IT IS WHAT IT IS - NBA DRAFT TAKEAWAYS: AMERICANS GOTTA STEP IT UP BECAUSE THE EUROS ARE TAKING OVER! | S4 EP49
Episode Date: September 14, 2024...
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                                         Mace and Cam.
                                         
    
                                         What's good bro?
                                         
                                         Killer, what's good man?
                                         
                                         Say, what's going on?
                                         
                                         How are you this morning?
                                         
                                         Man, I hope this draft going to be better than yesterday.
                                         
                                         It was a hard day yesterday.
                                         
                                         Pause.
                                         
                                         What happened yesterday?
                                         
    
                                         Man, what didn't happen, you know?
                                         
                                         It was one of those days.
                                         
                                         All right.
                                         
                                         Well, I don't know what the draft going to be.
                                         
                                         Hey, well. Yeah. let's get into it so the 2024 nba draft happened last night and the number one overall pick was zachary rasache to
                                         
                                         the atlanta hawks so before we get into more details of the draft what is you guys's just
                                         
                                         opinion on the first overall pick um i'm not as familiar with this guy.
                                         
                                         I've seen some pretty good highlights on him. I could see what they were checking for.
                                         
    
                                         But Atlanta just has this history. And I know it's hard for me to separate Paul is him from Atlanta, but Atlanta always have this history of getting the wrong player.
                                         
                                         You know, just it goes so far back.
                                         
                                         I don't even other than when they traded Trey Young, they traded for Trey Young for Luca.
                                         
                                         That was the last thing that they did that I thought was crazy.
                                         
                                         And I think he will end up being a cool player,
                                         
                                         but I think this is another one of those situations
                                         
                                         that they're going to come back and super regret
                                         
                                         that the number two player is the one I think is the one as of today.
                                         
    
                                         And anything could change, but I don't think they picked the right player.
                                         
                                         I don't know nothing about them NBA
                                         
                                         I don't ever underestimate these
                                         
                                         scouts
                                         
                                         I don't ever underestimate
                                         
                                         these NBA scouts
                                         
                                         GMs
                                         
                                         presidents
                                         
    
                                         I think they have people in the right places around the world these NBA scouts, GMs, presidents.
                                         
                                         I think they have people in the right places
                                         
                                         around the world.
                                         
                                         And they do what they do.
                                         
                                         I remember we talked about it,
                                         
                                         obviously,
                                         
                                         maybe a few days ago
                                         
                                         or last week,
                                         
    
                                         I don't remember when,
                                         
                                         about how everybody
                                         
                                         was mad at poor Zingas
                                         
                                         when Phil Jackson
                                         
                                         got poor Zingas.
                                         
                                         So I can't even sit here and tell you much about him.
                                         
                                         I ain't going to say and act like I know.
                                         
                                         But what I will say is that it's been great number one picks
                                         
    
                                         and it's been flops, and we'll see what happens.
                                         
                                         I know this much, just two years in a row that somebody from France
                                         
                                         has been picked number one.
                                         
                                         And this is exactly what I was talking about the other day,
                                         
                                         how American basketball is, I don't want to say declining,
                                         
                                         but the rest of the world is definitely evolving and catching up to us if they haven't surpassed us already when it comes to basketball.
                                         
                                         But it's two years in a row that somebody from France is the number one pick.
                                         
                                         And he's another seven footer as well.
                                         
    
                                         So congratulations to the Hawks.
                                         
                                         We have yet to see what happens,
                                         
                                         but if I could sit here and act like I tell you a bunch about this guy,
                                         
                                         I'd be lying to you.
                                         
                                         I don't know,
                                         
                                         but I guess we'll find out soon.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         And I know you started talking about your thoughts of just like international
                                         
    
                                         players being a majority of a lot of this draft class.
                                         
                                         Mace,
                                         
                                         how do you feel about this surge of international players over?
                                         
                                         I think it's,
                                         
                                         I think it's great.
                                         
                                         I mean, when you're looking for the best player,
                                         
                                         you got to take the best player no matter where he's from.
                                         
                                         Like what Killer was saying, I think Killer had them mixed up.
                                         
    
                                         The guy that should have went number one, I believe,
                                         
                                         is the one who is over seven feet.
                                         
                                         The guy that went number one is 6'9".
                                         
                                         Yeah. And the other guy, he's seven feet. The guy that went number one is 6'9". Yeah.
                                         
                                         And the other guy, he's seven feet, can handle the rock, shoot from three,
                                         
                                         play defense on both sides of the floor.
                                         
                                         But I think he didn't want to go to Atlanta.
                                         
                                         That's one of those things where people say, yo, don't pick me.
                                         
    
                                         Atlanta. That was one of those things where people say, yo, don't pick me. So I think that played a part in it that he wasn't really wanting to be there and he preferred to be
                                         
                                         at Washington, D.C. You kind of don't want to plan for your organization that don't want to be there.
                                         
                                         But what was your question against that? Yeah. How do you feel about this surge of
                                         
                                         international players? Yeah. Like I said, I do you feel about this surge of international players?
                                         
                                         Yeah, like I said, I think you got to go wherever you got to go if you want to have the best team.
                                         
                                         Like Cam was talking about yesterday,
                                         
                                         how Petrovic came from another country, ended up being in Portland.
                                         
                                         They had to wait and get him from Portland to make him play in New Jersey.
                                         
    
                                         So, I mean, at this point, wherever you can get him from,
                                         
                                         you see people even coming from in the,
                                         
                                         from the G league that,
                                         
                                         and this guy should pretty be good.
                                         
                                         He should be good.
                                         
                                         Even though he's going to Detroit,
                                         
                                         that's weird.
                                         
                                         But,
                                         
    
                                         you know,
                                         
                                         you got to get the best player from wherever you can get them from at this
                                         
                                         point,
                                         
                                         because this is one of the first years for me that I didn't hear about many players in college.
                                         
                                         You know, like like their names wasn't popping out like it should at least been eight players that we all know that are out of this world.
                                         
                                         And I can't say we were able to name eight every time we talked about a player.
                                         
                                         It was because they were doing this or doing
                                         
                                         something off the fit you're getting the nails done um shooting in cars you know having guns
                                         
    
                                         all type of things but basketball play not really so if you have to go to china at this point you
                                         
                                         got to go wherever you got to go to get that player. Yeah, it ain't really nothing new.
                                         
                                         Like I said, I think the last three, four years,
                                         
                                         you had at least two or three people.
                                         
                                         And I'm just going off the top of my head,
                                         
                                         there's been an all-NBA first team that isn't from America.
                                         
                                         Last year, there's four players that weren't from America.
                                         
                                         Jason Tatum was the only player from America that
                                         
    
                                         Was first team as far as
                                         
                                         The players that went one and two I don't like I said, I'll be sitting here lying
                                         
                                         I didn't even know the nigga height obviously a liar and that can like I know but one thing for sure two things for certain
                                         
                                         if you nice and
                                         
                                         You get in the right situation. we're going to hear about you.
                                         
                                         Like I said, we ain't know who Porzingis was.
                                         
                                         He went and got numbers.
                                         
                                         We got a bunch of players like that who, if you're good enough, will end up hearing about you eventually.
                                         
    
                                         And, you know, just thinking off the top of my head, we're talking about Derek White, somebody who's an NBA champion now.
                                         
                                         And I'm not saying he's a superstar, but he's a very important part of the piece of the Boston Celtics
                                         
                                         winning the championship. I believe he
                                         
                                         went to a D2 school if I'm not mistaken.
                                         
                                         So you'll hear about
                                         
                                         these people if they end up being
                                         
                                         the prospects that they're supposed to be.
                                         
                                         To me, bigger than anything that happened in the
                                         
    
                                         draft yesterday and I want to give a big shout out
                                         
                                         and I'm not saying I'm back
                                         
                                         but big shout out to the New York Knicks
                                         
                                         about the re-sign OG and the Nobby.
                                         
                                         The Knicks are busting fucking moves.
                                         
                                         $212 million for, I believe,
                                         
                                         it's a four-file-year deal.
                                         
                                         Whatever the deal is,
                                         
    
                                         I'll get you some more information
                                         
                                         when I look.
                                         
                                         I got it in my notes.
                                         
                                         But them niggas want to win now.
                                         
                                         You got Mikkel Bridges one day.
                                         
                                         The next day, you re-sign OG.
                                         
                                         You got Julius Randle coming back.
                                         
                                         We already seen the emergence of Jalen Rose.
                                         
    
                                         Them niggas want to win now.
                                         
                                         And Leon Rose and World Wide West is pushing the fucking envelope.
                                         
                                         Right now, they're saying we can get Boston if we're healthy.
                                         
                                         And with this lineup that they're putting together so far,
                                         
                                         I'm not sure if they're going to be able to retain Mitchell Robertson or not. But shit, the Knicks are fucking busting moves in the
                                         
                                         last two days that don't have shit to do with the draft. I think these niggas is on it and they've
                                         
                                         seen the success of how much people were excited about it last year. And that was my biggest
                                         
                                         takeaway from yesterday, bigger than the draft to me. It's him re-signing OG because OG, when he wasn't hurt,
                                         
    
                                         he was definitely a difference maker.
                                         
                                         He's an NBA champion, and they're going to have some great chemistry
                                         
                                         if they can figure it out with Julius Randle and Mikael Bridges.
                                         
                                         I'm very, very impressed with what the Knicks have been doing
                                         
                                         the last few days.
                                         
                                         Yeah, and in that draft, it definitely seemed like
                                         
                                         when we're talking about players in the States versus the international player, it definitely looked like the good players you have the shooter, but I'm not really familiar with him.
                                         
                                         But he ended up going number three, Reed.
                                         
    
                                         Reed Shepard.
                                         
                                         Reed Shepard.
                                         
                                         And then you got Portland was crazy
                                         
                                         because it seemed like they're not satisfied with Aiton or the school
                                         
                                         because they drafted a point guard and a center. So they
                                         
                                         definitely plan on getting them two out of there, I guess. That was the real shocker for me.
                                         
                                         And then so after what we've seen, right, the players who were drafted into the NBA,
                                         
