Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, basketball fans, San Antonio
Speaker 1: Spurs fans, Welcome to another edition of the San Antonio
Speaker 1: Spurs Weekly Podcast with your boy, a fan of the
Speaker 1: Black and Silver of over forty years, a former stand
Speaker 1: up comedian, also in an Oscar nominated movie.
Speaker 2: Hey you're hyping me today? You got that? Right here?
Speaker 2: He is our host, Kadi. Wherelcome, San Antonio Spurs Fans
Speaker 2: to another rip roaring edition of the San Antonio Spurs
Speaker 2: Weekly Podcast. Right here, I'm your favorite podcasting platform, whether
Speaker 2: it's Spotify, Streaker, dot Com, Apple, iTunes and more. Thank
Speaker 2: you guys for following us over the last couple of
Speaker 2: years on the path to victory. I know it has
Speaker 2: been a tough one, a rough one the last two years.
Speaker 2: We saw the rookie woes of Victor wembin Yama last year,
Speaker 2: seeing the team come together this year in the beginning,
Speaker 2: battling off season things such as the Olympics with Wemby,
Speaker 2: and now we're dealing with these little nagging injuries that
Speaker 2: are piling up here in San Antonio. But in this episode,
Speaker 2: we're gonna go over the last four games for the
Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs as up and down, kind of like
Speaker 2: a seesaw yet again. And when they do go up
Speaker 2: and down like this, ladies and gentlemen, it tends to
Speaker 2: make you think. As we've been talking about over the
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks about the tank, now pro players
Speaker 2: don't want a tank. We're gonna talk about Devin Vessel's
Speaker 2: career night a couple nights ago. We're gonna talk a
Speaker 2: little bit about Devin Vessel's Inconcentcyleikasi saw. We're going to
Speaker 2: talk about some of these rumors for trades out there
Speaker 2: that could be looking like it could come to be
Speaker 2: if certain players don't playing the way that they are.
Speaker 2: I know that the organization is tied into some of
Speaker 2: these players, but you know that Victor Winbinyama is on
Speaker 2: this bench watching the team, watching the players now from
Speaker 2: afar and starting to say, Okay, I can work with
Speaker 2: this or I can't work with this, and this is
Speaker 2: not the cause turmoil within the team. I'm a forty
Speaker 2: year fan. I just watch from the outside like the
Speaker 2: rest of you. I play. You know, A wanna be
Speaker 2: steven A Smith. By the way, we'll try to get
Speaker 2: to what happened between him and Lebron James last week
Speaker 2: in LA and I'm going to tell you my thoughts
Speaker 2: on that as well coming up, and we've got a
Speaker 2: lot to unpack in this episode. We're gonna go over
Speaker 2: a little bit of NBA stats for you league leaders
Speaker 2: and see where San Antonio is headed. But let's start
Speaker 2: with our very own San Antonio Spurs. We're going to
Speaker 2: take you back all the way to uh. We already
Speaker 2: talked about the Oklahoma City loss, but let's talk about
Speaker 2: the good win for the Nets. Uh san Antonio last
Speaker 2: week one seven, one thirteen over the Nets and this
Speaker 2: was the career night for Devin Vessel. This is the
Speaker 2: DV we want to see, right, This is must see DV.
Speaker 2: You see what I did there? You see what I
Speaker 2: did there? Thank you, Devin. When you can get that
Speaker 2: game there consistently and you start making T shirts that
Speaker 2: say must see DV, just send us a little bit,
Speaker 2: you know, five percent to the San Antonio Spurs Weekly
Speaker 2: Podcast with you boy, Katie. That's all I asked. But
Speaker 2: what a big night for DV Man thirty seven points,
Speaker 2: eleven rebounds, five assists, four steals, a block and a
Speaker 2: partridge in a para tree Man he really stepped up
Speaker 2: and showed what he can do. And I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: throw this out here. The podcast we did, you know,
Speaker 2: we called out DV again and look what happened. So
Speaker 2: I'm doing it again today, all right, DV, do I
Speaker 2: have to come on the air before every game, you know,
Speaker 2: and be like, listen this dude, man, and then you
Speaker 2: come out and make me eat that humble pie the
Speaker 2: next day, because I'll gladly do it, all right, But
Speaker 2: DV with a career night. And what was great about
Speaker 2: watching DV and this one was at the end of
Speaker 2: the game. He wanted that double double so bad. And
Speaker 2: there were several times he had an opportunity on a
Speaker 2: rebound and the other players were taking it from him.
Speaker 2: He looked back at him like, come on, man, give
Speaker 2: me that rebound. I do love this team. I love
Speaker 2: that they have this camaraderie, this friendship. But now this
Speaker 2: camaraderie and friendship has got to equate to wins on
Speaker 2: the board next year. And we're going to get to
Speaker 2: some of these rumors about a possible KD sighting here
Speaker 2: in San Antonio. We're going to talk about a possible
Speaker 2: Zion Williamson sighting in San Antonio again, because the Sporting
Speaker 2: News is really trying to light fire underneath those trades
Speaker 2: for Santa Anto. But for us to get any one
Speaker 2: of those major players, we're gonna have to let somebody
Speaker 2: like Devin Vessel go. And can you see that happening
Speaker 2: in San Antonio. We'll talk about that in a minute.
