Speaker 1: You have to love the laugh. Welcome back to Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: July the second, twenty twenty five. Phone numbers five zero
Speaker 1: two five seven one seventy nine hundred. That's five zero two,
Speaker 1: five seventy nine hundred. This is Sports Talk seven ninety
Speaker 1: kr D. I've got Big John behind the glass. We
Speaker 1: have the switching sands and the production booth. Now that
Speaker 1: Shannon's on vacation, So John, welcome to the Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: Are you doing today?
Speaker 2: Doing well? How are you, Jerry John?
Speaker 1: I can't complain, yeah, and I can't play. I just
Speaker 1: can't believe you told me. And I didn't know that
Speaker 1: my man Toni CRUs At retired. They'll let you know
Speaker 1: how bad I am in my little cubby hole, and
Speaker 1: especially now that it's been over a month since arm
Speaker 1: cru has been gone, I can't believe that. Honestly, Tony
Speaker 1: was the production He was the producer of the Denny
Speaker 1: Joe B Show. You remember Joe B Dinny Show. Yes,
Speaker 1: and that was my first breaking the radio. Eleven years ago.
Speaker 1: Coach Crumb had me sit in on his show with
Speaker 1: Coach Hall and that was my first break. And this
Speaker 1: is amazing. It is so anyway, we gotta move on
Speaker 1: into other things. But we appreciate you sitting in and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a fun, a lot of fun today.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna mess with you like I usually. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna leave you alone time. I'm gonna be polite and nice.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, and it's the second. It's a beautiful day outside.
Speaker 1: There's no rain, beautiful day outside, it's not super hot,
Speaker 1: it's nice. So people will be able to get in
Speaker 1: their exercise today. But so I'm gonna be nice today, John,
Speaker 1: for you, only you, John, Well, I appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: was even nice to Gus. I gave us a hard time.
Speaker 1: But anyway, bring on my younger son from me, John,
Speaker 1: Bring on Anthony Eves to the show.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 1: How you feeling this day. I'm just trying to tell you.
Speaker 1: I think I'm just trying to collect my thoughts. That's all.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to gather and lock in. It's Wednesday,
Speaker 1: I'm day and I'm just trying to get myself together.
Speaker 1: That's all. I'm sitting here right now, Anthony reminiscing. I
Speaker 1: might throw out a little tidbit to our listeners, and
Speaker 1: I may have to speak a little bit more about
Speaker 1: Indiana pacers and coats because we may be going to
Speaker 1: Indianapolis's market. So it's an interesting little tidbit. I'll talk
Speaker 1: to our fans a little bit more in friends about
Speaker 1: it more as it gets closer. But I might be
Speaker 1: trying to stretch out into that Indie market, Anthony, So
Speaker 1: you know that means Hoo's your basketball. No, I didn't
Speaker 1: say that, Hoosiers. I didn't say that about Indiana basketball.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that. You know, I just can't compare
Speaker 1: with Kentucky and louisbo that's all. But that's okay. But
Speaker 1: we may be doing that. So anything, I'm just sitting
Speaker 1: here trying to get my mind together. You never know,
Speaker 1: shifting sands, things are always changing. So that's all. What
Speaker 1: do you got? What's going on with you? What's going
Speaker 1: on with.
Speaker 2: We just got a lot. We're getting hit with new
Speaker 2: updates between Wimbledon, NBA sports, college sports. Over the last
Speaker 2: couple of plays that's been it's been a handful, to
Speaker 2: say the least, but it's been exciting. It's honestly, it's
Speaker 2: keeping something going throughout the summer. I hate, I hate
Speaker 2: to say it for those baseball fans. But this right
Speaker 2: here is uly the most boring time in sports. We
Speaker 2: do like watching the World Series. I'm just not the
Speaker 2: biggest baseball fans, so baseball kind of bores me during
Speaker 2: the regular season. But and I hate to se that,
Speaker 2: and I hate to say that NBA basketball bores me
Speaker 2: during the regular season too, So I'm not gonna sit there.
Speaker 1: It will be under the boat.
Speaker 2: I don't just like college sports. College football, college basketball
Speaker 2: is is my favorite time. I love fall sports going
Speaker 2: into the winter. That's just that's peak.
Speaker 1: Sports for me. I know the weather is terrible and.
Speaker 2: It's freezing outside, but I still go out there and
Speaker 2: freeze and a tailgate at a football game, then probably
Speaker 2: go to an mob game. I'm just gonna be completely honest.
Speaker 1: I agree with you left out the top dog. NFL
Speaker 1: is the big dog. I love the NFL. I tell you,
Speaker 1: I can't wait till the end of the season starts.
Speaker 1: I start arguing with all my cat fans about Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I can't wait. I just love the NFL.
Speaker 1: I always have. It's been my favorite sport my entire life. Anthony.
Speaker 1: I mean, my dad stopped me from playing football. I
Speaker 1: was a much better football player than basketball. And that
Speaker 1: is the gods on the street, not close. I was
Speaker 1: like my older brother carry, I just couldn't wait to
Speaker 1: get on the field. So anyway, but we do. The
Speaker 1: NBA has done a great job of giving us things
Speaker 1: in the summer, and next week I'm going to the
Speaker 1: summer League. I mean, we have got college all over.
Speaker 1: The pain of these athletes is crazy. Let's don't forget
Speaker 1: and the WNBA, the fever the WNBA has taken off.
Speaker 1: I don't care what any Caitlin Clark I hate. You know,
Speaker 1: it's so funny, Anthony, because we are in America still
Speaker 1: so racist on some thing. I don't understand the WNBA,
Speaker 1: And I know Caitlin clarkson a shooting slump. That girl
Speaker 1: is a bad man, period, point blank. She's made me
Speaker 1: watch women's sports perry point blank. I just don't get it.
