July 3, 2024 • 41 mins
In Hour 1 of The Odd Couple, Chris Broussard and Rob Parker react to LeBron James signing a 2-year extension with the Lakers, debating whether this move makes the team championship contenders. They also discuss Lions DE Aiden Hutchinson's bold claim that this is Detroit's year to win it all.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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welcome in my partner Rod Parker. What's up man?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
What's happened to mister christ Show? Were you giving me
the finger when you were rubbing your hand. Look, no,
I thought you might think that. No, no, no, I
was like, wow, show it wasn't like that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I didn't even say anything. My god, I knew you
were gonna think that I'm that serious. I was like,
oh no, I was giving me the finger. How are you?
Everything is great? Ready for will you be here the fourth? Yes?
I was working working hard TV and radio until Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
The only reason you're working because you got to do TV,
so you figured I might as well.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Work well, very true, just calling it like, and my
wife is working.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Too, so you know, it's just it's just a Thursday
to you, to your right, just a Thursday.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Absolutely, And people ask me all time.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I tell you during the day, you know, when we're
in the newspaper business, Chris, people used to always say
a holiday, the weekend. I used to be like, dude,
none of that matters to me. Like I never looked
week the weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It was never Tuesday and Saturday were no differently, they're not.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
They are not people talking about all I can't wait
for the weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I was like, dude, I'm working Friday, Sunday, Friday night.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm like when I ride.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
When I first started out covering high school sports. Every
Friday night I was at a game, whether it was football,
then basketball, and summer, I guess, you know spring once
basketball was over. Friday nights I guess weren't the same.
But Saturdays you're covering track meets.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Baseball games, yeah, yeah, softball.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So yes, the life of a sports writer not always glamorous.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, but we're not complaining because we're very blessed.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And uh, I.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Think I can speak for you when I say we
cherish those moments, you know, like like like for real,
to aspire to be something, Chris, you wind up working
you work at the newspaper of the record, the New
York Times, you know what I'm saying Like that, like
everybody can't say that.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I grew up in New York.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I always wanted to write for the daily News, and
I did that, you know what I mean? Like those
are those are hard places to get into and then
you know from there. So we were a part of
that newspaper business. When newspapers were king, I still cherished
that it was so different.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It was so yeah back in the day, You're right,
today's and it's progress. I mean, we we had things
that the previous generation of sports writers couldn't understand and
when they were writing on typewriters. But you can't Rob
as a young sports writer day. And this is not
We're not saying we were better or worse. They can't
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really even fathom.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
What it was like when we when we were doing it.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Chris, I know you didn't have all night to write
because it was the internet versus the paper.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You know, you had to get it a hard deadline,
a hard deadline, and you would get calls where the
what They would call you from the assignment desk and say, hey, Chris,
get on the plane and go to Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Am I right? And you would just go to the
airport and absolutely, you, Rob, did you?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
There were times I had to dictate my story on
the phone, read the whole story, punctuation everything to the
editor because you're, for whatever reason, your computer wasn't worth
I'm working right.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah it was, it was, It was definitely.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But you know, like you said, Man, I look back
at all those times cover high school sports, cover rex
sports like it was all fun.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It was all I mean in Wilkesburg I did too.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, so all right, we got the eye couple crew
in full effect. There's a lot of replacements today, but
we all good with that. Our man Shade, the producer
is in for Rob g of course on the updates.
You heard him a few moments ago, Brian Finley the
loquationous when Rob we're gonna look up b.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Finn Is, We're gonna go to breakfast in New York.
My treat.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I don't believe he's gonna come watch first Teams first,
Absolutely first, I don't First.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Is the wedding still on on, Brian? That's what I
wanted to watch.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It is still on. She has about a week and
a half to say no to bail out.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
She's a beautiful woman and very nice. I was great
to meet her.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Course my mom said a lot of great things about
you too, Rob.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Really, thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I don't want to hear anything about robing your mind.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh you know, I didn't bring up that she was
a model playboy, all right. And Elijah's working today.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Elijah Sabuna of course on the social media, but Alex
Tysher is out so on the ones and twos. None
other than I think Alex is jealous. He doesn't have
an intro like that. I mean that's why.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Not only that, but that's a great intro. Mayor, that's
a great intro marriage real talk. Don't I doubt any
any engineer yeah has that type of intro. So yeah,
that's great. All right, let's get to it.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Rob.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
We got Vinnie Goodwill coming up at the bottom of
the our friend of the show, former nephew of Rob Parker.
Yahoo Sports NBA writer does a great job. He'll join
us in about twenty five minutes. And one thing we
may talk about with him. Rob Lebron James signs with
the Lakers two years, one hundred and four million dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That's the max. Now.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I was surprised it wasn't three years, one sixty I felt,
even if he did not play the entire three years
that why not get the contract. But I talked to
some people, and his two year deal is not because
he's planning to retire in two years.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Of course, you know, if his game really falls off
this year next year he gets hurt.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
He easily could.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But I'm told it was because to keep his flexibility
as a player option for the second year. And also Rob,
remember the NBA's new TV deals are supposed to be
worth seventy six. I think he's seventy six, but seventy
something billion dollars, whereas the last one was.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Worth twenty four billion. So there's gonna be a.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Huge jump, and those salaries, the salary cap should really jump,
not this season, but the following season twenty twenty five
to twenty six. So they want to be you know,
ready for that. You can get some rule two to
thirty eight rule, Chris.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
But what was that? Well, he's way obviously past that.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, it's that did determines like length, you know, length
of the contracts.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I saw that.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I was reading that about how long a contract could
be after age thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Correct, Yes, absolutely so. But we'll see. But anyway, here's
what I want to throw at you, Rob Lebron.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Let's say he plays two years. Do you see him
winning another championship?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Highly unlikely. I just I don't see it.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I don't I don't know what would have to happen, Chris,
You know, I just I can't see it.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Given what the West looks.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Like, even with Lebron and the numbers, the numbers haven't
gone south, but the impact has gone south. Like it's
just been a struggle for them.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
To win.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I know they went to the Western Conference finals and
I know they won the end season tournament, but it's it's.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Been a struggle even with a D had a great
year last year. They you ask for a D to
do much more than he did last year. I mean,
he could be a better player, slightly better player.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Dah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Numbers, but yeah, the games played, I mean, that's that's
as good as it gets for Anthony Davis. You're right
about that. And they still finished in the playing. I
mean they were a seventh seed, I believe, but that's playing.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
But that's what I'm saying, Like, right, Chris, like they
with those numbers, Lebron and his hey day putting up
those numbers. In Anthony Davis, that would equate to a
bar you're competing for.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
A top chance the championship ran in his hey day.
You're absolutely right. With a guy like a D and
a decent supporting cast, there could being for a championship.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And instead they were at the bottom, you know, like
struggling to even get into the playing and all that.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So that's why I just find it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Hard to believe that that that's going to change. And
now you throwing a rookie coach, Chris, a novice, a
guy who hasn't coached at all. Maybe he's decent, maybe
he's good, Maybe he's Jeff's Saturday. And I've just used
that as a term of you know what I mean,
like a leader of men. Didn't get it done except
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for week one about twelve players.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
But I see, see, you know the game, we played
it exactly the coach.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
You just need to be a leader of men. That's
all you need.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I didn't hear one of those guys nine like they disappeared, Chris.
But they were hoping and praying because at Jeff's Saturday
done something. They were hoping they could get jobs without
having to go through the coach.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, and right, it can't be done in football. I'm
convinced it can't be done in football unless you're just
a complete figurehead.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You know what I mean? Where gets big in football?
