April 12, 2025 • 37 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to the NBA Playoff picture coming together and Jason believes one former contender is a team to watch out for this year. The Saints may have lost Derek Carr, but Jason thinks Shedeur Sanders might not be the QB they take at 9. Plus, Ja Morant is testing Adam Silver yet again!
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of the NBA playoff schedule start to come into focus.
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Just in the last five minutes, we've had the spots
locked up through six in the Eastern Conference, and I
want to say that twenty four hours later, absolutely nothing
has changed. Forget about the Cavaliers, forget about the Celtics.
If the Knicks get past the Pistons, I think that's
a toss up at this point. I mean, they lose
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to the Cavaliers tonight, who rested everybody Tonight, Donovan, Mitchell,
Hunter rested, Merrill, rested, Jerome lebron Kyrie, Mark Price, Craig Elo,
they all rested tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Brad Doherty rested tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Brad Doherty this one out.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
He did, you know, because every time he was played,
they would yell soft soft.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
That's a brand anybody compared to Charles Oakley. I mean, the.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Knicks were up twenty four over the Cavaliers in this game.
The Cavaliers were saying, listen, doesn't matter anymore, we don't
give a crap. And still the Knicks blew a twenty
four point lead and the caw they don't come back
and just win on a last second shot. They went
at one eight, one oh two. I mean, I really, honestly,
at this point, if the Knicks even get out of
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the first round, it would be an accomplishment.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I feel awesome right now.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
If I am the Pistons, I feel absolutely awesome, and
I feel terrible if I'm the Pacers, because wow, this
is the time I really don't want to catch the
Bucks because Jannis has absolutely been on fire and they're
locked into that playoff series now. So yeah, Knicks fans
are upset, Pacers fans are upset. Bucks are happy, Pistons
are happy. Say you go, it's the in and Yanges
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Sports Mike.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Carmen yannas giving you triple doubles on a regular basis
at this point, so showing you he can do it all.
Get out of my way, Doc Rivers, it's my time now.
Can I do the quick complaint about the scheduling because
I do this for the NFL. I hate the fact
that we get the I play you, then we have
a week off, and then we play each other again. Sure,
why do we have all these stupid ass home and
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homes and back to backs here in the final week
of the season. What are we doing? You're killing me? Blue? Well,
look spread this stuff out. Look it's making nice for
the people.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I've told you from the beginning. The NBA schedule is
too long. It's irrelevant after game fifty five or sixty.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Statistically, I think thats out except for a couple of
you know, playoff positions, and certainly in the Western Conference
since we have such a muddled mess beyond the three slot.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, but look, I mean, yeah, you're gonna get a
little bit of change potentially, where maybe the five seed
is the four seed of the four seed to be.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
The five seed.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
But you look and see the standings, they look pretty
much what they look like every year after about sixty games,
because that because the teams that aren't in it go
in the tank. Nobody goes crazy to get into the
playing round. And that's the thing is that the teams
that are won through six, they kind of just they
jockey a tiny bit, right, tiny bit. Nobody really comes
and takes over first place. Nobody drops from second to six.
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It just doesn't happen that way. But the team, but
the back that the other half of each conference, it
just kind of me anders there. Nobody goes on a
big run to say, hey, I know we're twelve right now,
but let's get in the playing round.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
No, teams don't care about that. Let's we're not playing.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
We'll go we'll go into the lottery, try to get better,
try and see where the ping pong balls lie, all
kinds of things, and so everything just kind of stays
the same.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
It's it's stasis from Game.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Sixty to Game eighty two, except for things like, boy,
the Knicks really aren't giving me any confidence they can
do anything in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, I mean, when are you ever gonna beat the cat?
I get that.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Hey, the playoffs happen, and injuries can happen, Certainly, injuries
or something that can affect anything, as you see in
the playoffs every year the end of the first round.
You can put an all NBA team out there or
an all star team of players who were injured and
wind up missing a lot of time. But you can't
count for injuries and who's gonna get hurt and who's not.
But I mean, I mean, seriously, I mean, if the
if the Knicks can't, they're oh for the Cavaliers, Oh
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for the Celtics, Oh for the Thunder, They're oh for
the three best teams in the league. And on a
night again when the Cavaliers rest everybody and they have
a twenty four point league, Yeah, it's okay, get off
the mat, come play, come beat it in Madison square.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Guard, we don't care on.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
See, you had five more three point makes. Yet they
still with all of those guys sitting down, don't discount
Darius Garland full on, but they still shot forty nine
percent from the field.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Again, what do I What have I said?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
We've been coming it all along, but now it's it's
punching people in the face about how poor the defense
is on a nightly basis from this squad.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Again, how many times do I need to watch the
opponent shoot fifty percent or better for or round fifty
to say, Wow, the Knicks really have all kinds of problems, right,
all kinds of problems because they do.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Because this is it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It's not like, well, hey, the Cavaliers came in, they're
a terrific team, and here they go. This is Hey,
we're resting a lot of people. We have some good players.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
This is why.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Look, this is why the Cavaliers are terrific right there,
deep right, they go eight to nine deep and they
just keep coming at you in waves. Right, Their offense
is amazing. But when you rest half of those great players,
it should be a little bit easier. But instead, nope,
they're gonna shoot fifty percent from the floor and they're
gonna win. It's really I I don't understand. I don't
understand how things have gotten so bad for the Knicks
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so fast and how bad they are for a team
that's competitive. I mean they're in the bottom you know,
for a team the defense is their hallmark. For them
to be in the bottom third of the league for
field goal percentage allowed is embarrassing. And I'm telling you
we talked about it last night. We had Rick Buker
on the show late last night and I said to him,
I said, because I tell me, agree or disagree. If
the Knicks lose in the first round, Tom Thibodeau's out.
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And he said, yeah, yeah, I haven't heard anything about
Tims being in trouble because obviously you have the season.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
We see how, we see how the playoffs go. I
haven't heard anything.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But yeah, I mean, because really, if you have the
guy in there and his hallmark is defensive intensity and
you don't have any defensive intensity, why the hell you're there?
I mean, really, what does it matter?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I want him to do one of those rants about
how he can't get guys to watch film.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, oh, yeah, you should just do a.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Dramatic reading of everything Michael Malone said about a month ago. Yeah,
I mean, oh, maybe full Shakespearean Garber, maybe a wrestling robe,
but I don't know whatever it is to try to
get folks inspired. I mean, they do a lot of
big events at the Garden, so good.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I think if you're Leon Rose, you know you come in,
you come in before the playoffs and say, hey, uh
you know team only mean it just me? You know,
Tim's I got it. I'm gonna talk to the guys. Hey, uh,
just let you guys know. You guys lose in the
first round and and and you guys or you guys
look really really bad in the second round. Danny Hurley's
coming in, right. I don't care. I don't care if
they I don't care if they it's true or not.
(07:28):
Danny Hurley's coming. You think you don't like Tims yelling
at you's telling you what you do play in defense, Wait.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Till I bring Danny Hurley. And you're gonna love that.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
You have this guy yet? Or what every night you've
got him, either with the Knicks or anything where there's chaos. Hey,
NFL team in trouble. Danny Hurley, your college football team
has some issues down with it. Danny Hurley can do both.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I mean, you know where they really might you know
who's that I guarantee you this, and how funny would
this be? You know whose name is gonna jump to
the top. If the Knicks after a place there coach
it was able to jump right to the top.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Let's go jay Wright. Yeah, that would make sense.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
He can coach, he can coach. You won two national
championships with these guys. He can come back, come back
and coach. And you know there's eight there's seven or
eight guys on the team, and you'll love Kat. Don't
worry about it. He doesn't play defense like you think
he's going to. And mclbridge is really disappointing. But boy,
the other guys you'll love. Man, you will love these guys. Man,
go go with it again, jay Wright.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Don't please. You have those relationships with the core and
you can always go back into the marketplace and see
if you can add a few more.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You know, but look the way the Eastern Conferences is it? Like,
because I'm serious about this, Like, if the Knicks get
out of the first round, it is a it is
an accomplishment at this point because I expect absolutely nothing.
