Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports podcast
I am so excited to be back in with you for season five
Yes, I repeat season five of the Justin Time Sports podcast. We have a lot of different changes coming up this year
Oh, you're gonna see a lot more guests on the show this year
You're gonna see a lot more interaction on the show this year
You're gonna hear a brand new entry song by a personal friend of mine
an artist out of the Northeast named B Roy
Check out his music his album music. He has a recent EP that's on there as well
a lot of bars on that thing and so I will definitely put the link to his album in the description
but
Brand new entry song our new entry song for the show for the very foreseeable future
Undisputed in Lil Wayne like if I need a new song, I'm gonna ask B Roy to see if he can give me a new song
Um, so it's very amazing song. I will play it. It would leave the show from here on out
But of course, I want to introduce it now
So here is the new Justin Time Sports entry song by my friend my homeboy B Roy
JTS
Justin Time Sports
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If you win it or you lose it he gonna tell it to you straight
He gonna tell it to you straight
Man that song gets me going every
Single time I hear it and it gets me excited to come to you for season 5
Like I spoke about in the intro before B Roy turned up the entire place
No, it is to be your own more guests. You're gonna hear a lot from my friends. Of course, you guys know
We had the video show we did an intro to the video show. I'm so like our pilot episode
We're gonna call that the pilot episode instead of the official first episode. I call it the pilot episode with me and
Jai from the hey Jai podcast with his production with his production company IMS productions
Set down and did our first video show. We're gonna have those video shows coming to you weekly
We're gonna have the audio show, of course coming to you weekly season 5 is gonna be bigger and better than ever
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So I'm excited for you guys to be here. I'm excited to be here. It's been about a month
Since you heard from me right after the Super Bowl. I did a reaction show and then that was it for season 4
It'll be where we're finishing the track. I wanted to give him a chance to finish it for we did season 5
There's that period over the NBA's really starting to ramp up
Right after the Super Bowl really everybody's eyes turned to basketball
Of course women's college basketballs all over the place. You've got Caitlin Clark breaking Pete Maravich's record
I have a lot of a pin on that. I'll probably save it for the video show, but I have a lot of opinion on that
You've got LSU their planet a my own mother their planet a
In the first their first game or the SEC tournament, you got South Carolina Don say that what she's doing
Replacing her entire starting five and going and defeated anyway, you have to do Watkins out in the pack 12
So a lot going on women college basketball men's college basketball in my life is rather relevant
To me out of which you I still love North Carolina. Of course. I'm an LSU born and bred alumni
But for the most part, it's kind of boring
Ronnie's team is bad at USC
I mean, I'm a big fan of the NBA. I'm a big fan of the NBA
Duke without coach K lost a lot of its mustard
I mean Duke's biggest headline was a court storming incident, right?
Like it's not the usual level of what we're used to seeing that Duke
Syracuse is a bore like no one's jumping out to me and no one's really high on the draft
So that's amazing in college men's college basketball
The rest of the draft like okay, I'm gonna watch I see a call you
Just gonna be honest and then there's a great kid out of the NBA pathway for Europe or Africa
One of the two he's going to do now I do cuz like three five four or five stars coming to the campus next year
That's gonna be interesting people gonna watch them for that
I'm gonna watch Duke for Cooper flag and the rest of that crew like that's gonna be incredibly interesting
That's something to give people to a TV
There's no stars in college basketball. No, the biggest stars Ronnie James and he's probably the second-round NBA draft pick
But there's no stars in college basketball
No, I mean the players gonna win player of the year. I mean Dillingham, Kentucky's nice
But I mean the big kid from Purdue one player of the year
He's not a big player like you know, like it's just he's a really amazing European player because the way he plays big
He's tall. He's low to the floor. He's physically gonna be amazing European player
That's how they're working in the NBA right now
Maybe swings back with yokich, but that's how doesn't work in the NBA right now and speaking of the NBA
We're gonna start with the Association. That's what my eyes have been for the past month
I started doing this really cool mind gym with all the legends
It's dope and it's got my eyes really back onto the NBA. Of course, you know, we start with the NBA
We're gonna start with them standings
And we're gonna give you the gap ready to the games back from first of each team after first so that way
You know you could hear third, you know, somebody's third somebody's seventh, but like in the West third and seventh
Fifth and
Tenth is four games apart
You know I'm saying so we're gonna really give those
Numbers that you guys are aware of just how close some of these races are
In the East you've got Boston running away and hiding with the conference
They're gonna have home club with the playoffs bar is something catastrophic
The Bucks sit number two seven and a half games back the Cavs are eight games back
So they're only a half game back from the Bucks of the Magic with Paulo Bencare. I mean, he's a number one overall pick
What two seasons ago and?
