Sports Gambling is LEGAL & NBA Champion Jason Terry

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You're listening to Sports Boom. What Up America, Doug Gottlieb Show,
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nineteen and the Angels aren't much better because they have
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but you know we don't have we don't have an
NBA team compete in the NBA playoffs. We'll talk to
some lebron James. Is he just smarter than the average
bear and doing the old rope pa dope or do
we have a problem with his ability to get his
own shot versus the Boston Celtics. We'll talk about that
upcoming the jet Jason Terry will join us. Oh and

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about fifteen minutes or so here on the Doug Gotli Show. Welcome,
and I hope you had a great weekend. Hope your
mother was well compensated for all our hard work, whether
you win diamonds or just flowers or a note or
Sherry's berries. As I went with my mom. However, you
that went about thanking Mom. She did bring you into

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this world, put you in this world. She can take
you out right That's that's the point. Famous line back
when Bill Cosby was funny. Anyway, I got a bunch
of things to get to. I want to talk to Lebron.
I'm gonna pronounce Tiger Woods officially back, even though he
did not finish with the top five finish at the
Players Championship. I'll tell you why Clay Travis is gonna

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join us. Clay Thompson doing something that everyone always were
talking about, doing, something that people have talked about doing
four years, but it may finally become a reality. How
it relates to Calvin Johnson's decision to walk away from football.
Clay Thompson Calvin Johnson, two different sports, two completely different conversations.
How it's related. Also the nonsensical discussion about you know,

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the Celtics don't need Kyrie Irving and boy, that is
a really as a wow. That is a low lowest
common denominator combo. Yes to all stars sitting on the
Celtics bench means and then winning a game against the
kaz means they don't need them. Wow. But I want

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to start with the news of the day, which just
happens to be the news de jure mm hmm. Sports
betting may well become legal in your state, and you
have wait for it. Chris Christie to thank for it.
The former governor in the state of New Jersey, pushed

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legislation that ultimately went before the Supreme Court. The Supreme
Court struck down ruling from giving the states back their
rights to set their own gambling laws. This seems like
a red herring, right. I don't know anyone, anyone who's
ever gone. You know, I really like to be on

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tonight's game, but I don't have the ability to do so,
do you right? All right? And oh yeah, by the way,
it's not like the police are breaking up these gambling
rings time and time again. I'm not sure what's easier
to score weed at a Dave Matthews band concert or

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to gamble from your phone advantage push. But I think
the ruling and I actually I understand that I know
nothing about constitutional law. I don't profess to I'm not
a lawyer. I just play one on the radio. I'm
not a moralist. This is the wrong thing for us,

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And like, what are you talking about? God, Labe, you
pick games every Friday, and you've done well for me
in college football, in college basketball, in the NFL and
the NBA. Right, You're right. We're always gonna have picks,
We're always gonna bet lines, we're always gonna tell you
what you should and shouldn't do, and you're always going

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to lose money. As my former college coach Eddie Seton
told us the first time we got out the plane
in Las Vegas, look around, boys, see all these big buildings. Actually,
he said, you know they don't build them because people
are winning money, don't you The house always wins, right,

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I mean, I saw how many how many geniuses yesterday?
Did you see that? Said Calves plus one? Game one? Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. Dude.
That thing was over after the jump ball, or actually
was over after two run the first half. I think

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it's the wrong thing because something my wife told me
about I got. We're working through issues with all of
our It's right, everybody who has kids Mother's Day, you're
sitting there and you're like, man, Mom's worked through these
issues all the time, more so even than dad's. And
one of the issues I'm working through with my son
is when he makes him when somebody else makes a

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mistake on his team, he's great about it. Hey, it's okay, buddy,
get him next time. Don't worry about it. He'll give
a kid a hug, He'll give him a smack on
the on the booty, like he is a really, really
good teammate. When somebody else makes a mistake. When he
makes a mistake, you would think it's the end of
the world. It will start crying, he'll lose his mind.

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It's because he thinks he's let everybody down. And it's
been an issue in basketball and football and now in baseball,
to which we told him, hey, do you do it
again in baseball, taking you off to get taking out
of the field, to which Saturday, Uh, he was playing
first base ball was poorly thrown, although he probably could

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have gotten it, but it was poorly throne, not his fault.
Um He went to recover it when it went to
the fence behind him at first base. He throws it
to second because the guy tried to go take second
on the on the errant throw perfectly to the shortstop
who also butchered the ball, and they didn't get the
runner at second. Only that, but then they went in
bad news, bared it right went to left center. The

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center fielder picked it up. He threw it the third
base behind the runner. The runner comes all the way
around and scores on three errors. It looked like every
the embodiment of Little League baseball gone wrong, right, And
so he's over there apoplectic, and I grabbed him by
the shirt and I said let's go, And I probably

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did so in too physical manner, and I lost my
cool because I've I've had it with my son, who
I love more than any little boy on earth, making
a fool of himself, making too big a deal about
a mistake that frankly wasn't his. And even if it was,
no one's getting onto him. But he causes a scene.
My wife said, hey, look, you gotta work on when

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you get angry. You can't tell your son not to
get upset, and then you get upset. Kids do that.
Kids are a reflection of adults. Look, I understand marijuana
should be decriminalized. I totally understand it. When you start
to legalize marijuana, the trickle down is high school kids,

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junior high kids are like, marijuana is legal now, well
it's not actually legal for you, right. That's what happens,
a trickle down to it trickle down to it. What's
legal for adults, what they see adults doing, they emulate.
It's the same thing with bat flips. It's the same

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thing with flopping and anything that you don't like that
you see. The reason you don't like it, it's not
just because it happens in your sports event. Flopping okay,
taking terrible shots, cadillacing after hitting a home run. You
pick it, you pick it out. The reason you don't

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like it is because we all know kids are going
to emulate what they see on TV and what they
see the adults to the reason we can't lose our
cool as I did Saturday with my son playing Mustang
Baseball Newport Beach, California, is because how can I tell
my kid not to lose this cool? When I lose
my kid, tell lose my cool, Tell my kid not
to lose his cool. Do you understand? And so I

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fully grasp the idea that it hasn't been hard for
us to gamble, right, But having a gambling problem is
maybe the worst addiction you can have. You can have.
Gambling is no different as an addiction than drugs or

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alcohol or smoking. Once you get a taste of it,
some people just can't control themselves. And while we we look,
we know why this is all we know whether this
is all taken place right. It's all taking place because
state budgets are out of control. And the first thing
to help school budgets was, hey, we'll do the state lottery,

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which is kind of like gambling, although the odds are
waistacked against you, and people do it, but I don't
know anybody who does it often. And then, of course,
when there's not enough money generated from the state lottery,
then they turned to weed and they're like, wow, look,
Colorado is making all this money. So now every state
is legalizing weed. And by the way, we probably should

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have been decriminalized a long time ago. You just don't
want to make it out now legal and why because
kids are gonna emulate what they see their parents or
or young adults do. And the same is true with Vegas.
I love Vegas. I'll live you the idea of the
science of putting a line on a game. I love

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the idea of a science behind putting a line on
a half. Who doesn't love prop bets, I mean, it's
it's what we do. On the other hand, the second
you basically tell the world. Hey, gambling on sports is legal.
Think about the trickle down to that. Think about the
trickle down to that. So just be careful about Pandora's

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box being opened and not under and and don't downplay
the relationship between what is legal for an adult to
do and is broadcast as legal and is celebrated as legal.
How kids are gonna take it? Have you ever heard

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the word degenerate us before anything else in life other
than gambler? Do you ever noticed that degenerate was a
word I believe created with the sole purpose of being
put before gay blur because a degenerate gambler will do anything,
bet anything to win that next game. I mean, look,

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Craig Carton is a friend and he was the number
one sports radio co host in New York City. Now.
I don't know if he's guilty of his the crimes
that he's been accused of in New York City, but
the logic behind why he would defraud people of millions

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of dollars was simply to pay off bets because the
house always wins. Have you ever heard the word degenerate
before any other word other than gambler? The answer is no,
And I know we all like to think we can
control ourselves, but the fact is we cannot. And to

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empower the states is a scary, scary thought when you
think what else would the states do if they were empowered?
And oh, yeah, by the way, we can handle it, yes,
because states handle everything else a plump, don't they. We
are celebrating something that essentially still exists, only could will
likely become legal in each individual state. We are opening
Pandora's box, but we are not taking a breath at all,

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even the sports world to think about the implications for
people who have not developed any of the skills that
it takes, and we still don't have them to protect
themselves from themselves. And yes, every time I go to Vegas,
I put money on games. Why because it's fun. But
I can control myself. But I also don't. I'm not.

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I'm not genetically wired, genetically wired to fall to addiction.
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Fox Sports Radio. This is the classic case of I
listened to you, but I didn't actually hear you. Okay,
there's a guy. Let's see here at the Underscore Preakness. Okay,

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at the Underscore Preakness. We gotta get this man a
copy of the Constitution tenth amendments, specifically one of the
most anti constitutional rants I've ever heard in sports radio.
Not good, not good at all. Um, here's the thing, dude, ja,
I don't dispute the constitutionality or lack of constitutionality of
any of the ruling today. I don't profess to be

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a lawyer, nor to profess to have any idea about
the constitutional legitimacy of anything. All I'm stating, is it
ain't a good idea in my opinion, to completely legalize
sports gambling because it was already essentially legal, but by

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broadcasting it as such, it makes it. It makes it
far more, far easier to take for for kids like
there used to be something you have to go to Vegas.
You've got to be that certain age. Now do you
are there kids that can filter through the system? And yeah,

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no one I know who's one to bet on sports
has been stopped from betting on sports because it wasn't
legal in their state. Do you so? I look if
the if the Supreme Court of the United States says, hey,
this this, these laws are unconstitutional by a vote of
seven to two earlier today, I can't dispute that. I'm

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not a constitutional scholar. I don't care to be, Nor
is that the point of my rant. My point is
we're making something legal that was illegal for a reason,
for a reason, and some of those reasons. Look the
difference in the gambling addiction drug addiction. Don't get me wrong.

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Drug addiction will, just like gambling, make you ask a friend,
you know, make you rob, steal, whatever, just to find
ways to get money to get that next fix. There
is addiction, and it is a problem. The one issue
with a gambling addiction is you you can bring down
your whole family, your parents, and people can't see these problems,

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like at least drugs, alcohol, those type of addictions oftentimes
based upon behaviors and based upon watching somebody's body devolved.
You can see, Hey, something right here can set off alarms.
Those alarms don't get set off because anybody can anybody
can gamble, anybody can be down a thousand, ten thousand,

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a hundred thousand dollars. Anyway, all right, let's turn back.
Let's turn to basketball. Something interesting happened yesterday. The Celtics
stopped the Calves. Kind of weird how this works, right?
It is never Lebron's fault, alright, Kevin Love gets lit

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up by Al Horford, must be his fault. There's not
enough shot shot creators on this team. And look, I
even tweeted as much. Maybe it was a ropa dope
because Lebron James seemed to kind of shut it down
when he couldn't get in lane and just settle for
jump shots that he wasn't a king yesterday. But they
got down twenty in the first quarter and never really recovered.

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So was Lebron just you know, trying to test the
waters and see what's gonna work, and just hey, all
I need to do is win one game in Boston.
That's it. Conserve energy or is their matchup issues galore
for the Calves. Let's welcome in Jason Terry, who won
NBA Championship with the Dallas Mavericks ironically against Lebron James
back in the day. He joins us in the Doug

(18:29):
Gottlib Show jet. Uh, do you think Lebron was was
trying hard? You think he shut it down for a reason. Well,
I believe he's definitely trying hard. But if you watch
Lebron and how he's went through this season, it's always
a filling out process. It's always a process asked where
let me see if I can give my teammates competent

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before I go ahead and take over and completely destroyed
and dismantle the other team. We know there's no force
in the NBA right now at his build or designed
to stop Lebron James other than the Golden State Warriors
because they have multiple shooters from all across the board.
But a team like Boston is very dangerous when you'll

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use this tactic, because if you get in the whole
oh two to the Boston Celtics, you're gonna be in
a huge fight. This team, asked Trim, and this was all.
They have a great coach and they have multiple defenders
at every position that can match up with Lebronze James.
So his strategy, I see it. I've seen him do
it time and time again. But he has to be careful.

