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another episode, a special episode off what was it? Off season? Yeah,
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No injuries, obviously, this is this is an all season episodes talk
about stuff that's been hammling for the last couple of weeks. We were supposed
to record a couple of weeks ago or last week, but technical difficult.
We could not. Um shout out to the people who missed us. Um
yeah, um, so let let's get it. Let's last episode. We
discussed the top five draft picks and the impacts on their team now that we've
seen them in a summer league. What do you think about the top five
draft picks? They all play at least one game. What do you guys
think about the top five dract picks? Really quick to go off room?
Uh? Victor Wayne Span with San Antonio, Brandon Miller with the Charlotte Hornets,
Scoot Henderson with Portland Trailblazers, Amen Thompson with Houston Rockets, and his
brother with Detroit Pistons. What do you get, gentlemen think? Uh?
I think NBA fans are not patient? Uh? Do you think any fans
or what are impatient? Are you talking about who? NBA fans? Period?
Because social media went completely nuts over Victor's first game. People called that
man a bust. People talked about san Antonio made the wrong decision. People
just just just went nuts. And then in game two he came and showed
y'all just what he's capable of. His game two stats for me for what
he played all via a summer league were very impressive, a near double double.
So I was certainly impressed with Victor. When being yama I was certainly
impressed with his gameplay. Victor whim Ben yama I was certainly impressed with his
gameplay. All four, all five were good. None of their teams won
the title, but Victor got shut down after two games, and so I'm
very impressed with him. I'm actually impressed with a lot of the rookies.
The top five you mentioned all day. Well, I think Breddon Miller's going
to be very special for the Charlotte Hornets, and I think Scoop. It
all depends on what Dame Lillard does. Um, I don't know that he'll
be able to play with Dane's level because Scoop plays a little faster and Dane
plays a lot slower compared to how School plays in my opinion, so I
like in your opinion. In my opinion, Dames, Dames plays a lot
of slower ball. That's a lot slower. So when you think about Scoop,
Scoop plays, I'm not gonna call it almost sprinting. But if you
look at the Golden State Warriors, like Step, they play fastball, right,
Uh, Phoenix plays fast ball. Damee plays tends to play a little
slower, right. He ain't sprinting down the court. He giving you a
jaw. And I'm not saying that that's wrong, But in Dame's level,
of basketball Scoop seems to play a lot faster, uh for for the kind
of game that he's playing right now, at least in summerly. All right,
college, Well, I um, is that what you think? My
thing is watching that and watching all of the mistakes those young players make,
and that's their problem. They have to slow down and play the game.
But at the same time, they can't do that against Dame. He can't
do that against Drew. He can't do that against Steph. He can't do
that against Clay. You can't do that against none of the league top players,
probably even some of the worst players that's in the league already that you
would consider the worst, because the game is actually faster than what you what
it has led to believe that it is. You have to actually be out
there to see how fast a game it is, and it's a lot more
physical. A lot of those players that they're going against is nowhere nearest skilled.
That's the players in the league. But that's exactly But that's what I'm
talking about. You talking about Dame slower and this and that Dame is smarter.
No, I wasn't talking to be critical of Dame. The question was
how do we think they faired. And I said, because school is going
to play for Portland. And I said, if he's gonna play speedball,
he may not mesh well with Dame. That's what I said, because Dane
plays the game slower. Facts. I uh, I mean, I agree.
I kind of agree with both. But you guys have asked you.
Both of you guys are saying with me. He was talking about the guys
who were talking critical about Victor Wingspan and the San Antonio pig at his first
game and so on and so forth, blah blah blah. I was never
high on Victor never. I've never been high on Victor. Remember seven foot
five, big, old feed skinny. I've seen some hot you know.
And my thing is a couple of things. Only one of these top five
draft picks went to college. Only one of them. Everybody else was like,
nah, I don't need college. I'm good on that, all right.
Cool. I have this argument constantly with someone who's younger than me,
who feels like the NC DOUBLEA is no longer it's gonna be no no longer
needed. And I sound like the old man on the porch, like college
isn't just you not getting paid? College is exposure colleges as you horning in
on your fundamentals, so when you do come to league, you're more prepared.
I think in recent history we have seen that you don't have to go
to college route, but it does help somewhat, and even if you go
for a year, it helps. Talking having a coach like coach k or
coach Calapari, whatever his name is. It's one of those thea the gym
parry, yeah whatever, uh Calamari. The point is that once you have
those kind of coach day job to be what it is. I hope you
don't make these mistakes though, but exactly let him get you up. I'm
not what it's the true Calabari bro. But the point he just called Victor
Wingspan Victor we Span bro, and he's the only first of all where first
of all they could even announce for very for the first two seasons, I
still struggle. So mister Wingspan is gonna catch on. Watch what happened?
I compo, Yeah, he didn come to whatever it is it is.
Joanna comes Jannie Freak down the lag and one of these announces gonna be like
here comes Victim Victor down the lane. But my thing is I never hyped
on him, So his first game, I was one of those guys trash.
He is true in second game, all right, cool, But you
see what first of all said Antonio, I don't say that. I don't
think they regret it, just because his jersey sold out first day that came
out first. He is a walking stimulus. So he's a walking stim he's
marketing, so they're not mad about that, but they know his game is
not going to I don't know if we're gonna see a number. He'll be
an All Star, but I don't think he'll be everything everybody says he's gonna
be his first year, maybe two. Well, I don't also see him
being injured possibly prone that first year. He's already said and he said it,
I played terrible, you know, he said some other stuff. But
he's trying to learn how to play this game. He doesn't know how to
play this game exactly. And when you when you come into the league with
the hype, that's saying something like that, and they went back to it's
like, hey, well, how do Lebron fair his first game or how
do these other guys spare their first game game? First game? Summer League
he almost had a triple double. Well, let's be let's let's let's be
straight. He's no Lebron. They're playing. They're comparing his height, not
his game player exactly. They're comparing the hype the height, and some people
measure up to the hype and some people don't. With Victor, wingspan is
not added up to the hype. I disagree the hype the hype you spend.
Listen, bro y'all know, I was supposed to be in Summer League
up until they announced that he was actually gonna play. Summer League tickets weren't
even sold out. You could still purchase them. The minute they announced his
game play for Friday. In Sunday evening, both tickets sold out. I
paid only sixty dollars from my Summer League game, and I sold it for
one hundred and eighty five just on the fact that Victor was going to play.
Yeah, so the hype in and we're we're not talking about I don't
think people compare him to Lebron for ski because you know, if you go
back and he shoots threes, he's dunking. He's supposed he's seven foot five,
so he's maybe dunk over people he should be rebounded. So these are
these are hold I say, these are things they talk about Lebron with,
Yes, come on, man, you're a Lebron guy and we if you
go back. No one ever said he's going to be like Lebron. They
said he's going to have the same hype the value as. What I'm saying
is he's the next generational player like Lebron. That's what they're saying. That's
what the y I'm saying is, but he isn't. That's what everybody's trying
to say. That judgment. Yeah, you've only seen him play twice.
It's like he's not I don't think he's Remember Steph Kurry. I'm gonna shut
up. They said that about Steph and now they're calling him the greatest athlete
of this decade A big word, no, because it's probably gonna master golf
when he retired. Athlete of this decade. People are calling him the greatest
athlete of this day. From that, that's okay, I don't really carry
your way. But what I'm saying, you shouldn't even say it. He
did, But it's true. It's not how the top athletes of this decade
Lebron. It's the greatest player of this decade. I say that as far
as what though, because if you're talking about how he's uh sport, who
was the last player that master two sports and can play it competitively? Are
you? Are you saying that Steph can play golf professionally? Have you been
watching it? Yeah? I have? And he just won. He just
won, Yeah, a celebrity match. He won a golf tournament. Though,
a celebrity golf tournament. Step It's different when you play against prose.
I'm aware he has what it takes to be a golf athlete. So does
J R. Smith got better pay attention, Smith, maybe better pay attention.
J Smith got better pay attention. I'll do pad because if you don't
think he can play golf on the on the pro side, now you're hating.
No, Now you're hating No, Get back out on the golf course
and fall in love with it again. Norm Now you're hating. Now you're
hating. Asked help your uncles, as CB asked murpn BYRD. If Steph
Curry can play this game at an elite level, not with pros, not
with the pros. He liked the game, Okay, he liked the game.
But but back to Victor, I don't want us to be overly critical
on him because we've only seen him played twice and the second time he actually
played very well. You know, they sent him to the league. They
send all their players, yes they do. Y'arn has played in the G
League the time who got the G League? They got? They're sending him
to the G league. Now, that's very telling. They're sending him there
now today, telling you what's the day was in the G league play?
Thompson played in the G League to get back from injury. Yeah, from
injury where he needs to learn the gang. You're taking it too. You
are a number one draft pick, you are seven five. And then he
Ben went to the G League. Maybe he'll still be playing. Who Anthony
Bennett from the Cleveland Cavalier. Maybe he's still be playing. He had college
the point he he had one year college, had a terrible career. And
what happened? A bus? Right? It was a bus? Okay,
then, so what are we looking at We're not looking at a bus.
