November 20, 2019 • 32 mins
It's the Best of the Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker! Chris and Rob question if LeBron James is really the GOAT, and discuss if the Patriots should bring back Antonio Brown. The guys also discuss the NBA's low ratings, and FSR Associate Producer Anthony Martin takes a turn in the Hot Seat.
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s R. You're listening to the Best of The Odd
Couple with Chris Brush and Rod Harker. Coomeloo. He came
last night and he played. He returned to the NBA
and his first basket as a Portland Trailblazer was a
three pointer. He started the game and when Melo hit
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the first three, or even when he just got out
on the court, he was like, he said it, what
took so long? He was like, I belong and he
felt good. But it didn't last at long. He ended
up with pedestrian line of ten points on four fourteen shooting,
four rebounds, no assists, five files, five turnovers, and a
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plus minus minus twenty minus twenty and he only played
twenty twenty four minutes. Twenty four minutes. His plus minus
was minus do you know the guys selling coke? In
the first role, he had a minus twenty in the
plus minus as well, that'd be bad. That's a bad
stat But here's bad for those because because let's put
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it in context, we know Mellow can score. And even
if you look back at his last stint in Houston,
he was actually putting up points, but he was giving
up so much on the floor and the plus minus
was so bad. That's why the Rockets cutting because his
points production was pretty good. He was averaging had to
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have a I think he got cut right after he
scored twenty eight points something like that. It was after
a big night. Yeah. So but I'm gonna say this,
and if this continues, he may not make it through
January when his contract becomes guaranteed January seventh. How much
is it when it does becomes only like two million
or something like that non guaranteed minimum vets minimum. But anyway,
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I'm gonna give him a pass. This guy has not
played an NBA game in a year. And you can
put up all the Instagram photos of all and videos
all you want of him at lifetime schooling recreational players
with an NBA guy sprinkled here or there, that's not
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the same thing. So I'm gonna give mellow a pass.
He started his first game in a year, and he's
thrown in there, probably doesn't know much of the system.
Obviously you're gonna be winded and rusty. So do I
expect it to improve much? Not really. I've said, best
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case scenario, thirteen to fifteen points a night off the bench,
although maybe they'll start him and he helps get Portland
back in the playoff hunt. Worst case scenario, it just
goes bad all the way through and he's cut before
January seventh or whenever it is that his contract becomes guaranteed. See,
I'm not giving him a pass. And here's a problem
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is it doesn't you don't get you're not getting better.
You know you won't get at this age, Chris, with
him not playing the last couple of years, the way
it is, I don't see. You don't think like it
could get better than this. Okay, Lebron's first game this year,
we were like, does he still have it? But not
as but but he's been playing. Okay, Carmelo, Carmelo to me,
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it can go it can go south quickly the other way,
especially a couple more nights where they got a minus
where he is a minus twenty plus minus, and you
realize he can't do anything else. On the other end,
he can't stop anybody. He might be able to score
you some buckets and some points, Chris, but he's given up.
He's got ten, he's gave up fifteen. On the other rand,
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what are we doing here? Do you know what I'm saying? So?
I think that's what's gonna be the downfall eventually, and
as soon as they're healthy, and as soon as they're
people are back, we don't really need them. I get it.
So you gap think I'll get he'll get cut before
it becomes gut. I just I if those guys get
back and they start to look, and I'm saying if
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unless he can stem the tide and lower that plus minus,
if it's a minus every night, because they lost by
what robs nine he was and he was a minus
one of a negative twenty, so they were like a
plus eleven without a plus. What were they plus nine
plus nine when he was off the floor? Do you
see what I'm saying? So, so if you keep getting
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him a negative, Chris, at some point you ago he's
not giving us anything. It's just can't be about strictly
the points. Nah, even though he is a scorer, and
I get them, even though he's a first ballot Hall
of Famer. You know you'll agree. But if you got
all types of people, numbers got numbers though. All right,
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Rob speaking of going south, and let me just can
I can? I set up the context early. For some reason,
for some reason, Rod Parker thought I was not gonna
be on the show today. All right. I don't know why.
Maybe it was wishful thinking, but for some reason he
thought I'm not gonna be on the show. So he
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sends a joint text his man, who backs me up
and is here replaces me when I'm not here. Jonas knocks.
He sends a joint text to Rob gr producer, fabulous producer,
and Jonas, yo, I want to talk about the NBA
ratings being down, And he's all excited, he's I mean juice.
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It is rare that Rod Parker suggests a story he
really wants to talk about. Nine times out of ten,
it's a BA ball story. And you know what, this
was a baseball story too, because he wants to rip
the NBA for the ratings falling, and and and then
we don't even go never take it yet, well, we're
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gonna I knew, I saw right through it and I
caught you. I'm not off. I'm here and I'm gonna
say it. We're gonna talk about it because they are down.
But my man, when the baseball ratings are down, when
they were struggling in the world, he didn't want it. No,
we know, we're not talking about that. I wanted to
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talk about the series. All right, That's what I wanted. Well,
I want to talk about the great storylines in the
NBA this season. Down appare we go? You go ahead
and have your flone and have your phone. Oh, I
want you to give a set it up? That was it?
That was it? Well, you know we ever you no,
But we had Charles Barkley on yesterday from TNT. Well,
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let's can you give us the numbers, but let's let's
set the context, but give us ratings and then we'll
clear from Barkley. So the ratings are go ahead. Well,
the way that they're they're set up for the most
part is they compare them apples to apples this time
last year. So if it's game two on TNT, game
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to TNT this year so far, not only have nine
total national games out of nineteen not cracked a million viewers.
Just we're just shocking, shocking in at people a million viewer.
That's incredible. I gotta give it to that. That is
baffling that. That's like the NBA. That would be like
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the NBA and comparing the ratings with like High Noon
or something. I mean, I just get not that low.
I mean, how far below. But it would be like
comparing like PTI partner interruption, right, because they get close
to a million, they don't get there. But all right,
But then on top of that, of the ten TNT
games that they had coming into this week, eight of
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them are down apples to apples to this time last year.
So and the last year's were down right right right.
So look here, let's hear from Charles Barkley. What do
he thinks, because he threw it out there yesterday. I
think we pissed the fans off for two reasons. I
think because you know, free agency. You know, guys they
don't fit, the guys don't feel in the loyalty. They
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got that right, bless him, And you got load management.
