May 3, 2025 • 49 mins
Shannon Sharpe, Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson and NBA Legend Robert Horry react to Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick criticizing the team's conditioning after their NBA Playoff elimination, LeBron James and Luka Doncic's contract situation, Ryan Garcia being upset by Rolando "Rolly" Romero in a welterweight face off, and much more!
01:47 - Lakers injuries released after being bounced from playoffs
09:50 - JJ says Lakers gotta get in championship shape
27:48 - Lakers could offer Luka extension
30:46 - Lebron says its not his job to worry about Luka’s future w/Lakers
32:27 - Ppl close to LeBron dont rule out him closing his career elsewhere
38:30 - SGA on Clippers trade
45:18 - Ryan Garcia Upset
47:30 - Q and Ayyyyee
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
After the Lakers were bounced in five by the Wolves,
injury news has been creeping out. First and them are
I revealed that Lebron James suffered a grade to MCL
sprain and it's left knee in the fourth quarter of
Game five. The injury intails of three to five week
recommended recovery timeline. Then it was reported that Austin Reeves
was dealing with a left big toe's sprain during the playoffs.
Was considered the two to four week injury, but he
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gutted it out. Reeves was reportedly not walking on it
on days off to try to get through the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You know, the internet's reacting because it seems like every
time a Lebron lose, they say, see this is why
he lost Rob.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You close to this situation.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
What I told LO when they did and said would
they need a big I said, they only gonna go
so far.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I said, because if Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Don't give you quality minutes now, you're gonna put him out.
And you ain't got nobody else to put in there
as a big. You got Lebron or really playing the
four in the four and the five that's too small.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Way, way too small.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And that's why you have to give Jackson Hayes a
chance in that series. And and it was weird when
when when Lebron hit that guy, and I know everybody
always want to say Lebron had antics. I watched his
knee being and that's how I strained my MC and
was out just six weeks. And you know, Lebron is
he's a he's a alien when it comes to that,
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he doesn't get hurt, and so people want to talk
about that. You know, but that team is just too small.
You think about all the teams you could have played.
You got a hold of the wrong one right in Minnesota,
you think about it. They they're just long, they're athletic,
they're tough, and then they pissed off.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
They pissed off at Luca because he bounced him last year.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And so the one thing that coaches do they learn
if you watch how the Minnesota temple was coach Luca,
it was like, no, don't switch. We did that mistake
last year. Put go Barron and his the three. So
we didn't switch this season. And that's one of the
things that you know, they learned that from Boston too,
because that's how Boston was able to, you know, beat
the beat the Dallas marriage because you know, we're not sweeching.
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We came out best defender. And I talked about that earlier,
how lazy guys are. Now, man, it's not even a damn.
It's like, why, it's like, you're a better defender. And
I look at JJ. I'm like, in game in game four,
I'm like a man out did cooking you and your
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best defender is on the freaking bench at Van do
give him a chance. At least he got four file,
six files. You're gonna go to the hole, You're gonna
get about the floor. And so that's why I was
looking at Jason, like, dude, what are you doing. I'm
not even mad at JJ. I'm mad at Nate, that
mad at Scottie cause you two head coaches are sat
right over there and let him do this dumb stuff
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because you can think it's a reason that that's the.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
First time it was ever done the playoffs. Yeah yeah,
but you can't.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I mean you're asking him and I don't care how
great you are, and oh you and I we we
debated this job, like, man, you gotta get it done.
I said, yeah, the minus willing. But the body just
ain't able. The man had you played forty one minutes
a couple of nights before. Now you're running back forty
six on forty year old legs, and then.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
You put forty forty four minutes only in game five.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, and you know, and what people forget is he's
played more playoff games and everybody.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So that's equivalent to, like, I think, four seasons.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So you gotta add four seasons onto the twenty seasons
that he's played twenty two. Yeah, yeah, so he got
to think of that's so that's it. So that's why
you gotta find a way. You got Gabe Vincent over there,
who's got NBA Finals experience, give him some burn.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I think the biggest mistake that the Lagers made all
season was not trying to figure out how the implement
Dalk can connect into the system. Yeah, you know, you
think about him. That's that's the flame throw over there.
You gotta give him a chance, you know, you got
you think about it, you got you talk about scoring,
but then you put Vando in there, who's the.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Better you can dunk connect. Van ain't even looking at
the rim unless it's a lay up on a wide
open dunk. But I think that what JJ Gatom said
about don't connect because he don't he his defensive assignment.
He out there like a blind dog in the me house.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Do I show head isn't Luca and isn't aar And.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But that's the fact. See, that's the problem with the Lakers.
You're getting getting beat off the first dribble. Ninety percent
of the time, are getting beat off the second dribble.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Lebron can't sit in the chair at forty anymore. So
now you've got three guys that really I mean, Lebron
will try to body you.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I mean, yeah, you're gonna chase it down. He's gonna
make some he's gonna make some great defensive plays. But
when you got Luca and ar And you don't have
no I mean, when you had a D you had
some help.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Now you don't have a D.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So now and Jackson Hayes, I mean, sometimes, hey, he
a good lob threat and we'll get it off the rim,
you know, get a rebody to put it back.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
But for the most part he's not. You're not counting
on him to get you much anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
If we get we can steal fifteen twenty minutes from
him a rob Wait good, we wait, we got that
all we wanted.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You know, you know you think about that's all you
need because people don't realize that the reason the Mavericks
was so good last year is because those two bigs
they had, they was erasing all of Luca's mistakes.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Everybody. Yeah, it's like you go for the rack.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay, you got them guys blocking shots, and you know,
it's so people forget how important certain bigs are to
the team because they can erase like what Ad did.
Ad saved him so many times. And I think about
when they played Denver last year. You expect Ady to
do everything, like dude, he can't guard some guys on
the perimeter, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And so you think about Murray Murry like, Okay, I'm
a really good shooter.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I'm going to separate from a d Yeah, eighty keep
the defendant on him.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
That eighty eRASS mistake when he gets to the whole right.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And so it's so many little things like that, and
the reason that I would never want to coach or
be an assistant coach because I'm like, dude, I'm looking
at my arrogance to be like, Look, I played with
three of the best centers in the world.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I don't want seven championships. You're gonna freaking tell me.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, So
I don't been in every situation. There's a reason that
I've won seven championship. There's a reason that Dream respects me,
Shack respects me, Ten respects me because I wasn't afraid
to yell at them and tell them what to do
and put them in the right place, in the right
frame of mind.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And when you got guys that I like that, you're
gonna be good. Man.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's what I like about the Celtics, and that's what
I like about the Calves this year. That's who I
got winning all the Calves. I know y'all don't ask
him that, but I just threw that out there.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You got the Calves. You got the Calve to come
out of the East. I got the Calves. I got
the Calves winning at all. Man.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I don't know why that wrong, because they ain't be no,
they ain't bet none of the top teams. They lost
the ball. I think they best ones, but I think
they lost Boston.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Once they lost to they lost to a okay see,
I think both.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Times, yep, but I'm not worried about it. You know
why why Because playoffs is a different thing. They got
gonna be able to focus on the team, and in
the playoffs, you think about the okay see, okay see
gets a lot of their points. How when Shaan Gilders
gets to the free throw line, you don't get those
free throws because you get the best reps and they
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don't give you that BS that you got called to
go to the street throw line shoot twelve fifteen feet throws.
So I think I think Cleveland this year because of
the way they were playing and those two bigs back there,
Allen and different every Yeah, Boston can play too big
with presiliers of al Harper.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You look at okayc you mentioned it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
They can play two bigs with Hard and Stein and
chet Hungery and see, and tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We learned Houston can play too big.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I shouldn't go in there in Adams who who that
was possible?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But I just say I think though, you know, when
you look at the totality of the thing and the
way fucking Spiders playing, now Spider really realizes that I
need my teammates, and he doesn't try to just do
it all on his own like an MJ, like a
Kobe did you know at times? So he's relying on
this team and I just think it's just and I
really like the way Moby's playing right now.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
He's killing man.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
JJ Reddick said the Lakers have to get in championship shape.
Their individuals that were phenomenal that that were in phenomenal shape.
There's certainly ones that could have been in better shape.
We've got to get in championship shape.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Rob, Are you a fan of JJ publicly taking shot
because we know who he talking about? Hey, first of all,
what does JJ know about championship shape? Has he ever
want a championship.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I just want to know what this championship shape, That's
all I'm asking you know, do you know what championship
shape it is? Because for me, when you talk about
championship shape that you've been there, done that, and you
talking about championship shape, that shit starts in the summertime,
then it goes into training camp.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And then that goes through in the season.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
If you want somewhere in championship shape, he don't take
the last three games off because you say, okay, I'm
gonna get some rest. You use those games to get
in shape. And so for me, I don't know why
he said that, because you already think about Luke already
in the point where he's all mentally all screwed up.
Because the way Dallas got rid of him, right and
he got to sign extension, he might take that ass
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and shot him. He out, So you don't know what
he why he said that. You know, it's just the
weirdest thing to me, I think.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The thing but it seems to me, now you you,
like I said, Rob, you know basketball bodies and you know.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You you you you've been there.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
But it seems to me every year Luca wears down
and he's limping more and more in the playoffs. And
we saw that this year. We saw that last year
and against some of the teams that was wonder where
if Luca gonna play, and we saw him in Boston.
It seemed like every year he's boy wears dow once
he gets to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, but you know what, you know, when you think
about when Luca first got to the Lakers, how they
were humming, and you know what the difference was that
Luca wasn't handing the ball as much. You know, if
you think about the last this is some of the
series here. He wanted the ball every time and to
bring it up. And you when you got tough defenders
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like Minnesota, that's gonna bring it get out.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And so you got Ar, you got the Lebron, you
even got gave Vista to.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Bring it up.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Go stand your ass in the corner and so take
a break. And for me, I look at what he
didn't know the plays and he was trying to get.
For me, they looked so damn good because Ar come down, Lebron,
come down, He'll come down. And they was moving the basketball,
it was cutting, it was just playing basketball.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He's playing instinctively. But then I come down where he
goes that.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
That clothing, he goes to the mid to go to
the high polest and just basketball, drivel the clock out.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
So and it gets to some point where you think
about all the energy Lebron had and because he wasn't
bringing the ball up. Yes, so sometimes you have to
get off the ball, and I don't think Luca can
do that because that's the only way he knows how
to play it.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And that's so you took the words right out of
my mouth. You see, it's easy because Lebron can play
off the ball. You put him in the dunker spot,
you put him in, you put him in the high posts.
