March 7, 2025 • 40 mins
Join the Knicks vs Lakers celebration. Charles Barkley hasn’t even started at ESPN and he already wants all the smoke with Kendrick Perkins. Jason doesn’t get why Jeanie Buss decided to sideswipe Anthony Davis. And a BIG Bold Shedeur Sanders Draft take!
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
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Speaker 3 (00:59):
Well, here we are night, minutes away from the Knicks
and the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Let's get it on. Justin Frossburg is either going to
be drunk literally, or he's gonna go home at halftime
when Big Bodega's got forty and twenty one of these
things is going to happen tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Did you have Alex q up the sad walk away
music from the end of The Incredible Home?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But I'm looking lebron looks like he's moving kind of
gingerly and warm ups. Man, I don't know. I don't know.
That smile is not quite as big as it will
oh little bit. Yeah, well, I don't Frostburg got what's
going on? Man, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Maybe he's a smoked tuca and had a beard before
the game. He forgot to paint his hair back though. Yeah,
but look look how look out? Look how focus? Jalen
Bruntson is ready hitting his jumpers from out again.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
We didn't see that that actually went in though, Nicks,
it doesn't matter drops thirty on you.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
He doesn't miss.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
If Bronny drops thirty, really would be a momentous night.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Look, Lucas already breathing heavy and warm ups. Look at
he's really he was, he was just breathing heavy in
the layup line. I'm feeling good right now. I'm feeling
good right now. Enjoy your last five minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I mean, there's Brownie in the layup line he's look
at him, Yeah, the steely confidence, the eyes staring straight
ahead like let's go.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
They ready, ready to trip a couple of guards in
front of him so you can get some minutes. Hey,
if it happens, it happens. Look at mcal Bridges missing jumpers,
jumper after jumper. Why did you assume Brunson and he's
missing every shot he's I'm just going by how I
think things are gonna go.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Is it because he's wearing that discount warm up shirt
or what?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Hits every shot pregame? He hits everything during the game too.
Would you stop with that built a brick house? Would you?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Oh my god, you know you don't even you don't
even argue in real at least I argue in reality
with you. Really with the Knicks and the Lakers, you
know you basically if people just if no one knew
anything about basketball and just listen to the team and
they listen to you talk about the Knicks, they would say,
how did the Knicks are?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
They would go, what are they? Like? Nine in nine
and fifty?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Like was just turning out sandwiches on the lapline?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
No, No, I do have a big question there though,
for you know big Bodega.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
What was that? Was that a trophy on their their
warm up suit?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Are they trying to speaking into existence because otherwise there
should be a picture of Phil.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Jackson Old Trophy ninety three. No, it's a it's a
I think it's a new thing.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's like the the the is T two is what
is the one one game in season tournament two for
the trophies? Or was that a QR coach so you
can just scan your item as you walk up to him.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I really watching the pregame on TNT, all the big
slow mo shots. Yeah, Lebron like ex haling, and Bodega
with a big bodego with a high five, like this
is the finals. It's like, it's the Finals. We're ready
Game one of the Finals. Next Lakers from Crypto dot
com arena. Yeah, that's next. Yeah, we got no shots
of Reddick and Thibodeau.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Those guys should be out front and center like their
WWE manager.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, why don't we get some of them? Nobody cares
about the Come on, I care, Come on, Reddick, h
you it's it's good for business. Bron and Luca and
Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns and nobody cares about it
doesn't matter. Yes, yes, JJ Reddick hates me. I understand this.
I understand it's.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Really fueled the Lakers, his hate, his admitted hatred of
me from his press conference that diet that that that
corresponds absolutely to when the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Just started taking off. Absolutely, So, I mean, the Lakers
win the title this year, like I get a ring.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well, you also igniting that feud was what somehow planted
the nefarious seed, as they would say, in the back
of Nico Harrison's mind, to make that trade.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Maybe you said it all in motion.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Maybe we can do it instead of a crystal ball,
like the open says. You might have been sitting here
with I don't know, some other thing of dark arts.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You said that, like Nojo Hank and about and crystal ball,
crystal ball, crystal ball, crystal ball, the big statue of
crystal ball at the end. So we are minutes away
from the NIXT the Lakers, so great, all right, game
of the night. Obviously you see this. You can't fake
enthusiasm about stuff, right, I mean, we don't make the
rules in sports, we don't. We just simply know that. Okay,
(05:12):
we get what a big game is because it's just
organically something you know. You know when a game is huge,
you know when teams are popular. It's hard to make
stuff happen in sport. You can try, but you can't
make stuff happen to wit. Let's bring you this from
Charles Barkley pregame going into Nix and the Lakers. Okay,
(05:32):
this is from tonight, and this is entertaining on so
many levels. So here it is Nbat and t getting
ready for the game. Here, you know they're coming off
the Celtics win tonight's second game. Pritchard did not have
forty tonight, so okay. So here's Barkley coming off and
he's talking about how other networks ESPN where the whole
show is moving to in a year. Yet not really
(05:54):
happy with how ESPN breaks down basketball, and Barkley is
not shy with letting everybody know this is how he feels.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
I saw a food idiot on TV talking about the Lakers,
save the NBA, save them. Yeah, yeah, he's an idiot
in the food but he know he is what's his name, Shack,
which when you're talking about Kendrick Perkins, he said the
Lakers first of all, the Lakers have had a great
two weeks, he said, the Lakers save the NBA season.
That's because them foods on the other network, which we're
(06:25):
gonna be working for next year. That's all they talk about.
Let me tell y'all something. First of all, I want
all the smoke. What's so when I walked by the
grid yard or anything like that, by the great like
that man still in that one. The Lakers are doing great,
got a long way to go. But the reason the
(06:45):
season has been going great for the Cleveland Cavaliers and
the Oklahoma City Thunder, y'all just want to talk about
the Warriors and the Lakers. They're both doing great. Don't
get me wrong. If I turn out to be wrong,
I got no problem with that. But y'all idiots, because
y'all talk about the Lakers and the Wars all the time.
Y'all know the Cleveland Cavalier of the one twelve straight games,
(07:08):
so Oklahoma said have got the MVP and they all
own fire. Y'all talk about who's in second place. That's
the reason I get pissed. Hey, the Lakers are doing greed.
I don't mind being wrong. The Warks are doing greed.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But all right, enough of this. Okay, here's the thing.
Here's the thing. This is just a takeaway, right. First
of all, you have the inside baseball of Wow, he's
ripping ESPN and they're all going to work for ESPN soon.
So the ESPN's like, wow, we let a bunch of
people into work here that really don't like this company.
What are we doing? But the acknowledge is that they're
coming to take over the place. But the main thing
(07:46):
is that Charles Barkley's been in television for thirty years, right,
and he still has no idea how television works. Like
I mean real, I mean honestly. Does he really sit
here and say, hey, the Cavaliers are a more popular
story than the Lakers and Lucas donc of course not.
Does he really think that that the Oklahoma City Thunder
moved the needle more than the Knicks to of course not.
(08:07):
I don't make the rules. None of us make the rules, right,
And if the Thunders start winning championships and SGA wins
the MVP and they become they'll become a big deal.
But it's pretty easy to understand that stars and star
teams push sports, and the star teams always have more
interesting conversation about them. It's the old adage of how
(08:28):
you know a team, the worth of a team in
that how people respond to when you talk about them.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I remember having Rob Nyer on the show and MLB
inside me a long time. Right, great dude, Right was
on my show all the time on ESPN, and I
remember talking to him one night and we were talking
about some crazy story with the Yankees that I thought
was a little overblown. This is like fifteen years I
forget what the story was. And I said, I can't
believe it's getting that much attention, because really I think
this is a little bit too much. And he says, well,
I gotta tell you. You know, I had to write
(08:57):
something about that for ESPN this week. They ask me,
can you write something about the Yankees this week? And
I really wanted to write something about the Royals I
think it was, and he said, well, do both. He goes,
and I knew. I said, Okay, I'm going to do both,
and I'm gonna write this piece on the Royals where
I've done interviews and I've talked to they all saying
really interesting stuff. It's direction of the team and all
this and I'm going to write whatever they want me
(09:17):
to write about the Yankees, and it's gonna get a
hundred times more attention. And it's you know, it sucks,
but that's the way it goes, right. You can you
cannot like it. You can. I don't like that, but
you can't. There's no way you can. You can try
to cut in any way, shape or form that. Teams
like the Knicks and the Lakers and the Yankees and
the Steelers and the Cowboys, they're more part when you
(09:37):
talk about them. That's something that coast to coast people
care about, right, That's something that that coast to coast
people say, Yeah, I care.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Whether I love the Yankees or hate the Yankees. I
love the Knicks, I hate the Knicks. I love the Lakers,
I hate the Lakers. They're big deal. They stir the conversation.
