February 8, 2023 • 37 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss the possibility of LeBron James breaking the all-time NBA Scoring Record passing up the great Karem Abdul Jabar, and the possibility of Aaron Rodger heading to New York to play with the Jets!
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to go before halftime. Uh maybe there was a note
that came out to the Thunder and Lakers to night
and they said, listen, defense is really optional. Uh, we
have a big national game and Lebron can break the
all time record. So hey, maybe not so much of
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the defense. Sixty two to fifty five. The Thunder have
the lead right now, five minutes to go before halftime.
But the big story. In fifteen minutes played so far tonight,
Lebron James has twenty points. He is six out of
ten from them. He's got twenty points. He now needs
sixteen to break the all time record for points scorer
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in the NBA. Kareem is at the game, seen so
many stars of the game. They keep ending, there's more
and more everywhere you go. They just showed Genie Buss
and Denzel and John McEnroe and everybody. Every big Lakers
fan is here. Lebron had the headphones on tonight with
a point totally needed to get to to break Kareem's record.
Pretentious was that, Uh, well, he knows he's gonna get
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He's gonna get there. Why not? Why not he kitt Wow?
You you are hate watching this all the way, aren't you?
You are? Absolutely he's gonna break his TV when Lebron
does it, someone's gonna say, someone's gonna say to harm
it in years about Hey, do you remember what was
it like when Lebron broke the all time record ima TV?
I had more headphones with a number of points on it.
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I didn't like it, no, And and I'll stand by that.
They headphones with the number on there, and you might
as well have had the Hey, dial one nine to
order them now for just thirt and wait if you
if I was not in the next five minutes, We'll
give you some extra earbuds. Maybe got back into why not? Hey?
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Why not? You always say how do you monetize that?
He could have monetize it. He chose, well, but they
but they didn't in the moment, now did they could
have monetize it? But afterwards Its kind of like the
Super super Bowl winners. Hey, you want to wear the
gear they had in the locker room. You want to
wear the stuff that Lebron had on his head. You
can buy the headphones or you can buy this nifty
NBA logo headband. Get him down. Where can I get
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headphones like that in one place? Oh? No, you can.
You got a older special remember the eighties. Now, when
when he does break the record, and and look, I
told you before he would top out between and thirty,
so he could break the record Thursday night, two more
days of anticipation. He'll do it early in the game
when they'll stop it. Um. Now it looks like he
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is out to make sure. Hey, I want to break
this sometime, so he wants Thursday off. Yeah, listen, I'm
taking the night that. Yeah, they're gonna kill us on Thursday.
So I'm gonna take this emptying the take tonight. I'm done. Yeah,
I'm going. I'm going to Arizona for the super Bowl.
I'm gonna take a couple of days here, you know,
being the all time Lady scorer. So I'm gonna go
do that and go. But it feels like this is
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going to be like this moment, right, this is gonna
be an amazing moment for the NBA, right because it's
something it's a once in a lifetime, right. You Kareem
had the record, He's had it for thirty years, right,
the forty years, and now we're gonna see it broken.
When are we gonna see it broken again? Someone's gonna
come in the league and eighteen years old and be
the player Lebron is. This is a once in a
lifetime moment, and it's gonna be amazing. From the NBA perspective,
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it's gonna be about Lebron. It's going to be about
what whatever whatever superstar fans come on the court to
congrat I'm sure jay Z will come on the court
and and all those big fans come on and hang
out with him, and he gives his speech and everything else. Um,
but as far as the Lakers go, it's gonna be
it's not gonna be quite a Laker moments. You have
the tickets to this game, it's, hey, I want to
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see history. It's not. It's it's Lebron breaking the record
as a Laker. Right, It's like Emmett Smith holding the
all time rushing record because he had it as a cardinal. Right, Like,
it's not it's not gonna be a Laker moment at all.
It's gonna be big NBA, and it's gonna be specifically Lebron,
but Lakers. It's like, hey, just so happens to be
wearing the Lakers uniform. Yeah, it's part of the build up.
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As we've talked about the last couple of weeks, Jason,
is that it doesn't have that that gravity one because
it's a crazy ass number. Right, it's a lot of games,
a lot of points. And you mentioned Emmett Smith. Do
you know how many yards he ran for? No, you don't,
right off the top of your head. Nobody remembers those
remembered all the baseball numbers. But everything else kind of
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goes into the ether. Do you remember how many titles
baseball is? Easy? Most baseball numbers are below like you know,
three thousand, Like you gotta count to three thousand for baseball. Okay,
that's it. Anything else to worry about else. But but
the point still was those home run numbers were always
always in our heads. The number of hits Pete Rose
had about well, no, no, no, he can't be over
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hit on that forty years ago. But you going in
through all of these and with this number sitting on
his headphones or you have no idea what that was
Mt Smith's rushing record, No idea, Yeah you got there.
And it's just been inevitable not to not to mention
the fact that now they're getting their asses kicked in
this game. So it's a reminder of, hey, he got
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to the record, but look what the team is right now,
because you know, we might have won this game if
Kyrie had it allowed to come here or all those
years ago when they denied Chris Paul's showing up, he
would have been here to welcome me. Hey, Lebron Jason Smith,
Fox Sports Radio, Hey, uh, you know what does it
mean to have that record in a game that you
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lost to the Oklahoma City thunder who absolutely stink. That's
kind of a game you had to have. How do
you feel they shot seventy from the field right now?
Lebron hasn't scored in about five minutes. The Thunderer, on
a sixteen to two run right now, scored. Yeah. I mean, look, shy, guilt.
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Just Alexander may break the record tonight all by himself.
Suddenly he's got seventeen tonight, he's gotta got got Misscala
has fourteen, he's four or five from three point range. Yeah,
the Oklahoma City shooting six from the floor. They're now
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out to a thirteen point But now but listen now,
listen now, Now it comes back to Lebron's on the
bench with three minutes to go before halftime. Likely he's
gonna I don't know if he's gonna check back in
the game, but likely this is going to be his
rest for the end of the first half. So doesn't
it lay out exactly how I said, Hey, he wants
to get right to the cusp of the record and
then he can break it on Thursday night, like twenty
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in the first half. Okay, good. Now I have to
make sure I don't have to go crazy and force
a bunch of shots in the second half, because as
long as I get you know, all I need to
do is five or six more points. Really, what what
do I need? And I'm breaking the record the next
game in the first half, I can go all out
and score as much as I need to and finish
with thirty two or thirty four and then hey, guess
what his first art second bucket on Thursday night breaks
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the record. Yeah, but he did some half ass attempt
earlier today to tell you how much he loves winning
and now it's all about winning. That was part of
the whole thing about the crying about Kyrie not showing
up with Wilburn, former north Western Wildcat and sating Nastus
college prep grad two shots stopped presses. Yeah, listen, we
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know Lebron. Lebron is at the point in his career
where winning is nice, but he's not as motivated as
he was earlier in his card. It's that simple for Lebron, right,
It's a lot of players in the NBA. They want
to play great lifestyle and winning is great, and winning
as a bonus but the guys that are truly pushed
to be great Lebron and Kobe, Tim Duncan, all these
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guys had an unwavering desire to want to win, and
Lebron had that. But after winning the title for the Lakers,
and does he really feel like he's he's still obsessed
with winning like he was. No, It's okay, I've won
a lot and if I win again, great, Right, If
if we find a way and we catch lightning at
the bottle, we win, that's great. But I have to
just only appear like I'm concerned about winning as I
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chase everything else, breaking Kareem's record finishing with over forty
thou points playing my last year with Brawny, maybe my
last year, but at least one year with Brawny, Like
that's where he's moved the goalpost to and winning is
something we're now. Hey, if it happens, great, But does
he strike you as being obsessed with the with ws
and obsessed with the playoffs and obsessed with making it
to finals, because that's what it was for him for
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the first twenty years or eighteen years of his career.
