Club Shay Shay - Nightcap - Hour 1: Mavericks win Game 1, Pacers blow it vs. Celtics

Episode Date: May 23, 2024

Shannon Sharpe, Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson, and Gilbert Arenas react to the Mavericks winning game 1 vs. Timberwolves, Pacers blowing game 1 vs. the Celtics & discuss whether NFL players will ever make as much as NBA players.03:41 - Show starts06:41 - Mavs beat Timberwolves25:44 - Celtics beat Pacers42:05 - Newscap42:13 - All NBA first teams(Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.)#Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Kyrie Irving, 30 points, five rebounds, four assists. Game two is on Friday. Gil, I'm going to go to you first because this is your level of expertise. What did you like? What was the difference in this ballgame to your best guess estimation of why the Mavs were able

to go on the road and beat the Minnesota Timberwolves, the red-hot Minnesota Timberwolves? You know, game one is usually the easiest one for the road because it's under pressure of the home team

to get the first one. So I thought irritating Kyrie by Ant-Man saying publicly, I'm going to guard him, on goal mode in the first half, right? Yes. The Kyrie we've seen in the second half is what Kyrie we've been seeing in the last two rounds. He's just letting the game come to him. Kyrie, we've been seeing in the last two rounds,

he's just letting the game come to him. But the fact that Ant-Man... You challenged him. You challenged him, and that's what I do. You want to do that too. So you carried him in the first half while Luka was struggling, and then they switched roles in the second half. And that's the great thing about having two guys who can do the same thing, that when one is

lacking, the other one picks up the slack. So I thought they did a great job and the two stars played great when they needed to be there. Joe? I mean, listen, I told you who I picked to win the series.

The Mavs got away with one. I think Ant-Man poking the bear. I'm not going to say upsetting Kyrie, but just challenging Kyrie. Kyrie was up for the challenge. He showed us, he showed the rest of the world what he's capable of doing.

He's one of those people, like a light switch, he can turn it on when he wants to. Again, in the first half, he showed out. He made a statement because he was challenged. In the second half, I think he put it in cool control

and Luka Doncic took over from that point on. I mean, it was cool. It was a good game. The Mavs got this one, but we know who's going to win a series. Listen, the Mavs won the battle tonight, but the war, they will not win. You know what, Gil, I don't know if you uh and ocho i was surprised how well the mavericks

rebounded the ball because you got seven plus feet rudy gobert you got seven foot cat you got six ten six eleven nazri you go six eight jane daniels so i thought they would have a substantial because that's what minnesota do they beat you up on the glass because they can get rebound after rebound because they're always going to have a seven you up on the glass because they can get rebound after rebound because they're always going to have a seven footer on the court. Either Kat or Rudy is going to be on the court or Naz Reed. So you're going to go 16 or above for 48 minutes of the ball game. So you knowing that being said, Dallas out rebounded them by eight.

I was surprised by how well Dallas points in the paint. Now we know Minnesota can live in the paint, but for the most part, they get their, you know, can't want to shoot threes. Naz Reed can go inside, but he's going to shoot three. Jane Daniels was six of eight. McDaniels was six of eight from the three. So I don't know if I'm really surprised

by how well, how few points in the paint that Minnesota have, given the way they play the game, Gil. Yeah, you know, Rudy's going to have 10 points, 12 points. They're going to be dunked. That's going to be in the paint. Ant can slash to the basket, but for the most part, they're going to be shooting the ball from the outside. But I was

surprised by how well the Mavericks rebounded the basketball and how good a job they did defending Cat. How good a job they did defending Cat. What job they did of defending Ant. Ant got a couple of baskets. He's a great player. He's going to get his baskets. But I thought they did a good job overall

limiting the damage that he could possibly do in this game. Yeah, they took... They did what Denver started to do with Ant-Man in game um six and seven right doubling them keeping them out of the paint right because when ant-man is driving and getting those fouls putting pressure on the defense right it opens up everything so the fact that they kept him out of the lane uh made him take tougher shots than he wanted to making him second guess uh some of those

mid-range jumpers that he's used to taking. You know Cat is going to sit around a three-point line. Rudy Gober is not a factor on offense unless he's getting the putback or he's right under the basket. Nasri, same thing.

He's a jump shooter. So if you can keep them on a perimeter, you should be able to secure the defensive rebounds, right? Right. This is the game where Cat has to do what Luka did in the second half.

Like what Luka was doing in the first half, shooting a bunch of threes. In the second half, he used his size to get inside. Right? Yes. Pulling up mid-range,

attacking, getting fouled. He used his height to his advantage and said, wait a minute, they're not very good back there. This is not the same theory. So what Cat and Rudy is good at, that doesn't affect this team right here. We're big guards and we're going to use our height. We're going to get down there, put more pressure on you. And that's what they did in the second half. Yeah. I really like the way Mendoza, because you know, Cat, a lot of times, excuse me, Cat, not Cat, Ant.

Ant, he'll look to score. But if you notice, a lot of times, guys, he was looking, he was driving the ball, looking to kick for a three. And Jaden McDaniels was the beneficiary of that. We saw Naz Reed. He was the beneficiary of that. We saw Naz Reed. He was the beneficiary of that. And look, they won the – the Mavs was 6-25 from the three, 24%. The Timberwolves was 18-49, which is about 37%, 36.7.

And the Mavericks shot almost 50%. If you can shoot 50%, it's going to be Ocho, your pick's going to be in trouble. Because if you let Dallas shoot 50%, with all that height you got, with all that size you got, you're going to be in trouble.

Now, we know at some point in time, they're going to have some... Kyrie's going to get hot from the three. But Luka is going to be, instead of being three or ten, what sake of argument he goes six or twelve? Kyrie goes four of six. They made six threes tonight.

We know they're capable of making somewhere between ten and fifteen. Right. That means in order for you to keep what you got, you're going to have to keep doing the Timberwolves can you shoot 18 for 49, can you shoot 18 or 40, because I don't believe the Mavs are going to shoot any worse from the 3

in what they shot tonight, Gil maybe I'm wrong, but I don't believe it I don't believe Kyrie's going to go 0 for 3, have another 0 for, Luka's going to shoot 30% from the 3, I don't believe that I mean, but what we can also do is they can to go 0 for 3, have another 0 for. Luka's going to shoot 30% from the 3. I don't believe that. I mean, but what we can also do is they can use their length and their size and their height to their advantage

and stop playing on the perimeter. But that's who they are. Nas Reed. That's who they are. Rudy Gerber. Hey, hey, play with your back to the basket. Play down in the post. Run the offensive differently. Have a different scheme have a different scheme another way to approach the game

if you know you're taller yeah a little bigger take advantage of those situations because they're undersized why continue to do the same thing and want to have a goddamn three-point mid-range contest against a team that has you could arguably say better shooters at certain spots in certain areas because this is who they are how do i ask a bear not to take a dump in the wood when that's all he's ever done why do i why are you asking why are you asking the timberwood say guys y'all seven-foot Rudy, go seven-plus-foot Rudy. Seven-plus-foot Cat. I mean, at least seven. It's 6'10 to 6'11 Naz Reed. Why are you asking

us to do something? How do you think they got here? I have a question. Yes. Cat, Cat is not one-dimensional. He chooses to play one-dimensional. He chooses to play one-dimensional. chooses to play one dimensional.