I'm into these playoffs with just fear and dread. Right,
That's where I'm at. But the other part of it is,
I know they have flown under the radar, and I
know they've you know, look, they they've some of the
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teams during this win streak haven't been the best. But
in the last month they have some big wins. They've
beaten the Lakers a couple of times. Watch out for
the Bucks seven in a row. Now they beat the Pistons,
albeit for the Pistons second night at back to backs.
But the Bucks have figured things out and it's been
all been without Damian Lillard and who knows what's gonna
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happen there. But Giannis has just simply taken this team
and it's gone back to the team it kind of
was when they were they were they were clawing up
to win a championship. We're okay, are we kind of finished?
Or we need we need the right guys around him. Okay,
Middleton was the right guy around him. But you know,
here you're talking about Kuzma uh coming in and being
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a big playmaker now and being someone who gives you stuff.
Didn't have a great night tonight, but look, when Giannis
is thirty two, fifteen eleven, there's only so much out there.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
But they have had.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
A really big run late, and they are entering the
playoffs incredibly hot. Watch out for the Bucks. And I
know it's hard to give Doc you know, I feel
you know, I believe it because you know, it's hard
for me to give Doc Rivers credit. Right I'm waiting
for him to say tonight, it gives me credit for
seven in a row. They don't want to say game
seven games, No, it gives a credit for seven. Well,
we want seven games in a row.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Seven in a row.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Here now forty seven three without Damian Lillard, you know,
without my son Austin's out on the team. Remember all
these gotten, the narrow gone. I mean, it's hard for
me to give to give Doc Rivers credit. But the Bucks,
you want to say, peaking at the right time and.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
All the big cash.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
All the big phrases that go along with it. That's
exactly what the Bucks are doing right now. And Giannis
is absolutely carrying them. And again, you don't want to
play them in the first round of the playoffs. This
is this is gonna be one of those. Man, the
Pacers are saying, you know, we were playing really well,
thinking a we'd love to get another shot at the
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Knicks because we're so emotionally playing.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh now we get the Bucks and Yats is going
to go for fifty every game.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Ready for a little bit of fun. Fine with numbers.
They are currently the fourth favorite out of the East
to win the NBA title odds one hundred to one.
Your Knicks are somehow thirty eight to one hundred to one.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, well, I mean there's the officiating thing. You never know,
like like the officials, may you know want to keep
those big market teams in the playoff.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Danny Davis showing up? But no, you know what are
we doing?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
No? Rick Carlo'll talked about it last year.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I want to keep these big market teams like the
Knicks in the playoffs as much as they can, so
you never have the officiating is.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Gonna go Yiannis greater than big market team?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
All right?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Thunder your favorite? Followed by the Celtics and Cavaliers. Lakers
now just eight to one, Warriors at nine and a
half to one, Nuggets twenty to one, Clippers thirty to one,
followed by the Knicks, Rockets, Timberwolves back down to the
Bucks at one hundred to one.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
H Man, I mean, this is this is gonna be
a look the playoffs here now for the last twenty
games being really I would say, just you know, they're
filler a lot again, except the fact that the Knicks
just proved to you and want to show you we
just aren't going to do anything.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
The playoffs are really going to be something.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
The playing round in the East is not that's gonna
be absolutely awful, right, that's gonna be absolutely terrible. But
the playing round in the West, and and when you
get to the big matchups, it is gonna be some
kind of playoff this year. Why do you keep dismissing
my squad, jerk, dude, Come on, man, you can't you
can't sit here and tell me that that.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Oh yeah, I want.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
To see four teams that aren't None of them are
gonna be over five hundred playing a playing round.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah, but we're creeping forward to it. It's gonna be
thirty after this win tonight. Come on, it's a new
look squad, young, exciting. Kobe White's hair is electric.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Come on, Kobe White had a great run for a
little while. But it doesn't matter. Man, Magic, Heat, Hawks, Bulls.
That's gonna be like I got a guy named giddy
for crying out loud they're gonna be on television, these
games are are They're gonna not either are gonna be
on NBA TV. They won't even be on True TV.
Not to find a new place to put these games on.
But then you get to the West and you get
to the matchups. Yet, hey, okay, suddenly we're we're looking
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at stuff that's pretty good man. And I'll tell you
this is this playoff I mean to get to this,
it's going to really be something, man. I mean, you
think playoffs every year in the NBA. No, you have
a lot of teams up and down with stars that
are hot at the right time getting in the playoffs.
You want to see teams that have that have been
tried and true the last few years that are now
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rising over the past couple of months, like the Lakers
and the Warriors and the Bucks because you got Giannis
and Lebron and Curry. It's really gonna be some playoffs.
I'm telling you. This is I don't know, it's hard
for me to say, oh, you the greatest playoffs ever,
but it's gonna be something where every single night is
gonna bring you, is gonna bring you some fantastic stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Man. These matchups are gonna be out of this world because.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
It's all about harmon. Right now, we've got a big
blowout lead for the Bulls and the White Sox are
up ten to one on the red side.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Let's get the bulls. Nobody can't both, Dude, the Bulls.
You can't make the bull about me.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
You did a monologue about the damn Nicks to start.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
The Bulls happen. You can't make I can't happen and
I will. No, you can't make them do you can't?
You have been able to make them happen since Derek Rose.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Benny the Bull is a legend. If nothing else. People
think that it's the guy from Dorothy Explorer and the
Bowl of those fans. All those little kids are Bulls
fans and they don't even know it.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'd rather watch Betty the Bull in a balloon yelling
about getting sticky tape, then I'd rather watch the Bulls
in a series.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Did you forget about the sticky tape? How do we
sticky tape? Sticky tape?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I want a missed opportunity for that was pretty well
done too. By the way, be careful about your vocal
course though it's been a rash. You guys having to
have surgery in our business. I don't. I don't need
doing funny voices.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
So here we go. We're off to the raises.
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Speaker 1 (15:59):
So big, big goings on today in the NFL as
reports come out from NFL Network insider Ian Rapaport and
others that hey, uh, Derek Carr might.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Be out for the season. Oh by the way, wait
what wait what? Wait what?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Apparently Derek Carr has a bad shoulder injury that he's
dealing with, and according to all reports, he has been
in communication with the team for this for a while.
So now, was this something that happened wear and tear.
Was it something that happened in the off season. Was
it something that happened away from the team. That's kind
of what we're waiting to see. However, he now may
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miss the twenty twenty five season with a shoulder injury.
This is a guy that the Saints said, hey, we
don't want to wait for Aaron Rodgers to you.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
We want to give you all kinds of money.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And what did I say when it happened, I'm glad
I wasn't the team to give Derek Carr that money. Sure,
so here he is now potentially he could miss the
entire season. We told you the topic every single day
between now and the NFL Draft will be one topic
per day surrounding Shadoor Sanders, How good is he? And
who is going to draft him?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Right, So.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
We'll keep the ticker going because this really is about
Shadoor Sanders because the Saints. Look, you know, Derek Carr
is a placeholder till they get their new quarterback in there.
And I know that everybody has now linked, well, Shadoor
Sanders won't fall past number.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Nine to the Saints. Yeah, okay, I may give you
he won't fall past number nine.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Although that that's starting to get a little bit more
difficult to see. But I will tell you this because
I thought it was happening before before today, and now
I am sure it's happening. The Saints will draft Jackson
Dart at number nine. Right, he's the guy that's been
rising throughout a lot of quarterback circles, Shadoor Sanders has
been falling. The Saints have spent a lot of time
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with Jackson Dart, a lot of time on Jackson Dart.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And this is why things.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Are gonna fit for them, Because if you're the Saints
at number nine, the offseason comes, you're saying to yourself, Okay,
what's gonna happen? Well, how much homework do we need
to do on campb Woard, Chador Sanders. These guys are
going one too. Who's our next guy? We love Jackson
Dart and they spend a lot of time with this guy.