But since he won the title, was okay, I won
the title with the Lakers, and that's what they wanted
to bring me here to do. And now I'm gonna
kind of change my focus to different things because I
want to accomplish different things in my life and different
things in the NBA. Yeah, winning is nice, but it
doesn't drive him like it used to. And that's one
of the real things why the Lakers have struggled the
last couple of years. It is a tough spot, especially
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because he's tried to play it off as not having
had control and and that. And that's the biggest part
to all of this is that. And we discussed this
a bit last night. Jason was the idea that the
last four to five years that he wasn't the invisible hand,
uh that we go through in the fun and exciting
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world of economics that we learned so long ago. Uh,
that he is and has been that for the Lakers
and Rob Polinka and and everything there. So you know,
when when we talk about the invisible hand, go back
to Adam Smith for all you all your folks remembering
your school work or trying to forget it. I'm bringing
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it back for one night Adam Smith's Money World. That
was a show that was it was on every day
Adam Smith Money World. But the idea that you know,
he's trying to abdicate and back away from any responsibility
for what the roster has become the last couple of years,
the young talent pushed out and look, you got Anthony Davis.
You won your title, right, you got what you wanted
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and it worked short term. Now it's the reap what
you sow kind of thing. When you forced the hand
again using your power, clutch sports everything else, you went
and got Russell Westbrook and that is absolutely hamstrung you
going forward trying to move and build around with the
amount of money that that sucks up. And and as
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we know, salary caps are no kind of movable uh,
and a lot of these things. How much tax are
you willing to pay h as as an ownership group?
And when we look at the roster that's been built,
the only viable asset that you do have is, hey,
we got Russell Westbrook. No thanks, right, And that's really
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what it comes out to. You want this contract? Nah? Nah,
It's kind of like trying to go and trade Kyrie
Irving the in this process. You might have wanted him,
but the Lakers ownership looking around going well, what are
we gonna do? He We're gonna be the next team
that that gets even crazier with him. Can can we
do this for a half a year? And and Brooklyn
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did they couldn't use Russell Westbrook. So that's why we
suddenly had yesterday reports of well maybe there's a third
team that suddenly comes back in here. Maybe it's Toronto.
Maybe it's just like everybody's looking around going, why would
we want either of these guys? The answers we don't
so And for Lebron to kind of raise his hand
on hey, you know me, I don't handle that. That's
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all rob that's front office, like we we all know
that that's a that's a pile of nonsense. And anybody
that's that's lapping that up is just sticking their head
in the sand. And it's just been wilfully ignorant of
the way this thing has been run the last couple
of years. And and so you reap what you sow.
And right now you've got a bad squad and you're
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getting run out of the gym by the Oklahoma City Thunder,
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terms they do apply. Right now, a minute to go
before halftime, Lebron James has just checked back in the
game for the final minute. There was a delay of
about three or four minutes as the shot clock went dark.
Maybe going dark. Maybe Aaron Rodgers made it dark with
a total shook. Uh, you know, we got checked and
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he might be able to give you some minutes. I
don't even know if Kareem is still awake. No, dude.
They keep cutting away to Kareem, and he's like, can
he just score the points? I can get out of here.
I just want to go home. Like every time they
cut away to him, he just looks upset much I
want to go home. I want to go home. How
much think he got paid to show up? Though? In
all in all seriousness, how much do you think between
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whatever edit he's had to do it he got paid
to show up tonight. Jennie buscombs in and says, hey,
I didn't want to be the one to tell you this,
but uh, cap says, he's not coming. You make out
a big check like this absolute last place in the
world that he would have willfully shown up, knowing his
his history and reputation. Oh my goodness, and that is
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the reputation he has, the liking problem he does. How
much do you do you think that if Lebron breaks
the record and he gives a nod to care, Kareem
still sends up it says, I still was the best.
I'm the best Laker shot my entire career one three
point and I was an airplane greater than space champ
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two ten seconds away from halftime, and it looks like
this is gonna be where Lebron finishes the first half
with twenty points. Uh shrewder got foul, He's going to
the free throw line. Then likely Oklahoma City is gonna
hold for the final shot of the of the quarter.
So it looks like Lebron is going to go into
halftime with twenty points again sixteen shy of Kareem Abdul
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Halftime at the Crypt Thunder lead the Lakers seventies six
to sixty six. More importantly, Lebron James twenty points on
six out of ten shooting. He is sixteen points away
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from breaking the all time leading record set by Kareem
Abdul Jabbar. Cap is in the stands. He's watching, not happily,
but he is watching everybody else. Seems a lot happier
to be here for this moment. The montages of shot
by Lebron that goes down and he's just sitting there.
He's got legs crossed in his hands, getting folded across
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his stomach and just watching. He looks at me in
the waiting room like I'm waiting to go visit the doctor,
the Dennis, And that's how that's the look out his face,
like can I just get in and get this over
with so I can go home. I just I just
want to get and get it over with. I just
wanted to get and get it over with. I'm really
I'm done. I'm done. I don't think there's anybody less enthused.
By way of contrast, all these shots of Shannons, he
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really doesn't he really does not care. No. I told
we we were talking about that last week, because it
doesn't even show up, like, all right, they got him
in the building, but he's like Ben Affleck at the Grammy's.
Do you think I don't know who he who looks
more miserable Ben Affleck at the Grammy's Our Kareem abdul
Jabbar tonight. Well, Kareem loses a record from a lifetime
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of work, something that he's held all these years. And
by way of contrast, you got Affleck, who seemed like
he was in trouble for something else that just carried
over here. But at least that wasn't as many, Like
the couple of times they cut to ben I was
like two or three times they cut to Affleck and
he was like, yeah, okay, No, They've cut to Kareem
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like twenty five times, and every single time he's just
not happy. No, it's it's a tough it's a tough
go because you almost figure that eventually they just say,
all right for the second half over on yo cho,
we've got the Kaream cam. You could watch his reaction
to every bit of the action on the court for
the rest of this game. And in the fourth quarter.
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Guess what we've got him Mike dub only he doesn't
know it yet. Now let me ask you this. Do
you think that he had no idea what was going
on tonight and the Lakers got him there under false
pretenses like, hey, we got a game, why don't you
come and hang out and be pretty cool. We're honoring
some of the former players. Yeah, sure, anything else going on? No, no, no, no,
no no no, just just show up. Everything is fine,
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uh you know, don't don't worry about it. We'll send
a car for you. Everything is great. Just show up,
get to the game. It's at seven o'clock. Nashurally televised game. Well, yeah,
you know you're gonna be there. There'll be a big
interest in you. Oh okay, we'll all come yeah yeah, yeah, no, no,
we'll figure it out. And then it's like, uh, I
got him. It's like, get him to the Greek I
got him there, I got I got Kareem to the game. Okay,
I'm done. I got him on a movie. I feel
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like I want to watch that again right now. But
there there is something to do that because there's been
a lot of photo montages from before the game of
leed Gen Dary Lakers from showtime. I don't know if
the Magic Johnson twitter game makes an appearance tonight, but
we saw James Worthy and and multiple former members of
those Lakers squads. But Cat doesn't appear in any of
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those pictures. I hate everybody, leave me alone. Let me
see if Magic is tweeting so far tonight. Not really?
Uh he is he is? Um no, no, he is not.
He is not. The last tweet from Magic Johnson was
about the Grammy's and everybody who performed the fifty years
of hip hop. That's the That's the last time Magic
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Johnson tweeted. I've got I've got a pretty good streak though,
back to back days. So yesterday an engagement with iced
tea on a tweet and today Lily Tomlin. Oh, very nice.
And they're gonna say yesterday was iced tea and today
was ice cube. There you go. No, not not quite yet.
I haven't all right. I haven't gotten O'Shea or O'Shea
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to respond just yet. Uh so he's a Lakers guy.
We could probably make that happen, right, You're probably right.
You're probably right. We are sitting at halftime, so we'll
get back into the second half of the game as
we come up. But look, did I say really impressed
by you just before we continue? You've gone almost an
hour and a half and you didn't talk about the
knicks comeback win at all. So good job by buddy.
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Look I understand I make the mention of it. I
can't figure out the Knicks, man. I don't know why.
