February 26, 2021 • 37 mins
Chris and Rob tell us why they have a big issue with international soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic telling LeBron James he shouldn't speak out on political issues, and Chris names the 5 most talented NBA teammates Brandon Ingram has ever played with. Plus, FS1 producer Martin Weiss swings by to host another award-winning edition of Trollin' or Rollin'.
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are we got trolling or rolling with Martin Weiss coming
up at the bottom of the hour and then Bruce
Arts five five Rob. Just a quick note, Boston we
know is in a swoon. They won seven of their
last twenty one, or lost fourteen of their last twenty
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one is a better way to put it. They're down
eighteen to ten midway through the first quarter to Indiana,
so it's early. Obviously they could rally and come back,
but right now, at least, it doesn't look like things
are getting any better. For the struggle is gonna be
I think there's an issue there and there's gonna have
to be resolved. There's no way, Chris, with that talent,
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can you just act like everything's gonna be okay and
look the other way. I'm serious, now, you're you're right there.
There's that there is something worse than this NBA all
these beds team. Sorry, I agree, and because look, they
had two All Stars, which most people you would say
is ludicrous with a record like that. I gotta be honest,
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I would have been mad if both of them were
in the All Stars Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown now
grided the losing streak. Wasn't this bad when they got
voted in. But those are legitimate star players and you
still can't have two of those guys and you can't win,
and you're giving it up, giving up twenty four point leads.
I mean stuff that we've never a young team like
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New Orleans. Oh yeah, that shouldn't happen. Yeah, all right,
Well we're gonna stick with the NBA kind of sort of. Uh.
One of the top soccer players in the world. Of course,
he's overseas, so he calls himself a footballer. Uh. The Laton,
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the Latan Ibrahimovich who is Croatian and Bosnian, but he
was born in Sweden. He plays for AC Milan, and
he was critical of Lebron James for speaking out on
political issue. Do we have that sound rob okay? Here
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he is. He's a phenomenal in what he's doing. But
I don't like when people when they have some kind
of status and they go in and they do politics
at the same time what they're doing. I mean, do
what you're good at. Do the category you do. I
play football because I'm the best in playing football. I
don't do politics. If I would be a political politician,
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I would do politics. That is the first mistake people
do when they become famous and this come in a
certain status. Stay out of it. Just do what you're
best at because it doesn't look good. All right, let
me say this quickly robbing the you can go go ahead.
He's an out spot. I'm not gonna like I know
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a lot about this dude, but but what I do
know is that he's very outspoken, very braggadocious, doesn't bite
his tongue, and a lot of people like him because
he's you know, he'll say what he wants and he'll
call people out, and you know that's the type of
guy he is. But I just wanted to give that
little background before we discuss this. But go ahead, rob this.
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I just I think he's out of bounds. I just
whenever people tell people what they should do. So let
me get this right, Chris. I can be a damn bartender.
I can be a bus driver. I can be the
guy who sells donuts at the bus terminal, and I
could talk about politics. But if you're an athlete, you can't,
since when what logic does that make the woman at
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who checked out my groceries she could talk about politics,
but I'm an athlete and I can't. You're a citizen first,
would you guys stop with this that they don't live
in this country, they're not affected by what goes on.
Athletes have just as much right as the average joe.
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The only freaking reason people don't want to hear from
them is because they don't have the same opinion as you.
That's why you don't want to hear from them. It
ain't got nothing to do with them being an athlete. Really,
the guy running a convenience story, he has an opinion
about politics. Stop it with all this, Chris, I can't
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take it anymore. Well, if this guy were a white
American or even from one of the wealthier nations in Europe,
I would say this is white privilege. But obviously Croatian, Bosnian,
he's had it tough himself and his people have, so
I won't go to the white privilege route. But what
I'll say is, obviously Lebron James is an African American,
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and all African American athletes obviously don't speak out. The greatest,
arguably of them all, Michael Jordan, did not speak out,
so everyone's not going to. However, Rob, I've said this
before and I'll say it again. African Americans have needed
our athletes to speak out. And I am firmly convinced,
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firmly convinced that if African Americans were not such great athletes,
ROB and to a lesser degree, entertainers, music, comedy, acting,
all that stuff. I do not think we'd be as
far as we are in this nation. I don't think
we would be. Obviously, we still got ways to go,
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but I don't think we'd be accepted to the degree
that we are today. But white men, like all American men,
for the most part, loved sports and blacks have just
been dominant for the last sixty years, you know, once
we got the opportunity to really, you know, playing and
not be held back of our skin color. And because
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we've been so dominant, that's endeared us to white Americans
to some degree. And I'm not saying it's made everything perfect, obviously,
but it has had an impact. It shouldn't take that
we could have sucked in sports, and we still should
be treated equal, but it has been a factor, I
really believe. Rob and then when you're athlete, your Muhammed Alis,
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You're Jim Brown, ja Bill Russells, and today your Lebron
James Is and guys like that, when they do speak
out and share the black or what many black people feel.
I'm not gonna say just the black perspective, right because
not all, but when they share a sentiment that is
common in the black community, it has power because, to
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be honest, the status show you. White Americans are the
most segregated group of Americans in the country, and so
a lot don't really interact on a daily basis with
African Americans, and if they do, sometimes it may be
at work and it's not really you know, a level
playing field, so to speak. And so a lot of
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times they don't know how black people feel, or what
black people are thinking about, or what goes on in
the black community in the inner city. So I think
it's very important for black athletes to speak out. I
don't even know if this has ever happened to you,
and it might have because we both worked in New York.
And New York you work and you walk in the streets, Chris,
and you run into people. Right. It's not like most
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cities in America. You get in your car, you go
to where you go, and you get out. You walk
from the parking lot right, right, so you don't run
into But in the New York you can run into
people on the street. Subway, you might be right. People
have to take the subway. Everybody can't drive, so you know,
rich people are packed in the subway Chris with poor people. Right,
That's that's New York, right. I don't know how many
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times you're working with somebody, somebody white in the office.
They see you every day, they speak to you every day, Chris,
and you're out in the street and they walk past
you like they don't even know you. Really, I have
not had that happen. I've had that happen where I'm like, hey, hey,
to get their attention. And not that they're not looking anywhere.
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Is that when they're all like you, they don't see me.
Is what I'm saying, is they see a black person,
but in the office where they're where they're expecting to
see me. Do you see what I'm saying Like this,
it's just a difference. That's what I've I've noticed to me, like,
you know, like that's happened. But but your point about
being segregated and not really living in the black world
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or dealing with black people, I think a lot of
people live that way, and I do. And I think
the biggest issue is not that athletes are saying something,
it's that it's not what they want. And I'll just
say this and I'm just gonna keep it real. You know,
Clay Travis says all the time about politics, right, like,
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it's just show the shouldn't be politics are political show? Yes,
that's what that That was my point. That's exactly my
point is that he has a show where uh Trump
was on it. So so I just like you're saying
the NBA shouldn't be woked because shouldn't be about politics,
and you have politics. Do you see what I'm saying?
