Uh, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, cats and dogs. This
is another episode of ninety four feet podcast. That's your boy, but ezeche
in the building here, my brother Grey, Yo, what's good? Everybody?
Happy summer? My boy Kesey was good, good people, and we
are here. We are coming down to it. The NBA Finals is here.
If you do not know, If you do not know, I think
the lost time we recorded was Game five of Dallas and the Timberwolves. Dallas
gave them a nice spanking. I don't know the score, and I can
recall it. It was. It was bad. All I know is Luca
went off and they could not recover. I'm not surprised. Well, no,
what, I'm sorry, I am surprised. I'm very surprised. I
thought after Minnesota beat Denver they were bound to go to the NBA Finals.
I will say that I thought their NBA final NBA Finals bound, but they
tell them not. And then Boston be Indiana for a handle in a row.
Now, I want to say easily, because they swept them, but
should have won three two of those games actually should have won three. Let's
be honest. I think they should have won like two of those games,
So that game that serious should have went first. I think they should have
won like two of those games. You know, on that topic, since
you mentioned that, I am we were pretty hard on Indiana because we don't
like them. But I wonder if Halliburton played how different it would have been,
because they almost did win game one, they almost won Game two,
they almost won Game three. U. Let's be honest. Boston had to
really earn that game for victory because it was back and forth. It was
never such a blowout. So they won two with they lost two with Halliburt
in the thing, and then they lost two more without Halliburt. So I
don't think Halliburton is the factor into how they're going to win games. You
know what the factor is going to be is them getting more maturity in learning
to take advantage of their leads and and that comes with time. And they're
young. Some of the players on there ain't been there the whole season,
and they kind of lost their balance in the going against Boston, who has
a balance because they play together all year. Indiana is not a horrible team,
they're just young, and I don't like Halliburt, young and cocky.
Yeah, I think they got they gotta they gotta they gotta find they gotta
find a chemistry to get them over the hunk. Yeah, that does with
time. I think that. To me, the difference between Boston and there
difference between Indiana and Boston was Indiana didn't have a closer. And now what
I mean by a closer is somebody who can keep scoring. Man, that's
the maturity part. But I don't know if that's gonna be a maturity part
because if you if you're sick. Because the person so game so three and
four, I think I don't know his name, I'm gonna try to I
disagree. But finished guy, the guy who was carrying them through the first
three fourth orders, like the first four little Bone Thugs and Harmony, Little
Bone Thugs and Harmony from Indiana. He was carrying them in game two and
three and four. He was carrying them all three quarters and they had a
substantial leave. When it came down to that five minutes in the fourth quarter,
Boston like kind of shut him down, and he was making mistakes that
a young player makes. So I get what you're saying, but I still
feel like, even let's say Hallibert was there, I don't think he would
have made the difference as far as them being the closer, because he's not
a closer. He can't score whenever he move, he could just score anything.
That's that's the reason I said. Maturity comes where you know how to
get a bucket and stop the bleeding like a Kyrie. Irvin, he knows
when he got to get a bucket. Yeah, Luca knows when he got
to get a bucket. Tatum, he he kind of knows when it's how
I said, kind of just say all the way. Sometimes he's still he's
still finding his way a little bit too. But I think Drew was giving
them their balance. One thing about Indiana that I think was missing. I
think kind of like the bucks. They need that third scorer if Indiana,
because the people that Indiana did play with, when they went cold, they
went cold. In Game four, it was eight minutes and nine seconds that
Indiana didn't score not one basket, and when God forbid, that's the Golden
State Warriors, right or Dallas with sharpshooters, and they're continuously scoring and missing.
So to me, it seems like Indiana was missing just a small piece.
And we said it, well, Zeke and I said it all year
because you know, you can't be objective Kesey when it comes to the Bucks.
But we said all year it's true what you got to say, well,
because leave me out of it. Zeke and I said this all year.
The Milwaukee Bucks did not want to see Indiana in the playoffs because we
didn't believe they could beat them. And with or without Gianni Is, Indiana
made it look easy. With us in the playoffs, Boston barely beat them.
And I'm gonna say this, I think it leads a segue into your
first topic. I am concerned about the Boston Celtics ability to beat the Mavericks
to win the title. I am very concerned for a lot of reasons.
I don't know we're there yet. We're not there yet. I'll stop,
but I am concerned and I'll share it when we get there. I am
extremely concerned about their ability to beat the Dallas Mavericks because the Boston Celtics,
I have a lot to say about their game play. Well, like I
said, speaking of the Boston Celtics, many would say the Boston Celtics had
an easier path to the NBA Finals. Is this an advantage or a disadvantage?
Going into the series. I think it's a big disadvantage. One of
the things that I see, or that we've all seen with the Boston Celtics
is when they're on, they're on. But when those Cats are off,
oh, they are off, and they are off terrible. Right, for
the first round, they swept, right, they got what's it callor got
one? Boston's only lost two games, right, Boston's only lost two games
this whole series. I think they're twelve and one of Miami and one and
one to Cleveland. Cleveland. Okay, so Miami heat, No Jimmy easy,
Donovan Mitchell sat out what the last two games of that series? Two
games? Yep? Easy? Right, Indiana was hobbled. Indiana was easy
getting there too. No, no, no, no, no, you
can't say that Boston didn't have it easy to say. Indiana they have Giannis,
they had a wishy, washy Dame, and we had a banged up
Chris Middleton. So Indiana's pathway was just as easy as Boston's. Come on,
now, I don't want to say that. Well, it was just
as easy. They took they took, they took what's it called, took
them to seven and I think they took the Knicks to seven. Bronson got
hurt. I think if Bronston didn't get hurt, it might have been it
might have ended differently. And as far as them playing the Bucks, the
Bucks didn't have Giannis. If the Bucks are who we say they are,
they should have been Indiana. It would it should have went to seven,
but they should have been Indiana. But as I think it's as far as
it being a disadvantage or an advantage, I think I kind of think it's
an advantage. You have yet to play the best basketball and you have yet
to be put in the position to uh a position to you. You're scrambling,
per se. They were scrambling. Don't let they were scrambling. Don't
let their twelve and two record fool you in the playoffs because they had to
fight for all those when the only tea they really destroyed really was the Miami
Heat. But like you just said, without Jimmy, without without Jimmy,
I think when when it came to Cleveland, I think I think Donovan Mitch
would have got them one more win, Cleveland one more win, and then
they had Indiana. Indiana is just inexperience. I think that was their only
thing. But I think that it's an advantage because you have yet to play
your best basketball. I think that when you come when you talk about the
East, it was it was it was Boston Milwaukee. It was Boston Milwaukee,
and the Knicks came along towards the end of the season, but it
was really Boston Milwaukee. It was Boston and Milwaukee's to lose. And especially
when uh what's his name? Plus you when NB got hurt and stuff like
that, it was it became a wide on the thing. But to me,
I think it's an advantage just because they have, you have to play
their best basketball. They have yet to have a real challenge or whatever.
And I knew that was gonna happen, actually, but I think it's an
advantage. Casey, take your time. Take your time? What proverb sixteen
three? It's the Bible lab Sorry, really did, Casey? You?
You've been in a dialogue for sixty seconds and I hate said a word.
Really do? It is the first thing you got to say. I did
say something. Man, we talked about this just this recent Yeah, you're
weird talking about this, he said, Casey. You was like, because
I was getting ready, getting ready for Claire, you're sound like your clients,
y'all making lose my whole train of thought dealing with y'all. So I
like your clients anyways, I haven't lost track. Oh Jesus Christ, I
lost whole trying to thought listening to him, the whole BI belong. What
I asked was the Boston Celciers had an easy path to the playoffs to the
finals. I wouldn't say an advantage or a disadvantage. I don't say a
disadvantage, but I do say it's not an advantage or disadvantage. I mean,
it is what it is. Remember we keep saying that every year since
we've been doing this, a lot has got to go right in your favor
to make it to the finals. And this is the type of stuff we're
talking about, injuries and that. But that's shooting. But I'm gonna let
you series, you know what I mean. Like they just had series that
go the way they wanted it to go. But they are number one seed,
just like the different. It ain't no different than when the Bucks one
we was the number one seed. I know, I'm sorry, we number
two seeds, but at the end of the day, we played a injury
of Brooklyn got injured. No, Kyrie didn't play none that series. Harder
got injured that No, he got injured Game one or two that was hard
didn't play that series. No, Kyle didn't play that series. James hard
than the one who got hurt the game. Yeah, didn't play in that
series. Okay, he hurt his ankle in some series that that year we
won anywhere we had a path to the finals, we had we had to
assist that went our way. And that's the same thing with Boston. They
had a path that went their way. So he said it's an easier path.
