June 6, 2024 • 45 mins
Today on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, Game 1 of the NBA Finals is finally here! The guys relive Kevin Garnett’s “Anything is Possible!” mishap. Breaking News, the Lakers are preparing a massive long-term deal to UCONN's Dan Hurley. And Senior NFL Reporter, Albert Breer talks about the biggest headlines in the league.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It is the best of two pros and rating win
and Jonas Knox on.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Radio, did we do the impossible? Did we find a
pen in the studio that had not been chewed on
by somebody that's questionable?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Are there? I gotta tell you, I don't think it's
a win upon further review.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I think somebody's going on on it. A mouth has
been on this, So there you go.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
That is a I think that might be one of
the most disgusting, non aware things that a person could
possibly ever do.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Okay, pause, if if it is your penk to do?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, it's not going anywhere if you keep it with
you dad. But this is a communal This is a
communal pen deal like that? What whatn't you call that
a communal Yeah? One of those holds, yeah, one of
them dips and and all.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Of them is chewed on.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I mean, whoever you are, I don't know who you are,
but whoever you are, like, can you take two seconds
and think about you know, there are other people that
use pins in the studio and that your mouth isn't
the only thing that's important in this studio. That's all
I'd say. I don't know who you are. I don't
have no with you. I'm just saying, can you not
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chew on every single pin? That's I mean, you got
an oral fixation like you got. You got something going
on there, like they say. You know, they just say,
growing up, you saw somebody chewing nice you know, go
go say hello, smoking too many cigarettes?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Go say hello.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
That's that's yeah, that's what they say.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Well, that's part of what liten.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
They're an old saying back in the.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Day, yep, you know we know somebody at this studio
you need to say hello to.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's all, no diddy, Oh boy, Well listen, we were
off and runned here on two pros and a cup
of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio, and congratulations. Can
we get a round of applause? The NBA is back.
They're back now, in about fourteen and a half hours,
they're back. Okay, but the point is at least they're back,
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and the NBA Finals are here, and it looks like
we've got ourselves a game one set to tip off
later on tonight eight thirty Eastern time, which means, well,
it's the NBA Finals. It'll probably be about nine o'clock
that that game tips off Eastern time, which is way
too late. I don't know what's wrong with the seven
o'clock hour, but we got to push and push and push,
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and away we go. We got game one off later
on tonight. As it stands right now, our friends at
DraftKings have the Boston Celtics, Brady's in laws. Boston Celtics
a six and a half point favorite el Mas one,
so obviously a vested interest there and wanting to see them,
you know, not have bragging rights there at the at
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the dinners and for the series price. Right now on DraftKings,
the Celtics are a minus two ten, So away we go.
Game one of the NBA Finals coming up later on tonight.
Who's your pick? Who you got?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Who said it?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
In how many games?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm gonna be petty. I'm gonna pick the MAVs. Yep, yep.
We'll see how my in laws feel about that. But
I also won one for Luca, and we've seen Kyrie,
but maybe even Kyrie too, just this is a different
version of him, different part of his career, and I'd
love to see this tandem do it.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
But it's gonna be an uphill battle. It really is.
Boston is good, man.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And they're expecting Porzingis back there going to.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Be that is he's been a lynchpin for you the
whole time. Huh I do because I thought it was
because you like saying his name.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
No, it sounds like a fish that you would eat
at a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Does It's almost like.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Tonight for our special launcher.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
We've got the Porzingis and you can get that grilled,
you can get it steamed.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
You can also get it black. How would you like?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It'll be served with a bit of rice and our
seasonal medley of vegetables.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Sorry, can you sell me a picture of what.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Actually got a great pairing? By the way, I like shark.
It's a little buttery or a very dry crisp.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Oh that sounds pretty good, actually, dude. Yeah, it does
sound like a fish that would be on the main menu.
But uh, I do think he is a lunch pin
to to what's going on because us he is that
that extra, that extra line of defense where I believe
this will be a game where they switch a lot,
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and obviously Perzingis probably can be someone who switches on
and off of Luca. They're going to have their hands
full with with Kyrie and his ball handling and his
ability to create space for himself and for other players,
his ability to get to the rim and and create
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those those amazing angle shots that he makes. They've been
able to do the the oops quite a bit during
the course of this playoff as well, especially Luca as well.
I don't think that those lanes are as open with
with perzingis there in in the in the lineup as
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it would be with him out. I think one of
the things that was discussed quite a bit during the
course of the playoffs is how how they played defense underneath,
and that was based upon him being out, and a
lot of criticism went towards Horford and his inability to
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be able to help with the pick and roll a
little better. I think I think heaven perzingis and now
you know Horford not having that pressure on him, he'll
probably play better. I just think that their interior defense
will be better and they're going to have to Dallas.
That is, they're going to have to have more. In
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my estimation, it's going to have to be more than
just Luca and Kyrie that are catalysts for for this
series if they are to win. I don't think the
two of them alone in the way that they were
able to do in the fashion they were able to
do in this last series against Minnesota. That alone does
not get them through the finals to win.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It's going to have to be more of a group effort. Yeah,
Boston's gonna win in five or six. And I've thought about, well,
how does you know, like matchups and all that, And
you look at what Luca and Kyrie Irving have done,
and if there were two guys that you would trust
against them in this spot in a series, it would
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be Drew Holliday and Derek White. Their dogs on defense,
that's their specialty, and you've seen them come up with
huge plays and big moments throughout the course of these playoffs.
Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum. I mean, if they come
out flat, Boston's in trouble. I just think the Celtics
are too talented, completely healthy, and if we're talking about
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you know, when you're growing up, listen. I can't confirm
nor deny any of that, all right, And I refuse
to at this point during the show. Now, maybe we've
got three hours to play with. Maybe I'll admit to
something later on, but as it stands right now, I
think the feel good story should be Al Horford. The
guy's seventy three years old. He's going for an NBA title,
all right, and this is another opportunity for him, probably
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his last chance to get one. So I think Al
Horford's a feel good story. Anybody deserves one, it's him.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
That's a great point. My only question to you is like,
how old were you with The last time they.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Won Celtics was two thousand and eight, So.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Wasn't that So what kind of celebration was that for you?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Did we get banged up a little bit? I'm trying
to think, Actually, I don't believe I did. Yeah, No,
other think about it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Now, did you know about the whole marketing thing with
Kevin Garnett and all he had to say was like
impossible is nothing?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Okay? So yeah, because you did, you did kill some
folks and dreams on what he was supposed to say,
because it, I mean, it became what Anything's possible. But
he was supposed to say what and it was instructed
to do so at that moment by was it Gatorade.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Or Rebok or who Adidas? Actually?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So Adidas instructed him to say everything is possible?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
No, I believe if I can't.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Did we did we lose him?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Did we lose a little bit of a technical issue? Right?
Are we back?
Speaker 6 (09:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Because we would hear him?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
What do you guys came in like it goes a
technical issue. I was just pausing, Okay, yeah, my bad.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I was like, that was what you call a did pause?
Speaker 5 (09:30):
God jumped on it pretty quick though.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Because it cut down like I didn't hear any sound,
you know, I.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Was, I was thinking of pause. I was like, I
think he was supposed to say.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
My panic woul now hear his fingers?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
You know?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Oh we have it?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 6 (09:48):
I'm so high fight now, anything's possible.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I think it was like nothing possible or something like that.
That's he messed it up.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
And he was supposed to get paid a million dollars
for saying that after they won.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
And I remember, well.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Bar Jonas and I were not working together at that point,
but I do remember the first time we came across
this story, and I could not contain myself figuring, how
like could you ifagine the people at Adidas And the
only reason, the only reason it's like unbelievably hilariously funny
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to me is when you come out from your school,
you know, you go to train for the.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Combiney your protein and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I was training at a place called API, and this
is obviously back around that time, like this two thousand
and seven that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Was there was this big poster.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I was the side of the meeting room and it
was a Didas poster because API Athletes Performance Institute. There's
there were one of their sponsors, Adidas, and there was
a big picture of Kevin Garnett and the slogan. I
think it was like impossible as nothing, and I kept
I looked at it so many days because that was
(11:10):
where like when we had a quarterback coach or media training,
you'd be sitting in that room for hours, like.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
You'd be watching film. You'd be doing this.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You'd bring some food and to be watching a film
with yourself or something, or watching film another team.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I would see. I'd be looking at things so often.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I remember think about that phrase is like, yeah, there's
probably a better grammatical way, Like I don't think that's
proper English to say it that way, but whatever. And
then when I remember seeing that come out in an
article val it was supposed to be a million dollars
just to say two words the right way, and no
one like had a note card for him.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
They didn't have like a he didn't write it on
his hand. It just it came out and the BA.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
But the problem is, Zechi, it was a blowout and
I think they won by close to forty if I'm
not mistaken, when they closed out the Lakers in that
game six. So there there's plenty of time on the
bench for somebody to remind him, like, hey, dude, and
just remember this one. Like there wasn't like you know,
chaos at the end, and it was the last second
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shot and like wait, wait a second, what was I
supposed to say? And he gets lost in the moment.
