2025-06-23 EAVES

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back to Eves Sports Radio, Monday, June twenty third,
twenty twenty five. Of course, I'm still in Panama City, Panama.
It is raining like it's a typhoon. It's been raining
for the last day and a half. That's the only
disturbing thing. Beautiful view, but raining like crazy.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome back. I hope you all have had a fantastic weekend.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
I heard that Louisville hasn't got a bit of rain
ninety degrees. The summer's hit and hit hard, so I'm
kind of looking forward to that. It's warmer in Louisville
than it is here. It's humid in eighty five degrees,
but it's not hot. So anyway, back to the show.
Hope everyone's had a tremendous weekend. We've got a lot
of sports to get to. Of course, you know, I've

(00:45):
got two co hosts, and what is always late, my
younger son, Anthony Eves is with us.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
So Andy, welcome to the show.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, good morning, Welcome to EAT Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
We've been getting rained last couple of days, but it's not.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Gonnak, not the spirit out here. Honestly, we skated over more.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Rain than we thought we were supposed to here. We
were supposed to get rained almost every day. If you've
looked on the weather report, there's pretty much thunderstore is and.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Rain since we got here.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
But it held off for about the first three or
four days, so we still got to enjoy a couple
of excursions, go outside, enjoy the view. So hope we'll
we get lucky again where we could hit the beach
one day and it doesn't rain.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Today or tomorrow exactly because we're out of here on Wednesday.
But we just have to send some prayers up. But
it's been a fantastic trip. It is a fantastic city,
a international city. If you've never visited, you need to
and you need to go see the Panama Canal. We
got this other guy though, Anthony, we know this other guy.

(01:41):
He's a Shaye Gildings Alexander Fan. I have to give
him credit. I have to give George Williams credit. George Williams,
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
How are you, yes, sir? Are you sure I pick
that other reading? You guy? I know you did all
the trophies.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
You bring you alive and well I've given it to.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
You, George.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
George, I know a little bit more should.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I didn't think he'd George, George, I didn't think he'd
be this good. I told Anthony, George picked him at
the All Star Game. I said he's gonna be a
good player. But I didn't think he'd be this good.
I didn't, George. I never would have said the most
Valuable Player off that All Star Game. I would have
never thought m v P. I just would not leading score. Never.

(02:29):
I would have never said.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
That, George.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I'm being honest with you. I would have never said that.
And young kid has really really worked on his game.
He's not super athletic, super fast, He's just worked on
his game. So give him credit. He's world champion now, George.
He and Cason Wallace. You got two of them, George.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Man, Yes, sir, but but I picked this young man
when in high school. I told you was he was
teaching glass out there, and he's washed up to Kentucky
and take a job, did all of it, and then
the pros and really took over and really.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
To go, No, you did, George, this one. I'm not
gonna do you like you do me when I call
it out. You know, when I called out Feelanova.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
You won't give me my dude.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
But you did call this one out, you did giving.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
It to you. You did.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
You won't let me give you a dude jack because
you won't never let it go, so I can. I'm
not gonna let it go, George. You're not gonna let
it go for somebody.

Speaker 7 (03:20):
You go all over exactly.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Now, So congratulations. Of course, we're gonna let Anthony. You know, George,
I'm would just throw it to him now. We'll let
him give out the national news, let him go through
College World Series of course, the NBA, the NBA Draft,
which is Wednesday, George, which we'll be traveling during the
draft Wednesday night, the Travelers Championship. There's a lot to

(03:48):
get to that we're gonna let Anthony have. And then again, George,
you're only with us on Monday and Friday.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Then I would though it to you on where we start.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
I mean, we all know we're gonna start with the
NBA Finals, but still, let Anthony get the national news
out and then we'll go from there. I mean a
lot of things are going on in sports right now, George,
big draft and big trades, Kevin Durant, that'll be I'm
gonna give you my opinion on that one, boy.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Is I have to snoock up on me, Jerry, No.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I mean, just boy boom NBA drafts year. I mean
that's because everyone knows Cooper Flags won. Dallas Mavericks is
gonna be good. I mean, now Houston they're gonna be good.
I've got some questions for you and Anthony, but I'm
gonna do it to Anthony right now.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
We're at sixteen.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
I'm gonna let him just get some of the national news, George,
and we'll get into sports. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
Obviously, so we got a lot that happened over the
last couple of days, over this weekend, all the way
from golf, basketball, baseball, WNBA, you name it, we pretty
much got it.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
So obviously, the first thing we do.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Want to tap into we've been hitting for a long
time is the NCAA Baseball College World Series. LSU did
sweep Coast Carolina in a two game series.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
They've played Saturday. The first game.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
LSU won one zero in that first one. Then they
played yesterday afternoon and LSU won five to three, taking
that two to zero league championship win against Coastal Carolina,
the sixth straight time SEC team has won since the
College World Series six in a row. That's pretty impressive.
I'll say that to say the least the same, especially

