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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Going along with Shammy. That's gonna be hot on the
story of the day. Plus he's warning no, it's Sammy Long.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Potters three game set gets going here against the Phillies.
What a little under two hours our hour forty five
Horton set for the boys out in Philadelphia. We got
some some big time Laker news from a big time
Laker reporter talking about whether Booha or whether Lebron James
will be back in a Laker uniform. Spicy stuff there.
(00:38):
But first we'll get the Potter's come up fifteen minutes
Lakers and thirty but first time with the NFL. So
with Miles Garrett, like kind of yesterday was on the fly, right,
we're you guys trying to process the trades of Miles
Garrett on his way you know, to the to the
La Rams.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Then he got a J.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Brown on his way to the New England Patriots. AJ
Brown today said he feels like he's close to heaven.
He's close to heaven now that he's with the New
England Patriots, which, yeah, I guess you know, they did
have the twenty six or the easiest schedule in twenty
six years. What the New England Patriots had last season.
They got the Chargers in the playoffs without their tackles.
(01:16):
They played the Houston Texans in the Divisional round shroud
through four picks in the first half. Their running back
Woody Marks the receiver, and Nico Collins the left tackle,
Jeremy Tunsel, and they're tight end Dalton Schultz all went
out or did not play in the game. And they
beat the Bonnicks less Denver Broncos in the APEC Championship game.
But J Brown think whatever he thinks, Maybe maybe this
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is a big change of scenery for him. I in
regards to the J Brown side of things, because the
question today everyone's asking, and we'll get to the Rams
piece in a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
How does this tip the scales in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
They don't talking about the Rams being far and away
the best team. They were the favorites heading end of
the year, already before the Miles Garrett deal. They went
from eight to one to win a Super Bowl to
six to one. And then now that New England Patriots
currently our fourth best odds to get out of the AFC.
So the betting markets are telling us a lot because
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the NFL in Vegas, Vegas knows Vegas doesn't fall for
the trends. Vegas has the Ravens actually is the favorite
to get out of the AFC, followed by the Bills,
followed by the Chiefs, then the Patriots, and then it's
it's the Chargers and the Bengals. Depending on what sportsbook
you look at, it varies. What that means, though, is
(02:36):
that Vegas is telling us that it's gonna return to
how it was, that if you have a dominant quarterback,
you're gonna rule the AFC. Now, maybe Drake may can
be that now that he has AJ Brown, maybe he
can do that, and they sign Romeo Dobbs. In fairness
to Drake May, I give the Patriots a lot of
crap for last year because they didn't show up in
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the Super Bowl, and I think they were kind of
bose for that, and they weren't some electric team. They
got very fortunate on the schedule that they played in
their two biggest wins of the year when they beat
Buffalo on the road in that Week four matchup on
Sunday Night Football, and they beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Outside of that, they didn't really beat playoff teams. And
then again I laid out for you the kind of
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easy path they had to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
But he didn't have receivers.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
He had Stafon Diggs who's past his prime, and Kashawan
Boody was the young receiver at LSU. Now with AJ
Brown in in Romeo Dobson, toe certainly upgraded. My concern
if I'm a Patriots fan, you have a young quarterback
who hasn't really gone through growing pains yet because his
rookie season, the Patriots did weren't expecting anything, and he
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had some He showed some talent towards the end of
the year, but they weren't expecting anything from he goes
to the Super Bowl. Every quarterback, whether it's Patrick Mahomes,
he you know when they started playing a shell coverage
on him a few years into the NFL. Josh Allen
struggled early in his NFL career, has went through some
you know, before he's become Josh Allen, some ups and
downside of his career. Lamar, every quarterback has had that
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season where they took a little bit of a step back,
a little aggression. Justin Herbert had it, CJ. Stroud had it,
Trevor Lawrence had it. All those guys we put as
potential top five quarterbacks after their rookie season, and none
of those guys are top five quarterbacks. I guess you
could argue, someone could argue Herbert, but I wouldn't make
that argument until he wins a playoff game. So you
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haven't seen that. You haven't had that with Drake May yet.
And now you add inn Aj Brown, who is a
deva wide receiver who was complaining about targets from Jalen
Hurts and Jalen Hurts. At the end of the day,
even though people want to critique Jalen Hurts and say
he doesn't always pass the eye test, and you know,
it's more about the complimentary pieces of Philly, the offensive line,
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Sakuon Barkley, having Aj Brown, DeVante Smith, a great defense,
one of the best young secondaries in the NFL. Jalen
Hurts did win, and he's been two Super Bowl play
well in both one one of them he's done. He
has more hardware than Josh Allen, than Lamar Jackson, justin Herbert,
Joe Burrow, a lot of quarterbacks that we deem. He
has the same amount of hardware as Matthew Stafford, more appearances,
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so forevery what you want to say about Jalen Hurts.
Jalen Hurts does have is able to go look what
I've accomplished in the NFL, and he threw a fit
with that, Like he threw a fit in Philadelphia where
Jalen Hurts won him out of town.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
So I'm in New England.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Patriots, I'm like, do you really want to bring in
with a young quarterback that has had success I'll give
credit to, but do you really want to bring in
a diva wide receiver who we know is going to
be complaining about targets halfway through the year because it's
gonna happen. And I know some people are like, the
Patriots are back in, back in contention now, should be
one of the favorites. I don't see that. I see
a lot of teams in the AFC ahead of them.
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They were very fortunate to not have to deal with
with Burrow or Mahomes or Lamar in.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
The postseason last year.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
They didn't even play Josh Allen because the Devon Broncos
took them out. So a lot is up in there
in the AFC. Look at keeps some relevant. I I've
kind of thought that they might actually miss the playoffs
this year. I think that's still even an option. But
now they do have a receiving corps. We'll see if
Rabel can keep j Brown check like you had when
he was in Tennessee. On the Rams side of things,
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talk about flipping, you know, flipping the scales in the NFL.
I mentioned they went from eight to one, you know,
eight to one favorites when the Super Bowl to was
six to one. That's how port Miles Garrett is. He
might not be the only path rusher on the way.
So we have some sound from Adam Schefter. I sent
you Brent about could Aaron Donald come out of retirement?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Could Aaron Donald come join the La Rams? We have
that all right.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
This is Adam Sheffer talking about on Get Up this morning,
about whether Aaron Donald might come out of retirement to
play alongside Miles Garrett.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Who'd the Rams sign Aaron Donald? And I said, they're
out of money, and he said, in this league, you
can always find money.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And it reminded me of what.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
The teams said when they were calling me in late March,
when they said the Browns are trading Miles Garrett, and
the brown said, we're not trading Miles Garrett, do say
the Rams.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Might now make a run Aaron Donald.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
We can't afford Aaron Donald.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Well, again, I wouldn't say there was a zero percent
chance of happening. I don't put a high degree of
probability on it happening. But I'm not ready to just
write it off and say this is absolutely not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, that's great, that's fantastic news.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Uh can you imagine that? I mean collas eight.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Seven seven seven six seven four seven sixty or shoot
us a text seven zero four seven zero, start your
mess with team. Aaron Donald joining that team is a
lethal because he doesn't have to be the number one
pass rusher. He can be the number one pass rusher
at thirty five years old. You know, since that happened,
Pat mcafeel on his show today actually texted Aaron Donald
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and he said he's thinking about it.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
The whole not having money, I mean, they can find
money in the NFL. If you're Aaron Donald, you have
a ton of money. It's about trying to establish the
legacy and make another run at this thing. But it
puts a lot of pressure. Like we talked about Fletchnow,
were talking about earlier. The pressure puts on Trake May
adding AJ Brown, the pressure on Jalen Hurts, the now
that he doesn't have AJ Brown, can he be that
big time pocket passer. It's a lot of pressure on
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Matthew Stafford. Now you got this yesterday. I firmly believe
Jayden Daniels and Caleb Williams are the future of the NFC.
Those are the quarterbacks that are the young stars that
I think the Bears are closer than Washington right now,
but you assemble pieces around them, I think those two
players could ascend into a top ten, top five quarterback
conversation if they're not already there. Matthew Stafford, you're in
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a division with the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And the Niners. Donald just won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Matthew Safford is an unbelievable player because there's a lot
of credit, but Matthew Stafford over the years when he
played for the Lions, got a lot of passes of Yeah, like,
Stafford's great, but it's a shame that he kind of
wastes away there. And there's you know, they'ren't have the
talent around May Calvin Johnson, but those teams there's ever
really a team during his tenure with the Lions that
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had a legit shot at Super Bowl. So he got pass.
Then he comes to the Rams, he wins a Super Bowl.
He's a Hall of Famer. He never take that away
from him. They won it.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
At so far, well, it's been a while since that game.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I mean, he's seen the Eagles win a Super Bowl
in that time, go to a couple of Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
He's seen the Niners in his own division.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Go to a couple couple Super Bowls, go to a
Super Bowl since then against the Chiefs, and he saw
the Seattle Seahawks last year was Sam Donald who had
that on their you know, Bengo card, Sam Donald beating
them in the NFC Championship game to go win.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
A Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
So at thirty eight years old, they drafted your replacement.
Now he's not. Ty Simpson's not playing this year. But
at some point you got to figure two years down
the road, they're gonna want Ty Simpson to play, because
if they didn't want him to play a couple of
years from now, they would have taken makay lemon Kenny
and Sadik. They could have done a ton of things
with that first round pick that would have added to
make this team even more of a juggernaut than it
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is this year. If Matthew Stafford doesn't win a Super Bowl,
how are we thinking about him? Because no one's going
to ever say that he's not a great quarterback because
he is. But when we talk about Aaron Rodgers at
this point in his career, although Aaron Rodgers is one
of the most talented electric quarterbacks I've ever had the
privilege of watching, I think the two most talented quarterbacks
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in my lifetime I've ever seen Patrick Mahomes Aaron Rodgers.