Speaker 2: So a lot to unpack here today. So Spurs fans
Speaker 2: be ready, NBA fans be ready. But this win for
Speaker 2: San Antonio. I told my friends, I go, don't pump
Speaker 2: the brakes. I go just pump the brakes just for
Speaker 2: a minute. They're like, here we go want twenty seven
Speaker 2: to thirteen. Man, we were bawling. The Spurs are going
Speaker 2: to make a run for the playoffs. A lot of
Speaker 2: you guys in the digital arena on the Spurs app
Speaker 2: before the games, you were talking about this. It's the Nets.
Speaker 2: Nets have a lot of great individual players that seem
Speaker 2: like that they can never put it together. It's been
Speaker 2: like that for many years now. You got people like
Speaker 2: Cam Thomas and now you've got D'Angelo Russell back. There.
Speaker 2: Good players, but they seem like they just like playing ball.
Speaker 2: They don't seem like they want to take charge of
Speaker 2: a team and try to, you know, push them. Although
Speaker 2: I think the Nets are in a playoff contention right now.
Speaker 2: Can we pull up that. We'll pull that up in
Speaker 2: a little bit. The NBA standings. I think they're in content. No,
Speaker 2: they're not in contention. They had a worse record. We did. Yes,
Speaker 2: my producers looking at me and saying we have a
Speaker 2: worse record. No, they have a worse record. Let's look
Speaker 2: that up NBA stats. In one moment here on the show.
Speaker 2: But in this contest, Chris Paul did Chris Paul things.
Speaker 2: Is Chris Paul going to stay in San Antonio? If
Speaker 2: Chris Paul stays, will he be a coach? That's one
Speaker 2: thing to put on the board. And thank you producer,
Speaker 2: mister moviefone for double checking out the next or not
Speaker 2: even in playoff contention. They're in twelfth right now, twenty
Speaker 2: one and forty two. But we're talking about Chris Paul
Speaker 2: real quick. I could see him being the coach next year.
Speaker 2: I said it. I'm the first one to say it.
Speaker 2: Some of you'll go ahead and hit the laugh track,
Speaker 2: go ahead for everybody. I could see it. Chris Paul
Speaker 2: came out in a press conference saying about Greg Popovich,
Speaker 2: she was really looking forward to play underneath coach pop
Speaker 2: this year. But there's some things that are bigger to
Speaker 2: life than basketball. Chris Paul has the same mentality that
Speaker 2: Popovich does when it comes to coaching, teaching, learning. He
Speaker 2: loves the game. He loves the game to the point
Speaker 2: where he loves making his impact on players. Could there
Speaker 2: be a possibility Spurs fans that Chris Paul made a
Speaker 2: deal with the Spurs. I'll sign a one year contract.
Speaker 2: I'll help you with this young core team, but I
Speaker 2: want to be a part of the staff next year
Speaker 2: or be the head coach. It's a possibility. And I
Speaker 2: know that's hard for some of you to see because
Speaker 2: Chris twenty years in the league player extraordinary and that's
Speaker 2: how we always see him as a player. But when
Speaker 2: he was the head of the NBA Players Association, he
Speaker 2: was leading players. He's got a good rapport with the league,
Speaker 2: good rapport with the refs. I think it's a big possibility.
Speaker 2: You know, Steve Kerr is not available. I don't think
Speaker 2: we bring back you know the coach from Phoenix that
Speaker 2: got fired, Mike Budenholzer. Don't bring him back, Especially if
Speaker 2: you think I'm bringing in KD. That didn't work, That
Speaker 2: experiment didn't work in Phoenix, What do you think is
Speaker 2: gonna do in San Antonio? You know, Mike has a
Speaker 2: good connection to the San Antonio community and the coaches
Speaker 2: here and the staff and the organization. But if you
Speaker 2: got a new corps of talent and you're a player
Speaker 2: that is played with these guys, and these guys listen
Speaker 2: to you as a player, what do you think they're
Speaker 2: going to do as a coach? Listen to you even
Speaker 2: more rookie year, rookie season for a coach. I could
Speaker 2: see the Spurs doing this. If you're going to be
Speaker 2: bringing in a new coach, why not somebody like Chris
Speaker 2: Paul So Chris CP three, If you out there, CP three,
Speaker 2: are you with man? If you're out there, brother man,
Speaker 2: we would love to see you on the bench if
Speaker 2: Pop doesn't return next year. And I know a lot
Speaker 2: of you old heads, especially in the digital arena online
Speaker 2: before these Spurs games on the Spurs App, I talk
Speaker 2: to a lot of you guys that I love talking
Speaker 2: to you guys, and thank you for listening to the show.
