NBA Roundtable with The Duke on AD vs. Sabonis, Ham, DLO + NFL on AD retiring, Allen Traded

The FnA Podcast with Kevin Figgers and Adam Auslund + Brie as the boyz host an NBA Rountable with the Duke of sports who has to face the music on his Anthony Davis love after Sabonis improved to 10-0 against him, plus what's up with Ham rotations still, DLO vs. Ham and more. NFL News on AD retiring and Keenan Allen traded. 

Episode Transcript

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Friday edition of the FNA Podcast isgoing on. Everybody. It's Kevin

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Figures and Adam Austin with you onceagain. Bravery's in the house today,
not near a microphone at the moment, but probably what she should be.
What's up bring you just want toyell you're okay? Proof of life is
okay. I had a couple ofcalls about that last week we did.
The last time we did Who's thea Hole Dating Edition with Brewbris which a

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couple of weeks ago, if youwant to check it out. Yeah,
and who was who was it thatwanted us to be uh, basically her
personal security Tory pod Tory, ourour PGA insider. Yeah, we must
protect pre militia. Yeah, nothappening. We're not going on your dates.
We're not gonna sit in the truckand wait to see if I'm not

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gonna hide in the bushes and popout with an AK just in case the
Golden State case. Why not?We don't get paid it up? Really
don't. We got better things todo. I mean, we're concerned,
but I mean we'll get you astunt gun or something. How about that.

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We'll get you a taser, right, taser, bro? We can
And by the way, speaking ofvoicemails, we do have voicemails to get
to at nine eleven ninety seven aswell here on the show front end or
back. What are we doing today? Yeah, you know what we could
do on the front end? Whynot? All right, we'll start things
off with some voicemails before we getto our first guest for a little NBA
roundtable loose ends that we have totie up from last week, a little

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storyline we missed no last week?How dare you you weren't here last week?
Eric? We were well, thethird Scar brother Eric Slark. I
will say the sports guy, thatPaul scar guy, that was a workout
warrior with biceps bigger. There's thiswhole room here. I will say,
I do apologize for not being herelast week, but it is quite convenient

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that there were two fn NBA roundtables after a Lakers Kings game where the
Lakers lose, but there wasn't anfn NBA roundtable when the Lakers come back
against the Clippers down twenty one inthe fourth quarter and beat them. I
just kind of convenient. I toldyou that subject expired, all right,
you had your chance. If youcould have made it last week, we
would have talked about it, allright. Give me, give me some

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phone calls here. It's gone allright, has gone bad? You gotta
We got three voicemails to get to. Let's do number one F and a
Peter from North Dakota here. Thanksfor the shout out to everybody. Uh.
If I went on dates with Brieor like I was accompanying her anywhere,
she would never get laid again ever. Period. I went out to

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the bars this past weekend with myfriend and literally I would walk away for
two minutes, I'd come back andthere'd be a guy there. If they
saw me coming, they would fuckingleave. They left the entire bar.
It was. It's not fun,Bree, You're better off without me there.
Let me tell you about an assholestory. I'm at work. I'm
leading this meeting, and for twominutes, I say, oh, I

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got to put something into this Googlesheet. My bad, give me a
second. I disconnect from presenting,and for two minutes I'm silent as I'm
doing some work. I have coworkersin this meeting, and none of them
say a fucking word. None ofthem say anything. They leave me holding
my puzzo in my hand, likeI'm some fucking jerk off without feeling time.

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There's no banter, there's no howseyour weekend, how about that time
change, how about the fucking Broncoslosing Russell Wilson, Just anything so that
I almost like some fucking idiot becauseI forgot to put something in And for
ninety seconds to two minutes, that'sa long time of silence. I can't
deal with that fucking assholes. Efine. Yeah, that's a rough work environment,

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I would say, so tough situationsyou got there, Peter. Maybe
they're all intimidated by you, justlike all the other people you were with
at the club that night. Maybethat's what it is, and we would
never get laid again. And here'sanywhere nearby? Is her bodyguard? Right?
I have taken exception to breeze ageneralization of the frat guy stereotipe.
Oh here we go. I wasin a fraternity okay, is that when
I got the name of the dukeit is? I heard that on Petro

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some money shouldn't know you were afrat guy. Dukal Yeah, alph EPSLOMPI
the Jewish fraternity. Same you aftera dog? Right? Yes? Yes
they did? Wait what yeah theynamed they named me after the frat dog
who was living in the fraternity houseat the time. We weren't allowed to
sit on furniture as pledges, sothey were like, if I was ever
sitting on furniture, like getting caught, they'd be like, hey, dude,

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get off the couch. And we'relike not me, Like I'm like,
I'm not sitting on the couch,Like I'm sitting on the floor.
Not you, you dumb fucking pledgethe dog. Okay, it was the
worst hazing type of incident you hadto go through to prove yourself. Oh,
any near death experiences, because yeah, I mean I was definitely blindfolded
on the side of a cliff onetime. Who wow. That fraternity not

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worth it, at least not forme. Do it a wily coy hoodie
her team, But at least theydidn't call you, call you shithead like
the name of the dog from vacation. At least it could be worse.
Yeah, there's someone in my fraternity'sname chicken fucker. So okay, yeah,
so you could be. I don'teven want to know how he got
No, I don't want to knowno, but yeah, so bree watch
it. Do we have another off? Leave frat guy alone? All right?

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They're not all bad, but apparently, yeah, you won't end up
next to a cliff or anything.Right back, sixt call Hello. This
is Jimmy from Rosemy. I'm justcalling in because we're about to go through
it. March Man is about tobegin. So the basketball championships are going
on. Stafford has just came upon cal Man sucks. But anyways,

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more importantly, number one ranked CalsonLA is going to play this Friday at
Calson LA against through the Pacific.So five pm, show up, roll
up. All the other cal alumniis listening, roll up and support calst
La in their first March Madness Divisiontwo basketball tournament. All right, fin

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a, oh yeah, hey,whenever we're gonna have that, uh the
the meet and greet Sweet Knight ofthe Quipper game. Man. We need
to get that going before we moveto Inglewood. I don't know. It
might be easier at Ingland, butit's gonna be priceier. But come on,
we need we need someone to fundit. Maybe uh d mag he
could fund it. I don't know, definite. First of all, yeah,

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shout out to my Gold and Eaglesfor for winning their first conference tournament
championship and moving on to the Dtwo championship play. All right, all
right, so that's that is excitinggoing against me socks Azuza Pacific, uh
whatever their mascot is. I don'tknow where they are uh Aztecs suh not.
I guess I should know this becauseBiola had a rivalry with a Zuza

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Pacific, but you know it wasn'treally a rivalry. We beat their ass
every time, just like Lakers fansalways saying about the Kings and they are
the Cougars the cougars? All right? Interesting? You know, if d
mag was the one to uh schedulea meet and greet, it likely wouldn't
be at an arena. It wouldbe at a strip club or something.
Maybe in the forest the cabin.Yeah, you guys want to go camp.

