June 27, 2025 • 40 mins
Kelvin Washington and Rob G. (sitting in for Rob Parker) open hour 2 reacting to the Raptors parting ways with longtime executive Masai Ujiri... What does this mean for Toronto? Then, they move into a discussion on WNBA rookie Paige Bueckers and compare her (along with her leaguewide impact) to Caitlin Clark. Plus, was Austin Reaves right to turn down a contract extension from the Lakers?
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Speaker 1 (00:56):
Next hour, we'll have a kil Augustine cover the Raptors
on NBA TV Canada for twenty plus years, which leads
to the conversation we're getting ready to get to here
in just a little bit as well, plus some good
NBA more NBA conversations to be had, and a w
NBA conversation, Rob G. That is happening with two of
the better players in the league.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I never missed a WNBA.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That's why we have the conversation with rob rob Parker's
out of here. He's never missed it because he never
watched it. Rob again is out. He'll be back Monday
enjoying some VAK time with family and friends and commencement
speeches and all that. So happy for him and hopefully
he's having a great time while he is on VK.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Rob G.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's so funny, said you hear hit me with the
news of the day.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
As long as you don't say set the table, move
the lawn, park the car, or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Nothing like that. We're okay. This is racist. Would Rob
G set the table? That's thank you. I appreciate that.
It's not like I threw you my call keys.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
So the big news of the day on early Friday morning,
this is kind of a bomb shell across the NBA,
not necessarily that it happened, but the timing of which
that happened.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Because the NBA drafts is a better place.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And the Toronto Raptors were picking ninth overall,
they got a guy that a lot of people like,
and yet on Friday, they've decided to move on from
mesaiyu Jerry as the vice chairman and president of Basketball
Ops after thirteen seasons with the Toronto Raptors. Lets we forget.
Between twenty fifteen and twenty twenty, the Raptors won fifty
(02:27):
plus games basically every season. They want at least a
playoff round every season. And the highlight, of course, came
in twenty nineteen when masaiyu Jerry put all his eggs
in the basket of Kawhi Leonard, trading away a fan favorite,
a beloved franchise superstar in Damar DeRozan, with no guarantee
that Kawhi was gonna stick around. He wins the championship.
(02:49):
Kawhi doesn't stick around, but hey, all that matters.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
They got the hardware.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, listen, I'm gonna a couple of ways I want
to approach this. Number one I'm gonna start with before
we dive deep into out of his tenure, his resume.
Sometimes I think we overrate when things happen or we overstate,
and I think sometimes it's just it's it's what.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
We do in media.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I can't believe they would do that. They should have
did that, they should have never done it. Sometimes I go, oh,
but that just makes sense and it's okay. And sometimes
it's just okay for parting to happen. And I mentioned
this with if Giannis were to say, hey man, he
just flat out came out, was like, hey man, I'm
just ready to move on. I don't think fans should
(03:31):
go out there burn jerseys. I don't think fans should
be mad. I don't think that should hate him. I think
jad Man, he gave us ten to eleven great years.
We got a ring, We were relevant, you know what
I mean. We have We had some good playoff runs.
We saw him grow from a literal band be just
this gangly athletic guy to a full fledged man with
the family and and and he wants to move on,
no hard feelings. We're gonna cheer when he comes back
(03:51):
the first five minutes, We're gonna boo the rest of
the game like they should and not be that. Yep,
And every now and again, the sports to me, there's
no oh, I can't believe that or this that you know,
it has to be bad because when you look at
what Massa I was able to do, if you kind
of split the difference of the thirteen years six and
a half, if you want to go six or seven.
You just mentioned the first half of that run, awesome
(04:13):
was really good. And when you look at what he
was able to do. If it weren't for the they
weren't the Lebronto Raptors, they.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Might have messed around.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I had a couple of rings, but Lebron was licking
at shops anytime in the NBA. In the NBA playoffs,
he was like, all right, we gotta go here we
got and he saw the Raptors. It was I mean,
it was laughable what he would do to they win
fifty games, they'd be the number one seed or two seeds,
and they mean, you know, have these really good seasons.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Kyle Lowry was great and Demarta Rosen was great.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
They have these really nice teams, and Kyle and Demarta
rows has talked about He's I mean, I really believe
we had a chance to win a couple of championship
or be at least in the finals if it weren't
for Lebron Well.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
One time he even said, if we had Lebron James,
we would I'm like, well, you know what, WHOA yeah,
I don't know if I went that far.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I mean not saying you wouldn't have, but he said,
if there's some things as a competitor, you don't.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Say, well, even though you're right, right, right exactly, even
though you're right, you just don't say it exact. But
I say that to say he started off pretty hot
with him, right, you're winning, You're making a team up
above the border really good.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The fan base is loving it. Executive of the Year
his first season.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Executive the lear And I'm not even trying to be
funny now that he's kind of persona non grata, but
you got Drake involved, Drake's there.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's just it was a winning environment.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It became cool and absolutely became we the North became cool.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You got Drake, Jurassic Park outside the arena.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Absolutely, it just became a place to be and a
place to be seen. As far as for the folks
in Toronto, they're winning a bunch of games. Then your
culmination with twenty nineteen, you get Kawhi, We're all like, oh,
Kawhi away from the Spurs. Usually the Spurs guys stick,
they stay right Tony Parker stays for until the end,
but Gennoble and Tim Duncan and David Robinson, all these
guys stay. And oh wow, we got a guy who's
(05:57):
left left on kind of some maybe shakier bad terms
and he comes to the Toronto Raptors and he plays well,
they win a championship. Well, the second half hasn't been great,
and initially the first portion of it you thought, oh, okay,
they're about to do this, and I see the moves.
Sometimes you gotta rebuild and restructure and yeah, just give
him some time. He's gonna do it again. And he didn't,
and he didn't perform at his profession. The team has
(06:19):
been bad to really bad. They made some bad and
I'm gonna let you kind of rock with the moves
that they he's be more specific with the moves, but
he's made some terrible decisions, some terrible signing, some terrible
trades and bad moves. And it's just okay to say
we had a good run. You had overall, you had
a solid tenure, you got as erring, you made this
relevant now we're trying to move on, and I do
(06:40):
think rob g they said, uh, just in case there's
any more aside magic, we're gonna let him do this
draft real quick.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Just a case he pulls.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
One more magical well, they're gonna have him do that,
all right, make sure we get all the magic out
of him before we let him go. And last thing
I'll say for a TSKS to you and also people
why he's so beloved.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
He seemed like a great human, seemed like a great guy.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
People there respect him, People around the NBA community respect him,
and people around the world because the other great stuff
that he was doing for basketball in Africa. If you
don't know, he was a massive ambassador for the league
with the NBA Africa and the stuff they were doing
there that he went out and got Pascal Siakamaka. It
just was a great guy. And he had Sergey Baka
there as well when they won the championship run and
(07:24):
he was an ambassador for the league and so he
had a really good tenure the first you know, six seven,
maybe even eight years of his thirteen year years there
and it's time to move on. And to me again,
this doesn't have to be bad they don't have to
be the bad raptors.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
They're horrible frame why would they do that? That's wrong.
It's just time for them to move on.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Time to him to move on, and by all means
he'll probably land somewhere and do good things again.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, he was graded his job to start off with,
and by all accounts is just a great guy, like
a great human being. Nobody has anything but positive things
to say about the side of year. Now have he
said that with all due respect, which means something super
disrespectful was going to follow super discs respect? My man
deserves to get fired, all right. Since that twenty nineteen championship.
Here's the list of the moves that Messiah Jerry has
(08:08):
made basking in that championship glow. He trades away Norm
Powell for Rodney Hood and Gary.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Trent Junior is a really good player.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
He trades away Kyle Lowry for Goren Dragic and Precious
a Chua, which they had to attach a first round
pick later to get off the Dragia contract.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Ooh okay.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
He trades a package including the number eight pick for
Yaka Perle, who is just a guy. He trades away
Dennis Shrewder and Thad Young for Spencer Dinwiddie, who eventually
had to get bought out because he was that bad,
you know, in his latest NBA.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Steps, this is the worst one for me.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Trades away Pascal Siakam for Bruce Brown and three late
first round picks, none of which have amounted to anything.
And of course you recall when Pascal gots Indiana, he
said famously during his press conference, I was just in
a bad place. It was a dark time, and I'm
just really excited to be out of there.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
He trades away a first round pick for Kelly Olynyk.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I don't know if I would have done that one.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
He trades away og Anna Nube Ananobi for RJ Barret
and man Quickly. Now, if you want to say on talent,
that's not a bad.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Tilege, yeah, I get that.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
The problem is when you look at their contracts of RJ.
Barry and Emanual Quickly and what they had to give them,
You're like, you know what, I kind of would rather
have og at forty five than these two guys at
seventy five.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
That's just me.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
They trade away Bruce Brown had a first round pick
for the rights to overpay Brandon Ingram because nobody decided
they wanted to give brandon Ingram maxim money. He's like, hey,
I'll do it. That's not to mention they lost Fred
van Vliet for nothing. They lost Kawhi Leonard Ford, which
they got championship. Will let that one slide. But you
look at their team moving forward. They've had two winning
(09:47):
seasons since twenty nineteen. In the last five years, their
record is one seventy one and two twenty nine just
this year and moving forward, they have one hundred and
forty five million dollars in salary for Scottie Barnes, Brandon Ingram, R. J. Barrett,
and Manual Quickly and Yaka Pearl. That group, as we've
(10:09):
seen Ingram just got there, sucks in the Eastern Conference.
