The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show - 112.) Knicks Hotline + Dame Dash's Reaction to HOV (6/3/26)

Episode Date: June 3, 2026

Today on Ebro, Laura, and Rosenberg - Laura, and Rosenberg are talking about HOV at Roots Picnic, Knicks Hotline, New York Rapper List, Hoarding, Trump's Slush Fund, Dame Dash Reacts to HOV and so much more! (6/3/26) Support the show on Patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just don't call in a podcast. The Ebro-Lara Rosenberg Show. Yeah, right? Wasn't just me, right? No. I heard it clear from here. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Good morning, everyone.

Okay. I think that's what happened yesterday, something's going on with the audio feed. These new headphones, we just got these new earings, just got blown out. by that intro coming through I don't know what's going on All good, all good

All good Crazy crazy crazy Hang on We gotta do some live sound check Audio stuff Y'all gotta bear with us Crazy crazy Yeah Rassan

I don't know why they came in hot like that It was low It came in hot in the headphones Lou heard it way over there It sounds fine on YouTube Yeah they're fun over here The gain over here is good to go somebody had to gain up on one of these pods though i don't know why but i just fixed it

but anyway these new headphones we just bought griff finished oh my god finish brand opening right they don't make these short inn ears like they used to these used to be the business right here these right here used to be y'all went cheap on them sure what's you doing what you doing anyway ebro laur rozenberg good morning subscribe like share 844 eL ELR, ELR 3. Big night tonight, Knicks fans. We need Knicks fans on the line. Let's talk that talk.

I want to hear from y'all. You know y'all my favorite. Yes. You deserve everything you're going to get tonight. Literally. Come on. Call us up. 844-E-L-R-E-L-R-3.

How exciting. Nah, it's incredible. I don't know. I may have to quit today. The way these headphones sound in my ear right now, there's just static on my right side. It's a mess. But 8-4-4-E-L-R-E-E-E-R-E.

LR 3, get on the line, and let's celebrate because, or at least talk a little ish. There's nothing to celebrate yet. The work's not done. But Nick San Antonio tonight is going to be a situation. I mean, the watch parties are going to be incredible. Let me see. Let me shout out a few people. Nancy B. 6464, Benny Vasquez, Maryland 9-1-37, all hitting that orange and blue.

Nick's fans checking it. R-E-X-O-1. Let's go, man. And don't forget, don't be shot. Call us up 844-E-L-R-E-L-R-3. I love hearing from you guys. Now, I also have a question. For many years, Knicks fans always have problems with my expectations of the NICS

and my ridicule of Dolan's management of the team. And, you know, I was just very honest. Look, if you're one of the most, you know, profitable franchises in the NBA, you should at least be in playoff contention every year. But for the last four years, or has it been five? Four or five years, I've saluted the Knicks, Tibbs, all those things. Even the transition last year when it was like, hey, we're getting rid of Coach Tibbs and we're going to go Mike Brown.

Everybody was like, we hope this works. Mike Brown is shown to be a playoff leader, and obviously been to the finals as an assistant and some other things. But now it's his time to lead. And so I think everybody was supportive, but ready to be disappointed because the next have been a disappointment for 27 years. But you know, there's a rematch. Yes, 99.

1999, the last time the Knicks were in this circumstance was against the Spurs. 1999. Yeah. Wow. So a lot of Knicks fans have always not wanted my love, not wanted my support, and I understand. But tonight, my daughter, Issa, her grandfather.

Okay. Okay, okay. Who's been a Knicks fan his entire life. He's from Harlem. Uh-huh. He was also just put into the Hofstra Hall of Fame. Oh, that's amazing. Because he was on the basketball team at Hofstra that went undefeated in 1912 or whatever.

Yo, bro, don't disrespect. Oh. No. No. No. No. No. No, no, no.

No, but he was on that. He was on that squad. That's fired. Yeah, they just got put into like the Hofstra, like a sports. Hall of Fame over there. That's so cool. But he's like 70. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But also shout to Issa's grandfather, Sid Davis. He also still refs basketball games and volleyball games. Oh, he's active. Yeah, he's fit still. He could probably outrun me right now. Fire. At 70 years old.

But yeah, Knicks tonight. We got any call. Yes, Rassan. Also, as you mentioned, the kids for the Knicks, I'm Donnie. They're something pretty cool. Oh, yeah, that's right, the other night. Want me play?

Yeah, let's have a look. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here is our mayor's order, repealing kids' bedtimes. Yeah. Are we ready? Who here was alive in 1999? So, yeah, he put out an executive order. Oh, that's cute.

You know, that's just another, I guess, another reminder that executive orders don't mean shit. Because guess what? Mom, Donnie, I love you to death. But let me tell you what your little paperwork ain't doing. It ain't going to prevent me from putting Salasi in bed when it's time for her to get in the bed. So that part. Griff, who you got? We got Stephanie on the line.

Stephanie, good morning. Let's go Knicks. Hey, Stephanie. Hi, how are you? Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. You got these Knicks tonight?

Yes. My daughter's wearing her neck gear to school. We're running a little late. but we're hardcore Nick fans. What's your daughter's name? My daughter's name is Delilah. Now, have you in your household been Knicks fans like your entire life?

My entire life since Van Gundy got dragged down the court. Wow. Wow. Listen, I'll tell you one of the most fulfilling things for me right now as a sports fan is, you know, living in a city that is, A, known as like a town, a basketball town. And be literally I was just saying one of the most fulfilling things for me is living in a basketball town and and seeing You know sports fans of a team get this feeling and have this moment in their life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really beautiful to watch. It's fun. It's fun just to see the excitement and then just seeing how everybody like this is the one thing that unites everybody.

Yeah, everyone was walking. It could be old, young no matter where you from. Everyone's like next. Let's go. So it's super dope. When I was coming in, my Uber driver had full jersey on his hat on. He was hype. He was hype. It's going to be a great time. And, you know, it sucks, though,

that we're not going to get an MSG game until next Monday. But nonetheless, the city's going to be lit up. And I'll be honest. I follow a few analysts and, you know, people, sports individuals who really get into the tape. You know, they're looking at the last time the Spurs. and the Knicks played, the adjustments that the Knicks made on the floor, the adjustments that the Spurs made on the floor.

