July 12, 2025 • 40 mins
LaVar, TJ, and Plax are joined by Cuffs the Legend to talk LeBron's future with the Lakers, RG3's latest fiasco, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:46):
All right, everybody, welcome into our two. This is up
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Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We got a lot to get to and not a
whole lot of time to get to it. Hope everybody
is enjoying their weekends so far, being safe, being careful,
you know, all those good things. All right, without further ado,
you know this is our two and our two represents
well we talk a little bit of round ball. And
when we talk round ball and come up out of
(01:17):
the weeds of talking football, you hear this and then
you know what time it is, because here he is.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Now it's time to check in with Cuffs, the legend
from some Dude Show podcast on Up on Game presents,
Cuff says, giving you a spicy takes on what's going down.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Can take the heat like.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Lebron And now here's Cuffs, the legend.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It's cold time.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Legend.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, that's right. Our two. We bring in Cuffs, the
legend from Some Dude Show, best insider in the game.
Give you the information if you're paying attention, that junk happens, man,
that happens after he talks about it. We got them here,
We got them now. First of all, before we jump
into what you got top stories, hot stories, juicy stories.
(02:10):
How you doing, bro, How you feeling man? How's your
weekend going?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Man? It is the dog days of summer, y'all. I
don't know about where y'all at, but where all'm at
in North Carolina, it's like six am in the morning,
it's already hot, and humans were in the dog days
of summer. Bro, It's I'm just gonna sit back and
enjoy some of these NBA Summer League games. We got
some dugy NBA acting today. I'm just I'm just killing
(02:34):
about the pool today.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I might throw some flamingo flats on a grill or something, you.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Know, not flamingo, not flamingos.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Maybe maybe some wag maybe some waggles, slides slack something something,
something light, you know, for the fan. But it's a
dog day of the zummer Man. But speaking of dogs, yeah,
get to it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Let's get let's get some top top what's your hottest
what's your hottest topic right now? What's the hottest conversation
going on?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The hottest conversation is going on. It's got to be
the possibility of Lebron James leaving LA. I think that.
I think where there's smoke, there is fire, and we
alluded to it on previous episodes. I think even last
week we spoke about it. I've had some inside information.
(03:24):
I've spoken to people in the camp. That's the best
way I can put it. And there are there are
some situations brewing with the Calves, the MAVs. Like it's
a short list of teams right now that's interested in
Lebron's services, and I think it can go either way
because at the end of the day, Lebron has done
(03:44):
everything he can to stay patient. But you got to
look at it from his perspectives. A very clear message
was sent to Lebron James the moment that they traded
his best friend Anthony Davids away, a moment was sin
And I feel like both both the organization and Lebron,
they have different priorities at this stage. Like at this stage,
(04:06):
Lebron's almost forty one years old. The Lakers want to
build around Luca and that's understandable. That's understandable. But I
think it's time for Lebron to move on because I
don't think we're going to get the farewell tour this
year in LA You know what I'm saying. I know
Lebron wants to do a farewell tour, So could we
see that in Cleveland? Could we see it? Reunion?
Speaker 8 (04:29):
Tyree Cuffs answer this man with all this rich Paul,
Lebron wants to win the championship, being passive aggressive, and
the Lakers don't want to trade picks, Like how many
picks you want us to trade? Lebron? You want to
Russell Westbrook. That didn't work out. We gave up picks
for that. You want this, we did that, that didn't
(04:51):
pan out, Like at what point? At what point is
enough enough? But then if you want to be traded
that bad? Why'd you opt in? You could have easily
opted out. Why'd you opt in? If you knew you
didn't want to be a Laker? Don't opt in? Move on?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But don't you may tell your value? Don't you maintain
the value?
Speaker 8 (05:12):
No? No, no, no no, he wanted to maintain that
fifty plus million. That's what that is.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That's what I'm saying. Doesn't he so manage it? He
doesn't know if he opts out, doesn't he have to
do like basically a new deal all the.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Yeah, so you Lebron James, go ahead, knopped out? And
if they value, I mean, you put up points to
where you should be worth fifty million. I mean he's
averaging twenty five and what somebody gonna give him big money?
Maybe not fifty But if you don't want to be
a Laker, why did you opt in?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Why?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I think the situation TJ is the Lakers organization would
never admit this publicly. And that's Genie Buss, Rob Polinka,
kurk Rambits, everybody who was involved, right, the Bus family.
They did not expect Lebron to play this long and
still beat this good for this long. Like they thought
this window was going to close after the bubble, maybe
(06:05):
two or three years ago. But he was top six
in the NBP boating right the last year. He's still
a top five, top ten player in the world, even
though he's the oldest player in the world. I just
feel like the Lakers they want to move on, but
they're trying to do it in a in a strategic,
calculated way, and everybody can see the right and all
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on the wall. How can you blame Lebron though, for
taking that fifty two mel Like, that's fifty two meal.
He he earned that contract.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
You can't blame him. No, no, I'm not saying he
didn't earn the contract. I'm not saying I think a leverage.
It's more so like they're just real passive. Look, yeah,
I think Lebron may want to be traded. Well, you
didn't have to be traded. You could have left as
a free agent if you. Of course, he wants to
be traded.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
He wants to win another championship, and everybody's been talking
about the whole ring coacher thing over the last month.
He's saying that it doesn't matter, but he wants to
go to another team to win a championship, So at
this point, he's ring chasing also, so it is a
ring coach. It is about winning. He does win to
win another championship because you know that he's not going
to win another championship in Los Angeles. And that's the
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reason why he did omn TJ beccause he's not going
to pass with the fifty two million, and it gives
another team to come in and have an opportunity to
make trades. They get pieces. And I don't think he's
going to be a Los Angeles this year. I really don't,
because he wants to go out and try to compete
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to win another championship. And where are those places Cleveland
go back home. It's been rummers of him teaming up
with Dallas. I mean, that wouldn't even be fair for
him to go there and win another championship. But just
like you said, I don't believe you cuffs TJ. Y'all
want a farewell a tour, but I don't believe that
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it's going to happen as him being a lost Angeles Laker.
I believe that he's played his last basketball game.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
He's got four NBA championships, four, he's got a I mean,
if the whole idea of chasing rings is relevant getting
one more ring, I don't believe does. It doesn't doesn't
change anything. It doesn't change anything, right, So you gotta
assume he's eyeing up two to three more rings, which
would say two to three more years. And that's saying
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he would win two to three years in a row
to get to those seven rings. If you're not doing more,
which everybody I would assume is thinking the ring chasing
is to get to Michael Jordan's six at least tie
him so that you could say I got six rings too.
He did get MVP of all of the four championships
that he won. How do you I mean, if is it?
(08:49):
If it's a farewell tour? Okay, go back to Cleveland
for and they they reported he was there working out.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
But that's the thing though, if you're gonna go back
to Cleveland, what what the Cleveland calf is gonna give
the Lakers? Like the Lakers just not gonna hand him
over for free. And that's the thing what.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
They're willing to give up for him. But I don't know,
but I think that that's why you do the deal.
You don't opt out and just go to Cleveland for
a farewell tour. You're still gonna keep collecting them chips
and dip fifty million. You're gonna get rid of that
fifty million contract. And I'm guaranteeing that I'm gonna still
get that fifty million and maybe some more. That's what
I would assume.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
But LaVar, if you're the Lakers, if it doesn't benefit
you and your organization, are you doing that? Are you
doing that? Like if you can't get some draft picks
back that you gave up, and would you.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Say that's starting to play a little bit. They're a
little bit. They're a little bit in a bind based
off of being in a situation they're in because he
did opt in. If he opts out, it's not even
a conversation.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Now, they're not in a bind. How are they in
a bind?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well?
