The Right Time with Bomani Jones - Lane Kiffin & LSU Embarrass Clemson, Dabo’s Tough Choice and the Clippers’ Disaster | 09.07

Episode Date: September 7, 2026

Bomani Jones reacts to LSU’s dominant 51-10 win over Clemson. He breaks down his frustrations with Lane Kiffin and the difficult decision facing Dabo Swinney in the NIL era.  Later, he reacts to the NBA’s harsh punishments of Steve Ballmer, Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers.  He explains what he finds interesting about the massive scandal and what he does not.  Finally,  he reacts to Michigan’s last-second victory, LeBron’s embarrassing Polymarket ad, & players' complaints about the smell of weed at the US Open. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're going to get to the NCAA or the NBA giving the clip us the death penalty. Hard tell, wishes these days. A few other stories. First, Saturday night. Ryan, I'm not going to lie to you, man. I ain't watched this shit. It was a... Two hour East Coast, Randele, I don't believe you.

It was LSU and Clemson. And look, I generally, like, I go places I don't really talk about it, but you can see it all in my face. You understand what I'm saying. You can tell. I've been amongst the world, right? I was out of here for 16 days. I took an 11-hour flight back on Friday,

and that 7.30 came. I was like, oh, I bet a 7.30. kick off, that's perfect. You know what I'm saying? Then they said that thing was delayed till 940. I was like, I don't have much optimism about where this is going to go.

I woke up on the couch. I want to say it was 28 to 3 maybe. I know it got the 31 to 3. I remember seeing 31 to 3 with my own eyes, but I was like, damn, what quarter is it? And I looked down and it said the second, LSU was beating the brakes off of Clemson. the breaks off of it.

I saw that Clemson was unranked, right? I'm also going to be honest with you. In this new day and age, I don't spend no time doing no preseason analysis and no college football team no more. Because why? Why? Nobody knows who, nobody knows what anything is going to be.

Nobody knows who anything is. I'm showing up. I'm going to be just as surprised as everybody else. But I was like, look, Clemson is unranked. That seems a bit unfamiliar. LSU is ranked. But I did see earlier in the day where Boise State almost got Oregon. You know what I'm saying?

Like so I was like, oh, okay, anything's possible. And in the end, no matter what anybody wants to say about college football, I don't know how many years it'll take Indiana to win a goddamn NASA championship for anybody who wants them play, right? Like it's a, it takes like Clemson. It took a while for them to get there, but they got there. It's a brand thing. That's how it goes.

LSU Clemson, that sounds like my type of party. And. God, it's going to be so difficult. So for those of you who don't know, Ryan is from Lafayette, Louisiana. Ryan is an LSU grad. And so now Ryan's coach, it's fucking Lane. Like, like, this is, I'm just going to watch every week

is the way we used to talk about Lane shifts into the way that I talk about Lane and your glass half full ass trying to figure out these other ways that we deal with Lane that don't involve Lane just being lame. Look, I understand.

I'm not going to say I don't understand the frustration. I just can't say I agree for certain reasons. I just never thought like what's it like when that guy shows up and he coaches your team and then after he does that because he's laid, players start showing up, some of whom have been in NFL training camps. It's just all Lane and Vanity Fair ran the excerpt from the book was in John Tulte or Taltie. I don't know how you say it, but anyway, he got a book with a quote with somebody saying, the Dick Sabin Ward, the thing about Lane is you just got to keep him off the girls on campus.

This drops right before the game. Right. Like the week of the game. It is clear this year is going to be about Lane. and if it's not going to be about him this year, this month will be about him the same way September of 2023 was about Dion Sanders, right? And why?

This is where it gets a little bit different. Dion was kind of working this out on the basis of it was a bit of a boring season. They were playing them Friday night games, right? Next week they play Louisiana Tech. But that's not going to matter. and college football will be all about Ohio State, Texas, right? After that, it's the game going back to Ole Miss. That's the next week.

And then the week after that, home for Texas A&M. That's going to be this Clemson game, LSU Clemson, that was the game of the week, right? Ole Miss, LSU, obviously. That might be the game of the year in terms of pregame hype. A&M, LSU. That's going to be the game of that week, though, Somewhere, somehow, A&M is going to have to find those four or five losses.

So they might start early. You never know. It's going to happen. They're going to be there. That eight wins. Somehow, some way. That's where it winds up. But Lane's going to be it, and I'm going to hate this because he's such a jerk.

And here's my problem with him being a jerk, okay? This is my issue with it. You go, do it, do it. He doesn't lean into it. He dabbles in it. He does his trolling and then comes on the, I just don't understand why people don't like me. You know goddamn well why people don't like you, right?

Like, here's what he creates, right? It is very difficult in this world. And this is, this is, right, you tell me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am, okay? What happens when a word is both a classification and an insult, right, where you can call somebody something and it simply be a statement of fact and you're not saying it to be mean, but that's the technical definition of a thing or a person like that, okay?

I bet you know what word I'm thinking of right now. Troll. Assholes. I mean, asshole, all right? Some people are just assholes, right? But they can be your friend to be an asshole. Have I ever been the asshole friend? Much of the 20th century.