Speaker 2: Y'all are crazy. I love Popovich. I do, but he
Speaker 2: has done his duty to become one of the greatest
Speaker 2: of all time. In the coaching ranks, he's on the
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore most wins, five titles, six NBA finals. I
Speaker 2: believe he has what two Olympic medals. That's a career man.
Speaker 2: And of course he's always tied to the organization. He's
Speaker 2: helping here, there, and everywhere. He is literally the wizard
Speaker 2: of Oz in San Antonio. Pay attention to the coach
Speaker 2: behind the curtain, right, And I think it'd be great
Speaker 2: be the wizard of Oz. Pop Let's seep three, come
Speaker 2: in and work his magic with your magic. I think
Speaker 2: it would be awesome. I think it would be awesome.
Speaker 2: I love Mitch Johnson. I think he's done a good
Speaker 2: job this year. A lot of you guys really don't
Speaker 2: like which Mitch did. But let's be honest, that's a
Speaker 2: tough role, man. It's a tough role to come into
Speaker 2: to replace a legend. How many times have we seen
Speaker 2: it in sports? Have they replaced the legend in Miami
Speaker 2: with the Miami Dolphins yet that legend being Dan Marino?
Speaker 2: Have they replaced the legend in Denver with John Elway?
Speaker 2: Some of you will say Peyton Manny, Yeah, they had
Speaker 2: to bring in another legend. Who's that sound like? CP
Speaker 2: three coach Pop, bring in another legend. Ticket sales would
Speaker 2: be the same. People will come watch. At CP three's
Speaker 2: first year as head coach, Mitch Johnson keep him on
Speaker 2: the bench. I think he's a really good ex'es and
Speaker 2: ogres guys. I don't know about getting his team fired up.
Speaker 2: That's the only question I had about him all season long.
Speaker 2: When he gets tough, do they get going underneath Mitch?
Speaker 2: And a lot of times when the San Antonio Spurs
Speaker 2: Right now, our biggest ally, our biggest problem is these
Speaker 2: runs in the games. These teams going on fifteen to
Speaker 2: two runs, fourteen to one runs, ten to zero runs
Speaker 2: two three times a game. That's killing the Spurs and
Speaker 2: that is no intensity. Coach should be giving some kind
Speaker 2: of intensity. Even Coach Pop will be like, bring the nasty,
Speaker 2: and they bring the nasty. But San Antonio back in
Speaker 2: this one one, seven, one, thirteen, everybody's like, all right,
Speaker 2: playoff and calm down. It's it's the nets, it's the
Speaker 2: next because it was just it was all Devin Vessel
Speaker 2: that night and when we get down to the end
Speaker 2: of these games at the end of the year. This
Speaker 2: is why I believe that tanking is sometimes in full effect.
Speaker 2: You only have one or two players actually playing, scoring
Speaker 2: or attempting to shoot or score. Uh, Steph Castle and
Speaker 2: this one was all over seventeen points, four rebound six.
Speaker 2: It says two steals. He's on his way to Rookie
Speaker 2: of the Year. If he doesn't win Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 2: this league is rigged. In the last five games, last
Speaker 2: five games which we're kind of going over one hundred
Speaker 2: and eighteen points, he's put up. This is Steph's team.
Speaker 2: He just doesn't realize it yet, just like last year
Speaker 2: it's Wemby's team. Just doesn't realize it yet. It's kind
Speaker 2: of like a good steak down at Boudreauz on the
Speaker 2: river walk, right. It's just marinate and it's sitting there
Speaker 2: and you're like, I want to chew into it now,
Speaker 2: and the guys are like, now yet, now, yet, give
Speaker 2: it a few more minutes, Give a few more minutes,
Speaker 2: and then they put a slice in and you see
Speaker 2: how good and juicy it is. I know somebody all
Speaker 2: are getting really really hungry right now. But then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, you're like, ah, no, I know, you
Speaker 2: gotta let it cook. Bring out all the accoutrement around it,
Speaker 2: bring around your you know, Dearon Foxes, and bring around
Speaker 2: the new people, and put some spices in there, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you have a great gourmet dinner.
Speaker 2: That's what's cooking here in San Antonio. That's what's cooking
Speaker 2: here in San Antonio. And Steph Castle one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighteen points in the last five games, putting him at
Speaker 2: about twenty four point three points a game. And if
Speaker 2: you were to look at the stats right now in
Speaker 2: the NBA, if you go to points per game, I mean,
Speaker 2: he'd be in the top fifteen. Wemby would be at
Speaker 2: twenty four points a game, Dearren Fox at twenty two.
Speaker 2: Right there is your seventy points a game, folks. Now
Speaker 2: to find the other seventy throughout the team to get
Speaker 2: that one thirty one forty to be a dominant club
Speaker 2: like your Cleveland Cavaliers Celtics. OK, Ses, it can happen.