But we look at Aaron Rodgers and go kind of
a disappointment. I mean, one Super Bowl appearance, won win
we do. You have four MVPs. Four MVPs, but think
of the countless losses lost to Jimmy g you know,
with the Niners were on the road, they had a
countless home field advantages lost to the New York Giants.
(10:54):
When the New York Giants run and took down Tom
Brady and that undefeated Patriots team, Like we look at
Aaron Rodgers and go for the for how electric he
is and the amount of talent he has is it
not kind of a disappointing career and that he didn't
win more. I mean one super Bowl, one Super Bowl appearance.
Jalen Hurts has already done more in his time, take
away the MVPs, but in terms of more super Bowl
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appearances than Aaron Rodgers ever has, and Jalen Hurts has another,
you know, couple contracts in front of him. So Matthew
Stafford kind of plays into that talk about Drew Brees
beloved here in San Diego. Drew Brees, great player, won
Super Bowl, won Super Bowl appearance. Matthew Safford does not
win a super Bowl with this team, with this roster
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having less need you know, the FM picks literally going
all in, getting Trey McDuffie, getting Jalen Watson, getting the
best defensive player in the NFL in Miles Garrett. Aaron
Donald might be coming out of retirement to come play
if Matthew Savage doesn't win this year. I mean, I
talk about Josh Allen having pressure Lamar Jackson. I've hammered
that home for years now about Josh Allen and flesh,
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and I argue about it. Matthew Stafford my most pressure
on him than anyone in the NFL this year with
this roster that he's gonna have going in to the season,
So a lot for the Rams to think about.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It still is wide open, but the Rams are the
favorite right now.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But you know, it's long NFL season, injuries, and the
best team doesn't always win in the NFL because it's
just it's hard to win the NFL. So when it
done in the playoffs, all right? Cot up next Pottery's
three game set against the Philadelphia A.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Phillies could go in a little bit here in an
hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Have the Pottery's been concerned about the wrong NLS team?
I'll tell you who that is on the other side.
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but this actually is a Legiti big series.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
It's there's some intrigue.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Jays Boeingen called up from Triple A, so Pottery's hopefully
can you know the kind of red hot outfield sensation.
It's it's been long overdue that he's got called up,
getting called up his first gamb today. Romon Loreano actually
retroactively heading back to the il, which hopefully nothing's wrong there.
But Romal Loreano hasn't had the unbelievable start like he
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had to start the year this year. But Bowen actually
was originally drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates and he's been
He's been fantastic so this season.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
L pass though.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
He's hitting two ninety two with thirteen home runs, thirty
six RBIs and so, like Listen, I don't want to
put too much. I feel like Jayce Bowen, we've hailed
a lot today. If people are excited about jays Bone,
as they should be, I'm excited to watching play tonight.
I do, though there's obviously a big jump and triple
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a to the to the majors, and I don't want
the Padres lack of hitting, hitting woes to get then
get dumped on Bowen like he's the savior. Bowen has
a bright future in front of him, and I hope
he comes in and destroys the Phillies for the next
three games.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But we got to take up with a grain of salt.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Hopefully the fact that Bowen's coming up can kind of
re juveniles.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Uh this lineup a little bit.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Rejuvenate this lineup and that you know, there's there's so
you know, some some new faces in the in.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
The clubhouse and guys you know, competing for their spot.
That was Mike Shild's problem last year.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Mike Shildt picked his one through nine guys.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Really never changed it.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
There wasn't a lot of incentive, Like, there wasn't a
lot of like what do they say in the NFL
when the starting quarterback plays the best, when his backup
gets drafted, they bring someone in because they're like, oh damn,
like I actually got to performer.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I'm gonna be out of a job.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Not that these guys, you know, the the big three
aren't hitting, not that they're gonna be out of it.
Like earlier, we got a we got a YouTube chat
from the Four Letters. Many Tatiz Marrin Bogie aren't getting
benched or sent down. When I was talking about this,
a lot of talking about them meeting to bench or
sat down.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They're obviously not getting cut. That wouldn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
But I like what Craig Salmon's done and that he's
moved guys around the lineup and not just the stars,
like he has moved the stars around the lineup.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
That's that's.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Takes some guts and some fortitude as a manager to
know I'm gonna go up a conversation about Fernando Tatis
and move him down the lineup. Frando probably wasn't happy
about that, had on your reports about that. I'm sure
Fernando would like to be batting one or three, but
they've moved him around so far this year, all the
big time hitters. I think that's a big props to
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Craig Salmon for taking grasp of his team. But like Bowen,
coming up can kind of add a litle juice to
this lineup, and they need it because the conversation we've
had for the last three months has been the last
couple of months, was when Tatis hit his first home run,
would this be the start of something?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Because he's been hitting the balls in the ground.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
We've talked at nauseum about the hard hit rate, and
then it's just it's just gonna take him to get
some lyft and he's gonna go on a tear.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
He hit the home run on Saturday over four on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Now one game sample size, not gonna you know, rite
his obituary yet, but this is a big series, like
I was talking about yesterday the NL wild Card, Like,
let's look at this right here. So the NYL card,
the Potteris are a top at thirty two and twenty six.
The Diamondbacks are a half game back thirty two and
twenty seven. You got the Cardinals, the Pirates, the Cubs
only a one game back of the Patres. The Phillies
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are one and a half back, the Reds are one
and a half back, and the Nationals are one a
half back.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So this is complete open season.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
And I tease this segment by talking about, you know,
have the pottery has been worried about the wrong NLS team.
The Diamondbacks took it to the Dodgers last night. Now
is Game one of the series. But this Diamondback team
is sneaky good. And we talked about the Dodgers winning
back to back World Series. Well, the Diamondbacks win the
World Series a couple years ago, three years ago when
they got blown out by the Rangers. But remember they
swept the Dodgers. They beat the Phillies, complete surprise run
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through everything. I mean, Perdomo is having a fantastic year.
Could tell Marte's having a great year. Corbyn Carrol and
some of their best bullpen arms aren't even there right now.
And Corbyn Burns, their best pitcher, has appreciated this season.
He's gonna make his debut so far in the summer.
And the biggest problem right now for the Diamondbacks is
lack of consistent bullpen. And if there's one problem to
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have heading into a trade deadline, the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Would be that.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Because you can address the bullpen, but you can go
get bullpen pieces, as evidenced by what Aj Preller has
done the last few seasons, getting Jason Adam and Tanner
Scott acquiring Mason Miller last year. I mean you can Yeah,
it might come out a hefty price like Mason Miller,
but you can address the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
So we talk about, you know, tiebreakers so far.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I know it's June second, but the Philly swept you
at San Diego last week. Now you get a chance
over the next three days. Look, the chances of sweeping
them are very slim. That would be fantastic, but like,
you gotta win this series because if Tatiz it's his
home run. And we're still having the same conversations about
the Big Three, like the Bats haven't been good.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Outside of last Friday.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Friday Night's game against the Nationals Friday before against the A's,
there has not been a big time offensive showing so
so far.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
In the last two to three weeks.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I mean, the Phillies last week came into Pecko Park
and scored a total of ten runs. That's hats off
to the Pottery's pitching staff, the starters, the bullpen. If
you would have told any pottery'svan I'd think that, Hey,
over three games, the Phillies have been a team led
by Trey Turner and Schwarbers out of their career year,
Bryce Harper. This is a team that overwhelms you with
offense and can do it kind of like the Dodgers.
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The fact that you would hold them the ten runs,
I think most people would have taken that. I think
I think Craig Standard, I think the pitching staff would
have taken that over three games if the Pottery's bats
were bad. So you're talking about today facing Aaron Nola,
who got after you a little bit last week. The
Pottery has only got three runs in that game, and
then tomorrow we can get into a little bit more.
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But Christopher Sanchez going for history against the Potterys Christopher
Sanchez is what forty four and two thirds scoreless innings.
I mean, the last thing if you're the Pottery's waking
up with a little pride tomorrow is he threw seven
scoreless last week against you, for him to chase down
chase down, I believe Herscheis's record, He's gonna have to
do that again against you. So if you're the San
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Diego Patres like this is Manny Machado, Jackson Merrill, Xander
Bogarts and Fernando Tatis, there are no excuses. You are
paid to be able to hit these guys. That is
why you make the contracts you make. So I don't
want today or tomorrow to be on Gavin Sheets or
miguelandehar Jase Bowen if he comes up here and goes
over four, or the pitching staff Randy Vasquez cannot be
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expected to go seven scoreless tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
The Phillies are going to hit it home.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Can the Potterre's bats match Stat's the question we've been
asking all year, but it really is hitting a breaking
point where yes, the Potterres are a top the NL
wild card, but this is not like years past where
it's felt like like when the Pottery started out fourteen
and three last year. The rest of the season they
played about five hundred baseball just below four teen and
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three record carried them there. With the NL being so
much better than the AL and the NL central with
all these teams clumped together, I mean in what seven
eight teams clumped within within a couple of three games
of each other, like, you are not going to be
able to rely on the hot starts that the Potteries
have had.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
To the year. So this is why this slumping can't continue.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
The Potters have to go out here and make a statement,
and there's no better team to do that against in
the Philadelphia Phillies, who have looked like a completely different
ball club with Don Mattingly as the manager, which which
happened about a month ago. All right, coming up next
with the NBA Finals starting tomorrow, I haven't gotten too
much to it because of all the NFL news yesterday
and some interesting news per Jovan Buja about whether the
(21:40):
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NBA Finals going tomorrow, Nick Spurs, It's gonna be a
fun series, man, I think Liken Finals always well. As
(22:02):
a massive NBA fan, I was excited for the NBA Finals,
but Fletch made a point earlier about how it does
feel like this NBA Finals is drawing a lot of buzz,
and I think that's because it's the first NBA Finals
since the Warriors and Celtics where it was you feel
like a toss up, like the Celtics were a favor,
(22:25):
are favored in those finals and the Warriors ended up winning.
