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Episode Date: December 29, 2023

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Welcome back to It Is What It Is. This episode is sponsored by Underdog Fantasy. The app is an easy way to make some cash just by making picks on your favorite players. Underdog is available in more than 30 states, including California, Florida, Texas, and New York. Make sure to support the show by hitting the link in the bio and downloading the Underdog Fantasy app. They will also match your first deposit up to $100, and you get a special pick when you sign up i'm treasure wilson aka stat baby along with your host mace and cam what's up what's good what's good with you how you doing man man the holidays has been good yeah they have been i can't lie man definitely have been. I can't lie, man. Definitely have been so far. How about you, Stat? It's been great.

It's been great to be back home. So I'm loving it. You in Florida, Stat? Well, right now I'm in Atlanta, but I was in Florida. Talk about you back home. You're not home, Stat. I was like a couple hours ago. Now I'm not.

Oh. Oh. You got motion? Oh, yeah. Hey, she got motion. She got motion. Oh, oh, oh. I like Atlanta.

Okay. Y'all ready? Mm-hmm. Okay. Let's start. First of all, real quick. Real quick, though. Murdered this morning.

They said you must have your Yeezys on because you was all over the place for title time. They said, when you're going to do that, you got to show your Yeezys, man. That's what they said. If you're going to just jump out the window like that, you got to show which shoes that you wear. You got to show them what shoes that you wearing.

Yeah, I got to show my Yeezy. Let me go get my Yeezy. I definitely had on Yeezy Crocs. Yeah, he said this morning Murda had on some Yeezys, man. He got his starts on fruit. We had them drinks on, man. I just wanted to relay the message of what was going on in this morning's episode. Now, Paulie, I'm sorry.

Yesterday's morning episode. I'm sorry about that. I'm still low source from last night. But, yeah, yesterday morning's episode. Yeah, well, let me talk crazy then. Throw my easy shades on. You know that nigga's going lefty with it all. The nigga's going lefty with it all.

One nigga in the comments said Mase had me dizzy for a minute, and then he started making sense. So I ain't know which way to go with it. Tell him I got my Yeezy shades on now I'm pretty sure they're watching this morning too yeah well it's great to know you're prepared Mace because we're gonna start with Russell Wilson so the Denver Broncos are benching Russell Wilson for the remainder of the season and we'll start Jared Stidham. In addition to Wilson's $39 million guaranteed,

another $37 million could be guaranteed if he cannot pass a physical in early March. Sources are saying the reasoning for his benching is financial related. But what do you think is Russell Wilson's future? You think they're trying to get him out of there, huh? What do you think is Russell Wilson's future? You think they're trying to get him out of there, huh? They're trying to get him out of the demo. Nigga said, nigga said, huh? Nigga said they ain't like him over there, huh?

Trying to get him out of there, huh? Yeah. Sean Payton ain't feeling no more. You think the boy playing, huh? You think Sean, you think Sean was playing, huh? You think Sean was playing? He told you to stop kissing them babies, huh? Babies, huh? He thought Sean Payton was playing in the beginning of the season. He told him to stop kissing them babies

and doing all of that, bro. We need you to play football, man. We paying you a lot of cash out here. You used to live in Titletown. This ain't Titletown. And I came prepared to define it today, but we'll deal with that later. But right now you ain't in Titletown, nigga.

You know what I'm saying? You right down here with Ciara. And, you know, they trying to sell weed in Denver, you know? You messing the strand up. He might have his own strand in a minute, nigga. He might be smoking on the Russell Wilson pack, nigga. Yeah. The CC pack sound better, though.

Yeah, that do sound better. They ain't going to get offended, though. I just was listening to a new song. No, not from you. I'm talking about Russell's on your front. Sierra probably don't give a fuck. You know what's crazy? I was just listening to Shout Out to Quavo, Shout Out to Future.

I was just listening to their song. It's Shout Out to Future. I was just listening to their song. It's not new, probably a few months old. And that nigga, I forget how it went, but in the middle of the fucking song, that nigga Future said, yeah, fuck Russell. I said, yo. Was that Turn Your Quick Up, Dog? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That in the middle of the song, nigga Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That and the other song, nigga, say, yeah, fuck Russell. You just don't give a fuck, bro. Y'all niggas act like y'all gonna put his business out there. He put it out there before you get a chance to put it out there. It don't matter. Nigga put the hug. Him and 42 Doug, nigga, say, yo.

Tell Steve Harvey I don't want to. put the hook, him in 42, Doug, nigga, say yo. Tell Steve Harvey I don't wanna. Say yo, nigga. On the hook. Yeah, future. Future, a minute, shout out to motherfucking my nigga Scooter and, you know, Metro, whole clique down there.

Listen, man, like Mase said, I totally agree. This was a recipe from disaster from the beginning of the season. Sean Payton, before the season started, tried to get Russell Wilson to toughen up or at least toughen up to the point Sean Payton was satisfied. Told him, look, you got to stop kissing babies like murder just said. Stop shaking old ladies' hands.

Stop helping people with their groceries. Yo, go slap somebody. He said everything but that. No, I'm exaggerating. And when the season started off bad for Denver, basically this is what we all talked about. During the middle of the season, that said that Russell Wilson ain't shit,

and then they went on a tear. Probably a six-game winning streak. Everybody says, oh, they got to get their chemistry together. You know, it took some time. You know, they stopped blaming Sierra because a lot of people was talking about he rented out a Waffle House and all this shit during the course of that losing streak

because Sierra's favorite restaurant is the Waffle House. But even if you're going to do this, at least be winning because niggas use shit like that to say this is why you're losing. Or at least don't post it on social media for the summertime

when niggas can be like, yo, oh, that was sweet of what he did. Look, either wait to post it until your winning season's over, or if your winning posted. If not, these are things they use as an excuse. Like Mace said, this is not the same scenario, but

it matters. It does matter. You can sit here and say, it does matter. You can sit here and say, it does matter. You can sit there and say, yo, what do that got to do with him

winning football games, taking his girl to a Waffle House because they're not winning and they're looking for excuses on why you're not performing well so yeah it matters it's not Taylor Swift yeah

exactly that's exactly what they're trying to pull on him yeah so now it comes down to the end of the season. You go on another losing streak. The Broncos are not totally eliminated from the playoffs as of right now, but what Sean Payton did and said was,

if we're going to make it, we're going to make it with this nigga, not with you. You don't want to listen to what I told you in the beginning of the season. You still Waffle House-ing, you still doing all this other shit that we not even gonna say that you doing cause niggas are just disrespecting.

We have no idea what's not being reported. We have no clue. You're like, oh, you bigging in the system. You bigging in the system. Right. It was an episode on, and I'm not saying it's this far. It was an episode years ago, maybe more than 10 years ago, maybe 15 years ago, on Real Sports with Brian Gumbel. And it was about Doug Christie.