Speaker 2: It can happen, truly happen here in San Antonio. Let's
Speaker 2: take a look at the rest of the run for
Speaker 2: the San Antonio Spurs last week, dropping one twenty seven
Speaker 2: to one oh nine in Sacramento. Came out playing decent
Speaker 2: in this one in the first half, and then they
Speaker 2: just fell apart. Keep in mind thirty seven points from
Speaker 2: DV against the Nets well two nights later, ten points.
Speaker 2: We can't have this, this level of inconsistency. I just
Speaker 2: I don't understand. Devin Vessel shot four to thirteen, two
Speaker 2: of eight from three. I'm flabbergasted as a host, As
Speaker 2: a fan, I love Devin Fasel. I think he has
Speaker 2: killer mentality. I've said it all year, but he doesn't
Speaker 2: know it yet, doesn't know it yet, and I think
Speaker 2: by the time he figures out, he may be possibly traded.
Speaker 2: I know people say he's untouchable. Nobody's untouchable these days.
Speaker 2: If you can go out and get a five time
Speaker 2: All Star, future Hall of Famer and start really building
Speaker 2: this team in San Antonio, because the West is gonna
Speaker 2: move on without you, and we'll take a look at
Speaker 2: those standings in a moment. But in this one, San
Speaker 2: Antonio just, I mean, they just they did not shoot
Speaker 2: very well except for Steph Castle twenty five points ten
Speaker 2: to seventeen from the field, dearon Fox, shooting troubles are continuing,
Speaker 2: zero of six from three point range. I understand emotions
Speaker 2: first time back, so on and so forth. Back in
Speaker 2: your hometown, a team he played with your whole career,
Speaker 2: had to be an emotional night for him. Barnes had
Speaker 2: twelve points. This is another thing I don't understand with
Speaker 2: the Spurs is when Harrison Barnes gets hot, we'll feed him,
Speaker 2: and then in the second half we don't do anything.
Speaker 2: I try to see if defenses line up a little
Speaker 2: bit differently against him. They kind of do, but it's
Speaker 2: like we don't even attempt to get him the ball,
Speaker 2: which I don't understand. Another flabbergasting moment here as we
Speaker 2: move on, Spurs drop that one in Sacramento. So kind
Speaker 2: of a disappointing loss in Sacramento, especially after such a
Speaker 2: good start. Bringing us up to last night in Minnesota,
Speaker 2: this one was a route if you look at the
Speaker 2: flow of the game pattern, I mean, it was all Minnesota,
Speaker 2: all Minnesota, one one four, And as I always do,
Speaker 2: if I don't get a chance to really take a
Speaker 2: look at the uh the game, or get a chance
Speaker 2: to really watch the game, which I really didn't in
Speaker 2: this one. I didn't expect the Spurs to win this one,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, how did we lose by so much?
Speaker 2: And this is just again inconsistency. Devin Vessel thirteen points,
Speaker 2: thirty seven, ten and thirteen in your last three, thirty seven,
Speaker 2: ten and three in your last three. Vissell four of
Speaker 2: eight from the field, only took eight shots. Darren Fox
Speaker 2: twenty two points. Seem like he got it back in
Speaker 2: rhythm a little bit. Barnes fifteen right now, Bismack Biyambo,
Speaker 2: give that man out of a plus. He's just balling
Speaker 2: and he's one of those players that I love. I
Speaker 2: coached my kids at the why kind of like this
Speaker 2: where I'm like, listen, do the other things. If you
Speaker 2: can't score, do the other things, rebound, block, defense. He
Speaker 2: does what he's told, and we need one of those players.
Speaker 2: I think he'd be a great player on the bench
Speaker 2: for the Spurs. I think the Spurs should sign him.
Speaker 2: I know it'd be his fifteenth year in the league,
Speaker 2: but we need that veteran in there too. I love
Speaker 2: Bismeck so Spurs, hey, by the way, resign him next
Speaker 2: year in the offseason. Steph Castle, really your only bright
Speaker 2: point twenty points him and Fox twenty two points for Fox,
Speaker 2: twenty for Castle. Mamu got eight and fourteen minutes in there.
Speaker 2: I know you guys love Mamu. We do too. But
Speaker 2: his defense man, he's got a seven footer. He just
Speaker 2: looks like he's all over the court. He kind of
Speaker 2: looks like one of those you know when you're driving
Speaker 2: by a place that has a sale and they have
Speaker 2: those blow up air walkers on the side with the fly.
Speaker 2: That's what he reminds me of. Way too much energy.
Speaker 2: I had two of those kids on my team this year.
