July 7, 2023 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Aaron Torres have all the latest on Victor Wembanyama’s security guard allegedly striking Britney Spears in Las Vegas on Wednesday night. And Jason explains how Elon Musk forgot the number 1 purpose of Twitter.
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So why am I your best friend?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Because we're starting the show and already the Mets are winning,
So you are you are a good luck charm of
biblical proportions.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
We are already winning. Bring success and luck to your
New York Mets.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I mean they win all the time, right, all I
hear I see Buck Showalter trending on Twitter every night,
So I just assume things are going great?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Is that not? Is that?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, yeah, we're in first place. Yeah, we we lead
the nl e's by thirteen games. Oh yeah, it's a
great year.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
So that you guy everybody's talking about he's no, no.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
No, no, no, no no. I think I don't even
think that he plays anymore. I think you were tired,
You're retired. Yeah, yeah, you know, it happens guys. You know,
guys get enough and they they want to move on.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Kind of works.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
He couldn't get on the Mets. That's why he just said,
I just I want nothing to do with this. I'm
I'm like twenty four years old, dude. It's good to
see you, man. I don't know the last time we
worked together. You know, Yukon's one of other championships since
the last time I saw you. Is a lot going on? Yeah,
I mean, I mean Syracuse was in the tournament. I
think last time we.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Talked, they were in the ACC tournament.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Sure, Ayheim was the coach, everything was okay, yeah, but
last time, and I didn't think either of us had
ever heard of Victor wenbin Yama. No or would have
thought that his path would have crossed with Britney Spears.
Did not have that on my bingo card, It'd be
the first person to admit did not have that out there.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
A lot of layers of this story. I know you're
gonna give them all to the audience right now. Like,
what a weird story to wake up to, right Like,
you know, you play like the celebrity bingo game, Like
I didn't have Victor wenbin Yama and Britney Spears on
the same celebrity bingo card. Yet here we are, and
there's new layers in the last couple hours they've both spoken.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So the floor is yours. Jeez, this story. I mean, look, honestly,
do we need anything else for the next four hours
besides this? I mean waking up today and going, oh yeah,
So Victor Wenbinyama had a run in with Britney Spears
and it's the story on the planet right now. It's insane.
So what has happened? Well, last night at a casino
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in Las Vegas, Victor went Binyama was walking in with
his entourage to have dinner, was walking through the floor
and was walking to where he's gonna go sit down
and have dinner. And he's got people around him, like
like all number one overall picks in the NBA. Do
they have an entourage there? And Britney Spears was at
dinner with her husband. Britney Spears has lived in Vegas,
she had Vegas residency, all kinds of stuff, ty shirt,
(03:19):
We're gonna have to play all Britney Spears songs tonight.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That's a negative. What do you mean that's a negative?
Why not? I'd still onto well but literally tears for fears. No, no, no, no,
it works. This man. Is it toxic? Would you say
this situation is all toxic?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You gotta do that like Berman and TJ. Clearly this
situation would be toxic.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Would be toxic anyway. Okay, Oops, oops.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
We're doing this story again. TJ, Baby, don't tap me
on the shoulder one more time. So, for some reason,
Britney Spears decided I have to go get his order.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Guy, I gotta take a picture.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
When that I go see him, runs up to him,
you know, kind of worms her way through the security guards,
taps him on the shoulder. One of the secure Purity
guards freaks because someone's gotten right up to victim wemben Yama,
buy everybody taps him on the shoulder. According to TMZ,
he backhands Brittany, but whoever was not known was Brittany
at the time, And there's some differing reports as to
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what happened. What seems to be the consensus is that
he backhanded Brittany, who hit Britney's hand that knocked into
her glasses, knocking her glasses off. Very quickly they realized,
oh my god, that was Britney Spears. But you don't
knock Britney's glasses off. You don't do it and expect
that something's going to happen. Brittany then went back to
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dinner and the security guard walked over and apologized, saying, hey,
I'm sorry, this was you know, what's like, you know,
having people walk up as you know, you're in a
crowd of people and everything else. And Brittany, by all
accounts is very nice man. And then charges were filed.
She has said that she has not received an apology
from wemben Yama security detail, and wembin Yama actually talked
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about this earlier todate, not expecting he would have to.
But here's Victor webbin Yama talking about the details that
I'm sure Britney's lawyers are listening to very very very carefully.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
What happened last night.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
So what happened last night is, uh, I saw the
news obviously. This morning I woke up to a couple
of phone calls and uh uh, so yeah, there was
there was something. Something did happen a little bit when
I was walking with with some security of the team
to the to to some restaurants. We were in the hall.
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There was a lot of people, so people calling me obviously,
and there was one person. One person.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
If you watch his manners in this audio, you.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Really don't stop because he's gonna make it's gonna make
a crowd. So I couldn't stop. So that person is
called me to serves her, and that person grabbed me
from behind. So I didn't see. I didn't see what
happened because I was walking straight and we told them stop.
But that person grabbed me from behind, not on my shoulders,
she grabbed me from behind. And so I just know
that the security pushed her away. I don't know with
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how with how much forced though, but U S can
you push her away? And I didn't. I didn't stop
for to look, so I can't walk in and I
enjoyed a nice dinner, gonna see.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Notice what you're not getting in any of that. I'm sorry. Oh,
I'm sorry that happened. I'm sorry. That's Britney. I don't
do I don't know who Britney is.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Come on, man, everybody knows who Brittany is.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Come on, man, uh Oulsey, I'm sorry that happened. I'm
so sorry that happened. It was very unfortunate. There's no
way that she should have been hit. I hey, she
has to understand that my people are security, are making
sure that I'm protected.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
But boy, I'm really sorry that happened.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Didn't get any of that, really didn't get I mean,
that's the one thing is I see how it happened, right,
I understand how it happened, And it's just one of
those things where I can't put blame on one person
or the other because you have Britney Spears, who you know,
should know better than if I see somebody I want
to go take a picture of and try to run
through their security because she's thinking I'm Britney Spears. Of
course I could do that, and all you have to
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do is have a security guy not see you like
what happened, And oh, I'm out because I gotta protect
this guy. And this is this is fight or flight.
Someone comes up and taps Victor Wembinyama on the shoulder.
I'm like, dude, I see something bad happening and me
getting fired because you just let someone walk up the
top of the shoulder. So Brittany, I get it. She's
got to know better. I mean, she's got to know
better now the security guard. Stuff like this has to
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happen a lot for many athletes across the globe. And
how often do you hear about someone's security detail hit
somebody who came.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Up for an autograph or something?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
You don't right, So I understand it's just one of
those things that happened, right it it was she could
have known better, and she should have known better, and
the security guy should have known better.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
But how do you not? Oh my god, this is
so We're so sorry. We're so sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
This is the where we feel terrible about this, you know,
not that she needs it. Can we pay for your dinner?
Can we get you tickets to the game tomorrow night?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Anything? Any positive thing that.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Would say, hey, let's put this out, but instead webbin Ya,
it's like, hey, like there's gonna be the biggest legal
and the history of the world going, yes, I saw,
I didn't know what happened.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I was this.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I'm insulating myself from this. Dude, it happened. It's one
of those things where you apologize I'm sorry. She would
say she was sorry and okay, and it becomes a thing.
But like the whole deal, how it all unfolded. I
get why Brittany is tweeting out, hey, I still haven't
got an apology, which I would like to get.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I think so, And I think she should say I'm
sorry for running up because I should know better to.
So it's like, how this is unfolding. What happened. I
get because I understand exactly how it happened, But the
reactions after it's, hey, guys, just both of you say
you're sorry. I mean, I think everybody is okay, and
it's unfortunate that Brittany got however it was.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And again, maybe we.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Get video of it, maybe we don't, but what it
sounds like now for what it's been reported, Britney's Okay,
it was unfortunate and we can move on from that.
But now it's like both sides have decided I don't
want to be wrong in this, like this is a
big deal publicly, and I don't want to be wrong
about this.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Well, two things. One you said, Brittany probably deals with
this all the time. In her statement, she said, this
is an exact quote from her statement today, I get
swarmed by people all the time. In fact, that night
I was sworn by a group of at least twenty fans.