(05:21):
in one sport because I've watched baseball. But one thing
I will say about baseball, there's more diversity when.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
It comes to skills.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
You'll see team from Coastal Carolina, Murray States.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
You'll see it from time to time in basketball, Cinderella stories.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Football not as much. Football is kind of just the powerhouses.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
You know, even though you're right hates me because I
said Indiana guy to my absolute luck last year, but
they did. I mean we saw when they played. They
lost by thirty against two ranked teams that they played
all season. So it's just not a surprise to me. Obviously,
we had the Travelers Championship yesterday. Keegan Bradley did win yesterday,
shooting minus fifteen at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.

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Took home three point six million dollars. Talk about life
changing four days. All it takes is golf. Golf one weekend.
You can turn into a millionaire.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Over a couple of good holes.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
But it is one I will say, it's gotta be one.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Of the hardest sports in the world.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
I love golf, but it frustrates me like no others
sometimes even though it shouldn't.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
But I love it. Then.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Obviously, everyone saw the NBA Finals last night, the Thunder
one in Game seven and one of three to ninety one,
Tyre's Holliburton tours Achilles in the first quarter, which we
all hated to see. It's just one of those championships
that do I think the Thunder would have probably beat
the Pacers in my mind, yes, But the thing is,
I can't say that I really know the outcome because
their best player was out within the first six minutes

(06:39):
and he was shooting phenomenals three for four, nine points
in seven minutes.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
I know.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
We sit there and talk about SGA, and I honestly,
I'm glad the Kentucky kid is finally doing well.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
I like SGA.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
It's just sometimes I don't.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
It's it's and it's controversial for me.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
It's play style.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
He's efficient during the regular season, he was fishing during
the playoffs. I'm just not the biggest fan of the
push off all the time because it doesn't it's not.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
A two way street for it.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
In cases, he'll sit there and push off and do
step backs all game and dislodge players and score thirty
points and shoot fifty percent from the field. And then
there's games when people don't want to be pushed around
or they don't go for the push off and he
gets bumped off and then he kind of flops and
then call the foul for him. So he goes to
the free throw line eleven to thirteen times a game
when people try to stand their ground, but if they
don't and they get dis lodged and get pushed off,

(07:23):
then he shooes wide up in fifteen footers and it's
just you gotta make it even for both sides.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
I understand that, you know.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
The offensive player does have an advantage in sports, especially
in basketball, but you can't make it almost impossible to
guard them. It's just it's just to a point where
it's just making.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
It a little bit unfair.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
I don't think it's going to continue to go this way,
but people have been complaining about it for too long
to where that.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
That's just not going to be a thing.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
I think in the next couple of years.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Hey, George, I was telling Anthony James Harden. Of course
he didn't win one, but he had a little thing
to where he was getting a lot of calls off
the dribble.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
It just happens sometimes. What do you think, George about that?

Speaker 7 (07:56):
I mean, like I think, to live in the perfect
world and the perfect things happen, and you play a
certain way, Jerry, superstars get calls. The best players get
the calls. I thought your boy ag Gilli Vanda was
getting beat up. I thought he played through it. He
never cried here, and you if you look at his handles,

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the reason he can get off like he gets off
is because he can pet that ball and he can
go where he wants to go and nobody can stop
it from going. Every now and then, yeah, he may
shove off, but everybody got pet mob. I didn't think
it was a shove off because as much as he's
getting off getting beat up, and he never complains, you
never see him talks of rufid. I'm getting really foul foul.
So if I'm gonna take your beating up, and you

(08:37):
gotta take a little something for me too. If you're
gonna get it, you gotta be ready to take it.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Is a physical game.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Here's the deal. How look at the totality fifty nine
from the field goal, tremendous field go fift thirty seven
point five from the three. This is for the season,
thirty seven to five. Any coach would take any day
in eighty nine nine from the free throw line, flat flat, dad,
Very very very good stats. Now, Anthony last night was correct.

(09:08):
I didn't look at them. I was pushing a lot
of praise the SGNA. He said, did you look at it?
I said, he was eight for twenty seven, two for twelve, George,
So I said, okay, but still Worlds champions. But I
understand the differential. I mean, what's going on is this, George?
We were reading and of course he reads a lot
of the stuff, but we were reading yesterday all the information.

