M HM. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Ladies and geentlemen,
boys and girls, Cats and dog. It's another episode of ninety four feet
podcast. Your boy be seeking the building. I'm here with my brother Dre.
Yo. What's good? Everybody happy to be back to talk to basketball
on Super Bowl Sunday? What's good, y'all. I'm also here with my
brother Kesey. What's good? Good people? What's going on? How you
doing? Living American dream? Now? Are you? That's the American dream?
I don't want none of yo dream. I don't want know the yodream.
This is the dream? What's the nightmare dream? Oh? How you
doing? Dre? What's going on? I'm great, man? Uh take
the plane, man. Shout out to my Grady. We celebrated her eighty
fourth birthday last night. It's good. Yeah, man, So life is
good? Man? No plays? All right? That's good. Uh,
let's go ahead and get it right into it. The injury report. Yeah,
so this one annoys me because he's on my fantasy team m hm.
And we should have dumped him when we had the chance. Chris Middleton is
out with an ankle injury. I'm gonna save it for bucks. Talk because
I got a lot to I got a lot to go in on Chris Middleton
about because he got injured. He's in his injury phase now, like remember
you called, you said Jannis is in his Lebron era. Chris Middleton is
in his injury era. But I'll save it for Bucks talk. Uh.
The Knicks are without Ogi on a say o g o g oh. I
don't even know how to say on obi on ab og. Thank you,
gentlemen. Underwent surgery to remove loose bone fragments from his right elbow. He'll
be reevaluated in three weeks. Joel embiid as I said on this podcast last
week, it's out six to eight weeks with a knee injury. I told
y'all that was more serious than y'all thought it was. In fact, I
don't know that he returns as the Joel and Bee we once knew, unfortunately,
So all right, okay, now we'll move on to the next segment.
Shoot around, well really quickly, Joel and b will not be MVP
this year, not eligible for MVP year. No. I think this is
to me, to be honest with you. If he does sit out the
rest of the season, I'm gona look at him kind of funny because I
looked him as soft. I ain't looking at as funny. But now,
well, I just I just don't if he does sit out, to me,
that would tell to me a lot about him, seeing that this is
probably one of his years where he can make the Eastern Conference finals. So
for him to if he does sit out the rest of the season, I
would be very disappointed. I think he's legitimately hurt. I'm not saying it.
He's not hurt. I think he can come back in six to eight
weeks. And I also think that he did a little bit push it a
little bit, but because of the rule. But I just feel like,
if you can make it back in eight weeks, you can make your team
have a playoff push. Why not? Yeah? Also really quickly shout out
to Kobe Bean Brian. He had one of three statues unveiled this week,
thank you, and he'll have two more coming on later. Did you guys
happen to see the statue? I saw the first one. How many statues
as a person, He's supposed to have two more, one of him and
his daughter and another one. Did you see it? The statue? Though?
I saw the unbent like the I watched it. Yeah, it's a
nice statue. But you know, if you've ever been to the Staples Center,
Man, what I love about the Staple Center in Los Angeles, Man,
that's how they players man like. There are statues all outside of their
greats, Magic, Kareem obviously, Kobe now and a bunch of other ones
too that I don't necessarily remember. But I think that's a good thing.
Man. When you get a statue somewhere, that's the clearing that that franchise
will never forget you, like you'll forever. I think there's very few players
that have Obviously there's m J, there's Dirk. Dirk has a statue.
Lebron will have a statue before he saw sitting done in Miami. See that's
where and we got the pause right there. This is this is I don't
think that number one Los Angeles should never have one for him. For Lebron,
he broke the scoring title from a lake. I don't care either Cleveland.
I'll let Miami slide Cleveland and Miami don't do that for Lebron, guarantee.
That would be ridiculous. That is, so there's these statues. Is
nothing and he wouldn't care. Like Milwaukee or Cleveland, they don't have that
kind of money where they could just you were good, you were good,
you were good. We had that kind of money, we would have one
of Koreem. We would have one of Oscar, one of Ray. We
would have you know, we would have like an old starting five outside of
whatever stadium is up that day. All right. I guess to me,
a statue is an honor, and I think that just because you broke the
scoring title there, it doesn't equal to you deserving a statue. I just
don't feel like that deserving a statue. I mean, to be really honest
with you. Three statues for Kobe is like kind of wild, Like,
dude, that's a lot. That's just showing that, hey, we have
the money to spend. But I just feel like, I just feel like
this the NBA and the NBA and the Los Angeles Lakers are just really juicing
this as much as they possible. Why because Kobe passed away. Because he's
a Laker for life. Yeah, First of all, he's always been a
Laker. He's always been a Laker. I understand one. I understand one,
but I'm saying two more I understand. I understand the second for the
daughter too, because she was just as important. Was she inspiration everybody?
Was she girl? God? Come on, don't don't come on town,
Come on town. Just just off of she was more than she knew Kobe,
just off of the just off of the strength of how it happened and
all of that and how it transpired with her, it has to be a
statue of her, anything else to be on civilized like, come on.
I think the circumstance warns the statue because she died with coch Hill. If
she died, you know, separately, and it wasn't a tragedy, of
course they wouldn't do it. But this is the Los Angeles. I think
you have to remember ze Hobe, even after playing ball, was was pivotal
to the Lakers community. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that he
wasn't pivotal too. I think excessive though, I'm saying three statues is excessive.
And I'm also saying that I feel like they turned the situation to every
single time you turn around, it's something like, this is celebrating Kobe.
This is celebrating Kobe. And I just feel like if the circumstances were different
and Kobe was still alive, it wouldn't be that. And because Kobe would
have had a statue, I'm not saying that he wouldn't had a statue.
