Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
Speaker 2: Basketball fans, San Antonio Spurs fans, Welcome to another edition
Speaker 2: of the San Antonio Spurs Weekly Podcast.
Speaker 1: Witch your boy a fan of the Blackett Silver of
Speaker 1: over forty years, so much He's got it tatted on
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Speaker 1: that's a San Antonio reference. Shout out. Also a former
Speaker 1: stand up comedian.
Speaker 2: As you can see hey now also a former entertainer
Speaker 2: and now our host. Here he is Kay Dizzle.
Speaker 1: Thank you mister movie Phone for another tantalizing, exciting introduction
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Speaker 1: with your boy Katie. Welcome everybody wherever you may be
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Speaker 1: of sport. Do not blame us for anything we bring here.
Speaker 1: To the show. All right, it's fans having fun and
Speaker 1: that's what we like to do on our show. And
Speaker 1: with being a fan over forty years, I've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of good, the bad, and the ugly of the
Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs and it's getting better. The rumors of
Speaker 1: Janis aka Patumbo coming to San Antonio is what drew
Speaker 1: you to this podcast, right, We've seen it all weekend
Speaker 1: long throughout the NBA in news reports some of you
Speaker 1: local guys here in San Antonio on YouTube out to
Speaker 1: the baseline bum shout out to TSR Sports and also
Speaker 1: shout out to the San Antonio Spurs reporter on x
Speaker 1: who I really believe in because this man brings a
Speaker 1: lot of great knowledge to us via x It's Spurs
Speaker 1: reporter on Twitter. We're going to try to have him
Speaker 1: on the show once a month starting the regular season
Speaker 1: to bring us news and sports reports from the world
Speaker 1: of the San Antonio Spurs before it even hits ESPN
Speaker 1: or your favorite podcast outlet. But big shout out to
Speaker 1: all the Spurs family out there, and man, it's getting
Speaker 1: heating up here in San Antonio, is it? It really is.
Speaker 1: We're hearing the rumors of janis Aka Patunbo coming to
Speaker 1: the Spurs. Some of you guys really like our video
Speaker 1: on YouTube right now about Gianni's coming here. Over forty
Speaker 1: one thousand of you have clicked and liked on that.
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Speaker 1: the show today, of course, this is the day we
Speaker 1: get to find out where the San Antonio Spurs will
Speaker 1: be in the NBA Draft lottery. We feel it, Spurs fans,
Speaker 1: don't you.
Speaker 3: Oh, you hear the electric guitar from the eighties, You
Speaker 3: know it's in the air tonight, because tonight we get
Speaker 3: to see if the San Antonio Spurs will shock the
Speaker 3: world again.
Speaker 1: Into becoming a lottery team. A lot of people call
Speaker 1: it hogwash, a lot of people call it rigged. If
Speaker 1: the Spurs get another number one p or even two
Speaker 1: top ten picks. Right now, we're on the outside looking
Speaker 1: at at number eight and number fourteen, I believe are
Speaker 1: the picks and we can get some solid picks to
Speaker 1: solidify our future. But to get that one pick, everybody's
Speaker 1: talking about Cooper Flag. Could the Spurs land Cooper Flag.
Speaker 1: Cooper Flag was here for the March madness, he worked
Speaker 1: out with the Spurs and he can feel it. Phil
Speaker 1: Collins Ken, can you oh Lord is right? If the
Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs land another number one pick? Oh Lord
Speaker 1: is right? What will the Spurs do with them? Should
Speaker 1: they keep the number one pick? What if they land
Speaker 1: a one and a four pick? Then I'll be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I'm a Spurs fan of forty years. I've
Speaker 1: never seen it. Then it's definitely rigged. It is definitely ripped.
