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some football, maybe a little golf and hoops. Ben Goliver
will join us from Sports Illustrat He's inside the Bubble,
and Chris Bruce Sar will join us as we just
got done watching Lakers Clippers in the NBA playoffs. Anyway, um,
let me let me give you my thoughts on what
we saw last night from the Lakers and Clippers. Boom,
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(00:50):
Pretty cool. Got basketball on TV right now, right now,
it's like real basketball games right now. You got uh
baseball games on TV as well, Like sports is back.
I saw some crazy number of sporting events over the weekend.
You guys see this like fifty two sporting events. That's awesome.

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That's awesome. UM, I'll give you some of my thoughts
and uh maybe work in a couple of yours. Let
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(01:38):
Goliver from Sports Illustrated will join us. He's not just
an NBA insider, He's actually inside the bubble. He's a
real insider. John Middlecoff will join us. I don't know
what's going on with Guy Abraman his uh his podcast partner,
but Aberman's hating on the pet padres new uniforms that
this has to stop. Just because they're poh Brown does
not mean they're not cool uniforms anyway. Middle calfill joinas

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will ask him about the Santonio Brown suspension and what
it means. Antonio Brown's suspended eight games whenever he signs
with the team or if he doesn't sign with the team.
And Chris Bruce Sorr will join us in the third
hour of the show. It's going on there. Ramos are
you cooling off the board. I just I just want
to make sure, like Ramos is doing the hand back

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and forth as and he's doing it kind of over
his waist and he's sitting down, and he's wearing a mask,
and so I was just trying to figure out whether
or not Ramos had something that didn't agree with him
last night. That's what it appeared to be. Through the
looking glass. I got Dan Fire here. Make sure you
check out Dance Sunday Show on Fox Sports Radio, which
I'm sure like no man is gonna be happier. His

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Sunday Show works because they watch all the games, they
talk about the games, they have people who just got
done with the games are getting ready for the games
of the night. And it's been months since we've had
this plethora cornucopia. Um Smorgsborg of Sporting Events, so sports
his back. Hope you're safe, Hope you're healthy. I hope
if you were furloughed, you get back to work very

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very very soon. I thought Lebron was sending a message
last night. Now, look, the Clippers are down three of
their top six. Okay, they're down three there Now, it
does not work right, doesn't work out where Oh, well,
you know, the Clippers lost thirty points. He had thirty points.

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They are total like, that's not the way it actually works.
But a blind man can see that the Clippers are
going to have some more options, right, And Lebron he
only hits six shots. The last one was a put back.
He did have a dunk and had another layup. He

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struggled mightily with his jumper and he did um. He
did look like a guy who Part of it is
the Clippers are built with Paul George and Kauai Leonard
and others, and you know Marcus Moore or Steven who
didn't box him out in that last play, to have
multiple defenders of his size and his length so they
can defend him. Uh. First thing is, here's a rule

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in basketball, and I do think Lebron James. If you
look at the other angle of the last shot, I
think foul. Paul George, you know, I think val Budgers.
If if Lebron goes up for the same shot, or
Steph Curry goes up for the same shot, probably a foul.
It's the left arm. But whatever I mean, it again

(04:33):
doesn't matter. It was a super competitive game, and I
guess it does matter, but doesn't I thought it's a
really good watch. You know, it's been a good watch
in the whatever you call the preseason games. Right now
the Magic are taking on the nets. This is one
of those ones that why is this game taking place?
It very much seems like a Summer League game. But
they did a great job. And I'm not talking about

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just t NT but also the n B a of cheering, booing,
the different sounds. It felt like in a full arena.
But I thought, if you look at how hard Lebron played,
and granted all these guys have that competitive greatness, they're
playing hard at the end of the game, this one
mattered something to Lebron. I think he likes I think

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he liked the note from Henry Abbott that he's not
being buddy buddy with everybody, that he's kind of strictly business.
I think he likes that stuff. I truly, truly do.
That's his jam. And it's not that it didn't matter
to Kauai. But Kauai still finding his game, and Kauai

(05:36):
outplayed Lebron most of the game, although he couldn't shake
him late in the game. I mean, Kauai is the
poster child for load management, but Kauai clearly wanted to
win and played late and played big minutes in that game.
I thought Paul George looked great, and you know, Anthony
Davis looked good, and for most of the game, Lebron

(05:57):
was probably the fourth best player on the floor. But
there were some defensive stops there late in the game,
which you know, Lebron and and Getavious called, well, Pope competed,
really competed. It really mattered, you know, And I think

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it all goes in line with the you know, as
much as he is an advocate for social justice, he
has his his own surname on the back of his jersey.
As much as he loves to hang with the guys,
and he badly wants to be liked and even beloved

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by others in the NBA, the stories are that he
is a recluse right now, simply worried about his body,
his game, and his team. You know, It's one of
the things that Richard Sherman doesn't like me, because I
think he said some things which are whack and I
pointed out. But as a football player, what I respect
about about Richard Sherman is he keeps the main thing,

(07:06):
the main thing, and he walks it like he talks it,
and lebron James for the most part does as well.
You know, Lebronze thing is keep the main thing, the
main thing. And I thought last night showed his competitive edge,
his toughness, and if you look, he took it upon

(07:26):
himself late in the game. I'm gonna guard Kahi Leonard,
which he hasn't always done. All right, Sometimes he's coasted defensively.
Last night was not the night. Now do you get
rewarded and you end up you know, yeah, but considering yes,
he had Patrick Beverley back, but you didn't have Lou Williams,

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you didn't have Montrez Harrold. I do think the Clippers
and the Clippers have to learn how to win. How
do we win those games? Like Kauai has won them,
but he hasn't won them with the Clippers. Paul George
has never really won them. He had that one incredible
game his next to last playoff game with the Oklahoma
City thunder Right, wasn't that it like game? It was

(08:08):
against the Jazz and they're at home, they fought off.
He was amazing, But he's missed a lot of game
winners and missed a lot of big shots. And that's
just another one of them. This was Lebron James talking
about finishing the game on offense. I love having the
ball in my hands, you know, late in the game,
tie game, being down, being up. You know, we had

(08:30):
a better three point game, like forty seconds ago. We
got a um, you know, a great look for Danny,
he missed it. Paul George came back and hit it,
hit it three to tie the game. And for me
just trying to be aggressive. You know, I feel like
I got some contact at the elbow, you know, by
by Marcus Morris. They didn't call it, but you know,
like you know, like he was told he was a
kidd to start playing basketball. There's no whistle you keep

(08:51):
playing on. So I was able to follow them up
the shot and uh, you know, put us up and
put us up for good. Yeah. By the way, following
you and shot is generally bad basketball, unless you're like
le Bron James or Dominique Wilkins and your six seven
six ft and you can you got you know, forward thrusters.
Normally you gotta get back on defense. Um. I thought
the product was really good I didn't think either team

(09:12):
looked great. I think the Lakers badly miss Avery Bradley
and still need you know they're missing something. I didn't
think Lebron was great, but he was great when he
needed to be great. Competitive greatness. He was Frank Vogel
talking about Lebron competing at the defensive end. That possession
right there. We didn't want to fall a time out
and give them the ability to sub. So you know,

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he's been great in that situation, targeting the defender that
he wants to go at. Uh, got to the pain,
got a good look and uh, you know, like you said,
just followed a shot. The great competitive spirit play and
you know the defense on the last position obviously helped
secure the game. But all throughout he's been he was
He was trific on the ball and as always just

(09:58):
a quarterback of our defense with his Yeah, that that's
what he's done most of the year. Is not what
he did switching and really defending. It's been quarterbacking and
laying in the cut, but saving that energy up for
moments like that. This is where you say Lebron is
a really, really brilliant basketball player, right, But there are

(10:20):
limitations and one of those limitations are he does struggle
to break free to get his own shot against like
sized guys nowadays, not that you're not. No one's gonna
be the same at his age. With that, all that
were off the tires, but it was still impressive, a
huge wind, and it continues the narrative of this fairly

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new rivalry battle for l a will in fact decide
who comes out of the West. What's that your wife
or your girlfriend says? Actions speak louder than words. The
Pelicans are telling you everything you need to know about
Zion without telling you anything you need to know about Zion.
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug

(11:04):
Gottlieb Show weekdays at three p m. Easter noon Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio AHAP
Doug Gotland Show, Fox Sports Radio. UM, I don't mean
you can't You can't believe anything anyone says. But I
do believe that actions speak louder than words. Right, we've

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seen it, we've heard that before. Or Um, you know
we know how that matters in relationships, it matters in sports,
it matters in business. Your your boss can tell you
you're our number one guy, But then the biggest client
comes in and somebody else gets it, you know, and

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somebody else's account pointed on by the boss. Yeah, well
you're a number one guy. But no, no, no no, the
number one guy, number one guy. So actions do speak
louder than words. And I think the Zion Williamson thing
with the limited minutes at thirteen points in fifteen minutes,
but they were kind of ineffective minutes. And I know

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you're like, well, thirteen fifteen, pro rate that out to
forty minutes. There's zero chance he's playing forty minutes, which
kind of tells you all you need to know. Sam
Amick wrote this Zion Williamson, who's unique combination of linebacker
size and incredible torque requires so much caution the Pelicans
prioritized the big picture here is practiced in a five

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on five setting. It's total of four times since the
league was shut down March eleventh because of COVID nineteen.
What's more, he missed thirteen days of work after leaving
the Bubble on July sixteenth in order to attend an
urgent family matter. That's including his four day quarantine when
he came back, and this Jazz matchup a game, which
he hit six of eight shots at thirteen points. He
was a minus sixteen, which is crazy, right, Like, you

(12:49):
have thirteen and fifteen minutes, you got wow, he played
well minus sixteen team score uh scored sixteen points fewer
than the Jazz during those fifteen minutes. That's a lot.
Well his first five on five action with context since
he'd returned, the Pelicans are concerned what might happen again
if if he did too much too soon after that
kind of layoff from real five on five runs inspired

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the choice anybody else, I understand, you're handling a guy
with kid gloves and you're playing the long game. But
they I, it's not like he's coming back from an injury.
Keep in mind he was healthy before they shut down

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the season March eleven, and then we could say, well,
he didn't pay. We saw the pictures of his body.
He appeared to be an excellent shape in terms of
you're leaning out a little bit now. If you've ever
seen him in person, he's just a block, right. He's
six five and a half and he's wide as he
is tall. He's just built. He's not built. He looks

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like a linebacker more than a basketball player. Um, but
I feel like the Pelicans are telling us all we
need to know because there's a possibility there's two things
at work here. Not every guy has great natural conditioning.
Not every guy. You know, every guy does not have

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great natural conditioning. In fact, some guys not only can't
ever be in great shape, they also have what's called
the fat gene. They used to call it with Darren Willams,
like Darren wives don't play basketball. A couple of days,
you're like, man, do you put on ten pounds? And
he was a tremendous player, But I do think you

(14:41):
get to this point where you're like, man Zion hadn't
played in a week, and he looks ten pounds heavier.
And by the way, when you go home, and this
is why you know, unless it's I hope it was
not nothing serious, but why are you leaving it? It
has to me it has to be really really serious

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with immediate family. You're a rookie. This is an opportunity.
The whole league, by the way, UH fought over whether
or not your team should be included, mostly because they
wanted you there. There is a certain responsibility. So I'm
not gonna question how big a deal it was, or
how big a deal going what what he went home

(15:23):
for was. I can only tell you, though, that when
you go home, just because you're spending time away from
quarantine doesn't mean you can't go for a run and
go work out. And again, I know that does not
get you in basketball shape. But the fear with him
is he's got the fagene. He doesn't work out for
a week and suddenly, damn he put that fifteen pounds
back on right. He he spent a few days away

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from the team, and they wouldn't let him practice, and
then we'll let him play fifteen minutes. They're telling you
this guy is fragile, Fred. They're legitimately concerned that he's
going to break down, you know, and everyone I can
reference all the different cars you know that you pick
up Car and Driver or Motor Trend and you're like, man,

(16:09):
they're beautiful cars, but telling you breakdown and you know
that going in, and so you're very cautious. I would
like never buy used Jaguar, all right, now about use
Jaguar looks good, sounds good, feels good to drive, but

(16:30):
you know it's the old on the shop more than
in the shop, more than on the road, and those
reputations are established over time, and when a team is
so super cautious, like he's not hurt, there's nothing wrong
with him. He just falls out of shape really really quickly,
and probably was never in that great at shape. He's