My security team didn't hit any of them. That's an
exact quote from her statement. So it's clear that you
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know that that their behavior is not flying with her.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And I do think it's a little I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
How I would have expected Victor win Binyama to act.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I don't think there's like watching it hearing that.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
But I you know, I'm sure many people watch the
video today. There's almost like a nonchalance to it, as
if it's any other fan, as if it was Aaron
Torres or Jason Smith that walked up and got smacked
in the head. And oh, you know, you know, I
didn't really see it, and I don't really know what happened. Bulblah,
like literally, this is one of the most famous iconic
singers in the history of music that this happened too.
(09:56):
So that's one, but two also, I would also acknowledge
that we do live in a world where listen, I
I think, you know, I don't know what the right
way to say this is, but maybe handle a swarming,
you know, five foot two woman differently than a six
foot one man. And that's where I think when Ben Yama,
(10:17):
I do feel, I do think feel.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Falls a little bit short.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I'm not saying he did anything short.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I was seven three that I.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Was even trying to do that, But like, no, I
I get where I don't think he has to acknowledge
that he did anything wrong. But I think to your point, hey,
you know, like you know, Britney's an icon. We didn't
want any of this to happen. We wish it didn't happen.
And as you said, you know, would love to make amend.
She's welcome to come to the game, would love to
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get that picture with her that she didn't get. So
it's the it's the weird thing where like I don't
think he did anything wrong, but I think in the end, aftermath,
and again we talk about this all the time in sports,
you have twelve fifteen hours knowing that you're gonna be
asked about this.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I would have liked him to see him come up
with something a little better than this, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
And this goes into the kind of kid that everybody
says he is right, not not for a bad sport,
but is What's one thing that we've said about Webbin Yama.
When you see him in his interviews, he's older than
his years. He's not just a starry eyed twenty year
old kid who is out, you know. He is very
mature and is in everything else. And I feel like
(11:29):
that's kind of what we're getting. We're getting the I'm
putting on the commercial the commercialized yes, I'm getting. I'm
putting on the image that hey, this is unfortunate that
it happened, and I didn't know about it until today,
and he's tough.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Really did today really today?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Really?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
You didn't know?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I woke up today and I didn't know, Like did
they really go to bed last night? And his handler said, hey,
maybe no one's gonna know.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I don't think there was video.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I'll get it if the Hey, if the casino's gone it,
I'll get it. Man, you may have to fork over
some cash, but I got I'll get.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
The video for you. I mean just the whole. Yes, yes,
it's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
What this so it's so impersonal and it's nobody's car
got wrecked, you know, no, nobody lost a bunch of money.
There were there was no I'm not saying this is
a victims crime because obviously, you know, Britney got hit
and it was, like I said, both sides charges could
have could have been but now yeah, but now you
have charges, and you have both sides talking really stilted
about the other, and it's awkward, and it's it doesn't
(12:22):
need to be awkward. Like what does one Minyama think? Hey,
if I say I'm sorry, she's gonnasume me. I know Brittany,
Brittany is worth like you know what what four hundred
million dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
And I also say this too.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I think it speaks to I think a lot of
our young athletes and and and generally it's a good thing, right,
but they get all this media training so young, and
what do we always say about all these young athletes
they come in so much better prepared and they know
how to say say something without saying anything.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Well, it's like this is one of those where, like
probably all that media training that he's gone through over
the last four or five years, has it's become clear
he's going to be a top NBA prospect, it probably
came back to bite him because there was no real
human element to him. And again to your point, not
saying he's a bad guy, not saying he's a bad human,
but again, just like the most basic level of not
(13:11):
only compassion, but acknowledgement that this is like a weird situation,
Like it's not just a fan swarmed to you.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Brittany freaking spears came up and she claims tapped to you. Whatever.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
But it's like the fact that he's so detached from
how big of a thing this is. And then again
does it acknowledge that I'm sorry, i could have done better.
I'm gonna talk to my security. It's just a weird deal,
especially the way that he answered questions about it today.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, especially when the solution could have been, hey, come
play halftime at the game tomorrow. Sure, right, it's a sellout.
You want to say you could a sellout? I mean,
I know you sell out in Vegas here, but come
do a couple of songs and at halftime.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I mean, there's so many ways think this could have
been solved. Instead, it just gets so weird and so strange,
and I mean part of me loves the awkwardness, but
I'm like, it's this so easy to solve.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
It's what you got Frostburg and you think the expectation
were big before this. You just wait for him that
people are now rooting for him to fail. Yeah, oh yeah,
because that's Britney's town. I mean, Vegas is Britney's town.
You know you'll come into my town and do this.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
You don't pull this off, you rook You think you
could steal from me from Bugsy Siegel?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You think of little rook in town. You're a rookie.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I mean, I just I can't get up. When it happened,
I was like, oh, that's a shame. And then I'm
watching both them today and I go, oh, what are
they doing? Just what are they doing?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Twitter?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And how about a Fresca threads at the real Jason
s Yeah, because we're doing that now?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
U A T are you on threads yet? No, no,
I'm not. Doesn't mean I can't talk about it. It doesn't
mean we can't talk. We're gonna talk about oh, threads
by the time the shows we're peer pressured over the
next three and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Well you may, but we're gonna get into a comp
We're going to a sports conversation about threads coming up next.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
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Slash match. So we talked about this a few minutes ago.
Eight I mean clearly, yes, the Mets winning all of
a sudden July.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
They can't lose.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
The Uh, you are absolutely the good luck charm and
UH are the guy that as long as the Mets
continue to win, you're in here every night?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Does that sound good? As long as you are in
here every night, you're.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
In I mean if I have the invite, I mean,
I'm your second best fairy night. I mean I thought
i'd get an invite sooner.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
But Harmon can stay home, right if the Mets. If
the Mets keep winning it, Harmon can stay home. Oh,
absolute hundred percent poor. Oh, I will say this. Wait
a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. The Mets
haven't lost since Harmon's not done this show this week?
Hang on, hang on, I'm waiting a wait a minute,
Wait a minute, A wait a minute, wait a minute,
A wait a minute, wait Frostburg. The Mets have not
lost since Harmon stopped doing the show being on vacation.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I mean I might have to sick web. I'm a
security on Harmon.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I mean, I mean Francisco Alvarez has just hit a
two run home or the Mets now lead seven to
nothing in the third in Okay, Yeah, I think Harmon
might be done.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
You want to call him. He's not gonna like that
phone call for me. He's not gonna like that call
for me. My all. I mean, the Mets are undefeated.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Since Harmon's not doing the show, send it something, send
him a message on threads.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Maybe he won't get it. That's that's I think the answer.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You know, Now, it's funny you bring up threads because
what's going on the last couple of days. There's no
bigger story in sports and outside of it than now.
The threat to Twitter being this new Twitter. I don't
want to say Twitter knockoff. It's a Twitter alternative run
by Meta and Mark Zuckerberg. Which maybe this is all
a big thing to get the pay per views for
(17:46):
Musk and Zuckerberg up in the eye.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
It could be. But now, like.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Watching last night, I seeing two million people tweeting about threads. Right,
the last time I saw two million people tweeting about
so I've never seen this. Last time was when Kobe
scored sixty in his final game. Like that's when Kobe.
Because usually you see something that's got a lot of
people talking about it, there's a few hundred thousand tweets.
Sometimes you get close to a million. Boys, it's a
(18:11):
really big thing. But over two million everybody's talking with
threads social media, the battle now between Twitter and threads.
And I like to always say that when there's some
kind of dilemma in the world, that sports leads the
way when other people are kind of afraid to pick
up the baton on it, Sports kind of leads the way.
And here's a big thing. Here's a huge thing with
(18:33):
with pop culture and look and information and how we
disseminate it.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And it's sports leading the way.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Because this whole threads thing came up and people are
jumping to it. Who are the first people jumping sports people?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Why?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Because everybody got sick of the different things happening to Twitter.