Speaker 1: But what if we can land the number one spot
Speaker 1: and then maybe land like a twelve or get our
Speaker 1: fourteenth pick. What do you think, Spurs fans, that we
Speaker 1: should do with that? We would love to see you
Speaker 1: guys comment. Actually on our YouTube page. You can comment
Speaker 1: on any of the videos, especially the ones about Cooper
Speaker 1: Flag or Yanasaka Patumbo. We would love to see you comment.
Speaker 1: We'll give you a shout out on the show as well.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that in a minute. A lot
Speaker 1: of you guys out there in the world of podcasting
Speaker 1: for the Spurs are baseline bums TSR Sports and many
Speaker 1: of you others too, and some of you guys like us,
Speaker 1: have put all over social media that you're getting pictures
Speaker 1: of Cooper Flag in a number two jersey. I don't
Speaker 1: see that happening. So let's be realist on this show.
Speaker 1: And that's the part about our show. We try to
Speaker 1: bring that nobody else does. We as Spurs fans, have
Speaker 1: got to be real. It's the younger generation. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest with you, guys. Keeps it real, all right,
Speaker 1: you're the ones that want it right then and now
Speaker 1: you want to see us bring in Lebron James yanasaka
Speaker 1: Patumbo and just make the Superstar team and only win
Speaker 1: two titles in five years. The NBA is tough. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of teams out there vying for this championship
Speaker 1: and a lot of up and coming teams that nobody's
Speaker 1: paying attention to. For instance, look at the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about them in a moment. We'll go over
Speaker 1: last night's games. We'll get you prepped for Monday nights
Speaker 1: games as well. Here in the NBA playoffs, it's been
Speaker 1: a phenomenal playoffs, even though San Antonio hasn't been around.
Speaker 1: So many blowouts, back and forth, back and forth, it's
Speaker 1: been really interesting to watch. And we'll talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about those Pacers, who have got to be the
Speaker 1: most underrated underdog team in the playoffs right now. And
Speaker 1: I love underdogs. I mean, look at us, we're San
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs fans. We're generally underdogs, right We just got
Speaker 1: spoiled with all those titles back in the day, we
Speaker 1: really did. But talking about the NBA draft here, I
Speaker 1: really think that the San Antonio Spurs have a big opportunity.
Speaker 1: But man, if they can get those top two picks,
Speaker 1: do you trade them? I mean, we have future picks
Speaker 1: in the bag to continue to develop this team for
Speaker 1: the future. We have players right now playing in Spain overseas,
Speaker 1: like Juan Nunez, who would be a really nice piece
Speaker 1: to somebody else's team we could trade. We have other
Speaker 1: players that we haven't seen play yet, like Riley Minnix
Speaker 1: and Harris and Ingram. These guys could be really good
Speaker 1: players elsewhere for somebody in a trade scenario, for somebody
Speaker 1: like Janis Akapatumbo. Let's talk about Yianis a little bit.
Speaker 1: Chris Minnix from SI Sports of Course, Sports Illustrated was
Speaker 1: on the Rich Eisen Show last night. He has in
Speaker 1: pretty interesting takes about where Yannis could land in San
Speaker 1: Antonio fans, right now, I want to let you know
Speaker 1: if this prediction comes true, we're in trouble. We're in trouble.
Speaker 1: I believe we need to solidify somebody that's going to
Speaker 1: fit our tea team for years to come. Yanas could
Speaker 1: be that fit a lot of you guys out there.
Speaker 1: I saw a couple of reports. There was one guy
Speaker 1: on the baseline bump saying, I think he's a horrible
Speaker 1: fit what yanis and Wemby, who's gonna get by them
Speaker 1: on defense? The length alone, you could have Wemby go
Speaker 1: to the bench when he needs a rest, Yannis comes
Speaker 1: out and that Lenth is still there. They're not going
Speaker 1: to get into the paint. We saw when Wemby's out
Speaker 1: of the game, teams were scoring on us. That will
Speaker 1: and the paint with somebody like Yannis. They're helping Wemby
Speaker 1: become that player of the future as well. Man, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just think it would be a good fit for
Speaker 1: the Spurs. But what would we have to give up?