You can throw it to him. He can find somebody.
Luca needs the ball. Luca can't play. Luca can't. His
game hasn't evolved yet to where he can play off
the ball like Lebron can. And I think this is
what's going to cause Lebron to play another two more years,
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three more years, because he's off.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The ball and he doesn't have that bird.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Of bringing it up, having to run the set, get
everybody else involved.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Now he's like, hey, y'all got a look at they are.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Let me let me let me shoot from spot up
three's put me in that dunken spot so I can
get the baseline and lay it up a dunket.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Hey, you know what I'd like to see him.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I like to see him just take him to the
post because he got so many posts up moves he
can use because it's about moving quick. I even put
him in an elbow situation. You need to run some
type of pitch post and let him go to work.
That's one, two dribbles to the whole he dunking on people.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, it's efficiency of movement to me, when you get
to a certain age, do I need to take three
steps four steps of five steps to be efficient? Now
I'm taking three because I mean I can say two
later on. And for me, that's what he has to
learn how to do, like just go on the post.
You think about how long Tim duncan play. You know,
he's a different type of player, but Lebron has the ability.
I'm gonna just take you to the post. I'm gonna
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jump HOOKI, I'm gonna do a little fade away and
that's all he has to do. He's gonna still averry
about twenty four to twenty five points like that because
he's that much better than everybody else.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
How many more years you think Lebron is realistically gonna
play because he said this every year they getting out
of the playoffs, like, I don't know how much long
I got And then he's like, hey, he seems to
be like a guy.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
He's gonna ride the train till the will falls off. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You know, the funny thing about Lebron is he is
such a big kid and when you're young and hard
and young and min like that, you can you can
play a couple more years. I think when I hit
my sixteenth season, I feel like a whole far.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I didn't want to do it no more. Mentally that
was strong. I was. That was done.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And so for him, you think about how much you
think when you watch him more up. I think every
time I'm watching when he's smiling, he's dancing every damn night,
And for me, I had nice one. I'm like, dude,
I don't even want to be out here right now
because I'm hurting. But he still has that love, that joy,
that energy, and you know, I think he probably gonna
play like maybe three more years because he ain't gonna
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wait to see what Bryce's gonna do. Even the first
guy to play with two two his sons and the
NBA heat, Brice gonna.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Look like he's gonna fit in that record. Nobody gonna
break it. Yeah, you know, it's it's weird, and nobody's
gonna break those records.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Man. You know, the only person can break a record
like that is someone who's coming straight out of high school.
Maybe scoring he's thinking like the way Lucas scores. But
he ain't gonna make it that damn. He thinking about
who else because Katie is not gonna make it that
much longer. So nobody's ever going These records are gonna
be then be out of this world.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Oh Joe, you think j J shoud taking a shot
at Luca publicly?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I mean, I'm not sure if it was directed at Luca.
I think something like that should be kept in house. Issue,
But listen, and especially something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
To be wrong. I want to know who you think
it was directed that it wasn't directed.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, I mean you're right back that, but listen, something
like that you keep in house. Yeah, yeah, I mean
you he was a future other Lakers, and I had
a head coach really taking a shot that you publicly
mean you could have kept that in house and just
talked me. He could he talk, He could have talked
about something else. But I think he wanted to send
a message. You want to send a message. That's the
way he felt he wanted.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
To send it.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah, it at this point time, I mean, it's got
to be able. You see what happened, and they were
talking about that Nico love. Everybody brought Nico, but that
was a Nico call. That was a ownership call. Yeah,
because that ain't Nico's money. Three forty five, but not
one penny was coming out of Nico's pocket. They made that,
and Nico obliged them and moved it and got you know,
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because they have gotten a bigger package. Yeah, but they
didn't want it to get out because you start calling
around teams and that get out.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh boy, Yeah, it's gonna get back to Listen, I'll
tell you what.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Listen to J J. Reddick and anyone else in the
Lakers organization.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
You know, miss buss Uh, brother Polinka and y'all got
a problem with with Luca not being in shape. Now listen,
we got something. We got some good gym down here
in Miami. We'll we'll get him together. We're getting together
in Miami now. So think about that. Luca, Johannis and
John Moran. We could take all we could take all of.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Them dominant guys. Now that ain't working.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Hey, you know I traded Luca for Hero and and
and Bam, give me up too. I'll give you Luca.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Okay, okay, okay, because now I got and I got
me a shoot it hm. But you're gonna keep a
here a R and here Hero basically the same guys.
That's that's true.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But the thing about Ar is you can use him
for get him to get you something else.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You put him out for something else.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
But what I love about Ar is that how he's grown.
He's gotten better every single year. And if I didn't
tell you, if you didn't know, you would never know
he was an undrafted free agent.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
That's so true. You know. The thing I like about
Ar is he learns from his mistakes.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
And I and the one thing that I think he's
gonna sit back and now that I know that his
toe was hurt, that he wasn't aggressive enough for me.
When Ar is going downhill, he's such a good player,
but when he's trying to think he's shifty with the
rock and gets caught up and lose it, that's not
That's not the Ar I want to see. I think
when you think about how many times when he gets you,
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he just makes a direct line to the basket, plump,
fake should gets you there. I guess the n one
like I don't even think he went to the free
throw line in the last two games because he wasn't
trying to get to the rack. And I don't know,
because it had a lot to do with Minnesota's defense
because they're big and the struggle you watch our ant
man was just bullying him up the top, not letting
him into his his position. So for me, he's going
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to have to learn how to just keep it simple.
What I mean by that is, I'm just gonna take one,
two dribbles, pull up. I always got to get to
the wreck, you know. I got to fake you, pump,
fake you this, and go this way. And and it's about,
like I said, these fishes because if you're really think
about ar he's crafty, but he's not quick with it. No,
he's kind of like Luca. He's just kind of slow
with it. He can get off because the defense is
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moving faster than you are. So that's how you aim
to get those files.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
They just trying to They try to send a message
anywhere you can. If I'm Luca, I will get with
Lebron and say, bro, what you do? What you do?
Can I look? And now I was talking like you
know with you and what you do? I said, you
know what, I know they got Slovenian food. That's that's nutritious.
But see the problem is he ain't a Slovenia. You know,
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you come to America and you try to eat nady food.
We donna added up to it and gets you have
the house over here. Because you go back to look
at Luca his first couple of years when he got
to the NBA, and look out many he is.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
And look a lot of a lot of those European players,
they don't have the bodies like an American players. They're
not gonna have the castle they shoulders in the definition.
Look at yo kitsch, look at Luca, look at Manu,
look at Zingers. That's not how they're built.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
So but if you go back and look at your
kitch when he first got the league and how he looked, now.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
You could tell he put time in.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
He said, man, I'm hey, I ain't finna be no
flash fast lobby'll don't it to be talking about me?
And now three m vps and two runner ups later,
the guys one of the great, one of the historically
great players of all time.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And that's because he made them. He made a.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Concerted effort to get his butt in the gym, to
watch his nutrition, to work, and to become what he became.
But I just think Luca just wears down because last
year he had that same problem. You know, he was
dealing with a knee, and year before that he had
some issues going on. I just think, you know, and
it's hard because the guy's giving you twenty eight eight,
eight and eight, But bro, I.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Need you one hundred percent for the playoff too, or
it's close to it.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And hell, I don't think he's nearly close to that,
especially especially this series here, because he moved like an
old man.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Hey, but they think about it.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
He did lose weight Comparedtive when we first gown the Lakers,
so he lost about ten pounds pounds, so we.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Got to be thinking he's going in the right direction. Yeah,
we gotta go. We got to go in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I'm surprised given that, knowing how a lot of people
saying Luca, you know, hookah Luca, and you know he's
dranking beer and he parted and he doesn't take it serious.
It's hard for me to say that he doesn't take
it serious. But do I think if conditioning could be better, Yes, absolutely,
But I think he takes the game. There is you
don't get to be discount this good by not taking
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the game serious, but I do think his conditioning and
the nutrition can be more on point.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, I think for me when I watched Luca, you know,
I think he should do a lot of agility work
in the summertime, working on his footwork, working on his flexibility,
because a lot of his injuries are coming from just
you know, not being You can tell he's not a
flexible guy.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
No, you know, he needs to do yoga, appilates or
something all summer.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And because when you watch him move sometimes he stays
in front of people and he's so big body that
he bounce off me. He just doesn't do it all
the time. If he works on his footwork, he works
on his feet and agility, so he can become a
decent defender because he can do it.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
He just don't want to. No.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
And the thing is that he's so good on the
other end about that's the problem. He's so great offensively,
like we let somebody else, Hey, we'll do four and five,
y'all have that. Don't even worry about the Luca because
we see he get the man gave you a sixty
to twenty triple double, he can give you a forty
point triple double or fifty point triple double like nothing.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
But uh yeah, I was surprised.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
But let me ask you this, do you think, Nico,
do you think Dallas was right about Luca but was
wrong for the trade.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
S?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You know what was right about Lucas has one of
those questions you have to deep dive into the franchise
and get to know Luca and how his stuff. You know,
I always said when he came into the season, he's
always came in fluffy, yes, and he never came in shape.
And that's one of the things that you can tell,
like when your back start hurting, you know you can
go a couple of years. Remember Ad Yeah, started the
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season off. His back was because he was fluffy, he
wasn't in shape. He's out, yeah, and then he got
then he got in shape and he played whatever the
number game. It's about what you do in the off season.
It's about what you do in condition wise and being
prepared for the grind of the regular season. And I
think with Nico, I agree when he said it wasn't
his call because I just think when Nico messed up,
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when he the one line he messed with said I
didn't know.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
How important Manka was.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
That's but other than that, you just says, yo, man,
I know you can't throw the owners under the bus
and be like, yo, I think I'm doing what I'm
told to do. I work for someone, just like a
lot of you guys do. But I understand where he
was coming from because if you if you really look
at that team and you look at what they had
with the addition of a D, I thought they had
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a position to do something scary because Kyrie, oh, you
forget how good Kyrie is PJ.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Washington, and then you know you got yeah, yeah, but
it was just it was just a bad time.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
But I also think with me, you know, I love
ad is one of my favorite players of all time,
but I think a D moving to the four making
him soft. And what I mean by that is I'm
not saying physically, because it's making him not be aggressive.
