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Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast.

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I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson.

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In this Season 5 Episode 2, I'll be discussing the NBA, what's happening there.

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I'll be discussing the ever-expanding and growing NFL offseason.

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And of course, we will have our Jax Hot Take.

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Now as always, sit back and get ready to learn something.

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We even tweeting on Twitter you can meet us in the spaces.

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I like clips of sports news, yeah, you gotta embrace it.

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We never had it easy, we just came from the pavement.

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I might be controversial but I like to make my statements.

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This is Justin Time Sports, come and get your weekly takes.

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His opinion from the heart, he can never show you fake.

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Look, if you winning or you losing, he gonna tell it to you straight.

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This is Justin Time Sports, come and get your weekly takes.

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He gonna tell it to you straight.

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Welcome into the show.

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I absolutely love that song.

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We'll get to the point where it's so undisputed, they don't play the whole undisputed song.

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Or so like other shows, they don't play the whole song.

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I just love that song.

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For the first few episodes, I'm gonna laugh.

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First month or two to play the whole song.

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Sorry guys, gotta get used to it.

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My guy B-Roy crushed it.

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Of course, again, I'll put the link to his latest EP in the title description.

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Or in the episode description rather.

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Also some other housekeeping news.

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The YouTube show is back.

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The Justin Time Sports YouTube is officially up.

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I got to say the intro, so I'll say it now.

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Like, comment, subscribe to the Justin Time Sports podcast.

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Wherever you get your podcasts.

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iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube.

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We'll have the Jack Cap.

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So like I said, I'm talking about the Night Cap.

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We'll have the Jack Cap or JTS after dark.

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So we will definitely be discussing.

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Once a week we'll have the video show.

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And of course, we'll have the audio show weekly as well.

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The basketball season, the audio show is most sporadic.

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I like doing the audio show normally on Monday, on Tuesday nights.

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Comes out to you guys on Wednesday.

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Kind of as a preview.

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Kind of a situation for the basketball season.

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It's a little bit more sporadic.

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So I'm recording to this now.

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Sunday afternoon.

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You guys are here Sunday morning.

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But we'll do the audio show every week.

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We'll do the video show every week.

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You should get the video show on Saturday-ish.

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You should get the audio show sometime in the weekend as well.

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So you'll probably get the audio show and the video show right around the same time.

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And of course, if that becomes overload for you guys,

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we can easily adjust to one or two shows.

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More than likely the audio show.

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I can start recording on Tuesdays and put out Wednesdays.

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I can do it during football season.

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If that is more comfortable for you guys, let me know.

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DM me, ask me.

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Tell me what works for you guys.

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But enough of the housekeeping stuff.

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Let's get right into the show.

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Of course, we're going to have the NBA.

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Of course, we're going to have the NFL offseason.

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And then we'll have Jack's high take.

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But jump right into the NBA, how we always start every NBA segment.

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We have the standings going into Saturday's slate of games,

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including a huge Warriors-Lakers matchup that we will discuss.

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But out east, we have Boston, number one, the Bucs, at two, nine and a half games back.

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The Cavs at three, 10 games back.

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So they're only a half game back from the Bucs.

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The Knicks at four, 13 games back.

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The Magic at five, 13 and a half games back.

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The Pacers at six, 15 and a half games back.

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And then the play-in tournament right now, we have Miami, 16 games back.

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Philly, 16 games back.

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Also, Philly is at eight, and they are a half game back from sixth.

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They're not even big in the play-in tournament, despite the injury to Joe Allen B.

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And then the last 14 in the play-in tournament,

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they have no chance of not being nine and 10.

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Chicago at nine, 20 and a half back.

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And Atlanta at 10, 23 and a half back.

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Which I think, out of those two things, Chicago has the best chance of getting out.

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Levine has hurt for Chicago, but Tre Young has hurt for Atlanta.

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So I think Chicago will probably beat Atlanta at nine and 10.

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And then they say they catch the Sixers with the Dillon bead.

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And you know, the Chicago man double sneaking in, they were rewarded with Boston, right?

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So positive there, but you know, we'll have to definitely see on that.

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And then of course, shift out to the west, you have Denver, number one.

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Thunder, half game back.

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The Cavs, oh not the Cavs, I'm sorry, the Timberwolves, one and a half games back.

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The Clippers, four and a half games back.

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The Pelicans, six and a half games back.

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And Sacramento, currently is the sixth seed at eight games back.

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However, in the playoff tournament, Phoenix is eight games back as well.

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So they're tied with Sacramento for the fifth seed.

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Dallas, or sixth seed rather, Dallas is nine games back, only one game back from six.

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The Lakers are 11 games back, only three games back from six.

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And despite the turmoil of the Warriors season, the Warriors are 12 games back, only four games back from six.

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So you have about 15 games left in the season for most people.

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Most people have anywhere from 17 to 13 games left in their season.

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And to look at these standings, a lot has happened.

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I think I spoke about the East a little bit.

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The Boston Sunnys have won the conference. It's over, right?

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They have a 10 game lead and the tiebreaker with 15 left.

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Like, it's over.

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But if you look at a lot of the stuff at the bottom, it has a chance to change.

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If you are one of the top teams, where you don't want to be is 4-5.

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And the reason why is that 4-5 matchup gets Boston in the second round.

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Yes, I'm going to say Boston wins their first round series either in the sweep or a gentleman sweep.

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So the winner of the 4-5 matchup gets Boston in the second round.

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Where you want to be right now is two, three, six, or seven.

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Because that game faces not Boston in the second round.

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So that is where, like, if you're Milwaukee, you're fighting where you are.

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Milwaukee and Cleveland are fine.

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Now, you'd want that home court in the second round, so you'd want that second seed.

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But as long as you don't slip to the four line, you don't have to deal with Boston until the Eastern Conference at the earliest, if at all.

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Instead, you could play each other.

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So, like, the Cavs and the Bucks are truly, in my opinion, fighting for home court in the second round.

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I think the Bucks are going to destroy whoever is in the seventh seed.

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Not necessarily destroy.

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If it's Miami, you know Miami comes into the playoffs, they're going to destroy the sixth seed.

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I don't think NBA plays the rest of the season.

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So for some reason, if the Sixers end up in the seventh seed and Milwaukee gets them, they're going to run through them.

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But I do think Milwaukee and Cleveland currently do make it out of their first round series, and they play each other.

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I think Boston runs through whoever they need.

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Or Orlando, if he's in it today, it would be the matchup.

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That's a very interesting playoff series.

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You get a lot of credits from New York.

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They had that streak where they held three teams under 80 points for the best.

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That has not happened in like 20 years.

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You've got Jaylen Burns, you've got E. Julius Renner, you've got Isaiah Hardenstein, you've got these guys.

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However, they don't have no magic team. It's really good.

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They have Jaylen Suggs.

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They have Cole Anthony.

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They have Paolo Banquero.

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Paolo Banquero is averaging 23-74, just right around there, on more than 48-49% shooting.

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And he's only getting better. He's only getting tougher.

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He's made a game winner this season.

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He's only getting better as the time progresses.

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And he's going to be a person that I don't think anybody in New York matches up with.

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He's too fast for Julius Renner. He's too big for Jaylen Brunson.

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He's too quick for Isaiah Hardenstein.

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He's just too physically strong for Evan Fournier.

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I don't know who in New York matches up with Paolo Banquero.

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But Orlando can throw a lot of bodies at New York's guys.

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Brunson can see Paolo for a couple of positions.

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He can see Wagner for a couple of positions.

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He can see Suggs. He can see Anthony.

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And then you've got Julius Randle.

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You've got to see Paolo and Wagner and the rest of those guys that are just big and physical and long in Orlando.

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That's going to be a very interesting series.

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I think Cavs paces. He's intriguing.

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You've got the Cavs, and starting five doesn't work.

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Maylif is definitely going to suck, but starting five doesn't work.

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Okay, I won't say he sucks. He's a disappointment.

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He's a disappointment, right? So I'm not going to say he sucks.

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He is not nowhere near what he was brought out to be.

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And so their starting five doesn't work.

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When it's both bigs and both guards, it doesn't matter who the fifth person is, their net rating is way down.

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And then when they were doing one guard and one big, their net rating shocked it away.

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When they added a guard back, it dipped.

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When they added the mobility back to Allen, the bottom fell out.

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It just doesn't work space-wise.

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Because both guards are little and both bigs can't shoot.

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So it's like you've all of a sudden transported them back to the 80s.

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It doesn't work very well. You've got little guards and non-shooting bigs.

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The spacing is horrible, and they're getting absolutely wrecked on defense.

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And it just does not work.

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And then on the other side, you've got the Pacers who have mightily improved their defense right around the trade deadline,

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right around when they traded Buddy Hill.

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Not saying those two things are connected, but it's incredibly convenient how it worked out.

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The Pacers defense has mightily been drastically improved, but their scoring is down.

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As they're scoring throughout the league, we'll talk about that in a couple of minutes.

