The Right Time with Bomani Jones - A.J. Brown's fair complaints, Sean McDermott's hot seat, Ja Morant's absurd behavior | 11.14

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

Bomani Jones reacts to A.J. Brown's recent comments and explains why he believes his complaints about the Eagles' offense are fair. Later, he previews an incredible week of NFL action and asks if Sean McDermott might be on the hot seat if the Bills have a poor finish to their season. Finally, he reacts to a few storylines in the NBA, including Ja Morant's dissatisfaction with the Memphis Grizzlies, while closing out the show with a few listener voicemails. 01:15 - AJ Brown Drama 13:15-Bills Must win? 19:08 - NBA storylines 33:20 - Voicemails Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Things happen sometimes. I hope you're not too terribly disappointed. Host of The Right Time with Beaumani Jones. Check it out wherever you get your podcast. All right. Yeah, gets bailed. Anyway, we actually have a stupendous slate of NFL action this weekend. And thank goodness, Ryan, because if we did not, this would be a frantic, frantic program. Correct. But, you know, thankfully the NFL, we did not have a great slate of games yesterday, last week, excuse me, but this week is excellent. Also, we got Texas Georgia that Saturday as well. Right. We've got that. But what we have on top of this that is better than any of it is, A.J. Brown throwback NFL wide receiver.

Right. Now, I actually don't even feel like this is truly throwback wide receiver behavior because when I think about throwback wide receiver behavior, I think about people acting bad, like just being mad that they're not getting the ball and doing a poor job of articulating perhaps that it's larger than them, but it always just seemed like it was just about them. But AJ Brown for the last year and a half has been a little bit mifty. He's not getting the ball. And by the way, so is Devante Smith, because their problem doesn't simply appear

to be that they're miffed about not getting the ball. The problem seems to be this offense stinks and everybody knows it. Can't you tell? Right? So yeah, you can run for 2,000 yards of Saquan Barclay last year and make everything work. But as is often the case when a running back takes a bunch of carries in a year and, by the way, or just gets to the age of Saquan Barkley, you can't do this again. So in a very not throwback sort of way, A.J. Brown was on the stream playing.

video games with somebody and somebody asked him some questions about what was going on and what he was saying with the offense. And he was saying, no, it's not going good. Is it good enough? You know, all those kinds of things. And, you know, from what I understand about you, people who play video games to that level, you know, it's easy to, like, forget that you're actually being recorded and people can hear you. You know what I mean?

And you get yourself just a little bit too comfortable and you say a little bit too much. And I've been in situations where, like, you're doing something that's being recorded, but you do it with your friend. And so you get a little bit too comfortable. And perhaps you say something, not that you didn't mean, but something that you probably either didn't intend to say or it was received in a way differently than you expected just because you was so comfortable and you were talking to a friend. And so you think since you're talking to a friend, the fact that the rest of the world can hear you goes away.

And so your friend understands your tone, your friend understands what you mean. Your friend extends you certain measures of grace if things might be just a little bit gruff, right? But the rest of the world is listening and now the rest of the world has questions. And you typically have two options under those circumstances. Option one is just not to say nothing about it,

which is typically my choice. Option two is to kind of be like, you know, maybe I got a little bit too comfortable. That wasn't exactly what I meant. Those are normally the two options. AJ Brown went with the rarely used option three. And option three for him, 10 toes down. Ryan, can you play what AJ Brown had to say? I guess what a situation with the fact that you suddenly took. It's not just solely about my situation.

I mean, guys like, obviously, I want to win, too, you know. And I think if we're really focusing on winning and doing our job, like we can't just keep slapping the band-aid over the defense doing their job and getting us out of trouble. At what point we're going to pick up our slack as an offense that we're saying, we're so great, you know, and that's what I'm getting there. It's not about we're not winning. care about winning. All I care about is snack and step. No, it's been week after week sometimes.

We're not contributing. We're not doing our job on office. So you can't just keep slapping the band-aid over it. You expect to win late in a year. You don't think he's going to go to it in a year. It's not going to fucking happen. It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. You know, last year, what it was. Thank you for the ring. But it's a new season. They adapt it. We have to adapt. We have to continue to get better and try to find new ways. So that's what the frustration comes in. Because it's not about winning, you guys. I want to win. He helped contribute as well.

Do our thing or offense as well. That's fair. Do you think? Ryan, what was that in his locker? It was a receipt that said, Jesus paid it all. Oh! Got to worry about a guy like that.

His dude in Dallas once sued, Dion Sanders, because Dion took his car in to get fixed. When buddy asked for the money, Dion told him to Jesus to take. Jesus told him that he didn't have to pay. Yeah. This is the truth. I'm not making this up for you people who think I'd be hating on D.I.

That actually happened. So he said, Jesus paid the receipt. No, okay. You still have to pay things too. Just in case that comes up. But you know what I find interesting about this with AJ Brown? It sounds like he's pushing back on all this millennial zoomer positivity, right? Right.

