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July 18, 2026 41 mins

LaVar, TJ, and Plax talk about Pat Riley trying to add LeBron James to the star-studded Heat roster, where LeBron can compete for a championship, the continuing Brandon Aiyuk antics, another edition of Lightning Locker, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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and Silver Bowl champion Plaxico Burress.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
All right, all right, welcome into our two of the
Game the Show.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
It sits up on Game. It's Pleutch co versus, TJ.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Hitchmanzadam, LaVar Arrington and I hope you guys enjoyed hour
one of the show.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
If you missed any of it, you can check it
out on the iPod. Well, not the iPod, but your
your podcast yet podcast came anyways, Yeah, you can check
it out wherever it is you get your podcast from.
We're an hour two of the show, as mentioned the
Miami Heat, they introduced Jannie. They landed that plane, but

(01:22):
hopefully they're they're thinking they can land another. Quote it
we landed one plane, hopefully we can land the other one.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
Fellas.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
That was pat Rally talking about during Jannie's introduction. Uh
Press Rally, uh press assembly about how well it'd be
nice if they could get Lebron James to come join
the Greek.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
Freak and Bam in Miami.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know what, it seems like it could work. It
It makes some sense, but you know, you never know
how that would would go. You got Lebron, Johannis Bam
on paper to you guys, is that a championship team
or is it too many bigs and not enough shooting?

(02:16):
And can they fill that gap? I mean, pat Rally
has been masterful in his approach and being able to
build teams with older a mix of younger players, players
that can bring certain elements leadership, athletic ability, scoring, you know, rebounding, defense,
all those things. Can he do it again? Can pat

(02:37):
Rally capture the magic again this year? And does that
make sense for Lebron to go to Miami?

Speaker 6 (02:42):
Fellas, if you want to win a championship, and you
Lebron James, You're not winning no championship with the Miami Heat.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
You got James, your Ghannis.

Speaker 6 (02:57):
You had Bam, have Andrew Wiggins, who's a really good
three D player. But where's the spacing with Giannis, Lebron
and Bam all on the court at the same time.
So that ain't winning no championship. You ain't beating the
next You're not beating the seventy six ers, You're not
beating the Boston Celtics.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
And so I don't know if you.

Speaker 6 (03:23):
Detroit, Orlando, the Hawks, So I don't know, you know
what what Lebron is looking for.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Obviously, wherever I go if I'm.

Speaker 6 (03:37):
Lebron, I want to feel like I have a really
good shot to compete for a championship. And the teams
that have been mentioned the only team that even if
Embiid isn't healthy, they can win a championship With Jaylen Brown,
Edgecomb and Lebron James, That's where I would go. If

(03:58):
I'm going to win a championship. I don't go to Philly.
I'm not going to Miami Heat. I'm gonna just go
ahead and roll it out with the Golden State Warriors.
If I'm Lebron James, because I'm not winning in Miami,
I'm not winning Golden State. So if I'm not going
to Philadelphia, I'm going up to the Golden State Warriors.
That's what I would do. But it seems as if
everything is pointing towards Miami.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
You know, you know, looking at you know, the Miami Heat,
just like you said TZ with this current roster, you know,
where's the space. I believe that that's what it's going
to come down to, Uh, you know, for them, if
Lebron James does decide to return to Miami. He if
he does go to Miami, I believe it's more personal,

(04:41):
uh you know, for him going back, going back home
where he won two world championships, then to twat and then
try to get to another championship, because it just doesn't
seem feasible. Uh, you know, for for the Miami Heat
to win a championship with this roster. I mean, they
will be one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference,

(05:02):
but when it comes down to the you know, you know,
when it comes down to the Eastern Conference playoffs and
you know, you know, getting into the NBA Eastern Conference
Finals out. I don't believe that they are better than
the Boston Celtics, Philadelphia or the New York Knicks. And
you know you're going to have a healthy Tyris Halliburton