We're not looking at a bus anytime. Great, papach Tim Duncan, if
you Robinson, no, if you I don't care who if Jesus can sit
there and coach you, unless he, for the inserts some skill into your
body. You suck. You suck. Don't sit here and tell me.
And that's the problem. We'll be trying to cut these guys some breaks here.
You both be the next thing compared to Lebron or name of Lebron.
You're compared to us, some of the greats. I have not heard anybody
compare him to a great his economic song. What do you think they're comparing
him to a skill set? They're not even skill set. Where do you
think his skill set came from? What do you think they're talking? Man,
he's gonna be a big market, you know what I mean? Seven
five guys are out there. Okay, So I don't know where that G
League stuff came from because I don't see anything saying that Victor is in the
G League. I don't see anything that is that. After his first game,
they talked about sending him to the league. They also talked, you
can send him to the G league before the season starts. They playing a
different times. You're the number one draft pick, No, you're the number
one draft see, I mean, Zike has been done before who played where
he was coming from injury. But it's still the G League. Even Stephan
will never touch the G league floor. Maybe he should have the greatest athlete
of all I say he was. I said, people are calling him the
greatest athlete, which I didn't call him the greatest athlete because it's clearly lebron
It's clearly because I said Steph is one of the greatest athletes? Is he
not? You started out saying he is the greatest. I did not say
that. I did not say all in him the greatest athlete, and you
also did not the greatest. After from the random heath gonna be one of
the greatest golfers, I said, he has the potential to be a two
sport athlete when potentially be one of the greatest tie ends of the football in
the NFL. He should probably go play. He shouldn't, but he don't
need the money. But shout out to Bryce not Bryce? Is it Bryce?
Bryce? Bryce and Carmelo's son, Bronze Kid and Mellows kids. I'm
playing together and it looked pretty impressive. You hard on people, brom He
looked, they looked the sophomores. I said, the gentleman actually is junior,
a rising junior, same a sophomore rising the right ones a rising junior,
one's a rising sophomore. One's going to be a sophomore. One's gonna
be a Hey, I'm not gonna even lie. They're not They're not average,
they above average. Ye, I do agree with that. And I
was watching them go against Carlo's Boozer sons and what happened. I've seen that
too, Boozer sons and some beats, and he was like, it felt
like I play a man's game. Y'all play a little. But they also
six nine though yes, I get that, I'm just saying they like sixty
six four. I just it just felt like Carlos Boozer or something like,
Hey, I play a man's game. There's y'all cool over there. Y'all
play a man's game. But I've seen Kanye do a drop step. Yeah,
and yes, and now I was shocking to me. No really,
Now, if you said Kur don't play by this, if you wanted to
be critical, drop step, he caught. He he polled the ball,
got it boom. If you wanted to critical of Carmelo Son, you should
you should have said don't knock his game. He should have said he called
Paul George to go That's that's you should What is their obsession with Paul George?
Who said Paul George uh Kye Anthony as his top five? Asking his
top five favorite players, he said, well, Paul George is my goat,
Paul George, and of course he listed his pops. He listed he
didn't even have Lebron on there. N and that's your daddy's Carmelo. Come
on, man, they are like cousins. You know what I'm saying.
All I know is this. I mean, I just going back to well,
no, going back to the top five pigs though. I think Victor
is not. I think Brandon Miller, like you said, Brandon is gonna
be something special. The Thompson Quinn Thompson Twins, I think they're gonna be
pretty good. I'm telling you right now. And then I think, uh,
Scoot Henderson's gonna be something. I think they should get rid of the
Dame and School. That should be Scoots team. I think he can handle
it. It's going to be the sleeper of those five. Yeah you think
I just watch him, just watch one of him. Matter quadruple quadruple double,
and I don't know who, just watching him and his skill level in
his moves. It smooth. He's different. He's smooth. He's different.
He's very smooth. I will give it to you, very smooth. He's
tall, smooth, he's very he know how to use his lanth. He's
six a six nine. Yep, he's how to use his length. And
he can handle the rock. He can handle the rock. And he got
some quick bounce exactly. So I'm I'm in more. I'm more intrigue to
see those four those four guys. I can see those four guys doing more
damnage than victim. I'm sorry, just me is bigger than time will tell
again, grow into it. He could grow into it. Could be joker.
I mean, I'll say this, uh chat chat whose name Hogan?
Yeah, he looking like a he he gained like ten fifteen pounds. It
look real good. I'm like, okay, all right, he's looking like
Ricky of the year type. Okay, okay, I mean we shall see,
though, we shall see. And hey, I may be wrong,
Unlike Dre, I had no problem in um wrong. I admit when he
just y'all just be wrong, saying with a picture Jersey like, yeah,
exactly, You're not gonna do that. I mean, this group hasn't treated
me a little bit compared to the recent years where I just I just I
just be like, uh, I just need to go. Oh man,
another one of these groups. You know what I'm not saying, and they
scrubs. But we might have a generational talented one of these these picks.
That's true. That's what I'm looking though, is their mentality to another.
Y'all get to see my boy play yet the Money Bates I did see him
play. I don't know why this is the thing about Money Bates and I
you know, hey, I may not just know. I didn't do no
research on the dude. I just knew some guys were saying he's really really
good. I heard somebody say, I just don't like the way he plays
basketball. So people say I don't like the way he like his attitude towards
the game. Like we Patrick Beverley sit on his podcast, A lot of
these guys don't have a love for the game, and I think Bates might
be one of those guy who doesn't have a love for the game. I
don't know, That's what I'm saying I started saying with saying, I don't
know, but that's what I'm saying is from what I've seen in the summer
league, he's gonna be some excuse. He's gonna be something special. I
think he played shooting guard, you know him coming off the bench right behind
Mitchell. Give me something special. I'm speaking a podcast. The sports media
need to censor Paul Pierce. Why what hater? Well, we're not gonna
go there. I know what he said. I don't you gonna talk about
I know we have Gonn talked about. I'm just saying we need to censor
him. He just went in on Duwayne Way. He just went in on
Duwyane Way talking about Duwayne Wade isn't an all time great? Talking about he
had a better career than Duwayne Way? Like, bro, what world are
you living? He do not know how many rains Way got compared to him,
if he would have had Wayne Wait, if it wasn't. If it
wasn't, But why did he keep saying that though you had Kenny Gardner and
Ray Allen, anybody that played with Lebron, it seems like he had Paul
Pierce has a chip on his shoulder I'm gonna tell you this, Duwayne Way,
if Kobe hadn't been in the picture, Duwayne Wade could be argued as
one of the top three or four shooting guards to ever played the game.
Well, top three or four. He is top three or four what I'm
saying. But if Kobe wasn't in the picture, he'd be one or two
or two, he'd be one or two two? Who else is? Who
else? Who else? Out of Kobe and the Jordan? The Wayne Wade
shooting guard, outside of Kobe and Jordan, the shooting guard. Yes,
all time, all time, all time, all time shooting guard, shooting
guard. And he ran his team. Remember he got a ship before Brian
came. Brian came and obviously helped him get too. More well, Dwayne
Way was a killer. Now. I don't know about his off the court
stuff, but Dwayne Wade was a killer. And for Paul appears to be
as disrespectful as he is to Lebron and Dwayne Way. It's not a man
trade, first of all. But second of all, Bro, you need
to go get some business because it is ridiculous. Now, it is ridiculous.
Only person that you can probably can compare to him it's probably Clay Thompson.
Yeah, all time, Wayne Waite, top five or three. If
Kobe wasn't there, he'd beat two or three guaranteed. Yeah. Yes,
Hold on, Paul, Paul, Paul to here's the thing. The way
way has the hardware. He has the hardware and the numbers and the stats.
Come on, man, come on, the hardware. He has the
hardware. I don't put him over. Wait wait, wait are you doing?
Tone? That's what I'm saying. Spoken like a Knicks fan. Uh,
spoken like a Knicks fan fan. No, no, no, Spoken
like a fan that's used to losing. That's all I'm saying. First,
First of all, who are you? I'm surprised. Look look, okay,
okay, okay, let me tell you something. Let let me chase
by my friend Dre here. Drey don't get a lot of them. But
when he gets you, get you good. Drake gets him. But you'll
just don't like what I get on now. But but y'all have a very
time hater. Paul Pierce is a hater. We agree on that, Okay,
okay, So here's my thing. Here's my thing. I agree with
Tom. I actually agree with Tom. If he didn't have the hardware.
I don't know if I would put him in that that that high. Honestly,
I don't know if I would you ever give us the name of who
you would out, But I saw I'm okay, I'm right now. I'm
looking at I'm looking at an article right. Eventually it could be James Harden.
Eventually, That's what I'm saying. I'm listening up, I'm looking at.