I'm saying obviously wouldn't have been the one with him and his daughter. But
I'm also saying that it wouldn't have been It wouldn't have been like the All
Star Game named after him, it wouldn't be all of these others little things.
I see. I see one point. I see that. I can
see that perspect I see that perspective. I'm just saying, I just feel
like it's a little bit. Why do you feel like it's a little bit?
I just told you that don't make any sense. I see both sides
of the coin. No, I see both sides of the coin. It's
God having you know, different. And I can see why they going with
the trophy because you got eight and you got twenty four. Which one do
you go with? Kobe picked the first one. I'm gonna say like this,
I think three is excessive, even in death obviously circumstances. Huh,
where are these statues located at? I don't know what one is by the
stadium, and then the other one is somewhere in the city. Then I
can understand that. I think all three of them outside the I think all
three of them gonna be outside the building. Uh So, Michael Jordan's statue
is inside the United Center. I think he's the only one like that.
Everybody else is shocked. All those were outside from when I remember. But
you know, he got his trophies. It's unfortunate that we tend to honor
people in depth and not quick enough while they're living. But to be fair,
Kobe's his life ending was a tragedy like no one could foreseen that,
unfortunately, But shout out to the Lakers for being faithful to Kobe and his
wife three successive. If you ask me when the Bucks era ends, the
only one we'll have here is Giannis. Giannis will be the first statue here.
I don't even think we don't have that because I don't know if we
don't have money. I don't think technically should have had years ago or uh,
Kareem, he left us hanging. Kareem, he left us hanging by
default by default. He should have one for that. He should have had
one for that. Mm hmm. But you know, instead we got on
the bridge wild happy days. So this past week, this past week was
the trade deadline. There wasn't a lot of action, but there was some
trades. Uh. What I want to do is go over all the trades
that happened is this past Thursday, and then it just kind of like talking
talk about them as a whole. And some of the two of these I
missed because really quickly. Uh, I can't think of his name right now.
I'll think of it later. But anyways, Indiana Pacers traded Bobby Hill
Bud Buddy Hill to the seventy six ers for Marcus Morris. Some guy Camper
now is in three second round picks. Uh. The Detroit Pistons traded Bonovich,
by Janovic and Alex Burt to the New York Knicks for Quentin Grimes,
Frontier Fly and two first round picks. Do you all want to do this?
I mean, if you want to do this, you can do this.
I'm not even gonna sit here like I'm good with names. I'm not.
Do you want to do asy? Sure you're better with names, brother,
you know. Uh. The Toronto Raptors traded uh Dennis Shrewder and tight
As Young that is I did that? Still still every time I see him,
I'll be like, he's still around. He's kind of a journey man,
so he's to help you. You'll start a five, get better because
he's not he's not a scrub. He's just he's not top caliber anymore.
Even I don't even know he's in a rotation, but it's the Toronto Raptor.
So I'm already watching them games like that. But traded to the Brooklyn
Nets for Spencer DINWITTI uh. Later on, Spencer Dinwiddie was released by Toronto
and will be picked up by the Los Angeles Lakers after clearing waivers. So
out of these trades and oh, Grant Williams was traded from the Dallas Average
to the Charlotte Hornets along with along with Steph Curry, Stephan Curry, his
brother Seth Curry, I'm sorry, Jeth Curry and somebody else and some other
people. Yeah, because he was up for Bobby. Yes, they talked
about him for Bobby, but it didn't happen. They traded him to Charlotte
Hornets really quickly. World on the street is he just got traded because they
didn't like him. It had nothing to do with skill. It had nothing
to do we wanted better players. They rubbed people the wrong way. Grant
would he rubbed people. So I'm like, I understand that completely, especially
with Dallas, even though they're not like on top tier, they still have
some type of they have a culture there. And one of the things was
he he stopped wearing Lucas Lucas tennis shoe to wear Jason Tatum's tennis shoe.
I said, my god, sir, so petty but understandable. So out
of these trades, out of every all the trades, even trades, I
didn't mention who do you think one draft here? Now, I was gonna
put this out there really quickly. I know what you're especially you what you're
gonna say. I don't know who, because then you know, Steph Curridin
get traded. Word on the street is New York Knicks. They're the deepest
team in the NBA right now. Now do they have some superstars? Are
they looking at some names out here? Like? Oh, they have a
solid foundation, the third in the league right now. Word on the street
is they could make the Eastern Conference finals at least, especially with Inbeed getting
hurt and you know Philadelphia has been kind of falling in the ranking. Answering
your question, uh, I don't think none of these teams are clear standout
as a winner. Surprise, surprise, the Pacers traded one player and and
and picked up I guess I would say the Pacers. They traded one player
and picked up five. Okay, you know me. More is always better
than less, and most are you saying five? Because of the three second
round picks that haven't been Draymond Green was the second round pick. We always
go there. You can't under undervalue second round picks. I' musa say.
I'm gonna say I like the Indiana and Philly trade. I don't know if
there's a clear winner. I think Buddy Hall or Healed will be a nice
shooting spark for them because obviously Travis or Max he has a team on his
back right now. He does because he has to. There's no one else
there. They got rid of Kyle Lawry in this deal. Oh really quickly,
I'm sorry, interrupt you. Carl. Kyle Lowry is about to agree
to a buy out, already done, and he will be already done looking
to get to Philadelphia. It's not official, it's not official, it's official
with he hasn't clear waivers yet. How's it officially he hasn't clear waivers he
signed with? How is it official he hasn't clear waivers anyway? Tree,
I don't want to look it up that he has a clear way. So
it's just the end of Kyle Lawry's career, y'all. I told you that
a week or two ago. No he done. I told you that a
week or two ago, Kyle. No one is building their team to bring
in Kyle Lawry. Okay, remember when you was like, I'll take him
on the Bucks? Like why why would you take him on the Bucks?