(05:24):
this year, so you don't know where Indiana's going to be.
But if he does want to win the championship, I
just cannot see Lebron James and the.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Philadelphia seventy sixth of Jersey. It just.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
It's just something that you thought that you would never see.
But from a personal standpoint for Lebron or the Miami Heat,
I just think that if he doesn't go to Miami,
go back home to Cleveland and just call it a career.
You know where he's from and how he took that

(05:58):
you know organization basically, uh, you know, not being able
to compete at all to a World championship. Just go
back to go back to Cleveland, go back home, call
of the career. Because even if he does go to
Miami or Cleveland, I don't think that he's gonna win
a World championship either one of the teams.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
M That's interesting.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
I look at it from a perspective of when when
Lebron James makes his decision, and obviously he's he's weighing
it out. There's the conversation of ego versus rings, and
and you've got to use that modern day superstar calculator,

(06:41):
right like he's he's gotten rings, and you'd have to
assume the career that he's had would feed the ego
of what he's been able to accomplish during his time
as as a pro player. So when I think about
where will he go, I ultimately think about why is
he going there? And I think you guys have both

(07:02):
kind of touched on it. It's got to be even
though his agent Paul, you know, he said that it's
not about the rings. If it's not about the rings,
at this point, what in particular, like, what would we
say him playing? What's it about? What's it for? Why?
Why do I want to continue to play the game

(07:24):
of basketball with everything that he's accomplished. I feel like
it has to be the rings is the reason why
you're going to continue to play. So then my question
becomes what team that he can fit on gives him
that best opportunity to be able to do that? And
I don't know that there's very many teams where that

(07:44):
opportunity exists for him, fellas. And so when I start
thinking about, Okay, measuring out how much is he going
to get paid? Because I feel like that's the biggest
that's the biggest issue here is not the fact that, Okay,
he can go to any team be a positive contributor.
I made I made the point last week, fellas. Out

(08:06):
know y'all might think I'm crazy, but I think I
think Byron Byron Scott even kind of touched on it
a little bit. If he was willing to be a
role player and potentially be a six man off of
off of the bench and and come come in and
and to a san Antonio, come in to Oklahoma. But

(08:26):
if it I understand that, But just just for the
sake of the discussion.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
He wouldn't He wouldn't come off the bench in San Antonio.
Why not?

Speaker 5 (08:38):
Come on, bro, I know that it's.

Speaker 6 (08:42):
Not just you know who san Antonio's start lineup is, Like,
he not coming off the bench?

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Bro?

Speaker 3 (08:46):
He started Listen, I understand. Didn't they just say they
added Lucia's Harris or somebody like that.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
What's his name?

Speaker 5 (08:58):
Hey, look look here, all I've said.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
All I've said is is for one. He's forty one.
I'm not if he's what records are you going? What
is he going for? And in the regular season, whatever
wins they get, that's going to go on to his
wins record. Whatever things happen, it's going to go towards
his record. Why would I put him in there at

(09:25):
forty one during this long ass season? Now, this is
my reasoning. I don't need to start Lebron James. That's
all ego driven. That's ego driven. At this point, there
is nothing else less for him to prove.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
I want him to be healthy for the playoffs, to
be healthy for the playoffs.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
Levars starting, starting, starting, and coming off the bitch, what's
the difference.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
It's the amount of minutes you play.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
I can be That's what I'm saying. It doesn't you No,
it does not matter.

Speaker 6 (09:54):
If I'm on the bench and I play twenty five minutes,
and I start and I play twenty five minutes, what's
the difference.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Okay, that's a fair a point. I don't I don't.
I don't see that being a bad point. That's maybe
that's how maybe that's how I could have thought about.

Speaker 6 (10:06):
That's the ego, that's the ego of a coach that
would not start Lebron James ain't. No way, on Guy's
Green Earth, Lebron James ain't in the start lineup.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
I can't believe you even thought to say that on
any team way.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
I just thought feasibly thinking he's going to have to
be a role player, period, whether that's him getting less minutes.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
He's gonna be. He's gonna be a role player.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
He's going to be a role player.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
He's gonna be a role player starting on one of
these thirty two teams within the offense.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
That's what he's going to be.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Sports media, I'm not I'm not an athlete. I'm a
sports media purchase out there that.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
You act like he wouldn't average.