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He has to go out and win Game two because
if he doesn't, it's gonna be a tough mountain to climb.
Hasn't been down O two since two thousand six. Jason
Terry joined us in the Doug Gotlips Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Um, it did feel like Marcus Morrison al
Horford did a good job. Has bigger players of keeping
him from just blowing by and getting dunks and getting layups.

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Um do you see that as well that they have
They have bigger bodies that can guard him, that can
SWI trying to him. Uh and wh then when he
gets a smaller guy they were they were throwing a
quick double team at him. Does that strategy work long term? Oh,
no question, no doubt. About it. I've watched it. I've
witnessed it. Uh in our series in the first round, Uh,
Jhanna signa coupo who is only second to Lebron James

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in paint points and getting to the basket. Uh, they
stifled us. I mean they did not allow Janice to
operate in the paint. They build a wall, They put
bigger defenders on them. Al Royford has to be pounder around.
One of the best defenders that we have in the NBA.
Very underrated, and so like you said, when it's a
bigger defender, they body up, they make it physical, and

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they make complain a crowd. When it's a smaller defender,
they bring the quick double team and force you to
make passes. And when you pass, they rotate. That's the
thing about the Boston Celtics. They have a great defensive
scheme and their heart and determination is not going to
allow them to quit on any possession. So you have
to continue to consistently make the right play. And I

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think for most of the part, like you said, Lebron
James to jump shots last night and the other guys
could not find the basket. All right, So what what's
if you're in Cleveland's coaching room, and you're watching the
tape today Jason Terry joining us on the Doug Gotlip Show.
What's the adjustment you make? So the just I make
is I may go small. I may go small and

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just put four shooters around Lebron and allow him to operate.
Let the double team come. You know where it's coming from.
Now when he's in the low post. Uh, they're forcing
to go baseline and and and they'll bring the double
team from the baseline so they can cut off pass
and anglers. So you know that. So if you know that,
you have to surround shooters around him, and when that
ball kicks out, you have to make shots. That's the

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only adjustment. The other thing would be to speed up
the pace. But if you know Boston like I do,
from the first round, they controlled tempo. They make you
play deep into the shot clot on the defensive end,
and that they missed, they go rebound very well and
make you play again another team four seconds. That wears

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on you, that wears on your shooters, that takes away
their legs. So those shots that they normally get in rhythm,
they don't make. And I think that was a great
case in point last night they shot Cleveland shot Uh
what was it like? From three from three percent from
thirty eight from the field. That is a bysmal shooting, uh,

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And it puts tremendous pressure on your defense, especially against
the team that makes you play peep into the shot
clus see I I don't like Okay, they're so so
the fourth shooter? Do you you play without Kevin Love?
Do you put another shooter? Or is Kevin Love your
I mean, you have to have him. But the problem
is you can't guard any buddy j't he can't And

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and so at that point, what I'm telling you is
you have to force Boston into a shootout, because I
gotta believe if Cleveland, if the score is one one,
Cleveland wins that game. But if we're gonna play a
ninety to a human five game, I mean, I get
Boston the heads um in all fasts. I mean, they've
got to get this thing up into a high octan

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game where it's ripping and running and make Boston forced
Boston in them taking quick shots. Just hard to do
in Boston, but on the road you can kind of
bait them, uh into that type of ball game, as
we did in our first round match up. Yeah, it's
it's fascinating to see. How are they How are they
doing this without? How are they scoring enough points without
Kyrie and Gordon Hagward? Is it? Is it the defense

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and the offense just scores enough? And how are they
doing this without their two best offensive weapons? One thing
about it their opportunistic defense. We're packing the paint and
making you take long, contested threes. They get long rebounds
and they run out, so they'll take transition basket. Don't think,
because I'm telling you they play a different pace that
they're not kidding out in transition and running. They're gonna

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take those easy opportunities. But in the half court, they
saw every option on the floor. They make you play
all sides of the court, and then when they do
get that opportunity, they're shooting the ball at a high percentage.
That's why it's working for them. Jason Terry joining us
in the Doug Gotlips Show on Fox Sports Trader, let's
get ready for tonight. Uh Houston team, you know well,

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Warriors team, you know well? What are your expectations in
this series? Fireworks? This is the fourth of July all
over again. Every single game is gonna be high paced,
high scoring, uh flair for the dramatic. I want to
see which team is going to bring the physicality and
mix it up, because we know these teams. They like

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to play up and down and they like to, you know,
play free willie. But whatever team decides that, hey, we're
gonna be physical. If you get to the basket, we're
gonna throw you on the ground. It may take a
fight to break out old school basketball, but some's gonna give.
And I just think the star power of Golden State
is much more better than the dantone system. It just

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is when you have two MVPs on your team, a
guy and Kevin Durant who obviously is compree basketball player
in the world. Um and Draymond Creen's all world in
defense and facilitating. He's step hurry, Clay Thompson. I mean,
it's just it's just hard to be the team with
that many weapons. Yeah, James Harden is having the best career,

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I mean, best best season of his career. Uh Statistically,
he's definitely the m v P in my eyes. Chris
Paul coming off a series where he literally dominated the
Utah Jazz, I mean that was your serious I just
don't think they have enough. You tell me they are
a better defensive team, but Golden State is just too

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hot power. I I don't see Clint Capella is so
important to the way Houston plays. I just don't see
who Clint Capella guards in this series. Right, Like when
they if they go small and take him off, you've
got p J Tucker and PJ hasn't been hitting his shots.
And I I think he's a very good defender and
he's tough, but he's not Draymond Green. And when they

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go big, you know, the great thing about Golden States
going small is they still have rim protection with Kevin
Durant as opposed to most teams do not. And then
you know, like look, if I just don't know Cook
Cappella can guard out on the perimeter other than Draymond Green.
And granted, Draymond doesn't always hit his shots, but the
fact is he'll have to be left wide open, and
that breaks down your defense. And you got to think

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about Clint Cappella. He's not a post president. The teams
that give Golden State the most problems are teams, for instance,
where New Orleans have a Bookie Cousins when Milwaukee last
year had a big Greg Monroe on the inside. I
mean teams with a post presence Marc gasol um in
in Memphis. Those type of teams give them problems because

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now they're forced to double team and get forced into rotation.
Clint Propela is not a post presence of whatsoever. And
again to be in this series, he's gonna have to
defend a perimeter. Dot any do it. I think he's capable.
I played with him. He's very athletic. You can use
this link. But you're asking a hell of a lot
out of Clint Capella to be out there chasing depth

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Curry and played Compson around, uh for for four quarters.
I think you got to give him a steady Dolts
start the game out in the third quarter, but to
finish the game, it's all about that death lineup. Can
you match up with Golden State death lineup and the
insert I dolla in but they're big. That's going to
be the side that you don't tell farm in Houston

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can win the series. Jet great stuff, man, Get back
to the pool wherever you are right now. We appreciate
you joining us. I appreciate you, all right, that's moment
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Go well down. We may have sports betting close to
us sooner than later. The U. S. Supreme Court today
struck down a long standing federal law banning sports gambling.

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The decision now allows individual states to determine whether they
will allow sports betting legally. That is, the NFL has
decided they plan to work with Congress in an effort
to craft a federal law that would regulate sports betting
in the future. Major League Baseball and the NBA, however,
say they intend to work with the individual states in
crafting their individual regulations and a news former Hawks coach

(29:01):
Mike Budenholzer reportedly as a candidate for both the Raptors
and Bucks head coaching vacancies now. The Toronto vacancy made
possible following Friday's firing of Dwyane Casey, who led the
Raptors to a regular season record in wins was named
coach of the Year by his peers, but Toronto was
ounceded again this postseason by the Cavaliers. To say a
long time NBA coach George carl is not a fan

(29:24):
of Casey's firing is an understatement. I think it's a
black eye for for the sport. I mean, I know
this is you know, this is a big business. Now,
it's a money business, and sometimes we just missed the
point that he did a hell of a job and
he should he should have his job. But in today's world.
We we all live in a maybe a realistic same
world now to coach is still very much employed and busy.

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Tonight or Steve Kerr and Mike D'Antoni. It's game one
tonight of the Western Conference Finals in Houston. Rockets host
the Warriors at nine Eastern. Ready for that. I am
ready for that. Speaking of of great events over the
we ken, did you guys see the Players Championships? You
watch any of the players champion? Yes? How exciting was
it to have Tiger making a run? It was great?

(30:07):
It was It was fun to see him in the
running there for a while. Okay, I debi I've been
a a stockholder, uh in two things. One I'm glad
I held onto one I'm not. It's a true story.
When I graduated college, I had some bonds that my
now late grandma had had had left me. And my
brother called me and he's like, hey, there's a stock

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It's Echelon c It's Elon Corporation. It's forget what it
is now, it's gonna go to a hundred fifty. We
can sell it a hundred fifty. At the time, I
think it was like fifty, and it got up to
seventy three before I bought it. I believe now it's
worth like three cents maybe three dollars fat okay, But
I'm gonna ride it out in case Elon Corporation sees

(30:49):
some resurgence over the next fifteen years the way it's
collapsed over the last fifteen years, regardless of which. I
also hold on to a a tiger Wood stock certificate,
and when everybody else was selling, I was holding on
one because I'm pot committed, but too because i've I've
I've often worked on the philosophy, under the philosophy that

(31:11):
there's no such thing as being too drunk to fish
or too old to play golf. And for people, well,
you know, father time and whatever, like, look, we know
what you're how old Jack was when he won at
the Masters, And of course that was before science was
the way it was. And then he had the chipping
yips and a lot of people sold stock, and then
he had another back surgery and people sold stock, and

(31:32):
I thought's out there and go, you know what, what's
the point in selling off this stock? Well, now I
couldn't be happier. And I know he hit one in
the drink on seventeen. Okay, I know fourteen. Really he
had a shot he was down for at fourteen and
he got a bad bounce and then he missed a
makeable par putt and it really it was over after fourteen.

(31:55):
But look Tiger Woods, even when he was last winning.
People forget two thousand and end. Uh was it the
two thousand thirteen or two thousand fifteen that he won
more tournaments than anybody on tour. Okay, no majors, no majors.
But even then he wasn't driving the ball that well.
He wasn't. He was playing three wooded here, I'll play

(32:18):
from the right, you know, I'll play from the right
rough over here. He was driving it three fifty three
fifty five straight as an arrow. He was played. He
was playing with confidence. Even afterwards after his round kind
of fell apart at the end, he fell out of
the top ten. Take a listen to Tiger Woods and
how he felt about how he played. I played so

(32:39):
well on this weekend, um unfortunately just didn't distant cash
it in. You know it it was it was. He
was really special, especially today. I gotta hit the ball good.
I didn't really miss a shot and only end up yeah,
I mean I didn't miss. Now you're sitting there going like, yes,
he's in denial. He not in denial if you actually watch,
and I understand that most people didn't watch because the

(33:02):
game was on or you're paying attention to mom too,
completely reasonable explanations. Uh, but he was seventy two seventy
one playing with Phil who shot plus a million. No,
that was awful, it was bad. Then he shoots the
sixty five, and then he goes on a run to
start yesterday. Three birdies in a row three four, five

(33:23):
birdies at nine birdies at eleven, birties at twelve. If
you're tracking at home, that's six birdies, six birdies in
ten holes as he as he teeted up on the
par three thirteen. It's it's the consistency, the ability to
hit the driver. Yes, he missed it. He missed a
big put on fourteen, but even he said, I didn't

(33:44):
miss it badly, just missed a putt. But isn't it
great to hear the enthusiasm and his voice again? It
sounds crazy to say it's it's great to see him
get his confidence back because he was you know, Mr
conference Dens for for such a long time. But he's
great for the sport. He's fun to watch um and
and you you never know when he's gonna have a
run like he had yesterday. And and look, I know
Webb Simpson ended up birdieing. I think it was birdie sixteen.

