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the NBA here and stay with the NBA.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
We just had the NBA our number five, but our
number two, but Lebron James rob g last night he
was at it again.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
They were ready to celebrate the King.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Well as well you should, because Lebron James is now
the first, the last, the only member of the NBA's
I guess, inaugural fifty thousand career points category combining regular
and postseas he's always been. He's already become the NBA's
all time leading score. He passed Kareem A. Dul Jabbar
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by season and a half ago. Now he's the only
member of the fifty thousand point club. And you got
to say, it's good to be the king. Rob Parker.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Longevity, man, Yes, longevity is good and bad for you.
I think, first of all, even when you look at
this fifty thousand, once you become the all time leading score, can.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
We stop with the countdown? Just stop every stop of
the way, yeah, like like every every oh, yeah, every
whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
First play the fifty one thousand, first played like, like, seriously, really,
you're already all time leading scorer and I just want
to be this and I'm not trying to take anything
away from him. He has like two thousand more shot
attempts than Kareem ab Dul Jabbar, and he had threes
when Kareem had no threes. I mean, it's his record,
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it's legit, he's played these years or whatever.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
But I'm just saying what.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Kareem was able to do with no threes and two
thousand fewer field goal attempts is incredible. His number is
really really incredible when you think about it, because Lebron
has an advantage with the threes. I'm not saying he's
shooting ten threes a game, but it makes a difference
over such a long period of time. Number Two, the
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longer that he plays and doesn't win, I think it
dwarfs how you look at him.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
He's got twenty two. Is it twenty two in the books? Yeah, yes,
this is twenty second.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, Okay, plays two more, twenty four and you win
four championships like that is not impressive.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
That's not I don't care.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
What sports you're in, where you are, nobody goes, oh
my god, that's unbelievable. Then you start looking at Michael
Jordan played thirteen years and he got six, and you
look at Lebron and go twenty four years for four une.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I think that that's a demerit.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I think that the longer you can compile numbers, winning
is what makes it worthwhile. And the reason that Tom
Brady with his long career is what what happened with
Tom Brady. He had two different winning streaks, one three
went nine years without winning, and then one another three
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and then the last one. So that's how you could
tie his bow up and look at it. Lebron hasn't
been winning at the back end. That's what hurts. That's
why so many people. I don't think Tom Brady's to go,
but I understand why people would say that because he
has the seven championships and that's spread out over his
whole career. I think one of the biggest things that's
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gonna hurt Patrick Mahomes long term is that he won
a lot early. He's got his three championships. The way
the Chiefs are going, Andy Weive retires, Kelsey retires, you
know what I mean, and all this other stuff. Then
if Patrick Mahomes goes eight, seven, eight years and they
don't win again in his career, it won't feel as good.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Would you agree with that. I'm not saying that, Yes,
I got what you're saying. He did it.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Never wins a game for eight, nine, ten years, then
it lessens it without a doubt, because what's made a
spectacular is what he's done in six five years.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
The start is so fantastic that the idea that he
could play eight or nine years and not win again.
Tom Brady went through that. Now, they went to the
super Bowl a couple of times, but they didn't win.
That's when the Giants were beating them. If I would
have told you Tom Brady went nine years without winning
a super Bowl, you would have been like, how's that possible?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I mean the thing is, I do think those going
helped because in the between also going, he had a
chance to go undefeated, so that he was still doing
spectacular things.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Wait, right, but I hear that, But I'm not saying that.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
And here's my point to you. Brady wins the three,
the early ones, the three. If he went those nine
years and didn't play, say he got injured and never
played again changes that changes everything. There's no way people
anybody's even talking about goat like even though he was
started out great and won those three. And that's what
I'm saying with Patrick Mahomes, like, unless you have a
second florry or you continue to win. But if you
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don't have a second florry like Brady had, I think
it's harder for people to feel or look at you
that way because they do remember you on your way out.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I think, yeah, Mahomes has to get two more to
like really legitimately be the gold and he still has,
you know, I don't think I don't think he can
a decade left if you will two.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
More two losses and two blowouts in the Super Bowl.
I don't see when we have these conversations numbers on it.