Somebody keeps saying everything is okay. Like I used to work this one job where every day we would come off and somebody would tell us what a great day we had. And I was like, there's no way we had a great day every day. Right. It's not possible. You're lying. This is useless.

Like, this is actually becoming counterproductive. Not every single show is a great show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, this is becoming counterproductive if this is the feeling that you have about this. Is Siriani one of those guys? Like, is that what it is? But the tone that he's taking implies, guys, stop lying to me. I know what time it is.

This ain't it. Yeah. Last game, he had two catches for 13. yards in the first half and had less in the second half. Yes. And I mean, look, man, I was watching some TV and they made a very good point that Nick Siriani didn't get enough trouble for what a disaster, it looked like that team was going to be early in 2024 and for riding the ship and getting everything okay, right? Right. There were two and two. He's screaming at fans in Cleveland. Correct. Correct. And shows up

with a shaved head. Correct. It didn't. But, did he fix stuff or did they just start winning? Right. You know? And so the point is where AJ Brown's talking about, we can't just keep throwing a Band-Aid over it. In a way, winning is the Band-Aid, right? It's just like, hey, it doesn't matter as long as we're winning.

Yeah, ha, ha, ha, ha. That's a, that's a tricky situation. But now they're going to play this game on Sunday night against America's team to Detroit Lions. And I do believe that they have to go to Detroit to play this game. And look, is this two teams? Oh, so no, they're going to get this game at home. Okay. So, Ryan, what I was about to say,

I have to take off the table, but now it makes for what I think is perhaps a more interesting set of points. What you got? Okay, so my thought was, hey, you got to go play on the road. It's going to be loud in there. That could be extra tricky.

Counterpoint on this is you get the game at home. Where might be louder and trickier? Yeah, we go. Like, if this offense does not get going, hey man, Eagles fans know he's right. Right. Right. Like that's a fan base that's not falling for the just because we're winning.

Certainly happier for winning, but they're not falling for that. If that offense comes out there looking sluggish, it's going to be a thing. Like I actually need to take a greater survey of Eagles fans to see, do they love A.J. Brown for this or hate A.J. Brown for this. Because if I was an Eagles fan, he would become my favorite player. He's my favorite player right now and I roof on a lion. Right. I appreciate anyone who is that. consistently honest.

And we'll say what you want about age brand. Man's day is on message. Yes. He wants the ball and he wants the offense to be better. And he's clearly right. And he hasn't said anything rude. Right. Right?

Like he hasn't come. He hasn't taken all. It's not personal. It's not. He's not like, remember when Michael Parsons said on his pot, you listed the top five quarterbacks. It didn't list press scott.

Yeah. Like he's never saying anyone's not doing. good job. He's saying we're not doing a good job. Yes. He is saying we're not doing a good enough job getting me the ball. But he's not saying certain people aren't doing enough. Well, the other part is they are not doing a good enough job of getting him the ball. Yeah. I don't think that's in dispute. Everybody agrees with everything that he's saying and I'm just trying to figure out what the head coach is doing if that's how he feels. Of course, the way this season is gone, that means that the Eagles are going to win this game but not cover the spread and the spread is two and a half and their record is just

going to keep getting better. Is it going to be like it was with the, with the, with the chiefs last year, where we wound up in this very similar situation? Right. I mean, like, but the chiefs last year, you didn't seem as frustrated as like there was no, there was no one sounding the alarm. And maybe that's just Philadelphia, right? That's just kind of the culture. Well, I think it's two years in a row of this year. That's true. Yeah. Like as it relates to. him, I think, or maybe the Chiefs have greater track record there, or maybe A.J. Brown just go harder, right? Yeah. Maybe he is just more of a perfectionist. Yes. Maybe he insists a little bit more. But the other thing with the Eagles is this. They're not playing for the division, man. They're going to win that.

They're surrounded by bums in that division. They are, however, low key, and I don't think we're talking about this part nearly enough. They are absolutely playing for the number one seed in that conference because everybody else is going to beat up on each other in the division by and large, except for Tampa Bay, but I just don't think they're that good. But there look to be perhaps four good teams in the north. There appear to be three good teams in the West, right? So they're all going to pound each other. And the Eagles get to play a season with two games against the Cowboys, Commanders, and Giants. Make a wish. They do. Oh, my God, the commanders. The commanders. Hey man, the commanders and the cowboys play on Christmas

and the name of that game should be the spirit of giving. Like, it is amazing how bad the commander's defense is. So, you know, my man, Dan Campbell took over play calling for the Lions. He said he wanted to show John Morton the way he wanted a game to be called, which I think is a fair thing to do here. I also think Dan Campbell every now and then needs to remind people that, It's a brain up here. Some people like to drive the car.