I don't want to discount him though. I mean, I don't think he's
that an effective player like that, but I don't want to discount him.
So again, I like that the Pacers picked up five players, but I
like buddy to the Sixers. The Pistons are terrible, so them in in
the Knicks trade, I mean the Knicks got better, definitely got better.
Again, I don't see a clear winner. In fact, this was a
lackluster. It was blackluster for me. There wasn't enough. I thought the
Bucks were too quiet, uh and what they did? So I don't really
have a clear favorite, but shout out to the Knicks for getting deeper,
and shout out to Philly. And that's how I mean. I I I
pretty much feel the same way. I mean, I like that the Knick,
I mean the Philadelphia have been aggressive because they I feel like they see
the opportunity here to go further in the playoffs, and I'm sure they're hoping
and b comes back and then you ask him shooting around him and so just
some defensive players and some guys, some veterans. I think this can very
well help them get over the hump. The same way with the Bucks.
I mean, we we did a traded we'll talk about in Buck's trade,
but it was very quiet, but I knew the Bucks didn't have nothing and
we would have to give up some core players in order to get something.
So I'm cool with with the move that they did make. But I mean,
besides them, I think the overall winner is the Knicks. They became
deep. The two guys that they got are can be starters or they can
come off the bench. And then with Randall coming back, is it's gonna
be a nice team. What's his name? Donovan and Da Vini whatever they
used to play for the Bucks. He over there shining. Yeah, he's
over there shining. He's over there shining at the Knicks. He's doing all
right. He didn't have thirty the last four five games over there very much.
I thought we traded him too too soon anyway, but trade him to
Golden State and Golden State. Yeah, but I'm saying I think we traded
him too soon because he was like in the midst of coming back from an
injury and it just didn't work out. But I'm glad he over there shining
and stuff like that. That's the gamble of the game. You gotta take
those risks. Like some players, you don't know what's gonna come out.
Yeah, it's like Steph, everybody counted him out when he had that first
ankle surgery. It was like he done. I mean, that's true,
everybody can say that. I mean, I just feel like I just feel
like sometimes the Bucks trade guys too quickly and hold on to other guys too
soon, Like uh, were still hold on the boat Champ and will refuse
to give him up. But if you stay here and got hurt again,
then we'd have held on them too long. I mean you read about that.
We all is there's always two sides of a coin. Bots are too
guard heavy anyway, so we needed that case. Your answer the question which
team won the trade? To me, the biggest winner of the trade deadline,
it's gonna have to be probably Philly, really Philly. Mm hmmm.
Why you say that? Because they picked up an elite shooter knowing that you
just lost in bead. At the same time, you need some scoring,
and you know Buddy High as an automatic coming in that's score fifteen to twenty
points a game that's automatic, you can get it. You just replaced some
of Embiid's points that you just lost for him having to be out for the
next few weeks. And it also creates a floor spacer for the Philadelphia seventy
six ers, so they can get better as far as they're spacing. Their
spacing was off, So having a shooter with high as caliber, I think
they won the draft, I mean, not the draft to trade deadline.
But I do like I do like the Spencer deal with he pick up,
and I do like the PA and I do like the pat Bed pickup.
I just have to see is it enough to get you over the hump.
I mean, well, like I said before, we'll talk about it in
Bucks talk. But it's very interesting. I think that. Yeah, I
don't know. I just feel like New York, I mean York, but
Philadelphia it seems real guard heavy and they don't have any but they do have
wing. They have one wing, their primary wing. But he's kind of
quiet. So I think this is an opportunity for him to step his game
up. Talking about his name, Harris Tobias Harris. So. I mean,
but you know, it's funny that that's always every single year, that's
the talk. He's out of contract. I know what I'm saying, Like
he's out of here. They won't re sign, No one want He've been
on the block for three years. That's what I'm saying. He's been on
the block for three years. But they still reason to keep them. Nobody
want to take them. It ain't the reason they keep them. No one
wants to take them. That contract too big for his his caliber. He
got paid. I think that he's just one of those guys got paid because
he was in that that era where on our money and there wasn't a lot
of people that was available during that free agency. His sleepy spirit is up
in here. We are yaarded and stuff. I y'all to wake up.
It's just one of the things where like I just I don't know. I
don't know. I just feel like it would be interesting to see how this
season ends and how the season goes, especially with his trades. I did
hear that the uh salary cap is going up, and maybe we'll get into
that in the off season. But I just don't understand. I don't understand
Brooklyn's I think Brooklyn slowly is in the rebuild that they're getting rid of McHale.
They're trying to build around Michale Bridges nobody wants Simmons and uh, that's
that's what. And then I also heard Spencer DIMWITTI wasn't even happy there,
so that they were just trying to really get rid of that guy because he
wasn't even happy there. So Tobias Harris, remember he got traded back,
though I'm not what I'm saying. He would say he's happy though. Tobias
Harris in twenty nineteen signed a five year guarantee get ready for this guarantee one
ninety one hundred and eighty million dollars deal for five years, five years guarantee
it's not bad. What how much Z average? No, I'm saying how
much is the averaging? Points? Time on? You don't even hear Tobias
Harri's name mention, Bro, you don't hear him on players to why taking
almost forty million dollars a year? Well, is he a forty million dollar
man? How much is he averaging? So I'm gonna just say it's about
Tobias Philly being a rebuild after this season too, because no, you can't.
I don't think Joel gonna either if he's not back healthy, I don't
think he's gonna stay. I don't think he's gonna stay. So there's no
way he is one hundred and eighty million. Tobias Harris this you know this
season he's not a bum like, there's no doubt about it. He is
not abum. His average is so far for this season, he is average
at about thirty four minutes a game, seventeen points a game. He's shooting
fifty percent from the field goal range, thirty four percent from three point hes,
averaging six rebounds, three and a half assists, one steal, no
blocks. Okay, so seventeen six and five for forty million dollars. I
don't see I don't see the problem here that you will never manage forty million.