I'm looking at uh Slam hoops Hypeoype, Top twenty, uh Top twenty
Shooting Guard. They have Dwayne Way. The number three, only above him
is Kobe and Jordan. They got Allen Iverson number four, see this my
thing Alaran's number four. They got James hard At number five. They have
number number six George Gervin. Do it again, Do it again? Hoopshype
dot com. They got Georgian number one, Kobe a number two. They
have d Way. The number three. Number four is Allen Iverson, number
five is James Harden, Number six is George Gervin. Number seven is Clyde
Drexler. Number eight is Reggie Miller. Number nine is Ray Allen. That's
about right, that's about right, that's about right. What is Way three?
Number three. What I'm saying is this, That's what I'm saying,
Kobe takeaway yeah, and one is Mike Yeah. To me, if you
take away his hardware and we're just basically off Skille, I don't know if
I will put Dwayne that number. Give me the give me the give me
the, give me the seven after Duwayne Wade, give me the seven in
the Irish hard and George Garvin really Reggie Miller. So you take away his
hardware, there's nothing different about anybody you named after him. But Tracy McGrady
number twelve to me, d mcdy had an injury prom career, so then
you can't. You can't. If you're an injury prom there's nothing you can
do about that. I would argue that Tracy really should be labeled a small
for I would argue that, but this is but it's my thing though.
Like I said before, hardware, yes, because he has what six championships?
Who who? Yes? Three? Who ain't got five? Yes?
Yes? Three yes? Three okay when we're shocked two with Lebron he's been
to the finals five times. Okay, So but like I said before,
Skiale wise, I wouldn't put him top. I wouldn't put him number three.
That's just me. Okay, what would you put him five or six?
But it's Paul Pierce a hater, yes or now, yes, this
is definitely a hater. I think he's just he's very very critical even compare
their careers, and then he keeps saying like if I would have had Shack
the Shack and KG and that and the time Piers they each got them.
It's about the same, Bro, you got one title and you had you
had this, you got you got a top five power forward. KG is
a top five and the third best shooter, I'm sorry, the second best
shooter they ever played the game. And he was a defender out of this
world. Yes reality, absolutely absolutely if and Paul Piers had a chance to
do it multiple times. I just don't get to hate man. I hate
it, man, he just hate But moving on to uh, the night
free agency would hit us, which I think we all look forward to this
different time. I've enjoyed the off season. I'm done all season very much.
But this part right here is just the part we really you gotta enjoy.
Uh. Draymond Green resigned with the Golden State Wars for a four year
honey million dollars deal twenty two. He says, Golden keep talking, bro
oh, because I have a lot to say. But he saved Golden say
twenty two million dollars in salary. I'm sorry, twenty two million salary,
saved the Warriors forty three million and repeater tax this year. I said,
all right, I figured we all we knew he was gonna be signed.
Chris Paul was traded, so sure I wasn't. Chris Paul was traded from
the Washington Wizards to the Golden State Warriors for Jordan Poole, Ryan Rollins,
Ryan Rollins two thousand and thirty first round pick, Chriss protected in a two
thy twenty seven second round pick. Dude, these both these moves put Golden
State Warriors back in the finals. Conversation, So before I need to repurpose
your question before I answer that, because I'm looking at your docket as you
call it, and we have to address the fact that Golden State pulled the
plug on Jordan Pool Can we approach that my question that's not on there.
So I'm gonna say this. I want to answer your question. No,
it does not, No, it is not. It is not because now
they're smaller. Now they're even smaller. Golden State's problem last year was small
ball. I think so that all year they were I picked them to win,
but they were small year. But go ahead, No I did not
before that year. No, I don't every year. That's why you want
us to repeat it, because every year the Golden State Warriors are a good
team. Uh. But again they have the same problem that uh Phoenix has.
You got two point guards, and Steph likes the ball in his hand.
So does Chris. Ball in his hand. The ball is in his
hand majority of the time, Bro, unless Draymond is breaking it up to
give it out to Steph. Say it again, I said, unless Draymond.
And how many times Draymond bring the ball up good portion? Thank you?
More than seven than seventy? So why why Clay Thompson and Steph Curry
is hitting these screens? Because they because he's a point guard. He's a
point guard. I don't put him back in the finals conversation because now go
to say, just added another injury prone player on top of having a whole
small court of injured players, layers injury prone. Steph, as much as
I love him, he's also injury prone. I wouldn't say injury prone lately
he has been. I didn't say what Stephan is out. He's down,
he's down, he's down for the count. Now I would say he's injury
prone because he'll have a he'll have a year where he's about of the injuries.
They come back. What happens they win a championship and yeah, have
another injury. Okay, so this year should be really be telling what's gonna
happen. I'm excited to see it, but I don't like the factor.
All three you're gonna start. You heard it here. First, I gotta
go and say going back to the finals, Okay, I love it,
I got I honestly have go and say go them signing, ain't mind Green
and getting rid of the Pool. The head case that is, that is
phenomenal. Gmy, he like, you know what, Y gotta get so
depressed and you know the sad part about it. Mike duddlev right before they
trade, he said, we like Pool, we like Pool. He is
a part of the future of this franchise. And trade to them the next
day. First of all, NBA savages, savagery. No, I just
feel like I feel like this I feel like they looked at it was like,
we have to we can't keep both these guys. One of them has
to go, and we're gonna pick the We're gonna pick the veteran over well,
the guy who doesn't who creates I don't say creates chaos. I don't
even want to say that he is. I think Jordan Pool wants his respect.
And I think this is any further man from what I've been hearing,
because I've been hearing this a lot, and I keep hearing a lot of
veterans about how they don't like that too you have. I think he came
into to too cocky, and I feel like that's a culture that happens around
here as far as what as far as like the NBA, far as our
city. Oh wait, do you say that, because because I love my
city, but we have some people who who are just cocky. And I'm
not saying they scrubs, and I'm not in the disrespect or nothing like that,
but you have to have humble moments. You amongst My thing, my
only thing is with him, is you amongst He was amongst a dynasty.
M that's a real dynasty. He was amongst veterans. All you had to
do was play your part and do your role and soak up the game and
soak up all of that game around you, and you made everybody around you
not like you, because that's the only reason they got rid of you,
because if you look at the news, it was because everybody around him didn't
like him. I mean they started showing clips of Steph checking him on the
bench or trying to talk to him and trying to talk to him, and
he, like, you know, acting like a like a toddler or tea.
And that's something you don't see from a lot of players, you know,
coming in, that's something you see from young, ignorant players. You're
on the championship team. I don't want to know is my thing. I
don't want to sit here and say as a Milwaukee thing. Now it is
something because I'm gonna tell you, like this, Looney came in and did
his team. He was supposed to come in and be like Looney, soak
up all of that game and got better and got bigger and got more money.
Here's my thing. Here's my thing about that hold on real quick,
real quick down is that his fun was that our fault slash media fault.
No, because we were talking pooling party. We're talking third member of the
Splash team up we talk. He should have been what I'm second. Somewhere
somebody is boosting your head up. Hey, hey, you that dude,
You that dude championship. He talking here in the camera. We're about to
get a back and you're supposed to that's supposed to humble you make that position.
Was never in that position, Looney. He was never in a position
because Looney was never dubbed as the second coming Golden State Warriors. Located twisted
was supposed to be Jordan Pool's team of has maybe three four years. Jordan
Pool just finished his rookie deal. He's going into year one of that big
contract. Now. Jordan Pool, hometown kid. My respect for him.
Put the city on Uh, it's about to find out. He's about to
find no. He he shows love to the sea, just like Tyler Hero
does. They show love to the city. Jordan Pool is about to find
out, like Kyrie Irvin, like James Harden, that you can't be the
man just because you want to be. He looked depressed and his wizard released
stuff. Would you would you did it? But but hold on, hold
on, don't don't. Don't take it as a knock to him, y'all
this is gonna be Is he gonna like you say that they say this is
gonna make you, it's gonna break you. Jordan Poole gotta figure out if
this is gonna make him or if this is gonna break him. And and
he has to go into Washington with a different mindset, you know what I
mean. He has to go in the mindset like I did some things back
there that I gotta leave back there. I gotta come in here a student
to the game again. And if he doesn't come in as a student to
the game again, it is going to be horrific over there in Washington for
him. I can promise you that. Yep. Sorry, no, Doctor
Bird said Steph Curry is a um a scratch golf um a scarched Uh.