It's not really easier. It just that's how. That's just how it
is. Ain't no different than when when Jordan went to the finals, he
had a path that went his way. Ain't no different when the Lakers went
to the finals and they wanted with Shaq and Kobe, stuff went they way.
I'm not gonna I usually I'm not gonna let dre tap dance around this.
I'm not gonna let you tap dance tap dance, said I know.
I said, I'm usually tap dance tap dance. Yeah. Later sought out
your shoes. You can't. Yeah, you're not even gonna be just tapped
that. I'm gonna be honest with you. Then all right, we don't
look at it like this. Then all right, they're gonna struggle against Dallas
because you're going against you're going against a prime time veteran and Kyrie and Kyrie,
and then you're going against a Luca who confidence is on one hundred thousand
right now. The performance he put on that last game against Minnesota Lu but
he was balling out the whole shoes. But that last game he was on
one. Oh, he owned, he was on one. Owned, he
owned everybody that guarded him that that game. He was on one. And
he going into the finals on one. And that's something you don't want.
Because Kyrie gonna beat Kyrie. You don't want Luca coming in thinking he owned
one and he gonna get you. I mean, some people say it's the
other way around, you know, because Luca and Tatum cross each other out.
Let's go there, right. I don't know about that, because see
the thing is, with the game on the line, I'm gonna give it
to Luca before I give it the table. I'm just I don't think they
can. I don't think that statistics, but I don't think, Luca.
You know what I'm saying. It's almost balanced. One might be a little
better than the other one some games, but at the end of the day,
they kind of balance each other out. Brown and even go and balance
each other out. It's gonna what Kyrie have halves where he don't even score
but two points, you get what I'm saying. And if Brown do the
same thing, where it's halves where he don't even score, just like Kyrie,
and then he'll come on and have twenty something in the second half,
but still Brown. But Brown is the difference is Brown is a definitive too,
Kyrie is it long, So they're canceling each other out. Basically,
it's gonna boil down to everybody after those four players, who's gonna show up?
Because I think Boston is clearly, clearly the better defensive team by locked
but locked. If Derek White comes out and play the way he been playing
all playoffs, Dallas might have some problems. If my Singers comes back,
they might have some problem. He will be available game one. But Graphic
has been playing some good ball, So I mean you I ain't gonna I'll
get into it. We'll get into it. Later. But number one,
the funny part is Jason Tatum North Jaylen Brown will not be initially guarding Luca.
It's gonna be It's gonna be Drew. He's gonna happen. He's gonna
give Drew some problems. You give him something. Derek White is gonna be
holding Kyrie, and Kyrie is gonna give him some problems initially. Now after
they didn't got balled out all you don't have to switch it up. Who
told you that? Because their guard, their point guards in their shooting guard.
Who told you that? Though? Who told me what that that's what
they want to do. I could just tell Jason Tatum, I'm gonna tell
you like this, if you put Drew on Luca Dallas wins in five,
you don't have that kind of faith in Drew to lock him up because let
me tell you why. Because Luca, Luca is the type of player He's
gonna play at his same pace all the time. He's not going to change
his pace. And that's the same thing that Jimmy Butler does. He plays
at his own pace and he doesn't change his pace. And that's what gives
who Jimmy does change, don't Jimmy do what he do. He bigger,
He just bigger. He take advantage of it, just the same way Luca
does. They take advantage of what they can do, what they're good at.
And that's what Jimmy Butler did to to Drew. He took advantage of
what he was good at, what he could do good at. Against Drew.
He can get him in the paint and he can shoot right over him.
Luca's gonna do the same thing. Sure, mm hmm. You spent
a better chance to putting Drew on Kyrie and slowing him down and putting him
on Luca. Your better bet is to put Brown on Luca. Until Brown
don't worry about scoring it this she'll take them to go nuts. Yeah.
Well, moving on, the same question goes for the Dallas maverage, and
they had a much harder path to the NBA Finals. They were a fifth
seed. They were the first team since the Lakers, since Kobe I don't
know. I think it was sixteen to seventeen where he beat three fifty fifty
win teams in one playoff series on his way to the NBA Finals. He'd
be three teams that won fifty game plus and Luca is the first person to
do that since Kobe, is this a disadvantage or of an advantage going into
the series. They had a nice easy path to Cone. How they have
an easy path? They played a young Oklahoma City Thunder team, young,
very young. They won fifty some games. Here who did they have first
round Clippers, Clippers, No, Kawhi, both sides. That's why I
said. They had a path that that went their way. And then they
got Minnesota after they just put on they had to pour in everything to beat
the defendive champs. Nah No, I'm not giving you that because there's no
way after you beat the champs and this is the fifth seeded team, you
should you'd be like, oh I got this, we got it, NBA
Finals, no problem. That's how Anthony was talking. That's how he should
have been talking. But I say they I said they had Like I said
before each team they had fifty wins plus despite the injuries. Oklahoma had no
injuries. But you say that until your body showed different. You get what
I'm saying. Like this, you tired, You're supposed to be tired.
And if anything, Luca was hurt when they played the Clippers. He literally
was like hey, but what's hurting on you everything? I'm tired, my
body is hurting my leg I think he had like some knee issues or something
like that. Kyrie and Kyrie was Kyrie was pouring it on that series.
Kyrie was not going ham like that. He didn't go hammer, but he
poured it on enough to keep them in the game. All Luke had to
do is hear some shots here and there, Like Luca wasn't still leading team
in scoring though he was. But but when you got a guard like Kyrie
right next to you, put that can pour it on and give you a
break here and there because you know your body is hurting. Who did Anthony
Edwards have to give him a break? Anthony Edwards was. Anthony Edwards was
burnt out. He needed somebody to step up and give him a break.
Cat didn't do it, and and and Rudy didn't do it. Nas Reed
didn't do it. All of these players that everybody was talking about was this,
this, and that. When it came down to Anthony Edwards needing them,
you couldn't find him. I don't cashing lines with bait. I.
What I say to that is this, when I agree with that, I'll
agree with that a little bit, because when Anthony is off, you do
have to, like other guys step up, and those guys weren't stepping up.
So I will give you that. But to say that they're they ship
like this is how because you're talking about two teams who who are I ain't
gonna say equally, but they they rolled the same path. They had to
beat Minnesota, had to be Phoenix, who they swept and they beat.
Then they played Denver where they took the seven games, and then now they
had to play Dallas, who they took the with the five games. Anthony
Edwards setting himself in post game, I need to do better. I needed
to get my training up, even though he knows even though I should be
tired right now, I shouldn't be this tired. I should have been able
to keep up with Luca and with Kyrie, even though you're you're talking about
too one is a super star and the other one is, I want to
say, a pass superstar. I just think he has a bad rap,
but he's still a superstar. Yeah. So when you talk about how like
they both had a I mean both these teams had a Minnesota Timbers in the
Boston So's had an easy path. I wouldn't say that. I would say
they had a I think Minnesota, not Minnesota. I think Dallas had a
rougher path with dealing with getting through all the stuff they had to deal with.
What is Minnesota coach name? I don't know, dude that broke his
leg Finch, Finch, Finch or something like that. Finch series for them,
I don't think. So. Why you say that? You know why,
anytime you change your offense up and you make Rudy Gobert post up,
you're going to lose. He had to think about this, think about it
like this. Out of all the games we watch with Minnesota, how many
games have you seen the offense was based around who Gobert posting up? No?
I actually he should never be posting up. He should be only getting
buckets that are near the like near the rim, so I should never be
guarding Luca. My only problem is he's I watched this and then watched this
for those last three games straight. Mm hmmm. Because because Rudy had Luca
on him, they called themselves trying to take advantage of that right and making
Rudy post up, but it really only slowed them down and made them lose
instead of them just kept playing the way they were planning it, the same
way they were playing against Denver or what was off off? Then you put
Cat in the post and now who that Now, now Luca, Luca was
was owning him too. But the problem is who listen. And then the
problem with it is is like you got Cat throwing the all into Rudy.
Now who is that? Who the hell should be throwing the ball to?
Who Rudy should be throwing the cat or Cat should be throwing the Rudy Neither
one of those things should be happy. It should be Cat is the second
best player in that team. Cats should be give me the ball. I
see you all, give me the ball. I go to work. He
should be, and he did not do that. He should be telling Rudy,
get your big old ass over there and get and get out of my
way and let me go to work. Exactly. He didn't do that.
