly, bro, just lock up, bro. Just do this. Okay, all right, my point exactly. Patrick Beverly, just lock up. Just lock up, do your job. All right. My point exactly Patrick Beverly. Just lock up We're gonna trap James Harden. Patrick Beverly your job wouldn't to shoot but now you gotta shoot
Starting point is 00:26:13 You gotta shoot No, your role change in football. It never it never changes and run back would never go So what you're playing quarterback? Yeah, it never changes You never gotta be the go-to guy if you Marshawn Lynch listen Russell Wilson gonna hand you that ball He ain't gonna ever say hey, we're gonna switch. I'm gonna hand it to you Russell. That's never gonna happen never All right, but we gotta leave this alone man a super check Like yeah, I'm saying no disrespect with all the disrespect how am I just saying you got football So easy just to put it out there. No, no, no I'm not saying easy I'm not playing I'm not playing no football very difficult I just say are you all you got to do is
Starting point is 00:26:54 be but it's not as hard as basketball all you got to do is be crazy enough to play football yeah look look at the group chat. Football, I see ball, get ball. Literally. That's your burner count. We gotta find them. Yeah, that's y'all fucking around. No, but that's what they tell defensive players. That's literally what they tell defensive players.
Starting point is 00:27:16 See ball, go get the ball. Literally. So all it need to be is a little crazy enough to like, I run through that wall, I hit somebody, I don't care about hurting nobody. Literally, I heard kids say, I only like doing Oklahoma drill because I want to run into people.
Starting point is 00:27:30 I said, I don't want to do that. I don't want to do that. Even Zayar said that. So if you're sad at football, you're just really a piece of shit. You saw. If you're sad, you saw. Pretty much.
Starting point is 00:27:40 I'm gonna play football, bro. That's pretty much. That's why I be sad. Cause I'm not running. I'm telling y'all, a motherfucker running straight at me, I'm moving out the way. Listen Chad, don't go in on my guys, man. Stay out of my guys' dealings, man.
Starting point is 00:27:54 They just being mad. So I've never said that football, y'all way tougher players than basketball players. 1000%. I've never said y'all wasn't tough. Yeah, there my trench babies out there. Yeah, like the fact that y'all wanna go hit each each other cool. Yeah, y'all way tougher than basketball Never said that wasn't the case, but
Starting point is 00:28:12 All I need to find a couple tough motherfuckers that can run hard and I'll be art You have to be highly skilled to play football, bro certain positions like I promise you bro Like I'm letting y'all get your shit up. Y'all getting wild. Bro, they got a position called athlete. I understand. That's your position. That's the badge I'm at. Athlete.
Starting point is 00:28:33 That's motherfuckers just saying go be an athlete. I just think y'all disrespecting people like Randy Moss. No. He's a champ Bailey bro. No we not. Like. We not. Listen y'all you make it feel like
Starting point is 00:28:46 we disrespected them, cause I'm saying, they're good, they're great at the position, but I'm saying. Get ball, I see ball, football. Y'all said that. That's what some people do. Please say that, they wrote that. How ever that shit go?
Starting point is 00:28:57 Hey Jokers, T.C. bro, think about the linebackers, not in the NFL, I'm just saying, I'm talking about as a kid as a linebacker that's what they tell you to go do. They hand the ball go get him. Go get him. Oh god that's what they do. I ain't saying no we ain't talking about that. You're not calling nobody savage I'm saying like every bro is a smart football player. Yes. To see the whole field like that bro is pretty amazing. No you missed y'all missing a point We know they're elite level talent their skill and they are professional athletes
Starting point is 00:29:30 So they got a study because obviously you guys start running plays you study and believe it's easier to play football than basketball Yeah, cuz I can train you to do one thing. You don't got to play both sides Like that's why Travis hunter will he do is so special people like this is crazy He can do that like I can train you to do one thing. Like in basketball, you can't get trained. Like you will get exposed. We make fun of Rudy Gobert every day. DPOY. Like he could play defense, but then they throw him to the ball and the nigga throw it to the top of the backboard. You like, man, this nigga trash. But if he could just sit on defense the whole game?
Starting point is 00:30:02 He'd be the best player in the world. Nigga, if he didn't have to go to the other end. We will never say nothing about Rudy go beer We won't say a word take a suck him out for office every possession man. What? For sure, I'm gonna leave it in the chat again it go go crazy Sorry, but back to super chat Caleb Alexander says LT was super balls off pure 80s coke shout to LT Caleb Alexander said LT wants Super Bowls off pure 80s coke. Shout out to LT when it goes into it. He's a different one, he's a different red. That nigga be in there home, sleep, waking up like shit, we playing today.
Starting point is 00:30:32 I don't even know, that's not a legendary story. That's a good actor. Ain't that funny? Listen, that's a prime example. See ball, go get ball. Like he even, he didn't even look at the playbook. I swear to God he didn't look at the playbook. Bro he didn't know he had a game, look at the schedule.
Starting point is 00:30:50 Fuck the playbook. He didn't know not to play. Come on bro, he missed half the game. He just said play off instincts bro and go get the ball bro. I'm gonna tell you who need to podcast, him and Michael Irvin. That, that, they call it Coke Boys. That is fire. Look at Mike Tyson sitting where DJ is.
Starting point is 00:31:07 Oh, he's the moderator? Oh, that's a bad show. Maybe I'm gonna fight him, bro. For sure. They be like, no, that night in Miami was on me. No, it was on me. You took over New York. No, no, no, New York was a good time.
Starting point is 00:31:22 Zone 71, the Hoopers, they said, why y'all never bring up Illinois when y'all talking about best states and cities? Chicago got some of the best hoopers in the world, man. Shout out to Chicago. They love it. Shout out to town. We should show a little of the Will Bottom and them. Yeah, we love Chicago.
Starting point is 00:31:34 Yeah, Chicago. I ain't gon' be in Chicago without like eight good players. No. Oh shit. Chicago got some killers. He say. I'm just talking shit. Shout out to Chicago.
Starting point is 00:31:47 Nah, man, they got D-Rose, Isaiah Thomas, Tim Hardaway, Dwine Howard. KG? Quinn Richardson is from Chicago. Yeah, Quinn Richardson. KG Kemp? D-Wade. Who? KG?
Starting point is 00:31:56 Nah, he from South Carolina. D-Wade. Nah, the shot really got a lot of hoopers though. Like, Midwest altogether got a bunch of basketball players. Midwest got some of the best basketball, bro. I'ma probably say the best. D-Best. Midwest. Now the shot really got a lot of hoopers though like Midwest all together got a bunch of basketball I'm probably say the best the best Man shit so big it's like a country over there Got rust Paul Pierce and James Harden, bro, that's just we need to go through
Starting point is 00:32:25 Yeah, Kelly got a lot of people, man. For sure. Shouts to Chicago. They post to though. Yeah. Nothing like a summer in Chicago for sure. Ari Averge Joe and the Super Chess shit has got to add basketball players. You got to know what everyone in the team
Starting point is 00:32:35 got to do on the court. Football players need to stop every play and get told what they got to do. That's it. CTs real respectfully. Damn. Shout out to Ari Averge Joe. Boy J got to add basketball players. What he say, gotta have basketball. No, he just say, you don't have to talk to
Starting point is 00:32:46 basketball players as much as football players. He said every play you stop, you get a play, and you run that play in football. Yeah. Like you don't get to go back and forth. Nah, at all. Yeah. I think that's easy.
