The Right Time with Bomani Jones - Danny Parkins on USMNT disaster vs. Belgium, Donovan Mitchell's huge contract, LeBron's next move | 07.07

Episode Date: July 7, 2026

On this episode of The Right Time, Bomani Jones is joined by Danny Parkins for a conversation that goes from the World Cup to the NBA free agency. Bo and Danny start with Team USA’s loss to Belgium and what it says about the current state of American soccer. They break down the Balogun red-card drama, whether the U.S. benefited from a favorable draw, why this might still be the most talented team the country has ever put on the field, and whether the American youth soccer system is actually built to develop top-level players. From there, they shift to the NBA and dig into the Lakers’ roster, Luka’s fit, Bronny’s possible role, and what kind of team Los Angeles is really trying to build. They also talk through the Celtics’ roster decisions, the changing math of paying star players, and the most fascinating possible next chapter for LeBron. Then Danny delivers an all-time dispatch from suburbia, with stories involving a reported squirrel theft, a feud over chickens, kids cutting through a backyard, a police response to someone yelling about gas prices, and a suspicious potato chip bag that turned out to be exactly what you’d expect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It is that time of week where we have a guest join us. Check them out on first things first on FS1. Coming to us live from suburbia. Danny Parkins was going on. Bo, good to be with you, man. I appreciate it. And yes, we'll get to it later in the show. Yes, yes.

The capital of suburbia. Yes, that was the tease, just to let people know. And somehow we had lost track of this. And Park has reminded me we have dispatches from the local newspaper that he has to share that we will get to a little bit later. But we will start with something that suburbia is also all about the U.S. men's national team in soccer. Now, I would be honest with you.

I want to answer this for somebody, by the way. I saw on the YouTube comment. where I said that I was in Italy and it wasn't a World Cup in Italy and they said, where was I? Because they said they were there for nine days and they saw plenty of World Cup. I was up in the North.

I was in the Dolomites. And so maybe it was just because we was in the mountains and maybe you was down there in the south. I don't know, maybe he was around more tourists. I don't know. Italy, however, it was like World Cup, what World Cup?

We all know what was going on. Now, this thing happened with a, with a Balogoon where he had got a red card. and a red card, for those who don't follow this closely, if you get a red card, which is the double technical of soccer, if you get a red card that also means you can't play in the next game and shockingly, FIFA had it in his regulations,

that there is no appeal process, which is led to some fascinating discussions about the differences between Europe and the United States. Where in Europe, it is like, all right, I guess in the U.S., we call him the manager, right? But then magically out of nowhere, FIFA was like, eh, never mind. and then Trump popped up

and was like, yeah, yeah, we gave him a call. There's no telling exactly how that went. Who really led the charge, whatever it is. But in the end, it is amazing how tolerant people are of corruption when it goes their way. But there was some measure of corruption. We had this happen. And, you know, it sounded like I saw enough of the match

to say this. U.S. they looked like they was guilty. You know what I'm saying? It looked like they knew it wasn't supposed to be like that and went out there and got their asses whooped by country. size of Maryland. Yeah, it didn't matter. They could have had six balligans out there, Bo. And Belgium just kind of reminded us exactly where we stand in the world of international soccer. And, you know, listen, I gamble enough for both of us. We were a slight favorite in that game. That was, that was some home cooking by the odds makers. We, I think we overrated

home field advantage in a big way. And so, listen, the, the, Team USA came out flat, got their ass kicked, did not look like they deserved to be on the field with Belgium. And like the whole thing on Belgium going in was like, this is the golden generation. There were like four guys on that team that were on the team in 2014 that beat Team USA in the Olympics. So it was like Belgium is old. Belgium is slow. Belgium is past their prime. And eight minutes into the game, we're down one nothing and looked straight shook.

Like it was, I don't think we lose 4-1 if we play the match 10 times. Like I do think that was like in the direction of an outlier bad result. But man, did we look outclassed overmatch, not ready for the moment, scared. Like everything you could possibly say that is damning about the U.S. team, you could say it's totally fair for that game. Yo, and the thing was so many of my soccer bowl friends were hitting me up at the beginning of this. We had never seen a U.S. team like this one. It was the best attack that they had ever seen coming from the United States. They got a bunch of dudes who play like high-level European soccer.

That's true. You know, like this is from what you tell me if I'm wrong here, this seemed to be the most talented team that the U.S. has ever tried it out to go play international soccer. Now, also correct me if I'm wrong, they got that good FIFA host country cooking on the group. And so it wasn't like they were out here. Like they played racist ass Paraguay.

And yes, this week, they earned that title. Whoever that lady was over there in Paraguay, she earned that title where she talked about Mbapé drinking for coconuts and shit. Like, whoa, lady. Wow. Yes, there's the line and then there's way past the line. Yeah, listen, got a very favorable draw, including like playing teams in the draw that they had played in the lead up to it,

who they had played well against, like, Paraguay and Australia. So, like, the teams that they knew. also got to remember this is the expanded World Cup, right? So like the last three World Cups that the U.S. had qualified for, because they didn't even qualify in 2018, they made it to the round of 16 and then lost in largely uncompetitive fashion. And so this time, it's like, well, for the first time, the U.S. won a knockout round game since 2002. Well, the knockout round game that the U.S. won was around a 32 match, which you never existed before. So, like, you know, the field was watered down because more countries made it.

And then you got a very favorable group stage draw. And to their credit, they did dominate those early group stage games. And they put the ball in the back of the net in a way that they had never done before. Like, they led the, they led the whole tournament in first half goals going through the round of 32. They had seven of them. Like, you know, Balagan, unbelievable. I'm sure you've seen the story by now. like his mom was pregnant.

They were vacationing in America. They didn't let her get back on the plane. So she delivered in America. So birthright citizenship kicked in. But he was like parents, Nigerian, raised in England. He was not developed by like the American soccer culture. He was developed by English soccer culture. And then they just recruited him to play for us.

That's a huge win. And yeah, Weston McKinney plays for Juventus. And obviously Polisic plays over in Europe, plays for ASEMilan. Like they, we have good players. we just don't have enough of them. And our defense is old and slow. Our goalkeeper is bad and plays in the MLS. And we finally played a team with a good attack that knows how to play soccer.