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And I bring it up just for the point of
the idea that it's because it's not what you want
to hear. That's why you have a problem with it,
not that they have something to say. I agree, And
I'm gonna be honest too, Rob, And you may feel
the same way I to be. When I hear an
athlete speaking out against something I don't agree with, and
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I'm if I adamantly disagree with him, I don't really
want to hear it either, So I get it. That's
how human beings are. Like if if if top big
time athletes are speaking out about something and this doesn't
really happen generally, but I'm just saying, being honest, if
somebody were speaking out and pushing something that I didn't
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agree with, then I wouldn't want to hear it either.
So that is what it boils down to. I don't
think people mind having athletes speak out. It's just what
they're saying. You're right to your point, Rob. A lot
of people that claim that they don't want to hear
athletes speak out. Let's say, and let's say that they
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didn't like, you know, Lebron obviously was promoting Biden and
Kamala Harris and all that stuff. If you would have
had an athlete, let's say Tom Brady, if he comes
up there. You know, Donald Trump is my friend. I
think he's been a great president. I'm voting for it.
Like they would have loved that, would have loved, they
would have loved they loved it would have been on
every commercial christ right, don't so don't act like it,
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and and and all the guys. The only reason that
they didn't use guys Christian know who came out for
for Trump in that way, like old white guys Mike
Dick and old former football coaches, you know what I mean,
and people like that don't And they didn't use that.
But those are the guys, not like the big stars
of today, imagine Aaron Rodgers or you know, Tom Brady
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or people like that. Don't tell me they wouldn't use
that or they wouldn't embrace it. Yes they would, right,
yes they would. And it just it boils down to
this route. You got a right to say something. And
I again, in the whether you're white, black, or whatever
your race or ethnicity, you can speak out on what
you want. And if you if you're an athlete and
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you want to use your platform for a greater good,
obviously you're not every time you take the mic saying something. No,
you can't be on the no. But when it's when
it's relevant, appropriate and relevant, And I have no problem again,
and I'll be honest, like I said, if I don't
agree with the guy, I'm kind of tired of it. Yeah,
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but that's just how it is. People have the freedom
to say what they want to say. And again to
the to the black athletes, they are largely and certainly
years ago, the most beloved African Americans in the country.
I mean, let's just keep it real. And they're irreplaceable.
You can't replace the lebron James Leron can say whatever
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he wants and you might not like it. Maybe you
won't buy his shoes, but you ain't gonna cut him.
He that dude is irreplaceable, and and other you know,
Pat Mahomes and other same things. So, uh, we need
them to speak out on certain issues. I'm not going
to degrade or brate the ones that don't. You know,
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I love Michael Jordan. We all love him as a player,
and even as we we wanted him to speak out. Yeah,
we wanted him to speak out. But everybody's what I
would say is this, and this goes again for any
race or ethnicity. You don't have to be an expert.
You can't. You're gonna be playing ball. You're not gonna
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know as much maybe as you know someone who's studies that.
But but that's what I just brought up about the
people work at Walgreens or at the grocery store or
driving a cab. Do you know what. It doesn't mean
that you can't have an opinion, right. I would just say, though,
when you do speak out, have a little knowledge, and again,
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especially if we're talking about the black community, have a
little bit of knowledge of what you're saying, so you
don't make a fool out of yourself. And a lot
of times people look at you as a representative of
your group of people, and so I would just say
have a lit again. You don't have to be an expert,
but have a little bit of knowledge about it. So
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Fox you're turned away in Do you like or dislike
when athletes speak out about issues? You know, politics, social issues,
things like that. All right, let's kick it off with
tie and palm springs. You're on the odd Couple. Fox
Sports radio. What's up, tie, How are you doing? Guys?
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Look good? I'm gonna I'm sure a bunch of people
want to want to put in on this topics, but
I wanted to say two things one um. Firstly, what
a burden for analysts, for athletes, for people in that
arena as far as Black people go in this country.
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Because there is so much inequity, they may not be
able to speak as eloquently on political issues. But what
they can do, especially these NBA guys who go back
to their neighborhoods and give back, is come back and
bring light to what they are seeing happen in these neighborhoods.
And of course they should say something. And we shouldn't
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be in a position where these guys have to go
back to the neighborhoods they came from and feel like
they have to shoulder the burden of bringing these neighborhoods
out of the doldrums. And then alongside that, Christie said
something a little bit earlier. Athletes are are the most
some of the most beloved Black people in America. And
I couldn't agree with you more there, But to me,
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it is a testament to how far we still have
to go because it's true as that may be, a
lot of people loves them as far as they can
entertain them, and the moment you are no longer entertaining me,
I don't want you to speak. I don't want to
hear anything you have to say anymore. So we still
have a lot of work to do, and I do
think they have a somewhat of a responsibility to push
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that forward. Of course they should you be able to
use their voices. No, doctor, Yeah, I agree with pretty
much everything he said. Rob Matthew. Yeah, Matthew and Richmond Virginia.
You're on the eye couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Matthew, Hey, buddy, listen.
I I sort of agree with your last caller. Um.
I had a little bit y'all were on earlier, UM
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and y'all were comparing Lebron to you know, somebody that
works at Starbucks talking politics. Lebron's got what forty fifty
million quarter followers. There's to me, there's no comparison in
that as far. No, but my my poet, Matthew. But
my point it's not that. My point is just simply
that he can have an opinion too. If the guy
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at the coffee shop does that that that's all absolutely, absolutely,
That's all I'm saying is why can't why can't he
have an opinion on what's going on in the country
like like any other citizen. He just happens to play basketball.
I think if saying Robber is no, I know what
his reaches, and I think that that makes sense. Like
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that's why I said you should If you're gonna speak
on something, you should have. But that's a little bit
of knowledge of everybody's right. I get everybody's gonna get rocket.
