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Of course, we're going to have the NBA.
Of course, we're going to have the NFL offseason.
And then we'll have Jack's high take.
But jump right into the NBA, how we always start every NBA segment.
We have the standings going into Saturday's slate of games,
including a huge Warriors-Lakers matchup that we will discuss.
But out east, we have Boston, number one, the Bucs, at two, nine and a half games back.
The Cavs at three, 10 games back.
So they're only a half game back from the Bucs.
The Knicks at four, 13 games back.
The Magic at five, 13 and a half games back.
The Pacers at six, 15 and a half games back.
And then the play-in tournament right now, we have Miami, 16 games back.
Philly, 16 games back.
Also, Philly is at eight, and they are a half game back from sixth.
They're not even big in the play-in tournament, despite the injury to Joe Allen B.
And then the last 14 in the play-in tournament,
they have no chance of not being nine and 10.
Chicago at nine, 20 and a half back.
And Atlanta at 10, 23 and a half back.
Which I think, out of those two things, Chicago has the best chance of getting out.
Levine has hurt for Chicago, but Tre Young has hurt for Atlanta.
So I think Chicago will probably beat Atlanta at nine and 10.
And then they say they catch the Sixers with the Dillon bead.
And you know, the Chicago man double sneaking in, they were rewarded with Boston, right?
So positive there, but you know, we'll have to definitely see on that.
And then of course, shift out to the west, you have Denver, number one.
Thunder, half game back.
The Cavs, oh not the Cavs, I'm sorry, the Timberwolves, one and a half games back.
The Clippers, four and a half games back.
The Pelicans, six and a half games back.
And Sacramento, currently is the sixth seed at eight games back.
However, in the playoff tournament, Phoenix is eight games back as well.
So they're tied with Sacramento for the fifth seed.
Dallas, or sixth seed rather, Dallas is nine games back, only one game back from six.
The Lakers are 11 games back, only three games back from six.
And despite the turmoil of the Warriors season, the Warriors are 12 games back, only four games back from six.
So you have about 15 games left in the season for most people.
Most people have anywhere from 17 to 13 games left in their season.
And to look at these standings, a lot has happened.
I think I spoke about the East a little bit.
The Boston Sunnys have won the conference. It's over, right?
They have a 10 game lead and the tiebreaker with 15 left.
Like, it's over.
But if you look at a lot of the stuff at the bottom, it has a chance to change.
If you are one of the top teams, where you don't want to be is 4-5.
And the reason why is that 4-5 matchup gets Boston in the second round.
Yes, I'm going to say Boston wins their first round series either in the sweep or a gentleman sweep.
So the winner of the 4-5 matchup gets Boston in the second round.
Where you want to be right now is two, three, six, or seven.
Because that game faces not Boston in the second round.
So that is where, like, if you're Milwaukee, you're fighting where you are.
Milwaukee and Cleveland are fine.
Now, you'd want that home court in the second round, so you'd want that second seed.
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.
Instead, you could play each other.
So, like, the Cavs and the Bucks are truly, in my opinion, fighting for home court in the second round.
I think the Bucks are going to destroy whoever is in the seventh seed.
Not necessarily destroy.
If it's Miami, you know Miami comes into the playoffs, they're going to destroy the sixth seed.
I don't think NBA plays the rest of the season.
So for some reason, if the Sixers end up in the seventh seed and Milwaukee gets them, they're going to run through them.
But I do think Milwaukee and Cleveland currently do make it out of their first round series, and they play each other.
I think Boston runs through whoever they need.
Or Orlando, if he's in it today, it would be the matchup.
That's a very interesting playoff series.
You get a lot of credits from New York.
They had that streak where they held three teams under 80 points for the best.
That has not happened in like 20 years.
You've got Jaylen Burns, you've got E. Julius Renner, you've got Isaiah Hardenstein, you've got these guys.
However, they don't have no magic team. It's really good.
They have Jaylen Suggs.
They have Cole Anthony.
They have Paolo Banquero.
Paolo Banquero is averaging 23-74, just right around there, on more than 48-49% shooting.
And he's only getting better. He's only getting tougher.
He's made a game winner this season.
He's only getting better as the time progresses.
And he's going to be a person that I don't think anybody in New York matches up with.
He's too fast for Julius Renner. He's too big for Jaylen Brunson.
He's too quick for Isaiah Hardenstein.
He's just too physically strong for Evan Fournier.
I don't know who in New York matches up with Paolo Banquero.
But Orlando can throw a lot of bodies at New York's guys.
Brunson can see Paolo for a couple of positions.
He can see Wagner for a couple of positions.
He can see Suggs. He can see Anthony.
And then you've got Julius Randle.
You've got to see Paolo and Wagner and the rest of those guys that are just big and physical and long in Orlando.
That's going to be a very interesting series.
I think Cavs paces. He's intriguing.
You've got the Cavs, and starting five doesn't work.
Maylif is definitely going to suck, but starting five doesn't work.
Okay, I won't say he sucks. He's a disappointment.
He's a disappointment, right? So I'm not going to say he sucks.
He is not nowhere near what he was brought out to be.
And so their starting five doesn't work.
When it's both bigs and both guards, it doesn't matter who the fifth person is, their net rating is way down.
And then when they were doing one guard and one big, their net rating shocked it away.
When they added a guard back, it dipped.
When they added the mobility back to Allen, the bottom fell out.
It just doesn't work space-wise.
Because both guards are little and both bigs can't shoot.
So it's like you've all of a sudden transported them back to the 80s.
It doesn't work very well. You've got little guards and non-shooting bigs.
The spacing is horrible, and they're getting absolutely wrecked on defense.
And it just does not work.
And then on the other side, you've got the Pacers who have mightily improved their defense right around the trade deadline,
right around when they traded Buddy Hill.
Not saying those two things are connected, but it's incredibly convenient how it worked out.
The Pacers defense has mightily been drastically improved, but their scoring is down.
As they're scoring throughout the league, we'll talk about that in a couple of minutes.
But that'll be a very interesting series because the Pacers can't get up and down.
You've got a guy like Tyrese Halliburton who, to me, is first team All-MBA.
If he's not first team All-MBA, you've got to have a level just to get some form not to be.
He's positionless now, All-MBA team is top 15 players that qualify, of course, with the 65 games.
And we'll talk about that as well in a couple of minutes.
But I think Halliburton's first team All-MBA kind of guy.
Now he's locked second team.
