The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Best of The Herd: 03/07/2019

Episode Date: March 7, 2019

Colin thinks LeBron passing MJ on the all-time scoring list was a dud of a moment because LeBron has built no equity in Los Angeles.  He thinks Antonio Brown better enjoy these moments in the spotlight because once he's traded he will disappear.  Fox NFL Analyst Peter Schrager tells Colin why Kyler Murray will be the number one pick.  Plus, Blazers Center Enes Kanter talks about why he didn't want to join the Lakers and what it was like being trapped in an elevator with almost his entire team.  Presented by Perky Jerky. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowher on Fox Sports Radio. This is the herd. Wherever you may be and however you may be listening, live in Los Angeles on IHeart Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and FS1. Great show today. We may have an NFL story, Antonio Brown, breaking during our show today. Joy Taylor is joining me from Pittsburgh. We're all waiting for that to happen.

Joy, how are you? I'm great. Good morning. Enis Canter, Doug Gottlie, Brian Casabrini, a lot of fun today. So last night is one of those moments that should have felt huge. Right? Like LeBron James grew up idolizing Michael Jordan. And last night, this amazing story, the little kid from Akron, whose best friends are still, his business partners from high school, surpasses Michael Jordan and points.

MJ most believed the goat. It was a big moment. Should have been incredibly special. Here was this guy LeBron James who has built a resume, a portfolio, a legacy on, he's still buddies with his high school guys, community, Akron. He loves players. And Los Angeles loves stars. And last night was a dud.

The only people that were less interested than his teammates, appeared to be the fans. It was completely underwhelming. I mean, God, Drew Breeze, Monday Night Football, broke the scoring, passing record. You know, they stopped the game. He gave a speech. This was a dud.

Bill Plashky of the L.A. Times said, it almost felt like fans were applauding an impromptu speech given by a distant uncle at an acquaintance's wedding. That's what it felt like. This should have been incredible. special. Remember when Drew Brees set the record? He was mobbed by teammates, cheered by rivals. They stopped the game. The crowd was crying.

Do you remember how big that was? Because Drew Brees has committed to people, not just himself. He's committed to a city. He's committed to a cause. He committed to rebuilding a place. He's committed to the locker room. He's committed to his coaches, the scouts, the general manager. If he has side projects, I don't hear about him during the season. He doesn't come into a game or an event with a glass of wine.

Look at me. I understand Napa. LeBron, this should have been, you're the unselfish star. You've turned selfish. And last night was a dud. Kobe Bryant always had a reputation. As aloof, hard to play with, kind of selfish. Let me show you the video when Kobe Bryant surpassed his idol, Michael Jordan.

Watch the fans. He's on the road. teammates, other players, hugs, their guy, young teammates, opposition. The late Flip Saunders will come over. Guys on the bench, they stop it. The opposing crowd, they give him the ball. So the selfish guy, Kobe, the aloof player Kobe, Mamba, the assassin, the guy, the lone wolf. But he committed to Los Angeles.

He committed to one cause and coaches in the front office and the brand. And people felt it. The opposing players felt it. The selfish guy, Kobe, by committing to a cause, was loved. The giving guy, LeBron, whose turned selfish, last night was an absolute dud. I don't care if LeBron wants to talk politics. I mostly agree with him. I don't care if he wants to do side projects, do hip-hop albums.

I don't care. I'm for that stuff. I've always been for player mobility. But this is the downside to one-year contracts and being Mr. Mobile and never letting anybody feel like they've got any control over you. It's not all LeBron's fault. I will say this. It's a weird roster.

There's a lot of one-year weirdos and young guys he doesn't relate to. This has never been the easiest place and the easiest year for LeBron. I was told in January he told people close to him, this roster is just not good. No shooters, he loves shooters. No veteran top players, kind of veteran oddballs, a bunch of young kids he can't relate to. I'm not saying it's ever been easy for LeBron. This has never been an easy year. But you see how people react to Drew Brees.