Speaker 5 (10:52):
I'm not acting like anything.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
I think he would say very well, he carried the
Lakers in the playoff run this year without Luca and
and listen, I get it.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
I think he played at a very high level.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
If he goes to a team that is set to
win and prepared to win a championship right now next.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Season, there's only two teams.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
So certain that that's San Antonio.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
OKC, Okay, He's not coming up with seventy six Ers.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Bro Okay, I don't know that the seventy six ers
are primed and ready to win a championship.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
They've come close and they've not been able to do it.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
You win good players.

Speaker 6 (11:32):
When you added Jalen Brown, that puts you right there
in the conversation good.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
I wouldn't go that far.

Speaker 5 (11:38):
I think that when they played.

Speaker 6 (11:39):
I wouldn't wait wait, wait, wait, wait wait, I don't
think you don't believe I.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Do to think that the seventy and sixers became a
NBA championship contender just because they added Jalen Brown.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
I don't believe at all.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
I think they were close this year. I think they
were good. No, Joel, No, he stays healthy.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
You know what I want to see what I want
to see. I want to see who Jaylen Brown truly
is without Jason Tatum.

Speaker 6 (12:06):
We haven't yet to see what we did. We just
saw it this year, the conversation. We saw it.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Where is it?

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Where did they end up at home?

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Is the result?

Speaker 5 (12:21):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (12:21):
But hold up, hold up, let's Rewind. I came that
it was his Rewind thist Rewind. He was an MVP
candidate candadate. Listen, listen. He played Jason. Jason Tatum comes
back the second half of the season, so we don't
know what would have happened had Jason exactly its the
entirety of the season. When Jason Tatum comes back, obviously

(12:45):
it's Jason Tatum's team, but the way Jaylen Brown was
playing it was as it. But when what did everybody
say going into the season, this is going to be
a down year for the Boston Celtics. Was that not
the narrative It's going to get down?

Speaker 3 (12:59):
He didn't have Jason Tatum because there was too many questions, Mark,
that was a narrative.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
And what do we know?

Speaker 6 (13:06):
Their top two or three in the Eastern Conference because
Jaylen Brown is showing them something that they didn't believe
he could do, and that was lead a team. He
was showing them that I could be an MVP candidate.
I'm gonna show you that we're gonna be top two
or three in the East when you didn't think we
even had a chance because Jason Tatum was hurt, so
to say he couldn't lead a team, he couldn't. No, no, no, no, no.

(13:28):
He was leading that team. He was doing just fine.
When Jason Tatum came back. Obviously, Jaylen Brown had to
make an adjustice. I say team had to make an adjustment.
I never said that he couldn't leave the team, PJ.
What I said was who is Jason Tatum without? I mean,
who was Jaden Brown without Jason Tatum? And I just
told you we would never know because they brought Jason back.

(13:51):
But it looks as if he was great without him,
So not the case.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
So so, so, do you think that Jayden Brown is
going to be the number one option now that he's
joined the seven to six?

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Is playing?

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Question?

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Now?

Speaker 6 (14:04):
That's what question playing beside? Okay, let me ask you this. Then,
who's the best player on that team from a talent perspective?
Now two days and now we got to take into
account availability. I think the most dominant player can be
Joel and b No, who's the best I think I
want today if I win a lottery. If I want

(14:27):
a lottery, we all said, but I ain't want it,
So we ain't set if Jaylen Brown is the best
player on that team.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Tyre's MAXI No.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Nobody Brown, bro, I think Brown.

Speaker 6 (14:42):
There's nobody in the world of basketball that will take
talent wise, Tyree Maxey over jay and ty ree Maxey
is very good. The best player on that team because
for availability is Jaylen Brown and ty Reee Maxy. Then Edgecombe.
Now if Ebad is healthy, that's a different story. If
the best player on the t if Imbiid has to
lose twenty to thirty pounds, listen, man, I need this.