He's the best player in the series. I think he's a little bit better than Datta been Mitchell right now.
That'll be in the hell of a playoff series.
Flipping over to the west, you have the Denver Nuggets, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Minnesota Timberwolves
within two games of each other with 15 left.
It is a war for the number one seed in the west.
And the number one seed in the west, I don't think, is a prize.
If I am a Western top three guy, I want the third seed right now. Why?
It gets you away from Denver. To me, I think Denver isn't going to hold it.
The Nuggets have flipped the switch.
You have the Teoka just playing at about half NBA speed. He's doing the flip lob to Gordon.
He's doing the Sambor shuffle.
He's sliding through the lane and flipping up chocolate.
He's flipped the switch at this point to the playoff mode.
And when he does that, I don't see anybody even attempting to beat him.
I mean, I don't see them beating him four times in seven games. I just don't.
So I think they're also going to end up winning the west in the regular season.
So then there's the Thunder and the Timbers.
Thunder, I have one game leading the Timberwolves. I'm not sure about the tiebreaker.
But the Thunder is one game up right now in the Timberwolves.
The Timbers, of course, don't have Carl Anthony Townsend.
He's coming back from scenes dealing with injuries, I think he had a surgery.
But they don't have Carl Anthony Townsend.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are the youngest team in the NBA.
The youngest good team in the NBA, rather. I think their average age of starters is like 25.
They're the youngest good team in the NBA. Of course they're the youngest great team in the NBA.
And so they're sitting right now in the two-seed. I'm them. I try to get the win.
I try to make sure I know every single time I play a playoff series, unless it's in the finals,
I have home court events. I have game one and game seven in my building.
So if I'm in Thunder, I go for it.
But if you look at the Thunder, what is the reward for the potential number one seed?
I bring my name down to the play-in immediately for the west.
The play-in tournament consists of teams that have either
Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Bradley Bill, or Kyrievian Luka-Dantzic,
or LeBron James, Anthony Davis, or Steph Curry.
I mean, that's your reward if you're the one seed or the two seed.
You have to face one of those four teams. I don't think the Warriors are going to make it.
I just don't. Steph's by himself at this point. Jermar is Shelly himself. Kaminka's not ready.
Clay's with Shelly himself. You know, the guy right at Jordan Poole.
They're not ready. I don't think they're good enough.
So that leaves the KD-Bradley-Bill-Booker trio,
Luke and Kyrie with Daniel Chamberlain, aka Daniel Gaffer,
or LeBron and AD. That's your reward.
It's wild to think one of those teams I named won't be in the playoffs,
but that is your reward.
Yeah, I say it won't be in the playoffs, but Phoenix is currently tied with Sacramento for the sixth seed.
So if SAC gets in their midst, they could bump SAC all the way out.
But that notwithstanding, if you're the one seed,
do you really want your prize to be Anthony Davis or LeBron James?
No. Do you really want your prize to be KD-Booker and Bill?
No. How about Luke and Kyrie seven times?
That's fun. Right? So the one seed to me, unless it's Denver,
is a spot you don't want to be in.
And then of course, those from City Thunder, let's say you do get the one seed,
LeBron and AD walking your ability for game one.
Like, that is a disaster waiting to happen.
Or KD-Booker and Bill walking your ability in New Court.
Because the Lakers have a propensity, game one rather.
The Lakers have a proven propensity.
And if you're a smaller, thinner, younger team, they're going to bully you.
OK, see these are all three of them.
They're smaller, they're younger, and they're not nearly experienced.
They're going to get bullied, by the way.
Because they're not only playing, they're beating them up.
LeBron does not fear anybody on them in the lane.
And Davis does not fear anybody on them in the lane.
Rihatsumura doesn't fear anybody on them in the lane.
And so you've got these guys who are just driving repeatedly into the lane.
They don't care if they're going to keep coming.
So that is a problem from a city.
And the Timbers have a Carl Anthony-Thompson problem.
Let's say for some reason, somehow, they squeak out the number one seed.
Is Kat going to be ready?
Or if he's ready, is his first game, game one of the finals,
and staring across the court from him is KD-Booker and Bill?
You know, like, that's a situation that's not tenable for the one seed.
Or even the two seeds, they're going to have to deal with the same exact thing.
The three seed is sweet spot.
Right now, it's Chaka Meno.
Like, I'm sorry, but Chaka Meno, out of all the ten teams I've named,
is the one team you'd rather play.
Like, I've gave a call to everybody else, other 20 organizations,
except for those ten.
You just look and say, out of these ten in a playoff series, who do you want?
Probably 16 of them are going to say Chaka Meno.
And I don't know if that's a slander.
It is. I'm going to...
It is. It's a slander to the perception of Chaka Meno.
They're monster-savonis. Ask Andrew Davis about it.
Like, De'Aaron Fox, Mike Brown's a hell of a coach.
Harrison Barnes is still playing good basketball.
They've got Keegan Murray. They've got a pretty solid bench.
You know, they've got a good GM. They've got a good organization.
And they'll rock his crowd whenever they're good.
So, Shaq, I think, is carrying a reputation that we don't want to play them.
To me, the team, everybody's been wanting to watch.
They're in a series?
Yeah, they're experienced and they know how to win championships.
But they're nowhere near what they used to be.
So, the fear of the Warriors should be very minimal, if at all.
In dealing with the Warriors, I probably have Dallas right up there, too.
It's pretty much the Luke and Kyrie show. Everybody else is irrelevant.
So, they have in mind this as well.
But just looking at matches that are pretty locked in, Pelicans and Clippers are fairly locked in.
Can, you know, Sakras, Phoenix catch New Orleans? Of course they could.
Phoenix is one of the tougher schedules. They can't be the tougher schedule.
They have the tougher schedule of the contenders.
I believe the Utah Jazz is the only team with a tougher schedule left.
Left the rest of the season.
And the Jazz are actively trying to lose basketball games.
So, they don't really count.
And so, can Phoenix and Sacramento catch New Orleans?
They're only a game and a half back with 15 left.
Of course they could, right?
But let's, you know, but same thing. Indiana could catch Orlando.
They're only two games back.
Miami and Philly only two and a half games back.
So, we're going to keep it like that.
The playoff today, it'd be Philly. It'd be Clippers and Pelicans.
We just saw that game last night.
Now, it was thought harder than the World's Got Westboro.
But the Pelicans made a statement.