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We're still waiting for them to biasthose tickets to the Super Bowl when
the Bengals play at the Rams.That's so far we're gonna need a time.
He did. He didn't have topay, didn't have to pay for
airfare, lodging. He just hadto buy tickets and couldn't even do that.
He said he was gonna sell bitcointo get us the suite the luxury
sweet how about you game? Youknow, how about you just say your

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cryptocurrency that you have left now tous and we'll just call it even.
How about that, just say whateveryou got coin's at like seventy k.
I know, now's the time.I know that's what I'm saying. Give
it to us now and we'll callit even, all right, call it
uh yeah, And by the way, if we are going to do a
sweet night, we got like whata handful of games left because it ain't
no way in hell we're getting inat at the into it dome. They

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might not even let Adam into thebuilding. At the end of it dome.
I was gonna say, the wallis going to be the perfect place
for it. It's like it's waytoo bougie. Yeah, all fifty rows
up, no sweets. Yeah,they're gonna put Adam in in the bathroom
in one of those toilets, teaplenty of them. As long as I'm
in the building, that's all thatmatters. All right, right, thank
you, Jimmy, long time nospeak man. Good one. Yeah,
all right, last one, Hey, fellas, this is a big love.

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I was listening to this to thelatest podcast this morning, and I
figured, I call call my breakand I walk outside and feels like Hurricane
Katrina. So I don't seen Vignett'sor Crossish bull boys floating around. So
I don't know what the deal is. But it's super winny, so hopefully
you guys can actually hear me.But I was just following up on a

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little bit, but a tidbit youguys were talking about at least and you
know, how to kind of balloonsafter their playing days, And I was
at my my Chicago Bulls were intown a couple of days ago and I
went to the game. Adam wasn'tthere, so I didn't get to give
him a good sniper's shot kind ofpicture. But Stacy King, who is

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the announcer for the Chicago Bulls,he is he is enjoyed the retirements and
it's like a light scan Zion Williamsonright now. So if it happens,
isn't that? Isn't that good lifeafter playing and enjoying the Beatles a little

(10:05):
bit too much. But that's aboutit. I have a good Listen,
hey, you know what you're playing? Days in and shot down? You
hit up the Genos East or thelu man NAIs a couple dozen times,
it'll happen to you. It's allright, little Portillos, Yeah, Portillo's.
I think Stacey King's keeping the burgerking around. You know what's fun?
He looks, he looks fine.I don't know what the hell big

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lose I brought because it's my faultbecause I brought up pop Eye Jones the
other night and I just didn't.I just I wasn't expecting that and we
said he ate it. Popeye.Well, I was I was at the
Lebron forty K game and that wason ESPN, and I saw this big,
massive figure pregame on the court andhis back was to us and he
turns around and it's Kendrick Perkins andI'm just like, oh, that is

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a big man. We're all alittle chubby big Perk. Yeah no there.
I mean seeing him in person afterhis playing is because I saw him
a couple of times, like yourCeltics during his playing days, and it's
just like he started to get bigby OKAC. Yeah. Yeah, well
he was big when he first gotdrafted. Remember that was the whole thing.
They drafted him. They said hewas out of shape, and then
basically Doc Rivers came in and whippedhim into shape. Yeah, and they

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kicked his ass a little bit.You can even see the stretch marks on
his arm because he lost so muchweight exactly. So then, yeah,
once he started, once he startedgetting hit in the decline, got traded
to Oklahoma City, started blowing upa little bit, and then it just
kind of never stopped. Sam Presty, not the drill Sergeant Rivers apparently not
Sam Presty, and who was thehead coach at the time Scott Brooks was

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Scott Brooks. Yeah, yeah,yeah, I think so. All right,
speaking of did the Lakers win thatgame? You're up no another milestone
game where they lose? Well,can we start things off then we started
this last week. This is acontinuation, an extended edition of the NBA
Roundtable, now that we have EricScarr in the house. Yes, here,
yee, It's time for the NBARound Table on the FNA podcast with

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Bob Schmidt. Bob mayor not beavailable. We'll see what happens. Could
be a surprise guest, Not somuch surprise. I just blew it.
Eric Skloar is here though, Eric, where can they find you on Twitter?
At the Duke of Sports? Yeahonce you were named in a frat
situation. Yes, okay, Well, thanks for being here and facing the

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music and being in the lions Denwith us. After the second time and
the last week that Anthony Davis gotbodied by Demontes Sabonis in a ball game,
literally at one point in the thirdquarter. I think it was when
he just did the whole drop stepelbow in the face on the floor and
the Sabonis even gave him a littlelook like stepped over. That's a perfect

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representation of what happened. So canwe go back in time because you were
on with us about a month agoand Bob Schmidt was here, and this
was the initial conversation regarding you talkingabout getting into it with Sam Amic on
Twitter. I still love you gettinginto it with Bob Schmid at Fear the
Fro on Twitter requiring who should bean All Star between Anthony Davis and Demontes

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Sabonis, and part of the conversationwent like this, you're telling me that
Demanta Sabonis is a bigger star anda better basketball player than Anthony Marshawn Davis
Junior, which a fuck out ofhere. It's the twenty twenty four All
Star Game. Not that Davis isa better basketball player than Demontesa Bonis.
He's a bigger star than Demonte Sabonisworldwide. There's a reason he's in the

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All Star Game and Demanta Sabonis isnot. I'm not trying to take away
that Demonta Sabonis is not a greatbasketball player, because he is a phenomenal
basketball player because he's owned Anthony Davis. There is no world where Anthony Davis
is not a better basketball player thanDemant Sabonis. There is levels to this.
Anthony Davis is up here, DemantaSabonis is probably right here on the

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radio, so you may want tobe more specific with right here. Well,
there's no worldly I guess except forthe one when they're on the court
at the same time. I guess. Listen over the nine times going bad?
How that age? I'd like toapologize to absolutely nobody. What sport
does? What the you want?Uh? Listen, Greg, all right,

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listen, listen, listen, listen, We're here. Anthony Davis.
In my opinion, still I wouldstill take Anthony Davis over Demanta Sabonis if
I want to start a team.If you're doing a fantasy draft, you
had to have a first overall pickand have to be one of them.
You take your take. Ad,Yes, who's having the better season right
now? Demanta Bonis is after thatclip was only from like a month ago,

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I know, I know, andleading into the All Star Game.
Leading into the All Star Game,Anthony Davis had see him get owned two
more times by dem before you listento to take the quote from myself that
you and Bob love to take,there's levels to this. The levels got
a lot closer in the last twogames. Yeah, in just a month.

