July 6, 2024 • 41 mins
Martin Weiss & Veejay Huskey recap this entire week of the craziest NBA offseason moves and introductions.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, that's right, your favorite Saturday evening show slid over
to a little Friday Night. Although I'll tell you what, VJ,
this is the most Saturday is feeling Friday that it
ever existed.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
The minute you just said Friday night, my mind went,
it's Friday. It just didn't feel like it with the
holiday being on the on a Thursday. And as I've
said many times on the air, when you become a
parent man, honestly, and you're like you're in your parent
mode every day, you just know kind of numbers. You
really don't know when it's Monday Tuesday, when you just know, Okay,
we gotta do this on the thirteenth, we gotta do
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this one.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's so I've definitely lost check. Wow, it does feel
like Saturday this morning, and I was like, wait a minute,
I have to work.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's all right.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What is this show doing on it? What is this
show doing on it Saturday? Well, that's the fact it's not.
We will be doing this exact same thing Saturday, just
about this exact same time. If you're interested in what
you'd like to hear, you can hear more of it.
But VJA, let's go ahead and get started with your
favorite clown show of a franchise, as you like to
call it.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I don't know if you actually have called I've never
I've never said that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I have been blessed to cover this team, So I've
never said that, but I feel you it's.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
A general sentiment from my left though.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'll go ahead and go out and live and say
I'm speaking for you in that moment.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Oh, okay, thanks a lot. I appreciate it, buddy.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, just stay tuned for the next ten minutes and
you'll see where I'm coming from. JJ Reddick into Lebron
James Junior introductory press conference. There was also Dalton connect here,
though you would have never known, uh, just based off
the questions.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I knew he was the one that was dressed like
he was doing his first introductory press conference.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
The only problem, the only problem that I had with
with the introductory press conference. And then I'll let you
go ahead and take it from here. I did not
like the fact that Savannah was there. We're at work now,
We're at work. Now, stay home mom watching Martin. You
you know, he's power before you can get in trouble, buddy,
(02:01):
watch it. Yeah, this thing, man, I thought that this
thing couldn't get any worse.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I read, No, I did. It's until the ball tips
in October. Until the balltips that I told her, and
you know me, my ears to the ground. I listened
to a lot. I don't watch so much as far
as TV shows, but a lot of reading, a lot
of scrolling and clicking on different you know, journalists that
I like and trust, are different clips from guys speaking
on TV.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
And this thing is going.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
To They might not make the playoffs just as fast
as a year ago when they so called one the
off season. That was the narrative through a lot of
the national sports media that the Lakers had won the
off season. And we just continue to do this because
there's such a stranglehold that Lebron has as far as
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the attention wherever he is, that they get a few
things that JJ said during this press conference that I
just thought wasn't needed, Like I think I have a
different kind of opinion on what he was saying about
Bronni and that he wasn't given anything and that it
was earn at this point.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
He's so smart, he's such a duchie. He's so smart,
you're not making you're not winning any points. At this point.
With that, I would abandon that all together. I turned
into Bill Belichick. We're just getting ready for summer League.
We're getting Brownie ready for summer League. We're getting Bronnie
And people would just get tired of asking it. But
the fact that he is so open, well the thing,
(03:25):
here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
A smart moved nothing to cut you off. But nobody
asked him.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, nobody asked that was something he just volunteered on
his own. Like nobody was like, do you think that
Bronnie James didn't earn this spot? If that had been
the question, then the response makes sense. But the question
is like, how is Bronnie James going to integrate your offense?
And you go, he earned this?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
How dare you?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But you know what, this is part of the problem
with JJ Reddick is because he is a very online person. Absolutely,
so this like that is not a response from the
reporters that were there. That was a response to the Internet,
to the stuff that he's reading. He I tell you this, man,
he is falling faster than I thought he would just
by opening his mouth at this point.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
There's always something about the guys. They think they're the
smartest in the room. I don't mind being corrected. I
don't mind being told I'm wrong, Then teach me I don't.
No one knows everything, but when you act like you
know everything, it's just it gets really, really irritating. And
then it becomes like and like you said, it becomes
a circus, it becomes a clown show. And we'll get
(04:29):
into a free agency a little deeper. But there is
a reason I wasn't on this boat. A few weeks ago,
our good friend Aaron Torres said about Dan Hurley not
taking a job. He told me to my vace VJ,
it's not the job you think it is, and I'm
going there.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I'm like, dude, it's the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
It's the most known franchise in basketball in the world,
right there with the Yankees. As far as all world clubs,
Manchester United, Barcelona, Real Madrid.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The Lakers fit that they fall.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Into their I'm starting to backtrack and believe he and
a lot of other people were right. And that's how
you end up with a guy like JJ Reddick who
feels like he has to say these things more. It's
like prove something, and it lets us know that the
negative stuff that's being said, whether it's right or not,
but it's true. Like the stuff people are saying, it
(05:13):
is true. You guarantee fifty fifth pick, guaranteed four year contract.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, that's pretty standard if you look, if you look
at other fifty fIF if you look at other second
round picks, they either on two way contracts or that
deal which is three years. And it basically it's the
eight million sounds like a lot, but it really locks
you with.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
At the league minimum.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So what it does is it protects teams from uh,
it protects teams because those players then will basically never
reach unrestricted free agency.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know what you said? That's so great just now,
and I still don't care.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I don't like I mean, but it's the same deal
like Jokic got, if you adjust for the salaries at
the time, it's the same deal that Chris Livingston.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Got, the last guy who was picked.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But there was also there was also a list of
I don't know how many it was, but it was
four fifty fifth picks recently. I'm not sure if it
was the last five years or five andus sixt what
where I believe, if not all of them, most of
them were two way contract. I think maybe one was
a two year deal. No, but that's what in the
second round. You either sign a two way deal basically,
or you signed this. That's not the point I want to.
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The point I'm making is we know why he got
the four year guaranteed contract. You don't have to Yeah, okay, yeah, right,
his dad he is, and his dad is a great age.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I would always salute him to that.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
But stop stop peeing on our face and telling us
as raining like we understand what's going on.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I just think that they would.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Be better served to leave stuff alone that they want
to talk about and make it a soap proper and
just move forward, because I think it's the wolves that's
not going to send the wolves away.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
They're gonna keep coming.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
If you said because in the introductory press conference, you
said he earned it, Okay, where's the production now? We
want to see the production because you said he earned it,
he wasn't given, you know, an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
He earned.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
His opportunity was giving nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I just think JJ and the Lakers would do themselves
a big, big advantage if they stop talking and just
go in the summer league and go into Bill Belichick mode.
Answer as simple as you can and keep it moving
because this is all going to start once the season starts.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well, for me, the biggest concern that I have.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
With it is is, uh, you know, moving on from
the whole, you know, the actual act of drafting Briannie James, right,
I think it, you know, maybe just maybe there's not
it's not crazy to think that, you know, they actually
like his game.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
On top of people don't care at this point, it's
gone away. It's gone with that. Yeah, it's gone away.
But this is the to me. J. J.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Reddick now is zero for two in public press conferences
by just answering the questions that are asked.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I saw what you I saw the clip you and
Broussard on the couple when you filled in.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I watched the entire clip. I saw what you said
about that.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, like you said about that to me that he's
using swearing in the first one to try to project confidence,
to try to show like, yeah, I've got this in
the bag.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It's cool to do.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I can swear because I don't Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Care what everybody else has to say about me. I'm
freaking JJ reddick, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Right, like all right, cool, you got it, dude, like awesome,
like you know, then there's really that's how he projects
himself though.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
But that's what So I didn't love it. I didn't
love it. I thought it was kind of lame personally.
I think, like I was with you, your job is.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Just to like enter, you know, you not have to
answer to these people who are on the timeline. They're
on the timeline, right, They're not in the locker room
right now. If Genie bus comes in with, hey, JJ,
this is what they're tweeting about you, then maybe I'll
have a conversation with Genie about it. Right, maybe I'll
have a conversation with Rob Polenka, the one that comes
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in and.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Says, hey, do you know fire JJ is trending right now?
It's like, then I'll have the conversation with Rob. Right,
but this is the second time.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So he did that right, kind of answering the Twitter
to Twitter trolls that he had seen the whole.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What you admitted to I know I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So then again in this press conf's he again responds
to the Twitter folks that are saying Brianni James didn't
earn this blazz blah because you don't have to say
any of that, especially when.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's not a question that's asked. Right.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
So then to me, now, what happens when the Lakers
start out and there's seven and ten through the first
seventeen games, and the timeline is saying, you gotta make
this coaching decision, you gotta pull this guy out. Like like,
for example, last year when Darvin ham was running the team,
every every single person with a Kobe Bryant, Abbey Avatar
(09:36):
or Lebron James sixth Avatar was on their Twitter was saying.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You gotta take Torrian Prince out of this line up.
You know, I mean, what are you doing playing Torria Prince?
Can't you see?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Like?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And they come in at Darvin Ham.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So what happens when that happens to JJ Reddick because
Darvin Hampton is credit didn't say, you know, social media
told me any of the vegetorian Prince is JJ gonna
say seven seven team games in when they're seven to ten.
