Mark Willard & Ephraim Salaam Talk Lakers Ascension, Stafford Landing Spots & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, here we go into the night, and whether it's NBA,
NFL or beyond, we are ready to rock tonight.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
And I sit here and I speak to a.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Man about town. This is This is not someone trick pony.
This is not a football meathead. This is a man
who is eclectic and well rounded. And I am betting
that a man who is as versed in entertainment as
you well understand the reference. Now, did you see the

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movie The Matrix, Ephraim, You see it.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Of course you've seen the.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Movie The Matrix, right, So remember.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Those dudes whenever you whenever you did anything bad to them,
they would just take a new form and come right back.
You shoot him there, right back, you punch him their
right back, whatever it is. You could not get rid
of the evil inside the Matrix because they would just

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they would come right back. They would come right back
to their original form, no matter what you did to them.
And that's kind of where my mind is right now.
On Lebron James and Steph Curry e from It's kind
of where my mind is all of the sudden, like
they're forty and they're thirty seven. I think about to

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be thirty seven years old, and this trade deadline.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I know that Luca came in.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
You lose to the Jazz, you lose to the Hornets,
and all of a sudden, people are haha, this isn't
gonna work well.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
How you like them now? After what they did in Denver.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Last night and suddenly Warriors on their first winning streak
since November. Oh man, it is the Western Conference simply
the same old thing all over again.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Look, I was excited about that game. I was looking
forward to seeing that game. Denver has been the Denver
Nuggets has been a thorn in the Lakers side for
quite some time. Lakers two years ago, to God, all
the way to the Western Conference Finals, they looked like
they were poised to really make you run at this
thing and lo and behold your ki Jamal Murray, Michael

(02:20):
Porter Junior. Uh you know they just you know, stomped
them out. Oh wow. Uh Moncey stole my phone. Stole
my phone, bring my phone in here. She stole my
phone giving as well.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
I mean, car, I don't even know what's more offensive
than that.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
I asked her a question and she got upset, right,
I said, she's a Clippers fan, I don't know how yeah,
And then I said out there, I said, did the
Clippers do anything this trade deadline?

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Thank you? Thank you, this trade deadline to get better?
That it's a real question.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
She's in sports, right, she's update extraordinary, And so I
asked her, did she did the Clippers do anything to
get better?

Speaker 4 (03:12):
And you know, she drug her feet and was like, well,
you know, Kawai's basically no.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
And I asked her did she see that very same
game we're talking about, the Denver the Lakers game.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
And she was like, well, no, I was at a
club and I was dancing and doing my thing.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
And and I said, well, I you know, I was
out last night too, But I always tape the games
and I come in and I watch them at my
own leisure. And so back to what we were talking about,
Thank you for bringing my phone in here, non Manci.
But after watching that game, I was like, oh, oh, oh,

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wait a minute.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Even though we.

Speaker 5 (03:52):
Were undersized, the level of defense that was being played
on your kitchen and everybody else was unbelievable. You talk
about wing defending and moving around. The energy just seemed different.
And then having Luca become Luca for the first time
of being a Laker thirty plus points. I was like,

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oh gosh, so when Lebron goes to the bench and
sits down, you don't lose anything. And so I was
extremely excited and to answer your question, yeah, this thing
could turn into the same old, same old right, the
old guard, the old dogs are still biting.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
The first thing I need to say before we move
forward on the Western Conference is, don't sit there.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
I'm not even in the room with you, and I know.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
That your question had all kinds of opinion dripping all
over it. Don't hide behind. I just asked the question.
I can tell by the way you told me that story,
you know I wouldn't talk about I know exactly what
you were doing.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
You were trying to make a point by tucking it into.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
A question one ten notes.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
I didn't follow what the I didn't feel what they
did at the yet line, I didn't Yes.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
You did you?

Speaker 2 (05:18):
This is dripping with sarcasm, dripping, and the Clipper fans
have had enough.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
There's been years of this.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
But the only way to have enough to do something
go to a conference final some anything.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Please well, yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
You know, I mean, hey, they got that cool new arena.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
They yeah, have you been. I haven't been there yet. No,
I know, I haven't been. Don't play there, so I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
No, it looks it looks fun though it.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Does look it looks festive.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
At least it has at least they have very FASTI oh, gosh.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's so demeaning anyway. Anyway, Yeah, listen, I'm being real here.
I'm not going to sit here and tell you that
anybody not named the Oklahoma City thunder sits here as
the favorite today. But when you start looking up and
down the standings and you think about how young Houston is,

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and you think about how, let's les, let's call it
what it is, unreliable. The Clippers are, I mean, Kawhi
sat out again today, they got boat raced. Memphis is
still like with a good record, but kind of a
work in progress.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
They're not terrifying by any stretch.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
And then even Oklahoma City themselves, just because they haven't
been to the dance. You start looking at Denver, if
this Laker thing, if they can figure it out, which
there's certainly a window for them to figure it out,
And my god, I'll already tell you what. I'm gonna
lead my show with tomorrow here in the Bay Area.
I was wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong. I

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asked all kinds of questions about the Jimmy Butler trade.
I knew the Warriors needed to do something, and something
was better than nothing. But I was like, that's your
big move, the disgruntled, no playing thirty five year old
from Miami. My god, it is fit like a glove.
It is fit like a glove. And they are confident.

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I know they're in the honeymoon phase, but they are
walking a foot above ground right now and they're pummeling
people in the first half.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
Yeah, it looks good. I mean it looks good. I'm
excited that they got some new blood and new energy
over there. Took some of that pressure of of Steph
and those young guys to be real factors, and you know,
this thing could shake shake out, Like.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Where where are they? There? Are they out there all
the way?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
They're the nine seed right now, but they're a game
out of the seven and and only a game and
a half out of the six. And when you look
at the you know, the Mavericks they're gonna because Anthony's
not playing, and the Kings are gonna fall because Darren
Fox is not there in Minnesota. I got no idea

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what to do with them. I don't know if they
know what to do with themselves. So, you know, if
Kawhi can't get consistent, and if the Clippers can't get
on a roll and the Rockets are are dropping like
a weight too, like I.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Mean, look, long way to go.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
But but I can see the Warriors working their way
into the top five or six the way it's playing
right now.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Oh, if they do that, then that must mean we're
up at two.

Speaker 6 (08:34):
Could be, don't I don't know if you'll catch Denver.
That's where I don't know. I think we can catch them.
I know they were on a pretty big winds Drenk.
I think they were nine to zero coming into that
game against us, and you know, I don't know, maybe
it was what a little All Star hangover or whatever.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Either way, either way, yeah, we are. We are locked
and loaded. I love that.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
You know, it felt like watching Luca felt like he
got some of his his magic back. Now, you know,
the disappointment of being traded and all of those things.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Has subsided.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
He's had a couple of weeks to you know, realize
that he's not going back and this is a real trade,
but now just to embrace the new environment.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
I think that goes for all the guys. I think
I think the trade deadline and then the All Star Game.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
I think it's great for guys to have to get
acclimated to the city, get their families where they need
to be without having to be playing games. I think
that's great the way the NBA does that. So now
that these guys are back and locked in, and the
guys who have gone to better situations, now they can

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like a Jimmy Butler, you go to Golden State and
you're playing with an all time great, you know I
got to bring right. You're not the leader in the
face of that team. You're joining in all time great,
so you know you have to bring it. I believe
it's the same with Luca. Luca was the face and
the all time great of Dallas. Now he comes and
joins Lebron. Now it will be his team, but he

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is not the face of the team, not while Lebron
is there. And you know the funny thing is Lebron James,
these are Luca's words. We're his favorite player growing up
watching him play, and so if you're on a team
with your favorite player, what will you try to do?
You got to impress him, you got to show him like,
hey man, I'm here, I'm doing my thing. And I

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think yesterday we finally got a little bit of that,
throwing lobs to him.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
They both were on and it was fun. It was
a fun game.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I mean, look, they're both brilliant basketball players, so I
would expect them to understand how to play with one another.
The one thing that I try to figure out, and
this is maybe the honeymoon phase of it, but I
was watching that I think it's called Court of Gold,
that documentary on Netflix about the Olympic basketball team, and

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Steve Curse had something interesting about bringing players like that
together and he said, you know, one thing that they're
really used to is carrying all of the responsibility for
their team, and they really enjoy coming here and then
getting to share that, yes, instead of having it all
on their shoulders. But that's a month long tournament. And

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so that's my question for all of these guys as
this unfolds, Like Luca playing with his favorite player, is
he going to defer?

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Is that what you want?

Speaker 2 (11:47):
You know, are they going to be able to navigate
when's the right time to hit the gas. When's the
right time to lean on your partner. I think that's
my question. You know, dogs want a dog too.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Yeah, dogs want a dog.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
But the way the rotation is Lebron James, it's not
gonna play forty minutes a game, right, He's not gonna
play thirty eight minutes. He shouldn't play thirty eight minutes
a game. You can get these spurts, the seven to
nine minute spurts of Lebron James and Luca can go
be Luca right, Luca can go. So if he is
deferring to Lebron, Lebron is actually deferring because he knows

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I can conserve my energy. If you've noticed his uptake
uptick on the defensive end is picked up, right, He's
switching now, He's not standing flat footed around now. He's
still really dramatic when it comes to going to the
hole and not getting a call. But what we've seen
him do is is take off and put people in

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the rim. Now as he's attacking the rim, but you
also have I've seen him switch out and and play defense.
Their wing defense is much better and like I said,
protecting the rim. Not too many people attack the rim
in today's NBA. So yeah, having Anthony Davis or Jaron

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Jackson Junior in the middle is a tremendous thing to have.
But not I mean, as far as I know, two
teams have that. Nicole Okic he can go inside, but
for the most part he plays on the perimeter. He's
a facilitator, he's a point center, and so when he
needs a bucket, yeah, he'll take you downstairs and bang

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and bang.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
But Rory did an.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
Excellent job as well as Lebron that he can't muscle
them down there. And so if just keeping that in
mind as they go forward. Now, Memphis is gonna be
a problem because they have Jaren and they have Zach Edy.
But other than that, you know, and maybe if we
do get to the finals in this Cleveland you got
Mobley and Allen.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
But other than that, I'll take our chances.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Speaking of Lebron, did you see his Instagram posts? No?

Speaker 4 (14:00):
What was it?

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Oh, we'll go get to it now. That's uh, that's
coming up next.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
We're looking at right now, I'll be prepared.

