Harden is Hating on the Greek Freak

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James Harden and Yanni is beefing. You know we're gonna
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In less than twenty eight minutes a special guest. We're
bringing back our celebrity Corner segment and Bill Bellamy, well
known comedian, a comedian who's actually funny, not a wanna
be comedian like some people, but he's actually funny. Now

(01:55):
I am now what you mean? Now he's all old.
I just went to you ain't laugh, you laugh because
you felt like crazy? It was good? Did they have
like a fake laugher? They filled up in jay Pack,
New Jersey Performing Arts, which is a big venue, and

(02:16):
they filled it. It was packed. You know what, Alex,
I need that laugh track you got right there. Can
you bring that on your iPhone or whatever? And then
when I'm telling the jokes when I do my stand up,
you could play that out like in the background. You
know what I'll do. You need that story for you
And I'll actually buy one of those speakers and I'll

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play the laugh aloud off it like he's in the audience.
Would that be funnier though, It'd be funnier than a
lot of your jokes. I'm telling you, I think we
want to do that. I think people will get a
kick out of it. If Craig Melbourne or Kauhi laugh
at least a first joke, like once people get into it,
then we don't need it. All right, we'll do that,

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all right, And of course you are going on your
Golden Girls cruise tonight. It's finally here. I'm aptly named
Golden Girls Crew. You know you don't. Chris is love
it every minute of this. It's just uh enjoy. Yeah,
we will talk about got your great wig? I wear

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no wig. I think there'll be a like a costume
night or something. Is all that. You look a lot
of people, they're gonna be dressing up like the Golden Girls.
Not everybody, men and women, not everybody. So you gotta
bring you out, bringing out you gonna be like the
only one not dressed up like one of the Golden Girls.
I doubt that everybody dressed up there a lot of people.

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I looked at the website. I don't doubt that. Really. Well,
I'm not dressing up, but I'm gonna enjoy the cruise
and enjoy the all right, Yes, it is the legitimately
happen before you. Because you're so excited, I'm happy. It'll

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be great. Yeah, So let's welcome into the couple of coop.
Wouldn't be able to do this find radio program without them.
Of course, Rob g is our producer, Alex is our engineer.
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she's here. And of course Elijah is our social media guru,

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one of the best in the business. They're all on
the other side of the glass. Come on, Chris Bussard
on this funky flashback Friday. Let's kick some out. All right.
I do want to I do want to say. I
do have the Internet package, so I will be able
to send pictures and updates from the boat. Great great,
and I was wondering, I was on the edge of

(04:49):
my seat. There'll be pictures. But anyway, two of the
greatest players in the NBA, two future Hall of famers,
two guys that I think will go down as kind
of iconic figures like elite of the elite. There'll be
guys that you you just you know about. And whether

(05:09):
Harden wins a title James Harden or not, because of
his prolific scoring, because of his unique style of play,
I do think he's going to, you know, be one
of those guys that you just he's in there. He
is at the forefront of basketball people's minds, and he

(05:30):
will be long remembered even if he doesn't win a title,
more than most players who don't win titles because of
the way he plays. But anyway, he and Yannis onto
Dakombo are beefing, and let me set the stage because
Yannis ain't a real beef, isn't. I think it's a
beef because Jannis. I think with the Yannis started it,

(05:50):
not I don't think on purpose. I think you agree
with me, right, That's what I'm saying that like Jannis
with the language and not being from here. I'm I'm
so sure that Helened about trying to be pollect correctly.
But Harden's taking it as a beat. But but let's
I'm just saying, oh no, we gotta go back, though,
rob G. I want you to read this from Hardened first.

(06:12):
When Yannis won the MVP last year and I voted
for Yannis, I'm a I'm a voter. I voted for Yannis.
I think he deserved it. Here's what Harden said. He
took a shot of Yannis. Once people once the media,
they create a narrative about somebody from the beginning of
the year. I think they just take that narrative and
then run with it the entire year, like, yeah, I
don't want to get into details, but yeah, all I

(06:33):
can do is I can do. And I went out
there and did I was supposed to do at a
high level. You know what I'm saying a season, probably
it's only a few other seasons that anybody's ever done
that before. You know, every every night on his pere
saying though he just did this record, Yeah, I think
he went. People were tuned in on to how many
points that I was gonna score in the next game.
I'm saying, like it was the thing I can't control.
That only thing I can control is coming back and

(06:54):
next shouldn't being better than I was and winning a chip?
And you know what I'm saying, who was that interview
with him? Oh? Because he was like, you know, so
you were lighting up like a cheerleader. He would but
but but those are those kind of interviews and this
is the problem Chris and I. That was a radio
in Houston, so okay, but you know what I mean,

(07:15):
a Homer and the guys they just egging like, yeah,
you know it were lightening it up and I can't
believe that you didn't win the MVP. Man. Yeah, you know,
the media has a narrative. The damn guy on the
radio is part of the media, you know what I mean.
They always act like they're separate. They're separate from us.
The media is everybody as a whole. So stop trying
to step aside. These guys kill me with these interviews

(07:38):
anything when they got players interviewing players and they think
they were uncovering something, No they're not because they're not
willing to push back and ask any real questions. And look,
I'm a guy that James Harden has one MVP twenty eighteen,
and uh, I'm a guy that voted for him in
twenty fifteen, the first year steph won his first MVP.

(08:00):
Voted for Harden. I thought Harden deserved it because he
carried that team when Dwight Howard was injured for half
the season and obviously had great numbers individually as well
better than staff. Actually, um so, I am have no
problem voting for James Harden's MVP as a terrific player.
But I voted for Yanni's last year and it wasn't
because of any narrative, James Harden every thirty six points.

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But from the field, he took almost twenty five shots
a game. He took shot thirteen threes a game. Right,
there's an again, ain't no never Harden, Right, he's great,
But how many guys, Rob, if they took thirteen threes

(08:43):
a game and twenty five shots a night, could put
up huge numbers. A lot of guys. Those guys don't
have the green lights or even the desire. No why
because they're trying to win. Yannis, his numbers were great,
his team was great. He deserved it last year and
we'll get into whether or not he deserved it this year.
But so Harden fired the first shot, Yani. I agree

(09:08):
with Rob. I don't think it was a shot at Harden.
But we remember Charles Barkley asking him when they picked
the All Star teams, oh you, and Yannis did say,
I'm going with Kimball or Trey Young, Kimba Walker or
Trey Young, and Barkley said, you don't want the dribbler,
meaning Harden was still available, and Yannis kind of chuckled
and saying, I want somebody that passes. Okay, I don't

(09:31):
he meant it as a shot. I think he was
just being honest because you know, he didn't grow up
to be politically correct like typical Americans. And then when
they played in the All Star Game right afterwards and
they got really it got really competitive in the fourth quarter,
Yannis was asked what was their strategy in the fourth quarter.

(09:52):
He said, whoever Hardens Garden, we wanted to go at him. Now,
think about who else was on the court, Chris Paul
for the for the Lebron's team Lebron James Kawhi, Leonard,
Chris Paul, Anthony Davis. If I'm facing that team, You're
darn right I'm going that Hardened because those are all

(10:15):
four of those guys are much better defenders. And again,
to me, I think that as to our point, Rob
that I don't think Giannis was taking a shot at him.
He was just being honest, being honest, And you know,
sometimes you gotta be careful when you say that because
you don't even realize what you're saying. Yeah, right, and

(10:36):
and then somebody feels slighted or feels a funny way.
So I do think that that's where that that part goes.
But I don't I don't think this is an all
out like this guy's trying to clown James Harden and
say he's a he's a bomb and he's no good.
That's not what this is. I mean, I didn't feel
like feel that way. I guess it's possible if he
if he took Harden's comment seriously, but you know, we

(10:58):
don't think that doesn't any hard And sat down with
Rachel Nichols of ESPN and here was his response. Yeah,
in no sense. Coupo makes a joke on the air
about I want to take someone who can pass. I'm
taking Kemba Walker instead of James Harden. There's more assist
to him. I think you ranked tenth in assists going
into the All Star Break and Kembo ranked thirty six
and assists going into the All Star break. So I
don't see. I don't see what the joke it is,

(11:20):
and I don't I don't pay attention to stuff like that.
I just know none of them can missing me. When
it's all said and done, they'll appreciate it more, you know.
But I wish I could just run, run and with
seven feet and running just dump. That takes no skill
at all. I got to actually learn how to play basketball,
on how to have skilled You know, I take that
in your day. Do you think that in the end

(11:41):
a title is going to give you the respect that
you think he deserves. It is and I will get it,
all right. I get hard and being upset because he
probably he barely doesn't look at it like you and
I are r and man, he's looking at like, yo,
this dude keep taking shots at me. But here's the
other one. Even without knowing about the passing it going
into the All Star break, most people would believe that

(12:03):
Kimball would give up the ball before hardens. Do you
know what I mean? Like like like no one would
ever like to actually go look it up and say, well,
he's thirty six year at that. That is not I
just don't see like you're absolutely You're absolutely right, Kimball
Walker is more of a willing pass, that's all. It's
just right, no question. Russell Westbrook is always among the

(12:28):
league leaders and assist but and Alan Iverson got a
lot of assists, but nobody looked at them as passers.
Not at all. They can pass, but they look for
their shot first. That's what he's saying. Now. I am
not on either players side. I actually like both guys,
and I said from the start, I think they're both
historically great players. Yanni's disguise the limit for him. As

(12:53):
far as the comments, I would say, and I get
why Harden's taking it personal and he's mad, and so
he took a shot. He took a real shot at
Yannis as he doesn't he can't play. He has no skill.
That's my point. Like of the comments the players made,
Yannises are more closer to the truth. Yes, we did

(13:17):
attack Harden because Harden's not a good defender, and the
guy the other four players on the floor with him
in the All Star Game, we're better defenders. He's not
a guy that passes a ton, right right, Like you said, yeah, yeah,
he gets assists. He has the ball all the time, right,
Any competent guard who has the ball that much, he's
gonna get some assists. And so I think yannis His

(13:40):
comments were more, you know, rooted in the truth, whereas Hardens,
it's just not I get it, you're mad, you're taking
a shot at the dude, but it's just come on
to act. Like Yannis's ability and success is based on
him being said. If he tall is ridiculous age. Why

(14:03):
didn't Kareem play like that? Why do he bring? Don't
do that? And and and to say that like the took, No,
there's no skill or anything involved. It is ridiculous. This
is his size. This he's doing what he should be doing, right,
which is you should attack the basket. And why dunk? Yeah,

(14:24):
don't stop me. It would be seen a seven foot
or play this one. No, no, you're right. Yeah, he
gets in the Laney dunks, he posts, he dunks. What
should he do if? If it works right? It works Chris,
and not like you. He can't dunk, he's a seven footer,
or and he can't dunk. Or you want a guy
on the perimeter taking three point shots at seven foot tall,

(14:45):
he can score. He's almost unstoppable. Why would you not
play that way? I don't understand the criticism, right, Like
I said, it was a shot because Harden knows the game.
He knows there's no other seven footer, even in today's NBA.
There is no other seven footer that handles the ball
as much as Yannis. None. And this is a day

(15:08):
and age where you know size doesn't matter, so to speak.
You do have big men handling the ball at times,
but they don't do it like Yannis. So I get James,
and I don't like somebody ripping Harden. I don't think
Yannis was trying to rip him. I think Harden is
a historically great but I thought he hit below the

(15:30):
belt and his criticism was just completely off outside of reality,
or well Yannis is was at least. I mean, we
can see he's not a defender. He does over dribble,
he does shoot it a ton, So I get where
he was coming from. The only good thing about it,
and I know I still it's not really Yannis going

(15:52):
all after hardened. But the only good thing is that
there is a little bit of a rub because this
league has become so everybody's buddy buddy were on each
other's team. Let's let's work out together this summer, let's
go on vacation together, dude, dupe. They used to be
where people would say stuff and have a The Celtics

(16:13):
and the Pistons really hated Bill Lambia had wanted no
part of Robert Parrish, Scottie Pippen, and you know what
I mean, the bad boys did not like Scottie Pippen, right,
and all that stuff. They used to be that kind
of stuff and there was nothing wrong. Was real rivalries.
They hated each other off the court. Yeah, go on vacation,
hang out. It wouldn't you better not coming? And you

(16:35):
know it's a difference. You couldn't go in another guy's
locker room after the game, right you what a bull
trying to come in and say hello? In all luck
and we be not coming here because they would not
only fight the guy trying to come in whoever he
was going to see, they fight Hill well to your point,
because you know, and you know this as well as
I do. Magic and Isaiah were buddies. They were going

(16:56):
on vacations together with Nick. You know, Dominique would be
in that crew Mark Reguire. But think about it, Isaiah
will tell you may have told you a big part
of his when his relationship, you know, went south with
Magic Johnson when he started to win, right when he
became a competitor in the finals. As long as Isaiah

(17:18):
was this great little guy whose team would go out
in the first Yeah, we go right, you were trying
to take my ring. Yeah, so all right, whose side
are you on eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
eight seven seven nine, nine six, sixty three sixty nine.
Who you got in the beef between James Harden and Yannis?