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But that'll be a very interesting series because the Pacers can't get up and down.

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You've got a guy like Tyrese Halliburton who, to me, is first team All-MBA.

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If he's not first team All-MBA, you've got to have a level just to get some form not to be.

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He's positionless now, All-MBA team is top 15 players that qualify, of course, with the 65 games.

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And we'll talk about that as well in a couple of minutes.

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But I think Halliburton's first team All-MBA kind of guy.

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Now he's locked second team.

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He's the best player in the series. I think he's a little bit better than Datta been Mitchell right now.

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That'll be in the hell of a playoff series.

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Flipping over to the west, you have the Denver Nuggets, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Minnesota Timberwolves

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within two games of each other with 15 left.

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It is a war for the number one seed in the west.

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And the number one seed in the west, I don't think, is a prize.

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If I am a Western top three guy, I want the third seed right now. Why?

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It gets you away from Denver. To me, I think Denver isn't going to hold it.

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The Nuggets have flipped the switch.

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You have the Teoka just playing at about half NBA speed. He's doing the flip lob to Gordon.

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He's doing the Sambor shuffle.

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He's sliding through the lane and flipping up chocolate.

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He's flipped the switch at this point to the playoff mode.

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And when he does that, I don't see anybody even attempting to beat him.

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I mean, I don't see them beating him four times in seven games. I just don't.

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So I think they're also going to end up winning the west in the regular season.

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So then there's the Thunder and the Timbers.

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Thunder, I have one game leading the Timberwolves. I'm not sure about the tiebreaker.

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But the Thunder is one game up right now in the Timberwolves.

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The Timbers, of course, don't have Carl Anthony Townsend.

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He's coming back from scenes dealing with injuries, I think he had a surgery.

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But they don't have Carl Anthony Townsend.

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The Oklahoma City Thunder are the youngest team in the NBA.

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The youngest good team in the NBA, rather. I think their average age of starters is like 25.

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They're the youngest good team in the NBA. Of course they're the youngest great team in the NBA.

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And so they're sitting right now in the two-seed. I'm them. I try to get the win.

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I try to make sure I know every single time I play a playoff series, unless it's in the finals,

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I have home court events. I have game one and game seven in my building.

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So if I'm in Thunder, I go for it.

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But if you look at the Thunder, what is the reward for the potential number one seed?

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I bring my name down to the play-in immediately for the west.

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The play-in tournament consists of teams that have either

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Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Bradley Bill, or Kyrievian Luka-Dantzic,

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or LeBron James, Anthony Davis, or Steph Curry.

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I mean, that's your reward if you're the one seed or the two seed.

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You have to face one of those four teams. I don't think the Warriors are going to make it.

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I just don't. Steph's by himself at this point. Jermar is Shelly himself. Kaminka's not ready.

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Clay's with Shelly himself. You know, the guy right at Jordan Poole.

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They're not ready. I don't think they're good enough.

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So that leaves the KD-Bradley-Bill-Booker trio,

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Luke and Kyrie with Daniel Chamberlain, aka Daniel Gaffer,

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or LeBron and AD. That's your reward.

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It's wild to think one of those teams I named won't be in the playoffs,

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but that is your reward.

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Yeah, I say it won't be in the playoffs, but Phoenix is currently tied with Sacramento for the sixth seed.

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So if SAC gets in their midst, they could bump SAC all the way out.

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But that notwithstanding, if you're the one seed,

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do you really want your prize to be Anthony Davis or LeBron James?

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No. Do you really want your prize to be KD-Booker and Bill?

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No. How about Luke and Kyrie seven times?

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That's fun. Right? So the one seed to me, unless it's Denver,

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is a spot you don't want to be in.

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And then of course, those from City Thunder, let's say you do get the one seed,

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LeBron and AD walking your ability for game one.

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Like, that is a disaster waiting to happen.

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Or KD-Booker and Bill walking your ability in New Court.

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Because the Lakers have a propensity, game one rather.

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The Lakers have a proven propensity.

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And if you're a smaller, thinner, younger team, they're going to bully you.

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OK, see these are all three of them.

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They're smaller, they're younger, and they're not nearly experienced.

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They're going to get bullied, by the way.

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Because they're not only playing, they're beating them up.

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LeBron does not fear anybody on them in the lane.

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And Davis does not fear anybody on them in the lane.

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Rihatsumura doesn't fear anybody on them in the lane.

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And so you've got these guys who are just driving repeatedly into the lane.

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They don't care if they're going to keep coming.

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So that is a problem from a city.

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And the Timbers have a Carl Anthony-Thompson problem.

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Let's say for some reason, somehow, they squeak out the number one seed.

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Is Kat going to be ready?

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Or if he's ready, is his first game, game one of the finals,

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and staring across the court from him is KD-Booker and Bill?

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You know, like, that's a situation that's not tenable for the one seed.

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Or even the two seeds, they're going to have to deal with the same exact thing.

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The three seed is sweet spot.

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Right now, it's Chaka Meno.

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Like, I'm sorry, but Chaka Meno, out of all the ten teams I've named,

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is the one team you'd rather play.

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Like, I've gave a call to everybody else, other 20 organizations,

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except for those ten.

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You just look and say, out of these ten in a playoff series, who do you want?

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Probably 16 of them are going to say Chaka Meno.

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And I don't know if that's a slander.

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It is. I'm going to...

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It is. It's a slander to the perception of Chaka Meno.

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They're monster-savonis. Ask Andrew Davis about it.

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Like, De'Aaron Fox, Mike Brown's a hell of a coach.

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Harrison Barnes is still playing good basketball.

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They've got Keegan Murray. They've got a pretty solid bench.

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You know, they've got a good GM. They've got a good organization.

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And they'll rock his crowd whenever they're good.

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So, Shaq, I think, is carrying a reputation that we don't want to play them.

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To me, the team, everybody's been wanting to watch.

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They're in a series?

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Yeah, they're experienced and they know how to win championships.

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But they're nowhere near what they used to be.

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So, the fear of the Warriors should be very minimal, if at all.

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In dealing with the Warriors, I probably have Dallas right up there, too.

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It's pretty much the Luke and Kyrie show. Everybody else is irrelevant.

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So, they have in mind this as well.

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But just looking at matches that are pretty locked in, Pelicans and Clippers are fairly locked in.

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Can, you know, Sakras, Phoenix catch New Orleans? Of course they could.

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Phoenix is one of the tougher schedules. They can't be the tougher schedule.

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They have the tougher schedule of the contenders.

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I believe the Utah Jazz is the only team with a tougher schedule left.

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Left the rest of the season.

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And the Jazz are actively trying to lose basketball games.

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So, they don't really count.

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And so, can Phoenix and Sacramento catch New Orleans?

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They're only a game and a half back with 15 left.

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Of course they could, right?

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But let's, you know, but same thing. Indiana could catch Orlando.

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They're only two games back.

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Miami and Philly only two and a half games back.

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So, we're going to keep it like that.

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The playoff today, it'd be Philly. It'd be Clippers and Pelicans.

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We just saw that game last night.

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Now, it was thought harder than the World's Got Westboro.

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But the Pelicans made a statement.

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That was the kind of win that even with, if it was just Paul, George, and Kawhi,

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two of the best 15 players on the earth,

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they would still, the Pelicans by the way, lose that game, right?

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And Zion had 34-7, quelling a lot of the noise about his weight.

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You know, it's a travesty, it's a tragedy, it's a miscarriage of the opportunity,

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it's a miscarriage of the role.

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The fact that guys like Stephen A. Smith, who New Orleans is 40-26,

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14 games about 500, fifth in the West,

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they're legitimately within shouting distance of fourth in the West,

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is being treated and being relegated until he has Zion's back.

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And the chefs still love him.

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And then listing all of the issues, pains, and plans

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that the Pelicans have gone through throughout the years.

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And yet, you're propping up the Warriors, some of their dangerous,

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and you know, the Lakers and the like that.

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And it's like, you have a team that's actually one of the most dangerous teams in the West.

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Because they have a freaking 280-pound bowling ball no one can deal with.

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There's Brandon Ingram, who's an absolute bucket.

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C.J. McCullen's one of the smoothest players in the league,

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probably second behind Paul George.

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Zonas Valanchyuna is one of the most underrated players in the league,

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he's physical.

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Herb Jones is the best wing defender in the league,

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argue with your grandmother.

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And you know, they have depth everywhere.

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Dyson Daniels is on the way back.

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So you've got all these different pieces in New Orleans

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that all kind of came out, like I had against the Clippers.

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And without Norman Power reigning a few threes,

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the Clippers get blown out.

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And so New Orleans had a great game.

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Big shout out to them, as I'm a Pelicans fan,

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so maybe a little par to them, I don't care at all.

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But that is what's happening right now with the standings,

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I'd say about 15 games to go.

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Alright, so the MVP race, to me, is a two-horse race.

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It's between Yoke and Genasjie.

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Tatum has undersold too much in big games for him to be in this discussion.

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Janasjie's team is too fluctuating.

