Speaker 1: Welcome back to Eves Sports Radio, Monday, June twenty third,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Of course, I'm still in Panama City, Panama.
Speaker 1: It is raining like it's a typhoon. It's been raining
Speaker 1: for the last day and a half. That's the only
Speaker 1: disturbing thing. Beautiful view, but raining like crazy.
Speaker 2: Welcome back. I hope you all have had a fantastic weekend.
Speaker 1: I heard that Louisville hasn't got a bit of rain
Speaker 1: ninety degrees. The summer's hit and hit hard, so I'm
Speaker 1: kind of looking forward to that. It's warmer in Louisville
Speaker 1: than it is here. It's humid in eighty five degrees,
Speaker 1: but it's not hot. So anyway, back to the show.
Speaker 1: Hope everyone's had a tremendous weekend. We've got a lot
Speaker 1: of sports to get to. Of course, you know, I've
Speaker 1: got two co hosts, and what is always late, my
Speaker 1: younger son, Anthony Eves is with us.
Speaker 2: So Andy, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning, Welcome to EAT Sports Radio.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: We've been getting rained last couple of days, but it's not.
Speaker 1: Gonnak, not the spirit out here. Honestly, we skated over more.
Speaker 2: Rain than we thought we were supposed to here. We
Speaker 2: were supposed to get rained almost every day. If you've
Speaker 2: looked on the weather report, there's pretty much thunderstore is and.
Speaker 1: Rain since we got here.
Speaker 5: But it held off for about the first three or
Speaker 5: four days, so we still got to enjoy a couple
Speaker 5: of excursions, go outside, enjoy the view. So hope we'll
Speaker 5: we get lucky again where we could hit the beach
Speaker 5: one day and it doesn't rain.
Speaker 1: Today or tomorrow exactly because we're out of here on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: But we just have to send some prayers up. But
Speaker 1: it's been a fantastic trip. It is a fantastic city,
Speaker 1: a international city. If you've never visited, you need to
Speaker 1: and you need to go see the Panama Canal. We
Speaker 1: got this other guy though, Anthony, we know this other guy.
Speaker 1: He's a Shaye Gildings Alexander Fan. I have to give
Speaker 1: him credit. I have to give George Williams credit. George Williams,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: How are you, yes, sir? Are you sure I pick
Speaker 3: that other reading? You guy? I know you did all
Speaker 3: the trophies.
Speaker 1: You bring you alive and well I've given it to.
Speaker 2: You, George.
Speaker 3: George, I know a little bit more should.
Speaker 1: I didn't think he'd George, George, I didn't think he'd
Speaker 1: be this good. I told Anthony, George picked him at
Speaker 1: the All Star Game. I said he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good player. But I didn't think he'd be this good.
Speaker 1: I didn't, George. I never would have said the most
Speaker 1: Valuable Player off that All Star Game. I would have
Speaker 1: never thought m v P. I just would not leading score. Never.
Speaker 1: I would have never said.
Speaker 2: That, George.
Speaker 1: I'm being honest with you. I would have never said that.
Speaker 1: And young kid has really really worked on his game.
Speaker 1: He's not super athletic, super fast, He's just worked on
Speaker 1: his game. So give him credit. He's world champion now, George.
Speaker 1: He and Cason Wallace. You got two of them, George.
Speaker 3: Man, Yes, sir, but but I picked this young man
Speaker 3: when in high school. I told you was he was
Speaker 3: teaching glass out there, and he's washed up to Kentucky
Speaker 3: and take a job, did all of it, and then
Speaker 3: the pros and really took over and really.
Speaker 1: To go, No, you did, George, this one. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna do you like you do me when I call
Speaker 1: it out. You know, when I called out Feelanova.
Speaker 2: You won't give me my dude.
Speaker 1: But you did call this one out, you did giving.
Speaker 6: It to you. You did.
Speaker 3: You won't let me give you a dude jack because
Speaker 3: you won't never let it go, so I can. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna let it go, George. You're not gonna let
Speaker 3: it go for somebody.
Speaker 7: You go all over exactly.
Speaker 1: Now, So congratulations. Of course, we're gonna let Anthony. You know, George,
Speaker 1: I'm would just throw it to him now. We'll let
Speaker 1: him give out the national news, let him go through
Speaker 1: College World Series of course, the NBA, the NBA Draft,
Speaker 1: which is Wednesday, George, which we'll be traveling during the
Speaker 1: draft Wednesday night, the Travelers Championship. There's a lot to
Speaker 1: get to that we're gonna let Anthony have. And then again, George,
Speaker 1: you're only with us on Monday and Friday.
Speaker 2: Then I would though it to you on where we start.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all know we're gonna start with the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals, but still, let Anthony get the national news
Speaker 1: out and then we'll go from there. I mean a
Speaker 1: lot of things are going on in sports right now, George,
Speaker 1: big draft and big trades, Kevin Durant, that'll be I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you my opinion on that one, boy.
Speaker 3: Is I have to snoock up on me, Jerry, No.
Speaker 1: I mean, just boy boom NBA drafts year. I mean
Speaker 1: that's because everyone knows Cooper Flags won. Dallas Mavericks is
Speaker 1: gonna be good. I mean, now Houston they're gonna be good.
Speaker 1: I've got some questions for you and Anthony, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it to Anthony right now.
Speaker 2: We're at sixteen.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let him just get some of the national news, George,
Speaker 1: and we'll get into sports. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Obviously, so we got a lot that happened over the
Speaker 4: last couple of days, over this weekend, all the way
Speaker 4: from golf, basketball, baseball, WNBA, you name it, we pretty
Speaker 4: much got it.
Speaker 1: So obviously, the first thing we do.
Speaker 4: Want to tap into we've been hitting for a long
Speaker 4: time is the NCAA Baseball College World Series. LSU did
Speaker 4: sweep Coast Carolina in a two game series.
Speaker 1: They've played Saturday. The first game.
Speaker 4: LSU won one zero in that first one. Then they
Speaker 4: played yesterday afternoon and LSU won five to three, taking
Speaker 4: that two to zero league championship win against Coastal Carolina,
Speaker 4: the sixth straight time SEC team has won since the
Speaker 4: College World Series six in a row. That's pretty impressive.
