July 13, 2022 • 38 mins
Former NFL offensive lineman and FOX Sports Radio Weekend host Ephraim Salaam is in for Rob, and he and Chris explain why Andre Iguodala saying that Rasheed Wallace would have been better than Giannis Antetokounmpo if he played today is just the latest example of past and current players going out of their way to disrespect the Greek Freak, and what JaMarcus Russell still doesn't understand about why he flamed out of the NFL. Plus, NBA champion and FOX Sports Radio NBA analyst Eddie House swings by to discuss the Donovan Mitchell trade market, the likelihood that Kevin Durant ultimately ends up with the Phoenix Suns, and much more!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks for listening to The Odd Couple podcasts. Be sure
to catch us live every weekday from seven pm to
ten pm Eastern four to seven pm Pacific, or Fox
Sports Radio. Find your local station for The Odd Couple
at Fox Sports Radio dot com or stream us live
every day or the iHeartRadio app by searching f s
(00:22):
R party you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. All right,
it is The Couple. I'm Chris. He's eat from We're
live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios, hour number two
of a three hour show on a worship Wednesday. We
got Eddie House, NBA Champion, joining us at the bottom
(00:45):
of the hour, and then we'll close it out with
shop talk, as we do every Wednesday. Eve from let's
stick with the NBA and the Yanni Santi Decomb who
many people, I being one of them, believe it's the
best player in the world. Where are you at on that?
By the way, Yeah, I don't see any any argument,
(01:08):
you know, Okay? Cool? I would love I would love
to argue with you, but I don't see any argument.
I agree, but everyone doesn't agree. And Andrea Guadala, who
is one of the most respected players in the league.
(01:28):
Now I will say this. I believe Rob g correct
me if I'm wrong. Do you remember didn't Andre Guadolla
say Kyrie Irving was one of the twenty best players ever?
That is correct? Okay, so so so, just just for
some context, this little context, he said that Rashid Wallace, well,
(01:52):
I just let let him say it. Here's what he
said about Rashid Wallace and Rashi Wallace. Some player Mashee
Wallace probably could have been top five player in the
league for a ten year stretch. He just chose, I
just I'll do my thing over here. He was shooting
threes from half court. No, he shoot half court shots
(02:14):
left handed and right handed. If Shi Wallace played in
the minor day basketball today, if he played in our
league today, he'll be the top five player in the league.
I don't believe that he'd be better than be honest,
and I love be honest. Go ahead, I'll let you
go first. Is he basing that purely on Rashid's wallace
ability to shoot threes as a as a big It
(02:36):
sounded like it, But because he was actually a career
thirty three percent shooter from three, Yeah, like he could
of course, and he was one of those stretched fours
that we saw very very rarely in that time, right, right,
that was just like, oh, you can't leave him open
out there. But to say the rash Wallace, who was
(02:57):
a good player, dynamic player, was better than Yannis into
takumpo and everything he does in a game, his mobility,
his ability to get to the bucket, his ability to
play defense on anybody, I just don't see the correlation.
I don't see that. And when you look at Jannis
(03:21):
and what he can do offensively and defensively, he's dominant
at both. And there are very few players in the
history of our league, well especially in today's NBA, who
can be dominant at both. You just don't see a
(03:42):
lot of that anymore. That's one of the things that
make Lebron so great. Kobe the all time, goat Michael Jordan.
It was about both ends of the court. And guys
now like to save themselves. Yes, right, I'm gonna give
you I'm gonna score forty, but don't expect me at
(04:03):
not a good defense. Don't expect me to rotate and
you know, block him shot. And and you see someone
like Jannis who is in constant motion the entire game.
Just watch him play. He is up and down the
whole game. There are very few times where he's standing
(04:26):
off in the corner or he's just hanging out under
the rim. And so Rashid Wallace never had to be
on like that. The ball, the offense never had to
go through him like that in terms of bringing the
ball up the court. No, setting the offense right, attacking,
(04:47):
that wasn't part of it. So you can't even could
he have done that? We don't know what this is.
The only thing that Andre Guadala could have said that
would have made sense, kind of related to what he said,
is had rashi Willass grown up in today's era, I
(05:09):
think he would have developed the skills to be better
than you. Honest, if you say that, maybe I can
see that. But but to say rash rashi Willass as
he was, And to your point, Rashid was a great player,
a four time All Star. And to throw up all
(05:31):
you were shooting, you know, three pointers left handed from
half court. Yeah, yeah, in the pre game. You're not
coming across the half court and shooting the three. No,
And to your point, Rashid was at that time a
stretch four. And I used to say about Rashid. I
(05:51):
like that he's got the ability to step out and
hit the three and keep the defense honest. But I
also say this, but he ain't Dirk Navitski. No I
said he needs to be on the block Moore. Rashid
was out there a little too much for my liking
because he wasn't this tremendous shoot. He was a good
(06:14):
shooter from three, but like I said, thirty three percent
for his career. The only seven footer at that time
I didn't mind being perimeter oriented was Dirk because he
was just a natural born shooter or had developed it
coming up as a kid. And Rashi's the other thing
about Rashid, And gotta give Yannis credit. Yannis has taken
(06:38):
up the challenge of being the man, and it's so
much so that he didn't even leave Milwaukee to join
a super team. He stayed there, won a championship without
a second superstar. And I know Rashid was as tough
as they come, so I'm not gonna say he didn't
(07:00):
take up the challenge. But Rashid had number one talent,
but was more of a guy that wanted to blend in.
He didn't want to have to carry the team every night,
deep into the playoffs and win the championship because when
he was the number one guy, he was the number
(07:21):
one guy in Portland never a pretty good team. They're
a good team, but they couldn't get over the hump.
And the thing that made Rashid fit in so well
with Detroit and when championships with them and make a
couple of all star teams was that when he went
there from he didn't he didn't. He blended right in
(07:43):
like a role player. He didn't mind just having a
role right And that's what made it work. He never
averaged more than he averaged fifteen points one time in Detroit.
Every other year was under fifteen points, twelve points, thirteen,
fourteen points a game. He had been a nineteen point
score in Portland. And that mentality, I give him credit
(08:05):
similar to Mark Aguire, to be honest, right, Aguire did
the same thing when he went to the Choice. I'm
not ripping sheet for it, but it also says Yannis
would not do that because Yannis wants to be that guy,
that number one guy, and has that mentality, and so
I iggy Iggy sometimes some of the stuff, I'm sorry,
(08:29):
Kyrie's the top twenty player of all time, and Rashid
would be better than Yannis. How he don't handle the
ball like Yannis. He don't. He shoots it better, that's it.
And he never was allowed to handle the ball like
Yannis for a reason. You go like for a reason.
And when you just look at pure numbers bound like
(08:49):
in past, like, numbers don't lie right. And if you
look at playoff averages, Yannis twenty seven points a game,
ten rebounds, twelve rebounds, excuse me, five assists. Rashie Wallace
is thirteen six and one, and don't tell me it's
(09:12):
because Detroit was balanced a lot of that's Portland too,
right like so wesh, I'm not taking anything away from
Rashie Wallace r. But to say out loud that, out loud,
he's better than Yannis, I don't know how. What's the
Rashie Wallace got to MVP voting. You mentioned numbers Ephraim
(09:38):
when he was in Portland. Rashid, that's the man. In
ninety eight in the playoffs he averaged four point eight rebounds,
ninety nine four point eight rebounds, two thousand and six
point four rebounds, And you're Yannis is the best rebounder
in the NBA I and she was six ten and
(10:00):
that's because he was outside a lot. But yeah, I'm
just saying, like, you're right, it's it's but it leads
to a bigger issue, and this is it seems to
be somewhat of a disrespecting of Yannis Aunt de coupo
jj Reddick. You might remember a few months ago had
his podcast had Joel Limb beat on and said Yannis
(10:22):
wasn't a top three player in the league. The Athletic
did a survey of former players after Milwaukee won the
championship in twenty twenty. The player said Yannis was the
third best guy in the league after a historic finals performance.
