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June 17, 2024 42 mins

Today on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, Jonas and LaVar recap their Father’s Day weekend. Charles Barkley says next year on “Inside the NBA” will be his last as a broadcaster. And Kyrie Irving correctly calls the Celtics fan base a cult.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's the best of two pros and a coupled Joe
with Lamar Area, rad Winn and Jonas Knox Onoports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
How the hell was your father's day? Sticks?

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Oh it was good, man, It's really good. I spent
most of it traveling, but you know it was it
was good. It was definitely good.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah. You're in Tennessee, right.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
I was in Knoxville, Tennessee. Go Orange. Oh.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, how was it?

Speaker 5 (00:30):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (00:30):
It was really good man. Uh.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
You know, I never took any visits when when I
was a when I was a player, you know. So
I took one official visit when I was in high school.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
That was the Penn State and I committed.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
And so while I love my school and I loved
where I went and loved everything about it, my community,
everybody that associated with it, I still never had the
experience of seeing what it was like to be with
like another school, to be around another school, and it's

(01:09):
almost like dating, right.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
It's like they say.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
You know, I mean, this is so far from what
today's realities are. I guess in many cases, but maybe
it's still the same for some. They say you shouldn't
be with a person until you get married.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
And kind of.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Sort of like you know, the whole idea that is,
it's like if you don't know what else, you know,
anything else is like you know you should be good,
you know, like you know me, I know you. This
is what we know and good, like this is good
because that's it. Well, that's kind of how recruiting was
for me. My visit was to the school that I
went to. I had already committed before I even took

(01:47):
my official visit, Jonas.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
So you saved yourself for a Penn State.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
I saved myself for Penn State.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
But you know what, Penn State didn't save themselves for
me now I'm thinking about it because they had got
plenty of commitments from players before. But anyway to think
about it that that my son has been expected to
be a Penn and State Ninny Lyon, and you know,
a lot of a lot of it has you know,

(02:14):
a lot of you know, colleges maybe stayed away from
really recruiting them pretty hard because they had thought he
had already committed.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
But you know, he he.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Has kept his options open and there have been some
really really qualified schools that have have put their their
best foot forward. And and this weekend was Tennessee and
it was It was not a disappointment, my guy.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
I'll tell you that.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's a different level.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
They not only are the SEC, but they are really
really going in the right direction. They really are hypel Is.
He's a man's man. Really liked him. I enjoyed his company,
his his coaching staff really really uh knowledgeable coaching staff.

(03:04):
Tim Banks, you know, came from Penn State actually and
is the defensive coordinator there. So he you know, he's
coached guys like you know, you may know the names
Michael Parson and Jesse Loketta the name of a couple
of names. Yeah, so, uh they're they're pretty uh you know,
they're pretty The guy that would be coaching man and

(03:27):
former former player in the in the NFL, knows what
knows what the NFL was like, knows what what college
success is like. Very very uh travel you know, been
in the been in the game for I think you know,
it's been close to thirty years. I think it is,
So it's uh man, I think it's it's it's a

(03:53):
school that we're seriously considering.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
I wouldn't be mad.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
When does he make When does he make his call?
When does he make the decisions.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, he's got Penn State this week, so I won't
be with you guys at the end of the week.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Well, you know, family first, man. I mean, I'm sorry,
you know, I gotta do what I gotta do.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
But but yeah, I mean we'll leave Thursday to go
to Penn State.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
So he's pretty.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Much gotten it narrowed down to, you know, what his
final decision will be made based off of. He took
three official visits, one to u c. L A, now
to Tennessee, and then next up is Penn State. So
we'll see, We'll see how it goes out Penn State.

