June 9, 2022 • 36 mins
Chris and Rob discuss the Boston Celtics' "F--- You, Draymond" chants and tell us if Boston does in fact have the worst fan base in sports, and debate whether or not it's a lock that LeBron James ends up owning an NBA franchise after he retires. Plus, former NBA veteran and FOX Sports Radio NBA analyst Kerry Kittles swings by to discuss the Boston faithful, what's gone wrong for Draymond Green in these NBA Finals, why he believes the Celtics will ultimately end up winning the title, and much more!
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NBA Finals with him. So you want to keep it
locked for that. Carry is always good, But for now
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we're gonna go back to the finals and last night, look,
Draymond is the gift that keeps on giving. I mean,
I don't know how many Draymond, how many topics he's
giving us over the past week and a half, but
it seems like we're doing a Draymond topic at least
one every day, and so this one is not a
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based on something Draymond said, but it's based on something
that was said about Draymond or two Draymond, and it
is the Celtics fans, Rob and yesterday, now we know
all the you know trouble Draymond gotten two in Game
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two with Celtics players. You know, he's just laying on
him and hitting them here and there and instigate and
all of that, and so you knew when he went
to Boston it was going to be crazy, and indeed
it was. And right almost right from the beginning, they
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were chanting f Dramond Green, expletive Draymond Green. And Steve
Kerr was asked about it, he said, classy, sarcastically obviously
Draymond himself, you know, hey, that's what they did, what
they supposed to do. He actually handled it pretty well.
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And Clay said, hey, we played in front of rude
fans before. That shows no class and stuff like that.
So Rob, you were adamant that you wanted to say
something about the fans in Boston and are you coming
to Draymond Green's defense, Chris, Only from this tempoint we
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know how passion and what a great sportstown Boston is. Okay,
they live and they breathe. I've been going to that
town forever since I started covering the NBA. Been the
Februay Park a million times. I love the ballpark and
how much passion. Obviously the Patriots. I've been to Foxborough.
I've been there. I've been for everything. Okay, they got
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the four teams. They love hockey as much as they
love football and baseball and basketball. They just it's a
big sports town. But it's a bad sports town because
the passion that they have is ill guided and ill
faded in that they are not classy. You can be
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passionate about your team, you can give the other team
a hard time, but Chris, Boston just you think they
crossed the line yesterday. I think they They've They've crossed
the line as a city for a number of occasions.
This is just this is what they got. If this
is milder than what they've done, but I say it
goals with a history of what the city and what
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the sports fan and obviously it's not all of them.
I just want to give you a couple of examples
of things that have happened in that town. And there
was one that was really ugly when the Washington Capitols
beat the Bruins Chris in the playoffs and the Bruins
were the defending Stanley Cup champs and joel Ward was
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a black player for the Capitals. This was what was
this twenty I just don't have to day in front
of me. It was like twenty seventeen, twenty sixteen, something
like that. Not that long ago, yeah, just a few
years ago. And after joel Ward sent them home Chris,
he had an overtime game when he goal in the
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seventh game, right, a number of fans just went off
calling him I don't even want to say the words,
but just calling him all kinds of terrible, terrible names
because he scored the goal. Not not that he beat
them and he wanted to rip on the guy or
you're mad at him, but racist stuff. Right, And we
know in the NHL there's only a handful of black
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players and they're all from just about all of them
are from Canada, right, not even from the United States.
And then we know in twenty seventeen it was Adam
Jones who played for the Orioles, who they're throw him
banana appeals at him. They're calling him all kinds of
racist names in the outfield and Fenway Park. So we've
seen that. CC Sabathia, Who's Who's a guy I've known
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for a long time, upstanding guy who is a real person,
not in making up stuff or trying to you know,
up up somebody by by piling On said he played
in the big leagues for what fifteen sixteen years? Said,
there's only one stadium we've ever been called the N word,
Fenway Park, and his entire career. Right, So there's a
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pattern here, and obviously it didn't get to this level, Chris,
But but Boston is an issue up there, and I
don't know what it is or why they go overboard
more so than any Chris. You've covered games all over
right for how many years? Thirty years almost thirty year?
We basically yeah, close professional. Yeah, it doesn't happen everywhere,
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doesn't It doesn't happen. I mean I have not experienced
I haven't had any bad experiences in Boston. But you're right,
I mean the history is the history. Um, Look, Boston
has been more racist than most northern cities. Let's just
call it. What it is, which is which I mean?
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Jill Russell, the greatest winner in the history of professional sports,
treated terribly there by fans that cheered him during the game,
but he was treated horribly in real life there and
so I hear what you saying. I mean, they just
can't get past that right now. Thankfully it didn't go
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there last night, right it didn't go to that extreme.
My god, I wasn't fearing that. I wasn't thinking that
it would, but you know, you never know, and thankfully
it didn't as far as last night. Look, remember, Rob,
was it last year when the Knicks fans were chatting
the same thing about Trey Young? Now me personally, do
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I want to hear a crowd doing that. No? And
for Draymond, you know, and his wife's complained because he's
on social media, because his little son was there, who
was also on the podium with Draymond. Now Draymond did
curse in front of his son. We said that I
played like, you know, crap, he used another word and
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his son was right there. But his wife brought up
you know, their son had to hear that. And this,
Rob G, do you have her exact see if you
can get her tweet and see, see, let me know
when you get it, and we can read what she said.
But I get that the little kid, I don't know
how old he is. He looks, I don't know, six
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years old something like that. He's not gonna understand. And
now it's not the fans, you know, responsibility to be
nice just because the little boy is there. But I
do think I was probably a terrible experience. Although he
looked fine on the podium after the game, maybe he
didn't even understand everything going on. But I'm sure if
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he did understand it, it wasn't fun for the little boy.
And you know what's weird. I'd hate to hear that
chant about my dad. But that's something where if you're Dremond,
they might not have expected that exactly, but you knew
it was maybe gonna be hostile. You knew they were
gonna be going after you. You knew they were gonna
be rude and shouting things that were negative about you.
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You might not want to bring your young boy to
something like that just knowing, hey, it's gonna be ugly.
I don't really want him to see that. I remember
vividly the nineteen eighty six World Series Mets and Red
Sox Chris Classics seven game series, the Bill Buckner ball
going through his legs in Game six, Mets down three nothing,
in Game seven, they come back, They win at Chase Stadium,
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in the whole nine yards. They the Red Sox fans
were getting on Daryl Strawberry, right, They given him a
hard time. But guess what they were chanting? What da
dad do you like? They were rasing him Chris right,
But it was in nat Vein. What has happened to
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where we're going now to these incidents over the last
few years is what I'm saying, Like, here's Rob, Here's um.