That was the kind of win that even with, if it was just Paul, George, and Kawhi,
two of the best 15 players on the earth,
they would still, the Pelicans by the way, lose that game, right?
And Zion had 34-7, quelling a lot of the noise about his weight.
You know, it's a travesty, it's a tragedy, it's a miscarriage of the opportunity,
it's a miscarriage of the role.
The fact that guys like Stephen A. Smith, who New Orleans is 40-26,
14 games about 500, fifth in the West,
they're legitimately within shouting distance of fourth in the West,
is being treated and being relegated until he has Zion's back.
And the chefs still love him.
And then listing all of the issues, pains, and plans
that the Pelicans have gone through throughout the years.
And yet, you're propping up the Warriors, some of their dangerous,
and you know, the Lakers and the like that.
And it's like, you have a team that's actually one of the most dangerous teams in the West.
Because they have a freaking 280-pound bowling ball no one can deal with.
There's Brandon Ingram, who's an absolute bucket.
C.J. McCullen's one of the smoothest players in the league,
probably second behind Paul George.
Zonas Valanchyuna is one of the most underrated players in the league,
he's physical.
Herb Jones is the best wing defender in the league,
argue with your grandmother.
And you know, they have depth everywhere.
Dyson Daniels is on the way back.
So you've got all these different pieces in New Orleans
that all kind of came out, like I had against the Clippers.
And without Norman Power reigning a few threes,
the Clippers get blown out.
And so New Orleans had a great game.
Big shout out to them, as I'm a Pelicans fan,
so maybe a little par to them, I don't care at all.
But that is what's happening right now with the standings,
I'd say about 15 games to go.
Alright, so the MVP race, to me, is a two-horse race.
It's between Yoke and Genasjie.
Tatum has undersold too much in big games for him to be in this discussion.
Janasjie's team is too fluctuating.
So it'll be between OKC's Sheikidu Zanatanza
and Debra Nuggets' Nicola Jokic.
Now Jokic, if he was third MVP, enters the inner room in terms of rewards.
I don't think all-time he enters that room yet.
He's the first battle of all of them, of course, as is.
But I think with three MVPs, he enters a very small room.
Kareem has six MVPs, Michael Jordan, I believe, has five or six.
LeBron has four.
Larry has three.
Magic, I don't know if Magic has the MVPs.
Steph, I believe, has three.
But it is a very small list of people with three MVPs,
especially three MVPs in the NBA Championship.
Especially, he can win three MVPs in two NBA Championships,
and the list shrinks.
You know, and Jokic is just, like I said, he's flipped the gear.
He's doing the songboard shuffle, he's crazy one-legged lean-back shots.
You have all kinds of stuff happening with him.
Gordon, him and Jamal Murray are rolling.
But then you got SGA, man.
And I spoke about that Thunder team.
They're the youngest contenders.
Their average age is starting lineup is like 25.
I don't believe they're starting anybody over 27.
You've got Chet Hongren, who's a rookie.
He's like 20 years old.
You've got J.W. Blue Dork.
Like, you have guys who will be household names.
Some of them are household names,
but the ringleader to the trapeze circus is SGA.
When he's on the floor,
they look like one of the best teams in the league.
If not, he be best team in the league.
But he's off the floor,
they look like 24-year-olds playing basketball in the NBA.
It don't look that great, right?
So to me, if I had a vote right now, I would vote SGA.
And how I put this was,
if you take them off this season,
and you put them with a replacement-level position,
how would the team look?
So Presto Chang'o, Nikola Yoccan, Nick Claxton,
and Presto Chang'o, Shea Gillis, Alexander, and Atayus Jones.
How would the team look?
If you turn Nikola Yoccan into Nick Claxton,
they are a play-in team.
Honestly, they're the kings.
I'm just gonna be honest with you, they're the kings.
They'd have a really, really good point guard,
fast point guard that could get shots up the score,
Darren Foster Jemar Murray.
They'd have a run-and-dunk center,
run-and-dunk big.
They'd have a do-everything kind of forward guy,
Sabonis and Gordon.
You know, and they'd have their shooters everywhere,
and they'd have their experienced head coaches.
They'd be the kings.
If you Presto Chang'o, Shea Gillis, Alexander, and Atayus Jones,
they are literally the San Antonio Spurs
with slightly better talent.
And I do mean slightly.
I think the gap between Wimby and Chech is pretty large,
but J.Dubb is like the third best player,
if you check out SGA.
Dork's probably the fourth best player.
So, as far as players in the Spurs,
they literally become Spurs.
There's a tall, lanky center who can do everything.
There's a point guard who is very replacement level, rather,
but highly thought of, highly considered, highly favored in the NBA.
You've got a bunch of skilled guys trying to develop,
but two-way guys trying to develop life.
The OK Home and City Thunder literally become the Spurs.
If you take out of SGA,
you're replacing with a replacement level point,
and that's why I have SGA winning the MVP.
The 65 game rule has come up to bite multiple players in the butt.
So, the 65 game rule, for those of you that I know,
is that the NBA instituted a rule that in order for a player
to qualify for postseason awards, every single award,
but the rookie of the year,
they must play and be credited for 65 games in a season,
or they will be deemed ineligible for these awards.
So, that's MVP, clutch player, that's first team on the NBA,
that's all rookie, I believe.
Well, I don't think the rookie team has those restrictions,
but the first team on the NBA, it is all NBA,
it is any of the individual awards, not named rookie of the year,
all the all-rookie teams, they are hitting those rules.
So, you've got guys who in previous years would still get all NBA,
even if they missed 20 games, like Joel Embiid,
who probably still sneak third team on the NBA, even hurt.
You've got guys like Devin Booker,
I think he's really, really close to being an elgiblist.
Jimmy Butler is really, really close to being an elgiblist.
Titus Halliburton spoke about the fact that he was dealing with something
and knew about the 65 game rule, and so he kept pushing it.
And then what happens is it affects the money.
The money aspect is the Supermax contract,
or the rookie max extension, the Rose Rule contract.
The Supermax contract should be called the Kevin Durant rule,
the way the rookie max contract is considered the Rose Rule.
It's called the Rose Rule after Derrick Rose.
Derrick Rose won the MVP at like 22 years old,
for the Chicago Bulls.
Pretty much it was said he can't be maxed out like a regular player.
He can't be maxed out like a regular rookie,
he's one of them who would be already on his rookie contract.
He deserves more than pot.
So, in order to not give me full of long 30% max,
they want a 25% max, so 25% max of the cap.