Speaker 1: And I don't mind them bumping her. And I don't
Speaker 1: mind those things. Yeah that's basketball. Larry Bird got thrown down,
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson got thrown down, Michael Jordan got thrown I
Speaker 1: don't mind that. But I would just like the people
Speaker 1: still knew as a player in that era, Anthony, I
Speaker 1: knew Bird was a bad man. I knew Magic. I
Speaker 1: knew what Magic and Larry did for the league when
Speaker 1: I came in, what they were doing before I got there,
Speaker 1: I'd know. That's the only thing. I just would like
Speaker 1: to know. The WNBA would say, and know what that
Speaker 1: girl's doing for that league? Private planes, better paid, I mean,
Speaker 1: sellout games. Come on, and honestly, Angel Reese, she can't shoot,
Speaker 1: but she's Dennis Rodman. But again, she'd bring in notoriety
Speaker 1: to the sport. I just don't get it. I don't.
Speaker 1: But they're doing well too. There's a lot going on
Speaker 1: now sports wise in the summer that they're used to
Speaker 1: not anty ten years ago. It was a slow time.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was truly a slow time, I thought,
Speaker 1: But not now. There's a lot to talk about. So
Speaker 1: now tell me where are we already, Golly Jon World,
Speaker 1: because we're gonna cut this show up too also as
Speaker 1: the best stuff, so we're gonna stay on task. So
Speaker 1: it's seven twelve. But you know, first and foremost, before
Speaker 1: we get into the things, we have to talk about
Speaker 1: what happened to Coco Golf yesterday? And you know your
Speaker 1: friend Bland and put it on me next thing, I know,
Speaker 1: I see a tweet Jerry says Coco Goff's name out
Speaker 1: of his mouth and she loses in the first round.
Speaker 1: Come on, Blanding. It just can't kill me all the time.
Speaker 1: What happened to Coco Anthony? I mean twenty nine unforced
Speaker 1: eras nine double faults. I think she was still bringing
Speaker 1: a little that champaign from the French Open. What do
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about it yesterday. We know, and I
Speaker 2: don't want to sit here and kill it because we've
Speaker 2: all had bad performances.
Speaker 1: Where I don't know what happened.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, you know, and sometimes it's not even a physical
Speaker 2: aspect of sports.
Speaker 1: I of it.
Speaker 2: You're gonna understand. Athletes are still normal people, and there's
Speaker 2: things that go on mentally outside of sports that people
Speaker 2: may not know about sometimes. And it can be small
Speaker 2: things too. And I've said this before. Even in my
Speaker 2: sports playing career, when I wasn't mentally in the best place,
Speaker 2: I feel like I was having bad grades, or I
Speaker 2: got in trouble at home, or I was just having
Speaker 2: trouble with friends or family. I didn't perform my best
Speaker 2: and I know that for a fact, and I never
Speaker 2: performed the best when I feel like I had stuff
Speaker 2: going on outside of sports that was causing a lot
Speaker 2: of things to be on my mind. When I feel
Speaker 2: like I had things checking off the boxes correctly, I
Speaker 2: played my best. And that's and that's one hundred percent fact.
Speaker 2: And it could be the same thing. Similar with cocoa golf,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously, and sometimes it could just be just
Speaker 2: a bad performance day. Sometimes, you know, in basketball, you
Speaker 2: feel you feel fine, but the shots that aren't falling.
Speaker 2: Sometimes the sirs feel good in tennis and they're just
Speaker 2: they're just not there. They're just not hitting off the
Speaker 2: square of the face like you think they are. Some
Speaker 2: of the shots that you've practiced over the last couple
Speaker 2: of years. Everything feels a little bit short, or the shorts,
Speaker 2: the shots who feel a little.
Speaker 1: Longer hitting outside the line.
Speaker 2: So it happens. But she did lose in the first
Speaker 2: round yesterday and the woman's wimble. Then she lost to
Speaker 2: Diana Yastrimsky in the first round in straight sets. She
Speaker 2: lost seven to six in the first set and then
Speaker 2: six to one on the second set. That's the only
Speaker 2: reason why it's such an eye raisers, because ye to
Speaker 2: an unranked player in the first round, and.
Speaker 1: She's lost in the first round before. But the way
Speaker 1: did it Anthony six one? God? The girl just Jack
Speaker 1: Reuter in the second set? God. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And she's not the only American to lose to uh.
Speaker 2: Jessica Bagool, the number three ring player in the world too,
Speaker 2: she lost in her first round as well, So I
Speaker 2: know there's someone who off out there, like she's the
Speaker 2: only player that lost, She's not the only one. There
Speaker 2: was another women's players in high rankings. Even on the
Speaker 2: men's sides, Carl with Alcharz, he still struggled kind of
Speaker 2: in his first.
Speaker 1: He still struggle five sets. Yes, he struggled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it wasn't, you know, the most pretty looking victory.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there's there's a lot of names, even on
Speaker 2: the men's side, for those who aren't super familiar with tennis.
Speaker 2: Lorenzo Blusseti, who was actually the seventh rank player in
Speaker 2: the men's sit at side, he lost in three one
Speaker 2: sets yesterday, and he's the number seventh rank player in
Speaker 2: the world. He lost to the naturally ranked one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty six Shepalov, who's the number twenty seventh rank
Speaker 2: player in the world, lost as well. He lost. He
Speaker 2: won the first set six to three, then lost three
Speaker 2: straight sets after that. So there's players on the men's
Speaker 2: side who were in the top twenty five that took
Speaker 2: losses to the number three ranked player on the men's size.