(34:08):
But look, Webb Simpson was walking around with tight ass
the entire morning because he heard the roars. He looked
up and there was the O shoot, only I didn't
say shoot going on in his head. All of these
dudes like, yo, tiger, I'm not scared of tiger anymore,
not scared of tiger anymore, not scared a tiger anymore.

(34:28):
Like okay, okay, you better, yeah, yeah you, but you
might want to have those guys have a healthy amount
of respect. It's like, uh, Siegfried and Roy you can
have you can say, hey, you know, these are tame tigers.
They've been trained. They'll bite you. They'll bite you. I
am pronouncing what is it? May two eighteen Tiger Woods

(34:51):
back put the world on notice. Six birdies, ten holes
at the TBC. He's won there twice. That's not where
he plays best. He does not traditionally play best there.
And yes, seventeen got him. He got a gust from
the gods that pushed him into the drink, holding onto

(35:13):
my stock gleefully so. From a World Series appearance to
the worst starts since nineteen fifty eight and out of
the playoffs. Big deal, Little deal, No deal. We discussed next.
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a uh, what a photographic memory is. I will inform

(35:58):
you of what a photographic member is and isn't at
the top of the hour. In the meantime, let's play
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(36:21):
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today done? We are playing big deal, little deal, deal,
little deal, no deal? All right. The Dodgers felt a

(36:42):
sixteen and twenty four on the season after getting swept
in a four game home series against the Reds over
the weekend. Doug big deal, little deal or no deal.
I think that's a big deal. I think it's a
big I understand there's no kershaw Um. You don't actually
even have your You don't have you know, your shortstop

(37:02):
either Sager's out for the year and you still haven't
had Justin Turner was your best player last year. So anyone,
and there's been a myriad of other injuries, anyone's going
to suffer a tough start when you when you have
that level of injury. But to get swept by the Reds,
who fired their manager before Sinco Day Mayo, the worst
team in baseball at home, but everybody knew you need

(37:24):
to win. Oh that's a big deal. Yes it is.
There are eight games back in the n L West
and just a game ahead of the pot raise for
the basement in the division. Staying with baseball, Yankees, or
the first team since two thousand three to have four
players with at least ten home runs forty games into
the regular season. Big deal, little deal or no deal.
I think it's a big deal. It's it's one thing

(37:46):
to have prodigious power coming from one or two spots
in your lineups, like like the old Bashed Brothers. And
by the way, Gihn, Carlos Stanton is still not hitting hitting,
but he's got his average up to two fifty three
as he's hit yesterday, like he's starting to kind of
figure some stuff out. The New York Yankees have been ridiculous.
Took two of three from Oakland over the weekend, Took

(38:08):
two of three from the Red Sox, swept the Indians,
swept excuse me, took three or four from the Strows,
swept the Angels in the Road, swept the Twins like
it's they are just they are actually living up, living
up to their building after a slow start of their own.
I do think it's a big deal that they don't
just have talent and power. They have talent and power
from a bunch of different spots. D D has ten,

(38:31):
John Carlo has ten, Aaron Judge has eleven and Gary
Sanchez has ten. They're big boppers, are all bopping right now,
that's right and winking an odd to those oh three Rangers,
the four guys who hit those Homer's raw Fael Palmyra,
Alex Rodriguez, Juser, Carl Everett one Gonzalez likely if likely

(38:52):
moving on to the NFL. Joe Flacco and Lamar Jackson
haven't spoken yet, and Flacco has reportedly not returned call
and text messages from the Ricky Jackson Big deal, little deal,
no deal. I think it's a big deal. Um, I
think it's a big deal. This stuff gets out and
you know, even a who distext is you know you

(39:12):
you text me? Who dis good for Lamar Jackson to
be the bigger man and to reach out? That's not
I don't I told you I knew this was gonna happen.
If you're Joe Flacco, you're coming off a tough season,
two years removed from an a c L. The last
thing you need is somebody chomping at the bit. But this,
that's the reality of the businesses. They're gonna try and

(39:33):
find somebody to replace you. And you know, look, if
you're good, if Joe Black is good enough. It ain't
gonna matter. He's gonna get right of yours refusal. It
ain't gonna matter. But you could at least I don't
like this from Joe. He could be a lot more
of a teammate about it. Yeah. I get the competition factor,
but that's a lack of leadership and just a lack
of professionalism and manners, all right. Sticking with the NFL,

(39:56):
it is possible he texted the wrong numbers. Well that
is true, right, No, we just like but if if
this is true, it's a bad look. But if Joe
Flacco seeing this and hearing this that he got a
text and didn't reply, he should probably be reaching out
and trying to find Lamar Jackson's phone number if he
doesn't have it. Sticking with the NFL, Arizona Cardinals head

(40:17):
coach Steve Wilkes is already named. Sam Bradford is a
starting quarterback for Big Deal, Little Deal, no deal, Uh,
no deal. I mean they sign him with twenty million
dollar deal, So he's going to be the starter unless
somebody wants. Unless somebody wants to trade a first round pick,
much the way the Vikings did to the Philadelphia Eagles,

(40:37):
because of that money and his experience, he'll get He'll
get to start wise while josh Rosen gets learned and
eventually if it gets close, um, if he gets close,
then Joshu Joshua get the job. Exactly, big deal, little deal,
no deal. Broncos GM John l I told Peter King
of the MMQB, the Chargers are the too beat in

(41:00):
the a f C West. The Chargers. That's not that's
not a surprise to me. That's no deal. Remember their
first and second round picks last year essentially red shirted.
They had a very good draft. This year, They've had
no drama in the off season, and they're healthy and
they have their quarterback. Broncos keep searching for a quarterback.
Chiefs have switched quarterback to to Pat Mahomes. They got

(41:21):
all the other kinds of turnover in their roster. And
the Oakland Raiders were an unmitigated disaster last year considering
their talent, and they're coming off some injuries, So yeah,
I got no problem with that. They were a field
goal kicker away from winning the division last season. This
is game time on The Doug Godlib Show. While Lebron

(41:42):
James can be brilliant, even a genius, but not have
a photographic memory. That's next to the Doug Godlip Show
both America, Doug Godlib Show, Fox Sports Radio. A landmark
ruling from the Supreme Court will cover it with our
own lawyer and UH instigator, Clay Travels will join the

(42:04):
show upcoming in fifteen minutes. Is he gonna live Facebook
live the show from al kick the coverage the show
or does he have an afternoon show after every the
morning show show show? I don't know. Then he's gonna
come on our show then have his own show about
appearance on our show. Clay Travels will join us in
fifteen minutes talk gambling, which could well is not yet

(42:27):
Like this is one of those things. To those of
us who have no legal background at all, we're like, oh,
Supreme Court shot down in h piece of piece of
UH legislation to which took away the states rights to
set their own gambling laws. Oh that means legal? No. No,

(42:48):
it clears a pathway for legalization and states rights, but
it does not make it legal. Another hand, there is
a good portion You're like, Okay, so can I still
bet on tonight's game on my phone? Like used to? Yes,
you can nothing changed for all of you degenerates. My
point about degenerate gamblers is the word degenerate is not
a term you can say like, oh, it's so funny,

(43:10):
I know if he calls me a degenerate, got the degenerate. Meanwhile,
you're sitting on a used couch, You're watching a rented TV,
listening to me on a bootleg stereo because you bet away.
You lost everything you had because you had the Calves
plus one yesterday. Degenerate is built, is created to be

(43:31):
before one word, and that's gambler. I'm not gonna argue
with the Supreme Court justices on this ruling, but what
I am I I continue to say is I'm not
sure this is age appropriate. Even if you set up
in state, you gotta be eighteen or twenty one to gamble.
The idea is it creates an assumption with kids gamblings. Okay,

(43:55):
that's a hard one. If you've ever been around something
who has lost everything or even mostly something to gambling.
We'll get to that with Clay Travis upcoming. Let's react
to Lebron James uneven at best performance yesterday against the
Boston Celtics. Calves were blown out, eviscerated, annihilated. They were

(44:16):
curb stumped. They gave up two run the first half
and never recovered, never recovered. Made one push in the
third quarter, but that was about want want all they
got couldn't make a three and Lebron couldn't for the
most part, get a step. Look, I'll admit to you,

(44:38):
I think Lebron James is super bright. I think he's
super talented. The one thing missing that maybe the two
things missing for Lebron in the Jordan comparison, is end
of game and in a bad game, Like look, what
makes Tiger Tiger? What's made Tiger Tiger isn't just the

(44:59):
four teen majors. What's made Tiger Tigers all of the
top tens is the fact that did you know Tiger
has missed fewer cuts in his career than Jordan's speech.
Do you know that Big Tigers missed like twenty three
cuts in his entire career. Jordan's Spiez has been here
for like five minutes of miss twenty six. Tiger is

(45:20):
the ultimate grinder, hill grind his way into a top ten.
I know he finished tied for eleventh yesterday, but that's
because he was trying to score. He was going forward
after having birdies on six of ten holes in the
middle of the day. But Tiger is a great grinder.

(45:41):
Jordan's would not go down without a fight. Lebron seemed
to wave the white flag, which either would lead you
to two possibilities. Either one man he didn't have it yesterday.
He knew he didn't have it yesterday, and he got
a little down on everybody's inability to make any sort
of shot around him. That's a possibility, or the rope.

(46:06):
All right, we give up a twenty to two run,
we're not gonna win this game. And if you know
anything about Lebron, especially this year, especially this season, he
has conserved energy. The thing that is remarkable, but Lebron
in the fifteen consecutive year discussion, it's not that thirty

(46:28):
three years old. Jordan was the best player in league
at thirty three and won his last title at thirty four.
But it's that at fifteen consecutive years, he's been to
seven straight NBA finals and somehow he still has gas
in the tank even though he has to carry his team.
How does he have gas in tank? How is this
the first year he played eighty two games because he
took games off on defense. He took massive amounts of

(46:51):
possessions off. He might have been running and jogging up
and down the court, but he was trying to conserve
energy while still being a presence. Because he has that
amount of respect, his team could still operate around him.
That's why they needed all those young pieces. The guys
they got the trade deadline are not as good as
the guys they traded away. They're not. But for the

(47:12):
regular season, he helped. Clarkson helped, Nance helped. Uh, what's
some man's name, Rodney Hood who got some burn yesterday?
I went to play him, but may well start in
game two. He helped because they they needed that youth.
They needed that energy, say Usman helped because they had

(47:35):
young energy. You get to the playoffs and you do
need a You need veterans, veterans and shot creators, something
they don't have. I'm willing to conclude Lebron James is
super bright, and he realized yesterday wasn't his day. Couldn't
get a step. They didn't have a plan for it.
He read the he read the Celtics defense and thought,

(47:57):
you know what, We're gonna go back to the drawing board.
All you have to win is one of these two games.
And while I may be able to go and get forty,
what's the point getting forty and getting close will burn
up energy. I have no chance of winning game two
if I completely exert myself in game one. Now, I
just want to quickly point out one of the amazing

(48:19):
things about Michael Jordan is Jordan would have shot forty
shots yesterday and even if they would have lost, he
still would have had the energy for game two after
playing thirty six holes of golf on the day off
and eighteen holes of golf on the morning up. That's
just how that dude was wired. But Lebron knows his
body and may well be resting laying in wait knowing
this just wasn't a game we couldn't make a shot,

(48:40):
It wasn't a game we could win. I want to
have juice in the tank in close case for close,
I can push us over the edge. Here's Lebron James.
I've seen every coverage pretty much, um and for me,
a Game one has always been a fill out game
for me, if you ever followed my history. So I

(49:00):
gotta a good sense the way they played me today
and uh, you know, and how I'll play going going
in a game too? All right, So I just this
is just first round. This is Mayweather against McGregor. This
is go ahead, throw your haymakers. You're gonna hit my
gloves and you're gonna be too tired to do anything
in game two. There. Well, let's let's operate on the

(49:23):
possibility that he's really, really smart, knows his body and
knows that was not a winnable game. It makes no
sense that was a gunned in a holster. There's a
cop wu you know, I could fire fifteen rounds that
that dude who's a thousand yards away, But I might well,
I might hit a civilian and I'll have to write

(49:44):
a report. And I got no chance. If I start running,
I got no chance of catching the suspect. I'm better
off calling for backup, letting them handle it, and I'll investigate.
I'll get the guy when he falls asleep at the
hideout spot. Right, Uh, Doug Gottlip Show, Fox Sports Radio.

