January 31, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike debate if The Bronny James story has been over covered. We welcome in FOX Sports NFL Insider Jay Glazer to the show. And the guys react to the NBA Eastern/Western Conference All-Star Reserves.
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Newton certainly making us say wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
But speaking of making to say wait a minute, Mike Carmen,
Bronnie James played tonight and the Lakers won. I think
we might have hit on something. I we might admit
Bronny needs to play the Lakers win. I know they
played the Wizards, and the Wizards you know they're having
a great season. They have the same record as the
Oklahoma City Thunder except in reverse.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But but you know, maybe this is the thing for
the Lakers. You play Bronnie every game. Now, well, we
did kind.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Of point out that this was the game. If he
didn't play here, then the experiment needed to be called
off permanently. Right here was your opportunity, because if you
can't beat this collection of bums without a d without
I mean, look, get brought back the guys that you
(01:56):
know would be the old Hey I'd only score eighteen
a game, seventy five that kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Those are the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Magic Johnson could a run point tonight and they still
would have drummed the Wizards at this stage of the game.
So looking at Bronnie getting some time, yeah, obvious to
get some minutes. I really want to see him in
that matchup against the Knicks. But here was it showcase
some one last time. You hear the crowd response and
(02:23):
come on, it's insane. Well, look, most they've cheered for
anything in years.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, I'll tell you that right right away. Right, we
got a big couple of big NBA stories start out
of the gate with here the Lakers. They roll through
the Wizards. I mean, look, the Wizards are done. They
may never win again, you know. And it's an easy win.
The Lakers were up huge at halftimes, up seventy five
thirty eight at halftime, and Bronni played twelve minutes tonight,
scored five points, had that big.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Dunky you just heard.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
This story is tremendously overcovered, and it's absolutely irrelevant. The
Bronnie James story is irrelevant. And all of a sudden
he plays his first meaningful minutes against the Sixers and
the Lakers lose, and all of a sudden, it was, oh,
my goodness, what are the Lakers doing?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I don't know that any.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
If I said to anybody, how many minutes has Bronnie
James played this year? How many minutes has Bronnie James played?
Everybody wants to jump up and down and go and
get mad at lebron all the stuff. That's Oh, I'm
glad I was that he's played now, counting the last
two games, which he's gotten the majority of them, he
has played fifty seven minutes all season.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Not in the under I was like, what is it like,
forty forty five more than Joe all embiid.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
No, that is true.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It is more than mb Yes, it is more than
embid And it's more that than the Knicks bench plays
every single night. But and he's had thirty seven of
those minutes in the last two games in a row,
or sorry, twenty seven of those minutes in the last
two games in a row. He's played fifty seven minutes
all year. Here's his minutes in a handful of games, right,
Two games in November three minutes and five minutes, three
(03:59):
games into five minutes, one minute, two minute, one game
in January three minutes, now the rest of January two, one, two, two, four,
and then fifteen and twelve. Bronnie James is nothing is
wrong with the You could point a lot of different
things with the Lakers right and say why are they
not winning? It's what's it all about with the makeup
of the team, And every five minutes Lebron and Ad
(04:21):
say they need something else, which is come on, guys,
just stop moving the goalpost. But this is something that's
completely irrelevant. Again, fifty seven minutes all season long, A right,
that's not the end. And I'm okay with them playing
him these minutes because he was coming off his best
time in the G League and his best game. Well,
what do you try to do for a young player
coming off your best game in the G league? Hey,
(04:42):
let's give you a little bit of extended minutes and
we'll see how you do. Now, clearly they did it
against the Sixers. They lost, Bronnie James clearly showed, okay,
I'm not ready to come into the game yet, and
big crunch time minutes.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
The Lakers saw it.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
When did the Bronny come into the game when it
was long decided? And he played his twelve minutes tonight? Right,
So the Lakers tried to say, hey, let's if he
can stay hot, see if he can translate what he
did in the G League at least some minimal minutes here,
and he couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
So now they've backed.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Off and in two days and now he's playing twelve
minutes tonight in a game in which the Lakers were
absolutely cruising. In this story is really overcovered and overrated.
This is this is not Lebron James making the Lakers
do things. This is not Yes, did the Lakers draft
Bronnie James because they have Lebron? Absolutely because the Lakers
want headlines? Right, We know that if you can't win championships,
(05:26):
you have to go for headlines. Is why Jerry Jones
does what he does. It's why the Lakers do what
they do. It's what the Yankees do what they do.
You can't win titles, you go for headlines. So yeah,
here's a headline, right, headline, guys, all through the sea's
gonna be a whole big thing. Maybe Bronny is good,
he's a second round pick, who knows he's a second
round pick will probably stick with the team for the
entirety of the time. Lebron is there, But you got
to earn your minutes to play. There's no way he's
(05:48):
gonna start playing minutes where hey, wait a minute, Wow,
Austin Reeves only got eight minutes tonight and Bronni got sorry,
like that's not happening. That's not going to happen. So
with this is going, this is going fun. Did he
play an extra few minutes the other night? Sure, and
the Lakers you got to say, okay, we give him
a chance. Okay, maybe you're not ready for this. This
story is completely overcovered and overright. You can blame you
(06:09):
can blame the Lakers for a lot of things and say,
hey and Lebron and adi to, but not for this
because this story, really, the way it's being, the way
people are talking about it is irrelevant. He's not tearing
the Lakers apart at the seams. He's not causing controversy,
and all of a sudden, you know, Genie Buss and
Rich Paul are at odds all the time, and Rob
Polinka won't return phone calls.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Really, it's it's it's really, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Well, I mean, you can cut and cut and print
this take. It's the first time that anybody's talked about
basketball in a while, because there wasn't a football game
to break down, so it became a let's talk about
Briney James. Let's go through this, so you know, cut
and print it and send it out to the masses.
(06:52):
You know, there's other better stories the Sixers, and as
Frostburg pointed out, I get nothing for him, And what
did they estimated what is he's played fifty two of
the available minutes as.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
A member of the Sixers.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
That's kind of an interesting prospect that that's not a
one year sample size either for Brownie James and for
the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
There's a couple of things that go on with it.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
They just had a tremendous run of games, right, what
were they winners of five of six before that game
against Philadelphia, some weary legs trying to extend the bench.
Get him some minutes and see if he's ready for
the jump up in class. You don't know when that's
gonna happen at the G League. As you said, guys
are you know he was starting to play a little
(07:39):
more consistently on both ends of the court, so you
see if you can catch lightning in a bottle. Now,
Tyrese Maxey's not the guy that you're gonna go find
that against, right, one of your better players in the
game at that position, So that's gonna be difficult. But
all said is you found out, asked and answered right,
(08:00):
And the rest of the squad didn't exactly show up
prepared to play that game either, So suddenly singling him out,
Oh he's the worst travesty. He's the reason they lost, uh,
and then trying to, you know, make it the indictment
of all things wrong with the world.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
No, no, no, this is not what I'm asking Adam Silver about.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
We got fourteen points on the docket before we even
get to anything about drafting, nepotism and the like.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
So yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Enjoy it for what it is, or don't or doesn't
really it's just just shoulders and move on.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
There's it's over. The stories overcome.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's over because too many people talk about this like
it's such a big deal.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Is he got chance?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
You did?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It?
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Shows how the fickle people are you known? MVP Chance
on the road, man Saturday Night on the road. If
you start getting MVOD luck.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
In the garden, yeah, what's happening?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
If he has a big night, will and by a
big night, I mean you know, three points, I mean
that's probably that's probably a well.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
But like we joked about, guys, it's a thirty eight
point burial.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
So it's one of those things you're like, all right,
it's now the equivalent of the Bronx cheer.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Eh hey, look Bronni did something. Yeah, oh look at.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Bronny scoring against us. Now, look, I'm not saying.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
This isn't a story because Bronnie James playing with the
Lakers and lebron It is a story. It's just not
the story the way that I see it presented on
TV and and and and on other shows, where oh,
this is this is the worst thing in the world.
How do the Lakers allow this to that you can
do the decline and fall of the Lakers and leave
this out.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
What do we always say, Hey.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
You're a Hall of Famer if we can't tell the
story of your sport without you, right, you could tell
the story of the Lakers season and how they're doing
on the court without mentioning Bronnie James.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I'm sure you on the court, on the court without
mentioning Bronnie James, you can.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
This was instrumental to the foundation should have this squad
this year and negativity that really surrounded not only the
hiring of JJ Reddick, but the arrival of Bronnie James
to it. By the way, it's also for our friends
in the media that really want to wag their fingers
about this again. Next time the call comes from a
(10:18):
buddy saying Hey, you guys have an internship program, right,
you have to politely decline that call?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Jason?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
You still think I'm kidding, right, No, dude, here's the thing.