You watch him in the last couple of games and
playing game all he did want to shoot threes and
that and you're so effective. Think about when he was
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in New Orleans they gave him the pinch post. He
was doing spinning, dunking on people, shooting threes, setting you up.
But once he said he wanted to be I know
he had budget boogie with him, but it was like
he didn't play the same way. He didn't shoot a
lot of threes. And so for me, it's making him
soft in the sense that I'm gonna I'm gonna sell them.
When I say soft of me selling instead of like
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trying to right defeat through Lina.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look, because Luca is so great, because
he was so beloved.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I mean, they drafted the kid. He was eighteen when
he got there. Yeah, I don't know. It's hard for
me to believe. Nico. You were to go marketing guy
for Nike. You understand who does what, and we moved
the needle nobody you know exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You know what Shaye means the OKC. You know what
Jason Tatum means to Boston. You know what Jaylen Brunson
means to the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And you talking about and and and and and Jaylen
Brunson got traded to the Knicks, Shae got traded to OKC.
So you talk about a homegrown Kobe, homegrown tray Lebron
and Hallway what Dirk meant to that team? So I
agree with you.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I agree with you, Bob. I don't know about that
I'll just say, hey, hey guys, we're gonna move it.
We're gonna move it on. I mean, Luca's out here anymore.
We got to answer the Davis. We're gonna add some
more pieces. Kyrie got hurt. That's what really made it
look bad. Kyrie got hurt. So hey, we get Kyrie.
They probably gonna try to make a run for KD
because KD probably gonna be up out of Phoenix, and
now we might be having a different story. August second,
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the Lakers can offer Luca a four year, two hundred
and twenty nine million dollar extension, or Luca could op
just signed a three year, one sixty five extension with
a player option in twenty twenty eight, which would then
allow him to side a MAX deal in twenty twenty eight.
They give him thirty five percent of the salary cap
for the next five seasons. Once you're doing rob, you
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taking the four years at two twenty nine, three years
of one sixty five with a player option, and then
at twenty eight, let me gonna.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Get that for HUNDI, Hey, I'm taking the four years.
You want that money, you want that guarantee.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You want that guarantee, Buddy, I want that guaranteed money
now and deal with it then. You know, hey, but
think about it, so many guys, you and this day
and age, you take the four years. Hey, I want
to redegotiate my contract. Oh I want to be traded.
You know, it's so many things you can do. So
I'm taking the four years because I'm a I don't
I don't want to. I don't want to trust my body.
If you think about how many injuries he's gotten, I
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have to have to go with the money now, because
you've see it, what happened to him. You see what
happened that so many guys who bet on themselves right right,
and they failed on him.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
So I'm taking the money. What you doing?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
You're taking the money or you're gonna play plate side
three years? What to do with an option? And then
go to the table said, let me let me get
that five. Let me get that five for? Uh?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You got five for?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I mean, well, I'm gonna take that three because if
I'm I'm betting on my body, and I'm only betting
on my body because I ain't never been hurt, so
probably I'm I'm I'm gonna play another three season not
get hurt.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
And go back to the table hit across the head.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Thats just me, but understanding Luca and his injury history,
and it seemed I mean no disrespect in anyway, it
seemed like his body continued to deteriorate, especially towards the
end of the season.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I'm expecting something.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Like that to continue to happen because as you get older,
it don't get better. No, it don't get better. So
you know, yeah, yeah, you know, but listen, what Luke,
what Luca can do. What Luca can do is he
could take that three if he if he adapts and
does everything Lebron does when it comes to taking care
of body.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Now, then you could take that three and bet on yourself.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
But what are the chances of actually doing everything Lebron
does when it comes to taking your body and preparing
yourself in the off season.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
But you know, it's I was, I was.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
We always say that you need to get with Lebron,
but you know it's we gotta also think that you know,
Lebron got great genetics. You know that, you know, we
can just say, oh, you're giving Lebron and do That's
like we can all of us and going to the
gym shot a thousand jumpers.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You know, Kurt, come like Steph, Kurt. It's still gonna
better than that.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
It's just, you know, just sometimes you know, the man above,
God gives you talents, God gives you the genetics, and
so you can tell Luca to.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Do all that. But if the body don't act right,
the body don't act right.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Lebron says, it ain't my job to worry about Luca's
future with the Lakers. Lebron told ESPN, No, that ain't
my job. I don't think, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I know Luca knows how he feels about I feel
about him, and ultimately the trade happen for the future.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
That's not for me.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Luca has to decide what he has to do with
his future. He's twenty six years old. I'm forty, so
he can't be basing on his career off me. That's
just real. But I hope obviously he stays long term.
Laker fans ef and love him. Here La has accepted him.
We love him as a teammate, as a brother, But
ultimately he's got to make a decision for him. It
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I ain't going I ain't going around. I ain't gonna
be around much longer. Probably gonna be alright now another
two three year watch.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Wow, And you're thinking about this Lebron at you know,
at sixty even thirty percent is probably better than have
to leave.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
That's how good he is. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I think, you know, I think Luca, the things he's
doing around the city so far, you know, and think
about what just happened with the defacings of the Kobe
merul and he donating the money, you know. I think
he's trying to do exactly what he did in Dallas,
and that he wants to be a part of community
and as much that he can say, Hey, I know,
you guys are paying me a ship ton of money.
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I'm just gonna be here for you guys and try
to get back the best way I can. So I
feel like Luca, unless you know, the Jokers say hey,
let's play together, he'll be.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
He'll be in a Laker uniform. I like it. I
think the Joke is the only person that probably could
get him and say come on, let's go play together. Perth.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
The athletic people close to Lebron aren't ruling out the
possibility of him finish his career elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Ron back to the land.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
If the if the Cavaliers don't make these the conference finals,
school we see Lebron coming home one last time, one time,
one more time to finish his career. No, I will
see it. He loved me about l A. M think
about l A and his daughter was a dance class here.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
She got everything going on that way.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
He you know, he's really I think he's realizing the
importance of you know, his kids and the the direction
they're going and how much they en Jordan, and he ain't.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
He ain't going back to Cleveland. Now.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
He might go there and sign and say he retired
one yeah, well yeah that one day, yeah, that one
day contracts, yeah yeah. But I don't I don't believe
he goes I don't believe he goes back. Go back
and do what you're playing with Luca.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
You play, go back and and sit on there. You
got to come off the bench.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I'm like, because that that's starting arguing, like, yo, man,
we just want to chip you ain't smooving us up
the way.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I agree, I agree with you. I don't.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I don't see him going back. I mean, they keep
saying that, but I think Lebron really loved the Lakers.
I really think he loves living in l A. I
think he loves all things in l A. The weather
is nice year round. He don't really have to have
an overcoat, you know, you can have a top down
damn there.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Year round.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
You got water, you got beaches, I mean everything his
businesses are in LA. There's really nothing for him not
to like about l A. And he said, we're making
a lot of movies, right, He's doing a lot of
that stuff. Yeah, reduction company. Yeah, yeah, oh that's going on.
So he's in the perfect place.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
And yeah, I mean, I mean, Shack is really the
only one I can remember that came here and left.
Kareem didn't leave, Will didn't leave, Kobe didn't leave, Magic
didn't leave. Normally, normally when you didn't want to leave,
he was just forced out. Shaq didn't want to leave,
He was just forced that. Shack wanted your money.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Hey, when I was a Laker, I didn't want to
leave either, but I was forced out. You don't want
to leave the Lakers man.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, but yeah, I agree, I think. And plus, you know,
the kids are here.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I mean, it's a short track for him to go
over and shoot over to Arizona to see Bryce Uh
to go way back to Cleveland. Zuri his youngest daughter,
his only daughter, the youngest is in school here to
uproot her and leave her friends. I think Savannah has
like carved out her own niche here in l A. Yeah,
I just don't see it. I'm not sound good. I mean, hey,
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you know those close to Lebron, oh Joe, I just
don't see it though.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Yeah, yeah, he ain't going nowhere. What you think, right,
He'll be ready for a minute.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I say he ain't going to I mean, honestly, I
know he kept his place in Ohio and he can
always get back.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
But I think I think California is gonna be his
home base.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I think where he's gonna reside when it's all said
and done, Lebron James will be California. He's not a native, obviously,
he grew up in Akron, Ohio. He played a lot
of years in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
But think about it, He's he's gonna almost double up
the amount of time that he played in Miami here
in l A. Yeah, most definitely. I think it also
is I think it's too many moving parts.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
It's too many moving parts in l a for him
to be for him to go back to Akron, obviously
having a place there, being that that's where you grew up,
he will still always have ties there. But as far
as from a business standpoint and everything thats going on,
I'd assume it would make more sense obviously to stay
here in la Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Bigger market, yeah, I mean, but you know, he's the
type of guy that he doesn't really he is the market.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, it's Hey, it's a lot more connections out here than.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Is absolutely because there's nothing that there's nothing that in
Ether you can't do in l A. I mean, hey,
pick up a phone. I don't think he wants to
go back to that cold. I don't think Savannah wants
to go back to the cold. I mean once you
once you get used to that warm weather, it's hard
for you to go back. And if you lived in Florida,
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if you live in l A, if you live in
some warm weather and say, you know, yeah, I think
I want to go live in New York. I want
to live in Philly. I want to live in Massachusetts.
Once the once the more bones get used to that
warm weather, once you step out there in that cold
just hits you. In the face one time, it's like, nah,
I'm good, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah, but I don't I don't see him going I
don't see him going back there either, as yeah, on
it being traded by the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Well on his mind.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
If La advances and played a thunder, they did motivate
me a long time ago. I haven't thought about them
in years, though I can't hold I guess you can
say grudges forever in life. What's you think Rock when
you got traded? Did you Did you hold a grudge
against anybody when you got traded?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I know because I knew it was his business and
I was mad with the Rocks been trading the terrible
ass Phoenix. But other than that, hey, I was excited
as hell with Phijus trading into the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
So it was no, that was that was great for me.
But I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I think when you you look at I think he
got getting traded, okayc was a better situation for him, Yes,
because it wasn't He wasn't gonna be the head of
the snake, so he was never gonna be able to flourish. Yeah,
so he put him in the perfect position. He got
those picks and he got guys that that came in.
It was like a similar attitude, some similar hit the
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way he is and he's made the flourish because sometimes
you guys can be great players, but they getting held
back by having to play behind this player that player.