But if one guy, if a guy working at Starbucks
is making an ass of himself because he don't know
what he's talking about, it's not a big deal. But
if if if a professional athlete says something, It's like
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when when Kyrie said the Earth is flat and then
he started hearing from all these teachers. And remember he
came back I don't know a month later whatever it was,
and apologize because he said I didn't recognize that I
had so much impact on these kids. I was just
kind of saying stuff I'm reading and I'm thinking about
and all that. So I am that's I get it say,
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But but that's but they but they don't want him
to endorse Hillary Clinton. That that that's that's not you
know what I'm saying, like because flat no, I get that,
but that's incorrect information that you're But but his opinion
on whether he wants to endorse Hillary Clinton is they
don't want to hear it because he has forty millions
are Twitter followers. That's that's my point. That's why if
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he said he was endorsing Donald Trump, they wouldn't have
an issue with it. Chris that that that's what some
people wouldn't others would, right, right, But I hear you. Um,
let's go to Juwan and Colorado. You're in the eye
a couple of Fox Sports Radio. Hey guys, how y'all
doing today? How are you? Oh Man, still have Super
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Bowl hangover? But I'm gonna let that go. I hear you. Well,
I just wanted to say, well, what Ibrahimrovich said was,
I mean, that's just that's that comes from ignorance. I mean,
as a minority, he's doing exactly what he's supposed to
do because the mindset that you stay in your lane
and don't speak out, that's what socioeconomic that's one of
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the tools of deprivation. But on the flip side of that, guys,
I'll sum this up real quick. Lebron is doing exactly
what he's supposed to do because evolution is not just
with animals and bones and genetics. It also happens in
interaction in society. So as minorities have an opportunity to
compete on an equal level, then what happens is now
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their voice can contribute to come up into in other areas.
So one last point I want to make and look
like I said, Lebron is doing what the great equalizer
of natural force society would do when they're socioeconomic deprivation.
Real quick, here last study in nineteen sixties, they did
a study with black kids and they took some black
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kids when they were questioning who was more intelligent. This
was way back way back in the darkning about the
dog test. No no, no, no, no, no, not that.
When this is where they were questioned whether kids of
color were Do we lose them? We lost Oh okay,
we lost him. Unfortunate. We did not do that on purpose.
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We just just lost me. Rob G, where's the racist?
Where's the little racist thing? Now? Where rob G? Cut
my man off? Come on, Rob, Gee, you're better than that.
We can we get one, We get another caller. We's
gone nothing, We lost all right? We got Trolling A
Rolling with Martin White's coming up. But first, Fox Sports
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have a Pro Bowl season. Trying to get it's trolling
or rolling. That's right, it's trolling or rolling. And just
in case it is your first time here, and then
I want to break it down for you real quick.
If Rob and Chris like the story that I read,
you hear the roll sound. And if they don't, you
hear the troll sound. Oh man, hey, hey, before we
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get started, I gotta say I'm rolling with my man,
Chris Russard. Phil didn't admirably for skipping Shannon this week
on Undisputed. Didn't miss it beat. It was fun working
with you this week, buddy, Thank you, my man. I
appreciate it and all to help you. Gay with research
definitely played a part it was fun. We had a
lot of fun, no doubt, no problem. Without further ado.
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Yeah yeah, you and Jay Mac had me looking up
all these Lebron numbers. So I'm gonna ask you a
Lebron question. Okay, Lebron's playing a ton of regular season
minutes and the Lakers have been losing without a d
and Dennis Rooter in the lineup. Not Scrooters back tonight,
but even with his chase of Preme Abdul Jabbar on
the line, Anthony Davis said this about Lebron. Lebron doesn't
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care about MVP. He cares about championships. So if he
loses the MVP and when is the championship, he doesn't care.
Chris trolling or rolling that Lebron is more concerned with
finals MVPs than regular season MVPs. Well, the way you
asked it, I'm gonna say I'm rolling with him, but
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that's not what it was. He asked it differently. If
you had said, do I think Lebron doesn't care about MVPs,
I would have said I'm trolling, but I do think
he wants the finals MVP and obviously the championship more
than a regular season MVP award, but I also think
he wants the MVP Award two during the regular season,
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which I got no problem with. But uh so, I yeah,
I'm rolling, yeah the way the way you asked it. Yes,
of course you gotta be rolling with it. But that
I don't think that that and it's not an either
or you know what I mean, like this either or.
I mean, anybody would take a finals MVP over a
regular season MVP. I don't think that's even a question.
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So I'm Anthony Davis just wasn't being legit honest, that
is trying he made. He had a hissy fit last
year when Jannis won back to back, So okay trolling rolling.
A couple of Fox Sports Radio now back on the
topic at him. Lebron James Richard Jefferson his former teammate.
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He's now known for talking the game, and today he
said that Lebron is quote one percent afraid of participating
in the Dunk Contest because his dunks aren't quote sexy enough.
Chris trolling or rolling Lebron is afraid to participate in
the Dunk Contest. I I don't like the word afraid.
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I would use the word he just knows the deal,
and so I'm rolling with it. In terms of and
I said this for years. I mean, you can go
back more than a decade when it was a big issue.
Is Lebron gonna be in the dunk ho this. I
don't think Lebron would have been a great dunk contest dunker.
There are game dunkers and there are dunk contest dunkers,
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and then they're obviously those that can do both. But
if you look at the greatest dunk contest guys Vince Carter,
Michael Jordan's, Dominique Kobe, they were graceful, they were finessed
with power. They I mean they just the way they
moved in the air was different. They were slim, long range.
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Lebron is a bulldozer. He's a truck. And so the
only way that Lebron could win the dunk contest would
be if he did the type of things that Dwight
Howard did. Remember Dwight shot. I didn't think the White
would be good in it because I'm like, he just
he's big, he's tall already, but he came up with
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such creative things, just things nobody ever thought of throwing
it off the back of the backboard, jumping out of
bounds the side of the back But like that's what
Lebron would have to do. If Lebron just goes up
there and goes under his legs and dunks it or
three sixty, it's not going to look as good as
when a smaller, you know, a more slender, rangey, smooth
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type dude did it. So I don't think afraid. I
just think Lebron understands I'm more of a game dunker
than the dunk contest dunk. I'm rolling with it. I mean,
it doesn't matter you're Lebron James. People just want to
see you compete, go out there, try to have fun.
I don't know, maybe he doesn't want to lose or whatever.
Just silly that he never competed one time just to
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have some fun. It ain't the end of the world
whether he would win ors, And I think Lebron's always
about that. I doubt he'd ever want to be in
a free throw shooting contest, uh with five seconds going
again a rock and here, Look, he may have won
depended on the year, but just off his name, like
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I didn't think now Blake probably should have won. Blake Griffin.
I didn't think Blake Griffin was exceptionally well the car,
but I mean that ain't all. It was a keya.
I mean that was all right, but he you know, yeah,
I mean really it was. I wouldn't if it was
a bigger car, but that I've seen dudes in the
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streets do that. So I'm just saying, like I, Blake
is a terrific game dunker, but he wasn't a phenomenal
game dunk you know, slam dunk contest dunker. But he
won because he's Blake Griffin and it was a decent dunk.