                                         what do you guys feel like is the more beneficial route for these players like G League,
                                         
    
                                         college or playing on an international team? Because we've seen a big range from last night go to France I think the best
                                         
                                         thing to do if you're playing ball right now and go to France it seemed like they have a pause
                                         
                                         a pulse on on the talent that's that's coming up and um right now it doesn't seem like it's
                                         
                                         it's being spearheaded in the
                                         
                                         other place it seemed like every great player is coming out of out of France and is making
                                         
                                         the NBA league take players that seem to be good from France over a person that may be good from
                                         
                                         somewhere else because they're starting to look at it like this is where the talent is I mean
                                         
                                         Because they're starting to look at it like this is where the talent is.
                                         
    
                                         I mean, you go back to even Wimby.
                                         
                                         Now this new guy that's coming up, they took like five people in the first 10 picks.
                                         
                                         That was crazy to me.
                                         
                                         Just the exact question?
                                         
                                         Yeah, what do you think is the more beneficial route for people getting the NBA G League, college, playing on an international team? For people in the G League? No, just like what do you think is the more beneficial route for people getting to the NBA G League, college, playing on an international team?
                                         
                                         For people in the G League?
                                         
                                         No, like just like what do you think?
                                         
                                         Which way?
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Which way from who?
                                         
                                         For just players looking to go to the league.
                                         
                                         So like what do you think is the better route for them?
                                         
                                         Because we've seen a lot of international players.
                                         
                                         Just can't pick up and move to France.
                                         
                                         Like it's not in everybody's budget.
                                         
                                         They don't have to connect to do that.
                                         
    
                                         Look, as terrible as America is, go practice and bust Americans' ass.
                                         
                                         That's still the first option to bust niggas' ass in America.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         And think about this, too.
                                         
                                         You got to realize they're building their skills up,
                                         
                                         and not just that, they're tall.
                                         
                                         You're looking at fucking Wimpy whoever however tall he is could handle could shoot the jump shot uh could dunk
                                         
                                         on you um all these different traits throwing back the dirt in the whiskey he could sit there
                                         
    
                                         and shoot the open jump shot turn around one foot in the air etc uh go practice They have height and they have skills. As far as the way to get there,
                                         
                                         the way to get there is hard work
                                         
                                         and busting niggas' ass in the environment
                                         
                                         you want to try and get your name out there.
                                         
                                         What I believe is going on now
                                         
                                         in so many AAUs and these camps
                                         
                                         is so many mothers and fathers
                                         
                                         that think their kids are better than what they are
                                         
    
                                         because now when you're at AAU,
                                         
                                         you could pay $500 for your son's highlight reel.
                                         
                                         When he made four shots, missed 17 shots,
                                         
                                         but you put the highlight reel together and it looked good.
                                         
                                         Now you think he's somebody when he shot four for 21.
                                         
                                         So I think that it's more focused on...
                                         
                                         That's a good point.
                                         
                                         It's more focused on internet social media
                                         
    
                                         etc
                                         
                                         when it comes
                                         
                                         to
                                         
                                         American
                                         
                                         basketball
                                         
                                         that we're
                                         
                                         not really
                                         
                                         focused on
                                         
    
                                         the actual
                                         
                                         hard work
                                         
                                         and dedication
                                         
                                         that it
                                         
                                         takes anymore
                                         
                                         not gonna
                                         
                                         sit here
                                         
                                         and throw
                                         
    
                                         anybody under
                                         
                                         the bus
                                         
                                         that's working
                                         
                                         hard and
                                         
                                         having a
                                         
                                         dedication
                                         
                                         but it's
                                         
                                         nobody
                                         
    
                                         standing out
                                         
                                         so as far
                                         
                                         as which way is the best route I have no idea what to tell out. So as far as which way is the best route,
                                         
                                         I have no idea what to tell you.
                                         
                                         I mean, as far as traditional, it's traditional now.
                                         
                                         What Mace is saying is, you know,
                                         
                                         because people are coming from France,
                                         
                                         that's the best route.
                                         
    
                                         But everybody don't have the means to move to Jersey
                                         
                                         if you're from New York, you know.
                                         
                                         And not just that.
                                         
                                         Just because you go to France,
                                         
                                         that doesn't mean
                                         
                                         you're going to make it
                                         
                                         back to the NBA.
                                         
                                         Obviously,
                                         
    
                                         them niggas is good over there.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         You can go all the way
                                         
                                         back to Tony Parker.
                                         
                                         Tony Parker was a very good
                                         
                                         basketball player,
                                         
                                         Hall of Famer.
                                         
                                         Great point guard.
                                         
    
                                         Going to where
                                         
                                         all the NBA players is,
                                         
                                         I'm not saying
                                         
                                         that's not a good route, but everybody doesn't have the means to get there and just because when you get there, think you're going to bust all the NBA players is, I'm not saying that's not a good route,
                                         
                                         but everybody doesn't have the means to get there.
                                         
                                         And just because when you get there,
                                         
                                         think you're going to bust people's ass and not,
                                         
                                         it's obviously they're here for a particular reason.
                                         
    
                                         I don't have the answer to the question stat
                                         
                                         that you're asking because it's all type of ways
                                         
                                         to get to the NBA.
                                         
                                         We sat there and seen them,
                                         
                                         and I know this isn't the best example
                                         
                                         in the world right now because
                                         
                                         he's playing on the Wizards and they're terrible
                                         
                                         but Jordan Poole was in the G League
                                         
    
                                         and when he was in the right situation around the
                                         
                                         right people before the shit happened with him
                                         
                                         he looked like one of them niggas.
                                         
                                         He looked like he was about to be one of them niggas.
                                         
                                         It's different ways to get in
                                         
                                         you know, Kevin
                                         
                                         Garnett, Tracy McGrady, Kobe
                                         
                                         Bryant, all high school players.
                                         
    
                                         You got Carmelo Anthony.
                                         
                                         You got Zion.
                                         
                                         You got one and dones.
                                         
                                         You know, it's a lot of different ways.
                                         
                                         And trust me, what I say is, what I will say is this about the NBA.
                                         
                                         And they're not always right.
                                         
                                         I'm not talking about the NBA.
                                         
                                         I'm talking about GMs, coaches, front office staff, scouts, et cetera.
                                         
    
                                         They're not always right. But trust me, they are outlooking.
                                         
                                         They're definitely outlooking.
                                         
                                         When I was at the Lakers Pro Day or Bronies Pro Day,
                                         
                                         or however you want to put it,
                                         
                                         because there's other people doing their workout for the Lakers
                                         
                                         on Bronies Pro Day, everybody was there.
                                         
                                         Pat Rowley was there.
                                         
                                         Pat was in the building.
                                         
    
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         It was GMs from so many different teams.
                                         
                                         Elton Brand.
                                         
                                         Like I said, my man Jeff from Shaw.
                                         
                                         It was so many different people there that when you're good or supposed to be good,
                                         
                                         supposed to be somebody,
                                         
                                         that means Pat Riley,
                                         
                                         who's probably almost 80 years old,
                                         
    
                                         gets on a flight from Miami to LA
                                         
                                         to come see you for an hour, hour and a half.
                                         
                                         They put their time and dedication in to try and get the best player for their organization.
                                         
                                         So I don't know the right answer, but when you're good and you're starting to get a name
                                         
                                         for yourself, they'll find you.
                                         
                                         Yeah, the reason why I said France is it seemed like that's where the talent is coming out
                                         
                                         of.
                                         
                                         They had over probably like five of the top lottery picks.
                                         
    
                                         And the people that made this top five is seeming like the best thing for the NBA.
                                         
                                         And these are not even players that's going to make the French national team. So that said a lot
                                         
                                         that you got these players that they're one, two or 1-3, whatever picks they are,
                                         
                                         and they're not even on a national team,
                                         
                                         which means that the people that are just beginning in France
                                         
                                         is that much better than the people in the States.
                                         
                                         What I do want to say is, too, quick,
                                         
                                         Oklahoma City got this guy called Nikola Topic.
                                         
    
                                         He's hurt.
                                         
                                         He hurt his ACL.
                                         
                                         Nasty point guard.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Now I've seen him play.
                                         
                                         Super nice.
                                         
                                         Reminds me kind of of a Drazen Petrovic left-handed, though.
                                         
                                         Nasty.
                                         
    
                                         He probably won't play this year coming up because he's just coming off injury,
                                         
                                         and I don't know if OKC is going to keep him because they have SGA.
                                         
                                         And this kid, when he's healthy, looks like he needs to play now.
                                         
                                         So I will give him a shout-out when I see him get picked at, I believe,
                                         
                                         number 12, if I'm not mistaken.
                                         
                                         That kid, I seen him play on some highlights about a year ago.
                                         
                                         He's been a pro, I believe, since he was 16.
                                         
                                         Nasty, nasty.
                                         
    
                                         So I'm looking forward to seeing him play
                                         
                                         but it probably won't be
                                         
                                         this year
                                         
                                         from Serbia.
                                         
                                         And that's probably
                                         
                                         why they moved
                                         
                                         what you call it
                                         
                                         to the Bulls
                                         
    
                                         to get rid of
                                         
                                         one of the guards
                                         
                                         to create space
                                         
                                         for him in the backcourt.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         And then the last question
                                         
                                         concerning the draft.
                                         
                                         So then how did you guys
                                         
    
                                         feel about the draft class
                                         
                                         so far?
                                         
                                         I feel like this class
                                         
                                         lacked a lot of excitement. Why do you think that is? And then how do you guys feel about the draft class so far I feel like this class lacked
                                         
                                         a lot of excitement why do you think that is and then how do you think that we can bring that back
                                         
                                         um hopefully this draft class will turn out to be better players because sometimes you have
                                         
                                         the real popular players but then they don't actually end up that good, but they come with all of the hype. One thing Killer said before about a poor
                                         
                                         Zingers or a lot of these players that don't have the name at first, like the guy he just named,
                                         
    
                                         I wasn't really checking for him, but I know who he was talking about. And those are the type of
                                         
