NBA All-Star Weekend Stinks, Super Bowl Fallout, JJ Redick is Upset

Brendan Abban talks the fallout from the Super Bowl and the Kansas City Chiefs winning their third Super Bowl in five seasons. He discusses what it would look like for them to win three straight and the events of the Super Bowl parade. He also dives into NBA All-Star weekend and its numerous issues. He provides a fix for the game that takes from the MLB.

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those different places if you want moreKBR Sports content. But happy to have
you here for the podcast today.And we're coming off fresh off of an
NBA All Star weekend. But evenbefore I touch on the All Star weekend,
I have to touch on the newsof the week beforehand, which was
the super Bowl. I didn't reallyget to talk about the super Bowl because
I didn't get a chance to puta podcast out last week. But I

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do want to talk about the superBowl real quick. Caud of see Chiefs.
I made a TikTok and a shortYouTube video a whole nine about the
Chiefs winning the Super Bowl and ifthey would be the team that people believe
you can three P. I thinkthat at three P and NFL is so
hard. I think you have tobe so locked in. The competition in
the field is so vast now.And even though I think the Chiefs going

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through them in the AFC is reallythe standard at this point in time,
I still think that they it's atough beat, especially with them trying to
have talent return, and after youwin a championship, it is it is
a bit different, I guess youcould say for some people coming back and
trying to have that same hunger andgo back and win it again. And
guys are older now, your bodiesare more worn down, So the expectation

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of trying to come back and dothat thing again is a lot on players.
So I think that it's going tobe one of those situation that's really
difficult to do this team, andit's different to me than it was for
like the Patriots teams back in twothousand and three, two thousand and four,
because I think even back then whenthe Patriots went back to back,
I don't think Tom Brady was thebest quarterback in the league at that point

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in time, and I think thatthat was a heavily defensive led team that
Tom Brady was, you know,he was just happened to be a part
of. And he obviously he playedhis part, he did his role,
and he was the quarterback, hewas the game manager. I guess you
could say if those teams really theguy that protect the ball and just really
just did enough to help the teamwin. But he wasn't the pre eminent

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guy that he would later become tobe in his career. But Patrick Mahomes
already that guy in the midst ofall this and in the midst of this
run. So maybe that's where thescales were tipping a different fashion. But
I still think something that's incredibly toughto do, the fact that think about
it, the fact that even inthe NBA, the three piece that the

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last time we had somebody to domultiple three piece was the Chicago Bulls the
start of the nineties and then tothe mid to late nineties where Michael Jordan
and Scottie Pippen, Phil Jackson andthat crew were able to pull off two
separate three peats, and even inthe midst of that Jordan retired in between
one of them then ended up comingback and they went for it all.
So and the same team from thefirst half of the three p was not

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the same team from the to thesecond three piece. So I think that
it's just something to note when you'redoing epigranted. Like I said, the
first team, if you're able toeven pull it off one time, it's
a feat and it's something that wouldnever been done in the NFL history in
the Super Bowl era. For theKansas City Chiefs, they're able to do
that, go and win a SuperBowl, that would be literally NFL history

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being made. And that's when thosesituations were. If they're able to do
that, Man, you got toreally start talking about Patrick Mahomes being the
best player to ever play in theNFL. I think there's a difference between
best player and goat right. Ithink got is when you have like the
greatest resume, all the accolades,all the championships, the MVPs, and

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all that stuff under your belt.And right now, at the halfway mark
of comparing him to Tom Brady,Patrick Mahomes already outside of just one Super
Bowl championship, Patrick Mahomes is alreadybeating Tom Brady out in literally every other
metric when it comes to all pros, when it comes to MVPs, when
it comes to Super Bowl MVPs,he literally is just one ring short of
Tom Brady. So I think thatwhere if they're able to win another one,

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and let it be the third onestraight, then that would be some
interesting conversation to be had because itwould literally be evidence that throughout this reign
of the Chiefs, I mean,he's just been an unstoppable force, and
that team overall has been unstoppable force. Because then you start talking about Andy
Reid being one of the best coachesof all time and all that stuff as
well because of the fact that theygo they do a three p right,
and so that would be really interestingto see. And I always root for

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greatness personally. I tend to thinkthat it's more interesting when you have people
consistently being great because I think thestorylines that come out of that are just
so much more. I don't know, it's like it becomes like a legend,
right, a legacy type of deal. Like Kareem's scoring record was something
that was just heralded in the NBAfor years, Right, it was something
that you just didn't think was goingto be broken. You didn't really see

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how it was happening. But thenI personally myself, I saw back in
college, I wrote up I rememberI wrote up an opinion piece in college,
and I had written about how everybodyat the time was saying how Kevin
Durant was gonna be the guy thatwould end up breaking the NBA scoring record
or at some point would be ableto do that. And I just remember

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I wrote a piece at the timesaying, Kevin Durant already and I think
this was in the mist at thepoint after he had broken his foot or
something. I think it was thatseason. He was still with the Oklahoma
City Thunder. He was fresh offof winning his well like true, I
think he had won his third scoringtitle or so, and at that time
it didn't seem ridiculous, but Ithink he had just broken his foot,
and I was saying after it wasthe season after that, maybe, but
I had written and said that KevinDurant had already missed too many games to

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even be in the conversation to tryand catch Lebron James, let alone Kareem
Abdul Jabbar right, And it wasone of those situations where I just felt
like or when I wrote it,I was doing the math and I was
just like, well, the gamesthat Kevin Durant has played, Lebron has
played literally almost every single game allthese seasons leading up to that point.
At that point, he was stillwith the Miami Heat when I was in

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college. So it was just itwas a write up that I didn't but
it was just pretty much encompass athow how hard it is to break to
make history in that form, inthat regard, to do something of that
sort that's it seems like such afar off, a far off goal that
you can't reach, and then whensomebody actually does it, you're like,
wow, and now it's like Lebron'sgoal. I mean, Lebron's still adding

