February 5, 2025 • 57 mins
Chaos all over the place in the NBA and we’re here to discuss it all. Jamal Crawford joins Q and D to touch on the shocking Luka-AD deal, what it will mean for the Lakers now and in the future, and just how good the Mavs can be with their new lineup. The guys discuss De’Aaron Fox being Wemby’s new running mate, as well as the biggest snubs for this year’s All-Star Game. Lots going down, tap in!
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
We live on location. We don't know where Quinn Richardson is,
but we'll find him in a minute.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Out bro' out bro yo, yo, Yo, were back. We're
back man and yo listen, it's so much going on.
We had to bring our young brother, big young mall
in the house. We had to get some help over
here with us, man, because it's it's a lot to
talk about this here Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
What's up, fellas, how y'all doing you know?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Chilling?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Oh, we're good.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
We was just waiting for you to make the interest
like us. You know, we was gonna go see some
skates ride up in here.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You know, the show don't start to get here, so
you know I wanted to make a grand teres right
you know. So you know we're gonna before we get
to hold the drama because I know D Man's over
there rubbing his hand. You know he liked this type
of stuff that we about to talk about today.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yeah, he loved this.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
He's up his album kick it out like we always
do with the Bush your Ass segment. So d you
go first?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Who who is? Who was somebody? I?
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We get Oh I'm gonna go first because I had
d Book. So that's definitely me. The book is my
candidate for bussing your ass of the week because he
gave out thirty four against Portland. But never mind that
the man became the Phoenix Suns all time franchise leading score.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That's a whole lot of buckets, Bro, that's a whole
lot of greatness through that organization for him to, you
know what I'm saying, still be going in the middle
of his journey and already passing it up.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
What y'all think of that?
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I think it's dope for for d book. Man.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You know what I'm saying, Good good light at the
end of the tunnel. You know, they've been having an
up down year. Seem like things are turning around a
little bit. But man, he got busy that But congratulations
to him and his family.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
To be the all time leading score for a franchise,
this is definitely a big deal.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
It's so dope, y'all. Because I was I had.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
To honor being his teammate for one year and every
day after practice we'll play one on one. He won
majority of the times, but a couple of times I
did win. He was so upset and he used to
always ask me the playoffs was liking and what winning
was like and playing in those meaningful games. So when
he got to the playoffs, going to the finals, full circle,
seeing him be the Suns of all time league scorer,
(02:15):
so deserved.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
He works on his.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Game, always trying to get better, and he gonna keep
adding to it too.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Who you got deep, Well, I got that big Bam man.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
You know thirty twelve and nine.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You know, with a game winner, win with a game
winner with everything's going on, Man, that's a that's a
big game to be going against big winby at center
being a small a smaller center. I ain't saying small,
but the smaller center. Thirty twelve and nine. Man, he
did his thing. He didn't pull off the triple double,
(02:50):
but he was damn near close. And the next day
he had the opportunity to watch a legend get her
jersey retired. So that was a good two days for
him to get his dame. Shout out to Ashley, shout
out to Bam.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
I'm gonna go with you.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
See that nixt number eleven on my left shoulder, I'm
gonna go to another.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Number eleven with the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Right now.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
And Jalen Buston he had forty two and ten and
the way he plays is so masterful, y'all because y'all
was both better athletes than I was, but he's so crafty.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
He's always getting to his spots in.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
The game, especially at that point guard position was always
about speed and agility and just being athletic. He does
it in a different way and he's still getting it done.
So I'm gonna go with that forty two points that
Jayleen Brusse had when he with the Knicks, and he
got that win.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I'm mad at that.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And so with that being said, we got all that
out the way, let's go ahead and get to this
trade drama. Deadline is tomorrow, and Lord have mercy. We
all know how it is to be sitting there at
the trade deadline. Some people didn't change travel plans for
their teams and pushed it back to make sure it's
no uncomfortable flights, and some people is not gonna have
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practices and things. So is this this Lucas Anthony Davis trade?
Is this the biggest? Is this the most shocking trade
in NBA history? Fellas what Black just say? You know
it's you know it's serious. You know it's serious. Black,
(04:18):
I'm gonna give you a second.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I'm gonna take this one first, I said Anthony Davis,
if Lebron was still the Lakers' best player, and I
said this last year in its own record, if Lebron
was to go to my stories, if Lebron was still
the Lakers best player, I would trade to Ad to
get three or four pieces to fit Lebron, maybe getting
a dominant wing score.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I even used Kyrie Irving. I didn't know it was
gonna be Luca.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Who knew that? So I said that.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Then people thought I was crazy online on social. Now
you fast forward and it's Luca. I've never seen someone
twenty five years old accomplished this much and get traded
the what's the old thing?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
We always say, are you better than your problems?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Right?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
So I'm thinking, okay, if he's whatever you know was
going on behind the scenes, If there was nothing going
on behind the scenes, you don't trade Luca Donchers. And
then it was only one phone call, like no disrespect.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
You could have got almost anything for Luca. Lucas one
of the best person I.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Spoke to more to like Nico Homee Dn he wonted
a D And I think that's why that's why we
all sitting here today so shocked, because this is probably
the first time where like Lebron didn't know, I don't
I believe he didn't know until the last many because
I don't think a D No. I don't think anybody
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knew but Nico and Rob, and they had like they
spoke about the relationship that they developed over the years
traveling and working with Kobe while Rob was with the Lakers,
and and Nico's with Nike.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And doing all of those things.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So this is probably the first time and I don't
like obviously Lebron is okay with it because it's Luca,
you know what I'm saying. But like Luca, you know,
if it would have been anything else, he might have
raised some hell about this. But I think this is
truly probably the only time in his career where he
didn't know until that twenty fifth hour, right when obviously
when Rich Rich starts to find out an ad like,
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obviously Lebron's gonna be notified then. But I don't think
any of them knew until they came to the deal
and got it situated.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
That's what makes this so crazy.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I think I think it benefits Dallas in the short
term Lakers the long term.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Black what you think, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
To trade Luca, it's only a few people that you
can trade him.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
For, even though he's twenty four.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And you know, we just got to appreciate, you know,
I think we're forgetting about how good Ad is sometimes
when we're speaking on this. But Ad is one of
the guys that you can trade Luca for. So I
think it's I think it worked out for both sides.
I think both sides are happy, both sides are optimistic
of the future, and we're gonna see how it plays out.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So so let's look at what the Lakers do starting
lineup and look like right now, cause we get the
graphic like before that's before tomorrow, because you know, all
day to day and tomorrow they work in the phone,
was trying to get something done. But like right now,
at the current moment, this is what's going down. You
got Luca, Austin Reeves, Lebron Ruy, and Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
What y'all think that's not enough? Right?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That's not enough? But you know, I've been I've been
hard on the Lakers all season. Because I've been wanting
them to get somebody in there to help ad in Lebron.
I didn't think they were gonna get rid of a D.
But they are in the fifth seed. They've been kicking
ass these last ten twelve games, So you gotta tip
your hat off in respect that man. JJ Riddick has
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been doing a great job. They've been coming to play.
So they in the fifth seed and you know, getting
Luke in the fifth seed, and then if they can
make another move, which I feel like they need to
make another move because I think is just so caught
up in a trade that they like, oh, it's just
the future.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
The Lakers can make another move if they want to,
and then they can get real tricky and they can
be ready for the now.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I just think with Luca, with Lebron, neither one have
never had to play without the ball, not for real,
like in the Olympics. You know, small sample sizes for
both of them, but you got to have more shooting
around them. You're gonna have to really stagger their minutes.
You know, they'll start the game together and obviously one
will come out, one will stay on the court. Then
when the other comes back at the beginning of the
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second quarter, the other one goes to the bench. You
gonna have to stagger their minutes that way, I think
to really take advantage of those two, putting those two
an action, I think Lebron' saying the pick for Luca
because that way, when you throw it to Lebron, he
gets downhill and he becomes the point guard in that
four and three situation when Luca gets the trap, There's
gonna be different things, for sure.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
It's gonna be an experiment. But what we do know
is Lebron.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Luca has Lebron's respect, right Like you said, he would
have weighd that no trade CLI. And for the Lakers,
you're like, you know what, we have a global superstar
for the next name whatever they always do.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I actually think the Lakers are looking at it like, hey,
even if we kept AD and we added this, it
still wasn't like we were some some favorite to win
it all. So, like you know what I'm saying, I'm
not negative, like whatever happens this year, like if we
can't pull a piece together, we go as far as
we can with this. But knowing that we got a
generational talent for the foreseeable future one of the top
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three or four if not. You know, arguably he could
be the best in some people's opinions, you know what
I'm saying. But he's definitely in that top five because
he's been All NBA First team for five straight years,
so you got to give him that much respect. And
they got him locked in if he signed a contract
and fellas.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
You know what else is crazy and something I haven't
heard anybody saying.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Just hit me.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
This could give Lebron more energy. You know what, I
was only gonna play another couple of years. I may
extend that another couple after that because a young superstar
with me, a dog, somebody I respect, gives me more energy.
It's gonna keep me sharp. It's almost like going through
the process again. I'm gonna show him some things he
doesn't know, just through experiencing things I conquered, you know,
being a champion, one of the best players ever. It
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could give Lebron another another range of fuel.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
It's it's just interesting to see a team that Lebron
James on that the main goal ain't Lebron James right right,
it's been it's been twenty two. Yeah, we ain't never
seen that so it's interesting to see how how far.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And the other part of what you just said mal like,
could he now be could they look at Luca and
can Luca carry the way they been? You know, Ad
has started to do it, but I don't think it
was as consistent as they wanted it to be. Now
Luca can be the you know what I'm saying, the
one to pull the wagon more so than Lebron, and
it'll be 'lb Ja can kind of ease up and
(10:55):
and ride that coach. Tell that when you say more longevity, like,
he don't have to go as crazy. If if Luke
was gonna do what he's traditionally done.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Because think about it, fellas he's been kind of I
was waiting right. There was a point where you know,
Lebron was like, I want to pass it to add
of take the rings. I want him to take over,
and then he publicly came out like, no, this is
AD's team. We kind of so he's mentally okay with
passing it. But if I'm a pass it to you,
you gotta take the baton and run with it. You
can't take the baton and stumboard, you know what I'm saying.
(11:24):
So now this could give Lebron a whole other thing, like,
now I can do this another five years. I've tearing
my body as much with having more fun when I'm
not the main focus every time on the court.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, I believe he was saying that, and you know,
it sounds good, but from what it looked like, it
still looked like it was Lebron's team exactly exactly. That
was the visual like when Luca coming over there, I
think it's eeschton Stone. It never was really echton Stone.
No matter what Lebron said that it was AD's the
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best player on the team, right, you know what I'm saying.
But now everybody like, nah, it's just twenty five year
old guy, not the forty year old guy. Yeah, so
you know that's that's a different kind of perception.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Let's let's so let's talk about the MAVs side of it.
Put the MAVs new start in five graphic up. Please,
this ain't half bad, fellas, This ain't half bad.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Right here, I look like, listen.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
And then you still think about it lively somewhere in
that mix, and you know they got.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Something PJ Washing and then Woody.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
You know what I'm saying, like, what do we think
about this with the only only only bad part is
that they have tumbled so far down in the rankings.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
If they are eleventh in the West right now.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Because they had the injury, some guys hadn't been available,
they were tumbling. So so what we think with this
right here? How are they looking? I'm excited for them.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I think they got a solid I think they got
a solid team that can prepare for any team that
they play for.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
They got they got PJ.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Washington come off the bench, so they can put a
D at the five and go small all they can.
They can stay big when they playing Joker. They can
throw bodies at Joker. They got Lively, Anthony Davis and
gafferd Uh. I think they're equipped to play a lot
of a lot of teams. Man, I'm excited for what
they're doing. They just added kayleb Mark Martin to the
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to the roster. I was, I was. I was excited
for Grimes because Grimes was playing so good with Luca
being out. But you know, I understand what it is.