(04:39):
It's interesting that Penn State was the last scheduled. And
by the way, these are job interviews with parents jonas,
like extensive three day, four day job interviews. And I
know everybody thinks it's it's an interview of the school

(04:59):
to the kid, but it really the way it felt,
it was a job interview for the kid with the
family being there.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, they got to get make sure you guys are
comfortable with where he goes. He's gonna spend the next
three four years of his life. I mean, they've got
gotta warm you guys up to the idea of him,
you know, gone all the way across country, I would imagine.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
And it's but it's just the process is kind of
it's actually like kind of lightweight.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Kind of grueling.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
I wouldn't say overly grueling, but definitely touches the level
of a super long process. You have meetings all day,
you have presentations all day, You have things you have
to do medically, you have things you have to do physically.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
You I mean, you have.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Meeting after meeting, after meeting after meeting, and then you
eat food is good, you get good, get a little
bit of rest time. Then you have an evening event
that takes place that's that's definitely not work intensive. But
the morning, like the morning into early noon, like maybe

(06:14):
like one or two wish something like that. You're you're like,
you're working, You're your job interviewing. It's like a it's
a job interview.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
It must like I have never been wanted by anybody
or anything. And your son's got Tennessee, Penn State, and
UCLA that all want him to come play ball. That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Well it's more than that, but he's yeah, he's kind
of narrowed it down. But I mean, yeah, I guess
in essence what you're saying, he is wanted. It is
cool to be wanted. I mean, there is there's a
lot that comes with it, you know, there's a lot
that comes with being wanted, a lot of responsibility to
saying that much as much is given, much is required

(06:57):
is a very very true statement. It's it's not it's
not the most It's not like this relaxing thing where
you go and this that. I mean, they took them
to the water, you know, they went out on the boat,
went on the water. We had we had breakfast on
the water. It was that was nice, but it was

(07:20):
it's not what you expected. Like my official visit was
go up there, watch a game, hang out with one
of the players.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
They introduce you to.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
People, hint, hint, you have a good time, and then
your visit's over.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
You know what I remember it being people bang bang.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Bang bang, cannons, you know, and and then you figure
out what you want to do. And that was what
my favors up. Things have really evolved since then.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
So yeah, I mean, uh, look, it sounds like you
had a good day, a lot of travel, you know,
Father's Day, we had the US Open. Uh, you know,
I know you were all over the watching of the
US Open. Yeah, how'd that gourst? I don't believe anybody
that drew a name out of a hat drew the
right one out of that. Bryceon de Shambeau won it.

(08:26):
But I don't believe that anybody Lee's got the results
on that. So we'll we'll get all that sort of
figured out at some point during the course of the show.
We have a little bit of an issue here in
studio because there's a paper jam in the printer and
I can hear Lee through the studio doors. These are

(08:47):
thick walled studio doors for a radio studio, so that
just kicking the s out of the copier and like
the way that radio for people that don't know the
way that radio doors are, they're really everything's built so
that no outside sound comes in, all right, so that
there's no distractions anything outside the studio. You normally can't

(09:10):
hear Lee. You just beat the piss out of that
copy machine like I could hear it.

Speaker 6 (09:16):
This is straight off. Yeah, I took that thing apart.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
What happened?

Speaker 2 (09:21):
You tell me there's a paper jam.

Speaker 6 (09:23):
I've removed the damn paper jam, I've removed everything, I've
replaced everything. It should work. I've put it all back together.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
What about resetting it?

Speaker 6 (09:32):
I've reset it. Thanks, So I'm sorry, I'll get very upset.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Lee has jacked up the paper dispenser in the printer
and can't get it back to the normal state that
it was in. You know what's crazy about that is
it could only have happened to Lee, Like, that's it.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Well, it probably happened earlier and then somebody just left
it for Lee to figure.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
Oh yeah, I forget you guys. Are you know? Yeah, yeah,
that's probably what it is.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah, And even if that's what it is, that's probably
the only thing that could happen to Lee. Whichever scenario
that it may be, it would only happen to Lee.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, it's unfortunate. What do you think are you? Are
you optimistic we get this thing figured out? Lee? Because
we have no there's no papers here, no no print outs,
no nothing that means.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
We can make it happen without paper. We could do
it digitally. But I'm a very much I'm a tactile guy.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
I like I like paper, listen, I like it when
I travel. I like my actual boarding pass. I don't
like to show somebody in my phone. There's something about it,
like I missed the days. Like when you remember when
you get tickets, you have actual physical tickets. Now it's
like scan your phone if you want to get into
the game. Not a fan, not a fan. I like

(10:56):
it in my I like it in my hand. And
I want to be able to hand over what I
purchased and what I what what I bought, and what
I put time.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
I'd be like digitally making a baby, you know what
I mean. I just don't want to get to that place.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
I don't either, you know what I mean. Like I
think we're close. Oh dang, I'm saying, well, yeah, there's a.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Man, it doesn't look like there's a read. Is there
a read after this?