Speaker 2: Zevaz lost in five sets as well too, So it's
Speaker 2: you know, I know we're throwing Coco's off under the bus,
Speaker 2: but there's there had to be at least five men
Speaker 2: in the top twenty five that lost in their first round.
Speaker 2: The men's wom will do as well too, So it
Speaker 2: happens in every sport. So Coco goffill bounce back during
Speaker 2: the Woman's US Open, and I think she'll be fine.
Speaker 2: But it's just and I hate to say it sucks.
Speaker 2: It was why I saying it sucks because she's like
Speaker 2: our one African American woman's figure that we have now
Speaker 2: in like Serena and Venus at the time, yes, kind
Speaker 2: of carry the black side for women's tennis. So we
Speaker 2: love to see her be successful. So it were liked, haang,
Speaker 2: she didn't make it past the first round. I'm like,
Speaker 2: she's like our she's like our black woman's icon of tennis.
Speaker 1: Now right, No, that's fact. She has to carry the trophy.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that Mando is heavy, that's just the fact, but
Speaker 1: she will bounce back. Uh. Playing tennis on grass Anthony
Speaker 1: and Clay is different. It's just different game, more volleying.
Speaker 1: It's just different. But congratulations to the winners and we'll
Speaker 1: continue watching. That's the one thing that's going to be
Speaker 1: on during the fourth of July that you'll be able
Speaker 1: to watch that is really entertaining. So we'll make sure
Speaker 1: we do that. And we are at seven to seventeen
Speaker 1: and we're gonna at the show. We want to make
Speaker 1: sure that we keep it at the fifteen thirty forty five.
Speaker 1: So John, do me a favor, take me to break.
Speaker 1: When we come back. We've got a lot of NBA,
Speaker 1: a lot of football to get into. And SGA he's
Speaker 1: just got a couple of coins in his pocket, not
Speaker 1: a lot, just two hundred and eighty five million dollars
Speaker 1: worth of coins in his body. We'll talk about it
Speaker 1: after the break. Welcome back to the Sports Radio seven
Speaker 1: twenty one. Yes, you should be scurrying to work if
Speaker 1: you have to be there at eight o'clock. Again, your
Speaker 1: loved ones are out there and other people's loved ones
Speaker 1: are out there, please drive safely. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: E Sports Radio, Anthony. We got a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: to get to. Where you want to start first? We
Speaker 1: do you want to hit first?
Speaker 2: We do got a lot And one of the big
Speaker 2: things we're talking about this morning is obviously was one
Speaker 2: of the WNBA's NBA expansions that are coming about for
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five all the way through the year of
Speaker 2: twenty thirty.
Speaker 1: But one of the things we were.
Speaker 2: Talking about on there is obviously Louisville is not one
Speaker 2: of those teams in the contention once again, which you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not even surprised anymore. I'm just more selfish, like
Speaker 2: we don't even give ourselves a chance. We don't want
Speaker 2: an NBA team, We don't want the w NBA teams,
Speaker 2: we don't want NFL teams, we don't want professional baseball, hockey, nothing.
Speaker 2: It's for it to be such a decent sized city.
Speaker 2: It's like we don't want any advancement when it comes
Speaker 2: to sports. They want to grow U of l tours,
Speaker 2: which I do like. But you know, I hate to
Speaker 2: say that Louisville is not just a college town. Lexington
Speaker 2: is a college town. If you take UK out of Lexington,
Speaker 2: there's nothing there. But if you take U of L
Speaker 2: out of U of L, you still have infrastructure here.
Speaker 2: There's still a lot of successful businesses. It's still a
Speaker 2: decent sized city.
Speaker 1: I'm when Kentucky in Kentucky anymore. Hugh mad has left.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem, which people don't get it. They get
Speaker 1: mad at me because I tell them, but they don't
Speaker 1: want to understand it. Let's just be honest with this.
Speaker 1: The DUNNBA had probably eleven or twelve cities that they
Speaker 1: were looking at. We know that they have selected. We
Speaker 1: know this year San Francisco came in. We know that
Speaker 1: I think Toronto and Portland are coming in next year. Okay,
Speaker 1: both of them are very nice size. Toronto is a
Speaker 1: huge city. Portland is not. Portland is a Louisville Kentucky.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, period point blank. But their leadership had
Speaker 1: foresight any so a lot of times. Really good friends
Speaker 1: of mine I mean this have told me, Jerry, get
Speaker 1: over it. You have to get over that. We didn't
Speaker 1: get Charlotte. We have to get over we didn't keep
Speaker 1: the colonels. Well, guys, that's the reason why we don't
Speaker 1: get a WNBA franchise. That's why I don't want to
Speaker 1: let it go because if we continue to have that
Speaker 1: thought process, Anthony, You're correct, everything's going to leave the city.
Speaker 1: We will be a minor league everything, and we don't
Speaker 1: We shouldn't be that other than and everyone knows what
Speaker 1: did they say about Jerry's and Churchill downs in the
Speaker 1: need to Churchill downs. And I don't even gamble, Anthony,
Speaker 1: I want people to understand this. I bet on my
Speaker 1: college number across the board derby weeket's fun. I don't gamble. Period.
Speaker 1: We were in Panama City, Panama Ana. I think I
Speaker 1: gambled with forty bucks. I think I gave Ashley, your daughter,
Speaker 1: twenty dollars. I may have gambled forty, let's say sixty,
Speaker 1: sitting next to you and your mom, just having fun,
Speaker 1: and I lost my money. That's why I don't gamble.