(17:39):
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(18:24):
and Lincoln, Nebraska. You on with Chris and robbe what's
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on the radio, man, Thank you, my man, the best.
Thank you. Yeah, keep doing what you're doing, you know that. Hey, anyway,
I guess I'll take your honest on this one. Um,
I don't think it really needed to be that big
of a deal. Maybe I'm wrong. Here, help me out.

(18:45):
Didn't didn't Rachel? Didn't she make this sound like like
a democratic debate or something like like she was all serious?
Well he really did. Man, you better say something here. Man,
you be so even even half even having the well
you're tenth in passing and he right there, man like

(19:07):
like let's get after this dude or whatever. You know.
But uh, but I'm with Rob though. I mean, I
don't mind a little beef. And I grew up, you know,
I've been watching NBA for thirty five years. I grew
up when dudes really didn't like each other. So I'm
cool with all this. And uh, hey, just one more thing,
Rob Man, I'm I'm jealous. I wish I was going
on a cruise with you. But man, before you got out, Man,

(19:28):
you might want to you might want to make it
about something. What let me hear you what? But no, man,
don't don't come back with like some coronavirus or something.
Ship seemed to be the place. No, no self quarantine
for three weeks. No, no no, no, we don't want to
do that. I'll be good, trust me. Thank you for
you to say to yourself. But Roy in Los Angeles
been doing Chris and Rob. I need some hand sanitizer.

(19:50):
Do you know that I do? Roy? Oh? How's it going, guys?
What's up? Man? I'm calling from LA. I've been listening
to you since I was about can on both networks,
and now I'm about to be twenty, so it's been
a long time coming. I'm new to the I'm new
listener to this show. Why man, Man, we appreciate that
tune now love it? So yeah, I'm actually gonna take

(20:11):
hard inside on this one. Surprisingly, I'm not usually status
quo guys, so I don't usually have a problem with
superstars taking shots at each other. That's not really the problem.
But I feel like there's a tone deafness with Jannis
that I don't think it's intentional. I think it's the
cultural barriers we already talked about. How you know, like
he's not a native English speaker. He doesn't necessarily get

(20:32):
the PC stuff. You guys were saying that earlier in
the show, right, I feel like because he doesn't really
understand that the subtle shots and the funny jabs that
he's gonna take a fellow players aren't gonna come off
as that as such, They're gonna be you know, Harden
took it offensively, and I think that, you know, that's
part of the reason why I have no problem with
Harden coming back and defending it. And it wasn't just

(20:54):
the only it wasn't just You make a good point
that maybe if he was an America or Lebron it said,
hey man, I want somebody that can shoot, you know,
maybe it would have came off like more of a joke,
or somebody that that passes the ball. It would have
came off as more of a joke. Speaking of jokes,
our next guests on Celebrity Corner is very very funny God,

(21:21):
I know for the odd couple Celebrity Corner. All right,
So I was in the airport about a week ago.
Was it a week? And I think it was a week,
a week or two two weeks ago, flying back to Jersey,
and I'm in the lounge and then walks Bill Bellamy

(21:43):
and he says, who just lights kin? God, who looks?
I got sick. I was because I recognize him. But
you don't you don't want to be like, hey, and
somebody don't really know you. So I was like, let
me see if he gonna say something. Then he you know,
he gave me a hug and all that, and it
was it was all Bill. He obviously's known as a
great actor and comedian, but he knows who too. We

(22:05):
talked a lot of basketball, Bill, Welcome to the Eye.
How you thank you guys for having me. Man, It's
just it's just amazing how things happened to me the
time and is everything you know. At first I thought
Chris Chris was an R and B singer, so I said, well,
maybe he got an album coming out. I'll be sure.
We're still waiting for i'll be short second album right right.

(22:27):
I'm like, I know there's gonna be an album dropping soon.
But then we really just started vibing, man, you know,
and it was so interesting because obviously I'm a fan
as well because I love sports, and Chris, you're from
your writing background into you know, journalism and all this
stuff with sports combined. I was just like, it's so
much fun to talk to somebody that is a wealth

(22:48):
of knowledge because you just you can go anywhere with Chris,
like He'll be like, yeah, that was ninety three. It's funny, though, Bill,
I don't know you will you won't remember this. But
I told Chris before the show. And we were in
New York at some event. It was an NBA event,
and back then I was married and my wife we

(23:11):
were in them and you were in there in this
restaurant or whatever. And she said, oh, this Bill Bellamy.
I have such a crush on Bill Bellamy. So I said,
I grabbed the body arm, I took her right over
to you. I said, hey, Bill, this is m I
introduced myself, and this is my wife Camille, and she
has a crush on you, and and just dropped her
off and you guys chatted for a little. He hadn't
seen how to be a player. I don't know. Oh.

(23:36):
All I want you to know is she's how you
left her with. He's my ex wife now, so I
want what you're doing right? All right? But I saw this,
and I assume it's sure. I was looking up some stuff,
your your your cousins with Shack. Yes, man, it's funny.

(23:58):
It's funny how people find out about it and they
you know, it'll go away and come back. Yeah, he's
he's my second cousin. And it's interesting because you know,
no one knew both of us were going to be
like that kind of successful in different worlds. You know. Um,
if you go back and do your research, me and
Shack we did a couple of commercials together, you know,
in the early nameties. We did the Pepsi campaign together.

(24:21):
We did Rebok together, and uh, you know, and we
just did whenever we could get together. We did Shack
All Stars together, like we always comedy shows. Yeah, like
we always try to do something together when it fits,
you know what I'm saying. I didn't I didn't want
to do this Cruise line commercial with him because I
was just like, you know, you're too big, were you now?

(24:43):
Were you guys close before y'all both became stars? Yeah? Yeah,
like that move. The thing about it was we found
found out the connection early, you know, and my parents,
my mom and his mom our cousins overlap, like the
families overlap. So he was like, oh snap. And so
when um, they were in Jersey for a while because

(25:04):
you know, his dad had him, a stepdad had him
moving around. They moved a live but you know, he
spent a quality from quality time in Jersey too, so
we got the chance to get up every now and then.
And I wasn't in a game like that, right right,
you know, I didn't start getting hot till in the nineties.
He was already at Las. We were breaking backboard right

(25:24):
right right, and then we then then what happens is
we come full circle. You know, I'm in the game,
he gets he gets drafted or land though. It was
just crazy hot happened. We always talk about man hot.
We always call it that big city grit. You know,
that's what got us to where we needed to be,
you know, all right. Bill Bellamy, actor comedian joining The

(25:44):
Odd Couple now. Bill. Growing up in Jersey and Newark, Um,
it's always like a tough call for fans and you
try to figure out were you a Nick fan or
a Nuts fan. You know, it's because you talk to
so many people, and the Nut just didn't have a
huge fan base, even for people grew up in New Jersey,
do you know? Yeah, I was a Knicks fan. Yeah,

(26:06):
you know, I would go to NET games because they
were playing the Knicks or you know, they played you know,
the Bulls or whatever. But at that time, you know,
the Knicks was the seriously the marquee franchise. I don't
care if he was Jersey or not. The Knicks was it,
you know, and and it's been a long time since
they had that kind of cachet like the Lakers do now.

(26:27):
But you know, the Knicks really were that team. You know,
we had years of success and then it just went away.
And it's been going for a while now. It's so bad.
I'm gonna tell you when I left the Knicks, like
when I just said this is my last game that
I'm gonna get this now, I remember it like it
was yesterday. John Starks shot us out the game. He
was like, um, we had was playing Houston a year

(26:50):
for eighteen, two for eighteen, and and what did you
say that? My heart hurt? And one for eleven from three.
And this is the other thing that so crazy. That
was Game seven. They only lost by six points in
your two guard was awful. All he had to do
was make two shots, two lay ups to the dude.
I mean and listen, this is crazy. And I was

(27:12):
in that LA for that game. I never forget. It
was me and this other dude from New York. It
was a sea a rocket and we was I went horse,
I would because every time John shot, we was like, yeah, yeah,
And here's the way I think about and you and
I Bill, we were talking the other day about how

(27:34):
you know a little something goes a little differently, it
can change a person's legacy, or more than one person's legacy.
We're talking about Jordan and Pippen. But if John Starks
plays a little bit better and they think about Ewen's legacy,
absolutely yeah. I mean een obviously is an all time
great Hall of Famer, but if he wins that series

(27:57):
instead of a king, maybe he's view as better than
a large one. It changes everything. That would have changed
the narrative for for the Knicks legacy forever. I mean,
that was a It was a real great series. If
you think back, it was real good was you know,
the Dream was killing I mean we really couldn't. They

(28:17):
were going back for back like that. Every time you
would do something, Dream did something. It was crazy. The
problem was that John which he was having one of
them Westbrook because you know, because Westbrook could be on off.
You know what we one thing we know about Westbrook.
He gonna get to the basket. But will he make
eighteen to twenty four consistently I'm not putting my money

(28:39):
on that. How about now, do you do you go
to the garden? Do you spend money? Do you live
in that You're in la now? Yeah? Oh he's out here, Okay,
so you don't even know. How about well, I guess
when they come out here the one time a year,
is it still worth going? I think I think that
they we shouldn't lose all hope on the Knicks because,
like you gotta consider that at the bottom, they got

(28:59):
to come. Everything doesn't stay down forever. I just think that,
you know, if it's not Dolan putting the right people
in the place to change the culture in the fibe
of it, it needs to It needs to reboot right
now you restart your computer. It needs to be you know, hip,
It needs to be right now. We need a couple

(29:19):
stars and build like an enthusiasm about New York. It
is New York City. It would make it make all
the sense in the world for us to have something
to look forward to. And they could do it. I mean,
you think about it, there's gonna be a couple more
people coming out in the next two drafts. That's gonna
be solid, you know what I mean. We might not
get the first round pick, but we could. We got

(29:41):
to get in the first five somebody if they had
one more lottery ball or you know, one pick higher,
and they get either job Morena or Zion. Right, and
so to change everything, all right, let me ask you this,
who is your favorite basketball player historically and who's your
favorite right now off the players in the league right now. Well,