They don't have to drive. Some people don't have to drive every day, but some people, you know, they like to show. They still got it. But he also has to get tired of people thinking that he's not a thinker. And this is his opportunity to do so. But anyway, a friend of the program,

I don't know if that person has said this in public. So I want to be careful putting their name on it. But they're like, nah, I see through what Dan did. And that actually, you know, it was Mina. And she did send it on social. So you saw through what Dan Campbell did. Oh, he won't, he, he picked up the Madden sticks, but he played it on rookie. Yes, he did.

Oh, got it. That is exactly. But, however, to be fair to Dan Campbell, if you want to show how you wanted to be done. Correct. This is the best way to go about showing how you wanted to be done. Like, did he do it to show everybody how good he was? Maybe. But if it was intended to be instructional, that was the perfect time.

Anyway, they're going to play against each other, the Cowboys and the commanders on Christmas. and it's just going to look. Russell Wilson looked like Russell Wilson against the Cowboys. That might be, also that might be Marcus Marietta versus Jill Milton. And it'll look like Joe Montana versus Dan Marino. It's just going to be up and down, up and down. That's what it's going to be. But this is a great week of football, man.

Like, we got the Seahawks in the Rams who might. be honest to God the best two teams in the NFC. Some might argue the best two teams in the league of the Bears who've got this thing rolling, but Caleb Williams against Brian Flores, hey, hey, hey, that could, you know, that could get ugly fast. The bills, are the bills any must win against Tampa Bay? I'm not so that. That's a great white loyalty quarterback game between Josh Allen and Baker Mayfield.

Yeah, there's going to be a lot of people unsure of exactly who it is. that they should be rooting for or against in the course of this. But with the Patriots being an actual factual football team, and they get to play the Jets on Thursday night. So at home, so I presume they are going to be nine and two going into that game. If the bills go down to six and four, they're playing the playoffs on the road.

They're going to have to go into other people's houses. And they've stacked up a really good playoff record by feasting in large part on the expansion of the playoffs to seven teams because they are getting home games, often against a team that had no business being in the playoffs. And I will throw this out here, and we've kind of lost track of this. If the bills really come up disappointing this year, right?

Let's say the bills are a wild card team. Let's say the bills lose in the first round. Ryan, Sean McDermott is getting fired. Getting them out of there. Like, I think we forgot about the story. The story. The thorough. Well reported.

Thorough reported. Never just, never disputed. Yeah, yeah. The Tyler Duds run up and down. And I say this every time I talk about him. His newsletter is a magazine, man. Like it's, it's legit like, it's legitimately stunning that it's, it's, it ain't just, I put some stuff out here on substack, right?

Right. But he ran through it with McDermott. And I thought a reason case for why he was what held Buffalo back. Now I think what holds Buffalo back as much as anything else is, Josh Allen's just being as he's Atlas, right? he just got the world on his shoulders. But if they don't get it done, he's been there a long time.

My buddy, Nick makes the point. I think that no quarterback and coach have been together for this long ever without going to a Super Bowl. Right. And usually you go, I think if you don't, the stat is if you don't win in the first five years,

yes. Well, if you're coaching your quarterback together, you're not, you don't. McDermott's had this job for eight years. This is year nine. Right. Like, it's easy to lose sight of that. Now, look.

it's the 20 years prior to this were much different, right? They missed the playoffs 19 years in a row, okay? It's been an uptick, but if they lose this game, they've got giant problems, I think, if this goes. We got any more, like I'm trying to think. I feel like we got 49ers Cardinals, 49 is might lose that game, by the way. Ravens Browns, the Browns do sneak up on people every now then. Oh, I forgot, Chiefs Bronco.

and where are those Broncos fans now? Right. When it comes to Bo Nix. Give me interesting to see. Yeah, because I don't know if you saw this, but apparently Colin Coward has said publicly that don't be surprised if Peyton wants to move on for Bo Nix and Colin and Peyton are cool.

Yeah. But isn't this just year two for Bo Nix? Yeah, I mean, but if you didn't, I mean, you also played eight years in college. He did. How you feel about Bo Nix and his potential, really has a lot to do with how much college football you watch. Correct.

Like overall. And what point you watched it? Correct. Because if all you got was to Oregon, even Oregon was a pretty clear fake out. But if you saw Auburn Bow Nix, he's supposed to be a college court. You know what he's supposed to be like? Major Applewhite? No, no, more like Chad Kelly.

Got it. Major Applewhite very similar in the sense that a college quarterback that we remember and talk about. But Bo Nix was an experience. Chad Kelly was an experience. Yeah. Right. Where it's like, oh, there's no tell. Stephen Garcia was an experience.

Yes, yes. Jordan Jefferson. An experience. Right. That's the, how did he get taken in the top 15 of the draft? Right. Like, I remember Bo Nix and Auburn and seeing him. I was like, wow, he's going to be really good at radio or someone's quarterback coach

by this point. The idea that he would be an actual factual NFL starter and then an actual factual NFL first round pick. I never considered. Yeah, like he couldn't even be selling cars. He should be selling ATVs. Something a little bit more exciting. Right.