The Cavaliers are a really good story, right, and the
thunder really goods that we've talked about them. But if
there's a game where Luca Doncicch goes for fifty, guess
what are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The caw No television and the media. This is how
it works.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
More the more popular something is, the more you talk
about it, the more people want to watch. If your
show is good, if your show is popular, people are
gonna watch it. If your show doesn't talk about stuff
that people want to hear talk about it, they're gonna
find something else.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Like, again, Barkley's been in TV for thirty years, and
it's like he has no idea how TV works. I
want to stand up and talk about the Cavaliers and
the thunder. Yeah, they're all really good. Like, I don't
know if he's trying to curry favor or win some
type of thing. I'm standing up for the little guy.
But I mean, really, you look like you don't know
anything about television. You've been doing it for thirty years. Yeah,
I think it's I think I'm in the exact opposite camp.
(10:39):
I think Charles Barkley knows exactly what he's doing. Have
we mentioned Charles Barkley's name since he said he saved
everybody and talked about all the job.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
No, we haven't said a damn thing about him. Because
unless he says something outrageous or attacks Lebron.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Or or you know, Luca goes in a you.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Know, a out of shape or whatever, this guy is
nobody can like we love the show in the moment,
it doesn't translate.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So what do you do? You pick a fight?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I want it on this? So how are you gonna
get my name circulating?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
He's doing what he is accusing ESPN and everybody else of, Oh,
why you always talk about the Lakers? Okay? If you
just came on and talked about the Cavaliers, right, you
just get because what you want to do. What you're
saying is why aren't we talking about the cavaliers on thunder?
Hey talk about him more? Just talk about him? But
what does he do? No, I'm gonna call a guy
an idiot and I'm gonna say his name, and I'm
(11:34):
gonna say, why do you talk about the Lakers? And
I'm doing exactly what I'm saying. I don't like right,
So again, so on on both on both avenues of
this Barkley, I don't know what he looks. He looks
both ways. I feel like, is he just lost? Is
he just lost for stuff to say? Is he lost?
And what it means to work and tell him? Like, really,
I don't get what his what his whole point is
(11:56):
other than hey, here's some attention that I'm gonna get.
And here's what I don't think somebody should get when
you really understand that, Hey, the Lakers and the Knicks
push things right, I guarantee you if he's in that
rundown meeting of TNT, all right, what are we gonna
talk about here? We got Lakers, I want to talk
about the thunder and the Cavs the producer, and they're
gonna say, okay, b blog, let's talk about that sea
(12:17):
block that for thirty seconds and then we'll have a
nice four minute discussion about the Knicks and the Lakers.
I mean that that's where your own network is telling
He's gonna tell you no, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
But I think for him, it was an opportunity to
have people talk about Charles. So we played at Charles clip. Congratulations,
put it in the bank. He'll be on with Dan
in the morning right to talk about this beef with
Kendrick Perkins. Kendrick Perkins immediately took to Twitter and he
was talking about, Hey, I'm from the four.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Oh nine Beaumont, Texas as it were, he can.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Go playing with me if you want. I'm gonna address
his ass like the numbers on a house. It's pretty
good line, pretty good line. I don't know, whistling through
the graveyard versus that pretty good responses. But I would
say he knows exactly what he's doing. We're actually talking
about Charles Berkley.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Good job by him. I mean, look I feel.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And then they get to go in the locker room
together next year cause we're moving there.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, we're ready. You're gonna rumble, good lie squad.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I mean, it's like Angerman, it's gonna you's Ernie Johnson
lean and paray it there and then you got the
ESPN crew. It'll be ESPN Steel Cage Show. That's gonna
be h Hey.
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it in, erupt it up. Off there we go. We're
good Luca Dot. Okay, so we're four minutes into the game,
Luca Dots are already down. He hits a three and
the Jordan shrug. The Lakers lead the Knicks fourteen to seven. Yes,
it's over. It's over. It's fourteen second You don't think
he needs a headmade. Laker's up by a touchdown. So again,
(14:03):
we'll have more on this story throughout the night. Obviously,
Nick Lakers is the biggest story of the night, no
matter what Charles Barkley thinks. But we got some big stuff.
Speaking of the NBA, how about a brand new angle
on the Luca ad trade that just came up today.
Brand new that came up today. It's coming up next
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Speaker 3 (15:52):
Really good job by ty shit here to bring some
music in that levels it off because you and Frostburg.
I was getting my phone out, like you guys are
gonna come to blow. I'm like, oh, that's soill.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Go viral.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
And now maybe we can get that heart rate to
slow down a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
No, no, let's here is this Nick's Lakers? Thanks and
I will.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
But I was just trying to celebrate a very important
anniversary today.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
It is very important. Go ahead, go ahead. What are
you celebrating right now? Michael ahead? No, No, it's all you.
Buddy's March sixth, nineteen ninety six nights And.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Where were you March six nineteen ninety six, oh, ninety eight,
ninety eight, that's.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Two years later. I was here. I was in Los Angeles.
I was working at Fox. Chi gets on a bus, child.
I was working at Fox as a producer at when
it was Fox Sports Net before it was rebranded as
Fox Sports one in Fox Sports two years later. Well,
you were doing all of that.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Yeah, most of the cool people were at the movie
seeing The Big Lebowski for.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
The first time. Oh oh that was tonight, that's today. Wow, Okay,
I did not know that. I know that, did not
know that. I'm the dude.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Oh I wanted to screening of it with the dude
showing up telling stories and asking questions.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Next month sometime. I remember not going to see it
until it was out for a couple of weeks, like
it wasn't one of those movies that, oh, big Lebowski,
we gotta go see it, like it's what it was
when you see it, go, oh that looks weird. It's
one of it was. It was one of those I'll
wait and see what people say about it, and they
go and then all in this, you know, this is
how word of mouth is the greatest thing for movies ever,
no matter what kind of money you want to put
(17:31):
into any sort of advertising campaign. But when word of
mouth a movie is good, and enough people that go
see a movie tell you how good it was, you
go see that movie. So I gotta go do it.
I gotta go do it. And I remember a lot
of our friends talking, oh, Big Lebowski was so funny.
It was I can't even describe what it was about,
but John Goodman was so funny, and Steve Bishamy was
(17:52):
so funny, and oh my god, it was so funny.
Like okay, and after a couple it's like, okay, let's
go see it and he was like, oh my god,
I remember I started laughing. The first big laugh out
loud when I knew it was gonna be that great
was when he goes to see Juliet More for the
first time and he's just standing there and he's looking
at the artwork and she comes flying in from above
and dropping dropping the paint. Jeff Bridge's reaction that seed
(18:17):
is so great. He's like, what the heck Jesus comes
flying in on a pulley.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Here.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
She wasn't wearing any clothes either, No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
She wasn't.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
You left out a very important detail that probably helped
Jeff Bridge's reaction.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Well, yeah, sure, sure there was that.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I don't know when rehearsal that they necessarily did the
undress for her.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Watch this, Watch how we get him go? We're gonna
go go? All right.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
So here's the top ten films from March of nineteen
ninety eight. Oh wow, Okay, Lebowski's one right, it's nine,
number one, Titanic, number two, that movie that was out
for over a year, Almost Titanic. It's still going at
number two. US Marshals No Wesley Snipes.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah. Robert Downey Junior is a bad Guy JA Sorry spoiler.
Number three The Man in the Iron Mask.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I saw that once and I can barely Number four,
Goodwill Hunting Sure. Number five The Wedding Singer, overrated, movie overrated.
I thought it was gonna be hysterical, like, oh this
is this is a fastball down the middle for Adam Sandler,
and I thought, I said, I thought it could have
been better. Hey, Steve Buscemi, Julia Guliat. Number six, this one,
(19:26):
really it will surprise you. Primary colors, Oh, John Travolta.
Travolta and m My Tom say.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, yeah. That was when he was playing like the
click Clint okay, all right. Number seven as good as
it gets. Oh, I love the good it gets. That
was number eight. She's in the news.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
She's a top ten television show right now streaming Miley Cyrus,
Denise Richards. Wild Things, Oh yeah, I liked Wild Things good.
Number nine Lebowski, and number ten was Twilight.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Just think about that for a second. You just named
like seven or eight movies.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
One month too early for tw Like how good that
one doesn't make? You can literally go and watch seven
amazing movies. You know that doesn't happen. It's a different Twilight. Yeah,
it couldn't have been the same with Too.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
No, this was.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Twilight, some kind.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Of sand Oh yeah, oh okay, all right, I don't
remember that I seen it, but I don't remember six.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Movies that you would consider classics that were all out
at the same time. Yeah, probably sneak into at least
three of them after you bought. Oh, can I tell
you that the one of the biggest. Okay, I'll pull
the curtain back of this, and she's not listening, I
can say this.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
One of the things that always would start arguments with
Pam and I is that she loved trying to sneak
into movies.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
She was I always did. I go, yeah, no, I
don't like this. Come on, let's do it. Come on,
come on, I go no, I don't want to Why
we could just go right here? We paid money, it's
let's go.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
I go no.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
She always liked doing You paid for a movie and
you didn't pay for that movie. She always liked doing it.
And this is before we met. She goes, come on,
come on, I'm like, no, I really don't want to
do it. I really don't want to do I want
to do it. And years like she would chip, come ons,
we can go right and here I'm like, no, no,
I'm not doing it. And then finally when she stopped
doing it is when I got when I got on
the radio like this, I'm thirty. She still wants to
(21:09):
do it and and she said, come on, let's sneak in.