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Yeah, no, that easy.Listen, basketball is a what have
you done for me lately? Sport? And that AD hasn't done much for
me lately against Demanta Sabonis. Andlisten, like I said in the quote
or in the clip you played,I have well, yeah, I have
not once tried to take away fromthe greatness that is Demante Sabonis. He

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is an incredible basketball player. He'san incredible AD was far superior, which
I still think a D is asuperior basketball player than Demanta Sabonis. But
Demonte Sabonis has proven to me overthe course of the four times doing it
to prove anything to you, No, he wasn't doing it because and they've
scored off Hatsahad nine times and eventimes okay ten times now. Yeah,

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and I brought up because you guysbrought this up. This is when you
weren't here, Eric, and Iwas like, well, team success,
who wins, who doesn't. That'sdifferent individual numbers, and the individual numbers
Demanta Sabonis now plays them. Sothat's something that that bears. And listen,
a look downright shook the last gamewhen he was asked that, tell
me I watched the game regarding theone on one matchup. Did you like

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the answer he gave? No?Did you want him to embrace the smoke
game? No, I wanted himto embrace the smoke. You always want
the best players to embrace any smokethat comes their way. I was disappointed
with the performance from Anthony Davis fromthe King against the Kings the other night.
I was disappointed in Lebron James's performance. I was disappointed in D'Angelo Russ.

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But it all, it all stemsfrom the same thing. They didn't
take that game seriously when they neededit to, when they needed to win
that game the most. How couldyou not take that game seriously knowing where
you're sitting right that you're that closeto getting up to the seventh seed and
chasing them down. No, itmakes no sense. You can't not show
up in a situation like, well, you think they didn't take it serious,
or maybe they just got their assbeat and maybe they're just out matching.

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It's both, like they're just they'rejust it's a bad matchup for them.
Maybe Sacramento was just a tone downverse enough Denver, who they can't
get over either. No, that'sthat's that's no, that's exactly what it
is. No, I mean,listen, you got joke it. You
got Sabonis, you got Michael PorterJunior, you got Harrison Barnes, who
I was very frustrated with the factthat Anthony Davis had him on mismatches multiple

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times on Wednesday night and he justcouldn't take advantage of it. So,
yeah, it's it. It isa bad matchup for the Lakers, the
Kings and the Nuggets. So howembarrassed are you having to hear that sound
from a month ago now? Andhow it's not embarrassed at all. I
stand by exactly what I said.What do you mean you stand by you
just said the lobels? Yeah,no, I stand by what I said
at the time, and now I'mchanging what I my opinion to a current

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time. Don't you just wish youtook our advice at that time and so
you did it just needed more evidence, I guess. You know, two
more games, I guess. Yeah. Look, in a seven game series,
I'd probably still pick the Lakers overthem. Just yeah, damn you
would PTSD. Yeah, I havingwatched enough basketball between these two teams no

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reason too. I don't know ifeither. They just don't have an answer
for Daron Fox, and clearly AnthonyDavis does not have all for Demonta Billonus.
The answer for Darren Fox is JaredVanderbilt, and who hasn't played against
the Kings at all this year,I believe, Yeah, And then he's
giving you nothing on the other endoffensively, right, but you would hope
it's the problem with this Lakers team. Too many guys that are one dimensional,
good on one side of the floor, not on the other one hundred

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percent. The biggest mistake that theLakers made was two years two years ago
getting rid of KCP and Kuzma Caruso. That that changed the entire trajectory of
this team. And they've been tryingto You had a hold on a THD.
Yeah, and he's been doing greatin Utah on the bench. I
also speaking of guys that have blownup a little bit, but I digress.
Maybe it's just me. I don'tknow's maybe put on a couple,

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but blow it up. It's allright. Interesting. Not much be do
in Utah except to eat. We'vealluded to this too in the season about
Darbyn Ham and is standing with theplayers and all the reports that came out
and the question that the Angela Russellhas asked the other night about them not
taking advantage of mismatchage and ruiy Hachamorrowas actually one of the Lakers who played
well in the first half, andhe said, why did you guys stop

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giving the ball to Ruie in thesecond half? And I think his quote
was something to the effect of,I really don't want to address that right
now. Well, and he wantedto address a whole lot and that Dave
mcmahmon piece or that came out literallyearlier that morning about Dennis Schroeder and his
relationship with Darvin and how that affectedhim last year. Yeah, and then
now di Lo goes two for ninethat night, and it's that's a bad
look. It was a bad lookto do all that in that article,

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the timing of the article and himplaying that way he played, and listen
the article. I think the quotesabout Darvin Ham overshadowed. I think what
the actual article was about the overallactual article. Give me a little bit
of a summary here, because Ididn't read that one. You know,
I'll only check out Clippers stuff.Now, I mean basically Davic Menmon was
doing a feature piece on d LObasically on him so great the last two

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months and then the Kings. Well, no, it was more just about
his second tenure with the Lakers andhow it's gone and his relationship with Darvin
Ham and how it's been a littlefrosty. Yeah, definitely, and accredited
that frosty relationship to the relationship thatDennis Shrewder has with Darvin Ham going back
to Atlanta and how Darvin Ham wasan assistant on Atlanta when Dennis Shruder was

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a rookie. What he's tough onpoint guards, He's tough guards. He
plays favorites, Yeah, like hehas his his what do you mean he
talks to That's a perfect example correct, Yeah, yeah, no, it's
it literally was alluding to the factthat Dilo was saying that Darvin Ham plays
favorites that impacted his relationship with DarvinHaam when Dennis Shruder was on the team,