The Spurs are almost a two to one favorite. Are
a little less. But I don't I don't even pick
the Knicks, and I don't think people call you crazy,
and I think the Knicks are certainly a live dog
in this series, and the like the Knicks are good.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
The Knicks are a good.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Team, and frankly, they've been running through everyone the last
month or two of the season, so help maybe they
should be the favorite. Who knows, We're gonna see it
played out tomorrow. Very excited for that game, But like
the last few NBA Finals, it is so funny how.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I'm talking about this a lot of the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Ok See, we're always so quick to name the dynasty, right,
we're so quick to okac was the dynasty that was
gonna run off all these championships and no one in
the West was gonna be able touch them. Before that,
it was the Celtics, the Celtics, people thought that was
the team, Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum, that was the next
Celtics dynasty. Before that, the Denver Nuggets, Jamal Murray and
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Nikola Jokic. And even when the Warriors won, people thought, hey,
this maybe this is the second act of the dynasty.
When they dominated the twenty tens and people thought the
Bucks and Giannis would rip off a bunch. People thought
Lebron and ad might be the start of something. After
they won in twenty twenty, they were the favorites entering
the season the next year and they got beat by
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the Suns.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So like I hear a lot today about oh is
Wenby gonna.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Mute the goat conversation because he's twenty two years old
about to be playing that he's playing, about to be
playing in the NBA finals, favor to winning championship, and
Wemby could rip off an unbelievable run, and Wemby has
all the makings of the face of the league. He's
he's unreal. I mean, he's seven to four and he
can he has handles, and he can shoot. I don't
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even tell people how good Webby is. But it is
funny out now because they won that game. Then all
of a sudden, well are the Spurs that team, Like,
we're so quick before they've even won the championship, we
are already talking about them as being the dynasty. The
Knicks could very easily win this championship. It is just
funny to me. How again, the Celtics were the dynasty,
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and it was the Nuggets last year was the Thunder
this year, now it's the Spurs. When Luca made it
with the MAVs, people thought that the MAVs were gonna
be just one step away. I mean, we're so quick
to jump the gun on dynasties in naming the next
big thing. And we've got a different champion every year
since the twenty sixteen, seventeen Warriors or seventeen eighteen Warriors.
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I mean, it has been a very you know, fluid
league year to year, and it's just.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Funny to me.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Like Anthony Edwards, remember when he went on that run
in the Western Conference Finals. Everyone's like, Anthony Edwards k
new Michael Jordan. It's like, okay, everyone just relaxed. Let's
let's let's let's celebrate Anthony Edwards for what he is,
celebrate Wenby for what they are. Shay all these people,
but it doesn't mean that then we're gonna name them
all time greats because they have a playoff from this playoffs.
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This playoff series has a ton of drama with it.
I can't wait for it to get going. We'll dive
into a little bit more tomorrow. But Jovann Bouja has
as a YouTube channel, h you just check it out,
Great Lakers channel doing a lot of content. He was
was talking about and was answering a question for one
of his comments about whether the Lakers would prioritize Austin
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Reeves or Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
This is what Booja to say on his on his podcast.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
The biggest difference I would say, I mean, there's two
big differences between Lebron and Austin right now. One Lebron
is a short term solution. Austin is viewed by the
franchise as a long term cornerstone. So if it comes
down to would you rather pay Austin forty million for
the next five years or Lebron forty million for one year,
They're going to prioritize the long term contract here. So
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that's it's like Austin is more of a priority for
the Lakers than Lebron is. That's just a fact, So
that that's one part of it. The second part of
it is that Austin is going to have a market
and Lebron maybe he wants to go to Chicago or Brooklyn.
I do not foresee that. But the issue with Lebron
is that all of the teams that are going to
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want Lebron are going to have somewhere between the a
VET minimum offer and a.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Non taxpayer mL offer.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
So Lebron can't leverage the market against the Lakers the
same way Austin can.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
So bouhas right now some people going to be shocked
to hear that.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
There's been a lot of discussion about can Austin Reaves
and Luka doncicch coaxes as a backcourt that goes to
the finals because you're dealing with the Thunner in the West,
you're dealing with the Spurge, dealing with all these teams.
But I mean, you damn right, the Lakers should prioritize
Austin Reeves over Lebron James because Lebron James, unbelievable player
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still at his age, was the best player in that
series against the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But he is not the future.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
And I think this is where it's hard with Lebron
and Rich Paul and Clutch Sports coming to grips with
the fact that they aren't the number one priority anymore.
If Lebron was thirty one whatever, Lebron wants, Lebron want shooters,
go get Lebron shooters, Lebron wants bigs, Get Lebron big
at forty.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Two years old.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
The Lakers have been in a unique spot the last
couple of years because the Lakers were headed for years
of of being at the bottom of the West. If
the Luca Tray did not happen and get dropped in
their lap, they were headed for Lebron, probably leaving Anthony
Davis being the core player on the team. And I
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think you'd be hard pressed to find an NBA star
who wanted to go pair up with Anthony Davis in
La alone.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I just don't see that happening.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
He's injury prone, hasn't always played the best in the
in the toughest spots. His number one success came with
Lebron being the leader on the team and a great
team outfitted around him. I'm not trying to take shots
at Anthony Davis, but I don't think the Lakers were
headed for prosperity. They get the lottery ticket of all
lottery tickets, get out of jail free cards, Luca dropped
in their hands, and they've had this weird kind of
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a couple of years here where they're trying to rebuild
on the fly with Luca, Lebron Reeves, but knowing that
they don't have the roster to really compete with the Thunder,
with Okay or with the Spurs and teams like that.
So now the Lakers finally have the off season where
they have draft picks, they have cap space, They get
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signed Austin Reeves to a max level salary and still
have fifty million dollars to spend. The Lakers and I
had cap space in years they've been trying to work
on the margins convince players who take minimum contracts VET minimums.
The tax the mid level taxpayer exception you heard Boja
mentioned is the one that allows you to kind of
evade the salary cap and go after a player of
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a higher caliber for about ten to fifteen million. And
the Lakers should be prioritizing Austin Reeves because Austin Reeves
can be here for the long term. And by the way,
if Austin Reeves doesn't work out with Luca, guess what
you can trade Austin Reeves. Because you're telling me that
people that a team maybe with more depth. Let's say
Luca and Reeves don't work out. You're telling me a
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team wouldn't want Austin Reeves as a primary scorer who
has elite defenders everywhere.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Stay with me. The Lakers are never traded to Boston.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
But think about if you're the Celtics, you have Jason
Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Jalen Brown is one of the
elite defenders in the NBA. Adding Austin Reeves where he
doesn't have to worry about defense, he has to worry
about his deficiencies, he can his play offense.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
That'd be a dream come true. For them.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
The Reeves can leverage the market because he could sign
a max level contract with the Bulls. With the net
teams that have cast space, Lebron is not going to
a team like that. There was a report today per
Tim Kabakami from the San Francisco newspaper, the Warriors are
a quote live option for Lebron James that could offer
him the fifteen point one non taxpayer mid level exception.
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Said quote, I think the Warriors would be a very
live option. Check that, I think the process already started
and the Warriors are a live option. So Lebron is
in a weird spot where he's still playing at an
extremely high level, but obviously teams aren't offering him a
max level deal for the future because he could retire after.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
This year and he's forty two years old.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
So there's a few listed teams that are championship contenders
that he could go to that have the cabs space
to afford him and he has a chance to win.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
So he's not going to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
He's not going to Brooklyn because why would he waste
his time being in spots that have zero chances to
win a NBA championship. The Lakers. He could run it
back the Warriors, as I just mentioned, the Cleveland Calves
or the New York Knicks. Now that me finals interesting
because if the Knicks win the whole thing, there's not
a lot of incenting for Lebron to go to the Knicks.
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Because let's just say the Knicks won the whole the
whole thing this year, and then Lebron went there and
they won again. Lebron is getting credit for that. Lebron's like, okay,
you pulled a KD and joined to join the best
team in the NBA. If the Knicks were to lose
in the NBA Finals and Lebron went there and push
them over the top, Lebron would be universally praised. Winning
a fourth championship or a fifth championship with his fourth
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team in New York.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
It would be a story beyond stories.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
The Cavs are turning home would be interesting, you know,
or what are they gonna do with James Harden and
then with this Warrior story doing doing the retirement home
tour with Jimmy Butler, Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Steve Kerr,
and Lebron, James would would certainly draw ratings for the NBA.
The NBA, I'm sure would love it Steph and him
pair together, basically Team USA getting this thing back together.
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But I don't know if that's a player in the West.
I think they're a good team. If they were hell
for the playoffs, coul they go on a run, probably,
but I don't think they're better than the Thunder. I
think they're better than than the Spurs. Maybe not the
Rockets when they get a point guard. Maybe not the Lakers.
The Lakers when they spend this money and outfit the
team with three and D wings and front court players,
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which which is what they've desperately needed each of the
last few seasons. So the Lakers and Lebron is again
in a weird spot. And then he's playing like a
max level salary player. Teams aren't gonna give him maxlevil
salary because A for Lebron to be effective, he needs
rest because of his age, So he's not you're not
getting the full value of that max level salary contract.
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Like when Sha Shaye plays almost every game, Anthony Edwards
plays almost every game. So when you pay these guys
maxlevel salary, they're young, they're playing like superstars.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Nine to night out.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Lebron has needed to play extra minutes because the Lakers
have had deficiencies on their bench in rotation, when ideally
he would have liked to have been getting rest because of
his age. So Lebron's kind of in a weird spot.