Yes, I was. I felt like I worked on it down the line. I'm just telling you, I understand this, right? He's an asshole, but he's my friend. And then there's some people, when you call him an asshole, it comes from here, it comes from your chest, right? It comes from your gut. It is not coming from the nasal palate.

That it's coming from your heart. You're saying that shit like your Tupac, right? Both of these are the case with Lane. He's an asshole. But that's just, that's what you call somebody. That's what those things are called. That's, that's just what it's called. Like, on my vacation, I was riding a horse, and it was a horse in front of me.

And that horse began to defecate. I mean, just a big asshole. just right there. And all it was missing was a purple and gold viza. Now, I know that if somebody came on and said, hey, nobody, they call you this. They call you an asshole. I'd be like, eh, ha.

It's going to go either way. If Lane finds out that I called him an asshole, he's going to be offended. And that's what my problem is. You know what you are. You know what it is. Right? Are you saying slightly we leaning in?

to the mic as you pretend that they can't hear you, as you clearly talking in the mic, as you get in your slides, like, I guess, I wonder if they can't hear me. Yes. You're saying that's, that's his whole, that's the port that I don't like, right?

That's the part that I don't like. But now he jazzing up these expectations because they won the game 51 to 10. Like the, that sounded like what is the most dominant game that I think I have recalled seeing a team play in September, and it was also LSU, and it was also at that stadium, and it was also in 2009,

2007 against Virginia Tech where it looked like LSU had 13 dudes on the field on defense. It looked like dudes were jumping up off the ground. They had white boys making interceptions. White boys with long hair, looking like interview with a vampire making interceptions and taking that shit

back the other way. That was a wild. It was the first of two straight years of Virginia Tech burned Tyrod Taylor's red shirt, because otherwise, asshole baby, this shit just ain't no work. Right? We're going to have problems if we don't do this. They did that. And I don't know how much that has to do with LSU

from the little bit of that game that I watch because Clemson clearly has a problem. And their problem cannot be solved by the coach that they have. And everybody there needs to be honest with themselves about this fact. And the fact that I believe that this cannot be solved by the coach that they have is actually for me, a compliment to this coach, Davos Swinney, that I have long been very critical of

and have now come to like a little bit because if nothing else, what Davo has shown me is, he believes this stuff he says. I think believer is a great word to describe that. It is, yes, yes. There is the, there is the,

the old high believer situation with him, right? Yeah. But the truth is, when it comes to the NCAA and all of those things, he is a true believer. in the power of college sports to transform lives under, even if it's under the model of amateurism, right? The thing I say about dabble all the time,

that man was so poor when he got to college, to him and his mama shared a bed together. He walked on to the football team. I just saw something in the Wiki. I was checking out of here that he had to like take out a Discover card to pay off the rest of whatever would have taken for him to get into school and then pay the rent, like, He did this, right?

He figured it out. He made it. He got to the other side of it. And he truly believes, like, how are you going to tell that man, America ain't great? Yeah. Right?

Like, you have some people on top. He won't any white people. You're going to try to explain to him why we deserve reparations. He's like, why do you think life is so easy for white people? Right? But like, and I'm like, hey, shit, when you put it like that,

I understand it all, right? And so Dambo had that line a bunch of years ago where he said, if this turns into pro football, then I don't want to, to do it. And his argument, what he said I thought was interesting in retrospect, he was like, I didn't say I had a problem with the players getting paid. I truly don't think that any actual coach has a real problem with the players getting paid because they go into those houses. Right. They go see these people that they know

they, they know where they're getting these players from what their lives are like and have for the last 30 years. Honestly, if they, if any guy in that position that doesn't want those players to get paid is cruel and a bad person, right, given the circumstances that they've seen. So anyway. I don't think that Davo had a problem that getting paid. But he said was, if this starts feeling like I'm coaching in professional football, then that's not what I came here to do. He clearly wants with the spirit of Jesus Christ to raise better men and to win games.

He has clearly made decisions in terms of how they recruit and structure a program with a great emphasis toward their own players, staying away from transfers, all of those things. There's a way in which he wants to do this that is very idealistic, right? And I think there's a certain irony to the fact that the same week that people were piling on Lane Kiffin for his willingness to bring in guys who were in NFL training camps last week, with the same fervor, we will attack Davos winning for not wanting to play the transfer portal game in any of those things, right? But the bottom line is those attacks on DaBoh are fair. And the reason that they're fair is this. this reminds me of the end of the aughts when things weren't going so great

for Maryland basketball with Gary Williams. And as somebody who covered recruiting at the time told me, argued the veracity of this statement, I'm just telling you what he said. He was like, look, guys, everybody's cheating except Tom is O'Roy Williams and Gary Williams. Now, obviously, North Carolina had a unique situation that it had going on there, right?