You see how people reacted to Mr. Aloof Kobe Bryant. LeBron, I think Lakers. magic, one sentence. I think MJ Bulls. Dr. Jay played in two leagues. I still think Dr. J. Sixers. I think Bird Celtics. I think Steph Warriors.

De Wade left. Deweighed heat. You know what I think of LeBron increasingly? Island. By himself. And that's not who LeBron is. It's not who LeBron was in high school. It's not who LeBron was in Cleveland. That's why a lot of people cried when he went back,

because it felt right. part of a city, part of a town, part of Akron. LeBron has gone completely off brand this year. He's getting bad advice. Give of yourself to a cause. People will see it. They'll feel it. And last night wouldn't have been a complete, odd, awkward dud.

Let me shift to this. Within 24 hours, it does appear maybe sooner. The very talented Antonio Brown will be on another football team. According to reports this morning, the leaders are Washington and Tennessee. Hip, hip, hooray. Antonio Brown wants to be loved and wants to be respected and he wants to get paid and he wants to be the man. I get it. I mean, he's not going about it the way I would do it, but I get it.

does he realize that if he signs with Tennessee or Washington, outside of Nashville and the District of Columbia, he will not be a story by Monday. The two leaders now are Tennessee and Washington. By the way, LeBron doesn't invite tight and wide receivers on the shop. Okay. Wide receivers are icing.

They're not the cake. They call it carrot cake, not carrot icing. German chocolate cake, red velvet cake, ice cream cake, bunt cake. They don't call it carrot icing. And red velvet icing. Receivers are icing. Quarterbacks are the cake. Okay. Wide receivers, if they choose the wrong team or quarterback, disappear. Randy Moss is the single greatest wide receiver talent I've ever seen.

Before Tom and after Tom, he was in very. visible. He was great with those Viking teams, and he was remarkable with Brady. Do you remember those great T.O. years in Cincinnati? Me either. Antonio Brown, in the next 24 hours, may be teaming up with Colt McCoy.

Bye-bye. Take care. Or Marcus Mariotta, good, not special. Memo to Antonio Brown. Wide receivers do not make the quarterback. Larry Fitzgerald, as classy, as smart, as dependable,

as good as almost anybody who's played the position, even he knows it. I love A.B. He's Mr. Big Chess is a good friend of mine. But I don't think he's going about it the right way personally. You know, to be able to play with an all-time quarterback like he's able to play with, I don't think he understands how good he has it. You know, it's, it could be, it could get tough out there.

Antonio Brown, Washington, by Monday, he's disappeared. He just, he went into the Bermuda Triangle of NFL players. Tennessee, maybe we talk about it till Tuesday. He's not going to stay in Pittsburgh. I still think it's the best place for him. really, really do. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m.

Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1, and the IHeard Radio app. So I'm watching last night LeBron face of the NBA last 10, 12 years surpassed Michael Jordan face of the NBA for a long time.

And I've said this about the NBA. It's never been a parody league. It's been about dynasties and stars. I started watching the NBA in the 70s. Okay, and these are the faces of the league in the NBA since I started watching it. Wilts Chamberlain was a Laker. I watched him as he was a very old player. Then Dr. Jay in the late 70s,

Magic and Bird were the faces of the league. Michael Jordan, into Shaq and Kobe, into LeBron. Now, Tim Duncan was great, but he had no personality. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the greatest player ever that's now. never been the face of the league. He was the most dominant score, but aloof, no great personality. He just wasn't. And you can see in his post career, he doesn't connect with people.

Generally, there's two or three qualities you have to have to be the face of the league. First of all, you have to be a remarkable player. You can't even be an A-minus player. You've got to be a remarkable talent. Number two, your game has to have some flair. It's got to be fun. Dr. J was fun. Wilk was fun.

Larry Bird was clever and crazy and cocky and magic was smiling. You got to have fun to your game. And number three is, got to win titles. That's why Charles Barkley's not up there. Personality, Kareem didn't have any. That's why he's not up there. And I'm sitting there watching last night and I'm thinking to myself, who's next? You could say Janus, but I don't buy it.