I don't know why. One night they look unbelievably they're
gonna be fat, and the other night it's like, what
is happening? Why? Why? Why is this? Why do they
look so great? It's like I can't figure out how
do they look unbeatable. One night like, yes, they can
make a run. Then the next night's like what wait,
wait what happened? We don't I can't figure them out,
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man road Wind too, I really can't. I know. Against
a pesky or Lando team. Yeah, they're eleven games under five,
but you know what, every once in a while they
rise up to bite you. I will come back to
this though, just really quick for the Nix. Is that
Jalen Brunson said the other night, when then when they
blew that game against the against the Clippers, and it
was a horror. They came all the way back, they
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took the lead and then be Tune hits the three
and they got over time and they lose. And I'm like,
this is just devas dating And Jalen Brunson said, you
know what, everything is fine. We're figuring it out. Everything there,
there's nothing is wrong. We're figuring out everything. It's all good.
And I was like, okay, alright, then, okay, all right.
I felt I felt buoyed by that that here's the
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real leader of the team saying no, we're fine, don't
worry about it. Everything is good. We're a few games
over five hundred. Everything is good. We're figuring it all out.
I felt everything is good. What's you gonna say? No,
it's it's starting to fall apart around me. I looked
at Tips. You know, he keeps scrawling on this whiteboard
and it really all. He's got his stick figures and
there's no place something there. Twitter and out about a fresca.
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do apply well and if NFL wise, it's like we
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talked about last hour, that Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady
are trying to out weird each other. All right, Brady
shows up, I'm gonna retire on a beach and here's
a picture of me in my underwear, and I'm gonna
put a hand creatively over my maleness. Laron Rodgers response
the next day by saying I'm gonna go on a
darkness retreat four days. Four not no underwear, No one's
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under pans. Now, you don't say underpants unless you're five
years old. I mean, where's my underpants? But that's a
long time. I go. That's the only time you say underpants. Okay,
I'll give you that cat underpants. You can say it.
You get captain underpants. That's the only word. So then
you have Rogers with his darkness retreat after the super
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Bowl is over, because you know, I want to see
that I'm going to be in complete and total darkness
for four days and come out and decide what I
want to do the rest of my career. Visualizes that
game like for those four days, wishing if, like how
he would insert himself in in of the festivities. Um no,
I don't. I don't know about that. I I think
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this is all about do I really want to go
to the Jets? I mean, do I really want to
go to the Jets? I need four days to figure
out if I really want to go to the Jets.
Because look, hey, Sauce Gardner was talking about it earlier
today on on NFL Network. They asked him about Aaron
Rodgers and he said I know a little something something,
but he wouldn't say anything. I'm all excited, like, oh man,
Sauce Gardner knows. Sauce Gardner knows he knows a little
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something something whatever that something something is. So I'm excited.
But I feel like Rodgers is like, let me go
into the darkness and let me see if I really
want to go to the Jets. Because if I come
out of the darkness and I feel that desperate that
I need the Jets, Okay, that's the thing. But if
I come out and I'm not desperate, then it's gonna
wind up being the Raiders. But a group of players
that went and got assurances from management and ownership that
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Zack Wilson wouldn't be their quarterback, so that allows them
to kind of carte blanche. They don't know anything specific.
They've just been told with great certainty that guy won't
be here. Uh No, I think if they because it
was about Aaron Rodgers. They asked him and he was like,
I know a little something something. I mean, it was
just hey, little I think the team would say, hey,
what do you think about it? Well, hey, it ain't Zach.
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I've been told that we know it's not Zach. It's
just who's gonna be the guy that comes right? It
was just a I know something. We're talking about Aaron
in the building. But he's got to go through the darkness.
He's got to go through the he's got to everybody's
got to go through the darkness to get to the light.
I mean, there was a great country album which was
as if you're going through hell, just keep on going.
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You might get out before the devil knows you're there.
And that might be the way to the Jets. There
could be darkness on the edge of town for Aaron
Rodgers TJ. But this whole weird thing with with with
Brady and and underwear and everybody's like, what's happening? The
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thirst trap on it. But first let's let's hear from
Sauce Gardner because we have the Sauce sound. That's good
as he's so excit need to listen to What do
you make of the Rogers the Jets rumors. I don't know, man,
I have I was that day. Man. You know, I
can't be going into too much, but you know, I know,
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you know, I know a little something about about something
that I ain't I ain't gonna do you listen to that.
I know a little something something about something something. I
haven't been so excited about someone having something something a
long time. I've never been that excited about someone saying nothing.
I know. I know, I know a little something something
about something. This is the closest we can and we
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may ever get to Aaron Rodgers. He really he may
be like punk satni Phil. He may come out and say,
I don't see my shadow. I'm not going to the Jets.
Not happening. I'm not gonna do it. And it very
well could be that. And good for Sauce Gardener. I
like that he's getting his run. Uh he should win
Rookie of the Year. He won't. But it's the the
the celebrations because you got a team. As much as
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I hate to admit it, there's exciting base there. It's exciting.
The question is what do you have to give up
to go get Aaron Rodgers, says Garrett Wilson. Got to
be on a plane going back, No, no, no, to
number one picks. Man. They know what it is. It's
two number one picks. Guys. Nothing said prepares like darkness
than being a jet. You got to prepare for Maybe
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that's what it is. If I spend four days in
the darkness, I'll know what it means to be a
jet and then I'll be He'll feel the pain. I'll
know it. Hey, four days of the dark I could
be a jet. Now that's it's easy. It's easy, and
now I know exactly what it feels like. That's awesome.
But this filed friend the thing about Brady with this
because the whole thing with the View today and Ruby
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Goldberg didn't know what a thirst trap was until they
explained it to her. And they showed Brady's Pickures Family show,
you know, and they showed Brady's on on the show
and it was and they were talking about it and
why is he putting his hand there and all this stuff,
and you know, we talked about the weirdness of Brady
last night and why is he doing this? And here's
here's here's him is trying to stay relevant and it's
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it's honestly, is it about that as he's trying to
sell underwear? No, when you think about this with Brady,
it becomes clear because it hit me more today when
I when watching this clip on the View and I'm going,
oh my god, this is here's here's all these women,
here's all the here's the Whoopie Goldberg saying, oh, it's
a thirst trap. Um. This is a guy who, as
(26:26):
we watched him try to win the divorce from Bill Belichick. Right,
I'm gonna go to Tampa. I'm gonna win the super
Bowl before you. I'm going to win the divorce and
people are gonna know that it was me that was
more responsible for this dynasty. Now Brady's trying to win
the divorce for real. All right, what have we seen
over the past few weeks. Hey, Brady's playing. His playing
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future is up in the air. Here's Gazelle Bunchen living
her best life. Right. Here are all these paparazzi photos
of her with her with her her trainer, and she's
running and here she is doing fat action shoots. And
there's pictures outfits. Right, Yeah, she's everywhere. She's in her outlook.
That's what she is. She's a model, right, So she
she's in all these different outfits and all these poses,
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and and and the narrative is, look at Giselle free
from this marriage and and enjoying her best life, and
and Brady sees that and says, you know what, I'm
having my best life too. I could put a picture
myself up there in my underwear and get some attention
and let me see boom there. Okay, you really want attention,
you put a picture yourself up there and your underwear,
and I'm gonna have a picture of me up there
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in my underwear. This is simply Brady getting on that
level of like we all are at, Like, if you
want to win the end of a relationship, I want
to win the divorce too, So you want to pictures
of you are up all over the place and and posing.
I'm gonna put a picture myself online and underwear. I
think that's exactly why he did it. There was nothing
about hey, here's a thirst trap in this and I'm
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I'm crazy. Look, it was all about East He's fighting
this battle with Giselle, and and we mentioned it last
week that the Brady Giselle thing is the new Brad
Pitt and Jennifer Aniston story, where for years it was
all Brad Pitt breaks up with Jennifer Andiston. They each
move on and Brad Pitt goes in dates Angelina Joe
Lee and then Jennifer Andison dates a couple of other
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guys and still and that that fed, that fed the
machine for so long the Brad Pitt, Jennifer Andison breakup.