One of the reasons the ratings are down. You know,
these guys don't have any loyalty to a team or
a city, and you factor in loads of management. I
think that's why our ratings are down. I didn't know
how down they were, and I saw that thing this morning.
I obviously think load management is a factor. We Kawhi Leonard,
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we talked about that, sat out two nationally televised games,
one against Milwaukee, one against You talked the Milwaukee when
you were gonna go to it, right, I was excited to.
I mean, who's not gonna be excited about Yannis and
Kawhid I arguably the two best. Fay No once he's
out where I go. And obviously you know I'm a
basketball reporter fanatic. I watched it, but I can't blame
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Joe Blow who likes a sport but doesn't want to
watch it because Kauhi's not playing. He turns it on, right,
you sit down at your couch and then you go
on you're not playing, right, Okay, now you're definitely that's
definitely a factor. I just wonder a couple other things
because I thought coming into the year, finally, right with
the breaking up of the Big Three, Kawuhi didn't go
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with the Lakers. The Warriors were gonna be going the
other way, right because because Durant left, So this was
supposed to be the parody year of the NBA, the
best parody going into the season, where we both admitted, Chris,
we don't know exactly who's gonna be in the NBA final.
We knew the Warriors, we're gonna be here every year,
right right, Every year is a mystery today exactly we
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do not know. As we go forward, we could predict,
but it ain't. It ain't Exton Stone like it was
the previous five years. And last year I thought there
were some Warriors fatigue, right enough with the Warriors, they're
all all the time, they keep winning, they're going to
the NBA finals, right, But this year I was floored
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when I sew those stats. I thought the numbers were
better because of spreading the wealth, the storylines. Yeah, as
a guy following the NBA, I mean Houston, like, I've
looked at it and say, man, this movement, say what
about it? What you will? It's great? Now I want
to see how did Westbrooken Harden Mesh, how did Kauhi
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and Paul George Mesh, how do Lebron and ad Mesh
Al Horford is now with Philadelphia, he bring maturity. Kyrie
with Brooklyn, is he gonna become the great leader they
need or he's gonna mess up their chemistry? Look in Boston,
are they gonna be better without Kyrie? Like? I think
they're great storylines, But I'm gonna say this, rock and
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I would have to own some of this, not me personally,
but us. I think us as media members, maybe we've
added to this, but I think this could be we
I don't none of us know exactly, but I think
this could be related a response to all of us
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in the NBA world, from the players to the commentators
and media and so on and so forth, belittleing the
regular season. How often do we hear it doesn't matter?
I mean we were talking and I'm not even trying
to shoot shoot something at you, But earlier we talked
about Lebron. You're like, it doesn't matter. You know, you're
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twelve in two, it doesn't matter. What are you gonna
do in June? And I get that because we've all
build it up like it's just about rings, it's just
about the playoffs, and so I think that may be
a part of it too. People are like, this doesn't
and the players are treating it like that with the
low management right that the regulars season doesn't matter and
you don't really have to be the number one seed.
We saw with Lebron in the East when he was
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there with the Calves, it was like, we don't have
to be the number one seed and all the number
one seed does. Just be honest, Chris. The difference too
a lot of times is you lose one game at
home and the and the home court it's gone, right.
That's really what it comes down to, is it, really,
And if you win one, okay they win, then you
go on their road and win, you get it back.
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So it ain't as big as you want to believe
unless there's a game seven and you'd rather played at
home and be on the road. I get that. But
the other part, and I don't know how big of
it part it is the whole thing with China. I
don't know how much that factors are and how some
people were upset with the way that that thing was
handled with the NBA and some of the stuff that
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comes to think. I don't know when you bring up China,
because I don't really think China has anything to do
with it. But are you saying people don't like the
fact that the NBA is in bed with China no
their regime, and that's why I think that, Yeah, I
think that they didn't like just the way that that
whole thing went down. How you know, when Lebron came
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out and made his statements, I didn't think there were
some people who were like, you know, because we saw it. Uh,
some people were not happy with that, and there could
be some people. I'm not saying that's the number one
writing thing because I don't believe that, but that could
be another piece as to why in this year that
we looked at a parody and the other one one
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of the piece the Warriors are no good. So that
could hurt too. For a long time they were upraiding
monster right now. I bet you Chase Center, you could
go up and get there on National TV tonight. This
is what I'm trying. It's like forty two to sixteen
or something crazy. But that that that hurt. But that
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hurt even even in last year, the Warriors West Coast
a team you wanted to watch on the West Coast.
Lebron now with the late West Coast. I mean, I'm
sorry if I'm in the East Coast. I gotta work.
I can't stay up to a one am watching a
basketball game when I gotta be in the office at eight, right,
So I think that could be a factor as well.
But let's hear what you guys think the listeners h
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Antonio Brown a B. He won't go away. Maybe he
has apologized on social media to Robert Kraft four you know,
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call an outcraft on his trip to the massage parlor
and all that. Oh yeah, and now he's apologized and
Tom Brady liked the apology. Now he apologized on Twitter
and the ground and Brady liked both, so did several
other New England Patriots players. Put that Rob on top
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of the fact the reporters the reported fact, I should
say the reports that Tom Brady was upset when they
let Antonio Brown go. Put that on top of what
we saw this weekend. Tom Brady after a w's clearly
bothered with the state of the New England Patriots offense.
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And I gotta ask you this question, Rob, Should the
Patriots bring back Antonio Brown? No way, no hell. Bringing
them in in the beginning, absolutely, because they've done that
their whole time. I've yet to see them released body
right like in this situation where it was like that,
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and then bring him back. Well, I'm not asking you
if you think they will, but do you know I
think that that ship sailed. Yeah, I would be even
though they desperate and they ain't somebody. I just think
football watch it. They obviously could use him and who knows.
Remember there's also a grievance there with money to deciding bonus.
It doesn't make it doesn't make any sense. I Look,
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they're gonna have to pay. He met with the NFL
a week ago for this sexual harassment, and especially it
was a long meeting, right that charge. That's one thing,
and right now he's innocent until proven guilty, and so
you have to let that play out. So if that,
if it were just that, then I would say go
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get him until you know, we know what the deal
is with this this case. But it's not just that.