Speaker 2 (11:21):
No? No, listen, we're good. I mean, everything's fine. It's
just uh. I was a little bit distracted because I
could just hear leeh beating the crap out of the
copy or next door.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
So just was I thought you were panicking because you
didn't have like a hard copy to read. Please, man,
you don't have a read, so.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
When you're hard you don't need a hard copy.

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(12:21):
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Speaker 4 (12:26):
So for those of you like, well.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Let's just fill it out for people that mayby are
a little bit confused here, we were discussing the fact
that Bill Belichick has got a twenty four year old girlfriend,
and there's a lot of people who would be critical
of that and maybe not be fans of that, and
we were trying to do the comparison like if you're
if your kid walked in with somebody of that age,
and I brought up Dolly Parton because it was the

(12:48):
first thing I could think of.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
I think we'll make it.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
We'll make an exception, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
If you think about it.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
So there's a few guys out there, I guess, but
I mean, come on, let's think shade throw sharp.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Are they in there?

Speaker 3 (13:01):
She hasn't aged a bit, someone like Eman. She has
an age at all. Dolly Barry, what.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Are you reading off Lee's notes? Why are you reading that?
Least tell a prompt to get your own?

Speaker 4 (13:17):
You know, Sigourney Weaver. I don't know about that. I
haven't seen her.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Ah. Yeah, listen, there are exceptions every rule.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
There are exceptions.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
That's what I've said, Dolly, part might be the most
extreme one of them all.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Well, speaking of exceptions to the rule, when you start
doing broadcasting and you want to be a game analyst,
because we were talking about you know, Tom Brady and
what it's going to look like and sound like, you know,
there are certain things that you're taught like, you've got
to be this, you've got to be that, You've got
to do it this way, this is the way it's
normally done, so on and so forth, and then there's

(13:55):
exceptions to the broadcasting rule, and one of those is
Charles Barkley, who basically does whatever the hell he wants,
says whatever the hell he wants, and does it in
a way that has made him one of the best
broadcasters of all time. Hall of Fame player broadcasting career
even better. But he announced on Friday night after the

(14:16):
Game four NBA Final game between the MAVs and the Celtics,
he was on NBA TV and he had this to
say regards to his future.

Speaker 8 (14:25):
I've been thinking, guys, I want to say this because
you guys in my family. I really love TNT, all
the people who work here NBA Television.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
You guys been great.

Speaker 8 (14:37):
To me for twenty four years, and I just want
to say thank you to my entire NBA family.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
I love you guys.

Speaker 8 (14:44):
You know there's been a lot of noise around on
network the last few months, and I just want to
say I've talked to all the other networks, but I
ain't going nowhere other than TNT. But I have made
the decision myself. No matter what happens, next year is

(15:06):
gonna be my last year on television, and I just
want to say thank you to my NBA family. You
guys been great to me. My heart is full with
joy and gratitude. But I'm gonna pass the baton at
the end of next year. I hope the NBA stays
with TNT, but for me personally, I wanted you guys
to hear from me because I'm not doing any more interviews.

(15:27):
Don't y'all be calling me. Nobody calling me. I'm not
talking about this again, but I wanted to tell my
NBA and NBA TV and TNT family that I'm not
going to another network, but I'm gonna pass baton to
either Jamal Crawford or Vince Carter or you Steve. But
next year, I'm gonna just retire after twenty five years,

(15:50):
and I just want to say thank you.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
And I wanted y'all to hear from me first.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
So that was Charles Barkley talking to NBA TV on front.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
I didn't realize who was in for that long. Yeah,
that's that's a that's a career. And he doesn't need
it for the money.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
I don't believe.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
No, hell no, no, he's good. And and I also
I know there. You know when people retire a lot
of times it's like, ah, yeah, they say that now,
But man, I don't. He sounds like somebody who doesn't
want to go it, doesn't want to do the job
with anybody other than Turner Sports, Like he's not interested

(16:25):
in going anywhere else. ESPN not a fit like all
the other places that would be possibilities. NBC not a fit.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
And I did it take for him to build? Like?

