Greetings my peeps and welcome to the all things basketball podcast with your boy GD.
In this episode my NBA finals recap.
Going to recap all that went on and those playoffs there.
Also other news, some coaching news, some player situations and whole lot of other stuff as
well.
Just sit back relax and enjoy the show.
Okay guys so we are back.
Your boy GD with the all things basketball with GD podcast and we are going to do our
recap of the NBA finals.
Everything is set and done now guys.
So we are going to get into that but first I want to hit some other news before I go
to the recap.
So we will cover that and then we will circle back to the NBA finals.
So let's get into it.
Let's talk about coaching news.
Firstly during the NBA finals Rick Adelman was named the 2023 Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement
Award winner.
So he even made fun of it talking about you must have ran out of guys to choose for this.
But Rick Adelman in his own right he was inducted to the Naismith basketball hall of fame in
2021.
He started out as an assistant coach in Portland for six years under the great Dr. Jack Ramsey.
So he was there six years before he became the official head coach of the Portland Trail
Blazers.
And those were the teams you had Clyde Drexler on there, Terry Porter, Buck Williams, Jerome
Cursey and all those guys there.
So he was there then he moved on to other places like Golden State, Sacramento Kings,
Houston Rockets and his last coaching stop was at the Minnesota Temple Wolves.
23 years total as a head coach, 1042 wins that puts him 10th all time among all head
coaches and he lost 749 games.
So that gives him a win percentage of 58.2% win percentage two time Western Conference
champ two times his teams won 60 games or more eight times his teams won 50 games and
more.
He was a coach of the year runner up four times.
Pretty substantial resume for Rick Adelman didn't win the championship but he got his
teams there in the hunt.
So and currently his son David is assistant coach ironically enough with the Denver Nuggets.
So that's that bit of news.
Frank Vogel named the next Phoenix sons head coach.
He signed to a five year deal at 31.25 million.
So eight years he was assistant in places like Boston, Philly and Indiana and he's the
former head coach of the Indiana Pacers, D'Orlando Magic and most recently with the Los Angeles
Lakers.
He has the one championship he won.
He won that in the bubble year.
His overall record guys 431 wins against 389 losses.
So that gives him a 52.6 win percentage and he coached for 11 years.
So Frank Vogel is now the head coach of the Phoenix sons.
I'll talk about the Phoenix sons a little bit more when I get to this news item.
And then you have Monty Williams.
Monty Williams, he's now the head coach of the Detroit Pistons.
He was given a six year deal at 78.5 million.
So big time money to turn that program around.
He was five years assistant coach in places like Portland, also in spots like OKC as well
as with the Sixers under Doc Rivers.
He coached for nine years.
He has 367 wins against 336 losses.
So that gives him one percentage of 52.2%.
He's coached that New Orleans who later would become the New Orleans from the Hornets to
the Pelicans and then most recently the Phoenix sons.
One time in this coaching stint he's gotten his team to the Western Conference Championship
and won it and got him into finals.
And just last year guys he was named coach of the year.
So Matt Ishpia relieved Monty Williams of his duties and Detroit wisely pounced on the
chance of getting Monty Williams into their program.
And then the last bit of news, Toronto was the last place that had a coaching vacancy
and there to hire Memphis Grizzlies assistant coach, Darko Rajakovich as their next head
coach.
He was assistant over there under Taylor Jenkins.
Now he gets the head coaching job for the Raptors.
He spent 10 years as an assistant head coach from the likes of the G League all the way
up to the NBA.
And he too spent a time or two as an assistant head coach with Monty Williams and the Phoenix
sons.
So this is a guy who's been around.
So he gets the head coaching job.
So we'll see what he does with those Raptors.
And then you have assistant head coaches being hired.
One of which is Sam Cassell joining Joe Missoula staff over there in Boston.
And my question is Sam Cassell seems like he's been an assistant coach for so many
years.
Why hasn't anybody given him a head coaching job yet?
I don't know if I can answer that, but here's a guy with a wealth of experience.
As far as being an assistant head coach, you would think one day he'd get the chance to
be a head coach.
Maybe that will come, but Sam Cassell going to Boston to coach under Joe Missoula.
So that's your coaching news guys.