And shout out to Doug Christie. He was a solid NBA player. And a lot of people may not even know Doug Christie, but they may know his wife. I can't think of her name right now. She's on Basketball Wives. The older, I ain't going to say wow, but she moves aggressively.

Stat, if you get a chance, can you look up Doug Christie's wife name for me for when you get a second? Jackie. Anyway. Jackie. Yeah. Jackie. Jackie. Now, this is way before she was on the television show. Doug Christie,

when he substituted out the games, he had to look at the floor, and every time he scored, he had to blow her a kiss because she didn't trust cheerleaders. She didn't trust owners. She didn't trust anybody, any away game that he went to. She had to go to the away game with him. It was just to the point ridiculous to where

when you sub out a game, you have to look down. And their management is saying he needs to be looking up at the game so when he gets back in the game, he knows exactly what he's going to do. And I'm not comparing Russell Wilson to that, but it's a little bit of that, man. Sometimes you got to say say and i know you can love your girl and bring however you want and you say this love thing is bigger than sports or anything else because i'm in love with a woman but you must be on the oj budget

yeah and when i say an oj budget is when oJ be talking about well we made more than enough money we have enough money to live you still can get a wild contract you don't want no more money that's what you're saying because if you make the playoffs Sean Payton is going with the backup

and then it's questions for next year if they make the playoffs and I And then it's questions for next year if they make the playoffs. And I already think it's questions for next year because now this becomes an ownership and management problem. Who are you going to keep? Your Super Bowl champion quarterback or your Super Bowl champion coach? Because they both have been to Titletown, just in case. They've both been to Titletown just in case

they've both been to Titletown it makes sense yes so who do you trust more who do you go with Sean Payton or Russ see the thing is for me with Russ at this

particular point just to flat out answer your question I would go with Sean Payton but to me I think Russ still could pull something off I don't think that his skills are diminished I don't think that he's old enough to be like he's old

I think he's in a bad place he got a lot of money part of the reason he even went to Denver is because he's a guy in the locker room, they say, that basically talks shit about people in the media instead of having conversations with them direct. You know, when he was in Seattle, he started blaming his offensive line publicly to where they said this is a big deal. He wanted to know.

Yeah. So my thing is this. Even if you feel a way about, not to cut you off, but I want you to elaborate on this. Even if you feel some way about your offensive line, you don't say that because these are the niggas protecting you every week.

So if you dog them in week 7, week 8, you can imagine what's going to happen to you week 11, 12, 13. Probably why he's not playing good. It's probably why because it's like when it comes down to it, whether you get 4 seconds or 6 seconds, a lot of

times got to deal with it. It comes down to if the O-line you you know you really supposed to get it out of there 2.5 3 seconds but if you got a great like a tom brady they know he couldn't scramble and i know we always use the goats as examples but we all know tom brady couldn't run you can imagine and i always say this, not just for this particular conversation, you can imagine the Christmas gifts, the birthday gifts,

the hazard gifts Tom Brady was giving to his own line. For you to get four seconds, for you to be back there for four seconds just looking left and right. And listen, Tom Brady had more than four seconds because he can't scramble. He was getting four to six.

Right. And maybe more than that from time to time. They love Brady. Right. So when you in there. Exactly. That's why, man, I'm not blocking for this nigga. You can just imagine that, dude.

I'm not tanning my neck for this. It's nigga already on mic. Yeah, right. And let me talk about this. You got to fix this, Russ, because there's a reason why certain people play for certain coaches. Just like we was talking about Mike Tomlin the other day. When something needs to happen, he's able to look to his team and say, let's go get this one pause and they go get it

because the love that they have for him and that camaraderie but when you when you over there thinking you better than niggas and all that you bigger than the system he's gonna let you fall on your face for real and that's just that's any sport in any locker room. People hate prima donnas, especially in the key position. A prima donna point guard, a prima donna quarterback. What else? What else? A prima donna pitcher. You know, a nigga that's already leading the team,

and he got these flaky ways. It's going to be hard. Pause. It's going to be very hard to play for that kind of guy. And if he's running his mouth, I can only imagine what they're thinking. So now you got the assistant. I mean, not the assistant, but the backup quarterback.

He in there, and God forbid if he get two wins, he get two wins. They're going to have to trigger that 37. And that's what – when you asked me that question about Russell Wilson or Sean Payton, that's what I was going to say. Today isn't the answer. The answer is this.

If the quarterback gets two wins, if this quarterback and Sean Payton gets two wins and they go to the playoffs and don't let them win a playoff game, put it like this, it's questionable if they make it to the playoffs and if they get a win, Russell is out

because Sean Payton is going to look like he knows what he's doing. Now, if they lose these two games and don't make it to the playoffs, then it's a conversation. It's going to be a long spring and a long summer trying to figure out, do you give these guys one more season to coexist? Or are they already at the point where they can't coexist with each other anyway? And the type of guy you think Russell is, he going to sit down with Peyton after this, after Peyton

benching him? Probably not. Probably not. That's a good point. When I'm sitting down, sitting, it would be like me benching him. He's a championship quarterback. Will we bench him?

No, you let him figure it out. You know, he got the seniority. Right. And he's not a light-skinned nigga, but he got light-skinned nigga hair. So you're right. He may not even go sit down with that nigga. He not sit down with him. He definitely got mousses and skinned nigga hair. So you're right. He may not even go sit down with that nigga. He not sit down with that.

He sit his definitely, he definitely got mousses and shit in his hair. They too arrogant to sit down with niggas. Creme de la creme, you know. He ski win and all that. He think he better than niggas. He you. He ski he better than me? He's key.

As far as the Broncos' schedule goes, next they play the Chargers and then the Raiders, so it's very much possible that they could get a win. But league sources are saying that Russell is expected to be cut by March. So the question is, if Russell Wilson was to be cut, is there any team that you feel like you could see him going to? Or do you feel like it's Raps? They're trying not to give him that 37, right?

Yeah. Because he would have a guaranteed 37. It's if he can't pass a physical, which is a crazy contract to me. But that means he just can't get injured. So if he doesn't pass the physical, he gets a guaranteed $37 million in addition to the guaranteed money that he already has.

He can make himself not pass the physical. This is true. Yeah, so they're really rocking the hard place like that. $37 million. Are you passing the physical, Killer? You're not rocking the heart, like that. 37, are you passing the physical, Killer? You not passing that physical.

Your neck ain't your own. I'm definitely not passing. Yeah, my back and my neck, boys. My foot feel like it got a spur in it. All that, 37. And what you do leading up to the physical, you just go say your back hurts starting in the end of January.