I ain't gonna lie to jumping over carpeci. I just
want this on the record on national radio right here,
right now. I'm one thousand percentrolling that Chris Bruzar has
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seen him and dunk over a parked car in the street.
I saw, I saw. I saw an Akron Ohio probably
the late nineties, round ninety seven, nineties, robably nineteen ninety
seven saw a dude that was like five to eight
jump over a car at a neighborhood dunk contest like
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it was a legit turney and all that. But yeah,
I mean, seriously, jump over a car and it wasn't
a key either. It was like you know it was
it was a gangster buick or something like that. But really,
in fact, I saw I was in Akron last year
and the dude I was speaking somewhere and he came
and he saw me, and he showed me the article
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I wrote about him in the Akron Beacon Journal. I
can't remember his name, but yeah, so come on, man,
question cc A real quick, real quick, last one Trollerron
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. You Jazz are the
one seed and it's not even particularly close. They have
six losses. Every other team in the NBA has eleven
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or more. However, however, however, we have seen the Jazz
get off the good darts before and come back down
to earth. Rob trolling or rolling, The Jazz will not
have home court advantage throughout the playoffs. I'm trolling. I
think they will. Oh man, hey, hey, hey hey hey
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where they are, and especially because the other teams don't
feel compelled to have to play for it. If you're
the Lakers, you just want to be in the top four.
The Clippers the same thing. You don't have to be
the number one seed. You know, if your number two
or three. As long as you're in the top four,
you have a chancel. I think that they could keep
that lead from where they are and wind up with
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the number one seed. Yeah, that's a good question, Martin.
But I'm a roll with it. I think are trolling.
I'm going with Rob. Yeah, I think they will. Yeah,
I mean they're not. I don't think they're gonna keep
winning at this clip, you know, fifteen or twenty one
of their last twenty three. But I think they have
a four game lead over the Clippers and Robs. Right,
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I don't think those two teams in LA are gonna
kill themselves to try to get the one seed. I mean,
could Brooklyn Brooklyn have to go on the heck of
a tear to catch them. But yeah, I'm rolling with that.
I think you talk could end up with the best
record in the league. Guess I'm telling them right now,
you talk five seeds? What you don't believe? You know what?
(31:35):
You know? No, No, let's let's we gave him a
chance once, Rob, you got I don't know how chill out.
Really you have them at a five seed, Martin, I'm
telling you, listen, you guys may not remember this but
last year I picked the Jazz to win the fund.
I picked them. I picked Is that is evidence of
(32:00):
mc cain murray? Is that evidence of something good or
bad that you're telling us that. What I'm saying is,
I was in on this team. I've seen this team.
This team is produlent. This team okay, So so you
have it's all gonna fall apart. They will this season
as the fifth seed in the West. Are you on
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the record of saying that, Yeah, all right, put your
money where your mouth is. Put your money where your
mouth is. You've been running from the Jordan bet. I
ain't bringing up many Jordan bets now, but if you
really are that certain, let's put some Jay's on it.
(32:42):
I hit fact Martin. I'll give you one to one,
and I'm not even gonna do the three to one
for Georgia one one pair of Jordan's two hundred dollars max.
If I think the Jazz will not finish with the
fifth seed, so I don't care if they four. I
want to do this real quick. It will be either
(33:03):
four or lower. Right, So if they tie, if they
finished tied for the four seed or some crazy something
like that, I don't want to lose this better on
technicou So what if they? What if they finished home court?
Attis what if they? So you're saying they won't have
home court advantage in the first round. That's the bet.
That's the bet. Okay, they won't have and the pair
of Jordan's two hundred dollars. The loser winner gets to
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pick which pair he wants. You can do, all right,
I got it. You want you, Rob, you shouldn't. I'm
surprised you ain't jumping in on it. You have enough,
Dan bet. That's an easy bet for you, Maz. They're
not going to be the fistical Martin. Martin, send me
my money Venmo tomorrow. All right, you know what number is.
(33:48):
Don't worry, Aboudy, just just wait. Don't worry, Aboudy, worry
about this bet. This better a couple. I couldn't turn
that down. All right, Thank you, Martin. Great job is
always extra special. Great job tonight. All right, it's the
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used on television. Here it is, I've never played with
a player as talented as me. He's a generational talent
where you don't know what you're gonna get from him
every single night, because this is gonna be something different.
There's gonna be something inside of him, and I like
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to feed off that. He was talking about Williamson making
his first All Star team. But if you missed the
first part of the quote, Brandon Ingram said, I never
played with somebody as talented as me. Remember he played
with the Lakers a few years ago, next to one
Lebron James. I'm gonna give you five players that have
played with Brandon Ingram that were asked talented or more
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than him. Here we go. Number five, how about Julius Randall.
Julius Randall was the seventh pick in the draft. Julius
Randall was ballyhooed. Played one year at Kentucky, led him
in scoring, led them to the National Championship game they lost,
and then he's been in the NBA. Struggled a little
bit early, but really he's coming into his own makers
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in his first All Star team this year twenty three points,
eleven boards, five and a half dimes, and forty forty
two percent shooting from three, and he's leading the Knicks
to the sixth seed in the East. He's having a
better year than Brandon Ingram or four Metalworld Piece, Yes,
Meta Ron art Test, I mean Ron. If he hadn't
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had his challenges, obviously the brawl where he got suspended
for a year and all that, and he'll tell you
he had mental health issues. He did a whole documentary
on it on Showtime. If he hadn't had all that,
I think he could have been a Hall of Famer.
He was an awesome defender and a really good offensive
player as well. Metaworld Piece could ball Brandon Ingram, number three,
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Rajon Rondo playoff Rondo, Folks. He was critical to the
Lakers winning the championship last year. He is one of
only two players to win championships with both the Celtics
and the Lakers. He joins Hall of Famer Clyde Lavellet
in doing that, and I think Rondo is going to
be a Hall of Famer himself. Number two, Zion. That
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ain't What he said about Zion was legit. Now, z
I ain't got stuff to work on, the rebounding, the defense,
the jump shot. But man, he's a He is Charles Barkley.
That was my comp when he came out of college,
and that is still my comp. He is a new
age turbo version of Charles Barkley. Number one, Come on, Brandon,
(37:21):
I like Brandon ingl like his game. Seems like a
nice kid. Come on, man, you played with Lebron. This
makes what Kyrie said about Lebron not being able to
hit the last shot, this makes it seem like Kyrie
was blowing Lebron kisses. I mean, really, dude, you never
played with anybody as talented as yourself, and you played
(37:44):
with Lebron James. Stop it. Brandon Ingram may going to
be a premier All Star, but you ain't Lebron brother
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up at the bottom of the hour and then Bruce
Arts five five Rob. Just a quick note, Boston we
know is in a swoon. They won seven of their
last twenty one, or lost fourteen of their last twenty
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one is a better way to put it. They're down
eighteen to ten midway through the first quarter to Indiana,
so it's early. Obviously they could rally and come back,
but right now, at least, it doesn't look like things
are getting any better. For the struggle is gonna be
I think there's an issue there and there's gonna have
to be resolved. There's no way, Chris, with that talent,
(01:49):
can you just act like everything's gonna be okay and
look the other way. I'm serious, now, you're you're right there.