But if you want to get your ass in home early, keep doing what you've been doing. Obviously, hell, the man's been watching film. They know we like to play out on the perimeter. So what are they going to do? I'm going to let him.

How do you tell a bear not to shit in the woods? Easy. There's a bear trap right there, goddammit. You take that shit and you're going to fall into it. How do you tell a bear not to shit in the woods? Easy. There's a bear trap right there, goddammit. You take that shit, you're going to fall into it. You over here shooting 50 damn threes. You're not going to win. You're shooting 18 for 49. You're not going to win that game because even though they look like they shot worse,

they made it up in free throws. They made it up in free throws. They made it up in free throws. They went 16 for 17 for the free throw line. So those little points that you got at the three-point line, they got it in the free throw line. That's where the game is. You shot 53s

but 89 shots in total? And you're the giant? You're the giant? You got the giant? They deserve that. They deserve that ass whooping. I'm sorry.

Look, I love Cat's game because I think he can do it all. He can shoot the ball. He can put the ball on the floor. Yes, he can play with his back to the basket, but Cat don't like contact. That physicality, everybody's not built like that. Just because you're seven foot

tall, it's like Wimby. You're like, man, Wimby, you're seven foot tall. Wimby ain't trying to bang like that. Guys don't want to because now that's where the stretch come in. Oh, he's a stretch five, and he's a stretch this because of the physicality in the game. A lot of the

physicality has been legislated out. So now there's more space and it looks better. Man, if I'm putting up from 3-0 choke, that looks a lot better than me banging, turning around, throwing a little soft baby hook or up and under.

That looks better. And you know how we love aesthetics because I ain't going to make, hey, I'm not going to make no highlight show doing no back to the basket. But let me rain this three on your head. Let me hit this step back three

at seven foot tall. Hold on, Nat. Some of these big men have footwork. There's artwork in a masterpiece when you have a big man down there that can play in a post when you have a big man down there

that can play in the post that has footwork and ability to make moves. Hey, start with the basic fundamentals and go from there. Tim Duncan, David Robinson, that was artwork. That was artwork down there in the post. That was art. But they don't play like that. How many threes did you think Elijah Wan, Patrick Ewan, David Robinson? None.

Exactly. None. But now that's the point I'm saying. Cat has the ability to do that. If you already know they're waiting on you to play on the perimeter, they already know you're going to shoot the mid-range, come in next game and do something completely different. Start off in the block.

You told me, this is what you told me, when we talk about football, don't let the defense, don't you let them, you dictate. Yeah, don't let them dictate. They dictate. No, they're not. They're letting you do what you want to do. They ain't trying to stop you.

You said he don't want to get hit. Who he gonna get hit by? The person that's guarding him, 6'6", 210. See what I mean? Yes. See what I mean? Take advantage of your height. What, who? What, who?

Who? 6'10", or, I mean, 6'6", 210, or 6'7", 230. Or 6'7", 230. Either way, both of them are considered little dudes compared to 265 at 6'10". Right? On the Mavs, Luka is actually the second biggest player on the court with his height and weight. Oh, Joe. Yes, sir. Would you rather get stung by a bee or an ant?

Ant. Both of them hurt the same. Yeah. You see what I'm saying? So whether he's only 6'6", 2'10", banging, that's still contact. Right. You know, some of the hardest hits you done been hit with a light-ass corner that you

didn't see. Everybody ain't gotta be Ray Lewis everybody ain't got to be Michael Strahan to drop that hammer on your head especially when that's not your game that's not that's not Kat's game Gil you know where Kat want to be what kind of ass you talking about the black ones

that love sugar them piss ass Dubai uh oh you talking about them red ones I don't know where you see them at well see y'all don't know about them bull ants because if you're from the country if you go to the cow pasture you'll see ant

mounds they're called bull ants they're about this big they'll light your ass up I don't know if anybody in the chat if you're from the south y'all know about them red bull ants I'm talking about they'll tear your ass up I don't know if anybody in the chat ever, if you're from the South, y'all know about them Red Bull ass I'm talking about? They'll tear your ass up. I don't know about that. Oh, so you,

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Yes, I am surprised that the ease in which Dallas got what they wanted. Luka got pretty much in the lane whenever he wanted. Kyrie was doing what he wanted, especially in the first half. And then he deferred, like you guys said, he deferred to the second half to let Luka get going.

And that's the thing. Because what do we do? If we try to trap Luka and get his ball in his hand, all he's going to do is get the ball to Kyrie and two passes. Rudy can't cover that much, Gary. Rudy good. I mean, hey, he's defensive player of the year four times. Only two other guys, Ben Wallace and Dikembe,

has ever been a four-time defensive player of the year. But he ain't covering that kind of ground. Right. And everybody out there, with the exception of probably lively and Gafford, can put the ball on the floor and get to the and get to the rim. Kyrie can do it. PJ can do it. You know, XM, he came in and do it. Green can do it. So for the most part, unless unless you come in to trap off of one of those guys, everybody else can put the ball on the floor and get to the rack. But like you said, guys, it's one game. They won Sunday. Turn around and play.

Dallas. Dallas came ready to play. They's like, okay. But don't be satisfied. If I'm J.K. I'm like, look, guys, I'm proud of you guys. We came in here and did what we needed to do. But I like sweepstakes.

I want to get it all. See, Ocho, I play Mega Million. I play Powerball, Fantasy Five, Cash Bowl, Pink. You know, I play them all. Man, you greedy. Yeah. They ain't tell me I couldn't play but one. I'm trying to get sweepstakes.

I'm trying to win Powerball and Mega Million and Fantasy Five. Don't get too excited. I don't care how many games you play. I don't care if you even win that. Even if you win the Mega Millions or the Powerball, I'm telling you how the series is going to go. The Wolves gave the Mavs this game tonight. Well, we show appreciation.

They weren't efficient. Give them three more. Huh? Give them three more. Oh, that's not going to happen. It's going to seven, and I'm telling you, Ant-Man and them boys are going to win. They're going to win the series.