So let's move on to the next item.
Kyrie Irvin recruits LeBron to join him in Dallas.
The Kyrie is something else man.
Well you know he was at the Lakers Denver Nugget series sitting front court.
So he wasn't there for him to be recruited.
He was there to recruit LeBron.
Oh my gosh, it is too much.
So here's my question.
Where does that leave Luca Donkage if we were to say the Lakers would entertain training
LeBron to Dallas?
Where would that leave Luca at?
And if I'm Luca, I'm like, what are we doing here?
I understand.
Bron is a once in a lifetime talent who wouldn't want to play with him.
Would he fit?
Yeah, probably so.
But then you have three guys that need the ball in their hand.
Three of them.
Instead of the two you had when he had Russell Westbrook over there with the Lakers.
So that would be so clunky and I would feel for Jason Kidd to have to deal with that.
That's for sure.
So first of all Kyrie, you need to sign your deal before you start recruiting people.
I'm just saying.
So anyhow, I just thought that was a very funny bit of news.
So let's move on to the next item.
The Phoenix Suns to wave Chris Paul.
Chris Paul, of course he has two more years left on his deal at $61.6 million.
Suns owner Matt Ispia, he's not trying to go there.
Team already has a debt problem and their top heavy when it comes to paying guys like
Kevin Durant, Devin Booker.
Don't forget you still have Deandre Aitton on the books, although you hear a lot of overtures
that he's going to be moved.
So Chris Paul, it's one of two things, an outright wave or a wave and stretch.
With an outright wave, they can certainly bring him back at a lower salary.
If it's a wave and stretch, they can't bring him back at all.
So right now they're talking about if this were to happen because it's still being talked
about the landing places for Chris Paul.
You hear places like the Lakers, of course, he's friends with LeBron James and then the
Los Angeles Clippers, a team who he's well familiar with being that he once played for
the Clippers.
So Steve Bomber knows him well, the owner over there.
You heard other places, here's a place that hasn't been mentioned.
Miami could use him, but they would be kind of in the same dilemma that they're in now
with Kyle Lowry and not knowing how much is left in the tank for him and he's getting
paid a lot of money.
And then of course, you know, they're mentioning the Knicks, which makes absolutely no sense
whatsoever.
I would say those two LA spots will probably be the spots I would pay more attention to
than anywhere else.
All right, so that's that bit of news.
And of course, with the Knicks, Knicks are trying to get everybody.
Now the latest one I heard, Alan Han, love him, love his work.
He threw out the name Bradley Beale, who's getting a huge chunk of money from the Washington
Wizards.
The problem with Bradley Beale, number one is the money.
It's a great deal of money.
You have to give up.
You're going to have to trade draft capital, obviously, young talent as well.
And the thing is, he's injury prone guys.
I can't sugarcoat that.
He is injury prone.
So if you're to do that, I mean, it's a huge roll of the dice.
It really is.
I don't know if Leon Rhodes goes there.
Let me just put it that way.
So Alan, then, you know, it sounds nice in theory, a backcourt of Beale and Jalen Brunson,
but idealistically, I don't think it comes to fruition.
So that's my thought on that.
All right.
So that's that bit of news.
Then we go to Jarmarant.
Oh boy.
Jarmarant's camp now is saying that the gun that's in the second Instagram live video,
it was a toy gun.
Oh man.
If that was the case, why didn't y'all just say that from the top?
As soon as the video came out, look, it's a toy gun.
Boom.
The fact that you waited and waited, that's not a good look.
Not a good look whatsoever.
So of course, the investigation is being done.
You know, the league is investigating.
And actually, Commissioner Adam Silver said his punishment will come down after the finals.
So the finals are over.
So I would say in the coming weeks, I would say after the
probably after the draft, I don't expect him to announce anything right now.
I would say after the draft, maybe between the draft and free agency, something may come
down the pike in terms of punishment.
If I were to guess, but it could happen after the free agency period.
So but if I were to guess, I would say after the draft before free agency.
That's my thought.
But all around it's is it's not good.
I think the suspension is going to be a long one.
My gut says a half a season.
I don't think it'll be a full season.
I think it will be half a season.
So we'll see what happens there.
So John Moran.