He didn't play in high school or college in America. He was obscure until about year three in the NBA. he's already been there six years. They don't talk about him. The debate shows, the talk shows don't talk about him. Lack of playoff success, he'll probably start winning now. He's in Milwaukee, doesn't appear to want to leave Milwaukee. There's a difference between a great player in the face of the league.

James Harden, going to be 30, ugly game, not really likable. I also think he's kind of known as a strip club guy. I'm not sure if the NBA would ever just fully embrace him. that. I don't think Hardin feels like the face of a league. I think he feels like a great talent. What about Kevin Durant? Durant, like Jabbar's got kind of a prickly odd personality. He's going to be 31 next year. There's never been a sense he carries a team. He couldn't win anything in Oklahoma City. And in Golden State, they won without him. All those guys I showed you carried teams. What about Steph Curry? I thought he was really close. But then he brought

Kevin Durant over. And now he's not the best player. on his own team. And the Warriors are so gifted offensively with so many stars, it's hard to sort of be the face of the league when no one player is even the face of that team. Curry's the most likable. There's a kid named Zion Williamson who could be. He's interesting.

He's a phenom on social media. He literally is doubling college basketball ratings in games he plays. His game's got a ton of flare. Big personality, totally passionate. if he goes to the New York Knicks, number one pick, it could be him. But as I'm watching last night, I'm thinking to myself, we tried to push Tom Brady out the door. He's still the face of the NFL. My guess is, the Fawcett looks like it's been shut off with LeBron.

He's still 27, 8, and 8 with a major injury, with a dead. disjointed basketball roster with no shooters that doesn't play to his game. My guess is for the next five years, the face of the league will continue to be. LeBron James. It will be. Never forget this about Kobe Bryant. His career looked like it was over. But Los Angeles is all about reinventing yourself.

Sometimes through Botox, teeth caps. and sometimes by throwing somebody on your roster. Kobe Bryant's L.A. career was multiple careers. There was Kid Kobe, Shaq Kobe titles, Shaq leaves. Kobe's pissed. Lakers irrelevant. Gasol arrives back to titles. Then the last three years were like,

final ugly year, Kobe, where he scored 60 in the last game. Kobe's career was a series of wild swings. Phenom, titles. Dang it! Gassal! A lot of notes to that song. A lot of melodies. You start looking around the league.

I don't buy Hardin. I don't buy Janus. Zion is very, very interesting. I'm just not sure his game will be dominant enough at a pro level. But we keep pushing Brady out and Tom still the face of the league at 41. My guess is in five years.

Lakers going to land a couple of pieces around the king. He'll still be the same. the face of it. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific. Obviously this year has not been good for the Lakers. And Joy and I were talking about this last hour. Optically, it's been bad. There was a moment last night that is so bad, I'm just going to let Mark Jackson, who I really like, and he's a friend. Some a while back, really like Mark. He was the announcer last night, and he's going to get pushback from people. You know, they'll push back. But watch this.

Look where Rondo is sitting. unless he's coming in the game there's no excuse for that for whatever reason that can't happen that's not a winning culture now he may be doing it for the right reasons there's no right reason in my opinion that's unacceptable somebody's got to say to them no come on down here man we're not doing that we're going to look like the los angeles lakers even though we don't play like them right now is that players coaches that's across the board that's across the board okay magic and polinka created this roster We can keep saying LeBron did. I'm sure he had a say, but this is magic in Polinka.

You can't fake chemistry. I was told LeBron James started telling people in late January. This roster makes no sense. There's no shooters. It's either too young or too weird. Lance Stevenson, Rondo, Javale, Beasley. These guys aren't part of any unit. I mean, they're just traveling salesmen, you know, and mercenaries.