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playing five on five four times since March eleven. That's crazy.
So I'm not questioned his work ethic, but I am
questioning his ability to to get himself into great shape
like you don't have to have during that time off,

(17:12):
we saw pictures where you felt like he was felt
but apparently that was either angle shots or maybe he
was an Instagram filter. Right, you can do his Instagram
filter and you can look I look like a supermodel.
But I'm really cautiously pessimistic. I want to be an
optimist and tell you that he is going to be
the best small ball five we've ever seen the NBA,

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but there's some definite pessimism there. Be sure to catch
the live edition of The Doug Gottlieb Show weekdays at
three pm Easter noon Pacific. Ben Goliver joins us. He
joined us from inside the Bubble in Orlando basketball games
taking place, you know, essentially all day right now. Right now.
It's kind of a j V game or Lando versus
Verus Brooklyn Um. Last night's last night's game, Ben, what

(17:57):
what was the marquee game Lakers clear person? Um? What
was it like in person? Well, I mean, for a
high energy, you know, high intensity type game like that
to be played an empty crowd, you know, an empty
gym with no real crowd was truly strange. I mean,
an amazing moment. Early Lebron goes for the dunk and he's,
you know, coming back down to court. He looks over

(18:19):
at guys like Carmelo Anthony and Damian Lillard and gives
them a look because those guys were sitting courtside. But
it was a fascinating ending with the Lebron hitting the
game winner and then getting the defensive stop on the
other end. And you don't really have the true Staples
Center vibe or the Lakers fans going nuts to kind
of celebrate that thing they're doing in an empty gym.
It's certainly something that's going to take everybody who's there

(18:39):
a while to get used to. But it does seem
like the players have already started to adapt and adjust
and realize they have to bring their own energy to
this thing. What's your h Let's let's let's talk Lebron. Obviously,
at the game winning shot, you got the game stop,
game winning stop. How do you think Lebron looked and
played well? I actually thought from most of the night,
Kawhi Leonard was the superior player. I thought one of

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the biggest takeaways from that game was all the stars
showed up. You saw Paul George play well at times.
Anthony Davis has some really nice stretches. But Lebron's come
out here with a real purpose for the entire last week,
you know, in terms of on and off the court,
you know, making statements about social justice, participating in the
protests and leading that protest last night, and then also
wanting to you know, kind of put the Lakers on
his back. He brought it home, you know, last night,

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and kind of an heroic fashion, storybook fashion. I'm sure
the league office was great to see the you know,
the the bubble kickoff, as it did. To me. One
of the stories from that game, though, was a guy
in Kawhi Leonard who we really associate with having control
in clutch moments of being able to get a shot
whatever he wants. Of being a reliable, you know, off
the dribble type guy, uh, somebody who you want the

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ball in his hands in the big moments, just not
being able to do it at all. He wasn't able
to get a clean look. He looked very indecisive on
the last play, winds up passing out to Paul George
and kind of a hospital pass type situation. I mean,
where is Paul George gonna go at that basketball when
he gets it? So to me, it was an uncharacteristic
night from a guy in Kawhi Leonard who built a
nice reputation for himself as a clutch player last season. Yeah,

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I would also say that Kauai and Lebron they look
thicker than I Now. Some of it could be a
smaller arena and a closer and a different angle, but
I also know that you know, when you play basketball
at two games, you you tram up really really quick,
and those guys by the end of the season are
super super lean. In person, they look thicker or is
it simply tv ad in fifteen pounds? Well, in general,

(20:32):
everybody looks bigger because we're closer. You know, the seats
there are are completely different than you would see in
a typical NBA arena, So I think that's part of it.
It also is a different visual look just because of
the way they've got the lighting on these courts. It
kind of feels like a television said, everybody feels a
little bit supersized. In general. I'm with you, though, I
do think that the guys are going to be able
to work themselves into better shape as we go. One

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of my biggest takeaways was just the basketball was more competitive,
harder fought, and just kind of, you know, better chemistry
and first couple of games and even during the scrimmages
that I expected, and when you're talking about four months
off from the sport for a lot of these players,
so I'm sure they've got some work to do, especially
a guy like Zion two, where he's only playing fifteen minutes.
He clearly didn't, you know, look a conditioned, uh in

(21:15):
that first game. I think some of these guys are
gonna be looking different as we get a couple of
weeks into this thing. Yeah, speaking of Zion, and I
know he'd been away from it for a while and
then he had quarantine whatever, but is there some concern
you know, how this works covering this as long as
you have some guys just they they can't get in
great shape. They can't. They're not thirty five forty minute
a night. Guys, Is there any concerned New Orleans that

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even at his peak physical condition, which he's not there yet,
he's never going to be a high minute guy. Look,
I'm confused. I don't really know what's been going on
with Zion. I mean, they had four months off. It
looked like he was in great shape before he got
down here. He leaves the bubble basically for two weeks um,
and at that point when he comes back, they don't
put him through full contact practice as part of the
ramp up to get him on the court. They call

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him a game on the decision. They don't want to
put him into that game until like an hour before
it started, and then he only plays fifteen minutes and
then sits out down the stretch. I mean, all of
that is very, very weird for a franchise level number
one player who's twenty years old. I mean, it just is,
you know, kind of boggles the mind. He's the most
impactful guy too. I mean he swings games from losses
two wins when he's out there and playing well. We

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saw it for two months once he came back healthy.
So the entire situation is very strange. Their messaging on
it has been strange. You know. He said that, you know,
he felt like he was ready to play more and
he was almost grateful that they put him out there.
So clearly there's some sort of, uh, you know, under
the table kind of conversations going on about is he
you know, cleared to play by the medical guys or not.
I mean kind of a back and forth there that

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they're going through. I don't get it, and I'm stunned
that that's where they're at after having four months to
kind of get things right. Yeah, I don't either, I
really don't. I don't understand. Um. And if he can
stay in shape when they're in quarantine, how why did
he fall out of shape so badly during his week
at home with whoever sick or whatever you had to
go tend to. That doesn't that doesn't make sense. Um.

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Clippers wise, what what was their reaction to the game. Obviously,
Paul George played well. You said Kauai was the better player.
I would agree with you. Um, it's different when you
don't have Lou Williams to come off the bench. You
don't have Montrez Harrold. What was your sense of how
the Clippers felt about how they played? No, I mean
I think you took the words out of my mouth.
I mean, really, they're looking at this is they're trying

(23:25):
to ramp up. They want to play deep into the
Western Conference finals and finals, right. I think that Kawhi
Leonard took it very easy in the scrimmages this past week. Um.
You know, he looked like he was able to turn
it up earlier in that game before maybe faltering late.
But I think that they're looking at this game. It
was a you know, a real dog fight all night. Um,
and they don't have two or three of their most
important guys, you know, potentially close that game for one

(23:47):
reason or another, and they expect to get those guys back.
So I think if you're the Clippers, you're coming away thinking, look,
we're not gonna have to play Jokim Noah and Reggie
Jackson as much as we played them against the Lakers.
If we're you know, fighting them, you know too, and
nail this close with some of these guys who are
deep reserves playing big minutes We're going to be in
good shape once everybody gets back and on the court. Uh.

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Bucks are a team that everybody seems to say look
a little bit better than most anybody else. Who's the
other team the East that's the chatters about in Orlando.
It seems to me like Boston gets all the hype
of the team that I like is Toronto. You know,
I think that there's the rest in the time off
actually plays their strength. You know, a guy like Mark
got Gasol got into excellent shape. Um, he's definitely lost

(24:29):
a lot of weight. They have a bunch of veteran
guys who are going to be refreshed with this final push.
They also have great chemistry, um, great cohesion. They talk
a lot, they seem to joke a lot during their games.
And they are also deep, and I think that matters
to whether it's injury issues or the threat of the virus.
You want to be able to go deep into your bench.
I think the coach is a nice plus for them
as well. I mean, Nick Nurse is not going to
be thrown off by these weird empty gyms. He's coached

(24:52):
in the minor leagues, he's coached overseas and he's kind
of seen at all. To me, they are a little
bit of a sleeping giant, Like I think if anyone's
gonna push Milwaukee and maybe knocked them off that course
to the finals, to me, I think it's Toronto. And
by the way, I don't think the Eastern Conference is
particularly deep. You know, a lot of people are trying
to hype up Philly or Miami and some of these
other teams that are kind of in that middle of
the pack range. You know, I think that Milwaukee proved

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it over the course of the regular seasons. They're, you know,
far and away the best team over there, and I
don't see a lot of other teams that have a
ceiling to keep up with them when they've really got
it rolling, and their chemistry has been excellent. Since they've
been back, Janest looks very very focused. They were racking
up big victories in some of their scrimmage plays. They've
got a great system, which I think really helps them
both offensively and defensively. They can just kind of retreat

(25:36):
to their fundamentals um even after all this time off.
They're very well drilled under coach Mike Budenholzer. So to me,
that they're shaping up as the as the easy favorite
in the East. Now. The only tricky part is they're
probably not gonna get pushed until after Labor Day because
you look at how the playoffs sets up. I mean,
it's gonna be you know, Brooklyn or Washington in the
first round matchup. I mean, they're gonna get absolutely killed

(25:56):
by Milwaukee. And these regular season games don't really matter
for milwhah be either, so they're gonna have to fight boredom.
I think that's maybe their biggest threat here over the
next month or so. Who's the team the Lakers don't
want to match up with? So it's funny because we
can talk ourselves into all these amazing matchups like his
Damian Lillard, like the tough matchup for the Lakers back court,
or you know, are the pell kids if they get

(26:18):
Dion back? You know, is it so much attention on
that series they wouldn't necessarily want to deal with that.
Or you can even say Memphis they play so fast
up and down, and you can talk yourself into these arguments.
I mean, to me, I don't think the Lakers really
have to worry about any of those teams. I mean
that Lebron kind of had an off night last night,
still almost had the triple double, and it was still
the last guy standing when it mattered against some really

(26:38):
really talented wings in Paul George and Kawhi Leonard. I
think they're going to take care of any of the
teams that come into that eighth seed. You know, personally,
I think that New Orleans is a question mark right now.
I probably would have picked them coming into the bubble,
But at this point, with the questions around Zion, with
their struggles to kind of close games even though they
have a very easy schedule here going forward, you know,

(26:59):
I not as hot on them as I was even
maybe twenty four hours ago. What's the reaction Ben Golliver
joining us? Uh, he of course writes for Sports Illustrated,
The NBA Insider joins his life from the bubble. I
know that um that Tom Thibodeau was hired outside the bubble,
and he of course said, you know, New York's anonymous
with winning, and it's his dream job. It's a lot
of people's dream job. Uh. What's the reaction from inside

(27:22):
the bubble over Tibbs getting the next job? I'd say
two things. First of all not a lot of surprise,
just because of the ties there with their new front
office group and their need to just kind of turn
things around and get a little bit of respectability going.
That's sort of his m O, right, that's where he
brought to Minnesota. He got them into the playoffs of
course before things fell apart. But I think the section

(27:43):
second reaction is just if you're not in the bubble,
you almost don't matter, right. It's like the eight teams
that aren't here are really irrelevant. They're off the map.
They don't get talked about. Um. And I do think that,
you know, there was some discussion, especially teams like Golden
State of saying, hey, we don't want to go down there,
you know, we'd rather just kind of have our season
and there's no point to it, which I totally understand.
But you know, as these teams are ramping up playing

(28:06):
these regular season games and then getting into the playoffs,
I think it winds up being a competitive advantage for
teams that actually do come down here and take it seriously. Yeah,
for the younger players especially, Yeah, a thousand percent for
your for your team, uh, chemistry, culture and just getting
guys to buy in and then also your developmental time
in terms of you know, seeing guys are they going
to be keepers or not keepers? And making those kinds

(28:27):
of decisions. If you have to go nine months without
touching your players, you know, in a practice setting or
a game setting like some of these other teams might
have to do, I mean to me, that's a real
step back. It just makes Tom Thiboteau's job even more difficult. Yeah,
and I'll tell you what else it does. And this
is maybe a little bit too inside the belt way,
but you know, like if you're one of the assistant
coaches trying to get a head coaching job, you're inside
the bubble. You've got no shot of an outside the