(10:43):
Historic you remember how great he was in those finals
against Phoenix. They had Kevin Durant number one, who Yannis
had beaten in the playoffs, Lebron James two, and then
Yannis number three. I want to ask you. I got
a theory and I talked with Rob g about this,
but I want to hear yours. Do you think there's
a little bit of a disrespect for Yannis and why
(11:06):
among players? I do um number one Yannis is not
from here, So you think that factors in right. People
don't respect Yokovic either, but the last but Luca, although
(11:28):
some people a little subtle hate on you Luca too. Yeah,
but what I'm saying is the last four MVPs aren't
the last four years of MVPs. The guys aren't from
this country, right, right, Like NBA they started here, right,
the basketball started here, and so there is a bit
(11:52):
of uh, yeah, he good, but you know he didn't
grow up in the au circuit. Year all of these things, right, Like,
all of these things matter when guys are evaluating other guys.
The guys, the group of guys that are NBA, now,
(12:13):
they grew up together, like when remember when Carmelo and
Chris Paul and and Lebron and they all like they
but because they know they've known each other for a year,
they grew up into this together, right, right. So this
notion that the best players are in the NBA are
(12:36):
not from here and grew up in the same circuit
that the majority of the players have. That bothers some guys. Okay,
it does, whether they want to admit it or not,
it's the truth. It's the truth because it's a it's
a culture, it's a swag it's you know, have you
(12:56):
seen the videos, It's different culture of the er in Serbia.
Right after he signed his big deal. Have you seen
him dancing around the fire all that, Like everybody looking
at that like what is that? Like? This is the
best player in the world, what I'm saying, right right, right,
That's so it stops being about what they're doing on
(13:20):
the court and start being about are they representing this
the right way? Well, I think that's a great point,
and I think it's certainly worth considering. I also think
there's another thing that's on the court today's players. Iguadolla.
(13:41):
I told you at the top of the segment saying
Kyrie I was one of the twenty best players ever
to play in the NBA. Kyrie Irving is your favorite
players favorite player, right? Kevin Durant falls into this category.
I think with a lot of players today, Ephraim, there
is a such a reverence for skills. Oh oh his
(14:06):
handle is crazy, Oh oh, his jay, his package is incredible.
He got the three, he got the heavy, he got
the pull up, he got the step back, he got
the mid range. He can you know, turn around in
the post like there's and and those are important skills
(14:26):
to have, and I think Jannis obviously doesn't have all that.
He's got skills, he can dribble it, he can pass it,
all that, but he's not like Kyrie. He doesn't have
the package of the ran type of right and what
I but I say this, it's not a skills competition.
(14:51):
If that's what it is, we can just have that
little thing they do at the All Star Game and
really really raise that the regard of that, Please don't.
I don't even care about get rid of that. Right,
it's not as freaking skills competition. Tom Brady's a gold quarterback,
I don't know what. He probably wouldn't win the skills
comp You remember what he looked like at the combine? Oh,
(15:13):
like his body was made of hair and flesh. That's
it looks better now, better now than he did when
he won the first Bowl. It looked like he looked
like he was built like a bag of groceries, a
bag of good right like. But it didn't matter, right,
would he be Aron Rodgers and the skills competition? I'd
(15:36):
say no, But who's better? That's what? And honestly, there's
probably a little disrespective stuff because he's not the quickest.
He's quick, but you know he's not above the rim.
This is what you have when people make those type
of comments. The guy who he was talking to a
(15:56):
war if it was a podcast whatever that was, he
should have been like, okay, let me ask you question. Andrew.
He should have said, if you're a GM are an
owner and you're starting the team and you can take
Rashid Wallace in his prime or Yannis onto Dkumpo in
his prime, who you're picking right? If he says rashi Wallace,
he's lying stead Instead, we heard the little segment we heard.
(16:22):
There was giggling and yeah, yeah, yeah, and that robbing.
That's a pet peeve of ours. If a dude says
something crazy, pushed backush back. We do that. You and
I do that with each other. Obviously, Robbin I didn't
push back. I mean, come on, all right, it's the
Eye Couple. We got plenty mole in stole. It's Chris
(16:42):
Bruce Are from Salim. JaMarcus Russell has resurfaced and he
is talking about why he failed in the NFL. We
get to that next. It's the Eye Couple Chris and
E from Fox Sports Radio. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Odd Couple with Chris Brussa then Rob
Parker weekdays at seven pm Eastern four pm Pacific on
(17:04):
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Hey, it's me
Rob Parker. Check out my weekly MLB podcast, Inside the
Parker for twenty two minutes of piping hot baseball talk
featuring the biggest names to newsmakers in the sport. Whether
you believe in analytics or the ecast, we've got all
(17:24):
the basis cover. New episodes drop every Thursday, So do
yourself a favor and listen to Inside the Parker with
Rob Parker on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get
your podcast. All right, it is The I Couple Chris
Brussari from Salim on a worship Wednesday, and we're live
(17:46):
from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Brought you by Auto Zone.
They got the free services you need to help you
get back on the road, such as their free autos
one fixed finder service, and they've got more than fifty
six hundred locations nation And why so all those Zonners
here to help you save time and money with those
free services. Getting the job done. Jess got easier restrictions
(18:07):
do apply. Get in the zone, auto zone. All right,
JaMarcus Russell, who I'm sure you remember, the number one
pick in the draft by the Raiders, going down as
one of the biggest busts in the NBA history, only
lasted three years with the Raiders, never ever came close
(18:29):
to panting out. Well, he's been talking a lot lately.
He was on the Pivot podcast with Ryan Clark and
a few other players, and he actually said, if you're
gonna call me a bus, then then put the biggest
on that. And with some expert is thrown in there,
he said, he called me the biggest bust ever. So
(18:50):
he talked about it, but he also I thought that
he he says that he never truly was given a
chance to succeed with the Raiders Ephraim, and he did
a lot of you know, putting it on the team.
(19:11):
Here's a quote. I wasn't doing crazy stuff. I was
trying to chill, relax and trying to win some football games.
Unfortunately I wasn't winning, but I was dealt a expletive hand.
Let's say a bad hand. I'm at practice, bro when
these folks couldn't catch a reverse bro six plays straight.
But you want to go downfield and catch a ninety
(19:33):
yard pass. No, I didn't feel like the Raiders wanted
me at all. Going into that building was like, what's
gonna happen today? I was getting fined for crazy stuff.
They was trying to find ways to get my paper back.
I thought. Then they said I owed them money. Why
would I owe them money? I signed the contracts own.
And so he's doing a lot of passing the buck
(19:53):
and putting it on the Raiders and others for why
he didn't Seed succeed. What are your thoughts on that?
First off, he came into it the wrong way in
(20:14):
terms of remember he had that holdout yep. So he
held out a long time. And if anybody knows anything
about al Davis, he was vindictive, okay, And so that
(20:36):
already put a bad taste in the owner's mouth. And
then when you get there, you're so far behind everybody else,
and then you have the attitude of what he just said,
I get into the building, they trying to take my paper.