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because Delo felt like he couldn't goto Darvin Ham because of that relationship
that Shrewder and Ham had, andnow that Shrewder isn't on the team,
the relationship between Darvin Ham and Dilohas gotten better, and obviously that was
why Darvin said pregame, that's whyyou call it a quote working relationship,
like you're working on a relationship.I get it. He had ties to

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Shuter going back to Atlanta, sothat was his favorite, not Delo.
And now Shooter's gone, and thatwas why last year, that was why
last year, Shooter got more ofthe looks in Denver in the Denver series
when Delo was struggling. Wow,some of that was definitely making shots.
And you can't play defense to beginwith what you're giving me, Yes,

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but that was what that was Delo'sdefense and what he was saying. Just
the thing to pick apart from meis we've seen this multiple times throughout this
season where Lakers will not explicitly sayanything negative about Darvin Ham, but they
take these little passive, aggressive hotshots at him throughout the media. And
it's been happening all season long,multiple players too. Yeah, and it's
been Lebron, it's been a dIt's now been di'angelo, r Austin.

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So you know you're fighting for aplay in spot at this point, you're
gonna be in the player, andyou're gonna be at worst tenth, you're
going to make into the play inspot. But if you lose and get
knocked out in the first round orwhatever the hell they call the play tournament,
I don't know what's classified. Asas ironclad as Sam Amy and other
people were reporting earlier this year thatDarvin Ham is not in danger. I
was seriously questioned whether Darvin Ham isgoing to be the head coach next year.

(21:59):
I really do. I think he'scooked pretty much unless they get back
to the at least to the WesternConference Finals, because that's really all he
has to hang his hat on isthe fact that he did get them from
the play into the conference finals lastyear, even though there were injuries and
other things that worked in their favorto get them to that point. But
then this year he goes completely awayfrom what got them to the conference finals
last year, and then look atthe position there and now it's like he's

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probably cost them fifteen games this yearbased off of his lineups in rotations fifteen
maybe tennis maybe okay, double digitenough to where they've either be over Sacramento
probably somewhere in the six or sevenspot, like significant enough games where players
had caught them out for his weirdrotations, and the videos of Austin Reeves

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like not dapping them up and stufflike that. It's just you start piecing
enough puzzle pieces together to realize Darbhamis on very thin ice. I think
the front office and ownership was justin a really tough position because you're coming
off the Western Conference Finals run wherethey turn things around after the All Star
break in the trade deadline last season, they make that magnificent run, and

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you come into this year not thinking, oh, this could be a situation
where Darwin's immediately in the hot seat, and then it's confirmed by the fact
you win the nd season tournament.Things are going well, and then it
fell off a cliff. There wasjust no backup plan. There was no
plan B. I think there hasn'tbeen a backup plan for three years.
But they shouldn't have had no reasonfor them to come into this season saying

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like, we got to be preparedin case Darwin falls apart. You just
got to the Western Commerce Finals,agree, and then you won the nd
season tournament. Everything was trending theright way. So for all of a
sudden things to get that bad thatquickly. It's understanding. It's understandable to
me why they wouldn't have had abackup plan or been able to fire him,
and that he's been and realistically,since he's gone back to Ruy being

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in the starting lineup, they're tenand four with that lineup. Obviously you're
waiting on Jared Vanderbilt, you're waitingon Kendrick Nunn. I mean, gave
built in injury excuses now not enoughbecause even when they have been whole or
have had better options, since hehas not been optimizing lineup right exactly,
he's been sticking to the favoritism ofplaying his guys like Torrian Prince and Cam

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Reddish over other guys like Ruyachimura,Jared Vanderbilt when he's been available and stuff
like that. But I think alot of it also it's I'm trying to
he's still thinking about get the fuckout no, because I am no.
But it also just comes down tothe players as well. It's like the

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construction of the roster that the frontoffice has given whoever the coach has been.
Frank Vogel, they went away fromwhat won him a championship and now
Darvin Ham. They kind of triedto stick with what he had last year,
but made some tweaks here and there. Got someone who's not really as
much of a defensive player but washoping to be a better offensive player than

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Tory Prince. But it he hasn'treally optimized it the best way he can.
So no, yeah, he's capable. The front office is capable to
some degree. Yeah, they're alland it's a mess. It does go
back to I don't understand. Afterthey win the championship, they have a
complete makeover with the roster. Nowat the time, a lot of people

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thought, wow, this team hasmore dimensions to it. Now you have
Marcasol, now you have Montrez Harrelland everybody liked the moves initially. But
if it ain't broke, don't fixit. Well, they seem to go
away from what and that's where Ithink to circle back and kind of connect
the dots with the Ad and Sabonusstuff, going away from the two bigs

(25:45):
and getting an actual true center soAd doesn't have to play center, like
he said for the last five offseasons, he doesn't like to play center full
time. He's proven it well,which is know thyself, you know listen.
He's like, I told you all, Yeah, I tell you yeah,
and yeah. If closing lineups forthe final five minutes of a game
or a half, sure, butyou want me to play the entire game

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at center. It's not optimal toour success. It just isn't. Yeah,
And the way they've asked him tobulk up to be a center,
I think has definitely impacted his gameoffensively with the jump shooting. Obviously,
Adam, you love to bring upthe shooting in the bubble versus after fifty
long twos and thirty eight Yes,and from three to twenty one games,
which he's never done in a stretchbefore in his life. Yeah, but

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I think the bulking up has impactedhis game offensively. It impacts him to
where he needed to slim down whenhe was injured a couple of times over
the last couple of years, wherehe started off the season Bulkier gets injured,
comes back thinner, and it's workedout a bit and he hasn't been

(26:47):
Yeah, he hasn't been as injuredas much over the last year. This
is the most he's played since thetwenty nineteen twenty twenty season. He hasn't
bulked up enough for Sabonas. No, that but that the thing is he
had guys like JaVale McGee and DwightHoward. Yeah, he can hide behind.
He could not behind. No,it's not. No, it's not

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hiding behind it. No, it'snot. He's still he's still roaming and
playing the best defense in the world. He's playing his true position. Yeah,
not playing his true position and wherehe's maximized to be honest, though,
it's I don't know if it's histrue position because of his mindset.
I guess it is. But that'skind of on him, Like there's no
reason in today's NBA that Anthony Davisshouldn't be able to play center all the