                                         players that make it because they're not about all the off-the-court stuff.
                                         
                                         They're about getting the shots up, playing the right way, working out every day,
                                         
                                         and really trying to be great at their craft.
                                         
                                         And I think that's more what people should be about because if you look at this draft on paper,
                                         
                                         there's a lot of talent here, but it's not people that we actually know yet
                                         
                                         unless you just really been studying basketball and you have a feel for it
                                         
                                         you're gonna lack without superstars when it comes to the draft i'm talking about and creating
                                         
    
                                         excitement i was more excited to see the wmba draft because you knew who was in it you knew
                                         
                                         caitlin clark you knew angel reese you knew cameron brink you knew camilla you knew who was in it. You knew Caitlin Clark. You knew Angel Reese. You knew Cameron Brink.
                                         
                                         You knew Carmella.
                                         
                                         I just named more people in the
                                         
                                         WNBA draft off the top
                                         
                                         of my head than I know in
                                         
                                         the NBA draft. That's because they
                                         
                                         were creating superstars in the
                                         
    
                                         NCAA's
                                         
                                         women division.
                                         
                                         And it created hype and it created
                                         
                                         rivalries and it became it created rivalries and it became,
                                         
                                         it created shit talking
                                         
                                         and it became
                                         
                                         bad guy versus good guy
                                         
                                         or bad woman versus bad woman,
                                         
    
                                         good woman versus bad woman
                                         
                                         or black against white
                                         
                                         or whatever scenario
                                         
                                         you want to use.
                                         
                                         It was a hype
                                         
                                         that was created
                                         
                                         that translated into
                                         
                                         the WNBA draft.
                                         
    
                                         And the thing about
                                         
                                         the WNBA draft, pardon me, draft, even into the WNBA draft. And the thing about the WNBA draft,
                                         
                                         for me, draft,
                                         
                                         even into the season,
                                         
                                         is so close.
                                         
                                         So you got the NCAA Championship
                                         
                                         Women's in April.
                                         
                                         Then in May, you have the draft.
                                         
    
                                         Then in the end of May,
                                         
                                         you have the beginning of the season.
                                         
                                         So you got all this trickling back to back.
                                         
                                         You got Kaitlyn Clark on the cusp of winning her first NCAA championship,
                                         
                                         but you got undefeated Dawn Stanley saying, fuck that, that ain't happening.
                                         
                                         Oh, man, this is great for TV.
                                         
                                         Then you got Angel Reese.
                                         
                                         She got eliminated earlier
                                         
    
                                         didn't make it back to the championship
                                         
                                         but she was the champion
                                         
                                         the year before that
                                         
                                         then two three weeks later
                                         
                                         you got the draft
                                         
                                         everybody's tuned in
                                         
                                         because you know that
                                         
                                         Caitlyn Clark is going one
                                         
    
                                         you want to see what number
                                         
                                         Angel Reese is going
                                         
                                         you want to hear about
                                         
                                         Carmella's story
                                         
                                         knowing that she came
                                         
                                         from South America,
                                         
                                         didn't speak English,
                                         
                                         came and got her family
                                         
    
                                         out to her.
                                         
                                         It's all these storylines
                                         
                                         that go along with this shit.
                                         
                                         Then it trickles into the season
                                         
                                         to where they're playing
                                         
                                         against each other
                                         
                                         and you got Caitlyn Clark
                                         
                                         not playing as well
                                         
    
                                         as people think
                                         
                                         she should be playing.
                                         
                                         You got people,
                                         
                                         it's all these storylines.
                                         
                                         I can't, I don't know what's going on
                                         
                                         in this college basketball or this draft.
                                         
                                         I'm not even sitting here like I care about the draft.
                                         
                                         When y'all niggas get there,
                                         
    
                                         if you start ringing bells,
                                         
                                         then we'll hear about you.
                                         
                                         That's just that.
                                         
                                         Like, you know,
                                         
                                         I sat there and watched the NCAA championship this year
                                         
                                         and didn't know nobody.
                                         
                                         I didn't know nobody.
                                         
                                         As good as Connecticut is, and I know they've been rocking two years in a row,
                                         
    
                                         the most famous person on Connecticut is Danny Hurley.
                                         
                                         That's who I'll identify with when we're talking about Connecticut
                                         
                                         the last two years.
                                         
                                         And I'm not undermining you guys at all because to win two championships back-to-back for the players that were there for this two years
                                         
                                         That's a great feat, but they're not marketing you guys
                                         
                                         Very well to where I could be familiar with the guy's name
                                         
                                         So I don't know what to tell you book about how to hype it up or make us feel better
                                         
                                         But I'll tell you this much. When we knew about Zion
                                         
    
                                         entering the draft,
                                         
                                         niggas was tuned in.
                                         
                                         We knew about John Morant
                                         
                                         entering that draft
                                         
                                         that same year,
                                         
                                         he was tuned in.
                                         
                                         When you heard about
                                         
                                         Wimby last year,
                                         
    
                                         he was tuned in.
                                         
                                         When they have celebrities
                                         
                                         or stars that we're familiar with,
                                         
                                         and that doesn't mean
                                         
                                         it's going to translate
                                         
                                         on the NBA floor.
                                         
                                         The all-stars,
                                         
                                         the superstars,
                                         
    
                                         pardon me,
                                         
                                         I should say,
                                         
                                         that they're creating
                                         
                                         have us intrigued and have us watching.
                                         
                                         If you're not one of these people that sit there and watch a college game in and out, you're not going to be too familiar.
                                         
                                         And I don't have the time to watch college every day when it's their 15, 20, 25 games a night trying to figure out who's going to be the man.
                                         
                                         15, 20, 25 games a night trying to figure out
                                         
                                         who's going to be the man.
                                         
    
                                         Secondly, when it comes
                                         
                                         to these overseas players,
                                         
                                         like I said,
                                         
                                         you'll hear a name
                                         
                                         and you might do
                                         
                                         some homework on them,
                                         
                                         but I don't know
                                         
                                         what time Serbia plays
                                         
    
                                         the Ukraine.
                                         
                                         I don't fucking know.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         So when they get over here
                                         
                                         and start making a name
                                         
                                         for themselves,
                                         
                                         then you get familiar.
                                         
                                         So I'm not downplaying
                                         
    
                                         anybody who made it.
                                         
                                         I wish them all luck
                                         
                                         and congratulations. I've seen people who are emotional, crying, as you should. So I'm not downplaying anybody who made it. I wish them all luck and congratulations.
                                         
                                         I've seen people who are emotional, crying, as you should.
                                         
                                         All I'm saying is that you are not marketing yourself the way you should.
                                         
                                         And the reason I'm saying you is because that's the way college may feel.
                                         
                                         Okay, you got an I.L.
                                         
                                         You figure it out.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, that's exactly how they feel.
                                         
                                         They took the money.
                                         
                                         Yeah, you got the money. We used to promote y'all. Yeah, yeah. We figure it out. Yeah, that's exactly how they feel. You took the money. Yeah, you got the money.
                                         
                                         We used to promote y'all.
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                         We wanted the budget.
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                         We'd shower them out.
                                         
    
                                         Exactly, exactly.
                                         
                                         You wanted to go independent.
                                         
                                         You ain't want the label.
                                         
                                         So now when nobody know you,
                                         
                                         you don't say nothing.
                                         
                                         Because you took $100, thousand from frisbee's
                                         
                                         cheerios whatever cheerio whatever cereal that is now because you thought that was gonna hold you
                                         
                                         down nobody knows you and i'm not saying that you're not good enough it's just that they're
                                         
    
                                         not gonna want to market you the way that they used to market other players because they may feel
                                         
                                         all right yeah you took you took a million you took a hundred thousand you took fifty thousand
                                         
                                         you took five hundred bet spend it on yourself well i do also just want to say congratulations
                                         
                                         to round one of the draft class definitely looking forward to round two i think we all are so i'm
                                         
                                         definitely the only reason i'm watching round two is for brawny there's no other reason i'm watching
                                         
                                         round two i don't know who came up with this idea to make a second day.
                                         
                                         Right now, it's looking like the worst decision.
                                         
                                         I don't want to just rain on your parade.
                                         
    
                                         Hopefully, tomorrow.
                                         
                                         I mean, today it'd be Sparks.
                                         
                                         But yesterday was crazy.
                                         
                                         I was just like, man, where's the second round?
                                         
                                         You know, normally you look and pause for the people who didn't get drafted. Like, they're about to come up and they're like, oh, where's the second round? You know, normally you look and pause for the people who didn't get drafted.
                                         
                                         Like, they're about to come up, and they're like, oh, it's over.
                                         
                                         It was weird in a sense.
                                         
                                         Yeah, well, and I'm not combating.
                                         
    
                                         I'm just saying I'm not sure.
                                         
                                         You know, NFL is a two-, three-day event.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         The WNBA shit was so successful that the NBA thought they had one and they didn't.
                                         
                                         Two things y'all need to work on is the draft and All-Star weekend.
                                         
                                         That's where y'all guys are slacking at tremendously.
                                         
                                         Like All-Star weekend is terrible compared to what it used to be.
                                         
                                         And the draft, if you don't have these, the most famous nigga I seen at the draft was
                                         
    
                                         my nigga Rich Paul.
                                         
                                         He's sitting there cheesing with somebody and shit.
                                         
                                         I said, he must want to get paid.
                                         
                                         He was sitting at the table, at the family table, cheesing.
                                         
                                         I said, this nigga here, boy.
                                         
                                         That was the most famous nigga I seen at the draft, so.
                                         
                                         I will say, Clutch Sports is up.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
    
                                         They only had one Duke player in the first round.
                                         
                                         I said, yeah, it's a new day. Thanks. Okay. They only had one Duke player in the first round. I say, yeah, it's a new day.
                                         
                                         Okay. So also speaking of storylines, an interesting one. So according to his sources,
                                         
                                         Stephen A said Phoenix Suns want out of Kevin Durant and Houston would prefer a Devin Booker. But the Suns owner tweeted, NBA draft night is the best. Everyone is talking about the drama
                                         