Number one, when Elon Musk decided to start charging eight
dollars to get your blue check mark, didn't make a
lot of people happy. Some people did it, a lot
of people didn't. And now this last weekend when he
limited the number of tweets you can see, which as
a sports fan, you can't limit my tweets.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I'm trying to keep track of a game.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I'm trying to keep track of NBA free agency, and
you're telling me after I scroll like three times, are
you're done for the day?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
What do you mean I'm done for the day.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Didn't Nicks haven't even signed e Vincenzo yet, Not what
I mean I'm done for the day.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
No, you're done for the day.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And so many people I think at that point it
was like a cord cutting moment where it was I
can't have this happen. I'm not gonna stick around and
have more things done to this app that is going
to hurt me in what I likes, and that's people
who work in sports that need to get their message.
App that like to break news, sports fans like you
and I that follow everybody because we want to see
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the breaking news and see what people are talking about,
like what's going on with this what's going on with
Damian Lillard and where he's gonna go, what's the latest,
what kind of But if you're done, you can't see it.
So now suddenly this big exodus, and it really happened
last night where every third person in my feed is like,
I'm going to threads.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I'm going to threads. I'm like, okay, I gotta go
to threads.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Where they going to threads or are they just making
an account in case everybody goes to threads?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Now it's probably an account, yes, and you know I'm
posting a little bit on there, but I wanted to
get on there. And the thing is, if you have
an Instagram account, you got to go with your Instagram ID,
so you can't just come up with something new. But
the fact that people are me this is the first
time you've seen, Hey, Twitter's really in trouble now because
you see this is the big alternative that people are
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jumping to. Now, will it stick around? Will it be something?
There's a couple of different ways to go on because
there's so many fascinating parts of conversation.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Will have Tonight on it.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
But what I keep coming back to is this when
I think about all the sports people jumping and it
being something where you want to know what's going on
in sports fans. If you're just a sports fan, you're
trying to follow your team's game because you can't watch it.
Like just last night, the top of the ninth inning
for the Mets, I would have been hit my limit
in five minutes because I'm scrolling through because I can't
watch the game of the Mets. Put first and third
with one out, they tie up, they hit, they hit
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a home run. To tie the game and then suddenly
a trip and also I hit my limit then, and
nobody wants that, like fans, Look, you've given me this
site for free, and you let me do that. You
got to let me continue to do it. The more
things you don't allow me to do, I'm just going
to walk away from it. But the biggest thing that
I come away from this is that Elon Musk is
ably obviously trying to figure out a way to make
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money off of this and trying to figure out whatever.
I don't know what his endgame is, because he's a
smart guy. And even though he did for forty four
billion dollars that he paid for for Twitter is a
drop in the bucket in because he's worth like two
hundred and sixty billion. He doesn't want his name dragged
through the muney. He doesn't want to know Elon Musk,
what is he known for? You're the guy that the
ruined Twitter. The one thing that I can say, if
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without knowing his endgame, you know is what Twitter is
and what people forget is that it is a news source.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
It is It is not a Hey, you and I
can keep in touch.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
There's group text for that there's Facebook for that, there's
Instagram for that. Twitter is a news source, and the
minute you start limiting what a news source does, people
are going to leave and they're going to go to something. Well,
if I can get my news here, I'll go here.
If I can get it, or if not, screw it,
I'll just go to a website and it refreshed a
couple of times, and eventually that story is gonna pop
up there. Right Like, eventually I'm gonna get the Wemby
(22:09):
Britney story on on Fox or ESPN dot com or
soon I'm gonna I'm gonna get that story somewhere. I
want to go to Twitter and get it because that's
where everybody's default is what's happening in the world, what's
on Twitter? What are people talking about?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Boom? And I can go and parse out.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
From there, but eventually I know I'll be able to
find what's happening, and That's where I'm gonna wind up going.
And the fact that it's a news gathering source, not
just for sports. Obviously, politics is big on it and everything,
and yes, Twitter is a Twitter is a really tough place,
like the wild West.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
There's no rules and it's very, very difficult, but it
is a.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
News gathering source and that was that's his biggest mistake
is that this is not a we stay in touch
type deal. This is how people and it's not even
aggregat and how I grow my brand. This is how
news is spread and you're trying to control that and
that has never worked.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Not once.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Well, all I can say is, I don't think I
fully realized how much I use it for news. I
think we all kind of understand why we're on the
app and what it's there for. But Jason, I don't
know if you know what my normal shift is here
on Fox Sports Radio, but it's Saturday nights, this same
time slot, seven to eleven, so I'm prepping for my show.
(23:18):
And I think I must have been prepping like Jason
Smith in nineteen ninety nine at the other network all night,
because my prep for last show was go to ESPN
dot com and refresh and oh, by the way, to
your point, it was in the busy, I would argue,
one of the busiest news cycles of the entire calendar
(23:39):
year in sports. It was during NBA Free agency and
so literally I logged in last Saturday, I see what
Dame mo Lillard demands a trade. Remember that was Saturday,
about nine am Pacific time, noon Eastern, and then from
there I was in the darkness for the next twelve hours.
So we have plenty of time to talk about the
impact and all that stuff. But I will say, like,
as much as I like using it as a place
(24:02):
to share my content, my information, you know, my show, podcast, whatever,
it is, at the end of the day still a
news source. And I think I don't think I realized
how much I use it to gather news until it
wasn't available to me.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, that's it's become the first place you go. And
then like just for to prep for the show, like
the first place. What's happening on Twitter? Right, what's happening
on Twitter? And well and I say, okay, all right,
this is all right, this is happening, this has happened
like today, Okay, boy, Brittany and Wemby, what's going what
happened here? Let me get and then I find the
story and I'm able to get there. Then after that, Okay,
(24:37):
I get that that's big. Then I'll go to some
of the websites and I'll find what's out there and
what people because not because sometimes you get stories that
aren't on Twitter that are big deals for.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Us, or you have a context for a story, so
Adam Schefter breaks the story on a free agent signing,
and then you know that if it's the New England Patriots,
there's two or three guys or girls that you go
to to get the context of Okay, this is what
it means for the New England Patriots. So I think
there's that secondary layer of it too. It's like, you
get the news story, Okay, what does this really mean?
(25:06):
I don't really know, like what to think of it.
And then you find the columns in the articles and
the tweet threads with the context behind you know that
you get the news and then you get the context
behind it somewhere else if you don't have the full
you know, context.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, and then then also I need, you know, we
need stories like hey, a couple of NFL players are
pumping up Jordan Love and Sam Howello's quarterbacks. Says Okay,
well that's a big thing for us. The people are
gonna want of yours talk about and all these different things.
But if you take that away, right, say, you take
Twitter away that the news site it is, you're prepping
like we used to prep in you know, in the
(25:39):
early two thousands, where you would go to a website,
what are the six main stories on the side, find
them okay?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Or you would go to one or.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Two of the big sports blogs that would have the
crazy stories on it, and you would find those stories.
And everybody prepped the same way, because you would get
every every show always sounded very similar in content because
here were the story you know, the in the two thousands,
here are the stories, and then here are the three
or four crazy stories you get off a blog somewhere,
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and every show does them, and every show would do it.
You have to find a way to do it uniquely
differently than the others. But they were all the same stories.
That's kind of what it was, and that's how everybody prepped,
and you would just you know, I gotta go back
and I gotta hit refresh. I got and instead now
it's much easier to go, okay, what is this a
developing story? I need something off here? I get it,
And that's everybody's first stop. And when you limit that,
(26:30):
you're taking me. That's the number one news aggregate in
the world, and you've decided I'm gonna make I'm gonna
make these decisions on it, and you can see what's happening.
I mean, you see now you have when you have another,
a completely different app challenging you for superiority, and you
think people are gonna start leaving and you're hemorrhaging money
at this what are you really doing?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You know?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And that's why it's so hard for me, because Elon
Musk is a smart guy.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Right, you don't get to be worth two.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Hundred and sixty billion dollars by just going yeah with that,
I said, so I don't know why, like I'm I
feel like I'm missing something, Like I'm missing some above
the rim reason why Twitter is spiraling downward into oblivion.
That oh I'm just not smart enough to figure it out.
There's gotta be something right.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Well, and to take that a step further, I was
just thinking about it while you were talking. You were
talking about news information gathering, We follow the news breakers
all that stuff. If this app really want to just
sink Twitter, I mean imagine if they just paid Adam
Schefter and Wojan whoever. Hey, just we're not even asking,
We're not a competitor at ESPN. We're just a competitor
(27:35):
of Twitter. Let's pay you x amount and you only
break news. I mean I would go over there, Like
you ask me, why, you know, have I gone over?