Starting point is 00:32:57 Yeah, that's what he's saying. Uh. Joe, shout out to Average Joe. You think that's harder? I don't know, bro. I see you niggas coaching, bro. Y'all yelling the whole game. Yeah, I'm saying we can't stop.
Starting point is 00:33:07 But we can stop. Run flat. Run 42 done. Yeah. If I could stop them every time. It's a crazy high school play. Press, press, press. Get your ass over there.
Starting point is 00:33:17 I told you to get over there. If I could stop them every play, we would never lose. We would never lose. If I could stop my team every play, we would never lose. We would never lose. If I could stop my team every play, we would never lose, bro. I could make a defense every single time. That's a lot of control.
Starting point is 00:33:32 Oh, you can never lose. I would never lose. But, what the, motherfuckers, we... Oh yeah, you got some. What? I would never. That's a lot of control. Man. Y'all got earbuds for real now.
Starting point is 00:33:40 Three, two, two, three. Every single time, you gotta stop and take the ball out and we get to set up a defense. Man, you crazy. All right, since we're here, is it easier to man or zone? Two, three, zone. Is it easier?
Starting point is 00:33:54 It depends on what your team is set up like. It's easy to play man to man. We ain't gotta speak on y'all players, but what the team y'all got now? Oh, shit. I haven't thought about it. Yeah. I ain't even thought about it. Yeah. I haven't thought about it.
Starting point is 00:34:05 Cover a lot of ground, bro. But it's easier to play man to man than play zone because you still gotta have man to man principles in the zone. True, okay. Well said. We gotta ask some football players that. Got some thinkers in the zone, bro.
Starting point is 00:34:18 Okay. Know where they supposed to be. We can move on though, DJ. My fault, we still have the show. For sure. Keyhunt Show in the Supertrees says, do you feel Yanis too in why it's a long shot? We need a line that can all five guard
Starting point is 00:34:30 and would you trade my kill for a dynamic guard? I don't think that you need Yannis and Jalen Bruston together. I don't know how that works at all. That's not a good recipe. I don't know why it's Dame and Yannis. And this is just my point of view. I don't know nothing.
Starting point is 00:34:44 Obviously, y'all say I'll take wild takes. But I don't know nothing. Obviously, I say wild takes, but Dame don't look at the same Dame. Even before the injury, he didn't look the same. You said that at the beginning of the year. Yeah, with Yannis. Yeah. Dynamic scoring guards do not play well with Yannis. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:57 They just not, cause Yannis is a point forward. He needs the ball. You have to be literally a two guard, a shooting guard to play with Yannis. And Brunton is a point forward. He needs the ball. You have to be a, literally a two guard, a shooting guard to play with Giannis. And Brunton is a dynamic scoring guard. Think Kyrie can play with Giannis? Kyrie can play with anybody because he played with Bron,
Starting point is 00:35:16 but Bron's such a willing passer. And like, Bron is an unselfish superstar. He's selfish in a way, but he's so unselfish when he know you talented enough that he'll let you get your shit off. Like he'll let you go crazy. Yannis is not as talented as Bron, when it comes to as far as basketball,
Starting point is 00:35:33 like Savant, like letting people do their thing. Yannis is like, give me the ball, I can take over the game, I can do it myself almost. Oh, I got a couple of players that can hoop. All right, I'll run a pick and roll with him. Yeah. But whatever, like I'm trying to kill. He only know one, Yana's got more of a Kobe Bryant mentality.
Starting point is 00:35:51 Like I can do this by myself kind of thing. But then realize like I need help later. Like I need some people. So he can't play with nothing but role players. He plays his best with people that play role player roles. Mass majority. Yeah, so like Chris Middleton, he was strictly a scorer. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:36:09 They gonna put Chris in picking roles, Chris trying to get his shit off, he ain't worrying about what Yannis talking about, he gonna get it. Drew Holliday the point guard, he was a role-player. Essentially, you know what I mean? He doing it. Seeing Dane with him probably scared a lot
Starting point is 00:36:19 of guards around the league, like hell no, I ain't going in that shit, fuck that. Yeah, after he's. He didn't like this, fuck that.. Any name that he did damn wrong, Dane still average 25. That's just how y'all just play. But I'm saying you just saying like, and I ain't calling Dane buckets empty,
Starting point is 00:36:33 but you saying he don't look the same. Cause he was such a polarizing player. Like it was, it was, and Portland was built around Dane. So when you went there, you knew this pick and roll about to be crazy with Dame. All the players trying to get Dame open, they doing things, but Dame was an unselfish player. So CJ was still able to kill.
Starting point is 00:36:51 NERC looked better. All them dudes looked better. But now, with Dame not being a focal point in this, focal point is Giannis. Giannis didn't know how to make Dame the guy. Even though he said, like, this Dame team never looked like that, you know what I mean? Even when we used to play them,
Starting point is 00:37:06 it would be times when y'all used to come out the game and Dame get cooking looking like Portland Dame and then y'all just come back in the game, all stops. Yeah. So I think Kyrie could, because Kyrie just that type of a player would work, but just by anybody else, it's ugly. Now the Mikael Breda situation is very interesting
Starting point is 00:37:20 because he's pretty much due for a payday soon. Could you move him for a dynamic guard? Sure, but you gave up a lot to get him. So if you move him, it's got to be worthwhile. Obviously you ain't gonna get the picks back, but boy you better get some worthwhile. Who's a dynamic guard that you want though? Because you got Jalen Brunson. Like I hate to sound like this, but the only people that they really need and can get that make sense for that team are all on Boston. Derek White makes sense. He can play both guard positions. He can free up room for Jalen Bronson and then Drew Holliday.
Starting point is 00:37:51 He can play both guard positions. He can guard white and he'll free up stuff for them. But I don't think Boston about the trade. Oh, either one of them to New York. Fuck, no. No. I've seen some some rumors obviously, everybody reaching right now, possibility of Sidney Cat and Mikael Bridges to Phoenix, a couple three-team deals.
Starting point is 00:38:11 For Kevin Durant. Mm-hmm, and then they free up some space to kind of reach with the roster. That's raw. I hate it. I do, I like it. I like it for Phoenix, but I don't like it for the Knicks. Yeah, I love KD, but KD is, he 36.
Starting point is 00:38:25 Yeah, because his age, it's a bad deal. He's still gonna go kill, but. Yeah, he gonna go kill. Them two together playing, I think they'll rock. I think they'll be cool. But I think the Knicks is probably looking like, all right, we got one more year of this, but if not, we gotta go above this cat deal.
Starting point is 00:38:37 I don't know, bro, you just got it. I just, I'll say rock out. You just made the East of Coppers fun. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I agree. I'll just rock out. They say cat is the I Just rock out championship. That's how they feel basically So so you you think they're a better team with Jalen Bronson? Og and a nobie Kevin Durant Josh Hart and Mitchell Robinson
Starting point is 00:38:58 No, I don't think so. I don't me personally. I just like I would just I like it I like it. I would just want to see him move. I like it. I ain't gonna lie, when I thought about it in my head, I like it. It's just less, less is more, bro. He's cold and incapable. Less is more, bro. I like it because you can't win, you have to be such a skilled center to win now. You have to be your kids. You got to be able to get everybody involved. You cannot throw the ball to your center and them take you to the finals no more.
Starting point is 00:39:27 And Cat is not dynamic enough. Yeah, Cat not dynamic enough to be like a playmaker out the post or whatever, or top of the key. Cat get an accidental assist, bro. For sure. That's not his swag. Cat catching a lot of slander now, bro. I fuck with, no, I speak high of Cat right now.