Speaker 1: According to Chris Minnix of Sports Illustrators, you'll hear here
Speaker 1: in a moment, keep in mind, Luka Donnich, the Dallas
Speaker 1: Mavericks wanted seven first round picks. Would you do that?
Speaker 1: Spurs fans? We have a lot of picks in the bag,
Speaker 1: but we'd have to give up a few players like
Speaker 1: a Devin Visell, maybe like a Harrison Ingram. Couple players
Speaker 1: they could use now, but then they would have players
Speaker 1: in the future to build their team in Milwaukee. Let's
Speaker 1: check out what Chris said on the Rich Eiland Show.
Speaker 4: Right now, what are the Bucks do now? Just check
Speaker 4: in with Giannis every day heat check hopefully not Miami
Speaker 4: heat Check, but you know, like, what do we do here?
Speaker 5: I'll tell you this is interesting because to my knowledge,
Speaker 5: there have been no substantive conversations between the Bucks and
Speaker 5: Giannis about the future. The dust is still settling on
Speaker 5: all this, and they want to rightfully, they want to
Speaker 5: give time for temperatures to cool. But it just seems
Speaker 5: like we're heading towards an obvious parting of the ways
Speaker 5: for a couple of reasons. One, Yannis is never going
Speaker 5: to be more valuable to all the other twenty nine
Speaker 5: teams because he's got two guaranteed years left in his contract.
Speaker 5: So it opens it up to everybody, not just a team.
Speaker 5: Like you know, if you're a small market team, you're
Speaker 5: not acquiring this guy afraid that he might say, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm not signed an extension. I'm going to go play
Speaker 5: for the Necks.
Speaker 1: Of the Lakers.
Speaker 5: So you've got a window here. And if you're the Bucks,
Speaker 5: you've got teams out there potentially that could make you
Speaker 5: these massive offers. This is where the Bucks and John
Speaker 5: Horst I think, need to be aware. You've got to
Speaker 5: be able to smell desperation, right Like in the last
Speaker 5: ten years, they've been a couple of scenarios where teams
Speaker 5: have smelled desperation and hit home runs. The Boston Celtics
Speaker 5: when they smelled desperation on the Brooklyn Nets and traded
Speaker 5: away Paul Pierson KG and got all that package back
Speaker 5: in return. And the Oklahoma State thunder when they smelled
Speaker 5: desperation on the Clippers and got Shay Gildas, Alexander and
Speaker 5: four hundred and seven first round draft picks. I think
Speaker 5: there could be the same whiff of desperation off a
Speaker 5: couple of teams this year. I think Houston number one
Speaker 5: is a team that you know, saw what they were
Speaker 5: with with this group, that's what they wanted to do
Speaker 5: that will collect data, figure out what they're they look like.
Speaker 5: I think they realize Jalen Green probably not the guy
Speaker 5: that can lead them to a championship. They've got Jalen Green,
Speaker 5: and they've got all of Phoenix's draft capital for the
Speaker 5: next couple of years, which is going to be really valuable.
Speaker 5: That's one team Oklahoma City right now down oh one
Speaker 5: a lot to go a long way Togo in that series.
Speaker 5: But if they bow out in the second round for
Speaker 5: the second year in a row, they may start to
Speaker 5: get a little bit desperate. Because Shay Gildess, Alexander is young,
Speaker 5: but he's not that young. Lou Dort is young, but
Speaker 5: he's not that young. They're not a bunch of a
Speaker 5: whole bunch of twenty one year olds like that have
Speaker 5: a long, long, long runway. They're a team with its
Speaker 5: star in his prime, coming off a probable MVP season.