Belgium makes the World's Cup every time. They're awesome. And they destroyed us. So I would like to make one point in fairness to U.S. soccer. And there's a lot of discussion. Anytime this comes up. And I think this is still relevant that it is at our country that soccer is a country club sport. It's not that way anywhere else in the world. And that is a sign that we really just

don't take this game that seriously. If you do things that, you know, exclude who could ultimately play. But I think we also have to acknowledge that clearly we take this game a lot more seriously than we used to because look at all those black people. When the United States decides it really takes a sport seriously, they go get black people, right? Like it's the ultimate, all right, man, well, shit, we tried everything else, right? Why don't, why don't we go pull that lever? And then you go out there, and boom, it was out there. So I don't want to say that we don't take this thing seriously. I do think, and from my reading and discusses of people about soccer, a point that is

frequently made about America is that as a nation, we believe that athleticism is the solution to everything, right? Like, if we could just get our best athletes out there playing soccer, the best soccer player in the world is 5'7. It's all I'm saying. Exactly. Like, it's not, this isn't that game. part of why it is so appealing. It's part of why also a country like Belgium can consistently

be good because they don't have the numbers to just consistently trot out these level of athletes. Now, you know, colonialism is certainly helping them out also put a pin in that thought. But the approach of the American observer, which is like, man, we can get our football players out there. No, they're, they're football players. They, they're, they're not footie. They are football players. They should be over there playing football. 100%. There's an artistry that experts that I've talked to seem to think that like the American training system doesn't really have that we're like we will just like rely on athleticism and then it's like a drill. Like you dribble, dribble, pass. And it's like X as a nose. It's like no, you've got to be able to have some like feel like be born with a soccer ball in the crib type of thing. And listen to your point on the money aspect of it. This is just again purely anecdotal. And I really. realize a person of means, person of privilege, my six-year-old, my older son, he started to get into soccer. He plays with his friend at recess. He wanted to play some soccer. Next, starting this

week, he's going to the rec camp, just like the community center camp. And it's nice and it's on town or whatever. But there was a weak gap between school and this and both me and my wife work. So we wanted to find like a week-long camp for me. He said he wanted to do a soccer camp. So I had no involvement in this. My wife signs him up for a soccer camp, a couple of towns over, and I'm taking him to the first day, and that's the day that I look at the packet, and I realize that the camp is associated loosely in some way that I don't really understand with Real Madrid. And I'm like, babe, what camp did you sign him up for? And it's like six to 12 years old, and he is for sure the smallest kid with the least soccer experience. And I stayed and watched the first like 30 minutes. And some of these

kids have clearly good at soccer. He's the worst player in the camp. But whatever, he loves it, he's trying, he's learning, who cares? Apparently at the end of the camp, one week later, and this was not like that expensive at camp, but whatever, they sent him an invitation to train at Rail Madrid's facilities in Spain if we would pay $4,500 for a week. And I was like, there's no way he qualified into this. Like, you know, he's six years old.

He's terrible. So, like, the, and I've talked to parents around here that are like, oh, yeah, I mean, you have to do club and travel soccer. I'm like, your kid is nine. Like, what are you talking about? So it's just, it is just a money grab here where if you want to, like, keep up with the Joneses, you get priced out immediately. And that's just not the way that it's done basically everywhere else in the world.

Yeah, like there is a higher level, obviously. that once you're picked out, you get into or whatever it is. But like, yeah, no, it is not, it is actually funny because in the States, I would make this point, and it's always, I always say we can't forget about certain things and certain people. It feels like there's two levels, right, of like just people playing soccer. It's the people with the money and the leagues and everything else, and it's the Mexicans. Sure.

Like Clint Dempsey is the example of the dude who came up playing soccer in the trailer part hanging with the Mexicans. right like those are the two levels uh we had somebody leave a voice note here was by the way by this kid playing soccer it is kind of like the pilgrimage like when the white dude back in the day was actually good at basketball you're going to take him to play back you're going to some other neighborhood who is to who no no no it's when the white team play the mexican team in soccer the energy the attitude it's all completely different yeah man in and uh we didn't go to spain we're not going to spain you know what i mean i was like you could just play with your friend at recess

And if you're still good in five years, maybe if he's good in four years, I'll take him to a World Cup game in Spain. But it was like this, the whole thing was crazy, man. The price of the tickets, the price of everything is just ridiculous. And it is a reminder that we are just not, we've probably reached this level where I don't know if we have it in us, frankly, to get on Spain and France and, you know, all those other countries level. because as soon as the game ended last night, I saw people being like, well, maybe this kid Sullivan,

who's on the Philly team, who's 16 years old, who's the youngest dude to score a goal in MLS. Like, maybe, I don't know, but I remember the Christian politic hype. I remember the Freddie Adieu hype. Yes. You know what I mean?

Like we've just been through this before. You need a lot of guys. Yeah. You need a lot of them. And we don't, we have got, we've got like one, two, or three who looked like they belonged out there last night. And also, I think,

where it becomes interesting to me is kind of sort of like a fundamental ethos right now france is interesting because france also decided hey le noir le noir let's get some let's get some noir on our team and you see what that has got to like become but also seems like an idea of or just the idea is getting the best players you can and not letting non-sport reasons interfere with getting better players right like no matter what the reason is if the reason is not about the game and you're using that to widow people off, then you're not going to be as good as you could be, right? This applies even to things like making kids pass their classes. We've decided that there's a good reason for you to do that, but you're not going to be

better by doing that, right? Like, no matter what the barrier to entry is, if it is a barrier that interferes with you getting the best players, then you're not going to have the best players. Like, I understand that that is a very obvious statement, but it's one worth noting. I also think that it becomes a question almost, at least from the distance at which I watch this, of like a fundamental ethos. We have seen Brazil, not be Brazil. Like the first, I watched Brazil play, I think it was against Haiti. It was one of those, no, Haiti, they'd be the brakes off Haiti.