I got to be honest, man, it's looking great for the Knicks. It looks great for the Knicks. And the Knicks have a deeper team just all the way around at every position. And I don't think, and I think there was a stat, but no team has played with such chemistry like this, like an offensive chemistry, like ever. Well, and do we still? have the um i asked for i had sent over a mike greenberg clip some days ago um it may still be in the chat lou if you can scroll back and get it over to rsand uh he had a great uh greenie had a great

breakdown um i sent it over maybe over the weekend for monday i don't know if it made it in but he had a great breakdown uh with regard to teams uh going into the finals like the nicks and how bad the Knicks have been beating other teams. The amount of points the Knicks have been beating other teams by. Griff, who's on the line? Jordan. Jordan, good morning. Let's go Knicks.

Jordan. Yo, you're on, man, ELR, 844, ELR, ELR, 3. You're on with Ebro and Laura. Rosenberg's out on vacate with the family in Italy. He's also doing WWW to him. Yeah, yeah. Jordan, what's up? Man, hey, how you doing?

Hey, how you doing? I just want to hit at Knicks. I want to hit at Knicks energy, bro. Yo, listen, listen, Knicks and four, Knicks and four. Nix and four. That means they're going to win both nights in San Antonio. Come home Monday and then close out next Wednesday. I like this energy.

Yo, listen, we call it a broom. We're sweeping, sweeping, sweeping. I mean, I like that energy. I'm down for it. I'm down for it. It's a tough put, but I like it. And I like what the Knicks are feeling like, too. Jordan, have you been a Knicks fan your entire life?

No, I need to not act like I was riding with them all. I'm going to keep it a hunter with you. I actually root for the thunder until the Knicks get into it. You know, I've got to take part of my city. Oh, God. Okay, okay, okay. Wait, who lives in? Wait, are you from Oklahoma City?

No, sir. It's a long story. We can't get into why I root for them. I have a very specific reason why I have to. I kind of want to know now. I think we all want to know. Say again? I think we can make time for this crazy.

answer that you're going to give us on why you root for Oklahoma City? Somebody from Oklahoma City actually was a person that got me into basketball. They taught me how to play. And I learned a lot of things from watching them live. And I said, you know what? I'm going to support them. But at the same time, I'm a New Yorker and I take pride in my city. So I was nervous about this whole thing because I was like,

am I going to be putting a position where I got a root against New York in New York Wait, wait, so there was actually in your break. When the Sunday didn't make it, you know, it was heartbreaking what happened to them. But at the same time, I was, you know, I weighed off of my chest so that I could, I could root for my city. This is crazy. Oh, my God. This is great. Jordan, we got to talk.

I know, I know, I know. We got to talk. At least he knows. It is what it is. Listen, I want to commend you on your honesty. I want to commend you on your ability to really be loyal to the person who, like, you know, your mentor or whoever this was. that brought you into the love of basketball, but to live in a city like New York.

And actually your brain. I've never publicly worn OKC gear. I keep it in my closet. All right, all right, all right. That's like a KKK hood. Oh, my God. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, man, listen, listen, listen. I got real KKK trauma.

Chill. You're like, chill out. Chill, chill, chill, chill. Now, Jordan, it's love, bro. I've seen real crossburners, my boy. No, it's love. It's love, bro. I'm giving you a hard time. I feel you. I love you all. Thank you for time. Love you too, man. Long time fan. Support you. Watch every morning. I was just overseas. I'm getting up.

I'm changing my time schedule just so I could catch the show, man. Oh, you're awesome. Thank you. And where were you at overseas, Jordan, man? Where were you out overseas? I was in Greece. Greece. Okay, that's what's up, man. Well, a world traveler and a great human being, Jordan. We appreciate your support. Thank you, Jordan.

Thank you. Thank you. Love y'all. All right, man. Let's go Knicks. Griff, what else we got? That's all the calls right now. Everybody else who sounded crazy. 844-E-L-R-E-L-R-3. The lines will stay open the entire show if you want to get into the Knicks. Did we find that greenie clip by any chance?

I never sent it. Now, fail on my behalf. Fail on me. Let me see if I can find that joint because I feel like it's a great breakdown. In the meantime, Laura, you want to get to that super chat? Yeah. I mean, let's see. I think we only have one.

We only have one that just came in just. For $1.90? Oh, God. Yeah, exactly. He's asking, Chef Narrative, are you guys hiring? No, we are not, sir. We are not hiring. Man, we're trying to pay the people we got, bro.

Exactly, exactly. But I see a lot of people even in the chat that are, they're like, I'm not even a Knicks fan and I'm rooting for the Knicks. So I see that a lot. Well, I will say, I will say, look, you know, if you are a Greg Popovich fan who, Greg Popovich is an amazing head coach and an amazing human being. Yeah, yes.

And if you've been following a story of having a stroke and then, you know, they're showing him and Tim Duncan together watching games and being and Tim Duncan, obviously a legend in the NBA and they won chips, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I could see how a casual fan of just sports and whatever might be, you know, having some love for the Spurs. Let's call it that. Having love and glad that they're in this moment. But to live in a city like New York and not be or anywhere in this area.

Right. And not be rooting for the Knicks. It's tough. I can see a Sixers fan not rooting for the Knicks. I can see a Celtics fan obviously not rooting for the Knicks. Lou, you're a Nets fan. What would you like to say? Well, I'm depressed.

I'm a depressed Nets fan. But from Jersey. Uh-huh. Shout out to Jalen Brunson, who was born in New Brunswick. Oh, yeah. Same hospital, St. Jesus' house when I was going here. There you go.

There you go. There you go. So, and, um, and Kat from Piscataway. So, you know, I got jersey all here. Jersey's all in it. I love it. So that's good enough for you.

