1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,560 Greetings my peeps and welcome to the All Things Basketball Podcast with your boy GD. 2 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:17,420 In this episode I'm calling it the Tale of Two Villains where we talk about Dreymon Green 3 00:00:17,420 --> 00:00:19,920 and Dylan Brooks. 4 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:25,560 Also we'll talk about Nick Nurse, him getting fired, also talk about Phil Jackson, he has 5 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:30,720 some things to say about the NBA and some injury news as well. 6 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:38,000 So just sit back, relax and enjoy the show. 7 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:46,600 Ok guys so we are back with All Things Basketball Podcast with your boy GD of course. 8 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,040 Let's get back into the swing of things. 9 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:57,440 So this episode I'm titling the Tale of Two Villains. 10 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,600 I'll explain more about that in a minute. 11 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:07,920 But I did want to cover some news items in terms of the NBA so I wanted to cover those 12 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:08,920 right quick. 13 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:12,680 So let's get into it shall we? 14 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,880 So let's start off with some coaching news. 15 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:26,720 Nick Nurse is out as the Toronto head coach, the general manager and president of operations, 16 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:33,280 Masai Ajiri announced that Nick Nurse will no longer be there coach. 17 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,400 So let's talk a little bit about Nick Nurse's history there. 18 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:44,760 He was an assistant coach under Dwayne Casey for five years before he took over as the 19 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,120 head coach of the team. 20 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,280 So he comes in as a head coach. 21 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,600 He coached there for five years. 22 00:01:53,600 --> 00:02:00,360 He comes in and in his first year he wins a championship as a rookie head coach. 23 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:11,920 His overall record in those five years, 227 against 163 so he had a 58.2% win percentage 24 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:18,040 and during that time he finished as high as second in the Eastern Conference twice. 25 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:24,720 He had a fifth place finish as well and then this year he finished ninth. 26 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:34,160 So and see the thing I take out of this is Nick Nurse, he was given an impossible situation 27 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:39,840 with this current roster because there's too many similar players man. 28 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:45,320 You got a Pascal Siakam who's of course they're all world power forward. 29 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,400 Then you have a Chris Boucher. 30 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:55,000 He's also a big who also plays similar to Siakam and you got Precious Hachua. 31 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:01,760 That's who they got back in the Cal Lowry deal in fact. 32 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:06,880 But you know all these guys play the same positions so you know it's only 48 minutes 33 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:11,440 you could dole out to these guys if you want to swing them to center then that's another 34 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:18,480 story but then you have the Jocked Polter that you brought in from the San Antonio Spurs 35 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:24,920 so you kind of have a dilemma at that position and then you had something similar at the 36 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:31,200 small forward with Scotty Barnes and OG Ananobi. 37 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,240 Both guys are pretty much similar. 38 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:41,440 Both guys are pretty much two way I say Barnes is more offensive than Ananobi but Ananobi 39 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,400 is more defensive than Barnes. 40 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:51,280 But there's similar players and then you are playing with a undersized shooting guard and 41 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:57,440 Fred Van Vleet who you were forced to put at the point guard position and he played 42 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:58,440 it well. 43 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:08,520 I think you need a kind of a oversize point guard to play with him in order for him to 44 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:09,520 flourish. 45 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,960 You definitely need kind of a floor general type next to him. 46 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:20,200 So I think the roster itself especially this year was kind of clunky so and then you have 47 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:24,000 to lay that at the feet of Messiah Jerry. 48 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:31,120 The fact that you heard during the trade deadline all the rumors of him wanting to make trades 49 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,760 but what happened was his accent price was too high for these guys. 50 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:39,720 He was wanting a couple of first round draft choices for OG Ananobi. 51 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,840 He's a good player I grant you that but I don't think you're going to get a couple of 52 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:46,360 first round picks and he wanted it unprotected. 53 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,720 You're not going to get that for him so I think his accent price was too high for his 54 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:51,720 players. 