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On this edition of The Best of Covino and Rich: Dan Beyer and Monse Bolanos filling in for C&R as they discuss the exchange between Draymond Green and Charles Barkley on Inside the NBA. Dan shares the story of saving a sports bar on his anniversary night. Dan and Monse react to the reaction of their Lebron James take. 

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, thanks for listening to the best of Cabino and
Rich podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 3 (00:11):
Find your local station for Debino and Rich at Fox
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on the iHeartRadio app my searching FSF Manci. I'm gonna
be honest. This is day four. Is CNRS on vacation.
Still don't know if I've tweeted out the right link
for our YouTube. Still don't know the name of Mike's

(00:31):
segment from yesterday.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
That's good, Hey, listen. At least you're not moving backwards.
At least you're kind of just in the same spot.
That's never a bad thing. What's up, everybody? Happy Thursday?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
We are going to look backwards a bit of a
throwback Thursday, but not in the way that Cavino and
Rich usually do it. It comes up in about twenty
minutes or so, but we are going to look back
at not only something that we said yesterday, but something
that Draymond Green said yesterday.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
Oh yeah, Draymond Green had a lot to say about
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Speaker 4 (01:09):
The crown is yours.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
I only say this because when you tweet out the
show stuff, there is this nice graphic yes, that shows up. Yes,
when I just tweeted it out, it was a link.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
So I think I know I'm not doing anything fancy here.
I'm literally just.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Dan. I know. I just think I may have done
the wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yes, you can.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
You can always listen to us on the radio app
or your local station. Jason Stewart is here in Danny
GE's place today. Hello Jason, Hello everybody. Hi, Iowa Sam
here on a should we call it a stressed out Thursday.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
No calmed him down that quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Everything is good. Everything is all good. And we said
goodbye to prison Mike and say hello to Chris Perffets
at the news desk.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
What's going on, Chris, evering is wonderful. Everything is fantastic.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
It is well, it is unless you're Draymond Green, who,
for whatever reason just isn't understanding how things work.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
I think Draymond Green is fine. I think he's fine,
like he thinks he's fine. Yes, do you get what
I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
I don't think he's losing sleepover any of the things
that come out of his mouth.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Are you sure?

Speaker 4 (02:19):
I really don't think so.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
I'll tell you what. The inside the NBA crew is
super professional and last night after a dog of a
game between the Timberwolves and Spurs, something that, by the way,
I thought we called in tinder Wolves. Are you calling
it tender Wolves like Mancey or wolves?

Speaker 6 (02:35):
It depends who's saying it. To Manci, it's Timberwolves.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
I think we called last night's tinder Wolves game, yes,
where we thought it was going to be a blowout. Now,
Wenby didn't have thirty, but they didn't need him to
do because they were up by thirty for most of
the second half, if not all of it, So it
was a blowout. After that game he got to do
inside the NBA, and even Ernie made the joke. But
this happened earlier inside the NBA in the program with
Draymond Green sitting in the chair of Shaquille O'Neal well

(03:00):
talking about the latter days of the Warriors and as
their reign is coming to an end, which shouldn't be
a shock to anyone who was a theme throughout the season,
and when he saw them hug on the sidelines, he
kind of knew something was going to happen. Still no
determination on Steve Kerr's future, but Draymond Green, Kenny Smith,
Charles Barkley, Ernie Johnson talking about the demise of the Warriors,
and this is how it all started. Sports are for

(03:23):
young people.

Speaker 7 (03:24):
You hope to have a great, long career, but sports
nobody wins when they're thirty seven, thirty eight.

Speaker 8 (03:31):
That you said what you said, I didn't want to
hear if he believes what you're talking.

Speaker 9 (03:36):
Yeah, I mean, I think the goal is just to
not look like you in the Houston Rockets uniform. Yeah,
its ultimately a goal for us, like we don't want
to What does that look like?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Did you see it? I'm just asking I saw it.
I mean, so all right, that's kind of the point.
I don't think Charles heard him. I don't think Charles
was listening to him, because Charles said yeah, to that
point where it sounded like it agreed with him. But
I don't think that he did, because then Kenny stepped
up and was like, well, tell me about it.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Then, Draymond, if how was that?

Speaker 3 (04:06):
If you're going to go to that point, Kenny knew
right away that that was a low blow. Yes, And
then Draymond had the decision to make do you stick
with it or do you apologize and make a U turn? Well,
he's not going to make an apology and make a
U turn. He stuck with it, said what he had
to say, and moved on. And after that there wasn't
a huge back and forth where Chuck took offense, but

(04:28):
everyone else I felt on social media took offense to
what Draymond Green said because what Draymond Green said not
only was it classless, Moncie, it was factually incorrect when
you look at Charles Barkley's tenure with the Houston Rockets.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
Immediately when he said that, I was like, first of all,
did you watch Charles Barkley?

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Like, really watch him?

Speaker 5 (04:45):
Because I we're around the same age Draymond Green and
Hie and I have images of my brothers watching Charles Barkley.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
One of my brothers Gus, Hey, what's up?

Speaker 5 (04:56):
One of his favorite players if not, his favorite player
was Charles Barkley, and so I he didn't have like
images of him or memories of him being bad as
a rocket, if anything. I just remember him still carrying
a team and being the guy.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
And that's what's funny about Draymond Green.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Draymond Green talks a lot like he's the guy when
he just was on a team that had the guys,
and kind of, like Austin Rivers pointed out, like you
got very lucky to be in a situation where you're
surrounded by all of these Hall of famers in different ways.