But that was the line, right? I say all that to say, Gary's the one that nobody thought was cheap. And Gary was the guy that was absolutely, I get my kinds of guys. I recruit my kinds of guys, right? But while that was going on, you got Kevin Durant in PG County, same county as the University of Maryland, and Gary's now recruiting him. You get Ty Lawson, same thing. Gary doesn't recruit him, but the year Gary doesn't recruit Ty Lawson,

and he does recruit Gravis Vasquez, who is his guy and is a conference player of the year, so forth and so on, right? But the bottom line was Maryland had reached the point of winning national championships, and now they were not getting the caliber of players that was necessarily to even truly compete in the ACC. And it's because Gary didn't want to do it that way. And so Gary would come into all those press availability. Well, you know, we won a lot of games around here. Hey, you know, we won a championship here.

But hey, man, you can't do it like that anymore. And so I commend you for trying to do it what you believe to be the right way. But if you can't do it the right way and win, well, we don't hire you to do it the right way. We hire you to win. It's really interesting. He said after the game that they didn't have a player's problem. They had a football problem. And he doesn't understand that those are the same thing.

There we go, right? He wants to do it that way. And if you can do it that way and win, bless you. If you can do it that way and get Trevor Lawrence, right? You can do it that way and have to Sean White. Hell, you have Todd Boyd, right? Like, if you can do it that way and get those guys, cool, go ahead and do that. But the bottom line with Dambo Swinney, for any of us who remember what it was like when he first got there,

that man ain't no goddamn football genius. Remember when they gave up 70 in the Orange Bowl that time? Like, Davo turning this into what it turned into is one of the great shocks. The job that he did at Clemson is one of the great jobs of all time. Went toe to toe of Nick Saban for four years. Yes. And won twice. And won twice. And the two they lost were like, by this much.

Right. Or I think it's the one. But either way, it was, he did that man. Right. But that shit don't work no more. Like it's an entirely different game in terms of what it is that you have to do. And so if Clemson is satisfied going seven and six, eight and five, whatever it is, they keep Dabo around forever.

But they're not going to do that. They've never, even when they were an eight-win school, they weren't cool with it. They don't want that. And so for Dabo, to me, you got to look around. There's a reason Coach K quit, Roy Williams quit, Jay Wright quit, Nick Saban quit. I feel like there's some other guys.

I guess it's off the top of my head we could go through that I just don't have for you right now. But there's a reason why these guys quit. They did not want to play the game as the game is to be played the thing is Dabo's younger than those dudes. He's older than he looks. He's 56, but he's younger than these guys. He still wants to do it.

But the whole paradigm shifted directly in front of you. And to me, it's not about the money. It's once you could transfer without cost. Right? Once you could just transfer, now this turned into something completely different. And everybody else is going out every year and making their team better. And Dabble is trying to make their team better at practice. and it's not going to work.

It's not going to happen, right? Meanwhile, the guy to coach the other team, shit, like I said, he's trying to get to, are the NFL boys going to be playing? I mean, they're not NFL players, obviously, but they're going to be. They're not on the roster currently. But they're on the yard, right?

So as I understand it, they're at school, but can't practice because they're not on the roster. But that is open to changing as the year goes on. The courts figure this out. Indiana got some guys back, right? I saw it at that they had a couple of dudes. Coaches are going to get the best players they can. Unless there are legitimate moral reasons at play,

you cannot afford in this game to not get the best players that you can. You just can't do it. And by the way, Davo was able to win without doing that all the way. Part of that was generational quarterbacks, but he was able to, it doesn't work anymore, man. It doesn't. So you have two choices here.

Get fired or quit. Because I don't think he's going to change. And by the way, I would respect him more for getting fired or quitting than I would respect him if he decided to change up how he did. Right. I told people, the thing I always remember with him, 2016, when Dion Kane failed that drug test going into the playoff. and he was suspended for the semifinal game. That was the only game he was required to be suspended for, and he still sat him out for the championship game.

It was 15. He didn't have to do that, right? I don't think he should have done it. But that's what you're doing when you believe it. Like, hey, man, if we go lose, then we just go lose. I had to respect it. And after so much of it with him, I have to respect it. But buddy, either get real or get gone,

because those are your two options. Okay, so the Kauai Lutter thing with the NBA has been resolved. And I have said from the very beginning that I didn't think that this was much of anything and that I did not find it to be particularly interesting, that I did not care. I still don't really care. The idea of cap circumvention, I still don't find that very interesting. Rich people being really stupid, let me pull up. a chair.

Yeah, seriously. Now, now we're in my... Really stupid and very transparently, yes. Yeah, what's that mean? Would buddy pull out that fold and chair? Like, oh, okay, now I have arrived. I do want to be clear about something, though. I am not going to get into the journalism of it all for a number of reasons.

One of them being that I try to not get into journalism of much on this show. I just don't think it's that place. The other part is, obviously, I got a history with the gentleman at the forefoot reporting is Pablo. and a lot of, there's a lot going on over there that I am not the right person to discuss, okay? But the story itself, Ryan, I was in Europe when this, when the first thing came out where ESPN had reported that Balmer had no evidence that Balmer had funneled my and that the penalty was not expected to be that harsh. Right.

Now, I am very curious as to how much that story affected the ultimate harshness of the penalty, which is five first round picks. And Uncle Dennis can't come back to the NBA no more. And, you know, $30 million. $30 million fine. Steve Ballmer suspended for a year. Lawrence Frank suspended for six months, a woman that worked in business being suspended for a year.