You're not suddenly going to hit the draft. And if
Shador Sanders and Jackson Dart are both there at nine,
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you're gonna say, oh wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait,
Chador Santa, No, you can now do your homework on them.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
But it doesn't matter. You have spent a lot of
time with Jackson Dart. He's a guy.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Look, he's the one guy that separated himself from the
rest of the group of quarterbacks that came out last
year with Youers and Milroe and McCord. He has separated
himself to the point where he was gonna be a
first round quarterback. We told you he was gonna be
the big riser. He has been the big riser. He
does not get past the Saints at number nine. It
just makes too much sense. Other teams are they going
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to take Chador Sanders if he slides to them? It said, well,
the Jets grab Schador Sanders at seven. Man, I don't
think so they get just and Field some money and
all of a sudden, yeah, we're gonna upset this apple cart.
We're trying to have a culture come in. We're gonna
take a quarterback at number seven.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Don't see it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
A lot of teams are telling you, hey, we're we're
not locked into taking a quarterback. Right, Joe Flacco is
back today? Yeah, yeah, finned him for a year. And
what did Jimmy Hassem say last week, We're not gonna
force a quarterback at number two? Well, you pick second.
You can have either one of the top two quarterbacks, right,
you could have cam Ward or you get your door Sanders.
Chances are cam Ward's gonna be gone. Hence the statement
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of we're not going to force a quarterback. So Sanders
is not going there. He's suddenly not just gonna get
snapped up. And the Saints are kind of in a
perfect spot because they're in no man's land where the
teams in front of them if they pass on Sanders.
Once you get out of the out of the top
three four, you get past the Giants, it's and the
Giants have said, hey, we got to get the quarterback right,
We're not gonna force a guy like that. Everybody is
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basically distancing themselves from saying we're gonna draft your door Sanders.
So once you get past there, the Saints are the
only team just sitting there at nine. Now, could I
see see them if somebody wants Sanders, could I see
them dropping down a little bit a few picks to
get them, If the Steelers want to jump up and
get them, yeah, I could see that. But sitting at nine,
they know they need their quarterback. They've been really quiet
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the entire time. When you whenever you're picking in a
spot like that, you can't let people know who you
really like, who you favor. But you know they like
Jackson dart Ole. Miss It's a big pipeline there from
Mississippi to New Orleans, and you know, you think about
the Mannings and the fans are gonna be on board
with it because they're gonna love Jackson Dart because of
the whole Mississippi thing to New Orleans. It's going to
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happen like if you had to say to me outside
of cam Woard going number one overall, like where's where's
the next cemented quarterback in to go?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Like?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I will tell you that the next pick I'm sure
about is going to be Jackson Dart at nine to
the Saints.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
See. I like the cut of your jib. I don't
know that you're right. I like your theory because you
still have the manning project for long term and you
still have an infrastructure that you need to build.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Right.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
You drafted Spencer Ratler a year ago. I don't know
how good Spencer Rattler can be. But you're gonna get
Chris Olave back. He missed a lot of last season.
You still have a couple of pieces in place. But
do you necessarily go for the quarterback in round one?
This is where it gets curious? Is it Dart? Is
it Sanders? Do you wait earlier before the signing and
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before the Derek Carr news had come out as reading
all about Tyler Schuck out of Louisville, who was a
guy that they were liking, maybe as a day two guy.
So a little bit of intrigue there that potentially there's
some other names on their top thirty visits that may
cloud things a little bit in this process. But either way,
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the Saints highly intriguing at that number nine spot, maybe
just a little bit more so than your Jets.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Look, and I understand that there's going to be a
bit of a I don't want to say feeding frenzy,
but there's going to be that. Boy, here are these
teams that potentially need a quarterback because yeah, am I
sure that Justin Fields is gonna be really good?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I have a feeling he's gonna be good. Because now
the Jets are putting in position to succeed and they said,
you're our guy. Nobody has done that, right, So Okay,
I kind of like that. There's going to be that
bit of of nervousness of can we really let this
guy go? And I'm telling you, Cleveland still needs to
take Sanders. They still need to take the guy, right.
They see they need a quarterback. They but they need
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they need to fix that. They got scared right, Cleveland
got scared by bringing in Joe Flacco and and say
we're gonna have Kenny Pickett Joe Flacco. They've gotten scared
about the quarterback because they've just dumped a whole bunch
of money. They dumped two hundred and thirty million dollars
from the quarterback position the last few years, and.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
It's not working at all.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So yeah, they're a little gun shy about taking a
quarterback and saying, hey, you're you're our franchise. But I'm
sorry that happened. But I'm sorry you're scared. But really said, like,
you have to take a guy at two because of Cleveland.
Where else are you gonna get your quarterback from?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I mean what? Well, what Joe tell me where you're
gonna get him from? What's gonna happen? Oh? Well, next year?
Next year?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
What next year? Maybe you don't pick high enough to
get a quarterback. Maybe you're not picking second overall. Next year,
I mean, maybe you stink again, you're picking second. Maybe
the quarterbacks aren't that.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
But maybe you con mccorling round too.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
We'll get a guy in free agency, Maybe a guy
in free agency. Maybe the free agency guys won't be
there because no one really hits free agency anymore. Like
I don't know where that where that that quarterback is
coming from. And when you've spent time and you got
it wrong, you need to energize the team.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And maybe you're right.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Look, a quarterback's got to be a gut feeld, but
you still don't know about Sanders until you get him
on the field. Maybe he's great, maybe he turns out
to be great. But when you need a quarterback, you
gotta take somebody. You can't just say, well, yeah we're
not we're not too thrilled this year. We'll see what
happens next year. Because you could easily get the quarterback
wrong just as much as you get it right right.
And that's what people forget about. Oh I'm worried about
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getting the quarterback wrong.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You should think maybe we'll get it right. You think
maybe we'll get it right.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
You won't know about maybe Sanders comes in and he's
the guy you expected. If he's not, okay, but at
least you have somebody. You have a quarterback you took
at number two that can be your future. If you
had a plan where if we don't get our quarterback here,
we're getting them here. I would say, okay, fine, go ahead,
get go, get your guy there.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
But there's no plan. There's just I don't know. We'll
wait and see how it goes. Oh, okay, we'll wait.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
We'll hope right as you always like to say, Mike Carman,
hope is not a strategy.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Hope to get it right. Hope not not a strategy.
So you know he's gonna fall.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You can see teams moving away from him, even to
the point where when it gets to nine, forget about Sanders.
Jackson Dart will go there to the Saints at nine,
and it's gonna be fascinating watching what happens to Sanders.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I do like your chaos theory, there's no question about it. Look,
Cleveland now gets to boast that they have two Super
Bowl winning quarterbacks on their roster. You have a pretty
good roster right coming into last year. Your giant question
Mark with the full Riddler outfit. If we're gonna go
that because you wanted to have a number one guy,
I'll one up yet, I'll go to the sequels and
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get a guy in she Mark costume under center. But
they had a really good roster. But you're still fighting
up Hill in a really tough division. Do you think
that Shadar Sanders is that guy? I don't know right that,
Like that's the big thing for burying for Stefanski. Is
he the guy that puts them over? Or can they
get by like they did a couple of years ago
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bringing back Joe Flacco? Can he be elite off the
couch once again? How great is this? And I think
that we're talking about the Saints. He's trying to figure
things out.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's nice, isn't it. See I thought
you were gonna go with the speaking at Ridley you.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Are my number one god.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
But you could do that.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It's just putting his arms around Jack Nicholson, you are
my number one god.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
And Saners is like yeah, yeah, whatever, Yeah, that's fine. Whatever.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Well, but then you'd have to ask me if he
got the reference and he If he doesn't, then you
could say, all.
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Speaker 1 (26:26):
You know it's funny Justin Rose leading the masters, right
like this is it's one of those times where you
know when when you like, if you get on Facebook,
and cause I always told them, well, my dad was
going to join Facebook.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
He was I'm thinking about joined at Facebook. I go,
all right, go ahead do it. He goes, well, what's
going to happen?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I said, Within a week, you will be friends with
people that you haven't talked to in thirty years. Right
like that, You're going to see people you went to
high school with, cott You'll be friends with them, and
you'll see what's going on, and you know that happen.