I'll answer that in the moment. Here's the tweet from
Draymon's wife. Well, she posts on Instagram story, which was
then tweeted what she has since deleted. But you know,
everything on the internet lives on, so we found it.
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Why are you even deleting stuff? So here's what you said.
It's pretty lengthy, tough loss tonight. But in no way,
shape or form should fans be allowed to chant obstities
at players f you Draymond and calling their dad B word,
among other things. Are they not human? Is someone standing
at your job saying off the off the wall thinks
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to you, the NBA has the audacity to have a
whole Code of Conduct card at every seat about fans
and their behavior and how they could be ejected from
a game or band. But a whole crowd slash section
numbers people get to chant f you Draymond or call
him a b F mfer and nothing like that's okay
and tag Draymond in the tweet. Yeah not did she
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say anything about his son? And she added later on
in a separate post, my kids were at the game tonight.
Excuse me, Warrior fans would never my kids were at
the game tonight hearing that mess. Very disgusting of you
little Celtics and shameful, Well, Warriors fans if they call
Lebron James some stuff too, so they call him curse words, yeah,
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not the racist but curse words. Yeah yeah. And we're
not all saying that it's only racist stuff, you know
what I mean, We're saying that, Well, that's the like
to your point, Rob, Look, I think what this is
because I don't remember, Rob, and correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't remember years ago, ten years ago, chance like this.
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I agree with you you you know what I mean,
I don't. I'm with you, like that. There might be
a handful of people or something, you know what I mean,
A couple of drunk guys in a section, Chris. But
but a stadium where you can hear it. Yeah, I
don't recall stuff like that now. I'll tell you where
I think it comes from. Rob. I just think that
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we as a society have gotten a lot more uh,
leaning it with stuff like that. Like I mean, in
a lot of music, it's obviously you're hearing curse words
and stuff like that. Not on the radio, but you know,
when you buy the albums and stuff where downloaded, you
hear it. But also, Rob, look at a lot of
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the players in their press conferences. Look at how many
are cursing, Like right, you see a lot of that.
It's not even viewed as a big deal anymore when
the player has used as a curse word. You didn't
see that a few years ago. I don't know because
because there was always and I agree with you on that,
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because you always realize you're in front of a microphone
camera and people are going to be listening, and you
want to represent your organization, Chris. That's once again about
organ about representing your organization and and and being professional.
Everybody has a problem, right, but I'm doing something holding it.
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I don't know the organizations or marketers or companies are
holding it against people now. Like I said, I just
think as a society there are certain types of language
that are more accepted now. I mean, let's just keep
it real, not to get too political. Look at the
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political discourse today. Let's look at the way Donald Trump
spoke as president, and look at the way people spoke
about him. Athletes spoke about him as even as he
was president. So I just think that as a society now, man,
it's like the gloves verbally, not completely verbally, but you know,
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to some degree, the gloves are all verbally, and people
are just in various walks of life, it's more common
and more accepted to hear people cursing. I'll say this.
I've always called Atlanta the worst sports town in America.
And I'm just talking you know this, Chris, because the
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right and because there's so many transient people from all
over There are people from Atlanta, but they're outnumbered because
a lot of people find Atlanta's a destination and a
place to come from all over, so they have allegiance says,
you know, when the Knicks you've covered, then the New
York has lived there in Atlanta, and it's loud, and
the Lakers come and whatever certain teams, and it's just
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as loud for them. But I'll say Boston has a
terrible reputation. And I love passionate fans, but they're very
disrespectful and oftentime racist. And that's where I have a
problem with it, right, the racism, because there's a I mean,
rob Detroit, those fans used to when I would go
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there to cover games against the Pistons with teams I
was covering the Knicks, the Nats, the cast I mean
Detroits fans were bad uh Indiana and they Indiana has
some history of racism among their crowd and fans too. Um,
But I mean, I don't Why do you think it's
the worst. What do you do? You think Boston is
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the worst or can you give me another? It hasn't
been the worst that I've experienced. Where have you been?
Do you have one? I would say Detroit was the
worst that I experienced. And it wasn't like racist or nothing, No,
just bad beham but nothing yeah, it wasn't anything, and
where I was like, man, this is you know, it
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wasn't like a bub beyond the pale. But it was bad.
But um, as long as they don't go racist, and
there's a line even beyond racism. Rob But I don't know,
like I said, I don't you know me, I don't
curse like that, so I don't like to hear it.
There are kids there there, Draymond's kids were there, among others.
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They don't women who don't want to hear, right, But
I mean it like I said, the garden did it?
Did you feel this way about the garden? Now, obviously
they may they don't have they don't have the racist
history that Boston. Right, The problem is christ and who
just said it. It's because of Boston's history. So you
pollow that on top of what they have. And that
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doesn't excuse the nick fans right for using that kind
of language. It's classless. But when you have the other
thing and it keeps happening, you gotta say to yourself,
what why is this fan base doing this? And why
do people in Boston accept this? All Right? It's the
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nation eight seven seven ninety nine. On Fox, the Boston
sports fans go too far enchanting F you Draymond or
f Dramond green Um and just in general, Rob, we
talked about the Boston sports history. What do you think
the fans and even just in general, wyy fans, are
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they getting worse as far as the language they're using
with players? You're turning, no doubt in the public. Van
in Virginia Beach. You're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What I van? Hey, guys by way to
boogie down? Yes, sir, downright listen real quick. Um. You
remember when Kyrie Irvin when he flipped the bird. I
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believe it was in Boston when they was playing in
the early part of the series. Uh, and he got
his pockets got hit hard flipping the birds. And so
my feeling is it's you know, it needs to be
a you know, it can't be a two way street.
It's got to be the same deal on both sides.
You know this. People can chant, like you said, they
can call his name, you know, add infinitum like they
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did Darryl Strawberry exactly. But the but the arenas should
you know, put up on the big board or whatever,
you know, you can you can chant. We're not trying
to stop your you know, your funnest fans, but no
profanities and any and any you know, you know, making
known that you know they're not gonna Okay, I don't
disagree with that. I don't think that's a bad idea.