And I said no, and she can Why I said,
I got you. I said, because I'm not gonna get
caught and have the headline it on the internet. Radio
hosts caught sneaking into movie. National radio host caught sneaking
into movie and she was like, all right, fine.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Well, shame shame the company to pay you a little
more money. I couldn't afford the movie I got.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I were there. I really wanted to go. I had
to go see it for I SMA for the show.
I mean for the show. This is back when movies
are like five dollars, like during the days, five dollars
an event. It's a night out. Don't work, don't right now.
Lakers on top of the next twenty five to nineteen.
Late in the first quarter, Karl Anthony Towns has been
on the bench with two foulsands. Very early in this game,
(21:53):
I think Scott Foster and Dick Bavetta are calling, are
doing this game right now. But good Dick were a
brand new angle to the Luca a d trade that
came out today. Right, hey, we're still we're still talking
about this. It's still the biggest thing. Luca and the
Lakers is going to continue to be the biggest thing
in the NBA the rest of the year. Sorry, Charles Barkley.
(22:14):
It's gonna be a big deal. And it comes to
us courtesy of Lakers on her Genie Buss, who on
a podcast today just decided to say, this is why
we traded Anthony Davis. Ad wasn't happy. He wasn't happy
with the position he was playing, right, pretty vocal, even
a vocal about that. We had lost the Nuggets three
(22:36):
straight times in the playoffs and he was unhappy, and
he said we needed to get a center. So we
knew he wasn't happy. So that's why we made the trade.
He wasn't happy here, he wasn't happy playing the position
he was, So we made the trade. And when I
saw that come out, I said to myself, why the
hell is she doing this? Right? Like, you've won this trade.
(22:59):
You get nothing but flowers, You get a Laurel and
hardy handshake because you have made this trade for Luca.
You pulled off a trade that I don't know anybody's
gonna ever forgive the Dallas Mavericks for you got a
superstar twenty five years old in his prime, You open
the championship window, and now the Lakers in one day
change the fortune of their franchise for the next ten years.
(23:22):
Like you can't do You can't do anything better than that.
You don't need to get involved in, Anthony. If you're
the Mavericks, I get why you have to leak stuff,
like you know, I'm too much hooka for Luca and yeah,
drinking too much and all the time. Like I get
why you want to leak stuff because yeah, boy, we
really can't stand all this bad publicity. But you're the Lakers.
You've won this, you have won, and there's no reason.
(23:45):
No one's blaming you for trading Anthony Davis. No one
is saying you should. There's not one person segwy Anthony Davis,
like nobody, you don't need to get dirty on this.
But for some reason, maybe and likely because it was
knuckleheaded stuff, that she and the Lakers front office had
to deal with with Anthony Davis and his and his
attitude or his general unhappiness. But you know what, that's
(24:06):
what you get that. That's what you're the owner for.
That's you're the owner in GM four actually get paid for, right,
that's not a This stuff with Ad and not being happy.
This is not Oh, I can't believe I'm to deal
with this. No, it's knuckleheaded stuff. But that's part of
the job. Like, that's the job. That's you need to do.
So that's how you deal with this. And so I
get that there's frustration for it that Yo, now he's gone.
I'm gonna say, why we traded Anthony Davis? Now all
(24:28):
of a sudden, why do you need to paint Anthony
Davis as a guy who was really grumpy and upset?
Why do you do that? People already know, people already
know judging by the trade, Hey, Ad was probably pissed,
he was probably upset, Luca was upset. All right, great,
why do you need to get involved in this? All
this does is just now Okay, now we see how
petty that the Lakers are in a trade they've won.
(24:49):
It does doesn't matter. Everything goes from here on out.
They have won this trade. I don't get why Genie
Buss decided I want to get out and say something
like this, like this is not helping anything except to
show that, oh, hey, guess what. The Lakers can be
petty towards their role players too when they don't need
to be. And that's a big thing.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I get if you if you feel the need to
because something is not going your way pr wise, attention wise,
you didn't need to instill Nope, I'm gonna kick Anthony
Davis on the way out the door when he's been
out the door.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, I mean, you could have shut this down when
it was happening she or Polenka or whomever and really
addressed it at that moment. But they didn't, right, It
kind of just stated and any time Davis could talk
about having to play the five and you know how
he's more comfortable off there and how the game flows,
et cetera. That was not a one time thing. He
(25:39):
did a lot of postgame interviews, a lot of extra
media related to that through the time. Now, I wonder
how much of this goes to the highly successful I've
already watched the full season running Point, which is based
on the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It's the Los Angeles waves. You'll hear some familiar.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Voices of guys you've worked with and that we've known
for years around the greater LA area, but loosely based
on the front office and Kate Hudson running as now
the owner ahead of her brothers and everything else.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
G go figure. So doing some press along that those lines,
I'm sure related to that.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
But this was on NPR where this takes a turn
right doing sports shows done a couple last week, and
you have every opportunity to just talk about how great
it is to get Luca as the next generational guy,
and just stay on that path the entire no matter
what your instincts might be to drag Anthony Davis to
bring up all those old quotes, but you got to
(26:40):
be bigger, right, don't punch down and Nanthey, Davis is
a guy. He's seven feet tall and he's made a
lot of money and I get it, you know, on
some level, And we talked about it at the time
and still do that. He kept being pushed aside like
he was a nobody in that trade. Look good, they
got Luca for nothing. I'm like, no, no, I'm we
(27:00):
were leading the charge for the Anthony Davis showed the
guy some love, because all we've been doing is talking
about how he might be, you know, MVP conversation if
he stayed healthy, and all of those things in spurts,
and how important he was and everything else. Top ten player.
Remember when he did operations shut down with the Pelicans
all those years ago. Look how great we were talking
(27:22):
about what he was as an impact player when they
brought him in, and on the way out, suddenly he's
a bucket of balls. And it just kind of curious
the way that goes. But you had every chance to
just hype up Luca. We had the opportunity. It fell
into our laps. Anthony gave us a great couple of years.
We have a title that we'll we put a banner
up in the rafters and just run from there. Instead
(27:46):
it's the oh, by the way here, let me open
the car door as I passed you and get you
in the mid section. Just didn't seem to make a
whole lot of sense and pettiness. Look, no tax bracket,
it's in the open, and I get it. I get
the Peggy be better. But when when you're the owner
and and you you get that this is part of
(28:06):
the This is part of the gig, right. I'm sorry
that you don't think, but this is part of the gig.
And and dealing with agents, and dealing with with clutch Sports,
which you willot at whatever it is it lets him
take go, whatever it is. I get the frustration, but
everything is wonderful and you won. And now but now
going out the door, I'm still gonna say, wasn't happy.
Wasn't all this stuff blah blah blah, was that we
(28:27):
had clutch Sports came over and took over like venom. Okay,
you had some great stuff that happened, but there was
a lot of chaos, a lot of potential for turmoil.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
Eddie, Oh, Genie, just let me, let me go, Let
me go out of here, get going and eat Nico
Harrison's brain and then you'll just have half a brain
left and you'll be able to trade you Luka, Dodja.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Let me just eat his brain a little bit, Genie,
Genie cutting print. See it's not this venom, Jerry Jones,
like venom works for almost eight times. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
End of the first quarter. Lakers lead the next thirty one,
twenty seven Carl Anthony Towns back in after a couple
of fouls. So it looks like we have a fun one,
well at least for now. Uh, but no need for
I don't know why, Genie, I have no idea, but
you know, hey on NPR, man, you do you, and
and you do you and and just wind up looking bad. Constable.
(29:20):
They're gonna be selling strawberries at the end of the week.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
By the way, when you got rid of Anthony Davis,
was there any latent hate towards he and his agency?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Time not to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports from someone who's been compared to Karl
Anthony Towns. He's big bodega, she's little bodega. Yeah, it's
Monty with what's trending. Yeah, I got that.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
I was like, don't Jink say when you're like, we
have a good game right now, don't Jeezy, don't.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Jink say, well, what a twenty seven nothing run by
the Lakers. This one's over Swish. Yeah, that took the
Lakers side.
Speaker 9 (29:54):
I know he's trying to even it out.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
He's trying also have been Scully on the call.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
It's Scully on the car stop stop yes thirty one
twenty seven after the first quarter, Jalen Brunson fourteen points.
Speaker 9 (30:05):
Luka Donces thirteen points for LA.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
We're gonna start with the Warriors, though, because they were
down twenty two points and came back to defeat the
Nets one twenty one to one nineteen. Steph Curry forty points,
including seven threes. The Warriors have won eight out of
their last nine games. The Bulls handed the Magic their
fifth straight loss, one twenty five to one.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Twenty three was a final.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
Score Kobe White forty four points. Dwight Howard will be inducted, though,
into the Magic Hall of Fame on March twenty fourth.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
It was announced not long ago. Trey Young drup. Trey
Young dropped.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
Twenty two points in sixteen assists as a Hawk stop.