This story, this is a good story because it's fun.
It's it's interesting to see him play and see what
kind of player he is, to see how he evolves.
It's fun to see the dynamic. This is the story
to have fun with, right, this is the Hey, here's Bronnie,
here's Brian. Oh my god, can you believe this? His
(10:48):
dad's gotta be yelling at him after the game. But
what do you think he really wants to say when
he's asked questions following the game about Bronnie, Hey, give
me back more questions about us needing a center?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Right? Like?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
This is a fun story, right, and and and I
hope the kid succeeds because it would be great for
us and great for the NBA if Bronnie.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
James plays well. Right, but the way, because Lebron.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Is so polarizing, it's over the top hate for Bronni.
If this was another let's just say Jannis was forty
years old.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Right, let's go far.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Let's just say Yannis was forty years old. Or let's
just say Jokic was forty years old and all these
guys were playing with their kids, right, whoever was, Let's
say this is what they were.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Would there be.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
One tenth of the outrage that, oh, the Nuggets drafted
Jokic's kid, or the Bucks drafted Yannis's kid to come play,
they drafted Janis's brother. Hey, we got to keep everybody happy, Like,
would there be any of this hate that, oh, my goodness,
Jannis is calling the shots and Jokic is calling the shots.
There'd be no other even though all of it is true.
(11:49):
You think Joki is calling the shots in Denver, of
course he is. Is Yannis calling the shots in Milwaukee?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Of course he is?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
But because it's Lebron and he's got polarizing built in
since he walked into the NBA, the hate and the
attention of oh, Bronnie James succeeding, and everybody wants to
say how much he stinks all like, you know, how
over the top it is just because it's Lebron. That's
not fair to the kid, right, that's not fair to Bronnie,
you know obviously, yes, hey, he accepted.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
This, he came here, he's playing, But the overall.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Impact is just because of how people feel towards Lebron James.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Is why this story is going the way it is.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
There's nobody else in the NBA if their kid was playing,
would we spend one tenth of the time on this
and say that he shouldn't be in the league. And
I can't believe you kow taut to a star player
like we want to change the way we would talk
about this for any other player and make it different
just because it's Lebron and I see right through it.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
And really that's why I say this is an overcovered story.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
You can have fun with it and talk about, hey,
the dunk the way it should be and the way
we'll do it. The way we do stuff with Bronnie
is look at that dunk and the MVP chance and now,
of course he's got to be the MVP courts.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
He's got to get MVP votes over big Bodega.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Court's got to get him off with Shae Gilges, Alexander,
you gotta get these bucks, like that's how you do it.
But instead it's like it's the Decline and Fall of
Western Civilization Part two without all the heavy metal music
you like, so we're going to like.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
The grunge era, then you like that telephone sequel to that?
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Yeah, I mean there's a lot lots of things you
can spawn off of that.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
But you know, the.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Antenna compos you know, they got their run in the NBA.
Fanastas Had is uh what six years seven years with
the squad. He hasn't played this year, but I think
he's still around the team. He might just be security detail.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Yeah, but he never got MVP chance from the line.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
No, I don't, I don't know. Yeah. The only guy
that's really gotten this derision.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Uh, and it's not a player playing with this kid
is Doc Rivers with Austin Rivers for a couple of years,
because that was a brutal, brutal world, especially when he
first signed that bigger contract. I mean that you thought
something really unholy had been under there. But uh yeah,
(14:04):
for for this, it's look, it's great power, great responsibility,
and great derision. Columns to be written and clicks to
be had. And in this day and age, you find
your niche of folks that want to be like minded
with you in that regard, and uh, look, take take
(14:25):
that negative energy and if you want to go down
that rabbit hole.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Have at it for me. I'm celebrating the MVP chancel
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Speaker 4 (14:41):
If people want to see him.
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Speaker 4 (17:48):
Jay, what's happening, Bud?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
How are you doing, madam? I'm a little I'm doing Okay.
Man had a pretty crazy last couple of days.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Okay, what happened?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So I'm going I'm at the NFC Championship camp, right,
I'm flying back. And when I'm flying back Fox He's like, oh,
when you land, you gotta go back to Philadelphia. You
gotta go through an aj Brown future. So I said,
They're like, you should have stayed. I'm like, well, I
gotta go see my wife. Man. I love my wife.
(18:20):
I gotta go see here. You know when I don't
when I'm not around her. You guys know, she's my
anti depressant. I get a little, you know, a little
bipolar crazy. So I'm like, I see here, I go home,
I go see you, I go back. I take a
red eye. Here's my day. I take a red eye.
I land, I go in there. I get a workout
with some of the guys in the facility, the Eagles.
(18:42):
Then the team chiropractor worked on me. Then I did
a sauna with Lane Johnson with a sauna workout, and
then me and during Malatta and Big Dom and Nick Sirianni,
we you know, kind of hung out a little bit.
Then I did the Super Bowl feat Sure with AJ.
Then I went back in and then a rabbi actually
(19:07):
came over and me and Howie Rose and a rabbi
we all prayed together in the in the team ding room.
I can't make it up. This is my window. How
he's been like doing it like each week, and you
can't mess with something that's that's working great, you know,
like you got to keep doing it. And it's like
a rabbi he was like, help, it's been like by this,
(19:29):
like father in law's bedside has been great, and you can't.
So I'm like, dude, I'm in, you know. So Yank
came down steel little prayer service, got back, got back
on the plane and UH flew home and then we
went home for about five hours and then went to
get an epidural this morning because I kind of ramped
(19:51):
up my training and I'm going back to Panama for
stem cells two weeks after UH eft the Super Bowl.
But I reharniated L one L two. Little little UH
epidural just kind of get me through, you know, new
Orleans and two Panama. So I get stem cells and
(20:11):
I know I'm getting the stem cells so I could
heal myself, but I keep hurting myself because I'm an idiot.
So anyway, guys, that's my Wednesday. What did you guys do?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
The only I've had COVID so there.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
The only thing listened from from you is is reading
a book with AJ Brown. That's the only thing.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I did you bring the book? He said? No? I said, Bro,
By the way, I wrote a book.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I wish you read my book.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
But what I here's the thing, Like, I love Aj
and I actually met Aj because of mental health. I
did like when he first got the team. Big dam
Security said, hey man, I wanted to meet AJ Brown.
AJ goes through the same stuff that you struggle with
that Lane Johnson struggles with and many just connected us
to Mink. I got you and literally on the field
(21:05):
before the game the other day, he and I go
up I see him. I said, hey man, I'm proud
of you. And he just got through some really hard times.
He's really really dark, tossed and he's been open about it.
I'm proud of you for it. And I said, bro,
we've got to use our pain to help others do theirs.
And I'm proud of you for this because a lot
(21:25):
of people don't do that. They hide it, like being
of service helps us through this. So literally we're on
the fifteen yard line and I'm grabbing him and we're like, bro,
I'm proud of you because you've bottled up for all
these years and now you're opening up your pain is
going to help others through THEIRS. I'm proud of you.
And that's what we got to do, and we help
each other. I'm like, that's it's a pretty cool thing.
(21:48):
It's a pretty cool connection. But you can connect with
dudes like this. We could use our platforms to help others.
And you know, for years I was wondering, like why
am I in this pain? Why have I been cursed
with depression and anxiety and bipolar at ADHD, And then
I realized, man, I would It's not a curse. This
It happens so I can help others with their journey.
(22:09):
Is is the way I've got to look at it.
You know, again, my paint is there so I can
help others is THEIRS, and I'm just proud, Like, HEYJ
has been vocal about it, you know, I go and
talk to teams about it now. And there's other guys.
There's a lot of guys I talked to on teams
about this stuff that won't do what AJ does. They're
just not comfortable. They're not there yet. That's fine, Like
(22:32):
it's look, there's no there is no hey, you should
do this, you should do that. There's no you know,
actual guidebook of Hey, if you have a depression, you
have to do this. No, we have a different, different battle.
There's guys like I've gotten to talk to teams. I'm
looking straight at guys who we talk constantly, and I
think they're gonna get up and tell the whole team. Yeah,
(22:52):
Jay and I talked about it. If they don't stand it,
and that's great, no problem, right. And there's other guys like, hey, guys,
yeah I started opening up. We start talking about it.
