Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown.
Support the show: http://www.youtube.com/@stephenasmith
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Let's get started in the NBA and a story that
made headlines throughout the league yesterday the firing of Tom
Thibodeaux by the New York Knicks. The move came just
a few days after the Knicks made their deepest playoff
run in twenty five years. Tibbs, who led the Knicks
to back to back fifty win seasons for the first
time since nineteen ninety five, leaves ranking fourth all time
on a franchise list and coaching victories. Now, the focus
(00:26):
shifts to potential head coaching replacements to lead the team
currently built around Jalen Brunson and call Anthony Towns. Let
me say this before I get into it, I want
to tell you this. There are a bunch of names
that need to come up. In a few seconds. I'm
gonna give you about five. I'm gonna give you about
five because you need to know, you need to know,
(00:46):
you need to hear the people that saw on my
list are right. And I got some honorable mentions as well,
and I'll explain why because I'm going all down the line, right,
I'm going all down the line. Just to tip off
my producers are Sam Cassell email, you don't I mean,
you can talk about coaches of the contract, mind you. Okay,
the tie Lows of the world, and the Mike Maloons
(01:06):
and everybody else. Rick Brunton's evens, all of them. I'm
coming with a second, but let me say before I
even get into it, let me play a clip for
you that was very, very interesting doing my day job
on First Take number one morning show for the last
thirteen years in counting. Thanks to y'all. By the way,
thank you so much. Continue to support your brother. I
(01:26):
was gonna first Take this morning on ESPN. Well, my
man Jay Williams, and I can't take credit for this.
I gotta give him credit for this, because my man
Jay Williams came out with an idea that absolutely positively
blew me away because.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I didn't think about it. Why would I think about it?
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I think I know why, but I'm gonna tell you
in a minute, but not before I play this clip
with me and Jay Williams talking.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Check this out.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You can't win in twenty twenty five playing nineteen nineties basketball.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You have to change up your style.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And I do think there is a coach out there
that is currently coaching the Houston Rockets that will be
the most amazing fit in New York City, and that's Amyiudoka,
a guy that understands Boston Celtics and how they built
with Brad Stevens and Danny Ainge and what their personnel
looks like. Has an understanding of that and has a
(02:20):
similar but updated culture in Houston with some young dogs
where he's built a pretty incredible foundation over a quick
period of time, and understanding how the Western Conference is loaded,
and look, the Knicks have money to spend. I think
Imudoka is the choice. I think he's the person you
run towards, and I think you find any way to
(02:42):
pry him away from the Houston Rockets organization and bring
him to the New York Knicks, because I think he
epitomizes who the New York Knicks are as a franchise.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Now, what you didn't see there was to me going
I didn't think of that. It's a great idea. But
here's why I didn't think about that. I know a
few people in Houston, including owner Tilament for Tita, and
(03:12):
I'm telling y'all, ain't no way in hell New York
Knicks getting email U Doka Forget htown being h town
because it's pretty fly. Forget it being in the state
when no state didn't come taxes.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's cool too.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Email U Doka is under contract for the next two years.
He can't leave unless tilerm and for Tita granted him
the freedom to do so. And I'm here to tell
you that shit ain't happening. Ain't happening, email U Doka
ain't going nowhere if Tilaman and Fetida has anything to
(03:50):
say about it. He loves that man, His staff loves
that man. His employees love that man. Email you, Doka.
Just they't Bosston.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Where you're sat.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
There and railroaded him out of town. And I ain't
gonna bring up why. All I'm gonna say is that damnit,
he won the first and he ain't the last. But
somehow his personal business, which could have been an HR issue,
(04:23):
became public consumption.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I ain't gonna get in effected as a hope, but
to white boys.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That were guilty of such proclivities for decades, and we
ain't hear nothing. I know at least three dudes that
lost their job in the last couple of years, all white,
and landed.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
On another NBA team nobody said.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Nothing we knew, we ain't reported because the team didn't confer,
because the team didn't want it out there like that.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
They let the people go on about their business.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
But email Udoka, they threw under the bus and tried
to ruin his career and tell me Fatida and the
Houston Rockets said, damn that we're.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Trying to win. It's one of the greatest.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Coaches of the game, easily top five coaching basketball.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
That brother special, a hell of a coach.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Who would have coached Boston in a championship.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But that ended up being joy Missoula.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
That email Udoka, Oh my lord, everything I said about
the Knicks yesterday that raked my damn nerves, even their
weak ass statement.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
By president Leon Rose. I would have forgave that. If
they came and.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Said, yo, man email Udoka is the head coach of
the New York Knicks, all would have been forgiven. All
would have been forgiven because that man, not Leon Rose.