(15:04):
What I need out of y'all, Embiid? I need forty
games in the regular season. I need twenty games in
the playoffs. Can you give me sixty games in a year.
If you can't give me that, damn at least give
me fifty, give me thirty regular season games. Give me
twenty games in the playoffs. That's all I need from
Joel Embiid. If he can get that, the seventy six
is gonna be right there at the end.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
That's TJ.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
I agree with that. Yeah, I agree with that. I
agree with that one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
But point you know, y'all hit me. Y'all gonna get
hit me with the whole coming off the bench thing.
I don't think that it's.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
A horrible idea.

Speaker 6 (15:39):
Plexico Burris LeVar arringson is hed Lebron James is coming
off the bench.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Oh my god, I can't even imagine an NBA coach
sitting down Lebron James and asking him, are you willing
to come off the bench?

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Come on minute, don't go.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
It ain't gonna be no conversation because it's never gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
Coming up off five years.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Five years Connor McGregor made us wait on him. That's
how long the comeback took.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
You know, y'all ain't know.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
This, but TJ and Plex our fight fans as well,
that fight lasted sixty nine seconds. Not a knockout, not
a war. His own body quit on him before the
man even threw a real punch. And now he wants
the loss thrown out. Once your bets refund it. He's

(16:42):
got to take that on. We're gonna take it on.
I want to hear what TJ and Plex have to say.
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Speaker 3 (17:59):
Potc what's the difference between me and you? Probably not
much between me and Connor McGregor, but let's talk about it.
Welcome back into the show. It's up on a game.
You got plex, Ko Burr's, you got t J. Huschman's out.
I'm LeVar Arrington. Yeah. We talked about this fight before
it happened. People people touched on it, and well, I

(18:24):
was nervous about it. I really was. I just felt
like getting back in after so long and and I know, listen,
you know man man trains in martial arts. He shouts
out to the Gracie family, He's he's done a couple Uh,
you know, sessions and sparring is something that you do
for your entire life when you're in.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
That that world.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
I didn't look at his age fellas as being like
the whole back of it all. I just felt like
sparring and really really fighting, like being in and the octagon,
having to deal with it on a real level. There's
just so much that goes into it. And I just
you know, it was a big match. I just wasn't

(19:11):
sure how it would go. Well. It went to this tune.
Sixty nine seconds the fight began. Connor comes with a
flying across the octagon jumping kick with a big, dramatic,
classic McGregor approach, lands on the right knee awkward, and
I don't know if you guys seen it, but you

(19:31):
could see that something happened with the knee and things
weren't the same after that, one minute and nine seconds into.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
The fight, it was over.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
It was waved off, and the comeback of Connor McGregor
kind of crashed.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
In a heap of rubble.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
I mean to me, what do you guys take away
from the fight? I know you guys felt a certain
type of way. I didn't get a chance to talk
to you guys before the fight last week, but what
did you guys feel going into the fight and what
were your feelings coming out of it?

Speaker 5 (20:08):
What happens next.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
He's obviously saying he's going to rehabit, he's going to
get healthy, and he's going to come.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
Back and fight again. How you guys feel about all
of it?

Speaker 6 (20:16):
I mean, going into the fight, you didn't know what
to expect. He had been off for so long that
it was like what kind of McGregor we gonna see?
And after the kind of McGregor that I just saw,
I mean, I think this should be it bro Like
the fight prior to this, pretty much the same thing.

(20:37):
He got hurt, he can't continue. Had to lose that fight.
And if you look at this fight, bro, let's just
be honest. When he took his shoes off, did you
see that when he took his shoes off, he hopped
on his left leg as if he didn't want his
right leg to hit the ground. So I was just like,

(20:58):
I didn't think anything it. He may have had an injury,
but I think a lot of guys have injuries going
to fights. Man, I don't care who you are. You
can be the best fight in the world. You can
be the worst fight in the world. Man, you step
and that octagon, you step in that boxing ring, you
a bad effort because it's so much anxiety that comes

(21:23):
with another man really trying to hurt me. And so
I don't you just you you bad just for doing that.
Anybody that does that, you get my credit. That's first
and foremost. But he was hurt going into that. I
can't imagine that happening, and when he took his shoe off,

(21:49):
just what he did, and it may not have been
as bad as it was when he attempted that kick,
but I just feel like he was hurt. In His
last two fights have ended the same way and so
I wouldn't want to.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
If Connor McGregor fights again, I want tune in? Why not?