(09:30):
Doesn't have anything else to do, and they were talking
about and some of the talking head's opinions was he
the worst MVP lately.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
And I'm gonna hit you all with that later on.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
I'll get in at today.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
I'm gonna get it to you. I know it, George.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
It was just on the internet because you got to
talk about things.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
George. It is.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
So I'm gonna give you the stats. I'm gonna get
into it, but we're not gonna get into it just yet.
That's another segment when we're talking about Michael Jordan goats.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
We just got into the debates and we just want
to see.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
So for me, George, I was okay, see all the
way I thought they would be O see case in Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Cleveland let me down.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
They did.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
I mean they did have three starters, missed three playoff games.
Yes they did.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
So you have to that's no team's good enough.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
If you said three starters out of OKAC was gonna
miss three playoff games, I don't think they'd have won
it either. So I'm going to give that part that
much I have to give to the Caves. But I
still thought it would be okay, see in the Calves
and I thought, okay, you would win. That was my
pick George when this started.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
So what do you think, well, Jeah, I want I
want to go back to what Andy says about to
push out two of the greatest plays in Michael Jordan's career.
People are calling the questionable about the pull out. I
mean push out us. You look at you look at Phoenix,
you look at Utah, you look at Phoenix. Yes, you
look at Cleveland A three games, you look at three Cleveland.

(10:56):
I mean that's just a move that's allowed in the NBA.
And I and this new current player just don't like
I mean plans don't like it. But the big players,
that's a move that you make all the time.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yes, the Byron Russell push off on the crossover, Yes,
with that.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
You know, if it was alive, then give me a
little comeback.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
I know it wasn't I it wasn't you name you
named to?

Speaker 4 (11:21):
You named two plays and Michael Jordan's was the weakest,
the softest push off of the century, delegated. You made it,
Shaye did it for an entire season. If you guarded Shaye,
how would you feel getting pushed off?

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Would you get pushed off?

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Would you get pushed off forty times?

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Again? Well, here's what happens. Then, This is what everyone knows.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Other coaches during the playoffs, when they have those issues,
they take the tapes to the NBA office.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
The NBA office is supposed to show.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
It to the officials, and then the officials are supposed
to evaluate it, just like they do in the game.
That's what's supposed to happen. Young Man, just we'll find out.
It's we'll find out as his career develops. Now we
got to call at George. We gotta take Bubba walking
to the sports radio.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Are you I'm good man? How you doing?

Speaker 1 (12:13):
You know? We just we always do Bubba. Well.

Speaker 8 (12:18):
The only time I call it in is on Mondays
and Fridays because I know I've got someone there with
some intelligence that can carry on the conversation.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
I know.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Don't give gonna give you your tat, Paul, I understand.
Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Hey, the first thing is damn rock and it's sham Rock. Yeah,
I can't stand.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
That's even worse when you added to Shamrocks.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
In Yeah, it's.

Speaker 8 (12:40):
But the World Series, uh, college World Series. You know
that coach got kicked out in the first inning of
the first game. He was born good times, but I
think that he should have U I'm part should have
had a little bit thicker skin, uh in the situation.

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But it is. But but my main reason is the
call is that I understand that little is going to
name the street after Tom Jersey, which is all find
and good. But what's the delay with having there. There's
no statue of west Antil anywhere. That guy with the

(13:24):
whole family, they're great. You know, I've really never met him,
but you never my mom My mother worked in the
cafeteria back years ago at Seneca. Uh, they're just great folks.
That guy's a legend basketball player. Uh here in the
city of Louisville. You know, he's an NBA rookie. Uh,
Rookie of the Year, we'll table player of the year.

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And I think he was the first one that ever
did it. I did explained to me the second Kareem was.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Kareem was first. I mean, uh, will table it was first.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
West was second.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yes, go ahead.

Speaker 8 (13:58):
But I remember as a kid going out to UFL
games and watching him play, even though I called a
couple of games at Seneca. I mean, the guy was phenomenal.
I mean, and I mean he's a guy when you
take a little bit back in the day, him or
Charlie Tyree. But I'm just curious why they haven't had.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Some for him. Let me tell you what.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
And I do know the entire family.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
I grew up next to them, Bubba from nineteen sixty nine.
On the first time I met Les until I was
in sixty nine, we moved right next to them in
Prospect and you touched the source. It's so funny. Coach
Beer was saying the same thing. I was at the
press conference last week when the mayor announced that they
were going to be naming the street after Tom Jadge,