Email Eudoka is a hell of a coach, and that
brother right there, if they could get him, fine, but
(06:05):
he's got two years left on his deal in Houston.
And I called the source within an organization five minutes ago,
and they said you couldn't pay us enough. He ain't
going nowhere. I know it's a double negative. He ain't
going nowhere, but he ain't gone nowhere. Grammatically and correct
(06:27):
and all. He ain't gone nowhere. He may you don't
can stayd in Houston.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
But let me give you a list of names you
might want to consider.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I want to throw out Sam Cossel, assistant coach with
the Boston Celtics, because he should be a head coach
in this game, and he deserves an honorable mention. It
just may not necessarily need to be in New York
because you know he was in Boston last year. You
didn't even want to contaminate us, you know what I'm saying.
You know he's Boston's New York. I don't know about that.
But Sam Conceptius does to be a head coach in
the NBA, so he gotta throw his name for consideration.
(06:59):
All right, I'm gonna throw out these names for you.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You ready.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I'm gonna throw out Jay Wright, former head coach at
Villanova to Tom National champion, four trips to the Final four.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You're gonna say why. Jalen Brunston is the start of
the team.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Josh Hart and Michel Bridges are on the team for
the foreseeable future.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
They ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And on top of it all, not only are they
not going anywhere, even though Michael Bridges might end up
being moved because he'll be looking for a contract extension
in the year, the bottom line is all three played
at Villanova. Jay Wright is a consideration. I'm gonna throw
out another name for you. Rick Brunson, Jalen Brunton's daddy,
(07:41):
who's been on the bench last couple of leagues, that's
two three years, who I can tell you knows his basketball.
You start Temple, played in the NBA, rough and rugged,
no punk in him at all. You're gonna be tough
playing for him. You're gonna be accountable playing for him.
I like Rick Brunton. I think he's somebody that we
(08:01):
should keep our eyes on for future opportunities in the NBA. Personally,
i'm'a let you know that right now. I'm just throwing
them on my list. Number three on the list Mike Malone,
former coach in Denver, one of the NBA Championship a
couple of years ago. Just work with me doing the
Western Conference finals I would have no problem if the
New York Knicks picked him as the next head coach
(08:22):
of the franchise, no problem whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I know he departed on.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
The tense terms because players kind of needed to hear
a new voice. He was big on player accountability. He
didn't have the greatest relationship reportedly anyway with the GM
Calvin Booth, and so both of them ended up getting
booted out of there by the gron Keys.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Who on the team. But Mike Malone is a champion.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And a damn a damn great basketball mind who is
proven he could coach. We ain't sleeping on that, so
he would definitely be on my list. Wouldn't put him
top two though, I put Mark Jackson at number two.
Remember the Mark Jackson used to coach a Golden State.
Remember Mark Jackson and starred at Saint John's. Remember the
(09:10):
Mark Jackson that was Rookie of the Year in the
NBA for the New York Knicks. Remember the Mark Jackson
that played for the Indiana Pacers. Remember that Mark Jackson
that ultimately coach the Golden State Warriors and groomed the
Splash Brothers for Steve curR to capitalized off of remember
that that Mark Jackson. Can somebody explain to me why
this man is still black ball from the NBA, not
(09:31):
even an assistant coach, as good of a job as
he has done, as knowledgeable as he is about the
game of basketball, me personally him Van Gundy.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I splashed them together.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I loved them being on the same coaching staff because
I missed them calling the games.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Love the job JJ Reddick did calling games.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Loved the job that Richard Jefferson with Dorris Burke and
Mike Breen do calling the games. Loved the job that
Tim Legler does. Love my man Ryan Ruko, the whole bit.
No shade on nobody. I'm proud to call these folks colleagues.
They're great. But I'm not gonna lie and tell you
that I don't miss Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy, who,
(10:09):
by the way, Jeff and Gunny is a leader sistant
on the Los Angeles Clippers bench. I think if Mark
Jackson would get a head coaching job, Jeff Van Gundy
should be his top assistant. I think if Jef Van
Gundy gets a head coaching job, Mark Jackson should be
his stop assistant.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's how I'm flowing with it. That's how I'm flowing
with it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And not only that, when you consider New York in
the sizzle that you need since players, since people like
Leon Rose don't want to talk to the media, you know,
it helps to see a guy like Mark Jackson talking
because he's one of our own in New York. You understand,
we love Bishop Locklan, Saint John's Nicks.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Is Mark Jackson one of the greatest point guards in New.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
York history, by the way, and you're talking to a
brother that grew up the great Kenny Nsen. Don't get
me wrong, one better than these dudes. But he was
in that ballpark because he was a safe to Rod
Strickland just saw him the other day at the Knixt game.