But I saw them play somebody else where I was like, hey, are they still good? Right. And there's been questions about whether the ethos of Brazilian soccer has changed in the things that people are ascribing it to, specifically to religion and discussions that I've seen have been interesting. but it does it it takes us toward the idea though that there's something about this game where it goes just beyond the training and everything else that there is something a bit more ethereal that determines like how good teams and programs ultimately wind up being yeah you know and listen i'm certainly not enough of an expert to to have all of the answers here because something you said a little bit ago like i do think we take it seriously like they spent a lot

of money to hire pocetino like but poachitino is a very high highly regarded manager who is very much not American, right? Like he is, as he said during the 30th, he's like, I'm 200% Argentinian. Like he, he is a proud Argentinian. And, you know, Kansas City, a place that my family, my mom's out of the family's from and that I did radio for a number of years. Like there's a U.S. soccer training complex in Kansas City. The MLS has gotten better and bigger and more profitable and attracted star players

and some programs have season ticket waiting lists. I do think generally speaking, we are investing in soccer, we are investing in Team USA soccer, and soccer is getting more popular. But there's just, there's a huge gap, man. There's a huge, huge gap between us and everybody else. And are we closing the gap? I personally find it hard to make the argument that we are when, again, the last three World's Cups, we made the round of 16 and lost in non-competitive fashion.

and this World Cup, we made the round of 16 and lost a non-competitive fashion. Well, let's throw a couple things out here, right? First of all, 16 in a world with 194 countries. Now I understand not every country is the same size, da-da-da, everything else. But, you know, we, I think as a nation, are being a little greedy. You know, it's an interesting point. Yeah, yeah, because what I will say is we have maybe not. closed the gap on the top teams, but I do think we have distanced ourselves from being sorry.

Yes. Yes. Like we are improving. And to the point earlier, like why this tournament felt so fun is, because even when we would make it out of the group state, like the 20, yeah, the 22 World Cup, we made it out of the group stage and we had four total goals. Yeah. Right.

Like, like there's a lot of zero zeroes, one ones. Like this time it was like, oh, we had a game. with four goals. Yeah. We scored first in every game until this one. Yeah. You know, like we, so there,

there, we definitely have improved compared to countries 20 through 190 to your point. But I don't know if we can get to the top five. Yeah. And, you know, it got me thinking about like college football in some ways, you know? Like,

you know, this gets, I used to do a lot of comparing, like when I watched the World Cup to basketball, I'd call everything. like a fast break. I forget what they call it in soccer when they got a fast break.

But, you know, like I just flip up the terms and everything else. But in terms of the way that we are discussing this now, we observe it, the parallel is obviously college football. For example, you at the United States in Belgium, if it was a college football matchup, they would have one of them trophies,

you know, because they have trophies for the big college football games. Sure. And it would be the battle for La Mumba's Toof. What would that trophy look like, though? It would look like, though. Lamobus tooth. Okay. Just a direct look at, okay. Got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that might be a little awkward for some of you people to hear, but that was a great lie. Anyway, and we saw what

happened to the battle for Labo's Tooth, but the fact that the U.S. lost in the round of 16, in college football, we have what I like to call an eight-win school. There are some schools who are, who they are or where they go, they are just eight-win school. They are just eight-win school. schools. Texas A&M is the grand example, and maybe that's what this comes down to, that the United States is the Texas A&M of the soccer world. We definitely have the first characteristic you must have to be Texas A&M under those circumstances, which is a very large population. We got that. And number two, and most important, a bunch of Dorks is fans. But then on top of that, Texas A&M has just historically, no matter what the resources are,

no matter what shakes out, no matter what it comes down to. It's an eight-win school. You know what, really more like plus or minus 8.5? And that's just kind of where we are. It doesn't matter what changes, doesn't matter who the new coach is, don't matter what it is. They are right there at 8.5,

and maybe that's the thing with the U.S. Simply an eight-win program. Our giant population does not entitle this nation to be good at soccer. The two countries with bigger populations than the United States is China and India. India. India over there playing cricket, baby. I don't know what they're doing over there at China, but I'm just telling you, I ain't heard nothing about them being there in the World Cup. Maybe we just, like, they're all kinds of, like North Carolina out of football, the sleeping giant, right?

Like, every region has their sleeping giant. And then you look up and you are Texas A&M and you're like, well, how is Washington played for a national championship? And we have it. That doesn't make any sense, right? That's who we are. That's who the United States is. Just Texas A&M. It is a little surprising that we can't find our Erling Holland, though. Yeah. Like, like, like, like, like, it's like, sometimes Texas A&M gets that quarterback. And it's like, oh, damn. Yeah.

That was, that was fun. Why can't we find Johnny football? Yeah, yeah. And you know what? They found Johnny football. They went, right. They were, they were 10 and 2 that year. And then they won the ball game.

You are correct, right? Every now and then the eight win team will win 10. And I think that's what we're waiting for. Like, one more win and it would have been, this is a successful World's Cup and then it would have been like how do you perform against Spain how do you measure up against Spain

and after watching the game against Belgium they would have lost to Spain 7-0 So like I'm very happy that we didn't get there But yeah maybe there is some degree of acceptance that we have to have But Americans are not good at accepting anything less than excellence

Yeah but the nerve I know I'm fucking nerve American arrogance American exceptionalism Yes of course I mean from 1950 to 94 did we not even make we yeah no i mean we listen you know i bit of the the stat guy on the show whatever so we have the researcher kind of assigned to my takes a lot of my world cup takes were put into the context

of since 1930 like and i was like what happened in 1930 though well we finished in third place i'm like oh were we awesome they're like no it was a small field and they didn't even have a semi-final game i was like oh okay got it but i think about this right for example england england got a lot of people you think they should be good at this we know they really, really care. They haven't won since 1966 when they hosted the thing. That's right. That's right.

It's hard to win. It's hard to win. Yeah. Right now, Brazil's starting to feel like, I guess, USC. Like, y'all used to be good. Everybody kind of wanted to be like y'all. Where y'all at? What's happening now?

Right. Brazil's drought from like 0.2 on is like a national catastrophe. Yes. I mean, when they lost 12 to 1,000. or whatever that was at the crib against Germany in 2014. That's one of the wild. I didn't know it was possible to do that in soccer. Yeah, that was a national embarrassment.

And we would kill for a drought to be since 2002. But like, you know how this is going to go. This is going to, they're going to get crushed. They're going to be disappointed. And we are going to, four years from now when Spain and Morocco and Portugal are hosting the tournament, we're going to talk ourselves into the fact that maybe why not us? every year, every single time. Do you disagree?