You know what the flaw is? The flaw is I don't think your defensive player of the year is going to be able to play in a series like that. They might have to bench Rudy. They might think about it because offensively, he's not a factor, and obviously defensively, he's not either. So when they're picking roles and he can't switch on the guys and he's just sitting back in a dead drop, that's irrelevant in this series, right? They don't have Jokic in this series.

They have guard play in this series. So it looked like they have a bad lineup when they put Anderson and they have Rudy out there at the same time. You got two guys that are handicapped offensively, and then you got one who throws a straight knuckleball. Like he...

Oh, you're talking about slow motion? I thought he was going to call Kyle Anderson. He was calling a timeout one time. He shot a three. I was like, oh, he about to put it up there and just shot it up. Oh, no. You can't do three of those. They're leaving you open for a reason. Right?

So the fact that they got two guys that can't put the ball in the basket like that, that kind of helps Dallas out a little bit. So he's going to have to tighten up his lineup and be more offensively minded, knowing that that's all Dallas is thinking about, too. Right. All right. Last night, the Celtics beat the Pacers in overtime. The Pacers committed 22 turnovers, and those miscues led to 32 Boston points.

Tyrese Halliburton turned the ball over three times including three, excuse me, including two in key moments. He dribbled his ball off his foot when Indiana led by three in regulation with 27 and a half seconds of regulation, then lost the ball out of bounds with one or two remaining in overtime. The cost of this turnover of the game

came with 8.5 seconds left in the fourth quarter. Indiana up 117-114, and Nembhard threw a lazy pass. Pascal Siakam couldn't handle it. Jalen Brown gets his hand on it, but Siakam ends up touching the ball before it goes out of bounds. And then the dum-dum,

the all-time dum-dum thing in the world, you're up three, and you let a guy shoot a three. I'm just trying to figure out, Gil, maybe you can help me understand. Why the hell everybody standing inside the three-point line? I'm going to stand outside the three-point line and dare you to shoot a two. You know, that's facts. It started off with Hallie taking the ball, defending the ball, right?

You're supposed to defend baseline side first. Thank you. You're supposed to block baseline off, you know, give you the one, two, three misses to be count, and then jump on the ball and be very active. So if they're going to do throw it, they're going to either throw for a layup or they're going to throw it back to half court. So the fact that they got a corner

pass off, knowing that that's probably been in their playbook before, and you let it happen, which is a tough shot. That's not Klay or Curry or Kevin Durant. It is Brown, and he's a three-point shooter, but he's not deadly from that.

He just made a great shot. You can't be mad at that. You got to be mad at the fact that your out-of-bounds play that led to the turnover was a horrible design. It wasn't enough space for anybody. You didn't out-of-bounds play that led to the turnover was a horrible design, right? Yes. It wasn't enough space for anybody.

Right. You didn't call a timeout. You didn't advance the ball, right? So you can advance the ball now. You can throw it in the backcourt, right? Right. You handicapped yourself to the space and how you guys designed that play, which was horrible.

So, you know, you got to blame the coach and the players for not recognizing just call a timeout. Gil, they let him get a three off a three. I don't care if he can, I don't care if he can't make it.

I don't care if that's Rudy Gobert. I'm not letting you shoot the three. How? What are you going to do? Stand behind the three-point line. Forced him to take the two and then make it the three. How? What are you going to do? Stand behind the three-point line. Force them to take the two and make it a free-throw game. I'm not letting you shoot a three.

Somebody going to drive and kick it out. Somebody going to be standing at three-point. Somebody going to be standing at that three-point line. I'm going to let you drive. I'm not letting you get off no three, Gil. I ain't letting you get off no three, Gil. I ain't letting you get off no three. Now looking at this free throws, I would be upset now at Holly

for not actually going to the ball himself. Pushed everybody out, go for the ball. You're the only one that shot at least three free throws. Siakam going to, that would have been Siakam's first free throws of the game. And he's not a very good free throw shooter to begin with. The fact that he ran to it. Yeah.

But see, Gil, Gil, but see, I want to show you that I'm not afraid of the moment. So I'm going to go run to the ball. You know it damn well. You about to clank them anyway. Man, I'm not passing it. I am captain now. You know it damn well. You about to clink them anyway. I'm not passing. I am captain now. I am not passing. Gil, but Ocho, and you saw

this last night. They made so many mistakes. I'm trying to... Okay, they up by five. Why the hell is Halliburton pushing the ball up the court so fast? I mean, what are you trying to do? You got plenty of time. He rush pushing the ball up the court so fast. I mean, what are you trying to do? You got plenty of time. He rushes the ball up the court and dribbles

the ball off his damn foot. Why? Why? No, he's up by, excuse me, he's up five, he gets a semi-transition, step back three, Gil. Really? In that moment? And everybody's talking about, well, he can hit that shot.

That's not the point. The clock is your friend. The clock is your friend. Milk that time. You don't need to take a shot with 12 seconds on the clock. What the? I'm going to use yours, Unc. I think you said, how do you tell a bear not to shit in the woods?

That's all. Push the ball up and shit in the woods? That's all. Push the ball up and take some weird shit. That's all they know. So, you know, time and possession is a thing that they're not used to. They're used to just playing up and down basketball taking shots that they feel

is their shot. And that's what they do. Ocho. What do we say, Ocho? In a situation we know if we got the lead, we ain't going out of bounds. Oh, no, you can't. You got to slide. You got to get out. You got to get out.

But that's what, no. In that situation, you have to know, okay, what's more important? A first down or stopping the clock? Stopping that clock. So if I got a lead, see, I got the lead in the game. Now, if I don't have the lead, now I'm going to go out of bounds because the first down is unimportant. I need time.

Getting the first down and I lose 14, 15, 16 seconds, I've done my team a disservice. Right. On the other side, if we behind, damn that first down. I just saved my team 16 seconds and plus we got another down that's what halliburton that's what guys got to do to be able to think in the moment is that yes i know we play with pace all the time make or miss we'll take it off the rim or we'll take it out of the net but we're gonna push tempo i get that but not

in that moment gill not in that moment, Gil. Not in that moment. And talk about that moment. I think the game was so close all the way down to the wire, obviously having to go to overtime. Listen, you take away them damn 22 turnovers and minimize the turnovers, the Pacers win that game. I'm thinking about you take away

the 22 turnovers and minimize that. Think about the points you would have had, had you not turned the ball over that goddamn much. Yeah. And you were still in the game with that many turnovers and had the opportunity to go to overtime and still had a chance to win. It was their game to lose and they lost it. The reason that that team plays like that is they don, is they don't have a go-to guy. Right? They don't.

When you're up five. Wait. Wait. Halliburton not the go-to guy? No. The point guard. He's the one that gives the ball to the go-to guy. Right?