And I don't know if you've seen this thing where Draybaud Green is like, you can talk about how $30 million to you, but it's still $30 million. He is 100% correct about that. $30 million ain't that much money is something that nobody has ever said about their own $30 million. Right. Like it's no, it's not going to end Steve Ballmer's world. Like people think that these punishments are supposed to destroy people. No, it's just not supposed to feel good. If 30 million cutting a check of $30 million, does it.

doesn't feel good. But here's the thing about what they found in this report that jumped out to me and just had me like, wow, these rich people are really stupid. Or maybe not even that these rich people are really stupid. How about, let me raise it this way. I saw my buddy Ethan Strauss had brought this up. I know I have talked about this a little bit in other places. I don't know how in depth I've gone into it here.

but have you ever read Steve Ballmer's Wiki page from his time at Microsoft? I know where you're going with us. Yes. I've scanned it because you have told me this, but I feel like we did give away what happens. Yeah, it's not a success story. No. Like everything about his tenure at Microsoft is about late to this, didn't do this, got this wrong, so forth and so on. He's really rich because he was there from the very beginning.

I read somewhere that his dividends make him through his. hundred million dollars every quarter. Because he'd been there for so long. So, like, him being as rich as he is is not necessarily a function of his brilliance as a businessman. And Microsoft started making a lot of this money the second he stepped down. Yes, it turned around the second that he left, right? Like, they were slow to get on the internet.

They didn't get the MP3 player thing, right? Like, you know, the Zoom. Like, that was during his thing. It's a whole bunch of this stuff. but it raises the question about whether or not he's actually that good at being a businessman. And after checking out that report, he is not. And the thing that makes me say that he is not a good businessman is, how did you afford all this leverage to Dennis?

Right. Right? And so Dennis, aka Uncle Dennis, I try not to call him Uncle Dennis because I feel like he's Kauai's uncle, but the dude used to work at Merrill Lynch. Like he an older black man with gray hair that he brings. brush back what I'm just telling you like he's not I don't think the picture that people have in somebody's mind when they be like your uncle is handling your business is in line with who the

man is that we're talking about here and clearly uncle Dennis yes good at dinner good at business well yeah but also is this for kauai but I also want to note that uncle dennis also behaves exactly in the way that you would presume that the man that we call uncle dennis would behave, right? Like, it all goes in together. The part that jumped out to me is that Balmer was getting scammed by the aspiration dude. But I feel like Balmer was also getting scammed by Dennis. And I know how he got scammed by Dennis, right? And this is, I think it's very important to go back and think about the context of 2019 when Kauai Leonard signs there. What happens in 2018, LeBron James signs with the Lakers. Okay. So the Clippers, who had spent that whole

decade chipping away and getting themselves some relevance in this city, okay, just for LeBron, the Lakers who are a terribly run operation, right? Now LeBron is showing up and he's demonstrated to us for years that it don't matter how good the operation is, he can make this happen. So LeBron's there. The Lakers are also trying to sign Kauai in 2019, right? The Clippers had the opportunity to sign arguably the best player in the NBA. 2019, Kauai Leonard is now two-times finals MVP, roundly considered to be maybe the best perimeter defensive player in the league. So the best defensive player in the league could carry a team to a championship

whose second best player was Kyle Lowry. Okay, now you got the chance to get the best player in the league. Okay, cool. And he's like, you've got to go get Paul George. And you give up the world to get Paul George. I don't care what anybody says. do that every time, right? Keeping in mind of Paul George is like one year removed from a top three MVP finish.

You've got these two giant wings, great defenders, Paul George, who's been the best player on a team, they got to a game seven of a conference final before, right? Yeah, you do that. You feel like you're here, you've got that chance, you make that move. Got it. But once you got them, do you really have to just bow down in every way that they wound doing. I watched Pat Riley not bow down to LeBron James when he was in Miami, right? But you know what? I think he kind of did. And here's why. Part of why I believe the NBA's

penalties were so harsh was that they went and told everybody in 2019, hey man, this Dennis guy, watch out. He's going to be at, you know, he's out of here asking people to do too much, do things that are against the rules. And so the NBA, NBA basically, created a crime stopper snitch line where you were supposed to call in or you were supposed to let them know anytime somebody asked for using NCAA terms an improper benefit. Because Dennis was asking for planes, Dennis was asking for a share of maple leafs. Yeah, Dennis was asking for everything, right? Okay. Now you're supposed to tell the league about this. And that's obviously something you can do if Kauai doesn't play for you. But if Kauai does play for you. But if Kauai does

play for you. You got to deal with this dude for as long as Kauai does play for you. Because he's his, he's Kauai's guy. You can't, in application, you can't turn in Kauai's guy, right? What you have to do is take his phone calls and just try to shake that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're working on it, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're getting to some stuff and we'll figure it out later. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll work it out. Like, I just got done reading Joan D. Didians book that she wrote about Miami, which is really interesting. And Ryan, off the heels of that other book I just read about Miami that I was telling you about, that was amazing.