Right? Like something that gets your blood pressure up just a little bit. But they're eight and two. Somehow, some way. Now, if the chiefs, this is a road game and it's a division. So like, Torez Poscibly. But if the chiefs lose this game, now I do think they are in trouble. Right.

Because you got to come back and you got to win the games to get up there, right? They are right now on the outside looking again, which is something that none of us really take seriously. Right. But. One more loss. You kind of need to win this game. So it's going to be a dope week. Let's see how it goes.

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watching some basketball. I was watching the Warriors and the Spurs. And we had talked about how things were getting a little dicey for the Warriors. Ryan, I don't know how much of that game that you got to see. The Warriors won the game because it was a Jimmy and Steph run shit kind of game. Right. Right. And Steve Curry had, what is it, 46 points I want to say in that game.

But there were long stretches of him off the floor and Jimmy doing that Jimmy thing where I just carry everything. This is immediately after, you know, the heat all. on what exactly does Jimmy do? We're starting to come up. Right. And it was like, no, you can have long stretches where stuff doesn't play. Because if nothing else, whether it goes exactly how you want or not, this guy is going to do that.

He's got it. Whether or not it goes well is to be seen. But he is certainly, uh, even if he, talk about someone sneaky old. Sneaky old. Him, Draymond, um, Steph. Yeah, they're sneaky old. And speaking of sneaky old, Draymond was out there trying to guard Victor. First of all, I don't know how much, like, the Victor highlights are one thing.

You got to watch the whole game, man. Like, he's the only guy I've ever seen that can guard. So if it's two on one break, right, you're at once trying to guard the ball in the basket. And you're trying to stop before you have to commit to one or the other on defense. He can guard both all the time. He blocked a three-pointer with his foot in the paint. He did. He did.

And by the way, I love that it was Draymond Green that even tried because Jimmy Butler looked like me playing against my brother when I was growing up and understand my brother's 13 years older than me. So it was probably a similar high difference of a lot of foot. Yeah, he's not, he's not, Jimmy Butler, 6-8. He's not putting this up. Like anywhere near him, getting to the basket, dribbling right back out. We're not doing this.

Drayman's trying to guard him. Ryan, he's dream shaking and shooting lefty hooks in the paint. He didn't make it, but the fact that that was even on the board, like how smoothly he's getting these shots up at these. I don't know who's supposed to guard him. The Spurs are going to be a top three seed, I think, in the West. I don't know how far they're going to go because they are so young. And shout out to that dude, Cisco.

We talked about that the other day. He's finally gotten his ass in line. And, you know, somebody had to grab the back of his neck to make them, listen to them. And he finally has chilled out with his behavior. And I got a lot of guards. It's a lot of Fox, Harper, and Castle. Well, that's the other part, too, is they was running Cisco at the point. Right.

Greg Koppovich is a great coach. I do not think they did a great job down the stretch there. This dude Mitch, the new coach, they seem to be playing better ball in this regard. But the warrior still came in and got that. Like, we're going to see what ultimately happens with them. But it seems pretty clear up through this point in the NBA season, to me, the West, Oklahoma City and Denver. By the way, Yolkich put up, I'm sorry,

the guy that ain't no better than Drew Holiday put up an easy 55 on the clippers. An easy 55 ride, I need to chill because I'm feeling like white folks now where I ain't never going to let you forget that you did that one thing ever wrong, ever in your life. No, sir, Reeve, Bob. How dare you disrespect this carcate?

hero, but on the real, how dare he? People are going to start having some pretty crazy conversations about Yogy. If he wins another MVP, they're going to, there's going to start being yoga to Bronz stuff. I'm just saying, but here's where it becomes tricky. Right. The question becomes, why not? Yeah.

Now, I'm not saying it's unfounded. Yeah, now a championship would help. Now, what's going to be interesting and I think helpful for LeBron in terms of historical legacy, is putting up four championships the way that he did, the way that Steph did. I think that's going to be a lot harder now. Almost impossible. Yeah, the era of runs of championships. So you think about it, for example, the 1980s, three teams won championships in the 1980s.

I mean, the Lakers, the Celtics, the Pistons and the Sixers, right? It was four. But you got to a point where the Lakers won two in a row, the Pistons won two in a row, the Bulls won three in a row, a row. The Rockets won two in a row. The Bulls won three in a row. The Spurs won one, the Lakers won three. The Spurs won one. But you see how this run go. The Bulls won six and eight years. The Lakers won like five and eleven or something like that. Yeah, but it was these long stretches with LeBron and the heat. And LeBron making the finals eight straight years, for example. I don't think that's going to be something that you could do. The 1970s were similar to this where you did not

have repeat champions, the Celtics won two in the decade, the Knicks won two, then otherwise, you just got a lot of mixing and matching that's going on. But especially as the advanced numbers become a bigger thing and the fact that I don't think Yokic is going to play 23 years, but I think he has a game that's going to be conducive to a similar level of longevity, to what LeBron's game was. Yeah, if Yokish wins another MVP, those discusses are going to come up. Or how about this, Ryan? Does it become a Yolkich, Curry kind of discussion. Does it become about an individual in that?