I've never heard that before. He's a golfer, meaning he can only play
pars. He said, I have a lot of good friends that can play
pars, but not PGA ready, And he said he's too old right now
and his main cop potension is seven or eight years younger than him. Shout
up, CB, thank you. I appreciate you coming in here trying to
tell you straight in your net. That's all right. I mean that's great,
that's great, great, that's great. But you know what, hey,
CB as his opinion, I have my uh you know what TV shout
out to you because because Dram trying to get on that Steph Curry train,
he was like, you know, a golfer, you know he's a great
okay, so but so um he's a scratch golfer meaning part three So like
us, Dave, No, they're good. You know, well, I'm
I'm playing you get off there since you know I've been you know, y'all
been running for me for two years. No, but to back to Keith,
it's like riding the bike. Don't dap him because because I owe,
I owe more wins over him, So don't dap him no more. Maybe
too, we ain't played in two years. Let's get off, let's go
on. But got up our top. Yeah to your point though, fellas,
but I was like, real quick, just my christ because my thing
is I think that in our all of our respect respective careers, we feel
like, hey, especially you, I'll bring it to you. No,
this is this is real talk. You're good at your job, right,
I'm okay, you get at your job, right, I'm okay. So
that's how Jordan Pool that should that's you being humble, that's you be off
this microphone, off, this microphon fault. It's a different story. No,
it's not. No, it's not you ask anybody. And there are
times when I won awards and y'all even know I wont them. Number one,
we didn't, we knew. You said no. No. There are
times when I want awards or were part or in the paper or on TV,
and I never reposted it. I never said look at me. I
never said look what I did, because for me, it's always about the
success of others. You can ask anybody, y'all work of course, anybody
anyway, But the point of the matter is this and our respectable feels.
I feel like if we are like you, you're very accomplishing your career.
You're very accomplished. So if and it sometimes those type of situations when somebody
is boosting your head telling you're great at your job. You're great at your
job. Can anybody tell you differently? I just think he crossed the line.
I think, uh, I think the fight with Draymond, which is
somewhat of his fault that I put more on Draymond than him, because Draymond
should be smart. But he pushed them, He pushed them. I think
he was just talking crazy. He pushed them. Ain't ready for them,
Milwaukee talking. He pushed it. We push it, we push it.
He pushed them hard. If you and I or you and anybody that's not
you use an eye. If you and you're one of your colleagues got into
it and he pushed you, you're not gonna worry about your job. Your
first reaction is going to be to defend yourself. And I'm not saying I
ain't got into it with people that work before physical No, I don't say
it. Don't time out. Now Here's the thing. I've gotten into it
when people working before where it has gotten to the point where I'm waiting for
you to even move your foot towards me, and I'm gonna jump on you
because but I also know, hey, me jumping on him is not gonna
is gonna get me fired, is gonna get me put in the position where
I can't further my career or I can't further myself as just a person.
So I really pride myself in the first but like, you know what,
unless you for to do something, I'm I'm not with all this talking,
So I'm gonna walk away. But more importantly, why would you be Jordan
Pool talking trash and pushed Straymond? Why don't you just keep talking and walk
away? Okay? Players hit him and he and he watched the video.
Pull pushed him first. He pushed him in Draymond Deck though. Okay,
anyway, Cloud was he clo this person? No, listen, I'm not
you know how many times men you got in each other's face not personal?
Yeah, we had, Yeah, we had. I know you you know
how many times me and me and any of us that played together at the
Robotis first. That's different how there were wonna be kids or pool only about
about twelve nineteen until we was twenty, we were still playing each other one
on one. Yeah, but until we were twenty, until he was about
twenty five twenty about twenty five. But the boy the money him, I
don't know about you, but you would we know where you was at trying
to be successful in life? You know. Sorry, sorry, that's what
they call so So anyway, anyway to your point. I don't. I
don't think this makes Golden Stay better because again they have a very win linquished
bitch too. And I think they gave up way too much for Chris Paul
and that heavy contract. You gave up Jordan Pool, you gave up Ryan
Ryan. I don't really know who that is. Twenty twenty, the twenty
thirty. Now, I guess it's not that they're playing for They play it
for now. They're playing for now. They playing but Chris Baus three years
last. Okay, let answer this question going back to Jordan Boo. Hold
up before you go back to the pool, Before you go back to the
pool, Chris Paul, if you don't get one now, you will never
have one. Facts. You know, they just handed you a gift like
I'm giving you the keys to the Kingdom. You better and they didn't hand
him no gifts. The Golden State Warriors is okay. This is the Closen
State Warriors, is okay. The closest he gonna get you. Let the
Lakers put the paws on you. You're okay, So the Lakers, the
Lakers ain't We wasn't all that in the back of chip. We don't get
them in the final they be the Golden State to go. But you said
they weren't all that. I said they wasn't all that in the bag of
chips, No, they were not. They were the Lakers weren't. Yes,
the Lakers were decent, they weren't all of that by how it checked
trying to be up. I'm just saying, I'm just being routally honest right
now. That's very honest. You'd be like this during the season. We
are we talking about the Lakers. Can't you be like that during the season?
Can you just go along with the blow sometimes because I'm up the shows,
Jake, No. Anyways, hearing my thing number one, Golden State
has an issue became little like don't one like spool I said, you did
not? I seen it before the group chat the oh I h real quick
though. So here's the thing about Golden State. Draymond Green say he don't
like Chris Paul. He say not changing that. He say I'm not gonna
get along him just because you're the same team. And Draymond Green is very
vocal, especially when it comes to the basketball game. That is gonna be
the that's gonna be to me, the determining factor and Mike along with him
either well yes he do, no, he does step along with everybody.
He was he was the only person that reached out the pool. It was
like, hey man, when we cut Stepfords also a man of faith exactly
every ball. But on a second, now, Chris Paul, not Chris
Paul. Steph Curry was like, Chris Paul was one of the guys who
really taught me how to play this game. Really professional, no doubt about
it. They have they but a head prof personally, yes, but I
think off the court and in practice they can find us a ground. The
problem is this Draymond Green got rid of That's why Katie left Draymond Green.
The reason pools out of here. So that's my big question mark for Golden
State. Worried because if you can't put your b as to the side for
us to get this ring. Because however you want to put Chris Paul,
they still need him. So however you want to put it, we still
need this guy. So get it together. But you know what the problem
is here, Look at the people he having issues with. Yeah, yeah,
he having an issue with Steph because he ain't he having an issue with
Clay. He having as bread and butter that he knows who they make mistakes,
shoon. But also the players that you're talking about didn't have humble moments
when they came to Golden State from a team that was already a dynasty before
y'all got here. You gotta come in with a different mindset. Will you
come play with them? If you don't come in with a different mindset,
I'm gonna check you too if I'm Draymond. To be fair, drey mind
think about it, And to be fair, Dre Maya came in humble because
he had a chip on his shoulder that twenty seven other people were picked over
him, so he earned his stripes. And we've heard Steve kerr uh Bob
Meyer all say that the heart of Golden State was oo. So we hope
it works, uh, Chris Paul, I just hope he doesn't turn gold
and send to a bunch of whiners real quick Washington with its I don't think
gonna make the playoffs. I think it gonna do nothing special over there.
But what do you think? What are we looking at for Jordan Pool average
twenty five or more? He might become the scoring leader over there because they
don't have a lot to do. I'm saying, do you see him?
I think he'd be a top score. I don't think he'll Okay, okay,
he'll be an All Star twenty five or more or twenty five or less,
twenty eight, twenty eight games. I think because he gonna have to.
There's nobody else over there there. I give him twenty five. But
they're talking about he's looking to be traded, isn't he did? He signed?
He did resign? He sign. So Jordan Pool and cous More together
that could be special. But Timetell I like twenty five to twenty eight.
But Jordan Pool will be a top school the one them play defense. Neither
one of them, So that's gonna be horrocious destroyed when they they don't get
destroyed. But don't they think Bill got about it? There? Yeah?
Bill Bradley, Bill, you know? Uh? So the Los Angeles Lakers
resigned Austin Is the Reeves. Austin Reeves a four year, fifty six million
dollars deal. Uh. They signed free agent Cam Reddish to the Veteranental.
It's a two year deal. Yep, to your ventermental, Okay. And
then they also signed free agent gab Gabe Vincent for three year, thirty three
million dollars deal that they resigned to three year for three year, fifty one
million dollars deal, and re signed DeAngelo Russell for a two year, thirty
seven million dollars deal. Some are saying the Los Angeles Lakers won free agency,
but they're predicted to win forty six forty five games this upcoming season.
Both one or neither of these things are true. I don't you know.
Off seasonally they did decent. They did. I'm gonna say they did pretty
good in retaining the players that they did, and to bring in Gay Vincent,
who is a solid. He's basically a younger than the Shrolder and he
can shoot, and they didn't. They didn't. They wouldn't missing with Schrolder.
I was just surprising. But because he Sholder. You know how Shrolder
did them the last time. They just took them in because they needed him
at the time. But Shrolder took a turn down eighty one million dollars to
make five millions. So later for him, he got his money down.
He went to Toronto and got paid. How much they give him? What
was it two years, like thirty forty billions. Oh they did not,
they did, No, they didn't. But to ask you a question,
man, I'm happy that the Los Angeles Lakers were busy um in free agency.
I don't know to say they won free agency as a stretch, but
who did win free Who did who got who got a better pick? Who
picked up better than them? Because I think I think Austin Reeves was an
automatic in that forty six at four years, fifty six million, that's about
as good as he gonna get. I mean, he could have got more,
but but the Lakers did that deal a lot of Reeves. That was
good for them. Reeves could have got more money going somewhere else. He
could have. Honestly believe that he could have two year twenty six millions.