So that was perfect him and he was able to
show everybody. Oh and everybody sitting back like damn clips
fucked up. But you gotta think about it for Paul George.
Paul George at the time was okay, okay, okay, okay,
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what'd you gonna sayil with y'all, I was.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Gonna say, I say even I mean, even if he
was there were Kawhi, you're saying that j wouldn't be
wouldn't be able.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
To be who he was just because he's played with Kai.
He got to be the guy. You see what happened.
You see what they did.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
They got him and then they built around him. They
were looking to build around Kawhi.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
He needs the ball, yeah, because you if you watch
s c A he he he.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
He has a lot of guys on this team that
love him and they know what they exact one do
and they sit back and let him work.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
You know, you're thinking about Kawhi. Kawhi is a guy.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
You know, even though you got James Harden over there,
you don't never know what you're gonna get out of James.
Sometimes James want to shoot some games he doesn't. But
at the end of the day, it's Kawhi. And I
think also that's why Paul George never really looked that
good as a Clipper, though he did it was a
pacer because he was, you know, deferring to Kawhi and
and you know he forgets sometimes. Kawhi is one of
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the best players in this game when he's healthy. Yeah,
and so it's hard not to defer to Kawhi.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
It is, and you know, Kawhi got there.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
And here's the thing Kawhi said, if you don't trade
for Paul George, I'm going to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
The last thing the Clippers could have.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
You can't have Anthony Davis, Lebron, James, and Kawhi living
on one team in that building while you're in the basement.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
So they had no choice. So you do that and
then you watch it and you're like, well they are
what could have been. But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I don't know if Sja would have developed into the
player that he's become now he had he been there,
so he got an opportunity to clip.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
The thing was is that you remember Rob Chris Paul
was there.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yeah, so he got the opportunity to learn how to
play the position from the point guard and he took
off and he had to look back and now he's
you know, you can make a case he's top one,
top one best point guard in the league. He and local,
he and Luca battle out him, Luke and Steph. But
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that's hard to say. You're gonna say there's another point
guard that's better than those three. Whoever's won, it's out
of that. It's side of those three.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Yeah, right, unless you want, unless you consider Steph a point.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Guard, Luca and Shay. Yeah, I mean I look at
Steph more than to me personally. I look at step
and James that you know that can that can pass.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
But that.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I guess because you grew up weird and we grew
up in there with the point guard was Magic Johnson.
The point gard was Isaaah Tarboros. So you know guys
like that that were true point guard. They weren't trying
to go get thirty forty or fifty point today. They
tried to like you up for forty to fifty.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
It's like, no, you you play. I will give you
the ball when I can't shoot, and you just be
ready for me to kick it to you.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
That's one thing. I only had a chance to play
with Jason Kidd for two games. I was in Phoenix,
damn coffee. I know, hey, he had just got traded us.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
And and the weird part is, I look at my career,
high school, college, I never played with a true point guard.
For that one moment. You should have seen me. Man,
I was hitting the lanes, getting lefts, looking up. The
ball was right where I wanted to catch it. Man,
I was like, and it goes to show you if
you've got a point guard, he's gonna make me like
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so much better than Jay Kidd. Man I was the
two games, man, I probably could have been all So.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
You should have behaved. Your damn kept that towel to
ride your dad. Hey, I'll be only having two rings
instead of stepping. Then you knew a damn well how
to get up out of feeding, did you?
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Yeah, you know what real part was? You know? Danny
Ainge became the coach you know Danny Inge.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I didn't like him from the moment I got there, because, no,
you know, we had just finished a tough series against Phoenix.
You remember the inbound played when he rares back and
hits Mario in the face of the ball point blank.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yeah, you know Mario, my boy. Me and Mario close.
And then when we walking down we get the fiends.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
He walking in the hall and Danny Ainge says to
Sam Cansel and I was like, you know, I hit
Mario on the face with the ball on purpose, right,
He act like it was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I'm like, man, fuck you. From that moment on, I
never liked it.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
And he was as an assistant coach then and then
when Cotton stepped down, he became the head coach, and
then from that moment on, he was like. He was like,
he didn't start me. When we went back to Houston,
he didn't play me. And then we trade away Michael
Philly and A. C. Green and said, well, you're gonna
get more minutes. My minutes went down, and so I
was hot.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
I was like, because I was in him Boston, I
just made it three. He got a dunk, got a steal,
and I look over. He subbed me. In the first
three minutes of the game. I'm saying, fuck you. I
was hot man, So I was hot.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
So Hey.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
They were gonna release me, and I was gonna go
back to Houston. I'm like, Okay, you're gonna release me.
I'm going back to playing Houston. But they cut They
send me to the Lakers and let me that's your question.
Have you seen Dan Age? Have you had a conversation
with Danny Age since that moment?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Last conversation I had with Danny Age was after he
said we were trading you to l A for Sergis
Bars and I probably just won you another championship. That's
what he said to me. That's the last conversation I
had with him. He did plan to talk to him,
don't want to talk to him.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Oh Joe.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
The Nice Blockbuster boxing car was supposed to be the
end with an official announcement Ryan Garcia versus Devin Haiti
the rematch October, but Rolando Rolled Romero ripped up that script.
Garcia lost in a stunner to Romero early after an
early knockdown. Romero claimed to w BA well theweight title
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with the unanimous decision upset over Garcia at the iconic
Times Square in New York.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Oh Joe, what happened? Yeah? Man?
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Listen, Ryan Garcia was supposed to win the fight. He'd
done a lot of talking. Obviously, we saw what he
did the Devin Hainty last time they fought. He dominated
hanging out in that fight, obviously testing for an illegal substance,
whatever it may have been. I think if he wasn't
on the substance, I think he still made have won
that fight based on the way he looked.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
But tonight they listened Ryan Garcia.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
If you're a betting man, Ryan Garcia was your favorite
to win the fight tonight against Roly for listen, Brian
Garcia landed more punches, but Romero getting the knockdown and
obviously winning the fight and getting the decision. To me,
it was shocking. It was shocking to me because Rowley
had some of the an awkward style of fighting, and
to me, I think Ryan Garcia is the better pure boxer,
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and I thought he would he would probably win a night,
especially with that dangerous left hook that he has. But
it didn't go that way.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
It didn't. It didn't go that way. Browley had a
good fight now.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
I think really now has a chance to actually fight
Devin Haney, and I think the rematch against Ryan Garcia
is probably out the window because of this, because of
just lost from Garcia. So I mean, I'm excited. I'm excited.
And Devin Haney looked a little different tonight. He looked
very cautious after what happened to him when he fought
Ryan Garcia. He was very cautious. He won the fight.
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He was on his bicycle a lot, Uh, really counter
punching and throwing punches his spurs and not not being
the the fighter he should be at this point in
his career.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
He wanted he won the fight.
Speaker 4 (42:46):
He didn't do it and in the fashion we like
to see, especially if you're a boxer fan like myself.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
So I really look forward to to to uh, Rody
Romero and and Devin Haney getting in the ring. Uh,
all right, it's time five last segment. But even it's
type of Q and eight ball.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
A shot call in nineteen ninety nine says, question is
the real question is can Rob the lincol build a
team around Luca because he was good, He was in
a good situation in Dallas when he left and Rob
has shown he can't build a team.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
Man.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
I said it this once and I'll say it again.
If Luca stayed in Dallas, we would have been back
in the finals. We had a great squad this year.
You think that you think that's.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
True that.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
I person don't think it's true because I think you
you call the lighting in the bottle last year, Yes,
and sometimes you think you go, you can do a repeat.
You know, you think about the way everybody on that
team is playing, Kyrie PJ. You know the bench was
coming off playing exceptional. I don't think they had the
same amount of juice. I think, you know, you you
think about Minnesota doesn't switch. They go to the finals.
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You know, that's that one possession right there, And for me,
I just don't think they had enough. It's any plus.
You look at the West. The West was too damn good.
You're gonna find someone that's gonna beat you. What'd you
think of Joe.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
Rob talked about it earlier, them getting to the finals
because of those bigs down there. Any mistakes Luca had,
they were always there to counter that and to make
up for it. I think it's a Lakers in some
kind of way we talked about it this season, them
not having a big hell get too bigs for that matter,
that that that can help out in something some show
way for him of fashion.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
And I think the Lakers will be there. They'll be
all right this upcoming season.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Corney Reseller said. Ki says he wants to play with
Luca and Lebron. Can't Rob and jj make that happen?
Speaker 1 (44:47):
No, Hey, I don't know if you watched Joker on
the bench and you know Mike Malone got fired, it's
a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
I know they can't do it right, but yook, I
want to know, so which one? So, so it is a.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Lebron would have to waive it's no trade. And then
I don't think Rob is gonna trade Luca to Denver
because Denver.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
You're not letting Jokis go because yok line and sign
a three years, two hundred and twenty one two million
dollar deal.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Yeah, what you doing nowhere? Huh?
Speaker 4 (45:21):
If Joker say, if Joker say, I don't want to
be a no more, he don't want to be as
your question, if Joka say, send me to l A,
I want to go to l A three years running,
who run the.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
League, who run the league, the players, the players.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Okay, watch what he said that the extension this year
three years are two hundred and twenty one million Dollars'll
tell you that you're not going to.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
L a Okay.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
You also have to think about if you denver what
you're gonna what what do you want off the Lakers teams?
Speaker 3 (45:49):
Yeah, Lebron's gonna be You got Yogis for at least
another five years. You're gonna have Lebron like that.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Yeah, And it's a difference if you know, the Lakers
are okay, seeing they got about fifty first round picks,
they got like one if that right, So they gonna
come up with something. And I think what it's kind
of screw what the deal is now is you can
only like I don't know the technical terms to it,
but when you got to match the money's up now,
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it's not just like five players for one so it'll
be kind of hard to trade him.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
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Speaker 2 (46:24):
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Speaker 3 (46:30):
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I mean the fact that the fact that you're comparing
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Speaker 4 (46:45):
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Speaker 3 (46:51):
You get nervous. Come on, man, this is me.
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Speaker 3 (49:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
After the Lakers were bounced in five by the Wolves,
injury news has been creeping out. First and them are
I revealed that Lebron James suffered a grade to MCL
sprain and it's left knee in the fourth quarter of
Game five. The injury intails of three to five week
recommended recovery timeline. Then it was reported that Austin Reeves
was dealing with a left big toe's sprain during the playoffs.