My question is was there a certain payout if you
got at least some of it correct? So because he
didn't get all of it correct, he doesn't get his million,
but he does he get like two fifty because he
got at least a portion of it correct Or is
it all or nothing? It's a million dollars. You didn't
say it right, kiss our ass, go away. We're not
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giving you the money because you didn't get the job.
Probably I just paid him.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I keep thinking about that executive at Adidas was like,
oh God, oh god, Like we spent so much time
and money coming up with the slogan in this phrase
and he couldn't get around. I'm pretty sure it's impossible
as nothing as he used to be the phrase. And
then he says anything is possible, which I just could
you imagine like the geeky nerd guys like running it.
(13:03):
I was like exploded, like cag.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Everything's already been printed.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Take me to Area fifty one whatever he calls it. Now,
it's like, I just it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well listen, uh you know, maybe yeah, what's up? KG.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
He's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
He's in He's also in the Bruce Arians Hall of Fame,
where probably not a great radio interview live because they're
just gonna get down three four times. They're just gonna
curse several times on the show and get everybody in trouble.
So I also like to give a shout out to
our former technical producer Roberto Flores. Apparently the ghost of
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Roberto is bad.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Michael Douglas made a dang. Michael Douglas made an appearance today. Yeha,
Michael Douglas, you are an intense dude.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Michael Douglas movies are back in the studio. Yep. In
this piece getting tied up.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Dang.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
This scene goes on for like five minutes too. That's it.
That's why it's so unrelatable. I mean, come on, everybody,
well listen, Douglas.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Douglas gonna take you straight to sleep. We're in the
wrong environment.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
We're doing radio. Oh man.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Uh so we just read an article from two thousand eight.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Kevin Garnett. Butcher's a data's slogan.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Oh no, it's great.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But you know what, in a way, it might have
made it that much more memorable.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
It didn't. Oh dang, they like pivot off. Dang.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, I mean it was any possible.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Or impossible is nothing? That was that was I know
that for sure. I wasn't quite sure what Kevin Garnett said.
But oh man, that's this is this.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
It's old. It really is.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Anything's possible, though I think rolls off the tongue a
little better. We're gonna be honest, you know. If you
want to yelled impossible is nothing, It's like, oh that
was scripted. Yeah, like if anything's possible there we oh,
well is what it is? Well? Here we are often
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Speaker 2 (16:15):
I can recall not that long ago where the subject
popped up during the NCAA tournament after Yukon won another
tournament in which Dan Hurley, the head coach of the
Yukon Huskies, said no, not interested in the Kentucky job.
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They're looking to pursue a three peet there in Yukon.
They're trying to make some history and they've got a
real opportunity to do so. And so because of that,
we turn it over to Eddie Garcia for some breaking news.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
All Right, jonas well here in Los Angeles, has been
a lot of talk about g Jay Reddick possibly being
the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. However,
some breaking news this morning from NBA insider Adrian origen Narowski,
who is reporting the Los Angeles Lakers are targeting Yukon's
Dan Hurley to become the franchise's next head coach. They're
preparing a massive, long term contract offer to bring the
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back to back national championship head coach to the NBA.
There are reports they've had preliminary contact with Hurley, but
they are planning to escalate discussions in the coming days.
So they are apparently going hard after Dan Hurley, the
back to back national championship. When you coach at Ukon
to be the next head coach of.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
The Lakers makes wow. I like it more than wow,
makes way more sense.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Wow. That is.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
That is I mean, it's not that surprising, I guess
only because of his success and.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
So forth. But I mean, when you.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Listen to Dan Hurley talk about their success at yukon
how they constructed their roster, how they recruit, I don't
know how that jives or connects with Lebron. Now maybe
I'm wrong, but he seems to be like someone who
obviously wants control and doesn't want to have a player
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trying to dictate metal determine who's on his team. Now
Rob Polenka, who looks exactly like Rob low Is, it's
my understanding that he's the one who's ultimately making this decision.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Quote unquote, at least that's what's being put out there publicly.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
But come on, we all know how Lebron operates and
how he's been operating. This is either a divide between
the two or somehow Lebron is fully on board with
this and willing to at this point kind of give
up the reins. And maybe I don't know, maybe you
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look at the JJ Reddick situation say you know, we don't.
We're a little concerned about the storied franchise heading over
to the keys to a guy who's never been head
coached before. So I think as you dig deeper into
if it is going to be Dan Hurley, the reasons why,
and I wonder how many of them have to do
with Lebron checking them off, or if this is more
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of the organization's decision. We know we know Petros has
lamented about how everyone's getting nailed by the King.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Maybe this is an instance where that's not the case.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
There's only two coaches that you could bring in that
would exist that would not be under the influence of
what Lebron James wants, and that would be pat Riley
and Phil Jackson. That's it. I'm not even going to
put Eric Spoulcher draw on there for for the for
the Los Angeles Lakers. Those would be the only two
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names I could think of that would come in. And
you can stand up to saying to the GM and
to Lebron.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
That this is what it is.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I think that this is a product of conversations and
comfort level of development of a college player.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Let alone bring the.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Skill of and the playbook that you have a lot
of people lotted Hurley's playbook, the evolution of how they
were running the baseline, the pick and rolls, the screens,
the way that he architected what was going on there
for the Huskies. I think I think if you're talking
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about bringing in a college coach that is running college
style offenses, even if it does translate to the pros,
there had to have been the conversation.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
When it is it worked out. When's the last time
had success in college Evans? I mean, he's I mean,
they didn't win a championship.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I get it, But he turned into an organization.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I get it. I mean, and now it's in the
front office.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
It's kind of feels a little different, Like I don't
even know if that's the example I'd use only because
if and this is something that you know well because
you're a Boston fan. We're talking about one of the
most storied franchises in the NBA. Their standard isn't like, oh,
they turned it around and their standards win a championship.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So the Lakers have tried this before they reached out.
They were trying to hire Mike Krzyzewski back in the day,
like Kobe loved Mike Krzyzewski. Obviously it didn't work out.
I want to ask you guys this from the Dan
Hurley side, because Dan Hurley's got everything. He could possibly
want in college basketball with an opportunity on the doorstep
of history to go for a three peat, and they
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were dominant two tournaments in a row in the hardest
playoff format that there is in sports outside of the money,
and I'm sure the money is going to be huge
as far as all this goes. Do you think much
like maybe in college football, that the NIL era and
conversation and everything that comes along with that had anything
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to do with his decision to want to get out
of college basketball now as possible. That's very possible, Like
I see where this is heading as possible.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
What I find interesting about that is, you know, again,
he talks a lot about how he goes about recruiting
guys and he's not necessarily always looking for the best
recruit coming out of high schools. It's the right fit.
And the way he goes about looking at the family
the player, the people around the player, their ability to
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have that grit and desire to want to, you know,
compete and earn it not just be giving something. So
it might have played a factor, but he just he's
so different in how how he sees his roster construction,
how he wants to build a team, and that's that's
what I find interesting, is that it feels like he's
been heavily involved in that in the college level and
sometimes in the pros that's not the case.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
You're kind of deal you inherit a roster.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
You may not have many decisions as to what you
can do with that roster from a business standpoint, or
you may not be a part of those negotiations and
conversations at all and just be dictated and told who's
going to be there. That's a tough spot to be
in for any head coach.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I think this is this is n I like, is
Lebron James written all on it? And and it has
get my son to Lakers written all on it.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
I was just gonna say, his son fits the profile
of like what Dan Hurley would want. Like a guy
who you know, people are doubting, a guy who people
say like, he's not a draft pick yet, but he
might be in the future, but it's not yet, right,
So why is he being ted? Why going to be
drafted this year? Why the team? Well because his dad's Lebron,
but he would feed off of that. For a young
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man who I think is gonna work hard, I think
is gonna like try to prove any any doubters out
there wrong.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Like it fits completely in the wheelhouse, I think.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
And the other thing is, you know, if Lebron's looking
for a way of at the end of his career
trying to still add on some championships, there might be
an element too of just saying like, this guy's gonna
come in and build a team around me one way.
You know, if you look at what he did at Yukon,
look out and selfish, that team was a different pieces
they had. They you know, he doesn't necessarily have to
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highlight Lebron in order to win. They can kind of
share in all those success and share the ball and
everything else that goes.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Along with it.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Do you think there's possibly maybe a little under the
table compromise here where they're like, listen, we can't have
everything right. You can't get to pick and choose your
coach and also play with your son. We're picking the coach.