Starting point is 00:39:43 I'm just saying he is catching slander right now. No, no, but. He doesn't deserve it. Just because of the way his game is, bro. But y'all know Cap, you know, I think Cap one of the coach players, I told you he's one of the coach players I ever played with. But I'm saying as far as a team,
Starting point is 00:39:53 like the way Cap play, even though he can stretch the fours, shoot threes. But when you get to that point in the season, everything, like everything, you know, you get screwed nice. It's only one game a day day So all eyes are on you So when you terrible on the pick and roll situation people looking like put mr. Robertson in he can guard the pick and roll They don't care about cat buckets anymore. They starting to talk about the pick and roll I watch cat give us 20 in the quarter and win the game, but that's what happened when you get to this point
Starting point is 00:40:24 That's why tears start started getting scrutinized. When it's seven games going on a day, we ain't really care. Locked in, you see it. But everybody watching like Rick Carlisle, our coach Tivs. Tivs didn't make no adjustments. Tivs don't, cause everybody, your eyes on you. Damn.
Starting point is 00:40:41 But I'm not mad if Kevin Durant Jaylen Brunson og Josh Hart And Jaylen Brunson with Mitchell Rob Good team bro. I mean, of course is a good team. Can I kill bridges back to Phoenix Phoenix? He's got a good they got a good start But you know what the one person who holds the key to making it all happen Bradley Beale, baby Bridges and cat ain't bad. That's a cool trio. That's a nice trio.
Starting point is 00:41:09 Y'all damn near raw bro. Y'all back really. I don't know if they can afford a max deal from Devin Booker, Bradley Beal and Kat. We got to get rid of Brad Beal. I thought they was waving Brad. We gonna see. But you know that's the key.
Starting point is 00:41:23 If you train Brad Beal, he better talk to Brad first. I understand. Brad, if you don't want to make it happen, bro, fuck it. That is a great feeling. I know that is a great feeling, bro. I love the fact that he was coming out of Prescott and he was like, hey, they ain't talked to me yet, so I ain't no trade. That was smart of me.
Starting point is 00:41:40 That has to be a wonderful feeling, bro. For sure, man. Give well some to the Phoenix Nines. All right, man. Christopher Smith in the Super Chat said, Mo, if you could replace a guard on any Kentucky team besides yours, what team would it have been?
Starting point is 00:41:54 One of the sad ones. I have to get my shit off. You about to be out there with R2 Goodwin in there? Yeah, that team, for sure. Man, I shot 20 shots a game. Who was on that team? Was it Julian May? Ryan Herron.
Starting point is 00:42:04 That's what it was. Ryan Herron. What's the nerds on that? Tells Julia man. That's right What's a nurse on that team? Yeah. Yeah, I heard. Yeah, I just shot 20. Yeah, that was we Yeah, it was pretty terrible All right, Donald Goldson again T. What was like playing against Tony Parker? They say he was one of the fastest guards also my boy be here more like Ryan Simmons. Damn. I Don't know what that is wrestler. For real. Oh that's my guy. I remember him. You're out of the nation. Nah Tony Parker was cold man he probably he was the best layup finisher I ever seen as a point guard. Like he used to shoot like 60% from layups dog. It was crazy. He never missed layups bro. He really wasn't a jump shooter. He was quick. He had an It was crazy, he never missed layups, bro. He really wasn't a jump shooter.
Starting point is 00:42:46 He was quick, he had an unbelievable spin move, but he never missed layups and floaters. It's crazy. Now I ain't gonna hold you. That spin move to float was automatic. Yeah. Who a better finisher, him or Kyrie? Tony Parker.
Starting point is 00:42:58 Kyrie's shit is just beautiful. Tony Parker did not miss. He never missed, bro. It don't matter what it look like, let's go in. look like the thing is Kyrie Irving when we say finishing I'm talking about straight layups before people start going crazy straight layups Tony Parker never missed layups Kyrie is a better player obviously, but he shoot mid ranges and all that stuff when it comes to straight floaters and layups Tony Parker was the best in the league, bro. Like for years he was leading the league in percentage around the realm and he was fucking six foot.
Starting point is 00:43:29 It's crazy, bro. And that's one of the secrets to that team that people don't realize. If your point guard is finishing that, all right, Ascender does, and you got Tim Duncan on your roster, yeah, that's tough, bro. It's crazy, bro.
Starting point is 00:43:39 He was unbelievable around the realm. Nah, for sure. Shout out to FreakyTP. Pause. One of the illest. All right, man. I-N-T-L-K-T. FreakyTP for sure. He hit the real TP. Nah, for sure. Shout out to FreakyTP. One of the illest. All right, man. I-N-T-L-K-T. He hit the real TP. He's a sniper.
Starting point is 00:43:49 In the club, out the club. Bad timing for Busta to drop that thank you Knicks track. Yeah, fuck outta here Busta. Busta, we don't wanna hear that shit. Johnny Goodtimes said, what's higher, Tigsburg, B-Hins, Clisraw, or DJ Spitz? Hey, fuck you.
Starting point is 00:44:04 Hey, Johnny Goodtimes, we better not find a picture of you, brother. That's funny. Yeah, get on they ass. Yeah, we better not find a picture of you, boy. I start crashing out, everybody think I'm crazy. Go ahead and crash out of here. I've done enough on this show.
Starting point is 00:44:18 Yeah, we need you for the video chat, my boy. Got some jokes for you. Theodore Gaines said, any predictions for Money in the Bank, T? Nah, I don't got none yet. I'ma tap in a little closer to, I ain't get a chance to watch Raw this week, so that's my bet.
Starting point is 00:44:34 I'ma watch it tonight though. For sure. But I'll give you some ideas. I am excited for some reason I wanna see the Becky Lynch match. This is a random match. I don't know. I think they got a cool little rivalry going right now.
Starting point is 00:44:44 I kinda wanna see that, so. And we cool little rivalry going right now. I kind of want to see that. So, and we miss this super man. RL man. Yeah. Dang. That sucks, man. Man, I can't believe they let my boy R-Truth go. I'm still hurting about that. Damn. Get well soon, man.
Starting point is 00:44:58 Tony Reyes and Super Chess is to me. And my boy Carlito. Damn. Carlito go? Damn. That sucks. He been around for a while. To me, that's why the Dame trade was bad from my point of view it should have been CJ and Simons who would have been trade to Milwaukee and Dame to sack by IDK. CJ and Efrain Simons probably would have worked in Milwaukee
Starting point is 00:45:18 they would have had that six minute off the bench for sure but hey man you know what it is Yanis ain't gonna pass that ball, so no matter who on that team. Donald Golson again, I'm also throwing MMA as one of the toughest sports I've sparred with. Amateurs, the weight cutting, training camps, it's just hard, yeah they are fighters. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:35 Yeah they. I'm not doing no fighting. Boxers and MMA, I don't even call it, I know it's a sport, I don't even call it, like I don't include them as when I talk sports. Y'all are gladiators. Yeah, y'all are something different. You gotta have a whole different mindset to compete in that.
Starting point is 00:45:52 Y'all are the toughest people in the world. I'm not rolling, I'm not doing that. Shouts of the fighters, all right, Sheldon Francis said, is there a Henny Stain on that Miles jersey? Nah, it's a real jersey for this game one, bro, I had dumped a, what you call that? Gatorade on him?
Starting point is 00:46:10 Yeah, I had dumped a orange Gatorade on him because we played Dallas. That first game we thought Miles was about to be like. Oh yeah, I remember I texted you. Yeah. Miles was supposed to be, well, Miles, you cold, but that first game y'all play, I said, damn, he really the one.