The reason he was released was because of the text
that he sent to a woman, the woman that is
charging him with sexual assault, and he brought her kids
into it. It was just threatening. You know. He tried
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to deny it, but you can't do that. You send
threatening texts somebody and you bring their children into it. No,
that is why I would not do it. Rob And
what we see with Antonio Brown, you see with a
lot of athletes. You know, he was on top of
the world. He thought his athletic ability would always get
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anything wrong because normally right, normally does Chris you know that,
But now he sees it's not and so he's coming
back begging to get back on the team. But how
many times do we have to see it? It's just amazing.
I just can't like it's a small window. Maximize your
God will maximize your ten or twelve years. Chris makers
much money, endorsement money because you talk to athletes and
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you know when it's done. All of restaurants used to
go to and the way people treat it. It's a
route of way unless you're Hall of Fame, right. A
lot of guys got their feelings here once they get
out the league, no doubt, they cannot believe it, no doubt,
no doubt. Right, No, you're right, you're right. And that's
why a lot of them still work because they either
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Let me quickly give the argument for Lebron quickly, because
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he's gonna probably be on with us any second. One
is the longevity. His longevity is unprecedented in the NBA.
Never in the history of basketball has a player in
his seventeenth season been arguably the best player in the world.
So that that's incredible. His prime has been longer than
anyone's MJ only played fifteen years. Secondly, the statistical argument.
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He's already the only player ever to be in the
top five in points scored and the top ten in
assist that's remarkable. He's tenth already an assist, fourth in scoring.
By the end of the season, they'll pass Kobe and
be third in scoring, and he's gonna keep climbing in
the assist So that right there is remarkable. And then
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the third argument a little bit weaker, but nonetheless an
argument that he played in the Big three era when
Michael Jordan dominated, there was no big It wasn't a
Big three era when there when there were teams with
big threes, the Celtics of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parrish,
the Lakers of Kareem Magic and James Worthy. Jordan never
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beat those teams and when he dominated, teams tended to
have one, maybe two superstars. Now, the problem with that
part of the argument is that Lebron has some big
threes himself, and in Miami, of course, probably the most
talented team in the league those four years, the only
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one two. But those would be my arguments for you
young bucks, you millennials that want to argue Lebron, I
think that's your argument right there. That's really the only
argument to make. And of course, if he wins this
championship this year with the Lakers, he would have done
another thing that no one else has done. So Lebron's
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got a lot of things on his play that no
one else is done. No one else becaus landed three
teams to the championship. He would have that on his
play no one else top five points, top ten assists.
So that is argue. You can also say, if you want,
that he could do more with less than any player
we've ever seen. Of course, when he left Cleveland they
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fell off the map from sixty one wins to nineteen
or whatever it was. When he left Miami and they
still had Wayne in boss, they fell off mightily. When
m j left the Bulls his first retirement, they went
from fifty seven wins to fifty five and almost beat
the Knicks in the second round in seven games. So
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there's an argument. If you're gonna make the argument for Lebron,
do it intelligently. Don't just say throw up some you know,
nonsense and oh it's Lebron and get emotional. Do you
have to make a logical argument for him, and there's
one to be made now, I personally don't think that's
a strong enough argument to put him ahead of Michael Jordan.
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Damn time to sit your butt down in the hot seat.
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Oh thank you calling cowads called Colin's working later better
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We have the hot seat once again. We do it's
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tag team Champions of the World Chris Broussard, Rob Marker.
They do talk a lot of mess, considering they only
want about half the time they've been in the hot seats.
We have a bad job rific because tonight's victim none
other than Fox Sports Radio associate producer soon to be
head honcho up in Denver. Congrats Anthony, Mark Athony, how
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are you feeling this evening? Oh? I'm confident and ready. Yeah.
Oh I'm doing good. I'm doing golden here ignorance is bliss.
It is when you don't know what you're gonna put
your head into a bus soul exactly. Hey, Rob told
me to bring the heat, and I need to bring
my oven mets to carry these inso they've been I
end to get on the Yeah, I got prepared material,
all right, right right, that's right, Athon, he has three
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very hot takes he's gonna take on Chris and Rob
two on one. Let's get started topic number one. Good
thing for this take because Luca don is killing it
right now on National TV. And Athan he said even
before the game though, that Luca will finish higher in
the MVP voting than both Lebron and Kawhi. Athony, you
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got thirty seconds, stay your case, all right. I don't
need thirty seconds tonight. Healthed already with twenty points in
the first quarter against the Warriors. But Luca, right now,
the baby goat the European MJ. He is averaging nearly
a triple double at twenty nine, ten rebounds and nine assists,
all right, and with Kawai's load management and Lebron while
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he's gonna defer to a D, I don't think Luca's
gonna win. I think he'll finish higher than Lebron or
Kauai come MVP voting time, Luca is the champe Well
look Kawhi, Yeah, Kawhi disqualifies himself. He's not gonna get
hardly any votes because he's only playing once, you know,
twice every three games. I mean serious, like he's he's
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going to hurt his chances to get any regular season awards.
So he you're right about that, And Luca, I love him.
Luca is balling there on pace after they beat Golden
State tonight to win fifty three games. So that's good.
You gotta win at least fifty. But Lebron, the narrative,
part of the narrative is gonna be And I'm a voter.
I may not fall for it, but a lot of
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people will part of the narrative. Seventeenth season, people thought
he was done. Right now they got the best record
in the league, they'll keep it going. All right, Well,
that's perfect for the next topic because we're not here
about age or narrative. It's about the results. And I
got the stat of the century here Luca. And now
it's only been thirteen games, but he has a plus
minus right now, a plus twelve, which is best for
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sixth and not in the NBA. That is sixth this
century for Luca. So I'm telling you I know narrative.
If an age should not, it shouldn't lead, It should
just be purely off of what you see in. Luca
will do this throughout the entire year. He's gonna average. Anthony,
stop it. You just discounted yourself when you said it's
only thirteen games. Stop being premature. It's way too early
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to talk about him being getting more voting. It's cowhide.