The twenty twenty four to twenty five equivalent of I'm
not and I'm not benching Dory tore and Princess quit
asking me about it when nobody asked him about it, Like, how.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Much is this social giddy? It does give?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But how much of the social.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Media is going to permeate his daily decisions because you
see people like that, There are people out there in
the world who let Twitter and Instagram determine what they do, right,
how much of that is going to seep in to
JJ Reddick's day in, day out operation of the Los
Angeles like.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It will because Lebron is very active on Twitter and
social media. You know what's so surprising about this tandem?
Or you know threeho You know there's there's three team.
They gotta got JJ, you got Ad, and you got Lebron.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Right. Ad is the quietest guy out of all of this.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
He he he strikes me as a guy who truly
just wants to play ball.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
He don't care about nothing.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Since when he's been in LA, when has anything ever
been said about him off the court?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
What big story?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
When we run into our microphones, plugging in our earphones
and waiting for the red light to come on to
start talking about.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Did you see what Ad did? He this?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
This is the guy who like, I'm hurt a game,
Yeah hurt, but.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, that's is seventy six. He played seventy six.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Last year, Lebron plays seventy one or reverse either or
one play seventy six the other one plays seventy.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I mean it's front pace news when they both played
over seventy exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But this coming season, JJ, to be honest with you,
he's protected. I'm not worried about him. The guy I'm
worried about the most in all of this because we
know they tried to trade him or they took trade
calls and office for him last year leading into the
deadline with led into him showing that he wears his
emotions on his sleeve all the way back to New
Orleans the night Lebron breaks the record. You know, Lebron's
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got to make sure he puts his arm on and
say you know I love you right like, Whe're like, why,
why where's that coming from?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I know you're supposed already let me know they were
trying to move him. Possibly. A D is the guy
who's the next pen to fall out of all of this.
As soon as stuff starts go wrong, trust me, it
will be because of a D and either him or Perlinka.
Those are the next two because apparently Polika can't land anybody,
which I don't get how people say that instead of
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just saying, maybe just the luster is off the Lakers,
the luster of playing with Lebron is off, and the
jig is up. People see it for what it is,
and this is something.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I don't know exactly what that means.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
But what I do know is that I'll break it
down later on the show if you want me so,
I can definitely tell you why the Laker the luster
is off the Lakers off of Lebron. Well, the thing is,
for a solid decade, if you played with Lebron, you
were going to the NBA finals or at least the
conference finals for like a solid decade. That's not true
this Lakers, No, not at all. But also when you
(12:46):
were playing Lebron over the last decade, your career got changed.
By the way, as we're talking about social media, TV
debate shows people that will.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Beat and beat and beat your name down.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
When you don't win, you can get there. I do completely,
I do completely, but but I feel you. But this
the introductory press conference, man to put a ball on
it just another kind of like, wow, you guys should
just stop talking and just just go because everybody's gonna
want to see what's up with Brownie went Summer League
and then going into training camp or West Heeds, he
getting the preseason games. It's all gonna you got him
(13:16):
go in to South Bay. I got him suiting up
and sitting on the bitch open at night. There's no
way Lebron is sating his son to South Back.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, he's definitely going to South Bay, but he'll be
on the bench opening night because there is no G
League opening night of the The g League starts like
a month month and a half after the NBA regular Yeah,
I think he gonna be on that bench a lot
for the Lakers this year, A lot he needs. Why
we'll talk about this in a moment coming up next,
the end of a dynasty?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
What does it mean? Who's to blame?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
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Klay Thompson in the end of the Splash Brothers, the
Flash Brothers getting divorced, Klay Thompson moving on to the
Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Three for fifty.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I mean, listen, I'm no mathematician, but that comes down
to just about the almost little bit over the mid
level exception. Yeah, you know, I would you know, you
would have thought that Klay would have probably landed in
the twenty graide somewhere. But it shows you what the
market was for Klay Thompson and also shows you Golden
State's reluctance to bring them back.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Not only as reluctant to bring him back. I just
think that the time just wore out like that, like
it has in sports with a lot of players man
over history. Then you know, very rarely do you get
to play with one team your entire career. I mean,
Kareem played for multiple teams. Lebron's played for multiple teams.
Joe Montana finished his career in the Kansas City Chiefs Jersey.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You know, O. J.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Simpson was running back not doing well at all for
the San Francisco forty nine ers La Danian Tomlinson. Right,
there's there's always gonna be these great players that you know,
the clock just runs out and as a front office,
you have to make moves.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
As far as the moves concerned, I loved it because
when we talked about it, I wanted them to either
grab him or PG. I thought that's what Dallas needed.
As I said on Martin and VJ, I still loved
your idea of Boston, though, that's still sat with me
and we're just really stuck with me, like, Wow, that
would be a huge move and shift for Boston and
for Clay, but I think it fits for Dallas. I'm
(17:10):
not sure what I'm trying not to do. Martin is
falling into the abyss of when big names move on,
we tend to have a quick nostalgia moment that they're
still that person that we remember them for why they're
so great. Sure, I'm gonna fight that on this because
what I have seen when the chips are on the
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table and it's the most important part of the season
and the most important part of the game for ten
and three.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
To nineteen still sticks out.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
It happened. It's not fake. It's not AI, it's not
made up. It's not a video game. It's not two K.
That happened. So can he hit some buckets of course
through the season. But over the last two years, this
hasn't just been like half a year one season. It's
been about two to two and a half years. Just mentally,
coming back from the acl and the achilles. I said
(18:00):
this two years ago. Clay's mental aspect of the game
has really really changed, and you could tell he gets
in his head and now we're hearing all these stories
about Richard Jefferson spoke about, you know, just saying what
up to him and coming out the elevator, his thing was,
you know, yeah, tell him pay my money, like we know,
just a year ago, so we know where his head
in his mind was. So maybe that can help reset
in Dallas. I think the move works for them. And
(18:23):
you know, like you said, Splash Brothers are over, man,
it's time to move on. They added a guy themselves
that could probably hit some buckets and be another type
splash brother So you know.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
The thing, and we'll get to that coming up at
the bottom of the hour. It wasn't sad to see, though.
I want that to be clear.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I didn't go, oh man, it wasn't this is this
is sports business, bro, Well this happen though.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
To me, this just has been building since yeah since
uh you know, I hate to go all the way
back to it, but it's kind of even before the
punch yep.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Because they paid Andrew Wiggins for it for a hunter.
Yeah yeah, in Pool, right, they paid Pool.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
For hundreds and then salary dumpthing essentially for Chris Paul.
So the man was on. Look, the management moves was
not how can we do everything we can?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
In Cleeve lay Thompson, they're like the moves receding.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
This kind of put the riding on the wall, which
is why I ultimately think that Clay will have a
bounce back year. You talk about the what was it
the three for seventeen and then then the four eleven?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
What was those moments?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
The biggest pressure moments that Golden State had the last
couple of years were those two moments right since winning
the championship. Excuse me, I think if I'm Klay Thompson,
I'm sitting there thinking, damn, if I don't ball out now,
I'm never gonna.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Get this bag.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Like if I don't do that, if I don't like,
I think there was an undue pressure on him to
kind of be the Clay that remember China Clay.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, when he was in that era of his careers,
of course, he was absolutely fine.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Like he was not only fine, He's one of the
coolest competitors that you'd see, right, somebody who never looked.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Shook and did it and did it on ninety feet,
did it on both ends of the floor.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And I think that while he's dealing with his basketball more.
The idea that the organization was also not opening him
up with kind of open arms I think really impacted
the way he played.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Let me let me ask you this though, because I'm
not on the side of I fight back against the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Did Clay wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I fight back against that because he did get paid,
he did get a max deal, and when and on
that max deal he did miss two years.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
That those ones.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Again, those are just the facts. And you said, like
like you said, the writing was on the wall. They
paid Wiggins, they paid Pool because they were doing what
a front office in pro sports is supposed to do.
You are always looking to improve, You're always looking to
develop young talent. And if you think you have it
and you have to pay him or you want to
pay him to avoid anything later, then you just then
(20:46):
you do it. That's as simple as it is when
it comes to baseball.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
When it goes with baseball, there's no salary cap.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
But in the NBA in NFL, those are the two
places where listen, if this is your guy and you
feel like we got to move forward, we can't get
stuff and the Boston Celtic motor keeping McHale and Parish
and Bird for way too long, and they really paid
for it. Didn't missing out on Tim Duncan because they
had the worst record in the league and they didn't
get the number one pick. I think they got number
three that year. They didn't even get number two. So
(21:13):
I applaud them for always looking ahead. Like you said,
the writing was on the wall, somebody was gonna go.