But anyway, she makes a point in there that the thing about the Cubans was that they felt very betrayed by the United States government, particularly after the Cuban Missile Crisis, where Kennedy basically promises Soviet Union, we will not invade Cuba. And so the government has always got the CIA guy to try to send them guys in to try to maybe do something, but always like, hey, hey, hey, but we ain't got nothing to do with it, right? That's the same thing with being being, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, that's not, that's, that's, that's not us. And so they just feel like you act like you care, but you don't care, right?

That's Dennis. Dennis is like, hey, Dennis is like, hey, man, so I'll get us some money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're working on it. No, that wasn't going to work on Dennis. Dennis is like, yo, what's up with this money, man? not Kauai's money, my money. I got to get paid. What are we going to do about getting me this money?

And the clippers are like, all right, cool, we'll go get you this money. Now, I'll say again, I don't really care about the fact that the clippers would be like, hey, we have sponsors here, cool, we'll talk to them, we'll, like, none of that stuff bothers me, right? I don't think that any of that cuts at the fabric of the competitive balance of the NBA because the salary cap is not intended to create competitive balance is intended to increase franchise values, right?

But this is not a bedrock of of the league or the idea that a team could help a guy get sponsorships or whatever. I just watch Oklahoma City win a championship. Also, that was part of the reason that like very publicly discussed that why Kevin Durant went to the worst.

Look at all these guys. I thought he said guys that you can meet. And now he just made all this money. Yeah. When hugging face sells, how do you, how do you think that came about. Right, right. I'm just saying, I don't, like, this isn't to me. This isn't something that I really care about. But for the NBA, we told y'all not to do this. And then the Clippers went out here and actually did it. And it seems very clearly they did this because

Uncle Dennis is really annoying, right? The wildest thing in there, and it's the one that really did the Clippers in, is the email from the scammer from Aspire. Okay. Aspiration. And he's like, hey, man, you're trying to get this deal done or not? Or am I going to have to go tell Dennis that y'all ain't getting this deal done? And that's why he can't get his money. And they're like, oh, no, don't tell Dennis. What are you talking about? That's why I'm saying.

Balmer got scammed by aspiration and Balber's getting scammed by Uncle Dennis. What leverage does Uncle Dennis have? Think about this. maybe you were afraid that Kauai would go to the Lakers in 2019 because they are the Lakers. But Kauai was never going to go to LeBron James team, right? Like I know for fact, that was never going to happen where he was going to go play second fiddle to LeBron James

coming off a finals MVP, okay? Never was that going to go down. So now Kauai plays for your team. Would have fucked up me and messed up everything else. And he wants to live in California. He wasn't living in San Diego. so bad he live in San Diego and try to drive to L.A. every day. Where is this guy going to go? He tears his ACL and you give him an extension. Where is this guy? Where is this leverage that Kauai and Uncle

Dennis had over you to where you felt beholden to them? I do not understand this for the life of me how they had that much Lex over the clippers. And all it got them was. a trip to the conference finals, which Ryan, correct me if I'm wrong, happened in a year where Kauai got hurt and didn't even play in the conference finals. Correct. How did you wind up here with Lawrence Frank, with notes, as you say, on all these things that the league told you not to do? They said don't do this.

Now, is it possible that you can go around the rest of the league and you'll find other people who are walking guys up to sponsors, right? Guys who have sponsorships with whoever has the Jersey Pets sponsor. You certainly can do that. But they told you specifically that you can't do this. And you were afraid of, what was Uncle Dennis? What was Dennis going to do to you? That's all I want to know.

What was he going to do to you that left you in this situation where now they got those picks from the Kauai trade? They got two first round picks that are becoming from Toronto. I've, when, if I'm not mistaken, when Minnesota got punished for the Joe Smith situation, they took five first round picks in alternating years. They're doing these straight. They didn't have to do that. That's that, that's silver twisting the knife there.

Like that's silver being like, y'all not going to punk me. And they're going to do this through five straight years just because they have idiots in charge. And then Balmer has to fire Lawrence Frank, right? He apparently just got a big extension. I understand this. I understand this. But I also believe I saw Pablo say in an interview that basically Lawrence, I don't know what's going through this guy's mind. He apparently snitched on Balmer to lessen his suspension.

Yes. What does it matter if you still work for the fucking clippers? I'm going to tell on my boss so I can come back to work soon. for the same boss? Jason did. Remember with Jason Kidd was like, hey, I got to get this cat out of here. Yeah. Can't have him on my squad.

He, yes, he's singing like a canary. Because let me tell you if there's anybody that knows you can't have nobody like that around. It's Jason Kee. Takes one to no one. He understands what this all. He understands what this all has to be. So yeah, all of this win.

And yeah, I tell you, I didn't think that the offense was. that big a deal. I still don't think the offense was that big a deal. But in terms of actual application of the league, obviously it is a giant deal because they docked them five first round picks. And they did that thing where they gave Kauai no punishment so that Balmer has no grounds to appeal. And so what I also wonder in this is, if the reports are true that Balmer would not agree to the allegations of wrongdoing or whatever it is, the NBA needed this done. I think the Clippers were moving largely to try to convey the idea that,

not to convey the idea. The Clippers were like, you need to get this done. We got the cards here because we didn't funnel this money. You just need to go ahead and get this finished. How about that? Because you don't want us to go to arbitration, right? Because that was they. You don't want to go to arbitration, now do you?