He is leading his team. He's averaging 23 7 and 5 remember correctly
He's leading his team right now to fourth seed in the East so we have home court in the first round
If the season ended right the second
The Knicks sit 12 back only a half game back from the Magic
The Heat round out the current plate off teams guaranteed and 13 back from Boston
Only one game back from fifth and one and a half back from fourth
The 76ers are our first play-in team despite the fact that Joe Lnb is not back from injury
And they're dealing an issue with Tyrese Maxey the 13 backs actually tie with Miami
They themselves are only in their seventh. They're only one and a half back from fourth
The Indiana Pacers is 14th. They sit two and a half back from fourth
Um, the Chicago Bulls at 17 and a half games back from first at ninth and Atlanta Hawks
Dismore Atlanta Hawks and we're trade young in and out the lineup with injuries had a concussion at one point
They're 23 and a half back from Boston
Remember I told you I told you that
Fourth and the Orlando Magic is 11 and a half games back
remember I said that
I
Had going into tonight's games. I'm recording this on Friday late afternoon early evening
It's 441 local time
In the time zone
Late afternoon early evening the Minnesota Timberwolves have the number one seed in the west the Thunder are half game back from them
The Nuggets are half game back from them. The Clippers are only two games back
They sit three games back from first and then there's a bit a bit of a gap then it jumps to
The Pelicans sit fifth at six and a half games back with Phoenix only a half game back from them as the last playoff team
Sacramento as the first play-in team is only a half game back from them at number seven
The Dallas Mavericks sit nine games back from first two games out of the play-in to get out of the playoffs
The Warriors are ten and a half games back from first
Three and a half back from the playoffs and the Lakers are tied with the Warriors. They just don't have the tiebreaker right now
Also ten and a half games back three games from sixth
Remember the Lakers are tied with the Warriors
Remember the Lakers are closer to the Timberwolves
then
The Lakers are close to the Timberwolves
At ten and a half back then the Magic are to the Celtics. The Lakers are tenth the Magic are fourth
Oh, so that's the level of competition that's in the West as opposed to these
23 and a half games back is like the Spurs and
The Hawks are gonna be in the play-in tournament. The Spurs won the East they're probably in the play-in tournament and Wimby might steal them again
Because what he's doing is absolutely ridiculous a little bit of breaking news into the show
The Bronzans has officially been ruled out tonight against the Milwaukee Bucks due to ankle soreness now that game
Is already expected to not have Giannis at the Kumpo as he dealing with an Achilles situation
So if you bought Lakers bucks tickets a couple of months ago, you were staring at Giannis AD LeBron Dane
You gotta get AD and Dane
Not a bad consolation prize, but it ain't Giannis and LeBron
so
That is a little bit of breaking news into the show
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But back to the NBA so we had a huge game last night
Celtics
Denver it was one of those games potentially in the finals preview, but it was another game
In which it called for Tatum to be in the upper echelon of superstar
And once again Jason Tatum came up smaller than Jaylen Brunson
And I'll mean Jaylen Brunson's come on small missy's I mean, then the process is literally small
Jason Tatum came up smaller than Isaiah Thomas
He came up small miniature like he was afraid of the moment and
As a LeBron fan, and we're gonna get into LeBron later with the LeBron Jordan thing that's flame mode reignited
um
Tell me so LeBron LeBron's early his career. He had so much success early and Tatum's with arc without the MVP is very similar
But remember this is actually LeBron even winning the piece age-wise from the couple years
What's
Interesting in the arc of Tatum. It said he came in and his rookie year. He was in the Eastern Conference Finals
He ran to the Eastern Conference Finals. It was him. It was Brown
They were like rookies or second year players in the Eastern Conference Finals game seven against LeBron
Like that's how it started right? He's been to an NBA finals. He's been a couple of East Finals
But he hasn't gotten over the hump
What that does is that puts you on a different arc
I'll explain
Gilbert Arenas when he was a success in Kobe, he said what made Kobe interesting was his career was in reverse
And then it came back
Right Tom Brady and Kobe kind of had similar career arcs
Also, they played about the same amount of time about 20 years
Their careers were in reverse and then it went back to normal
I'll explain
When you're a young player your first two years when he's going through a now
You're trying to figure out where you belong on the totem pole
Right then I figured out the leader whether it's some college at the NFL. There's been some great rookies CJ Stroud Wimby
LeBron was a great rookie Mello
But most rookies are like Chris Bosh you show flashes you show potential you put up you have some game
But you get swallowed up a lot by the league
Dwayne Wade has flashes at the game
Got swallowed up a lot by the league. Of course, we ought to look at Kobe with the air balls like Michael Jordan had some moments
He had some games
He was a little bit different, but he had moments where he just got overwhelmed
It happens to everybody, right?
The thing about Kobe was that Kobe gets drafted in 96
Right?
Brady gets drafted in 99
Two to three years later, they're both holding championships and not as like Darko Melliges for the Pistons
As Kobe was the second best player on that team in the finals
Tom Brady led a comeback drive in the two ball like these guys
Like these are two key like these are figures on the team
Three years after they hold the first title, they have three in their hands because
Kobe goes back to back to back Kobe three feet Brady goes three and four years
So now these two entities have titles
Then they don't win for a while Shaq breaks up with Kobe
Brady contract kicks in it's a salary cap and they both go through about a 10 year stretch where they don't win
Kobe from 2003 they went to the finals again from 2003 to
Boston wins in 08. So Kobe wins again in what? 09 and 2010
And of course, the Patriots famous to go through their 10 year drought
Right?
So then they win again Brady wins two in four years or three in five years. I'm right there with New England
Kobe goes back to back. It goes through straight. You know, those three straight finals wings the last two goes back to back
Five champs and Brady gets a seven. We know the story
But what Gilbert Arenas explains so well was that most of the time your career goes like this
You try to figure out you belong like I started off with women that kind of sidetracked but with Wimby and Tatum
Not Wimby, not Tatum, Wimby
Check Young SGA you can kind of see it. Paulo that rookie year
You're trying to find out where you belong on a total point trying to figure out how to navigate your new schedule
Whether it's 16 games when you used to 12 in college football
Whether it's 82 games when you used to 35
40 from high school and college
You know, you're just trying to navigate your game trying to navigate your life, right?
Now there's money in your pocket. You get these fat checks every Tuesday
Practicals with three hours with class an hour and a half and you're free the rest of your day
You're just trying to figure it out
Then you get into your stats stage
Where you are in stats, monster
You do have you you're getting your numbers. You're at your peak Lucas in the stats stage
Where he is just blowing numbers
It's like he's setting records every day
Like he's just blowing through stats
Then you get to your winning phase
It's usually around year seven to ten
If you're one of these Pantheon greats right around seven to ten
You get to your winning stage
For most people it's about year seven
Sixteen, year 16, year, you know, right around year six
You get to your winning stage
This is when you start sacrificing a little bit of your personal game to win
After you win you go to your mogul stage
Now the mogul stage looks different for everybody
Everybody has a different mogul stage
Only Magic off the top of my head never as a Pantheon
Never had a come down
Like never had that year or two or three where he was like, okay, he's still good
But he's not what he used to be and he's in it for the business
And he's in it for the glitz and he's in it for whatever
He's still trying his best to win
But now that's kind of taking a back burner to everything all the business side, right
Tatum suffers from what LeBron suffered from
Because LeBron came in the league as the top 30 player in the world
Top 20 player in the world
LeBron started in all-stars first year
Statistically no, but you can see it
Like he was one of the best 20 players on the planet
Tatum as a rookie was one of the best 20 players on the planet I would do
Like he didn't have the numbers to back it
But you can see it
WinB is one of the best 20 players on the planet
He didn't have the numbers to back it
But you can see it
Then like I said year two he's in fighting LeBron
Maybe he's a rookie but I'm not gonna say year two
He's fighting LeBron in game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals
With home court advantage
Then he's in the NBA Finals in like year five
LeBron's in the NBA Finals in year four
Both of them lost
And everything after that became
They shrunk from the moment
LeBron had no business getting that team to the NBA Finals in 07
Tatum was probably ahead of schedule for Boston
That was a good team
Right?
Both of them now were judged against the Finals
Because they were judged against and judged under the microscope
But you had an off-final
So now you look at it as an unclutched player
Tatum has to deal with the syndrome of an unclutched player
Remember Paul George in the bubble hitting the side of the backboard?