And then you got the kids that are too young. I know we're putting it all on LeBron, and he deserves some criticism. But here's the thing that I really thought about this this morning driving in. I know everybody in Los Angeles wants to get rid of all these young players and just get LeBron a bunch of stars. But you have to do two things with this roster. Number one, get shooters. That's what LeBron plays well with. He's always played well with Corver and J.R.

and Shane Batti and Ray Allen and Kyrie Irving. LeBron doesn't play as well with Biggs. He didn't play great with love or Bosch. I don't think Anthony Davis is a perfect fit. LeBron plays well with shooters. Give him the ball. He creates. There's no shooters on this team.

Josh Hart hasn't hit a three in a month. Secondly is you can't trade everybody. Or you're just going to be a more talented, disjointed version of this year. You got to keep Cozma, Ingram, some of these guys. This idea that next year,

we're just going to flush all the young guys out and bring a bunch of new guys in. Well, then you're faking chemistry again. You can't create chemistry in a lab. That Miami Heat team, it was Bosch, Haslam, underrated Haslam, Bosch, Wade,

LeBron, and then they'd add a little piece, piece, piece, piece. But the piece is fit. And they were great pieces. Ray Allen is a pretty good piece. Batier, high IQ they fit. This team's a mess. If you just flush everybody out, the weirdos and the young guys to get Anthony Davis, you're still, you're trying to make up chemistry in a lab.

It doesn't work that way. You got to let things bake. Now, LeBron may be saying to himself, I don't have time to let things bake. but that piece of video in Mark Jackson last night, that is just brutal. One more herd? The herd streams 24 hours a day, seven days a week within the IHeart radio app. Search Hurd to listen live or on demand whenever you'd like. Kyler Murray is getting a lot of talk. I mean, he's everywhere. His agent yesterday is supporting him. His agent's been kind of loud.

He went on the Dan Patrick show and it was awful. And there's a story yesterday that somebody in front. his height at the scouting combine. He's actually 5'9. They put him at 510. I don't know how that's possible. I don't buy the story. He doesn't look 510 to me, but if they say he's 510, I'll go with it. He's continually compared to Russell Wilson. I don't think he's Russell Wilson. And then this morning, Kyler Murray's agent unloads on Charles Casserly, who came out and said he's bad on the whiteboard, bad interview. Let's just be totally honest and transparent about Kyler Murray. He's a good prospect.

He's not a great one. There's just too many red flags. Bad interview? I was told the same thing. Bad on the whiteboard? I was told the same thing. Loudmouth agent. I've seen it twice.

Size concern? Real. Runs a little too much? Yes. The fewer red flags you have almost always the greater you are. Andrew Luck had no red flags. Smart, durable, big, mobile arm, boom. we started making stuff up with him.

Well, his arm is, remember that Phil Sims, who I love? Well, his arm is, his arm's fine. That's never been a problem. Carson Wentz, about the only red flag was, well, the competition he faced. Jared Goff, the air raid system. We knew he could play. We knew he had the arm. We knew he was tough.

He got the hell beat out of McCau and never got hurt. The whole question was, he played that air raid offense. I'm not sure it works. Patrick Mahomes, the big question was, well, he's, From the Big 12, I'm not, those aren't real red flags. Daniel Jeremiah is a former NFL scout. He's one of the guys I really respect, move the sticks on Twitter. Guy knows his stuff.

He's a film junkie. He said if you were to rank last year's quarterbacks and this year's quarterbacks, he has Kyler Murray tied for fourth with a kid at Buffalo, Josh Allen. Let's be honest. Kyler Murray is a really, really interesting prospect. He's not a great prospect. There is a difference. He's interesting.

I mean, I'll be honest with you. I think he's a better thrower than Dak Prescott. At this point, Dak Prescott is more interesting than he is great. Dak's an interesting dude. Thrust into an interesting roster, interesting owner, interesting team, interesting environment, interesting division,

interesting NFC, interesting games. Is that, you know, we're talking a lot about Kyle Murray, he's just not a great prospect. Now, now, for the record, Mitch Trubisky went number two. He was not a great prospect, nor, frankly, was he that interesting? And there is something to be said about interesting. I do think Kyler Murray going to Arizona is fascinating. It's good for the league.