(50:07):
So what I find to be fascinating, absolutely fascinating, is
this assumption, an assumption that Lebron James has a photographic memory.
Take a listen to what he said when he was
asked about the fourth quarter first possession. We ran him
down all the way to two on the shot clock.

(50:27):
Marcus Morris Mr. Jump shot, followed it up. He got it.
They got a dunk. We came back down. We ran
a step for Jordan Crawford, I mean Jordan Clarkson, and
he came off and missed it. They rebounded it, and
we came back on the defensive end and we gotta stop.
They took it out on the sideline. Jayson Tatum took
the ball out through it the Marcus Smart and the
short corner. He made it three. We come back down,

(50:48):
miss another shot. Tatum came down and went did a
year old step and made a right hand lay up.
Time out there you go, people like, that's amazing, that's remarkable.
It is. But I bet if you had Brad as
Brad Stevens, he would give you the same answer. I

(51:08):
bet if you asked Al Horford he might give you
the same answer. The problem is not me underestimating the
level of intelligence with Lebron James. He's super bright. The
problem is most of you underestimating the level of intelligence
with athletes, and the fact that like listen, you talk

(51:32):
to golfers and they can tell you stroke by stroke,
whole by whole. We do understand that that is not
a photographic memory, right, do you guys know what a
photographic memory is. A photographic memory is one to which
you can say, hey, this guy, you can pick out
a pick out a day. May tenth. It's May fourteen,

(51:54):
May tenth. I woke up. I was wearing a blue
shirt I was wearing I was wearing my Tommy John Boxer's.
I got up. I put on my black uh Lululemon shorts.
I walked in. It smelled. It smelled like rain outside.
I walked outside. It was partially cloudy. A gray car
drove by when I was A photographic memory is like

(52:16):
looking at a photograph. Lebron James has an excellent memory,
So to do do every catcher who plays, most catchers
have play Major League Baseball, most pictures, most golfers, most
star basketball players, especially point cards. They just understand it.

(52:39):
They just get it. And because they lived it, they
feel it, they remember it. They have great recall. We'll
have on quarterbacks. We'll ask them about a play. They're like,
all right, it was third and six and the wind
was blowing out of the south, and we call this
play that we call that play that we call that
you have on pictures, they'll tell you about pitch sequences,
two different battle is in different innings. Point oh one

(53:05):
percent of people in the world, the world seven eight
billion people in the world right have a photographic memory. Now,
maybe Lebron has a photographic memory. That's not to display
a photographic memory. The problem isn't me underestimating the level

(53:25):
of intelligence Lebron James. I think he's super bright, and
I think yesterday he probably thought that wasn't a winnable game.
He was struggling, his body might not have felt right.
The Celtics were hitting all their shots and the cast
couldn't hit any and he might have just thought, you
know what, conserve conserved, conserved. All we gotta win is
one of these two games. And this wasn't the game.
This ain't my day. Pack it in. I think the

(53:50):
problem is most of you underestimating the level of intelligence
of most athletes because we want we because you you
were brought in to this sports conversation thinking that dumb
jock was a real thing, and there are some dumb jocks,
but they're also dumb salesman. There's dumb radio hosts, there's
dumb whatever. There's guys that are dumb doctors. You're like,

(54:10):
how is that possible? Guy who graduates last medical school,
you know what? They call him doctor? Anyway? Eight seven
seven nine nine Fox is the number. Everybody's freaking out
about that. Lebrons. Oh my gosh, you remembered four straight possessions. Well,

(54:30):
I would hope he did. I would hope any player
I know worth this grain assault. In terms of basketball intelligence,
it's like a VCR they have run in their head,
especially right after a game. Coming up, next, we will
get the thoughts of when Clay Travis, who was actually

(54:53):
in the courtroom I believe, when the Supreme Court of
the United States essentially allowed states to set their own
gambling laws. This a good idea or a bad idea?
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You're not pariscoping his in. I think he is periscoping
on his end, but he said no periscope. I barely

(55:37):
read his tweet. Periscope linky, he's gonna periscope and he's
gonna We're gonna periscope. Okay, we're periscoping. You follow us
on Twitter, you fall Clay Travis on Twitter. At some
point we'll get Clay Travis on who hosts out Kicked
the Coverage. That's our morning show here on Fox Sports
Radio six to nine am Eastern Time, that's three to
six Pacific. He's also um uh, he's also a lawyer.

(56:01):
But again, I have no idea if he was a
good lawyer, right guy who graduates law school and passed
the bar but with the lowest possible score or whatever,
Like you just passed, you're still a lawyer. If not
for bad lawyers, there wouldn't be good lawyers. I want
to point that out. It's a very very important point
of distinction, Like, oh, he's a lawyer, like, okay, no

(56:22):
one's ever heard of a bad lawyer. Oh he's a doctor,
like there are bad doctors that have mixed diagnosed things anyway,
Doug Gallin show, Fox Sports Radio. We have him yet, Okay,
we're efforting. What's efforting? Um? I gave you my take

(56:44):
on Tiger I fully think he is back completely in
on Tiger Woods. And it's not because he made a run.
It's because the run wasn't full of lucky shots. They
were skilled shots. He knew exactly where it was going
and there was just an energy to it. And he's
driving it straight and driving it far, and Tiger Woods

(57:06):
can thrash a golf course when he gets it rolling.
Remember he's not just making swing and body adjustments, he's
making club adjustments as well, as he had to change clubs.
And then we we discussed Lebron James, who I think
is very bright, but I think oftentimes people misassociate a
really I have a friend who's in broadcasting. I won't

(57:28):
name him because he is a dear friend of mine,
but he was He does this thing to where you like,
ask me about a game. Asking about an n c
AT tournament game. I asked him, and he'll tell me
the coach, coaches names, He'll tell me the players. He'll
even sometimes tell me what the final score was and
what the box score was of a game ten years ago.

(57:50):
Oh did you know that he had fifteen points and
twelve rebounds and five assists. Like, that's great. You know
what that's not. That's not a photographic memory. A photographic
memory is all of that. And he was wearing blue
shoes and white socks. He had under shorts on. The

(58:10):
game was played such and such, it was this weather outside.
It started this time ended at this time. Here with
the referees. This is the this is what the referees
hair looked like the best player like they know. It's
like looking at a photograph. So it doesn't mean Lebron
James doesn't have photographic memory. It just means, let's not
misassociated really good memory for things that happened in his

(58:32):
place of work with a photographic memory. Photographic memories like
freak of nature type stuff. Point oh one per cent
of the population has it all right? Clay Travis, who's home,
I s t N line doesn't work. That means he's
going old school calling us on the phone. Uh, do
you know anybody who has a photographic memory? Um? I

(58:57):
think I probably do. I think, but I think for
graphic I heard you the way you were describing it,
I think photographic to me. Sometimes you can have it.
Sometimes you can And what I mean by that is
I I have a little bit of one in that
when you read, for instance, in a law firm, you know,
like when you're constantly going through like reading documents over
and over again. I think a lot of people who

(59:18):
are regular readers will be like, oh, I remember, you know,
like what what part of the page that case that
I need to need to site is. I don't think
that's that uncommon. Right Like when I was in law school,
if if I read a case, I can be like, oh,
that's at the bottom of page you know so and
so right, like and kind of have a little bit
of a snapshot. But that would be training my my

(59:40):
my brain to remember that kind of thing, like you know,
it's a signpost. I don't know anybody who has what
you described, which is like, okay, I can remember things
so perfectly that it's like, you know, it's almost like
in those spy movies built sometimes show like a spy
like trying to remember something and it will go back
over his over his thought processes. He's like he's looking
through a series of snapshots, snapshots of things that he

(01:00:03):
has seen. I don't know anybody who's ever had that
kind of ability. Yeah, it's called adidic. Uh. I think
it's called an addic memory or a photographic memory. It's
like point one percent. It's totally totally freaky stuff. Jerry Lucas,
the former Ohio State star, is the only guy that
I can recall kind of having that kind of stuff.
And like, look, I like Lebron James. I think he's

(01:00:23):
really smart. But I think people are going, like, well,
he can remember play by play action of what happened
in a game he just played in, Like, yeah, that's
most basketball players can do that, most football A lot
of football quarterbacks do it, catchers can do it, point
guards can do it, coaches can do it. They're just
why I think. I think what happens is people assume
that they're all dumb jocks and they underestimate most guys

(01:00:44):
level of intelligence. Yeah, and there's different types of intelligence too, right.
I mean Lebron James, Uh, I think went on Twitter
and didn't know that like sugar coated, like is like
it's the code, that's all he wrote it as sugarcoated.
He probably doesn't read that much but when he plays
basketball all day long. There's z wrote out that he

(01:01:06):
has a high level of intelligence for basketball, right, And
most people who do something all day long are going
to have a really high intelligence level about what they do. Right.
There are guys who are mechanics that could barely pass
you know, like a g r E test that if
you ask them to break down ah an engine, they're
like savants because they work in engines all day, right,

(01:01:28):
which you typically do for a living you're really good at.
I don't really consider that to be high level intelligence.
To me, high level intelligence. Oh, he can do basketball
and also he can break down I don't know. But
if he could put a put an engine together back
without you know, like they put Lebron James in a
in a in a mechanic shop and he's able to

(01:01:48):
deconstruct a car and put it back together again, I'd
be like, Wow, that's really impressive. The fact that he
remembers plays from a game he just played in I
think that's a really low standard for what intelligence is.
By the way, that means you think m guy for
are smarter than Lebron James. I want to just make
sure we kind of point that out Yeah, if if
someone had the ability that mcgiver has, I would put
him on a test level higher than Lebron James, as

(01:02:10):
I've bet mcgeiver would also remember basketball plays pretty well.
I want I want to get to sports gambling and
what's being called a historic ruling by the Supreme Court
of the United States earlier today with Clay Travis in
in a second, you also tweeted out, I think yesterday,
which is, can anyone remember a game, uh, in which
the team was you know, blown out by twenty five

(01:02:31):
points and came back and and one game two, And
I pointed out it's it was the NBA Finals, the
Moral Day massacre. The Celtics just curb stomp the Lakers,
and they came and the Lakers came back actually one
game to one the series, which leads just to this
question was was did Lebron shut it down? Or were
the Celtics really that much better than the Calves yesterday? Yeah.