(05:33):
But he tends to speak like he's the guy, and
I don't know if it's ever gonna be something that
can be corrected in his brain because he's not the guy.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
He's not.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
And we don't need to talk about the championships because
everybody knows Charles Barkley didn't win one. But let's talk
about the All nbas Let's talk about the All Stars,
let's talk about the MVP. Let's just talk about being
a guy who's carrying a team, not a guy who's
number four on a team, a great part of a
team of a diy ynesty, but you are not the
guy Charles Barkley.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
You mentioned his resume there. Charles Barkley did things that
Draymond Green will never hear of. And the problem that
I see with Draymond and what is happening is because
he's saying these things trying to be he's trying to be.
Draymond is what he's trying to be, and he is
now doing harm to his own reputation in his own

(06:25):
career because I think that a lot of us would
appreciate what Draymond did in his career as a defensive player,
for what he did for a long time in his career,
and say, you know what, that's a heck of a player.
But now when Draymond is taking shots at everyone else,
and to your point, talking about roles that players played
that Draymond could never dream of, it makes me, you

(06:48):
and everyone else then say, okay, all right, let's bring
out the fine tune, fine tooth comb, Draymond. Let's look
at your resume. Let's look at what your warriors have
done since you won that last title in twenty twenty two.
Chuck's teams with the Rockets was there four years. They
went to the Western Conference finals twice. They got stocked
in and maloned. That's what they did like they were,
That's who they ran into. Now, the last year didn't

(07:10):
end right. The next year was the third year was
the lockout season, I believe, But the final year of
his career yet didn't pan out. But when you look
at what's going on, that title for the Warriors was
twenty twenty two. We're in twenty twenty six. This team
made it to the playoffs a couple of times, won
a series against the Kings. Then we're ousted from the playoffs.

(07:31):
They only made it to the conference semifinals twice and
were not competitive last year. The Timberwolves made quick work
of them after it took everything for them to just
beat a Houston Rockets team in the first round. And
so when Draymond starts to say those things about Charles Barkley,
separate of all that, it makes us look at Draymond's
career a little bit more. And that's where Draymond is
doing harm.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
You make a good point, because it's like, there's no
reason to believe right now that the Warriors are going
to be a competitive team next year. There's no reason
to believe that they're getting older. They don't have the money,
the cap space, the ability to make moves. And Jimmy
Butler is not going to come back. Love Jimmy, He's
not going to come back to start the season.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
So you're you're at.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
The end of a career and it can't even get
worse than it is right now. So it's why come
come at Charles this way? Because it just it did
It made no sense, like you weren't actually proving any
points at all.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Jason Stewart said yesterday he sick at debate debate shows,
but you do love conflict, and there appeared to be
conflict last night between Draymond Green and Charles Barkley, and
it obviously peaud Orange just as well conflict.

Speaker 6 (08:38):
But I think I like discomfort even more, and this
this exchange had plenty of discomfort. You know, in our business,
we see this all the time, right, Draymond is kind
of half in, half out. He's not done playing, but
he wants to do with what we've been doing for
a long time. And we see it all the time.
We watch a show where we listen to a show

(09:00):
and they're being very chummy and they're giving it to
each other, and sometimes they give little blows to each other,
and when you enter that space, you think, well, I
could also give them low blows, because that's what the
nature of the show is. And I think when Draymond
said that, he was expecting for each of the people
on that panel to be like, oh and like give

(09:20):
him props for the line, and it was crickets, because
you don't enter our space. We can give each other crap,
but you can't enter our space. You haven't earned the
right to do this. And I think draymro that's just
one of my issues with this exchange. And then he
goes on like Charles Barkley. I'm old enough to remember
that Charles Barkley had to do like either jail time

(09:43):
or pay a stiff penalty for throwing a small person
out a window. It's like part of his story. I
wish he had done something in this moment, like would
anyone have blamed Charles for like throwing a punch, or
like at least saying something you were right, he demurred.
I kind of let it go, but I think everybody
thought Charles was well within his right to say something

(10:05):
or do something physical in that moment.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
I want to get to Chris Purfett in a second.
But you talk about the Charles Barkley past. It's something
I mentioned earlier on the network that for those that
don't remember. And by the way, Moncy, ye're saying, you're
around the same age as Draymond Green. I looked it up.
Draymond Green was ten, Yeah, in what would have been
the worst series of Charles Barkley's career. Yeah, so when
you're ten years old, I don't think that you can
grasp really what is going on and what is happening

(10:29):
with the player. But Charles Barkley, there was a time
where he was a bad boy in the NBA. He
wasn't liked, he was maybe a bully and had conflicts
with reporters. That obviously is a complete one eighty to
the Charles Barkley that we know now. And that's the
lesson that I think Draymond Green needs to learn. It's
right there in front of you, Charles Barkley and Bill

(10:50):
Lambier and everybody's fighting during the eighties. Charles Barkley's getting fined,
Charles Barkley's on commercials saying I'm not a role model.
And now look, book after book, everybody wants Charles Barkley,
Draymond Green, sticking to the stick of who he is
as a player as a menace is not going to
go well for him as he furthers along in his career.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, I just in addition to that, I think I
think his time on the inside the NBA has also
dulled us to just because Charles is such a self
defacing person, I think we forget sometimes how good he
was just period on the court, not just his attitude,
but like Draymond's like chipping at his time in Houston,
and I'm sorry, Draymond, you you kind of wish you

(11:34):
could have an end of a career like Charles Barkley
had even in Houston, Like the how good Chuck was
as or as the round mount of rebound is just
completely lost in this kind of fight, when the Draymond
jab was just not only mean but also anachronistic. This
is one of the greatest players who have ever played

(11:56):
the game of basketball, and just because he doesn't have
a ring on his finger does not take way for
how good of a player he was. And I think
that you should flaunt that a little bit more.

Speaker 5 (12:04):
I don't know, if I don't know if what you
said made me just think that he didn't hear it
right in the moment, And you're right, did he not
hear it or did he not process it in time?

Speaker 4 (12:16):
But his reaction, his lack of reaction only benefited Charles.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
Barkley because imagine if he would have like snapped back,
and then it becomes a bit of a shouting match.
Sometimes Charles can get animated and also say some things
that aren't correct because he's trying to defend himself. But
the fact that he remained so cool, calm and collected,
And I don't know if that was because he didn't
hear it or he just was like I'm shocked he
said that.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
Whatever it was, it made him look so much better.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
And like you pointed out Dan, like Draymond, you're talking
to a former bad boy.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
You're talking to.

Speaker 5 (12:53):
A guy who did it before you, who had a
better career as Chris, and we have pointed out already,
and so has everybody else. So if he made you
look like a mean guy, that's that's so bad.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
Yes, that's so bad.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
He made you look so much worse when he's also
a former bad boy.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
I loved Kenny and singing up I think that at
the point as well, is to Jason's point of you
think you're going to come in here on our show
and do this. You've been welcomed before, We've welcomed you
in and done all of this. I want to play
it again just so you can. You can tell in
Kenny's voice, he's like, oh, okay, what was that like?
Tell us Kenny wasn't doing that to be like, let's

(13:35):
let's rain on Charles parade. He's calling Draymond out for
something that he thought was ridiculous. Here was the exchange. Again,
Sports are for young people.