And that's why I said last week Brady's like a
celebrity because that's kind of where he's at right now.
This relationship. Not forget about him being a football player.
This relationship is gonna be front burner when Brady is
photographed with somebody, when Gizella's photographed with somebody, it's gonna
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be big news. And this relationship is gonna stay Newsy
for a long time. Right, it's gonna be it. It's
here now, it's here, Okay, this is Hey, they're divorced,
one of the biggest, high profile couples, and here's the
greatest football player we've seen, the greatest supermodel. And now
what's gonna happen. There's a tremendous amount of interest on
this and that's going to sell. And that's why Brady
is he knows I'm caught up in this. This is
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part of what's going on with me. So hey, here's
a pick, sure, me and my underwear. Yeah, I'm all
for it about selling underpants, Uh, as for the relationship
and who wins who doesn't. Uh, maybe they can gush
over each other like Belichick and Brady on a podcast
at some point. But as for whatever the post relationship is,
as long as the kids are okay, I don't give
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a rats ass what they do. It is. I couldn't
be more disinterested in anything. You are just gonna have.
I think this. I think the hate watching of Lebron
has jumped into this for you. I just legally really
don't care. Like I hope they're okay. I hope they're
both lived happy, fulfilled lives. But to go to bruder
(29:40):
film on everything they do and try to read some
deep psychology into it, I don't care. I'm Tommy Lee Jones.
I didn't kill my wife. I don't care. You know,
I know, But I feel like that's You've had a
lot of that lately. I feel like it says hate
watching of Lebron going for the record, that's doing it
to you. But no, I really don't care about that either.
It's inevitable. Let's just get a gun. Be sure to
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commercial break four and a half ago in the third quarter,
Thunder lead the Lakers eighty four. It's been a big
night for shy Kill just Alexander. He's got twenty three,
but he wore those big shoes. He Dave is inspired,
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showing t J that he would have big shoes to
fill if he's taking over for Lebron. But Lebron James
now at thirty. He just missed a layup. UH time
out on the floor. They are in commercial break. Lebron
is now six points away from the all time record
UH tonight nine out of fifteen from the floor, four
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out of five from three point range, eight out of
ten from the free thrown line. Still has a couple
assists and three steals. UH. Lebron is doing everything A
d s got nine points in twenty one minutes, and
you know Lebron is gonna break the record tonight, and
and boy boy, you you really want to do it
and to win. I mean, maybe this is why I
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look because I I really expected Lebron to kind of
back off a little bit so we could set the
record on Thursday, right, have two more days of of anticipation.
And he breaks it early and there's a lot of pageantry,
But maybe he was thinking, Hey, we're probably gonna lose
that game on Thursday. I want to do it and
to win. The Thunder aren't really good. They're about like us,
we're playing at home. I'm gonna break it against the Thunder,
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except right now the Thunder been leading by eight basically
the entire game and shooting from the floor, yeah, shooting
fifty seven percent from three point range. Uh, and just
a dominant effort and lack of defense. Look, Lebron's got
the three steals. Those are the only three possessions he's
played defense tonight. There's been no defense. A bad This
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is bad. It's it's like a lay up line. One
of those nights. I'll tell you, Mike, this is one
of those nights where we always question officiating, and that
the NBA knows the officials they send to do certain games.
That Scott Foster is officiating a Phoenix Suns game, we
know all this when the NBA's ah, they know who
they're sending the games because they want the game called
a certain way. Surprise that here you are Lebron James
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in the game where he's got to go off to
get to get to the record. Right, he's gotta have
a he's gotta have a really really good night. Right,
get to have a good night with seven points, he's
got to get thirty six. Uh. Surprising tonight that you
don't see a lot of whistles being blown, and there's
so much offense and there's not a lot of defense
going on that Hey, this is the kind of game
we're getting on a night where Lebron needs a lot
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of points to break the record. I'm not saying I'm
just saying that's I'm not doing free throws that have
been shot though. I mean that's that's a good amount
of free throws for a night. It is a good
amount of free throws. But you see both teams there's
not a lot of defense in this game and a
night where Lebron needs a lot of points, And you
know I was, I was using the point, I was
using the point of that. Hey, the NBA knows who
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they're sending for the officials. Here's both teams really not
playing any defense on a night where Lebron needs to
go off again. Makes you sitting here and go, okay,
what what a coincidence that the thunder who are terrible
or shooting six from the floor tonight. Really it's it's
it's a co acsolute coincidence. Yeah, I don't know about that. Well,
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you know, evan flow National TV game. You gotta you
gotta make it look nice for the people. I mean,
after all, the Flag Football Pro Bowl just got six
point two million viewers. That's true. A lot of people
like flag football, a lot of people like that. You know,
I gave everybody the deep dive on the overall business
aspirations that flow out of it and playing chess. But
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here you you've got everybody all eyeballs, including a lot
of celebrities courtside keeping their eye on Lebron James going
for the record. So let's just keep the the flow going.
Like a lot of points means a lot of opportunities
for him to score. Right, He's he's been very efficient
now in a fifteen from the field, and he has
gone to the free throw line ten times. So just
(34:23):
keep that going. That that bodes well. Uh, it also
means that they're screwed on Thursday because he's gonna take
the night off. No, you know what I wanted to do?
I want because Kareem looks just so miserable, right, hate
you tell me I'm hate watching right? How you so
you know Lebron got text messages at halftime? Dude, Kareem
looks like he's really pissed. Right, what if Lebron did this?
(34:46):
You know I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get to thirty
five and I'm gonna stop, and I'm gonna walk over
to Cap and I'm gonna go see you Thursday. I'm done.
And he got comes out of the game and he
walks out, here's my head man out out. We're down
by fifteen. I want to do it, and again we're
not gonna win this game. Cap, I'll see Hey, you
stay in overnight, like, I'll get you a hotel. You
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need money, just just call rich policy areas he's next
to a dell right there. Just get my info. He'll
get you a nice hotel see on Thursday night against
the Bucks. That would be kind of entertaining, now, wouldn't it.
I would love to see that. He just walked out
all right by everybody else. I'll see you later, I'll
see what did What did Lebron say to he had
his way out? That's son of them. Way to close
(35:30):
on on the three point shot as the okay see
thunder are now at a hundred points with two minutes
remaining in the third quarter. This was supposed to be
an exhibition, an exhibit. Well you know what that that
was actually trending a little bit in social media earlier.
Didn't they realize they were supposed to be in the
(35:51):
generals in this game? Yeah? I mean they got to
know that, right. They got an there's another shot of
cap they got a hundred points over, there's two minutes
ago in the third quarter, and then keep cutting away
to the kareem no building. Lebron just checked back in. Yeah,
Lebron has Look, I'll give him credit for the shoes. Unfortunately,
(36:12):
the style of shoe. Uh, they don't make him wide
up from my Flinchtonian feat. So I can never purchase
them eat if I love him. But that's the win
here though, It's like the poor Kareem. I mean, Kareem
hasn't stood up and cheered for any Lebron whop. He
hasn't been seen clapping. He clapped a little early and
(36:36):
then they know he clapped on the introduced himself and everybody.
Kareem up. I'll clapp for myself, luck laugh for myself.
Right there, Lebron James. We may have NBA history coming
up in the next few minutes. Lebron is good for
another bucket off an alley oop. He now has thirty
two points. He is four points away from breaking Kareem
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Abdul Jabbar's record thirty two points on tennis sixteen from
the floor. When we speak next, we could have an
all time new NBA scoring champion. Keep it right here,
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to go before halftime. Uh maybe there was a note
that came out to the Thunder and Lakers to night
and they said, listen, defense is really optional. Uh, we
have a big national game and Lebron can break the
all time record. So hey, maybe not so much of
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the defense. Sixty two to fifty five. The Thunder have
the lead right now, five minutes to go before halftime.