He's not even making Pro Bowls anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I'm that's so fair.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But he's so young and the team in the organization
has been so well run that now that this wasn't
a great it's weird, right, we say not now they
go fifteen and no.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I'm talking about the way they keep taking away pieces.
But so they turned that around. They mess around and
get DK Metcalf or something, and then all of a
sudden you look up and they run another one, like
we'll be right here having these conversations again, all right,
it only takes me get one more before and also
the eye test too.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
But I digress because we're not talking about Patrick Mahomes
right now. We're talking about Lebron. So if Lebron isn't
your goat, he's never gonna be your goat. There's no
changing that, right. If Lebron is not the goat for
you at this point twenty two years, there's no changing that.
And for many people, the minute he lost his first finals,
he could never be the goat because they can always
fall back and say, well, Jordan was six and oh right,
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so Kobe can't be goat.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
He's five to two. Lebron couldn't be goat.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
He's four and six or seven or whatever it is
at this point, so he can never be your goat.
Here's the conversation for me. If I'm trying to make
a case for him to possibly maybe change someone who's
still open minded about the goat ness of it all,
you can say, well, I have to go a different
path than Jordan, So the longevity then matters because then
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you can say, well, he didn't take breaks in the
middle of his career like Jordan did. Jordan, all the
pressure stuff was going on, I had to just get away.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I wanted to go do baseball, and that all the
bad the good. Lebron persevered the good.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
When he was the black hat in Miami and all
that ups the downs, he persevered and stayed through that.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
So that's you can say a compliment to him.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Lebron in the middle of that first bit run at
Cleveland dragged the bad team to the finals. Mike was
struggling to get out the first and second round, so
you can make that so the long.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Jevity when he got swept in that far and he did,
but he did he played.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So where you can try to make a case if
you're Lebron, why the longevity matters, why you can try
to do things is in this run he's done stuff
that no one else has really done. So you can
say he won in both conferences, right, Okay, he went
to the West coast. Everybody he can't win in the West.
What he goes to West, what does he do he wins?
People can say you can consider all he knows, every
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stop he made won a championship, Cleveland won, go to
Miami win a couple, come to the Lakers win. So
everywhere I go, we gonna win. He can hang that
for himself. You can say he's drag teams with I
had didn't have a bunch of talent. You can say
he's had teams with a bunch of talent. You can say, man,
he's the past first guy, yet he has higher points
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per game than Kobe Bryant points per game, not total points,
points per game. When we think of Lebron as a
past first guy and now he is the all time
leading scorer. So I'm agreeing he can't surpass and be
the goat for me. I just think he's right. You know,
my theory go best player doesn't top top topic for
another day. But I'm just simply saying, if you're Lebron,
and if there's any inkling of a way, he has
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to do it in a different way. He has to
do it because I can say I want at every
different stop. He has to do it because he's a
can won in both conferences. He has to do it
because I'm a pass first guy and I have all
the all time scoring stats. Yet y'all say I'm pass
first on my magic or my Jordan, and you get
what I'm saying, Like he had the only shot to
maybe change some in mind is to get a bunch
of accolades and to say I did it, Frank Sinatra, my.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Way, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
What the only issue is he also he has the
mos losses in the NBA finals by a former MVP.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
No.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
No one has lost six times. I mean I'm talking
about of a former MVP. And I think that's something
that he holds on too. He's done a lot of losing,
whether you want to blame it on because here's the
argument I have with that he dragged a bad team
to the finals. Had they won, ain't no way anybody
would be like, oh my god, let's not count it
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because he had a bad team. You know he was
in the finals, he was okay, so you would count
it if he won. He can't take it away and
act like it doesn't matter because he lost and he'd
have a good team.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
That doesn't make that doesn't make me.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I'll tell you why that's not tell you why those
state types of things can make sense for me because
I look at it as from a general manager standpoint,
and sometimes I'm gonna draft somebody that we thought was
gonna be good and they're not. Sometimes they're gonna trade
for somebody that we thought was gonna be spectacular or not.
Sometimes we're gonna have somebody spectacle but they get injured.