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to the total in terms of thescoring total, right, and now somebody
ever getting seven Super Bowls seems socrazy until Patrick Mahomes wins his third and
then you're like, oh, wait, wait, wait a minute. But
then you're like, okay, wait, wait, slow down the dress because
you still got four more to tryand catch up to Tom right, you
still got to win one more toeven catch Joe Montana. But this the

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prospect of the possibility. It startsto become crazy, and as you see
the team start to try and maintainitself, get other pieces, to bring
in different guys, because even thingslike Jerry Rice's receiving records, a lot
of those have not been broken,nobody's even come close to breaking them,
even though the league has transitioned intoa more past dominant league. And so
that's one of those interesting things youlook at it and you're like, wow,

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you naturally would expect, for example, like the NBA kind of like
how exactly the NBA, where thethree point records were being broken as we
entered a more predominant three point era, But in the NFL, a lot
of the receiving records and so onhave been maintained. Granted passing yard seasons,
the highest total of passing our seasonsare being set in this current era
because now guys are throwing the balla lot more. But sometimes some of

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these records in terms of guys careerpassing numbers and whatever, are not being
touched. And so that's really interestingto see how that differs from the NFL
versus football, and even to thisday, I think I think it was
it's Eric Dickerson's single game rushing recordthat still hasn't been broken, and all
these years, Adrian Peterson came closeyears ago, the year he carried that

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team with Christian Ponders the quarterback.The year after he tours acl MCL.
That was crazy, a feed ofathletic marvel, I tell you, but
that was insane. That was trulyinsane. But it was on those situations,
man, that you just love tosee history being made. And I
would love to see the Chiefs makehistory. Granted, there are other people
I want to see being the SuperBowl. I want my rams to go

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and win the Super Bowl. Ofcourse, I'm always gonna vibe for my
rams, So I would love thatI saw them when the Super Bowl years
ago. And I just it isa blessing, man, I've been blessed.
Just this is a side off TangentRight's random side of tangent, But
I've been blessed in my life wherereally I don't have many things to complain
about in life. Yes, Iwish everybody wishes that they had things that

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they had the levers to be ableto just kind of eradicate many of the
stressors in the life. But thenwhen you really evaluate it, you're like,
well, how much of a stressoris this for real? Right?
Like how much is this really abig deal that I'm stressing about? And
then when you really put things intoperspective, you realize how blessed, how
privileged you are, even though yes, you might have some negative things in
your life that some different things thatare nagging that impact how your daily life

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goes, or different things that canjust happen out of nowhere that can make
it go from one hundred to subtwenty or something. It's just you got
to always keep in perspective how blessedyou are all around. And I've been
able to see my teams win championships, and I'm gonna say from when I
really really was watching sports, Iwas able to watch the Lakers went back
to back championships in the Kobe era. I was able to watch Lebron win

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the championship with the Lakers in twentytwenty. I was able to watch the
Dodgers win a championship in twenty twenty, and then the following year, I
was able to watch the Rams wina Super Bowl. And I remember at
the time it was so funny becauseI was making I was making like different
videos and whatnot, tiktoks and Instagramreels and whatever, talking about oh my

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bike, when your team wins thewhen your NBA team and your mb team
win the championship in the same year, and I was doing all these different
things, and I remember one ofmy Friendzy comments is like, dude,
imagine if the Rams in the SuperBowl. And then they literally won the
Super Bowl the following year, andI remember everybody came to me. It
was like, dude, what areyou gonna do now? And I was
like, I don't know, man, I kind of topped it. That
was just like an incredible run andit's so crazy. Just go down memory

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lane and remember that. But that'slike a blessing because there's so many fan
bases that don't see their teams wina championship in their lifetimes. I'll never
forget during the Lions run, theLions had this incredible run, and they
bring out that old dude that hasbeen a Lions fan for years. I
think he was like in his eightiesor nineties, and he's just talking about
how like it's so funny because they'reinterviewing him and he's just giving these very

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poignant frank answers and it's just obvious. So he's like, well, they're
like, what do you want tosee the Lions do today? He's like,
win, And it's just obvious becausethat's what that guy's been waiting all
his life to see. And obviouslythe Lions didn't get it done getting to
the super Bowl to try and getto the super Bowl, but that was
on the storylines I was rooting fortoo, because like, damn, that

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would have been an awesome storyline.But I digress. I think it's I
think we're gonna we're gonna be ina position to see the Chiefs chase history,
which is gonna be a through linethroughout all the season. Next year
is gonna be very interesting. ButI also did want to touch on some
of the bets that I had Ihad put down for y'all, because look,

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I went to a four, allright, we went fifty percent on
the bets. The bets I loston where the Kansas City money line in
the first half was plus one ten. The Kansas City did not win the
first half. Sadly enough, Iwas so blown, man, and so
it was just some of these turnoversthat happened. I was like, oh,
gosh, I could have been it. And then even the there was
another bet I had. It wasa prop bet each team to score one

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touchdown in the first half and onefield go in the first half, and
the forty nine ers held that endof the bargain. And then the Chiefs
want to fumble all over the placeand not get into the end zone.
So that really screwed the pooch forthat bet. And that would have been
such a nice payout to plus threetwenty on that bet. But the bets
I did hit on Patrick Mahomes SuperBowl MVP that was at plus one twenty

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five. Okay, look I prettymuch said I said it on the podcast.
I said, if you're gonna pickthe Chiefs, what are you doing?
If you're not picking my homes asa Super Bowl MVP, that's just
stupid. You might as well justdo a parlay with the two things and
just earn more money on that.I should have told you guys that beforehand,
but I forgot until this moment.But yes, that would have been
smart to do a parlay essentially becausethe two bets co incide with one another.