Speaker 5: They're a team that could make a huge offer. And
Speaker 5: if I'm Milwaukee and I can choose between offers of
Speaker 5: Jalen Green and a bunch of good draft picks and
Speaker 5: maybe all the draft picks that Oklahoma City has to
Speaker 5: offer in Jalen Williams, who I think could be James
Speaker 5: Harden two point zero. Like I think if you give
Speaker 5: Jaln Willim room to blossom, he could be a superstar
Speaker 5: in this league. I think he has that much talent.
Speaker 5: If you have an opportunity to pit two teams against
Speaker 5: each other in a bidding war for your star to
Speaker 5: get the rebuilding package of those other teams I mentioned got,
Speaker 5: I think it's malpractice not too aggressively go out there
Speaker 5: and do it.
Speaker 4: So when you say honest has never been more attractive
Speaker 4: to all twenty nine teams, you're saying the Bucks won't
Speaker 4: just call one team and say where thing you're trading
Speaker 4: him and.
Speaker 1: Just to you? Isn't that interesting? Spurs fans san Antonio.
Speaker 1: Not even in the breath of Chris Minnix. They also
Speaker 1: had somebody else on Rich Eisen Show the other day
Speaker 1: and he said San Antonio would be the long shot,
Speaker 1: which is very interesting to me. Now, the only way
Speaker 1: that makes them not the long shot is tonight if
Speaker 1: we find out we have maybe two top ten picks.
Speaker 1: How is that not enticing to somebody? However, you did
Speaker 1: hear what Chris have to say. I want to know
Speaker 1: what you guys think as well. Again, please comment on
Speaker 1: our YouTube page on any video, any video and just
Speaker 1: say hey, I heard the show. I heard Chris Minnick
Speaker 1: said that Yanis is not coming here because of AB
Speaker 1: and C. Would love to talk to you guys as well.
Speaker 1: On there. Chris did come across and say the following
Speaker 1: that Yannis could still stay in Milwaukee. One of the
Speaker 1: other reporters said the same thing as well, that Yanis
Speaker 1: could stay in Milwaukee and be one of those players
Speaker 1: that stays on a team for twenty years and wins
Speaker 1: maybe two, maybe three championships and goes down as you know,
Speaker 1: a city for folklore legend, you know, like our David Robinson,
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan, so on and so forth, but spurs fans.
Speaker 1: Here's the scary thing. He has two years left on
Speaker 1: his guaranteed contract. Chris brought it up with a small
Speaker 1: market team like San Antonio. I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1: We're not small market. We're small market. We're not LA
Speaker 1: we're not New York, We're not Orlando, we're not Chicago,
Speaker 1: we're not Boston. We're a small market team.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 1: We always have been. We've always played that way. Would
Speaker 1: you take that risk? Would you take that risk? With
Speaker 1: him possibly saying ah, I'm not too sure. Now, if
Speaker 1: you're Yannis, you're looking at the situation in San Antonio,
Speaker 1: say you sign for the two years and you want
Speaker 1: a contract extension. After seeing what happens in San Antonio
Speaker 1: two years on a team, you get close, you sniff
Speaker 1: the finals again, You're like, this team has got something.
Speaker 1: Tiaran's playing great, Wemby's coming into his prime, say into
Speaker 1: year five. Ooh, we've got a couple good players that
Speaker 1: are playing off the bench. There, Julian Champanee's playing great,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Sohan playing great, A couple of the draft picks
Speaker 1: are playing well. Now I think this team could win
Speaker 1: a championship if I stay in San Antonio. Now we
Speaker 1: talk about contract extension. One of my worries was and
Speaker 1: a lot of you guys brought this up to me,
Speaker 1: and I want to kind of give you guys definitely
Speaker 1: a round of applause on this one because you set
Speaker 1: me straight. See, I'll let you know when I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: A couple of you guys on our YouTube page said,
Speaker 1: we have plenty of money and we have plenty of picks.