It's our own journey. Everybody's journeys is their journey. All
our problems weigh the same, you know. And the biggest
thing too, for like a lot of us. Man, I
really thought, for me, I thought if I got rich
(23:18):
and famous, I wouldn't be in pain anymore. And it
was a hard day when I realized, Damn, my wallet
is not an antidepressidant. Damn. I thought this would do
the rainbows and unicorns. This sucks, Like, why am I
still freaking miserable? Why ale I so tortured still? Why
do I still feel like a piece of garbage? Why
(23:39):
do I still feel unworthy of being in love? Like? How?
And I was actually on when I had it. I
had this conversation with myself during an episode of Falcking
Up on Sunday while I'm in the football field talking
to America. I'm having this conversation with myself.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah, it was one of the most powerful things. And
I was like, and it was, it was, it was hard,
But now I was like, now I really need other helps.
And that's when I really started to like go on
his journey and then start opening up and start talking.
And thank god I did, because there is a lot
of dark a lot of darkness. And my whole thing
with AJ was like, man, you went through a dark tunnel,
(24:22):
Like my whole thing unbreakable, all of us we go
through that dark tunnel. Do you come through the other
side of that tunnel? Means it didn't break you. So
whatever didn't break you, it couldn't break you makes you
stronger forever. That's what being unbreakable is. Unbreakable is not
being rich and famous and strong and powerful, have a title.
It's your scars. It's all the things that could have broken,
(24:42):
shouldn't and didn't. As a result, you came to the
other side of the tunnel strong forever. And I'm like, AJ,
because you did not let that tunnel cave in on you,
and you get to walk out the ultimate tunnel next Sunday,
there's a pretty cool moment for us.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Wow, Jake Lazer whether us here, Jason Smith, Mike Harman
lives from the tirect dot com studios. I can't wait
to see that interview. Was that gonna run what the
morning of the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Is that what it's gonna run?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, Super super Bowl pregame show. It's well, this is
all just conversations about the feature. Is gonna be something
kind of like that? But it's but it's also just
just my thoughts I'm saying on AJ, he's just he's
a special dude, Like I think he's misunderstood. It's funny
when when I'm in there also, I'm like, hey, I'm
doing this feature on AJ. So I'm talking, like I
(25:28):
told you, I'm talking to everybody in the team. I'm like, hey,
to me stuff, I should ask him, Well, tell me
something I don't know about him. Every single dude I
asked about AJ, give me something that I don't know
about Ajo. Everyone said, this dude loves football more than
ever been on our team. He's so misunderstood, like he
just what datches. Football is just it's just think He's
(25:51):
just it's his thing. He loves it, and it gets misconstrued,
whether it's a frustration here or there. If not, it's
not always not getting the ball, He's not. He just
loves football and he beats up on himself. It's in
every series thing we talked about. He said, Every series,
I'm like, man, what did I not do there? What
(26:13):
did I not do here? Almost like I think I
said in the interview, each series, it's like you're taking
a stool in between rounds of a fight and you're
trying to let Okay, what do I do wrong in
that round? What could have if I've done better? Why
did I do better for this next round? He goes, Yes,
every series, I sit down, he goes, That's why I
read that book. I sit down and I try and
(26:34):
get myself. Man, let's heal, Let's do better. How do
I do better on this next series? He gets that
deep and that's something he's misunderstood. People don't understand it.
Like he six inches between your between your ears, most
powerful weapon in the world. They could take you down
the worst rabbit hole ever, or they could walk you
through the most incredible tunnel like on Sundays.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Tell me you kind of deal with him at the
end and if they win the game, he holds your
book up when he's on the sidelight.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
How to do that?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I said, did you have that book? And I'm sitting
He he didn't bring the book with him. I said,
why did I not bring my book with me? What
kind of promoter on my damn? But I did ask.
I did ask them. I said, dude, I said hey,
And again we got linked up because I was talking
about because I've helped Lane Johnson a lot with his
(27:26):
mental health issues. Lane is, oh me a lot with
my mental health issues. And actually, guys, like this is
like real talk, Like I landed. I'm like out of
my mind, guys, I'm like I land in LA I
see my wife. I repack. I fly back him on
two hours of sleep in two days. The roommates of
my head are killing me. And I get to work out.
(27:47):
I'm trying to do my thing. I'm trying to do
my breathwork of meditation. I get in the sauna with
Lane and I just like, dude, I'm not in a
good place. I think about that, like you could never
We were never done this years ago, but that was
my thing. Like as much as I have helped Lane,
Lane has helped me. Like I went in there, I'm like, dude,
I'm not good right now. He's like, what's up? And
(28:08):
I'm sitting so with Lane's often talking mental health, like dude,
I'm just I'm just out of my mind right now.
Like I'm just, you know, I'm not I haven't had
my rituals that I need to keep me Shane and
keep me from beating up with myself and keep me
from going dark. And and we literally talked it out
in twenty twenty five minutes in the sauna and you know,
got a little laughs in which I need. Also talked
(28:31):
me through it a little bit and kind of got
me good for the interview. So we talked I did
that I had that relationship with Lane and some others
on the team. It's been more of the Lane. But again,
Lane's talking about open least I'll say people who haven't,
I'm not going to. So that's how A J and
I originally got linked up. And I did say him
and I wanted to read the book because my book,
(28:53):
I'm Breakable. It's it's it's it gives it work from
somebody like me. It's not. I'm not a therape I'm
not a doctor, not a teacher. I'm not a priest
or clergy. You rab right, I'm just a dude who's
clearly messed up. But it's good with his messed upness.
And I know how to talk about it. If you
give it words, then we know how to talk about
(29:14):
it with others. And you could sit there like, man,
you got two bad sobs. Me and Lane Johnson sitting
in the sauna, and I'm talking about struggling. He's talking
about struggling like obviously there's no shame in that, right,
No one's gonna question his manhood. That the quest of
my manage. You may say, why you guys sitting in
the sauna talking about this, but right, process, Yeah, but
(29:39):
you know what I mean, Like, it's we're changing the narrative.
Like guys like AJ Brown, guys like Lane Johnson, guys
like me, we're changing the freaking narrative. Well because we're not.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
We're not the.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
We're not the Sporting cast anymore. Right, We're it's everywhere.
It's not just we're not in the shadows anymore. Everybody's
going through something and we're giving it words. So I'm
proud of AJ for open up. I'm proud of It's
the biggest stage in the world. Fox is super Bowl
here and he agreed, Yeah, I'll talk about my mental stuff.
(30:13):
I'm proud of. I'm really proubab Lane.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Johnson, A J.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Brown and and and you sum it up, You're big
week or just the last couple of days. On Unbreakable
of Mental Wealth podcast, you had Dustin Rhodes on. You
had Wrestling Royalty Odd with you this week.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Yeah, that's pretty cool man. Wow, you want to fuck
you guys. Gotta go watch that thing, Hutsy. You gotta
listen to. That's incredible because he talked about right, He's like, hey,
I fought the devil and I won, and it was like,
whoa he he was so real and wrong again. Yeah,
like obviously, Dusty Rhodes, his dad is incredible, Coddy Roads
Brothers star. He's a star. You know, he was gold Dust.
(30:50):
He's a legend. He's a Hall of Famer and he's unbelievable.
But he was. What he's doing now is just incredible.
But the cool thing too, I didn't know. He's like, Hey,
the WW is the one. They have a great program
for guys who are struggling. They got me on a
plane to reap. Like you call them, they get you.
They take care of their people. I was like, wow,
(31:11):
I love to hear that. But he was just, dude,
this is two dudes. Like I'm talking right now. Lane
and AJ and I were talking Sam with me and Dustin. Man,
we were just talking up and we didn't know each other,
but we never met, but we knew each other if
I could, if that makes sense, we understood each other.
This is what I should say.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
You want more on this Jay's Twitter page at Jay
Glazer It's right up there the link. Unbreakable, a mental
health podcast, Dustin Rhodes talks about at one point in
his life he was taking up to forty pills a day.
Phenomenal stuff there again. The link is right there at
Jay Glaser on Twitter where you get your podcasts from Unbreakable,
a mental health podcast. Well, Jay, take a break, chill out,
(31:55):
go to bed man, get you the rest now, my
friend hex.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Sale out of my mind right now.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Will be good.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Keep fighting the good fight.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Man.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Have fun, save travels. Brother.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Oh, great stuff. Wow Glazer, Wow, just about it. Just
his journey and AJ Brown's. I can't wait to see
that interview. Now I'll talk about mental health stuff. It's
the super Bowl. I'll do it. Just great, great stuff
as always from Jay again. Hit him up on his
Twitter page. You see it right there at Jay Glazer
for links to all the things he is doing. Right now,
let's link up with Monty Blago. She's got what's trending
(32:29):
in the wide world of sports, which I will hopefully
will include Moncey, the fact that you cursed the Utah
hockey team last night. Who had Hey, we got the
three finalists for the names, and you're saying, whatsatch?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
What's whatsatch?