But the whole Oh, they did him wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You think, look they could go over to I think
if you say looking ahead, they were planning for a
future without Klay Thomps.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, I think it was.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
But like looking ahead, I think they would have probably
moved on from Draymond after that and kept you know,
kept Pool, never did the Chris Paul trade, and then
you would have the money to get Klay Thompson right here,
right now and keep them on the team.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
You think they had to be a better team with
Pole and Clay still there and Draymond gone.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I do, because they're going to be available.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Like I know, Clay's had the trouble with the injuries,
but if it's not a massive injury, he's generally going
to be able to play. And they would have like
I think they would have to upgrade the starters. And
you have a conversation with Klay saying, hey, look, we're
gonna put you here on this mid level exception. We're
gonna know and and but but it hits different because
you didn't do the same thing. Like like, now, if
I'm Klay Thomps, I look at the deal of Draymond guy,
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and I said, why can't I get that same deal?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Like I've never been nothing but a good soldier.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
This guy's gonna miss twenty games due to suspension, Like,
why can't I get the same deal?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
He was talking about me being asked the game more
than Clay does when he does play.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I hear what you're saying. But if I'm Clay Thomps,
I ain't.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Trying to hear that, man, No problem, No, I ain't
trying to hear that problem with Clay leaving. But that's
why I think him going to the storyline he did
him wrong. But you know, I think that's why I
think it's going. I think that's why going to Dallas,
a place where he's not gonna have to be a
primary offensive weapon, somewhere where he can just have a
catch and shoot moment and play the defense that he's
able to play. You know, you're not necessarily all defensive
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level like he was in the past, but he can still.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Move side to side a little bit, right.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
And I think one of the whether there's less organizational pressure,
less fan pressure like like Sell was that he talked
to Kyrie Irving prior and Kyrie was like, this feels
like home.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
And you know what. Another thing that we saw a
guy like Kyrie who had all type.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Of organizational pressure now for wildly different reasons, right, but
came down to Dallas and felt like he was accepted.
I think Klay Thompson will have a similar feeling in
that same regard. But right now, it's kick it over
to Monsylos, who's always accepted.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
On our show, Monsey, how are you doing, Hi, guys? Hey, yay,
I'll be Friday. How are we good? How was your
fourth It was good, good, chill. You know, everybody's good.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
You know we're still you know, hearing fireworks though people
just don't stop.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I'm used to it now though, but last night maybe
to about two amh Yeah, in my neighborhood, they were
still going and I just.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Want to be like, it's at twelve and one, all
of you need to stop.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Ron and Chris were talking about this earlier as well,
with you, Yes, I know what the battle for Los
Angeles will sound like.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It'll sound like the fourth of July. Yeah, we know
exactly what it's going to sound like.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
There is a battle going on in the Bronx right now,
fellas between the Red Sox and the Yankees. The Yankees
were up, then Masataka Yoshida ties it for the Red
Sox with a two run shot in the ninth innings,
so we head to extra innings. Rookie Sadan Rafaela for
the Boston Red Sox a two run shot in the
tenth inning, so right now, Yankees losing that home five
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to three. Juan Soto at the play, no other way
to start this tenth inning for the Yankees, and he
just hit. He just got a single to right field,
but nobody advanced, so runners on first and second.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Right now for the Yankees.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Bottom of the tenth inning, All right, Giants beating the
Guardians in Cleveland four to two. Bottom of the ninth inning,
Guardians do have a man on first base. They have
all their outs left. The Rangers blanking the Rays three
zero bottom of the eighth inning. The Astros on top
of the Twins seven to five. Bottom of the seventh inning.
The Rockies are now on top of the Royals four two.
Top of the ninth inning. The Diamondbacks are beating the
Padres two one, top of the fourth. That was a
(25:00):
two run shot from Jock Peterson for Arizona. The error
of the Orioles have now extended their lead over the A's.
It's three to one.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Top of the third.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
The Mariners are blanking the Blue Jays two zero. They're
about to start the fourth inning, and Will Smith with
the solo shot started things off for the Dodgers. They're
beating the Brewers one zero, top of the second inning.
The games that have already finished. The White Sox edge
of the Marlins three to two. The Tigers had a
five to four victory over the Reds. The Cardinals top
the Nationals seven to six in eleven innings, and the
Phillies held on to beat the Braves eight six. Trey
(25:29):
Turner homer twice in this one pitcher Aaron Nola hundredth
career win, and the Pirates absolutely crushed the Mets fourteen
to two. They hit seven homers and had to tell
the fans that they ran out of fireworks on the
jumbo tron. They were like, this has only happened five
times in our history. We've ran out of fireworks after
seven homers. Two Grand Slams were hit in this game.
(25:50):
Brian Reynolds and Rowdy Tilez both hit Grand slams, so
it is a total home run party in Pittsburgh. Let's
check in on the w NBA. Asia Wilson eleven points.
The a are beating the Sparks twenty four to twenty
one after the first quarter. The Stormer beating the Sky
eighteen to seventeen, ninety seconds to go in the first quarter.
Angel re six points. Side note, have you guys noticed
how long WNBA games last? Like it's a ten minute quarter,
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but they take forever, like this game started at seven,
both of them, and they're just about to end the
first quarter thirty minutes in ten minute quarter.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Dude, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Gopamenica continues on FS one and Venezuela has tied the
game against Canada. It is one to one after seventy
one minutes. Earlier today, Euro twenty twenty four, the quarter
finals France defeated Portugal in penalty kicks. Spain beat Germany
to one an extra time. Spain France are going to
see each other in the semi finals. That's going to
be on Fox on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Back to you guys, you know real quick about the
firework thing, just to put a bowl on that. I
lived in a lot of cities in my lifetime being
a military race man. You know why LA is one
of the greatest cities I've ever seen, and why if
people really do truly own this city. Yeah, there's a government,
there's a structure, but Los Angelinos run this damn city.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Because band aren't fireworks band in Los Angeles. You could
go on Twitter and they show the Areo drone view
It's and that's one of the cool Every year I
just go on Twitter and I just go fireworks over
La Church and to watch these videos, I'm like, dude,
that's like that's the valley over here, this is Long Beach.
(27:24):
This is like they are fire shooting fireworks across the
city in their band here.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
And you never hear about one arrest, no, not one,
not one. And I think it gets worse every year.
It's so funny.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Los Angelinos run this town. That's why I love this town,
man Los. The people from here don't mess with them.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
They run. They run this town. Bro so true.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, I mean if the Pirates ran out, all they
needed to do is just call you know, Hector and
Englewood and he would have.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I got all of them. I got them all for you, fool.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
H Buddy Heel now goes to Golden State as we
come to you from the tireq dot com studios. Buddy
Heel now goes to Golden State as I mean, how
do you think that phone call went?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Because it was reported that Steve Kirk got him on
the phone. He did the phone call.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Hey, you saw what Klay Thompson did last year. We
like you to do the same thing, but make more shots.
I think you can handle that.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I love this move, but I actually think Golden State
might have so far. I hate the oh won the offseason,
but I do like their moves, along with the Knicks
did with getting Bridges. I love this move because he's
going he fits exactly what they're going to need him
to do. And I want to throw this out there
(28:44):
next Year's Most Improved Player Award for the twenty four
to twenty five season will be awarded to mister Jonathan
Kaminga for the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
He's gonna have that year truck.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
You saw it this year the Flashes, but they're not little, No,
it's eight nine, ten straight games.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
This kid.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
If he's busting his ass this off season, working on
his jumper, in his touch. Too many times he just
he tries to lay up too hard and he misses it.
When he gets his touch and he gets an eighteen
foot jumper, it is curtains and that's gonna help push
the longevity for Steph. Also to the game isn't as
you know, physical as it used to be. STEP's gonna
(29:23):
I think STEP's got at least three more Steph type
years in the tank, even at his later age. We
see it with Lebron.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
But I love this move because all he's got to do,
Like you said, we just need you to do what
Clay does, and Clay did just hit more.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
That's it. We need you to defend too. But we
got defense. We got that down, we got some defences,
We've got some other things going. He's gonna get there, Martin.
He's gonna put his head down. He's gonna fall right
in line and fall right to this coaching because it's
been a while now, and since you came out of school, bro,
you've tasted no winning. We got banners hanging up in here,
and here's the greatest shooter of all time. As long
as Draymond don't snuff him, they'll be as long as
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Draymond don't off them they I love this move.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
There's at least a chance that has an opportunity. You
think that's the percentage?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Is that high?
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Wow, d bt mark.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Guys, if you never never, if you never heard Mary before,
he's never gonna let the Draymond punch it go never.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I will die on the hill that that was what
killed the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
That is what I might be with you on that
part of it.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
That moment, That moment, that moment and the fallout from
it is what ended it. Like, that's what ended the
whole situation. Two timeline everything and he got paid and
got he got paid. That was the punishment twenty million
dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Congratulations. Uh what you think of the move? Did you
like this? Yay?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
You know I didn't mind it.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I didn't understand why Buddy Hill didn't get off the
bench for Philly until Game six of that series last year.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I didn't really get it.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
But it just feels like to me, like the idea
of Buddy healed is better than the actual output of
Buddy heel.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Because how many times I can get I can get
with you or that, how many times have we heard
this guy's name in trade talks.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Everything, every trade that line, you know, what do we
have to get to get Buddy Hill?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
And you know he never ends up moving.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Interesting, he very rarely ends up moving, even though he's
in these deadline talks almost every summer or every you know,
every trade dead line.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And then again every summer they're.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Talking about, oh, you know, you can trade Buddy Hill
for this, you can trade Buddy Hill for that, and
like nobody ever comes clean on the on the deal.
So I just wonder, and it's not like he's like,
like I said, he was buried to the bench in
Philadelphia towards the end of the season.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Every theory being the way you just explained it, how
like you said, the idea is Buddy the idea of
what we think he should be is better than what
he actually is. To me, that points maybe to work ethic,
which is something that doesn't always get out to the press.
He's not in any trouble right, he hasn't been arrested.
He hasn't been No one calls him like a bad teammate.