You know what he did, toss the ball, dumped him the ball in
the post every time Luca was on him. He scored here every now and
again. But it wasn't efficient enough to help them win games. So that's
why they lost games. They went away from what they were good at transition
defense. And they couldn't hold Luca, but they couldn't hold Joker either,
or they couldn't hold up Murray. But Murray got locked up, but you
forced him into tougher shots. To help you out. I'm gonna go on
the other and you transition in order to help your defense out. Because the
more you transitioned on that Dallas, the more you would have You would have
put your foot in Dallas's neck because Dallas don't play defense like that. You
was set, you was. You were sitting there letting Grafford sit in the
paint and slap your damn shot all game. He was blocking Cat shot like
Cat was one of us. I'm going to go on the reverse side and
say I I hear everything you said. I just think Minnesota because they had
to work so hard to get there. Right, Minnesota sweat Phoenix, which
we were all shocked about. Right, let's just call it with no one
expected them to sweep no Phoenix suns. I thought so you they didn't.
You had Minnesota in six. I thought the Minnesota. I thought they would
be Phoenix. They sweet. I still had Phoenix winning even when it went
down to Oh, I'm like Jon k d but knowing who Kevin Durant is
shouldn't surprise any of us. They had to come back what no, they
had, Yes, they had to. They were up three to zero and
literally had to come back and defend themselves and play four more hard fought games
against the defending champions. So I think Minnesota by the time it got to
Dallas, Minnesota is not as quick as people think they are. Edwards is,
but Minnesota offensively, they don't move too quick. Dallas moves quickly.
Guarding Kyrie and Luca was a problem for Minnesota. Anthony Edwards was held to
season low numbers all series against the Dallas Mavericks. You can tell he was
tired. I think he put too much pressure on himself. And Dallas did
something that no one else has been able to do with these two players all
season. They kept their big men in foul trouble Cat filed out what two
of the of the game against Minnesota, Rudy filed out in a few of
the games, and Dallas created so many mismatches that Dallas had this in the
bag. A lot of people think that it's a mismatch if Zeke is guard
if I'm guarding Zeke because I'm short, right, But it works both ways.
It was a mismatch for both of those bigs to be on Luca.
It was a mismatch. No one could hold Kyrie, not one person on
that Minnesota team. So it comes back to Minnesota and experience. That's why
they lost because Minnesota played. They played hard. But we also seen.
If anyone questions if Anthony Edwards is the guy, I tell you he is
absolutely the guy, because we saw what happened when he doesn't score thirty or
more. I mean, they lose. I don't think he's the guy,
but they lose badly. I'll say this. I ain't gonna say he's not
the guy. But you know, now, at first, I was like,
if you make it to the NBA Finals, we might have to look
at this Jordan thing. But now that's when the curse started. That's what
he started losing with. Y'all start calling that man, Mike, that's when
the curse started. Y'all quit. But like I said before, Jordan and
his playoff career high was in a losing series. So they'll probably be back
next year. We'll see what happens. I don't know man. One of
the things that I am singing in the NBA and let the record show,
I am very happy for the Boston Celtics. I'm very happy for the Dallas
Mavericks. As a longtime Bucks fan, as a Steph Curry fan, as
a guy that hated the Super Team era, you we all got to admit.
We let's all admit it is nice to see different people in the finals
for a change, not really besides the Bucks. It is nice to see
that it's not Lebron. It's nice to see that it's not Steph Kirk.
I like seeing Stephan Brown in the finals. They put on shows in the
finals. I don't You don't like to put shows. Lucas will put on
the show. Kyrie will put on the show. We're going to see.
You want to see what Kyrie has really made of I don't want to see.
I don't want to see Boston nothing. I don't want to see.
This is a surprise. This is redemption for Kyrie. If Kyrie can pull
this off and put on a finals m v P type of series, he
can rejuvenate Kyrie. Kyrie is already rejuvenating. What are you talking about?
A star you know what I'm talking about his reputation. His reputation. I
think his reputation of not having no issues for the whole season and playing in
some fantastic basketball all season and go to the finals and put on a show.
Well, here's the thing. He's going to get paid and people are
going to have already got and he's going to get respect. You already got
that that he deserves. I think a lot of people are going to change
their minds about Kyrie. I will say that since Kyrie left Boston, he's
owing ten. So rather that's regardless. You know, he he was with
Brooklyn ten and what owing ten and they played Boston's own ten and then remember
they have a personal Vandelic for him stumping on the logo, stomping on the
logo and stuff like that. So since he stopped the logo, he's been
on in ten. So I mean, I'm not but no time titles have
been on the line either. That's true too. Iri is the only player
in these finals that but him and Holiday that have won a title. Yeah,
but Boston has experience in the NBA finals losing with Jason Taylorm losing,
It's still experienced losing. It's still experience, but it's losing, is it
not? Is it not? I know why you're saying it. Why because
because they who they lost to. I get it, but they still experience
really lose, and when it's still experienced. This said, this is going
to come down to coaching. Jason Kidd versus Joe Missoula. It's gonna come
down to the stars showing up. It is, and it's going to come
down to who will play forty eight minutes of basketball? Luca get ready to
play the whole game because Dallas has a rotation. No, I don't think
Here's the thing. I don't think. No, I don't really don't get
into it right now. But but Luca doesn't need to play a whole forty
eight minutes. Kyrie doesn't need to play a whole forty eight minutes. This
is this is gonna come down to. I think this is gonna come down
to rotations if anything. But they should be playing a lot of minutes and
they know that. You know what I think is interesting? I saw on
one of the sports pages I follow, did y'all know that Kyle Kuzma had
a chance to go to Dallas this year? He turned and turned it down
and said they weren't a contender. I got some even better for you.
And now they're in the finals, I got some even better for you.
Grant Williams was on both these teams, both of these teams at one point
in time this season. So he'll get a ring no matter who win.
Are you sure I thought you'd get a ring after you play so many games
for a team. He didn't play that many games with Dallas. He didn't
play at least forty. I don't think he did. Okay, so he
will not He will watch these NBA. He's a clown. He will get
a ring either way he participated in any games of that season, he gets
a ring. Not any game, not Boston. There's a certain amount of
games. I think play a certain game, because who wasn't somebody who said
somebody from the Bucks championship that did the same thing, but they were playing
for somebody else and got a ring. Brant Williams is eligible for a ring
with the Celtics. Wait wait, wait, wait wait, wait, let's
see here. Let's see him in case he did not play in the preseason
or the regular season. So Boston does not have to give him a ring,
Boston does not if if the Mavericks win it this year, Williams played
forty seven games and is eligible for a ring. He's eligible. He's eligible
for Dallas. Boston can offer him one, per the article, but because
he didn't play one game, they technically don't have to offer because he didn't
even play preseason with Boston. When did he? He got traded to Dallas
before the season started, and then they traded him to Charlotte. Yeah,
because he got I canna say he got into it with Luca, but he
was He's a clown. He's a clown. He's a Patrick Beverly want to
be, but just not as good on defense. Mm hmmmm. Clown.
But so, who who's going to be the best player going into the series?
Luca? So was Grant Williams another player that overvalued himself, no value.
I don't think he I think he's immature, he didn't think along.
He didn't get along with the right person. Because the only reason Boston traded
him is because I thought it was because the type of money he was looking
for. So Boston was like, we're not giving you that type of money.
I say, he kind of was a nuisance in the locker room,
and then he went to Dallas. Team was the same thing, talking trash,
coming to the podium, talking smack about players. He just didn't He
had that one breakout series against who the Bucks and then just thought he was
God's gift. But to answer your question, man, the most important player
is Luca is Luca? I said, who was the best player? He's
better than tain him, Luca. Who's the what best player? I said
Luca too, But you said Kyrie Kyrie. I'm listening. Why Luca is
hungry. I get, I get, I get he's hungry. But Kyrie
is a whole another animal. Dude, if you look at it, dude
is a problem and he can win one with all Lebron. I think that's
important for him. Kyrie is going to come into this series and and put
on a show because because if you think about it, when Bron won,
he is with him, Kyrie the one who was hitting them big shots.
Was Is there a chance that Brian and Briani go to Dallas. No,
Kyrie said that he wants to play with Lebron again before the career is over.
He did say that, and it's going to happen, so what is
so they gotta go this. They dropped him in fifty five, So listen,
Actually he got invited to thirteen different teams for workouts, right, and
who do you work out for? He only worked out. He only worked
out for the Lakers and the Phoenix Suns. He people even know what he
look like now, huh look like clown look like, but we don't know
what he what he does. It's almost like they planned this this way for
them people not to know what he looked like. Like, why because every
every superstar that you know of they went to their workouts. Why don't he
go to the workouts? Because he's Bron's son, He's he's he's riding the
Bron name to the bank. Come on, let's list back it off.