Speaker 7 (13:44):
You hope to have a great, long career, but sports
nobody wins when they're thirty seven, thirty eight.

Speaker 8 (13:51):
That you said what you said, I didn't want to
hear if he believes what you're talking, Yeah, I mean
I think the goal is just to not look like
you and.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Heston Rockets uniform.

Speaker 9 (14:01):
Yeah, as ultimately to go for us like we don't
want to what does that look like?

Speaker 3 (14:06):
See? Did you see that?

Speaker 10 (14:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Right there? Kenny knows Charles wasn't listening. Kenny knows Charles
didn't hear it, so he said yes. So Kenny steps
in talk about friend of the year right, like of
stepping up and having your guys.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
Back, and very simple question, what are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, what do you mean?

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Elaborate for us?

Speaker 3 (14:26):
I want to I want to run this down. Charles
Barkley's career started in the eighty four to eighty five
season rookie year as a rookie, and he's talked about
his rookie time. I believe you know, guys like Moses Malone,
doctor j Andrew Tony were on that team. That's a
tough team for a young guy to break into, and
he talks a lot about how those guys had such
an effect on his career. So year number two, you

(14:49):
ready for this? Sixth in the MVP. The next year,
sixth in the MVP, next year, fourth MVP votes next year,
sixth after that, runner up next year, fourth in nineteen
ninety two in the MVP in nineteen ninety three, won
it with the Phoenix Suns MVP, finished tenth in voting
in ninety four, ninety five, finished sixth as an MVP,
twelfth in voting for the MVP in ninety six, and

(15:10):
then in his first season with the Rockets that we Hate,
got MVP votes, was sixteenth at the age of thirty three.
At that point, Draymond Green once was one time finished
seventh in voting for the MVP in the twenty fifteen
twenty sixteen seventy three win season. Again, you wouldn't trade
a season of Charles Barkley's for Draymond Green's. Well, you

(15:34):
talk about individual you can hide behind the rings, which
I think Draymond Green is doing, or hiding behind Steph
Curry and Klay Thompson. But nobody here, nobody in the
right mind, would rather have Draymond Green season or career
than Charles Barkley's.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Nobody, not even Kenny the Jet.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Oh no, I loved it, you know it was, and
called him on it. And again I'm not giving credit
to Draymond, but there was no way he was going
to walk that back because that's not who he is,
especially what happened off the heels of the Austin Reeves
sort of thing. He's not in the business of doing that.
But at some point, Monci, he's got to turn it around.

(16:10):
And it's why said earlier this week that I think
Austin Reeves is gonna have a better media career than
Draymond Green because Austin Rivers again. Gosh, he did it again.
We needed the jar here. We had the Taylor Swift,
Travis Kelce, Dollar, Jarren Cavino, and Rich I need to
do it here. I think Austin Rivers is gonna have
a better media career because right now Draymond Green isn't
getting it. You don't just rain on everyone's parade, and

(16:32):
at some point it's really gonna come to burn him.
Last night may have been that point. Maybe the backlash
he receives, he'll recognize it, but I don't think he's
there at that point to even understand what he really
said last night.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
To wrap it up, because I know we're kind of here,
but I was gonna say his initial response when Kenny
the Jet asks him, he takes it like a breath,
like he almost doesn't know how to respond to Kenny.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
Can you play back, Sam real quick? Listen to his
reaction right away? You're good, No, Yeah, you're fine.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
It's just his He is kind of taken aback by
Kenny the Jet responding in such a very subtle way.
It's not it's not aggressive, it's not loud. He just
wants to ask him.

Speaker 9 (17:21):
I think the goal is just to not look like
you in the Houston Rockets uniform. Yeah, as utimulated goal
for us, like we don't want to what does that
look like?

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Did you see it?

Speaker 5 (17:35):
Doesn't know what to say initially and it was like
you said, you had an opportunity to you turn.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
And say, oh, that came out wrong.

Speaker 5 (17:42):
That's actually not what I meant, you know what I mean,
and said, took a moment, processed it and said I'm
gonna double down on my stupidity.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
With nothing, with nothing, zero facts with a who he
was ten, he was ten. He was ten at the time.
It's this is and kudos to them. I know some
people have not been fans of Barkley and Shack kind
of throwing water on the current players. I think that
what Charles was saying last night was true. And in

(18:15):
the current players you now have this divide. You have
these young players and you have these older players. I
feel the older players in the NBA have actually held
back some of the star possibilities we could have because
we're still talking about Lebron, We're still talking about Kevin Durant,
We're still talking about Steph Curry. They've been in the
league a long time, and with them still in the league,
it means we're going to talk about them. But I

(18:37):
just it's Charles was actually sticking up for the young
players in the league for once and understanding what it
takes to win a championship. Draymond took it personally and
then did what he did.

Speaker 6 (18:49):
Jason Stewart, I want to wrap this up with an analogy,
and I know I'm a fifty three year old white guy,
but I this is what this reminds me of. Ten
years ago. There was a famous rap battle between Meek
Mill and Drake, and the consensus was Meek Miller just
destroyed this guy. And then Drake in the same week,

(19:10):
had this like meme from the Hotline Bling video. I
don't know if you remember the meme. Anyways, he was
having a really rough week on social media, and just
by consensus people that follow both both brands, I think
Draymond Green's having that kind of week. I think Austin
Rivers completely ruined him in the battle words earlier and
the reaction, even though Charles wasn't defensive at all last night,

(19:33):
the reaction by everybody who covers a sport today, it's
almost running like ninety nine to one for Charles. So
I think I think is that is an add an
apt analogy the Draymond Green's having a Drake kind of week.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Sure, thank you guys. And I didn't realize that Drake
had it twice done to him because the Kendrick Lamar
one that we oh, he's always on the losing ends
of the ass. But I think he can be an
easy target. You know that it can be. But I
think you're right that he and yeah, he came with
that last night because of what happened with Austin.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Rivers absolutely absolutely had the show.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
He still had the fastball.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
Draymond Green, uniting basketball fans everywhere who would have thought, thank.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
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Speaker 3 (20:26):
All right, it is Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday. One
last voice there is.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
No I think it was there, but it was just
a little.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Bit last voice that was missing. I think that was
louder than me, you or Chris Channing was missing. The
voice of Iowa Sam.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
He was in there. He was Jason that didn't say anything.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Jason never says anything.