                                         and storylines. Some are right and some are just wrong.
                                         
                                         My turn.
                                         
                                         Phoenix loves Kevin Durant and Kevin Durant loves Phoenix.
                                         
                                         And we are competing for a championship this year because we have the team to do it.
                                         
    
                                         Gotta love draft night.
                                         
                                         Go Suns.
                                         
                                         So what do you guys think of first the contradicting storylines?
                                         
                                         Because Stephen A said something.
                                         
                                         Matt Ishba said something.
                                         
                                         There's different sources from different people. So how are we feeling about that?
                                         
                                         First of all, I know Stephen A, you know, would not make that up. He doesn't cross me as a guy
                                         
                                         that will make anything up. He's basically going to say what he's saying because he has a source
                                         
    
                                         that's feeding him the information and when it comes to
                                         
                                         kevin durant i don't see i don't see why they would would not be looking in another direction
                                         
                                         because this team is not gonna win not and i'm not putting that on kevin durant but they definitely
                                         
                                         got to think of how to mix this team up because they have all players that need the basketball.
                                         
                                         And there's only one basketball.
                                         
                                         It would be different if they had a different style of team.
                                         
                                         So when I hear him say this, I'm definitely looking at it like there's some validity to what Stephen A is saying.
                                         
                                         I know that it's draft day, but we're trying to win.
                                         
    
                                         Everybody in the West is getting better.
                                         
                                         And to think they're just going to come back with Book, with Katie, and Bradley Bill, I don't see it.
                                         
                                         I definitely don't see it.
                                         
                                         And I'll go on the record for it.
                                         
                                         I don't see it.
                                         
                                         Because there's certain things that I saw that you're not going to be able to fix that with one year.
                                         
                                         You got to change the morale of that team.
                                         
                                         Who said what?
                                         
    
                                         Who said that Kevin Durant loves Phoenix
                                         
                                         and Phoenix loves Kevin Durant?
                                         
                                         Yeah, Matt Ishbaugh.
                                         
                                         And then Stephen A said that they want him out, basically.
                                         
                                         They said that Houston wanted Booker. Devin Booker. But they didn't want Kevin Durant. A said that they want him out, basically. They said that Houston wanted Booker,
                                         
                                         but they didn't want Kevin Durant.
                                         
                                         Who said that?
                                         
                                         Stephen A said that,
                                         
    
                                         and then Ryan Windhorst had a quote too.
                                         
                                         I got to find that exact one.
                                         
                                         So they all three basically said different things.
                                         
                                         I can see Houston wanting Devin Booker.
                                         
                                         He say, she say.
                                         
                                         Mumbo jumbo, one, two, three.
                                         
                                         Listen.
                                         
                                         Look, like Mace said,
                                         
    
                                         I don't see Stephen.
                                         
                                         Stephen ain't making up nothing.
                                         
                                         And...
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         I met the owner of Phoenix
                                         
                                         when I was there, the new owner.
                                         
                                         He's a pretty cool guy.
                                         
                                         I looked out when he was in the suite,
                                         
    
                                         all of us, me, Mace, Isaiah. He's a cool cool guy. I looked out when he was in the suite, all of us, me, Mace, Isaiah.
                                         
                                         He's a cool dude.
                                         
                                         I don't know.
                                         
                                         I'm not going to say and call him a lion either.
                                         
                                         I don't know.
                                         
                                         But if you're an owner and you don't have a definite trade for Kevin Durant
                                         
                                         right now, you're going to say whatever it is.
                                         
                                         I love Kevin Durant.
                                         
    
                                         Kevin Durant loves Phoenix.
                                         
                                         And that's exactly what you're going to say until something comes along the lines that makes sense for the owner.
                                         
                                         I'm not sure if Kevin Durant has a no trade clause in his contract or not.
                                         
                                         But the last thing you want to hear if you're a player
                                         
                                         or especially a Kevin Durant is trade rumors
                                         
                                         or somebody's not happy with you within an organization
                                         
                                         or anything negative because that lingers.
                                         
                                         not happy with you when you're in an organization
                                         
    
                                         or anything negative
                                         
                                         because that lingers
                                         
                                         and then you have to come back
                                         
                                         next season
                                         
                                         and look at niggas all day.
                                         
                                         Then you want to talk to people.
                                         
                                         I remember,
                                         
                                         just giving one example
                                         
    
                                         because it's probably a million,
                                         
                                         but Latrell Sprewell
                                         
                                         was so mad at James Dolan
                                         
                                         when he played for the Knicks.
                                         
                                         Every time he would score
                                         
                                         in the guard,
                                         
                                         he would point at James Dolan. I was kind of young. I wasn when he played for the Knicks. Every time he would score in the garden, he would point at James Dolan.
                                         
                                         I was kind of young.
                                         
    
                                         I wasn't paying attention
                                         
                                         for his contract issues.
                                         
                                         If James Dolan said something,
                                         
                                         if they wanted to trade him or whatever.
                                         
                                         But think how crazy that is
                                         
                                         that every time you score,
                                         
                                         you look at your owner and say,
                                         
                                         yeah, nigga, yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Fuck is you talking about?
                                         
                                         This is the owner of your team.
                                         
                                         Like, yo, this is the team. He owns the team. Why are you this is the owner of your team like yo this is the team he owns the team
                                         
                                         you're why are you yelling at the owner after every time you scored the basketball so i'm not
                                         
                                         saying kevin durant would do anything like about latrell spreewell i was doing at the time and
                                         
                                         real quick i'm gonna call carmelo anthony he didn't go as far as Latrell Sprewell, but he was saying, go ask James Dolan.
                                         
                                         I don't know.
                                         
                                         You don't want that lingering when you're with an organization.
                                         
    
                                         So I think the owner of the Phoenix Suns said the right thing.
                                         
                                         And then I do agree with Mace.
                                         
                                         I don't think that Stephen A is making this up.
                                         
                                         But at the same time, if you're the owner and nothing's on the table,
                                         
                                         he said exactly what he was supposed to say.
                                         
                                         What's real and what's not real, I don't know.
                                         
                                         So let me ask all this.
                                         
                                         Do you guys think it would even make sense for the Suns
                                         
    
                                         to look into trading Kevin Durant or Devin Booker?
                                         
                                         Does it make sense?
                                         
                                         No, but I could see them doing that i definitely could see them moving one of the pieces because it's it's unclear of whose team it is and and in order to to build a team you
                                         
                                         gotta have you gotta have some clear-cut answers on what direction we're going in. And it seemed like that's something that they struggle with.
                                         
                                         When even it was games we saw that Book would have like 40
                                         
                                         and then Kevin Durant would have 32.
                                         
                                         Those were the games that they were like really winning.
                                         
                                         But the times when they were trying to figure out who's going to score
                                         
    
                                         and who the ball is going to go to, Pauls,
                                         
                                         that's when they struggled as as a team and i'm
                                         
                                         i'm saying in a in a stack western conference um right now they're gonna need to make a move
                                         
                                         because bradley bill right now is a name when he come back healthy hope he's gonna ball but it's
                                         
                                         still every person on that team needs the ball. That's not,
                                         
                                         it's a ball dominant team.
                                         
                                         You're not going to win like that.
                                         
                                         You got to have some people that just spot up people that just run the plays
                                         
    
                                         and get shots in the corner.
                                         
                                         And until they buy into that,
                                         
                                         that's,
                                         
                                         that's a hard sell.
                                         
                                         So they're definitely going to have to look forward to moving one of them.
                                         
                                         And it's sad because person that should have been moved
                                         
                                         will be Bradley Bill.
                                         
                                         Yeah, the way they looked in the playoffs last year, last season,
                                         
    
                                         earlier this year, not just the playoffs, all year long,
                                         
                                         they didn't look good at all.
                                         
                                         And then getting swept in the playoffs did not help.
                                         
                                         I wanted it to work
                                         
                                         because it looked good on paper, but it just isn't
                                         
                                         working.
                                         
                                         I have no idea, even to the point
                                         
                                         where, and I'm happy he got the opportunity,
                                         
    
                                         but even to the point where
                                         
                                         they brought in Isaiah Thomas
                                         
                                         as a 12th hour
                                         
                                         to play with them. You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         It's because they were trying
                                         
                                         to figure it out.
                                         
                                         And what I really believe
                                         
                                         is
                                         
    
                                         going back to the owner
                                         
                                         and that's why
                                         
                                         I kind of lean
                                         
                                         with Stephen A.
                                         
                                         more than what the owner said
                                         
                                         but I think the owner
                                         
                                         said the right thing
                                         
                                         is that
                                         
    
                                         y'all niggas
                                         
                                         was all here
                                         
                                         when I got here.
                                         
                                         I want to do
                                         
                                         my own thing.
                                         
                                         I want to put my team together.
                                         
                                         And I'm not sure if he knows how to do that or if he trusts
                                         
                                         his general manager to do it.
                                         
    
                                         But
                                         
                                         it's not going to work as
                                         
                                         presently constructed because
                                         
                                         I don't see them being better
                                         
                                         than Denver. I don't see them being
                                         
                                         better than Utah. I mean, pardon me,
                                         
                                         not Utah, better than Minnesota
                                         
                                         after especially
                                         
    
                                         the confidence
                                         
                                         that they gained
                                         
                                         that just passed.
                                         
                                         And a host of other teams
                                         
                                         that...
                                         
                                         OKC.
                                         
                                         OKC, Dallas.
                                         
                                         It's a host of other teams
                                         
    
                                         that they're not better.
                                         
                                         And I'm just not saying that
                                         
                                         because they're very explosive
                                         
                                         on offense.
                                         
                                         But defense,
                                         
                                         that's where it's going
                                         
                                         to be slack in that.
                                         
                                         And I just don't see them beating about four or five teams in the East.
                                         
    
                                         So I would hate to see them all get moved around because I don't, you know,
                                         
                                         when you don't have a no trade clause and you're as good as Devin Booker
                                         
                                         and you're as good as Kevin Durant,
                                         
                                         to end up with the Wizards tomorrow, what's up?
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         So I don't know
                                         