(28:49):
bubble gig right, And if you're outside the bubble, you've
got no shot at any of the jobs inside the bubble.
Inside the bubble, there may be more coaching movement, but
but you know how that works, right, Like you, all
these these interviews will take place in purse and only,
And I think that's it's it's kind of it's fascinating NBA.
You know, the movement of NBA coaches will probably be
in bubble, stays in bubble and out of bubble. Stays

(29:09):
out of bubble. Well, for sure, everybody wants to do.
The speculation about who built the next super team is
they're going to be guys who are here in the
bubble together kind of hanging out. You know, they fish,
you know they fish here in and now two they're
all teaming up. I mean you could see things like
that developing. Um. Yeah, I think that the NBA was
worried about the tiered thing that we're talking about, you know,
the haves and the have nods, even when it came

(29:29):
to the awards voting right like, they wanted to camp
or they wanted to end the awards voting period basically
back in March, um, so that the voters will only
vote on the games that took place before the shutdowns,
so that you didn't get into a situation where guys
could kind of pad their stats or enhance their arguments
by being here in the bubble and kind of setting
your your group up into two different smaller groups. I

(29:50):
understand it. I mean, these fairness questions are really interesting.
We didn't know how they would play out, and ultimately,
like some of them probably didn't feel as important when
you're planning the bubble because at that time two months
to go, you don't know. Is it gonna stay stable?
Are they going to be able to get all these
guys to stay healthy? Are they going to be able
to play all these games like they want to? Now
that we're here, you're starting to really think through all
these uh, maybe unintended consequences, and the NBA is gonna

(30:12):
have to pick up those pieces. Been great stuff, man,
Really appreciate you join us. You doing a great job.
You're good following, excellent writer and reporter and insider. We
can't thank you enough for join us from the bubble.
Oh it's my pleasure man. All it's Ben Goalver sports
illustrated NBA insider Doug Gotlip show rolls on. You're on
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(30:36):
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We've got sports on TV Weather's good Lakes, Rivers, Beaches,

(30:59):
relatively open, maintain your soul of distancing. Let's go to
a game. Okay, this is game time. Tide on the dog,
got lab show? All right, Dan, Dan, you playing golf
this weekend. We'll work on the yard. Working on the yard. Dog, Okay, Okay,
it's labor of love. You know. I had to uh

(31:23):
swap some flowers out the other week and then you
put those flowers on ninety five degree tempts and the
new ones don't seem to they like it very much.
I gotta give him that water. You gotta give him
that water. You know. It's interesting. So Dan and I
live on like opposite ends of the earth in regards
to southern California, And this end of the earth is
hotter than the sun. But you're warmer in the obviously

(31:45):
in the winter, right, like legitimate ten to twenty degrees
warmer in both seasons. So I mean, where I live,
it is perfect, like perfect kind of a sweatshirt in
the morning and just perfect the rest of the day.
My son had like a baseball scrimmage tryout thing yesterday.
It was I mean, I was side that. I was like,
this is amazing, and then I got out the car

(32:06):
today I was like, oh my god, I'm melting. So
I totally understand how your flowers Yeah, yeah, there, you know,
hopefully they can get I have a suggestions that this
is one from my mom. So my mom she has
lots of succulents and flowers. She goes to Ace Hardware
and buys these little pop up umbrellas. That's a really
good idea. They still get enough sun, but they only

(32:28):
need a little son, but they get a lot of
shade and it cuts the temp by you know, tender greet. Sure, sure,
I mean I may have to take up that idea.
All right, we have that our low guarden the game today.
Doug is psychic. Alright, psychic, will do that? Psychic? Will
Antonio Brown signed with an NFL team before Week one
of the upcoming season. Yes, yes, do you know what

(32:49):
team that is going to be? I think I do.
I think I do, um um, I think I do.
I think it's gonna be this, well one he definitely
should not, one of the ones rumored he definitely should not.
But I also believe I know who it's gonna be.

(33:12):
Do you want to tell you? Yes, Well, I'm actually
gonna tell the top the Okay, alright, sounds good. Will
Deshaun Watson get his contract extension with the Texans before
this season? Yes, alright, yes I know the story, but
go ahead share. Yeah, bill O'Brien just saying that they're
working hard on that extension that he is. Uh, you know,
they love him in the offense, they love him in
the community. I want to get it done. But but yes,

(33:35):
working hard on that expense. I mean, they overpaid Laramy
Tuncil to protect him. And you know there's lots of
questions about Bill O'Brien, So what's he gonna do in
order to curry favor in the locker room? You know,
you sign your best guy to ridiculous contract. I don't
think it'll be Mahome's money. I think they'll be creative
with it, though. Um, I think they'll be creative with
I I think like Deshaun Watson's gone from maybe a

(33:56):
little bit overrated when his coach called Michael Jordan coming
out of college, to maybe a little bit underrated now
where we're we're acting like Lamar Jackson's the better quarterback.
And you know, we conducted a poll yesterday and all
of us right, and we were knuckleheads. We don't know anything,
but all of us that, yeah, I would for one game,
I would take Lamar Jackson ahead of him. So I

(34:18):
conducted a poll on Twitter, which of course is a
bastion for all things, all things intelligence. Right, um uh,
five thousand votes Shawn Watson sixties of the votes. Who
would you take for one game? Shaun Watson Lamar Jackson?
And I think if you had spread that thing out
you you'd have it even bigger numbers. I thought. I
took to Shaun Watson and that did we all taken? All? Right? Now?

(34:41):
That was my point. I was like, look, we're all knuckleheads.
We don't know anything, but lots of people don't know anything,
and people do know something like he's he's in the conversation,
one of the top five quarterbacks in the NFL, and
he's young, and he's a great leader, and he just
he's a playmaker. So the only thing that gives you pauses.
He has been hurt a lot, all psychic. Will we

(35:01):
have any bowl games outside of the college football Playoff?
Oh and then and one of the one of the
games is again the Rose Bowl. So well, there's there's
no Rose Bowl parade, but that doesn't mean there won't
be a Rose Bowl game. It's important. It's important to me. Yes,
we will have games outside of the just just the playoffs.

(35:23):
Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowls are the semi finals for
the playoffs and for those that may have missed its
Orange still Peach Bowl for other games. Pack twelve ten
game conference only schedule, likely that the first week. By
the way, Doug si dot com saying you're gonna get
U s C U C l A at week one

(35:43):
on September. Yes, they're trying to limit travel, as my understanding,
and it's what the Big Ten that we will do
as well as trying to keep you know, the closest
teams to play the earlier games. All right, so in
front of no fans, right, yeah, probably probably easy? Can
can I just ask like this is just a random question, Okay,

(36:04):
I don't know. Okay, So say they played in the
in the uh in the Colosseum, all right, Like if
everybody has to wear a mask and all the players
get tested beforehand, right and they all test negative, Like
there's a barrier between players, and you could put up plexiglass,

(36:25):
there's and you could push fans back from the first
ten rows couldn't you, couldn't she relatively? And outdoors the
virus dies like if it's eighty five degrees in l A,
in the Rose Bowl or in the Colosseum, And yet
everybody has to wear a mask in your ten yards
back of the first row, and you put like plexiglass up.

(36:48):
Couldn't you relatively say that fans would have no effect
on getting the players sick? Yeah? Yeah, I think actually
that was probably like hopeful at some point until the
numbers ended up increasing. So that's gonna be a weird year.
Mark Davis wanted plexiglass separating the fans, Remember his stance
that that was one of his options. Yeah, well, but

(37:10):
most people want that with Raider fans anyway. Psychic. Will
the NBA start next season in a bubble? No? No,
I do not believe they'll start in a bubble. I
think they'll be in home ranges. Alright, Psychic. How many
of the Lakers seven remaining seeding games will Lebron James
play five? And let's let's do that same question for

(37:31):
Kawhi Leonard when it comes to the Clippers remaining seven games?
Same answer? All right, I think I think they'll all
take that last game off, um, and then I think
there'll be another game in the middle that they'll take off.
When you're like, man, he's just worn down, you know,
I would guess. Now, look if it's me, I mean
all honestly, I would not take any off. I don't

(37:52):
know those guys bodies, and I haven't talked about Laker
guys today. I just you're always gonna get like a
workout always flushes your sister him. Um, but those guys
are really cautious of their their numbers. And your numbers
are your averages and stuf. If you only played ten minutes,
you know, or you played twenty minutes, it's gonna kill
your numbers. So I would say they'll be two games

(38:12):
they check up. This is game time on the Doug
gottlie more unmanaging the minutes upcoming. But but first Antonio Brown,
the suspension has been announced. The one team he should
and one team he should not sign with. Next to
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(38:56):
Doug Otlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. Um, I should all
this story, and I thought it was good when you
you heard it from Uh, you heard it from Dan Buyer,
which is Antonio Brown has accepted his eight weeks suspension,
isn't expected to appeal for a source, so as soon
as he'd be back on the field, it's from Tom
Pellasorro from the NFL network. Would be week nine nine,

(39:17):
though again an additional suspension is possible depending on what
comes out of the pending civil case. Next hearing is September. Okay,
so there's a couple of possibilities here with with teams
that he could sign. We would all agree Pittsburgh's probably
dead to him, Raiders dead him, um, Patriots dead to him.

(39:43):
And then you would probably think the Bills. You know,
he didn't want to go to Buffalo, remember, so Bill's
Bills probably dead to him. Um. There are some teams
that you know need talent, like the Jets that that
could be you never know that could that could be
a possibility with Sam Donald, But I do think that

(40:06):
if you missed the first eight games and you have
to sign a guy, now, that's gonna be really hard
to convince yourself. We're gonna get Antonio Brown and he
by the time he gets eligible to play, we may
be out of the playoffs. Right. Although I wouldn't put
the Jets by it, I mean that that would that
would make some sense. I don't see him as a

(40:26):
Giants guy. That's that's not what Dave Gettleman is into,
and I don't think he's into the Giants. Although they
could use that talent for Dania Jones, there's a little
too much baggage for the organization. You know. Um, there's
some guys that have a RAMS affinity. Maybe probably not.

(40:49):
The two teams most rumored are the Seahawks and the Ravens.
The Ravens there's the South Florida connection with the Mark Jackson,
plus they were the best team in the a f C.
He wants to stick it to not just uh, not
just the the Steelers, but also the Patriots and the
Ravens would allow them to do so, right, And then

(41:10):
of course there's the Seahawks, who have a super talent
quarterback in Russell Wilson, somebody he's worked out with, an
organization that has taken taken on problem children before, and
uh one that will take on problem children again. So

(41:32):
I look at this thing and I think the one
you want to sign with is the Seahawks. The one
you want to avoid is the Ravens. Why would that
be I'm I'm just you know, in in an effort
to be honest, just because the Ravens are good and
you like Lamar Jackson Antonio Brown, how many balls a year?

(41:54):
How would he catch on? You know in a normal season.
You know, he's one of those rare guys, rare guys
that is not only a breakaway supreme talent, but he's
also a volume guy. He catched a lot of footballs.
He wants a lot of football's uh thrown his way.