Speaker 10 (20:51):
I got in there at the end, he did.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
I heard it, I heard it, heard it. I got you, Sam.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
The silence rang louder than the voice that actually spoke
here on Covino and Rich here on Fox Sports Radio.
How about that for being deep?

Speaker 4 (21:05):
How about that for being deep? What did you say?
It wasn't that deep?

Speaker 3 (21:09):
I can't say it again? How about that?

Speaker 4 (21:11):
How about that? How about that? What's up? Everybody?

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Speaker 3 (21:26):
Hunter Mayhan, a former PGA Tour player, going to be
doing some featured groups broadcasting at the PGA Championship starting
next week. That'll be on ESPN. Hunter's going to join
us to not only talk golf, but sure we could
talk NBA with him as well. Get his thoughts on
what's happening with live golf and the players that may

(21:48):
be stranded there in so much more. But the second
major of the season coming up a week from today.
It starts at Aronomink just outside of Philadelphia. So Hunter
will be on the grounds doing the broad cash there
as part of the feature groups planning. He'll be joining
us in about twenty five minutes or so. You guys
did not join me last night for dinner.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
That's because the anniversary debrief that is being asked about
in the comments section.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
It was ninth anniversary dinner last night, me and my
wife celebrating our ninth anniversary. Thank you very much, thank.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
You, thank you for meredith congratulation.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Muted response from the gallery.

Speaker 6 (22:27):
We call it the brawny number nine.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
I do really love that. I do really love that.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Leather and pottery were the options for number nine.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Okay, did you go with either?

Speaker 9 (22:39):
No?

Speaker 3 (22:39):
My wife? Did she got me a little like leather
toiletry satcheled very nice? Yes, Ye, she got flowers, which
I think are better than pottery.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Here's the astray I made in second grade? Right? Did
you ever have to make those?

Speaker 5 (22:55):
I don't remember doing it, but I remember in modern.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Fam smoking with so much part of our lives, that
kids were making ashtrays. Jason Stewart, are you.

Speaker 6 (23:03):
A little wife? My absolutely, I could see it now.
It was a brown one it was very very asymmetrical.
I made that.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Sam. Did you make ashtrays in Iowa?

Speaker 10 (23:12):
I'm not sure if ashtray, but I mean like a
lot of ashtrays now are like vintage collectors it himself.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
You learn't even use them. Chris, did you in Toledo
did you make I think?

Speaker 1 (23:22):
I think when I was coming up, it was they
were pushing everyone away from smoking. That was That was
Joe Campill was was on his way out. So no,
I'm in my.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Late forties and those who know in their late forties. No,
you would do a pottery like class and you would
take your thing and then they'd put it in a
kill and then come back and you'd give it to
your parents or grandparents or whoever. And you wouldn't make ashtrays,
right like. That's how That's how prevalent smoking was back
when we were growing up in the eighties. That not

(23:51):
only are you going to use make a school project
of it, it's going to be a useful apparatus to
bring home.

Speaker 10 (23:59):
And listen you and a lot of the stuff we
made as kids could just be used as ashtrays anyway.
It didn't even have to be designed. Yeah, you could
put coins in there like a little pottery or a
little plant pot like it could be used as an
ashtrey if you want four coins.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
What I felt like it was an ashtray. The point
being is I didn't get her pottery. We got her flowers.
And there's actually something else coming that I can't say
right now.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
That's exciting.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
But dinner last night was me, my wife and.

Speaker 10 (24:24):
My son, as it should.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
We let's go.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Yes, we had our special dinner on Saturday night where
our niece came over and watched our son so my
wife and I could go out. And last night we
were at an establishment and I'm just gonna name it
because I think they have a great food and I
think people know it around the country yard house. We
went to the new yard house in our area, in fact,
the area that we live, I think is the perfect

(24:49):
place for a yard house. So we showed up on
a Wednesday, just recently open. But when we showed up
on a Wednesday at quarter to five, there was already
a twenty to twenty five wait because everybody wants to
go to the new place, even though it's been like
a week and a half or two weeks since this
place has opened. Up. It's still the hot spot. I
go in, sit down, see the Nix and Sixers are

(25:11):
on TV awesome. And then I look and I see
the NHL Network is on. And this is where our
story comes back to a topic we've talked about on
Cavino and Rich whether the guys are here or the
guys or not. It's the sports bar TV viewing and
Mancy and I look up and I see the NHL

(25:32):
Network on one of the screens.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
Fail. Right, fail.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Their heart was in the right place. They knew that. Well,
basketball is on and hockey's on. What channels should we
put on? Well, let's put on ESPN perfect, where's hockey?
NHL Network? Perfect? Put it on. So I'm watching them
break down film from the Avalanche wild game from the
night before while the Sabers and Canadians have just started

(25:59):
their series in again one and I said to the
guy that one of the guys that was working there,
because everybody was busy, can you change that TV to
the Sabers and Canadians. It's like what channel? I'm like
two forty five Probably for you guys, if you have DirecTV,
it would be on TNT. And I waited for the
next five minutes. I have no idea what my wife said,

(26:21):
what the waitress said, what my son said. I watched
for that TV to change, and as I turned to
grab another cheese curd again there Wisconsin cheese curds at
the arthouse, which yeah, well they all are. Yeah, I
turned back and saw the game had switched. I got goosebumps. Guys,

(26:45):
I'm telling.