They are a below five hundred team in the worst conference.
So why on earth again? Him being a good guy,
him winning early on in his tenure, that stuff to
be commended. But sports, you don't live in the past.
(10:29):
He lost his fastball. The same thing is happening right
now to Pat Riley. The difference is Mickey Harrison and
those guys don't have the stones to say, you know what, Pat,
what you're doing is not working. Heat culture at this
point is kind of become a myth. Let's move on
and let's do something else. Credit to the Toronto Raptors,
their new ownership group decided, Messiah did some great things.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You're a good guy. We're gonna send you out a date.
We're even unless you make this last pick. But we
got to move on because they're just not working no more.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
A couple things to add to that. One part that
makes me laugh is the last group you just named.
They're gonna mess around and be of like sixth seed in.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
The East's because he sucks.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
He sucks, but also there is some talent there, so
he's gonna be mad wherever he is somewhere and he
go like, naggot.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Not they bawling now they brandon Ingram out here looking good? RJ.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Barrett quickly, all you know a handful of other guys
they're gonna be looking at Scottie Barnes. I mean, they
got they've got some They've got guys on paper, they
have talent. They have talent, and if they mess around
and put it together, it's gonna be so hilarious that,
like this team makes it to the conference Semis and
he's gone, that's gonna make me laugh there.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
But a couple of other things that happening around the
NBA right now, rob Gie.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You're having new ownership groups that are buying out teams,
getting ready to buy the Celtics out. We see what
happened with the Lakers. We're here Minnesota, recent signs, the Suns.
These new ownership groups are coming in and you know
the Mavericks, Yep, they're coming in and they're saying, Uh,
we're changing house. We're getting rid of gms, We're getting
rid of coaches. We're seeing package deals where GM and
(11:58):
coaches going. At the same time, we're seeing the transition
in the NBA to powerful ownership, not so much mom
and pops or not so much the old brigade. We're
getting new people and I think their viewing the NBA
and they're saying, Uh, this thing is wide open right now.
This is a seventh year in a row with a
new champion, and why not us? And part of the
(12:19):
why not us is we gotta shape this thing up
right now. We got an opportunity to win right now.
There's no bohemoth sitting in the NBA right now. There's
no Heatles where you're like, oh, good luck, like like
like Toronto or some other teams are gonna have to
go through in the East, then, right, dude, kidding me.
We gotta get through the Big three in Boston and
then try to get through the Heatles.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
This ain't gonn work. There's none of that.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
There's no Katie Led with Stephan the Warriors, none of
that sitting there. There's no shocking Kobe in the West
ree life, good luck. It's only you know, only gonna
be like them are the Spurs that get through for
a handful of years. There's none of that. And I
think these new ownerships are coming in season trying to
change things up, trying to switch it up and say, man,
we can win now, especially if you're in the East.
Because who's a preifitive favorite? Is it Cleveland? Do you
(13:02):
buy that? I mean, it has to be clear this click,
but do you buy it they're the favorite to be
the number one seed? I don't know they're the favorite.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
They just beat the Pistons. Don't know that they just
beat Orlando. I don't know they just beat coach.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The Knicks don't have a coach. It's crazy work. By
the way, they did a whole draft without a coach.
Tom Thibodeau sitting somewhere.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Like I saw him line they said, they do the
Costanza where he just shows back up like oh, we
didn't actually.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You know what, he might just want to pop up
like hey, you know, walk past the front desk like hey, Cindy,
how you doing.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Hey, that's up? Wait Tom, just go back to your parking,
your spot.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And sometimes you know, it's like a relationship you have,
you know, it's over, so wrath and they just kind
of come back, sit in that spot in the couch.
Bring the popcorn, don't say nothing, bring the blanket, just
hand you the remote like all you know this is
get on back to how we were.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
And they might just pull up and just have come
up and there. Oh it's crazy. What time working out
to be working out at six today?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You know what time? Come on back, bro we was
tripping my bad. You know, Love Island about to start
right now, you know, Love Island.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
We'll talk. Am I the am I the only human
that is not watching Love Island.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I'm not watching it either, man. Okay, Ian, By the way,
what do you watch because every time I bring up something.
I just watched sports all day.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Is that what you do? No, I mean, I watch.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I'm trying to think what I and or I've been
watching recently on Disney Plus that's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
The Bear, you know, I've been watching. I've watched every
episode of The Bear, and I still don't know if
I like it or.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Yeah, you know, I'm actually in the exact same boat.
I'm still kind of undecided. And it's on season four.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
After season one and a half, ish, I got enough,
all right, So I never want to be in a kitchen.
It's intense. It's a lot. I do like Chicago. Oh,
I do want to go get some Italians up.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I'm out.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Like everyone says that season one is like where it
was actually special, Like lead to Laugh was saying this
to me the other day, and to me, it's like,
I'm still at the point where I don't know if
I like the show.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
That's all you need it. Sometimes shows go to Narcos.
I didn't need Narcos eight. Right after Pablo maybe season
three I was good. I didn't need Narcos. You know,
some shows don't know when to stop. But it's hard
when to stop. You know what I mean, sometimes it's
okay to be a two season show. You don't have
to go that far.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well to your point, I'm also one of the people
not watching Love Island.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Not because I don't want to, but because one of
the only things that my wife and I these days
can watch together is trash and reality TV and we
just haven't that time to watch it together.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
You'll get to it, So we're gonna get to it.
You you wouldn't, but I like all of the Love
is Blind, all those one you would be in on that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
And the best part about it is you're gonna blame
it on your wife, you know, man, It's just it's
her night for the TV.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Like you're all in, but I'm like stretched out on
the couch. Ready.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Did you watch the I don't know what the show
is called, but the one where Montoya is in it?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Like Montoya do you think he's again that I watched
the one in Spanish?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's kind of messing up. There's the whole show in Spanish.
Where's yes tred Light? Where's the racist drive when you
rared lightley in that didn't even air here in America?
You know that, right?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
No, that's got to be and you're doing your rob
quota here, make sure we get our race is quoting.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
My favorite is Love on the Spectrum. People love that
show too. I love it.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
You're in on that watched all three seasons, you and
Boo sometimes by myself is real and you don't have
to be anyone to have it.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Now, what you gotta watch is something called the ultimatum.
What oh yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Where they you know, on purpose bring in a third
party to try to break up your relationship, stop to
see if you're your relationship.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Is That's the Montoya thing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I think that one's more like Love Island. You know,
I didn't watch the show, but that's the one. What
to do with ra That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Okay, not dude. That was and it was like the
thunder in the background on the beach.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
It was.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It was it was waded into the water. Pure cinema.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That was pure cinema. And I felt like that was
a what's the movie with Jim Carrey? Is his world?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That Truman cut lightning? Thunder? All right, we'll move on
from that.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You know, there's also so basically both going the same
page as that it's just time to move on. Yes,
it's okay, and it's fine, and it's fine, and he'll
get a job somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
He can, you know, he's having a championship. The other
saying he's already in line to get a job in Atlanta. Yeah,
so he'll get a job somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
And that's the beauty of having had some success, some
track record, and obviously a championship in your back pocket,
that you can stay gainfully employed. All Right, two of
the best players in the w n b A. One
of them is sticking up for the other. We'll tell
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Page Beckers number one pick obviously a star in College,
Star Now and then the WNBA, and she had some
things to say about kind of the crew and just
some of the coverage that Caitlyn Clark is getting after
she's now injured again. Gonna be down a little bit
after she's come back from her injury. Here's what Page
(19:10):
had to say.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
She handles it with grace and the pressure that she's
put on every single night's perform at the level that
she does. It's inhumane, really like to expect people to
be perfect and to not have off games or off nights.
And if something's if she doesn't go like eight for
ten from three, like people are questioning things, it's just
(19:34):
it's unfair to have to do with them, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
A couple things for me, Robbie.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
When I hear that, and initially I thought about that,
I think you and I agree on one thing.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Page I love you, but you got to stop it
on one end.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Kaitlyn Clark, the bad coverage is so minimal in comparison
to others. Maybe we don't necessarily hear that. And most
of the time to cover conversations I hear or we
have is about her being pushed around.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Everybody's mad at everybody else.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So I when I heard that, I'm like, okay, So
I took it as ROGI more so the microscope she's
under as a whole, meaning she's observed everything she does left, right,
go up, go down, shoot this shot, make that shot.
I push somebody, somebody push me. It's covered. It's covered.
It's covered, it's covered. That's covered. She's covered like no
WNBA star we've ever seen where everything is covered. And again,
(20:29):
whether she's the one who was the pusher or the pushy,
it's covered. So I think she was kind of saying that.
But overall, what I took away from that, more than anything,
Page Beckers to me, is kind of the conscious that
a lot of people were wanting from Caitlin Clark during
the during her college days. Speak up about this, speak
up about that, speak on this, and now in the
(20:49):
WNBA where they want her to speak up with so
many issues, whether it be affecting the WNBA as a
whole or in society as much as a whole as well.