Speaker 4: I'll say that to say the least the same, especially
Speaker 4: in one sport because I've watched baseball. But one thing
Speaker 4: I will say about baseball, there's more diversity when.
Speaker 1: It comes to skills.
Speaker 2: You'll see team from Coastal Carolina, Murray States.
Speaker 4: You'll see it from time to time in basketball, Cinderella stories.
Speaker 1: Football not as much. Football is kind of just the powerhouses.
Speaker 4: You know, even though you're right hates me because I
Speaker 4: said Indiana guy to my absolute luck last year, but
Speaker 4: they did. I mean we saw when they played. They
Speaker 4: lost by thirty against two ranked teams that they played
Speaker 4: all season. So it's just not a surprise to me. Obviously,
Speaker 4: we had the Travelers Championship yesterday. Keegan Bradley did win yesterday,
Speaker 4: shooting minus fifteen at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.
Speaker 4: Took home three point six million dollars. Talk about life
Speaker 4: changing four days. All it takes is golf. Golf one weekend.
Speaker 4: You can turn into a millionaire.
Speaker 2: Over a couple of good holes.
Speaker 4: But it is one I will say, it's gotta be one.
Speaker 2: Of the hardest sports in the world.
Speaker 4: I love golf, but it frustrates me like no others
Speaker 4: sometimes even though it shouldn't.
Speaker 1: But I love it. Then.
Speaker 4: Obviously, everyone saw the NBA Finals last night, the Thunder
Speaker 4: one in Game seven and one of three to ninety one,
Speaker 4: Tyre's Holliburton tours Achilles in the first quarter, which we
Speaker 4: all hated to see. It's just one of those championships
Speaker 4: that do I think the Thunder would have probably beat
Speaker 4: the Pacers in my mind, yes, But the thing is,
Speaker 4: I can't say that I really know the outcome because
Speaker 4: their best player was out within the first six minutes
Speaker 4: and he was shooting phenomenals three for four, nine points
Speaker 4: in seven minutes.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: We sit there and talk about SGA, and I honestly,
Speaker 4: I'm glad the Kentucky kid is finally doing well.
Speaker 1: I like SGA.
Speaker 2: It's just sometimes I don't.
Speaker 4: It's it's and it's controversial for me.
Speaker 1: It's play style.
Speaker 4: He's efficient during the regular season, he was fishing during
Speaker 4: the playoffs. I'm just not the biggest fan of the
Speaker 4: push off all the time because it doesn't it's not.
Speaker 1: A two way street for it.
Speaker 4: In cases, he'll sit there and push off and do
Speaker 4: step backs all game and dislodge players and score thirty
Speaker 4: points and shoot fifty percent from the field. And then
Speaker 4: there's games when people don't want to be pushed around
Speaker 4: or they don't go for the push off and he
Speaker 4: gets bumped off and then he kind of flops and
Speaker 4: then call the foul for him. So he goes to
Speaker 4: the free throw line eleven to thirteen times a game
Speaker 4: when people try to stand their ground, but if they
Speaker 4: don't and they get dis lodged and get pushed off,
Speaker 4: then he shooes wide up in fifteen footers and it's
Speaker 4: just you gotta make it even for both sides.
Speaker 1: I understand that, you know.
Speaker 4: The offensive player does have an advantage in sports, especially
Speaker 4: in basketball, but you can't make it almost impossible to
Speaker 4: guard them. It's just it's just to a point where
Speaker 4: it's just making.
Speaker 2: It a little bit unfair.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's going to continue to go this way,
Speaker 4: but people have been complaining about it for too long
Speaker 4: to where that.
Speaker 1: That's just not going to be a thing.
Speaker 2: I think in the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: Hey, George, I was telling Anthony James Harden. Of course
Speaker 1: he didn't win one, but he had a little thing
Speaker 1: to where he was getting a lot of calls off
Speaker 1: the dribble.
Speaker 2: It just happens sometimes. What do you think, George about that?
Speaker 7: I mean, like I think, to live in the perfect
Speaker 7: world and the perfect things happen, and you play a
Speaker 7: certain way, Jerry, superstars get calls. The best players get
Speaker 7: the calls. I thought your boy ag Gilli Vanda was
Speaker 7: getting beat up. I thought he played through it. He
Speaker 7: never cried here, and you if you look at his handles,
Speaker 7: the reason he can get off like he gets off
Speaker 7: is because he can pet that ball and he can
Speaker 7: go where he wants to go and nobody can stop
Speaker 7: it from going. Every now and then, yeah, he may
Speaker 7: shove off, but everybody got pet mob. I didn't think
Speaker 7: it was a shove off because as much as he's
Speaker 7: getting off getting beat up, and he never complains, you
Speaker 7: never see him talks of rufid. I'm getting really foul foul.
Speaker 7: So if I'm gonna take your beating up, and you
Speaker 7: gotta take a little something for me too. If you're
Speaker 7: gonna get it, you gotta be ready to take it.
Speaker 2: Is a physical game.
Speaker 1: Here's the deal. How look at the totality fifty nine
Speaker 1: from the field goal, tremendous field go fift thirty seven
Speaker 1: point five from the three. This is for the season,
Speaker 1: thirty seven to five. Any coach would take any day
Speaker 1: in eighty nine nine from the free throw line, flat flat, dad,
Speaker 1: Very very very good stats. Now, Anthony last night was correct.
Speaker 1: I didn't look at them. I was pushing a lot
Speaker 1: of praise the SGNA. He said, did you look at it?
Speaker 1: I said, he was eight for twenty seven, two for twelve, George,
Speaker 1: So I said, okay, but still Worlds champions. But I
Speaker 1: understand the differential. I mean, what's going on is this, George?
Speaker 1: We were reading and of course he reads a lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff, but we were reading yesterday all the information.
Speaker 1: Doesn't have anything else to do, and they were talking
Speaker 1: about and some of the talking head's opinions was he
Speaker 1: the worst MVP lately.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna hit you all with that later on.