Because we talked about it last week. Listen. I hope we talked about
it last year. I hope Brody come in to do something he ain't because
if he don't, he won't. With the way they carrying about him,
you would think Jordan or something. They were gonna dog him out so bad,
and I don't. It's going to go so ham want to go som
No, No, everybody's gonna everybody has been keeping it light with Briani,
and they're going to continue to keep it light with Briannie because they know what
happens when you go when you happen. You talk about Lebron, Ladron James
or his family and it's fine, I get it, but let's not act
like we don't know what this is. But really quickly though, so I've
seen this. I've seen it this morning on my way here. The Boston
and the Detroit Pistons owner or GM has a son in college and he is
going to he's going to the draft. This man averaged zero point seven points
a game. Noah'sists, one point two rebounds. He entered the draft.
Why his father is the GM of the Detroit Pistons is he Have you seen
them play? Though? What you need to see with zero points? Zero
points? I'm just saying, have you have you done any research to see
why? He haven't done any research. I have never seen him play.
He's average zero point seven. At least Briani can get you three more than
that. My point is this, it's a lot of what what's what I
say? Zero? It's a lot of that going on around in the league,
and I wish I was zek I would totally try out forty and then
this is this, yeah, I know somebody, And then this is the
draft because this is a really weak draft, so this will be the time
for if you're if you sucking, you know somebody this is and here's why.
Who are the Lakers that's making trade with? They made a trade with
New Orleans. New Orleans told the Lakers to keep the first round pick.
Don't let them keep it because the draft class is so terrible. He said,
no, you keep it because it was a protective pick, and they
get to choose if they wanted this one or the next two seasons, take
the next And my thing is this, with your first round pick, go
ahead, drive Brownie, and then go ahead and bite the bullet, bite
the criticism. They have to set that though. Yeah, the Lakers gotta
take it. It's part of Anthony Davis. Part of Anthony Davis tight.
I know, but I'm saying, like, I know, I remember the
trade, but I'm saying, like, is it that they get two picks,
They get to pay, they get their first round, get their first
round pick, and they get to choose. So if they didn't want it
this year, they can say nope, keep it will take the next season,
and they already told them that they'll keep it. Y'all can keep it,
y'all can keep it. We'll take twenty five because this draft is pretty
weak. The next couple of drifts is gonna be looking like that. But
they have they can say it again. They can say we don't want this
one the next week, many years, gonna keep push in the back.
It's it's a it's an un It's a protective first round pick that gives the
uh New Orleans Pelicans the right to decline or protect up until twenty twenty nine.
That's why we always say they always giving up everything for the future.
Like the Bucks. We don't got to drive pick to twenty twenty freaking nine
a first round draft pick, but we got dang. But anyway, back
to the question, who's the most important player in the final who already said
it? Kyrie? I said Luca, He said Loka. I got Kyrie,
No Tatum, no Jaylen Brown, Jalen Man. He too. Wish
fact that he won Eastern Conference m v P. He should have. It's
a slapping tatums he should have. This is low key. This is no
longer about to be Tatum's team. Tatum is about to get that reputation of
Camarlo, Anthony k D and those guys who can shoot really well. And
that's it. Oh you can shoot. Okay, they scores. They're not
shooters, they're scores. They can score. And that stuff gets play it
out real quick, like five six years all right, Okay, this is
what you are. He wouldn't even top five MVP voting for a reason.
I'm gonna tell you, like this, Kyrie is going to be the factor
of the finals. I don't know if Kyrie is gonna be that guy.
Dude, he's a magician when he get the ball in the he's like the
stuff, the stuff he does, how he the stuff he does with the
ball, how he makes his layup, his handle. I get what you're
saying. I agree with you, but I think the maturity of Irving the
best part of it about Irving. His maturity in those games when he was
in Cleveland, he was making those big shots and stuff like that. He
thought in his head, I'm better than Lebron, so I can make this
shot. Yeah, ky The new Kyrie is like, you know what,
this is Luca's team. I'm just here to help him along the way.
So if it comes down to it and he he's guarded, Like when I
think it was a buzzer beat. Everybody was talking about that Kyrie made against
Denver during the season. Kyrie would go get that ball, but because Luke
it was covered and he made that shot with his left hands. So on
and so forth. But that's what I'm saying, like, and that's what
a good Robin does. But that don't get it twisted. That's still Lucas
team. It doesn't steel back. It's still going to take the fact away
that Kyrie could be better. To me. I mean, at the end
of the day, Miami was Wade team, but Lebron was the king,
was the batman. Different than it was Kobe's Kobe's team, it was Shacks
team. It was Shack. It was Shacks team. It was Kobe's team,
but Shaq was the better person at the time. It was it was
Shacks. It was Kobe team. Because who got traded and why did he
get traded? Because Kobe didn't want him, didn't want them, because everybody
was saying the same thing because it was because it was Kobe's team. This
is my team. That's what players do who team it is the Alladay.
No, they get old. They running by him. Hey, he's want
to run. His value is what we do. Listen, come on,
we have we have to there and has a little Lebron in them. This
is the fourth coach you got? You got three coaches fire man, Come
on, man, he got three coaches fired. He got his brother a
spot on the team. His bumps brother in the words that he got his
brother on the team. Don't say he fired, he got you. He
coaches fired and fired. Those coaches got fired for legitimate reasons. Lebron coaches
get fired after a winning season. You gotta winning season, you get fired.
That you a fool if you think that both coaches on the payroll.
Thanks Giannis. Anyways, So I actually was the best player in going into
the series. Who's the most impactful player in going to the series? Two
different things. Now, impactful player, I'm gonna give you Kyrie and I'm
gonna give you Drew Holiday, one for each team because they've won titles.
Drew Holiday defensively, there is no better player on the court defensively in these
finals than Drew Holliday. Do you think you can held Krie? I do
I do listen. Just because you get a bucket or two on them and
there's a height advantage doesn't mean listen. We saw Holiday do it with Booker.
We saw him do it just last round with whomever from Indiana say that
say that part, okay, we saw him do it with a lot of
star studied players. He's gonna be holding to Luca, and Luca's gonna give
him some Luca is going to give him problems, but Kyrie, but Holiday
will hold his own. I think defensively, Holiday is the most important I'll
say that for Boston, but I think Kyrie is going to be the most
important player because here's the thing. People think they got the playbook figured out.
Just pass it to Luca, like the episode of Fresh Prince. Just
pass it to Will. Just pass it to Will, pass it to Luca.
I think people are going to think that Kyrie is gonna I think Kyrie's
gonna be left open more than he normally would. I don't think they'll play
a lot of one on one against Kyrie. And I think if you leave
Kyrie open, don't get it twisted. He's not the greatest shooter, but
Kyrie can be a bucket If he needs to be. So I'm gonna say
Kyrie is probably gonna be the most impactful player because Kyrie also has. What
I can appreciate about Kyrie is his maturity in the game. He is becoming
more mature in the game, and the way I've seen Kyrie play this season
has been very calmon and I think he'll bring that common championship approach to the
game. And it starts in Boston, right because Boston what their number one
and whatever in Boston, two in Dallas and then goes back and forth.
Yep, two to one one two two two one one one. Kyrie is
the best player going in and Luca is going to be the most impactful to
me because Luca can establish himself as a face now off of this, Kyrie
has been there and done it, so we know he's better because he's been
there and he's hit shots in the finals. Luca's never been to the finals,
never hit one shot in the finals. Yet he gotta go to the
finals and prove himself. Kyrie has proven he can hit shots in the finals
and hit big shots in the finals and get a ring off the finals,
and would have had more if him and Kevin Love didn't get hurt that year
against Golden State. Said what I say, So you know what I'm saying.
So Luca has will have the most impact. Kyrie is the best player
going into this finals. I have PJ, PJ Washington, Kyrie, PJ,
Luca gonna get You're gonna Kyrie gonna get his, Lucas gonna get his.
You just said that, you said they gonna get there, and you
said Jaylen Brown, Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum crossed them out. So who's
gonna be the other guy that's gonna step up? It has to be PJ
Washington because PJ Washington was the guy who was the X factor against uh the
Clippers, and he's the X factor somewhat against Minnesota because when when those guys
were off, they were getting the bucket the ball to TJ. Washington.
