Greetings my peeps and welcome to the All Things Basketball Podcast with your boy GD.
In this episode I'm calling it the Wild and Wacky World of Podcasts.
You got all these different all players with their own podcast.
They go on these other podcasts and say some wild things so we'll break it all down guys
so just sit back relax and enjoy the show.
Okay guys so it's your boy GD back with the All Things Basketball with GD Podcasts
and you know there's a lot of off-season news that has taken place since we last talked.
Jaylin Brown breaking the bank plus other news items as well but I want to start with the
Wild and Wacky World of Podcasts which is ironic because you're now listening to a podcast with
yours truly. The way I kind of work is I'm taking you behind the scenes here. I do a
amount of research. I create an outline and then I just expound from that outline so that's kind of
how I operate but I'm going to take a line from Joe Madison the Black Eagle when he says everybody
has a podcast and it seems like that's true in the NBA just about. Everybody has a podcast.
From your former players like Shaquille O'Neal of course he has the big podcast with Shaq and
that's a pretty popular one. Also you have JJ Reddick's podcast, Old Man in Three, even Dr. Jay
Julia Servin. He has one called House Call with Dr. Jay then you have Gilbert Arenas. Now he's a hot
guy in terms of the podcasting. He has one called No Chill with Gilbert Arenas and then Kevin Garnett
and Paul Pierce. They have one called Ticket in the Truth. So that's your former players
and you got your current players with podcasts. Of course Draymond Green, he has his podcast,
the Draymond Green show. Now you have Paul George. He has one called Podcast P with Paul George and
he has other hosts as well. Patrick Beverly of all people of course you know he has one now.
The Pat Bev podcast and then you have former players who go on these different other shows
like a Jeff Teague. He went on Club 520. He was actually pretty funny on there. So you have that
Draymond Green. He goes on other people's podcasts. In fact he went on Pat Bev's podcast.
In fact that's the one I'm going to start with. So let's get into it. Now Draymond Green of course
he goes on the Pat Bev podcast and of course Patrick Beverly being who he is access him about
the punch. Draymond Green gave to Jordan Pool and this is what he said in terms of the punch.
I don't just hit people. Dialogue of course happens over time and usually ain't just triggered by
something like that fast to that degree. You know what I'm saying? Like this is a team. Ain't nobody
on my team triggering me in an instance. You know we know stuff that you don't say amongst men. We
know things that you have to stand on. So basically to Draymond's pretty much putting the ball in
Jordan Pool's court. I guess what he's trying to say is Jordan antagonized him so much so that he
had no other recourse but to punch the guy. Draymond Draymond. You know going on somebody's
podcast especially of Patrick Beverly. He's gonna goad you into this topic. Instead of taking the
high row which I think you should have did to be honest. You go for the low hanging fruit and you
of course answers and of course with him answering this this elicits a response from not only Jordan
Pool but Jordan Pool's father. He goes on Twitter and this is what he says on Twitter. I'll kind of
clean it up. I'm staying on this. This is some BS. That's some BS rapper. JP was his guy and he
avoid me all last year. He is as soft as B and I'm standing on this and he didn't apologize to me
and my wife. So he laying and me and him can meet anywhere he want. So you have people saying why is
the dad getting involved? His son is a grown man. He should be able to handle his own business.
I'm put it to you like this. You see this video go viral of your child being hit by another man or
adult or what have you. Of course you're gonna be livid about it and for anybody to say no I'll let
my child handle it. That's a load of crap. You know and I know you're gonna react. Maybe not in this
same vein as Jordan's father but you're gonna react. So for people to say oh he should keep out of it.
No. No. That's unrealistic. Let's put it that way. But again I come back to Dremon. Dremon you should
be wiser to know not to answer. See the whole thing this thing ain't gonna die down and then remember
well the schedule hasn't come out yet. I'm sure we're in the month of August so I'm gonna gauge
probably about mid-August we'll get the full schedule and of course I'll break it down like I
do every year. But Dremon has to be smarter. He has to be smarter and dealing with these sort of
questions here and there's already kind of questions about him and even on that podcast he talked about
his new teammate Chris Paul how you know in the past they didn't get along. See how the locker room
situation happens with him because Chris Paul himself is a leader so he's coming into a situation
here where you already got leadership in Dremon Green so it'll be interesting to see if those two
bump heads in that regard. And then you have the young guys in the locker room who many of whom
are still on this roster. They witness what happened with the Dremon Green stuff so it's just going
to be an interesting situation in Golden State. Well you don't have Jordan Paul in the locker room
now so I will be interested to see how the season progresses with that situation there.