We'll see what we can do about bring I don't
think that's what it is. No comfortable well.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
To that point though, you have to think the decision
they make for the coach is probably going to I mean,
you'd think an the NBA can turnover coaches quick. But
if you're making this big of a monumental commitment to
the Dan Hurley or the coach in this case, he's
going to outlast Lebron.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Correct, Now you're hitting on it. Now you're hitting on
it to me, I think that Lebron James is looking
at the Dan Hurley situation as a win for him
to be able to one implement a dope ass offense
immediately out the gate that could possibly give him an
opportunity to compete, compete for another title before he gets
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up out of here. But then two, if you're going
to bring in my son, who better to develop my
son moving forward and talking about a blockbuster deal. It's like, okay, well,
if you're doing a blockbuster deal for Dan Hurley, he's
going to be here for an extended amount of time.
That gives me, That gives me son the stability and
the opportunity to actually make it in the league. I
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would say at this point, trying to win one more championship,
but actually situating a tremendous market and a tremendous historical
franchise for his son to have extended success as a
professional ballplayer. Those have got to be the only two
things that Lebron's thinking about right now. If you ask me,
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I mean, what else would there be?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
I guess the question becomes then you know, was broad
and not recruited by Yukon in the first place. It's
not like I he just played one year of college
ball and you know Dan's been going on a run
the past couple of years.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Was there interest?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Was there not from the James family because he did
want to have to go to play all the way
across the country on the East Coast.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, I think that it was strategic to send him
to USC. I thought it was very strategic. You're you're
introducing him. He's already played his high school ball. Here,
I see our canyon. He goes to a local a
local college at USC, and now he's going into the draft.
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I just think, and now it kind of makes you think, like, dang,
Darvin Ham, Like all you had to do was drive
Brownie and they might have gave you another They might.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
They might. You said, I'm not taking Bronnie. They got
your hands up, out of there.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Out of there, we got we gotta clear it away
for baby boy to come in and and get in
in these doors. If y'all going to keep Lebron James
Senior around, y'all gonna have to make some concessions. And
this is how it's going to work out, and this
is how it's going to happen. That's what it sounds
like to me. I mean, this is posturing if you
ask me. But it's a great move because you get
an immediate boost and a tremendous coach that understands offense.
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That's one. And then two if he's actually willing, which
I would assume that that's going to be something. That's
like in the leveraging of all of this is you're
going to draft my son. You want Lebron, You got
to bring my son boom, you develop him, you get
a long term deal. I get out of the way,
I get out of y'alls hair, and y'all move forward,
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you know, with the team. Yeah, with my son.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So we will keep you again. That is the breaking
news out of the NBA and of the world of
sports that the Lakers are targeting, according to Adrian Warznarowski,
Yukon's Dan Hurley to become the franchise's next head coach.
They're preparing a massive, long term contract offer to Hurley.
So the interest is definitely there. They are meeting and
(28:40):
discussing it. If that gets finalized before we are off
the air, we'll have the latest on that. But again
the breaking news, Dan Hurley in serious consideration for the
Lakers head coaching job, so much so that things have
progressed to where a massive offer contractually is impending. That'll
be coming up here shortly and we get I don't know,
(29:01):
let me see if we can find that on DraftKings.
Because if you had money, if you were like me,
and you were like man, if I had to bet
on this, I'm gonna go, JJ Reddick, you just lost
your ass thinking that you were going to get paid out.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Which was the advice that you were giving the other week.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
So I mean, look, you know, I don't know. Let
me just see. I want to see if Dan Hurley
was even in consideration.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I don't. I mean, there's probably another category, all.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Right, Let's see just if I can find something here
for you.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I might have taken it off the board.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Let's see. So as of two days ago, JJ Reddick,
James Brego, Kenny Anderson, Kenny Atkinson and Anderson, Mike and
Nori Chris Quinn, David Adelman, Rajon Rondo, Monty Williams, Terry Stotts,
like he's nowhere to be found, Becky Hammond was on
(29:57):
this list to be the next head coach, and know
where Paul Gasol was on this list.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
So you don't have you don't have an odds list.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Though, I'm just trying to just write it off. That
was the latest odds as.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Of you're not giving us what the odds were then.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Like plus four hundred was the next in line behind
minus two ten. Okay, yeah that according to DraftKings. So
James Brego of the Pelicans was a plus four hundred
at that point. So Dan Hurley nowhere to be found
at least according to DraftKings within the last two days.
(30:31):
So very interesting. So it could be Dan Hurley on
his way to the Lakers, according to Adrian Wartowski, to
be their next head coach. So uh, fun way to
start the hour here, a little breaking news, but that Lorena,
like you don't get breaking news on this show. It's
like the fourth breaking news story you've gotten on this show.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I love it. Be sure to catch live editions of
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe with Brady Quinn,
LeVar Arrington, and Jonas Knox weekdays at six am Eastern
three am Pacific.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Right now, Albert Breer is in senior NFL reporter, lead
content strategist at the MMQB. You can get him on
Twitter at Albert Breer. Ay be good morning, Happy Thursday
to the year. Good morning, guys, how we doing morning good?
Is this Micah Parsons and Mike Zimmer relationship just not
off to a great start? Or is this more about
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Micah wanning a contract and maybe things are a little
uneasy with everybody there?
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Yeah, I think a lot of things are uneasy in
Dallas right now. You get a coach and the contract year,
You got a quarterback in the contract year. You have
a number one receiver in a contract year. And you know,
I like, I sort of wonder with Mike and now
if he feels like he's got to make some noise
to get his you know, because he still does have
two years left on his rookie contract. So it's an
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interesting situation, no question. And you know, the Cowboys have
stepped on this rake a lot where you know, they
they wait and wait and wait the sign guys, and
they wind up paying a heavy price. That happened with
Zach Martin, it happened with DeMarcus Lawrence, and you know,
I think that's sort of you know, where they are
now with Ceedee Lamb and and Micah Parson's where with
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those two guys, you know, you wait, Justin Jefferson gets done,
and now the andy has been raised for both, you know,
like just because Justin Jefferson's receiver obviously with Lamb, and
because Jefferson's now the highest stayed non quarterback, beating out
Nick Bosa on Parsons. So you know, it's just there's
a lot for the Cowboys to sort through over the
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next few months before they start playing games. And you know,
it'd be interesting to see how things would play out
if all of those contract situations remain unresolved as we
get close to the season.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Albert, I'm curious to get your thoughts on what's happening
in San Francisco. It seems like they're doing things different
than everyone else. They're paying their right back and yet
instead of paying their wide receivers there to put him
on the trade block. Help me understand what they're think
about there in the Bay.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Yeah, so I think the first thing, Brady is like
that the Christian McCaffrey thing was sort of bubbling under
the surface for the last few months, so that didn't
that didn't come out of nowhere, and I think McCaffrey
made it known to people in that building. And you know,
it wasn't like HEBQ went public with any of this,
but you know, like he felt like based on the
value he brings to the team as a skill player,
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not just a running back, but as a skill player,
well he deserves a little more than you know, twelve
viewers do this year in the twelve point two is
do next year. So he gets the four million dollar
raise for both years, and then the team gets basically
an affordable option for twenty twenty six. So now they've
taken care of that, they can take care of the
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bigger box items. I do think, like, you know, the
order of these things happen is important. You know, if
you pay I you before you pay McCaffrey, well then
you know, like I think McCaffrey probably is asking for
a little bit more. But now that you've checked that box,
I think you can kind of focus on your receiver situation.
My personal opinion is my opinion. I think Kyle Sanahanna,
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John Lynch, if they were given the choice, would take
Brandon and i You over Deebo Samuel because i UK
is more. I UK is more of like a traditional
number one receiver that they can build an offense around.
Whereas Debo, as valuable as he is and as great
a player as he is, I think, based on everything
that they have right now, might be viewed a little
bit more as a luxury item, you know. And because
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he's got the miles on his body he does, the
longevity could be an issue too, So you know, you've
got this wealth of riches, and you know, I sort
of think there's a parallel a few years ago, going
back four years, when they had, you know, a bunch
of guys in the defensive line. They knew they were
going to have to pay, and you know, they wind
(34:50):
up making the move to sign Eric Armstead long term
than trade DeForest Buckner. I think it's sort of a
similar thing of the skill positions for them now, where
you got Kittle, you got McCaffrey, you got Ayuke, you
got Debo, You signed Juwan Jennings for an extra year
so you have one more year of him after this year,
you draft Ricky Piersoll, you know, And now I think
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you're looking at it and saying, okay, like either IU
or Debo isn't going to be here long term if
the IU contract situation is too difficult to get around
it to keep Debo and you know, I you go
somewhere else in twenty twenty five, but they can get
Ayuk signed. I think whether it's now or later, Deebo
is probably going to be traded. And I'm not saying
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Deebo definitely trade to be traded before the year. If
somebody came with a first round pick or something like that,
like then I think, you know, yeah, the Niners would
really think about that. I don't think they're going to
give them away, but they're obviously now.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Giving what would someone give up a first round pick
for him?