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Speaker 2 (14:40):
Okay, these arethe tire right dot com studios with E
from Salama Mark Willard. Before I let you know what
what Lebron said, maybe I should just run this at
you and then I'll tell you what he had to

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say about it. So we're looking ahead a little bit.
Let's go a couple a couple.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Of weeks into March. All right, let's pick this up
on Thursday, March thirteenth.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Okay, the Lakers will be in Milwaukee and they will
play a game on TNT Thursday night, March thirteenth, the
very next night, kind of on their way back to LA.
That's nice of the NBA. They could just go to Denver.
We'll go to Denver, play another National TV game Friday night,

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March fourteenth, So a little back to back there Milwaukee
and Denver, and then they get a day off and
now they're home. They're home for actually like a whole
week plus.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
They're home. But after a day off Saturday, they'll.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Play a day game early twelve thirty tip layup Phoenix
Suns total mess on Sunday, March sixteenth, and then the
very next night, but kind of a day and a
half because you got the early game and then the
late game. On Monday, March seventeenth, they'll host San Antonio
and then they get a day off, and then on

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Wednesday and Thursday night they'll face those same two teams
that they just visited.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
They'll have a back to back with Denver and Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
So that is, if you're counting with me, six basketball
games in eight days with three consecutive back to backs.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
Lebron took a screenshot of that. What do you think?

Speaker 5 (16:38):
He said, I'm hall now, well, what do you think
of that? Are you going with that? That's terrible? Why
eight games in six days? Six no, not eight games
and six days six days.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Six games in eight days, three consecutive back to backs,
days off in between, and one of the back to
backs is a day game followed by.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
A night game.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah, that's that's wild.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
But when was it in your life that that would
have caught your attention as wild?

Speaker 5 (17:20):
I think any team doing that, no matter what the
the makeup of the team is, that's a tough grind.
That's the equivalent of having a Sunday night football game,
or no, a Monday night football game, then coming back
and having a Sunday game and then a Thursday night game.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Is it though, Like from a physicality standpoint, is it
you played well?

Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah, because if you have three back to backs.

Speaker 5 (17:51):
In basketball, of course there's not the wear and tear
of the banging and the you know, there is no
a wreck correlation between basketball and football in terms of
the physicality of it. I'll take running up and down
and dunking the basketball and shooting threes any day over
blocking Dwight Freeney. Uh, you know, sixty five plays a game, right,

(18:16):
So I think what I didn't didn't New England have
not New England. Kansas City has Kansas and Baltimore and
they both had a span of three games and what
like eleven days or Yes, I think that's the equivalent
to that, which is, I mean it shouldn't happen. It

(18:39):
shouldn't happen, like if you just just for the if
you're just taking everything out and just for the product, right,
because it's an entertainment business, so just for the product
to be.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
What, you know, what it should be.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
Entertainment wise, you shouldn't ever force teams to do that,
right because when you tune in, you want the best
of the best.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
You want to see.

Speaker 5 (19:11):
You don't want a situation to where, yeah, I wouldn't
blame Lebron on the three back to backs if he
took up you know, took one of them off, But
how do you blame that guy Luca is also nursing,
you know, a calf. So yeah, you don't want to

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be put in a situation where you don't get to
enjoy them being on the court together. Just in terms
of what the product should look like.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Understood, they've coached us to that. Let's be real, handful
of years ago, maybe even a decade ago. Nobody even
looks at that and blinks. Now they've coached us to
a point where we look at that and we go,
oh god, this is this is awful. Number one and
number two. They're not going to play all six of

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those games. Those guys won't play all six of those games.
That's just like, we just know that, and so we've
accepted that. But I'm going to bring up the same
point that I brought up to you last week, because
the screenshot that Lebron sent out said something along the
lines of, yo, this is insane, and I thought to myself, well, no,

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it's not insane like we think it is now, because basically,
you've coached us to the point where we now realize
that either you're not going to play or we should
agree with you that this is some sort of awful thing.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
And even if I do, because I'm not going to sit.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Here and do the media thing and get all high
and mighty about it, I don't know what it's like
to play back to backs and get on planes and
fly around that.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
I don't know. At age forty, I have no idea
what that's like. And if they're all.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
Telling me that that that that is too much for
the system, then okay, it's it's too much for the system.
I still think in an entertainment world, you should stop
telling your audience constantly how much you hate playing.

Speaker 7 (21:15):
That.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
It's like, I will never get off, like just be
mad about it. But Instagram ain't your place. Dog call Adam,
don't tell us nobody, nobody. That's that's the medium. People
break up on Instagram. People unfollow people, right, That's that's
their passive aggressive way of telling you how they feel.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
I get it, because you might always be like, oh,
I didn't mean that. I didn't mean that, Now break.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Because I tried to. I tried to go to his
Instagram and check it out, and you know what, it's gone.
It's gone. He didn't. He didn't. He didn't like the blowback.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
No, But you know it's like, right, if we in
our business, if we had fifteen shows in a row,
and we asked our very own MVP, Steve the Seger
to do all fifteen shows in a row, back to
back to back to back to back, all the way
to fifteen, he'd do it. I don't know if he would.

(22:17):
I mean, I wouldn't mind if he did a little
load management bit.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
I think he would.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
That's just insane.

Speaker 8 (22:23):
Guys, say, how did you talk to that long ask
a worker to work fifteen weeks in a row out
of fifty two unbelievable. Boy, do we have a lot
of NBA to get to it. I will get to
a really high scoring game in just a moment. But
it looks like the Washington Wizards are going to lose again.
The clock is counting down at Orlando. So it's a

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one ten to ninety final is what it's going to
be for the Magic to beat the Wizards.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
Can we update the record?

Speaker 8 (22:52):
It's nine to forty seven on the season, there's still
we're almost to March next week. In his March, still
in single digit wins. They've lost six in a row,
now nine and forty seven. Meanwhile, Detroit's Cad Cunningham has
thirty eight points and thirteen assists, and Detroit is leading
with fifteen seconds left at Atlanta, one forty four to

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one forty. The Pistons are shooting fifty nine percent from
the floor from three point range, Detroit is twenty of
forty and the Hawks are near fifty percent from long
distance twenty one of forty five. But it is a
lead for the road team. Piston's up four fifteen seconds left.
The Heat have from Tyler Hero forty points and eleven assists,

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but they've fallen behind at Milwaukee in the final thirty
seconds one twenty to one thirteen Bucks. It is mid
third quarter at New Orleans, Spurs leading the Pelicans sixty
four to fifty eight halftime. At Cleveland, Cabs are winning
again sixty two to fifty six over the Grizzlies. Cavaliers
record forty six and ten. Donovan Mitchell with twenty two
points in the first half. And I'm final at Toronto

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tonight as the Raptors beat the Suns one twenty seven
to one oh nine despite thirty one points from Devin Booker.
It is now a final at Orlando. We can update
the Wizard's record to nine and forty seven. Indiana beat
the Clippers today one twenty nine, one eleven. Golden State
over Dallas one twenty six one oh two Steph Curry
thirty points. The Warriors today retired Andre iguidalas number nine,

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and Boston won its fifth straight beating New York one
eighteen to one oh five. Philadelphia is Joel Embiid. We'll
add more tests on his knee this week. He is
questionable for Monday due to Nie Swelling. Interesting that the
seventy six ers first rounder this year is top six protected.
They are six right now, just saying college basketball, Number
ten Saint John's beat Yukon eighty nine to seventy five.

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Indiana upset Number thirteen produced seventy three fifty eight. In
women's hoops, Number one Notre Dame lost in double overtime
at number thirteen NC State one oh four ninety five.
The Irish had won nineteen straight. Number three Ucla was
a sixty seven sixty five winner at Iowa with two
late free throws. Number four ranked USC defeated number twenty

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five Illinois seventy six sixty six SC and women's basketball
twenty five and two. They recently beat rival UCLA when
the Bruins were number one, and to end the regular
season Saturday Night, it's USC at Ucla, each ranked in
the top five. Still it'll be on Fox TV Saturday night.

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NASCAR winned Atlanta for Christopher Bell in overtime.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Back to you, great stuff, Steve, Yep, great stuff. He
would he would do them all, I know he would.
He would do it, and he would do them.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Well.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Have to pry that man out of the booth.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, yeah, it's all good.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
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Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Among the things Steve just
told us the Phoenix Sons a from the Phoenix Suns.
That would be an eighteen point loss at Toronto tonight.
I'll tell you what we do know in the West.

(26:25):
I don't know if Steph and Lebron can actually get
into the conference finals.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Or anything like that. Here's what I do know. I
do know that.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
The ten teams who are going to be either in
the playoffs or in the play in tournament, I know
who those teams are, and they are the ten teams
that are currently sitting in those spots.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Because the Phoenix Suns.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Are currently eleventh, they're on the outside looking in, and
shortly after it reported that their locker room was toxic
after the trade deadline, I don't know if they've won
an I do, yeah, they won one game since, but
they're two and eight in their last ten.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
They're losing games to bad teams. Now they're done.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
They're completely done, and it's fascinating to me that their
front office hasn't been more criticized. We've spent so much
time screaming and yelling about Dallas's front office that we
forgot it might have been even worse. Even worse than
trading your star is telling all your stars.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
That you're trying to trade them and then not.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
I mean, they are completely mentally done.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, it's just it's hard to watch.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
I was actually watching that game and it's basically three
guys going for themselves like they're gonna put them points up.
I think Bradley Bull at thirty today. Last couple games,
he's averaging about twenty five. They're just putting numbers up.
It's no continuity, it's no cohesion. It's just three guys
who can score scoring. Nobody's playing defense. They're literally at

(28:10):
the twenty four our fitness playing basketball. And so, you know,
KD had an opportunity to be traded. He didn't want
to go to Golden State.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
I mean.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Why, I don't know. It's been a better situation for him,
but I get it. You know, he doesn't want to
go back or you know, Draymond is still there for
whatever that is. It would have been a better situation
that he's currently in now, and he opted not to
do it.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
So in my mind, you get what you get. Nothing
to talk about, right.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
There's there's nothing to talk about in terms of that.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, But I mean I will say this, they've got
to win the head Scratcher of the Year award.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
I remember talking to you last off season and I'm like,
you can't do what they're doing with those three huge contracts.
They've got to dump one of them in the off
season after the way last year finished, And instead they
hired a new coach, came in, had a press conference

(29:17):
that was specifically designed at kissing up to KD and
then the new owners come in and they're like, yeah,
we're going for Oh my god, like, look at yourselves.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Look at them.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
How with Booker Durant and Bradley Beale on your team.
You're the eleven seed and you're two and eight in
your last ten and you're healthy.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
It's wow.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
Yeah, wow, Yeah, you're absolutely right. It's one of those
situations where it didn't fit when they did it. It
was a head scratcher on inception and now it's come

(30:08):
to fruition. This is what people thought was going At
least I did. I was like, how does this work right?
Because what they did was they gave up all of
their wing defenders for shot makers, but only one person
could take a shot at a time. The difference is
when that one person is taking a shot, somebody has

(30:31):
to be rebounding, someone has to get back and stop
the fast break if it's a misshot. Like you, you
forget those things when you're in search of the magic
elixir and the days of three powerful offensive players storming

(30:51):
through and and and and that's that's not it. And
even when you know Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and
Ray Allen got together, everybody had a role to play
and everybody sacrificed something.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
Even when.