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and I had no problem. You're with the naming of.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Streets for people. My only issue with Louisville, and I
do have an issue with them.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Is that totality, the whole truth never gets told when
they are facts that are out there, but city and
the leaders of this community won't say it.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
They just don't say it.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
So when you throw in the Western Sale Peace which
was second to Wilt Chamberlain for MVP and Rookie of
the Year. So we're talking about nineteen sixty eight, you
have a player from the city of Louisville that played
at University of Louisville with coach Beard, who came after
West because Western Sale signed with Louisville.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
And there was nothing for thirty five years.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
We know, the last fifteen years, like George says, all
schools are trying to give their players their roses before
they die. But there was nothing on that campus for
West un Sale. There was nothing in the city for
Western Sale. There was nothing anywhere other than at Seneca
High School. It just doesn't make sense, So it's a
sensitive thing with me. I have no problem with the

(15:58):
Tomsrish thing. He did a lot of great things when
he was there. I just want, when Jerry's told the
truth about what happened under his watch, that people say, yes,
it happened, and quit being mad at me.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
That's all. That just doesn't And Louis boy.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
When they want to cover up the cover up, that's
all I'm saying, that's just the fact of matter. And
if you say the truth, boy, you're gonna get the
irony like you've never seen before. So everybody gives me grief, Bubba,
because I tell him I'm a Louisville fan.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
I am.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
I think I'm the big Louisville fan in the city
because I'll stand up for what's right, and dan it
I get hilified.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
So Bubba, I'm.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Gonna turn it over to George see.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
What he has to say about that.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
But the last or you'll know, when West died, his
family said no to statues. And want everybody to understand
that his wife, his daughter, his sons, I know all
of them.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
They said no. They did not want him to be
honored in that fashion.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
I can't tell you why I'm just saying that they
did say no. Coach Beard Wade Houston, with a group
of people that were going to do something for them,
they said no. But that's after he died. I don't
know about before then. What happened for those thirty five
years before that, I don't know what happened in Louisville
and the recognition of west Unt. I just don't so, George,

(17:18):
there you go.

Speaker 8 (17:20):
But you know, you know, as time passes, it becomes
more more more or becomes less relevant because there will
be less people to know what he was all about.
Does that make sense?

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yes, No, without a.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Doubt, it does make sense.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
It doesn't make sense how it happened from sixty nine
to seventy nine to eighty. Let's go and George, I'm
not gonna take home, George throw in the World Championship
with the Washington Bullets.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Forever, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (17:54):
I don't think that's the most important point about who
Westerntail is for the University of Louisville. Understand who Charlie
Tyrae was. I know Charlie was a great guy. But
west unslled put uvel on the map with current basketball
in the late sixties, when the NCAA became popular. If
it wasn't for west Unsell, Loila wouldn't have been on

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the map. He led the conference. He's one of the
most dynamic ball players that ever played here. And one
of the things that you're missing and were talking about
a sixth were talking about six six tenor in the
NBA being Rookie of the Year and MVP at the
same time. You know what I'm saying, I'm heard of.
And he was.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
And like I said, Jerry, I.

Speaker 7 (18:34):
Was sitting here. He came home for a homecoming game
and I'll never will forget. And I got a picture
of him. He's got a red rose on and Wes
was sitting there and I was talking to west Unsall Jerry.
Ninety percent of the UFL administration, I don't.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Even know if they knew who he was. And he
told me at that time, this was his words out
his mouth. He said, I'll never come back. That's what
he told me, you know what I mean. And I
knew him as a little boy, like at the university,
a little but like I said, Wes was one of
the most dynamic players that we've ever had the university.
One of the best ambassadors we ever had his accomplishments

(19:08):
that I'm real what he did after he left the
University of Louisville. When they opened up the Young Center,
jed my opinion. When they opened up the Young Center,
him and Charlie Tyrae should have had the trophies, I
mean statues in front, and I think West would have
had the one over child and not knocking CHILDI go,
I think it's a great gap. But I think West Suns,
who put the University of Louisville on the map.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
No not get the arguments from me.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
You know that, nor coach you be here, so Bubman,
appreciate your carl. It's a sensitive issue.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
We all know that.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
I just don't know what happened for the thirty year period.
I do know that Kanye's wife said no to statues
after West passed period point blank. She said no to West,
she said no to me. She said no to Coach Houston.
She said no fact So I don't know. But before then,
I can't tell you. And like I told you, Derreck

(20:01):
Smith and I for a four or five six year
peer in the road lived with all the great ones
that we all think about. Sam Jones is Bill Russell's guys,
Carry my brother Carry's will tell you that he hung
out with us in Chicago.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
And we're talking about all of them, Paul Silas, the.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Great ones, you are, I mean, and Wes everyone. If
you said who got the most respect, who had the
most kudos, or if we were talking when everybody's talking
over each other and someone started talking, when West started talking,
people started listening. I'm just telling you all fact. I'm
talking about Paul Silace, Bill Russell.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
That's the truth. But beer with it's just the truth.
So I don't know what happened, Yes, I don't know.