But he's gonna be that, He's gonna be the most pacful, He's gonna
be the x facts. Okay, then if we go on to that,
then PJ and Derek White gonna have to be the most fact impactful players.
Yeah, I agree. I can agree with that. Derek, whoever,
whoever has a better series between them two is going to be basically the champs.
I can get. I can agree with that. I can agree because
if if, if, what what's it? Calling? Has? They?
They got drewd p his ingis. But I feel like this and I was.
The more I watched the Boston series, the more it kind of came
to me as far as going back to the Bucks. When we were we
were asking for Drew to do a lot with very little. When he when
when uh when when Giannice went down and Middleton went down, he was like,
Drew, you up next. Drew's not scoring thirty, we know that
he can win. He who Holiday? They ain't even scoring fifteen? You
know what it is though? Shooting and shooting is streaky. That's the problem
with Drew, That's what I'm saying. But my point is that once you
if you, if you take him, let's say, let's say he has
a bad defense. Just what I say about Drew. He keeps playing.
So if he's having a bad shooting game, he's just gonna make it up
on the defensive end. That's what we liked about Drew, and I think
Boston likes that at Drew too. But don't get when when he comes to
Boston he's the fourth option. So listen, don't tell me you running with
that narrative about the Bucks and Drew. That what that we miss Drew and
we need him. Yeah, I am a defense win championship. Do you
think, okay, take take take Dame out of that, do you think
the Luxure still would have won, would have lost to Indiana exactly? So
Drew was a problem for us too, because because if it's streaking, it's
streakly shooting. But this is and that. But you hear what I said
about is being hurt and Middleton be hurt. If Middleton, let's just say,
for our argument sake Middleton and let's say let's say let's say Giannis is
out and Middleton is hitting. I'm confident in Middleton and Drew. Combo.
Combo, I'm confident that that could be Indiana because Drew's gonna lock up somebody.
He may not get it done on the offensive end, but he's gonna
lock up somebody like holly Bert, all that, all that bs he was
doing lock up. I doubt it because he did the same thing against them,
he did against thing against who Boston the first two games he played.
So that doesn't that don't change anything, and he was doing that on Derek
White Andrew. So at the end of the day, Drew leaving us was
on a plus or minus. We was kind of neutral one. But he
just it just it just so happened. He he got on the team that
had the right path that he helped get there. I think either way go,
Boston's in the finals right now, Drew there or not Boston is in
the finals? Do you think hands down, I think it's a tougher role.
But yes, I do agree it's a tougher role. But I agree
because Derek White is there, is there acts factor after Brown and Tatum to
me lose him in the offseason because they can afford to pay off four all
right, Tatum, Tatum wants a big contract. They already gave Holiday a
major contract, all right. Jaylen Brown is breaking the banks. Is breaking
the bank. I mean, ain't got enough for White. They don't have
enough White unless he takes a big discount. And let's be honest, the
White right now is coming off like James Harden did. Like when James Harden
was a sixth man over in OKC and showed everybody that he needs to be
running a team and a starter of a team. Derek White is on his
way to becoming a superstar. But just a little bit off topic, y'all,
bro, you gotta you acting like Derek White is not on the NBA
All First Defensive Team. A little bit of off topic though. I watched
the Big Three draft. They got a draft. Yeah, it was so
off ice Cube teams. Yeah, they they commentary with off they on CBS
this year. Yeah they they went to Chicago, but they ain't doing the
tour in Chicago this year. It was it was it almost seems I don't
even want to say the word ghetto. Yeah, I c cop then they
it was almost like the commentary was like they didn't even know how the show
was even gonna go, Like they didn't even plan it out all, but
like they didn't get a script for it for the show. It was like
they almost like freelance it, like us, Wow, you watched it.
I can't believe I watched it because I wanted to see how they draft went
draft. I think they just signed people. I ain't so the only team
that said is that just run with it. Look you know what it is
though? What so with Big Three, the only team that has to run
it back with the same team as the team who wins the whole thing.
Other team you can either you can sue the n B A and one.
You can drop two players, or you and pick up two players, or
you can drop one player and pick up one player. That's how they draft
work. So like say, like they got four six people on the team,
they can drop two of those and then pick up two in the draft.
I know we're talking about that. The only reason I watched it,
and what made me really watch it was Larry Sanders. He playing in the
Big Three. He played last season too. He's a ren protector, that's
it. And I've seen him fow somebody real hard. So that's what made
me watch it. So I watched that referees or they call their own call
horse. So I watched that clip of him put I watched the clip of
him pushing somebody out the air, right, And that's how I got to
the draft. So you watched it because you love violence. No, I
wanted to know why. I didn't understand why. I couldn't figure out why
you push dude out? They are like that. I just know that Number
one. They used to do like a tour they still doing a tour,
but their goal is to have a league where they travel to each city that
they have a team in, which is very injurying. I didn't know they
sue the NBA either. Yeah, they sue them because NBA tried to kind
of muscle them out of some some advertising. But uh, like they would
cut off retired players from going there. Yep, like you know how they
play like you you don't get you don't get your pension if you go play
basketball, if you go play the Big Three specifically, they they're not.
They didn't letting that ride. So I was like, huh so, no,
players that retire can't go play the Big now they disagree with they actually
Big Three won? Yeah. Uh well, this NBA Finals determined who's the
new face of the NBA. No, No, the the stars were hurt.
Nothing else left to be said. You mean to tell me real quick?
You mean to tell me if let's say to Boston. So just winning
the NBA Finals, Jason Tatum is not the new face in the NBA as
long as Lebron Giannis and Steph are playing in this game, they're not even
No, I'm gonna stick with my note. Luca maybe because Luca was a
finalist for MVP Top three. Luca has the best, say Jayalen Brown.
I don't think it makes him the face. I think it makes him finally
earn that big old paycheck he's getting. I don't think nobody who's going to
the finals can be the face of the league Luca. They can be highly
advertised, but to be the face. I don't see that type of generational
talent out of anybody going to the finals. Luca, Luca, Lucas decent.
I ain't gonna lie Lucas good, but he's European at the end of
the day. That means why he's gonna be the face. So is Joker,
so is Gianni's. But they're not the face of the league right now.
Yes, it's still in the hands of Bron and currying them. I
agree it has Jokers. The baton has not been passed. If you look
think about it, like we knew one the baton was pasted to Kobe.
We knew when the baton was past Lebron. We knew when the baton was
pastor Jordans. We knew that you know you. We don't know that though,
So people are saying that Joker. First of all, just okay,
I answer your question. I ask the question, are you when I say,
because we had this discussion before, about the long discussion, long discussion,
and why not you need to tell me who is to you? Who
is the face of the league right now? Lebron James, Lebron James,
one, don't tap dance out of it. Who's the face of the league
right now? Lebron? Still all right? Cool? Joker? Mm hmm
the face? Yes, no, he's not the face ship. But remember
what I said, and I'm on, hold on, I'm only picking up
one because you said so. But remember I told you there are faces of
the league. It's not just one thing is like is Lebron, Staff is
Joker? Is Yiannis? So my thing is Luca? Who what makes you
the face? Like? What what are the qualifications that make you the face
TV time? You mean selling tickets? We've already went through. Let's not
do this again, bro, I think we have to do it again.
I think that you we never went over what the what the qualification? Because
we all had three very different different things to say, and y'all were jumping
down my throat talking about it ain't just about economics. I said, it's
absolutely about economics. Economics is on there. I will put equal equal economics,
economics is on there, economic impact is I will give you that.
But my thing about that is this, you can't be those Winning is a
big part of it because if you're not winning, how can you be the
face? Because if that's the case, LaMelo Ball is the face. Because
these young kids are teen and between teen and fifteen, sixteen years old,
LaMelo LaMelo is the best player. You've seen him with that behind the back
popular Okay, I get that, But at the end of the day,
when it bails down to it. From age five to fifty, you know
who Lebron James is, you know who Steph Curry is, you know who
is you know who Luke is, you might know who Joker is, and
you might know who you might might cac Every time when you're in that five
to hold on in the five to ten, in that age of five to
twelve, they don't look at Luca and Joker them like you think they do.
People look at people. I'm telling you, and I went to my
just and what made me realize is I went to my kids presentation. M
hmm, and all of the boys in his closet, the presentation on athletes,
right of course, and either they picked Kobe or Lebron. My son
picked Lebron, not Brook. I'm surprised, listen. I didn't help him
with that at all. Lebron he did all of that on his own.
I didn't even know who his person was. I've heard him talk about it
every now and again, but I never really grasp that that's who he was
doing his whole presentation on Preston. You get to go to the Lebron game
with me next year when he comes, so you can have daddy's ticket.