Speaker 5 (31:09):
Bosh, Wade and James got together, d Wade, who was
all NBA, all everything, took a back seat. Chris Bosh
was no longer. Remember in Toronto, he was a twenty
five and twelve a night. He was the man like
the offense ran through him. He literally came and sacrificed everything.

(31:32):
They're not running any plays for him now. He's getting
rebounds and put backs, and he still managed to get
about sixteen seventeen points a game, eight or nine rebounds.
But it was a Lebron James show. I don't see
who's taking the back seat to who in Phoenix. It
doesn't work like that. It's not like it's no secret formula.

(31:54):
It's like, yo, man, all right, let him shoot. Somebody
gotta play defense.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
The reputation of the Phoenix Suns through the last few
years has been that they are soft, that you can
push them around. And I'm like, yep, in more ways
than maybe you realized, like not just on the court,
but apparently off apparently off the court as well, because

(32:20):
in the end, the Miami Heat and the Golden State
Warriors got into conversations and the Suns got pushed around,
and they got left at the altar and and and
now what so uh fascinating stuff for sure. With you
from Salam I'm Mark Ward. And there's another NBA star.
We haven't mentioned him tonight, but today was potentially a

(32:41):
pivotal day for him. We'll tell you about that coming
up next on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (32:49):

Speaker 2 (32:53):
These arethetie Rag Dot com Studios and Mark Willardy from
Salam What does.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
The league do?

Speaker 2 (33:03):
What do the Sixers do with Joe LMB? I mean,
what does everybight do about this?

Speaker 5 (33:11):
It's nothing you can do obviously. See, this is the problem,
and he's at fault because he should have never played
in the Olympics, right, because he didn't go into the
Olympics healthy. We knew that he didn't finish last season healthy.

(33:35):
He didn't go into the Olympics healthy, so it's no
surprise that he didn't start this season healthy and isn't
healthy now given his history, he didn't he miss the
first two years of his career.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
I think we just I don't want to speak out
of turn, but I'm pre Are you sure we just
passed something? And it can go back and forth, But
there was something earlier this season where Joel had missed
as many games as he had played.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
Yeah, I think it was right at the same right.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, Now he's played a few games since then. I
don't know where we sit, but you get the point.
We're about fifty to fifty.

Speaker 5 (34:18):
Yeah, that's not what you want. And it's a situation
where if you know that you aren't one hundred and
he had that giant truck knee brace on dragging that

(34:40):
leg in the Olympics. Why would you even go? Why
would you go? That's a real question, Mike.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
I don't know. Why wouldn't you.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Take time in the summer to try and get yourself healthy.
He started the season not playing, and the NBA find
the team because.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
That was ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
Remember Kawhi Leonard was on the Olympic team, and then
they were like, yeah, no, we're not gonna do this.
You can't be healthy during the regular season, you gonna
come play in the Olympics. He didn't start the season healthy,
but at least he didn't make it worse by playing
in the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
It is so funny that the phrase that took over
in Philly for a period of time, and it was
earlier in Joel's career was trust the process. Oh good
because my god, we don't and you shouldn't don't do
not trust this process. Joe l Embiid and the Philadelphia
seventy six ers have got to be one of the

(35:54):
best organizations in pro sports at over promising.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
And under delivery. Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
And and that's really the thing, like I can't get
mad at a seven foot man for having knee injuries.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
That's not a new thing, No, it just would.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
But man, the.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Way you've played this, the way you've talked, the way
that teammates have come in and out to help, and
seemingly Joell often just kind of disenfranchises them and puts
the blame on them when things don't go right.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
So is it Jimmy Butler? And then it's James Harden.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
And now we're doing this and Paul George and Tyrese
Maxi's just over here, like, I can score thirty if
you want me to, but I'll defer if you.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Keep getting hurt or coming back or whatever. The whole
thing is just such a headache.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
And now now he's got this super negative cloud and
vibe that's following him everywhere.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
That I don't know if it really needs to be there.
The man is just hurt. It's just hurt.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
Yeah, he's he's not doing at all, and there's nothing.
The only thing you can do is to not play.
So there we're looking at all day. Just shut him down, yep,
shut him down right now, give him all of this
time and give it one good last push.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
Right, Well, I let him get third.

Speaker 5 (37:20):
Whatever the surgeries are, let them have it and let
them go and give him this with just one last
push to see if he can get somewhat healthy.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Well, I think you have to now. I mean remember
last week when we joked that, like if you if
you're out and about with your friends telling everybody that
you're like, I'm thinking about leaving my spouse.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Like, okay, then it's done. You can't.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
You can't talk about that and then walk it back.
I don't think the same thing here. This is an
odd way to sort of talk about it.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Today. If you're the Sixers, it's like Joel is in.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Out of the lineup. He's out of the lineup. Yesterday
he got pulled and they played great. They came back
from a deficit without him. They fell a little bit short,
but they played really well without him. And then after
games he's constantly for the last week been like, yeah,
I'm in pain.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
I don't know if I can do this, And.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Then today the Sixers are like, so we're exploring possibly surgery,
Well let me help you.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yeah, Like, you can't, you can't do all that you've
been doing. And then and then.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Tomorrow will be like all right, we thought about it.
He's gonna play. I just don't know why they keep
tiptoeing around.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
Yeah, that's not good. It's not good. Just hey, man,
go and get yourself healthy. Man, just going put your
headphones on and go and get the knees, whatever else
is happening, get it together, try to start fresh next year.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
And then sometimes the body turns off. Man. Sometimes you
just they won't do what you do. Mind wants it
to do well.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
The other thing that could happen out of this, and
I'm surprised the Sixers aren't kind of leaning into it
at least privately, is like, yes, shut him down and
go get a wonderful draft pick.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
Please.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
It's not like anything's gonna go well for you this year.
It's not like you're gonna do you know what I mean. Yeah,
we're we're well past the area where you could, you know,
go on a run like that's over. So I don't know, man,
like you're going to talk about it, shut that thing down,
Go get yourself a draft pick, and like you said,

(39:46):
try again next year. Mark will Ady from Salam we're
gonna flip it over to the NFL coming up next
because earlier today we got the announcement that we always
get from someone this week, and this time it was
Schadour Sanders. More on that coming up next.

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Speaker 3 (40:27):
Look before I dive too deep into this.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
So Chadeur Sanders is going to go to the Combine
and he's going to do the only thing that the Sanders.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Know how to do better than anyone else. Talk so wonderful.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Great, he's gonna go, he's gonna talk, he's not gonna
do any workout.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
He's gonna have a pro day.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
And we get a few of these every single year,
but it always seems to be a big story, and
I guess I'm scratching my head as to figure out why.
What's your take on the combine and what it's become.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
I don't look, I was never the combine is it
is what it is?

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Right it to me?

Speaker 5 (41:10):
It can make or break where you're drafted, but it
doesn't make or break you as a player. There are
plenty of players who didn't even invited to Combine and
turned into tremendous players. There are plenty of players who
did bad at the combine, dropped in draft position, and
did become tremendous pros. There are plenty of players who

(41:31):
had a tremendous Combine and fizzled out.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
So there, you know, it's just for draft reason.

Speaker 5 (41:39):
It just draft positioning has no bearing on what type
of player you can and can't be in the NFL.
So that's my thoughts on it. It's good to get
all the guys there. I never I didn't really like it.
It was it was a lot and you know, two
three days I got is coming in from the West coast,

(42:01):
East coast.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
It just it was crazy.

Speaker 5 (42:04):
Like for me when we got there and we had
to get up at four o'clock in the morning. We
didn't get to bed until twelve, but we had to
get up at four o'clock in the morning. That was
one am for me because I came in from San Diego,
right so I had a drug test at four o'clock
in the morning and then you don't go back to bed,
You're up. Your day begins. That's one am. Literally the

(42:28):
next day that I got there, we're up from one
am and you know, four o'clock am until that next morning,
like literally back to your room twelve one o'clock. And

(42:48):
that's testing, interviewing, like all kinds of stuff. It just
was a lot. And so someone likes your door. The
Sanders do do something else better than like Deon Tenders
did everything better than everyone else they did.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
I don't want that comment to come off that.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
Well, that's why I'm just I know, that's why I
just I just fixed it.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
They're very good at expressing themselves.

Speaker 5 (43:18):
So look, I wouldn't expect him to have to go
to the combine and and and actually work out, Like
watch the tape.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
You know what you're gonna get. This is what it's
gonna be.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Well, I'm with you, and and this is I guess
what my question is, is there any validity to the
combine other than the fact that it has become like
everything else for the NFL, this has become a television product,

(43:51):
This has become an opportunity for media to gather and
right like in other words, that's exactly what are you
actually getting out of this?

Speaker 5 (44:04):
And you're.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
You said it can make your bake your draft stock,
and I'm like, I get that, but almost like only
in the echo chamber do teams? And I understand they
want to talk to players and they're going to take
a lot from that meeting because you get a vibe
off of another human being. But are they making decisions
but you based on these dudes running around, Yeah, well

(44:30):
that's dumb, that's stupid.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Then then they're dumb.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
That's a lot of players, a lot of teams. But
you got to remember how biased and unsensitive the draft was, right,
remember as your mother. I think one of the questions
asked to one of the young a couple of years ago,
one of the young hopefuls, you know, is your mother
prostitute or something some wild?

Speaker 4 (44:56):
Do you do drugs?

Speaker 5 (44:57):
Like just well just out of good stuff that they're
not allowed to do anymore. But that was it made
me and a god said honest truth as we were
all standing in the line. It made me feel like
in our underwear, you take your shirt off, you go
to the front, you step on the scale that everybody

(45:19):
looks and writes things down they holler out your weight
and your height and everything's.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
Right. And then next it made me feel like I
was on the auction block.

Speaker 5 (45:30):
Yeah, all right, like it's it's literally like, yo, this
is just feels crazy right here. And so it's a
situation where you look, they've seemed to to hold it
in regards of course, it's a ginormous money maker because

(45:52):
it is football. That's typically the beginning of the you know,
the new crop of football players, the guys we have
been watching all college football season long, and now we
get to see, you know, how they perform outside of
them actually performing on the field in games.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
We need to see them now perform in underwear.

Speaker 5 (46:21):
And so right, like, well he made every tackle, he
led the NCAA and taggling, but he only ran a
four to six.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Oh right, Like what.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
This is just me now, and in anything I do
in life, if it's like if you're going to hire somebody,
if you have a student, if you have a child,
I'm going to judge how they handle a certain situation
by looking at them in those situations.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Why are we judging whether.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
Or not someone can play football by having them do
other things than football, you know, And and example, Xavier
Worthy comes out of last year's Combine as the big
newsmaker because.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
He ran again and he broke the all time record.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
And there's nothing I can say about Xavier Worthy's rookie year.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
To make it like sound bad. It looks like Xavier
can play. He really can. Now.