That's good enough for you. That's good enough for you. That's good enough for me. Any time soon. Yes, Griff. I got Carissa on a meeting. Oh, wow. All right.

All right. All right. You said it's Carissa. Carissa. Carissa. Carice. How you doing? Hey, good morning, Ebro, how are you doing?

Good, welcome to the city or back to the city if you're coming back from Miami. Good morning. Back from Miami. So about a year and a half ago, I sent you all a guru about my sister who I had to call out work for Tesla. Oh, I think I remember this. Yeah, crazy thing about it. She actually got fired. From Tesla.

From Tesla because he decided to talk about chocolate. She was a Holly Kirk. Wow. Well, look. But, so now the thing is, this is her first year being a Nick fan. And she said it's because of me. So she surprised me and she's flying me in on Sunday. That's fire.

Wow. That's so nice. I'm excited. I cannot wait. Oh, man. That's so beautiful. When was the last time you were here? I came a year and a half

ago. Okay. A half ago. I was what I. All right. Well, you get to celebrate with the city. Like I said, there's 27 years of misery. No, it's been rough. I know, I know, I know. I, I, know. How, can you describe how happy you are right now? Listen, I cried.

Wow. Okay? I cried because, listen, just the emotions over the years, Reggie Miller, even last year, Halliburton with the choke, that pissed me the hell off. Right. I mean, like, like, like, I think someone said earlier. Just the chemistry that we have right now. It's amazing. No, yeah, I was King Lou talking about the chemistry.

I found the Mike Greenberg clip on my Greenberg's page. I want to show that. Shout to Mike Greenberg from ESPN. But, you know, not only just the chemistry, but the odds of the Knicks getting this done are very, very high. And I don't look at betting lines. Thanks, Sheree, for you call. I don't look at betting lines or, you know,

what Vegas is saying. really I'm not into that gambling world like that. So I just really look at what individuals who cover sports have to say. But it looks really good for the Knicks. Lou, you look like you want to say something. Well, no, I was going to say if you're looking, the spurs are the betting favorites right now for the finals. Interesting. Yeah.

Hmm. Yeah, the spurs are young. Okay. The spurs are young, but that doesn't necessarily bode well for you in the finals. No, for sure. But next few years, they're going to be scared. Oh, no, the spurs ain't going anywhere for a few years. Wembe's.

Wembees. Like, listen, I love the spurs. And I love the organization. I love the quality of the organization. Like, I think when you look at franchises in professional sports, you will put the spurs in the conversation for some of the best well-run. Okay. Kind of like family-oriented, you know, quality leadership.

Players not, you don't really hear players complaining or having, even when they come and go quickly like, you know, a Kauai Leonard or whatever, you don't hear people disparaging the spurs or the organization at all. And I think that that's phenomenal. Look, I hope when, what is it, next Monday, the Knicks play at the Garden? Friday, I believe Monday, yeah. Monday. Are we fixing up this Oakley thing?

I hope so. Are the Knicks, is that fixable? because to have all of the legends Oh yeah Remember he's been banned from the game And him and him and uh um Dolan Dolan we're going at it and having issues

And he got kicked out I don't know if Dolan I don't know if Dolan is We would let him back in He's not going to want to iron out I don't think so I don't think so I think it's too far in right I think he's just in multiple interviews As Griff just mentioned he mentioned it on our show

Back in the back in the day He's mentioned a multiple shows even recently. I just think he's dug too far deep. I don't think it's fixable. Griff, what you got? Which sucks.

Amina, good morning. You're on ELR 844, ELR, ELR 3. The phone's always on if y'all want to talk Nix today. Matter of fact, the phone's always on if you just want to talk in general unless you're talking crazy. Amina, what's happening?

Hey, good morning, guys. How you're doing? We're feeling great. Let's go Nix. Let's go, Vida. Let's go, Nick. Let's go Nix. I got Nix.

And Nixon six, she says. Nick's in six. And I think Nick's going to take game one tonight. Man, if they take game, listen, that's what needs to happen. Get the momentum early, steal a win, game one in San Antonio, and just get that, right? Because game two, you know, it gets shaky. But then you come home for two. You come home for two and you could be up three one by next Wednesday.

Oh, my God. Please, please, please. Now, that would be beautiful. So, Amino, you've always been a Knicks fan your whole life. I've been a Knicks fan my whole life. I sat through the O.J. Simpson interrupting the finals in the 94. Wow, you got stories. You go way back.

Wow. So how does this feel, this moment for you? I'm so excited, but I'm nervous. I'm so nervous. I'm not even going to lie. I'm nervous. But I have a good feeling. I think this is a year for us.

Dalen Brunson. I like Wendy, but I think this is Jaylen Brunston's year. Now, is there any piece of you as a Knicks fan or any Knicks fan hearing us had this combo right now? That, you know, I know this is, you know, it's kind of been finals or bust

the last several years. Now the finals are here. And Lou, correct me if I'm wrong, there's nothing hovering over the Knicks right now contractually where this team would have to be blown up even win or lose here at the finals. Like this is the team. This is the team.

The only way you would blow it up at this point is I think if they didn't make the finals and they made all the changes with Thibodeau and all that stuff, that's when you would blow it up with Kat maybe not working in Brunson. But the way they're jelling right now, this is the team. Right. So when or lose here, they're going to be coming back around next year to take a swing at this thing. When you're talking about back-to-backs? You're having a different combo.

So, I mean, I put that on the table just because when you say like, it sounds like you're apprehensive, you're nervous. There's nothing. This is like we're playing with the house's money right now, it feels like. Like you don't... If the Knicks don't win this year, I'm not feeling good for next year. If they win this year, I'm okay for the next few years if they don't win a championship, but it's got to be this year.