But Kayler Martin is another solid player. I think he
can't he Didnet got talked to how to be a
professional coming from from the heat. So he played defense
and he's good on offense. He don't need the ball
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in his hand. Max Christie, I think he played well
last game, I mean his first game as a man.
I think they're gonna be interesting to watch man, and
I think this is a team where a D can
really be the man, the number one option with weapons
around him. Like it's not the situation with the Lakers.
We really finish see a D kind of finish out
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his lig in a top dog Bay.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
The crazy part for me as I look at this graphic,
the thing that jumps out of me. First, they're three
most established players, Kyrie, Clay, Anthony Davis were all counted
out in some way, shape or for him, and Dallas said,
we believe in you. Kyrie. Was that contract he got.
Dallas the only one to offer that contract this summer.
Klay Thompson, same thing. Golden State didn't work with you.
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We believe in you, Clay. Come on over here and
do what you do a d. We just traded Luca
for you, baby. We believe this is your team. So
now you got three dudes, the three most established players
who are playing with their own pride. But they got
something else in their stomach now, Like nah, y'all, they
believe in us in a whole different way. So you
want to run through the wall for organization like that.
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And now Kyrie's back to the That's.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
The other thing that boy got the driving that.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
He's back. He's back to the point. Think about this, y'all.
He's back at the point where he's already mentally took
that step back that you were and to let Luca
do his thing. So ad you the dude I got
you don't worry about it. Here you go, Clay, I'm
gonna get your open shots. So anyone, he's back at
the point with peace. He's back with peace and a
d Even though Lebron tried to pass it to him,
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he didn't have the shadow. He doesn't have that shadow
on Dallas that he had with Lebron. You know, that's
still Lebron. That's still Lebron. You know what I'm saying.
This is a different situation now, you the dude. So
Dallas is gonna be interested now and in the future.
They got something. They got a whip set up, and
I'm sure they're not done exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
He waived the six million dollar trade Kickers so they
could try and do something before the deadline. So they're
definitely not trying to be done. We shall see if
they are or not.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, that's one of the big things. They got assets
to go and get enough. Yes, he got And I've
been hearing a little bit of KD out there, man,
So don't don't they don't.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Everybody hit list right now. Everybody trying to get KD.
His day getting slung around with everybody, the Warriors. I
didn't Houston, listen, everybody can't get KD.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well, oh he is.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Up, Dallas, Man.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
They got nice They got some nice assets that they
can get rid of to get in position to, like
I say, get another store.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It might not be KD.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Jimmy Butler look good over there. You know what I'm saying.
You moved Clay to to two, have Jimmy at the three.
Like it's that they can work out because they got
a solid team. They got a bunch of solid players
that they can figure something out.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Man, shout out to Tanko.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Man, it takes a lot of balls to make a
decision like that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
He read and.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
What what what what we think about the d A
and Fox trade getting him to the Spurs. With Wimby,
Winby got his you know, preseeemably presumably his point guard
of the future, and and Dan and Fox get to
get a little bit of that that that CP three
two leg j C. What y'all what we think about
that deal? Zach Lavine going to Sacramento? What y'all think?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
For me, it's it's it's crazy because I think CP
has brought a grip to knowing how to win and
learning how to win to this young Spurs team. But
obviously he's not gonna play forever. Darren Fox is an
all star. He's clutched. He's gonna fit Winby perfectly because
he knows Wimby's a dude. I'm here to make it
easy for you. I'm really a point guard. Like I'll score,
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but I'm really a point guard. Then you got young
casts over there, who I love. You got the sale,
you got young pieces I love.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
One of them came up over of that, not a Johnson,
not a no. I was like, how they pull it in?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
So hey the Spurs RC Buford tip your hat to
pop right, yes right, absolutely, guy right there.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
He told me that when I was there. But like
all those guys, man.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I've always said, for the twenty years I played, there
was teams that won, but the Spurs were always the
go standard. How to do it right, how to do
things the right way. So you know they got the
best brains over there that making it happen. And Women's
a once in lifetime talent, so you're putting pieces around
him that fit. But Chris Paul was instrumental in setting
the tone in so many different ways on and off
the court. But now getting young Deerren Fox in there
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in his prime to go with this crew, like, oh man,
they gonna be and they're all around the same age.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Fox is obviously be.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Most famous than he ever been.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
He didn't got up out of that nor ever been
a worldwide for North Cali. And that he about to
be next to the alien who's gonna be on TV
all the.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Time, all the time. Then you got Harrison Barnes, who's
a pro, who's not gonna get in away, who's gonna
help their growth. It's the it's the perfect mix right
now to grow.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I think they I think they definitely is gonna be
a dope team. They definitely finna move up in the rankings.
They got three of the best pick and roll guys
in this pick and roll era that's in the league
with CP, with Darren Fox and Winby for the pick
and roll. I think CP gonna really excel playing against
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the second stream, now, you know what I'm saying, coming
in and kind of running that second unit. I think
the Spurs man, they gotta, they gotta, they got a
big upside.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Thinking about the the other rumor trade, like the Warriors
are out there trying to get another All Star and
going looking to get KD or Jimmy What do we
think about Jimmy Butler the way he's hand through his process, Like,
because my opinion, we all know everybody gonna do things
(19:35):
how they want to do it, and we'll see how
how everything net out. But I feel like he probably
could have got this done. If they did it behind
closed doors. He might be gone already. Do y'all feel
that way? Or do you feel like he got this
loud because he tried to go behind closed doors and
they wasn't going for it.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, I think it's I think it's a little bit
of both, you know. Yeah, Jimmy Stubborn, Riley Stubborn, you
know what I'm saying. I think it's a little bit
of both. But I think Jimmy is is. I think
he's being so stubborn because this is his last hurrah.
I don't think Jimmy want to be like Lebron and
play two is forty. I think Jimmy want to get
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him a.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Three year deal.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Want to you know, give these last three years, these
hard years, and just work it all the way out.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I think he knows where he want to go.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
He's he's standing on it, and you know, another another
man's trash can be another organization goals, so like if so,
if they don't pay off, somebody else will. It's always
been like that, you know. I know it's looking bad,
and it's it's looking horrible. We've seen some of the
best guys get treated bad in this league after a while,
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after people felt that they didn't have no more, you know,
all Anthony or Ali iverson or so forth, on like that.
But it don't work out like that for everybody. I
think Jimmy is in a position where he can stand
his ground a little bit more. I hate it looks
so bad, but it is what it is. Like he
turned I think Golden State offered him.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
And he turned them away. Want to go.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
He didn't want to go there, and they offered him
the extension and he didn't want to go there. So,
like I said, it's other teams out there that's willing
to put up with the bullshit if you want to
say it's bullshit to get to where he is.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
So we gonna see his dream.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I think it was a second option that you said, Q.
I think he tried to do it quietly after he
won an extension. Jimmy, Like, hold up, y'all in a
four year span, I took y'all to two finals and
and y'all ain't really bring no I mean, you can
have about some help, but you didn't bring the help
I need that. I thought, I need to win a
championship and I got you there and I can't get
an extension.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Oh it's up.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
It's up now, Like I'm gonna tell you quietly, but
now I got to get loud and now I got
to go this route.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
And I think that's what happening.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
And so, like you said, the Miles, it's his last
big contract because he don't want to play forever.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
He want to go do what he do. Jimmy's a world,
he dude.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
He want to get out in the world, and he
wanted stuff all over the world, right, so play dominoes
pop up like dra three thousand with his flut, he
would want to go to Paris and play some dominoes.
That's that's Jimmy, right, So Jimmy want to live like that.
Jimmy got sold. So with that, I think he is like, no,
I'm gonna get loud. It's gonna be a piston contest.
I'll just stand here.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I'm cool.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I've already mentally said I'm gonna stand here until you
you want to make a move because eventually it's gonna
be his last year his contract. You're gonna lose me
for nothing. I know you don't want to do that.
So now it's it's a it's a piston contest until
you know he he's moved. And I'm not saying it's right.
I'm not saying none of it's right, but it is
what it is. Until this thing is finished, it's gonna
be a distraction for the other players that are there.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Until it's today.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Right, Let's trade a Chris Middleton to West to Washington
for Kyle Kuzlan.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
What do we think about that deal? What you said what.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I wouldn't have made. I wouldn't have made that deal.
I would that wouldn't I really kept Chris Millerton, you know,
I really kept his veteran I rather kept his championship experience.
Nothing against Kyle Kuzma. Uh, I just would have kept
I think I felt that they could have got more
(23:27):
from somewhere else for Chris Millerton. You know what I'm saying.
Nothing like I say no disrespect to Kyle Kuzman. I
think Kyle Kuzman is a good player. You know, I
think he should have been in Dallas last year when
when they asked to get him and he tried to
stay in a situation that wasn't never gonna win nothing
in the first place.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
But uh, if I was the Bucks, I wouldn't have
made that move.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But hey, you know, Kuzman has won a championship. He
has been on a veteran team that that went all
the way to a finals and won something. So no,
hopefully that work out for them, But just me personally,
I felt like somewhere else, I felt I could have
got something.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
But yeah, I think obviously the Bucks re searching for
a consistent third option, Milton was the perfect fit.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Milton even had the perfect demeanor to.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Go with Dami Giannis. Oh you guys got it, I'll
take her when need it. KOs is like, nah, I'm
going so.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
And he just said that.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
He's like, hey, y'all, I'm just like y'all know, I'm
tired of children over here, so I'm about to go
and go. And they was like, oh, we better make
a move because we can't have him doing that. But
I think the Bucks brought him in to win four games.
And what I mean by that is the Bucks are
trying to win a championship. They're saying, Cools, if you
could be cools, just one game around, these other two
dudes gonna take care of the other three games, and
the coaching and all that will take care of three games.
(24:47):
If you can win me one game per round, it
was worth it because that's me in champions right. So
they want him to go Kou's full cous mode one
game around if he could do it to help them win.
But third option, you know, obviously he knows Jonnis and
Dame of the dudes, but there's gonna be ties when
he's rolling too, so that's gonna be an interesting dynamic.
But he can definitely put the rock in the hole.
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Like we know he knows how to score the basketball.
And confidently before we.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Get back to everything, man mam got a busy day,
you know, he big time.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
He the lead ancre on the new show on NBA.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
I can't be doing TV without you like that going on.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
He blessed us today. You know, he found me. He
like cutting pee. He come over, get a plate and
all that. Heferator.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
I am hey when that when they come across the airwaves,
I'm already you might but me done.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
That's done, Like bro Man from the fifth floor. You
never know when he might just pop in on us
on the show. But right now he gonna slide out
because he got some other stuff he gotta do. You know,
he big time coach. He he got a lot of
He wear a lot of hats, He do a lot
of things. But you know, we appreciate my dog always.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Away.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
How you know. That's what it is, young mam, mam
crawl for everybody.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Appreciate y'all.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Yes, sir, bro Nah, let's get back to it, black man.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
We got look at these West standings right now after
all of this this movement, and we still might have
something happening right now that we don't even know about.
You got the Thunder still running, the still running the
show out west and Grizzlies and took over number two
from the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Last time we checked, it was the two and the
three was swap. Now they didn't switch it out. They
got that Gg Jackson back two. Boy Gg Jackson came
back the night had like twenty seven. They got job
back out there and Jan Tripple Javen having thirties all
over the place. Yeah, Rockets at three, you got Nuggets
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at four, Lakers at five.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
They still they got the same amount of losses as
the Nuggets too. That's close to being the first round.
You know what I'm saying. Home court advantage, our clips
at six. T Woll was still simmering down there at seven,
Sacramento at eight. And look at the Warriors in the
Suns Bro play in bound. That don't look good.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah yeah, they fighting, And you know this, it's not
on the screen. But you got Dallas at eleven, you
got San Antonio at twelve, them or two of the
teams that just made big time trades to get in
this playoff hunt. So man, they twelve strong over there,
and it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It looked good over there, man, the Grizzlies looked very good.