All of a sudden kicks in the gear and the
Clippers go on some unbelievable run and become the number
one seed. He will not. And Lebron's story, Yes, his age,
and if he's able to put up these numbers and
continue in your seventeen, Luca will be third. He won't
be better than those two. And I haven't even mentioned
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Anthony Davis, who, if he can do well, will be
in that conversation. All right, there were some haymakers throwing
him round. I didn't like that. Chris. We saw how
to flex. I got an MVP vote. I'll tell you
I'll be voting. I feel like that was kind of
cheating in this round because it's supposed to be a
debate the MVP. It's a fact. You might not like it,
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but it's a fact. But they didn't like it when
Tyson hit him with the right hand. Even I'm gonna
let it slide. This goes to the Anthony, you can
duck out now. I'm gonna next life to Denver. You
can't want to ride next time, Robs last year, I
remember that. Here we go topic number two, our couple
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of one and nothing over. Anthony Martin. Here we go,
speaking of MVP's moving over to the NFL. He says
that Russell Wilson will get the MVP over Lamar Jackson,
not necessarily because he's been better, but because of his age. Anthony,
you got thirty seconds state your case. All right, here's
the deal. Lamar Jackson is the new He's Michael Vick
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with touch, all right. He's one of the best players.
He is completely transforming the NFL, and we all know
that he'll be deserving of the MVP. But he's not
gonna get it because they're just gonna point to Russell
Wilson's narrative years in the league and they're gonna say
Russell Wilson deserves it because of some touchdown to interception
ratio that's going to be top of the NFL. But
simply put, Lamar Jackson deserves it in every way. He's
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clearly been the best best player for his team that
they've ever seen. MVP Most Valuable Player for Lamar Jackson
is exactly why he should get the MVP but won't
because of vote. First of all, I'm gonna say what
Roy Parker and what she said to you, stop being premature.
I mean, come on, we got six games, we got
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six left. I mean, what are you talking about? Like?
We don't know if it's gonna be Lamar or Russell
or whoever that whoever Aaron Rodgers. But the age thing
will not be a factor if they continue to play
as they are. Lamar continues the role, Russell continues the role.
You can't give me. Age. Wasn't Patrick Mahomes twenty four
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and in his first season basically when he won it
last year, same age as Lamaris, same stage of their career,
second year as a starving So no, come on stop it, no, no, no, okay,
I think that vegan shake is going to your head
al Oh, wow, I got jo Alex. I've had some
of those shakes. All right, Well, think about it. In
terms of this, they gave justin Verlando the Cy Young
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over Garrett Cole. Garret Cole was definitely a better picture.
It's the same sort of thing. They're going to give
Russell Wilson that simply because of his age, and last
year they gave it to Mahomes because that was undeniable.
When it comes to Lamar Jackson and Russell Wilson, there
will be an argument for both, and they're going to
divert to the veteran on this. So he's not gonna
get a fair shot no matter what he does, even
with six games left. Stop, what are you talking about?
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Since when Chris just gave me the facts, this not's
not some lifetime achievement awards for the guy who plays
the best for that season. I didn't see that last
year when when they decided for Mahomes to get it,
when they go, well, in, you can't give it to him.
He's too young, he's just got into the league. Let's
give it to a veteran. Let's give it to Tom Brady. No,
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Mahomes was the best player and he got MVP. It's
not gonna be done like that. Look at what Lamar's done,
and look at what Russell's done. It could have been closed.
It could have been closed. But last round, Chris Brussard,
the MVP voter, says, we care about narrative, but what
are tewenty year seventeen? So your whole argument collapsed on
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the south. Round two goes to Anthony Martin. Yeah, it's
all tied. It's all about making it interesting. The our
couple the hot seat Fox Sports Radio, the hottest take
of the night. We saved the best for last. We
all live in normally sunny southern California City of Angels,
Los Angeles, and Anthony was gonna be leaving in a
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few days says that LA should be golf carts and
buses only within the city limits. I don't understand this one,
but you got thirty seconds tell us why? Look all right,
it sounds ridiculous. I've lived in LA for two and
a half years, and once I find a parking spot,
I can't wait to see it because I'm sick of
driving around LA and being stuck in traffic. If everything
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was golf carts and busses. We would all get around
a lot simpler. Maybe not as fast, but it would
definitely be easier. I'm sick of parking tickets, car problems,
sticky trees by my neighborhood. You guys probably live in
nice neighborows. You have to do with sticky trees. That's
a real thing. Where these trees will whose sap. It
would make everything better. City buses, golf carts, no accidents.
We can all get around faster. I am. I just
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can't wait to get out of this traffic. And I'm
done aff any you first sent and send it all.
It sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous solution. Hold on,
if everybody was riding golf courts, we'd have the same problem.
Now where do I park my golf cart? And is
that gonna stop the sappy trees? It's even worse it
least at a real car. I'm protected a golf court.
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I'm exposed. I'm really getting drained by the same I'm
sappy going into my workplace. I got a big interview
and I got sap all over me because I'm in
a golf cart, not a car. Okay, no, this is
all you know how much horrible is the drive out here?
You know that it's just unrealistic to do anything. It
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takes an hour to go down the street. If we
were in golf carts, think about how people we could
out on the highway right about now, we'd be going
ten miles an hour. I'm gonna take robs and say,
some way, somehow make this happen. That's all I want.
I just can't do it at all. That was cute,
but it didn't work. What are you talking about me?
One thing, if you said we get rid of cars
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and we're traveling on some sort of trams or something
in the sky. But to just swap out golf carts
for cars, we're still gonna be everybody gonna have a
golf cart. In fact, we'll have more people with golf
carts because they can afford it and not afford car yet,
so there'll be more golf courts. That's a great thing.
That's what I want. And you think traffic's bad now exactly? Goodness.
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Can you imagine being on the four or five with
a thousand golf carts going two miles an hour? All right?
That round was tough to score. On one hand, I
do I do appreciate Anthony wanting to save the environment.
The admission, it's got nothing to do with that. But
you know what, me and Rob just got new cars.
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We ain't gonna drive no DAFN golf. Thank you. Round
three goes in the We got a new You're gonna
be spending a lot of time in those cars, you
know what. And we're bumping them with the music. You
can't do that in the golf car. That's what after
there we go, my man, we're gonna send you off right.
Great job. You had to gutch to step into the
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hot seat. And yes you got burned, Yes you got george,
Yes you're in titters, but it's all in love. Man,
We love you. Yes you're gonna do a great job.