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There's no way the Chiefs were gonnawin and Patrick Mahomes was not going
to be the Super Bowl MVP.And then the other bet I had was
the game lines, which was theKNCD Chiefe money line at plus one hundred.
You weren't gonna win a crap tonof money on that, but if
you're betting a lot of money,you did get a good amount back on
that. But you know, Ithink that for fifty percent hit rate,

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not bad, especially with the othertwo really being prop bets, not bad.
I would say. I would say, I don't think that's bad at
all. I don't think that's badat all. But the one thing I
did want to touch on real brieflyis also talking about because I got really
frustrated last week because I was watchingthe Chief Parade live and then the entire
ordeal happened with the shooter at theChief Parade, and it was sad to

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me because I was just so frustratedbecause seeing it, I was just so
happy for Kansas City and the people, you know, and that team.
You saw all the clips coming outon social media and there were so many
people that were just so happy andso joyous seeing all the players. They
were, like me, be plasteredright, and they were out of their
minds. But then you have thestory come out about the shooting and you're

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just like, oh, man,like what And when the shooting news came
out, I was because I wasconfused because I'm just sitting there watching it.
Then I'm checking I'm checking Twitter,and then I see the just chaos
going on. I see videos startingto go viral of people running around the
place, and then it's talking aboutlike shots are being fired out out here,

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can't see or they're rushing us intothis different thing that these people everybody's
recording their own videos and people arepanicked, And it was just wild to
me because I'm like, no waythat we're doing this at a championship championship
parade, right, no way?But really, old venue is safe now,
man. People don't care. Peopledo not care, and you just

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hate to see it because then yousee this more as more details come out.
You know, they talk about howthere's twenty two people that were injured,
one died, and it's just sucha sad story to hear about because
when you're sitting there, you're like, people are going to a championship,
Like I think about any event you'veever been to, a concert, a

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game, outdoor event whatever, arally or something. You're never going there
thinking it's going to be the lastday of your life, right and sadly,
And I'm gonna say the woman's namefor Lisa Lopez Galvin, that was
the last day of her life.She was killed at the championship parade.

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And it's just one of those things. And I wasn't even aware that last
year when the Nuggets won, therewere shootings in Denver as well, and
I was sitting I'm like, damnman, every event at every event have
to be like sectioned off of redtape, and we gotta bring we gotta
have like security doing pat downs forevery event. Like at some point they're

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just gonna start holding these things inauditoriums. They're gonna put them in the
stadiums because you can't trust people justto act normal and just not like let
me, let me read all thiswrite up from ESPN okay about about why

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this even started. Okay, accordingto court documents, and this is credit
to ESPN the right. It saysESPN News Services. I'd always try to
credit the writer because I hated whenI used to write articles and people would
take my stuff and you can searchup your your articles and search all the
lures in your article and see ifthey appear elsewhere on the internet, and
I would find it, and peoplewould take my stuff in my articles and

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not credit me correctly. Almost hada word I was, but okay,
here's the write up. Lindell mayIs a a tom Missouri, and Dominique
Dominique Dominick Miller of Kansas City,Missouri are both charged with second degree murder,
two counts of armed criminal action,and unlawful use of a weapon.
According to court documents, the twomen were strangers who pulled out guns and

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began firing within seconds of starting anargument. Both men were shot and they
have been hospitalized since the shooting.Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said during
a news conference they're being held ona one million dollar bond. The argument
began when two groups of people grewagitated over the belief that people and the
other group were and the other groupwere staring at them. What so a

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person lost their life and according tothis article from ESPN, the injuries could
range. The injuries are currently ragingfrom eight eight to forty seven people.
All right, so eight to fortyseven people and one death. One confirmed
death occurred because people didn't and likeother people staring at them. Dude,

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I I don't even know what tosay. I'm not going to get into
I'm not going to say all thisthing about getting to the politics about gun
laws and all this stuff, becausethat's I don't I'm covering the news more
so because it's a sporting event,but I'm not a political podcast to that
extent, So I'm not going toget into all that. But I will

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I will. I always do holdthe the the belief that weas weapons don't
fire themselves. It's the idiots thatdo the shootings that are that are the
problems. Right, And you canmake an argument for people can argue whether
they want tighter gun laws and allthat stuff, but I always say the

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people are the like they were staringat each other and that led to an
escalation of shooting one another. FamWhat like, what are we doing?
Like? That's just so stupid.And it's one of those things that even

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even gun owners will tell you thatyou almost have an extra burden of responsibility
if you own a gun, rightthat you don't just discharge it in whatever
random circumstance or because you lose yourtemper or whatever the case might be,
Like, that's an irrational person thatshould not have a weapon. And these
two people, one in their earlytwenties, the other was eighteen or nineteen

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years old. Mays is in hisearly twenties and Miller is eighteen or nineteen
years old. It's just one ofthose situations you sit there and you just
really like, you like lose yourmind about it. And Mays even tries
to like, it's so crazy tome because what He tries to lie at
one point, saying that he hewas running away from the action so he

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didn't fire shots. Then they said, we have surveillance footage of you shooting,
like running at the person and shootinglike four to five shots, and
then he admitted to it happening.Then he says, I hesitated because he
knew there were kids there. Hetold investigators he began firing after someone in
the other group said I'm going toget you, which he took to me
and they would try to kill him. He said he chose a random person

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from the other group to shoot atas the person that was as that person
was running away. Oh, Milleris the one that told investigators that he
and his friends began running outter hearinggunfiring, that he was shot in the
back. That's what affidavit said.Then investigators told Miller they had video of
him chasing someone in Maze group andshooting, and then Miller admitted to firing

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four to five shots. And itwas a bullet from Miller's gun that killed
Lisa Lopez Galvin, in which shewas in a nearby crowd of people watching
the Chiefs rally. According to oneof the affidavits, Wow, it's just

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so sad, and I'm not sorry. I'm not trying to bring down the
mood of the podcast, but it'smore so just I talk about these things
because I want people to be awareof these things. For one, for
you to be safe, of course, always be aware of your surroundings.
Sometimes I'm so concerned when I seepeople out in public and they like,
they're just in La Lasland with theirmusic up so loud, and I can
hear it from their headphones, andI'm like, dude, you wouldn't even

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know if something was going on rightnow. Like even me, sometimes I
have headphones in, but I tryto keep them as low as possible,
so I'm aware of my surroundings andnaturally I think. I mean, you
guys, let me know if youhave the same type of mindset I last
time I'm on, my head's ona swivel. I'm not comfortable. I'm
rarely like just comfortable in free inpublic. The only place that I really