Speaker 1: They took my sixty dollars. We need Churchill downs, we
Speaker 1: needed the WNBA. But people in this city are surprised
Speaker 1: when we don't get them. And I mean my counterparts
Speaker 1: on other stations. How could Louisville not get them? Because
Speaker 1: we haven't done anything to get them. We've done everything
Speaker 1: not to get them, that's the problem. But we're not
Speaker 1: going to say who was a part of it, who
Speaker 1: put us in this situation. We're just gonna act like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're neglecting Louisville. No, they are not. We made bad
Speaker 1: decisions throughout the years. Our leaders that we elect got
Speaker 1: me and people that we hire that get power positions
Speaker 1: have put us in this position. That's why I can't
Speaker 1: let it go. We've got an NBA arena, we do Anthony.
Speaker 1: We don't have an NBA team, we have a w
Speaker 1: NBA arena, and we don't have a WNBAT And until
Speaker 1: our leaders completely change their thought process completely to where
Speaker 1: they tell these franchises X, Y and Z made mistakes,
Speaker 1: we're not going to make those mistakes again. We're never
Speaker 1: going to have anything. So it is what it is.
Speaker 1: It doesn't surprise. I hate it because for a radio
Speaker 1: show hosts Anney that ten years from now, when I'm
Speaker 1: gone and you're running it, right, you'd love to have
Speaker 1: a WNVA franchise here in the city. It's more to
Speaker 1: talk about. It gives people things to do. People don't
Speaker 1: understand Americans love sporting events. Takes you off of the
Speaker 1: mundane workday, that's all there is to it. Some people
Speaker 1: love the arts, Anthony. People love the theater. Jim Haynes,
Speaker 1: my man, he loves the theater, got me, Mike Vin,
Speaker 1: Billy Hayes. They love sports, got me some of my
Speaker 1: biggest John Carney Partey's got he loves sports. Everybody has
Speaker 1: a niche and that's why community should grow. You should
Speaker 1: try to bring as many artsy things and sports as
Speaker 1: artsy to your community because everyone's different. But you want
Speaker 1: to try to serve your community. So, Anthony, I hate it.
Speaker 1: The expansion fee would have been fifteen to twenty million,
Speaker 1: got me, Anthony, fifteen twenty million. But it's well worth
Speaker 1: it in the long haul. You see what these things
Speaker 1: franchises do for city. So and now I'm with you,
Speaker 1: and honestly, Kentucky, the University of Kentucky, Anthony is the
Speaker 1: entire state. See has got Lexington, It's got fans here
Speaker 1: in Louisville. He's got fans in Eastern and Louisville. Coach
Speaker 1: Crumb's era, My championship, Darryl Griffiths Championship Riding and Scooter,
Speaker 1: and Derek Smith Wiley's championship took us out into the
Speaker 1: state do where we have fans out in the state
Speaker 1: and into Indiana. That's what championships do back in the day.
Speaker 1: But again, a WNBA franchise in this state, Anthony helps
Speaker 1: Kentucky also, So I hate it. But I've heard all
Speaker 1: the stuttle, but we haven't touched it at all this week.
Speaker 1: But everyone was talking about how could Louisville not be
Speaker 1: on the list? Guys, we have turned our back on
Speaker 1: professional sports leagues. Duh. But you know, don't say that, Jerry,
Speaker 1: I'm lying. Then I would love for someone to call
Speaker 1: those shows. I heard about them. People were calling me
Speaker 1: Anthony and ask them, then what do they think happened?
Speaker 1: All they say is always we're always crying, whining. They
Speaker 1: left us out. No they didn't. We had people that
Speaker 1: told them we didn't need an NBA program directly, So
Speaker 1: here we are. But we're never going to say that
Speaker 1: because we're never going to tell the truth about the
Speaker 1: history of what's happened in this city truly since nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy five and the Colonel's going defunct, not finding the
Speaker 1: money for the Colonels to go to the NBA should
Speaker 1: have found the money, just like the Pacers scrapped up
Speaker 1: the money, begged barrot and stole the money. I don't
Speaker 1: care what you have to do. That's what foresight is, Anthony,
Speaker 1: That's what leadership is. We wouldn't be in this position,
Speaker 1: but we are. And all the cities around us, Hey,
Speaker 1: Porlo and Nashville, they get another pro anything just I
Speaker 1: would love for Louisville fans to drive to Nashville, Tennessee
Speaker 1: just one time, then drive back and you'll understand what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, period, point blank. None of the other cities. No, Oakland.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to compare us to Oakland. I've been
Speaker 1: there one hundred times, Anthony. I've been to Philadelphia, honestly,
Speaker 1: two hundred times. I've been to Portland probably fifty times.
Speaker 1: Got me. I've been to Toronto probably thirty times, Anthony,
Speaker 1: I'm not comparing to those I would like for If
Speaker 1: you had an opportunity to go to Portland, Oregon, you'd
Speaker 1: be like Portland, Oregon is Louisville, Kentucky exactly with pro franchises.
Speaker 1: That's all. So leadership is important, no matter what people
Speaker 1: want to tell you in this city, no matter how
Speaker 1: much they want to dumb you down. Leadership in foresight
Speaker 1: is important, that's all. That's why you don't have one.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm looking to go to Indianapolis. It sure
Speaker 1: opens up a lot of more things to speak about,
Speaker 1: that's all. So anyway, we're at seven twenty eight, let's
Speaker 1: stay on task and cut it up. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into all the things that are transparent
Speaker 1: in that NBA. We're gonna lean on you to tell
Speaker 1: me what's going on, and we're gonna talk about that contract.
Speaker 1: And I think I could assign for if shake Gildings,
Speaker 1: Alexander's worth two hundred and eighty five millionaire, I think
Speaker 1: I could have gotten today's market. I might have got
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty five dollars. Hell I don't know
Speaker 1: is the sports radio. We'll talk to you all after
Speaker 1: the break. Welcome back to the sports radio. It's a
Speaker 1: seven thirty three. It's Wednesday, July. The second eight o'clock
Speaker 1: is approaching. I know there's some people have to be
Speaker 1: at work at seven thirty or late, but still take
Speaker 1: your time. Be safe, Anthony. Look, this NBA has gone
Speaker 1: flat dad crazy, So I'm just throwing it to you.