That's it.
I'm done with that.
So anyhow, all right.
And then this last piece of news.
This is WMDA related.
Brittany Grina gets approached and harassed by a social media.
I'm using air quotes here.
Provocateur at a Dallas airport.
Let me lay it out.
Brittany Grina, she comes into town.
She's from Texas, by the way, guys.
So she comes into Dallas to play the Dallas Wings on the road.
You know, the road crowds have been pretty much been receptive, warm and receptive to
BG and, you know, rightfully so.
And she also went to Armamada Baylor and they just celebrated her there.
They loved on her.
So you know, it was it was a nice thing that they did over there for BG.
All in all, it was Texas Love Fest for the most part.
Until we get to the Dallas airport and her team is flying out to go to Indiana.
So this person, I'm not even going to mention his name because I'm not even going to give
him that type of recognition.
He goes up to her and says all these things.
But let me actually circle back because I want to talk about the WNBA itself.
There's been a shift in terms of seeing the WNBA as public enemy number one in certain
camps.
This kind of started probably back about six years ago when you had the killing of Philando
Castile in Minnesota.
So the Minnesota Lynx, they protested that so much so that it angered police and angered
the security there, but they were standing for injustice from that to a few years later,
in 2020, we fast forward there and the Atlanta dream is calling out a part owner who is a
Georgia senator at the time, Kelly Loeffler.
So much so that they wanted her to sell her portion of the team and also they campaigned
against her.
So you have that dynamic.
And then you fast forward from that to the league as a whole, basically protesting the
killing of George Floyd.
So you have all this combination of things.
So social media has social media, I think it's going to be the death of all society,
which seems crazy for me to say since you're probably listening to this on social media
or some platform or so forth.
So now on social media, you go to these WNBA sites, these groups, you'll get these yahoo's
talking all this stuff about them and so forth, which you know, I read it, I'm pulled
by some of the stuff that said, of course, they will say, oh, the NBA props them up and
so forth.
Here's a little fun fact, though, only five of the 12 teams are owned by NBA owners.
So that's the case.
How is the league propping them up?
I'm just saying that's my question there.
But I digress.
Let me get back to the issue itself.
So this jerk goes and takes it upon himself to approach BG at the airport.
He says all these violent, disgusting things.
I'm not even going to repeat some of the stuff he said.
Course talking about the merchant of Venice, why we traded him for BG and all these things
he tries to say in front of our face.
So let us be clear.
People like this discuss me.
They really do.
Here it is.
BG sitting in that Russian jail cell having to deal with all that BG had to deal with
over there is you got to have some kind of empathy for the situation that BG was in.
But not these people.
They're on hinge.
They're off the rails.
And you can't even talk sense to these people.
I say if possible, he should be sued for harassment.
Just for sure.
Because you got it on video and so forth.
And run these days, those type of people will get their comeuppance.
I'll just say that and leave it at that.
But the whole situation as a whole was disgusting.
And it brings up the fact of what do we do now in terms of travel.
Me and my boy, BG was talking about this too.
About the chartered flights and so forth.
It comes down to money.
Are these owners willing to and this league willing to invest in chartered flights for
these players?
This way, you know, it gives them a sense of safety, not only just security wise, but
health wise.
So that is a large question.
I don't know the answer to it, but I know something has to be done at this point because
who's to stop the next idiot from attacking and addressing any player in that regard.
So I think that's something the league really has to hone in on and do it very soon.
So that's my take on that.
So all right, so that is all the news prior to me talking about the NBA finals.
Now let's talk about the finals itself, guys.
So the number one seed, the Denver Nuggets take on the number eight seed coming out of
the East, the Miami Heat.
So let's look at game one.
Game one, you have Denver winning 104 to 93, a game in which they were leading big at halftime,
59 to 42.
And the difference in the game, guys, really was the field goal percentage.
Denver shot it over 50% at 50.6 and Miami only 40.6% from the field.
So that's not going to get it done, guys.
That's for sure.
And then when you got guys like Khalid Martin and Matt Struess shooting a combined one of
seven from the field, man, that's hard.
In that game, Nikolai Yokic, the Joker, of course, 27 points for him, 10 rebounds, 14
assists, shot it 8 for 12 from the field, went to the free throw line, 12 times, hit
10.