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feel comfortable in free in public iswhen I am at like, let's say,
a place where people have been alreadyscanned for weapons, right like a
like a concert, a sporting event, Disney. I don't know places like
that, right, but rarely everdo I am I sitting here, like
if I go to a restaurant,I'm looking at the door at the mall,
I'm on like I'm on ten,I'm looking around, I'm walking around,

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And it's like one of those thingsthat it's funny because this whole thing
starts about some people staring at people, and it's not like I'm staring at
people in a way that I'm tryingto like cause conflict or whatever I guess
you could say. But I'm justmaking sure that I'm keeping my eyes on
people to make sure nobody even likesomebody's just been walking behind me for a
while, I'm gonna like be like, what's going So then I'll just stop
walking. I'll maybe turn around andchange direction to see what's going on and

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just to make sure nothing's up,because I'm just on that like energy trying
to make sure. But I'm nevergonna be confrontational with people unless like they
come at me in that type ofway, like they're like they are physically
confrontational with me, right, likeyou're already pushing me or punch And even
in that degree, that doesn't escalateto needing to point out a gun and
shoot somebody, which is so manyproblems with so many people that everything just

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rises to escalation. Oh I gottago to shoot you. I hate to
bring this up in such a serioustopic, but it's one of those things
that I I don't remember which boxor which MMA fighter said it. Well,
I guess this is they. Ithink they pretty much essentially said nobody

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goes and gets self defense training anymore. Everybody just gets a weapon and thinks
that's the only protection they need.And it's true a lot of people do
think that way. They think theirgun is they're only a level protection.
People don't know how to fight.They don't know how to disarm. They
don't know how to protect themselves.I personally did a lot of MMA training
myself so I could learn how tohave self defense. I've tried to teach
my girlfriend. You can't for youcan't lead people to the water, you

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know, I don't know. I'vetried. But it is an important thing.
Man. If you guys listen tothis, make sure you please just
be mindful when you make decisions.Okay, this in case, if I'm
even listening to if I'm talking tosomebody's even a ho head in your own
right, this thing first, man, right, think about the repercussions and
the consequences and how it can affectnot only you, Because the problem I

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have with a lot of these situationsthat it's the most selfish thing you can
do. Like, this type ofaction is so selfish, and that one
split decision you just thought you werejust gonna inflict such a level of harm
to somebody. The person that youeven wanted to infect the level of harm
to wasn't the person that got themost taken away from the family of a
bystander that wasn't even involved, whichis the saddest part. Right, So,

(23:26):
I just wanted to say that justPSA for people, but just to
you know, round things back aroundto just more joyful tone now. I
it was nice to see the Chiefs, the Chiefs players get you know,
come and come around the community andso on. And there's still the they
still have the Saint Patrick's Day paradethat schedule I think for next week.
I saw as I was doing thewrite up and the read up on this

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that they still have that that paradescheduled, so they're not there. I'm
curious what kind of security they're gonnado. I'm always curious of how security
works for these type of events,but especial because I heard something like eight
hundred or something officers are there.My number might be off, but I
saw that on the local news,and so I was watching Kansas City News
through a feed that ESPN had passedthrough to it, so I was watching

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it on there. But yeah,we'll see, we'll see, we'll see
what kind of changes might come tochampionship parades and so on after that,
And it was cool. Taylor Shiftdonated one hundred thousand dollars to the family,
to Lopez Galvin's family, so thatwas nice to see as well.
But guys, there's no way toreally transition from a topic like that.

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But let's talk about NBA All StarWeekend. Okay, NBA All Star Weekend,
Man, NBA All Star Weekend.So Friday night, I look,
they have the Celebrity Game on Fridaynight. They have this, they don't
They have the Celebrity Game, andthey have like the Rookie Sophomore Game or
the Rising Stars Game or something likethat. And I'm gonna be honest with

(24:53):
you, I don't watch either.One don't even care. There's times there
areelebrities in there hooping that are ballingtheir butts off, but I don't care.
I don't care. It's not interesting. It's never been of interest to
me. It might be of interestto you. If you want to see
your favorite favorite celebrity or one ofcelebrities you care about out there hooping,
that might be of interest to you. Some people they got if they said

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they were gonna have Taylor Swift outtheir ball, and look a lot of
people are tuning in now all ofa sudden, a lot of women are
gonna turn it in and said,I can see Taylor play ball. People
tuned into Kansas City Chiefs games justto watch the girl in the suite for
like ten seconds total of a game, so they're gonna watch her play basketball.
She was on part of the celebritygame. But I think that it's
one of those situations where just forme personally, he doesn't speak to me

(25:38):
Saturday night is what speaks to me. You got the skills Challenge, you
got the three point contest, youhad Sabrina and Escu versus Steph Curry,
you got the dunk contest, SkillsChallenge. I don't you know, I
kind of can put all this stuffinto one thing, excluding the three point
Contest and the Stephan Sabrina and Escucontent shooting contest, even the dunk Contest.

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I'm gonna scow from this because Ithink particularly even the skills Challenge in
the All Star Game, people peoplejust take it as a joke. They
do. People take it as ajoke entirely, and I don't know.
It's it's a bummer. It isa bummer because I don't like the skill

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challenge going on, and Anthony Edwardsis trying to finish the last skill the
part of the Skills challenge shooting theball left handed because he said he was
gonna play the whole weekend left handed. I'm like, dude, this is
I made a video what a monthweeks ago talking about who's the next face
of the NBA, and one ofthe guys I noted was Anthony Edwards.
Is a lot of people were commentingAnthony Edwards. But if that's the kind
of attitude you're bringing to some ofthe events you're partaking, and bro,

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what are we doing talking about I'mgonna play left handed? You're not ambidextrous,
which means you're efficient. You're prettymuch fluent between both right and hand
left hands. And if you're notthat efficient to that extent with your left
handed, what are we doing?They don't make a mockery of the fans
that paid to come and watch thisevent. The people that are watching the

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cable syndications that have now or thecable stations rather that have paid to carry
this event and so on and carrythese things are part of the cable packages.
So you're making a joke of thewhole thing. And my biggest thing,
because the All Star Game had theyscored over three hundred combined points,
so three hundred and eighty something combinedpoints. I think it was, I

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just know it. But that's eventhat's insane, it's insane. And the
level of defense, the just thedisplay of layups, shooting from long range.
And Kobe. Kobe has said itbest. He said, people are
more competitive in UCLA pickup games inthe summer than they are during the game.