Speaker 1: The late Great Junior Bridgeman can't believe he's gone. Came
Speaker 1: on our show last fall, Anthony and he had purchased
Speaker 1: a portion of the Milwaukee Bucks, remember, and we had
Speaker 1: a great time with him on and he said that
Speaker 1: if the Bucks did not win this year that there
Speaker 1: would be major changes. That's what he said. And I
Speaker 1: thought it would start with Doc Rivers. There'd be major changes.
Speaker 1: I thought Doc would be the first major change. What
Speaker 1: do you think yesterday the Bucks waving Damian Lillard? What
Speaker 1: do you think? I mean, they just waved the man
Speaker 1: thirty eight years old Anthony Perennial All Star gone.
Speaker 2: Well, I think one of the key topic you said
Speaker 2: right there was that thirty eight year old number. Now
Speaker 2: we might have that's an old age hern Achilles tear.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's funny the podcast between you know,
Speaker 2: Kevin Gurant Lebron and Steve Nash and they were talking about,
Speaker 2: you know, the six to two guard really is is
Speaker 2: a shorter margin of air now than they used to
Speaker 2: And I mean that in the senses that if you're
Speaker 2: not an elite defender like they said, like Drew Holliday, Daveyon,
Speaker 2: Mitchell Lougan, doorts you know, Alex Brusso those six two
Speaker 2: sixty three six war guards that aren't a defensive liability
Speaker 2: because teams expose it now and they did back then too,
Speaker 2: but they attack guards that can't defend. That's why Lucas
Speaker 2: had such a tough time. I love Luca, but Luca
Speaker 2: can't guard a soul and that's one of the major
Speaker 2: reasons why Dallas kind of got rid of him. Too
Speaker 2: out of shape and you can't descend. People got out
Speaker 2: of him. Boston destroyed Luca in the finals because Jason
Speaker 2: Tatum and Jalen Brown switched on Luca Donage seventy five
Speaker 2: to eighty percent of the time. Man, they just kind
Speaker 2: of had their weights. But it's hard to go out
Speaker 2: there to expect It's hard to expect an immaculate bounce
Speaker 2: back from a six foot guard who's thirty eight years
Speaker 2: old after an Achilles's tear. He's almost on a max
Speaker 2: contract for a two year, one hundred and thirteen million
Speaker 2: dollar deal. That's just not worth the investment to clear
Speaker 2: up that much cap space to be able to go
Speaker 2: out there and sign a prominent guard, because honestly, we
Speaker 2: saw it last year. Kevin Porter's union came back to
Speaker 2: the Bucks obviously being off his suspension for a while,
Speaker 2: and he played phenomenal and his contract is drastically smaller
Speaker 2: than Damian Lewis. If I were the same thing, if
Speaker 2: I was the same thing as the Bucks franchise in
Speaker 2: front office, I would just develop Kevin Porters junior, put
Speaker 2: him at the one spot, save that cap space for
Speaker 2: younger all stars that are up and coming. Because people
Speaker 2: are gonna make moves and players are gonna change teams.
Speaker 2: Every player is not going to stay with the olkc
Speaker 2: Thunder's not enough money to go around. Every player is
Speaker 2: not going to stay with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Every team's
Speaker 2: not gonna stay on the Lakers. There's going to be
Speaker 2: opportunity coming soon for those players to sign, those to
Speaker 2: sign to those other teams. Miles Turner is not the
Speaker 2: best big man in the league, but he is. Honestly,
Speaker 2: he's he's a starting big man and the big and
Speaker 2: the Bucks got him for honestly little to nothing. People
Speaker 2: are sing things like that, and there's no reason why that.
Speaker 2: Teams like the Bucks.
Speaker 1: The Bucks like we can get a Miles I know,
Speaker 1: but how did the Indiana Pacers let Miles Turner get away?
Speaker 1: For twenty five million dollars a year. Come on, I mean,
Speaker 1: I hate to say it to people. We know it's
Speaker 1: a lot of money. It's no money, I know, Andy,
Speaker 1: but you can't let your starting center in a finals
Speaker 1: team walk away for twenty five million dollars.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. The Pacers are cheap, man, They're cheap. I
Speaker 2: know every team at the same staff pace because we
Speaker 2: literally talked about it. Say but I swear some teams
Speaker 2: are just cheap and it shows because they won't even
Speaker 2: sign the role players to average size contracts in the
Speaker 2: NBA now. So it's just like, are these teams like
Speaker 2: everybody has a cap space to hit as There's gotta
Speaker 2: be a reason why they won't pay mouse turning twenty
Speaker 2: five years.
Speaker 1: But Niki, like.
Speaker 2: Alexander Walker, who was a role player for the Minnesota Temple,
Speaker 2: will sign the four year, sixty two million deal with
Speaker 2: the Hawks, almost fifteen million year for a guy who
Speaker 2: only toot corner three, who played a little defense.
Speaker 1: I can't believe the Pacers did that. I'm just we
Speaker 1: gotta slow it down. Indiana has been to the finals
Speaker 1: of the Eastern Conference last year, the finals in NBA
Speaker 1: this year. They were the underdog in every series. Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: New York, Cleveland got me and and Oka see it
Speaker 1: almost it went to seven games in Okay, See, let's
Speaker 1: just be honest with Okace, who I picked to win it?