Speaker 7 (20:44):
Go ahead, George Jerry And what's in Kareem Abdula's book.
Kareem said, he's the most difficult person that I've ever had,
one of the most difficult, one of the top three
difficult people he's ever had to face in life. He
said he's starting a low block. He said the.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Time he got to bout what him up by the
foul land one knee me and the uh me in
the back, knee on on the butt, elbow in the back,
and he said, you walking guy, boom boom, boom boom.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
And a lot of people like Anthony's young and even
know there were seven firsts everywhere. People thought the league
has only grown now. Little Chamberlain was a monster cream up.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
To a jabal.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
I mean he had this skuy hooked that was unstoppable.
West was playing center at six sixth and a half.
George Anderson right, and was m VP of Rik of
the Year and world champion, don't forget it.

Speaker 8 (21:32):
And he was like a condole the head on it.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
He was so wide in his big leg I mean
he had big.

Speaker 8 (21:40):
Legs and you know big, just a big and at
six he had leverage on you can just push, take
you anywhere he wanted to.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
That was a gentleman Newburg boy, George, we have to
do it Newburg show.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
People don't that are listening.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
I know you ought to understand these old names, but
I'm gonna take you back. You need to know about
some of the true athletes the community of Newburgh, Thomas
Jefferson and Seneca High School.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
They need to know the truth.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
George, truly what used to come out of the city
of Louisville that changed the landscape of basketball. Daryl Griffiths
was third or fourth. I mean Wesley talks West Hunt.
So we've had just tremendous players.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
So we'll get to a bit.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Oh yeah, we don't even to talk about Roy Simpson,
Mike Grid I mean you.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Know, we don't even talk Hey, hey, Jerry. While we
talk about West, you always tell the story not only
was he respected as a ballplayer, but he made you
respect him as the coaching and he gave new bowls
a reason to respect him and the coaching all those players.
George story, How will.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Would we come back from break? George, I will tell
people the truth. It's these words radio bubb appreciation call.
It is six excuse me, it's six twenty nine here,
it is seven twenty nine in Louisville. Shiton runs two breaks.
When we come back, I am on tell him the
story on West Sun selling a new bowl after the
break radio ru in Panama City, Panama. It's six thirty

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five years, seven thirty five in Louisville, and it looks
like the weather's been to break a little bit. But George,
Anthony Bubba came up. What a great point. Last week
I was at the press conference. I have no issues
with Tom Jerise, guys, I don't. I just have issues
on how University Louisville has done things throughout the years period.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
That's all.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
I went to Louisville, went a championship there. I am
a Louisville fan no matter what people say. That's why
I stand up.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
I really do.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
No, you're not great.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Great Now get and we gotta call. I'm gonna get
to him in a second, but I'm gonna finish and
give you the story that I'm gonna bring Ryan on
the show. The deal is this. West Son sell Is
the coach, was a player's coach. Everyone loved to play
for him. They did George. He had no issues with players,
but the players knew not to mess with Westerns.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
When he told you to do something, just like as
a player.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Compost Ali said, he knocked me down, picked me up,
all in the same breath, and he could pat me
on the butt. He said, I couldn't. I was mad,
couldn't be mad, And they wanted to hug him. That
was the kind of guy where Sunseill was. But minut
Bowl thought that he was gonna put west suns Hill
in his place. This is true story you own, But
he's gonna put him in his place. Nut Bowl was
seven seven. Probably where do you think George two fifteen Max.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Six max and of.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Course for some reason he got twisted with one Sunsell
during the halftime of a game.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Legitimate you a fact.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
West Unt Hill grabbed that boy and locked him in
one of the bigger lockers.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
If people haven't been in.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Pro locker rooms, they had larger lockers than what you
would remember in high school.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Much larger.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
And he put that boy in a box and shut
it and locked it. And the entire team looked at
him and said, Manton told you to shut up and
locked manut Bowl in the locker like he was just
a little kid.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Because he was. He was. You went a good parts well,
west Total, Well, just let me if you feel that
way about it, he said, forget I'm a coach. Just
let me get my giet off. He did, he did, he.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Did, But I don't need to do everything about it.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Was understand. I don't wt people to get exwisted.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
He was one of the nicest individuals, nicest you'll ever
run acros and being honest with you, everyone loved was
until a Poland the owner the Washington Bullets, which are
the Washington Wizards. We know the name Bullet is not appropriate,
they say anymore, but George. He was president general manager
of the Bullets Wizards Capital Center. He ran everything for

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a Poland, absolutely everything. So his accomplishments were like hou staid, George,
weren't crazy for the city of Louisville not to have anything.
I don't get it, George. So before I go to
my Collingwood, you got or right ended and.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
The dynamics of West.