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I would love it. But what if the whole arena
is chanting that? What can you do? You just stop
in the game? What would you could you empty the stadium? Well,
I mean, I mean, of course, that's that's that's taking
it all the way to the absurd level. But the
point is let him know that it's not it's not
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it's not pleasing, and it's not and we don't want
to get that. And I would like that. No, I know,
how do you how do you police a crowd? On
that side. That's what Robin I say. Look, let's not
keep let's not be pollyannish here. Fifteen, twenty thirty, forty
fifty years ago, individual fans were cursing at players, right,
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But it wasn't a whole crowd doing right like wave
for something. And that's what I'm asking. If a whole
crowd chanced that, what are you gonna do? I mean,
Trey Young have fun with it in New York and
it became kind of like, oh, this is you know
what I mean right right? It was. It was kind
of built as a as a fun story. It was
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fun right up. But I don't like it. But is
it the worst thing in the world. I mean, you know,
I just wouldn't like it for kids to be there,
and kids are there and kids are watching. I mean,
let's just be Chuse. You watch Kimes when you're a kid,
didn't you? I watched every day? Right? If I had
heard something like that, I would be like, wow, uh,
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Mike in Orlando, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What up? Mike? Like I was telling the guy,
you know, I work at a grocery store for his
wife to say that we don't deal with it. I
work at in the meat department that Win Nixie, and
we are always that Customers come at us to ask this,
that's that, blah blah blah. Really why because they don't
like the cut of meat, or they don't like it,
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don't have something, they don't like the cut of meat,
or they don't like that. Manning commercial is true when
he would go to people's work and yell at yell
at him, I'm surprised by that. I wouldn't have thought.
I mean, look, I get where even if he experiences it.
You know, most people don't, all right experience that at
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their workplace. But I think what Draymond's wife has to understand.
And players have said it too, Rob, You're you're in
a different type of job. Let's keep it real. No, no, no,
If we say it all the time, people would a
different job we could criticize. Does your average person who
people don't know publicly get the criticism even if we
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get no understand it comes with it. In the old days,
when I used to get letters for columns that I
wrote in Detroit whatnot. When I became a colum, I'm
sure a lot of them were racist. All most, I
should say not all. Most were racist, straight up racist.
And it was funny when they used to take my
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column and put it in other newspapers around the country,
you know, used to syndicate it, kind of take it
and then, but you wouldn't have your picture with it.
So in those columns situations, Chris, I never got any
racist if it was in the Seattle Post and tell
do you see what I'm saying? But they didn't exactly
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exactly and it was always interested to me. But when
there was a picture and they knew they were you
were black, they immediately went there immediately I got. I
got similar stuff when I did write columns NBA columns,
even when I was at dakerm Vegan Journal. Racist. Racist, Yeah,
and it would be with the home addressed Chris, your
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name everything, Yeah, no doubt. All right, we got Steve
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Carrie Kittles, what's here? What's going on? Fellas? You're good,
We're good man. Let's get into it. We're a little
late getting to you, so let's get right to it.
We were just talking about the fans last night in
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Boston with the f Draymond Green chants. Class Rob and
I were saying, we obviously individual fans of cursed the players.
You know, as far back as we can go, Well,
we don't remember hearing full or chant that. Last year
was the garden chanting it at Trey Young? Did you
did you ever experience anything like that where a large
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part of the fan base is channing something like that.
So give me that And what was the worst arena
as far as fans, because we have an idea of
what we think is the worst. Yeah, I mean it's
clearly the Celtics fans. They are the ones that that
that kind of go at the players below the belt.
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I would say, um, you know they were. When I
was there planning against the Celtics in the playoffs, there
was a lot of stuff about Jason Kidd and his
his stuff that went on in Phoenix with his wife,
and so there were things there and they were they
were actually saying things that his wife, you know, when
she was in the stands towards her. They needed security
to kind of get involved there. So that fan base there,
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when they get in that arena for whatever reason, they
crossed the line oftentimes. And no, I've never heard entire
arena and the vast majority of the crowd, you know,
yelling profanities at you know, at certain players or even
at the referees like that. That fan base is incredible.
How about this? Isaiah Thomas called out Draymond that he's unfocused.
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He's so worried about the podcast and not just that
you can do whatever you want carry you notice when
you go to your room after the game or whatever.
But he's not producing. And if you were on his team,
would that bother you? Like? Can we have your focus
for two weeks to try to win a championship And
he's just going at cornbread Maxwell, you know, who hadn't
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played in thirty years, and he's barking back at this
guy and that guy. What do you make of Draymond
and his focus and the way he's played. Well, I
don't know what's his motive there, I would agree with
you can you put your extra stuff on hold? I
mean when I was in the playoffs, we put everything
on in the playoffs started. It was that second season started.
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Everything was put on hold outside of our requirements and
what we were trying to do basketball wise. So I
don't understand why he's still doing the podcast now. He
has a whole summing to do that. First of all.
Second of all, he is not playing well, and I
think this is the destruction from his performance. It's a
way of him trying to get out of his own head.
I'm sure he's thinking, I got it, got out of
my own head. I'm not playing well right now. This podcast,
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these these news conferences, it's just ways for me to
talk things out out loud and maybe somehow to shift
for how he plays, because that's that line in that
game doesn't match up with the mouthpiece that we've been
in the media. Well, and Carrie, he hasn't been good
in the playoffs, you know it, Stock. He's never been
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one to be measured by his stats. We all get
that correct, But in these finals he's got as many
to three games, he's got as many fouls as points.
He's got more technicals than three pointers. He's got more
turnovers in baskets, And I think, do you think he's
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just I don't want to say washed, but he's just
not at nearly as good as he used to be.
You think it's that, or you think he's just as
a bad matchup, he's having a bad series. I think
it's that. I think Draymond Green needs to really spend
more time developing his game. He's in the NBA, he's know,
he's won a couple of championships or whatever. He's been
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in his great teams, and you know he's been he's
playing with these great players, right that that really carried
the low offensively for the most part. But they need
him to produce. He's out there, he's playing three something
minutes of game, and yes, you know he can be
effective defensively, but he's not rebounding the way he used
to rebound. He's not changing shots the way he used
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to change shots around the basket, and he's definitely not
shooting the ball at all. I mean, he would he
would take those threes and he would make him in
a decent clip. Now it's like his offense has really dropped.
So I mean, he needs to work on his game.
I mean that's just that's his point, Banker, is that
he needs to be able to produce offensively to help
his team. I mean, Curry is going thirty one, you
got Clay chipping in with twenty five, Wiggins with eighteen,
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and it's like, all right, they need points from Daymond Green.
How about the Celtics, um, you know, bouncing back from
Game two and carry. The stat is in NBA Finals
when the series won one, the team that wins Game
three wins the championship eighty three percent of the time.