So you can have 25% of the cap allotted to one player.
And then they went back and added all these rules.
So if you win an MVP, you get extra money on all the NBAs,
extra money on those individual awards,
extra money on the Pennsylvania Ears, whatever.
You will qualify for the Rose Rule on your first max contract,
which means that instead of 20% of the cap,
you can get 25% of the cap. Cool.
So your next max contract is under Supermax guidelines.
And you'll hear guys sign, oh, like,
I know you hear a lot of times from the Rose Rule guys who hear,
they sign for five years, $200 million,
but it can go grow to $240 million, $45 million,
if they hit the requirements.
For the Supermax contract, there's a requirement as well.
Some of the All-Stars, some of the All-Pros, all the NBAs,
I'm sorry, so on and so forth.
However, this rule was instituted because of Kevin Durant.
So when Kevin Durant was going into the final year of his opening
to the contract, OKC offered him a deal, he passed on it.
OKC did not have really the ability to offer him
substantially more financial incentive to stay,
like anybody else, before free agency.
So he goes into free agency, he walks into Golden State free,
leaving OKC with nothing but rest brook.
And so they put in the Supermax contract,
because Kevin Durant would have been easily Supermax eligible.
They would have offered it to him, he would have had to look,
tens of millions of dollars in the face and say no,
which everybody knew he wasn't going to do that.
So that was what was happening
and why the invention of the Supermax contract exists.
So I say all I have to say, with the NBA 65 game rule,
that's affecting certain people who could either,
who either wouldn't have qualified, like Tyrese Maxey,
who can be Supermax eligible now,
or would have qualified potentially in the future
because they did not play enough games to meet the barrier
to qualify for these awards, such as all NBA, MVP,
the first place of the NCAA, et cetera.
And lastly, Ben Simmons has undergone surgery on his back
to try and fix the nerve impingement in his back.
Let me pull it up to make sure I get the correct word.
So Ben Simmons underwent a microscopic partial discectomy
to try and repair and relieve the nerve impingement in his back.
He had little back issues.
For quite a long time, it might have been
like what Michael Forte Jr. did,
had to deal with coming to the league, over the back surgeries.
Now Ben Simmons is working on his back.
The back is your life, guys.
Your body is your life in football sports.
Your back is your oil, your motor, and your transmission.
Your back is messed up, and you're not going anywhere.
So let's hope and pray Ben Simmons gets fully recovered
and he's able to continue to play in the NBA.
That is all I have for the NBA today.
And now we are shifting to the NFL.
Let's talk about what's going down there.
Welcome back into the show of the NFL.
Wow.
Honestly, kudos to the NFL because the NBA has been kicking the NFL.
But as far as off season, the NBA and the trade deadline for the NBA is a show.
Like literally multiple shows on multiple networks do like live trade deadline shows.
And they'll start from like the day before,
and they'll just like run through, you know, the next day or two days after,
reaction shows, live at the deadline shows.
It's insane, right?
And now the NBA has this thing called pre-agency.
That's all the other stuff, right?
But the NBA has monetized and marketed the off season.
The part where it's just getting nerdy,
like you're supposed to show up and see a guy on the team
and you're like, oh, okay, that happened.
Like, no, no, the NBA, the pre-agency starting is a show.
Again, shows on multiple networks.
The trade deadline is a show.
It shows on multiple networks.
It leads my show.
It's when my fingers are most active.
Like it's a thing, right?
And then the NBA, the NFL goes to copy catalyze it is.
It copies the schemes again at one point.
The NFL is to copy catalyze at one point.
Half, most of the league snapped the ball to the running back
on a consistent basis.
Like it's a thing, right?
So the NFL looked at it and went, huh.
We're the biggest TV show in America.
We always have top ratings.
We always have figured out a way to change the schedule.
Churches have changed their schedule, if you ask us.
The calendar is built around football.
Excuse me, people have now gotten married in certain times
of year because of us.
What if we did what they did?
The only thing the NBA has over us consistently
is that they kill the holidays.
The NBA, the NFL stands given, the NBA had Christmas.
They would split New Year Day.
The NFL might do Christmas Eve.
The NBA would do Halloween and Martin Luther King Day.
They kind of split them out, right?
And then the NFL started doing Christmas games.
The NBA didn't like it.
But they couldn't do it in the body.
So now the NFL started marketing their offseason.
And their transactions did.
The NFL trade deadline week was like, again,
multiple shows on multiple networks.
Ultimately, it was nearly the fireworks.
But it was a thing.
Now, the NFL frequency has been multiple shows
on multiple networks leading, you know,
it's led multiple shows.
It was basically the lead on my, I don't know,
on the video show, just top sports YouTube,
which should be out soon.
NFL frequency leads a lot of the conversation.
If you look at the Justin Time Sports social media,
I won't even venture to guess how many posts
are about frequency in general.
But just scroll.
And it is NFL free agent city.
You know, I'm doing it now.
I'm still scrolling.
And most of it is going to be an NFL free agency.
There's the occasional retirement like they're quiet.
You know, there is David Boxyari,
Liza Gray Bay, you know, there's some stuff
that breakfasts are fine in here, Rudy Gobert.
But a vast majority of it, since free agency started,
has been free agency, NFL free agency.
Great job by the NFL attempting to level the playing field
when it comes down to transaction point in the period.
And it was helped by the fact that it was a very
insane free agency.
Just look at the quarterback carousel.
Adam Sheffield did a great job of tweeting it all out in one tweet.
I have all the movement knowledge, all of my stuff,
but he did it all in one tweet.
And I will try to do this as specifically as possible.
Jim McGraw-Pillow went to the rainbows.
Tony Pickett traded to the Eagles.
Sam Howell traded to the Seahawks.
Desmond Ritter traded to the Cardinals.
Joe Flacco signed with the Colts.
Garner Menchou signed with the Raiders.
Chikul Brissette signed back with the Patriots.
Drew Lock traded with the Giants.
Kirk Cousins signed a massive deal with the Falcons.
Baker Mayfield re-signed with the Buccaneers.
Russell Wilson signed with the Steelers.
James Winston signed with the Browns.
Marcus Mariota signed with the Commanders.
Tyron Taylor signed with the Jets.
Mason Rudolph traded to the Titans.
with the Chibiski signed with the Bills.
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Whew!
That's just a quarterback.
And you would think the NFL would have a bigger free
agency period than the NBA.