(30:01):
historically it's easy, it's Michael Jordan. Ain't nothing to talking about.
So you were a Knicks fan, So who were you
pulling for back then? Mike? Man it, Mike was just
in my lifetime. Mike was crazy. I've never seen nothing
like Mike. Mike. Mike was crazy. But now we could
think right now pound for pounds. It's really hard for

(30:24):
me to give you a solid answer. I could give
you all. I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you
two answers. First of all, I just had to go
the realest thing that's moving, it's Lebron because what Bron
does on the court is equivalent to magic mix with Mike,
and he's getting assist which is a Westbrook thing. This

(30:46):
is what makes Lebron and it's where I always get
irritated when You know, these guys go at Lebron and
always try to discount his his worth and his value
to the NBA first and foremost in this deck in
his decade eighteen years, he is pound for pounds, the
triple threat dude. Like he rebounds, buckets, assists period. Right,

(31:11):
it's been consistent everything about Lebron. He's that wasn't good.
He worked on first he they said he didn't had
a heart to close. He's closing. They said he couldn't
make um head, couldn't play with his back to the basket.
He started doing that. Then they said, um, they said, uh,
he's not He's not clutch. He's super clutch. Now. The

(31:32):
only thing he got to work on still is them
damn foul shot. Yeah, I don't know if that's coming.
But because that's all mental. He just gets scared. He
worried about if his hair falling out, you know, so
he just worried about too many things. But in pound
for pounds, I would say it would be Lebron James. Now,
if you give me one other choice, the one that's

(31:55):
coming that the boy that Yannis is something else. Man. No,
it's just I told this whether in the barbershop that
they y'all gonna bug out when I say this. I said,
what if Yannis had Katie's jumper, oh and be over?
He would be the best player ever, assuming assuming you

(32:16):
know that he has the heart to win, because obviously
you gotta win. But no, oh my god, it would
be everybody getting the barbershop. I said to say thing,
Oh my god, because that's literally I think that's the
only thing that may be missing or just not it's
good in his game because everything else's power or strength, athleticism.

(32:36):
But let's say he don't he try the people crowding
him so he can't get to the middle and he wet. Oh,
it would be over. Now. Have you followed this beef
with him in Harden? Yeah, it's just been bubbling it.
So where you where you out on that. I like
both of them, but you know, I think that it
should be fun about it. I don't think they take
you serious, you know, take it over the top. But

(32:58):
I think that is is it's worthy of the debate,
because honestly speaking, I mean, I thought James Harden should
have got MVP. Did you last year? Yeah? I thought
James voter I voted for Yannis. You know, I mean,
it's just preference. It's like you know, you know, it's
really preference on what you're considering what he's doing. If

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you take James Hardened off the Rockets day, the Nets,
they the old Nett Now remember they still had Chris Paul. Nah,
if they were they, I mean, listen, it's Yannis definitely
got it. That was let me take it. Is arguably

(33:42):
the best defensive player too. But listen, I'm gonna give y'all.
I'm gonna give y'all this how close it was. If
there was any time that there should have been a
co MVP last year, was it? It was close. It
was close because it's apples and oranges. Like it's literally
like you you're splitting Adams to pick up what what?
What compliments? What's MVP mean? Because you got a figure.

(34:03):
They're two different styles of players, so it's hard to
like line them up. They don't line up right. So
Jannis is bigger, stronger, I mean, he takes two dribbles,
he's at the rim. But then James assists jumper wet
I mean James is wet. I mean period only time.
If wow, that's that's not a good time not to

(34:29):
be wet, right, you should be right? All right, here
we go. You you mentioned Lebron and his company Springhill
Entertainment has produced a movie. Well, it's a Netflix series. Yeah,
it's a limited series series self made inspired by the
life of Madame CJ. Walker. And you're in that with
Blair Underwood, Tiffany Hatish, Octavia Spencer. Give us that a

(34:52):
summary of it in like thirty seconds. First of all,
it's an inspirational story about Madame CJ. Walker. She was
the first black millionaire in the early nineteen hundreds, outside
the box. She was innovative, she was courageous, and she
created these haircare products that changed the perspective on women's
beauty and how ladies thought about their hair. And I

(35:15):
think it's a it's a story that's modern days in
its intention, and I think that people are gonna love
the story because a lot of people may not know.
But then also it's so relevant today because hair is
still a thing. You know, women, all women, you know,
care about their hair being long and healthy and beautiful
and feeling beautiful. So what and she wasn't the typical

(35:39):
like what you consider the you know, okay, slim, you know,
she was a just a beautiful person and a beautiful
woman with the courage to to step out and be herself.
So she ended up being successful because she invigorated women
and made them feel good too. So it's just a
great story. I'm happy that Lebron and man every decided to,

(36:01):
you know, put their stamp on this project and team
that with Netflix and Octavia producing it as well. Um,
I think you guys gonna really love it when you
see the costumes, the wardrobe. I mean, we're gonna get
award afterwards. I mean, it's just it's just one one
and when I tell you, everyone's gonna be surprised of
how amazing. Like more of these kind of projects or

(36:21):
stories should get told. All right, that sounds great. A
premiere is Marsh twentieth on Netflix. Yes, he's our man.
Bill Bellamy need anybody that can laugh a little bit
with these crazy as you know athletes, let me know
for me. We'll bring you into the studio one. We'll
do that whole hour, all right, all right, brother, Then
y'all have a beautiful weekend. Yeah. YouTube piece more of

(36:43):
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(37:06):
always from the Geico Fix Sports Radio Studios. You know,
we've been talking a little bit this week about the
Clippers and the concerns about their chemistry. Now both Rob
and I have picked them, and many other people. I mean,
they seem to be the favorite pick for the Western
Conference finalists and maybe even the NBA finalists. Doc Rivers

(37:30):
said yesterday at practice that he's a little concerned or
was that that shoot around, Rob you shoot around today?
He is a little bit. You know, they do need
to pick it up and get their chemistry together. He said,
you know, we're not panicking. It's not urgent, but it's
urgent enough where we understand we need to get it together.
And I was speaking with someone yesterday and it was

(37:54):
interesting because I do think there's this feeling out there.
You've heard other people say. Kendrick Perkins has said it.
The Clippers get up for the Lakers more than anyone,
but then other teams they don't seem to get up
for as much. Now maybe in the playoffs that'll change.
You know, it's the playoffs. But you don't want the

(38:14):
Clippers to get up set before they get to the Lakers.
And I've said, I think that's true that the Clippers
do get up more for the Lakers, which is good.
But the Lakers need to get up for the Clippers
as much as the Clippers get up for the Lakers,
because then I think you got a different series. If
the Lakers really get up for them and take it

(38:36):
to them like the Clippers are gonna take it at them,
then I get the Lakers a chance to win, a
good chance to win it because they got ballers. The
Clippers obviously have more depth, but the Lakers have two
of the best three players in LA and so I
just want to see them get up for that game
as much as the Clippers are gonna get up for them.

(38:56):
But Rob, as you're a guy that picked the Clippers,
as I said, are you, do you have any concern
that they just don't seem to be getting up for
your typical regular season game. No, none, whatsoever. I think
it's much to do about nothing. I get it. You
know they haven't had their full team or playing together,

(39:17):
but it still comes down to talent. And I love
the talent that they have. And if somebody's heart, Chris,
that's totally different. Then we're talking about a different story.
But if you get everybody healthy, get everybody where they're
supposed to, and remember the great equalizer in the NBA playoffs,
and I've said it all the time, it's the four
out of seven that if it's one game, Chris, I'm

(39:40):
with you. One game could they get beat? Absolutely they
could get beat in one game four out of seven
with the players and the bench and the coach that
they have. Absolutely not. I think the Lakers could beat them.
Clippers should be the favorite there my pick, but the
Lakers could be them. I don't think anybody else in
the West could couple. Two hours left, you know what

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(40:46):
we will be joined at the bottom of the hour
by one of the better NBA writers reporters in the league.
Yahoo Sports Senior NBA writer Vince Goodwill, Rob Parker's f
nephew ex nephew, and I was on First Things First
last week with Vinny on Friday. He co hosted with

(41:08):
me and did a really good job. He's really he's good.
He's good behind, he's good with the pen, and he's
good in front of the cameras. It'll be good to
have him on lots to talk to as far as
the NBA, But we're gonna go to the NFL right
now and look for all the talk about Tom Brady,
and I guess this is somewhat related and it'll it'll

(41:28):
spill in the Brady. But for all the talk about
Tom Brady and what he's going to do and I
get it. He is Tom Brady and six championships, so
that that's gonna move attached. Yeah, you say that like
he had nothing. You say that like he was the
second string centuries. He's the goal, he was the drive,

(41:51):
just behind the six side, just to set the records.
But he might be flipping channels. I just want him
to know that we aren't those guys that don't know
what they're talking about. Don't. At least half of us aren't.
But the only problem is you talking about like you're
making a gesture with your with your hand, like you're
flipping the station. Nobody flips the radios like that anymore

(42:12):
with the knob, What are you doing anymore? What I
was doing? You were going like, oh, yeah, in case
they're flipping the station, it ain't would have demonstrative. I'm demonstrative.
I'm just sorry anyway, As I was saying, tom Brady
is the big story, but there's another huge one out there,
and could be it's not as big because he's Tom Brady,

(42:34):
but it's huge and we'll have huge ramifications if something
doesn't happen that we all expect to, and that of
course is Dak Prescott with the Dallas Cowboys, and this
thing is just dragging out longer and longer and longer,

(42:54):
and you gotta wonder, at some point, when is this
thing going to get done? Now? Of course, there was
a report that Dak turned down a thirty three million
dollars per year on an extension back in September, and
according to sources, Dak is looking for a deal that
will pay him more than Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson.

(43:17):
What Russell Wilson's the highest played player in the league
at thirty five million dollars a year, and Dak wants
more money than I get it. You're up. Usually a
good quarterback sets the market, but I don't mind him
being the highest paid. But I'm fine with thirty five.
But you know, we heard reports about forty and with

(43:39):
the cap going up, and with Dak and his agent
knowing that the CAP's going up, my thing is, does
he want more than that? And so we'll see. We
don't really know, but Jerry Jones has been talking about it,
of course, and do we have the audio of Jerry.
Here's what Jerry said about it recently. The same as
I feel about Stephen there's no going without Stephen or

(44:02):
or one of your family members. So you gotta get
Hi figured out. This is a deal that ultimately I
have to do. When I say do I have to
sign the check. It's got to fit. It just has
to fit, and it has to fit a lot of things.
And for me, this is not about Dak. It's about
the team and about how to win. And that's not

(44:25):
being in any way negative. I think the world of Dak,
but it's about the team and if it's if it
doesn't feel right, it will hint, all right. He was
saying that Dak is like family to him, like his
son Stephen Jones, who is the general manager. It sounds
like he's a step child a way he's talking. Yeah, yeah,

(44:45):
And what do you think about that? Dude? Come, I'm
not buying Jerry. This is about Chris. What is the
hardest thing to get in the NFL? What's the hardest
thing to get a franchise quarterback? A right? Teams are
dying for a franchise quarterback, right, Okay, so let's stop
playing around. You could talk about the team, talk about

(45:09):
all the other pieces, and you gotta get alignment and
all Chris I get all that with football, right, a
running back and guys who could catch. I get a
franchise quarterback, and what teams are still dying for the Raiders, right,
the Chargers. You could go on and on and on.
Teams will will drop their guy in a heartbeat to