Speaker 3 (16:36):
How long was he with that show? That show's been around?
Is that the twenty years?

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah? Two thousand? He started in two thousand, so it
was him, It was Ernie Johnson and I believe Kenny
Smith first original Yeah, and then Barkley joined then and
then shot Shack Jump.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
I just think that when you realize what something that
takes so long to build, like like think about this,
we're in year four, Yeah, you know what I mean,
And when you think about all of the things that
we've had to do, you know, the behind the scene

(17:19):
moments sometimes we have and people don't even know, you know,
sometimes we have our moments as a show and you're building,
you're building that rapport and you're figuring out what the
cadence is and how it's going to work. You know,
one of the greatest compliments that you could ever receive,
and doing a show is that people, for one, don't

(17:41):
realize that sometimes a lot of times because of our
travels and the things that we have going on, we're
not in the same studio. When people say, like I
was talking to some of the coaches because some of
the coaches from Tennessee listen to our show, shouts out
to y'a if y'all listening right now. It actually takes

(18:03):
time to develop a rapport and a cadence and a
feel where when you do silly aess like like that,
what you just did, like it's a part of the
It's a part of the DNA of the show.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
You know, it's a part of it's a part of what.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
The fans come to recognize and associate when listening to
our show. So you've taken we've taken three years, four
years to get to a point of where our show
has either been accepted by our listening audience and our
listening audience feels so good about it that they tell

(18:42):
somebody else about it.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
They listen to it.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
You know, it's not like we're a highly highly publicized
advertised show. So we're going to organically have to grow
our listenership and have a product that people want to
actually tune into versus music or anything else. I mean,
people don't just listen to radio in their cards anymore.

(19:07):
People listen to radio in different places. Because there's so
many ways technology wise, you can just get a hold
of what you want to listen to, not to mention podcasting,
so I could listen to something that I want to
listen to at any point in time, I want to
listen to it, and I don't have to be on
a schedule. So understanding, like all of the elements that

(19:30):
go into what it takes to build a successful show,
very few people will understand.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
That at the highest of levels.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
And when you're able to build something as magical as
they built, and you're able to monetize it the way
that they monetized it, and you just see the results
of it and what it turned into, it's a shame.
It's a shame that somehow, some way that show isn't

(20:02):
being preserved the way that it is. That's a that's
a crying shame, it's a travesty.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
In fact, we talked about it, I think a few
weeks back, and I said it I wasn't exaggerating. I
would rather watch that show the game. Yes, yeah, like
and like not it's not even close. I mean, you
look playoff games, NBA final games. You know you can
make the argument, but like a regular season game, I
don't care. If it's the two best teams in basketball

(20:29):
and they go to triple overtime, I would rather watch
that show and miss the game than vice versa.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
It's just it's just it takes but it takes so
long to build something up to where the audience one
can can decide that they do love it, and then
two it just becomes cold culture. It becomes cold classic.
Like that show is a part of an NBA season.

(20:57):
That's a it's a it's it's a lock that somebody
that is watching basketball, NBA basketball, it's a lock that
that show is going to touch you.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
You're going to see something like all the times they
race Kenny.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
To to the monitor for him to do his demonstrations
and making fun of his.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
Legs and stuff like that too.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Shock tripping and falling coming off of the stage and
Shock sitting there getting like bothered by by Charles and
and and wanted to you know, he talk trash. I
mean every element of it. The most successful shows become
an extension of your day, extension of your family, and

(21:42):
extension of who you are, and that's what they created.
I just don't think I don't think Barkley wants to
try to recreate that.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Now.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
You know, Shock already has a podcast and stuff, and
he's already so diverse in the stuff that he's doing.
I don't know how Kenny Smith views it, but you know,
so obviously Ernie wants to stay there. He does more
than just that show. But Jonas, when you build something
like that, it's just hard to recreate it. And if
he feels like he's got his feel, you know, in