So when you think about the Jalen Brunson's and the Tatum's and the Brown's, when they're up five, the ball's going to them. Ball to the bill. It's going to them, and they're going to waste the the clock and then they're going to do their thing. Hallie is used to just pacing, doing this so he's not used to just sitting there trying to control the game. I don't even think he can dribble that good.

No, he's not a ball. He can dribble fast but I don't think he has handles enough for someone to pick him up full court or half court, and he has to waste time, right? That is a skill on his own. That's a Chris Paul skill. That's a Kyrie.

You have to be very skilled with dribbling to just sit there in motion. Yes. That's not his skill. That's not his talent. Yes. That's not his skill. That's not his talent. So it makes sense that he's rushing and trying to get his play off because he's not comfortable just wasting 14 seconds while somebody trying to steal the ball.

Right. This was the game that they supposed to win. This was. Yes. This was, yes, that they needed to win because the seven players that played, their top seven played amazing basketball. They're double figures. Oh, well. Double figures, played well, shot well, three guys in the double doubles. You're not going to play that great as a team again.

No. So we can take away the turnovers put them at 12 are you still going to shoot that kind of percentage across the board right 10 points next game that's my point that's a loss so the fact that you guys played offensively great

and didn't succeed that takes away especially the other team didn't play offensively great and didn't succeed, that takes – and especially the other team didn't play well. Jason Tatum didn't shoot the ball well. So it kind of – it's discouraging. You're trying to be like, yeah, if we don't turn the ball over. But we're going to be like, damn, coach, I shot the hell out of the ball, though. It ain't going to be my birthday tomorrow.

Yeah. It's not often that we can see somebody smash defeat from the jaws of victory. And that's what they did. They smashed defeat from the jaws of victory. They had the game. Right. They had the game, ball in hand, under a minute, with a minute to go,

and Hallie dribbles it off his foot. The possession before that, he takes a step back three with 12 seconds left on the clock. I'm like, bro, what are you doing? But see, that's the thing. See, everybody, that's basketball IQ.

I'm not saying he doesn't know the game, but can you, the really great players, regardless of the sport, can think under pressure and understand it's not about how we normally play. Because what's important now is tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. I'm like, bro, why would you do that? Yeah, and is that not also on the coaches as well?

He's supposed to be the coach on the floor. That's what your point guard is. That's why we give him the ball. I mean, especially in a situation like that, I would assume, I would hope, coaches letting no kill the clock, kill the clock, as much as they scream from the sideline, that would be one you would want to scream out

during a time like that, especially in that scenario and circumstance. Who? No. Now, with Rick Carlisle, Rick Carlisle is one of those, I call them goofy coaches. They have the goofy coach style where they want their defense in front

of them, which means their offense is away from them, right? It's this weird thing that I don't understand as a coach. Why would you want your defense near you when you're usually behind the five? So they can hear you,

but they can't see what you're talking about, right? When they're pushing the ball up the court, they literally can't hear or see you, right? Especially the guy who has the ball. So that means he has to turn and see what you're talking about. If you flip it the other way around and think offense, that means your defense is away from you, but they can see all five is looking at you.

So you can direct the defense. He's coming at you, and your player is looking at you. So if he says, hold it, then you know, all right. I don't know why those defensive coaches want their defense near them when it's ineffective because I can't turn and see what you're talking about, dude. I can hear you say something, but I can't see you. So the fact that I can't see you is the problem. Switch it up.

Think offense. I want my offense to see me, which means your defense sees you too. right. So basically when Hallie's coming down the court, he don't see what coach is talking about. He just playing the game and playoff basketball. And in a young guy,

he don't have that Jason kid type of mentality yet. That's something he has to grow into. Right. And you notice, Ocho, normally people think the quarterback is an extension of the head coach. But we saw in two Super Bowls ago when McKenna, Jerick McKenna, he got the ball. What did he do?

He go down at the one-yard line. So now guess what? Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. We down. We're going to time. Hey, take our time out. Kick the ball. We're four seconds left on the clock.

Now we kick it off to you. See, that's thinking. A lot of times, and we see more and more of that now because, hold on, if I score a touchdown, how many times we see somebody score a touchdown on Joe and all of a sudden they get it, they kick the field goal, now we tied. Where if you had just taken a knee, they'd have ran the clock off. You kick the field goal. Now you go home with the win.

But no, you want to be a hero. You want everybody. I got me a touchdown in the game. And they know you got a touchdown, but you ain't celebrating. Yeah. And that's what we're saying. Hallie needs to understand the moment. At that moment, you didn't need a quick three. At that

moment, slow the pace down. You're going so fast, you dribble the ball right off your foot. And then you let Holiday turn you, and you dribble the ball right out of bounds. And I can tell you, so the road team picks which way they go. That's how I know it's

Carlisle's way of coaching, right? Why jason kidd goes up to to to indy i mean when when boston goes there they're gonna have the the style i said right just just think about let's say let's say you're coaching we're looking at it like this and i'm coming up the court right yeah because you can see the defense, you can run a play, which none of the defensive players will say. So my coach used to this means one four flat.

Right? So he'll call a play and then he'll do this. And I'm like, alright, I'll fake look and go. Right? Now think about Lucas coming at me, I'm playing defense and he wants Lucaca to be double luca can't see him so boom we get to double him right now he has to come off he can stay pushing

to the left it's just a more effective way of coaching and i think everybody's so stuck in the old ways don't realize man these arenas are so loud in the playoffs, you cannot hear. Oh, yeah, for sure. You need to go visual. I think on the sideline, your sideline moves with you, right? Yeah. But Gil, to what you're talking about, Ocho, you could attest to this. On special teams,

we always send the return to our bench because if we send it to the other bench, they're going to tell them. They're going to return it. They're going to send it up to this side. We don't want you to know that the return is coming. We ain't going to tell you ish. We're going to send the return, the point return, more time than not. When you send the return,

you send it to your bench because you don't want their bench to let their team know that return. Get wide, get wide and send the return. So it's the same thing what Gil is saying. Gil says, no, you want your offense so you can see me. Because if I, hey, I'm dribbling the ball like this,

here I'm looking back, dude going to swipe me and go down and lay it up. Coach, leave me alone. No, that's how it went too. Yeah, but they blew that one, Ocho. Because you don't, I'm not saying – look, that's only one game. But that one game gives you a lot of confidence. Yeah, it does. A lot of confidence.

Now, they only shot six free throws. Boston shot, what, 30, 31, 32? They killed him on the glass. And look at Nembhard. They put the ball in Nim Hart's hands twice because he was being guarded by Big Al. And he came through. Yeah, he was nice.