So we get thirteen million a year, Get thirteen a year, I mean,
that's a paid day from turning down eighty four. That's cheap. But
gave vincen is cheaper, and he's younger, and he's more athletic. Yeah,
and he could shoot man, he fresh up the I mean, yeah,
so I like what the Lakers didn't free agency though so far? Yeah,
yeah, so far. They because they were the busiest, They were
the busiest. To me, I don't. I don't think they did.
Who won one? Save Milwaukee the Milwaukee Bucks? How did the Bucks?
We're the same, We're the same. We brought in. We were supposed
to lose both the key guys. You know we have, Yes, middle
We weren't supposed to lose middle all new Middleton won it. I did not
know that. We me and he's literally they're gonna resign him for a longer,
dear, because Dallas was looking really good and he's from Texas, and
I'm gonna tell you like this, and on we got Lopez because he played
Houston, but I'll tell you like this, we did sign it's a big
thing to leave here and you playing with Yannis Joanna is the face of the
league. But those are two guys who were like, I'm trying to I'm
trying to get this money now so I can retire soon. Lopez is gonna
retire in his career. But you gotta remember, somebody might pay you,
but you're gonna be working a lot harder over there. Did he go to
If he go to Dallas, he gonna have to put in some work.
He gonna have to play forty four minutes a night. That I mean him
and Luca got to play forty four. I just feel like I just feel
like he. I just feel like Lucas guard. I feel like, can
they start him and Garry? Yeah? I just feel like, Well,
you think they season turned out the way he did? They were looking better
at the teams, They were looking better before they traded him for him speaks
with who there? That's what I'm saying. What is the big six Golden
Sea to training camp? Bradley builds the point guard? What are they thinking?
You want to see him handle the ball? Is he good? He
hasn't got it? He got he can pass the rock, but he don't
pass the rock and he's not he's not his thing. He can pack the
rock. He ain't had a choice but to shoot the ball over there Washington
since he'd been there. Tell me anything, any any roster that he had
over there Washington where he didn't have to shoot the ball. John John holl
didn't have all bad seasons and Wash he did. He did not. He
had one. He had several. He had one good season when with them,
he had several. Why do you think he got the big contract?
Kiss? He had several John Wall, he had several he had two good
seasons and then he had one really really good season and that's okay. And
then after he got the bag, that's it. It was over. But
No, to Kiss's point, though, man I um, I like the
Lakers. The forty five forty six is a stretch. I mean, how
can you predict that without seeing people play? Again, look at their roster.
I think they can put off if they stay healthy. Because they're also
talking about sign they're they're also talking about I mean, we're a couple of
weeks behind here, but they're also talking about getting a d to sign his
extension before the season even begins. I don't even know why they're doing that.
Yeah, my thing about that is, and like I was saying before,
I just feel I just feel like the Bucks one the free agency because
they got the pieces that they needed to get to me, forty five to
forty six games for the Lakers prediction is kind of high. I see forty
two, so you see them playing, It's what you're saying. Yeah,
obviously playing if they lucky, if everybody's healthy, maybe eight seed or seven
seed or something like that. Playing still playing the Lakers, playing this team
is playing bound every year. Okay, they won forty three games last year
forty two. I don't think they won forty three three and thirty nine,
Yeah, nineteen to them games they could have won out of at thirty nine.
If they would have had that ross that they wouldn't end it the season
with. The Lakers are a fifty win team, guaranteed. No, put
some money with your mouth fish, I'm gonna put the money with it,
just some simple I do a Lakers had Lakers jersey. But other than I'm
not doing the money. Lakers are fifty wins this season. What do you
want to put on I ain't if they make. If they make, let's
not act like if it was for money that I wouldn't pay my debt.
Okay, let let's not tell. Let's not go to that. I like
the like clearly, I'm good. I like the Laker this offseason moves.
I like coming into next season what they're gonna look like. I'm thinking they
are forty eight to fifty two in that range. I say this the Western
Conference is for the first time in years balanced because a man so just think
even even even as good as Denver was, they were only fifty three and
twenty nine, think of out of your head, fifty three and twenty nine.
That's very true. Cool Denver, Denver, Yeah, fifty one and
fifty one. Joker didn't play a lot of those games. He jokes,
like ten games last and they won all the gains without Joker though most of
the games out Drunker they won. Yeah, they were all They were solid
all around. But you gotta think Sacramento one forty eight game last year and
it was three. They were three. Yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah. I think it's disrespectful to call the Lakers a play a team because
they still got Lebron, they still got a D and they did some really
good stuff in the offseason. So I think, like hec there about fifty
and I think cam Reddish being with that group is going to help him flourish.
Yeah, mark my words, Cam Reddish is gonna make people be shocked,
like what what where has he been all this time? Yeah? Yeah,
so Cam Reddish with the Lakers, Um, Cam, cam Reddish with
the Lakers? What's next on the docket? Um? Three year, fifty
one million dollars? What do you think about that? Um? I think
you know what he gives me? Andrew Bynham vibes. He gives me Andrew
Bynum vibes, and yeah, like he he gives me Andrew Bynum. Yes,
but he also gives me he's happy to be there. He wants to
play for the Los Angeles Lakers. I like to sign because he had a
really good season last year. He was very instrumental to the Lakers run.
He was determined to get better. In Washington, he had no reason to
get better. So I think coming to the Lakers and being around the greatest
player, one of the greatest players of all time, push him to do
better and become the player who he was looking to be. Yeah, just
like Austin Reeves. Yeah, being around Lebron, being around greatness and somebody's
got a good work ethic and then the club's party, and you know,
leading by example, you're gonna you have no treating but to get better because
you you're in the gym, you and you're working, You're going to get
better. As we know, anybody who's played with Lebron has got better and
got paid. Yeah, and you almost have to because I think it goes
back to think if we go back to the Cleveland days, Um, the
one the Bucks got from Cleveland uhtle Dova. Yeah, so basic, basic,
basic, and he got paid because he did good. Yeah, but
he did good with Lebron. Lebron push you to the brink where you want
to be better. Yeah. I think the other part of this is there's
a different kind of it goes back to what you say, more a lot.
There's a different kind of pressure playing with So if you're playing on that
team, you got to show for I go back to you the Radeem Team
documentary where Lebron created that Kobe work ethic. Right, where he got that
Kobe work ethic. That's how he is now running the Lakers team. Like
I remember during the playoffs when they would win games, Lebron would tell them
no celebrating, go back to the locker room. You know what I'm saying.
So I think him getting that deal is critical for the Lakers future and
I like it. So over under or just right? Right, we're talking
about players that signed deals, we're talking about players that got paid, so
meaning over overpaid, under underpaid or just right? Do you agree with this?
Portland Trailblazers resigned Jeremy Grant five years, one hundred and sixty million,
dollars. Hold up, I don't even I don't even I don't even know
what to even say. I don't even offering him that much money up right?
A hundred and sixty million dollars for what though? Yeah, so over
under or just right over over paid agreed five year, one hundred and sixty
forty five, forty eighty one, twenty once and thirty sixty ninety one twenty
uh yeah, a little over thirty million dollars a year. He's not a
thirty million dollars player. He is not a thirty million dollars player. He
is not a thirty million dollars. Right after that, Dame requests to trade.
Right after that, they requested a trade because I think Dane saw that
they were going young. They were. He telling me, that's the best
you can do. Thirty two million sine Jeremy grant to five year, one
hundred and sixty out all the all the players you can have picked up.
The best you can do is get me Jeremy grant fire one hundred and sixty
million. Yes, your keys right, you can go today, here,
your keys go. You can go today and keep the house. You can
keep the cause it's like getting with your wife when when you stick over all
right, Memphis, Now this is what I'm just doing this right, the
Memphis Grizzly signed Desmond Bang five years, two hundred and seven million dollars.
He now makes more than John Wall. He is now the highest paid player
in Memphis history, making a whopping forty one point four million dollars a year
over under or just right over, way over. Do you know how much
he's making way over forty one point four million dollars a year, way over
deathsman bag is worth forty one, way over, way over. What Okay,
forty one million dollars. That's worse than the Jeremy Grant. That's worse.
That's worse because now is he he's the most CONSI consistent player to have
who bang? Not for that kind of money though, not for that kind
of money. Not for that kind of money. You let him walk Accountability
really accountability, because no one on their teams have accountability. You're rewarding ban
rewarding they lost consistency. I like banging as a player. So what does
Jaren jackson next contract? Donna look like? Stupid, stupid, stupid.
I know, I'm serious, Like when you have Okay, job, stay
saved. Let's stay saved. Shit, what job when you got job?
When you got their core? Look at their core. Their core is job.
Jackson, j J and Bain Job got the big contract. We don't
know what he's gonna do the next couple of years. He might shoot somebody
up at the mall next time. We don't know what's gonna happen with him.
Uh, Jared Jared Jackson, solid big man. I don't know if
he's you know, he looking like bam to me, he looking like bam.
But he's a solid defender. They got rid of their problem child.
They got rid of their problem child. Who what's his name? Oh Brooks?