55 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:57,840 But again Nick Nurse did the best he could with what he had and that's the way it goes 56 00:04:57,840 --> 00:04:58,960 sometime. 57 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:05,000 But Nick Nurse I assure you guys he will not be unemployed very long. 58 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:11,280 During this off season you already got a couple of jobs that's out there the Houston job also 59 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:19,000 the Detroit job and mind you judging on what happens with these first round playoffs here 60 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,720 you're probably going to have some openings once that's done. 61 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:28,280 So he's going to have his pick of the litter so if I were Nick Nurse I just sit back and 62 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:29,960 wait for the right opening. 63 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:35,840 I don't think he's a guy who wants to go to a Houston or Detroit type situation. 64 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:42,040 I think he wants a team that's kind of an underachiever he could come in there and employ 65 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:48,720 his system so yeah so I think he's going to have his pick of the litter so I think he'll 66 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,280 lay back he'll see what opens up. 67 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:58,720 I don't think he'll leap at the first job that opens up so we'll see what happens there. 68 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:08,280 And then you have Phil Jackson Phil Jackson who we last saw was executive of the New York 69 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:14,480 Knicks he was given a five year contract at $60 million he was pretty much stealing money 70 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:22,160 basically at that time James Dolan was kind of desperate the situation with the Knicks 71 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:27,520 he was in a desperate situation to kind of because you know he was getting raked over 72 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:36,000 the coals in terms of the media and the fan base over his hands always constantly being 73 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:44,760 in the business of the team so in comes Phil Jackson with his coaching resume not so much 74 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:51,240 the executive but it is what it is with that so he came here he didn't live out his contract 75 00:06:51,240 --> 00:07:00,160 by the way guys they pretty much departed services with him anyhow so Phil Jackson he 76 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:07,600 makes an appearance on a Rick Rubin podcast and he reveals to Rick Rubin in this podcast 77 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:16,520 that he hasn't watched the NBA since 2019 2020 season which was the actual bubble season 78 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:23,840 where you know the pandemic hit in 2020 and then the NBA had to regroup and for safety 79 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:29,920 reason they put everybody in the bubble in Orlando so basically he said that he hasn't 80 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:39,200 enjoyed or watched basketball since the 2020 bubble in Orlando Florida that was during the 81 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:45,480 height of the covid pandemic the reasons why is because of the league's embrace of the 82 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:52,480 black lives matter movement and other social justice initiatives that kind of turned him 83 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:59,240 off from the game here's what he was quoted as saying it had to do with the politics more 84 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:05,280 than anything else I think the politically correct thing happened with the NBA in terms 85 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:13,120 of this whole BLM movement and he went as far as to say you know the names on the jerseys 86 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:19,240 all the different names on the jerseys even his grandkids joked about it and so forth 87 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:26,320 of course Phil didn't correct his grandkids he just let them go on with that last time 88 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:32,520 I checked you know caring for the lives of black folks isn't a laugh matter but what do 89 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:40,600 I know anyhow so he went on to say it's not about the game anymore it's about the message 90 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:47,080 and that's not the way I believe the game should be played or presented so that's what 91 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:54,400 he had to say in that regard so he had a problem with the politics of the matter and called 92 00:08:54,400 --> 00:09:01,120 it wonky and it was trying to cater to our audience or trying to bring in a certain audience 93 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:08,040 to the game they didn't know that it was turning other people off people want to see sports 94 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:14,480 as non-political politics stays out of the game it doesn't need to be there let me stop 95 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:23,000 you there Phil Phil Jackson you played in the 60 and the 70s lot was happening in the country 96 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:32,240 lot of civil rights and things of that nature in fact you had Bill Russell there strong 97 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:38,240 social justice advocate there who we all know stood beside Muhammad Ali when he boycotted 98 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:44,840 the Olympics so you had that also you had a Karim Abdul Jabbar who also stood beside 99 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:52,040 him and he had his own social justice initiatives that he was dealing with at that time as well 100 00:09:52,040 --> 00:10:01,200 so you had that not to mention yourself Phil Phil from what I understand you had a problem 101 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:09,320 with the Vietnam War so you were out there protesting so that was political was it not 102 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:17,920 