Dudes can't catch a reverse like it seems like a
(20:58):
lot of finger pointing. Yes, right, So if he is
saying that now, that means he felt that way then
and his behavior and demeanor and actions. That was the
statement they were making right right, and people can see it.
Even if people can see it, the one thing we
(21:20):
know about being professional athletes, and especially being quarterback, because
everybody's watching all the time, all the time, and if
you're if you don't understand that, which I believe this
young man did not, then you can be a victim
of your own ego. No, I look, I agree with you.
(21:47):
I mean, his numbers are atrocious, fifty two percent completion
for his career, eighteen touchdowns, twenty three interceptions. All right,
and he started twenty five games, went seven and eighteen.
But I read and I said, he's talking a lot.
So he was on the Pivot podcast. He wrote an
article in the Player's Tribune, you know, explaining his whole
(22:08):
really life and what I came away thinking he from
is it seemed like a good guy, but was it
didn't have the emotional stability and maturity to man that position,
Like he said, when he went into training camp his
uncles or before the season, a couple of his uncles
(22:32):
had passed away, which can be tough. They were they
helped raise him and all that, But he said he
was at training camp on the field crying, he said this,
crying like trying to get ready and you know, do
what he gotta do on the field, but crying, and
it hit me like, of course you can feel for
a guy like that, but they're all. All players go
(22:57):
through things. That's not an experience that is not common
and humanity. We all have loved when just die. We
all have maybe family issues. If guys go through divorces,
guys have troubles with you know, their their women, their
baby mama, you know, you know this. There's all types
of drama in people's lives and some people, if you
(23:18):
can't manage that, then you may not have the emotional
stability and maturity to play in these sports where you
kind of have to put some of that stuff aside,
particularly as a quarterback, you won't have it. If you
can't compartmentalize, then it's not gonna happen. Life. Life continues
(23:39):
to happen, and you have to be above it. And people, oh,
that's you know, that's that's that's not a human that's
it happens all the time. And I'll tell you this.
When I was talking about his contract hold out, he
got drafted in April, he didn't resolve that until the
second week of the two thousand and seven season, the
(24:02):
season had started. That means he missed all of mini camp,
training camp, preseason in the first two weeks of the
regular season. You want to talk about starting one game.
You want to talk about being behind the eight ball
right right, and and you already starting off the most
(24:25):
important job of your life from behind right? How are
you possibly able to get ahead? Fox Sports Radio has
the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all
of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and
within the iHeart Radio app search f SR to listen live.
(24:46):
Our next guest is an NBA champion. Fox Sports Radio
NBA analysts mister Eddie House, Eddie, what's happening? What's going on? Brothers?
Now y'all doing? Man? We're good from Salime is in
for Rod Parker? Whatever? Right on? What's up? What's up?
How you doing? I'm good? All right, let's start here.
(25:07):
Their report to that Donovan Mitchell is now, you know
Utah's listening to trade offers and New York we know
it's wanting him forever. But now the latest report says
the Knicks don't want to give up or aren't willing
to give up RJ. Barrett in a trade package for
Donovan Mitchell. I think that's lunacy. As good as RJ.
(25:27):
Barrett is becoming, he's not Donovan Mitchell. What do you
think about that? You think the Knicks should break the bank,
so to speak, to get Donovan Mitchell. It's tough because
the Knicks are the Knicks. It's like, okay, you let
me ask you this because I'm I'm gonna ask you
a question with a question they don't that doesn't move
a needle, that doesn't put them in contention. Now do
(25:50):
you think that that puts them in contention of being
a possible contender coming out to the East. Not right now,
but it does make him more relevant and battles and
make him more I mean, will you lose RJ. Barrett? So,
I mean, okay, but you Donovan Mitchell, I don't think
(26:10):
you know, But I think he's young, and I think
what the problem is what everybody does is give up
on these junk players so fast because they're looking for
instant tank. Everybody's caught up in the Instagram world and
the Twitter instantaneous success. Yeah, but I mean, he's that's young.
That's still I'm talking about. No, are you talking about Mitchell.
I'm talking about RJ. Barrett. We we've seen we've seen
(26:34):
Donovan Mitchell in the playoffs, you know, we've seen him
try to take a team there and try to get
a team there with help. Though, Let's not forget. Let's
not act like Utah hasn't been knocking on the door.
Let's act not. Let's not act like he had players
around him like Mike Conley. Let's not act like he
hasn't had players around him like Rudy Gobert, that Joe
Ingles that has been knocking on the door. And what
(26:57):
has happened. He hasn't been able to trust me. If
he was able to get him over to the the hunt,
we wouldn't be talking about this, you know. So I
don't think he didn't move the wow. Alright, So we
were talking about this earlier, Eddie, and I was saying
that if New York wanted a star like RJ. Barrett
is not a star. We don't know if he'll turn
into a star Verdonovan Mitchell has star potential. He's an
(27:21):
all star. He's somebody who can put butts in the
seat because he's flashy, he brings him in and he's
got game in that aspect. Do you think that's a
good move for them, Well, that's a different story. That's
a different story. If we're talking about box office and
what's gonna bring people to come. I don't think you
(27:41):
need to have I don't think you even have to
put a good team out there for the Knicks fans
to come and support. You know, I think the Knicks
fans are the Knicks fans. They're one of the fan
bases that's always going to support their team. That will
they cry, will they complain, they moan about the wrong
things that the organization is doing, Yeah, they will do that,
but they won't stop their support of that team. So
(28:03):
I don't think that you have to necessarily put somebody
box office in there to start having people feel the arena.
I think Madison Square Garden speaks for itself. Everybody wants
to play there regardless. But my thing is, if so
you're starting to mortgage the future for somebody right now
that we've seen that where okay the right now. As
great as Donovan Mitchell is, I believe he's really good,
(28:25):
he still needs other pieces with him. And do they
have that in the Knicks to make them contenders. Know
they don't. Well, I think we all agree with that,
Like Donovan Mitchell doesn't make them a contender in the East.
I just think he's a lot better or he's better
then RJ. Barrett. You'll still have Julius Randall as a forward,
You'll have Jalen Brunson. That'll kind of be your threesome, um,
(28:49):
and then you you kind of build around them. But
I think they Chris, no, it does's getting it done.
Of course it's not. But it done. Why why you
mortgage your future for something that's not gonna gets He's
played two more years in RJ B. I mean he's
still he's young old, but but it's also you're gonna
(29:11):
it's gonna be draft picks involved in that. They got
eleven first rounders in the next seven years. But what
I'm saying, though other picks, could you can entice another
team with another player to bring in that can start
you can start really piecing this together the right way.
You know you all right, I don't know. I'm not
a Knicks fan. I'm not looking for the Knicks at all. Well,
(29:34):
you're a Phoenix fan, So what you think. I mean,
I don't think they're getting Durant. Are you feel confident
they're gonna get Kevin Durant? No, I think it's tough.
I think it's gonna have to be, you know, a
bunch of teams involved for them to get there. I
think what and this is just my personal opinion about
the whole situation. I think that, um, it's the first
time that we've seen the number one draft pick actually produced,
(29:56):
you know, and seventeen and ten that doesn't get the
opportunity to extend. We've seen guys that have to put
up the numbers like that and actually have god extended.
So it's a crazy I don't know what's going on
behind the scenes of that, but I think that that
has something to do with just everything that happened with
the Phoenix Sun moving into playing this past season. I
(30:18):
think that a young player like DeAndre Adan and everybody,
and I'm not gonna say everybody, but it's people close
to the organization that I've talked to that say that
he doesn't have a motor that you know, they say
a lot of things negative about him, and my comeback
is he's still all that stuff. You're saying about him.