I love the idea that every single season the expectation
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for you is to go minimally to the finals. And
Lebron is really the only player to me throughout probably
after year two or so in his career, the expectation
was the finals. Kobe Bryant didn't have expectations. He might
have wanted to go, but when you saw SMUs Parker
and Chris Mams, you had zero expectations for him to
get to the finals. If Lebron had the way or
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if he had Boobie Gibson, your expectation was Lebron better
at least get to the finals.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
And that's one thing.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Not even Jordan, until he got rolling, you didn't expect
him to get past the Celtics. I'm just saying, like
I've never seen so many.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Qualifiers to justify everything.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
But you know what I'm saying, because those years when
Booby gives, they were winning sixty five games a year.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Wasn't like they were bad. They were bad teams. He
just wasn't bad.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
But they won sixty five games during the regular season
right because of him.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
No, but I'm say that the other Booby Gibson.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Himself said there's no reason why we should have been
in the finals except for he was just that great.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
No, but I'm talking about during those years, they were
winning a lot of games, and they went out and got.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Shack played for them.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Did you I'm just trying to tell you that they
went out and got all these players.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Shack was eighty three years old, but they got pounds.
Did you just hear what he just said, went.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And got every.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, Shacking and Lebron played and they got an old
Ben Wallace. They got an old Shack. That's exactly why
I lost. Give you he got everything. That's my point.
He was dragging bag teams winning sixty games.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
It's a copound because the bottom line is sports has
a short menu and win and losss.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
He's got too many loss in the history the NBA.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Nobody who you consider to be the greatest of all
times has that many losses.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I'm sorrying in the big moments there's nobody else in
NBA history who for about a fifteen year run, your
expectation were minimally defined Kobe. After Shack, you had no
expectations because for you, Yeah, it's because whether his team
was loaded or not loaded, your expectation, whether you were
a fan or not a fan, were for him to
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get to find out because.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Because he had d he had already stripped down the
Eastern Conference. He did because he took he took a
team in Toronto, took a boss from there, he went
down to Miami, and then when they put that team together,
if anything, that was a disappointment. They only won two.
He was on there, not two, not three, not four.
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They because they really that was that was a parade.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
He believed that was It wasn't it was.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I mean that was a fan favorite. Come on out,
season ticket holderday y'all be holding that crazy.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Listen to him he start laughing. Not to he literally,
we ran out of time. We didn't even have enough time.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And when I say that, I really believe it.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
That's what he said. He thought. So they went to
four straight.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Listen, they went to four straight, and they had a
meltdown against down again and if it wasn't for ray Allen,
you wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Even be here making a case for him. Time.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I'm asking you, Robert Riy doesn't hit a big shot.
There's no Shaq and Kobe Ron.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I'm asking you about that one play with Rayel and
that was huge.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
But I'm saying that happens a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
No, they had no I don't remember them ever having
the ropes out for the arena and ready to bring
the trophy out when Shaq and Kobe.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Were Robert hit that shot.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
But do you remember now that was that was a
I don't disagree at all. That was there. You were
watching the security guards came out with the champagne.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Now you're right, how that matter? They have the building,
ran out the building.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
They were outside when when ray Allen hit that shot.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
They were banging on the door to get back, like
can't we get back in? They knew it was over.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
My point is for him there's only random routes. He
has to trails blaze to have a shot and inkling
at being a go because people we were going to
give it to him.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
At this point, does Lebron James's longevity do more to
help or hurt.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Him in the go conversation.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
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Right now, we're talking about lebron longevity. Twenty two years,
could be twenty two, three four at the end of
it all, hurting his legacy, helping his legacy because he
keeps breaking records and setting new highs. What do you think?
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox? Who we Gots?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Who Me?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
All right, let's kick it off with dre in Michigan.
You're on the couple Fox Sports Radio?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
What up?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Dray Hey?
Speaker 7 (16:31):
What up? Though?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Kelvin?