Speaker 1: And you let your starting center go. The longest got
Speaker 1: person on your roster was Miles Turning. Everyone said he's
Speaker 1: a great guy. I don't know him personally. That's one
Speaker 1: person I dined, but everyone said he was a great
Speaker 1: person from which you heard listening to the talking heads
Speaker 1: on television. And you let him go for twenty five
Speaker 1: million dollars. There's two sides of this. And I can't
Speaker 1: believe he left for twenty five million dollars. I can't
Speaker 1: believe he just wouldn't force Indiana. He's been there that long.
Speaker 1: I would have thought he would have stayed. With the
Speaker 1: success that they had. That one shocked me. Anthy, not
Speaker 1: that he left, but for the amount of money. That's
Speaker 1: just no money for a starting center off a final team.
Speaker 2: It is I mean, I hate to say a funny
Speaker 2: clip I saw. I think he saw it on TikTok.
Speaker 2: It was. It was a SpongeBob clip and it was
Speaker 2: it was something at the time that he was about
Speaker 2: the flying mister crabs will.
Speaker 1: Sell a flying Dutchman SpongeBob.
Speaker 2: He said, you can even say SpongeBob, or I can
Speaker 2: give you all the money in my pocket. He said,
Speaker 2: how much money we talking?
Speaker 3: He yelled, what I'm saying, it's a crab sixty two cents,
Speaker 3: he said, sold, that's all it took.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what'll it take that? What take the money?
Speaker 1: We'll take your money. I mean, that's it. So Miles Turner,
Speaker 1: that was crazy. Now let's go to the other spectrum man.
Speaker 1: You'll win it all. You go to University of Kentucky
Speaker 1: for one year. If you had to say, a person
Speaker 1: that improved each year, strived, got better, scored better, has
Speaker 1: a unique skill set Anthony, and it's taking his team
Speaker 1: to the finals and won it. He just earned a
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty five million dollar extension, the highest
Speaker 1: and professional sports average, seventy one point two five million
Speaker 1: a year, more than we know. So Hey also took
Speaker 1: his deferred money. But still money's money. I don't care.
Speaker 1: It's higher than so Hey's seventy million, ten years, seventy
Speaker 1: million dollar deal. What do you think? And he could
Speaker 1: have taken he could have gotten a five year deal
Speaker 1: for almost seventy six million. If he'd have waited one
Speaker 1: more year. What do you think did he take it
Speaker 1: too soon? Did he pull a SpongeBob he sell hisself
Speaker 1: short six million?
Speaker 2: I think he was just trying to save a little bit, honestly,
Speaker 2: for his teammates, because you know, if he wants to
Speaker 2: keep some of those players around, especially the role players,
Speaker 2: he can't take every cent that the okayc Thunder has
Speaker 2: offer and you know, and you know, between his endorsements
Speaker 2: and what he's making now, honestly, I think for SJA,
Speaker 2: that's more than enough money for him to be like,
Speaker 2: I don't need an extra five million dollars. I'd rather
Speaker 2: you give that to Lougan Doris or Alex Caruso, or
Speaker 2: even give it to shed Jalen Williams. You know, at
Speaker 2: this point he's probably like this, He's like, probably just like,
Speaker 2: just give it to anybody. Give it to Aaron Wiggins
Speaker 2: to keep him on the team. Give it to Isaiah Joe,
Speaker 2: give it to Caseon Wallace. Those players that had big
Speaker 2: impacts throughout their season and through the playoffs, that that
Speaker 2: five million dollars could be a make or break for.
Speaker 1: Them, not friends, let's explain something because a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know about the NBA. There is a salary cap.
Speaker 1: It went up to one hundred and fifty four million
Speaker 1: this year, and as you know, next year, not this
Speaker 1: following year, but next year, Shay will take seventy one
Speaker 1: million of that one fifty four So, Anthony, that five
Speaker 1: million you're talking about is important to keep role players
Speaker 1: so that they're just not completely bleeding money. Yes, you
Speaker 1: can go over the salary cap. Yes your ownership can
Speaker 1: pay him to the luxury tax. But people are trying
Speaker 1: to get away from that. Yes, these owners are multi billionaires.
Speaker 1: Yes it's play money, but still they're business people and
Speaker 1: they're trying to get away from that. We watched already
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics have cast away to starters trying to
Speaker 1: lower their salary cap. So, yes, that five million dollars
Speaker 1: would be important to Okac and teammates for Shay Gilties.
Speaker 1: But Athy all almost say is this, I knew he
Speaker 1: was a good player. I never thought he'd be the
Speaker 1: good Anthony. I never thought he'd be a thirty two
Speaker 1: points seven points a game regular season thirty point three
Speaker 1: points a game in the NBA finals. I just didn't.
Speaker 1: And he is really a fine young man, so I'm
Speaker 1: happy for him, of course. Okay, See, Kevin Durant didn't
Speaker 1: bring him a championship, Anthony, James Harden didn't bring him
Speaker 1: a championship. Crazy Westbrook didn't bring him a championship. This
Speaker 1: young man here did, so congratulations. Okay. See they're going
Speaker 1: to lock him up for forever. Hopefully he can finish
Speaker 1: his career there and we'll see what happens. I'm not
Speaker 1: picking them today to win it, though, Anthony, I'm not.
Speaker 1: It's hard to repeat in the NBA. It hasn't happened
Speaker 1: now in about ten years. Anthony, it's hard to do,
Speaker 1: so I'm not doing that. But I think they'll make
Speaker 1: a run at it. But it's hard to do it,
Speaker 1: just is so. And what would you do with two
Speaker 1: and eighty five? And me? Could you find something to
Speaker 1: do with that?
Speaker 2: You know, that was crazy because we've never had that
Speaker 2: much money before. But that's the statistics that we always
Speaker 2: talk about that these guys, even back then the concerts.