Speaker 2: I should have called them the Mamu Calavis whatever last
Speaker 2: name of the Year Award. I think that's what it
Speaker 2: should have been. I like Mamu, but he is not
Speaker 2: the answer to the Spurs. I thought he would be
Speaker 2: about a year ago, but I don't think he's the
Speaker 2: answer for Wemby's backup. But the Spurs in this one,
Speaker 2: I mean, they just I'm looking at the stats and
Speaker 2: it's crazy, because how can you let another team score
Speaker 2: thirty extra points on you from three point range? Ten
Speaker 2: more threes were made in this one, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: call it right now. A lot of you guys can
Speaker 2: go ooh, I think Anthony Edwards is overrated. You laugh
Speaker 2: at me. I like Anthony too, man, I do he
Speaker 2: averages about twenty five points a game. Well, in the
Speaker 2: last five games, one hundred and eighteen points for Stephan
Speaker 2: Castle twenty four point three. You do the math. Just
Speaker 2: want to throw that out there. You would have thought
Speaker 2: that Anthony Edwards would have took over this team a
Speaker 2: little bit more this year. Spurs, Hello, Spurs. We're getting
Speaker 2: killed on the boards. By the way, if your guard,
Speaker 2: Steph Castle, leads the team in rebounding, there's an issue
Speaker 2: seven rebounds last night for Steph Castle. We shot fifty
Speaker 2: five percent from the field, so did Minnesota. However, the
Speaker 2: three pointers killed us fifty percent from the field red
Speaker 2: hot for the Minnesota timber rolls twenty one fifty percent.
Speaker 2: We shot thirty six percent on our own. We got
Speaker 2: to start hitting some damn free throws. I know it
Speaker 2: doesn't look like much, but it is pathetic to see
Speaker 2: a team shoot below eighty percent and free throws, it's
Speaker 2: just sickening. They're called free throws for a reason. Just
Speaker 2: can't knock down any free throws. Got out rebounded by
Speaker 2: six last night, got out assisted. We continue the twenty
Speaker 2: plus assist record in the NBA. We had more steals,
Speaker 2: they had more blocks. Oh that hurts, right when Wemby's
Speaker 2: not in the lineup, they have more blocks. It just hurts.
Speaker 2: Our turnovers were the same. Our turnovers have been good
Speaker 2: the last couple games. So that's a bright point for
Speaker 2: the Spurs. But coming up for the Spurs, man's let's
Speaker 2: go through this really really quick. These are must wins.
Speaker 2: These are must wins for morale, these are must wins
Speaker 2: for the people in the town. They've got a back
Speaker 2: to back against Dallas. This is a hurting Dallas team
Speaker 2: right now. Dallas is tenth in the thirty two and
Speaker 2: thirty three. They're hanging on to that final play in spot.
Speaker 2: The Spurs sitting at twenty six and thirty six, again,
Speaker 2: more wins than last year. I would really like to
Speaker 2: see us pick up those five wins, just to prove
Speaker 2: that I was right. I said we'd be wearing anywhere
Speaker 2: between thirty one wins without injury forty one are forty
Speaker 2: one without injuries, thirty one with injuries, and look where
Speaker 2: we're at nagging injuries all year long. Now, Wemby but
Speaker 2: that's not an excuse, but still better than the Jazz
Speaker 2: and the Pelicans Trailblazers just in front of us with
Speaker 2: twenty eight wins. These are must wins, guys. So is
Speaker 2: the Charlotte game. Must win, Pelicans game, must win the
Speaker 2: next four games for the Spurs. If we don't come
Speaker 2: out of this three and one, forget about it. The
Speaker 2: tanking has started because they play the Lakers, the Knicks,
Speaker 2: the Sixers, the Raptors, Pistons, Cavaliers, Celtics, oh, Golden State
Speaker 2: to round out March. If we can't get three out
Speaker 2: of the next four wins, I don't know. If we
Speaker 2: win the rest of March, that is crazy because again
Speaker 2: we're going up against a hot Golden State team right now,
Speaker 2: hot nine and one in their last ten thirty six
Speaker 2: and twenty eight six in the West and they're charging, guys,
Speaker 2: they are charging. Nobody wants to play them in the
Speaker 2: Western Conference first round. That'll be a great matchup. That
Speaker 2: is a that is something i'd watch. Whoever one of
Speaker 2: the top seeds is going up against them, I don't
Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna win. Lakers are making a
Speaker 2: run as well. Well. I'm just I'm still not impressed
Speaker 2: with their bench. I'm sorry, not impressed with the Lakers bench.
Speaker 2: Thunder a cut above everybody. Fifty three and eleven Lakers, Nuggets, Grizzlies, Rockets, Warriors,
Speaker 2: timber Wolves, Clippers, and then you have your couple other
Speaker 2: play ins, the Kings and the Mavericks still in the mix.
Speaker 2: Spurs will not make the play in. They won't. They
Speaker 2: got a rough March, and then April they play Orlando, Denver,
Speaker 2: Cleveland again, Portland, Clippers, Golden State, A lot of those
Speaker 2: players again, A lot of teams are gonna be jocking
Speaker 2: for positions Phoenix, Toronto, so on and so forth. The
Speaker 2: next two months are gonna be rough for US Spurs fans,
Speaker 2: It really really is. So be ready, be prepared. And
Speaker 2: if that's the case, let's move right into it. What
Speaker 2: are the Spurs going to do in the off season?
Speaker 2: Are they really looking at these right now for the draft?