Is it just about putting him in that space? In that class. Because the regular season results make it unequivocal that he is of that level. Right. I mean, you're getting the four MVP's, which he, I mean, he's certainly got to be one of the favorites for it. It'll be him, Luca, and Victor. Yes.

SGA, probably running that, you know, as the four leading candidates. Yes. And people are going to start looking back at that Joel and Bede. MVP like the Steve Nash MVP's. It is. Like, or the, I mean, I do that. Gross MVP is correct. It's not the exact same.

But it's in the same conversation. You know what, the Derek Rose MVP, the more I think about it, it's kind of in the same lane as the Charles Barkley. Right. MVP, which is a legitimate MVP, right? But, yeah, no, this is, by the way, I watched the Thunders slap the taste out of the Lakers mouths

on Wednesday night. Jaylon Williams isn't even playing, man. Right. Like, this is the thing about them. There's no reason to believe that they've even come close to peaking as to what they could be because the whole team is 17 years old.

And if the season ended right now, they'd have two top 10 picks. And they have a zillion. What are you even supposed to do? Like, if you're Presti, what are we supposed to do with this team? Right. We've got these picks.

What do I do? Trade them and try to get Janus? like they have enough stuff to get Janus and not really hurt. They got a bunch of picks they don't really need. They can trade for Janus and not give up Chet, Jalen, or SGA. I mean, obviously, they get into the cap and the hard cap and all that stuff. So, like, maybe not the salaries. But before the second apron era of the NBA, they have enough.

They could probably make the best offer. It's them or Houston. There's nothing that they can't do. Like, I don't, this. And I know we say this just about every time a team wins a championship, but I don't think we've ever had a championship team this young, where everybody just feels this young. There's another wave of guys that's on the way to come up.

I don't, it's going to be tough for everybody. And the spurs, like I said, I think the spurs are going to be up there by the end of the year just because they look, they look really talented, man. They got guards, they've got this, whatever you want to call them. They're going to be up there. I watched some of the Pistons last night, but then I've, found out that they good players. Like Cade wasn't playing.

Just like, yeah, no, I ain't really getting into this. The East looks, the East looks like a bunch of teams that should be very happy to get to the finals. But with that in mind, the best story this year to me, and I mean best in terms of,

it's somewhat entertaining, and I think it's actually kind of fascinating as a topic of discussion, is whatever is going on with Memphis, where John Morant is clearly done with this. clearly. I said, and you could go look at it, I'm sure we put out short videos of it,

and people said I was crazy, but I said when they made that move and they traded Desmond Bain to the magic, that the next play is to trade John Moran. Because when you, it's not so much that they traded Bain, is that they traded Bain for a bunch of picks, which means that you made a trade that was not intended to make your team better

in the short run. And if you're making trades with a player of the stature of John Morant and you also have Jaron Jackson and you're not trying to get better, then are you tearing this down? Like, that's the kind of move that you make when you're about to tear a team down. Let me tell you something about Jaron Jackson that I did not fully realize. Like, it's one of those things that is obvious when you watch this game, but until you, you know, look at the numbers, you don't really realize this. And I just don't understand how this is possible. Jared Jackson, for those of you who are unfamiliar, is listed 610 at 610. He has never averaged seven rebounds a game and has only had one season averaging six rebounds a game.

Ryan, how is that possible? That is, I hate to be this person, but that's, we used to be a proper country story. It is. I don't see how this is possible. Right. I don't. Right. But John doesn't like what the team is doing.

it's fair to ask physically how much John Morant has left. And he's clearly not trying very hard, which him not trying very hard jumps out especially because of what the strategy is that they're doing. So the grizzlies got this new coach. Let me read this off the page because I ain't heard nobody say his name, but his name seems to be Thomas Isalo. He from Europe.

I know he worked over there in Finland. he's got this idea of how he wants to play where he wants to have guys out there and play as hard as they can three or four minutes at a time and then kind of run line shifts to get the guys out of there. Which, like to me, if you're going to do that,

you might as well be running like 40 minutes of hell full court press. Like that feels like very much a college approach. Apparently there was some tough times, with it in Europe when he did it, but it ultimately worked. It is counter to the conventional wisdom of NBA basketball, which is to keep your best players on the floor as much as you possibly can't. He would not be the first coach to try to play like 10 guys as your rotation.

Hubey Brown, this was his standard operating procedure. Steve Kerr famously likes to almost play everyone on his bench. Yeah, he tries, right? but when it's time to really do something. Correct. None of these guys actually do that when it's time to win. And so a guy like John Morant, yeah, is going to push back at something like this. Like, I don't know if anybody's right in this situation, right?