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Lebron on our team? Trying to figure Lebron on our team.
Lebron's on our team. We top four in the West,
so you just keeping just keep them on. We were
number three last year, so what what what are you
talking about? We're number three last Stop it, you gotta
stop it.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
You weren't here. I don't think he was here last
week when we discussed DeAndre ayd and that signing.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
He said, he said is what he.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Called, come on, Like, what was our weakness last year?
Speaker 8 (10:29):
We had no size. We we didn't have a center
that can stop Rudy Gobert from looking like a prime
will trap. We we didn't have that. Like that was
the best game he probably ever had and he didn't
never play like that and again in the playoffs. And
so DeAndre Ayden is gonna bring a lot to the Lakers.
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And he motivated. He's motivated because he knows the narrative.
He knows the narrative. Now his reputation is somewhat taking
a hit because everybody saying he not a good teammate
all they cared about. He is motivated. So this's gonna
really really help the Lakers. And that's what I'm saying.
We were the number three seed without them, y'all. We
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top four with them, and that's a fast to.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Last things. That's good, good I just feel like they've
been eyeing Lebron's replacement and his successor for years now,
and they finally had that with Luca being in La now,
and they're simply ready to move on and build around Luca.
That's all that's happening here. We've seen the same thing
happen Kobe's last two years. If you remember Kobe's last
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two years with the Lakers, they did a terrible job
with putting a competitive team around Kobe. And I feel
like that's what Lebron is looking at as well, where
he doesn't want to go out like Kobe went out
with the Lakers or how Washington Wizard Jordan went out,
you know with the Wizards. We don't want to have
that type of ending. So I feel like he's been
(12:01):
sitting around being patient. The Westbrook trade, we know that
was a debacle, it didn't work out, But since then,
Rob Polinka had sat around a lot of these trade
deadlines and he's done nothing. So now you had Luca
fall into your lap. Nico Harrison did you a huge
favor and made a trade that nobody saw coming. So
(12:21):
now my question is Rob Polinka and the front office
for the Lakers, you got new management, you got new
ownership who you did not inform Lebron James about the
sell of the team. By the way, y'all saw that report, right,
So that tells you everything you need to know. You
told Luca that you were selling the team, but you
didn't tell Lebron, so that the writings on the wall.
So I just as a basketball fan, I would just
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love to see Bron Broun his last year or two
be in an environment where you don't have to question
if the team in front office is all in. Do
we have to question that the Boston Celtics are all in?
Brad Stevens been all in, you know, like front offices,
even the cliff first. They haven't won a championship, but
Steve Varmer has been all in. I want to see
(13:04):
if Rob link is gonna make one more maybe one
or two more moves because DeAndre Ayton's great signing Jake
la Rabia, nice pickup on the low, but it's not enough.
And I feel like Lebron feels the same way. It's
not enough.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Let's take a quick break. Let's take a break before
you get to that question, because we got a lot.
I know, the whole Angel rees conversation is probably I.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
Gotta I got a couple quses for custom myself.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
All right, perfect, and I want to make sure we
get the amount of time, the good amount of time
to do it. We're gonna take a quick break right now.
On the other side of the break, you heard it,
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Speaker 5 (15:24):
Thank you, Lavari, No worries, Hey cuffs.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Hei loa.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
How's it going.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I'm just over here moving the puppies, diload like I
always moving the puppies.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Same here to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Same here you move your puppies load.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
I moved my puppies. Yeah, and in mere moments, all
google that to find out what it means. Meanwhile, I
gotta be honest. The Ladies Singles final little Wibul today,
American Amanda Anna Simova was no match for Poland's Ego Siantek.
Here is how natch point sounded on Radio Wimbledon.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Fullhand from Schiontek down the center. Fullhand down the center
from a Nisimova. It's a winner from Ego Schwontek, who
falls to her back. Clinical, ruthless, merciless, brilliant. Ego Schweontec
is Wimbleland champion for the first time. It's a double
bagel from Ego Schweontek.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
It was the first six love, six love double bagel
Ladies Singles final at Wimbledon since nineteen eleven. In the NFL,
defensive tackle and Domakin Sue officially announced his retirement today.
He was a three time All Pro a five time
pro bowler over a thirteen year career. Last played in
the NFL in twenty twenty two with the Philadelphia Eagles
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in one Major League baseball game going on right now.
The Chicago Cubs a one nothing lead over the Yankees
at Yankee Stadium in the bottom of the first inning,
and according to Google, the phrase move your puppies most
likely refer to a basketball technique, specifically how Kobe Bryant
described his footwork as talked to him by Gary Payton
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that according to AI, I'm assuming that's all it means.
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Guys, thank well. I mean, you know it was put
out there by cuffs. The legend though, you know, move
them puppy that it was that it was put out
there by the cuffs man. But then speaking of put
out there, let's let's get to this. Appreciate you. I
love uh Bo talk talk to me about this. Uh.
(17:32):
We do we have the Rob Parker sound uh discussing
the r G three situation. We got to touch Angel
rees I know you have some things on it, cuffs,
but let's let's just set the table here. There's there's
two topics going on here. One is the play of
Angel Reese right now and what that is causing conversation wise.
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And two, uh, there was a meme that was put
out there and it depicted Angel Reese as as I
want to say a gorilla or a monkey. It was
the picture that was posted. R G three had a
you know, comments about it on his on his social
and said there's no room for racism that type of deal.
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But he used it as an opportunity to say, well,
I've been quiet about Angel Reese because she had you know,
people death threatening my family. He kind of unloaded on
a whole nother level to get to the point of
saying racism doesn't belong anywhere in the world. But RCI
in true form, you know, these two have gone back
and forth about it. But what what can we hear
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what Rob Parker had to say, because that'll put in
context why Ryan Clark says at the end of what
he had to say, we are efforting Clark. However, all right,
well let's hear Ryan Clark. But but basically Rob Parker
had some interesting things to say about the scenario in
the situation. But you know, when RG three has something
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to say about Angel Reese, it seems as though Ryan
Clark certainly has something in response to it. Here's some
of what he had to say.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
RG three seems to have this strange fascination with Angel
Reese or connection to the spotlight and attention that it
brings or who it brings those things from. I know
now I don't get to speak on someone else's black
experience or call something self hate when I don't know
how you truly connect to the community or the culture,
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or I can't assume that you see yourself and the
thing that you push back against. But this one should
have been easy. Angel reach. This young, beautiful, talented, hard working,
successful black woman who is on an absolute tear in
the w NBA, who has an opportunity now to unveil
her own shoe, is depicted as a monkey in this graphic,
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a graphic I only saw on his page. So now
his millions of followers can see this, and it should
be easy to defend her against such deplorable hate and
racism and bigotry and evil.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
But he couldn't do that.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
He had to make himself both the victim and the
hero of this story.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
He had to mention that Angel Reese did.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Something to him, instead of acknowledging what he initially did
to her. He had to be the champion again for
Caitlin Clark. I guess against the young angry black woman
by lying on her and her in a circle. So
now Angel Reese, who should be in a celebration and
trying to ignore the noise of all the evil and
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attacks that she feels every single day, has to come
out along with her mother to shut down these lies
and accusations from RG three. This should have been a
situation where he comes out as human and says, we
have to stop this.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
M Uh Listen, he's saying it's lies. R G three
is saying he wasn't looking for it. It was brought
to him, it was talked to him directly. Listen. I'm
not going to sit here and get into a point
and match about who's telling the truth and who's who's
telling lies. Somebody's clearly lying because the stories don't all
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match up and add up. But I mean, what's y'all's
take on on all of this? I feel like this
is what is this? What? What is the what's the
benefit of turning that's continuing to turn this into a thing?