Starting point is 00:46:25 I remember, damn, I remember that. That's from that? That's crazy. Man, season start off with so much promise. That's official jersey. I fuck with it. I ain't even seen that stain on that book. Don't forget that.
Starting point is 00:46:36 We better be here. Nah, I just didn't know. I dumped it on that side, man. Let me get that jersey, man. After that, man, you about to be here. You know what I'm like, you gonna be a Hall of Famer one day Show me shout some out center. I
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Starting point is 00:50:14 All right, Dialoguesmith and the Super Chat said football have D-line packages that they have to learn and the linebackers have to learn to go sack the QB. All I have to learn to block the blitz coming from the corner and linebackers while blocking D-line. You're making my point, they have to do their job. Shout out to the Triches. And last but certainly not least in the Super Chat, Pedro's thoughts.
Starting point is 00:50:42 Jeff, you're my top five. I think he just talked like a basic. He kept working, talk over him. super chat Pedro Strauss Jeff Jeff you're my top 5 on the Hawkeye cry list at 3 thank y'all fellas for getting me through my work Kalisya every day at work and people don't give Marcus his credit Bro was cold. Shout out to you. I like you, Pedro. Shout out to Pedro. I like you brother. He said at three though, at the list we gotta see who the other two ahead of you in that. It was probably Mookie Blaylock and Trae Young. Okay. I respect the list. Yeah Mookie was cool. For sure. Appreciate you there. Alright man, let's move on down a little bit.
Starting point is 00:51:25 We'll talk about the Knicks for a second, man. Let's go and talk about OKC, their road to the finals. First round, obviously, they put Belt to ass against the Grizzlies. Jive was out from majority of that, so we ain't gonna linger there much. Do we think it could have been a better series with Jive there?
Starting point is 00:51:39 Obviously, I still think they was gonna take care of business for sure. But let's get to that second round matchup for sure with OKC, man. Yeah, the Grizzlies had a tough hand. They, everybody getting hurt, coach getting fired, they had a lot of shit going on. But this OKC Denver series obviously went to seven. A lot of people feel like if, you know, N.P.J. wasn't hurt, or
Starting point is 00:51:59 maybe some of the role players and different stuff, but they could have got the series. Do y'all feel that way? Was this their first real test so far in the postseason? Yeah, but going seven, it could have went either way. I think that's where home court played a big role in this because obviously OKC played way better at home. But it would never have injuries. I don't know if MPJ would have really made a difference.
Starting point is 00:52:23 I mean, obviously we gonna say he would have cause we think he's a good player, but I think it was just OKC year. I think they had an opportunity to rewrite their wrong from the year before. And I think they were just prepared. They were a year better. SGA was a planet MVP level.
Starting point is 00:52:39 I think it was just their time. I don't care if MPJ was ready or not. Okay, now being here, you know what I'm saying? You just had a little bit of worry about the series but you were still was ready or not. Okay, now being here, you know what I'm saying, you had a little bit worried about the series but you were still rocking with your squad. You see anything else that made you feel confident in your team going forward? We just about to beat this shit out of patience, bro.
Starting point is 00:52:53 I don't want to dive too far into it, man. Okay, seeing five, baby. It's simple and plain, man. Y'all had a good year, but the road has came to a head. Every time you say that, your team loops. Every time you tell somebody how they couldn't eat. Every time, bro. It wasn't your turn to talk.
Starting point is 00:53:08 You asked me a question. I'm not asking. Every time you say that, bro. Damn. We started with these timers, you want to take a stab at me? Hey, did you see the inside NBA clip where Shaq got mad at him and Charles Barkley for talking to the hoes for two minutes,
Starting point is 00:53:23 and he lost it all. Wow, shot clock violations in the morning would be hilarious. She got mad as hell at Charles Barkley for talking to the hoes for two minutes, and he lost it. Well, shot clock violations in the morning would be hilarious. But to count you be here, I can say that was the best shot y'all had this postseason, and it was a limited team. I mean, Joker was the best player in the world, but they didn't look like the Nuggets team before. It ain't our fault. Respect you players who's in front of you. I don't want to hear that, especially from you two niggas. Oh, you know how I in front of you. I don't want to hear that especially from you two niggas.
Starting point is 00:53:45 Oh you don't hop him. So please. I don't care if you got Band-Aids or a walking boot. You get on this court, we're gonna bust your ass. I don't care. Trying to kill your ass. Yeah, make it easier for me for sure. With the Nuggets, while we here, is there anything they need to do in the offseason? What they gotta do to help Joker out? Man, they gotta get MPJ together. Okay, he gotta get some rehab man. Yeah, I don't know what he doing.
Starting point is 00:54:07 Aaron Gorman was hurt towards the end as well. He was playing with a hurt hamstring. That's tough to play. Yeah, I don't know for real. I like they team. I just don't like MPJ on they roster. He smoked that series for them, bro. He was hurt.
Starting point is 00:54:22 He was hurt though. He played too long though, bro. That's the culture. He was playing 30 minutes a night, y'all. I get it, he hurt. That's a lot of men just be playing. He was hurt. He was hurt though. He played too long though bro. That's the coaches fault. He was playing 30 minutes a night y'all. I get it, he hurt. That's a lot of men's be playing and I'm hurt. Bro they had an interim in there. He was just trying to get it out the mud.
Starting point is 00:54:32 I love to see him get Cam Johnson out of Brooklyn. They add him to their roster. I don't know if that's Trey, MPJ or whatever it is. I mean, but he struggled with injuries too. But if he could stay healthy, I think he'd be a good addition for them. Another guy can knock down a shot, move well without the ball, and can guard.
Starting point is 00:54:50 Yeah. Yeah. Cause they got a decent team, bro. They don't need to blow it up. I don't know if they gonna run it back with Russ or not. I mean, Russ had a good year for them. But if they don't run it back with Russ, they gotta find another backup playmaker. That might be hard to do.
Starting point is 00:55:04 Yeah, so that's what they gotta look into that. For that price point. Yeah. Oh, that price point, might be hard to do. Yeah, so that's where they got to look into that. For that price point. Oh, that price point, that is impossible to find to get a contribution to get a team for a veterans minimum. But like, I think Russ is good, but like a tight, if Russ goes back there, that's perfectly fine with me. But I don't know, he might want to move on.
Starting point is 00:55:19 I don't know what the situation was over there. But Tyus Jones would be cool. Even if they bring like Monta Morris back, I don't know how healthy he is, but somebody that's familiar with how they play. But they gotta get another ball handler that can make some plays. For sure.
Starting point is 00:55:36 Shout out to the Nuggets. All right, man, back in the Super Chat for a second. DJ said, Deon said baseball is the hardest. Shannon said basketball was more skilled and that football players were more athletic. I don't disagree. I ain't mad at that. Shout out to Deon.
Starting point is 00:55:50 I didn't even see it, but. I ain't mad at that. Deon said baseball is the hardest, Shannon said basketball was more skilled and football was more athletic. That's probably right. You'll see a football player jump a 45 inch vertical. You'll be like, shit, all can dunk.
Starting point is 00:56:04 Strong as shit. Fast. The timing in football is like that. If you half a second behind, you give up touchdown. So, I ain't met that at all. All right, 251. Go set Bulls fan was hype as hell. They got you Moog.
Starting point is 00:56:16 You and Jeff for some of my favorite PGs in the league. Look at that show on love. I appreciate it man. Got you 251 for sure. Bob Gammie said with Kyrie out till around January, what PG should the Mavs get that could come off the bench when he get back and where does A&D rank all time power forward?