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Wats I don't know what?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And all of a sudden they said today, Okay, wasatch
is out Yes, that's not one of the finalists anymore.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
We're replacing Wassatch, yes.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
With Outlaws with Outlaws, so it's now Utah Outlaws, Utah Mammoth,
or Utah Hockey Club.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
I mean, we all were nobody when I said that.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
Everyone was like, what is that?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah? What?
Speaker 8 (33:00):
It did not work?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
So I'm glad they actually listened.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
To the show. Obviously they were listening because that's where
they got that from. Yes, No, we only have great
ideas here at Fox Sports Radio always exactly. Let's check
in on the NBA. Only five games tonight. Usually we
have a full slate of games, just five three currently
going on. Timberwolves have extended their leader for the Jazz
eighty five sixty six late in the third quarter Anthony
(33:24):
Edwards twenty four points, six rebounds, nine assists. At halftime,
the Rockets are beating the Grizzlies sixty six to fifty six,
and after the first quarter the Magic are on top
of the Trailblazers thirty five to twenty eight. Palo Bancaro
eight points for Orlando so far. The Lakers handed the
Wizards their sixteenth loss of this season, one thirty four
to ninety six. Was the final score. Wizards have won
(33:46):
six games, guys, six, Like, I think you have to
try to lose that many.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Well, what number is greater the number of points Browny
has scored this year or wins for the Wizards.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
It's very close, still close, And that's.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
What said MVP candidate.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
I'm sorry, the chance that's right in Washington, right right.
The Cavaliers roll rolled past the Hawks won thirty seven
to one. Fifteen. The Hawks that beat the Cavaliers back
to back games in November. The Caps have only lost
nine games, so they salvaged the final game between these two.
Darius Garland twenty six points and seven assists. We did
have the NBA All Star reserves announced, and yes, Norman
(34:27):
Powell was snubbed, but anyway out of the Western Conference
Anthony Edwards, Anthony Davis, James Harden, Jaron Jackson, Junior Alprin Shoon,
Jalen Williams, and Victor I Banyama. Out of the Eastern Conference,
Jalen Brown, Pascal Siakam, Darius Garland, Cad Cunningham, Evan Mobley,
Damian Lillard, and Tyler hero In men's college hoops number eighteen,
Illinois has come back Nebraska is still on top sixty
(34:50):
eight sixty seven, ninety seconds to go, and you can
gatge all the action on FS one with about ten
minutes to go. Number nineteen, Memphis is on top of
Tulane forty eight to forty six. Lastly, here in the NFL,
Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker's denying allegations that he exhibited
inappropriate sexual behavior with multiple massage therapists from twenty twelve
to twenty sixteen, and the league says that the number
(35:12):
of concussions in the twenty twenty four regular season were
the lowest since the league started tracking the data back
in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 7 (35:20):
Back to you guys right.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Now, I want to ask you real quick, Jess, what numb?
Because I have the answer? H huh?
Speaker 6 (35:25):
What number is harmon?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Don't look it up? Okay, does Bronnie James.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Have more points scored? Or do the Wizards have more wins?
What number is greater?
Speaker 8 (35:35):
Bronnie James has eleven points?
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Okay, that's where what do you say?
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Oh, I was taking Bronnie. You're taking an MVP candidate, Jason.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
This disrespect will not stand with his five points tonight
Bronni has passed the Wizards.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
He has nine points this season. The Wizards have six wins.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
What a hater? Hater asked this question like that, did.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
You not hear the crowd? The eruption was.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
Jason wat mute because he's hate watching it.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
You said nine points, so the Jazz.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
So the Jazz have more wins than Bonnie has points.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Yes, but that's for long. He passed the Wizard. He
passed the Wizards tonight he.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Pattens back in the Wizards.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Do you have to go and sign autographs for all
the people that chan at MVP or give him a
dollar or something?
Speaker 6 (36:29):
A dollar, here's the thank you for the chant, thank
you for the chat. Thank here's a dollar.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
He's got a money guy walking around with singles and
so like he's got the little cards, like he's on
the Vegas Strip.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Here's your dollar. Exit out out of Fresca exit swallen dope.
Jason Smith, Mark Harmon, Hey, we have the hottest NBA
topic of the night coming up next right here, Jason
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Eleven Pacific time. Now, today was a big day.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
We found out the rest of the All Stars for
NBA All Star Weekend. Wenby makes it congratulations, Anthony Edwards
makes it. James Harden, who I thought had made his
last All Star team. You know, Jalen Brown, you had
a lot of big names. You also had a lot
of snubs and a couple of snubs. I'm really stunned
at you. Look at guys like LaMelo Ball, who gets snubbed,
(38:00):
A young get snubbed, Cyrus Max. He gets snubbed, Zach Levine,
Devin Booker, de Monte Sabonis gets snubbed. Look, I can't
understand how you snub LaMelo Ball because the guy got
more votes than anybody, right, he was the biggest vote
getter for guards of anybody and having a great year,
and yet really you can't.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Find a place. So I think clearly people want to
see LaMelo Ball an All.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Star Game because that's kind of where his game is
gonna look phenomenal. Right, he's gonna look, he's got all
the all this. He's just gonna play street ball in
the passes. He'll take shots in half court like he
did in high school. Like, I don't know how you
do that.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
Does his brother get to come with him and sing?
Speaker 5 (38:34):
Yes, that's the halftime entertainment? Is Is that what they pitched?
That that had to happen and that's why he gets snubbed.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Jello does this, Jello does a song, him and Lonzo
come in and then they play the rest of the game.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
That's how it came.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
We saw Jello's thing during the Lions run didn't work.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
But uh, I can tell you this, Mike car because
you don't know this.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
I could tell you exactly why all of these players
got snubbed.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Ooh, all of these players got snubbed.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Whether they're all.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Filling in at the uh the Pro Bowl stuff, No, no, no, no, whether,
no matter who you want to say, who are the
big snubs?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
It was if it's LaMelo or Maxi or Levine or
Sabonis I, they all have.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
The same thing in common.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Right, Oh, okay, they all have the thing, and it's
just one thing. It's just one thing they all have
in common.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
That's it. There's not that's it.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
I don't need to tell you a whole bunch of
things where well maybe in this category maybe here maybe No, no, no, no,
just one thing they all it's just one thing.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Ask me what that one thing is?
Speaker 6 (39:36):
What is that one thing? That's not what it is?
Speaker 4 (39:40):
That is just one thing, just one thing.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Their teams stink. That's what. I can't give anything else
other than all of these players that people really want
to see. Their teams all stink, right, The Hawk stink,
the Sixers stink, the King stink. They all stink. The
Sons are terrible, the bull stink. Every they all stink, right,
these are all players, and I'd love to see play.
I'd love to see a couple of these guys more
(40:04):
than I want to see Pascal Siaka and O by
the way, you know, he makes it okay, but still
all of these I mean, I don't know what else
to say other than all of these teams are bad
and so that that went against them when when in
the selection process, somehow I don't because they just they
just are all bad. But that's it. But we don't
care about that. That's what That's why I don't That's
why I'm not down with this. I don't like it
because I don't care if a team is bad. You
(40:26):
have great players play on bad teams all the time.
Steph Curry's on a bad team. We gotta see stuff
right like this is this is kind of ridiculous that
you have a lot of showmen that people want to
see in the All.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Star Game and we're not seeing them.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
Well, in the end, you have to just expand rosters
to forty five slots.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
It'll be just fine.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
And then and then.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Yeah, and each gets to run out for ten minutes
like Adam Silver wants to.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
You just bring that to the All Star Game.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:53):
Sorry. Also, you get to play the fourth quarter. Oh
I get ten minutes. It's only forty minute.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Yeah, we're only playing. We're only playing forty minutes in
the All Star Game. That's all we got for it.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I mean really, it just because their teams stink, these guys.