Speaker 6 (22:09):
Why not if it's a okay, if I got to
pay for it, I won't tune in if it's on television.
But god, you wasted money. You wait, you're not paying
to see everybody else.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
I'm just you're going to get the environment rights there
are real quick to see you.

Speaker 6 (22:31):
We were in Vegas, right, I saw probably it was
a group of NFL players that I saw after that fight.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
I was at a restaurant here. They all come in.

Speaker 6 (22:41):
They all spent upwards of more than two thousand dollars
for tickets. Every last one of them were upset, every.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Last one of them.

Speaker 6 (22:47):
Oh that's right, every last one of them for US Saturday.
They were all mad. Man, I wasted my money. Come on, now, well.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
I mean, you don't think as a as a fan,
you know, purchasing tickets to go see a UFC fight,
that Colin McGregor is already hurt before the fight begins.
I don't think that. You know, he does older fans
and apology for that point, but I don't think. I
don't think that no matter how hurt. Commic Gregor was

(23:19):
he wasn't going to call that fight off. It was
basically a smashing grab for him from a money standpoint
to be able to make that amount of money in
sixty nine seconds. But I just can't fathom that he
would go into a ring with a torn a cl.
I believe he was injured, but you know, nine that
he's having a knee surgery. It really says that, you know,

(23:43):
he was previously hurt before the before the fight started,
but if he has a torn a cl and he's
already had surgery, were talking about basically nine to nine
months to a year for him to be able to,
you know, to return to the ring. I should believe
for him not fight for five years, that that that
was long enough in itself, but you know, to you know,

(24:06):
to just to sustain that kind of injury of a
cl getting back into the mm A ring, man, I
really think it's going to be tough. But he has
come out and said that he's going to FA fight
Max hollow Holloway again. So we're gonna have to see,
you know, what happens a year from now, if he's
healthy and if he's going to return to the ring.
But I believe it was just like TJ said, I

(24:28):
believe it's just best for him. A call of the
career based off of you know, know how he has
looked in his last two fights.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
All right, should Connor McGregor fight again or is it
time to walk away? That one is the question post
to you guys out there, our listeners. You can hit
us on our instagrams, our exes or our well don't
go to Facebook anyway. You canna hit us there and
let us know what your answers are. Does does he
deserve a no contest?

Speaker 2 (24:56):
That?

Speaker 5 (24:57):
I mean, I think the last should count obviously, But
here we go.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Here's the last one. It's a doozy Brandon. I you, yeah,
two steps away from being a freeman, foul of paper.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Show up the camp and he.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Can sign anywhere he wants. Two steps and he flat
out refuses to do one. Won't get paid, won't play
just posts and now Schefter says, GMS are asking if
this man even wants to play football anymore.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
That's next.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Let's get an update and a trending from mister Isaac
Loewing Crawn. I know the guys have something on it,
but what do you have on the news and the trending,
mister Loewing.

Speaker 8 (25:38):
Grom, LaVar, you're actually gonna help us out here based
on what we talked about earlier about the British commentators
at the Open Championship. So round three in full swing
as we speak. We've got Australian Lucas Herbert holding a
one shot lead at nine under par overall over New
Zealand's Ryan Fox and Americans Sam Burns and Jackson Super

(26:00):
one shot back at eight under par overall. Now, moments ago,
Jackson Suber had this birdie putt on the eleventh hole.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
So we're gonna.

Speaker 8 (26:09):
Play the call for you on Open Radio and then LeVar,
you are going to translate that into American You ready, LeVar? Yeah, Okay,
here's the British announcer.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Sorry for a birdie here, number eleven, Paulus on the
sway and he's made it. Jackson Suber gets himself to
eighth under par.

Speaker 8 (26:29):
Now, how would that sound with an American broadcaster?

Speaker 5 (26:32):
For LeVar man Jack.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
Burr said he was going to get in his bag,
and he did. He said he was going to make
them birds flat, and look at.