I always look at that game won, that steal of
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that game, you know, down by twelve to start the
fourth quarter and win that game as the one that
will ultimately be the reason why they win the championship.
What do you think as Boston do they have a
great shot at winning this thing? Yes? They do. I
picked them because of their defense, and it's shown even
in this place, even against the media holding the wars
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or one hundred points, with those guys playing really well.
I just think that in defensive how they were able
to switch and contain and challenge and now the mental
the mental confidence collectively right when you when you sweep
through Brooklyn, then you go through Milwaukee and you go
beat against a tough, gritty Miami team, and now you're
in the finals and you're at home and the Warriors
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come there and they come out red hot in the
third quarter, take the league. And they just said, yeah,
you know, we were better than them. And they were
just calm, cool, collective the end of the third quarter
into the fourth quarter, like we got this, We're better
than them, and you just saw the confidence. It was
no some teams put their heads done, especially younger Core.
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These guys are dustined to win it. I think they
have what it takes, Carrie. I look when they took
like they took the league right in the third quarter.
Steph was on fire. I felt like Steve Kirs should
not have taken him out. I get that he wanted
to play him the whole fourth quarter, but I looked
at it as man, this is the second time that
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you have kind of taken step out, and he was
on fire. Game one, right with the twenty one first
quarter points, sat him for the first five minutes of
the second quarter. He only played thirty seven minutes Last night.
When he came back in he wasn't hot, he was
turning the ball over. I think Steph's gotta be ready
to go. And I know now with the foot, we'll
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see where that is. But I'm if I'm Steve Curran Steph,
I'm thinking he gotta be ready to go forty plus
minutes if that's what it takes in the NBA Finals.
Am I off on that? You think he should have
taken him out or maybe you playing the whole second half.
I'm with you on that one. I think it's a
tough call obviously, but I'm with you on this call
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because look, when you're a player, and I've been there before,
when you were in your zone and you're hot like that,
I mean I gotta miss at least two shots for
you to take me out. I hated it coming out
the game because it's time to sub because the clock
says three minutes ago on the quarter and we gotta
rush too and put you back in. No, no, no,
I'm hot right now. Lead me in. The team needs
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me to make two more shots, three more shots. So yeah,
I mean I don't like that. I don't like that
call by by Steve kerr Um, But look, let's good
prey to the Celtics defense in that fourth quarter on Curry.
I mean they were in his jockstrap. All those switches
were up. There were no mistakes. They challenge to me,
had no open looks. And that's what you want to
see for good teams to close out home games, you know,
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against a good score who was red hot. I mean,
that's how you're gonna reminded me of would enjoy lockdown
Reggie Miller right when he was hot, one of those
Syrians who was like, wait, you start Reggie like that, Like, yeah,
I got Reggie. He ain't scored in the fourth quarter.
Now you're write about that, all right, that's our man.
Carry killers. Great stuff, brother, Thank you, buddy, thank you.
I guess I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, all right,
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is this? This is sounds like Star Wars, the TV
show something like that. It's in space, that Star Galactica,
Battlestar Galacttlestar Galactica, Chris, that might be it and Buck
Rogers in the twenty first century? Is that that was
the one? Voyager? See, I don't even remember the original,
(32:32):
but I remember, I know Voyager, but I don't remember
wanting something from this century. I know, I can't. You
didn't play any songs from the sixties, any TV shows
from the sixties, you know, Chris is older. Yeah, I'm
trying to get you ready, Rob already, dude, I'm so ready,
I can't even tell you. All right, Um, we got Lebron?
(32:54):
Did do we have? Sounded Lebron talking? Yeah? All right?
Lebron on the shop talked about what he wants to
do after he's done with his NBA career. Here he is,
I want on the team, buying a team and then
talking as a little tricky you owned the team and like, yep,
I was much rather on the team before I talk
(33:17):
on a team in Vegas? Rob G, what the talk?
I didn't see the whole content being on the air
being Is that what they meant? I mean? Do you know,
Rob G? No, it was just part of the sizzle.
Real they haven't put out any part. But that's what
it sounds like, like what do you want to do
after your career? And he said, like do you want right?
(33:40):
And he's talking about being on the air that he
doesn't want to be an animal. Yeah, I don't know that.
I see. I could see Lebron making occasional appearances, you know,
like almost maybe like Magic Johnson does. Magic obviously has
been a regular at times, and maybe not quite as
often as Magic. But I could see Lebron dropping in
here and to be on the show, you know, But
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I don't. I don't see him doing it consistently, do
you know? I don't either. And that's what's so unusual
about the Brady thing is that guys usually like that,
not always like the best of the best. I don't
think Doctor Jay was really good. Joe Montana wasn't good,
you know what I mean. Chris Black is good for
what he does. For what he does, he's good. You know,
(34:27):
he's entertaining. Rob You might not like his questions, but
he's entertaining. Yeah, ain't giving you great analysis, He's entertaining, Bill.
I just I think my biggest issue with Shack is
the I can't hear him you know what I mean,
Like the I can't, I don't. I don't have a problem.
I haven't I have an issue with like I don't
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think he it's I can always hear him clearly. I
wish he could just you know, articulate a little louder.
That's that would be my only concern. But right, yeah,
I think Lebron would be good if I just don't.
I don't know. Maybe he would want to do it,
but I like Kobe, Kobe wasn't gonna do it consistently.
(35:10):
But you'll drop in every now and then and be
and be good. But but yeah, he wants to own
the team. I think he will. Rob, I think you
will own the team obviously. I think the NBA would
love to have another African American owner. He just became
a billionaire. Now look there's people with more money obviously,
but you know, with his name, with his connections, because
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he's gonna put together a team, and you wonder, how
is Lebron And I don't know for a fact, I'm
just speculating off of my knowledge of him. I've done
a ton of stories on him, spending a lot of
time around him and his his his guys, Maverick and
Randy Mems and Rich Paul like years ago more so,
(35:55):
but um, I think they're obviously smart number one, but
they also listen Rob like Lebron's gotten good advice. He's
friends with Warren Buffett. And I think what they've done
is and the Maverick Carter has said this like he's curious.
He asked questions. But I think that's what they've done. Rob.
(36:15):
I think they've asked questions of successful people, how do
you do this? How have you done this? Because Rob
for him to be a billionaire, but I'll say this
is incredible. Let me say this here though it sounds
like it would be a layup, but it's a very
competitive to get a sports team, and people with a
(36:37):
lot of money don't always get a team. I'm just saying, like,
so it's gonna beating No, I understand Michael. People it's
it's about bids. It's not it's about bids though, yeah,
but Michael, I mean, Michael Jordan didn't have the most money.