(42:15):
You know, you're not you or you're not going to
get a lot of footballs. That would be the Baltimore Ravens. Like,
we can say what we want about the incredible fantasy
numbers and red zone efficiency of Lamar Jackson, but he
also runs the football more than anybody else in the league.
This is Antonio Brown, who led the league in receptions

(42:38):
twice with a hu hundred thirty six catches. Heck his
last year in Pittsburgh. So two years ago when he
didn't play the last game of the season, remember he
no showed until uh in the week and then his
agent call and said, oh, he'll show up and they're
playing to potentially get in the playoffs. He had a
hundred and sixty eight targets and that's the only fifth

(43:00):
teen weeks he had a hundred four catches. Okay, so
now what you got to do is you got to
go to the Baltimore Ravens. Just go to the Baltimore
Ravens and go to last year. They had a spectacular season.
They finished off fourteen and two. Yes they yes that

(43:22):
they lost their first playoff game. But look at the numbers.
The guy with the number one target most targets is
Mark Andrews, their tight end, and he's a young tight
end out Oklahoma. Ninety four targets, six catches. That's the most.
The second most number of targets was Marquis Brown Hollywood, Brown,
who also wouldn't be going anywhere. He had seventy one

(43:44):
targets forty six catches. After that, the highest number of
targets is Willie Snead with forty six. If you think
for one second that Antonio Brown is going to be
happy with fifty or sixty or seventy targets, you actual mind.
Now You're like, well, would he be happy with fifties,
six or seventy for half the season. Yeah, sure, I'm

(44:06):
sure you would. But he's not gonna get that. I remember,
that's a full season's work. That's how many targets those
guys got, and a playoff game. So I'm I look
at Seattle and I think, okay, you have one of
the elite quarterbacks who all he lacks. All he lacks
is a go to wide receiver. That's it. Now. If

(44:31):
you look at at the Seahawks stats from last year,
and Russell Wilson, who did not have a go to
wide receiver, like did not have a a superstar. DK
Metcalf who's a rookie, had a hundred ten targets, had
a hundred targets, and Tyler Lockett had a hundred ten targets.
Those guys are good and they're not Antonio Brown. The
volume of opportunities as well, as the chance to be

(44:53):
successful as well as an organization that has done that
is dealt with knuckleheads in the past. Seattle makes all
the sense to me in the world. And oh yeah,
by the way, I don't think it's a great idea
for Lamar Jackson to have some guy who he grew
up idolizing as his wide receiver. Lamar Jackson's got to
be able to make the decisions who he throws too,

(45:13):
when did he throw them, and not worry about the ego.
It's those wide receivers want the ball anyway. But now
when you have a guy like Antonio Brown who really
wants the ball and his respected around the league, you
run the risk of I remember when Dante Culpepper was
quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings, used to gun the ball
into Randy Moss far too often, forced that thing in there.

(45:37):
Why because he respected Randy Moss. But respect him is
one thing you can't force the football in there. Ravens
led the league in rushing the quarterback runs of football.
He doesn't throw well outside the numbers. That's his weakness.
He likes the bigger targets because he's not You need
a big catch radius because he's not crazy accurate, which

(46:00):
is why they played two and three tight ends at
the same time last year. It's just this one's an
easy one. Don't overthink it. Go to Seattle. Russell Wilson
will kind of give you, give your religion a little bit,
by the way. That gets you as far from all
the stuff going on in Miami as humanly possible. And

(46:21):
this is a tell me I'm wrong, right, tell me
I'm wrong. You put him on Seattle and suddenly we're
gonna have a conversation. I you know, the Niners are
still more talented. We don't know who opts out, who
ops in, what happens with Devo Samuel with the broken
foot like, there's a lot to it. And Seattle, who
could have beaten San Francisco last game of the year

(46:43):
if they knew at all what they're doing at the
one foot line, would have themselves a legit star wide
receiver available at the midpoint in the season. If it's me,
it's not close. I go to Seattle as a wide receiver,
and I avoid Baltimore no matter how good friends you are.
And by the way, friends don't always worked together. Well.
Coming up next, I saw something from the Clippers and

(47:03):
specifically Kawhi Letterard. I thought it was interesting. I want
to share that with you. Next, be sure to catch
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three p m. Easter noon Pacific, Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox
Sports Radio. So last night Lakers beat the Clippers by two.
Lebron missed what would have been a game winning shot
and then got the put back, then got to stop

(47:26):
of the defensive end when Paul George missed what would
have been a game tying jump shot, and the Lakers
get the win. This was Kawai Leonard given his thoughts
on the loss of the Lakers. He's a good game.
Still have fun out there. It was a great speed
back on the floor. Um, you know as we work
out this rest turnout was for get get lower. Um,

(47:49):
I don't think we would turn the ball over that much.
And um, you know we are missing those guys because
there are two big key players for us, and um
we miss him. But you know, overall, definitely got to
get better with some withecution. You game. Pretty cool game,

(48:11):
Pretty cool game. That was an interesting way of saying
a pretty cool game. Mr fun Guy himself saying pretty
cool game. Alright, I like it. We'll work with that.
Um did did you guys think that he and Lebron
looked a lot thicker? Then you remember them like NBA
players if you see them in person usually not. And

(48:33):
this is one of the things that separate Zion not
thick legs, you know, and though they're big, like super super,
trim and cut up, and I felt like he and
Lebron thicker. Now, those guys obviously like to lift. Part
of it is when you play a ton of NBA basketball,
you naturally are gonna lose five t fift pounds and
they have been playing that much, which is why you

(48:56):
gotta be cautious of guys getting hurt. But I did
feel like I felt like one of the things different
with Kauai. He he got to the thoul lit a
bunch and he was a better player most of the night.
But I even think Kauai is a little bit thicker
and Lebron was a lot thicker than I remember. Maybe
it's the angle, maybe it's the camera that adds fifteen pounds,
but uh, did you see that, Ryan or am I

(49:18):
imagining things? Um? I feel like with Lebron. He's almost
always bigger than I ever remember when you don't see
him for a long time. I didn't notice that with Kauai.
When I did notice with Kauai is he still has
that tendency to where it's almost like he doesn't look
very fluid when he runs. It almost looks like running

(49:39):
as a labor for him. And I don't know if
that's the knee issue or the quad issue that he
always has and latent games he is usually he tends
to have a very flat shot, and he front rims
a lot late in the game. Um, And I don't
know if that's because he loses his legs or you'd
know more than I. I mean, he he does shoot
the ball very very flat, and obviously last year he

(49:59):
got away with it shooting the ball up and in
the you know, front, end up up and end uh
to you know, to win a series and put them
right there to compete for an NBA championship, which they won.
It's it's a it's a very interesting question one which
I don't know the answer to. Yeah, he I mean
in general, Look, it was great to have basketball back
last night. Um, but yeah, they they didn't look sharp

(50:22):
anyone in reality, I mean there were some on both ends.
I know the Clippers had far more turnovers overall and
especially early on, but the Lakers in the third quarter
quickly played catch up in terms of turnovers, and there
was some sloppy play all around. Like also, couldn't hit
a shot at all the stuff half, I mean, they
just they completely left them in terms of their ability

(50:43):
to make a shot. Yes, I'm sorry. A lot of fouls.
The fouls were unbelievable last night. I mean, and the
funny thing is you mentioned about Paul George at the
very end of the game. You would think with the
amount of fouls called in that game, that would have
been called, but they just didn't do anything. It's like,
why would you call like sixty or seventy files in
the game? And then at the end let him play, right,

(51:04):
that's the famous words. We just let him play there. Yeah,
but yeah, I thought there are a lot of files.
Maybe the refs are getting back into it as well,
So yeah, I think that's a little bit of it.
A little bit of it. I mean, like, look, they
do let him play, and there was a kind of
when you say playoff field, that's what people mean that's
what people mean. Um, but it's it's it's interesting, man,

(51:26):
I mean really really interesting to watch these guys who
they do monitor their own bodies. And you have plenty
of time still before the playoffs play too, to play
your way into shape. But I do feel like Kauai
is thicker than I remember. And yeah, like Lebron has
been kind of thick and muscular, and seems they have
gotten more so as he's gotten older. He's always played

(51:48):
bullyball and that's really kind of his go to, but
even Lebron looked a little little thick as well. What
did you think about the Clippers And because what we've
always heard about when they match up against the Lakers
is it's more about their death and I know the
you know, the Paul George and Kwi Leonard are, the
way they match up with Lebron is certainly a major factor.
But one of the things that stuck out to me
was you could definitely tell when Paul George and Kauai

(52:11):
weren't on the court, you were looking at that Clippers
lined up, going who in the world's gonna make Wow.
That's that's why Lou Williams so important, you know, he
fits that role because because Lou is not really a
starting player, but he can be a He's a guy
that can just bail you out. You know. He's like
Jamal Crawford's role, which has a place on NBA teams
when you don't have one of those two stars and

(52:32):
he just hey, just go get us a bucket when
everybody else is resting, everybody else is tired. They never
tire of getting shots up. And then you just put
you know, four defensive players or you know guys are
three in D guys out there on the floor with them.
So yeah, I mean, like, look, it does expose one
of the flaws to the Clippers. One is that outside
of Kauai, who do they have that's won a championship,

(52:53):
competed late in the playoffs and if if you don't
have Lou Williams, who up that bench is really gonna
score for you. Um. On the other hand, the Lakers
flawed the Lakers bench. I thought Kuzma finally played pretty well,
like four threes, that that's what they need from him.
They need more of that didn't get terribly lost defensively

(53:15):
the Lakers. You know, I think the Lakers flaws obviously
at point guard. And as much as all of us
love Caruso, there's a reason Alex Cruso has been in
the G League, has fought for minutes. He's a great story,
He's a good player. I don't know if you can
win a championship with him playing the last five minutes

(53:36):
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(53:56):
but he also has got He has another podcast, Guy Habrman,
who uh has caught some heat because he doesn't like
the Padres uniforms. Um was it was a mere tod.
Did Kauai and Lebron look a little thick last night? Uh? Yeah,
I mean I just thought Kauai was kind of going
through the motions for the most part. I think Lebron
he I thought he looked fine. I mean, but I

(54:18):
also might I tempered my expectations of you know what,
they weren't gonna be flying around it wasn't gonna be
a one game. I think given the circumstances, I thought
they both looked fine. Yeah. Uh, it's a big game
right now actually taking place Portland and Memphis because Memphis
feels like they got done wrong with their schedule and
everybody getting a chance of the playoffs. Uh, they have

(54:39):
hopped their up nineteen Um, I like do day basketball
as much as we've missed the NBA. To get basketball
all day, seemingly every day for the next couple of weeks,
that's pretty fun. Well to me, it's got a little
bit and this is your baby, the n C Double
A Tournament field, right, I mean, it just starts kicking off.
You flip on the TV at like ten o'clock in
the morning and West Coast he's have basketball going on.

(55:01):
And the difference here, I mean, you always know the guys,
but when I'm watching some of those like thirteen seeds,
I don't know a lot of the players. I'm watching
Dame and c J and and John Moransbury. Sweet yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean I think, yeah, you're starting to see there's
some players. There's there's like a mix of spring football,
U G League, Summer League, and NBA all and and

(55:24):
AU all mixed together, right, because guys are going to
other guys games. You know, by the way, Damian Lillard hurt,
but he's gonna get up. Can I can I give
you a quick Laker take? Just watching last night. Their
team is not very good now. Lebron is the best
player in the world probably and Anthony Davis elite talent,
a little soft but whatever. There there are other guys,

(55:46):
like you're telling me they're beating the Clippers in a
seven game series. Once everyone's back and quiet and those
guys are actually trying and they're coaching. I don't think so.
I don't think so. It would be an incredible accomplishment
for Lebron given the team he's got. To give him that,
I mean, yes, But like, look, there's there's some similarities
with this Laker team to his first Heat team in

(56:07):
that his first Heat team they didn't have ray Al
and if you will remember Um and his first Heat team,
they didn't have a point guard. They started Mike Baby
the first five games against the Mavericks and he was
so bad he didn't play a minute in game six.
In the final game, they didn't play them at all,
and they did, which was this team only has two
although Kuzma, I think, look, they don't have a point guard.