Speaker 3: I'll get in at today.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get it to you. I know it, George.
Speaker 1: It was just on the internet because you got to
Speaker 1: talk about things.
Speaker 3: George. It is.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give you the stats. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: into it, but we're not gonna get into it just yet.
Speaker 1: That's another segment when we're talking about Michael Jordan goats.
Speaker 2: We just got into the debates and we just want
Speaker 2: to see.
Speaker 1: So for me, George, I was okay, see all the
Speaker 1: way I thought they would be O see case in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Cleveland let me down.
Speaker 3: They did.
Speaker 1: I mean they did have three starters, missed three playoff games.
Speaker 1: Yes they did.
Speaker 2: So you have to that's no team's good enough.
Speaker 1: If you said three starters out of OKAC was gonna
Speaker 1: miss three playoff games, I don't think they'd have won
Speaker 1: it either. So I'm going to give that part that
Speaker 1: much I have to give to the Caves. But I
Speaker 1: still thought it would be okay, see in the Calves
Speaker 1: and I thought, okay, you would win. That was my
Speaker 1: pick George when this started.
Speaker 3: So what do you think, well, Jeah, I want I
Speaker 3: want to go back to what Andy says about to
Speaker 3: push out two of the greatest plays in Michael Jordan's career.
Speaker 3: People are calling the questionable about the pull out. I
Speaker 3: mean push out us. You look at you look at Phoenix,
Speaker 3: you look at Utah, you look at Phoenix. Yes, you
Speaker 3: look at Cleveland A three games, you look at three Cleveland.
Speaker 3: I mean that's just a move that's allowed in the NBA.
Speaker 3: And I and this new current player just don't like
Speaker 3: I mean plans don't like it. But the big players,
Speaker 3: that's a move that you make all the time.
Speaker 1: Yes, the Byron Russell push off on the crossover, Yes,
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 2: You know, if it was alive, then give me a
Speaker 2: little comeback.
Speaker 3: I know it wasn't I it wasn't you name you
Speaker 3: named to?
Speaker 4: You named two plays and Michael Jordan's was the weakest,
Speaker 4: the softest push off of the century, delegated. You made it,
Speaker 4: Shaye did it for an entire season. If you guarded Shaye,
Speaker 4: how would you feel getting pushed off?
Speaker 2: Would you get pushed off?
Speaker 1: Would you get pushed off forty times?
Speaker 2: Again? Well, here's what happens. Then, This is what everyone knows.
Speaker 1: Other coaches during the playoffs, when they have those issues,
Speaker 1: they take the tapes to the NBA office.
Speaker 2: The NBA office is supposed to show.
Speaker 1: It to the officials, and then the officials are supposed
Speaker 1: to evaluate it, just like they do in the game.
Speaker 1: That's what's supposed to happen. Young Man, just we'll find out.
Speaker 1: It's we'll find out as his career develops. Now we
Speaker 1: got to call at George. We gotta take Bubba walking
Speaker 1: to the sports radio.
Speaker 3: Are you I'm good man? How you doing?
Speaker 1: You know? We just we always do Bubba. Well.
Speaker 8: The only time I call it in is on Mondays
Speaker 8: and Fridays because I know I've got someone there with
Speaker 8: some intelligence that can carry on the conversation.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Don't give gonna give you your tat, Paul, I understand.
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Hey, the first thing is damn rock and it's sham Rock. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I can't stand.
Speaker 1: That's even worse when you added to Shamrocks.
Speaker 3: In Yeah, it's.
Speaker 8: But the World Series, uh, college World Series. You know
Speaker 8: that coach got kicked out in the first inning of
Speaker 8: the first game. He was born good times, but I
Speaker 8: think that he should have U I'm part should have
Speaker 8: had a little bit thicker skin, uh in the situation.
Speaker 8: But it is. But but my main reason is the
Speaker 8: call is that I understand that little is going to
Speaker 8: name the street after Tom Jersey, which is all find
Speaker 8: and good. But what's the delay with having there. There's
Speaker 8: no statue of west Antil anywhere. That guy with the
Speaker 8: whole family, they're great. You know, I've really never met him,
Speaker 8: but you never my mom My mother worked in the
Speaker 8: cafeteria back years ago at Seneca. Uh, they're just great folks.
Speaker 8: That guy's a legend basketball player. Uh here in the
Speaker 8: city of Louisville. You know, he's an NBA rookie. Uh,
Speaker 8: Rookie of the Year, we'll table player of the year.
Speaker 8: And I think he was the first one that ever
Speaker 8: did it. I did explained to me the second Kareem was.
Speaker 2: Kareem was first. I mean, uh, will table it was first.
Speaker 3: West was second.
Speaker 2: Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 8: But I remember as a kid going out to UFL
Speaker 8: games and watching him play, even though I called a
Speaker 8: couple of games at Seneca. I mean, the guy was phenomenal.
Speaker 8: I mean, and I mean he's a guy when you
Speaker 8: take a little bit back in the day, him or
Speaker 8: Charlie Tyree. But I'm just curious why they haven't had.
Speaker 3: Some for him. Let me tell you what.
Speaker 2: And I do know the entire family.
Speaker 1: I grew up next to them, Bubba from nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1: On the first time I met Les until I was
Speaker 1: in sixty nine, we moved right next to them in
Speaker 1: Prospect and you touched the source. It's so funny. Coach
Speaker 1: Beer was saying the same thing. I was at the
Speaker 1: press conference last week when the mayor announced that they
Speaker 1: were going to be naming the street after Tom Jadge,
Speaker 1: and I had no problem. You're with the naming of.
Speaker 2: Streets for people. My only issue with Louisville, and I
Speaker 2: do have an issue with them.
Speaker 1: Is that totality, the whole truth never gets told when
Speaker 1: they are facts that are out there, but city and
Speaker 1: the leaders of this community won't say it.
Speaker 2: They just don't say it.