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For the league, the professional leaguethat they are part of, for
the fan base that pays their paystheir way so that they are able to
have those u c l A gamesand be able to prep in the summer
and get right to come and performon the biggest league ever. It's it's
always so funny to me. Andit's so funny because I made a video

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critique and Stephen A. Smith talkingabout how I think he makes stuff up
sometimes, but no, I thinkhe's one hundred percent spot on with this
that the players have so much powerin the league, and it's almost like
they forgot what goes into them gettingthat power and how they have that star
level influence and how like what allis combined in achieving those things. Maybe

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maybe it's not showing that the AllStar Game that has any feedback or verberation
on those on their on their stats, as as stars, as brand Ambassards
and so on. But man,I really like the way they say people
should vote with their wats. Ireally wish people would vote with their wallets.
I just wish there was a way, like obviously, because you're not

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gonna of a sudden stop watching regularseason basketball because the All Star Game sucks.
But if it comes to a pointwhere they're like, Okay, I
don't know. I know it's likecollectively bargain, but they're like, all
right, if you guys are youguys just see it as a break.
You're just gonna treat it as solet's cancel the All Start's cancel the All
Star Game, and we'll bring youguys back for play a couple of days
earlier that were really cut into yourbreak, right because players are off until

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Thursday. I don't know, man, I don't know. And I saw
I seen some it's it's And I'mnot trying to pick on Anthony Edwards here,
but he even he vocalized what alot of players are displaying on the

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court during the All Star Game,during some of these skills competition and so
on. When he said that peoplearen't really looking at and I'm paraphrasing,
people aren't looking All Star Weekend asbeing competitive or looking at it as a
break. Well, the NBA hasto address that some way or fashion because
All Star weekend is the one weekendit's like the neutral site where everybody comes
to. It's kind of supposed tobe built up to in ways be their

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super Bowl type of event where everybodycomes into town for that one weekend and
what's going on. And it's asham. It's a sham, dude,
it's a joke. It's a totaljoke. The whole All Star Game.
I do. I remember one ofmy group chats. I was texted,

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if I am I gonna watch AllStar Game, I'm like, I'm gonna
have it on my laptop or somethinglike that, just to like maybe hear
or something goes crazy happens, ButI'm not watching. It's not gonna be
my primary mode of focus. No, I don't. I just don't care.
I don't. It has no Ithas no value anymore. Like when
Kobe when Kobe was was was stillalive, God Rest his soul, and
was in the All Star Game,like for example, when he was playing

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against Jane Wade and him and DoingWay were competing with one another and it
did result in Kobe breaking his nose, but Kobe said he loved that type
of competition. And this is almostthe most frustrating thing because the All Star
Game MVP has become such a jokeand such a a a laughable award and

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the only time it meant something wasthe year they gave it out, and
it was it was named after KobeBryant because it was supposed to be the
ultimate display of It was supposed tobe a reverence to a time or an
occasion where Kobe always showed up right. Kobe always showed up, played as
you'd want him to play, andso on and competed, especially when it

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came down to that fourth quarter.Guys knew, okay, it's time to
buckle up. And he even talksabout it in the podcast he had with
Knuckle the Knuckleheads at the time andtalking about how him and Chris Paul especially
would lock up be like, heyman, it's time, it's time to
do this, and you just don'tgot that anymore. You don't have that,
and there's nobody that's leading the packand trying to show that I'm coming

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at you. Guys were competing likewe're like, we need to compete,
and I never forget. It's oneof the reasons why to this day,
Russell Westbrook is one of my favoriteNBA players because Russell Westbrook, he takes
that game serious and he plays andhe competes in it seriously. And I

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think there was one year Russell Westbrookwon an All Star Game MVP coming off
the bench because he was trying thathard throughout the game coming off the bench.
Guys where starters get the majority ofthe minutes in the All Star Game
because they're the fan. They're thepeople that in large part of fans also
have voted for. And I've seenI seen multiple people float this idea around.

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So I don't want to just creditit to so on Whiteside, but
I do agree with the premise thatwhy don't you just give the team that
wins the All Star Game home courtadvantage in the NBA Finals. I've never
understood why that has not been done. You let the number one, the
team with the better seeding, havethe record, have the home court advantage
all the way throughout the season.But guess what, guys, if you

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you should have blamed your teammates inthe All Star Game that didn't care enough
to even make an effort in theAll Star Game. When you're now you
have to travel on the road forthree out of seven games. If you
even get that far that that gameswinging, game five you have, now
that game three going back to eithergoing you get to get to go home

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or you go home to your yourplace and you're down two. Oh.
Now, oh it feels a lotdifferent now, huh, because you didn't
win the All Star Game kind ofmatters, doesn't it. I don't know
why this hasn't been done. Granted, maybe this is something that has to
be voted on between the NBA andthe NBA PA, but I feel like
that is just such a it's sucha genius idea. It's just so clear

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to me that I don't understand whyit doesn't happen. I'm pretty sure I'm
blinking right now, but I'm prettysure in the MLB All Star Game or
that they have something to akin tothat. So I don't understand why it
doesn't apply to the NBA, becauseit seems like that's the primary fix that
would resolve this issue. Because there'sjust no way. There's no way I'm

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wasting time is something you don't getback. Time is the most valuable resource
you have in your life. Andthere's no way I'm just wasting time watching
All Star Weekend anymore outside of thethree point contest in the Dunk contest.
And I've been critical of All StarWeekend because it doesn't feel like an event
anymore. It doesn't. It's aglorified networking event. So if you want

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to make connections, network with people, see the people in the industry that
you want to talk to, tryand connect with. That's what it's great
for. If you want to gothere and make connections. Yes, and
it's a piss poor marketing event onTNT and so on where they're trying to
market the game. It's like nobodycares about this man. But then it's
crazy because Saturday Night was the mostviewed All Star Saturday Saturday Night in four