Jamal Murray, his reclamation story is looking so good right now, 26 points for him, 10 assists
and six rebounds in that game.
For Miami, Jimmy Butler didn't have the greatest of starts.
That's for sure.
Only 13 points, seven rebounds, seven assists.
Bam, out of buy, you had a fantastic game with 26 points, along with 13 rebounds, five
assists.
But you need more from your other guys, so I've been saying that.
I said that when I did the preview, so you're going to need other guys to step up.
Game Vincent had a decent game in that one, but not enough to get the win.
Game two, this is the game that surprised me, guys.
Miami gets the win in Denver, 111-108.
Denver gets their first home loss in the entire playoffs.
Then it started opening people's eyes saying, oh, maybe this will go seven, you know, started
to question and doubt the Denver Nuggets.
And in that game, oddly enough, Denver led it to half 57-51.
As far as the field goal percentage, actually it was in Denver's favor.
52% for them, 48.74 Miami.
The difference though was the 3-point shooting.
Miami shot it 47.6% from 3-point range, so that's fantastic.
Denver shot it 39.3%.
So basically Miami made six more 3-point shots than Denver.
So you're talking about an 18-point swing right there.
And oh, by the way, in that first game, Miami only went to the line two times, guys.
As opposed to Denver, they actually went to the line about 20 times.
So you had that disparity.
But game two, in this one, Gabe Vinson led the way for Miami.
He had 23 points, three assists, two steals.
Shot it well.
Jimmy Butler and Bam out of bayou, 21 points each.
Jimmy had nine assists and four rebounds.
Bam had nine rebounds for assists.
And for the losing side, the Joker, 41 points for him.
He had a monster game, 11 rebounds for assists.
And Jamal Murray, just 18 points.
Not a standard game for him.
So they lose a close game at Denver.
So that was the one that shocked me.
So the scene shifts to Miami, guys.
Game three goes to the Denver Nuggets.
They went on the road 109 to 94 in a game where the real difference, guys, well, few
differences nonetheless, the rebounding Denver out rebounded them 58 to 33.
They shot it from the field better.
51.3% against Miami's 37%.
The three-point shooting, oddly enough, it goes to Miami at 31.4% as opposed to Denver
going 5 for 18 from three-point range.
But nonetheless, the team gets to win.
And they make history, by the way, guys.
The Joker, 32 points, 21 rebounds, 10 assists, and add in two blocks.
Jamal Murray, 34 points, 10 assists, and 10 rebounds.
So they become the first duo in the NBA finals to record a triple double.
Talk about making history here.
And then you had the rookie, Christian Brown, coming off the bench for 15 points, 7 of 8
shootings.
So this kid, when called upon, he's been playing good.
So to be on the roll and to put up that kind of performance that says a lot about this
kid, that's for sure.
And then for the Miami side, Jimmy Butler has a good game, 28 points, 4 assists for him.
Bam out of bayou, 20 points for him.
Didn't shoot it all that well, but did have 17 rebounds.
So he had half of the team's rebounds.
More than half, to be honest, because he only had 33 rebounds total.
So that's your game three.
Now Denver has gotten back the home court advantage by winning on the road.
Let us shift to game four.
And in game four, Denver gets to winning that one.
108 to 95.
The story of this game, Aaron Gordon.
I'll get to him in a minute.
It's a game in which Denver was winning at the half, winning by four.
Field goal percentage, a slight advantage for Denver there, but it was the three point
shooting that really saved Denver.
They shot it 50% from three, as opposed to Miami's 32%.
Free throws pretty much even.
Denver missed five of 21, whereas Miami only missed three of 20 free throws.
Aaron Gordon had the game of his life.
27 points.
He shot at 11 for 15 guys.
It was just sensational.
Seven rebounds, six assists for him.
The Joker, you know, 23 points.
He didn't shoot it all that well by his standards.
12 rebounds for assists.
Three blocks and three steals.
So you'd like to see the Joker really filling up the stat sheet.
And Bruce Brown off the bench on the road, 21 points for him.
He shot it great.
Had four rebounds.
Jamal Murray had a horrible game shooting from the field.