Speaker 1: We can reorganize everything. It scares me though, for the
Speaker 1: future down the run. Say in ten years we'll be
Speaker 1: back in the same situation. If we have to resign
Speaker 1: Wemby to multimillion dollar contract, which we will dearon Fox
Speaker 1: is gonna get some top money. Then if you bring
Speaker 1: in somebody like Giannis and in two years we have
Speaker 1: to resign him. Can you imagine if we have to
Speaker 1: resign him right after we resign Wemby the money package
Speaker 1: in San Antonio, man, you better hope you have a
Speaker 1: really good money manager here in San Antonio to do
Speaker 1: just that. However, you just gave up two top picks
Speaker 1: as well. This is tough in San Antonio. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of us want to see Gianis here, but
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the future. I see San Antonio as
Speaker 1: that team like Oklahoma City. We have all the pieces
Speaker 1: and plays. We have the youth to have a really
Speaker 1: good team for years to come. Now the flip side
Speaker 1: of this coin, let me play Devil's advocate real quick.
Speaker 1: What if Okase he takes them? What if Houston takes them?
Speaker 1: We're in trouble in our conference. We're in trouble. So
Speaker 1: do we take Gianas so he doesn't go to these
Speaker 1: teams so we can solidify us. Man, it is going
Speaker 1: to be a very interesting off season with Janasaka Patubo
Speaker 1: in the NBA alone just here in San Antonio. But again, tonight,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, come on, this is it, Spurs fans.
Speaker 1: This will determine our off season. The NBA Draft lottery tonight,
Speaker 1: and you know, the Spurs. What if we get flag
Speaker 1: at one, the league will cry, fans will cry Spurs.
Speaker 1: But nothing is set in stone in the NBA. Injuries,
Speaker 1: health concerns and more. You don't know what could happen
Speaker 1: to the Spurs team. That's why I think we're excited
Speaker 1: for next year, aren't we, Spurs fans? We really are.
Speaker 1: We're ready and we are prepared to see what happens next.
Speaker 1: And speaking of what happens next, let's take a little
Speaker 1: look at the future of what the Spurs should really need.
Speaker 1: The one player that keeps coming up in the Spurs
Speaker 1: locker room and name is nas Reed. He's having a
Speaker 1: good playoff run, which is scary to us Spurs fans
Speaker 1: because we're like, no, no, no, no, don't don't do that,
Speaker 1: because now we got to pay you more money. But
Speaker 1: he seems like a good pick. I think the kind
Speaker 1: of the lion in the grass we should be watching
Speaker 1: for as somebody like Steven Adams in Houston. We talk
Speaker 1: about this a lot. We just need one of those players.
Speaker 1: We need one of those players. Maybe re sign Chris
Speaker 1: Paul to another two year deal. Keep what we have.
Speaker 1: I like the team we have. When we're healthy, we
Speaker 1: can score. We have not given this team an opportunity
Speaker 1: to flourish with their health. Let's call a spade. Is
Speaker 1: paid Wemby out last year, dearon Fox. We got knowing
Speaker 1: he needed surgery all of a sudden, Dv's out for
Speaker 1: a few games. When your old men on the bench
Speaker 1: are playing more than you're young, guys, you are injury riddled.
Speaker 1: Harrison Barnes, Julian Champagne, Chris Paul eighty two games. We
Speaker 1: know the story. This is crazy, right. We have not
Speaker 1: been healthy all at once, and we're not going to
Speaker 1: keep beating a dead horse on that. But I think
Speaker 1: we need to look at players that are possibly like
Speaker 1: a nas Reed Steven Adams, if we can lock down
Speaker 1: maybe one more shooter. You know who's out there. I
Speaker 1: was talking to some of you Houston fans. A guy
Speaker 1: that's not being used right now is Reed Shepherd, a
Speaker 1: guy that was talked about in the draft last year
Speaker 1: for the Spurs. If we were able to trade for
Speaker 1: a Reed Shepherd for a couple future picks, I'm sure
Speaker 1: Houston would do that. But I think the unsung hero
Speaker 1: on the bench you're gonna hear his name a lot
Speaker 1: this year is Riley Minnis. Riley Minnicks has been traveling
Speaker 1: with the team toward the end of the year. He
Speaker 1: has a great shot from the outside. He had a
Speaker 1: really good CHI League performance this year. But he's also
Speaker 1: a free agent, so if the Spurs resigned him to
Speaker 1: a two year deal, pay attention to Riley Minnix this year.