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Ye Hey, look man, I like you, but I think
you're doing a great job. But I think we need
Chris back because he kept the demons away because ever
since he been going, my boy been getting stretched out
by men touching on man burs and batters and all
this other stuff.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
He went, this was a family show for you. Got here.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I love the Lord just like Chris. So wait a minute, Pancakes,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Dray Wit came out you chucking another man, but he
was talking anhing about about it.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Well, you.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Want to get the harpercraft, specially from.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
He doing it to himself.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I'm not even doing nothing, you know, But you're right,
you know what I need to include him in my
prayers more. You're right, go ahead, let me be more
specific with you. I pray for our show, but let
me pray for you too. What we lose him, that's it,
all right? But yeah, he was just letting us know
that he ain't want to talk about the brown. He
want to talk about it.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
All right, Gary in Florida, you're in the couple of
Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Rade.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
That's the worst pancake breakfast ever had in my life.
Ruined your life? Yes, what's up?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Gary?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Rob? Rob, You're the biggest right here on TV all radio.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So Gary, Gary, hold on, you made I'll let you talk.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Let me say this. So when you can't articulate your point,
you just call me a hater.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Because because you can't take that, somebody has a different
point of view than you. And Gary, I pushed back
on you. I've been covering the league since nineteen eighty seven,
and I've been sitting courtside. I've talked to a million
players and front office people and been in the trenches.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
So we disagree on something, but that has nothing to
do I have.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I don't have what do I hate Lebron for? I
just I just don't think he's the goat. That's my issue.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
That's not the point that he's a gold Whatever he does,
he's scored fifty thousand points. You got something bad to
say about that?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I didn't say anything bad. I'm putting it in context.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
He has two thousand shots more than Kareem abdul Jabbar.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Is that a lie or is that a fact? Which
one is it?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Gary?
Speaker 7 (18:44):
I'm saying whatever.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
It's context. It's contexts. You have to have contexts in sports.
That's all.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Whatever these young cats do, you got something bad to
stay about it?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
He got something bad?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Okay, so what are okay? What did I have bad?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
What did I have to say about about Lamar Jackson?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I mean, uh? What about Uh? I don't know. I
can't help you because this only person is Lamar that
you like Lamar? What did I say about Lamar? What
I said about Lamar? No, I'm asking, dude, tell me
what I said about Lamar. I'm such a hater.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
He was winning, he was winning championships. You would have
something bad to say about it.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
That's no sense, Gary, Gary, you know what you can do?
Turn the station, all right, Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
You want we want all the lizards and we need Gary.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Don't know turn the station though, just you know.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Brandon and Riverside, you're in the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Come on, man, we try to touch the bills out here.
Got job, I got mortgages kids.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Gary, you know, like people like Gary kill me.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
He's a guy.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
He's a fanboy and fanboys who can't get off the
fact like he's.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
A I'm a Lebron man.
Speaker 10 (19:56):
I can't believe it got anything man about Lebron or
Patrick Mahomes is perfect? Wait wait can you say about
Patrick Mahome? So what they got blowed out into pleasures
super Bowl? So what he didn't get make a pro
So what didn't get the ball was up on the
Pro Bowl team. It don't matter. You're today.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Got you riled up to.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
That, right?
Speaker 7 (20:22):
I'm right?
Speaker 9 (20:23):
Well, I look at it when Lebron course congratulations with
it for him, I look at it as more so
uh longevity, but also different basketball eras he's the last
way we want to say ten years then in the
twelve years, it's really been a soft mea and he's
he's just able to get to the basket easier versus
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most like if you think about, uh, with Kobe Era
and everything in the late nineties, they have power forward
the center, so you had no choice about the kind
of like but you have to you have to run
plays and your scoring was more, uh you know thought
out versus where you think about last night, both teams
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didn't have a center, so they both was just getting
to the basket and scoring on.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Him right, right, That's why he.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
Doesn't have anybody to like some from because he's big.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
But that's what but that that But that's why context matters.