(01:02:54):
What I said on the show this morning is the
Calves are six and one so far in these playoffs,
games that have been decided in the final five minutes,
and they have been blown out three times. They got
blown out in Game one by the Pacers at home,
which obviously is more ominous than losing game one. Getting
blown out on the road. I think, uh, they got
blown out in game six, I think by the by

(01:03:15):
the Pacers, and now they've been blown out by the Celtics.
I said, if the Celtics can win a close game
in Game two, or if they blow them out again,
which I don't think will happen, but if they win
a game at all in Game two, I think ben's
when you hit the panic button if you are a
Cavs fan. If the Calves get out of Boston tied
up at one one, I think they got to be ecstatic.
That's the goal anytime you go on the road win split,

(01:03:38):
especially when you're playing against the Celtics, who are eight
no at home so far in the playoffs. Young team,
they played better at home, that's not a surprise. So
I I want to see what happens in game two
percent of the time in the n b A if
you win game one and you win Game two, you
win the series. So I think needing Lebron James to
win four out of five with this crew would be
a tall test. Not to say you could do it,

(01:04:00):
just it would be a tall task, so to be,
the series for the Calves probably boiled down to the
game two the Celtic Blues. I don't think it's gonna
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Clay is gonna break down first the Supreme Court ruling
in a moment, first step, what else is going on
the world of sports? Well, starting with that, of course,
the US Supreme Court struck down the long standing federal
law banning sports gambling. The decision now allows, if it stands,

(01:04:43):
states to determine whether they will allow sports betting. And
as you said, you and Clail break down down that
down in just a moment. Breaking down his batting today,
Joey bats, recently brought up by the Braves, hit a
three run bomb Atlanta now with a six four lead
over the Cubs. They are at Wrigley Field, seventh inning
their day baseball Moving to the NBA, former Hawks coach

(01:05:03):
Mike Budenholzer's reported a candidate for both the Raptors and
Bucks head coaching vacancy. And in NFL news, Foxes announced
that their number one A broadcast team of Joe Buck
and Troy Aikman will call Thursday night games in addition
to the Sunday action. Former NFL officiating head and current
Fox analyst Dean Blandino has accepted a job as director
of Instant Replay with college football Officiating and it does

(01:05:28):
already well. He is going to uh this says basically,
he's going to remain on the air, drink college in
NFL broadcasts and work in this role during the off season.
So okay, So he's gonna set up, because he's set
up the whole NFL replay system, He's gonna set up
a college football a centralized nervous nervous system for college
football for yes, for instant replay exactly like it, yes, exactly,

(01:05:50):
speaking of dipping, nice segue there by, you Brown's coach
Hugh Jackson, keeping his promise to jump into Lake Erie
if the team didn't improve on their one and fifteen
record from any sixteen. Needless to say, oh and sixteen
wasn't an improvement. So June one is d day. That'll
be the day he'll take the plunge. He is also
using the occasion to raise money for charity, pledging that
for every Brown's employee that joins him in the plunge,

(01:06:12):
she'll donate a hundred bucks to his foundation, hoping to
raise a fifteen thousand dollars for combating human trafficking. Doug,
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getting the zone auto Zone. Clay Travis has a great
radio radio show in the morning called out Kick the Coverage.
You can keep it right here to Fox Sports Radio,
listen to it on Sirius x M as well, and
he has an afternoon show which he does on Facebook
and Periscope, also called out Kick the Coverage, where he
reacts to the day in sports and sometimes outside of sports.

(01:06:56):
I'm guessing the Chippotle manager story is going to go
down probably on the show. But let's let's get to
the Supreme Court ruling. What does it mean? The Supreme
Court struck down a federal law that prohibited sports gambling
in any state that did not allow it prior to
UM and really the state of Nevada is the only

(01:07:18):
place out there, Las Vegas, Reno, uh, the entire state
that allowed individual sports game wagering as well as future
is kind of what you would traditionally expect from a
sports way during marketplace. And so I think what the
overall impact of this is going to be is it
puts the decision back on individual states, and then it
will be much like the lottery, uh, that individual states

(01:07:40):
will be able to decide whether or not they want
to permit sports gambling inside their borders. So they will,
right because because like marijuana, like state lotteries, they need
they need the tax revenue sell the legalized, won't they?
I think the vast majority will. I think there's a
few states. Utah probably will not with really kind of
a strong religious event. For instance, Alabama has had a

(01:08:02):
real prohibition against gambling in general. But the vast majority
of states. UH, certainly will either in casino styles for wagering,
which I think Mississippi for instance, because of the tune
into Impact and Biloxi and all their different embrace of
gambling will allow Vegas style sports books or other places.

(01:08:23):
Will have to make decisions about how exactly they want
that process that takes place. I think it will will
will this will. Let's go back before the Supreme Court, right,
because there can still be some other legislation written, or
it could be any any of these state laws could
be challenged as unconstitutional. Well, let's go back before the
Supreme Court because basically what the Supreme Court said, I
think it's more likely that there could be a federal

(01:08:45):
law that was passed that would try to implicate all
different states that would permit states to allow sports gambling.
Given a larger societal framework, that would be more likely
to be challenged. As is, this ruling is pretty straightforward
absent any edorable occupation of this legislation than individual states
would have to write under the tent Amendment, which is

(01:09:08):
about federalism essentially, UH, if you are a federalist, you
want for states to have strong rights and basically use
the states as laboratories to figure out what makes sense
in a larger scale setting. And so I think the
vast majority of states will many of which probably eight nine,
ten states potentially by the fall, will even allow you

(01:09:30):
to gamble on football. Okay. So, and and a lot
of this doesn't really change, right, Like, I don't know
anybody who's like, man, now I can gamble, Thank god,
now I can gamble. There's a little bit of red herring.
My issue with it is and this is a little
bit like the legalization of weed. I'm more for the
decriminalization of weed than the outright legalization of weed, only

(01:09:51):
in that the trickle down messaging to a high school kid, right,
which is like, I get that, well, I'm not allowed
to do it to whatever age it says in state,
if it remains at twenty one years old. But when
it's legal for adults, that somehow becomes okay for kids.
I know. There's no constant, has nothing to do with
the ruling today. That's just my general feeling. Let's your

(01:10:13):
general feeling. I I'm of the belief that if it
is illegal, and if I mean sorry, if people are
doing it and you can't point to a direct harm
then im adults, and so I feel the same way
about weed. I feel the same way about alcohol, gambling, honestly, prostitution. Um,

(01:10:34):
I think it's consenting adults who want to engage in something.
It makes more sense to legalize it in tact it
than it does to criminalize it. So I think the
reality is most guys who want to gamble and are
relatively tech savvy in any way are doing it on
their phones already with an offshore site, right. I think
the idea that that there are a lot of people

(01:10:56):
who have no idea how to gamble today. If you
really want to gamble, either do it on your phone
as an offshore or you've got a guy, right, a
booky who who will take care of you. And I
think this just brings out of kind of the dark
recesses of the of the criminal underworld a bit more
into the white uh sports gambling, which I believe is
happening at a high rate across the country. Al Right,

(01:11:17):
So Clay Travis joining us out kicked the coverage mornings
on Fox Sports Radio. It hurts offshore sites? Does it
hurt fantasy football? I think would be in because fantasy
football is it's like legal gambling. Do you think this
draws people away? Like why would I do? It's like
near beer. Why would I drink near beer when I
can drink the real thing? Yeah, I mean I think

(01:11:39):
fantasy football maybe not. Because a big part of fantasy
football is competing against your friends in a league. I
think it kills daily fantasy. Um. I don't think there's
any reason why somebody would play daily fantasy, frankly if
they can instead gamble on the actual games. So I
think it kills to a large extent that daily fantasy
and the story in exchange for gambling. I think a

(01:12:02):
big part of fantasy football in general is drafting with
your buddies, arguing over who's got the best team, competing
against each other. I don't really think it hurts fantasy
football necessarily, although I will use as an example me
I used to enjoy playing fantasy football. Now I find
that I enjoy gambling a lot more than I do
fantasy football, because ones fake gambling, one's real gambling. Right. Yeah,

(01:12:26):
But I mean again, I think it's partly the camaraderie
of the league and how many years it's been going on.
In everything else whereas daily fantasy like, I don't see
any need at all for that. Why would I have
a brand new, new new team every week made up
of fake players and compete against people I don't know
when when I could just gamble? Last thing, did you
see this Chipotle story? Former manager of a California Chipotle

(01:12:49):
Mexican girl was accused. He was accused of stealing six
hundred dollars six dollars in two thousand fifteen from a
safe at their Fresno restaurant. That's a very Fresno story.
By the way, UH names Janette Ortiz. Her boss's claimed
the thet was caught on tape, but they never showed
her the tape. They fired her, and apparently the reports
they fired her because she fired a She filed a

(01:13:10):
like a workplace injury loss. It said she had carpal
tunnel for from working there, so they tried to get
rid of her. That's how they try to get rid
of her. She want to claim for seven point nine
seven million dollars okay, seven point nine seven million dollars
one point nine seven in loss of wages, which sounds
like a lot. How many years would you have to
work at a chapole? How profitable, but that seems like

(01:13:33):
an awful lot of money and uh, six million dollars
in emotional distress. All right, so you're a lawyer or
a former lawyer with a you know, a law degree
and a for practicing attorney. Um, does that mean will
Chipole actually pay seven point nine seven million dollars? No? Wait,
they will, They will appeal. I would guess that they
might have had the worst warriors of all time or

(01:13:54):
they got the worst jury of all time. I I
I haven't heard anything about this this case at all,
but but a lot of times the judge will will
get the jury's verdict and say there's absolutely no way
to justify that, and adjusted based on their appeal of
that verdict, And then I'm certain that they will appeal
it to the next the next level of jurisdiction there

(01:14:17):
and argue that there was some trial error, for instance.
And I don't know, off top of my head, did
they allow that video to be introduced as evidence? Did they?
Did they not allow it? Was there some bit of
evidence that Chippotle feel like SUP introduced the trial that
was rejected by the judge that could have impacted this jury. Um.
Every now and then a jury goes crazy, right. I mean,

(01:14:39):
we like to believe in the jury system, but twelve
people are randomly selected and put onto a jury, and
usually the wisdom of those twelve is better than the
wisdom of anyone. But sometimes you get a runaway jury
like this and uh, and they end up with a
verdict that is frankly unsupportable by any of the existing evidence.

(01:14:59):
And based on what you told me, it sounds like
this would be one of those. By the way, she
was apparently making seventy grand a year as the general
manager of that store. That's a lot more than I
would think that you would make. Frankly, if you're making
seventy grand a year, why did she need to steal
six hundred? I mean that seems like a bad career
decision by itself. Yeah, well, there's no no, no video
or whatever. Anyway, I'm sure it will be on out
Kick out Kicks periscope show upcoming. You'll do your research

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(01:17:09):
show Earlier on Fox Sports Tradeo or Fox Sports One.
In this case, Colin Calhoerd had Chris Brusshard's guest. This
was Chris saying that maybe Kyrie Irving is not gonna
love it and buston. After all, number one, Kyrie was
very valuable in Cleveland. Though you gotta give you that
when they got to the finals. They don't win that
championship in ten without I will give you that. You

(01:17:33):
can argue if you want to, even say the year
before they took them six without Kyrie and love you know,
and and this year obviously they're in the same spot
as they were with with him last year. But here's
the thing. Also, Kyrie Irving, there were a lot of reasons,
a myriad of reasons he left Cleveland. One was that,
reportedly he wanted to be the man right. He wanted

(01:17:54):
his own team. Okay, he wanted to see, we guess what,
this is not your team anymore. It's Brad Stephen's team. Wow,
great when you come back whin winner lose this series
for Boston. This is now Brad Stevens is a genius.
He's the face of the Celtics. And that doesn't happen you.