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So it'll be between OKC's Sheikidu Zanatanza

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and Debra Nuggets' Nicola Jokic.

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Now Jokic, if he was third MVP, enters the inner room in terms of rewards.

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I don't think all-time he enters that room yet.

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He's the first battle of all of them, of course, as is.

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But I think with three MVPs, he enters a very small room.

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Kareem has six MVPs, Michael Jordan, I believe, has five or six.

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LeBron has four.

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Larry has three.

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Magic, I don't know if Magic has the MVPs.

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Steph, I believe, has three.

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But it is a very small list of people with three MVPs,

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especially three MVPs in the NBA Championship.

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Especially, he can win three MVPs in two NBA Championships,

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and the list shrinks.

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You know, and Jokic is just, like I said, he's flipped the gear.

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He's doing the songboard shuffle, he's crazy one-legged lean-back shots.

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You have all kinds of stuff happening with him.

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Gordon, him and Jamal Murray are rolling.

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But then you got SGA, man.

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And I spoke about that Thunder team.

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They're the youngest contenders.

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Their average age is starting lineup is like 25.

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I don't believe they're starting anybody over 27.

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You've got Chet Hongren, who's a rookie.

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He's like 20 years old.

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You've got J.W. Blue Dork.

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Like, you have guys who will be household names.

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Some of them are household names,

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but the ringleader to the trapeze circus is SGA.

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When he's on the floor,

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they look like one of the best teams in the league.

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If not, he be best team in the league.

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But he's off the floor,

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they look like 24-year-olds playing basketball in the NBA.

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It don't look that great, right?

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So to me, if I had a vote right now, I would vote SGA.

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And how I put this was,

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if you take them off this season,

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and you put them with a replacement-level position,

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how would the team look?

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So Presto Chang'o, Nikola Yoccan, Nick Claxton,

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and Presto Chang'o, Shea Gillis, Alexander, and Atayus Jones.

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How would the team look?

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If you turn Nikola Yoccan into Nick Claxton,

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they are a play-in team.

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Honestly, they're the kings.

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I'm just gonna be honest with you, they're the kings.

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They'd have a really, really good point guard,

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fast point guard that could get shots up the score,

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Darren Foster Jemar Murray.

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They'd have a run-and-dunk center,

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run-and-dunk big.

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They'd have a do-everything kind of forward guy,

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Sabonis and Gordon.

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You know, and they'd have their shooters everywhere,

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and they'd have their experienced head coaches.

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They'd be the kings.

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If you Presto Chang'o, Shea Gillis, Alexander, and Atayus Jones,

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they are literally the San Antonio Spurs

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with slightly better talent.

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And I do mean slightly.

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I think the gap between Wimby and Chech is pretty large,

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but J.Dubb is like the third best player,

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if you check out SGA.

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Dork's probably the fourth best player.

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So, as far as players in the Spurs,

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they literally become Spurs.

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There's a tall, lanky center who can do everything.

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There's a point guard who is very replacement level, rather,

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but highly thought of, highly considered, highly favored in the NBA.

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You've got a bunch of skilled guys trying to develop,

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but two-way guys trying to develop life.

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The OK Home and City Thunder literally become the Spurs.

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If you take out of SGA,

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you're replacing with a replacement level point,

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and that's why I have SGA winning the MVP.

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The 65 game rule has come up to bite multiple players in the butt.

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So, the 65 game rule, for those of you that I know,

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is that the NBA instituted a rule that in order for a player

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to qualify for postseason awards, every single award,

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but the rookie of the year,

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they must play and be credited for 65 games in a season,

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or they will be deemed ineligible for these awards.

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So, that's MVP, clutch player, that's first team on the NBA,

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that's all rookie, I believe.

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Well, I don't think the rookie team has those restrictions,

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but the first team on the NBA, it is all NBA,

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it is any of the individual awards, not named rookie of the year,

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all the all-rookie teams, they are hitting those rules.

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So, you've got guys who in previous years would still get all NBA,

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even if they missed 20 games, like Joel Embiid,

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who probably still sneak third team on the NBA, even hurt.

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You've got guys like Devin Booker,

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I think he's really, really close to being an elgiblist.

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Jimmy Butler is really, really close to being an elgiblist.

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Titus Halliburton spoke about the fact that he was dealing with something

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and knew about the 65 game rule, and so he kept pushing it.

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And then what happens is it affects the money.

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The money aspect is the Supermax contract,

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or the rookie max extension, the Rose Rule contract.

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The Supermax contract should be called the Kevin Durant rule,

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the way the rookie max contract is considered the Rose Rule.

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It's called the Rose Rule after Derrick Rose.

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Derrick Rose won the MVP at like 22 years old,

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for the Chicago Bulls.

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Pretty much it was said he can't be maxed out like a regular player.

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He can't be maxed out like a regular rookie,

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he's one of them who would be already on his rookie contract.

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He deserves more than pot.

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So, in order to not give me full of long 30% max,

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they want a 25% max, so 25% max of the cap.

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So you can have 25% of the cap allotted to one player.

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And then they went back and added all these rules.

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So if you win an MVP, you get extra money on all the NBAs,

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extra money on those individual awards,

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extra money on the Pennsylvania Ears, whatever.

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You will qualify for the Rose Rule on your first max contract,

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which means that instead of 20% of the cap,

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you can get 25% of the cap. Cool.

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So your next max contract is under Supermax guidelines.

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And you'll hear guys sign, oh, like,

465
00:27:33,100 --> 00:27:36,100
I know you hear a lot of times from the Rose Rule guys who hear,

466
00:27:36,100 --> 00:27:39,100
they sign for five years, $200 million,

467
00:27:39,100 --> 00:27:44,100
but it can go grow to $240 million, $45 million,

468
00:27:44,100 --> 00:27:47,100
if they hit the requirements.

469
00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:51,100
For the Supermax contract, there's a requirement as well.

470
00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:54,100
Some of the All-Stars, some of the All-Pros, all the NBAs,

471
00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:57,100
I'm sorry, so on and so forth.

472
00:27:57,100 --> 00:28:01,100
However, this rule was instituted because of Kevin Durant.

473
00:28:01,100 --> 00:28:04,100
So when Kevin Durant was going into the final year of his opening

474
00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:07,100
to the contract, OKC offered him a deal, he passed on it.

475
00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:10,100
OKC did not have really the ability to offer him

476
00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:13,100
substantially more financial incentive to stay,

477
00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:15,100
like anybody else, before free agency.

478
00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:18,100
So he goes into free agency, he walks into Golden State free,

479
00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:21,100
leaving OKC with nothing but rest brook.

480
00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:25,100
And so they put in the Supermax contract,

481
00:28:25,100 --> 00:28:28,100
because Kevin Durant would have been easily Supermax eligible.

482
00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:31,100
They would have offered it to him, he would have had to look,

483
00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:34,100
tens of millions of dollars in the face and say no,

484
00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:36,100
which everybody knew he wasn't going to do that.

485
00:28:36,100 --> 00:28:40,100
So that was what was happening

486
00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:43,100
and why the invention of the Supermax contract exists.

487
00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:46,100
So I say all I have to say, with the NBA 65 game rule,

488
00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:49,100
that's affecting certain people who could either,

489
00:28:49,100 --> 00:28:51,100
who either wouldn't have qualified, like Tyrese Maxey,

490
00:28:51,100 --> 00:28:53,100
who can be Supermax eligible now,

491
00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:55,100
or would have qualified potentially in the future

492
00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:59,100
because they did not play enough games to meet the barrier

493
00:28:59,100 --> 00:29:03,100
to qualify for these awards, such as all NBA, MVP,

494
00:29:03,100 --> 00:29:05,100
the first place of the NCAA, et cetera.

495
00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:10,100
And lastly, Ben Simmons has undergone surgery on his back

496
00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:14,100
to try and fix the nerve impingement in his back.

497
00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:19,100
Let me pull it up to make sure I get the correct word.

498
00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:24,100
So Ben Simmons underwent a microscopic partial discectomy

499
00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:28,100
to try and repair and relieve the nerve impingement in his back.

500
00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:29,100
He had little back issues.

501
00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:31,100
For quite a long time, it might have been

502
00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:33,100
like what Michael Forte Jr. did,

503
00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:36,100
had to deal with coming to the league, over the back surgeries.

504
00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:39,100
Now Ben Simmons is working on his back.

505
00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:41,100
The back is your life, guys.

506
00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:43,100
Your body is your life in football sports.

507
00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:46,100
Your back is your oil, your motor, and your transmission.

508
00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:49,100
Your back is messed up, and you're not going anywhere.

509
00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:54,100
So let's hope and pray Ben Simmons gets fully recovered

510
00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:58,100
and he's able to continue to play in the NBA.

511
00:29:58,100 --> 00:30:02,100
That is all I have for the NBA today.

512
00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:03,100
And now we are shifting to the NFL.

513
00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:30,100
Let's talk about what's going down there.

514
00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:37,100
Welcome back into the show of the NFL.