They put all their eggs in the Dremon Green basket. Everybody was behind him in terms of your star
players were behind him and they kind of pushed Jordan Paul over a cliff kind of making him the
fall guy so we'll see what happens during the season. So that's one bit of news coming out of
the podcast. Let me talk about the next bit of news. Dwayne Wade man this guy is like catching
strays from everywhere and I don't even understand the reason why. Here he is living his best life.
He just became part owner of the Chicago Sky. He's less than two weeks away from a Hall of Fame
induction. Of course he's going in with Dirk Nowitzki as well as Tony Parker, Greg Popovich
the coach as well as Becky Hammond and others and then you have these couple of guys making
their statements. First of all let's deal with Paul Pierce. You know I have no love for this man.
It's something about him just grates my nerves. So Paul Pierce rehashes a four year old subject
so he brought it up again on Cameron's show. I'm using air quotes for show because he doesn't
like to call it a podcast. It's a podcast so I don't know who Cameron is fooling. But anyway
on the show called it is what it is. Paul Pierce goes on there and he rehashes the whole him being
better than Dwayne Wade as far as offensive players so forth and he claims that he too would have
multiple championships if he was in Dwayne Wade's situation and that he's the much better offensive
talent than Dwayne Wade. And back then I loved it when my guy Jalen Rose brought out the receipts on
him to show him how out of touch he was in regard to him comparing himself with Dwayne Wade. So since
I don't have Jalen Rose here as a guest I will do the honors and pull him out the receipts just to
let Paul Pierce know how crazy that talk is. Here's what I give Paul Pierce. I give him this.
He's the better three point shooter of the two. Hands down. Dwayne Wade in his career only 549
three point goals made. Paul Pierce he actually quadruples that over 2100 three point goals made.
In fact 2143 to be exact. So I grant you that you are the better three point shooter. I get
you that. In your 19 years in the league you amassed 26397 points. Dwayne Wade with three less years
than you playing 16 years over 23000 points. You had three more seasons to amass 3000 more points.
So I call that us kind of a split. Oh by the way Dwayne Wade in one of the seasons did league the
entire league in scoring. Paul Pierce you did not. And then there's this. Paul Pierce is mainly a
small forward. Dwayne Wade is mainly a shooting guard. And then at points in his career he was a
point guard. So you talk about two different positions anyway. So I don't even understand why
you're comparing yourself with him rather than another small forward. But I digress. But we'll
entertain Paul Pierce's lunacy for a moment. Tim Time All-Star. Four Time All-MBA. Once on the
second team three times on the third team. Dwayne Wade 13 times an All-Star. Oh by the way in one of
those All-Star games he got the MVP award. Eight Times All-MBA. Twice on the first team. Three
times on the second team. Three times on the third team. So yeah yeah not looking so good.
And oh by the way Dwayne Wade made all defensive team three times. He made the second team all
defensive team. So there's that feather in this cap. Your one championship you did win finals MVP
so we give you that. Dwayne Wade three times a champion and won finals MVP so he's up in terms
of the ring count. Your career average 19.7 points per game. 5.6 rebounds. 3.5 assists.
1.3 steals. Dwayne Wade 22 points per game he averaged. So you're talking about over two
points higher per game. 4.7 rebounds. That's fine given that Dwayne Wade is 6-4 and Paul Pierce is 6-7.
5.4 assists and one and a half steals per game. So he has that advantage there.
6. Shooting from the field. Paul Pierce at only 44 and a half percent from the field whereas Dwayne
Wade 48 percent from the field so Dwayne Wade was much more efficient. 3.0 range of course Paul
Pierce is going to best him in that category 36.8 percent to Dwayne Wade's 29.3 percent. We all
understand Dwayne Wade was not the three-point shooter that Paul Pierce was and from the free throw
line over 80 percent for Paul Pierce 76.5 percent for Dwayne Wade so there's that.
Highest MVP finish I like including this when comparing players. Paul Pierce the highest he's
ever gone in terms of the MVP race. 7. Highest MVP finish for Wade. 3. So he has that over him.