Yes we know you're gonna be fantastic. I'm sure next
time we see you around, you're gonna be a star
on the rise. So keep up the great work.
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s R. You're listening to the Best of The Odd
Couple with Chris Brush and Rod Harker. Coomeloo. He came
last night and he played. He returned to the NBA
and his first basket as a Portland Trailblazer was a
three pointer. He started the game and when Melo hit
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the first three, or even when he just got out
on the court, he was like, he said it, what
took so long? He was like, I belong and he
felt good. But it didn't last at long. He ended
up with pedestrian line of ten points on four fourteen shooting,
four rebounds, no assists, five files, five turnovers, and a
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plus minus minus twenty minus twenty and he only played
twenty twenty four minutes. Twenty four minutes. His plus minus
was minus do you know the guys selling coke? In
the first role, he had a minus twenty in the
plus minus as well, that'd be bad. That's a bad
stat But here's bad for those because because let's put
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it in context, we know Mellow can score. And even
if you look back at his last stint in Houston,
he was actually putting up points, but he was giving
up so much on the floor and the plus minus
was so bad. That's why the Rockets cutting because his
points production was pretty good. He was averaging had to
(01:49):
have a I think he got cut right after he
scored twenty eight points something like that. It was after
a big night. Yeah. So but I'm gonna say this,
and if this continues, he may not make it through
January when his contract becomes guaranteed January seventh. How much
is it when it does becomes only like two million
or something like that non guaranteed minimum vets minimum. But anyway,
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I'm gonna give him a pass. This guy has not
played an NBA game in a year. And you can
put up all the Instagram photos of all and videos
all you want of him at lifetime schooling recreational players
with an NBA guy sprinkled here or there, that's not
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the same thing. So I'm gonna give mellow a pass.
He started his first game in a year, and he's
thrown in there, probably doesn't know much of the system.
Obviously you're gonna be winded and rusty. So do I
expect it to improve much? Not really. I've said, best
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case scenario, thirteen to fifteen points a night off the bench,
although maybe they'll start him and he helps get Portland
back in the playoff hunt. Worst case scenario, it just
goes bad all the way through and he's cut before
January seventh or whenever it is that his contract becomes guaranteed. See,
I'm not giving him a pass. And here's a problem
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is it doesn't you don't get you're not getting better.
You know you won't get at this age, Chris, with
him not playing the last couple of years, the way
it is, I don't see. You don't think like it
could get better than this. Okay, Lebron's first game this year,
we were like, does he still have it? But not
as but but he's been playing. Okay, Carmelo, Carmelo to me,
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it can go it can go south quickly the other way,
especially a couple more nights where they got a minus
where he is a minus twenty plus minus, and you
realize he can't do anything else. On the other end,
he can't stop anybody. He might be able to score
you some buckets and some points, Chris, but he's given up.
He's got ten, he's gave up fifteen. On the other rand,
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what are we doing here? Do you know what I'm saying? So?
I think that's what's gonna be the downfall eventually, and
as soon as they're healthy, and as soon as they're
people are back, we don't really need them. I get it.
So you gap think I'll get he'll get cut before
it becomes gut. I just I if those guys get
back and they start to look, and I'm saying if
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unless he can stem the tide and lower that plus minus,
if it's a minus every night, because they lost by
what robs nine he was and he was a minus
one of a negative twenty, so they were like a
plus eleven without a plus. What were they plus nine
plus nine when he was off the floor? Do you
see what I'm saying? So, so if you keep getting
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him a negative, Chris, at some point you ago he's
not giving us anything. It's just can't be about strictly
the points. Nah, even though he is a scorer, and
I get them, even though he's a first ballot Hall
of Famer. You know you'll agree. But if you got
all types of people, numbers got numbers though. All right,
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Rob speaking of going south, and let me just can
I can? I set up the context early. For some reason,
for some reason, Rod Parker thought I was not gonna
be on the show today. All right. I don't know why.
Maybe it was wishful thinking, but for some reason he
thought I'm not gonna be on the show. So he
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sends a joint text his man, who backs me up
and is here replaces me when I'm not here. Jonas knocks.
He sends a joint text to Rob gr producer, fabulous producer,
and Jonas, yo, I want to talk about the NBA
ratings being down, And he's all excited, he's I mean juice.
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It is rare that Rod Parker suggests a story he
really wants to talk about. Nine times out of ten,
it's a BA ball story. And you know what, this
was a baseball story too, because he wants to rip
the NBA for the ratings falling, and and and then
we don't even go never take it yet, well, we're
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gonna I knew, I saw right through it and I
caught you. I'm not off. I'm here and I'm gonna
say it. We're gonna talk about it because they are down.
But my man, when the baseball ratings are down, when
they were struggling in the world, he didn't want it. No,
we know, we're not talking about that. I wanted to
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talk about the series. All right, That's what I wanted. Well,
I want to talk about the great storylines in the
NBA this season. Down appare we go? You go ahead
and have your flone and have your phone. Oh, I
want you to give a set it up? That was it?
That was it? Well, you know we ever you no,
But we had Charles Barkley on yesterday from TNT. Well,
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let's can you give us the numbers, but let's let's
set the context, but give us ratings and then we'll
clear from Barkley. So the ratings are go ahead. Well,
the way that they're they're set up for the most
part is they compare them apples to apples this time
last year. So if it's game two on TNT, game
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to TNT this year so far, not only have nine
total national games out of nineteen not cracked a million viewers.
Just we're just shocking, shocking in at people a million viewer.
That's incredible. I gotta give it to that. That is
baffling that. That's like the NBA. That would be like
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the NBA and comparing the ratings with like High Noon
or something. I mean, I just get not that low.
I mean, how far below. But it would be like
comparing like PTI partner interruption, right, because they get close
to a million, they don't get there. But all right,
But then on top of that, of the ten TNT
games that they had coming into this week, eight of
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them are down apples to apples to this time last year.
So and the last year's were down right right right.
So look here, let's hear from Charles Barkley. What do
he thinks, because he threw it out there yesterday. I
think we pissed the fans off for two reasons. I
think because you know, free agency. You know, guys they
don't fit, the guys don't feel in the loyalty. They
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got that right, bless him, And you got load management.
One of the reasons the ratings are down. You know,
these guys don't have any loyalty to a team or
a city, and you factor in loads of management. I
think that's why our ratings are down. I didn't know
how down they were, and I saw that thing this morning.