515
00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:39,100
Wow.

516
00:30:39,100 --> 00:30:43,100
Honestly, kudos to the NFL because the NBA has been kicking the NFL.

517
00:30:43,100 --> 00:30:49,100
But as far as off season, the NBA and the trade deadline for the NBA is a show.

518
00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:57,100
Like literally multiple shows on multiple networks do like live trade deadline shows.

519
00:30:57,100 --> 00:31:02,100
And they'll start from like the day before,

520
00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:08,100
and they'll just like run through, you know, the next day or two days after,

521
00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:11,100
reaction shows, live at the deadline shows.

522
00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:13,100
It's insane, right?

523
00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:16,100
And now the NBA has this thing called pre-agency.

524
00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:17,100
That's all the other stuff, right?

525
00:31:17,100 --> 00:31:22,100
But the NBA has monetized and marketed the off season.

526
00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:24,100
The part where it's just getting nerdy,

527
00:31:24,100 --> 00:31:26,100
like you're supposed to show up and see a guy on the team

528
00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:27,100
and you're like, oh, okay, that happened.

529
00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:31,100
Like, no, no, the NBA, the pre-agency starting is a show.

530
00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:34,100
Again, shows on multiple networks.

531
00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:35,100
The trade deadline is a show.

532
00:31:35,100 --> 00:31:36,100
It shows on multiple networks.

533
00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:37,100
It leads my show.

534
00:31:37,100 --> 00:31:39,100
It's when my fingers are most active.

535
00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:43,100
Like it's a thing, right?

536
00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:48,100
And then the NBA, the NFL goes to copy catalyze it is.

537
00:31:48,100 --> 00:31:51,100
It copies the schemes again at one point.

538
00:31:51,100 --> 00:31:53,100
The NFL is to copy catalyze at one point.

539
00:31:53,100 --> 00:31:56,100
Half, most of the league snapped the ball to the running back

540
00:31:56,100 --> 00:31:57,100
on a consistent basis.

541
00:31:57,100 --> 00:31:59,100
Like it's a thing, right?

542
00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:02,100
So the NFL looked at it and went, huh.

543
00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:05,100
We're the biggest TV show in America.

544
00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:08,100
We always have top ratings.

545
00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:10,100
We always have figured out a way to change the schedule.

546
00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:15,100
Churches have changed their schedule, if you ask us.

547
00:32:15,100 --> 00:32:17,100
The calendar is built around football.

548
00:32:17,100 --> 00:32:19,100
Excuse me, people have now gotten married in certain times

549
00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:22,100
of year because of us.

550
00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:25,100
What if we did what they did?

551
00:32:25,100 --> 00:32:27,100
The only thing the NBA has over us consistently

552
00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:29,100
is that they kill the holidays.

553
00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:33,100
The NBA, the NFL stands given, the NBA had Christmas.

554
00:32:33,100 --> 00:32:37,100
They would split New Year Day.

555
00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:39,100
The NFL might do Christmas Eve.

556
00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:42,100
The NBA would do Halloween and Martin Luther King Day.

557
00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:44,100
They kind of split them out, right?

558
00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:46,100
And then the NFL started doing Christmas games.

559
00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:48,100
The NBA didn't like it.

560
00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:51,100
But they couldn't do it in the body.

561
00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:53,100
So now the NFL started marketing their offseason.

562
00:32:53,100 --> 00:32:55,100
And their transactions did.

563
00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:59,100
The NFL trade deadline week was like, again,

564
00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:01,100
multiple shows on multiple networks.

565
00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:03,100
Ultimately, it was nearly the fireworks.

566
00:33:03,100 --> 00:33:05,100
But it was a thing.

567
00:33:05,100 --> 00:33:08,100
Now, the NFL frequency has been multiple shows

568
00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:10,100
on multiple networks leading, you know,

569
00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:12,100
it's led multiple shows.

570
00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:15,100
It was basically the lead on my, I don't know,

571
00:33:15,100 --> 00:33:17,100
on the video show, just top sports YouTube,

572
00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:19,100
which should be out soon.

573
00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:22,100
NFL frequency leads a lot of the conversation.

574
00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:25,100
If you look at the Justin Time Sports social media,

575
00:33:25,100 --> 00:33:29,100
I won't even venture to guess how many posts

576
00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:32,100
are about frequency in general.

577
00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:34,100
But just scroll.

578
00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:37,100
And it is NFL free agent city.

579
00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:40,100
You know, I'm doing it now.

580
00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:42,100
I'm still scrolling.

581
00:33:42,100 --> 00:33:45,100
And most of it is going to be an NFL free agency.

582
00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:48,100
There's the occasional retirement like they're quiet.

583
00:33:48,100 --> 00:33:52,100
You know, there is David Boxyari,

584
00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:54,100
Liza Gray Bay, you know, there's some stuff

585
00:33:54,100 --> 00:33:56,100
that breakfasts are fine in here, Rudy Gobert.

586
00:33:56,100 --> 00:34:01,100
But a vast majority of it, since free agency started,

587
00:34:01,100 --> 00:34:04,100
has been free agency, NFL free agency.

588
00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:09,100
Great job by the NFL attempting to level the playing field

589
00:34:09,100 --> 00:34:12,100
when it comes down to transaction point in the period.

590
00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:14,100
And it was helped by the fact that it was a very

591
00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:16,100
insane free agency.

592
00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:18,100
Just look at the quarterback carousel.

593
00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:22,100
Adam Sheffield did a great job of tweeting it all out in one tweet.

594
00:34:22,100 --> 00:34:25,100
I have all the movement knowledge, all of my stuff,

595
00:34:25,100 --> 00:34:27,100
but he did it all in one tweet.

596
00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:31,100
And I will try to do this as specifically as possible.

597
00:34:31,100 --> 00:34:33,100
Jim McGraw-Pillow went to the rainbows.

598
00:34:33,100 --> 00:34:35,100
Tony Pickett traded to the Eagles.

599
00:34:35,100 --> 00:34:37,100
Sam Howell traded to the Seahawks.

600
00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:39,100
Desmond Ritter traded to the Cardinals.

601
00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:41,100
Joe Flacco signed with the Colts.

602
00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:43,100
Garner Menchou signed with the Raiders.

603
00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:45,100
Chikul Brissette signed back with the Patriots.

604
00:34:45,100 --> 00:34:47,100
Drew Lock traded with the Giants.

605
00:34:47,100 --> 00:34:50,100
Kirk Cousins signed a massive deal with the Falcons.

606
00:34:50,100 --> 00:34:52,100
Baker Mayfield re-signed with the Buccaneers.

607
00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:54,100
Russell Wilson signed with the Steelers.

608
00:34:54,100 --> 00:34:56,100
James Winston signed with the Browns.

609
00:34:56,100 --> 00:34:58,100
Marcus Mariota signed with the Commanders.

610
00:34:58,100 --> 00:35:00,100
Tyron Taylor signed with the Jets.

611
00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:02,100
Mason Rudolph traded to the Titans.

612
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,840
with the Chibiski signed with the Bills.

613
00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:11,840
M

614
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,840
Whew!

615
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,840
That's just a quarterback.

616
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:09,840
And you would think the NFL would have a bigger free

617
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,840
agency period than the NBA.

618
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,840
Think about it, the NBA is 30 teams, it's 15 players,

619
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,840
it's 450 of the best players in the world.

620
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,840
Only about 70 of them truly matter in free agency.

621
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,840
Only about 20 of them ever happens.

622
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,840
However, the NBA has kind of killed its own offseason.

623
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:31,840
Through some of the CBA stuff, through the contracts,

624
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,840
supermaxes, the salary cap, now the tax aprons.

625
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,840
They're kind of killing their own free agency.

626
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,840
Mainly because they were killing their own smart markets.

627
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,840
She, Kevin Durant, walked in from Go KC to go to the States for nothing.

628
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,840
That was starting to happen more and more.

629
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,840
Now, at least now, you got to be traded.

630
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,840
You're not going to dive into that, this is the NFL segment.

631
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:56,840
But the NFL has 53 players on the roster, only actor roster.

632
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,840
Another 12 to 15 guys on the practice squad.

633
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,840
And there's 32 teams.

634
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:08,840
So the NBA has 450 players in the league at one time.

635
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:13,840
The NFL, if you count 65 people, let's just say 53 active man,

636
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,840
12 practice squad, has 2,080.

637
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:24,840
Four times just about as many people in the league at one time.

638
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,840
You would think logically that they would have a bigger frequency

639
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,840
because there's more of them.

640
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,840
But the NFL has a lot of re-sign, a lot of guys want to move,

641
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,840
a lot of the NFLs want to scheme on the team.

642
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:38,840
If I like the way this position coach or this coordinator uses me,

643
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,840
I'll sign with this team to stay in the city for a couple less million dollars.

644
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,840
With Joann Bentley, for instance, he stayed with New England.

645
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,840
He turned down multiple years with more guaranteed money

646
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,840
because he likes the way New England works.