(22:12):
terms of what he's done in media by doing that
show and having a twenty year run doing it, then
God bless.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
And look, if you wanted to, he could do you know,
his own podcast. I think him and Ernie Johnson do one,
but he could do something different and kind of make
his own schedule and all that. But I just think
to your point, he looks at it and goes, man,
this is a home run, like like why am I
going to try and you know, find it elsewhere? If

(22:38):
and you're not, Yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
So you're not like look at skipping Shannon right, like
Shannon just got paid like God bless. He's one of
the hottest dudes, if not the hottest dude in all
of sports as a personality.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
From a from a career standpoint, you're saying, correct, Okay.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
You stupid, stupid, But the point is, it's you stupid.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
If that worked.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
I heard he's on that same Dayton's app that Bill
Belichick anyway, anyway, anyway, not my words his, you know,
but it's not the same with him and stephen A. No,
it's not the same show. And for damn sure, it
ain't the same with I mean, at least at least

(23:32):
he's having success with with doing it with stephen A.
I mean it's it ain't the same though. It just
ain't the same. It's just not the same. But with
that being said, it is successful. Uh, skip show that
fell off a cliff with no parachute or bungee cord
or safety nets or nothing. That's just gonna be a plot.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, it's a rat.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
It's a rap for that one.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, not gonna not gone well. Knocking on smooth.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
So anyway, that's uh, that's just not what if you've
been able to do something, and that's why I do
up on game with TJ and Plexico, because if, if, if,
and when you become like the next Colin cow Heard
and you leave the show or ce you know, he leaves,
I feel like I feel like the show obviously, because

(24:24):
you guys did a show without me before.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
Anyway, I was like the Shaquille O'Neill.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
They added me as a wild card addition to to
an already successful, good, great show.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
We just got a little while, you know, we wanted
to spice things up. Yes, I wanted to bring somebody else.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
So pepper.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
You know, if you're gonna spice it up, you add
pepper to your soul. Like that's right, that's what they
you know, and that's that was a great decision.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
Like I feel like it was a great decision.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
But you know, one day you may leave, one day
Brady may leave. Like I feel like the show could
survive with everybody maybe well no, I just feel like
as long as there's two of us, I feel like
the show could survive.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
But with that being said, I still look at it.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
Like, you know what, let me hatch my bets, you know,
and let me let me keep plexing TJ, you know, rocking,
and we rocking together because we got a pretty dope
thing and then we just replaced you know what you
and I have done. Now, everybody doesn't think that way,
but for me, you know, I was feeling like, you know,
you guys are so good and this these spots are

(25:29):
so hard to come by that if y'all decided to
go to somewhere bigger, I'd be like, hey, let's just
set up on gaming here.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Well, listen, and I just want you to know, as
the star of the show, Yes, I agree.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
I mean, listen, you gotta be realistic in how you
approach things. The only way you got a chance of
winning in life is if you're you're realistic and not
delusional about the things that you know, you know that
you need to do or what you see. And you
know what, back to the original point, Charles Barkley is
being sensible and being realistic, not delusional about what it

(26:06):
is that they've created and what it would take to
even possibly have a chance to try to recreate it.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
You're not going to recreate it.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
So good for him, you know, in terms of having
a great run and him saying that he's going to
acknowledge the fact that he's going to step away. I mean,
he clearly is going to make a ton of money
doing other things anyway. I mean, whether it be you know,
the speech circuit or you know, appearances, whatever it may be.
He probably already is killing that anyway, you know what
I mean. But he's totally solidified himself as a personality

(26:37):
over that twenty year span of time.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Hell of broon and next year will be the last.
According to Charles Barkley, it is two pros and a
cup of Joe. Here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington
Jonas Knox of the Air coming up next here from.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
The hen't say he was joking either, if y'all know this,
by the way, he ain't saying he was joking, and
he wasn't listen.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
I mean you heard it here first from me. I think.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
I think, I think you're the next Colin Cowherd man.
Like a lot of people don't realize how talented somebody
is until it's been talent for a long time and
then you like sneaks up like.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Dang like Colin Cowherd.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Dope, you know, and it's like bam, Like you had
that feel to you where you know it could just
turn into so I mean, you're doing that TV show
didn't help your career, but I definitely gave you some reps.
It did give you some helpful reps though, I mean,