And they were like, how about it not go to arbitration? because we're going to find Kauai Linnard $700,000 or in the previous discussion, 375, like 3.75, right? That's what they're going to do. And now they're stuck. They are done. They are cooked. And for what to give? not even give to set up for Kauai Leonard to get more money,

even though he had no leverage in the actual situation. Can I tell you somebody out there that people owe an apology to? Stephen A. Smith. Do you remember what Stephen A. Smith said Kauai Liddard was the worst superstar, the history of the NBA? I do, yeah. Say he wrong. say he's wrong, right?

Like, I've always thought before this that the Kauai move, the Paul George move, all of that, great moves through the Clippers, no matter whether they won or not. Like, all the Sterling was off with the franchise, they built the new arena, there's irrelevance they had, all of that stuff. All of that's there.

Great for them. But your owner is a mark. Like a literal mark. That's the only way to look at this. And by the way, people apparently like working for him. I think he's apparently been great for the, fans. I thought that in a league where the real concern is teams not trying to win, that a team trying too hard to win wouldn't be such a bad thing for people. You know,

they, they, it's not what happened, Brian. That's not what happened at all. And they took notes on the criminal fucking conspiracy. Wow. We know you can't be on top of all the news. of the day. No need for the social media feeds. We got you. Now, if you haven't heard. All right, Bo, if you haven't heard, craziness at the end of the Michigan,

Western Michigan game, Michigan appeared to lose to Western Michigan at home after a failed Hail Mary attempt. However, reps put on one second, back on the clock. Michigan completes their hair of Mary. They win 13 to 12. Bo, what was your biggest reaction from this game?

It's not going to be the one that people think. Because I don't know, did you see the Big Ten's explanation for why they put the second back on the clock? Yeah. Did you see the, like, weird statement? Yeah. Like, did this bizarre thought? Yeah, but I did read it.

But it makes sense, right? Yeah. Like, the argument is somebody went from out of bounds, came in bounds, was the first person to touch it that happened with one second. So we rolled the clock back. Also, yeah, the explanation of the TV clock and the official clock are two different things.

Yeah, yeah. But if that's what happened, fine, that's what happened. But you definitely need to explain that. Yes. Like in the real time. But that's not the big deal to me. Kyle Whittingham has already come out and's done the whole, I don't have to hate Ohio State to beat them.

Hey, buddy, yeah, you do. It's not like this guy doesn't understand rivalries. Right. But he's on, he's a BYU grad who coached at Utah. Maybe he has to have a certain measure of perspective or whatever it is. But all I'm saying is that game was 12 to 7 after they, they won it. Was it 12 to 7 before or after the, uh, it was 12 7 before the Hail Mary? Got it.

got. So it's 14 to 12. Yeah, 1312. Yeah, but they didn't get the extra point, but whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, hey, hey, man, there's a great room for this to be a really terrible season in at Michigan. I'm not sure what they've got here, I guess is what I'm saying. And I do think that if you could only put up 14 points against Western Michigan, seven of them and a Hail Mary in your first week, it is okay to start off with some, hey, what are we, like, what do we have here? They have been paying your quarterback $12 million to go there. Yes, but they have an interesting thing that doesn't happen very often. They were in position to hire an honest to God Hall of Fame coach.

You don't have a lot of experience with teams. And by saying, hiring the guy, not because it fell apart in the last place, right? They decided they were ready to move on. So he seemed like a great hire. He was probably the best coach anybody could hire. But what if it's maybe, best. Best coach and best hire, not necessarily the same thing. And I wonder if they got one of those situations here.

Yeah, I'll be interesting to see as the year goes on because they play Oklahoma next week. Good luck with that, fellas. Yeah. All right. Over the weekend, LeBron James put out a teaser for a partnership with the prediction market, polymarket, social media, had a lot of fun. This is my favorite tweet. This shows a difference between MJ and LeBron's games. Michael Jordan was more of a score-first gambling addict.

Brown was much more comfortable creating and versus a gambling addiction for others. So your thoughts. So there seem to be two industries that people are really down on. One of them is artificial intelligence. Yeah, and specifically creating data centers. Yes.

And the other one is, I'd say even past data centers. Just like when we have my buddy Ted on here talking about like the use of AI created images and stuff like that. Like, especially with, younger people, when they get a whiff that you're, that you use AI, like people are doing that shit on the sneak.

Like, like, they don't, they don't, they won't talk about it no more. Um, but the other one is these prediction markets. Now, I mean, I'll tell you guys here. I don't, and if you say this is a distinction without a difference, I don't have a great argument against it. But I've allowed us to take sponsorships from sports books. I will not from prediction markets. And the big reason I drew the.

lot on prediction markets was I watched the polymarket commercial when it came out and it was a guy at a cash register and it was these real quick shots to everything that he could bet on and it seemed to convey the anxiety of addiction. And I was like, oh, this is cruel. You know what I mean? Like you're not selling people on something. You're literally trying to get them hooked like right here in real time. And I was like, no, man, I can't get down with that. Like that for me is the place that I draw the line. Again, if you say it's a distinction without a difference, I don't think you're making an unfair point, right? I don't say, I don't say, I'm not trying to defend myself. I'm just trying to be honest with you about where I come from on this.