Speaker 10 (26:46):
You, I changed the t job.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
In a full restaurant to the appropriate viewing matter, that
is an appropriate game. I felt so good about it,
like I just I did them a solid Yeah, I'm
looking out for you. Yeah, Yardhouse. Yeah, when someone walks
in and says you have a hockey game on, you

(27:13):
don't say we've got it on there, and then they say, well,
that's the NHL network. That's not where the game is.
You have it on. Anybody who walked in from that
point that it changed thinks that that yard House has
it going on, that they are they know what's happening
with their TVs. I felt so accomplished. I texted you
guys about it. It was a rush that I didn't

(27:36):
know that I could feel. But I did it for
that restaurant, for those people, for the NHL for America.
I had them change to the current game in the
Stanley Cup.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
Playoffs on behalf of America.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
I just want to say thank you for taking this
upon yourself and fixing the problem that was.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
Right in front of their faces.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
Did you feel like Rory McElroy did when he won
the Mass last year and had that final walk where
he was just could not feel more proud of himself,
a little emotional, you know, can't believe it, but knows
that he's done it.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Is that how you felt.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
The stride, just the amazement of it. Maybe Manzy just
doing one of these.

Speaker 5 (28:20):
You know you just yeah, wow, like you did it.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
I did it. I did it. Yeah, you could see
this on the live stream, you know, just maybe one
of these, you know, looking to the heavens a little
bit like his hat off and.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
Just kind of a sense of accomplishment and relief, like
he can't believe it, but he did.

Speaker 10 (28:38):
It his job.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
This was a special moment. And I don't know how you.
Manzy threw flames at my text, So it was that
made me feel good. Yeah, that's right that she understood it.
There was another layer to it, and I didn't realize
it wasn't until I got home, knowing that if someone
walked in two hours later, I did that for them.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Hmm.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
Two hours later. Yeah, they're like, let's let's put the
game on, let's get let's let's go. I bet your
yardhouse has the hockey game. Let's go check it out.
They walk in at six o'clock local time, seven thirty
local time. Guess who had the game yardhouse? Guess who
made it happen? Me? And I felt good about that.

(29:24):
I felt like I did something. I felt like I
accomplished something. The Ducks were playing last night, perfect right, Well,
this place knows we're not close to Anaheim, but we're
in southern California. Of course they're gonna have the Ducks
game their yardhouse. They know for those people from six
thirty on that night, they had a game on their
screen because I made it happen, and there was nothing,

(29:45):
there was nothing like it.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
Dan It you gave the gift that kept on giving.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
I did.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
That's what he did last night. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you.

Speaker 5 (29:53):
Like for what you to welcome you had you had
a better evening then, I dare say the New York
Knicks players that rejected from an after met Gala party.
I don't know if you guys heard the story, but
apparently some Knicks players got rejected at a party that
was a post met Gala extravaganza hosted by Sabrina Carpenter.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Who I love, and Madonna, who I also love. I
don't know who the players were, but can you imagine
you just won Game two.

Speaker 5 (30:20):
You've won five in a row in the playoffs, you
are feeling high, just.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
Like you the best, and then you get to a
door and they're like, no, you can't come in.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
They went from the ultimate high to the ultimate law,
the ultimate lie. My ultimate high lasted all night long.
I can't imagine being Karl Anthony Towns because that's a name.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
Going up to a door, right name, honestly.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Like for that level, like Jalen Brunton could get in.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
I maybe.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
I don't know if any other Nick could. And it
had to be if it was Karl Anthony Towns. When
they're like, wait, is your name Anthony Towns or is
your last name Towns? Wait? Wait is your first name?
Is your middle name's Anthony? Wait your name's carl An.
Either way, you're not on the list. Get away there

(31:10):
is no Carl, there's no Anthony. There's no Towns on
this list.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
There's no cat.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
You are not in. There is no cat. No maybe
Dojah cat. But it's not you.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
But it's not you with cat with the K. That's
not it. That's not the one.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
There was not even a kit cat here. Please leave,
Please leave. Maybe Dojah Cat's not on the list. Because
others got denied too.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
This story said that Margot Robbie, Margot Robbie, Katy Perry
were also denied.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
It was a strict two hundred person.

Speaker 6 (31:39):
Katy Perry, she deserves to be denied. But Margot Robbie,
Margot Robbie, the surprise. Nobody likes Katy Perry.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
I mean, you're probably right she.

Speaker 6 (31:47):
Was an astronaut and then came down and told us
that she was a scientist an astronaut when she just
like I took a ride with a bunch of billionaires
to space for a couple of minutes and came back
down and said, don't call me, don't call me just
a rider. I just didn't ride up there. I was
an astronaut. Ever since then, I think it's ninety nine
to one against Katy Perry, Margot Robbie.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
I wonder three judges at the door when they asked
if Katy Perry could come in and be like, no, sorry, sorry,
that's a no for me. Dog. Nope, no, that's a
no for me.

Speaker 6 (32:20):
Keith urb been one of them, which one was? What
are the judges now?

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Now? It's Luke Bryan, Lionel Ritchie and Kerrie Underwood. Katie
stepped away. But that's how you would deny her. Sorry, sorry, dog,
that's my Randy Jackson. That's how they got denied. That's
an exclusive party for numbers at that level. Like, I know,
Katy Perry may not be liked, but I don't think
she would be denied.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
I'm looking it up again and now TMZ, I'm gonna
trust TMZ over the first one. It does say that
they that Katy Perry and Margot Robbie were letting.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
So there you go.

Speaker 6 (32:51):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Let's get back talking about me, because Scott says the
chat thanks me for my service last night.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
Yes, you did you did it. You did it.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Grace is chatted in proud of you, dB. I would
have been grateful in that yardhouse. Thank you, Grace, Thank
you so much, Grace. Again, it wasn't just for me.
Did Jason and I go to Buffalo in September? And
I now have this weird like affinity for anything Buffet.

Speaker 5 (33:20):
You holding up the Stanley Cup in the YouTube, I am.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
There, you are.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Look at Look at all those TVs. Look at all
of those TVs that I made happen. It wasn't. It
wasn't last night's game. It was happening then and happening now.
We've talked about this. Sports bars that only have basic
cable serve a very limited audience, very limited the local team,

(33:47):
and having your TVs on ESPN and ESPN two and
ESPN News does not does not fulfill the needs of
real sports fans. There were probably about one hundred people
sitting around the bar last night, and they all then
knew that Buffalo was taking it to the Canadians. Why
because of me. They already knew that the Wild and

(34:09):
Avalanche had played the night before, but it was because
of me that the New the Sabers were going to
be four to two winners.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
And you would think in a place like this, it's
like I'd rather have an actual game of something I
don't follow, let's say lacrosse.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Whatever.