Page Beckers on the SB stage speaks up, I'm behind,
you know, on the backs of so many black women.
You know how many people would never say that, or
at least say it publicly. They might say that the teammates,
very few. She said it publicly at a massive stage
(21:13):
when it was about her, You're winning this award. She
speaks up, I stand on the backs of so many
black women. She stands up for her teammates regularly. Here
she's speaking up for Caitlyn Clark. Who is you know,
arrival If you will competitor appear in the in the NBA.
They were supposed to play each other tonight exactly they're
supposed to be. Everybody's looking to see the last two
number one picks go at it, and we're running short
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of time. So I'll just say I just thought, and
I continue to see her say this, young lady. And
recently the last couple of weeks, there was a video
where one of her teammates was going to speak to
another person. It was like a private conversation. She's going
to have another player on another team, and she casually
acts like she's done a lot, you know, just a
lot of dude, A lot of the gets in front
of the camera so they can have this private moment
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and not everybody all in their mix, because everybody knew
that they needed to have a conversation.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Page Becker gets it.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
She's good on the court, she's great off the court,
and I think her legacy is gonna be more about
her integrity and her legacy and just kind of what
she means and speaking up. And I think even pastor
WNBA career, I don't know her knees gonna hold up.
And I mean that respectfully. She's been through a lot
of injuries, and I think the great thing about her
is her legacy will last maybe longer than her knees,
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and people will remember her for man, she was always
one of those people who spoke up when you needed
it too, and you wanted to hear the right thing,
and you wanted to hear maybe not even the right
because we all have different opinions, but she was never
scared to stand on business.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
And I like that about Page.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Not only is she a great player, she seems to
be a great young woman and she speaks up when
when she feels compelled to, and I like that about Page.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah, and that's one of the most impressive things. She's
a great basketball player for sure. As much as we
love Kaitlyn Clark, Clayton Clark's fantastic Paige Becker's was Kaitlyn
Clark Before Kaitlyn, she was supposed to be the one,
and unfortunately knee injury kind of derailed that whole thing.
But to your point, she has that consciousness level that
people want Kaitlyn Clark to have. Because you mentioned the
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SP's comments that she made before that she was one
of the more vocal leaders at the time supporting Black
Lives Matter, which was a.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Big deal because you could probably.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Count on one hand the number of white athletes that
were coming out and actually speaking up. They'll say, hey,
I support my team, I support these plays, blah blah blah,
but none of them were actually coming out and speaking
out on behalf of what they were.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Actually Chris long as there was a small handy, you know,
but there's a half for you.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Was it very many right?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Another thing she does she is a very religious person,
and she will make sure that she lets you know
about it. Not in a in a forcing in all
you kind of way, but at a time when it's
almost uncool to talk about your relationship with God. This
is what she believes and she's going to speak up
on it. Kaitlyn Clark, on the other hand, is like,
I'm about basketball. I don't want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Social issues, political issues, religious issue.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
That's not my Bag's not what I do. And credit
to her page Beckers, that is who she is. She's
going to stand on it. She's going to use her
soapbox for what she believes are the right things, and
it's something to be commended. Now, I will say the
actual comment that she made about Kaitlyn Clark. I got
a problem with it, and I'll tell you about it
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after Steve is say, can hit you with what's sherending?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Hey man, stop backing like you do this for a
living man, Steve, what you got for us?
Speaker 9 (24:26):
That's a professional tease to not try that at home.
As for the WNBA, we got five games tonight, including
that game at Dallas, which by the way, that game
had been moved to the Dallas MAVs Arena because of Clark.
But Clark, averaging eighteen points nine assists per game, is
out again with a groin injury. Still, the fever led
by twenty after the first quarter. It's now halftime fifty
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six forty three. Indiana leads at Dallas, which is four
and twelve. Minnesota is twelve and two and is leading
in the final minute before halftime fifty two to forty.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Five at Atlanta.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Among the three late games at ten t Eastern New
York eleven and three plays at Phoenix eleven and four.
The Utah Jazz say first rounder Ace Bailey will report
on Saturday, with the news conference on Sunday and practice
on Monday. Messiah Jerry is out as president of the
Raptors after thirteen years there. Toronto gave general manager Bobby
Webster an extension. Florida Panthers playoff MVP Sam Bennett signed
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an eight year extension. The NHL and its players union
agreed to an extension of the CBA through twenty thirty.
The league's regular season will increased eighty four games per
team in a year. The NHL Draft started tonight. The
Islanders took defenseman Matthew Schafford, number one overall there through
the top ten selections, most of them Canadians won American
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in the top ten from Boston College. The Boston Bruins
took center James Higgins to Major League Baseball sho Hey Otania.
The Dodgers let off the game at Kansas City with
a home run, his twenty ninth of the year. Dodgers
at Royals, now one to one in the top of
the second inning, all so in progress. Mariners tied one
to one at Texas bottom of the second. Cow Raleigh
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of the Mariners will be in the home Run Derby
next month. Also in Ronald Lacuna of the Braves, but
defending derby champ Taoskarnandez of the Dodgers will not be
in it this year. The Giants are tied at the
White Sox one to one in the top of the fourth,
still a rain delay at the start for the game
in Atlanta. The Braves due to host the Phillies tonight.
Phillies half game back at the first place Mets in
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the NL East. The Mets are losing top of the
sixth at Pittsburgh by words five to one over New
York and Mets pitcher Griffin Canning did have surgery for
a torn achilles. The Yankees are first in the AL East.
Half game over Tampa Bay Toronto three back, Yankees winning
three nothing over the A's top of the fifth inning,
Ray's winning seven to five at Baltimore in the top
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of the fourth, Blue Jays still winning three nothing at Boston,
bottom of the fifth. Red Sox have lost five in
a row.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Back to you, all right, thank you, Steve, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I couple Rob g and for Rod Parkham COVID, Washington
on a funky flashback Friday.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Thanks for hanging out with your boys.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
And just to put it, get back on the conversation
we were having, actually, Alex, can we run that soundback?
Just for those who may be checking in just to
what pagebackers had to say kind of about how people
that have been covering Kaitlyn Clark and the pressure she's under.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Here's what pays back.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
She handles it with grace and the pressure that she's
put on every single night's perform at the level that
she does. It's inhumane, really, like to expect people to
be perfect and to not have off games or off
nights and if something's if she doesn't go like eight
for ten from three, like.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
People are questioning things.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
It's just it's unfair.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
To have to do with that.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
All right, rob Gie, you said you had some thoughts
about that portion of the conversation. We both agree on
that she's a great human being. Her being paid, yes,
But now this one.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
You heard the guy, the reporter snicker when she said
it's inhuman she has to deal with criticism.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
He said, who's criticizing Kaylyn Claren?
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Like, I've looked it up and we had this stat
we were talking about before the show. Since she's come
back from injury, Kaitlyn Clark is one of twenty three
from three point Land their last three games and actually
on the season This is a crazy stat She's one
of twenty eight from deep on the road.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I had no idea.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
You know why, I had no idea why because nobody
talks about Kaitlyn Clark in a negative light no matter
what she does, and most of the time it's positive.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
No matter what she does. It's yo.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Did you see Kayln Clark with fourteen assists yesterday? Do
you see Kaylin Clark? She had three straight threes in
a span of like ninety seconds. One of them she
had to chase down her teammate to get the ball
from her like Kobe and pull up from thirty five feet.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
It was incredible. Did you see Kaylyn.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Clark got elbowed in the back by some hooligan on
another team? How dare they not protect her? Not a
single person ever brings up that Kaitlyn Clark in this
case is one for twenty three from three in the
last three games.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
You know why, because Kayln Clark is one of them ones.
She is Steph Kurr.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Not just in the shooting in that Steph Curry outside
of Rob Parker, nobody points out when things went bad
for Steph Curry.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Man. You know that's been my biggest issue.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Rob has been the only person that I know of
who will beat that stat into the ground that you know,
Steph was over thirteen from you know, from the field
and playoff games in the last three second he had it.
Nobody else cares because Steph Curry makes you feel good
when you watch him play. Steph Curry has become almost
a sympathetic figure in the eyes with a lot of
people because he's the little engine that could. He's the
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guy wasn't supposed to make it who made it, And
not only did he make it, he became arguably the
best player in the league for a point period of time.
Kaylen Clark is a unassuming you know, a white girl
in a predominantly black sport who has been cooking people
for three or four years now. Everything she does is covered.
It is under magnifying glass, but it's covered from a
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slant that benefits her. I don't know anybody who is legitimate,
who is being honest, has a negative thing to say
about her. So I do what Paige Becker said to me.
Maybe she meant in a different way, but like, come on.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That's what I'm saying. I think she meant it the
other way.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I think she meant the fact that the scrutiny, the coverage,
that everything she's under. And again, if Paige, if Caitlyn
were to shove somebody, that's the biggest news. If she
got shoffed, biggest news, she hits ten threes, big news,
she's you know, all these things becomes the conversation.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
And I think she was just saying, this is me
speaking for Page.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
That like, Man, I can't imagine I Page had enough coverage, right,
I went to Yukon, I was a star.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I'm sure she was a star in high school. Everybody
covering around locally.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
She's been number one, number one her whole life, exactly,
so I know what that's like. Now you amplify that
by ten. I can only imagine when that would be like.