647
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,840
He likes the way that we use them on defense.

648
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,840
He likes the area, he's safe.

649
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,840
So you have stuff happening like that all over the league.

650
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:00,840
That usually happens a lot.

651
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,840
It's been a lot of movement, including actually with the quarterbacks.

652
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:05,840
Now let's move to the running backs.

653
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,840
The running backs for the first time, oh my gosh,

654
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:13,840
since the running back slander started, they were able to move freely.

655
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,840
Remember last year it was this major amazing running back class,

656
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,840
and then all of them got tagged.

657
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,840
Jonathan Taylor, Derrick Hendricks, Josh Jacobs, Saquon Barkley,

658
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,840
all of them got tagged.

659
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,840
Alvin Camaro, his contract was renegotiated with the Saints.

660
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,840
All of them got tagged or castrated with him one time.

661
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,840
And then from this really, really high water suspension,

662
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:35,840
to bottoming out.

663
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,840
And so this year, Bill, we come back, it's like a roller coaster.

664
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,840
We're coming back up the tracks.

665
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,840
We're coming back up the tracks.

666
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,840
And then we start hearing great news.

667
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,840
This person's not being tagged.

668
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:49,840
This person's not being tagged.

669
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,840
This person's not being tagged.

670
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,840
Wait, they're all going to be free?

671
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,840
So we get to finally find out what the market is?

672
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,840
Because Jonathan Taylor resigned with the Colts last offseason on the deal.

673
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,840
But then it was like, uh, okay.

674
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,840
So now we're coming, and we're finally going to find out what the market is.

675
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:05,840
Everybody's excited.

676
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,840
No one has figured out what the market is on running backs

677
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,840
because they've never been free.

678
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,840
Especially this many top guys at one time.

679
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,840
Saquon Barkley.

680
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:15,840
Boom!

681
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:17,840
The last of these is three years, 37 million,

682
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,840
I believe 23-odd million guaranteed.

683
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,840
So that's the first deal.

684
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,840
I'm talking, whoa, okay.

685
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:26,840
So now, not only is the fact that they're moving,

686
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,840
they're going to move with purpose.

687
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,840
They're going to move and change the landscape

688
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,840
because Saquon Barkley, the Eagles, alters the landscape.

689
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,840
Um, three years, it was three years, 37.75 million,

690
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,840
worth up to 46.75 million, with 26 million for the guarantee.

691
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,840
So it's like, boom, okay, okay, okay.

692
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,840
So now it's a thing, right?

693
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,840
But he wasn't even the first one.

694
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,840
Josh Jacobs signed.

695
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:51,840
His deal was weird.

696
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,840
They only had basically one year guaranteed money,

697
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,840
but it was actually with the salary cap.

698
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,840
It was the franchise tag multiple years.

699
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,840
It's very little guaranteed.

700
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:01,840
It looks like $12 million guaranteed, isn't it?

701
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,840
Of course, Josh Jacobs, he lands on the Green Bay

702
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:09,840
with subsequently packed out Aaron Jones out of Green Bay.

703
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,840
Saquon Barkley landed with the Eagles.

704
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:20,840
Joe Mixon ends up being released by the Bengals,

705
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,840
only to then, before he is released,

706
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,840
Jackson jumps in and trades for him

707
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,840
and immediately gives him a big contract,

708
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,840
trying to find the dollar in my hook.

709
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:31,840
You got it now.

710
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:33,840
They gave him three years, 27 million,

711
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,840
with 13 million dollars guaranteed.

712
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,840
Um, the Green Bay Packers, we signed A.J. Dillon.

713
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,840
And then, of course, in the middle of all of that,

714
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:47,840
Derrick Henry signs with the Baltimore Ravens.

715
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,840
To me, on a deal that was way less than market value

716
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,840
and it was done for the Zyde to win the championship.

717
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,840
It was two years, 27, 20 million, worth up to $20 million,

718
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,840
with nine million dollars fully guaranteed in year one.

719
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,840
Less than the franchise tag.

720
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,840
But I believe this was done.

721
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,840
If you think about it, Saquon Barkley could go three years up to 46.7.

722
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:12,840
Now, he'll likely get a couple of incentives.

723
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,840
So three years, I'd say around 42.

724
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,840
That's just $14 million a year with 26 million dollars guaranteed.

725
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,840
He's got more guaranteed money than Derrick Henry's

726
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,840
worst match contract.

727
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,840
Right? But I think it's two different things.

728
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,840
I think one, Saquon Barkley, he's younger.

729
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,840
Right? Derrick Henry's a 30-year-old running back.

730
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,840
Never shows the type of wearing down, but he's a 30-year-old running back.

731
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,840
Number two, he went to a team that was in immediate championship contention

732
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,840
with not a lot of catchphrases.

733
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,840
Derrick Henry went to Baltimore.

734
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:41,840
Not a lot of catchphrases there.

735
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,840
So he went to a team where he could immediately start to try to win a championship.

736
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,840
Philly in a championship contention, sure.

737
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,840
But Derrick's situation was a little bit different.

738
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,840
Saquon's got a better deal than Henry.

739
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:58,840
Henry, I believe, probably wanted to go to Baltimore.

740
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,840
Was able to sign on with Baltimore.

741
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:02,840
He's still got more guaranteed money than him.

742
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,840
Oh, he's got less guaranteed money than Josh Jacobs.

743
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:09,840
So Derrick Henry got the lowest amount of years of any of the big three running backs.

744
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,840
He got the lowest amount of money of any of the big three running backs.

745
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,840
And he got the lowest amount of guarantees of any of the big three running backs.

746
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,840
He's the best of the three.

747
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:20,840
If I had to pick a better running back right now, I'm like,

748
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:22,840
who would I pick in the league to be running back?

749
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,840
Christian McCaffrey's one.

750
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,840
Derrick Henry's probably two.

751
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,840
He's better than Saquon.

752
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:29,840
He's better than Josh Jacobs.

753
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:30,840
His production's been better.

754
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:31,840
His health has been better.

755
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,840
But I think he just wanted to go to Baltimore and win a championship.

756
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,840
He's also playing at the most expensive quarterback.

757
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,840
Hurts doesn't have Lamar and Jackson's deal.

758
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,840
Jordan loves on his rookie contract.

759
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,840
So he's playing with the most expensive quarterback as well.

760
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,840
But the gentleman thing, he just wants to go try to win the championship.

761
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:52,840
And he's looking at the fact that I can go to Baltimore and win.

762
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,840
I can go to Baltimore and win right now.

763
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,840
And you know, if I look at Baltimore, they had a more consistent running game with their legs.

764
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,840
Lamar's not running as much.

765
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,840
They had even more danger to it.

766
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,840
You can't box me in because he's coming on the outside.

767
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:07,840
That sort of thing.

768
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,840
So very nice in contracts from Derrick Henry.

769
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,840
I think it was green motivated, the fact that they kind of did.

770
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,840
He couldn't go like one year, three million to the Chiefs.

771
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:17,840
He couldn't do that.

772
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,840
If he ended up here, he would have blocked that.

773
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:23,840
But what he did was basically sign a one year deal with an option on it.

774
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:28,840
I'm sure if they go and they win and he runs for 1,300 yards and they win a Super Bowl,

775
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:33,840
I'm sure they'll rip that year up and extend him out and all kind of stuff.

776
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,840
The Ravens take care of their own.

777
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:41,840
I'm sure, like I said, he runs for 1,400 yards, 12 touchdowns.

778
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,840
If one of the better first and second team offer running back and they go in the Super Bowl,

779
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:47,840
he's going to get taken care of.

780
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:54,840
If he has a 900 yard year for six touchdowns and he loses in the second round,

781
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:59,840
he may not come back that second if he had to.

782
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:07,840
So it is a situation that he is kind of a prove it deal.

783
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:09,840
It's kind of a let me show you deal.

784
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:14,840
And he's absolutely going to go win the championship.

785
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,840
The Dallas Cowboys have released Leighton Van Der Esch and Michael Gallup.

786
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:20,840
Leighton Van Der Esch potentially career could be over.

787
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:26,840
His latest neck concussion injury situation could have possibly ended his career, unfortunately.

788
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,840
So we're definitely going to keep our eye on Leighton Van Der Esch.

789
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,840
He came into the league with neck concerns and head concerns.

790
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,840
He carved out a pretty decent career.

791
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:43,840
He's made some money in the league, not probably what he could have had he not had the neck concerns.

792
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:53,840
But he is unfortunately probably going to retire.

793
00:43:53,840 --> 00:44:04,840
Because at this point, if you're a team, how he's got in the 2018, but if you're a team, what do you do with him?

794
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:09,840
How I am, how willing are you to give him money?

795
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:15,840
His career earnings, I'm looking on spot rack right now.

796
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:20,840
His career earnings over six seasons by 18.1 million dollars.

797
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,840
He lives in Texas, no state taxis.

798
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,840
He probably had 11, 12 million dollars in his bank account.