Again I say all that to say Paul Pierce what are we doing here? You're bringing up an old argument
and again Dwayne Wade shooting guard. You small forward so I don't even understand comparison
anyway and heaven knows you're not going to try and compare yourself to LeBron. Don't even go there
because that's actually the small forward but I digress that's a story for another day.
So that's Paul Pierce and his nonsense. Now we go to Jeff Teague. Jeff Teague like I said he went on
the club 520 podcast and he turns out to be a pretty funny guy. He told the story about the Jimmy
Butler Timberwolves practice the infamous practice where he took the third stringers and beat the
starting five. He talked about his beef with Tracy McGrady and then he talked about him trash talking
Steph Curry and to no avail because Steph Curry ends up lighting them up. So on this podcast on
the same episode he tells them that James Harden is better than Dwayne Wade. According to him
Dwayne Wade had Shaq. Shaq was still very serviceable that's for sure and very vital to them getting a
championship but we all know it was Dwayne Wade's team make no mistake about it. Then he brings in
LeBron that Dwayne Wade never really been by himself and when he was the team was trashed.
So Jeff Teague you should know better kind of taking a line from Stephen A. But he should
know better than comparing Dwayne Wade with Harden because of the sacrifices that Dwayne Wade made
when LeBron got there he had to sacrifice his game in order to acquiesce to LeBron. He could
have averaged more but he sacrificed his game so LeBron can be the Batman if you will to his Robin
and doing so that allowed them to win two championships and go to a third final. So that
right there in the nutshell I can go through the numbers I could go through Harden's numbers
he's been in the league 14 years he's already scored over 4,000 more points than Wade oh by the way
he's won three scoring champ he's a 10 time all-star seven times all NBA he has an MVP award he has a
six man of the year award and he's led the league and assists twice as well. So individually you get
no argument for me I mean Harden has the better numbers but if you were to ask somebody who's
the player you want in the foxhole with you nine people out of ten will say Dwayne Wade that's just
the facts of it and the fact that Wade is also a two-way player he can defend as well give me
Dwayne Wade all day and twice on Sunday but like I said Jeff Teague who actually ended up winning a
championship so he knows what it takes he knows the sacrifices it takes to get there so for him to
say that Harden's the better player. On paper sure sure if you want to say on paper but we know
there's intangibles that goes with playing the game and Dwayne Wade had those intangibles so that's
my defense of Dwayne Wade against these unnecessary strays that he was catching from these guys so
that's that bit of news Julius Irving. Julius Irving he goes on a podcast with Joy D'Angelo
she's a social media influencer he goes on her podcast and it's two things that kind of caught
the eye of people he talked about the current climate of player empowerment this is his quote
these guys since prisoners are running the show and not the war first of all let's stop there
Julius Irving one of my heroes when I started watching basketball one of my heroes in terms of
basketball players I've loved and watched until Bernard King came along and kind of put my focus
there on him but definitely one of my early heroes Dr. J but this phrasing here I can't go along with
that doc do we've heard that used as a weapon on players previously for you to go there not very
wise so that's my critique as far as that goes let me continue with what he said it's just where a
star player on a team is like oh screw the city and all the support that they've given me and I'm
going south I'm going to Florida I'm going to LA I'm going to Texas or I'm going somewhere else
these decisions and their business decisions and I understand but they have not helped the game
they have not helped keep parody within the game when you build these super team that's his comment
in that regard and he was really kind of focusing in well let me continue then you can get to just a
bit however he feels differently about dame lilor and this is what he said in that regard
wherever he goes he probably will finish his career because of his age and the fact that he's played
12 13 years and he wants a chance at winning a championship and he doesn't think he can get it
in Portland so that's a good reason to leave but a guy 26 or 27 just want to hop around how many
times have Kevin Durant hopped around so it seems his ire is more towards Kevin Durant than it is
to dame lilor and to be fair Kevin Durant pretty much axed out of one situation and that was with
the Brooklyn Nets it just so happens it's in recent memory so it's fresh in our minds but any
other time he left a situation okay see he left as a free agent golden state after his contract
was done he left as a free agent although it ended up being a silent tree so i don't really get it in
terms of that but if you want to say you want to include other guys in there like James Hart and
like Ben Simmons and i'll get to them in a minute i can see that but to be fair Kevin Durant only
acts out of one situation any other time he honored his contract and stayed the duration so i gotta give
Durant a pass on that so that's what doc had to say about player empowerment now here's what's
getting more scrutiny is his top 10 player lists and i'll give you his top 10 players