Did end up with 15 points.
Love assists and three rebounds.
So you'd like to see at least he's dishing it out and getting guys their shots.
So and on a losing side, Jimmy Butler, another pretty good game.
25 points, seven rebounds, seven assists.
Bam out of bayou, 20 points, 11 rebounds, three assists.
And then Kyle Lowry from the bench, 13 points and seven assists for him.
So now you have Denver with a commanding 3-1 lead, winning both games in Miami.
Oh, by the way, if you're a Miami Heat fan, I'm sure you're not too happy.
They lost four games straight in Miami going back to the Boston series.
So if you're a fan, paying all that money that you got to pay for the playoffs seats
there, you are not a happy camper.
That's for sure.
So four games straight in the playoffs.
That is, that's just bad.
So we shift back to Denver.
Can Miami pull off the impossible and come back from a 3-1 deficit?
That wasn't to be guys.
Game five in a tight game in an ugly game, pretty much.
Denver gets the win 94-89.
A game in which, and this is actually the first game that Denver trailed at the half,
51-44 Miami lead at the half.
But again, rebounding Denver with 57, Miami only with 44.
And of course, the shooting from the field, Denver at 45.2%, which is substandard for
them, but I guess you'll take it at this point in Miami, only 34.4% from the field.
Wow.
That's rough.
The three point shooting was atrocious across the board.
I won't even talk about that aspect.
And then Denver was terrible from the free throw line.
They missed 10 of their free throws.
That's not good.
So this really could have been a bigger win for them if they hit some of their free throws.
But nonetheless, the Joker shows up in the last game and he has a fantastic game.
38 points, 16 rebounds for Ciss.
Michael Porter Jr., there was a Michael Porter Jr. sighting guys.
16 points, 13 rebounds for him and three assists.
Jamal Murray didn't have such a great shooting game, but the all around numbers are good.
14 points, eight assists, eight rebounds.
And on the losing side, Jimmy Butler, 21 points.
He shot at 5 for 18 from the field guys.
You know people going to pile on and talk about him shooting that bad from the field.
Five assists, three rebounds, three steals.
And then BAM, 20 points, 12 rebounds for him.
So he scores 20 in just about every game BAM does.
So really can't hang blame on him, that's for sure.
So Miami wins the finals.
Four games to one.
Losers rolled to the finals.
They beat the number eight C, Minnesota Timberwolves, four games to one.
The number four C, the Phoenix Suns, four games to two.
The number seven C, the Los Angeles Lakers, they swept them.
And then Miami, they win four games to one.
So less than four losses in the series guys.
So that's pretty commanding stuff, that's for sure.
So they go 16 and four for the playoffs.
Fantastic guys.
Your series MVP, who else could it be but the Joker himself, Nikolai Yokic.
He averaged in this series, over 30 points per game, 14 rebounds and over seven assists
along with 1.4 blocks.
He shot it for the series guys, 58.3% from the field.
Doesn't take a lot of threes but when he takes them he's pretty efficient and then
83.8% from the free throw line.
Denver gets their first NBA championship and their first championship since 1976 when they
were in the ABA.
That's the Dan Isseldave Thompson days there and Mike Malone, he gets his first championship
as a head coach.
Mike Malone, the son of Brendan Malone, another longtime assistant coach Brendan Malone.
He served in a variety of areas there.
Mike Malone, 10 years as assistant head coach, started out as assistant head coach with the
New York Knicks, my New York Knicks.
He went to places like Cleveland as well.
He also went to New Orleans, was assistant under Monty Williams so he was assistant under
Lenny Wilkins, Mike Brown when he was in Cleveland, Monty Williams and also Golden State where
he was assistant under Mark Jackson.
Mark Jackson of course with ESPN and the booth there.
So with that said, his coaching resume, 10 years total, 2 years with Sacramento before
being fired from there and then he goes to Denver and Sacramento he didn't do too bad
but he got kind of a bum rap there so Denver hires him.
8 years later they have their championships so patience and perseverance pays off.
The Joker of course, you know his story, second round pick, no one saw this coming that's
for sure.
Two time league MVP and now he has his first championship as a player and finals MVP as
well so and then we got to talk about Jamal Murray and Michael Porter.