Speaker 1: So when you throw in the Western Sale Peace which
Speaker 1: was second to Wilt Chamberlain for MVP and Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year. So we're talking about nineteen sixty eight, you
Speaker 1: have a player from the city of Louisville that played
Speaker 1: at University of Louisville with coach Beard, who came after
Speaker 1: West because Western Sale signed with Louisville.
Speaker 2: And there was nothing for thirty five years.
Speaker 1: We know, the last fifteen years, like George says, all
Speaker 1: schools are trying to give their players their roses before
Speaker 1: they die. But there was nothing on that campus for
Speaker 1: West un Sale. There was nothing in the city for
Speaker 1: Western Sale. There was nothing anywhere other than at Seneca
Speaker 1: High School. It just doesn't make sense, So it's a
Speaker 1: sensitive thing with me. I have no problem with the
Speaker 1: Tomsrish thing. He did a lot of great things when
Speaker 1: he was there. I just want, when Jerry's told the
Speaker 1: truth about what happened under his watch, that people say, yes,
Speaker 1: it happened, and quit being mad at me.
Speaker 2: That's all. That just doesn't And Louis boy.
Speaker 1: When they want to cover up the cover up, that's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying, that's just the fact of matter. And
Speaker 1: if you say the truth, boy, you're gonna get the
Speaker 1: irony like you've never seen before. So everybody gives me grief, Bubba,
Speaker 1: because I tell him I'm a Louisville fan.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 1: I think I'm the big Louisville fan in the city
Speaker 1: because I'll stand up for what's right, and dan it
Speaker 1: I get hilified.
Speaker 2: So Bubba, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna turn it over to George see.
Speaker 2: What he has to say about that.
Speaker 1: But the last or you'll know, when West died, his
Speaker 1: family said no to statues. And want everybody to understand
Speaker 1: that his wife, his daughter, his sons, I know all
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 2: They said no. They did not want him to be
Speaker 2: honored in that fashion.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you why I'm just saying that they
Speaker 1: did say no. Coach Beard Wade Houston, with a group
Speaker 1: of people that were going to do something for them,
Speaker 1: they said no. But that's after he died. I don't
Speaker 1: know about before then. What happened for those thirty five
Speaker 1: years before that, I don't know what happened in Louisville
Speaker 1: and the recognition of west Unt. I just don't so, George,
Speaker 1: there you go.
Speaker 8: But you know, you know, as time passes, it becomes
Speaker 8: more more more or becomes less relevant because there will
Speaker 8: be less people to know what he was all about.
Speaker 8: Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Yes, No, without a.
Speaker 2: Doubt, it does make sense.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense how it happened from sixty nine
Speaker 1: to seventy nine to eighty. Let's go and George, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna take home, George throw in the World Championship
Speaker 1: with the Washington Bullets.
Speaker 2: Forever, go ahead.
Speaker 7: I don't think that's the most important point about who
Speaker 7: Westerntail is for the University of Louisville. Understand who Charlie
Speaker 7: Tyrae was. I know Charlie was a great guy. But
Speaker 7: west unslled put uvel on the map with current basketball
Speaker 7: in the late sixties, when the NCAA became popular. If
Speaker 7: it wasn't for west Unsell, Loila wouldn't have been on
Speaker 7: the map. He led the conference. He's one of the
Speaker 7: most dynamic ball players that ever played here. And one
Speaker 7: of the things that you're missing and were talking about
Speaker 7: a sixth were talking about six six tenor in the
Speaker 7: NBA being Rookie of the Year and MVP at the
Speaker 7: same time. You know what I'm saying, I'm heard of.
Speaker 7: And he was.
Speaker 3: And like I said, Jerry, I.
Speaker 7: Was sitting here. He came home for a homecoming game
Speaker 7: and I'll never will forget. And I got a picture
Speaker 7: of him. He's got a red rose on and Wes
Speaker 7: was sitting there and I was talking to west Unsall Jerry.
Speaker 7: Ninety percent of the UFL administration, I don't.
Speaker 3: Even know if they knew who he was. And he
Speaker 3: told me at that time, this was his words out
Speaker 3: his mouth. He said, I'll never come back. That's what
Speaker 3: he told me, you know what I mean. And I
Speaker 3: knew him as a little boy, like at the university,
Speaker 3: a little but like I said, Wes was one of
Speaker 3: the most dynamic players that we've ever had the university.
Speaker 3: One of the best ambassadors we ever had his accomplishments
Speaker 3: that I'm real what he did after he left the
Speaker 3: University of Louisville. When they opened up the Young Center,
Speaker 3: jed my opinion. When they opened up the Young Center,
Speaker 3: him and Charlie Tyrae should have had the trophies, I
Speaker 3: mean statues in front, and I think West would have
Speaker 3: had the one over child and not knocking CHILDI go,
Speaker 3: I think it's a great gap. But I think West Suns,
Speaker 3: who put the University of Louisville on the map.
Speaker 2: No not get the arguments from me.
Speaker 1: You know that, nor coach you be here, so Bubman,
Speaker 1: appreciate your carl. It's a sensitive issue.
Speaker 2: We all know that.
Speaker 1: I just don't know what happened for the thirty year period.
Speaker 1: I do know that Kanye's wife said no to statues
Speaker 1: after West passed period point blank. She said no to West,
Speaker 1: she said no to me. She said no to Coach Houston.
Speaker 1: She said no fact So I don't know. But before then,
Speaker 1: I can't tell you. And like I told you, Derreck
Speaker 1: Smith and I for a four or five six year
Speaker 1: peer in the road lived with all the great ones
Speaker 1: that we all think about. Sam Jones is Bill Russell's guys,
Speaker 1: Carry my brother Carry's will tell you that he hung
Speaker 1: out with us in Chicago.
Speaker 2: And we're talking about all of them, Paul Silas, the.
Speaker 1: Great ones, you are, I mean, and Wes everyone. If
Speaker 1: you said who got the most respect, who had the
Speaker 1: most kudos, or if we were talking when everybody's talking
Speaker 1: over each other and someone started talking, when West started talking,
Speaker 1: people started listening. I'm just telling you all fact. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Paul Silace, Bill Russell.