With all the doctor notes, my back been killing me. Come up off that. It's crazy, get sucked in and practice and call it a compassion protocol. Yep. Well, we'll see what happens because that's also, I think, a little bit of a setup because if we do

see, you know, January, February, Russell starts saying he is hurt after not playing, fingers are all pointing at him. So, I'm curious to see what happens. It's going to let you know if he got some brown in him. If he got niggas. 37.

I think Steve's going to tell him you hurt. I'm going to keep it 100. Point all the fingers you want at me. Whatever. I'll be at the bank cashing the check with the fingers pointed at me 37 million guaranteed that's a good check yeah congratulations yeah congratulations yeah i'm not even mad at it okay moving along to basketball this is kind of a two-part question so the grizzlies have won their fourth game in a row since john morant's return

how do you feel about his impact on the team let me let me say this they won four in a row Ja is back but don't act like I didn't tell y'all they're going to the playoffs I'm telling you what I know Ja is going to the playoffs. See, once he gets to like 10 in a row, everybody going to be like, wait a minute. They're going to the playoffs. They're going to the playoffs. Remember I told you this. I mean, I know they went crazy on the Pelicans, but they're going to the playoffs. That's all I want to say.

I want to put that in the atmosphere. I ain't got my Yeezys all the way on yet, but they're going to the playoffs. And it's not going to be the play-in. They're going to the playoffs. Are you documenting this stat? I've got it. All your takes written down.

We will keep track. They're going to the playoffs. Number 12 is going to the playoffs. What'd you think, Geller? I hope so. Listen, the kid is exciting to watch.

I caught the highlights from the game the other night against Zion and them. You know, they played them twice. The kid, I love seeing them play, man. Are they going? I don't know. This is a better version of Iverson and Eric Snow.

A better version. With him and Smart. Yeah. I wouldn't even say Smart. I would say Bane. Yeah. Desmond Bane ain't bad. They just gave him a bag, too. So, hey, man.

It's like this is an example of what we was talking about when the season first started, when we was talking about Luka. And, you know, and shout out to Luka. Luka's fucking killing right now. Luka's killing. But it was part of the question that we were talking about, does he make his team better? Yeah.

And that is not even a question with Ja Morant. Yeah. Not only does his play make his team better, but the energy he brings, the enthusiasm. You know, that first game that they won when he came back, it reminded me of last year.

You know, when they win and they do an interview, it doesn't matter if it's Desmond Bain or Adams or Ja Morant, they all come over. They all be like, yeah. And I've seen that sooner. Yeah, so I've seen, you know, they doing

the gritty walking back to the locker room, et cetera, et cetera. So when I see John do that interview, he's like, I'm a dog and everybody came back. I said, that's the energy that they were missing. You know, sometimes sometimes niggas, you know, you got niggas, and I'm going to relate this to some street shit real quick,

but because you got niggas who may be shooters, but they're not going to shoot until they see a certain nigga shoot. And it's like, yo, I ain't busting my gun. Nigga, we going to bust our, nigga, what the fuck are you talking about? We going to bust our gun. Oh, yeah, yeah, we is going to bust our gun. So sometimes you need that type of nigga because you ain't like that without him. Yeah, you ain't like that.

You only like that. Yeah, when you ain't, when you dolo, you ain't like that. You like that when you're all together. But when you dolo, you ain't that nigga. And that's kind of this type of situation. Niggas can get like that on Memphis, but they need that nigga that's gonna

put the battery in their back and make it there. Look, 4-0 is great. I don't even know what the longest win streak in the NBA is this season, but 4-0 is great. You got to think about it. Two weeks ago,

the Detroit Pistons was offered dinner for three games in a row. Was it the Toronto Raptors for somebody else for something else for three games in a row? They was offering out dinner and what was it? Free popcorn in the stand or some shit at the Toronto game.

Yeah, whatever. These is all three games in a row. They offering all this wild shit. John comes back. He's four and 0. They ain't offering no pizza, no dinner, nothing because they expect this from this nigga.

So at the end of the day, man, I hope you're right, Mace. I don't know if that's going to be a fact But at this rate and they keep it up I really really really Hope he does Yeah he know they got to go crazy Because right now they 10-19

So they got to go on at least A 10-0 They got to go on at least a 10-game run To even get close You know so now I mean he got West Coast play of the week. So he's averaging like 28.8. And it looks like Bane got better with him being out.

So now that Bane got better at scoring with him out, with him coming back in, is now they looking like a dynamic duel. And then you got Smart. He going to chip in his 15, 16. He going to play great defense. And Jackson, they got a good team now. What I say about Smart,

I mean, not Smart, pardon me, Bane is this. I don't like Bane without John Moran. And the record shows why I don't like Bane without John Moran. Bane with John Moran, that's exactly who I was talking about when you need your man there. Yeah. Don't get me wrong.

Bane had a couple great games this season. He had a few dirty. But last season, yeah, but last season he got the bag. They gave him two and some change because of how he was playing with John. Did he look like a $200 million nigga when John wasn't there? That's what I'm saying. Did he look like he deserved two? He looked like 84 million.

Yeah, yeah, I'll give him 86.3. So that was kind of, I didn't want to say his name, but that's the nigga I'm talking about. You ain't like that when your man ain't there. You all right, but we can't trust you to run the block. Nah. Yeah, he did, but he ain't going to buy us his gun. Yeah, exactly.

And then at the same time, it's almost like, I don't know how many people watch the Sopranos when Tony went down and the underboards tried to run him. They wasn't respecting him like that. It was like, yeah, we'll wait for Tony to get back and start taking orders again, nigga. So moral stories, I hope you write, Mace. I would love to see them in the playoffs.

And then the second part of the question, and I really want you guys' opinion on this because everybody keeps talking about this. So after her dunk, John Morant celebrated with like a gun motion. He was, you know, he was doing a little dance and a lot of people are calling him out for it. Chandler Parsons said, what else has to happen for you and your family and your friends to learn? Make this about basketball. Make this about your life. Make this about your livelihood and stop doing things like this. So he's faced a lot of criticism for doing, you know, the dance. So thoughts on Chandler's response and then the people who are, you know, coming at Jha for it. at jaw for it jai you gotta do the little uzi dance the doggie you you can do any dance but a gun dance right now you can do a good rock star dance nothing with no guns in it jai you got

come on we rooting for you some people on your head too, Ja. They really need you to crap out. Please, Ja, don't undo it. I don't know why. I got two parts answered to this question. thoughts answer to this question. First thing I'll say is

when I seen the dunk before I heard anybody's response in my brain, I said, I know this nigga just ain't pulled the battle rap pistol out. I know when the gang go

and try to switch it. I seen this shit in my brain. I'm like, this nigga just pulled the battle rap pistol out. You know, a battle rap. He did a quick battle rap date. Nigga, when the lock can go to your head.