The Pacers won twenty four to win eighteen. The shorthanded
Celtics crushed the seventy six ers anyway, one twenty three
to one oh five. Jason Tatum thirty five points, and
the Rockets outscored the Pelicans one o nine to ninety seven.
In men's college basketball number eight, Michigan State came back
to defeat Iowa ninety one.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
To eighty four. Right now on the ice, the Flames
and the Stars are tied at to a piece.
Speaker 8 (30:59):
They are in over time with about three minutes to go,
and the Jets say, the Jets are still still crushing
it on the ice.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Jason can't beat the Jets. Catch Jets, can't stop what
a great offense. Literally, no, Aaron Rodgers doesn't matter, It
doesn't matter. Stop us.
Speaker 9 (31:14):
You can't stop him. They crush the Flyers already. Four
to one was the final score on that one.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
And in the NFL, the Bengals did give defensive end
Trait Hendrickson permission to seek a trade.
Speaker 9 (31:24):
He's on his final year, was a sack leader in
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Back to you guys, thank you very much.
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Speaker 5 (32:11):
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Speaker 1 (32:33):
So apparently tonight's going to be big Lebowski soundtrack night. Okay,
all right, as long as once, as long as once
we get the cassette, we get the audio of the
sette when he was listening to the playoffs Venice bowling playoffs,
and he's just listening to the balls hit the pins.
I might bite your ear off and slam you in
(32:53):
the gut with a bowling ball. Yes, over the line, smoky,
over the line, leaking live. It's not as homework. This
is not his homework. It's not his homework. I actually
yelled that to eleanor earlier. You're killing your father. She goes,
But I just never mind. Nine minutes to go in
the second quarter game of the night in the NBA,
the Knicks out to a thirty five thirty two lead
(33:15):
over the Lakers. Jalen Brunson has fourteen. Luka Dancic has thirteen.
This is uh, everything you'd expect so far in Game
one of the NBA Finals, well, and we got everything.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
In the little interstitial where they gave us the history,
it was almost like, are those ai like renditions of
these guys because they don't look like normal photos, Like,
how much work are we doing photo shopping these things
into the montage? Look when they were teammates. Look they're
hanging out, and now here they are and all the
iso Jalen Brunson, I'm like just waiting for the giant
(33:48):
picture with.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
His dad sliding in. I got him here, HI got
him to the Knicks. So we'll have more NBA on
the way, but ready for a big Bowl. Prediction for
the NFL Draft, right, Hey, you've seen the last couple
of days have not been No matter how you want
to cut it up, if you like it, don't like it, agree,
not agree, but there's not any discussion. The last few
(34:11):
days have not been great for Shador Sanders, a guy
who once was projected to go at the number one
overall pick now is probably going to be the second
quarterback taking off the board after cam Ward. And where
that happens, now that's the big question, right. You had
the dueling reports of his behavior at the combine that
some teams were turned off by his attitude, other teams
(34:32):
maybe not. But no matter what, it's not been a
great last few days for Shador Sanders and starting to
widen that gap between he and cam Ward and closing
the gap between he and guys like Jackson Dart and
Kyle Mccordmy Jackson Dart now suddenly is he's a first rounder?
We got it all we're talking about Jackson Dart went
(34:52):
from he's a Day three guy to be in a
first rounder in like eight seconds. But you see that
now that the gap is starting to widen between and
in the very top of the draft, and it's starting
to narrow between he and a guy like Jackson Dart.
So I'll tell you what the first three picks Tennessee
all right, number one, Brown's number two, Giants number three.
(35:13):
We thought for a while Tradeur Sanders is going at
least three to the Giants. It seemed like that was
a case. Well now no longer, because the Giants have
been doing everything they can to try to get out
there and get another quarterback. Between cam Ward, Travis Hunter
an Abdual Carter, there's your top three picks of the draft.
Most likely number two with a bullet will be Cleveland
(35:35):
getting cam Ward. They need the quarterback right. They just
redid Deshaun Watson's contract again earlier today. He's never He's
never gonna play in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
But even as a guy that could be upright and
working out a practice field, we're not even at that
point with the injury that he suffered.
Speaker 8 (35:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
So number one either Abdul Carter or Travis Hunter. Let's
say Carter gets number one, Travis Hunter will go number three.
The Giants will bring in this absolute super are to
come in. He'll be part of the ideas. Why like
Travis Hunter at number one because he brings you instant
superstar status. People will buy his jersey right away. You
have a guy that could be break the mold as
far as what a player is. Maybe he plays both
(36:11):
ways in the NFL all the time. So now you're
getting into the draft little bit and saying okay, and
still no Chador Sanders. Well, four and five aren't gonna
be quarterbacks. Then you get Raiders Jets at six and seven.
All of a sudden, Chador Sanders is out there.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Raiders and Jets at six and seven. Raiders are doing
all they can to go get a quarterback now, right,
Pete Carroll's not gonna wait, right, Tom Brady's not gonna wait.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
They want to go get it, make a big splash.
And I've told you, we told you last night. It's
either gonna be Sam Donald or Aaron Rodgers. Most likely
they'll go out and overpay and go get Sam Donald.
He's younger, he's got more upside. This is who you
go get. This is the number one guy as free
agency in the NFL. He's a guy you go get.
So now you're sitting with the Jets at number seven,
and if the Jets don't take Shador Sanders, all of
(36:59):
a sudden, it's like, why is this guy falling? And
then that meant Brick Johnson didn't like him. And then
you're into the Saints at nine. Are they gonna take
Shador Sanders? Because if that doesn't happen. He falls all
the way through the first round and has an Aaron
Rodgers like fall. And that's the way things are going
for Shador Sanders right now. So I hope that. Look,
(37:21):
if I was a pr advisor, like I told you,
my best job outside of radio be doing that, I
would tell Shador Sanders, dude, you are in danger of
falling through the first round of the draft. Now. There's
a lot of time left between now and the beginning
of the draft. Yet the rest of this month and
most of the next month, you have to rehabilitate that
image so other teams and make other teams want to
take you, because right now they're looking for reasons to
(37:44):
not take you. This combine did not do you any favored.
You can stand up and say I don't care, that's
who I am. But in the end, you have to
understand you're always in a job interview until you get drafted,
and you got to make sure a team wants to
take you. They're not nervous about anything, whether it's how
are you gonna respond? And if things go bad, you're
gonna blame the offensive line like you did in college.
Are you mature enough to understand that you're the face
(38:05):
of a franchise. You're gonna be able to do that. Like,
you have to make sure teams are comfortable with that,
because teams are looking for a reason to say no
to you right now, and as we go through the draft,
that's exactly what's gonna happen to me. Bo Callahan and
draft day all again, people, why why why? I don't
know why Callahan's falling. Everybody got spooked because of what
happened early on in their draft, so no one's taken
him like that could happen. I were giving you a
(38:27):
real palpable and possible situation where Shadua Sanders just falls
past number seven, right, and if the Jets don't, like, like,
all of a sudden, you're at seven and the Jets
at seven and the Saints at nine, like that's it.
Like if that doesn't happen, there forget it. The Jets
could also go get a quarterback this all. We don't
like the other guys. We're gonna get a quarterback this
offseason and draft Kyle mccorridor or Jalen Milroe in the
(38:49):
second or third round.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Teams are gonna have that kind of strategy to do
and you can see him fall. Dude, he's got time,
but he's got to figure out a way to make
himself sell himself more of the product because you're seeing
the other players rise through the NFL draft and Shador
Sanders is the faller right now and he's got he's
got to fix that in the next month.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Yeah, and something goes back to you know, we talked
about it with the Travis Hunter discussion we had last week.
Folks can go find that podcast wherever you get your
audio in terms of what he Travis Hunter becomes on
the next level, and part of that conversation goes back
to the competition that they face strength to schedule all
of those kind of things. Look, you're making plays and
it's exciting, but we're always trying to figure out, you know,
(39:31):
where there's noise in the algorithm or how to take
those things into account. Right, So the same thing goes
for Shador Sanders offensive line running back issues that they
had and some spectacular plays, but like Caleb Williams before him,
it was something we talked about before the Bears drafted
Williams was he likes to try to extend plays, try
(39:53):
to buy the extra time. Well, you know what in
the NFL we watched with Caleb this past year. I
mean that was the cardinal sin, right, not playing on time,
trying to make an extra play, and when you go
to spin back, thinking, all right, I'm gonna be able
to get DJ Moore or Keenan Allen or Roma Dunsa
open downfield. Nope, that guy's there to level you. And
shod Or Sanders's gonna face some of that. So people
will start picking back into the tape a little more.
(40:16):
Charles Davis put up his mock draft earlier today.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
He's still had. He had quarterbacks one, two, three, He had.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Sanders first, Ward second, Jackson Dart all the way up
to number three. Current odds, Ward a prohibitive favorite at
number one, with Abdual Carter at plus two ten and
then Travis Hunter at eighteen to one to be the
number one overall pick. And that's assuming all that stuff stood.