Speaker 5 (34:25):
Then the NHL Network, where it's like I can't read
the caption, I can't read the description. I actually don't
know your topic. If you have them on the side,
it makes no sense. Give me some sort of live game.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
I don't care what it is.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
I don't need to watch a football life on mute
at Buffalo Wild Wings in may turn it off. The
NFL network there that shouldn't be on until whenever it probably,
to be honest, shouldn't even be on period. If they
don't have games, right Monci, if you're not airing games,
it shouldn't be on. I don't need to imagine what
Moose Johnston is saying about Troy Aikman on a muted

(35:01):
football life when there's a Stanley Cup playoff game going on.
I don't need to see that. I don't need to
think that. I don't need to look at highlights. Let's
say nineteen ninety two on it with no sound. Just
give us a game. Iowa Sam then Jason Stewart. I
think it needs to be in someone's job description. Whether
you're a manager, you just work out a Buffalo Wild

(35:21):
Wings or a yardhouse or whatever, a sports bar. If
you are a sports bar where you have like fifteen
monitors up. Somebody needs to know what the sports schedule
is every single day, and you can have you can
have the NFL network on playing a classic game from
the seventies. If there's nothing else on, it's a value.
But if there's NHL hockey playoff hockey onunthor's NBA playoffs,
if there's NFL, it's a Thursday night, a Monday night game,

(35:43):
whatever it might be.

Speaker 10 (35:44):
College football. You need to know what the games are,
and you need to know what the most important significant
games are. I think that's a failure when you go
into a sports bar and there's like random news broadcast
on and there's like you know, a CBS Sports HQ
or no a Big ten network and they're playing in
an Iowa classic football game from nineteen eight, and there's
much more important stuff on that needs to be in
someone's job description. There'd be a sports sports bar, a

(36:07):
sports program programming czar. Yeah, to do that, because that's
a big miss that happens too much. I'll thank you, Dan,
thanks you for what you've done.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Yeah, you're welcome, You're welcome. I would take two less
wings instead of an eight piece. Give me a six
if you have someone who knows what to do with
the channels. If you're gonna give me ten, just give
me the oblivious. Make sure that the channels are correct
oblivious half the time. If you're gonna give me twenty,
guess what I'll take fifteen. That's fine. Twenty's a lot twenties,
a lot of wings. I'll take fifteen as long as
you have someone on top of the games. Jason Stewart.

Speaker 6 (36:37):
So, the last time we had this conversation on the
air was right in the middle of March Madness first
first weekend. Okay, so there's games for the entire like
eighteen hours. There's no excuse. So I went to a
place you and I live next to each other, so
I'm sure this is very close to the Ardhouse. I
won't I won't out them. I walk into the bar area.
It's about five pm on a Friday, and I sent

(37:00):
you the picture, so I wanted to look it up.
So one of the games was the G League Lakers,
G League South Bay, the other uh, the other screen
was a EuroLeague game Basketball EuroLeague, and then the third
the third screen in this bar was college wrestling. There
was an entire slate of college basketball to choose from that,

(37:21):
somebody either completely neglected it or not one person on
the staff no sports, which it's to Sam's point, is
unforgivably obliviousness.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Yestly, there's there and they're busy.

Speaker 10 (37:32):
Listen, they're delivering food, they're taking orders, people are managing
the place. But the sports on TV are a bit
important when you're going to a sports bar.

Speaker 6 (37:39):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
That's the thing is sometimes they're not They're not paying attention.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Chris purfett, I, I just I know they're not paying attention,
but I would know from around here most of them
are going to have like DirecTV of some kind, right,
Like you.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
Got that part of the dilemma part. I don't think
your assumption is correct, but.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Well not anymore. But I I've just there's gut to
be a way to program it beforehand if they did
have someone like direct TV. I don't know if that's
Can you program YouTube TV to switch over at given
times to.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Order right half the time? I know what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
I'm just hoping that someone before it gets too busy,
before we get into what in the restaurant businesses in
the weeds, could at least like take care of this
before everyone starts flooding in, and then you won't have
this problem.

Speaker 5 (38:24):
I think the problem is that they don't care when
of you said that, they just don't.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
That's not part of their on.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
The Someone someone carred enough to know that hockey was
going on and thought, let's just put on the NHL.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Met that's what you think, Or they were just like
NHL Network.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Which doesn't air any games, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
I don't know if they knew that by putting on
the NHL the NHL network, I think they were just like,
all right.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Put it on a check off the list, boom.

Speaker 10 (38:54):
Can I just add that the establishment when we went
to UH for Ryan Berschinger's going away party, I think
they gathered that so many people were wearing Lakers jerseys
that they're like, huh, I think we need to put
all of these monitors on the Lakers Rockets game, and
that's what the people want, and they put the sound on.
But I'm like, up until that point, I was like,
these are all over the place.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
You need to put the big games on the big
So it.

Speaker 10 (39:15):
Came for that Lakers Rockets, you watching the Pistons game,
you don't need that.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Ended, and then the Rockets game started. Yeah, there wasn't
a big screen here. I'm just it's there. They were equal,
but you could they had a golf channel on. There
were some collegiate golf. You know, I'm not gonna hate
on that. At least it's going on at that point.
But you can't be showing highlights on the night before
when there's a game going on at that point.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
And we don't need that golf channel on at that moment.
Or the NHL.

Speaker 5 (39:43):
It's like, just have the three main things on all
the screens. It doesn't all have to have something different.
Like when I walk into one of those sports bars
with a ton of TVs and it's literally like, man,
none of this side is showing the Dodgers game.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
None of this side. I don't care about this ESPN talk.

Speaker 5 (39:58):
Show put on the Dodger right, Like, how is it
that they're.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Only on this side? So sometimes it's like just put
the games on.

Speaker 10 (40:06):
I've been watching Big ten Network live on repeat for
five hours now, please someone change this channel.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
I will say this. Grace is chimed in. Who needs
Grace again?

Speaker 4 (40:15):
That's great?