It's a big difference if Michael Jordan's and if Michael
Jordan played in this NBA where you can't touch anybody defensively,
you can't tell me he would have scored more points.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
He would have And that's why they always they always
say that they be like, well, you have out passing yard.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
It is all about context, which is why to to
be fair, you had to deal with the two thousands
and the nineties.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Big and Patrick Ewing and because every team had a
lot of game a loge and it would be different
for him.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
It would know not that he wouldn't be nice, but shoot,
he wouldn't be dealing with all every night he gotta
work for that. So yeah, context does matter. That's why
I have an intelligent conversation tells me who get all
of that?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
All right?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
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Speaker 4 (22:37):
Alex, that one is out. That one's crazy. That's gotta
be out. That's crazy. I want a lot about a massage, alright,
the driver, the rider right now, people listen. They didn't know.
They just heard that some that you know who else
heard that. It was confused.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It might need some explanations. All the polonies might need
some excitations. Former NBA vet Fox Sports Radio PA analysts
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Speaker 3 (23:12):
Massage old and this old story, all right, old, and
let's go right here. Shaq last night said that Steph
Curry's into the goat conversation.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Is this just a prison I know, Shack.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I mean Curry played well against the Knicks and all that,
But is this prisoner of the moment or I just think, guys,
somebody plays well and everybody's great. Everybody needs a statue,
everybody needs their number of retiring. I'm not saying that
stuff doesn't is going to get that. But are we
going overboard?
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Now?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Everybody's the goat?
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Well, you know we've had this discuss many of times,
rob and so it's a matter of who you like.
And everybody's using those four letters to create havoc. And
for me, what I've decided to do in my old age,
it's appreciate everybody that's had a hand and making the
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NBA what it is. That's the only way I can
do it personally, because the rest of that stuff that's
just talking points, and you know, people trying to get
you know, likes on social media and everything else and
just trying to cause you know, having so to speak,
and I mean, Shack's not wrong. I mean STEP's one
of the best we've ever seen do what he does.
But at the same time, I can say the same
(24:26):
about so many other guys, you know, and so to me,
that's how I'm decided to look at it. Okay, I'm sorry,
it may not be the take that you guys want,
but I'm just trying to be more realistic with all
of this because it's getting out of hand.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Because Yoden, I think people are mixing up one of
my top five favorites. Yes, we top five, and that
goes for you know, even mixing up any of you.
What's your favorite movie, what's your favorite rapper? Like to me,
there is separate, Like my personal favorite is X Y
and Z, but the top are x Y and Z
and the idea that he could be in the Gold conversation.
You know how many people you have to knock off
the list? Come on the NP to knock a knocking
off shock? All right, all the polities are guessed, but
(25:04):
I will ask you this, so stay there for a
minute with the Warriors.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I think they're not like eight and two or something.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Since they got Jimmy Butler and the one one of
the games they lost, he didn't even play. Their offense
has been different with them defensively.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Are you buying what they're cooking right now?
Speaker 7 (25:20):
I definitely am, because he's given them a guy that
can get his own shot. So when Steph rest, you know,
you have another, you know, high powered guy that can
drop forty on you. And so to me, that's a
big weapon to have. You know, he's given them They
swag back a little bit because Jimmy, you know, and
everybody knows who Jimmy Butler is, the type of player
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he is. And for me, it's not so much the
regular season that has the Warriors excited. It's knowing what
he does in the playoffs and so that's what's boting
well for the Warriors. But the rest of the guys.
One of the things that I've always respected about Steve
Kurve is how he develops the young guy.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You know.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
It's like, you know, he'll have Geese Santos is playing
now getting some quality minutes. So when the end of
the season and in playoffs, he's going to be acclimated.
You know, Trace Jackson Davis is not playing a lot,
but he was playing and starting early in the season,
so he's also, you know, a guy you can put
in there in certain situations. So all these guys, even
(26:23):
Pat Spencer, everybody on the Warriors, they have a way
of doing this thing that you know is second to
none and developing guys. And they're doing this with a
lot of their players. You know, Kaminga hasn't played much
GPS out so it's like, you know, they got to
maneuver through the injuries and everything else. So I am
(26:43):
buying what the Warriors are selling because of one thing.
That guy we just spoke about, number thirty. As long
as they have him, they got a chance. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I don't know if they were fitting in the West,
but I guess we'll see. Let me ask you about
the Knicks. One of the issue uses you know, they
have a great record. They won a lot of games,
but they haven't fared well against the top teams, like
the top three seeds in either conference.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I think they're winless. Is that something to be concerned about?