He's still putting up seventeen and ten. And let's not
forget he's a young kid. Everybody expecting somebody to come
(30:40):
in right away. It takes time for these guys to
develop and get used to the rigors of the NBA
and understanding what you have to do and how to
take care of your body. There's Lebron James is an anomaly.
You know, a guy that comes in right away, that's
gonna pop right away and be like special right away.
Those guys are hard to come by, and when they do,
those are usually super stars. We're talking about guys that
(31:01):
are trying to grow into start them. So I think
that they should have They should have signed him back.
That should have been something that they didn't have to
worry about all season long. And if you wanted to
trade him later, then if you have, you know, let
him perform it and you can try to trade him later.
But um, it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be a
lot of teams that have to be involved with Kevin
Durant coming here. I think at the end of the day,
(31:23):
Kevin Durant should really really take a hard look in
the mirror and say, man, okay, when we start talking
about legacy, and if you don't care about that, that's
fine to understand it. But what is your legacy gonna be?
Is your legacy gonna be somebody who always looks for
the next best thing as opposed to making it be.
This is gonna be the best thing, and I'm gonna
(31:43):
be the reason it is the best thing. And that's
a great pointed it. Yesterday I asked Antonio Daniels, what
are the chances you think that k D and Kyrie
played for Brooklyn this year? I think they're pretty high.
It just all depends, because it don't. I'm gonna tell
(32:04):
you like this. If there's a player as great as
Kevin Durant and he says I'm trying to get traded,
I think teams are clamoring to get him, and the
deals should probably had already been done, you know, And
one thing doesn't have to do with the other. Where
everybody keeps saying, well, Rudy Gobert messed up the market, Well,
that business deal has nothing to do with my business deal.
(32:25):
So I'm tired of hearing people say that that's the
thing that kind of set them. Everybody's looking, but well,
you might not get that. We've seen people sell cars
that were Lemons for a high price and was able
to get away with it, right well, or you're looking
to get another Lemons. No you're not. You know, we're
trying to get what we can get and exactly what
we're supposed to be what we paid for. Right. So
to me, when they start setting this standard of you know, well,
(32:48):
he's when he starts saying that the standard was set
with the Rudy Gobert, I think that that's bs because
at the end of the day, every business deal was separate.
Every business deal has its own business to it, and
it's who agreed on what. Now, you can't hold somebody's
you can't hold somebody's cheat to the fire because of
what somebody else deal with how it went. So to me,
(33:08):
I think it's tough. I mean, it should already have
been done. It should be a cutting dry thing. You
think if Lebron James wanted to get trade, you don't
think that would have happened right away. Now. I look,
I'm with you, and I think they both will start
the season in Brooklyn, and I think they should like
and the NET should want it and those players should
want it, so I think that's how they pan out.
All right, that's our man, Eddie House. Great stuff is
(33:30):
always brother, Appreciate you, Eddie. Right on, man, y'all take
care of broutely all right, man, peace. Shop talk is next,
keep it locked a couple Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports
Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.
Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot
com and within the iHeart Radio app search f SR
to listen live. All right. We could talk about how
(33:53):
complicated other banks make it when you need to redeem
your credit card rewards, or we cause are about how
Discover makes it simple for you to redeem your rewards.
You can get cash in any amount at any time.
I mean, it's truly amazing, folks. You can learn more
at Discover dot com. Slash redeem rewards terms do apply.
(34:15):
It's time for shop talk. Ain't nobody ain't still been
a bomb shop? You know that. Ain't nobody you talk
about whoever, whatever, whatever you want to in the bo
It's shop talk, that's right, It is shop talk here
on the our couple of Fox Sports Radio. A segment
we discussed something that but outside of the world of sports.
(34:35):
And this week's topic comes to us from the world
to Hollywood. That's see from domain. As you know, he
from today. July thirteenth is the birthdate of one Harrison Ford.
Shout out to Harrison Ford on his birthday, and so
it got me thinking, he from eightieth. You said it's
eightieth birthday. It's something like that. I know it's a
big number he was born. How are you gonna come
(34:55):
on here day? He just turned eighty. Yes, God, Lee,
do your homework whatever. I'm gonna stop sending you notes,
make you do your own homework. In any event, Ram,
you're the only one here who is a legitimate member
of Hollywood. Your opinion matters, Chris, I've been in movies.
I've literally been in movies. I've literally been on the
(35:18):
big screen. Whatever, Well it's different hashtag reality high. Yes
you know who you y'all gonna I'm gonna get y'all
gonna give me love for this. Guess who in my scene?
One of the guy who was a part across from
me in my scene. He started in New Edition and
(35:41):
he was a star in uh, straight out of Confidence.
He was doctor Dre's little brother. Straight out. Let me
ask you this. Did you play yourself? Na, no, I
was I played a sports ride. Did you play your
I didn't have to say my name? Okay, so you
played yourself then? Okay, that is different sports. So you
played yourself? I played Stephen A. Smith. Nah, then you
(36:04):
played yourself? Well, he from very quickly, because you are
the expert here. What is the greatest Harrison Ford movie
of all time? Oh? Wow? I mean it would have
to be Indiana Jones Templar Doom. I'm with you from.
I don't know which Indiana Jones Temple, but it's Indiana Jones.
(36:26):
It's definitely the Templar Doom. How many were there? Too many?
Too many? Because yeah, by the time they got to
the uh, what is the Crystal Curse of the Crystal
score whatever? That that shouldn't be. Yeah, I didn't see
the last two. You're not gonna watch the next one?
Is what you're saying. It's hard He's eighty. He's eighty,
So I don't I don't think it'll be making anymore.
(36:48):
It's I mean, he's it's one coming out. It's definitely
coming out, and it's definitely coming I don't know if
I want to send an eighty year old, like you know,
it's the Curse of the Ironman Home clear President Danger
was great, like but patre Where's Blade Runner was good.
But look Indiana Jones, man, because that, yeah, that was
(37:10):
right at that age where you know, short round and
it was come on, man, y'all, y'all they were young, y'all,
were y'all even born when Indiana Jones. I don't think
neither one of those. I have the Mummy over Indiana Jones.
And you know what else, what raiders are the Lost arc?
The first one is that considered Indiana Jones? Well, yeah,
(37:30):
that was that was that might be You're not the
movie expert. Do you have to ask? I'm just an actor.
I'm not. You know, I didn't claim to be, you know,
the that's expert commentation only back the curtain. That's exactly
how Chris talks offair too. I'm just the talent, all right.
You got to get to figure everything out out. You're
gonna make me look better. Funny man, Well, what do
(37:52):
y'all think? I was? Hands down? Blade Runner? That movie
is iconic. It was set back in a futuristic set
bro They literally re is iconic. A little a from
is iconic, a little bit of a stretch, not at all.
At the time it was it was it was good
looking up at the time it was groundbreaking. What was
(38:13):
groundbreaking about it? Because it was a look in the
future we hadn't really seen like that, and they remade
it and destroyed it. Oh wow, Ryan Gosselin was not
good rock j what you got? You know, I like
old people doing stuff. And the last good action movie
that old Harrison Ford made was Six Day, Seven Nights
ninety eight. That was a great boy. What it's a
(38:35):
good movie. Yeah, you got to watch something we've heard of.
It's a good movie about that. It's six Days, seven
swimmers in it and he's the comic relief. I'm telling
you gotta watch it. Yeah, I come on, man, you
you got you going back to I'm going back to
gun Small. Thank you keep it locked.