I obviously think load management is a factor. We Kawhi Leonard,
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we talked about that, sat out two nationally televised games,
one against Milwaukee, one against You talked the Milwaukee when
you were gonna go to it, right, I was excited to.
I mean, who's not gonna be excited about Yannis and
Kawhid I arguably the two best. Fay No once he's
out where I go. And obviously you know I'm a
basketball reporter fanatic. I watched it, but I can't blame
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Joe Blow who likes a sport but doesn't want to
watch it because Kauhi's not playing. He turns it on, right,
you sit down at your couch and then you go
on you're not playing, right, Okay, now you're definitely that's
definitely a factor. I just wonder a couple other things
because I thought coming into the year, finally, right with
the breaking up of the Big Three, Kawuhi didn't go
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with the Lakers. The Warriors were gonna be going the
other way, right because because Durant left, So this was
supposed to be the parody year of the NBA, the
best parody going into the season, where we both admitted, Chris,
we don't know exactly who's gonna be in the NBA final.
We knew the Warriors, we're gonna be here every year,
right right, Every year is a mystery today exactly we
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do not know. As we go forward, we could predict,
but it ain't. It ain't Exton Stone like it was
the previous five years. And last year I thought there
were some Warriors fatigue, right enough with the Warriors, they're
all all the time, they keep winning, they're going to
the NBA finals, right, But this year I was floored
(10:20):
when I sew those stats. I thought the numbers were
better because of spreading the wealth, the storylines. Yeah, as
a guy following the NBA, I mean Houston, like, I've
looked at it and say, man, this movement, say what
about it? What you will? It's great? Now I want
to see how did Westbrooken Harden Mesh, how did Kauhi
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and Paul George Mesh, how do Lebron and ad Mesh
Al Horford is now with Philadelphia, he bring maturity. Kyrie
with Brooklyn, is he gonna become the great leader they
need or he's gonna mess up their chemistry? Look in Boston,
are they gonna be better without Kyrie? Like? I think
they're great storylines, But I'm gonna say this, rock and
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I would have to own some of this, not me personally,
but us. I think us as media members, maybe we've
added to this, but I think this could be we
I don't none of us know exactly, but I think
this could be related a response to all of us
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in the NBA world, from the players to the commentators
and media and so on and so forth, belittleing the
regular season. How often do we hear it doesn't matter?
I mean we were talking and I'm not even trying
to shoot shoot something at you, But earlier we talked
about Lebron. You're like, it doesn't matter. You know, you're
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twelve in two, it doesn't matter. What are you gonna
do in June? And I get that because we've all
build it up like it's just about rings, it's just
about the playoffs, and so I think that may be
a part of it too. People are like, this doesn't
and the players are treating it like that with the
low management right that the regulars season doesn't matter and
you don't really have to be the number one seed.
We saw with Lebron in the East when he was
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there with the Calves, it was like, we don't have
to be the number one seed and all the number
one seed does. Just be honest, Chris. The difference too
a lot of times is you lose one game at
home and the and the home court it's gone, right.
That's really what it comes down to, is it, really,
And if you win one, okay they win, then you
go on their road and win, you get it back.
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So it ain't as big as you want to believe
unless there's a game seven and you'd rather played at
home and be on the road. I get that. But
the other part, and I don't know how big of
it part it is the whole thing with China. I
don't know how much that factors are and how some
people were upset with the way that that thing was
handled with the NBA and some of the stuff that
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comes to think. I don't know when you bring up China,
because I don't really think China has anything to do
with it. But are you saying people don't like the
fact that the NBA is in bed with China no
their regime, and that's why I think that, Yeah, I
think that they didn't like just the way that that
whole thing went down. How you know, when Lebron came
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out and made his statements, I didn't think there were
some people who were like, you know, because we saw it. Uh,
some people were not happy with that, and there could
be some people. I'm not saying that's the number one
writing thing because I don't believe that, but that could
be another piece as to why in this year that
we looked at a parody and the other one one
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of the piece the Warriors are no good. So that
could hurt too. For a long time they were upraiding
monster right now. I bet you Chase Center, you could
go up and get there on National TV tonight. This
is what I'm trying. It's like forty two to sixteen
or something crazy. But that that that hurt. But that
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hurt even even in last year, the Warriors West Coast
a team you wanted to watch on the West Coast.
Lebron now with the late West Coast. I mean, I'm
sorry if I'm in the East Coast. I gotta work.
I can't stay up to a one am watching a
basketball game when I gotta be in the office at eight, right,
So I think that could be a factor as well.
But let's hear what you guys think the listeners h
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V seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
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Antonio Brown a B. He won't go away. Maybe he
has apologized on social media to Robert Kraft four you know,
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call an outcraft on his trip to the massage parlor
and all that. Oh yeah, and now he's apologized and
Tom Brady liked the apology. Now he apologized on Twitter
and the ground and Brady liked both, so did several
other New England Patriots players. Put that Rob on top
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of the fact the reporters the reported fact, I should
say the reports that Tom Brady was upset when they
let Antonio Brown go. Put that on top of what
we saw this weekend. Tom Brady after a w's clearly
bothered with the state of the New England Patriots offense.
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And I gotta ask you this question, Rob, Should the
Patriots bring back Antonio Brown? No way, no hell. Bringing
them in in the beginning, absolutely, because they've done that
their whole time. I've yet to see them released body
right like in this situation where it was like that,
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and then bring him back. Well, I'm not asking you
if you think they will, but do you know I
think that that ship sailed. Yeah, I would be even
though they desperate and they ain't somebody. I just think
football watch it. They obviously could use him and who knows.
Remember there's also a grievance there with money to deciding bonus.
It doesn't make it doesn't make any sense. I Look,
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they're gonna have to pay. He met with the NFL
a week ago for this sexual harassment, and especially it
was a long meeting, right that charge. That's one thing,
and right now he's innocent until proven guilty, and so
you have to let that play out. So if that,
if it were just that, then I would say go
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get him until you know, we know what the deal
is with this this case. But it's not just that.