Pat The next spot after your Jets and the Saints
(40:45):
would be Seattle at number eighteen.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Good luck, good Luck, got some work to do coming
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Speaker 3 (00:59):
Well, here we are night, minutes away from the Knicks
and the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Let's get it on. Justin Frossburg is either going to
be drunk literally, or he's gonna go home at halftime
when Big Bodega's got forty and twenty one of these
things is going to happen tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Did you have Alex q up the sad walk away
music from the end of The Incredible Home?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But I'm looking lebron looks like he's moving kind of
gingerly and warm ups. Man, I don't know. I don't know.
That smile is not quite as big as it will
oh little bit. Yeah, well, I don't Frostburg got what's
going on? Man, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Maybe he's a smoked tuca and had a beard before
the game. He forgot to paint his hair back though. Yeah,
but look look how look out? Look how focus? Jalen
Bruntson is ready hitting his jumpers from out again.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
We didn't see that that actually went in though, Nicks,
it doesn't matter drops thirty on you.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
He doesn't miss.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
If Bronny drops thirty, really would be a momentous night.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Look, Lucas already breathing heavy and warm ups. Look at
he's really he was, he was just breathing heavy in
the layup line. I'm feeling good right now. I'm feeling
good right now. Enjoy your last five minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I mean, there's Brownie in the layup line he's look
at him, Yeah, the steely confidence, the eyes staring straight
ahead like let's go.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
They ready, ready to trip a couple of guards in
front of him so you can get some minutes. Hey,
if it happens, it happens. Look at mcal Bridges missing jumpers,
jumper after jumper. Why did you assume Brunson and he's
missing every shot he's I'm just going by how I
think things are gonna go.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Is it because he's wearing that discount warm up shirt
or what?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Hits every shot pregame? He hits everything during the game too.
Would you stop with that built a brick house? Would you?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Oh my god, you know you don't even you don't
even argue in real at least I argue in reality
with you. Really with the Knicks and the Lakers, you
know you basically if people just if no one knew
anything about basketball and just listen to the team and
they listen to you talk about the Knicks, they would say,
how did the Knicks are?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
They would go, what are they? Like? Nine in nine
and fifty?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Like was just turning out sandwiches on the lapline?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
No, No, I do have a big question there though,
for you know big Bodega.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
What was that? Was that a trophy on their their
warm up suit?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Are they trying to speaking into existence because otherwise there
should be a picture of Phil.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Jackson Old Trophy ninety three. No, it's a it's a
I think it's a new thing.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's like the the the is T two is what
is the one one game in season tournament two for
the trophies? Or was that a QR coach so you
can just scan your item as you walk up to him.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I really watching the pregame on TNT, all the big
slow mo shots. Yeah, Lebron like ex haling, and Bodega
with a big bodego with a high five, like this
is the finals. It's like, it's the Finals. We're ready
Game one of the Finals. Next Lakers from Crypto dot
com arena. Yeah, that's next. Yeah, we got no shots
of Reddick and Thibodeau.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Those guys should be out front and center like their
WWE manager.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, why don't we get some of them? Nobody cares
about the Come on, I care, Come on, Reddick, h
you it's it's good for business. Bron and Luca and
Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns and nobody cares about it
doesn't matter. Yes, yes, JJ Reddick hates me. I understand this.
I understand it's.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Really fueled the Lakers, his hate, his admitted hatred of
me from his press conference that diet that that that
corresponds absolutely to when the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Just started taking off. Absolutely, So, I mean, the Lakers
win the title this year, like I get a ring.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well, you also igniting that feud was what somehow planted
the nefarious seed, as they would say, in the back
of Nico Harrison's mind, to make that trade.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Maybe you said it all in motion.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Maybe we can do it instead of a crystal ball,
like the open says. You might have been sitting here
with I don't know, some other thing of dark arts.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You said that, like Nojo Hank and about and crystal ball,
crystal ball, crystal ball, crystal ball, the big statue of
crystal ball at the end. So we are minutes away
from the NIXT the Lakers, so great, all right, game
of the night. Obviously you see this. You can't fake
enthusiasm about stuff, right, I mean, we don't make the
rules in sports, we don't. We just simply know that. Okay,
(05:12):
we get what a big game is because it's just
organically something you know. You know when a game is huge,
you know when teams are popular. It's hard to make
stuff happen in sport. You can try, but you can't
make stuff happen to wit. Let's bring you this from
Charles Barkley pregame going into Nix and the Lakers. Okay,
(05:32):
this is from tonight, and this is entertaining on so
many levels. So here it is Nbat and t getting
ready for the game. Here, you know they're coming off
the Celtics win tonight's second game. Pritchard did not have
forty tonight, so okay. So here's Barkley coming off and
he's talking about how other networks ESPN where the whole
show is moving to in a year. Yet not really
(05:54):
happy with how ESPN breaks down basketball, and Barkley is
not shy with letting everybody know this is how he feels.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
I saw a food idiot on TV talking about the Lakers,
save the NBA, save them. Yeah, yeah, he's an idiot
in the food but he know he is what's his name, Shack,
which when you're talking about Kendrick Perkins, he said the
Lakers first of all, the Lakers have had a great
two weeks, he said, the Lakers save the NBA season.
That's because them foods on the other network, which we're
(06:25):
gonna be working for next year. That's all they talk about.
Let me tell y'all something. First of all, I want
all the smoke. What's so when I walked by the
grid yard or anything like that, by the great like
that man still in that one. The Lakers are doing great,
got a long way to go. But the reason the
(06:45):
season has been going great for the Cleveland Cavaliers and
the Oklahoma City Thunder, y'all just want to talk about
the Warriors and the Lakers. They're both doing great. Don't
get me wrong. If I turn out to be wrong,
I got no problem with that. But y'all idiots, because
y'all talk about the Lakers and the Wars all the time.
Y'all know the Cleveland Cavalier of the one twelve straight games,
(07:08):
so Oklahoma said have got the MVP and they all
own fire. Y'all talk about who's in second place. That's
the reason I get pissed. Hey, the Lakers are doing greed.
I don't mind being wrong. The Warks are doing greed.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But all right, enough of this. Okay, here's the thing.
Here's the thing. This is just a takeaway, right. First
of all, you have the inside baseball of Wow, he's
ripping ESPN and they're all going to work for ESPN soon.
So the ESPN's like, wow, we let a bunch of
people into work here that really don't like this company.
What are we doing? But the acknowledge is that they're
coming to take over the place. But the main thing
(07:46):
is that Charles Barkley's been in television for thirty years, right,
and he still has no idea how television works. Like
I mean real, I mean honestly. Does he really sit
here and say, hey, the Cavaliers are a more popular
story than the Lakers and Lucas donc of course not.
Does he really think that that the Oklahoma City Thunder
moved the needle more than the Knicks to of course not.
(08:07):
I don't make the rules. None of us make the rules, right,
And if the Thunders start winning championships and SGA wins
the MVP and they become they'll become a big deal.
But it's pretty easy to understand that stars and star
teams push sports, and the star teams always have more
interesting conversation about them. It's the old adage of how
(08:28):
you know a team, the worth of a team in
that how people respond to when you talk about them.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I remember having Rob Nyer on the show and MLB
inside me a long time. Right, great dude, Right was
on my show all the time on ESPN, and I
remember talking to him one night and we were talking
about some crazy story with the Yankees that I thought
was a little overblown. This is like fifteen years I
forget what the story was. And I said, I can't
believe it's getting that much attention, because really I think
this is a little bit too much. And he says, well,
I gotta tell you. You know, I had to write
(08:57):
something about that for ESPN this week. They ask me,
can you write something about the Yankees this week? And
I really wanted to write something about the Royals I
think it was, and he said, well, do both. He goes,
and I knew. I said, Okay, I'm going to do both,
and I'm gonna write this piece on the Royals where
I've done interviews and I've talked to they all saying
really interesting stuff. It's direction of the team and all
this and I'm going to write whatever they want me
(09:17):
to write about the Yankees, and it's gonna get a
hundred times more attention. And it's you know, it sucks,
but that's the way it goes, right. You can you
cannot like it. You can. I don't like that, but
you can't. There's no way you can. You can try
to cut in any way, shape or form that. Teams
like the Knicks and the Lakers and the Yankees and
the Steelers and the Cowboys, they're more part when you
(09:37):
talk about them. That's something that coast to coast people
care about, right, That's something that that coast to coast
people say, Yeah, I care.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Whether I love the Yankees or hate the Yankees. I
love the Knicks, I hate the Knicks. I love the Lakers,
I hate the Lakers. They're big deal. They stir the conversation.
The Cavaliers are a really good story, right, and the
thunder really goods that we've talked about them. But if
there's a game where Luca Doncicch goes for fifty, guess
what are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The caw No television and the media. This is how
it works.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
More the more popular something is, the more you talk
about it, the more people want to watch. If your
show is good, if your show is popular, people are
gonna watch it. If your show doesn't talk about stuff
that people want to hear talk about it, they're gonna
find something else.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Like, again, Barkley's been in TV for thirty years, and
it's like he has no idea how TV works. I
want to stand up and talk about the Cavaliers and
the thunder. Yeah, they're all really good. Like, I don't
know if he's trying to curry favor or win some
type of thing. I'm standing up for the little guy.