Speaker 4: Were't two hundred million dollars, but they still find a
Speaker 4: way to somehow go bankrupt. Making guys do so apparently
Speaker 4: they find ways to spend one hundred million dollars like
Speaker 4: it's nothing. They do within a ten year span after
Speaker 4: their NBA career.
Speaker 1: Is over, and they I want people to know that
Speaker 1: by thirty six, over sixty five percent of them are busted.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's amazing. But they are over sixty
Speaker 1: five percent of the NBA players ten years out our bust.
Speaker 1: That is amazing and that shit not happen. But I
Speaker 1: fought with Isaiah Thomas, the real Isaiah Thomas Indiana when
Speaker 1: he was a player, rep about that when I work
Speaker 1: at icch and Trance Company for Bob Shawn and fred Rice,
Speaker 1: and they still haven't gotten it completely correct. What, Anthony,
Speaker 1: They could solve that issue if they just held some
Speaker 1: of these young players' money until they matured. But again,
Speaker 1: you know, doing the right thing is sometimes hard to do,
Speaker 1: and it has not been able to be passed because
Speaker 1: agents do not get paid on deferred money. Anthony, they
Speaker 1: would have to wait. Also, I don't know why they'd
Speaker 1: have a problem with that with the amount of money
Speaker 1: they're making now. But that's why they tell the kids,
Speaker 1: your money's not worth the same. It's better than no money.
Speaker 1: They know the statistics also, but they lie to the
Speaker 1: players because they want their money, which they are better
Speaker 1: to equip to handle anthony, and so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: As we always know, it hasn't ended, and it will
Speaker 1: continue until we start to teach our young athletes how
Speaker 1: to handle their wealth. All the boxers we remember, all
Speaker 1: the days the great boxers go broke. Guys make a
Speaker 1: lot of money. It's taught you must learn how to
Speaker 1: handle financial literacy. Period. People don't want to understand that
Speaker 1: you got to learn how to pick up that penny
Speaker 1: on the street. And you know it's true. I still
Speaker 1: see a peny, I pick it up. If it's not
Speaker 1: heads if I'll toss it again until his head's up,
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna put that penny in my pocket. If
Speaker 1: you can handle a penny and know the worth and
Speaker 1: the value of a penny, you'll know the value of
Speaker 1: your dollar. And if you know the value of your dollar,
Speaker 1: you'll be able to handle one hundred dollars. And if
Speaker 1: you know the value of one hundred dollars, you'll hand
Speaker 1: to handle a thousand. But if you don't know the
Speaker 1: value of money, it leaves you. Like my dad always said,
Speaker 1: I hate to tell you a fool, and his money
Speaker 1: will soon part, period, point blank. Let me say it
Speaker 1: to you again before we go to break a fool
Speaker 1: and his money will soon part because people are trying
Speaker 1: to separate you from it every day that you live.
Speaker 1: Is he? Sports Radio Anton, We're at seven forty five, John,
Speaker 1: We're gonna cut this one up when we come back.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about a little bit of this NCAA
Speaker 1: and some of the money that's being spent Anthony and
Speaker 1: the NBA. Soarly No, I'm just gonna ask you, is
Speaker 1: Michael Brown Jr. As good as they say? Is he? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Does he have the ability to be the best guard
Speaker 1: ever out of Louis or Anthony? Coach Beard didn't want
Speaker 1: to answer the ques, but I'm going to oppose it
Speaker 1: to you so you can let me know. Esports Radio
Speaker 1: will talk to you in a minute. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Sports Radio five zero two. Und got Anthony on
Speaker 1: the other line. Anthony, I'm going to ask you the
Speaker 1: question everyone is talking about Michael Brown Jr. I mean
Speaker 1: they're speaking about him like they spoke about Daryl Griffin
Speaker 1: my era, Butcher Beard before that, Junior Bridgeman, Henry Bacon
Speaker 1: Jim Price, Branford Smith. Where do you think this young
Speaker 1: man can stack up? Anthony? Is he that good? I've
Speaker 1: watched the clips of the nineteen and under US team
Speaker 1: played well. Is he that good?
Speaker 2: You know, he's shown us his potential and upside to
Speaker 2: be a great player in college basketball and even potentially
Speaker 2: in the NBA. Now, obviously we can't jump.
Speaker 5: The gun because he hasn't played technically a collegiate game,
Speaker 5: but he's got the hype around him. He's got the
Speaker 5: skill set that we seen over the last couple of games,
Speaker 5: even flips from the USA team even coming out of
Speaker 5: high school, and he's shown that he could come through.
Speaker 2: And possibly be that guy for U of L. It's
Speaker 2: hard to compare his career, you know, to a Lebradleos Smith,
Speaker 2: your career, Daryl Griffith, because you all played there a
Speaker 2: lot longer. You know, you have three and four year careers,
Speaker 2: which was more normal back in the day, even for
Speaker 2: college careers, even for the guys that were gonna come
Speaker 2: out and be the number one pick still played three
Speaker 2: years in college basketball, and that's just not the norm anymore.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna be comparing a career that's most likely
Speaker 2: gonna be a one and done season unless he is
Speaker 2: just a complete buzz which I don't think that's gonna
Speaker 2: be the case, which is probably gonna be a one
Speaker 2: done season to compare against, you know, a career like
Speaker 2: yours when you went out there and had you know,
Speaker 2: a thousand assists in three years or whatever the case
Speaker 2: may be, that's a hard comparison to happen. Unless he
Speaker 2: comes out and makes a super deep run the NCAA
Speaker 2: tournament or they win it. They're just gonna say he's
Speaker 2: a good player out of U of L. And it's
Speaker 2: one of those things he's gonna get kind of that
Speaker 2: SGA comparison, And I don't say comparison is in skill,
Speaker 2: but in accolades. His accolades will start coming more in
Speaker 2: the NBA because everybody's like, oh, Sjay is he's the
Speaker 2: greatest player to come out of Kentucky now because he's
Speaker 2: won the NBA Championship, he's got an MVP Finals MVP,
Speaker 2: he's checked off those boxes after his Kentucky career. But
Speaker 2: at Kentucky, no one thought this of SJA. You thought
Speaker 2: more of Anthony Davis, John Walsh, Jamal Murrays. Yes, you
Speaker 2: thought about the players who played better in college rather
Speaker 2: than after college. But now when people look at Kentucky greats,
Speaker 2: they always say Shay Gilders Alexander because of his NBA accolades.