You know, you get on Facebook, you see that and
you know, just to give you a point of reference
on it, because like certain people your life, when when
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you don't see them and then you hook up with
them like thirty years later, yeah you do, and you're like, well,
they're frozen in time, right, They're frozen in time, like
when they were twenty five years old, and you still
picture them that way, even though, Hey, I look at
you and you have no hair, and boy, you're you
look old.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
You look older than me, and wow, my goodness, I
thought that was your dad.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Look like you'd be good.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, I mean you think that, but you still see
when you think of that person, you think about what
they were when you met them in your life. Like
Justin Rose is in his mid forties now, and I
still think of him as that kid that almost won
the Open Championship, like when he was an amateur in
like nineteen ninety nine or something like that.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Ninety when he almost went was like.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Wow, this is a nineteen year old amateur that could
win the Open Championship.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Oh my god. I still see him as that kid,
even though he's out here.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I mean he's a man, right, he's forty five years old, right, Okay,
Justin Rose and he's leading the Masters and what he's
gonna be great for so long?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I still see him as that nineteen year old kid.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
What do I tell you? I always age myself and
then I look at a scorecard and unless it's a
guy coming up and it's someone junior it's like, Wow,
that guy's now like thirty seven. Like we're doing it
the other day with Oldechkin. He've been in the league
forever and obviously amassing massive stats. But then you're just like,
look at all the gray and the beard, and it's like,
who's next on the list? Like said the kid? He
(28:18):
ain't said the kid anymore. He's thirty seven, right. All
this like aging myself and certainly watching my daughters grow up.
I know the passage of time has occurred, but there's
just some timelessness about the guys in between and women
in between the white lines and on the golf course
or whatever else, until these moments where it's like, eh,
(28:38):
yeah in his mid forties. I mean, look at what
we did yesterday, what we're talking about, Hey, how old
is he? Sixty five? Like yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So you're doing the whole Igor Karkaroff, Bartie Crouch Junior.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
And then he became.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Well, okay, no Carkaroff wasn't no no, no, no, no, okay.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
I mean Barty Crouch Junior, Barty Crouch June.
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Speaker 4 (29:15):
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Speaker 1 (30:58):
I like being right and right most of the time,
and I was right again today right. Last night we
had the latest in the drama of Ja Morant saying
blank you nba, I'm gonna do whatever I want to.
And last night, during the Grizzlies loss to the t Wolves,
a couple of times pulled out the celebration, the machine
(31:19):
gun celebration, the lobbing, the grenade celebration into the crowd,
where he had been warned about not celebrating with guns
because the league doesn't want that to happen. Right, And oh,
by the way, you're the guy who's been caught with
guns for real twice on social media and have served
suspensions twice because this happened. You're the last guy that
(31:41):
should be doing any kind of finger guns.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
You can agree or disagree with the rule, but this
is the NBA's rule, right, this is the you want
to play.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
They don't want to do. They don't want to promote guns.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I understand that, right, it's a really small asque just
don't do machine gun celebrations. Ja Morant, even after getting
warned said nope, blank you, I'm still gonna do it.
He does it the same night that he has warned,
don't do it anymore. Great, And what does the NBA do?
They Okay, here's says seventy five thousand dollars. Fine, ooh,
that'll do it for you. And then he does it
(32:11):
again last night, Right, forget about the whole day. He
does the machine gun thing again, and and it's it's
not like, oh, how bad is this thing for John Morant,
It's just, dude, why are you doing this? Why are
you potentially putting your career in jeopardy? I get you
in the IDGAF part of your career at twenty five,
which is pretty dangerous, right, but you are putting your
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career in jeopardy.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
You've already had two.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Big suspensions by the NBA, and you know they're hoping
that you're doing the right thing off the court, and
you're around the people you should be around, and you're
not around the people you're not supposed to be. Right,
But now I don't know because if you're gonna do this,
this shows you I got too much IDGAF about me. So,
but this is not really about John Morant as much
as it is the NBA and the lack of respect,
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the lack of obvious and open respect the players have
for Adam Silver, because here is John Moran saying, blank you,
I'm still gonna do it right. This is this relationship
is like the dad and the and and the kid
who is headstrong senior in high school and doesn't listen
to anybody, stays out late past his curfew, gets in trouble,
(33:19):
comes back, and the dad says, hey, you need to
do things right. Yeah, whatever, dad, whatever, And the dad says,
you know what, I'm sorry, I gotta do something. You
can't take the car out this weekend. Can't take the car.
That's that's gonna be your punishment, okay. And that night
the kid takes the car out right like that's the
like that, that's an even And the punishment he gets
when when uh, and the punishment gets is just, oh, hey,
(33:39):
I'm not giving you your allowance this week he took
the car out, okay. And then he takes the car
out again, and it takes a car out again, and
the dad does nothing right. I'm so embarrassed for Adam
Silver because he clearly has no he had He has
no control over what goes on in the NBA. And
and and this is not just about hey, you know,
it's a it's a contest about about you know, people
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listening to me.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
You're in charge of the NBA and Art.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Don't you want to put Ja Morant in a position where, hey,
he understands that he needs to stay in the league.
Don't you want to try to help him? You think
just not doing anything is gonna is gonna help him?
Of course not I'm embarrassed for Adam Silver. And I
told you last night he was gonna do nothing. After
the last night, he continues to get sand kicked in
his face at the beach by Ja Morant, and he
just says, I'll go get some water at the water fountain.
(34:27):
You just keep kicking the sand in my face. I'm
embarrassed for him. I'm embarrassed with the league for this.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Yeah, it just comes back to let's think about whatever
language is in the Players Association collectively Bargained Agreement, right,
what is it related to celebrations? Do you have a
specific language? Can you single him out? I get it,
he's been suspended for the times he actually brandished guns.
But does this fall into the same And I get it,
(34:53):
he's different and he's got a different history, but you're
not applying it the same to the rest of the
league that does celebration similar all the way through. I
think that's where the PA gets into a fight with
with Adam Silver. And let's face it, he rolls over
and waits for them to rub his belly.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Now just now just.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Picturing Benny when I come home and he flags his
tail and he lays down and puts his puts his
paws up so I could rub his belly and scratch it.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Tickle.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Yeah, you don't want to be mad at him. We
talked about this all along, and I think it's the
all right, how serious is is this? On a scale
of one to ten? And yes, the thumbing the nose
obviously is really next level stuff, There's no question about it.
But finding him isn't gonna do it. It's become a
all right, let's fight about it in the off season,
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figuring that Memphis is, you know, not long for this campaign.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
And then it's something that you address with leadership in
the off season about celebrations. That that's the I guess
the larger question to have because I thought the grenade
was kind of fun, right, you throw the grenade in
and then yeah, it drops. Everybody jumps up and goes.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah, yeah, No, he doing the grit. But he still
did the gun thing.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
He did still did the gun musket. He had a
must show it would have taken too long to load.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
He still did the gun thing.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
And nothing from Adam Silver, who I'm sure didn't come
into work today, left early. Told everybody working in the
NBA office, Hey taken early weekend. I'll see on Monday
when we're gonna talk about the playing round and hopefully
no one's talking about John Morant and the finger gun
celebration anymore.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Like, I mean, he did absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
He is so spineless, and you know, I just want
my I just want the leaders to lead, you know,
to show that hey, I'm a strong person out David Stern.
David Stern would would have had John Morant in his
office in New York with the whole you can't do
this or play in our lead.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
But this is where it gets hard though, Jason is
is like we do it with players like well, we
always compare them to Brady or Mahomes or whoever the
elite is and whatever league, right, and here's the Jordan
or Lebron. Same thing with David Steart. David Stearn is
such an outlier in the way he handled and adjudicated
all this stuff, like you're not going to that extreme.
(37:10):
He make guys wear suits for crying out loud.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
I know, well, I could have never made it fair.
Oh I can't. Then I can't play. I'm not gonna play.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
You really gonna Oh yeah, I'm not gonna wear a suit. No, no, no,
I want sweats and a T shirt. That's what I
want to be able to wear. That's it right there. Hey,
we got a big football story coming up next where
I'm gonna love something that everybody just hates.