I'd rather see Trey Young than Pascal Siakaman, I'd rather
see LaMelo Ball than I mean really, I really just
because their teams are bad.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
We're not gonna take you, not gonna take you. Yeah, welcome,
Welcome to All Star.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
Hell, that's a look.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Adam Silver will put more time tending to fixing this
nonsense than his actual game.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Coming up next, we got a big story out of
the NFL. Would you rather have a Super Bowl or
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a big night of NFL, big stuff going on. Cam
Newton certainly making us say wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
But speaking of making to say wait a minute, Mike Carmen,
Bronnie James played tonight and the Lakers won. I think
we might have hit on something. I we might admit
Bronny needs to play the Lakers win. I know they
played the Wizards, and the Wizards you know they're having
a great season. They have the same record as the
Oklahoma City Thunder except in reverse.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But but you know, maybe this is the thing for
the Lakers. You play Bronnie every game. Now, well, we
did kind.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Of point out that this was the game. If he
didn't play here, then the experiment needed to be called
off permanently. Right here was your opportunity, because if you
can't beat this collection of bums without a d without
I mean, look, get brought back the guys that you
(01:56):
know would be the old Hey I'd only score eighteen
a game, seventy five that kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Those are the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Magic Johnson could a run point tonight and they still
would have drummed the Wizards at this stage of the game.
So looking at Bronnie getting some time, yeah, obvious to
get some minutes. I really want to see him in
that matchup against the Knicks. But here was it showcase
some one last time. You hear the crowd response and
(02:23):
come on, it's insane. Well, look, most they've cheered for
anything in years.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, I'll tell you that right right away. Right, we
got a big couple of big NBA stories start out
of the gate with here the Lakers. They roll through
the Wizards. I mean, look, the Wizards are done. They
may never win again, you know. And it's an easy win.
The Lakers were up huge at halftimes, up seventy five
thirty eight at halftime, and Bronni played twelve minutes tonight,
scored five points, had that big.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Dunky you just heard.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
This story is tremendously overcovered, and it's absolutely irrelevant. The
Bronnie James story is irrelevant. And all of a sudden
he plays his first meaningful minutes against the Sixers and
the Lakers lose, and all of a sudden, it was, oh,
my goodness, what are the Lakers doing?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I don't know that any.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
If I said to anybody, how many minutes has Bronnie
James played this year? How many minutes has Bronnie James played?
Everybody wants to jump up and down and go and
get mad at lebron all the stuff. That's Oh, I'm
glad I was that he's played now, counting the last
two games, which he's gotten the majority of them, he
has played fifty seven minutes all season.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Not in the under I was like, what is it like,
forty forty five more than Joe all embiid.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
No, that is true.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It is more than mb Yes, it is more than
embid And it's more that than the Knicks bench plays
every single night. But and he's had thirty seven of
those minutes in the last two games in a row,
or sorry, twenty seven of those minutes in the last
two games in a row. He's played fifty seven minutes
all year. Here's his minutes in a handful of games, right,
Two games in November three minutes and five minutes, three
(03:59):
games into five minutes, one minute, two minute, one game
in January three minutes, now the rest of January two, one, two, two, four,
and then fifteen and twelve. Bronnie James is nothing is
wrong with the You could point a lot of different
things with the Lakers right and say why are they
not winning? It's what's it all about with the makeup
of the team, And every five minutes Lebron and Ad
(04:21):
say they need something else, which is come on, guys,
just stop moving the goalpost. But this is something that's
completely irrelevant. Again, fifty seven minutes all season long, A right,
that's not the end. And I'm okay with them playing
him these minutes because he was coming off his best
time in the G League and his best game. Well,
what do you try to do for a young player
coming off your best game in the G league? Hey,
(04:42):
let's give you a little bit of extended minutes and
we'll see how you do. Now, clearly they did it
against the Sixers. They lost, Bronnie James clearly showed, okay,
I'm not ready to come into the game yet, and
big crunch time minutes.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
The Lakers saw it.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
When did the Bronny come into the game when it
was long decided? And he played his twelve minutes tonight? Right,
So the Lakers tried to say, hey, let's if he
can stay hot, see if he can translate what he
did in the G League at least some minimal minutes here,
and he couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
So now they've backed.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Off and in two days and now he's playing twelve
minutes tonight in a game in which the Lakers were
absolutely cruising. In this story is really overcovered and overrated.
This is this is not Lebron James making the Lakers
do things. This is not Yes, did the Lakers draft
Bronnie James because they have Lebron? Absolutely because the Lakers
want headlines? Right, We know that if you can't win championships,
(05:26):
you have to go for headlines. Is why Jerry Jones
does what he does. It's why the Lakers do what
they do. It's what the Yankees do what they do.
You can't win titles, you go for headlines. So yeah,
here's a headline, right, headline, guys, all through the sea's
gonna be a whole big thing. Maybe Bronny is good,
he's a second round pick, who knows he's a second
round pick will probably stick with the team for the
entirety of the time. Lebron is there, But you got
to earn your minutes to play. There's no way he's
(05:48):
gonna start playing minutes where hey, wait a minute, Wow,
Austin Reeves only got eight minutes tonight and Bronni got sorry,
like that's not happening. That's not going to happen. So
with this is going, this is going fun. Did he
play an extra few minutes the other night? Sure, and
the Lakers you got to say, okay, we give him
a chance. Okay, maybe you're not ready for this. This
story is completely overcovered and overright. You can blame you
(06:09):
can blame the Lakers for a lot of things and say,
hey and Lebron and adi to, but not for this
because this story, really, the way it's being, the way
people are talking about it is irrelevant. He's not tearing
the Lakers apart at the seams. He's not causing controversy,
and all of a sudden, you know, Genie Buss and
Rich Paul are at odds all the time, and Rob
Polinka won't return phone calls.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Really, it's it's it's really, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Well, I mean, you can cut and cut and print
this take. It's the first time that anybody's talked about
basketball in a while, because there wasn't a football game
to break down, so it became a let's talk about
Briney James. Let's go through this, so you know, cut
and print it and send it out to the masses.
(06:52):
You know, there's other better stories the Sixers, and as
Frostburg pointed out, I get nothing for him, And what
did they estimated what is he's played fifty two of
the available minutes as.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
A member of the Sixers.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
That's kind of an interesting prospect that that's not a
one year sample size either for Brownie James and for
the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
There's a couple of things that go on with it.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
They just had a tremendous run of games, right, what
were they winners of five of six before that game
against Philadelphia, some weary legs trying to extend the bench.
Get him some minutes and see if he's ready for
the jump up in class. You don't know when that's
gonna happen at the G League. As you said, guys
are you know he was starting to play a little
(07:39):
more consistently on both ends of the court, so you
see if you can catch lightning in a bottle. Now,
Tyrese Maxey's not the guy that you're gonna go find
that against, right, one of your better players in the
game at that position, So that's gonna be difficult. But
all said is you found out, asked and answered right,
(08:00):
And the rest of the squad didn't exactly show up
prepared to play that game either, So suddenly singling him out,
Oh he's the worst travesty. He's the reason they lost, uh,
and then trying to, you know, make it the indictment
of all things wrong with the world.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
No, no, no, this is not what I'm asking Adam Silver about.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
We got fourteen points on the docket before we even
get to anything about drafting, nepotism and the like.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
So yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Enjoy it for what it is, or don't or doesn't
really it's just just shoulders and move on.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
There's it's over. The stories overcome.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's over because too many people talk about this like
it's such a big deal.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Is he got chance?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
You did?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It?
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Shows how the fickle people are you known? MVP Chance
on the road, man Saturday Night on the road. If
you start getting MVOD luck.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
In the garden, yeah, what's happening?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
If he has a big night, will and by a
big night, I mean you know, three points, I mean
that's probably that's probably a well.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
But like we joked about, guys, it's a thirty eight
point burial.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
So it's one of those things you're like, all right,
it's now the equivalent of the Bronx cheer.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Eh hey, look Bronni did something. Yeah, oh look at.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Bronny scoring against us. Now, look, I'm not saying.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
This isn't a story because Bronnie James playing with the
Lakers and lebron It is a story. It's just not
the story the way that I see it presented on
TV and and and and on other shows, where oh,
this is this is the worst thing in the world.
How do the Lakers allow this to that you can
do the decline and fall of the Lakers and leave
this out.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
What do we always say, Hey.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
You're a Hall of Famer if we can't tell the
story of your sport without you, right, you could tell
the story of the Lakers season and how they're doing
on the court without mentioning Bronnie James.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I'm sure you on the court, on the court without
mentioning Bronnie James, you can.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
This was instrumental to the foundation should have this squad
this year and negativity that really surrounded not only the
hiring of JJ Reddick, but the arrival of Bronnie James
to it. By the way, it's also for our friends
in the media that really want to wag their fingers
about this again. Next time the call comes from a
(10:18):
buddy saying Hey, you guys have an internship program, right,
you have to politely decline that call?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Jason?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
You still think I'm kidding, right, No, dude, here's the thing.