It has to be. I feel like I hear that a lot. It has to be this year. Look, I want to say, I want that, I want that too. I want the next to win. I want that for the city. I want that. for the fans. I want that for basketball. I think it's great on so many levels. Yes,

Rassan. My dad reminded me last night that we beat the Spurs in the end tournament. That's right. In season tournament. That's right. We know how to beat them already. That's right. That's the thing. And the Knicks weren't even playing their best ball at that time at all. At all. Here's the Mike Greenberg breakdown on why he feels this is the year the Knicks are going to take it. Spreading the news. The New York Knicks are the junior varsity to no team ever. They are, in fact, on the kind of heater that historically only the very greatest teams and very greatest players have ever matched, and they absolutely could win the title in the next couple of weeks.

Let me lay this out for you. The Knicks of the fifth team ever to win 11 straight playoff games in a single year. The others featured in chronological order, Magic and Kareem, Duncan and Robinson, Shaq and Kovie, and Steph and KD. Just digest that for a moment. That's the entire list. And among those, the 2017 Warriors had the best point differential. Okay, they entered the finals outscoring their opponents by 196 points.

These Knicks are a plus 271 in the playoffs. That is 75 points better than a team that was so good that people said it was ruining the sport. But here's the thing. You know all of that already. What you want to talk about is an easy path to the finals. So let's talk about easy paths. Did you know that none of the last three NBA champions ever faced a team seated higher than fourth? I don't think you did.

Last year, OKC, they played the eight, the four, the six, and the four seeds. The year before that, Boston, they played the eight, the four, the six, and the five. Before that, Denver. They played the eight, the four, the seven, and the eight. The point is, this is nothing new, so let's stop talking about it. And then finally there's this, the enormous advantage of rest. By the time the finals start, the Knicks will have played four games in 23 days. Wow.

There are only three prior teams to have that profile since the playoffs expanded. They were the 2017 Warriors, the 2001 Lakers, and the 99 Spurs. All three of them won the finals in five games. So whether you love or loathe New York and its teams, just be aware of this. The Knicks are not lucky. They're not a fluke. They are not the JV. They are right now playing about as well as any team ever.

And in about two weeks time, they absolutely might win this whole damn thing. That's what needed to be said. Mike Greenberg, ESPN. Let's go. Listen, when I saw that, I was like, I mean, if you're into the numbers. Mike gave it to you. He laid them out, Laura Stiles. Yes, Griff, what you got?

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please contact connects Ontario at 1-866-531-2,600 to speak to an advisor. Free of charge. BetMGM operates pre-combinger. pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming, Ontario. Yo, Dre Raca, Salt Lake City, first time, long time. Look, these analysts, these reporters, they've been doubting the Knicks since day one. Hell, if you go on to Google right now,

they got the Spurs color away before the Knicks. The Knicks are number one. Why are we going to San Antonio tonight? Like, it don't make no sense. The Knicks have been the underdogs a whole time, man. The Knicks are going to win Nixon 4. He's got Knicks at 4. Thanks for your call, brother.

Thanks for listening to Salt Lake City. Yeah, man. What do you got, Griff? Nessie. Nessie. Listen, that's what we're doing today. The NICS. The NBA finals crack off tonight, man. And we live in New York.

So wherever you're watching around the world, anytime something's going on in New York is going to be the priority. What's her name? Nessie. Good morning. Hello, you're on. ELR.

Hey, EO. We are great. We are ready for the game tonight to watch the Knicks take Game 1 in San Antonio. I just want to say first, Ebro, Laura, I love you guys. I've been listening to you since Top 97. Thank you.

I had my daughter in 2020, so I followed you, Laura, all the time. You're the best. Thank you so much for all you guys have done. I just wanted to share my husband and even myself, we're a heavy neck fan. However, my husband is going to the game tonight, and he's leaving me and my daughter behind. Oh. Oh. He's watching with his boys.

What do I do? Oh. Now, you'd be a supportive family member. Yeah, let him rock. You understand that there's no way he probably could have financially afforded to take the whole family. I know. And now, did he buy this ticket or was he gifted this ticket? I can't hear you too well, but I'm going to take your advice.

You guys are muffling a little bit. Okay. All right, all right. Because we asked you, did he buy the ticket? No, no, no, no. We looked for tickets. It was like $2,000 for him to, um, to get the tickets and then also get the flight over.

Okay. But we were like, no, we're not doing that. So he's going to end up going and watching the game with his boys at his boys' place. And then I'm like, what about us? All right. Well, no, I think y'all, if that's the game, I thought you said he was going to the game. Yeah, that's what I thought, too. No, no, no.

We're not spending. It was about $2,000 for a hotel, flight, and the ticket. Okay, okay, okay. Well, look, make yourself your own watch party. make some wings, you know, get some food together, maybe invite some friends over, and you have your own watch party. Well, and here's the tradeoff,

and thanks for your phone call. We have a toddler in the house, okay? And so we deal with this often, where it's kind of like, A, are we going to take the baby to an adult event? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, where now, because there's a baby around, especially a toddler, and she said she had a baby in 2020,

so that's a six-year-old. So it's not really a baby. It's six-year-old, which might even be more annoying, right? Because A, you got to watch how you're talking. Yes. Right? So you can't just be cursing and hollering. You can't be smoking and chilling and talking crazy.

So that's out. Then the kid is going to be distracting their attention span. Probably ain't going to be able to sit through a full basketball game. Maybe, maybe not. So then you have to make sacrifices. So hopefully for her husband goes to watch the game with the fellas tonight. He could drink, smoke, hang out. and then on Friday, they watch it together as a family.

Yeah, yeah. Because that game one has a little something to it. It's the first. Nah, that game one has a little something to it. Shout to my dude, set free Richardson, who was on the program. We're going to put that conversation out. Is that coming out later on today?

Compound Art and Sound. He's having a private event. If you have an RSVP, the year in the game, and you know people who know set free, they're having a private event over there in Brooklyn at compound art and sound i may pull up to that um griff what you got you got to goonie oh right rick steps in the room goony goony oh no nah nah i can i how you feeling i'm feeling good baby yo i'm saying nixon four you heard me y'all y'all can hear me

no we hear you i heard nixon four i was going to let you finish i didn't want to cut you off I have to cut you off because I know how you get. So I was letting you get that Knicks and Four. Yo, he broke, knock it off because I know you are Los Angeles Brooklyn Nick. You're gone through the years. You're Los Angeles Brooklyn. I'm Los Angeles, New York, Brooklyn.