Brooks who got overpaid? But you know, moving through man, we
week. So the Charlotte Hornets signed LaMelo Ball. No, no, no,
we got thank you. They signed LaMelo Ball for five years. We
don't know what was going on. But anyway, let's let's not five years.
Two sixty million dollars. That's that's fifty two million dollars a year.
Brow that bro is fifty two fifty two plus million dollars a year. With
more incentive, he really could make close to two seventy five if he makes
First Team but makes the All Stars. Also got to look at it like
this, look at it like this, Chicken he in Charlotte, right,
Huh? Who else is going to Charlotte? Brandon Miller? Who else going
to Charlotte? Oh? Boy, just got resigned Charlotte. I'm answer,
who else is going to go to Charlotte and play with him? I'm a
nobody draft exactly nobody. So all the money you got in salary has to
go to somebody, because if you don't have a something about of salary,
then that's a fine too, now, ain't it? Well, not that
it has to go to someone because you need somebody to sell tickets. Yeah,
latit Pistons game. LaMelo's a ticket selling and it's been terrible. Have
y'all been to a Washington Wizards game? I have been. It's terrible.
So Charlotte did what Charlotte did. I'm gonna go back to what Zeke says
or both of you have said about Chris Middleton when we gave him that big
contract, who else we gonna get? Charlotte had to reward him because he
would have walked and got Okay, here's my thing. He's walking out a
major contract anywhere. So here's my here's my thing, and this is why
I'm tripping about this. Unlike Bay, he's not dependable yet. He hasn't
proven anything yet, ball has it. So for the fact that y'all trying
to drop the bag on him, it's crazy to beaked. Why not name
another player on that roster that can deserve anywhere? Knew that nobody? Okay,
So then he leave your your franchise. So are you telling me this
is a business move? Then it's the same thing. It's the same thing.
I will accept that answer the same. Then they did go to Hayward.
Ye remember sale tickets? Yeah, he plays for uh Showott. No,
I thought he played for uh isn't it Charletts? No, he's Charlotte
always. Here's here's the other part. Here's the other part. Michael Jordan
giving away Michael Jordan giving away all his money because he don't own a team.
No mom, so he could care less. You had to Payomelo.
If you don't pay LaMelo, your franchise has done and then they might as
well move a business move. LaMelo got shoes and sell out. But he's
not a bad ball player. But that's too much for my life. He's
he's, he's, he's he's actually, he's he's all. He's a superstar.
I wasna shout Dred. This is the reason why these kind of games,
because I know dredn want to pay nobody. Well, actually, me
and kecr three for three, we all agreed that the last three have been
overpaid. He's not overpaid. So going to the next one, Dallas Maverick
signed Kyrie three years, one twenty six. That's forty a year. It's
just about forty two years. This is just about right. That's right for
Kyrie for a guided threatened to leave your team wide rewards. So here's the
thing, there's only three years. Here's the thing about Kyrie. Here's the
thing about another team would take three years home, Well, no team take
on four or five. He'll play half the season and demand the trade.
When I tell you about a team that has no choice, Goats is in
a position they had no choice. They're like, you know what if we
don't get we don't get Kyrie. I don't know who were gonna get because
Luke out of there because they couldn't get Middleton. I think they couldn't get
Middleton, so they had to. They couldn't get they knew, they knew
Middleton was going back to make everybody in Middleton was going back to Malaukee.
And once they knew they won't getting brooked too, it was over. But
I think this is just right. I don't think this is overpath. I
think this is just right. Three years not a long contract on hundred and
twenty six million. Kyrie is more of a two fifty kind of range kind
of ball player. And to me, this would be an interesting year for
Kyrie because he doesn't have the COVID excuse, he doesn't have his shoe contract
situation. All that, these tractions are gone now Kyrie until he creates a
new one BLACKBA tournament. This is let's talk about that. But my thing
is this is Kylerie's year to prove the haters wrong. Number one Stephen A.
Smith. If he can shut him up, I see why not?
Now what that will make the playoffs? No, of course they won't.
They make when they make a championship run. Of course they won't. They're
terrible. So another coach is about to get fired. It's what you're saying.
Probably Okay, The Atlanta Hawks signed uh Murray the j jon Ta Murray
for four years, one twenty. This is an extension. That's about right.
That's about right about right. I'm okay, still thirty it is.
But Atlanta is the same as Charlotte because I don't think that Trey Young's gonna
start the season there, so they had to free up some Oh whoa,
we're not for the scoop of that hot take. You just say it out
of there before the beginning of the season's out of there. Yeah, crag
Young's out of there. I don't think so I do trade that line at
the latest. Oh man, I'll set a season goals. He won't say
the whole years out there. When you have lost, when you have broken
the trust with management players, it cannot work out. So I say to
the Bucks better do right, because Jannie, if we do not at tipped
to win a title this year, he's out of there. He is out
of there. I can't say that around those salaries, all right, that's
true. The Rockets side. The Rockets signed Fred van Bleep three years,
a hundred and thirty million dollars. God, why didn't you make me taller
so I could play basket height? But you're laughing. I'm serious. It's
only he's six three six threes. Yeah, five, five, eleven,
eleven. I wish I know you. You're always throwing shade um too much,
way too much. But I'm happy. I'm happy. I don't know
if it's too much. Word on Street was it was too much. People
say it's too much. He's already six one one, so he but you
know what, he worked hard for his money. He's working hard. They
showed photos of him players from the Rockets and Brooks working out together already.
Um uh my man, um uh, mister Long, Niah Long's husband,
ex husband or whoever he is. He brought all the Boston Celtics coaching staff
with him over to Houston. Yeah, all the assistant coaches left Boston to
go join him in Houston. Really, yes, we talked about that before
the season and didn't I like this for Houston. But I think it's over.
Boston is going to hit forty five year that forty five hit the slumps
again, huh that forty five year, forty eighty year? Um forty eight
one thirty divide about three forty four about forty four year? Is that too?
I think it was forty three point thirty four for Houston. I think
it was. It was just right because no taxes. Remember they don't have
no taxes. They don't have no taxes. And on top of that,
like you're going back to who the who the who they gonna pay, who
they gonna pay, who's his money going towards? Houston had a shot,
but James Harden played himself. James Harden is now stuck. He is stuck
in Philly. Dylan Brooks Dylan Brooks got a four year, eighty million deer
contract. I thought this was hilarious and I thought it was I thought it
was just right. So this one I'm gonna do for Dylan j Why are
you doing this job? Well, this is why I'm doing this. I
don't like them overpaid exactly. But JJ Reddick had a really good hot tank
because people were saying people were saying us included no team's gonna want him.
He might not be an the league. People had him playing in China literally
were kicking him out the NBA. We never went that far. I can
own this. I literally said that I don't think any team would want Dylan
Brooks, right. I literally said that if we ever needed a fattened stack
checker. I'm trying to tell you, man, he got us. I
wouldn't have paid Dylan Brooks that shout out the big team. I would not
have paid him that. But I'm happy he got paid because I really so
you got overpaid. He ain't got overpaid. Four years, eighty millions,
Dylan Brooks is a ten to thirteen million dollar player A year to me,
CA see what you think, I mean, that's twenty million. That's a
year. I kind of agree with you. I kind of agree with you.
Dre fifteen. I think fifteen twenty twenty is pushing it for Dylan.
For Dylan, I think I was saying, I'm I'm at the point where
I'm like that height and that skill. Who else you're gonna find at that
price? Because he's not a scrub. He just talked too much, talk
too much, and he saying the wrong thing. But at the end of
it, it's hard to see if he's really good because he talks over Yeah,
that's fair, he's really actually pretty good. He's talk too much.
No, he's not where they're that what I would take Brooks over l Stevens.
Yeah, I would too. For Indiana, Yes, blowing an ear,
Yeah, dude, what's the name Denis Robbie's setting players head like that.
So just so everyone's aware next season, these are the highest paid players
for next season. Number one, who do y'all think it is? Fifty
two million dollars? Ridiculous? Who's the second? Kevin Durant forty eight million
dollars. So we got guys making major player money. Oh, I see,
it's okay. S's what I'm saying. And then teams he's putting it
in there. And then thirty three t's not with Memphis, who it's with
Houston? See he's with Houston. Bro U Joker forty eight million, Lebron
forty eight, Joker, I'm sorry, Joel forty eight, Bradley Bill forty
eight, Paul George forty six, Kauhi forty six, Yannis forty six,
Game forty six. So all of these top players on this team have a
lot in comment, with the exception of Bron, Steph and Jannis. None
of oh well of course, Joker, none of them barely play or none
of them have titles. Well, we talked about he was in that wasn't
he? Heyde man? That come on, bro, He's not He's no
Lebron KB goes wherever the situation is good. He gonna asks well out of
Phoenix after this season. Nah, first all said done. Kevin Durant gonna
be like shock on like seven or Eighteensen because he was old one of us.
No more, AD's gonna do it to try to win the Sacramento Kings
UH signed h sabonus for a five year, two hundred and seventeen million dollars
extension. Who else is gonna go there? No? I like it.