Speaker 2: That's the truth. But beer with it's just the truth.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what happened, Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 7: Go ahead, George Jerry And what's in Kareem Abdula's book.
Speaker 7: Kareem said, he's the most difficult person that I've ever had,
Speaker 7: one of the most difficult, one of the top three
Speaker 7: difficult people he's ever had to face in life. He
Speaker 7: said he's starting a low block. He said the.
Speaker 3: Time he got to bout what him up by the
Speaker 3: foul land one knee me and the uh me in
Speaker 3: the back, knee on on the butt, elbow in the back,
Speaker 3: and he said, you walking guy, boom boom, boom boom.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people like Anthony's young and even
Speaker 1: know there were seven firsts everywhere. People thought the league
Speaker 1: has only grown now. Little Chamberlain was a monster cream up.
Speaker 2: To a jabal.
Speaker 1: I mean he had this skuy hooked that was unstoppable.
Speaker 1: West was playing center at six sixth and a half.
Speaker 1: George Anderson right, and was m VP of Rik of
Speaker 1: the Year and world champion, don't forget it.
Speaker 8: And he was like a condole the head on it.
Speaker 3: He was so wide in his big leg I mean
Speaker 3: he had big.
Speaker 8: Legs and you know big, just a big and at
Speaker 8: six he had leverage on you can just push, take
Speaker 8: you anywhere he wanted to.
Speaker 1: That was a gentleman Newburg boy, George, we have to
Speaker 1: do it Newburg show.
Speaker 2: People don't that are listening.
Speaker 1: I know you ought to understand these old names, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you back. You need to know about
Speaker 1: some of the true athletes the community of Newburgh, Thomas
Speaker 1: Jefferson and Seneca High School.
Speaker 2: They need to know the truth.
Speaker 1: George, truly what used to come out of the city
Speaker 1: of Louisville that changed the landscape of basketball. Daryl Griffiths
Speaker 1: was third or fourth. I mean Wesley talks West Hunt.
Speaker 1: So we've had just tremendous players.
Speaker 2: So we'll get to a bit.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we don't even to talk about Roy Simpson,
Speaker 1: Mike Grid I mean you.
Speaker 3: Know, we don't even talk Hey, hey, Jerry. While we
Speaker 3: talk about West, you always tell the story not only
Speaker 3: was he respected as a ballplayer, but he made you
Speaker 3: respect him as the coaching and he gave new bowls
Speaker 3: a reason to respect him and the coaching all those players.
Speaker 3: George story, How will.
Speaker 1: Would we come back from break? George, I will tell
Speaker 1: people the truth. It's these words radio bubb appreciation call.
Speaker 1: It is six excuse me, it's six twenty nine here,
Speaker 1: it is seven twenty nine in Louisville. Shiton runs two breaks.
Speaker 1: When we come back, I am on tell him the
Speaker 1: story on West Sun selling a new bowl after the
Speaker 1: break radio ru in Panama City, Panama. It's six thirty
Speaker 1: five years, seven thirty five in Louisville, and it looks
Speaker 1: like the weather's been to break a little bit. But George,
Speaker 1: Anthony Bubba came up. What a great point. Last week
Speaker 1: I was at the press conference. I have no issues
Speaker 1: with Tom Jerise, guys, I don't. I just have issues
Speaker 1: on how University Louisville has done things throughout the years period.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 1: I went to Louisville, went a championship there. I am
Speaker 1: a Louisville fan no matter what people say. That's why
Speaker 1: I stand up.
Speaker 2: I really do.
Speaker 3: No, you're not great.
Speaker 1: Great Now get and we gotta call. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: to him in a second, but I'm gonna finish and
Speaker 1: give you the story that I'm gonna bring Ryan on
Speaker 1: the show. The deal is this. West Son sell Is
Speaker 1: the coach, was a player's coach. Everyone loved to play
Speaker 1: for him. They did George. He had no issues with players,
Speaker 1: but the players knew not to mess with Westerns.
Speaker 2: When he told you to do something, just like as
Speaker 2: a player.
Speaker 1: Compost Ali said, he knocked me down, picked me up,
Speaker 1: all in the same breath, and he could pat me
Speaker 1: on the butt. He said, I couldn't. I was mad,
Speaker 1: couldn't be mad, And they wanted to hug him. That
Speaker 1: was the kind of guy where Sunseill was. But minut
Speaker 1: Bowl thought that he was gonna put west suns Hill
Speaker 1: in his place. This is true story you own, But
Speaker 1: he's gonna put him in his place. Nut Bowl was
Speaker 1: seven seven. Probably where do you think George two fifteen Max.
Speaker 2: Six max and of.
Speaker 1: Course for some reason he got twisted with one Sunsell
Speaker 1: during the halftime of a game.
Speaker 2: Legitimate you a fact.
Speaker 1: West Unt Hill grabbed that boy and locked him in
Speaker 1: one of the bigger lockers.
Speaker 2: If people haven't been in.
Speaker 1: Pro locker rooms, they had larger lockers than what you
Speaker 1: would remember in high school.
Speaker 2: Much larger.
Speaker 1: And he put that boy in a box and shut
Speaker 1: it and locked it. And the entire team looked at
Speaker 1: him and said, Manton told you to shut up and
Speaker 1: locked manut Bowl in the locker like he was just
Speaker 1: a little kid.
Speaker 3: Because he was. He was. You went a good parts well,
Speaker 3: west Total, Well, just let me if you feel that
Speaker 3: way about it, he said, forget I'm a coach. Just
Speaker 3: let me get my giet off. He did, he did, he.
Speaker 1: Did, But I don't need to do everything about it.
Speaker 2: Was understand. I don't wt people to get exwisted.
Speaker 1: He was one of the nicest individuals, nicest you'll ever
Speaker 1: run acros and being honest with you, everyone loved was
Speaker 1: until a Poland the owner the Washington Bullets, which are
Speaker 1: the Washington Wizards. We know the name Bullet is not appropriate,
Speaker 1: they say anymore, but George. He was president general manager
Speaker 1: of the Bullets Wizards Capital Center. He ran everything for
Speaker 1: a Poland, absolutely everything. So his accomplishments were like hou staid, George,
Speaker 1: weren't crazy for the city of Louisville not to have anything.