Speaker 6 (35:52):
It's a good question, right, like because I like with
the Jets to it for example, but the Jets are
so squarely in a win now window. And if you're
the Jets, let me ask you, Brady, if you're the Jets, right,
and you think you're going to be really good, and
like let's say that you think that that's going to
be somewhere between the twenty eighth and thirty second pick, right,
your first round pick for next year, and you know
(36:13):
where you are, and you know where you're at, and
maybe you feel like you need one more weapon and
you feel like the guy you drafted out of Western
Kentucky Malchai Corley could learn from Debo because there's some
similarities in their game. Would you do it?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
I think it makes sense based on the scenario you're presenting,
But I'd have to look at the cap structure and
how all that works. I mean, yeah, I don't know.
I mean, I think the Jets are your perfect case
of they're all in in particular for this year, given
the age of Rogers and just everything else that's gone
on there. But I mean you got to create a market, right,
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So how is that market being driven up to a
first round pick if it's only the Jets they're dealing with, right?
Speaker 6 (36:55):
And that's the thing though, is that, like, if you're
the Niners, you're probably not doing it for two or three, right,
So you don't really need the market there. You're just
going to say, well, you got to make it worth
our while to move a guy off of our roster.
When we're in a championship window. You know, we would
rather go compete for a championship with this guy than
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have a second or a third round pick in twenty
twenty five and going forward. But if that's the first
round pick, maybe we're talking about something else, you know
what I'm saying, Like, if you're if you're a team
coming in asking on Deebo Samuel, you're not competing against
other teams so much as you're competing against the Niners
desire to go and compete for a championship this year.
So I think it's sort of an interesting dynamic that way.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Hey, b I want I want to switch gears on
to this twenty one billion dollar lawsuit that is against
the NFL. I guess it's basically alleging that the NFL
violated an antitrust law and harm customers through or consumers
through you know, the sale of its exclusive Sunday ticket.
(37:59):
It's a about to go to trial, seemingly. What what
do you know about this? Like, can you shed some
light on what the potential of the you know, impact
of this lawsuit could have on NFL.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
I mean, I think this is something that these things
are things that the NFL has been fighting forever and
ever and ever, and you know, I think it's sort
of a result of the changing landscape, you know, and
you know, like the fact that that they're able to
kind of set their prices wherever they want to for
broadcast partners, you know. So you know, I think as
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the landscape as as a landscape continues to change, and
if they opt out after I think it's after the
twenty nine season they have the opt out, and we
see more and more things going to streaming. You know.
The one thing the public has in his back pocket
here is the anti Trusck exemption, you know, and that's
(38:55):
obviously very very important to the NFL. So I think
it's the the landscape when it comes to broadcasting and
how games are televised changes and continues to change. In
the coming years, and the money continues to escalate, you'll
see more and more things like this. I don't think
it'll have much of a sect, you know, in the
near term at least and how people consume games, but
(39:16):
definitely something worth watching.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Albert Brier joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, senior
NFL reporter, lead content strategiest at the MMQB. Get him
on Twitter at Albert Breer ab what is the latest
on the TUA situation in Miami? Tyreek Hill says he
should have already gotten his extension to understand what's going
on as far as the market goes with other quarterbacks.
(39:40):
Where do things stand between him and the Dolphins?
Speaker 6 (39:44):
Yeah, they're not. I mean they're not where they need
to be. Clearly, if you listen to him talk the
other day, it's pretty obvious that, you know, he has
reached a point of frustration. I think you'd understand it too, Like,
you know, he he sat tight for a year and
saw guys he was drafted with and Yo and Burrow
and Justin Herbert get paid. So you know he saw that.
(40:07):
And you can say the Dolphins, you know, we're smart
about which they were because you have the concussion concerns
coming out of twenty twenty two. But if you're that guy,
you're going to kind of digest that a different way,
you know. And this is also a guy who obviously
had his college career and with a pretty catastrophic hip injury.
So you know, I'm sure in his mind and I
(40:29):
don't think he's going to say this, but in his mind,
I'm sure he feels the clock ticking towards the season
and you know, there's still no deal done, and they've
had a lot of time to work on this, and
I do think like his agency has been focused on
getting him a deal where the average per year starts
with the number five, and you know, whether the Dolphins
(40:52):
are willing to go there. I think it's another piece
of this will guarantee, you know, again, because the injury
concerns is a major piece of this, you know, but
very clearly the offense have been preparing this offseason for this.
They cut Jerome Baker, they cut Davian Howard, they let
Christian Wilkins walk, So they've done things, you know, if
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you if you look at the way they're set up,
they've done things to sort of clear the decks so
they can absorb top end quarterback contract. So I still think,
because it's only June, you know, like this is probably
some of the normal ebbs and flows and contract negotiations,
especially when it comes to you know, sort of big
(41:33):
box item that a quarterback, a quarterback contract is. But
but you know, I can also understand why, you know,
if you're to a and you've been through everything that
he's been through as a football player, you would be
getting a little antsy right now, Albert.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Just curious in regards to the business of football. A
lot of stuff can be strolling around this summer, but like,
what's one thing you expect to happen or get done
that's I don't know, maybe flying.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
Under the radar a bit the sum in regards to
the NFL.
Speaker 6 (42:04):
I don't know. Everything's so well covered, Brady, I you know,
I think I think one thing that we will see
before the beginning of the season is I think there
will be one quarterback who will go on like one
of these quarterbacks. I just have this feeling that maybe
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one of these quarterbacks goes into the season with his
contract situation unresolved, whether it's dak Or or Tua or
Jordan Love, like, I think it just feels to me
the quarterback contracts have escalated to the point where one
of those, like someone might go into the season with
that unresolved and that becomes the major storyline going into
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the year. And maybe it's dak I mean, you know,
it was a huge part of me looking at like
the Cowboys situation. I know we talked about them earlier,
but you know, just kind of like reading the tea
leaves here. You know, like this sort of feels like
the where the Rams were on golf going into twenty twenty,
you know, like where they like him, but it's starting
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to wonder is it ever going to be enough to
get us over the top. You know, And obviously a
lot of things you know, happen with Gough after that
he was under contractual control for the Rams. The Cowboys
don't have that luxury. And you know, on top of that,
you know, like Matthew, the Matthew Stafford things sort of
you know, sell from the sky for them. And there's
no telling whether something like that's going to happen. But
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you know, I think there'll be one, at least one
of the quarterback contract situations unresolved going into the season.
I just have a suspicion that it might be Dak
that goes into the season in a contract.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Heere ab before we let you go. Obviously you're going
to be fair and balanced. There's going to be no
rooting interest involved in any of this stuff. And we're
not trying to piss the dog off again, Yes we are.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Oh, he put up he's picked off about a bunch
of other things. I think one I think this morning
was actually the deer that we're running around in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
So fair enough. But NBA Finals, you got to pick
a b I know you don't probably don't care, you
don't have a rooting interest at all, between the Celtics
and the MAVs. Just curious who you pick.
Speaker 6 (44:13):
Is well, well, my one prediction would be the Kyrie Ors.
You have a really hard time tonight with the crowd. No,
I think it's Celtics in five. This is their time.
There's a ton of pressure on them. But I got
some friends that that they cover this, and you know
one of them, you know, my friend Tanya from the
(44:33):
New York Times. She she mentioned to me how calm
Tatum seems and how level he seems, you know, versus
other years going into the finals. And it just sort
of feels like the same way a couple of years ago,
it was Giannie's turn, last year it was Yokic's turn.
Feels like for Tatum and Brown, this is their time.
So I just don't think Dallas has not to act
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like I'm a basketball expert or anything. But you know,
as good as Kyrie and and and Luca are offensively, like,
I just don't know that that group has defensively what
it's going to take to slow down the Celtics and
off and so I think this one is probably over
and five games with a couple of blowouts in this
(45:18):
thing there. I don't think this is going to be
the most competitive NBA Finals. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
How about that bang bang from Albert Breer. All right,
that's how it's done.
Speaker 6 (45:28):
The thank you. Guys know my record from the fall, right.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Of course, listen, I'm very well aware of it. So
he is Albert Breer. You can find him on Twitter
x at Albert Breer, Senior NFL reporter, Lead content strategists
at the MmpB AB. Thanks again, we appreciate it. We'll
do it again next week.