And it's And we talk about Page being a very empathetic,
sympathetic person, very well rounded person, a person who is
in tune with all the whole being of a person.
(31:04):
I think she's getting in the psyche of man. I
can't imagine having to deal with that where every single
thing I do is under a microscope. But to your point,
here's the thing that we're getting to with Caitlyn Clark
in the covers with her Rabji. We're getting to the
point where, and this is a dangerous place where we
ignore the fact that she had thirty and ten last night.
We only really get excited when she gets shoved to
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the ground. We only really get excited when she did
some you know, I can't feel my face thing in
front of an opposing bench or something. We only really
get excited when Angel Reese has something to say about her.
And that's a dangerous part to me, where what she
does becomes so common that we take it for granted.
We're just like, oh, she had thirty and ten whatever,
who cares?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
And it's like, oh, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
And the stats she's putting up, the numbers she's putting up,
the rates she's doing up, and the fact that she
came into the league took her a month a month
and a half to get kind of acclimated. And from
then it has been Asia Wilson's the best player. But
she's been right there, you know, for as far as one, two,
three best player in the league. She balls out, she
doesn't make the Olympics, we all go should have made
the Olympics. She becomes the best, one of the best
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players in the second half of that season, Rookie of
the Year and all that good stuff. So it's like
we're almost taking for granted how great she is. And
that's why I think the coverage isn't what you're saying,
Because the coverage of her going two for a from
three we don't talk about it. Her putting up twenty
five and eight, we don't talk about it. It's only
when it's drama infused or something spectacular infused. And I
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think that's a bad place because I don't want to
be one of those people, and I think the league
as a whole don't want to be in a place
where we take what she's doing for.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Granted and how special she is. But you brought up
a great point.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I do think there is something too for her case
mid America, white woman from mid America and just kind
of has that appeal dude to folks who didn't care
about the WNBA now are singularly rooting for her alone.
Steph Curry, you mentioned kind of the the average man.
He's only sixty three, sixty two and a half, three
seers what I would give to be sixty three, right know,
that's an average average. But as far as you know,
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that's reasonable sixth Street. And he's the baby face assassin
and he's quiet. He doesn't get in a lot of things.
He's not quite like Lebron, where Lebron is so passive
aggressive Lebron, you know, I thought I was the wash king.
I had forty tonight, yeah, but you lost by forty
tonight rock Oh my bad. I ignored that part, you know.
And he jumps in and everything. And I love this
about Lebron, similar to the page. He'll speak about things
he stands up for def but that also will rub
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people the way because he jumps in everything. You know,
he's kind of you know, there's some other people at
media who do that. They jump in everything. Then they
always got a backtor. I shouldn't have done that. I
apologize to my wife, his wife, their wife. I should
have battle my gosh, it's okay to double dutch something,
you know, Shit, when can I get in?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
When can I? Maybe I'll dump in this one, maybe
not this one. Everybody's just jumping my content. My goodness.
You know, you're right.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I don't know if I'm coe gang content over everything gang,
you know, I just it's maybe that said, that's a
flaw of mine, rober I just can't act like I
care about everything when I don't or want to jump
in or be the hero in every conversation and have
this poetic moment but the camera on me.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
What's interesting is that you're very well spoken. I don't
say that worth with you, but you're a very well
spoken individual. You're a very thoughtful individual. So I know
that you have thoughts off the camera. Yeah, all of
these things that whatever we're going to talk about on
air off the air. But the fact that you have
the restraint not to, you know, is kind of refreshing.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You know why, And I mean will break here, but
I mean it's sincerely. One thing I learned Robbie being
a news anchor, and you kind of have to.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
You can't. You're trying to be impartially. You're trying to
be in as far as what you're portraying.
Speaker 6 (34:34):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
You know, I'm opinion that I got all the types
of things to say about, but when you're a news anchor,
you can't just I can't come on and be like
I hate Biden, I love Trump, I hate Trump, I
love Biden.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
You can't. You can't come out and do these types
of things.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
What you learn is there's a lot of people, Robbie,
I've learned who say a lot but don't do a lot.
And I've because I've covered so many people around the
Greater Los Angeles area. You see people doing the real
dirty work, really trying to change the community, who will
never be spotlight or highlighted, or maybe we did just
spotlight them. That's why I'm familiar with our reporters did it?
(35:06):
Or I'm interviewing this person who's really doing the dirty
work and really doing these great things, and they'll never
have the microphone.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Get some of these folks who do who just talk it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
And I just realized, I'm like, there's another there's some
parts of the fight don't have to always be projected.
You're just doing the dirty work. You're doing the work
behind the scenes. You're really caring, you're changing your little world.
Might be ten people, but you're changing those ten people
who will change another ten people. And it's compounded interests
on that. So I just got out of the business
of like having to make sure you see that I care.
(35:36):
And I'm a little a wait with the camera. Ready, okay,
we go, look at me. I'm about to go do
this thing. And I'm not mad at people do that,
but I just I don't have to scream at everything
and every jump in every battle to prove that I
care about the battles in which I do.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
When you say that you got to pivot away from
certain conversations that I'm dealing with.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
You right now, I'm not dealing with you right now.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
That was pretty funny. That was doing all right.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
There's somebody who said I make a lot of money,
but it ain't enough me.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Is he making the right decision with that? We'll tell you.
It is the cup.
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We're kind of up against it, rob, so I do
want to get to this quickly than Reeves as basically
declined the Mac extension for the Lakers that would have
paid him eighty nine million dollars over the next four years.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
So you're talking a little.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
The twenty twenty two is twenty three twenty two bucks
twenty two million dollars a year, which is obviously good money.
But there's a lot of guys. I'm sure he his
agent probably look at and say, well, if he's getting
that kind of money, yep, I know we can get
that much.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Josh Getty's about to get thirty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Year, right, Josh Getty reported Josh Getty is a very
versatile player. Is nice, but here's no massive separation between
he and Austin Reeves. Austin Reeves putting up his career
numbers and assist. He gave you twenty a game, gave
you six assists, five boards as well, so and gave
you almost three threes a game played very well. Can
control the ball, can get other people of the shots.
(37:44):
I'm gonna get straight to my my thing on this.
And they say he has all intention of being a Laker.
He's come out plenty of times. I love LA don't
want to leave it. I love the team, I love
the city. I love the golf here. If you know him,
he loves the golf. I got a chance to ask him,
I said while he sliced, and he was like, stay
on top of it, man, And I said, I all
that to say, Well, with the new ownership Rob g
Mark Walters and the crew and the way the aprons
(38:06):
are going, I said, the NBA is turning into the
Hell's kitchen talking about aprons and cooking and all that
with the second.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Apron and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
To me, I look at this as now you're gonna
have to put the money where your mouth is, meaning,
all right, do you want to remain a Laker? And
also do you want to have a chance to compete,
because part of that may be like I just did
today and like you do all the time for yourself.
I just got a haircut. You might have to take
a haircut now. The Lakers will love you at twenty
two million dollars, right, makes sense, But forty million dollars
(38:35):
forty two million dollars, and I'm a fan of his game, bro,
I can't pay you all that, especially with the aprons
of the way thing is, especially knowing I'm gonna have
to just resign Luca here soon, and especially knowing it's
still not enough this team comprised. I need more. I
gotta get more, guys. I can't pay you that kind
of money. So if you love LA, we can work
out a deal. I love you, and I love you with.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
A three.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Thirty million thirty one, okay, cool, I love you with
a three Austin Reeves, but I can't love you more
than that. And to me, if you're really saying what
you want, you want to stick around here, you want
to have a chance, could bete for championships, then that's
what it's gonna have to be.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Yeah, Because the offer that they made on the table,
which is the most like, it's not like they wanted
to only off erhm this masch This is the most
they could offer him right now because the weird contract
was twenty two million a year next offseason when he
outside of his contract. So this time next summer, he's
gonna be eligible for five years to forty six.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Nah, bruh, Yeah, it's gonna be a no for me. Dog.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
So to your point, I love Austin Reeves at fourteen
million dollars. I love Austin Reeves at twenty four million dollars.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I think I like him at thirty.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
I don't know how I feel at thirty four to
thirty five, like, And that's gonna be an interesting situation
for the Lakers and for a lot of teams moving forward.
Is the way this second April thing is. And we
saw that with Boston right now.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Uh huh. Drew Holliday is absolutely worth.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
The contract that he's getting, you know, right now, the
problem is he's not worth it to me in Boston.
And when I gotta pay Jason Tatum fifty five, I
gotta pay Kayleum Brown fifty five, Like, there's not enough money.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
To go around to give you what you think that
you're worth.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
And that's gonna be fascinating to see because Austin Reeves
is very quickly gonna go from one of the great
bargains in the NBA to either appropriately paid or even
overpaid in about a month. That it's interesting to see
how Laker fans and NBA fans are gonna respond to.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
That and be careful.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
And I think he wants to be or I truly
believe him because I think he is wise enough to know,
especially because he didn't. He never thought this was gonna happen.