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time like he's I mean sens becausethere's not like it shouldn't be that different.
Yeah, but it is on him. Okay, So if you as
an organization have to know what hisstrengths and weaknesses are, so we can
say it's on him, he shouldtake responsibilities. Sure, but after having
him for what is it's six sixyears, now, five years, whatever

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it is, Yeah, know whathe is and know where he's best at.
Yeah, why put him in positionsto fail? That's fair? Why
are you going out and signing JacksonHayes and Christian will Right, you need
a true center. You should havethe Dirty again or somebody just a bigger
person and they don't have to playthirty minutes a night. No start the
game, play twelve minutes. Justhave Anthony Davis play the majority of his
minutes at the four where he's optimized. I agree with that. If you

(28:15):
had a situation where you had abig bruiser next to him to start games
and to give him fifteen to twentyminutes, sure at the center position,
so ad in big moments because youyou'd want more two dimensional guys on the
floor. You want guys that canplay on both sides. So at the
end of games, you want AnthonyDavis at center, and in many matchups
in the bubble, that's what hedid. Yeah, yeah, I get

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that part of it. He's alsobeing paid a ton of money and it's
like, God, this is what'sbeing demanded of you. We're asking you
to play center, please buck Well, And to his credit, he's doing
it. Yeah, he hasn't complainedabout it. Now. Well, look,
we can argue whether he's doing itwell or not, but he's doing
he's doing what's being asked. He'sdoing it pretty damn well. You used
to complain about it. He hasn'tcomplained that all this year. He accepted
the role. Now, whether ornot he will sell at that role,

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and he hasn't in some situations,that's fine. But then again, that's
not who he is, and that'she's told them through the years. That's
not who I want to be.Why are you square peg round holding it?
That's not on him. We talkedabout it when he signed his extension.
Is this the guy that you wantto hit you hitch your wagon to
when Lebron James leaves. I thinkwe said no, or if you are
realize he's always gonna be Robin andnever Batman. And if you're okay with

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that, then fine, But he'snot gonna be the guy you thought he
was gonna be when you traded itfor him five years ago. He just
isn't. Some of it is alsobecause of the position he plays. You
have to be so much more versatileat the center position today if you're going
to be the number one option playingthat role like Jokic because of his passing
ability, he can be a hubon offense. Anthony Davis. He's progressed

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as a playmaker, he still isn'tthere, Like he's not even close.
Like playing through a guy like that, it's much harder. He's dependent on
ball handlers getting him the basketball.And he also is still he's a rim
runner, Like those shooting splits arenot coming back well. And that's what
that's what hurt him and the dependingon guards to get most of most of
your touches. It's you gotta getyour touches in the most optimal places on

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the floor for you to score.And especially what happened in the Kings game,
I felt like they were putting himin a lot of pick and roll
situations where he's instead of rolling tothe basket, he's popping out to the
to the mid range. And orif he was rolling to the basket,
Harrison Barnes was switching on to himand the guards were just missing the mismatch,
and or the guards were just takingthe shot or giving him the shot

(30:33):
on the outside and he was justmissing up. No, they do it
too often, that's the issue.Like teams are giving him the pick and
pop because they want him to shootfifteen seventeen quarters. That's exactly. So
that's why that's available all the time. The Lakers have had an issue and
this goes back to Vogel for whateverreason, recognizing mismatches in particular when it
comes to Anthony Davis. And Idon't know why that is. That's always
been that's been an ongoing issue.Yeah, when he's had mismatches down low,

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they do not give him the ball, and I don't know, it
makes no sense to me. I'llsay this, he's cap his own ceiling
to some extent as being a numberone option by those shooting splits falling off
a cliff like him shooting thirty percentin the mid range when it looked like
he was trending towards being a moreversatile, well rounded shooter that could shoot
from the outside and spread the floorthat way. That has really hurt his

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chances of being a number one optionon a championship team. That's what's changed
the most to me. Yeah,and that's alarming because, if anything,
that's typically something a skill that youget better at as you get older.
And he had his moment in thebubble. He had one year I think,
where he shot thirty seven percent fromthree with the Pelicans, where it
was looking better, but he's neverbeen able to sustain it. You'd also

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think that someone who grew up asa guard and hit a growth spurt late
and became a center late in hislife, Yeah, he would have a
little bit more knack for shooting.Like listen to this on long twos from
sixteen feet out to the three pointline. Earlier in his career, he
was shooting forty two percent. Thereforty three percent. Now he's it thirty

(32:00):
five percent. Hey, yeah,it's it's gone down it's trended downward.
I think a lot of it isalso in his head. I mean with
this point, Adam, you andI have talked about this a lot.
It's he he's missed so many gimmes. I feel like this season, and
when he misses and he doesn't seethe ball go through the rim, I
feel like with any basketball player,if you don't see the ball go through
the hoop, that's gonna mess withyour head a little bit. And it's

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just been impacting him a little bitmore. Yeah, from that standpoint,
if you're gonna be even the secondaryoption on the team with Lebron or a
team with championship aspirations, you gotto be able to fight through that allow
that to affect you, and D'AngeloRussell is the perfect example of being being
able to do that this year andhow he started off the year struggling being
in all the trade talks and thenbeing able to play through that and him

(32:43):
realizing being more aggressive is what willhelp me on a team with Lebron because
if the team has to account forme, the team isn't accounting for Lebron
and I can get him the balland Lebron can get his I want to
ask you, guys this about dLO because of what we saw against Sacramento
and what was the biggest game ofthe year to date at the time,
do you still have faith in himin a playoff series that some of what

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has been going on over the lasttwo months will translate to the playoffs,
because it's not like he was terriblelast season and that he went into the
playoffs being cold, like he wasplaying well and then a lot of that
stuff fell off once he got intothe playoffs. He's played so well the
last couple of months. As bigas that game against Sacramento was, it
wasn't like the season. So he'shad some hot and cold nights. For

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sure. I'm not gonna necessarily lookat that and say like, well,
he had a bad night against Sacramentoand this is going to affect him throughout
the entire playoffs, I don't thinkso. I think he can find it
easily. I think he's just ahot and cold player. I just very
streaky. Okay, that's fair.But because of his defensive limitations, if
he's not hot, like he reallyhurts you in a series. Yeah,
I mean that's and I mean I'mnot using Sacramento as my reasoning as to