I haven't because I'm waiting to see if most of
the audience migrates over there. Well, Adam Schefter goes over,
if Jay Glazer, I know is a regular on this
show goes over, if whoever Ken Rosenthal, John Morosi, then
(27:56):
then I have to go over. So that is something
I hadn't really considered an until right now. Like my
first thought was I'm gonna wait to see if everybody
else goes over, But now it's almost the opposite. It's
like it's only gonna take two or three that just say,
you know what, I'm done with Twitter.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I can't be limited.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
And I mean I imagine, by the way, there was a
couple of NBA people that were probably not very happy
last Saturday, either not being able to get their information
out or not as many people seeing it.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Something to think about.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah no, and we'll know tomorrow when they have the
official announcement. And then Glazer and Rosenthal and Schefter are
all holding up like briefcases full of cash going welcome
to Threads. Welcome to Threads. Come follow me here as
I show you everything. Ah, I got a came here
because that's a great point, because that's exactly what it's
going to take, is insiders and newsmakers saying we're only
(28:41):
going here and we're not doing it here.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Okay, if they just just please spare me the dumb
commitment video, Like I don't need the WOJE. I'm going
to Threads videos on.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I'll get that. I'll go to Threads. That's not what
I need those.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, and now our specials, well, you know, hey, all
the proceeds going to the Boys and Girls Club.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I'm taking my talent, oh god, to Threads.
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have more on brittby Brittby, wem wembny Wembany.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Brittby kind of sounds better.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I think brittby Britt Britton, b Brittan, b brittam Brittan,
b Brittwm, Britwm.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, wem britt.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Wembritt sounds like like Brexit, and I'm not sure what
bregsit is, but it sounds like that.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
I feel a political I don't know if we want
to go.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
No, no, it's it's what happens is is Uh, England separates
from the continent of Europe and floats out in to
the ocean.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Ok.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Yeah, that's breaks it right there. That was what we
were celebrating on the fourth right. Yeah, that was a
different England thing.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Okay, let's all have more on Brett. Uh when when when? When?
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Britain yama Brittan yama, I don't yama ya and TJ.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Clearly we have some Wembin drama.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
That's the one right there, because then it teases the
audience that doesn't know the story yet. There's so sure
he hasn't played yet, but we've got when Ben drama after.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Is this an AI show?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Because they're talking about Victor Wembin Yama and Britney Spears
having something going on.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I can't believe that's right. Uh. And now they're banging
each other. Whoa, whoa?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
No, well no wa wow you guys, this is where
you need a time out. I got like three time
outs of show, which as we have to just talk
it over. We gold to stop it talking over, to go.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Back and set frost Brooks straight back there. But we
talked about a.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Big story out of the NBA. We're all waiting for
the Damian Lillard trade to go down. What's going to happen?
When's it going to happen? And look, after seeing the
last couple of days, I can't give you an exact answer,
but I'll tell you everything how this is gonna end, right,
tell them tell me do you agree with this?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Okay? So Lillard wants to go to the Heat.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And generally NBA stars when they say they want something,
they get it. Obviously, if this was a deal that
could have been easily made, they would have made it already.
But the Heat have said, but the Lader said, listen,
we're not that in should in Tyler Hero. Okay, stop
trying to make Tyler Hero happen. About how many bucket
hats you give us. We're not gonna make this happen.
But he really wants the Heat, his agent has said,
(31:36):
I talk to other teams. I call other teams back.
Some I don't call back. But hey, he really wants
to go play with the Heat. Whatever reason he wants
to play with the Heat. This is how this is
gonna end. It'll happen. He's gonna end up a member
of the Heat, but the Heat. But the Blazers aren't
gonna do this trade until a third team gets involved
where they can get a young, star ish player that
(31:59):
they can with Scoot Henderson because what they did for
the last decade Lillard and McCollum, it didn't work. Okay,
we'll start again, but they're not gonna make a trade
for spare parts. I'm not gonna say, okay, Boston here, Yes,
we'll take Brogden in two first round picks. No, we're
not doing that. They want a really good, young, established player.
You're not gonna get a player of the caliber of
Damian Lillar, but they want somebody who, Hey, this can
(32:21):
be a centerpiece for our franchise in addition to what
else we're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
The Heat don't have that.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
So it's gonna be a little bit of time while
they find the right situation and the right third team
wants to get involved. And it's gonna be a little
while because now trade season is gonna start. Players got signed,
but now you're gonna see a couple of big trades
go down and add the dust settles with that, then
we're gonna be able to move on and say, Okay,
we can facilitate this deal. We have to make room
for this player. We're gonna trade this player. So it's
(32:47):
gonna take a little while. It may take some of
the summer, it may take all of the summer, but
it's gonna end up Lillard to the Heat for a
three team deal. The Blazers are gonna end up with
a young, star ish player that they can pare with Henderson.
That's how this ends.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
So I'm gonna say something, and I don't want to
start trouble, but I'm gonna talk about your knicks for
a seconds.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
So oh if the Knicks thing gotta yeah, that's fine. Yeah,
Im ready to say yeah, Lillard's way.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Aaron Torres, NBA insider just said, Lillard's going to the
next tweet that out and put it on threads.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
You'd never know.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Can't do it, Twitter and threads put it right out there,
can you don't do it?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
So does that mean if Lillard doesn't get traded but
the Mets keep winning, I'm still allowed to come in, right.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Oh, as long as the Met's keep winning, you're still in. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
So what I was gonna say was this almost reminds
me of when Mellow said I'm not re signing with Denver,
you should probably trade me, and it was clear that
he only wanted to go to the Knicks. But the
difference is the Knicks were dumb enough to actually trade
away all of their assets to get him when they
knew he was coming in six months. So that was
where I paraphrase to set up the apology because I
(33:47):
didn't want you mad at me for the rest of
the show.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
No, that happened already. I can't go back and change him.
If you could have changed it back then, i'd be
mad at you. Okay, yeah, yeah, you have the timestone
and I could go back and fig but we can't fix.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
That I did not have the sway neither then nor
now to do it.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
You would be my third best friend, oh second anthor no,
you would be knocked down to my third best friend
if you had something to do when you could have
done it and you didn't.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
You so you're still my second best friend.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Well good, and well I'm glad my status is still good.
So but that's what it feels like, is that situation
where it was clear that Mellow only wanted to go
to the Knicks. He didn't really really even technically demand
a trade, but that was the only logical landing spot.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Dame.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
It's been weird because he you know, you had all
these teams calling on Saturday, which I found out by
refreshing ESPN dot com because Twitter wasn't working, but neither
here nor there, but yet all these teams that were
reaching out, and then it becomes very clear that he
doesn't want to go to Philly whatever. The other teams
don't make sense, and it's going to be the heat
and so now he's kind of backed himself into a corner.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
The Trailblazers don't have a choice.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
It is going he doesn't Trailblazers don't have a choice,
but they're not going to bend over backwards to help
him out at the point.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Joy.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yeah, and they and they're gonna want and not only that,
they're not gonna settle for Hey, here's our best offer.
It's three first round picks and a couple of guys.
Guy who came off the bench and score twelve a game. No,
we want that one centerpiece player in addition to that.
So it's gonna take a little bit for another team
to come.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Up with that. And if that's our j Barrett and
Emmanuel quickly or if it's Julius Randall, that's one of
those guys, I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that
that happens.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
No, it's gonna be fascinating to watch, but like you said,
I don't think it gets done right away just because
it's what Dame wants.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
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Speaker 3 (35:31):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, we'll have more on on the on the Wembin
drama with Britney Spears. And if you thought that story
was hot, how about one that could get even hotter
in the next couple of days. That's next from the
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Speaker 3 (00:59):
So why am I your best friend?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Because we're starting the show and already the Mets are winning,
So you are you are a good luck charm of
biblical proportions.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
We are already winning. Bring success and luck to your
New York Mets.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I mean they win all the time, right, all I
hear I see Buck Showalter trending on Twitter every night,
So I just assume things are going great?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Is that not? Is that?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, yeah, we're in first place. Yeah, we we lead
the nl e's by thirteen games. Oh yeah, it's a
great year.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
So that you guy everybody's talking about he's no, no.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
No, no, no, no no. I think I don't even
think that he plays anymore. I think you were tired,
You're retired. Yeah, yeah, you know, it happens guys. You know,
guys get enough and they they want to move on.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Kind of works.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
He couldn't get on the Mets. That's why he just said,
I just I want nothing to do with this. I'm
I'm like twenty four years old, dude. It's good to
see you, man. I don't know the last time we
worked together. You know, Yukon's one of other championships since
the last time I saw you. Is a lot going on? Yeah,
I mean, I mean Syracuse was in the tournament. I
think last time we.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Talked, they were in the ACC tournament.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Sure, Ayheim was the coach, everything was okay, yeah, but
last time, and I didn't think either of us had
ever heard of Victor wenbin Yama. No or would have
thought that his path would have crossed with Britney Spears.