Speaker 2: Will they move up? Will they get rid of some?
Speaker 2: I think the Spurs make a major splash. I think
Speaker 2: they bring in another proverbial star, not necessarily a Kevin Durant,
Speaker 2: because could Kevin Durant put the Spurs over the top
Speaker 2: with de Aaron Fox and Wimby fifty wins? Where would
Speaker 2: that put us? Right now? Fifty wins would put us?
Speaker 2: I mean second, do you think they could be getting
Speaker 2: fifty wins? That's a lot more wins, especially in an
Speaker 2: overloaded West. I would say at least forty five wins,
Speaker 2: still putting us, believe it or not. In second, Rockets
Speaker 2: have battle some injuries. Grizzlies of battled injuries, Pelicans of
Speaker 2: battle injuries. I think if the Pelicans decide to tank
Speaker 2: and get rid of Zion, then that's gonna shift the
Speaker 2: West as well, because where would Zion go? Golden State, Memphis?
Speaker 2: Where could he go to fit in La? Could you
Speaker 2: imagine Zion Lebron Luca for another two year run. Lakers
Speaker 2: probably could make that move if they had the space.
Speaker 2: The Spurs have got to make some kind of big move.
Speaker 2: I believe the rebuild process. Listen, Wemby's going into his
Speaker 2: third year of a four year rookie contract. If there's
Speaker 2: no headway made next year and they don't make the playoffs,
Speaker 2: you may not see Wemby back. The dude wants to win.
Speaker 2: And I'm not doing that to scare anybody. I don't
Speaker 2: know Wemby. Maybe he has those morals to the point
Speaker 2: that he loves the team so much. Maybe this health
Speaker 2: scare scared him a little bit, especially this health scare.
Speaker 2: Think about it. A player is gonna go out to
Speaker 2: get his Now, I'm gonna make sure my family and
Speaker 2: my life is gonna be set if something else happens
Speaker 2: to me. You're gonna go out and make that money,
Speaker 2: and the Spurs can't get it to him. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be very interesting. We need to make a splash. We
Speaker 2: need to make a commitment. We need to show Wemby bam.
Speaker 2: We did with dearon Fox. We did the same thing
Speaker 2: with d Fox. D Fox is a rental, folks, Right now,
Speaker 2: d Fox is a rental. He's a free agent after
Speaker 2: this season. He's a rental. Now I know, Hey, I'll
Speaker 2: commit to San Antonio. I want to grow with a
Speaker 2: player like Wemby. I want to grow with a player
Speaker 2: like Castle bing bang boom, bomb boom, kind of like
Speaker 2: Kendrick Lamar right there, and but players can change their minds.
Speaker 2: Life experience can change it. De Fox might be like, man,
Speaker 2: this situation with Wemby is worse than they're letting on.
Speaker 2: I don't want to resign. The house of cards could
Speaker 2: crumble as easily as it's being built. And that's scary
Speaker 2: right now for the Spurs. So make a splash in
Speaker 2: the free agent market this year. There are some players
Speaker 2: out there. Trade for a Zion that'll give that mental
Speaker 2: toughness down low for Wemby. You know, Zion and Wemby
Speaker 2: and Fox. Zion still got a few years left and
Speaker 2: he's looking good right now. Maybe his mentals changed. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of other great players out there too. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of great people we've talked about as far
Speaker 2: as in the center role that San Antonio could pick
Speaker 2: up a nas Reed. Spurs have to make a splash.
Speaker 2: Free agency market looks good, but the first do have
Speaker 2: pieces they can trade to bring in a major superstar.
Speaker 2: Devin Vesell, I'm sorry, Devin Veaselle would be a really
Speaker 2: good piece to somebody else's team in Atlanta. You know,
Speaker 2: how about a Minnesota somebody we have good trade relations with,
Speaker 2: you know in the Eastern Conference, you could trade them
Speaker 2: over to the East. A red hot Pistons team, a
Speaker 2: Pacers team that could use a wingman. Bucks who seem
Speaker 2: like they're kind of up and down. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of good teams he would fit. New York
Speaker 2: would be a great fit for Devin Vesselle. He loves
Speaker 2: New York. I don't want to see him go. I
Speaker 2: just want to see him flourish. The inconsistency here in
Speaker 2: San Antonio is tough, and that makes a player hard
Speaker 2: to trade as well, because the other teams are looking
Speaker 2: at that. Yeah you had thirty seven, Yeah he did this,
Speaker 2: Yeah he did, but look but he did here, here
Speaker 2: and here. But if you have a better team, no offense.
Speaker 2: Spurs fans like a Knicks, a Bucks, an uprising Pistons team.
Speaker 2: They can balance the Knights. He's not playing well. Spurs
Speaker 2: can't balance right now. No Wemby, a hurt Fox, a
Speaker 2: rising star, and Castle. The ingredients are there. They're still marinating.
Speaker 2: Like we said that steak from Bedreux on the river Walk.