Nigga, the oozy. It's mad. Imaginary battle rap. Nigga, the Uzi. It's mad imaginary battle rap guns, nigga. Nigga, this 44 tier, you're throwing them off. I'll be watching the battle rap guns. You think these niggas, you would swear these niggas got guns, bro.

I swear on everything. But when I seen them do this shit, I said, I can't. I'm just going to really ignore that I've seen this and hope I didn't see what I thought I'd seen. I usually will rewind and know that I'm going to just keep it moving and hope I didn't see that. This is what I will say, John, listen.

I'm not comparing the two players on the basketball court. I'm just giving two scenarios. Gilbert Arenas, which is our nigga, and you could talk to him directly about it. That nigga got caught with some guns, got suspended, came back. And when he walked through and they announced his name and the star lined up and they said, Gilbert Arenas,

he came out like this. Swaggy P fell to the floor. He shot another nigga. They playing games. You see how that went. I think Gilbert was in Memphis probably a month later or something like that. You see how that that. Yeah, so

I think you're too great of a player for Memphis to even think about trading you, but this would be bigger than Memphis. Adam Silver is a principal type of nigga. He's one of them.

He gave you 25 because you played with him before. And what I hope, what he's saying to himself is I hope I ain't see what I just seen because we would hate to see another 10 to 9, 7 to 10 game suspension.

That would be the worst thing for us as a basketball fan. That's my first part to this question. My second part is the other side of Cam, pause. I fuck with y'all retarded

niggas, man. You and your pops are some retarded ass niggas, man. I kind of like that shit. Your pops is back with the hoodie on and the glasses. After all this time, niggas been like, what kind of dad are you, T. Morant? You ain't really been there. You got to be more

of a father. Father came back in with the hoodie and the glasses. Man, don't tell me how to raise mom. We good. Did your son catch 230? All right, if your son didn't catch 230, please don't tell me how to raise mine. The hoodie and the glasses ain't going nowhere.

Nah, that wasn't no gun. Nigga, I did something like this. Y'all thought it was a gun. What the fuck is y'all talking about? This attitude is not going to change. I don't care if Cameron, Mace, Shannon Sharp, Stephen A. Smith. Steve Moran.

Yeah, y'all niggas can't tell me how to raise mine, and you can't tell me nothing different. I thought this was how LeVar Ball was going to be, but no, it's Steve Moran. And they say. Steve Moran said, mind your business. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I don't tell you what to do with yours. Don't tell me what to do with mine. So at the same time, I'm torn. I'm torn as a basketball fan, but I fuck with this nigga as a parent at the same time. I'm not saying I fuck with him.

You know, because at the same time, it's like this though. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to give you an example like this. I know it's the NBA and everything is like media related, especially with social media, but who was you to tell T. Moran he ain't have a convo with his son?

Everything don't need to be made public. Everything don't need to be made for the media. How you know T. Moran? They say, yo, come on. Come on there, man. You fucking shit up. Fuck is you talking about? This is me be made for the media. How you know T. Moran? They say, yo, come on. Come on now, now. You fucking shit up. Fuck is you talking about? This is me and you in the crib.

We ain't got no TV, ain't no social media, ain't nothing. Nigga, don't fuck this paper up. You go back in there, bust their ass. I go back in there in my hoodie and my sunglasses, and we get busy. We don't know if T. Moran had a conversation. We in the area where everything has to be public or has to be on Instagram, has to be on Facebook, has to be on Twitter.

Everything ain't public, so we don't know what conversation T. Morant had with John Morant. And at the end of the day, they may have had a serious conversation. He said, that don't change who we are, though. We just gonna think a little better. That's what I take. Who knows?

It could be the Tupac and Suge Knight of the NBA. You say you fuck, man, do what you want, man, do what you like. Yeah, yeah. Just show. Yeah, exactly. Let me figure it out, you do what you wanna do.

Do a Moran, you know what I'm saying? Who knows, they could have had that conversation. We gonna do what we want, cause until somebody stop us, we ain't gonna fix nothing. Yeah. Live out loud. That's what I think the conversation might have been, Moran.

This is what I'm telling you. You park, I'm sure. This is exactly why I said I'm torn. We did it our way. Yeah. All that type of talk. You know that's going on. We did it our way.

Yeah, this how we did it, the Moran family. What they gonna do, kick you out of the league, nigga? Yeah. All that kind of talk. Yeah, this is how we did it. The Moran family. What are they going to do? Kick you out of the league, nigga? Yeah. All that kind of stuff. Yeah, exactly. Secondly, until your offspring or your kids catch 235, don't talk to me about nothing. Yeah, don't talk to me about mine.

Don't talk to me about raising mine's right until your kids are doing what my kid is doing. Take your son to the gym. That's what you need to do. Yeah, exactly. Well, good analysis. I'm going to say I'm not going to say that I don't see a problem with it, but I just feel like people are trying to nitpick everything Ja does.

If he does a little dance, I know it just happens to be a gun, bad timing, but it's like he's not doing anything wrong the team is winning I'm not mad I feel like if jaw wants to dance jaw can dance that's what I think so with that we're gonna move on to the next game the suns beat the rockets 129 to 113 suns record is 14 and 15 and the Rockets is 15 and 13. The only teams below the Suns on the West are the Jazz, Grizzlies, Blazers, and Spurs. What are your thoughts on that? Oh, that's a good one. I mean, the Suns, are you ready to say you're super disappointed with them? ready to say you're super disappointed with them yes yeah like i can see man i'm like this is getting so crazy i can see durant wanting to be traded that's how crazy this is man it's like what's what's going on like for real what's going on what do you think is going on stat

um to be honest I just don't think they have the chemistry that everybody thought that they were going to have and I think just the injuries just put them off to a bad start to begin with um they didn't really get a good start in the season. And if they did, maybe they'd be in a different position. But it's like, how long are we supposed to wait for chemistry to get better? They're winning games, but they're not winning them as much as I thought they would. And especially by a big point deficit. So I don't know. It's definitely disappointing because I think everybody expected more from the team. But when it's time to point point fingers it's time to start pointing fingers at what do we do to fix

this but let me ask you this is another thing I thought about killer oh this your guy you know I'm saying I like Kevin Durant too that's like one of my favorite players in the league but do you think LeBron would lose

this much if he had book you can't answer that i'm thinking because look lebron got ad yeah and look what was going to say before you asked me that question, that's a great question. I'm not sure I'm going to answer it because it isn't like LeBron doesn't have an all-star on his team as well. But I'll say this, right? Looking at the stats, the Golden State Warriors are 15-15.

The Suns are 15 and 15. The Suns are 15 and 15. And the Lakers are 15 and 15. Houston is 15 and 14. So as much as we've been talking about being worried about

the Golden State Warriors and the Phoenix Suns, and they have not been playing up to par basketball, either one of them. Right now, when I say 15 and 15, that's a tie for 9th through 11th place. So the Lakers are 9, Phoenix is 10, Golden State's 11. But they all have the same record.