Houston just gave up a barn burner to the next
the other night that I don't can believe how they
gave that game up. You know, d Lo hit the
big time three at the end. Uh, it's gonna get
interested in the second half. Man, I'm talking about after
All Star break.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Man, it's gonna be all.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
It's definitely about to be serious.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And you know that all after All Star break is
not like how it used to be where we had
like a still a big It's a small portion of
games after all start now, so it's gonna be the
fast and yeah, let's get to the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
From standards, though they go do on Cleveland calves.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
They seen three to the All Star Game too, forty
and ten them boys out there hooping. Celtics still holding
it down doing what they do. Shout out J Tatum
about that being a straight killer. Knicks Knicks at three,
pacers at four, bucks at five the Pistons, bro gotta
salute the Pistons at six, twenty five and twenty five
(28:18):
motor the heat my magic. Then the wheels it came off. Bro,
we under five hundred. I'm sitting here like, dang, we
gotta get back and sink now. Everybody getting back except
mob but like we got an injury.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Bug killed us.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Then shout out Trey Young man they still playing, my boy?
You saw how he did them people, man shooting three
stepping over him for the game.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Like how he ain't no All star black.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I don't like that. I don't like that. He deserved
to be an All Star.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah him, man, I'll say, Mellow man, that was that
was crazy.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
So you realize Mellow is the first player in the
here history to be voted as a starter by the
fans and not make the game at all, like not
even as a reserve, didn't make the game at all,
Like come on, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I think I think Trey Young is the first player
to lead the league and assist and not make.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
So who your snow? Whos the biggest snub in your opinion?
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
The I think in the East? In the East is
Mellow and Trey Young?
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
In the West.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Man Uh and the man it's it's it's it's some
guys in the west, shorts.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
The Short's the West, the West graphic, please, the West
graphic of reserves.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
There you have it almost.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I just don't believe j I had al Parine when
y'all had Jalen Williams.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, I just can't believe that it's they picked five
big men.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
But this is my thing, This is my bigger argument
right here, Black because if you look at this right here,
I don't want to take nobody off.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
I feel like everyone, everybody, This is what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Why would we not make the All Star Game fifteen
man rosters on each team and then it's just Ease
versus West Classic, Go Weddy.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Why wouldn't it be fifteen? Why does it got to
be a snub every time?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
If we're doing so many adjustments, you know, it's always
like all right, like he's gonna always be some old heads.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Don't really want to play, don't really care to play.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
They start the game, you know what I'm saying, Like
how Tim Dunkys do Tim Duncan to start a game
then don't play no more type stuff? Like everybody like
you know what I'm saying, Like Tyler Hero deserved to
be an All Star, but Trey Young, don't you know
what I'm saying, Kate Cunnyhan deserve to be an All Star,
but LaMelo didn't like. Hold on, man, it should be
fifteen fifteen man rosters and that'll make it a lot
(31:03):
easier for the other three guys to get in.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
And it'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, yeah, it definitely will.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
It's it's gonna be snubs.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
The league is too good guys that have you know
what I'm saying, there's too many guys. You should do
it for that the league has gotten a lot like
individually due to a lot better man.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
That's leaving people off, Like that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
It's you know, it's hard to do it. It's hard
to pick somebody over popularity that that just because they popular,
they get voted to the All Star Game when other
guys are having a better year than it.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
But this is my this is this is I understand
what you're saying, right, But we the NBA, we're trying
to generate views and odds on the game and viewership
and running numbers up, right, So how are we helping
ourself if we don't put the man who the fans
voted the most.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
But if he if he's not deserving of it, he.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Is deserving of it. LaMelo Ball is absolutely deserving to
be an All Star.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
No, that's not that's not the situation he left.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
But he led the fans. This is what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
The fans are who we want to watch, right, The
fans voted this kid to be the He got voted
more than any any other guards, is right, So those
the people we want to watch the game. So we
returned that, say, and then they say, well, forget what
y'all think.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
He ain't going. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Yeah, well, let me ask you this because that's that's
a situation over in the East. The situation over in
the West is this is not Steph curry best year.
Steph Curry averaging like twenty two points, this is not
his best year. It's other guards that's in the West
that's having better years.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Better. Let me tell you the difference.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
But Steph Curry is starting you.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
On the West.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Why I know that difference between why he got it
and why why LaMelo didn't This because okay, he got
the same thing. He got the fan vote Steph did,
but not only did he get that, the players in
the and the coaches voted for him too. You see
what I'm saying now what that that could be right
or wrong, But I'm just saying, like, that's that's the difference.
(33:24):
Like they told me about like the fans said yes,
and the players and the coaches said no to LaMelo,
and the opposite happened over there for for Steph for
the West.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, yeah, No, I'm just saying that's the that's the
miscon Screw what is the criteria? Like what what do
you suppose to do to to make it like it's
starting the max thirty like, but like you don't know
the criteria, you know what I'm saying, if you're not
(33:55):
one of the most popular guys in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
This is what I heard.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
And I don't really agree with it though, because like
they said, oh h, the LaMelo's team is trash.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
You know what I'm saying, they record is trash.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
But Tray Young, if I'm not mistaken, Trey Young average
thirty one year and they was like thirteenth, fourteenth in
the East.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
He made Dog Star Game.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
It changes from time to time. Bro, I can't explain it.
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
It's not no set criteria, Like, it's not no set criteria.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
For Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Like a lot of these awards, it's not no set
criteria of what it takes or what you got to
do to win these awards or to get this gold jacket.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
You know, it's listen, and this is the thing that
this is the thing that I feel bad for because
when you look at it, a guy like Trey Young, right,
this is all about at the end of the day,
when you get through playing, you you sit back and
you you look at what everything you've done with you accumulated.
Broden been robbed out of like three four All Stars.
(35:01):
Bro that's a lot of status right there.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
And I ain't want to bring Steph Curry up to
I'm a big fan of Steph Curry, but I ain't
trying to bash Steph Curry.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
But like I just I just.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Look at a guy like Trey Young, and I feel
bad that he ain't got as many All Star games
as I felt like he should.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
And it's it's cold, like he said, it ain't.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Even getting snubbed no more. It's called he called it
getting trade. That's what that's how that's how many times
he feel this is happened to him.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And I agree, like Sabona's another guy. That's another guy
that's in the league who lead the league in rebounds
that don't make The last person who did that was
Dennis Robin, and I guess we understood why he didn't
make the All Star team.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
But like, come on, go on all day about these snubs, Man,
give them fifteen man rosters and some of this to
be solved. Man, let's get let's get to the fan questions. Man,
see see what they got before we get up out
of here. Talk to these fans real quick. I got
one I want to go to first. It's say it's
my partner in them. I think my partner isn't them
to be spending fire. NBA talked two to one five.
(36:09):
He say, what's your thoughts on the state of the game.
I heard many folks saying the game is on the decline?
What do you think black.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Uh gaming.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
I don't think the game is I wouldn't say a
decline because you know, we we we always gonna love basketball.
It's just it's at a funny state now. I think
it's just like it's called in the middle or something
that we're trying to get it out this snag to
get it back rolling the proper way that it should
(36:40):
be rolling. But I wouldn't say it's on the decline
because it's still NBA Basketball. It is still the best
group of guys in the world. It's still the best
sports sport in the world to me, So I don't
think it's on the.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
D I definitely don't think it's on the decline. I
think I think it's just a different, different era.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Man.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
You know, this generation is a little bit different than
the classic or our generation or the generation before us.
Like guys could do a lot of different things now,
you know what I'm saying, Like guys got other interests,
and I think the social media aspect of it all,
it kind of it kind of changes the fans, you
know what I'm saying, They perspective of the athlete. Because
(37:24):
before you didn't get to know that much about us.
You couldn't feel certain ways about us and think certain
things about us because you weren't privy to certain information
about us, Like we.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Weren't certain things wasn't available to you.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Now it could be like, whoever the toughest dude in
the world, you could see him on a cord on
the field and he's doing you know, doing tough stuff,
and then you see him on Instagram or you see
him on social media, you like, hold on, bro, like
oh man, Like you know what I'm saying. So it's like,
I think, I think that's what's the difference. Did they
see the players in the different light? Then they think
(37:58):
certain thoughts about him, like you know what I'm saying.
We do the same thing as fans. We see things.
The hell was that whatever?
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
So I think as far as the game, like the
players are probably not probably they more skilled than we've
ever been, it's more of them. Like as far as
like an abundance of players and not just like ten, twelve,
twenty guys, it's like a whole lot of dudes that
got game. That's why we're talking about slugs and All
Star snubs and guys that deserve it. But uh, I
(38:26):
think that's I think that's just a general you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
After everything get.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Calibrated to that and everybody get back and sync, I think,
like you say, everything be straight.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
But I don't think the game on the declimb.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
And I've been a fan of every every iteration of
the game from before I played to when I played
to watch it now after I'm not playing no more,
so I can't say that, yeah, okay, we got b
D out of all the trades so far, who's overpaid
the most and gotten back the least amount? Bull's the
biggest losers in his opinion. I have to agree with that. Uh,
(39:02):
bulls didn't get nothing.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
They lost Caruso, they lost the rolls and they lost.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Yourself, Bro, they lost they wanted to do.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
I'm now like the last couple at least at least
pinched the bit, like get something out of something like damn.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Like listen, yeah, I agree with you, Bro, I can't.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
I think they definitely have gotten the least back out
of everything. But today I feel that's their angle. I
think they're trying to quit a decks and go ahead
and hit the reset button. So we'll see how this
goals for them. Anthony, what's your opinion about there maybe
being ten minute quarters? We don't want the game shortened, man,
(39:46):
leave like game like it is. We ain't got to
do all of this stuff like Pineapple. I don't like like.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You know, when we first got to the league, you
used to have to everybody used to have to guard
they man. It was a it was a rule called
illegal defense. If you're not guarding your man, they'll call
that illegal defense. To me, that was separated college from pros.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
When you got to the pro you have to guard somebody,
and then they started letting you zone up a little
bit in the pros.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
This is like the last straw.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Don't change the time, man, Like, God damn, we can't
change the minutes now, Like yeah, in the Olympics, in
college and in high school they play their minutes. But nah,
we gotta keep forty eight minutes. Like, come on, we
gotta keep for that.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Listen. We can't. We can't. We can't.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
God damn blue leg everything man, dang, next caller, Okay, Montage,
we got a regular he say, start bench trade for
perimeter defenders Edition, strictly defense.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
You ain't got nothing to do with this, denids. You
only protected at the rim. This is this is he
only to me.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
You don't got nothing, only defense not.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
You already hurt man, already let you know what he was.
You was view.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
He told you report you a real protector. I'm a defender.
Let me do this segment.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
I love you. I ain't gonna even say.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
It's already like it's on wax Man like Joe, Okay,
thanks Montage say start bench trade perimeter Defenders, Edition strictly defense, Avery, Bradley,
Drew Holliday, Tony Allen, where you going black?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
I will start to I would bench Drew, I would
trade brad.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
To follow that cab. I'm doing the same damn thing,
same damn time t A first team All defense shot
town shot town t A. Yeah, next caller, Can okay
see be a dark horse for k D?
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Hey man, I feel okay Ce has the assets to
throw a lot of stuff over there to them that
they would love to have for k D.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Wait a minute, come on down, Wait a minute, Wait
a minute. I didn't. I hadn't heard.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Okay, Okay is ten DP.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
They ten eleven deep, not.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Only deep, with like real plans. They can train. They
got a million picks to throw too if they wanted
to exactly so at it.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
I'm just like, yeah, I hadn't really even considered that
that would be man s G A and and k
D and possibly and and and I.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Don't I don't want that though. I don't want to
see that.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
I want I want I love what what Shade doing
so much?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
I want sha.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
None of that, just stay over there doing his country
of rock with that Chris no size.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
You know what I'm saying, you need their.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Whole little band though. I like their whole little click though.