So this is all gravy, you know what I mean,
the success. I'm a Laker, and this is all just
a gravy for him. But don't go to the Wizard's
putting up twenty five and nobody know you
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Next hour, we'll have a kil Augustine cover the Raptors
on NBA TV Canada for twenty plus years, which leads
to the conversation we're getting ready to get to here
in just a little bit as well, plus some good
NBA more NBA conversations to be had, and a w
NBA conversation, Rob G. That is happening with two of
the better players in the league.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I never missed a WNBA.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That's why we have the conversation with rob rob Parker's
out of here. He's never missed it because he never
watched it. Rob again is out. He'll be back Monday
enjoying some VAK time with family and friends and commencement
speeches and all that. So happy for him and hopefully
he's having a great time while he is on VK.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Rob G.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's so funny, said you hear hit me with the
news of the day.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
As long as you don't say set the table, move
the lawn, park the car, or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Nothing like that. We're okay. This is racist. Would Rob
G set the table? That's thank you. I appreciate that.
It's not like I threw you my call keys.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
So the big news of the day on early Friday morning,
this is kind of a bomb shell across the NBA,
not necessarily that it happened, but the timing of which
that happened.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Because the NBA drafts is a better place.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And the Toronto Raptors were picking ninth overall,
they got a guy that a lot of people like,
and yet on Friday, they've decided to move on from
mesaiyu Jerry as the vice chairman and president of Basketball
Ops after thirteen seasons with the Toronto Raptors. Lets we forget.
Between twenty fifteen and twenty twenty, the Raptors won fifty
(02:27):
plus games basically every season. They want at least a
playoff round every season. And the highlight, of course, came
in twenty nineteen when masaiyu Jerry put all his eggs
in the basket of Kawhi Leonard, trading away a fan favorite,
a beloved franchise superstar in Damar DeRozan, with no guarantee
that Kawhi was gonna stick around. He wins the championship.
(02:49):
Kawhi doesn't stick around, but hey, all that matters.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
They got the hardware.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, listen, I'm gonna a couple of ways I want
to approach this. Number one I'm gonna start with before
we dive deep into out of his tenure, his resume.
Sometimes I think we overrate when things happen or we overstate,
and I think sometimes it's just it's it's what.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
We do in media.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I can't believe they would do that. They should have
did that, they should have never done it. Sometimes I go, oh,
but that just makes sense and it's okay. And sometimes
it's just okay for parting to happen. And I mentioned
this with if Giannis were to say, hey man, he
just flat out came out, was like, hey man, I'm
just ready to move on. I don't think fans should
(03:31):
go out there burn jerseys. I don't think fans should
be mad. I don't think that should hate him. I think
jad Man, he gave us ten to eleven great years.
We got a ring, We were relevant, you know what
I mean. We have We had some good playoff runs.
We saw him grow from a literal band be just
this gangly athletic guy to a full fledged man with
the family and and and he wants to move on,
no hard feelings. We're gonna cheer when he comes back
(03:51):
the first five minutes, We're gonna boo the rest of
the game like they should and not be that. Yep,
And every now and again, the sports to me, there's
no oh, I can't believe that or this that you know,
it has to be bad because when you look at
what Massa I was able to do, if you kind
of split the difference of the thirteen years six and
a half, if you want to go six or seven.
You just mentioned the first half of that run, awesome
(04:13):
was really good. And when you look at what he
was able to do. If it weren't for the they
weren't the Lebronto Raptors, they.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Might have messed around.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I had a couple of rings, but Lebron was licking
at shops anytime in the NBA. In the NBA playoffs,
he was like, all right, we gotta go here we
got and he saw the Raptors. It was I mean,
it was laughable what he would do to they win
fifty games, they'd be the number one seed or two seeds,
and they mean, you know, have these really good seasons.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Kyle Lowry was great and Demarta Rosen was great.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
They have these really nice teams, and Kyle and Demarta
rows has talked about He's I mean, I really believe
we had a chance to win a couple of championship
or be at least in the finals if it weren't
for Lebron Well.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
One time he even said, if we had Lebron James,
we would I'm like, well, you know what, WHOA yeah,
I don't know if I went that far.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I mean not saying you wouldn't have, but he said,
if there's some things as a competitor, you don't.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Say, well, even though you're right, right, right exactly, even
though you're right, you just don't say it exact. But
I say that to say he started off pretty hot
with him, right, you're winning, You're making a team up
above the border really good.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The fan base is loving it. Executive of the Year
his first season.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Executive the lear And I'm not even trying to be
funny now that he's kind of persona non grata, but
you got Drake involved, Drake's there.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's just it was a winning environment.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It became cool and absolutely became we the North became cool.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You got Drake, Jurassic Park outside the arena.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Absolutely, it just became a place to be and a
place to be seen. As far as for the folks
in Toronto, they're winning a bunch of games. Then your
culmination with twenty nineteen, you get Kawhi, We're all like, oh,
Kawhi away from the Spurs. Usually the Spurs guys stick,
they stay right Tony Parker stays for until the end,
but Gennoble and Tim Duncan and David Robinson, all these
guys stay. And oh wow, we got a guy who's
(05:57):
left left on kind of some maybe shakier bad terms
and he comes to the Toronto Raptors and he plays well,
they win a championship. Well, the second half hasn't been great,
and initially the first portion of it you thought, oh, okay,
they're about to do this, and I see the moves.
Sometimes you gotta rebuild and restructure and yeah, just give
him some time. He's gonna do it again. And he didn't,
and he didn't perform at his profession. The team has
(06:19):
been bad to really bad. They made some bad and
I'm gonna let you kind of rock with the moves
that they he's be more specific with the moves, but
he's made some terrible decisions, some terrible signing, some terrible
trades and bad moves. And it's just okay to say
we had a good run. You had overall, you had
a solid tenure, you got as erring, you made this
relevant now we're trying to move on, and I do
(06:40):
think rob g they said, uh, just in case there's
any more aside magic, we're gonna let him do this
draft real quick.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Just a case he pulls.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
One more magical well, they're gonna have him do that,
all right, make sure we get all the magic out
of him before we let him go. And last thing
I'll say for a TSKS to you and also people
why he's so beloved.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
He seemed like a great human, seemed like a great guy.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
People there respect him, People around the NBA community respect him,
and people around the world because the other great stuff
that he was doing for basketball in Africa. If you
don't know, he was a massive ambassador for the league
with the NBA Africa and the stuff they were doing
there that he went out and got Pascal Siakamaka. It
just was a great guy. And he had Sergey Baka
there as well when they won the championship run and
(07:24):
he was an ambassador for the league and so he
had a really good tenure the first you know, six seven,
maybe even eight years of his thirteen year years there
and it's time to move on. And to me again,
this doesn't have to be bad they don't have to
be the bad raptors.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
They're horrible frame why would they do that? That's wrong.
It's just time for them to move on.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Time to him to move on, and by all means
he'll probably land somewhere and do good things again.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, he was graded his job to start off with,
and by all accounts is just a great guy, like
a great human being. Nobody has anything but positive things
to say about the side of year. Now have he
said that with all due respect, which means something super
disrespectful was going to follow super discs respect? My man
deserves to get fired, all right. Since that twenty nineteen championship.
Here's the list of the moves that Messiah Jerry has
(08:08):
made basking in that championship glow. He trades away Norm
Powell for Rodney Hood and Gary.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Trent Junior is a really good player.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
He trades away Kyle Lowry for Goren Dragic and Precious
a Chua, which they had to attach a first round
pick later to get off the Dragia contract.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Ooh okay.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
He trades a package including the number eight pick for
Yaka Perle, who is just a guy. He trades away
Dennis Shrewder and Thad Young for Spencer Dinwiddie, who eventually
had to get bought out because he was that bad,
you know, in his latest NBA.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Steps, this is the worst one for me.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Trades away Pascal Siakam for Bruce Brown and three late
first round picks, none of which have amounted to anything.
And of course you recall when Pascal gots Indiana, he
said famously during his press conference, I was just in
a bad place. It was a dark time, and I'm
just really excited to be out of there.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
He trades away a first round pick for Kelly Olynyk.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I don't know if I would have done that one.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
He trades away og Anna Nube Ananobi for RJ Barret
and man Quickly. Now, if you want to say on talent,
that's not a bad.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Tilege, yeah, I get that.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
The problem is when you look at their contracts of RJ.
Barry and Emanual Quickly and what they had to give them,
You're like, you know what, I kind of would rather
have og at forty five than these two guys at
seventy five.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
That's just me.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
They trade away Bruce Brown had a first round pick
for the rights to overpay Brandon Ingram because nobody decided
they wanted to give brandon Ingram maxim money. He's like, hey,
I'll do it. That's not to mention they lost Fred
van Vliet for nothing. They lost Kawhi Leonard Ford, which
they got championship. Will let that one slide. But you
look at their team moving forward. They've had two winning
(09:47):
seasons since twenty nineteen. In the last five years, their
record is one seventy one and two twenty nine just
this year and moving forward, they have one hundred and
forty five million dollars in salary for Scottie Barnes, Brandon Ingram, R. J. Barrett,
and Manual Quickly and Yaka Pearl. That group, as we've
(10:09):
seen Ingram just got there, sucks in the Eastern Conference.