(45:30):
upgrade if they think the guys better. That's how much
a quarterback matters. Everybody else got paid. It's only and
you know this because we talk about it. It's only
gonna cost you more if he keeps playing well, right,
it only cost you more. So what is the hold up? What? What?
What is the hold back? Once forty million, it's more

(45:52):
gonna be more than whatever the lowest. Yeah, but you've
seen very few if any, and Rob checked this out.
I don't think you've seen a guy set the market
by five million dollars. I don't think that it's about
five million. I don't believe that. I think they're ask
him for more, and I think that they want more
than than Russell Wilson. I get that, whether it's thirty six,

(46:15):
Chris or thirty seven, but it's gonna be more. And
my point is, if you're the Cowboys and you believe
in Dak, you gotta get a deal worked out. I'm
not saying signed him for fifty million dollars a year
because he asked for it. All I'm saying is this
wall has gotta be work. I gotta work for the team,
and it's gotta do this. It's gotta do that. He
just signed running back to the highest paid contract and

(46:38):
I'm not saying the money, but it still was the
highest It set the market, did it not? Yeah? Okay,
So so Dak is looking at us saying, I want
you to set the market with me, and I want more.
You asked. He always asked for more than you really want.
But this whole thing, to me sounds like it's gonna
wind up being a franchise tag because it just doesn't

(46:58):
seem like they're really willing to just say, all right,
let's make it the highest paid quarterback. You got more
than Russell Wilson. Let's move on. I think they're playing
hardball with him. Look, you know, I'm a Dak fan.
I mean we always go back and forth about how
good is Dak. I think he's very good. You're not.
You don't think he's that good. And I think if
I'm the Dallas Cowboys I'm doing everything I can to

(47:21):
bring him back, but I'm not giving him forty million
dollars because as much as I like Dak, he's not
Patrick Mahomes. He's not one of these guys. And I've
said this from the get go. As much as I've
praised him, I've never said he's just a guy that

(47:41):
is gonna put a team on his back. He needs quality,
high quality receivers. He needs a good running back and
running again and then fairness. Most quarterbacks do. But he's
not Aaron Rodgers. He's not Patrick Mahomes. I haven't seen
Drew Brees. I mean, there are some quarterbacks that you're

(48:03):
just gonna pay him no matter what else is around you.
He's not that guy. I would make him the highest
paid quarterback in the league. Okay, it's your turn up.
We've seen it with everybody. It happened with Jimmy Garoppolo,
it happened with Kirk Cousins, it happened with Jared Goff,
it happened with all deservedly soul Russell Wilson, whatever you

(48:27):
didn't mention barely barely became the highest paid. So Russell's
making thirty five. We'll give you thirty six or thirty
five and a half or whatever it is. But as
much as I like Dak forty forty, so would you
move on christ if they say much? And what would

(48:49):
you do if as much as I like him, if
he was stuck on forty, I would one. I would
have two options. I want franchise in him and or
at the same time, I am starting to talk to
Tom Brady. I would talk to Tom Brady. Now this
is not I want him over Dak. This is Dak.

(49:11):
We're gonna make you the highest paid quarterback in the league.
You are you are not that guy. But we're gonna
make you the highest paid quarterback in the league. And
you want forty million, then we will look at Tom Brady,
will franchise you because just back we will look. I
think it could backfround Dack because look, because you know
very much I like Dak. Are you convinced if he

(49:33):
goes to a team that doesn't have them. I'm not.
I told you that I think everything has to work
for him to be and I tend to agree. We
know what I mean, everything and he had it and
he was doing well under those circumstances. I'm not so
sure that if he didn't have all the pieces, Chris,
that he's gonna be as successful as he has been

(49:54):
with the Cowboys. Sure, last year, should they needed him
to win some bigger game, big games, he didn't do that.
But but he has won games. But I'm always questioning
whether it's dak lad or or you know or the
other part that's it. And that's why I think that
they're him and a hard when it comes to death.
And as you know, I'm a big dad guy. So

(50:15):
I'm saying this, and I'm saying I think it could
backfire on him if he I mean again, it's not
like we don't think. I mean, look, we don't know
the numbers, so it's hard to argue it. But I'm saying,
if they're willing to make you the highest paid quarterback
in the NFL, then I think you need to take that.

(50:37):
I think you need to take that. And I just
don't think he's worth five million dollars a year more
than Russell Wilson. Am I wrong? I mean I get it.
I think he feels like like he's got some leverage
over them and he's going to strong arm himself. Chris
and forty million dollars as you got a strong arm

(50:58):
the Cowboys and again loving Dak. But if I'm Jerry Jones,
and you know he wants a super Bowl now and
so bad and ready for cheaper, even though he won three,
even though he's already in the Hall of Fame, he
wants more than anything, one more championship under his reign.

(51:20):
Ye brother, he hadn't because those Jimmy Johnson gets a
credit for those, even Barry Switzers Jimmy Johnson, right, But
since Jerry and the family took over three playoff wins
in twenty five years, cous So I'm just saying, I look,
I want Dak to get his money, but I can't
sit here and tell you with a straight face he

(51:42):
deserves five million dollars a year more than Russell Wilson.
He's not Russell Wilson. So that's where I am on Dak.
Where are you eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
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How do you think this Dak thing should play out?

(52:04):
Should the Cowboys be willing to pay them forty million
dollars or should they be looking to move on or
at least considering moving on, do you find out what's
going on with TB twelve? Do you franchise him? What
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Cisco Kid, Wow, you dig in the Craig the first

(52:47):
time you played this on the show. I keep some held.
I see man. Look at DJ Alex Tyshon a k
A Alex, the Vegans showing off. All right, we threw
it out to you. Dak Prescott, if you know, one
of us know the numbers. But if he wants forty
million and the highest paid quarterback in the league, Russell
Wilson is only given thirty five, should the Cowboys say, Dak,

(53:11):
we love you thirty six or bust? Look at Chris Bell. No,
I'm not billing on him. That's reasonable. I'm going dude,
you know I'm giving. I'm giving Pat Mahomes whatever he wants.
You ain't Pat Mahomes all right? Age seven seven ninety
nine on Foxes the telephone number. Let's kick it off,
Chris with Marty in Kentucky. You're on the odd couple

(53:34):
of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Chris? What's up? Brother? What?
River loves your nickname? Rob? Who loves that pop? I'm
the poopoo king? There you go tell I'm the poop
poop kick. Um. I really wanted to call you guys

(53:54):
last time you were talking about this, and I'm glad
I kinda hold of you last time I've gotten by.
I found the bourbon store and I've seen a bourbon
place called the rack House, probably Hucky. And I ran
in there and I was trying to run back to
college guys on this subject. And the show was on
in there, and there was a cowboys fan. There was cowboys. Yeah,

(54:17):
they would listening to show. Cowboys hadn't working. And I
asked him. I didn't end up calling that. I got
the conversation with him. I said, and this was before
the forty million talk. I said, do you think that
is worth thirty six? You know, thirty six million? And
he would you want him to pay that? He said, well,
let me hate some something if I if I sold
you this bottle of bourbon. And I loved my bourbon.

(54:39):
And he said, you drink it on you didn't get
a buzz and you came back any here and I
wanted ten times as much as you paid for it
last time. Would you buy? I said, heck no, He
said no, I don't want dak. He said, we haven't
even got to a conference championship, painting four hundred thousand.
Why would we paying thirty six million? It was a
good point. No, I got, Yeah, I'm looking, but that's

(55:01):
the highest paid. I'm just not giving him forty. That's
just now he hasn't done enough for that. Appreciated Marty. Thanks,
Let's go to MO in Atlanta, Mo. You're on with
Chris and Rob. Hey, what's going on? Guys? Looking not
bad at all? Hey? Hey Rob, Yes, I want to
give you a shout out. Bro. I'm from the D originally.

(55:23):
Oh that's what's up, my man? How long you've been
down in that last made from the D? Man, I've
lived twenty two years. Don't lay you are living the D.
He was way out. He was like, way out, Like
I lived down Challenge Detroit. What are you talking about?
Don't listen to Chris. He's just trying to hate. But
go ahead right on seven mile road? You know that?

(55:48):
What's seven mile road? My man? I'm seven miling Ryan,
you already know seven miling out of drive, sporty cuts.
We got the best head cuts of the city. Great. Great,
I'll definitely be got up there, man. But I also
want to give a shout out to Chris or whatever. Man,
my whole lady from the from Louisiana, she's from Bashtrib.

(56:08):
He ever heard of that? Was it? Bastrip? Yeah? Yeah,
I heard of it? Right, yeah, shout out? All right,
what's you got? But yeah, um yeah. About the Dak thing, man,
I'm a Tony Romo guy, man, and you know he
never you know, JJ had never put any defense or

(56:29):
anything around him. But he paid him on her nate millions.
What's the issue with Dak? Why can't you do that? Why? Well?
They maybe we see it's it's it is problematic because
we don't know the numbers. I'm saying, if he's willing
to make Dak the highest paid player quarterback in the league,
Russell makes thirty five, let's say it gives him thirty six,

(56:50):
thirty five and a half. Whatever you think that's disrespecting Dak. No, no, no, Now,
I'm with you on that, Chris, as far ast like
about thirty five. Right, I'm not trying to give him
forty he hadn't done all that. No, no, because he
needs things around him. Yes, you know that's obvious. That's
the big thing I said. Yeah, that's the big thing

(57:13):
is that he can't do him individually. Show. Now, I
don't think Roma had the intangibles that Dak has. Not
that he was not that he was horrible with the intangibles,
but I don't. Look, he didn't win like Dak already. No,
he didn't win. Thanks for the call. More. We appreciate
your support. Antonio in Mississippi. You're on the couple of

(57:35):
Fox Sports Radio. What's up? Antonio? Hey man, Look, I
have never called, I have never called to a talk
show like this, but I'm gonna tell you let that go?
Whytt wow? Why didn't go let him go? For? What?
Are you? You just don't want him period? Or you
just you just don't think he's good enough to what

(57:57):
you're paying. No, I don't. I don't think you worth
forty million, right, I was given thirty Chris, Chris, I
wouldn't give him thirty six Well he wasn't four million
dollars thirty four million dollars. That's more than Carson Wentz.
What has that done that Carson Wentz hasn't done. He's
won more games than anybody not named Tom Brady except
big games, and last year he didn't make the playoffs.

(58:20):
I get it. I get I agree with you because
I've come way up on my number, you know, But
I get it. It's the going rate and the cap
going up. That's the main thing with me. With the
cap going up as much as it's going to, I
can afford to pay him a you know, make him
the highest paid quarterback because of the cap. If the

(58:41):
cap wasn't jump in then I wouldn't do that. Appreciate
the call, Antonio. Thanks? How fine in North Carolina? You're
on with Chris and Robby, guys doing doing great? How
are you? I couldn't be I couldn't be more fantastic. Um,
I don't understand how that's representatives are telling are not

(59:03):
telling that that that forty million is too high. I
understand that that they're trying to look out for him,
and it's that in the third, but all the other
guys that got all this money above thirty million dollars.
They've been the Super Bowls right, well, not not Wins,
I mean a spectator. And that's the thing. Well, Carston

(59:24):
Wins didn't make it to the super Bowl. But there's
no way you could convince me that if Corston Winz
is not good hurt, that they are not still winning
the Super Bowl over the Patriots. He was having he
was having it. He was having an MVP season and
I don't know about that though. He was gonna be
the MVP. But he was gonna be the MVP enough
that tells me he would have definitely led them to

(59:45):
the super Bowl. But they but they believe in that
guy even and gave him that deal, even coming off
of major injury. But all right, the small ball Houston
Rockets have taken the NBA by storm, But are they
good enough to beat the Lakers? And the clip is
in the playoffs? J'aho sports NBA insider Vince Goodwill, also
Rod Parker's ex nephew, has the answer. Next Parker, be

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four seven auto. The only hard part is figuring out
which way is easier. He is one of the top
NBA writers in the game. He's a Yahoo Sports senior
NBA reporter. Our man, our good buddy, Vince Goodwill, Vince,
what's up man, n E. What's going on y'all? Y'all doing,
how you y'all? Good? Man? We are good. It was
you know, we worked together on First Things First last

(01:00:52):
week and had a great time there talking off things
NBA se Vinie and I worked together on Shop Talk.
Remember that video was a barbershop show set in Detroit.
Remember that like years ago? Yes, Rob, Yes, Rob, you
had a barbershop show set in Detroit. Okay, Well, Vinnie,
Vinnie did learn a lot from Rob. That was the

(01:01:14):
one thing I'm glad you didn't learn from him is
how to dress, because Vinny, Vinny definitely dressed, is much
better than Rob. So I give although you look good.
Everybody's address everybody? All right, all right, Vinnie, let's get
into first. Let's start here. The Yannis Hardened beef, if
we can call it that. What's your take on it?