He's not getting kicked out of the games.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
He's not. When he when he does play, he hit,
he's hitting shots. He's productive.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
So maybe the ass have seen, Hey, this guy made
it to the league, great shooter, but he just doesn't
put he could be, as Martin said, the idea of
what we want Buddy Hill to be. But until he
works harder, he has to work harder. But I learned
this what China was in the NBA Mark and I'm
pretty sure you know that. I'm pretty sure you know this.
There are guys, Martin, they do just enough to stay
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in the league. Like you see it. You can you
can see it. They get they get the practice on time,
and they may stick around, Martin, about thirty minutes in,
they're out. And then you see the guys that soon
as practice over, they grab their bag, they go, they
change they you know, get in their expensive card and
pull out. Yeah, I've seen I've watched guys leave practice
within thirty forty five minutes. They don't they en then
(32:40):
I've seen guys when they're leaving, it's like, damn, when'd
you leave? Oh there, Joe, I'm there like till hey, dude,
practice was over it four. But that's he's a different player.
Maybe that could be it with Buddy Hill.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I don't know, you know that, I have no idea,
you know, quite honestly, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Has he improved? Isn't he kind of the same guy
he was when he got to the league?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I mean with the reason, you know, I mean, I
think it improved just three points shooting. He's got one
of the best percentages in the NBA. But it's a
weird thing, right, He's almost always in trade conversations, and
it's not like he's like a guy like Trey Young
who's often banged about. But a lot of it is
the Hawks don't want to pay the contract, like Buddy
Hill's never on like a forty five million dollars a
year contract to where like teams are trying to get
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off the salary. It's always like it just seems so
do you think this works out? But make a call
on it. You think, do you think this works? I
think they're marginally worse than they started. I disagree with
you and that the Warriors won the offseason. We could
have that the Anderson edition.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Did you watch the playoffs?
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I watched the playoffs. I mean, I know you don't
just know. I know, I know I watched the player.
You see that jump shot.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Well, first of all, I've always clowned a shot like
I've always clowned his shot. But I just maybe I'm
still called in the nostalgia. When you go to winning organizing,
it was like the Spurs, right at one point you
go there, you expect guys to get better because that's
just what we saw for so long. When does it stop.
I don't know if it's stopped yet with Golden State.
(34:06):
We know it stopped with the Spurs because they're trading
away their top guys and I'm not sure what's going
on there to get Wiby and they got them fine.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
But I think when you go.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
To Golden State at this point, still Golden State is
still a team that can make guys exceed where they've
been so far in their career.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
You know that in the last two seasons, the Los
Angeles Lakers have advanced farther than the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, yeah, I just put it up.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
They don't because they don't have Golden State doesn't have
an A D.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
The Lakers don't. Lakers do.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Lebron, Lebron, Lebrons out right, Lebron and Steph wash out.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
The next two best players either Clay or a D
or Draymond and a D. It's a D by a mile.
I'm just saying it.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Not saying. I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
This Warriors team won eleven regular season road games just
two short seasons ago. Coming up next, the biggest name
out on the free agent market. What what's he doing
besides starring the music videos.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
We'll get to that. Coming up next, Martin Wis' V. J.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
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Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
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Speaker 1 (35:20):
Martin Wisse's VJ.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Husky in for Jason Smith and Mike Harmon as Mary
is an extra from the Not Like Us video behind
the glass, y'all.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Just see here it too again again?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Uh go ahead, could say gohey, could get it cool,
get it cool, but uh theng is being played this.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
People are gonna get tired of this because it's on,
It's on everything. But you know what, though, this is
why it used to be. Like, this is how it
used to be in radio days, like fifteen years ago. Yeah,
you heard the same song a million times. He's like,
you know, the one that immediately jumps to mind is
par real happy. Oh that was disgusting though, Oh, but
that's how it used to be.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
I got I got another one for you guys, the
Rihannon and Jay z uhh.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
I'm oh my, Alicia, I'm sorry. Yeah that was my
bad Empire state of mind. I mean it's listen that
song I never heard, but I mean.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Who wah wah like, but with social media, you hear
songs more now, like Marve was saying, back then there
was a rotation. The top ten played every hour, right,
the top ten played every hour, and then you would
mix other songs in. But now you could put songs
to your video like scroll scroll down Instagram. This song
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is on and it could be somebody walking into work
it t mobile. I mean, j it's it's on everywhere,
but it's not like us.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Okay squeaks, Hey that was a whole wrong baby gone.
But uh, do you think that Damar de Rozan's video
cameos is impacting his free agency signing?
Speaker 6 (36:54):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Don't. I thought Europans. He's like that went right in sports.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I'm like, no, you know what this isuse this is
my nolbul So he's like, hey, Ron pollanck, hang on
a second, I gotta go stand in.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Front of the ship pick of Tanner for Kendrick Lamar.
I'll call you right back sea walk a little bit.
That's right, and you'll got people that all blame political.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
See, he didn't even have control. He couldn't get him
on the phone. No, I have a question. I don't
what's going on? Like why isn't he signed somewhere?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Now?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
There's a report today that the Kings are the front
runners with him and they're trying to get a third team.
They say they're gonna need a thirteam that is not
getting done with just him going there. They're gonna need
a third team to work some magic sign and trade.
And when I heard that, my eyelids went up because
it's like, Okay, I I don't know if Damar is
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a championship player, think a really good I'm.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Not sure if he's a great player. I judge Harshley,
like great. We call too many people great, we really do.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
In sports.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
He's a really really, really good player. It's never been
to a finals, he's never really you know, carried eighteen.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
They got, they get.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
As far as the talent on the roster allows in
the game, he doesn't have that that gets you over
the hump. But to go to a team that seems
to be, you know, on the rise, like Sacramento did
raise my eyebrows a little bit. But I'm just trying
to figure out how this guy still isn't signed. And
it's an easy answer for me. I said the same
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thing about PG. We saw the best PG in Indiana.
I understand the year and a half he had an OKC,
but he was playing for a contract, and we know
when you're playing for a contract, your ball out and
it happens time and time again. And what happened Monti's
beloved Clippers. They signed him to the big deal, right,
signed him to the big deal as a free agent,
and because he balled his asshole for a year and
(38:47):
a half in Oklahoma City because he knew he was
trying to get that deal. But then he kind of
resorts back to the very good PG that we know.
That's how I feel about Damar. I think we've seen
the best version of him Martin that we're gonna see.
It's not the clown him, it's just bro. Everybody has,
everybody has a level.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I do think that he's an impact player, but if
if he's better suited to be Demartin Rosen, that is
as a third option, Like I think if he went
to Sacramento, right, he would really solidify some things because
he'd be a better version of what Malik Monk is right,
especially like now the buzz of Marshals many threes as
he's like, no, but that's fine.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
He's got his game, He's got this. I was about
to say, he's got a beautiful minuteture. So I'm not
and he's still at this level.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
It's still an elite scorern't given the opportunity, right, So
I think playing off of a guy like Fox and Tabonus,
I think, you know, I'm in the Rosan Sabonis picking
rolls interest me.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
That interests me.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yes, And remember earlier this week, Fox has lt to
be known. He wants to see what they're gonna do
before he decides to sign his long term deal with them. Darien,
Fox wants to see, now you get them moving, and
I agree with you as a third there, that's why
my that's why I said, that's why my eyebrows go up, like,
oh okay, I'm not gonna not gonna crown him, but wow,
you put the most I think he fits.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I agree, but I think he fits as a three
at a place like that.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
That's why I thought if it thought if the Lakers
gave him a I might change some of my opinions
about how I feel like their season would be coming
up because he would fit right there nicely.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
I believe behind a D and Lebron, Yeah, I think
it's Sacramento. Though the Lakers aren't gonna be able.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
To afford him. No, yeah, no, no, I think the
Laker thing is done. Him going to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I think once Lebron signed his deal, that that that
seal that sealed.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Uh de mar de Rozan coming sideline. But I liked
the idea of Damorrow Sacramento. I think that's a good
fit for both sides, and I think he's probably a
little bit better than another target that they had, brandon Ingram, Like, yeah,
you know, the brandon Ingram to kind of have a
similar game. Either one of them shoots as many threes
as you'd like, But I think Damar is a quicker
first step even at his as his advanced age, at
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least two.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Years younger than me. I'm talking about his advanced age.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Even as you know, and as you know, Ingram is
a younger player than Derozen. But to me, Ingram is
does not still trying to figure. Yeah, now we're still
trying to figure. Yeah, we're still trying to I'd like
to have and I think that you see DeMar DeRozan
does he has such a medium bag.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
I'm talking about brandon Ingram.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
No, he does.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Once again, guys, I'm not trying to dis some just
analyzing the game. Put the tape on. It's either you
ever see him move well without the ball, you ever
see him just in No, he stands and when he
gets the ball, it's either at the elbows at the
three point line or the elbows are the free throw
line and it's a swing through, a jab step, a
back down. He doesn't have a goal and he's not
quick enough to cross guys up and get by. Even
(41:25):
in the league where defense isn't even a premium like.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
It used to be. He really truly brandon Ingram.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
He has the height, he has the length, he has
the scordibility, but he's a guy once again, like Buddy Hill.