I'd be like, Senator, I don't see problem here. Who else
is the league makes forty million dollars? And then on top of that,
how many at the may how many? How many games is he playing the
season? He plays most games now he doesn't get injured. This is what
I'm saying next to I think a lot of I think a lot of is
going on in Philadelphia is with Tobias Hairs. They're expecting too much and you
can't find them in the playoffs for four straight years. And I just put
forty million a year. Now. Is he top ten in small forwards?
No, he's not even top fifteen. Okay, So just for everybody to
get an idea here, I'm gonna just do this really quickly. Top contracts
right now, Jaylen Brown two hundred and eighty seven million dollars averaging fifty seven
million a year. Well, I just wanna put this out there really quickly.
Dre. You don't want to pay nobody. Even when Giannie comes up
a contract, you're like, oh, how much? Oh man, I
don't I don't even know if I really I just I just want a championship,
I know, But did you do anything? Joker fifty five million a
year, Bradley Bill who hasn't played in years. All right now, now
that's where we fifty million dollars. He's the third highest paved player. Giannis
forty six million a year, Devin Booker fifty six million a year, Kat
fifty five million a year, Stephan Curry fifty three million, Luca forty three,
Zach Lavine forty three, which is why he wasn't traded. There's a
point that I'm making. Trey Young forty three, Joel, I'll get there,
Joel andb fifty three, Rudy Gobert forty one. Those are next year
salaries. But I'm just going through just contracts. Okay, Now, this
is this is the average. This is the average that they're making. Steph.
We already talked about Joel fifty three, Anthony Edwards forty, LaMelo forty,
Tyrese Halliburton forty, Moran thirty nine, Zion thirty nine, Darius Garland
thirty nine, Desmond Baine thirty nine. So my point that I'm making is,
Tobias is in the top twenty five have highest paid, and he's not
nearly better than half those people we just named. Is he top twenty five?
No, No, he's nineteen. What list are you looking at for
twenty twenty three, twenty four years? First? Right? Next year?
Those are contract because he said taller he said haller Berg will be making forty
million next year. So this was a next year. I'm talking about this
year. Stephan number one right now, he might make forty million. Names
right now, Steph is one, KD two, Ron three, Joker four,
and B five, and Tobias is nineteen nineteen, top twenty five,
top twenty five, and he is not better just a few players? How
much? Name a few players below him? I just went real quickly.
How much should Tobias Harris is worth? Tobias Hairs is a ten to fifteen
million dollars a year player. No, not in today's NBAKC. So he
makes more money than Pascal Siakam. Okay, yeah, the different Kyrie Irving.
Kyrie does a show up for work's the headaches. So I'm cool with
that. Holiday, I'm cool with i'mo with that now given where you is,
now, you know I'm cool. Oh yeah, Devin Booker, you
should not be making more than Devin Booker. Karl Anthony Towns, you should
not be making more than Cat. I get that. C J McCullum,
you know, hold on time real quick. He should be making as much
as Cat because Cat is about to be the third best player on this team.
C J McCullough, to me, has always been kind of overrated.
C J McCullen. I'll give him that just because he's consistent. James Harden,
James Harden is a headache. James, He's a headache. But this
is the people that probably got the contracts in the same year. I know
Clippers might win it off, but go ahead, John Moran, stop shooting
guns. That's true. I'm playing with guds. The contracts is signed before
he picked up the pistol. No, he got an extention. I mean
he picked the pistol up. But still he made more than Brandon England,
Gilders Alexander who's number two in MVP running right now, d Aaron Fox.
He makes more to him. So again he makes more to Tatum. So
the point we're proving is to you know, it doesn't take a lot to
get paid in the day's NBA. It doesn't. It's just being at the
right place, at the right time, in the right year. That's why
Phil has not been able to trade Tobias, and Tobias won't get another big
contract. Tobias will be a wing man. Somebody assigned him for maybe three
years sixty million. I guess the question, we'll get a three year,
sixty million dollars deal. The question is, like I asked this question,
too unrestricted for Goha. I'm sorry. He's an unrestricted free agent and some
team Lakers might look at him. Bucks, Bucks might look at him.
A team that will would be willing to pay fifteen because Tobias got his money.
Now he's chasing the ring. He will be a good wing man on
someone's team. I'll take his eighteen, six and five, but not for
no forty million dollars a year. So, like I said, so you're
saying between ten and fifteen. If he decided to the Bucks ten fifteen,
I'm saying I would pay ten to fifteen, but I would bet he get
it like a three year sixty million dollar deal. He's in he's in the
twenty to twenty five range. I give him twenty twenty five, So I'll
say twenty million, I say three. I say, I'm saying twenty five
four years. Bill. He's not going to resign that though really they should.
They should. The one episode I would love to come back and do
is the one with the free agency of the side, just to look to
see what those people, just to look to see what those people, because
it's just no no, oh gosh, man, I wish I was falling.
I would, I would. I don't think that would help you,
because I've seen your skills. You ain't seeing nothing. I think that I
would just like to see Dre. I would just like to see Dre operate
a team and be in a GM slot. The disrespect I'm thinking either of
disrespect. I think he owes some some Mari stuff. Am I getting traded?