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Just in the last five minutes, we've had the spots
locked up through six in the Eastern Conference, and I
want to say that twenty four hours later, absolutely nothing
has changed. Forget about the Cavaliers, forget about the Celtics.
If the Knicks get past the Pistons, I think that's
a toss up at this point. I mean, they lose
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to the Cavaliers tonight, who rested everybody Tonight, Donovan, Mitchell,
Hunter rested, Merrill, rested, Jerome lebron Kyrie, Mark Price, Craig Elo,
they all rested tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Brad Doherty rested tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Brad Doherty this one out.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
He did, you know, because every time he was played,
they would yell soft soft.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
That's a brand anybody compared to Charles Oakley. I mean, the.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Knicks were up twenty four over the Cavaliers in this game.
The Cavaliers were saying, listen, doesn't matter anymore, we don't
give a crap. And still the Knicks blew a twenty
four point lead and the caw they don't come back
and just win on a last second shot. They went
at one eight, one oh two. I mean, I really, honestly,
at this point, if the Knicks even get out of
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the first round, it would be an accomplishment.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I feel awesome right now.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
If I am the Pistons, I feel absolutely awesome, and
I feel terrible if I'm the Pacers, because wow, this
is the time I really don't want to catch the
Bucks because Jannis has absolutely been on fire and they're
locked into that playoff series now. So yeah, Knicks fans
are upset, Pacers fans are upset. Bucks are happy, Pistons
are happy. Say you go, it's the in and Yanges
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Sports Mike.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Carmen yannas giving you triple doubles on a regular basis
at this point, so showing you he can do it all.
Get out of my way, Doc Rivers, it's my time now.
Can I do the quick complaint about the scheduling because
I do this for the NFL. I hate the fact
that we get the I play you, then we have
a week off, and then we play each other again. Sure,
why do we have all these stupid ass home and
(02:56):
homes and back to backs here in the final week
of the season. What are we doing? You're killing me? Blue? Well,
look spread this stuff out. Look it's making nice for
the people.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I've told you from the beginning. The NBA schedule is
too long. It's irrelevant after game fifty five or sixty.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Statistically, I think thats out except for a couple of
you know, playoff positions, and certainly in the Western Conference
since we have such a muddled mess beyond the three slot.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, but look, I mean, yeah, you're gonna get a
little bit of change potentially, where maybe the five seed
is the four seed of the four seed to be.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
The five seed.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
But you look and see the standings, they look pretty
much what they look like every year after about sixty games,
because that because the teams that aren't in it go
in the tank. Nobody goes crazy to get into the
playing round. And that's the thing is that the teams
that are won through six, they kind of just they
jockey a tiny bit, right, tiny bit. Nobody really comes
and takes over first place. Nobody drops from second to six.
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It just doesn't happen that way. But the team, but
the back that the other half of each conference, it
just kind of me anders there. Nobody goes on a
big run to say, hey, I know we're twelve right now,
but let's get in the playing round.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
No, teams don't care about that. Let's we're not playing.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
We'll go we'll go into the lottery, try to get better,
try and see where the ping pong balls lie, all
kinds of things, and so everything just kind of stays
the same.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
It's it's stasis from Game.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Sixty to Game eighty two, except for things like, boy,
the Knicks really aren't giving me any confidence they can
do anything in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, I mean, when are you ever gonna beat the cat?
I get that.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Hey, the playoffs happen, and injuries can happen, Certainly, injuries
or something that can affect anything, as you see in
the playoffs every year the end of the first round.
You can put an all NBA team out there or
an all star team of players who were injured and
wind up missing a lot of time. But you can't
count for injuries and who's gonna get hurt and who's not.
But I mean, I mean, seriously, I mean, if the
if the Knicks can't, they're oh for the Cavaliers, Oh
(04:47):
for the Celtics, Oh for the Thunder, They're oh for
the three best teams in the league. And on a
night again when the Cavaliers rest everybody and they have
a twenty four point league, Yeah, it's okay, get off
the mat, come play, come beat it in Madison square.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Guard, we don't care on.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
See, you had five more three point makes. Yet they
still with all of those guys sitting down, don't discount
Darius Garland full on, but they still shot forty nine
percent from the field.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Again, what do I What have I said?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
We've been coming it all along, but now it's it's
punching people in the face about how poor the defense
is on a nightly basis from this squad.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Again, how many times do I need to watch the
opponent shoot fifty percent or better for or round fifty
to say, Wow, the Knicks really have all kinds of problems, right,
all kinds of problems because they do.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Because this is it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It's not like, well, hey, the Cavaliers came in, they're
a terrific team, and here they go. This is Hey,
we're resting a lot of people. We have some good players.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
This is why.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Look, this is why the Cavaliers are terrific right there,
deep right, they go eight to nine deep and they
just keep coming at you in waves. Right, Their offense
is amazing. But when you rest half of those great players,
it should be a little bit easier. But instead, nope,
they're gonna shoot fifty percent from the floor and they're
gonna win. It's really I I don't understand. I don't
understand how things have gotten so bad for the Knicks
(06:05):
so fast and how bad they are for a team
that's competitive. I mean they're in the bottom you know,
for a team the defense is their hallmark. For them
to be in the bottom third of the league for
field goal percentage allowed is embarrassing. And I'm telling you
we talked about it last night. We had Rick Buker
on the show late last night and I said to him,
I said, because I tell me, agree or disagree. If
the Knicks lose in the first round, Tom Thibodeau's out.
(06:28):
And he said, yeah, yeah, I haven't heard anything about
Tims being in trouble because obviously you have the season.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
We see how, we see how the playoffs go. I
haven't heard anything.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But yeah, I mean, because really, if you have the
guy in there and his hallmark is defensive intensity and
you don't have any defensive intensity, why the hell you're there?
I mean, really, what does it matter?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I want him to do one of those rants about
how he can't get guys to watch film.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, oh, yeah, you should just do a.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Dramatic reading of everything Michael Malone said about a month ago. Yeah,
I mean, oh, maybe full Shakespearean Garber, maybe a wrestling robe,
but I don't know whatever it is to try to
get folks inspired. I mean, they do a lot of
big events at the Garden, so good.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I think if you're Leon Rose, you know you come in,
you come in before the playoffs and say, hey, uh
you know team only mean it just me? You know,
Tim's I got it. I'm gonna talk to the guys. Hey, uh,
just let you guys know. You guys lose in the
first round and and and you guys or you guys
look really really bad in the second round. Danny Hurley's
coming in, right. I don't care. I don't care if
they I don't care if they it's true or not.
(07:28):
Danny Hurley's coming. You think you don't like Tims yelling
at you's telling you what you do play in defense, Wait.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Till I bring Danny Hurley. And you're gonna love that.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
You have this guy yet? Or what every night you've
got him, either with the Knicks or anything where there's chaos. Hey,
NFL team in trouble. Danny Hurley, your college football team
has some issues down with it. Danny Hurley can do both.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I mean, you know where they really might you know
who's that I guarantee you this, and how funny would
this be? You know whose name is gonna jump to
the top. If the Knicks after a place there coach
it was able to jump right to the top.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Let's go jay Wright. Yeah, that would make sense.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
He can coach, he can coach. You won two national
championships with these guys. He can come back, come back
and coach. And you know there's eight there's seven or
eight guys on the team, and you'll love Kat. Don't
worry about it. He doesn't play defense like you think
he's going to. And mclbridge is really disappointing. But boy,
the other guys you'll love. Man, you will love these guys. Man,
go go with it again, jay Wright.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Don't please. You have those relationships with the core and
you can always go back into the marketplace and see
if you can add a few more.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You know, but look the way the Eastern Conferences is it? Like,
because I'm serious about this, Like, if the Knicks get
out of the first round, it is a it is
an accomplishment at this point because I expect absolutely nothing.
I'm into these playoffs with just fear and dread. Right,
That's where I'm at. But the other part of it is,
I know they have flown under the radar, and I
know they've you know, look, they they've some of the
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teams during this win streak haven't been the best. But
in the last month they have some big wins. They've
beaten the Lakers a couple of times. Watch out for
the Bucks seven in a row. Now they beat the Pistons,
albeit for the Pistons second night at back to backs.