(01:01:36):
I mean, isn't that what we've been asking for? Yeah?
I like it. They meet up on I think March
twentieth or something like that, and unless the coronavirus ext
I'll be going there for that game. Look at this
with the coronavirus. Oh do you think Yanni? I see,
I could we could be wrong, but Rob and I

(01:01:59):
think Yannis he's just, you know, he didn't grow up
to be politically correct like US Americans. Maybe there's a language,
you know, issue there. But we don't think he's really
trying to take shots at Hardened as much as you
just being honest. Do you think he's taking shots at
him or what? No, I don't think it's like intentional

(01:02:19):
shade or anything like that. Like you gotta think that,
you know. Barkley was trying to stir up the pot
line calling Harden the dribbler, and he said, hey, like
somebody who passes the ball, like where is the lion? That? No, No,
you're right, so to me. And I talked to Jannis
before the start of the season asking him about the
MVP and he said, look, I will never say that

(01:02:41):
I'm better than James Harden. Other people will say that
James Harden feels that he feels. So he had an
opportunity in October took quote unquote to say something or
throw a shot or what. Nothing. I was trying to
fade him into it, but just talking about the debate
over him winning MVP and everything else, and he literally
took the high roll there. There's no reason for him
to say, you know, really anything else. But let's be

(01:03:02):
honest here. Guys know what guys are saying to each other.
And even at the All Star Game when he was
asked about you know they're over time, you know the
fourth quarter strategy, he said, Hey, we're just going after
who James hardness card. Isn't that exactly what you'd want
to do? You want? Did the other four differenders? No
job about it? Hey, hey, Benny on your power of rankings,
you have the rockets fifth. Is that correct? Yeah? I do?

(01:03:26):
And uh just a moment, Yeah, when can they really
do anything in the West? Can they win? We really
can they beat the you know what I mean, the
Lakers or the Clippers? I guess really right, you know what,
you know, being the fifth best team in the NBA
get you what's that a second round shock out? Yeah?
I don't. I mean, I don't think it's like I mean,
don't get me wrong. There's no shame in being the

(01:03:48):
fifth best team in the NBA. But if we're talking
about where the playoff seatings will lie, and assuming that
the Clippers will be in that two three spot in
the Lakers will be in at one spot, then Houston
will have to play one of those team teams in
the second round of the playoffs. And I can't see
myself peeping gay team who center is six foot five
and saying, Okay, you're going to beat a team of

(01:04:10):
the Lakers or Clippers caliber to get to the conference finals.
I just don't see it. But do I think that
it's working to the best of its ability right now
at RUSS getting to the realm, they're they're shooting a
lot of threes, that are making a lot of threes,
and Russ's playing kind of rejuvenated right now, sure, but
playing eighty two games, it's a different ball game pair
to playing seven. We've seen reports about the Clippers and

(01:04:31):
you know, obviously we know they haven't been healthy. Guys
haven't had to they haven't had their full team together
for many games, and there are reports about, you know,
maybe some chemistry issues here or there. Do you have
concerns about their chemistry and or injuries and think that
that may come back to haunt them in the playoffs.

(01:04:52):
I have more concerns about their injuries more than a
chemistry thing. I think chemistry it becomes an issue when
guys don't like each other. When you get twelve different
players going in twelve different directions and there's an act
of dislike right now, guys are hurt there in and
out of the lineup, so you don't have a chance
to develop chemistry. And sometimes I think we make a
little bit more out of that. We turned into well,

(01:05:12):
they don't like playing with each other because they don't
look like it. Well, no, they haven't had much time
to play with each other, so they don't know where
each other's going to be on the floor on a
given night, or who's going to be on the floor
in a given night, like when they have pat Beverly
Kawhi and Paul George out there, they've been pretty much unbeatable.
But they've only had had them out there for maybe
fifteen games. That's not a good enough sample size for
you to say that their championship favorites. But now for me, guys,

(01:05:35):
they have about a fifteen or twenty games stretched towards
the end of the regular season where I'm gonna need
to see Paul George played like the Paul George from
last year. So healthy do you have the Lakers right
now as a favorite in the West. I have the
Lakers as the favorite, but I would take the Clippers
in the playoff series, if that makes sense. My thing,
My thing is this. Of course, the Robbers didn't never

(01:05:58):
make sense to you. I'll that was that was that
was And see you're ripping me. It didn't make sense. No, okay,
well you know what. Well, Chris called me a hater
on TV last week. I want to say, you said
the Lakers are the favorite, but I take the Clippers.
I don't now, I don't get that. No, No, I'm
the Lakers are my favorite, but they should be. They

(01:06:19):
could be everybody else's favorite, but your favorite. Who you
got favored? Right now, between the Clippers and the Lakers?
Would take would I would take the Clippers because of coaching,
because of identity, because of death, And to me with Lebron,
I have this fear of him not being able to
sustain a high level of play for the next two

(01:06:41):
two and a half months and then going into a
playoff series, presumably with a healthy or healthy ish Kauai,
and having to do it on folk ends of the floor.
Like the Clippers can beat you, I think in a
number of different ways. I don't even know who closes
the game for the Lakers. I think they can win
a lot of games and a lot of playoff series
off talent, because you have the two best players on
the floor. But when all things are created equal and

(01:07:03):
you need that little bit extra, that's where some of
these other small things become exposed. You brought up Lebron.
I was on Undisputed with Skipper Shan in the day
talking about the question was can he catch Yannis in
the MVP race? Look, right now, I don't think it's
that close. I think Lebron is second, and that's he's doing.
He's having a great year. But I think it's clearly

(01:07:26):
Yannis as the front runner. Where are you at on it?
Here's my question, the last few years, who's been the
best player in basketball? Before this year? If you were
not to count this year, who would you say have
been has been the best player in basketball with the
last three or four years? Not MVP, but just best player?
And it's not Lebron Yannis? Yeah, you were going if

(01:07:48):
you take Lebron now they would go with Yannis. No,
it's Kevin Durant. Oh yeah, yeah without Kevin okay, okay,
were license he's hurt? Yeah. And here's the thing. We
didn't give Kevin dur At the MVP even though we
knew he was the best player because he was on
Stephan Curry's team, and you can't have two MVPs on
the same team together, and those two canceled each other out.

(01:08:09):
How come now we're going to ignore that? Anthony Davis,
it's as great as he has seen, completely different argument
to prop up Lebron for MVP. You can't we can't
be disingenuous about this. He's a Lebron is a great players,
historical player, but we don't have to put him in
the MVP conversation every single year and ignore criteria that
we set for other great players in recent time. I

(01:08:31):
think that's completely disingenuous of us. So Lebron is on
the ballot, but he's nowhere near first, like like Jannis
is doing everything that you ask an MVP to do,
from win shares and the advanced stats and everything else
to literally just being the most minute for a minute
dominant player in the game this year on the team
that could win seventy games. I don't think it's close,
and it should be unanimous, well saying, because Lebron benefited

(01:08:54):
from that very criteria when he played in Cleveland the
first time. Right, they won sixty one, they won sixty six,
and everybody was like, he's doing it by himself. Right,
he doesn't have a second guy. Derek Rose doesn't have
a second guy. Alan Iverson doesn't have a second guy
when he won MVP. So I'm totally with you, Vinnie.
All right, man, great job, keep up the great for

(01:09:15):
you soon. Hey, I'll take it easily. Don't don't choke,
Rob Chris, I'm hard. It is hard. Hey. You know
he's going on the Golden Girls cruise tomorrow. That's that's right, Rob,
Half half fun and not pick on any of the
sixty year olds. Okay, they do not want you. That's
the dude they walk gd sixty year olds might want him.

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jump all right. DJ Alex tightshit on the ones and twos,
and it is time for shop talk. Ain't nobody ain't
still been a bomb? Shop you know that? Ain't nobody.
You will talk about whoever, whatever, whatever you want to

(01:10:23):
in the shop talk. Yes, sir, this shop talk the
couple of Fox Sports Rader. We do this every single
Friday at eight forty five pm Eastern. We discuss something
that happened outside of the world of sports because we
are well rounded individuals. And this week's story comes to
us courtesy of The New York Times. Let me just
read the lead to you guys, and then they'll get
your thoughts at it. Afterwards, I was eating at my

(01:10:45):
desk and my phone starts buzzing. Check Facebook, Check Twitter?
Are you okay? It was an emergency. My boyfriend had
a new girlfriend and it was Lady Gaga. What Who's who?
What's the name of the reporter? Samantha Fields? Okay, never
heard of it? Okay, so here so that they got

(01:11:05):
me thinking, Guys, there's the question. Now, I know, Chris,
did you have to aswer two different ways because you're
happily married? But how would you feel if you found
out that your ex was dating a celebrity in your
case both of you, guys, someone more famous than you. Um, well,
if it wasn't but I'm married. As you said, if
it was an ex girlfriend like before my wife, I

(01:11:28):
really wouldn't care. Okay, Um, I don't have any feelings
towards those girls anymore. But if it were my wife,
like say we broke up now, Um, but say she
was with Denzel or something, you know, some Blair Underwood,
just something handsome actor or something right. Honestly, it would

(01:11:53):
depend on who I'm with now. If I'm with Halle Berry,
didn you we be with whoever? She want to look
at you. I mean, if I'm with somebody like that,
you can be with whoever. But if you were with
I'm good. But if you were with plump Pam would
be And then I got a problem. Then I'm feeling bad,
you know, And uh yeah, I'm I'm I'm concerned. I

(01:12:14):
got issues. Then I don't look at stuff like that.
She's my ex for a reason, So I'm good. You
could got whoever you wanna be with. I don't. That's
his headache. Now there's a reason I'm bound. That's his headache.
And you know all the superficial stuff. I know behind
closed doors, what's going on. You could have a hood

(01:12:34):
on him. And if you want to have always said this,
but you noticed, Chris, you could have the prettiest woman
as your wife. Girl for the she's a headache behind
closed doors, and it just it doesn't matter. So Rob
stephen A. Smith starts dating your ex wife right now?
You cool, I'm good with that's your boy. I have

(01:12:55):
a problem. It would be weird. It would be weird.
It would be weird like that throws it. Then you
look at your boy, you like, of all the women
out there, do I have to be my ex wife.
Come on, Steve, how are you gonna do that? Steve?
Come on? Would it would be weird? So yeah, I
what about you, Rob you? Well, it almost happened for
me back in the day. My girlfriend in between before