Was considered the two to four week injury, but he
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gutted it out. Reeves was reportedly not walking on it
on days off to try to get through the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You know, the internet's reacting because it seems like every
time a Lebron lose, they say, see this is why
he lost Rob.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You close to this situation.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
What I told LO when they did and said would
they need a big I said, they only gonna go
so far.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I said, because if Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Don't give you quality minutes now, you're gonna put him out.
And you ain't got nobody else to put in there
as a big. You got Lebron or really playing the
four in the four and the five that's too small.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Way, way too small.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And that's why you have to give Jackson Hayes a
chance in that series. And and it was weird when
when when Lebron hit that guy, and I know everybody
always want to say Lebron had antics. I watched his
knee being and that's how I strained my MC and
was out just six weeks. And you know, Lebron is
he's a he's a alien when it comes to that,
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he doesn't get hurt, and so people want to talk
about that. You know, but that team is just too small.
You think about all the teams you could have played.
You got a hold of the wrong one right in Minnesota,
you think about it. They they're just long, they're athletic,
they're tough, and then they pissed off.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
They pissed off at Luca because he bounced him last year.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And so the one thing that coaches do they learn
if you watch how the Minnesota temple was coach Luca,
it was like, no, don't switch. We did that mistake
last year. Put go Barron and his the three. So
we didn't switch this season. And that's one of the
things that you know, they learned that from Boston too,
because that's how Boston was able to, you know, beat
the beat the Dallas marriage because you know, we're not sweeching.
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We came out best defender. And I talked about that earlier,
how lazy guys are. Now, man, it's not even a damn.
It's like, why, it's like, you're a better defender. And
I look at JJ. I'm like, in game in game four,
I'm like a man out did cooking you and your
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best defender is on the freaking bench at Van do
give him a chance. At least he got four file,
six files. You're gonna go to the hole, You're gonna
get about the floor. And so that's why I was
looking at Jason, like, dude, what are you doing. I'm
not even mad at JJ. I'm mad at Nate, that
mad at Scottie cause you two head coaches are sat
right over there and let him do this dumb stuff
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because you can think it's a reason that that's the.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
First time it was ever done the playoffs. Yeah yeah,
but you can't.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I mean you're asking him and I don't care how
great you are, and oh you and I we we
debated this job, like, man, you gotta get it done.
I said, yeah, the minus willing. But the body just
ain't able. The man had you played forty one minutes
a couple of nights before. Now you're running back forty
six on forty year old legs, and then.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
You put forty forty four minutes only in game five.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, and you know, and what people forget is he's
played more playoff games and everybody.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So that's equivalent to, like, I think, four seasons.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So you gotta add four seasons onto the twenty seasons
that he's played twenty two. Yeah, yeah, so he got
to think of that's so that's it. So that's why
you gotta find a way. You got Gabe Vincent over there,
who's got NBA Finals experience, give him some burn.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I think the biggest mistake that the Lagers made all
season was not trying to figure out how the implement
Dalk can connect into the system. Yeah, you know, you
think about him. That's that's the flame throw over there.
You gotta give him a chance, you know, you got
you think about it, you got you talk about scoring,
but then you put Vando in there, who's the.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Better you can dunk connect. Van ain't even looking at
the rim unless it's a lay up on a wide
open dunk. But I think that what JJ Gatom said
about don't connect because he don't he his defensive assignment.
He out there like a blind dog in the me house.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Do I show head isn't Luca and isn't aar And.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But that's the fact. See, that's the problem with the Lakers.
You're getting getting beat off the first dribble. Ninety percent
of the time, are getting beat off the second dribble.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Lebron can't sit in the chair at forty anymore. So
now you've got three guys that really I mean, Lebron
will try to body you.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I mean, yeah, you're gonna chase it down. He's gonna
make some he's gonna make some great defensive plays. But
when you got Luca and ar And you don't have
no I mean, when you had a D you had
some help.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Now you don't have a D.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So now and Jackson Hayes, I mean, sometimes, hey, he
a good lob threat and we'll get it off the rim,
you know, get a rebody to put it back.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
But for the most part he's not. You're not counting
on him to get you much anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
If we get we can steal fifteen twenty minutes from
him a rob Wait good, we wait, we got that
all we wanted.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You know, you know you think about that's all you
need because people don't realize that the reason the Mavericks
was so good last year is because those two bigs
they had, they was erasing all of Luca's mistakes.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Everybody. Yeah, it's like you go for the rack.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay, you got them guys blocking shots, and you know,
it's so people forget how important certain bigs are to
the team because they can erase like what Ad did.
Ad saved him so many times. And I think about
when they played Denver last year. You expect Ady to
do everything, like dude, he can't guard some guys on
the perimeter, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And so you think about Murray Murry like, Okay, I'm
a really good shooter.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I'm going to separate from a d Yeah, eighty keep
the defendant on him.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
That eighty eRASS mistake when he gets to the whole right.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And so it's so many little things like that, and
the reason that I would never want to coach or
be an assistant coach because I'm like, dude, I'm looking
at my arrogance to be like, Look, I played with
three of the best centers in the world.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I don't want seven championships. You're gonna freaking tell me.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, So
I don't been in every situation. There's a reason that
I've won seven championship. There's a reason that Dream respects me,
Shack respects me, Ten respects me because I wasn't afraid
to yell at them and tell them what to do
and put them in the right place, in the right
frame of mind.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And when you got guys that I like that, you're
gonna be good. Man.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's what I like about the Celtics, and that's what
I like about the Calves this year. That's who I
got winning all the Calves. I know y'all don't ask
him that, but I just threw that out there.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You got the Calves. You got the Calve to come
out of the East. I got the Calves. I got
the Calves winning at all. Man.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I don't know why that wrong, because they ain't be no,
they ain't bet none of the top teams. They lost
the ball. I think they best ones, but I think
they lost Boston.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Once they lost to they lost to a okay see,
I think both.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Times, yep, but I'm not worried about it. You know
why why Because playoffs is a different thing. They got
gonna be able to focus on the team, and in
the playoffs, you think about the okay see, okay see
gets a lot of their points. How when Shaan Gilders
gets to the free throw line, you don't get those
free throws because you get the best reps and they
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don't give you that BS that you got called to
go to the street throw line shoot twelve fifteen feet throws.
So I think I think Cleveland this year because of
the way they were playing and those two bigs back there,
Allen and different every Yeah, Boston can play too big
with presiliers of al Harper.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You look at okayc you mentioned it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
They can play two bigs with Hard and Stein and
chet Hungery and see, and tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We learned Houston can play too big.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I shouldn't go in there in Adams who who that
was possible?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But I just say I think though, you know, when
you look at the totality of the thing and the
way fucking Spiders playing, now Spider really realizes that I
need my teammates, and he doesn't try to just do
it all on his own like an MJ, like a
Kobe did you know at times? So he's relying on
this team and I just think it's just and I
really like the way Moby's playing right now.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
He's killing man.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
JJ Reddick said the Lakers have to get in championship shape.
Their individuals that were phenomenal that that were in phenomenal shape.
There's certainly ones that could have been in better shape.
We've got to get in championship shape.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Rob, Are you a fan of JJ publicly taking shot
because we know who he talking about? Hey, first of all,
what does JJ know about championship shape? Has he ever
want a championship.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I just want to know what this championship shape, That's
all I'm asking you know, do you know what championship
shape it is? Because for me, when you talk about
championship shape that you've been there, done that, and you
talking about championship shape, that shit starts in the summertime,
then it goes into training camp.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And then that goes through in the season.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
If you want somewhere in championship shape, he don't take
the last three games off because you say, okay, I'm
gonna get some rest. You use those games to get
in shape. And so for me, I don't know why
he said that, because you already think about Luke already
in the point where he's all mentally all screwed up.
Because the way Dallas got rid of him, right and
he got to sign extension, he might take that ass
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and shot him. He out, So you don't know what
he why he said that. You know, it's just the
weirdest thing to me, I think.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The thing but it seems to me, now you you,
like I said, Rob, you know basketball bodies and you know.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You you you you've been there.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
But it seems to me every year Luca wears down
and he's limping more and more in the playoffs. And
we saw that this year. We saw that last year
and against some of the teams that was wonder where
if Luca gonna play, and we saw him in Boston.
It seemed like every year he's boy wears dow once
he gets to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, but you know what, you know, when you think
about when Luca first got to the Lakers, how they
were humming, and you know what the difference was that
Luca wasn't handing the ball as much. You know, if
you think about the last this is some of the
series here. He wanted the ball every time and to
bring it up. And you when you got tough defenders
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like Minnesota, that's gonna bring it get out.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And so you got Ar, you got the Lebron, you
even got gave Vista to.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Bring it up.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Go stand your ass in the corner and so take
a break. And for me, I look at what he
didn't know the plays and he was trying to get.
For me, they looked so damn good because Ar come down, Lebron,
come down, He'll come down. And they was moving the basketball,
it was cutting, it was just playing basketball.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He's playing instinctively. But then I come down where he
goes that.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
That clothing, he goes to the mid to go to
the high polest and just basketball, drivel the clock out.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
So and it gets to some point where you think
about all the energy Lebron had and because he wasn't
bringing the ball up. Yes, so sometimes you have to
get off the ball, and I don't think Luca can
do that because that's the only way he knows how
to play it.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And that's so you took the words right out of
my mouth. You see, it's easy because Lebron can play
off the ball. You put him in the dunker spot,
you put him in, you put him in the high posts.
You can throw it to him. He can find somebody.
Luca needs the ball. Luca can't play. Luca can't. His
game hasn't evolved yet to where he can play off
the ball like Lebron can. And I think this is
what's going to cause Lebron to play another two more years,
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three more years, because he's off.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The ball and he doesn't have that bird.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Of bringing it up, having to run the set, get
everybody else involved.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Now he's like, hey, y'all got a look at they are.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Let me let me let me shoot from spot up
three's put me in that dunken spot so I can
get the baseline and lay it up a dunket.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Hey, you know what I'd like to see him.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I like to see him just take him to the
post because he got so many posts up moves he
can use because it's about moving quick. I even put
him in an elbow situation. You need to run some
type of pitch post and let him go to work.
That's one, two dribbles to the whole he dunking on people.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, it's efficiency of movement to me, when you get
to a certain age, do I need to take three
steps four steps of five steps to be efficient? Now
I'm taking three because I mean I can say two
later on. And for me, that's what he has to
learn how to do, like just go on the post.