Speaker 2: It's marinating. But how long must we let the stake set?
Speaker 2: Only the management knows. Taking a look at some of
Speaker 2: these standings right now. We took a look at the
Speaker 2: Western Conference, Let's take a quick look at the Eastern
Speaker 2: Conference before we get out of here. Cleveland Cavaliers, Good Lord,
Speaker 2: Almighty fifty four and ten, forty six and eighteen Celtics
Speaker 2: behind them, Nicks forty and twenty three, and then the
Speaker 2: rest is a crap shoe, Bucks, Pacers, Pistons, Hawks, Magic, Heat, Bulls.
Speaker 2: Bulls could be in the play in game and they
Speaker 2: traded Trey and Zach. Good for them, It's all I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say. The two teams we made a trade with
Speaker 2: to give Fox right now are in the playoffs, the
Speaker 2: Kings and the Bulls. So that just makes me giggle
Speaker 2: just a little bit. Bottom of the basement. The Wizards
Speaker 2: thirteen wins ouch. I know we've been there, Spurs fans,
Speaker 2: but a two ten clip. They're only playing two ten
Speaker 2: basketball thirteen and forty nine. It's gonna be interesting. Could
Speaker 2: they grab a Cooper flag? Would Cooper flag change that
Speaker 2: team around? Would they be willing to trade the number
Speaker 2: one pick because it's not a generational talent. Would they
Speaker 2: take several players to rebuild? Could San Antonio move up
Speaker 2: in the draft? Hey, you take our top two picks
Speaker 2: and we'll throw in Vasel. We couldn't ab a flag.
Speaker 2: It's going to be an interesting offseason. You thought last
Speaker 2: year was going to be interesting. My god, it's going
Speaker 2: to be a crazy offseason here in San Antonio. Want
Speaker 2: to kind of close on a fun note here and
Speaker 2: talk about the Lebron James and Steven A. Smith Debacco
Speaker 2: before we get out of here real quick. But Manu
Speaker 2: Ginobili legend here in San Antonio. We all know Manou
Speaker 2: one of Charles Barkley's favorites as well. Manu came out
Speaker 2: the other day and quickly addressed his goat in the NBA,
Speaker 2: and he said, let me tell you, there's only one
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan is his goat. I think the
Speaker 2: player that will be forever mentioned is Jordan. He's unmatched.
Speaker 2: Genobi said in an interview, my motivation was always Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: Because of him, I played basketball. I always wanted to
Speaker 2: fly like him. I never thought I'd be immortal like Jordan.
Speaker 2: Is Well, you are in San Antonio, Manu, Manu the
Speaker 2: immortal here in San Antonio. And then he goes on
Speaker 2: in the article kidding around saying I only played five
Speaker 2: seconds against him, and thank you again Coach Pop for that,
Speaker 2: but it didn't matter. He was such an inspiration. Michael
Speaker 2: Jordan the goat among Monogenobili and many others in the NBA,
Speaker 2: leading us to the current goat in the NBA, the
Speaker 2: all time leading scorer, a man that's been to ten
Speaker 2: NBA finals, Lebron James. Now, if you didn't see this
Speaker 2: in the news last week, you must be living, you know,
Speaker 2: in a proverbial cave somewhere. But Stephen A. Smith, who
Speaker 2: I don't like, and I'm tired of all this talk
Speaker 2: about him becoming a politician. Listen, half the world doesn't
Speaker 2: know who steven A. Smith is. Okay, let's be honest
Speaker 2: about this situation. If you're going to run for Auvius,
Speaker 2: steven A people kind of got to know who you
Speaker 2: are just a little bit. Nobody knows who you are
Speaker 2: other than the sports world and half the sports world
Speaker 2: hagi anyway, So who's gonna vote for you? It's just
Speaker 2: a stupid idea, but it probably will because the way
Speaker 2: the United States is and how things are going in
Speaker 2: this world. But that's my political rant, like Coach Pop
Speaker 2: does from time to time, and I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 2: That's my roast here on the show of Our Politics
Speaker 2: in the United States Now with Stephen A. Smith. He
Speaker 2: came out on the show criticizing Bronnie junior. My question
Speaker 2: is who hasn't Let's be honest and let's find the
Speaker 2: silver lining here on a black and silver show with
Speaker 2: the Spurs, right, who hasn't? You go all over social
Speaker 2: media and you see Bronni has been picked on since
Speaker 2: day one. I know what you're saying, Oh you siding
Speaker 2: with Brownie. No. I think he's garbage. And I'm gonna
Speaker 2: call it to Lebron. Could Bronnie beat me? Maybe I'm fifty, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm almost fifty, all right, bra, You're like, what twenty one?