I'm just saying and then now the more that I think about it the more I realize that yeah 103 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:24,560 you you carry that thing into coaching too because I'm old enough to remember when Michael 104 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:31,000 Jordan or his representative whoever made the statement Republicans by sneakers to when 105 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:38,520 he was asked to endorse a candidate I think a Democratic candidate at the time so and 106 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:43,880 that's when he made that statement and also to remember when they won the championship 107 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:53,840 and went to the White House when George Bush was president one of his players Craig Hodges 108 00:10:53,840 --> 00:11:02,120 came there in a dice cheeky and he pretty much was axing the president at the time about 109 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:08,800 you know concerns of the black community for that you guys didn't bring Craig Hodges back 110 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:17,000 in fact you had him black ball from the entire NBA so this all this was under Phil's watch 111 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:26,320 and then oh by the way I'll bring this up because Scotty did the fact that in that 1994 112 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:36,600 series against the Knicks where he pulled Scotty and put in Tony Kukos ran a play for 113 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:43,160 him instead of Scotty by the way Scotty was like third I believe in the MVP voting so 114 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:51,080 think about this your MVP candidate you kind of diss him to run a play for Tony Kukos 115 00:11:51,080 --> 00:12:00,400 at the time so so there's all of that to add to the mix and then you know later on he says 116 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:08,240 things about guys dressing in prison garb and how hip hop has had a bad influence on 117 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:16,280 the players that play in the league and then later he comes and he makes a statement about 118 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:22,760 LeBron James of all people LeBron James who and he talked about you know the guys he 119 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:31,280 grew up with Maverick Carter and those guys and he called them a posse which is a derogatory 120 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:38,640 term pretty much so Phil Jackson it seems like you got a history of these sort of undertones 121 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:45,840 of the old man yelling at the kids on his lawn so yeah so we're not feeling that Jelene 122 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:52,280 Rose he went IG live to highlight the fact that Phil Jackson's coaching career was built 123 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:59,780 on the backs of black athletes who won him championships so for him to disregard the 124 00:12:59,780 --> 00:13:05,880 bringing attention to because at the time there was the George Floyd killing in Minnesota 125 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:14,280 as well as Breonna Taylor as well so yeah Phil you're not looking good right now so 126 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:20,440 and you know people say oh he's kind of in that generation I'll give you a guy who you 127 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:25,560 don't hear any kind of foolishness like that come out of his mouth and that's Bill Walton 128 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:32,640 Bill Walton is a 60 70s kid and you don't hear him talking that upside the wall talk 129 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:39,320 and oh by the way he like Phil Jackson was a deadhead still is kind of one but you don't 130 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:45,560 hear Bill Walton talking that off the wall nonsense like that so to say it's generational 131 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:52,440 yeah I'm not gonna give him that pass so so Phil Jackson we ain't trying to hear your nonsense 132 00:13:52,440 --> 00:14:00,040 so so I'm just gonna leave it at that guy so alright let's get to the crux of what 133 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:05,320 I wanted to talk about in this episode and that's the tale of two villains who are the 134 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:14,440 two villains let's talk about the first one Dremon Green Dremon Green and game two of 135 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:22,280 his series with the Sacramento Kings his Golden State Warriors in that game like during the 136 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:30,680 fourth quarter he stomped on the chest of Demontus Sabonis in that game too Dremon says that 137 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:37,720 Sabonis grabbed his leg for the second time in two nights so and then actually in the video you 138 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:45,080 see him kind of grab his foot to kind of prevent him from hitting on a fast break so he basically 139 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:52,200 said that I guess he kind of complained to the referees whether they heard him or not who knows 140 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:59,320 so I guess he took it upon himself to make a statement I guess and along with that that 141 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:05,800 Sabonis grabbed his leg he also said that well he had to land his foot somewhere and that he 142 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:13,720 wasn't going to stretch out to avoid stepping on the man's chest here's the problem you stomped on 143 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:20,520 the man's chest stepping on the man's chest is one thing but deliberately stomped the man's chest 144 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:26,920 is a whole different deals so Sabonis was given a tech for grabbing Dremon's leg on the play when 145 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:34,760 they reviewed it and then Dremon was giving a flagrant two foul and he was ejected from the 146 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:41,960 game so that's how the referees called it at that time so of course the big question is 147 