Think about it, the NBA is 30 teams, it's 15 players,
it's 450 of the best players in the world.
Only about 70 of them truly matter in free agency.
Only about 20 of them ever happens.
However, the NBA has kind of killed its own offseason.
Through some of the CBA stuff, through the contracts,
supermaxes, the salary cap, now the tax aprons.
They're kind of killing their own free agency.
Mainly because they were killing their own smart markets.
She, Kevin Durant, walked in from Go KC to go to the States for nothing.
That was starting to happen more and more.
Now, at least now, you got to be traded.
You're not going to dive into that, this is the NFL segment.
But the NFL has 53 players on the roster, only actor roster.
Another 12 to 15 guys on the practice squad.
And there's 32 teams.
So the NBA has 450 players in the league at one time.
The NFL, if you count 65 people, let's just say 53 active man,
12 practice squad, has 2,080.
Four times just about as many people in the league at one time.
You would think logically that they would have a bigger frequency
because there's more of them.
But the NFL has a lot of re-sign, a lot of guys want to move,
a lot of the NFLs want to scheme on the team.
If I like the way this position coach or this coordinator uses me,
I'll sign with this team to stay in the city for a couple less million dollars.
With Joann Bentley, for instance, he stayed with New England.
He turned down multiple years with more guaranteed money
because he likes the way New England works.
He likes the way that we use them on defense.
He likes the area, he's safe.
So you have stuff happening like that all over the league.
That usually happens a lot.
It's been a lot of movement, including actually with the quarterbacks.
Now let's move to the running backs.
The running backs for the first time, oh my gosh,
since the running back slander started, they were able to move freely.
Remember last year it was this major amazing running back class,
and then all of them got tagged.
Jonathan Taylor, Derrick Hendricks, Josh Jacobs, Saquon Barkley,
all of them got tagged.
Alvin Camaro, his contract was renegotiated with the Saints.
All of them got tagged or castrated with him one time.
And then from this really, really high water suspension,
to bottoming out.
And so this year, Bill, we come back, it's like a roller coaster.
We're coming back up the tracks.
And then we start hearing great news.
This person's not being tagged.
Wait, they're all going to be free?
So we get to finally find out what the market is?
Because Jonathan Taylor resigned with the Colts last offseason on the deal.
But then it was like, uh, okay.
So now we're coming, and we're finally going to find out what the market is.
Everybody's excited.
No one has figured out what the market is on running backs
because they've never been free.
Especially this many top guys at one time.
Saquon Barkley.
Boom!
The last of these is three years, 37 million,
I believe 23-odd million guaranteed.
So that's the first deal.
I'm talking, whoa, okay.
So now, not only is the fact that they're moving,
they're going to move with purpose.
They're going to move and change the landscape
because Saquon Barkley, the Eagles, alters the landscape.
Um, three years, it was three years, 37.75 million,
worth up to 46.75 million, with 26 million for the guarantee.
So it's like, boom, okay, okay, okay.
So now it's a thing, right?
But he wasn't even the first one.
Josh Jacobs signed.
His deal was weird.
They only had basically one year guaranteed money,
but it was actually with the salary cap.
It was the franchise tag multiple years.
It's very little guaranteed.
It looks like $12 million guaranteed, isn't it?
Of course, Josh Jacobs, he lands on the Green Bay
with subsequently packed out Aaron Jones out of Green Bay.
Saquon Barkley landed with the Eagles.
Joe Mixon ends up being released by the Bengals,
only to then, before he is released,
Jackson jumps in and trades for him
and immediately gives him a big contract,
trying to find the dollar in my hook.
You got it now.
They gave him three years, 27 million,
with 13 million dollars guaranteed.
Um, the Green Bay Packers, we signed A.J. Dillon.
And then, of course, in the middle of all of that,
Derrick Henry signs with the Baltimore Ravens.
To me, on a deal that was way less than market value
and it was done for the Zyde to win the championship.
It was two years, 27, 20 million, worth up to $20 million,
with nine million dollars fully guaranteed in year one.
Less than the franchise tag.
But I believe this was done.
If you think about it, Saquon Barkley could go three years up to 46.7.
Now, he'll likely get a couple of incentives.
So three years, I'd say around 42.
That's just $14 million a year with 26 million dollars guaranteed.
He's got more guaranteed money than Derrick Henry's
worst match contract.
Right? But I think it's two different things.
I think one, Saquon Barkley, he's younger.
Right? Derrick Henry's a 30-year-old running back.
Never shows the type of wearing down, but he's a 30-year-old running back.
Number two, he went to a team that was in immediate championship contention
with not a lot of catchphrases.
Derrick Henry went to Baltimore.
Not a lot of catchphrases there.
So he went to a team where he could immediately start to try to win a championship.
Philly in a championship contention, sure.
But Derrick's situation was a little bit different.
Saquon's got a better deal than Henry.
Henry, I believe, probably wanted to go to Baltimore.
Was able to sign on with Baltimore.
He's still got more guaranteed money than him.
Oh, he's got less guaranteed money than Josh Jacobs.
So Derrick Henry got the lowest amount of years of any of the big three running backs.
He got the lowest amount of money of any of the big three running backs.
And he got the lowest amount of guarantees of any of the big three running backs.
He's the best of the three.
If I had to pick a better running back right now, I'm like,
who would I pick in the league to be running back?
Christian McCaffrey's one.
Derrick Henry's probably two.
He's better than Saquon.
He's better than Josh Jacobs.
His production's been better.
His health has been better.
But I think he just wanted to go to Baltimore and win a championship.
He's also playing at the most expensive quarterback.
Hurts doesn't have Lamar and Jackson's deal.
Jordan loves on his rookie contract.
So he's playing with the most expensive quarterback as well.
But the gentleman thing, he just wants to go try to win the championship.
And he's looking at the fact that I can go to Baltimore and win.
I can go to Baltimore and win right now.
And you know, if I look at Baltimore, they had a more consistent running game with their legs.
Lamar's not running as much.
They had even more danger to it.
You can't box me in because he's coming on the outside.
That sort of thing.
So very nice in contracts from Derrick Henry.
I think it was green motivated, the fact that they kind of did.
He couldn't go like one year, three million to the Chiefs.
He couldn't do that.
If he ended up here, he would have blocked that.
But what he did was basically sign a one year deal with an option on it.
I'm sure if they go and they win and he runs for 1,300 yards and they win a Super Bowl,
I'm sure they'll rip that year up and extend him out and all kind of stuff.