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
What schemes you run and all kinds of stuff is totally.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You got such a big staff to manage everything.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It's just but I can't see it in football.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
But there's just too many moving parts, Chris, and too
many things that have to is Bronni gonna be a
distraction to the team, you know what I mean, it
could it could.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Happen that Bronni's not playing. How come Bronni's not playing?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Or if Bronni's playing too much or he's not performing well,
is he gonna be sent down?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
But blah blah?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
You know, like like there's all these other storylines that
could weigh on on.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
The Lakers as well.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
So I don't see in the next two years the
Lakers winning the championship, especially with how the West looks
all these young teams. Chris only gonna get better, right
because they haven't. Minnesota hasn't topped out. Okay, see hasn't
topped out. You don't know where Denver is. I mean,
you gotta consider them. There's just a lot of teams
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even there, even the Sacramento Kings, I know.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The right, but they're relatively so I'm not I'm not there.
I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I don't think he's gonna win anymore championships. And I
think we've said this for a little while now. It's
no slight on lebron I mean, he's thirty nine. You know,
he's the best thirty nine year old we've ever seen.
I don't think that's even arguable. But he's not leading
in this NBA. Rob, I don't see him leading a
(12:20):
team to a championship, to your point, And you know,
I think it is what it is if they can
be in the playoffs. And I think Lebron, look, I
think more than I think. His number one thing obviously
was playing with Brownie. But he wants to play in
LA and I think he wants to be competitive and
try like have a chance. I guess you got a
(12:42):
puncher's chance, right, But as long as the team seems
like it's trying to win a championship, I think he's
fine with it. He obviously isn't going anywhere just to
chase a ring and go to Philadelphia, you know, and
his family has said he's at a different point in
his life, you know, and that would look that wouldn't
(13:04):
That would be strange, Yeah, And he wouldn't like if
he went to Now Philadelphia would have been a little
different as far as credit because they haven't even been
past the second round and they need a leader. And
you know, Tyre's Maxie is young and Joe Olymbiid's tends
to be hurt, so if they won a championship, Lebron
would get a ton of credit for that, maybe even
(13:26):
the Lion's share with that group, who knows. But if
he went somewhere around like Milwaukee and Yannis is leading them,
and you know Lebron's playing well, but not the guy,
Like we know what this is about. It's about the
goat for Lebron and winning a championship as the second
guy or on somebody else's to him.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Nah, it's not gonna it's not gonna matter.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
In your debate with Jordan, So I get he's staying
with the Lakers as he should, I believe. And like
you said, he played seventy one last year. That's the
most he's played as a Laker.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Cause you remember, you hurt almost every year.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, well, yeah he has, I mean the lockout or
the pandemic year, but that was a three four month
hiatus where his body could heal up. Anthony Davis seventy
six games last year was his career high.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
So we hope we get that again from them.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
But no, A yeah, I mean, odds would say, especially
with Lebron's age, odds would say that he's.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Probably not gonna play that many games. This year. But
I'm with you, But what say you? Guys?
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Will Lebron win another championship within the next two years?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Your thought? Or really within in his the rest of
his career?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
All right, let's kick it off with Innis in Corona, California.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You're on the odd couple Fox Sports Radio. What's up
in this?
Speaker 8 (16:13):
Hey, guys, two words?
Speaker 7 (16:15):
No way, no how.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
There's that's four But okay, I love it.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Well, I think the coins that Rob knows, you know
New York guys, PS one seventy nine represents.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
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Speaker 9 (16:33):
But yeah, no, they're not gonna win.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
I mean he you know, he's opting out of the
second He's gonna opt out of the second year just
to get more money. It's not going to be to
bring in free agents because what free agent has he
brought anywhere? He hasn't been able to do that, and
he doesn't play both ends of the ball consistently, and
it's kind of a shame. They have two top twenty,
top fifteen players in the league arguably, and they're all
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playing team year in and year out. He trashed the
play in four years ago, and every year that the
play ins existed, the Lakers are in the play in
every single season.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
It is kind of funny because he was been good
for him exactly, but he even the.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Year they got to the conference finals, he was in
the playing no doubt, Jack in Michigan. You're in the
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Jack?
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Hey, guys, how's going doing good?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Well? You in Michigan, Jack.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
So, I think there is a possibility Lebron wins number five,
but it's not going to be in LA. I think
his best chance is in Cleveland, possibly an opt out
signing trade.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So in like next season, not this upcurrent season, forty
one going on forty one.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Yes, and he might be the second guy with Donovan Mitchell,
but he arguably already is with Anthony Davis. So I
don't know how much of a problem that will be.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, look, I'll say this, I don't I think the
time if Lebron was gonna go back to Cleveland, and look,
he did keep the player option open, So I'm not
saying it's impossible.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
But he had that chance. Chris Well, and I think
this was the year.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I mean, I guess you could say he plays with
Bronni one year, then goes back to Cleveland, because I
do think he'd have a better chance in Cleveland with
that team, assuming they didn't have to give up, you know,
too much to get him. But I just don't see
it happening. I think if he wins it again, it's
probably la but I don't.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Think he probably would have been the summer to do it.
But with new coach Brownie coming in, if the season's
a reck and they don't play Bronnie at all and
JJ doesn't have a good first year, maybe he leaves,
maybe he jump shit.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, I mean I don't see Brownie playing a lot
this year. Thankful the call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Jack Arn in South Dakota, You're in the couple of
Fox Sports Radio, what's up.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
On Fella's long time first time And there is absolutely
no way, no way he's gonna win in the next
two years. A mess, trash talking Tuesday by one day,
but it's Wednesday and we can we can swing some dirt.
He he has gone and played with his friends everywhere
he's ever went. And if you've ever watched soccer and
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somebody rolling around the field like they got murdered, and
then they get up when somebody didn't see him, and
then they keep on playing, That's that's Lebron trying to
be the goat is never gonna happen. And now we
have nepotism on top of it. So no, he's not
gonna win. I'm rooting against him. I'm a hater and
I'm proud of I was about to say, we.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Got some haters up in here, admit it.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
You are on.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm not mad at you. You know what is a hater?
So you are not? You know you are. That's what
they call you on the streets of l A.
Speaker 10 (19:47):
You knowld this all yesterday and I turned my head right,
I know now we were when we used to walk
together in the streets in La day say hey, lover,
and then I turned hey, you hey, hater.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Marty in Kentucky, you're in the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
What you got.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Everybody's a longtime listener, first time call?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yeah, right, Marty, You've been calling since uh uh Moby
Dick was a gup exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
You know that. What's up?
Speaker 11 (20:20):
Well, Robie, you keep up with the size of those things,
I imagine. But anyway, I'm about this subject. I just
cannot see and I know, I know JJ Reddick has
a good relationship with him, But I feel like Bron's
in charge, and I feel like Lebron's style has outlived
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the style of the NBA and if he can't change
his style and be so bal dominant, I don't see
it happening. I don't see them getting to even if
they got the finals, say they battle through the West,
and this is going to be a trouble for anything.
You got to battle through the West and you're likely
to face arrested, very good, very deep team from the East,
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and the old Man. If he needs to be the MVP,
I just can't see it happening. It worked against the
Heat and the mickey Mouth Championships, but you know it
was Ad that really carried him through the West, and
then they faced the Heat team that they really just
wore way better than, and then he could be ball
dominant and get there.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You remember the Heat was missing two starters in that farnt.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Yeah, yeah, to build on his legacy.