(27:39):
like talk about paying your dudes and your stripes got dang.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Like, lets me tell you something, there's nothing like hitting
the big time. When you're sitting up in the freezing
cold and there's a Bubba Gump Shrimp company sign rotating
behind you, LeVar Levar's making fun of your socks. You
got cat's teleproper scripts, like literally on TV.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
My phone's buzzing in my shirt pocket and I look
at it's and it's LeVar LeVar sniping us from a
rooftop bang.

Speaker 9 (28:20):
Just laughing his ass off faces and then the faces
you make after our text message.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
You are the funniest fate.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Like if only, oh, if only people do the behind
the scenes, if.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
They only do, be sure to catch live editions of
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe with Brady Quinn,
LeVar Errington, and Jonas Knox weekdays at six a m.
Eastern three am Pacific.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Congratulations. Oh, by the way, Brady Quinn's not here whatever
suspended make up and make up a reason why we'll
come to you.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
I didn't say whatever. I miss you, broh.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
I hope that you guys are enjoying your trip and
all that stuff y'all got going on. All these bits
that Jonas be doing and running during the course of
our shows, I do not approve of, and nor do
I condone or support them. So hey, Q, you and
the family, y'all enjoy whatever it is y'all got going on.
I don't have no idea what it is, but you
know what y'all do you?

Speaker 4 (29:22):
You know what I mean him?

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Let please riverside side. So congratulations to the Dallas Mavericks
big time win, near historic blowout beat down of the
the Booze on Friday. You're not buying the results, bruh,

(29:46):
it's the Boosh. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
How you come back and win a game like that
when you haven't been nowhere near good enough the entire series.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Well, I mean it helps when the other team pulls
everybody in the third quarter, you.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Know, I mean, let's win it.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Everybody's like, yeah, they threw the game because they want
to win it at home, Like, well, that was kind
of petrosis. I just I think that for me in
my own mind and my emotions. It did more damage
to the credibility of the NBA than it did Like

(30:26):
I could see them winning a nail biter eking their
way out of it. Like you go from beating them
three times the way that you have the same exact way,
and now all of a sudden, in an elimination game,

(30:47):
they're able to blow them out, not just beat them,
blow them out.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
And like I'm seeing nobody so, and I know why
people want to do this, and they're like, well, you
know what, what can they take with him from that
game that will carry over to Game five. It's like, well,
first of all, and first of all, the game may
as well have been six months ago. I mean this
three days. You know, the game was on Friday, and
we've got to wait Saturday and Sunday and then it
comes back. It's like it's so long ago and you're

(31:17):
going back to Boston. The series is over. It's not
a matter of if it's when the Celtics haven't lost
three straight all year, They're not going to lose four
straight to Dallas. This is not happening. We have no
idea whether or not Porzingis is going to be available
or used in this game. He was available in certain
situations for Game four, so I'm assuming that it'll probably

(31:38):
be the same, if not better, for Game five. Like
the series is over. That's a wrap and it's probably
over later tonight. Boston's a six and a half point favorite,
courtesy of our friends at DraftKings, So they're going to
wrap it up. They'll they'll close it out tonight, and
if it's not tonight, it'll be the next game. Like
the series is over. What's interesting though, is Kyrie Irving

(32:01):
was speaking with the media over the weekend and he
was talking about obviously not exactly a fan favorite in Boston.
People are upset about what happened with him in his
time with the Celtics. He was injured, he was promised
that he promised he was going to sign a long
term deal there, then as it turned out, he would
not be signing a long term deal there. He was

(32:23):
trying to orchestrate a pairing with Kevin Durant and he
was caught on camera doing so at the All Star Game,
I believe to go to Brooklyn. All of that led
to him not being very liked by Celtics fans. Him
wiping his feet on the Celtics logo and Friday night
was actually the first game he's won since he's done that,
So he has not had a good run and they've

(32:45):
been all over him and it's bothered him. Well, he
at least fessed up to his role and maybe not
embracing everything that went on in Boston. Here was Kyrie
Irving talking with the.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
Media hitting trade to here.