(01:13:16):
I was with my wife, we broke up and she
had went to girlfriends. You have not as many as
Rob Parker, for sure, but let me tell you. So
she went to Vegas at the time of the NBA
Summer League and she hit it off apparently and was
really throwing it at Steph Curry. Wow, but thank you.
Thankfully Steph Curry shut it down. Otherwise I would have

(01:13:36):
been really upset. Would you? I would have been so mad? Yeah,
because I'm like, you wouldn't have felt like, oh man,
because my girlfriend were fine. No, we we broke up
on bad terms. I didn't. I really didn't like her
at that time. I'm like, so, if you broke up
with me, wake up with her. She up with her,
and then she she falls upwards to Steph Curry like

(01:13:57):
that is really upwards? Yeah, I mean, I but my good.
The only I mean, he's just like a Mount Everest clime.
But the only reason she went for Steph Curry because
you guys are the same height right now, Fairness, he
wasn't Steph Curry yet he was just what was he?
He was like a second year player, Alex, I know
you don't care, but he was still an NBA play Yes,

(01:14:17):
he was still like much higher on the totem pole. Yes,
Rob shout. You know what's funny, Rob is not only
did would I not care? I know I would feel
even better because she had to go to such extraneous
heights just to get over MOI. I mean that's like
the biggest thing to feel good about. Look at the Vegan.
I think about CB, Like you know, you guys had

(01:14:38):
a break up. Some happened. Why would I even care
about an eye? If she's dating somebody famous, I'm not
good for you. Now you have a bigger headache to
deal with. Go for it. You you come from a
different perspective. Yeah, she's young, she's in college, she's a woman. Yes,
go ahead. Um, if she's really pretty, then I'm really
happy because that makes me look way prettier. Plus when

(01:15:01):
they break up, their break up will be so public
it's going to embarrass him. Oh wow, I know what
if what if he broke up? Okay, so if he
if your ex boyfriend was dating who say, I don't know,
uh uh, who's Who's a beautiful young actress? Actress? Now
Lucy Hale? You you you you like that? You'd be like,

(01:15:25):
I'd feel a lot better about myself because Lucy Hale
is beautiful. So I'd be like, Wow, I'm just as
attractive as her, and I'm probably funnier. So all right,
I'm with that. Yeah, that's the thing too. What if
your ex you break up and she's dating some some dog,
then you do you do you wonder like, wow, that's

(01:15:46):
that's that's all she could get. Hey, man, do you
say that sometimes the river's gotta go down to cliff Man.
It is the Eye Couple. We got two hours left
here in Fox Sports. I'm sorry, one hour left. Rob.
Let me know he's hype Golden Girls. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard

(01:16:08):
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(01:16:34):
here Rob park Rob Parker is downright giddy, and I
am not exaggerating. I mean tonight he is flying from
Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale right for the Golden Girls cruise.
And I'm happy for him. Now I've looked at it online.

(01:16:57):
It ain't something you're gonna catch me as I knew.
He's just let you know. But Rob is hyped and
he's my boy, so I'm happy for him to teach
his own and uh, he's he just can't wait to
get out of here. When I said there were two
hours left five minutes ago, he almost fell over. Wait

(01:17:19):
to no one. You know what I'm gonna go. We're
gonna get into it after the last segment of the show.
We're gonna talk about his Golden Girls itinerary and Chris
can't wait to talk about I'm just it's like a show.
You don't have to, Chris. It's not like you're you're
in school and you have to partake in everything that's
there for you. They're all kinds of people gonna be

(01:17:41):
on the boat all content. And then there's there's two
kinds of people gonna be on the boat, old men
and old women. All right. I guarantee you the idea
that you think it's gonna be old people pictures and
not old people. Do you think, Well, yeah, you don't say,
because you own yourself. I'm not old. Nobody's old to you,
all right. Anyway, we will be joined by at the

(01:18:03):
bottom of the hour in about twenty seven minutes Scott mccluan,
the former general manager in the NFL, So great to
talk to him. Obviously, so much going on with the
NFL Draft, free agency, so that'll be a lot of fun.
So definitely keep it locked for that right here on
Fox Sports Radio, the iHeart Radio app or Series XM,
Channel eighty three. But first we're gonna get into a

(01:18:24):
little NBA and we talked about it earlier, but there's
a growing beef in the NBA and I like it,
I gotta admit, because everybody's lovey dovey. Now everybody wants
to team up and play come to my camp a
vacation together, banana boats all that, and Yannis ain't having it.

(01:18:47):
Yannis onto the coupo. The reigning MVP doesn't play with
other superstars in the summer. He plays with the young
guns that won the ball. Yannis doesn't pick the superstars
for his All Star team. He picks the young guys
that are hungry and James Harden. Props to James Harden.

(01:19:10):
James Harden, who always say reminds us that basketball is
not just the game of athleticism. It's not just about
how high you can jump, how fast you can run.
It is about skills. Is that what a z or

(01:19:31):
ness z skills? Larry Bird had skills, Magic Johnson had skills,
Oscar Robertson had skills. After Michael Jordan, everybody just wanted
to be athletic, not realizing Jordan had skills too. And

(01:19:53):
James Harden takes it back. I'm not the fastest god.
In fact, relatively speaking, I might be a little bit slow.
I'm not the highest leaping guy on the on the
on the league. In fact, relatively speaking, I might be
a little bit earthbound. But he got skills, and these
two guys are going at it verbally. Yan I can't

(01:20:17):
even say Yanni started it. Harden started it. Because when
Yannis won the MVP last year edged out Hardened, I
believe rightfully so because I voted for Yannis. Harden said
it was just narrative. He didn't really outplay me. You
heard him. I had people wondering, is he going for forty?
Is he going for fifty? Every night I played? He

(01:20:41):
had the narrative and Yanni is still one. So Yannis,
then I wanted to know what the Yannis doesn't have
a narrative. That's what I was trying to figure Milwaukee.
For goodness, say he's saying that there was some media
never about once. I don't know what it is, the
thin sexy, there's nothing, you know, he's not Lebron with

(01:21:05):
the charisma. What's the narrative about him? I don't know.
And that's what I'm shocked by. And of course whoever
was interviewing him just kind of agreed with it, because
I would have said, what native I explained the narrative
that they got going for that the media has going
for him, what narrative totally, that he just had unbelievable numbers,
that the narrative. I just right. That they won a

(01:21:28):
ton of games and he put up thirty points a night,
and that's a pretty good narrative in anyway, Yannis took
a jab at him, Robin, I don't think it was
a jab. We think the kids just honest. He's not
used to being politically correct like the rest of US Americans,
and he just said what came to his mind. I
want somebody to pass the ball. That's why he didn't
pick Harden on the All Star team. And then after

(01:21:51):
the game, I mean, he said, our strategy in the
fourth quarter when it got competitive, go at whoever hardens Garden. Well,
Chris Paul Lebron, Anthony Davis and Kauhi were the other
four teammates are hard And of course I'm going at
James Harden, but I get it. I like the beard.
I like him a lot. And I like the fact

(01:22:11):
that after hearing that, he said, enough, you're about to
roll up in here from Greece. You ain't never been
in the hood, you ain't never balled on the playgrounds,
you ain't brought it like me, you ain't had to
bring it like me, and you won't call me out. No,

(01:22:35):
So he said this to Rachel Nichols. When it's also
said and done, they'll appreciate it more, you know. But
I wish I could just run running with seven feet
and running just dump like that takes no skill at all.
I gotta actually learn how to play basketball and how
to have skilled You know, low do you think that
in the end a title is going to give you
the respect that you think he deserves? It is and

(01:22:57):
I will get it, low blow. He went at Yannis
to say he has no skills or the guy's seven
foot tall? Chris, what is he doing wrong? Nothing that
that a seventh foot or with his ability to his athleticism,
what does he what should he do? Should he dribble
the basketball the perimeter and pass to other people? And

(01:23:18):
can't do that? Actually no, I know that too. But
I'm just saying like he's saying, off, I could just
jump and dunk. I would do that too, of course
you would, because it's smart basketball. Right, Well, what what
what part don't you get? Right now? I'm with it.
I mean I'm not. I don't have a horse in
this race. I like both of the guys. They're both great,
historically great. But to say Yannis doesn't have skills is

(01:23:43):
and Harden knows it, he knows the game. It's ridiculous,
just for the Milwaukee's playing. Okay, see, Yannis has nineteen
nine and three and what two minutes to go to
the half? Look the numbers? You know what? He since
you since you went there, Let's go there. I was
on Undisputed today with Skipper Shannon and the topic was

(01:24:05):
can Lebron James catch Yannis for the MVP race? Now
you brought narrative, Believe it or not, You're gonna be
shocked by this. Of course, Shannon thinks Lebron's MVP. Skip
said he believes Lebron will win the MVP. Wow. Now
he said no, he said Yannis should, but he believes

(01:24:30):
Lebron will because of the narrative. He said, Look, he's
he is having the greatest seventeenth year, seventeen season of
any player in NBA history, bar none. Lebron James is
going to lead the NBA and assist in his seventeenth year.
I checked it out. No player in NBA history has

(01:24:51):
led the league in anything, any significant category in their
seventeenth year. Shock did lead the league in field goal
centag his seventeenth year, but you know he wasn't scoring
twenty five. But here's the only problem, and that's fine
to hear the narrative. The Bucks, whether we agree or
not on how they determine this, are putting together one

(01:25:14):
of the greatest seasons ever for a team in the NBA.
I'm not saying they're better than the Bulls or the Warriors,
but Chris, I'm talking about statistically, right, and the way
that the pencil pen protectors are are looking at the game,
because that's what they are, protectors, the pencil pushers, you

(01:25:35):
know what I mean, those guys, but the analytics geeks, right,
But I'm just saying that that gives you to say,
where if you're your honest, how in the world could
you not look at that and think he's having some year?
Is that Nancy Lieberman in the middle, right, Yeah, Yeah,
it's my girl. We played one on one whip gym
with me. She I would have beat her. She won

(01:25:55):
by a couple of buckets. I would have beat her.
You would not have beaten the Hall of Famer if
you stock a couple buckets off of her. Oh, I'm
wearing her out. I scored the first two baskets of
the game. That there's no way she'd beat me. If
you scored the first two baskets of the game. Did
I tell you that. The one of the guys at
the radio station at the time when we did it,
Nancy Leeman's on the Okay, see all the Memphis saw

(01:26:17):
a halftime show and then the Hall of Famer, and
he bet me, he said, I get I bet you
you won't score. That's what he said, Like he thought
Nancy was going to like shut me out. So I
scored the first basket of the game. I called time out.
I went over to him and said, give me my
twenty Dare you think I'm not gonna score? Chris seriously

(01:26:37):
that I'm shocked you scored on Nancy like that just
tells me why I've said it. A woman can't play
in the NBA because she is maybe the best woman's
player ever. She can't get you scored on it. She
can't give you can't give up a bast You think
you can get a basket against the NBA player if
they're serious one, Not if they were serious. I couldn't
if they got serious, I couldn't stepped back and put

(01:27:01):
up a shot. Not if they're serious. I'm asking you
if they want to guard you hard, No, I'm serious,
But even don't understand how good these dudes get it?
All right, anyway, let's get back to it Yannis. I
agree with you, Rob, but everybody knows I love Lebron.
He ain't MVP. It's Yannis in a landslide. And I'm

(01:27:22):
about to give you and we're gonna throw it out
to your callers, and I want all you that disagree
with me, that think it's Lebron or somebody else, I'm
about to give you an airtight, fool proof argument for Yannis.
Rob number one, we're just comparing Lebron in Yannis because
I think Lebron's clearly second. Yannis has the better traditional statistics.