You think about how long Tim duncan play. You know,
he's a different type of player, but Lebron has the ability.
I'm gonna just take you to the post. I'm gonna
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jump HOOKI, I'm gonna do a little fade away and
that's all he has to do. He's gonna still averry
about twenty four to twenty five points like that because
he's that much better than everybody else.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
How many more years you think Lebron is realistically gonna
play because he said this every year they getting out
of the playoffs, like, I don't know how much long
I got And then he's like, hey, he seems to
be like a guy.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
He's gonna ride the train till the will falls off. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You know, the funny thing about Lebron is he is
such a big kid and when you're young and hard
and young and min like that, you can you can
play a couple more years. I think when I hit
my sixteenth season, I feel like a whole far.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I didn't want to do it no more. Mentally that
was strong. I was. That was done.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And so for him, you think about how much you
think when you watch him more up. I think every
time I'm watching when he's smiling, he's dancing every damn night,
And for me, I had nice one. I'm like, dude,
I don't even want to be out here right now
because I'm hurting. But he still has that love, that joy,
that energy, and you know, I think he probably gonna
play like maybe three more years because he ain't gonna
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wait to see what Bryce's gonna do. Even the first
guy to play with two two his sons and the
NBA heat, Brice gonna.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Look like he's gonna fit in that record. Nobody gonna
break it. Yeah, you know, it's it's weird, and nobody's
gonna break those records.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Man. You know, the only person can break a record
like that is someone who's coming straight out of high school.
Maybe scoring he's thinking like the way Lucas scores. But
he ain't gonna make it that damn. He thinking about
who else because Katie is not gonna make it that
much longer. So nobody's ever going These records are gonna
be then be out of this world.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Oh Joe, you think j J shoud taking a shot
at Luca publicly?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I mean, I'm not sure if it was directed at Luca.
I think something like that should be kept in house. Issue,
But listen, and especially something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
To be wrong. I want to know who you think
it was directed that it wasn't directed.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, I mean you're right back that, but listen, something
like that you keep in house. Yeah, yeah, I mean
you he was a future other Lakers, and I had
a head coach really taking a shot that you publicly
mean you could have kept that in house and just
talked me. He could he talk, He could have talked
about something else. But I think he wanted to send
a message. You want to send a message. That's the
way he felt he wanted.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
To send it.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah, it at this point time, I mean, it's got
to be able. You see what happened, and they were
talking about that Nico love. Everybody brought Nico, but that
was a Nico call. That was a ownership call. Yeah,
because that ain't Nico's money. Three forty five, but not
one penny was coming out of Nico's pocket. They made that,
and Nico obliged them and moved it and got you know,
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because they have gotten a bigger package. Yeah, but they
didn't want it to get out because you start calling
around teams and that get out.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh boy, Yeah, it's gonna get back to Listen, I'll
tell you what.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Listen to J J. Reddick and anyone else in the
Lakers organization.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
You know, miss buss Uh, brother Polinka and y'all got
a problem with with Luca not being in shape. Now listen,
we got something. We got some good gym down here
in Miami. We'll we'll get him together. We're getting together
in Miami now. So think about that. Luca, Johannis and
John Moran. We could take all we could take all of.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Them dominant guys. Now that ain't working.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Hey, you know I traded Luca for Hero and and
and Bam, give me up too. I'll give you Luca.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Okay, okay, okay, because now I got and I got
me a shoot it hm. But you're gonna keep a
here a R and here Hero basically the same guys.
That's that's true.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But the thing about Ar is you can use him
for get him to get you something else.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You put him out for something else.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
But what I love about Ar is that how he's grown.
He's gotten better every single year. And if I didn't
tell you, if you didn't know, you would never know
he was an undrafted free agent.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
That's so true. You know. The thing I like about
Ar is he learns from his mistakes.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
And I and the one thing that I think he's
gonna sit back and now that I know that his
toe was hurt, that he wasn't aggressive enough for me.
When Ar is going downhill, he's such a good player,
but when he's trying to think he's shifty with the
rock and gets caught up and lose it, that's not
That's not the Ar I want to see. I think
when you think about how many times when he gets you,
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he just makes a direct line to the basket, plump,
fake should gets you there. I guess the n one
like I don't even think he went to the free
throw line in the last two games because he wasn't
trying to get to the rack. And I don't know,
because it had a lot to do with Minnesota's defense
because they're big and the struggle you watch our ant
man was just bullying him up the top, not letting
him into his his position. So for me, he's going
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to have to learn how to just keep it simple.
What I mean by that is, I'm just gonna take one,
two dribbles, pull up. I always got to get to
the wreck, you know. I got to fake you, pump,
fake you this, and go this way. And and it's about,
like I said, these fishes because if you're really think
about ar he's crafty, but he's not quick with it. No,
he's kind of like Luca. He's just kind of slow
with it. He can get off because the defense is
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moving faster than you are. So that's how you aim
to get those files.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
They just trying to They try to send a message
anywhere you can. If I'm Luca, I will get with
Lebron and say, bro, what you do? What you do?
Can I look? And now I was talking like you
know with you and what you do? I said, you
know what, I know they got Slovenian food. That's that's nutritious.
But see the problem is he ain't a Slovenia. You know,
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you come to America and you try to eat nady food.
We donna added up to it and gets you have
the house over here. Because you go back to look
at Luca his first couple of years when he got
to the NBA, and look out many he is.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
And look a lot of a lot of those European players,
they don't have the bodies like an American players. They're
not gonna have the castle they shoulders in the definition.
Look at yo kitsch, look at Luca, look at Manu,
look at Zingers. That's not how they're built.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
So but if you go back and look at your
kitch when he first got the league and how he looked, now.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
You could tell he put time in.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
He said, man, I'm hey, I ain't finna be no
flash fast lobby'll don't it to be talking about me?
And now three m vps and two runner ups later,
the guys one of the great, one of the historically
great players of all time.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And that's because he made them. He made a.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Concerted effort to get his butt in the gym, to
watch his nutrition, to work, and to become what he became.
But I just think Luca just wears down because last
year he had that same problem. You know, he was
dealing with a knee, and year before that he had
some issues going on. I just think, you know, and
it's hard because the guy's giving you twenty eight eight,
eight and eight, But bro, I.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Need you one hundred percent for the playoff too, or
it's close to it.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And hell, I don't think he's nearly close to that,
especially especially this series here, because he moved like an
old man.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Hey, but they think about it.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
He did lose weight Comparedtive when we first gown the Lakers,
so he lost about ten pounds pounds, so we.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Got to be thinking he's going in the right direction. Yeah,
we gotta go. We got to go in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I'm surprised given that, knowing how a lot of people
saying Luca, you know, hookah Luca, and you know he's
dranking beer and he parted and he doesn't take it serious.
It's hard for me to say that he doesn't take
it serious. But do I think if conditioning could be better, Yes, absolutely,
But I think he takes the game. There is you
don't get to be discount this good by not taking
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the game serious, but I do think his conditioning and
the nutrition can be more on point.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, I think for me when I watched Luca, you know,
I think he should do a lot of agility work
in the summertime, working on his footwork, working on his flexibility,
because a lot of his injuries are coming from just
you know, not being You can tell he's not a
flexible guy.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
No, you know, he needs to do yoga, appilates or
something all summer.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And because when you watch him move sometimes he stays
in front of people and he's so big body that
he bounce off me. He just doesn't do it all
the time. If he works on his footwork, he works
on his feet and agility, so he can become a
decent defender because he can do it.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
He just don't want to. No.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
And the thing is that he's so good on the
other end about that's the problem. He's so great offensively,
like we let somebody else, Hey, we'll do four and five,
y'all have that. Don't even worry about the Luca because
we see he get the man gave you a sixty
to twenty triple double, he can give you a forty
point triple double or fifty point triple double like nothing.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
But uh yeah, I was surprised.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
But let me ask you this, do you think, Nico,
do you think Dallas was right about Luca but was
wrong for the trade.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
S?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You know what was right about Lucas has one of
those questions you have to deep dive into the franchise
and get to know Luca and how his stuff. You know,
I always said when he came into the season, he's
always came in fluffy, yes, and he never came in shape.
And that's one of the things that you can tell,
like when your back start hurting, you know you can
go a couple of years. Remember Ad Yeah, started the
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season off. His back was because he was fluffy, he
wasn't in shape. He's out, yeah, and then he got
then he got in shape and he played whatever the
number game. It's about what you do in the off season.
It's about what you do in condition wise and being
prepared for the grind of the regular season. And I
think with Nico, I agree when he said it wasn't
his call because I just think when Nico messed up,
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when he the one line he messed with said I
didn't know.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
How important Manka was.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
That's but other than that, you just says, yo, man,
I know you can't throw the owners under the bus
and be like, yo, I think I'm doing what I'm
told to do. I work for someone, just like a
lot of you guys do. But I understand where he
was coming from because if you if you really look
at that team and you look at what they had
with the addition of a D, I thought they had
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a position to do something scary because Kyrie, oh, you
forget how good Kyrie is PJ.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Washington, and then you know you got yeah, yeah, but
it was just it was just a bad time.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
But I also think with me, you know, I love
ad is one of my favorite players of all time,
but I think a D moving to the four making
him soft. And what I mean by that is I'm
not saying physically, because it's making him not be aggressive.
You watch him in the last couple of games and
playing game all he did want to shoot threes and
that and you're so effective. Think about when he was
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in New Orleans they gave him the pinch post. He
was doing spinning, dunking on people, shooting threes, setting you up.
But once he said he wanted to be I know
he had budget boogie with him, but it was like
he didn't play the same way. He didn't shoot a
lot of threes. And so for me, it's making him
soft in the sense that I'm gonna I'm gonna sell them.
When I say soft of me selling instead of like
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trying to right defeat through Lina.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look, because Luca is so great, because
he was so beloved.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I mean, they drafted the kid. He was eighteen when
he got there. Yeah, I don't know. It's hard for
me to believe. Nico. You were to go marketing guy
for Nike. You understand who does what, and we moved
the needle nobody you know exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You know what Shaye means the OKC. You know what
Jason Tatum means to Boston. You know what Jaylen Brunson
means to the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And you talking about and and and and and Jaylen
Brunson got traded to the Knicks, Shae got traded to OKC.