Speaker 11 (21:30):
If he got to the finals and one and didn't
get an MVP. I believed that it would actually hurt
him in the goat conversation.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Wow wow, Well, I tell you what's interesting you said
about his style of play, because.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
When you look at the teams Lebron won with.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
They played slow a lot of years, you know, and
he that's how he was able to control the temple
of the game when he was essentially the point guard,
and he could control and make it kind of of
a slower game. I mean, Miami Day would run opportunistically,
but a lot of those teams play slower, and now
it is such a faster game. He's not quite obviously
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quite as good as he used to be, so he
can't play the point a lot or half the game
even or more, and so he can't control the tempo
like he used to.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But it is interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Because the game has changed a lot, and shooting is
a lot more of a factor than it was when
Lebron was, you know, dominating the league, and he's become
a much better three point shooting shot forty one percent
last year. But he's just he's certainly not having the
control of the game like he used to all right,
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Vinnie Goodwill around the corner. But first, the loquacious Brian
Finley be fans.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yeah, Chris and Rob good to work with you guys.
Here the day before July fourth, and we're starting to
hear the All Star Game selections coming out. The starters
from Major League Baseball Showo Tani is in no question,
they're designated hit her fourth starter selection for him. And
in this game, you've also got notably Trey Turner the Phillies.
They'll be starting at shortstop. National League hurt most of
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the year.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Yeah, so he gets in and he's the first Philly
to be starting at shortstop on this game since Jimmy
Rawlins back in two thousand and two, so it's been
a while there.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
But this is the vote, right from the fans and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Yeah, well this is the second tier, so right now
you well, so there's the first tier. Now, then there's
the second tier of voting, which is presented by some
title sponsor, and then you've got the All Star pitchers
and the reserves. That's not going to be announced till Sunday.
So essentially, Chris and Robb, they are breaking this down,
they're making it like a three day event, right, so
(23:45):
I'm sort.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Of set announcing the team all at once.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, I mean everybody wants to be a dairy farmer
and milk everything exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We are now.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, True's that's a really good point. On the American
League side of things. Some of the starters. You got
Vlad Guerrow Junior from the Blue Jays, the Dodgers favorite
player in Jose Altuve. He's going to be a starter
second base, sixth time he has been a starter in
this game. Notably, you've got Jose Ramirez from the Guardiansy'll
be manning third base. Jordan Alvarez, the Astros first starter
(24:18):
selection for him, as mentioned that designated hitter position. In
games going on in Major League Baseball right now, the
Reds are excuse me, the Red Sox are leading the
Marlins two to one and they're going to the bottom
of the third. There, Cardinals and Pirates. They're scoreless in
the fourth, Mets striking first one nothing versus the Nationals.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
The Mets a hot quist. They turned this season around?
Really are they?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I got it's all grimmas.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
It was all good? Was grim I thought it was
man mcgeeze.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
You know what I mean, from one New York team
to another. The Yankees are trailing the Reds to nothing
second inning there. And then in the NBA, according to
the Associated Press, former Raptors player Johnte Porter band from
the NBA. We already knew that, but he's gonna be
charged with a federal felony where a court date he
had to be announced is as we know, Porter.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Serious stuff, Chris, though it really is bigger than we thought.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
You know, it's it's big.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You can't mess around with gambling and given inside information,
it's against the law.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Well, you said to Rob, it's inside information, and that's
where he gets in trouble. And then, lastly, guys some
notable free agent acquisitions in the NBA Alec Burks according
to ESPN one year to the Heat, one year deal
for Joe Ingles to the Timberwolves, PJ. Dozer to the
Timberwolves one year. And then at the very end of
this we'll talk Bronnie James four years, seven point nine
(25:41):
million dollars. The rookie contract has been signed.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
There is also a pay cuff from USC.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I'm just saying with I pretty much because his NIL
was ten million, I think, right, right, I'm saying it
took a pay cuff.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Unbelievable. Well, if that, let's get it back to the
odd couple Chris Brussard, Rob Parker, and I'll.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Say this inside of trading information, Chris or whatever. You
remember Martha Stewart went to jail. Oh yeah, Martha Stewart.
So if they wasn't exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, no, no, it's it is serious. It is incredibly serious.
All right, thank you. Bfinn.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Our next guest, y'allhoo Sports n B A writer, host
of The Good Word podcast, also a radio host on
Serious XEM, the NBA channel. Our man friend of the show,
Rob's relative, kind of sort of Vinny will Minny?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
What up? Vinnie will always be fair?
Speaker 9 (26:35):
Come on, Vinnie, that's what they say.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
That love for me? I was in his family.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I mean, are you kiddy, Vinnie.
Speaker 11 (26:48):
What he was?
Speaker 9 (26:49):
Unfortunately, my cup had a moment temporary left.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
And Mary. Rob Parker, Oh well, look man, it's good
to have you.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
We got a lot to get to, so let's jump
at it first.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Briannie.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Obviously one of the big stories going on right now.
I want to ask you, and you know, Rob and
I know how this business works. Obviously, you know how
this business works.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
When you talk to.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Guys around the league on all levels, players, front office, coaches, whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
When y'all talking off the record.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
What are they saying about the Bronnie James situation.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
I mean, it depends on, like the perspective, because this
touches a lot of tempoles, right, This touches the tempole
of nepotism, yep, This touches the tempole of a black
father and a black son. This touches you know, it
touches a bunch of different ones. And depending on where
the perspective of the person is, that's where they're going
to say. Like, there's certainly, you know, a lot of
(27:52):
black folks that are saying, hey, white people have been
doing this nepotism for decades, right, so be it, you
know what I mean, that level of it. And my
counter to that has always been that we call our
white folks for their nepotism. You can't let this one's lid,
you know what I mean. So it's a bunch of
different play things that work. I think the thing for me,
guys is merit. Merit sticks out to me. Sports is
(28:16):
about a lot of different things. It is about entertainment.
It's but it's mostly importantly, it's about competition and it's
about merit. And I don't think that no matter what
the Lakers say, at this point, you can't look at
anyone with a straight face and say all of this
is merited by Ronnie James' basketball skills and its production
because he hasn't shown it. It's not to say that
(28:38):
he can't show it. It's not to say that had
he stayed another year at USC or Winters, transfer somewhere
else and gall on the floor more, that he couldn't
prove it. But at this point the greatest, incomplete.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
No doubt. And that's the issue in Vinnie.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
I mean, the other thing is that we don't know
yet could be a distraction teammates, depending on now how
the works with JJ and now his son's there, JJ's
his podcast partner. This could blow up and be ugly,
you know, if things don't go right.
Speaker 9 (29:11):
Well, even more than that, I wonder how many people
are thinking about Bronnie James the kid, you know what
I mean? And not kids in infantilized them, you know
what I mean. I mean Ronnie James as an athlete.
Bronnie James as a basketball player. We're only viewing this
through the lens of Lebron James and his sons, you
know what I mean, Not Lebron and Bronnie, Lebron James
(29:33):
and his son. It would be great for Lebron to
play with his son. We never say is this kid
ready for the NBA and what challenges will he come
across because of all these other issues. Lebron can handle
it because he's been in this fish bowl for well
over twenty plus years. Bronnie James is nineteen years old.
Bronnie James eleven months ago some of the cardiac arrest
(29:55):
during a pick up basketball game at USC and now
it seems like to some degree being used, not necessarily
as a tool, but he's a prop in a way
for his dad's career, and I would think that he
should be better than that.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I hope, because I'll say, and Robin vouch with this
all along, what's best for what does Bronnie want? It
shouldn't matter what Lebron wants at this point, it should matter.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
What should right Chris. I'm with him, and he seems
to be handling this well.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I don't know what's in his head, but from what
I see, and I think Savannah would have a say,
And if Brownie really was like I don't want it
this way or whatever, I think she would have raised
the stink. And I tend to think Lebron would listen
if Brownie really was against it.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
So I feel like he's handling it well.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
He's had this pressure living up to his father's name
his whole life.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
So once I saw, at least.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
In my mind that he seems comfortable with it, I'm
fine with it. I'm like, I don't think we have
called our white folks for it. We might say something here,
we say something here there, but we don't raise raise high,
hell and high water about talked about it a lot
of time, we mentioned it, but it's it goes on
left and right and ain't nothing done about it.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Yeah, but we can yell all we want, nothing happens.