I say all that to say, even with LeBron selling the bonds on his endorsements that people found out about, brother, you don't need this money that bad. It's just not possible. Like this to me is just an incredibly problematic product that is being put in front of people. And I just don't understand how much more money LeBron James needs to where you've got to go do this. or like, and what are you going for? Because this ain't winning you, no fans. I'm just telling you that now.

It's not going to do it. Right. And finally, the U.S. Open had an interesting controversy as the two-time defending champion. Arena, Salalinka complained about wheat smell. She gave a quote, I don't know if it was like coming for the crowd or was from outside because the wind blows in the stadium.

I don't know. They've just got to be a bit more aware of that stuff. Bo, you've been, you've been to the U.S. Open. what was your thoughts on this issue? All right. So we're all friends here, right? Okay. The U.S. Open is what I would call a semi-outdoor activity.

It is an outdoor activity, but they got their roof over ash that can close or whatever. But it's an outdoor thing, right? Something that people need to understand about New York is that it is legal to smoke weed in New York. anywhere that is legal to smoke a cigarette. This is not the same as other places. Other places people may just be doing it here. Generally, this city smells like weed a lot. However, time and place.

I think everybody generally understands those ideas, okay? I would not feel comfortable firing up at the U.S. Open. At a concert at Forest Hills, right down the street? Oh, yeah, let's do it. Right? Game on. We got this. The U.S. Open, to me at least, doesn't feel like the place to fire up. And here's why the U.S. Open doesn't feel like the place to fire up. It feels like a place where somebody would tell on you. And by the way, can't really blame them. Right? This isn't necessarily that place. Now, this is my question about what Saba Lankas talking about. Are people smoking, like, on the lower level? I would find that to be impossible. I would find that not only impossible, but that's not the smoke at the,

that's not the smoke at the stadium crowd. Typically when you hear stories about people smoking in stadiums, they're up there. They're way up there. And so I want to know where those people are smoking, that Sabalinket can smell it on the court. Because even if the roof is closed, that is a giant place, right?

That is a giant place. And all I'm saying is, If the weed is so powerful that Sabalinka can smell it from the court, instead of telling the umpire, come tell me so I can find out where they got that shit from. That shit sound like the ball. If everybody can smell like, you're on the court and you can smell it, you need to be like, hey, come down here for a second. Let me get some of that.

Who your man's is? What do they have so many questions about? what's going on there. And I have questions about who the person is. That's like, when you're the first one to fight up at the U.S. Open, like I've been places or concerts. Where like the concert, you know, you're being inconsiderate.

Right. But a concert comes with a certain expectation, especially like, you know, you're not going to like a child, kid show or whatever. Yeah. You know, like the concert comes with a certain expectation. But you can always tell the looking around as everybody tries to decide who's going to be the first, right?

And then after one person does, now it turns, it goes, it's like the wave. What person does it? And now it starts sounding like, but, especially in New York. Yes, you hear everybody going. Who's the person at the USO?

But I said, man, fuck that, man, you got a lighter. All right, cool. Let's go. Who's, who's doing this? Or, or, or, Arita Sambalanka provides a lot of fellas of every other woman they've ever dated, which is to say, she's just a bloodhound.

whatever it was that you weren't supposed to be doing. Don't you worry. She will follow her nose right to the, right, right, right, right, right to whatever it is. Like, Salable Lake, I don't know if she got a husband, a boyfriend or whatever it is, but I'm going to tell you this right now. You went to the strip club, you better tell her because she's going to smell that body. She's going to get that smell of too much body wash before you even get out the car. She out here smelling that weed on the court.

All right, Bo. A lot of good voicemails over our break. Here's our first. Hey, Beau, Ryan, it's Al in Austin, Texas. Man, I'm listening to you talk about how you fell with L. Duncan. I don't know about you, man. I'm 41. I decided a long time ago I did not want to fall ever again.

I think the last time I fell, I was living in Colorado, and I must have been 35. and I slipped on some ice. And I think that was the day I decided I'd never want to fall again. So when was the last time you fell unexpectedly outside of the mountain bike incident? Love the show. Always listening, man. Y'all have a good day. Well, if I'm not mistaken, I think it's what I fell off that snowmobile in Iceland.

Did you tell them about that? I don't know if I have, but I have. I'll do it. So this is actually one of the coolest things I've ever done. I wrote a snowmobile up on a glacier in Iceland. The pictures. Sounds awesome. The pictures are incredible.

And so, anyway, I fell off the snowmobile a couple times because they were like, it's like a motorcycle when you turn. And I'd never ridden a motorcycle before. So, you know, they would do it anywhere where you got to swing your weight, right, when you make the turns. And I wouldn't fully getting that. And I fell a couple times. And one of those times, man, I fell.

And, man, I was in February. My shoulder was a wreck. for three-fold months. And at the end of like the third month, it started coming around. I was down in Atlanta doing some work for Turner. And I met Brendan Haywood. And I went to dapp him up.