(56:30):
They don't have a starting caliber point guard on the
roster even before they had you know, I thought, I
think Avery Bradley screwed him. I mean, I I'm you know, like,
I can't imagine Lebron is not happy, right, pisted, pissed?
How could he be? Dude, like, you could win a
championship and this this idea and I do actually want

(56:52):
to John middalof Guest, this kind of reminds me of
my take on the NFL guys, which I understand. You
have the ability to opt out if you want to do.
You know, you take your you take your money and
maybe you go till next year or maybe you shut
it down whatever. And some of these guys, you know,
Dante Hie Tower has turned on eight million dollars to
take what on a on a on a buy out

(57:14):
so he can opt out. But you're safer going to
work in any form of bubble where you're being tested
and you're being some sort of as opposed to like
you mean to tell me that all these guys he
has NFL players that are opting out. They're not going
out their self quarantining the whole year. Of course they are.
And when if you're gonna go out, you open yourself
up to everybody else in the world, and you don't

(57:35):
have a doctor checking you every day for for for COVID. Honestly,
I hadn't thought about that until I saw you tweeted
that this week. It made some sense. I was like, well, yeah,
these guys, unless you legitimately just locked yourself into a
house until this vaccine comes out, you are I heard
Bill O'Brien today, I was watching some of his press conference.
He's like, I've been testing twenty times and you know,
for we've been back a week. You know, He's like,

(57:58):
this probably the cleanest building in Houston. You could eat
off the floor, and you you better believe New England
is gonna be like that too. I you're right when
I thought Dante hi tower and they looked at his contract.
I wonder in three or four years, if you know,
because doing all these teams are gonna go through every
single possibility they can to keep these guys as safe

(58:19):
as possible. And you've been saying the same thing about
college football that some of these media members acting like
these college football coaches would put these players in a
harmful situation. Is it's just assinine, Like if you guys
talk to these coaches like they're not they actually do
care about these kids, you know, I mean especially the
NFL where these guys have a working relationship, like you

(58:41):
don't you know, Bill eight million dollars, he could look
back and you know, ten years and go, I can't
believe I gave up eight million dollars because that's kind
of crazy. Yeah, it reminds you of what's something played.
It played at Xavier and he was a star for
the for the first the Hornets and then the case
David he played for the Warriors, David West, Right, remember

(59:02):
you had he had ten million or eleven million on
the table. He turned it down to go to San Antonio,
played for like a million and they lost, and like
you dope, what are you doing? You know, he got
lucky that the Warrior's Room of Bone late and championship,
but he's never getting back the ten ten million dollars.
He still could have ended up on the Warriors and
made the ten mill. Yeah. Yeah, I think sometimes these guys,

(59:23):
because you're making it kind of becomes funny money did
us on the outside. Even if you make good living,
people go, what are you doing? Man? This this is
gonna end, and yes, sooner rather than later. Like like
Cannon the right tackle, I get he's battled leukemia. Like
to me, that is more understandable. The doctor the guard
for the Chiefs, who is a doctor and it's gonna

(59:44):
like stay doing it like okay, I get it to me,
the high Tower one like that is a lot of
money on a team that listen. I don't think the
Patriots are gonna be as bad. People act like they're
gonna win three games, Like I just wouldn't count out
Doug who would you bet on in the weirdest season
ever with just no practice time and just to figure
things or Adam Gaze. Yeah, it will look at their

(01:00:07):
division like the best team, which I do think the
Bills are gonna be pretty good. They still have Josh
Allen so their quarterback, you know, I mean they still
got some question marks. Speaking of quarterbacks, Um, it's interesting
Lamar Jackson. The players voted him that the top player
in the league, which is like, not only would I
put Russell Wilson ahead of him, Pat Mahomes clearly my

(01:00:28):
my ahead of him, and we see him on the
same field and we've seen Pat Molmes come back in
every playoff game this year. I put Aaron Rodgers, but like,
I almost feel like it's defaming the Deshaun Watson. Like,
did I Lamar Jackson a great year? He's I would not.
I don't. I don't know an NFL guy. Maybe I'm wrong.
You know the NFL guys. You were an NFL guy,
do you think they for for one game or for
one season? Would you rather have Deshaun Watson Lamar Jackson? Uh,

(01:00:51):
I would to rather have de Shawn Watson. We just
saw him in a playoff game down carry a team
with his arm against one of the better defense in
the league. And to me, the Sando piece with the
quarterback tears where they put him way lower because in
the NFL, at quarterback, you're judged off throwing. And I
heard Mike Sando say this, and I do agree. Lamar

(01:01:13):
Jackson is a Tier one football player right now, but
his job come the playoff time is not just to
be like his running kind of ability and element gets
taken away a little bit, and you gotta win throwing
the ball. And that's the one thing Deshaun Watson's faces
has been doing since he beat Nick Saban. You know,
I mean, Deshaun Watson is better, much better pro than
I thought he would be. But he's a legit star

(01:01:34):
because he throws. DeShawn doesn't really run, you know, he's
really more Russell Wilson, right, he scrambles around to throw
where lamar if you take away his running, he has
improved as a pastor. And listen, he actually kind of
poo poos some of this stuff, Like I don't I respect.
He's not like eating all this up. He's actually pretty
humble for the hype that I think the league and

(01:01:54):
the media gives him. But I mean, come on over.
Patrick Mahomes and I had originally thought that the voting
happened like during the regular season. I was like, wow,
I could kind of get it. There's Team's fifteen one,
they actually had the mail. Then the like it comes
into like April. So it's like if you if you
watch the postseason where the dude was down twenty four nothing,
ten nothing, ten points in the fourth quarter and wins

(01:02:16):
the Super Bowl after he just won the m v P,
It's like come on, guys. It's like it's it's not
even a competition. There's the number one. It should just
be like who's fighting for number two? Right? Like? And honestly,
I watched the clip on Twitter of Patrick Mahomes as
you know, when he came in fourth, and I think
it was Mike Daniels, the former d tackle for the Packers,

(01:02:37):
was like bass him, who do you think should be
number one? He like, are you serious? Like is this
a question? You know? It's like that guy, And even
Zeke Stefan Gilmore, who's the best quarter in the league,
was like, yeah, I mean Patrick Mahomes best player in
the league, Like, are we serious? What are we talking about?
I don't, I don't, I don't know. I don't know
what how how it worked out otherwise, but whatever, It's

(01:02:58):
just it's just a top honor thing. Let's act like
it's it's it's written in stone, doohn middle coffee. But
it's also why we don't take like sometimes the players
thoughts on this stuff as serious as we do with
the coaches and the GM because they're just they're not
always the best scout slash like they're too emotionally involved.
I think sometimes I think some of that. I think
some of that is the pushback over this narrative that

(01:03:20):
people want to move to wide receiver, which is a
bit of a false narrative, right, um, But I think
it's that like it's like like you'll get people like,
oh man, he he was drafted solo, like he was
taken in the first round. And by the way, the
Ravens passed on him their first time around. You know,
so like all these teams missed like yeah, okay, it

(01:03:40):
was the first round pick, like Cousins went in the
fourth round, Doc went in the fourth round, Brady went
in the sixth round. Romo is not drafted, Like, let's
not kill her kid ourselves. He's still sometimes sometimes I
get offended. Offended might be the wrong word, but just
like a pet peeve of mine was a guy, this guy,
this guy tumbled in the draft, like Michael Thomas tumbled
in the draft. He went in the second round. You know,

(01:04:00):
it's like the second round is still pretty good. There
are a lot of guys in other positions that push
you down. You go in the second round of the
NFL draft. This isn't the NBA. You're viewed is clearly
one of the best players in the world. Right, It's not.
It's one thing to be an undrafted free agent or
even Tom Brady. Like you go on the second day
of the NFL Draft, the NFL is telling you they
think you're a baller. John milcofar guest in the doug

(01:04:23):
Ot Leap Show. Okay, Antonio Brown, if you're a team,
you gotta be a playoff team. Begin to sign him, right.
You don't have him for and he's he's a knucklehead,
he's he's one tweet away from being out of the league.
You know, people will say, Baltimore, I think that'd be
a disaster because of the not just what you're talking
about with Lamar is the thrower, but just the volume
of opportunities to get you know, guys like that, they

(01:04:45):
want the ball all the time. He's a hundred and
thirty hundred forty a year target a year guy. So
in a pro rade season that seventy targets he ain
getting seventy targets with with the Ravens. On the other hand,
with the Seahawks, he could very well get targets and
half a season. Yeah, my take on this is pretty simple.
I knew people with the Raiders that were around him

(01:05:07):
on a daily basis, and it was crazy. I'm out, Doug,
And I think Antonio Brown non quarterbacks, probably like a
top five player in the last like twenty years. Like
he's incredible, but that just I I can't do it.
I would not mess with him, especially in a Corona year.
I can't. I can't do it. And he's it's not

(01:05:28):
because of his talent. I mean they've had some they've
had some nuts up in Seattle. This guy is a
different breeze. Yes, I got it. He's also a wide receiver,
which you know it's he got Pete Carrolly. He's a
wide receiver. He got Russell. I just I would struggle
to do it. And I get it. He's like a
little kid. He got in trouble and was he done.

(01:05:49):
He's piled around with Russell and Tom and Lamar like
he's he's on his best behavior. We've seen this before
and then he flips the switch and then all of
a sudden in this year, if you gave me non Corona,
I'd be like, yeah, listen, I'm sometimes you gotta just
be al Davis, right and just take some shots. And
if you're not paying them any money. You can get
rid of them, but this year, I I can't have

(01:06:11):
that headache when everything else we're dealing with. I gotta
think about every day. You know, you're hearing a lot
of these coaches talk about it. It's just the is
the effort they're gonna have to have on their younger players,
you know, with help of their veteran guys, to just
be You can't screw around this season like they could
ruin it. Right. We see what the Marlins like. They
went out and the young players. I don't even blame

(01:06:31):
them because they go well, I can't even get sick.
I'm bored. I don't I'm not single. Like what am
I gonna do? But you're gonna need those guys to
be focused, and then you're gonna spend all your effort
doing that and like teaching those guys on top of
trying to get ready and then dealing with Antonio. I
just I don't know, man. I I think DK is
a baller. Uh. They still got Tyler Lockett, they got
the tight end, they got Hurts coming back. I actually

(01:06:55):
think their offense should be just pretty good on paper
without them, I think DK could make a pretty step
and be like an eighty catch guy. This season, how
much does Jamal iteams help their defense a lot, just
because I mean, Pete Carroll's baby is dbs uh that
they thrived with, you know, versatile physical safeties when they

(01:07:15):
were kind of at the top of the mountain right
with kind of and he's a he's not earl coverage wise,
but he's a combination of the two of them. I
think Cam was like a true box safety. This guy
is more fluid in space, but he's not a you
wouldn't call him like a lockdown cover guy, but he's functional.
But his ability to just play like a like a
hybrid linebacker. And let's face it, like like you said,

(01:07:36):
they do, they do are used to crazy guys, but
to me, they're used to like crazy guys that are
kind of under control, like like Richard Cam, like guys
that are focused, and I think that is Jamal And
that's why I think for them, they're like, yeah, you
could say, we paid you know, a buck twenty five
on the dollar, but we need that he's our type guy.
And we got Russell Wilson the peak of his powers,

(01:07:58):
let's say, for the next two or three years, is
what are we doing. We don't hit on many first
round picks anyway. We make the playoffs every year and
we're drafting in the mid twenties. We don't even like
those picks. It to me, people overreact like trading first
rounders when your team's a playoff team all the time
because those picks. Unless you for the Jets, it is

(01:08:18):
refreshing to see them run by a professional. I completely
get like they can't turn down that offer. I mean,
they have to do it. But I think sometimes we
act like Seattle just gave up the farm, you know.
I mean we look at where they're drafting every year. Now,
if Russell ever got hurt and that pick becomes a
top ten pick, then Joe Douglas didn't just make a
great trade. He made a his store, you know, franchise changer,

(01:08:39):
probably right, And you can always trade. The other thing
you can do is like look at the Bills this year.
They traded what like pick twenty two for digs. So
you can use that capital to then trade for a player, yeah,
or or you have two first round picks, you can
use it to get to move up. Might not have
to I might not have to move up the Joey
Bosa contract too much. Uh. I thought the Miles Garrett

(01:09:03):
contract was too much. Like he got a hundred million dollars.
And I've heard Daniel Jeremiah say this, he might have
said it on your show one day when I was
driving around, that he's like the most talented player in
the league, you know, at his position. He was not
like when Khalil and Aaron Donalds got paid, they had
pelts on the wall, like defensive player of the year, unstoppable,

(01:09:24):
and I think Joe's closer to that. I had no
problem giving Joey Bosa more than Khalil Mack, but why
did the Browns give him? Like they kind of skewed
the market. Myles Garrett was not worthy of making more
in Khalil Mack, especially after he gets suspended and everything
that happened. Like, and I think he's a fantastic player,
but he got historic money. Now to me, Joey, I
like Joey a lot um you know, yeah, it's it's

(01:09:48):
a lot of money, man. He's he's more of I
thought always thought he was kind of more of a
power guide and like the one thing his brother has
a little more fluid around the edge, probably closer to
like I wouldn't say von Miller, but he's more a
little like that Bendy than than Joey is just powerful.
And sometimes with power guys, when it's on, it looks
like they're just wrecking the entire game, like Joey looks
or Khalil looks. But when it's off, you're like, where

(01:10:08):
is this guy? You know what's he doing? Because you
can't just even bad tackles, you can't run over three
pounders every single play Middlecoff, great stuff, dude, keep Harman
in line. Have a good week at playing golf this weekend.
What's what's the weekend plans? They're just probably hanging out,
maybe a little nine holes tomorrow, you know, Sunday chilling. Nothing,
you know, just Corona life. You know nothing much. You
don't legit, don't get out at all. Huh Well, I mean,