There's that there is something worse than this NBA all
these beds team. Sorry, I agree, and because look, they
had two All Stars, which most people you would say
is ludicrous with a record like that. I gotta be honest,
(02:10):
I would have been mad if both of them were
in the All Stars Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown now
grided the losing streak. Wasn't this bad when they got
voted in. But those are legitimate star players and you
still can't have two of those guys and you can't win,
and you're giving it up, giving up twenty four point leads.
I mean stuff that we've never a young team like
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New Orleans. Oh yeah, that shouldn't happen. Yeah, all right,
Well we're gonna stick with the NBA kind of sort of. Uh.
One of the top soccer players in the world. Of course,
he's overseas, so he calls himself a footballer. Uh. The Laton,
(02:52):
the Latan Ibrahimovich who is Croatian and Bosnian, but he
was born in Sweden. He plays for AC Milan, and
he was critical of Lebron James for speaking out on
political issue. Do we have that sound rob okay? Here
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he is. He's a phenomenal in what he's doing. But
I don't like when people when they have some kind
of status and they go in and they do politics
at the same time what they're doing. I mean, do
what you're good at. Do the category you do. I
play football because I'm the best in playing football. I
don't do politics. If I would be a political politician,
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I would do politics. That is the first mistake people
do when they become famous and this come in a
certain status. Stay out of it. Just do what you're
best at because it doesn't look good. All right, let
me say this quickly robbing the you can go go ahead.
He's an out spot. I'm not gonna like I know
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a lot about this dude, but but what I do
know is that he's very outspoken, very braggadocious, doesn't bite
his tongue, and a lot of people like him because
he's you know, he'll say what he wants and he'll
call people out, and you know that's the type of
guy he is. But I just wanted to give that
little background before we discuss this. But go ahead, rob this.
(04:19):
I just I think he's out of bounds. I just
whenever people tell people what they should do. So let
me get this right, Chris. I can be a damn bartender.
I can be a bus driver. I can be the
guy who sells donuts at the bus terminal, and I
could talk about politics. But if you're an athlete, you can't,
since when what logic does that make the woman at
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who checked out my groceries she could talk about politics,
but I'm an athlete and I can't. You're a citizen first,
would you guys stop with this that they don't live
in this country, they're not affected by what goes on.
Athletes have just as much right as the average joe.
(05:06):
The only freaking reason people don't want to hear from
them is because they don't have the same opinion as you.
That's why you don't want to hear from them. It
ain't got nothing to do with them being an athlete. Really,
the guy running a convenience story, he has an opinion
about politics. Stop it with all this, Chris, I can't
(05:29):
take it anymore. Well, if this guy were a white
American or even from one of the wealthier nations in Europe,
I would say this is white privilege. But obviously Croatian, Bosnian,
he's had it tough himself and his people have, so
I won't go to the white privilege route. But what
I'll say is, obviously Lebron James is an African American,
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and all African American athletes obviously don't speak out. The greatest,
arguably of them all, Michael Jordan, did not speak out,
so everyone's not going to. However, Rob, I've said this
before and I'll say it again. African Americans have needed
our athletes to speak out. And I am firmly convinced,
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firmly convinced that if African Americans were not such great athletes,
ROB and to a lesser degree, entertainers, music, comedy, acting,
all that stuff. I do not think we'd be as
far as we are in this nation. I don't think
we would be. Obviously, we still got ways to go,
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but I don't think we'd be accepted to the degree
that we are today. But white men, like all American men,
for the most part, loved sports and blacks have just
been dominant for the last sixty years, you know, once
we got the opportunity to really, you know, playing and
not be held back of our skin color. And because
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we've been so dominant, that's endeared us to white Americans
to some degree. And I'm not saying it's made everything perfect, obviously,
but it has had an impact. It shouldn't take that
we could have sucked in sports, and we still should
be treated equal, but it has been a factor, I
really believe. Rob and then when you're athlete, your Muhammed Alis,
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You're Jim Brown, ja Bill Russells, and today your Lebron
James Is and guys like that, when they do speak
out and share the black or what many black people feel.
I'm not gonna say just the black perspective, right because
not all, but when they share a sentiment that is
common in the black community, it has power because, to
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be honest, the status show you. White Americans are the
most segregated group of Americans in the country, and so
a lot don't really interact on a daily basis with
African Americans, and if they do, sometimes it may be
at work and it's not really you know, a level
playing field, so to speak. And so a lot of
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times they don't know how black people feel, or what
black people are thinking about, or what goes on in
the black community in the inner city. So I think
it's very important for black athletes to speak out. I
don't even know if this has ever happened to you,
and it might have because we both worked in New York.
And New York you work and you walk in the streets, Chris,
and you run into people. Right. It's not like most
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cities in America. You get in your car, you go
to where you go, and you get out. You walk
from the parking lot right, right, so you don't run
into But in the New York you can run into
people on the street. Subway, you might be right. People
have to take the subway. Everybody can't drive, so you know,
rich people are packed in the subway Chris with poor people. Right,
That's that's New York, right. I don't know how many
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times you're working with somebody, somebody white in the office.
They see you every day, they speak to you every day, Chris,
and you're out in the street and they walk past
you like they don't even know you. Really, I have
not had that happen. I've had that happen where I'm like, hey, hey,
to get their attention. And not that they're not looking anywhere.
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Is that when they're all like you, they don't see me.
Is what I'm saying, is they see a black person,
but in the office where they're where they're expecting to
see me. Do you see what I'm saying Like this,
it's just a difference. That's what I've I've noticed to me, like,
you know, like that's happened. But but your point about
being segregated and not really living in the black world
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or dealing with black people, I think a lot of
people live that way, and I do. And I think
the biggest issue is not that athletes are saying something,
it's that it's not what they want. And I'll just
say this and I'm just gonna keep it real. You know,
Clay Travis says all the time about politics, right, like,
(09:58):
it's just show the shouldn't be politics are political show? Yes,
that's what that That was my point. That's exactly my
point is that he has a show where uh Trump
was on it. So so I just like you're saying
the NBA shouldn't be woked because shouldn't be about politics,
and you have politics. Do you see what I'm saying?