Did not have that on my bingo card, It'd be
the first person to admit did not have that out there.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
A lot of layers of this story. I know you're
gonna give them all to the audience right now. Like,
what a weird story to wake up to, right Like,
you know, you play like the celebrity bingo game, Like
I didn't have Victor wenbin Yama and Britney Spears on
the same celebrity bingo card. Yet here we are, and
there's new layers in the last couple hours they've both spoken.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So the floor is yours. Jeez, this story. I mean, look, honestly,
do we need anything else for the next four hours
besides this? I mean waking up today and going, oh yeah,
So Victor Wenbinyama had a run in with Britney Spears
and it's the story on the planet right now. It's insane.
So what has happened? Well, last night at a casino
(02:57):
in Las Vegas, Victor went Binyama was walking in with
his entourage to have dinner, was walking through the floor
and was walking to where he's gonna go sit down
and have dinner. And he's got people around him, like
like all number one overall picks in the NBA. Do
they have an entourage there? And Britney Spears was at
dinner with her husband. Britney Spears has lived in Vegas,
she had Vegas residency, all kinds of stuff, ty shirt,
(03:19):
We're gonna have to play all Britney Spears songs tonight.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That's a negative. What do you mean that's a negative?
Why not? I'd still onto well but literally tears for fears. No, no, no, no,
it works. This man. Is it toxic? Would you say
this situation is all toxic?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You gotta do that like Berman and TJ. Clearly this
situation would be toxic.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Would be toxic anyway. Okay, Oops, oops.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
We're doing this story again. TJ, Baby, don't tap me
on the shoulder one more time. So, for some reason,
Britney Spears decided I have to go get his order.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Guy, I gotta take a picture.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
When that I go see him, runs up to him,
you know, kind of worms her way through the security guards,
taps him on the shoulder. One of the secure Purity
guards freaks because someone's gotten right up to victim wemben Yama,
buy everybody taps him on the shoulder. According to TMZ,
he backhands Brittany, but whoever was not known was Brittany
at the time, And there's some differing reports as to
(04:14):
what happened. What seems to be the consensus is that
he backhanded Brittany, who hit Britney's hand that knocked into
her glasses, knocking her glasses off. Very quickly they realized,
oh my god, that was Britney Spears. But you don't
knock Britney's glasses off. You don't do it and expect
that something's going to happen. Brittany then went back to
(04:34):
dinner and the security guard walked over and apologized, saying, hey,
I'm sorry, this was you know, what's like, you know,
having people walk up as you know, you're in a
crowd of people and everything else. And Brittany, by all
accounts is very nice man. And then charges were filed.
She has said that she has not received an apology
from wemben Yama security detail, and wembin Yama actually talked
(04:57):
about this earlier todate, not expecting he would have to.
But here's Victor webbin Yama talking about the details that
I'm sure Britney's lawyers are listening to very very very carefully.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
What happened last night.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
So what happened last night is, uh, I saw the
news obviously. This morning I woke up to a couple
of phone calls and uh uh, so yeah, there was
there was something. Something did happen a little bit when
I was walking with with some security of the team
to the to to some restaurants. We were in the hall.
(05:30):
There was a lot of people, so people calling me obviously,
and there was one person. One person.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
If you watch his manners in this audio, you.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Really don't stop because he's gonna make it's gonna make
a crowd. So I couldn't stop. So that person is
called me to serves her, and that person grabbed me
from behind. So I didn't see. I didn't see what
happened because I was walking straight and we told them stop.
But that person grabbed me from behind, not on my shoulders,
she grabbed me from behind. And so I just know
that the security pushed her away. I don't know with
(06:00):
how with how much forced though, but U S can
you push her away? And I didn't. I didn't stop
for to look, so I can't walk in and I
enjoyed a nice dinner, gonna see.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Notice what you're not getting in any of that. I'm sorry. Oh,
I'm sorry that happened. I'm sorry. That's Britney. I don't
do I don't know who Britney is.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Come on, man, everybody knows who Brittany is.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Come on, man, uh Oulsey, I'm sorry that happened. I'm
so sorry that happened. It was very unfortunate. There's no
way that she should have been hit. I hey, she
has to understand that my people are security, are making
sure that I'm protected.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
But boy, I'm really sorry that happened.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Didn't get any of that, really didn't get I mean,
that's the one thing is I see how it happened, right,
I understand how it happened, And it's just one of
those things where I can't put blame on one person
or the other because you have Britney Spears, who you know,
should know better than if I see somebody I want
to go take a picture of and try to run
through their security because she's thinking I'm Britney Spears. Of
course I could do that, and all you have to
(07:01):
do is have a security guy not see you like
what happened, And oh, I'm out because I gotta protect
this guy. And this is this is fight or flight.
Someone comes up and taps Victor Wembinyama on the shoulder.
I'm like, dude, I see something bad happening and me
getting fired because you just let someone walk up the
top of the shoulder. So Brittany, I get it. She's
got to know better. I mean, she's got to know
better now the security guard. Stuff like this has to
(07:21):
happen a lot for many athletes across the globe. And
how often do you hear about someone's security detail hit
somebody who came.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Up for an autograph or something?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
You don't right, So I understand it's just one of
those things that happened, right it it was she could
have known better, and she should have known better, and
the security guy should have known better.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
But how do you not? Oh my god, this is
so We're so sorry. We're so sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
This is the where we feel terrible about this, you know,
not that she needs it. Can we pay for your dinner?
Can we get you tickets to the game tomorrow night?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Anything? Any positive thing that.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Would say, hey, let's put this out, but instead webbin Ya,
it's like, hey, like there's gonna be the biggest legal
and the history of the world going, yes, I saw,
I didn't know what happened.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I was this.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I'm insulating myself from this. Dude, it happened. It's one
of those things where you apologize I'm sorry. She would
say she was sorry and okay, and it becomes a thing.
But like the whole deal, how it all unfolded. I
get why Brittany is tweeting out, hey, I still haven't
got an apology, which I would like to get.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I think so, And I think she should say I'm
sorry for running up because I should know better to.
So it's like, how this is unfolding. What happened. I
get because I understand exactly how it happened, But the
reactions after it's, hey, guys, just both of you say
you're sorry. I mean, I think everybody is okay, and
it's unfortunate that Brittany got however it was.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And again, maybe we.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Get video of it, maybe we don't, but what it
sounds like now for what it's been reported, Britney's Okay,
it was unfortunate and we can move on from that.
But now it's like both sides have decided I don't
want to be wrong in this, like this is a
big deal publicly, and I don't want to be wrong
about this.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Well, two things. One you said, Brittany probably deals with
this all the time. In her statement, she said, this
is an exact quote from her statement today, I get
swarmed by people all the time. In fact, that night
I was sworn by a group of at least twenty fans.
My security team didn't hit any of them. That's an
exact quote from her statement. So it's clear that you
(09:18):
know that that their behavior is not flying with her.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And I do think it's a little I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
How I would have expected Victor win Binyama to act.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I don't think there's like watching it hearing that.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
But I you know, I'm sure many people watch the
video today. There's almost like a nonchalance to it, as
if it's any other fan, as if it was Aaron
Torres or Jason Smith that walked up and got smacked
in the head. And oh, you know, you know, I
didn't really see it, and I don't really know what happened. Bulblah,
like literally, this is one of the most famous iconic
singers in the history of music that this happened too.