They are a below five hundred team in the worst conference.
So why on earth again? Him being a good guy,
him winning early on in his tenure, that stuff to
be commended. But sports, you don't live in the past.
(10:29):
He lost his fastball. The same thing is happening right
now to Pat Riley. The difference is Mickey Harrison and
those guys don't have the stones to say, you know what, Pat,
what you're doing is not working. Heat culture at this
point is kind of become a myth. Let's move on
and let's do something else. Credit to the Toronto Raptors,
their new ownership group decided, Messiah did some great things.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You're a good guy. We're gonna send you out a date.
We're even unless you make this last pick. But we
got to move on because they're just not working no more.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
A couple things to add to that. One part that
makes me laugh is the last group you just named.
They're gonna mess around and be of like sixth seed in.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
The East's because he sucks.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
He sucks, but also there is some talent there, so
he's gonna be mad wherever he is somewhere and he
go like, naggot.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Not they bawling now they brandon Ingram out here looking good? RJ.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Barrett quickly, all you know a handful of other guys
they're gonna be looking at Scottie Barnes. I mean, they
got they've got some They've got guys on paper, they
have talent. They have talent, and if they mess around
and put it together, it's gonna be so hilarious that,
like this team makes it to the conference Semis and
he's gone, that's gonna make me laugh there.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
But a couple of other things that happening around the
NBA right now, rob Gie.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You're having new ownership groups that are buying out teams,
getting ready to buy the Celtics out. We see what
happened with the Lakers. We're here Minnesota, recent signs, the Suns.
These new ownership groups are coming in and you know
the Mavericks, Yep, they're coming in and they're saying, Uh,
we're changing house. We're getting rid of gms, We're getting
rid of coaches. We're seeing package deals where GM and
(11:58):
coaches going. At the same time, we're seeing the transition
in the NBA to powerful ownership, not so much mom
and pops or not so much the old brigade. We're
getting new people and I think their viewing the NBA
and they're saying, Uh, this thing is wide open right now.
This is a seventh year in a row with a
new champion, and why not us? And part of the
(12:19):
why not us is we gotta shape this thing up
right now. We got an opportunity to win right now.
There's no bohemoth sitting in the NBA right now. There's
no Heatles where you're like, oh, good luck, like like
like Toronto or some other teams are gonna have to
go through in the East, then, right, dude, kidding me.
We gotta get through the Big three in Boston and
then try to get through the Heatles.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
This ain't gonn work. There's none of that.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
There's no Katie Led with Stephan the Warriors, none of
that sitting there. There's no shocking Kobe in the West
ree life, good luck. It's only you know, only gonna
be like them are the Spurs that get through for
a handful of years. There's none of that. And I
think these new ownerships are coming in season trying to
change things up, trying to switch it up and say, man,
we can win now, especially if you're in the East.
Because who's a preifitive favorite? Is it Cleveland? Do you
(13:02):
buy that? I mean, it has to be clear this click,
but do you buy it they're the favorite to be
the number one seed? I don't know they're the favorite.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
They just beat the Pistons. Don't know that they just
beat Orlando. I don't know they just beat coach.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The Knicks don't have a coach. It's crazy work. By
the way, they did a whole draft without a coach.
Tom Thibodeau sitting somewhere.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Like I saw him line they said, they do the
Costanza where he just shows back up like oh, we
didn't actually.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You know what, he might just want to pop up
like hey, you know, walk past the front desk like hey, Cindy,
how you doing.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Hey, that's up? Wait Tom, just go back to your parking,
your spot.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And sometimes you know, it's like a relationship you have,
you know, it's over, so wrath and they just kind
of come back, sit in that spot in the couch.
Bring the popcorn, don't say nothing, bring the blanket, just
hand you the remote like all you know this is
get on back to how we were.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
And they might just pull up and just have come
up and there. Oh it's crazy. What time working out
to be working out at six today?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You know what time? Come on back, bro we was
tripping my bad. You know, Love Island about to start
right now, you know, Love Island.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
We'll talk. Am I the am I the only human
that is not watching Love Island.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I'm not watching it either, man. Okay, Ian, By the way,
what do you watch because every time I bring up something.
I just watched sports all day.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Is that what you do? No, I mean, I watch.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I'm trying to think what I and or I've been
watching recently on Disney Plus that's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
The Bear, you know, I've been watching. I've watched every
episode of The Bear, and I still don't know if
I like it or.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Yeah, you know, I'm actually in the exact same boat.
I'm still kind of undecided. And it's on season four.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
After season one and a half, ish, I got enough,
all right, So I never want to be in a kitchen.
It's intense. It's a lot. I do like Chicago. Oh,
I do want to go get some Italians up.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I'm out.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Like everyone says that season one is like where it
was actually special, Like lead to Laugh was saying this
to me the other day, and to me, it's like,
I'm still at the point where I don't know if
I like the show.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
That's all you need it. Sometimes shows go to Narcos.
I didn't need Narcos eight. Right after Pablo maybe season
three I was good. I didn't need Narcos. You know,
some shows don't know when to stop. But it's hard
when to stop. You know what I mean, sometimes it's
okay to be a two season show. You don't have
to go that far.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well to your point, I'm also one of the people
not watching Love Island.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Not because I don't want to, but because one of
the only things that my wife and I these days
can watch together is trash and reality TV and we
just haven't that time to watch it together.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
You'll get to it, So we're gonna get to it.
You you wouldn't, but I like all of the Love
is Blind, all those one you would be in on that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
And the best part about it is you're gonna blame
it on your wife, you know, man, It's just it's
her night for the TV.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Like you're all in, but I'm like stretched out on
the couch. Ready.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Did you watch the I don't know what the show
is called, but the one where Montoya is in it?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Like Montoya do you think he's again that I watched
the one in Spanish?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's kind of messing up. There's the whole show in Spanish.
Where's yes tred Light? Where's the racist drive when you
rared lightley in that didn't even air here in America?
You know that, right?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
No, that's got to be and you're doing your rob
quota here, make sure we get our race is quoting.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
My favorite is Love on the Spectrum. People love that
show too. I love it.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
You're in on that watched all three seasons, you and
Boo sometimes by myself is real and you don't have
to be anyone to have it.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Now, what you gotta watch is something called the ultimatum.
What oh yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Where they you know, on purpose bring in a third
party to try to break up your relationship, stop to
see if you're your relationship.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Is That's the Montoya thing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I think that one's more like Love Island. You know,
I didn't watch the show, but that's the one. What
to do with ra That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Okay, not dude. That was and it was like the
thunder in the background on the beach.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
It was.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It was it was waded into the water. Pure cinema.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That was pure cinema. And I felt like that was
a what's the movie with Jim Carrey? Is his world?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That Truman cut lightning? Thunder? All right, we'll move on
from that.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You know, there's also so basically both going the same
page as that it's just time to move on. Yes,
it's okay, and it's fine, and it's fine, and he'll
get a job somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
He can, you know, he's having a championship. The other
saying he's already in line to get a job in Atlanta. Yeah,
so he'll get a job somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
And that's the beauty of having had some success, some
track record, and obviously a championship in your back pocket,
that you can stay gainfully employed. All Right, two of
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Page Beckers number one pick obviously a star in College,
Star Now and then the WNBA, and she had some
things to say about kind of the crew and just
some of the coverage that Caitlyn Clark is getting after
she's now injured again. Gonna be down a little bit
after she's come back from her injury. Here's what Page
(19:10):
had to say.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
She handles it with grace and the pressure that she's
put on every single night's perform at the level that
she does. It's inhumane, really like to expect people to
be perfect and to not have off games or off nights.
And if something's if she doesn't go like eight for
ten from three, like people are questioning things, it's just
(19:34):
it's unfair to have to do with them, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
A couple things for me, Robbie.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
When I hear that, and initially I thought about that,
I think you and I agree on one thing.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Page I love you, but you got to stop it
on one end.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Kaitlyn Clark, the bad coverage is so minimal in comparison
to others. Maybe we don't necessarily hear that. And most
of the time to cover conversations I hear or we
have is about her being pushed around.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Everybody's mad at everybody else.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So I when I heard that, I'm like, okay, So
I took it as ROGI more so the microscope she's
under as a whole, meaning she's observed everything she does left, right,
go up, go down, shoot this shot, make that shot.
I push somebody, somebody push me. It's covered. It's covered.
It's covered, it's covered. That's covered. She's covered like no
WNBA star we've ever seen where everything is covered. And again,
(20:29):
whether she's the one who was the pusher or the pushy,
it's covered. So I think she was kind of saying that.
But overall, what I took away from that, more than anything,
Page Beckers to me, is kind of the conscious that
a lot of people were wanting from Caitlin Clark during
the during her college days. Speak up about this, speak
up about that, speak on this, and now in the
(20:49):
WNBA where they want her to speak up with so
many issues, whether it be affecting the WNBA as a
whole or in society as much as a whole as well.
Page Beckers on the SB stage speaks up, I'm behind,
you know, on the backs of so many black women.