But the big story. In fifteen minutes played so far tonight,
Lebron James has twenty points. He is six out of
ten from them. He's got twenty points. He now needs
sixteen to break the all time record for points scorer
(01:28):
in the NBA. Kareem is at the game, seen so
many stars of the game. They keep ending, there's more
and more everywhere you go. They just showed Genie Buss
and Denzel and John McEnroe and everybody. Every big Lakers
fan is here. Lebron had the headphones on tonight with
a point totally needed to get to to break Kareem's record.
Pretentious was that, Uh, well, he knows he's gonna get
(01:51):
He's gonna get there. Why not? Why not he kitt Wow?
You you are hate watching this all the way, aren't you?
You are? Absolutely he's gonna break his TV when Lebron
does it, someone's gonna say, someone's gonna say to harm
it in years about Hey, do you remember what was
it like when Lebron broke the all time record ima TV?
I had more headphones with a number of points on it.
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I didn't like it, no, And and I'll stand by that.
They headphones with the number on there, and you might
as well have had the Hey, dial one nine to
order them now for just thirt and wait if you
if I was not in the next five minutes, We'll
give you some extra earbuds. Maybe got back into why not? Hey?
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Why not? You always say how do you monetize that?
He could have monetize it. He chose, well, but they
but they didn't in the moment, now did they could
have monetize it? But afterwards Its kind of like the
Super super Bowl winners. Hey, you want to wear the
gear they had in the locker room. You want to
wear the stuff that Lebron had on his head. You
can buy the headphones or you can buy this nifty
NBA logo headband. Get him down. Where can I get
(02:59):
headphones like that in one place? Oh? No, you can.
You got a older special remember the eighties. Now, when
when he does break the record, and and look, I
told you before he would top out between and thirty,
so he could break the record Thursday night, two more
days of anticipation. He'll do it early in the game
when they'll stop it. Um. Now it looks like he
(03:20):
is out to make sure. Hey, I want to break
this sometime, so he wants Thursday off. Yeah, listen, I'm
taking the night that. Yeah, they're gonna kill us on Thursday.
So I'm gonna take this emptying the take tonight. I'm done. Yeah,
I'm going. I'm going to Arizona for the super Bowl.
I'm gonna take a couple of days here, you know,
being the all time Lady scorer. So I'm gonna go
do that and go. But it feels like this is
(03:41):
going to be like this moment, right, this is gonna
be an amazing moment for the NBA, right because it's
something it's a once in a lifetime, right. You Kareem
had the record, He's had it for thirty years, right,
the forty years, and now we're gonna see it broken.
When are we gonna see it broken again? Someone's gonna
come in the league and eighteen years old and be
the player Lebron is. This is a once in a
lifetime moment, and it's gonna be amazing. From the NBA perspective,
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it's gonna be about Lebron. It's going to be about
what whatever whatever superstar fans come on the court to
congrat I'm sure jay Z will come on the court
and and all those big fans come on and hang
out with him, and he gives his speech and everything else. Um,
but as far as the Lakers go, it's gonna be
it's not gonna be quite a Laker moments. You have
the tickets to this game, it's, hey, I want to
(04:27):
see history. It's not. It's it's Lebron breaking the record
as a Laker. Right, It's like Emmett Smith holding the
all time rushing record because he had it as a cardinal. Right, Like,
it's not it's not gonna be a Laker moment at all.
It's gonna be big NBA, and it's gonna be specifically Lebron,
but Lakers. It's like, hey, just so happens to be
wearing the Lakers uniform. Yeah, it's part of the build up.
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As we've talked about the last couple of weeks, Jason,
is that it doesn't have that that gravity one because
it's a crazy ass number. Right, it's a lot of games,
a lot of points. And you mentioned Emmett Smith. Do
you know how many yards he ran for? No, you don't,
right off the top of your head. Nobody remembers those
remembered all the baseball numbers. But everything else kind of
(05:07):
goes into the ether. Do you remember how many titles
baseball is? Easy? Most baseball numbers are below like you know,
three thousand, Like you gotta count to three thousand for baseball. Okay,
that's it. Anything else to worry about else. But but
the point still was those home run numbers were always
always in our heads. The number of hits Pete Rose
had about well, no, no, no, he can't be over
(05:31):
hit on that forty years ago. But you going in
through all of these and with this number sitting on
his headphones or you have no idea what that was
Mt Smith's rushing record, No idea, Yeah you got there.
And it's just been inevitable not to not to mention
the fact that now they're getting their asses kicked in
this game. So it's a reminder of, hey, he got
(05:53):
to the record, but look what the team is right now,
because you know, we might have won this game if
Kyrie had it allowed to come here or all those
years ago when they denied Chris Paul's showing up, he
would have been here to welcome me. Hey, Lebron Jason Smith,
Fox Sports Radio, Hey, uh, you know what does it
mean to have that record in a game that you
(06:14):
lost to the Oklahoma City thunder who absolutely stink. That's
kind of a game you had to have. How do
you feel they shot seventy from the field right now?
Lebron hasn't scored in about five minutes. The Thunderer, on
a sixteen to two run right now, scored. Yeah. I mean, look, shy, guilt.
(06:37):
Just Alexander may break the record tonight all by himself.
Suddenly he's got seventeen tonight, he's gotta got got Misscala
has fourteen, he's four or five from three point range. Yeah,
the Oklahoma City shooting six from the floor. They're now
(06:58):
out to a thirteen point But now but listen now,
listen now, Now it comes back to Lebron's on the
bench with three minutes to go before halftime. Likely he's
gonna I don't know if he's gonna check back in
the game, but likely this is going to be his
rest for the end of the first half. So doesn't
it lay out exactly how I said, Hey, he wants
to get right to the cusp of the record and
then he can break it on Thursday night, like twenty
(07:19):
in the first half. Okay, good. Now I have to
make sure I don't have to go crazy and force
a bunch of shots in the second half, because as
long as I get you know, all I need to
do is five or six more points. Really, what what
do I need? And I'm breaking the record the next
game in the first half, I can go all out
and score as much as I need to and finish
with thirty two or thirty four and then hey, guess
what his first art second bucket on Thursday night breaks
(07:40):
the record. Yeah, but he did some half ass attempt
earlier today to tell you how much he loves winning
and now it's all about winning. That was part of
the whole thing about the crying about Kyrie not showing
up with Wilburn, former north Western Wildcat and sating Nastus
college prep grad two shots stopped presses. Yeah, listen, we
(08:03):
know Lebron. Lebron is at the point in his career
where winning is nice, but he's not as motivated as
he was earlier in his card. It's that simple for Lebron, right,
It's a lot of players in the NBA. They want
to play great lifestyle and winning is great, and winning
as a bonus but the guys that are truly pushed
to be great Lebron and Kobe, Tim Duncan, all these
(08:24):
guys had an unwavering desire to want to win, and
Lebron had that. But after winning the title for the Lakers,
and does he really feel like he's he's still obsessed
with winning like he was. No, It's okay, I've won
a lot and if I win again, great, Right, If
if we find a way and we catch lightning at
the bottle, we win, that's great. But I have to
just only appear like I'm concerned about winning as I
(08:45):
chase everything else, breaking Kareem's record finishing with over forty
thou points playing my last year with Brawny, maybe my
last year, but at least one year with Brawny, Like
that's where he's moved the goalpost to and winning is
something we're now. Hey, if it happens, great, But does
he strike you as being obsessed with the with ws
and obsessed with the playoffs and obsessed with making it
to finals, because that's what it was for him for
(09:06):
the first twenty years or eighteen years of his career.
But since he won the title, was okay, I won
the title with the Lakers, and that's what they wanted
to bring me here to do. And now I'm gonna
kind of change my focus to different things because I
want to accomplish different things in my life and different
things in the NBA. Yeah, winning is nice, but it
doesn't drive him like it used to. And that's one
of the real things why the Lakers have struggled the
last couple of years. It is a tough spot, especially
(09:31):
because he's tried to play it off as not having
had control and and that. And that's the biggest part
to all of this is that. And we discussed this
a bit last night. Jason was the idea that the
last four to five years that he wasn't the invisible hand,
uh that we go through in the fun and exciting
(09:53):
world of economics that we learned so long ago. Uh,
that he is and has been that for the Lakers
and Rob Polinka and and everything there. So you know,
when when we talk about the invisible hand, go back
to Adam Smith for all you all your folks remembering
your school work or trying to forget it. I'm bringing
(10:14):
it back for one night Adam Smith's Money World. That
was a show that was it was on every day
Adam Smith Money World. But the idea that you know,
he's trying to abdicate and back away from any responsibility
for what the roster has become the last couple of years,
the young talent pushed out and look, you got Anthony Davis.