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years. But you wantn't know whyI believe that was the case is because
of the three point contest, becauseof Stephan Sabrina going ahead to head his
shooting. The stars show up forthe three point event. That's and that's
where you're seeing all the viewership goingbecause the three point contest was very competitive,
was it was interesting we were lockedin the whole three point contest.
Three point contest feels like it hasa compelling, a compelling beginning, middle

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and end. Beginning, you seewho sets the standard with whoever goes first,
and as guys go along, you'reseeing guys either be able to knock
that person off or guys be ableto try and hold on take that top
spot, or whatever the case mightbe. And then the end comes down
to seeing can the last guy beable to be the top one of these
guys to come into the final three. And then we had a scenario where
multiple guys were tied at the twentysix score, so it made it even

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more interesting. So the three pointcontest was fire. Damian Lillard deserved being
the three point contest like that wasa trophy that was actually worth something because
Dame hits the last shot to thengo ahead and win the chance, win
the trophy and win the contest likeit meant something. Skills challenged, like
who cared? I didn't care aboutthat, man, I don't even know

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who won. I don't know whowon. I don't care. I don't
no idea Stephan Sabrina. That wasfire. The worst part about it was
Kenny Smith's commentary. I don't knowwhat Kenny Smith was on. Bro,
I have no idea what Kenny Smithwas on when he with his commentary.
Like the whole time, this manwas just like talking down Sabrina's performance.
She needed to be shooting from thethree, THEWNBA three point line. She

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oh, but she's using a WNBAball, so why didn't she shooting from
the I was like the bro,Kenny, shut up. She shooting.
She wants to shoot from the NBArange, so nobody can say, oh,
well, she only scored twenty sixbecause she was shooting from the WNBA
range. No, she wanted toshoot and show that she can shoot from
men's range and that shooters shoot regardless. It don't matter that she was using

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a WNBA ball because of the factthat her hands are smaller, her using
the NBA ball would change would practicallychange how she shoots with the ball because
she's used to shooting a WNBA basketballto fit their hands. Women have smaller
hands than men technically normally do,and she still put up twenty six.
She matched with the dudes. Manyof the NBA players did, and that

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first showing in the three point contestin that first round. But Kenny Smith's
commentary was tragic. I don't knowwhat Kenny was on, man, Like
you saw Reggie Miller was pushing backon him, like bro, like relax
even during the Trophy of presentation wherebecause Steph ends up beating Sabrina at twenty
nine to twenty six and it wasawesome because Steph even came down to steps

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last shot and Steph hits the clutchshot to then win it, and you're
just like, damn bro, likethat was I mean, it was dope
to see. I was low keypulling for Sabrina. I love watching Sabrina
and thats could play basketball. She'sfired to play or to watch play rather
and the Liberty are so talented,so I know she think. I think

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she performed well, and I'm reallyinterested to see how they do it in
the future. I think a lotof people are already campaigning like you gotta
get Kaitlyn Clark in there, like, get Kaitlyn Clark in their versus Dame
or somebody right, get Kaitlyn Clarkin their versus Klay Thompson. Or something
like, I know Klay has hada struggle season, but Clay is still
one of like the best shooters inthe NBA. So it'll be interesting to
see if you can bring Kaitlyn Clarkor somebody else, or get a team

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of NBA guys versus or a teamof Kaitlyn Clark and Klay Thompson or versus
Steph and Sabrina or something like that. Right, that'd be cool to see.
But there's so many different things thatbecause people show up to the two
points, like the three point Contest, I'm trying to remember off memory,
but it was the people who participated, Damian Lillard, Jalen Brunson, kar

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Anthony Towns like I'm trying, yes, Karantine Towns. It's like stuck in
by Luke Laurie Markinen. There wereso many different players that part anticipated in
the contest that were like no names, like you know these players they are
literally known brands. So it wasit was compelling because there were actually stars

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that like are representative, are thebest talent in the league. And then
which is when we get to thedunk contest, right, the dunk contests,
ah Man, the Dunk Contest,it's so crazy because I one of
those things that I say, I'mso blessed to say I saw. I
was blessed to watch the Aaron Gordonand Zach Lavine Dunk Contest live. I

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will never forget watching that dunk contest. It happened on a Valentine's Day.
I believe me and my girl hadjust gotten back from like this when we
were in college too. We hadjust gotten back from a Italian restaurant,
picked up some Krispy Kreme on theway home. Man, I love me
some krispy Kreme. But and wesat down and watched that dunk contest,

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and we were losing our minds.That dunk contest was what I I don't,
I don't, you can't. Youjust can't even describe, like you
go back and rewatch it now youalready kind of know what's coming back the
time, not knowing anything of whatwas coming, you were just like,
fam, what is happening? Whatis going on? And we were spoiled

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because now that set the bar forlike dunk contest, and maybe everybody sees
to come to terms and realize thatwe're just not gonna get great dunkers like
that and known guys, because thoseguys were both talented and headliners on their
respective teams, right, Zach Lavinewas a young talent at the time for
the Minnesota Timberwolves, and then youhad Aaron Gordon, a young talent for
the Orlando Magic. And it wasone of those situations where they were just

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showing out and they were all theywere hitting all their dunks on the first
try, so you saw like thedunk would surprise you on the initial try,
and then they also made it soyou're like, oh my god,
oh my god, and so youwere losing your mind. But now the
dunk contest is just a little youknow, it's like you're watching you hope
you see something crazy. And theone dunk that made me really like get

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up my seat this year was macMcClung when he did the dunk where he
like he does like a reverse.He's like doing a reverse, he's catching
the ball and he taught he likethrows the ball to himself in like in
the air again and it was likereal time hang time, like when you
watch it in slow mo. Iwas like, fam that dunk was crazy.