They're all three games away from being in fourth place. Fourth place right now is held by the Clippers. They're 18 and 12. So we need to revisit this Golden State thing and Sun thing by all-star break, I say. I know we're going to talk about it way more in between now and all-star break. But as bad as both teams are playing, there are only three games, each one of those teams, including the Lakers, out of fourth place.

So if they go on a run, this could switch up fast. You know, they haven't started good. They don't have any chemistry because bradley bill isn't there but like you said booker is there and another question is as much as you say should kd be losing this much with booker that question goes as well for booker should booker be losing this much with KD? Yeah. He's a younger player and an all-star and- That's a great question. A great talent. Yeah, a great talent.

So maybe that question should be on the other foot, depending on who you're asking. Yeah, Book, Book, should you be losing this much? Book, if you're watching this, should you be losing this much with KD? Come on, man. There's no way you got this, should you be losing this much with KD? Come on, man. There's no way you got this kind of premier talent and elite talent on both sides of the wings, and you can't get it done.

For real. Y'all should be able to take over the game with just y'all two, realistically. So to finish up, my answer is if they get it together, the Suns, the Lakers, and Golden State, and I know it has not been looking good whatsoever, but if they hit one of these buttons and go on a 5-6-7 game winning streak, these are the teams that we'll be used to seeing in the playoffs and the playoffs.

But these young niggas might got something to say about it. Houston may have something to say about it. OKC may have something to say about it. Minnesota definitely has something to say about it. But they're not out of the contention. It's not like the Spurs or the Detroit Pistons when they're just losing 10, 11, 12, or the Pistons case, 27 games, a world record in any sport in a row. So that's a great question, Mace.

I'm not sure if LeBron had Booker, he'd be losing, but I will say LeBron has somebody of Booker's talent level when he's healthy. Talking about AD. I'm not sure it's a great question, but I think that Golden State, LA, and the Phoenix Suns are nowhere out of this picture whatsoever

if they get together. Now, if we're still talking about the same thing in February after the Super Bowl then it's a problem sounds like a good analysis to me but I will say that I think it's a little interesting how we've seen the Clippers kind of make an immediate not immediate switch but like make a switch overtime and we're still kind of waiting for those three teams to kind of hit that spark but yeah they only play like one or two games together though yeah that's see that's the thing that's that's the thing about it though that's a great point stat

because you know why that's a great point we got to give the coach from the phoenix suns the same 10 games that we gave lou ty lute and ty luce that is going to take 10 games that we gave Lou, Ty Lue. And Ty Lue said he's going to take 10 games. This coach, Frank Groble, has not even got 10 games with Bradley Beal yet. He hasn't got five games, let alone the 10 games that the Clippers got to kind of figure it out. So when James Harden first got to the Clippers, we was like, oh, this ain't fair. Who's not going to start a squad? Leonard's team, this person come off the bench.

And like you said, I totally agree. They kind of figured it out, but it took them games to figure it out. The Phoenix Suns has not been able to get their James Hart, and so to speak, to figure this out. Great point. Unfortunate situation. And then last one before we go to break, former player Brandon Jennings says Kevinvin durant should leave the suns he said they curse man he don't deserve this so based on what

we just spoke about what's your opinion on that and then his comment he said they curse brandon went viral on that one. I don't remember them winning, though. He got a point. He definitely got a point. The closest they came to it was Dan Marley, Charles Barkley, with KJ and Richard. KJ was nice, boy. That was the closest they came to winning.

And Jordan had something to say about that. So, I mean, they just played in that era. Yeah, and they had a chance one year with the Spurs, but that was the year when Amari Stoudemire jumped off the bench when the niggas was fighting and he got suspended the next game. Oh, yeah. I think they was up in that series three to two and then ended up losing

that game when they got suspended. Then the next game they lost. I'm not sure the exact amount of games, but I know Michael Wilborn, he's a Phoenix Suns fan. He always goes off about that shit. We had our chance. That was our year.

Yeah, Mace, you're right. It might be cursed. As far as them being cursed. As far as Kevin Durant leaving the Phoenix Suns, it wouldn't be a good look. It wouldn't be a good look. It just wouldn't because he...

And Kevin Durant don't give a fuck what none of y'all think. I'm just telling you perspective-wise. Me knowing him, that nigga go to Lakers tomorrow and say, fuck y'all if he wants to do that. I think he enjoys pissing people off. But just as a public perception-wise, you know, he caught flack for going to Golden State,

which I think it wasn't a foregone conclusion that Golden to state with or win them championships without them you got to remember they won one then Cleveland won one then Kevin Durant went there to put them over the top to win the next two then when he didn't go to the Knicks and went to Brooklyn everybody was like oh you should have went to the Garden

it doesn't work out with the Knicks James Harden leaves Went to the Garden. It doesn't work out with the Nets. James Harden leaves. Kyrie is not always available due to injury or due to, you know, the league or the Nets or whoever suspended him for what he had tweeted. So he's not always, he wasn't always available. Then Kevin Durant asked for a trade.

You know, when he first gets traded to Phoenix, it looks genius. Look, Chris Paul is there. Devin Book is there. Aiton is there. Marty Williams was considered a great coach. And they don't get over the hump. And the team starts to get picked apart a little bit where Marty Williams gets fired, Chris Paul

gets waived but it looked like they started picking up good pieces with Bradley Bill, they picked up the other white dude that be kicking niggas in the nuts from Milwaukee pause

now it's looking like they should have never got rid of Aiden. It's looking like a few things. It's still a mystery to me. While Bo Bo doesn't play, I don't know what's going on. We're not there in practice

to see the production or non-production or what he's doing. What do you think it is with that? You think he's like, what's going on? You think it's just his work ethic? What is it? I don't know. You know, as much as we talk about we want to see Bobo,

what I thought about was this, and that's why I said we're not in these practices and we don't know because of this. If I'm Denver, I don't get rid of Bo Bo, I keep Bo Bo. They get rid of Bo Bo and win a championship. So I'm like, damn. Damn, I mean, yeah. No matter how good you are,

when you leave, that's the time. Yeah, that's I took that into account. Then I was saying, he looked decent on Orlando, but that wasn't translating into victories. Now he's on the bench again in Phoenix. What are we not

seeing in practice? And Orlando is balling. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. When he leaves, it clicks. I didn't want to say this on the show because I like seeing him play.

I think that man got handled. He can shoot. He got a lot of pizzazz, but we got to start paying attention to what these GMs and scouts and coaches see that we don't see. Good point. I don't even know what's next, because I'm like, we want to see the ball. It's crazy. I thought they was hating on Manu.