(01:10:31):
I know, I go I go out, I mean dinners
or whatever. But I mean there's nothing. There's not that
much to do, you know, I can. I'm kind of limited.
We don't have the beach where I live. I play
a lot of week golf. I do a lot of
damage during the week. Right now, there you go, that's good.
Save you some money too, all right, good good catching
up the three and Outs the podcast, John Middlecoff, Great dude,
thanks so much, Middleoff. Wait a minute, speaking of three

(01:10:53):
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the Buccaneers signing Leshawn McCoy Tampa Bay to the Super Bowl.
Is not crazy. It's not crazy. And I'll tell you why.
Think about the teams that are supposed to block them.
Seattle bad, old line, worst d line, Philadelphia like him,

(01:12:00):
But Carson Wentz can he stay healthy? Green Bay got
out gained last year. Vegas and Fox bat have them
winning three fewer games this year. Saints Drew Brees is
forty one. They don't throw the ball vertically. Do you
know only two teams scored more last year than Tampa,
Baltimore and San Francisco. That was it, And that was
with the interceptions that jamis how many points did they

(01:12:22):
give away? Just think about who do you think would
be in their way? San Francisco that's reasonable, right, Like
like we know Baltimore in Kansas City, they go play
a lot in next ten years. San Francisco is fair.
San Francisco and Tampa meat and Tampa's got home field advantage.
Just say it out loud, Tom Brady, Jimmy Garoppolo, Brady's

(01:12:45):
got better weapons and is at home? Really is that crazy?
It's it's not crazy. Um he left several teams out.
Dallas Cowboys were never mentioned. We all know that they're
talented team. Minnesota Vikings weren't mentioned very very a talented team. Um,
I could also go not just to the Niners, but

(01:13:07):
um you know, anybody in the in the NFC West
is a threat, including the Rams, might be in rebuild mode,
might not, though they wouldn't mean the playoffs or the
Arizona Cardinals. Like the NFC is loaded, loaded, and the
Atlanta Falcons A lot of Falcons are a good team
who they have to play twice and there's no real

(01:13:27):
training camp, brand new team, and there's no home field
advantage if there's no crowds at games, like that's a
bit of a oversight there, And there is the there
is the off chance that Jamis Winston is actually better
than tom Brady in this offense, like we go crazy
with ting, like tom Brady was is awesome, He's had

(01:13:48):
an amazing career. He was not awesome last year. Was
some of it the surrounding personnel, sure, but some of
it is tom Brady is in his forties and you're
not as good in your forties as you were in
your thirties. Just not so I he could could it happen? Yes?
Are they the favorites? Nope, no training camp. You can

(01:14:11):
use zoom calls, you're blue in the face. You can
throw on a on a field in Tampa, you know,
and get kicked off because you're tim You know that
nobody knows you as much as you want. Doesn't mean
a super Bowl team you make. So Drew Brees, Drew Brees,
Alvin Kamara, Michael Thomas home, I'm missing. They signed somebody

(01:14:34):
a wide receiver to all on the opposite side, they
said they who else did they sign? I mean, like, look,
the Saints are stacked, dude. Um, we also don't know.
I mean, obviously Brady is not opting out. We don't
know col dudes are opting out of what it all
looks like. But I'm not hating on them. He just
he's not normally what that offense looks like in terms
of throwing the ball downfield. He did not have a

(01:14:56):
great year. We don't know what this season looks like,
and we don't know what that team looks like. A
they haven't gotten together yet, so it's not a crazy statement.
The Nets playing with some G League dudes and some
dudes off the street are getting stomped by the Atlanto Magic.
That was a pretty easy bet. Portland and memphisis one
actually has playoff implications potentially is a four point game.

(01:15:18):
Portland's winning here early in the game Nurkics back in
our Nurkers was out, and they get Nurkics back. They
get Zach Collins back as well. Both were injured. Had
the season gone to its normal length, Winta played, but
because of four months the COVID now they're planning coming next.
Speaking of the return of the NBA, there was a

(01:15:38):
message sent by one of the Lakers last night. How
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(01:16:01):
Sons all over the Wizards, as you may have heard
from Dan Buyer Magic just crush the Brooklyn Nets G
League team UM, which is kind of interesting in Orlando
playing in Orlando but nobody there, and they're playing in
a different Orlando arena than where they normally play. That's

(01:16:22):
gotta be the weirdest thing, right, You live in Orlando,
but you can't be at your house. You've gotta be
at Disney in order to play in Orlando and not
in your arena. So am I the only one who's like,
I'm not going out licking the pavement, and I wear
a mask when I go out. But I'm still seeing
people rock the the quarantine beards. I'm watching, Uh, Chris

(01:16:47):
Rose and Kevin Millar, they got the quarantine beards. Are
quarantine beards over feels that way, feels that way inside.
The NBA is up and on. We'll keep you updated
on all the games. As it's like the n c
A tournament. Dalkoff join this last hour. It's very much
like the n c term work. Games go on throughout
the day and we're at HALFTI or at halftime of

(01:17:09):
portlanden Memphis back from Orlando in a minute on the
Blazers radio network. Right anyway, Um, the Lakers won last night.
This is Lebron talking about taking over the game late
on the offensive end. I love having the ball in
my as, you know, late in the game, tie, game
being down, being up. You know, we had a bet

(01:17:32):
at three coming game like fourty seconds ago. We gotta um,
you know, a great look for Danny. He missed it.
Paul George came back and hit it, hit it three
to tie the game. And for me just trying to
be aggressive, you know, I feel like I got some
contact at the elbow, you know, by by Marcus Morris.
They didn't call it, but you know, like you know,
like he was told he was a kid to start
playing basketball. There's no whistle you keep playing on. So

(01:17:53):
I was able to follow him up the shot and uh,
you know, put us up and put us up for good. Yeah,
it's the old Dominiquilkins, right, throw it out the backboard,
years off and then lay the ball in. That's that's
what Lebron had last night. But what's missing? Right? What
what's what's missing? Elite perimeter defense? Well you kind of
have some of that, but how about another shotmaker, another

(01:18:14):
ball handler? Like you watch that Laker team and you're like, yeah,
something's missing there. Kyle Kuzm was supposed to be a
starter by now he is not, although he played well
last night. If you can throw Kusma out there with
Anthony Davis, with Lebron James and then whether it's you know,
Contavious Callwell, Pope or maybe j R. Eventually, but not

(01:18:36):
having a point guard and having Avery Bradley chilling at home.
It's problematic. You look at the Lakers, and if I'm Lebron,
I would be furious, furious because Avery Bradley said, well,
you know, you're my kids. I gotta kid like. Look, dude,
the bubble is the safest place to NBA bubble is

(01:18:59):
the safest place America to be, period. Period. It is
the safest place to be. They haven't had a positive
test in uh in weeks, which you can't say that
about any other place with that many people in America.
So the NBA bubble is actually safer than being at home.

(01:19:22):
And oh yeah, by the way, your team needs you
and you have a chance to win a championship. For
Lebron James and it clearly matters to him, That's why
he was guarding Kawhi Leonard late, not switching off on
ball screens as much as he could. All Right, wherever's
the ball, Paul George has it, I'll guard him, Kauai
has it, I'll guard him. I'll guard anybody anytime, anywhere.
Because I'm Lebron James, I really want to win this thing.

(01:19:43):
And that's what happened with Lebron. But make no mistake.
You put Avery Bradley on that team. It's a completely
different lineup and a better one because of it. So um,
you know, this is not me saying that I don't
like some of their guards. Oh, it's me saying they

(01:20:08):
don't have a starting caliber point guard who can shut
down other teams point guard. And oh yeah, by the way,
you can stay away from the ball and make shots.
And Avery Bradley was making shots before he shut it
down for the year. You know, you go back to
their last his last month of this season, he was
playing his best basketball, maybe of his NBA career, but
definitely of his Laker career, and that wasn't really close.

(01:20:28):
So um, I'm I'm at a little bit of a
loss for for the Lakers. I know they wanted the game.
I know Lebron competed exceptionally hard, exhaust himself talked about
it and I g or whatever. I like watching the game.
I think lebrono getting better shape. So to a Kauai,
Lebron was probably the fourth best player on the floor
most of the game last night, But when it counted,

(01:20:53):
he hit, he hit the big follow up and he
got the big stop. And that sometimes is all you
have to do is the you know, as the as
the alpha of the league. And then he had the
Zion situation, which is weird. Played fifteen minutes, scored thirteen points.
But they say he's not being held back because of conditioning.
He wants to play more. He's not playing more. He

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has only played four, five on five four times since
quarantine started. That just seems bizarre. This was NBA inside
of Ben Gulliver earlier in the show, talking about the
weird circumstances with Zion. Look, I'm confused. I don't really
know what's been going on with Zion. I mean, they
had four months off and looked like he was in

(01:21:37):
great shape before he got down here. He leaves the
bubble basically for two weeks, and it comes back. They
don't put him through full contact practice as part of
the ramp up to get him on the court. They
call him a game time decision. They don't want to
put him into that game until like an hour before
it started, and then he only plays fifteen minutes and
then sits out down the stretch. I mean, all of
that is very very weird. Their messaging on it has

(01:21:57):
been strange. You know, he felt like he was ready
to play more and he was almost grateful that they
put him out there. So clearly there's some sort of
under the table kind of conversations going on about is
he cleared to play by the medical guys or not.
I mean, I don't get it, and I'm stunned that
that's where they're at. Um me too, me too? Really

(01:22:20):
sundus for that, like stunned, stunt. I mean, look, he
had four months off and supposedly was in great shape,
and then they were still kind of holding him back.
It's like either they know he's super super brittle or
he falls out of shape faster than any human being
that we're told is some freak athlete. What are we

(01:22:45):
doing here? He's not. It's not like he's coming off
and a kill his tenant injury, not coming off of
an A C L injury. You know, they were really
cautious to him coming off. He had the knee injury
in college, he had an injury last summer in summer league,
that played nineteen NBA games, and then they and then
we were all shut down for four months. His body

(01:23:06):
should be fine. He's only twenty years old. Like he's
malleable and yet they're not handling him as such. Maybe
he's their prize possession and the last thing they want
to do is be the guy who screws it up
and plays him too much in a season that doesn't
mean anything to anybody around there. Or maybe they're telling

(01:23:27):
us exactly what we think they're telling us, which is
Zion is great, but he falls out of shape quick.
He gets heavy really quick, and when he gets heavy,
that's when he's like to get hurt. And we're just
not gonna play him if he's gonna be heavy, or
we'll play him very very limited minutes. So it's a
it's a weird deal. Hey, we we invited the Pelicans

(01:23:48):
so they would bring Zion. We invited the Pelicans because
Zion is the TV watch. He's the one you drew.
Holiday is a tremendous player that probably doesn't get the
respect he deserve IRVS. But Zion is the TV draw
and you're playing fifteen minutes. Really, major League Baseball is
in danger of being shut down? Who's the blame? We'll

(01:24:11):
discuss next. Be sure to catch the live edition of
The Doug Gottlieb Show weekdays at three p m. Easter
noon Pacific. This from Jeff Passon. Major League Baseball Commision
Rob Bamford told the Major League Baseball Players Association executive
director Tony Clark today that if the sport doesn't do
a better job managing the coronavirus, it could shut down
for the season. Sources for me with the conversation told

(01:24:31):
Passing the league and his players recognized the coming days
are critical following the outbreak of the Miami Marlins, in
which eighteen players and two coaches of tested positive for
COVID nineteen two positive tests by the St. Louis Cardinals
players on Friday, exasperate exasperated UH concerns inside the sport
about the presidence of coronavirus, whether players are following MLB's
protocols are being followed properly to prevent outbreaks similar to Miami's.