The reason he was released was because of the text
that he sent to a woman, the woman that is
charging him with sexual assault, and he brought her kids
into it. It was just threatening. You know. He tried
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to deny it, but you can't do that. You send
threatening texts somebody and you bring their children into it. No,
that is why I would not do it. Rob And
what we see with Antonio Brown, you see with a
lot of athletes. You know, he was on top of
the world. He thought his athletic ability would always get
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anything wrong because normally right, normally does Chris you know that,
But now he sees it's not and so he's coming
back begging to get back on the team. But how
many times do we have to see it? It's just amazing.
I just can't like it's a small window. Maximize your
God will maximize your ten or twelve years. Chris makers
much money, endorsement money because you talk to athletes and
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you know when it's done. All of restaurants used to
go to and the way people treat it. It's a
route of way unless you're Hall of Fame, right. A
lot of guys got their feelings here once they get
out the league, no doubt, they cannot believe it, no doubt,
no doubt. Right, No, you're right, you're right. And that's
why a lot of them still work because they either
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one need the money. Not all of them, of course,
but some need the money and some just want to
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Let me quickly give the argument for Lebron quickly, because
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he's gonna probably be on with us any second. One
is the longevity. His longevity is unprecedented in the NBA.
Never in the history of basketball has a player in
his seventeenth season been arguably the best player in the world.
So that that's incredible. His prime has been longer than
anyone's MJ only played fifteen years. Secondly, the statistical argument.
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He's already the only player ever to be in the
top five in points scored and the top ten in
assist that's remarkable. He's tenth already an assist, fourth in scoring.
By the end of the season, they'll pass Kobe and
be third in scoring, and he's gonna keep climbing in
the assist So that right there is remarkable. And then
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the third argument a little bit weaker, but nonetheless an
argument that he played in the Big three era when
Michael Jordan dominated, there was no big It wasn't a
Big three era when there when there were teams with
big threes, the Celtics of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parrish,
the Lakers of Kareem Magic and James Worthy. Jordan never
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beat those teams and when he dominated, teams tended to
have one, maybe two superstars. Now, the problem with that
part of the argument is that Lebron has some big
threes himself, and in Miami, of course, probably the most
talented team in the league those four years, the only
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one two. But those would be my arguments for you
young bucks, you millennials that want to argue Lebron, I
think that's your argument right there. That's really the only
argument to make. And of course, if he wins this
championship this year with the Lakers, he would have done
another thing that no one else has done. So Lebron's
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got a lot of things on his play that no
one else is done. No one else becaus landed three
teams to the championship. He would have that on his
play no one else top five points, top ten assists.
So that is argue. You can also say, if you want,
that he could do more with less than any player
we've ever seen. Of course, when he left Cleveland they
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fell off the map from sixty one wins to nineteen
or whatever it was. When he left Miami and they
still had Wayne in boss, they fell off mightily. When
m j left the Bulls his first retirement, they went
from fifty seven wins to fifty five and almost beat
the Knicks in the second round in seven games. So
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there's an argument. If you're gonna make the argument for Lebron,
do it intelligently. Don't just say throw up some you know,
nonsense and oh it's Lebron and get emotional. Do you
have to make a logical argument for him, and there's
one to be made now, I personally don't think that's
a strong enough argument to put him ahead of Michael Jordan.
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We have a bad job rific because tonight's victim none
other than Fox Sports Radio associate producer soon to be
head honcho up in Denver. Congrats Anthony, Mark Athony, how
(22:44):
are you feeling this evening? Oh? I'm confident and ready. Yeah.
Oh I'm doing good. I'm doing golden here ignorance is bliss.
It is when you don't know what you're gonna put
your head into a bus soul exactly. Hey, Rob told
me to bring the heat, and I need to bring
my oven mets to carry these inso they've been I
end to get on the Yeah, I got prepared material,
all right, right right, that's right, Athon, he has three
(23:07):
very hot takes he's gonna take on Chris and Rob
two on one. Let's get started topic number one. Good
thing for this take because Luca don is killing it
right now on National TV. And Athan he said even
before the game though, that Luca will finish higher in
the MVP voting than both Lebron and Kawhi. Athony, you
(23:28):
got thirty seconds, stay your case, all right. I don't
need thirty seconds tonight. Healthed already with twenty points in
the first quarter against the Warriors. But Luca, right now,
the baby goat the European MJ. He is averaging nearly
a triple double at twenty nine, ten rebounds and nine assists,
all right, and with Kawai's load management and Lebron while
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he's gonna defer to a D, I don't think Luca's
gonna win. I think he'll finish higher than Lebron or
Kauai come MVP voting time, Luca is the champe Well
look Kawhi, Yeah, Kawhi disqualifies himself. He's not gonna get
hardly any votes because he's only playing once, you know,
twice every three games. I mean serious, like he's he's
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going to hurt his chances to get any regular season awards.
So he you're right about that, And Luca, I love him.
Luca is balling there on pace after they beat Golden
State tonight to win fifty three games. So that's good.
You gotta win at least fifty. But Lebron, the narrative,
part of the narrative is gonna be And I'm a voter.
I may not fall for it, but a lot of
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people will part of the narrative. Seventeenth season, people thought
he was done. Right now they got the best record
in the league, they'll keep it going. All right, Well,
that's perfect for the next topic because we're not here
about age or narrative. It's about the results. And I
got the stat of the century here Luca. And now
it's only been thirteen games, but he has a plus
minus right now, a plus twelve, which is best for
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sixth and not in the NBA. That is sixth this
century for Luca. So I'm telling you I know narrative.
If an age should not, it shouldn't lead, It should
just be purely off of what you see in. Luca
will do this throughout the entire year. He's gonna average. Anthony,
stop it. You just discounted yourself when you said it's
only thirteen games. Stop being premature. It's way too early
(25:17):
to talk about him being getting more voting. It's cowhide.