Like, this isn't one of those where I think that nobody is wrong. I don't think that this is an approach that can work for running an NBA team. And I don't think that John Morant is, I don't think he is comporting himself in a fashion befitting of an adult. you know what I mean like no man either you go if this is what we doing man get out here and play this is the way that I look at these things um but they're going to have to figure something out because you don't have a lot of stories about guys coming out here and acting like that and then suddenly coming around i don't think that the head coach is going to be able to win him over if it has already reached this point i don't think anybody's right here which means i don't have

any idea how to fix this other than tear the whole thing thing down. Here's the thing about tearing the whole thing down. I hear people make the argument that the reason that what's happening with the Mavericks is happening because Dumont, the owner, wants to move the team to Las Vegas because they're Vegas people. And I think that there might be something to the idea that he wants to move the team to Vegas. I just, I wouldn't say I know Adam Silver, but I've met Adam Silver. We've spoken many times. I've interviewed him multiple times. He's not a fucking idiot. Okay. And, and, And therefore, I don't think he's moving a team out of Dallas to go to Las Vegas.

Don't really see that happening, okay? However, Memphis is a tough market for the NBA. The team clearly has a foothold in the city, but I don't know what the money hitting for there, okay? You tear it down in a place like Memphis, and the people stop coming, and that becomes a team that people try to move to Las Vegas. just because of the size of the market that it's it. Right. That's how that sort of thing goes.

If people start talking about tearing this team down, I think you start then getting some whispers of other stuff. But the larger point for me is not every market can afford to tear things all the way down to the studs. Because a lot of markets don't have enough people who will still come to games for you to do that and to make this profitable and to make this worthwhile. Right. So I don't know what it is. they're going to do there. But whatever they do it right now, they can't keep that up. That ain't, that ain't the

business. All right, Bo. What you said earlier, we had to make a last minute audible on this show, so we figured it was a good time to empty out some of the old voicemails. Let's take a listen to Sam. Hey, Bumani. It's Mike. I'm originally from Rochester, now living in

Charlotte, North Carolina, and I'm just wondering, where is DJ Mike Hitman? Where is he? I haven't heard him in a long time. Maybe he's on one of the other other platforms, but just wanted to see where is the OG, man. Is he doing well?

What's up or have I missed something? Can't wait to hear from you. And also, I miss when you and Shen will go on about Cam Newton and his yogicisms, man. I still laugh and chuckle about when you're standing on the pinnacle. Keep doing what you're doing.

I'm a longtime subscriber. And best of luck to y'all. Peace. It is so funny that you mentioned that about Mike, Because I had a moment a couple of weeks ago where I realized I had not talked to Mike in a while. Like the last time I saw Mike, I did a panel at the University of Chicago. And Mike pulled up to check that out. So, you know, I love Mike pulling up, me and Mike hanging out at the University of Chicago.

Like I'm up there with prominent labor economists as the grad school flunk out, right? I'm hanging in there. And Mike down there, Mike got this clean, light blue jacket and yellow tie. Mike had the hat in the whole night. I had Mike in the front row. And then that night it snowed ridiculously. It's crazy. But anyway, I hadn't talked to Mike in a while. And then I called Mike and Mike did not answer, which never happens. And then Mike did not call back, which also never happens. And he called me back one day and I missed it. And so he called me again. I mean, I called him again and he did not call back. And I got nervous, right? Like, I was like,

was everything okay with Mike? So I had to hit golf because golf, no, Chicago, golf know Mike from up there, completely separate from us, right? And so golf hit him and Mike hit him back and we're like, okay, cool. Man, it turned out Mike was on the Tom Joyner Cruz. Right? So I talked to Mike. Mike calls me back.

We talked for a while. Mike told me that he was on the Tom Jordan Cruz. Mike was where I had to ride with two Nigerian prayer women is what he called him. And I tended to see if they was Nigerian and they did. he put me on the phone with him. We was right. I'm talking about living in Nigeria, where I lived. And like, oh, in the north of the houses.

Yeah. So we were going back and forth. Mike sent me some pictures of him and a sombrero with the homies. They was all suited up. I bet Mike was in a suit even on that cruise, by the way. You turned me on to something that I, uh, which it was a real treat, which, uh, DJ Mike hit man's Instagram. Yes.

Because I had, I had obviously, you know, heard the legends, but I had not, you know, gotten to put. You had never seen Mike. And man, talk about something that lived up to my expectations. But you didn't realize that Mike Hitman is Cock Diesel. You're also correct. He told us that one day that by this workout, we were like, all right, Mike, Mike, and then he showed us.

Mike, Mike hit the vapor run under his nose before we get out there. You don't really want no problems with Mike hitman. Mike told me he going to run for president of Mexico. He said he was down there talking to the people. He said he ain't know what they were saying because it was in Spanish, but he noted they need them. Sure. And so, hey, you know, Mike, Mike, by the presidente.