Like if I'm Ryan Clark, he doesn't have to continue
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to keep coming to the back of Angel Reese. It
feels like there's there's something there to that. And if
I'm RG three, you don't have to keep coming back
to the Angel Reaes conversation. Nobody else jump out there
and threw that picture out there, that graphic out there
and had anything to say about it. But RG three
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did that. To me, that's like you're trying to set
something off. What you guys think, like, what what's the
ultimate end for RG three to do that? Because it
did come across as disingenuous once he got to the
point of where he was saying all the things that
happened to him based off of the Angel Reef situation.
It's like he almost even left the total topic of
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why he posted to justify one more time, why he
did what he did, or what he didn't do. How
do you guys view this? Like, how should this be viewed?
I mean, is this an ongoing deal where Ryan Clark
and RG three are the Caitlin Clark Angel respokespersons?
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Like?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Is that how this works? What you guys think?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Well? First off? First off, when is the budder craft
for Canelo fight, because whenever that fight is is September,
I think, right, whenever the fight is happening with Bud
Crawford and Canelo, we need we need Archie and Ryan
Clark on the undercards. First off, no, furst Off because
it's definitely something personal with those guys going back and forth.
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But second, second of all, Rob Parker, if you're listening,
Rob Parker, my brother, you were one thousand percent right,
many many years ago about RG three, who I call
Robert Grifter the third. He's a grifter. That's all you're
seeing now in sports media sometimes where people try to
align themselves with certain people that are the hot button
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topics and sports, and I feel like that's what we're
seeing here with RG three, because it was very disingenuous,
like why would you even post that photoshop monkey picture
of Angerise on the two K cover like that and
act like your fate concerned about her. We've seen different
tweets in the past from RG three with this situation.
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But my thing with Caitlyn not Caitlin Clark, but Aingeries
she is keeping the main thing, the main thing. And
I said this before and I'm gonna say it again.
That's what I love about what I'm seeing from her
right now, Like she's more focused and motivated and she's
ever been, and she's keeping the main thing, the main thing.
And I think that me bounds the whole joke about
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the me bounds that was going around viral the videos.
Everybody was clowning her about the me bounds, all the
jokes are I think the jokes were starting to get
under her skin and she took it personal and she's
starting to work on her weaknesses. And that's what I
like to see as a former coach, always going to
be a coach. Angel Reads is a winner. A lot
of people don't want to admit it, like she won
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in college, but she's a winner, and she's in a
bad situation right now with the Chicago skuy and I
just feel like a lot of time you see her
have outbursts or she gets into these little skirmishes on
the court. A lot of that is pented up aggression
and frustration because she's a winner in a losing environment.
And I just feel like, if she can get in
a better environment soon, maybe you get a trade in
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the next year or two and go to a more
competitive team, we'll see even more production out of an
Angel because she's crushing it, like seven straight double doubles.
She's averaging close to seventeen and seventeen, seventeen points and
seventeen rebounds like the last seven games. I think he
broke the record for most fifteen plus rebound games. The
work speaks for itself when it comes to angel I
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just hate that we have to deal with this constant,
annoying energy from the outside world. That's keep it about basketball.
That's my thing. We got we got, we got megastars
bringing energy and attention to the w NBA. Kaitlin Clark
and Anderes, let's embrace it. It's gonna be competitive. But
like all the other stuff is just flat out corny,
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and I just feel like Robert Griffin third is showing
the world that he is a cornball brother.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Here's what Robert, Here's what Rob Parker had to say
about RG three. Take a listen to this before we
get plexing TJ.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Take it.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Here's my biggest thing to start.
Speaker 10 (25:48):
First of all, you don't have to be involved in
everything that people like.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You don't have to respond to everything. Number number But
that's number two number one. Why would you.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
Retweet a racist picture like that and give it any
more exposure or life?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Am I Kelvin? Am I wrong?
Speaker 10 (26:06):
And how do you how do you retweet that picture? No,
if you want to, if some brought your attentions, I'm
not going to give the person who just did that
more exposure by putting in on my timeline and my
millions of follow over how many people he has?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
What is he thinking? And I think Rob Parker is
spot on. There's no reason for RG three to do
it other than to me to create the conversation where
people would pay attention to what he said and give
him one more opportunity to justify why he said what
he said the first time about Angel Reese. It just
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seems disingenuous. As I mentioned, Listen, we talked about Bobby
three sticks before when he was going to do the
book on surviving Washington. Listen, I'm not I'm not one
of these guys that wanted like like jump on people
or jump out the opportunity to create a beef, like
because if me and him were to go into a ring,
I would beat his ass. But but with that being said,
(27:11):
I mean, at the end of the day, why are
you creating a You're creating an opportunity for you to
justify yourself by using someone else and the way that
something else has been handled. That's just kind of how
I see it. He seems like he's a guy that
be like trying to stay relevant and looking for attention.
I mean, is that is that a bad take?
Speaker 8 (27:33):
It's unfortunate man, what Rob Parker said, and I agree
with cuffs like it was uncalled for, like to put
that on your page? Why why you do it because
you want attention. He's no longer at ESPN and I
don't know RG three, so I'm not gonna slander a guy.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I don't know him that well, I don't know, I
don't I don't know.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
But why would you do this? You do it because
you know it's gonna bring attention because of the dust
stuff that they had earlier in the year. It was
really uncalled for. It was unnecessary. It's unfortunate man that
number one Angel Reese has to go through this because
we're human and she may not respond, but she has
(28:19):
family members and she has friends as they gonna defend her.
And you don't want this to turn into something more
than it should because when she is a when she's
a woman, a young woman, and you have a man
putting this on her page, if some of her people
run into you, that may be a problem. And now
(28:41):
it's why are you getting physical with me? Why are
you taking it here? Well, why have you taken it
to where you've taken it, and so I hope it stops.
But yeah, I agree, man, it was uncalled for. It's notnecessary.
Caitlin Clark hell of a player. Angel Reese hell of
a player. They play basketball and they get things done
in a different way, but both of them are great players.
(29:04):
They just do it a different way. Celebrate both of them. Man.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
I don't know auj three, men, I never met the
young man, but to me, it seems like he knew
exactly what he was doing. To me, I think it
goes back to you know him and Ryan Clarke earlier
this year, what Ryan had to say about him, and
they was going back and forth in the media, and
it's almost that I kind of feel that Audrey three
(29:35):
posted this and put this on his page.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
It's almost like he's.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Trying to prove his blackness to people, because I've we
know people and when you when they say they smoked
us fire, then they smoked this fire. And it's unfortunate
for Angela Reis because just like you said, teacher, she's
a twenty one, twenty two year old and young black
(29:58):
woman playing in the WNB and this is going to
follow her when she travels and she goes on the
road and all of these things moving forward, like this
is going to be a part of what she is
going to have to deal with as a young black
woman in the WNBA for some time now. And I
just hope, you know, from a mental space, and that
(30:22):
she had some strong support of people in her corner,
because she is going to need it. And it's a
shame that we are talking about this, and I feel
that RG three did it for a reason, and it's
just unfortunate that all of this is coming to.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Fruition the way that it has.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
And if i'm you know, RG three, he needs to
come out of make an apology.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
He really does.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
I don't know if it's going to help anything moving
forward before that young girl and her family and all
the lives that are being told. I just don't even
know how you wake up in the morning and have
that kind of energy as a person and put that
out there for the world to see and have an
explanation for why you did it. You never should have
touched it in the first place. And I know exactly
(31:12):
why you did it because I know some of the
people that deal with him and the things that I've said,
but listen, I stay out people's business.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
But it was wrong.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
He needs to apologize to that young woman and it
never should have been done.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
It's definitely abuse of influence, right, influence and I won't
say power, but definitely influence and exposure. You know, he's
got a big platform because he's got so many people
following him. But it just didn't seem like it just
seemed like it was crowbard, like just came out of nowhere,
Like let me just put this out there. Let me
say there's no room for racism anywhere in the world.