It's like all reports so that he's trying to leverage
the Lakers and talking about how the Lakers need to
come to him with an offer. Rich Paul's talking on
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his podcast, Max Kellerman, I just don't know where Lebron goes.
Like the Walters group is here for the Lakers. They
are trying to move in the Luca era, So Lebron
doesn't really fit that less Lebron wants to come back
on a vet minimum. I don't really see that working
for the Lakers. The Calves are an option, you've already
returned home. Maybe the Warriors are the best option. It's
going to lead to a spicy offseason, which gets going
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here in a few weeks with the NBA free agency,
because I just don't know, Like, yeah, the Lakers should
one hundred percent prioritize Austin Reeves over Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
If it was the other way around, they'd be idiotic.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Why you beat by our prioritizing a forty two year
old over a twenty seven to twenty eight year old
who could grow alongside you for years to come. It
be something to watch for as the as NBA free
agency quickly approaches. All Right, Slee, sach Allen Slee, what'd
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Speaker 7 (34:08):
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Speaker 1 (34:09):
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Speaker 2 (34:21):
Alejandro and Jonathan, Thank you for listening, Thank you for
tuning in. Going to going to the snap Dragon match
about Columbia on Saturday Sunday.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
That'll be that'll be fun, little little World Cup preview
getting ready? Alan? Are you a Are you a World
Cup guy?
Speaker 7 (34:37):
I am, but I'm a I'm a very typical World
Cup fan, like a very American World Cup fan. Where
everyone starts running their mouth. They likely didn't they know
what's going on on. The thing that gets me is
all the soccer fans in the United States of America that.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Schirp the people who don't know when they try to
know to it.
Speaker 7 (34:58):
The people who think they I know, and I'm the thing,
you know, like, I'm not watching soccer all day. I
love I think the Premier League is awesome. I just
I just don't watch it. So I just think it's
kind of funny. We're gonna get a lot of Americans
over the last over the next month being like, what
is going on with this?
Speaker 5 (35:16):
What's going on with his team?
Speaker 7 (35:17):
I mean outside the box, bro, I mean it's just
it's just the coach that we have. And then two
weeks after that they won't talk about soccer again until
three years and eleven months from now.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, it's it is funny, like soccer is a unique
sport to break.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Down badass sport.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
I mean, it's amazing I get into the World Cup,
but I'm not going to pretend, you know, I'm keeping
up everything that's going.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
On detail Morocco and Ghana. You're getting some some locks
on the Ghana.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
It's not one of the best goalkeepers in all of soccer.
I don't know that for effect. How's the show today?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah, man, we got a lot of stuff. Got it
into the potters a little bit. A little NFL fallout
from yesterday and got into Lebron the Boja had on
this podcast and you were talking with him, I believe
last couple weeks he talking about how they're prioritizing Reeves
over Lebron, and I was like, thank God, thank god
they're prioritizing Reeves over Lebron because of the long term
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contract part of it. I'm like, if they're prioritizing Lebron
over Austin Reeves, I would lose my mind personally.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Yeah, I honestly like, I'm not really sure what the
story there would be, Like it's impossible for a franchise
to say, yeah, we are prioritizing a forty two.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
Year old, and I mean, obviously the Lakers wouldn't do that.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
I think if they were, you would have got him
last season, they would have offered him a contract extension,
they would have gave him another. So there's I don't
think the Lakers are hiding anything here. I think they
understand that any day could potentially or any year could
potentially be the last year for Lebron, and with Austin
obviously that's that could be a piece of your future,
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or it could be a player that you pay all
tons of money and then decide, all right, this thing
isn't gonna work long term.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Right, tradable contract.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
It is like the whole Rich paulinative recently, like him
talking about Scottie Pippott. You know, if if if Scotty
Pippen was more crucial to the Bulls than MJ, MJB
O and six. It just feels like, not that Lebron's
saying that, but we all know that Lebron talks to
bris Paul. It's like, it's it's interesting how Lebron's in
a weird spot of that He's still playing like a
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Max Devil salary player, but he's not gonna get that from.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Any team that is in contention.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
So he's like trying to manipulate the market to get
as much money as possible. It's like, you're not gonna
go to the Bulls, you know, the Bulls will pay
a sixty million to go not win.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
Yeah, maybe it's just how much. What's the most I
can get from the Lakers. Let me try to show
as much value as I can. I still think he's
gonna end up with the Lakers, you know, And Brent
and I will get into this a little bit later. Yesterday,
I'm telling Brent, I'm like, you know, Wemby, he's the
face of bait or he's the face of basketball and
all this.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
He's like, No, I still think it's Curry and Lebron.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
I was thinking about it, you know, and I'll just
did a regular you know search, like.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Hey, who are the faces of the NBA.
Speaker 7 (38:15):
The first two players that came up were Lebron and
Steph Curry. And I'm like, these guys are still Lebron
is still freaking in a sense, not carrying the league,
but he's still the face.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Of the NBA. I mean, that's just kind of crazy
to think.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
So to that end, to that end, I think what
goes into that. I talked about it a little bit
twenty mins ago. It is funny in the NBA were
quick to anoint the next like the Nuggets were the
next dynasty that hasn't paid out, the Celtics the Thunder.
Now we're talking about are the Spurs gonna dominate the
West the next ten years? It is so funny how.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
All of those teams sounded good at the moment.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
Unreal right in Boston, that's it They're gonna and that
I mean Thunderwood is an easy one.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Thunder It's like, well, of course they're gonna be amazing.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Right, I mean, go back to Brent's but when they won,
like when Lebron and eighty one and twenty twenty, where
they gonna rip off some So it's just we're so
quick to anoint the next face of the NBA.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Yeah, And it is funny.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
It's like, at the end of the day, is it
still just Lebron and Curry until we literally are not
playing in the league anymore?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Who's the next? If you're just all right, let me,
I'll throw out some names.
Speaker 7 (39:19):
You got Anthony Edwards, you got Luka Doncic, you got Shae,
you got wen Bin Yama. Of these players, and if
there's another player out there, yeah, honest, obviously you could
put that. Who is like, legitimately, this dude is going
to carry the NBA for X amount of years?
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Is there one?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
I would say because when people were saying Shay and
that's quiet it down since Saturday night, But you have
to be box office.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Shae is just a great player. I wouldn't say Shae's
box office.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
I think we knew that when you look at Anthony
Edwards box office, he talks. That's always been something that
kind of goes into faces of leagues over the years.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Luca, I think certainly could fit.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
That should be another player I'd throw at you, Tyre's
Halbert if he goes back from the torn Achilles.
Speaker 7 (40:04):
The kind of had everyone rooined for him, He had
everyone rooined for him. But I don't know if everyone
was watching him like they were watching him in the playoffs.
But I guess, you know, the question of like the
face of the NBA. Patrick Mahomes can played a game
in Week four and I don't care who they're playing.
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I'm stopping right, I'm like, yeah, I'll watch.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
A little he has rings and his box office, I'll.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Watch a little Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 7 (40:31):
You know, obviously in baseball there's a small handful, but
show Hey, it's like, I don't even know.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
I still don't know what this guy is.
Speaker 7 (40:39):
You're gonna you're gonna stop and maybe and I'm trying
to even thin in judge judge.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Yeah, and if there's a couple times he's for a minute,
that's why his struggles have been so annoying.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
Was the last yeah, four.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Years ago you looked at Tatis's possibly one of those guys.
Speaker 7 (40:52):
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and not throw him in
anywhere near some of these other names. I don't want
him in the same sentence. I want him on a
different page. But I think the question is, are any
of these dudes in the NBA right now? Is Jokic? Hey,
he's on, I gotta watch. I think the closest one
we got coming, I think it's Wemby because because because
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we don't, I don't know what he is like I
I have never I don't have anything like a compare
him to. He can dunk from how far, he can
block shots from how far.
Speaker 5 (41:23):
He's just such a unique thing. And I think that's
because we've never seen a player in his tall underrated.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Part about Wemby, I like that he talks in chirps,
Oh I'm with you.
Speaker 7 (41:33):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
I like that little shoulder shrug he put on chet
and he and he's sitting there, Remember when he's like
they asked him like Luca played it down, Shape played
it down With the MVP, He's like, no, I care,
Like I want to win MVP. It's been a life
goal of mine. I think that plays into stuff like
I'm with you. I think I think that's good for business,
like I think it's good for the league that he
does that. Do you have a finals prediction?
Speaker 5 (41:56):
I think I why. I think I'm leaning towards the Knicks.
I'm not ready to say it yet, and I don't
know why.
Speaker 7 (42:03):
I'm gonna wait till tomorrow, but I'm starting to lean
towards the Knicks a little bit. I got a Spurs
guy coming on a little bit later in the show.
I'm gonna try to figure out why he thinks they're
gonna win tomorrow. I'm talking to somebody from the Knicks perspective.
Why the helm I ask came? Turn the ball over
play a big fact this series.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
I think because Fox and Harpro are there, I think
he'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
All right, So you got Spurs guy.
Speaker 5 (42:26):
What time we got We're talking NBA at five A.
Speaker 7 (42:31):
Phillies beat Rid coming on at three p fifteen, So
right out the gate, we're gonna talk Podres and we're
gonna talk Philadelphia Phillies. I know if he saw some
of this stuff from Ken Rosenthal on School Bowl, he's
throwing in some different teams. Padres was a team mentioned,
So we got We got a lot of stuff to
hit on, of course, a lot Of'm gonna be focused
on the padres.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Awesome, sounds good. Stay tuneously on the other side. I'll
be back tomorrow. Oh everybody is good night,
Going along with Shammy. That's gonna be hot on the
story of the day. Plus he's warning no, it's Sammy Long.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Potters three game set gets going here against the Phillies.