What? Man? You crazy? Next week? Gone? You crazy
man? I would hire a Phil Jackson, I hire an MJ. I
hire a Staph. If you deliver like this, yeah you get paid,
you get paid. But if you play like lony people you say, Steph,
you know people getting paid like Steph. That shouldn't be. That shouldn't
be. Let's be honest, how many overpaid players are in the NBA alarting
with Bradley Bell. You'll have a whole lot of scrubs, I know he
is. You gonna have a whole lot of scrubs. And then one guy
making fifty million a year, Like what y'all want me to do, I'm
not paying everybody. I'll be like they sold the team ridiculous, but they
actually might be good. Because maybe that's what the NBA need to go back
to like it used to be. No, because that's how money. Jealous
contract jealousy, that's how jealous. Remember back in the day when only one
or two people was paid everybody else was. This is all just before inflation.
This is all before inflation. Them up inflation forty million dollars too much
for Tobias Errs. Forty million dollars. Half of that is gone because because
the taxes, the other quarter is your agent good. He's left with at
least ten. He got about twenty to Jesus Christ. So he probably breaking
home about twenty six to twenty seven a year out of that forty fifteen.
Right now, he's just about half. Because you're at the highest level tax
bracket, the more you make, more they take. He probably he probably
bringing in fifteen to think he got tax right offs because he gotta pay for
his training, and he gotta pay for his facilities. He gotta pay for
a whole lot of stuff. Oh man, Listen's right off. That's why
when people talk about to go politics, you know, rich get richer and
they write off so much. Is because those big they get big refunds.
They don't pay taxes because they get big tax refunds. I don't know what
that feel like, though, you know what'll be like your business owner,
tell my tax bet every year, Gerald, I just don't want to owe.
I just don't want to That's the true statement. Do whatever you need
to do. So this this coming the weekend is well, next weekend is
All Star Weekend, and there will be and we I have the list that
I sent y'all in for the participants for the skill Challenge, the three point
Contest, and then the Dunk contest. What I just want to kind of
who you think is gonna win each of these challenges. I don't know what
it is. And I'm gonna answer your question. But the longer I become
a sports fan or NBA fan, the more and more uninterest I have in
the All Star weekend. No, I still have interest in it. I
mean, Skills Challenge, three point contests. After that, that said,
dunk contest hasn't been good, and I don't know how long, maybe since
Eric Gord and exactly mean was doing. That was the last good one.
I think that was two thousand and something. Though, you have to snap
like my dog. He was looking at all right, it got it,
got your I was looking at the script. Got you. I couldn't just
be like he's been a daddy too long, that's all. Get in here,
you'll be your kids like that, you're here. I did that to
him to make it not such a big noticeable thing that you TV you stapped
your figure important. Look, they can't see that. You you like one,
sir, you like your sol bass. This is ridiculous. Actually,
I would so look at going into the Skills Challenge. We have uh Topics,
which is Victor Wingspan from San Antonio, Anthony Edwards from the Minnesota timber
Wolves, and we have Pablo Escobar from the Orlando Magic. What do you
ask a little bit? And then I got from Team Pacers. We have
Tyres, Tyrese Halibert, Myles Turner and some guy. And then we have
Team All Stars, Scottie Burns, Tyrese, Maxi, and Trey Young.
This is for the skills challenge. Who you got. I think they go
through like they go through passing drills like an obstacle course kind of Yeah,
you know what Tom said. They do combine passing drills, a shooting like
a shooting thing and then like a real quick Victor is way too big for
this. Yeah, but I mean, who else on the spurs are you
going to put there? I like the way they did this Top Picks versus
Team Pacer versus Team All Stars. Pacers won last year. I think they
won last year. I think that's why they're in it. I like the
All Star team man. I like Scottie Barrs, Tyree's, Maxie, and
Tree young Man. Those are all great ball handlers, uh with with great
shots. I like the Team All Stars for that. I'm going with a
I'm going with Team Top Picks. I think Victory gonna show us something.
So I think gonna show us something and could be All Start. They played
them All Star. Yeah no, I'm glad. I'm glad he wasn't an
All Star just because it will be a situation where he getting it for people
to stay tuned really quickly. Why thinks about who he's gonna pick? It
is Trey Young, the most hated basketball player in the NBA in New York.
He is no overall, No, he's not the motative. But he's
in the top ten. He's in there, top ten, top five,
top ten, top five, he's in the top ten, top ten.
What's that? Boy? Uh oh h? Dylan Dylan Brooks, Dylan Brooks.
I think Williams. I think Gi is becoming slowly there. Yeah,
so I think Trades in the top five. But here's why Trey is being
hated on because although Trey doesn't won the title, man Trade gives you daggers.
He does and talks trash and losing his hair. You know this is
so funny looking he gives you daggers. And he told me he's talking crazy.
This is second year in a row he hasn't been voted by the fans
as an All Star. I just had the I thought of it. Remember,
the fans can only vote for starters. Who is he better than that
that we already talked about. I'm saying he's having a well if statistically he's
having a great year but I just thought it was interesting. He always does
though, he always does have a great statistically. I mean, he's he's
supposed to be the next Steph Curry, and I think he's not there because
people don't like him. I don't think he'll ever be in the next Steph
Curry because he doesn't have the ball handling of Steph Curry. He doesn't have
the IQ of Steph Curry. He has a shot, but it's not it's
consistent. Stephan is one of the most consistent statistics shooters. Why is he
so hated though, Well, because he talked, because he he's daggered us
multiple times, and he be talking crazy. I don't think it's daggers.