                                         exactly. I'll have to look up their contract
                                         
                                         and check it out. I'll make a phone call or two
                                         
    
                                         and see if they have no
                                         
                                         trade clauses or not. But
                                         
                                         I don't see this team
                                         
                                         winning right now. And if you don't get rid
                                         
                                         of one of them, you have to bring not
                                         
                                         just one other person in too
                                         
                                         to make a
                                         
                                         run for the Western Conference Finals,
                                         
    
                                         let alone a championship.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         With that, we're going to go to break.
                                         
                                         When we return, we will discuss
                                         
                                         Marcus Smart's comments about the Celtics.
                                         
                                         Can you tell us a little bit more about that?
                                         
                                         I mean, is there...
                                         
                                         I was selling crack on a private jet.
                                         
    
                                         I don't get the shot, but dipsecateur,
                                         
                                         make sure you go online to dipsetcouture.us
                                         
                                         to order some shirts and everything else, buddy.
                                         
                                         So I'm going to get some cheeks after this, of course.
                                         
                                         And bikes, nigga.
                                         
                                         Black Benz's and white figures.
                                         
                                         Now I'm out here and I'm looking for more chandeliers and light fixtures.
                                         
                                         Now, I don't like niggas.
                                         
    
                                         What's wrong with me?
                                         
                                         I'm a high nigga, but there's 44.
                                         
                                         Turn the mic to Jordan.
                                         
                                         I'm looking, say, take flight.
                                         
                                         Nigga.
                                         
                                         Welcome back.
                                         
                                         Now let's get into our
                                         
                                         Underdog Fantasy picks of the day.
                                         
    
                                         So tonight,
                                         
                                         the Fever will play the Storm.
                                         
                                         Underdog Fantasy has
                                         
                                         Kaitlyn Clark at 17.5 points.
                                         
                                         Do you have her higher or lower, Mace?
                                         
                                         And the Storm?
                                         
                                         Um.
                                         
                                         Hmm. or lower Mace. And the Storm. I'm going to go higher.
                                         
    
                                         It should be lower,
                                         
                                         but I'm going to go higher.
                                         
                                         Yeah, higher.
                                         
                                         Aaliyah Boston is at
                                         
                                         three and a half first quarter points.
                                         
                                         Do you have a higher or lower cam?
                                         
                                         Same, man.
                                         
                                         Impressive me.
                                         
    
                                         I'm going to go lower.
                                         
                                         I'm going to go I'm gonna go high
                                         
                                         four points
                                         
                                         shout out Leah
                                         
                                         not too high
                                         
                                         but
                                         
                                         four points
                                         
                                         okay
                                         
    
                                         and Jewel Lloyd
                                         
                                         is at four and a half
                                         
                                         rebounds
                                         
                                         do you have her
                                         
                                         high or lower mace
                                         
                                         the whole game
                                         
                                         yeah
                                         
                                         um
                                         
    
                                         high
                                         
                                         higher download the underdog fantasy app and you can
                                         
                                         make your picks too so on a podcast
                                         
                                         Marcus Mart said the Celtics
                                         
                                         winning the NBA finals was bittersweet
                                         
                                         but he's proud of them
                                         
                                         he said it's definitely tough
                                         
                                         because I was in the trenches with them so
                                         
    
                                         to not be able to finish what you started with those guys
                                         
                                         is definitely tough
                                         
                                         granted that he was just traded last year.
                                         
                                         What do you guys think of his comments?
                                         
                                         And what do you think would have happened if they didn't trade him?
                                         
                                         Mace first.
                                         
                                         I think they made the right move in bringing in Drew Holiday
                                         
                                         because he had championship experience sometime being in the trenches
                                         
    
                                         with somebody who's won in the trenches is going to be different than somebody that you've just
                                         
                                         been in the trenches with. And not to sound harsh about it, but they made the right decisions.
                                         
                                         the right decisions.
                                         
                                         Coming down that stretch,
                                         
                                         playing against who they was playing with,
                                         
                                         Kyrie and Luka.
                                         
                                         If they had Marcus Smart there,
                                         
                                         I truly believe that Kyrie would have got off against Marcus Smart.
                                         
    
                                         So they made the right choice.
                                         
                                         He would have had a field day with Smart.
                                         
                                         So they made the best decision they could possibly make.
                                         
                                         That's why they're champions.
                                         
                                         And shout out to Brad Stevens for having the guts to make that decision because so many
                                         
                                         people would say, why make that decision?
                                         
                                         He plays so hard.
                                         
                                         But sometimes you need more than pause or just a person that play hard.
                                         
    
                                         You actually need to win.
                                         
                                         And that was a tough decision probably for him to make
                                         
                                         because he was such a fan favorite in the Boston community.
                                         
                                         But when he says that he's proud of them,
                                         
                                         proud is a word you use when you have something to do with it.
                                         
                                         And he didn't have anything to do with this championship.
                                         
                                         This championship was solely
                                         
                                         won like like we said in times past poor zingers won a game um tatum won a game white won a game
                                         
    
                                         and and um jaylen brown have been there the whole time so that's what i see when i see this team
                                         
                                         but he he had a right to have a bittersweet moment
                                         
                                         because I know he's thinking like,
                                         
                                         man, what would it be like if I would have been there?
                                         
                                         And if he was there without White being there,
                                         
                                         then they would have won.
                                         
                                         But I think they truly needed Drew Holiday to be there.
                                         
                                         Yeah, man, it got to hurt because Marcus Smart smart been to a championship he's been to these
                                         
    
                                         eastern conference finals that these are these guys has been to he's been on the cusp of winning
                                         
                                         just like they've been on the cusp of winning and the one year that he the first year actually
                                         
                                         that he leaves they actually went um i totally agree that Drew Holiday is an upgrade.
                                         
                                         Poor Zingas is an upgrade.
                                         
                                         But I'm not going to blame Marcus Smart
                                         
                                         for not winning the championship
                                         
                                         because it's been disarray in Boston
                                         
                                         as far as coaching is concerned the last couple years
                                         
    
                                         and moving general managers around and so on and so forth.
                                         
                                         There was no cohesiveness.
                                         
                                         So as much as I like Marcus Smart I definitely think Drew Holiday is better but they've been right there
                                         
                                         with two coaches in the last two years switching GMs in the last two and a half three years
                                         
                                         and figuring it out trying to get some cohesiveness and he was just part of that uh them couple players they had to go for
                                         
                                         them to win it um when you when you're talking about Marcus Smart and Drew Holiday comparing
                                         
                                         them as players Drew Holiday is very skillful he's very strong very smart um very good on offense I
                                         
                                         think maybe a little better on defense to where Marcus Smart is good
                                         
    
                                         but I believe a lot of his play
                                         
                                         is based off adrenaline
                                         
                                         diving on the floor
                                         
                                         coloring his hair green
                                         
                                         jumping around in the crowd
                                         
                                         being one of them
                                         
                                         bigger
                                         
                                         I was just about to say a bigger
                                         
    
                                         maybe a better NBA offensive player
                                         
                                         than Patrick Beverly
                                         
                                         just by a little bit.
                                         
                                         But his play is off adrenaline.
                                         
                                         That's why he was a fan favorite in Boston.
                                         
                                         And you can see personality-wise,
                                         
                                         him and Drew Holiday is like night and day.
                                         
                                         Drew Holiday ain't doing none of that.
                                         
    
                                         He ain't painting his head green.
                                         
                                         He ain't getting a job.
                                         
                                         He's not screaming.
                                         
                                         He's not yelling. I came to go to work, baby. I'm not doing none of that. He ain't painting his head green. He ain't getting a job. He's not screaming. He's not yelling.
                                         
                                         I came to go to work, baby.
                                         
                                         I'm not doing none of that.
                                         
                                         My game's going to speak for itself.
                                         
                                         So he didn't have to do none of that.
                                         
    
                                         The actress not saying that Marcus Smart is not a great NBA player.
                                         
                                         I used to watch him at Oklahoma State.
                                         
                                         I actually thought he stayed in college a year longer than he should have
                                         
                                         when I used to watch him, actually.
                                         
                                         He went out his sophomore year, but he had an exceptional freshman year at Oklahoma State.
                                         
                                         Used to watch his games on ESPN.
                                         
                                         But I'm taking Drew Holiday, too, and I'm sorry that Marcus Smart missed the parade and everything else
                                         
                                         because you could tell he fucked with Boston.
                                         
    
                                         But just to let you guys know,
                                         
                                         in Boston,
                                         
                                         and I'm not even going to say that Jalen Brown
                                         
                                         or Tatum is above it.
                                         
                                         Maybe so now because Brad Stevens is in office.
                                         
                                         But when Danny Ainge is there,
                                         
                                         anybody could go.
                                         
                                         Isaiah Thomas was that nigga.
                                         
    
                                         Scored all the points.
                                         
                                         Cut them to the players.
                                         
                                         His sister died
                                         
                                         broke his hip
                                         
                                         still played
                                         
                                         did everything he could
                                         
                                         and said
                                         
                                         we can get Kyrie
                                         
    
                                         we'll see you later
                                         
                                         so
                                         
                                         be careful up there
                                         
                                         if you're black
                                         
                                         I'm telling you that
                                         
                                         right now
                                         
                                         you're subject to go
                                         
                                         if they think that somebody is
                                         
    
                                         better than you
                                         
                                         or could do better for the team
                                         
                                         and don't get me wrong
                                         
                                         everything's based upon
                                         
                                         the organization
                                         
                                         but sometimes
                                         
                                         people get so entrenched in the culture,
                                         
                                         and I like that,
                                         
    
                                         that they don't realize that they're expendable.
                                         
                                         I wouldn't have been dying my hair green
                                         
                                         if I knew I was leading traded next year.
                                         
                                         I wouldn't have been playing with a broke hip
                                         
                                         right after my sister died,
                                         
                                         averaging 27 points on the cusp of $160 million contract,
                                         
                                         and then y'all just throw me out like garbage
                                         
                                         if I knew I was going to get traded the very same summer.
                                         
    
                                         So be careful up there in Boston.
                                         