What a little under two hours our hour forty five
Horton set for the boys out in Philadelphia. We got
some some big time Laker news from a big time
Laker reporter talking about whether Booha or whether Lebron James
will be back in a Laker uniform. Spicy stuff there.
(00:38):
But first we'll get the Potter's come up fifteen minutes
Lakers and thirty but first time with the NFL. So
with Miles Garrett, like kind of yesterday was on the fly, right,
we're you guys trying to process the trades of Miles
Garrett on his way you know, to the to the
La Rams.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Then he got a J.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Brown on his way to the New England Patriots. AJ
Brown today said he feels like he's close to heaven.
He's close to heaven now that he's with the New
England Patriots, which, yeah, I guess you know, they did
have the twenty six or the easiest schedule in twenty
six years. What the New England Patriots had last season.
They got the Chargers in the playoffs without their tackles.
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They played the Houston Texans in the Divisional round shroud
through four picks in the first half. Their running back
Woody Marks the receiver, and Nico Collins the left tackle,
Jeremy Tunsel, and they're tight end Dalton Schultz all went
out or did not play in the game. And they
beat the Bonnicks less Denver Broncos in the APEC Championship game.
But J Brown think whatever he thinks, Maybe maybe this
(01:36):
is a big change of scenery for him. I in
regards to the J Brown side of things, because the
question today everyone's asking, and we'll get to the Rams
piece in a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
How does this tip the scales in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
They don't talking about the Rams being far and away
the best team. They were the favorites heading end of
the year, already before the Miles Garrett deal. They went
from eight to one to win a Super Bowl to
six to one. And then now that New England Patriots
currently our fourth best odds to get out of the AFC.
So the betting markets are telling us a lot because
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the NFL in Vegas, Vegas knows Vegas doesn't fall for
the trends. Vegas has the Ravens actually is the favorite
to get out of the AFC, followed by the Bills,
followed by the Chiefs, then the Patriots, and then it's
it's the Chargers and the Bengals. Depending on what sportsbook
you look at, it varies. What that means, though, is
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that Vegas is telling us that it's gonna return to
how it was, that if you have a dominant quarterback,
you're gonna rule the AFC. Now, maybe Drake may can
be that now that he has AJ Brown, maybe he
can do that, and they sign Romeo Dobbs. In fairness
to Drake May, I give the Patriots a lot of
crap for last year because they didn't show up in
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the Super Bowl, and I think they were kind of
bose for that, and they weren't some electric team. They
got very fortunate on the schedule that they played in
their two biggest wins of the year when they beat
Buffalo on the road in that Week four matchup on
Sunday Night Football, and they beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Outside of that, they didn't really beat playoff teams. And
then again I laid out for you the kind of
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easy path they had to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
But he didn't have receivers.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
He had Stafon Diggs who's past his prime, and Kashawan
Boody was the young receiver at LSU. Now with AJ
Brown in in Romeo Dobson, toe certainly upgraded. My concern
if I'm a Patriots fan, you have a young quarterback
who hasn't really gone through growing pains yet because his
rookie season, the Patriots did weren't expecting anything, and he
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had some He showed some talent towards the end of
the year, but they weren't expecting anything from he goes
to the Super Bowl. Every quarterback, whether it's Patrick Mahomes,
he you know when they started playing a shell coverage
on him a few years into the NFL. Josh Allen
struggled early in his NFL career, has went through some
you know, before he's become Josh Allen, some ups and
downside of his career. Lamar, every quarterback has had that
(04:07):
season where they took a little bit of a step back,
a little aggression. Justin Herbert had it, CJ. Stroud had it,
Trevor Lawrence had it. All those guys we put as
potential top five quarterbacks after their rookie season, and none
of those guys are top five quarterbacks. I guess you
could argue, someone could argue Herbert, but I wouldn't make
that argument until he wins a playoff game. So you
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haven't seen that. You haven't had that with Drake May yet.
And now you add inn Aj Brown, who is a
deva wide receiver who was complaining about targets from Jalen
Hurts and Jalen Hurts. At the end of the day,
even though people want to critique Jalen Hurts and say
he doesn't always pass the eye test, and you know,
it's more about the complimentary pieces of Philly, the offensive line,
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Sakuon Barkley, having Aj Brown, DeVante Smith, a great defense,
one of the best young secondaries in the NFL. Jalen
Hurts did win, and he's been two Super Bowl play
well in both one one of them he's done. He
has more hardware than Josh Allen, than Lamar Jackson, justin Herbert,
Joe Burrow, a lot of quarterbacks that we deem. He
has the same amount of hardware as Matthew Stafford, more appearances,
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so forevery what you want to say about Jalen Hurts.
Jalen Hurts does have is able to go look what
I've accomplished in the NFL, and he threw a fit
with that, Like he threw a fit in Philadelphia where
Jalen Hurts won him out of town.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
So I'm in New England.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Patriots, I'm like, do you really want to bring in
with a young quarterback that has had success I'll give
credit to, but do you really want to bring in
a diva wide receiver who we know is going to
be complaining about targets halfway through the year because it's
gonna happen. And I know some people are like, the
Patriots are back in, back in contention now, should be
one of the favorites. I don't see that. I see
a lot of teams in the AFC ahead of them.
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They were very fortunate to not have to deal with
with Burrow or Mahomes or Lamar in.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
The postseason last year.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
They didn't even play Josh Allen because the Devon Broncos
took them out. So a lot is up in there
in the AFC. Look at keeps some relevant. I I've
kind of thought that they might actually miss the playoffs
this year. I think that's still even an option. But
now they do have a receiving corps. We'll see if
Rabel can keep j Brown check like you had when
he was in Tennessee. On the Rams side of things,
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talk about flipping, you know, flipping the scales in the NFL.
I mentioned they went from eight to one, you know,
eight to one favorites when the Super Bowl to was
six to one. That's how port Miles Garrett is. He
might not be the only path rusher on the way.
So we have some sound from Adam Schefter. I sent
you Brent about could Aaron Donald come out of retirement?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Could Aaron Donald come join the La Rams? We have
that all right.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
This is Adam Sheffer talking about on Get Up this morning,
about whether Aaron Donald might come out of retirement to
play alongside Miles Garrett.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Who'd the Rams sign Aaron Donald? And I said, they're
out of money, and he said, in this league, you
can always find money.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And it reminded me of what.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
The teams said when they were calling me in late March,
when they said the Browns are trading Miles Garrett, and
the brown said, we're not trading Miles Garrett, do say
the Rams.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Might now make a run Aaron Donald.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
We can't afford Aaron Donald.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Well, again, I wouldn't say there was a zero percent
chance of happening. I don't put a high degree of
probability on it happening. But I'm not ready to just
write it off and say this is absolutely not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, that's great, that's fantastic news.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Uh can you imagine that? I mean collas eight.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Seven seven seven six seven four seven sixty or shoot
us a text seven zero four seven zero, start your
mess with team. Aaron Donald joining that team is a
lethal because he doesn't have to be the number one
pass rusher. He can be the number one pass rusher
at thirty five years old. You know, since that happened,
Pat mcafeel on his show today actually texted Aaron Donald
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and he said he's thinking about it.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
The whole not having money, I mean, they can find
money in the NFL. If you're Aaron Donald, you have
a ton of money. It's about trying to establish the
legacy and make another run at this thing. But it
puts a lot of pressure. Like we talked about Fletchnow,
were talking about earlier. The pressure puts on Trake May
adding AJ Brown, the pressure on Jalen Hurts, the now
that he doesn't have AJ Brown, can he be that
big time pocket passer. It's a lot of pressure on
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Matthew Stafford. Now you got this yesterday. I firmly believe
Jayden Daniels and Caleb Williams are the future of the NFC.
Those are the quarterbacks that are the young stars that
I think the Bears are closer than Washington right now,
but you assemble pieces around them, I think those two
players could ascend into a top ten, top five quarterback
conversation if they're not already there. Matthew Stafford, you're in
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a division with the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And the Niners. Donald just won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Matthew Safford is an unbelievable player because there's a lot
of credit, but Matthew Stafford over the years when he
played for the Lions, got a lot of passes of Yeah, like,
Stafford's great, but it's a shame that he kind of
wastes away there. And there's you know, they'ren't have the
talent around May Calvin Johnson, but those teams there's ever
really a team during his tenure with the Lions that
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had a legit shot at Super Bowl. So he got pass.
Then he comes to the Rams, he wins a Super Bowl.
He's a Hall of Famer. He never take that away
from him. They won it.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
At so far, well, it's been a while since that game.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I mean, he's seen the Eagles win a Super Bowl
in that time, go to a couple of Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
He's seen the Niners in his own division.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Go to a couple couple Super Bowls, go to a
Super Bowl since then against the Chiefs, and he saw
the Seattle Seahawks last year was Sam Donald who had
that on their you know, Bengo card, Sam Donald beating
them in the NFC Championship game to go win.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
A Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
So at thirty eight years old, they drafted your replacement.
Now he's not. Ty Simpson's not playing this year. But
at some point you got to figure two years down
the road, they're gonna want Ty Simpson to play, because
if they didn't want him to play a couple of
years from now, they would have taken makay lemon Kenny
and Sadik. They could have done a ton of things
with that first round pick that would have added to
make this team even more of a juggernaut than it
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is this year. If Matthew Stafford doesn't win a Super Bowl,
how are we thinking about him? Because no one's going
to ever say that he's not a great quarterback because
he is. But when we talk about Aaron Rodgers at
this point in his career, although Aaron Rodgers is one
of the most talented electric quarterbacks I've ever had the
privilege of watching, I think the two most talented quarterbacks
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in my lifetime I've ever seen Patrick Mahomes Aaron Rodgers.