The Ravens take care of their own.
I'm sure, like I said, he runs for 1,400 yards, 12 touchdowns.
If one of the better first and second team offer running back and they go in the Super Bowl,
he's going to get taken care of.
If he has a 900 yard year for six touchdowns and he loses in the second round,
he may not come back that second if he had to.
So it is a situation that he is kind of a prove it deal.
It's kind of a let me show you deal.
And he's absolutely going to go win the championship.
The Dallas Cowboys have released Leighton Van Der Esch and Michael Gallup.
Leighton Van Der Esch potentially career could be over.
His latest neck concussion injury situation could have possibly ended his career, unfortunately.
So we're definitely going to keep our eye on Leighton Van Der Esch.
He came into the league with neck concerns and head concerns.
He carved out a pretty decent career.
He's made some money in the league, not probably what he could have had he not had the neck concerns.
But he is unfortunately probably going to retire.
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?
How I am, how willing are you to give him money?
His career earnings, I'm looking on spot rack right now.
His career earnings over six seasons by 18.1 million dollars.
He lives in Texas, no state taxis.
He probably had 11, 12 million dollars in his bank account.
If he's half decent money man, he can live the rest of his life incredibly comfortably.
From 30 years old on with 12 million dollars in his bank account.
He probably spent two of it already, 10 million on his account.
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.
To kind of supplement your income and go into coaching, whatever.
But I don't think his playing career is going to go any further.
I hope it does though. He's a pretty good linebacker when he's healthy.
And then Michael Gallagher was released, he's already taking visits to multiple teams.
Or is scheduled to take visits to multiple teams.
So he'll be back on the field sooner rather than later.
Also in Cowboys News, Tyron Smith is going to the New York Jets.
It's a one year contract worth up to 20 million dollars.
In a situation where the Jets needed a blindside blocker, they had some money to spend.
Tyron Smith was looking for a payday and needed somebody to protect.
So he's going to go there to the New York Jets for one year up to 20 million dollars.
So that's three big calls. No one's going to be back in that Dallas Cowboy locker room.
Also they don't add Derrick Henry. They did add Eric Kendricks, which kind of spelled the end for Link Vander, in my opinion.
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.
So they have been very, very quiet.
However, I believe they're prepping.
Dak Prescott is looking for his money.
You're looking at CD Lam. He's trying to get his money.
So I think they're prepping for the re-sign thing.
And Dallas is another organization.
I spoke about Baltimore earlier.
If you get in good with Dallas and you do good in Dallas, they take care of their own.
So I just think at this point Dallas is prepping to take care of their own rather than spend on outside guys.
And so that is why Dallas has been really quiet.
The Patriots have been really quiet still. My Patriots have not done much of anything.
Not great. It feels like the Bobelichek era without Bobelichek.
Honestly, I can't even look forward to us being highly coached.
We're very well coached because we don't have any good coaches.
Or we don't have any proven coaches.
Our head coach has never coached a game in his life.
As a head coach, Alex Mapp helps. I was thrown on the lead for a reason.
I got faith in him as a teacher and an organizer to be determined.
Elliot Wolf, first time as GM, looking like the Packers era.
A whole lot of non-receivers and a whole lot of non-quarterbacks.
It's just, I trust he can draft the quarterback.
How about it? He's not really a free agent guy, but neither were the Packers.
I think this is a craft issue.
Robert and Bill, or Robert and Bob. Robert and I can't think of the word.
Craft issue? When you guarantee money in the NFL, you have to take that money out and put it in escrow.
It's guaranteed. Regardless of what happens, this money is coming.
Especially fully guaranteed. It has to go into escrow immediately.
Owners have to have the cash to put in escrow.
And they have to be willing to put said cash into escrow.
So if you have an owner that says, I'm not going to guarantee that much money on contracts,
you can't even go to a player and offer him guaranteed money.
Because if there's a lot of guaranteed money, the player accepts an owner's box.
A, you can get fired by the owner.
B, you can damage reputation with other agents and stuff around the league.
And not get even average players.
So I think it's a craft issue. I think they're too highly involved.
I think they're too unwilling to spend guaranteed dollars
in order to make sure that they have the best potential roster they could possibly have
with the New England Patriots.
Because we came in with a hundred million dollars.
We restarted a bunch of our own guys. Got a couple of solid pieces.
We still have like sixty million dollars in cash for those left.
It's not like we're not going to be able to spend a lot of cash.
Nope. We still have like sixty million dollars left.
And you've got stuff like Mike Wooden's out there.
Michael Gallup is out there.
You know, there's T Hayes is a trade for him.
There's a lot of talent. Davion Crony is folding around.
But there's a lot of talent that's out there that I feel like the pages aren't taking advantage of.
And so that could be an issue quickly sooner rather than later.
Especially when you drop the quarterback at three.
Washington has pretty much told you they're going to drop the quarterback.
They traded Sam Howell and they signed Marcus Mariota.
If I'm the New England Patriots, I'm scouting the heck out of Drake and Mane.
I don't want it to be Drake and Mane. I want it to be James Daniels.
But the Washington commander signed a veteran mobile quarterback.
Who's known for being really, really smart and knowing the system and can teach.
There's a young mobile quarterback that can use some teaching in the NFL level.
It's called James Daniels. He's the only one that looks and plays like Marcus Mariota.
And who was the one team that signed him? The team right in front of us.
So personally, I'm going to think I'm going to have Drake and Mane as my quarterback.
Whatever, right?
But if it is Drake and Mane, you saw his numbers dip at UNC in his junior year.
He didn't have as good a moment for all the spot.
He didn't have as good a receivers.
Like, maybe you should try and get some of those things right so that when he shows up, he's comfortable.
That's just me.
But hey, what do I know? I'm just a guy holding out here.
And then, of course, retirement.
I told you about Derek White earlier. Aaron Donald has retired.
To me, the greatest professional soccer player to ever play the game.
Older generation may have their pick, but to me, Aaron Donald is the best DT I've ever seen with my own eyes.
So he's the best professional soccer player to ever play the game.
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.
He played 10 years in the NFL, all with the randomization.
He was a pro bowler every single year.
He was an all-pro 8 out of 10 years.
He won the fifth player of the year three times.
He's a Super Bowl champion. To me, he shouldn't be a Super Bowl MVP.
He's the only reason why Joe Burrow doesn't have a ring.
I'm just gonna be honest with you.