We should. Why not? Why not? It's every four years. You get a chance to build it up. All you got to do. And look, the expansion of the tournament has appeared to be a very good thing, right?

Everybody seemed to enjoy this expanded tournament. It led to the potential. Cape Verde almost shook up the whole thing. You know what I mean? Like, everybody seems to appreciate it. A country of 500,000 people that played Spain to a draw and Argentina to a draw. and one of the great stories in, you know, recent sports history.

Yeah. So, like, it was the tournament. I do think the tournament is easy to fall for, even if you don't watch any soccer until the next World Cup. Like, just the fan interest and the celebrations and the intensity of the games and then single elimination. I do think it's an easy spectacle to fall for. And so I'll be there again four years from now.

It's, this is the thing with the World Cup, though, and I realized this, like, I went to, I've been to a Real Madrid match in Madrid. Yeah. I went to Stanford Bridge and saw Chelsea play last summer. First match at a year, you know, I pulled up for that. But they just like, you've been like, oh, they're so crazy about soccer over there. Yeah, but these just regular season games. It don't hit the same.

Like for me, it is hard to make that World Cup transition into the other soccer because the games wind up being of lower stakes. I think that's, listen, I, I went to a World Cup game in 94 with my dad. It was like an impressionable thing on how much people cared. I was in Spain when Real Madrid signed David Beckham. And I saw people partying and dancing in the fountains like it was like a national holiday. But I don't have an EPL team.

You know, I don't have an MLS team. So I'm with you. I'm kind of, I think I might be at like my cup runneth over. with sports. I don't know that I can all of a sudden become a Chelsea fan right now or a Rail Madrid fan. I don't think I have it in me. But again, you know, I'll watch a Champions League final.

I'll watch a World's Cup final. Like sports at the highest level with the highest stakes attached to it, it's pretty easy for me to fall for. Yeah. No, this is. But now we get to watch the rest of the tournament. Like, that's the one thing I do find is that once you start with the World Cup, you're riding it out.

100%. Yeah. I mean, listen, I think the messy story is unbelievable. Greatest of all time who won his World Cup last time. And we didn't even know he was going to play in this one. And he might win the golden boot, might score the most goals. Killing Mbapé is incredible. Laminia Mall is 18 years old.

Spain still hasn't allowed a goal. They have not allowed a goal in the entire tournament. And Erling Holland looks like a Viking warrior. No, that dude there. Like that was the thing watching, you know, Norway against Brazil. Norway ain't got no terrible lineage of colonialism, so I didn't feel bad about them winning necessarily. But dude, he looked like he came out of ice cave, just bawling. I, listen, I am not under any sort of illusions about my physical stature.

And I'm a skinny white dude with scoliosis. But my, I don't know if I could allow my wife to watch the next Norway game. She was fawning. when Erling Holland scored that goal and turned around and didn't celebrate and lifted his shirt and the dude jumped on his back and he didn't even flinch. Yeah. She like, she like refined sugar. I was like, okay.

I was like, I get it. I understand he is everything that I am not. But just keep it down a little. We got some colonial battles coming up. We got France versus Morocco and, you know, the African countries. not happy with Morocco after the way things went at Afcon. However, they are playing against France. So is go Rocco, Spain versus Belgium.

How could I root for the Hague or cholera or any of these other things against them? I have totally about geopolitics when it comes down to this. We got Norway and England. The Norwegians seem to be all right. You know what I'm saying? I think I'm a rock it out with them on that. Their fans also seemed fun. Yes.

Like they like just like rowing in Times Square. rowing at Cubs Mets games at City Field, rowing on the subway. Yeah, but I ain't going to lie, man. I forget which team it was they was playing against, but they was playing against one of the really black teams, and we ain't going to be talking about rowing no boat. You understand what I'm saying?

Like, I know that Norway wasn't really involved in that necessarily, but at the same time, I personally felt like that hit me. I think it was against Senegal it may have been, but I was like, oh, sore spot. Soor spot. Yeah, that makes total sense. Yeah, yeah. I had to follow back.

We got more Argentina against Egypt today and also Switzerland against Colombia. I like Columbia's chances. I'm down for that. Let me tell you something, brother. Columbia seems like it would have been fun in a different life for me. I went to a Columbia Brazil friendly in Miami in 2014. And I didn't know they made jerseys that small. Yeah.

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would have had an Austin Reeves jersey, and now I'm looking at the Lakers, and I don't know how you would choose. Oh, no, you would still be Austin Reeves. the headband American-born, the shooter. Yeah, it would have been Austin Reeves for sure. I wanted to be John Paxson and Steve Kerr. Wow, no ambition about you. None, none. I mean, Jordan was my favorite, obviously.

And then Rodman I was enamored with, obviously. But, like, you know, I knew what it was in a pretty early age. He had no ambition about me is hilarious. Yeah, that is that is a hundred percent spot on. And yeah, listen, this Lakers thing is interesting because I agree, Luca needs a center, like Luca wants a center, right? You want to do what Luca wants because obviously you need Luca to commit to you long term or else what the hell was the purpose of all of this stuff.

And Walker Kessler is a center who is good. who will catch lob passes from Luca. But man, I don't know what the ceiling is of a Walker Kessler, Austin Reeves, Luca Donchich team is. Yeah, I mean, and Walker Kessler's really talented too. He is. He is. He's really good.

You know, Danny Ains, by the way, boy, he ain't selling low on nothing. Like, I can only imagine the way Danny Ains like sucked through his teeth when he saw that, the return the Brad Stevens got for Jalen Brown. That never would have been Danny Age. Danny Ains got all these picks back for the leggings for these guys.

All I'm saying what the Lakers is, and hey, man, most of these cats can hoop for what I can tell. I'm just saying, you don't wind up with that many white boys by accident. It's not possible. Like, they are, they are, they are, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they're running the program. They're going to be screaming DEI at them boys when they go play on the road. Would you feel better if multiple of the white guys were European? It's not even about better or worse, right? It's monochromatic.