799
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:31,840
If he's half decent money man, he can live the rest of his life incredibly comfortably.

800
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:39,840
From 30 years old on with 12 million dollars in his bank account.

801
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,840
He probably spent two of it already, 10 million on his account.

802
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:49,840
Get a nice house, you're going to live in Texas, get a great house, get a couple of nice cars, and do TV stuff.

803
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:51,840
To kind of supplement your income and go into coaching, whatever.

804
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,840
But I don't think his playing career is going to go any further.

805
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:58,840
I hope it does though. He's a pretty good linebacker when he's healthy.

806
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:03,840
And then Michael Gallagher was released, he's already taking visits to multiple teams.

807
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,840
Or is scheduled to take visits to multiple teams.

808
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,840
So he'll be back on the field sooner rather than later.

809
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:15,840
Also in Cowboys News, Tyron Smith is going to the New York Jets.

810
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:19,840
It's a one year contract worth up to 20 million dollars.

811
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:24,840
In a situation where the Jets needed a blindside blocker, they had some money to spend.

812
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,840
Tyron Smith was looking for a payday and needed somebody to protect.

813
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:33,840
So he's going to go there to the New York Jets for one year up to 20 million dollars.

814
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:38,840
So that's three big calls. No one's going to be back in that Dallas Cowboy locker room.

815
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:46,840
Also they don't add Derrick Henry. They did add Eric Kendricks, which kind of spelled the end for Link Vander, in my opinion.

816
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:53,840
They did add Eric Kendricks and every time they're a long smack road, which is where they must be, standing at the Dallas Cowboys offseason.

817
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,840
So they have been very, very quiet.

818
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,840
However, I believe they're prepping.

819
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:06,840
Dak Prescott is looking for his money.

820
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,840
You're looking at CD Lam. He's trying to get his money.

821
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:11,840
So I think they're prepping for the re-sign thing.

822
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:13,840
And Dallas is another organization.

823
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:15,840
I spoke about Baltimore earlier.

824
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:20,840
If you get in good with Dallas and you do good in Dallas, they take care of their own.

825
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:25,840
So I just think at this point Dallas is prepping to take care of their own rather than spend on outside guys.

826
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:29,840
And so that is why Dallas has been really quiet.

827
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:33,840
The Patriots have been really quiet still. My Patriots have not done much of anything.

828
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:37,840
Not great. It feels like the Bobelichek era without Bobelichek.

829
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,840
Honestly, I can't even look forward to us being highly coached.

830
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,840
We're very well coached because we don't have any good coaches.

831
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:45,840
Or we don't have any proven coaches.

832
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:47,840
Our head coach has never coached a game in his life.

833
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,840
As a head coach, Alex Mapp helps. I was thrown on the lead for a reason.

834
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:55,840
I got faith in him as a teacher and an organizer to be determined.

835
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,840
Elliot Wolf, first time as GM, looking like the Packers era.

836
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:01,840
A whole lot of non-receivers and a whole lot of non-quarterbacks.

837
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:05,840
It's just, I trust he can draft the quarterback.

838
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:10,840
How about it? He's not really a free agent guy, but neither were the Packers.

839
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:12,840
I think this is a craft issue.

840
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:17,840
Robert and Bill, or Robert and Bob. Robert and I can't think of the word.

841
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:25,840
Craft issue? When you guarantee money in the NFL, you have to take that money out and put it in escrow.

842
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,840
It's guaranteed. Regardless of what happens, this money is coming.

843
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:34,840
Especially fully guaranteed. It has to go into escrow immediately.

844
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:39,840
Owners have to have the cash to put in escrow.

845
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,840
And they have to be willing to put said cash into escrow.

846
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,840
So if you have an owner that says, I'm not going to guarantee that much money on contracts,

847
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,840
you can't even go to a player and offer him guaranteed money.

848
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:54,840
Because if there's a lot of guaranteed money, the player accepts an owner's box.

849
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,840
A, you can get fired by the owner.

850
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:01,840
B, you can damage reputation with other agents and stuff around the league.

851
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:06,840
And not get even average players.

852
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,840
So I think it's a craft issue. I think they're too highly involved.

853
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,840
I think they're too unwilling to spend guaranteed dollars

854
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:18,840
in order to make sure that they have the best potential roster they could possibly have

855
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:20,840
with the New England Patriots.

856
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:22,840
Because we came in with a hundred million dollars.

857
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,840
We restarted a bunch of our own guys. Got a couple of solid pieces.

858
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,840
We still have like sixty million dollars in cash for those left.

859
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:32,840
It's not like we're not going to be able to spend a lot of cash.

860
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,840
Nope. We still have like sixty million dollars left.

861
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:40,840
And you've got stuff like Mike Wooden's out there.

862
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:42,840
Michael Gallup is out there.

863
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:46,840
You know, there's T Hayes is a trade for him.

864
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,840
There's a lot of talent. Davion Crony is folding around.

865
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:55,840
But there's a lot of talent that's out there that I feel like the pages aren't taking advantage of.

866
00:48:55,840 --> 00:49:00,840
And so that could be an issue quickly sooner rather than later.

867
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:02,840
Especially when you drop the quarterback at three.

868
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,840
Washington has pretty much told you they're going to drop the quarterback.

869
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:07,840
They traded Sam Howell and they signed Marcus Mariota.

870
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:13,840
If I'm the New England Patriots, I'm scouting the heck out of Drake and Mane.

871
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,840
I don't want it to be Drake and Mane. I want it to be James Daniels.

872
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:21,840
But the Washington commander signed a veteran mobile quarterback.

873
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:27,840
Who's known for being really, really smart and knowing the system and can teach.

874
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,840
There's a young mobile quarterback that can use some teaching in the NFL level.

875
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:35,840
It's called James Daniels. He's the only one that looks and plays like Marcus Mariota.

876
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,840
And who was the one team that signed him? The team right in front of us.

877
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,840
So personally, I'm going to think I'm going to have Drake and Mane as my quarterback.

878
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:44,840
Whatever, right?

879
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:48,840
But if it is Drake and Mane, you saw his numbers dip at UNC in his junior year.

880
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:50,840
He didn't have as good a moment for all the spot.

881
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:52,840
He didn't have as good a receivers.

882
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:58,840
Like, maybe you should try and get some of those things right so that when he shows up, he's comfortable.

883
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:00,840
That's just me.

884
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:04,840
But hey, what do I know? I'm just a guy holding out here.

885
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,840
And then, of course, retirement.

886
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:12,840
I told you about Derek White earlier. Aaron Donald has retired.

887
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,840
To me, the greatest professional soccer player to ever play the game.

888
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:20,840
Older generation may have their pick, but to me, Aaron Donald is the best DT I've ever seen with my own eyes.

889
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,840
So he's the best professional soccer player to ever play the game.

890
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:29,840
To my opinion, just like Bayer's has a running back case for 10 years, Aaron Donald has a DT soccer case for 10 years.

891
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,840
He played 10 years in the NFL, all with the randomization.

892
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:34,840
He was a pro bowler every single year.

893
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:36,840
He was an all-pro 8 out of 10 years.

894
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:38,840
He won the fifth player of the year three times.

895
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,840
He's a Super Bowl champion. To me, he shouldn't be a Super Bowl MVP.

896
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:44,840
He's the only reason why Joe Burrow doesn't have a ring.

897
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:45,840
I'm just gonna be honest with you.

898
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:50,840
Joe Burrow went through the playoffs with the most sacked quarterback ever in the playoffs.

899
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,840
He got sacked like eight times against Houston and still won.

900
00:50:53,840 --> 00:51:00,840
He was close to just having this legacy run of beat the hell up and still won.

901
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:06,840
And on the last play, Joe Burrow has Jamar Chase up the right sideline.

902
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:08,840
Chase beats Ramsey.

903
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:12,840
Chase going up the right sideline, and Joe's about to uncork it.

904
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,840
And who sacks him in about two seconds?

905
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:16,840
Aaron Donald.

906
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,840
To win the game, he sacks him even.

907
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:22,840
He gets up, rips off his helmet, and points to his ring finger.

908
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,840
He lit, he locked it down.

909
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:30,840
There was a point he was gonna walk out to that, but the Rams gave him money, absurd amount of money, to come back, and he came back.

910
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:32,840
But now he walks away.

911
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,840
There's no press conference.

912
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:36,840
There's no retirement tour.

913
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:37,840
There's none of that.

914
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:38,840
He simply lit.

915
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,840
Even Jason Kelsey, to me, had the most coolest...

916
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,840
I'm an understated guy. I'm from an understated press conference.

917
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,840
I came in a cutoff shirt with taped ankles.

918
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:51,840
Because the guy who was known to have hit his ankles for years,

919
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:55,840
had cancer, I believe, and so wasn't there for something from his last game.

920
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,840
So Kelsey let him tape him up one more time.

921
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:02,840
Like, cool stuff like that for Jason Kelsey, right?

922
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,840
Aaron Donald's the most undercover star in the NFL, like, ever.