You know how many people would never say that, or
at least say it publicly. They might say that the teammates,
very few. She said it publicly at a massive stage
(21:13):
when it was about her, You're winning this award. She
speaks up, I stand on the backs of so many
black women. She stands up for her teammates regularly. Here
she's speaking up for Caitlyn Clark. Who is you know,
arrival If you will competitor appear in the in the NBA.
They were supposed to play each other tonight exactly they're
supposed to be. Everybody's looking to see the last two
number one picks go at it, and we're running short
(21:34):
of time. So I'll just say I just thought, and
I continue to see her say this, young lady. And
recently the last couple of weeks, there was a video
where one of her teammates was going to speak to
another person. It was like a private conversation. She's going
to have another player on another team, and she casually
acts like she's done a lot, you know, just a
lot of dude, A lot of the gets in front
of the camera so they can have this private moment
(21:54):
and not everybody all in their mix, because everybody knew
that they needed to have a conversation.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Page Becker gets it.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
She's good on the court, she's great off the court,
and I think her legacy is gonna be more about
her integrity and her legacy and just kind of what
she means and speaking up. And I think even pastor
WNBA career, I don't know her knees gonna hold up.
And I mean that respectfully. She's been through a lot
of injuries, and I think the great thing about her
is her legacy will last maybe longer than her knees,
(22:22):
and people will remember her for man, she was always
one of those people who spoke up when you needed
it too, and you wanted to hear the right thing,
and you wanted to hear maybe not even the right
because we all have different opinions, but she was never
scared to stand on business.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
And I like that about Page.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Not only is she a great player, she seems to
be a great young woman and she speaks up when
when she feels compelled to, and I like that about Page.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah, and that's one of the most impressive things. She's
a great basketball player for sure. As much as we
love Kaitlyn Clark, Clayton Clark's fantastic Paige Becker's was Kaitlyn
Clark Before Kaitlyn, she was supposed to be the one,
and unfortunately knee injury kind of derailed that whole thing.
But to your point, she has that consciousness level that
people want Kaitlyn Clark to have. Because you mentioned the
(23:04):
SP's comments that she made before that she was one
of the more vocal leaders at the time supporting Black
Lives Matter, which was a.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Big deal because you could probably.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Count on one hand the number of white athletes that
were coming out and actually speaking up. They'll say, hey,
I support my team, I support these plays, blah blah blah,
but none of them were actually coming out and speaking
out on behalf of what they were.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Actually Chris long as there was a small handy, you know,
but there's a half for you.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Was it very many right?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Another thing she does she is a very religious person,
and she will make sure that she lets you know
about it. Not in a in a forcing in all
you kind of way, but at a time when it's
almost uncool to talk about your relationship with God. This
is what she believes and she's going to speak up
on it. Kaitlyn Clark, on the other hand, is like,
I'm about basketball. I don't want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Social issues, political issues, religious issue.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
That's not my Bag's not what I do. And credit
to her page Beckers, that is who she is. She's
going to stand on it. She's going to use her
soapbox for what she believes are the right things, and
it's something to be commended. Now, I will say the
actual comment that she made about Kaitlyn Clark. I got
a problem with it, and I'll tell you about it
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after Steve is say, can hit you with what's sherending?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Hey man, stop backing like you do this for a
living man, Steve, what you got for us?
Speaker 9 (24:26):
That's a professional tease to not try that at home.
As for the WNBA, we got five games tonight, including
that game at Dallas, which by the way, that game
had been moved to the Dallas MAVs Arena because of Clark.
But Clark, averaging eighteen points nine assists per game, is
out again with a groin injury. Still, the fever led
by twenty after the first quarter. It's now halftime fifty
(24:47):
six forty three. Indiana leads at Dallas, which is four
and twelve. Minnesota is twelve and two and is leading
in the final minute before halftime fifty two to forty.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Five at Atlanta.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Among the three late games at ten t Eastern New
York eleven and three plays at Phoenix eleven and four.
The Utah Jazz say first rounder Ace Bailey will report
on Saturday, with the news conference on Sunday and practice
on Monday. Messiah Jerry is out as president of the
Raptors after thirteen years there. Toronto gave general manager Bobby
Webster an extension. Florida Panthers playoff MVP Sam Bennett signed
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an eight year extension. The NHL and its players union
agreed to an extension of the CBA through twenty thirty.
The league's regular season will increased eighty four games per
team in a year. The NHL Draft started tonight. The
Islanders took defenseman Matthew Schafford, number one overall there through
the top ten selections, most of them Canadians won American
(25:43):
in the top ten from Boston College. The Boston Bruins
took center James Higgins to Major League Baseball sho Hey Otania.
The Dodgers let off the game at Kansas City with
a home run, his twenty ninth of the year. Dodgers
at Royals, now one to one in the top of
the second inning, all so in progress. Mariners tied one
to one at Texas bottom of the second. Cow Raleigh
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of the Mariners will be in the home Run Derby
next month. Also in Ronald Lacuna of the Braves, but
defending derby champ Taoskarnandez of the Dodgers will not be
in it this year. The Giants are tied at the
White Sox one to one in the top of the fourth,
still a rain delay at the start for the game
in Atlanta. The Braves due to host the Phillies tonight.
Phillies half game back at the first place Mets in
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the NL East. The Mets are losing top of the
sixth at Pittsburgh by words five to one over New
York and Mets pitcher Griffin Canning did have surgery for
a torn achilles. The Yankees are first in the AL East.
Half game over Tampa Bay Toronto three back, Yankees winning
three nothing over the A's top of the fifth inning,
Ray's winning seven to five at Baltimore in the top
(26:48):
of the fourth, Blue Jays still winning three nothing at Boston,
bottom of the fifth. Red Sox have lost five in
a row.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Back to you, all right, thank you, Steve, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I couple Rob g and for Rod Parkham COVID, Washington
on a funky flashback Friday.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Thanks for hanging out with your boys.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
And just to put it, get back on the conversation
we were having, actually, Alex, can we run that soundback?
Just for those who may be checking in just to
what pagebackers had to say kind of about how people
that have been covering Kaitlyn Clark and the pressure she's under.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Here's what pays back.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
She handles it with grace and the pressure that she's
put on every single night's perform at the level that
she does. It's inhumane, really, like to expect people to
be perfect and to not have off games or off
nights and if something's if she doesn't go like eight
for ten from three, like.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
People are questioning things.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
It's just it's unfair.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
To have to do with that.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
All right, rob Gie, you said you had some thoughts
about that portion of the conversation. We both agree on
that she's a great human being. Her being paid, yes,
But now this one.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
You heard the guy, the reporter snicker when she said
it's inhuman she has to deal with criticism.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
He said, who's criticizing Kaylyn Claren?
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Like, I've looked it up and we had this stat
we were talking about before the show. Since she's come
back from injury, Kaitlyn Clark is one of twenty three
from three point Land their last three games and actually
on the season This is a crazy stat She's one
of twenty eight from deep on the road.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I had no idea.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
You know why, I had no idea why because nobody
talks about Kaitlyn Clark in a negative light no matter
what she does, and most of the time it's positive.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
No matter what she does. It's yo.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Did you see Kayln Clark with fourteen assists yesterday? Do
you see Kaylin Clark? She had three straight threes in
a span of like ninety seconds. One of them she
had to chase down her teammate to get the ball
from her like Kobe and pull up from thirty five feet.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
It was incredible. Did you see Kaylyn.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Clark got elbowed in the back by some hooligan on
another team? How dare they not protect her? Not a
single person ever brings up that Kaitlyn Clark in this
case is one for twenty three from three in the
last three games.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
You know why, because Kayln Clark is one of them ones.
She is Steph Kurr.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Not just in the shooting in that Steph Curry outside
of Rob Parker, nobody points out when things went bad
for Steph Curry.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Man. You know that's been my biggest issue.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Rob has been the only person that I know of
who will beat that stat into the ground that you know,
Steph was over thirteen from you know, from the field
and playoff games in the last three second he had it.
Nobody else cares because Steph Curry makes you feel good
when you watch him play. Steph Curry has become almost
a sympathetic figure in the eyes with a lot of
people because he's the little engine that could. He's the
(29:32):
guy wasn't supposed to make it who made it, And
not only did he make it, he became arguably the
best player in the league for a point period of time.
Kaylen Clark is a unassuming you know, a white girl
in a predominantly black sport who has been cooking people
for three or four years now. Everything she does is covered.
It is under magnifying glass, but it's covered from a
(29:53):
slant that benefits her. I don't know anybody who is legitimate,
who is being honest, has a negative thing to say
about her. So I do what Paige Becker said to me.
Maybe she meant in a different way, but like, come on.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That's what I'm saying. I think she meant it the
other way.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I think she meant the fact that the scrutiny, the coverage,
that everything she's under. And again, if Paige, if Caitlyn
were to shove somebody, that's the biggest news. If she
got shoffed, biggest news, she hits ten threes, big news,
she's you know, all these things becomes the conversation.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
And I think she was just saying, this is me
speaking for Page.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
That like, Man, I can't imagine I Page had enough coverage, right,
I went to Yukon, I was a star.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I'm sure she was a star in high school. Everybody
covering around locally.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
She's been number one, number one her whole life, exactly,
so I know what that's like. Now you amplify that
by ten. I can only imagine when that would be like.