But we look at Aaron Rodgers and go kind of
a disappointment. I mean, one Super Bowl appearance, won win
we do. You have four MVPs. Four MVPs, but think
of the countless losses lost to Jimmy g you know,
with the Niners were on the road, they had a
countless home field advantages lost to the New York Giants.
(10:54):
When the New York Giants run and took down Tom
Brady and that undefeated Patriots team, Like we look at
Aaron Rodgers and go for the for how electric he
is and the amount of talent he has is it
not kind of a disappointing career and that he didn't
win more. I mean one super Bowl, one Super Bowl appearance.
Jalen Hurts has already done more in his time, take
away the MVPs, but in terms of more super Bowl
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appearances than Aaron Rodgers ever has, and Jalen Hurts has another,
you know, couple contracts in front of him. So Matthew
Stafford kind of plays into that talk about Drew Brees
beloved here in San Diego. Drew Brees, great player, won
Super Bowl, won Super Bowl appearance. Matthew Safford does not
win a super Bowl with this team, with this roster
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having less need you know, the FM picks literally going
all in, getting Trey McDuffie, getting Jalen Watson, getting the
best defensive player in the NFL in Miles Garrett. Aaron
Donald might be coming out of retirement to come play
if Matthew Savage doesn't win this year. I mean, I
talk about Josh Allen having pressure Lamar Jackson. I've hammered
that home for years now about Josh Allen and flesh,
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and I argue about it. Matthew Stafford my most pressure
on him than anyone in the NFL this year with
this roster that he's gonna have going in to the season,
So a lot for the Rams to think about.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It still is wide open, but the Rams are the
favorite right now.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But you know, it's long NFL season, injuries, and the
best team doesn't always win in the NFL because it's
just it's hard to win the NFL. So when it
done in the playoffs, all right? Cot up next Pottery's
three game set against the Philadelphia A.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Phillies could go in a little bit here in an
hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Have the Pottery's been concerned about the wrong NLS team?
I'll tell you who that is on the other side.
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an hour. I always say this, it feels like every series,
but this actually is a Legiti big series.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
It's there's some intrigue.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Jays Boeingen called up from Triple A, so Pottery's hopefully
can you know the kind of red hot outfield sensation.
It's it's been long overdue that he's got called up,
getting called up his first gamb today. Romon Loreano actually
retroactively heading back to the il, which hopefully nothing's wrong there.
But Romal Loreano hasn't had the unbelievable start like he
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had to start the year this year. But Bowen actually
was originally drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates and he's been
He's been fantastic so this season.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
L pass though.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
He's hitting two ninety two with thirteen home runs, thirty
six RBIs and so, like Listen, I don't want to
put too much. I feel like Jayce Bowen, we've hailed
a lot today. If people are excited about jays Bone,
as they should be, I'm excited to watching play tonight.
I do, though there's obviously a big jump and triple
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a to the to the majors, and I don't want
the Padres lack of hitting, hitting woes to get then
get dumped on Bowen like he's the savior. Bowen has
a bright future in front of him, and I hope
he comes in and destroys the Phillies for the next
three games.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But we got to take up with a grain of salt.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Hopefully the fact that Bowen's coming up can kind of
re juveniles.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Uh this lineup a little bit.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Rejuvenate this lineup and that you know, there's there's so
you know, some some new faces in the in.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
The clubhouse and guys you know, competing for their spot.
That was Mike Shild's problem last year.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Mike Shildt picked his one through nine guys.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Really never changed it.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
There wasn't a lot of incentive, Like, there wasn't a
lot of like what do they say in the NFL
when the starting quarterback plays the best, when his backup
gets drafted, they bring someone in because they're like, oh damn,
like I actually got to performer.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I'm gonna be out of a job.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Not that these guys, you know, the the big three
aren't hitting, not that they're gonna be out of it.
Like earlier, we got a we got a YouTube chat
from the Four Letters. Many Tatiz Marrin Bogie aren't getting
benched or sent down. When I was talking about this,
a lot of talking about them meeting to bench or
sat down.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They're obviously not getting cut. That wouldn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
But I like what Craig Salmon's done and that he's
moved guys around the lineup and not just the stars,
like he has moved the stars around the lineup.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
That's that's.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Takes some guts and some fortitude as a manager to
know I'm gonna go up a conversation about Fernando Tatis
and move him down the lineup. Frando probably wasn't happy
about that, had on your reports about that. I'm sure
Fernando would like to be batting one or three, but
they've moved him around so far this year, all the
big time hitters. I think that's a big props to
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Craig Salmon for taking grasp of his team. But like Bowen,
coming up can kind of add a litle juice to
this lineup, and they need it because the conversation we've
had for the last three months has been the last
couple of months, was when Tatis hit his first home run,
would this be the start of something?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Because he's been hitting the balls in the ground.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
We've talked at nauseum about the hard hit rate, and
then it's just it's just gonna take him to get
some lyft and he's gonna go on a tear.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
He hit the home run on Saturday over four on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Now one game sample size, not gonna you know, rite
his obituary yet, but this is a big series, like
I was talking about yesterday the NL wild Card, Like,
let's look at this right here. So the NYL card,
the Potteris are a top at thirty two and twenty six.
The Diamondbacks are a half game back thirty two and
twenty seven. You got the Cardinals, the Pirates, the Cubs
only a one game back of the Patres. The Phillies
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are one and a half back, the Reds are one
and a half back, and the Nationals are one a
half back.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So this is complete open season.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
And I tease this segment by talking about, you know,
have the pottery has been worried about the wrong NLS team.
The Diamondbacks took it to the Dodgers last night. Now
is Game one of the series. But this Diamondback team
is sneaky good. And we talked about the Dodgers winning
back to back World Series. Well, the Diamondbacks win the
World Series a couple years ago, three years ago when
they got blown out by the Rangers. But remember they
swept the Dodgers. They beat the Phillies, complete surprise run
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through everything. I mean, Perdomo is having a fantastic year.
Could tell Marte's having a great year. Corbyn Carrol and
some of their best bullpen arms aren't even there right now.
And Corbyn Burns, their best pitcher, has appreciated this season.
He's gonna make his debut so far in the summer.
And the biggest problem right now for the Diamondbacks is
lack of consistent bullpen. And if there's one problem to
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have heading into a trade deadline, the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Would be that.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Because you can address the bullpen, but you can go
get bullpen pieces, as evidenced by what Aj Preller has
done the last few seasons, getting Jason Adam and Tanner
Scott acquiring Mason Miller last year. I mean you can Yeah,
it might come out a hefty price like Mason Miller,
but you can address the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
So we talk about, you know, tiebreakers so far.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I know it's June second, but the Philly swept you
at San Diego last week. Now you get a chance
over the next three days. Look, the chances of sweeping
them are very slim. That would be fantastic, but like,
you gotta win this series because if Tatiz it's his
home run. And we're still having the same conversations about
the Big Three, like the Bats haven't been good.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Outside of last Friday.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Friday Night's game against the Nationals Friday before against the A's,
there has not been a big time offensive showing so
so far.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
In the last two to three weeks.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I mean, the Phillies last week came into Pecko Park
and scored a total of ten runs. That's hats off
to the Pottery's pitching staff, the starters, the bullpen. If
you would have told any pottery'svan I'd think that, Hey,
over three games, the Phillies have been a team led
by Trey Turner and Schwarbers out of their career year,
Bryce Harper. This is a team that overwhelms you with
offense and can do it kind of like the Dodgers.
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The fact that you would hold them the ten runs,
I think most people would have taken that. I think
I think Craig Standard, I think the pitching staff would
have taken that over three games if the Pottery's bats
were bad. So you're talking about today facing Aaron Nola,
who got after you a little bit last week. The
Pottery has only got three runs in that game, and
then tomorrow we can get into a little bit more.
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But Christopher Sanchez going for history against the Potterys Christopher
Sanchez is what forty four and two thirds scoreless innings.
I mean, the last thing if you're the Pottery's waking
up with a little pride tomorrow is he threw seven
scoreless last week against you, for him to chase down
chase down, I believe Herscheis's record, He's gonna have to
do that again against you. So if you're the San
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Diego Patres like this is Manny Machado, Jackson Merrill, Xander
Bogarts and Fernando Tatis, there are no excuses. You are
paid to be able to hit these guys. That is
why you make the contracts you make. So I don't
want today or tomorrow to be on Gavin Sheets or
miguelandehar Jase Bowen if he comes up here and goes
over four, or the pitching staff Randy Vasquez cannot be
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expected to go seven scoreless tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
The Phillies are going to hit it home.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Can the Potterre's bats match Stat's the question we've been
asking all year, but it really is hitting a breaking
point where yes, the Potterres are a top the NL
wild card, but this is not like years past where
it's felt like like when the Pottery started out fourteen
and three last year. The rest of the season they
played about five hundred baseball just below four teen and
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three record carried them there. With the NL being so
much better than the AL and the NL central with
all these teams clumped together, I mean in what seven
eight teams clumped within within a couple of three games
of each other, like, you are not going to be
able to rely on the hot starts that the Potteries
have had.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
To the year. So this is why this slumping can't continue.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
The Potters have to go out here and make a statement,
and there's no better team to do that against in
the Philadelphia Phillies, who have looked like a completely different
ball club with Don Mattingly as the manager, which which
happened about a month ago. All right, coming up next
with the NBA Finals starting tomorrow, I haven't gotten too
much to it because of all the NFL news yesterday
and some interesting news per Jovan Buja about whether the
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Lakers are prioritizing Lebron James or Austin Reeves. Sound you
won't want to miss. On the other side, going along,
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NBA Finals going tomorrow, Nick Spurs, It's gonna be a
fun series, man, I think Liken Finals always well. As
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a massive NBA fan, I was excited for the NBA Finals,
but Fletch made a point earlier about how it does
feel like this NBA Finals is drawing a lot of buzz,
and I think that's because it's the first NBA Finals
since the Warriors and Celtics where it was you feel
like a toss up, like the Celtics were a favor,
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are favored in those finals and the Warriors ended up winning.