The idea that we have of brandon Ingram is much
higher than the product that Branham Ingram puts on the floor.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Coming up next, we'll dive into the NFL quarterback salary carousel.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Is it stopping in this AFC team? Martin and VJ
You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, that's right, your favorite Saturday evening show slid over
to a little Friday Night. Although I'll tell you what, VJ,
this is the most Saturday is feeling Friday that it
ever existed.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
The minute you just said Friday night, my mind went,
it's Friday. It just didn't feel like it with the
holiday being on the on a Thursday. And as I've
said many times on the air, when you become a
parent man, honestly, and you're like you're in your parent
mode every day, you just know kind of numbers. You
really don't know when it's Monday Tuesday, when you just know, Okay,
we gotta do this on the thirteenth, we gotta do
(00:36):
this one.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's so I've definitely lost check. Wow, it does feel
like Saturday this morning, and I was like, wait a minute,
I have to work.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's all right.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What is this show doing on it? What is this
show doing on it Saturday? Well, that's the fact it's not.
We will be doing this exact same thing Saturday, just
about this exact same time. If you're interested in what
you'd like to hear, you can hear more of it.
But VJA, let's go ahead and get started with your
favorite clown show of a franchise, as you like to
call it.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I don't know if you actually have called I've never
I've never said that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I have been blessed to cover this team, So I've
never said that, but I feel you it's.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
A general sentiment from my left though.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'll go ahead and go out and live and say
I'm speaking for you in that moment.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Oh, okay, thanks a lot. I appreciate it, buddy.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, just stay tuned for the next ten minutes and
you'll see where I'm coming from. JJ Reddick into Lebron
James Junior introductory press conference. There was also Dalton connect here,
though you would have never known, uh, just based off
the questions.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I knew he was the one that was dressed like
he was doing his first introductory press conference.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
The only problem, the only problem that I had with
with the introductory press conference. And then I'll let you
go ahead and take it from here. I did not
like the fact that Savannah was there. We're at work now,
We're at work. Now, stay home mom watching Martin. You
you know, he's power before you can get in trouble, buddy,
(02:01):
watch it. Yeah, this thing, man, I thought that this
thing couldn't get any worse.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I read, No, I did. It's until the ball tips
in October. Until the balltips that I told her, and
you know me, my ears to the ground. I listened
to a lot. I don't watch so much as far
as TV shows, but a lot of reading, a lot
of scrolling and clicking on different you know, journalists that
I like and trust, are different clips from guys speaking
on TV.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
And this thing is going.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
To They might not make the playoffs just as fast
as a year ago when they so called one the
off season. That was the narrative through a lot of
the national sports media that the Lakers had won the
off season. And we just continue to do this because
there's such a stranglehold that Lebron has as far as
(02:46):
the attention wherever he is, that they get a few
things that JJ said during this press conference that I
just thought wasn't needed, Like I think I have a
different kind of opinion on what he was saying about
Bronni and that he wasn't given anything and that it
was earn at this point.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
He's so smart, he's such a duchie. He's so smart,
you're not making you're not winning any points. At this point.
With that, I would abandon that all together. I turned
into Bill Belichick. We're just getting ready for summer League.
We're getting Brownie ready for summer League. We're getting Bronnie
And people would just get tired of asking it. But
the fact that he is so open, well the thing,
(03:25):
here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
A smart moved nothing to cut you off. But nobody
asked him.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, nobody asked that was something he just volunteered on
his own. Like nobody was like, do you think that
Bronnie James didn't earn this spot? If that had been
the question, then the response makes sense. But the question
is like, how is Bronnie James going to integrate your offense?
And you go, he earned this?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
How dare you?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But you know what, this is part of the problem
with JJ Reddick is because he is a very online person. Absolutely,
so this like that is not a response from the
reporters that were there. That was a response to the Internet,
to the stuff that he's reading. He I tell you this, man,
he is falling faster than I thought he would just
by opening his mouth at this point.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
There's always something about the guys. They think they're the
smartest in the room. I don't mind being corrected. I
don't mind being told I'm wrong, Then teach me I don't.
No one knows everything, but when you act like you
know everything, it's just it gets really, really irritating. And
then it becomes like and like you said, it becomes
a circus, it becomes a clown show. And we'll get
(04:29):
into a free agency a little deeper. But there is
a reason I wasn't on this boat. A few weeks ago,
our good friend Aaron Torres said about Dan Hurley not
taking a job. He told me to my vace VJ,
it's not the job you think it is, and I'm
going there.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I'm like, dude, it's the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
It's the most known franchise in basketball in the world,
right there with the Yankees. As far as all world clubs,
Manchester United, Barcelona, Real Madrid.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The Lakers fit that they fall.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Into their I'm starting to backtrack and believe he and
a lot of other people were right. And that's how
you end up with a guy like JJ Reddick who
feels like he has to say these things more. It's
like prove something, and it lets us know that the
negative stuff that's being said, whether it's right or not,
but it's true. Like the stuff people are saying, it
(05:13):
is true. You guarantee fifty fifth pick, guaranteed four year contract.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, that's pretty standard if you look, if you look
at other fifty fIF if you look at other second
round picks, they either on two way contracts or that
deal which is three years. And it basically it's the
eight million sounds like a lot, but it really locks
you with.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
At the league minimum.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So what it does is it protects teams from uh,
it protects teams because those players then will basically never
reach unrestricted free agency.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know what you said? That's so great just now,
and I still don't care.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I don't like I mean, but it's the same deal
like Jokic got, if you adjust for the salaries at
the time, it's the same deal that Chris Livingston.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Got, the last guy who was picked.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But there was also there was also a list of
I don't know how many it was, but it was
four fifty fifth picks recently. I'm not sure if it
was the last five years or five andus sixt what
where I believe, if not all of them, most of
them were two way contract. I think maybe one was
a two year deal. No, but that's what in the
second round. You either sign a two way deal basically,
or you signed this. That's not the point I want to.
(06:11):
The point I'm making is we know why he got
the four year guaranteed contract. You don't have to Yeah, okay, yeah, right,
his dad he is, and his dad is a great age.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I would always salute him to that.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
But stop stop peeing on our face and telling us
as raining like we understand what's going on.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I just think that they would.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Be better served to leave stuff alone that they want
to talk about and make it a soap proper and
just move forward, because I think it's the wolves that's
not going to send the wolves away.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
They're gonna keep coming.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
If you said because in the introductory press conference, you
said he earned it, Okay, where's the production now? We
want to see the production because you said he earned it,
he wasn't given, you know, an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
He earned.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
His opportunity was giving nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I just think JJ and the Lakers would do themselves
a big, big advantage if they stop talking and just
go in the summer league and go into Bill Belichick mode.
Answer as simple as you can and keep it moving
because this is all going to start once the season starts.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well, for me, the biggest concern that I have.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
With it is is, uh, you know, moving on from
the whole, you know, the actual act of drafting Briannie James, right,
I think it, you know, maybe just maybe there's not
it's not crazy to think that, you know, they actually
like his game.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
On top of people don't care at this point, it's
gone away. It's gone with that. Yeah, it's gone away.
But this is the to me. J. J.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Reddick now is zero for two in public press conferences
by just answering the questions that are asked.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I saw what you I saw the clip you and
Broussard on the couple when you filled in.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I watched the entire clip. I saw what you said
about that.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, like you said about that to me that he's
using swearing in the first one to try to project confidence,
to try to show like, yeah, I've got this in
the bag.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It's cool to do.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I can swear because I don't Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Care what everybody else has to say about me. I'm
freaking JJ reddick, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Right, like all right, cool, you got it, dude, like awesome,
like you know, then there's really that's how he projects
himself though.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
But that's what So I didn't love it. I didn't
love it. I thought it was kind of lame personally.
I think, like I was with you, your job is.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Just to like enter, you know, you not have to
answer to these people who are on the timeline. They're
on the timeline, right, They're not in the locker room
right now. If Genie bus comes in with, hey, JJ,
this is what they're tweeting about you, then maybe I'll
have a conversation with Genie about it. Right, maybe I'll
have a conversation with Rob Polenka, the one that comes
(08:40):
in and.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Says, hey, do you know fire JJ is trending right now?
It's like, then I'll have the conversation with Rob. Right,
but this is the second time.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So he did that right, kind of answering the Twitter
to Twitter trolls that he had seen the whole.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What you admitted to I know I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So then again in this press conf's he again responds
to the Twitter folks that are saying Brianni James didn't
earn this blazz blah because you don't have to say
any of that, especially when.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's not a question that's asked. Right.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
So then to me, now, what happens when the Lakers
start out and there's seven and ten through the first
seventeen games, and the timeline is saying, you gotta make
this coaching decision, you gotta pull this guy out. Like like,
for example, last year when Darvin ham was running the team,
every every single person with a Kobe Bryant, Abbey Avatar
(09:36):
or Lebron James sixth Avatar was on their Twitter was saying.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You gotta take Torrian Prince out of this line up.
You know, I mean, what are you doing playing Torria Prince?
Can't you see?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Like?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And they come in at Darvin Ham.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So what happens when that happens to JJ Reddick because
Darvin Hampton is credit didn't say, you know, social media
told me any of the vegetorian Prince is JJ gonna
say seven seven team games in when they're seven to ten.