                                         Just telling you, if it don't look like it's going to go,
                                         
                                         they need championships.
                                         
                                         That's what Boston and the Lakers have been about
                                         
                                         since the NBA started.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         And then we're going to discuss Olympics real quick.
                                         
                                         So Athing Mo, the reigning 800 meter
                                         
    
                                         gold medalist will miss the paris olympics because she tripped and fell during the trials
                                         
                                         you guys feel like it's unfair that she is unable to qualify or is that just the way things go
                                         
                                         if you the way she fell, it's like...
                                         
                                         Let me stick with the question.
                                         
                                         I think it's very unfortunate that she's not going to...
                                         
                                         Where is it at?
                                         
                                         Paris?
                                         
                                         Paris, yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, it's very unfortunate that she's not going to Paris.
                                         
                                         But this is like from the track gods almost.
                                         
                                         Because when you look at this, it's like... but this is like from the track gods almost. Cause when,
                                         
                                         when you look at this is like,
                                         
                                         this is everything they teach you in the basics, like how to run,
                                         
                                         stay in your lane,
                                         
                                         just different things that they tell you.
                                         
                                         And I noticed from watching little kids trying to train at these things is that
                                         
    
                                         those are like the very basics.
                                         
                                         So,
                                         
                                         so looking at that, I know that has
                                         
                                         to hurt because it wasn't a speed. It wasn't a, uh, her form, you know, it was just a, um,
                                         
                                         a mistake that you can't get back. You can't get that back. You got to wait. And it's not,
                                         
                                         it's not like pro sports where you can get it back next year. You got to wait four years to get this shot again.
                                         
                                         So I know she had every right to walk off crying the way she did.
                                         
                                         But you could just see the joy of other people because they know if she didn't fall,
                                         
    
                                         she was most likely going to beat them again.
                                         
                                         And it was just crazy.
                                         
                                         And shout out to her because when she was running,
                                         
                                         it looked like she didn't give up.
                                         
                                         She still tried to win the race, even though she couldn't win it.
                                         
                                         And I thought that said a lot about who she is as a person.
                                         
                                         So we look forward to seeing you in four years.
                                         
                                         And you got to stay disciplined and do it
                                         
    
                                         because we see a bunch of young runners taking those spots.
                                         
                                         I didn't see the video.
                                         
                                         What happened?
                                         
                                         She tripped pretty hard.
                                         
                                         Yeah, she tripped
                                         
                                         in like the first half
                                         
                                         and then by the time
                                         
                                         they were already running out
                                         
    
                                         way ahead of her
                                         
                                         and she couldn't catch up.
                                         
                                         And so basically,
                                         
                                         you had the,
                                         
                                         this was the qualified
                                         
                                         to go to Olympics.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         And this was hard
                                         
    
                                         against some other Americans.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         The trials.
                                         
                                         People that normally
                                         
                                         don't beat you.
                                         
                                         Just imagine niggas
                                         
                                         who normally don't beat you.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         The whole thing about it is
                                         
                                         I don't know how it works
                                         
                                         exactly when it comes
                                         
                                         to the Olympics.
                                         
                                         And if you have,
                                         
                                         if this is mandatory
                                         
                                         that you have to
                                         
                                         participate in this
                                         
    
                                         and
                                         
                                         et cetera, et cetera.
                                         
                                         I'm not sure how track and field works,
                                         
                                         but if she was that good,
                                         
                                         they would have figured it out.
                                         
                                         I don't know.
                                         
                                         Like I said, I don't know the rules.
                                         
                                         I don't know if you trip
                                         
    
                                         and you can't make it a stand better
                                         
                                         when you're good.
                                         
                                         We can't go without her.
                                         
                                         There it is.
                                         
                                         Somebody tripped.
                                         
                                         It would have been a whole bunch of,
                                         
                                         yo, her shoes was untied.
                                         
                                         Yo, they switched the soles.
                                         
    
                                         When you that good,
                                         
                                         they will find an excuse for you to be in parish, yo.
                                         
                                         So no disrespect to Shorty.
                                         
                                         Like I said, from what Mason's stats tell me, it sounds
                                         
                                         horrific. Like you say, you gotta wait
                                         
                                         four years and it sounds like
                                         
                                         he was crying, etc. But
                                         
                                         just to let you know
                                         
    
                                         they would have made every excuse
                                         
                                         in the world for you. She was that good.
                                         
                                         She won the gold before.
                                         
                                         Then they need to change the rules.
                                         
                                         Why wouldn't you take somebody
                                         
                                         that won the gold
                                         
                                         back to the Olympics
                                         
                                         unless they feel like
                                         
    
                                         she's not that good for this Olympics?
                                         
                                         You got to realize,
                                         
                                         how old is the girl?
                                         
                                         I'm not saying...
                                         
                                         She's 22.
                                         
                                         Oh, no.
                                         
                                         She's a perfect age.
                                         
                                         Then they need to change the rules.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, she was 19
                                         
                                         when she won the gold.
                                         
                                         22, 20.
                                         
                                         22 is prime.
                                         
                                         Maybe because she's from Trenton,
                                         
                                         Ket. No, no. 22 is proud. Maybe because she's from Trenton, Killa.
                                         
                                         Nah, nah.
                                         
                                         Now that I got a little more backstory,
                                         
    
                                         because it isn't like you're 30 or 34 or something like that.
                                         
                                         This is fucked up.
                                         
                                         If she won a gold medal at 19 and she's only 22,
                                         
                                         y'all need to change the rules.
                                         
                                         Because 22, that means she's even stronger. Yeah, she was going to smoke them if she didn't fall.
                                         
                                         Yeah, they're going to troll her. She was. she was going to smoke them if she didn't fall. Yeah, they're going to troll her.
                                         
                                         She was.
                                         
                                         She was going to smoke them if she didn't fall.
                                         
    
                                         Somebody threw some shit out there.
                                         
                                         I don't know what happened, but I know one thing for sure.
                                         
                                         If you're the Olympic committee,
                                         
                                         I'm just thinking about rational sense,
                                         
                                         trying to win a gold medal for your country.
                                         
                                         Why does a gold medalist have to come to tryouts? You know what I'm trying to win a gold medal for your country. Why does a gold medalist have to come to tryouts?
                                         
                                         You know what I'm trying to say is...
                                         
                                         You got to qualify.
                                         
    
                                         Why would you got to qualify if I want to go?
                                         
                                         Like, yo, it's like Braun and them got to go to tryouts for the Olympics.
                                         
                                         It don't make no sense.
                                         
                                         Like I said, I'm sitting here learning this as we're talking about it.
                                         
                                         This just makes absolutely no sense. Like I said, I don't, I'm sitting here learning this as we're talking about it.
                                         
                                         This just makes absolutely no sense.
                                         
                                         Imagine,
                                         
                                         imagine LeBron,
                                         
    
                                         Steph Curry,
                                         
                                         Anthony,
                                         
                                         whoever that's on
                                         
                                         the Olympic team
                                         
                                         talking about,
                                         
                                         yo, you got to go to tryouts
                                         
                                         and Fred Van Vliet is there.
                                         
                                         No disrespect to Fred.
                                         
    
                                         For sure.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Like, yo,
                                         
                                         Ant-Man yo Ant-Man
                                         
                                         Ant-Man
                                         
                                         Mr. Buzzer Beater
                                         
                                         so Fred Van Vliet
                                         
                                         is taking his spot
                                         
    
                                         now no disrespect
                                         
                                         to Fred
                                         
                                         he's a good player
                                         
                                         clutch and all that
                                         
                                         shout out to Fred
                                         
                                         but I'm just saying
                                         
                                         to me
                                         
                                         I'm just trying to
                                         
    
                                         make it make sense
                                         
                                         for me
                                         
                                         for Cam
                                         
                                         because I just
                                         
                                         don't get
                                         
                                         a gold medalist
                                         
                                         having to qualify
                                         
                                         for next year's pardon me the Olympics, which is in four years.
                                         
    
                                         She didn't qualify by winning the gold already.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         It may be something with the shoes, Killer, because I think it was three years ago or something, the girl who actually won fell the last time.
                                         
                                         So they just swapped places. so it was like you wasn't
                                         
                                         you wasn't crying for me so i'm not crying for you yeah that's crazy i mean now that i got some
                                         
                                         more information i really i felt really really bad because i know sometimes you're a gold medalist
                                         
                                         and you win when you're 28 and you're not the same. You're not as fast when you're 32.
                                         
                                         You know, tennis players, they start falling off.
                                         
    
                                         When it's a one-on-one sport and you don't have team help,
                                         
                                         you start seeing the decline in the early 30s. You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         So now that I find out she's 22, y'all got to change it up, America.
                                         
                                         Y'all got to figure this out because I would be pissed off
                                         
                                         if I'm an
                                         
                                         Olympic coach for America and I'm not taking my gold medalist from last time we won back with me.
                                         
                                         Yeah. I'm sorry this happened to you. I definitely want to see the sneakers because this is like the
                                         
                                         same thing, not the same thing, but similar things happen to two people on the same team.
                                         
    
                                         Similar things happen to two people on the same team.
                                         
                                         It's crazy to think.
                                         
                                         But it also shows just how ruthless it is.
                                         
                                         And then last thing before we move on to the next subject.
                                         
                                         So her coach said, I've coached it.
                                         
                                         I've preached it.
                                         
                                         I've watched it.
                                         
                                         And here's another indication that regardless of how good we are,
                                         
    
                                         we can leave some better athletes home than other countries have.
                                         
                                         It's part of our American way. And then her team also submitted an appeal,
                                         
                                         but it was denied.
                                         
                                         Yeah, because you know,
                                         
                                         when you're practicing track and field,
                                         
                                         just like anything else,
                                         
                                         the form matters,
                                         
                                         like how you start.
                                         
    
                                         So, you know, I mean,
                                         
                                         Kayla, you know this,
                                         
                                         like growing up,
                                         
                                         the coach telling you a certain way to do stuff
                                         
                                         and you just think you're so good,
                                         
                                         you don't have to do it. And then you out there and and you trip then it's like we went over this a thousand times
                                         