Speaker 10 (32:58):
This wasn't one of my options, you know, it wasn't
like number one on my list. So when the trade
opportunity got approached to me, you know, instead of going
back and appreciating the Celtics history, I just came in
with an open mind and just kind of like, all right,
I'm just gonna go with the flow into this. But
I think that was the wrong approach hindsight, looking back
on it, I definitely would have taken the time to

(33:19):
get to know people within the community, talk to some
of the champions that have come before me, actually extend
myself to them instead of the other way around, expecting
them to be there for me and give me advice
because they've been through it. They have championship pedigree here,
They've shown it for years. They're one of the most
winnings and franchise in all of sports. I think that's
what I struggle with initially, was figuring out how I'm

(33:40):
going to be a great player here while winning championships,
while also leading a team and selflessly joining the Celtics
organization or the cult that they have here, you know,
And that's what they expect you to do as a player.
They expect you to seamlessly buy into the Celtics pride,
buy into everything Celtics, and if you don't, then you'll
be outed.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
And I'm one of the people that's on the else.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
All right, So I've already seen it. Because he used
the word cult, that's what people are going to take
from that, instead of that says thoughtful of a response
and an answer and admission that I could have been
better or handled things differently if I was a little
bit more mature at the time like he was. Spot on.

(34:23):
I thought handled it great, discussed it great, It was
thought out, thoughtful, whatever terminology you want to use. He
did a great job with that. But because it's Kyrie
and because he used the word cult, he's going to
get some heed for it, guaranteed. And I've already seen
some of the papa.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
You know what, who cares? If you got a problem
with what he said.

Speaker 4 (34:45):
Who cares?

Speaker 2 (34:46):
He's being honest.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
You always you know, people always want what they want right.
If you tell him the truth, it was too much
of a truth. If you don't tell him the truth,
you didn't tell him enough of the truth. Like which
one which one wins, which one loses? They both lose
in this scenario. In this situation, you don't want to
like Kyrie Irving if you don't like Kyrie Irving, and

(35:08):
as it applies to being a boss and Celtics fan,
so there's no reason to like get caught up and
lost into all of the translation of.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
What it is that it represents.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
You chose to have the feelings you have towards Kyrie
Irving because of the way it all played out. He
just told you you were right or correct, and feeling
as though he could have done better in terms of
connecting with you the fans, or connecting with you the media,
or even the officials at the you know, at the franchise,
whatever I could have did it better?

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Good for him?

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Good for him, and being humble enough and being forward
enough and transparent enough to say how he feels while
in the biggest series of his career currently and for
what it's worth, take it or leave it. He gave you,
he gave you his truth and moving on. Like you
want to bubble up and say, oh, it was disingenuous

(36:04):
or whatever it is, Like what do you mean we're
a cult?

Speaker 4 (36:07):
Like man, shut up, shut up?

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah, I think you.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
Yeah, Like like dyl like what what is your problem? Really?

Speaker 9 (36:15):
What?

Speaker 4 (36:15):
What? Oh?

Speaker 3 (36:16):
He can't say that about us? Wah, what's the who cares?

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, it's like there's but look, a lot of this
is and yeah, they have some you know, some things
in common. But I think this also there's a lot
of things like Kyrie Irving can say things or do
things and he gets viewed and judged differently, and it's
it kind of reminds me a little bit like Aaron Rodgers.