Speaker 2: You don't say it because of his college accolades. Mike
Speaker 2: cale Brown junior might be in a similar boat. I
Speaker 2: don't think he'll come through and they'll just win a
Speaker 2: national championship, but I think that they'll start to know
Speaker 2: him as a Louisville grade after his career, same as
Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell as well.
Speaker 1: Thank you, good point, I mean very good point. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this year Anthony Kentucky and Louisville.
Speaker 1: They're both loaded. Otago Oway comes back to Kentucky. I
Speaker 1: mean that was pivotal. I think for U and k
Speaker 1: Approven score someone they can go to in the crunch time.
Speaker 1: Louisville's got multiple players. I think this year, boy football
Speaker 1: is going to be exciting. I mean, the only question
Speaker 1: with football is how does coach stops turn this around.
Speaker 1: I stole big dog Vince mor rolled away from him,
Speaker 1: which I'm so glad because Vince was a great recruiter.
Speaker 1: But I'm still not rolling over on stoop yet. I
Speaker 1: think he's got a little gas left in the tank, Anthony.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to see what he does with
Speaker 1: the University of Kentucky this season. So I think right
Speaker 1: now in football is Anthony, what sixty days away? Max?
Speaker 1: I mean, football is right around the corner. So we
Speaker 1: got a lot of things to talk about. I mean
Speaker 1: it's close. And like said, right, yes, Archie Man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sold on that just yet. I like you,
Speaker 1: but ah, I'm not. Okay. I know you're Texas long worn,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sold on arts just yet.
Speaker 6: I know you got to you got to clear your
Speaker 6: schedule because Texas plays at Kentucky this year. Well they played,
Speaker 6: they played Texas and Tennessee back to back weekends. We'll
Speaker 6: be out of town both those weekends, folks, Texas and Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know that's the one again, guys, And this
Speaker 1: is why I want the ACC to bounce back. I
Speaker 1: didn't know about these games. I don't even looked at
Speaker 1: Kentucky's football schedule. I don't get that far. I'm old.
Speaker 1: But when you said that, Anthony, it made me get excited.
Speaker 1: Both times Tennessee Rocky Top arch enemies and Texas back
Speaker 1: to back, guys, that's conferences do. That's what the University
Speaker 1: of Kentucky, no matter what the product they have, look
Speaker 1: what they've got coming to that And that's why I
Speaker 1: want the AEC to bounce back. I wanted to bounce
Speaker 1: back in basketball and football so that we can be
Speaker 1: just excited. Those are two huge games. Huge games. And Anthony,
Speaker 1: you know, it's so funny. If you'd have said that
Speaker 1: to me three years ago, when Kentucky did defeat Tennessee,
Speaker 1: I would have told you Kentucky' gonna get Texans are run.
Speaker 1: But right now there's a lot of question marks from
Speaker 1: coach's program. But three years ago, Anthony, I would have
Speaker 1: said they would have beat them, but at home, I
Speaker 1: would have told you Kentucky's gonna give them a run,
Speaker 1: especially when they when they had offensive line that was
Speaker 1: running over people, Anthony, I mean malling people in the SEC.
Speaker 1: So hopefully coachps can pull this thing together. But you're
Speaker 1: a hundred they will.
Speaker 2: They got exciting games because even u of l's non
Speaker 2: conference schedule.
Speaker 7: I would to go to the UFL games because I
Speaker 7: go with friends. I like watching UL sports. The u
Speaker 7: offl's non conference schedule is. Honestly, it's terrible. I looked
Speaker 7: at it yesterday and they played absolutely nobody. They're playing
Speaker 7: Murray State e Ku. You know, but and they and
Speaker 7: Kentucky comes out, their record won't be as good.
Speaker 2: But I will say, at least the second game of
Speaker 2: the season, Kentucky does have old myths at home exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean. But again, that's the conference gives you. That's
Speaker 1: why it is important for the conference to be good.
Speaker 1: When people get mad at me, because that's what people
Speaker 1: are paying to see. I love your product. But knowing everybody, Antony,
Speaker 1: they were packing the gymnasium when Doc Rivers and Marquette
Speaker 1: was coming to Louisville to play out of conference games.
Speaker 1: You got me. They were standing outside, Anthony, in the snow.
Speaker 1: They wanted to see Doc Rivers and Bowl Jackson and
Speaker 1: all the great players that came in non conference. So
Speaker 1: you're I'm sing correct, But we're gonna be watching little
Speaker 1: Brown Junior. I've heard a lot of great things. I
Speaker 1: really have that he's a great player. And you know,
Speaker 1: we will be talking about this summer. Late next week, Anthony,
Speaker 1: I'm going out. I'm gonna watch all the Kentucky players
Speaker 1: and of course I'll watch the two Louisville players also,
Speaker 1: so we'll talk about that some more. It's Eastwards Radio.
Speaker 1: You'll have a fantasy holiday. We'll talk to you later. Go,
Speaker 1: will love you. Bye bye