Stephon Marlbury might be the greatest point guard in the
history of New York.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Let's not sleep on that, brother.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, you got the Nate tiny Archiballs, the Stephar Marlbury's,
the Rod Stricklands, the late great d Wayne Pearl Washington,
the greatest show in the history of college basketball.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You think I'm lying, go back and watch the tape.
Go back and watch the tape. Listen d Wayne Pearl
Washington and went to Syracuse. We had some great point
guards Kennedy and Jet Smith. Let's not forget him.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Kareem Reid out of Saint Ravens, Let's not forget him.
God Sham god Well, one of the greatest handles in history.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Let's not forget him. With all of that being said.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Still got to mention Monk Jackson. Still got to mention
mank Jackson. He's one of us in New York City
with him as the head coach worth consideration. Just can't
put him number one at the list against another dude
who's under contract, and I put email you doak in
this category, slash him number one with the great Ty
(12:04):
Lou for the Los Angeles Clippers, a champion, some man,
somebody who continuously overachieves, who makes in game adjustments. Who
if James Harden was short for Game seven, who knows
where far he would have want he would have gone.
I'm just sorry. I love James Hardiper Damn. I'm just
saying these are things to consider. So I got ty
(12:26):
lu slash email you Dooka. Both under contract teams ain't
letting them out their deals. We understand that I got
Mark Jackson, who everybody should have on their list to
be a head coach in the NBA. I got Mike Malone,
who everybody's have, on the list to be a coach
in the NBA. He's a champion, okay. I got Rick Brunston,
and I got Jay Wright with an honorable mention for
my man, Sam Counsel and Boston who deserves a head
(12:46):
coaching opportunity at some point, if not already.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
That's just me, that's just me.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
A producer in my ear brought up Danny Hurley really really,
you know he's at Connecticut. Yeah, Yukon, you know what
I'm saying. I mean, you know he's can coach, Danny Hurley.
I mean, I'm not I'm not gonna pooh pooh that.
The Hurlies are the Hurlies. They're an institution, so we
know we I was getting ready to get on my
producer about that, but he's actually right, And since he's right,
(13:18):
I'm gonna leave it at that.
Let's get started in the NBA and a story that
made headlines throughout the league yesterday the firing of Tom
Thibodeaux by the New York Knicks. The move came just
a few days after the Knicks made their deepest playoff
run in twenty five years. Tibbs, who led the Knicks
to back to back fifty win seasons for the first
time since nineteen ninety five, leaves ranking fourth all time
on a franchise list and coaching victories. Now, the focus
(00:26):
shifts to potential head coaching replacements to lead the team
currently built around Jalen Brunson and call Anthony Towns. Let
me say this before I get into it, I want
to tell you this. There are a bunch of names
that need to come up. In a few seconds. I'm
gonna give you about five. I'm gonna give you about
five because you need to know, you need to know,
(00:46):
you need to hear the people that saw on my
list are right. And I got some honorable mentions as well,
and I'll explain why because I'm going all down the line, right,
I'm going all down the line. Just to tip off
my producers are Sam Cassell email, you don't I mean,
you can talk about coaches of the contract, mind you. Okay,
the tie Lows of the world, and the Mike Maloons
(01:06):
and everybody else. Rick Brunton's evens, all of them. I'm
coming with a second, but let me say before I
even get into it, let me play a clip for
you that was very, very interesting doing my day job
on First Take number one morning show for the last
thirteen years in counting. Thanks to y'all. By the way,
thank you so much. Continue to support your brother. I
(01:26):
was gonna first Take this morning on ESPN. Well, my
man Jay Williams, and I can't take credit for this.
I gotta give him credit for this, because my man
Jay Williams came out with an idea that absolutely positively
blew me away because.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I didn't think about it. Why would I think about it?