Speaker 4 (47:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
What kind of opportunity he would have gotten if Rashi
Rice hadn't gotten hurt. And even with the opportunities he got,
Travis Kelcey at his old age retirement possibly had more
receiving yards than Worthy did. And I can look around
the rest of the first round and look at Marvin
Harrison Junior and Malik Neighbors and all these other players,

(47:48):
and I'm like, those guys are on not good teams
and they're better, they're they're they're better than Xavier Worthy,
But no one was talking about them at the combine
because what Like, I guess that's my overarching question, what
are we actually doing here?

Speaker 3 (48:04):
What are we accomplishing?

Speaker 5 (48:06):
Yeah, it's it's Look, it's part of the system. People
love it. They have fans in attendance now, so it's
just another thing to have people opt into.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
That's just what it is. And people are going to
opt into it every time.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Well, so let me ask you, based on the experience
that it sounds like you had, if you were advising
a young football player who was about to get drafted,
what would you have him do.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
You?

Speaker 5 (48:41):
You have to do it, you have like it depending
on where he was slated to be. So, doua Santa
is gonna be the first second pick in the draft?
What is he working out for? What's he working out for?

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Well, he's still going to do a pro day. I mean,
there are ways to do this. I just wonder what
you think the best.

Speaker 5 (49:00):
You could throw in the avice be beautiful up there.
It just depends on your status. That's what it depends on.
Right If someone is projectives cam Water or Shadur, I'm like, yeah,
I would most definitely. The only thing you can do
is hurt yourself at the combine. The only thing you couldn't.

(49:21):
You couldn't improve your draft stock by having a great combine.
So why do it? That's a real talk, that's real.
Why why do it? What are we getting out of?

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Why why even have the pro day? Then?

Speaker 5 (49:37):
Well, now you get to showcase yourself. It's on your
own terms, and you show people what they're getting. You
show people what they're getting, which is right.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
But like if Shadur came out today and he's like, oh,
by the way, I'm not doing a pro day either,
it still wouldn't matter exactly.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
So why do it?

Speaker 5 (49:56):
Because you do? I mean, he's a player, right like that.
You know, maybe he will say that I don't know.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Yeah, well no, I guess in the story today that
was that was the basic idea, Like he's going to
have a pro day. He's not going to do anything
at the combine other than interview.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
You know.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
I mean if look, I know you don't want to
you do not want to come off as dismissive or
defiant or any of these things.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
But if you meet with teams and if.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
You kindly said to them, look, I feel really good
about what I put on tape this year.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
If you if you're interested me in as.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
A football player, I'm gonna let my I'm gonna let
my senior year or junior year or whatever speak for itself.
And I'm happy to sit here and talk to you
and you can run me through play tests and everything else.
I'll sit here and talk to you and we can
interview until I'm blue in the face, but I on
a physical end, I feel like I've done what I

(50:53):
need to do on the football field.

Speaker 5 (50:56):
Yeah, I agree with that. Why do it? You've done enough.
You're going high, so stay high.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Perfect perfect. Yeah. All right. Speaking of.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
MFL individuals, there's a few more we need to go to.
But let's go to the other side. We're talking about
guys on the way in. What about guys on the
way out? Two big names. Where will they play? Will
they play at all next year? Let's get to that.
Coming up next with you from Salama, Mark Willard, Fox
Sports Radio. All right, Mark Willardy from Salaam, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4 (52:13):
Let me. Have you ever had something that?

Speaker 5 (52:18):
Like, have you ever just been going through your day
and something traumatic happens?

Speaker 3 (52:24):
Oh? Hell yes?

Speaker 4 (52:29):
All right, So I'm on my way home.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
How traumatic are we talking?

Speaker 5 (52:33):
Just listen, okay, I'm all layout on my way home,
and I get a text from my wife. She was like, well,
and I was like, oh no, all right, and she

(52:53):
sends a picture.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
Of our back wall.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
We have our cinder block wall in the backyard, and
there's a car sitting in the wall in our backyard,
in our tree.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
A car is in the tree.

Speaker 5 (53:14):
And so I call my wife and I'm like, what
is happening? She said, me and the boys were sitting
in the living room and we heard a bomb go off,
Like it sounded like a bomb. The boys screamed, right,
they're ten and thirteen. They didn't know what it was,

(53:36):
and so she figured maybe it was an accident. Right
on the other side of our walls, it's a street,
and so we go out.

Speaker 4 (53:47):
She goes out, I'm on my way home. I don't
know this.

Speaker 5 (53:51):
We go out and it's literally a car has run
into our backyard through a brick a cinder block walk.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
And it's resting up against a tree.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
As a personal can I ask first as a person Okay.

Speaker 4 (54:11):
Yes, was there a person in there at all?

Speaker 5 (54:14):
I don't know any of that. Someone obviously was driving
the car. But you know, they get you know what you.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
Say, obviously someone was driving the car.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
Know that I wasn't there.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
That That's not always the case anymore, right.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
Those waybout cars it was it wasn't that.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
Okay, go ahead?

Speaker 5 (54:34):
And so I call my I'm like, okay, what is
going on? And they have been filming something across the
street production and one of the picture cars had whatever happened.
I don't know what happened, but the picture car ended
up in our backyard through our.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
And which is crazy.

Speaker 5 (54:58):
Thank god, nobody on our side was hurt, and as
far as I know, nobody on their side was hurt.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
But it did a number on my boys.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
I bet, because.

Speaker 5 (55:11):
The reality of it is you feel like a wall
like that is protection because it is a center block wall,
and then just having a car be just plowed through it.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
So now my ten year old when he goes out
to shoot in the.

Speaker 5 (55:31):
Backyard, he's like, is it is it gonna be?

Speaker 4 (55:35):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Cars coming yet? Well, yes, I would hope.

Speaker 4 (55:42):
But I'm like, what is happening?

Speaker 5 (55:45):
They came and boarded it up and like hey, we're
gonna come and fix the wall and all of that,
and I'm like this is traumatic, Like this is like
the fact that it sounded like a bomb and then
you go out and realize, oh, someone's crashed into your backyard,
into your space.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
It was.

Speaker 5 (56:01):
It was crazy, man, Like I was I have my
wife sent me the video of the car in the backyard,
and I was like, oh my how.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
Yeah, it's a lot when cars go where they're not
supposed to go. I don't I don't know any other
way to say that. We've all seen car accidents. Man,
car goes where it's like, oh, cars don't go there.
It's very very jarring.

Speaker 4 (56:24):
Yeah, it's it's uh, it was something else, man.

Speaker 5 (56:27):
So we spent the weekend like, hey man, the backyard
is fine, and you know, we got a pool back
there in the basketball court and my wife's shop, my
wife's our guest house. You know, the cars were just
mere feet away from the guest house. She works back there.
So I'm like, what is happening right now?

Speaker 3 (56:46):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (56:47):
It was a situation I.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Can't relate on that level, but like a few years ago,
elderly woman just kind of drove right through the front
fence of a car of a house that was straight
across the street from us. And again, like when you
walk outside and you're like, a car doesn't go there? Yes,
not like yeah, it's like really jarring and the damage

(57:12):
it does is unbelievable. I mean, I'm surprised you're sitting
here telling me that the rest of your backyard is
all still usable, big backyard over there, brother, No, it.

Speaker 4 (57:26):
Is literally, like.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
You know, it just is the effect of having something
happen that should never happen in a kid's mind, right, right,
Like as an adult you can be like, hey, you know,
things happen, but you can't rationalize with a child. No, hey,
sometimes cars crash through your backyard. I guess.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
You're also giving me flashbacks to uh because I don't
know if you know this, Ephim, but when people are
in high school, they do stupid things. Yes, over and
over again. Most of just about everything they do is stupid.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
In high school, non stop stupid.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Yeah, just stupid everything. It's all stupid. Like if you're
ever in high school and you're like, should I. The
answer is no. It's always no, don't do it. I
did it, I did it, everybody did it. Don't do it.
The answer is always no. But a buddy mine, you know,
like your brand new driver, and you want to show
off everybody's car. And he just thought it would be funny.

(58:33):
He thought it would be funny to just drive his
car onto my front lawn. So he did it. Is
it just drove it onto the front lawn. But the
room that looks out on the front lawn, that was
that's my dad's workroom. Oh no, yeah, my dad happened
to be in the workroom when my friend made this decision.

(58:54):
I've never ever and still haven't ever seen that man
that angry ever.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
In my whole life.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
And he deserves a whole lot of credit because I
was able to put up enough strength to stop him
from going out there to strangle my friend.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
And I convinced him that I would handle it.

Speaker 4 (59:21):
Oh wow, I didn't worry.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Oh dude, high school, like what sixteen seventeen, All right,
Carter go there?

Speaker 3 (59:33):
The car the carteresn't go there, so anyway, so.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Everybody's okay, though, Yeah, Well, how many months of Yeah,
how many months of work do you have back there?

Speaker 5 (59:46):
I don't, man, I don't know what you know. I
don't know what's about to happen. But I'm like, we
still have a hole in that wall.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
Yes, I would imagine, I'm not that's good. Take a minute.

Speaker 5 (59:59):
Yeah, So whatever they think they're about to do, they
need to hurry up because there's a hole in my wall.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
Nobody has like you haven't had a conversation with anybody who.

Speaker 5 (01:00:10):
Because she was there, so she got the information and
they called her Friday like, hey, we're still trying to
figure things out. And I'm like, no, that's not there's
a hole. There's a hole in the wall. They put
up some boards. I'm like, yeah, there is a hole
in the wall.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
You could just come pull the board down.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Are you Are you a litigious type?

Speaker 5 (01:00:37):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Yeah, yeah, Well I said, I was wondering. You know,
it feels like your sons might be going through some
pain and suffering right now.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
All I'm telling you is it was not okay.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
So it doesn't sound okay.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
They didn't need that in their in theirs.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
No, No, you know what they need. I know what
they need.

Speaker 5 (01:01:05):
I know what they need, and I know what we need.
I'm gonna bring him home with me today. So his
smooth voice consume consume some over anxious Uh, a pre
pre teen and a teenager. That's one very smooth voiced
voice of reason. Stephen to say.

Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
Here, Wow, I'm still a little upset after that, and
I was not there. How about that?

Speaker 8 (01:01:34):
We did have audio rolling at Ephraim's house this weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:01:40):
You need the audio of a bomb dropping because my
wife was like, it really felt like, Oh, this is
the end of the world. There, it is there, it is.
Look I laugh, so I don't so I don't right,
I laugh, so I don't cry.

Speaker 4 (01:01:56):
Well, we ought to lead with NASCAR. Then after that story,
right there you go.