Speaker 1: Let's pay attention to the NBA playoffs last night. Let's
Speaker 1: start with the good and the ugly. That's basically what
Speaker 1: these two games were last night the Indiana Pacers, depending
Speaker 1: on how you look at it. By the way, the
Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers last night put up an eighty spot in
Speaker 1: the first half on the alleged one of the best
Speaker 1: defensive teams in the NBA, and Cleveland got it's full
Speaker 1: strength back and they were getting blown out. This was
Speaker 1: a case of one team was hot and one team
Speaker 1: was not. It happens in the NBA a lot. We've
Speaker 1: seen it here in yeah, San Antonio a lot Spurs
Speaker 1: fans where one team just comes out hitting threes and
Speaker 1: we're like, we can't come back from this deficit. And
Speaker 1: I even told my family last night, we're watching the game.
Speaker 1: I watched it through about five minutes into the third,
Speaker 1: but at halftime, I said, you know, Cleveland's going to
Speaker 1: make a run. This game is going to be under twenty.
Speaker 1: And that's just the way it is because you don't
Speaker 1: want to play your players all the way through. Pacers
Speaker 1: want to close this series coming up. They're up three
Speaker 1: to one. Now they are the biggest underdogs in the
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs. I love it. Now. We picked Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: and Cleveland. We picked Oklahoma and City or now Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City and the Celtics at the beginning of the year. Sorry,
Speaker 1: we didn't think Cleveland would go there. They don't have
Speaker 1: that playoff experience yet. And you're gonna go up possibly
Speaker 1: against a team like the Celtics, and that ain't even
Speaker 1: a given. Right Knicks fans, Knicks fans, you have been
Speaker 1: coming out and tonight you guys will get an opportunity
Speaker 1: at that game tonight too. The playoffs have been very interesting.
Speaker 1: But going back to talking about possibly Oklahoma City landing
Speaker 1: Yannis aka Patumbo, what if they threw somebody in there
Speaker 1: like a chet Holmgren injury riddled the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: hasn't had a great playoff run. He seems like the
Speaker 1: one that doesn't fit with the team right now. Harkenstein
Speaker 1: is amazing. God it was the Spurs would have landed him.
Speaker 1: Dort is awesome, SGA Jalen Williams. I think if you
Speaker 1: move Holmgrin out, Jalen will blossom. Like Chris Mannix said
Speaker 1: from SI, I think that's where you'll see him. But
Speaker 1: last night Oklahoma City tying up that series against Denver
Speaker 1: ninety two to eighty seven in the Battle of the MVPs.
Speaker 1: We started the show today with who is your pick?
Speaker 1: Katie and I kinda pulled the Politician review and said, well,
Speaker 1: let's move on to something else. Well, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: move on. Who do I think should have won MVP? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm an SGA guy, but not for MVP. Ooh, I
Speaker 1: just kind of threw a boomerang at you guys right there. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I like SGA's game. I love the way he plays
Speaker 1: like an old school guard. He reminds me of a
Speaker 1: taller Isaiah Thomas type player. He can shoot the ball,
Speaker 1: mid range, pass the ball, great handles. I like SGA.