He'd be talking crazy and people don't like it. They don't like the ice
Tray. No, I like tray. I like Tray. But who you
Got and the skills Challenge, I'm gonna go with the Team All Stars,
Team All Stars. If I know who Bennet Digg, whatever his name is,
what, I would go Team Pagers, But I don't know who he
is. He'd be killing He's the one who'll be lighting the bucks up every
time we play them. That's not that's not hard to do so that you
know how we always say this is one person that always have a career night
on the books. He has a career night on the books every time he
play us. I can see that this thing one. The last time he
had like four a ones. The the person who this three point contest to
me is starting to be more and more interesting every year to me. This
year we have uh who won last year, Damian Lord, Tyrese Halibert,
Donovan Mitchell, Malik Beasley, Jaylen, Jyleen Bronson, uh Luke, who's
his name? La Laurie Mark, Trey Young and Carl Carl Anthony Town And
I said, Donovan Mitchell, Sorry, I'm not offend, just said I
said that who do you guys? Who do you guys have? Who do
you guys have in this matchup with Dame Man, Dame Dollar, Dame or
But really I think it might be Trayed. I was kind of thinking that
low key too. I'm going with Dame Dollard or Bronson going Bronson, I'm
going with I'm going with like I'm going with Halliberg because I feel like in
that kind of setting, that's where he shines. Is he gonna play?
Is he back. Is he healthy? He's deep? Yeah, I think
he is, he said he is. M hm, who's just talking about
Okay, I know you're talking about now. He's he's very athletic, very
very very athletic. He's young. Yeah, I know that is speaking of
young and athletic, I love it. I could just run around the building,
but I can jump on the slam dunk. Things personally really hurt.
God, just stop around there. But you know, the slam the slam
dunk contest is gonna be uh boring as usual. I don't know, we'll
see what happens now, it's gonna be boring. I don't know how these
people, but you know Brown mac mccloun he wonted last year. Last year,
he's Oh from the G league, little the non African American. You
know what. Point Yeah, let's stop right there. They should start letting
like beside things of the of the All Star we don't care too much about.
Let's see the G leaguers get in and do that. As the g
leaker, you can get in. But yeah, what I'm saying is like,
just give it to them. Oh you're saying, don't even NBA players,
don't even participate. Just give it to them. Let the rookie be
the versus the G League or the skills competition should be the G League and
whoever you want to Uh, the Dunk Contest, give it to the G
leaguers. The All Star Game should be a good opportunity to let cats showcase
who they are, so they got eyes on them. So when it's time
for next year, some people might get a phone call based on how they
perform this one week. Uh. Mac McCullen got signed last year after the
Dunk Contest in Philadelphia for the rest of the year. Now he got released
soon after. But he got signed too much. He got signed much.
There's not a lot of minutes left for him after Tobias and uh Maxie and
all of them and showing up every other day. Yeah, you're right,
you know what I'm saying, Like, it's not a lot of minutes for
him. All of them said about the Dunk Contest is Jalen Brown giving a
massive amount of money and he should be doing everything. Oh you know sleep,
you know, sleeves over. It's Black History Month. Depending on how
the future goes, we might be back there. Y'all pay attention. Who
is Jacob Toppling. Is that Obie Toppling brother? No? I thought no,
no, no, Oh, you might be right. I thought it
was. And I was like, his name, ain't Jacob. That might
be his brother. It's Obie Toppling. Yeah, he the one who did
the windmill on the fit on the fast breakak. Huh. Interesting. So
we got two g leaguers. Then we got Jalen Brown, who's obviously overpaid
according to Dre. And then we and we, of course I agree,
that's not the point that you said it. Uh. And then we have
the rookie from Miami, Jamie. I don't know how to players. I'm
trying to tell you that's wild players. I think we don't care. We
don't care. The n b A just is full of scrubs, is not
full of scrabs and has a lot of scraps A fantasy basketball player, So
you're biased. The n b A got some some some scraps. I just
I just hate this is one thing. I just hate the fact. Actually
they are brothers. They are great scrubby brothers. Okay, he got some
hops, he got some hops, and he participated last year. That's some
hops. So I'll say this man I I think, I think the n
b A and we let one of them go. He don't play with us
no more. Uh, the n b A has crazy got to figure out
the All Star Game, and that we can't. I thought, uh,
Senator, I thought last year the commissioner was onto something good. Last year
year, well you know that it was the Still No, it's not the
Kobe thing anymore. They're they're they're going back to their regular format. No,
it's still a Kobe thing. I don't think it is. The scoring,
but it's still East versus West. I mean I'm saying, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's it's back to the format of East
versus West. But the scoring is still a Kobe thing. Oh, I
don't. I don't think it is. But nevertheless, the Dug contest hasn't
been good in a couple of years. We get, I think, so
we get some surprise that the plus our people ain't been in it. Right,
Lebron has a done, Kawhi hasn't done. I mean, I don't
want to see I do it. But is a banger in his he's not
creative. Yeah, that's true. I would I just want to say,
I mean the dunk contest thing is Lebron James. But let's just call it.
Let's just call it what it is. He should have been in a
long time ago. He would have just ended this a long time ago.
I'm talking about you know what that is. You know he can't lose stuff
like that that he goes a fragile thing. It is, but really quickly.
One thing that is win the younger Lebron would have been a younger when
Dwayne Wade given players eight when they have tens. That's true too, but
he would have gave his own. Of course, he would have given him
ten. I don't know. I don't know who would have judged it.
I had asked step Away Lebron was jumping when he first came in the league.
Dude, there wasn't he could have. He could have done left hand,
right hand. I think it was anything, and it still looked better
than a lot of adults. Could you imagine if Draymond, Dwayne Wade,
uh, who else love Lebron uh be at the table judging dunk contest for
Lebron get five games over? What's what's your question? Tom? And I
want to see what people think, But do you think that we have an
issue with the dunk contest because we've seen it all already. There's not much
more the human body can do that was shocking all us when it comes to
duncan. I think you have a point. I think that you are correct,
but you also said something earlier about taking the dunk. I think the
end of dunk contest, in particular if you take it out of the n
b A and for whoever, because they do have dunk contests outside of the
NBA and outside of All Star weekend where people are being more curative. These
guys have more athletic, you have more hops, and they they're doing stuff
we've never seen before. So I just think, yeah, I don't know
who is it Americans? And then it's it's this white dude. I had
to say like that, But it's this white guy who colorful with some real
colorful hair, and he's doing some stuff I ain't never seen the dunk contest.