Speaker 8 (01:02:00):
Christopher Bell in Atlanta was the overtime winner. His only
lead was on the final lap. Is the last caution
came he was in the lead? Race is his Next Sunday,
It's a road course race at Austin, Texas on Fox TV.
Colorado quarterback Shuduor Sanders will reportedly meet with teams at
the combine, but not work out. The NFL scouting combines.
Workout start Thursday, interviews begin Monday. This Saturday is the

(01:02:23):
workouts for quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers. Alex Bragman
had three hits in his spring debut with the Red Sox,
including a homer Blue Jays for what it's worth one
eight seven. Today, US women's soccer beat Australia two to
one in Arizona. In the NBA, Boston won its fifth
straight game down in New York one eighteen.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
To one oh five.

Speaker 8 (01:02:41):
New Orleans has just beaten San Antonio one fourteen to
ninety six. For the Spurs, de Aaron Fox was three
of sixteen shooting from the floor and teammate Chris Paul
was one of ten. Those two teammates from three point range,
where each one of seven Spurs go down to defeat.
You may have heard the report from ESPN this weekend
the coach Greg Popovich not expected to return this season

(01:03:04):
after a mild stroke in November.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
The late game about to start.

Speaker 8 (01:03:07):
Oklahoma City, with a record at forty five and ten,
is playing at Minnesota right now, Cleveland, which is forty
six and ten, is leading at home with six minutes
left against the Grizzlies one eight to ninety seven. Donovan
Mitchell twenty seven points. Detroit won at six straight game one,
forty eight to one forty three at Atlanta. Cade Cunningham
thirty eight points and twelve assists Orlando sents Washington to

(01:03:31):
a six straight loss one ten to ninety. Wizards record
nine and forty seven home wins for Indiana and Toronto.
Home victories for Milwaukee and Golden State as well. Philadelphia's
Joel Embiide will have more tests on his knee this week.
He's questionable for Monday. Than college hoops, only a couple
weeks left in the men's regular season, Number ten Saint
John's won again, beating Yukon eighty nine seventy five. Indiana

(01:03:54):
upset thirteenth rank Produce seventy three fifty eight, and in
women's basketball, number one Notre Dame law in double overtime
at number thirteen NC State one o four to ninety five.
The Irish had won nineteen straight to the NHL. Among
the ten games, Alex Ovechkin had three more goals Washington
a seven to three winner against Edmonton. Ovechkin needs just

(01:04:14):
thirteen goals to break the career record. The New York
Yankees say they will no longer be playing New York
New York By Frank Sinatra after a loss, just after
victories after losses, as people exit Yankee Stadium and at
their spring training site. If it's an l it'll be
a part of the rotating selection of Sinatra songs. And

(01:04:37):
there is the word on the dynamic kickoff that the
NFL tried this past year. Pro Football Talk for One
talked to the chairman of the NFL's Competition Committee, Falcon
CEO Rich McKay about this. Now, reading between the lines,
the NFL probably concluded this was not as dynamic as
they hoped for this past year because teams as the
season went along were quite okay with kick and gets

(01:05:00):
straight into the end zone, not having a return. Who
cares if you bring it out to what is it
the thirty nows? They will discuss the committee maybe giving
teams possession at the thirty five to try and ensure
that we get a few more returns, or maybe do
we have to kick off from a little farther back.
But they did say lower injury rate on kickoff last
year and over fifty percent rise in returns compared to

(01:05:24):
what we had before. Any changes need approval of NFL owners.
Twenty four of the thirty two Rich McKay says he
thinks many proposals on this would be ready for the
league meetings in March.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
Back to you, Okay, Steve, really really good stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
Appreciate it as as always that music that we brought
Steve in with, though I don't I don't, like I'm
just imagining put them.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
Yeah, there's that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
But like we were talking about having him come over
and comfort your sons.

Speaker 4 (01:05:54):
No, not gooding.

Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
So yeah, yeah, just like give him the earbuds and
give did you do? Did you do? Like?

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
That's fine, that's fine, that's fine, and that makes every
sports fan feel better.

Speaker 3 (01:06:06):
Right when you hear that.

Speaker 8 (01:06:09):
In the title of that song, a little careless driving
going out.

Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
That's true. That's that's a good point.

Speaker 5 (01:06:15):
There you go. Wow, Graf, keep on life and right it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Sure is as soon as you think it won't. The
show does it? Show does?

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Why do?

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Why do you have all of that at your fingertips?
Is the question?

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
But they do? They do? All right?

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
Uh? TYREQ dot com Studios, Mark Willard Ephram Salam with you.
We're gonna get back to the NBA in a little bit.
I did want to ask you a couple of things. Hey,
you think Travis Kelcey is going to retire and and
then I have another question about it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
But but give me that one fart.

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
No, no, no, I don't think so, why not?

Speaker 4 (01:07:06):
I think he's got one more in him?

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
Okay, what makes you think that?

Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
I don't think he wants to go out like that?

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
Okay, I get that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
That's that's a tough way to go out.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
Yeah, but I mean, like that's very highly likely that
that's the way he's gonna go out if he comes back,
Like you don't just get to win your last game
all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:07:38):
Yeah, I think I don't know if he's ready to
just be on tour with Taylor Swift. Okay, right, like
you find yourself really like you're on tour with Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Well, she might not be going on tour for a
little while now, so they can hang out for a
little while.

Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
Yeah. Where they gonna hang out at?

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
I just like, again, I've said this, when you start
talking about stuff publicly, I feel like you're already seventy
five percent of the way they are.

Speaker 5 (01:08:13):
That's true, you know, so, like it normally happens for
NFL players, like you start talking about it, and then
you play, and then it happens. It never goes. You
start talking about it and you do it. So there's

(01:08:36):
always like, uh, there's always like a like a lead
up to it, right, Yeah. Remember Jason Kelsey right like
they were like are you coming back from where? He
was like, oh, you know, I got to look at
things and look at things, look at things. He played
that last year and then and then that's what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Yeah, right, I get it, Like you're gonna you're sort
of running a little test to see if you're gonna
miss it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:09:04):
Yeah, Like you're in a situation where you're like, do
I really want to do this again?

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
Do I really want to make this happen well?

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
And real talk like what do you think the Chiefs
are going to be next year? Better or worse?

Speaker 5 (01:09:26):
I think I think they'll be I think they'll be better.
Really I do. I think they'll be better because based
on what based on You gotta realize it's a real
well run organization. Sure, this isn't a one off. It
got there and then all of a sudden they fell apart.

(01:09:46):
They still have the best quarterback in the league, maybe
best quarterback ever We'll see how that thing shakes out.
They still have Andy Reid, they still have spags, So like,
this isn't a cupboardist bear situation.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Oh but it also felt like they got every break
in the world this year.

Speaker 4 (01:10:04):
I know they won't get.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
So you're gonna get You're gonna get them again.

Speaker 5 (01:10:08):
No, but you what you will do is it'll it'll
It'll make you bolster the things you needed to bolster.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
Like it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:15):
They're going to get a better offensive line. They're going
to go get a left tackle. Right, you can't put
Joe Toney out there, who's an All Pro guard and say, hey, man,
protect us from the wolves on the edge. There are
two different positions for a reason, and so there are
things that they're going to address.

Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
They will have Prochecco. He will be healthy the entire season.
Hopefully they will go get another receiver. They're going to
do things, maybe an edge rusher there. They have the ability,
because they're a well run organization to fix the holes,
and they they can identify the holes. So many times
you have teams that don't really know what to identify

(01:10:56):
and what to do. You're in a situation where off
season happens you don't really address what you needed to address,
and then you find yourselves in a certain type of
same situations, you know, the next season. I don't see
them as one of those type of franchises, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
I mean that's fair obviously, nothing but respect for them
as an organization. It just felt like you're not going
to get those breaks again. But sure they've got time
to adjust those things get healthy in certain spots. I
was sure to ask you if you thought he would retire,
not if you thought he should retire. Well, to me,

(01:11:34):
one of the oddest things that we ever do in
sports media is render opinions on whether or not someone
should retire.

Speaker 4 (01:11:42):
That's true. I think that's the strangest.

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
Thing in the world. Like, if someone offers you a job,
take it.

Speaker 4 (01:11:48):
Yeah, Like, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
Care if you're not as good as you used to
be for me.

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
For me, it's his. If the love for the sport
is still there once that's.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Gone, go yep. So yeah, Like, if you don't want
to play, don't play.

Speaker 5 (01:12:03):
Yeah, if you don't want to do what it takes
to be able to play, don't play. That's where you
get older guys, especially guys Hall of Fame guys who
find themselves like I'm not willing to pay that price anymore,
and they're not going to short change the game.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
Yep, there's another guy that we know wants to play,
But does his team want him to play for them anymore?

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
Is the question that we're all dealing with. So let's
talk about that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
Coming up next with me from Salama, Mark Wellard, Fox
Sports Radio, Okay Live, TYRN dot Com Studios. Look, I
don't really claim to be some sort of a salary
cap expert. I don't run a team.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
But my layman's physition if I were in charge of.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
An NFL team, would be this, get a quarterback as
soon as you can hold on to him as long
as you can.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
When you do, that's it. That's my motto.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Find a QB, keep a QB period. Why are the
Rams messing around.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
He's still playing very very well Matt Stafford. For those
who don't know, like what I understand, the idea is
go find your market value so that maybe we can
keep you. But to me, this is some serious, serious
Russian roulette. When you have a late first round draft

(01:13:41):
pick and absolutely no sniff of another.

Speaker 3 (01:13:45):
Option in the building, that's crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
To me, Yeah, I don't know what they're trying to
like what they're trying to do. I don't know if
they want to move on if it just doesn't make

(01:14:07):
any sense to me in terms of you have one
in house, he's won a Super Bowl, he's one of
the handful of elite quarterback throwers of the football, and
he's tough as nails. Other than that, I don't know
what you're looking for and where you're gonna find it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
I don't get it. I don't get it.

Speaker 5 (01:14:34):
Are you trying to rebuild? Well, no, Matthew Stafford, no,
Cooper Cup. What are we doing well? They must be,
they must be. My read on it is they must
be preparing for something financially. They're letting Cooper Cup know
that that he's out.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
They're sort of signaling to Matt Stafford, we need a restructure.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
Matt probably goes.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
Nope, I'm good, and then they say, Okay, you want
us to do something that's fair, Why don't you go
out in the world and find out what's fair? And
maybe that leads to a resolution. I think more likely
it leads to hurt feelings and not a resolution, And

(01:15:27):
then what are you doing? Just an odd play at
an odd time in that division where the forty nine
ers came in with such an unbelievably disappointing season. So
and therefore there's question marks there. Purdy's going to get

(01:15:49):
a new contract, Debo is going to be on the
way out the door. Can they reboot and figure it out?
And everything else feels very mediocre and attainable. So why
would you mess around with this now, especially when you're
not in position to do anything about it in the

(01:16:09):
draft And there's not really anything on the open market
exciting either, unless they want to go get Sam Darnold
and have him play there.