So you talk about a homegrown Kobe, homegrown tray Lebron
and Hallway what Dirk meant to that team? So I
agree with you.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I agree with you, Bob. I don't know about that
I'll just say, hey, hey guys, we're gonna move it.
We're gonna move it on. I mean, Luca's out here anymore.
We got to answer the Davis. We're gonna add some
more pieces. Kyrie got hurt. That's what really made it
look bad. Kyrie got hurt. So hey, we get Kyrie.
They probably gonna try to make a run for KD
because KD probably gonna be up out of Phoenix, and
now we might be having a different story. August second,
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the Lakers can offer Luca a four year, two hundred
and twenty nine million dollar extension, or Luca could op
just signed a three year, one sixty five extension with
a player option in twenty twenty eight, which would then
allow him to side a MAX deal in twenty twenty eight.
They give him thirty five percent of the salary cap
for the next five seasons. Once you're doing rob, you
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taking the four years at two twenty nine, three years
of one sixty five with a player option, and then
at twenty eight, let me gonna.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Get that for HUNDI, Hey, I'm taking the four years.
You want that money, you want that guarantee.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You want that guarantee, Buddy, I want that guaranteed money
now and deal with it then. You know, hey, but
think about it, so many guys, you and this day
and age, you take the four years. Hey, I want
to redegotiate my contract. Oh I want to be traded.
You know, it's so many things you can do. So
I'm taking the four years because I'm a I don't
I don't want to. I don't want to trust my body.
If you think about how many injuries he's gotten, I
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have to have to go with the money now, because
you've see it, what happened to him. You see what
happened that so many guys who bet on themselves right right,
and they failed on him.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
So I'm taking the money. What you doing?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
You're taking the money or you're gonna play plate side
three years? What to do with an option? And then
go to the table said, let me let me get
that five. Let me get that five for? Uh?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You got five for?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I mean, well, I'm gonna take that three because if
I'm I'm betting on my body, and I'm only betting
on my body because I ain't never been hurt, so
probably I'm I'm I'm gonna play another three season not
get hurt.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
And go back to the table hit across the head.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Thats just me, but understanding Luca and his injury history,
and it seemed I mean no disrespect in anyway, it
seemed like his body continued to deteriorate, especially towards the
end of the season.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I'm expecting something.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Like that to continue to happen because as you get older,
it don't get better. No, it don't get better. So
you know, yeah, yeah, you know, but listen, what Luke,
what Luca can do. What Luca can do is he
could take that three if he if he adapts and
does everything Lebron does when it comes to taking care
of body.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Now, then you could take that three and bet on yourself.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
But what are the chances of actually doing everything Lebron
does when it comes to taking your body and preparing
yourself in the off season.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
But you know, it's I was, I was.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
We always say that you need to get with Lebron,
but you know it's we gotta also think that you know,
Lebron got great genetics. You know that, you know, we
can just say, oh, you're giving Lebron and do That's
like we can all of us and going to the
gym shot a thousand jumpers.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You know, Kurt, come like Steph, Kurt. It's still gonna
better than that.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
It's just, you know, just sometimes you know, the man above,
God gives you talents, God gives you the genetics, and
so you can tell Luca to.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Do all that. But if the body don't act right,
the body don't act right.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Lebron says, it ain't my job to worry about Luca's
future with the Lakers. Lebron told ESPN, No, that ain't
my job. I don't think, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I know Luca knows how he feels about I feel
about him, and ultimately the trade happen for the future.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
That's not for me.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Luca has to decide what he has to do with
his future. He's twenty six years old. I'm forty, so
he can't be basing on his career off me. That's
just real. But I hope obviously he stays long term.
Laker fans ef and love him. Here La has accepted him.
We love him as a teammate, as a brother, But
ultimately he's got to make a decision for him. It
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I ain't going I ain't going around. I ain't gonna
be around much longer. Probably gonna be alright now another
two three year watch.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Wow, And you're thinking about this Lebron at you know,
at sixty even thirty percent is probably better than have
to leave.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
That's how good he is. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I think, you know, I think Luca, the things he's
doing around the city so far, you know, and think
about what just happened with the defacings of the Kobe
merul and he donating the money, you know. I think
he's trying to do exactly what he did in Dallas,
and that he wants to be a part of community
and as much that he can say, Hey, I know,
you guys are paying me a ship ton of money.
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I'm just gonna be here for you guys and try
to get back the best way I can. So I
feel like Luca, unless you know, the Jokers say hey,
let's play together, he'll be.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
He'll be in a Laker uniform. I like it. I
think the Joke is the only person that probably could
get him and say come on, let's go play together. Perth.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
The athletic people close to Lebron aren't ruling out the
possibility of him finish his career elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Ron back to the land.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
If the if the Cavaliers don't make these the conference finals,
school we see Lebron coming home one last time, one time,
one more time to finish his career. No, I will
see it. He loved me about l A. M think
about l A and his daughter was a dance class here.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
She got everything going on that way.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
He you know, he's really I think he's realizing the
importance of you know, his kids and the the direction
they're going and how much they en Jordan, and he ain't.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
He ain't going back to Cleveland. Now.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
He might go there and sign and say he retired
one yeah, well yeah that one day, yeah, that one
day contracts, yeah yeah. But I don't I don't believe
he goes I don't believe he goes back. Go back
and do what you're playing with Luca.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
You play, go back and and sit on there. You
got to come off the bench.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I'm like, because that that's starting arguing, like, yo, man,
we just want to chip you ain't smooving us up
the way.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I agree, I agree with you. I don't.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I don't see him going back. I mean, they keep
saying that, but I think Lebron really loved the Lakers.
I really think he loves living in l A. I
think he loves all things in l A. The weather
is nice year round. He don't really have to have
an overcoat, you know, you can have a top down
damn there.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Year round.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
You got water, you got beaches, I mean everything his
businesses are in LA. There's really nothing for him not
to like about l A. And he said, we're making
a lot of movies, right, He's doing a lot of
that stuff. Yeah, reduction company. Yeah, yeah, oh that's going on.
So he's in the perfect place.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
And yeah, I mean, I mean, Shack is really the
only one I can remember that came here and left.
Kareem didn't leave, Will didn't leave, Kobe didn't leave, Magic
didn't leave. Normally, normally when you didn't want to leave,
he was just forced out. Shaq didn't want to leave,
He was just forced that. Shack wanted your money.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Hey, when I was a Laker, I didn't want to
leave either, but I was forced out. You don't want
to leave the Lakers man.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, but yeah, I agree, I think. And plus, you know,
the kids are here.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I mean, it's a short track for him to go
over and shoot over to Arizona to see Bryce Uh
to go way back to Cleveland. Zuri his youngest daughter,
his only daughter, the youngest is in school here to
uproot her and leave her friends. I think Savannah has
like carved out her own niche here in l A. Yeah,
I just don't see it. I'm not sound good. I mean, hey,
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you know those close to Lebron, oh Joe, I just
don't see it though.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Yeah, yeah, he ain't going nowhere. What you think, right,
He'll be ready for a minute.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I say he ain't going to I mean, honestly, I
know he kept his place in Ohio and he can
always get back.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
But I think I think California is gonna be his
home base.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I think where he's gonna reside when it's all said
and done, Lebron James will be California. He's not a native, obviously,
he grew up in Akron, Ohio. He played a lot
of years in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
But think about it, He's he's gonna almost double up
the amount of time that he played in Miami here
in l A. Yeah, most definitely. I think it also
is I think it's too many moving parts.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
It's too many moving parts in l a for him
to be for him to go back to Akron, obviously
having a place there, being that that's where you grew up,
he will still always have ties there. But as far
as from a business standpoint and everything thats going on,
I'd assume it would make more sense obviously to stay
here in la Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Bigger market, yeah, I mean, but you know, he's the
type of guy that he doesn't really he is the market.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, it's Hey, it's a lot more connections out here than.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Is absolutely because there's nothing that there's nothing that in
Ether you can't do in l A. I mean, hey,
pick up a phone. I don't think he wants to
go back to that cold. I don't think Savannah wants
to go back to the cold. I mean once you
once you get used to that warm weather, it's hard
for you to go back. And if you lived in Florida,
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if you live in l A, if you live in
some warm weather and say, you know, yeah, I think
I want to go live in New York. I want
to live in Philly. I want to live in Massachusetts.
Once the once the more bones get used to that
warm weather, once you step out there in that cold
just hits you. In the face one time, it's like, nah,
I'm good, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah, but I don't I don't see him going I
don't see him going back there either, as yeah, on
it being traded by the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Well on his mind.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
If La advances and played a thunder, they did motivate
me a long time ago. I haven't thought about them
in years, though I can't hold I guess you can
say grudges forever in life. What's you think Rock when
you got traded? Did you Did you hold a grudge
against anybody when you got traded?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I know because I knew it was his business and
I was mad with the Rocks been trading the terrible
ass Phoenix. But other than that, hey, I was excited
as hell with Phijus trading into the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
So it was no, that was that was great for me.
But I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I think when you you look at I think he
got getting traded, okayc was a better situation for him, Yes,
because it wasn't He wasn't gonna be the head of
the snake, so he was never gonna be able to flourish. Yeah,
so he put him in the perfect position. He got
those picks and he got guys that that came in.
It was like a similar attitude, some similar hit the
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way he is and he's made the flourish because sometimes
you guys can be great players, but they getting held
back by having to play behind this player that player.
So that was perfect him and he was able to
show everybody. Oh and everybody sitting back like damn clips
fucked up. But you gotta think about it for Paul George.
Paul George at the time was okay, okay, okay, okay,
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what'd you gonna sayil with y'all, I was.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Gonna say, I say even I mean, even if he
was there were Kawhi, you're saying that j wouldn't be
wouldn't be able.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
To be who he was just because he's played with Kai.
He got to be the guy. You see what happened.
You see what they did.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
They got him and then they built around him. They
were looking to build around Kawhi.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
He needs the ball, yeah, because you if you watch
s c A he he he.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
He has a lot of guys on this team that
love him and they know what they exact one do
and they sit back and let him work.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
You know, you're thinking about Kawhi. Kawhi is a guy.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
You know, even though you got James Harden over there,
you don't never know what you're gonna get out of James.