(01:18:14):
Some people might say, well, of course the coach is
He's No, it's James Harden's team. It's Steph Curry team. Okay,
see is Russell Westbrooks team was Durant's teams. Lebron has
this things like it's the Superstars team. But now this
is no longer Kyrie's team. It's not. And I just

(01:18:35):
i've i've i've. I don't know anybody whose ego is
so out of touch that they sit there going I
play for a guy who's regarded as the best coach
in the NBA, even though he hasn't played coach in
the NBA Finals, and that's somehow a bad thing. Let's
first start with why Kyrie wanted out of Cleveland, right.
He wanted to Cleveland for the exact reason we're talking

(01:18:55):
about Lebron, you know, like, look, when no one's blaming
Lebron today, even when Lebron loses, Lebron as other guys
got to pick it up, right, He just these other
guys aren't good enough for breaking down the defense. The
other guys he was tired of. When things go bad there,
everybody else is to blame. When things go well, Lebron
James is the king that gets tiresome. Additionally, he wasn't

(01:19:18):
represented by Lebron James's best friend, and so anything that's
done has to be done with kid gloves because it's Lebron.
I don't know whose team the Warriors are, and I
don't think the Warriors get caught up in it. I
don't think that anybody cares who the Rockets team is,
nor do they get caught up in it. I know

(01:19:39):
who the Calves team is, and they get caught up
in it, and that was enough. So I'm not disputing
that the Calves aren't Lebron's team. I would dispute that
car Irving could not could could not possibly care any less,
but whether not, the Celtics are his team or Al
Horford's team, or Gordon Haywards team or read freaking our

(01:20:00):
backs team. All right, now, let's also talk about the
idea of the Celtics are better without Kyrie Irving. Stop it,
stop it just nothing says to me, I really don't
have the ability to watch and understand sports more than

(01:20:21):
that statement. Okay, yes, they beat the seventies sixers without him.
Seventy sixers. The best defense against uh scary Terry was
to put t J McConnell on him. Who's a backup
to third string point guard. They just they don't have
another point guard. Benson is not a point guard, so
it's more about matchups. Terry Rosier playing against very average

(01:20:45):
at best defense yesterday with George Hill didn't do much.
He's a really valuable backup. Kyrie Irving is a superstar.
Kyrie Irving is capable of carrying you in the NBA
Finals against the best of the best of the best.
If you don't know the difference between the two, well,

(01:21:06):
the Celtics and the Calves do. Why do I think
that because the Celtics trade away three pieces and a
potential number one overall draft pick for Kyrie Irving. He's
a super max contract guy. Now, if you want to,
if I was to tell you, I'm scared about the
knee and whether or not the knee is ever right
and whether or not he ever lives up to his billing. Okay,

(01:21:31):
and yes, he has been injured a lot. This is
not a new injury. This was the injury from the
NBA Finals a couple of years ago in which he
had screws and a wire put in and they both
got they got sore and got infected and he had
it taken out. So I think the Celtics story is incredible.
They're not better without Gordon Hayward, They're not better with

(01:21:52):
Kyrie Irving. What they are is incredible that they're playing
this well without Hayward, without Irving. Part of that is coaching,
Part of it is guys playing about their level. Part
of that is the Calves aren't that good. Part of
it is the Eastern Conference isn't that could And part
of it is this is the beauty of the sport
where the next guy just steps up and fills in
and plays above his level even though they're joining twenty

(01:22:14):
years old. Up Coming next, we'll talk some Warriors and
Rockets game one tonight, why it is important as opposed
to Celtics, cav feels less so. Next to the Doug
Gallup Show, Whoop Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. You know,

(01:22:37):
you know if you're a legend is even when you
lose you in right take Lebron James lost yesterday and
wasn't good. Wasn't good, wasn't great defensively, didn't take good shots. Um,

(01:22:58):
everyone knows he likes to shoot his jump shot going left.
He took some going right even though they weren't It
wasn't like they were forcing him to go right. He
wasn't good. But you know what happens when Lebron loses
round one game one, They're like, you know, they lost
game one before, and last five times he's lost game one,
his team has come back and won the series. Now,

(01:23:18):
he very well could be playing possum. He very well
could be smartly saying hey, I'm not gonna spend all
my energy right now, or his teammate not just be
that good. Lebron James five of sixteen oh of five
from three, did have nine assists, had seven turnovers. He

(01:23:40):
has seven turnovers. Are like, you know, Lebron wasn't trying
that hard. You know, that's what it was. We have
become that guy for Lebron, James. Lebron hasn't. He didn't
make any excuses. He never said like now when I
was just now he did say, hey, look it's a
feeling out game. It's it's this, it's that. But we

(01:24:02):
said we we love to make excuses for Lebron. It's
possible the world's best player just didn't play well. Now
is it possible that he could have tried to go
and you know, take forty shots. I I also think
that this is a little of two parts of Lebron
kind of uh, can both be true? I think it's

(01:24:24):
possible Lebron wanted to save some energy for game two,
like why am I gonna go kill myself? I also
think that he knew he wasn't hitting shots and he
couldn't get to the basket and there's the chance of
throwing up up uh an eight for thirty stinker to
which you can. He's incredibly well aware of his stats. Actually,

(01:24:45):
the stats thing is interesting to me, I'm gonna play
for you the second Lebron James going over play by
play at the start of the fourth quarter that people
are freaking out about, then I'll play for you. Steve
Kerr essentially saying what I said on Twitter that Nick
Wright can't actually believe that I said on Twitter, which is, hey,
it's impressive, but a lot of guys actually have the
ability to go back play by play by play and

(01:25:06):
tell you what happened in a basketball game. But um,
there are things that NBA players do the NBA players
do that we take for granted, or maybe you take
for granted. I'll never forget. I was accosted by my

(01:25:28):
college coach several times for looking at my stats at halftime,
and he would go like, oh, you care about is
a number of assists you have? And what I told
him then is what I'll tell you now, dude. I
know how many assists I have. I know how many steals,
I know many turnovers and many shots. I know how
many rebounds. I know exactly how many minutes I've played.

(01:25:52):
I know every set that we ran in sequential order
of what we ran in the first half. I can
tell you when I came in when I came out
of the game, and I can tell you just about
what the plus minus is. It'll just take me a
second to do the calculation of my head. I remember
the score. I just got another plus minus. The reason
I would look at the stats box score is so
I could see everybody else's stats. You don't. Lebron doesn't

(01:26:15):
need to look at the box score to see he
was five or sixteen. I guarantee he had a uh
like an odometer in his head. I'm guessing he knew
he had nine assists. I'm guessing he knew he had
seven turnovers. He definitely knew he had he had a foul,
and at ten two block shots, you might be off
by one more one last year might have thought one

(01:26:38):
was an assist that wasn't counted, or one was an
assist that was counted. For the most part, you know
your stats. For the most part, you know exactly what
happened when it happened, because when you go home that night,
you sit there and you can watch the game replay
in your head. I need to watch it on TV.
I see it. I see exactly where I was, exactly

(01:26:59):
what what I was doing, exactly what was going on
the floor. Here's Lebron James after the game yesterday. First possession,
we ran them down all the way to two and
the shot clock. Marcus Morris miss a jump shot, followed
it up, he got it. They got a dunk. We
came back down. We ran a step for Jordan Crawford,
I mean Jordan Clarkson, and he came off and missed it.
They rebounded it, and we came back on the defensive

(01:27:21):
end and we got to stop. They took it out
on the sideline. Jason Tatum took the ball out through
it the Marcus Smart and short corner. He made it three.
We come back down, miss another shot. Tatum came down
and went did a your old step. I made a
right hand lay up, time out. All right, That's how
the points quarters started. There, you go. It's awesome. It's

(01:27:44):
awesome to hear the human beings level of intelligence, but
we freak out over it because I guess you didn't
know that athletes do have that kind of going on
in their head to where they can remember every play,
pitch sequence, play sequence, personnel grouping. Here's Steve Kerr, who's
won a couple of NBA championships with Lebron with soon

(01:28:06):
with Jordan's won a couple with the Spurs as well,
and has one two with the Golden State Warriors. As coach,
I've seen a lot of guys do that or to
me even just talking to players. You know, after a game,
we'll go over a sequence and you know, staff for
Katie Draymond, those guys the same way. They just kind
of remember everything and they see everything, and I think

(01:28:28):
it is a pretty common trait. It's again, I'm not
trying I think what happens is when you say something
and this is what happened. Like Nick right on Twitter music,
did you see him tweeting back at me and I
started texting him. I was like, dude, I just I'm
not trying to be anti Lebron. I'm just telling you
a lot of guys have this. I know I have it.

(01:28:49):
Catchers have it, point guards have it. It's mostly a
lot of it. It's mostly guys that handle the ball
a bunch because they can see everything that's happening. The
difference for Lebron, beautiful Lebron, is because he us him
played the point guard defensively, he can see a lot
of what's going on on the defensive end while handling
the ball at the offensive end. Go ahead. The one

(01:29:09):
thing I feel is being a little bit overreacted beyond
everything else. I mean, the game just happened. They weren't
just like a Lebron can you tell us about your
rookie year that Tuesday night game against the Pistons. I mean,
the game literally just happened. So it's not as if
they're it's in the far recesses of his head. So

(01:29:31):
that's the main point for me. That is so like
everyone shocked like it was like an hour and a half.
It's not like it's something that he somehow could have
slipped his mind, like, oh, fourth quarter, I have no
idea what we just we we we told, we've got
We've gone the other way. It's it's here's what I
assume with Lebron right now, you can't be and this
is Nick does this bailis? Does they all do this

(01:29:53):
now to where you're either pro or anti Lebron? Where like, hey,
I think Lebron is awesome. I just think Dan's a
little better. I've always thought Jordan's a little better. There
are things that Lebron does better than Jordan. There are
a lot of things that Jordan does better. Like I'd
personally say, if I if I was trying to win
a game, I'd rather have Jordan's I just would because
I feel like he would just take over a game

(01:30:14):
by sheer force of will. And I've always thought that
the best player should find a way to to score
buckets at the end of game, to carry a team.
And oh yeah, by the way, he did all these
other little things. You know, when his first NBA Finals,
the average eleven assists a game, you know, he got
to his last shot of his bull's career. He gotta

(01:30:34):
steal before him. You know, if you want to say
he didn't shoot threes as much, no one shot as
many threes. I'm guessing that the best player on Earth
could have adjusted to to taking more three point shots
when they moved the line in he hit six threes
in the first half against Portland Trailblazers. That did happen,
but the pointers became bigger part of the game, and

(01:30:56):
Jordan could probably go through the same thing. But what
happens is you become all or or and And my
only thing is, like, I'm not underestimating the level of
intelligence Lebron James. I'm telling you that there's a lot
of really smart cookies in basketball that that the second
they walk out the floor, they can tell you everything
that happened, every play that happened. It's their job. They're

(01:31:16):
supposed to as stockbrokers about like different stocks and what happened,
and then went up to seventy three, and then there
was this, I went down to eighty two and a
half and then went up And they know everything to happen.
It's a job. And I think because often we also
don't don't know how to watch at watch sports oftentimes

(01:31:39):
all right, we just don't and we're caught in this.
Sometimes when you break up play down too much, it
becomes over analytical, whereas if you do it kind of
nineteen eighties style, it sort of lacks any sort of substance.
These guys need to step up, new needs to do
step up, Like that's not analysis. But if I say,

(01:32:00):
all right, well that's a five and one's you know,
screen roll. You're trying to get the point guard to
guard the big you know, to be guarded by a center.
That was that that's the the genius to Brad Stevens
is they try and move you around, and they would
try and create a mismatch so that your point guard.
Then Isaiah Thomas, now Terry Rogier is going downhill against

(01:32:22):
the center, and Isaiah Thomas a very good midrange pull
up jump shooter. And once you get a big guy
backing up, going on skates, he can't stop and defend
your pull up jump shot. It's Isiah Thomas scored. He
wasn't going one on one against the best the best.

(01:32:42):
So look, they know their stats, even though you might
need need to look at a box score, they absolutely do.
They might know exact they might not know exact plus minus,
but they know about Hey, I came in, we were
down five, I left, we were up to seven point differential.
They know that. I would guess if you asked Lebron James,

(01:33:04):
or if you asked any those NBA players, here's one,
ask him how much they weigh? Say right now, how
much do you weigh? They will stand up. They will
guess they will be within a pound or pound and
a half of their exact weight. Do you know why
it's her instrument? How much does this bat way handed

(01:33:24):
to a major league hit her? And they'll go like
m hmmm, that's the thirty one. It's it's the same
thing with the flate gate, right. Tom Brady liked his
balls less inflated. Aaron Rodgers liked them more inflated. They
could probably feel them and go like, yeah, it's about

(01:33:46):
fifteen and a half sixteen. The old Lakers used to
fill up their basketballs. They have a fast breaking team.
They used to fill them up to over at seven
and nine pounds. They'd go to like the very edge
of nine a little bit even more. They weren't a
very good shooting team, that's one of the reasons why.
But they like those long, caraming rebounds, get the ball
to magic and they're playing fast break basketball. The old

(01:34:07):
Celtics teams, they used to play it like seven pounds.
But they can tell you within a pound and a
half how much they weigh. They can also eyeball guys
to see how tall they are. Right, They know how
much how much air is in a basketball. They know
what their stats are. Also, here's another thing NBA players

(01:34:30):
can do without. They don't need lines on a court.
Look at the basket. Tell me is that ten ft high?
They know how high ten feet is. They know about
the really small ones. They know about what fifteen feet is,
what twenty feet is, whatt is for an NBA three
point shot? You don't need any lines. I'll bet they could.
They could nail it first guess because they've done it forever.