Starting point is 00:56:32 Oh, I like that question. Point guard they can get, obviously. You need a person that know how to play backup point guard. So you probably need a Attayus Jones. He can hold it down as a starter for a little bit, but his role, he shines as a backup point guard. Yeah, I like that. I ain't mad at that draw.
Starting point is 00:56:51 I know they've been reaching, saying possibly go in and get Drew. I don't know if you can afford him, what you got to give up to get him, but he would definitely be perfect for that team for sure. Ah, yeah. AD, I think AD is definitely, that's a very high on that power forward ranking list for sure, in my opinion.
Starting point is 00:57:07 He's probably like 10. He's top 10 for sure, in my opinion. Yeah, he's probably like 10. Damn, I never thought about that. But, cause you gotta think, he not higher than Yannis. Nope, he ain't higher than KG, Tim Duncan, Barclay, Carl Malone. Dirk.
Starting point is 00:57:22 Dirk. He's about eight. Which ain't bad, cause those are all Hall ofirk. He about eight. Which ain't bad, cause those are all Hall of Famers and great players. It's like, it's no smut at all. He about eight, bro. Timmy a one, Carl Malone a two. I'm cool with Carl Malone too.
Starting point is 00:57:35 Are you taking him over like, Shee Wallace? Yeah, I got him over Shee. Mm. You got him over Chris Weber. Bob Pettit, respectfully. Elvin Hayes. You got him over Chris Weber. I gotta go over Sheezy. Bob Pettit, respectfully. Elvin Hayes. You got him over Chris Weber. I got to go over Chris Weber, but Chris Weber is one of the most underrated power forces.
Starting point is 00:57:52 See Webb Cole, but he over-see Webb. Okay, I'm just- Pal Gasol and Kevin McHale. You got him over Pal? That looks getting spooky. Yeah, Chris Boccia 13. You got him over Pal? Yep.
Starting point is 00:58:00 Okay, well you- Hey, that's my nigga right there. Look at his picture. That's Michael Irvin of the NBA right there. I love that nigga right there Right there yeah, I guess I'd probably like seven eight That's a never thought a mine 15 over Chris Weber. That's disrespectful pure disrespect You know what I'm not gonna tell you though. I got phone The homie Chris Weber is insane, bro
Starting point is 00:58:23 Dre the homie, Chris Webber is insane, bro. Yeah, bro, we gotta draw a lot of some. Yeah, we wildin'. You ain't goin' home, you said we gotta draw a lot. I love Dre Mon. I love Dre Mon. For real, for real. He is so important to that team, probably the most important piece
Starting point is 00:58:34 to them championship teams, but skill for skill. Ew, man, Steph Curry. No, they need the Dre Mon. No, I said they need the most important piece. Damn near, bro. Is Steph Curry. Steph Curry's the best player. He gonna be the most important piece on anything. That's that's the Dramon
Starting point is 00:58:51 This blue guy ever bro, but Steph I mean not step correct Chris. Whatever was like damn near the number one pick or some shit for a reason, bro I don't think niggas want to hoop like dream on That's cool. What did you put Chris purple net? Oh, yeah, we're see For a reason bro, I don't think niggas want to hoop like Dre Ma bro His past IQ he would be crazy now I'm saying though like skill was skilled to have Dre Ma over him is that's wild Shouts to see the art and brave be in the super just said wolves trade Rudy Bravey in the Super Trap said Wolves, Trey Rudy, Manon, and Miller plus picks for Katie, Tyasson, Capella, Keith,
Starting point is 00:59:26 and Nas, Randall and Jaden, least basing defense and real finals potential. What team in the world do you need? Clint Capella, Nas Reid and Randall? Respectfully, that was a problem in training camp.
Starting point is 00:59:40 You got five powerful refugees going to the Fugees. You call them niggas the Fugees? I'm just trying to figure out, you think they by the trade. Who is Miller? He did that on 2K bro. He might be off the bench,
Starting point is 00:59:56 I wouldn't go too deep into it. Yeah bro, can't move around bro. He trying to make them salaries match, my boy deep in them trenches on the real team site. I respect it. Yeah that ain't. They got a nigga named Leandre on the wolves. That's my team too, when we get here.
Starting point is 01:00:12 Leonard Miller. Oh okay, I'm about to say Leandre. Leandre, boy you got some names Leandre. That's my squad. Yeah, what we doing? Leandre, you named that for your daddy for sure. Yeah, Leandre is for sure the NFL. Yeah, most definitely. What we doing? Leandre, you named that for your daddy. Leandre is for sure the NFL. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:25 God damn it. Most definitely. Oh man, Buka the Super Chess says any NFL can play in the NBA. They can do what Aaron Gordon do, sit in the bunker and defend. You are lying. Yeah, that's, we ain't got an answer to that. We've heard that millions of times before
Starting point is 01:00:41 and it's been proved wrong. That's out of pocket. So I hear you can put on a jersey, it's off of wit. He gonna pick a road my boy to death for. I see him in the... You sorry about my guy? We seen him in the 520 charity game. He got wicked for sure.
Starting point is 01:00:56 R. Young Horatio in the Super Chat says... What guys out here fucked? AJ said it's... He was saying... AJ shoot the air box and this nigga's stronger than the bitch. He threw that motherfucker to the concession stand. Shout out to Temple Hall down in churches, man. It got wicked for sure.
Starting point is 01:01:12 R. Young Grace, y'all said, Mook, summer runs are coming soon. And I know you talked about this before. What's it gonna be like going to get stars like Westbrook and Durant in open runs? Shit, everybody's leading in summer runs, but KD gets crazy. I ain't gonna lie.
Starting point is 01:01:26 Y'all gotta pull up Tareco Hansen hoop. Yeah. Westbrook, that'll be dope. Somebody gonna fly to LA to hoop. I'm just saying niggas do that. I'm just saying if we out there and they run. Oh, okay. I would never fly to LA to play basketball.
Starting point is 01:01:39 You know, we gotta go out there. I bet everybody missed the big three game at LA. That flight too far. Oh, Lord. One thing he said he wanted to do was coach Tristan. Yeah, he moved. I tell everybody, missed the big three game L.A. That flight too far. Oh Lord. Why they say he wants to go to the west coast? He is, he moved, I was on that one. I was like, I'm doing no west coast. He's a real brawny, he said, I don't play away games.
Starting point is 01:01:52 He's gonna leave, bro. He went to the big three, I ain't going with some of the west coast. I swear to God, bro. He's just saying go go. Four hour flights is crazy. We're gonna play basketball? We got a call today at 3 o'clock.
Starting point is 01:02:03 Whoa. We're gonna play basketball. We gotta call it a day at 3 o'clock. Whoa. Nice to meet you, nigga. The real L.A. Stumper, nigga. That's cool, shit. I'm just saying. Do go play open gym.
Starting point is 01:02:13 I just said, we out there, bro. You can pull up to Rico Hines. I'm not going to open gym. That's free. Shout out to OG Rico Hines, man. At least Big 3, they send me a little cash. You said for the love of the game. A love the game never fly off for our not for the love Never I was about to say something about it. You know what's funny. How do we become his agents for the big three?
Starting point is 01:02:36 Some shit just happened organically. Ain't the word that you experienced. They really smudged me out like pause like they like I only I only talked to the white people for you. Everybody else I talked to, I did like, Rich did, what's his name? Bronny said, no, he ain't going there. Second round, my boy. The fix was it. That is why.