Thanks for listening to The Odd Couple podcasts. Be sure
to catch us live every weekday from seven pm to
ten pm Eastern four to seven pm Pacific, or Fox
Sports Radio. Find your local station for The Odd Couple
at Fox Sports Radio dot com or stream us live
every day or the iHeartRadio app by searching f s
(00:22):
R party you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. All right,
it is The Couple. I'm Chris. He's eat from We're
live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios, hour number two
of a three hour show on a worship Wednesday. We
got Eddie House, NBA Champion, joining us at the bottom
(00:45):
of the hour, and then we'll close it out with
shop talk, as we do every Wednesday. Eve from let's
stick with the NBA and the Yanni Santi Decomb who
many people, I being one of them, believe it's the
best player in the world. Where are you at on that?
By the way, Yeah, I don't see any any argument,
(01:08):
you know, Okay? Cool? I would love I would love
to argue with you, but I don't see any argument.
I agree, but everyone doesn't agree. And Andrea Guadala, who
is one of the most respected players in the league.
(01:28):
Now I will say this. I believe Rob g correct
me if I'm wrong. Do you remember didn't Andre Guadolla
say Kyrie Irving was one of the twenty best players ever?
That is correct? Okay, so so so, just just for
some context, this little context, he said that Rashid Wallace, well,
(01:52):
I just let let him say it. Here's what he
said about Rashid Wallace and Rashi Wallace. Some player Mashee
Wallace probably could have been top five player in the
league for a ten year stretch. He just chose, I
just I'll do my thing over here. He was shooting
threes from half court. No, he shoot half court shots
(02:14):
left handed and right handed. If Shi Wallace played in
the minor day basketball today, if he played in our
league today, he'll be the top five player in the league.
I don't believe that he'd be better than be honest,
and I love be honest. Go ahead, I'll let you
go first. Is he basing that purely on Rashid's wallace
ability to shoot threes as a as a big It
(02:36):
sounded like it, But because he was actually a career
thirty three percent shooter from three, Yeah, like he could
of course, and he was one of those stretched fours
that we saw very very rarely in that time, right, right,
that was just like, oh, you can't leave him open
out there. But to say the rash Wallace, who was
(02:57):
a good player, dynamic player, was better than Yannis into
takumpo and everything he does in a game, his mobility,
his ability to get to the bucket, his ability to
play defense on anybody, I just don't see the correlation.
I don't see that. And when you look at Jannis
(03:21):
and what he can do offensively and defensively, he's dominant
at both. And there are very few players in the
history of our league, well especially in today's NBA, who
can be dominant at both. You just don't see a
(03:42):
lot of that anymore. That's one of the things that
make Lebron so great. Kobe the all time, goat Michael Jordan.
It was about both ends of the court. And guys
now like to save themselves. Yes, right, I'm gonna give
you I'm gonna score forty, but don't expect me at
(04:03):
not a good defense. Don't expect me to rotate and
you know, block him shot. And and you see someone
like Jannis who is in constant motion the entire game.
Just watch him play. He is up and down the
whole game. There are very few times where he's standing
(04:26):
off in the corner or he's just hanging out under
the rim. And so Rashid Wallace never had to be
on like that. The ball, the offense never had to
go through him like that in terms of bringing the
ball up the court. No, setting the offense right, attacking,
(04:47):
that wasn't part of it. So you can't even could
he have done that? We don't know what this is.
The only thing that Andre Guadala could have said that
would have made sense, kind of related to what he said,
is had rashi Willass grown up in today's era, I
(05:09):
think he would have developed the skills to be better
than you. Honest, if you say that, maybe I can
see that. But but to say rash rashi Willass as
he was, And to your point, Rashid was a great player,
a four time All Star. And to throw up all
(05:31):
you were shooting, you know, three pointers left handed from
half court. Yeah, yeah, in the pre game. You're not
coming across the half court and shooting the three. No,
And to your point, Rashid was at that time a
stretch four. And I used to say about Rashid. I
(05:51):
like that he's got the ability to step out and
hit the three and keep the defense honest. But I
also say this, but he ain't Dirk Navitski. No I
said he needs to be on the block Moore. Rashid
was out there a little too much for my liking
because he wasn't this tremendous shoot. He was a good
(06:14):
shooter from three, but like I said, thirty three percent
for his career. The only seven footer at that time
I didn't mind being perimeter oriented was Dirk because he
was just a natural born shooter or had developed it
coming up as a kid. And Rashi's the other thing
about Rashid, And gotta give Yannis credit. Yannis has taken
(06:38):
up the challenge of being the man, and it's so
much so that he didn't even leave Milwaukee to join
a super team. He stayed there, won a championship without
a second superstar. And I know Rashid was as tough
as they come, so I'm not gonna say he didn't
(07:00):
take up the challenge. But Rashid had number one talent,
but was more of a guy that wanted to blend in.
He didn't want to have to carry the team every night,
deep into the playoffs and win the championship because when
he was the number one guy, he was the number
(07:21):
one guy in Portland never a pretty good team. They're
a good team, but they couldn't get over the hump.
And the thing that made Rashid fit in so well
with Detroit and when championships with them and make a
couple of all star teams was that when he went
there from he didn't he didn't. He blended right in
(07:43):
like a role player. He didn't mind just having a
role right And that's what made it work. He never
averaged more than he averaged fifteen points one time in Detroit.
Every other year was under fifteen points, twelve points, thirteen,
fourteen points a game. He had been a nineteen point
score in Portland. And that mentality, I give him credit
(08:05):
similar to Mark Aguire, to be honest, right, Aguire did
the same thing when he went to the Choice. I'm
not ripping sheet for it, but it also says Yannis
would not do that because Yannis wants to be that guy,
that number one guy, and has that mentality, and so
I iggy Iggy sometimes some of the stuff, I'm sorry,
(08:29):
Kyrie's the top twenty player of all time, and Rashid
would be better than Yannis. How he don't handle the
ball like Yannis. He don't. He shoots it better, that's it.
And he never was allowed to handle the ball like
Yannis for a reason. You go like for a reason.
And when you just look at pure numbers bound like
(08:49):
in past, like, numbers don't lie right. And if you
look at playoff averages, Yannis twenty seven points a game,
ten rebounds, twelve rebounds, excuse me, five assists. Rashie Wallace
is thirteen six and one, and don't tell me it's
(09:12):
because Detroit was balanced a lot of that's Portland too,
right like so wesh, I'm not taking anything away from
Rashie Wallace r. But to say out loud that, out loud,
he's better than Yannis, I don't know how. What's the
Rashie Wallace got to MVP voting. You mentioned numbers Ephraim
(09:38):
when he was in Portland. Rashid, that's the man. In
ninety eight in the playoffs he averaged four point eight rebounds,
ninety nine four point eight rebounds, two thousand and six
point four rebounds, And you're Yannis is the best rebounder
in the NBA I and she was six ten and
(10:00):
that's because he was outside a lot. But yeah, I'm
just saying, like, you're right, it's it's but it leads
to a bigger issue, and this is it seems to
be somewhat of a disrespecting of Yannis Aunt de coupo
jj Reddick. You might remember a few months ago had
his podcast had Joel Limb beat on and said Yannis
(10:22):
wasn't a top three player in the league. The Athletic
did a survey of former players after Milwaukee won the
championship in twenty twenty. The player said Yannis was the
third best guy in the league after a historic finals performance.