Speaker 6 (45:46):
Thanks guys that have a good one.
It is the best of two pros and rating win
and Jonas Knox on.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Radio, did we do the impossible? Did we find a
pen in the studio that had not been chewed on
by somebody that's questionable?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Are there? I gotta tell you, I don't think it's
a win upon further review.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I think somebody's going on on it. A mouth has
been on this, So there you go.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
That is a I think that might be one of
the most disgusting, non aware things that a person could
possibly ever do.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Okay, pause, if if it is your penk to do?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, it's not going anywhere if you keep it with
you dad. But this is a communal This is a
communal pen deal like that? What whatn't you call that
a communal Yeah? One of those holds, yeah, one of
them dips and and all.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Of them is chewed on.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I mean, whoever you are, I don't know who you are,
but whoever you are, like, can you take two seconds
and think about you know, there are other people that
use pins in the studio and that your mouth isn't
the only thing that's important in this studio. That's all
I'd say. I don't know who you are. I don't
have no with you. I'm just saying, can you not
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chew on every single pin? That's I mean, you got
an oral fixation like you got. You got something going
on there, like they say. You know, they just say,
growing up, you saw somebody chewing nice you know, go
go say hello, smoking too many cigarettes?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Go say hello.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
That's that's yeah, that's what they say.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Well, that's part of what liten.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
They're an old saying back in the.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Day, yep, you know we know somebody at this studio
you need to say hello to.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's all, no diddy, Oh boy, Well listen, we were
off and runned here on two pros and a cup
of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio, and congratulations. Can
we get a round of applause? The NBA is back.
They're back now, in about fourteen and a half hours,
they're back. Okay, but the point is at least they're back,
(02:37):
and the NBA Finals are here, and it looks like
we've got ourselves a game one set to tip off
later on tonight eight thirty Eastern time, which means, well,
it's the NBA Finals. It'll probably be about nine o'clock
that that game tips off Eastern time, which is way
too late. I don't know what's wrong with the seven
o'clock hour, but we got to push and push and push,
(02:58):
and away we go. We got game one off later
on tonight. As it stands right now, our friends at
DraftKings have the Boston Celtics, Brady's in laws. Boston Celtics
a six and a half point favorite el Mas one,
so obviously a vested interest there and wanting to see them,
you know, not have bragging rights there at the at
(03:20):
the dinners and for the series price. Right now on DraftKings,
the Celtics are a minus two ten, So away we go.
Game one of the NBA Finals coming up later on tonight.
Who's your pick? Who you got?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Who said it?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
In how many games?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm gonna be petty. I'm gonna pick the MAVs. Yep, yep.
We'll see how my in laws feel about that. But
I also won one for Luca, and we've seen Kyrie,
but maybe even Kyrie too, just this is a different
version of him, different part of his career, and I'd
love to see this tandem do it.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
But it's gonna be an uphill battle. It really is.
Boston is good, man.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And they're expecting Porzingis back there going to.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Be that is he's been a lynchpin for you the
whole time. Huh I do because I thought it was
because you like saying his name.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
No, it sounds like a fish that you would eat
at a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Does It's almost like.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Tonight for our special launcher.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
We've got the Porzingis and you can get that grilled,
you can get it steamed.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
You can also get it black. How would you like?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It'll be served with a bit of rice and our
seasonal medley of vegetables.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Sorry, can you sell me a picture of what.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Actually got a great pairing? By the way, I like shark.
It's a little buttery or a very dry crisp.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Oh that sounds pretty good, actually, dude. Yeah, it does
sound like a fish that would be on the main menu.
But uh, I do think he is a lunch pin
to to what's going on because us he is that
that extra, that extra line of defense where I believe
this will be a game where they switch a lot,
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and obviously Perzingis probably can be someone who switches on
and off of Luca. They're going to have their hands
full with with Kyrie and his ball handling and his
ability to create space for himself and for other players,
his ability to get to the rim and and create
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those those amazing angle shots that he makes. They've been
able to do the the oops quite a bit during
the course of this playoff as well, especially Luca as well.
I don't think that those lanes are as open with
with perzingis there in in the in the lineup as
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it would be with him out. I think one of
the things that was discussed quite a bit during the
course of the playoffs is how how they played defense underneath,
and that was based upon him being out, and a
lot of criticism went towards Horford and his inability to
(06:15):
be able to help with the pick and roll a
little better. I think I think heaven perzingis and now
you know Horford not having that pressure on him, he'll
probably play better. I just think that their interior defense
will be better and they're going to have to Dallas.
That is, they're going to have to have more. In
(06:37):
my estimation, it's going to have to be more than
just Luca and Kyrie that are catalysts for for this
series if they are to win. I don't think the
two of them alone in the way that they were
able to do in the fashion they were able to
do in this last series against Minnesota. That alone does
not get them through the finals to win.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It's going to have to be more of a group effort. Yeah,
Boston's gonna win in five or six. And I've thought about, well,
how does you know, like matchups and all that, And
you look at what Luca and Kyrie Irving have done,
and if there were two guys that you would trust
against them in this spot in a series, it would
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be Drew Holliday and Derek White. Their dogs on defense,
that's their specialty, and you've seen them come up with
huge plays and big moments throughout the course of these playoffs.
Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum. I mean, if they come
out flat, Boston's in trouble. I just think the Celtics
are too talented, completely healthy, and if we're talking about
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you know, when you're growing up, listen. I can't confirm
nor deny any of that, all right, And I refuse
to at this point during the show. Now, maybe we've
got three hours to play with. Maybe I'll admit to
something later on, but as it stands right now, I
think the feel good story should be Al Horford. The
guy's seventy three years old. He's going for an NBA title,
all right, and this is another opportunity for him, probably
(08:06):
his last chance to get one. So I think Al
Horford's a feel good story. Anybody deserves one, it's him.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
That's a great point. My only question to you is like,
how old were you with The last time they.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Won Celtics was two thousand and eight, So.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Wasn't that So what kind of celebration was that for you?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Did we get banged up a little bit? I'm trying
to think, Actually, I don't believe I did. Yeah, No,
other think about it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Now, did you know about the whole marketing thing with
Kevin Garnett and all he had to say was like
impossible is nothing?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Okay? So yeah, because you did, you did kill some
folks and dreams on what he was supposed to say,
because it, I mean, it became what Anything's possible. But
he was supposed to say what and it was instructed
to do so at that moment by was it Gatorade.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Or Rebok or who Adidas? Actually?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So Adidas instructed him to say everything is possible?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
No, I believe if I can't.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Did we did we lose him?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Did we lose a little bit of a technical issue? Right?
Are we back?
Speaker 6 (09:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Because we would hear him?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
What do you guys came in like it goes a
technical issue. I was just pausing, Okay, yeah, my bad.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I was like, that was what you call a did pause?
Speaker 5 (09:30):
God jumped on it pretty quick though.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Because it cut down like I didn't hear any sound,
you know, I.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Was, I was thinking of pause. I was like, I
think he was supposed to say.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
My panic woul now hear his fingers?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
You know?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Oh we have it?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 6 (09:48):
I'm so high fight now, anything's possible.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I think it was like nothing possible or something like that.
That's he messed it up.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
And he was supposed to get paid a million dollars
for saying that after they won.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
And I remember, well.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Bar Jonas and I were not working together at that point,
but I do remember the first time we came across
this story, and I could not contain myself figuring, how
like could you ifagine the people at Adidas And the
only reason, the only reason it's like unbelievably hilariously funny
(10:33):
to me is when you come out from your school,
you know, you go to train for the.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Combiney your protein and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I was training at a place called API, and this
is obviously back around that time, like this two thousand
and seven that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Was there was this big poster.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I was the side of the meeting room and it
was a Didas poster because API Athletes Performance Institute. There's
there were one of their sponsors, Adidas, and there was
a big picture of Kevin Garnett and the slogan. I
think it was like impossible as nothing, and I kept
I looked at it so many days because that was
(11:10):
where like when we had a quarterback coach or media training,
you'd be sitting in that room for hours, like.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
You'd be watching film. You'd be doing this.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You'd bring some food and to be watching a film
with yourself or something, or watching film another team.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I would see. I'd be looking at things so often.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I remember think about that phrase is like, yeah, there's
probably a better grammatical way, Like I don't think that's
proper English to say it that way, but whatever. And
then when I remember seeing that come out in an
article val it was supposed to be a million dollars
just to say two words the right way, and no
one like had a note card for him.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
They didn't have like a he didn't write it on
his hand. It just it came out and the BA.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
But the problem is, Zechi, it was a blowout and
I think they won by close to forty if I'm
not mistaken, when they closed out the Lakers in that
game six. So there there's plenty of time on the
bench for somebody to remind him, like, hey, dude, and
just remember this one. Like there wasn't like you know,
chaos at the end, and it was the last second
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shot and like wait, wait a second, what was I
supposed to say? And he gets lost in the moment.