Speaker 5 (26:39):
What he did. He put his put his club on it.
He hit the ball, the ball dropped in the hole.
And what did you get.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
That?

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Right there?

Speaker 3 (26:48):
When you claping, you clapping for them birds, you did
what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
He's under and he's on his way to trying to
win this chip. There you go, there you go.

Speaker 8 (26:58):
I'm not exaggerating. I gotta send that. I gotta send
that to the powers that be in Great Britain. Now,
let me see, where's the twenty twenty six Open Championship
gonna be hell? It's gonna be hell at Saint Andrews.
We gotta get you to Saint Andrews LeVar.

Speaker 5 (27:16):
They need to bring it to Manchester.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
You know, Manchester Pittsburgh shots out out to.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
The north side.

Speaker 8 (27:22):
Well the.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Person would say north, but if you're from around here,
you say north fold.

Speaker 8 (27:27):
I'm just saying that that would be a new way
to broadcast golf to the masses, to the people in America.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
I'm just saying.

Speaker 8 (27:38):
I mean, you know, you got the Jim Nanto Hilo friends,
But I like you, That's correct.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
I don't have to be so sophisticated and civilized.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
I mean some fun.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
Sometimes, yeah, just have a little fun with it. Man,
loosen up. Gotta be so tight.

Speaker 8 (27:51):
I know bryceon Deshambo having more fun today than he
did yesterday. He is four shots off delet at five
under par overall even through thirteen today. Then looking down
the leaderboard, Scottie Scheffler is now at even par through sixteen.
He has four shots under par overall, five shots off
the lead. The World Cup rezooms with the third place
match at five pm Eastern Time today from Miami between

(28:15):
France and England, and one Major League Baseball game going
underway as we speak. The Pittsburgh Pirates have taken a
two to nothing lead at Cleveland in the bottom half
of the second, ending on a two one home run
by Nick Gonzales.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
Guys, all yours appreciate it. I low if you miss
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Speaker 3 (28:31):
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be posted right after we get off of the air.
As I mentioned before, we went to the update, Brandon,
I you he's still at it, Fellas and listen.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
It's one of those things. It's he's on the.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Reserve Left Left's squad list. To become a free agent.
I mentioned the two steps foul for reinstatement, show up
the camp, and the Niners release him, and he's free
to sign anywhere. That's two steps, fellas you post it,
and I'm quoting, I will not be reinstating with them
or ever doing any kind of business with them, sir.

(29:15):
That's not business for them, that's business for you. But hey,
here we go. He's refusing the one move that sets
him free, or at least sets in motion for him
to get to that point of where he can go
sign with someone else.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
How do you guys feel about this? Right now?

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Man?

Speaker 5 (29:33):
Something is wrong, but maybe nothing at all is wrong.
Maybe you're just.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Getting attention until it's all said and done. But as
it stands right now, fellas, they can sitting and he
doesn't get a paycheck, and so they don't have to
pay and they don't have to worry about him.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
They just move on.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Otherwise, reinstate yourself, show up the camp, make them uncomfortable,
and put them in a position where they either got
to pay you or they got to make a decision
to release you.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
What say, y'all, it's very simple, man. He's talked so
much that I believe he's talked to himself.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Out of a career.

Speaker 6 (30:15):
It sucks, it's unfortunate, but at some point everybody is
you get fed up, like, bro, what is wrong with you?

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Like what are you doing?

Speaker 6 (30:26):
And I believe that is what's taking place now is people.
When I say people, coaches, general, managers, owners, they don't
want that type of distraction on their team.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
He doing this to the Niners. What makes me any different?

Speaker 6 (30:45):
Okay, he has a relationship with Jane Daniels, and boy,
you better start running behind your mom. I'm a grown
ass man. Who you think you're talking? Okay, that one,
You're done. Burn that bridge now, Like what are we doing?
And so I don't know who he's talking to, who
he's getting advice from, or if he's talking to anybody
or he's taking advice from anyone, But if he's not

(31:10):
on the team by October November, I believe this will
be the last time we ever hear from him, unless
he goes to some type of rehab and really changes himself.
Because he's still young and he's still very talented. That
the NFL we know this. He hasn't done anything wrong,
he ain't breaking no laws. He's just acting an ass

(31:34):
and we don't want guys that act an ass in
the locker room, because now you're going to bring other
guys down with you when coaches don't want that. We
all know that. But can he change himself as a person?
And if he does, I believe somebody will give him
another chance. But this year, right here, it may be
a rap.