(10:43):
Historic you remember how great he was in those finals
against Phoenix. They had Kevin Durant number one, who Yannis
had beaten in the playoffs, Lebron James two, and then
Yannis number three. I want to ask you. I got
a theory and I talked with Rob g about this,
but I want to hear yours. Do you think there's
a little bit of a disrespect for Yannis and why
(11:06):
among players? I do um number one Yannis is not
from here, So you think that factors in right. People
don't respect Yokovic either, but the last but Luca, although
(11:28):
some people a little subtle hate on you Luca too. Yeah,
but what I'm saying is the last four MVPs aren't
the last four years of MVPs. The guys aren't from
this country, right, right, Like NBA they started here, right,
the basketball started here, and so there is a bit
(11:52):
of uh, yeah, he good, but you know he didn't
grow up in the au circuit. Year all of these things, right, Like,
all of these things matter when guys are evaluating other guys.
The guys, the group of guys that are NBA, now,
(12:13):
they grew up together, like when remember when Carmelo and
Chris Paul and and Lebron and they all like they
but because they know they've known each other for a year,
they grew up into this together, right, right. So this
notion that the best players are in the NBA are
(12:36):
not from here and grew up in the same circuit
that the majority of the players have. That bothers some guys. Okay,
it does, whether they want to admit it or not,
it's the truth. It's the truth because it's a it's
a culture, it's a swag it's you know, have you
(12:56):
seen the videos, It's different culture of the er in Serbia.
Right after he signed his big deal. Have you seen
him dancing around the fire all that, Like everybody looking
at that like what is that? Like? This is the
best player in the world, what I'm saying, right right, right,
That's so it stops being about what they're doing on
(13:20):
the court and start being about are they representing this
the right way? Well, I think that's a great point,
and I think it's certainly worth considering. I also think
there's another thing that's on the court today's players. Iguadolla.
(13:41):
I told you at the top of the segment saying
Kyrie I was one of the twenty best players ever
to play in the NBA. Kyrie Irving is your favorite
players favorite player, right? Kevin Durant falls into this category.
I think with a lot of players today, Ephraim, there
is a such a reverence for skills. Oh oh his
(14:06):
handle is crazy, Oh oh, his jay, his package is incredible.
He got the three, he got the heavy, he got
the pull up, he got the step back, he got
the mid range. He can you know, turn around in
the post like there's and and those are important skills
(14:26):
to have, and I think Jannis obviously doesn't have all that.
He's got skills, he can dribble it, he can pass it,
all that, but he's not like Kyrie. He doesn't have
the package of the ran type of right and what
I but I say this, it's not a skills competition.
(14:51):
If that's what it is, we can just have that
little thing they do at the All Star Game and
really really raise that the regard of that, Please don't.
I don't even care about get rid of that. Right,
it's not as freaking skills competition. Tom Brady's a gold quarterback,
I don't know what. He probably wouldn't win the skills
comp You remember what he looked like at the combine? Oh,
(15:13):
like his body was made of hair and flesh. That's
it looks better now, better now than he did when
he won the first Bowl. It looked like he looked
like he was built like a bag of groceries, a
bag of good right like. But it didn't matter, right,
would he be Aron Rodgers and the skills competition? I'd
(15:36):
say no, But who's better? That's what? And honestly, there's
probably a little disrespective stuff because he's not the quickest.
He's quick, but you know he's not above the rim.
This is what you have when people make those type
of comments. The guy who he was talking to a
(15:56):
war if it was a podcast whatever that was, he
should have been like, okay, let me ask you question. Andrew.
He should have said, if you're a GM are an
owner and you're starting the team and you can take
Rashid Wallace in his prime or Yannis onto Dkumpo in
his prime, who you're picking right? If he says rashi Wallace,
he's lying stead Instead, we heard the little segment we heard.
(16:22):
There was giggling and yeah, yeah, yeah, and that robbing.
That's a pet peeve of ours. If a dude says
something crazy, pushed backush back. We do that. You and
I do that with each other. Obviously, Robbin I didn't
push back. I mean, come on, all right, it's the
Eye Couple. We got plenty mole in stole. It's Chris
(16:42):
Bruce Are from Salim. JaMarcus Russell has resurfaced and he
is talking about why he failed in the NFL. We
get to that next. It's the Eye Couple Chris and
E from Fox Sports Radio. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Odd Couple with Chris Brussa then Rob
Parker weekdays at seven pm Eastern four pm Pacific on
(17:04):
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Hey, it's me
Rob Parker. Check out my weekly MLB podcast, Inside the
Parker for twenty two minutes of piping hot baseball talk
featuring the biggest names to newsmakers in the sport. Whether
you believe in analytics or the ecast, we've got all
(17:24):
the basis cover. New episodes drop every Thursday, So do
yourself a favor and listen to Inside the Parker with
Rob Parker on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get
your podcast. All right, it is The I Couple Chris
Brussari from Salim on a worship Wednesday, and we're live
(17:46):
from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Brought you by Auto Zone.
They got the free services you need to help you
get back on the road, such as their free autos
one fixed finder service, and they've got more than fifty
six hundred locations nation And why so all those Zonners
here to help you save time and money with those
free services. Getting the job done. Jess got easier restrictions
(18:07):
do apply. Get in the zone, auto zone. All right,
JaMarcus Russell, who I'm sure you remember, the number one
pick in the draft by the Raiders, going down as
one of the biggest busts in the NBA history, only
lasted three years with the Raiders, never ever came close
(18:29):
to panting out. Well, he's been talking a lot lately.
He was on the Pivot podcast with Ryan Clark and
a few other players, and he actually said, if you're
gonna call me a bus, then then put the biggest
on that. And with some expert is thrown in there,
he said, he called me the biggest bust ever. So
(18:50):
he talked about it, but he also I thought that
he he says that he never truly was given a
chance to succeed with the Raiders Ephraim, and he did
a lot of you know, putting it on the team.
(19:11):
Here's a quote. I wasn't doing crazy stuff. I was
trying to chill, relax and trying to win some football games.
Unfortunately I wasn't winning, but I was dealt a expletive hand.
Let's say a bad hand. I'm at practice, bro when
these folks couldn't catch a reverse bro six plays straight.
But you want to go downfield and catch a ninety
(19:33):
yard pass. No, I didn't feel like the Raiders wanted
me at all. Going into that building was like, what's
gonna happen today? I was getting fined for crazy stuff.
They was trying to find ways to get my paper back.
I thought. Then they said I owed them money. Why
would I owe them money? I signed the contracts own.
And so he's doing a lot of passing the buck
(19:53):
and putting it on the Raiders and others for why
he didn't Seed succeed. What are your thoughts on that?
First off, he came into it the wrong way in
(20:14):
terms of remember he had that holdout yep. So he
held out a long time. And if anybody knows anything
about al Davis, he was vindictive, okay, And so that
(20:36):
already put a bad taste in the owner's mouth. And
then when you get there, you're so far behind everybody else,
and then you have the attitude of what he just said,
I get into the building, they trying to take my paper.
Dudes can't catch a reverse like it seems like a
(20:58):
lot of finger pointing. Yes, right, So if he is
saying that now, that means he felt that way then
and his behavior and demeanor and actions. That was the
statement they were making right right, and people can see it.
Even if people can see it, the one thing we
(21:20):
know about being professional athletes, and especially being quarterback, because
everybody's watching all the time, all the time, and if
you're if you don't understand that, which I believe this
young man did not, then you can be a victim
of your own ego. No, I look, I agree with you.
(21:47):
I mean, his numbers are atrocious, fifty two percent completion
for his career, eighteen touchdowns, twenty three interceptions. All right,
and he started twenty five games, went seven and eighteen.
But I read and I said, he's talking a lot.