(09:56):
So that's one, but two also, I would also acknowledge
that we do live in a world where listen, I
I think, you know, I don't know what the right
way to say this is, but maybe handle a swarming,
you know, five foot two woman differently than a six
foot one man. And that's where I think when Ben Yama,
(10:17):
I do feel, I do think feel.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Falls a little bit short.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I'm not saying he did anything short.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I was seven three that I.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Was even trying to do that, But like, no, I
I get where I don't think he has to acknowledge
that he did anything wrong. But I think to your point, hey,
you know, like you know, Britney's an icon. We didn't
want any of this to happen. We wish it didn't happen.
And as you said, you know, would love to make amend.
She's welcome to come to the game, would love to
(10:49):
get that picture with her that she didn't get. So
it's the it's the weird thing where like I don't
think he did anything wrong, but I think in the end, aftermath,
and again we talk about this all the time in sports,
you have twelve fifteen hours knowing that you're gonna be
asked about this.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I would have liked him to see him come up
with something a little better than this, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
And this goes into the kind of kid that everybody
says he is right, not not for a bad sport,
but is What's one thing that we've said about Webbin Yama.
When you see him in his interviews, he's older than
his years. He's not just a starry eyed twenty year
old kid who is out, you know. He is very
mature and is in everything else. And I feel like
(11:29):
that's kind of what we're getting. We're getting the I'm
putting on the commercial the commercialized yes, I'm getting. I'm
putting on the image that hey, this is unfortunate that
it happened, and I didn't know about it until today,
and he's tough.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Really did today really today?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Really?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
You didn't know?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I woke up today and I didn't know, Like did
they really go to bed last night? And his handler said, hey,
maybe no one's gonna know.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I don't think there was video.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I'll get it if the Hey, if the casino's gone it,
I'll get it. Man, you may have to fork over
some cash, but I got I'll get.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
The video for you. I mean just the whole. Yes, yes,
it's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
What this so it's so impersonal and it's nobody's car
got wrecked, you know, no, nobody lost a bunch of money.
There were there was no I'm not saying this is
a victims crime because obviously, you know, Britney got hit
and it was, like I said, both sides charges could
have could have been but now yeah, but now you
have charges, and you have both sides talking really stilted
about the other, and it's awkward, and it's it doesn't
(12:22):
need to be awkward. Like what does one Minyama think? Hey,
if I say I'm sorry, she's gonnasume me. I know Brittany,
Brittany is worth like you know what what four hundred
million dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
And I also say this too.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I think it speaks to I think a lot of
our young athletes and and and generally it's a good thing, right,
but they get all this media training so young, and
what do we always say about all these young athletes
they come in so much better prepared and they know
how to say say something without saying anything.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Well, it's like this is one of those where, like
probably all that media training that he's gone through over
the last four or five years, has it's become clear
he's going to be a top NBA prospect, it probably
came back to bite him because there was no real
human element to him. And again to your point, not
saying he's a bad guy, not saying he's a bad human,
but again, just like the most basic level of not
(13:11):
only compassion, but acknowledgement that this is like a weird situation,
Like it's not just a fan swarmed to you.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Brittany freaking spears came up and she claims tapped to you. Whatever.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
But it's like the fact that he's so detached from
how big of a thing this is. And then again
does it acknowledge that I'm sorry, i could have done better.
I'm gonna talk to my security. It's just a weird deal,
especially the way that he answered questions about it today.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, especially when the solution could have been, hey, come
play halftime at the game tomorrow. Sure, right, it's a sellout.
You want to say you could a sellout? I mean,
I know you sell out in Vegas here, but come
do a couple of songs and at halftime.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I mean, there's so many ways think this could have
been solved. Instead, it just gets so weird and so strange,
and I mean part of me loves the awkwardness, but
I'm like, it's this so easy to solve.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
It's what you got Frostburg and you think the expectation
were big before this. You just wait for him that
people are now rooting for him to fail. Yeah, oh yeah,
because that's Britney's town. I mean, Vegas is Britney's town.
You know you'll come into my town and do this.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
You don't pull this off, you rook You think you
could steal from me from Bugsy Siegel?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You think of little rook in town. You're a rookie.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I mean, I just I can't get up. When it happened,
I was like, oh, that's a shame. And then I'm
watching both them today and I go, oh, what are
they doing? Just what are they doing?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Twitter?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And how about a Fresca threads at the real Jason
s Yeah, because we're doing that now?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
U A T are you on threads yet? No, no,
I'm not. Doesn't mean I can't talk about it. It doesn't
mean we can't talk. We're gonna talk about oh, threads
by the time the shows we're peer pressured over the
next three and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Well you may, but we're gonna get into a comp
We're going to a sports conversation about threads coming up next.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
You're on Twitter at what Big Baller Aaron. Aaron Underscore
Tour is no Big Baller. I dropped the Big Baller.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Oh yeah, you're supposed to bring me in one of
those T shirts and you never brought one in Fortty.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Sure you can get it pretty much for free on Amazon.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, but I was looking forward to getting one for
free from you, since you know the ball family.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I thought you're gonna come and give me a teacher.
I did you know? They kind of phased me out. Hey, Jason,
here's your T shirt. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Oh it's twenty five dollars. I have to give it
to LaVar. You wouldn't give it to me for free.
I don't know the balls like I used to do
on SU So, Aaron, what I think you're doing better
than they are?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
So I think that's good, not Lamello. Well, yeah, he's
doing it. He is doing okay. But the rest of them,
I think you're doing I think you're doing okay. Lean Angelo.
It's a different cars.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
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Slash match. So we talked about this a few minutes ago.
Eight I mean clearly, yes, the Mets winning all of
a sudden July.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
They can't lose.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
The Uh, you are absolutely the good luck charm and
UH are the guy that as long as the Mets
continue to win, you're in here every night?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Does that sound good? As long as you are in
here every night, you're.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
In I mean if I have the invite, I mean,
I'm your second best fairy night. I mean I thought
i'd get an invite sooner.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
But Harmon can stay home, right if the Mets. If
the Mets keep winning it, Harmon can stay home. Oh,
absolute hundred percent poor. Oh, I will say this. Wait
a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. The Mets
haven't lost since Harmon's not done this show this week?
Hang on, hang on, I'm waiting a wait a minute,
Wait a minute, A wait a minute, wait a minute,
A wait a minute, wait Frostburg. The Mets have not
lost since Harmon stopped doing the show being on vacation.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I mean I might have to sick web. I'm a
security on Harmon.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I mean, I mean Francisco Alvarez has just hit a
two run home or the Mets now lead seven to
nothing in the third in Okay, Yeah, I think Harmon
might be done.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
You want to call him. He's not gonna like that
phone call for me. He's not gonna like that call
for me. My all. I mean, the Mets are undefeated.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Since Harmon's not doing the show, send it something, send
him a message on threads.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Maybe he won't get it. That's that's I think the answer.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You know, Now, it's funny you bring up threads because
what's going on the last couple of days. There's no
bigger story in sports and outside of it than now.
The threat to Twitter being this new Twitter. I don't
want to say Twitter knockoff. It's a Twitter alternative run
by Meta and Mark Zuckerberg. Which maybe this is all
a big thing to get the pay per views for
(17:46):
Musk and Zuckerberg up in the eye.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
It could be. But now, like.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Watching last night, I seeing two million people tweeting about threads. Right,
the last time I saw two million people tweeting about
so I've never seen this. Last time was when Kobe
scored sixty in his final game. Like that's when Kobe.
Because usually you see something that's got a lot of
people talking about it, there's a few hundred thousand tweets.
Sometimes you get close to a million. Boys, it's a
(18:11):
really big thing. But over two million everybody's talking with
threads social media, the battle now between Twitter and threads.
And I like to always say that when there's some
kind of dilemma in the world, that sports leads the
way when other people are kind of afraid to pick
up the baton on it, Sports kind of leads the way.
And here's a big thing. Here's a huge thing with
(18:33):
with pop culture and look and information and how we
disseminate it.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And it's sports leading the way.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Because this whole threads thing came up and people are
jumping to it. Who are the first people jumping sports people?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Why?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Because everybody got sick of the different things happening to Twitter.