(31:51):
But RG three, you the one that, like you lit
it up. Like the only place I saw the photo
was on his page, Like I don't know where the
origin the origin of it is. I mean, I've seen
plenty of things that have been posted meanwise of Angel
rees I've seen plenty of things super derogatory posted on
(32:15):
Kaitlyn Clark. To be honest with you, you might see
more jacked up stuff posted on Kaitlyn Clark than you do,
Angel Reese. I mean, I've seen one the other day
way out of pocket, wait, like way out of pocket
what it was? And you know what you see it?
And I always chalk it up to you got some
of the dumbest, most evil, vow ignorant people that be
(32:38):
on social media and they have nothing better to do
with their time than attack people who are doing something
with their lives. And Angel Reaves and and Kaitlyn Clark
are doing extraordinary things with their lives. You're always gonna
fall victim to or don't be a victim, but you're
gonna always fall into the category of where you're relevant enough,
people are gonna say crazy things and do crazy things
(32:59):
that are associated it with you. So I hope, I
hope at the end of the day that that it
turns into positive where all of this crazy, negative, horrible
like bad attention that's thrown on Caitlin Clark and Angel
Reese actually can subside and actually morph into the appreciation
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of who they are as players, people and athletes. That
would be my you know what I would hope for
out of all of this. But RG three, you need
to chill with that bro, like that's that's out of pocket.
And and RC, you ain't got to respond to to
him every single time he does it like who who?
Like we don't care about his blackness, Like I don't
(33:41):
even care to have that conversation about how black RG
three is could care less. I know some straight inwards
that are married to to to white women and and
deal with white people that like, who you deal with
doesn't make you who you are. What's in your heart
is making is what makes you who you are. And
it's it seems like RG three got something in his
heart that he kind of wrestling with. But go ahead,
(34:02):
go ahead, cause you got the last word.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
No.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
I I was just laughing because the other day, with
RG three sitting that tweet out, I knew it was bad.
With Marl Luther King Junior's youngest daughter, Bernise King, She's
tweeted RG three and politely told him to shut the
hell up. That's one I realized he's really gone too far.
But in all seriousness, I just feel like Angel Reese
(34:26):
and Caitlin Clark, they're fighting multiple battles right now. And
what I mean is it's like a it's a lot
of jealousy in a WNBA, So you're dealing with the
jealousy component and you're dealing with the racist component. Caitlin
Clark deals with it ainger reach. As you see right now,
she's dealing with it, and I just want everybody to
get back to basketball and make and keep the main thing,
(34:49):
the main thing, that's all we ask for is basketball fans.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I wonder how much of this is possibly manufactured to
try to maintain some sort of relevancy and attention. It'd
be interesting to know if there was that element to it.
But anyway, that's just us talking, and that's Cuffs, that's TJ,
that's Plexico, and I'm LeVar Arrington. We're gonna come back
on the other side of the show. We're gonna wrap
it up. Yeah, a couple minutes here, we'll be right back.
(35:16):
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Let's get to this Cooper Flag conversation and Summer League cuffs.
Let's let's round it off here and see what TJ
and Plex got to say about what you got.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
Well.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
I think I think tonight we're gonna see a more
a more poised Cooper Flag. You know, his debut the
other night, he was kind of he was kind of
clunky there. He was five for twenty one. I think
he was zero for five for three. But I think
the game is going to slow down a little bit tonight.
You know, I feel like it was just Jitters that
first game, everybody coming out to see you. It was
kind of like Brownie last year in the Summer League,
(36:33):
when all odds was on you. But tonight the number
one pick, the number two pick, we got Dylan Harper
and Cooper Flat tonight with this afternoon at four, I
think it's gonna be a great matchup. But I want
to tell y'all right now, this is a guy that
I want everybody to look out for. He was the
number sixteen pick in the draft this year from Portland.
Yange Hanson, the seven foot one Chinese big man. He's
(36:56):
only twenty one. He's only twenty years old. I'm telling y'all,
I think as gotta steal in this draft. So watch
out for Hanson as well. Passing court vision. He's looking
like a baby yolkis out there. To be honest, I'm
telling you.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
Watch out watching your comparisons beat out of pocket. Your
comparisons they out of pocket till it comes to fruition.
DeAndre al Sender and now baby uh chasing Tatum and
Jaylen Brown are Scottie and Mike.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
He did say that. He did say that Scottie and Mike.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
Come on, man, your comparisons out of pocket because I
gotta stop you there, yo, I did.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
I did say Jayln Brown and Jason Tatum were gonna
be the next Pipping in Jordan's and they could have been,
but Tatum got hurt. Tatum got hurt in the finals,
so they didn't get a chance to go back to back.
But I'm telling you laugh now, cry later. Yang Hanson,
the Chinese big man for the Blazers. Just keep an
eye out for him in the rest of the summer League.
Well we got Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper to night man
(38:01):
should be a good one.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
So I'll tell you who has caught my eye. I've
been watching the you know, the summer the league. Obviously
you know I'm a little bonds with Dylan. I watched
him grow up as a young kid. But this kid,
uh cold, Cole Swider from the Lakers. Oh yeah, talk
scenes to be excited about this young guy. Tell me
what you think about him, TJ.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
All I know is I don't understand how the man
has been shooting mid forty percent from three point range
in the G League and he ain't on our roster, Like,
at worst, he better be on a two way contract. Dude,
he shot fifty percent one year in the gd from
three point range. Fifty percent. The dude is playing lights
(38:44):
out in the Summerly. At some point he's gonna have
to be given an opportunity. And he's six eight six
eight two thirty, like when you had that type of
size and you can shoot the basketball the way he's shooting.
Some if it ain't the Laker, somebody's gonna give Hi
an opportunit because when you can make shots at the
clip that he's making them at is crazy. I'm glad
(39:05):
you brought him up because everybody looking at Dark and
Connect like, Oh it's Cole Swater. That's the one that's
impressing everybody and should be given this opportunity.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
I don't think they're gonna sign I think they've given
him a chance the last couple of years, but he
can't move the puppies TJ. And that's why you haven't
seen him stick in the NBA so far. Coale Swater.
He got a chance with the Miami Heat briefly. He
had a cup of tea with them last year, I think.
But he's not a good defensive player. But the guy
been seeing for the Lakers that's popped out and he
might not sign with the Lakers because they don't have
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any I don't think they have enough flexibility to sign
him because he's too exactly too old to get a
two way contract. But Darius Baisley has really falling, Yes, yes,
really stood out. He had a couple of good years.
People remember him. He was the first round pick. He did. Yeah,
he did a new balance thing when they did that
a few years ago. He played with the Thunder for
(39:59):
a year to He's average double figures in the league before,
so he's just trying to stick with somebody right now.
But there's been a lot of guys standing out. There's
been a lot of guys standing out. I like Derek
Queen with the Pelicans. I like Jeremiah Fears, I like
what the Pelicans are doing, Trey Johnson for the Wizards,
and don't forget about Reeve Shepherd from the Houston Rockets.