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Yeah, I know it's Grace. I know it is. Oh,
that's that's I don't want to watch an interview of
Tom Landry from the seventies.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
I think that she speaks for all of us. Unfortunately,
Damien tweets in and says or posts. Dan spent his
anniversary night making a bar full of men happy. Who's
telling his wife the truth? Hey, I'm sorry. You know
I did what I needed to do.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
He took for the tea.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yes I did, Yes, I did, and I'm proud of it.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
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(41:19):
I've got the page up right now. Chat is going
many tweets in many sends the post in I shouldn't
say tweet, but says Manny Munio's I remember the Nike commercial.
I am not a role model. That's who Charles Barkley
was at one point, right, But now I think that
Charles Barkley is beloved by everyone.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Manny also chimed in, and I believe it's the same one.
But he says, so we all believe this is the
last time he sits in Shock's chair.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
I don't know about.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
That, but as you pointed out, this could have been
something that did rub people that make decisions behind the
doors the wrong way.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
This could have The only way that I think he
would be removed is if Charles would say I don't
want him there? Yeah, And I think that they would
go to Charles and say, do you really want do
you want him there anymore? That's the that's actually the
process that I think would happen. Do you want do
you still want Draymond? And I think Chuck would be like, yeah, absolutely, why,
Like he would like Charles isn't gonna kick him out

(42:19):
of the spot? But I do think that Draymond needs
to understand and learn a little something from what went on. Absolutely,
she's Manti Belaios, I'm Dan Byer. Let's jump over to
the news desk Chris Prefett giving us the latest, and
then we'll do our Throwback Thursday in a different, unique
sort of way. What's going on today? Chris?

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Did we clear this Throwback Thursday? With Sam? He's very
particular about the different segments.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
On are we good? Are we? It's not like the
actual throwback Thursday?

Speaker 10 (42:49):
Do you guys want to do the imaging?

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Do you want to do that?

Speaker 10 (42:51):
Well, I'm doing an update, not the second.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Don't worry about it.

Speaker 6 (42:55):
But I think it's good instinct on Chris's part to
clear everything with Sam. He's having a very testy day,
so I don't want to do.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
Well as as a as as I'm not here to
agitate Sam. Yeah, let's bringing it up.

Speaker 10 (43:07):
Is a great way to have it go away two
times now, thank you.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
I just as a technical producer myself, sometimes I like
to make sure that every everyone's ducks are in a row.
Sometimes because clearly it comes back to him, you're the
are you a catcher?

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Update? Okay, here's the deal. Okay, you'll get to your
update in ten sexts. Let me just say this. I
think everybody's had those days. It's just just like stuff's
not working for you. It just is not check it. Yeah, traffic,
you get hit everyone like we get it. So, Sam,
I know you think that we're picking on you. We aren't.
We've all been there and uh so we understand.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
If anything, I'm commiserating.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Yeah, well, I don't think you're doing that.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
By saying that. As as my idol Fred Durst would say,
it's just one of those days.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
I could give you details on the Women's n I T,
which isn't owned by the n C doua A, so
they had to come up with their own tournament called
the wb I T because the w I T was
already run by a different organization. There's your summary to that.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Axcuse me, miss, I misread that road down wn I T.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
I think I was. Sam and I are the only
ones that know that because we actually talked about it
about a month ago.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Interesting. I know, I know the n used to be
bigger than the answer. Let's do the rest of the
I know the quarterback Aaron Badgers is expected to visit
the Pittsburgh Steelers, and according to NFL Networks Ian Rapport,
he is likely to play for Pittsburgh this season. You
don't have a contract yet, but could be finalized as
early as this weekend. Knicks Ford og Nanobe is day
to day after being diagnosed with a right hamstring hamstring strain.

(44:35):
Cubs extended their win streak to nine games. They complete
a sweep of the Reds eight to three, and at
the Truest Championship first round, you have co leaders between
Son jam and Matt McCarty at six under back to
back to on Airbnb.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Thank you very much. Chris find him at chris PERFETCHI
is Monty Belanos. I'm Dan Beyer. I'm I'm sympathetic to
Sam as well because I haven't asked for golf to
be put on the TVs just yet. So you know, like,
so I feel your pain. I'm not feeling the pain today.
Now there is MANSI, now there is Jason Stewart. But
we are feeling some interesting vibes from something that we

(45:11):
said on the show yesterday. Our social media department does
a great job of putting out clips and we put
out the clip of Lebron James talking about them missing
Luka Doncic and how it's difficult to compete against the Thunder,
a championship caliber team when someone who averages thirty five points,
eight assists, seven rebounds a game. Difficult to compete with

(45:33):
that level of a team when that piece is missing.

Speaker 5 (45:35):
Yeah, comments made after the Lakers lost in one against
the Thunder.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
And the point that we made on the show was
this wasn't Lebron saying, hey, man, give us some slack.
This was Lebron pointing out that the star player, the
one that everybody wants to have, Lebron, be pushed out
of town by the new King Laker. Luca is not

(46:01):
there for you. He does not provide his thirty five
points per game and his eight assists in seven rebounds
because he's hurt right now. So it's Lebron who has
to carry the load. Into Jason's point in the first round,
it allowed Lebron to look like the savior. Now he's
making Luca look like the scapegoat. And I don't think

(46:21):
it's any coincidence, Manse that Luca came out and spoke
with reporters and explained more about his injury less than
twenty four hours after Lebron said what he had to say.
I don't think that there's any coincidence. So we put
the clip up and it has been a wide ranging,
wide ranging response of people who think that we hate

(46:41):
Lebron and are putting words in his mouth. There are
people who agree with what Lebron says but feels that
we're being dirty. We are all over the map on
the comments when it comes to this social media clip, which.

Speaker 5 (46:54):
We love and appreciate, but it's just I'm sorry, is
it bad that we Lebron James accountable? That I feel
like he should have expected a question like this And
I think you pointed this out yesterday, Jason, that this
is probably something that he had in his back pocket
from the first.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
Series and then you get to use it, so it
was already there.

Speaker 5 (47:14):
But it was like it seemed like he was ready
that answer had details, had numbers.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
It was it was.

Speaker 5 (47:20):
Structured in a way from had had a beginning, it
had a middle and an end, you know what. It
was a thought out answer and it's just like you
knew it was coming. And to me, it was more
like Lebron, we all know Luca's not here. That has
been a topic of conversation for weeks. We know that,
so why say that I agree with you?