Yeah, yeah. But yo, go on. This is why I'm going to. I'm going to keep a hundred. I'm a nuts fan, you heard. But I always root for the Knicks, you know, Jill and Brunston, Kat. McHall Bridges was with Brooklyn.

I hope they win it, but this is what makes me nervous. You know the Knicks how they are. If they don't win it this year, I have a feeling it's all going to go to shit. Like San Antonio? Now, don't say that. Don't say that. They're going to be good for a long time. I want to believe.

I want to believe that we have entered a new era of New York Knicks basketball and front office management. They have been consistent in building this team. for like the last six, seven years, right? Brunson's, what, six, six, five years? Four years. Four years in on Brunson. And then remember they added, I forget the guys, his name,

I know World Wide West personally, what's the other guy, Rose in the front office, Leon Rose in the front office. And they've been running, they've been keeping this ship on the rails, man. And then obviously Tibbs, everybody recognized it. Tibbs could only take a team so far. and now they went out and got Mike Brown and we're in the finals. Or let me say,

let me not say we so I don't piss off any Knicks fans because they may not want me on the band. Yeah, we're going to say we. Let me not say we. Wee. But the Knicks. Now, y'all goon,

the nicks just make me nervous, though, Goon. Because they don't win it now, who knows? And then I don't know the whole team. No, but that's past trauma. Yeah, Rick, we need positive energy. That's past trauma talking right. Come on. But it's all positive.

Let's go New York. There you go. You see I don't rock with them, but I'm rocking with New York Knicks. Now, Knicks fans, here's the question. Because my daughter,

and I want to see my daughter have this moment, is she's Knicks. Yes. And she'll even tell you when I'm like, yo, the Knicks, she's like you don't like the Knicks.

You're not a Knicks fan. Like she's on that type of time. Oh, she's spicy now. Let's go, Issa. Um, but because I'm rooting for the Knicks to win and Issa's my daughter, can't I say we?

No. I wouldn't do that. But that's my, like, that's, that's my blood, man, that's my, you know what I'm saying? No? You're saying,

oh, he said hit the button. He was like, we as in me and Issa. We as in me and Issa and the Knicks. We as in me, Issa, the Knicks, and my friends who are Knicks fan. No.

Yo, bro, let's go, Nick. I love y'all. I'm out of here, yeah. Yo, hi-ri-Rick. Love you. What you got there, Gryph? This phone's going crazy for the Knicks. He has a theory.

Oh, what's his name? Brad. Brad has a New York Knicks theory. We've taken a lot of calls on the ELR show today. Like and subscribe and sharing all the things. 844, ELR, ELR 3. Brad, what's happening? What's the theory?

Talk to us. I'm not hearing the excitement. I'm really not hearing the excitement from the next thing. And they don't, people are understanding. understanding what this is. You got an organization that's been in peril for years, and you've got these players that are on this team right now that are from here.

And they have a pride, and they've loved this team, and this is the way they are playing. Yeah, that's real talk. That's real talk. But what do you mean? You don't see the excitement. I think he's saying kind of what hot rod, Rick, some of that energy, the apprehension and being excited

because of the fear of this. disappointment. Okay. Is that what you're saying, Brad? It's just, it's so much fear of what is going through the years. It's like PTSD. Yeah. I get it.

Y'all need to be happy. Like, this is the time. I'm from, I'm from Staten Island born, raised in Plainfield, raised my kids here up the scatteraway with Carl Town. They worked out with him. New Brunswick is right next door. That's right. These guys love this, man.

They grew up thinking about this. about this. You don't get any other NBA teams that have all of these players that grew up on this team thinking about this, dreaming about this forever. Yeah. This don't happen. Now, you're right. It's very rare. This is rare air where you have individuals at the highest level of athleticism and sport, professional sports, from an area representing a legendary franchise for the top prize. Like, it's very rare. Yeah, you don't get this. And then they say rare air, this is rare air.

Well, and then they're college buddies. That's a whole other. That's a whole, and that's a whole other thing. You got these guys that, I mean, it's like playing with your high school friends all the way through. Yeah, that is fire. That is fire when you really think about it. But I see the excitement, man. Listen, in the streets, on the train, people, it's like employees and customers.

Like, you see it everywhere. To me, that's what makes me excited. I just, all the love that's being celebrated in the street. But I get what you're saying, though. I get what you're saying. But we're going to keep that positive energy. Yeah, come on. Let's go.

Go New York. Go New York. Yo, look, even the old anthem that I've hated for a thousand years. Go New York. It rings now. It rings now. It's fine. It's ringing now.

It's ringing. It makes sense now. Yo, thanks, Brad, for your phone call. Shout to everybody tuning in. The lines will remain. open for you if you wanted 844, ELR, ELR 3. Speaking of New York and just a great time for New York, the whole week has been charmed full of Jay-Z at the Roots Picnic Talk.

That's right. You know, and there's obviously this New York City rapper ranked list that's been circulating the kind of the algorithm for the last, I would say about the last week, right? Last week, yeah. Because Complex put out like a list and then they allowed people to vote on the the list and kind of re-rank it. Is that what took place, Louer? Am I understanding right?

Yeah. Let's take a look at how the voting played out. That's clip eight. Here we go. All right. Nause at the top, big, Rakim, Jada, Hove.

That's the top five. I'm not mad. Okay. I'm not mad at all. And then DMX 50 L-L KRS and Prodigy. Well, that's from, so this is the re-rank. So Complex had Hobb up higher than the voters.

And I'm assuming the complex was just like staff picks, all the writers, they just, they put their two cents in it. I'm not quite sure how that played out, but I'm not mad at that what the voters put up right there. Put that up one more time or something. At 10. Rappers. Prodigy. Look, I love KRS being in there. Yeah.