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And I bring it up just for the point of
the idea that it's because it's not what you want
to hear. That's why you have a problem with it,
not that they have something to say. I agree, And
I'm gonna be honest too, Rob, And you may feel
the same way I to be. When I hear an
athlete speaking out against something I don't agree with, and
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I'm if I adamantly disagree with him, I don't really
want to hear it either, So I get it. That's
how human beings are. Like if if if top big
time athletes are speaking out about something and this doesn't
really happen generally, but I'm just saying, being honest, if
somebody were speaking out and pushing something that I didn't
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agree with, then I wouldn't want to hear it either.
So that is what it boils down to. I don't
think people mind having athletes speak out. It's just what
they're saying. You're right to your point, Rob. A lot
of people that claim that they don't want to hear
athletes speak out. Let's say, and let's say that they
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didn't like, you know, Lebron obviously was promoting Biden and
Kamala Harris and all that stuff. If you would have
had an athlete, let's say Tom Brady, if he comes
up there. You know, Donald Trump is my friend. I
think he's been a great president. I'm voting for it.
Like they would have loved that, would have loved, they
would have loved they loved it would have been on
every commercial christ right, don't so don't act like it,
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and and and all the guys. The only reason that
they didn't use guys Christian know who came out for
for Trump in that way, like old white guys Mike
Dick and old former football coaches, you know what I mean,
and people like that don't And they didn't use that.
But those are the guys, not like the big stars
of today, imagine Aaron Rodgers or you know, Tom Brady
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or people like that. Don't tell me they wouldn't use
that or they wouldn't embrace it. Yes they would, right,
yes they would. And it just it boils down to
this route. You got a right to say something. And
I again, in the whether you're white, black, or whatever
your race or ethnicity, you can speak out on what
you want. And if you if you're an athlete and
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you want to use your platform for a greater good,
obviously you're not every time you take the mic saying something. No,
you can't be on the no. But when it's when
it's relevant, appropriate and relevant, And I have no problem again,
and I'll be honest, like I said, if I don't
agree with the guy, I'm kind of tired of it. Yeah,
(12:52):
but that's just how it is. People have the freedom
to say what they want to say. And again to
the to the black athletes, they are largely and certainly
years ago, the most beloved African Americans in the country.
I mean, let's just keep it real. And they're irreplaceable.
You can't replace the lebron James Leron can say whatever
(13:13):
he wants and you might not like it. Maybe you
won't buy his shoes, but you ain't gonna cut him.
He that dude is irreplaceable, and and other you know,
Pat Mahomes and other same things. So, uh, we need
them to speak out on certain issues. I'm not going
to degrade or brate the ones that don't. You know,
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I love Michael Jordan. We all love him as a player,
and even as we we wanted him to speak out. Yeah,
we wanted him to speak out. But everybody's what I
would say is this, and this goes again for any
race or ethnicity. You don't have to be an expert.
You can't. You're gonna be playing ball. You're not gonna
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know as much maybe as you know someone who's studies that.
But but that's what I just brought up about the
people work at Walgreens or at the grocery store or
driving a cab. Do you know what. It doesn't mean
that you can't have an opinion, right. I would just say, though,
when you do speak out, have a little knowledge, and again,
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especially if we're talking about the black community, have a
little bit of knowledge of what you're saying, so you
don't make a fool out of yourself. And a lot
of times people look at you as a representative of
your group of people, and so I would just say
have a lit again. You don't have to be an expert,
but have a little bit of knowledge about it. So
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Fox you're turned away in Do you like or dislike
when athletes speak out about issues? You know, politics, social issues,
things like that. All right, let's kick it off with
tie and palm springs. You're on the odd Couple. Fox
Sports radio. What's up, tie, How are you doing? Guys?
(16:48):
Look good? I'm gonna I'm sure a bunch of people
want to want to put in on this topics, but
I wanted to say two things one um. Firstly, what
a burden for analysts, for athletes, for people in that
arena as far as Black people go in this country.
(17:10):
Because there is so much inequity, they may not be
able to speak as eloquently on political issues. But what
they can do, especially these NBA guys who go back
to their neighborhoods and give back, is come back and
bring light to what they are seeing happen in these neighborhoods.
And of course they should say something. And we shouldn't
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be in a position where these guys have to go
back to the neighborhoods they came from and feel like
they have to shoulder the burden of bringing these neighborhoods
out of the doldrums. And then alongside that, Christie said
something a little bit earlier. Athletes are are the most
some of the most beloved Black people in America. And
I couldn't agree with you more there, But to me,
(17:54):
it is a testament to how far we still have
to go because it's true as that may be, a
lot of people loves them as far as they can
entertain them, and the moment you are no longer entertaining me,
I don't want you to speak. I don't want to
hear anything you have to say anymore. So we still
have a lot of work to do, and I do
think they have a somewhat of a responsibility to push
(18:16):
that forward. Of course they should you be able to
use their voices. No, doctor, Yeah, I agree with pretty
much everything he said. Rob Matthew. Yeah, Matthew and Richmond Virginia.
You're on the eye couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Matthew, Hey, buddy, listen.
I I sort of agree with your last caller. Um.
I had a little bit y'all were on earlier, UM
(18:40):
and y'all were comparing Lebron to you know, somebody that
works at Starbucks talking politics. Lebron's got what forty fifty
million quarter followers. There's to me, there's no comparison in
that as far. No, but my my poet, Matthew. But
my point it's not that. My point is just simply
that he can have an opinion too. If the guy
(19:02):
at the coffee shop does that that that's all absolutely, absolutely,
That's all I'm saying is why can't why can't he
have an opinion on what's going on in the country
like like any other citizen. He just happens to play basketball.
I think if saying Robber is no, I know what
his reaches, and I think that that makes sense. Like
(19:24):
that's why I said you should If you're gonna speak
on something, you should have. But that's a little bit
of knowledge of everybody's right. I get everybody's gonna get rocket.
But if one guy, if a guy working at Starbucks
is making an ass of himself because he don't know
what he's talking about, it's not a big deal. But
if if if a professional athlete says something, It's like
(19:44):
when when Kyrie said the Earth is flat and then
he started hearing from all these teachers. And remember he
came back I don't know a month later whatever it was,
and apologize because he said I didn't recognize that I
had so much impact on these kids. I was just
kind of saying stuff I'm reading and I'm thinking about
and all that. So I am that's I get it say,
(20:07):
But but that's but they but they don't want him
to endorse Hillary Clinton. That that that's that's not you
know what I'm saying, like because flat no, I get that,
but that's incorrect information that you're But but his opinion
on whether he wants to endorse Hillary Clinton is they
don't want to hear it because he has forty millions
are Twitter followers. That's that's my point. That's why if
(20:29):
he said he was endorsing Donald Trump, they wouldn't have
an issue with it. Chris that that that's what some
people wouldn't others would, right, right, But I hear you. Um,
let's go to Juwan and Colorado. You're in the eye
a couple of Fox Sports Radio. Hey guys, how y'all
doing today? How are you? Oh Man, still have Super
(20:50):
Bowl hangover? But I'm gonna let that go. I hear you. Well,
I just wanted to say, well, what Ibrahimrovich said was,
I mean, that's just that's that comes from ignorance. I mean,
as a minority, he's doing exactly what he's supposed to
do because the mindset that you stay in your lane
and don't speak out, that's what socioeconomic that's one of
(21:13):
the tools of deprivation. But on the flip side of that, guys,
I'll sum this up real quick. Lebron is doing exactly
what he's supposed to do because evolution is not just
with animals and bones and genetics. It also happens in
interaction in society. So as minorities have an opportunity to
compete on an equal level, then what happens is now
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their voice can contribute to come up into in other areas.