My question is was there a certain payout if you
got at least some of it correct? So because he
didn't get all of it correct, he doesn't get his million,
but he does he get like two fifty because he
got at least a portion of it correct Or is
it all or nothing? It's a million dollars. You didn't
say it right, kiss our ass, go away. We're not
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giving you the money because you didn't get the job.
Probably I just paid him.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I keep thinking about that executive at Adidas was like,
oh God, oh god, Like we spent so much time
and money coming up with the slogan in this phrase
and he couldn't get around. I'm pretty sure it's impossible
as nothing as he used to be the phrase. And
then he says anything is possible, which I just could
you imagine like the geeky nerd guys like running it.
(13:03):
I was like exploded, like cag.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Everything's already been printed.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Take me to Area fifty one whatever he calls it. Now,
it's like, I just it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well listen, uh you know, maybe yeah, what's up? KG.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
He's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
He's in He's also in the Bruce Arians Hall of Fame,
where probably not a great radio interview live because they're
just gonna get down three four times. They're just gonna
curse several times on the show and get everybody in trouble.
So I also like to give a shout out to
our former technical producer Roberto Flores. Apparently the ghost of
(13:45):
Roberto is bad.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Michael Douglas made a dang. Michael Douglas made an appearance today. Yeha,
Michael Douglas, you are an intense dude.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Michael Douglas movies are back in the studio. Yep. In
this piece getting tied up.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Dang.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
This scene goes on for like five minutes too. That's it.
That's why it's so unrelatable. I mean, come on, everybody,
well listen, Douglas.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Douglas gonna take you straight to sleep. We're in the
wrong environment.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
We're doing radio. Oh man.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Uh so we just read an article from two thousand eight.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Kevin Garnett. Butcher's a data's slogan.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Oh no, it's great.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But you know what, in a way, it might have
made it that much more memorable.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
It didn't. Oh dang, they like pivot off. Dang.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, I mean it was any possible.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Or impossible is nothing? That was that was I know
that for sure. I wasn't quite sure what Kevin Garnett said.
But oh man, that's this is this.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
It's old. It really is.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Anything's possible, though I think rolls off the tongue a
little better. We're gonna be honest, you know. If you
want to yelled impossible is nothing, It's like, oh that
was scripted. Yeah, like if anything's possible there we oh,
well is what it is? Well? Here we are often
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Speaker 2 (16:15):
I can recall not that long ago where the subject
popped up during the NCAA tournament after Yukon won another
tournament in which Dan Hurley, the head coach of the
Yukon Huskies, said no, not interested in the Kentucky job.
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They're looking to pursue a three peet there in Yukon.
They're trying to make some history and they've got a
real opportunity to do so. And so because of that,
we turn it over to Eddie Garcia for some breaking news.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
All Right, jonas well here in Los Angeles, has been
a lot of talk about g Jay Reddick possibly being
the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. However,
some breaking news this morning from NBA insider Adrian origen Narowski,
who is reporting the Los Angeles Lakers are targeting Yukon's
Dan Hurley to become the franchise's next head coach. They're
preparing a massive, long term contract offer to bring the
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back to back national championship head coach to the NBA.
There are reports they've had preliminary contact with Hurley, but
they are planning to escalate discussions in the coming days.
So they are apparently going hard after Dan Hurley, the
back to back national championship. When you coach at Ukon
to be the next head coach of.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
The Lakers makes wow. I like it more than wow,
makes way more sense.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Wow. That is.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
That is I mean, it's not that surprising, I guess
only because of his success and.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
So forth. But I mean, when you.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Listen to Dan Hurley talk about their success at yukon
how they constructed their roster, how they recruit, I don't
know how that jives or connects with Lebron. Now maybe
I'm wrong, but he seems to be like someone who
obviously wants control and doesn't want to have a player
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trying to dictate metal determine who's on his team. Now
Rob Polenka, who looks exactly like Rob low Is, it's
my understanding that he's the one who's ultimately making this decision.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Quote unquote, at least that's what's being put out there publicly.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
But come on, we all know how Lebron operates and
how he's been operating. This is either a divide between
the two or somehow Lebron is fully on board with
this and willing to at this point kind of give
up the reins. And maybe I don't know, maybe you
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look at the JJ Reddick situation say you know, we don't.
We're a little concerned about the storied franchise heading over
to the keys to a guy who's never been head
coached before. So I think as you dig deeper into
if it is going to be Dan Hurley, the reasons why,
and I wonder how many of them have to do
with Lebron checking them off, or if this is more
(19:24):
of the organization's decision. We know we know Petros has
lamented about how everyone's getting nailed by the King.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Maybe this is an instance where that's not the case.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
There's only two coaches that you could bring in that
would exist that would not be under the influence of
what Lebron James wants, and that would be pat Riley
and Phil Jackson. That's it. I'm not even going to
put Eric Spoulcher draw on there for for the for
the Los Angeles Lakers. Those would be the only two
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names I could think of that would come in. And
you can stand up to saying to the GM and
to Lebron.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
That this is what it is.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I think that this is a product of conversations and
comfort level of development of a college player.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Let alone bring the.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Skill of and the playbook that you have a lot
of people lotted Hurley's playbook, the evolution of how they
were running the baseline, the pick and rolls, the screens,
the way that he architected what was going on there
for the Huskies. I think I think if you're talking
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about bringing in a college coach that is running college
style offenses, even if it does translate to the pros,
there had to have been the conversation.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
When it is it worked out. When's the last time
had success in college Evans? I mean, he's I mean,
they didn't win a championship.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I get it, But he turned into an organization.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I get it. I mean, and now it's in the
front office.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
It's kind of feels a little different, Like I don't
even know if that's the example I'd use only because
if and this is something that you know well because
you're a Boston fan. We're talking about one of the
most storied franchises in the NBA. Their standard isn't like, oh,
they turned it around and their standards win a championship.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So the Lakers have tried this before they reached out.
They were trying to hire Mike Krzyzewski back in the day,
like Kobe loved Mike Krzyzewski. Obviously it didn't work out.
I want to ask you guys this from the Dan
Hurley side, because Dan Hurley's got everything. He could possibly
want in college basketball with an opportunity on the doorstep
of history to go for a three peat, and they
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were dominant two tournaments in a row in the hardest
playoff format that there is in sports outside of the money,
and I'm sure the money is going to be huge
as far as all this goes. Do you think much
like maybe in college football, that the NIL era and
conversation and everything that comes along with that had anything
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to do with his decision to want to get out
of college basketball now as possible. That's very possible, Like
I see where this is heading as possible.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
What I find interesting about that is, you know, again,
he talks a lot about how he goes about recruiting
guys and he's not necessarily always looking for the best
recruit coming out of high schools. It's the right fit.
And the way he goes about looking at the family
the player, the people around the player, their ability to
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have that grit and desire to want to, you know,
compete and earn it not just be giving something. So
it might have played a factor, but he just he's
so different in how how he sees his roster construction,
how he wants to build a team, and that's that's
what I find interesting, is that it feels like he's
been heavily involved in that in the college level and
sometimes in the pros that's not the case.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
You're kind of deal you inherit a roster.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
You may not have many decisions as to what you
can do with that roster from a business standpoint, or
you may not be a part of those negotiations and
conversations at all and just be dictated and told who's
going to be there. That's a tough spot to be
in for any head coach.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I think this is this is n I like, is
Lebron James written all on it? And and it has
get my son to Lakers written all on it.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
I was just gonna say, his son fits the profile
of like what Dan Hurley would want. Like a guy
who you know, people are doubting, a guy who people
say like, he's not a draft pick yet, but he
might be in the future, but it's not yet, right,
So why is he being ted? Why going to be
drafted this year? Why the team? Well because his dad's Lebron,
but he would feed off of that. For a young
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man who I think is gonna work hard, I think
is gonna like try to prove any any doubters out
there wrong.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Like it fits completely in the wheelhouse, I think.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
And the other thing is, you know, if Lebron's looking
for a way of at the end of his career
trying to still add on some championships, there might be
an element too of just saying like, this guy's gonna
come in and build a team around me one way.
You know, if you look at what he did at Yukon,
look out and selfish, that team was a different pieces
they had. They you know, he doesn't necessarily have to
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highlight Lebron in order to win. They can kind of
share in all those success and share the ball and
everything else that goes.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Along with it.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Do you think there's possibly maybe a little under the
table compromise here where they're like, listen, we can't have
everything right. You can't get to pick and choose your
coach and also play with your son. We're picking the coach.