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we're gonna go back to the finals and last night, look,
Draymond is the gift that keeps on giving. I mean,
I don't know how many Draymond, how many topics he's
giving us over the past week and a half, but
it seems like we're doing a Draymond topic at least
one every day, and so this one is not a
(01:30):
based on something Draymond said, but it's based on something
that was said about Draymond or two Draymond, and it
is the Celtics fans, Rob and yesterday, now we know
all the you know trouble Draymond gotten two in Game
(01:51):
two with Celtics players. You know, he's just laying on
him and hitting them here and there and instigate and
all of that, and so you knew when he went
to Boston it was going to be crazy, and indeed
it was. And right almost right from the beginning, they
(02:12):
were chanting f Dramond Green, expletive Draymond Green. And Steve
Kerr was asked about it, he said, classy, sarcastically obviously
Draymond himself, you know, hey, that's what they did, what
they supposed to do. He actually handled it pretty well.
(02:33):
And Clay said, hey, we played in front of rude
fans before. That shows no class and stuff like that.
So Rob, you were adamant that you wanted to say
something about the fans in Boston and are you coming
to Draymond Green's defense, Chris, Only from this tempoint we
(02:59):
know how passion and what a great sportstown Boston is. Okay,
they live and they breathe. I've been going to that
town forever since I started covering the NBA. Been the
Februay Park a million times. I love the ballpark and
how much passion. Obviously the Patriots. I've been to Foxborough.
I've been there. I've been for everything. Okay, they got
(03:19):
the four teams. They love hockey as much as they
love football and baseball and basketball. They just it's a
big sports town. But it's a bad sports town because
the passion that they have is ill guided and ill
faded in that they are not classy. You can be
(03:44):
passionate about your team, you can give the other team
a hard time, but Chris, Boston just you think they
crossed the line yesterday. I think they They've They've crossed
the line as a city for a number of occasions.
This is just this is what they got. If this
is milder than what they've done, but I say it
goals with a history of what the city and what
(04:06):
the sports fan and obviously it's not all of them.
I just want to give you a couple of examples
of things that have happened in that town. And there
was one that was really ugly when the Washington Capitols
beat the Bruins Chris in the playoffs and the Bruins
were the defending Stanley Cup champs and joel Ward was
(04:31):
a black player for the Capitals. This was what was
this twenty I just don't have to day in front
of me. It was like twenty seventeen, twenty sixteen, something
like that. Not that long ago, yeah, just a few
years ago. And after joel Ward sent them home Chris,
he had an overtime game when he goal in the
(04:52):
seventh game, right, a number of fans just went off
calling him I don't even want to say the words,
but just calling him all kinds of terrible, terrible names
because he scored the goal. Not not that he beat
them and he wanted to rip on the guy or
you're mad at him, but racist stuff. Right, And we
know in the NHL there's only a handful of black
(05:12):
players and they're all from just about all of them
are from Canada, right, not even from the United States.
And then we know in twenty seventeen it was Adam
Jones who played for the Orioles, who they're throw him
banana appeals at him. They're calling him all kinds of
racist names in the outfield and Fenway Park. So we've
seen that. CC Sabathia, Who's Who's a guy I've known
(05:35):
for a long time, upstanding guy who is a real person,
not in making up stuff or trying to you know,
up up somebody by by piling On said he played
in the big leagues for what fifteen sixteen years? Said,
there's only one stadium we've ever been called the N word,
Fenway Park, and his entire career. Right, So there's a
(05:58):
pattern here, and obviously it didn't get to this level, Chris,
But but Boston is an issue up there, and I
don't know what it is or why they go overboard
more so than any Chris. You've covered games all over
right for how many years? Thirty years almost thirty year?
We basically yeah, close professional. Yeah, it doesn't happen everywhere,
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doesn't It doesn't happen. I mean I have not experienced
I haven't had any bad experiences in Boston. But you're right,
I mean the history is the history. Um, Look, Boston
has been more racist than most northern cities. Let's just
call it. What it is, which is which I mean?
(06:42):
Jill Russell, the greatest winner in the history of professional sports,
treated terribly there by fans that cheered him during the game,
but he was treated horribly in real life there and
so I hear what you saying. I mean, they just
can't get past that right now. Thankfully it didn't go
(07:05):
there last night, right it didn't go to that extreme.
My god, I wasn't fearing that. I wasn't thinking that
it would, but you know, you never know, and thankfully
it didn't as far as last night. Look, remember, Rob,
was it last year when the Knicks fans were chatting
the same thing about Trey Young? Now me personally, do
(07:28):
I want to hear a crowd doing that. No? And
for Draymond, you know, and his wife's complained because he's
on social media, because his little son was there, who
was also on the podium with Draymond. Now Draymond did
curse in front of his son. We said that I
played like, you know, crap, he used another word and
(07:51):
his son was right there. But his wife brought up
you know, their son had to hear that. And this,
Rob G, do you have her exact see if you
can get her tweet and see, see, let me know
when you get it, and we can read what she said.
But I get that the little kid, I don't know
how old he is. He looks, I don't know, six
(08:13):
years old something like that. He's not gonna understand. And
now it's not the fans, you know, responsibility to be
nice just because the little boy is there. But I
do think I was probably a terrible experience. Although he
looked fine on the podium after the game, maybe he
didn't even understand everything going on. But I'm sure if
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he did understand it, it wasn't fun for the little boy.
And you know what's weird. I'd hate to hear that
chant about my dad. But that's something where if you're Dremond,
they might not have expected that exactly, but you knew
it was maybe gonna be hostile. You knew they were
gonna be going after you. You knew they were gonna
be rude and shouting things that were negative about you.
(08:58):
You might not want to bring your young boy to
something like that just knowing, hey, it's gonna be ugly.
I don't really want him to see that. I remember
vividly the nineteen eighty six World Series Mets and Red
Sox Chris Classics seven game series, the Bill Buckner ball
going through his legs in Game six, Mets down three nothing,
in Game seven, they come back, They win at Chase Stadium,
(09:20):
in the whole nine yards. They the Red Sox fans
were getting on Daryl Strawberry, right, They given him a
hard time. But guess what they were chanting? What da
dad do you like? They were rasing him Chris right,
But it was in nat Vein. What has happened to
(09:41):
where we're going now to these incidents over the last
few years is what I'm saying, Like, here's Rob, Here's um.
I'll answer that in the moment. Here's the tweet from
Draymon's wife. Well, she posts on Instagram story, which was
then tweeted what she has since deleted. But you know,
everything on the internet lives on, so we found it.