Speaker 2: If that? Does he have an upside? Of course, he's young,
Speaker 2: it's an upside. Will he ever be his dad? I
Speaker 2: don't think so. For those of you who think Lebron
Speaker 2: James's son is gonna be better than Lebron, my god,
Speaker 2: you better seek Jesus and get the wold off your
Speaker 2: eyes as well. This is kind of like the same
Speaker 2: take steven A was saying. He's just saying Bronni needs
Speaker 2: more help. Bronni needs the work. Bronni is somebody who
Speaker 2: got into the league and was drafted by a team
Speaker 2: because Daddy told him to do it. Lebron, don't sit
Speaker 2: there and say you weren't a reason were your son
Speaker 2: coming there. You're a guy that is the most egotistical
Speaker 2: player that has ever played this game. And for your
Speaker 2: Lebron lovers out there, I'm gonna tell you why. I'm
Speaker 2: not hating because he's a winner, and I'm not hating
Speaker 2: because he's got a point total. I'm not hating for
Speaker 2: any of his skills. He's a goat. I respect his game,
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna tell you something. He is still in
Speaker 2: this game to try to eclipse Jordan Cool. We all
Speaker 2: want to go out there to be the top of
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore in whatever possession profession we're doing. But when
Speaker 2: you continue to stay in the league more than the
Speaker 2: player that was the soak, the goat to everybody and
Speaker 2: your eclipsing records, it doesn't matter. It's taking you longer
Speaker 2: to get there than he got there. He also, my
Speaker 2: debate on this whole thing is with the goat, Lebron,
Speaker 2: nobody wants to steal your shoes. Everybody steals Jordan's. And
Speaker 2: to top that off, Jordan went to go play baseball.
Speaker 2: He took off several years. He came back because he
Speaker 2: wanted to prove to himself that he could still play.
Speaker 2: You're in the league, to still continue to break records,
Speaker 2: to think that you're the goat. You've dealt with criticism
Speaker 2: your whole life. You're raising children in the same limelight.
Speaker 2: He even went off and did space jam to try
Speaker 2: to do it better than Michael. I don't know what
Speaker 2: you're saying, Oh it was better, well it was cool.
Speaker 2: It was no Michael Jordan space jam. You younger generation
Speaker 2: will have no idea, all right, but not even just movies.
Speaker 2: It seems like Lebron's got to be in the limelight
Speaker 2: and everything he does, he's got to be the one
Speaker 2: that cries about fouls, cries about a touch. He is
Speaker 2: the softest player in the NBA and the biggest built
Speaker 2: player in the NBA, which makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2: I know, when you play in the league for a
Speaker 2: very long time, you pick up calls Jordan did, Barkley,
Speaker 2: dig Delajuan did. People got calls because of your tenure.
Speaker 2: I get it, But to continue to call and try
Speaker 2: to be a referee, I wouldn't be surprised Lebron goes
Speaker 2: out there and says I want to be a ref next,
Speaker 2: and he's out there in a zebra suit running up
Speaker 2: and down the court, Lebron James first player to ever
Speaker 2: be a ref. Well, that's the only reason you brought
Speaker 2: Bronni here is to be the first father son duo
Speaker 2: to play on the floor together. A first. I do this.
Speaker 2: Michael didn't do it. I scored fifty thousand points. Michael
Speaker 2: didn't do it. I have Morris Sis, I have this.
Speaker 2: I'm the goat. While don't everything they possibly be done?
Speaker 2: That is for your self overinflated ego. I agree with
Speaker 2: steven A. But Lebron approaches steven A Smith at a
Speaker 2: Lakers game in closing here and he ends up going
Speaker 2: up to him and saying, you don't talk about most
Speaker 2: son like that, And steven A said in an interview listen,
Speaker 2: I can't mention some of the things that he mentioned
Speaker 2: to me, but I do respect him because he's a
Speaker 2: father defending his son. Great, Lebron, I give you props
Speaker 2: for that, but listen again, you're bringing him into a
Speaker 2: world that you know has criticism. You're a professional athlete.
Speaker 2: Act like one. Your son is a professional athlete. Let
Speaker 2: him figure it out and act like one. Don't be
Speaker 2: there as daddy. Oh I'm an hold you in the
Speaker 2: whole way.
Speaker 3: Guess what I got you a job. I got you
Speaker 3: a job with me. That's exactly what you did. And
Speaker 3: this is why people do not like Lebron James. You
Speaker 3: can respect his game all you want, you can love
Speaker 3: watching him on the court. As a player, I like
Speaker 3: watching him. I like some of the things he does.
Speaker 3: But as a person, this is why people do not
Speaker 3: like Lebron James. This is why he's not in goat category.
Speaker 3: This is why people consider Michael Jordan and others to
Speaker 3: be a goat above Lebron.
Speaker 2: Is he on the mount Rushmore? Absolutely? But I do
Speaker 2: not think he was a good face for the NBA.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that at a later date. Guys, thank
Speaker 2: you for listening to the show, NBA Action, Spurs, Action
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Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs Weekly Podcast with your boy k D.
Speaker 2: And remember, no matter how good or bad the Spurs
Speaker 2: are playing. Hey, hey, hey, hey hey, let that black
Speaker 2: and silver blood run through your veins and go Spurs go.
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