923
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,840
I think it's a charter thing, because Herbert is like that, too.

924
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,840
It wasn't until recently that Herbert was popping out of commercials.

925
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:16,840
But he would hold his head up and pass cameras at training camps.

926
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:18,840
Like, Herbert's just not that guy, right?

927
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:24,840
Aaron Donald knows no announcement, no preemptiveness, no rumor.

928
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,840
He put out a statement on social media to have what's there.

929
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:30,840
And then it came out a couple hours later, like, he's not even going to do a press conference.

930
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:32,840
Like, no, this is it. So last time we'll see Aaron Donald.

931
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:34,840
He may pop on the sideline of the Rams game.

932
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:36,840
He may go to training camp.

933
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,840
Maybe, right?

934
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:43,840
We may not see Aaron Donald's face again until he's inducted into all of that.

935
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,840
Like, real talk, we may not see his face again

936
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:48,840
until he's inducted into both of all the facts.

937
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:51,840
Like, that's how undercover he is.

938
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:55,840
So it's an incredible career. Congratulations on having him.

939
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:57,840
You want to know how you know you're dead?

940
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:02,840
Two little anecdotes of Aaron Donald's career.

941
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:04,840
One in career and one after.

942
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:06,840
Already, I got one after, right?

943
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:11,840
There's the audio of Aaron Donald running at Geno Smith

944
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:15,840
and Geno yelling on the field, oh my God, and just throwing the ball.

945
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,840
Like, he just chucked it. He got rid of it, right?

946
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:20,840
Screw the grounding, whatever.

947
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:24,840
He just got out of town. He yells, oh my God!

948
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,840
And then, like, chucks the ball, right?

949
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:35,840
And then there's the Tyler Murray tweeting under Aaron Donald's post,

950
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:39,840
thank God, in all caps.

951
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,840
That pretty much describes Aaron Donald, right?

952
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:46,840
His career, and of course he came in, a famous tackle,

953
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,840
the quarterback and the running back of Marie Option in college.

954
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:53,840
He said, 10 years in the league, pro-ball every year.

955
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:55,840
The only person that would do that besides him was Barry Sanders,

956
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:57,840
who also played 10 years in the league.

957
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,840
He was an eight-time All-Pro, three-time All-Fest,

958
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:02,840
three-time All-Fest player of the year,

959
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:07,840
one of the greatest tacticians of the defensive lineman spot ever.

960
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,840
There's a video now going around of him on I Am Athlete

961
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:13,840
breaking down how he breaks down film with him.

962
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:16,840
He breaks down himself with his D-line coach,

963
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:18,840
and maybe another time by himself with somebody else,

964
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:23,840
he breaks him down three times, the technicality that he went about,

965
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:27,840
the tactiveness that he went about playing the defensive line position,

966
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:33,840
showcased on Sundays, and he's absolutely wrecked the league for 10 years.

967
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:36,840
But up next, we will have Jack's Hot Take,

968
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,840
which will be a discussion about how women's college basketball

969
00:54:40,840 --> 00:55:08,840
has clearly surpassed the men's game.

970
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:13,840
Welcome back into the show,

971
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:16,840
and now we're going to discuss really quickly

972
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:20,840
how the women's game is substantially better

973
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,840
than the men's game in college basketball.

974
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,840
And for those of you who disagree,

975
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:31,840
for those of you who are stuck in their ways, for lack of a better term,

976
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:35,840
and they're going to say, you know, Justin, you're insane, right?

977
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:40,840
Like, there's no way the women's game could make up for the blue blood

978
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:45,840
of the college basketball in Kansas and Kentucky and UCLA and everything.

979
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:49,840
Wow. I ask you this.

980
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:51,840
Seriously, I ask you this.

981
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:55,840
I want you to name me five college basketball players

982
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,840
that are not on your favorite team, because that's cheating.

983
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,840
Everybody can name five players on their own favorite teams.

984
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:04,840
Five players not on your favorite team.

985
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:07,840
I want you to name five girls players not on your favorite team.

986
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,840
I want you to think about them at the same time and write them down.

987
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,840
I will bet you that nine out of ten people listening to this

988
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:15,840
will get the women's five first.

989
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:21,840
Because I know doing it, I got the women's five before I got the two guys.

990
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:23,840
I'm an LSU fan, I'm a North Carolina fan.

991
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:26,840
So I went to LSU, I grew up in a North Carolina fan.

992
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:31,840
So it's hard for me to, anybody outside of them too,

993
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:33,840
I got Jack Eby, the big guy out of Purdue.

994
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:40,840
I got Isaiah Collier, Bronny James.

995
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:42,840
And I have no earthly idea.

996
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:45,840
Seriously, none.

997
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:47,840
I can't think of a fifth person.

998
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:49,840
At all.

999
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:53,840
I can't even include a UNC and LSU.

1000
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:57,840
Seriously, who's the best player against Aga?

1001
00:56:57,840 --> 00:56:59,840
Who's the number one pick in this draft?

1002
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:01,840
These are all legitimate questions I have right now.

1003
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,840
I'll pick Rob Billy, he's the only one I know.

1004
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:06,840
And I know he's not an NBA player.

1005
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:12,840
I've watched him play and I've watched him be like, he can't make it.

1006
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:13,840
Right?

1007
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:19,840
So I know Bronny James because his name is LeBron James Jr.

1008
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:20,840
Are the Boozer Boys?

1009
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:21,840
No, the Boozer Boys aren't in yet.

1010
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,840
The Boozer Boys come with Cooper Flag.

1011
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:28,840
Now I know a little bit of that group.

1012
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,840
First to the girl's side is Kaitlyn Clark.

1013
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:32,840
There's Jujie Watkins.

1014
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:34,840
I'm an LSU fan, so I'm not going to say injuries.

1015
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:38,840
Flau'jae Johnson, Kaitlyn Williams, Haley Bannliff, et cetera.

1016
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:40,840
There's Cameron Brink.

1017
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:42,840
There's Paige Beckers.

1018
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:46,840
You see how this just comes much easier on the women's side?

1019
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:50,840
Like, even the LSU, I can name way more LSU female players.

1020
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,840
Then I can name LSU male players.

1021
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:55,840
On the LSU men's side, I got Hannibal, I think is his name.

1022
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:58,840
Jalen Cook.

1023
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:00,840
I think his name is Mike Williams.

1024
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:01,840
You know what I'm saying?

1025
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:03,840
Mike Williams made it.

1026
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:05,840
I'm like, yeah, that's it.

1027
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:06,840
You know what I'm saying?

1028
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,840
I can name the whole of 35 and most of the bench from the girls' side.

1029
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:14,840
Like, women's college basketball has achieved a level.

1030
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:21,840
And to be honest, to me, was an unintended major positive of NIL.

1031
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:26,840
Because what happens was there would be tournament darlings every single year.

1032
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:27,840
I remember it.

1033
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:29,840
It was like it was yesterday.

1034
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:32,840
Morgan, I can't think her name right now.

1035
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:33,840
She played on Mississippi State.

1036
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:35,840
She had the 5'3 point guard.

1037
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:37,840
She hit the shot to win the tournament.

1038
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:39,840
That first guy like lost the mind in the crowd.

1039
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:41,840
Remember that?

1040
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:43,840
There was Rike Guguale.

1041
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:47,840
She stole everybody's hearts at Notre Dame.

1042
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:50,840
Skyler Diggins stole everybody's hearts at Notre Dame.

1043
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:51,840
There was tournament darlings.

1044
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:55,840
You'd find them in the tournament.

1045
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:57,840
But then the powers of the powers.

1046
00:58:57,840 --> 00:58:58,840
There was Tennessee.

1047
00:58:58,840 --> 00:58:59,840
Then there was Yukon.

1048
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:00,840
Then there was Baylor.

1049
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:01,840
Like the powers of the powers.

1050
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:05,840
South Carolina.

1051
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,840
So now you get a situation.

1052
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:14,840
You're at a point now where the women's game, because of NIL, these women are now in your face.

1053
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:15,840
All of you.

1054
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:24,840
And I was thinking about, man, what if some of these female basketball players that we grew up loving had NIL?

1055
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:26,840
What if Maya Moore had NIL?

1056
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:28,840
Brianna Stewart had NIL.

1057
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:29,840
Skyler Diggins.

1058
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:31,840
Skyler Diggins is the first one to do the ninja headband.

1059
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:32,840
The head wrap?

1060
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:37,840
Like the band that you tie in the back?

1061
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:39,840
She's in the NBA, the ninja headband?

1062
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,840
I called it the girl headband.

1063
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:42,840
Why?

1064
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:44,840
Because Skyler Diggins was the first one I ever seen wear it.

1065
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:48,840
And like Nike sold a ton of them.

1066
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:49,840
Right?

1067
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:51,840
Because she wore them.

1068
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:53,840
Girls wanted to be her.

1069
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:55,840
Guys wanted to date her.

1070
00:59:55,840 --> 01:00:00,840
Like she wore the headband and literally like her career like catapulted.