I like it. He worth it And who else is gonna you're gonna sign
there? He is They solid where they at. He is a same roster,
and I think if if you if they if they play Golden State again
in the playoffs, they can beat them definitely. Now they got that hump,
that hump off their back and they're like, okay, we got that
hump off our back. Now we're we're veterans. We know what the where
they're gonna bring. We know what the intensities in playoffs. Yeah, he's
a max player. I like it. I like the chemistry that Sacramento did.
In fact, I told my Bucks agent from my tickets, I said,
I want to make sure we get a Sacramento game. I want to
make sure I get a Sacramento game because they're actually fun to watch. Yeah,
that you off. Now you're on the Fox train. I'm out on
the train. But I recognize he's a good player. I don't bandwagon Vans.
I like the Bucks and Steph Curry. You no hear me? You
know how you do? You know? Again? There you go. I
want to go anyway the game or not. You want to go to the
game or not, Sharons, I know you want to go to a game.
You know what? A right? Okay? Anyways, the Washington Wizards
reside Kuzma for four year, one hundred and two million dollars. Me,
okay, that's right, he's good, loyal. I refuse to have this
banter just to get some tickets. I refuse. Okay, wall say one
more time. Ain't saying nothing? You you what next season? So anyways,
Washington Wizards signed uh Kuzma for a four year, hundred two million dollars
deal. I thought he was gonna go somewhere else, to be honest with
you, I him the Kicks. They were linking him to the Knicks.
I thought he's gonna go back to Los Angeles. Um, I was.
I was pleasantly surprised by this. This is before they signed, they got
pool, so he signed before they got pool. So I'm like, I
guess somebody else wanted to pay him. That's what That's what it looked like
to me. Twenty five point five million a year for couz Went in today's
payment market is about right. I wouldn't have did it because I'm not a
cous fan. I don't see the hype. But it's Washington. I like
Cousma just because he's young. He does he scores that. He he scores
at that um at an elite level. That's why he's worth that he can
have score at an elite level. A little defend at an elite level.
But that's a whole another ball game. It was whispers of him going to
Milwaukee. I was like, Okay, that's cool. I missed that.
I heard he was trying to resign with the Lakers. That's yeah, that's
another place he wanted you wanted to go. I heard that too. I
heard he wanted to go back to LA. Yeah. But um, overpaid,
underpaid and just right, just right. I think that was just right
right. I was just right. Um So besides free agency, uh,
the league has made a couple of changes that will be implemented in the season
next year. The technical file for flopping. Love it, I don't like
it. Love it, I don't like it. And they already called one
of the summer League. And it's funny because once you you go back and
look like you watched the replay. He didn't flop. No, he did
flop. I'm sorry he did flop. But you can check them in the
season though. If you call a flop and it isn't, you can take
it back if you check the monitor. Notice he didn't fly. Yeah,
so you can't check the monitor like that, call it and then they check
the monitor and stuff like that. I mean, it's just kind of well,
it's six Lebron. No, we've been doing man, come on,
man, we've been doing good. It's only gonna it's gonna affect players like
Marcus Smart. Smart. Marcus Smart real quick, weren't even talking about this
happened later Marcus murt to the Grizzlis. Ye, I like it. This
is got tough, and they got the rose. They got tough. That's
what I was gonna say. Have examples for John Morant on how the aspect
of happened there girls will be good role model phone because the Rose was in
this situation. I mean the Rose was in a situation. But don't get
it twisted. G Rose was in the exact situation. But d Rose didn't
let the twist. D Ros will let the product of his the products of
his environment change what he was on the court and what he was off the
court. First of all, d Rose was a real so he was really
about that. The a't nobody to say he wasn't were saying the road Rose
rolls above the bs to become who he was without injuries. D Rose fifty
grades right now, Yeah, of course, hands down fifty grades. Yeah,
of course. He was always too explosive, and I think that's what
I hope that he helps job game now he needs to. Man, I'd
be afraid that them k he's gonna go out because he's so explosive all the
time. I mean, that doesn't happen for the age, but it's it's
it's how see Chicago wore him out, That's what happened. And on top
of the heat, d Roads was it wasn't like he was his his health
measurements were different. It's like it was it was almost a different time when
the Rose was in the league, So I mean were not in the league,
but it was when he was younger. So it was one of the
things where like, I don't think he's gonna change my rans game. I
think he wants to change, like he's saying before the off the court,
his mentality as as a professional athlete. Yeah. So this but the Grizzlies
picking up Smart beautiful. Yeah, but back to your question about the technical
file, I like it. The only thing that I don't like about it
is it will continue to slow up an already slow game. The NBA games
are already slow slow. They are very slow. Not when I say they're
slow when I'm talking about time out challenges, going back to the replay,
they're slow. Do you want to get it right? You want them to
get them right. But really it's only gonna affect like some about five or
six players, le Bron, Marcus Smart, Chris Paul. He likes Lebron.
Now, come on, bro, the Grammy Award winner from first of
all, I've seen too many videos Lebron. He flopped here and there,
but not he not the real floppers of the league. He's not the king,
that's Marcus Smart. No, you you're talking about the wrong type of
player. So Len's floper. No, okay, everybody in the league has
flopped. You think Steph Curry ain't flop when he kicked that foot out and
act like you like you hurting him. Come on, now, don't be
that guy you're gonna do that. Bring your guy up to now, Bro,
not Lebron doing this? Now Lebron doing this? And so what about
Steph kicking people in the nuts while you shooting threes and then and then act
like you can want a mother feet and took your feet from under them.
Come on, now, I'm he do what he doing at least two of
three times a game. Come on, okay for Lebron to have it.
I just said, if you're gonna bring up Lebron, they said, you
bring up Steph too, because they all do some flopping. I said this
rule was for a specific too, defenders three and D defenders, that's who
that rule was specific to, who do all the flopping on charges oh Man.
Outside of Marcus Smart rule, the rule is fair to me Zeke.
Outside of Marcus Smart, is Lebron of flopper yes or no? Sorr uh
no you yeah, okay, through the whole league is full of flop What
are you talking about. I just think you didn't want to argue with you.
I think you just I think he just fed up because he looks at
the clock. Uh man, I want some bucks tickets, Fine, take
it to the games tickets, Like don't like I got it? I say
you didn't got it, but he said, I didn't say you didn't.
Go ahead, say he just said, I want a lot of guys tickets.
I can make it happen. Oh god, all right, you turn
you turn into this right. No one didn't. He started all this on
the coach side with me for tickets, not him. I just did you
can sign with key Bro? He said no. Anyway, let's hope for
people. I like it. I like this one. The second challenger,
great rule, the second challenge for coaches. If versts set it's successful,
I agree, they'll keep the challenge. Love it. So you have to
challenge flops. No, the fobs are gonna come from two different things.
That's two different things, so the league. So if your first challenge that
you get it was successful, you get a second one, like the NFL,
right, Because the NFL, if you use a challenge and it's successful,
time out. I don't think so with the NBA one. If you
challenge and it's successful, you get another one. But when you keep,
you keep it, you keep it, so you get your second one.
But when you use the second one, you automatically lose the time out.
That makes sense. Yeah, so if you successful, yes, so you
can't so you don't look like if you're successful, you won't lose them the
Yeah, I like it. It's automatical. It's automatically a time out there
on the second one. He is trying to make the league better. All
right, y'all, let's get to the greedy, but get to the nuts
and the boats. I mean, first of all, he is greed.
I hate to say he greedy, but it is greedy. This is the
business. This is the business, and I don't care how you frame it.
Do you see the kind of money he's throwing at them for the end
season tournament. We've gonna get there right now. Now. Look, I
thought about this real hard. I was like, and I watched the video
like three times. I'm like, I can't I don't understand this. And
so when they did this video. Um, when they did when they did
this video, I was like, oh, okay, all right, cool,
But I'm just still like why would I I just I don't understand the
reasoning behind it. When Adam Silver broke it down, like what but he
compared it to He compared it to soccer. Nobody at this table watching soccer.
We don't watch soccer. We don't do World Cup soccer. Would you
know? What I don't understand is Adam Silver makes ten million dollars a year.
I did not know that. Yeah, yeah, a commissioner, Yeah
super though is about that bag, but he about making an NBA better.
So we're gonna, uh we have here to break down is that what you
call it? And the breakdown what the n seats and tournament is, and
then we're gonna comment afterward. But um, he still hasn't gave me a
good explanation of why it's needed. He was just like, it's it's like
soccer, when you know when they do n seas and tournaments, And I'm
like, it's about money, that's what it's for. Listen, the hotels
in Vegas prices have skyrocketed for that weekend. Skyrocket, Yes, And here's
the thing, you're December. It's in December, right before the Christmas Day
games. So I don't really you know, I was thinking about it.