That's fine. I'm sorry you have ticket because he's grounded until he comes to
an average. But that just goes to show me that Lebron is still the
face because Kobe is not here too. Is that popularity? Like said,
but he has the biggest economic impact. So all the faces of the n
B A I don't need to I don't need you, but hold but even
going to our even going to the fact that thinking about us a basketball who
are they going to talk about the most Steph Curry and Lebron When you go
to Jersey sales, who has the most sales Lebron and Curry. When you
go to shoe sales right now, outside of Jordan's, we're not gonna say
Jordan's because that's different. I got pass for the USA game and I only
want to see and that's a whole that's a whole new era in itself,
the Jordan's. But outside of outside of Lamellos, the Brons and Curry sell
outs to well, there's a lot of there's a lot of different criterias and
wet but we have to acknowledge that Luca is a face of this sport.
And if he wins, lucas getting all the covers. He's getting the video
game cover, He's getting the Sports Illustrated cover, and you better make sure
bet your list dollar that they will find a way to get Luca that MVP
next season. Let him win it this year. Let him win it this
year. They're already they already got a Christmas game coming, They already got
a Christmas Day game coming, right because they won the Western Conference, right,
Luca is already one of the leading vote getters in the All Star Game.
He has more prime time games than any other European player out there,
including Luca. Okay, so if anybody has a chance to be the face
after this. If Boston wins, I don't think they're a face. You
know why, why Because they're boring. What they're boring to watch compared to
Luca and Dallas. Lucas a cry baby, but Boston is boring to watch.
Boston is born to because they ain't playing about this playoffs. I'm not
gonna hold you they didn't play. Anybody play If you want somebody to pay
attention. If they lost, if they went to Game seven with Cleveland,
we all be watching. If they went the game six with Indiana, and
we all be watching. But because they boring, because they blew them out.
I don't want to say boring. I think it is a little extreme
as far as the face goes very interesting. I just feel like I feel
like Luca. I feel like Luca will be the face. And I feel
like if Boston wins, it depends on how they win. If Jason Tatum,
if he takes if he takes a strive where he undeniably is the best
player on the court, I think you're gonna see something there. I think
you're gonna see the NBA really pushing for him to be the next guy up.
I mean he can be. But at the end of the day,
right now, until Bron and Steph retired, they're the faces the face.
But here's the thing about that. Here's the thing about them being the face.
I will agree with you that they are the most popular. And if
you ask somebody who, if you ask a woman, hey, do you
know who Lebron? They know who Lebron James is. They know who Steph
Curry is. If they in Milwaukee, they know who Giannis is the most
like we're in Milwaukee. If you go to cala, if you go to
California, you be like, yeah, I know Jannis. I want him
in LA. What do you smoke it? They want him in LA.
In New York, these are from basketball perspectives. They don't act like they
want him in Both of those act like I can't go to New York and
find ten people who'll be like, yeah, I'll pick Mellow over Bro.
No, he gets more chairs than the next I'll the fans be waiting for
the game to be over to shower Jannis, what are you talking about?
What I'm saying is this, And then Janis is Flowers. You don't want
to try to kick his brother off the team and piss him off. But
you want to give his flyer's business, that's business, defan of me.
You can get your flowers with popularity. What you take Janni's on your knicks?
Chrassey would Okay, okay, we're talking about faces of the league.
One and top the top five selling jerseys. Jason Tatum, well number one
of Steph. After that it's Jason Tatum, then after that is Lebron James
and then it's Victor Those were the top selling jerseys. But that's crazy though,
a year twenty twenty two and what you're someone that brought it up.
This is my fault, my fault. You know what that brought this Your
even brought his family here. They're talking about my son didn't report. Yeah,
I didn't even break his bloodline. It bro what it was about raising
him wrong. It was an honest truth talking about facing the league though.
We whether you want to admit it or not, he's the face I just
so the top selling jerseys this year, which also makes you the face that's
a part of it. Don't act like that's the face. You just popular.
You just popular. So I forget eat the top five you ready Steph
Curry number one, Lebron number two, Tatum number three, Victor number four,
Johannis number five, and number six. We'll just stop at six.
Is Luca okay? So all of those in their own rights. Joker is
thirteen, so fine, I'll go through them seven through eleven, Booker eight,
Kevin Durant nine, Dame Lillard ten, Tyrese, Maxey eleven, Moran
eleven, Moran, dude, the YNG kids love Maxi twelve, Embid thirteen,
Joker fourteen, LaMelo fifteen. Brunt said, but here's what's interesting,
though, if you go down to the top selling team, Oh, of
course it's gonna be Lakers number one. The Lakers. Number two is Boston.
Number three is Golden State. Number four is the Milwaukee Bucks. Yeah,
we support our teams, but we don't. We were hats and you
yeah, so you got a Chicken. I even realized you you had a
Chicago White Sox. They played this weekend too, when the Brewers won three
games to the don't do that. My point is not a Yankee, so
you can't say it. Go with the fit. Oh yeah, it's not
a Dodgers. You could you could maybe even do a dog you heard,
you heard what you heard what Jay said, you heard what Jiga said.
Jordan's black hat, black shirt, black What are you talking about? Tom
O l A. Compton? Oh and you have brow Ice Gill, but
we played. If you're gonna go that round Toime, I put on some
chucks too. You should have. You should have, and you might as
well two step with it, not like work off topic. Hear. My
thing is we didn't talk about the face. We did talking about it.
We did talk about numerous of ways you can say the face. Lebron James
be in the face. I don't know if he's the face anymore. Honestly,
feel like he's just the most popular person in the league, and you
had to be. You gotta be deaf, blind and almost stupid to not
know who Lebron James is. He's been doing it for twenty years now.
Steph Curry, Lebron James, KB, They're part of a class that is
slowly but surely fade in a way. I agree. So you can't,
you can't. I don't want want to say you can't. Even That's why
when they come out with it, they come out with two lists every year.
The number one ranked player or the top ten or top twenty five,
top fifty. They come up with rankings every year and then it comes with
the under twenty five, top twenty five, under twenty five. Number one
for the last consecutive maybe like two three years, maybe even four years,
long as he's been in the league. Actually honestly has been Luca. There's
been number one been Luca. Number two is either Ben Tatum. If the
Tatum's not number two, he's been number three, he's been number He's in
that top five. So we're talking about two guys who are in the top
five under twenty five, and then we're also talking about two guys who are
also in the rankings of top ten of being the best players in the league.
So that's why I brought this topic up. But I just for you
to bring up Curry and Lebron. I think they're the most popular. I
don't know that the faces of the league. That's just mine. Faces of
the league still, regardless of how you look at it, and if you
really want to get get jiggy with it. Yeah, and the commentator who
don't bring up Broun in any conversation and final and not even then his finals
and he's still getting the conversation. I know the feeling. So it is
what it is. I mean, Lebron know how to get talked about.
I give him that. This podcast you telling, I don't care if you
like it or not. That is what I say to that I watch.
I watched two things every morning, well almost every morning. First take and
uh, what's the what's your storf with Greenee? Come on with who with
Greenie? Mike Greenee part no interruption? Get up, get up, get
up, get up? In first take? Now, here's the thing about
that number one. You always got to talk about three teams. Los Angeles
Lakers the Dallas Cowboys. Those are the two teams you always have to bring
up the matter, what the situation is, what's going on. You always
have to bring those two takes. I can't wait to see. Yeah,
I can't wait to y'all lose. I'm see how much love Jordan Love gonna
be getting for his sophomore season alone. I got the fifth party schedule this
year. They and the Bears is gonna this is it? You know now
the Bears. We will ever own the Bears. So uh, let's go
Championship predictions and then finals MVP predictions. I am going to preface and don't
interrupt me QUI beating around it, but just let mere gonn tap dance.
Let me make my stakes. Gonna let me tap dance. I don't tap
dance. I feel the disc can go either way. There you go all
time, New Years tap dance, Then you go either way. But I
am picking. I'm gonna say this. If they don't get it done this
year, they Jason Tatum will never win a title. I'm going with the
Boston Celtics and seven. I think this series has the potential to go the
long haul, and I think home court's going to matter. So I'm going
with Boston in six or seven and the MVP. I am going to give
it to Jason Tape mm hmmm, kc mm hmmm. Let me see it.
Ain't that ain't easy because it can go either way. Kandy Keys go
either way. Championship editions and about bomb mm hmm, take good time.
I'm going with Dallas in finals, MVP, hold on how many games?