The twenty twenty four to twenty five equivalent of I'm
not and I'm not benching Dory tore and Princess quit
asking me about it when nobody asked him about it, Like, how.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Much is this social giddy? It does give?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But how much of the social.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Media is going to permeate his daily decisions because you
see people like that, There are people out there in
the world who let Twitter and Instagram determine what they do, right,
how much of that is going to seep in to
JJ Reddick's day in, day out operation of the Los
Angeles like.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It will because Lebron is very active on Twitter and
social media. You know what's so surprising about this tandem?
Or you know threeho You know there's there's three team.
They gotta got JJ, you got Ad, and you got Lebron.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Right. Ad is the quietest guy out of all of this.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
He he he strikes me as a guy who truly
just wants to play ball.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
He don't care about nothing.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Since when he's been in LA, when has anything ever
been said about him off the court?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
What big story?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
When we run into our microphones, plugging in our earphones
and waiting for the red light to come on to
start talking about.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Did you see what Ad did? He this?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
This is the guy who like, I'm hurt a game,
Yeah hurt, but.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, that's is seventy six. He played seventy six.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Last year, Lebron plays seventy one or reverse either or
one play seventy six the other one plays seventy.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I mean it's front pace news when they both played
over seventy exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But this coming season, JJ, to be honest with you,
he's protected. I'm not worried about him. The guy I'm
worried about the most in all of this because we
know they tried to trade him or they took trade
calls and office for him last year leading into the
deadline with led into him showing that he wears his
emotions on his sleeve all the way back to New
Orleans the night Lebron breaks the record. You know, Lebron's
(11:45):
got to make sure he puts his arm on and
say you know I love you right like, Whe're like, why,
why where's that coming from?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I know you're supposed already let me know they were
trying to move him. Possibly. A D is the guy
who's the next pen to fall out of all of this.
As soon as stuff starts go wrong, trust me, it
will be because of a D and either him or Perlinka.
Those are the next two because apparently Polika can't land anybody,
which I don't get how people say that instead of
(12:11):
just saying, maybe just the luster is off the Lakers,
the luster of playing with Lebron is off, and the
jig is up. People see it for what it is,
and this is something.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I don't know exactly what that means.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
But what I do know is that I'll break it
down later on the show if you want me so,
I can definitely tell you why the Laker the luster
is off the Lakers off of Lebron. Well, the thing is,
for a solid decade, if you played with Lebron, you
were going to the NBA finals or at least the
conference finals for like a solid decade. That's not true
this Lakers, No, not at all. But also when you
(12:46):
were playing Lebron over the last decade, your career got changed.
By the way, as we're talking about social media, TV
debate shows people that will.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Beat and beat and beat your name down.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
When you don't win, you can get there. I do completely,
I do completely, but but I feel you. But this
the introductory press conference, man to put a ball on
it just another kind of like, wow, you guys should
just stop talking and just just go because everybody's gonna
want to see what's up with Brownie went Summer League
and then going into training camp or West Heeds, he
getting the preseason games. It's all gonna you got him
(13:16):
go in to South Bay. I got him suiting up
and sitting on the bitch open at night. There's no
way Lebron is sating his son to South Back.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, he's definitely going to South Bay, but he'll be
on the bench opening night because there is no G
League opening night of the The g League starts like
a month month and a half after the NBA regular Yeah,
I think he gonna be on that bench a lot
for the Lakers this year, A lot he needs. Why
we'll talk about this in a moment coming up next,
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(15:45):
Klay Thompson in the end of the Splash Brothers, the
Flash Brothers getting divorced, Klay Thompson moving on to the
Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Three for fifty.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I mean, listen, I'm no mathematician, but that comes down
to just about the almost little bit over the mid
level exception. Yeah, you know, I would you know, you
would have thought that Klay would have probably landed in
the twenty graide somewhere. But it shows you what the
market was for Klay Thompson and also shows you Golden
State's reluctance to bring them back.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Not only as reluctant to bring him back. I just
think that the time just wore out like that, like
it has in sports with a lot of players man
over history. Then you know, very rarely do you get
to play with one team your entire career. I mean,
Kareem played for multiple teams. Lebron's played for multiple teams.
Joe Montana finished his career in the Kansas City Chiefs Jersey.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You know, O. J.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Simpson was running back not doing well at all for
the San Francisco forty nine ers La Danian Tomlinson. Right,
there's there's always gonna be these great players that you know,
the clock just runs out and as a front office,
you have to make moves.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
As far as the moves concerned, I loved it because
when we talked about it, I wanted them to either
grab him or PG. I thought that's what Dallas needed.
As I said on Martin and VJ, I still loved
your idea of Boston, though, that's still sat with me
and we're just really stuck with me, like, Wow, that
would be a huge move and shift for Boston and
for Clay, but I think it fits for Dallas. I'm
(17:10):
not sure what I'm trying not to do. Martin is
falling into the abyss of when big names move on,
we tend to have a quick nostalgia moment that they're
still that person that we remember them for why they're
so great. Sure, I'm gonna fight that on this because
what I have seen when the chips are on the
(17:32):
table and it's the most important part of the season
and the most important part of the game for ten
and three.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
To nineteen still sticks out.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
It happened. It's not fake. It's not AI, it's not
made up. It's not a video game. It's not two K.
That happened. So can he hit some buckets of course
through the season. But over the last two years, this
hasn't just been like half a year one season. It's
been about two to two and a half years. Just mentally,
coming back from the acl and the achilles. I said
(18:00):
this two years ago. Clay's mental aspect of the game
has really really changed, and you could tell he gets
in his head and now we're hearing all these stories
about Richard Jefferson spoke about, you know, just saying what
up to him and coming out the elevator, his thing was,
you know, yeah, tell him pay my money, like we know,
just a year ago, so we know where his head
in his mind was. So maybe that can help reset
in Dallas. I think the move works for them. And
(18:23):
you know, like you said, Splash Brothers are over, man,
it's time to move on. They added a guy themselves
that could probably hit some buckets and be another type
splash brother So you know.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
The thing, and we'll get to that coming up at
the bottom of the hour. It wasn't sad to see, though.
I want that to be clear.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I didn't go, oh man, it wasn't this is this
is sports business, bro, Well this happen though.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
To me, this just has been building since yeah since
uh you know, I hate to go all the way
back to it, but it's kind of even before the
punch yep.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Because they paid Andrew Wiggins for it for a hunter.
Yeah yeah, in Pool, right, they paid Pool.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
For hundreds and then salary dumpthing essentially for Chris Paul.
So the man was on. Look, the management moves was
not how can we do everything we can?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
In Cleeve lay Thompson, they're like the moves receding.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
This kind of put the riding on the wall, which
is why I ultimately think that Clay will have a
bounce back year. You talk about the what was it
the three for seventeen and then then the four eleven?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
What was those moments?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
The biggest pressure moments that Golden State had the last
couple of years were those two moments right since winning
the championship. Excuse me, I think if I'm Klay Thompson,
I'm sitting there thinking, damn, if I don't ball out now,
I'm never gonna.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Get this bag.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Like if I don't do that, if I don't like,
I think there was an undue pressure on him to
kind of be the Clay that remember China Clay.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, when he was in that era of his careers,
of course, he was absolutely fine.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Like he was not only fine, He's one of the
coolest competitors that you'd see, right, somebody who never looked.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Shook and did it and did it on ninety feet,
did it on both ends of the floor.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And I think that while he's dealing with his basketball more.
The idea that the organization was also not opening him
up with kind of open arms I think really impacted
the way he played.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Let me let me ask you this though, because I'm
not on the side of I fight back against the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Did Clay wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I fight back against that because he did get paid,
he did get a max deal, and when and on
that max deal he did miss two years.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
That those ones.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Again, those are just the facts. And you said, like
like you said, the writing was on the wall. They
paid Wiggins, they paid Pool because they were doing what
a front office in pro sports is supposed to do.
You are always looking to improve, You're always looking to
develop young talent. And if you think you have it
and you have to pay him or you want to
pay him to avoid anything later, then you just then
(20:46):
you do it. That's as simple as it is when
it comes to baseball.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
When it goes with baseball, there's no salary cap.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
But in the NBA in NFL, those are the two
places where listen, if this is your guy and you
feel like we got to move forward, we can't get
stuff and the Boston Celtic motor keeping McHale and Parish
and Bird for way too long, and they really paid
for it. Didn't missing out on Tim Duncan because they
had the worst record in the league and they didn't
get the number one pick. I think they got number
three that year. They didn't even get number two. So
(21:13):
I applaud them for always looking ahead. Like you said,
the writing was on the wall, somebody was gonna go.