But I mean, really, you look like you don't know
anything about television. You've been doing it for thirty years. Yeah,
I think it's I think I'm in the exact opposite camp.
(10:39):
I think Charles Barkley knows exactly what he's doing. Have
we mentioned Charles Barkley's name since he said he saved
everybody and talked about all the job.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
No, we haven't said a damn thing about him. Because
unless he says something outrageous or attacks Lebron.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Or or you know, Luca goes in a you.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Know, a out of shape or whatever, this guy is
nobody can like we love the show in the moment,
it doesn't translate.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So what do you do? You pick a fight?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I want it on this? So how are you gonna
get my name circulating?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
He's doing what he is accusing ESPN and everybody else of, Oh,
why you always talk about the Lakers? Okay? If you
just came on and talked about the Cavaliers, right, you
just get because what you want to do. What you're
saying is why aren't we talking about the cavaliers on thunder?
Hey talk about him more? Just talk about him? But
what does he do? No, I'm gonna call a guy
an idiot and I'm gonna say his name, and I'm
(11:34):
gonna say, why do you talk about the Lakers? And
I'm doing exactly what I'm saying. I don't like right,
So again, so on on both on both avenues of
this Barkley, I don't know what he looks. He looks
both ways. I feel like, is he just lost? Is
he just lost for stuff to say? Is he lost?
And what it means to work and tell him? Like, really,
I don't get what his what his whole point is
(11:56):
other than hey, here's some attention that I'm gonna get.
And here's what I don't think somebody should get when
you really understand that, Hey, the Lakers and the Knicks
push things right, I guarantee you if he's in that
rundown meeting of TNT, all right, what are we gonna
talk about here? We got Lakers, I want to talk
about the thunder and the Cavs the producer, and they're
gonna say, okay, b blog, let's talk about that sea
(12:17):
block that for thirty seconds and then we'll have a
nice four minute discussion about the Knicks and the Lakers.
I mean that that's where your own network is telling
He's gonna tell you no, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
But I think for him, it was an opportunity to
have people talk about Charles. So we played at Charles clip. Congratulations,
put it in the bank. He'll be on with Dan
in the morning right to talk about this beef with
Kendrick Perkins. Kendrick Perkins immediately took to Twitter and he
was talking about, Hey, I'm from the four.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Oh nine Beaumont, Texas as it were, he can.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Go playing with me if you want. I'm gonna address
his ass like the numbers on a house. It's pretty
good line, pretty good line. I don't know, whistling through
the graveyard versus that pretty good responses. But I would
say he knows exactly what he's doing. We're actually talking
about Charles Berkley.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Good job by him. I mean, look I feel.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And then they get to go in the locker room
together next year cause we're moving there.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, we're ready. You're gonna rumble, good lie squad.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I mean, it's like Angerman, it's gonna you's Ernie Johnson
lean and paray it there and then you got the
ESPN crew. It'll be ESPN Steel Cage Show. That's gonna
be h Hey.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
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good Luca Dot. Okay, so we're four minutes into the game,
Luca Dots are already down. He hits a three and
the Jordan shrug. The Lakers lead the Knicks fourteen to seven. Yes,
it's over. It's over. It's fourteen second You don't think
he needs a headmade. Laker's up by a touchdown. So again,
(14:03):
we'll have more on this story throughout the night. Obviously,
Nick Lakers is the biggest story of the night, no
matter what Charles Barkley thinks. But we got some big stuff.
Speaking of the NBA, how about a brand new angle
on the Luca ad trade that just came up today.
Brand new that came up today. It's coming up next
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Speaker 3 (15:52):
Really good job by ty shit here to bring some
music in that levels it off because you and Frostburg.
I was getting my phone out, like you guys are
gonna come to blow. I'm like, oh, that's soill.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Go viral.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
And now maybe we can get that heart rate to
slow down a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
No, no, let's here is this Nick's Lakers? Thanks and
I will.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
But I was just trying to celebrate a very important
anniversary today.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
It is very important. Go ahead, go ahead. What are
you celebrating right now? Michael ahead? No, No, it's all you.
Buddy's March sixth, nineteen ninety six nights And.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Where were you March six nineteen ninety six, oh, ninety eight,
ninety eight, that's.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Two years later. I was here. I was in Los Angeles.
I was working at Fox. Chi gets on a bus, child.
I was working at Fox as a producer at when
it was Fox Sports Net before it was rebranded as
Fox Sports one in Fox Sports two years later. Well,
you were doing all of that.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Yeah, most of the cool people were at the movie
seeing The Big Lebowski for.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
The first time. Oh oh that was tonight, that's today. Wow, Okay,
I did not know that. I know that, did not
know that. I'm the dude.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Oh I wanted to screening of it with the dude
showing up telling stories and asking questions.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Next month sometime. I remember not going to see it
until it was out for a couple of weeks, like
it wasn't one of those movies that, oh, big Lebowski,
we gotta go see it, like it's what it was
when you see it, go, oh that looks weird. It's
one of it was. It was one of those I'll
wait and see what people say about it, and they
go and then all in this, you know, this is
how word of mouth is the greatest thing for movies ever,
no matter what kind of money you want to put
(17:31):
into any sort of advertising campaign. But when word of
mouth a movie is good, and enough people that go
see a movie tell you how good it was, you
go see that movie. So I gotta go do it.
I gotta go do it. And I remember a lot
of our friends talking, oh, Big Lebowski was so funny.
It was I can't even describe what it was about,
but John Goodman was so funny, and Steve Bishamy was
(17:52):
so funny, and oh my god, it was so funny.
Like okay, and after a couple it's like, okay, let's
go see it and he was like, oh my god,
I remember I started laughing. The first big laugh out
loud when I knew it was gonna be that great
was when he goes to see Juliet More for the
first time and he's just standing there and he's looking
at the artwork and she comes flying in from above
and dropping dropping the paint. Jeff Bridge's reaction that seed
(18:17):
is so great. He's like, what the heck Jesus comes
flying in on a pulley.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Here.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
She wasn't wearing any clothes either, No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
She wasn't.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
You left out a very important detail that probably helped
Jeff Bridge's reaction.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Well, yeah, sure, sure there was that.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I don't know when rehearsal that they necessarily did the
undress for her.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Watch this, Watch how we get him go? We're gonna
go go? All right.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
So here's the top ten films from March of nineteen
ninety eight. Oh wow, Okay, Lebowski's one right, it's nine,
number one, Titanic, number two, that movie that was out
for over a year, Almost Titanic. It's still going at
number two. US Marshals No Wesley Snipes.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah. Robert Downey Junior is a bad Guy JA Sorry spoiler.
Number three The Man in the Iron Mask.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I saw that once and I can barely Number four,
Goodwill Hunting Sure. Number five The Wedding Singer, overrated, movie overrated.
I thought it was gonna be hysterical, like, oh this
is this is a fastball down the middle for Adam Sandler,
and I thought, I said, I thought it could have
been better. Hey, Steve Buscemi, Julia Guliat. Number six, this one,
(19:26):
really it will surprise you. Primary colors, Oh, John Travolta.
Travolta and m My Tom say.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, yeah. That was when he was playing like the
click Clint okay, all right. Number seven as good as
it gets. Oh, I love the good it gets. That
was number eight. She's in the news.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
She's a top ten television show right now streaming Miley Cyrus,
Denise Richards. Wild Things, Oh yeah, I liked Wild Things good.
Number nine Lebowski, and number ten was Twilight.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Just think about that for a second. You just named
like seven or eight movies.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
One month too early for tw Like how good that
one doesn't make? You can literally go and watch seven
amazing movies. You know that doesn't happen. It's a different Twilight. Yeah,
it couldn't have been the same with Too.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
No, this was.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Twilight, some kind.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Of sand Oh yeah, oh okay, all right, I don't
remember that I seen it, but I don't remember six.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Movies that you would consider classics that were all out
at the same time. Yeah, probably sneak into at least
three of them after you bought. Oh, can I tell
you that the one of the biggest. Okay, I'll pull
the curtain back of this, and she's not listening, I
can say this.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
One of the things that always would start arguments with
Pam and I is that she loved trying to sneak
into movies.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
She was I always did. I go, yeah, no, I
don't like this. Come on, let's do it. Come on,
come on, I go no, I don't want to Why
we could just go right here? We paid money, it's
let's go.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
I go no.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
She always liked doing You paid for a movie and
you didn't pay for that movie. She always liked doing it.
And this is before we met. She goes, come on,
come on, I'm like, no, I really don't want to
do it. I really don't want to do I want
to do it. And years like she would chip, come ons,
we can go right and here I'm like, no, no,
I'm not doing it. And then finally when she stopped
doing it is when I got when I got on
the radio like this, I'm thirty. She still wants to
(21:09):
do it and and she said, come on, let's sneak in.