Starting point is 01:02:59 You made me, Bronny. For Shazza Rich Paul. I could go to the triplets. Nah, it was over with, bro. Stacking there, it was two gangsters over there, bro. I Could go to the trip Me that's me at the worst name to it. I went and saw that sad ass nigga hoop at the tryouts I should fucking God. I talked to all the coaches. I said, I'll take is not available. That's why I'm here I made you stay at the tryouts and shit. Bucket guy. I talked to all the coaches, I said, nah, Tigg is not available, that's why he not here. I made him stay at the hotel. I can't speak to my client. All right, let's get back to OKC before we get out of here.
Starting point is 01:03:34 So, y'all think OKC had a tougher road than the Pacers to make the difference? No, hell no, the Pacers had to deal with a harder road. Most definitely. I agree, on me, I agree. Yeah, we had to deal with a much harder road. And that's not those, it's like the OKC, because you players was in front of you, handle business.
Starting point is 01:03:49 The West was a little bit wonky this year for sure. But the Pacers, we had to deal with some fucking murderers on the way to get to the finals for sure. Okay, let me ask you this then. How do the Pacers beat OKC? Aye, shout out to Ishmith, man. Me and my dawg, we've been having some conversations, man. We got the game plan ready.
Starting point is 01:04:05 I think one thing that OKC has not seen this entire postseason is nobody has pressured them the entire game, especially from a ball-handling standpoint. We're gonna make some of them other players make decisions the entire game, and at some point somebody gonna make mistakes. They were able to beat the Nuggets that we're talking about because they had people that just weren't hitting shots
Starting point is 01:04:22 or couldn't create off that. The people off our team, you can't really help off of. So we're gonna see how they help defense work. Okay, my only concern about the Pacers, I agree with you with the pressure. SGA is so good at using contact and pressure to beat you. Like he let you make your mistake. You all aggressive, you bumping him, you doing all that.
Starting point is 01:04:45 He knows how to counter and then he knows how to create separation or fouls. I could see Aaron Eastman if he's on him and foul trouble on the first quarter. Neal Hart, same thing. They like to bump and be super physical. That plays into his hands. That's my only problem with y'all.
Starting point is 01:05:02 Like I know y'all played Donovan Mitchell. Y'all played all these great scorers. Y'all had Donovan Mitchell, Jalen Brunson. So y'all been prepared to go against great scoring guards. So y'all battle tested and that, but y'all haven't played anyone with a constant, constant pressure like him. Donovan Mitchell was killing,
Starting point is 01:05:19 but he take games like moments off. SGA don't really take moments off. And if he do, they have such other good skilled players like Jalen Williams and Gon' Go or whoever else. Isaiah George subbing and make some shots. They got guys who can play, but y'all never seen a dose of a player like him. He gonna get to his spot.
Starting point is 01:05:41 Like Donovan Mitchell shoot all threes or layups. This dude playing the mid-range he not gonna be like and you know I'm dudes that's gonna settle for threes and play out there he gonna get where he want to go and I'm I'm interested to see how they defend him he's relentless and I think the one thing I think that helps in our favor is that we have Nim Hart and Benedict Mather not saying that they can guard him or lock him up but their team Canada are they familiar with him I don't think how much that's gonna play.
Starting point is 01:06:05 He's still gonna kill. Like we said, every good player on every team is gonna give us 40. We see what Yonis did. We see what Donovan Mitchell did. We see what Jayler Brunson and Kat did. We can't stop that. It's SGA, he the MVP.
Starting point is 01:06:16 It's the other players we have to figure out. All right, Jayler Williams, SGA, y'all gonna have to outscore Tyrese and Pascal. All right, now y'all role players, I know that they're solid, but they gonna have to outscore our role players because we play right, now y'all role players, I know that they're solid, but they gonna have to outscore our role players because we play crack head basketball just like they do up and down.
Starting point is 01:06:28 So we gonna get the possessions. And like you said, they gotta be disciplined, man. Chet get no less than 15 a night. Who? Chet, no less a night. I think that Chet and Pascal matchup is very pivotal. Neal Smith will give you 30 and then seven. Well, he a role player, he ain't got to.
Starting point is 01:06:44 I'm just telling you, we guaranteeing 15 and 20 a night. But I don't think the Pacers has played a team that key in on people like O.K. Cedar. Who they gonna key in on the Pacers though? Tyrese. What I'm saying, they gonna make Tyrese Halliburton be him. You gonna have to be him. They're not gonna let Pascal play.
Starting point is 01:07:04 Pascal gonna catch that ball. They gonna load up I'm gonna need a moment from miles from what it sounds like now This is one thing I'm happy about too is I seen Isaiah Hardstein last year with the Knicks He could not keep up with that pace. That's what he's gonna play in our favor But that's the beautiful thing and I'm I agree that's the beautiful thing about them. They put Caruso on centers Yeah so miles Turner might be eliminated out of this game because all the pick and rolls are dead.
Starting point is 01:07:28 Because when Caruso sub in, he just gonna switch on the Tyrese. And Chet is gonna be in the corner with whoever it is. And he gonna rotate over. They do a great job of switching, screaming the little guys out. They do a wonderful job at that. I mean, shit, he was guarding fucking Yogi. They do a wonderful job at that. I mean, shit, he was guarding fucking Yogi's.
Starting point is 01:07:48 They do a great job. They got to worry about Lou Dore, big ass. OKC dangerous as hell. They got a hell of a team, bro. But this is the first time I feel like the Pacers have seen a team and vice versa. OKC, the first time they've seen a team that mirror each other, it's just,
Starting point is 01:08:03 whose style is going to outweigh? Like, in this pressure college style, I'll do this pressure college style kinda, but can the small guards at Indiana affect the big guards from OKC? I like that. I think Nemhar has to have a phenomenal series for us to win.
Starting point is 01:08:20 I think it's definitely possible for us to win, but I feel like if he can get in the rhythm and he can get to scoring, because like you said, we have to attack SGA. That's why Minnesota started catching some rhythm too. I'm scared, that's the thing. Y'all got, like if you attack SGA, the thing that made Jay McDaniels and Edwards
Starting point is 01:08:36 able to attack them, they six-five, six-ten athletes. Y'all got SGA six-five, six-six. Most definitely. Y'all got smallGA 6'5, 6'6. Most definitely. Y'all got small guards, who are not really athletes. Only one y'all really got as a super athlete is Benedict Mather, right? And you know, Rick, don't play him, no way. So it don't matter.
Starting point is 01:08:53 He gonna have to play though. He has to play. He's the only one that can literally attack. Unless y'all know, y'all gonna do the Pascal shit. If he switch on the Pascal, Pascal attack. But I don't see him switching on Pascal. And I kind of see Lou D Lou Dort guarding Pascal. I do. I hate that they got Crusoe Lou Dort. They got a lot of defenders. Yeah I could see Lou Dort obviously
Starting point is 01:09:16 Jaylen Williams. Obviously Jaylen Williams can guard Pascal too but I could see Lou Dort being on Pascal and Jaylen Williams taking Halliburton. I could see that. I wouldn't put Jalen Williams on Pascal the whole game just because he be getting knickknacks. Like he draws a lot of bullshit fouls and you need him in the game. Lou Dort could probably afford a couple of those too.
Starting point is 01:09:36 I mean, but obviously he all defensive team. He gonna do something for sure. But it's gonna be hell of a series, man. I think it's gonna be really good. It's gonna be fun to watch to me. I think the first game is not no show. I just think, okay, see, it's gonna be a hell of a series, man. I think it's gonna be a really good match. It's gonna be fun to watch to me. I think the first game, it's not no show. I just think OKC is just going to like blitz them the first game.