But the Bucks have figured things out and it's been
all been without Damian Lillard and who knows what's gonna
(09:17):
happen there. But Giannis has just simply taken this team
and it's gone back to the team it kind of
was when they were they were they were clawing up
to win a championship. We're okay, are we kind of finished?
Or we need we need the right guys around him. Okay,
Middleton was the right guy around him. But you know,
here you're talking about Kuzma uh coming in and being
(09:37):
a big playmaker now and being someone who gives you stuff.
Didn't have a great night tonight, but look, when Giannis
is thirty two, fifteen eleven, there's only so much out there.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
But they have had.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
A really big run late, and they are entering the
playoffs incredibly hot. Watch out for the Bucks. And I
know it's hard to give Doc you know, I feel
you know, I believe it because you know, it's hard
for me to give Doc Rivers credit. Right I'm waiting
for him to say tonight, it gives me credit for
seven in a row. They don't want to say game
seven games, No, it gives a credit for seven. Well,
we want seven games in a row.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Seven in a row.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Here now forty seven three without Damian Lillard, you know,
without my son Austin's out on the team. Remember all
these gotten, the narrow gone. I mean, it's hard for
me to give to give Doc Rivers credit. But the Bucks,
you want to say, peaking at the right time and.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
All the big cash.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
All the big phrases that go along with it. That's
exactly what the Bucks are doing right now. And Giannis
is absolutely carrying them. And again, you don't want to
play them in the first round of the playoffs. This
is this is gonna be one of those. Man, the
Pacers are saying, you know, we were playing really well,
thinking a we'd love to get another shot at the
(10:39):
Knicks because we're so emotionally playing.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh now we get the Bucks and Yats is going
to go for fifty every game.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Ready for a little bit of fun. Fine with numbers.
They are currently the fourth favorite out of the East
to win the NBA title odds one hundred to one.
Your Knicks are somehow thirty eight to one hundred to one.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, well, I mean there's the officiating thing. You never know,
like like the officials, may you know want to keep
those big market teams in the playoff.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Danny Davis showing up? But no, you know what are
we doing?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
No? Rick Carlo'll talked about it last year.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I want to keep these big market teams like the
Knicks in the playoffs as much as they can, so
you never have the officiating is.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Gonna go Yiannis greater than big market team?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
All right?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Thunder your favorite? Followed by the Celtics and Cavaliers. Lakers
now just eight to one, Warriors at nine and a
half to one, Nuggets twenty to one, Clippers thirty to one,
followed by the Knicks, Rockets, Timberwolves back down to the
Bucks at one hundred to one.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
H Man, I mean, this is this is gonna be
a look the playoffs here now for the last twenty
games being really I would say, just you know, they're
filler a lot again, except the fact that the Knicks
just proved to you and want to show you we
just aren't going to do anything.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
The playoffs are really going to be something.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
The playing round in the East is not that's gonna
be absolutely awful, right, that's gonna be absolutely terrible. But
the playing round in the West, and and when you
get to the big matchups, it is gonna be some
kind of playoff this year. Why do you keep dismissing
my squad, jerk, dude, Come on, man, you can't you
can't sit here and tell me that that.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Oh yeah, I want.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
To see four teams that aren't None of them are
gonna be over five hundred playing a playing round.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah, but we're creeping forward to it. It's gonna be
thirty after this win tonight. Come on, it's a new
look squad, young, exciting. Kobe White's hair is electric.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Come on, Kobe White had a great run for a
little while. But it doesn't matter. Man, Magic, Heat, Hawks, Bulls.
That's gonna be like I got a guy named giddy
for crying out loud they're gonna be on television, these
games are are They're gonna not either are gonna be
on NBA TV. They won't even be on True TV.
Not to find a new place to put these games on.
But then you get to the West and you get
to the matchups. Yet, hey, okay, suddenly we're we're looking
(12:49):
at stuff that's pretty good man. And I'll tell you
this is this playoff I mean to get to this,
it's going to really be something, man. I mean, you
think playoffs every year in the NBA. No, you have
a lot of teams up and down with stars that
are hot at the right time getting in the playoffs.
You want to see teams that have that have been
tried and true the last few years that are now
(13:10):
rising over the past couple of months, like the Lakers
and the Warriors and the Bucks because you got Giannis
and Lebron and Curry. It's really gonna be some playoffs.
I'm telling you. This is I don't know, it's hard
for me to say, oh, you the greatest playoffs ever,
but it's gonna be something where every single night is
gonna bring you, is gonna bring you some fantastic stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Man. These matchups are gonna be out of this world because.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
It's all about harmon. Right now, we've got a big
blowout lead for the Bulls and the White Sox are
up ten to one on the red side.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Let's get the bulls. Nobody can't both, Dude, the Bulls.
You can't make the bull about me.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
You did a monologue about the damn Nicks to start.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
The Bulls happen. You can't make I can't happen and
I will. No, you can't make them do you can't?
You have been able to make them happen since Derek Rose.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Benny the Bull is a legend. If nothing else. People
think that it's the guy from Dorothy Explorer and the
Bowl of those fans. All those little kids are Bulls
fans and they don't even know it.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'd rather watch Betty the Bull in a balloon yelling
about getting sticky tape, then I'd rather watch the Bulls
in a series.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Did you forget about the sticky tape? How do we
sticky tape? Sticky tape?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I want a missed opportunity for that was pretty well
done too. By the way, be careful about your vocal
course though it's been a rash. You guys having to
have surgery in our business. I don't. I don't need
doing funny voices.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
So here we go. We're off to the raises.
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So big, big goings on today in the NFL as
reports come out from NFL Network insider Ian Rapaport and
others that hey, uh, Derek Carr might.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Be out for the season. Oh by the way, wait
what wait what? Wait what?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Apparently Derek Carr has a bad shoulder injury that he's
dealing with, and according to all reports, he has been
in communication with the team for this for a while.
So now, was this something that happened wear and tear.
Was it something that happened in the off season. Was
it something that happened away from the team. That's kind
of what we're waiting to see. However, he now may
(16:40):
miss the twenty twenty five season with a shoulder injury.
This is a guy that the Saints said, hey, we
don't want to wait for Aaron Rodgers to you.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
We want to give you all kinds of money.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And what did I say when it happened, I'm glad
I wasn't the team to give Derek Carr that money. Sure,
so here he is now potentially he could miss the
entire season. We told you the topic every single day
between now and the NFL Draft will be one topic
per day surrounding Shadoor Sanders, How good is he? And
who is going to draft him?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Right, So.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
We'll keep the ticker going because this really is about
Shadoor Sanders because the Saints. Look, you know, Derek Carr
is a placeholder till they get their new quarterback in there.
And I know that everybody has now linked, well, Shadoor
Sanders won't fall past number.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Nine to the Saints. Yeah, okay, I may give you
he won't fall past number nine.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Although that that's starting to get a little bit more
difficult to see. But I will tell you this because
I thought it was happening before before today, and now
I am sure it's happening. The Saints will draft Jackson
Dart at number nine. Right, he's the guy that's been
rising throughout a lot of quarterback circles, Shadoor Sanders has
been falling. The Saints have spent a lot of time
(17:56):
with Jackson Dart, a lot of time on Jackson Dart.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And this is why things.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Are gonna fit for them, Because if you're the Saints
at number nine, the offseason comes, you're saying to yourself, Okay,
what's gonna happen? Well, how much homework do we need
to do on campb Woard, Chador Sanders. These guys are
going one too. Who's our next guy? We love Jackson
Dart and they spend a lot of time with this guy.