Speaker 7 (26:04):
Not only did they love his family like that in Washington,
that's Washington. He's born here in Louisville. Jay, and what
he's done, fuss is I'm real aide Poland and his
family loved the unselved family so much.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
What team?

Speaker 7 (26:16):
You know, Five's the son and it gives him a
job administration after you just find no Ab.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Was that what?

Speaker 1 (26:24):
And don't forget Ab fired Michael. George don't want people
to know.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
That he was often.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Until he got to go Michael.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Jordan, so Abe knew what he was doing. And George,
don't forget. Weston has a school in Baltimore. His wife
still runs it. Friend of privileged kids. West is still
giving back to that community.

Speaker 7 (26:45):
He is.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
He owned half of the Chesapeake and I mean that, guys.
They used to ride in the banana splits, motor scooters.
Dereck Smith and I all Western, So it's property that
you can ride out and just look at the chesap Peake.
I mean, the guy did extremely well for himself. So
let's bring our next caller, Ron loc Leaves.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
What's radio?

Speaker 3 (27:02):
What's going on? My man? What's up?

Speaker 6 (27:06):
Man? How are you all this morning?

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Good? Run Old at one second?

Speaker 1 (27:10):
George?

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Everybody, hey, be your man?

Speaker 3 (27:12):
How is everybody your man?

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Right?

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Explain it good? I know he don't have no friends,
But tell him who we are round. Let him know
who we are.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
He knows who we are, George, he knows.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
He don't roll over me, right? If you roll over me,
I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to make Patty
turn it back on your ride. Don't make me make
Paddy back.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
So what's up, Dason?

Speaker 1 (27:41):
What do you have for us? Tall is?

Speaker 6 (27:44):
I think Bubba hit on a great topic there. Okay,
but here's the problem that our mayor of the city has. Okay,
one of us been around long enough to know the
whole kirt. Some of us enough thirty or forty years okay, okay,
And I'm not gonnassault this like I didn't graduate from

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their jersey.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
I didn't play there, so.

Speaker 6 (28:10):
I can tell you what I need to say. I
want to say, we know why our past hasn't been recognized.
And the guy they're bringing in here to tell you
how three what what group things he does in name
street character, We know what he does, Rid Patino. Yes,
they get to make things, they accomplish some things. The

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question past. They also put this university in this city,
the last ten or twelve years of turnile that they
went through, and and those two and it's a no impact.
Remember how they run any crumb out. Okay, let's not
forget that. If you're old enough, you know. Okay, they
didn't want the past. Remember, they didn't want the past

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get the credit. They wanted all their leaders. And that's
also while we don't have any yet here. So let's
just stop. Let's stop with all this all the great time.
People haven't forgot the mayor.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Okay, we know what really went on here.

Speaker 6 (29:12):
Some of us do anyway, and you feel didn't happen,
But no, not all of us. Some of us know
the truth. And I would like to land on the
side of church. Jerry. I'm sorry, that's just the way
it is. Yeah, he did accomplish some things.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
There's a question about.

Speaker 6 (29:31):
Even though we're not sure where all the money came from,
if it came from the proper places. But regardless, he
did do that. But let's don't remember how he treated
their their all time things codes for the best goat
to that ever ever was here and never will be here.
In my opinion, the.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Truth not changing that not my opinion.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
I wish.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
The pastor wasn't recognized because they wanted to be and
they want they don't want an NBA team here because
they want to be the big ticket to big here.
Well here we are.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Stay right there. No, I like that, Stay right there, George.
I'm gonna throw it to you.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Rod's given his perspectives, which is very very very very
close to Coach.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Beard's perspective and my perspective.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Okay, just being honest with Ron said, let's just be fourth, right,
I've got to give people the facts on my show,
we do not the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana
Pacers played. I love watching both of them. I don't
care what anyone says because they're low market NBA teams.
What does that mean? Small cities, that's all? And the