(01:27:46):
He's averaging thirty points a game, Lebron twenty five. He's
averaging fourteen rebounds a game Lebron's eight. He's averaging six
or sist. Lebron's got him there, his averaging close to eleven.
But Yanni is just shooting fifty five percent from the
floor Lebron four. Yannis has the better traditional numbers, analytical numbers.
Yannis has a peer player officiency Radney Rob that's the

(01:28:11):
best all time, better than Wilt Chamberlain ever. Put up
who has the second and third best better than Michael Jordan,
the goat ever put up, who has the fourth best
better than Lebron. At his best put up, he has
the fifth best. Lebron's pr He's ninth in the league
and second on his team. Anthony Davis has one that's

(01:28:35):
almost three that three points higher than Lebron. Then Yannis
does it on both ends of the floor. And I
know Lebron's played better defense this year, but Yannis is
arguably the best defender in the league. He got the
best offensive numbers in the league, and he's arguably the
best defensive player in the league. He's the best defensive

(01:28:56):
player on the best defensive team in the league. And
in you talk about team success, rob the Bucks are
on pace to win seventy one games. Okay, the only
two teams to ever win more than seventy one games
were the Bulls of Jordan and ninety six and the
Great Warriors team in sixteen. The Bulls had three Hall

(01:29:17):
of Famers, Robin, Pippin and Jordan. The Warriors had at
least two in Stephen Clayton and Draymond probably will be
a Hall of Famer. So three on that then they're
winning games by an average of twelve point two points
a game. The only two teams to win by higher
average in that the nineteen seventy one Milwaukee Bucks, who

(01:29:39):
had Oscar Robertson and Kareem dul Jabbar. I was gonna
say it had both of those guys, two Hall of Famers,
two Top twelve players of all times, and the La
Lakers of nineteen seventy three, who had Will Chamberlain, Jerry
West and Gail Goodrich. And Yannis is doing it with

(01:30:00):
Chris Middleton. No, no shade on Chris Middleton. He's in
All Stars. It's a really good player. But I know
what you mean. He was a second round pick who
had to fight his way through. People still don't give
him the respect that he deserves. Chris. But he's a
good player. But he ain't. He ain't Anthony Davis. And
that's what everybody there, the Lakers having proved they're having

(01:30:21):
a great year, but don't don't forget Lebron's got Anthony Davis.
And I have volved. I've been voting for twenty five
years and one of the things I always look at, Yeah,
one thing I always look at this who who you
who's helping you what's your your help? So when Lebron
was in Cleveland his first go round, he won two MVPs.
Big part of it was he ain't got no second superstar.

(01:30:44):
He had Moe Williams who made some All Star teams,
but you know, not a superstar. And then when Derek
Rose wonted in Chicago, no second superstar. Right when Alan
Iverson won it, Mutombo was really good, but no second superstar.
So that's a criteria. So it can't change precedence. Set.
I think it's Yannis. Rob thinks it's Yannis. Who you

(01:31:05):
think who is your NBA MVP right now? Is it Yannis?
Is it Lebron? Is it someone else? Harden, Luca, whoever?
And you got to prove to me it's not Yannis.
For those out there the naysayers eight seven seven ninety
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I really want to hear this. Who's the MVP? I
think it's clearly yes. We want to know. I gotta
hear your view. Let's start with trucker Don in Boston.
Trucker Don. There it is, Thank you, brother, you sink

(01:32:32):
to our ears. Thank you, guys. I appreciate it. Hey, um, Chris,
I appreciate you taking my call. And Rob, I forgot
to wish you a bond boyarde last night in the call.
That's why I'm calling back so soon. A We appreciate
I can't wait. Well, I wanted to make you feel
safer on your trip. All right, I'm listening, Okay, Well,

(01:32:53):
I figure that if anything should happen to this ship,
you know, like on your way to the Bahamas, like
an iceberg or something, you should feel perfectly safe because
this guy is gonna be enough old man on the
There's gonna be enough by girl on that chip up
for a week. Oh gosh, can we run that? I

(01:33:14):
didn't I say, weren't you the one that brought up
the coronavirus yesterday? Ye? Hey do there won't be. There
won't be. I'm telling you there will be a bunch
of old's not gonna be a lot of old people
on that. You get the picture, Yes, I did. Thanks
for man, Chris, when I send you the pictures of
the baby is to go down to the hospital spending

(01:33:38):
spending next week there, let's go to andre Massachusetts, Andreo
with Chris and Rob. Yeah, thanks for taking Michael first
of all. Again, I gotta with Rob. A good trip
now on the Golden Girls crew. Thank you. I'm concerned
a ARP. It works for me and nothing wrong, you
know with a woman that had a little bit of seasoning,
you know what I mean. That's a good a little

(01:33:59):
bit of sea are looking about crisp fine wine right there,
fine wine, but back to the point about Jannist and Lebron.
This year is clearly Yannest. He's the young lion that's
moving through the Pride lands. It hastes to win. But
at the same time, for me, Lebron and year seventeen
being in the conversation speaks as much to his greatness
in terms of him staying relevant and really he has

(01:34:21):
his eye on Kareem's all time scoring record and continuing
to dominate and to put himself in that conversation. He
might not get the six rings, but the longevities is
what might get him closer to Jordan. Might not. That's
a good car. I agree. I agree with that he
ain't getting the six rings, but I agree with you. Hey, hey,
I got another line from for the stand up and
he just gave me. Well, we'll get to that long

(01:34:42):
getting Richard in Virginia, West Virginia with Chris and Rod
what's up. I'm not kind of like this when it
comes to the MVP. I've been just watching this game, Yarns,
and he's a seven for the right you know, even
be taller in seven feet right, Okay, I think him
and Kevin durand Covin Durand did it. He was coming down.

(01:35:04):
He's dribbling the ball down there like le Bron does.
Any drives are done like a guard or a four
or whatever they are. He just droveled it down, shot
at a three pointer, and he's a good rebound. He
can do about everything for a guy that's seven foot something.
But until they win the Bucks win a championship, I

(01:35:25):
don't think you could put him with the MVP and
like a Lebron just going to LA which they haven't
done anything for years, if they win a championship, you
got to give him the MVP. So I think it's
too early. Here's the thing. Yes, it's totally a regular
season award. The votes are due like April fourteenth or
something like that, so it's completely a regular season award.

(01:35:47):
And a lot of people say, why don't you wait
till after the playoffs? Then there wouldn't be any it'd
be the finals MVP exactly, and you can't do that. Also,
because everybody doesn't make the playoffs, right or you get
knocked out, that doesn't mean you didn't have a great
regular season. I think it's I think that would be unfair. Yeah,
let's go to Sam and Seattle Sam, you know with
the Eye couple. Hey, Rob, you've enjoyed your break from

(01:36:11):
the Lebron apologizer. I wish you well, Thank you so much.
You just it is. I just said Yannie is MVP.
What am I apologizing for Lebron? Uh? You know? I
mean and graz that Yannice is probably gonna win it,
But it doesn't matter. I mean, we always go with

(01:36:32):
who wins the NBA Championship. I mean no, because remember,
it's a regular season award. I agree, I agree, it's
a regular season. But now they've like lowered the value
of the regular season with dudes sitting out. Guy's not
fully getting it. I mean, Kawhi could have been the
regular season guy last years, missed twenty two games. Yeah,

(01:36:54):
why could be would be in the running this year
if he wasn't sitting out. Yeah, I hear you. I
agree with that. The regular season is a bit devalued. Yes. Yeah,
and one last thing, Rob, remember wrap it up? Oh yeah,
no doubt about it. I don't think you have to
worry about he ain't getting no action. I told you

(01:37:14):
what's the under three? Well, I'm not gonna say anything.
Don't say Chris let's go to Robert in Tacoma. You're
all with Chris and Rob. Go ahead, Robert Robe. You
know what you what's happening. You guys make my day
every day. I just wanted to let you guys go.
Every day I listened to you, and you guys make
me laugh. You guys are awesome. That means a lot. Yeah,

(01:37:37):
and it's gonna be the Greek Freak. He's been having
a phenomenal year. I love my Lakers and the Lakers
fans since like eighty four, but you know this year
looks like the Greek Freak and Rob no way, no,
how will you ever catch me on a golden girl?
Are you doing? I just looked it up. Bingo and

(01:37:57):
cheesecame Ingoa, son, That's all it's about. You'll have a
good one. I'll be in I'll be in heaven. Are
you kidding? Cheesecake all over the place. I'm a little
moist right now. All right, Bengo, you think I'm going
to the Bengal. I don't have to go to all
the events. Bingoing. He hit it on the head, bingoing.

(01:38:18):
Cheesecake all right? Anyway, Joe Burrow seems to be a
lock for the first pick in the draft, but it's
too actually the better NFL prospect. Former NFL general manager
Scott mccleuan has the answer next, but first, be sure
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He's a former NFL general manager here to give us

(01:39:02):
knowledge about the draft and free agency. Scott McClue and
Scott Welcome to The Eye Couple. Thanks for having me, guys.
All right, I'm just gonna throw it out to you,
uh really, simply, who's the best quarterback prospect in this draft?
Joe Burrow? Why? Why? Yep? Why? You know what? They're

(01:39:22):
all solid? You know. I just say that because there's
so much now nowadays that you guys are world were
this time of the year. Ar what you want to hear.
You hear it, you don't want to hear it, doesn't matter.
But just the way what I saw this year, Um,
even when when when two is still healthy before he
hurt the hips, um and n before the ankle um.
You know, just apples for apples oranges oranges. I thought

(01:39:46):
Burrow proved to be a better quarterback. Um. They both
had some great supporting cast, there's no doubt about it.
But I saw what Burrow had to overcome with the
fact that transferring with the factor going to it. Uh.
You know, an environment that's toally opposite of Ohio down
in Louisiana. You guys are all aware and fitting in

(01:40:06):
and not just fitting in, but being a team leader
on a very very talented football team with a lot
of Southerners on it. I think it's exceptional to show
a kind of person he is, what kind of man
he is, well kind of how mature he is to
take that team and then do what he did during
the season, you know, as they say, and then it
happened nowadays that he spread offenses and amount of numbers
they put up in touchdowns they put from all that.

(01:40:28):
But when you hear people, you know, old school players
quarterbacks coaches saying maybe the best year ever for a
college quarterback. That's pretty interesting because you just don't fall,
you just don't fall into that carew he clearly was.
I think it clearly was. Now. There was a big
stink earlier in the week though about his hands being
only nine inches, which is small for a quarterback. Does

(01:40:49):
that would that worry you at all? Not at all?
You know, people talk about my first year in San
Fan in OH five, I took Alex Smith with the
first pickle were all and he was nine in a
quarter and everybody questioned it. And you know, I was
lucky enough to see, you know, to see him play
in bad weather conditions, you know, when it was cold,

(01:41:10):
when it was raining in a snowy Um, that's what
you worry about in the wind possibly, you know, say
up up in Seattle, we kind of worried about that,
you know, with with Russell being shorter, but he had
big hands so it didn't matter whatsoever. But you know,
you worry about just an elements. But then again, you know,
you go back and you do your tapework and you
identify strengths and weaknesses, and if you identify turnovers, you

(01:41:32):
know fumble, you know, you know it's the handoffs or
take it from the center. If there's multpule of those,
then you start questioning it. What's the issue here? Is it?
Is it the hand size? Or does he struggle when
he's playing a windy game? Thrown into the wind? Does
he have tough time thrown a spiral? Can he spin
it tight enough? Um? But I say, I think what's
all said and done. No, it doesn't really matter. It's

(01:41:53):
like he sta't running back. He's got small feet compared
to big seat if you always floored because he's got
big feet off. If you can run, you can run.
If you can throw it, you can trouble. How about
the Lions, You know, there's all kinds of stuff out there.
There was a report that the Lions might be trying
to trade Matthew Stafford. They have the third overall pick.
Is there any way that they take two at a
number three or do they trade down? You know what

(01:42:15):
my standpoint? You know, and being a situation where we're
have an early pick and say you have an older quarterback,
you know, it's something you always considered because what you're
looking at it is not just that one year. You know,
if all of a sudden, you know, Stafford's the quarterback,
you know, and knock on what he gets healthy again
to the point where he's playing like he has, then
he still got a really good quarterback. You know. I

(01:42:36):
think Green Bay did it, you know, when Farba's still
playing well and they took Aaron. You know, but just
for the future, not for the now. And if you're
strong enough organization, with the strong enough ownership to believe
in the front office, you say, listen to us, gonna
be our answers. Not just year one or year two.
This might be year three to year fifteen, like Aaron's

(01:42:57):
been for green Bay. Now you got something, and you're
taking a position it's so hard to find, and you
hope you're not picking this early again for a while.
You know. You never know, of course, but you hope
you're not. And if you identify, especially at the quarterback position,
a future you know, franchise quarterback, keep them, you know,
because life short in the NFL. If you don't have one,
and you know you'd be looking back five years from now.