Yeah, I don't have a problem with the fact that they're doing. I think it for basketball prospect. Oh, wow, that's a good question because they got one European dude with all the letters in his name. I had never heard of him. Sandro. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, in terms of the main

the main characters, Bo is what I'm talking about. Yeah. Oh yeah. Austin Reeves, Walker Kessler, Luca Donschich, poor Dalton Kinnick, who probably been complaining that being white is holding him back. No, no, no. Quentin Grimes, by the way, his mama white. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.

I'm telling you, they taking this experiment a long way. Colin Sexton, I saw they signed him, and I was like, there must be some sort of mistake. That couldn't have possibly been on purpose. And Brony's going to be around day after the contract was guaranteed. Bronny's going to be there. His dad did it was solid. Although I contend everybody knew what was going on, but still, like,

that was nice of the Lakers. They didn't have to do that. I thought, I mean, listen, am I completely delusional or is Brony going to get meaningful minutes for them? That's a good question. Right. Like, I feel like Brony, like, Brony is not going to start for them, but Brony is going to play a role of perimeter defense as a sub for them. I absolutely think Brony is a regular on the Lakers next year, just kind of given the makeup of their team as it's presently constituted.

Unless I am missing something, I feel like Brony is a defensive sub who gives them energy and plays like 15 minutes a night. A night. Ooh, I think he might play some nights. We think he's getting, like, Colin Sexton, I think, is getting those minutes that you're talking about. Okay.

I mean, I'm going to pull up the whole thing here. if we're going to deep dive on the White Hickers nine-man rotation in July. Let's see what we got here. I mean, from what I can tell here, it looks like the nine guys or at least the eight. Dodgers Reeves, Grimes, Kessler, Collins Sexton, Sandro, that Jake LaRavia guy. Is he going to get to play? I would imagine so. Yeah, I forgot Jaden Hardy.

Okay. I mean, yeah. All right, maybe not 15 minutes a night. Maybe not. But the fact that this is a discussion I don't feel like is a good sign. No, probably not. Probably not. Listen, Luca led the league in scoring last year and was what, fourth for MVP.

And losing LeBron and adding Walker Kessler is a, the basketball fit around Luca makes a little bit more sense. Right. LeBron's obviously was incredible last year. We're not saying that. But just like, it at least makes a little bit more sense to have pieces on the basketball floor

who do different things. Right. It's just like that's the most rudimentary analysis here possible. So I do think they are maybe moving in the direction of being a team that makes more sense eventually. But like that's not a top four seat in the West. And they don't have any flexibility

because they don't have any draft picks until like I turn 50 years old. Right. So like I just, I think that they are going to be a team that is hoping to avoid the play in in the Western Conference unless, unless Walker Kessler has another level that he can get to that I just currently don't see. And I'd just like to throw this out here that if you trade for Lugudanjic and you just become a play in team basically. Yeah. That trade. That trade. a failure. Oh, not necessarily,

I'm not saying it's his fault that it does this or not, but that's a failure. I mean, listen, the team that he took in Dallas, yes, it had Kyrie,

and that's not, I'm not trying to like, well, actually Kyrie. Kyrie is an all-timer. But, I mean, Gafford and lively,

and like, you should be able to build out a team that resembles that team around Luca. It's not, it's not like an impovered, possibility here. Like there are, there are, he, he should not be that difficult.

I know he's ball dominant, but he should not be that difficult to build, to build a team around. And I think the Lakers have kind of hard capped their ceiling. And I remember when we talked about this four months ago, like, is, is Austin Reeves really going to be the member of a big three? And he like, man, they gave him $180 million. and he is an excellent offensive basketball player. So like, yes.

But I don't think that he is the right type of guy to play off of Luca. You need like three and D guys. You need guys who are pluses on the defensive end of the floor. I just don't think your best guys can, like you can have multiple best guys be defensive liabilities, which is, by the way, why I was so anti the Knicks, but everybody else in the team was awesome at defense. And like we talked about, Carl Anthony Tamp. stopped being a liability on the defensive end of the floor.

Right? He remembered he was seven feet tall. He jumped. He tried. He rebounded. It was whatever. But like, Luca and Austin Reeves are not going to become plus defensive players. It's just not going to happen. So I think there's a really low ceiling on that team. Well, let me ask this question. Do you think that Austin Reeves is a better player than Jalen Brown? No. Okay. And the Celtics just decided that you can't really pay your number two guy, the kind of money that the Lakers are paying Austin Reeves to be the number two guy. Right. But the Celtics also seem to be saying that what Jalen Brown gives you can be replaced with like a $40 million player instead of a soon to be $55, $60 million player. And so like

I guess I trust Brad Stevens and the analytics on that. But yeah, but I guess my point is, But like, if you're not giving that money to Jailor Brown. You can have an expensive second player, right? Yeah, but if you don't want to give that money to Jalen Brown, do you want to give that money to Austin Reeves? Like, that's where the, like, I feel like the new paradigm of the NBA and maybe Polinkin, those guys are behind on it, where it used to be a no-brainer that you give your number two guy that money.

That's not a no-brainer anymore. Right, but I guess what I'm saying is that it, is it, I don't know that it's the money, like, is the argument that Austin Reeves is a better analytics player than Jalen Brown because he shoots threes and then therefore he like spreads the floor and therefore he makes it easier for everybody else like I don't think that um like what's a good example in the NBA right now trying to think like like obviously the Knicks have no I mean Brunson took an under market deal but like I don't know like I don't think it's the salary slot as much as like

you need the players to compliment each other like the wool the timber wolves like Ann Edwards amazing score. Rudy Gobert, amazing defensive player. Like they are, they're paying for top of the market players at people who do very different things. Whereas like Luca and Austin Reeves are just, they're very similar basketball players. And I know that's ridiculous. No, no, no, but that makes sense. They are defensive liabilities who are offensive players, who are shooters, who are minus athletes. Like I just, I think it's more about diversifying your talent, uh, not necessarily the money asked you. Though I'll say Stevens specifically said that we didn't want to tie 70% of our cap up with two guys.