Hating on Manu, you know what I'm saying? It might be hating on the Pops. Like, yeah, we gonna make sure that nigga don't play. It's something because that nigga's too gifted, bro. Yeah, but you know, let's look at the last two points. I didn't even think about Orlando, how decent they're playing right now. Let alone when a championship,

when the year after he leaves what's going on that we don't see so to wrap up what you're saying it seems like teams are getting better when Bobo is not there I ain't wanna say that man but but

hold on I'm rooting for you, man. Come on, man, you gotta go to practice and turn up. Yeah, we trying to root for you and shit, but we can't act like we don't see it. Yeah, nigga might end up going to San Antonio. It might end up being a stopping ground. I don't know about that. That sounds good.

I mean, listen, we never know. Listen, he needs a play. I don't know, man, because when I see him play, he look like he good. He look good to me. He look like he can play. He going to find that system. He get to San An, it'd be a nightmare. He's one of them.

He's almost like a Porzingis situation if he gets in the right place. We'll see what happens. This might be actual racism, Mace. Yeah, this might be actual racism. Actual racism. Niggas like, yo, oh, work.

Your dad did this to me when I was young. Your dad ever told you? Yeah. Take it out on your son. People do that a lot too. A lot. We'll see. We're going to go to break and when we return

we will talk about the Sixers versus the Magic. Four years and counting Got you feeling like an option Maybe I'm my own problem, babe She tired of hearing I don't know What's happening to me won't fall Dealing with this thing called trust But she ain't really thinking bout us She wanna be free thinking about free. Why am I free? Hell, I don't want to see her walk away. I wish somebody told me the rules. Disagreements let her win.

Then it's cool. Even when I'm right, this ain't about you. Welcome back. So let's get into our underdog fantasy picks of the day tonight the grizzlies will play denver underdog fantasy has john moran at 40 and a half points rebounds and assists do you have them higher or lower mace 40 40 and a half. Points, rebounds, and assists combined. Ooh, that's a... No, no. I don't have them getting 40. No, no, no, no.

I think probably right there, but not over. Okay. So I'm going to go lower. And? I can see them having 35 and 5. Okay. I'm going higher. Okay.

Yo, listen. My opinion is Ja don't always play that great against Denver from what I've seen in the past. But Ja poses like a nigga backed up. He going to do everything. He going to block shots. He gonna do everything. He gonna block shots. He gonna get rebounds. He gonna block job

backed up towards the basketball terms. That nigga right there is going to do everything he has to do. I'm going higher. You don't think they gonna beat them, but do you? You ain't going that great. Yeah, man, if we're going to get 10-0, we got to go through Denver.

This is a real test for you, Jamal Murray. Jamal Murray, you are now up to the plate, my dude. This is your real challenge tonight, my dude. Jamal Murray going gonna do his thing. Okay. This is what it's about because we got a championship point guard

not from this country going against Black America. And remember, this the city that Jawa's in the strip club, so who knows? This is Black America right now. You know, Ja might as well, when they introduce him, just play with King, set him in society when he was saying, old dog, he said, that's America's worst nightmare. Young, black,

and don't give a fuck. Die right now, bro. Are they going to win? This will be a real good, if they don't, even if they don't win, if it's a close game, this will give you all the information

you need, Mace, about if Memphis is going to the playoffs or not. Because two of these four wins, and I'm saying New Orleans isn't a playoff potential team, have been against New Orleans. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Jokic is at nine assists. Do you have him higher or lower? Cam. I'm going higher. Yeah, higher. I'm going higher. I smell triple-double from Jokic because he wanted them niggas to – Yeah, this is why them joints are so niggas can't even make it.

Yeah, this is one of them joints. Oh, the niggas came back. And I don't think Joker is even paying attention to the magnitude of the game. He's just one of them niggas like every night is the same night for me. But I think during the game, when he sees niggas trying to act crazy, and he'll get a click in the middle of the second quarter or before halftime or this is what we're doing tonight

your phone breaking up you got that I said there's nobody Memphis that could stop Joker. He could have whatever night he want to have, Paul.

You really know who in the NBA could stop the Joker though, Mase? I know, but I'm saying Memphis definitely don't even have him. They sent him one defensive player the year before last. He did, though.

Yeah, the bounces. Move. Get out of the way. No more. They can't do nothing with Django. And that's the real Triple J, apparently. No more. They can't do nothing with yoga. Okay. And that's the real Triple J, apparently. Okay.

And Michael Porter Jr. is at 17 and a half points. Do you have him higher or lower, Mace? Michael Porter is 17. I'm going to try to pause. I'm going to try to go higher. Give him a low motivation, Paul. I'm going to go lower. I think it's going to be a – I think tonight the players are going to – He's good.

I like Michael Port Jr. I think he's good. He may potentially have more than 17. I'm going to go lower because the people who are underdog fantasy, their followers trust me. I'm the one they trust when they come.

Cam, put up 100 up to $100. He's the one they trust. And go to Underdog Fantasy I got eight niggas going to the Super Bowl right now, you know they sent me a video

I'm going to get the video from Nick from Underdog Fantasy Underdog Fantasy all this dead ass everything I say is dead ass but this super dead ass they had an Underdog Fantasy pop-up shop, so to speak, and all the winners that's been winning there. And there's a guy who was there who won $45,000, I believe.

I got the video. And when he's doing the video, he says, you know, this all started out from me watching It Is What It Is. You know, if it wasn't for It Is What It Is, I wouldn't even be here at this convention with you guys. And then I'm leaving with $45,000. This is crazy. Shout out to It Is What It Is.

Nick sent me the video. I'm going to find it. So we put it up one of these days. But yeah, shout out to homie. We got his name and all that shit. But this is why they tune in. They're going on trips because of cold care. They going to the Super Bowl.

They leaving. He said he made the money because of this. That is what it is. The thing about it, Mason. This is what I'm talking about. Mason. Mason. This is what I'm talking about, Mason.

You're not listening to what I said what I said is he said this all started from me watching it is what it is that ain't what I said I said this all started from me watching it is what it is after you watch

it is what it is cold cam goes into effect. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to get the video. I'm going to get the video. Yeah.

You're good, Gary. I'm just saying that it all started. They don't use your code yet? They actually have been using my code. It's lit. Are they getting sandals? No.

Yeezy Crocs. That's lit though. You can watch and you can make some cash so download the underdog and you can make your picks too moving along we got a couple more games the sixers beat the magic 112 to 92 this is the sixers first win without mb this season thoughts this goes to me more about the magic yeah um the magic if y'all want to be um one of these teams that's towards the end of the eastern conference in the playoff picture which right now y'all are ranked number five but you can't lose games to the Sixers when Joel Embiid is not playing when Joel Embiid is not playing y'all should actually smack the Sixers if y'all want to make a statement in the east coast y'all got blown out it wasn't even

like it was a close game these are the games that y'all need to make more serious to show, look, if y'all best play and not play it, y'all not even going to beat us. Because what happens is this. They're not saying Joel Embiid, if it was important. If this game was important towards the end of the season, playoff implications on the line, or even a playoff game, I don't care what injury Joel Embiid had, he would be playing. This is more disrespect to y'all.