(10:01):
Why are you even deleting stuff? So here's what you said.
It's pretty lengthy, tough loss tonight. But in no way,
shape or form should fans be allowed to chant obstities
at players f you Draymond and calling their dad B word,
among other things. Are they not human? Is someone standing
at your job saying off the off the wall thinks
(10:22):
to you, the NBA has the audacity to have a
whole Code of Conduct card at every seat about fans
and their behavior and how they could be ejected from
a game or band. But a whole crowd slash section
numbers people get to chant f you Draymond or call
him a b F mfer and nothing like that's okay
and tag Draymond in the tweet. Yeah not did she
(10:46):
say anything about his son? And she added later on
in a separate post, my kids were at the game tonight.
Excuse me, Warrior fans would never my kids were at
the game tonight hearing that mess. Very disgusting of you
little Celtics and shameful, Well, Warriors fans if they call
Lebron James some stuff too, so they call him curse words, yeah,
(11:10):
not the racist but curse words. Yeah yeah. And we're
not all saying that it's only racist stuff, you know
what I mean, We're saying that, Well, that's the like
to your point, Rob, Look, I think what this is
because I don't remember, Rob, and correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't remember years ago, ten years ago, chance like this.
(11:33):
I agree with you you you know what I mean,
I don't. I'm with you, like that. There might be
a handful of people or something, you know what I mean,
A couple of drunk guys in a section, Chris. But
but a stadium where you can hear it. Yeah, I
don't recall stuff like that now. I'll tell you where
I think it comes from. Rob. I just think that
(11:56):
we as a society have gotten a lot more uh,
leaning it with stuff like that. Like I mean, in
a lot of music, it's obviously you're hearing curse words
and stuff like that. Not on the radio, but you know,
when you buy the albums and stuff where downloaded, you
hear it. But also, Rob, look at a lot of
(12:16):
the players in their press conferences. Look at how many
are cursing, Like right, you see a lot of that.
It's not even viewed as a big deal anymore when
the player has used as a curse word. You didn't
see that a few years ago. I don't know because
because there was always and I agree with you on that,
(12:36):
because you always realize you're in front of a microphone
camera and people are going to be listening, and you
want to represent your organization, Chris. That's once again about
organ about representing your organization and and and being professional.
Everybody has a problem, right, but I'm doing something holding it.
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I don't know the organizations or marketers or companies are
holding it against people now. Like I said, I just
think as a society there are certain types of language
that are more accepted now. I mean, let's just keep
it real, not to get too political. Look at the
(13:21):
political discourse today. Let's look at the way Donald Trump
spoke as president, and look at the way people spoke
about him. Athletes spoke about him as even as he
was president. So I just think that as a society now, man,
it's like the gloves verbally, not completely verbally, but you know,
(13:45):
to some degree, the gloves are all verbally, and people
are just in various walks of life, it's more common
and more accepted to hear people cursing. I'll say this.
I've always called Atlanta the worst sports town in America.
And I'm just talking you know this, Chris, because the
(14:06):
right and because there's so many transient people from all
over There are people from Atlanta, but they're outnumbered because
a lot of people find Atlanta's a destination and a
place to come from all over, so they have allegiance says,
you know, when the Knicks you've covered, then the New
York has lived there in Atlanta, and it's loud, and
the Lakers come and whatever certain teams, and it's just
(14:27):
as loud for them. But I'll say Boston has a
terrible reputation. And I love passionate fans, but they're very
disrespectful and oftentime racist. And that's where I have a
problem with it, right, the racism, because there's a I mean,
rob Detroit, those fans used to when I would go
(14:49):
there to cover games against the Pistons with teams I
was covering the Knicks, the Nats, the cast I mean
Detroits fans were bad uh Indiana and they Indiana has
some history of racism among their crowd and fans too. Um,
But I mean, I don't Why do you think it's
the worst. What do you do? You think Boston is
(15:10):
the worst or can you give me another? It hasn't
been the worst that I've experienced. Where have you been?
Do you have one? I would say Detroit was the
worst that I experienced. And it wasn't like racist or nothing, No,
just bad beham but nothing yeah, it wasn't anything, and
where I was like, man, this is you know, it
(15:31):
wasn't like a bub beyond the pale. But it was bad.
But um, as long as they don't go racist, and
there's a line even beyond racism. Rob But I don't know,
like I said, I don't you know me, I don't
curse like that, so I don't like to hear it.
There are kids there there, Draymond's kids were there, among others.
(15:51):
They don't women who don't want to hear, right, But
I mean it like I said, the garden did it?
Did you feel this way about the garden? Now, obviously
they may they don't have they don't have the racist
history that Boston. Right, The problem is christ and who
just said it. It's because of Boston's history. So you
pollow that on top of what they have. And that
(16:13):
doesn't excuse the nick fans right for using that kind
of language. It's classless. But when you have the other
thing and it keeps happening, you gotta say to yourself,
what why is this fan base doing this? And why
do people in Boston accept this? All Right? It's the
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nation eight seven seven ninety nine. On Fox, the Boston
sports fans go too far enchanting F you Draymond or
f Dramond green Um and just in general, Rob, we
talked about the Boston sports history. What do you think
the fans and even just in general, wyy fans, are
(18:22):
they getting worse as far as the language they're using
with players? You're turning, no doubt in the public. Van
in Virginia Beach. You're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What I van? Hey, guys by way to
boogie down? Yes, sir, downright listen real quick. Um. You
remember when Kyrie Irvin when he flipped the bird. I
(18:45):
believe it was in Boston when they was playing in
the early part of the series. Uh, and he got
his pockets got hit hard flipping the birds. And so
my feeling is it's you know, it needs to be
a you know, it can't be a two way street.
It's got to be the same deal on both sides.
You know this. People can chant, like you said, they
can call his name, you know, add infinitum like they
(19:06):
did Darryl Strawberry exactly. But the but the arenas should
you know, put up on the big board or whatever,
you know, you can you can chant. We're not trying
to stop your you know, your funnest fans, but no
profanities and any and any you know, you know, making
known that you know they're not gonna Okay, I don't
disagree with that. I don't think that's a bad idea.