It's probably great for ticket sales. It may galvanize the locker room in Arizona, where everybody's kind of into this guy. Michael Vick moved into Atlanta, and he just galvanized the locker room. Dude liked him. but, you know, with all this stuff, what we're getting with Kyler Murray is a bunch of little red flags. And if you're really great, you don't have a ton of red flags. You don't. I mean, Big Ben had some red flags off the field and his first few years in the league.

But, I mean, I remember reading the scouting report. Big, strong, mobile arm. I mean, when you go back, you can Google it, look it up. There won't a lot of weaknesses with Big Ben. I mean, if you play at Miami of Ohio and you get drafted as high as Big Ben by a team that knows what they're doing, Pittsburgh Steelers, you're really good. So there's just a lot of red flags because he's an interesting prospect. He's not a great prospect. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1, and the IHeart Radio app.

He's a Fox NFL reporter, co-host of Good Morning Football on the NFL network, co-authored with the New York Times bestseller out. of the blue, and we need some Shreger. Saturday Night Live said at one point they need more cowbell. We need more Shreger. Let's go to New York via the Coward Global Satellite Network. All right, what am I supposed to make, Shregs? I depend on you all the time. What am I supposed to make about all these Kyler Murray bombing interviews?

I had a source tell me the Arizona stuff was fine. What do you make of it? I make of it that this is the stuff, this is silly season. This is when this stuff comes out. I've got a few thoughts on it. I'll give you first the insight and the reality of this. I talk to every team just about, and I know two teams for sure that have top 15 picks that spoke with Kyler Murray in their 15-minute interviews with the Combine and absolutely love

the kid. Came out saying this kid was lights out. He was awesome. They put the film on. He was able to dissect what was going on in the film. It was tremendous. Now, all it takes is one team and one bad interview to leak that information. And let me explain why that would possibly happen.

Let's first give Kyler Murray the benefit of the doubt here. If you're the first overall pick or the likely first overall pick in the NFL draft, the top prospect at the very least, and you know you have a baseball contract in your back pocket, and you were to go interview with a team that you didn't want to play for, would you necessarily ace the interview? This is a very rare prospect. He has a fallback plan.

A, he knows that multiple teams want him and have him number one on his board. And, B, if this doesn't work out, he doesn't need to go play somewhere. He doesn't want to play. He can go back to baseball. And number two, every offseason of Kyler Murray's life, he has been playing baseball every single offseason. So the criticism was that he was poorly prepared for the interview, which is a 15-minute meet-and-greet session.

So maybe he didn't go through the rigorous pre-draft training of, this is how you do it as a robot to be the first overall pick. He did it on his terms. This is a kid who's been a leader. He was the best player in high school football. He was the best player in college football, and he will be the top draft pick if all of the rumors that we are hearing are true, and all the insight that I have is true.

I believe Kyle Murray aced his combine experience. The next step is the pro day. I wouldn't acknowledge any of those ridiculous stories. Okay, if Arizona likes him as much as everybody says, a lot of smoke, then they'd have to move Josh Rosen, who I think can play. I think it was just a, you know, I mean, Jared Goff and Mitch Tribeschi were lost with a defensive coach their first year. Then they got offensive coaches and both made the playoffs. One made the Super Bowl now in his third year, Gough. So what do you make of Josh Rosen if he's available?

I think there's got to be a handful of teams that want him. Absolutely. I'll make the case for Josh Rosen last year that no quarterback had a worse situation. He came in there with already Sam Bradford being the quarterback, so he was behind the eight ball. He wasn't going to get the first team snaps. They fired his offensive coordinator made way through the season. They fired his head coach at the end of the season. He had the worst offensive line in football. So there he's behind the eight ball.

Now let's look at his contract. The Cardinals have already paid him $10 million, meaning that is his. That is all his, his signing bonus. Over the next three years, Josh Rosen will average $2 million per year as his salary. $2 million for a guy who is a very sought-after quarterback coming out of the draft. Just to give you some perspective, Andy Dalton makes something like $23 million. Kirk Cousins makes $28 million. $2 million, and you get him for three more years.