Bro, come on now. They said, hey, bro, take him home. Man, he whooped, whooped, between the legs, stepped back, right in Big Al's face. Did it again. I was like, oh my goodness, they got some confidence in this young man because he had the advantage you got a guy that's a big

hey he just don't want you to blow by him so he's going to give you space he can't hug up because if he hugs up he's going to go by him oh yeah but hey hopefully they learn from this they got to understand you got to understand situation that's what we call situational football that's situational basketball Yeah. But, hey, hopefully they learn from this. They got to understand. You got to understand situations.

That's what we call situational football. That's situational basketball. Understand the situation in which you're in and play accordingly. Now it's time for segment of the night. News cap. News cap. The 2024 All-NBA teams were announced. All-NBA First Team, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic, Shea Gilgis-Alexander,

Nikolai, Nikolai, that's Nikola, Yoke, Nikola Jokic, Jason Tatum, First Team All-NBA. Luka, by earning First Team All-NBA, is now eligible this summer for a Supermax contract, Ocho. First team all NBA. Luka, by earning first team all NBA, is now eligible this summer for a Supermax contract, Ocho. Check this out. How much?

Five years. $346 million. Hey, boy, that sound like my numbers, huh? Damn. I like that. Ocho. That's good numbers there, ain't it? 70, almost 70 million, 69 million a year.

And listen. Luka 25, Ocho. I just want you to know that. I'm just going to. He going to hit him across the head again, man. For sure. He going to hit him across the head again. And when I think about it, when I think about it,

why, and you and Gil can explain it to me why in the hell do certain supermax deals why are they different like why is this number 347 and I saw other players that are all NBA

all NBA all defensive MVPs that increases your value also years All NBA, you make all defensive MVPs. That increases your value. Also, years. Yes. Also, years.

Depending on how many years you came in, depending on what year you came into the league, you can unlock a little bit more money. So when someone signs an extension, it's usually 12.5% on top of that. So the amount of years that you can sign, so let's say a guy who just came in the league, so Lucas on his, what year

is this, five? Yeah. Right, his year five. So like somebody like LaMelo Ball that's behind him, his max, his super max will only be like 217. Right. Jason Tatum signs his super max will only be like 217. Right. Jason Tatum signs his super max, it's going to be

more than this one. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now you're confusing me now. Why did Jason Tatum get more than LaMelo Ball? Because he's been in the year, he's been in the league longer. So, okay, so here I go with my contract.

So all that Melo has to do is just wait another year and do the Supermax. He just signed what Gillis said. Check this out. Let me explain it like this, Gil. Jalen Brown, hold on, Ant-Man and Tyrese Halliburton also, their own max contract extended in their rookie season because they made all NBA they get an additional

$41 million so what you can do if you make the all if you make an all NBA team if I'm not mistaken I think it's in the first two or the first three years Gil of that contract I don't even know I don't even understand the new I just know all NBA when it's my money yeah so because because they got max contracts they unlock I don't even know. I don't even understand the news. I just know All-NBA winnings my money.

Yeah. So because they got max contracts, they unlocked a $41 million option. Somebody, hold on. Who was that last year? Oh, Ja. Remember Ja got suspended and he didn't make the All-NBA, so he lost out on that $40 million extra money that he could have got

by not making one of the top three All-NBA teams, by Ant-Man making it, by Tyrese Halliburton making it, they get to unlock that. So now Luka, because he's been an All-NBA player, he's already at the extent.

Because he made it again, now he's at the super, super max. Oh, because he made it twice. Yeah, so you the super, super max. Oh, because he done made it twice. Yeah, so you have max and super. Okay, so like when my contractor's coming up, the max deal for the max players was $79 million, right? So that was, so Kobe, Vince Carter, all of them, their max deals was $79.

By the time I came into the nba when i signed my deal i signed for 65 right look how far look how close i am behind them but my max if i was a max player at the time i would have been 86 so i would have been more than what colby and them were because my max went higher than where you're at. When it was their turn, it went to 96. Then 100 and something. So how many years? So like somebody like KG, nobody

would have... Okay, so let's say Bron. Bron has been in the league 20 years. His max, his real max, if he was signing real max deals, he would be actually in a 400 problem. His grandfathered in to some shit that don't even exist. Right.

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And see, the thing is what helped them. And plus, Gil, you get to be on the max contract if you make all-rookie teams. So you're already starting out with accolades. Yes. Now, all of a sudden, not only am I all-rookie, I've made all-NBA. So now I'm on a supermax. So Luka Messerati, in the next two years, he's going to sign this supermax.

Guess what happens? He makes one of the first three all-NBA teams the next two years. You know, the funny part is, it's going to go up again? Yes. It's about to be $400 million. When his money's up, right, even if he doesn't sign a super max

and it's just a regular max, it's 12.5% on top of what it maxed. So if that last year is 65 million, the beginning of that first year, that new contract starts off 1.5 increase, right? Yes. But if he's a super max shit, he might be at 500.

So Luca and Jason loose Tatum will be the first because he signed in the first super match. He will probably be the first one to hit 500. Jason Tatum would hit 500. It's going to be one of those two that hit 500 million. So can Ant-Man just wait? Instead of taking the Supermax deal now, can he just wait and make it NBA All-Star next year?

He just signed the max contract off his rookie deal. Which he should have waited. Oh, so it's too late now. Man, you telling somebody to wait, that's $150 million they got waiting for me. I'm 21

years old, Ojo. Right. Because there's a 12.5 increase off of your last number, think about you're a rookie and I'm giving you a max deal. It's not true max. If you opt out of it

and be a free agent and sign a deal, it becomes. Right. Right. So that's why a lot of people opt out of their deal and then just sign

a whole new deal to get rid of that, just that increase. But see, here's the thing though, Gil. You got to wait all new deal to get rid of that increase. But see, here's the thing though, Gil. You got to wait all the way to the end of your contract before you do that. So that means he'd have another two years. I don't know very many guys, oh, you're going to wait. I got $150 million right now

or I'll wait two years, opt out and be able to sign because what they can do, the team that you're with, they can offer you that extra year. So if he were to leave and go somewhere what they can do, the team that you're with, they can offer you that extra year. So if he were to leave and go somewhere, they can only offer him four. Where the home team can offer you that fifth year at that $70 million.

So what Ant-Man's going to do, he's made it. So guess what? When Ant-Man come up again... Even hit it across the head. When he's up, he's at 216. So he'll probably be at like 325, 350, which Luka means. Like that's what I said, it's Luka and Jason Tatum that's going to be hitting him right now.

Oh, they're going to be hitting him. Yeah. Because both of those guys guys how old is JT JT's what 25, 26 Luka just turned 25 so him and Luka the same age around the same age yeah so it's them two

so in three years if Luka's still probably in three years Luka be eligible again for 75 probably 480 maybe close to 500 million. I know what you're saying. Oh, hey, I know what you're saying. I'm going to the gym right after this, dog.