So, yeah, no, Mike's good. Did you ever get in touch with him? I have not gotten in touch with him. I have to be honest, I'm almost nervous. It's so easy. And as anybody, there are people who have listened to this show back when Mike used to give his phone number all the time, who just called Mike up, and all you got to say is you cool with me,

no matter who you are. You can act like, I wouldn't do it today, but I can put Mike's phone number on here, and you can just call Mike when you in Chicago and say, Hey, I'm with Beaumani. Michael, meet you and show you around. You know, Michael, Michael, come hang out with you. No, just call, hey, I'm Ryan, a Bo's new producer.

Buy y'all, because we do need more Mike. That was the hardest thing about changing the show from radio to podcast was it was much more difficult to get Mike involved. Because I'm not sure we have any of these things, if not for Mike. Yeah, we'll have to sort that all. And again, the camisms. Talk about something that never disappoints. Oh, man, I forgot to tell Shannon. I got to tell Shannon next time you come.

on, we got to roll it back. Because Shannon was doing that before we started doing the national show together. So he came when we were doing local, he wasn't doing it. And then he picked it up. And so I did not feel comfortable taking it with me because that's Shannon's, right? Yeah, sure. But it is great any time he comes back and we roll those out, especially not in KV's on TV. Oh, yeah.

And he's given the Camisms at all hours of the day. He is. All right, here's our next one. Hey, Bo. This is Landon from Connecticut and I've been a long time fan. You and I are the same age. I turned 45 back in April. And I know you have the same birthday as McCauley Coker, fellow 1980 baby. Anyway, I got lots of praise I can give to you and all that. But I just have one question. I remember an interstitial on, um, PTI or not PTII, round the horn, excuse me. And where they were talking about putting together a dream van for a certain amount of money, you know, you get a budget, you know, $1 for this drummer, $2 for this drummer, yada, yada, yada. And I remember you saying briefly in that commercial time frame,

Prince, Prince, Prince, yep, and the singer, Van Morrison. Now, I already knew you were a huge Prince fan, as am I. You know, I'm a big time Prince fan. I got Prince questions galore for you another time. But always curious where the Van Morrison love came from. And, you know, I heard you talk about Bowie a lot, but never much about Van Morrison. I wonder if you can expound on that. Thanks.

Yeah, man. So, I mean, what happened was very simple. I started listening to Van Morrison. It was like, hey, man, my boy can go. Like, he's a one-of-one type. I find is, it's, so I find that his music is very soul music adjacent, right? Like, them Irish cats, man. When Irish, Irish popular music always traffics in an interesting space.

Now, he doesn't do the fun thing that I prefer, which is clear out-in-front Irish accent. when I'll wake up, you know, like that. He doesn't quite give you that, right? But it's the soul of the music that is so clear and a really interesting, like, production style from him because it is very jazz in some ways, but also, again, very, very Irish, folkish. And I'm really just talking about the 68 to 74 run.

But I will tell you this, man. I went to go see Van Morrison at Forest Hills in 2014. A, that is the whitest thing I have ever done or been to in my life. Oh, interesting. I've never seen fewer people of color in a place. Can I tell you the widest concert I've ever been to? Do tell.

Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden. I could see that. I could... I mean, there was... It was single digits. But what's so interesting about that is, again, neither of them, I believe, have music that is like people of color or verse. I don't understand

exactly how that goes. But let me tell you number two. No performance. performer has ever treated me as a patron with less respect than Van Morrison. It's never felt more like a transaction than that Van Morrison concert. He got a band that's set in an arc so they don't even play for the crowd. They just play for each other. He's standing still and he's singing. The last song is Gloria and everybody in the band got to do a little flourish or whatever,

but I ain't never had nothing quite like this where that man walked off the stage. with my brother and I looked at him and was like, ain't no encore, big dog. We can leave right now. All right. Here's one more. What's up, Bo? Ryan from my name. Listening to you and Shannon talk.

Y'all, y'all mentioned a magician. So I'm at my boys' party in Holland. He does this in the summer party of the year. And I'm at the party, you know, mainly he is a mixed friend group. Talking one of the guests, guys, And I'm like, yo, how do you know the host of the party? And he's like, yo, I know him.

We're trying to organize like a fundraiser, charity run. I mean, I organized events. So I actually just met him not too long ago. You know, and that's what I do. I plan charitable events, usually in the fitness room. That's my day job. Well, that's what I'm doing when I'm not doing magic. You know, I've been doing it for a few years.

And he just talking about his job, talking about his job. And I cut them up. And I say, hold on, bro. did you say you do magic? He was like, yeah, this motherfucker pulled out like a deck of cards. Start doing magic tricks. He did magic for like the next hour.