Sometimes James want to shoot some games he doesn't. But
at the end of the day, it's Kawhi. And I
think also that's why Paul George never really looked that
good as a Clipper, though he did it was a
pacer because he was, you know, deferring to Kawhi and
and you know he forgets sometimes. Kawhi is one of
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the best players in this game when he's healthy. Yeah,
and so it's hard not to defer to Kawhi.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
It is, and you know, Kawhi got there.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
And here's the thing Kawhi said, if you don't trade
for Paul George, I'm going to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
The last thing the Clippers could have.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
You can't have Anthony Davis, Lebron, James, and Kawhi living
on one team in that building while you're in the basement.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
So they had no choice. So you do that and
then you watch it and you're like, well they are
what could have been. But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I don't know if Sja would have developed into the
player that he's become now he had he been there,
so he got an opportunity to clip.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
The thing was is that you remember Rob Chris Paul
was there.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yeah, so he got the opportunity to learn how to
play the position from the point guard and he took
off and he had to look back and now he's
you know, you can make a case he's top one,
top one best point guard in the league. He and local,
he and Luca battle out him, Luke and Steph. But
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that's hard to say. You're gonna say there's another point
guard that's better than those three. Whoever's won, it's out
of that. It's side of those three.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Yeah, right, unless you want, unless you consider Steph a point.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Guard, Luca and Shay. Yeah, I mean I look at
Steph more than to me personally. I look at step
and James that you know that can that can pass.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
But that.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I guess because you grew up weird and we grew
up in there with the point guard was Magic Johnson.
The point gard was Isaaah Tarboros. So you know guys
like that that were true point guard. They weren't trying
to go get thirty forty or fifty point today. They
tried to like you up for forty to fifty.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
It's like, no, you you play. I will give you
the ball when I can't shoot, and you just be
ready for me to kick it to you.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
That's one thing. I only had a chance to play
with Jason Kidd for two games. I was in Phoenix,
damn coffee. I know, hey, he had just got traded us.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
And and the weird part is, I look at my career,
high school, college, I never played with a true point guard.
For that one moment. You should have seen me. Man,
I was hitting the lanes, getting lefts, looking up. The
ball was right where I wanted to catch it. Man,
I was like, and it goes to show you if
you've got a point guard, he's gonna make me like
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so much better than Jay Kidd. Man I was the
two games, man, I probably could have been all So.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
You should have behaved. Your damn kept that towel to
ride your dad. Hey, I'll be only having two rings
instead of stepping. Then you knew a damn well how
to get up out of feeding, did you?
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Yeah, you know what real part was? You know? Danny
Ainge became the coach you know Danny Inge.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I didn't like him from the moment I got there, because, no,
you know, we had just finished a tough series against Phoenix.
You remember the inbound played when he rares back and
hits Mario in the face of the ball point blank.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yeah, you know Mario, my boy. Me and Mario close.
And then when we walking down we get the fiends.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
He walking in the hall and Danny Ainge says to
Sam Cansel and I was like, you know, I hit
Mario on the face with the ball on purpose, right,
He act like it was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I'm like, man, fuck you. From that moment on, I
never liked it.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
And he was as an assistant coach then and then
when Cotton stepped down, he became the head coach, and
then from that moment on, he was like. He was like,
he didn't start me. When we went back to Houston,
he didn't play me. And then we trade away Michael
Philly and A. C. Green and said, well, you're gonna
get more minutes. My minutes went down, and so I
was hot.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
I was like, because I was in him Boston, I
just made it three. He got a dunk, got a steal,
and I look over. He subbed me. In the first
three minutes of the game. I'm saying, fuck you. I
was hot man, So I was hot.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
So Hey.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
They were gonna release me, and I was gonna go
back to Houston. I'm like, Okay, you're gonna release me.
I'm going back to playing Houston. But they cut They
send me to the Lakers and let me that's your question.
Have you seen Dan Age? Have you had a conversation
with Danny Age since that moment?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Last conversation I had with Danny Age was after he
said we were trading you to l A for Sergis
Bars and I probably just won you another championship. That's
what he said to me. That's the last conversation I
had with him. He did plan to talk to him,
don't want to talk to him.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Oh Joe.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
The Nice Blockbuster boxing car was supposed to be the
end with an official announcement Ryan Garcia versus Devin Haiti
the rematch October, but Rolando Rolled Romero ripped up that script.
Garcia lost in a stunner to Romero early after an
early knockdown. Romero claimed to w BA well theweight title
(41:09):
with the unanimous decision upset over Garcia at the iconic
Times Square in New York.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Oh Joe, what happened? Yeah? Man?
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Listen, Ryan Garcia was supposed to win the fight. He'd
done a lot of talking. Obviously, we saw what he
did the Devin Hainty last time they fought. He dominated
hanging out in that fight, obviously testing for an illegal substance,
whatever it may have been. I think if he wasn't
on the substance, I think he still made have won
that fight based on the way he looked.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
But tonight they listened Ryan Garcia.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
If you're a betting man, Ryan Garcia was your favorite
to win the fight tonight against Roly for listen, Brian
Garcia landed more punches, but Romero getting the knockdown and
obviously winning the fight and getting the decision. To me,
it was shocking. It was shocking to me because Rowley
had some of the an awkward style of fighting, and
to me, I think Ryan Garcia is the better pure boxer,
(42:03):
and I thought he would he would probably win a night,
especially with that dangerous left hook that he has. But
it didn't go that way.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
It didn't. It didn't go that way. Browley had a
good fight now.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
I think really now has a chance to actually fight
Devin Haney, and I think the rematch against Ryan Garcia
is probably out the window because of this, because of
just lost from Garcia. So I mean, I'm excited. I'm excited.
And Devin Haney looked a little different tonight. He looked
very cautious after what happened to him when he fought
Ryan Garcia. He was very cautious. He won the fight.
(42:32):
He was on his bicycle a lot, Uh, really counter
punching and throwing punches his spurs and not not being
the the fighter he should be at this point in
his career.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
He wanted he won the fight.
Speaker 4 (42:46):
He didn't do it and in the fashion we like
to see, especially if you're a boxer fan like myself.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
So I really look forward to to to uh, Rody
Romero and and Devin Haney getting in the ring. Uh,
all right, it's time five last segment. But even it's
type of Q and eight ball.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
A shot call in nineteen ninety nine says, question is
the real question is can Rob the lincol build a
team around Luca because he was good, He was in
a good situation in Dallas when he left and Rob
has shown he can't build a team.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
Man.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
I said it this once and I'll say it again.
If Luca stayed in Dallas, we would have been back
in the finals. We had a great squad this year.
You think that you think that's.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
True that.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
I person don't think it's true because I think you
you call the lighting in the bottle last year, Yes,
and sometimes you think you go, you can do a repeat.
You know, you think about the way everybody on that
team is playing, Kyrie PJ. You know the bench was
coming off playing exceptional. I don't think they had the
same amount of juice. I think, you know, you you
think about Minnesota doesn't switch. They go to the finals.
(44:00):
You know, that's that one possession right there, And for me,
I just don't think they had enough. It's any plus.
You look at the West. The West was too damn good.
You're gonna find someone that's gonna beat you. What'd you
think of Joe.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
Rob talked about it earlier, them getting to the finals
because of those bigs down there. Any mistakes Luca had,
they were always there to counter that and to make
up for it. I think it's a Lakers in some
kind of way we talked about it this season, them
not having a big hell get too bigs for that matter,
that that that can help out in something some show
way for him of fashion.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
And I think the Lakers will be there. They'll be
all right this upcoming season.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Corney Reseller said. Ki says he wants to play with
Luca and Lebron. Can't Rob and jj make that happen?
Speaker 1 (44:47):
No, Hey, I don't know if you watched Joker on
the bench and you know Mike Malone got fired, it's
a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
I know they can't do it right, but yook, I
want to know, so which one? So, so it is a.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Lebron would have to waive it's no trade. And then
I don't think Rob is gonna trade Luca to Denver
because Denver.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
You're not letting Jokis go because yok line and sign
a three years, two hundred and twenty one two million
dollar deal.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Yeah, what you doing nowhere? Huh?
Speaker 4 (45:21):
If Joker say, if Joker say, I don't want to
be a no more, he don't want to be as
your question, if Joka say, send me to l A,
I want to go to l A three years running,
who run the.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
League, who run the league, the players, the players.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Okay, watch what he said that the extension this year
three years are two hundred and twenty one million Dollars'll
tell you that you're not going to.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
L a Okay.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
You also have to think about if you denver what
you're gonna what what do you want off the Lakers teams?
Speaker 3 (45:49):
Yeah, Lebron's gonna be You got Yogis for at least
another five years. You're gonna have Lebron like that.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Yeah, And it's a difference if you know, the Lakers
are okay, seeing they got about fifty first round picks,
they got like one if that right, So they gonna
come up with something. And I think what it's kind
of screw what the deal is now is you can
only like I don't know the technical terms to it,
but when you got to match the money's up now,
(46:16):
it's not just like five players for one so it'll
be kind of hard to trade him.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
JM actor O Joe.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
You say you won't face a gorilla with not in
that other man, but you will face a human silver
back at the octagon one on one.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
He's gonna do the same thing to you. One punch.
I mean the fact that the fact that you're comparing
a human being, an actual human being that puts his
pants on it one leg of the time like I
do to a sewer back is the problem with society
right now. That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (46:45):
You see somebody aside, you see somebody with strength, you
see somebody that scares you with the naked eye, and.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
You get nervous. Come on, man, this is me.
Speaker 4 (46:54):
I'm gonna beat the shit out of James Harrison. Man,
stop stop trying.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
Back. Conclude this episode of Nightcap.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
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Speaker 3 (47:06):
Y'all know me.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
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pro Bowler, All Pro Chad o Cho, Senko Johnson and
the guy that joined us tonight to recap. The Golden
State Warriors lose to the Houston Rockets on their home
court one fifteen to one oh seven thanks to a
(47:28):
great effort by Shungoon, Fred Van Fleet and off the
bench got great minute from Steven Adams.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
He was perfect from the field.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
He's nine to sixteen from the free throw line, the
most free made free throw attempts in his career, seventeen
big points, five rebounds, three block shots, a steal. He
did some of everything in thirty one minutes tonight, and
it helped the Rockets force the Game seven off their
home court. So Game seven Sunday, Rockets for a chance
to advance to the semifinals.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Thank you, guys for your support. Thank you for supporting
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Speaker 3 (49:11):
The game seven.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
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All right right you guys just tuning in tonight.
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