Speaker 1: I don't get it, George. So before I go to
Speaker 1: my Collingwood, you got or right ended and.
Speaker 3: The dynamics of West.
Speaker 7: Not only did they love his family like that in Washington,
Speaker 7: that's Washington. He's born here in Louisville. Jay, and what
Speaker 7: he's done, fuss is I'm real aide Poland and his
Speaker 7: family loved the unselved family so much.
Speaker 3: What team?
Speaker 7: You know, Five's the son and it gives him a
Speaker 7: job administration after you just find no Ab.
Speaker 2: Was that what?
Speaker 1: And don't forget Ab fired Michael. George don't want people
Speaker 1: to know.
Speaker 2: That he was often.
Speaker 3: Until he got to go Michael.
Speaker 1: Jordan, so Abe knew what he was doing. And George,
Speaker 1: don't forget. Weston has a school in Baltimore. His wife
Speaker 1: still runs it. Friend of privileged kids. West is still
Speaker 1: giving back to that community.
Speaker 7: He is.
Speaker 1: He owned half of the Chesapeake and I mean that, guys.
Speaker 1: They used to ride in the banana splits, motor scooters.
Speaker 1: Dereck Smith and I all Western, So it's property that
Speaker 1: you can ride out and just look at the chesap Peake.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy did extremely well for himself. So
Speaker 1: let's bring our next caller, Ron loc Leaves.
Speaker 2: What's radio?
Speaker 3: What's going on? My man? What's up?
Speaker 6: Man? How are you all this morning?
Speaker 2: Good? Run Old at one second?
Speaker 1: George?
Speaker 2: Everybody, hey, be your man?
Speaker 3: How is everybody your man?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Explain it good? I know he don't have no friends,
Speaker 3: But tell him who we are round. Let him know
Speaker 3: who we are.
Speaker 6: He knows who we are, George, he knows.
Speaker 1: He don't roll over me, right? If you roll over me,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to make Patty
Speaker 1: turn it back on your ride. Don't make me make
Speaker 1: Paddy back.
Speaker 3: So what's up, Dason?
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Tall is?
Speaker 6: I think Bubba hit on a great topic there. Okay,
Speaker 6: but here's the problem that our mayor of the city has. Okay,
Speaker 6: one of us been around long enough to know the
Speaker 6: whole kirt. Some of us enough thirty or forty years okay, okay,
Speaker 6: And I'm not gonnassault this like I didn't graduate from
Speaker 6: their jersey.
Speaker 3: I didn't play there, so.
Speaker 6: I can tell you what I need to say. I
Speaker 6: want to say, we know why our past hasn't been recognized.
Speaker 6: And the guy they're bringing in here to tell you
Speaker 6: how three what what group things he does in name
Speaker 6: street character, We know what he does, Rid Patino. Yes,
Speaker 6: they get to make things, they accomplish some things. The
Speaker 6: question past. They also put this university in this city,
Speaker 6: the last ten or twelve years of turnile that they
Speaker 6: went through, and and those two and it's a no impact.
Speaker 6: Remember how they run any crumb out. Okay, let's not
Speaker 6: forget that. If you're old enough, you know. Okay, they
Speaker 6: didn't want the past. Remember, they didn't want the past
Speaker 6: get the credit. They wanted all their leaders. And that's
Speaker 6: also while we don't have any yet here. So let's
Speaker 6: just stop. Let's stop with all this all the great time.
Speaker 6: People haven't forgot the mayor.
Speaker 3: Okay, we know what really went on here.
Speaker 6: Some of us do anyway, and you feel didn't happen,
Speaker 6: But no, not all of us. Some of us know
Speaker 6: the truth. And I would like to land on the
Speaker 6: side of church. Jerry. I'm sorry, that's just the way
Speaker 6: it is. Yeah, he did accomplish some things.
Speaker 3: There's a question about.
Speaker 6: Even though we're not sure where all the money came from,
Speaker 6: if it came from the proper places. But regardless, he
Speaker 6: did do that. But let's don't remember how he treated
Speaker 6: their their all time things codes for the best goat
Speaker 6: to that ever ever was here and never will be here.
Speaker 6: In my opinion, the.
Speaker 2: Truth not changing that not my opinion.
Speaker 1: I wish.
Speaker 6: The pastor wasn't recognized because they wanted to be and
Speaker 6: they want they don't want an NBA team here because
Speaker 6: they want to be the big ticket to big here.
Speaker 6: Well here we are.
Speaker 2: Stay right there. No, I like that, Stay right there, George.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw it to you.
Speaker 1: Rod's given his perspectives, which is very very very very
Speaker 1: close to Coach.
Speaker 2: Beard's perspective and my perspective.
Speaker 1: Okay, just being honest with Ron said, let's just be fourth, right,
Speaker 1: I've got to give people the facts on my show,
Speaker 1: we do not the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana
Speaker 1: Pacers played. I love watching both of them. I don't
Speaker 1: care what anyone says because they're low market NBA teams.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Small cities, that's all? And the
Speaker 1: city of Louisville had an opportunity to have one. Now
Speaker 1: I have city leaders that get upset with me personally,
Speaker 1: they're my friends.
Speaker 2: I'm not calling names because what I'm telling you all
Speaker 2: they say, Jared, you got to get over the past.
Speaker 2: That's true, but people still have to know what happened.
Speaker 1: Louisvoe had an opportunity to have the Charlotte Hornet's period
Speaker 1: point blank. When David Stern again, in my opinion, the
Speaker 1: greatest commission in pro sports. In my opinion, there's probably
Speaker 1: some people say Roselle football, and I have no problem
Speaker 1: with that, But in basketball, there's no question.
Speaker 2: Is David Stern.
Speaker 1: This crazy money came from David Stern when he puts
Speaker 1: in the New York Post, it's there.
Speaker 2: Google it.