Speaker 1: He's fun to watch and he's also somebody that takes
Speaker 1: over a game. And I didn't realize that until we
Speaker 1: played that clip with Chris Mannix that SGA has been
Speaker 1: in the league for a while and so he's not
Speaker 1: super young, but he's not super old. So that's an
Speaker 1: interesting piece there that he brought up in that If
Speaker 1: you didn't get a chance to check that out, rewind,
Speaker 1: go on back and listen to that interview with Chris
Speaker 1: Mannix from SI But SGA last, I mean, it was
Speaker 1: a struggle, wasn't it. It was a battle of two
Speaker 1: games Indiana looked amazing on the scoring front, eighty in
Speaker 1: the first half, and Denver and OKC couldn't even put
Speaker 1: up twenty five points in the first quarter last night.
Speaker 1: This is the playoffs, though, this is a battle. It
Speaker 1: is a grind, a lot of bump and grind. And
Speaker 1: this is what I like this year. A lot of
Speaker 1: you younger players that are floppers out there and are
Speaker 1: being taught to flop Tyrese Haliburton and others. I'm not
Speaker 1: just calling you out. That Indiana game had a lot
Speaker 1: of flops. And then you can see how Lebron's game
Speaker 1: has really really changed the landscape of the NBA when
Speaker 1: it comes to the flopping. And I know what we're
Speaker 1: saying here in San Antonio. It was Manu Ginobili, Mano,
Speaker 1: we love you, but you pretty much originated to flop,
Speaker 1: all right, So you're you're in that conversation too, But
Speaker 1: if you want to discuss or defend yourself, feel free
Speaker 1: to come on the show, give us a holler. But
Speaker 1: you see a lot of these young players flopping these days,
Speaker 1: but the NBA Playoffs this year are letting them play.
Speaker 1: You see a lot of hitting and bumping and grinding
Speaker 1: and rebounding, and I love it. I absolutely love this.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of nineties playoff basketball. A lot of
Speaker 1: you guys don't like it. I love seeing the ninety
Speaker 1: two eighty seven games, but I also love seeing blowouts
Speaker 1: as well, like we saw in the Pacers. So this
Speaker 1: has been a very good, interesting playoff run as we
Speaker 1: all know now. Of course, taking a look at the
Speaker 1: up and coming NBA playoff schedule tonight Monday night, and
Speaker 1: of course if some of you guys check this out
Speaker 1: a little bit later, of course you guys will be
Speaker 1: kind of a little bit behind. And we released the
Speaker 1: show a little bit late here today tonight. The one
Speaker 1: we all want to watch probably is the New York
Speaker 1: Knicks versus the Celtics. We said this last week. We
Speaker 1: really agreed with Shaquille O'Neil on Inside the NBA. He
Speaker 1: said that if Jalen brun And can go for forty
Speaker 1: every night, this is going to be a tough series
Speaker 1: for the Celtics. Jalen Brunson has been just that, a
Speaker 1: Brunson burner. I love watching players like this. I love
Speaker 1: watching guys who take over a game and say when
Speaker 1: we need a bucket I'm gonna get it. I love
Speaker 1: seeing that. I love seeing earlier in the series that
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum tried to take that final shot but the
Speaker 1: Knicks defense shut them down. Loved it. I absolutely love that.
Speaker 1: This is an amazing series. This will probably go all seven,
Speaker 1: and tonight you can catch live action on ESPN at
Speaker 1: seven thirty PM for Game four. The Knicks are up
Speaker 1: to one. This is going to be awesome in the
Speaker 1: New York Knicks, I could say, facing the Indiana Pacers
Speaker 1: and could you see that that run right there? Both
Speaker 1: teams nitty gritty, both teams really wanting it. You see
Speaker 1: Cleveland and the Celtics are expecting it because they're the
Speaker 1: number one in the number two seeds. That's how they're
Speaker 1: playing right now. What we deserve it, We're supposed to
Speaker 1: be here. Well, you got two teams that are crawling
Speaker 1: up your dairy aar and trying to make a run
Speaker 1: for the NBA finals. That's the Knicks in the Pacers
Speaker 1: a little bit different in the West though, just a
Speaker 1: little bit different over in the West. OKAC trying to
Speaker 1: prove themselves against one of the defending champions and MVP candidate.