We'll see what we can do about bring I don't
think that's what it is. No comfortable well.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
To that point though, you have to think the decision
they make for the coach is probably going to I mean,
you'd think an the NBA can turnover coaches quick. But
if you're making this big of a monumental commitment to
the Dan Hurley or the coach in this case, he's
going to outlast Lebron.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Correct, Now you're hitting on it. Now you're hitting on
it to me, I think that Lebron James is looking
at the Dan Hurley situation as a win for him
to be able to one implement a dope ass offense
immediately out the gate that could possibly give him an
opportunity to compete, compete for another title before he gets
(25:42):
up out of here. But then two, if you're going
to bring in my son, who better to develop my
son moving forward and talking about a blockbuster deal. It's like, okay, well,
if you're doing a blockbuster deal for Dan Hurley, he's
going to be here for an extended amount of time.
That gives me, That gives me son the stability and
the opportunity to actually make it in the league. I
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would say at this point, trying to win one more championship,
but actually situating a tremendous market and a tremendous historical
franchise for his son to have extended success as a
professional ballplayer. Those have got to be the only two
things that Lebron's thinking about right now. If you ask me,
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I mean, what else would there be?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
I guess the question becomes then you know, was broad
and not recruited by Yukon in the first place. It's
not like I he just played one year of college
ball and you know Dan's been going on a run
the past couple of years.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Was there interest?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Was there not from the James family because he did
want to have to go to play all the way
across the country on the East Coast.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, I think that it was strategic to send him
to USC. I thought it was very strategic. You're you're
introducing him. He's already played his high school ball. Here,
I see our canyon. He goes to a local a
local college at USC, and now he's going into the draft.
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I just think, and now it kind of makes you think, like, dang,
Darvin Ham, Like all you had to do was drive
Brownie and they might have gave you another They might.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
They might. You said, I'm not taking Bronnie. They got
your hands up, out of there.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Out of there, we got we gotta clear it away
for baby boy to come in and and get in
in these doors. If y'all going to keep Lebron James
Senior around, y'all gonna have to make some concessions. And
this is how it's going to work out, and this
is how it's going to happen. That's what it sounds
like to me. I mean, this is posturing if you
ask me. But it's a great move because you get
an immediate boost and a tremendous coach that understands offense.
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That's one. And then two if he's actually willing, which
I would assume that that's going to be something. That's
like in the leveraging of all of this is you're
going to draft my son. You want Lebron, You got
to bring my son boom, you develop him, you get
a long term deal. I get out of the way,
I get out of y'alls hair, and y'all move forward,
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you know, with the team. Yeah, with my son.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So we will keep you again. That is the breaking
news out of the NBA and of the world of
sports that the Lakers are targeting, according to Adrian Warznarowski,
Yukon's Dan Hurley to become the franchise's next head coach.
They're preparing a massive, long term contract offer to Hurley.
So the interest is definitely there. They are meeting and
(28:40):
discussing it. If that gets finalized before we are off
the air, we'll have the latest on that. But again
the breaking news, Dan Hurley in serious consideration for the
Lakers head coaching job, so much so that things have
progressed to where a massive offer contractually is impending. That'll
be coming up here shortly and we get I don't know,
(29:01):
let me see if we can find that on DraftKings.
Because if you had money, if you were like me,
and you were like man, if I had to bet
on this, I'm gonna go, JJ Reddick, you just lost
your ass thinking that you were going to get paid out.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Which was the advice that you were giving the other week.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
So I mean, look, you know, I don't know. Let
me just see. I want to see if Dan Hurley
was even in consideration.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I don't. I mean, there's probably another category, all.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Right, Let's see just if I can find something here
for you.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I might have taken it off the board.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Let's see. So as of two days ago, JJ Reddick,
James Brego, Kenny Anderson, Kenny Atkinson and Anderson, Mike and
Nori Chris Quinn, David Adelman, Rajon Rondo, Monty Williams, Terry Stotts,
like he's nowhere to be found, Becky Hammond was on
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this list to be the next head coach, and know
where Paul Gasol was on this list.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
So you don't have you don't have an odds list.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Though, I'm just trying to just write it off. That
was the latest odds as.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Of you're not giving us what the odds were then.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Like plus four hundred was the next in line behind
minus two ten. Okay, yeah that according to DraftKings. So
James Brego of the Pelicans was a plus four hundred
at that point. So Dan Hurley nowhere to be found
at least according to DraftKings within the last two days.
(30:31):
So very interesting. So it could be Dan Hurley on
his way to the Lakers, according to Adrian Wartowski, to
be their next head coach. So uh, fun way to
start the hour here, a little breaking news, but that Lorena,
like you don't get breaking news on this show. It's
like the fourth breaking news story you've gotten on this show.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
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Speaker 2 (31:00):
Right now, Albert Breer is in senior NFL reporter, lead
content strategist at the MMQB. You can get him on
Twitter at Albert Breer. Ay be good morning, Happy Thursday
to the year. Good morning, guys, how we doing morning good?
Is this Micah Parsons and Mike Zimmer relationship just not
off to a great start? Or is this more about
(31:22):
Micah wanning a contract and maybe things are a little
uneasy with everybody there?
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Yeah, I think a lot of things are uneasy in
Dallas right now. You get a coach and the contract year,
You got a quarterback in the contract year. You have
a number one receiver in a contract year. And you know,
I like, I sort of wonder with Mike and now
if he feels like he's got to make some noise
to get his you know, because he still does have
two years left on his rookie contract. So it's an
(31:50):
interesting situation, no question. And you know, the Cowboys have
stepped on this rake a lot where you know, they
they wait and wait and wait the sign guys, and
they wind up paying a heavy price. That happened with
Zach Martin, it happened with DeMarcus Lawrence, and you know,
I think that's sort of you know, where they are
now with Ceedee Lamb and and Micah Parson's where with
(32:12):
those two guys, you know, you wait, Justin Jefferson gets done,
and now the andy has been raised for both, you know,
like just because Justin Jefferson's receiver obviously with Lamb, and
because Jefferson's now the highest stayed non quarterback, beating out
Nick Bosa on Parsons. So you know, it's just there's
a lot for the Cowboys to sort through over the
(32:35):
next few months before they start playing games. And you know,
it'd be interesting to see how things would play out
if all of those contract situations remain unresolved as we
get close to the season.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Albert, I'm curious to get your thoughts on what's happening
in San Francisco. It seems like they're doing things different
than everyone else. They're paying their right back and yet
instead of paying their wide receivers there to put him
on the trade block. Help me understand what they're think
about there in the Bay.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Yeah, so I think the first thing, Brady is like
that the Christian McCaffrey thing was sort of bubbling under
the surface for the last few months, so that didn't
that didn't come out of nowhere, and I think McCaffrey
made it known to people in that building. And you know,
it wasn't like HEBQ went public with any of this,
but you know, like he felt like based on the
value he brings to the team as a skill player,
(33:26):
not just a running back, but as a skill player,
well he deserves a little more than you know, twelve
viewers do this year in the twelve point two is
do next year. So he gets the four million dollar
raise for both years, and then the team gets basically
an affordable option for twenty twenty six. So now they've
taken care of that, they can take care of the
(33:48):
bigger box items. I do think, like, you know, the
order of these things happen is important. You know, if
you pay I you before you pay McCaffrey, well then
you know, like I think McCaffrey probably is asking for
a little bit more. But now that you've checked that box,
I think you can kind of focus on your receiver situation.
My personal opinion is my opinion. I think Kyle Sanahanna,
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John Lynch, if they were given the choice, would take
Brandon and i You over Deebo Samuel because i UK
is more. I UK is more of like a traditional
number one receiver that they can build an offense around.
Whereas Debo, as valuable as he is and as great
a player as he is, I think, based on everything
that they have right now, might be viewed a little
bit more as a luxury item, you know. And because
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he's got the miles on his body he does, the
longevity could be an issue too, So you know, you've
got this wealth of riches, and you know, I sort
of think there's a parallel a few years ago, going
back four years, when they had, you know, a bunch
of guys in the defensive line. They knew they were
going to have to pay, and you know, they wind
(34:50):
up making the move to sign Eric Armstead long term
than trade DeForest Buckner. I think it's sort of a
similar thing of the skill positions for them now, where
you got Kittle, you got McCaffrey, you got Ayuke, you
got Debo, You signed Juwan Jennings for an extra year
so you have one more year of him after this year,
you draft Ricky Piersoll, you know, And now I think
(35:12):
you're looking at it and saying, okay, like either IU
or Debo isn't going to be here long term if
the IU contract situation is too difficult to get around
it to keep Debo and you know, I you go
somewhere else in twenty twenty five, but they can get
Ayuk signed. I think whether it's now or later, Deebo
is probably going to be traded. And I'm not saying
(35:33):
Deebo definitely trade to be traded before the year. If
somebody came with a first round pick or something like that,
like then I think, you know, yeah, the Niners would
really think about that. I don't think they're going to
give them away, but they're obviously now.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Giving what would someone give up a first round pick
for him?