I'm calling LeBron. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, listen, I always understood the numbers when it came to, obviously, football. I understand the numbers when it came to, obviously, football. I understand the numbers when it comes to baseball. But the way the NBA works as far as years and Supermax, Max deal, based on whether you make the NBA team or not, that's crazy. That's crazy. So how come LeBron hasn't gotten a deal like that? Is he

purposely taking a hometown discount? At his age, you can't give him that deal now because remember, Gil, those guys were getting those deals. They were giving those old guys and that thing was obsolete. So after you get a certain age, you can't get that super max deal.

What is it? 34, 35, Gil? What is it? You can get a super max um but he always i mean from the time i can remember he always only did three year four year deals he never yeah max he never he never wanted to stay in a contract that long that long okay he wanted to keep hitting them right so he never wanted to be in a four, five-year deal. So he's the only person that can do that though, right? Or can other players opt out and say, listen,

I only want to be in a three-year deal. He didn't want to be tied up. LeBron signs three-year deals because he wants to keep the pressure on you. See, if you lock me into a five-year deal,

where you going? Oh, you can threaten all you want to. You're not going nowhere. But see, that three-year deal, and it's normally two plus you can threaten all you want to. You're not going nowhere. But see, that three-year deal and it's normally two plus an option. So now that third year is his option.

Can everybody do that, though? Does everybody have the leverage to pull that off? See, LeBron got money off the field. See, LeBron doing 50, 60 million off the court. He makes more off the court than he does on the court. Supermax,

a Supermax contract was designed to allow teams to resign players with eight or nine years of service with that team for a maximum of five years at an amount of 35% of the salary cap, subject to an 8% annual.

So that's to make sure, look, I want to keep my guy. I don't want Jason Tatum to leave Boston. I don't want Luka to leave Dallas. So now I can give him a supermax which is designed to keep it. So just imagine if in today's time

a Jordan, a Kobe, a LeBron, well, they're going to be billionaires in under 10 years just on contracts. These guys are going to hit billions. Yes!

Now, I asked someone in football, I said, with y'all arenas, with y'all arenas, with y'all arenas, if y'all fought like the NBA players, y'all would be billionaires

quick. And here's what, this is how I viewed it. You guys play what, one game a week? Yes. You practice. You practice Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Now, take away those three practices because

you don't get paid for them shits, right? You don't get paid for practice. So, what if you just practice one time a week and had two games a week? Think about your contract because you get paid for the game itself. I know what you're going to say. Well, we ain't going to be prepared. That means you're going to be broke

up. You ain't going to play for a couple years. Yeah, you got to heal up. You got to heal up after these games. You telling me if you play on a Monday and a Thursday, you only got one practice. You're not getting beat up in practice.

No, you get beat up in that game. I thought practice is where you get Oh, no. Oh, no. It beat up in that game I thought practice is where you get oh hell no I mean it's not like that it used to be it used to be they beat hell out you in practice they don't do that anymore now they try to preserve you these new school coaches

it's more walk through they don't really put the pads on like we once did like when I got in the league we thundered that thing up 907 they put mofos on the ground. It wasn't that, oh, you know, y'all touching both the hips. Oh, no. They dropped that hammer on your ass.

Yes. That right there, you come up and thud somebody the wrong way, and it's a fight. Oh, yeah. It's a fight. So, you know, we got doing that two-hand touch and making sure the body was in position to make the tackle. Yeah. As opposed to thudding.

Now, hey, it's 7-on-7, Gil. It's 7-on-7, Ocho. Run your ass across that middle and see what happens. It's 7-on-7. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, NBA, we don't, what Allen Iverson said, we not practicing, we going to see you in the game, sir. Right?

So when you're thinking about the NFL, that arena, y'all arenas is so big. Imagine the money they keeping from you. Like, this is how much money the NBA owners is making. When there's a lockout and we say, hey, let us see your books. Oh, say again, how much you want?

You say, oh, no. What I tell you, Ocho, you see the difference? The difference is that because they've gotten guaranteed money for, let's just say, for the sake of argument, three to four years, they'll say, you know what? We're going to shut it down.

Baseball shut everything down. No playoffs, no World Series. No nothing. Now look at the money that they made. Shohei Ohtani, 10 years, $700 million. $700 million, yeah.

Mike Trout going to make $500 million. Bro, but see, the difference is, the difference is that the owners know the fans love football so much. As long as he has a cowboy jersey on, they give a damn if it's CD Lamb or Baby Lamb. All they care about is cowboy,

that star on the helmet, or the Pittsburgh Steeler logo. They don't give a damn who in it because they've struck twice and they saw what happened. Fans came to see the replacement players. But then let them. They let them.

The thing is this. It's a business for them, too. Yes. It's a business for them, too. And they're going to lose way more money than you are going to lose. They won't. Because you know why? Gil, their money is guaranteed because ESPN, Fox,

are going to still broadcast those games you see the thing is if the network said no unless we get the real players we're not then then and only then will the the owners act u.s but see the thing is see jared jones can go he's supposed to make a payment that's 1515 million at the end of the month. He could go to his banker and say, you know what? This thing's going to stretch a little longer. Okay, here. Go ahead and charge me another 4% or 5% interest, and I'll take care of you.

You not going to be able to go to your banker. He's going to say, either you pay or you will get your ass out of this house. Nothing different. But the problem is, his got to get cut off. See, the problem is, y'all got too many people voting. Y'all got 55 players, right? Yeah. All of them getting votes?

Yeah, everybody vote. No, they don't. No, they don't. Not when you trying to change everything, you don't get a say-so. So that means the star players only get the vote because I know the star players are not thinking money. They're thinking future.

So if a dude need his rent paid, he going with the owners. I need to lock out the end. And that's half the damn team. I don't need them voting. I need the people who's making, who's thinking about, well, if we hold out, we can possibly get this. Back up the lockout.

Right? Y'all should be making way more than us. I know. But Ocho, you want me to tell him, but you're going to tell him how many NFL players

living check to check because they got four cars, three girls put up, and they just bought Mama Creel for $2 million. That's the problem, Ocho. Hey, they run through it fast. That money. See, they only get paid.