Number one, when Elon Musk decided to start charging eight
dollars to get your blue check mark, didn't make a
lot of people happy. Some people did it, a lot
of people didn't. And now this last weekend when he
limited the number of tweets you can see, which as
a sports fan, you can't limit my tweets.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I'm trying to keep track of a game.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I'm trying to keep track of NBA free agency, and
you're telling me after I scroll like three times, are
you're done for the day?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
What do you mean I'm done for the day.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Didn't Nicks haven't even signed e Vincenzo yet, Not what
I mean I'm done for the day.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
No, you're done for the day.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And so many people I think at that point it
was like a cord cutting moment where it was I
can't have this happen. I'm not gonna stick around and
have more things done to this app that is going
to hurt me in what I likes, and that's people
who work in sports that need to get their message.
App that like to break news, sports fans like you
and I that follow everybody because we want to see
(19:40):
the breaking news and see what people are talking about,
like what's going on with this what's going on with
Damian Lillard and where he's gonna go, what's the latest,
what kind of But if you're done, you can't see it.
So now suddenly this big exodus, and it really happened
last night where every third person in my feed is like,
I'm going to threads.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I'm going to threads. I'm like, okay, I gotta go
to threads.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Where they going to threads or are they just making
an account in case everybody goes to threads?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Now it's probably an account, yes, and you know I'm
posting a little bit on there, but I wanted to
get on there. And the thing is, if you have
an Instagram account, you got to go with your Instagram ID,
so you can't just come up with something new. But
the fact that people are me this is the first
time you've seen, Hey, Twitter's really in trouble now because
you see this is the big alternative that people are
(20:26):
jumping to. Now, will it stick around? Will it be something?
There's a couple of different ways to go on because
there's so many fascinating parts of conversation.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Will have Tonight on it.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
But what I keep coming back to is this when
I think about all the sports people jumping and it
being something where you want to know what's going on
in sports fans. If you're just a sports fan, you're
trying to follow your team's game because you can't watch it.
Like just last night, the top of the ninth inning
for the Mets, I would have been hit my limit
in five minutes because I'm scrolling through because I can't
watch the game of the Mets. Put first and third
with one out, they tie up, they hit, they hit
(20:56):
a home run. To tie the game and then suddenly
a trip and also I hit my limit then, and
nobody wants that, like fans, Look, you've given me this
site for free, and you let me do that. You
got to let me continue to do it. The more
things you don't allow me to do, I'm just going
to walk away from it. But the biggest thing that
I come away from this is that Elon Musk is
ably obviously trying to figure out a way to make
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money off of this and trying to figure out whatever.
I don't know what his endgame is, because he's a
smart guy. And even though he did for forty four
billion dollars that he paid for for Twitter is a
drop in the bucket in because he's worth like two
hundred and sixty billion. He doesn't want his name dragged
through the muney. He doesn't want to know Elon Musk,
what is he known for? You're the guy that the
ruined Twitter. The one thing that I can say, if
(21:38):
without knowing his endgame, you know is what Twitter is
and what people forget is that it is a news source.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
It is It is not a Hey, you and I
can keep in touch.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
There's group text for that there's Facebook for that, there's
Instagram for that. Twitter is a news source, and the
minute you start limiting what a news source does, people
are going to leave and they're going to go to something. Well,
if I can get my news here, I'll go here.
If I can get it, or if not, screw it,
I'll just go to a website and it refreshed a
couple of times, and eventually that story is gonna pop
up there. Right Like, eventually I'm gonna get the Wemby
(22:09):
Britney story on on Fox or ESPN dot com or
soon I'm gonna I'm gonna get that story somewhere. I
want to go to Twitter and get it because that's
where everybody's default is what's happening in the world, what's
on Twitter? What are people talking about?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Boom? And I can go and parse out.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
From there, but eventually I know I'll be able to
find what's happening, and That's where I'm gonna wind up going.
And the fact that it's a news gathering source, not
just for sports. Obviously, politics is big on it and everything,
and yes, Twitter is a Twitter is a really tough place,
like the wild West.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
There's no rules and it's very, very difficult, but it
is a.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
News gathering source and that was that's his biggest mistake
is that this is not a we stay in touch
type deal. This is how people and it's not even
aggregat and how I grow my brand. This is how
news is spread and you're trying to control that and
that has never worked.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Not once.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Well, all I can say is, I don't think I
fully realized how much I use it for news. I
think we all kind of understand why we're on the
app and what it's there for. But Jason, I don't
know if you know what my normal shift is here
on Fox Sports Radio, but it's Saturday nights, this same
time slot, seven to eleven, so I'm prepping for my show.
(23:18):
And I think I must have been prepping like Jason
Smith in nineteen ninety nine at the other network all night,
because my prep for last show was go to ESPN
dot com and refresh and oh, by the way, to
your point, it was in the busy, I would argue,
one of the busiest news cycles of the entire calendar
(23:39):
year in sports. It was during NBA Free agency and
so literally I logged in last Saturday, I see what
Dame mo Lillard demands a trade. Remember that was Saturday,
about nine am Pacific time, noon Eastern, and then from
there I was in the darkness for the next twelve hours.
So we have plenty of time to talk about the
impact and all that stuff. But I will say, like,
as much as I like using it as a place
(24:02):
to share my content, my information, you know, my show, podcast, whatever,
it is, at the end of the day still a
news source. And I think I don't think I realized
how much I use it to gather news until it
wasn't available to me.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, that's it's become the first place you go. And
then like just for to prep for the show, like
the first place. What's happening on Twitter? Right, what's happening
on Twitter? And well and I say, okay, all right,
this is all right, this is happening, this has happened
like today, Okay, boy, Brittany and Wemby, what's going what
happened here? Let me get and then I find the
story and I'm able to get there. Then after that, Okay,
(24:37):
I get that that's big. Then I'll go to some
of the websites and I'll find what's out there and
what people because not because sometimes you get stories that
aren't on Twitter that are big deals for.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Us, or you have a context for a story, so
Adam Schefter breaks the story on a free agent signing,
and then you know that if it's the New England Patriots,
there's two or three guys or girls that you go
to to get the context of Okay, this is what
it means for the New England Patriots. So I think
there's that secondary layer of it too. It's like, you
get the news story, Okay, what does this really mean?
(25:06):
I don't really know, like what to think of it.
And then you find the columns in the articles and
the tweet threads with the context behind you know that
you get the news and then you get the context
behind it somewhere else if you don't have the full
you know, context.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, and then then also I need, you know, we
need stories like hey, a couple of NFL players are
pumping up Jordan Love and Sam Howello's quarterbacks. Says Okay,
well that's a big thing for us. The people are
gonna want of yours talk about and all these different things.
But if you take that away, right, say, you take
Twitter away that the news site it is, you're prepping
like we used to prep in you know, in the
(25:39):
early two thousands, where you would go to a website,
what are the six main stories on the side, find
them okay?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Or you would go to one or.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Two of the big sports blogs that would have the
crazy stories on it, and you would find those stories.
And everybody prepped the same way, because you would get
every every show always sounded very similar in content because
here were the story you know, the in the two thousands,
here are the stories, and then here are the three
or four crazy stories you get off a blog somewhere,
(26:08):
and every show does them, and every show would do it.
You have to find a way to do it uniquely
differently than the others. But they were all the same stories.
That's kind of what it was, and that's how everybody prepped,
and you would just you know, I gotta go back
and I gotta hit refresh. I got and instead now
it's much easier to go, okay, what is this a
developing story? I need something off here? I get it,
And that's everybody's first stop. And when you limit that,
(26:30):
you're taking me. That's the number one news aggregate in
the world, and you've decided I'm gonna make I'm gonna
make these decisions on it, and you can see what's happening.
I mean, you see now you have when you have another,
a completely different app challenging you for superiority, and you
think people are gonna start leaving and you're hemorrhaging money
at this what are you really doing?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You know?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And that's why it's so hard for me, because Elon
Musk is a smart guy.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Right, you don't get to be worth two.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Hundred and sixty billion dollars by just going yeah with that,
I said, so I don't know why, like I'm I
feel like I'm missing something, Like I'm missing some above
the rim reason why Twitter is spiraling downward into oblivion.
That oh I'm just not smart enough to figure it out.