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
I don't bring Sam home.

Speaker 4 (01:16:21):
You want to bring Sam home over Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
No, not me.

Speaker 4 (01:16:26):
You're trying to bring Aaron Rodgers in over Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
No, No, he's playing really well.

Speaker 4 (01:16:36):
He's not the reason.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:16:40):
And they were thirteen yards away from us having another conversation.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:16:49):
So yeah, you know, I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 5 (01:16:58):
Maybe they're like, hey, go test the waters with to
show you there's nothing out there.

Speaker 4 (01:17:01):
Oh, but there's something out there.

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
Now, for sure, there is if it. Look, if there's
a team that wants Aaron Rodgers. Then there are teams
that want Matt Stafford.

Speaker 4 (01:17:12):
Right, Oh yeah, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Know if anybody does want Aaron Rodgers, but you know,
it's it certainly seems possible that that, whether it's as
a placeholder or or what have you. But like you
get airon that feels like you're getting one year. If
you want to do Matt Stafford, you might have a

(01:17:38):
few years.

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
Gosh.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
I like, I look at the list of teams right now,
and I there are so many teams that I think
all of a sudden vault into a really interesting situation
if suddenly he were to be their quarterback. I don't
know what the Saints are doing with Derek Carr. Give
them Matt's Afford lookout. If I'm the New York Giants,

(01:18:06):
I'd love to draft someone and put Matt Stafford with
him for a year. Don't know if Matt's interested in that,
But hell, you can go to the AFC South and
Colts and Titans and Raiders, and I mean there are
a lot of teams that get real interesting, real fast
if you were to plug and play there.

Speaker 4 (01:18:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:18:30):
What the Rams don't want to do is do something
like this and be on the outside looking in. Maybe
Sean mcvayh wants to go be married and chill, so
he's going to start the rebuild for him. Ah, it's
hard to rebuild when you don't have draft position.

Speaker 4 (01:18:55):
That's not what you want.

Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
Yeah, yeah, I like to me that one, that one,
that one, just like I keep seeing this, the rumor
keeps building and building, and I keep seeing it, and
I'm like, I don't understand it, and now I really
don't understand it, and I just.

Speaker 3 (01:19:13):
Yeah, I've settled on. I don't understand it.

Speaker 5 (01:19:18):
No, you got to hold on to him. Man, Well,
that's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
We'll see how that one plays out. But that's that
one is swirling big time. Mark wellard E from Salam
Glad you're with us. Well, we'll get back over to
the NBA how the Western Conference gets rebooted with Wimbin
Yama out.

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
Fox on the Move, Luca on the Move.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
We'll set all that up coming up next on Fox
Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
The way tired buying should be.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
It kind of landed with an NBA thud, almost like
I don't know, like a car driving into your backyard
earlier this week, when all of a sudden it was like, hey,
Victor Webbinyama is out for the year, and you're like,
whoa where did this come from? Not a huge tremor,
because it's not like the Spurs were going to go

(01:20:31):
win the NBA title, but they were an interesting squad
that some people thought could really like work their way
maybe into the play in tournament, especially with the acquisition
of Dearn Fox. But here's what I'll now say about it.
I'm not a doctor, therefore, I don't know if there's
actual concern long term or not for Wembinyama. But I

(01:20:55):
like basketball a lot, and so I'll say this, watch out,
watch out, because if this is fine, just like it
was for brandon Ingram and Victor comes back and he
manages this, and de Aaron Fox is now on the squad,
and this kid that they got at number four overall
who probably should have won the Dunk Contest because he's

(01:21:16):
an actual NBA player, Stefan Castle.

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
And if you now start moving.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
That team into the lottery and something goes right with
ping pong balls, watch out for this basketball team in
a couple of years.

Speaker 4 (01:21:37):
Yeah, who's going to be that number one pick this year?

Speaker 9 (01:21:40):
It would be Cooper Flag, Cooper Flagaron Fox, Victor Woodman, Castle.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
And Stefan Castle. Yes, yeah, miseelle, yep, yeah, no, they
got they got played. Man, they're coming. A lot of
people haven't heard of them. But you know, I like
to your point, it's funny. I started watching them a
lot closer when Dearon went there, and I've been thinking
about what you said a month ago, with the way

(01:22:14):
that Victor.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
Wiman Yamas just out there firing threes. Yep, man, you're
spot on.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
It's just like I'm still trying to gather who this
kid is. I get how uber talented he is, but like,
what define your offensive approach? You know, if you're Victor,
I'm still waiting to see that. He's very young, so
he's got plenty of time to define that. But if

(01:22:42):
he does and that gets figured out, and then you
got all those other players that we just talked about
and who knows what else.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
They could be a problem.

Speaker 5 (01:22:54):
Yeah, they could, Like if they could just teach him,
like if he doesn't want to be a convince big
with his back to the basket, down at the box,
if they can just get him in the high post,
because as he turns, that's a short fifteen foot jump shot.
If he puts the ball on the ground one time,

(01:23:14):
it's a dunk, right, Like, So there's ways to get
him more acclimated to where you can actually have him
be more productive. Victor winbin Yama as someone no one
can guard. Shooting sixteen threes is a travesty. It has

(01:23:38):
got to be awful. And I don't care if he
makes five of them, right because the eleven misses could
have come inside the paint, and I can promise you
he makes eight out of those eleven. It's just a
numbers game. You can analytics, you can do whatever you want.

(01:23:59):
I want wonder what the analytics say about a seven?

Speaker 4 (01:24:05):
What is he seven? Five? Twenty twenty year old oh
man would.

Speaker 5 (01:24:12):
A nice touch? What the analytics say? What's his best shot?
I'm pretty sure it won't be a three pointer?

Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
No, Well, there's also something that I'm just speaking to
the fan experience now, because I can look around.

Speaker 3 (01:24:29):
The league and there's a few of them.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
It's guys that when they shoot threes, you immediately go, dude,
what are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
Even if they go in I'll give you some names.

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
Call Anthony Towns can shoot a three, Joe Lmbeid can
shoot a three. Every time they do it though, I'm like,
come on, bro, you settled, you settled.

Speaker 4 (01:24:56):
It's easy.

Speaker 5 (01:24:56):
It takes me away, effort, no energy, that's the whole
thing there.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
Yeah, and you're not like, I'm cool with it if
you're really good.

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
At it, but they're not. They're not that good at it.
So just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Speaker 5 (01:25:13):
That's absolutely right, that's absolutely right. I'm telling you. It
really throws off the flow of the game. When the
person you have who is supposed to be patrolling the
paint and imposing his will on other teams, also, the
one who's supposed to lead the team in offensive rebounds

(01:25:34):
is shooting threes. It throws the dynamic of the team off.
It's not just a shot, it's if you miss, who's
going to get the rebound? Because if Chris Paul misses
a three, our castle, our dearren Fox. If Victor's down there,

(01:25:55):
we know who's gonna get the rebound, and it's easy
put back, donk. So you hurt yourself and your team
by a bunch of different ways. Just by removing yourself
from where you're you're you know you can do the
most damage.

Speaker 4 (01:26:14):
It's just bad basketball.

Speaker 5 (01:26:16):
Yeah, And I don't care what analytical rhythm algorithm you
subscribe to. It's bad basketball. And it's not all your
old fogy. No, it has nothing to do with that,
has nothing to do with that. But I know one thing.
A seven to five twenty year old shouldn't be shooting
sixteen threes.

Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
Ever, well, like okay, yeah, old fogy, bad basketball. Basketball
is easy when you're watching it to tell if there's
a good shot or a bad shot. The bottom line
is is the defense I'll tell you, They'll tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
And when Victor Weibin Dyama.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
Shoots a three, when Joe o Mbi shoots a three,
Karl Anthony Town shoots a three, I want to know
what the defense does is sit there and watch them,
because that's what they want them to do. Like, that's
exactly the shot they would like you to have. If
if you've got the ball in your hand and you're

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seven foot six, they would love for you to be
as far from the basket.

Speaker 4 (01:27:20):
As possible far as you can.

Speaker 3 (01:27:23):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
So right when Steph Curry's gonna shoot a three, everybody's
freaking out.

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
People are running at him, two people running.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
At him, try to take legs out, go crazy, get
through the high pick all of.

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
This then freaking out. But Joe l Embiid squares up.

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
Dudes are like looking over at their coach getting the
play call for when they go to the other end.
It's like, yeah, that's fine. So the defense tells you
whether it's a good shot or not. And those things
are wide open for those trees, So don't take that
many of them. I'm not saying don't ever do it.
Sometimes it's the right shot, late in the shot clock,

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what have you. Somebody drives, penetrates kicks, you're wide open.
It's within the flow of the offense. But no, man, again,
I just there's a gut feeling when you see those
guys shooting three.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
You're just like, he's soft, he's soft. Is settled?

Speaker 4 (01:28:21):
You settled?

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
But anyway, man, that's an interesting that squad is getting
interesting really really fast. And then to a point you
just made about the Chiefs a short time ago, I
don't know where we go from here in terms of
the quality of the organization because Greg Popovich is not
coming back this year, and even if he does come

(01:28:47):
back next year, look, obviously he's not going to coach.

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
A whole lot longer.

Speaker 2 (01:28:51):
I think he leaves a good organization with what he's built,
the same way kind of pat Riley handed it down
to Eric Spolster and whatnot. But that's the other reason
I got a spotlight on them is I know that
I know that the organization is going to keep making
good decisions and good moves too.

Speaker 5 (01:29:09):
Yeah, yeah, they definitely are, and you know, thoughts and
prayers out the pop but it's probably, you know, probably
time I would think.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
I would think, I want to see if you get
this right? Do you know what happens on Tuesday Night?

Speaker 4 (01:29:35):
It's Lakers and Timberwolves. No Lakers in maths?

Speaker 3 (01:29:44):
Ah, what's in what city?

Speaker 4 (01:29:47):
Uh? In Los Angeles?

Speaker 3 (01:29:49):
Are you sure about that?

Speaker 4 (01:29:52):
Yeah? Is it in l A?

Speaker 3 (01:29:54):
Is it okay? All right? All right? But still it's
it's Lakers in math.

Speaker 4 (01:30:00):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
You know how I know that that you know how
that I know that that game is different. I don't
know if you have a betting app, but like when
you go into your betting app, and I mean this now,
for a week and a half already, you go into
your betting app and like, whatever the games are that
day are all laid out there for you, and they

(01:30:24):
got all the numbers and everything's moving and shaking and
everything that's going on that day. And then at the
very bottom, they've had this game, it's been sitting there
for a week and a half already. What a bet
on this game? Lakers and MAVs. Lakers and MAVs. So

(01:30:44):
it's Luca against the Madicks. Obviously Anthony Davis won't play.
But let's get into this. Let's get back into the
Lakers a little bit in terms of how they define
themselves going forward. Who kind of takes the lead because
NBA teams need to have that, they kind of need

(01:31:06):
to know the pecking order. So let's get into that
conversation coming up next with you from Salama Mark Weather
at Fox Sports Radio. All right, we're here live ty
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Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
Five.

Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
Again, just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts.
You see today's show's posted right after we get off
the air. Not done yet. I do want to get
back to the Lakers and Luca and Lebron and all
those things, but real quick. And I know they're missing people.
I know tonight there's no go bear Julius Randalls now
hurt Ante Divincenzo's been out a little bit. Can you

(01:32:03):
help me with this Minnesota team though, Like they've got
to be the most confusing team so far this year
in the entire NBA.

Speaker 4 (01:32:14):
Yeah, I would agree with that.

Speaker 5 (01:32:18):
You know, what, what you realize is talent is one thing,
but consistency is the lifeblood of winning. And you know,
the war of attrition is a real thing. But you
have to be able to lock in and and and

(01:32:43):
and just that's why. That's why, no matter how good
teams are, people would say something like they'rey young. So
you'd be like, what what they're the the second seed,
the third seed, the whatever, the number one. See, yeah,
but they're young. The experience isn't there. We just watched

(01:33:10):
it with Washington, right, So one, you can be talented
and not ready at the same time.

Speaker 4 (01:33:21):
And so.

Speaker 5 (01:33:23):
With the movement and the adding of pieces. You know,
who is Minnesota, right? Do you trust them to be
able to seal the deal? I don't know if I do. No, no,

(01:33:44):
So you know it's it's that's why you start looking
back and you're like, oh, okay, I can see.

Speaker 4 (01:33:52):
I can see how.

Speaker 5 (01:33:54):
You know, if a lebron or if a staff or
if they can get into the playoffs or get into
anything can happen. Like you know that they understand what
to do, how to do it, and why to do it.

(01:34:15):
That's why they're dangerous. But with young and talented they
may not be ready yet. I remember how young and
talented the Bucks were, but they didn't win their first
championship until they became seasoned and old. Dr I should say, yeah, yep, right,

(01:34:39):
that's normally how it goes. That's why people say, well,
you know they're young, Yeah, we get it, they are young.
Can they close the deal? Can they grow enough in
that youth and become what we need them to become.

(01:35:10):
And that answer isn't always yes, m M, it's not yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
Well God, I look at I look at the Western
Conference Finals from last year, and the phrase that keeps
coming to mind is like too much, too soon, which
I really believe can happen to certain teams, because what
ends up happening, like you want that experience, I get it,
But what ends up happening is guys either start getting

(01:35:40):
kind of full of themselves and thinking, oh, this is
this is where we are. Now, now we're one of
these teams, and so we're we're going to get back
to this and and and it's going to be easy
that happens, or kind of what I think both of
these teams have done since then happens, which is like

(01:36:03):
the general managers start to tinker a little bit too much,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:36:11):
Definitely get I mean, I could argue.

Speaker 2 (01:36:14):
That the two biggest names from the Western Conference Finals
last year both got traded since then, which is wild.
And I know Anthony Edwards probably more important than Carl
Anthony Towns, but what like odd odd that that that
both of those teams they made the Western Conference Finals,
and then they sat back and seemed to do like
a self check and decided, Yeah, those guys that just

(01:36:38):
took us that far, Nope, they're not gonna They're not
gonna take us there again. They're not gonna be the
guy to get us over the top. And so many
like that was such a fun run from both of
those teams last year, and now I'd liken both of
them too. That person that gets a facelift four times

(01:37:02):
in their sixties, really, yeah, you know, we just know
do this and no, wait, I don't like that, So
let's do this, and let's do this, and then man,
now you look crazy. Your face doesn't move, and so
they've just I don't know, man, I watched this team

(01:37:22):
and I'm like, there's talent everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:37:26):
The Timberwolf should be ridiculous. They should be ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
Anthony Edwards is as talented of a player as there
is in the league period. The pieces that are now
around him. I'm not a huge Julius Randall guy, but
with him and Gobert, you've got rim protection and all
of that stuff. Deevencenzo was a rising role player. Nas
Reed is one of my favorite players in the whole

(01:37:53):
NBA with what he does on both sides of the
of the floor. You know, I shouldn't like Conley to
kind of calm everything down, dude. They should be fantastic,
and they're completely and totally unreliable and they're down by
double digits on their own floor early second quarter.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
Yeah, you know, if.

Speaker 5 (01:38:20):
Anthony Edwards is musty TV. But there's also you know,
he's already balked about I don't want to be the
face of the league.

Speaker 4 (01:38:38):
I'm not interested in that his words.

Speaker 3 (01:38:42):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:38:44):
So it's like.

Speaker 5 (01:38:45):
Uh, why right, Like why that's what we need? We
need that from you. We need you to be the
face of the league because with that comes a real

(01:39:10):
responsibility to elevate one's play. Right, it's the responsibility of
not only carrying your team, but you carry the league

(01:39:31):
in terms of we're going where you lead us?

Speaker 4 (01:39:40):
Magic? Did it?

Speaker 5 (01:39:44):
Jordan? You know Lebron like, these are the things that
Steph that's the sweet spot. So now you understand, right,
I understand he doesn't want that responsibility because with that

(01:40:04):
responsibility comes great scrutiny. But in order to be and
I believe this, in order to be truly great.

Speaker 4 (01:40:13):
You have to be.

Speaker 5 (01:40:14):
Able to live and fight through the scrutiny. I truly
believe that, and a lot of guys don't want that.
I just want to play man. Yeah, but the league
needs a little bit more than you just wanted to play.

Speaker 4 (01:40:33):
Right. You're ushering us into a new territory, a new time,
a new everything, which means you have to continue to
elevate your game, your mindset, all of these things very important,

(01:40:53):
and it's a lot of responsibility that I don't believe
he's ready for and go home. Well you can't, sir, Sorry, you.

Speaker 3 (01:41:08):
Know who wants that scrutiny.

Speaker 4 (01:41:10):
You can just fam he's breathing. Did give it to me? Yeah?
I won it all.

Speaker 2 (01:41:15):
It wants to be the face of the whole place.
And so he is argue, he is, Yeah, there it is,
Steve J.

Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
Seger. Let's go.

Speaker 8 (01:41:22):
It's very kind, but that ain't happening. Oklahoma City. They've
called a time out at Minnesota. Ok See leads the
Timberwolves forty seven to twenty eight. We're not quite midway
through the second quarter for the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards one
of seven shooting from the floor, his team from three
point range. Is one for twelve, already a nineteen point
advantage for the Thunder trying to get to forty six

(01:41:45):
and ten on the season. Cleveland now forty seven and
ten after beating Memphis tonight one twenty nine, one twenty three,
thirty three points for Donovan Mitchell. Cabs have won seven straight.
New Orleans was thirteen and forty three, but got a
home win tonight against San Antonio one fourteen to ninety
six as the Spurs d Aaron Fox shot three of
sixteen from the floor. Detroit won at six straight game

(01:42:07):
one forty eight, one forty three at Atlantic Kid Cunningham
thirty eight points twelve assists. Orlando sent Washington to a
six straight loss, one ten to ninety. The Wizard's three
games this coming week will be against Brooklyn, Portland, and Charlotte.
For the moment, Washington's record nine and forty seven home
victories for Toronto and Indiana, home wins for Milwaukee and

(01:42:28):
Golden State, and at Boston. The Celtics beat New York
today one eighteen, one oh five. Celtics have won five straight.
Philadelphia's Joel Embiide will have more tests on his knee
this week. He's questionable for Monday due to knees swelling.
In college hoops, a couple weeks left in the men's
regular season, Number ten Saint John's won again twenty four
and four now after beating Yukon eighty nine seventy five

(01:42:50):
Indiana with a strong second half upset. Number thirteen produced
seventy three fifty eight. In women's hoops, Number one Notre
Dame lost in double overtime at number thirteen NC steve
eight to the NHL. Among the ten games, Washington's Alex
Ovechkin with three goals. He needs thirteens old to break
the career record. In the NHL, Washington seven to three

(01:43:10):
over Edmonton. Christopher Bell was the NASCAR winner at Atlanta
in overtime. Colorado quarterback Shadure Sanders will reportedly meet with
teams at the Combine but not work out this week.
US women's soccer in Arizona today beat Australia two to one.
And as far as the golf, Gentleman PGA Tour was
in Mexico at event an event we're completely unfamiliar with

(01:43:31):
and a winner that we're completely unfamiliar with, and yet
mister Brian Campbell is now one point two six million
dollars winner Rich. He's the winner young mantonhole of a
playoff and now for the tour. It's off to Florida
for the next four events. Live Golf won't resume for
another couple weeks when they have an event in Hong Kong,
and then Live Golf will be in Singapore right after

(01:43:54):
that in mid March. But this winner on the PGA
Tour today, age thirty one, Brian Campbell apparently was top
amateur a decade ago at the University of Illinois, got
onto the PGA Tour eventually and quickly lost his card.
He was so low in the FedEx Cup standings. He
has worked his way back. Yesterday he had a boge
free sixty four, so he entered the final round today

(01:44:15):
the Mexico opened just one shot back. First time in
his PGA Tour career he'd entered the final round even
in the top five, and he caught the leader Aldrich
Pottgeier and won on the second playoff hole, which means,
as golf dot Com put it, this comes with all
the perks of winning a PGA Tour event, spot in

(01:44:35):
the Masters, spot in the Players Championship, so spot in
the PGA Championship two year exemption and that check for
one point two six million dollars. The runner up gets
seven hundred and sixty three thousand dollars, In other words,
a nearly half million dollar difference. And it came down

(01:44:56):
to this on the second playoff hole, a shot from
Brian Campbell, the eventual winner, that went straight into the trees.

Speaker 1 (01:45:05):
Cambell hitting this very well and out to the right.

Speaker 4 (01:45:08):
This is dicey.

Speaker 1 (01:45:09):
This is going to need a good balance and that
and it got one.

Speaker 4 (01:45:12):
It hit the trees, it came.

Speaker 8 (01:45:13):
Back, it came right back onto the course, complete and
total dumb luck. And he wins on the second playoff
all after that and takes an extra half million dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:45:26):
That call from NBC back.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
To you, Yes, I hope he's crying crocodile tears tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:45:32):
That's life changing.

Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
And by the way, Steve, as we always love our
seven thirty Pacific Golf Update on Sunday nights.

Speaker 3 (01:45:40):
With everything going on financially.

Speaker 2 (01:45:42):
And beyond, here's one thing I wonder if golf thought about,
or the players thought about.

Speaker 3 (01:45:46):
I'm sure they did.

Speaker 2 (01:45:48):
Like live golf, the pressure that's been put on and
now the persons are starting to go crazy on us
on both tours. Guess what no one thought of as
golf created this golf load management.

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
No one thought of this.