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:50,360 wow are they gonna suspend him for a playoff game so as the play was being reviewed oh let me go back 148 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:56,520 as the play was being reviewed by the referees in the game uh the Sacramento Kings fans kind of 149 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:02,280 jeered at Dremon Green and you know fans are gonna do that because hey they just saw Dremon 150 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:09,960 stomp their star player in the chest to which Dremon he waves at them like to bring it on 151 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:18,680 and he cups his ear to like you know louder I can't hear you basically so oh by the way Adam Silver 152 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:26,040 the NBA commissioner he was at the game so he got to see all of this gone so the league 153 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:33,960 office takes a look at it and decides Dremon Green is suspended for that game game three in that 154 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:42,760 series oh by the way in Dremon's history he got suspended for a finals game versus Cleveland where 155 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:48,600 he missed game five and which pretty much turned around that series by the way because Cleveland 156 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:54,920 ended up winning that series so so like I said the league office reviewed it and indeed they 157 00:16:54,920 --> 00:17:02,600 suspended Dremon for the game here is what NBA executive vice president Joe Dumas in charge 158 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:10,520 of these sort of things this is what he told the Associated Press about it this was not some snap of 159 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:17,880 the finger decision to do there was much discussion and back and forth looking at the play itself 160 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:24,280 over and over and then ultimately we came to the decision that the act itself and repeat 161 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:32,360 offenses that's the key phrase in this actually did warrant a suspension and in terms of Demontus 162 00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:38,680 Sabonis it wasn't like it went completely unpunished we didn't think it rose to the level of 163 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:47,000 Dremon's play excessive over the top dangerous repeat offender there's that phrase again that's 164 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:54,920 the separation between what he did and what Dremon did I do think because it kind of comes off as 165 00:17:54,920 --> 00:18:01,880 heavy handed towards Golden State and Sacramento kind of gets off the hook being that Demontus 166 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:10,600 just grabbed the foot so if I were Joe Dumas I would levy to find towards Sabonis this way 167 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:16,760 you have somewhat equity it's not total equity of Demontus missing the game as well but at least 168 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:24,040 you have some sort of justice in that regard so with that said now there was some that was 169 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:30,600 disappointed that he got suspended I know Stephen A Smith mentioned you know he's disappointed in 170 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:39,080 the NBA for suspended someone for a playoff game but I circle back to the fact that Dremon has to be 171 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:48,040 more conscious he has to be more not in the moment where he realized hey what I'm going to do here 172 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:54,440 could affect my team it definitely affect the person I'm doing it to so he's got to have that 173 00:18:54,440 --> 00:19:02,040 mindset so that's where I disagree about the suspension I think it had to happen and again 174 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:11,000 the key phrase is repeat offender the fact that he has history is why this was leveled upon him 175 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:19,160 so think about it Dremon Green putting his 230 pounds putting his weight on the chest of Sabonis 176 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:26,680 not a good look not a good look guys so with that said so what's in the future for Dremon 177 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:35,560 I will talk about this series once it's done but right now he has a player option for next season 178 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:45,720 at 27.5 million so he can opt out guys will he do it we'll see but if he does I tell you this right 179 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:52,920 now I don't see him coming back to Golden State if he were to opt out I think his only chance will 180 00:19:52,920 --> 00:20:01,720 be to opt in and I think even with that Golden State may want to say look because remember you 181 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:06,760 got to weigh everything into account and this is something I kind of predicted when I did my season 182 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:13,160 preview that with the incident that happened with him and Jordan pool I think that still lingers 183 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:19,560 like in the minds of those in the front office so I wouldn't be surprised if they moved on from 184 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:27,160 Dremon I wouldn't be surprised guys so with that said since I strongly doubt him being back with the 185 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:33,480 Golden State Warriors next season where could I see him ending up I know a lot of people talk 186 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:39,720 about the Lakers I don't know if that happens especially if the Lakers were to advance in the 187 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:46,120 next round and what they do beyond that so here's a deal I would consider I'll put it out there 188 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:54,920 there you can send Dremon Green Patrick Baldwin Junior Ryan Rollins send all those guys to the 189 00:20:54,920 --> 00:21:02,040 Brooklyn Nets along with a protected first round pick in exchange for Ben Simmons I know people 190 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:09,480 