He still hadn't quite got over that on social media
Like
Tatum has to deal with the fact that he is labeled as an unclutched player
But we have a lot more proof of Tatum doing it
Than probably any other superstar in a long time
Last night's a prime example
You have Jokic who's diming up Aaron Gordon
Who's doing his little flip shots over Porzingis
Who's Sambos shuffling when he has to get a tough shot off
And you've got Jason Tatum with 13 shots in the game?
Like Jason Tatum has the third most shot attempts in the game
On the Celtics?
Like not third most in the game
Like O'Brown got a bunch up
And then Jokic and then him
No, no
Third most shots in the game
On the Celtics
And that is an issue
Because it was 13 and it was like Brown nearly had 30 shots
Porzingis has 23 shots
Tatum has 14 shots, 13 shots
It's 5 for 13
There's many made shots as turnovers
There was a 2 on 1 fast break
Hoop Collector spoke about it
I'll speak about it too
There's a 2 on 1 fast break
Whereas Tatum on one side of the court
Drew on the other side of the court
Jamal Murray is in the middle
And Tatum throws a pretty odd bounce pass to Drew
And Drew fumbles and didn't even get a shot up clean
And it was like Tatum didn't want it
It was really like Jason Tatum did not want the moment
He didn't want the pressure
He didn't want to make that attack
Like he just didn't want it
Most guys who are great in that tier, one of that superstardom
That's a 1 on 1
Like yeah, Drew Hollins over there, that's great
That's a 1 on 1 opportunity
He's gonna go to the rim
Drew will get the rebound if I miss
Right
And it's just
That's the level of go
That Kevin Durant has
That LeBron has
That Jokic has
Embiid
Giannis
Steph
And one of those, Luca
One of those guys has that opportunity
A 2 on 1
They're either gonna torture past the person today
Which is just keep bouncing it back and forth
And all these get surrounded and it's an easy layup
Or they put their head down
And it's basically 1 v 1
Like I said, get the rebound if I miss
Right
That's the level of push
That Jason Tatum needs
And also there was a shot in the corner
He's just sitting there by himself
45 odd seconds left
And he didn't have enough time to go outside the building
And check to see the weather
Before shooting it
And he clanked it
And it's just like
It's one of those moments where it's like, man
He came up small
Again, this is the same man that
On the NBA Finals run
Had the most turnovers by a singular player
In the history of the NBA playoffs
It was over 100 turnovers in that time
And they were able to talent their way through
And talent their way through
And then they played the Warriors
Who have been for years
The kings of capitalizing on turnovers
Like you turn them all over against the Warriors
You're going to lose
It's been that way for years
They took advantage of it and won the trophy
You think about other moments in Tatum
Like yeah, he had the big dunk over LeBron
And whatever
But you think about multiple times in his career
Where he came up small
He was supposed to execute something
The defensive play
Where Gordon ultimately gets the put back dunk
Or the cut dunk
One of the two big dunks in the fourth quarter
Tatum was just standing there
Watching
This is coming on the tail end of when he watched Dean Wade
And at the end of the Cavs game
Sinked them
Blowing a 22 point lead with under 9 minutes
And you got Jalen Brown
You know, imploring his team
They can't do stuff like that
And struggling
And Tayson Tatum seems
I don't want to say lackadaisical about the situation
But to where he is not on the same number
Super stardom level of Jalen Brown
Jalen Brown was in that game and said
Okay, this is a game, let's go
This is a big game, let's go
Mike Malone was into it
Joe Masula was into it
Everybody was into it
And Tatum was into it as well
It was like he was scared at the moment at some point
That's very unlike a tier one superstar
So let's run through a little bit of business
Carl Anthony Towns will undergo surgery on the meniscus in his right knee
Or the meniscus in his knee
I won't say right or left, right or something
Because I can't think off the top of my head
But the meniscus in his knee
He is out for about, he will be reevaluated in about a month
Which places him right around the start of the playoffs
So big news for Minnesota is that they won't have him for the rest of the regular season
However, they will have him at the start of the playoffs
How much shape he will be in, that's a golden question
He may miss the first couple of games he is eligible to return
Because of his conditioning issues
So that would be interesting to see just how in shape Carl Anthony Towns is
Up on his return to the Minnesota Timberwolves lineup
The Clippers and the Phoenix Suns are also going through their own injuries
The big three of course, the Phoenix, never seems to have basketball to go
Someone is always hurt, feels bad, you know, bookers situation
Kiddies are nagging, lower leg injuries, been that way, obviously pop the Achilles
So they need to get their life together
When you have an injury, it's not as simple as replacing the numbers
It's not as simple as replacing the numbers
Oh, breaking news into the show
Recently franchise tagged Justin Matabuque of the Baltimore Ravens
Has agreed to a long term deal with the Ravens
For 4 years, $98 million, $75.5 million in guaranteed language
With $53.5 million guaranteed at signing
Humongous payday, this follows Jalen Johnson of the Bears
Getting his massive payday from the Bears
4 years, about $75 million for the corner
He'll be in franchise again at 28
So he can double dip with two major contracts
Great job for Jalen Johnson and of course, Justin Matabuque
But yeah, so back to what I was saying about the Phoenix Suns
It's not as simple as replacing the numbers of what you gotta replace
In terms of, you know, let's say book is down
That's not just upper 20 level points and you know, 6-7 rebounds
And 5 or 6 assists, you know
It's also 35-36 minutes
And you're already on a team that's pushed against the cap
Pushed against your minutes
You're only playing 7-8 guys really and truly anyway
So now you've gotta find guys to play 36 minutes
The production bill could pick up as a couple of shots
KD could pick up as a couple of shots
Dump it on Nurt cause a couple of times
You can get the production
Grayson Allen gets a couple of 3 point plays called
You can get your shots
Eric Gordon, you can get your shots
It's the minutes
You know, you've gotta got 3 guys when they're healthy
Averaging 30 some odd minutes
North of 30 some odd minutes, right?
Nurt is in the 30s most of the time
So if one of those 30 guys are down
It's not like you have a deep bench
It's not like you're New Orleans for instance
We're gonna talk about the Pelicans in a couple of minutes
It's not like you're the Pelicans, right?