You're not suddenly going to hit the draft. And if
Shador Sanders and Jackson Dart are both there at nine,
(18:22):
you're gonna say, oh wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait,
Chador Santa, No, you can now do your homework on them.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
But it doesn't matter. You have spent a lot of
time with Jackson Dart. He's a guy.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Look, he's the one guy that separated himself from the
rest of the group of quarterbacks that came out last
year with Youers and Milroe and McCord. He has separated
himself to the point where he was gonna be a
first round quarterback. We told you he was gonna be
the big riser. He has been the big riser. He
does not get past the Saints at number nine. It
just makes too much sense. Other teams are they going
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to take Chador Sanders if he slides to them? It said, well,
the Jets grab Schador Sanders at seven. Man, I don't
think so they get just and Field some money and
all of a sudden, yeah, we're gonna upset this apple cart.
We're trying to have a culture come in. We're gonna
take a quarterback at number seven.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Don't see it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
A lot of teams are telling you, hey, we're we're
not locked into taking a quarterback. Right, Joe Flacco is
back today? Yeah, yeah, finned him for a year. And
what did Jimmy Hassem say last week, We're not gonna
force a quarterback at number two? Well, you pick second.
You can have either one of the top two quarterbacks, right,
you could have cam Ward or you get your door Sanders.
Chances are cam Ward's gonna be gone. Hence the statement
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of we're not going to force a quarterback. So Sanders
is not going there. He's suddenly not just gonna get
snapped up. And the Saints are kind of in a
perfect spot because they're in no man's land where the
teams in front of them if they pass on Sanders.
Once you get out of the out of the top
three four, you get past the Giants, it's and the
Giants have said, hey, we got to get the quarterback right,
We're not gonna force a guy like that. Everybody is
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basically distancing themselves from saying we're gonna draft your door Sanders.
So once you get past there, the Saints are the
only team just sitting there at nine. Now, could I
see see them if somebody wants Sanders, could I see
them dropping down a little bit a few picks to
get them, If the Steelers want to jump up and
get them, yeah, I could see that. But sitting at nine,
they know they need their quarterback. They've been really quiet
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the entire time. When you whenever you're picking in a
spot like that, you can't let people know who you
really like, who you favor. But you know they like
Jackson dart Ole. Miss It's a big pipeline there from
Mississippi to New Orleans, and you know, you think about
the Mannings and the fans are gonna be on board
with it because they're gonna love Jackson Dart because of
the whole Mississippi thing to New Orleans. It's going to
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happen like if you had to say to me outside
of cam Woard going number one overall, like where's where's
the next cemented quarterback in to go?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Like?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I will tell you that the next pick I'm sure
about is going to be Jackson Dart at nine to
the Saints.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
See. I like the cut of your jib. I don't
know that you're right. I like your theory because you
still have the manning project for long term and you
still have an infrastructure that you need to build.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Right.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
You drafted Spencer Ratler a year ago. I don't know
how good Spencer Rattler can be. But you're gonna get
Chris Olave back. He missed a lot of last season.
You still have a couple of pieces in place. But
do you necessarily go for the quarterback in round one?
This is where it gets curious? Is it Dart? Is
it Sanders? Do you wait earlier before the signing and
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before the Derek Carr news had come out as reading
all about Tyler Schuck out of Louisville, who was a
guy that they were liking, maybe as a day two guy.
So a little bit of intrigue there that potentially there's
some other names on their top thirty visits that may
cloud things a little bit in this process. But either way,
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the Saints highly intriguing at that number nine spot, maybe
just a little bit more so than your Jets.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Look, and I understand that there's going to be a
bit of a I don't want to say feeding frenzy,
but there's going to be that. Boy, here are these
teams that potentially need a quarterback because yeah, am I
sure that Justin Fields is gonna be really good?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I have a feeling he's gonna be good. Because now
the Jets are putting in position to succeed and they said,
you're our guy. Nobody has done that, right, So Okay,
I kind of like that. There's going to be that
bit of of nervousness of can we really let this
guy go? And I'm telling you, Cleveland still needs to
take Sanders. They still need to take the guy, right.
They see they need a quarterback. They but they need
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they need to fix that. They got scared right, Cleveland
got scared by bringing in Joe Flacco and and say
we're gonna have Kenny Pickett Joe Flacco. They've gotten scared
about the quarterback because they've just dumped a whole bunch
of money. They dumped two hundred and thirty million dollars
from the quarterback position the last few years, and.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
It's not working at all.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So yeah, they're a little gun shy about taking a
quarterback and saying, hey, you're you're our franchise. But I'm
sorry that happened. But I'm sorry you're scared. But really said, like,
you have to take a guy at two because of Cleveland.
Where else are you gonna get your quarterback from?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I mean what? Well, what Joe tell me where you're
gonna get him from? What's gonna happen? Oh? Well, next year?
Next year?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
What next year? Maybe you don't pick high enough to
get a quarterback. Maybe you're not picking second overall. Next year,
I mean, maybe you stink again, you're picking second. Maybe
the quarterbacks aren't that.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
But maybe you con mccorling round too.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
We'll get a guy in free agency, Maybe a guy
in free agency. Maybe the free agency guys won't be
there because no one really hits free agency anymore. Like
I don't know where that where that that quarterback is
coming from. And when you've spent time and you got
it wrong, you need to energize the team.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And maybe you're right.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Look, a quarterback's got to be a gut feeld, but
you still don't know about Sanders until you get him
on the field. Maybe he's great, maybe he turns out
to be great. But when you need a quarterback, you
gotta take somebody. You can't just say, well, yeah we're
not we're not too thrilled this year. We'll see what
happens next year. Because you could easily get the quarterback
wrong just as much as you get it right right.
And that's what people forget about. Oh I'm worried about
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getting the quarterback wrong.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You should think maybe we'll get it right. You think
maybe we'll get it right.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
You won't know about maybe Sanders comes in and he's
the guy you expected. If he's not, okay, but at
least you have somebody. You have a quarterback you took
at number two that can be your future. If you
had a plan where if we don't get our quarterback here,
we're getting them here. I would say, okay, fine, go ahead,
get go, get your guy there.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
But there's no plan. There's just I don't know. We'll
wait and see how it goes. Oh, okay, we'll wait.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
We'll hope right as you always like to say, Mike Carman,
hope is not a strategy.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Hope to get it right. Hope not not a strategy.
So you know he's gonna fall.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You can see teams moving away from him, even to
the point where when it gets to nine, forget about Sanders.
Jackson Dart will go there to the Saints at nine,
and it's gonna be fascinating watching what happens to Sanders.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I do like your chaos theory, there's no question about it. Look,
Cleveland now gets to boast that they have two Super
Bowl winning quarterbacks on their roster. You have a pretty
good roster right coming into last year. Your giant question
Mark with the full Riddler outfit. If we're gonna go
that because you wanted to have a number one guy,
I'll one up yet, I'll go to the sequels and
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get a guy in she Mark costume under center. But
they had a really good roster. But you're still fighting
up Hill in a really tough division. Do you think
that Shadar Sanders is that guy? I don't know right that,
Like that's the big thing for burying for Stefanski. Is
he the guy that puts them over? Or can they
get by like they did a couple of years ago
(25:19):
bringing back Joe Flacco? Can he be elite off the
couch once again? How great is this? And I think
that we're talking about the Saints. He's trying to figure
things out.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's nice, isn't it. See I thought
you were gonna go with the speaking at Ridley you.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Are my number one god.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
But you could do that.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It's just putting his arms around Jack Nicholson, you are
my number one god.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
And Saners is like yeah, yeah, whatever, Yeah, that's fine. Whatever.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Well, but then you'd have to ask me if he
got the reference and he If he doesn't, then you
could say, all.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
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Speaker 1 (26:26):
You know it's funny Justin Rose leading the masters, right
like this is it's one of those times where you
know when when you like, if you get on Facebook,
and cause I always told them, well, my dad was
going to join Facebook.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
He was I'm thinking about joined at Facebook. I go,
all right, go ahead do it. He goes, well, what's
going to happen?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I said, Within a week, you will be friends with
people that you haven't talked to in thirty years. Right
like that, You're going to see people you went to
high school with, cott You'll be friends with them, and
you'll see what's going on, and you know that happen.