It doesn't mean we can do it. Yeah, but you
can still call it out. I'm not gonna. I don't
think we do call it out. I gotta be honest.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
That's why Jerry Jones hasn't had anything in twenty five years.
Maybe because, yeah, because he has too many family members there.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
And the first time I heard you say that on
this show, but I've talked about it.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
We don't talk about but I don't think we raise
a stink about it.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
It's you noticed, Vince. It is rampant. I've never seen
it on you. I've never seen it. Don't there's still
a business on it.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Have you the coaching staff, No, i'n make it better
on the coaches even up given a person where Benny
talked about out of the competition and about earning.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
On the field. If this was this is a.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Pandora's box, Vinnie, to now have some white owner decide
I'm gonna have my nephew who played college basketball get
the last spot on the NBA rock. What does it matter,
that's my team. He's not playing, he's not gonna play.
He's just private.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I'll tell you what he'll put that dude in the
front office. I'm talking about somebody. It don't matter. The
place we can't break through is in the front office,
or at least to the degree that we should be.
But anyway, I'll.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Tell you guys, this, this is where it could hurt Brianni.
Every year there's an undrafted player that comes out of
the woolwork and turns into something, and every front office
or every fan base is in why didn't we draft him?
And the Lakers are supposed to be a championship organization
that focuses all his energy towards winning, adding another banner
(32:57):
and all this other stuff. So when this undrafted player
comes up and starts balling whatever he may be, right,
Laker fans are going to say, why didn't we take
him instead of Bronnie James. That puts Brownie in an
untenable position because he ain't pick himself, you know what
I mean, He's literally just in this spot. I won't
say an innocent but Chris, here's the thing. I have
(33:19):
my father's name. Okay, if my father was famous and
did all this other stuff, I publicly, no matter what
I felt, I wouldn't publicly say you know what, Dad,
despite what you want, I'm going to go my own way.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
No, But would you say I've been laid publicly?
Speaker 9 (33:37):
It's up to the young The youngster is going to follow.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
You know what. I would you tell Lebron.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Because I would tell my dad privately, because because because
Lebron was the one who tweeted that he was better
than half.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
The players in the league.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
But but Vinnie, you wouldn't tell your dad privately because
this has been going. We've been seeing this groundwork laid
for a year plus. If I was in that situation,
I'd be like, Dad, I don't want it this way.
If I'm not good enough, I don't want And honestly,
I might not have even wanted to play with my dad.
I might have been like, I'd rather be on my own,
(34:12):
you know what I mean, like spread my wings.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
So, Chris, here's the thing that people I'm not saying.
Who says that boy wants to be on the road
in the NBA lifestyle with his daddy hanging over his
shoulder like that does not sound appealing that.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I mean, I agree like that. That is you're nineteen.
You want to spread your wings, You want to have
your I don't know what Brownie's into and everything, but.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
You're right having your dad there, you know, wanting to
go grab a burger after a game. You know, I
don't know how much he's gonna want that, but I'm
fine with it. This is a chance for it that
maybe maybe he never would have gotten. It's up to
him to make the most out of it, and we'll
see if he does. I wanted to ask you some
other James quickly in thirty seconds. Yeah, Denver, do you
(35:05):
think that this is something serious? I mean, they keep
last year, they lost a couple of key rotation players.
This year they've lost you know, Reggie Jackson that was
a trade, but also KCP. Now do you think that
this is something that it's gonna hurt them going forward?
And I don't think they're as good as they were
two months ago.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:25):
I think the luxury the second luxury tax thresholds at
Apron that we're going to start hearing a lot more about. Like,
once you're in that second Apron, you are so locked
out of doing anything to help improve your team. So Denver,
by virtue of giving Michael Porter Junior that two one
allion dollars contract two years ago before this new CBA
came in, they are landlocked. So they can't really improve
(35:45):
their team because you got three Max guys, and having
three maxalts on the roster really limit you. So yeah,
I don't think they're as good as they were two
months ago. And I think had things broken a little differently,
they would have won a championship. But they didn't, and
they of course were trying to get better, except they're
taking steps back and putting more pressure on the cool
yochis to be great, and I don't know if that's
gonna work out.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
All right, that's our man, Vinny goodwill break up as always, brother,
Thank you, Yes, I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
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Speaker 2 (37:05):
Here you go, Chris.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Some July baseball we're gonna do. Start with the Minnesota
Twins hosting the Detroit Tigers. Minnesota minus one and a
half runs. That's gonna be my best bet for the night.
A couple other games, I got the Los Angeles Angels
in Oakland taking on the Aids. I got the Angels
minus one and a half runs, Chris on the road
(37:28):
and the Dodgers host the Arizona Diamondbacks. Got the Dodgers
minus one and a half runs hosting the d Backs.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
So again, best.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Bet Twins minus one and a half runs over the Tigers,
Angels minus one and a half runs playing in Oakland
and the Dodgers hosting the Arizona Diamondbacks. Take the Dodgers
minus one and a half runs. And remember, I'm not
telling you who to bet on. I'm telling you who
I bet on, all right, rob quickly.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Aiden Hutchinson, the great defensive lineman for the Detroit Lions,
is betting on the Lions.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
He said this recently, I feel like it's the year.
Speaker 12 (38:12):
Okay, with every fiber of my body, I feel like
it's the year. And honestly I believe every I mean,
from this year and on every year is the year.
You know, with the guys that we have, and you know,
I hope that we're going to sustain this success for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
All right, Rob, Last year, Detroit, of course got to
the NFC Championship Game, but blew a seventeen point halftime lead.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
You think this could be the year for those Detroit Lions. No,
I'm not convinced of it. I think they got a
good team. I think they're going to be in the mix.
But are they for sure going the last time they
lost in the NFC Championship Game, the drought was again
like thirty.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Plus years since they got in Again. We'll see. But
it ain't as easy as people say.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
You're not as you don't sound as negative as I
thought you would.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I thought it no way, no was coming. You're giving
them a shot. We know they we know nothing. They're
not a lot, you know. I mean, that's what I'm saying.
But I mean, I mean he can say that as
a player. I'm saying to you.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
But you're giving them a change, a legitimate chance to
get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
That's a lot for you.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
If I if I would have picked, I would say
they would be in the top three or four teams
that have a shot. But they're not my top pick
going in. I think that division. Chris is way tougher
than it was a year ago. And we'll see just
from the division point, that's the part that last year
they had kind of a cake walk. They stole the
game from the Bears. If you remember that, they shouldn't
(39:46):
have won, and and we'll see where Minnesota is. But
it's it's it's it's definitely a tougher division than it
was a year ago.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
I think right now.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
I mean, if you asked me the top four teams
in the NFC, I would say San Francisco, Green Bay, Detroit,
not in order, Detroit and Philadelphia, and some people might
throw the Rams in that group.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I mean, they've they've had a rough off season, but
I do think Detroit has a chance. They I don't
know that they'll be my pick, probably not. But look
like we said, they got to the NFC title game
last year. Their offense, we know, the offense is really good.
Got a great offensive line to protect golf, running backs, receivers.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Defense was their problem.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
And they made some good draft picks and they you know,
added a few guys like defensively they should be much
better too.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
So you know, of course the player is gonna say this,
that's right, right, right, I'm just.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Surprised though you're not totally poo pooing it. So that's
a step forward for you. Considering your recent past as
predictions about the Lions, so you think they're good, You've
you've actually come along ways on it.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
I've evolved, and I told you that they had to
do something different about winning a postseason game, which they
finally did.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I'm not helping.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
I would like to see Campbell just learn. I like
his risky but you know coaching, but there are times
you just need to be more cautious. All right, Two
hours left Worship Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Keep it locked.