The Spurs are almost a two to one favorite. Are
a little less. But I don't I don't even pick
the Knicks, and I don't think people call you crazy,
and I think the Knicks are certainly a live dog
in this series, and the like the Knicks are good.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
The Knicks are a good.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Team, and frankly, they've been running through everyone the last
month or two of the season, so help maybe they
should be the favorite. Who knows, We're gonna see it
played out tomorrow. Very excited for that game, But like
the last few NBA Finals, it is so funny how.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I'm talking about this a lot of the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Ok See, we're always so quick to name the dynasty, right,
we're so quick to okac was the dynasty that was
gonna run off all these championships and no one in
the West was gonna be able touch them. Before that,
it was the Celtics, the Celtics, people thought that was
the team, Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum, that was the next
Celtics dynasty. Before that, the Denver Nuggets, Jamal Murray and
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Nikola Jokic. And even when the Warriors won, people thought, hey,
this maybe this is the second act of the dynasty.
When they dominated the twenty tens and people thought the
Bucks and Giannis would rip off a bunch. People thought
Lebron and ad might be the start of something. After
they won in twenty twenty, they were the favorites entering
the season the next year and they got beat by
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the Suns.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So like I hear a lot today about oh is
Wenby gonna.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Mute the goat conversation because he's twenty two years old
about to be playing that he's playing, about to be
playing in the NBA finals, favor to winning championship, and
Wemby could rip off an unbelievable run, and Wemby has
all the makings of the face of the league. He's
he's unreal. I mean, he's seven to four and he
can he has handles, and he can shoot. I don't
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even tell people how good Webby is. But it is
funny out now because they won that game. Then all
of a sudden, well are the Spurs that team, Like,
we're so quick before they've even won the championship, we
are already talking about them as being the dynasty. The
Knicks could very easily win this championship. It is just
funny to me. How again, the Celtics were the dynasty,
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and it was the Nuggets last year was the Thunder
this year, now it's the Spurs. When Luca made it
with the MAVs, people thought that the MAVs were gonna
be just one step away. I mean, we're so quick
to jump the gun on dynasties in naming the next
big thing. And we've got a different champion every year
since the twenty sixteen, seventeen Warriors or seventeen eighteen Warriors.
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I mean, it has been a very you know, fluid
league year to year, and it's just.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Funny to me.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Like Anthony Edwards, remember when he went on that run
in the Western Conference Finals. Everyone's like, Anthony Edwards k
new Michael Jordan. It's like, okay, everyone just relaxed. Let's
let's let's let's celebrate Anthony Edwards for what he is,
celebrate Wenby for what they are. Shay all these people,
but it doesn't mean that then we're gonna name them
all time greats because they have a playoff from this playoffs.
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This playoff series has a ton of drama with it.
I can't wait for it to get going. We'll dive
into a little bit more tomorrow. But Jovann Bouja has
as a YouTube channel, h you just check it out,
Great Lakers channel doing a lot of content. He was
was talking about and was answering a question for one
of his comments about whether the Lakers would prioritize Austin
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Reeves or Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
This is what Booja to say on his on his podcast.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
The biggest difference I would say, I mean, there's two
big differences between Lebron and Austin right now. One Lebron
is a short term solution. Austin is viewed by the
franchise as a long term cornerstone. So if it comes
down to would you rather pay Austin forty million for
the next five years or Lebron forty million for one year,
They're going to prioritize the long term contract here. So
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that's it's like Austin is more of a priority for
the Lakers than Lebron is. That's just a fact, So
that that's one part of it. The second part of
it is that Austin is going to have a market
and Lebron maybe he wants to go to Chicago or Brooklyn.
I do not foresee that. But the issue with Lebron
is that all of the teams that are going to
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want Lebron are going to have somewhere between the a
VET minimum offer and a.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Non taxpayer mL offer.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
So Lebron can't leverage the market against the Lakers the
same way Austin can.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
So bouhas right now some people going to be shocked
to hear that.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
There's been a lot of discussion about can Austin Reaves
and Luka doncicch coaxes as a backcourt that goes to
the finals because you're dealing with the Thunner in the West,
you're dealing with the Spurge, dealing with all these teams.
But I mean, you damn right, the Lakers should prioritize
Austin Reeves over Lebron James because Lebron James, unbelievable player
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still at his age, was the best player in that
series against the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But he is not the future.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
And I think this is where it's hard with Lebron
and Rich Paul and Clutch Sports coming to grips with
the fact that they aren't the number one priority anymore.
If Lebron was thirty one whatever, Lebron wants, Lebron want shooters,
go get Lebron shooters, Lebron wants bigs, Get Lebron big
at forty.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Two years old.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
The Lakers have been in a unique spot the last
couple of years because the Lakers were headed for years
of of being at the bottom of the West. If
the Luca Tray did not happen and get dropped in
their lap, they were headed for Lebron, probably leaving Anthony
Davis being the core player on the team. And I
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think you'd be hard pressed to find an NBA star
who wanted to go pair up with Anthony Davis in
La alone.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I just don't see that happening.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
He's injury prone, hasn't always played the best in the
in the toughest spots. His number one success came with
Lebron being the leader on the team and a great
team outfitted around him. I'm not trying to take shots
at Anthony Davis, but I don't think the Lakers were
headed for prosperity. They get the lottery ticket of all
lottery tickets, get out of jail free cards, Luca dropped
in their hands, and they've had this weird kind of
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a couple of years here where they're trying to rebuild
on the fly with Luca, Lebron Reeves, but knowing that
they don't have the roster to really compete with the Thunder,
with Okay or with the Spurs and teams like that.
So now the Lakers finally have the off season where
they have draft picks, they have cap space, They get
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signed Austin Reeves to a max level salary and still
have fifty million dollars to spend. The Lakers and I
had cap space in years they've been trying to work
on the margins convince players who take minimum contracts VET minimums.
The tax the mid level taxpayer exception you heard Boja
mentioned is the one that allows you to kind of
evade the salary cap and go after a player of
(29:08):
a higher caliber for about ten to fifteen million. And
the Lakers should be prioritizing Austin Reeves because Austin Reeves
can be here for the long term. And by the way,
if Austin Reeves doesn't work out with Luca, guess what
you can trade Austin Reeves. Because you're telling me that
people that a team maybe with more depth. Let's say
Luca and Reeves don't work out. You're telling me a
(29:29):
team wouldn't want Austin Reeves as a primary scorer who
has elite defenders everywhere.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Stay with me. The Lakers are never traded to Boston.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
But think about if you're the Celtics, you have Jason
Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Jalen Brown is one of the
elite defenders in the NBA. Adding Austin Reeves where he
doesn't have to worry about defense, he has to worry
about his deficiencies, he can his play offense.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
That'd be a dream come true. For them.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
The Reeves can leverage the market because he could sign
a max level contract with the Bulls. With the net
teams that have cast space, Lebron is not going to
a team like that. There was a report today per
Tim Kabakami from the San Francisco newspaper, the Warriors are
a quote live option for Lebron James that could offer
him the fifteen point one non taxpayer mid level exception.
(30:14):
Said quote, I think the Warriors would be a very
live option. Check that, I think the process already started
and the Warriors are a live option. So Lebron is
in a weird spot where he's still playing at an
extremely high level, but obviously teams aren't offering him a
max level deal for the future because he could retire after.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
This year and he's forty two years old.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
So there's a few listed teams that are championship contenders
that he could go to that have the cabs space
to afford him and he has a chance to win.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
So he's not going to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
He's not going to Brooklyn because why would he waste
his time being in spots that have zero chances to
win a NBA championship. The Lakers. He could run it
back the Warriors, as I just mentioned, the Cleveland Calves
or the New York Knicks. Now that me finals interesting
because if the Knicks win the whole thing, there's not
a lot of incenting for Lebron to go to the Knicks.
(31:04):
Because let's just say the Knicks won the whole the
whole thing this year, and then Lebron went there and
they won again. Lebron is getting credit for that. Lebron's like, okay,
you pulled a KD and joined to join the best
team in the NBA. If the Knicks were to lose
in the NBA Finals and Lebron went there and push
them over the top, Lebron would be universally praised. Winning
a fourth championship or a fifth championship with his fourth
(31:27):
team in New York.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
It would be a story beyond stories.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
The Cavs are turning home would be interesting, you know,
or what are they gonna do with James Harden and
then with this Warrior story doing doing the retirement home
tour with Jimmy Butler, Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Steve Kerr,
and Lebron, James would would certainly draw ratings for the NBA.
The NBA, I'm sure would love it Steph and him
pair together, basically Team USA getting this thing back together.
(31:55):
But I don't know if that's a player in the West.
I think they're a good team. If they were hell
for the playoffs, coul they go on a run, probably,
but I don't think they're better than the Thunder. I
think they're better than than the Spurs. Maybe not the
Rockets when they get a point guard. Maybe not the Lakers.
The Lakers when they spend this money and outfit the
team with three and D wings and front court players,
(32:16):
which which is what they've desperately needed each of the
last few seasons. So the Lakers and Lebron is again
in a weird spot. And then he's playing like a
max level salary player. Teams aren't gonna give him maxlevil
salary because A for Lebron to be effective, he needs
rest because of his age, So he's not you're not
getting the full value of that max level salary contract.
(32:38):
Like when Sha Shaye plays almost every game, Anthony Edwards
plays almost every game. So when you pay these guys
maxlevel salary, they're young, they're playing like superstars.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Nine to night out.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Lebron has needed to play extra minutes because the Lakers
have had deficiencies on their bench in rotation, when ideally
he would have liked to have been getting rest because of
his age. So Lebron's kind of in a weird spot.