I love DMX and 50 being in there. Like, this is a great list. I just, for me, I think Black Thought needs to be up there. No, it's New York, though. Oh, New York. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Okay, okay, okay. New York.

that's philly um you know we could we could um we could talk about you know i think jay j obviously gets lowered by voters because they've been inundated with j for so long on the algorithm right like i think there's there's fatigue on the j brand with regard to people so tired of him being at the top of every list right that i think that that shows in that right there not that there's not love for him, but also, you know, B-I-G, phenomenal, right, but gone too soon. So we don't know how his career would have played out. Right, right. Right.

Raq-im, you know, is the reason, one of the reasons people even rap the way they rap. Like, you don't even have a B-I-G, a Naz, a J, a Jada kiss without Raq-Kim. And so it's phenomenal to see him up there. Jada, obviously, you know, he's, I love how his. brand jada's brand today sits he's always been beloved in new york as an mc right and one of the greats um i think he even had an album top five dead or alive he's and he's always branded that too he's made sure yo so some of the voting uh represents that marketing but also some of the voting represents where he's at in the conversation today yeah because of that joe and jada podcast which is

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that would have said something more clever. And that's not the version of J. That I would have ever signed. And I felt bad because I was like, it must be embarrassing for him to now have to be on that stage, not the same version of himself. and still have to work at that age because he has to.

So that was the brother and me like, damn, I know that, because I know him, that when we were younger, when he was this age, he hated talking to people and doing all, he was retiring since reasonable doubt. For him to have to come outside 20 years later, I just felt kind of like embarrassed for him a little bit

because we all know him. And then the funny nigga in me, I couldn't even hear the lyrics because the hairstyle was crazy. And I was like, why would they let him come outside like that? Like, why do they let you come outside? Because to me, it's like the people who are commenting on this is crazy. And there should be jokes for that hairstyle. There are jokes. And if like everyone around him that loves him didn't laugh and be like, yo, what are you doing?

And I'm like, why would he do that? Like, we want to see, and I'm going to tell, because I still care about JJ. When you do Yankee Stadium, I need you to get a fade, not a fade, a Caesar. I need you to put the Yankee hat on and do the thing to the side. That's what we want to see. We want to see Chuckers. We want to see some jewelry. We don't want to see this version of you.

All right. I know I don't. That version of the rock was painful. and hard to look at. Pause. It's almost as he's talking about himself. Oh, yo,

well said, Laura Stavs. Right? No. I'm like, I look at this and I'm like, damn, that's embarrassing.

That's painful to look at. That's sad. No, listen, bro. There's something, it's serious. The sickness is serious. The audacity of some individuals.

The delusion is crazy. The delusion is crazy. Now, look, you could say you don't like Jay's hairstyle. You could have, you know, look, and there's people who just don't revere evolution and change. Like, they want you to be the same version of you forever because that makes them comfortable. That's really what he was saying. I want the same Jay-Z that I knew because that makes me feel okay about me because I'm in shambles. My teeth flew out of my mouth on Instagram,

and he's talking about someone else being embarrassed to show up and get on stage on a mind. It's wild. I don't even. No, that's a level of brain damage and mental health. That's a different level. It's sad to see. And by and, and,

yo, that level of confidence is also something. You can look at it from the other way where you're like, yo, you ain't afraid of nothing, bro. You'll say anything. Your teeth just flew out your mouth on Instagram and people was worried about your health. Like, are you okay? He's had a week, man.

It's sad to see. Yeah, I feel the same. I think it's sad to see. And I don't even, like, I saw it yesterday. I was like, I don't even want to give this attention. Because I just, it's, it's sad. Like, well, no, but is there any part of a person that when you're having a tough time

and you can acknowledge, I'm having a tough time, okay? And someone that you used to know is having a great time. A successful marriage, family, business, career. You're not. Y'all used to be in cahoots. There's no version of that person

that we're getting public and be like, nah, bro, you got it. Like you, you was able to do the thing that we was all trying to do. And you was able to do it. And humble yourself in that moment. It takes a certain type of person to be able to do that, you know, but I think that's a healthy person.

Yeah. Right? Because to get on camera and act like what Jay is doing right now in his life and in his career has any sort of negative slant to it, aspirational from the person that we've always known who Jay wanted to be and how he wanted to, what he talked about in his music. When you look at Jay-Z right now,

he didn't fulfill his dream? Sir past it. Bro. You know what I'm saying? Like, he didn't take it as far as it could be taken? Like, as an artist, as a businessman, like, come on, man. But, you know, some people just cannot let it go.

Some people are holding on to certain things, and that's all they have left. And by the way, I say that as somebody who has critiqued. Right? The same way we critique other artists, Drake, other things. Drake's taking it as far as you can take it.

Like we could get into like what we like and dislike hairstyle, songs, release, lost to battle, whatever. Drake is also going to end up taking it as far as you could take it, as far as business and brand.

And like the stage is set for him to be tremendously successful. Now, he's just, measuring the wrong chart today he's on the wrong chart champ today but in the future you what I'm saying it's gonna work out for him but that's you know but that's all just talking shit like that's not real like when you kick back and you look at yo this hip hop thing that we love these artists and this music that we love and you look at individuals whether we um like their music or we even would wish that their content might be more insightful.

There was times I wish Jay-Z's content was more insightful and uplifting. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like that was a thing where it was like, all right, materialism. And, you know, I went through that phase. But as I saw him evolve and grow, it got more insightful. It got more thoughtful. He got more thoughtful, right? Like he began to evolve as a human being.

That's what you want to see a human being do. Like that's one of the critiques of Drake today, right? As people are, people wanted him to be more thoughtful and insightful and whatever in this most recent release, wanted him to be more mature. But he'll get there in his time. And you could critique all you want. It doesn't take away his accomplishments. That's right.