So he was on the Pivot podcast. He wrote an
article in the Player's Tribune, you know, explaining his whole
(22:08):
really life and what I came away thinking he from
is it seemed like a good guy, but was it
didn't have the emotional stability and maturity to man that position,
Like he said, when he went into training camp his
uncles or before the season, a couple of his uncles
(22:32):
had passed away, which can be tough. They were they
helped raise him and all that, But he said he
was at training camp on the field crying, he said this,
crying like trying to get ready and you know, do
what he gotta do on the field, but crying, and
it hit me like, of course you can feel for
a guy like that, but they're all. All players go
(22:57):
through things. That's not an experience that is not common
and humanity. We all have loved when just die. We
all have maybe family issues. If guys go through divorces,
guys have troubles with you know, their their women, their
baby mama, you know, you know this. There's all types
of drama in people's lives and some people, if you
(23:18):
can't manage that, then you may not have the emotional
stability and maturity to play in these sports where you
kind of have to put some of that stuff aside,
particularly as a quarterback, you won't have it. If you
can't compartmentalize, then it's not gonna happen. Life. Life continues
(23:39):
to happen, and you have to be above it. And people, oh,
that's you know, that's that's that's not a human that's
it happens all the time. And I'll tell you this.
When I was talking about his contract hold out, he
got drafted in April, he didn't resolve that until the
second week of the two thousand and seven season, the
(24:02):
season had started. That means he missed all of mini camp,
training camp, preseason in the first two weeks of the
regular season. You want to talk about starting one game.
You want to talk about being behind the eight ball
right right, and and you already starting off the most
(24:25):
important job of your life from behind right? How are
you possibly able to get ahead? Fox Sports Radio has
the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all
of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and
within the iHeart Radio app search f SR to listen live.
(24:46):
Our next guest is an NBA champion. Fox Sports Radio
NBA analysts mister Eddie House, Eddie, what's happening? What's going on? Brothers?
Now y'all doing? Man? We're good from Salime is in
for Rod Parker? Whatever? Right on? What's up? What's up?
How you doing? I'm good? All right, let's start here.
(25:07):
Their report to that Donovan Mitchell is now, you know
Utah's listening to trade offers and New York we know
it's wanting him forever. But now the latest report says
the Knicks don't want to give up or aren't willing
to give up RJ. Barrett in a trade package for
Donovan Mitchell. I think that's lunacy. As good as RJ.
(25:27):
Barrett is becoming, he's not Donovan Mitchell. What do you
think about that? You think the Knicks should break the bank,
so to speak, to get Donovan Mitchell. It's tough because
the Knicks are the Knicks. It's like, okay, you let
me ask you this because I'm I'm gonna ask you
a question with a question they don't that doesn't move
a needle, that doesn't put them in contention. Now do
(25:50):
you think that that puts them in contention of being
a possible contender coming out to the East. Not right now,
but it does make him more relevant and battles and
make him more I mean, will you lose RJ. Barrett? So,
I mean, okay, but you Donovan Mitchell, I don't think
(26:10):
you know, But I think he's young, and I think
what the problem is what everybody does is give up
on these junk players so fast because they're looking for
instant tank. Everybody's caught up in the Instagram world and
the Twitter instantaneous success. Yeah, but I mean, he's that's young.
That's still I'm talking about. No, are you talking about Mitchell.
I'm talking about RJ. Barrett. We we've seen we've seen
(26:34):
Donovan Mitchell in the playoffs, you know, we've seen him
try to take a team there and try to get
a team there with help. Though, Let's not forget. Let's
not act like Utah hasn't been knocking on the door.
Let's act not. Let's not act like he had players
around him like Mike Conley. Let's not act like he
hasn't had players around him like Rudy Gobert, that Joe
Ingles that has been knocking on the door. And what
(26:57):
has happened. He hasn't been able to trust me. If
he was able to get him over to the the hunt,
we wouldn't be talking about this, you know. So I
don't think he didn't move the wow. Alright, So we
were talking about this earlier, Eddie, and I was saying
that if New York wanted a star like RJ. Barrett
is not a star. We don't know if he'll turn
into a star Verdonovan Mitchell has star potential. He's an
(27:21):
all star. He's somebody who can put butts in the
seat because he's flashy, he brings him in and he's
got game in that aspect. Do you think that's a
good move for them, Well, that's a different story. That's
a different story. If we're talking about box office and
what's gonna bring people to come. I don't think you
(27:41):
need to have I don't think you even have to
put a good team out there for the Knicks fans
to come and support. You know, I think the Knicks
fans are the Knicks fans. They're one of the fan
bases that's always going to support their team. That will
they cry, will they complain, they moan about the wrong
things that the organization is doing, Yeah, they will do that,
but they won't stop their support of that team. So
(28:03):
I don't think that you have to necessarily put somebody
box office in there to start having people feel the arena.
I think Madison Square Garden speaks for itself. Everybody wants
to play there regardless. But my thing is, if so
you're starting to mortgage the future for somebody right now
that we've seen that where okay the right now. As
great as Donovan Mitchell is, I believe he's really good,
(28:25):
he still needs other pieces with him. And do they
have that in the Knicks to make them contenders. Know
they don't. Well, I think we all agree with that,
Like Donovan Mitchell doesn't make them a contender in the East.
I just think he's a lot better or he's better
then RJ. Barrett. You'll still have Julius Randall as a forward,
You'll have Jalen Brunson. That'll kind of be your threesome, um,
(28:49):
and then you you kind of build around them. But
I think they Chris, no, it does's getting it done.
Of course it's not. But it done. Why why you
mortgage your future for something that's not gonna gets He's
played two more years in RJ B. I mean he's
still he's young old, but but it's also you're gonna
(29:11):
it's gonna be draft picks involved in that. They got
eleven first rounders in the next seven years. But what
I'm saying, though other picks, could you can entice another
team with another player to bring in that can start
you can start really piecing this together the right way.
You know you all right, I don't know. I'm not
a Knicks fan. I'm not looking for the Knicks at all. Well,
(29:34):
you're a Phoenix fan, So what you think. I mean,
I don't think they're getting Durant. Are you feel confident
they're gonna get Kevin Durant? No, I think it's tough.
I think it's gonna have to be, you know, a
bunch of teams involved for them to get there. I
think what and this is just my personal opinion about
the whole situation. I think that, um, it's the first
time that we've seen the number one draft pick actually produced,
(29:56):
you know, and seventeen and ten that doesn't get the
opportunity to extend. We've seen guys that have to put
up the numbers like that and actually have god extended.
So it's a crazy I don't know what's going on
behind the scenes of that, but I think that that
has something to do with just everything that happened with
the Phoenix Sun moving into playing this past season. I
(30:18):
think that a young player like DeAndre Adan and everybody,
and I'm not gonna say everybody, but it's people close
to the organization that I've talked to that say that
he doesn't have a motor that you know, they say
a lot of things negative about him, and my comeback
is he's still all that stuff. You're saying about him.
He's still putting up seventeen and ten. And let's not
forget he's a young kid. Everybody expecting somebody to come
(30:40):
in right away. It takes time for these guys to
develop and get used to the rigors of the NBA
and understanding what you have to do and how to
take care of your body. There's Lebron James is an anomaly.
You know, a guy that comes in right away, that's
gonna pop right away and be like special right away.
Those guys are hard to come by, and when they do,
those are usually super stars. We're talking about guys that
(31:01):
are trying to grow into start them. So I think
that they should have They should have signed him back.
That should have been something that they didn't have to
worry about all season long. And if you wanted to
trade him later, then if you have, you know, let
him perform it and you can try to trade him later.