It's like all reports so that he's trying to leverage
the Lakers and talking about how the Lakers need to
come to him with an offer. Rich Paul's talking on
(33:10):
his podcast, Max Kellerman, I just don't know where Lebron goes.
Like the Walters group is here for the Lakers. They
are trying to move in the Luca era, So Lebron
doesn't really fit that less Lebron wants to come back
on a vet minimum. I don't really see that working
for the Lakers. The Calves are an option, you've already
returned home. Maybe the Warriors are the best option. It's
going to lead to a spicy offseason, which gets going
(33:32):
here in a few weeks with the NBA free agency,
because I just don't know, Like, yeah, the Lakers should
one hundred percent prioritize Austin Reeves over Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
If it was the other way around, they'd be idiotic.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Why you beat by our prioritizing a forty two year
old over a twenty seven to twenty eight year old
who could grow alongside you for years to come. It
be something to watch for as the as NBA free
agency quickly approaches. All Right, Slee, sach Allen Slee, what'd
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Speaker 7 (34:08):
Act.
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Sammy fifteen minutes of goodness, we call the Crossover.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Alejandro and Jonathan, Thank you for listening, Thank you for
tuning in. Going to going to the snap Dragon match
about Columbia on Saturday Sunday.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
That'll be that'll be fun, little little World Cup preview
getting ready? Alan? Are you a Are you a World
Cup guy?
Speaker 7 (34:37):
I am, but I'm a I'm a very typical World
Cup fan, like a very American World Cup fan. Where
everyone starts running their mouth. They likely didn't they know
what's going on on. The thing that gets me is
all the soccer fans in the United States of America that.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Schirp the people who don't know when they try to
know to it.
Speaker 7 (34:58):
The people who think they I know, and I'm the thing,
you know, like, I'm not watching soccer all day. I
love I think the Premier League is awesome. I just
I just don't watch it. So I just think it's
kind of funny. We're gonna get a lot of Americans
over the last over the next month being like, what
is going on with this?
Speaker 5 (35:16):
What's going on with his team?
Speaker 7 (35:17):
I mean outside the box, bro, I mean it's just
it's just the coach that we have. And then two
weeks after that they won't talk about soccer again until
three years and eleven months from now.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, it's it is funny, like soccer is a unique
sport to break.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Down badass sport.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
I mean, it's amazing I get into the World Cup,
but I'm not going to pretend, you know, I'm keeping
up everything that's going.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
On detail Morocco and Ghana. You're getting some some locks
on the Ghana.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
It's not one of the best goalkeepers in all of soccer.
I don't know that for effect. How's the show today?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah, man, we got a lot of stuff. Got it
into the potters a little bit. A little NFL fallout
from yesterday and got into Lebron the Boja had on
this podcast and you were talking with him, I believe
last couple weeks he talking about how they're prioritizing Reeves
over Lebron, and I was like, thank God, thank god
they're prioritizing Reeves over Lebron because of the long term
(36:21):
contract part of it. I'm like, if they're prioritizing Lebron
over Austin Reeves, I would lose my mind personally.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Yeah, I honestly like, I'm not really sure what the
story there would be, Like it's impossible for a franchise
to say, yeah, we are prioritizing a forty two.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
Year old, and I mean, obviously the Lakers wouldn't do that.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
I think if they were, you would have got him
last season, they would have offered him a contract extension,
they would have gave him another. So there's I don't
think the Lakers are hiding anything here. I think they
understand that any day could potentially or any year could
potentially be the last year for Lebron, and with Austin
obviously that's that could be a piece of your future,
(37:02):
or it could be a player that you pay all
tons of money and then decide, all right, this thing
isn't gonna work long term.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Right, tradable contract.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
It is like the whole Rich paulinative recently, like him
talking about Scottie Pippott. You know, if if if Scotty
Pippen was more crucial to the Bulls than MJ, MJB
O and six. It just feels like, not that Lebron's
saying that, but we all know that Lebron talks to
bris Paul. It's like, it's it's interesting how Lebron's in
a weird spot of that He's still playing like a
(37:32):
Max Devil salary player, but he's not gonna get that from.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Any team that is in contention.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
So he's like trying to manipulate the market to get
as much money as possible. It's like, you're not gonna
go to the Bulls, you know, the Bulls will pay
a sixty million to go not win.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
Yeah, maybe it's just how much. What's the most I
can get from the Lakers. Let me try to show
as much value as I can. I still think he's
gonna end up with the Lakers, you know, And Brent
and I will get into this a little bit later. Yesterday,
I'm telling Brent, I'm like, you know, Wemby, he's the
face of bait or he's the face of basketball and
all this.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
He's like, No, I still think it's Curry and Lebron.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
I was thinking about it, you know, and I'll just
did a regular you know search, like.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Hey, who are the faces of the NBA.
Speaker 7 (38:15):
The first two players that came up were Lebron and
Steph Curry. And I'm like, these guys are still Lebron
is still freaking in a sense, not carrying the league,
but he's still the face.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Of the NBA. I mean, that's just kind of crazy
to think.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
So to that end, to that end, I think what
goes into that. I talked about it a little bit
twenty mins ago. It is funny in the NBA were
quick to anoint the next like the Nuggets were the
next dynasty that hasn't paid out, the Celtics the Thunder.
Now we're talking about are the Spurs gonna dominate the
West the next ten years? It is so funny how.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
All of those teams sounded good at the moment.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
Unreal right in Boston, that's it They're gonna and that
I mean Thunderwood is an easy one.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Thunder It's like, well, of course they're gonna be amazing.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Right, I mean, go back to Brent's but when they won,
like when Lebron and eighty one and twenty twenty, where
they gonna rip off some So it's just we're so
quick to anoint the next face of the NBA.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Yeah, And it is funny.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
It's like, at the end of the day, is it
still just Lebron and Curry until we literally are not
playing in the league anymore?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Who's the next? If you're just all right, let me,
I'll throw out some names.
Speaker 7 (39:19):
You got Anthony Edwards, you got Luka Doncic, you got Shae,
you got wen Bin Yama. Of these players, and if
there's another player out there, yeah, honest, obviously you could
put that. Who is like, legitimately, this dude is going
to carry the NBA for X amount of years?
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Is there one?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
I would say because when people were saying Shay and
that's quiet it down since Saturday night, But you have
to be box office.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Shae is just a great player. I wouldn't say Shae's
box office.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
I think we knew that when you look at Anthony
Edwards box office, he talks. That's always been something that
kind of goes into faces of leagues over the years.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Luca, I think certainly could fit.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
That should be another player I'd throw at you, Tyre's
Halbert if he goes back from the torn Achilles.
Speaker 7 (40:04):
The kind of had everyone rooined for him, He had
everyone rooined for him. But I don't know if everyone
was watching him like they were watching him in the playoffs.
But I guess, you know, the question of like the
face of the NBA. Patrick Mahomes can played a game
in Week four and I don't care who they're playing.
(40:24):
I'm stopping right, I'm like, yeah, I'll watch.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
A little he has rings and his box office, I'll.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Watch a little Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 7 (40:31):
You know, obviously in baseball there's a small handful, but
show Hey, it's like, I don't even know.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
I still don't know what this guy is.
Speaker 7 (40:39):
You're gonna you're gonna stop and maybe and I'm trying
to even thin in judge judge.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Yeah, and if there's a couple times he's for a minute,
that's why his struggles have been so annoying.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
Was the last yeah, four.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Years ago you looked at Tatis's possibly one of those guys.
Speaker 7 (40:52):
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and not throw him in
anywhere near some of these other names. I don't want
him in the same sentence. I want him on a
different page. But I think the question is, are any
of these dudes in the NBA right now? Is Jokic? Hey,
he's on, I gotta watch. I think the closest one
we got coming, I think it's Wemby because because because
(41:13):
we don't, I don't know what he is like I
I have never I don't have anything like a compare
him to. He can dunk from how far, he can
block shots from how far.
Speaker 5 (41:23):
He's just such a unique thing. And I think that's
because we've never seen a player in his tall underrated.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Part about Wemby, I like that he talks in chirps,
Oh I'm with you.
Speaker 7 (41:33):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
I like that little shoulder shrug he put on chet
and he and he's sitting there, Remember when he's like
they asked him like Luca played it down, Shape played
it down With the MVP, He's like, no, I care,
Like I want to win MVP. It's been a life
goal of mine. I think that plays into stuff like
I'm with you. I think I think that's good for business,
like I think it's good for the league that he
does that. Do you have a finals prediction?
Speaker 5 (41:56):
I think I why. I think I'm leaning towards the Knicks.
I'm not ready to say it yet, and I don't
know why.
Speaker 7 (42:03):
I'm gonna wait till tomorrow, but I'm starting to lean
towards the Knicks a little bit. I got a Spurs
guy coming on a little bit later in the show.
I'm gonna try to figure out why he thinks they're
gonna win tomorrow. I'm talking to somebody from the Knicks perspective.
Why the helm I ask came? Turn the ball over
play a big fact this series.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
I think because Fox and Harpro are there, I think
he'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
All right, So you got Spurs guy.
Speaker 5 (42:26):
What time we got We're talking NBA at five A.
Speaker 7 (42:31):
Phillies beat Rid coming on at three p fifteen, So
right out the gate, we're gonna talk Podres and we're
gonna talk Philadelphia Phillies. I know if he saw some
of this stuff from Ken Rosenthal on School Bowl, he's
throwing in some different teams. Padres was a team mentioned,
So we got We got a lot of stuff to
hit on, of course, a lot Of'm gonna be focused
on the padres.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Awesome, sounds good. Stay tuneously on the other side. I'll
be back tomorrow. Oh everybody is good night,
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