Speaker 8 (01:46:09):
Because you're gonna make so much at the one events.

Speaker 2 (01:46:11):
Exactly now, I don't need to play the next one,
So why would I leave my family and buy my
own way out to These smaller tournaments are suddenly getting
nobody except for this gentleman named Brian who hit the
ball into the trees and won over a million bucks.

Speaker 8 (01:46:29):
It's nobody you've heard of finished in the top ten
and beyond this weekend in Mexico, everybody's going to Florida
for the next month instead. But as they say in Vegas,
you know, there are, for example, some people that specialize
in betting WNBA and don't bet football at all, and
it kind of takes some people back mad, what are
you doing? The answer is the money is still green.
The guy who won the Mexico Open today, that's one

(01:46:51):
point two six million real dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:46:53):
The money is still green, still green, baby.

Speaker 3 (01:46:56):
Woof, very very good.

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
So yeah, I wanted to about that, and and Steve
great stuff as always tonight, Like I wonder to what level.

Speaker 3 (01:47:06):
What we scream.

Speaker 2 (01:47:08):
About in the NBA all the time is going to
bleed into other sports. It's different, Like even the what
is happening in golf is for is for different reasons.
But kind of circling back to that Lebron conversation we
had earlier where he's upset about the three consecutive back
to backs that the Lakers have in in mid March,

(01:47:29):
and we know how you'll handle that in the NBA.
But you compared it to the Chiefs and Ravens having
three game games in eleven days. But but you know
what's different. All the Chiefs and Ravens played, That is correct,
They all played, so they they might complain about it
behind the scenes.

Speaker 4 (01:47:48):
But you different animals of course, different there and expectation.

Speaker 2 (01:47:54):
Well, and not enough games to sit any outright. You
just don't have that luxury. You don't have that luxury.
You'll miss the playoffs if you if you kick two games.

Speaker 5 (01:48:05):
Yeah, that's why. That's why, I really, you know, that's
why football wins. Yep urgency, Yeah, yep, flat out.

Speaker 3 (01:48:18):
What what are they? What are they going to do? Man?
What is the NBA going to do? Because you know
what I'm getting tired of.

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
I'm really getting tired of the first of every month
of the year. We're like, okay, what about this like
every month? How about ten minute quarters? How about USA
versus the world? How about if we create pods and uh, guys,

(01:48:52):
you know, I'm gonna look, what.

Speaker 3 (01:48:53):
Are when are we going to be done with the
new ideas.

Speaker 10 (01:48:58):
That are all the super f yes and they're all
built around one consistent idea that to most fans is offensive.

Speaker 3 (01:49:09):
Can you just try? That's all anybody's trying to do.

Speaker 4 (01:49:14):
Just try, Just try.

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
How about if we take your sixty million dollar salary.

Speaker 2 (01:49:19):
And offer you more to win the NBA Cup, which
three years in still nobody can explain I got a
new idea. How about no more new ideas? How about
no more new ideas? Just play?

Speaker 3 (01:49:40):
What are they gonna do? Man?

Speaker 4 (01:49:42):
Just play?

Speaker 3 (01:49:43):
But they won't.

Speaker 5 (01:49:46):
There's a lot of money out there. Man, it's all guaranteed.
I guaranteed. If those I guarantee. If it wasn't guaranteed,
they play.

Speaker 2 (01:49:57):
I mean that's that's that's it right there, That's it.
But there's no there's no going back.

Speaker 5 (01:50:05):
Can't go back. They won't allow it to go back.
Huh So, now we're stuck a hell of a pickle, man,
it is. It is a hell of a pickle. Tyreck
dot Com Studios. All right, uh, don't answer this yet.
Who's the Lakers' best player? Apram's going to answer that

(01:50:27):
next on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
All right, fun stuff tonight, Tiereck dot Com Studios planking
Spaniards standing by, who's the Lakers' best player?

Speaker 3 (01:50:42):
And does it matter to you?

Speaker 4 (01:50:45):
It does not matter to me.

Speaker 3 (01:50:51):
Currently, okay, okay.

Speaker 5 (01:50:53):
Currently, as it stands, right now, the lakers best player
is Lebron James. Now that could change, and it probably
will change moving through the rest of this year. I
hope it changed. He hopes it changes. I mean, the

(01:51:14):
man is forty exactly. You got to remember it. You
got to remember how he came into this year. He
came into this year allowing Anthony Davis to be the guy.
Remember that first that first stretch of games for Anthony Davis. Yes,

(01:51:35):
he Lebron James. He would want nothing more than that,
Like he would want nothing more than that. If Luca
becomes the Lakers' best player this year, Lebron James feels
like he can get back to the NBA Finals.

Speaker 2 (01:51:55):
I'm not asking because I'm worried about ego and there's
a not enough to go around and all that stuff
that people. I'm not worried about that at all. I
just wonder how they're going to structure this. They looked
great last night. Obviously they look great when they lost

(01:52:17):
that game to the Hornets. I don't know if you saw.
I did, Like there.

Speaker 3 (01:52:22):
Were so many possessions where Luca was just standing there.
He just stood there, Yeah, watched basketball like.

Speaker 2 (01:52:31):
He had a ticket and a beer, And I was like, man,
are they like, look, nobody is smarter about basketball on
the court than Lebron James. So like there's full faith
that whatever they're doing is at least intuitive, It makes

(01:52:53):
sense on paper. I just wondered to what level they
still need to figure some things out.

Speaker 5 (01:53:00):
There's definitely a level there. Yeah, like there's work to
be done.

Speaker 2 (01:53:05):
What an odd start to lose to Utah, lose to
Charlotte then do something that you know nobody's really going
to pay much attention to it. But if you're really
watching the league closely, going to Portland and winning a
game on a back to back situation, Portland is young
and that's a hard place to play.

Speaker 5 (01:53:26):
Lakers have always struggled to Pa Wright, no matter what
I'm about Kobe and Shaq, Magic, Kareem, They've always struggled
in Portland.

Speaker 4 (01:53:34):
That is well known.

Speaker 2 (01:53:36):
And Portland is also winning a lot of basketball games lately.
Like I don't know if people are watching, it's it's
too late for them to do anything in the Western Conference,
but you know, and like I don't know, they had
come the Lakers beat them for their fourth loss in
a row, but prior to that they had won nine

(01:53:57):
of ten. And they beat Charlotte by like fifty something
points last night. So Portland in Portland not a pushover.
And the Lakers go get that and then they win
in Denver. And I'm trying to figure out, like who
are you who? Like, are you the team that could
lose to anybody because you're in a transitional phase of

(01:54:19):
figuring it out, or now are you the team that
could beat just about anybody? Maybe you're both.

Speaker 5 (01:54:27):
I think it's the latter, just in basketball. IQ alone,
like Luke was very sloppy starting off with the Lakers
various a lot of turnovers, I think in that game
against the Hornets, even though it didn't affect him until

(01:54:47):
the fourth quarter. He had six turnovers in the first
seven eight minutes. That's real, and it was ugly. It
was gross, it was sloppy, and he was just off.
And the Luca we saw last night is the Luca

(01:55:09):
that Laker fans are hoping shows up every night. That's
the Luca that people can depend on and count on
and want to see because when Lebron James goes to
take his breaks, he can stay over there a little
bit longer.

Speaker 2 (01:55:27):
Wow, that's what really to me, That's what really changed
at the trade deadline with these two teams that we
started off the show talking about. Anthony Davis has been
so in and out of the lineup and is also
not a ball handler, and so the Lakers could function,

(01:55:48):
but there's a very different basketball team when Lebron James
has to go off the floor. And Lebron is forty,
so he has to go off the floor not only
for certain stretches of the game, but sometimes for the
entire game.

Speaker 5 (01:55:58):
Yeah, sometimes he had to go take his blood pressure medicine, right,
his tapioca and applesaws.

Speaker 3 (01:56:06):
Right, He's got to go to the restroom a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:56:10):
More forties to go to the bathroom, guys.

Speaker 2 (01:56:13):
Right right, and and and then Steph Curry is about
to turn thirty seven, and the Warriors for two years
now have been doing this thing called the non Steph minutes,
and they're trying to figure that sucker out and they
can't do it. Oh, you should watch the last six games.
All the sudden stuff can go sit down, and the

(01:56:33):
lead gets bigger.

Speaker 4 (01:56:34):
It's a whole difference, man, because.

Speaker 2 (01:56:36):
There's somebody else there who can put the ball in
their hands and be an NBA one and and and
that's that's what both of these teams have now, it's
what both of them have.

Speaker 4 (01:56:49):
It makes a huge difference.

Speaker 5 (01:56:52):
Those minutes are invaluable, especially for the older players.

Speaker 4 (01:56:57):
Invaluable. Literally like it's it's.

Speaker 5 (01:57:00):
Like, yes, thank you finally, and you know it's it's
I'm excited. I'm excited moving forward. I think the Lakers
have a really good shot to compete and do something special.

Speaker 4 (01:57:19):
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:57:22):
The one thing that the league. I don't know if
the league would be hoping for this or against this.
You had mentioned whether or not the I think you
would even said whether or not the Lakers could get
to the to the to the two, but I actually
really like their chances to at least get to the three.
And if the Warriors get to the six and the

(01:57:44):
Lakers are the three.

Speaker 3 (01:57:47):
Yeah, but do you want that in the first round?

Speaker 4 (01:57:50):
No, the league doesn't want that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:51):
The league doesn't want that.

Speaker 4 (01:57:52):
No, no, the league doesn't want that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:56):
Great ratings for the first round, but you.

Speaker 4 (01:57:58):
Know, I want to say that you you need that?

Speaker 2 (01:58:01):
Well, I mean I don't know if these teams are
getting even gonna maneuver through the playoffs, you know what
I mean, Like if like they're gonna have hard matchups
right away, especially Golden State because they're they're much further back,
so I don't know if they're like on some sort
of a collision course. I'm not ready to say that

(01:58:22):
I still will favor Oklahoma City and Denver at this hour,
but man, they in this moment, the trade deadline shook
up the Western Conference to really favor the two faces
of the league.

Speaker 5 (01:58:39):
Yeah, it did, And that's a good thing. That's exciting.
People are are are tuned in. Football is over. People
are in a basketball watching moved because March Maddness is
getting ready to start. So you know, this is this
is basketball's sweet spot right now.

Speaker 4 (01:59:00):
This is a sweet spot.

Speaker 3 (01:59:02):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:59:03):
I mean, here we go, and everybody's going to be
playing I think, at a little bit higher of a
clip until we get to those back to backs, of course,
but it already does feel like a lot of those
players are ramping it up. That ankle injury for Lebron
and the All Star game. Boy, it just poof went away,
didn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:59:19):
It didn't go away. Get out of here, man.

Speaker 3 (01:59:24):
All right, man, I'll see you next weeks. Salama, Mark Willard.
It's Fox Sports Radio.

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