Yes, no doubt. And he clearly, Brad Stevens is one of the smartest people in sports. And Jalen Brown kind of did stuff that Boston, like, Jalen Brown attacks the basket. Jalen Brown's a slasher. Like he's not just a guy who floats out and shoots threes. So like I'm still shocked by the Jalen Brown thing. Yeah. Gobbsmacked by the entire.

thing. So I'm clearly, I'm clearly wrong. Like, maybe Brad Stevens would say Austin Reeves is much better than Jalen Brown. I don't know. Yeah, no, this is, this is going to be a really interesting NBA season because Adam Silver got what he and the owners wanted, which is the notion of parity, that I am still not certain makes the NBA better. I like the long run dynasty saga. I still, I still prefer that. But I also acknowledge that I, for the majority of my life, have observed the NBA as a fan of the league, not as a fan of a team, so that the idea that, oh, maybe my team is a move or two away from being good

does not add to the intrigue of the NBA for me because I'm not personally invested in what one team ultimately does. But it does feel like everybody looks around and it's like, well, if maybe we just do this one thing, maybe we could get hot in the postseason and then go from there. But then at the same time, have you seen this Donovan Mitchell deal? I did. Donovan Mitchell just signed an extension.

It was a four years for $273 million on top of a $60 million last year of his deal that he already has set up. And look, I can be wrong here, but I feel like the lessons of the cap that we're seeing around the league say, you don't. pay him $70 million. Yeah, listen, I agree with you. The undersized guard, Jalen Brunson, just turned that on its head. But like, I was like, I was like, I'm out on Trey Young, Darius Garland, Donovan Mitchell,

Jalen Brunson. Like, I was like going on the direction of like, I got a type and it's not the small guard who's a defensive liability. And so Mitchell would not have been a guy that I would have been thrilled to do that for. I do think, like, him being willing to sign early and sign another contract extension in Cleveland, like, free agency in the NBA is dead. It is dead. Teams are trading for guys into their cap space now. They're not waiting for players to hit free agency and then just have, like, you know, an open bidding on guys.

So if you have a top 10 to 15 player in the league who wants to commit to you and your Cleveland, I think you are just, you're kind of stuck. and you just say, like, well, we're going to do it. And he's been loyal to us, so we're going to be loyal to him. And maybe that's like nostalgia and terrible business. But I don't know what moves they had if he was willing to sign that deal. Like, I guess, I guess trade him is the, is the answer. But they think they're going to get LeBron. Yeah.

And they think they're getting him. I mean, the Cleveland thing is interesting because they're the only team we've ever seen to get far than they have gotten before, which is to get to the conference finals and the thought from watching them was, you know, I don't know if you guys thought about tearing this down, but, yeah,

listen, God, I think, because it's a group of players that individually are talented and feels like they should be better than they are, even though they were successful, but it's like Evan Mobley,

been a little bit of a disappointment. Donovan Mitchell in the playoffs, at least with the results, been a little bit of a disappointment, Harden, well documented. Then Jared Allen, is just like a nice piece who's there.

But again, I don't, they're willing to pay the luxury tax. I respect them for that. They have been made aggressive moves. I respect them for that. And if they go get LeBron, like I don't know how it works with LeBron and James Hardin and Donovan Mitchell all in one, all in one perimeter. Like, I, that seems, again, like a defensive liability. Like, where's your wing defense defense?

I don't, I don't know. but if LeBron's going to sign for the minimum, which based on that board that Rich Paul puts up, it literally looks like LeBron James is going to play for a minimum contract this year. He would make anybody better, like literally any team. Well, the problem, obviously, is that you can't win with James Hard, period.

I think we've got 17 years of evidence to indicate this. Yeah, I mean, but is the ball even going to be in his hands if LeBron is on the team? Right, which they raised the question, what's the point of having James Harden? Right. I know. I liked the Hardin trade

because I didn't like the idea of giving Darius Garland in his bad toes another $178 million. Obviously, that flamed out on me in horrible fashion. But, like, I really don't think that LeBron and Hardin next to each other makes a lick a sense.

Like, as Harder just going to be a catch-and-shoot three guy who also can't play defense? I don't know. I have no idea what they're doing. No, they're stuck. I agree with you that I think LeBron going back to Cleveland, the last two times LeBron has decided to go somewhere.

It was only kind of sort of basketball related. Like, he has his own reasons for doing things. By the way, is the case that most people have when they change jobs. Like, you know, it's not like every chef is trying to go to McDonald's because they want to work for the number one.

Right? Like, this isn't, you know, there's a million different reasons why you wind up doing something. And so if he goes there, I think there's less pressure on him there than there is anywhere else. I don't even know how much pressure like really matters to him anymore. But I do think that that becomes a really weird bit if he try to squeeze him in there. Yeah. I mean, listen, Hardin declined the option in theory to open up money for them and they was going

to sign elsewhere. Like maybe maybe there's a sign in trade and Hardin becomes a different. piece and then the team all of a sudden makes more, like if you could trade James Hardin for a wing, maybe that team makes more sense. I think LeBron, and this is maybe totally naive as a talking head, but I think LeBron has reached some level of post criticism. Like, where could he go that he would really be criticized? Yeah. I mean, you're still playing in year 24. Yeah, right, Right. It's out. Like if he went to the Spurs, like, I mean, yeah, he'd be ring chasing, but it would be Wembe's team. It would be understandable. It would be an interesting, it would be a perfect basketball fit. Like, it is kind of what they, exactly what they need. Like I, I don't really see a team that he could go to where other than the people who just criticize everything that LeBron does at every waking moment. Like, what, if he goes, if he goes, he goes to. You know, if he goes to. You know, if he goes to. goes and plays in Golden State. It's like, okay, you're not trying to win. You're trying to hang out

with your boys. I get it. If you go to Cleveland, you're trying to go home. I get it. If you go to South Beach, I don't think that team has enough shooting to really win, but Miami seems cool. You've won there before. Like, where other than, I guess, the Knicks, would he catch a ton of heat? Where I think it would be cool for him to go to Miami is just to solidify getting the Jersey retirement. Like nobody, no one will wear number six there again because Bill Russell, right? But, you know, it was a little acrimonious on the way out of there. And I, you know, I don't know why I'm now like really caught up in Jersey retirement stuff. For example, Kauai Leonard is tying up the loose ends in Toronto to get the Jersey retirement. I'm not saying

that's his reason. You don't think he was always getting, I mean, I, so this is my thought on that. He got a title. I think, right, I think it should. should have been a no-brainer, but I don't know what you do with the guy that only was in town for eight months. Now, I think you put his jersey in the lap right next to the one with the title. I agree. We don't have it. But this, I think, wrapping it up there, right? If he comes in and helps Scotty Barnes, you tie it up. Okay, cool. He's not apparently getting it in San Antonio because they gave it away. Right. They gave his number to Dylan Harper, which is crazy. That's up there with Denver and the fact that they gave Anthony Randolph, Carmelo's number, before he even got to