So one last point I want to make and look
like I said, Lebron is doing what the great equalizer
of natural force society would do when they're socioeconomic deprivation.
Real quick, here last study in nineteen sixties, they did
a study with black kids and they took some black
(21:59):
kids when they were questioning who was more intelligent. This
was way back way back in the darkning about the
dog test. No no, no, no, no, no, not that.
When this is where they were questioned whether kids of
color were Do we lose them? We lost Oh okay,
we lost him. Unfortunate. We did not do that on purpose.
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We just just lost me. Rob G, where's the racist?
Where's the little racist thing? Now? Where rob G? Cut
my man off? Come on, Rob, Gee, you're better than that.
We can we get one, We get another caller. We's
gone nothing, We lost all right? We got Trolling A
Rolling with Martin White's coming up. But first, Fox Sports
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Martin Hit Tom Brady, He's done. Aaron Rodgers did not
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have a Pro Bowl season. Trying to get it's trolling
or rolling. That's right, it's trolling or rolling. And just
in case it is your first time here, and then
I want to break it down for you real quick.
If Rob and Chris like the story that I read,
you hear the roll sound. And if they don't, you
hear the troll sound. Oh man, hey, hey, before we
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get started, I gotta say I'm rolling with my man,
Chris Russard. Phil didn't admirably for skipping Shannon this week
on Undisputed. Didn't miss it beat. It was fun working
with you this week, buddy, Thank you, my man. I
appreciate it and all to help you. Gay with research
definitely played a part it was fun. We had a
lot of fun, no doubt, no problem. Without further ado.
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Yeah yeah, you and Jay Mac had me looking up
all these Lebron numbers. So I'm gonna ask you a
Lebron question. Okay, Lebron's playing a ton of regular season
minutes and the Lakers have been losing without a d
and Dennis Rooter in the lineup. Not Scrooters back tonight,
but even with his chase of Preme Abdul Jabbar on
the line, Anthony Davis said this about Lebron. Lebron doesn't
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care about MVP. He cares about championships. So if he
loses the MVP and when is the championship, he doesn't care.
Chris trolling or rolling that Lebron is more concerned with
finals MVPs than regular season MVPs. Well, the way you
asked it, I'm gonna say I'm rolling with him, but
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that's not what it was. He asked it differently. If
you had said, do I think Lebron doesn't care about MVPs,
I would have said I'm trolling, but I do think
he wants the finals MVP and obviously the championship more
than a regular season MVP award, but I also think
he wants the MVP Award two during the regular season,
(24:57):
which I got no problem with. But uh so, I yeah,
I'm rolling, yeah the way the way you asked it. Yes,
of course you gotta be rolling with it. But that
I don't think that that and it's not an either
or you know what I mean, like this either or.
I mean, anybody would take a finals MVP over a
regular season MVP. I don't think that's even a question.
(25:18):
So I'm Anthony Davis just wasn't being legit honest, that
is trying he made. He had a hissy fit last
year when Jannis won back to back, So okay trolling rolling.
A couple of Fox Sports Radio now back on the
topic at him. Lebron James Richard Jefferson his former teammate.
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He's now known for talking the game, and today he
said that Lebron is quote one percent afraid of participating
in the Dunk Contest because his dunks aren't quote sexy enough.
Chris trolling or rolling Lebron is afraid to participate in
the Dunk Contest. I I don't like the word afraid.
(26:02):
I would use the word he just knows the deal,
and so I'm rolling with it. In terms of and
I said this for years. I mean, you can go
back more than a decade when it was a big issue.
Is Lebron gonna be in the dunk ho this. I
don't think Lebron would have been a great dunk contest dunker.
There are game dunkers and there are dunk contest dunkers,
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and then they're obviously those that can do both. But
if you look at the greatest dunk contest guys Vince Carter,
Michael Jordan's, Dominique Kobe, they were graceful, they were finessed
with power. They I mean they just the way they
moved in the air was different. They were slim, long range.
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Lebron is a bulldozer. He's a truck. And so the
only way that Lebron could win the dunk contest would
be if he did the type of things that Dwight
Howard did. Remember Dwight shot. I didn't think the White
would be good in it because I'm like, he just
he's big, he's tall already, but he came up with
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such creative things, just things nobody ever thought of throwing
it off the back of the backboard, jumping out of
bounds the side of the back But like that's what
Lebron would have to do. If Lebron just goes up
there and goes under his legs and dunks it or
three sixty, it's not going to look as good as
when a smaller, you know, a more slender, rangey, smooth
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type dude did it. So I don't think afraid. I
just think Lebron understands I'm more of a game dunker
than the dunk contest dunk. I'm rolling with it. I mean,
it doesn't matter you're Lebron James. People just want to
see you compete, go out there, try to have fun.
I don't know, maybe he doesn't want to lose or whatever.
Just silly that he never competed one time just to
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have some fun. It ain't the end of the world
whether he would win ors, And I think Lebron's always
about that. I doubt he'd ever want to be in
a free throw shooting contest, uh with five seconds going
again a rock and here, Look, he may have won
depended on the year, but just off his name, like
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I didn't think now Blake probably should have won. Blake Griffin.
I didn't think Blake Griffin was exceptionally well the car,
but I mean that ain't all. It was a keya.
I mean that was all right, but he you know, yeah,
I mean really it was. I wouldn't if it was
a bigger car, but that I've seen dudes in the
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streets do that. So I'm just saying, like I, Blake
is a terrific game dunker, but he wasn't a phenomenal
game dunk you know, slam dunk contest dunker. But he
won because he's Blake Griffin and it was a decent dunk.
I ain't gonna lie to jumping over carpeci. I just
want this on the record on national radio right here,
right now. I'm one thousand percentrolling that Chris Bruzar has
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seen him and dunk over a parked car in the street.