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It was a crazy dunk and maybewe just had so many dunk contests
over the years. You just can'tget the creativity is lacking. But I
don't know, man, because Iremember when tn T had that show called
The Dunk King. They had guyslike Jordan Kilgannon, I'm Jordan king Gan
is one of my favorite dunkers.I watching like the Street Dunkers. He
this dunks this guy was pulling outwas crazy. He's always been known to
do some crazy dunks. But youif you pull him and I don't know,

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man, I feel like the NBA, like if NBA stars don't want
to do it, get them outof here, get them up out of
here. I don't need guys thatare just participating in the NBA that don't
got creativity, they don't got hopslike that. I need dunkers like I
need creative dunkers that do just likecrazy stuff like but double between them.
I don't know. I need me. I need an NBA Live two thousand
and four dunk contest. That's whatI need. Because the NBA Live two

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thousand and four Dunk Contest. Ilook, anybody who played all four they
know used to throw the ball offlike the screen. The side screen dudes
would do like seven twenty with likespins and every Obviously, it's a video
game, so none of this ispractical. But I'm just saying I need
that type of dunk contest energy whenI'm coming to watch dunk contests, even

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if it doesn't rise to the levelof Aaron Gordon and Zach Lavine. Give
me Nate Robinson and Dwight Howard levelsdunk contest spectacle, like that's when it
actually met something. When Kenny Smithis saying Superman's in the building, like,
I need that type of energy,but I'm not. I haven't gotten
it in one dunk contest since.The closest thing I even can even get

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a semblance of was when Dwayne Waderobbed who was competing. I think Dwayne
Wade robbed, was it not?No, it wasn't Zach, but Dwayne
Wade gave a heat played because theguy played on the heat, he gave
him a higher score, and everybodyon Twitter was livid, don't I don't

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think it was Jeremy Grant, ormaybe Jeremy Grant was who got robbed,
but I just know, oh,Derrick Jones, he gave darre I think
it was Derreck Jones. Ji hegave him a higher score, and I
think Jeremy Grant had technically done amore impressive dunk. And I'm just trying
to piece together memory here, andI remember that's when everybody was living like
Dwayne, what are you huh?And they were they were doing like a

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dunk face off because they don't keptthey kept competing with each other, and
Dwayne ended it because he just gavea fifty, or Dwayne was the one
person that might have did not givea fifty one of the two. It's
crazy, but I you know,ste steven A had made a claim the
other day where he said that LebronJames is solely to blame for the fall

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of the dunk contest, and itis an interesting premise because I don't know
if I can put that much blameon Lebron, especially because other guys,
like even though Lebron hadn't done it, Like think about it. We got
Nate Robinson and Sha Sorry Dwight Howardin the early twenty tens, then mid

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twenty tens we had the zach LavineAaron Gordon dunk contest, and then zach
Lavine still competed in dunk contest alittle bit after that, and Aaron Gordon
still did too, and they justdidn't. Zach Lavine won multiple dunk contest
championships. I remember when Aaron Gordonfelt like he got robbed in his second
dunk contest. He said he wasdone doing it, but damn I can't.

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Aaron Gordon has still has the bestdone contest dunk I've ever seen in
my life. I just never AaronGordon jumping over the mascot, cuffing the
ball under his under his bottom andthen being able to go around the other
side of the hoop and dunk it. That was and he cleared the mascot
like that was nah fam that was. That was one of the craziest dunks

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I've ever seen in all life.Then he had another one where he timed
it so perfectly. The mascot isspinning, Aaron Gordon takes the ball of
his hands, spins, has theball behind his back flexes while doing the
dunk and not dog nah nah,Like that's the creativity we need. Mac
McClung hit that on his on histhat one dunk he did, And then

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the judges that were sting you withit like they were acting like that wasn't
an impressive that didn'tive him fifties.I was like, bro, there's no
way, right he didn't get fiftieson that dunk where he throws the ball
to himself again while in mid air, like does it Like he he hakes
the ball off of I don't rememberwho the player was. He took the
ball off the person's head, drowsit back to himself, looks at it

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and just holds it there just toshow his hand time, catches it again
and then dunks and it's a reversedunk. It's insane, truly, it
was the best dunk in the night. And then macinclunk even goes and clears
Shaquille O'Neal with another reverse dunk,which was insane. I mean, you're
clearing Shack. His head almost hitthe rim he cleared Shack. I mean

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that means his vertical leap is overseven feet, like that's in Shaq is
seven foot or he's seven to twoone of the two. Crazy. That
is crazy. But I don't thinkI can I don't think I can say
Lebron solely ruined the dunk. Ithink Lebron might have precipitated other stars being

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like, Okay, well, Idon't maybe have to do it, but
I and I give credit to JalenBrown partaking in the dunk contest, and
I hated that Indianapolis was booing them. I don't know if maybe they're booing
him for other reasons outside of thedunk contest, but I feel as though
maybe they felt as though he didn'tdeserve to make it to that next round
because his one of his dunks gota better score than Mac McClung's, even
though Jalen Brown's was worse. Andthen when Jalen Brown jumped over Kay Sanat,

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it was like, dude, KaySina is like mad short bro,
and he was sitting on a chairlike bro that Like that's the thing.
It's like I've always I've always beenlike, we don't need in game dunkers.
I feel like Jalen Brown is waymore of an in game dunker.
He could throw it down with Forrest, but he's not a gunk dunk contest

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dunker. I want to see JohnMorant in this thing, Anthony Edwards,
those are the people we need.But guess what, Anthony ever sees it
as a break, So we're probablynot gonna get him a dunk contest.
It's a bummer. A bummer probablycould do some sick dunks too, do
some sick dunks. And I don'tknow what's gonna take to get starts with

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the dunk contest anymore. I don'tknow. I have no clue. Is
it not a I have no clue. I don't know how you convince him.
I don't know, Man, it'sbeen it's been a year. I
don't think we've had granted, alot of our best players like Giannis did
it, I think when he wasyounger, but since becoming like a star.
I don't think a lot of thestar stars in the NBA are like

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dunkers like that. They're not highflyers, which could have contribute to it
too, right, because I thinka lot of the high flyers that we
had that were no commodities have alreadydone it. If not like the Marta
Rosen has done it, John Walldid it, Damian Lillard has done a
dunk contest. And I don't knowhow long you want you expect guys to
do it like at this age,the first probably out the first seven years