You know what I mean? Like he's, they're very accomplished and you can't deny that. You have to be a super hater. No, it's different level. To do that as we saw. Yes, King Lou. But on, I would say to play devil's advocate, but on dame's point of view, he feels probably that Jay had to step over him or step on him

to surpass those dreams that he's experiencing right now. Maybe. Maybe that's how he feels. Or maybe just people just outgrow people. And the reason that they are success was because they had to let go of things that wasn't, you know. Conduasive to their growth. Yeah. You know, I was told by an elder once,

life is a game of attrition, meaning to succeed and at this life thing, it will always be about what you're willing to get rid of, both in the metaphoric sense, right? Stop doing things, you know, whatever. But also in the physical sense, people, items. I believe everyone in this room has led go of relationships that no longer serve you. You got to get rid of that storage unit, B.

Yes. Why are you still holding on it is storage unit? You could have bought eight furniture sets by now, by the money you spent on that story. Junior, but it's true. Yo, the ill one, I remember I had, someone in my family was holding on to their first

computer. They were like, this is my first computer. It was like a IBM something. Okay. And you're not an electronics collector. It's not like some, in some sort of, you know, electronic section of your home where you're like

displaying all of the, you're just holding on to an old computer because it's the old computer. It doesn't work. Can't use the parts. Can't use the parts. And I bring that up because people do hold on to the past in ways it's like odd. Like this is my grandmother's chair as a baby. It's a real thing.

And you're like, okay, what are you going to do with that? It's my grandmother's chair from when she was a baby. Does it have any special meaning? No, it was just, are you using it for your baby? No, it's in storage. Are you going to donate it to another baby? be in the family. No. Is it have any use other than for you to say it's taking up space in the story? This triggers me. Why? Because my dad was like a hoarder and this this is the conversations

that I have. I think that's why. Okay, two things. I think I became a collector because of it and then later on in life I want to get rid of everything and my whole thing is you got to get rid of old to you're always going to bring new. You have to let go of things. Got to make space. You have to make room. You have to. So I've had these conversations over and over and over with people. And I recently had this conversation with my friend about her storage. And I was like, why? You have an old bed frame that you're never going to put into your apartment. You have what, like boxes of stuff that you don't care. Get rid of it. And she finally got rid of it. She's like, I should have done that a long time ago. I'm like, hell out. And not only that, but it's costing you

money. Yes. You're literally spending money to keep this. Yeah, yeah, yeah So, listen, Dame, I think it's time to go sit down. Oh, my God. Unless he gets paid, you think he gets paid for these interviews? Yes. So there's money.

Oh, so that's why we keep seeing him because he pops up to get paid him. I'm not sure Jason Lee paid him, but I know Art of Dialogue, he probably got paid for it. Got it. Okay, so now this makes sense. All right. But it's also even more sad.

Yeah, I mean, look, Because his financial issues have been, you know, in public. Well documented. Yeah. Well documented. Anyway. All right. We got the rundown.

Laura Stiles. Let's get into it. Let's go. The run down turned that up. Screen's on glow when she pulled up. Headlines heavy, but we still cut up. Life still flashing. We don't show.

Okay. Good news. The Michael Jackson Biopic Michael will be available to watch at home June 9th after a very successful running theaters. So, you know, it earned nearly. 850 million worldwide. It's the highest grossing music biopic ever.

Okay. Did we expect anything different? No. It's Michael Jackson. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard of that guy. Yo, he's pretty popular, that Michael Jackson guy. So, yeah, it'll be available on Apple TV, Prime, and other platforms.

So if you haven't seen it, that's your chance. But speaking of Michael Jackson, you know, someone we love here in the city, New York Liberty's own Ellie the Elephant. Oh, here we go. a championship franchise here in the city was trending because watch this hey hey hey oh oh look at that footway come on ellie come on ellie look at that footwork hey hey hey hey hey best math guys wait wait wait wait wait oh oh yeah i got to send this video to easel you know everybody is losing their life ellie jackson Ellie Jackson Ellie the elephant Jackson go

Now the walkoff was clean So we're in the living room the other day Issa got on Now where was we at? Where was in the living room? What was we at? No, we was, I don't know where we was at But we somewhere still had our shoes on

So it wasn't in the living room And it was on a carpet And we don't have a carpet in the living room She was trying to moonwalk And some air maxes Across the car I was like, eh, hang on, you know And that's not how that

I need to send her Ellie doing that Yeah, that was fun. That was fun to watch. Shout to New York Liberty and the Barclays, everybody over there. Yeah. If you get a chance, go watch a game. No, I was just texting with some of the guys, some of the dads, and Issa's friend group about going to catch a game in August. You still got the plug?

Not anymore. Not anymore. But you was the Latino voice of the New York Liberty? No, not the Liberty. The Nets. Oh, the Nats. The Nats. I'll see it.

I'm going to do some digging. You up here are capable for the Nix. They definitely not bring you back. I'm capable for Nix fan. All right, nice spin. Nice spain. All right. In other news, I don't know if you guys saw this, but Trump basically got the want,

wham. He's backing off these plans for that $1.8 billion, the slush fund. He's calling it the anti-weaponization fund after getting a lot of pushback from Republicans. And the Justice Department, which was set to manage the fund, they stated on Monday that it would abide by the court's ruling. So the judge said no. So even though he's trying to say like, yeah, I'm going to step away, but bro, the judge said no. Well, judges are saying no on a lot of things, and I'm not quite sure.

I haven't been tracking it close enough to know that when a judge says no, how much they actually abide by the law. Because there's definitely been instances where a judge has said no with certain laws. Then they go to the Supreme Court, which is basically right now, the Supreme Court is... Compromise? That's a good word. I was just going to say just a Maga court. Like it's it's just a another tool that's aligned. So you have Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court that are basically all aligned.