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Speaker 3 (01:25):
What's happened to mister christ Show? Were you giving me
the finger when you were rubbing your hand. Look, no,
I thought you might think that. No, no, no, I
was like, wow, show it wasn't like that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I didn't even say anything. My god, I knew you
were gonna think that I'm that serious. I was like,
oh no, I was giving me the finger. How are you?
Everything is great? Ready for will you be here the fourth? Yes?
I was working working hard TV and radio until Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
The only reason you're working because you got to do TV,
so you figured I might as well.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Work well, very true, just calling it like, and my
wife is working.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Too, so you know, it's just it's just a Thursday
to you, to your right, just a Thursday.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Absolutely, And people ask me all time.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I tell you during the day, you know, when we're
in the newspaper business, Chris, people used to always say
a holiday, the weekend. I used to be like, dude,
none of that matters to me. Like I never looked
week the weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It was never Tuesday and Saturday were no differently, they're not.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
They are not people talking about all I can't wait
for the weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I was like, dude, I'm working Friday, Sunday, Friday night.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm like when I ride.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
When I first started out covering high school sports. Every
Friday night I was at a game, whether it was football,
then basketball, and summer, I guess, you know spring once
basketball was over. Friday nights I guess weren't the same.
But Saturdays you're covering track meets.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Baseball games, yeah, yeah, softball.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So yes, the life of a sports writer not always glamorous.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, but we're not complaining because we're very blessed.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And uh, I.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Think I can speak for you when I say we
cherish those moments, you know, like like like for real,
to aspire to be something, Chris, you wind up working
you work at the newspaper of the record, the New
York Times, you know what I'm saying Like that, like
everybody can't say that.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I grew up in New York.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I always wanted to write for the daily News, and
I did that, you know what I mean? Like those
are those are hard places to get into and then
you know from there. So we were a part of
that newspaper business. When newspapers were king, I still cherished
that it was so different.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It was so yeah back in the day, You're right,
today's and it's progress. I mean, we we had things
that the previous generation of sports writers couldn't understand and
when they were writing on typewriters. But you can't Rob
as a young sports writer day. And this is not
We're not saying we were better or worse. They can't
(04:13):
really even fathom.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
What it was like when we when we were doing it.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Chris, I know you didn't have all night to write
because it was the internet versus the paper.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You know, you had to get it a hard deadline,
a hard deadline, and you would get calls where the
what They would call you from the assignment desk and say, hey, Chris,
get on the plane and go to Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Am I right? And you would just go to the
airport and absolutely, you, Rob, did you?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
There were times I had to dictate my story on
the phone, read the whole story, punctuation everything to the
editor because you're, for whatever reason, your computer wasn't worth
I'm working right.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah it was, it was, It was definitely.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But you know, like you said, Man, I look back
at all those times cover high school sports, cover rex
sports like it was all fun.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It was all I mean in Wilkesburg I did too.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, so all right, we got the eye couple crew
in full effect. There's a lot of replacements today, but
we all good with that. Our man Shade, the producer
is in for Rob g of course on the updates.
You heard him a few moments ago, Brian Finley the
loquationous when Rob we're gonna look up b.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Finn Is, We're gonna go to breakfast in New York.
My treat.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I don't believe he's gonna come watch first Teams first,
Absolutely first, I don't First.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Is the wedding still on on, Brian? That's what I
wanted to watch.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It is still on. She has about a week and
a half to say no to bail out.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
She's a beautiful woman and very nice. I was great
to meet her.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Course my mom said a lot of great things about
you too, Rob.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Really, thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I don't want to hear anything about robing your mind.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh you know, I didn't bring up that she was
a model playboy, all right. And Elijah's working today.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Elijah Sabuna of course on the social media, but Alex
Tysher is out so on the ones and twos. None
other than I think Alex is jealous. He doesn't have
an intro like that. I mean that's why.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Not only that, but that's a great intro. Mayor, that's
a great intro marriage real talk. Don't I doubt any
any engineer yeah has that type of intro. So yeah,
that's great. All right, let's get to it.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Rob.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
We got Vinnie Goodwill coming up at the bottom of
the our friend of the show, former nephew of Rob Parker.
Yahoo Sports NBA writer does a great job. He'll join
us in about twenty five minutes. And one thing we
may talk about with him. Rob Lebron James signs with
the Lakers two years, one hundred and four million dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That's the max. Now.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I was surprised it wasn't three years, one sixty I felt,
even if he did not play the entire three years
that why not get the contract. But I talked to
some people, and his two year deal is not because
he's planning to retire in two years.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Of course, you know, if his game really falls off
this year next year he gets hurt.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
He easily could.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But I'm told it was because to keep his flexibility
as a player option for the second year. And also Rob,
remember the NBA's new TV deals are supposed to be
worth seventy six. I think he's seventy six, but seventy
something billion dollars, whereas the last one was.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Worth twenty four billion. So there's gonna be a.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Huge jump, and those salaries, the salary cap should really jump,
not this season, but the following season twenty twenty five
to twenty six. So they want to be you know,
ready for that. You can get some rule two to
thirty eight rule, Chris.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
But what was that? Well, he's way obviously past that.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, it's that did determines like length, you know, length
of the contracts.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I saw that.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I was reading that about how long a contract could
be after age thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Correct, Yes, absolutely so. But we'll see. But anyway, here's
what I want to throw at you, Rob Lebron.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Let's say he plays two years. Do you see him
winning another championship?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Highly unlikely. I just I don't see it.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I don't I don't know what would have to happen, Chris,
You know, I just I can't see it.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Given what the West looks.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Like, even with Lebron and the numbers, the numbers haven't
gone south, but the impact has gone south. Like it's
just been a struggle for them.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
To win.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I know they went to the Western Conference finals and
I know they won the end season tournament, but it's it's.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Been a struggle even with a D had a great
year last year. They you ask for a D to
do much more than he did last year. I mean,
he could be a better player, slightly better player.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Dah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Numbers, but yeah, the games played, I mean, that's that's
as good as it gets for Anthony Davis. You're right
about that. And they still finished in the playing. I
mean they were a seventh seed, I believe, but that's playing.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
But that's what I'm saying, Like, right, Chris, like they
with those numbers, Lebron and his hey day putting up
those numbers. In Anthony Davis, that would equate to a
bar you're competing for.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
A top chance the championship ran in his hey day.
You're absolutely right. With a guy like a D and
a decent supporting cast, there could being for a championship.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And instead they were at the bottom, you know, like
struggling to even get into the playing and all that.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So that's why I just find it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Hard to believe that that that's going to change. And
now you throwing a rookie coach, Chris, a novice, a
guy who hasn't coached at all. Maybe he's decent, maybe
he's good, Maybe he's Jeff's Saturday. And I've just used
that as a term of you know what I mean,
like a leader of men. Didn't get it done except
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for week one about twelve players.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
But I see, see, you know the game, we played
it exactly the coach.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
You just need to be a leader of men. That's
all you need.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I didn't hear one of those guys nine like they disappeared, Chris.
But they were hoping and praying because at Jeff's Saturday
done something. They were hoping they could get jobs without
having to go through the coach.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, and right, it can't be done in football. I'm
convinced it can't be done in football unless you're just
a complete figurehead.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You know what I mean? Where gets big in football?