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I think I know why, but I'm gonna tell you
in a minute, but not before I play this clip
with me and Jay Williams talking.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Check this out.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You can't win in twenty twenty five playing nineteen nineties basketball.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You have to change up your style.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And I do think there is a coach out there
that is currently coaching the Houston Rockets that will be
the most amazing fit in New York City, and that's Amyiudoka,
a guy that understands Boston Celtics and how they built
with Brad Stevens and Danny Ainge and what their personnel
looks like. Has an understanding of that and has a
(02:20):
similar but updated culture in Houston with some young dogs
where he's built a pretty incredible foundation over a quick
period of time, and understanding how the Western Conference is loaded,
and look, the Knicks have money to spend. I think
Imudoka is the choice. I think he's the person you
run towards, and I think you find any way to
(02:42):
pry him away from the Houston Rockets organization and bring
him to the New York Knicks, because I think he
epitomizes who the New York Knicks are as a franchise.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Now, what you didn't see there was to me going
I didn't think of that. It's a great idea. But
here's why I didn't think about that. I know a
few people in Houston, including owner Tilament for Tita, and
(03:12):
I'm telling y'all, ain't no way in hell New York
Knicks getting email U Doka Forget htown being h town
because it's pretty fly. Forget it being in the state
when no state didn't come taxes.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's cool too.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Email U Doka is under contract for the next two years.
He can't leave unless tilerm and for Tita granted him
the freedom to do so. And I'm here to tell
you that shit ain't happening. Ain't happening, email U Doka
ain't going nowhere if Tilaman and Fetida has anything to
(03:50):
say about it. He loves that man, His staff loves
that man. His employees love that man. Email you, Doka.
Just they't Bosston.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Where you're sat.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
There and railroaded him out of town. And I ain't
gonna bring up why. All I'm gonna say is that damnit,
he won the first and he ain't the last. But
somehow his personal business, which could have been an HR issue,
(04:23):
became public consumption.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I ain't gonna get in effected as a hope, but
to white boys.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That were guilty of such proclivities for decades, and we
ain't hear nothing. I know at least three dudes that
lost their job in the last couple of years, all white,
and landed.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
On another NBA team nobody said.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Nothing we knew, we ain't reported because the team didn't confer,
because the team didn't want it out there like that.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
They let the people go on about their business.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
But email Udoka, they threw under the bus and tried
to ruin his career and tell me Fatida and the
Houston Rockets said, damn that we're.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Trying to win. It's one of the greatest.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Coaches of the game, easily top five coaching basketball.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
That brother special, a hell of a coach.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Who would have coached Boston in a championship.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But that ended up being joy Missoula.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
That email Udoka, Oh my lord, everything I said about
the Knicks yesterday that raked my damn nerves, even their
weak ass statement.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
By president Leon Rose. I would have forgave that. If
they came and.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Said, yo, man email Udoka is the head coach of
the New York Knicks, all would have been forgiven. All
would have been forgiven because that man, not Leon Rose.
Email Eudoka is a hell of a coach, and that
brother right there, if they could get him, fine, but
(06:05):
he's got two years left on his deal in Houston.
And I called the source within an organization five minutes ago,
and they said you couldn't pay us enough. He ain't
going nowhere. I know it's a double negative. He ain't
going nowhere, but he ain't gone nowhere. Grammatically and correct
(06:27):
and all. He ain't gone nowhere. He may you don't
can stayd in Houston.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
But let me give you a list of names you
might want to consider.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I want to throw out Sam Cossel, assistant coach with
the Boston Celtics, because he should be a head coach
in this game, and he deserves an honorable mention. It
just may not necessarily need to be in New York
because you know he was in Boston last year. You
didn't even want to contaminate us, you know what I'm saying.
You know he's Boston's New York. I don't know about that.
But Sam Conceptius does to be a head coach in
the NBA, so he gotta throw his name for consideration.
(06:59):
All right, I'm gonna throw out these names for you.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You ready.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I'm gonna throw out Jay Wright, former head coach at
Villanova to Tom National champion, four trips to the Final four.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You're gonna say why. Jalen Brunston is the start of
the team.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Josh Hart and Michel Bridges are on the team for
the foreseeable future.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
They ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And on top of it all, not only are they
not going anywhere, even though Michael Bridges might end up
being moved because he'll be looking for a contract extension
in the year, the bottom line is all three played
at Villanova. Jay Wright is a consideration. I'm gonna throw
out another name for you. Rick Brunson, Jalen Brunton's daddy,
(07:41):
who's been on the bench last couple of leagues, that's
two three years, who I can tell you knows his basketball.
You start Temple, played in the NBA, rough and rugged,
no punk in him at all. You're gonna be tough
playing for him. You're gonna be accountable playing for him.
I like Rick Brunton. I think he's somebody that we
(08:01):
should keep our eyes on for future opportunities in the NBA. Personally,
i'm'a let you know that right now. I'm just throwing
them on my list. Number three on the list Mike Malone,
former coach in Denver, one of the NBA Championship a
couple of years ago. Just work with me doing the
Western Conference finals I would have no problem if the
New York Knicks picked him as the next head coach
(08:22):
of the franchise, no problem whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I know he departed on.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
The tense terms because players kind of needed to hear
a new voice. He was big on player accountability. He
didn't have the greatest relationship reportedly anyway with the GM
Calvin Booth, and so both of them ended up getting
booted out of there by the gron Keys.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Who on the team. But Mike Malone is a champion.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And a damn a damn great basketball mind who is
proven he could coach. We ain't sleeping on that, so
he would definitely be on my list. Wouldn't put him
top two though, I put Mark Jackson at number two.