Yokish. Like, come on, man, are you guys really that salty around here about these things? Right. Well, listen, that's why the Bulls, like, I thought I thought it was deserved, but like that's why the Bulls had to retire Derek Rose's number. They tried to give out number one to somebody and like the city mutinied. No, no, no, no. That building is still on the west side. Right? Exactly. Exactly. I forget who it was. But like, for like a day, this dude wore number one and everyone was like, that's absolutely unacceptable. No, no, we're not having this. Not having it. No, no, no, no, no. Like it's so sad that he became a polarizing figure in Chicago

Because he means something so completely different to that city And what it like what he represents from the era in time that he came from It's like, oh, come on man, you guys. Yeah, it was, listen, and a very little of it was his fault with like misspeaking About wanting to be able to like walk at meetings in the future and stuff like that. Like he got some bad advice. But yeah, no, the things that the Bulls organization did to hang him out to dry. And it was terrible that the city turned on him.

They're all the way back, but that was really rough. Do you think KD will have his jersey retired anywhere? Yeah, Golden State. They've made it clear. They're going to do that. Someday, Oklahoma City is going to get over it. They should. They got to.

They're just not. I think even with the title, they won with Shea and everything else, Kevin Durant's the most important player in the history of the franchise. I think Russell Westbrook will ultimately be the most beloved player just because of the, you know, it was what he did the year after Durant left. But no, no, no. They legitimized that franchise and made that good immediately in that place that, you know, very nice of the league to allow them to have a team.

And that is because of Kevin Durant. So, like, I think Golden State will do it. And I think that Oklahoma City, I still can't believe they still boo him. But yeah, right. That's the thing. That's, I guess, what was kind of more in my head about it. And you're right. Golden State probably.

Yeah, they should. And they will. But, yeah, the Oklahoma City thing is booing him is crazy, man. They are still mad, right? Yeah. I felt like a lot of that around him, there was a certain mimicry to the way that we tolerated, the way that the people in Cleveland acted about LeBron.

Yeah, that's the same era. But when LeBron said he wanted to come back, a lot of that, a lot of them are still mad, by the way. They didn't get over it, but they were like, yeah, come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what's happening in Miami. It's a man, all that, fuck him. even at 41 years old, they're like, all right.

Yeah, it'd probably be better to have the ball in LeBron's hand than Davion Mitchell. Come on home. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll forget. We'll forgive. I mean, I'll never forget this with LeBron and Miami because, I mean, Pat was salty, right? Like, they never entertained. It wasn't just that they hadn't entertained the possibility that LeBron wouldn't come back.

They really never entertained the possibility he would go back to Cleveland after that Dan Gilbert letter. and they felt like in so many words that they was the good white folks. Why would you go back to that guy? He talked about the way he talked about you, right? They just, LeBron, I mean, to be fair, I thought the same thing.

That comic stands letter was remarkable. Yeah, it was got a while, man. It was remarkable. LeBron had his own reasons and rationale. But Christmas that, year Cleveland played in Miami and they did the video tribute that as I recall they did it but I don't think Pat was like too happy about it. And I remember LeBron got really choked up because he got the ovation and he didn't even want to fully acknowledge it because you could tell it hit him in a

much different way. Like I think that he viewed Miami as a means to an end. Um, yeah, learn how to win. But it was also like like, look man, nothing will ever be like what those four years were. And I think after he got past year one, I can't imagine that he had more fun anywhere than he did those, those middle two years in Miami. The NBA will never feel like it felt, especially those middle two years in Miami. And so if he went back there, I think that would tidy, that would be a tidier ending for all the stuff for him in his career than it would be going to Cleveland. Like, I think he already tied that up. I mean, he definitely tied it up. I just think, listen, I'm clearly, we all tried to get in his head,

but like, I thought your business is in L.A., you're building your Mega Mansion Forever Home in L.A. Your kid is on the team. Like, I thought he was going to stay in L.A. for forever. Like, how could you, not, I'm not saying he's bored of playing with Brani, but how could you play with your son in the NBA? and be like, I want to do something else. Yeah, well, when the team is like... Right, right.

I get it. And also, he's clearly willing to take the minimum for a lot of teams. Not L.A. Not them. Yeah, right. No, that is correct. Because, yeah, that is exactly right. But so I guess the storybook, it started here, it ends here.

His, Dwayne Wade isn't on the heat anymore, right? Like, I'm sure he has a relationship. relationship with Bam, but like, man, I even like thought, could he go to the Wizards and do better than Jordan did with the Wizards and go play with AD and DeBanza? Yeah, that would be the most Jordan obsessed thing that he could possibly do would be to go to the Wizards. Where number 23? Right. Yeah. And like, DeBanza, he's always complimented Trey Young's game.

Saar, AD, I don't know, the East. it's interesting. They didn't make it on that whiteboard. And so I was like, oh damn, all right. My half-baked idea didn't even come through. Didn't even make the 10 teams on the whiteboard. LeBron remains compelling. And I say this again is somebody who's ready for this to be over.

But it is amazing. We just start running through it. And it's like, wow, there are still so many angles and so many things that surround him. I mean, I did like a five-minute, like somewhat tongue-and-cheek. but somewhat real, like, analysis of that whiteboard on the show. I could have done three hours and five minutes, like in my radio days. Like, it's adding LeBron James at 42 on a minimum deal to any team in the NBA is fast. Like, the nuggets were on the board.

Yeah. Are they just going to try to set the scoring record? Like, Jamal, Murray, LeBron James, and Yokic on the same team would be outrageous. Everybody's always open. Yeah, it would be outrageous. the things that would happen on that team. Minnesota. Lamello Ball and LeBron?

Hey, man. Have you seen these pictures of LeBron and if they're AI, I mean, you never know these days. But these pictures of LeBron since the season ended and his beard is like extra gray, lamello ball might make that shit fall out. That's what I'm saying.