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
What schemes you run and all kinds of stuff is totally.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You got such a big staff to manage everything.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It's just but I can't see it in football.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
But there's just too many moving parts, Chris, and too
many things that have to is Bronni gonna be a
distraction to the team, you know what I mean, it
could it could.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Happen that Bronni's not playing. How come Bronni's not playing?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Or if Bronni's playing too much or he's not performing well,
is he gonna be sent down?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
But blah blah?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
You know, like like there's all these other storylines that
could weigh on on.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
The Lakers as well.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
So I don't see in the next two years the
Lakers winning the championship, especially with how the West looks
all these young teams. Chris only gonna get better, right
because they haven't. Minnesota hasn't topped out. Okay, see hasn't
topped out. You don't know where Denver is. I mean,
you gotta consider them. There's just a lot of teams
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even there, even the Sacramento Kings, I know.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The right, but they're relatively so I'm not I'm not there.
I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I don't think he's gonna win anymore championships. And I
think we've said this for a little while now. It's
no slight on lebron I mean, he's thirty nine. You know,
he's the best thirty nine year old we've ever seen.
I don't think that's even arguable. But he's not leading
in this NBA. Rob, I don't see him leading a
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team to a championship, to your point, And you know,
I think it is what it is if they can
be in the playoffs. And I think Lebron, look, I
think more than I think. His number one thing obviously
was playing with Brownie. But he wants to play in
LA and I think he wants to be competitive and
try like have a chance. I guess you got a
(12:42):
puncher's chance, right, But as long as the team seems
like it's trying to win a championship, I think he's
fine with it. He obviously isn't going anywhere just to
chase a ring and go to Philadelphia, you know, and
his family has said he's at a different point in
his life, you know, and that would look that wouldn't
(13:04):
That would be strange, Yeah, And he wouldn't like if
he went to Now Philadelphia would have been a little
different as far as credit because they haven't even been
past the second round and they need a leader. And
you know, Tyre's Maxie is young and Joe Olymbiid's tends
to be hurt, so if they won a championship, Lebron
would get a ton of credit for that, maybe even
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the Lion's share with that group, who knows. But if
he went somewhere around like Milwaukee and Yannis is leading them,
and you know Lebron's playing well, but not the guy,
Like we know what this is about. It's about the
goat for Lebron and winning a championship as the second
guy or on somebody else's to him.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Nah, it's not gonna it's not gonna matter.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
In your debate with Jordan, So I get he's staying
with the Lakers as he should, I believe. And like
you said, he played seventy one last year. That's the
most he's played as a Laker.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Cause you remember, you hurt almost every year.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, well, yeah he has, I mean the lockout or
the pandemic year, but that was a three four month
hiatus where his body could heal up. Anthony Davis seventy
six games last year was his career high.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
So we hope we get that again from them.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
But no, A yeah, I mean, odds would say, especially
with Lebron's age, odds would say that he's.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Probably not gonna play that many games. This year. But
I'm with you, But what say you? Guys?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
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Will Lebron win another championship within the next two years?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Your thought? Or really within in his the rest of
his career?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
All right, let's kick it off with Innis in Corona, California.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You're on the odd couple Fox Sports Radio. What's up
in this?
Speaker 8 (16:13):
Hey, guys, two words?
Speaker 7 (16:15):
No way, no how.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
There's that's four But okay, I love it.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Well, I think the coins that Rob knows, you know
New York guys, PS one seventy nine represents.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
There you go, Chris Hecks that PS fifty, PS one
fifty get a real name.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
But yeah, no, they're not gonna win.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
I mean he you know, he's opting out of the
second He's gonna opt out of the second year just
to get more money. It's not going to be to
bring in free agents because what free agent has he
brought anywhere? He hasn't been able to do that, and
he doesn't play both ends of the ball consistently, and
it's kind of a shame. They have two top twenty,
top fifteen players in the league arguably, and they're all
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playing team year in and year out. He trashed the
play in four years ago, and every year that the
play ins existed, the Lakers are in the play in
every single season.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
It is kind of funny because he was been good
for him exactly, but he even the.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Year they got to the conference finals, he was in
the playing no doubt, Jack in Michigan. You're in the
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Jack?
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Hey, guys, how's going doing good?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Well? You in Michigan, Jack.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
So, I think there is a possibility Lebron wins number five,
but it's not going to be in LA. I think
his best chance is in Cleveland, possibly an opt out
signing trade.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So in like next season, not this upcurrent season, forty
one going on forty one.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Yes, and he might be the second guy with Donovan Mitchell,
but he arguably already is with Anthony Davis. So I
don't know how much of a problem that will be.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, look, I'll say this, I don't I think the
time if Lebron was gonna go back to Cleveland, and look,
he did keep the player option open, So I'm not
saying it's impossible.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
But he had that chance. Chris Well, and I think
this was the year.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I mean, I guess you could say he plays with
Bronni one year, then goes back to Cleveland, because I
do think he'd have a better chance in Cleveland with
that team, assuming they didn't have to give up, you know,
too much to get him. But I just don't see
it happening. I think if he wins it again, it's
probably la but I don't.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Think he probably would have been the summer to do it.
But with new coach Brownie coming in, if the season's
a reck and they don't play Bronnie at all and
JJ doesn't have a good first year, maybe he leaves,
maybe he jump shit.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, I mean I don't see Brownie playing a lot
this year. Thankful the call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Jack Arn in South Dakota, You're in the couple of
Fox Sports Radio, what's up.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
On Fella's long time first time And there is absolutely
no way, no way he's gonna win in the next
two years. A mess, trash talking Tuesday by one day,
but it's Wednesday and we can we can swing some dirt.
He he has gone and played with his friends everywhere
he's ever went. And if you've ever watched soccer and
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somebody rolling around the field like they got murdered, and
then they get up when somebody didn't see him, and
then they keep on playing, That's that's Lebron trying to
be the goat is never gonna happen. And now we
have nepotism on top of it. So no, he's not
gonna win. I'm rooting against him. I'm a hater and
I'm proud of I was about to say, we.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Got some haters up in here, admit it.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
You are on.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm not mad at you. You know what is a hater?
So you are not? You know you are. That's what
they call you on the streets of l A.
Speaker 10 (19:47):
You knowld this all yesterday and I turned my head right,
I know now we were when we used to walk
together in the streets in La day say hey, lover,
and then I turned hey, you hey, hater.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Marty in Kentucky, you're in the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
What you got.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Everybody's a longtime listener, first time call?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yeah, right, Marty, You've been calling since uh uh Moby
Dick was a gup exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
You know that. What's up?
Speaker 11 (20:20):
Well, Robie, you keep up with the size of those things,
I imagine. But anyway, I'm about this subject. I just
cannot see and I know, I know JJ Reddick has
a good relationship with him, But I feel like Bron's
in charge, and I feel like Lebron's style has outlived
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the style of the NBA and if he can't change
his style and be so bal dominant, I don't see
it happening. I don't see them getting to even if
they got the finals, say they battle through the West,
and this is going to be a trouble for anything.
You got to battle through the West and you're likely
to face arrested, very good, very deep team from the East,
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and the old Man. If he needs to be the MVP,
I just can't see it happening. It worked against the
Heat and the mickey Mouth Championships, but you know it
was Ad that really carried him through the West, and
then they faced the Heat team that they really just
wore way better than, and then he could be ball
dominant and get there.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You remember the Heat was missing two starters in that farnt.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Yeah, yeah, to build on his legacy.
Speaker 11 (21:30):
If he got to the finals and one and didn't
get an MVP. I believed that it would actually hurt
him in the goat conversation.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Wow wow, Well, I tell you what's interesting you said
about his style of play, because.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
When you look at the teams Lebron won with.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
They played slow a lot of years, you know, and
he that's how he was able to control the temple
of the game when he was essentially the point guard,
and he could control and make it kind of of
a slower game. I mean, Miami Day would run opportunistically,
but a lot of those teams play slower, and now
it is such a faster game. He's not quite obviously
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quite as good as he used to be, so he
can't play the point a lot or half the game
even or more, and so he can't control the tempo
like he used to.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But it is interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Because the game has changed a lot, and shooting is
a lot more of a factor than it was when
Lebron was, you know, dominating the league, and he's become
a much better three point shooting shot forty one percent
last year. But he's just he's certainly not having the
control of the game like he used to all right,
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Vinnie Goodwill around the corner. But first, the loquacious Brian
Finley be fans.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yeah, Chris and Rob good to work with you guys.