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why I think this. But theonly thing left for Delo to prove is
that he can be consistent in theplayoffs. And until he can do that,
I'm not going to say he cando it. So until I see
it this year in the playoffs,if the Lakers even make it pass the
play in, I love that.Yeah, because there's something to be said
for, you know, playing fournights a week and a random of a
team every single night versus a teamthat can actually lock in and knows your

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tendencies and can play well against youon a night in, night out basis,
for for a week and a half, something to be said for that.
It's it's always funny because with allthe talk of d Lo being in
trade talks this year and everything Lakerstwitter, whenever he has a good game,
it's like, Oh, I toldyou we should have never traded him.
Especially now after the trade trade deadline, a lot of people are like,

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oh, told you, we shouldhave never traded him. After the
King's game, everybody was being like, oh, we should have traded him,
we should have traded him. It'slike what he does in the regular
season to me doesn't matter at thispoint. It's like, be as best
as you can be to get usto where we're supposed to be come April
and May, and then in Apriland May, that's where I need you
to be at your best. Andif you can't be at your best,
I can't trust you. In asixteen game quote unquote season, It's like

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there's a difference between eighty two gameplayers and sixteen game players. Dangelo Russell
right now is an eighty two gameplayer. He's not a sixteen game player.
You can scheme for him, yeah, you can take him out of
the game. Do you have hopethat the Lakers can get out of the
nine to ten bracket, because thatmeans at best you're the eighth seed,
and it looks like right now there'sa good chance you're taking on Denver in
the first round. So they werea couple of games out of because I

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feel like between ten and seven it'slike jumble though. Right now. Right
now, Sacramento's in six, Phoenixis in seventh, Dallas is in eighth,
Lakers nine Warriors ten. Dallas istwo games up on the Lakers.
They're in eighth, Lakers or inninth. If you can't get into seven
and eight, and you have tosettle for nine to ten at best or
the A seed, correct if youwin two games. Yeah, and that's

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the thing. You got to wintwo single elimination games, which and by
the way, the one seed isn'tlocked up either, so who the hell
knows how that's going to shake out. The Clippers are three and a half
out of that and they're currently whatin four. We're in trouble there.
Yeah, that's three and a halfout, sixteen games left or seventeen games
left. There's still a decent amountthat can happen over the next week to
determine that. If oka s gotthe one seed, and that Lakers got

(36:05):
them in the first round. Ithink they'd bound the Yeah, so do
I matchup whise they match up inthe city. The only person that Anthony
Davis does body is Chet Holmegren,and that's because he weighs seven pounds to
body some other guys. Well,one of the only guys on quality opponents
that he plays against you, andyou better enjoy that while he can,
because Chet's coming. So yeah,no, I know, no, Chut's

(36:25):
and Chut's unbelievable. Yeah, yourLakers are in trouble. Tell me something
I don't know that December. Youguys are in trouble. I've been I've
been stressing all year. And yourtake about Anthony Davis over sibonas in big
trouble. Yeah, worst things havehappened your clippers, Adam, how you
feeling about them? I gotta dothis to me, Kevin. I'm just

(36:46):
asking. I was happy to seeKahi back after this, leaving the arena
that flare it up. I gotworried. Your guy right here, brain
mine like a steel trap. Iimmediately went back to twenty twenty one of
March and I remembered a game whereKawhi grabbed his lower back pre game.
I was watching him warm up andhe was a late scratch with backspasms.

(37:07):
He came back and played the verynext game, same thing happened this time.
I think I was the only onein the media that remember that instance.
You probably were myself. I gotrespect for lom Mraa, literally the
only one felt like an actual journalistfor a second. But this mean they're
gonna blow a three one leading inthe postseason when it starts this sho tour.
WHOA No, just for going backin time, it's said like the
exact same thing happened. I'm justasking questions. That was the ACL tear

(37:30):
year. Okay, how dare youyou know? There's so many years,
with so many between injuries and postingsand collapses. This is hard for me
to kind of figure like where thingsfit in. Why am I on the
hot lamp on the hot seaton toEric for the last forty minutes, I
gotta I gotta throw it back.I did I say nothing but kind things
about everybody? Why am I gettingknives out for me? So no calls

(37:52):
for concern When Tyler's talking about thoseguys getting bodied in the paint and all
that stuff the other night and notbeing physical and stuff like that. I've
been concerned for a while. Wheneverybody else was talking about, oh the
Grammy road trip, they went sixand one. This Clippers team is by
far the best team in the league. I was saying, coolier Jets Slawyer
roll a little bit. It's stillFebruary. It's still way too early for

(38:13):
this stuff. And I could seehow, yeah, I was measured.
I could see how things were liningup in the West. I just have
never bought into. Maybe part ofit's because the Lakers, and I'm always
concerned about them to some degree.I didn't say it. I didn't say
that you thought it because I didnot, because I'm living red free.

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But I don't think there's as muchdistance between the top four and what could
end up being the bottom four inthe West. Some people have thought,
like I think it could be ablood bath the first round series, Like
depending on the matchup. If youget okay See versus the Lakers, there's
an eight to one upset in playthere. If you get Minnesota versus I

(38:55):
don't know, Phoenix or Dallas,they could win that. Shouts especially,
come on, it's not it's notcrazy to think that there could be a
couple of upsets in the first round. It's interesting to me because I'm looking
at one through ten and realistically,the only team that I really think that
doesn't belong as New Orleans. Iwas going to say the Pelicans, Probably

(39:16):
I disagree with that. I thinkthe Pelicans have looked really good post All
Star Break, and they've always beena team that if they're actually healthy.
Remember they were at the top ofthe West start the season, maybe like
a month last year, maybe notthat long, but a couple of weeks
ago. It was a time whenthey were healthy. And that's a dangerous
team because nobody has anyone to massup matchup with Zion. He is a

(39:37):
unicorn. He is one of thosefreaky guys that I don't know how you
try to build a wall. Iguess like Zion won like against Joannison Dena
Kupo, but it would be verydifficult if the Clippers have to play them
in the first round of the fourto five. That's a team that has
had their number over the last fiveyears. By the way, I don't
think any team is an easy out. I really don't. I was teams