Starting point is 01:09:50 Right, they at home, confident. It's, you know, not to say that the Indiana's scared of being in the finals or anything, but it's a different, you know, it's a different thing. And I just think being at home that first game, your momentum, your crowd gonna be so crazy. They probably gonna get the first one, but Indiana gonna get used to it
Starting point is 01:10:08 and the second game will be a lot better game I think. They both gonna win their first home game. Yeah. I'm going on a hot take here. I am happy that we are not at home because if we were at home and lose game one, that probably could kick our confidence down. I feel like we can go get game one.
Starting point is 01:10:22 I feel very confident we go get game one, OK, C. From playing in the finals, like not playing, but being, I did play in the first game. Yeah, but you played in the finals. Playing in the finals, the first game, the crowd, the energy be so different. And we was on the road, we was in Phoenix. And like, you can look and you like,
Starting point is 01:10:39 oh shit, like this is different. You know what I mean? This is, all right, we just played the Eastern Conference Finals in Atlanta. Now this shit is different. You know what I mean? This is, all right. We just played the East Conference Finals in Atlanta. Now this shit is different. Like everything mattered, the crowd every second, every shot, like when you miss, you feel to miss. Like fuck!
Starting point is 01:10:54 This is kind of team though. They win them sneaky games. No, they do. They do. But that's what I'm saying. They playing a team who also win those kind of little weird games. Like when OKC was down big in Denver,
Starting point is 01:11:05 we like, I turned it off, thought they lost, they come back, they win the game. Yeah, so I'm saying they mirroring each other, but that first game at home, it's gonna be so loud at OKC. It is, OKC, that's a college like stadium, bro. They be rocking in that thing. But if the Pacers can still game one, if they do, the Pacers can win the series.
Starting point is 01:11:25 If they can win game one, that's big. But if OKC blow them out game one, it might be a spook. Might scare them a little bit, bro. They did the 10 rules, 10 rules got to a point where it was like, man man we can't beat them. Yeah. Yeah, they put a belt to ass in for sure.
Starting point is 01:11:50 The analysis, we'll talk more about that tomorrow on the official game day for sure. RQ Harper in the Super chest says, who do y'all think will be the best fit at center for the Lakers? They should go to Brooklyn and get one of the role players, Nick Klaxon. I need to go spend a bag with Mitchell Robison.
Starting point is 01:12:04 I like that. Yeah. I need to go spend a bag with Mitchell Robinson. I like that. Yeah. I like that. Yeah, go take me from the Knicks, man. Get a defender and a- A live threat defender, offensive rebounder. Who do you send over there?
Starting point is 01:12:17 They got a lot of people- Mitchell Robinson damn near up for a deal. I think he got one more year. One more year. Yeah, but you can trade for him. Yeah, you trade for him, man. I don't know, but go get him into the ropes. I know the Knicks probably won't let him go,
Starting point is 01:12:28 but that's what they need. Him and Luke will pick a road. They don't need Nick Claxton. You don't think so? I like Nick. He was, yeah, of course, but he like a small center. He like Jackson, and I'm not gonna say he's Jackson Hayes like, but similar.
Starting point is 01:12:41 But he can guard, he can guard. He was what, the Canada Predict fifth player of the year at one point. Yep, two years ago. But you know what I'm saying? It's been real shaky in Brooklyn. But shout out to Lakers. I mean, I get everybody off. Y'all probably get super starred sitting there. Who knows? Fuck it. All right. WNBA yesterday. Shout out to the Fever for taking care of business against the Mystics yesterday. 85 to 76. Shout out to Kelsey Mitchell held it down. 24 and three. Young Kee Kee for Washington. Rookie of the Year candidate. She down 24 and 3. Young Kiki for Washington, rookie of the year candidate, she had 20 and 9. And Brittany Sykes had 26 and 4. The Lynx remain
Starting point is 01:13:11 undefeated against the Mercury, 88 to 65. Belt to ask for sure. Shout to Sato Sabali. Damn, they beat the ass. She's been hooping. 15 and 8. Come on, Nafisa Collier, 18, 11 and five, Kailah McBride, 13 and seven. Y'all, it's an order of dang. Y'all, The Storm took care of the wings yesterday, 83 to 77, Gabby Williams had 18 and four. The wings are butt. Say that other name.
Starting point is 01:13:37 Nikkei Bumake? Yeah, don't play with me, I'm locked in. De'Johnny Carrington had 22 and eight as well, but yeah, the Williams would get no one pick as well. They will have Juju and Pagebackers, because boy, they are ass. Man. Free recade, man.
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Starting point is 01:17:06 And hear how leaders like Anjali are carving out space and shaking things up a bit in the most crowded of markets. Listen to Good Company on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, one more time to super chat before we get to MLB. Adob Smith again said, okay, see sweep the paces. Anything paces can do. Okay, see does better. Okay, see checks all the boxes comparing the matchup.
Starting point is 01:17:37 Okay, see better start offense defense. Adob Smith. That's cool. I'm not gonna say they're gonna sweep. We're gonna revisit this. Please screenshot this. We will revisit this in two weeks. It's something about like,
Starting point is 01:17:50 nah, being for real, it's something about the Pacers, bro. They just got like this, this unit. I mean, OKC got the same unity in this connection, but I'm reading them little fucking Pacers. Like they know what to do. They got a good energy, bro. And like, I got my Miles jersey up there. I'm from NAP, so I'm rooting for the Pacers.
Starting point is 01:18:09 I just want a good series. I hope the Pacers win, it'd be great for the city. Ooh, it's gonna go up. Come on, man, listen, I've been critical of Rick all year. He's gonna be lit. He's lit. He been adapting, man. That coach will make a difference.
Starting point is 01:18:19 Like we said, last series, boy, when he took out Miles and put in OB, we went in small, I don't know how it's gonna work against OKC, but he been making adjustments to make it work So we got a chance for show man. It will be scores the Rockies. Oh my god snap a 22 Seriously, excuse me to the mallets 22 is crazy. I had a 22 gang I mean 22 series losing straight beat y'all ass for years That is nasty 22 series losing streak. They've been beating y'all ass for years. Happy y'all got y'all get back.
Starting point is 01:18:47 That is nasty work. That's crazy, bro. That should be great right now, bro. But there was at one point, I remember the Pacers lost in Atlanta for like six or seven years in a row. Like, that's wild. Yeah, I was there.
Starting point is 01:18:56 Shout out to y'all. Shout out to the Rockies doing something positive, man. We had that at San Antonio, though. It was like a 21 year drought that we won in San Antonio That's like we go there. We know for a fact we from the Louvre. Yeah, bro. I'm glad tonight I'm brought thought I hit the game winner Be over Kawhi thought I hit the game with everybody's like Tim Duggan backboard shot the win again
Starting point is 01:19:17 All like it's they meant to be We just not meant to win here for sure man shots the rock He do something positive for once. Astro shout out to Pirates 3-0. Cubs secure business against the Nationals 8-3. Man, Yankees defeat the Guardians 3-2. The Phillies beat the Blue Jays. Belta Ass 8-3.
Starting point is 01:19:36 Angels defeat the Red Sox 4-3. The Reds secure the Brewers 4-2. D-Backs, yeah, we back in there. 8-3 against the Braves. Belta Ass against T-Team. The Raids took care of the Rangers, five to one. The White Sox being positive as well, belt to ass against the Tigers, eight to one.
Starting point is 01:19:52 The Royals took care of the Cardinals, 10 to seven. Excuse me, last but certainly not least, the Royals took care of the Mariners, five to one. Nevermind, the page keeps going. The Padres defeat the Giants, three to two. Twins put belt to ass against the Athletics 10-3. Mookie, you're supposed to put a bet on that, man. That was about to be easy money for sure.