And if you wanted to franchise them, you can franchise him two more years after that. So just on the economics alone. And I know the Arizona guys from last year. I know Wilkes. I know McCoy. I know all those guys. No one has a bad word to say about Josh Rosen. He was a good teammate.

He came in, did the job. It was an unfortunate situation. I think he'll be great with Kingsbury, but if they are trading him, this might be the greatest bargain in the history of football as far as salaries go, because he's making next to nothing, and the Cardinals have already paid the bulk of it. Antonio Brown, I'm seeing a lot of different names. I theorized yesterday. Carolina could be interesting. They've got their Levian Bell and Christian McCaffrey. You know, they've got a defensive coach.

What they don't have with Cam, who's not a great precision thrower, but he does. throw a great deep ball is get him a big time home run threat. Do you think there's a place and it could happen very quickly where Antonio Brown lands? I want to make your podcast, which is on overnight or whatever, and I'm worried that we're going to say something now and he's going to be traded in the next two minutes. So I'm going to try to give this a vague enough answer so we can live online. Colin, I would say this, don't just believe all the teams that are reported. That's not how this works. There's going to be a surprise team. I love the Carolina fit. I actually think that's a really good one. He's out of the conference. Another team

I would give you, the New Orleans Saints. And you might be saying, oh, come on, the Saints have no money to spend. They've got all these guys. They've got to take care of Mike Thomas. There are ways to make it work. And if you think about what Sean Payton has been about the last few years, it's making a splash, going and getting the guy, trading a first round pick for next year to go

get Marcus Davenport, signing Des Bryant. He denied it at the Columbine because his name was linked to it a little bit. Sean said that we're not, I wouldn't be shocked that the Saints are making some phone calls right now. The question is, can they get Antonio Brown for a second or third round pick, they don't have a first round pick. Okay, the Patriots have 12 picks.

I think Josh Rosen, frankly, for $2 million, that is so Belichick. It just screams Belichick. You know, the Super Bowl champs to Patriots. We've got Andy Reid and the Chiefs. You know, my feeling on them is they got close, they're not slowing down. Is there a team or two that you think will make noise here in the next week or two? I was just going to say the Chiefs. They've got a guy named Dee Ford, who obviously had the off-sides penalty in the AFC championship game.

Talented player, he's on the franchise tag, so they're keeping him. But don't sleep on the Chiefs. Look, Brett Veach, that guy is a riverboat gambler. He's the one who drafted and really traded away Alex Smith when John Dorsey was with him for the draft. But this is the deal. They are going for it. They're going to build that defense up. So look for Kansas City.

Seattle, they just put the franchise tag on Frank Clark. Let's see what they're going to do. Are they going to work out a long-term deal? or are they going to try to make a big splash? And the wild card team for me, a team that I think no one is talking about who could try to make some moves are the L.A. Rams. What happened

this past year with L.A. was, they went and got a bunch of guys to come in for maybe a one-year rental, whether it be in Dama Kinsu or Dante Fowler, and everyone had an awesome experience. If you're Eric Weddell, if you're Earl Thomas, if you're Clay Matthews, and you want to get back to those important games, is there not a better place for a one-year deal or a two-year deal

than the L.A. Rams? I don't think the LA Rams are going to take their foot off the pedal. They feel like they got really close. They want to get back over the top. When do you think the A, B, story breaks? I would think today or tomorrow. I'm going to say Thursday or Friday, because I don't think the Steelers, knowing the Steelers pretty well,

want this to bleed into the free agency window. They want to know what they've got. And really, Colin, everyone's talking about how next week free agency starts. Sunday, 1 p.m. Eastern, teams can start calling agents, and it's all legal. They can't sign on the bottom line. I promise you there will be news Sunday 101 p.m. turn. You might as well to stay tuned. Wow, how about that? All right, Peter Schrager in New York,

by the way, a city that's got some fairly dysfunctional NFL as well. Can I just throw this? I like the New York Giants this year finally to draft a quarterback. Landon Collins isn't going to be around. They're clearing money up. Kyler Murray's the talk of the draft. Kyler Murray's going number one. What do you think the Giants do? Do they get Dwayne Haskins, the quarterback from Ohio State. I think it makes sense if they like him. I don't think Haskins blew away the combine like everyone was hoping for. The problem with the Giants is, and this is not something that, you know, it's very easy to say, we've got to find Eli's replacement. Their defense is atrocious, and this NFL draft is loaded with premier defensive talent. I wouldn't be shocked if they went defense also.