(01:24:56):
Do you guys see that the Marlins players are being
bust back to Miami from Philadelphia? I like the bus, right,
Do you think that is Roma's, Uh, Philly's multiplied by four.
I'd say in a bus like six hours, six hours
Philly to Miami. It's a very high speed bus. I

(01:25:20):
believe Keanu Reeves is driving it. Do I need to
buy you a map. Dude. Well, I figured it was
a long I did. I figured it was long, but
I thought six would be long enough. I know it's long,
it's not short. I understand that. I buy it without looking.
Did you guys know the new census came in one
five billion people? I do think. Oh, the d ot

(01:25:44):
of South Carolina is calling my phone. You could go
a hundred and fifty five miles per hour in that state,
so maybe John is correct. You can still couldn't make
it in six hours. It was a joke. I didn't
do the math quickly. Um do you know how to miles?
But you shot that phone? Seriously, we're on a delay

(01:26:05):
in the hallway, so they um can I can? I
just throw this point in there because I had a
buddy back in Wisconsin who moved to Miami, South Florida,
and he told me, and this blew my mind that
the halfway point was Atlanta, Like, don't realize how Florida?
Like Florida's a pen hid. Yeah, So that's so that's

(01:26:27):
you know, it's a it's a long ways. I mean, look,
that's what you have, A broken protocol exactly, all right?
Put him on the Hound spot on it. Doug John
Hayman had a report saying, like the yesterday, and it's
not John's fault, he's just getting the information, but saying,
like some of the Marlins players are becoming frustrated and

(01:26:47):
are testy because they're being locked up in a hotel. Okay,
whose fault is that? Probably your own or your teammates,
you know, you know the deal. You wanna take a
guess on how many miles it is? Uh miles? I
would say, Um, it's a it's a it's a bit much,

(01:27:07):
but you ever shot it by a little bit? What
do you got there? Music? I guess, uh yeah, you're
almost almost nailed it. One thing. I mean, this is
just from Philly to Miami, so you might actually he
did exact from stadium to stadium one thousand, one nine
two miles, so you know, I mean you're stopping, but

(01:27:30):
without stopping seventeen hours, thirteen minutes right now, there's a
little bit almost was at least close at the close
to seven seventeen seventeen. Here's the funny thing about it.
Like the miles, part of it is the tough Like
I would have think I would have been much better
on a ballpark of time wise to get there, but

(01:27:52):
to do it like in miles, it is tricky. I
mean that's got us. Isn't that what you like? If
driving to Denver, Doug, wouldn't you be like how long
does it take you? You're like, I have no idea
how many miles? But I could probably get there. And
you know, how long do you think it take you
to get to Denver Roughestate without looking from here from well,

(01:28:13):
we used to go to Colorado all the time and
it took us two days. So doesn't help John, we're
talking about just driving straight there. I think I think
it would take seventeen What do you what do you got? Ryan?
Are we going from right from this location? I'll say
fifteen and a half? Fifteen and a half. I will

(01:28:35):
go under both. Okay, I'll go under both. Now obviously
traffic is part of it, which I don't know if
we'd we didn't really discuss. But okay, from from where
we are here to Denver, Colorado, I don't want walking directions. Wait,
what did you say, Ryan? Fifteen and a half and
what did you guys say? Wow, you guys are right

(01:28:56):
set sixteen and a half. Well, I drove it when
I moved out here, Like my longest stretch was just
west of Denver, like Breckon Ridge, like that area, and
then I got to it was like a fifteen hour
day of driving and I got to San Bernardino. Um, okay,
so it's it's roughly a thousand miles. Do you guys

(01:29:16):
do the divide by sixty? Thing? Is that how you
usually find out how long it takes? Because I who
drives sixty miles on on a nurse date? Well, that
was That's what I was saying with the miles, Like
I'm surprised that I was so off because I would
have thought that Philly to Miami probably would have been,
you know, fourteen hours or something like. Here's here's what
I find to be amazing. Like people are blaming Rob Manford.

(01:29:39):
I had a conversation with the with an agent uh
the other day and he was like, yeah, everybody's blaming
Rob Manford, Like what what do you know? The conversation
between Manfred and Clark was not a threat. It was
a reality check, and it's spread quickly among them. We
all of us is from Jeff Pass and I need
to clean this up because if we don't Major League
Baseball two thousand twenties gonna be over like we we

(01:30:01):
do this all the time. This is this is raising
children in two thousand twenty, kid gets in trouble, parent
calls principle to talk about the teacher. I get there
are teachers that step out of line, absolutely, But in truth,
whatever happened to the kid has to be accountable for

(01:30:21):
his actions. You know, you know Rob Manford go spread?
Did Rob Manford break protocol? Did he go spread the coronavirus?
You're a grown man. Take some accountability in your health
and the healthier suppose. And by the way, that's the
same thing I said about Lou Williams. I guess just
because it's wings at a at a strip club, it's

(01:30:43):
the same thing. You can't do it. You know the protocols.
You where you're supposed to go, not supposed to go.
When you go somewhere you're not supposed to go, you
you increase the likelihood of contracting COVID nineteen and costing
your sported season and costing a lot of people a
lot of money. That's selfish. Fox Sports Radio has the
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It is fun to watch Hoops like man, this show
just moves. Can we start to get some of these
guys right when they're done? We need to talk to
lead and get some of these guys when they're right
done playing. Watching Steve Clifford do his press conference. Obviously

(01:31:27):
the press conferences are doing being done virtually. I still
don't understand why Rachel Nichols is doing her show with
a mask on anybody. It doesn't make any sense. Everybody's
past the test of the day, right they get when
they get tested all the time. Nobody's failed to test.
No one's near her, she's wearing a mask. I don't know.

(01:31:49):
But the big thing is Hoops is back. Chris Poussar
joins us. Of course, you can hear him on the
Odd Couple with Crazy Uncle Rob Parker. Chris, your your
biggest takeaway Lakers Clippers in in Warrantine. Uh was what well, Doug?
I going into that game? I had said on on
Undisputed with Skipper Shannon. Then I thought it was basically

(01:32:12):
a must win for the Lakers, you know, assuming they
played everybody regular minutes and they went out and tried
to win. I felt like the seriousness which they had approached,
you know, the bubble, Lebron was showing great leadership. Lebron
looked like he was in great shape, and the Clippers,
on the other hand, had guys leaving the bubble left
and right. They were without mine trans Harold lou Williams

(01:32:35):
pat dev was limited to sixty minutes, sixteen minutes. You know.
I just felt like, if the Lakers could not beat
the Clippers under those circumstances, then why in the world
what I think They're gonna beat them in a seven
game series? And so I thought the Lakers had to
win that now. I thought they win by nine or more. Um,

(01:32:55):
it was a lot tougher than I expected for him,
but they did pull it out. So I think psychologically
it gives them something to believe in. And I thought
for them, if I'm a Lakers fan, I thought the
most the thing they could be most optimistic about was
that Lebron James defended I mean, he showed that when
he really wants to, he still could defend Kawhi Leonard

(01:33:19):
and Paul George, and he locked them both down. He
like Kauai down on a few possessions, uh and then uh. Offensively,
even though he wasn't very good all night, in the
fourth quarter, he was very good. Seven points to assist.
Both of them are three pointers. Obviously, the two drives

(01:33:39):
late if you want to count the putback for the
game winners a drive in the last minute and a
half and go back to March when they beat the
Clippers for the first time this season. Same thing for
Lebron twelve points in the fourth quarter. So if I'm
a Laker fan and I'm looking for reasons to believe,
that's when I'm look before I know the Dion Waiters

(01:34:01):
was surprised to be good. Can he content do that consistently?
I don't know. Um Alex Caruso played well. I think
he can do that consistently. And Kuzmo played well and
looked a little more dialed and defensively than usual. So
there's thing reasons to feel good if you're a Laker fan.
But if I'm a Clipper fan or a guy that

(01:34:22):
picked the Clippers like I did, then I have no
reason to not be optimistic that they would win that serious,
especially they're gonna add two more rotation guys. Exactly, they
lost basically forty points. And if you look at it, Doug,
last night, the bench was the I mentioned Waider's Caruso Kuzma.
Their bitch really outplayed the Clippers bench. And while the

(01:34:44):
Clippers starters out played the Lakers for the most part.
And so, um, that's not gonna happen in the regular
you know, when they have their full complimented players. Christophers
started joining us stuck outlip show here on Fox Sports Radio. UM,
I'm interested to see how much these guys played. Do
you think they'll limit the minutes or do you think
they'll give guys like Kauai and Lebron one or two

(01:35:05):
of these eight games off? Well, I definitely think Kauai
is gonna get and I think you'll probably play six games. Um,
I think Lebron I would I would bet Lebron sits
out of the game too. UM. I was happy that
both of them, both teams really went out and played,
you know, guys regular minutes. Yesterday, I was surprised at

(01:35:27):
times that Doc had both Paul George and Kawhi Leonard
off the floor. I mean, to me, one of the
great things about having those two guys that you can
always have one up on the floor for the most part.
But I definitely think with the Clippers you'll see a
little low management. The interesting thing with them though, is
that they you saw it last night that even though
they obviously had the chance to win, their offense did

(01:35:49):
look disjoint it at times, especially early on, I thought,
and and at times it looks like a lot of ice.
So for Kauai and so I just I think they
need to play together, uh when they get their you know,
other guys back. But but Reggie Jackson and Marcus Morris too,
While Lou Harold and sham It, you know, most of

(01:36:13):
their guys know their roles. Um, Marcus and Reggie, I
don't know if they know their role because those are
two guys that like to shoot, and they're like, you know,
and and so they've gotta like I wouldn't be surprised
if when they get their full cast, if Reggie Jackson
is not even playing much or at all. You know,
that's how deep they are. And so I think they've

(01:36:33):
got to get acclimated to all that, because you don't
want any of these guys causing problems or being because
they're upset. They're not playing a lot or getting enough shots,
and they're taking shots from the stars. So I do
think the Clippers need time on the floor together. Christophers sorry,
joining us, you get hear his time on the floor

(01:36:54):
with Rob Parker or the odd couple starts at seven
o'clock West Coast time, ten o'clock East Coast time every
night here I'm sorry. Uh wait, yeah wait, starts at
seven o'clock East Coach done and then finishes at right.
Starts at four o'clock West Coast Friday, brain fried A
little bit do in my head? Um anyway, okay, let

(01:37:18):
me get do a couple other couple of other little
little thing. He's, Um, what do you think of of
what the Knicks decided to do? Like? I like Tips
and he's but he is kind of old school. He
did well with Chicago, it didn't work running everything in Minnesota.
Is this the guy that fixes the Knicks? Yeah? I

(01:37:39):
think you and I have similar thoughts on Tips. Look,
obviously was great in Chicago, and when he went to Minnesota,
I thought it was a great higher um and he
didn't do well there. He had you know, he had
the one season they were okay, but for the most
part he did it was a failure. And I you,
if you want to believe in Tims, you can try
to say, Okay, maybe he wasn't cut out to be

(01:38:01):
the president and the coach. You know, DC Rivers was
struggling as the president and the coach with the Clippers.
Now he's just the coach. He's done better, So you
can look at it that way, and there may be
some truth to that. Knowing Tips, he's a coach. I mean,
I don't see Tims as an executive. He's a coach.
Uh So maybe that's something that that the Knicks can
look you know, optimistically about. The thing that that is

(01:38:23):
baffling though, and that that I do have question marks about,
are is you know, Tims was tremendous defensively in Chicago.
He goes to Minnesota and his team is horrific defensively,
I mean, one of the worst in the league every
year he was there. And so it makes me wonder, Okay,
has the game did it pass him by? You know,

(01:38:46):
because Tips and in saying with Jeff Van Gundy, that
whole group their their defensive philosophy was packing the paint.
Don't let teams get in the paint and force the three.
And now though, of course teams want to shoot the three,
and so is I know, I'm sure he shifted in Minnesota,

(01:39:07):
but was he not able to do it well? And
so that's the thing that gives me a little bit
of pause is why were they so bad? And he Look,
if you want to say Wiggins doesn't have a motor
Carl Anthony Towns, people say it's soft, okay, but still
Tims was able to get it out of guys in
Chicago and he wasn't able to do that in Minnesota.