(36:41):
And it's because they've been outspoken or said some things
that people have not liked, or made some decisions that
people have not liked elsewhere, and no matter what, they're
not going to be able to win the court of
public opinion.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
They're not in that court. Yeah, I mean think about it.
Think about it. A right, it's generally associated with things
like religion and politics, right, or some type of a movie.
It has its own particular special following of people. You

(37:16):
know what a fanatic is a person filled with excessive
and single minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or
political cause. Meaning we apply fan fandom fanatics to sports,
but in reality, the true definition of it is connected

(37:38):
to politics and religion.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
So the point of it is, you know what, you
call yourself.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
A Boston fan, then there's a chance that you're a
part of the cult that is the Boston Celtics fan base.
Like geez, come on, y'all need me to be breaking
it down to y'all like this, you know what it is,
you know how you feel about it. And you got
all of these Boston Celtic fans coming out of the
woodwork because they're about to get a championship, a record

(38:06):
breaking championship in the history of the franchise and then
the NBA, like a lot of people haven't been outwardly
Celtics fans. In fact, you guys have been under a
lot of fire because y'all come up short. Y'all were
turning into a Dallas type team in the NFL. Y'all
was coming up real short. In the big games. Now,

(38:27):
you don't come up short. And here's the funny thing
about it is, you got people like Joe l Embiid
out here. You got people talking head like, hey, look,
if we wasn't injured, Celtics wouldn't even be in this game.
It'd be the same old story that we've been talking about.
And I'm dad, and I'm a meaning as happy as
we are as people are, and those fanatics in Boston

(38:50):
are about the Boston Celtics right now, I'm not so
sure that Joel Embiid isn't accurate. You make it through
the Boss the seventy six ers, do you make it
through the Bucks? Like guys were injured in the East,

(39:11):
The East was a relatively easy side to go through
to get to the big game. I'm just saying, yeah,
I'm just saying Indiana wasn't ready to make it to
the Eastern Finals. That wasn't a team that was supposed
to be there.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Yeah, I mean, listen the path. If people want to argue,
like what was the harder path, who had the more
difficult path? How their path stacked up? Like if we
want to play that game, we can play that game.
I'm sure a lot of years. If they win the title,
they're the best team in the NBA. They were the
best team wire to wire. Like, it's not like they
had was every team they beat when they won what
sixty six games in the regular season or sixty four

(39:50):
games where all those teams injured, Like, it's come on,
they're the best team in basketball. It's a seven game series.
It's going to play out that way, and it's probably
gonna end later on tonight. And for the those you
that are upset with Kyrie Irving calling your fan basic cult,
you'll get an opportunity to let them know in Boston
if you're there and you can afford tickets, which, by
the way, what's the cheapest ticket to get into that

(40:11):
game later on tonight? Lee, what do you want to
bet it is Lebar? What would you say cheapest?

Speaker 3 (40:15):
Cheapest ticket probably like seven hundred dollars. I was five
hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
I was gonna go like four hundred.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
I'm gonna say, I mean, this is this is a
close out game.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
This is a close out game. I mean maybe a
nosebleed is like four hundred dollars maybe.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Lee, what are we looking at?

Speaker 4 (40:34):
It's not only a.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Close out game, but it's a record setting, a record
breaking championship game.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Well, I mean it's historical.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Well, I mean, if we're being honest, like they still
do have the record because the Lakers they won in
the Bubble is a half title, so they don't have seventeen.
They've got sixteen and a half. So yeah, I mean
it's already so you know, this would just be extending
the lead. Lee, what's the cheapest ticket to get into
that game tonight? Thirteen hundred dollars. Thirteen hundred for a

(41:03):
nose bleed. That's what I'm seeing. Ooh Jesus, all right,
well you imagine paying thirteen hundred dollars to sit in
the nose bleeds and it's like, hey, so how was it?
It was awesome? Okay, what'd you see they won the title?

Speaker 4 (41:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (41:22):
I did two on TV.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
I saw it on the big screen.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Yeah, there's like I would rather for that part.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
Big screen was in person, not on my couch, so
I could hear it and feel it the energy of
it in person while watching it on the jumbo tron,
and you had to watch it on your TV, which
I would still say is is I got the same feeling.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
I found sub for a thousand. Oh, I see, it's
a bargain and is that with fees, because that's where
they get you the fees involved, or where they really
screw over. That's why a lot of people are upset
with I think it's Ticketmaster and some other places because
the Yeah, that's why whenever you look for prices on there,
you always got to click the tab that says include

(42:03):
fees because that kind of changes the way you're shopping
for stuff from from my experience,
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