(01:34:55):
You know what it's like. I know how long a
segment goes in radio. Hey, we need you to say
this in thirty seconds and thirty seconds okay, do you
know how I know that it takes about three seconds
three words per second. I got about a hundred fifty
words to say what I want to say if I
have thirty seconds. Yeah, I know that. I've been doing

(01:35:18):
this for fifteen years. Six minutes segment, eight minutes segment.
Do I use the clock? Sure? But I know about
how long it is? KA. Well, when when people that
look there are people who see ball hit ball, there
are possessions, there are positions of that. There are guys like, yo,

(01:35:40):
look I just go get rebounds, I just go play defense. Great,
But the players that are cerebral players they are for
a reason. There's a reason that point guards, catchers, quarterbacks
make really good coaches, front office people because they see
the whole old game and they can remember things in

(01:36:01):
sequence order. By the way, that's also not photographic memory.
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(01:37:10):
really good on Fox Sports Radio, Mannix, do you think
Lebron gave everything he had to win that game last night? No? Um,
I don't know why, but no, Um, you know it.
It reminded me a lot of what I saw in
game one of the Indiana series. Um, he just kind of,
you know, sort of sleepwalk his way through it. And

(01:37:31):
you know, after that game, and and and after this
one he said the same things that that he uses.
Game one is kind of a feeling out period. I mean, look,
it's his process, and who's to argue with It's been successful,
but um, he's going up against the team in Boston
that is very disciplined and is going to have a
lot to throw at him over the next few games.
That seemed like an interesting time to to really get passive,

(01:37:53):
especially offensively, where you know, all the times he saw
switches in the Toronto series, he attacked them when he
saw switch is in the Boston game, he didn't, Yeah,
well is that no personnel? But like he couldn't get
a step on the big guys of the Boston Celtics.
That to me. Now, look, maybe some of it is

(01:38:15):
see you know, the only thing I think of is
he's conserving energy because he thought when they when they
two run and they're down twenty in the second half,
they're not much you can do. You're just wasting energy,
so you don't have anything left for game too, right,
But he's still even in the first half, struggled to
get by an Al Horford, struggled to get by some
of the other big guys of the Boston Celtics. And

(01:38:35):
that's gonna be a problem if when he gets a
big guy on him, he can't go buy him. No. Look,
I agree that part of it. It's it's again. It
goes back to when he had Rogier on him, and
Smart on him, and some and even Jaylen Brown on him.
He wasn't attacking in in Jayson Tatum. Same thing. Tatum
has got some length with nowhere near the strength to
keep lebron Um from getting to the rim. He just

(01:38:57):
he didn't have that same sort of mentality. May he
was the score. Maybe he he saw the game was
out of reach and saw how how much terrancy would
have taken him just to get his team back within
striking distance. Maybe that was a factor in his process,
but he was it was all the time. He wound
up with a smaller, uh physically inferior defender on him
that he's kind of surveyed the floor look for somebody

(01:39:19):
the past two or settled for an open jump shot,
you know the lebron I saw the Toronto series. You
know it posted up, was physical, got to the rim um.
I really think that's what we're gonna see, you know,
from from moment one in game two. I mean we did.
We saw it in game two of that Indiana series.
I think we see a lot of the same things.
I would agree. I just I don't know if there's

(01:39:39):
going to be the offense there, although maybe he like
the Indiana series goes for and that that ends up
becoming enough. I also think then the problem at the
other end becomes an issue in that, you know, look,
they have older players that can make shots, but they
just can't defend the basketball. Terry Rosier didn't do much.
Al Horford did. Al Horford went by Kevin Love like

(01:39:59):
he was standing still, like they still can't defend the ball.
And while that may work against you know, the Pacers
that don't have enough shooters they might work against the
Raptors that they have good matchups, I'm not sure it
works against the Celtics. What are your thoughts heading forward? No, no, look,
I agree with that. Um you know, one thing Boston
does better than Indiana or Toronto is that they find
your defensive weaknesses and exploited. You know, Kyle Korver out

(01:40:22):
there on the floor. Uh, you may get what you
get from him offensively, but he's gonna get attacked every
time down. Marco Bellonelli was was a great example of that.
I mean, how well does Bell and Ellie play in
that first round series against Miami um in and against
the Celtics. He had his moments, but Bell and Ellie
was attacked every single time, uh, down the defensive end
before they went, Bell and Ellie hunting out there. And

(01:40:43):
they'll do the same thing with with Kyle Korver. I mean,
they're they just they're just too smart and too well
coached not to take advantage of every single matchup. That's why,
you know, looks, I think even if Lebron does go
for forty sixty seven, you know, just like against Indiana
where they barely won that game, I don't know if
that they win this one either. I mean, you know,
Lebron's just going off is not enough anymore for this

(01:41:05):
team to win games. So somebody you know on that team,
probably two people. Maybe it's Tristan Thompson, who seems likely
to get to start. Somebody's gonna have to play a
lot better. Chris Mannos joining us in the Doug Gotlip
Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Part of it is
that there's Lebron right uh. Part of it is that
the Celtics are still there's still underdogs to win the series.

(01:41:27):
And part of it is I feel like Houston is
in a different space than the Celtics. I felt like
Game one, though the Calves were dismantled and disappointing, I
don't think that feels as as like as big a
game as Game one for the Rockets is, even though
they're in a similar situation. What are your thoughts in
the relationship Game one tonight as opposed to Game one

(01:41:48):
last night? No, I agree with you there. I mean, Houston,
you know this game is everything. Um, you know the Cleveland.
I think Cleveland can even go down oh two, and
I still give him a shot to win the series.
And Boston is a print team on the road, and
you know, when you have the best player in the floor,
and the best player in the floor has been through
this so many times, like Lebron has, You've got a shot.
Oh two is not, you know, an unrecoverable hole. If

(01:42:11):
you're the Rockets, though, and you've spent the entire season,
you know, trying to get to this position to have
home court advantage, to lose it on the first game,
you know that would be just mentally crippling, especially against
a team like Golden State, to give them momentum and
to kind of allow them to gain some confidence and
and have some doubt cream at ahead of the Rockets.
I mean, it's this is this is everything for Houston.

(01:42:31):
I mean I look, honestly, Doug, I think game two
is everything for Boston. I mean, I think they have
to go up to Zip to be able to win
this series. But for Houston, game one, you know that
they simply can't lose that first game after spending all
season digging for home court. I like Golden State still,
and and look, I loved everything I saw from the

(01:42:52):
Rockets in that series against Utah, especially Clint Capella being
at times the best defensive player on the floor, a
floora's share with Rudy gobay Air. Everything I saw from
Golden State tells me that their firepower is all the
way back. I mean steph uh, you know, working his
way back into the mix. You know k D playing
the way he's playing. I mean, I think Raymon, they're
gonna I think the Rockets gonna force Draymond to make

(01:43:13):
some shots from the outside. I think the Warriors bench
is a lot weaker than it's been in years past.
But I don't know. I just I just trust that
firepower in Golden State more than I trust the depth
in Houston. I do too. I do too. And I
also think the matchups play in their favor. Houston has
to have Capella to win, and I don't know how
you put Capella in and playing big minutes against the

(01:43:33):
death lineup. Yeah, I don't know. I think he can
play there, don't I mean, I could see him with
the way he was playing in that series and how
he plays off of hard right hard hardon goes to
the rim, and it seems like he and Capella developed
a real nice chemistry on knowing where each other is
on the floor, and you know, kind of throwing that lab.
I think he I think he can in those situations,

(01:43:55):
but he can't be a decoy. He's gonna have to
offensive rebound, uh, you know, you know, be a threat
from from ten feet out or whatever he's shooting that
jump shot. He's got to do something offensively for them
to be successful. Chris Mannos joining us on the Doug
Otlip Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Uh, there's been
there's been a lot of talk about about what happened

(01:44:17):
with the Toronto Raptors and how do you fire uh
the NBA's coach of the Year. But you're an NBA
insider for Yahoo. You know what people are really saying
is there what people say publicly, what they say privately
is something completely different. What's their reaction inside the NBA
to what happened in Toronto? It's there's no real surprise. Um,

(01:44:38):
I think coming into this playoff, most of the people
that that I had had any kind of discussions about,
you know, this Raptors team, and let people don't run
around talking much about the Raptors, but um, you know,
you had to beat Cleveland, or at the very least
you had to be life and death with Cleveland. This
is probably the best Raptors team of the Wayne Casey era,

(01:45:00):
and I don't think you can argue it's the worst
Cavaliers team of the lebron you know, Cleveland two point
oh era. And to get broomed out and to be
you know, completely non competitive in game four, to to
to lose the way they did by eighteen in Game two,
it didn't surprise anybody. I mean, look, sometimes you can
have a firing of a coach and and the situation

(01:45:23):
dissolved and and really have nobody kind of, you know,
be overly, you know, overly emotional about it, even even
Dwayne Casey. I think Dwayne Casey understands it. I mean
I haven't heard from yet aside from that letter but
he put in the Toronto Star. But I think Dwayne
even gets it and understands that this was his moment
and the fact that they lost the way they did. Uh,
you know, both these sides will bounce back. I mean,

(01:45:45):
the you know, Mike Budenholzer's is the favorite in Toronto
right now. Casey's gonna make six million dollars next year
not to coach and then be the hottest coaching property
on the market. You know they'll both recover, so it's
not really a big surprise. The most well, I think
bootenhole is gonna have the opportunity. But if it comes
down to Milwaukee or Toronto, what does he choose? I mean,

(01:46:09):
I would choose Milwaukee. I mean the Bucks job seems
like it has more staying power. I mean that the
Raptors might be more competitive next season, but the Bucks
job could be competitive for five six years with Janice
Uh in that mix, I think those two teams are
gonna be jockeying for for Mike Boutenholzer and Uh. If
Toronto winds up whipping on him, I don't know where
they turn. I mean, Nick Nurse's favorite within the organization,

(01:46:31):
But is that a big upgrade over Dwayne Casey? Do
they go to? Jerry Stackhouse has been coaching the Raptors,
not O five team, but it's only a few years
removed from retiring. It's there's not a lot of great
options outside of Bootenholzer. Um. Okay, So that brings us
to the idea that everybody has of of hiring the

(01:46:52):
first ever female coach in in NBA history. And like look,
I like Becky Hammond and I think one day she
will be an NBA coach, and I know that the
league is pushing this, but she's behind the bench. She's
not even on the bench. So in addition to leapfrogging
other Spurs assistance, like, I kind of feel like everything
has to be just perfect in terms of the front

(01:47:13):
office and players being on board and going out of
the shelter of the Spurs into a different organization, especially
when she hasn't been on the bench, on the front
side of the bench for at least a year. I
think that's that's it's like a disaster waiting to happen.
What are your thoughts on Hammond getting a job this year? Yeah,

(01:47:34):
I mean, I don't think that this is the year.
I think that she's involved in an interview process is great.
It's gonna be great for her to experience that. And
once she experienced it once, he's going to know what
the next one feels like and and kind of be
more prepared for it. But I'm with you there, you know,
you you know, people get offended when you say, like

(01:47:55):
she's gotta pay her dues, Well you do. I mean, look,
Jay Laragan Boston is paying his dues. Uh, you know,
Steven silence and Charlotte is baying his dudes. You know,
when you're not like a Doc Rivers or or somebody
of that ilk where you had a long NBA career
and and you can go from the broadcast booth into
the coaching box. Other than that, you do have to