And I said no, and she can Why I said,
I got you. I said, because I'm not gonna get
caught and have the headline it on the internet. Radio
hosts caught sneaking into movie. National radio host caught sneaking
into movie and she was like, all right, fine.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Well, shame shame the company to pay you a little
more money. I couldn't afford the movie I got.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I were there. I really wanted to go. I had
to go see it for I SMA for the show.
I mean for the show. This is back when movies
are like five dollars, like during the days, five dollars
an event. It's a night out. Don't work, don't right now.
Lakers on top of the next twenty five to nineteen.
Late in the first quarter, Karl Anthony Towns has been
on the bench with two foulsands. Very early in this game,
(21:53):
I think Scott Foster and Dick Bavetta are calling, are
doing this game right now. But good Dick were a
brand new angle to the Luca a d trade that
came out today. Right, hey, we're still we're still talking
about this. It's still the biggest thing. Luca and the
Lakers is going to continue to be the biggest thing
in the NBA the rest of the year. Sorry, Charles Barkley.
(22:14):
It's gonna be a big deal. And it comes to
us courtesy of Lakers on her Genie Buss, who on
a podcast today just decided to say, this is why
we traded Anthony Davis. Ad wasn't happy. He wasn't happy
with the position he was playing, right, pretty vocal, even
a vocal about that. We had lost the Nuggets three
(22:36):
straight times in the playoffs and he was unhappy, and
he said we needed to get a center. So we
knew he wasn't happy. So that's why we made the trade.
He wasn't happy here, he wasn't happy playing the position
he was, So we made the trade. And when I
saw that come out, I said to myself, why the
hell is she doing this? Right? Like, you've won this trade.
(22:59):
You get nothing but flowers, You get a Laurel and
hardy handshake because you have made this trade for Luca.
You pulled off a trade that I don't know anybody's
gonna ever forgive the Dallas Mavericks for you got a
superstar twenty five years old in his prime, You open
the championship window, and now the Lakers in one day
change the fortune of their franchise for the next ten years.
(23:22):
Like you can't do You can't do anything better than that.
You don't need to get involved in, Anthony. If you're
the Mavericks, I get why you have to leak stuff,
like you know, I'm too much hooka for Luca and yeah,
drinking too much and all the time. Like I get
why you want to leak stuff because yeah, boy, we
really can't stand all this bad publicity. But you're the Lakers.
You've won this, you have won, and there's no reason.
(23:45):
No one's blaming you for trading Anthony Davis. No one
is saying you should. There's not one person segwy Anthony Davis,
like nobody, you don't need to get dirty on this.
But for some reason, maybe and likely because it was
knuckleheaded stuff, that she and the Lakers front office had
to deal with with Anthony Davis and his and his
attitude or his general unhappiness. But you know what, that's
(24:06):
what you get that. That's what you're the owner for.
That's you're the owner in GM four actually get paid for, right,
that's not a This stuff with Ad and not being happy.
This is not Oh, I can't believe I'm to deal
with this. No, it's knuckleheaded stuff. But that's part of
the job. Like, that's the job. That's you need to do.
So that's how you deal with this. And so I
get that there's frustration for it that Yo, now he's gone.
I'm gonna say, why we traded Anthony Davis? Now all
(24:28):
of a sudden, why do you need to paint Anthony
Davis as a guy who was really grumpy and upset?
Why do you do that? People already know, people already
know judging by the trade, Hey, Ad was probably pissed,
he was probably upset, Luca was upset. All right, great,
why do you need to get involved in this? All
this does is just now Okay, now we see how
petty that the Lakers are in a trade they've won.
(24:49):
It does doesn't matter. Everything goes from here on out.
They have won this trade. I don't get why Genie
Buss decided I want to get out and say something
like this, like this is not helping anything except to
show that, oh, hey, guess what. The Lakers can be
petty towards their role players too when they don't need
to be. And that's a big thing.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I get if you if you feel the need to
because something is not going your way pr wise, attention wise,
you didn't need to instill Nope, I'm gonna kick Anthony
Davis on the way out the door when he's been
out the door.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, I mean, you could have shut this down when
it was happening she or Polenka or whomever and really
addressed it at that moment. But they didn't, right, It
kind of just stated and any time Davis could talk
about having to play the five and you know how
he's more comfortable off there and how the game flows,
et cetera. That was not a one time thing. He
(25:39):
did a lot of postgame interviews, a lot of extra
media related to that through the time. Now, I wonder
how much of this goes to the highly successful I've
already watched the full season running Point, which is based
on the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It's the Los Angeles waves. You'll hear some familiar.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Voices of guys you've worked with and that we've known
for years around the greater LA area, but loosely based
on the front office and Kate Hudson running as now
the owner ahead of her brothers and everything else.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
G go figure. So doing some press along that those lines,
I'm sure related to that.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
But this was on NPR where this takes a turn
right doing sports shows done a couple last week, and
you have every opportunity to just talk about how great
it is to get Luca as the next generational guy,
and just stay on that path the entire no matter
what your instincts might be to drag Anthony Davis to
bring up all those old quotes, but you got to
(26:40):
be bigger, right, don't punch down and Nanthey, Davis is
a guy. He's seven feet tall and he's made a
lot of money and I get it, you know, on
some level, And we talked about it at the time
and still do that. He kept being pushed aside like
he was a nobody in that trade. Look good, they
got Luca for nothing. I'm like, no, no, I'm we
(27:00):
were leading the charge for the Anthony Davis showed the
guy some love, because all we've been doing is talking
about how he might be, you know, MVP conversation if
he stayed healthy, and all of those things in spurts,
and how important he was and everything else. Top ten player.
Remember when he did operations shut down with the Pelicans
all those years ago. Look how great we were talking
(27:22):
about what he was as an impact player when they
brought him in, and on the way out, suddenly he's
a bucket of balls. And it just kind of curious
the way that goes. But you had every chance to
just hype up Luca. We had the opportunity. It fell
into our laps. Anthony gave us a great couple of years.
We have a title that we'll we put a banner
up in the rafters and just run from there. Instead
(27:46):
it's the oh, by the way here, let me open
the car door as I passed you and get you
in the mid section. Just didn't seem to make a
whole lot of sense and pettiness. Look, no tax bracket,
it's in the open, and I get it. I get
the Peggy be better. But when when you're the owner
and and you you get that this is part of
(28:06):
the This is part of the gig, right. I'm sorry
that you don't think, but this is part of the gig.
And and dealing with agents, and dealing with with clutch Sports,
which you willot at whatever it is it lets him
take go, whatever it is. I get the frustration, but
everything is wonderful and you won. And now but now
going out the door, I'm still gonna say, wasn't happy.
Wasn't all this stuff blah blah blah, was that we
(28:27):
had clutch Sports came over and took over like venom. Okay,
you had some great stuff that happened, but there was
a lot of chaos, a lot of potential for turmoil.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
Eddie, Oh, Genie, just let me, let me go, Let
me go out of here, get going and eat Nico
Harrison's brain and then you'll just have half a brain
left and you'll be able to trade you Luka, Dodja.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Let me just eat his brain a little bit, Genie,
Genie cutting print. See it's not this venom, Jerry Jones,
like venom works for almost eight times. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
End of the first quarter. Lakers lead the next thirty one,
twenty seven Carl Anthony Towns back in after a couple
of fouls. So it looks like we have a fun one,
well at least for now. Uh, but no need for
I don't know why, Genie, I have no idea, but
you know, hey on NPR, man, you do you, and
and you do you and and just wind up looking bad. Constable.
(29:20):
They're gonna be selling strawberries at the end of the week.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
By the way, when you got rid of Anthony Davis,
was there any latent hate towards he and his agency?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Time not to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports from someone who's been compared to Karl
Anthony Towns. He's big bodega, she's little bodega. Yeah, it's
Monty with what's trending. Yeah, I got that.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
I was like, don't Jink say when you're like, we
have a good game right now, don't Jeezy, don't.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Jink say, well, what a twenty seven nothing run by
the Lakers. This one's over Swish. Yeah, that took the
Lakers side.
Speaker 9 (29:54):
I know he's trying to even it out.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
He's trying also have been Scully on the call.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
It's Scully on the car stop stop yes thirty one
twenty seven after the first quarter, Jalen Brunson fourteen points.
Speaker 9 (30:05):
Luka Donces thirteen points for LA.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
We're gonna start with the Warriors, though, because they were
down twenty two points and came back to defeat the
Nets one twenty one to one nineteen. Steph Curry forty points,
including seven threes. The Warriors have won eight out of
their last nine games. The Bulls handed the Magic their
fifth straight loss, one twenty five to one.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Twenty three was a final.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
Score Kobe White forty four points. Dwight Howard will be inducted, though,
into the Magic Hall of Fame on March twenty fourth.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
It was announced not long ago. Trey Young drup. Trey
Young dropped.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
Twenty two points in sixteen assists as a Hawk stop.
The Pacers won twenty four to win eighteen. The shorthanded
Celtics crushed the seventy six ers anyway, one twenty three
to one oh five. Jason Tatum thirty five points, and
the Rockets outscored the Pelicans one o nine to ninety seven.