This story, this is a good story because it's fun.
It's it's interesting to see him play and see what
kind of player he is, to see how he evolves.
It's fun to see the dynamic. This is the story
to have fun with, right, this is the Hey, here's Bronnie,
here's Brian. Oh my god, can you believe this? His
(10:48):
dad's gotta be yelling at him after the game. But
what do you think he really wants to say when
he's asked questions following the game about Bronnie, Hey, give
me back more questions about us needing a center?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Right? Like?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
This is a fun story, right, and and and I
hope the kid succeeds because it would be great for
us and great for the NBA if Bronnie.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
James plays well. Right, but the way, because Lebron.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Is so polarizing, it's over the top hate for Bronni.
If this was another let's just say Jannis was forty
years old.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Right, let's go far.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Let's just say Yannis was forty years old. Or let's
just say Jokic was forty years old and all these
guys were playing with their kids, right, whoever was, Let's
say this is what they were.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Would there be.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
One tenth of the outrage that, oh, the Nuggets drafted
Jokic's kid, or the Bucks drafted Yannis's kid to come play,
they drafted Janis's brother. Hey, we got to keep everybody happy, Like,
would there be any of this hate that, oh, my goodness,
Jannis is calling the shots and Jokic is calling the shots.
There'd be no other even though all of it is true.
(11:49):
You think Joki is calling the shots in Denver, of
course he is. Is Yannis calling the shots in Milwaukee?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Of course he is?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
But because it's Lebron and he's got polarizing built in
since he walked into the NBA, the hate and the
attention of oh, Bronnie James succeeding, and everybody wants to
say how much he stinks all like, you know, how
over the top it is just because it's Lebron. That's
not fair to the kid, right, that's not fair to Bronnie,
you know obviously, yes, hey, he accepted.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
This, he came here, he's playing, But the overall.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Impact is just because of how people feel towards Lebron James.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Is why this story is going the way it is.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
There's nobody else in the NBA if their kid was playing,
would we spend one tenth of the time on this
and say that he shouldn't be in the league. And
I can't believe you kow taut to a star player
like we want to change the way we would talk
about this for any other player and make it different
just because it's Lebron and I see right through it.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
And really that's why I say this is an overcovered story.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
You can have fun with it and talk about, hey,
the dunk the way it should be and the way
we'll do it. The way we do stuff with Bronnie
is look at that dunk and the MVP chance and now,
of course he's got to be the MVP courts.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
He's got to get MVP votes over big Bodega.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Court's got to get him off with Shae Gilges, Alexander,
you gotta get these bucks, like that's how you do it.
But instead it's like it's the Decline and Fall of
Western Civilization Part two without all the heavy metal music
you like, so we're going to like.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
The grunge era, then you like that telephone sequel to that?
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Yeah, I mean there's a lot lots of things you
can spawn off of that.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
But you know, the.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Antenna compos you know, they got their run in the NBA.
Fanastas Had is uh what six years seven years with
the squad. He hasn't played this year, but I think
he's still around the team. He might just be security detail.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Yeah, but he never got MVP chance from the line.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
No, I don't, I don't know. Yeah. The only guy
that's really gotten this derision.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Uh, and it's not a player playing with this kid
is Doc Rivers with Austin Rivers for a couple of years,
because that was a brutal, brutal world, especially when he
first signed that bigger contract. I mean that you thought
something really unholy had been under there. But uh yeah,
(14:04):
for for this, it's look, it's great power, great responsibility,
and great derision. Columns to be written and clicks to
be had. And in this day and age, you find
your niche of folks that want to be like minded
with you in that regard, and uh, look, take take
(14:25):
that negative energy and if you want to go down
that rabbit hole.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Have at it for me. I'm celebrating the MVP chancel
really is everywhere we go, everywhere we go.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
If people want to see him.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
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Speaker 4 (17:48):
Jay, what's happening, Bud?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
How are you doing, madam? I'm a little I'm doing Okay.
Man had a pretty crazy last couple of days.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Okay, what happened?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So I'm going I'm at the NFC Championship camp, right,
I'm flying back. And when I'm flying back Fox He's like, oh,
when you land, you gotta go back to Philadelphia. You
gotta go through an aj Brown future. So I said,
They're like, you should have stayed. I'm like, well, I
gotta go see my wife. Man. I love my wife.
(18:20):
I gotta go see here. You know when I don't
when I'm not around her. You guys know, she's my
anti depressant. I get a little, you know, a little
bipolar crazy. So I'm like, I see here, I go home,
I go see you, I go back. I take a
red eye. Here's my day. I take a red eye.
I land, I go in there. I get a workout
with some of the guys in the facility, the Eagles.
(18:42):
Then the team chiropractor worked on me. Then I did
a sauna with Lane Johnson with a sauna workout, and
then me and during Malatta and Big Dom and Nick Sirianni,
we you know, kind of hung out a little bit.
Then I did the Super Bowl feat Sure with AJ.
Then I went back in and then a rabbi actually
(19:07):
came over and me and Howie Rose and a rabbi
we all prayed together in the in the team ding room.
I can't make it up. This is my window. How
he's been like doing it like each week, and you
can't mess with something that's that's working great, you know,
like you got to keep doing it. And it's like
a rabbi he was like, help, it's been like by this,
(19:29):
like father in law's bedside has been great, and you can't.
So I'm like, dude, I'm in, you know. So Yank
came down steel little prayer service, got back, got back
on the plane and UH flew home and then we
went home for about five hours and then went to
get an epidural this morning because I kind of ramped
(19:51):
up my training and I'm going back to Panama for
stem cells two weeks after UH eft the Super Bowl.
But I reharniated L one L two. Little little UH
epidural just kind of get me through, you know, new
Orleans and two Panama. So I get stem cells and
(20:11):
I know I'm getting the stem cells so I could
heal myself, but I keep hurting myself because I'm an idiot.
So anyway, guys, that's my Wednesday. What did you guys do?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
The only I've had COVID so there.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
The only thing listened from from you is is reading
a book with AJ Brown. That's the only thing.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I did you bring the book? He said? No? I said, Bro,
By the way, I wrote a book.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I wish you read my book.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
But what I here's the thing, Like, I love Aj
and I actually met Aj because of mental health. I
did like when he first got the team. Big dam
Security said, hey man, I wanted to meet AJ Brown.
AJ goes through the same stuff that you struggle with
that Lane Johnson struggles with and many just connected us
to Mink. I got you and literally on the field
(21:05):
before the game the other day, he and I go
up I see him. I said, hey man, I'm proud
of you. And he just got through some really hard times.
He's really really dark, tossed and he's been open about it.
I'm proud of you for it. And I said, bro,
we've got to use our pain to help others do theirs.
And I'm proud of you for this because a lot
(21:25):
of people don't do that. They hide it, like being
of service helps us through this. So literally we're on
the fifteen yard line and I'm grabbing him and we're like, bro,
I'm proud of you because you've bottled up for all
these years and now you're opening up your pain is
going to help others through THEIRS. I'm proud of you.
And that's what we got to do, and we help
each other. I'm like, that's it's a pretty cool thing.
(21:48):
It's a pretty cool connection. But you can connect with
dudes like this. We could use our platforms to help others.
And you know, for years I was wondering, like why
am I in this pain? Why have I been cursed
with depression and anxiety and bipolar at ADHD, And then
I realized, man, I would It's not a curse. This
It happens so I can help others with their journey.
(22:09):
Is is the way I've got to look at it.
You know, again, my paint is there so I can
help others is THEIRS, and I'm just proud, Like, HEYJ
has been vocal about it, you know, I go and
talk to teams about it now. And there's other guys.
There's a lot of guys I talked to on teams
about this stuff that won't do what AJ does. They're
just not comfortable. They're not there yet. That's fine, Like
(22:32):
it's look, there's no there is no hey, you should
do this, you should do that. There's no you know,
actual guidebook of Hey, if you have a depression, you
have to do this. No, we have a different, different battle.
There's guys like I've gotten to talk to teams. I'm
looking straight at guys who we talk constantly, and I
think they're gonna get up and tell the whole team. Yeah,
(22:52):
Jay and I talked about it. If they don't stand it,
and that's great, no problem, right. And there's other guys like, hey, guys,
yeah I started opening up. We start talking about it.