(19:28):
I would love it. But what if the whole arena
is chanting that? What can you do? You just stop
in the game? What would you could you empty the stadium? Well,
I mean, I mean, of course, that's that's that's taking
it all the way to the absurd level. But the
point is let him know that it's not it's not
(19:49):
it's not pleasing, and it's not and we don't want
to get that. And I would like that. No, I know,
how do you how do you police a crowd? On
that side. That's what Robin I say. Look, let's not
keep let's not be pollyannish here. Fifteen, twenty thirty, forty
fifty years ago, individual fans were cursing at players, right,
(20:12):
But it wasn't a whole crowd doing right like wave
for something. And that's what I'm asking. If a whole
crowd chanced that, what are you gonna do? I mean,
Trey Young have fun with it in New York and
it became kind of like, oh, this is you know
what I mean right right? It was. It was kind
of built as a as a fun story. It was
(20:33):
fun right up. But I don't like it. But is
it the worst thing in the world. I mean, you know,
I just wouldn't like it for kids to be there,
and kids are there and kids are watching. I mean,
let's just be Chuse. You watch Kimes when you're a kid,
didn't you? I watched every day? Right? If I had
heard something like that, I would be like, wow, uh,
(20:54):
Mike in Orlando, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What up? Mike? Like I was telling the guy,
you know, I work at a grocery store for his
wife to say that we don't deal with it. I
work at in the meat department that Win Nixie, and
we are always that Customers come at us to ask this,
that's that, blah blah blah. Really why because they don't
like the cut of meat, or they don't like it,
(21:15):
don't have something, they don't like the cut of meat,
or they don't like that. Manning commercial is true when
he would go to people's work and yell at yell
at him, I'm surprised by that. I wouldn't have thought.
I mean, look, I get where even if he experiences it.
You know, most people don't, all right experience that at
(21:36):
their workplace. But I think what Draymond's wife has to understand.
And players have said it too, Rob, You're you're in
a different type of job. Let's keep it real. No, no, no,
If we say it all the time, people would a
different job we could criticize. Does your average person who
people don't know publicly get the criticism even if we
(22:00):
get no understand it comes with it. In the old days,
when I used to get letters for columns that I
wrote in Detroit whatnot. When I became a colum, I'm
sure a lot of them were racist. All most, I
should say not all. Most were racist, straight up racist.
And it was funny when they used to take my
(22:20):
column and put it in other newspapers around the country,
you know, used to syndicate it, kind of take it
and then, but you wouldn't have your picture with it.
So in those columns situations, Chris, I never got any
racist if it was in the Seattle Post and tell
do you see what I'm saying? But they didn't exactly
(22:41):
exactly and it was always interested to me. But when
there was a picture and they knew they were you
were black, they immediately went there immediately I got. I
got similar stuff when I did write columns NBA columns,
even when I was at dakerm Vegan Journal. Racist. Racist, Yeah,
and it would be with the home addressed Chris, your
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Carrie Kittles, what's here? What's going on? Fellas? You're good,
We're good man. Let's get into it. We're a little
late getting to you, so let's get right to it.
We were just talking about the fans last night in
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Boston with the f Draymond Green chants. Class Rob and
I were saying, we obviously individual fans of cursed the players.
You know, as far back as we can go, Well,
we don't remember hearing full or chant that. Last year
was the garden chanting it at Trey Young? Did you
did you ever experience anything like that where a large
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part of the fan base is channing something like that.
So give me that And what was the worst arena
as far as fans, because we have an idea of
what we think is the worst. Yeah, I mean it's
clearly the Celtics fans. They are the ones that that
that kind of go at the players below the belt.
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I would say, um, you know they were. When I
was there planning against the Celtics in the playoffs, there
was a lot of stuff about Jason Kidd and his
his stuff that went on in Phoenix with his wife,
and so there were things there and they were they
were actually saying things that his wife, you know, when
she was in the stands towards her. They needed security
to kind of get involved there. So that fan base there,
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when they get in that arena for whatever reason, they
crossed the line oftentimes. And no, I've never heard entire
arena and the vast majority of the crowd, you know,
yelling profanities at you know, at certain players or even
at the referees like that. That fan base is incredible.
How about this? Isaiah Thomas called out Draymond that he's unfocused.
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He's so worried about the podcast and not just that
you can do whatever you want carry you notice when
you go to your room after the game or whatever.
But he's not producing. And if you were on his team,
would that bother you? Like? Can we have your focus
for two weeks to try to win a championship And
he's just going at cornbread Maxwell, you know, who hadn't
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played in thirty years, and he's barking back at this
guy and that guy. What do you make of Draymond
and his focus and the way he's played. Well, I
don't know what's his motive there, I would agree with
you can you put your extra stuff on hold? I
mean when I was in the playoffs, we put everything
on in the playoffs started. It was that second season started.
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Everything was put on hold outside of our requirements and
what we were trying to do basketball wise. So I
don't understand why he's still doing the podcast now. He
has a whole summing to do that. First of all.
Second of all, he is not playing well, and I
think this is the destruction from his performance. It's a
way of him trying to get out of his own head.
I'm sure he's thinking, I got it, got out of
my own head. I'm not playing well right now. This podcast,
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these these news conferences, it's just ways for me to
talk things out out loud and maybe somehow to shift
for how he plays, because that's that line in that
game doesn't match up with the mouthpiece that we've been
in the media. Well, and Carrie, he hasn't been good
in the playoffs, you know it, Stock. He's never been
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one to be measured by his stats. We all get
that correct, But in these finals he's got as many
to three games, he's got as many fouls as points.
He's got more technicals than three pointers. He's got more
turnovers in baskets, And I think, do you think he's
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just I don't want to say washed, but he's just
not at nearly as good as he used to be.
You think it's that, or you think he's just as
a bad matchup, he's having a bad series. I think
it's that. I think Draymond Green needs to really spend
more time developing his game. He's in the NBA, he's know,
he's won a couple of championships or whatever. He's been
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in his great teams, and you know he's been he's
playing with these great players, right that that really carried
the low offensively for the most part. But they need
him to produce. He's out there, he's playing three something
minutes of game, and yes, you know he can be
effective defensively, but he's not rebounding the way he used
to rebound. He's not changing shots the way he used
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to change shots around the basket, and he's definitely not
shooting the ball at all. I mean, he would he
would take those threes and he would make him in
a decent clip. Now it's like his offense has really dropped.
So I mean, he needs to work on his game.
I mean that's just that's his point, Banker, is that
he needs to be able to produce offensively to help
his team. I mean, Curry is going thirty one, you
got Clay chipping in with twenty five, Wiggins with eighteen,
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and it's like, all right, they need points from Daymond Green.
How about the Celtics, um, you know, bouncing back from
Game two and carry. The stat is in NBA Finals
when the series won one, the team that wins Game
three wins the championship eighty three percent of the time.