Okay, Brandon goes down
So now that clears up minutes
Now Tray Murphy's playing a little bit more
Herb Jones is playing a little bit more
Nadji Marshall gets some burn
Like you got guys who the New Orleans Pelicans could go into their bench
That's why they're fifth
It's not the fact that they have this amazing talent
They've got a great 3-0
We'll talk about them in a few minutes
But Phoenix is so star dependent
That when they don't have that star
It's not just the production
It's the attention for one
Because now instead of I was at the Pelicans game when the Suns came to town
They were healthy
There was nothing to do
Boke was going ballistic
And you couldn't even double because he doubled off
Kevin Durant or Bradley Beal
Like and then he Nurtridge under the paint
So and then they put a Gracie Allen in the corner
What are you gonna do?
You're gonna let Gracie Allen shoot wide open corner threes
Kevin Durant Bradley Beal be open
Or Nurtridge under the rim dunking
You just had to let Boke cook
So when one of those guys in there
Now that person comes Jocelyn Koji
That's the double off person
Whoever is getting hot
If it's KD or Beal
You're doubling off Jocelyn Koji all night
That's your double off person
And so you're talking about the attention
That is no longer there
And you're talking about the minutes
Somebody has to make those minutes up
And so that is
He was going on and Phoenix
And then the Clippers
Russell Westbrook is down with a fractured hand
Kind of a freak injury
But something I spoke about when the Clippers came together
I spoke about it as well when Phoenix came together
These are two teams who are asking for things to have never happened
To all happen at once
Like you're asking Russ to be a total scene play
That hasn't happened in years
You're asking James Harden to sacrifice
Fully
That happened a little bit in Philly and it didn't
You're asking Kawhi to be healthy
You're asking Paul Joyce to be healthy
You're asking Russell Westbrook to be healthy
You're asking James Harden to be healthy
Ty Lue is a great coach
He's the only one with a bra
People love Frank Vogel and Phoenix
He's the only one with a bra
I don't want to be that person
But it's true
Like
How great
Phil Jackson is amazing
Phil Jackson won with Michael
And then made another Michael
Kobe
Like I need to make Michael but it was very parallel
Right
Um
So you're asking when you put this team together in Clipper land
Kawhi went healthy has won two finals in the V's
Him not withstanding but he's injured
Paul Joyce has never been a clutch player
Paul Joyce actually has a high line of real people hitting clutch shots on him
Russell Westbrook is not a clutch player
Yes he has some amazing moments in the clutch
The video is going around now of him stealing the ball
A 3-1 against the Lakers and flipping it in and she's getting hit
And lay up and he's going crazy with the crowd
And you know like okay yeah
And then there was the 50 point triple double in Denver to secure the scoring title
Remember he hits the 40 footer off the glass
Like he's had some great shots in the clutch
But think about the last four years
You define Russell Westbrook as clutch?
Oh James Harden really with a clutch
Oh wait he's in Clippers because he was unclutch in the playoffs for Philly all of last season
And again Ty Lue good coach great coach
Only ever won big with LeBron
So you're asking a bunch of things to come together in Clipper land
Again another very high level cap team
A team that does about they have a pretty solid bench
They have an advantage Phoenix doesn't
They can kind of eat some of these minutes
Norman Powell Terrence Mann Bones Highland
They can eat these minutes up
But they're a team very dependent on their stars
Paul George Kawhi Harden Russick
They're dependent on their stars
If they go down the Clippers are in trouble
And history tells us especially recent history
One two if not three of the four are going to go down
I mean at one point the Clippers were in the playoffs staring at the Suns
I believe last season and they didn't have Kawhi or Paul George
Like the history is telling us two or three of them are going to go down
Russ cracked his hand that might actually save him for the playoffs
Which puts more stress on the other two injuries
The ones which is Kawhi and Paul George
It's going to be very interesting in Clipper land
Home of the ships ironically
I can't be the only person that found that out that day
I don't know if any of my friends did
But we're all friends
We all have the same sports background knowledge
I feel like someone told the other one
We can't be the only small group to have figured that out
That a Clipper was a ship like that day
Whatever the ones that I mean
Please at me comment whatever
If I'm dumb but like
We can't be the only ones that have figured that out
That a Clipper was a ship that day
We're not right
It's fine comment at me
If I'm dumb I'm dumb it is what it is
And then we're going to finish on with the Pelicans
We're not going to mention Luka Dantic has an NBA record for straight 35 point triple doubles
And yet Tatum had 14 that Tatum Luka argument is interesting
But all that aside
The Pelicans are fifth
I think it's the latest they've been in the top five in years
Because last year they were number one and then the injuries started
They were actually in front of them like two and a half games on Denver
Or two games up on Denver when the injuries started
Ingham goes first
No Zion goes first and Ingham after that McCullum in the finishing the season injured
Right now the Pelicans are the team
If I'm in the West that's the team I don't want to play
Seriously
I'm so sad like that is the team the Pelicans
And yes I'm a Pelicans fan
I'm going to say I'm a Pelicans fan it can be a little biased
But I watch the Pelicans because I'm a Pelicans fan
I watch the Pelicans more than probably anybody else
Mostly outside the New Orleans region watches them
You have Stephen A Smith and his self slandering the Pelicans for no reason
And then we responded and he responded on a 10 minute rant
It was a whole thing
But the Pelicans are a very dangerous team
Right?
Because of their bitch
Here's why
Yes they have Jordan's violent junglers who can bang with anybody in the league
He actually does decent against Jokic
Just because I'm on a fewer physicality standpoint
Both those foreign centers that both hit the bang in with each other
He does solid against Jokic
He loves seeing the temples and Zion loves seeing the temples as well
But then think about that bench
Think about that defensive wizard
Herb Jones held Tyrese Halliburton scoreless in the basketball game
Not a bad shooting night
Not off night
No no no
Zero points
Zero
He didn't make a field goal or a free throw
Zero
Herb Jones in 23 minutes held Tyrese Halliburton to zero points
Until Halliburton pulled out of the game and the pace is where the white flag
Herb Jones also since January 1st leading the NBA in 3.25%
He's the best 3-and-D player in the NBA
Argue with someone else because it isn't me
You've got Zion Williamson who is healthy
He's played his first game
How healthy is?