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city of Louisville had an opportunity to have one. Now
I have city leaders that get upset with me personally,
they're my friends.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
I'm not calling names because what I'm telling you all
they say, Jared, you got to get over the past.
That's true, but people still have to know what happened.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Louisvoe had an opportunity to have the Charlotte Hornet's period
point blank. When David Stern again, in my opinion, the
greatest commission in pro sports. In my opinion, there's probably
some people say Roselle football, and I have no problem
with that, But in basketball, there's no question.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Is David Stern.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
This crazy money came from David Stern when he puts
in the New York Post, it's there.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Google it.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
When people don't understand what an NBA team brings to
that city and they know what it does. Rick Potino
knows what a protein would do tax base wise for
the city, and so does Tom Jurch, then they don't
deserve one. That is not my words.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
That's David Stern who put it in an article.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Guys, uh, that's billions of dollars that it costs to live.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
On taxpace money. That's all.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
I don't care anybody says they don't want me to
say it, because it's like, don't say that, guys, I've
read it. I don't have it in front of me now,
I didn't know Bubba was gonna call.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
But it's just the truth.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
I can google and tell you don't where to find
it where David Stern put it in writing, not hearsay
through somebody. No, it's in print.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
That's all.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
So Georgie's right, Y's right about that period, point blank?

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Do you what do you think? Opinion you agree even
goes further back than that, Like we're talking about the
DYNA places. We also had an ABA team that won
the championship. We had the opportunity to walk into the
A the NBA. We didn't have to fight to get
into the NBA. We could have been grandfather in like

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the rest of the team that jumped over from the A,
B A to the NBA. We had a solid basketball
team that would have went in, that would have been
a competible, competible team in the NBA at that time.
We were yes, I'm saying, but when the NBA broke

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up and got the ABA team Louisville was one of
the teams that they wanted to take over at that time.
They wanted them to join the NBA. John Brown did
not want to do that, you know what I mean.

Speaker 8 (33:09):
I'm sorry, No, George, Right, that's that point.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Thank you George for that.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Ron.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
That's twice that this city has missed his opportunity. That's
why Jerry Eave is trying to make sure people know
we can't ever let that happen again.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
That's what weary. Yeah, we showed our players for the
NBA team.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Artist, Gilmore, dan Is, Maurice Lucas. I know them all personally.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Go ahead, right and look at the resume their resumes. Yes,
wrong Lucas, Gilmore and Isle. Yes, you've got a big
thing right there.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Jar all stars, Yes, go question NBA All Stars go ahead, right.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
Did anybody ever stop and teams? Oh, why the likes
of West humphl Wich, Beard, Purvose, Evison, people like that
don't have a hen wants to come back here or
if you recognize here for anything, anybody ever stopped and
think about why that is true?

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Okay, guys, we're gonna go to break. When we come back,
we're gonna talk about that. That's a great point.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Purves Elison is publicly said, Ny, Butch Beard has already said,
take my stuff down. I mean the guys, come on,
who lived in Louisville came back to Louisville to Simmons
College for free. Thomas Deliver rented a place in the
for free. He made five thousand bucks that and then

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of course, and then you're right, and we're talking about
West Hunt Shill. We do have a pattern. Run it's
the sports radio. We're gonna be back after the break.
Welcome back to the sports radio. It is seven forty nine.
Some days we have real dialogue. Some days we have fun. Again,
we're not taking from tom accomplishments.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
We're not.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
We're just talking to the skitny Louisville about how and
why was that so could have been left for thirty
years and he was period point blank. I'm not ever
backing down. That's why people, well, I think are pretty good.
I just got them the other day. They're pretty dangn good.
But ye have a problem with me. Go ahead, George.

Speaker 7 (35:23):
You know one of the things that we talk about,
and Ron brought it up. You know, there are some
some negative quantations that we can put with Jerry's and stuff.
But from the time Western Sale has went to high school,
maybe elementary school, and he's a Native son. This young
man's accomplishments and what he's done as an ambassador for
the city of Louisville is I'm president. Only other person

(35:46):
I can think that accomplished and done as much, but
of Louisville is Muhammad Ali, right, I agree, and for
for the for a native son to not be recognized,
for you not to know your history, because see, when
you don't know your history, Jary, you repeat all your
dumb mistakes, and we can look at that going on

(36:07):
right now in society. So you must know your history
and you must recognize those who made you who you
are if you want to go on and be a
great city and say what you accomplishing. This is we
have allowed this to go on much too long to
not recognize those people who don't look like everybody else,
not to be recognized and be put up on a board.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Okay, So Rob, you got anything to add or do
you want me to finish? Rob may be going, okay, guys,
here's the deal. George great point. When Ron brought up
about the three players three very successful players at the
University of Louisville, and for some reason they have differences

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with the city.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
I don't know why. I'm not going to speak for people.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
I don't know why, but I know publicly through my
show reading the comments from these.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
People that they have issues.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
I know that.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
And these just happened to be three of the African
American players. Like Ron said, that's just the facts. So
when we're looking at this, I want people to understand.
Everyone wants to say, like I told you, they wanted jobs. Guys, Anthony,
do you have West n sales jobs up for me?

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Please?