I don't know that I want. I like to be in Vegas when it's
high. It's cold in December. It's not what's cold exactly. That's called
I know for Vegas that's cold. But we're still walking around in shorts and
fifty degree whether we still we're still hiding? Agree, have you trying to
go? You know, I'm always open to some travel night four feet live
from uh. But the tickets are gonna be different. Like Summer League tickets
are cheap cheat in season teas. They ain't gonna be cheap, damn unless
they play at UNLV, which I doubt they're gonna play at UNLV. They
should be playing at the same place that the Summer league. Summer League is
at UNLV. It's on the college campus. Yeah, NBA is gonna play
in the new uh freaking t mobile or whatever. I thought that the Summer
League was at that Sperum Dome thing. The Summer League is at the University
of Las Vegas. No, this is not uh yeah, go ahead,
all right, everybody the NBA first ever in season tournament is now official.
But how does it work like this? First up is group played. All
thirty teams will be split into six groups, three from the East, three
from the West, with a random draw based on last year's regular season records.
Each team in a group plays each other one time, a total of
four games, two at home, two on the road. Now those games
happen Tuesdays and Fridays in November, so set your calendar. Basically, these
regular season NBA games also count as tournament games. Now in each group,
the team with the best group play record after those four games, they're moving
on the team with the next best record in each conference. Those two are
the wild cards. Always watch out for the wild cards. Now we get
to the knockout round. Eight teams, single elimination, and you know what
that means, wins and move on are losers and you're out and the last
four team standing. Guess what you're added to Vegas? Baby, that's right
in Las Vegas. The semi final battles will get us to the championship game
with December nine, two teams in a winner take all finals to be named
champions and be awarded the first ever NBA Cup. Come on now, Look,
there's a lot to look forward to this season, players on new team,
rookies new to the league, and teams just looking to make some noise.
And the NBA n Season tournament is going to be I can't miss,
must see, high stakes, high level competition. And if you're hoops head
just like me, I promise you you're gonna love it. M M I
care. I don't like awarding a championship trophy. Well that's come. I
don't like it because what if you win the cup and then losing the finals.
I don't. I don't like it. I don't like I like the
concept. I think it makes it be more competitive. But maybe that's what
they should have did during the All Star break. Okay, maybe this is
what they should have did for All Star. I don't like the fact because
you're gonna have teams now competing hard to win the Cup and not a title.
Man, he's selective. It's like winning the King of the Ring.
You're not you're not the world champion, but you're the King of the Rings.
They're not a WrestleMania right, But taking consideration, King of the Ring
got us? Who uh said again? King of the ring, got us
who Steve Boston? Yeah look now now here somebody look at like this team
won the cup. So now the second half of the seasons, how all
eyes are on you Detroit? For an example, the Pistons will win the
Cup. For the rest of the season. Our eyes are instantly on the
Pistons. Shout out to Adam Stake you. Shout to Adam Silver for being
a creative genius. Because what this does if a random team wins it,
you now have journeys? What interest in this team? Now? Oh man,
Detroit didn't won the cup. Let me get my tickets if I live
in Detroit, because teams don't start. We know there is only me and
Keith or was it you and I? Were we all see the ticket holders
right at one point we were all seat ticket holders. Uh, let's not
act like when the Bucks sucked. How bad and empty that arena was.
People didn't come, people didn't want to come, couldn't give the tickets a
minute we start winning the minute Brandon Jennings dropped fifty five. What started happening?
Oh, we got some noise. People start buying tickets that come to
the game. So I think it's great I think this is great for a
small mark. I like, I like the ideal of the tournament, but
I just think it should have been replaced the preseason basketball. It's a good
idea, yeah, I mean like a preseason like a preseason battle, like
another another thing. He can make players play harder in the beginning of the
season because you know a lot of players come in playing slouchy. But now
you got something to play for coming in. You know what's playing about?
You go. I don't know if the part that the Vido didn't get.
Every player on the winning team gets half a million dollars. Yeah, they
didn't talk about that. They get half a million dollars. But you know
what they talked about, every player gets, oh my cut cut half a
million dollars. Bro not for charity for them. Yeah, it's a check,
but they still pay taxes on it. Still half a million dollars taxes.
Vegas doesn't have state taxes, so they ain't gotta pay state. You
just gotta pay better. But exactly they brought that up on half. They
brought this up like a college. College do the same thing. College has
little tournaments before the season starts. Yeah, yeah, they he compared it
to that too. I was like, really, Adam, it should have
been like a preseason tournament, like you see that like right after. I
kind of like that better than it's the part that I don't like it.
It's middle. It's the middle of the season. I don't like that.
Yeah. And I put a pole out on Twitter and I was like,
do you all really care if the Bucks are in tournament champions Like, do
you all really care about that? It was like, no, I don't.
I was like, but it does count. The other part that wasn't
mentioned, It does count as a w in their wins. Yes, that
part towards regular season losses do count losses. And this is a regular season,
a regular season games, and they would call towards real regular season,
right, So it doesn't add extra games. It just changes how the games
are. But you know what's funny about that, So the game something,
so the players. So the teams that play on those Fridays and those Tuesdays
in November they count towards. It count toward that regular season, and it
count towards tournament placement. Yes, okay, eighty two games is still being
played. But my thing, this is my thing. Lebron people like Lebron
Kauai. I say those two, I don't want to say I wanted to
pull Lebron. I'll put in their Kawhi. And what's another player anonymous for
just sitting it's just Kauhi but players like him, But players like him who
just like I don't want to play. He injured. But the point is,
like guys who don't want to who want to sit out in regular seasons,
they're gonna play too, Hey, you gotta play Tuesday and Friday.
Like, no, I'm not. I'm not doing that. What you're gonna
do, I'm not playing? Now what? And then it's a waste of
time because if I, even though it counts towards my regular season, if
my record is good at the beginning of November, I don't need to play
a month of this end season term. I don't want to go to Vegas.
I don't want to go to Vegas. I'm good and I go to
Vegas in an all season. But this it's all a part of the regular
season. Still, I know, That's what I'm saying, Like it's already
getting as getting these guys to play sixty five games, like to play sixty
five games now, I was like, they're still playing eighty two games,
but at the same time, it's making you have to play harder in those
games and that month pushing the teams to to to ramp up they play in
that time in the season because if you look at they probably looking at the
stats and analyticals of how teams played going around that time, they're not playing
that good. People don't play until when after what after February January, after
All Star break, after All Star Break, everybody playing. So if you
put this in around the time you putting it in, I can see you're
gonna boost up people's play and you're gonna boost up the ratings for those teams
that would normally have no rating because at that time, are you seeing you
think teams are gonna go a little extra hard to get this turn to get
this because because they think of it like this, if a team, like
he said, like Detroit come in and pop off a couple of them teams
during that time, guess what, that's TV time they're getting do it for
the Cup play that's TV time, that's ticket sales. And let's keep it
mind you said earlier, some of these players are making league minimal so there's
some incentive to say, you know what, I need this bread. You
know what you say, because half a million is still half a million,
you know what, a gentleman. Let's see what happens. Fellas trip right
now, matter of fact, gotta make it. We gotta do something.
Let's see what happens. You bring your old lady with you. Yeah,
we love to man Vegas. I mean what it hain't done down there?
But gam winning, no prossa nah Vegas pressure, Vegas be turning up pressure.
Let's get let's go ahead on man, let's get what. We'll talk
about it. But all right, before we get about here, Buckstalt.
Like I said before, I think the Bucks had the best offseason. Y'all
disagree with me. The band is back together. We signed Chris Middleton.
We resigned Chris for three year, one hundred and two million dollars extension.
We resigned Jake Crowder for one year a veteran minimum, re resigned Brook Lopez
for a two year, forty eight million dollar deal, and resigned free A
Malik Beasley Beasley for two point seven million dollars deal. I say we had
the best off season. I don't see why not I like it. I
like I like to addition to Malie Beas like that he's a young He's a
younger Wesley Matthews exactly. I like, I like Jake growner coming back for
the veteran minimum to see a I'm gonna show yet what I can really do.
Yeah, and I do like to me, I think I correct me
for wrong. But the head coach was at summer League and he was coaching.
Yes, he was okay, So that's how I thought I saw he.
I liked that too. I like that too. Get to know your
players, getting the dude. He needed the Bucks needed some change, and
hopefully this is a change that we needed. It was getting dry over here
for a second. It was it was it was getting dry. And like
I said, I didn't think Lopez is gonna sign. I didn't. I
didn't know Middleton was gonna sign. We're on the streets. He played,
he played Houstons thought they had him. Yep. Yeah, we resigned his
brother too. By the way, speaking of family, the other combo is
still a free agent. His brother famous thon n Yeah, so he to
the free agent. I heard it. He was talking about back to play
in Grease. Look all I know, is this to play? Hey,
I know, is this okay? Like like you said, would even keep
Yan's happy? So that's true. And he got paid for five years he
didn't years, so he got money. I don't know. I just going
home. Remember they still take care of the people, they do, and
they're not citizens, right, Hey, all I know is this next thing?
You know, he on the Knicks. Let's say, let's just say,
but chick giggles. He's with the Knicks. I'm looking at him like,
I wonder what he played Grease Alex. Yeah, is he Yeah?
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