are going to say what hear me out guys so you're parting with Dremon granted your history together 191 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:16,600 and so forth you're giving the Nets a player who has you know championship pedigree he'll have a 192 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:23,560 locker room that he can mold into his image per se where he can talk and the young players there 193 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:30,600 will follow so they have promising young players there guys you still have a mckell bridges there 194 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:37,400 you have a nick clackstain or I think he can definitely play off of as he's at these powerful 195 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:45,560 position you have a cam johnson how he works with Spencer Denwood he'd out be interesting to see 196 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:51,160 but you know you have some young talent there that did make the playoffs and then you have a 197 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:59,800 Ben Simmons who Brooklyn doesn't want him back in a Nets uniform it's been too much drama too much 198 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:06,280 with his injury history and so forth so is it injuries I don't even know at this point it could 199 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:13,400 be from the neck up so Ben Simmons goes to a situation in golden state where he gets a clean 200 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:21,640 slate where he can go there improve himself and what better kind of player to fill Dremon's ability 201 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:27,960 as a basketball player than Ben Simmons who's very talented guys you'll miss that leadership 202 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:35,080 component but he gives you everything that Dremon does but not the heart of Dremon that would be 203 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:43,160 your issue right there so hey how so that's your villain number one let's go to villain number two 204 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:53,080 Dylan Brooks Dylan Brooks here's how it all started guys he said in a pregame interview 205 00:22:53,080 --> 00:23:02,280 prior to game three he said that basically LeBron he's old this is what he said in its full context 206 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:11,880 I don't care he's old he only said something when I got my fourth foul sure didn't say nothing early on 207 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:19,480 but I poke bears I don't respect no one until they come and give me 40 I pride myself on what I do 208 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:26,680 defense and taking any challenge that's on the board if it's LeBron if it's AD if it's whoever 209 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:33,240 I play my heart out he knows that the rest of league knows that I know my guys know that so 210 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:43,080 this is from Dylan Brooks ha so he's gonna play the head game with a 20-year veteran in LeBron James 211 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:51,000 and think it's gonna play out well for him I don't think so LeBron being the season vet that he is 212 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:59,000 refused to take the bait he was asked about Dylan's comments to which he ignored and didn't answer so 213 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:07,000 he kind of sidestepped the issue so enter game three which happened on Saturday night LeBron 214 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:13,800 confronts Dylan during pregame warm-ups a lot of people wondering what do you say what do you say 215 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:21,400 what do you say I heard Shannon shop say basically I'm gonna cook you well he said I'm not I don't know 216 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:29,720 so I'm pretty sure he made reference to his comments I'm sure that if we know anything about LeBron 217 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:38,200 I'm sure he brought that to Dylan's mind so with that said the Lakers crushing the Grizzlies at that 218 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:47,480 time and at the half and with the score about 53 to 37 early in the third quarter Dylan Brooks hits 219 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:54,600 LeBron in the man region in a I'm using air quotes here an effort of reaching for the ball 220 00:24:55,240 --> 00:25:01,560 I saw the replay I saw the game live by the way and then I saw the replay a few times and I'm like 221 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:08,680 yeah this is not gonna work out for you so after the refs reviewed the play Dylan was given a flagrant 222 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:17,320 to foul for the contact that they deemed unnecessary and excessive so he was ejected from the game 223 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:26,120 his stat line before he left 19 minutes seven points he shot it three for 13 one for five from 224 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:33,640 three to rebounding a steal that was it for him and LeBron he had a great game of course so 225 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:42,600 and the Lakers ended up winning that game at the post game interview LeBron his part of what he said 226 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:48,840 because you know reporters of course are gonna ask him well were you trying to make a statement in 227 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:55,400 this game again this is a 20-year vet we're talking about LeBron his part of his response 228 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:01,640 nah I've been doing this for too long I'm making no statements I don't need to make statements 229 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:08,440 that's what LeBron said so and also they asked him about Dylan Brooks being suspended he didn't 230 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:13,640 say one way or the other whether he should be suspended so we'll see what happens in that regard 231 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:22,200 and then this way it gets really funny guys Dylan's response to his ejection the media 232 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:28,040 making me a villain the fans making me a villain and then