But um, it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be a
lot of teams that have to be involved with Kevin
Durant coming here. I think at the end of the day,
(31:23):
Kevin Durant should really really take a hard look in
the mirror and say, man, okay, when we start talking
about legacy, and if you don't care about that, that's
fine to understand it. But what is your legacy gonna be?
Is your legacy gonna be somebody who always looks for
the next best thing as opposed to making it be.
This is gonna be the best thing, and I'm gonna
(31:43):
be the reason it is the best thing. And that's
a great pointed it. Yesterday I asked Antonio Daniels, what
are the chances you think that k D and Kyrie
played for Brooklyn this year? I think they're pretty high.
It just all depends, because it don't. I'm gonna tell
(32:04):
you like this. If there's a player as great as
Kevin Durant and he says I'm trying to get traded,
I think teams are clamoring to get him, and the
deals should probably had already been done, you know, And
one thing doesn't have to do with the other. Where
everybody keeps saying, well, Rudy Gobert messed up the market, Well,
that business deal has nothing to do with my business deal.
(32:25):
So I'm tired of hearing people say that that's the
thing that kind of set them. Everybody's looking, but well,
you might not get that. We've seen people sell cars
that were Lemons for a high price and was able
to get away with it, right well, or you're looking
to get another Lemons. No you're not. You know, we're
trying to get what we can get and exactly what
we're supposed to be what we paid for. Right. So
to me, when they start setting this standard of you know, well,
(32:48):
he's when he starts saying that the standard was set
with the Rudy Gobert, I think that that's bs because
at the end of the day, every business deal was separate.
Every business deal has its own business to it, and
it's who agreed on what. Now, you can't hold somebody's
you can't hold somebody's cheat to the fire because of
what somebody else deal with how it went. So to me,
(33:08):
I think it's tough. I mean, it should already have
been done. It should be a cutting dry thing. You
think if Lebron James wanted to get trade, you don't
think that would have happened right away. Now. I look,
I'm with you, and I think they both will start
the season in Brooklyn, and I think they should like
and the NET should want it and those players should
want it, so I think that's how they pan out.
All right, that's our man, Eddie House. Great stuff is
(33:30):
always brother, Appreciate you, Eddie. Right on, man, y'all take
care of broutely all right, man, peace. Shop talk is next,
keep it locked a couple Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports
Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.
Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot
com and within the iHeart Radio app search f SR
to listen live. All right. We could talk about how
(33:53):
complicated other banks make it when you need to redeem
your credit card rewards, or we cause are about how
Discover makes it simple for you to redeem your rewards.
You can get cash in any amount at any time.
I mean, it's truly amazing, folks. You can learn more
at Discover dot com. Slash redeem rewards terms do apply.
(34:15):
It's time for shop talk. Ain't nobody ain't still been
a bomb shop? You know that. Ain't nobody you talk
about whoever, whatever, whatever you want to in the bo
It's shop talk, that's right, It is shop talk here
on the our couple of Fox Sports Radio. A segment
we discussed something that but outside of the world of sports.
(34:35):
And this week's topic comes to us from the world
to Hollywood. That's see from domain. As you know, he
from today. July thirteenth is the birthdate of one Harrison Ford.
Shout out to Harrison Ford on his birthday, and so
it got me thinking, he from eightieth. You said it's
eightieth birthday. It's something like that. I know it's a
big number he was born. How are you gonna come
(34:55):
on here day? He just turned eighty. Yes, God, Lee,
do your homework whatever. I'm gonna stop sending you notes,
make you do your own homework. In any event, Ram,
you're the only one here who is a legitimate member
of Hollywood. Your opinion matters, Chris, I've been in movies.
I've literally been in movies. I've literally been on the
(35:18):
big screen. Whatever, Well it's different hashtag reality high. Yes
you know who you y'all gonna I'm gonna get y'all
gonna give me love for this. Guess who in my scene?
One of the guy who was a part across from
me in my scene. He started in New Edition and
(35:41):
he was a star in uh, straight out of Confidence.
He was doctor Dre's little brother. Straight out. Let me
ask you this. Did you play yourself? Na, no, I
was I played a sports ride. Did you play your
I didn't have to say my name? Okay, so you
played yourself then? Okay, that is different sports. So you
played yourself? I played Stephen A. Smith. Nah, then you
(36:04):
played yourself? Well, he from very quickly, because you are
the expert here. What is the greatest Harrison Ford movie
of all time? Oh? Wow? I mean it would have
to be Indiana Jones Templar Doom. I'm with you from.
I don't know which Indiana Jones Temple, but it's Indiana Jones.
(36:26):
It's definitely the Templar Doom. How many were there? Too many?
Too many? Because yeah, by the time they got to
the uh, what is the Crystal Curse of the Crystal
score whatever? That that shouldn't be. Yeah, I didn't see
the last two. You're not gonna watch the next one?
Is what you're saying. It's hard He's eighty. He's eighty,
So I don't I don't think it'll be making anymore.
(36:48):
It's I mean, he's it's one coming out. It's definitely
coming out, and it's definitely coming I don't know if
I want to send an eighty year old, like you know,
it's the Curse of the Ironman Home clear President Danger
was great, like but patre Where's Blade Runner was good.
But look Indiana Jones, man, because that, yeah, that was
(37:10):
right at that age where you know, short round and
it was come on, man, y'all, y'all they were young, y'all,
were y'all even born when Indiana Jones. I don't think
neither one of those. I have the Mummy over Indiana Jones.
And you know what else, what raiders are the Lost arc?
The first one is that considered Indiana Jones? Well, yeah,
(37:30):
that was that was that might be You're not the
movie expert. Do you have to ask? I'm just an actor.
I'm not. You know, I didn't claim to be, you know,
the that's expert commentation only back the curtain. That's exactly
how Chris talks offair too. I'm just the talent, all right.
You got to get to figure everything out out. You're
gonna make me look better. Funny man, Well, what do
(37:52):
y'all think? I was? Hands down? Blade Runner? That movie
is iconic. It was set back in a futuristic set
bro They literally re is iconic. A little a from
is iconic, a little bit of a stretch, not at all.
At the time it was it was it was good
looking up at the time it was groundbreaking. What was
(38:13):
groundbreaking about it? Because it was a look in the
future we hadn't really seen like that, and they remade
it and destroyed it. Oh wow, Ryan Gosselin was not
good rock j what you got? You know, I like
old people doing stuff. And the last good action movie
that old Harrison Ford made was Six Day, Seven Nights
ninety eight. That was a great boy. What it's a
(38:35):
good movie. Yeah, you got to watch something we've heard of.
It's a good movie about that. It's six Days, seven
swimmers in it and he's the comic relief. I'm telling
you gotta watch it. Yeah, I come on, man, you
you got you going back to I'm going back to
gun Small. Thank you keep it locked.
Hosts And Creators
kelvin washington
Rob Parker
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
Introducing… Aubrey O’Day Diddy’s former protege, television personality, platinum selling music artist, Danity Kane alum Aubrey O’Day joins veteran journalists Amy Robach and TJ Holmes to provide a unique perspective on the trial that has captivated the attention of the nation. Join them throughout the trial as they discuss, debate, and dissect every detail, every aspect of the proceedings. Aubrey will offer her opinions and expertise, as only she is qualified to do given her first-hand knowledge. From her days on Making the Band, as she emerged as the breakout star, the truth of the situation would be the opposite of the glitz and glamour. Listen throughout every minute of the trial, for this exclusive coverage. Amy Robach and TJ Holmes present Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial, an iHeartRadio podcast.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.