                                         it's hard to it's it's hard to to sympathize with you when you know we was drilling this all day
                                         
                                         and people laughing behind the coach face yeah get down ready set he's laughing and then get in front
                                         
    
                                         of the big stage and fall it's like man yeah and that's kind of to what i'm alluding to
                                         
                                         yeah it's like yo me and rich parker got caught cheating at the reservoir not doing what we're
                                         
                                         supposed to do we still started yeah you're right that's what we're supposed to do. We still started. Yeah, you're right.
                                         
                                         That's what I'm trying
                                         
                                         to figure out exactly.
                                         
                                         How does this work?
                                         
                                         Because if you're good,
                                         
                                         they'll figure it out.
                                         
    
                                         I got caught cheating right-handed
                                         
                                         not doing what I was supposed to do.
                                         
                                         I was caught right-handed like this.
                                         
                                         What are you doing, nigga?
                                         
                                         That ain't stop me from not starting.
                                         
                                         That ain't stop me from...
                                         
                                         And the other nigga was cheating with me.
                                         
                                         We both started whenever we was eligible.
                                         
    
                                         So at the end of the day,
                                         
                                         I'm trying to figure out
                                         
                                         why don't they have these rules
                                         
                                         for the good players?
                                         
                                         I don't understand how it works in track and field.
                                         
                                         I like your idea about
                                         
                                         when you're a gold medalist, you should not have
                                         
                                         to qualify. I'm already qualified.
                                         
    
                                         No, I get it, Murda, but
                                         
                                         I get not qualifying because you still got to make sure
                                         
                                         you ain't bullshitting. It's a four-year
                                         
                                         gap, but
                                         
                                         tripping and falling is tough,
                                         
                                         bro. And like you said,
                                         
                                         you alluded to something that I
                                         
                                         wasn't thinking about you might have been
                                         
    
                                         running around
                                         
                                         a little cocky man
                                         
                                         yeah
                                         
                                         you might have
                                         
                                         you ain't gotta do
                                         
                                         the technique
                                         
                                         and all that
                                         
                                         yeah yeah
                                         
    
                                         don't sweat the technique
                                         
                                         yeah you might have been
                                         
                                         sprinting in practice
                                         
                                         and you so far
                                         
                                         as you start backpedaling
                                         
                                         looking at people
                                         
                                         like yo
                                         
                                         I don't know
                                         
    
                                         but when Mace just said that
                                         
                                         it made me think about it
                                         
                                         like
                                         
                                         that's what you get i'm not
                                         
                                         saying this happened but yeah you know that's one of them she's acting like she is all that
                                         
                                         this down the third and i'm not saying none of this happens it's all speculation but i don't i
                                         
                                         don't get it because if i'm the coach i'm gonna sit i'm just saying me if i'm the coach and one
                                         
                                         of my best runners fell to qualify.
                                         
    
                                         I'm almost like a dirty cot plant and shit at the crime scene,
                                         
                                         sprinkling crack on the floor, placing the gun under the car seat.
                                         
                                         Baby, are you on the track?
                                         
                                         Yeah, like, yo, nah, I'm starving.
                                         
                                         My feet, nah, we got to do a do-over right here.
                                         
                                         They didn't do what they're supposed to do.
                                         
                                         I'm looking for anything if you're that good.
                                         
                                         But what Stat just said, the comments of what Stat said,
                                         
    
                                         it's like the coach is already capping a plate from the statement she read.
                                         
                                         It's one of them, just in case they don't win.
                                         
                                         We got, you know, that's what's good about our system.
                                         
                                         We got players that's better than so-and-so, you know, that's what's good about our system.
                                         
                                         We got players that's better than so-and-so, so-and-so that we're leaving at home,
                                         
                                         that other countries are bringing their best.
                                         
                                         No, if China win, don't start that shit.
                                         
                                         Don't start that shit.
                                         
    
                                         If Cameroon win, do not start that.
                                         
                                         But we love players at home.
                                         
                                         Nope, nope, nope, nope.
                                         
                                         Because I tell you now, if Cameroon, best player tripped and fell,
                                         
                                         they're going to figure it out.
                                         
                                         They got to take the best over there.
                                         
                                         We're not going to sit here and do that.
                                         
                                         So that statement she just said, I understand that she's supporting her team
                                         
    
                                         and saying that the system of the United States women's track and field is bigger than any player.
                                         
                                         That's kind of what she's saying.
                                         
                                         But she's at the same time saying, and if we lose,
                                         
                                         just keep in mind some of our best players are at home.
                                         
                                         Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, shorty.
                                         
                                         You're going out there with what you got, miss.
                                         
                                         And if you lose, we don't want to hear that.
                                         
                                         And I think that's why it was hard for them to really feel sad for her
                                         
    
                                         because the person she went instead of last time
                                         
                                         is the person who's going instead of her this time.
                                         
                                         And they both had the same debacle, just fell on the track.
                                         
                                         Yeah, listen, I didn't know about that until you mentioned it,
                                         
                                         but at the same time,
                                         
                                         from what I'm gathering is
                                         
                                         both of them couldn't have went.
                                         
                                         Only one or the other.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
                                         
                                         So if I fell and you was like,
                                         
                                         yo, you get him next time, murder. And then you fall, what I'm supposed, yo, you get him next time, murder.
                                         
                                         And then you fall, what I'm supposed to say, you get him next time.
                                         
                                         The reason I'm not, I'm processing this as both.
                                         
                                         Like I said, I haven't done any homework on this.
                                         
                                         So I'm processing everything you guys are telling me at one time.
                                         
                                         Because, you know, when I'm thinking of track and field,
                                         
    
                                         there's so many different track and field.
                                         
                                         There's 400, 800s the shit where you pass the stick
                                         
                                         pause to the next person
                                         
                                         the relay so I'm like
                                         
                                         I'm thinking why they both can't go
                                         
                                         so
                                         
                                         that's what I'm saying I'm like
                                         
                                         it's four joints on the relay
                                         
    
                                         why both of them can't go
                                         
                                         but if it's just one or the other
                                         
                                         yeah because 800 meters is just one race
                                         
                                         so like that's the U.S.
                                         
                                         representative basically.
                                         
                                         So like.
                                         
                                         But are they going to be
                                         
                                         out there for the relay together?
                                         
    
                                         Well, I don't think they're,
                                         
                                         I don't think it's an 800 meter relay.
                                         
                                         I think it's literally just.
                                         
                                         No, but what I'm saying is this.
                                         
                                         Because you're an 800.
                                         
                                         Can she go on another,
                                         
                                         like is she a part of
                                         
                                         the other track and field?
                                         
    
                                         No.
                                         
                                         Oh yeah, no.
                                         
                                         No, this is it.
                                         
                                         Like trials for different.
                                         
                                         This is a trial for this. So she'll have to qualify. The 800 meter, the Oh, yeah, no. No, this is it. Like, trials for different. This is your trial for this,
                                         
                                         so she'll have to qualify.
                                         
                                         Like, the 800 meter,
                                         
                                         the relay,
                                         
    
                                         the 100 meter.
                                         
                                         Like, that's why
                                         
                                         Sha'Carri's going.
                                         
                                         Like, they have the
                                         
                                         different representative
                                         
                                         for each.
                                         
                                         So, like, once you're
                                         
                                         in your field,
                                         
    
                                         if you mess up,
                                         
                                         that's that.
                                         
                                         But that's what I'm
                                         
                                         trying to say.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         And I'm just asking.
                                         
                                         I'm not, I'm asking.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         If you do 800,
                                         
                                         why you can't do
                                         
                                         the relay?
                                         
                                         It's like, I'm pretty, I'm not sure, but that wouldn't be beyond comprehension. Yeah, they'll qualify.
                                         
                                         But that's what I'm saying. Why can't they try out for both?
                                         
                                         Not saying these girls that we're talking about, I'm just saying in general.
                                         
                                         In general, yeah.
                                         
                                         Because I'm good at the 800, I'm also good at the relay.
                                         
    
                                         The way, yo, I did the 800, the way I go for relay, that's me.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Yeah, that's when you are super active. Yeah, like yo. That ain't, that that's me. Yeah, that's when you're a super athlete.
                                         
                                         That ain't them.
                                         
                                         I know what you're saying.
                                         
                                         That's what I'm saying.
                                         
                                         With Jagger joining us, she's going to do a few things.
                                         
                                         I played midgets, juniors, seniors, unlimited.
                                         
    
                                         I played three, four games a day.
                                         
                                         Because I'm saying, I thought I was that good to play every division
                                         
                                         since 14 years old or whatever.
                                         
                                         That's what I'm asking.
                                         
                                         I don't know.
                                         
                                         The answer is that if you do 800, 400, that don't mean you could be in the relay.
                                         
                                         Because when you, I'm watching tennis, it's totally two different things.
                                         
                                         You could.
                                         
    
                                         You just would have to be super gifted.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Like, what was the lady, the last lady I remember?
                                         
                                         It would start with an M.
                                         
                                         She tested positive for the, what's her name?
                                         
                                         I'll get it next.
                                         
                                         Marion Jones?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Oh, yeah, Marion Jones.
                                         
                                         Yeah, she was doing a few things.
                                         
                                         That's when you're a super athlete.
                                         
                                         That's not what they were.
                                         
                                         And apparently neither was she because she was cheating like a motherfucker on steroids
                                         
                                         and all that type of shit.
                                         
                                         I seen the special though, huh?
                                         
                                         I seen the doc.
                                         
    
                                         She was cheating
                                         
                                         like a motherfucker.
                                         
                                         She was fast though.
                                         
                                         Yeah?
                                         
                                         I bet she was.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         And then from what I'm reading
                                         
                                         and I'll have to do more research,
                                         
    
                                         they can do the different sports
                                         
                                         but not the same event. So they can't do different things within track so I guess but like why is still the
                                         
                                         question on the table because it is unfortunate for her and even like there's no protocol because
                                         
                                         if she does trip and fall are people going to start using that to their advantage like okay
                                         
                                         let me trip so like we can read like because you can't do that so I don't even know how they would
                                         