Speaker 1: When people don't understand what an NBA team brings to
Speaker 1: that city and they know what it does. Rick Potino
Speaker 1: knows what a protein would do tax base wise for
Speaker 1: the city, and so does Tom Jurch, then they don't
Speaker 1: deserve one. That is not my words.
Speaker 2: That's David Stern who put it in an article.
Speaker 1: Guys, uh, that's billions of dollars that it costs to live.
Speaker 2: On taxpace money. That's all.
Speaker 1: I don't care anybody says they don't want me to
Speaker 1: say it, because it's like, don't say that, guys, I've
Speaker 1: read it. I don't have it in front of me now,
Speaker 1: I didn't know Bubba was gonna call.
Speaker 2: But it's just the truth.
Speaker 1: I can google and tell you don't where to find
Speaker 1: it where David Stern put it in writing, not hearsay
Speaker 1: through somebody. No, it's in print.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 1: So Georgie's right, Y's right about that period, point blank?
Speaker 3: Do you what do you think? Opinion you agree even
Speaker 3: goes further back than that, Like we're talking about the
Speaker 3: DYNA places. We also had an ABA team that won
Speaker 3: the championship. We had the opportunity to walk into the
Speaker 3: A the NBA. We didn't have to fight to get
Speaker 3: into the NBA. We could have been grandfather in like
Speaker 3: the rest of the team that jumped over from the A,
Speaker 3: B A to the NBA. We had a solid basketball
Speaker 3: team that would have went in, that would have been
Speaker 3: a competible, competible team in the NBA at that time.
Speaker 3: We were yes, I'm saying, but when the NBA broke
Speaker 3: up and got the ABA team Louisville was one of
Speaker 3: the teams that they wanted to take over at that time.
Speaker 3: They wanted them to join the NBA. John Brown did
Speaker 3: not want to do that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, No, George, Right, that's that point.
Speaker 2: Thank you George for that.
Speaker 3: Ron.
Speaker 1: That's twice that this city has missed his opportunity. That's
Speaker 1: why Jerry Eave is trying to make sure people know
Speaker 1: we can't ever let that happen again.
Speaker 3: That's what weary. Yeah, we showed our players for the
Speaker 3: NBA team.
Speaker 2: Artist, Gilmore, dan Is, Maurice Lucas. I know them all personally.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, right and look at the resume their resumes. Yes,
Speaker 3: wrong Lucas, Gilmore and Isle. Yes, you've got a big
Speaker 3: thing right there.
Speaker 1: Jar all stars, Yes, go question NBA All Stars go ahead, right.
Speaker 6: Did anybody ever stop and teams? Oh, why the likes
Speaker 6: of West humphl Wich, Beard, Purvose, Evison, people like that
Speaker 6: don't have a hen wants to come back here or
Speaker 6: if you recognize here for anything, anybody ever stopped and
Speaker 6: think about why that is true?
Speaker 2: Okay, guys, we're gonna go to break. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about that. That's a great point.
Speaker 1: Purves Elison is publicly said, Ny, Butch Beard has already said,
Speaker 1: take my stuff down. I mean the guys, come on,
Speaker 1: who lived in Louisville came back to Louisville to Simmons
Speaker 1: College for free. Thomas Deliver rented a place in the
Speaker 1: for free. He made five thousand bucks that and then
Speaker 1: of course, and then you're right, and we're talking about
Speaker 1: West Hunt Shill. We do have a pattern. Run it's
Speaker 1: the sports radio. We're gonna be back after the break.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the sports radio. It is seven forty nine.
Speaker 1: Some days we have real dialogue. Some days we have fun. Again,
Speaker 1: we're not taking from tom accomplishments.
Speaker 2: We're not.
Speaker 1: We're just talking to the skitny Louisville about how and
Speaker 1: why was that so could have been left for thirty
Speaker 1: years and he was period point blank. I'm not ever
Speaker 1: backing down. That's why people, well, I think are pretty good.
Speaker 1: I just got them the other day. They're pretty dangn good.
Speaker 1: But ye have a problem with me. Go ahead, George.
Speaker 7: You know one of the things that we talk about,
Speaker 7: and Ron brought it up. You know, there are some
Speaker 7: some negative quantations that we can put with Jerry's and stuff.
Speaker 7: But from the time Western Sale has went to high school,
Speaker 7: maybe elementary school, and he's a Native son. This young
Speaker 7: man's accomplishments and what he's done as an ambassador for
Speaker 7: the city of Louisville is I'm president. Only other person
Speaker 7: I can think that accomplished and done as much, but
Speaker 7: of Louisville is Muhammad Ali, right, I agree, and for
Speaker 7: for the for a native son to not be recognized,
Speaker 7: for you not to know your history, because see, when
Speaker 7: you don't know your history, Jary, you repeat all your
Speaker 7: dumb mistakes, and we can look at that going on
Speaker 7: right now in society. So you must know your history
Speaker 7: and you must recognize those who made you who you
Speaker 7: are if you want to go on and be a
Speaker 7: great city and say what you accomplishing. This is we
Speaker 7: have allowed this to go on much too long to
Speaker 7: not recognize those people who don't look like everybody else,
Speaker 7: not to be recognized and be put up on a board.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Rob, you got anything to add or do
Speaker 1: you want me to finish? Rob may be going, okay, guys,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. George great point. When Ron brought up
Speaker 1: about the three players three very successful players at the
Speaker 1: University of Louisville, and for some reason they have differences
Speaker 1: with the city.
Speaker 2: I don't know why. I'm not going to speak for people.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I know publicly through my
Speaker 1: show reading the comments from these.
Speaker 2: People that they have issues.
Speaker 3: I know that.
Speaker 1: And these just happened to be three of the African
Speaker 1: American players. Like Ron said, that's just the facts. So
Speaker 1: when we're looking at this, I want people to understand.
Speaker 1: Everyone wants to say, like I told you, they wanted jobs. Guys, Anthony,
Speaker 1: do you have West n sales jobs up for me?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 1: I just want people to understand. So before you hit
Speaker 1: that he needed something, I tried to be nice with
Speaker 1: You don't have the Chesapeake because the Unsealed Foundation and
Speaker 1: family does. He never needed a dime from the day
Speaker 1: he left Louisville. So I want people to take that
Speaker 1: out of their minds because that's what they say when
Speaker 1: Jerry's and Bushbeard came back. Oh, they want jobs, they
Speaker 1: need jobs. They don't know. We don't.