(40:19):
Ree Shepard had twenty eight the other night. Reeve Shepherd
is gonna take a huge leap in his second year
with the Rockets, and he's one of the reasons why
I feel like the Rockets go from being the Western
Conference Finals.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Gotta go. Hey, guys, that's Cuffs the Legend Plex TJ
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Speaker 4 (00:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We got a lot to get to and not a
whole lot of time to get to it. Hope everybody
is enjoying their weekends so far, being safe, being careful,
you know, all those good things. All right, without further ado,
you know this is our two and our two represents
well we talk a little bit of round ball. And
when we talk round ball and come up out of
(01:17):
the weeds of talking football, you hear this and then
you know what time it is, because here he is.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Now it's time to check in with Cuffs, the legend
from some Dude Show podcast on Up on Game presents,
Cuff says, giving you a spicy takes on what's going down.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Can take the heat like.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Lebron And now here's Cuffs, the legend.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It's cold time.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Legend.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, that's right. Our two. We bring in Cuffs, the
legend from Some Dude Show, best insider in the game.
Give you the information if you're paying attention, that junk happens, man,
that happens after he talks about it. We got them here,
We got them now. First of all, before we jump
into what you got top stories, hot stories, juicy stories.
(02:10):
How you doing, bro, How you feeling man? How's your
weekend going?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Man? It is the dog days of summer, y'all. I
don't know about where y'all at, but where all'm at
in North Carolina, it's like six am in the morning,
it's already hot, and humans were in the dog days
of summer. Bro, It's I'm just gonna sit back and
enjoy some of these NBA Summer League games. We got
some dugy NBA acting today. I'm just I'm just killing
(02:34):
about the pool today.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I might throw some flamingo flats on a grill or something, you.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Know, not flamingo, not flamingos.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Maybe maybe some wag maybe some waggles, slides slack something something,
something light, you know, for the fan. But it's a
dog day of the zummer Man. But speaking of dogs, yeah,
get to it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Let's get let's get some top top what's your hottest
what's your hottest topic right now? What's the hottest conversation
going on?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The hottest conversation is going on. It's got to be
the possibility of Lebron James leaving LA. I think that.
I think where there's smoke, there is fire, and we
alluded to it on previous episodes. I think even last
week we spoke about it. I've had some inside information.
(03:24):
I've spoken to people in the camp. That's the best
way I can put it. And there are there are
some situations brewing with the Calves, the MAVs. Like it's
a short list of teams right now that's interested in
Lebron's services, and I think it can go either way
because at the end of the day, Lebron has done
(03:44):
everything he can to stay patient. But you got to
look at it from his perspectives. A very clear message
was sent to Lebron James the moment that they traded
his best friend Anthony Davids away, a moment was sin
And I feel like both both the organization and Lebron,
they have different priorities at this stage. Like at this stage,
(04:06):
Lebron's almost forty one years old. The Lakers want to
build around Luca and that's understandable. That's understandable. But I
think it's time for Lebron to move on because I
don't think we're going to get the farewell tour this
year in LA You know what I'm saying. I know
Lebron wants to do a farewell tour, So could we
see that in Cleveland? Could we see it? Reunion?
Speaker 8 (04:29):
Tyree Cuffs answer this man with all this rich Paul,
Lebron wants to win the championship, being passive aggressive, and
the Lakers don't want to trade picks, Like how many
picks you want us to trade? Lebron? You want to
Russell Westbrook. That didn't work out. We gave up picks
for that. You want this, we did that, that didn't
(04:51):
pan out, Like at what point? At what point is
enough enough? But then if you want to be traded
that bad? Why'd you opt in? You could have easily
opted out. Why'd you opt in? If you knew you
didn't want to be a Laker? Don't opt in? Move on?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But don't you may tell your value? Don't you maintain
the value?
Speaker 8 (05:12):
No? No, no, no no, he wanted to maintain that
fifty plus million. That's what that is.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That's what I'm saying. Doesn't he so manage it? He
doesn't know if he opts out, doesn't he have to
do like basically a new deal all the.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Yeah, so you Lebron James, go ahead, knopped out? And
if they value, I mean, you put up points to
where you should be worth fifty million. I mean he's
averaging twenty five and what somebody gonna give him big money?
Maybe not fifty But if you don't want to be
a Laker, why did you opt in?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Why?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I think the situation TJ is the Lakers organization would
never admit this publicly. And that's Genie Buss, Rob Polinka,
kurk Rambits, everybody who was involved, right, the Bus family.
They did not expect Lebron to play this long and
still beat this good for this long. Like they thought
this window was going to close after the bubble, maybe
(06:05):
two or three years ago. But he was top six
in the NBP boating right the last year. He's still
a top five, top ten player in the world, even
though he's the oldest player in the world. I just
feel like the Lakers they want to move on, but
they're trying to do it in a in a strategic,
calculated way, and everybody can see the right and all
(06:26):
on the wall. How can you blame Lebron though, for
taking that fifty two mel Like, that's fifty two meal.
He he earned that contract.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
You can't blame him. No, no, I'm not saying he
didn't earn the contract. I'm not saying I think a leverage.
It's more so like they're just real passive. Look, yeah,
I think Lebron may want to be traded. Well, you
didn't have to be traded. You could have left as
a free agent if you. Of course, he wants to
be traded.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
He wants to win another championship, and everybody's been talking
about the whole ring coacher thing over the last month.
He's saying that it doesn't matter, but he wants to
go to another team to win a championship, So at
this point, he's ring chasing also, so it is a
ring coach. It is about winning. He does win to
win another championship because you know that he's not going
to win another championship in Los Angeles. And that's the
(07:16):
reason why he did omn TJ beccause he's not going
to pass with the fifty two million, and it gives
another team to come in and have an opportunity to
make trades. They get pieces. And I don't think he's
going to be a Los Angeles this year. I really don't,
because he wants to go out and try to compete
(07:36):
to win another championship. And where are those places Cleveland
go back home. It's been rummers of him teaming up
with Dallas. I mean, that wouldn't even be fair for
him to go there and win another championship. But just
like you said, I don't believe you cuffs TJ. Y'all
want a farewell a tour, but I don't believe that
(07:58):
it's going to happen as him being a lost Angeles Laker.
I believe that he's played his last basketball game.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
He's got four NBA championships, four, he's got a I mean,
if the whole idea of chasing rings is relevant getting
one more ring, I don't believe does. It doesn't doesn't
change anything. It doesn't change anything, right, So you gotta
assume he's eyeing up two to three more rings, which
would say two to three more years. And that's saying
(08:26):
he would win two to three years in a row
to get to those seven rings. If you're not doing more,
which everybody I would assume is thinking the ring chasing
is to get to Michael Jordan's six at least tie
him so that you could say I got six rings too.
He did get MVP of all of the four championships
that he won. How do you I mean, if is it?
(08:49):
If it's a farewell tour? Okay, go back to Cleveland
for and they they reported he was there working out.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
But that's the thing though, if you're gonna go back
to Cleveland, what what the Cleveland calf is gonna give
the Lakers? Like the Lakers just not gonna hand him
over for free. And that's the thing what.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
They're willing to give up for him. But I don't know,
but I think that that's why you do the deal.
You don't opt out and just go to Cleveland for
a farewell tour. You're still gonna keep collecting them chips
and dip fifty million. You're gonna get rid of that
fifty million contract. And I'm guaranteeing that I'm gonna still
get that fifty million and maybe some more. That's what
I would assume.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
But LaVar, if you're the Lakers, if it doesn't benefit
you and your organization, are you doing that? Are you
doing that? Like if you can't get some draft picks
back that you gave up, and would you.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Say that's starting to play a little bit. They're a
little bit. They're a little bit in a bind based
off of being in a situation they're in because he
did opt in. If he opts out, it's not even
a conversation.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Now, they're not in a bind. How are they in
a bind?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well?
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Lebron on our team? Trying to figure Lebron on our team.