These are guys who last year had to sit out.
Jamal Murray had to torn ACL.
He had to deal with that.
Then you have Michael Porter Jr. who started out the year last year but the back issues
was just too much and he sat most of last year so you had these guys here working their
way back into the lineup and back into the system.
For the most part they played well.
Michael Porter ensued it all at great in this series guys so you have to wonder having
a prolonged playoff run didn't do wonders for his back so I'll be interested to see
how his off season goes because they're locked into him for the next few years over there
so Michael Porter Jr. I'll be watching that situation there.
Then you have a guy like Aaron Gordon who spent most of his years over there with Orlando
Magic.
They did a lot of losing over there that's for sure and then he gets traded in a midseason
trade to Denver last season in fact so this is his first full season and I tell you what
he sacrificed his game and he had a very good year.
Very good year on the low guys but that game performance wow that says a lot about him
and now he's an NBA champion so kudos to Aaron Gordon and then of course he got the
old heads over there oh and then also Cotabius Caldwell Pope who gets his second championship
he got one in the bubble with those Lakers in 2020 so this is his second one and then
he got the old heads guys like Jeff Green who's been around the league, DeAndre Jordan
who you know he had to start with the Clippers and he's bounced around since then and then
Ishmith who's been on they say 13 teams for crying out loud so talking about a guy who's
really bounced around so Ishmith he gets a ring and Reggie Jackson, Reggie Jackson who
was cut by the Clippers by the way and then the Denver Nuggets pick him up.
All these older guys getting their rings so you like to see that that's for sure and that's
what Yolkic and Murray was talking about getting these older guys their rings so now they have
them and it's got to feel good.
So with that said the Denver Nuggets their salary for next year right now it stands at
68.3 million so they're in pretty much good shape that's for sure.
In terms of free agents Bruce Brown Bruce Brown who had a fantastic series he has a
player option at 6.8 million I think he definitely opts out and becomes an unrestricted free
agent does he want to come back to Denver in that culture there or take his talents
elsewhere we'll see what happens I actually talked about him I did the Nick recap that's
a guy who's going to get some substantial money guys and remember where he's come from
he was in that situation with the Nets with the Kyrie with Kevin Durant even there when
they had Harden so he was in that situation there for him to come over to Denver and see
a non-toxic environment as opposed to what he saw in Brooklyn you got to definitely take
your hat off to him but I think he will become a free agent where he ends up I'll be interested
to see that.
Also the older players that I mentioned they're all free agents Jeff Green, Ishmith, Deandre
Jordan, Thomas Bryan who came in the mid-season trade and also Reddy Jackson who I mentioned
earlier so all those guys are free agents so your core is still there guys that's for
sure so Denver who knows maybe they run it back we'll see so that's the Denver story
there and then shout out to that owner Stan Cronkey he now has championships in four sports
cooling football hockey and also in soccer so kudos to the owner.
For Miami you got to take your hat off to him guys you got to take your hat off to that
organization for getting this far in the playoffs that's for sure and kudos to Jimmy Butler
I know a lot of people want to pile on to Jimmy Butler but remember he had the ankle
injury he toughed it out he gutted it out he suffered that in the Knicks series so who's
to say that hasn't been a factor.
Jimmy Butler is a guy you want in your foxhole because you know he's going to fight he's
going to claw he's going to give you what you need.