I'll go with Dallas in six? Matter of fact, Dallas in five?
What I'll let you rock with that. I just don't I don't see Boston
prepared for them. Wow. And I see Finals MVP Kyrie Irving. Wow.
Okay, both of those are stupid, but you see Kyrie getting that
over Luca. Yeah, wow. I don't dislike it. I don't dislike
If I can I say this case before you continue, I'm I picked Boston
because I'm cheering for Holiday, but I wouldn't mind seeing Kyrie get a second
one. Keeping it real, I wouldn't mind I see Kyrie doing it is
because Kyrie got a weight on his shoulder. He gotta get off. And
I see Kyrie coming in with a different mentality than everybody else that's on the
floor that they don't have because Tatum hasn't won one yet, Brown in them
hasn't one one one yet, Luca hasn't won one yet. So the one
person who got the finals experience outside of him is Drew, and Drew won't
mas Kyrie's energy when it comes to putting on a performance in the finals.
Kyrie's gonna put on a performance that we've never seen before. Hmm, because
nobody is expecting that. Everybody's expecting who Luca Luca? So if you're Dallas,
I'm coming into the series thinking Kyrie is yours, your show. You
take us home, Lucas, Luca that we rolle Luca all the way here,
take us home. The same thing with Lebron. Lebron rolled us all
the way there. Kyrie got to the finals and he took over. He
put them on his back. But they gave the finals to Bron because he
Bron. But if you think about the most impactful person of that series when
they won against Golden State, it was Kyrie. It was Lebron's me.
But I mean, Lebron did his part, but Lebron commands so much attention
that Kyrie kind of got hid off in the court. So what do you
think is gonna happen with this? With Luca? Lucas want to get that
same attention Bron got. I will give you that. I agree with that.
They're gonna know Kyrie can do his thing, But at the same time,
they're like, we don't want Luca to get off, So Luca's gonna
look at it like Kyrie, Do your think he don't mind that? Mm
hmm. I'm going with I'm going with Dallas and seven and I think that
m v P is they're gonna give it to Luca and they're gonna push for
him to be that guy the face and I think it's but I'm going with
Dallas, and I'm going with Dallas and seven just because I don't want to
see Boston win I don't want to see Drew win another one. I don't
want to see Tatum winning one. I don't want to see Boston in general
win one. I don't want to see it. So I'm going with so
much, I don't care Dallas. Listen, Dallas unarrival Now. I hate
Indiana. We changed rivals so much. I'm ain't gonna get because we only
played one series against it, Dallas. We have Boston and Miami. Those
are the two teams we see in a consistent basis, our kryptonite. Those
are the two teams's on a consistent basis, though they kind of go back
and forth. And just so y'all are aware, in the two games they
played this season, Boston won both decisively. This is that's before the trade
decisive. No, these were both in January. This is before trade deadline.
But the trade happened in February, did it, Zeke? I think
you made that up, bro. That trade did not happen in January.
I think it did no what trade trade deadlines in February for PG right before,
right before. Also they got PJ right before. Yeah, so they
beat them. The Celtics won one thirty eight to one ten on March first,
so the trade happened, okay. And then they also beat them on
January twenty second, my mother's birthday, one nineteen to one ten, and
the Mavericks roster included to your point, that was before the trade. So
before the trade they had their original roster. They were twenty four to nineteen.
They lost one ten one nineteen. They picked up Graphic and PJ Washington
and lost worse and lost worse. It was finding a chemistry. They found
a stride at the end of the season, right when they needed it,
one thirty eight to one ten. Luca played. I mean, we both
know the sea. Those seasonal matches really don't mean anything. Let's not let's
not go there. Let's not go there. I'm not let's not go so
but like I said, Luca scored a night. He had a bad game.
Nineteen. Kyrie had no Luca had thirty seven points. Luke had a
triple double thirty seven to twelve and eleven. So all I'm saying is after
regular season is any indication. Let's not act like your sweet Let's not act
like Boston's not getting ready to come and bring the A game. That's what
astin thinking. They coming in, They thinking we're gonna beat them. I
don't think so. I think Boston losing to Miami last year, Boston is
a little more seasoned season, but they're they're I don't. I don't get
ego from Boston. I got ego from Indiana, I got ego from Phoenix,
and I'll be honest, I get a little ego from the Lakers.
I don't get that from Boston. I don't get ego from I think Boston
has really nonchalantly because they they they beat every team, and they beat every
team very well. So I just give really like and I mean, I
will say there's one person that's what we want to watch out for, Jaylen
Brown. I don't. I don't like to tap dance around this, but
if Boston were to pull it out, I could see Jaylen Brown being the
reason. Why not Jason Tatum doesn't matter as long as they get a ring
could be. But I see Dallas and six. I ain't gonna lie Dallas
tell them what she got you on the way in on this one. You
don't care, That's what I told my people. I don't really care who
wins, but I am. I do want to see how they get one.
What Bucks fans? We are not interested in this series, are we?
Kisi? We'll watch it because it's the NBA, but we are not
sitting here with signs cheering. I'm wearing Bucks hats every game I'm watching.
Oh god, I mean with this episode. Oh yeah, Finals, MVP
Luca, but Luca before we get into before we get into small Bucks talking.
We've been all over the place. So I just wanted to throw this
out there too, uh telling you want to go ahead and play the clips?
That topic going on right now? Kate and Clark says she got cheap
shot at against the Sky. I mean throughout the season, she's been getting
beat up, hard, screens, elbows, knockdown. It is what it
is. She's not the first, she won't be the last. My issue
with my question is where the fuck are her teammates at? Where y'all at,
where the rest of the INDIANAF. I've seen a couple of girls smirk
when she's got knocked down half ass to pick her up like y'all supposed to
protect the asset, protect the star and all. This is the team.
She's the star. You always protect your star. I was someone who protected
the stars. You fuck with cob cp blake list goes on. I'm it's
gonna be a problem because you got to supposed to be a family. And
you wonder why you sit at the bottom of the league right now because y'all
don't protect each other. Man, coach, don't do shit about it,
players don't shoot do it about y'all should be ashamed of it. But the
rest of league is going to continue to test her, and that's what they're
supposed to do. It's she got fucking job to have her back and have
each other's back. Gotta do better, Ladies's in one thousand and one,
Why I don't watch the WB Why who cares for one? Really quick?
Hold on really quickly? Never almost want to address this real quick, address
it, address it, address it. So you don't like women's basketball,
I have never I have not watched it. So I don't like women's basketball.
But I have not watched the w NBA game in years. Jesus doesn't
make me a sexist. It doesn't make me anything. I just don't like
it. So does not going to hockey games make you a racist? Yeah,
I'll take that. The only black person in the building. That's a
lie. I'm gonna get to the point and quick and fast about this.
It's a little bit of Envynus in there, yep. Selfish, a little
bit of hatred, selfish, a little bit of animosity. Animosity. First
off, the other teams are supposed to do that time. He said that
he was totally but that was a dirty play. He was spot on the
dirty playing they've done. They've been doing everybody like that and if you watch
it. I've watched w may girls. Some of them be just as tough
as something. They've upgraded it to a flagrant one and they got fined five
thousand dollars for it. Who did the girl that did it to Kaitlin?
Yes she did, but listen, but her team got fined five thousand dollars,
a team and a the person got fined a thousand. Yeah. I
know, so that Angel Reid. But my thing is, though, shut
up listen and Angel reachemen taking some hits too. I've been watching her too,
So what ain't just Caitlin. So if they're gonna talk about her,
they need to talk about all Angel Reese as well, because Angel Reeves got
I seen her get elbowed in the forehead. So one of my friends challenged
me today and I went through with the challenge. He said, he said,
everybody, I need for y'all to support women's sports and buy a w
NBA League pass. It's only thirty five dollars a year. And I said,
you know what, I probably should do that because I was sitting next
to a w NBA superstar. I didn't even know it, and right now
she's number one in scoring in the w NBA. I told you she was
good. I didn't deny. I just said I didn't know them. I'm
saying I tried to tell you, I don't want to. I was like,
remember when I'm buying the league past. So when we sat next to
her, I'm telling him like she's good, good, like you know,
be like she's good. And her brother was on the NFL team sitting next
to it, right, No, not him, not that wasn't him.