He played his first game in Toronto earlier this week
This is your five for him
This is his first time ever playing in Toronto
Now in his defense
One of the years of Kobe
So four years he can go to Toronto four times
This is the first time going last week
Brandon Ingram is absolutely hotter than Fitz Grease
CJ McCullum is getting his rhythm back
Jordan's out in two minutes being physical
He deserves some more foul calls
But he's out there being physical
Jose Alvarado is running around causing havoc on defense
You've got Trey Murphy who's learning to put the ball on the ground
Duncan on people playing defense
You've got Jordan Hawkins backing down threes
Matt Ryan is a sharpshooter they're barely using right now
Dyson Daniels is the backup point guard
They're barely using him right now
There's so much growth and versatility with that Pelicans roster
Right now they're fifth
If I'm the Clippers
I'm nervous
I don't want to play the Pelicans
If I'm the Clippers I'd rather Phoenix
I match up better
I've got three, you've got three
It's like, come on
It's 3-3 basically
The ancillary
Think about it, it's almost perfect
Harden, George and Kawhi against Durant, Book, and Beal
You have, one side has Nerkic
One other side has Zubac
One side I think probably starts either Grayson Allen or probably Grayson Allen
The other side starts Luke Canard
No, Canard is in Memphis
Oh, I can't think of who the Clippers first started
He's mostly a shooter person
So you've got the teams pretty much matched up
You go to the Pelicans series
Yes, it's 3-3
And there's a fifth in the, you know
The team is up almost down to the tee
But then when you get into a situation where Zion's barreling
He's going to come down the lane
Who's going to keep him out?
You're going to have Paul George get beaten in the chess ball series
Like, you know what I'm saying
It's fine, I don't want to play the Pelicans
I want a lot of people
They're probably, the Timboolz are probably safe from them
They love the Timboolz
The Thunder, man, like they're one spot out of seven
They're half game out of seven
If you're the Thunder and you end up drawing the Pelicans
You may be home in five or six
It's a bad matchup for Oklahoma City
They're so skinny
So the Pelicans are a very dangerous team
But we're going to definitely keep our eye on the NBA a lot more
But up next, we're going to shift to the NFL
Talk about what's going down with the Shield
Welcome back into the show
Sorry about the long-winded first segment
It's been a month
I haven't heard from you guys in a while
You guys haven't heard my voice in a while
You haven't heard these takes in a while
I've been on fire like since season five
I was going to have a lot of heat in it
It was kind of nice the first four seasons
A lot of analytical stuff
We're going to get more into the opinion space
A lot of analytical, a lot of fact
We're going to get more into the opinion space
Whenever possible
So we're going to get our facts
Of course, you guys have to come here to learn stuff
And to hear fresh, unbiased takes
However, there will be a lot more opinion in the show as well
So again, my apologies for the first segment
But let's just get right into the second segment
Into the NFL
Of course, the big hoopla over the past couple of weeks
Or the past week or so
This was Russell Wilson being released from the Denver Broncos
They cannot find a trade partner
No shocking at all
With what he was dealing with contractually
And they released him and take the biggest cap hit
Dead cap hit in the history of the NFL
He is released as a post-June 1 designation
And they can take his
Clear my throat here
$85 million dead cap hit
And spread it over two years
The Denver Broncos are effectively paying a penalty
Of about $40 million a year for a player
That's not on their roster
I have never heard of that in my life
It's such a blatant like, we're gonna do this
So now they're having to make corresponding moves
Like releasing Justin Simmons to get under the cap
And still not have a quarterback
Like this is insane
Whoever the guy is in Denver, better hit
Or George Patton is gone
Sean Payton has a little runaway
Even though he's the reason Wilson is the ex-Bronco
He has a little runaway because financially
Well, they're the Walters, they'll pay whoever they want
So never mind
If this next quarterback didn't hit pretty well
Payton and Patton are gone
The GM, George Patton, and the head coach Sean Payton
They're out of there
Because they had to convince the owners
To take an $85 million cap hit
And in order, and still
Russell Wilson, $39 million in cash this season
It's just he has offset language
So if he goes to a new location
And they pay him 20
For instance, he only, the Denver Broncos only have to pay him 19
From Russell Wilson, I'm full of the Sean Watson
I go somewhere
And he's worked, he's looked at
And spoken to, met with, and or visited
The Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants
If I'm him, I go to them
And if I get the deal done and we say let's do it
We decide to be partners, we decide to come together
I say, okay, I wanted to Sean Watson
Sean Watson, when he knew he was going to face the suspension
From the NFL
He changed his cash flow
To $1
Reportedly
For the first year of the contract
So when the NFL suspended him
He only lost $1
It was no big deal
The rest of the $240-odd million
$250-odd million
Was perfectly his and perfectly safe and unkept
Now, if it was the cap, he counted for $40-something or whatever it was
But to the count book
And the checks and the bank account
He was like $1
If I'm Russell Wilson, I do that exact thing
I go to Pittsburgh and they say let's do a two-year
$50-million deal
You'll count $25 million out and $25 million out
However they work the cap
$30 million guaranteed, $35 million guaranteed
I say, okay, that's great
My cash flow for year one is $1
Think about it
You get paid either way
You get $39.00 Russell Wilson can make a maximum
$39.00-odd-million either way
Because of the offset language of his contract
So I would stick it to Denver
And make Denver pay as much as about $39.00-odd-million
A human can
He could do a one-year vet minimum deal with a player option
If the NFL comes in and jumps down the throat about for $1
He can sign a veteran minimum contract
With a player with a team option of like $30 million next season
Again, he's getting his money from Denver either way
So it's a matter of how much of $30 million Denver has to pay
I would do a veteran minimum contract with a team option the second year
The first year is vet men, whatever it is
And the second year is $30 million
You know what I'm saying? So if Russell Wilson is the answer
You pick up his option and then you work on a new contract
Denver gets to have to hold the back for $38 million-ish
And then if he's not the guy
You only paid him $1 million
He still got paid by Denver
And you can let him walk for free and tell him
Yeah, it's been nice, but move along
So that is what I would do if I'm Russell Wilson
I go to Pittsburgh, I don't want to deal with the
I don't want to deal with the Giants
However
He's been in the AFC his whole career
If he goes in the AFC North
It's the greatest quarterback division in the history of football
It's Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes, Deshaun Watson, and Russell Wilson
Like there's no foursome of quarterback you can find in the history of pro football
To have those four quarterbacks in the world
That's, it's insane
So maybe he decides
Okay, I don't want to necessarily deal with Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert, Lamar
Oh, I'm sorry, I messed up
It's Russell Wilson if he goes to Pittsburgh
No, he's in the AFC North
Yeah, it's Russell Wilson, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, and Deshaun Watson
It's not a life you necessarily want to run into, right?
Not to mention you still have Josh Allen
Potentially Jamie Daniels
Tua with Mike McDaniel
Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert, CJ Stroud in the AFC
They're all in the AFC
The NFC, the best quarterback in the AFC is either Jayden Hertz or Dak Prescott
Now they can conveniently lead them both in their division
But outside of them two
Who played that much better than Russell Wilson last year?
Don't worry, I'll wait
Like, so
Ease of competition?