I will say this, though, Colin, the Jets, they better pull the trigger on something, and they haven't in the past couple years. And the Giants, they better give these fans some idea that they know what they're doing. These are two franchises. that both fan bases right here in New York are very down on. All right, Peter Schreger, information dude. Good seeing you, bud. Love you, Colin. You're the best. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific.

One of my favorite guys, N.S. Canner, could have chosen any team in the NBA. He's been there for almost a decade in the league, played with Durant for a couple years, Westbrook for three years, and he chose the Portland Trailblazers. He's joining us now. He's joining us now. View the Coward Global Satellite Network. First of all, Ennis, I love you, and I'm happy for you. You joined a team that's the opposite of the Lakers.

There's no drama. Everybody likes everybody. It's a totally unified team. You're playing great basketball. I mean, it feels like you chose the right place for you. Does it feel like it to you? Oh, my gosh. It's been an amazing experience, man.

Because, I mean, the culture they have, how they treat people players, and then, you know, the winning culture, That was the most important thing I was looking for. You know, I talked to my agent after I get, you know, released by Nix. And then I was like, it doesn't matter how many minutes I play. You know, of course, everybody wants to play big minutes, get big numbers and stuff. I said, I want to win. I want to go to a team that has a winning culture.

And so that's why I picked Portland. That was the biggest, you know, the reason because of their culture. And I know I knew that there was a team that gave me. my contract four years ago. And, you know, O'KC matched it, and then I went back to Oaksie. I was like, I felt like I had to own something. You know, so that's why when I got released,

when Neil, the GM, Neil, text me, I was like, man, you know what? I think it's time for me to join the Blazers fair finally. By the way, you came out and said, you didn't want to join the Lakers in LeBron. You said it would be weird. You were right, by the way. It's been kind of a...

Well, you were. Chemistry is not good there. What did you see that you made the right call? I mean, obviously, of course, everybody, I mean, a lot of not, I don't want to say everybody, but a lot of plays will love to play with LeBron, obviously. I just want to congratulate me just pass Jordan and scoring. But, you know, I was like, I look at the chemistry they have, and I saw the, you know, all the drama is going on.

I was like, you know what, I just want to be drama-free, finish the season, drama-free, We go to a good team, good culture, good coaching staff, good players. Just want to go to just enjoy basketball finally. And so that's why I was like, you know what? Of course, L.A. is big names, big city. But I think I just want to focus on basketball the rest of the season. Well, you're at the right place. You got the coach, the culture.

I lived in Portland for seven or eight years. I know, yes. Yeah, they love their basketball. It's actually a very, very good team. You're near the top of the West right now. I think the three best teams in the West are Golden State, you and Houston. OKC, I'm not quite sure about the Paul George is amazing. By the way, you played with Durant for two years.

He's unbelievable. I like Kevin. There's a lot of stories out there. If he wins another title, he would leave. You know, it's funny with Kevin. I can't imagine leaving Golden State. That's the kind of team you'd want to be part of. But Kevin's a different personality, Ennis.