Speaker 1 (37:26):
I just want people to understand. So before you hit
that he needed something, I tried to be nice with
You don't have the Chesapeake because the Unsealed Foundation and
family does. He never needed a dime from the day
he left Louisville. So I want people to take that
out of their minds because that's what they say when
Jerry's and Bushbeard came back. Oh, they want jobs, they

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need jobs. They don't know. We don't.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
I've told them.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
I'm the low on the totem toe out of the
guys about and I'm the most blessed person in the world.
But you know that's what they say, George when they
want to knock it's something.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
May need something. Anthony read some of us on sales accomplishments. Yeah,
so want some of his NBA statues.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
That's not his career.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
So post so post playing career in legacy Legacy of
West until after retiring, primarily due tone issues in nineteen
eighty one, his number forty one jersey was retired, and
he stayed with the organization as a coach, executive, and mentor.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
He's the head coach of the Bullets.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
From nineteen eighty seven through nineteen ninety four, posting a
two oh two and three forty five record with one
playoff appearance. Served as the GM through nineteen ninety six
two two thousand and three, continuing the influence the franchise's
direction and culture, and was inducted into the Natesmith Hall
of Fame in nineteen eighty eight, named among the NBA's
fifty Greatest Players in nineteen ninety six, and later the
seventy fifth Anniversary Team. His personal life and community impact,

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he married to Connie, a co founder of Unsales School
in Baltimore, opened in nineteen seventy nine, where he also
served in administrative and coaching Roles. Came from a large
family in Louisville, one of nine children. The father was
a prize fighter and part time baseball player, which is
actually the godfather of the NBA player Kept and Love
currently and his son West Until Junior has followed his
legacy coaching in the NBA, most recently with the Wizards

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and then the Bulls staff.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
So West Unsil's legacy.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Has went on for a long time, is distilled over
Louisville and throughout the world, I.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Think absolutely so.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
I just want people to understand, Please do not put
that connotation on West Until Butch be here purpose Elison, please,
because George, that's what they do, right, Georgia. I mean
the first thing is needed something Nahase, don't.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
Go about that. What's the maiden to me, Jared, It's
a shame the West, sim said, is more prominently known
in Washington.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
That's a shame. And I'm just gonna get people in
an example by hometown. They need to sewn pitch up anywhere.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Thanks you.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
I think they've got him somewhere, George, but still not.
Let me just give people an example. George they need
to know this our listeners. Guys, Johnny Unitas had a
great career, great, great football player, got me, great quarterback,
champion coach, if my dad loved him. Lenny Lyles played
at Louisville. He was just okay, he was undrafted, wasn't

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from Louisville got me. But the minute he played football
and played well. And everybody knows about the great Johnny
Uniteds and so do I and I love him. You
see the Johnny Unitas.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
We know it.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
We see the statues, we know the street names, you
know the dorm, we know everything.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Got me what happened to wesn'ton sixty nine?

Speaker 1 (40:36):
MVP Rookie of the Year and MVP and guys, we
don't even know his name.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
I'm just showing you all the contrasts. This issue at
the city of Louispol has been so.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Everybody gets upset with me. Yes, I live next to
that man. His name is Big Charlie, but since his
dad's name was Big Childie and George.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
He mentored everybody.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
He mentored hood, he mentored every kid in prospecting in
Newburg and Thomas Jefferson Ryan Thomas was one of his boys.
That's another Louisville great from TJ. I'm just telling you all,
guys it. Justice doesn't make sense. So when I can
say to Louisville, look at Johnny united deserved, then we
say what's I said, and everybody tells me to get

(41:19):
over it.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
They can't get away from Jim.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
I'm not gonna get over George can say this right quick.
You made me think of this. You made me think
of this.

Speaker 7 (41:28):
Not only was West Unsealed a great native and great
ball player in the city of Louisville, but the unself
family name was so prominent while he was just in college,
not even a pro. The name of his father and
accomplishment they had made for the city of Newburgh was
so prominent. Today I've heard of and we talked about Rick.

(41:51):
We're talking about the jury.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
They named a street after the Unselled before West believing
a a U of l.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Here's the deal. We got about thirty seconds. I need
a whole week for this.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
His brother went to Kansas started Will Chamberlain, took his job,
turned into an alderman at Louisville.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
The Unseld family, you're.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Talking about the city, Come on, guys, they were politically tied.
Come on, we haven't even talked about his brother.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
Big joke.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
I'm on, George, Yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Look at the street name after the family they're.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Doing I know.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Exactly so anyway, George, we're gonna let it go. Great call, Bubba,
thanks for your.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
George, we're talking to you about.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Writing E Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
I'm out you guys, enjoy your