Then it's ease with the New York Giants
However, they're not planning on bringing Saquon Barkley back
If they give you a lot of money inside of their cap
You have a number one weapon in Darren Waller
But you don't have a big running back
Now if they sign you, they don't have to draft a quarterback
They can die off the top receiver
Now you can live with my league neighbors and it gets interesting
You see what I'm saying? So if there was a good plan in New York
I could see New York
However, I know from a head coach, an organization, a stability, a support
You got Mike Tomlin
Mike Tomlin was a horrible quarterback player
And still never had a lose of these
At one point he had Mason Rudolph start legitimate games
And still was like 9-7, 8-9
So if Russell Wilson could play like he played in Denver
That would be a 10 or 11 win team in Pittsburgh
Again, you have Baltimore and Cleveland and Cincinnati to worry about
Split the division 3 and 3?
You got with the fourth place schedule?
No, Cleveland had the fourth place schedule
Third place schedule?
You may end up 10-7
It was a wild card opportunity
You know what I'm saying? You're playing with 17-17, wild card
Fast was in front of you in Pittsburgh
New York is easy, you're a quarterback competition
But everything else in New York is harder
Media attention is harder
Your head coach is worse
Your division has Philly and the Cowboys in it
Not great
Who else?
And the commanders are going to have a brand spanking new quarterback
Probably Drake May
Hopefully Drake May as a Patriots fan
You know, potentially Drake May
J.D. McCarthy, somebody not named Jaden Daniels
That's in your division as well
So from Russell Wilson, I get a two year deal done with Pittsburgh
And I go to Pittsburgh
And I go be the best quarterback there since
The last year A.D. was in Pittsburgh
Maybe the first year he was gone
Because Big Ben in the last couple of years wasn't that good
And he hasn't had a good QB since
Mike Evans, he signs in Tampa Bay
He gets his big payday from the team that drafted him
He was going to be the guy that to me was going to set the receiver market
Everybody was going to treat Mike Evans as the benchmark
And then how you fall under there is how you fall under there
If Mike Evans went for $18 million a year
You weren't going to go to your team and be like, oh I'm worth $20 million
Well, you're not better than Mike Evans
So that kind of changes
Mike Evans went for two years, $52 million with 35 guaranteed
$26 million a year
It's hard for a T-Higgins to go to his team and go for $30 million
Mike Williams, Mike Evans is going to set the market in the free agency
Resigned deals get used as a benchmark
But they're often time treated with a grain of salt by agencies and GMs
Because it was a resigned
Mike Evans was drafted by Tampa, he's never known anyone else but Tampa
He's probably going to finish his career in Tampa
But what it does do, it does get Tampa Bay a leg up in a Baker Mayfield division
Because if Mike Evans was totally free
And Baker was totally free
Why would I commit to Tampa first if there's a good chance Mike's not there?
So now that Mike has resigned, he's already been recruiting Baker back
And so there's a good chance in my opinion Baker Mayfield returns back to Tampa
Probably on a three year deal
That's really a two year deal that you can get out of for one really
To be with Mike Evans and the organization that gave him a shot after he was flailing out of the league
Speaking of free agency, the running back class is absurd
People talk about the safety class recently and it's deep
The running back class is absurd
Derrick Henry, Josh Jacobs, Saquon Barkley, Deandre Swift, Antonio Gibson
Tony Pollard, Ezekiel Elliott, all of these guys are completely free
Like we're talking a situation where people can get their franchise changed
Houston? I think Pierce is the running back? Solid, not great
They have a lot of money and a lot of rookie talent
New rookie level pay talent
They can go, if I'm them, I go get one of these five running backs
I go get Derrick Henry
If I'm Houston, it's a very down here running school
They're running a lot of power, a lot of duo
Stuff with Derrick Henry can just go forward
Not a lot of cutting, we have to cut again
He can just go forward
And then with Tank Del, Houston I paid for a receiver
But you know, with Tank Del, CJ Stroud, then Ariel Attack, Hollis, no it went Brown
It was space to, Nico Collins, that's what it was
They were to space the field without a star running back
Imagine if Derrick Henry's there, you gotta make a choice
You want to go light boxing, like Derrick Henry said that all the time
Or you want to go heavier boxing, and now Stroud has more windows to pick the pass off
Through the passing lanes
Like this is, reportedly it's going to be Saquon
Who has the highest interest from Houston, I go Derrick Henry
From Saquon, I try to get to Miami
You saw what they did for Christian McCaffrey, a very similar scheme
With a limited quarterback
All that speed in the world with Rado and Tirek
If you get a Saquon Barkley in the backfield, I know Moshe scored a lot
Jamal Williams scored a lot for Detroit, I mean everything
If you get Saquon Barkley, you change the dynamics of the AFC East
Period
Um, Josh Jay, oh Austin Eckler's also free
I think Harbaugh goes and gets a running back that's not named Austin Eckler
I really do, Eckler's contracts really pretty high, the others would be too
But, Harbaugh made it a point to tell certain guys
That they were in the futures plans, that like, no I want you here
You're going to be here, Ken Allen got that assurance
Of course Justin Harbaugh got that assurance, and a couple of guys from defense got that assurance as well
Who's the new GM of the Chargers? It's Tom Tolesco
Where did Tom, no Tom Tolesco was the GM of the Chargers, he's not a GM of the Raiders
The Raiders have a running back hole
He discovered and paid and endorsed Austin Eckler
I think Austin Eckler ends up in Vegas with Tom Tolesco
Which, they might have to swap, I think Jacobs ends up in
Jacobs ends up in the Chargers, and the Chargers do use a near on pick on Blake Corbin
And that's the kind of double running back situation the Chargers do
You know, they have Harbaugh, they get back Ken Allen
They have their own first round pick, a relatively high first round pick
They just swung and missed on Quentin Johnson, however that wasn't that regime
I think in Malik Neighbors sitting there, the Chargers do it
And so as Mike rules in Malik Neighbors with Josh Jacobs and they drive Blake Corbin in the third round
Or the second round, and then that's their offense with Justin Harbaugh
But this running back phrase is a class man, they are going to be able to hit the market now
This class was also supposed to have Jonathan Taylor
He kind of broke the picket line and went and signed early with Indianapolis
So I wonder how many teams try to use Jonathan Taylor's deal with Indianapolis
In order to kind of set the market cap for the guys who are free
But usually guys who are free get paid a little bit more than guys who we signed
Just because you have to convince that guy to come here and say, it's like NIL now with players
You know, you re-up your NIL deal with your school is usually going to be a little bit less than you would have got on open market
Just because there's no competition in a way
The Bills, speaking of cap and incentive and money
They have been reworking their roster in order to get under the salary cap
They have released several players, including Trudevius White, both starting safeties, Taylor Rapp and Micah Hyde
They also have reworked the contract of Von Miller in order to get under the salary cap and be ready for the next season
As Josh Allen's extension goes even higher, Fondue's got his balloon payment coming up
And so you got that going on
They went all in, they went win-now mode
They don't even have Gabe Davis on the team, he's a free agent
They went win-now mode
Right?