And it's And we talk about Page being a very empathetic,
sympathetic person, very well rounded person, a person who is
in tune with all the whole being of a person.
(31:04):
I think she's getting in the psyche of man. I
can't imagine having to deal with that where every single
thing I do is under a microscope. But to your point,
here's the thing that we're getting to with Caitlyn Clark
in the covers with her Rabji. We're getting to the
point where, and this is a dangerous place where we
ignore the fact that she had thirty and ten last night.
We only really get excited when she gets shoved to
(31:25):
the ground. We only really get excited when she did
some you know, I can't feel my face thing in
front of an opposing bench or something. We only really
get excited when Angel Reese has something to say about her.
And that's a dangerous part to me, where what she
does becomes so common that we take it for granted.
We're just like, oh, she had thirty and ten whatever,
who cares?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
And it's like, oh, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
And the stats she's putting up, the numbers she's putting up,
the rates she's doing up, and the fact that she
came into the league took her a month a month
and a half to get kind of acclimated. And from
then it has been Asia Wilson's the best player. But
she's been right there, you know, for as far as one, two,
three best player in the league. She balls out, she
doesn't make the Olympics, we all go should have made
the Olympics. She becomes the best, one of the best
(32:08):
players in the second half of that season, Rookie of
the Year and all that good stuff. So it's like
we're almost taking for granted how great she is. And
that's why I think the coverage isn't what you're saying,
Because the coverage of her going two for a from
three we don't talk about it. Her putting up twenty
five and eight, we don't talk about it. It's only
when it's drama infused or something spectacular infused. And I
(32:29):
think that's a bad place because I don't want to
be one of those people, and I think the league
as a whole don't want to be in a place
where we take what she's doing for.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Granted and how special she is. But you brought up
a great point.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I do think there is something too for her case
mid America, white woman from mid America and just kind
of has that appeal dude to folks who didn't care
about the WNBA now are singularly rooting for her alone.
Steph Curry, you mentioned kind of the the average man.
He's only sixty three, sixty two and a half, three
seers what I would give to be sixty three, right know,
that's an average average. But as far as you know,
(33:03):
that's reasonable sixth Street. And he's the baby face assassin
and he's quiet. He doesn't get in a lot of things.
He's not quite like Lebron, where Lebron is so passive
aggressive Lebron, you know, I thought I was the wash king.
I had forty tonight, yeah, but you lost by forty
tonight rock Oh my bad. I ignored that part, you know.
And he jumps in and everything. And I love this
about Lebron, similar to the page. He'll speak about things
he stands up for def but that also will rub
(33:24):
people the way because he jumps in everything. You know,
he's kind of you know, there's some other people at
media who do that. They jump in everything. Then they
always got a backtor. I shouldn't have done that. I
apologize to my wife, his wife, their wife. I should
have battle my gosh, it's okay to double dutch something,
you know, Shit, when can I get in?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
When can I? Maybe I'll dump in this one, maybe
not this one. Everybody's just jumping my content. My goodness.
You know, you're right.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I don't know if I'm coe gang content over everything gang,
you know, I just it's maybe that said, that's a
flaw of mine, rober I just can't act like I
care about everything when I don't or want to jump
in or be the hero in every conversation and have
this poetic moment but the camera on me.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
What's interesting is that you're very well spoken. I don't
say that worth with you, but you're a very well
spoken individual. You're a very thoughtful individual. So I know
that you have thoughts off the camera. Yeah, all of
these things that whatever we're going to talk about on
air off the air. But the fact that you have
the restraint not to, you know, is kind of refreshing.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You know why, And I mean will break here, but
I mean it's sincerely. One thing I learned Robbie being
a news anchor, and you kind of have to.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
You can't. You're trying to be impartially. You're trying to
be in as far as what you're portraying.
Speaker 6 (34:34):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
You know, I'm opinion that I got all the types
of things to say about, but when you're a news anchor,
you can't just I can't come on and be like
I hate Biden, I love Trump, I hate Trump, I
love Biden.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
You can't. You can't come out and do these types
of things.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
What you learn is there's a lot of people, Robbie,
I've learned who say a lot but don't do a lot.
And I've because I've covered so many people around the
Greater Los Angeles area. You see people doing the real
dirty work, really trying to change the community, who will
never be spotlight or highlighted, or maybe we did just
spotlight them. That's why I'm familiar with our reporters did it?
(35:06):
Or I'm interviewing this person who's really doing the dirty
work and really doing these great things, and they'll never
have the microphone.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Get some of these folks who do who just talk it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
And I just realized, I'm like, there's another there's some
parts of the fight don't have to always be projected.
You're just doing the dirty work. You're doing the work
behind the scenes. You're really caring, you're changing your little world.
Might be ten people, but you're changing those ten people
who will change another ten people. And it's compounded interests
on that. So I just got out of the business
of like having to make sure you see that I care.
(35:36):
And I'm a little a wait with the camera. Ready, okay,
we go, look at me. I'm about to go do
this thing. And I'm not mad at people do that,
but I just I don't have to scream at everything
and every jump in every battle to prove that I
care about the battles in which I do.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
When you say that you got to pivot away from
certain conversations that I'm dealing with.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
You right now, I'm not dealing with you right now.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
That was pretty funny. That was doing all right.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
There's somebody who said I make a lot of money,
but it ain't enough me.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Is he making the right decision with that? We'll tell you.
It is the cup.
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We're kind of up against it, rob, so I do
want to get to this quickly than Reeves as basically
declined the Mac extension for the Lakers that would have
paid him eighty nine million dollars over the next four years.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
So you're talking a little.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
The twenty twenty two is twenty three twenty two bucks
twenty two million dollars a year, which is obviously good money.
But there's a lot of guys. I'm sure he his
agent probably look at and say, well, if he's getting
that kind of money, yep, I know we can get
that much.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Josh Getty's about to get thirty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Year, right, Josh Getty reported Josh Getty is a very
versatile player. Is nice, but here's no massive separation between
he and Austin Reeves. Austin Reeves putting up his career
numbers and assist. He gave you twenty a game, gave
you six assists, five boards as well, so and gave
you almost three threes a game played very well. Can
control the ball, can get other people of the shots.
(37:44):
I'm gonna get straight to my my thing on this.
And they say he has all intention of being a Laker.
He's come out plenty of times. I love LA don't
want to leave it. I love the team, I love
the city. I love the golf here. If you know him,
he loves the golf. I got a chance to ask him,
I said while he sliced, and he was like, stay
on top of it, man, And I said, I all
that to say, Well, with the new ownership Rob g
Mark Walters and the crew and the way the aprons
(38:06):
are going, I said, the NBA is turning into the
Hell's kitchen talking about aprons and cooking and all that
with the second.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Apron and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
To me, I look at this as now you're gonna
have to put the money where your mouth is, meaning,
all right, do you want to remain a Laker? And
also do you want to have a chance to compete,
because part of that may be like I just did
today and like you do all the time for yourself.
I just got a haircut. You might have to take
a haircut now. The Lakers will love you at twenty
two million dollars, right, makes sense, But forty million dollars
(38:35):
forty two million dollars, and I'm a fan of his game, bro,
I can't pay you all that, especially with the aprons
of the way thing is, especially knowing I'm gonna have
to just resign Luca here soon, and especially knowing it's
still not enough this team comprised. I need more. I
gotta get more, guys. I can't pay you that kind
of money. So if you love LA, we can work
out a deal. I love you, and I love you with.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
A three.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Thirty million thirty one, okay, cool, I love you with
a three Austin Reeves, but I can't love you more
than that. And to me, if you're really saying what
you want, you want to stick around here, you want
to have a chance, could bete for championships, then that's
what it's gonna have to be.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Yeah, Because the offer that they made on the table,
which is the most like, it's not like they wanted
to only off erhm this masch This is the most
they could offer him right now because the weird contract
was twenty two million a year next offseason when he
outside of his contract. So this time next summer, he's
gonna be eligible for five years to forty six.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Nah, bruh, Yeah, it's gonna be a no for me. Dog.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
So to your point, I love Austin Reeves at fourteen
million dollars. I love Austin Reeves at twenty four million dollars.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I think I like him at thirty.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
I don't know how I feel at thirty four to
thirty five, like, And that's gonna be an interesting situation
for the Lakers and for a lot of teams moving forward.
Is the way this second April thing is. And we
saw that with Boston right now.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Uh huh. Drew Holliday is absolutely worth.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
The contract that he's getting, you know, right now, the
problem is he's not worth it to me in Boston.
And when I gotta pay Jason Tatum fifty five, I
gotta pay Kayleum Brown fifty five, Like, there's not enough money.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
To go around to give you what you think that
you're worth.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
And that's gonna be fascinating to see because Austin Reeves
is very quickly gonna go from one of the great
bargains in the NBA to either appropriately paid or even
overpaid in about a month. That it's interesting to see
how Laker fans and NBA fans are gonna respond to.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
That and be careful.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
And I think he wants to be or I truly
believe him because I think he is wise enough to know,
especially because he didn't. He never thought this was gonna happen.
So this is all gravy, you know what I mean,
the success. I'm a Laker, and this is all just
a gravy for him. But don't go to the Wizard's
putting up twenty five and nobody know you
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