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in that jumbled mess, New Orleanswill be the one. I think what's
probably outside. I guess maybe theLakers see what scared me the least I
would take. I'd rather if I'mthe Clippers, I'd rather see Sacramento than
them. If I'm a lot ofteams, I'd rather see Sacramento because their
bottom ten defense, like they're justnot there defensively. I don't know how
they were able to lock you guysup in the Big three. When Lebron,

(40:22):
Ad and d Low combined for fifteenof forty three, that'll do it.
I think they started eight of thirtytwo or something. That's exactly how
they started. I don't know theygot up for you guys. They played
well, but I I don't fearfrom the Clippers' perspective Sacramento if I could
pick, pick your poison, butI think they are a little better of
a matchup than some other teams.Yeah, I don't want to have to
see Luca again. I don't wantto see the Suns again with their Big

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three and they're starting to get itgoing. You don't want to eliminate the
Clippers from the playoffs again? Howare you? I'd be awesome perpetuate this
false narrative that NBA TV did whenSteve Smith went on there and said,
you know that's why Luca always beatsthe Clippers, Like, hey, dumb
ass, he lost both those series. Seriously though, I mean player,

(41:05):
I mean I feel like I doknow the answer because I mean, they're
your employer. But an he makesfeelings if the Kings do play the Clippers
in the postseason. Honestly, you'relike Area f Sacramento. He wasn't like
that. Sam was going after me. Well, Sam ax my guy.
No problem with guy. I justdisagreed with him. Well, and now

(41:27):
you look pretty stupid. Should probablyapologize if he should apologize to me for
calling you. Do you want meclown? Do you want me to like
reach out to him and be like, hey, Eric, sorry, He's
obvious he was obviously apologizing her.Behalf. No, I'm not. I'm
not sorry for anything I said.I got absolutely no one like I said,

(41:51):
I apologize absolutely no. But beforebefore he checked out here because we
gotta get into some NFL stuff,some big news that happened the last couple
of days. And you're on ontop of being a big Laker fan,
you're also a big Rams fan.Era. Yes, so we learned this
morning that Aaron Donald hasn't officially announcedhis retirement. Did a long post on
social media. You, mister Ram, how are we feeling? That's a
very, very sad day. Butit's a day I feel like, at

(42:14):
least logical Rams fans have been anticipatingfor a few years. There were rumors
after the Rams won the Super Bowlin twenty twenty one that he was going
to be retiring, and right offinto the sunset with a Super Bowl win,
there was rumors last season that hewas going to retire because he didn't
want to be a part of arebuild. And then he ends up coming

(42:35):
to training camp in OTA's and endsup having one of the best seasons of
his career, has a great timewith all the young guys, mentoring them,
and the Rams make the playoffs.Surprisingly with the way the season and
offseason was going. I said theyweren't going to win more than five games
last year, and they end theonly one. Yeah, they end up
making a playoff. Well, notthe first We're all done as not the

(42:58):
first case. I think the overunder on win for the Rams going into
last season might have been six yeshould be the last. But I mean,
that's one thing I have against SeanMcVay. He does not know how
to manage timeouts. And it's nounbecoming of a coach who's that good to
be that terrible of timeout in oneof the mad scientist type. But he
can't manage the clock. Yeah,but I mean, Aaron Donald, in
my opinion, is the greatest footballplayer at least I've ever seen, probably

(43:24):
up there with one of the greatestever. I think he's a better defensive
tackle than Tom Brady is a quarterback. I think he's a better defensive tackle
than Peyton Manning is a quarterback.It's like Aaron Donald to me, is
the greatest football player I've ever seenwith my own two eyes, with the
way he impacted the game. He'sundersized, and he's getting double and triple
teamed every time. He's a threetime Defensive Player of the Year, Defensive

(43:46):
Rookie of the Year, multiple timeFirst team pretty much every year of his
career. I mean, he's he'sa first ballot Hall of Famer. The
the discussion should be as quick asit was for Peyton Manning, like he's
seen it one of the greatest defensiveplayers in the history. That's not Hyperboles.
Yeah, I think he probably isthe best DT, right, Yeah,
he's the best defense ap John Randallwho was great too. And there's

(44:10):
also an undersized, undersized guy,yeah, Chris Jenkins who was righted up
getting to had a couple of years. You know. It's it's it's funny
because I always talking with my friendsabout the era of sports we grew up
in and like all the great playersthat we've gotten to see in all the
different sports, and it's like Ialways take like a moment, especially when

(44:32):
I'm at a game live, tolike see who the my team is playing
against and like what other great playeron the other team is like. So
it's like when I was at theLebron forty K game, I was also
there to see Jokes play for thefirst time and just marvel at how good
he was and he ends up puttingup thirty five, ten and seven,
And it's like every time I wentto a RAMS game, I was like

(44:52):
being like, all right, cool, Like I get to see Aaron Donald
play in person, and like it'sof greatness. Yeah, No, that's
that's exactly what it is. It'sbeing in that and do you feel like
that right now? Yeah? No, No, Kevin's in here too,
don't don't don't like Kevin. Appreciatethat obviously, Kevin, But I mean,
what about me? Then? Wantto give you shit the entire time,

(45:14):
But no, it's Aaron Donald's oneof the best football players ever,
and it's it's the NFL will neverbe the same. It's like I always
talk about Hall of Fame players andtheir criteria is like, can you tell
the story of that sport without them? It's like you can't tell the story
of the NFL without Aaron Donald oreven another gratier is like, was this
person never considered one of the topthree players at the position during the time

(45:35):
they played, Yeah, and hewas probably number one every year that he
played. Yeah. And so it'slike lately, the last probably like two
three years post rams Super Bowl,everyone is talking about defensive tackles like TJ.
Watt, Miles, Chris Jones,Chris Jones, and it's like,
oh, Garrett's even more of anedge rusher or a defensive end. But
still it's like, don't forget aboutAaron Donald. Like he's still doing the

(45:57):
damn thing. But now, obviouslywith retirement after ten years, it's there
will be a hole left in theNFL that Aaron Dodder. Just in the
Rams too. Considering how well theyplayed last year, people were projecting how
well they progress even more so thisyear based on the fact that he would
be there. They'll probably still bevery solid this year. But that is
a humongous loss locker room, theweight room, the defensive line room.