Like I was thinking about Chris Finch. When like Chris Finch, like, he's like, oh, thank God, we traded Julius Randall. and he's moping around. Great, we're going to get serious around here finally. Hey, coach, we're bringing in Lamello. He's like, what?

Chris Finch's going to have aneurysm, the poor guy. But I talked about this the other day, though. I think we're underselling what the high end of this could be. Anthony Evans and LeMello ball and save backcourt? Listen, I respect the swing, and I do think that the argument of basically like, Oklahoma City and San Antonio exist in this world over here and we need to kind of do what like the rockets did

when Darrell Mori took the swing with Chris like we just need to shoot a ton of threes and be different than them. And it's like, okay. Well, Le Mello Ball makes you fast. He makes you different. He gives you variance. He gives you upside.

So I don't hate it as much as apparently literally every other person in the NBA. All right. Before we go, we have slipped on this with Danny Park as the last couple of times he has come on. He is one of the people that we don't mind when he likes to produce the show.

And he came on earlier and he shared with us before some dispatches from the local newspaper of his West Chester County Berg that he lives in. And he has updates on what's going on in the police blotter of his town.

It's the highlight of my month when this comes out. Nothing happens here. And it's not because I, I forgot, Beau. I read it every month. The last couple of months were not up to the right time with Bomani Jones standard. But this month is an absolute banger. I have pulled, five. Okay? Here we go. A Ramsey Road homeowner reported that 11 tomatoes were stolen from her garden and similar thefts happened in the past. Police advised her to install video

surveillance equipment. My question for you, did this person call the police on a squirrel? That was the exact thought that I was having is, should you be calling animal control, man? Shouldn't you be calling the squirrel catcher? Similar thefts have happened in the past is just an all timeline. I believe, I believe this woman called the cops on a squirrel. Hold on, I would love if it's a person because if it's a person, it's beef, right? In fact, if it was a person, she would know who the person was. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, Melissa is the subject. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I don't know if a detective was assigned to the 11 tomatoes. Yo, that's the thing. The detective and the D detective singular at that department.

Dude, listen, everything about this to me, I recognize the privilege, I recognize the wealth, I recognize the absurdity, and I genuinely feel bad for the law enforcement officials to get their time wasted. And it frightens me that I walk among these people that are like, this this mild inconvenience happened in my life, I'm dialing 911. Also, keep it by. You're still one of us now. It's only a matter of time before you become one of them. Dude, I hope not.

I'm here to keep you. I'm here to keep you in line. I appreciate it. If I ever, if you ever catch me being like, you know, I want to report this incident. Just let me know. Okay, here we go. A Mamanek Avenue woman reported receiving an alarming text message from a neighbor after she refused to give her six chickens. The neighbor texted she should watch out because actions have consequences.

When contacted by police, the neighbor said she was frustrated about the, quote, chicken situation, end quote, but would never hurt her neighbor. I'm just curious what consequences she's referring to. Like, I really want to get to the bottom of that. Threats. We're making threats over chickens. It's incredible. Okay, here we go. Next one.

Ooh, this is good. This is what you got to call the cops on. Very simple, one sentence. A Montrose Road homeowner told police that a group of kids run through his backyard do get to a nearby park and he wants them to stop. What has happened to society? Hey, man, let me tell you something about growing up in suburban. Please.

As a youngster, particularly as a, Afro-American youngsters suburbia. The threat of somebody coming to knock, the cops coming to knock on your door over triviality is all the way sky high.

Your brother, it's terrifying. Like that cut, let me tell you, the police go knock on the door about that cutting across the yard. The yard cutting will, in fact, stop.

I know. But have we reached a point at society where the neighbor can't just say to the kids, excuse me, don't run into my yard? Yeah, right, right. When did grown up

stop being terrified. right? Like you should be able to pull up sternly. When we had the cops called on us for that, it was actually a young, well, he didn't say he was African American. He said he was Jamaican, but he was our age. Basically, we wanted him to come outside so we could beat him up and he wouldn't come outside. So instead, we played basketball on his not very high goal and dunked on it until it broke. And then we ran away. And then he called the cops. And I, you know what I thought about it? I never saw that young man after that. And I wish I had.

Because he called the fucking cops on us. It's just been 30 years. I beat his ass right now over that. And you'd be totally justified. There would be a jury in the world that would convict you. Thank you. Two more. Police responding to a report of a verbal dispute on Post Road found a woman shouting while talking on her phone.

She told police she was frustrated over the high price of gas. Don't tell me that suburbia can't be relatable, Beau. I'm about saying. I see where she's coming from. Although, I will tell you this, if you complain about the high price of gas here, brother, I were in a car in Europe. How that go?

That's high price of gas. Yeah, yeah. Though I see why they be driving go carts. Oh, Vespas. Oh, my God. I was like, I wish I hadn't gotten the upgrade. Nice flex. Nice flex.

I just love the idea that this woman's talking loudly on her phone. I'm going to get the police involved. And it's like, oh, that's the most relatable thing I've ever heard. Yes. All right, last one. You remember earlier when we called police on a squirrel. I have got a name for this one as well. A caller told police a suspicious potato chip bag dropped at the corner of Chase Road.

It could contain harmful substances. Police examined the bag and found it contained trash and threw it away. I believe this, Bo, is an incident of calling the police on trash. They have to be so bad. 9-1-1 what's your emergency there's a laced potato chip bag at the corner of jace road somebody do something we'll get our best people on it johnson audit audit audit it's just like gotta be squad car pulls up side and what is the best and worst police job that there is correct correct you're in no danger probably pretty highly paid fairly relaxing but you did still have

have to go through the academy and get trained. You did. And you never use any of it. Wow, does that place have an academy? I, or do they just have an orientation? I sent this in my group chat and my boys were like, you need to contact the person at the newspaper and see if they're in on the bit.

Like, what? Like, are these, are these, do they just publish 100% of the calls that the cops get in a month? Or are they, is this? some sort of, you know, comedy bit and they're aware of it. Because the fact that the chicken situation was air-quoted made us think that maybe there's someone at the local newspaper that has a sense of humor. It's on the board. I don't know.

Dale from Columbia. This is Danny Park. It's checking him out. First things first on FS1. My brother, I appreciate you. Anytime, Beau. Thanks for having me on. All right, man.

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