But the whole Oh, they did him wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You think, look they could go over to I think
if you say looking ahead, they were planning for a
future without Klay Thomps.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, I think it was.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
But like looking ahead, I think they would have probably
moved on from Draymond after that and kept you know,
kept Pool, never did the Chris Paul trade, and then
you would have the money to get Klay Thompson right here,
right now and keep them on the team.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
You think they had to be a better team with
Pole and Clay still there and Draymond gone.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I do, because they're going to be available.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Like I know, Clay's had the trouble with the injuries,
but if it's not a massive injury, he's generally going
to be able to play. And they would have like
I think they would have to upgrade the starters. And
you have a conversation with Klay saying, hey, look, we're
gonna put you here on this mid level exception. We're
gonna know and and but but it hits different because
you didn't do the same thing. Like like, now, if
I'm Klay Thomps, I look at the deal of Draymond guy,
(22:10):
and I said, why can't I get that same deal?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Like I've never been nothing but a good soldier.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
This guy's gonna miss twenty games due to suspension, Like,
why can't I get the same deal?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
He was talking about me being asked the game more
than Clay does when he does play.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I hear what you're saying. But if I'm Clay Thomps,
I ain't.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Trying to hear that, man, No problem, No, I ain't
trying to hear that problem with Clay leaving. But that's
why I think him going to the storyline he did
him wrong. But you know, I think that's why I
think it's going. I think that's why going to Dallas,
a place where he's not gonna have to be a
primary offensive weapon, somewhere where he can just have a
catch and shoot moment and play the defense that he's
able to play. You know, you're not necessarily all defensive
(22:49):
level like he was in the past, but he can still.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Move side to side a little bit, right.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
And I think one of the whether there's less organizational pressure,
less fan pressure like like Sell was that he talked
to Kyrie Irving prior and Kyrie was like, this feels
like home.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
And you know what. Another thing that we saw a
guy like Kyrie who had all type.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Of organizational pressure now for wildly different reasons, right, but
came down to Dallas and felt like he was accepted.
I think Klay Thompson will have a similar feeling in
that same regard. But right now, it's kick it over
to Monsylos, who's always accepted.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
On our show, Monsey, how are you doing, Hi, guys? Hey, yay,
I'll be Friday. How are we good? How was your
fourth It was good, good, chill. You know, everybody's good.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
You know we're still you know, hearing fireworks though people
just don't stop.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I'm used to it now though, but last night maybe
to about two amh Yeah, in my neighborhood, they were
still going and I just.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Want to be like, it's at twelve and one, all
of you need to stop.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Ron and Chris were talking about this earlier as well,
with you, Yes, I know what the battle for Los
Angeles will sound like.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It'll sound like the fourth of July. Yeah, we know
exactly what it's going to sound like.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
There is a battle going on in the Bronx right now,
fellas between the Red Sox and the Yankees. The Yankees
were up, then Masataka Yoshida ties it for the Red
Sox with a two run shot in the ninth innings,
so we head to extra innings. Rookie Sadan Rafaela for
the Boston Red Sox a two run shot in the
tenth inning, so right now, Yankees losing that home five
(24:21):
to three. Juan Soto at the play, no other way
to start this tenth inning for the Yankees, and he
just hit. He just got a single to right field,
but nobody advanced, so runners on first and second.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Right now for the Yankees.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Bottom of the tenth inning, All right, Giants beating the
Guardians in Cleveland four to two. Bottom of the ninth inning,
Guardians do have a man on first base. They have
all their outs left. The Rangers blanking the Rays three
zero bottom of the eighth inning. The Astros on top
of the Twins seven to five. Bottom of the seventh inning.
The Rockies are now on top of the Royals four two.
Top of the ninth inning. The Diamondbacks are beating the
Padres two one, top of the fourth. That was a
(25:00):
two run shot from Jock Peterson for Arizona. The error
of the Orioles have now extended their lead over the A's.
It's three to one.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Top of the third.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
The Mariners are blanking the Blue Jays two zero. They're
about to start the fourth inning, and Will Smith with
the solo shot started things off for the Dodgers. They're
beating the Brewers one zero, top of the second inning.
The games that have already finished. The White Sox edge
of the Marlins three to two. The Tigers had a
five to four victory over the Reds. The Cardinals top
the Nationals seven to six in eleven innings, and the
Phillies held on to beat the Braves eight six. Trey
(25:29):
Turner homer twice in this one pitcher Aaron Nola hundredth
career win, and the Pirates absolutely crushed the Mets fourteen
to two. They hit seven homers and had to tell
the fans that they ran out of fireworks on the
jumbo tron. They were like, this has only happened five
times in our history. We've ran out of fireworks after
seven homers. Two Grand Slams were hit in this game.
(25:50):
Brian Reynolds and Rowdy Tilez both hit Grand slams, so
it is a total home run party in Pittsburgh. Let's
check in on the w NBA. Asia Wilson eleven points.
The a are beating the Sparks twenty four to twenty
one after the first quarter. The Stormer beating the Sky
eighteen to seventeen, ninety seconds to go in the first quarter.
Angel re six points. Side note, have you guys noticed
how long WNBA games last? Like it's a ten minute quarter,
(26:14):
but they take forever, like this game started at seven,
both of them, and they're just about to end the
first quarter thirty minutes in ten minute quarter.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Dude, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Gopamenica continues on FS one and Venezuela has tied the
game against Canada. It is one to one after seventy
one minutes. Earlier today, Euro twenty twenty four, the quarter
finals France defeated Portugal in penalty kicks. Spain beat Germany
to one an extra time. Spain France are going to
see each other in the semi finals. That's going to
be on Fox on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Back to you guys, you know real quick about the
firework thing, just to put a bowl on that. I
lived in a lot of cities in my lifetime being
a military race man. You know why LA is one
of the greatest cities I've ever seen, and why if
people really do truly own this city. Yeah, there's a government,
there's a structure, but Los Angelinos run this damn city.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Because band aren't fireworks band in Los Angeles. You could
go on Twitter and they show the Areo drone view
It's and that's one of the cool Every year I
just go on Twitter and I just go fireworks over
La Church and to watch these videos, I'm like, dude,
that's like that's the valley over here, this is Long Beach.
(27:24):
This is like they are fire shooting fireworks across the
city in their band here.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
And you never hear about one arrest, no, not one,
not one. And I think it gets worse every year.
It's so funny.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Los Angelinos run this town. That's why I love this town,
man Los. The people from here don't mess with them.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
They run. They run this town. Bro so true.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, I mean if the Pirates ran out, all they
needed to do is just call you know, Hector and
Englewood and he would have.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I got all of them. I got them all for you, fool.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
H Buddy Heel now goes to Golden State as we
come to you from the tireq dot com studios. Buddy
Heel now goes to Golden State as I mean, how
do you think that phone call went?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Because it was reported that Steve Kirk got him on
the phone. He did the phone call.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Hey, you saw what Klay Thompson did last year. We
like you to do the same thing, but make more shots.
I think you can handle that.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I love this move, but I actually think Golden State
might have so far. I hate the oh won the offseason,
but I do like their moves, along with the Knicks
did with getting Bridges. I love this move because he's
going he fits exactly what they're going to need him
to do. And I want to throw this out there
(28:44):
next Year's Most Improved Player Award for the twenty four
to twenty five season will be awarded to mister Jonathan
Kaminga for the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
He's gonna have that year truck.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
You saw it this year the Flashes, but they're not little, No,
it's eight nine, ten straight games.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
This kid.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
If he's busting his ass this off season, working on
his jumper, in his touch. Too many times he just
he tries to lay up too hard and he misses it.
When he gets his touch and he gets an eighteen
foot jumper, it is curtains and that's gonna help push
the longevity for Steph. Also to the game isn't as
you know, physical as it used to be. STEP's gonna
(29:23):
I think STEP's got at least three more Steph type
years in the tank, even at his later age. We
see it with Lebron.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
But I love this move because all he's got to do,
Like you said, we just need you to do what
Clay does, and Clay did just hit more.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
That's it. We need you to defend too. But we
got defense. We got that down, we got some defences,
We've got some other things going. He's gonna get there, Martin.
He's gonna put his head down. He's gonna fall right
in line and fall right to this coaching because it's
been a while now, and since you came out of school, bro,
you've tasted no winning. We got banners hanging up in here,
and here's the greatest shooter of all time. As long
as Draymond don't snuff him, they'll be as long as
(29:59):
Draymond don't off them they I love this move.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
There's at least a chance that has an opportunity. You
think that's the percentage?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Is that high?
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Wow, d bt mark.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Guys, if you never never, if you never heard Mary before,
he's never gonna let the Draymond punch it go never.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I will die on the hill that that was what
killed the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
That is what I might be with you on that
part of it.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
That moment, That moment, that moment and the fallout from
it is what ended it. Like, that's what ended the
whole situation. Two timeline everything and he got paid and
got he got paid. That was the punishment twenty million
dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Congratulations. Uh what you think of the move? Did you
like this? Yay?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
You know I didn't mind it.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I didn't understand why Buddy Hill didn't get off the
bench for Philly until Game six of that series last year.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I didn't really get it.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
But it just feels like to me, like the idea
of Buddy healed is better than the actual output of
Buddy heel.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Because how many times I can get I can get
with you or that, how many times have we heard
this guy's name in trade talks.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Everything, every trade that line, you know, what do we
have to get to get Buddy Hill?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
And you know he never ends up moving.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Interesting, he very rarely ends up moving, even though he's
in these deadline talks almost every summer or every you know,
every trade dead line.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And then again every summer they're.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Talking about, oh, you know, you can trade Buddy Hill
for this, you can trade Buddy Hill for that, and
like nobody ever comes clean on the on the deal.
So I just wonder, and it's not like he's like,
like I said, he was buried to the bench in
Philadelphia towards the end of the season.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Every theory being the way you just explained it, how
like you said, the idea is Buddy the idea of
what we think he should be is better than what
he actually is. To me, that points maybe to work ethic,
which is something that doesn't always get out to the press.
He's not in any trouble right, he hasn't been arrested.
He hasn't been No one calls him like a bad teammate.