And they remember how the voting the voting map in Alabama, a judge came out and said it was unconstitutional. They took it to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court said it was constitutional. After the same map, the same map in Alabama in 2023, the Supreme Court. Court had said was unconstitutional because it was racialized against black folks. And the Supreme Court in 2023 said the exact same map was no Bueno. Now after allowing the map in Louisiana, and when they allowed the map in Louisiana during that session said that they would not be changing over the Alabama map, and that rule

will still apply, has now going to change that. you're right to benefit where we're going in the midter I want to make this clear the judge put a stop to temporarily block the payouts that were supposed to go out on Friday so this fund was established as part of that settlement

that 10 billion lawsuit against the IRS that he did but in that IRS lawsuit they are they still holding the line on that stipulation that Trump and his family members can never be investigated by the IRS oh yeah oh yeah everything sounds

so legal, right? Well, and what it says too, also, at least to me, what it says is if Republicans are against the slush fund, but those same Republicans know that they need to allow the IRS to never investigate Trump or his family members. So those Republicans that push back against slush fund, they're not pushing back against its other piece, means that that was a part of the deal to allow to get Trump in office to get these things done. That was a part of the deal

for these antics and everything that we're seeing at the government level. That means those Republicans are like, eh, this is too far, but we want to make sure this happens because you towed the line the way we wanted you to tow the line. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right when I see all these Republicans being like, yeah, you know, the corruption, like the clip that you sent me, I don't think we

have that, right? I said it this morning. With Megan Kelly. It's okay. I don't, you have it? Yeah, I sent it this morning. You may not have had time to put it in. Huh? Yeah. Oh, let's watch it. Yeah, let's see it.

These got two conservatives. I just don't see any positivity coming out of this administration. It seems very self-serving. I have a list of shit printed I could go through. But I mean, what was the last one? He fucking made it. So he had Tom Blanche do the dirty work so that him or anybody in his family could never be audited by the IRS. What the fuck is that shit?

The drone company, the $400 million check from Qatar. The, what is it? The executives club. You know about that? Yeah, yeah, that they started in D.C. You don't hear about any of this shit. Yeah. Does this shit look like he's serving the fucking people?

No. So you're going to serve that? Are you going to speak out against it? And let everybody know what the fuck is happening. You think he'd be better off? Fox News, sure, his fuck isn't reporting. any of the shit. You guys are dip shits, bro. None of it. None of it. No,

I, I, there's no question that the corruption in the administration has been far beyond what I ever respected. He sued the fucking government. He sued his own fucking government. How come I knew all of this? I would say this to people. How come I knew this

was what this government was going to be like? And y'all didn't. You know why you didn't? Because you didn't care. That's part one. Two, you were more focused on hurting people of color, specifically black people in Latina. those, specifically hurting them people, and specifically grifting and getting paid.

That's right. You guys all took the money. Yeah. You all took the money. And now we're sitting up here watching you guys try to wrap your brains around, popping your Achilles, pulling your hammies,

trying to stretch and wrap your brains around what's taking place right now, as if you weren't told ahead of time. It's mind-blowing. It's mind-blowing. The same people who work so hard to get them here. Especially to see Megan Kelly's nasty ass up there being like, and Fox News is not showing any of it.

You're part of the problem. You created this. You uplifted all of this. All of the corruption. You knew it, but you got paid. You know, these people are sick. And look where we're on now. This wasn't going to be part of the rundown.

So we'll wrap up the rundown. But I did want to touch. on on a case that has been moving around and it's a really really, really sad case, the case of Cyrus Carmack Belton. So a South Carolina jury on Monday found a store owner not guilty in the murder of a 2023 shooting of a 14-year-old child named Cyrus Carmick Belton. So this happened on May 28, 2023, Rick Chow, he's 61 years old. He falsely accused him of shoplifting four bottles of water from Columbia, South Carolina, from Michelle gas station. Surveillance video later confirmed the teenager did not steal anything.

Chow and his son pursued him while he was running away for more than 130 yards, okay, off the property. And during the pursuit, Chow shot him in the back, killing him. Now, Chow's defense argued that he acted in self-defense, that he was trying to protect his son. His son testified that Cyrus was armed with a gun and pointed it at him during the chase. Mind you, the only people that said this are all named Chow. Well, not only that, the camera footage doesn't support it.

They didn't even find the gun until after they shot him in the back and chased him down and looked in the backpack. It wasn't on the camera footage at all. But I want everybody to remember this is South Carolina. I'm not sure what you expected. It's so sad, man. It's just such, because yesterday when I was watching, I just kept watching, you know, the algorithm keeps feeding you and feeding. you and it was it's just crazy also to see how people try to justify these things still outside of South Carolina you know what I mean people from all walks of life justifying well

well he had a gun he was shot in the back running away 130 miles yards away well also having a gun in the U.S. is that is that I mean I know he's a 14 year old kid he wasn't illegally supposed to have it but you know how many kids running around here with guns and in environments where there's a lot of guns, both legal and illegal. And this is the South. This is South Carolina. So I think the bottom line is here, you chased a 14-year-old over bottles of water and shot him in the back.

It was eight hours of deliberation on the jury, and they came back with a not guilt. Mm-hmm. So, you know, to the family of Cyrus and everybody who's triggered by these stories that continually happen to black children and black people in this. country um i send you love and light and and take a breath stay on your square and stay focused because you never know how much information like this uh sits in your subconscious yeah it causes you to make also more unhealthy decisions throughout the day yeah so you know it's tough but you know we have we have uh been able to survive and thrive despite these conditions for generations

so we stay locked in grip you got your hand up I got Mike on the phone and guys. RIP, Peebo Bryson. Wow. Mike, good morning. You're on the ELR show. Ebro-Laure Rosenberg, 844, ELR, ELR 3. Mike was popping?

Mike. Oh, Mike. Oh, no. We lost Mike. No, Mike. Well, that was the rundown, Laura Stiles. Thank you very much. Yes.

Hey, hey. Headlines heavy, but we still cut up. Listen, it's time to get up out of here. The ELR show is wrapped. You know what I'm saying? Shout to my man, set free Richardson, who stopped by the program yesterday from the compound art and sound.

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