(01:48:16):
come up the ranks. You gotta be a stand band
Gundy or you've gotta be a coach of that line.
And Becky Hammond, I think she has the you know,
from everything I hear out of San Antonio, she's got
the potential to be a head coach someday. But this
is the first step and what's probably gonna be a
long process for her. And it should be like, let
her get on the bench and maybe take James barrego
spot there after brego at the job in Charlotte take

(01:48:38):
on even more responsibilities. She's in the right with the
right team, in the right system, with the right coach.
I think she'll get there one day. But I don't.
I don't see how anybody could be offended by the
suggestion that she's not ready for this, but they are.
I don't. I mean, like, but it's like, is you know,
Jay Larenege has been a coach for a long time.
He's been Brad stephen lead assistant. Brad Steven's regarded right

(01:49:00):
now as as arguably the best coach in basketball. Jas
not gonna get a job. We'd be an uproar that
Jay didn't get it. Should should Becky Hammond get a
job over Jay Larra? I mean that's it's just a process,
dog and you know that. And I think most people
when they when they take off their full rage, they
probably know it too. No, I understand that, I'm but
but what you and I are offering up is will

(01:49:20):
be seen as totally counter opinions. But they're they're very
realistic opinions that are shared by most people in the NBA.
But that's not that's not the ones they choose to
share on radio or on TV. Like well, p Pau
Gasol wrote something, so damn it, that's got to be
the case like that. That's that's great that Pal thinks
that way. But one we're in where you're still in
a male ego driven world like the NBA. Second, she's

(01:49:44):
only been in one organization. Third, she hasn't yet been
on the bench. Like there's there's a lot of stuff
that goes into it before you go like, yeah, hire
her because she knows basketball. Cool. Look, Yeah, and Paul's right,
I'm sure like he's a rounder. I'm sure he's right.
But I mean I could name any number of assistants

(01:50:04):
that some players square by who who do the job
really well. Um it's look put it this way. If
if there were teams or general general not even owners.
Owners don't know anything. They think they do, but they don't.
If they were general managers that believe, you know, they
love the seven eight jobs that were open, including Orlando
still open, if they believed that it was that Becky
Hammond was the right choice for the job right now,

(01:50:27):
they would hire her. These guys have have everything on
the line, like they would bring her in over any
other assistant that was out there, whether it's Nick Nurse
or or Stackhouse or anybody else. But you know, they don't.
And it's not it's it's not a shot against her.
It's just that she's just early in this coaching process
to get a head job. That's the part, by the way,
about the coaching change in Toronto. Like my guy, I'm

(01:50:47):
friends of Nick Nurses while I played for him, he
was a head coach Overseas, he's been assistant coach forever
in the NBA. And when Dwayne Kesey gets fired, he
gets fired as well, right, And so that's that's the
worst part, because he's this close to getting a head coach. Yeah,
maybe he gets the Toronto job. If in fact budenholz
Her turns it down up, he could be in the
mix in Orlando to you know, Jeff Weltman, you know,

(01:51:09):
came from Toronto. It wouldn't surprise me if Jeff winds
up hiring somebody from that Toronto pipeline, whether it's Nick
or Jack. Right, which is the place, which is the
type of job that she should get, which is somebody
from San Antonio goes somewhere. That's where she should go,
or or try and wait and be the air Parian
san Antonio because she's got that place wired. Because in
order for it to work, she's got to have everybody

(01:51:30):
pulling in her direction. Otherwise it's gonna be seen as
a as a press conference hire and that doesn't work.
You gotta work. It's on the day to day basically,
have to have total buying ford and there's gonna be
so many challenges for her early on. I mean, look,
I was at the Selfish practice today and you know,
Brad Stevens was asked about all the attention being paid
to him, all the homage if you will be in

(01:51:51):
being paid to him, and he talked about how uncomfortable
it was, and it's it's not really something that he's
he's used to, and all the attention necessarily being on
him the first shop that Becky Hammond takes, it's gonna
be all the attention on her for the first season
and beyond. They're gonna be challenges to that and and
and unless you're completely ready for it, and I'm not
sure that Becky is right now, you don't tire yet.

(01:52:13):
Clay Thompson has offered up there's a possibility that he'll
take a massive not a pay cut, but he won't
take the absolute most that he can get in order
to stay in Golden State. Now, look, guys have said
this before, Hey, I'll take less in order to stay,
but it almost never happens, Like even k D that
took a little bit less. He's it's gonna get worked

(01:52:35):
out on the back end. What's the what's the reality
to what happens with Clay Thompson, I tell you, Doug,
with with almost every other player, I would agree with
you that it's it's unlikely to happen. But I've had
this exact conversation with play a handful of times over
the years. He's just wired a little bit differently. I
mean he has And this isn't like a criticism of

(01:52:57):
him saying he doesn't have the desire took a whut
and be the alpha on his own team. He loves
his role, he loves the city and he loves winning.
He likes being a part of that culture. So the
idea that he would take you know, ten millions offending
off the top to stay there would not surprise me
one bit. I'd like to see the final numbers of it.
But when I saw that report didn't surprise me at

(01:53:20):
all when it came to Klay Thompson. Great stuff. You
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He fills in for Dan Patrick. Do you see him,
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says secure and responsible gambling is legalized, and its president
and CEO says the court ruling is good for betters
because it hopefully replaces illegal sports wagering with a well
regulated alternative sports fans can trust. Of course, it is
about the money. Senator or And Hatched, chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee, says he's going to propose legislation to

(01:55:09):
establish standards for sports betting so that the integrity of
the game is intact, all of the sports affected that
are allowed to being better to be bet on. Uh.
He wants consumers to be protected, of course, and to
safe guard against underage gambling, a big concern, of course.
He wants the regulation to come from the federal level
to avoid quote, uneven enforcement and a patchwork of state

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laws regarding sports betting that results in a race to
the regulatory bottom end quote and New Jersey, of course,
who led the charge under Chris Christie, lawmakers have already
introduced new legislation today that would regulate attacks on sports
betting eight percent for bets made in person at casinos
and race tracks and twelve and a half percent online. Doug,

(01:55:54):
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is the front runner for a couple of NBA coaching jobs.
The Bucks and the Raptors both have him as the
front runner. Kind of fascinating, right, Like they were terrible
with Atlanta, and I know they wanted to be terrible
with Atlanta, but to go from that losing the job
as president of the organization a year before, um, you know,

(01:57:15):
to all of a sudden now being the hottest coach
coaching commodity in the NBA. Remember they did have the
best record in the Eastern Conference a couple of years
ago with with the uh uh with the Hawks. But
you know, part of it is that pedigree of the
San Antonio Spurs. Got to be interesting to see what
happens with Golden State Warriors pedigree, what happens with the

(01:57:36):
pedigrees from from the well, anybody from the Houston Rockets
get a job or the Boston Celtics like jay Laronega
get a job because of the success of those organizations. Well,
one guy who didn't get a vote from his peers
for NBA Coach of the year, but is now getting
a lot of pats on the back. Is Celtics coach
Brad Stevens, who seems a little uncomfortable with that praise.

(01:57:58):
How do you handled that which it sometimes seems like
you're getting more credit to the play. It's silly, you know.
The praise is uncomfortable and it's just something that these
guys should be getting at all. And we all have
a role to play and we all need to play
that role as well as we can. Stevens obviously it
shoot around. No, that's why he gets That's that's why

(01:58:18):
people like playing for him, because he's not an all
about himself sort of guy. He understands how to deflect.
There's just a lot of things that that go with it.
There are huge egos in the NBA, huge even on
you can you can sit it. We can sit here
and go like, well, I don't think of Al Horford
or Marcus Morris or Jalen Brown having huge e goes that.
It's great you don't, but the reality is you gotta

(01:58:40):
know how to handle him, and he handles them a plump.
We're moving over to the NFL. A torn right a
c l ended to Shawn Watson's rookie season, but Texans
coach Bill O'Brien, who was on Good Morning Football, says
he is on track to participate in training camp said quote,
it's his intelligence, his poise, his hunger to learn. He's
a fun guy to coach. He's on schedule to participate

(01:59:01):
in training camp, and we are excited about that. Look,
I get all that stuff. He's had two A c
l s already, so he did take the league by
storm last year in a shortened time. Starting legal adjusting,
he's going to have to adjust to his body well.
Moving over to the Saints, they'll be without Martin gat
Graham for the first four games of the season, of course,

(01:59:22):
is suspended for we still don't know exactly what, but
something he had permission or did not have permission to
The leak says not so much. But the mistake would
be to assume that his fellow running back Alvin Camaro
will have a bigger workload to start the year. Saints
head coach said that that would be a huge mistake.
He's not going to give Alvin fifteen more carries. Quote,

(01:59:43):
that's not the direction we would expect to go. I
don't think that's wise end quote. Tend to agree with them.
There's you know that he was asked whether or not
to consider signing Adrian Peterson. The word considers such an
ambiguous word. Would you can see I'll consider it and
then we'll pass. No chance Adrian Peterson is back there, No, no,
not at all. NFL fans getting a double dose of

(02:00:04):
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Most are happy to see
them on Sunday afternoons. We will now see them for
the Thursday night package on Fox. Fox confirmed that news today. Look,
I think they looked to try and find see whether
or not they get Payton Manning. But you can't get
Peyton Manning. Why not double dose of Troyigman. This is
what CBS did in their first year. If having Thursday

(02:00:25):
Night football, they had Nance and Sim's do it. I
think Nansen Sims did the first two years before they
added Romo last year. So it's kind of par for
the course. Um, obviously you must be good to be
those guys, because I'm guessing there's a little bit more
cheddar in their pockets. I would think so. And and
no news yet by the way, as to who will
team with Aikman when Buck is focusing on baseball once

(02:00:46):
the playoffs get underway. Moving over to golf. The favorites
for the US Open. Who you got Tiger Woods close
but no cigar, Dustin Johnson Jordan's speech. Both had lackluster
finishes at tep you see saw grass, but they have
both one tournaments. They are ten to one favorites. Rory
McElroy twelve to one, Justin Thomas fourteen to one, along

(02:01:08):
with Jason Day and Ricky Fowler. Tiger Woods right now
is dropped to one. It's it's gonna be interesting. Remember
this is it's gonna be played at Shinnecock, which last
time around they played the US Open at Shinnecok the
greens were so fast, so dry, they actually had to
water them during the round. During the round. Um, I
think it's gonna be really really interesting to see who

(02:01:31):
Bill Michelson's best putting average on tour. Dustin Johnson, you
said the favorite Jason Day on there. Those guys are
top five in putting. It's you better be accurate and
you better be able to put read those greens. They
are hard to hand. Lefty, by the way, thirty to
one long shot. Get out there and pressed that the
press corses for courses as they say, Um, I do

(02:01:52):
think this is a game in which it's more important
for the Houston Rockets, right they you go all in,
you trade away half your team to go and get
Chris Paul. You go for it and get home court
advantage throughout. This is the reason you got it for
the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors, there's a tinge of
arrogance there to which you're like, wait, all we have
to do is win one game and we essentially have

(02:02:12):
home court advantage. Um. With that arrogance, they are playing
really good basketball, and I would expect the Warriors to
win tonight. But I look, I think that I feel
like this is a three game series. There will be
a game to which the Rockets shoot lights out, there
will be a game to which the Warriors shoot lights out,

(02:02:33):
and then they'll probably be two super close ones and
one to which the Warriors put them away. Um. But like, look,
if you're Golden State, you can do exactly what exactly
what the Warriors wanted the seven the Calves were unable
to do. Take complete control of the series on your terms.

(02:02:54):
One thing to watch the Golden State is no lead
is safe either way around. They turn over a ton,
but they make up points in a hurry. Jim Jackson tomorrow,
the Great Brent Musburger tomorrow. Is this good news or
bad news for Vegas? The Supreme Court ruling? Have you
missed any of today? Download the podcast. It was a
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