You won your title, right, you got what you wanted
(10:34):
and it worked short term. Now it's the reap what
you sow kind of thing. When you forced the hand
again using your power, clutch sports everything else, you went
and got Russell Westbrook and that is absolutely hamstrung you
going forward trying to move and build around with the
amount of money that that sucks up. And and as
(10:56):
we know, salary caps are no kind of movable uh,
and a lot of these things. How much tax are
you willing to pay h as as an ownership group?
And when we look at the roster that's been built,
the only viable asset that you do have is, hey,
we got Russell Westbrook. No thanks, right, And that's really
(11:18):
what it comes out to. You want this contract? Nah? Nah,
It's kind of like trying to go and trade Kyrie
Irving the in this process. You might have wanted him,
but the Lakers ownership looking around going well, what are
we gonna do? He We're gonna be the next team
that that gets even crazier with him. Can can we
do this for a half a year? And and Brooklyn
(11:40):
did they couldn't use Russell Westbrook. So that's why we
suddenly had yesterday reports of well maybe there's a third
team that suddenly comes back in here. Maybe it's Toronto.
Maybe it's just like everybody's looking around going, why would
we want either of these guys? The answers we don't
so And for Lebron to kind of raise his hand
on hey, you know me, I don't handle that. That's
(12:01):
all rob that's front office, like we we all know
that that's a that's a pile of nonsense. And anybody
that's that's lapping that up is just sticking their head
in the sand. And it's just been wilfully ignorant of
the way this thing has been run the last couple
of years. And and so you reap what you sow.
And right now you've got a bad squad and you're
(12:21):
getting run out of the gym by the Oklahoma City Thunder,
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terms they do apply. Right now, a minute to go
before halftime, Lebron James has just checked back in the
game for the final minute. There was a delay of
about three or four minutes as the shot clock went dark.
Maybe going dark. Maybe Aaron Rodgers made it dark with
a total shook. Uh, you know, we got checked and
(13:05):
he might be able to give you some minutes. I
don't even know if Kareem is still awake. No, dude.
They keep cutting away to Kareem, and he's like, can
he just score the points? I can get out of here.
I just want to go home. Like every time they
cut away to him, he just looks upset much I
want to go home. I want to go home. How
much think he got paid to show up? Though? In
all in all seriousness, how much do you think between
(13:28):
whatever edit he's had to do it he got paid
to show up tonight. Jennie buscombs in and says, hey,
I didn't want to be the one to tell you this,
but uh, cap says, he's not coming. You make out
a big check like this absolute last place in the
world that he would have willfully shown up, knowing his
his history and reputation. Oh my goodness, and that is
(13:51):
the reputation he has, the liking problem he does. How
much do you do you think that if Lebron breaks
the record and he gives a nod to care, Kareem
still sends up it says, I still was the best.
I'm the best Laker shot my entire career one three
point and I was an airplane greater than space champ
(14:13):
two ten seconds away from halftime, and it looks like
this is gonna be where Lebron finishes the first half
with twenty points. Uh shrewder got foul, He's going to
the free throw line. Then likely Oklahoma City is gonna
hold for the final shot of the of the quarter.
So it looks like Lebron is going to go into
halftime with twenty points again sixteen shy of Kareem Abdul
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Halftime at the Crypt Thunder lead the Lakers seventies six
to sixty six. More importantly, Lebron James twenty points on
six out of ten shooting. He is sixteen points away
(15:18):
from breaking the all time leading record set by Kareem
Abdul Jabbar. Cap is in the stands. He's watching, not happily,
but he is watching everybody else. Seems a lot happier
to be here for this moment. The montages of shot
by Lebron that goes down and he's just sitting there.
He's got legs crossed in his hands, getting folded across
(15:41):
his stomach and just watching. He looks at me in
the waiting room like I'm waiting to go visit the doctor,
the Dennis, And that's how that's the look out his face,
like can I just get in and get this over
with so I can go home. I just I just
want to get and get it over with. I just
wanted to get and get it over with. I'm really
I'm done. I'm done. I don't think there's anybody less enthused.
By way of contrast, all these shots of Shannons, he
(16:03):
really doesn't he really does not care. No. I told
we we were talking about that last week, because it
doesn't even show up, like, all right, they got him
in the building, but he's like Ben Affleck at the Grammy's.
Do you think I don't know who he who looks
more miserable Ben Affleck at the Grammy's Our Kareem abdul
Jabbar tonight. Well, Kareem loses a record from a lifetime
(16:26):
of work, something that he's held all these years. And
by way of contrast, you got Affleck, who seemed like
he was in trouble for something else that just carried
over here. But at least that wasn't as many, Like
the couple of times they cut to ben I was
like two or three times they cut to Affleck and
he was like, yeah, okay, No, They've cut to Kareem
(16:47):
like twenty five times, and every single time he's just
not happy. No, it's it's a tough it's a tough
go because you almost figure that eventually they just say,
all right for the second half over on yo cho,
we've got the Kaream cam. You could watch his reaction
to every bit of the action on the court for
the rest of this game. And in the fourth quarter.
(17:09):
Guess what we've got him Mike dub only he doesn't
know it yet. Now let me ask you this. Do
you think that he had no idea what was going
on tonight and the Lakers got him there under false
pretenses like, hey, we got a game, why don't you
come and hang out and be pretty cool. We're honoring
some of the former players. Yeah, sure, anything else going on? No, no, no, no,
no no no, just just show up. Everything is fine,
(17:31):
uh you know, don't don't worry about it. We'll send
a car for you. Everything is great. Just show up,
get to the game. It's at seven o'clock. Nashurally televised game. Well, yeah,
you know you're gonna be there. There'll be a big
interest in you. Oh okay, we'll all come yeah yeah, yeah, no, no,
we'll figure it out. And then it's like, uh, I
got him. It's like, get him to the Greek I
got him there, I got I got Kareem to the game. Okay,
I'm done. I got him on a movie. I feel
(17:51):
like I want to watch that again right now. But
there there is something to do that because there's been
a lot of photo montages from before the game of
leed Gen Dary Lakers from showtime. I don't know if
the Magic Johnson twitter game makes an appearance tonight, but
we saw James Worthy and and multiple former members of
those Lakers squads. But Cat doesn't appear in any of
(18:12):
those pictures. I hate everybody, leave me alone. Let me
see if Magic is tweeting so far tonight. Not really?
Uh he is he is? Um no, no, he is not.
He is not. The last tweet from Magic Johnson was
about the Grammy's and everybody who performed the fifty years
of hip hop. That's the That's the last time Magic
(18:33):
Johnson tweeted. I've got I've got a pretty good streak though,
back to back days. So yesterday an engagement with iced
tea on a tweet and today Lily Tomlin. Oh, very nice.
And they're gonna say yesterday was iced tea and today
was ice cube. There you go. No, not not quite yet.
I haven't all right. I haven't gotten O'Shea or O'Shea
(18:53):
to respond just yet. Uh so he's a Lakers guy.
We could probably make that happen, right, You're probably right.
You're probably right. We are sitting at halftime, so we'll
get back into the second half of the game as
we come up. But look, did I say really impressed
by you just before we continue? You've gone almost an
hour and a half and you didn't talk about the
knicks comeback win at all. So good job by buddy.
(19:14):
Look I understand I make the mention of it. I
can't figure out the Knicks, man. I don't know why.