And buddy, that powerful. My shit was fucked up. It's like he popped my shit right back out. It was like I went right. I went right back to the beginning. It was like another two months before I could get back. Hey, man, let me tell you something. Brent Haywood, strong as a bull.

I love that it wasn't even like a hard, Like you ran into him like it was a hard screen in the hall. He just dapped you up. No, no, no. He just, you know, he was just offering me salutation and hospitality. And I was, oh, yeah, no, man, falling down. Falling down, bad news, man. Falling down, falling down real bad news.

All right, here's our next one. Hey, what's going on, Bo? This is a D calling from North Carolina. I just had a question to ask you. I hadn't heard many people talking about it. Is it a coincidence that the Lakers got sold to, essentially the Trump dynasty after they had a whole offseason of just

acquiring white players it's just I don't think that's a complete coincidence so I just figure out I love the show piece I mean look man it's a lot of white dudes on the squad it's a I mean Josh Kushner's apparently a limb

but you know if you signed that many ones white players to a basketball team in 2026. You have to ask questions. I mean, didn't they sign Colin Sexton? And I saw that. And I was like, wow, there must be some sort of mistake. I don't understand what's going on here.

Like, if, you know, the subtext of Lakers Celtics in the 80s always was race. If it was Lakers Celtics again, the homies wouldn't know who to root for. Like, we got root for. Like, what are we talking about? How does this go? No, this is, all I'm going to tell you this, man, I'm saying this to the Lakers. based on my knowledge of white people, not white basketball players.

You can go out there hooper a bunch of white boys if you win. You go out there hooping with a bunch of white boys and you don't win, everybody don't think you're not trying to win. Because if you were trying to win, why would you be out here hooping with all these white boys?

I'm not saying you can't win with those white boys. I'm just saying, don't nobody think less a white basketball players than white people. Now when the white basketball player actually turns out to be good, now white people get a little bit kooky about that. But up until that

the brother's always going to be like, no, man, he can go. It's white people that's out here like, uh-uh, look. White people only let black people do things that they think white people are incapable of. And basketball is at the top of the motherfuckling list. Like, let me tell you something. You realize how good Tom Brady

them had to be to be throwing the ball on them white boys? You don't get, you know why? Because you don't do that by accident. It's not possible. Like, your team can not be. You say you don't walk into Chris Hogan? I'm saying your team can't look that much different than every other team unless somebody's got an idea. Right. Now, with Belichick, I think it was very clear.

He's like, yo, this white, this white skin model, they be selling those 50% off. You know, like, that's what I think he thought he found a market inefficiency. Ain't nobody wanted to save money that bad in basketball. Hell not. I'll never forget this. It is really funny how it all turned out. But in 2009, I was working on the radio in North Carolina. And this is when Duke had gotten really white, right?

It's like after Ellie Williamson left, I think they only had three black dudes on the team. Now, of course, the next year they won a national championship. Right. But that whole year, everybody had kept telling me, but they got some real good recruits coming in in 2010. They got some real good recruits coming in in 2010. Now, ultimately, Kyrie Irving came in in 2010.

He had not committed when they were saying that. The three guys they were talking. about at the time were Andre Dawkins, Tyler Thornton, and Josh Harrison. For those of you who don't know who those guys are, exactly. That's the point. They were just black. That was it. The year before was Ryan Kelly and Mason Plumlee, two NBA players, one of whom is still in the NBA,

just a little bit too white to really get people, they just get nervous. All I'm saying is, even at Duke. They were like, hey, think this shit's going a little too far. All right, here's our last one. Hey, Beaumani, hey Ryan, and or Mike. This is Brady from Montana, calling to let you know that it ain't just the South. My wife's good friend is having a baby, and recently her mother-in-law came up in conversation. As you might expect, all parties involved here are white.

It is Montana, after all. But I'm sure you can understand my surprise when it was revealed that the mother-in-law's name is Charest. Spelled like it sounds. And we could have even more fun if I told you her children's names, but that would incriminate me. Y'all take care. I mean, I don't know why you think that Shoressa is. Yeah.

You've given yourself away. Yes. Yes. Hey, man. I'm really glad that we've become the safe space. Same. I really do. Everybody.

And look, I know these white boys been looking around like somebody's got to be something like someone's got to bring this up. Right, right, right. There's nothing wrong with it. They're like, am I allowed to talk about this? yes because Bo Jones said so. Also, shout out to our man in Urbana, Illinois. He said and told us about how he went to Urban Fades

to get his cut for the first time. And he said that they don't got a little upticking business. Look at us. Yeah, man. We are boosting local economies. Job creators. Job creators. Maybe we create a job for Lawrence Frank.

Let me tell you, Lawrence Frank will go to Urban Fades and everybody go stop talking. Well, Lauren Frist can come here and take notes. He can be my PA. Yes. Yeah, let me tell you. That would be so funny. Lawrence Frank went in there and came out with like two fades on the side and cutting his eyebrow.

I would love that. But ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us here on the right time. We do this four days a week. Ryan Brumley handling everything behind the scenes. Also, welcome back, sir. Thank you so much. Glad to be back. I see some people were a little nervous.

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