Speaker 5 (31:53):
Right here, right here, right now.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
Maybe you know something is wrong. There's a disconnect somewhere,
something's not right. If you're branding, are you and you
do not want to be a member of the San
Francisco forty nine ers, why wouldn't you do everything in
your power to not be a member of his team?

(32:16):
Sign the papers, go in to training camp, put the
pressure on you. They have two choices. They're either going
to You're either going to play get paid, or they're
going to release you a custom So I don't understand
what the decision part of that for him, if you
want to continue to play football, I really don't. And

(32:38):
it kind of like raises my antennas a little bit.
How healthy is he? Because it doesn't really make sense
to go through all of this and all of these
antics on social media, going back and forth with you know,
with these cryptic tweets and messages and all of these things.

(33:00):
Have we seen him run a route or how healthy
is he to be able to play football? So I
just believe that something more to the story for him
personally playing football for the Sampsons School forty nine ers,
it just doesn't make any sense to me why he's

(33:21):
going through, you know, all of these different emotions of
why he won't do these things or work work with
the Sampsons School forty nine ers.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Put yourself in a position.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Moving forward to not be a part of this team
if you don't want to play and show people that
you can still play football, because as of right now,
we don't even know if he can do that because
we haven't seen him. So for him moving forward, it's
like te said, if he doesn't get if he doesn't
get into a training camp, I don't believe that he's

(33:58):
going to play football again in this league.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
I really believe that, Fellas.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
I think this goes down in the textbook of this
is how social media can destroy your career and give
a just a breakdown and a rundown of everything that
Brandon Ayuk is doing that is totally undoing all of
the good and the great that he's done while being

(34:23):
a professional in this league. That's like the conclusion I
come to it is funny because I started thinking. I
was like, man, you know, we've had guys that crashed out,
that didn't want to be with a team anymore, this,
that and the other. But there wasn't social media. You know,
you get a quote in a newspaper article, you know
maybe at the point it went online. So now you've

(34:43):
gotten online articles that are coming out. There might be
an interview here and there, but it's very limited in
the frequency and sometimes it can die down and you
can recover from and you know, you know, us back
in the day, we had no problem being like, yeah,
I didn't mean it that way, or I didn't say
that if it was written in by reporter, like I

(35:05):
ain't say that, Like it's that.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
Reporter's word against my word.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Oh they got credibility, Okay, that's cool, but I ain't
say that, So.

Speaker 5 (35:11):
That's on them.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
You could have some deniability, and social media has taken
away the ability to put yourself in a position if
you crashing out to almost recover from it. I don't
think this is a recoverable situation for Brandon Ayuk fellas,
but we're gonna see how it all plays out. We
got the Lightning Round Lightning Locker coming up in the

(35:34):
next segment. That's where we uh we we answered. We
asked quick questions by the round and the guys take them,
they give a quick answer.

Speaker 5 (35:43):
It's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
TJ's in the box and we talked a little boxing,
but we're gonna talk some more boxing and Plex well,
Plex is into basketball, if y'all had noticed. Uh so,
we're gonna ask Plex about some basketball stuff, some hoop
stuff that's on the other side of the break. The
question for y'all on this one is, uh, did Brett Dang?
Did Brandon Ay you drop the ball on this one?