And then he just said good night. He had dinner reservations and he left. And the crazy thing is about a couple, I told one of my boys about a mutual friend of the host. A couple months later, he linked up with that host somewhere. And that same, my motherfucker was there.

date it again. I enjoy your day, man. Love the show. I mean, he is acknowledging though it was dope, right? Magic is dope. Like, I feel like if he did it for a whole hour. Yeah. Do you know how long an hour is? Like, think about how, like, that is, like, think about stand up for an hour or a concert for an hour, but now this is a non-professional. Hey, trying to do a podcast for an hour by yourself, right? Yeah. And you don't have to do any slide of hand. You would tell you, he did that for a full hour after a certain point. He's like, excuse the young lady, what is your name? Come up here for a second.

All right, I'm going to show you something. Okay, now everybody here. Like, he's, I love that he's stay ready, right? Right. And every turn he has his gear with him. Yeah, but I'm going to tell you this, man, if you have a mastery at what you do and the confidence to do it, you can own any room. Forget about just magic.

My man Lyndon. I'm sure Lyndon is listening to this show right now. Okay. Linden is a skinny young man, but he's probably not skinny anymore because he's a grown man now, but he is from Canapolis, Mara, Canapolis, North Carolina. He was one of my students at North Carolina. Got a real strong, thick accent, really, really, really smart dude, right? Knows a bunch of things about a bunch of stuff and he works in the shoe industry, right? So one day, I'm in California. This is about 15 years ago, I guess. I'm in California and I invite him to hang out with me and a bunch of my friends from graduate school, right? So there's a wall to wall, room of black people, and Lyndon, who is not. Okay. Like, we are not, we do not come from the same places, right? So we are there and I forget how this came up,

but he was talking or explaining how one would create a knockoff shoe, right? So if one were to decide to take a shoe that is popular and to change it up just enough to not get sued, but to still look like the shoe that you, you hope to emulate. And he got that confidence, right? He's like, yeah, I will stand in this room full of people and take off a shoe and give a demonstration of how to create a knockoff. And he did. And I watched as we were all engrossed. That's awesome. It sounds fascinating. We were not sober. He was. We weren't. Right? There was a minimal sobriety in the room. And he stood up and he just took

that off. It was like, okay, I take this and I put this here. We do this here. I turn this around. I do this here. Tada! knock off shoe, right? And I'm just saying, if you could pull that off with knock off shoes, imagine if you knew how to do magic. Like, I bet you all of them, didn't, well, David Copperfield,

wouldn't he married to Claudia Schiffer? I can't say that. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I bet all the magicians, even them pin and teller dudes. I bet they all got bad ones, man. They can run a room. You can stand up there to run a room.

I love to anywhere this man go, though. He got that deck of cards. He is doing tricks, all of this stuff. All right, here's our last one. Bo, long time listener here. I have a really funny story about a former pro basketball player and playing in an Intermiro League in Parker, Colorado. This former basketball player is none other than Earl Boykin's

whole five foot five inches tall. We were playing in a league, and we finally got the opportunity to play against his team. A buddy of mine on my team, and I really hope that he's a listener of your show, I think he probably is, pulls up to the game and says, man, Earl's 5-5. Let me guard his little ass. Let me tell you that there is a big, big, big, big difference between a pro basketball player and a dude that has only played high school.

And he guarded Earl and Earl dropped probably 45 on us. Earl took it to the rack. Not a single dude on our team could do anything. He was shooting from beyond half court, like it was a regular three-pointer. I think we probably lost by 30 or 40, and they had to call the game early. I've never seen anything like it, and I've never played against somebody as talented as him. And all you have to remind yourself in this situation is he's 5'5 and played in the NBA.

He had to be really good to be 5'5 playing in the NBA. Love listening to the show, man, and have been wanting to tell this story for while, peace. Hold on. Not just really good, but also really strong. And so I think you need to be afraid. Also strong and fast.

Yes. Like, you need to be glad that there was not a hard foul mixed up in this. Like, whose ass is little now, bitch? I'll guard Earl's little... Oh, no, no, no.

I don't care who it is. If his name is Earl, don't call him little ass, nothing. No. Just telling you, he's not, man with that name ain't brave to take that well. It could be an Earl the third or an Earl Jr. No little about Earl's. Because he was raised by an Earl.

Right? Like, I got it. My daddy got a pardon to name Earl. Love Earl to death. Earl is incredible. Earl of PhD. Earl is like a gourmet caliber chef. Earl is from New Orleans.

Got it. I don't think you want no problems with Earl. I understand completely. Earl has Earl been to Vietnam? I'm what I'm saying. Earl's seen some things. And look, I ain't never seen Earl do nothing but smile.

But I say it about New Orleans, I tell you right now, I ain't met a sucker from New Orleans yet. Not a single solitary one. Eli Manning will fuck you up. You don't think that. But trust me. Odell Beckham,

he'll be he-he all over. It all over you, boy. You don't want those problems. But hey, ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us here on the right time. We do this three times a week. That's Ryan Brumley handling everything behind the scenes. Thank you, sir. Remember, hit the voicemail line.

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