It's our own journey. Everybody's journeys is their journey. All
our problems weigh the same, you know. And the biggest
thing too, for like a lot of us. Man, I
really thought, for me, I thought if I got rich
(23:18):
and famous, I wouldn't be in pain anymore. And it
was a hard day when I realized, Damn, my wallet
is not an antidepressidant. Damn. I thought this would do
the rainbows and unicorns. This sucks, Like, why am I
still freaking miserable? Why ale I so tortured still? Why
do I still feel like a piece of garbage? Why
(23:39):
do I still feel unworthy of being in love? Like? How?
And I was actually on when I had it. I
had this conversation with myself during an episode of Falcking
Up on Sunday while I'm in the football field talking
to America. I'm having this conversation with myself.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah, it was one of the most powerful things. And
I was like, and it was, it was, it was hard,
But now I was like, now I really need other helps.
And that's when I really started to like go on
his journey and then start opening up and start talking.
And thank god I did, because there is a lot
of dark a lot of darkness. And my whole thing
with AJ was like, man, you went through a dark tunnel,
(24:22):
Like my whole thing unbreakable, all of us we go
through that dark tunnel. Do you come through the other
side of that tunnel? Means it didn't break you. So
whatever didn't break you, it couldn't break you makes you
stronger forever. That's what being unbreakable is. Unbreakable is not
being rich and famous and strong and powerful, have a title.
It's your scars. It's all the things that could have broken,
(24:42):
shouldn't and didn't. As a result, you came to the
other side of the tunnel strong forever. And I'm like, AJ,
because you did not let that tunnel cave in on you,
and you get to walk out the ultimate tunnel next Sunday,
there's a pretty cool moment for us.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Wow, Jake Lazer whether us here, Jason Smith, Mike Harman
lives from the tirect dot com studios. I can't wait
to see that interview. Was that gonna run what the
morning of the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Is that what it's gonna run?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, Super super Bowl pregame show. It's well, this is
all just conversations about the feature. Is gonna be something
kind of like that? But it's but it's also just
just my thoughts I'm saying on AJ, he's just he's
a special dude, Like I think he's misunderstood. It's funny
when when I'm in there also, I'm like, hey, I'm
doing this feature on AJ. So I'm talking, like I
(25:28):
told you, I'm talking to everybody in the team. I'm like, hey,
to me stuff, I should ask him, Well, tell me
something I don't know about him. Every single dude I
asked about AJ, give me something that I don't know
about Ajo. Everyone said, this dude loves football more than
ever been on our team. He's so misunderstood, like he
just what datches. Football is just it's just think He's
(25:51):
just it's his thing. He loves it, and it gets misconstrued,
whether it's a frustration here or there. If not, it's
not always not getting the ball, He's not. He just
loves football and he beats up on himself. It's in
every series thing we talked about. He said, Every series,
I'm like, man, what did I not do there? What
(26:13):
did I not do here? Almost like I think I
said in the interview, each series, it's like you're taking
a stool in between rounds of a fight and you're
trying to let Okay, what do I do wrong in
that round? What could have if I've done better? Why
did I do better for this next round? He goes, Yes,
every series, I sit down, he goes, That's why I
read that book. I sit down and I try and
(26:34):
get myself. Man, let's heal, Let's do better. How do
I do better on this next series? He gets that
deep and that's something he's misunderstood. People don't understand it.
Like he six inches between your between your ears, most
powerful weapon in the world. They could take you down
the worst rabbit hole ever, or they could walk you
through the most incredible tunnel like on Sundays.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Tell me you kind of deal with him at the
end and if they win the game, he holds your
book up when he's on the sidelight.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
How to do that?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I said, did you have that book? And I'm sitting
He he didn't bring the book with him. I said,
why did I not bring my book with me? What
kind of promoter on my damn? But I did ask.
I did ask them. I said, dude, I said hey,
And again we got linked up because I was talking
about because I've helped Lane Johnson a lot with his
(27:26):
mental health issues. Lane is, oh me a lot with
my mental health issues. And actually, guys, like this is
like real talk, Like I landed. I'm like out of
my mind, guys, I'm like I land in LA I
see my wife. I repack. I fly back him on
two hours of sleep in two days. The roommates of
my head are killing me. And I get to work out.
(27:47):
I'm trying to do my thing. I'm trying to do
my breathwork of meditation. I get in the sauna with
Lane and I just like, dude, I'm not in a
good place. I think about that, like you could never
We were never done this years ago, but that was
my thing. Like as much as I have helped Lane,
Lane has helped me. Like I went in there, I'm like, dude,
I'm not good right now. He's like, what's up? And
(28:08):
I'm sitting so with Lane's often talking mental health, like dude,
I'm just I'm just out of my mind right now.
Like I'm just, you know, I'm not I haven't had
my rituals that I need to keep me Shane and
keep me from beating up with myself and keep me
from going dark. And and we literally talked it out
in twenty twenty five minutes in the sauna and you know,
got a little laughs in which I need. Also talked
(28:31):
me through it a little bit and kind of got
me good for the interview. So we talked I did
that I had that relationship with Lane and some others
on the team. It's been more of the Lane. But again,
Lane's talking about open least I'll say people who haven't,
I'm not going to. So that's how A J and
I originally got linked up. And I did say him
and I wanted to read the book because my book,
(28:53):
I'm Breakable. It's it's it's it gives it work from
somebody like me. It's not. I'm not a therape I'm
not a doctor, not a teacher. I'm not a priest
or clergy. You rab right, I'm just a dude who's
clearly messed up. But it's good with his messed upness.
And I know how to talk about it. If you
give it words, then we know how to talk about
(29:14):
it with others. And you could sit there like, man,
you got two bad sobs. Me and Lane Johnson sitting
in the sauna, and I'm talking about struggling. He's talking
about struggling like obviously there's no shame in that, right,
No one's gonna question his manhood. That the quest of
my manage. You may say, why you guys sitting in
the sauna talking about this, but right, process, Yeah, but
(29:39):
you know what I mean, Like, it's we're changing the narrative.
Like guys like AJ Brown, guys like Lane Johnson, guys
like me, we're changing the freaking narrative. Well because we're not.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
We're not the.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
We're not the Sporting cast anymore. Right, We're it's everywhere.
It's not just we're not in the shadows anymore. Everybody's
going through something and we're giving it words. So I'm
proud of AJ for open up. I'm proud of It's
the biggest stage in the world. Fox is super Bowl
here and he agreed, Yeah, I'll talk about my mental stuff.
(30:13):
I'm proud of. I'm really proubab Lane.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Johnson, A J.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Brown and and and you sum it up, You're big
week or just the last couple of days. On Unbreakable
of Mental Wealth podcast, you had Dustin Rhodes on. You
had Wrestling Royalty Odd with you this week.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Yeah, that's pretty cool man. Wow, you want to fuck
you guys. Gotta go watch that thing, Hutsy. You gotta
listen to. That's incredible because he talked about right, He's like, hey,
I fought the devil and I won, and it was like,
whoa he he was so real and wrong again. Yeah,
like obviously, Dusty Rhodes, his dad is incredible, Coddy Roads
Brothers star. He's a star. You know, he was gold Dust.
(30:50):
He's a legend. He's a Hall of Famer and he's unbelievable.
But he was. What he's doing now is just incredible.
But the cool thing too, I didn't know. He's like, Hey,
the WW is the one. They have a great program
for guys who are struggling. They got me on a
plane to reap. Like you call them, they get you.
They take care of their people. I was like, wow,
(31:11):
I love to hear that. But he was just, dude,
this is two dudes. Like I'm talking right now. Lane
and AJ and I were talking Sam with me and Dustin. Man,
we were just talking up and we didn't know each other,
but we never met, but we knew each other if
I could, if that makes sense, we understood each other.
This is what I should say.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
You want more on this Jay's Twitter page at Jay
Glazer It's right up there the link. Unbreakable, a mental
health podcast, Dustin Rhodes talks about at one point in
his life he was taking up to forty pills a day.
Phenomenal stuff there again. The link is right there at
Jay Glaser on Twitter where you get your podcasts from Unbreakable,
a mental health podcast. Well, Jay, take a break, chill out,
(31:55):
go to bed man, get you the rest now, my
friend hex.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Sale out of my mind right now.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Will be good.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Keep fighting the good fight.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Man.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Have fun, save travels. Brother.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Oh, great stuff. Wow Glazer, Wow, just about it. Just
his journey and AJ Brown's. I can't wait to see
that interview. Now I'll talk about mental health stuff. It's
the super Bowl. I'll do it. Just great, great stuff
as always from Jay again. Hit him up on his
Twitter page. You see it right there at Jay Glazer
for links to all the things he is doing. Right now,
let's link up with Monty Blago. She's got what's trending
(32:29):
in the wide world of sports, which I will hopefully
will include Moncey, the fact that you cursed the Utah
hockey team last night. Who had Hey, we got the
three finalists for the names, and you're saying, whatsatch?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
What's whatsatch?