I always look at that game won, that steal of
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that game, you know, down by twelve to start the
fourth quarter and win that game as the one that
will ultimately be the reason why they win the championship.
What do you think as Boston do they have a
great shot at winning this thing? Yes? They do. I
picked them because of their defense, and it's shown even
in this place, even against the media holding the wars
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or one hundred points, with those guys playing really well.
I just think that in defensive how they were able
to switch and contain and challenge and now the mental
the mental confidence collectively right when you when you sweep
through Brooklyn, then you go through Milwaukee and you go
beat against a tough, gritty Miami team, and now you're
in the finals and you're at home and the Warriors
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come there and they come out red hot in the
third quarter, take the league. And they just said, yeah,
you know, we were better than them. And they were
just calm, cool, collective the end of the third quarter
into the fourth quarter, like we got this, We're better
than them, and you just saw the confidence. It was
no some teams put their heads done, especially younger Core.
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These guys are dustined to win it. I think they
have what it takes, Carrie. I look when they took
like they took the league right in the third quarter.
Steph was on fire. I felt like Steve Kirs should
not have taken him out. I get that he wanted
to play him the whole fourth quarter, but I looked
at it as man, this is the second time that
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you have kind of taken step out, and he was
on fire. Game one, right with the twenty one first
quarter points, sat him for the first five minutes of
the second quarter. He only played thirty seven minutes Last night.
When he came back in he wasn't hot, he was
turning the ball over. I think Steph's gotta be ready
to go. And I know now with the foot, we'll
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see where that is. But I'm if I'm Steve Curran Steph,
I'm thinking he gotta be ready to go forty plus
minutes if that's what it takes in the NBA Finals.
Am I off on that? You think he should have
taken him out or maybe you playing the whole second half.
I'm with you on that one. I think it's a
tough call obviously, but I'm with you on this call
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because look, when you're a player, and I've been there before,
when you were in your zone and you're hot like that,
I mean I gotta miss at least two shots for
you to take me out. I hated it coming out
the game because it's time to sub because the clock
says three minutes ago on the quarter and we gotta
rush too and put you back in. No, no, no,
I'm hot right now. Lead me in. The team needs
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me to make two more shots, three more shots. So yeah,
I mean I don't like that. I don't like that
call by by Steve kerr Um, But look, let's good
prey to the Celtics defense in that fourth quarter on Curry.
I mean they were in his jockstrap. All those switches
were up. There were no mistakes. They challenge to me,
had no open looks. And that's what you want to
see for good teams to close out home games, you know,
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against a good score who was red hot. I mean,
that's how you're gonna reminded me of would enjoy lockdown
Reggie Miller right when he was hot, one of those
Syrians who was like, wait, you start Reggie like that, Like, yeah,
I got Reggie. He ain't scored in the fourth quarter.
Now you're write about that, all right, that's our man.
Carry killers. Great stuff, brother, Thank you, buddy, thank you.
I guess I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, all right,
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R to listen live TV theme song Thursday. But what
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is this? This is sounds like Star Wars, the TV
show something like that. It's in space, that Star Galactica,
Battlestar Galacttlestar Galactica, Chris, that might be it and Buck
Rogers in the twenty first century? Is that that was
the one? Voyager? See, I don't even remember the original,
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but I remember, I know Voyager, but I don't remember
wanting something from this century. I know, I can't. You
didn't play any songs from the sixties, any TV shows
from the sixties, you know, Chris is older. Yeah, I'm
trying to get you ready, Rob already, dude, I'm so ready,
I can't even tell you. All right, Um, we got Lebron?
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Did do we have? Sounded Lebron talking? Yeah? All right?
Lebron on the shop talked about what he wants to
do after he's done with his NBA career. Here he is,
I want on the team, buying a team and then
talking as a little tricky you owned the team and like, yep,
I was much rather on the team before I talk
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on a team in Vegas? Rob G, what the talk?
I didn't see the whole content being on the air
being Is that what they meant? I mean? Do you know,
Rob G? No, it was just part of the sizzle.
Real they haven't put out any part. But that's what
it sounds like, like what do you want to do
after your career? And he said, like do you want right?
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And he's talking about being on the air that he
doesn't want to be an animal. Yeah, I don't know that.
I see. I could see Lebron making occasional appearances, you know,
like almost maybe like Magic Johnson does. Magic obviously has
been a regular at times, and maybe not quite as
often as Magic. But I could see Lebron dropping in
here and to be on the show, you know, But
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I don't. I don't see him doing it consistently, do
you know? I don't either. And that's what's so unusual
about the Brady thing is that guys usually like that,
not always like the best of the best. I don't
think Doctor Jay was really good. Joe Montana wasn't good,
you know what I mean. Chris Black is good for
what he does. For what he does, he's good. You know,
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he's entertaining. Rob You might not like his questions, but
he's entertaining. Yeah, ain't giving you great analysis, He's entertaining, Bill.
I just I think my biggest issue with Shack is
the I can't hear him you know what I mean,
Like the I can't, I don't. I don't have a problem.
I haven't I have an issue with like I don't
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think he it's I can always hear him clearly. I
wish he could just you know, articulate a little louder.
That's that would be my only concern. But right, yeah,
I think Lebron would be good if I just don't.
I don't know. Maybe he would want to do it,
but I like Kobe, Kobe wasn't gonna do it consistently.
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But you'll drop in every now and then and be
and be good. But but yeah, he wants to own
the team. I think he will. Rob, I think you
will own the team obviously. I think the NBA would
love to have another African American owner. He just became
a billionaire. Now look there's people with more money obviously,
but you know, with his name, with his connections, because
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he's gonna put together a team, and you wonder, how
is Lebron And I don't know for a fact, I'm
just speculating off of my knowledge of him. I've done
a ton of stories on him, spending a lot of
time around him and his his his guys, Maverick and
Randy Mems and Rich Paul like years ago more so,
(35:55):
but um, I think they're obviously smart number one, but
they also listen Rob like Lebron's gotten good advice. He's
friends with Warren Buffett. And I think what they've done
is and the Maverick Carter has said this like he's curious.
He asked questions. But I think that's what they've done. Rob.
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I think they've asked questions of successful people, how do
you do this? How have you done this? Because Rob
for him to be a billionaire, but I'll say this
is incredible. Let me say this here though it sounds
like it would be a layup, but it's a very
competitive to get a sports team, and people with a
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lot of money don't always get a team. I'm just saying, like,
so it's gonna beating No, I understand Michael. People it's
it's about bids. It's not it's about bids though, yeah,
but Michael, I mean, Michael Jordan didn't have the most money.
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