I don't know why. One night they look unbelievably they're
gonna be fat, and the other night it's like, what
is happening? Why? Why? Why is this? Why do they
look so great? It's like I can't figure out how
do they look unbeatable. One night like, yes, they can
make a run. Then the next night's like what wait,
wait what happened? We don't I can't figure them out,
(19:35):
man road Wind too, I really can't. I know. Against
a pesky or Lando team. Yeah, they're eleven games under five,
but you know what, every once in a while they
rise up to bite you. I will come back to
this though, just really quick for the Nix. Is that
Jalen Brunson said the other night, when then when they
blew that game against the against the Clippers, and it
was a horror. They came all the way back, they
(19:55):
took the lead and then be Tune hits the three
and they got over time and they lose. And I'm like,
this is just devas dating And Jalen Brunson said, you
know what, everything is fine. We're figuring it out. Everything there,
there's nothing is wrong. We're figuring out everything. It's all good.
And I was like, okay, alright, then, okay, all right.
I felt I felt buoyed by that that here's the
(20:15):
real leader of the team saying no, we're fine, don't
worry about it. Everything is good. We're a few games
over five hundred. Everything is good. We're figuring it all out.
I felt everything is good. What's you gonna say? No,
it's it's starting to fall apart around me. I looked
at Tips. You know, he keeps scrawling on this whiteboard
and it really all. He's got his stick figures and
there's no place something there. Twitter and out about a fresca.
(20:38):
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do apply well and if NFL wise, it's like we
(20:59):
talked about last hour, that Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady
are trying to out weird each other. All right, Brady
shows up, I'm gonna retire on a beach and here's
a picture of me in my underwear, and I'm gonna
put a hand creatively over my maleness. Laron Rodgers response
the next day by saying I'm gonna go on a
darkness retreat four days. Four not no underwear, No one's
(21:23):
under pans. Now, you don't say underpants unless you're five
years old. I mean, where's my underpants? But that's a
long time. I go. That's the only time you say underpants. Okay,
I'll give you that cat underpants. You can say it.
You get captain underpants. That's the only word. So then
you have Rogers with his darkness retreat after the super
(21:43):
Bowl is over, because you know, I want to see
that I'm going to be in complete and total darkness
for four days and come out and decide what I
want to do the rest of my career. Visualizes that
game like for those four days, wishing if, like how
he would insert himself in in of the festivities. Um no,
I don't. I don't know about that. I I think
(22:05):
this is all about do I really want to go
to the Jets? I mean, do I really want to
go to the Jets? I need four days to figure
out if I really want to go to the Jets.
Because look, hey, Sauce Gardner was talking about it earlier
today on on NFL Network. They asked him about Aaron
Rodgers and he said I know a little something something,
but he wouldn't say anything. I'm all excited, like, oh man,
Sauce Gardner knows. Sauce Gardner knows he knows a little
(22:27):
something something whatever that something something is. So I'm excited.
But I feel like Rodgers is like, let me go
into the darkness and let me see if I really
want to go to the Jets. Because if I come
out of the darkness and I feel that desperate that
I need the Jets, Okay, that's the thing. But if
I come out and I'm not desperate, then it's gonna
wind up being the Raiders. But a group of players
that went and got assurances from management and ownership that
(22:51):
Zack Wilson wouldn't be their quarterback, so that allows them
to kind of carte blanche. They don't know anything specific.
They've just been told with great certainty that guy won't
be here. Uh No, I think if they because it
was about Aaron Rodgers. They asked him and he was like,
I know a little something something. I mean, it was
just hey, little I think the team would say, hey,
what do you think about it? Well, hey, it ain't Zach.
(23:13):
I've been told that we know it's not Zach. It's
just who's gonna be the guy that comes right? It
was just a I know something. We're talking about Aaron
in the building. But he's got to go through the darkness.
He's got to go through the he's got to everybody's
got to go through the darkness to get to the light.
I mean, there was a great country album which was
as if you're going through hell, just keep on going.
(23:34):
You might get out before the devil knows you're there.
And that might be the way to the Jets. There
could be darkness on the edge of town for Aaron
Rodgers TJ. But this whole weird thing with with with
Brady and and underwear and everybody's like, what's happening? The
(23:55):
thirst trap on it. But first let's let's hear from
Sauce Gardner because we have the Sauce sound. That's good
as he's so excit need to listen to What do
you make of the Rogers the Jets rumors. I don't know, man,
I have I was that day. Man. You know, I
can't be going into too much, but you know, I know,
(24:16):
you know, I know a little something about about something
that I ain't I ain't gonna do you listen to that.
I know a little something something about something something. I
haven't been so excited about someone having something something a
long time. I've never been that excited about someone saying nothing.
I know. I know, I know a little something something
about something. This is the closest we can and we
(24:36):
may ever get to Aaron Rodgers. He really he may
be like punk satni Phil. He may come out and say,
I don't see my shadow. I'm not going to the Jets.
Not happening. I'm not gonna do it. And it very
well could be that. And good for Sauce Gardener. I
like that he's getting his run. Uh he should win
Rookie of the Year. He won't. But it's the the
the celebrations because you got a team. As much as
(24:59):
I hate to admit it, there's exciting base there. It's exciting.
The question is what do you have to give up
to go get Aaron Rodgers, says Garrett Wilson. Got to
be on a plane going back, No, no, no, to
number one picks. Man. They know what it is. It's
two number one picks. Guys. Nothing said prepares like darkness
than being a jet. You got to prepare for Maybe
(25:20):
that's what it is. If I spend four days in
the darkness, I'll know what it means to be a
jet and then I'll be He'll feel the pain. I'll
know it. Hey, four days of the dark I could
be a jet. Now that's it's easy. It's easy, and
now I know exactly what it feels like. That's awesome.
But this filed friend the thing about Brady with this
because the whole thing with the View today and Ruby
(25:44):
Goldberg didn't know what a thirst trap was until they
explained it to her. And they showed Brady's Pickures Family show,
you know, and they showed Brady's on on the show
and it was and they were talking about it and
why is he putting his hand there and all this stuff,
and you know, we talked about the weirdness of Brady
last night and why is he doing this? And here's
here's here's him is trying to stay relevant and it's
(26:06):
it's honestly, is it about that as he's trying to
sell underwear? No, when you think about this with Brady,
it becomes clear because it hit me more today when
I when watching this clip on the View and I'm going,
oh my god, this is here's here's all these women,
here's all the here's the Whoopie Goldberg saying, oh, it's
a thirst trap. Um. This is a guy who, as
(26:26):
we watched him try to win the divorce from Bill Belichick. Right,
I'm gonna go to Tampa. I'm gonna win the super
Bowl before you. I'm going to win the divorce and
people are gonna know that it was me that was
more responsible for this dynasty. Now Brady's trying to win
the divorce for real. All right, what have we seen
over the past few weeks. Hey, Brady's playing. His playing
(26:48):
future is up in the air. Here's Gazelle Bunchen living
her best life. Right. Here are all these paparazzi photos
of her with her with her her trainer, and she's
running and here she is doing fat action shoots. And
there's pictures outfits. Right, Yeah, she's everywhere. She's in her outlook.
That's what she is. She's a model, right, So she
she's in all these different outfits and all these poses,
(27:09):
and and and the narrative is, look at Giselle free
from this marriage and and enjoying her best life, and
and Brady sees that and says, you know what, I'm
having my best life too. I could put a picture
myself up there in my underwear and get some attention
and let me see boom there. Okay, you really want attention,
you put a picture yourself up there and your underwear,
and I'm gonna have a picture of me up there
(27:30):
in my underwear. This is simply Brady getting on that
level of like we all are at, Like, if you
want to win the end of a relationship, I want
to win the divorce too, So you want to pictures
of you are up all over the place and and posing.
I'm gonna put a picture myself online and underwear. I
think that's exactly why he did it. There was nothing
about hey, here's a thirst trap in this and I'm
(27:51):
I'm crazy. Look, it was all about East He's fighting
this battle with Giselle, and and we mentioned it last
week that the Brady Giselle thing is the new Brad
Pitt and Jennifer Aniston story, where for years it was
all Brad Pitt breaks up with Jennifer Andiston. They each
move on and Brad Pitt goes in dates Angelina Joe
Lee and then Jennifer Andison dates a couple of other
(28:13):
guys and still and that that fed, that fed the
machine for so long the Brad Pitt, Jennifer Andison breakup.