There's gotta be something right.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Well, and to take that a step further, I was
just thinking about it while you were talking. You were
talking about news information gathering, We follow the news breakers
all that stuff. If this app really want to just
sink Twitter, I mean imagine if they just paid Adam
Schefter and Wojan whoever. Hey, just we're not even asking,
We're not a competitor at ESPN. We're just a competitor
(27:35):
of Twitter. Let's pay you x amount and you only
break news. I mean I would go over there, Like
you ask me, why, you know, have I gone over?
I haven't because I'm waiting to see if most of
the audience migrates over there. Well, Adam Schefter goes over,
if Jay Glazer, I know is a regular on this
show goes over, if whoever Ken Rosenthal, John Morosi, then
(27:56):
then I have to go over. So that is something
I hadn't really considered an until right now. Like my
first thought was I'm gonna wait to see if everybody
else goes over, But now it's almost the opposite. It's
like it's only gonna take two or three that just say,
you know what, I'm done with Twitter.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I can't be limited.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
And I mean I imagine, by the way, there was a
couple of NBA people that were probably not very happy
last Saturday, either not being able to get their information
out or not as many people seeing it.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Something to think about.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah no, and we'll know tomorrow when they have the
official announcement. And then Glazer and Rosenthal and Schefter are
all holding up like briefcases full of cash going welcome
to Threads. Welcome to Threads. Come follow me here as
I show you everything. Ah, I got a came here
because that's a great point, because that's exactly what it's
going to take, is insiders and newsmakers saying we're only
(28:41):
going here and we're not doing it here.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Okay, if they just just please spare me the dumb
commitment video, Like I don't need the WOJE. I'm going
to Threads videos on.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I'll get that. I'll go to Threads. That's not what
I need those.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, and now our specials, well, you know, hey, all
the proceeds going to the Boys and Girls Club.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I'm taking my talent, oh god, to Threads.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
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Speaker 1 (29:10):
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(29:30):
have more on brittby Brittby, wem wembny Wembany.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Brittby kind of sounds better.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I think brittby Britt Britton, b Brittan, b brittam Brittan,
b Brittwm, Britwm.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, wem britt.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Wembritt sounds like like Brexit, and I'm not sure what
bregsit is, but it sounds like that.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
I feel a political I don't know if we want
to go.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
No, no, it's it's what happens is is Uh, England separates
from the continent of Europe and floats out in to
the ocean.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Ok.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Yeah, that's breaks it right there. That was what we
were celebrating on the fourth right. Yeah, that was a
different England thing.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Okay, let's all have more on Brett. Uh when when when? When?
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Britain yama Brittan yama, I don't yama ya and TJ.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Clearly we have some Wembin drama.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
That's the one right there, because then it teases the
audience that doesn't know the story yet. There's so sure
he hasn't played yet, but we've got when Ben drama after.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Is this an AI show?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Because they're talking about Victor Wembin Yama and Britney Spears
having something going on.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I can't believe that's right. Uh. And now they're banging
each other. Whoa, whoa?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
No, well no wa wow you guys, this is where
you need a time out. I got like three time
outs of show, which as we have to just talk
it over. We gold to stop it talking over, to go.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Back and set frost Brooks straight back there. But we
talked about a.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Big story out of the NBA. We're all waiting for
the Damian Lillard trade to go down. What's going to happen?
When's it going to happen? And look, after seeing the
last couple of days, I can't give you an exact answer,
but I'll tell you everything how this is gonna end, right,
tell them tell me do you agree with this?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Okay? So Lillard wants to go to the Heat.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And generally NBA stars when they say they want something,
they get it. Obviously, if this was a deal that
could have been easily made, they would have made it already.
But the Heat have said, but the Lader said, listen,
we're not that in should in Tyler Hero. Okay, stop
trying to make Tyler Hero happen. About how many bucket
hats you give us. We're not gonna make this happen.
But he really wants the Heat, his agent has said,
(31:36):
I talk to other teams. I call other teams back.
Some I don't call back. But hey, he really wants
to go play with the Heat. Whatever reason he wants
to play with the Heat. This is how this is
gonna end. It'll happen. He's gonna end up a member
of the Heat, but the Heat. But the Blazers aren't
gonna do this trade until a third team gets involved
where they can get a young, star ish player that
(31:59):
they can with Scoot Henderson because what they did for
the last decade Lillard and McCollum, it didn't work. Okay,
we'll start again, but they're not gonna make a trade
for spare parts. I'm not gonna say, okay, Boston here, Yes,
we'll take Brogden in two first round picks. No, we're
not doing that. They want a really good, young, established player.
You're not gonna get a player of the caliber of
Damian Lillar, but they want somebody who, Hey, this can
(32:21):
be a centerpiece for our franchise in addition to what
else we're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
The Heat don't have that.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
So it's gonna be a little bit of time while
they find the right situation and the right third team
wants to get involved. And it's gonna be a little
while because now trade season is gonna start. Players got signed,
but now you're gonna see a couple of big trades
go down and add the dust settles with that, then
we're gonna be able to move on and say, Okay,
we can facilitate this deal. We have to make room
for this player. We're gonna trade this player. So it's
(32:47):
gonna take a little while. It may take some of
the summer, it may take all of the summer, but
it's gonna end up Lillard to the Heat for a
three team deal. The Blazers are gonna end up with
a young, star ish player that they can pare with Henderson.
That's how this ends.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
So I'm gonna say something, and I don't want to
start trouble, but I'm gonna talk about your knicks for
a seconds.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
So oh if the Knicks thing gotta yeah, that's fine. Yeah,
Im ready to say yeah, Lillard's way.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Aaron Torres, NBA insider just said, Lillard's going to the
next tweet that out and put it on threads.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
You'd never know.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Can't do it, Twitter and threads put it right out there,
can you don't do it?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
So does that mean if Lillard doesn't get traded but
the Mets keep winning, I'm still allowed to come in, right.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Oh, as long as the Met's keep winning, you're still in. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
So what I was gonna say was this almost reminds
me of when Mellow said I'm not re signing with Denver,
you should probably trade me, and it was clear that
he only wanted to go to the Knicks. But the
difference is the Knicks were dumb enough to actually trade
away all of their assets to get him when they
knew he was coming in six months. So that was
where I paraphrase to set up the apology because I
(33:47):
didn't want you mad at me for the rest of
the show.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
No, that happened already. I can't go back and change him.
If you could have changed it back then, i'd be
mad at you. Okay, yeah, yeah, you have the timestone
and I could go back and fig but we can't fix.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
That I did not have the sway neither then nor
now to do it.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
You would be my third best friend, oh second anthor no,
you would be knocked down to my third best friend
if you had something to do when you could have
done it and you didn't.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
You so you're still my second best friend.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Well good, and well I'm glad my status is still good.
So but that's what it feels like, is that situation
where it was clear that Mellow only wanted to go
to the Knicks. He didn't really really even technically demand
a trade, but that was the only logical landing spot.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Dame.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
It's been weird because he you know, you had all
these teams calling on Saturday, which I found out by
refreshing ESPN dot com because Twitter wasn't working, but neither
here nor there, but yet all these teams that were
reaching out, and then it becomes very clear that he
doesn't want to go to Philly whatever. The other teams
don't make sense, and it's going to be the heat
and so now he's kind of backed himself into a corner.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
The Trailblazers don't have a choice.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
It is going he doesn't Trailblazers don't have a choice,
but they're not going to bend over backwards to help
him out at the point.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Joy.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yeah, and they and they're gonna want and not only that,
they're not gonna settle for Hey, here's our best offer.
It's three first round picks and a couple of guys.
Guy who came off the bench and score twelve a game. No,
we want that one centerpiece player in addition to that.
So it's gonna take a little bit for another team
to come.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Up with that. And if that's our j Barrett and
Emmanuel quickly or if it's Julius Randall, that's one of
those guys, I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that
that happens.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
No, it's gonna be fascinating to watch, but like you said,
I don't think it gets done right away just because
it's what Dame wants.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Twitter and how about a Fresca threads at the Real
Jason as Twitter at Aaron Underscore Torres The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon at in for Harmon tonight.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, we'll have more on on the on the Wembin
drama with Britney Spears. And if you thought that story
was hot, how about one that could get even hotter
in the next couple of days. That's next from the
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