Yeah, like we don't even have to play and win this game. Yo, your foot hurt a little bit, Joel? Take this game off. We good. We got you. This is more about the Orlando Magic making a serious statement in the Eastern Conference if you want to be taken seriously in April, May, or possibly even June. It looks great now, but it's a long season.

You're only about 30% into the season, maybe a little less than 30%. These are the games that you have to win. As far as the Sixers are concerned, look, they've been looking great all season. They may be looking just as good as the Clippers look with the James Harden, without James Harden. Tyrese Maxey stepped up. Tobias Harris, he's been there for some years. He needs to step up more because they paid you a lot of money thinking that you

were going to be that player. Now, I wouldn't even compare you to Middleton in Milwaukee. But you're kind of like that piece that needs to step up for them to get over the hump, Tobias Harris. And I'm going to give Middleton more credit than you because at least Middleton has stepped up at one point in time to help Giannis get a championship. Giannis wouldn't have got that championship without Middleton. But this is about Charles Orlando magic. These are the games you need to win

and not get blown out if you want to be taken seriously in the Eastern Conference. I think them niggas, realistically, whenever Maxie is playing well They could be They really could be anybody Like I'm just being straight up And the other kid who's coming off the bench

Who's starting to play Melton He's making as much noise As Triple J right now I just want to start to know that Keep a lookout for him Melton Let me ask you this as Triple J right now. I just want to start to know that. Keep a lookout for him. Melton. Let me ask you this. You're saying since Maxie

when he plays good, they should beat anybody. Let me ask you this question. Who would you rather have right this second as your point guard? Maxie or Jalen Brunson? Jalen.

Jalen. Okay. Jalen is starting to give that he's starting to give that blue collar superstar like you know somebody who wasn't given to him.

He just worked. He just worked. You know, he's going to be the crowd favorite because he put in the work to be there. It wasn't like he had a 40-inch vertical where he was super fast. He just worked on his game. So, with that being said, do you think the Knicks could beat anybody at any given

time if you think that he's better than Tyrese Maxey? I think at any time that what's his name, Randall goes right, they can beat anybody. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha One game I was watching I said, you know, this thing is not

on the right side of the court. The whole game is on this side. You're just staying on this side. Make the thing go this way. That's a fact. I think if they get Bo Ball, they can beat anybody. That's the team he needs to be on.

That's exactly the team he needs to be on. New York, it'd be a big market for him. He gets some minutes. He'll get the play. Okay. Moving along, the Thunder beat the Knicks 129-120. OKC has won seven of their last nine games. Do you think OKC has the brightest future?

See, that's the team they didn't need to run into. That's exactly who the Knicks did not need to see. They ran into, what, She need to see they ran into Shea pretty sure Mark Jackson was right about that that nigga serious he's serious and he's another

one of them that just worked on his game no 40 inch vertical no blinding speed, just, you know, just throwback basketball. I like his game a lot. All right. Shuffling music from your library. Oh, my goodness.

What? And Chet. Oh, my goodness. This is crazy. And Chet is going crazy. Yeah. What music was that? What music was that?

It's just, yeah. Yeah. Back to what you were saying. Chet is going crazy. Back to what you were saying. The chat is going crazy. Back to what I was saying. I think this team is growing into a real championship contender. I wasn't going to say it earlier, but the more and more I watch this team, they remind me of, you remember when Golden State won their first championship?

Like, they was just growing, and they was growing at that pace that you know come playoffs time, this team is going to be very, very dangerous to somebody's championship goals. And the Knicks, I don't think they're at that level, so them running into OKC was a real problem. And when are they going to get rid of Barrett, Killer? They probably been trying behind closed doors for us.

Nobody want to take the... Like for what? Where would he fit in that? Look, that Shea nigga, he like fucking Chris Paul on steroids. You know, one of the floor generals. And I'm not saying the old Chris Paul, because the old Chris Paul, or the younger Chris Paul, I should say, was a problem too. But this nigga is a problem because, like your nigga said,

he's not dunking on niggas. He's not doing a bunch of flashy moves. He got a couple moves to get you up off him. But he's putting the ball in the basket and putting the ball in the right people's hands. Go. Every time it's supposed to be the other team's best players of point guard

or one of the best players he shows out and he shows up so like we was talking about Jalen Brinson last segment about who I thought who you would rather have out of him and Tyrese Maxey

I see exactly why I wasn't aware why Shea should be first team All-NBA last year, and now I get it. You have a problem, oh, you like Steph? I'll give him 30. We played him again. I'll give him 35 and put it on Instagram. Oh, Jalen Brunson, he got 110. That's y'all king. I'll give him 35 and put it on Instagram. Oh, Jalen Brunson, he got 110. That's y'all king.

I'll give him 36 tonight. He's on that type of time. And they're quiet assassins. 36, 8, and 7, though. 36, 8, and 7. Right. That's why I said he's not only putting the ball in the basket. Yeah.

He's also finding ways to find people. Yes, exactly. Along with seven rebounds is amazing for him, being not the most athletic point guard or athletic player in the league at all. I think that's tremendous. And Oklahoma City, like we were talking about earlier, about Orlando motherfucking missing out on opportunities to make a statement.

OKC is not missing out on opportunities to make statements. They're second right now in the West. They're a game ahead. They're half a game, actually, ahead of Denver. And between Minnesota and OKC, I think these are two of the younger teams are saying, and I know they got Rudy Gobert and Cat. They're not necessarily younger players. But what I'm saying, the superstar player like Ant-Man or Shea or Chet,

these are the younger players. I'm not saying that they have 100% Kobe mentality, but these are the players that say, nah, we're here and we're going to be here in April. So just y'all stay talking about it. Don't talk about us a lot right now. We want you to talk about us in April because we're going to be there when it counts.

Yeah, that's exactly the vibe they're giving. And I mean, even when you look at the box scores of everybody else that was playing, you know, Chet had 22. So Chet with four blocks. That's what I'm really talking about. Yeah, and look, Williams had 36. Everybody's buying in. Yeah.

So when you got a team that's buying in, you're going to have a problem. When you got these type of numbers and these type of wins this early in the season, this means niggas go to dinner with each other. Yo, what you about to do after this? A lot of teams, niggas don't fuck with each other, and you can tell niggas don't fuck

with each other. Yeah, you can feel their energy. Right, exactly. These niggas fuck with each other, so they're could fill in the energy. Right, exactly. These niggas fuck with each other, so they're buying into each other and the system. Look like Tom's their friend. Tom's not everybody's friend. Tom is not the Phoenix Suns' friend.