(01:39:29):
So I look, it's Tims. Is that Those are my
questions about it. I can't rip the higher because obviously
he had success. But do I think that the Knicks
are all of a sudden gonna be a really formidable team? No? Uh,
And I wouldn't be surprised in a few years this

(01:39:49):
this is looking like it's it didn't work. Um, How
confident is Milwaukee that they'll hold onto? Honest? I think
they feel good. I think you know, Yannice, isn't that
you know, He's not like these kids growing up in
America on the auth circuit. You know, he's not like
I gotta play with this group of guys and my friends,

(01:40:11):
or I gotta be in a big city. So I
I think they have a solid chance. What I could
see happening Doug because obviously ultimately he wants to win,
and so I could see if they don't win it
this year and say they don't get to the finals,
they get to the finals, I think they can. He
can look at it like, Okay, we're there. Next year
is about winning it, um. But if they don't get

(01:40:33):
to the finals, then I could maybe see him signing.
Remember what Lebron did with Cleveland, he gave he signed
a shorter deal than he had to. I think it
was three years and then he'd be able to get
out after seven total, and that's what he did. So
I could see Yannice instead of signing the full long
term deal, maybe gives Milwaukee a couple more years to,

(01:40:56):
you know, see if they can win it and put
what he wants, what he needs a round him and
then if they can't in in the number of years,
then maybe he looks elsewhere. So but I think they
I think they're still very much in the driver's seat
Chris Bruce are joining us here on the Doug Otlip
Show on Fox Sports Radio. Who do you think the

(01:41:17):
Lakers want to see in that eight spot? I would
say Memphis because of the lack of experience. They obviously
don't have as much talent as some of the other teams.
John Moran is terrific, but you know he's working wonders
with the team. It's okay, but you know, not wildly talented.

(01:41:37):
New Orleans. You know, you've obviously got the revenge factor
on the part of those young kids. Not that they
would beat the Lakers, but they you know, with their athleticism,
with those kids that you know, being excited about playing
their former team, they could make it a little tougher
than you want in the first round, and they want
to run you up and down the floor, where I
don't think the Lakers want to do. And then with

(01:41:59):
Port and you know, you got Dame, you got c
J had even Mellow, So you've got veterans who can
get hot and maybe get a game or two. So
I think Memphis is clearly the team you'd rather see
out of those three. Chris Prus sorry joining us, um
this is fun. I like the I like the games
all day like this is it is like it was

(01:42:21):
almost like the March Maddens too right, you always find
a game to watch. Yeah, not as not as not
necessarily you're not not not not the urgency, but still
still great. Hey, have a safe weekend. We appreciate you
join us. Can't wait to hear you on the Odd
Couple coming up in about an hour and a half.
That's the one and only Chris Brussard along with Rob Parker.

(01:42:44):
They do the Odd Couple four o'clock in the west,
seven o'clock on the east. This this uh, people blaming
Rob Manfred for guys not following protocol. And you can
sit here and go like, well, they haven't said specifically
who didn't fall protocol or what they actually did. Like
they put out a notice yesterday saying make sure you

(01:43:04):
follow protocol and they basically put an r A in
everybody's dorm. So they're telling you they believe guys broke protocol.
That's what they're telling Coming up next, we're gonna get
to the press and uh oh, I like this. I
like this story. I like that story. I like a

(01:43:24):
superstar making an NFL comeback story. That's next be sure
to catch the live edition of The Doug Gottlieb Show
weekdays at three p m. Easter noon Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio. Ah app let's
get to the press, the press. I always pinched buyer
on time. Now he's got plenty of times. We'll have

(01:43:46):
some ya yak at the end. And I saw Bruce
start on the rundown and I'm like, all right, good,
I'll just do a short one today. No, I'm kidding. No,
We've got a bunch. You've talked about this about twenty
five minutes ago. But for those that may just be
joining us, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred gave a
message to the Players Association executive director Tony Clark, saying

(01:44:08):
that the players don't do a better job managing the pandemic,
he could be forced to shut the season down. Not
exactly your interpretation, but that he could shut the season down.
I have some numbers in from Major League Baseball. I
mean it's a it's a threat, it's a legit threat. Um.
I would guess that he got a report that the Marlins. Yeah.

(01:44:32):
Scott Miller, who you had on earlier this week, just
tweeted out that. Yeah, the Marlins went out, went to
the hotel restaurant, and a lot of a lot of
people in Major League Baseball are not happy now. Major
League Baseball and the Union did release their latest COVID
nineteen testing results, twenty nine positive tests out of almost
eleven thousand, nine hundred tests this past week ending yesterday.

(01:44:54):
Twenty one of those twenty nine positive tests came from,
from what the release said, one club we know it
as the Miami Marlins. Yeah, and then there's a couple
of the phillies that were related to that suspected Cardinals
as well at a couple of positives, but just outside
of those numbers, I think, Look, his threat is because
because the Marlins did something they're not supposed to, which

(01:45:16):
is what we're telling you. Like, look, their protocols are
not as strict as a bubble, but that means you
have to follow them with more vigilance. And it doesn't
mean that no one would get sick. You have to
expect somebody's gonna get it, and this could happen again.
But it just looks bad. And then the whole way
they handled it with dom matting that well, let's just
throw out a text once you set a text meson

(01:45:38):
see if the guys want to play. Like I thought,
how it goes, we gave you a manual. Read the manual.
The remaining twenty nine clubs had the eight positives, which
consisted of two major leaguers. We believe that's the Cardinals,
one alternate site player, and five staff members. That was
the That was the breakdown from Major League Baseball. In
the release that just came down a little while ago,

(01:45:59):
you talked about the marl Ones bussing from Philadelphia back
to Miami while the Yankees are getting aro all this
Chapman he can bust into the bullpen. He's back with
the Yankees after testing previously testing positive for coronavirus. He
had two negative coronavirus test results of Chapman back with
the Yanks. So he got coronavirus, he recovered for it,
and he's back playing professional sports. I thought that. I mean,

(01:46:22):
if I read some writers out there, you get it.
It's a death sentence. Stop the sport. Yeah, I'm not patroon.
I'm not patronizing the the illness. I'm patronizing in the
way in which we like, take a breath, How bad
is it? It affects different people differently. Someone is based
upon their conditions. Someone is based upon the type of
you know, uh, the actual strength of the virus that

(01:46:43):
they get and do your best to treat it and
people will recover from it. So, um, what's the longest
bus ride you've ever taken by her? Oh? Not very far?
Maybe from Wisconsin to Minnesota down to Iowa. Yeah, so
it was, you know, just kind of along the Mississippi,
So it's not very long. What's that mean? Um? I

(01:47:05):
mean it had a bunch of stocks, but yeah, I'd say, yeah,
five seven hours music as long as bush Right, you've
ever taken much shorter than that, probably like two hours? Um? Well, look,
nowadays bus rides are not They all have WiFi, right, yeah,
WiFi like I go anywhere WiFi. But still is there

(01:47:26):
anything less comfortable then the bus chair? Now? And what
is that? What is that red material that they have?
It's almost it's like a kind of carpet they put
on the chair. Yes, do you think it's gonna be luxurious?
Looks like? Now not so much. Usually got like some
purple and bu hues in its yes, yes it does. Now,

(01:47:49):
bathroom in the back, you know, chugging along. I would
do it. I would do a bus. I want to
rent it. I want to do it. R V probably
doing in our V. When you're the parents, you have
to drive the RV. I mean of the kids to
get to be a little bit older. See here's my issue,
and not to make it about me. I know that
there's other people a year the UH WiFi or not,

(01:48:11):
motion sickness, can't read on a bus, can't read in
a car, can't do any of that stuff, not at all.
That would be Yeah, that could be. That could be
an alternative. Yeah, still still tough at times, honestly unless
they medicate and and I mean with like drama, meaner
motion sickness, not with UH. If anything else, I'd say

(01:48:32):
longest bus ride ahead, that's a good way to make
a bus ride go quickly. Longest bus ride I've ever had, John,
how five hours? How long was it from your the
courthouse back to the prison? What was that? We all

(01:48:53):
jumped out. It was it was Harvard the shackles on
did they have wife or not? The PAC twelve Conference
will hold a ten game conference only schedule for start
with U S C U C l A now Stanford
Cali first game as well. Um no, Stanford's gonna face Washington.
Arizona State will take on Arizona, but uh in in

(01:49:17):
Oregon and Oregon State won't play until week four but Saturday,
September six. League also said the conference championship game will
be held on a campus site on either December eighteenth
or the nineteenth, so pushing it back two weeks. M
uh okay, um this is funny. I got I got

(01:49:38):
a story to tell you about, guys. Go ahead, all right,
that's all right. I'll quick run through these. No Red
Box Bowl by the way this year, so uh Pack
twelve and Big ten will not have that opportunity to
go to the Red Box Bowl in the Bay Area.
Antonio Brown won't appeal his eight game ban, according to
the NFL Network. He was suspended earlier today by the
NFL for violating their personal conduct policy after their investing

(01:50:00):
gaistion into sexual assault allegations made against him. He want
to appeal at He'll just complain about it on Twitter
like he was treated unfairly. Yes. Yes, if he just
shuts down Twitter, he's got a chance, shuts sound social
Media's got a chance to back in the league. I
think I vote Seattle from him chance to win. It's
the furthest thing away from Miami, where a lot of
his problems are. And they've dealt with knuckleheads before, and

(01:50:21):
he's super talented, but a knuckle head. The Dallas Cowboys
top Forbes list of the most valuable sports franchises in
the world at five point five billion dollars billion dollars.
The Yankees were second at five billion, followed by the Knicks, Lakers,
and Golden State Warriors run billion dollars billion dollars. Our

(01:50:41):
Bomber was in the bubble yesterday. He was watching the
Clippers in Orlando against the Lakers, but Warriors runded off
the top five. Seven of the NFL's thirty two teams
were ranked in the top fifty. There we go. Um yeah,
I mean, like, look the Cowboys obviously in name, I
think it's fascinating that the Knicks are number two. It's

(01:51:02):
like three number three. Sorry, everybody hates the Nick. Nicks
are super super valuable. Warriors obviously have massively improved their value,
you know, and people like oh, Dolan's gonna forced Dolan
to sell the team, Like, first of all, he would
sell above whatever the value is, I mean to be
if h he also owns the building, and I don't
think he's selling that cash cow anytime. All right, Doug,

(01:51:24):
Before we get to your story, I'm gonna just do
a quick NBA recap of what's going on. First of all,
earlier today in Orlando, rebound erin Gord you got another
one magic the window off the glass up in we
gotta foul. This will go against Brooklyn. Count the bucket
the magic row on a rule four magic get the win.
And not only that, with their victory over Brooklyn, they're

(01:51:46):
a half game up on the nets for the seventh
spot in the Eastern Conference and you're not making the playoffs.
I can tell you that based on that roster, they've
been able to throwout that. And that's the press that
get out there and pressed. That was the press. So
there is like a speak Easy at tournament going on
this weekend. And I sent out an email or a
text to all more on my parents and it's kids

(01:52:08):
gonna be in seventh grade and I have some six
traders that play up and I'm telling you like I
have probably eighteen kids between two teams to try and
on all I need to get is I need to
see five six, preferably right. So I just got an
email from one. Sorry, we're in Big Bear until Saturday.
And Darius wrecked his bike was kind of banged up.

(01:52:29):
So I got one that's out with a bike wreck.
I got another one that broke his toe skateboarding. I
have one that's three that are on road trips, another
one that's backpacking. Things like you could just say we're out.
They didn't even know about the about the banged up
toe from skateboarding or the bike wreck. Bike wreck um

(01:52:54):
end of fifth grade, first day of summer, fifth grade,
racing bikes around my buddies neighborhood, hit some gravel going
around a turn, wasn't wearing a shirt, scraped up my
whole chest. That was That was rough summer, rough summer,
especially putting the paroxyde look. We had sports on TV,

(01:53:16):
and I think the NBA has done a really good job.
The Lakers one last night. It meant a ton to Lebron,
but I think they miss Savory Bradley. And even though
the Clippers don't have that championship experience outside of Kawai Leonard,
I do think they have more shot creators and an
equal number of shot makers. Look, it's it starts to

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build for when they base off in the Western Conference finals.
But I do think the Clippers are better. Um, but
you know, look Lebron with that championship toughness, did make
the shot after the miss and did get some stops
and showed how competitive he really is. You'll be watching
sports this weekend. You gotta balance like, oh, it's a
summer and there's a bunch of sports and the kind

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of matter on TV. Awesome, awesome, Stay safe, stay home
if you can wear a Mask's not that hard. We're
gonna have college football. It looks like and U S
C U c L a week one. Notre Dame's in
the A C. C Antonio Brown might be back in
the league, although he might innapalm himself. What a wild
and great week in sports. You missed any of the shows,
download the Doug Gotlip Show podcast or the All Ball Podcast.

(01:54:21):
Have a great weekend from everybody here at the Doug
Gotlip Show.

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