I like they ain't want to think.
Speaker 4 (43:15):
Like you don't have the fabric of what's going on
the part you gonna have.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
You gotta respect his youngster, you know. I like that though.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
That was that's a that's a crazy scenario in light
of all this this this lucashit just coming flim flam
out of the air like that would be a crazy
Next caller, cowboy. Do players have people that assist them
when they get traded to a new teams in terms
of moving, getting kids in school, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
Yes and no, like right now at this point.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Yeah, it's called a wife, the old lady, girlfriend, significant other.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
That's that's what they call.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
But most signs like you got y'all gotta understand like this,
Why I say y'all like fans be thinking it's just sweet,
like bro for a D, right, he just got traded
him and Luca like a D. I think Luca's kids
may not be at school age. But AD's kids I
think are in school. His wife ain't coming and stuff.
TOD like, they'll probably come, but they not like moving
(44:12):
right away. They like a D will probably be renting
a spot or in a hotel for the foreseeable time
and his kids gonna stay in La finish at school.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
Like, yeah, they're gonna finish this year. They're gonna finish
this year too.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
Teams do. I was directed player development in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Teams have people and and and situations appointed to when
that player arrives to help them with whatever they need,
to help get their stuff delivered or whatever they moving
from wherever, and to help smoove that process. But like shit,
it's still be a like he say, your old lady,
your wife gotta be involved. And that's if they even
coming right away. That'll probably be later down the stretch
(44:47):
for Ad because the kids is in middle of school year.
They're not gonna just leave their friends and everything they
know and just bounce.
Speaker 4 (44:53):
So it's like that's the hardest part.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
That's the one thing unfortunate for in my whole career,
I've been traded and all of that stuff, but I
never got traded during season like that's that's the worst
thing in the world for me to get traded in
the middle of a season. I don't care what nobody's saying.
That's the worst thing ever to me because you got
to pick up over here that you paid for, you
paying for it for the have a long and then
you gotta go get a new Like nah, bro, it was.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Like you had a time limit to get out your house.
It was like you get traded, Like, man, I gotta
pack all this stuff because I ain't gonna be able
to come back and grab nothing. So you just gotta
pack as much as you need you can pack and
the like really in like a twenty four hour maybe
a forty forty eight hour span, like like you gotta
(45:39):
pack bag at the bag at the bag to get
to get up out because they if they traded for you,
they want you right away. They gotta get you in,
they gotta get you a physical, they gotta get like
like it's it's it's a in the middle of the season.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
It's a process.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
Man.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
That's a good question. On that's collar Fitch TMB. Who
are your front runners.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
For g M O T.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
What is g M O T yuh of the Year
GM of the Year and Coach of the Year. Halfway
the GM of the Year, Man, I.
Speaker 4 (46:15):
Was gonna say first.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
I was going with Okay, see it first for getting
Hartenstein and Caruso.
Speaker 4 (46:27):
Uh, but I think I'm gonna have to go.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
I'm gonna have to go with I'm gonna have to
go with with Nico on this one on the on
the GM of the Year and Coach of the Year.
I'm definitely giving that to Kenny Atkinson and Cleveland, but
my man Bickerstaff deserves kudos and Detroit and uh, e.
Speaker 4 (46:59):
May and Hugh.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with with Nico too.
I think that's like I think what he did, it
goes down in history is one of the biggest trades ever.
That's that's a hard decision to make, and he gotta
believe in what he's trying to put together and his
(47:23):
strategy on trying to get that team a championship. Not
for the future, but right away. Uh, Coach of the Year,
I'm with you. I gotta go with Akison over there
in Cleveland. But I've been screaming about it all year. Man,
I love what e May is doing. Shout out to JB. Two,
but you know, e may man, what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (47:46):
They let it.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
They could have made be in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
They could be in the playoff play in Nobody would
have thought by February they have been playing with one
with two and three the whole time, So that's big doubt.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
Next collar DM Master.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Was there any NBA city slash arena that you disliked
playing in? Like every time you had a road game
in that arena area, you were dreading it. I hated Utah,
the Delta Center, that joint was like it's still the
same actually, but like that's one of the like, you know,
that's one of the I guess they consider that consider
it more of the intimate arenas where they you know
(48:25):
how it's like kind of steep, but they right up
on you. I ain't never like care for playing in Utah, uh.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Man, I don't really. Every arena is kind of cool
with me and I really want I hated just playing
preseason game and them bullshit as Yeah, I think we
h Cleveland flew us all. Yeah, we were saying Cleveland.
One year we flew out the San Diego to play
(48:57):
the Lakers. Like after the first quarter they had to
cancel the game because the floor wasn't as good. I
hate when they just kind of choose places that's not
really right for us to really play and get down.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
Man, let me tell you a funny story about it,
and been the first year with the magic right. This
is classic. Bro, we get we gotta play a game.
I think it was like a Daytona because like that's
where Vince is from. Vince Carter, he was on the team. Then, Bro,
we go down there the same shit you talk about,
like condensation to something, the floors where everybody keeps lopping
(49:33):
this before the game even get going.
Speaker 4 (49:35):
We don't even They like, nah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (49:39):
So they trying to you know, they gonna do everything
they can to like try and figure out the way
to get you to play this game.
Speaker 4 (49:45):
So we're sitting there talking to Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
They talking about to Jimmy like, man, I think they
still might try and get some of y'all. The play
said something more to play. He's like, yeah, I think
they're discussing the starters not playing. I say, shitn't me,
I say, you won't you think you're about to send
me out like a sacrifice. They've moved around like room,
and they canceled the whole game, Like where y'all got
(50:10):
us twisted?
Speaker 5 (50:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (50:11):
I think we was in New Mexico or something. They
canceled that game too. I just hate when they just
choose a certain thing in the arenas, like all the
NBA arenas be you know, a one the top of the.
Speaker 3 (50:22):
Class, making sure they can hold preseason gets canceled.
Speaker 4 (50:28):
No more like that, but yeah, that was the thing. Yeah, preseason.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
You know they kind of reach a little bit because
you know they're trying to, you know, make make the
fans happy, you know, to get them this one opportunity
that may come through here where you can get your
local team to come to a smaller city that doesn't
have a team or something to see the NBA players
like I appreciate it, appreciate and St. Louis the year before,
(50:58):
I think ticketing them play in Saint Louis my senior
year in high school. And then when I got to
the league, we all went to Saint Louis. I got
the opportunity to bring my whole team to East Saint Louis,
let my grandmother and my mom cook for them, let
them see the hood. Like I thought that was dope,
But you know then it was the only time that
(51:19):
I really had a problem that I didn't really just
like playing in certain stuff like locker rooms used to
be pure bullshit, Like it looked like we was in
high school, you.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
Know so, but they're doing a better job with it now.
They came with some dope questions today. Man, they had
us talking up in here.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
Let's up.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
We got one last one before we get out of here, cowboy.
I hope this question isn't intrusive. What are thoughts on
the mini documentary clipped the series that was on Hulu listen?
Speaker 4 (51:54):
It was funny to me.
Speaker 3 (51:55):
I thought it was hilarious, laughing at the people that
they had playing, certain people like CP Mall and all
of them. It was hilarious to me. I mean, I
actually know about a lot of the things that happened
and all that, So to me, it was more like
a comedy. It was like a comedy show to watch,
even though I know that it was a lot of
serious stuff that took place in that, but like watching
(52:18):
that depiction of it was comedy.
Speaker 4 (52:20):
I'm sorry, it was. It was pure comedy. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
It was a cool comedy, you know, and I grew
up watching Al Bundy. Al Bundy, you know so, man,
I think he did a phenomenal job.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Man, Lawrence Fishburn, Hey, how you feel me?
Speaker 4 (52:37):
The guys that they ill.
Speaker 1 (52:38):
It was a good comedy to me, you know, I
know something that the situations like you said, or or
serious situations.
Speaker 2 (52:45):
But I enjoyed it like it was a comedy. Serious watch.
Speaker 4 (52:49):
That's how I looked at it. All Right, we're gonna
do the the stat of the day before we get
up out of here. You know what I'm saying. Stat
of the day.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
Luca the Don has the third highest regular season scoring
average in NBA history, only behind you already know him
j and Will and the second highest playoffs scoring averaging
league history at thirty point nine, only behind him Jr.
Like listen, well, bad man. That's why this is a big,
(53:20):
big risk to roll the dice. And that's why I
don't think this really is about what Luca's gonna do
movie for. I think this was just about Nico dem
honing in and saying they want a d He's a
better fit for these next three four years what we're
trying to do, because at twenty five, doing what Luca
has done it's no reason to think he ain't gonna
keep doing it. And now he got a chip on
(53:42):
his shoulder, so wash the hell out.
Speaker 4 (53:45):
Yeah, exactly, all right? Who you got your shout out
for black who shout out of the day is I
got you?
Speaker 2 (53:50):
I actually got too shit to shout out.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
My first one is to w NBA legend Asia Wilson.
You know she had a jersey, retired in South Carolina
with her favorite Olympian dirt with her. But not only that,
which was dope, she dropped her shoe. Finally we got
(54:14):
that A one, they calling it the A one. She
got her own shoe, y'all, plus her own little brand. Man,
make sure you're going represent Asia. Go out there, you females,
you women, you girls, all the all that go out
there and represent Asia.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
She got a fire shoe and.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
That that's a that's a dope. That's my first one.
My second one is, man, just shout out the NBA.
Speaker 2 (54:40):
Man.
Speaker 1 (54:40):
I'm talking about man. That that trade just rocked, rock
just rocked the system, like messed up the algorithm for
a minute where everybody was talking about the NBA and man,
just shout out to the NBA.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
Man.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
It's it's it's on. We're finna get past this super Bowl.
Let these football guys get on out the way. Then
it's all about this basketball. So, you know, shout out
to NBA man with one of them trades that really
shocked the world and moved across the land.
Speaker 4 (55:07):
That was actually my shout out to man.
Speaker 3 (55:09):
My shoutout was to the NBA for, like you said,
the movement and the seismic activity we got going on
right now. I feel like we got the news cycle
in the choke hold. I know, the you know, the commission,
everybody got something to do with anything. It's gonna be
excited because right now with the moves that's happened, and
probably whatever else is gonna happen leading to tomorrow is
gonna send up the boost to sell because you already
(55:30):
know that Luca Jersey about to be new moro. Oh no,
sorry Wemby, it's a new chef in town on the
top selling jersey. It's about to go so fast too,
I'm telling you so Lee is about to go up
from that from the trades, Danne Fox Jersey going crazy
like so, you know, just shout out to the LEA
for for the moves being made and we putting this
(55:51):
super Bowl week coming up.
Speaker 4 (55:52):
Bro, we got the we got the news cycle in
the choke. Hol who you got for a super Bowl?
For the Super Bowl? I got the Chiefs, mister Mahonie,
Patty Mahoney, cause I just see who you got.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
I I think the Chief's gonna win, but I don't
want them to win.
Speaker 2 (56:12):
I want the Eagles to win.
Speaker 4 (56:14):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
I don't want to see the Chiefs because I got
a friend that's a Chief friend. I don't want to
see the Chiefs three pig just I just don't.
Speaker 3 (56:21):
So I'm just in the middle of some well, you know,
that's it, man, that's the first tap in a twenty
twenty five. Man, we're gonna be hollering at y'all every
Wednesday right here on Knuckleheads YouTube at two pm.
Speaker 4 (56:34):
Me q Rich D.
Speaker 3 (56:35):
Miles the blackest One, Hey Mantar, say hah q you
definitely a defender.
Speaker 4 (56:40):
D Miles definitely is not. We gonna end on that. No,
that was fantastic to stick that.
Speaker 1 (56:44):
One right up in there by almost called you out
your name drop got.