Tom is not the LA Lakers' friends. Tom is not the Golden State Warriors' friends. We need to start seeing results because these young niggas are playing I'm what you used to be and they got Giddy Giddy had a triple single

yeah yeah OKC has a very good young core I mean all the they're starting five is under 25. I mean, shy is the oldest at 25. So I think that they do have the brightest future. Obviously, we've's one of the best situations that they can be in so it's exciting to see you know how well they're playing but we'll see if they can continue it okay last thing before we end Zion Williamson's five-year 231 million dollar max contract is no longer guaranteed for the last three years because he missed more than 22 games last season. That means the Pelicans have the contract power to waive Williamson

after the 2024-2025 season with no financial ramifications. So my question to you both is what do you see happening? They're not going to waive no Zion. They could, though. They could. I think this is a ploy to just give them less money. Well, you know, that's part of being smart. That's just part of being smart when you do these contracts.

You know, you see he has a problem keeping himself in shape or an eating problem or whatever the case may be this is why these stipulations occur in these contracts we talked about this earlier in the year jay will uh analysis on espn former chicago bull player former Chicago Bull player, or former Duke player, when he got to the Bulls, in his contract, they say, your contract is guaranteed, and I don't know the specifics,

but they can say I'm wrong. But I do know this. If he gets into a motorcycle accident, you don't get your money. And what does he do? He gets into a motorcycle accident. And what happens is these scouts, these coaches, these general managers, when they spend this type of money with you,

they're in your life. They know your habits. They know what you like to do. They know if you spend money on bitches at the strip club. They know if you got an alcohol problem. They know if you spend money on bitches at the strip club, they know if you got an alcohol problem, they know if you just like to go on, whatever you like to do, they know if they're investing in this type of money. So that's why these clauses are in these contracts for situations just like this. We had Mark Jackson on the show a few days ago and Mark Jackson told a nigga,

We had Mark Jackson on the show a few days ago, and Mark Jackson told a nigga, you know, it wasn't in the contract, but as a family member, as a friend, as a homeboy, as whoever, you need to tell Zion you can't eat that dessert. He also said that at 30, he'd bring him whatever ice cream he want. Exactly. But in Zion's contract, it's a weight limit and it's a body fat limit, pause. So he can eat all he want, but if they come and get your body fat, pause, and it's over the limit, it's still breaching the contract

because I don't care if you have 80 points. The contract says you can't have this much body fat, or you can't weigh this much. What happens is for Zion, what I will say is this. If he plays 61 games next year, 24-25 track is back to being guaranteed. I see a chubby fat nigga who's still athletic and young. So he's still being able to do a little bit of what he wants to do.

And he may feel it's no problem. But you look chubby, bro. And you accelerate. But it ain't that acceleration that we've seen the first couple years, especially at Duke and in high school and the first couple years when you was available to play in the NBA. And I know where you at. You were at niggas still can't do nothing.

It don't matter what I eat. We always talk about where players end up at. And we say, we make jokes and shit, but sometimes it's really not a joke. You end up in Houston. You're at the strip club. You end up in Houston. You're at the strip club. You end up in LA. You're fucking with

hookers or whatever their habit is. You go to live, you play in Miami. You go to club live if you're visiting. And this may be a serious situation with the food in New Orleans. They shit is delicious. It's one of the

best places you can eat in America. They got the worst. Gumbo, crawfish, shrimp, lobster. Yeah, my nigga. Sweet potato pie.

That nigga going everything. This may be a serious problem. Like, when you live in L.A., it's the cool thing to be healthy. Oh, I'm going to the juice bar. Oh, let's go to the vegan hamburger spot. Oh, it's cool for, nigga, that's trendy in L.A. But if you live in New Orleans, and that shit smell good at 4 or 5 in the morning

and you're like, damn, I'm going to work this off tomorrow for us. And you just don't work it off the calories that you're gaining are not equal enough to the ones you're burning off. And this may be a serious problem. And this may sound crazy serious problem. And this

may sound crazy. This may sound crazy. But the city of New Orleans needs not to serve him if he walks in certain places until the season is over. You know what I'm saying? The restaurant's just got to say

no, yo. You got to put a wanted sign in the restaurant. Yo, don't serve this nigga. You just got to say no, yo. You got to put a wanted sign in the rest of the front. Yeah, don't serve that nigga. Now, listen, that may not stop it, because he can get DoorDash, Uber, Eat, somebody else to go get it. But don't let him sit down in that joint and pig out, man, if y'all want to win the war.

The whole city going to pay for it, because if he leave, the money is going to leave. Exactly. So at the end of the day, let's listen, y'all. If North Carolina. So make this sign right now. If North Carolina can schedule a protest of the team, y'all can turn Zion down when he walks in the restaurant.

It'll be beneficial for your city. Yeah. So as soon as he walk in, what should they say? What should they do? Oh, Zion, you know, we can't do nothing but salad and water for you, bro.

Nah, it's for me. I'm gonna eat salad and water. This is for my niggas. We doing this for you, bro. Nah, it's for me. I'm on Eastside and Walmart. This for my niggas. We doing this for you, bro. We can't serve that to you, man. Oh, them wings for my mother. Yeah, man. Y'all should look at New Orleans. Them wings and the cake is for my pregnant girlfriend.

The cake is for my pregnant girlfriend. The cake is for my pregnant girlfriend. Right, exactly. Like I said, there's ways around it, but y'all at least should start with that. He said if it's coming from a place of love, he understands it. That's what Mark said. Yeah, so I tell nigga, yo, listen, yo, we love you, Zion. That's why we ain't serving you no more food, bro. Right, exactly.

We eating salad and fruit, fruit and vegetables. Yeah, yeah. And take, and trust me, New Orleans, two things will happen. He'll take it as love and y'all love him and y'all gonna have to, and he takes it as love and y'all love him and y'all gonna have to and he takes it as love and y'all fuck with him and y'all really want him to be healthy and help the team win

or he'll say get me the fuck out of here now niggas ain't serving me at the restaurant yeah Jake even make a green drink after him yeah he be the Hulk Yeah, they can even make a green drink after him. The Zion something, the Slim Zion or something. Yeah, he be the Hulk.

Make him the Hulk and some shit, man. When that nigga's in shape, he was going to go for it. When he's in shape, he's the strongest nigga in the league. He's like grandmama with Barkley game. Yeah. Right. Good points. Well, in the comments, let us know what you guys think about Zion's situation

and what New Orleans should do to fix it. That's all the time we have for today. Thanks for watching. And as always, it is what it is.