Can he play a lick of basketball? Probably not, but he can
dunk and he's very creative. But you see what happens when people in the
in the everyday community compete against real NBA players, it don't be as good
dun overall basketball. Yeah, of course, like the dude who like to
do who made the most three pointers? Yeah againness book a world record.
Did you see him on tn T against Kenny Smith? Trash trash? Yeah,
So what do you think gonna happen when they get in that arena against
really quickly? Go ahead? I was gonna say, it's real quick.
He went on the podcast and said they set him up for the okie dog.
But go ahead. He said, they set up set him up.
And he said they set him up for the okie dog, and I was
like, no, you just trash how they said he was talking about whom
they had. They gave him a ball that wasn't like he was like,
the grip was off of it. He said, the court was kind of
like lower. He said. They was all in his ear, so it
felt like he said, they said, And from what I've seen is you
just buckled under pressure. It's one thing to shoot a thousand jump shots or
a thousand three pointers with nobody looking, but it's another thing to happen when
you got NBA players actually in your face. All right, go ahead,
what are you doing? Spot to shoot from? Whereas their NBA players that
this is their whole life, This is all they do. This is what
they get paid the millions for. So of course they're gonna beat you.
They're supposed to beat you. They are, and they supposed to badger you.
Yeah. And then on top of he said he lost endorsements, he
lost a whole lot of stuff. After that, I feel we got a
bad for him. But on the pressure to two random things real quick,
that he's out to uh Marquette men's basketball winning National Marquette Day yesterday. And
the Badges, I'm shouting out the basketball teams you pick right now? Yeah,
because I mean, because you have nothing to after the conversation all over
the place. So no, I wanted to shout that out. The Badgers
just lost five in a row. But the Badgers, the Badges are ranked
what are you talking about? The Badger are ranked number ten. Yeah.
They just lost like three in a row. Though it wasn't five, like
three or four. It wasn't four, It was like three. They it
wasn't three, it was like three in a row. They wouldn't be ranked
ten Z with three in a row. They just lost three in a row.
You know what it is? They just so happened. Everybody else is
losing too, so they can't be moved that much. So I want to
shout out they lose it. They losing to unranked teams. I'm shouting out
Marquette, and I'm shouting out our hometown boys, Milwaukee Admirals winning number fourteen
in a row. It's black history. It's Black history, monk. I've
been Uh, you go to Black History Month? So what what does that
mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean Black History
Month? You know what I mean? Really quickly. So Steph is supposed
to be uh doing a three point contest against uh Sabrina? Is he not
in it anymore? He's not in this year, but him and Sabrina something
is going one on one. Had to have three point first, the first
NBA Verse w n B A three point challenge during the All Star weekend this
this weekend. I can't wait. I love that for the sport. I
love it for women's basketball. That is going to give them a lot of
notoriety. Are you picking her over step A lot of people are. But
here's the thing, though, Steph, as great as he is, Steph
can be a spotty streak shooter. Steph, especially under he's an in game
exactly our eyes on you like he's got a spot up guy. To me,
he's but who you have? You got Stephan Sabrina? I got Sabrina,
Stepan, I got Wardale Curry Man. Now if Steph you lose his
game, Jesus Christ, that's just y'all season? How has been going?
I would actually love to see them even get more creative. Do a w
n B, a Women's All Star, getst wn for what? Just uh
oh no, no, no, no, no no. Now you would
go or blended blinded. Fine, you can blend it, but you can't.
It can't be NBA versus W and B. I'll tell you that right
now. I'm not gonna say what I want to say because I don't want
to get canceled. But hey man, we're a podcast on a locally exactly
what we don't want. I don't can I don't want to see somebody get
blow up by fifty twenty cool thirty five, not fifty. I don't want
to see that. Well, I was leaving at that, well Charlotte be
getting blown off by dang, you're fifty. Well, it's different way the
NBA players jump now they would be dunking on the girls to ever play down.
I bet they won't. They won't. Posters. It's the only poster
everybody ever get. But moving on, the Bucks advocated for he tried to
play off. Let him he's trying to send you. Uh. Toll had
a guy idea. You ain't trying to set you off with uh. Moving
on the Buck, Moving on, trying to get your feelings hurt? Moving
on the Bucks talk, Moving on the Bucks talk. The Bucks traded Cameron
Paint and the second round pick for Patrick Beverley from the from the Philadelphia seventy
six years. What are your thoughts? And is this the missing piece that
that's gonna take Bucks over the hump? That bad? This? So I'll
start. I don't I don't like it. It's okay. I don't mind
that we lost camera in pain and he wasn't doing anything for us anyway.
We needed another defensive anchor, and Pat Ev and all his craziness is highly
regarded as probably the third or fourth best defensive player in the game. I
don't know if he still is, and if we win to Ring, he'll
still get one. Yep. The thing I have the problem I have with
Pat buck Bucks tend to be a more family oriented, hierarchy type of thing.
And so what I saw the other day was I saw Pat trying to
coach in huddles. Sit down, man, No, we're a championship team.
How you gonna come in and try to tell champions how to play?