He's not getting kicked out of the games.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
He's not. When he when he does play, he hit,
he's hitting shots. He's productive.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
So maybe the ass have seen, Hey, this guy made
it to the league, great shooter, but he just doesn't
put he could be, as Martin said, the idea of
what we want Buddy Hill to be. But until he
works harder, he has to work harder. But I learned
this what China was in the NBA Mark and I'm
pretty sure you know that. I'm pretty sure you know this.
There are guys, Martin, they do just enough to stay
(32:20):
in the league. Like you see it. You can you
can see it. They get they get the practice on time,
and they may stick around, Martin, about thirty minutes in,
they're out. And then you see the guys that soon
as practice over, they grab their bag, they go, they
change they you know, get in their expensive card and
pull out. Yeah, I've seen I've watched guys leave practice
within thirty forty five minutes. They don't they en then
(32:40):
I've seen guys when they're leaving, it's like, damn, when'd
you leave? Oh there, Joe, I'm there like till hey, dude,
practice was over it four. But that's he's a different player.
Maybe that could be it with Buddy Hill.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I don't know, you know that, I have no idea,
you know, quite honestly, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Has he improved? Isn't he kind of the same guy
he was when he got to the league?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I mean with the reason, you know, I mean, I
think it improved just three points shooting. He's got one
of the best percentages in the NBA. But it's a
weird thing, right, He's almost always in trade conversations, and
it's not like he's like a guy like Trey Young
who's often banged about. But a lot of it is
the Hawks don't want to pay the contract, like Buddy
Hill's never on like a forty five million dollars a
year contract to where like teams are trying to get
(33:22):
off the salary. It's always like it just seems so
do you think this works out? But make a call
on it. You think, do you think this works? I
think they're marginally worse than they started. I disagree with
you and that the Warriors won the offseason. We could
have that the Anderson edition.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Did you watch the playoffs?
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I watched the playoffs. I mean, I know you don't
just know. I know, I know I watched the player.
You see that jump shot.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Well, first of all, I've always clowned a shot like
I've always clowned his shot. But I just maybe I'm
still called in the nostalgia. When you go to winning organizing,
it was like the Spurs, right at one point you
go there, you expect guys to get better because that's
just what we saw for so long. When does it stop.
I don't know if it's stopped yet with Golden State.
(34:06):
We know it stopped with the Spurs because they're trading
away their top guys and I'm not sure what's going
on there to get Wiby and they got them fine.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
But I think when you go.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
To Golden State at this point, still Golden State is
still a team that can make guys exceed where they've
been so far in their career.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
You know that in the last two seasons, the Los
Angeles Lakers have advanced farther than the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, yeah, I just put it up.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
They don't because they don't have Golden State doesn't have
an A D.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
The Lakers don't. Lakers do.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Lebron, Lebron, Lebrons out right, Lebron and Steph wash out.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
The next two best players either Clay or a D
or Draymond and a D. It's a D by a mile.
I'm just saying it.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Not saying. I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
This Warriors team won eleven regular season road games just
two short seasons ago. Coming up next, the biggest name
out on the free agent market. What what's he doing
besides starring the music videos.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
We'll get to that. Coming up next, Martin Wis' V. J.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
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Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
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Speaker 1 (35:20):
Martin Wisse's VJ.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Husky in for Jason Smith and Mike Harmon as Mary
is an extra from the Not Like Us video behind
the glass, y'all.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Just see here it too again again?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Uh go ahead, could say gohey, could get it cool,
get it cool, but uh theng is being played this.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
People are gonna get tired of this because it's on,
It's on everything. But you know what, though, this is
why it used to be. Like, this is how it
used to be in radio days, like fifteen years ago. Yeah,
you heard the same song a million times. He's like,
you know, the one that immediately jumps to mind is
par real happy. Oh that was disgusting though, Oh, but
that's how it used to be.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
I got I got another one for you guys, the
Rihannon and Jay z uhh.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
I'm oh my, Alicia, I'm sorry. Yeah that was my
bad Empire state of mind. I mean it's listen that
song I never heard, but I mean.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Who wah wah like, but with social media, you hear
songs more now, like Marve was saying, back then there
was a rotation. The top ten played every hour, right,
the top ten played every hour, and then you would
mix other songs in. But now you could put songs
to your video like scroll scroll down Instagram. This song
(36:34):
is on and it could be somebody walking into work
it t mobile. I mean, j it's it's on everywhere,
but it's not like us.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Okay squeaks, Hey that was a whole wrong baby gone.
But uh, do you think that Damar de Rozan's video
cameos is impacting his free agency signing?
Speaker 6 (36:54):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Don't. I thought Europans. He's like that went right in sports.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I'm like, no, you know what this isuse this is
my nolbul So he's like, hey, Ron pollanck, hang on
a second, I gotta go stand in.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Front of the ship pick of Tanner for Kendrick Lamar.
I'll call you right back sea walk a little bit.
That's right, and you'll got people that all blame political.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
See, he didn't even have control. He couldn't get him
on the phone. No, I have a question. I don't
what's going on? Like why isn't he signed somewhere?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Now?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
There's a report today that the Kings are the front
runners with him and they're trying to get a third team.
They say they're gonna need a thirteam that is not
getting done with just him going there. They're gonna need
a third team to work some magic sign and trade.
And when I heard that, my eyelids went up because
it's like, Okay, I I don't know if Damar is
(37:47):
a championship player, think a really good I'm.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Not sure if he's a great player. I judge Harshley,
like great. We call too many people great, we really do.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
In sports.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
He's a really really, really good player. It's never been
to a finals, he's never really you know, carried eighteen.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
They got, they get.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
As far as the talent on the roster allows in
the game, he doesn't have that that gets you over
the hump. But to go to a team that seems
to be, you know, on the rise, like Sacramento did
raise my eyebrows a little bit. But I'm just trying
to figure out how this guy still isn't signed. And
it's an easy answer for me. I said the same
(38:25):
thing about PG. We saw the best PG in Indiana.
I understand the year and a half he had an OKC,
but he was playing for a contract, and we know
when you're playing for a contract, your ball out and
it happens time and time again. And what happened Monti's
beloved Clippers. They signed him to the big deal, right,
signed him to the big deal as a free agent,
and because he balled his asshole for a year and
(38:47):
a half in Oklahoma City because he knew he was
trying to get that deal. But then he kind of
resorts back to the very good PG that we know.
That's how I feel about Damar. I think we've seen
the best version of him Martin that we're gonna see.
It's not the clown him, it's just bro. Everybody has,
everybody has a level.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I do think that he's an impact player, but if
if he's better suited to be Demartin Rosen, that is
as a third option, Like I think if he went
to Sacramento, right, he would really solidify some things because
he'd be a better version of what Malik Monk is right,
especially like now the buzz of Marshals many threes as
he's like, no, but that's fine.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
He's got his game, He's got this. I was about
to say, he's got a beautiful minuteture. So I'm not
and he's still at this level.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
It's still an elite scorern't given the opportunity, right, So
I think playing off of a guy like Fox and Tabonus,
I think, you know, I'm in the Rosan Sabonis picking
rolls interest me.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
That interests me.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yes, And remember earlier this week, Fox has lt to
be known. He wants to see what they're gonna do
before he decides to sign his long term deal with them. Darien,
Fox wants to see, now you get them moving, and
I agree with you as a third there, that's why
my that's why I said, that's why my eyebrows go up, like,
oh okay, I'm not gonna not gonna crown him, but wow,
you put the most I think he fits.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I agree, but I think he fits as a three
at a place like that.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
That's why I thought if it thought if the Lakers
gave him a I might change some of my opinions
about how I feel like their season would be coming
up because he would fit right there nicely.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
I believe behind a D and Lebron, Yeah, I think
it's Sacramento. Though the Lakers aren't gonna be able.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
To afford him. No, yeah, no, no, I think the
Laker thing is done. Him going to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I think once Lebron signed his deal, that that that
seal that sealed.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Uh de mar de Rozan coming sideline. But I liked
the idea of Damorrow Sacramento. I think that's a good
fit for both sides, and I think he's probably a
little bit better than another target that they had, brandon Ingram, Like, yeah,
you know, the brandon Ingram to kind of have a
similar game. Either one of them shoots as many threes
as you'd like, But I think Damar is a quicker
first step even at his as his advanced age, at
(40:42):
least two.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Years younger than me. I'm talking about his advanced age.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Even as you know, and as you know, Ingram is
a younger player than Derozen. But to me, Ingram is
does not still trying to figure. Yeah, now we're still
trying to figure. Yeah, we're still trying to I'd like
to have and I think that you see DeMar DeRozan
does he has such a medium bag.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
I'm talking about brandon Ingram.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
No, he does.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Once again, guys, I'm not trying to dis some just
analyzing the game. Put the tape on. It's either you
ever see him move well without the ball, you ever
see him just in No, he stands and when he
gets the ball, it's either at the elbows at the
three point line or the elbows are the free throw
line and it's a swing through, a jab step, a
back down. He doesn't have a goal and he's not
quick enough to cross guys up and get by. Even
(41:25):
in the league where defense isn't even a premium like.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
It used to be. He really truly brandon Ingram.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
He has the height, he has the length, he has
the scordibility, but he's a guy once again, like Buddy Hill.
The idea that we have of brandon Ingram is much
higher than the product that Branham Ingram puts on the floor.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Coming up next, we'll dive into the NFL quarterback salary carousel.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
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