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where you'd want to see a persondo a dunk contest because that's when you're
about to hitch, probably right whenyou're gonna hit your athletic peak in your
late twenties, and that range iswhen you should do a dunk contest,
and when you have the most verticalexplosion that you have, you should do
that. And that either your primeor well before that, because you got
so much spring to your step atthat point in time, and a lot

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of those guys did it during thattimeframe, So this is now the time
where you would hope a guy likeAnthony Edwards or John Morant would do it.
John's obviously hurt, so he's notreally in this discussion. He got
hurt, he had season ending surgery, and Anthony, I don't know if
he's ever going to do it.Besides them, I'm trying to think of
who else has crazy bounce like thatthat would make a dunk contest really compelling,
and nobody's coming off the top ofmind to me. But I don't

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know, man, I really don'tknow how you pull other guys in and
make them want to do it,because it just seems like it's pulling teeth
at this point. And the NBAhas something to think about about when it
comes to that. But guys,I think that's gonna be it for today's
podcast. I just wanted to touchon those couple of topics I had that
I wanted to, you know,get some recap on before the NBA week

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gets started back up this Thursday.All the games come back and a lot
of teams to watch and so on. So definitely we'll talk about the NBA
action and whatnot going into next week. One weird thing I didn't want to
comment about so JJ Reddick. Okay, look hear me out. Got no
issue with JJ, but his wholerant on Doc Rivers on first take was
weird. The whole situation was veryweird. JJ goes off talk about how

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Doc Rivers has no accountability the wholenine, and the whole thing felt a
bit personal. He said he hadno problem with Doc as a coach or
whatever the case might be, buthe just says that guy, He's like,
I don't know the accountability with thatguy, which led to him getting
into a Patrick Beverley because Patrick Beverleysaid that Doc saved JJ's career, which
wasn't true. And then Austin Riversthen comes back at JJ saying like I

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don't know what's going on, likeyou had your best years with the Clippers,
which I don't know if that's statisticallyaccurate, but you know, it
might be a subjective term to whomevermight be viewing. That could be subjective
how Austin views it. It mightnot be objective in terms of just stats
and raw numbers. But I digress. I just felt like that whole tirade
was just odd to me. Idon't know because Doc Rivers obviously, I

(50:44):
know, I was just about toclose up the show. But Doc Rivers
obviously, honestly, since he tookover for the Bucks three and seven,
right, that's not Good's not whatyou want to see from the Bucks.
Their defense has been improving. Ithink they were sub thirty, sub third
of the league in defense. Nowthey're about right by the middle of the
pack, a little bit better thanknow the pack actually on defense. But
now their offense is tanking. Buta lot of it has to also coincide

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with the fact that Chris Middleton hasmissed some games, Damian Lillard has gone
through a shooting slump, and ashe's playing with the Bucks or whatever reason,
especially in the fourth quarters, Damihas been struggling. So I think
a lot of that kind of coincideswith this. Not to let Doc off
the hook because he has to figureit out, but the situation he took
over was not an easy situation.It's kind of akin to a lot of
ways for me where I look atit, like Steve Nash being hired to

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be the head coach of the BrooklynNets. Granted, Steve Nash got hired
in an offseason, so he hada whole offseason to implement his his I
guess his system and all how hisdefensive beliefs, his offensive beliefs, how
they think they should play on bothends of the court. Doc Rivers has
taken over mid season after Adrian Griffinis fired, and I just think that
it is a tough task to askfor somebody. I know a lot of

(51:47):
people just like to bash on DocRivers now, but objectively speaking, the
task he is taking on is veryhard because now you have to unteach these
guys or you have to not unteached, but you have to practically install a
whole new defense and a whole newoffense how you think that this team can
best play. And you also needto see how these guys all perform in
different scenarios to see maybe whereas youcan put guys in the best position to

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win and how they will fit bestin each role position. And it's gonna
be interesting to see if Doc canweave that needle, because this team now
is a way too talented to gothrough another first round knockout. And I
think after that happened last year,obviously the Bucks were out on on coach
Budenholzer, and then after Griffin hadthe team was I mean, there's third

(52:30):
in the Eastern Conference, third orsecond now at this point, and that
was under Adrian Griffin. And Ifeel as though, granted when you watched
the Bucks, you didn't feel likethere were this team that was just kind
of you know, there were finalsbounds, you still saw the cracks in
the armor there, and I feellike they made this move to cover up
the cracks in the armor, tofill those out, to buffer those out

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and really make this a team thatcan actually vie for a championship. And
if Doc Rivers can do that,that mays to be seen. Doc Rivers
hasn't had a team compete at achampionship levels since the Wait Celtics twenty TENUS
Celtics rather, because I think thatteam was a championship level team. They
just end up losing to the Lakers. But the last championship Doc one was
the two thousand and seven, twothousand and eight Celtics. Right, So

(53:14):
despite having talent on the Clippers multipletimes where whether it was the Chris Paul
Lop City Clippers or it was KawhiPaul George Clippers that blew a three to
one lead, there's accountability along amongstall those different spaces to go around.
And it's not I don't like whenpeople just do the thing of just let's
just blame Doc Rivers because he's justthe head coach of all those different situations.

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I think that Lop City situation,he should They should have done better,
right, They should have figured somethingout because it wasn't always this injury
scenario that played the Lop City Clippersa lot of it. They blew a
three one leader that team too,Right, So there's blame to go all
around to everybody there, right,because that's even when you had the CP
zero nickname going around at that pointin time. Now, after the bubble

(53:58):
loss, you have guys time aboutthey didn't want to be in the bubb
Lou Williams talking about Oh man,everybody knew people wouldn't gonna take it seriously,
you'll move out the way. Butso people's minds were just the clippers
were tripping. I don't know howyou get up three games just to then
oh we didn't care anymore, justto lose the rest of the games.
Right. It doesn't make sense,but that's that's preparation, that's coaching.
That's also want from your players.And DOT can only control one of those

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things. The other things are allthe guys got a one of themselves.
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