Speaker 7 (47:36):
Dan.

Speaker 5 (47:37):
He was definitely wanting to point out that Luca, the
new golden child of the Lakers, was not here for them,
is not here to hold up his end of the bargain.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
But me, I'm doing that. And then some and.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
Then some we talked about Draymond Green, and we're gonna
hear what Lebron said, but we talked about Draymond Green
and the Charles Barkley thing. Draymond He'd say something later
on inside the NBA saying that he knew in games
that he was going to criticize the officials, but he
said that if they lost the game, he wouldn't do
it because it would look like sour grapes. You're right,
I think Lebron had these feelings and he needed an

(48:13):
opportunity to do so. Not only that, Manzi. He couldn't
do it on a night where he went three of
sixteen from the floor and had eight points, but he
could if Austin Reeves did that. Lebron's stat sheet was
full twenty seven points, twelve of seventeen from the floor.
I think it was six rebounds, four assists or maybe
you know, vice versa. But Lebron did a lot and
that also allowed him the opportunity to say what he

(48:35):
had to say. And if you missed it, this was
Lebron from two nights ago.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Where do you think the offensive issues are coming from?

Speaker 11 (48:41):
Right now?

Speaker 2 (48:41):
Obviously that's a great.

Speaker 11 (48:43):
Issues coming from. Yeah, yeah, we have the guy averaged
thirty seven in the game ever, thirty five this year
thirty three and a half.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
I mean, where are you asking?

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Okay, well, I'm asking.

Speaker 11 (48:56):
I mean, like you guys, there's issues right there. Are
playing against it number one defense attainment in the NBA
as far as the ratings and everything. And when you
play against great defense, you have to have guys that can.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Track multiple defenders on the floor at all time. I
think that's fair enough to to what we've got one sweet.
The way the media twist bs with Lebron is weird.
They used af after that, he was asked what's wrong
with offense and brought up Luca biggest. Luca's the biggest
piece to the offense. You would rather he act like

(49:29):
Luca's irrelevant again, y'all? Weird?

Speaker 4 (49:32):
Yeah, we are weird. I mean, but that's beside the point.

Speaker 5 (49:34):
I don't think the weirdness has to be related to
this comment that we had on Lebron.

Speaker 4 (49:38):
We're weird, yeah, but in a different way. I just
I feel to me it was like you said.

Speaker 5 (49:43):
I was like, we all know Luca's not here, so
why point that out?

Speaker 4 (49:49):
Like you want us to feel bad for you. We don't.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
Lawrence s tweets in if that's what you take from this,
you're ignorant, called us a name. It's clear as Day
used another description that they are missing their number one guy,
and Reeves played like bleep along with Marcus Smart. Yeah,
that's what Lebron is pointing out, and you can't see it.
He's explaining that's exactly why he said those things. So

(50:13):
you know that Austin Reeves had an awful game, so
you know that Luca isn't there. That's why he's saying this.
You got one Jason Stewart as well, and other comments.

Speaker 6 (50:24):
Oh no, no, no, I just want to own a piggyback
on what you just said. Was it yesterday that you
had said that this is what Lebron's kind of genius is.
He said it in a way that it kind of
sounded like he was giving credit to Luca when he
definitely wasn't. So the comments you're reading right now, these
are the people that he has fooled, that he yes,

(50:47):
that he has the veil over their eyes. This is
what he wants you to think. But there was a
subtext to it that if you have the if you
have any kind of cynicism in your blood, you saw
that as you will separate himself from Luca and putting
the blame on Luca.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
People call this weird. Somebody called on Chris Brussard, a
former teammate here in Fox Sports Radio, Nick Right to
set us straight, and then someone else said that's what
I heard as well. It took the first opportunity to
throw Luca under the bus. It's all over the map,
whether it be on X on IG, on Facebook, so
many different angles. Some people name calling Lebron because they're

(51:27):
just not Lebron fans. Then you have the Lebron stands
coming in to his defense. This is what Lebron wants
and this was the genius of it. And if you're
just gonna take what Lebron says at face value, shame
on you. Because he's shown time and time again what
he says isn't always what he means.

Speaker 5 (51:46):
I'm just we're gonna miss Lebron at some point. We're
gonna miss him when he retire.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
I actually do agree with that.

Speaker 5 (51:53):
I think we're gonna miss him so much because the
thing with Lebron it's like, you, guys, you have to
be He deserves the in a sense because of how
great and he's still around and he's not like coming
off the bench ending his career in this way where he's.

Speaker 4 (52:08):
Not still a guy. Like he's still a guy.

Speaker 5 (52:12):
So all of this comes Hey with with great power
comes great responsibility, and this is part of it.

Speaker 4 (52:17):
But we're gonna miss him when he's gone.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
Scott says the Lakers need this drama to cover up
the fact they're gonna get swept. Maybe maybe that's the case.
I don't think we made as much of a big deal,
which I think was obvious on why Lucas spoke yesterday.

Speaker 4 (52:32):
Yeah, we we touched on it, we want.

Speaker 3 (52:34):
But the reason and the timing of it, I think
that they heard the same things that we heard just
out of the blue, that Luca's gonna come back.

Speaker 6 (52:44):
You never see athletes or coaches talk about injuries in
the midst of an injury. In fact, I don't even
think the NBA wants you to do that.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
The Lakers have been so discreet and vague about Austin
Reeves and Luca's injuries. JJ Reddick will come there and
just say they're out indefinitely, and maybe I'll get a
report from Shams or maybe something like Austin's ahead of Luca.
That's it. That was it. We didn't hear anything about
the eight week time which I think something you said

(53:13):
yesterday where we didn't hear this when he strained his
MRI on April.

Speaker 5 (53:18):
Second, and we didn't hear it when he came back
from Spain. We were never given a time period.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
So then Lebron says that on a Tuesday night and
Wednesday afternoon, Luca's addressing and giving us all the details
that we've kind of been wondering since April second. I mean,
people thought that he was going to make it Anthony
Edwards return right, and now he's not even two weeks
away from returning. So that tells me that Luca heard

(53:43):
and understood everything that Lebron was saying, even if some
of social media can't understand it.