(01:43:19):
It's named sent him a gun. If either taking him,
you know, we've traded up three and got him, you know,
we'd be set right now, we still have jobs, we'd
still be we'll be winning games, were playing in the playoffs,
you know. So I mean it's a very tricky thing
and it looks tough on paper. You know. There's talk
about this redskin stuff, you know, with with Haskins being
taken you know, last year in the first round, you know.

(01:43:40):
But you know Ronnie Verer understands too that. You know,
he could have liked them last year and not liked them.
Who knows when when when he was in the draft,
you know, but he has them now. But also he
like he came out and said, you gotta do you
gotta look at all your options because this is not
just well, let's keep someone so happy or keep this
owner happy or whatever. We got to do what's best
for your organization, and not this year, but the future

(01:44:02):
as well. Former NFL general manager Scott McCluin joining the
odd couple. Where did Tom Brady obviously a free agent?
None of us know what's going to happen. Let me
ask you this way, Scott, is there, what do you
think if he leaves New England? What do you think
is the best fit for you? You know it it's

(01:44:22):
gonna be. It has to be something where that they
have to have a legit offensive line, you know, and
in that standpoint of pass protection, but also have a
legit run game because you know, the guy, the guy's
played twenty years and it doesn't matter. You can be Superman.
You're gonna slow down eventually, no matter what. And I
feel he has from the standpoint of movement in the
pocket now very instinctive, really understands what his limitations are

(01:44:47):
and knows what a strengths are in place to him
very very well. And that's not gonna change. But he
can't do he can't sit back and throw it thirty
five times a game and you expect him to survive.
He's not gonna last, there's no matter what. So it's
gonna have to be a situation. And they've researched it,
you know, the agent has been on it, and you know,
get to Brady about our you know, for a while,

(01:45:08):
and uh, you know, they have ideas. But it's gonna
be a legit contending team because they're gonna have a
good offensive line, they're gonna have a good running game,
they're gonna have a solid number one receiver, you know,
they're gonna have a tight end that's definitely functional. So
you can narrow down pretty quick by by just going
through the team. They're looking Tennessee, maybe Tampa certainly certainly

(01:45:30):
no doubt about. Yeah, how does the Dak think play out? Uh?
You know, like like they want Dak, but they want
him at his price. But uh, every just about every quarterback,
the price has gone up. They've they've kind of want
them to take a hometown discount. How does it? How
does it play out? Because it doesn't seem like the
Cowboys are willing to budge, and it doesn't seem like

(01:45:52):
Dax's people they they supposedly asked for forty million dollars.
Would you pay Dak that kind of money? You know,
be careful with it, but also understand the market. You
know what right before us started to leave the Redskins,
you know, we had the same thing going on with
Kirk Cousins. And you know, I was all about from
the personnel side. You know, if you saw the legit starter,

(01:46:14):
he saw a possible franchise that you know, his background,
he's been in the building for a couple of years.
You know, how teammates think about you know, a coaches
think about him, you know how he is in the community.
Now you've got a good feeling of what you got,
so you overpaid for that, especially with frignacy, you have
to It's differently going out and reaching in the market
and getting some other quarterback and thinking, Okay, we'll bring
him in. You know, say of Philip Rivers, you know,

(01:46:36):
say possibly through say possibly Tom Brady. You know you
don't know him as well as you know. You're you're
in house guy. So if you're gonna pay extra, you
pay extra for your own unless you don't think he's
the answer. Now, let me ask you that when you
when you talk about Kirk Cousins, the Redskins drafted him, right,
you got the Redskins drafted him. They saw every snap,

(01:46:56):
every practice, but they refuse to give this guy a contract.
They gave him two franchise tags and then he wound
up leaving. Was that because they didn't believe didn't believe
in him or what? What? Why would they not commit
clearly something? It was something that you didn't believe him
because you saw him every day. It was your guy.

(01:47:17):
You're you're asking the right guy here, because I was
highly involved when I first took the job there. You know,
RG three was coming off to the injury. You know,
of course years rookie of the year and then came
back the next year's come off the injury. And you know,
everybody was, you know, from the ownership to the president,
we're asking me, well, you know, who's gonna be the starter? Who?
Do who? Who do you think the quarterback is as
a robber? Do you know? As the kurk? You know?

(01:47:39):
And personally I didn't know, I said, listening and I
get in there. We're gonna go through training camp, We're
gonna go through Oka, this is the whole offseason stuff.
You know, I'll get a good feeling for, you know, personally,
and then I'm gonna be honest because that's what you
hired me for, you know, And I'm gonna give you
my honest opinion. And from the you know, when it
got said and done, both myself and Jake Gruden, the
head coach, runner the assumption that Kirk Earn earned the
starting job. And you know, not not taking shots of

(01:48:02):
Robert whatsoever, because he worked hard at it and everything.
The injury slowed him down quite a bit of what
he really could do and that's moved around the pocket
and make things happen on third down. But if we
didn't the name Kirk the guy, then the teammates around
him are gonna say, well, Kirk want it. So we're
not starting the best guy, you know. So we had
to do that, okay, But but that was not completely
the whole building believing that, you know, it was the

(01:48:25):
head coach in the GM believing that we had other
people in the building that had a lot of stroke
that never bought into it, and that's why there was
never a long term deal given. Scott great so so
so yeah, you know, I'm started to catch out there.
But so what's going on in Dallas is similar from
the standpoint, does Jerry does Steven believe that he's the
he's the answer going forward to a long term deal.

(01:48:47):
If me on the outside of the way we had
with Kirk, I'd say, no, they don't you know that,
you know, because that the head coach and the head
coach got let go, you know thirt similar. All right, Scott,
great stuff, We appreciate the knowledge. Have a great weekend,
all right, Yeah, they talk to you soon. My partner

(01:49:08):
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The moment of truth is upon us. He's been talking
about it for a year a year. It feels like, No,
it hasn't been, rob G hasn't been that long. It's

(01:50:10):
been at least six months, six or eight months. Yeah,
it's a month show, all right. It's been the bulk
of the show. But Rob Parker is going finally going
on the Golden Girls Cruise. That's five nights to the
Western Caribbean cosomel Key West. Can't wait, all right, And

(01:50:30):
Rob G did a little research on what this Golden
Girls actually about. They couldn't wait to text Christmas morning?
What time did it? Text you? Five am I enough
to go do undisputed? And I saw texts waiting for
I knew it. We are only hours away from Rob
Parker's Golden Girl cruise and I actually got a copy
of the itinerary with some of the events that will

(01:50:52):
be on boards. So we're gonna run through a few
I want to make. I just want you to know,
Rob g when they put out an itinerary to mean
you going to everything that they have, but it does
give you. It does. The tone of the cruise is
going to be, it's about the TV show. It's all right.
Here's a few Rob will get started. The Calftans and

(01:51:14):
Cheesecake welcome party at the Consolations Nightclub. I'll be there, Cheesecake,
I'll be there. That's great. And then that same night,
Thank you for being a friend, Game show with Celebrity
Drag Queen, Tempest de jure, it's Rob's favorite. You you
you like tell a woman? Don't you ever tell me

(01:51:34):
your oscar again? You are officially Felix from now go
look at the pictures. Who has on the sweatsuit, ripping muscles.
Just me, Chris has on the suit. I tell you
who doesn't have on a sweatsuit? So you go into
that rob It seems like it'd be fun. What is
it against? Say? What is it? Thank you for being

(01:51:55):
a friend? Game show? Yeah, I'll go check it out.
I'll check it out, all right. Here's another one, Golden
Girls Forever meet and greet with author Jim Calucci. That
sounds fun. I'll probably check that out. Okay, how about
the meet and greet with Dorothy Rose and Blanche starring
the Golden Gays New York. I'll pass on that one,

(01:52:17):
not to do anything wrong with it. Was fun, but
I'll pass. I'll probably pass on you going to see Timbers.
Why can't you gonna see the Golden I gonna go
to every event that's on the boat, just because the
having it all right. Here's the later that night, I
was getting scared, y'all. Just see his hand shake. Here
we go, Brave Front night. What did I sign? The

(01:52:40):
rusty anchor? Karaoke in the Celebrity theater. You're gonna go
to that? Karaoke? Could be fun? Absolutely? What you do
a song? If I do, I'd have to get somebody
to sing with because I would probably do MCA. I
mean it sounds like that would fit the theme of
the crew and see him trying to be funny the villa. Well, Chris,

(01:53:02):
don't hold on because if you go not be aware.
You gotta get up early because the following morning, Betty
White card making and Roses Craft Corner where you can crochet,
needle point any other crafts lovers to meet and connective
a sharp Oh my god, you know I'm not doing
that is Rob you, my man, This is sounding worse

(01:53:22):
and worse. But Rob lost all our callers, and you
lose if you lose some steam. Later that night, though,
you can go to the Friends of Dorothy meet up
at the Martini Bar where you can join LGBTQ friends
for a drink. Of course, friends, I'll go that's wrong
with a drink? Right, that's right? And now this is

(01:53:43):
the last one was my favorite one, right at the
end that the final dinner of the of the cruise.
It's the Golden Gay's New York Present, Hot flashbacks and
you gotta you know, you have a musical tribute, which
is nice. Was the dress attire for that event, shoulder
pad formal. I'm a woman, man, you better GiB you got.

(01:54:09):
You're trying to go up there in mail clothes. You're
better to give you some dress. Rob gee. The one
thing that he says he has the antemperary, but he
didn't mention at all the water park and cause a mal.
He didn't mention any of the other events that were
doing off the boat. This is only he didn't mention
the bar crawl a key West. Of course he picks

(01:54:31):
out a handful of events, but he can make fun
of it. Yeah, when you go to different bars and drink,
so it'll be a fun time. I'm looking forward to it.
I've been working really hard. I can't wait now I'm going.
I can't wait to go for you. Man, I'm happy
for you. You might find love, you know. I know
you're not looking for it, but you might. You never
know that over under. I definitely think it could be

(01:54:55):
an over if Rob wants it could be. It'll be
great watch a se I can't wait. I'll send pictures
and I will call in if I can get it through.
If I can. But now that I've heard the itinerary, uh,
don't send pictures. Keep the pictures to yourself. It is
the el Car. We'll miss him next week, See you
next week. Peace,

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