Speaker 5 (36:10):
All right, it's kind of cordant, but I mean it's
kind of relevant. We got get to the Lightning Locker.
Y'all listening to Up on Game.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
That's t J.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Hutchman's out of. That's Plexico Birds. I'm LeVar Harrington. Uh yeah,
we'll be right back. This is Fox Sports Radio. All right,
All right, welcome back into the show. You're listening to
Up on Game with Plexico Burds and t J. Hutchman's
out of. I'm LaVar Arrington. I hope you guys really
enjoyed the show. Mad some good topics today, Uh, some great,

(36:39):
great discussions. Jonas Knox will be coming up next. Couple
couple shoutouts for me before we go into the Lightning locker.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
This week was Penn's birthday. My baby girl turned to eleven.
It's her golden eleven, her Stick City birthday year for her,
Happy birthday to her.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
We will be saying goodbye for quite some time, a
little bit of time for bouh. He did the d
did the d did the deal. It happened, and now
he will be handling daddy duty. So Bo, congrats on
on everything. Two different birthdays, right, and you'll be handling

(37:20):
what you need to handle, so take care of that.
But we had truly appreciated having you as as our
guy behind the scenes handling things. So shouts out to you, Bo,
and good luck on that. All right, let's jump into it.
We we got the locker, the Lightning locker round. I'm
gonna give TJ three questions, and then I'm gonna give

(37:42):
Plex three questions, and then we will round out and
get up out of here and turn it over to
Jonas Knox.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
But round one we're gonna go to you, TJ.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
This is boxing, all right, This is gonna be straight boxing,
and here we go Shakur Stevenson. I know I first
heard about him because of you, Because of you, TJ.
And we saw him in Vegas when we were there
and you was talking about how good he's gonna be. Well,
he has lived up to it. He's twenty five and zero,
just beat Ta Femo Lopez this year signed a multi

(38:13):
fight deal with Dana White's ZUFA Boxing.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
We saw him at the McGregor fight.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
Stevenson says he'll be the last fight of Tank Davis's career.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Yeesh.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
If y'all remember Tank Davis, I don't think he beat
Roach in that fight. I mean, if that knockdown is scored,
he loses that fight. But he hasn't fought since March
of twenty twenty five. Who's really ducking who here? Is
it Shakur or is it Tank?

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Go?

Speaker 6 (38:43):
Oh, it has to be Tank because anybody that Tank
wants to fight, the fight's gonna get done, you know.
So Tank is he's established himself more than a Shakur
has established himself. So the bigger draw will always be
ducking the guy that is perceived not to be a
big of his draws the other one.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
And so it would have to be Tank.

Speaker 5 (39:03):
Mmm, okay, has to be Tank.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Uh best fight that could get made today that we
ain't seeing. And don't say Shakure and Tank. That's too easy.
I think there's there's a better rule. I'm gonna say.
I'm gonna say a combination of three guys boots in
his virgial or Ties, boots in his Fundora, Ortiz Frondura.

(39:28):
If those three guys, any of them to fight each other,
those three, boy, oh boy, they'm gonna be crazy fights.
And and then I also would want to see Devin
Hainey and Shakur if they that would be a good one.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
But what about brobody's talking about my guy?

Speaker 6 (39:46):
Listen, listen, man, Canelo don't want to fight ben to
Bed It's the same beat. Canelo is the draw, just
like Tank is the draw. Canello does not want he oh,
he has to earn it, but you fighting guys that
happen earned it, and so Canelo running from Benavidez and
that's okay.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
He don't want those problems.

Speaker 5 (40:04):
Beat that that life out of him. No, no, plus,
you don't get it. It's a lightning round. You got one.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Round with any fighter, any era of time, and you
get to keep the purse. Who you picking? And be honest?
Are you surviving the round? Go TJ last one?

Speaker 5 (40:23):
Be quick?

Speaker 2 (40:24):
How much money I get?

Speaker 5 (40:27):
Boy?

Speaker 6 (40:27):
Am I surviving around? I'm surviving that round on my feet?

Speaker 2 (40:31):
No question.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
We got we ran out of time. Let's go quick. Bam,
olue Boye. You swung on Tyler hero Vegas. Jim should
have gotten in trouble plex Yes or no?

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Bam No.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Ex teammate talks sideways about you. Do you handle it?
How do you handle it? Do you get out of him?
Or you let it go?

Speaker 4 (40:50):
Bam, I'm not letting to go.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
Lebron picks Miami ring or

Speaker 4 (40:57):
No, Lebron, James and Miami, Hey, goodbye,

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