1071
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:02,840
Those headbands sold through the roof.

1072
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:03,840
They broke into the NBA.

1073
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:05,840
Everybody like, it became a thing, right?

1074
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,840
It's the ninja headband.

1075
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:13,840
What if instead she was the sole, she was the person.

1076
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:17,840
She was the person that when her and Nike came together and they went to the NIL deal for it,

1077
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:21,840
she said, give me 3% of every headband sold.

1078
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:25,840
So now when they sell for $10 a pop, she gets 30 cents.

1079
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:32,840
But they sell 10 million units, she makes 300 bands.

1080
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:33,840
You see what I'm saying?

1081
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:37,840
They sell $10 million worth of stuff, she gets 300 bands.

1082
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:43,840
Instead of paying me upfront, instead of paying me a million dollars to run this ad,

1083
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:48,840
pay me 200 grand upfront and give me 10% of every headband sold in this file.

1084
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:52,840
And they sell $15 million, she gets $8.5 plus for 200 grand.

1085
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:55,840
They pay her upfront, she makes more than the million they offered.

1086
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:56,840
You know what I'm saying?

1087
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:58,840
It's that sort of thing.

1088
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:02,840
Britney Griner, imagine what she could have done in the space of today's culture.

1089
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:08,840
She was LGBT at a very Christian school in Baylor.

1090
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:12,840
That was not the women they met here with along to cover her tattoos.

1091
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:18,840
But imagine what she could have done with NIL, her star power.

1092
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,840
I'm talking about all these legends in the game, Candice Parker.

1093
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:23,840
What she could have done with NIL.

1094
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:28,840
So now back to today's game, the NIL babies are everywhere.

1095
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:33,840
Angel Reese, Flau'jae Johnson.

1096
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:39,840
I mean, as you said, Anissa Morrow announced her transfer to LSU using her own NIL deal.

1097
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:41,840
It wasn't announced through a school.

1098
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:45,840
It wasn't announced in a sit down with Holly Rowe, whatever.

1099
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:47,840
A little bit of breaking news, actually.

1100
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:51,840
Chris Middleton plans to return today for the Milwaukee Bucks against Phoenix.

1101
01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:53,840
Look at him.

1102
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:59,840
But she announced her transfer through her own NIL deal.

1103
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:02,840
You have Juju Watkins making a killing at USC already.

1104
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:05,840
You have Kayla Clark making a killing at Iowa.

1105
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:10,840
Like you have all these women making a ton of money in the game.

1106
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:14,840
What that's doing is they're making more in college than they would make in the WNBA.

1107
01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:17,840
So now the WNBA is even less of a prize than it used to be.

1108
01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:21,840
And now the fact that they are making all this money in college is

1109
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:24,840
incentivizing them to stay in school longer.

1110
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:33,840
The WNBA rookie contract was like, oh man, I almost had 70K, but that sounds right.

1111
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:36,840
But I don't think it was that low.

1112
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:45,840
But the WNBA rookie contract is not the stepping stone of the NBA record.

1113
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:50,840
The NBA contract, you almost don't even see it.

1114
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:56,840
Okay, so the typical rookie salary, the typical rookie contract is three years of team-watching for the fourth year.

1115
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,840
Turned by the drag position.

1116
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:05,840
The rookie contract was $76,535 for the rookie deal.

1117
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:08,840
And this was done very recently, an article by USA Today,

1118
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:11,840
when projection with Kayla Clark would make salary in the WNBA.

1119
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:17,840
$77,000. If she went to school for the right degree, she'd make more making her degree.

1120
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:23,840
Seriously, if she went to school for the right degree, if she wanted to go to school to be a lawyer or a doctor in the right field,

1121
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:30,840
she would walk in from off the court at Iowa, go to the workforce, and make more money so that they would get it.

1122
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:36,840
Right? So, that being said, I'm shocked she leaves this shit.

1123
01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:42,840
She can come back to Iowa next year and make $2 million and go berserk in Iowa again

1124
01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:45,840
and push the scoring record so far no one gets it.

1125
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:49,840
And she's saying to make the decision to go to the WNBA.

1126
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:53,840
I looked at somebody like Ainsley Reese. Ainsley Reese is the Bayou Barbie.

1127
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:59,840
A lot of her NRI, her fame, her stuff is attached to LSU and being, like I said, the Bayou Barbie.

1128
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:02,840
She's not even from the South. She's from Maryland.

1129
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:04,840
She's an NA, she's not an attack, whatever.

1130
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:11,840
But let's say she gets drastic, she goes to Connecticut, and she doesn't start off that high. Her value dips.

1131
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:15,840
Right? So, a lot of these women, we're getting them as young now.

1132
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:20,840
We always see them come in, but it didn't matter. They were getting crushed by the top schools.

1133
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:23,840
Juju Watkins out there putting up Kayla Clark numbers as a freshman.

1134
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:27,840
She's probably going to threaten, if not break, Kayla Clark's scoring record

1135
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:30,840
because she's doing this now as a freshman. She's only going to shoot more.

1136
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:32,840
She's only going to get better. She's only going to get more efficient.

1137
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:36,840
And now, unlike the men's game, Rob Dillingham would be great to come out of Kentucky next year.

1138
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:38,840
Build some stuff, power.

1139
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:43,840
Instead, he's going to dip out, they're going to bring the national crop in, don't know who they are at all,

1140
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,840
because they don't have the Cooper Flags or the Boozer Brothers.

1141
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:50,840
But Juju Watkins is going to be in the USC Jersey next year.

1142
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:56,840
Breaking news, my Negro. Juju Watkins is going to be in the USC Jersey her junior year.

1143
01:04:56,840 --> 01:05:01,840
And I'm willing to bet she's going to be in the USC Jersey her senior year.

1144
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:04,840
She's going to be in the game she's going to develop.

1145
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:09,840
Angel Reese, if she was a boy, leads after that game last year.

1146
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:11,840
SEC player of the year.

1147
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:13,840
Final Four player of the year.

1148
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:16,840
National champion. Social media darling.

1149
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:18,840
Everybody loves you. Everybody's following you.

1150
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:23,840
You're involved in a controversy with one of the, it's not the bigger name in college basketball.

1151
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:27,840
You're all over everywhere. You're doing all these magazine coverage. You're doing all this stuff. You dip.

1152
01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:31,840
And instead, she's in the LSU this year, and I think she has a good chance of being in the LSU next year.

1153
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:36,840
So you get this connection. It brings it back to the old school, who said the old school NBA.

1154
01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:42,840
Where you love Magic and the Lakers. You loved Kobe and the Lakers.

1155
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:46,840
You love Bird and the Soakers. You love Jordan and the Bulls.

1156
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:52,840
You love, you could attach yourself to a favorite player because that favorite player was going to be on that team.

1157
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:57,840
So you could rep that team and love that player.

1158
01:05:57,840 --> 01:06:01,840
With men in college basketball, you really gotta love the school.

1159
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:06,840
Because you could develop a favorite player and then they go to the draft.

1160
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:09,840
And now you gotta love a new crop. And it's over and over and over again.

1161
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:11,840
And if the crop is down, the sport is down.

1162
01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:15,840
Well, with nine women's college basketball starting to outrate the men's.

1163
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:18,840
I could love Iowan K. LeBlock. I can love LSU and Angel Ruiz.

1164
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:24,840
I could love Jutu Watkins and USC. I could love Camila Cadoza in South Carolina.

1165
01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:28,840
I could love Cameron Brink in Stanford. I could love all these different groups.

1166
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:31,840
It could give the old school feel. It gives the attachment feel.

1167
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:35,840
And these ladies are better. And let me be honest, the basketball quality is better.

1168
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:38,840
The men's college game is a bunch of bad threes and ducks.

1169
01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:40,840
I'm just going to be honest. But the bad threes and ducks.

1170
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:43,840
The women's game, not all three-point shooting. They're driving to the goal.

1171
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:45,840
They're setting back picks. They're hitting mid-range.

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It's beautiful basketball to watch. And they deserve to be in the forefront.

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Which they are.

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So shout out to the women's college basketball game.

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Kudos to them. They deserve everything that is coming for them and more.

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So shout out to them. I hope the WNBA catches up.

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I hope the WNBA ultimately gets their boost in money.

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They can start paying these ladies what they deserve for the superstars that they are.

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That is all I have for you today.

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Thank you guys for rocking with me for a little over an hour.

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Like I said, the Justin Time Sports podcast is available on wherever you get your podcasts.

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Also follow us on social media.

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Social media handle at JTimeSports. I repeat, at JTimeSports.

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On all of your social medias.

1185
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X, Instagram, Facebook, The Spud, Threads.

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We are everywhere. So make sure you follow that.

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Of course, like I said last week, I will drop the link to B-Roy's latest album in the album description.

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And of course, I will start attaching the YouTube show link whenever the YouTube show is uploaded.

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That is all I have for you today.

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This is your host, Justin Jackson, signing out.

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See you next time.