Speaker 6 (35:52):
It's a good question, right, like because I like with
the Jets to it for example, but the Jets are
so squarely in a win now window. And if you're
the Jets, let me ask you, Brady, if you're the Jets, right,
and you think you're going to be really good, and
like let's say that you think that that's going to
be somewhere between the twenty eighth and thirty second pick, right,
your first round pick for next year, and you know
(36:13):
where you are, and you know where you're at, and
maybe you feel like you need one more weapon and
you feel like the guy you drafted out of Western
Kentucky Malchai Corley could learn from Debo because there's some
similarities in their game. Would you do it?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
I think it makes sense based on the scenario you're presenting,
But I'd have to look at the cap structure and
how all that works. I mean, yeah, I don't know.
I mean, I think the Jets are your perfect case
of they're all in in particular for this year, given
the age of Rogers and just everything else that's gone
on there. But I mean you got to create a market, right,
(36:48):
So how is that market being driven up to a
first round pick if it's only the Jets they're dealing with, right?
Speaker 6 (36:55):
And that's the thing though, is that, like, if you're
the Niners, you're probably not doing it for two or three, right,
So you don't really need the market there. You're just
going to say, well, you got to make it worth
our while to move a guy off of our roster.
When we're in a championship window. You know, we would
rather go compete for a championship with this guy than
(37:15):
have a second or a third round pick in twenty
twenty five and going forward. But if that's the first
round pick, maybe we're talking about something else, you know
what I'm saying, Like, if you're if you're a team
coming in asking on Deebo Samuel, you're not competing against
other teams so much as you're competing against the Niners
desire to go and compete for a championship this year.
So I think it's sort of an interesting dynamic that way.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Hey, b I want I want to switch gears on
to this twenty one billion dollar lawsuit that is against
the NFL. I guess it's basically alleging that the NFL
violated an antitrust law and harm customers through or consumers
through you know, the sale of its exclusive Sunday ticket.
(37:59):
It's a about to go to trial, seemingly. What what
do you know about this? Like, can you shed some
light on what the potential of the you know, impact
of this lawsuit could have on NFL.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
I mean, I think this is something that these things
are things that the NFL has been fighting forever and
ever and ever, and you know, I think it's sort
of a result of the changing landscape, you know, and
you know, like the fact that that they're able to
kind of set their prices wherever they want to for
broadcast partners, you know. So you know, I think as
(38:35):
the landscape as as a landscape continues to change, and
if they opt out after I think it's after the
twenty nine season they have the opt out, and we
see more and more things going to streaming. You know.
The one thing the public has in his back pocket
here is the anti Trusck exemption, you know, and that's
(38:55):
obviously very very important to the NFL. So I think
it's the the landscape when it comes to broadcasting and
how games are televised changes and continues to change. In
the coming years, and the money continues to escalate, you'll
see more and more things like this. I don't think
it'll have much of a sect, you know, in the
near term at least and how people consume games, but
(39:16):
definitely something worth watching.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Albert Brier joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, senior
NFL reporter, lead content strategiest at the MMQB. Get him
on Twitter at Albert Breer ab what is the latest
on the TUA situation in Miami? Tyreek Hill says he
should have already gotten his extension to understand what's going
on as far as the market goes with other quarterbacks.
(39:40):
Where do things stand between him and the Dolphins?
Speaker 6 (39:44):
Yeah, they're not. I mean they're not where they need
to be. Clearly, if you listen to him talk the
other day, it's pretty obvious that, you know, he has
reached a point of frustration. I think you'd understand it too, Like,
you know, he he sat tight for a year and
saw guys he was drafted with and Yo and Burrow
and Justin Herbert get paid. So you know he saw that.
(40:07):
And you can say the Dolphins, you know, we're smart
about which they were because you have the concussion concerns
coming out of twenty twenty two. But if you're that guy,
you're going to kind of digest that a different way,
you know. And this is also a guy who obviously
had his college career and with a pretty catastrophic hip injury.
So you know, I'm sure in his mind and I
(40:29):
don't think he's going to say this, but in his mind,
I'm sure he feels the clock ticking towards the season
and you know, there's still no deal done, and they've
had a lot of time to work on this, and
I do think like his agency has been focused on
getting him a deal where the average per year starts
with the number five, and you know, whether the Dolphins
(40:52):
are willing to go there. I think it's another piece
of this will guarantee, you know, again, because the injury
concerns is a major piece of this, you know, but
very clearly the offense have been preparing this offseason for this.
They cut Jerome Baker, they cut Davian Howard, they let
Christian Wilkins walk, So they've done things, you know, if
(41:13):
you if you look at the way they're set up,
they've done things to sort of clear the decks so
they can absorb top end quarterback contract. So I still think,
because it's only June, you know, like this is probably
some of the normal ebbs and flows and contract negotiations,
especially when it comes to you know, sort of big
(41:33):
box item that a quarterback, a quarterback contract is. But
but you know, I can also understand why, you know,
if you're to a and you've been through everything that
he's been through as a football player, you would be
getting a little antsy right now, Albert.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Just curious in regards to the business of football. A
lot of stuff can be strolling around this summer, but like,
what's one thing you expect to happen or get done
that's I don't know, maybe flying.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
Under the radar a bit the sum in regards to
the NFL.
Speaker 6 (42:04):
I don't know. Everything's so well covered, Brady, I you know,
I think I think one thing that we will see
before the beginning of the season is I think there
will be one quarterback who will go on like one
of these quarterbacks. I just have this feeling that maybe
(42:25):
one of these quarterbacks goes into the season with his
contract situation unresolved, whether it's dak Or or Tua or
Jordan Love, like, I think it just feels to me
the quarterback contracts have escalated to the point where one
of those, like someone might go into the season with
that unresolved and that becomes the major storyline going into
(42:45):
the year. And maybe it's dak I mean, you know,
it was a huge part of me looking at like
the Cowboys situation. I know we talked about them earlier,
but you know, just kind of like reading the tea
leaves here. You know, like this sort of feels like
the where the Rams were on golf going into twenty twenty,
you know, like where they like him, but it's starting
(43:06):
to wonder is it ever going to be enough to
get us over the top. You know, And obviously a
lot of things you know, happen with Gough after that
he was under contractual control for the Rams. The Cowboys
don't have that luxury. And you know, on top of that,
you know, like Matthew, the Matthew Stafford things sort of
you know, sell from the sky for them. And there's
no telling whether something like that's going to happen. But
(43:29):
you know, I think there'll be one, at least one
of the quarterback contract situations unresolved going into the season.
I just have a suspicion that it might be Dak
that goes into the season in a contract.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Heere ab before we let you go. Obviously you're going
to be fair and balanced. There's going to be no
rooting interest involved in any of this stuff. And we're
not trying to piss the dog off again, Yes we are.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Oh, he put up he's picked off about a bunch
of other things. I think one I think this morning
was actually the deer that we're running around in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
So fair enough. But NBA Finals, you got to pick
a b I know you don't probably don't care, you
don't have a rooting interest at all, between the Celtics
and the MAVs. Just curious who you pick.
Speaker 6 (44:13):
Is well, well, my one prediction would be the Kyrie Ors.
You have a really hard time tonight with the crowd. No,
I think it's Celtics in five. This is their time.
There's a ton of pressure on them. But I got
some friends that that they cover this, and you know
one of them, you know, my friend Tanya from the
(44:33):
New York Times. She she mentioned to me how calm
Tatum seems and how level he seems, you know, versus
other years going into the finals. And it just sort
of feels like the same way a couple of years ago,
it was Giannie's turn, last year it was Yokic's turn.
Feels like for Tatum and Brown, this is their time.
So I just don't think Dallas has not to act
(44:57):
like I'm a basketball expert or anything. But you know,
as good as Kyrie and and and Luca are offensively, like,
I just don't know that that group has defensively what
it's going to take to slow down the Celtics and
off and so I think this one is probably over
and five games with a couple of blowouts in this
(45:18):
thing there. I don't think this is going to be
the most competitive NBA Finals. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
How about that bang bang from Albert Breer. All right,
that's how it's done.
Speaker 6 (45:28):
The thank you. Guys know my record from the fall, right.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Of course, listen, I'm very well aware of it. So
he is Albert Breer. You can find him on Twitter
x at Albert Breer, Senior NFL reporter, Lead content strategists
at the MmpB AB. Thanks again, we appreciate it. We'll
do it again next week.
Speaker 6 (45:46):
Thanks guys that have a good one.
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