Lebron's on our team. We top four in the West,
so you just keeping just keep them on. We were
number three last year, so what what what are you
talking about? We're number three last Stop it, you gotta
stop it.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
You weren't here. I don't think he was here last
week when we discussed DeAndre ayd and that signing.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
He said, he said is what he.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Called, come on, Like, what was our weakness last year?
Speaker 8 (10:29):
We had no size. We we didn't have a center
that can stop Rudy Gobert from looking like a prime
will trap. We we didn't have that. Like that was
the best game he probably ever had and he didn't
never play like that and again in the playoffs. And
so DeAndre Ayden is gonna bring a lot to the Lakers.
(10:52):
And he motivated. He's motivated because he knows the narrative.
He knows the narrative. Now his reputation is somewhat taking
a hit because everybody saying he not a good teammate
all they cared about. He is motivated. So this's gonna
really really help the Lakers. And that's what I'm saying.
We were the number three seed without them, y'all. We
(11:13):
top four with them, and that's a fast to.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Last things. That's good, good I just feel like they've
been eyeing Lebron's replacement and his successor for years now,
and they finally had that with Luca being in La now,
and they're simply ready to move on and build around Luca.
That's all that's happening here. We've seen the same thing
happen Kobe's last two years. If you remember Kobe's last
(11:40):
two years with the Lakers, they did a terrible job
with putting a competitive team around Kobe. And I feel
like that's what Lebron is looking at as well, where
he doesn't want to go out like Kobe went out
with the Lakers or how Washington Wizard Jordan went out,
you know with the Wizards. We don't want to have
that type of ending. So I feel like he's been
(12:01):
sitting around being patient. The Westbrook trade, we know that
was a debacle, it didn't work out, But since then,
Rob Polinka had sat around a lot of these trade
deadlines and he's done nothing. So now you had Luca
fall into your lap. Nico Harrison did you a huge
favor and made a trade that nobody saw coming. So
(12:21):
now my question is Rob Polinka and the front office
for the Lakers, you got new management, you got new
ownership who you did not inform Lebron James about the
sell of the team. By the way, y'all saw that report, right,
So that tells you everything you need to know. You
told Luca that you were selling the team, but you
didn't tell Lebron, so that the writings on the wall.
So I just as a basketball fan, I would just
(12:43):
love to see Bron Broun his last year or two
be in an environment where you don't have to question
if the team in front office is all in. Do
we have to question that the Boston Celtics are all in?
Brad Stevens been all in, you know, like front offices,
even the cliff first. They haven't won a championship, but
Steve Varmer has been all in. I want to see
(13:04):
if Rob link is gonna make one more maybe one
or two more moves because DeAndre Ayton's great signing Jake
la Rabia, nice pickup on the low, but it's not enough.
And I feel like Lebron feels the same way. It's
not enough.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Let's take a quick break. Let's take a break before
you get to that question, because we got a lot.
I know, the whole Angel rees conversation is probably I.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
Gotta I got a couple quses for custom myself.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
All right, perfect, and I want to make sure we
get the amount of time, the good amount of time
to do it. We're gonna take a quick break right now.
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Speaker 5 (15:24):
Thank you, Lavari, No worries, Hey cuffs.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Hei loa.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
How's it going.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I'm just over here moving the puppies, diload like I
always moving the puppies.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Same here to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Same here you move your puppies load.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
I moved my puppies. Yeah, and in mere moments, all
google that to find out what it means. Meanwhile, I
gotta be honest. The Ladies Singles final little Wibul today,
American Amanda Anna Simova was no match for Poland's Ego Siantek.
Here is how natch point sounded on Radio Wimbledon.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Fullhand from Schiontek down the center. Fullhand down the center
from a Nisimova. It's a winner from Ego Schwontek, who
falls to her back. Clinical, ruthless, merciless, brilliant. Ego Schweontec
is Wimbleland champion for the first time. It's a double
bagel from Ego Schweontek.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
It was the first six love, six love double bagel
Ladies Singles final at Wimbledon since nineteen eleven. In the NFL,
defensive tackle and Domakin Sue officially announced his retirement today.
He was a three time All Pro a five time
pro bowler over a thirteen year career. Last played in
the NFL in twenty twenty two with the Philadelphia Eagles
(16:46):
in one Major League baseball game going on right now.
The Chicago Cubs a one nothing lead over the Yankees
at Yankee Stadium in the bottom of the first inning,
and according to Google, the phrase move your puppies most
likely refer to a basketball technique, specifically how Kobe Bryant
described his footwork as talked to him by Gary Payton
(17:07):
that according to AI, I'm assuming that's all it means.
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Guys, thank well. I mean, you know it was put
out there by cuffs. The legend though, you know, move
them puppy that it was that it was put out
there by the cuffs man. But then speaking of put
out there, let's let's get to this. Appreciate you. I
love uh Bo talk talk to me about this. Uh.
(17:32):
We do we have the Rob Parker sound uh discussing
the r G three situation. We got to touch Angel
rees I know you have some things on it, cuffs,
but let's let's just set the table here. There's there's
two topics going on here. One is the play of
Angel Reese right now and what that is causing conversation wise.
(17:54):
And two, uh, there was a meme that was put
out there and it depicted Angel Reese as as I
want to say a gorilla or a monkey. It was
the picture that was posted. R G three had a
you know, comments about it on his on his social
and said there's no room for racism that type of deal.
(18:18):
But he used it as an opportunity to say, well,
I've been quiet about Angel Reese because she had you know,
people death threatening my family. He kind of unloaded on
a whole nother level to get to the point of
saying racism doesn't belong anywhere in the world. But RCI
in true form, you know, these two have gone back
and forth about it. But what what can we hear
(18:41):
what Rob Parker had to say, because that'll put in
context why Ryan Clark says at the end of what
he had to say, we are efforting Clark. However, all right,
well let's hear Ryan Clark. But but basically Rob Parker
had some interesting things to say about the scenario in
the situation. But you know, when RG three has something
(19:02):
to say about Angel Reese, it seems as though Ryan
Clark certainly has something in response to it. Here's some
of what he had to say.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
RG three seems to have this strange fascination with Angel
Reese or connection to the spotlight and attention that it
brings or who it brings those things from. I know
now I don't get to speak on someone else's black
experience or call something self hate when I don't know
how you truly connect to the community or the culture,
(19:33):
or I can't assume that you see yourself and the
thing that you push back against. But this one should
have been easy. Angel reach. This young, beautiful, talented, hard working,
successful black woman who is on an absolute tear in
the w NBA, who has an opportunity now to unveil
her own shoe, is depicted as a monkey in this graphic,
(19:57):
a graphic I only saw on his page. So now
his millions of followers can see this, and it should
be easy to defend her against such deplorable hate and
racism and bigotry and evil.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
But he couldn't do that.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
He had to make himself both the victim and the
hero of this story.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
He had to mention that Angel Reese did.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Something to him, instead of acknowledging what he initially did
to her. He had to be the champion again for
Caitlin Clark. I guess against the young angry black woman
by lying on her and her in a circle. So
now Angel Reese, who should be in a celebration and
trying to ignore the noise of all the evil and
(20:42):
attacks that she feels every single day, has to come
out along with her mother to shut down these lies
and accusations from RG three. This should have been a
situation where he comes out as human and says, we
have to stop this.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
M Uh Listen, he's saying it's lies. R G three
is saying he wasn't looking for it. It was brought
to him, it was talked to him directly. Listen. I'm
not going to sit here and get into a point
and match about who's telling the truth and who's who's
telling lies. Somebody's clearly lying because the stories don't all
(21:23):
match up and add up. But I mean, what's y'all's
take on on all of this? I feel like this
is what is this? What? What is the what's the
benefit of turning that's continuing to turn this into a thing?