No, okay, but we gay he's that business from racing she played for
w uh uh. She went to d s h A, Yes, Divine
savorit, Holy Angels, she was a problem, Yeah she is. She's
a problem now. She holds every wisconscinle record for women's basketball. He's a
problem now, and she's a problem in the w n B A, and
she was a problem when she was at So I have a Yeah, Tennessee,
I'm gonna have a w n B A league past. It's only thirty
five bucks. I'm a support. I'm a support because because he I'm sorry,
because he also made a comment he said, if you enjoyed the NBA
before the evolution of the three point shot, you would really enjoy the w
n B A. Cap WHOA, I'm not gonna lie to you. I
watched w n B A. It's put popping in. It's a mixture of
pop culture and what's going on in sports and stuff like that, so on
and so forth. It's the same rea. I watched the w n A
for the same reason I watched the uf L. There's nothing else on.
Sorry, there's nothing else on. So I like the w n B A
because but I just want, I want I put this post this clip because
I did think it was interesting. Number A couple of things. Like you
said before, I do think I don't think it's as many as we think,
but I do think there's some some of those feelings, some mvs,
all those feelings are in there in the NBA. And I remember before the
first season starts, you went on your little rant about the w NBA.
You went on You're talking about how why is Kaitlyn getting all this spotlight and
so on and so forth when they have been w NBA playing the league and
balling out before this or whatever. And I, like I said before,
I do think her being Caucasian does have a little bit to do with it.
But the thing about Kaitlyn Clark and I think this is but I've heard
so many different angles from this, and one angle I heard from this was
this is the same kind of stuff that Lebron James had to go through when
he first got into the league. Nobody beat up n James. Anybody beat
up Lebron Jay because he was too big. Wh when he first went to
Cleveland was what were they saying, Who is this dude? Why is he
getting all this love? Such and such and such? Same thing with Jordan
when he first came. But the thing about it is when you first when
you have a lot of hype going into the NBA. But they're all but
they're always okay, you can go over the whole roster. But the point
is that there was a lot of there's been a lot of talk about these
guys when they first into the LEADU, especially because you're getting a lot of
hype Andy and and that too. But it's one of them things where like
I just I watched the whole game yesterday and they and I've watched a couple
of games. Kayln Clark has been a part and they do be on top
of her, like why don't Rice? I don't like that her team does
not defend her. I hate that. But the thing about this, I
don't think it's a rookie Hayes and I think they're They're not even used to
a teammate having this type of behavior towards her. So you can't say,
well, you're supposed to jump on the teen y'all family and the NBA we're
used to that. Like you go into like Matthew Barnes, Matt Barnes,
you're an enforcer. Nobody had to tell him he's an enforcer, but he
knew he was an enforcer, and Kennedy Carter said after she was fine,
she said, side street points shooting. What else does she bring to the
table, And that's number one? Number two, She's like, I don't
even want to talk about. She got fine, she got fined. Her
and Andreurie got fined because they want to talk to the press afterwords. And
Kaitlyn Clark's stats are better than hers to see, Kaylen Clark has has some
nice stats. She has some horrible stats, but you have some nice stats.
Sixteen and she's starting and she's starting to come around. So I just
find it. I thought that was very interesting thing that Kayln Kark is getting.
I don't think it's so. I don't think it's a hate thing.
How long before how long before this becomes a race issue? It's not a
race issue. I'll never be there, I think exactly. I think I
think this is more of a situation where nobody has ever nobody has ever come
into the league, and with this much hype in the w NBA before,
no matter how many great care on, knowing how many players they've had greater
than her, no one's coming to this much hype, maya more. None
of them have never come in with this much hype, and that's a little
bit of the time she got. So she got a lot to prove she
do, and she's balling. And if she's not capable of putting on the
show like she did in college, she's going to the window. I don't
I don't think that she will do window. I think she'll be fine.
I just think she's gonna tap it, toughen up, get a little bigger,
and get some thicker skin. She cried when she got home. I
bet I don't think so. I mean, you would say that you don't
like when it's basketball twenty one man and everybody has feelings, even the toughest
person. We shall see. We shall see. Before we get about of
here. Going to the Bucks talk. The New Orleans Pelicans are going to
trade brandon Ingram. They consider in a lot of Eastern Conference team. Should
the Bucks put their hat in the ring? We don't have no assets.
That's something that asks you, of course we should. Why wouldn't we?
Of course? But the only person that we could probably only give up for
him is Chris Middleton, Christ Middleton, Jay Crowder Brook low fast, j
Crowder, Jay crowded resigned. I heard bow Champ I said it. I
heard. I heard Chris Middleton's requested the trade. I heard that too,
But it did not come from an actual, viable source. It came from
one of those opinionated tetes. There wasn't a blue check. Yeah, it
wasn't from Woes, it wasn't from Sham, it wasn't from stephen A.
It was from one of those uh opinionated tweets. I hope it's true.
I hope it's true because he can go. I'll take Ingram for Brook and
Chris Middleton. I'll take them, really, yes, for both. That's
too much for him. That's a lot. We gave up seven players for
Jay Crowder. We mean we gave up seven players. Gave up two players
in five second round draft picks, seven players. Five of those players probably
wouldn't even be good enough to make the roster. Five of them wouldn't.
It really wouldn't so two if that we gave up the kitchen sing for Dame,
he's dang. I don't know what we've been sitting. Are We still
be at home whether we make that trade or not. Chris Middleton and Brandon
Ingram are not a tip for that trading it is. It is Tiff attack
Christ which Middleton is a better shooter, Chris Middleton's a better shooter. Both
on the injury all the time, branded like you don't care sometimes like I
think he'd be coming to the game high if anything to help his career out,
remain focused. Then will keep him Brook. No, that's crazy.
You can't send Brook for Ingram for Ingram Brook, because who's gonna The only
reason I'm saying for Middleton is because he would take Middleton's spot from the starting
lineup. Play the five. He's seven foot, he's Ingram. He's a
small forward, Brandon Ingram seven. But somebody like Anthony Davis, somebody like
Anthony Davis, somebody like Anthony Davis just think of it like this long length.
But he doesn't have the body to stay somewhere near I think you haven't
confused. Some follow out that game. He don't even have an attitude of
team. Play the five every game, every game. I think he made
one All Star All Star team. Randon Ingram is okay, he's not quite
sex sixteen. He's sixty six nine. Okay, he's six' nine.
Okay, I stayed correct. In what position you play it doesn't say here.
But I mean, I'm not saying, y'all not wrong. You played
the small for he played small four. I thought he played the five because
I always see him playing next to Zion, and he's always the man in
the middle. He's always guard in the center. That's why I assume he
played the five. Ingram is play the middle, Yes, he does.
Bro. When he played us, he was on Brook got the bad attention
a little more than you did. No. No, you played the small
four where he got switched off on Brook quite a few times. But okay,
fine, switch off. I reason I'm offering up Brook because we need
to get younger, and we don't get younger. But my thing is who
going after making a package deal? Bring him in? Valgowski's over here.
They play for the same teams in the vow. He's a pretty decent who
is about now? Just call him bow to call him bow? He plays
for is how you're said. I ain't gonna try to say that. I'm
gonna make myself a little more horrible than my man's over here. But making
the package deal, just take the al, don't bring it down with you,
just take down. Make it the package deal. Break vow and Ingram
over for brook in Middletown and bow Champ because they're gonna have to give up
something else, bow Champ just to win over bow Champ get rid of him
because they gonna want something young a a time just for them making the trade
him a future drive bow cham just because Ingram is is younger than Chris.
But Chris is a better score and shooter. Facts if he plays, If
he plays, that's the thing. If he plays. But you said Ingram's
pretty injury prone too, is Look, then why would we want that?
Because a lot of centers at court because younger. He's just a little bit
younger. If he's injury pron I don't know if I want that here because
Dame is injury prone and should we said one thing about but one thing about
Ingram. Though he can score, he can when he plays, he can
score when when he plays, when he plays, He's like Middleton. They
can play when they play when they play twenty five. But but the minute
you scratch him on the elbow, they out for six weeks. And like
I said, is to me for me, it's effort for Ingram because his
he'd be strained. Strange, It's just maybe he need to get around somebody
with a mentality like honest, that's what I'm saying. That works hard.
I'm saying if he can, Milwaukee would be better for his career long jepards.
He doesn't have anybody in New Orleans with that type of young pedigree taking.
Zion is still over there taking down porn stars and Instagram models and eating
sandwiches and you know what I'm saying, and playing the game, just a
stack of sandwiches and gumbo sitting next to him, and only bet they got
a C. J. McCullum and listening in. I was just gonna say
that, and they ain't listening to him. They like, you just got
over here, bro, just take a seat. You're supposed to be quiet.
So but yeah, so I just want to get that out there,
see what you can, see what you guys thought. So this has been
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