Speaker 2 (56:52):
No, he just messed me up with that. I was
thinking about myself like that.
Speaker 4 (56:57):
That's just we out, we'll see how next wait mhm
We live on location. We don't know where Quinn Richardson is,
but we'll find him in a minute.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Out bro' out bro yo, yo, Yo, were back. We're
back man and yo listen, it's so much going on.
We had to bring our young brother, big young mall
in the house. We had to get some help over
here with us, man, because it's it's a lot to
talk about this here Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
What's up, fellas, how y'all doing you know?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Chilling?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Oh, we're good.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
We was just waiting for you to make the interest
like us. You know, we was gonna go see some
skates ride up in here.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You know, the show don't start to get here, so
you know I wanted to make a grand teres right
you know. So you know we're gonna before we get
to hold the drama because I know D Man's over
there rubbing his hand. You know he liked this type
of stuff that we about to talk about today.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yeah, he loved this.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
He's up his album kick it out like we always
do with the Bush your Ass segment. So d you
go first?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Who who is? Who was somebody? I?
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We get Oh I'm gonna go first because I had
d Book. So that's definitely me. The book is my
candidate for bussing your ass of the week because he
gave out thirty four against Portland. But never mind that
the man became the Phoenix Suns all time franchise leading score.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That's a whole lot of buckets, Bro, that's a whole
lot of greatness through that organization for him to, you
know what I'm saying, still be going in the middle
of his journey and already passing it up.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
What y'all think of that?
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I think it's dope for for d book. Man.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You know what I'm saying, Good good light at the
end of the tunnel. You know, they've been having an
up down year. Seem like things are turning around a
little bit. But man, he got busy that But congratulations
to him and his family.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
To be the all time leading score for a franchise,
this is definitely a big deal.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
It's so dope, y'all. Because I was I had.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
To honor being his teammate for one year and every
day after practice we'll play one on one. He won
majority of the times, but a couple of times I
did win. He was so upset and he used to
always ask me the playoffs was liking and what winning
was like and playing in those meaningful games. So when
he got to the playoffs, going to the finals, full circle,
seeing him be the Suns of all time league scorer,
(02:15):
so deserved.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
He works on his.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Game, always trying to get better, and he gonna keep
adding to it too.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Who you got deep, Well, I got that big Bam man.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
You know thirty twelve and nine.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You know, with a game winner, win with a game
winner with everything's going on, Man, that's a that's a
big game to be going against big winby at center
being a small a smaller center. I ain't saying small,
but the smaller center. Thirty twelve and nine. Man, he
did his thing. He didn't pull off the triple double,
(02:50):
but he was damn near close. And the next day
he had the opportunity to watch a legend get her
jersey retired. So that was a good two days for
him to get his dame. Shout out to Ashley, shout
out to Bam.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
I'm gonna go with you.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
See that nixt number eleven on my left shoulder, I'm
gonna go to another.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Number eleven with the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Right now.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
And Jalen Buston he had forty two and ten and
the way he plays is so masterful, y'all because y'all
was both better athletes than I was, but he's so crafty.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
He's always getting to his spots in.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
The game, especially at that point guard position was always
about speed and agility and just being athletic. He does
it in a different way and he's still getting it done.
So I'm gonna go with that forty two points that
Jayleen Brusse had when he with the Knicks, and he
got that win.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I'm mad at that.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And so with that being said, we got all that
out the way, let's go ahead and get to this
trade drama. Deadline is tomorrow, and Lord have mercy. We
all know how it is to be sitting there at
the trade deadline. Some people didn't change travel plans for
their teams and pushed it back to make sure it's
no uncomfortable flights, and some people is not gonna have
(03:57):
practices and things. So is this this Lucas Anthony Davis trade?
Is this the biggest? Is this the most shocking trade
in NBA history? Fellas what Black just say? You know
it's you know it's serious. You know it's serious. Black,
(04:18):
I'm gonna give you a second.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I'm gonna take this one first, I said Anthony Davis,
if Lebron was still the Lakers' best player, and I
said this last year in its own record, if Lebron
was to go to my stories, if Lebron was still
the Lakers best player, I would trade to Ad to
get three or four pieces to fit Lebron, maybe getting
a dominant wing score.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I even used Kyrie Irving. I didn't know it was
gonna be Luca.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Who knew that? So I said that.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Then people thought I was crazy online on social. Now
you fast forward and it's Luca. I've never seen someone
twenty five years old accomplished this much and get traded
the what's the old thing?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
We always say, are you better than your problems?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Right?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
So I'm thinking, okay, if he's whatever you know was
going on behind the scenes, If there was nothing going
on behind the scenes, you don't trade Luca Donchers. And
then it was only one phone call, like no disrespect.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
You could have got almost anything for Luca. Lucas one
of the best person I.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Spoke to more to like Nico Homee Dn he wonted
a D And I think that's why that's why we
all sitting here today so shocked, because this is probably
the first time where like Lebron didn't know, I don't
I believe he didn't know until the last many because
I don't think a D No. I don't think anybody
(05:39):
knew but Nico and Rob, and they had like they
spoke about the relationship that they developed over the years
traveling and working with Kobe while Rob was with the Lakers,
and and Nico's with Nike.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And doing all of those things.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So this is probably the first time and I don't
like obviously Lebron is okay with it because it's Luca,
you know what I'm saying. But like Luca, you know,
if it would have been anything else, he might have
raised some hell about this. But I think this is
truly probably the only time in his career where he
didn't know until that twenty fifth hour, right when obviously
when Rich Rich starts to find out an ad like,
(06:13):
obviously Lebron's gonna be notified then. But I don't think
any of them knew until they came to the deal
and got it situated.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
That's what makes this so crazy.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I think I think it benefits Dallas in the short
term Lakers the long term.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Black what you think, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
To trade Luca, it's only a few people that you
can trade him.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
For, even though he's twenty four.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And you know, we just got to appreciate, you know,
I think we're forgetting about how good Ad is sometimes
when we're speaking on this. But Ad is one of
the guys that you can trade Luca for. So I
think it's I think it worked out for both sides.
I think both sides are happy, both sides are optimistic
of the future, and we're gonna see how it plays out.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So so let's look at what the Lakers do starting
lineup and look like right now, cause we get the
graphic like before that's before tomorrow, because you know, all
day to day and tomorrow they work in the phone,
was trying to get something done. But like right now,
at the current moment, this is what's going down. You
got Luca, Austin Reeves, Lebron Ruy, and Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
What y'all think that's not enough? Right?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That's not enough? But you know, I've been I've been
hard on the Lakers all season. Because I've been wanting
them to get somebody in there to help ad in Lebron.
I didn't think they were gonna get rid of a D.
But they are in the fifth seed. They've been kicking
ass these last ten twelve games, So you gotta tip
your hat off in respect that man. JJ Riddick has
(07:47):
been doing a great job. They've been coming to play.
So they in the fifth seed and you know, getting
Luke in the fifth seed, and then if they can
make another move, which I feel like they need to
make another move because I think is just so caught
up in a trade that they like, oh, it's just
the future.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
The Lakers can make another move if they want to,
and then they can get real tricky and they can
be ready for the now.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I just think with Luca, with Lebron, neither one have
never had to play without the ball, not for real,
like in the Olympics. You know, small sample sizes for
both of them, but you got to have more shooting
around them. You're gonna have to really stagger their minutes.
You know, they'll start the game together and obviously one
will come out, one will stay on the court. Then
when the other comes back at the beginning of the
(08:34):
second quarter, the other one goes to the bench. You
gonna have to stagger their minutes that way, I think
to really take advantage of those two, putting those two
an action, I think Lebron' saying the pick for Luca
because that way, when you throw it to Lebron, he
gets downhill and he becomes the point guard in that
four and three situation when Luca gets the trap, There's
gonna be different things, for sure.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
It's gonna be an experiment. But what we do know
is Lebron.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Luca has Lebron's respect, right Like you said, he would
have weighd that no trade CLI. And for the Lakers,
you're like, you know what, we have a global superstar
for the next name whatever they always do.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I actually think the Lakers are looking at it like, hey,
even if we kept AD and we added this, it
still wasn't like we were some some favorite to win
it all. So, like you know what I'm saying, I'm
not negative, like whatever happens this year, like if we
can't pull a piece together, we go as far as
we can with this. But knowing that we got a
generational talent for the foreseeable future one of the top
(09:32):
three or four if not. You know, arguably he could
be the best in some people's opinions, you know what
I'm saying. But he's definitely in that top five because
he's been All NBA First team for five straight years,
so you got to give him that much respect. And
they got him locked in if he signed a contract
and fellas.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
You know what else is crazy and something I haven't
heard anybody saying.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Just hit me.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
This could give Lebron more energy. You know what, I
was only gonna play another couple of years. I may
extend that another couple after that because a young superstar
with me, a dog, somebody I respect, gives me more energy.
It's gonna keep me sharp. It's almost like going through
the process again. I'm gonna show him some things he
doesn't know, just through experiencing things I conquered, you know,
being a champion, one of the best players ever. It
(10:13):
could give Lebron another another range of fuel.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
It's it's just interesting to see a team that Lebron
James on that the main goal ain't Lebron James right right,
it's been it's been twenty two. Yeah, we ain't never
seen that so it's interesting to see how how far.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And the other part of what you just said mal like,
could he now be could they look at Luca and
can Luca carry the way they been? You know, Ad
has started to do it, but I don't think it
was as consistent as they wanted it to be. Now
Luca can be the you know what I'm saying, the
one to pull the wagon more so than Lebron, and
it'll be 'lb Ja can kind of ease up and
(10:55):
and ride that coach. Tell that when you say more longevity, like,
he don't have to go as crazy. If if Luke
was gonna do what he's traditionally done.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Because think about it, fellas he's been kind of I
was waiting right. There was a point where you know,
Lebron was like, I want to pass it to add
of take the rings. I want him to take over,
and then he publicly came out like, no, this is
AD's team. We kind of so he's mentally okay with
passing it. But if I'm a pass it to you,
you gotta take the baton and run with it. You
can't take the baton and stumboard, you know what I'm saying.
(11:24):
So now this could give Lebron a whole other thing, like,
now I can do this another five years. I've tearing
my body as much with having more fun when I'm
not the main focus every time on the court.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, I believe he was saying that, and you know,
it sounds good, but from what it looked like, it
still looked like it was Lebron's team exactly exactly. That
was the visual like when Luca coming over there, I
think it's eeschton Stone. It never was really echton Stone.
No matter what Lebron said that it was AD's the
(11:54):
best player on the team, right, you know what I'm saying.
But now everybody like, nah, it's just twenty five year
old guy, not the forty year old guy. Yeah, so
you know that's that's a different kind of perception.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Let's let's so let's talk about the MAVs side of it.
Put the MAVs new start in five graphic up. Please,
this ain't half bad, fellas, This ain't half bad.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Right here, I look like, listen.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
And then you still think about it lively somewhere in
that mix, and you know they got.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Something PJ Washing and then Woody.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
You know what I'm saying, like, what do we think
about this with the only only only bad part is
that they have tumbled so far down in the rankings.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
If they are eleventh in the West right now.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Because they had the injury, some guys hadn't been available,
they were tumbling. So so what we think with this
right here? How are they looking? I'm excited for them.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I think they got a solid I think they got
a solid team that can prepare for any team that
they play for.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
They got they got PJ.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Washington come off the bench, so they can put a
D at the five and go small all they can.
They can stay big when they playing Joker. They can
throw bodies at Joker. They got Lively, Anthony Davis and
gafferd Uh. I think they're equipped to play a lot
of a lot of teams. Man, I'm excited for what
they're doing. They just added kayleb Mark Martin to the
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to the roster. I was, I was. I was excited
for Grimes because Grimes was playing so good with Luca
being out. But you know, I understand what it is.