Like if I'm Ryan Clark, he doesn't have to continue
(21:43):
to keep coming to the back of Angel Reese. It
feels like there's there's something there to that. And if
I'm RG three, you don't have to keep coming back
to the Angel Reaes conversation. Nobody else jump out there
and threw that picture out there, that graphic out there
and had anything to say about it. But RG three
(22:05):
did that. To me, that's like you're trying to set
something off. What you guys think, like, what what's the
ultimate end for RG three to do that? Because it
did come across as disingenuous once he got to the
point of where he was saying all the things that
happened to him based off of the Angel Reef situation.
It's like he almost even left the total topic of
(22:26):
why he posted to justify one more time, why he
did what he did, or what he didn't do. How
do you guys view this? Like, how should this be viewed?
I mean, is this an ongoing deal where Ryan Clark
and RG three are the Caitlin Clark Angel respokespersons?
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Like?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Is that how this works? What you guys think?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Well? First off? First off, when is the budder craft
for Canelo fight, because whenever that fight is is September,
I think, right, whenever the fight is happening with Bud
Crawford and Canelo, we need we need Archie and Ryan
Clark on the undercards. First off, no, furst Off because
it's definitely something personal with those guys going back and forth.
(23:09):
But second, second of all, Rob Parker, if you're listening,
Rob Parker, my brother, you were one thousand percent right,
many many years ago about RG three, who I call
Robert Grifter the third. He's a grifter. That's all you're
seeing now in sports media sometimes where people try to
align themselves with certain people that are the hot button
(23:30):
topics and sports, and I feel like that's what we're
seeing here with RG three, because it was very disingenuous,
like why would you even post that photoshop monkey picture
of Angerise on the two K cover like that and
act like your fate concerned about her. We've seen different
tweets in the past from RG three with this situation.
(23:50):
But my thing with Caitlyn not Caitlin Clark, but Aingeries
she is keeping the main thing, the main thing. And
I said this before and I'm gonna say it again.
That's what I love about what I'm seeing from her
right now, Like she's more focused and motivated and she's
ever been, and she's keeping the main thing, the main thing.
And I think that me bounds the whole joke about
(24:12):
the me bounds that was going around viral the videos.
Everybody was clowning her about the me bounds, all the
jokes are I think the jokes were starting to get
under her skin and she took it personal and she's
starting to work on her weaknesses. And that's what I
like to see as a former coach, always going to
be a coach. Angel Reads is a winner. A lot
of people don't want to admit it, like she won
(24:32):
in college, but she's a winner, and she's in a
bad situation right now with the Chicago skuy and I
just feel like a lot of time you see her
have outbursts or she gets into these little skirmishes on
the court. A lot of that is pented up aggression
and frustration because she's a winner in a losing environment.
And I just feel like, if she can get in
a better environment soon, maybe you get a trade in
(24:53):
the next year or two and go to a more
competitive team, we'll see even more production out of an
Angel because she's crushing it, like seven straight double doubles.
She's averaging close to seventeen and seventeen, seventeen points and
seventeen rebounds like the last seven games. I think he
broke the record for most fifteen plus rebound games. The
work speaks for itself when it comes to angel I
(25:13):
just hate that we have to deal with this constant,
annoying energy from the outside world. That's keep it about basketball.
That's my thing. We got we got, we got megastars
bringing energy and attention to the w NBA. Kaitlin Clark
and Anderes, let's embrace it. It's gonna be competitive. But
like all the other stuff is just flat out corny,
(25:34):
and I just feel like Robert Griffin third is showing
the world that he is a cornball brother.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Here's what Robert, Here's what Rob Parker had to say
about RG three. Take a listen to this before we
get plexing TJ.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Take it.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Here's my biggest thing to start.
Speaker 10 (25:48):
First of all, you don't have to be involved in
everything that people like.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You don't have to respond to everything. Number number But
that's number two number one. Why would you.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
Retweet a racist picture like that and give it any
more exposure or life?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Am I Kelvin? Am I wrong?
Speaker 10 (26:06):
And how do you how do you retweet that picture? No,
if you want to, if some brought your attentions, I'm
not going to give the person who just did that
more exposure by putting in on my timeline and my
millions of follow over how many people he has?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
What is he thinking? And I think Rob Parker is
spot on. There's no reason for RG three to do
it other than to me to create the conversation where
people would pay attention to what he said and give
him one more opportunity to justify why he said what
he said the first time about Angel Reese. It just
(26:50):
seems disingenuous. As I mentioned, Listen, we talked about Bobby
three sticks before when he was going to do the
book on surviving Washington. Listen, I'm not I'm not one
of these guys that wanted like like jump on people
or jump out the opportunity to create a beef, like
because if me and him were to go into a ring,
I would beat his ass. But but with that being said,
(27:11):
I mean, at the end of the day, why are
you creating a You're creating an opportunity for you to
justify yourself by using someone else and the way that
something else has been handled. That's just kind of how
I see it. He seems like he's a guy that
be like trying to stay relevant and looking for attention.
I mean, is that is that a bad take?
Speaker 8 (27:33):
It's unfortunate man, what Rob Parker said, and I agree
with cuffs like it was uncalled for, like to put
that on your page? Why why you do it because
you want attention. He's no longer at ESPN and I
don't know RG three, so I'm not gonna slander a guy.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I don't know him that well, I don't know, I
don't I don't know.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
But why would you do this? You do it because
you know it's gonna bring attention because of the dust
stuff that they had earlier in the year. It was
really uncalled for. It was unnecessary. It's unfortunate man that
number one Angel Reese has to go through this because
we're human and she may not respond, but she has
(28:19):
family members and she has friends as they gonna defend her.
And you don't want this to turn into something more
than it should because when she is a when she's
a woman, a young woman, and you have a man
putting this on her page, if some of her people
run into you, that may be a problem. And now
(28:41):
it's why are you getting physical with me? Why are
you taking it here? Well, why have you taken it
to where you've taken it, and so I hope it stops.
But yeah, I agree, man, it was uncalled for. It's notnecessary.
Caitlin Clark hell of a player. Angel Reese hell of
a player. They play basketball and they get things done
in a different way, but both of them are great players.
(29:04):
They just do it a different way. Celebrate both of them. Man.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
I don't know auj three, men, I never met the
young man, but to me, it seems like he knew
exactly what he was doing. To me, I think it
goes back to you know him and Ryan Clarke earlier
this year, what Ryan had to say about him, and
they was going back and forth in the media, and
it's almost that I kind of feel that Audrey three
(29:35):
posted this and put this on his page.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
It's almost like he's.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Trying to prove his blackness to people, because I've we
know people and when you when they say they smoked
us fire, then they smoked this fire. And it's unfortunate
for Angela Reis because just like you said, teacher, she's
a twenty one, twenty two year old and young black
(29:58):
woman playing in the WNB and this is going to
follow her when she travels and she goes on the
road and all of these things moving forward, like this
is going to be a part of what she is
going to have to deal with as a young black
woman in the WNBA for some time now. And I
just hope, you know, from a mental space, and that
(30:22):
she had some strong support of people in her corner,
because she is going to need it. And it's a
shame that we are talking about this, and I feel
that RG three did it for a reason, and it's
just unfortunate that all of this is coming to.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Fruition the way that it has.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
And if i'm you know, RG three, he needs to
come out of make an apology.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
He really does.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
I don't know if it's going to help anything moving
forward before that young girl and her family and all
the lives that are being told. I just don't even
know how you wake up in the morning and have
that kind of energy as a person and put that
out there for the world to see and have an
explanation for why you did it. You never should have
touched it in the first place. And I know exactly
(31:12):
why you did it because I know some of the
people that deal with him and the things that I've said,
but listen, I stay out people's business.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
But it was wrong.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
He needs to apologize to that young woman and it
never should have been done.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
It's definitely abuse of influence, right, influence and I won't
say power, but definitely influence and exposure. You know, he's
got a big platform because he's got so many people
following him. But it just didn't seem like it just
seemed like it was crowbard, like just came out of nowhere,
Like let me just put this out there. Let me
say there's no room for racism anywhere in the world.