(46:19):
So I want to see how themetrics change for them going into this season
knowing he's not going to be there. No, I don't mean to hate
here, but if I could gobest football player of all time just because
of the position he plays, well, for me, it's can you impact
the game? I would never saybest football player of all time because there's

(46:40):
too many positions, with too manydifferent responsibilities and too many different criteria.
That's not fair to anybody. That'snot fair to Chuck but Erik, or
Joe Montana or Aaron Donald or oranybody Reggie White because the positions are different.
Basketball, have the ball in yourhands, you can do multiple different
things. You can impact the sportdifferently. I don't think it's a fair

(47:00):
question to say to ask who isthe best football player of all time.
Everybody is different. Well, youdid say you thought that Donald was a
better defensive tackle than say Manning wasa quarterback. I think that's difficult to
equate. It is difficult to equate. But there's more distance between him and
the second best defensive tackle than therewas between Peyton Manning and his prime versus

(47:21):
the second best quarterback. Yeah,oh yeah, maybe maybe that's true.
He just can't affect the game asmuch as a quarterback when the defensive line
scheming to block just one player.I'm not saying he can't affect the game,
but he can't affect the game tothe level no, because he doesn't
have the ball affected a lot.To a degree, yes, yeah,
football, with the way it isconceptually played, it is hard to make

(47:45):
that. Otherwise they would have wonmultiple super Bowls because he's so much better
than everybody else at his position.You're like that at the quarterback position,
like Mahomes is now you got threewell to a degree, I mean this
is being realistic because this offense thisyear for Kansas City was as shitty as

(48:07):
it got. And this is noslide to Mahomes. As great as he
was their offense still sucked for eightypercent of the season. They got carried
by their defense. It's not asslight to him. It's a fact of
a reality. So, yes,a great quarter How many great years did
Peyton Manning have as a quarterback?How many great postseasons that Aaron Aaron Rodgers
lost a playoff game to Arizona likeforty five to thirty eight where they didn't

(48:28):
punt once, but he got stripsackedand they won an overtimes, won two
super Bowls off the backs of theirdefense. It wasn't his fault. So
Aaron Rodgers phenomenal player, but theteam around him wasn't good enough. Jose
playoffs. Yeah, so you talkingabout impact of a game. Even if
a quarterback has the greatest impact ona game, he still might not be
the determining factor as to whether ornot they win. This is why it's

(48:51):
an ultimate team sport. Which iswhy I go back to my original statement
of I just can't say who thegreatest football player of all time is because
it's not fair to all the differentpositions. The moment, I'm sorry,
kick the ball Kyle Shanahead and theNiners would have won and Mahomes would only
have two. My goodness, I'mstill upset about that. Quickly, what's
going on all the Chargers in Keenan. Oh? Yeah, it was very

(49:13):
surprising. You know, once theyended up cutting uh, Mike Williams,
freeing up all that money and theirrestructure, Joey Bosa and Klo Mack.
You didn't think they would even needto have to do anything with Keenan Allen.
I thought they did that for reasons. So did I talk about don't
let the door hitch you on theway out getting traded for a fourth round
pick. This guy is the bestreceiver in franchise. Frans Stey, for
sure. I know he's injury prone, but when he plays years amazing.

(49:36):
He's done his a cl twice right, Yes, and he still comes and
to give him to Chicago, who'svying for the number one overall pick,
probably gonna get Caleb Williams. Theyjust signed DeAndre Swift, they have DJ
Moore, they have Cole Comet.Now they had Keenan Allen. It's like
this harball putting this you know whatdown and saying this is my team now.
The only reason, yeah, theonly reason I'm not questioning it too

(49:57):
much? Is because I have faithin Harball. Yeah, so now we
love Harbor. Yeah, now's justinHerbert might be saying the fuck you doing
bro well much more understated. Igotta give credit to Keenan Allen for saying,
no, I'm not taking a paycut it respect give me all my
goddamn money. Yeah, Mike MikeEvans gonna say, you know what I'll
take. Let's to stay in Tampabecause I got a championship and my wife
is happy here. Keenan Allen's like, I haven't won shit. Is he
a Hall of Famer? I don'tthink he can. Probably not. I'm

(50:21):
not just gonna say, Mike Evans. I think that's a more interesting conversation.
It is, uh, Keenan Allen, I don't believe so, I
don't believe so it's tom. MikeEvans is the only player in NFL history
now thousand yard receiving seasons every yearof his career since year one, and
he has a super Bowl in hisresume. I think, yeah, well,
yeah, the Brady Stamp does it. That doesn't That certainly doesn't hurt.

(50:43):
How about AB he's getting in hashtagsseats to ESPN that's a that's a
great Listen. Two people need help. Somebody said somebody needs to take his
Instagram to Twitter whatever socials away fromAntonio Brown. Pray for this man.
That's I think the best he couldsay. Pray for this man. He's
got he's got issues, got someissues. It's it's real. Well.

(51:04):
I think Adam and Eric hashed outtheir issues at least for now. For
now, thanks for having me,guys. Of course, until the Lakers
and the Kings play each other inthe postseason. Somehow, some way,
it's back on like two thousand andtwo and I'm still waiting for a Lakers
Clippers playoff series. You know what, I didn't want the Kings to win
that series. When I saw Heatoturkle Louse skipping like pitt me long Stocking
after hitting that three in Game threeat Staples Center, I was like,

(51:25):
I don't want them to win justbased on that. I'm not losing to
that he do. I'm not losingto that. I will. I will
say every time Keegan Murray hits athree in the crowd and like the PA
announcer goes Keegan and the whole crowdgoes Murray. That's pretty cool. How
about the whole light the beam thing. It's awesome. The beam fut that
beams going straight up your ass.That's the coolest celebration mantra that I think

(51:54):
is in the NBA right now.The end of the day, the King's
one for miles away way just fromthe beam going up. Is Chuck the
condor making it back to Englewood orare they nexting him with the new logo
Chuck's flying in? Okay, Idon't think there's anything wrong with Chuck.
I'm just I'm just asking Lakers gota mascot or is it still just vt

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B? Still still Vic talking abouttalking about victory for v t B Yesterday's
right, pmsh, No doubt whenthat comes to Asian news, my name
never doubt Vic. He told youall that way Yao Ming's foot was butchered.
This is even while Yao Ming wasstill trying to rehab and come back.
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twenty two or whatever it was inAngel spring training. Wow. And he
told you, guys who the wifewas. You didn't believe him. She's
a hooper too. I was watchingsome highlights on Twitter yesterday. Oh my
god. Maybe the Lakers can signher. They should. Thank you guys.
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