And that's why I said last week Brady's like a
celebrity because that's kind of where he's at right now.
This relationship. Not forget about him being a football player.
This relationship is gonna be front burner when Brady is
photographed with somebody, when Gizella's photographed with somebody, it's gonna
(28:35):
be big news. And this relationship is gonna stay Newsy
for a long time. Right, it's gonna be it. It's
here now, it's here, Okay, this is Hey, they're divorced,
one of the biggest, high profile couples, and here's the
greatest football player we've seen, the greatest supermodel. And now
what's gonna happen. There's a tremendous amount of interest on
this and that's going to sell. And that's why Brady
is he knows I'm caught up in this. This is
(28:57):
part of what's going on with me. So hey, here's
a pick, sure, me and my underwear. Yeah, I'm all
for it about selling underpants, Uh, as for the relationship
and who wins who doesn't. Uh, maybe they can gush
over each other like Belichick and Brady on a podcast
at some point. But as for whatever the post relationship is,
as long as the kids are okay, I don't give
(29:18):
a rats ass what they do. It is. I couldn't
be more disinterested in anything. You are just gonna have.
I think this. I think the hate watching of Lebron
has jumped into this for you. I just legally really
don't care. Like I hope they're okay. I hope they're
both lived happy, fulfilled lives. But to go to bruder
(29:40):
film on everything they do and try to read some
deep psychology into it, I don't care. I'm Tommy Lee Jones.
I didn't kill my wife. I don't care. You know,
I know, But I feel like that's You've had a
lot of that lately. I feel like it says hate
watching of Lebron going for the record, that's doing it
to you. But no, I really don't care about that either.
It's inevitable. Let's just get a gun. Be sure to
(30:02):
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terms they do apply. Thunder and the Lakers at a
commercial break four and a half ago in the third quarter,
Thunder lead the Lakers eighty four. It's been a big
night for shy Kill just Alexander. He's got twenty three,
but he wore those big shoes. He Dave is inspired,
(30:43):
showing t J that he would have big shoes to
fill if he's taking over for Lebron. But Lebron James
now at thirty. He just missed a layup. UH time
out on the floor. They are in commercial break. Lebron
is now six points away from the all time record
UH tonight nine out of fifteen from the floor, four
(31:05):
out of five from three point range, eight out of
ten from the free thrown line. Still has a couple
assists and three steals. UH. Lebron is doing everything A
d s got nine points in twenty one minutes, and
you know Lebron is gonna break the record tonight, and
and boy boy, you you really want to do it
and to win. I mean, maybe this is why I
(31:26):
look because I I really expected Lebron to kind of
back off a little bit so we could set the
record on Thursday, right, have two more days of of anticipation.
And he breaks it early and there's a lot of pageantry,
But maybe he was thinking, Hey, we're probably gonna lose
that game on Thursday. I want to do it and
to win. The Thunder aren't really good. They're about like us,
we're playing at home. I'm gonna break it against the Thunder,
(31:46):
except right now the Thunder been leading by eight basically
the entire game and shooting from the floor, yeah, shooting
fifty seven percent from three point range. Uh, and just
a dominant effort and lack of defense. Look, Lebron's got
the three steals. Those are the only three possessions he's
played defense tonight. There's been no defense. A bad This
(32:10):
is bad. It's it's like a lay up line. One
of those nights. I'll tell you, Mike, this is one
of those nights where we always question officiating, and that
the NBA knows the officials they send to do certain games.
That Scott Foster is officiating a Phoenix Suns game, we
know all this when the NBA's ah, they know who
they're sending the games because they want the game called
a certain way. Surprise that here you are Lebron James
(32:35):
in the game where he's got to go off to
get to get to the record. Right, he's gotta have
a he's gotta have a really really good night. Right,
get to have a good night with seven points, he's
got to get thirty six. Uh. Surprising tonight that you
don't see a lot of whistles being blown, and there's
so much offense and there's not a lot of defense
going on that Hey, this is the kind of game
we're getting on a night where Lebron needs a lot
(32:56):
of points to break the record. I'm not saying I'm
just saying that's I'm not doing free throws that have
been shot though. I mean that's that's a good amount
of free throws for a night. It is a good
amount of free throws. But you see both teams there's
not a lot of defense in this game and a
night where Lebron needs a lot of points, And you
know I was, I was using the point, I was
using the point of that. Hey, the NBA knows who
(33:18):
they're sending for the officials. Here's both teams really not
playing any defense on a night where Lebron needs to
go off again. Makes you sitting here and go, okay,
what what a coincidence that the thunder who are terrible
or shooting six from the floor tonight. Really it's it's
it's a co acsolute coincidence. Yeah, I don't know about that. Well,
(33:40):
you know, evan flow National TV game. You gotta you
gotta make it look nice for the people. I mean,
after all, the Flag Football Pro Bowl just got six
point two million viewers. That's true. A lot of people
like flag football, a lot of people like that. You know,
I gave everybody the deep dive on the overall business
aspirations that flow out of it and playing chess. But
(34:01):
here you you've got everybody all eyeballs, including a lot
of celebrities courtside keeping their eye on Lebron James going
for the record. So let's just keep the the flow going.
Like a lot of points means a lot of opportunities
for him to score. Right, He's he's been very efficient
now in a fifteen from the field, and he has
gone to the free throw line ten times. So just
(34:23):
keep that going. That that bodes well. Uh, it also
means that they're screwed on Thursday because he's gonna take
the night off. No, you know what I wanted to do?
I want because Kareem looks just so miserable, right, hate
you tell me I'm hate watching right? How you so
you know Lebron got text messages at halftime? Dude, Kareem
looks like he's really pissed. Right, what if Lebron did this?
(34:46):
You know I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get to thirty
five and I'm gonna stop, and I'm gonna walk over
to Cap and I'm gonna go see you Thursday. I'm done.
And he got comes out of the game and he
walks out, here's my head man out out. We're down
by fifteen. I want to do it, and again we're
not gonna win this game. Cap, I'll see Hey, you
stay in overnight, like, I'll get you a hotel. You
(35:07):
need money, just just call rich policy areas he's next
to a dell right there. Just get my info. He'll
get you a nice hotel see on Thursday night against
the Bucks. That would be kind of entertaining, now, wouldn't it.
I would love to see that. He just walked out
all right by everybody else. I'll see you later, I'll
see what did What did Lebron say to he had
his way out? That's son of them. Way to close
(35:30):
on on the three point shot as the okay see
thunder are now at a hundred points with two minutes
remaining in the third quarter. This was supposed to be
an exhibition, an exhibit. Well you know what that that
was actually trending a little bit in social media earlier.
Didn't they realize they were supposed to be in the
(35:51):
generals in this game? Yeah? I mean they got to
know that, right. They got an there's another shot of
cap they got a hundred points over, there's two minutes
ago in the third quarter, and then keep cutting away
to the kareem no building. Lebron just checked back in. Yeah,
Lebron has Look, I'll give him credit for the shoes. Unfortunately,
(36:12):
the style of shoe. Uh, they don't make him wide
up from my Flinchtonian feat. So I can never purchase
them eat if I love him. But that's the win
here though, It's like the poor Kareem. I mean, Kareem
hasn't stood up and cheered for any Lebron whop. He
hasn't been seen clapping. He clapped a little early and
(36:36):
then they know he clapped on the introduced himself and everybody.
Kareem up. I'll clapp for myself, luck laugh for myself.
Right there, Lebron James. We may have NBA history coming
up in the next few minutes. Lebron is good for
another bucket off an alley oop. He now has thirty
two points. He is four points away from breaking Kareem
(37:00):
Abdul Jabbar's record thirty two points on tennis sixteen from
the floor. When we speak next, we could have an
all time new NBA scoring champion. Keep it right here,
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