Speaker 7 (27:14):
No, Because of concerning is what Tibodau's doing with these guys,
with the minutes that they're playing. You know, it shades
up pat Riley. You know, they're driving guys into the ground.
That's just too many minutes and they're gonna feel the
effects of it come playoff time, and it's just gonna
be too much for them. You know, you can't have
you know, guys playing forty minutes a night, forty to
(27:36):
five minutes. I so Josh Hart a couple of back
to back games, he's playing like forty six forty seven minutes.
I'm like, come on, that's insane, you know, and then
you're going to expect them to be you know, fresh
for the playoffs. So that's what they're going to have
to figure out is managing those minutes. They'll get in
quality play, but managining the minutes to where guys are
(27:56):
not exhausted come playoffs.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Yeah, that's we saw that last year.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I mean, Josh Hart went on some crazy run like
iron Man, playing forty eight minutes for twenty something game.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
It was just it was insane.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Olden, Polonies, our guests here, we got one more for
you before we got to break here real quick, Olden,
when we look at what we talked about the Lakers,
what they've been able to do.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Is this sustainable for you?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Do you believe what you're seeing, especially defensively, for them
moving forward throughout the rest of the season.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
A great question. I think it's sustainable for the regular
season because you know, you know, you get different teams.
But I don't know if it's going to bow well
for them doing playoffs because that's when you know, seven
game series and people can you know, really just do
their due diligence and figure out certain things. But I
like the effort that they're putting out there, especially with Luca,
(28:50):
you know, because they talk bad about him now being
a defender, and he's at least trying, and in him trying,
he's making Lebron try harder. So that that that's you know,
seeks volumes for them as great players. But I still
believe that they are about a piece of two still
away from being a like a true championship team. I
(29:11):
think Denver's gonna give them problems. O Croma City is
gonna give them problems. So but it's it's nice to see,
you know, the resurgence of the Lakers because to me,
it's always been a certainty if the Lakers are doing well,
and the Celtics are doing well, the NBA is doing well.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Great point. Oh thank you so much, man. We appreciate
you as always. All right, take care, guys, all right,
right their own plonies.
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Speaker 4 (30:39):
This is the last came its last call, last call.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Time on the odd couple?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
All right, last call? Who we got.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Thomas doubting Thomas in Victorville. You're on the odd couple?
Fox Sports read you have a last call?
Speaker 4 (31:01):
What's up? Thomas?
Speaker 8 (31:02):
Okay, So when we speak about goats, the biggest argument
in the pushback you're going to get is that you
can't compare generations. I get that, But if you're gonna
have the conversation, you gotta talk about this. Who is
guarding Steph today. He's not being guarded by Isaiah. He's
not being guarded by John Stark. He's not being guarded
(31:25):
by John Stockton. Rob, you covered the league forever. You
know in the big game that John Patson or Steve
Purry guarding stuff in the big game. Michael's and now
tell me, tell me about how.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
He's gonna perform.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Then thank you.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
You're right, CAF.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
He goes through Lebron.
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Who's Lebron played against? He han't played against Lambert Mahorn
and roten May. One time he had played against McHale
and Perishing Burden. One time he played against Rudy Golbert.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Come on, all right, I'm with you, Ron and plays
so long he didn't play it against about everybody.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Played against some. I'm wrong, No, no, I will tell you.
I will tell you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
He played against that that Celtics team with Kevin Garnett,
Kendrick Perkins and all them big dudes they had down there.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I get your point. I went thousands. The rules are different.
I want that. I'm with you, totally with you. But
he's right, Michael Jordan, whoever would the big guys?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah, okay, I missed that Era I missed and Kobe
Kobe Garden t mag I missed Jordan's, Joe Dumart, Reggie Miller,
Mike Going Drexler, Migah.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Zebody else. Put somebody else me.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
A thin silf. Now, unless I'm in fourth file in
the second third quarter, I'm blocking up the best player.
I missed that air boy. All right, one's gotta go
out to do a real quick here we go.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Even number figure it out, all right?