Joe Burrow went through the playoffs with the most sacked quarterback ever in the playoffs.
He got sacked like eight times against Houston and still won.
He was close to just having this legacy run of beat the hell up and still won.
And on the last play, Joe Burrow has Jamar Chase up the right sideline.
Chase beats Ramsey.
Chase going up the right sideline, and Joe's about to uncork it.
And who sacks him in about two seconds?
Aaron Donald.
To win the game, he sacks him even.
He gets up, rips off his helmet, and points to his ring finger.
He lit, he locked it down.
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.
But now he walks away.
There's no press conference.
There's no retirement tour.
There's none of that.
He simply lit.
Even Jason Kelsey, to me, had the most coolest...
I'm an understated guy. I'm from an understated press conference.
I came in a cutoff shirt with taped ankles.
Because the guy who was known to have hit his ankles for years,
had cancer, I believe, and so wasn't there for something from his last game.
So Kelsey let him tape him up one more time.
Like, cool stuff like that for Jason Kelsey, right?
Aaron Donald's the most undercover star in the NFL, like, ever.
I think it's a charter thing, because Herbert is like that, too.
It wasn't until recently that Herbert was popping out of commercials.
But he would hold his head up and pass cameras at training camps.
Like, Herbert's just not that guy, right?
Aaron Donald knows no announcement, no preemptiveness, no rumor.
He put out a statement on social media to have what's there.
And then it came out a couple hours later, like, he's not even going to do a press conference.
Like, no, this is it. So last time we'll see Aaron Donald.
He may pop on the sideline of the Rams game.
He may go to training camp.
Maybe, right?
We may not see Aaron Donald's face again until he's inducted into all of that.
Like, real talk, we may not see his face again
until he's inducted into both of all the facts.
Like, that's how undercover he is.
So it's an incredible career. Congratulations on having him.
You want to know how you know you're dead?
Two little anecdotes of Aaron Donald's career.
One in career and one after.
Already, I got one after, right?
There's the audio of Aaron Donald running at Geno Smith
and Geno yelling on the field, oh my God, and just throwing the ball.
Like, he just chucked it. He got rid of it, right?
Screw the grounding, whatever.
He just got out of town. He yells, oh my God!
And then, like, chucks the ball, right?
And then there's the Tyler Murray tweeting under Aaron Donald's post,
thank God, in all caps.
That pretty much describes Aaron Donald, right?
His career, and of course he came in, a famous tackle,
the quarterback and the running back of Marie Option in college.
He said, 10 years in the league, pro-ball every year.
The only person that would do that besides him was Barry Sanders,
who also played 10 years in the league.
He was an eight-time All-Pro, three-time All-Fest,
three-time All-Fest player of the year,
one of the greatest tacticians of the defensive lineman spot ever.
There's a video now going around of him on I Am Athlete
breaking down how he breaks down film with him.
He breaks down himself with his D-line coach,
and maybe another time by himself with somebody else,
he breaks him down three times, the technicality that he went about,
the tactiveness that he went about playing the defensive line position,
showcased on Sundays, and he's absolutely wrecked the league for 10 years.
But up next, we will have Jack's Hot Take,
which will be a discussion about how women's college basketball
has clearly surpassed the men's game.
Welcome back into the show,
and now we're going to discuss really quickly
how the women's game is substantially better
than the men's game in college basketball.
And for those of you who disagree,
for those of you who are stuck in their ways, for lack of a better term,
and they're going to say, you know, Justin, you're insane, right?
Like, there's no way the women's game could make up for the blue blood
of the college basketball in Kansas and Kentucky and UCLA and everything.
Wow. I ask you this.
Seriously, I ask you this.
I want you to name me five college basketball players
that are not on your favorite team, because that's cheating.
Everybody can name five players on their own favorite teams.
Five players not on your favorite team.
I want you to name five girls players not on your favorite team.
I want you to think about them at the same time and write them down.
I will bet you that nine out of ten people listening to this
will get the women's five first.
Because I know doing it, I got the women's five before I got the two guys.
I'm an LSU fan, I'm a North Carolina fan.
So I went to LSU, I grew up in a North Carolina fan.
So it's hard for me to, anybody outside of them too,
I got Jack Eby, the big guy out of Purdue.
I got Isaiah Collier, Bronny James.
And I have no earthly idea.
Seriously, none.
I can't think of a fifth person.
At all.
I can't even include a UNC and LSU.
Seriously, who's the best player against Aga?
Who's the number one pick in this draft?
These are all legitimate questions I have right now.
I'll pick Rob Billy, he's the only one I know.
And I know he's not an NBA player.
I've watched him play and I've watched him be like, he can't make it.
Right?
So I know Bronny James because his name is LeBron James Jr.
Are the Boozer Boys?
No, the Boozer Boys aren't in yet.
The Boozer Boys come with Cooper Flag.
Now I know a little bit of that group.
First to the girl's side is Kaitlyn Clark.
There's Jujie Watkins.
I'm an LSU fan, so I'm not going to say injuries.
Flau'jae Johnson, Kaitlyn Williams, Haley Bannliff, et cetera.
There's Cameron Brink.
There's Paige Beckers.
You see how this just comes much easier on the women's side?
Like, even the LSU, I can name way more LSU female players.
Then I can name LSU male players.
On the LSU men's side, I got Hannibal, I think is his name.
Jalen Cook.
I think his name is Mike Williams.
You know what I'm saying?
Mike Williams made it.
I'm like, yeah, that's it.
You know what I'm saying?
I can name the whole of 35 and most of the bench from the girls' side.
Like, women's college basketball has achieved a level.
And to be honest, to me, was an unintended major positive of NIL.
Because what happens was there would be tournament darlings every single year.
I remember it.
It was like it was yesterday.
Morgan, I can't think her name right now.
She played on Mississippi State.
She had the 5'3 point guard.
She hit the shot to win the tournament.
That first guy like lost the mind in the crowd.
Remember that?
There was Rike Guguale.
She stole everybody's hearts at Notre Dame.
Skyler Diggins stole everybody's hearts at Notre Dame.
There was tournament darlings.
You'd find them in the tournament.
But then the powers of the powers.
There was Tennessee.
Then there was Yukon.
Then there was Baylor.
Like the powers of the powers.
South Carolina.
So now you get a situation.
You're at a point now where the women's game, because of NIL, these women are now in your face.
All of you.
And I was thinking about, man, what if some of these female basketball players that we grew up loving had NIL?