Speaker 2: I've told them.
Speaker 1: I'm the low on the totem toe out of the
Speaker 1: guys about and I'm the most blessed person in the world.
Speaker 1: But you know that's what they say, George when they
Speaker 1: want to knock it's something.
Speaker 2: May need something. Anthony read some of us on sales accomplishments. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so want some of his NBA statues.
Speaker 3: That's not his career.
Speaker 4: So post so post playing career in legacy Legacy of
Speaker 4: West until after retiring, primarily due tone issues in nineteen
Speaker 4: eighty one, his number forty one jersey was retired, and
Speaker 4: he stayed with the organization as a coach, executive, and mentor.
Speaker 1: He's the head coach of the Bullets.
Speaker 4: From nineteen eighty seven through nineteen ninety four, posting a
Speaker 4: two oh two and three forty five record with one
Speaker 4: playoff appearance. Served as the GM through nineteen ninety six
Speaker 4: two two thousand and three, continuing the influence the franchise's
Speaker 4: direction and culture, and was inducted into the Natesmith Hall
Speaker 4: of Fame in nineteen eighty eight, named among the NBA's
Speaker 4: fifty Greatest Players in nineteen ninety six, and later the
Speaker 4: seventy fifth Anniversary Team. His personal life and community impact,
Speaker 4: he married to Connie, a co founder of Unsales School
Speaker 4: in Baltimore, opened in nineteen seventy nine, where he also
Speaker 4: served in administrative and coaching Roles. Came from a large
Speaker 4: family in Louisville, one of nine children. The father was
Speaker 4: a prize fighter and part time baseball player, which is
Speaker 4: actually the godfather of the NBA player Kept and Love
Speaker 4: currently and his son West Until Junior has followed his
Speaker 4: legacy coaching in the NBA, most recently with the Wizards
Speaker 4: and then the Bulls staff.
Speaker 2: So West Unsil's legacy.
Speaker 4: Has went on for a long time, is distilled over
Speaker 4: Louisville and throughout the world, I.
Speaker 2: Think absolutely so.
Speaker 1: I just want people to understand, Please do not put
Speaker 1: that connotation on West Until Butch be here purpose Elison, please,
Speaker 1: because George, that's what they do, right, Georgia. I mean
Speaker 1: the first thing is needed something Nahase, don't.
Speaker 3: Go about that. What's the maiden to me, Jared, It's
Speaker 3: a shame the West, sim said, is more prominently known
Speaker 3: in Washington.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: That's a shame. And I'm just gonna get people in
Speaker 3: an example by hometown. They need to sewn pitch up anywhere.
Speaker 2: Thanks you.
Speaker 1: I think they've got him somewhere, George, but still not.
Speaker 1: Let me just give people an example. George they need
Speaker 1: to know this our listeners. Guys, Johnny Unitas had a
Speaker 1: great career, great, great football player, got me, great quarterback,
Speaker 1: champion coach, if my dad loved him. Lenny Lyles played
Speaker 1: at Louisville. He was just okay, he was undrafted, wasn't
Speaker 1: from Louisville got me. But the minute he played football
Speaker 1: and played well. And everybody knows about the great Johnny
Speaker 1: Uniteds and so do I and I love him. You
Speaker 1: see the Johnny Unitas.
Speaker 2: We know it.
Speaker 1: We see the statues, we know the street names, you
Speaker 1: know the dorm, we know everything.
Speaker 2: Got me what happened to wesn'ton sixty nine?
Speaker 1: MVP Rookie of the Year and MVP and guys, we
Speaker 1: don't even know his name.
Speaker 2: I'm just showing you all the contrasts. This issue at
Speaker 2: the city of Louispol has been so.
Speaker 1: Everybody gets upset with me. Yes, I live next to
Speaker 1: that man. His name is Big Charlie, but since his
Speaker 1: dad's name was Big Childie and George.
Speaker 2: He mentored everybody.
Speaker 1: He mentored hood, he mentored every kid in prospecting in
Speaker 1: Newburg and Thomas Jefferson Ryan Thomas was one of his boys.
Speaker 1: That's another Louisville great from TJ. I'm just telling you all,
Speaker 1: guys it. Justice doesn't make sense. So when I can
Speaker 1: say to Louisville, look at Johnny united deserved, then we
Speaker 1: say what's I said, and everybody tells me to get
Speaker 1: over it.
Speaker 2: They can't get away from Jim.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna get over George can say this right quick.
Speaker 3: You made me think of this. You made me think
Speaker 3: of this.
Speaker 7: Not only was West Unsealed a great native and great
Speaker 7: ball player in the city of Louisville, but the unself
Speaker 7: family name was so prominent while he was just in college,
Speaker 7: not even a pro. The name of his father and
Speaker 7: accomplishment they had made for the city of Newburgh was
Speaker 7: so prominent. Today I've heard of and we talked about Rick.
Speaker 7: We're talking about the jury.
Speaker 3: They named a street after the Unselled before West believing
Speaker 3: a a U of l.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal. We got about thirty seconds. I need
Speaker 2: a whole week for this.
Speaker 1: His brother went to Kansas started Will Chamberlain, took his job,
Speaker 1: turned into an alderman at Louisville.
Speaker 2: The Unseld family, you're.
Speaker 1: Talking about the city, Come on, guys, they were politically tied.
Speaker 1: Come on, we haven't even talked about his brother.
Speaker 3: Big joke.
Speaker 2: I'm on, George, Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: Look at the street name after the family they're.
Speaker 2: Doing I know.
Speaker 1: Exactly so anyway, George, we're gonna let it go. Great call, Bubba,
Speaker 1: thanks for your.
Speaker 3: George, we're talking to you about.
Speaker 1: Writing E Sports Radio.
Speaker 3: I'm out you guys, enjoy your