I'm just saying, I'm just saying, how you coming in here? Trying
to tell Brook? And Brook basically told him I got it style as of
Brook basically told no, hold, I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm
gonna throwing it back to y'all. I welcome Pat. I don't know that
he'll stick around because Janni's ain't going you try to get in face like him
too, won't get in his face. So the only reason people got to
realize why he was in the huddle saying something is do y'all not remember he
was just playing under Docs, so he knows Doc's system a little bit better
to help the players along. It wasn't that he's trying to take over,
it's just trying to fit in. Go ahead right now. Yeah, at
this point in time, I feel like we need to listen to whatever can
help. I'm I'm I'm on that train too, Tom. And that's what
I'm saying. That's what Pat I'm trying to do, trying to figure this
out for us. And my thing is this. My thing is this two
things. Number one he a dog. Number two is a dog? He
a dog? Number two? Uh, Brook, this is your second strike.
Your first strike was when you ask for the ball, when you when
your hands is up, when Dame was bringing the ball down and he hit
that game winner, your hands is up like he's gonna pass you the ball.
The second strike was that you said first strike was what the first strike?
When he was asking for the ball that Sacramento game when Dame hit that
game winner. Who okay, when he hit that game winner, Lopez was
behind him because he had passed on the ball and he was looking for He
had his hands like he was gonna get the ball. Who did Robert Lopez?
Well, he's supposed to. You gotta be ready, he gotta be
ready to shoot you. Your hands should be down looking up. So then
what happened to were gonna pass his dame time? You know it's dame time.
It's under two minutes. It's dame time. You are if they decided
the triple team and he not ready shoot it. Here's the deal. And
then the second one was that it could it could be a third to go
to go. He's not the same. It's okay to say Brook was good
to us. Brook is still okay occasionally, but for us to be competing
for a championship, we ain't doing that with I'm sorry to say Brook has
to go. Bro Why he's old. His body is starting to show.
His speed is slowing down. Yes, he's good for some point, but
most big men are slow. When you're seven six, what do you expect
him to be the slew forted I'm saying most big men are slew for it.
Do you think Embiid is super fast? He's super fast because he's younger
than Lopez, but he's not that much faster. Okay, well take away
the speed Brookes even think of that. Thinking about Victor, he's seven foot
something. He's quick, He's not that quick as people think he is.
He's only quick against other big men. I think he's because he's young.
Still, wait till you get a couple of years and wear a tear on
the knees, in the ankles, in them feat then you will see how
hard it is for to be a seven ft are you do you agree?
Old No, Brook is perfect for us? Is perfect for us? You
just saying it's not. It's not about being a fan. It wasn't what's
right? Who else you're gonna go with? Tell me who else you're gonna
go with? I want us to sign Myles Turner a long time ago.
All I'm saying is the Bucks. They don't want to give them up for
definitely losing. The Bucks are going to have I'm not gonna use the word
rebuild, but the Bucks are gonna have to reconstruct this roster in the off
season. They have to sign some free agents. Have No, we don't
have We don't have any collateral. So what if they win? Then what?
I'm a Bucks fan just like you, probably a bigger fan because all
the game. Dang, why but he's a season. The Milwaukee Bucks are
not winning the title this year. You said it too. I've been said
that they're not winning the title. We have the second hardest schedule in the
NBA. Right now, it's not looking good. We are barely beat Yeah,
we beat Charlotte by fifty, but you should you should. LaMelo didn't
play, But then we just say, Charlotte always got our number, regardless
they got their starters or not. You said that even when they don't got
LaMelo, they still give us a run for our money all of every go.
Look at every time we play. Are you still confident in the b
yes? Okay, all right, okay? What about was a little about
the pet bad pick up? I think the pet bad pickup is. I
think it works. I think it helps us get over that hump a little
bit defensively when you can go to a guard who ain't afraid of nobody.
No, because when when when Dame goes out, don't forget like Pat Bev
might not score a lot now, you don't need him for that though,
we don't really need him for that. But also you got to remember Pat
bed was a walking bucket before he came in the league. Remember he fouled
a role as a defensive player to stick around longer. It's true, so
he want to win. I mean, I like players who want to win,
who mentally tough. I agree. Honestly, I don't mind Pat here,
especially for what he got him for. He just needs to know it's
wrong, and I think he does so like him picking up. I think
he not know. Well, it's only been a game. It's only been
a game. You know. We we've said on this show Pat Bev had
since he to be a loud mouth. He has a tendency to be kind
of offensive to his teammates. But what I like about Pat Bev is he
does bring the best out of it players no matter how he does it,
he brings the best out of his teammates. But anyway, just just a
quick note, as we in the season, these are free agents that are
available coming up, Slice, Maxin, Paul George Pascal. Can you give
us some realistic people? He was saying Lebron Drew Holliday is becoming a free
agent, so you're not gonna give us no realistic I'm going to list Tobias
Harris, Damar DeRozan, James Harden, which we we would never come here
on a nob League. Nick Claxton, D'Angelo Russell, Malik Monk calledwell,
Pope, Miles Bridges, Clay Thompson, Buddy Healed, So Bruce Brown.
There are some players out there, uh uh den Wittie that I think the
Bucks will need to run it next year and to be competitive, because right
now I don't see it. I don't think. No, I'm not crazy,
I'm I'm I'm objective. No, the Bucks are a good team,
but can we've already established that the Bucks came and beat the Pacers right now,
they can't even beat the Pacers right now, and we won't even get
a chance to see a rematch until they match up in the playoffs if they
match up, and that's when it's gonna become a problem. I hope so,
I hope so, I hope so. But continue, Well, that's
that's all I got. Really. I like the trade. I've been like
the trade, always liked that. Like I always liked that. What's his
name on our team? What is his name? Cool? Pat Bev?
I'm sorry, Pat Bev has always been somebody's gonna keep you accountable, And
that's the I think that's one of the biggest things we have right now is
going on with the Bucks, that we need this mighty to keep us accountable.
But it's been another episode of the ninety four feet podcast. Think my
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