What if Maya Moore had NIL?
Brianna Stewart had NIL.
Skyler Diggins.
Skyler Diggins is the first one to do the ninja headband.
The head wrap?
Like the band that you tie in the back?
She's in the NBA, the ninja headband?
I called it the girl headband.
Why?
Because Skyler Diggins was the first one I ever seen wear it.
And like Nike sold a ton of them.
Right?
Because she wore them.
Girls wanted to be her.
Guys wanted to date her.
Like she wore the headband and literally like her career like catapulted.
Those headbands sold through the roof.
They broke into the NBA.
Everybody like, it became a thing, right?
It's the ninja headband.
What if instead she was the sole, she was the person.
She was the person that when her and Nike came together and they went to the NIL deal for it,
she said, give me 3% of every headband sold.
So now when they sell for $10 a pop, she gets 30 cents.
But they sell 10 million units, she makes 300 bands.
You see what I'm saying?
They sell $10 million worth of stuff, she gets 300 bands.
Instead of paying me upfront, instead of paying me a million dollars to run this ad,
pay me 200 grand upfront and give me 10% of every headband sold in this file.
And they sell $15 million, she gets $8.5 plus for 200 grand.
They pay her upfront, she makes more than the million they offered.
You know what I'm saying?
It's that sort of thing.
Britney Griner, imagine what she could have done in the space of today's culture.
She was LGBT at a very Christian school in Baylor.
That was not the women they met here with along to cover her tattoos.
But imagine what she could have done with NIL, her star power.
I'm talking about all these legends in the game, Candice Parker.
What she could have done with NIL.
So now back to today's game, the NIL babies are everywhere.
Angel Reese, Flau'jae Johnson.
I mean, as you said, Anissa Morrow announced her transfer to LSU using her own NIL deal.
It wasn't announced through a school.
It wasn't announced in a sit down with Holly Rowe, whatever.
A little bit of breaking news, actually.
Chris Middleton plans to return today for the Milwaukee Bucks against Phoenix.
Look at him.
But she announced her transfer through her own NIL deal.
You have Juju Watkins making a killing at USC already.
You have Kayla Clark making a killing at Iowa.
Like you have all these women making a ton of money in the game.
What that's doing is they're making more in college than they would make in the WNBA.
So now the WNBA is even less of a prize than it used to be.
And now the fact that they are making all this money in college is
incentivizing them to stay in school longer.
The WNBA rookie contract was like, oh man, I almost had 70K, but that sounds right.
But I don't think it was that low.
But the WNBA rookie contract is not the stepping stone of the NBA record.
The NBA contract, you almost don't even see it.
Okay, so the typical rookie salary, the typical rookie contract is three years of team-watching for the fourth year.
Turned by the drag position.
The rookie contract was $76,535 for the rookie deal.
And this was done very recently, an article by USA Today,
when projection with Kayla Clark would make salary in the WNBA.
$77,000. If she went to school for the right degree, she'd make more making her degree.
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,
she would walk in from off the court at Iowa, go to the workforce, and make more money so that they would get it.
Right? So, that being said, I'm shocked she leaves this shit.
She can come back to Iowa next year and make $2 million and go berserk in Iowa again
and push the scoring record so far no one gets it.
And she's saying to make the decision to go to the WNBA.
I looked at somebody like Ainsley Reese. Ainsley Reese is the Bayou Barbie.
A lot of her NRI, her fame, her stuff is attached to LSU and being, like I said, the Bayou Barbie.
She's not even from the South. She's from Maryland.
She's an NA, she's not an attack, whatever.
But let's say she gets drastic, she goes to Connecticut, and she doesn't start off that high. Her value dips.
Right? So, a lot of these women, we're getting them as young now.
We always see them come in, but it didn't matter. They were getting crushed by the top schools.
Juju Watkins out there putting up Kayla Clark numbers as a freshman.
She's probably going to threaten, if not break, Kayla Clark's scoring record
because she's doing this now as a freshman. She's only going to shoot more.
She's only going to get better. She's only going to get more efficient.
And now, unlike the men's game, Rob Dillingham would be great to come out of Kentucky next year.
Build some stuff, power.
Instead, he's going to dip out, they're going to bring the national crop in, don't know who they are at all,
because they don't have the Cooper Flags or the Boozer Brothers.
But Juju Watkins is going to be in the USC Jersey next year.
Breaking news, my Negro. Juju Watkins is going to be in the USC Jersey her junior year.
And I'm willing to bet she's going to be in the USC Jersey her senior year.
She's going to be in the game she's going to develop.
Angel Reese, if she was a boy, leads after that game last year.
SEC player of the year.
Final Four player of the year.
National champion. Social media darling.
Everybody loves you. Everybody's following you.
You're involved in a controversy with one of the, it's not the bigger name in college basketball.
You're all over everywhere. You're doing all these magazine coverage. You're doing all this stuff. You dip.
And instead, she's in the LSU this year, and I think she has a good chance of being in the LSU next year.
So you get this connection. It brings it back to the old school, who said the old school NBA.
Where you love Magic and the Lakers. You loved Kobe and the Lakers.
You love Bird and the Soakers. You love Jordan and the Bulls.
You love, you could attach yourself to a favorite player because that favorite player was going to be on that team.
So you could rep that team and love that player.
With men in college basketball, you really gotta love the school.
Because you could develop a favorite player and then they go to the draft.
And now you gotta love a new crop. And it's over and over and over again.
And if the crop is down, the sport is down.
Well, with nine women's college basketball starting to outrate the men's.
I could love Iowan K. LeBlock. I can love LSU and Angel Ruiz.
I could love Jutu Watkins and USC. I could love Camila Cadoza in South Carolina.
I could love Cameron Brink in Stanford. I could love all these different groups.
It could give the old school feel. It gives the attachment feel.
And these ladies are better. And let me be honest, the basketball quality is better.
The men's college game is a bunch of bad threes and ducks.
I'm just going to be honest. But the bad threes and ducks.
The women's game, not all three-point shooting. They're driving to the goal.
They're setting back picks. They're hitting mid-range.
It's beautiful basketball to watch. And they deserve to be in the forefront.
Which they are.
So shout out to the women's college basketball game.
Kudos to them. They deserve everything that is coming for them and more.
So shout out to them. I hope the WNBA catches up.
I hope the WNBA ultimately gets their boost in money.
They can start paying these ladies what they deserve for the superstars that they are.
That is all I have for you today.
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