Here the day before July fourth, and we're starting to
hear the All Star Game selections coming out. The starters
from Major League Baseball Showo Tani is in no question,
they're designated hit her fourth starter selection for him. And
in this game, you've also got notably Trey Turner the Phillies.
They'll be starting at shortstop. National League hurt most of
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the year.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Yeah, so he gets in and he's the first Philly
to be starting at shortstop on this game since Jimmy
Rawlins back in two thousand and two, so it's been
a while there.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
But this is the vote, right from the fans and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Yeah, well this is the second tier, so right now
you well, so there's the first tier. Now, then there's
the second tier of voting, which is presented by some
title sponsor, and then you've got the All Star pitchers
and the reserves. That's not going to be announced till Sunday.
So essentially, Chris and Robb, they are breaking this down,
they're making it like a three day event, right, so
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I'm sort.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Of set announcing the team all at once.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, I mean everybody wants to be a dairy farmer
and milk everything exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We are now.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, True's that's a really good point. On the American
League side of things. Some of the starters. You got
Vlad Guerrow Junior from the Blue Jays, the Dodgers favorite
player in Jose Altuve. He's going to be a starter
second base, sixth time he has been a starter in
this game. Notably, you've got Jose Ramirez from the Guardiansy'll
be manning third base. Jordan Alvarez, the Astros first starter
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selection for him, as mentioned that designated hitter position. In
games going on in Major League Baseball right now, the
Reds are excuse me, the Red Sox are leading the
Marlins two to one and they're going to the bottom
of the third. There, Cardinals and Pirates. They're scoreless in
the fourth, Mets striking first one nothing versus the Nationals.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
The Mets a hot quist. They turned this season around?
Really are they?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I got it's all grimmas.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
It was all good? Was grim I thought it was
man mcgeeze.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
You know what I mean, from one New York team
to another. The Yankees are trailing the Reds to nothing
second inning there. And then in the NBA, according to
the Associated Press, former Raptors player Johnte Porter band from
the NBA. We already knew that, but he's gonna be
charged with a federal felony where a court date he
had to be announced is as we know, Porter.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Serious stuff, Chris, though it really is bigger than we thought.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
You know, it's it's big.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You can't mess around with gambling and given inside information,
it's against the law.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Well, you said to Rob, it's inside information, and that's
where he gets in trouble. And then, lastly, guys some
notable free agent acquisitions in the NBA Alec Burks according
to ESPN one year to the Heat, one year deal
for Joe Ingles to the Timberwolves, PJ. Dozer to the
Timberwolves one year. And then at the very end of
this we'll talk Bronnie James four years, seven point nine
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million dollars. The rookie contract has been signed.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
There is also a pay cuff from USC.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I'm just saying with I pretty much because his NIL
was ten million, I think, right, right, I'm saying it
took a pay cuff.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Unbelievable. Well, if that, let's get it back to the
odd couple Chris Brussard, Rob Parker, and I'll.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Say this inside of trading information, Chris or whatever. You
remember Martha Stewart went to jail. Oh yeah, Martha Stewart.
So if they wasn't exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, no, no, it's it is serious. It is incredibly serious.
All right, thank you. Bfinn.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Our next guest, y'allhoo Sports n B A writer, host
of The Good Word podcast, also a radio host on
Serious XEM, the NBA channel. Our man friend of the show,
Rob's relative, kind of sort of Vinny will Minny?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
What up? Vinnie will always be fair?
Speaker 9 (26:35):
Come on, Vinnie, that's what they say.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
That love for me? I was in his family.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I mean, are you kiddy, Vinnie.
Speaker 11 (26:48):
What he was?
Speaker 9 (26:49):
Unfortunately, my cup had a moment temporary left.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
And Mary. Rob Parker, Oh well, look man, it's good
to have you.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
We got a lot to get to, so let's jump
at it first.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Briannie.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Obviously one of the big stories going on right now.
I want to ask you, and you know, Rob and
I know how this business works. Obviously, you know how
this business works.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
When you talk to.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Guys around the league on all levels, players, front office, coaches, whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
When y'all talking off the record.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
What are they saying about the Bronnie James situation.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
I mean, it depends on, like the perspective, because this
touches a lot of tempoles, right, This touches the tempole
of nepotism, yep, This touches the tempole of a black
father and a black son. This touches you know, it
touches a bunch of different ones. And depending on where
the perspective of the person is, that's where they're going
to say. Like, there's certainly, you know, a lot of
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black folks that are saying, hey, white people have been
doing this nepotism for decades, right, so be it, you
know what I mean, that level of it. And my
counter to that has always been that we call our
white folks for their nepotism. You can't let this one's lid,
you know what I mean. So it's a bunch of
different play things that work. I think the thing for me,
guys is merit. Merit sticks out to me. Sports is
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about a lot of different things. It is about entertainment.
It's but it's mostly importantly, it's about competition and it's
about merit. And I don't think that no matter what
the Lakers say, at this point, you can't look at
anyone with a straight face and say all of this
is merited by Ronnie James' basketball skills and its production
because he hasn't shown it. It's not to say that
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he can't show it. It's not to say that had
he stayed another year at USC or Winters, transfer somewhere
else and gall on the floor more, that he couldn't
prove it. But at this point the greatest, incomplete.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
No doubt. And that's the issue in Vinnie.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
I mean, the other thing is that we don't know
yet could be a distraction teammates, depending on now how
the works with JJ and now his son's there, JJ's
his podcast partner. This could blow up and be ugly,
you know, if things don't go right.
Speaker 9 (29:11):
Well, even more than that, I wonder how many people
are thinking about Bronnie James the kid, you know what
I mean? And not kids in infantilized them, you know
what I mean. I mean Ronnie James as an athlete.
Bronnie James as a basketball player. We're only viewing this
through the lens of Lebron James and his sons, you
know what I mean, Not Lebron and Bronnie, Lebron James
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and his son. It would be great for Lebron to
play with his son. We never say is this kid
ready for the NBA and what challenges will he come
across because of all these other issues. Lebron can handle
it because he's been in this fish bowl for well
over twenty plus years. Bronnie James is nineteen years old.
Bronnie James eleven months ago some of the cardiac arrest
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during a pick up basketball game at USC and now
it seems like to some degree being used, not necessarily
as a tool, but he's a prop in a way
for his dad's career, and I would think that he
should be better than that.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I hope, because I'll say, and Robin vouch with this
all along, what's best for what does Bronnie want? It
shouldn't matter what Lebron wants at this point, it should matter.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
What should right Chris. I'm with him, and he seems
to be handling this well.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I don't know what's in his head, but from what
I see, and I think Savannah would have a say,
And if Brownie really was like I don't want it
this way or whatever, I think she would have raised
the stink. And I tend to think Lebron would listen
if Brownie really was against it.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
So I feel like he's handling it well.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
He's had this pressure living up to his father's name
his whole life.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
So once I saw, at least.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
In my mind that he seems comfortable with it, I'm
fine with it. I'm like, I don't think we have
called our white folks for it. We might say something here,
we say something here there, but we don't raise raise high,
hell and high water about talked about it a lot
of time, we mentioned it, but it's it goes on
left and right and ain't nothing done about it.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Yeah, but we can yell all we want, nothing happens.