Starting point is 01:20:08 And then the Dodgers took care of the Males 6-5. Alright, Enhance Games. Alright, what we got here, man? Enhance Games, Olympic-type international sporting event where athletes are encouraged to use performance-enhanced drugs during competition. Athletes are given one million dollars if they are able to break world records.
Starting point is 01:20:23 Let's see the clip. That's our type of league, bro. gonna get this swimmer, bro. He jacket Bro he OD big pulls like what? Why do you need to be a big swim bro? I gotta mess you up a little bit when you swimming Yeah, bro, Michael Phelps has never been like Brock Lesnar That nigga throwing the water out of the pool. Shit.
Starting point is 01:20:55 We gotta tap into this one. So they encouraged to break world records and if you do, you get a million dollars and you can be on the juice. That's fire. Well, they happy because they're like, yeah, you're gonna break the record, but we never have to pay you because you're gonna die. You're gonna die. But like how many people, like how many people participate in the future of sports is here. Yeah, this is crazy This is real for him though. That ain't bad. It's in Vegas. Of course it is so would you
Starting point is 01:21:17 Would you do it a lot of people hope a lot of our buddies see What's worse? Yeah, what sports are you playing? Is it just women? Oh, we got to do our research about this. Yeah, we got to happen Yeah, we need some Right there our athletics are quiet. Okay, so just world records. I'm assuming strength So it's just it's really gonna be all track and field events and you see all the flags next to those people They're not it's gonna be Olympic events Yeah track and field events. You see all the flags next to those people there. It's gonna be Olympic events. Yeah. Wow.
Starting point is 01:21:47 100 meters. 100 meters. That ain't strength. Imagine if they did that in basketball. Hey, we're all, we're all girls. Like, she better get back on. Marion Jones. Marion Jones.
Starting point is 01:21:57 Oh yeah. She better tap in. The real hands game. Yeah. She was on that shit. Yeah. I thought it was just the cane. I didn't put everybody on the cane.
Starting point is 01:22:08 No, I thought that's what she was talking about. Who else got caught? What happened to a dude that blew everybody out? What was his name? Ben Johnson. It was another one too. He be called Louis so bad. He be called Louis by 15 cents.
Starting point is 01:22:24 They say something ain't right. Boy Juicy. We call Lewis so bad. He be called Lewis by 15 stacks. Something ain't right. Boy juicing, man. I ain't know what. Fuck off. Boy ran so fast, he ain't know where to slow down. Something ain't right, bro. We gotta get this out.
Starting point is 01:22:34 This ain't, I don't know about this one, y'all. We play a lot, but this is some serious shit. 100 minutes, no, I'm not kidding. The hurdles, snatch cleaning jack. He'd have to be falling out, bro. Will this be on DraftKings? Cause I would love to be on this. I am rolling with this.
Starting point is 01:22:49 What's the boy that we was talking about that had cancer? Lance. Lance? He was on that shit? No, they don't got a bike on here. They got swimming. He was on that shit. They got swimming and track and field events.
Starting point is 01:23:00 Great lifting. I'm tapped in. Put this on ESPN, the outro. I need to watch all these events. In fact. First of all, can we reach out to all the hood drugs? I want to see, do they do the Roids on live? I want to see. Pre-match?
Starting point is 01:23:12 If I see a nigga with a needle, I'm turning off. They go hit him right before he goes to the pool. Oh my God. He gonna turn in the vein here. Tyson Gay, he got caught? Tyson Gay, yep. Tyson Gay definitely got caught. For sure.
Starting point is 01:23:24 Tyson Gay, tap in. I know you can yep. Tyson Gay definitely got caught. For sure. Tyson Gay, tap in. I know you can still run. Yeah. A-Rod was out there doping like a motherfucker's lying. Hell, dog. A-Rod got a great rebrand. Shout out to A-Rod.
Starting point is 01:23:32 He came, my owner. Boy, you walk around teaching baseball like a motherfucker. He got a permanent 10, too. Yeah. Alex Rodriguez has been orange for the last five years, bro. Perfect rebrand, bro. Shout out to Alex Rodriguez. For sure, man.
Starting point is 01:23:40 Dang, that's crazy, yo. That's dangerous. That's dangerous. Because some people might not know when the sun comes out. for the last five years bro. Perfect rebrand bro. Shout out to Alex for everything. For sure man. Dang that's crazy. That's dangerous. That's dangerous. Cause some people might not know when to stop.
Starting point is 01:23:50 You know you get to take some shit, you get to liking it. Especially it make you feel a little tingly. Oh that's great. You gonna look at my garbage. That's the end result. When I retire fuck it I'll be alright. I'm going to the carnival too, they give me some things in that book.
Starting point is 01:24:07 Hey, his fit check is ridiculous. The chain, no shirt, the glitter on his chest, the snake in the belly button. The pants are crazy. No, the choker, bro, why he got a choker? Damn, they're Capri's. We need to see the shoes, though. I know he got some barbecue saddles on, bro. Yeah, some shot glasses. Oh, them dress shoes. With no socks. Capri's we need to see the shoes though. I know he got some barbecue saddles
Starting point is 01:24:43 Oh Jay Williams pause of the year, please roll this clip. I don't want him talking about my team ever again. What'd he say? I got you There has to be another way to describe that Describe that that is fucking crazy J Irvin is crazy You get a pass from me, OG. You get a pass from me. I got to get out of here. I got practice. Throw another one. Oh yeah, get well soon, Lil Duvall. Found a throwback clip. Cheer the game. Wow.
Starting point is 01:25:30 Oh, that was during Little Weekend. It was. On everything. Who was that little niggas guarding? Lil Duvall. Lil Duvall. Steps and shit out of Lil Duvall. All right, last but certainly not least, man. Little Duvall. Little Duvall. Little Duvall. Steps and shit out of Little Duvall.
Starting point is 01:25:45 All right, last but certainly not least, man. Anniversary, 25 years ago today. Get Wilson in the Portland, man. Come here. Come here, Scotty. You look creep. Ironic. That's the guy they cheated on, right?
Starting point is 01:25:59 Mm-hmm. Damn, man. You're shaked. That's crazy. Having to play against a nigga that big, bro. He's nuts. Then you just have to have Kobe. That's crazy, bro. Look at Tyrone Lue high five. I've never noticed that before. Tyrone Lue short as hell. He on the shade. He on the shade when he jumped.
Starting point is 01:26:11 T-Lue, you were nasty. We got this. We got this. We got this. We got this. We got this. We got this. We got this.
Starting point is 01:26:19 We got this. We got this. We got this. We got this. We got this. We got this. We got this. We got this. We got this. We got this. I've never noticed that before. Tyrone Luke short as hell. He on the shame. He on the shame when he jump.
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Starting point is 01:26:57 They get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. This is Absolute Season One, Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. Listen to Absolute Season One, Taser Incorporated on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 01:27:26 Clayton English. I'm Greg Glodd. And this is season two of the War on Drugs podcast. Last year, a lot of the problems of the drug war this year, a lot of the biggest names in music and sports. It's kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We met them at their homes. We met them at the recording studios. Stories matter and it brings a face to it. It makes it real. It really it. It makes it real.
Starting point is 01:27:45 It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, I'm Sarah Spain, host of Good Game with Sarah Spain and the co-author of the new book Runs in the Family, an incredible true story of football, fatherhood and belonging written with and about Las Vegas Raiders running backs coach, Dylan McCullough. It's the story of a football coach and father of four who sees his life forever changed
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