that just creates a whole different 233 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:38,600 persona on me so Dylan may I lay out your resume and that's just for this year thus far 18 technical 234 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:46,600 fouls two games you missed because of suspensions because of said technical fouls oh by the way 235 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:53,640 you did shove a cameraman this year you were suspended last year in a playoff game due to a 236 00:26:53,640 --> 00:27:02,120 flagrant two foul that you had on Gary Payton II which caused him to break his hand by the way 237 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:08,520 and then you were ejected from a game this season for striking Donovan Mitchell take a guess where 238 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:15,960 he hit Donovan Mitchell at guys yeah the same area as LeBron in the man region yes correct 239 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:23,800 so Dylan Dylan buddy yeah you brought this on yourself man so whether they suspend you or not 240 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:31,080 I don't know we'll see but yeah yeah you can't cry wolf now your resume speaks for itself so 241 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:39,400 and like I said with Draymon repeat offender and that's in your record repeat offender and 242 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:46,440 that's the problem so with that said let's talk about his future Dylan Brooks is actually going 243 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:54,600 to be an unrestricted free agent I would be stunned if he returns to the Memphis Grizzly I'd be stunned 244 00:27:54,600 --> 00:28:00,520 I think they're done with his antics the fact that yeah sure he could defend but he shoots you 245 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:05,640 out of ball games he's a horrendous shooter from the field he's decent from the free throw line 246 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:13,960 and that's problematic guys that that's problematic so here's what I will say though you know he's 247 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:20,520 talks this lofty stuff about himself and talk about you know him being the villain so here's 248 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:28,120 what I want to say the difference between a Dylan Brooks a Draymon Green a Dennis Rodman in his day 249 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:35,800 a Bill Lane Bear during his time and met a world peace aka Ron Artes all these guys 250 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:42,120 play villain roles in their careers you know what the difference between all of those guys 251 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:50,440 and Dylan Brooks all star appearances in championships you have Draymon all star appearances 252 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:58,920 championships Dennis Rodman multiple all star game appearances championships Bill Lane Bear 253 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:06,760 multiple all star appearances championships met a world peace even got him a chip and he went to 254 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:16,280 one all star games so Dylan yeah you you're not in that class yet so yeah you got a lot to put on 255 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:22,360 on your resume man you are not those guys that's for sure so you know what you're the villain now 256 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:28,520 embrace it own it and here's what I'll say in terms of the free agency who is that team that's 257 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:34,120 gonna find him that's gonna be willing to sign this guy I'm sure there will be one will there be a 258 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:41,480 playoff caliber team I doubt that I really do right now Draymon Green at his age he's the more 259 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:48,680 attractive free agent than Dylan Brooks who's much younger so I struggle to see where he's 260 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:56,040 gonna go next year so I will leave it at that so that is it for me oh a couple more items just 261 00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:03,720 injury related Giannis onto to Kumpo seems like he'll be back for game four so he entered this 262 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:11,080 back in game one missed a couple of games but he'll be back for game four bad news with Miami 263 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:18,120 first you lose Tyler hero with a broken hand he's out for four to six weeks and then in game three 264 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:26,200 you lose a Victor Ola depot oh I feel for the young man towards me again so he's out for the 265 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:32,600 foreseeable future definitely prayers up in all that towards his way he's been through so much 266 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:41,880 and then bad news out of Sacramento Dearon Fox has a fractured finger so his status for game five 267 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:50,760 is up in the air right now in that series so yeah so a few injury items there and also 268 00:30:50,760 --> 00:31:01,320 Jolyne B who missed game four in the Sixers net series he's having a injury issue as well and we'll 269 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:07,800 see whether he's available for the next round I'll just leave it at that I won't give away too much 270 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:12,760 because again I'll talk about this when I recap the first round so all right guys so I'm going to 271 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:18,840 cut it off there as always I thank you for listening guys and you know what to do all things 272 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:25,240 basketball with GD.com you can listen to me there leave a review there if you like as well 273 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:35,400 sign up for email and all that sort of stuff also YouTube I'm there as well all the podcast 274 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:41,560 platforms social media I'm all over the place there just search for me you'll find me there 275 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:47,480 all right guys so that's it 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