It doesn't mean we can do it. Yeah, but you
can still call it out. I'm not gonna. I don't
think we do call it out. I gotta be honest.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
That's why Jerry Jones hasn't had anything in twenty five years.
Maybe because, yeah, because he has too many family members there.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
And the first time I heard you say that on
this show, but I've talked about it.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
We don't talk about but I don't think we raise
a stink about it.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
It's you noticed, Vince. It is rampant. I've never seen
it on you. I've never seen it. Don't there's still
a business on it.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Have you the coaching staff, No, i'n make it better
on the coaches even up given a person where Benny
talked about out of the competition and about earning.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
On the field. If this was this is a.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Pandora's box, Vinnie, to now have some white owner decide
I'm gonna have my nephew who played college basketball get
the last spot on the NBA rock. What does it matter,
that's my team. He's not playing, he's not gonna play.
He's just private.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I'll tell you what he'll put that dude in the
front office. I'm talking about somebody. It don't matter. The
place we can't break through is in the front office,
or at least to the degree that we should be.
But anyway, I'll.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Tell you guys, this, this is where it could hurt Brianni.
Every year there's an undrafted player that comes out of
the woolwork and turns into something, and every front office
or every fan base is in why didn't we draft him?
And the Lakers are supposed to be a championship organization
that focuses all his energy towards winning, adding another banner
(32:57):
and all this other stuff. So when this undrafted player
comes up and starts balling whatever he may be, right,
Laker fans are going to say, why didn't we take
him instead of Bronnie James. That puts Brownie in an
untenable position because he ain't pick himself, you know what
I mean, He's literally just in this spot. I won't
say an innocent but Chris, here's the thing. I have
(33:19):
my father's name. Okay, if my father was famous and
did all this other stuff, I publicly, no matter what
I felt, I wouldn't publicly say you know what, Dad,
despite what you want, I'm going to go my own way.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
No, But would you say I've been laid publicly?
Speaker 9 (33:37):
It's up to the young The youngster is going to follow.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
You know what. I would you tell Lebron.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Because I would tell my dad privately, because because because
Lebron was the one who tweeted that he was better
than half.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
The players in the league.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
But but Vinnie, you wouldn't tell your dad privately because
this has been going. We've been seeing this groundwork laid
for a year plus. If I was in that situation,
I'd be like, Dad, I don't want it this way.
If I'm not good enough, I don't want And honestly,
I might not have even wanted to play with my dad.
I might have been like, I'd rather be on my own,
(34:12):
you know what I mean, like spread my wings.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
So, Chris, here's the thing that people I'm not saying.
Who says that boy wants to be on the road
in the NBA lifestyle with his daddy hanging over his
shoulder like that does not sound appealing that.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I mean, I agree like that. That is you're nineteen.
You want to spread your wings, You want to have
your I don't know what Brownie's into and everything, but.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
You're right having your dad there, you know, wanting to
go grab a burger after a game. You know, I
don't know how much he's gonna want that, but I'm
fine with it. This is a chance for it that
maybe maybe he never would have gotten. It's up to
him to make the most out of it, and we'll
see if he does. I wanted to ask you some
other James quickly in thirty seconds. Yeah, Denver, do you
(35:05):
think that this is something serious? I mean, they keep
last year, they lost a couple of key rotation players.
This year they've lost you know, Reggie Jackson that was
a trade, but also KCP. Now do you think that
this is something that it's gonna hurt them going forward?
And I don't think they're as good as they were
two months ago.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:25):
I think the luxury the second luxury tax thresholds at
Apron that we're going to start hearing a lot more about. Like,
once you're in that second Apron, you are so locked
out of doing anything to help improve your team. So Denver,
by virtue of giving Michael Porter Junior that two one
allion dollars contract two years ago before this new CBA
came in, they are landlocked. So they can't really improve
(35:45):
their team because you got three Max guys, and having
three maxalts on the roster really limit you. So yeah,
I don't think they're as good as they were two
months ago. And I think had things broken a little differently,
they would have won a championship. But they didn't, and
they of course were trying to get better, except they're
taking steps back and putting more pressure on the cool
yochis to be great, and I don't know if that's
gonna work out.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
All right, that's our man, Vinny goodwill break up as always, brother,
Thank you, Yes, I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
All right, bro, Peace morale Couple coming your way. Fox
Sports Radio. Thanks for listening to The Odd Couple podcasts.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
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Speaker 2 (37:05):
Here you go, Chris.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Some July baseball we're gonna do. Start with the Minnesota
Twins hosting the Detroit Tigers. Minnesota minus one and a
half runs. That's gonna be my best bet for the night.
A couple other games, I got the Los Angeles Angels
in Oakland taking on the Aids. I got the Angels
minus one and a half runs, Chris on the road
(37:28):
and the Dodgers host the Arizona Diamondbacks. Got the Dodgers
minus one and a half runs hosting the d Backs.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
So again, best.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Bet Twins minus one and a half runs over the Tigers,
Angels minus one and a half runs playing in Oakland
and the Dodgers hosting the Arizona Diamondbacks. Take the Dodgers
minus one and a half runs. And remember, I'm not
telling you who to bet on. I'm telling you who
I bet on, all right, rob quickly.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Aiden Hutchinson, the great defensive lineman for the Detroit Lions,
is betting on the Lions.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
He said this recently, I feel like it's the year.
Speaker 12 (38:12):
Okay, with every fiber of my body, I feel like
it's the year. And honestly I believe every I mean,
from this year and on every year is the year.
You know, with the guys that we have, and you know,
I hope that we're going to sustain this success for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
All right, Rob, Last year, Detroit, of course got to
the NFC Championship Game, but blew a seventeen point halftime lead.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
You think this could be the year for those Detroit Lions. No,
I'm not convinced of it. I think they got a
good team. I think they're going to be in the mix.
But are they for sure going the last time they
lost in the NFC Championship Game, the drought was again
like thirty.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Plus years since they got in Again. We'll see. But
it ain't as easy as people say.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
You're not as you don't sound as negative as I
thought you would.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I thought it no way, no was coming. You're giving
them a shot. We know they we know nothing. They're
not a lot, you know. I mean, that's what I'm saying.
But I mean, I mean he can say that as
a player. I'm saying to you.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
But you're giving them a change, a legitimate chance to
get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
That's a lot for you.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
If I if I would have picked, I would say
they would be in the top three or four teams
that have a shot. But they're not my top pick
going in. I think that division. Chris is way tougher
than it was a year ago. And we'll see just
from the division point, that's the part that last year
they had kind of a cake walk. They stole the
game from the Bears. If you remember that, they shouldn't
(39:46):
have won, and and we'll see where Minnesota is. But
it's it's it's it's definitely a tougher division than it
was a year ago.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
I think right now.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
I mean, if you asked me the top four teams
in the NFC, I would say San Francisco, Green Bay, Detroit,
not in order, Detroit and Philadelphia, and some people might
throw the Rams in that group.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I mean, they've they've had a rough off season, but
I do think Detroit has a chance. They I don't
know that they'll be my pick, probably not. But look
like we said, they got to the NFC title game
last year. Their offense, we know, the offense is really good.
Got a great offensive line to protect golf, running backs, receivers.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Defense was their problem.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
And they made some good draft picks and they you know,
added a few guys like defensively they should be much
better too.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
So you know, of course the player is gonna say this,
that's right, right, right, I'm just.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Surprised though you're not totally poo pooing it. So that's
a step forward for you. Considering your recent past as
predictions about the Lions, so you think they're good, You've
you've actually come along ways on it.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
I've evolved, and I told you that they had to
do something different about winning a postseason game, which they
finally did.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I'm not helping.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
I would like to see Campbell just learn. I like
his risky but you know coaching, but there are times
you just need to be more cautious. All right, Two
hours left Worship Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Keep it locked.
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