But Kayler Martin is another solid player. I think he
can't he Didnet got talked to how to be a
professional coming from from the heat. So he played defense
and he's good on offense. He don't need the ball
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in his hand. Max Christie, I think he played well
last game, I mean his first game as a man.
I think they're gonna be interesting to watch man, and
I think this is a team where a D can
really be the man, the number one option with weapons
around him. Like it's not the situation with the Lakers.
We really finish see a D kind of finish out
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his lig in a top dog Bay.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
The crazy part for me as I look at this graphic,
the thing that jumps out of me. First, they're three
most established players, Kyrie, Clay, Anthony Davis were all counted
out in some way, shape or for him, and Dallas said,
we believe in you. Kyrie. Was that contract he got.
Dallas the only one to offer that contract this summer.
Klay Thompson, same thing. Golden State didn't work with you.
(14:23):
We believe in you, Clay. Come on over here and
do what you do a d. We just traded Luca
for you, baby. We believe this is your team. So
now you got three dudes, the three most established players
who are playing with their own pride. But they got
something else in their stomach now, Like nah, y'all, they
believe in us in a whole different way. So you
want to run through the wall for organization like that.
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And now Kyrie's back to the That's.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
The other thing that boy got the driving that.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
He's back. He's back to the point. Think about this, y'all.
He's back at the point where he's already mentally took
that step back that you were and to let Luca
do his thing. So ad you the dude I got
you don't worry about it. Here you go, Clay, I'm
gonna get your open shots. So anyone, he's back at
the point with peace. He's back with peace and a
d Even though Lebron tried to pass it to him,
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he didn't have the shadow. He doesn't have that shadow
on Dallas that he had with Lebron. You know, that's
still Lebron. That's still Lebron. You know what I'm saying.
This is a different situation now, you the dude. So
Dallas is gonna be interested now and in the future.
They got something. They got a whip set up, and
I'm sure they're not done exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
He waived the six million dollar trade Kickers so they
could try and do something before the deadline. So they're
definitely not trying to be done. We shall see if
they are or not.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, that's one of the big things. They got assets
to go and get enough. Yes, he got And I've
been hearing a little bit of KD out there, man,
So don't don't they don't.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Everybody hit list right now. Everybody trying to get KD.
His day getting slung around with everybody, the Warriors. I
didn't Houston, listen, everybody can't get KD.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well, oh he is.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Up, Dallas, Man.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
They got nice They got some nice assets that they
can get rid of to get in position to, like
I say, get another store.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It might not be KD.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Jimmy Butler look good over there. You know what I'm saying.
You moved Clay to to two, have Jimmy at the three.
Like it's that they can work out because they got
a solid team. They got a bunch of solid players
that they can figure something out.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Man, shout out to Tanko.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Man, it takes a lot of balls to make a
decision like that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
He read and.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
What what what what we think about the d A
and Fox trade getting him to the Spurs. With Wimby,
Winby got his you know, preseeemably presumably his point guard
of the future, and and Dan and Fox get to
get a little bit of that that that CP three
two leg j C. What y'all what we think about
that deal? Zach Lavine going to Sacramento? What y'all think?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
For me, it's it's it's crazy because I think CP
has brought a grip to knowing how to win and
learning how to win to this young Spurs team. But
obviously he's not gonna play forever. Darren Fox is an
all star. He's clutched. He's gonna fit Winby perfectly because
he knows Wimby's a dude. I'm here to make it
easy for you. I'm really a point guard. Like I'll score,
(17:25):
but I'm really a point guard. Then you got young
casts over there, who I love. You got the sale,
you got young pieces I love.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
One of them came up over of that, not a Johnson,
not a no. I was like, how they pull it in?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
So hey the Spurs RC Buford tip your hat to
pop right, yes right, absolutely, guy right there.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
He told me that when I was there. But like
all those guys, man.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I've always said, for the twenty years I played, there
was teams that won, but the Spurs were always the
go standard. How to do it right, how to do
things the right way. So you know they got the
best brains over there that making it happen. And Women's
a once in lifetime talent, so you're putting pieces around
him that fit. But Chris Paul was instrumental in setting
the tone in so many different ways on and off
the court. But now getting young Deerren Fox in there
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in his prime to go with this crew, like, oh man,
they gonna be and they're all around the same age.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Fox is obviously be.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Most famous than he ever been.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
He didn't got up out of that nor ever been
a worldwide for North Cali. And that he about to
be next to the alien who's gonna be on TV
all the.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Time, all the time. Then you got Harrison Barnes, who's
a pro, who's not gonna get in away, who's gonna
help their growth. It's the it's the perfect mix right
now to grow.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I think they I think they definitely is gonna be
a dope team. They definitely finna move up in the rankings.
They got three of the best pick and roll guys
in this pick and roll era that's in the league
with CP, with Darren Fox and Winby for the pick
and roll. I think CP gonna really excel playing against
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the second stream, now, you know what I'm saying, coming
in and kind of running that second unit. I think
the Spurs man, they gotta, they gotta, they got a
big upside.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Thinking about the the other rumor trade, like the Warriors
are out there trying to get another All Star and
going looking to get KD or Jimmy What do we
think about Jimmy Butler the way he's hand through his process, Like,
because my opinion, we all know everybody gonna do things
(19:35):
how they want to do it, and we'll see how
how everything net out. But I feel like he probably
could have got this done. If they did it behind
closed doors. He might be gone already. Do y'all feel
that way? Or do you feel like he got this
loud because he tried to go behind closed doors and
they wasn't going for it.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, I think it's I think it's a little bit
of both, you know. Yeah, Jimmy Stubborn, Riley Stubborn, you
know what I'm saying. I think it's a little bit
of both. But I think Jimmy is is. I think
he's being so stubborn because this is his last hurrah.
I don't think Jimmy want to be like Lebron and
play two is forty. I think Jimmy want to get
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him a.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Three year deal.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Want to you know, give these last three years, these
hard years, and just work it all the way out.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I think he knows where he want to go.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
He's he's standing on it, and you know, another another
man's trash can be another organization goals, so like if so,
if they don't pay off, somebody else will. It's always
been like that, you know. I know it's looking bad,
and it's it's looking horrible. We've seen some of the
best guys get treated bad in this league after a while,
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after people felt that they didn't have no more, you know,
all Anthony or Ali iverson or so forth, on like that.
But it don't work out like that for everybody. I
think Jimmy is in a position where he can stand
his ground a little bit more. I hate it looks
so bad, but it is what it is. Like he
turned I think Golden State offered him.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
And he turned them away. Want to go.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
He didn't want to go there, and they offered him
the extension and he didn't want to go there. So,
like I said, it's other teams out there that's willing
to put up with the bullshit if you want to
say it's bullshit to get to where he is.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
So we gonna see his dream.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I think it was a second option that you said, Q.
I think he tried to do it quietly after he
won an extension. Jimmy, Like, hold up, y'all in a
four year span, I took y'all to two finals and
and y'all ain't really bring no I mean, you can
have about some help, but you didn't bring the help
I need that. I thought, I need to win a
championship and I got you there and I can't get
an extension.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Oh it's up.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
It's up now, Like I'm gonna tell you quietly, but
now I got to get loud and now I got
to go this route.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
And I think that's what happening.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
And so, like you said, the Miles, it's his last
big contract because he don't want to play forever.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
He want to go do what he do. Jimmy's a world,
he dude.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
He want to get out in the world, and he
wanted stuff all over the world, right, so play dominoes
pop up like dra three thousand with his flut, he
would want to go to Paris and play some dominoes.
That's that's Jimmy, right, So Jimmy want to live like that.
Jimmy got sold. So with that, I think he is like, no,
I'm gonna get loud. It's gonna be a piston contest.
I'll just stand here.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I'm cool.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I've already mentally said I'm gonna stand here until you
you want to make a move because eventually it's gonna
be his last year his contract. You're gonna lose me
for nothing. I know you don't want to do that.
So now it's it's a it's a piston contest until
you know he he's moved. And I'm not saying it's right.
I'm not saying none of it's right, but it is
what it is. Until this thing is finished, it's gonna
be a distraction for the other players that are there.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Until it's today.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Right, Let's trade a Chris Middleton to West to Washington
for Kyle Kuzlan.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
What do we think about that deal? What you said what.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I wouldn't have made. I wouldn't have made that deal.
I would that wouldn't I really kept Chris Millerton, you know,
I really kept his veteran I rather kept his championship experience.
Nothing against Kyle Kuzma. Uh, I just would have kept
I think I felt that they could have got more
(23:27):
from somewhere else for Chris Millerton. You know what I'm saying.
Nothing like I say no disrespect to Kyle Kuzman. I
think Kyle Kuzman is a good player. You know, I
think he should have been in Dallas last year when
when they asked to get him and he tried to
stay in a situation that wasn't never gonna win nothing
in the first place.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
But uh, if I was the Bucks, I wouldn't have
made that move.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But hey, you know, Kuzman has won a championship. He
has been on a veteran team that that went all
the way to a finals and won something. So no,
hopefully that work out for them, But just me personally,
I felt like somewhere else, I felt I could have
got something.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
But yeah, I think obviously the Bucks re searching for
a consistent third option, Milton was the perfect fit.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Milton even had the perfect demeanor to.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Go with Dami Giannis. Oh you guys got it, I'll
take her when need it. KOs is like, nah, I'm
going so.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
And he just said that.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
He's like, hey, y'all, I'm just like y'all know, I'm
tired of children over here, so I'm about to go
and go. And they was like, oh, we better make
a move because we can't have him doing that. But
I think the Bucks brought him in to win four games.
And what I mean by that is the Bucks are
trying to win a championship. They're saying, Cools, if you
could be cools, just one game around, these other two
dudes gonna take care of the other three games, and
the coaching and all that will take care of three games.
(24:47):
If you can win me one game per round, it
was worth it because that's me in champions right. So
they want him to go Kou's full cous mode one
game around if he could do it to help them win.
But third option, you know, obviously he knows Jonnis and
Dame of the dudes, but there's gonna be ties when
he's rolling too, so that's gonna be an interesting dynamic.
But he can definitely put the rock in the hole.
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Like we know he knows how to score the basketball.
And confidently before we.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Get back to everything, man mam got a busy day,
you know, he big time.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
He the lead ancre on the new show on NBA.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
I can't be doing TV without you like that going on.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
He blessed us today. You know, he found me. He
like cutting pee. He come over, get a plate and
all that. Heferator.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
I am hey when that when they come across the airwaves,
I'm already you might but me done.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
That's done, Like bro Man from the fifth floor. You
never know when he might just pop in on us
on the show. But right now he gonna slide out
because he got some other stuff he gotta do. You know,
he big time coach. He he got a lot of
He wear a lot of hats, He do a lot
of things. But you know, we appreciate my dog always.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Away.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
How you know. That's what it is, young mam, mam
crawl for everybody.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Appreciate y'all.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Yes, sir, bro Nah, let's get back to it, black man.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
We got look at these West standings right now after
all of this this movement, and we still might have
something happening right now that we don't even know about.
You got the Thunder still running, the still running the
show out west and Grizzlies and took over number two
from the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Last time we checked, it was the two and the
three was swap. Now they didn't switch it out. They
got that Gg Jackson back two. Boy Gg Jackson came
back the night had like twenty seven. They got job
back out there and Jan Tripple Javen having thirties all
over the place. Yeah, Rockets at three, you got Nuggets
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at four, Lakers at five.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
They still they got the same amount of losses as
the Nuggets too. That's close to being the first round.
You know what I'm saying. Home court advantage, our clips
at six. T Woll was still simmering down there at seven,
Sacramento at eight. And look at the Warriors in the
Suns Bro play in bound. That don't look good.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah yeah, they fighting, And you know this, it's not
on the screen. But you got Dallas at eleven, you
got San Antonio at twelve, them or two of the
teams that just made big time trades to get in
this playoff hunt. So man, they twelve strong over there,
and it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It looked good over there, man, the Grizzlies looked very good.