Bill Russell, Will Chamberlain, Oscar Robinson, Elgin Bayla and Jerry West now that's five of them
right what do those players have in common these are players that Julia Serven grew up watching
play so there's an admiration in that regard now the next five i'll give you is Karim Abduljabbar
Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Karl Malone and Tiny Archibald what do those five players have
in common these are players that Julius Irvin competed against so everybody's saying where's
LeBron James where is Kobe Bryant where is Tim Duncan where is Steph Curry he didn't compete
against these guys so his top 10 first of all Dr. J knows more basketball all my basketball knowledge
fits in a thimble compared to Julius Irvin's basketball knowledge let's get that out the way
what i'm saying is first of all it's his opinion and it's funny because i went back and forth with
somebody on social media about how can my opinion be wrong if it's my opinion and this is Doc's
opinion a lot of people gonna say oh he's hating on the new school listen that he's just giving you
his personal top 10 is it his all-time top 10 i think you would get a better answer from him if
you said an all-time top 10 and not his personal favorite top 10 this seems like a personal favorite
top 10 of his because again five of the players he watched play and the other five he competed against
some people say oh why didn't he include Larry Bird did you guys see the footage of him with his
hands around the neck of Larry Bird they hated each other you know they'll do commercials here and
there would not but there was no love loss between those two so i'm not really surprised
that bird didn't make his list you know what's the biggest surprise that Carl Malone made this
list and not Charles Barkley Charles Barkley is somebody he played on the same team with
that's the biggest surprise guys that's what seems to be swept under the rug why didn't he
name Charles Barkley among those top 10 that would be the better question but nobody's asking that
question everybody's hung up with you know LeBron they hung up with not having Kobe there Tim Duncan
over a calm alone where was Charles Barkley on this list a guy who he saw who he kind of
mentored a little bit why is he not on the list that maybe that's just me i don't know tiny archer ball
remember this was a man who led the league in scoring and in a sis in the same season and a guy
who if injuries didn't be set him he could very well be amongst people's top five point guards ever
or tiny archer ball was that dude he was that dude guys but again injuries kind of robbed him of
doing you know much better things and then the situation he was in with the king so he wasn't
in the greatest of situations thankfully he eventually later in his career went to boston
where he won a championship there but archer ball was the truth guys so anyhow a lot of people
again attacked him i give him a pass because again this is his personal top 10 list so
how can i knock him for his opinion on his personal top 10 so that's just me then we have the last
bit of podcasts hoopla i'll talk about is austin rivers he has a podcast i forgot to mention him
he has one called off guard he does it with ringer mba so he was critical of dame and the other players
because of the player empowerment sort of deal and this is what austin rivers had to say
regardless of how good you are as a player the mba is not it's a privilege if you're a free agent
you can choose wherever you were gonna go that's the business but when you're not and you sign a deal
that's part of the business if you get traded somewhere else you got to go play he also named
guys like james hearton and ben Simmons he said it started with these guys doing that and that is
bad for the league he also has some harsh things say about the new cba cba that i'm still trying to
wrap my mind around and saying that this new deal is top heavy he doesn't know who agreed to it you
got guys getting 50 million and your mid-level guys getting 2 million so it's kind of a disparity in
that regard so i hear austin rivers on all this i really do and i kind of said it myself in terms
of the dame situation because again he says miami is his preference and you don't really get a
preference if you don't have a no trade clause so you kind of have to go where the team sends you
to go and i'll get into that when i talk about the other news also which will be in another episode
because this one went a little longer than i thought well anyhow but with me agreeing with
austin rivers and everything here's my kind of caveat to that austin rivers he actually refused
you yourself refused to go to a place when you got traded along with kelly ubre you got sent to
phoenix this was around 2019 you and kelly ubre got traded there for trevor reza and you didn't
want to go there because you said you was used to being in the playoffs you've been in the playoffs
five straight years you wanted to go to a playoff team and at the time phoenix was kind of in a
rebuilt sort of role so you didn't want to go to that situation and eventually phoenix understood
and they waived you and you went to houston where you was able to be with james hartin and those
guys over there so i agree with the message but the messenger has kind of a questionable history
there when it comes to that but i hear my understand but he's he's right in that regard i mean you sign
the deal you got to honor the deal that that's just the bottom line of it so so on that note i'm
gonna end this episode here like i said i got other news i'm gonna put it in another episode so
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