They only get paid. We only get paid September, October, November, December, January, and if you make the playoffs, see, once you make the playoffs, you don't get your salary, you get the playoff pool. So you might be making you know, you might be making

$150,000 a chance. Now all of a sudden that thing is $50,000 a chance. And that's why they don't get a vote, is what I'm saying. So your ass gonna be under the bridge until the season starts, god damn it, because we got Yeah, I know how to do this

I ain't got time I ain't got time to hear you whine Oh, my girl's going to leave me And she better pop OnlyFans She better pop it on OnlyFans Because that's going to sell big business NFL playing girlfriend on OnlyFans I'll pay you $3 for that

That's the thing You got to tell the guy, I said, look Because let me tell you what the owners did NFL playing girlfriend on OnlyFans? I'll pay you $3 for that. That's the thing. I say, you know, you got to tell the guy. I said, look, because let me tell you what the owners did. The owners, when the players, the players had years left, and they extended the deal. Once they extended the deal, Roger Goodell go to the networks. We got 10 years of labor peace. We want to redo it.

We want to redo it. We want to extend the deal. So guess what they did? ESPN, Fox, CBS, NBC. Redid it. Redid the deal. Hey, Amazon said, hey, can we get in? Yeah, how about this here? We're going to take Thursday Night Football,

and we'll give it to you, Amazon, but it's going to cost you a bill. Okay. Okay, we'll take that. You don't say, hey, give it to you, Amazon, but it's going to cost you a bill. Okay. Okay. YouTube's like, hey, you know, hey, hey, you know what? We want to be a network. We want to be taken serious. So we know we need live events. What y'all thinking, Roger?

Well, you know, the DirecTV about to end. What y'all looking like? We got X. Okay, you're in. Guess what? Oh, hey, what oh hey hey hey hey hey I heard y'all got some Christmas games coming on can we get in Netflix really y'all are streaming

y'all like NFL football too how about we let y'all stream the three games on criminal and this is a lockout get in and the funny thing about it, when you think about what these companies are spending, if Netflix is spending a billion,

how much do you think they're going to make? How much do you think they're going to make? I think people need to understand that. If they're spending a billion, and to us, the casual, regular person, regular person like we are, if they're spending a billion, what you think they finna make?

Yes, but the casual fan will empathize with the billionaire more so than the millionaire. That's the problem because if the salary cap is $255 million, that's the cap. Where each 32 teams each get $300 million

from the network deal. Okay, you got naming rights for your stadium. You got local TV. You got concession. You got interest into the... You got tickets. You got parking. You got merchandise.

And that's outside of your $300 million. Now that lets you know how they're siding with the billionaire and complaining to the millionaire. But that's the point of this, right? Because the owners don't have a face. The players do. And this is why I say this is when you lock out. They can use replacement, but I can tell you who didn't pay for replacement.

Netflix, Amazon, they didn't pay for replacements. That's a good one. I like that. Guess what? Let those companies bully them.

What's going on? We didn't pay for these dudes. We paid for Patrick Mahomes and Kelsey and his little girlfriend singing and dancing. That's what we paid for. So if you don't get them back on the field, we're going to cut our deal. That makes Roger Goodell change his spirit.

I like that. If he knows y'all know it before him. Oh, Joe. I love it. A lot of y'all know it before him. Oh, Joe. I like, I like, I love it. Everything. A lot of what I have,

what we do, we talk about on nightcap when we don't have Gil is through the NFL. But you know what you hear? When you hear the NFL talk, who are they? Partners. They never say the players. They say Fox.

They say CBS. They say NBC. They say ESPN. They're going to line up together because they, guess what? They can wait you out. How long, unless you're one of these top guys and you got $40 million banked up, how long do you think the average of those 53, only about five on your team making real money,

how long can they wait, Ocho? Yeah. Terry Jones can wait for 10 years and never play another game, and he's still going to be worth 15 billion. You got to think about it, Gil. The way NFL players spend, how many of them can last without those checks coming in once the season rolls around? Didn't I tell you?

I don't give a fuck about those other 40. You said five? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Five votes. That's what I'm saying. I got five votes. Because I. We did.

We did. Yeah, you can't leave. You can't leave. You can't leave your homeboys out in the wind. I know number 15, 14, and 13 want to end the lockout so they can get paid. Guess who don't have a vote? 15, 14, and 13. We don't need a vote? 15, 14, and 13. We don't need your

votes, brother. Me, Antoine, and Karan, we're going to do the voting here. Why you think it's 500 million? There's people that ain't getting mail. We don't know your address, homeboy. You don't have to wait it out. Whatever you got to do to survive,

please survive. And this is when the top five, this is when y'all become businessmen. You know how many loans I gave out with a high-ass percentage? Oh, yeah, for sure. Look, for me, all I'm saying is,

hey, look here, you need a million. The end of the CBA is coming up. Guys, for the next three years, I need you to be as conservative as possible. Please, no big purchases. Say, say, say. Because this thing might go on for a year.

Yeah. For a year. And so I'm going to need you guys to be banked up. Because they say everybody, even the average American American should have three months banked up. If you lose your job, you need to be able to survive for three months, three months. Yeah. Until you find a new job. Hopefully it comes sooner. But if it doesn't, you got three months. No, no, I don't. Man, the average NFL player, Gil, they got three days.

Oh, Joe, they got three days. Oh, Joe, they got three days. They got three months, three days. And right now, I don't think there's any sports today, in today's time, that can not work for a year. It'd be so hard to recover from that just as a league itself because you miss a whole year. That means another sport is getting popular. Your fan base is going so far.

Ain't nothing messing with the NFL. Why you think? Gil, we about to play games on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Ain't nothing messing with the NFL, Gil. If you miss five days, if you miss a whole year, there's a reason that they working y'all asses a little bit more. There's a reason they adding more because they getting more money working y'all more.

Yes, but here's the thing. And look, the players are going okay. Look, I ain't got no problem. 18 games, they want their body to play 18 games. The players are going to get compensated. But all I'm saying is, Gil, if you go back and study the history of the league and you look at 82 and you go back and look at 87, 87 was the last strike.

And I'm old enough to remember it because I was in college. Bro, when you go back and look, and I ain't going to call nobody names, but when you go back and look at the names that crossed the picket line because they needed them paychecks. I'm talking about MVP, Defensive Player of the Year. I ain't just talking about no ranking date guys. Go back and look it up, champ, and look at the guys, the first guys that started crossing the line.

And you're going to think, oh, my goodness. And that's why I say I don't give them no votes. Listen, when you're trying to – Hold on. How you not going to give an MVP of the league a vote, defensive player of the year a vote? When you're trying to make a change, think about it. Change needs to be made.

If we can keep it the same, that means I'm going to hold ground knowing you're going to fall. So it's going to always be against the player if they can't hold out. Because I'm not going to give you nothing knowing that you're going to take it anyway. I'm giving you crumbs. Right. You're talking about a bunch of

dollars making $500 million and y'all talking about, man, we out here. We out here with the CTEs and all. Y'all should be getting $600 million. The fact that you have guaranteed lets y'all know that they know y'all going to falter. I don't care if these guys go homeless. Oh, well. I'm trying to get a guaranteed contract.