And the problem is in their win-now window, about three years, they ran into Mahomes and Burrow
You know, they only ran into the AFC representative for the Super Bowl three years in a row, like no biggie
You know what I'm saying? They ran into almost three Super Bowl winners
I mean, Burrow is Aaron Donald away from not being the Super Bowl champion
If he gets that ball off, Jumaan Chase had abused Jalen Ramsey
Jumaan Chase runs to the end though, and the Bengals are champions and who knows the perception on the Rams situation
They wouldn't have went all in for nothing
Who knows the butterfly effect that I have on Burrow's career, so on and so forth
But the Bills went all in on the table, they put all their chips in the middle, they went forward
And they again, Mahomes, Mahomes-Burrow
Ran into the AFC champion three years in a row, and brutal way to have your win-now era slam shut
And, um, so I was reading a little update where they said that Henry's unlikely to return to the Titans
Duh, he likes Tennessee, but he's gotten paid, he's gotten paid before
He wants to win and get paid now
And with a little bit of a side-up cap jumping the way he did, he has an opportunity, Houston
Um, but, he, that's what I was saying about the Bills
They went all in though with a super roster on the controllable money and all this stuff
Got slammed shut by the Chiefs, and so now they're having to retool their entire roster
Looks like they're gonna pick their secondary to do it with, their entire roster in a no longer win-now window
In terms of when you have a contractually advantageous quarterback
Um, that's gone now, right?
So, you're gonna have to rob Peter to pay Paul, you're gonna have to cut some losses, you're gonna have to hit in the draft
In order to continue to be at the upper level
Now, is Josh Allen good enough to make you in the discussion every year? Yes
Is he good enough, like my home, where I give him a football and one weapon and go to war and he probably wins it? No
Um, so that's gonna be the struggle there is that young Chiefs receive the court gets better, Jogger Barrel comes back healthier
Um, Lamar Jackson gets one year older, Deshaun Watson is a little bit healthier
Um, Justin Herbert has a new coach, you know, an actual NFL level coach
Um, you know, so on and so forth, in the AFC, it's gonna be a war, right?
Like, you got Miami still, New England has a lot of money, a new coach, a new energy
Like, more than like, a new quarterback, I just praise Jay Daniels, right?
But, there's so much going against the Bills now
That they had their window and they feel like they missed it
Um, and so I hope they have a couple of good runs in them
I know a Bills fan, it hurts him, but I think they had their shot and missed
Um, which would be awful for the Buffalo Bills franchise
Speaking of the New England Patriots, they're starting to have a little spending spree
My Pats came in with the most money of anybody, over a hundred million dollars in cash space
And they've started to spend it a little bit, not a whole lot, but a little bit
Resigning Hunter Henry, three years, twenty-seven million dollars
They also agree with a Steelers offensive tackle to come for the tackle spot
Because of course, Trent Brown has an organizational issue
And then Michael Wenu is in free agency due to the Patriots placing the transition tag on Kyle Dugger
So Wenu was able to walk into free agency, hopefully we get a Wenu back
I don't see Trent Brown coming back, but hopefully we can get a Wenu back
And get us some of the offensive linemen in the draft after we draft Jaden Daniels
So, that is what's going on in the NFL
But up next, I'd like to shift to the reignited hot debate of Michael Jordan versus LeBron James
Welcome back into the show
And now I'm going to talk about the newly reignited debate between Michael Jordan and LeBron James
It reignited because of LeBron James crossing 40,000 points in his career
First player to ever do it, of course he was the only player to ever go 39,000 because the record before him, Kareem, was just over 38,000
He broke Kareem's record last season, he crossed 39,000 last season, now he's the first player to ever score 40,000 points
He also has 11,000 rebounds and 5,000 assists, the man literally has a career triple-double
But whatever, right?
So, the debate got started and immediately those who I consider Jordan stans in the media or personally began to deflect it
I mean, people were even doing it before it happened, like, oh, it's a longevity stat, oh, it doesn't matter, oh, it doesn't make sense, the debate
Oh, because he played longer than anybody else, oh, it's because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
Even dumb stuff like his medical history is better than anybody else and, you know, he's got better doctors and it's nonsense, right?
That led people, and you know the internet's petty and they love a good joke, they love a good comeback
That led people to decide to now go look into the history of Michael Jordan's career
Because all the Jordan stans go 6-4-6, they point to the 2011 finals and they go 6-4-6 versus 4-4-6, 2011 finals never happened to Michael Jordan
And that's pretty much what they sit their thing on, they'll go with the defense player of the year that everybody knows belongs to LeBron
Or they'll say the peak was higher for Jordan, right?
But that took people to go look into Michael Jordan's career
Did you know that when Michael Jordan became the fourth player to score 30,000 points while in a Wizards jersey, mind you, not during his Bulls day, not during 98
No, no, no, no, in the 2000s after his second retirement in the Wizards jersey, when he was there effectively stat padding and trying to get ownership in the Wizards
He made a deal with the Wizards owners, play a couple of years for me and then move here in the ownership
Which was nicks because Jordan was a bad person and I hated it so bad he begged Gilberto Arenas to get him out of the Jordan situation
Yeah, that happened
But anyway, when he was the fourth player, not the first, the fourth, didn't have the record, the fourth player to score 30,000 points
There were signs in the arena streamed across multiple seats
Congratulations Michael Jordan on 30,000 points
There was an on court trophy presentation with the trophy that is about the size of the Larry O'Brien, a little bit smaller
Larry O'Brien trophy that you know, you win for the NBA finals, they gave that trophy to Michael Jordan on the court
They didn't even so much stop the game for LeBron getting 40,000
It's not like we'll ever see 40,000 again, ever
But they didn't even stop the game, I think LeBron was asked before the game
If he wanted to stop it, he politely said no, I said he should have stopped it either way
Although during the time out they did give a video montage and the ball was taken out of the game
Michael Jordan got a trophy presentation for being the fourth person to ever get 30,000
Interesting, so 40,000 means nothing
But 30,000 is a trophy presentation, banners and such?