                                         fix it yeah they make sure that you don't try to double back on that so if you if you're playing sick just know we don't care we're going with
                                         
                                         who's the best on this day facts ruthless okay and then last thing we before we wrap so boxing
                                         
                                         legend roy jones jr announced the tragic death of his son he said unfortunately my son deandre
                                         
    
                                         took his own
                                         
                                         life on Saturday. I'm so thankful that God allowed me to come home Friday night to spend the last
                                         
                                         night of his life with me and the family. I know a lot of people are going through tough times right
                                         
                                         now, but nothing is worth taking your own life. So first off, rest in peace to his son. That is a
                                         
                                         very unfortunate and tragic event. But what did you guys think when you heard the news? Um, yeah, shout out to Roy Jones and the entire Jones family. Um, just prayers go up,
                                         
                                         go up for Roy Jones and his entire family. Um, cause mental, mental, mental health is,
                                         
                                         Um, cause mental, mental, mental health is, is really serious and it seems like it's becoming more serious. I don't know if it's the food or, or something that's going on, but it just seemed that, you know, human beings are way more fragile.
                                         
                                         We're becoming more vulnerable in speech, but something has definitely changed.
                                         
    
                                         And like I said, his prayers for him and his family. Vulnerable in speech, but something has definitely changed.
                                         
                                         And like I said, prayers for him and his family.
                                         
                                         And one thing I learned from even just reading this just now is that to pay a lot of attention to people that have a different pause threshold than I have. You know, sometimes you think something is easy for you,
                                         
                                         but that doesn't mean that it's easy for that person.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         And I think that's what I could take from this.
                                         
                                         Not saying that this is Roy or his son,
                                         
                                         but that's what I'm learning by listening to what Roy said,
                                         
    
                                         is that we got to take serious precaution to how people are feeling and how they're hearing things in this generation
                                         
                                         yes um big shout out to Roy Jones my condolences to Roy Jones and the Jones family you know he's
                                         
                                         a friend and family of the show obviously and we appreciate his time for
                                         
                                         being up here a couple times that he has been up here um really sad uh happy for him
                                         
                                         that he got to spend the last day with his son because it would have been even worse if he didn't
                                         
                                         see his son for a time period and so on and so forth but that just goes to show that we don't know what anybody's dealing with because
                                         
                                         i'm pretty sure uh if roy sent something i'm just guessing i'm not i don't know i'm just i'm i only
                                         
                                         won't put myself in that situation i can imagine what he's going through but you have to think
                                         
    
                                         about it like if he spent his last day with him did he see
                                         
                                         something did he feel something wasn't right was something happening because if he did he probably
                                         
                                         would have stayed with him and wouldn't have left him or even went to sleep would have been watching
                                         
                                         him but sometimes the signs aren't there and everything seems like it's okay and it may not
                                         
                                         necessarily be okay people put on and like i and like I said, this is totally off of Roy.
                                         
                                         Sometimes people are putting on a facade and be the unhappiest they ever been
                                         
                                         in their entire life.
                                         
                                         So,
                                         
    
                                         sometimes you are paying attention.
                                         
                                         Sometimes you are talking to your loved ones
                                         
                                         and family and friends or whoever.
                                         
                                         And you just don't know what they're going through.
                                         
                                         And that's why,
                                         
                                         even with anybody I love or care about,
                                         
                                         especially younger than me, I try to talk to them.
                                         
                                         Yo, you good? Yeah, I'm good.
                                         
    
                                         Nah, nah, niggas, you real good.
                                         
                                         I try and get in deep and talk to them just to make sure
                                         
                                         because I know somebody actually
                                         
                                         who had two people commit suicide in their life in the last five, six years.
                                         
                                         And imagine walking into that, you know, walking in your house to that.
                                         
                                         And that shit right there got to hurt, you know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         So I know a lot of people are probably paying attention as much as they can
                                         
                                         or somebody tells you that they're good and not good because i don't even have an answer because you could be asking the
                                         
    
                                         questions you could be having the conversations you could be doing as much as you can and then
                                         
                                         that opening up to you and that's why even though we play a lot of different games up here when it
                                         
                                         comes to gen z and baby boomers and so on and so forth. But people are different or raised in different
                                         
                                         areas and have different resilience for different things to where some people can't understand
                                         
                                         why you're mad at something that they're not mad at or they're mad at something that you're not mad
                                         
                                         at because it's different times and different areas. And that's why you have to learn to talk
                                         
                                         to people differently because what may be accepted for you when you was young
                                         
                                         may not be accepted for them today.
                                         
    
                                         You sit there, and I know you kids probably don't know,
                                         
                                         if it was a show like All in the Family
                                         
                                         where Archie Bunker came on the day,
                                         
                                         they might have killed Archie Bunker in the street
                                         
                                         when they seen all the racist shit.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         You know, the Jeffersons growing up,
                                         
    
                                         it was really racial.
                                         
                                         It's a lot of even tv shows
                                         
                                         children children i'm talking about racial shit sanford and son uh good times them shows i mean
                                         
                                         they show repeats but all the family was one of the most racial white men being racial against
                                         
                                         black people ever and we laughed at it where today it would be a fucking picket sign outside
                                         
                                         they would cancel it
                                         
                                         they would cancel it
                                         
                                         yeah
                                         
    
                                         you know
                                         
                                         and looking back on it
                                         
                                         it was harsh
                                         
                                         I look at it now
                                         
                                         sometimes I'm like
                                         
                                         that shit
                                         
                                         I'm a little mad
                                         
                                         I was young
                                         
    
                                         but that shit was really harsh
                                         
                                         and
                                         
                                         when you don't have
                                         
                                         communication
                                         
                                         and it's an age gap
                                         
                                         and you don't
                                         
                                         try to meet in the middle
                                         
                                         sometimes the younger person can't really take it you know what I'm saying so communication and it's an age gap and you don't try to meet in the middle,
                                         
    
                                         sometimes the younger person can't really take it. You know what I'm saying? So you got to think about that. And then I'm not saying Roy Jones,
                                         
                                         I'm not using him as an example for the last thing I'm about to say. Sometimes growing up
                                         
                                         underneath a superstar athlete or a superstar rapper or a superstar whatever is not the easiest thing to do.
                                         
                                         That's why a lot of people will keep their children sheltered because they don't want them dealing with the stuff that they had to go through.
                                         
                                         So sometimes, as much as we, and I'm not throwing them out there, as much as we watch Stephen A everywhere, he talks about his daughter's old time.
                                         
                                         I never seen him.
                                         
                                         He ain't seen him nowhere
                                         
                                         because he doesn't want them
                                         
    
                                         to probably deal with
                                         
                                         the scrutiny that he has
                                         
                                         to deal with all the time.
                                         
                                         And it's not the easiest thing
                                         
                                         growing up.
                                         
                                         We have to think about this.
                                         
                                         Like I said, last thing.
                                         
                                         Imagine, you know,
                                         
    
                                         we know about Michael Jordan's
                                         
                                         son more for fucking
                                         
                                         with Scottie Pippen's ex-wife
                                         
                                         than we know about him trying to play basketball.
                                         
                                         Imagine the scrutiny he had to grow up in
                                         
                                         may not have been that good.
                                         
                                         Talking about, you Mike's son,
                                         
                                         nah, you adopted.
                                         
    
                                         You can't be that, not this good,
                                         
                                         and you Mike's son.
                                         
                                         The pressure.
                                         
                                         Yeah, that is a lot of pressure.
                                         
                                         And then if you're not mentally stable for that,
                                         
                                         that shit could break you eventually
                                         
                                         like right now
                                         
                                         as much as we
                                         
    
                                         joke on the show
                                         
                                         and play games
                                         
                                         and everything else
                                         
                                         and
                                         
                                         I give
                                         
                                         Bronny James
                                         
                                         a lot of credit
                                         
                                         this man went through
                                         
    
                                         a cardiac arrest
                                         
                                         supposed to go to
                                         
                                         well he did go to USC
                                         
                                         he didn't have to
                                         
                                         yeah he's supposed to
                                         
                                         and he's like
                                         
                                         oh he only averaged
                                         
                                         five points
                                         
    
                                         I'm not talking about us
                                         
                                         I'm just saying in general.
                                         
                                         You know,
                                         
                                         he just didn't,
                                         
                                         this man went through
                                         
                                         a cardiac arrest.
                                         
                                         You always have to deal
                                         
                                         with LeBron James,
                                         
    
                                         the greatest player
                                         
                                         that certain people's eyes
                                         
                                         as your father.
                                         
                                         Damn, you're not as tall as him.
                                         
                                         You don't shoot as good as him.
                                         
                                         This, that, and the third.
                                         
                                         The man's trying
                                         
                                         to live his dream
                                         
    
                                         and I'm not saying
                                         
                                         LeBron's son,
                                         
                                         LeBron James,
                                         
                                         as your father
                                         
                                         ain't a motherfucking asset.
                                         
                                         Now, that's what we we not going to do.
                                         
                                         We not going to act like
                                         
                                         that's not an asset.
                                         
    
                                         But think about the other side
                                         
                                         of the coin
                                         
                                         that you have to be like,
                                         
                                         this nigga ain't shit.
                                         
                                         I'm taller than him.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         The whispers, it's annoying.
                                         
                                         So rest in peace
                                         
    
                                         to Roy Jones' son.
                                         
                                         And like I said,
                                         
                                         my condolences to the Jones family.
                                         
                                         Half the things that I was talking about in here
                                         
                                         weren't pertaining to Roy Jones or his son.
                                         
                                         I was just given different scenarios.
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         And then again, our condolences to him and his family.
                                         
    
                                         But that is all the time that we have for today.
                                         
                                         Thanks for watching.
                                         
                                         And as always, it is what it is.
                                         
                                         That was a good take, killer.
                                         
                                         Thank you, man.
                                         
                                         I appreciate it. watching and as always it is what it is it was a good take killer thank you man what you want nigga everything nigga super size
                                         
                                         like when they doing them two for five What you want, nigga? Everything nigga supersize Two big necks
                                         
                                         Like when they doing them two for five
                                         