(31:51):
But RG three, you the one that, like you lit
it up. Like the only place I saw the photo
was on his page, Like I don't know where the
origin the origin of it is. I mean, I've seen
plenty of things that have been posted meanwise of Angel
rees I've seen plenty of things super derogatory posted on
(32:15):
Kaitlyn Clark. To be honest with you, you might see
more jacked up stuff posted on Kaitlyn Clark than you do,
Angel Reese. I mean, I've seen one the other day
way out of pocket, wait, like way out of pocket
what it was? And you know what you see it?
And I always chalk it up to you got some
of the dumbest, most evil, vow ignorant people that be
(32:38):
on social media and they have nothing better to do
with their time than attack people who are doing something
with their lives. And Angel Reaves and and Kaitlyn Clark
are doing extraordinary things with their lives. You're always gonna
fall victim to or don't be a victim, but you're
gonna always fall into the category of where you're relevant enough,
people are gonna say crazy things and do crazy things
(32:59):
that are associated it with you. So I hope, I
hope at the end of the day that that it
turns into positive where all of this crazy, negative, horrible
like bad attention that's thrown on Caitlin Clark and Angel
Reese actually can subside and actually morph into the appreciation
(33:20):
of who they are as players, people and athletes. That
would be my you know what I would hope for
out of all of this. But RG three, you need
to chill with that bro, like that's that's out of pocket.
And and RC, you ain't got to respond to to
him every single time he does it like who who?
Like we don't care about his blackness, Like I don't
(33:41):
even care to have that conversation about how black RG
three is could care less. I know some straight inwards
that are married to to to white women and and
deal with white people that like, who you deal with
doesn't make you who you are. What's in your heart
is making is what makes you who you are. And
it's it seems like RG three got something in his
heart that he kind of wrestling with. But go ahead,
(34:02):
go ahead, cause you got the last word.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
No.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
I I was just laughing because the other day, with
RG three sitting that tweet out, I knew it was bad.
With Marl Luther King Junior's youngest daughter, Bernise King, She's
tweeted RG three and politely told him to shut the
hell up. That's one I realized he's really gone too far.
But in all seriousness, I just feel like Angel Reese
(34:26):
and Caitlin Clark, they're fighting multiple battles right now. And
what I mean is it's like a it's a lot
of jealousy in a WNBA, So you're dealing with the
jealousy component and you're dealing with the racist component. Caitlin
Clark deals with it ainger reach. As you see right now,
she's dealing with it, and I just want everybody to
get back to basketball and make and keep the main thing,
(34:49):
the main thing, that's all we ask for is basketball fans.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I wonder how much of this is possibly manufactured to
try to maintain some sort of relevancy and attention. It'd
be interesting to know if there was that element to it.
But anyway, that's just us talking, and that's Cuffs, that's TJ,
that's Plexico, and I'm LeVar Arrington. We're gonna come back
on the other side of the show. We're gonna wrap
it up. Yeah, a couple minutes here, we'll be right back.
(35:16):
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(35:58):
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Let's get to this Cooper Flag conversation and Summer League cuffs.
Let's let's round it off here and see what TJ
and Plex got to say about what you got.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
Well.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
I think I think tonight we're gonna see a more
a more poised Cooper Flag. You know, his debut the
other night, he was kind of he was kind of
clunky there. He was five for twenty one. I think
he was zero for five for three. But I think
the game is going to slow down a little bit tonight.
You know, I feel like it was just Jitters that
first game, everybody coming out to see you. It was
kind of like Brownie last year in the Summer League,
(36:33):
when all odds was on you. But tonight the number
one pick, the number two pick, we got Dylan Harper
and Cooper Flat tonight with this afternoon at four, I
think it's gonna be a great matchup. But I want
to tell y'all right now, this is a guy that
I want everybody to look out for. He was the
number sixteen pick in the draft this year from Portland.
Yange Hanson, the seven foot one Chinese big man. He's
(36:56):
only twenty one. He's only twenty years old. I'm telling y'all,
I think as gotta steal in this draft. So watch
out for Hanson as well. Passing court vision. He's looking
like a baby yolkis out there. To be honest, I'm
telling you.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
Watch out watching your comparisons beat out of pocket. Your
comparisons they out of pocket till it comes to fruition.
DeAndre al Sender and now baby uh chasing Tatum and
Jaylen Brown are Scottie and Mike.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
He did say that. He did say that Scottie and Mike.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
Come on, man, your comparisons out of pocket because I
gotta stop you there, yo, I did.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
I did say Jayln Brown and Jason Tatum were gonna
be the next Pipping in Jordan's and they could have been,
but Tatum got hurt. Tatum got hurt in the finals,
so they didn't get a chance to go back to back.
But I'm telling you laugh now, cry later. Yang Hanson,
the Chinese big man for the Blazers. Just keep an
eye out for him in the rest of the summer League.
Well we got Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper to night man
(38:01):
should be a good one.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
So I'll tell you who has caught my eye. I've
been watching the you know, the summer the league. Obviously
you know I'm a little bonds with Dylan. I watched
him grow up as a young kid. But this kid,
uh cold, Cole Swider from the Lakers. Oh yeah, talk
scenes to be excited about this young guy. Tell me
what you think about him, TJ.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
All I know is I don't understand how the man
has been shooting mid forty percent from three point range
in the G League and he ain't on our roster, Like,
at worst, he better be on a two way contract. Dude,
he shot fifty percent one year in the gd from
three point range. Fifty percent. The dude is playing lights
(38:44):
out in the Summerly. At some point he's gonna have
to be given an opportunity. And he's six eight six
eight two thirty, like when you had that type of
size and you can shoot the basketball the way he's shooting.
Some if it ain't the Laker, somebody's gonna give Hi
an opportunit because when you can make shots at the
clip that he's making them at is crazy. I'm glad
(39:05):
you brought him up because everybody looking at Dark and
Connect like, Oh it's Cole Swater. That's the one that's
impressing everybody and should be given this opportunity.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
I don't think they're gonna sign I think they've given
him a chance the last couple of years, but he
can't move the puppies TJ. And that's why you haven't
seen him stick in the NBA so far. Coale Swater.
He got a chance with the Miami Heat briefly. He
had a cup of tea with them last year, I think.
But he's not a good defensive player. But the guy
been seeing for the Lakers that's popped out and he
might not sign with the Lakers because they don't have
(39:37):
any I don't think they have enough flexibility to sign
him because he's too exactly too old to get a
two way contract. But Darius Baisley has really falling, Yes, yes,
really stood out. He had a couple of good years.
People remember him. He was the first round pick. He did. Yeah,
he did a new balance thing when they did that
a few years ago. He played with the Thunder for
(39:59):
a year to He's average double figures in the league before,
so he's just trying to stick with somebody right now.
But there's been a lot of guys standing out. There's
been a lot of guys standing out. I like Derek
Queen with the Pelicans. I like Jeremiah Fears, I like
what the Pelicans are doing, Trey Johnson for the Wizards,
and don't forget about Reeve Shepherd from the Houston Rockets.
(40:19):
Ree Shepard had twenty eight the other night. Reeve Shepherd
is gonna take a huge leap in his second year
with the Rockets, and he's one of the reasons why
I feel like the Rockets go from being the Western
Conference Finals.
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