If your ass got to work at McDonald's, God damn it, I'm going to be in there after we finish doing this line. I'll get an ultra-wash meal. Welcome to McDonald's. How might I help you, ultra-single? Number one, XT's Manoli. There's going to be a bunch of them. I don't care.

I'm going to be part of the player PBA, whatever that is, because I ain't trying to hit none of y'all argument. We're trying to get to a goal and y'all slow. Right. Cut the fact. Gil. Hey, Gil. You ever saw this TV show,

the sitcom, Married With Children? Oh, my favorite. Charlie Sheen left. Did they cancel the show or did they bring Aston Kutcher on? Don't tell me what these TV... That was two and a half men.

Two and a half men. What'd they do, Ojo? Did they cancel that show with Charlie Sheen left or no? It kept going. I'm saying all of them leave. Everybody go. Gil, that would be true. If the

fans are tied to the team, not the players. The players come and go. Who they watching? Replacements. As long as I see a star on that helmet, he's a Cowboy player. Who just won the championship? Kansas? Kansas City.

If all of them say we ain't coming and they bringing some replacements in, you think the TV deal that the people who pay, I paid a billion dollars to see Patrick Mahomes. I don't want to see his brother. I don't want to see his brother out there twerking, throwing the football. I paid for Patrick. They did.

But the fans at home watching. How many? But what I'm saying is how long But the fans at home watching. How many, but what I'm saying is, how long before the fans themselves say, this is not what we paid our tickets for. I didn't pay my tickets for replacement. That suite cost me

$300,000 and these are not the players that I paid $300,000 for is what I'm saying. So you can wait them out. Gil. And these are not the players that I paid $300,000 for is what I'm saying. So you can wait them out. You just – Gil. You just – Ocho.

It's too many players. It's too many players. It would never work. Too many. You got 53 versus 53. Yeah, you got 53 on the squad. That would be impossible. How much –

Gil, let me ask you a question. Ocho, you tell Gil how long they've been playing the preseason games, and you play the same price for a preseason game than you do a regular season game, and half the time the guys that's going to play in the regular season ain't playing, and the fans still show up, right? Yeah. See, the owners know,

the owners know the fans are loyal to the team, not the players. Players, nope. No, that's what they make y'all believe. Oh, they don't believe. I think it. They don't believe. You see what I mean?

For a few games. Gil, go back and study 87 and look at the guys that crossed the picket. Gil, everybody ain't making $100 million. A guy that's making $200,000, he ain't going to be able to survive. But what I'm saying is, these companies are paying billions for a certain product.

If the product is not... Just like when a player... Think about this. In the NBA, when a player gets hurt and he's missing games, who's the first one to start complaining, though? The fans. Hey, hey, hey, hey, you got it.

That's why Embiid, you better bring your ass on out here, Embiid. We sold these we sold these playoff seats at a price that they came to see you. That's what I'm saying. Like, go back, do your research on the lockout in 2011, right?

450 NBA players voted. Tally up the votes. I guarantee you it's going to be about 75 to 100. The rest of them jokers vote. But see, in our CBA, everybody gets a vote. Ochoa's vote is the same as Patrick Mahomes. And the guy that's on the practice squad, I mean, the 53rd guy,

his boat matters just as much as Joe Burrow, just as much as Josh Allen. I hear you what you're saying. Think about what I'm saying. There's 450 players. When we turned them in to Chris Paul, only 175 to 100 was reported. He said, hey, we couldn't reach the rest of these people.

This is what we got, though. Right, right. A thousand football players can show up. When y'all turn them papers in and there's only 300, there's 300. We don't need the other 700. We don't care about those votes. Those votes go against the agenda. Against the cause.

That is all I'm saying. Yeah. It could be I'm saying. Yeah. I wish we could be as unified as you guys because what you're talking about is solidarity. What you're talking about is unity. And we've seen that from other sports leagues. We've

seen that from MLB. We've seen that from the NBA. We have yet to see that. It's not like I disagree with what you're saying, but Ocho and I, we're talking about from experience and what we've seen is that we can't get that level of unity

that we're going to say, okay, this is what we're going to do. Because we might be able to do it on the team. Hey, man, look, we want to practice at this time and we can get all of us to agree, but what about the other 31 teams and getting those players to agree that we're going to do X, Y, and Z?

That's the problem that you have is because we've been allowed to be splintered. If we can stand locked, you know, like they, you see, hey, you see what they did when we started taking them knees? What them owners do, Ocho? Oh, yeah. They locked it up.

Yeah. Play if you want to. That's what I'm saying. Like, y'all actually turning in. Listen, the last 2011 lockout, I didn't vote. Who voted? When did we vote? Chris Paul said, hey, everybody voted.

We voted to end the lockout. Everybody's looking like, did you get a vote? Matt's like, I ain't getting no vote. They didn't. Hey. They were smart. Let's just say, yeah. You can't put it.

I wish, Gil, I wish. Back to this. The NBA is getting a $7 billion a year media rights deal with the Lockley Lockup. 10% cap growth. The next MAAC cap can grow up each season. So if the cap will top at $200 million in 2029, a 35% MAAC salary projects to $72 million per year, with the fifth-year salary at $95 million,

a total MAAC value five years, $419 million. Eh. So all NBA second team, Jalen Brunson, Anthony years, 419 million. Eh. So, All-NBA second team, Jalen Brunson, Anthony Davis, Kevin Durant, Anthony Edwards, Kawhi Leonard. I have a little issue with that last selection. Third team, All-NBA, Devin Booker, Steph Curry, Tyrese Halliburton, LeBron James, DeMontis Sabonis. Gil. Kawhi second team or LeBron or Sabonis

when I did mine when I turned mine in this was my exact I had Luka, SGA, Ant-Man Tatum, Jokic Giannis, Brunson Kawhi, AD, Durant I had Paulo, Sabonis

Booker, LeBron, and Jalen Brown. So I was off by four, right? I didn't have Giannis in first team. I penalized him for how he ended the season, which, you know, he ended the season 17-19. Right. But his numbers itself, that's first team. So I'm not mad at that.

Sabon is leading the league in triple doubles and he was right in front of Curry or tied with Curry. Kind of weird. But I'm not arguing with... I don't see anything wrong with it. Kawhi,

who would be in front of Kawhi? Right? LeBron. LeBron. LeBron. Yeah, why is LeBron on third team and not... Probably record.

Probably the record a little bit. Just the record a little bit. Like, what's so funny is I had him on second team, too. So I'm not mad at the list. Jalen Brown, you get penalized. Like, it's like you see how they use winning for something and then use,

you know, yeah. Not the other, yeah. I see. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. Not the other. Yeah. I see. Yeah. You're right. Yeah. You're right. The volume.

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