Houston just gave up a barn burner to the next
the other night that I don't can believe how they
gave that game up. You know, d Lo hit the
big time three at the end. Uh, it's gonna get
interested in the second half. Man, I'm talking about after
All Star break.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Man, it's gonna be all.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
It's definitely about to be serious.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And you know that all after All Star break is
not like how it used to be where we had
like a still a big It's a small portion of
games after all start now, so it's gonna be the
fast and yeah, let's get to the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
From standards, though they go do on Cleveland calves.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
They seen three to the All Star Game too, forty
and ten them boys out there hooping. Celtics still holding
it down doing what they do. Shout out J Tatum
about that being a straight killer. Knicks Knicks at three,
pacers at four, bucks at five the Pistons, bro gotta
salute the Pistons at six, twenty five and twenty five
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motor the heat my magic. Then the wheels it came off. Bro,
we under five hundred. I'm sitting here like, dang, we
gotta get back and sink now. Everybody getting back except
mob but like we got an injury.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Bug killed us.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Then shout out Trey Young man they still playing, my boy?
You saw how he did them people, man shooting three
stepping over him for the game.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Like how he ain't no All star black.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I don't like that. I don't like that. He deserved
to be an All Star.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah him, man, I'll say, Mellow man, that was that
was crazy.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
So you realize Mellow is the first player in the
here history to be voted as a starter by the
fans and not make the game at all, like not
even as a reserve, didn't make the game at all,
Like come on, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I think I think Trey Young is the first player
to lead the league and assist and not make.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
So who your snow? Whos the biggest snub in your opinion?
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
The I think in the East? In the East is
Mellow and Trey Young?
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
In the West.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Man Uh and the man it's it's it's it's some
guys in the west, shorts.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
The Short's the West, the West graphic, please, the West
graphic of reserves.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
There you have it almost.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I just don't believe j I had al Parine when
y'all had Jalen Williams.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, I just can't believe that it's they picked five
big men.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
But this is my thing, This is my bigger argument
right here, Black because if you look at this right here,
I don't want to take nobody off.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
I feel like everyone, everybody, This is what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Why would we not make the All Star Game fifteen
man rosters on each team and then it's just Ease
versus West Classic, Go Weddy.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Why wouldn't it be fifteen? Why does it got to
be a snub every time?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
If we're doing so many adjustments, you know, it's always
like all right, like he's gonna always be some old heads.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Don't really want to play, don't really care to play.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
They start the game, you know what I'm saying, Like
how Tim Dunkys do Tim Duncan to start a game
then don't play no more type stuff? Like everybody like
you know what I'm saying, Like Tyler Hero deserved to
be an All Star, but Trey Young, don't you know
what I'm saying, Kate Cunnyhan deserve to be an All Star,
but LaMelo didn't like. Hold on, man, it should be
fifteen fifteen man rosters and that'll make it a lot
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easier for the other three guys to get in.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
And it'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, yeah, it definitely will.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
It's it's gonna be snubs.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
The league is too good guys that have you know
what I'm saying, there's too many guys. You should do
it for that the league has gotten a lot like
individually due to a lot better man.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
That's leaving people off, Like that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
It's you know, it's hard to do it. It's hard
to pick somebody over popularity that that just because they popular,
they get voted to the All Star Game when other
guys are having a better year than it.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
But this is my this is this is I understand
what you're saying, right, But we the NBA, we're trying
to generate views and odds on the game and viewership
and running numbers up, right, So how are we helping
ourself if we don't put the man who the fans
voted the most.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
But if he if he's not deserving of it, he.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Is deserving of it. LaMelo Ball is absolutely deserving to
be an All Star.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
No, that's not that's not the situation he left.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
But he led the fans. This is what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
The fans are who we want to watch, right, The
fans voted this kid to be the He got voted
more than any any other guards, is right, So those
the people we want to watch the game. So we
returned that, say, and then they say, well, forget what
y'all think.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
He ain't going. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Yeah, well, let me ask you this because that's that's
a situation over in the East. The situation over in
the West is this is not Steph curry best year.
Steph Curry averaging like twenty two points, this is not
his best year. It's other guards that's in the West
that's having better years.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Better. Let me tell you the difference.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
But Steph Curry is starting you.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
On the West.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Why I know that difference between why he got it
and why why LaMelo didn't This because okay, he got
the same thing. He got the fan vote Steph did,
but not only did he get that, the players in
the and the coaches voted for him too. You see
what I'm saying now what that that could be right
or wrong, But I'm just saying, like, that's that's the difference.
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Like they told me about like the fans said yes,
and the players and the coaches said no to LaMelo,
and the opposite happened over there for for Steph for
the West.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, yeah, No, I'm just saying that's the that's the
miscon Screw what is the criteria? Like what what do
you suppose to do to to make it like it's
starting the max thirty like, but like you don't know
the criteria, you know what I'm saying, if you're not
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one of the most popular guys in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
This is what I heard.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
And I don't really agree with it though, because like
they said, oh h, the LaMelo's team is trash.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
You know what I'm saying, they record is trash.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
But Tray Young, if I'm not mistaken, Trey Young average
thirty one year and they was like thirteenth, fourteenth in
the East.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
He made Dog Star Game.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
It changes from time to time. Bro, I can't explain it.
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
It's not no set criteria, Like, it's not no set criteria.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
For Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Like a lot of these awards, it's not no set
criteria of what it takes or what you got to
do to win these awards or to get this gold jacket.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
You know, it's listen, and this is the thing that
this is the thing that I feel bad for because
when you look at it, a guy like Trey Young, right,
this is all about at the end of the day,
when you get through playing, you you sit back and
you you look at what everything you've done with you accumulated.
Broden been robbed out of like three four All Stars.
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Bro that's a lot of status right there.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
And I ain't want to bring Steph Curry up to
I'm a big fan of Steph Curry, but I ain't
trying to bash Steph Curry.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
But like I just I just.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Look at a guy like Trey Young, and I feel
bad that he ain't got as many All Star games
as I felt like he should.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
And it's it's cold, like he said, it ain't.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Even getting snubbed no more. It's called he called it
getting trade. That's what that's how that's how many times
he feel this is happened to him.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And I agree, like Sabona's another guy. That's another guy
that's in the league who lead the league in rebounds
that don't make The last person who did that was
Dennis Robin, and I guess we understood why he didn't
make the All Star team.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
But like, come on, go on all day about these snubs, Man,
give them fifteen man rosters and some of this to
be solved. Man, let's get let's get to the fan questions. Man,
see see what they got before we get up out
of here. Talk to these fans real quick. I got
one I want to go to first. It's say it's
my partner in them. I think my partner isn't them
to be spending fire. NBA talked two to one five.
(36:09):
He say, what's your thoughts on the state of the game.
I heard many folks saying the game is on the decline?
What do you think black.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Uh gaming.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
I don't think the game is I wouldn't say a
decline because you know, we we we always gonna love basketball.
It's just it's at a funny state now. I think
it's just like it's called in the middle or something
that we're trying to get it out this snag to
get it back rolling the proper way that it should
(36:40):
be rolling. But I wouldn't say it's on the decline
because it's still NBA Basketball. It is still the best
group of guys in the world. It's still the best
sports sport in the world to me, So I don't
think it's on the.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
D I definitely don't think it's on the decline. I
think I think it's just a different, different era.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Man.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
You know, this generation is a little bit different than
the classic or our generation or the generation before us.
Like guys could do a lot of different things now,
you know what I'm saying, Like guys got other interests,
and I think the social media aspect of it all,
it kind of it kind of changes the fans, you
know what I'm saying, They perspective of the athlete. Because
(37:24):
before you didn't get to know that much about us.
You couldn't feel certain ways about us and think certain
things about us because you weren't privy to certain information
about us, Like we.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Weren't certain things wasn't available to you.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Now it could be like, whoever the toughest dude in
the world, you could see him on a cord on
the field and he's doing you know, doing tough stuff,
and then you see him on Instagram or you see
him on social media, you like, hold on, bro, like
oh man, Like you know what I'm saying. So it's like,
I think, I think that's what's the difference. Did they
see the players in the different light? Then they think
(37:58):
certain thoughts about him, like you know what I'm saying.
We do the same thing as fans. We see things.
The hell was that whatever?
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
So I think as far as the game, like the
players are probably not probably they more skilled than we've
ever been, it's more of them. Like as far as
like an abundance of players and not just like ten, twelve,
twenty guys, it's like a whole lot of dudes that
got game. That's why we're talking about slugs and All
Star snubs and guys that deserve it. But uh, I
(38:26):
think that's I think that's just a general you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
After everything get.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Calibrated to that and everybody get back and sync, I think,
like you say, everything be straight.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
But I don't think the game on the declimb.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
And I've been a fan of every every iteration of
the game from before I played to when I played
to watch it now after I'm not playing no more,
so I can't say that, yeah, okay, we got b
D out of all the trades so far, who's overpaid
the most and gotten back the least amount? Bull's the
biggest losers in his opinion. I have to agree with that. Uh,
(39:02):
bulls didn't get nothing.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
They lost Caruso, they lost the rolls and they lost.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Yourself, Bro, they lost they wanted to do.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
I'm now like the last couple at least at least
pinched the bit, like get something out of something like damn.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Like listen, yeah, I agree with you, Bro, I can't.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
I think they definitely have gotten the least back out
of everything. But today I feel that's their angle. I
think they're trying to quit a decks and go ahead
and hit the reset button. So we'll see how this
goals for them. Anthony, what's your opinion about there maybe
being ten minute quarters? We don't want the game shortened, man,
(39:46):
leave like game like it is. We ain't got to
do all of this stuff like Pineapple. I don't like like.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You know, when we first got to the league, you
used to have to everybody used to have to guard
they man. It was a it was a rule called
illegal defense. If you're not guarding your man, they'll call
that illegal defense. To me, that was separated college from pros.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
When you got to the pro you have to guard somebody,
and then they started letting you zone up a little
bit in the pros.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
This is like the last straw.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Don't change the time, man, Like, God damn, we can't
change the minutes now, Like yeah, in the Olympics, in
college and in high school they play their minutes. But nah,
we gotta keep forty eight minutes. Like, come on, we
gotta keep for that.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Listen. We can't. We can't. We can't.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
God damn blue leg everything man, dang, next caller, Okay, Montage,
we got a regular he say, start bench trade for
perimeter defenders Edition, strictly defense.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
You ain't got nothing to do with this, denids. You
only protected at the rim. This is this is he
only to me.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
You don't got nothing, only defense not.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
You already hurt man, already let you know what he was.
You was view.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
He told you report you a real protector. I'm a defender.
Let me do this segment.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
I love you. I ain't gonna even say.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
It's already like it's on wax Man like Joe, Okay,
thanks Montage say start bench trade perimeter Defenders, Edition strictly defense, Avery, Bradley,
Drew Holliday, Tony Allen, where you going black?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
I will start to I would bench Drew, I would
trade brad.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
To follow that cab. I'm doing the same damn thing,
same damn time t A first team All defense shot
town shot town t A. Yeah, next caller, Can okay
see be a dark horse for k D?
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Hey man, I feel okay Ce has the assets to
throw a lot of stuff over there to them that
they would love to have for k D.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Wait a minute, come on down, Wait a minute, Wait
a minute. I didn't. I hadn't heard.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Okay, Okay is ten DP.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
They ten eleven deep, not.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Only deep, with like real plans. They can train. They
got a million picks to throw too if they wanted
to exactly so at it.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
I'm just like, yeah, I hadn't really even considered that
that would be man s G A and and k
D and possibly and and and I.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Don't I don't want that though. I don't want to
see that.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
I want I want I love what what Shade doing
so much?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
I want sha.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
None of that, just stay over there doing his country
of rock with that Chris no size.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
You know what I'm saying, you need their.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Whole little band though. I like their whole little click though.
I like they ain't want to think.