Speaker 4 (32:51):
The reason why we gotta do this one.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
No, one that goes because it's raining in southern California
doesn't happen all the time. So one's gotta go. I'm
gonna throw out a few things. Ladies, are you listening?
Uh no, they're not free Manzi Hello, listen, Alex Robs,
here we go. Uh the best way to sleep?
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Okay? Not naked? Rob Parker? What okay? Okay?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Them seeing do you need because of the rain. A
lot of people love to go to sleep with the rain,
A lot of love. People love to go to sleep
with music, a lot of love. People love to sleep
with a fan cuddling and then a TV on. All right,
one's gotta go. We'll start with you, Alex. One's gotta go.
Rain music, fan cuddling TV when you're trying to go
to sleep, non turn around now, Monty bri I was
talking to you.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
I'm not talking about tough. You want me to come
back to you? Oh please, that's tough. This is easy.
It's always easy answers. You go, rain, You're not one
of those people.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Love people.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Some people like they and it's raining.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
That is perfect nap time. I'm sleeping cozy, all right,
rain for you? Rob Rain, No I'm not talking to
you or listening. So rob g I will give you
the options again, rain music fan, cover your is Manzi fan, cuddling,
and TV.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Well, I'm married, so it's definitely not cuddling. You know
what that's about.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Dude.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
You might start together, but we're ending up seven feet apart,
and that's uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
And comfortable and it's I would just just say to
my wife, I'm not a pillow.
Speaker 11 (34:15):
Yeah, my arm hurts from lasting. So cuddling is your answer.
It's not the answer. That's that's gotta go. That's the
one that's gotta go. All right, ladies, whatever I.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Think it is cuddling to god, I just I want
a pillow, not the I get hot with body heat
and sweaty, and it's like it's of me where the
guy's arm is static, like TV static. That is freaking
hilarious to me. All right, So cuddling for a couple
of people. You ready, Now, he can't say cuddling, Alex
(34:46):
love cuddling.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
I'm not to say. If you say cuddling, I'm not
talking to you for at least a week. Well, we'll see.
When I get here.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
To me, I'll say this cuddling. Now, I understand why
two beds were selling so well back in the day. Right,
nobody likes to huddle. How about you worked out for
a week, strengthen the arm?
Speaker 4 (35:04):
What are you talking about? Falling asleep?
Speaker 6 (35:05):
I literally have a whole woman on my arm and
I wake up and pick her up if I have
to move, Like, what are we talking about?
Speaker 4 (35:10):
It's okay, fine, not cuddling for you. I'm a sweat
with her.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Which one fan? Get a fan out of here? Okay,
all right, all right? Uh Bri, you have one you
want to scream.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Cudding? She says, Oh my, really cuddling you in here?
What's cuddling? Cuddling? Fan? Music?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
TV?
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Rain? Which one has to go? Like, I don't care
about that.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
If you want to ever know about you pick cuddling.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
My gosh, weird loving people? This is you said cuddling?
You say he did done with the show. Absolutely ridiculous.
Let me tell you what is got one? Hond one
that is absolutely not going Alex. I'm sorry, it's a
fan that ain't going. That's not going where Since I
was six, seven, eight years old? Fan, say what a fan?
I'm going the whole night me? No, every every single
(35:56):
day of my life. I three sixty five. I don't
care there's negative twenty outside or hundred and twenty single people.
I need a fan in their face.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
You know what that is?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
What that's because of the gas that's being passed that night. No,
that's what you get when you cuddle it too much
and it answers cuddling.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Alex.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. So you still got that new love, Robzie?
Tell him you ain't putt no time in. You ain't
putting no time in at enough yet at night.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
I've seen you in a.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Minute, okay, Or maybe you just do what you gotta do.
When you do what you do and and we you know,
I get at you tomorrow. Now you need to tell
her you your wife may do what I do with that.
I get at you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
She's out of town right now, right now. Do you
know what I'm saying? She can't give me a little pe?
You all look on your boy. That's why you got
three kids right now backing that thing up. Wow, I'm sorry.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon is coming up next.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I never miss your radio show.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
I never hear it, so I never miss it. Did
you hear that