Speaker 1: MVP in the past Nikola Jokic, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: I know, I know you guys are saying you didn't
Speaker 1: even pick. You didn't even pick. You got away from
Speaker 1: the SGA thing again, Who is it, Kadie? Who would
Speaker 1: you have picked? Nikola Jokic? Anybody who is averaging a
Speaker 1: triple double I believe should be the MVP, especially the
Speaker 1: numbers he puts up. He should have been MVP this year.
Speaker 1: And do you know that most teams that have the
Speaker 1: MVP in the regular season don't win the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: We really haven't seen a lot of that, So that's
Speaker 1: a scary thing when SGA is the MVP. But tonight
Speaker 1: we got a couple games on the slate. Of course,
Speaker 1: you got the Knicks and the Celtics, and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna get a chance to check out Minnesota and Golden State.
Speaker 1: Now this is one where everybody's like, eh, a six
Speaker 1: and a seven seed. Timberwolves probably could have been a
Speaker 1: three seed. They probably should have been where the Rockets
Speaker 1: were had a bad run in the middle of the season.
Speaker 1: But right now, Anthony Edwards has an ankle injury, and
Speaker 1: of course Steph Curry is not returning from reports, what
Speaker 1: does Golden State. Do you need to go to Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Buckets needs to be the guy that he was
Speaker 1: in the Miami Heat playoff run when they made the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals. He needs to be that guy. Jimmy seems
Speaker 1: like when he's come over from Golden State. I just
Speaker 1: want to be a role player. You can't be the
Speaker 1: role player right now, Jimmy. You got to be the
Speaker 1: one that steps up and got to be the one
Speaker 1: that's gonna give you twenty five thirty points. You gotta
Speaker 1: be that guy. I want to see somebody like a
Speaker 1: Jonathan kaminga step up. He needs to be a guy
Speaker 1: he can score. He just needs to get inside and
Speaker 1: batter and bruce the Timberwolves. You have to The outside
Speaker 1: shooting is not going to be there for Golden State.
Speaker 1: It won't be there. Pa sed Nick is not going
Speaker 1: to do it. Although I like him too, he's a
Speaker 1: good young player. But we need to see somebody like
Speaker 1: Jimmy Buckets step up and do just that. Draymond Green
Speaker 1: needs to continue to batter in, bruce down low and
Speaker 1: take out Rudy Gobert. It just has to happen. But
Speaker 1: I believe Minnesota is gonna take this series in five.
Speaker 1: I believe Minnesota is gonna win this one tonight. They
Speaker 1: just got the better talent. They've got the better talent.
Speaker 1: Jaden McDaniels, Anthony Edwards, Rudy Gobert, I love Devincenzo. I
Speaker 1: just think they've got the better team. So tonight, some
Speaker 1: great action in the NBA continuing the playoff runs. But
Speaker 1: the question is, I know y'all are gonna be watching,
Speaker 1: We're gonna be ready, We're gonna feel it in the
Speaker 1: air tonight. Clothes on this by the way, you know that, right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: tonight for the San Antonio Spurs. Where will we be
Speaker 1: in the NBA Draft lottery and if they are in
Speaker 1: the top ten, we will broadcast again tomorrow. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, we may do a live on our
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Speaker 1: love to talk to you guys over there live, and
Speaker 1: we would love to talk to you guys live. We'll
Speaker 1: start doing some shows over there. Big night for the Spurs,
Speaker 1: big night for the NBA as the playoffs continue, and
Speaker 1: a big shout out to the San Antonio Spurs and
Speaker 1: their management getting ready to make some major moves in
Speaker 1: the offseason and a big shout out to you guys.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for listening. We love each and every
Speaker 1: one of our members of the Spurs family. Remember, no
Speaker 1: matter what happens tonight and in the future, let that
Speaker 1: black and silver blood run through your veins and go Spurs, Go,