Sure he didn't shoot at all that great in the final game but he's a guy who I would
want to go to war with that's for sure and bam I'll buy you bam I'll buy you were solid
in the series guys he was solid in this series if he had some competent help around him up
front maybe he looks even better but it was pretty much him and that's it Kevin Love was
on his last legs Cody Zeller forget about him he needed big man help and for him to
do what he did I take my hat off to him but it's the other guys you know a lot of them
were undrafted players and it's a tribute to Eric Spolster that he got this team far
with that kind of talent so definitely hats off to him I do think he should have probably
because Matt Struz was giving you nothing guys I think he should have switched up and
started Kyle Lowry instead seemed like Kyle Lowry as the playoffs went on he got stronger
so I do think that's the switch that he should have made but you know again you take your
hats off to those guys that's for sure in terms of their salary 171.2 million for next
year remember Tyler Hero he signed his rookie extension so we'll see how they're able
to add his terms of free agents Victor Ola depot who went down with that torn ACL in
the playoffs unfortunate for him he has a player option at 9.4 million my assumption
is that he will take that player option Kevin Love Matt Struz gave Vincent Omer Yurt 7
who I don't even know what happened with him he was another big maybe he was hurt who knows
and then Cody Zeller so those are your free agents does Miami need to add another star
a lot of people talking about Dane Lillard him being a possibility I heard the name of
Russell Westbrook bandied about but remember Dane is under contract with Portland so will
the Portland ownership will they say look you gave us all you have for this organization
we need to go and rebuild now bring back younger pieces so we're gonna ship you out so will
they do that who knows and then also I mentioned Chris Paul but again I think that's the situation
kind of a lateral move because you still have Kyle Lowry there so it's kind of like the
same situation so and then what to do with Tyler hero now he had that hand injury it
kept him out most of the playoffs here he didn't get a chance to play in game five from
what I hear he was annoyed about that so you know you have him under contract the next
four years so having a Tyler hero would that have made a difference absolutely it would
have made a difference provided he was healthy I understand the trepidation about bringing
a guy like that into this sort of situation I do get it what to do with Duncan Robinson
he still has three years that he's on contract for at fifty seven point four million so what
do you do in that regard he's a guy who can light it up does he give you more than that
and then Kyle Lowry has one more year left a little less than thirty million dollars does
he get waved for them to get up under that contract and then we say a goodbye to Adonis
Haslam three time champion for the Miami Heat stay there his entire career so definitely
hats off to him oh by the way he was undrafted coming out of the University of Florida and
he's been there through the Dwayne Wade years the big three years with Wade LeBron and Chris
Bosch and now into this era here so Adonis Haslam we salute you enjoy your retirement
I'm sure you'll be on the sideline as an assistant coach perhaps with this current Miami Heat
staff here with Eric Spulsher in those guys so definitely kudos to Adonis Haslam alright
guys so that is it for me one of a bit of news I wanted to mention it's not NBA related
per se but the person is a big time NBA fan and that's Shannon Sharp Shannon Sharp is
leaving undisputed he was there for seven years debating with Skip Bayless you know
him as a big time LeBron fan he is leaving they didn't renew his contract but the hand
right and spent on the wall guys ever since that situation with the player Damar Hamlin
the Buffalo Bill who collapsed on the field and his partner Skip had things to say about
continuing to play the game regardless and he caught a lot of flak from that so much
so that next day was a Monday Shannon didn't even come in for that day because he was so
affected by what happened on the field remember Shannon Sharp NFL Hall of Famer so of course
he's going to have empathy in that situation he feel right going on air after that incident
so Skip did the show by himself it was cringy given the firestorm he was under but he did
it nonetheless and then the next day Shannon came back he issued the statement in terms
of his absence and so forth of course it was concerning the young man his health and safety
was his big concern so much so that skip interrupted his monologue and then you have the situation
where they were talking about Tom Brady and Shannon was pretty much saying that Tom Brady's
on the as I like to say the back nine of his career and of course Skip blindly defends
Tom Brady to the hilt so much so that he disparage Shannon in the process of doing that so when
you have all that acrimony there the handwriting's on the wall so I expect I don't know I can
call him on because me and him is the same age I expect Shannon to go elsewhere and show
his stuff he proved a lot in those seven years that's for sure so definitely props to him
his club Shay Shay he did it under Fox but I believe he still has the rights to that so
I'm sure that will still be in play for him so I expect uh he won't be silent Shannon
doesn't know how to be silent but a great guy great insight so definitely props to him
for the substantial career he has had as a talking head alright guys so that is it guys
I'm gonna take a little hiatus here you got the draft coming up so I'll definitely break
that down in due time the WNBA is heating up right now I've seen some fantastic performances
the Juana Bona her 41 points against the Las Vegas aces that was tremendous Sabrina Nescu
what she did against Atlanta so you got a lot of things going on in the W I'll be getting
to that but guys I'll be taking a bit of a hiatus little vacay time so hey how so I thank
you once again for listening as always guys I'm always encouraged when I hear oh you know
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