Remember the Mark Jackson used to coach a Golden State.
Remember Mark Jackson and starred at Saint John's. Remember the
(09:10):
Mark Jackson that was Rookie of the Year in the
NBA for the New York Knicks. Remember the Mark Jackson
that played for the Indiana Pacers. Remember that Mark Jackson
that ultimately coach the Golden State Warriors and groomed the
Splash Brothers for Steve curR to capitalized off of remember
that that Mark Jackson. Can somebody explain to me why
this man is still black ball from the NBA, not
(09:31):
even an assistant coach, as good of a job as
he has done, as knowledgeable as he is about the
game of basketball, me personally him Van Gundy.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I splashed them together.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I loved them being on the same coaching staff because
I missed them calling the games.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Love the job JJ Reddick did calling games.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Loved the job that Richard Jefferson with Dorris Burke and
Mike Breen do calling the games. Loved the job that
Tim Legler does. Love my man Ryan Ruko, the whole bit.
No shade on nobody. I'm proud to call these folks colleagues.
They're great. But I'm not gonna lie and tell you
that I don't miss Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy, who,
(10:09):
by the way, Jeff and Gunny is a leader sistant
on the Los Angeles Clippers bench. I think if Mark
Jackson would get a head coaching job, Jeff Van Gundy
should be his top assistant. I think if Jef Van
Gundy gets a head coaching job, Mark Jackson should be
his stop assistant.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's how I'm flowing with it. That's how I'm flowing
with it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And not only that, when you consider New York in
the sizzle that you need since players, since people like
Leon Rose don't want to talk to the media, you know,
it helps to see a guy like Mark Jackson talking
because he's one of our own in New York. You understand,
we love Bishop Locklan, Saint John's Nicks.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Is Mark Jackson one of the greatest point guards in New.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
York history, by the way, and you're talking to a
brother that grew up the great Kenny Nsen. Don't get
me wrong, one better than these dudes. But he was
in that ballpark because he was a safe to Rod
Strickland just saw him the other day at the Knixt game.
Stephon Marlbury might be the greatest point guard in the
history of New York.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Let's not sleep on that, brother.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, you got the Nate tiny Archiballs, the Stephar Marlbury's,
the Rod Stricklands, the late great d Wayne Pearl Washington,
the greatest show in the history of college basketball.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You think I'm lying, go back and watch the tape.
Go back and watch the tape. Listen d Wayne Pearl
Washington and went to Syracuse. We had some great point
guards Kennedy and Jet Smith. Let's not forget him.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Kareem Reid out of Saint Ravens, Let's not forget him.
God Sham god Well, one of the greatest handles in history.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Let's not forget him. With all of that being said.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Still got to mention Monk Jackson. Still got to mention
mank Jackson. He's one of us in New York City
with him as the head coach worth consideration. Just can't
put him number one at the list against another dude
who's under contract, and I put email you doak in
this category, slash him number one with the great Ty
(12:04):
Lou for the Los Angeles Clippers, a champion, some man,
somebody who continuously overachieves, who makes in game adjustments. Who
if James Harden was short for Game seven, who knows
where far he would have want he would have gone.
I'm just sorry. I love James Hardiper Damn. I'm just
saying these are things to consider. So I got ty
(12:26):
lu slash email you Dooka. Both under contract teams ain't
letting them out their deals. We understand that I got
Mark Jackson, who everybody should have on their list to
be a head coach in the NBA. I got Mike Malone,
who everybody's have, on the list to be a coach
in the NBA. He's a champion, okay. I got Rick Brunston,
and I got Jay Wright with an honorable mention for
my man, Sam Counsel and Boston who deserves a head
(12:46):
coaching opportunity at some point, if not already.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
That's just me, that's just me.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
A producer in my ear brought up Danny Hurley really really,
you know he's at Connecticut. Yeah, Yukon, you know what
I'm saying. I mean, you know he's can coach, Danny Hurley.
I mean, I'm not I'm not gonna pooh pooh that.
The Hurlies are the Hurlies. They're an institution, so we
know we I was getting ready to get on my
producer about that, but he's actually right, And since he's right,
(13:18):
I'm gonna leave it at that.
Host
Stephen A. Smith
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Ridiculous History
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.