I saw, I saw. I saw an Akron Ohio probably
the late nineties, round ninety seven, nineties, robably nineteen ninety
seven saw a dude that was like five to eight
jump over a car at a neighborhood dunk contest like
(29:23):
it was a legit turney and all that. But yeah,
I mean, seriously, jump over a car and it wasn't
a key either. It was like you know it was
it was a gangster buick or something like that. But really,
in fact, I saw I was in Akron last year
and the dude I was speaking somewhere and he came
and he saw me, and he showed me the article
(29:45):
I wrote about him in the Akron Beacon Journal. I
can't remember his name, but yeah, so come on, man,
question cc A real quick, real quick, last one Trollerron
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. You Jazz are the
one seed and it's not even particularly close. They have
six losses. Every other team in the NBA has eleven
(30:07):
or more. However, however, however, we have seen the Jazz
get off the good darts before and come back down
to earth. Rob trolling or rolling, The Jazz will not
have home court advantage throughout the playoffs. I'm trolling. I
think they will. Oh man, hey, hey, hey hey hey
(30:29):
where they are, and especially because the other teams don't
feel compelled to have to play for it. If you're
the Lakers, you just want to be in the top four.
The Clippers the same thing. You don't have to be
the number one seed. You know, if your number two
or three. As long as you're in the top four,
you have a chancel. I think that they could keep
that lead from where they are and wind up with
(30:50):
the number one seed. Yeah, that's a good question, Martin.
But I'm a roll with it. I think are trolling.
I'm going with Rob. Yeah, I think they will. Yeah,
I mean they're not. I don't think they're gonna keep
winning at this clip, you know, fifteen or twenty one
of their last twenty three. But I think they have
a four game lead over the Clippers and Robs. Right,
(31:11):
I don't think those two teams in LA are gonna
kill themselves to try to get the one seed. I mean,
could Brooklyn Brooklyn have to go on the heck of
a tear to catch them. But yeah, I'm rolling with that.
I think you talk could end up with the best
record in the league. Guess I'm telling them right now,
you talk five seeds? What you don't believe? You know what?
(31:35):
You know? No, No, let's let's we gave him a
chance once, Rob, you got I don't know how chill out.
Really you have them at a five seed, Martin, I'm
telling you, listen, you guys may not remember this but
last year I picked the Jazz to win the fund.
I picked them. I picked Is that is evidence of
(32:00):
mc cain murray? Is that evidence of something good or
bad that you're telling us that. What I'm saying is,
I was in on this team. I've seen this team.
This team is produlent. This team okay, So so you
have it's all gonna fall apart. They will this season
as the fifth seed in the West. Are you on
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the record of saying that, Yeah, all right, put your
money where your mouth is. Put your money where your
mouth is. You've been running from the Jordan bet. I
ain't bringing up many Jordan bets now, but if you
really are that certain, let's put some Jay's on it.
(32:42):
I hit fact Martin. I'll give you one to one,
and I'm not even gonna do the three to one
for Georgia one one pair of Jordan's two hundred dollars max.
If I think the Jazz will not finish with the
fifth seed, so I don't care if they four. I
want to do this real quick. It will be either
(33:03):
four or lower. Right, So if they tie, if they
finished tied for the four seed or some crazy something
like that, I don't want to lose this better on
technicou So what if they? What if they finished home court?
Attis what if they? So you're saying they won't have
home court advantage in the first round. That's the bet.
That's the bet. Okay, they won't have and the pair
of Jordan's two hundred dollars. The loser winner gets to
(33:27):
pick which pair he wants. You can do, all right,
I got it. You want you, Rob, you shouldn't. I'm
surprised you ain't jumping in on it. You have enough,
Dan bet. That's an easy bet for you, Maz. They're
not going to be the fistical Martin. Martin, send me
my money Venmo tomorrow. All right, you know what number is.
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Don't worry, Aboudy, just just wait. Don't worry, Aboudy, worry
about this bet. This better a couple. I couldn't turn
that down. All right, Thank you, Martin. Great job is
always extra special. Great job tonight. All right, it's the
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heat like lepron We're going big. It's go town. It's
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Bruce Arts Fab five. All right. Last night, Brandon Ingram
saying something I thought was ASA nine the word I
used on television. Here it is, I've never played with
a player as talented as me. He's a generational talent
where you don't know what you're gonna get from him
every single night, because this is gonna be something different.
There's gonna be something inside of him, and I like
(34:57):
to feed off that. He was talking about Williamson making
his first All Star team. But if you missed the
first part of the quote, Brandon Ingram said, I never
played with somebody as talented as me. Remember he played
with the Lakers a few years ago, next to one
Lebron James. I'm gonna give you five players that have
played with Brandon Ingram that were asked talented or more
(35:21):
than him. Here we go. Number five, how about Julius Randall.
Julius Randall was the seventh pick in the draft. Julius
Randall was ballyhooed. Played one year at Kentucky, led him
in scoring, led them to the National Championship game they lost,
and then he's been in the NBA. Struggled a little
bit early, but really he's coming into his own makers
(35:43):
in his first All Star team this year twenty three points,
eleven boards, five and a half dimes, and forty forty
two percent shooting from three, and he's leading the Knicks
to the sixth seed in the East. He's having a
better year than Brandon Ingram or four Metalworld Piece, Yes,
Meta Ron art Test, I mean Ron. If he hadn't
(36:08):
had his challenges, obviously the brawl where he got suspended
for a year and all that, and he'll tell you
he had mental health issues. He did a whole documentary
on it on Showtime. If he hadn't had all that,
I think he could have been a Hall of Famer.
He was an awesome defender and a really good offensive
player as well. Metaworld Piece could ball Brandon Ingram, number three,
(36:32):
Rajon Rondo playoff Rondo, Folks. He was critical to the
Lakers winning the championship last year. He is one of
only two players to win championships with both the Celtics
and the Lakers. He joins Hall of Famer Clyde Lavellet
in doing that, and I think Rondo is going to
be a Hall of Famer himself. Number two, Zion. That
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ain't What he said about Zion was legit. Now, z
I ain't got stuff to work on, the rebounding, the defense,
the jump shot. But man, he's a He is Charles Barkley.
That was my comp when he came out of college,
and that is still my comp. He is a new
age turbo version of Charles Barkley. Number one, Come on, Brandon,
(37:21):
I like Brandon ingl like his game. Seems like a
nice kid. Come on, man, you played with Lebron. This
makes what Kyrie said about Lebron not being able to
hit the last shot, this makes it seem like Kyrie
was blowing Lebron kisses. I mean, really, dude, you never
played with anybody as talented as yourself, and you played
(37:44):
with Lebron James. Stop it. Brandon Ingram may going to
be a premier All Star, but you ain't Lebron brother
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