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Wats I don't know what?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And all of a sudden they said today, Okay, wasatch
is out Yes, that's not one of the finalists anymore.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
We're replacing Wassatch, yes.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
With Outlaws with Outlaws, so it's now Utah Outlaws, Utah Mammoth,
or Utah Hockey Club.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
I mean, we all were nobody when I said that.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
Everyone was like, what is that?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah? What?
Speaker 8 (33:00):
It did not work?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
So I'm glad they actually listened.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
To the show. Obviously they were listening because that's where
they got that from. Yes, No, we only have great
ideas here at Fox Sports Radio always exactly. Let's check
in on the NBA. Only five games tonight. Usually we
have a full slate of games, just five three currently
going on. Timberwolves have extended their leader for the Jazz
eighty five sixty six late in the third quarter Anthony
(33:24):
Edwards twenty four points, six rebounds, nine assists. At halftime,
the Rockets are beating the Grizzlies sixty six to fifty six,
and after the first quarter the Magic are on top
of the Trailblazers thirty five to twenty eight. Palo Bancaro
eight points for Orlando so far. The Lakers handed the
Wizards their sixteenth loss of this season, one thirty four
to ninety six. Was the final score. Wizards have won
(33:46):
six games, guys, six, Like, I think you have to
try to lose that many.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Well, what number is greater the number of points Browny
has scored this year or wins for the Wizards.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
It's very close, still close, And that's.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
What said MVP candidate.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
I'm sorry, the chance that's right in Washington, right right.
The Cavaliers roll rolled past the Hawks won thirty seven
to one. Fifteen. The Hawks that beat the Cavaliers back
to back games in November. The Caps have only lost
nine games, so they salvaged the final game between these two.
Darius Garland twenty six points and seven assists. We did
have the NBA All Star reserves announced, and yes, Norman
(34:27):
Powell was snubbed, but anyway out of the Western Conference
Anthony Edwards, Anthony Davis, James Harden, Jaron Jackson, Junior Alprin Shoon,
Jalen Williams, and Victor I Banyama. Out of the Eastern Conference,
Jalen Brown, Pascal Siakam, Darius Garland, Cad Cunningham, Evan Mobley,
Damian Lillard, and Tyler hero In men's college hoops number eighteen,
Illinois has come back Nebraska is still on top sixty
(34:50):
eight sixty seven, ninety seconds to go, and you can
gatge all the action on FS one with about ten
minutes to go. Number nineteen, Memphis is on top of
Tulane forty eight to forty six. Lastly, here in the NFL,
Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker's denying allegations that he exhibited
inappropriate sexual behavior with multiple massage therapists from twenty twelve
to twenty sixteen, and the league says that the number
(35:12):
of concussions in the twenty twenty four regular season were
the lowest since the league started tracking the data back
in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 7 (35:20):
Back to you guys right.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Now, I want to ask you real quick, Jess, what numb?
Because I have the answer? H huh?
Speaker 6 (35:25):
What number is harmon?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Don't look it up? Okay, does Bronnie James.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Have more points scored? Or do the Wizards have more wins?
What number is greater?
Speaker 8 (35:35):
Bronnie James has eleven points?
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Okay, that's where what do you say?
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Oh, I was taking Bronnie. You're taking an MVP candidate, Jason.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
This disrespect will not stand with his five points tonight
Bronni has passed the Wizards.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
He has nine points this season. The Wizards have six wins.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
What a hater? Hater asked this question like that, did.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
You not hear the crowd? The eruption was.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
Jason wat mute because he's hate watching it.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
You said nine points, so the Jazz.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
So the Jazz have more wins than Bonnie has points.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Yes, but that's for long. He passed the Wizard. He
passed the Wizards tonight he.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Pattens back in the Wizards.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Do you have to go and sign autographs for all
the people that chan at MVP or give him a
dollar or something?
Speaker 6 (36:29):
A dollar, here's the thank you for the chant, thank
you for the chat. Thank here's a dollar.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
He's got a money guy walking around with singles and
so like he's got the little cards, like he's on
the Vegas Strip.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Here's your dollar. Exit out out of Fresca exit swallen dope.
Jason Smith, Mark Harmon, Hey, we have the hottest NBA
topic of the night coming up next right here, Jason
and Mike.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
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Speaker 1 (37:02):
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Speaker 4 (37:33):
Eleven Pacific time. Now, today was a big day.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
We found out the rest of the All Stars for
NBA All Star Weekend. Wenby makes it congratulations, Anthony Edwards
makes it. James Harden, who I thought had made his
last All Star team. You know, Jalen Brown, you had
a lot of big names. You also had a lot
of snubs and a couple of snubs. I'm really stunned
at you. Look at guys like LaMelo Ball, who gets snubbed,
(38:00):
A young get snubbed, Cyrus Max. He gets snubbed, Zach Levine,
Devin Booker, de Monte Sabonis gets snubbed. Look, I can't
understand how you snub LaMelo Ball because the guy got
more votes than anybody, right, he was the biggest vote
getter for guards of anybody and having a great year,
and yet really you can't.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Find a place. So I think clearly people want to
see LaMelo Ball an All.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Star Game because that's kind of where his game is
gonna look phenomenal. Right, he's gonna look, he's got all
the all this. He's just gonna play street ball in
the passes. He'll take shots in half court like he
did in high school. Like, I don't know how you
do that.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
Does his brother get to come with him and sing?
Speaker 5 (38:34):
Yes, that's the halftime entertainment? Is Is that what they pitched?
That that had to happen and that's why he gets snubbed.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Jello does this, Jello does a song, him and Lonzo
come in and then they play the rest of the game.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
That's how it came.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
We saw Jello's thing during the Lions run didn't work.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
But uh, I can tell you this, Mike car because
you don't know this.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
I could tell you exactly why all of these players
got snubbed.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Ooh, all of these players got snubbed.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Whether they're all.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Filling in at the uh the Pro Bowl stuff, No, no, no, no, whether,
no matter who you want to say, who are the
big snubs?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
It was if it's LaMelo or Maxi or Levine or
Sabonis I, they all have.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
The same thing in common.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Right, Oh, okay, they all have the thing, and it's
just one thing. It's just one thing they all have
in common.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
That's it. There's not that's it.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
I don't need to tell you a whole bunch of
things where well maybe in this category maybe here maybe No, no, no, no,
just one thing they all it's just one thing.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Ask me what that one thing is?
Speaker 6 (39:36):
What is that one thing? That's not what it is?
Speaker 4 (39:40):
That is just one thing, just one thing.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Their teams stink. That's what. I can't give anything else
other than all of these players that people really want
to see. Their teams all stink, right, The Hawk stink,
the Sixers stink, the King stink. They all stink. The
Sons are terrible, the bull stink. Every they all stink, right,
these are all players, and I'd love to see play.
I'd love to see a couple of these guys more
(40:04):
than I want to see Pascal Siaka and O by
the way, you know, he makes it okay, but still
all of these I mean, I don't know what else
to say other than all of these teams are bad
and so that that went against them when when in
the selection process, somehow I don't because they just they
just are all bad. But that's it. But we don't
care about that. That's what That's why I don't That's
why I'm not down with this. I don't like it
because I don't care if a team is bad. You
(40:26):
have great players play on bad teams all the time.
Steph Curry's on a bad team. We gotta see stuff
right like this is this is kind of ridiculous that
you have a lot of showmen that people want to
see in the All.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Star Game and we're not seeing them.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
Well, in the end, you have to just expand rosters
to forty five slots.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
It'll be just fine.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
And then and then.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Yeah, and each gets to run out for ten minutes
like Adam Silver wants to.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
You just bring that to the All Star Game.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:53):
Sorry. Also, you get to play the fourth quarter. Oh
I get ten minutes. It's only forty minute.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Yeah, we're only playing. We're only playing forty minutes in
the All Star Game. That's all we got for it.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I mean really, it just because their teams stink, these guys.
I'd rather see Trey Young than Pascal Siakaman, I'd rather
see LaMelo Ball than I mean really, I really just
because their teams are bad.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
We're not gonna take you, not gonna take you. Yeah, welcome,
Welcome to All Star.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
Hell, that's a look.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Adam Silver will put more time tending to fixing this
nonsense than his actual game.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Coming up next, we got a big story out of
the NFL. Would you rather have a Super Bowl or
an MVP
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