So some people have been going back and getting videoed
To say it's not flattering on the era that so many people lied and told us about being this rough and tough and physical and amazing basketball
Well, there's videos of people bagging off Michael Jordan into the paintbase, like he's Russell Westbrook last season
And him shooting it and breaking it
There's videos of Michael Jordan in three point contest scoring five
May I remind you that in the various hanging three point contests, Kevin Hart scored 13
There's videos of Michael Jordan not going left
There's videos of Michael Jordan missing a whole bunch of layups continuously
There's videos of everybody else on the court being horrible
It's like walking shacked and a fool on Twitter as far as people just killing the 80s and the 90s
And what this amazing era of basketball allegedly was
And oh my god this was so perfect and Michael Jordan would have scored 50 in today's era
And he couldn't shoot
So he was going to have to drive and dunk his way to 50?
Seriously, he was going to have to drive his way to 50? Okay, that makes sense
But let's get back to the debate, right?
Nick Wright broke it down about as beautifully as I've ever seen it broken down
One of the arguments, because the counting numbers are over
Two arguments, three arguments Jordan fans have left is 6 for 6
The 88 season, 89 season
And the scoring titles
That's pretty much what a lot of people that argue with this just argue with it
As far as for Jordan, not even as a hellebron, but for Jordan
The 88 season, 89 season was Michael Jordan's best year individually
He won every award he won for MVP, if he can't score a title, defensive player of the year, first team on the NBA
First team on defense I believe, I believe
He won everything
Except the title, because he was beating
I've put that year to 2012 LeBron
27 straight wins in a regular season
MVP, finals MVP
Title, first team on defense
First team on the NBA
I think he wins the All-Star Game MVP that year
Literally wins everything, but defensive player of the year
And he lost it by three votes to a guy who didn't make the all-NBA defensive team
It's the biggest robbery in sports history
But I digress
Then people say, okay, it was a peak over a five-year stretch
Jordan was higher
Was he?
What five-year stretch is that?
Is the five-year stretch with the two years nobody counts?
Is it three feet?
Wait, hang on, if it's three years you got me
Let me write it down
If it's three years you got me
Michael Jordan won three straight titles
Two of the years he was MVP
Three straight finals MVP
Scoring titles
All four, you got me
Three years stretch
If you pick three years you got me
One year 88 doesn't compare to 2012
Two years, you can make a debate
Three years of Jordan is what it is
What years of peak
Of any length of time after three is Michael Jordan better?
Is it four years?
Because if you do championship, championship, championship
If you do 90, 91, 92
Okay, victory, you got that
93, he doesn't play in the NBA
So that doesn't work, okay
Fine, 96, 97, 98
99, he's not playing in the NBA
That doesn't work
Oh, you want to erase the two years in the middle?
You want to erase 94, 95
You want to go 91, 92, 93
91, 92, 93
96, 97, 98
You don't want to talk about 94, 95
That doesn't work like that because those didn't exist
Well, I know they existed
Michael Jordan came back
You find this out in The Last Dance
I know a lot from my age found this out in The Last Dance
Michael Jordan came back in November, wearing a 45
In 95
He missed all 94
The Bulls are bad, game seven call away from being in the finals
He's a bad, he misses 94
He comes back in 95 with about 20 some odd games to play
Right around this time of year, a little bit early
Right around this time of year
He comes back
The reason it was such a great PR
Is because the Double Nickel game in the Garden happens in 95
The famous Michael Jordan, look at his seventh game back
He scores 55 in the Garden
That happened in 95
Mind you, this is the year they go and play the Magic in the second round
And Shaq, Nick Anderson, Dennis Scott knock them out of there
I believe in five or six
Gets rid of them
This is the same time period that Jordan fans mythically say he would have won eight straight
It's okay, outside of it never being done
He played in 95 and lost
And didn't even lose to the team that won the Shaq and them gospel bout game
But whatever, didn't happen, doesn't exist
Cool
Let me double the feeling to the count
Michael Jordan played two years for the Wizards, a 40 year old man, averaging 19 points a game
But yet LeBronz the Shaq battered
It doesn't work, people
And after all these arguments and videos are coming out, you know what the Michael Jordan argument has dissolved into?
And Monty Jones, one of the bigger Jordan guys in the world, but especially on social media, said
We just saw it, we had to be there
Doesn't that sound like when older people talked about Dr. J
That we summarily dismissed
We spanked Dr. J, but summarily dismissed it
Or when old people started talking about Wilk
He was just so amazing
And got summarily dismissed
Look, all credit to Michael Jordan, I think he's the third best player of all time
Behind Kareem and LeBron
But we're gonna have to stop with the narratives
The myths, they're becoming both Jackson level
Twitter is dismissing them left and right
Every NBA finals game ever is on the NBA app
And I'm going back and watching these games and going, where is this magical, amazing defense
Or even amazing basketball, everybody within eight feet of each other
You've got Carmelo missing, Airball midrangers, you know the only shot he would get on the court
Like, all these magical, mythical, amazing moments
That was played up so high on people's mental
Played so high on people's emotions
Played up so high in the last dance
We're seeing proof that it wasn't what they said it was
But I'll leave you with this
One of the bigger reasons why a lot of people look Jordan Campbell
And the anti-LeBron camp
Is the fact that they say Jordan's fans
And they say LeBron's fans
And what the media has done and his fans have done by just plastering him all over everything
There was a video before the NBA finals advertising the finals
And it was a Michael Jordan video
Not a Chicago Bulls video
Not a Bulls versus whoever they were playing
Because I don't know, watching the video I have no idea
It was a Michael Jordan compilation video
It was Michael's face, he was doing moves behind himself
It was a really well done video
And then the game of the NBA finals broadcast came on
It's not your fault people who are in this camp
People who just can't see logic when it comes to this case
It's not your fault you didn't do this
You were programmed this way
Before you watched an NBA finals game they showed you a clip of Michael Jordan montage before the game
It's not your fault
You were, you were, you defend your era
You stand on it
Ah, defend your guy
But ultimately you were given a case that you can't win
And at this point there's no way to win it
It's okay, it's fine
Michael Jordan still 6 for 6
Kareem 6 for 9 and no one cares
Russell's 11 for 13 and no one cares
11 for 12
It's okay
It's alright
That is all I have for today
A great way to be back
Glad you guys spent a little over an hour and 15 minutes with me
Again, shout out to my boy B-Roy for the new intro song
Definitely place the album description in the album link on Apple Music in the description of the podcast
Hope you guys have a great rest of your day
This is your host Justin Jackson signing out
Thanks for watching