In men's college basketball number eight, Michigan State came back
to defeat Iowa ninety one.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
To eighty four. Right now on the ice, the Flames
and the Stars are tied at to a piece.
Speaker 8 (30:59):
They are in over time with about three minutes to go,
and the Jets say, the Jets are still still crushing
it on the ice.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Jason can't beat the Jets. Catch Jets, can't stop what
a great offense. Literally, no, Aaron Rodgers doesn't matter, It
doesn't matter. Stop us.
Speaker 9 (31:14):
You can't stop him. They crush the Flyers already. Four
to one was the final score on that one.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
And in the NFL, the Bengals did give defensive end
Trait Hendrickson permission to seek a trade.
Speaker 9 (31:24):
He's on his final year, was a sack leader in
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Back to you guys, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
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Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Are you ready? Are you ready? Next? Right here, Jason
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Speaker 5 (32:11):
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On bottom? Right?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Whoa what?
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Because the Lakers are on top? Okay, say that faster
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Speaker 1 (32:33):
So apparently tonight's going to be big Lebowski soundtrack night. Okay,
all right, as long as once, as long as once
we get the cassette, we get the audio of the
sette when he was listening to the playoffs Venice bowling playoffs,
and he's just listening to the balls hit the pins.
I might bite your ear off and slam you in
(32:53):
the gut with a bowling ball. Yes, over the line, smoky,
over the line, leaking live. It's not as homework. This
is not his homework. It's not his homework. I actually
yelled that to eleanor earlier. You're killing your father. She goes,
But I just never mind. Nine minutes to go in
the second quarter game of the night in the NBA,
the Knicks out to a thirty five thirty two lead
(33:15):
over the Lakers. Jalen Brunson has fourteen. Luka Dancic has thirteen.
This is uh, everything you'd expect so far in Game
one of the NBA Finals, well, and we got everything.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
In the little interstitial where they gave us the history,
it was almost like, are those ai like renditions of
these guys because they don't look like normal photos, Like,
how much work are we doing photo shopping these things
into the montage? Look when they were teammates. Look they're
hanging out, and now here they are and all the
iso Jalen Brunson, I'm like just waiting for the giant
(33:48):
picture with.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
His dad sliding in. I got him here, HI got
him to the Knicks. So we'll have more NBA on
the way, but ready for a big Bowl. Prediction for
the NFL Draft, right, Hey, you've seen the last couple
of days have not been No matter how you want
to cut it up, if you like it, don't like it, agree,
not agree, but there's not any discussion. The last few
(34:11):
days have not been great for Shador Sanders, a guy
who once was projected to go at the number one
overall pick now is probably going to be the second
quarterback taking off the board after cam Ward. And where
that happens, now that's the big question, right. You had
the dueling reports of his behavior at the combine that
some teams were turned off by his attitude, other teams
(34:32):
maybe not. But no matter what, it's not been a
great last few days for Shador Sanders and starting to
widen that gap between he and cam Ward and closing
the gap between he and guys like Jackson Dart and
Kyle Mccordmy Jackson Dart now suddenly is he's a first rounder?
We got it all we're talking about Jackson Dart went
(34:52):
from he's a Day three guy to be in a
first rounder in like eight seconds. But you see that
now that the gap is starting to widen between and
in the very top of the draft, and it's starting
to narrow between he and a guy like Jackson Dart.
So I'll tell you what the first three picks Tennessee
all right, number one, Brown's number two, Giants number three.
(35:13):
We thought for a while Tradeur Sanders is going at
least three to the Giants. It seemed like that was
a case. Well now no longer, because the Giants have
been doing everything they can to try to get out
there and get another quarterback. Between cam Ward, Travis Hunter
an Abdual Carter, there's your top three picks of the draft.
Most likely number two with a bullet will be Cleveland
(35:35):
getting cam Ward. They need the quarterback right. They just
redid Deshaun Watson's contract again earlier today. He's never He's
never gonna play in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
But even as a guy that could be upright and
working out a practice field, we're not even at that
point with the injury that he suffered.
Speaker 8 (35:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
So number one either Abdul Carter or Travis Hunter. Let's
say Carter gets number one, Travis Hunter will go number three.
The Giants will bring in this absolute super are to
come in. He'll be part of the ideas. Why like
Travis Hunter at number one because he brings you instant
superstar status. People will buy his jersey right away. You
have a guy that could be break the mold as
far as what a player is. Maybe he plays both
(36:11):
ways in the NFL all the time. So now you're
getting into the draft little bit and saying okay, and
still no Chador Sanders. Well, four and five aren't gonna
be quarterbacks. Then you get Raiders Jets at six and seven.
All of a sudden, Chador Sanders is out there.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Raiders and Jets at six and seven. Raiders are doing
all they can to go get a quarterback now, right,
Pete Carroll's not gonna wait, right, Tom Brady's not gonna wait.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
They want to go get it, make a big splash.
And I've told you, we told you last night. It's
either gonna be Sam Donald or Aaron Rodgers. Most likely
they'll go out and overpay and go get Sam Donald.
He's younger, he's got more upside. This is who you
go get. This is the number one guy as free
agency in the NFL. He's a guy you go get.
So now you're sitting with the Jets at number seven,
and if the Jets don't take Shador Sanders, all of
(36:59):
a sudden, it's like, why is this guy falling? And
then that meant Brick Johnson didn't like him. And then
you're into the Saints at nine. Are they gonna take
Shador Sanders? Because if that doesn't happen. He falls all
the way through the first round and has an Aaron
Rodgers like fall. And that's the way things are going
for Shador Sanders right now. So I hope that. Look,
(37:21):
if I was a pr advisor, like I told you,
my best job outside of radio be doing that, I
would tell Shador Sanders, dude, you are in danger of
falling through the first round of the draft. Now. There's
a lot of time left between now and the beginning
of the draft. Yet the rest of this month and
most of the next month, you have to rehabilitate that
image so other teams and make other teams want to
take you, because right now they're looking for reasons to
(37:44):
not take you. This combine did not do you any favored.
You can stand up and say I don't care, that's
who I am. But in the end, you have to
understand you're always in a job interview until you get drafted,
and you got to make sure a team wants to
take you. They're not nervous about anything, whether it's how
are you gonna respond? And if things go bad, you're
gonna blame the offensive line like you did in college.
Are you mature enough to understand that you're the face
(38:05):
of a franchise. You're gonna be able to do that. Like,
you have to make sure teams are comfortable with that,
because teams are looking for a reason to say no
to you right now, and as we go through the draft,
that's exactly what's gonna happen to me. Bo Callahan and
draft day all again, people, why why why? I don't
know why Callahan's falling. Everybody got spooked because of what
happened early on in their draft, so no one's taken
him like that could happen. I were giving you a
(38:27):
real palpable and possible situation where Shadua Sanders just falls
past number seven, right, and if the Jets don't, like, like,
all of a sudden, you're at seven and the Jets
at seven and the Saints at nine, like that's it.
Like if that doesn't happen, there forget it. The Jets
could also go get a quarterback this all. We don't
like the other guys. We're gonna get a quarterback this
offseason and draft Kyle mccorridor or Jalen Milroe in the
(38:49):
second or third round.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Teams are gonna have that kind of strategy to do
and you can see him fall. Dude, he's got time,
but he's got to figure out a way to make
himself sell himself more of the product because you're seeing
the other players rise through the NFL draft and Shador
Sanders is the faller right now and he's got he's
got to fix that in the next month.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Yeah, and something goes back to you know, we talked
about it with the Travis Hunter discussion we had last week.
Folks can go find that podcast wherever you get your
audio in terms of what he Travis Hunter becomes on
the next level, and part of that conversation goes back
to the competition that they face strength to schedule all
of those kind of things. Look, you're making plays and
it's exciting, but we're always trying to figure out, you know,
(39:31):
where there's noise in the algorithm or how to take
those things into account. Right, So the same thing goes
for Shador Sanders offensive line running back issues that they
had and some spectacular plays, but like Caleb Williams before him,
it was something we talked about before the Bears drafted
Williams was he likes to try to extend plays, try
(39:53):
to buy the extra time. Well, you know what in
the NFL we watched with Caleb this past year. I
mean that was the cardinal sin, right, not playing on time,
trying to make an extra play, and when you go
to spin back, thinking, all right, I'm gonna be able
to get DJ Moore or Keenan Allen or Roma Dunsa
open downfield. Nope, that guy's there to level you. And
shod Or Sanders's gonna face some of that. So people
will start picking back into the tape a little more.
(40:16):
Charles Davis put up his mock draft earlier today.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
He's still had. He had quarterbacks one, two, three, He had.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Sanders first, Ward second, Jackson Dart all the way up
to number three. Current odds, Ward a prohibitive favorite at
number one, with Abdual Carter at plus two ten and
then Travis Hunter at eighteen to one to be the
number one overall pick. And that's assuming all that stuff stood.
Pat The next spot after your Jets and the Saints
(40:45):
would be Seattle at number eighteen.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Good luck, good Luck, got some work to do coming
up next. Boy, do we have a fun story out
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