All of a sudden kicks in the gear and the
Clippers go on some unbelievable run and become the number
one seed. He will not. And Lebron's story, Yes, his age,
and if he's able to put up these numbers and
continue in your seventeen, Luca will be third. He won't
be better than those two. And I haven't even mentioned
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Anthony Davis, who, if he can do well, will be
in that conversation. All right, there were some haymakers throwing
him round. I didn't like that. Chris. We saw how
to flex. I got an MVP vote. I'll tell you
I'll be voting. I feel like that was kind of
cheating in this round because it's supposed to be a
debate the MVP. It's a fact. You might not like it,
(26:02):
but it's a fact. But they didn't like it when
Tyson hit him with the right hand. Even I'm gonna
let it slide. This goes to the Anthony, you can
duck out now. I'm gonna next life to Denver. You
can't want to ride next time, Robs last year, I
remember that. Here we go topic number two, our couple
(26:23):
of one and nothing over. Anthony Martin. Here we go,
speaking of MVP's moving over to the NFL. He says
that Russell Wilson will get the MVP over Lamar Jackson,
not necessarily because he's been better, but because of his age. Anthony,
you got thirty seconds state your case. All right, here's
the deal. Lamar Jackson is the new He's Michael Vick
(26:44):
with touch, all right. He's one of the best players.
He is completely transforming the NFL, and we all know
that he'll be deserving of the MVP. But he's not
gonna get it because they're just gonna point to Russell
Wilson's narrative years in the league and they're gonna say
Russell Wilson deserves it because of some touchdown to interception
ratio that's going to be top of the NFL. But
simply put, Lamar Jackson deserves it in every way. He's
(27:07):
clearly been the best best player for his team that
they've ever seen. MVP Most Valuable Player for Lamar Jackson
is exactly why he should get the MVP but won't
because of vote. First of all, I'm gonna say what
Roy Parker and what she said to you, stop being premature.
I mean, come on, we got six games, we got
(27:28):
six left. I mean, what are you talking about? Like?
We don't know if it's gonna be Lamar or Russell
or whoever that whoever Aaron Rodgers. But the age thing
will not be a factor if they continue to play
as they are. Lamar continues the role, Russell continues the role.
You can't give me. Age. Wasn't Patrick Mahomes twenty four
(27:49):
and in his first season basically when he won it
last year, same age as Lamaris, same stage of their career,
second year as a starving So no, come on stop it, no, no, no, okay,
I think that vegan shake is going to your head
al Oh, wow, I got jo Alex. I've had some
of those shakes. All right, Well, think about it. In
terms of this, they gave justin Verlando the Cy Young
(28:10):
over Garrett Cole. Garret Cole was definitely a better picture.
It's the same sort of thing. They're going to give
Russell Wilson that simply because of his age, and last
year they gave it to Mahomes because that was undeniable.
When it comes to Lamar Jackson and Russell Wilson, there
will be an argument for both, and they're going to
divert to the veteran on this. So he's not gonna
get a fair shot no matter what he does, even
with six games left. Stop, what are you talking about?
(28:35):
Since when Chris just gave me the facts, this not's
not some lifetime achievement awards for the guy who plays
the best for that season. I didn't see that last
year when when they decided for Mahomes to get it,
when they go, well, in, you can't give it to him.
He's too young, he's just got into the league. Let's
give it to a veteran. Let's give it to Tom Brady. No,
(28:56):
Mahomes was the best player and he got MVP. It's
not gonna be done like that. Look at what Lamar's done,
and look at what Russell's done. It could have been closed.
It could have been closed. But last round, Chris Brussard,
the MVP voter, says, we care about narrative, but what
are tewenty year seventeen? So your whole argument collapsed on
(29:17):
the south. Round two goes to Anthony Martin. Yeah, it's
all tied. It's all about making it interesting. The our
couple the hot seat Fox Sports Radio, the hottest take
of the night. We saved the best for last. We
all live in normally sunny southern California City of Angels,
Los Angeles, and Anthony was gonna be leaving in a
(29:39):
few days says that LA should be golf carts and
buses only within the city limits. I don't understand this one,
but you got thirty seconds tell us why? Look all right,
it sounds ridiculous. I've lived in LA for two and
a half years, and once I find a parking spot,
I can't wait to see it because I'm sick of
driving around LA and being stuck in traffic. If everything
(29:59):
was golf carts and busses. We would all get around
a lot simpler. Maybe not as fast, but it would
definitely be easier. I'm sick of parking tickets, car problems,
sticky trees by my neighborhood. You guys probably live in
nice neighborows. You have to do with sticky trees. That's
a real thing. Where these trees will whose sap. It
would make everything better. City buses, golf carts, no accidents.
We can all get around faster. I am. I just
(30:21):
can't wait to get out of this traffic. And I'm
done aff any you first sent and send it all.
It sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous solution. Hold on,
if everybody was riding golf courts, we'd have the same problem.
Now where do I park my golf cart? And is
that gonna stop the sappy trees? It's even worse it
least at a real car. I'm protected a golf court.
(30:43):
I'm exposed. I'm really getting drained by the same I'm
sappy going into my workplace. I got a big interview
and I got sap all over me because I'm in
a golf cart, not a car. Okay, no, this is
all you know how much horrible is the drive out here?
You know that it's just unrealistic to do anything. It
(31:04):
takes an hour to go down the street. If we
were in golf carts, think about how people we could
out on the highway right about now, we'd be going
ten miles an hour. I'm gonna take robs and say,
some way, somehow make this happen. That's all I want.
I just can't do it at all. That was cute,
but it didn't work. What are you talking about me?
One thing, if you said we get rid of cars
(31:25):
and we're traveling on some sort of trams or something
in the sky. But to just swap out golf carts
for cars, we're still gonna be everybody gonna have a
golf cart. In fact, we'll have more people with golf
carts because they can afford it and not afford car yet,
so there'll be more golf courts. That's a great thing.
That's what I want. And you think traffic's bad now exactly? Goodness.
(31:48):
Can you imagine being on the four or five with
a thousand golf carts going two miles an hour? All right?
That round was tough to score. On one hand, I
do I do appreciate Anthony wanting to save the environment.
The admission, it's got nothing to do with that. But
you know what, me and Rob just got new cars.
(32:10):
We ain't gonna drive no DAFN golf. Thank you. Round
three goes in the We got a new You're gonna
be spending a lot of time in those cars, you
know what. And we're bumping them with the music. You
can't do that in the golf car. That's what after
there we go, my man, we're gonna send you off right.
Great job. You had to gutch to step into the
(32:30):
hot seat. And yes you got burned, Yes you got george,
Yes you're in titters, but it's all in love. Man,
We love you. Yes you're gonna do a great job.
Yes we know you're gonna be fantastic. I'm sure next
time we see you around, you're gonna be a star
on the rise. So keep up the great work.
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