You know, you get on Facebook, you see that and
you know, just to give you a point of reference
on it, because like certain people your life, when when
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you don't see them and then you hook up with
them like thirty years later, yeah you do, and you're like, well,
they're frozen in time, right, They're frozen in time, like
when they were twenty five years old, and you still
picture them that way, even though, Hey, I look at
you and you have no hair, and boy, you're you
look old.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
You look older than me, and wow, my goodness, I
thought that was your dad.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Look like you'd be good.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, I mean you think that, but you still see
when you think of that person, you think about what
they were when you met them in your life. Like
Justin Rose is in his mid forties now, and I
still think of him as that kid that almost won
the Open Championship, like when he was an amateur in
like nineteen ninety nine or something like that.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Ninety when he almost went was like.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Wow, this is a nineteen year old amateur that could
win the Open Championship.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Oh my god. I still see him as that kid,
even though he's out here.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I mean he's a man, right, he's forty five years old, right, Okay,
Justin Rose and he's leading the Masters and what he's
gonna be great for so long?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I still see him as that nineteen year old kid.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
What do I tell you? I always age myself and
then I look at a scorecard and unless it's a
guy coming up and it's someone junior it's like, Wow,
that guy's now like thirty seven. Like we're doing it
the other day with Oldechkin. He've been in the league
forever and obviously amassing massive stats. But then you're just like,
look at all the gray and the beard, and it's like,
who's next on the list? Like said the kid? He
(28:18):
ain't said the kid anymore. He's thirty seven, right. All
this like aging myself and certainly watching my daughters grow up.
I know the passage of time has occurred, but there's
just some timelessness about the guys in between and women
in between the white lines and on the golf course
or whatever else, until these moments where it's like, eh,
(28:38):
yeah in his mid forties. I mean, look at what
we did yesterday, what we're talking about, Hey, how old
is he? Sixty five? Like yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So you're doing the whole Igor Karkaroff, Bartie Crouch Junior.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
And then he became.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Well, okay, no Carkaroff wasn't no no, no, no, no, okay.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
I mean Barty Crouch Junior, Barty Crouch June.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
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They're playing Glory Days.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
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Speaker 3 (30:52):
Videos on YouTube. Well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I like being right and right most of the time,
and I was right again today right. Last night we
had the latest in the drama of Ja Morant saying
blank you nba, I'm gonna do whatever I want to.
And last night, during the Grizzlies loss to the t Wolves,
a couple of times pulled out the celebration, the machine
(31:19):
gun celebration, the lobbing, the grenade celebration into the crowd,
where he had been warned about not celebrating with guns
because the league doesn't want that to happen. Right, And oh,
by the way, you're the guy who's been caught with
guns for real twice on social media and have served
suspensions twice because this happened. You're the last guy that
(31:41):
should be doing any kind of finger guns.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
You can agree or disagree with the rule, but this
is the NBA's rule, right, this is the you want
to play.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
They don't want to do. They don't want to promote guns.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I understand that, right, it's a really small asque just
don't do machine gun celebrations. Ja Morant, even after getting
warned said nope, blank you, I'm still gonna do it.
He does it the same night that he has warned,
don't do it anymore. Great, And what does the NBA do?
They Okay, here's says seventy five thousand dollars. Fine, ooh,
that'll do it for you. And then he does it
(32:11):
again last night, Right, forget about the whole day. He
does the machine gun thing again, and and it's it's
not like, oh, how bad is this thing for John Morant,
It's just, dude, why are you doing this? Why are
you potentially putting your career in jeopardy? I get you
in the IDGAF part of your career at twenty five,
which is pretty dangerous, right, but you are putting your
(32:32):
career in jeopardy.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
You've already had two.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Big suspensions by the NBA, and you know they're hoping
that you're doing the right thing off the court, and
you're around the people you should be around, and you're
not around the people you're not supposed to be. Right,
But now I don't know because if you're gonna do this,
this shows you I got too much IDGAF about me. So,
but this is not really about John Morant as much
as it is the NBA and the lack of respect,
(32:54):
the lack of obvious and open respect the players have
for Adam Silver, because here is John Moran saying, blank you,
I'm still gonna do it right. This is this relationship
is like the dad and the and and the kid
who is headstrong senior in high school and doesn't listen
to anybody, stays out late past his curfew, gets in trouble,
(33:19):
comes back, and the dad says, hey, you need to
do things right. Yeah, whatever, dad, whatever, And the dad says,
you know what, I'm sorry, I gotta do something. You
can't take the car out this weekend. Can't take the car.
That's that's gonna be your punishment, okay. And that night
the kid takes the car out right like that's the
like that, that's an even And the punishment he gets
when when uh, and the punishment gets is just, oh, hey,
(33:39):
I'm not giving you your allowance this week he took
the car out, okay. And then he takes the car
out again, and it takes a car out again, and
the dad does nothing right. I'm so embarrassed for Adam
Silver because he clearly has no he had He has
no control over what goes on in the NBA. And
and and this is not just about hey, you know,
it's a it's a contest about about you know, people
(34:02):
listening to me.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
You're in charge of the NBA and Art.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Don't you want to put Ja Morant in a position where, hey,
he understands that he needs to stay in the league.
Don't you want to try to help him? You think
just not doing anything is gonna is gonna help him?
Of course not I'm embarrassed for Adam Silver. And I
told you last night he was gonna do nothing. After
the last night, he continues to get sand kicked in
his face at the beach by Ja Morant, and he
just says, I'll go get some water at the water fountain.
(34:27):
You just keep kicking the sand in my face. I'm
embarrassed for him. I'm embarrassed with the league for this.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Yeah, it just comes back to let's think about whatever
language is in the Players Association collectively Bargained Agreement, right,
what is it related to celebrations? Do you have a
specific language? Can you single him out? I get it,
he's been suspended for the times he actually brandished guns.
But does this fall into the same And I get it,
(34:53):
he's different and he's got a different history, but you're
not applying it the same to the rest of the
league that does celebration similar all the way through. I
think that's where the PA gets into a fight with
with Adam Silver. And let's face it, he rolls over
and waits for them to rub his belly.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Now just now just.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Picturing Benny when I come home and he flags his
tail and he lays down and puts his puts his
paws up so I could rub his belly and scratch it.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Tickle.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Yeah, you don't want to be mad at him. We
talked about this all along, and I think it's the
all right, how serious is is this? On a scale
of one to ten? And yes, the thumbing the nose
obviously is really next level stuff, There's no question about it.
But finding him isn't gonna do it. It's become a
all right, let's fight about it in the off season,
(35:45):
figuring that Memphis is, you know, not long for this campaign.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
And then it's something that you address with leadership in
the off season about celebrations. That that's the I guess
the larger question to have because I thought the grenade
was kind of fun, right, you throw the grenade in
and then yeah, it drops. Everybody jumps up and goes.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah, yeah, No, he doing the grit. But he still
did the gun thing.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
He did still did the gun musket. He had a
must show it would have taken too long to load.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
He still did the gun thing.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
And nothing from Adam Silver, who I'm sure didn't come
into work today, left early. Told everybody working in the
NBA office, Hey taken early weekend. I'll see on Monday
when we're gonna talk about the playing round and hopefully
no one's talking about John Morant and the finger gun
celebration anymore.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Like, I mean, he did absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
He is so spineless, and you know, I just want
my I just want the leaders to lead, you know,
to show that hey, I'm a strong person out David Stern.
David Stern would would have had John Morant in his
office in New York with the whole you can't do
this or play in our lead.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
But this is where it gets hard though, Jason is
is like we do it with players like well, we
always compare them to Brady or Mahomes or whoever the
elite is and whatever league, right, and here's the Jordan
or Lebron. Same thing with David Steart. David Stearn is
such an outlier in the way he handled and adjudicated
all this stuff, like you're not going to that extreme.
(37:10):
He make guys wear suits for crying out loud.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
I know, well, I could have never made it fair.
Oh I can't. Then I can't play. I'm not gonna play.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
You really gonna Oh yeah, I'm not gonna wear a suit. No, no, no,
I want sweats and a T shirt. That's what I
want to be able to wear. That's it right there. Hey,
we got a big football story coming up next where
I'm gonna love something that everybody just hates.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
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