Speaker 4 (43:15):
Like you don't have the fabric of what's going on
the part you gonna have.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
You gotta respect his youngster, you know. I like that though.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
That was that's a that's a crazy scenario in light
of all this this this lucashit just coming flim flam
out of the air like that would be a crazy
Next caller, cowboy. Do players have people that assist them
when they get traded to a new teams in terms
of moving, getting kids in school, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
Yes and no, like right now at this point.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Yeah, it's called a wife, the old lady, girlfriend, significant other.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
That's that's what they call.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
But most signs like you got y'all gotta understand like this,
Why I say y'all like fans be thinking it's just sweet,
like bro for a D, right, he just got traded
him and Luca like a D. I think Luca's kids
may not be at school age. But AD's kids I
think are in school. His wife ain't coming and stuff.
TOD like, they'll probably come, but they not like moving
(44:12):
right away. They like a D will probably be renting
a spot or in a hotel for the foreseeable time
and his kids gonna stay in La finish at school.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
Like, yeah, they're gonna finish this year. They're gonna finish
this year too.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
Teams do. I was directed player development in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Teams have people and and and situations appointed to when
that player arrives to help them with whatever they need,
to help get their stuff delivered or whatever they moving
from wherever, and to help smoove that process. But like shit,
it's still be a like he say, your old lady,
your wife gotta be involved. And that's if they even
coming right away. That'll probably be later down the stretch
(44:47):
for Ad because the kids is in middle of school year.
They're not gonna just leave their friends and everything they
know and just bounce.
Speaker 4 (44:53):
So it's like that's the hardest part.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
That's the one thing unfortunate for in my whole career,
I've been traded and all of that stuff, but I
never got traded during season like that's that's the worst
thing in the world for me to get traded in
the middle of a season. I don't care what nobody's saying.
That's the worst thing ever to me because you got
to pick up over here that you paid for, you
paying for it for the have a long and then
you gotta go get a new Like nah, bro, it was.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Like you had a time limit to get out your house.
It was like you get traded, Like, man, I gotta
pack all this stuff because I ain't gonna be able
to come back and grab nothing. So you just gotta
pack as much as you need you can pack and
the like really in like a twenty four hour maybe
a forty forty eight hour span, like like you gotta
(45:39):
pack bag at the bag at the bag to get
to get up out because they if they traded for you,
they want you right away. They gotta get you in,
they gotta get you a physical, they gotta get like
like it's it's it's a in the middle of the season.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
It's a process.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
Man.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
That's a good question. On that's collar Fitch TMB. Who
are your front runners.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
For g M O T.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
What is g M O T yuh of the Year
GM of the Year and Coach of the Year. Halfway
the GM of the Year, Man, I.
Speaker 4 (46:15):
Was gonna say first.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
I was going with Okay, see it first for getting
Hartenstein and Caruso.
Speaker 4 (46:27):
Uh, but I think I'm gonna have to go.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
I'm gonna have to go with I'm gonna have to
go with with Nico on this one on the on
the GM of the Year and Coach of the Year.
I'm definitely giving that to Kenny Atkinson and Cleveland, but
my man Bickerstaff deserves kudos and Detroit and uh, e.
Speaker 4 (46:59):
May and Hugh.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with with Nico too.
I think that's like I think what he did, it
goes down in history is one of the biggest trades ever.
That's that's a hard decision to make, and he gotta
believe in what he's trying to put together and his
(47:23):
strategy on trying to get that team a championship. Not
for the future, but right away. Uh, Coach of the Year,
I'm with you. I gotta go with Akison over there
in Cleveland. But I've been screaming about it all year. Man,
I love what e May is doing. Shout out to JB. Two,
but you know, e may man, what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (47:46):
They let it.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
They could have made be in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
They could be in the playoff play in Nobody would
have thought by February they have been playing with one
with two and three the whole time, So that's big doubt.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
Next collar DM Master.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Was there any NBA city slash arena that you disliked
playing in? Like every time you had a road game
in that arena area, you were dreading it. I hated Utah,
the Delta Center, that joint was like it's still the
same actually, but like that's one of the like, you know,
that's one of the I guess they consider that consider
it more of the intimate arenas where they you know
(48:25):
how it's like kind of steep, but they right up
on you. I ain't never like care for playing in Utah, uh.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Man, I don't really. Every arena is kind of cool
with me and I really want I hated just playing
preseason game and them bullshit as Yeah, I think we
h Cleveland flew us all. Yeah, we were saying Cleveland.
One year we flew out the San Diego to play
(48:57):
the Lakers. Like after the first quarter they had to
cancel the game because the floor wasn't as good. I
hate when they just kind of choose places that's not
really right for us to really play and get down.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
Man, let me tell you a funny story about it,
and been the first year with the magic right. This
is classic. Bro, we get we gotta play a game.
I think it was like a Daytona because like that's
where Vince is from. Vince Carter, he was on the team. Then, Bro,
we go down there the same shit you talk about,
like condensation to something, the floors where everybody keeps lopping
(49:33):
this before the game even get going.
Speaker 4 (49:35):
We don't even They like, nah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (49:39):
So they trying to you know, they gonna do everything
they can to like try and figure out the way
to get you to play this game.
Speaker 4 (49:45):
So we're sitting there talking to Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
They talking about to Jimmy like, man, I think they
still might try and get some of y'all. The play
said something more to play. He's like, yeah, I think
they're discussing the starters not playing. I say, shitn't me,
I say, you won't you think you're about to send
me out like a sacrifice. They've moved around like room,
and they canceled the whole game, Like where y'all got
(50:10):
us twisted?
Speaker 5 (50:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (50:11):
I think we was in New Mexico or something. They
canceled that game too. I just hate when they just
choose a certain thing in the arenas, like all the
NBA arenas be you know, a one the top of the.
Speaker 3 (50:22):
Class, making sure they can hold preseason gets canceled.
Speaker 4 (50:28):
No more like that, but yeah, that was the thing. Yeah, preseason.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
You know they kind of reach a little bit because
you know they're trying to, you know, make make the
fans happy, you know, to get them this one opportunity
that may come through here where you can get your
local team to come to a smaller city that doesn't
have a team or something to see the NBA players
like I appreciate it, appreciate and St. Louis the year before,
(50:58):
I think ticketing them play in Saint Louis my senior
year in high school. And then when I got to
the league, we all went to Saint Louis. I got
the opportunity to bring my whole team to East Saint Louis,
let my grandmother and my mom cook for them, let
them see the hood. Like I thought that was dope,
But you know then it was the only time that
(51:19):
I really had a problem that I didn't really just
like playing in certain stuff like locker rooms used to
be pure bullshit, Like it looked like we was in
high school, you.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
Know so, but they're doing a better job with it now.
They came with some dope questions today. Man, they had
us talking up in here.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
Let's up.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
We got one last one before we get out of here, cowboy.
I hope this question isn't intrusive. What are thoughts on
the mini documentary clipped the series that was on Hulu listen?
Speaker 4 (51:54):
It was funny to me.
Speaker 3 (51:55):
I thought it was hilarious, laughing at the people that
they had playing, certain people like CP Mall and all
of them. It was hilarious to me. I mean, I
actually know about a lot of the things that happened
and all that, So to me, it was more like
a comedy. It was like a comedy show to watch,
even though I know that it was a lot of
serious stuff that took place in that, but like watching
(52:18):
that depiction of it was comedy.
Speaker 4 (52:20):
I'm sorry, it was. It was pure comedy. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
It was a cool comedy, you know, and I grew
up watching Al Bundy. Al Bundy, you know so, man,
I think he did a phenomenal job.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Man, Lawrence Fishburn, Hey, how you feel me?
Speaker 4 (52:37):
The guys that they ill.
Speaker 1 (52:38):
It was a good comedy to me, you know, I
know something that the situations like you said, or or
serious situations.
Speaker 2 (52:45):
But I enjoyed it like it was a comedy. Serious watch.
Speaker 4 (52:49):
That's how I looked at it. All Right, we're gonna
do the the stat of the day before we get
up out of here. You know what I'm saying. Stat
of the day.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
Luca the Don has the third highest regular season scoring
average in NBA history, only behind you already know him
j and Will and the second highest playoffs scoring averaging
league history at thirty point nine, only behind him Jr.
Like listen, well, bad man. That's why this is a big,
(53:20):
big risk to roll the dice. And that's why I
don't think this really is about what Luca's gonna do
movie for. I think this was just about Nico dem
honing in and saying they want a d He's a
better fit for these next three four years what we're
trying to do, because at twenty five, doing what Luca
has done it's no reason to think he ain't gonna
keep doing it. And now he got a chip on
(53:42):
his shoulder, so wash the hell out.
Speaker 4 (53:45):
Yeah, exactly, all right? Who you got your shout out
for black who shout out of the day is I
got you?
Speaker 2 (53:50):
I actually got too shit to shout out.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
My first one is to w NBA legend Asia Wilson.
You know she had a jersey, retired in South Carolina
with her favorite Olympian dirt with her. But not only that,
which was dope, she dropped her shoe. Finally we got
(54:14):
that A one, they calling it the A one. She
got her own shoe, y'all, plus her own little brand. Man,
make sure you're going represent Asia. Go out there, you females,
you women, you girls, all the all that go out
there and represent Asia.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
She got a fire shoe and.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
That that's a that's a dope. That's my first one.
My second one is, man, just shout out the NBA.
Speaker 2 (54:40):
Man.
Speaker 1 (54:40):
I'm talking about man. That that trade just rocked, rock
just rocked the system, like messed up the algorithm for
a minute where everybody was talking about the NBA and man,
just shout out to the NBA.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
Man.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
It's it's it's on. We're finna get past this super Bowl.
Let these football guys get on out the way. Then
it's all about this basketball. So, you know, shout out
to NBA man with one of them trades that really
shocked the world and moved across the land.
Speaker 4 (55:07):
That was actually my shout out to man.
Speaker 3 (55:09):
My shoutout was to the NBA for, like you said,
the movement and the seismic activity we got going on
right now. I feel like we got the news cycle
in the choke hold. I know, the you know, the commission,
everybody got something to do with anything. It's gonna be
excited because right now with the moves that's happened, and
probably whatever else is gonna happen leading to tomorrow is
gonna send up the boost to sell because you already
(55:30):
know that Luca Jersey about to be new moro. Oh no,
sorry Wemby, it's a new chef in town on the
top selling jersey. It's about to go so fast too,
I'm telling you so Lee is about to go up
from that from the trades, Danne Fox Jersey going crazy
like so, you know, just shout out to the LEA
for for the moves being made and we putting this
(55:51):
super Bowl week coming up.
Speaker 4 (55:52):
Bro, we got the we got the news cycle in
the choke. Hol who you got for a super Bowl?
For the Super Bowl? I got the Chiefs, mister Mahonie,
Patty Mahoney, cause I just see who you got.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
I I think the Chief's gonna win, but I don't
want them to win.
Speaker 2 (56:12):
I want the Eagles to win.
Speaker 4 (56:14):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
I don't want to see the Chiefs because I got
a friend that's a Chief friend. I don't want to
see the Chiefs three pig just I just don't.
Speaker 3 (56:21):
So I'm just in the middle of some well, you know,
that's it, man, that's the first tap in a twenty
twenty five. Man, we're gonna be hollering at y'all every
Wednesday right here on Knuckleheads YouTube at two pm.
Speaker 4 (56:34):
Me q Rich D.
Speaker 3 (56:35):
Miles the blackest One, Hey Mantar, say hah q you
definitely a defender.
Speaker 4 (56:40):
D Miles definitely is not. We gonna end on that. No,
that was fantastic to stick that.
Speaker 1 (56:44):
One right up in there by almost called you out
your name drop got.
Speaker 2 (56:52):
No, he just messed me up with that. I was
thinking about myself like that.
Speaker 4 (56:57):
That's just we out, we'll see how next wait mhm
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