You know Kevin. Do you think it's possible he would leave a great three straight champion? championship team. I mean, first of all, you know, I've been criticized KD a lot, but I think, I mean, either you love it or you hate it. He's been, you know, playing unbelievable and really good for him, win a two title and two MVPs. But I think I've been here on lots of talks that he's going to go to like this place, that

place. But I think right now, I think the only thing you should be worried about that we're trying to just help his, help his team. But like I said, man, I have no idea what Kevin. would do. He's a little different guy. He is. We've been talking about he's a little different personality. By the way, you played with Westbrook speaking a different personality and I've been critical of him. But Russell Westbrook this year, Ennis, he's been a very good teammate with Paul George. Are you surprised Westbrook taking fewer shots? Being kind of giving the baton to

Paul Layton games? Is that surprise you a little bit? I mean, like, that was like the thing I was trying to tell the, tell people, you know, people say like, oh, it's so hard to play with Westbrook. I mean, Paul Jones shows that, no, he's not really difficult to play with a guy. Because, I mean, like I said, he makes himself better. And at the same time, he's making everybody else better around. And that's why I think make him really special.

And then there's lots of, you know, people out there are saying, oh, it's just so difficult to play with Ross and this and that. but I think that Paul George thing just shows that it's really not difficult to play with that guy and I think like he's taking little fewer shots last shots this year giving Paul

George more shots and his teammates more shots so I think he's definitely making everybody else better on him by the way the other day the commissioner Adam Silver the NBA said too many of my players are unhappy they're on social media and

Adam said a bunch of my guys are unhappy. You're one of the happiest guys in the league. For the guys that are unhappy, why are you on a daily basis, joyful, fun? Do you see a lot of unhappy NBA stars? You know, some of the teams, yes, some of the teams I see it. But I think, you know, you're only going to play this sport so long, man. You have a career made, if you're lucky 14, 15 years. I think you need to enjoy it every moment, every second of it. Not just the game, just the practice is being around your teammates, on the court stuff, off the court stuff. Because I feel like all the kids that everybody is idolizing you because NBA gives you a platform to tell your story, to tell your feelings to the whole world.

So I think, you know, just of course, I think like that the playing times, you know, just more minutes or just, you know, playing or not playing or if you're happy in a team or not. I think, of course, all that matters, but I think in the end, man, you got to feel so blessed and lucky that you're doing the best job in the world. Well, and you're playing one of the best players, Damien Lillard. The other day, I saw some video online where a bunch of trailblazers got stuck in an elevator. And that's one of the greatest fears in my life. And I watched that video. I'm like, okay, I'm freaking out.

I was struggling to watch the video. What happened? So when we get an elevator, it literally says 18 people max. I was like, okay, we count it was like only 10 people. But I mean, we're a little larger than the regular people. So we just get in there. We push the button. So we're going up.

And then elevator just stopped. And then everybody was like, oh, oh, what's going on? And then we try to hit the way. We try to let just push the button that just get some help. He said, okay, it might take a while. The guy just said it might take a while. I was like, okay. So we were just sitting there. Me, Dame, was Myers-Lennard, and just some really, really large players. So we just sitting there, we just waited 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 25 minutes, and it started getting hotter and hotter.

And then Evan Turner was like, okay, we might be in a survival mode now. I only have two granola bars. I want to give you all one. And I got one. And then Dame just took the hellful of it and was like, you know what? I'm just eating the hole. And then he said, you know, we got we got some ice packs on our knees just make sure to save him for water if he needed and stuff But it was it was actually very scary because I look back to Rodney hood and you know he looked he he did look really like worried It's like we try to like the keep it light Kevin was at it Evan Turner was making like draw a lot of jokes and stuff And but you know just he got to a point I'm like okay this is getting more you know harder and hotter and and just getting worse. And then I'm glad that after 25 minutes,

we got, we got out, we were like so happy. Yeah, yeah, those knee packs. Literally, they got into survival mode. It was like they were. That is terrifying. I know, it is terrifying. It freaks me. I was watching the video.

It's giving me anxiety watching. Yes. Ennis, you're a great dude. I could not be happier. Thank you. You are a perfect fit. You and Rodney Hood arrived for the Blazers. Hopefully, if you play well down the

stretch, you'll get a home court advantage in the opening round. Congrats. Congrats to you, my friend. You're a great asset for the league. Thank you. Thank you, my man. I was always nice talking to. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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